User talk:B Clyde Beck

Watercolor Painting Helps and Hints

Painting in watercolor is both easy and a great challenge to those who want to paint in this medium. 1. It is an easy and washable medium for children to explore painting and colors. 2. It has many challenges just because of its use of water as the fluid medium and how that water interacrs with the paint and the paper.

   These interactions are the primary reason watercolor painting as a fine art skill is so challenging.

3. There are beneficial effects of watercolor that attract artists to take on the challenges of the medium. These Include:

    a. Transparency - watercolors are by nature transparent enough to be enhanced by the reflection of light 
        off the paper upon which it is placed. This transparency gives life to the color and the painting, which
        is part of the attraction to watercolor by admirers and painters, as well as collectors and patrons of the arts.