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PRACTICE AND PLAY
When we’re learning to paint, we often want to skip boring beginning techniques and get right to the good stuff—creating beautiful paintings. I hear you on that. But I have also learned that practice is the only way to find out the “best” way to mix and apply your paint. The quality of paint, the type of paper, the temperature in your home, the humidity in the air . . . these are all factors that can affect how much water to add to a paint mix. If you follow along with the exercises in this chapter, you’ll get plenty of experience mixing and moving paint around. So practice, play, explore, and make notes along the way.
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