The usage of watercolor, the basic technique of watercolor painting

1. If you buy a complete set, you need to fix the small box of each color in a large box, don't take it out.

2. When you need to use it for painting, prepare a palette in addition, which can be porcelain or plastic.

3. Dip the brush in water first, and then gently rub the surface of the paint block with the tip of the pen, and the color is easy to dissolve.

4. Then mix the water and pigment in the palette.

When buying solid watercolor paints, you should choose a set of solid watercolor paints, and the colors are fixed and matched. The solid watercolor paints I bought back are already matched, and there are 36 colors, 48 colors, 72 colors, 128 colors, and so on.

Watercolor pigments are divided into solid pigments and tube pigments, solid pigments are much better than tubes in terms of quality and picture presentation effect, and solid watercolor paints are more convenient to carry than watercolor paints in tubes, and more suitable for going out for sketching. The solid watercolor pigment powder is very fine, has a large gel content and is not easy to separate, can be overwounded in multiple layers, and has high transparency.

Watercolor painting is a form of painting that uses water and pigment as the main materials to paint transparent, fresh, and light paintings. It uses the transparency of water and the bright colors of the pigments, and makes the works full of brilliance and three-dimensionality through gradients, coverings, and overlapping colors. Here are some tips and suggestions for watercolor painting:

1.Preparation:

Watercolor painting requires relatively high-quality painting paper and pigments, so it is necessary to fix the drawing paper on the drawing board with adhesive tape or adhesive tape before painting to prevent the painting paper from wrinkling and deformation due to water penetration. At the same time, have tools such as watercolor pens, watercolor paints, and watercolor brushes ready.

2.Use of color:

The application of color in watercolor paintings is usually from light to heavy, from cold to warm, from dark to light. You can first apply a light layer of color to the drawing paper, and then apply another layer of dark color after the first layer is dry, so as to achieve the effect of adjusting the color shade. When using watercolor brushes, you can study the different shapes and sizes of the brushes to create a variety of interesting color effects.

3.Watercolor Painting Tips:

When it comes to drawing watercolors, there are some basic techniques that need to be mastered. The first is to master the water control of the brush, that is, it is necessary to master the penetration and flow of water in the brush and control the humidity of the brush. The second is to master the pressure of the brush, that is, adjust the force of the brush as needed to create different shades of color effects.

The third is to master the slow drying of the pigment, and watercolor painting needs to wait for the pigment to dry on the paper before proceeding to the next step.

4.Pay attention to the color gradation:

Color grading is one of the more important points in watercolor painting. When drawing, try not to use too many colors, but to create a variety of works with different postures by matching different shades of the same color. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the layering of colors, that is, to create a sense of three-dimensionality and space through techniques such as different shades of color matching and transparency effects.

5.Practice diligently:

Watercolor painting requires constant practice and exploration, and through the familiarization and use of paints and brushes, the quality and level of the painting are gradually improved. Painting should have perseverance, continuous exploration and practice in order to achieve high artistic achievements.

1.Overlapping method.

The overlapping method is one of the most common, mature, fine, and long-standing techniques in the history of watercolor painting.

From the 16th-century Dürer's animal and plant paintings and landscape paintings, the 17th-century Flanders painters' pastoral landscape sketches and figure watercolor works, the 18th-century Frankish Dynasty's opaque watercolor court figure paintings, and the 19th-century British pastoral watercolor landscape works, there are many lines of the overlapping color method, which is the most stable and basic technique in watercolor painting.

2.Rendering.

The so-called rendering, is the watercolor dyeing on the wet paper, forming a wonderful and special rendering, seepage effect of the painting method, and the superimposed color method just takes the opposite technique, the rendering method of the effect of the study is not crisp, anti-affirmative, but presents a cloudy, wet, soft, penetrating, blurred, undefined special effect, in watercolor painting, the most can show the most incisive, smooth and natural, soft and beautiful feeling, especially the most suitable for the watercolor this characteristic of the pigment technique.

3.Flat coating method.

The progress of the history of Western painting, before the advent of Impressionist Expressionism, has always been based on the attachment to nature and imitation of the visual observation of the concrete appearance of the object as a way of expression, after Cézanne put forward a painting theory, and the flat painting method was born.

Cézanne emphasized that there are three basic forms of objects, circular, cone-shaped, cylindrical, these three forms, in the picture, in fact, are only the division of the surface factor, the previous traditional painting using the air distance method, perspective method to determine the outline, light and darkness to show the pure three-dimensional sense of the picture, this surface factor was put forward by Cézanne, watercolor painters adopted the new expression of flatness, shape, color, and out of a new style, this technique, called flat painting method.

4.Pale color.

Pastel painting is the beginning of watercolor painting, the most primitive method, at that time only as a painter to paint oil painting before the draft practice, its purpose is only as composition, color level, image form, proportion, action of the record and memo, first with a hard pen, pencil, graphite to make a line drawing of the outline, and then draw a shadow to sketch pen, needle pen object after the invention, but also add artificial painting instrument, sketch after the formation, and then adjust the watercolor, characterized by containing simple fluidity of the light color display effect, The light colors and the outline of the bottom lines present a bright and light effect and style.

Flat coating method. The so-called flat painting method, as the name suggests, is a parallel coloring method, and it is the most basic coloring method. When using the flat coating method, it is necessary to pay attention to the uniform color, the connection is relatively smooth, and there should be no too obvious water marks.

Color mixing. Actually, no, color mixing is a method in which we draw different colors on paper and let the colors blend naturally.

Coloring method. As the name suggests, coloring involves drawing one color and then connecting the edges of the previously painted color with another color. Let the overall color change and transition. It is the specific control of the color mixing technique.

Dry superposition method. The superposition method can also be referred to as the overlay or stacking method. It is a technique of painting one layer of color and then superimposing another different color.

When there are many superposition methods, the same color superposition and similar color superposition are used. In this way, the superimposed effect is more natural and harmonious. The dry stacking method is a method of applying color again after the previous layer of paint has dried.

One of the main effects of the dry stacking method is to create a three-dimensional effect. The three-dimensional effect is strong, and the realistic effect is strong. In addition, the dry superposition method is also used when shaping the details.

Blank space. This blank space is to leave a part of the picture uncolored. It is similar to the blank space in Chinese painting. This white space method is often used where you need to leave highlights or highlights in the frame.

Dry brushwork. This method is close to the dry brushwork in Chinese painting. It is a painting method that uses a brush tip with very little water content to create a color block of uneven color.