Paint along with Ona Kingdon CSPWC, NWS, TWSA, IWS Master and learn how to create smooth transitional washes in watercolour that seamlessly change from one colour or value to another as they flow across the paper and how to use this technique to create a soft misty atmospheric painting.
Painting in Watercolour is enormous fun if you use the ratio of coloured pigment and water on the paper to encourage the paint to flow around. It is also a wonderful way to keep fit because YOU get a workout too!
So how does this work?
By taping your paper to a board and then dancing around with your painting you can create wonderful cool effects as the pigments mix with the wet paper.
For most of the effects you will be working with very wet paper so:
- You will first need to wet the paper thoroughly using clean water
- Then you apply a puddle of juicy paint mix to the rough area you want it to be in
- You then pick up your board and start to dance around. If you move your arms and board up and down (you can even throw it up in the air) you can create a beautiful vertical wash. If your swirl it around and around in circles it will spread out from the initial place you put it in gradually fading out the further away it goes from the source. Have a play with some scraps of paper and see the effects you can achieve.
In the video I had to be a lot more restrained so I could keep my board in the vision of the camera filming me. You can do this too, you just need your paper to be A LOT wetter so the paint moves around a lot easier.
Below is the outline I used for the painting but you could any hilly landscape with some trees would work.
Outline
This is my Finished Painting
Your choices of colour:
It really doesn’t matter what colours you use. You could do:
- a moonlit version using blues,
- a fresh spring green version,
- a version at sunrise with warm reds and oranges,
- you could even paint it in monochrome using just one colour.
The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy the process as you create.
Video Music Credit:
“Perspectives”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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