Beginner’s Watercolour
Искусство и культура / Изобразительное искусство
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Название: Beginner’s Watercolour
Жанр: Уроки живописи
Автор: Nicola Hodgson, Richard Taylor , Albany Wiseman
Год выпуска: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 26 Mb
ISBN: 330439433967
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Beginner’s Watercolour БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Beginner’s Watercolour was written with the aim of inspiring you to pick up a brush and a palette and learn to handle this most lovely and delicate of painting media. Watercolour painting demands a fresh and spontaneous approach to the subject in order to show off the medium’s wonderful translucency and delicacy of colour. This is a medium that is particularly well suited to capturing the quick changes of light, weather and mood that are essential factors in landscape painting.
This book offers many different approaches to landscapes, from stormy seascapes to vibrant summer fields. We also branch out and show you the full the range of possibilities of subject, from portraits to buildings and intimate flower studies.
This book is divided into four chapters, helping you to gradually build up different techniques and approaches to painting.
Chapter 1 introduces washes, the broad, flat layers of colour that you lay down first to start building up an artwork. Working wet into wet and wet into dry are two technical approaches that will help you build up your artistic range, while lifting out and handling backruns offer two ways to help you cope with mistakes and turn them into features.
Chapter 2 introduces colour. Starting off with some basic colour theory, we then take in colour mixing, tone, and mixing palettes that will suit your given subject. It is easy to go overboard with buying paints when you are just starting watercolour painting, and there are certainly many tempting boxes and tubes on offer. However, it is a good discipline to know how to mix a wide range of tints and tones from just a small number of paint colours. Practising with a limited palette, or even with monochromatic studies, focusing on the interplay of light and shade in a subject, will be a valuable exercise.
Chapter 3 discusses texture and effects. These are some innovative ideas for you to introduce once you have a feel for the basics of watercolour painting. Try experimenting with resist media, sponging, drybrush and sgraffito, among other methods. Learn what sort of effects are best suited to a particular subject, and apply them with a light hand: it is possible get carried away with spattering and scratching and end up overpowering your artwork.
Chapter 4 gives a broad survey of the many different types of subject it is possible to capture in watercolours, with a particular emphasis on landscape features such as skies and water. The more you practise the more you will know what sort of subject most appeals to you, whether taking to the hills or coasts to capture stunning landscapes or staying in the studio to paint still lifes or portraits.