Nature Eye
To have a wash of a lot of color; first put a lot of color on your palette. Using a big brush, maybe even 2 inches, get water and don't blot it. Then get paint on your brush. Apply the watery paint to a big section of your canvas.
A chicken eye.
The wash will be wet so you have to let it dry for a long time. While it is drying, you can pick a different color and apply it to a different section of the canvas. Overlap is okay. Sometimes a fan brush will blend the two, old and new, sections nicely. When the first section is dry, try section three with the next color. You don't have to be forming a picture yet. This is to get the whole canvas covered in color. If you get a good picture in layer two or three, there is no blank spot of canvas to cover with paint that you might swipe over your good picture. The canvas must be filled up with paint to hang.
A cat's eye.
Interesting color combination can be created from the washes and stand out as background, if they don't get painted over. Lines can be made from thick paint and thin brushes. Don't start with a lot of brushes. Just buy a few and see what you need. Buy just some of those. The line is for the eye to follow. The wash, for the eye to flow over. Lines will eventually form a picture. More curvy lines form a picture than straight. But straight lines are sometimes in a picture too.
A cartoon character watching.
Curve lines come from bending the wrist. Try bending the wrist painting on paper first if you don't think you can do it. You can do it. Once you get it right, then try it on canvas.
A rooster comb.
The curvy, bend at the wrist and swivel while painting, lines make your painting look its prettiest.
Nature's funny two eyes.
A thick big brush line is for layer three. This can define your painting picture, make it stand out, make it seen. As an abstract picture, it won't be easily recognizable. This is why you write down the story it represents in your life, instead of just naming the shape.
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