Jerry drawing ©Jennifer M. Carrasco 5/15/10
Lunar Black Primatek watercolor paint (Daniel Smith)..washed on 300 lb. Arches.....then LIGHTLY, LIGHTLY apply some color watercolor glazes over the top. Sort of like after Dorothy got whisked off to Oz. Although, I think the black and white type of rendering with granulating paint is quite chic.
The best way to show depth is to have variation in values. The best way to learn this is to paint without color... (Tom Lynch)
Jerry drawing ©Jennifer M. Carrasco 5/15/10
Value does all the work and color gets all the glory. Unknown quote.
Lesson 3...Water color and Water. The "Green Thoughts" is a quote from the poem, The Garden, byAndrew Marvel.
1. Would people be interested in a coaching type watercolor class?
Look at waterfalls....lay them out and make suggestions. Show pictures again of my steps...then show Marsden Hartley's waterfall. He just got in there and let 'er rip! Bold, direct and almost abstract.
Ask about pigments reading...stain glaze? Use for first wash...can lift only for a short while.Sedimentary, granulating and opaque.? Name a few...good for rocks!...let move, don’t overwork Hand out pigment chart.
2. Discuss frisket and maskoid (show leaf frisket) ...would suggest using old brush for liquid frisket, (rubbed in soap first) and applying that way. Look again at brushes.....fan brush is not appropriate for watercolor. When you scrub with something like a fan brush, it forces pigment into the paper where it dies, and because of the bristle shape you have no control in making marks. It’s for blending with oils.
3. Brush movement...Show Homer..rounds and riggers are good for squiggles. Flats are good for sideways marks and chunks of color or value. (Show on example). Demo. The flat 2D surface...it is a flat plane....the surface of the water!
4. Values....in landscapes and sea scapes. Show Albala’s diagram of planes. When the sun is shining, the sky is usually the lightest value, the water the next value, and vertical and slanted areas will be the darkest. Show examples in Trevor Chamberlain’s book. (flop a tissue over the example so students can see)....then tell them to Squint!!!! When a plane changes, the value changes. (show “bendable” strip of a single grey value...how it changes the value of the grey when the strip is bent into planes.).
5. Make a four value watercolor strip. Leave a moat between each value!
6. Flop tissue on your seascape and the shapes you see....Exterior shapes...simple straight and curved lines. No minor details! Draw some interior contour lines that describe the planes and curves of some of the shapes....a topography of sorts. Bend paper to show example. “Color” in the 4 values (show Mitch’s design) with your pencil and then do the same thing with lunar black on watercolor paper.
Assignment.....Re-read 36 and 37 of Jan Hart’s book.
-on painting a watercolour...
Make the best of an emergency. (John Singer Sargent)
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