Watercolour and Water

[Dennis Simpson]

When I'm using a watercolour brush, why do I have to dry the canvas before I
can swirl the paint with Water-Just Add Water?
Thanks Dennis Simpson

[Volker Greulich]

Dennis Simpson <den...@simpson1007.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> When I'm using a watercolour brush, why do I have to dry the canvas before I
> can swirl the paint with Water-Just Add Water?

Because...because....it is so! :-)

The first time I used Painter (4)- which I got as a free copy,when I
bought a WACOM tablet- I was very careful to place the pen back in its
holder,avoiding to "drip" remainig color from the "brush" on my
keyboard.The illusion was perfect!

Back to watercolors "drying".Its very fast in comparaison to real
watercolor painting.(heuresement)

Volker Greulich

[Reed Sprunger]

Dennis Simpson <den...@simpson1007.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8t23v1$hj2$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...

> When I'm using a watercolour brush, why do I have to dry the canvas before
I
> can swirl the paint with Water-Just Add Water?

> Thanks Dennis Simpson
>

Dennis,

The Just Add Water brush is not a watercolor brush; it only works on "dried"
areas (which means you can use it on a layer), and I, too, found this
terminology confusing. If you want to swirl color and do some blending and
bleeding on the "wet" layer, use the Pure Water Brush variant in the
watercolor brush list. You can also set any of the watercolor brushes to 0%
resaturation to achieve different blending effects.

Reed Sprunger