Form I Brush Drawing: Watercolor: Separate Wavy Lines and Thick and Thin Lines

Using Amanda's Lesson Plans, First Student gave us some lessons to help increase brush control. The object is to concentrate on the white line you are forming between each stripe. Try not to touch any previous strokes, keep the white lines of unpainted paper unbroken.

Materials:

Watercolor paper
Watercolor paint
Assorted brushes
Cup of water

Make a squiggly stripe across the width of your paper.
Rinse off your brush. Swish it in the water. 
Make another stripe just above or below your first stripe. Try to make it really close to your first stripe, but leave a little stripe of white between. You are really working on making your stripes close to each other without running together.
Rinse your brush in the water. 

Keep adding stripes above and below your first stripe until your whole paper is filled. How close can you get your lines without them touching? Really work on keeping a small stripe of white between each color.

Next First Student showed us how to use decreasing and increasing pressure to change the width of lines made by the brush using watercolor. 

This tutorial builds on the last technique and is again to help increase brush control. The object of this project is to focus on making your brush lines thicker and thinner as you increase and decrease pressure with your brush.