15-Minute Painting: Effortless Watercolor

Brush Techniques

For these exercises, the following brushes are useful: a round brush, flat brush, and liner brush. Other watercolor brushes you may find useful are a deer foot brush, mop brush, cat tongue brush, and filbert brush. (But these additional brushes are optional and simply fun to have on hand.)

Straight and broken lines with a round brush.

Dots with the tip of a round brush.

Curvy lines with a round brush.

Broad ...