Exercise: Plain washes

In this exercise I am practising adding a even wash across a sheet of paper. I think I was successful, however this may been due to the fact that I used a faint wash. Once wash was dried I painted a red triangle in a stronger (more paint) watercolour mix, this was is not as even but has left little evidence of the underlying green wash.

As the underlying wash was  completely dry there is no bleeding / blending around the outer edge of the triangle, the form is crisp as if I had painted it on to a plain (no underlying wash) sheet of paper.

Depending on your colour choices the dried wash does not appear to impact the application of paint on top of this, painting detail on a wash should not be a concern.