Watercolor by Joseph Chiang

Watercolor Demo - Lightened Distant building

July 11th, 2008

Tips:

Sky in the evening is not so shinny as the eyes tend to believe.

To make a lightened building shine, apply just a thin layer of wash, and make its surroundings dull.

Work out the overall tone of the entire painting before going into small details; it helps build the atmosphere.

Watercolor Demonstration – Distant Foliage

July 9th, 2008

Tips:

The table is slightly tilted to allow the downward blending of color, creating foliage like texture…

Wet Paper.

Good paper and paints make a big difference; I use 300 lb Arches paper and Sennelier watercolor; same Arches with different weight also produce different result.

Mixed colors recedes more than primary color.

Reduce hard edges; wet on wet helps achieving

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Evening at Cental Park #26

June 18th, 2008

The photograph really does not do justice to the overall atmosphere of this painting

Evening at Central Park #20

April 30th, 2008

Both images are 8″ x 12″
300lb Arches cold press
with Sennelier watercolor

Both are painted with photo reference taken at the Central Park, NY…
However, they were done with different methods. This first one is additive layering(not sure if there is such term…), I painted the lighter background and gradually added darker foreground. The second one on the

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Evening at Central Park

April 29th, 2008

These are the 3 recent paintings…
I thought I did a good job on the sun-setting atmosphere at the Central Park on the first painting; it’s not so hard to capture the feeling of the light background with the shadowed foreground, because all I have to do in this case is to paint the dark foreground

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