Tag: #watercolor techniques

Author: Valfred Thelin, Patricia Burlin
Title: Watercolor – Let the Medium do it
Year: 1989
Format: PDF
Pages: 141
Language: English
Size: 27.1 MB
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Painting can be abstract or realistic, depending on personal interpretation. Forms colored by personal feelings, remembered or hidden in our unconscious, emerge and the painting unfolds into a world of light and depth with its own consciousness.

The author shows how to depict oak leaves with a sponge and paper stencils, and pine needles with a wire brush and a razor blade; a section on glazing introduces the basic technique of layering liquid color to achieve subtle effects. And there are demonstrations of such out-of-the-ordinary techniques as using pastels in combination with watercolor, applying tissue paper to paintings to create interesting surfaces, and overpainting with gesso to correct compositions in need of help.

Works by several well-known painters are featured throughout the book to illustrate the limitless ways different artists interpret subject matter and adapt various teclmiques to suit their unique styles. Each chapter concludes with stimulating exercises that encourage artists to practice the lessons they have just learned. This is a book that does not lose its relevance in the present day.