Watercolor Painting Tips & Articles
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Introduction to Watercolor Painting Supplies For Beginners
Watercolor is probably the most convenient of all the painting mediums. All you really need to get started is a box of paint, a few brushes, water and some paper. There are no toxic solvents or mediums to be concerned about and your brushes can be cleaned with a little soap and water. This convenience makes watercolor one of the most economical painting mediums as well. This article will provide an introduction to the more popular supplies that a beginner should consider investing in.
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Technique of Watercolor Painting WC02 WATER
Water in watercolor painting technique is of equal importance to the pigment. Water is not just medium to make the pigment flow during application but an integral part of the pigment itself when applied and on drying leaves a permanent record of its former presence.
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Introduction To Watercolor Painting Techniques
This article will provide you with a general understanding of some of the more basic watercolor painting techniques.
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Sealing and Varnishing Watercolor Paintings Done on Canvas
You have two choices when you paint in watercolors on an alternate support such as clayboard or watercolor canvas: you can frame behind glass as with a traditional watercolor, taking the same precautions that the painting itself does not come into direct contact with the glass and that there is a space between the artwork and the glass or you can seal your work and frame as an oil or acrylic painting...
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Painting your Way Forward!
Painting is just a leisure activity , so its a waste of time! Thats what most people tend to think. But is it really?
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Accidental Watercolor Good Fortune
I started making watercolors about eight years ago, and one of the most wonderful things about the process is that you just never stop learning. And, with watercolors, it seems, a lot of the learning process isnt exactly learning at all: rather its a type of insight into the mysteries of paint and life.
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An Idea for Your Skies Edition 1 Vol. I
The problem: Paint a sky which moves from blue to a yellow sun without getting green. Begin by choosing a blue and red from your palette which will produce a pleasing purple...
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Drawing Attention to the Center of Interest Area of Your Painting Edition 3 Vol. I
There are several ways we can cause viewers to look at the particular area of our painting we’d like them to see. This is, after all, the way we communicate with another person through our paintings...
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Proper Use of Water and Paper Wetting in Watercolor Painting
Probably the single characteristic which makes watercolor different from all other color mediums is the fact that it is the only one in which the medium actually penetrates the surface onto which it is painted. This accounts for the brilliant translucence this medium is famous for...
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Glazing, Blending - How and Why
While these are quite separate watercolor techniques there are some important ways in which they are similar...
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Getting Color Compability Into Your Paintings
In the early going we seem to want to get exactly the same colors from our reference photograph into our painting. The writer was one of those. At one time more than 70 pigments were ready for use so that matching the colors was possible...
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Keeping the White of Your Paper with Frisket and Tape
For a lot of reasons we’d like to keep the white of our paper while painting. Maybe the area is a vine with leaves which is too small to paint around without leaving water marks...
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Painting Fog That Really Looks Like Fog
First have a plan for your composition. Whatever is in the foreground will not be in the fog and will need to be masked out either with frisket or professional grade masking tape...
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Painting with the use of reference photos
This edition is aimed at those who already do or would like to, use photographs to derive visual information for composition, detain, color, etc. for their paintings. You will notice that material in this edition applies equally to any medium...