I´ll be practicing watercolor paintings through out this entrance, my reference will be photographs and my colors the interpretation I can get from them

                                     "Painting is a picture handmade"
                                   Segovia Chatedral at night  ref 827

                                                                              Ref 829
                "If you could say in words; there would be no reason to paint"

                      Ref 830 You have no idea, what portrait painters
                             suffer from the vanity of their sitters

                                                Self Portrait

                        Watercolor over prior texturized paper with colored and plain
                  model paste, in order to try to obtain a shinny Steel on it
                   Canson paper 140lbs

                   Ref 831 Let´s have good thougths (pansies) this day

Watercolor over hot pressed paper

with wax addition between lines

the idea is to get clear zones (as posible)

to obtain major clear sparking areas even in darker spots

 

Ref 834

Art lies in a reality that is felt

 

Ref 836

More tan a process, painting is being possessed

 

 

Watercolor trying to add some additional texturization to a watercolor paint practically done
In this ocassion I was looking for add texturization with "colored plaster added with spatule but blending with brush several times" to a previous watercolor painting in order to make it shine,but finally ---> I didn´t add the varnish, the results was not  as I expected, (I had to add white to previous color to avoid darkening as much as possible) therefore I´ll be working in better examples to get a solid base for bright
I´m posting this exercise before and after just for information ref 824 & 825

Into the following painting just the branch was texturized, now it was done in hot-pressed paper, results looks better, but need some kind of enhancement yet ref 826

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

 

 

Watercolor.- There´s nothing like a Mama hug ref 821

                          Happy Mother´s Day

"There are dances in which each movement is a Word of a wonderful poem"

                               Watercolor full of movements ref 820

Watercolor plus molding paste as foundation-base, and as a blending color making it able to be varnished to obtain shining paintings       ----ref 819

Molding Paste as I already quote, can also be used to create foundations for painting either to create texture over a smoother surface, or to smooth out a textured surface. The absorbent qualities of Molding Paste make it suitable as a ground for nearly every painting and drawing media, there are several particular molding mediums and brands; coarse, hard, light, regular I´m working with "regular"

In the following exercise; the color bottles, were treated with molding paste after paper stretching and soaked as plain base foundation, also wáter coloring it was blending with this product, wait for dry and  finally varnished obtaining  bright bottles, -the  background  plain contrast  can be seen against these bottles over Canson 240 lb paper

                        Ref 819 "A Painter is a Choreographer of Space"

Watercolor.-- texturizing -another exercise --ref 817

Contrary to oils and acrylic, watercolor is a medium that doesn’t have any thickness to it, so the quality of the paper (rough, cold press or hot press) will be an important factor to consider when rendering textures. A simple flat wash can be textured on rough or cold press paper as some of the larger pigments will settle into the indentations of the paper — this is called granulation

Texture refers to both the feel and appearance of a surface, it is one of the elements that can make a fine art painting successful by rendering it more believable and by establishing a sensorial connection with the viewer, I´m trying to add a variety of media to manipulate its appearance, molding paste wáter base has been helpful in my older Works, however added in paper needs to be in a small thickness to avoid further problems, in my following example I added molding paste in just some spaces you can see through out the painting (as background to make smooth surface and in the foreground  "front flowers" to add additional dimension

                      Ref 817 "Painting is by nature a luminous lenguaje"

 

The following painting exersice 818, was made in Canson paper 160 gr and was not suitable to add this particular additional texture, nevertheless I´m posting my exercise

 

Ref 818 " Imagination is the highest kit one can fly"