Exercise: Loading the brush

In this exercise I painted three small even patches with different amounts of watercolour on a size six brush.

In first patch the brush was fully loaded until it was dripping, when the brush touched the paper the watercolour began to pool around the brush head. On the dried patch the pooling is still evident, the patch is not all a consistent tone.

In the second patch just the dip of the brush was dipped in the watercolour, it was easy to paint the patch keeping the tone even.

In the third patch I was surprised to find that despite being more watercolour on the brush I still felt I had the same amount of control as with the second patch