There are many techniques in watercolor painting that should be learned so that you can paint well. There are two general painting techniques, the wet-on-dry and wet-in-wet. We are going to focus on watercolor wet-in-wet painting technique. This method may not be easy at first but through constant practice they can be perfect. In wet-in-wet technique, you are going to add paint or water to an area that is still wet. This is the most unique techniques in watercolor painting that creates a very outstanding effect.

The main idea in wet-in-wet watercolor painting technique is to completely wet the whole sheet of paper with clean water or a light flat wash before adding colors to it. The amount of color you add will determine whether you'll create a soft edges or maybe a bleeding effect of sort. This is one benefit of watercolor painting which you can do with other medium of painting. There are many ways to play with wet-in-wet techniques to add effects to your painting. Instead of putting water first, you may reverse it by adding water into the wet watercolor and see the effect it makes. Or you can spray the water particularly if you're working or larger paints. One other way to play with wet-in-wet technique to add more effects to the watercolor painting is to try using fingers in putting water and this makes a very wonderful effect. Also, you can use toothbrush to splatter the paint or water into the wet painting to make a finer splatters.

The wet-in-wet watercolor painting technique can produce various effects using different procedure to create it. There are actually five most typical methods of doing it.

Let us discuss first the back runs. It is usually called backwashes or watermarks or sometimes blossoms. In this method you are going to add more paint or water in a certain area as it dries, by this the wetter area will move into the drier area. This would make a certain area with darker color and an area with lighter color. This usually use as a decorative effect on the painting. The paint diffusion is the second method. If you are planning to use a concentrated paint into a pre-wetted part of the paper there's a tendency that the paint will move into an area with pure water so the paint expand. This will produce a feathery effect, and to add more effect you can tilt the paper to produce shapes before it dries. The pouring of color is another strategy to enhance wet-in-wet technique. Many artist uses this technique simply by putting paint in a certain area in the surface of the painting then using spray or brush or by simply titling the painting will result in a mix up of the water and paint. This can lead to a tantalizing color variation that you could then add shapes by adding paint or using wet brush. A different way of using wet-in-wet method is dropping in colors. It is defining first the color area with diluted paint or clean water before dropping a concentrated paint. After dropping the concentrated paint into it you can then touch it with brush to make shapes. Sometimes tilting and back runs can also be incorporated in this method to add more affects. In salt texture you will sprinkle grains of salt into the paint to produce small imperfections that are snowflake like. But since salt can rancid the paper, sand is rather use.

These are the ways of how to do watercolor wet-in-wet technique and how to enhance it to create wonderful effects.