This technique allow you to complete a painting on-site without getting bugged down by details or with too many glazes. Theoretically, you complete in 3 layers. However, apart from time constraint, there aren't any rules to why you should limit yourself to just 3 layers.
Here's how you work the magic. By the way, I am demonstrating with just two colors. Why ? Because beginners too often have problem managing colors . If you can't even work with 2 ? Reduce it to one. There's no prize for the artists who uses most colors.
At the most fundamental level, one just need to ensure that that the correct sense of color temperature is in place. Excessive colors rarely enhance an image when the temperature shift is nothing but a chaos.
Important things to remember when painting:
- Shapes + Composition, (If it doesn't look like a square ? It may be a rectangle )
- Value structure / Good drawing / Chiaroscuro (extremely important for watercolor since it rely extensively on light versus dark dramatic structure )
- Soft versus hard edges
- Color temperature (warm versus cool) . There is no need to score accurate color. A painter merely depict a color's relationship to its surrounding. e.g does the color has more warm (Red or orange) or cool (Green or blue) in it ?
Putting it together for a scene |
For more of this technique. I recommend the tutorial put up by Marc Taro Holmes . His has a nice cheat sheet he put up for free at his website.
https://citizensketcher.wordpress.com/paintings/
Thank you for these video's! They are really helpful learning watercolours.
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