TAILIEUCHUNG - Watercolour tips for beginners

Working with watercolour may at first seem strange and difficult, especially if you are use to opaque mediums such as oil or acrylic. The first and most obvious difference is the fact that watercolour is transparent. This means you must decide from the very beginning where the areas of white will be in your painting. The process for successful watercolour painting, is to avoid the areas to be left white and apply the lightest washes first, gradually working your way towards darker washes. | Watercolour tips for beginners Working with watercolour may at first seem strange and difficult especially if you are use to opaque mediums such as oil or acrylic. The first and most obvious difference is the fact that watercolour is transparent. This means you must decide from the very beginning where the areas of white will be in your painting. The process for successful watercolour painting is to avoid the areas to be left white and apply the lightest washes first gradually working your way towards darker washes. Try to cover large areas fairly loosely in the early stages of the painting applying tighter detail towards the end. Here are a few points to keep in mind. Thumbnails Small thumbnail sketches allow you to shuffle your subject around and adjust the composition before you start to paint. Having a plan to work to makes it much easier to avoid problems particularly when it comes to arranging tonal light dark contrast. Break your thumbnail sketches into about four different tonal areas and shade them in. This lets you manipulate the lights and darks so the maximum contrast occurs at the centre of interest. this sketch contains only four different tones black dark. grey white Colour harmony There are a few things to remember to maintain colour harmony throughout your painting. Limit your palette Dipping into twenty different colours spread around your palette is tempting but usually results in a discordant muddy work. Limit your colours to just two or three particularly in the early stages of a painting. Your subject will dictate which ones to choose. I find for buildings landscape etc. starting with washes of earth colours - Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna plus a little Ultramarine or Indigo depending on what sort of atmosphere you re after gives a tight harmonious foundation to work on. More intense colours can be carefully introduced later if necessary. Foreign colours How often do you look at a painting and see an area of colour that doesn t seem .

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