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Watercolor Techniques
50 Watercolor Techniques & Painting Tutorials for Beginners & Experts
These watercolor tutorials and video lessons will get you started and inspire you to be a better watercolor painter. Let them guide your vision, which is unique for everyone. Over time as you find your path, you’ll find your focus as a watercolor artist, which may be inspired by these lessons and painting techniques. Don’t forget to have fun!

Using A Salt Technique For Texture In A Watercolor Card
Learn how to add a unique effect to watercolor using a common condiment by following Jennifer McGuire in her card-making tutorial.

Technique To Lift Wet Paint
This watercolor technique is for every beginner. Fix mistakes while painting by lifting wet paint using these techniques.

Wet-In-Wet Watercolor Technique
Everything you need to know about this watercolor technique for applying paint or water to wet watercolor paper.

Watercolor Resist Technique With Wax
How to use wax crayons and wax candles as a watercolor technique to resist paint and produce special effects.

Using “Back Washes” As A Technique For Painting Abstract Background Texture
Here’s a watercolor technique for painting interesting textures by dropping clean water onto your painting as paint dries.

Using Tissue Paper As A Watercolor Technique For Textures
How to use tissue paper as a watercolor technique for painting abstract textures.

Splatter & Spray Watercolor Techniques
Flinging paint may be the most fun watercolor technique. Here’s how to do it in a controlled (or uncontrolled) manner.

Sgrafitto & Stamped Watercolor Techniques For Textures
How to use scratching, scraping & stamping as watercolor techniques for achieving specific looks.

Using Salt For Texture
An introduction to a watercolor technique using salt to create special effects and textures in paintings.

Masking Fluid (Liquid Frisket) Watercolor Technique
Some call it masking fluid. Some call it liquid frisket. Here are the techniques for applying it to your next painting.

Watercolor Technique For Trying Ideas With Tracing Paper
Want to test an idea on a painting without painting anything? Try this watercolor technique for sketching ideas on tracing paper atop a painting before committing.

Graded Wash, A Foundational Watercolor Technique
Every watercolor painter must learn this watercolor technique to paint gradients and fades.

Glazed Wash Watercolor Technique
Techniques for layering different colors without ruining your painting.

Painting a Flat watercolor wash
A watercolor technique every painter needs to know. It’s a basic building block.

5 Techniques To Lift, Remove & Erase Dry Watercolor Paint
Most mistakes come from putting paint in the wrong place. Here are the different watercolor techniques for fixing that problem.