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I am a water colour painter with a reasonable amount of experience,but there is one aspect that bugs me.Can anyone advise me on the best way to render light coloured grasses and foliage against,say, a dark hedge background.The larger things can be masked, but I find the masses of very fine foliage difficult to reproduce.I find scratching out to be a bit hit or miss and tends to pick up the paper surface.I know I could use gouache but are there any other ways of achieving this?