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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #128:
You can get luminous watercolor mixtures by glazing! First I drew 3 lemons and painted them all with a graded wash of the same intense yellow, adding a little yellow-orange to the one on the bottom. After this layer dried, I created a shadow color for the lemon on the right by mixing Permanent Rose and Cobalt Blue. To avoid disturbing the yellow layer, I used a soft brush to gently rewet the lemon before adding the blue-violet shadow. I repeated the steps for the lemon on the bottom, substituting a mixture of Cobalt Blue and Viridian for the shadow.
Mixing colors with transparent glazes can create dramatically different results from palette mixtures, as you can see here.
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