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The Painting Process – Watercolour

In water color there are several greats. They are Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Turner and Andrew Wyeth. This is my list. If you are interested you may find others. My list contains mainly realist. I do not know what except that there is a certain amount of craft and spontaneity in there work that I am drawn too. It is not super realism. It represents something, maybe emotional content or memories, but they are my favorites. Why start off with watercolor? Well we worked with pastels because its dry, easy and color can be used and learned simply. Watercolor is not as easy. You are using water and if you are not in the here and now then you will use to much water or something and you will mess up. So, be careful.

Some words Wash Run Lift Soaked Satin Dry Wet on wet. Wet on dry Dry on wet Dry on dry Loaded brush Dry brush Saturated

There are others rest assured but these will suffice now.

Lesson One

Wet on wet wash = wet paper/wet paint

Lesson Two

Wet wash & dry paint = wet paper/dry ish paint (Note paint is not really dry it just is not water saturated) Lesson Three Dry on wet = dry paper/wet paint

Lesson Four

Dry on dry (for detailing) = dry paper/dry paint

Assessment lesson using any of the skills above students should paint a simple still life and landscape. Procedure, a) demo, layout, background, foreground, shading and detailing. b) set up still life c) pictures of landscape