水彩教學

(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 it:

Then use a pointed brush to create strokes imitating branches. To do this, you may want to practice on your strokes; traditional Chinese painting could be a good reference to tap into for naturalistic brush marks. It’s better to use brush then incredible nib, as marks would have more fluency. Use synthetic or used brush since Friscket tends to ruin a good brush. To know more about Friscket, enter here. It’s good to have a bucket of water on the side to dip into as frequently as you can to prevent friscket dried out on your brush.
3) Sand it:

sand the area that you wish branches to disappear behind the foliage. Sanding is a process that could be bad or good depending on how you want your final result to look like. It can be good as it not only makes the branches hide behind foliage, and it might also creates some unexpected texture that is aesthetically pleasing, but if you sand it too hard, it will leave some white dots that are going to eat your paints, making them darker then the surroundings.

4)Paint the foliage.

5)Use friscket eraser to remove the masked areas. You have to get an eraser; rubbing won’t help much for the friscket after sanding, as they tend to stick tightly to the paper. Incredible Friscket Kit comes with the special eraser and nib.

6)Tone doown some of the hard edges with wash or by lifting.

7)If you wish, you can repeat the process to create more layers and overlaying effect.

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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 I would hate the mud so much that I want to get it out of my sight, let alone reworking it.

2)Muddy painting is muddy because the mud is all over the watercolor, not so much because the mud is a bad color; it looks bad only because there is no contrast of light and dark, and therefore loosing the point of interest or focus on the painting. So the first step of rescuing is to use some stiff wet brush and lighten some of the highlight area gently; be careful, don’t put the highlight all over, cause it will be like midtone all over again.
3)Don’t put too much detail on it; because if it is muddy, usually it means there is already too much detail on it.
4)Alone some of the “lifted” highlights, add some saturated color wash.
5) Darken the darkest dark! Go really really dark and add some detail in the dark area would help.
6) Keep in mind, mud is your best friend, becasue muddy color makes bright color more vivid. Jjust watch out and don’t misplace it.

7)Increase the detail in some of the darker area would help too.

The result:

I used a lot of reference photo myself…
when I use refrence 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…. so I take those three and compose them into my own composition.

In terms of color…I just let the color flow freely for the sky and ocean, if you look closely, the yellow of sky and ocean is created at once…
i wet the paper first….then quickly paint yellow, purple, red with big brush…and let them mix on paper…after the wash dried, I added detail in the foreground with dry brush…in the whole process, I don’t care about whether or not the colors look exactly the same with my reference photo…it’s the feeling of the sunset I want to capture.

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