It's about "the bead." The bead is what internationally renowned watercolour artist Joseph Zbukvic calls the wet edge of your painting.
Joseph emphasizes the importance of using the bead, coming back to the bead, and directing that wet edge around the scene. Keeping the bead alive in this way helps you to connect the different shapes in your scene together.
In Peter Cronin's excellent book, he explains how to get a bead from pigment and move the pigment around to get beautiful, clean washes in your watercolour paintings with no brush marks.
In my experience techniques such as tilting the board to use gravity to move pigment or using a spray bottle can evoke beautiful and fresh looking washes as well.
Happy painting everyone.
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