Watercolour Painting - Some Basics - Why Use Watercolour Paints?

Watercolour is said to be the most difficult of all the painting mediums to use, personally I feel the opposite. Watercolour has so many benefits that its just simply the easiest start to painting.

Watercolours are:

• easy to blend and mix
• easy to use and apply
• dry quickly so no hanging around endlessly to start the next bit
• relatively inexpensive to buy enough to get started. All art materials are expensive.
• good value as a little paint goes a long way
• cleaner to use as watercolours wash out of clothing and rags
• non-toxic so safe to use with youngsters about
• easy and lightweight to carry
• can be done anywhere, any time

That is a lot of pluses for watercolour and once you got it sussed as a painting medium it easy to move on to others such as gouache, acrylics and oils.