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Article · Roving Jay
Loose Watercolour Technique for Urban Sketching
By Roving Jay
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
An urban sketcher documents experiments comparing wet-on-wet blending versus hard-edged layering on a figure's jacket, and single-color versus dual-color washes, sharing what worked and what didn't.
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