Top Image: Wetting the paper with CLEAR WATER - hint - scoop lots of water each time you stroke - go from Top (side to side) to Bottom.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
All About Softness Session #1
Top Image: Wetting the paper with CLEAR WATER - hint - scoop lots of water each time you stroke - go from Top (side to side) to Bottom.
Drop colours onto shiny-wet paper, wait until the shine is gone, then drop some more.
After things look dry but still feel cool to the touch, use a damp flat brush (vertically,with narrow edge of brush touching paper) to sweep off paint.
Image 2: Quickly wet paper with a coloured wash this time - again, top to bottom, side to side. Mix your colours (Thalo Blue + Cad Yellow Light) on the paper as you go along using yellow first. After the shine is mostly gone, use a small round brush (damp with clean water only) to sweep light strokes into the paint. Once that dries, sweep new colour strokes then soften one edge only with wash brush. Add a little burnt sienna to your mix once the paint has dried and "pick out" pieces of background in between the shapes.
Image 3: Paint area with colour wash, let stand until shine almost gone, then place spots of water from the tip of a round brush on the damp paint. Once dry, practice wetting one adge of stroked shape.
Image 4: Wet the paper, then drop colour shapes onto wet paper, keep adding until wash is rich varied form, then let absorb into the paper. Using water and a round brush, pile up water in certain areas to create soft, light shapes.
Image 4: Wet the paper, then drop colour shapes onto wet paper, keep adding until wash is rich varied form, then let absorb into the paper. Using water and a round brush, pile up water in certain areas to create soft, light shapes.
Image 5: Lifting colour from dry paper - use two strips of masking tape to form a corner, then with a clean damp sponge scrub ot the paint from inside the taped corner, remove tape. Second, tear a strip of tape vertically, then stick down the two sides leaving a narrow gap between them. Add a second strip of tape outside each edge. Using a sponge, scrub out the paint from between the strips of tape and remove the tape immediately.
Image 2: Quickly wet paper with a coloured wash this time - again, top to bottom, side to side. Mix your colours (Thalo Blue + Cad Yellow Light) on the paper as you go along using yellow first. After the shine is mostly gone, use a small round brush (damp with clean water only) to sweep light strokes into the paint. Once that dries, sweep new colour strokes then soften one edge only with wash brush. Add a little burnt sienna to your mix once the paint has dried and "pick out" pieces of background in between the shapes.
Image 3: Paint area with colour wash, let stand until shine almost gone, then place spots of water from the tip of a round brush on the damp paint. Once dry, practice wetting one adge of stroked shape.
Image 4: Wet the paper, then drop colour shapes onto wet paper, keep adding until wash is rich varied form, then let absorb into the paper. Using water and a round brush, pile up water in certain areas to create soft, light shapes.
Image 4: Wet the paper, then drop colour shapes onto wet paper, keep adding until wash is rich varied form, then let absorb into the paper. Using water and a round brush, pile up water in certain areas to create soft, light shapes.
Image 5: Lifting colour from dry paper - use two strips of masking tape to form a corner, then with a clean damp sponge scrub ot the paint from inside the taped corner, remove tape. Second, tear a strip of tape vertically, then stick down the two sides leaving a narrow gap between them. Add a second strip of tape outside each edge. Using a sponge, scrub out the paint from between the strips of tape and remove the tape immediately.
Session #2 All About Softness
Image #1: Shape on right - using Burnt Sienna + Ultramarine Blue, paint a shape, then soften edge all around using a wet wash brush that has been wiped on the edge of the bowl. Shape in center, using same mix, repeat, then soften the same, only this time pad the brush a little drier on folded paper towel.
Image #2: Image on right - using Cadmium Yellow Pale + Cadmium Red Light start wash from top of shape at full strength, then change to just water to graruate colour. Soften edge with damp brush. Image on left - using Burnt Sienna + Ultramarine blue, paint shape then soften shape with a damp sponge. Image below - I forget *smile*
Image #3: Mix up Cadmium Yellow Pale + Ultramarine Blue + Burnt Sienna then create this interesting shape that forms a straight line on the bottom edge Hint - vary the mainly green colour as you go along, . Using your wash brush, soften the upper edge and sides and repeat again outside your first stroke to give the paint lots of room to spread. Using your slanted brush handle (or a credit card) scratch lines into the wet paint Hint - make your scratch from the bottom up. Use a damp sponge to wipe away some of the paint from the top of the shape only (Hint - remember to rotate the sponge to a clean side anr re-rinse it often). Drop a little more colour here and there.
Image #4: Mix a soft grey using Yellow Ochre + Ultramarine Blue + Alizarin Crimson then paint an island shape hint - use the brush handle to "spike" the trees along the upper edge - and end id along a straight edge. Use a wash brush and plenty of water to "lose" the bottem edge. Use a damp sponge to "lose" parts of the upper shape, then drag the sponge across it to create mist.
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