Artist's Toolkit with Elizabeth Barnett
Welcome to the Artist’s toolkit.
A place for practical tips to inspire your creative journey.
Each month i will ask one of the artists teaching a class to share five tips on how they paint/draw or make.
This month i asked Australia based artist, Elizabeth Burnett to let us in to her watercolour secrets.
Here are her tips.....
- Experimentation is key to finding what you love to use for your watercolour practice. I enjoy using Daniel Smith watercolours the most and Bockingford or Arches paper.
2. Having a limited palette of watercolour paints can make for a beautiful painting. Think about your subject matter and design a palette of colours to paint with. I love the colour blue so I have designed a palette of blues and blue compatible colours.
3. Let the paper colour be a colour. Sometimes less is more!
4. The joy of watercolour is allowing the colours and water to dry slowly so I often have a few pieces on the go at once.
5. I like to layer colours so patience is key and working into paintings as they have dried can make for a more interesting painting.
