This lesson is an introduction for the beginner.

We begin with the wash. Second as a tool, only to your brain.

Washes begin and end where ideas begin and end. They can stop abruptly, or transform smoothly into one another. Does It sound like I am speaking from love. Study washes and you will understand.

We will cover

This last item is the thing that makes watercolors look like watercolors.

Washes create shapes, and so in this lesson we also cover shape. Shapes in turn are bounded by lines, so this is also the introduction to line.

Line alone implies motion, and so we will also begin our study of motion and energy in painting.

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Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture. (James Elkins)

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