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Oh, boy. You have no idea how much self persuasion it cost me to finally do something like tutorial.

1 - 2: I prepared myself for coloring a complete lineart. You can see what I am using for inking: G-pen and simple ink. (Not chinese ink.) I use watercolors Umton (made in Czech Republic) and recently started to buy Winsor&Newton watercolors. I use these two brushes - round small and flat fine.

3: I moistened the paper (not too much! depends on the thickness of the paper and how much water it handles) and put in the wet few dots of colors. The dots will spread and create various effects. To fasten up the drying I simply dried it with hair dryer.

4: I painted the curtain with several tones of blue and turquoise - you have to be quick with this step - the colors must not dry and suck in the paper.

5: Then I tossed on it randomly salt. No special salt, just fine cooking salt.

6: (Before I did this I put the paper on a tissue, so the salt doesn't scatter all over the floor and table.) After I waited a little so the salt CAN suck in the wet color, I dried it then with the hair dryer again to spare the time.

7: Then I scrubbed of the dried salt CAREFULLY with fingernail. If you scrub too hard you put off the inklines or the color OR you create a really nasty smudges once the salt melts on your skin.

IMPORTANT!!! Do not use the colored salt again for eating! Watercolors are poisonous!

8: I did the same thing with the other part of the curtain. I didn't do both parts at once, thus I could take more time and create better effects with the salt - I didn't have to hurry that much as if I would do whole curtain at once.

9 - 10: I started to add layers of violet, reds, gold...etc. I tend to paint skin of the figures first than the hair and clothing. But its upon you how you progress.

11: This is the mysterious masking fluid - I use the tinded one, so I can actually see where did I put on the paper (the common kind is transparent.) I developed a trick with using it - the layering dried fluid thickens your brush and cant be removed. But when you wipe it into a simple plastic bag it doesn't go thick so soon.

12: You have to be very VERY quick when you put on he fluid - it dries SUPER fast and even on your brush! Here I put on the desired pattern on the cloth which Doll is holding.

13: After it dried I added more layers (thus the pattern created itself.) To put of the sried fluid you can use special rubber pick up cement - however it was too expensive for me to get it, thus I use simple rubber for pencils.
Then I finished the coloring and added few highlights with white gel pen.

TA-DA!

Here is the result: [link]

Hopefully it answered some questions, if you have more Ill TRY to answer. However have in mind, this is how I do it and probably not the PERFECT way - try it out for yourself and you discover what works how and so on.

Good luck!
In case anyone uses this as help, let me know how it looks Drop me a link.

Watercolor tutorial created by me - saniika. Please link back to this once you use it somewhere, so others can find it too.

Description
Oh, boy. You have no idea how much self persuasion it cost me to finally do something like tutorial.

1 - 2: I prepared myself for coloring a complete lineart. You can see what I am using for inking: G-pen and simple ink. (Not chinese ink.) I use watercolors Umton (made in Czech Republic) and recently started to buy Winsor&Newton watercolors. I use these two brushes - round small and flat fine.

3: I moistened the paper (not too much! depends on the thickness of the paper and how much water it handles) and put in the wet few dots of colors. The dots will spread and create various effects. To fasten up the drying I simply dried it with hair dryer.

4: I painted the curtain with several tones of blue and turquoise - you have to be quick with this step - the colors must not dry and suck in the paper.

5: Then I tossed on it randomly salt. No special salt, just fine cooking salt.

6: (Before I did this I put the paper on a tissue, so the salt doesn't scatter all over the floor and table.) After I waited a little so the salt CAN suck in the wet color, I dried it then with the hair dryer again to spare the time.

7: Then I scrubbed of the dried salt CAREFULLY with fingernail. If you scrub too hard you put off the inklines or the color OR you create a really nasty smudges once the salt melts on your skin.

IMPORTANT!!! Do not use the colored salt again for eating! Watercolors are poisonous!

8: I did the same thing with the other part of the curtain. I didn't do both parts at once, thus I could take more time and create better effects with the salt - I didn't have to hurry that much as if I would do whole curtain at once.

9 - 10: I started to add layers of violet, reds, gold...etc. I tend to paint skin of the figures first than the hair and clothing. But its upon you how you progress.

11: This is the mysterious masking fluid - I use the tinded one, so I can actually see where did I put on the paper (the common kind is transparent.) I developed a trick with using it - the layering dried fluid thickens your brush and cant be removed. But when you wipe it into a simple plastic bag it doesn't go thick so soon.

12: You have to be very VERY quick when you put on he fluid - it dries SUPER fast and even on your brush! Here I put on the desired pattern on the cloth which Doll is holding.

13: After it dried I added more layers (thus the pattern created itself.) To put of the sried fluid you can use special rubber pick up cement - however it was too expensive for me to get it, thus I use simple rubber for pencils.
Then I finished the coloring and added few highlights with white gel pen.

TA-DA!

Here is the result: [link]

Hopefully it answered some questions, if you have more Ill TRY to answer. However have in mind, this is how I do it and probably not the PERFECT way - try it out for yourself and you discover what works how and so on.

Good luck!
In case anyone uses this as help, let me know how it looks Drop me a link.

Watercolor tutorial created by me - saniika. Please link back to this once you use it somewhere, so others can find it too.