Top Ten Tips
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Limit
your pallette to as few colours as possible, usually no more than 6.
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Use
2 waterpots, 1 for cleaning your brush and 1 for mixing the paint.
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Work
from light to dark.
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Plan
your painting, know what order you will do things in before you start.
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Use
the largest brush you can for each section of the painting.
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Stretch
your paper, it makes such a difference.
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Do
a small sketch beforehand, to help get the composition right.
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Paint
in daylight, or with a daylight bulb. Artificial light is too yellow
and you'll tend to overuse the blue paint to compensate.
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Save
all your paintings, no matter how you feel about them. They'll show
you how your technique changes over time and you may wish to try some
of them again.
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10
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Keep
your coffee cup well away from your water pots. Sooner or later you
WILL clean your brush in it!
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©
Adrian James 2001
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