{"id":8474,"date":"2026-10-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/watercolor-technique\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:01:47","slug":"watercolour-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/watercolour-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour techniques: controlling water and colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controlling water and pigment on paper is central to watercolour painting. Adjusting their balance helps create transparency, texture and depth.<\/p>\n<h2>Wet on wet<\/h2>\n<p>Dampen the paper before applying colour. The colours spread softly into one another, making this useful for skies, clouds, backgrounds and gentle effects.<\/p>\n<h2>Wet on dry<\/h2>\n<p>Apply wet colour to dry paper to keep the edges more clearly defined. This suits details, lines and areas that need a precise boundary.<\/p>\n<h2>Layering<\/h2>\n<p>Build up transparent layers, allowing each layer to dry fully before adding the next. This helps develop shadows, depth and richer colour.<\/p>\n<h2>Dry brush<\/h2>\n<p>A brush loaded with colour but little water leaves the paper texture visible. It is useful for suggesting wood, stone, hair, grass and rough surfaces.<\/p>\n<h2>Salt, lifting and splattering<\/h2>\n<p>Sprinkling salt onto a wet wash creates crystalline textures as it dries, which can suggest snow, rock or a textured background. A tissue, clean brush or sponge can lift some colour to create highlights or adjust an area. Splattering small drops of colour can suggest stars, rain, leaves and spontaneous effects.<\/p>\n<h2>A few starting points<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose fairly thick watercolour paper.<\/li>\n<li>Pay attention to the amount of water and its balance with pigment.<\/li>\n<li>Begin with light colours and gradually work darker.<\/li>\n<li>Give each layer enough drying time to avoid muddy colours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem Ipsum is a fabricated text with incomprehensible production from the printing industry and used by graphic designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":8473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-lessons-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}