Watercolor Painting by Joseph Chiang – Mist

The painting itself is blur, but the photo came out even blurer; I intended to make the foreground tree to come forward more, but the dark palatte just let it blend in with the backgroun. Some brighter colors might have helped. The tree on the left was originally sharper, but after I rubbed it with

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Watercolor in a non traditional way?

It’s challenging to find an innovative way in painting watercolor. I think the main reason is beacause artists tend to stick to the technique instead of viewing watercolor as a medium to carry out the artistic vision.

Watercolor is challenging, hence people develop a system to treat watercolor. As knowledge cumulated, it becomes a kind of

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watercolor – use of friscket and sand paper to creat foliage behind branches..

(Warning, not suited for perfectionist….)

1) Wash it:

create a background wash that is going to be the color of the branch; you can play around with the color, such as lighter wash for highlighted area, darker, duller wash for shadow area. You may want to do a simple, light pencil sketch for the branch map.
2) Friscket

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How to rescue a muddy watercolor painting

How do I rescure a muddy watercolor painting like the following one?

While many people would say once a watercolor is skrewed, there is no rescue…but I just want to try it and see how much I can improve this over worked mud.

1) First of all, I need to enjoy what I am doing, because otherwise

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How I do sunset

I used a lot of reference photo myself…
when I use reference photo..i never do exact copy of it…
I break down the picture into elements ….
For example, in the following picture, I like the coconut leaf and the boats, and how both objects’ color react to the background sunset…I like the color of sky as well….

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