Watercolor painting has gained popularity as a fine art medium today because of its fresh look and speed of application and clean-up. An artist can achieve many techniques by applying paint in a variety of ways: wet into wet, and dry into wet, with sparse applications of salt achieve many interesting textures.

Because of its transparency, corrections are tricky to achieve satisfactory results. Many times, the artist has just one shot at painting a sky, mountains, rivers, or a tree.