Article · Watercolour Workout
Playful Abstraction
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- Article
- Level
- Beginner
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- Published
- 2025
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About this lesson
A watercolour exercise with three unfamiliar pigments: flat-brush marks pulled from dry paper into a wetted top half, then pen or scratched lines once dry. Vertical marks suggest trees and horizontal ones suggest landscape.
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