Painting Wash A thin, translucent layer of color. Often it is the background of a picture Created by using watery paint applied quickly using large, sweeping brushstrokes. Brushstrokes Brush is loaded with paint leaving some of that paint on a surface. Brushstrokes can create: line, texture, movement, expression Practice: Your assignment: Use a wash to create a sunset with a silhouette. You must include a foreground, middleground, and background. Start with sky and middleground and add the silhouette last. Camouflage Painting Pick a strip, glue it on your canvas board. Create a scene to match your strip. Match colors and textures to camouflage your strip.