Posts tagged watercolor painting vidoe
Brotherly Love
Posted on January 6, 2020 by davisbrotherlylove
I thought a good way to get back into watercolor painting would be to paint clouds. Clouds are amorphous within their bodies, sometimes with hard-edged boundaries and sometimes blending into the sky behind them. Two basic watercolor techniques can be used to create these elements: use of a loaded brush on dry paper to create an edge and applying watercolor washes to make a gradient of tone.
Below is documentation of the stages of my most recent cloud painting.
Pencil drawing of cloud shapes and shading.
Clouds Stage 1
Preliminary Drawing
At the bottom, I used the wet-on-wet technique to introduce watercolor tones create darker areas within the borders I sketched. At the top of the paper, I blocked in gray tones on the dry paper.
Clouds Stage 2
Wet-on-Wet and Wet on Dry
I added layers to the bottom portion, using gray washes. On the top, I added edges to the boundaries, grading the tones toward the center of the mass of the clouds.
Clouds Stage 3
Final Painted Stage, Assorted Techniques
Even though I painted these clouds with the lighter ones on the top, I like it better with the dark on top;
Clouds Final
Watercolor
12″x16″ 140# Cold Pressed Watercolor Block
Techniques for painting watercolor clouds
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Posts tagged watercolor painting vidoe
In this tutorial, I show you a fun way to practice, warm-up, work on wet-on-wet painting while we explore abstract, loose clouds with watercolors.
In this blog post, I will be showing you my top 3 ways to trace the paint with me motifs and how you can move your printable sheets onto watercolor paper!
These tutorials are meant to give you a taste of what is possible with the right tools and techniques! If your goal is to great painting rituals that make you feel excited to sit down to paint, then I invite you to come paint with me and experience first hand how gratifying the ritual of the process really is!
Modern Watercolors for beginners is open for a few more days then it’s gone until the fall!
A self paced, video based class that you have lifetime access to as I updated and add to the course!
Watercolor Leaves: how to easily paint multiple styles & learn to layer leaves creating depth for an interesting piece of art that you can frame, digitize to use in your design work and enjoy painting over and over again! This online watercolor for beginners class will show you how to mix paint, use my favorite brush and create depth, movement and flow to your painted piece.
