Thanks for the tips, everyone. Am trying different board tilt

[GreenPartyVoter]

angles and water/pigment ratios. Not there yet, but am seeing a little improvement.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Are you opposed to taking painting media and techniques classes?

You wojld save a lot of time and learn a lot. There are inexpensive classes everywhere. Check out local colleges. Composition and design would be cool too. I learned a lot in only a few classes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I don't drive, so getting to classes is tricky. I found this

page which explains why my washes are so banded. https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech24.html

Will just keep playing with these variables and hope that I can master large washes of Cobalt, since I want to do landscape painting.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I sincerely do not know how you can learn something visual and hands

on through reading. I have to see everything since I am a visual learner. My mind's eye, imagination and the actual procedures and techniques are all combined. Composition and space and lighting are so extensive and each needs so much study, observation and practice. I know that if I do not see how someone does something I can NOT even attempt to copy it to any degree of satisfaction. In one of my "techniques" art school classes my instructor showed the class how to use layers, block of certain colors, layers of oils then more layers of paint dripped from a brush forming luminescent glazes. It was all done in one or two classes. I tried it with my weekly homework assignment and copied a Vermeer. Bingo...success the first time. This instructor was so good and I watched and comprehended what he said at the same time he demonstrated it. If I had to do it your way by reading it I would be in tears within 5 min. I would be so frustrated that I would have thrown all those expensive supplies away. The same goes for cooking...hands on all the way.

I am a control freak and a perfectionist. I became an illustrator using brush and ink (NO mistakes and you can't erase). You go through tons of paper.

Since people don't have videos anymore, could you look on You Tube. I have looked at different fashion illustration lessons on You Tube and they were not half bad. If I couldn't see an instructor do it and answer questions from a class, I think I would use You Tube to help out.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Oh, I watch YouTube videos religiously and also

ask the art teacher at school questions between classes, but the text at the link did explain a few things I didn't quite get before.