Painting with Watercolours

Water colours are watery. Not thick like acrylic or oil paint.

Traditionally you can see the paper through the paint and the paper tone makes your white tones.

 click here for the Pinterest page on water colour painting techniques

- Practice on spare bits of paper
- Use contrasting colour matches for shading/shadows and modelling things to look 3 dimensional.

 

Red/Green

Blue/Orange

Yellow/Purple

Black is really harsh. using it as a shadow colour can be overwhelming. Do so with subtlety. 

If you have not planned how to use the negative space - this means you are not actually achieving. the whole point was to 'compose' how you were using the space, not to just place everything in the centre. 

I should be able to see your compositional sketches from which your idea comes from as I move around the room. 

What you may have missed...

For those of you who missed the last one or two lessons:

Whatever point you are at, we are taking your 'logo' of your initials or image and developing it into a stencil. This stencil (if you are lucky and responsible) will be applied to our 'wall' with spray paint. To do this you have to show you can be trusted.

What is a stencil? How do you make your image into one

- Holds together as one piece - Template and Stencil.

The template blocks the paint from hitting the negative space of the image and the stencil (open) allows the paint to go where you want positive space.



If you are turning an image into a stencil, you need a strong material to use as a template.

You also need to design it to hold together so that your details are apparent.

If i was making a stencil of a letter 'P' - there is a hole in the middle. Do you remember those alphabet stencil templates you used to get as kids?
 How do you make it show all the detail in the middle and hold together? you make those breaks happen in the positive space so that the template remains ONE PIECE.

Here are some of the examples I went over on the board during classes this last week:



Here are some student's work that got finished last week:

We have a wall on the side of the unused kiln room which is for stencils ONLY.

Kody 8gb Stencil and Template both could be used because he was so neat with his cutting

Nathan 7Bk - original design

Nathan 7 Bk - reworking to be a template and stencil

Jaedon 8gb finished painting

Kody, Jaedon 8gb, Shikobi 7bk finished paintings