Watercolour Paintings
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🎨 Watercolour
Watercolour is an enjoyable hobby that many people take up with the intention of painting lovely artwork. To do so, you first need to know which artistic traits are most important when painting with watercolours.
A good watercolour painting embodies vibrant colours, luminosity, and translucency. A watercolour artist must master these three important traits in order to create beautiful watercolour paintings that are better than average.
So keep reading to discover the best practices and strategies that will
help you improve the quality of your watercolour paintings.
🖌 Basic Techniques
- Washes: The basic watercolor technique is the wash, an application of paint to produce a unified field of color. A wash is applied with a loaded brush in a series of even, horizontal strokes, each stroke barely overlapping the stroke above, pulling the paint downward. The wash can be graded by adding more or less water with each stroke.
- Glazes: A glaze is the application of paint over a dried layer so the underlying color shows through. Layers of diluted color can be applied to build up a controlled color transition.
- Wet-on-Dry: In wet-on-dry, a wet brush is used on dry paper. Wet-on-dry offers more control because the colors don’t run together and the individual strokes are retained.
- Wet-into-Wet: In wet-into-wet, paint is applied to moist or damp paper, allowing the colors to run together in an unpredictable manner, creating soft edges and diffuse distributions of color.
- Dry-brush: Dragging an almost dry brush with a small amount of paint over the surface of dry paper leaves deposits of paint on the bumps and ridges of the paper. It works best on rough paper.
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⌈ Quotes ⌋
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"Watercolor for me is all about the transparency and glow that you can achieve with this media that is not possible with other forms of art. With oil, you can build texture and add lights, with acrylic you can get the solid covering of a shape, but with watercolor, you can glaze layer upon layer and still have the luminosity and lacey edges."
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"There is a magical quality in the reflection of transparent watercolor against the white of the paper that is uniquely brilliant and alluring. The watercolor, like a fine-tuned musical instrument, can be expressed effectively through harmony and contrast, with the charm of a Sonata, the mystery of a nocturne, or power of a symphony."
- Rusty Walker
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"It is like no other medium. You can use it like oils, Acrylic and by itself as a transparent medium. The wonderful "accidents" that happen with the flow of colors can not be achieved by another medium that I know of. The most valuable Lesson is that you can do almost anything with watercolor that you want."
- Mort Solberg
- Linda Daly Baker
What makes a good artist?
Good artists turn that energy into something beautiful. They use it to fuel their creativity and make work that resonates with others. Anyone can be an artist, but you can recognize a great artist by how their work makes others feel. Art at its core should make you feel something.