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All right. We've been talking a lot about layering water-color pencils, but you can
also layer actual water-color over your pencil marks, which gives you a real interesting
technique. Again, it requires a little bit of practice, so you're comfortable with your
tools, and you're comfortable with what color you're going to get. Sometimes it's a happy
accident, and sometimes it's not really what you want. So, again, get out a piece of paper
and play with this. But here's one of those colored pencils. Lay down some color here.
Nice, smooth....smooth little bit of color. And instead of going over this with just plain
water, in which case we'll get a nice, bright turquoise, like that, we're going to mix some
colors right there on the paper, and we're going to go over this with a ....take a little
purple over it so we can see the difference. It'll be pretty...pretty obvious. Get a little
water going in there. And there's your purple. So you can see you're picking up a little
different color. You're still keeping the texture of the pencil, but you're getting
a nice wash there, and you've got a little bit of purple there as opposed to that straight
turquoise. So that's a really nice effect to use and requires...it just makes you sit
down and play with the colors and learn what you've got. And that's a really good way that
you can take regular water-color, and layer it over water-color pencils, and mix colors
right there on your paper.