Watercolor Painting
When you think of watercolor painting you think of those little trays and paintbrushes you used in kindergarden and elementary years. Now that I am taking art as a highschooler, I realize that there is so much more to watercolor painting than what I knew in my childhood. There are so many different and advanced techniques that go in to creating a beautiful piece of art. For example:
Washes (Graded wash)
Here is an example of graded wash.
Notice how the color fades from light to dark.
The most popular watercolor technique is the flat wash. To do this, you wet the paper that you will eventually paint and then you simply paint with horizontal strokes. When you are completed, you leave it to dry out. Graded wash is basically the same except you add more water to your paint and then you add less and less so you get a color that fades form light to dark.
Glazing
Here is an example of glazing. Maybe the goal that they were trying to accomplish was to make this area look darker than all of the rest.
Glazing is very similar to wash except you are painting over the already dried painting with a thin and clear paint. The goal of using this technique is to change the color and tone of the painting underneath.
Wet on wet
For wet on wet, you paint on wet paper. You should get some undefined or blurred stuff depending on how wet the paper is. You can also do the wet on wet technique on an already dried painting. You simply wet the paper with a large brush and then paint in the damped part.
Dry Brush
Dry brush is pretty much the opposite of the wet on wet technique. You use a brush with color but not with water and you simply paint. The lines will be sharp and it will be the main focus of the painting.
Lifting Off
Lifting off is esentially getting rid of or reducing the color. To do this you wet the area to be removed with a brush and clean water then blot the pigment
away with a tissue.
away with a tissue.
Dropping in color
Dropping in color is somewhat like the wet on wet except the paper would not be wet. You simply wet an area and pretty much let the paint do whaterver.
Watercolor paint
In my reasearch I have found that there are different types of watercolor paints. There are the ones that are in little trays and there are some that are more liquid and they are in tubes.