Advanced Watercolour Techniques using an unusual invention which you can make yourself.

Enfield Watercolour Artist John Salmon showcases a simple tool to help you gain superior control of watercolour.

Are you ready to take your watercolour skills to the next level? Look no further than this innovative invention that you can make yourself. My step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a unique tool that will unlock advanced techniques and allow you to create breathtaking works of art.

With this tool you'll be able to achieve stunning effects that were previously out of reach, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

You make your own Watercolour Charger with bits and pieces you have at home and even things you may throw away.

It will allow you to achieve some of the advanced watercolour techniques that you may have been struggling with. It will also open the door to new possibilities with watercolour.

I've found this to be an extremely useful tool especially where detail and blending is important. It allows me to paint certain passages much quicker than I normally could, thereby preserving underlying layers of paint.

I provide a couple of short demonstration clips in my video which I will back up with more demonstrations as time allows. I also provide full instructions in a slide show format to show how to make your own Watercolour Charger using simple tools.


I will add more information and new technique demonstrations as time allows.

Please ask any questions you may have and I'll do my best to answer as soon as I can.

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[xyzct]

Hi again. So I followed your instructions to the letter and it works like a charm. You, sir, are a genius. Washes are such a fundamental part of watercolor, and your idea is an absolute game-changer. Trying to recharge a brush with water from the tip while continuing a wash is so damn counter-productive, and one spends all of one's time battling the flaws of that approach. YOU'VE SOLVED THOSE PROBLEMS! This is easily the coolest thing I've seen in watercolor in decades. I am so excited to explore what will come from this. I cannot thank you enough.

[jenniferspotten]

Awesome tool you have invented! Have you looked into selling these on a place like Etsy?

[TutenArellano]

Hey I just saw you won twice a price from Jackson's art. How much I envy you right now haha

[susansorger]

I'm a little late to the party and I do hope you are still answering. Here are the problems I ran into:
1. The wire was very difficult to cut and bend. I have really small jeweler's pliers and I still couldn't get those end circles to curl without causing the bottom of the part that is supposed to be straight to flip out and ruin the distance between the wires.
2. The loop where it bends in half was either too far apart or, if I pushed it together, the rest of the space along the length became too tight. Couldn't get it all even.
3. Adjusting hither and tither got so many bends in the wire that it wasn't a nice straight line.
4. The glue did not flow so neatly as yours did and I ended up with very little below the metal so there was a gap underneath.
5. I didn't have a proper file or steel wool so I tried a little sandpaper and got a rough surface but not a flat wire. Only when I assembled the whole thing did I realize that that means the water between the wires lies below the "rise" of the curve and the brush never touches the water at all.
6. The water drips from the below the spot where the wire exits the cap. Also from the end at the loop. But the whole thing doesn't work at the moment not just because of the drips but because the brush doesn't contact the water. Does the wire really have to be so thick???
Appreciate any helpful hints. Thank you

[xyzct]

Hi John, okay, so I made some slight modifications to my charger and now it works like a charm! I'm going to step through your tutorial and try all of the exercises.

Already I can tell from just fiddling around a bit with it that you only use a fraction as much pigment as compared to laying a wash and dipping a brush in water.

Also, I just realized that I've left 3 or 4 comments for you, but they've been deleted because I put (awesome) links in them for you. Oh well ...

[sujanithtottempudi]

Could I buy this charger from you...if you are manufacturing....I wish some watercolour company sees this and manufactures this new discovery. Looks excellent to me. But making it is arduous.🙏

[Nancy-trfi]

You show painting a wash then BINGO you show a nearly finished painting. Wow

[xyzct]

Wow, there _is_ something new under the sun.

[wisemaj]

Fantastic idea!

A couple of questions:

1. Do you flatten just the top surface of the charger cradle, or both the top and bottom?
2. Just wondering what you would think of this idea. What if, instead of making a hanger for the charger, I glued the top of the plastic cap to the inside surface of a plastic cup cover, for instance from a small margarine tub? Then the charger could sit flat on a tabletop, plus the cup cover would serve as a water catcher. Perhaps a small spacer between the cap and the cover would be needed to elevate the charger cradle a bit. Any reason you think that wouldn't work?

Thanks!

[qdmiya]

Is this different from using a watercolour brush with a water capsule ?

[Goldi-Luc]

so when i add water to the fat part of my bristles with an eye dropper am i doing the same thing? i started doing this awhile ago with my most expensive paints so i could slowly add water without losing pigment into a water cup.



also i have thought about using a hamster waterer

[jonathanwebb]

Thanks for this. Interesting idea and looks pretty useful. Where did you source your stainless wire from? TIG welding wire springs to mind, but I don't know a friendly TIG welder. Thanks.

[bmwnasher]

Long time no see. I'm an Edmknton man.