Deciding How to Reserve or Recover Whites and Lights in Watercolor

When is it easy to make a plan for reserving whites and lights? What makes it more challenging? In this video, I’ll share some things to watch out for that make it easier or harder to reserve lights and whites in watercolor. Then, we’ll have a look at the various options we might use for the challenging situation we encountered in the first design we came up with for our lighthouse painting and talk about how we might choose between them.

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I used a spray bottle to soften and allow the color to run on the right side of the "background". I like how the yellow color of the lemon ran and softened, giving it some atmosphere and bringing the viewer's attention more to the crisper edges in the bowl.
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Go (a Little) Wild!—How to Loosen Up (Just a Bit) in Watercolor

Are you a control freak when you make art? Or does your inner child go wild? Most of us want to make art that combines structure and spontenaity, but that’s not easy! In workshops and classes at all levels, when we go around the room and talk about what we want to get out of…