Buying Watercolors And Painting Materials
Sep 12th, 2010 by Aldouspi

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Buying Watercolors And Painting Materials

Planning to start watercolor painting and you are a novice? Then the first thing you need to do is purchase your watercolors and painting materials. Sometimes, looking for painting materials can be overwhelming, since there are a lot of choices.

To make shopping easier, here are the painting materials you will be needing and what you need to look for.

Watercolors

Watercolors are typically found in cake sets or in tubes. An average set of watercolors should have the basic colors included. The white colored cake or rube is usually opaque and are often used in Gouache painting. If you are just starting out or a student in watercolor painting, look for brands that offer watercolor sets for academic or for students – these will be less expensive. Once your skill level increases you can switch to watercolors which are artist rated to create your watercolor paintings.

There are different colors, like transparent and semi-transparent watercolors that let light pass through the surface. There are also opaque and somewhat opaque colors like red, oranges and violet. You could also look for neutral colors.

Brushes

It is important to pick brushes which are intend for watercolor painting, since brushes that are intended for other types of painting, may damage the watercolor paper. Make sure that you are getting brushes which are guaranteed not to lose their hairs. Also, not all brushes are the same, there are flats which are used for broad areas, they have long bristles and square ends. Rounded bristles with pointed tips are for adding details. Filbert brushes have almond shaped ends which are ideal for creating shapes.

Watercolor papers

There are different kinds of watercolor papers. Machine-made paper, rough paper, hot-pressed paper, and cold-pressed paper, are some examples of watercolor paper. Their difference would be on the texture and the grains. Note that watercolor papers are not only different based on their type of manufacture, but also based on the brand of the paper. The paper you choose will make a great impact on the outcome of your art. Experimentation will lead you to which type of paper works best for you.

When buying watercolor papers, choose papers that are acid-free. Papers that have too much acid will change to yellow as time goes. Although, we usually think that watercolor papers are only white, that is not true. There are watercolor papers that have warm tints and colors.

Weight is also another important things to consider when looking for watercolor paper. The weight of a paper tells you how thick the paper is, it is usually in pounds or grams per square meter. The 300 gsm is the most-commonly used paper. While the 200 gsm is lighter, but may cause more problems, for the beginner, since it is thinner.

Palette

There are three kinds of palette which you can choose from. The first one is the cake and pan, which has a built-in fold out palette. While for tube watercolors, there are flat palettes. The covered plastic palette is a practical choice as does not waste too much watercolor.

Extra materials you need for watercolor painting.

Additional painting material you may need include pencils, pens, eraser, old towels, tissue papers and, of course, water. You would need clean tap water for cleaning the brushes and you may want to use bottled or filtered water for painting.

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Aug 9th, 2010 by Aldouspi

Watercolor Techniques

Watercolor Techniques

As in all of art, the art of watercoloring has amassed a collection of techniques that have been painstakingly discovered over the years. Artists have tried a myriad different ways to create the desired effect on canvas and paper. The most useful techniques have survived the test of time becoming part of the artist’s technical tool chest and are in use today.

The following are some methods in vogue today in the beautiful art of watercolor painting.

Washes

The first technique on the list is the most basic of them all, washes… For example, the flat wash. One way of doing it is wetting the area on the paper and mixing enough pigment to fill it up.

The graded wash requires that the pigment is slightly diluted with water with each stroke. The resultant wash fades out gradually and evenly.

Glazing

This is almost the same technique as a wash, except that it uses a thin, transparent pigment applied over dry existing washes. This is mainly to adjust the color and tone of the underlying wash.

The trick to success is to make sure the first wash to be painted over is dry.

Wet in Wet

Wet in wet is applying the pigment to a wet paper. Depending on the wetness of the paper, the resulting strokes can vary even from each other. It can leave soft undefined shapes or some slightly blurred marks.

This technique is applied over existing washes. You just have to make sure the laid-on washes are dry.

Simply wet the paper with a large brush and paint into the dampness. Those marks made by, wet in wet, make very subtle background regions in the painting.

Dry Brush

This is almost the opposite of the wet and wet technique. The brush filled with a pigment and then slightly dipped in water is dragged on a dry paper.

The marks produced by the strokes tend to come forward and are crisp and hard-edged. They are best applied around the focus of interest in the painting.

Lifting Off

To lift off color and pigment from the artwork, wet the area with a brush and clean water and blot the pigment away with a tissue. Masking some areas of pigment with strips of paper in the lifting process will bring out some interesting hard-edged lines and shapes.

(Some pigments are difficult to remove and should be avoided in this technique – Prussian blue, Windsor red, yellow and blue.)

Dropping in Color

For some surprising effects, try this technique. The process is simple. Introduce a color into a wet region and let it bleed, blend, and feather without interruption.

The resulting shapes and forms are unpredictable and interesting, and can be astonishing, at times. This is one color gradation that cannot be achieved by mixing the pigment on the palette.

Splattering

For certain needs of the painting, splattering paint can be done to achieve what you want.

First, dip a brush (or a toothbrush, depending on the size of spatter you want) into the paint. Scrape the bristles with a finger from your other hand and aim the spatter onto your painting.

Tissue Paper Texture

The paint on the surface should not be so wet. Use a crumpled tissue to pick up the paint. The image left behind can approximate rocks, foliage or treetops.

With a curious mind and some creativity, you can discover some techniques of your own. Watercolor painting is a fluid art.

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