Drawing in watercolor - techniques, techniques, features

Amazingly light, air watercolors cause an irresistible desire to take brushes and paints and create a masterpiece. But drawing with watercolor requires training - these colors are not so easy to work, as it may seem at first glance. Knowing the law of mixing colors, seeing the tone, fluent brushing and painting techniques on paper are just the initial knowledge, but airiness and transparency of work can only be achieved experimentally.

Drawing with watercolor requires careful selection of paper: density, relief, type, granularity and sizing - everything matters. Paints differently fall down, are absorbed and dry up depending on the type of paper.

The techniques of watercolor painting are magical and peculiar: on raw and dry paper, flushing, pouring, multilayered and mixed techniques, painting with a dry brush, ink or palette knife, using salt.

Painting on raw paper creates airiness, transparency, the flow of one color to another and is used to create landscapes. The paint is applied to a pre-wetted sheet of paper and, depending on the degree of humidity, spreads more or less over the sheet. The technique requires experience, mastery of the brush and constant self-control, because if the paint spreads in the wrong direction, it is almost impossible to correct the mistake.

Painting in a dry way allows you to clearly control the spreading on paper, the shape of the strokes and the density of the tone. Writing with watercolors can:

• Dry brush on a dry sheet in a single layer, achieving airiness;
• Wet brush on a dry sheet with the imposition of a smear on the edge of a dry neighboring, creating a spill.

Lacination or multilayered painting creates rich colors, chiaroscuro, emphasizes the texture of objects. Drawing with watercolor in this technique is carried out layer by layer, the upper is applied to the already dried lower, often the work takes place in several stages. The work done in the technique of glazing, on the density of smears resemble work with gouache or oil paints, so only experienced artists can give the picture transparency.

It is interesting to work with salt - getting on the wet layer, it absorbs a part of the paint, forming a divorce. But the sheet should not be too wet, otherwise the salt will dissolve. Large crystals form large streaks, similar to stars or flowers, and small crystals create images of falling snow, foam, small inflorescences.

Fill - the technique of drawing with watercolor, in which a piece of paper is covered with a layer of diluted paint. Cover the surface with a wide brush or sponge. The fill can be:

• Uniform, one tone;
• Gradation - transition of one color from dark to light tone;
• Multicolor - a smooth transition of several colors into each other.

The complexity of this technique lies in the fact that the layers can turn out to be uneven, with clear boundaries, interspersed ...

Improvement of this technique will make it much easier to work with large formats of pictures, with open landscapes, with spatial plots.

Mixing all the techniques will make drawing watercolor painting an exciting and exciting activity.

The result will be a watercolor masterpiece.