Watercolour line and wash

In this guide, discover tips and techniques for how to create line and wash paintings and get some ideas for art projects that use ink and watercolour in conjunction. #lineandwash #watercolorandink #watercolorpainting #watercolor #inkdrawing

Join artist Liz Chaderton and discover the basics of Line and Wash painting. Follow her tutorial to see which comes first - line or wash!

I’m not really a painter, although I do use watercolour washes in the context of my line drawings: these are not traditional, fully rendered watercolours in that I strive to use minimal colour to focus the viewer’s eye, and to let the drawing speak. The traditional way with line and wash is to do a ...

Follow these 6 tips to create beautiful line and wash art. This blog post includes a step by step ink tutorial where I share how to draw a house and bring it to life using a drawing pen and watercolor washes.

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By Michelle Morris in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips My first love has always been drawing. . . I guess I’ve always been drawn to it. :) I just find line to be very expressive! My next love would have be watercolor, so when I got the chance to review the online course Mixed Media: Pen, Ink & Watercolor by Craftsy, I dug out my pens, bought some new ink and paper, and joined in the fun! This particular course is taught […]

Watercolour line and wash

Line and wash is a watercolour technique that combines a line drawing with a watercolour painting. Since a lot of the structure of the painting is established by the line drawing itself, often all that is needed from the paint is a little wash of colour - hence the name, line and wash.

As prep for a workshop on flower painting that I’ll be giving this weekend, I took out my Lamy Safari pen (which I haven’t used in a long time) and doodled some flowers on hot pressed F…