Initial Drawing

To begin with cut the Arches rough 300gsm watercolour paper to size (22 x 28 cm) and using masking tape. Attach it to a board. You can just use an old piece of hardboard as your painting board.

Now complete a simple line drawing using a 4B pencil. Use soft pencils to draw with and don’t mind if the pencil is visible on the finished picture. It can be erased, but you don’t need to bother.

Concentrate upon your drawing and try to get it to be accurate.You don’t want detail, but you do want accuracy at this stage (that is you want the drawing to look like what you can see).

After drawing apply the masking fluid with an old brush, never use a good painting brush. Apply it sparingly, it can be seen on the drawing as the black marks.

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