Paul Talbot-Greaves teaches watercolour and acrylic painting in workshops and demonstrations to art societies throughout the midlands and the north of England. He can be contacted by email: information@talbotgreaves.co.uk or through his website: www.talbot-greaves.co.uk
Any watercolour painting that involves colour opposites needs to be treated carefully, otherwise bright fresh colour may be quickly lost. A couple of common landscape examples that spring to mind are bluebells (violets and greens) and poppies (red and green). With free-flowing techniques, these combinations can turn an intended masterpiece into a mud bath in no time at all. Whist it is important to achieve softness, you must also keep the colours separate; the technique for this is not wet-into-wet, but wetagainst- wet.