Watercolour texture tricks and techniques can add energy and excitement to your paintings, whether as part of the focus or in the background, so I share 27 ways of creating interesting marks and textures, and also a new way of saving this tool kit, so that you can refer to it all the time. Salt, plastic wrap and printing, alcohol, bubble wrap and sponging we cover them all.


This is one of my most comprehensive films to date, so grab a cup of tea, you might need it!!


I have always encouraged my students to create reference sheets of the different texture techniques, but they are a pain to carry around, however Gill (THANK YOU GILL!) came up with a brilliant idea at a workshop last week. Create a tiny concertina book to put all the textures in... I've taken this further and will show you how to create a mini concertina book out of a single piece of watercolour paper no gluing involved (unless you want to). I do give you a few options to 'pimp' your sketch book with covers and pockets. Then I take you through 27 different techniques for creating contemporary and exciting textures in your work.


I also give you a few warnings! It is not as straight forward as many people would have you believe.



There's an awful lot in this film, so grab a notebook and pen, you will learn lots!


You can find my previous films on other texturing techniques here, for more detail and tips:

Salt:    • How to use salt with watercolour  
Plastic wrap:    • How to use plastic wrap with watercol...  
Alternatives to plastic wrap:    • What can I use instead of plastic wra...  

Spatter:    • Watercolour splatter technique  10 t...  
Colour sanding:    • COLOUR SANDING  use watercolour penc...  
Granulation:    • Top tips for granulating watercolours...  


If you don't want to know about making your own mini concertina sketch book, from a single sheet of paper, just jump to 10 minute 13 seconds and you will be straight into the technique. But why would you not want to make such a gorgeous little book??? Scale it up and you can easily make a journal or en plein air sketch book.


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