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    Painting with Watercolor
    Painting with Watercolor
    Painting with Watercolor
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    Painting with Watercolor

    By Shirish Deshpande

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    About this ebook

    Watercolor painting is one of the most exhilarating and most frustrating experiences one can have.

     

    The watercolor medium is notorious for its unpredictability and unforgiving quality. But the same unpredictability can be harnessed to create some of the most spontaneous and fresh artworks.

     

    In this book, you will learn

    - Painting with watercolor using both transparent and opaque forms of watercolor.

    - Understanding shapes and values while painting.

    - Warm and cool colors.

    - Complementary colors and how to use them to add some 'pop' to your paintings.

    - Creating interesting and harmonious compositions using

            - Unity

           - Contrast

           - Balance

          - Dominance

          - Repetition

          - Variety

    - Basics of one-point and two-point perspective.

    - Coloring techniques

    - Applying washes.

    - Layering and adding depth, atmospheric perspective.

    - Foreground, background and out-of-focus elements.

    - Hard and soft edges.

    - Negative spaces and highlights.

    - 'Exotic techniques' for adding some zing to your paintings.

     

    Of course, the real learning happens by doing. So, you will apply all the techniques you learned so far in 10 step-by-step exercises.

    - A serene sunset

    - The twin trees

    - A still life painting

    - An old wall covered with creeper plants (vines)

    - Grass and the fence

    - A waterfront house

    - A rustic house

    - Cabin in the snow

    - Autumn tree near a lake

    - The waterfall

     

    At the end of the book, you will get links to video demonstrations for many of the paintings included in the book.

     

    It's time to lose the fear of the watercolor and start enjoying it. Happy painting ?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShirish D
    Release dateNov 21, 2020
    ISBN9788194919124
    Painting with Watercolor

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      Book preview

      Painting with Watercolor - Shirish Deshpande

      PAINTING WITH WATERCOLOR

      Learn to Paint Stunning Watercolors

      in 10 Step-by-Step Exercises

      Shirish Deshpande

      Copyright ©2020 by

      HuesAndTones Media and Publishing

      Author: Shirish Deshpande

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      All artworks presented in this book are copyright of the artist, regardless of whether they bear the artist’s signature or not.

      First edition

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      INTRODUCTION

      Who is this book for?

      Mistakes and Happy Accidents

      Materials Used

      Transparent and Opaque Colors

      IMPORTANCE OF SKETCHING

      SHAPES AND VALUES

      COLORS

      Warm and Cool Colors

      Complementary Colors

      The Colors Used for the Various Paintings in this Book

      INTERESTING AND HARMONIOUS COMPOSITION

      Dichotomy 1 – Unity and Contrast

      Dichotomy 2 – Balance and Dominance

      Dichotomy 3 – Repetition and Variety

      An Example of all three Dichotomies together

      PERSPECTIVE

      One-Point Perspective

      Two-Point Perspective

      COLORING TECHNIQUES:

      Applying Washes

      Layering and Adding Depth, Atmospheric Perspective

      Foreground, Background – Out of Focus Elements, Emphasizing, De-Emphasizing

      Hard and Soft Edges

      White Areas (Negative Spaces) and Highlights

      Using a Plastic Wrap for Applying Color

      Spattering Color

      Technique 1 – Flicking the brush

      Technique 2 - Spattering Color Using Brushes

      Technique 3 – Spattering With a Toothbrush

      EXERCISES

      A Serene Sunset

      The Twin Trees

      A Still Life Painting

      An Old Wall Covered with Creeper Plants (Vines)

      Grass and a Fence

      A Waterfront House

      A Rustic House

      Cabin in the Snow

      Autumn Tree Near a Lake

      The Waterfall

      COMBINING WATERCOLOR WITH OTHER MEDIA

      BONUS VIDEO MATERIAL

      BEFORE WE PART...

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      GRATITUDE

      ENJOYED ‘PAINTING WITH WATERCOLOR’?

      INTRODUCTION

      Watercolor is a magical, yet seemingly complex and unpredictable medium.

      Due to the unpredictability and transparency of this medium, it sometimes behaves in a way an artist may not expect.

      But this very unpredictability of watercolor can be used to great effect by someone who can enjoy and appreciate the possibilities that this medium brings.

      The most common variety of watercolor that is used is ‘transparent’. When one applies layers upon layers of watercolor, the base layer affects how the subsequent layers will appear. This can both be a boon and a bane. An expert watercolorist can use this property of watercolor to a great advantage, letting the colors mix and interact on paper.

      Who is this book for?

      Whether you are a novice in painting watercolor, or someone who is looking to enhance their skills as a watercolorist, this book is for you.

      The goal of this book is to rid the reader(!) of the fear and uncertainty of watercolor painting.

      Mistakes and Happy Accidents

      Most wannabe artists never begin with watercolor painting because it’s supposed to be an ‘unforgiving’ medium. They are afraid that a small mistake may ruin the whole painting.

      This notion is not entirely false.

      However, when you play with this medium for some time, you will learn its idiosyncrasies. That in turn will help you to enjoy the flow of painting a watercolor.

      And eventually it will help you learn how to hide the mistakes that you do make.

      Look, I am not saying that you will not make any mistakes. If your goal is to be flawless, let me tell you right away that you are in the wrong place!

      Have a look at the serene seascape below. Do you spot a mistake somewhere?

      If you are a nitpicker like me, you may have found at least half a dozen mistakes by now.

      But I am not talking about those mistakes.

      I am talking about the one mistake that I have hidden away.

      Do you see the two flocks of birds in the sky? They were not there in the original reference image.

      But while painting this picture, I inadvertently dropped a small drop of dark paint where the forward flock is. This small drop, while tiny in size, was enough to distract anyone observing the bright sky in this picture.

      So, I decided to convert the dark spot into a flock of birds.

      When I painted the flock of birds, I thought it was too centered in the picture and needed a counterbalance somewhere. Thus, was born the second flock of birds at the top-right hand corner.

      You can see from the example above that not all mistakes are irreversible. Something even better may emerge out of some of them.

      Materials Used

      I have used rough-textured 270GSM handmade paper for most of the illustrations in this book.

      I use the following brushes for my artworks. I have accumulated these over the years. If you do not have so many brushes, you don’t need to worry. Three to four synthetic brushes of various sizes are enough to begin with watercolor painting.

      Think of having more high-quality brushes (or other materials) like having a better camera. The quality of photographs primarily depends on the photographer, not the camera. If a person is an expert photographer, he/she can shoot good photographs even with an average camera. But, sure, they can shoot much better photographs with a better-than-average camera.

      It’s the same way with brushes (or any other material). Focus on making your art better. Better materials will further enhance your art. But top-of-the-line materials are not a prerequisite for beginning painting.

      A bottle of wine Description automatically generated

      Fan brush (the first brush on the left-hand side)

      This brush is useful for painting soft edges in a painting.

      Flat brushes (first three brushes after the fan brush)

      I use these brushes to paint big, sweeping strokes for large washes. They are also useful in painting straight lines for buildings etc.

      I have used flat brushes extensively in the following painting.

      Round Synthetic Brushes

      These brushes are useful for painting all kinds of shapes. You may use different brush sizes depending on the area you want to paint.

      Most paintings can be painted using 3-4 brushes.

      I use synthetic brushes for all my paintings. Better quality and long-lasting brushes made from animal hair are also available in art supply stores. The best quality (and the most expensive) of these is a sable-hair brush.

      I do simply fine without all these expensive fancy brushes and use only synthetic brushes.

      And here they are!

      Mop brushes and Chinese brushes

      On the left-hand side in the photograph above, the four brushes shown are the mop brushes of various

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