The Important Dry-In-Wet Watercolor Painting Technique

Often Overlooked By Vitally Important Technique

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Don’t be fooled by the opening title!  This is one of the first videos shot and my editing skills were lacking! I may fix it someday. But for now, we can all have a laugh….

 

The Dry-In-Wet technique is not taught that much. But, it is an essential technique for getting the most out of watercolor painting. It is the easiest, most economical way of getting distinct but soft-edged shapes in your paintings.

This video shows you how it’s done.

What you’ll need:

  • Medium round brush
  • Watercolor paper – about 11″ x 15″ for the exercises
  • Various color
  • A rag to blot the brush – very important

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4 Comments

  1. nemond
    nemond on October 22, 2018 at 3:50 pm

    Hi Tony, The video screen says…..Video playback aborted due to a network error. Any suggestions? Nancy Emond

    • Tony Conner
      Tony Conner on October 22, 2018 at 4:09 pm

      I’ll look into it.

  2. Paintncats
    Paintncats on October 29, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    Hi Tony, On Oct. 21, I sent you a note to the gmail address regarding other technical issues found in this video, as well as another issue in the “What Can Go Wrong in Watercolor Painting – Blooms, Streaks, Mud” video. The issue remains on this one; I haven’t gone back to the second one yet. I’ve also had that same network error msg, as Nancy but if I start over, it seems to go away. I assumed it was Spectrum causing an issue; interesting someone else has also had it. Thanks, Peggy

    • Tony Conner
      Tony Conner on October 29, 2018 at 9:13 pm

      Thanks. Without getting too technical, I’m re-producing both. Should be online soon.

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