Watercolour Painting Demonstration No. Watercolour tubes - Cadmium Yellow, Cerulean Blue, Burnt Umber, Blue Black, Quinacridone Gold. To do that we must put all else out of our minds. Their simplicity is their strength but they are not randomly placed. I'll go into this in more detail in a future demo, but for now, suffice to say that the empty space is just as important to the finished result as the painted animal.
Good composition is a vital part of the planning for a watercolour painting.
Unlike many other painting mediums, watercolour can't be painted over and is very difficult to remove once it has been put onto the page. So planning is essential. Drawing I believe that the drawing for a watercolour painting should take longer than the actual painting. All the visual information is stripped to its basic shape . Most often, these shapes do not have a name - they are simply shapes.