Watercolour Painting VA11

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Watercolour Painting VA11
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Characteristics of watercolour paintings

• Watercolour paintings often look fluid and
  flowing like water.

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• Pure black is seldom used in a watercolour
  painting. The darks are created by layering
  washes of colour. A wash of colour is a little
  bit of paint mixed with water, it is used to
  create thin layers of colour.

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With a fine brush and attention to detail a
watercolour painting can be made to look highly
realistic. A watercolour painting can also be
made to look colourful and abstract.
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A good watercolour painter sees a lot of
different subtle colours. A brown is not painted
just brown but brown with yellow, brown with
blue, brown with orange, etc.. Always look for
the extra tints of colour that others cannot see.
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It is difficult to hide mistakes in a watercolour
painting because the layers are somewhat
translucent.
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Painting a Flat watercolor wash
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 Painting a Graded watercolor wash
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Wet-on-Wet watercolor technique
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Glazed Wash watercolor technique
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Splatter and Spray watercolor techniques
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Using salt effects
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Tissue paper effects
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Using liquid resist
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Reference tools Glazed color grid
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Painting Exercise
How to use the different values of color to make
an apple appear three-dimensional.
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Sketch the apple and its shadow, using an HB
pencil.
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Mix yellow with water then apply to the lighter
side of the apple, covering about 80 of it.
Then, mix burnt umber with a similar amount of
water and apply to the dark side of the apple.
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The shadow should be darker and fade gently to a
lighter value as it goes away from you. You can
use burnt umber and a bit of violet for the
shadow. Then, mix a green color (yellow and blue)
and apply onto the light area of the apple.
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When the painting is dry, apply a layer of green
to the dark side of the apple and in the hollow
where the stem is attached.
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In this last step, add a touch of complementary
color (red-orange) to the lighter side of the
apple. The complementary color to use here is
yellow mixed with red. Then you can add just a
bit of red for the top.
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Clean your brush and apply clean water to wash
away some of the paint at the bottom of the apple
to show light reflecting from the surface under
the apple. Be sure to brush softly and not damage
the paper surface. Then paint in the apple stem
and its shadow.
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Now is the time to add the final touch - texture.
If your apple is has speckles, make little dots
of brown where the speckles appear. Sign your
name to your beautiful apple painting!
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Here's HowOn dry paper, paint the shape of the droplet using the same colors used to paint the petal or leaf. It should be slightly darker on the side that is nearest the light source. You can lighten the opposite side of the droplet by adding a tiny drop clear water or slightly blending off the edge.Dry completely. Paint the cresent shaped shadow opposite the light source.When absolutely dry, lift the highlight with a stiff brush or a hard eraser.
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When choosing an image to base a watercolour
painting on, choose one that will lend itself
well to the medium.
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Choose one that has a solid composition and a
nice, subtle range of colour (think in terms of
how watercolour behaves based on the exercises
you have done).
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