Watercolor: Walk-the-Dog + Mother Colors

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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Walk-the-Dog is a technique where you just put semi-random pencil lines on the page...and then you watercolor within those created shapes. One of my favorite techniques is to add black ink lines, increasing in size at the corners, as the first one on this post.

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But it's also nice to use these shapes as an opportunity to explore using different 'mother colors'. That is, mixing a bit of one pigment into all the others used on the page to make the colors more cohesive.

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