Useful Watercolor Tip | Using a Mother Hue

Beginners Drawing Course: My Art and Creativity PODCAST: Instagram: My books on Amazon: Snapchat: LironYan3 Hi everyone, today we’ll talk about using a mother hue in your work! This basically means using 1-2 paints that repeat themselves all throughout the painting, and keeping it very simple in the first layer. 🎨 HOW I LEARNED THIS 🎨 I got this idea directly from Alvaro Castagnet. He talks about this in his tutorials and DVDs. The way he pulls the painting together, initially, is by limiting the number of colors he uses for the first wash. I experimented with this approach successfully, and so I wanted to share it with you. 🎨 FRAGMENTED WORK 🎨 This is a big issue I used to have. My paintings felt very fragmented and not unified. Starting to minimize t