I have often looked at the drawings in my sketchbook and felt unsure how to use them in a watercolour painting. In fact, many of these sketches aren’t suitable to be used for a painting, but if a sketch is to be used it’s important to accept that when using a sketch, it will rarely appear the same in a painting. Sketching serves many purposes which I will discuss in this article. Personally, I find it useful to think of sketches as a starting point rather than to be replicated for a finished painting. Or a sketch may be part of your watercolour painting and further work will need to be done to work out a painting in its entirety.
