Watercolor painting step by step demonstrations

You can see more demos on my blog:https://sandrinepelissier.wordpress.com as well as some movies.
For my watercolor portraits on regular paper I use a layering technique, applying colors separately. This process allows me to focus on edge quality and tone, while keeping the colors fresh and luminous. I sometimes add other media , like watercolor crayons, pastel or gouache. The painting Laurent has gouache on the background, Face Painting and Imaginary Friend are pure watercolor. When I am done with the layering process, I usually correct the colors by addition (adding new colors, usually secondaries and tertiaries: purple, oranges, greens and browns) and by subtraction (scrubbing the paper with water and an old stiff brush).

I also sometimes paint with watercolors on Yupo paper .Here are a few tips and techniques to paint on Yupo paper, and a demonstration, I moved those pages to my yupo paper painting webiste.

If you are interested in mixed media painting, I also have a website: www.mixed-media-paintings.com where I posted some demonstrations and movies detailing the making of a few paintings (mixed media on canvas or on board)