Watercolor Painting Classes
Watercolor
painting on white or tinted paper involve
techniques where no white or other opaque color is applied
.
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Color
intensity and tonal depth may be built up using successive transparent washes on damp paper. Patches of white are left unpainted to represent white objects and reflected light.
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Tonal
graduations and atmospheric effects are rendered by staining the paper with
varying preparations of colors.
Sharp accents,
lines, and coarse textures are added when the paper has dried.
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Watercolor
may be used to great effect to produce still life, plant, flower or panoramic landscape paintings.
may be used as settings to portraits and figure composition.
Styles
in landscape painting range from the tranquil idealized world to road (or
canal) topography, to poetic romanticism of rivers, cities, countryside, and
coastlines.
Still Life
may be expressed with a choice of objects: wine, water, bread,
skulls, hourglasses, candles, fruits and seasons.
may be expressed in many ways: witty arrangements of fruit, flowers, and vegetables made into fantastic heads or figures; sensuous representations of foods; juxtaposition of still life objects and landscape panoramas.
has been used even by early cultures where iconographic representations were imprinted on cave walls.
is employed in religious paintings to impart a devotional theme: the dove representing the Holy Spirit. The imagery may have a mystical function or metaphysical significance.