How to do watercolor paintings


	How to do watercolor paintings
Lubaska
5-13-2007 12:13 PM
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5-13-2007 6:04 PM
gingembre
Good clip, Lubaska. I may try my hand at watercolor painting again, this time using these instructions!
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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm" href="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.watercolorpainting.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><FONT>Wet-in-Wet watercolor tutorial</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><FONT> <B>OBJECT:</B> Learn wet-in-wet style watercolor technique.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><FONT><B>Set-up and start...</B><HR color="#000000" noShade="false" /><B>MATERIALS USED:</B> Spray bottle of water, a clean sponge, Arches #140 CP watercolor paper, Grumbacher 1" flat red sable, and my trusty Kalish #8 Round Kolinsky Red Sable brush.<BR /><BR /><B>COLORS USED (various manufacture):</B> Cadmium Yellow Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Burnt Sienna, Pthalocyanine Green, Hooker's Green Dark, Sap Green, Lamp Black.<BR /><BR /><B>I start by spraying my mounted paper</B> with water to saturate the surface.<BR /><BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/6EDF859C-F671-4E54-8CEB-8E4D365B6D02" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Even out the moisture</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/D7DF3D4F-2B07-412E-B168-AB71A140E933" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Where to start?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/2C778EB3-74C6-42BE-8D00-9F9334844DF0" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Well grounded foreground</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/1549E1C2-D96C-425E-812D-FFF6141D5DD4" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Adding a little form</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/C79FE4D9-EE51-4E85-B406-C33761A02F32" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Intensifying the structure</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/4E1012CD-1013-4ACB-901D-6EE4DC576751" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>A Rock and a hard place...</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/09D5D699-827B-4946-BF08-CFE7FA52F105" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>Making a major point</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.watercolorpainting.com/img/421B4B6C-9F32-4078-912E-3B8F0483EA50" alt="Click to enlarge" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/wetinwet.htm"><B>The final product </B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8603F869-A944-4385-9297-6D175905E2E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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