Watercolor NEWBIE..please help
Anthony J. Biacco
Hi,
I'm interested in exploring watercolor painting. My current dealings with the
arts is mostly in music, poetry,
and verse.
My main drive to get into watercolor painting right now is I want to paint a
picture for my
best friend for Xmas..we both love the children's book The Little Prince and I
want to paint one of the pictures
and frame it for her.
I know this may not be the BEST reason for someone to start exploring an
artform, but I see it as a stepping
stone and motivation to furthur express myself.
What I'm asking is that anyone help me get started. Whether it be advice, tips,
how to go about getting
supplies, what to user, the best way to start learning..it will all be
appreciated.
Please email any responses, cc: them to the group if you feel the need to do so.
Thank you,
-Tony
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Larry Seiler
and that by many professionals. The imidiacy and spontaneousness of
watercolors demands control and proficiency.
My recommendation is to mess around watercolor as washes of color that fill
drawings or sketches. Get a sketchbook, and just begin sketching objects
in any room...of anybody, any thing. Use a BIC ball point black medium
pen...use charcoal pencils, use sepia colored pencils...whatever- for
drawing. Then use watercolor loosely and in washes of
color...hhmmm...staining the drawings with color.
To get that sense of spontaneousness, don't labor over the drawings. Do
them as quick studies...gestures..sketches. Then fill with color, and you
can always go back into the colored drawing to beef 'em back up with more
drawing tools.
peace,
Larry Seiler
artist's site- http://cwinc.net/larryseiler
WetCanvas Artists page- (shorter and quicker loading)
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Gallery/S/Larry_Seiler/index.html
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
Silver Dragon Studio
You migh consider an Oriental approach to watercolor, Sumi-e or Chinese
Brush Painting. This type of painting attempts to capture the spirit rather
than the literal subject. Many watercolorists are drawn to this type of
painting because of the philopsophy, the simple elegance and because the
Orientals have always been considered "Masters of the Brush".
Please visit the "Sumi-e Society Midwest" Web site.
http://home.earthlink.net/~drasan There is a lot of information on this
type of painting along with books, supplies, teachers, techniques,
philosophy,a gallery, etc. Many of the members including myself are also
watercolorists.
In the spirit of the brush,
Sande Nitti
Silver Dragon Studio
http://www.silverdragonstudio.com
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Nita Leland
out paint brushed smoothly over the paper. The "dry brush" is removing some
of that thinned out paint from the brush and dragging the brush over the
surface for texture. For "line" you use the edge, point or corner of the
brush to draw. Finally, "wet-into-wet" painting is dampening the paper
first, then dropping or painting color into the wet surface so the color
spreads and has soft edges. You can do all these with two brushes, a 3/4"
flat watercolor brush and a #6 or 8 pointed round brush. If you want to
learn color mixing, start with six colors (a warm yellow and a lemony
yellow, a cool blue and warm blue and a cool, bluish red and a warm orangey
red. Mix the warm yellow and warm red for orange; mix the cool yellow and
cool blue for green; mix the warm blue and cool red for violet. Mix
different combination of these for brown and black. The paint should flow
without coming off the brush in chunks and there should be enough paint in
the mixture that it doesn't have to be brushed over several times. This is
the five-minute course. Aside from this, it takes lots of painting to paint
really good watercolors. Good luck!
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Nita
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Thanks to everyone!
I'm sure this all will be a big help.
-Tony
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Kate Philbeck
lots of water) and build your way up to darker colors and more detail..
painting is like sculpting, you build it one block at a time; except for
your shades of color are what defines the shape.. Start out just painting
simple shapes like circle and squares.. pick a light source and go for it..
Joe
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