Watch how working on a wet surface influences pigment movement and creates multi-layered, blended effects in your painting.

This Masterclass demonstrates the difference between masking with Masking Fluid and masking with Gum Arabic.
You can use either method to repel the paint from the paper, keeping areas of your watercolour painting clean and white.
Both methods are effective, but will give different results: The Masking fluid gives a clean, hard edge to your masked out area, while Gum Arabic gives a softer edge.

This masterclass shows the different pinks Winsor and Newton offer in watercolour and in gouache.
Here we learn a bit about the sourcing and development of pinks, where pigments originate from and their properties.
For example, did you know that the now synthetic colour Carmine used to come from crushed beetles or that Rose Madder still comes from a plant root discovered by George Field?

Learn how to lay down a graded watercolour wash from yellow light to deep, by gradually adding touches of Alizarin Crimson with a syringe and a clear glass.

A step by step journey from root to application.

Transparency and Opacity explained in more detail.

Apply different techniques to your watercolour painting using Art Masking Fluid.

A watercolour technique as practiced by Emil Nolde.

Tips and techniques of how to make your own iridescent watercolours. 

Discover the diversity between masstone and undertone in Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolours. Applying these differences can help greatly when painting in monotone