Here is an excellent project to help a beginner learn to paint. If you start with black and white pictures you can focus on learning to use the tools and techniques.Scroll down

You can use most kinds of black waterproof ink, watercolor, or tempera paint. You will also need a #1 hair brush, a #6 hair brush, and a fan brush. If you don't have a fan brush you can substitute a half-inch flat bristle brush like we did in the Asian water bird landscape. You will also need tape, water, and 8 and 1/2 by 11-inch poster or watercolor paper, a scrap piece of paper and a three-sectioned picnic plate.

Use your #6 paint brush to add thirty (30) brush loads of water to one of the sections of your plate.

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