Saturday, September 28, 2013

What A Watercolorist Actually Does

By Mia Kent


Painting is a very broad art with a lot of sub categories like oil painting, watercoloring and many more. Now out of all of the variations, probably the most interesting of all these variations would be watercoloring because it is one of the easiest versions. Now a painter who does this is known as a watercolorist and this is the whole process he will take when he makes his painting.

Water is probably the most important element in this sort of painting style. The most important technique that one will have to master would be knowing the right amount of water to use with the right amount of paint. At first, doing this will be quite hard because one will have to go through quite a bit of trial and error sessions.

When he is ready with his brushes, paints, and water supply, then the first step here is to wet the canvas. The primary reason for doing this would be to simply get the paper ready for the painting of the background. In order to do this, one must first get a big brush, dip that brush into some water, and just simply smear the water all over the paper.

After wetting the entire paper, then the next step in the process would be to paint the background of the painting. To be able to do this, one has to first get some paint and mix it together with a bit of water. The background has to make use of quite a bit of water in order to produce a glossy effect.

When that step is done, then one may now start painting the background with the mix that he created a while ago. After he paints the background, then he must let his picture dry up so that when he paints later, the paint will not run down. Another reason would be because a dried background will look much nicer.

After the background has already dried up, then now would be the right time to paint the actual picture on top of the background. As compared to the painting of the background, now one will be using only a little bit of water and more paint. The technique here would be to first put paint on the brush and then dip it in a little bit of water.

Another key element here would be to try out shades and color mixtures by playing with the paint and the water. For a thin shade, one will have to use more water. It goes vice versa for for a thick shade as one will have to use less water in order to have a thicker and fuller paint quality.

So for beginner watercolorists, it is very essential to be learning these techniques before going to the advanced ones. In order for one to be able to perfect this art, he must first know the process of creating a painting out of water and paints. From there, he will pick up the more advanced maneuvers and techniques that will create nicer effects.




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