May 05

Make Every Brushstroke Powerful

Have you ever approached a watercolor painting as if each stroke would be your last? Practitioners of calligraphy approach their art something like this, and the results are fresh and spontaneous, not overworked.
Landscape Painting, Meet Calligraphy


“I will live by my watercolors.”

Perhaps America’s greatest maritime painter, Winslow Homer became one of the masters of the watercolor medium as well. Mostly self-taught, Homer is known for the visceral force of the waves in his oil paintings, but his watercolors are an antidote to any visual heaviness and weight. As his early paintings reveal, watercolor is where he shined as an artist with a graceful, innovative hand.
Winslow Homer

Color Theory

We are beginning to work with Color next week so I thought it would be interesting to check out how we see color. A joy or a geek like me, probabaly a yawn for a lot of you. He speaks of Blue-Red-Yellow, Cyan-Magenta-Yellow and Red-Blue-Green palettes and how the interact. He is working with acrylics, but the science is the same.
How To Use Color Theory
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Watercolor Paper
Excerpts:
. . . "Arches watercolor paper is the brand most readily available in sheets, rolls, pads, and watercolor blocks. Arches paper is mouldmade in France only during certain times of the year because the water from the river used to wash the paper becomes muddy during the winter. This accounts for the slight variations in whiteness from batch to batch as the water begins to change."
. . . "The 300 lb. rough in the Artistico series is said to be produced on an especially slow-running papermaking machine, which allows the water to drain slowly. This process creates a paper with characteristics close to those of a handmade paper.  '
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