Watercolor Painting Instruction

Watercolor Painting Instruction:

Watercolour is perfect for capturing the subtle and ever-changing tonal quality of light.

Whether it be a distant landscape, or a sharp sparkle of light over water, or even the inner glow of clouds.

Watercolour has a special delicacy of transparency about it which is lacking in most mediums.

Though... on the other hand, it also has the reputation of being wishy-washy. This is because watercolour is less predictable than other paint mediums.

And probably that's why many people are hesitant in taking up watercolour.

It can create magic on one hand; and also create disaster on the other.....

I have heard myself...... that watercolour is the hardest of all paint mediums to use. If this is true, it might scare beginners off, but wouldn't it be worth it to just try.

The promises of watercolour and the paintings it can create is found, just by looking at other watercolour artists work.

And some are astounding.....

Fixing the mistakes of watercolour is near impossible, and that's why people are reluctant, if not hesitant in using this medium.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - AristotlePope

Another reason that watercolour is also considered harder to use than other paints, is because it dries up to 50% lighter than when firstly painted.

The original painting that took on a vibrant combination of colours when you first painted it, can look somewhat pale in comparison when dry.

This is where the mastering of watercolour comes into play......... and by tackling the true nature of watercolour.

When the water evaporates as the paint dries, you can see the white or cream colour of the paper surface shine through the paint like sun through the a stained glass window in a church.

Yet, a good watercolour paint seems to have it's own inner light about it. 

So in Watercolor Painting Instruction..... I would suggest you work with good quality watercolour paints.

Here are some Watercolor Supplies for you to buy.

Watercolor Painting Instruction: Building up Watercolour

Watercolour can be built up in a very special way because of its transparency, you can built up your painting by adding more layers of watercolour to achieve the depth of colour in your painting that you want.

Do realize that with the more layers of colour, the less reflective the light will become thought the paint and you could be in danger of loosing that fresh clean feeling of you painting.

But you can also use this to your advantage as well....

If you apply these two techniques together in Watercolor Painting Instruction, to get an overall painting of translucent sections in one area, and darker dense areas in other sections of your painting.

As watercolour is mainly water with the added tint of colour, you need to realize that this paint, once applied to a fibrous surface such as paper acts as a sponge and will soak up all the water.

Thus... as the paint dries fairly quickly, giving you little time to muck around. So you need to work fairly fast.

Watercolour gives you the opportunity to work with spontaneity and be bold and work freely with your work, and also invites  to the challenge of working with wet pigment on paper.

As you progress you will develop your own style, so experiment and don't be afraid to try new things that you otherwise  would not be able to do with different paint mediums.

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