Palettes and brush

Palettes for the water colors are made of white porcelain or faience and they have a smooth bright surface.
Also it is possible to use a metal, covered with white enamel. Frequently you can see plastic palettes as well.
Brushes for the watercolor painting are make of only from the soft and elastic hair.
Brush must be soft and elastic at the same time. Such as column, squirrel or polecat brushes.
Brush must have a round shape, and then you make it wet, it should take the form of cone with the completely sharp end.

Boards and stirators

During gluing paper on the board you should be bent on the edges of the sheet (2-3 cm.) in the opposite direction its face side.
Then the face side, on which there will be the painting, should be moistened by water, and those flanged edges you should leave dry.
Do not need to wet the side, which closer to the board as can flow in to the opposite side and stick sheet on the plane-table, so it will not be possible to remove the finished watercolor from the board.
Those bent edge must be glued from inside by glue. Be careful not to allow to enter the air under the paper, otherwise during drying it will warp.
And also you shouldn’t stretch wet paper to hard - it can crack when it will dry, wet waves will disappear by themselves when the watercolor paper will dry.
It is necessary thoroughly to stick edge on the plane-table, without making passages. Otherwise in these places waves will come out. For the small watercolor paintings you can use stirators, which can be two forms.
One is the usual board, which is put into the wooden frame. Paper is superimposed on the board and is bent on its edges, and then this board is framed.
It is not necessary to use any glue. The second form is two wooden frames, which enter one into one, like the tambour for the embroidering.
Paper is superimposed on the smaller frame and is pressed by the bigger one.

How to keep watercolor paintings.

The thin layers of water color paintings can be easily decolorized. The majorities of transparent paints is not durable.
However, they are beautiful! So artists can not stop using them. You shouldn’t put watercolor painting on the sun light.
As it loses paint, and paper loses its whiteness. Water color painting you should keep in moderate sun lighted and place.
It is necessary to preserve it under the glass (watercolor painting must not touch the glass).