Different artists use different styles and techniques in the painting field. Different brush strokes and materials give birth to different paintings. To express the art in an interesting way, you can choose watercolor technique.
In the watercolor painting, the watercolor, either opaque or transparent,
is prepared by dissolving the colors in water. The artists who paint
their art with watercolors should be well-versed with different techniques
of watercolor paintings.
The commonly used technique in watercolor paintings is "Washing",
wherein the paper's area that has to be covered with the wash
is wetted. |
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Then the necessary amount of pigment is mixed and applied
over the wetted areas, and on any overlapping sections of
the art, after which it is dried by either keeping in the
sun, or under the fan. Only after drying the paint would spread
evenly.
Another technique is "dropping in color",
wherein an additional color is added to the wet area
of the painting.
The colors blend naturally with each other giving a
different color without any intervention from the artist;
however, until the color emerges, you would be able
to tell the appropriate color.
Similar to "Washing" technique is the "Glazing" technique,
wherein the mixed paint is applied in layers over the
dry surface formed after the wash dries in order to
adjust the tone and color on a wash until you get the
desired color and tone. |
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The good and popular transparent pigments that are used
to get the glazing effect are Auroline, cobalt blue and permanent
rose.
The brush is filled with a very wet pigment and applied on
a wet paper or on the dried surface of the wash in the "wet
in wet" technique. You can produce soft and subtle marks using
this technique, which would be great for background areas.
The "dry brush", and "Lifting off" are other techniques of watercolor paintings that are popular. |
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