Line and Wash Technique

Line and Wash Technique.
One of the wonderful and endearing things about creating art is that we can be as creative, original or diverse as we like. There are no rules, a watercolour painting doesn’t need to be only a watercolour painting, an acrylic painting mustn’t only be made of acrylic paints! You can be as creative as you feel, you can mix techniques, mix mediums, choose unusual base surfaces, paint detail, paint abstract it’s art and it’s up to you.

The ‘Line and Wash’ technique was probably derived from this thought process in it’s simplest form it’s a drawing that has paint washed over the top of it allowing the drawing to be visible through the paint. Over the years the technique has evolved into many styles, some with only edges and outline in pencil and others with whole areas shaded in pencil or charcoal and then washed over with various layers of watercolour. Your creative options are endless but your first step with this technique starts here!

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