Do I wet my watercolor paper? Yes, but usually not the front, only the back. This video explains why watercolour paintings dry so fast and what to do about it.
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My teaching manual: Mastering Watercolors - A Practical Guide: https://amzn.to/3CgYQfB
This is the 23rd video in my beginner watercolor artist course.
If you are a beginner, and this is the first of my videos in this series you are watching, then I highly recommend that you go back and begin at Watercolor Class One and do the exercises in each. These exercises are what I used to put my beginner face-to-face students through, before allowing them to progress to more advanced subjects. Even now, before a student, new to watercolor, can join my online class they have to first prove they have studied and applied this beginner lessons. In this way, new students are able to more easily join my more advanced classes.
I also have a couple of watercolor painting books which I published and distribute through Amazon.
The first one, which has sold over 10,000 copies is bascially my teaching manual and is titled:
Mastering Watercolors - A Practical Guide.
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Both books are available in kindle format and paperback.
You can also find a lot of useful information on my website: https://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/