What Makes It Easy or Hard to Reserve Lights & Whites in Watercolor

When is it easy to make a plan for reserving whites and lights? What makes it more challenging? In this video, I'll share some things to watch out for that make it easier or harder to reserve lights and whites in watercolor. Then, we'll have a look at the various options we might use for the challenging situation we encountered in the first design we came up with for our lighthouse painting and talk about how we might choose between them.

previous videos in this series on design and planning:

Three Simple Strategies for Designing Your Own Paintings: Three Simple Strategies for Designing...
How to Use Reference Photos More Creatively: How to Use Reference Photos More Crea...
From Design to Plan: Figuring Out the Painting Sequence: From Design to Plan: Figuring Out the...

technical how-to on reserving lights:

Painting Light Clouds on a Darker Sky: Painting Light Clouds on a Darker Sky...
Preserving Soft-Edged Highlights in Watercolor: Preserving Soft-Edged Highlights in W...
Less Messy Spattering (tip on how to spatter mask for stars): Less Messy Spattering with Watercolor...
Three Ways to Mask a Crescent Moon: Three Ways to Mask a Crescent Moon
Reserving Lights, Part 1: Intentional Blooms: Reserving Lights Part 1 - Intentional...
Reserving Lights, Part 2: Lifting Wet and Dry Paint Reserving Lights Part 2 - Lifting Wet...
Reserving Lights, Part 3: Negative Painting Reserving Lights Part 3—Negative Pain...
Reserving Lights, Part 4: Using Resists: Reserving Lights Part 4—Using Resists
Daisies in a Jar Project: Daisies in a Jar Project

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