How to control or create watering blooms into your watercolor painting?

Posted: Nov 11, 2010 |

When you get more water than pigment, the water dries at uneven rates and creates blooms, blossoms, cauliflowers, backwashes, or happy accidents. Sometimes these look really cool and create a fun, juicy watercolor look, especially in a sky. Enjoy and have fun creating them. But trust me on this: If you want a smooth, flat wash and you get a bloom in the middle, it's no "happy" accident. So figure out how to control blooms right now so you get them only when you want them.

You need to know how to control or create blooms (or whatever you choose to call them), and the first step toward that is knowing how they form:

  1. Get a 4-x-6-inch piece of watercolor paper.
  2. Activate your choice of pigment color. Add water to make a puddle of color in the mixing area of the palette.
  3. Using a large flat brush, cover the entire surface of the paper with paint quickly so it's all the same dampness. If the paper absorbs the water and dries, reapply the paint until it's damp everywhere.
  4. Wait until the paint shine is just about to disappear. Drip a brush of clean water on the painted surface. Because the water is introduced into the damp paint, you get uneven wetness, and you should get a bloom, probably immediately. Resist the temptation to fiddle with it. If you don't see a bloom, you probably dripped the water too soon or too late. Let the whole thing dry and try Steps 3 and 4 again.
  5. Let the paint dry.

Try the exercise again with other colors to see what blooms look like in a rainbow of shades. You can also try dripping wet color into nearly dry color to see the results.

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