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Your Step-by-Step Guide To Painting WithWatercolors

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Painting with the watercolor medium is animmemorial art, followed by the Chinese, Egyptians, Europeans, etc.We have seen the perfectly preserved art of cave men depictingsimple scenes using twigs or bones as brushes and dried vegetablepowders mixed in water as colors.

Watercolor painting offers an adventurouschallenge even to experts. The unpredictability of the medium ofthe resulting painting often surprises the artist. The artist mustlearn to harness the unpredictable nature of the painting to hisadvantage. This skill can be developed only through experience.

The objective of this guide is to teach youthe different aspects of watercolors. We will cover the properselection of paraphernalia. Starting with an introduction to thevarious washes, brush strokes, and techniques used to create imagesof landscapes, still life, people, and anything else you canimagine.

The Artists Desk

A Sunny Day

The choices available can often confuse thenovice, who first sets foot in the world of watercolors. Buy thebest tools that money can buy, as quality matters when it comes topainting. There are hundreds of types and brands of paints, paperand brushes to choose from.

The Tools Of The Craft

1.Paints: Colors fall into twobasic categories: cool colors and warm colors. Having the basiccolors or primary colors: blue, red, yellow in both the types isenough to have access to the complete color palette. Artists'colors have a lot more transparency of pigments and visualbrilliance. For this reason, consider purchasing artists' colorsover the student colors.

If you can afford it, then considerpurchasing the following colors: alizarin crimson, lemon yellow,ultramarine blue and ivory black. Watercolor artists never usewhite; the white of the paper is used in the place of whitepigment.

Artists Colors

2.Paper: The papers used forwatercolors typically fall into one of two categories: hand madeand machine made.

Three surface types comprise machine madepaper hot pressed, rough, cold pressed. Rough paper differs frompressed paper in that rough paper is textured and has a grainyeffect, while the hot pressed paper has a smooth surface. Thetexture of cold pressed paper is not as rough as rough pressedpaper, but is more textured that hot press paper.

Handmade paper is a great medium because ofits durability and texture. Make sure to inspect the thickness ofthe paper. You do not need to stretch thicker paper before usingit. When purchasing paper, be sure to note whether or not it isacid free. Acid damages paper over time.

Thin paper should be stretched before youstart painting on it. Stretching involves putting the paper underrunning water or in a clean bath tub for about 5 minutes, so thatthe paper is wet evenly. Next, dry the paper on a flat board andstaple it around the edges.

The resulting painting surface is a moretaut, flat surface. This creates a stable surface on which topaint.

Handmade Paper

3.Brushes: Choose brushes based ontheir type and shape. The best quality watercolor brushesand alsothe most expensiveare the ones made from the Kolinsky sable fromRussia. Sable, squirrel, or synthetic sable materials comprise themore common brush materials.

Natural, hair made brushes are more effectiveat absorbing water and holding paint, making them superior to otherbrushes. The different shapes include round, pointed, flat,brights, stipplers, egberts, daggers and fans.

Watercolor brushes

You can determine the quality of a brush byhow effectively he brush recovers its original shape afterstroking. Find a brush with a sharp point, which allows you to bemore surgical in your painting. It should be able to hold color,resulting in a more even flow of colors as you paint.