Water Color Painting

I got into watercolor many years ago. Started out the same way, trying to recreate what I saw realistically. It didn't work out very well, and luckily I met a (still) good friend who was much less wimpy than I! LOL. She showed me how to blend what was in my mind into what was plausible on a watercolor canvas. So... now I get my canvas very wet, pick whatever combination of colors I want for background, let that dry, then dry-brush details of my vision on top. To dry-brush, I just put the tiniest bit of water on the end of my brush, then apply paint. I don't know if that's the actual definition of 'dry-brush', cuz I've pretty much just done it on my own for awhile now lol. But after you do that, you can come in and highlight with a pen or marker and make the painting look SO good! Please don't give up. I have SO much fun with this now, and have actually sold paintings at arts festivals.

hi, i am realy intrest in water colouring. any how there are lot of naturality in the water colour. there are special in colouring by water colour, very great thing is mixing the colour and making some real colour as a natural

I have tried to do this before too and I have the same exact problem that you are having. One time I would use too much water and the next time it wouldn't be enough and my pics never looked right so I quit