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Week Three

9/29/2012

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This week experimented with glazing - mixing color by adding other colors on top.  Transparent watercolor is a particularly good medium for this type of painting.  We quickly learned three things from this:
    PATIENCE!   If the artist doesn't allow the under color to dry completely there will not be glazing but mixing as in wet on wet.  The colors will bleed. 
    Its a good idea to know where you're going before you start.  Painting in glazes starts with the lightest colors and adds glazing to make darker and darker colors.
   It isn't as easy to get dark as it appears.  Getting light and midrange color is fairly simple but adding the darker values - not so much.

    A good example of an artist that uses LOTS of glazing is found at
www.pauljackson.com        You might want to browse through some of his paintings to see how meticulous he is in adding glazing to build up his darks.

    We also talked about values and the fact that colors are values.  Some time when you don't have anything else to do, sit down and make a value chart across the top of a page of watercolor paper.  Then fill in with as many of your colors or mixtures as you can under these.  For example, under the lightest value you might paint pale yellow, pale pink,  pale blue, etc.  Remember that in watercolor you will be using water to make the colors lighter.  Also remember that the colors at the top of the color wheel will be the lightest when full pigment is used.   Under the darkest will be full strength purple and mixes of alizarin crimson and pthalo green. 
    When you have a good selection of color/values you will be able to substitute local color in an object with another color in the same value.
    A good example of an artist who does this can be found at :
http://www.carol-carter.com/

    Next week we'll be finishing up with watercolor and starting to work with acrylics.  We'll be mixing opaque with transparent media in the manner of Stephen Quiller.  If you'd like to take an early peek,

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Week Two

9/20/2012

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At the end of last week's class we were about half way through the glazing of our water picture. 
We started with the lightest values, a yellow and a pink.  Then we added a midrange blue, and a middle purple for the far shoreline and reflection.
Finally we put in some midrange earth/greens for the foreground.
Next week we will finish this picture by adding the darker values.


We are also starting a new one using your personal photos.
Please bring one in next week.  This is your chance to paint something you really enjoy doing.

We will talk about values and color value before we start the second picture.
Due to the drying factor, we will be working on both of these at the same time.


I hope you could see the wonderful transparency of watercolor when you worked with glazes.  For next week you may either use glazing or a more spontaneous approach or a combination of both of these.
 
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Week One: Sept. 12

9/14/2012

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Our first introduction to watercolor.  We discussed what is good about watercolor medium: 
Transparency - where we can see the white paper underneath the color.
Serendipity - we can mix on the paper and not completely know what is going to happen - usually much better than if we had carefully mixed and painted.  This is especially good for anything in nature - as it is always moving and trying to reproduce a picture of nature usually comes out stilted. 
 
We tried working wet on wet, first  painting water onto the dry paper and then dropping paint into it.  We did this first with one color, then two, and finally with three, letting them mingle to create new colors.

And we painted a picture, using the concept that dry paper stops the run of the wet paint so we can leave a dry strip to paint areas of wet paint without having them run into each other.

Next week we'll look at the transparency factor - using a technique called 'glazing'.

A word about paper:  you will need a sheet of 140 lb. weight watercolor paper.
Buy either Arches or Fabriano.  Strathmore is a no no.  Canson isn't usually as good as the better grades.  But that one sheet of paper should last you through the watercolor portion of class into the acrylic part.

Some resources for ordering materials:
www.dickblick.com                www.aswexpress.com              www.cheapjoes.com               www.danielsmith.com
Plus we have the art store on University ave betwe

   
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