Painting 33

Watercolor Using Wax to Preserve paper color below;

It's a good plan to paint light areas first and continue with successively darker colors. Work from light to dark.

One trick to preserving the white of your paper is to use wax. Wax resists watercolor, so using a white crayon or a candle is a quick and easy way to save a bit of white when painting. Say you don't want to go to the effort of painting around an area for a tiny highlight in a flower. Just a touch of a crayon saves the dot, stays invisible, and keeps you from needing a steady hand to paint around that highlight.
Any substance that prevents or resists paint is known as a resist, and wax is one type of resist. (Colored wax acts as a resist, as well, but it obviously leaves a colored area on the paper, so unless that's the effect you're going for, be sure to use white wax.)
Tips;

The darker the paint you use over the wax, the more vivid your design will be.

Smooth paper holds a better wax line. If your paper is really textured, the wax may not coat the paper entirely. If only the top surface of textured paper gets wax, the result is another spotty texture, which may be just the effect you're looking for.

The wax stays on the paper because it's not removable. It's essentially invisible except for the waxy buildup. If used in small amounts, it may not be visible at all

                             Exercise ref 822    Be happy; Be bright; Be you

 

When curiosity is alive, we discover many worlds

 

In the following painting ref 823, I was to trying to work in base a previous dark underpainting, which didn´t work so: 

There is no failure, only feedback