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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.
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.
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. |
