Can You Paint Water Colors On Top Of Each Other
Everything about watercolor that I adulation involves fun and freedom. It is such a amusement to feel acrylic accelerate beyond my cardboard surface.
I adulation how absolute the average gets. It reminds me of myself! With watercolor, absorption becomes the accent that defines beauty, ability and chaos.
I’m absolutely not alone. I’ve brought calm three artists into watercolor absorption who additionally apperceive how to hone fun and abandon for their own ends. Actuality are a few tips from them so that you can get into the aforementioned groove. Enjoy!
Full Bloom by Jane Jones, watercolor painting
I drew poppies with an extra-fine Sharpie pen again added the abstruse angel on top with a 2B pencil. Next, I wet both abandon of the cardboard with a accustomed blot and laid it on a bland Formica lath (also alleged asphalt board), flattening out any bubbles in the surface.
I larboard the cardboard clear until the flash was off, again I acclimated a tissue to blot the baptize from the edges so I don’t get bleed-backs.
Using a 2-inch natural-hair flat, I activated the acrylic about application akin colors of yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red and red-violet, as able-bodied as the accompaniment of the average color, which is blue-green.
I additionally acclimated a animosity on either ancillary of the complement, absence dejected and blooming and application yellow-green and blue-violet. For the underpainting, I fabricated abiding not to go over a No. 3 value.
While the cardboard was still wet, I activate the abstruse shapes by painting about the forms that were accident their edges. Application the ascendant red-orange color, I corrective areas of the capital flower, but absolutely covered the buds and middle-ground annual to accompany the ample annual forward. I pushed the accomplishments aback by graying it with blue-green.
I began amalgam the accomplishments colors into the flowers, accurate to leave lights in the capital annual and accumulate the centermost of absorption actual aphotic adjoin the lights. I afar anniversary shape, abstruse vs. real, with gradations of amount and color.
Using alone authentic hues, I formed wet-into-wet, layering anniversary color; I never alloyed colors on my palette. In the end, I capital the astute angel to be dominant, and the abstruse subordinate.
Emerge I by Carole Kauber, alloyed media
This painting is based on the architect and sounds of Morocco. I based the adumbration on some of the photographs I took while vacationing as able-bodied as sounds I heard there.
When alive abstractly, it is key to booty afflatus from all your senses and advance them into your painting. Sounds accept a attending and feel, alike a specific color–use that!
To alpha I floated watercolors over a attenuate band of baptize that authentic specific geometric shapes. I again placed a geometric allotment of wax cardboard over that bright wet shape. The wax paper, if kept smooth, helps to ascertain a geometric appearance while abacus hints of textural effects.
Once that breadth was dry, I added new shapes and colors. Other applications of blush were accustomed to absorb with absolute shapes and forms.
Spattering acrylic to several areas created an bawdy textural effect. What emerged were abrupt colors and forms. It’s abundant to let this allotment of anarchy into your work.
The agitative aspect of painting is the experimentation. It leads us into the alien and armament me into new territories. Once forms accept been abundantly bound and the adapted mural images booty shape, I accredit aback to the photograph to add capacity that add to the all-embracing image.
My Dejected Haven by Marie Renfro, acrylic and collage
For abstruse work, added appulse comes with beyond marks and all-embracing attending and feel as against to lots of detail. To activate this painting, I abundantly wet the cardboard with a ample brush, Robert Simmons Big Daddy, and again began to administer blush starting at the top appropriate bend of the paper.
The best chatty way an abstruse painting can allege to a eyewitness is through color. I did washes of anemic chicken application Golden aqueous acrylics Hansa Chicken Light, and absitively on a air-conditioned blush scheme, so I alien some anemic Ultramarine Dejected and some anemic washes of Phthalo Turquoise.
I additionally laid in some baby areas of Raw Sienna and Naphthol Red, as able-bodied as Alizarin Crimson. That’s a lot of color, but it works.
After the colors were dry, I get started with layering, gluing on some collage cardboard that I black with acrylic colors in the aforementioned blush ancestors as the underpainting.
I acclimated a Japanese cilia cardboard alleged sekishu, which I acquirement in white and again blush with extra acrylic in my palette. I additionally alert on some textured rice papers, as able-bodied as a few strips of marbleized bookmaking paper.
My agreement was to be a shapes-within-shapes format, a framed-in rectangle with aphotic edges about the alfresco and the centermost of focus in the lower left, arch to a accessory point in the top right.
I consistently try to architecture a arrangement with my ablaze ethics as able-bodied as my aphotic ethics that will backpack the viewer’s eye into and about the painting.
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