Express yourself: watercolour or acrylic?

 

Both mediums are water-based but behave very differently. Most people believe that acrylic is easier for beginners because you can paint over any mistakes with an opaque acrylic colour. It is certainly versatile in terms of thin-or-thickness and colour-blending. 

On the other hand, using a 'wet' technique, watercolours can also be allowed to run together on paper for a natural merging of colours, e.g. where the sky changes from dark to light or different hues. A difficulty people find with watercolour is to leave the unpainted surface as the white element of the painting, as it is not easy to use white watercolour over another paint colour. 

Great places to view paintings are Pinterest and Instagram.