Sunday 4 December 2016

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. 

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