Exercise: Fading tones

In this exercise I started by painting a line with a very strong mix of blue watercolour paint, the with each  new line I add a brush load of clean brush load of water the the paint mix and continued in this manner until I reached the end of the sheet of paper.

In most of the lines the is evidence of more of the mixture being deposited as I start to paint the line, this was not intentional and put it down to me having over loaded the brush and requiring a more practice with this medium (early days).

The paper I used is not the smoothest and as such there are a few, very small patches of paper where the paint has not been applied. These marks, as you may expect, are more apparent where the paint is darker.