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There are many ways to manage or achieve whites when painting in watercolor. You can simply paint around areas you'd like to reserve as the white of the paper, or you can protect select areas with some sort of mask like painter's tape or masking fluid.   But what if you didn't save the whites? Can they be recovered?    Of course you could use white paint; but because white paint is opaque, it can sometimes look heavy and unattractive.* Larger areas can be recovered by dampening a brush and gently lifting. I use this technique for small sections of hair, fur, or fabric, or a soft highlight in an eye. (I [...]