I find the water color techniques page activity we did the most helpful and interesting int he learning process. It introduced to me all the ways I could use water color in my painting, like how I can use certain techniques to make a certain thing seem more realistic and textured and also the techniques showed all the ways I could add details. both big and small, in my painting. It showed me so many different techniques I didn't even know existed until now like the wax resit and the salt techniques which i find most interesting and beautiful. It was my first warm up and I think it did a really good job of introducing me to water color, it showed me that you can use water color as both dry and wet, unlike what I initially thought which was that you could only use it wet, and it gave an idea about water colors features and characteristics and its pros and cons. I like how water color can be "reused", that once it's dried, all you need is to add water and you have wet paint again. I also like how you only need a little from the tube of paint and all you need to add water and you have a very large amount of that color. Also I find it pretty easy to make it lighter because all you need to do is add water and the more water you add the lighter it will be. I also really like the end result looked, it looked strangely textures, unique and smooth yet blotchy in a way and i really though it was pretty when it dried. The thing that I don't like about water color is that if the color is lighter or more deluded than another color, you can't paint it over another color because the darker color will show through, so you can't really paint over a mistake you did with dark a dark color unless you use a darker color and that's hard to do when you make mistake with really dark colors like black a purple. I also think it's difficult because it looks kind of different from how it initially looks on the tray from when you actually put it on your painting so you kind of have to try the color out on something first. Also the color is very inconsistent since it can look diff rent from when you spread it out more and from when you kind of clump it together and the colors are difficult to blend and its difficult to blend and get the colors you want. Also, it drys a little to fast or it dries to slow, since you can add to little or to much water to the paint. Lastly, it's difficult to control, it can seep or flow into areas you don't want it to and since those areas are usually wet, you have to wait until the areas are dry, which can take a long time, before you can work next to the area to prevent the color from seeping into the area you don't want it to.
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