Watercolor starry sky tutorial!
Some of artists recognize watercolor as graphics art material, someone still prefers to think it is all about painting. There's a plenty of reason to argue about ways to use watercolors, but today I want to show how to get fun experimenting with it<3
Before we start, here are some useful rules for using watercolors:
- not to mix more than 2 dyes if you want to keep your colors bright!
- not to use fully dence colors immediately after beginning of drawing - let it begin with diluted with water tints, - you can add brightness or darkness with second layer of dyes;
- not to make more than 3 layers of colors to not get your colors and paper dirty.
That's all for now, let's start painting starry sky!
Here I will tell you about 3 easy ways to make night sky texture:
1. Grainy watercolor
The easist way to make night sky texture is to paint it jwith just an usage enough of water and moving from light colors to dark, laying colors until it's not dry, like this:
2. Second way is a salt! Regular fine salt can absorb some water with watercolors in it, leaving nice sparkling texture after drying.
This way has some peculiarities: