Vivid Illusions in Watercolor

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Setting Up a Usable Workspace Creativity happens when painting is a joy. Setting up a workspace so that you feel as if you are dancing through the process allows you to forget your troubles and concentrate on the steps that bring the joy of accomplishment. A usable workspace is setup in a manner that gives you the area to move quickly from water to palette to paper. It helps to have your tools placed in a direction that allows you to smoothly move through the painting process. Knowing the arrangement of the desired colors can be either an enjoyable or frustrating effort. Setting up your workspace correctly enables you to dance with your creativity.
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Setting Up a Usable Palette A usable palette is setup in a manner that allows you to move quickly from water to palette to paper so you do not loose valuable painting time searching for a color on your palette. You want the colors arranged following the color wheel, with the name of each pigment visible so you can quickly identify it’s characteristics.

Valerie Toliver