Artist Studio
14×20 watercolor. I can’t really remember what I was trying to teach hear other than the quality of direct washes and good brushwork, which I guess is the goal of everyone of my lessons. I wanted to capture the light out behind the trees.
Here is the oil painting of this same image.
I want to go over several paintings where I have used the white paper as the foil to make the darker values more interesting. Remember that in transparent watercolor the white paper is the most powerful part of the painting. Learning to design your paintings with this in mind will help you move in the direction of expressive, creative and focused paintings. Leaving random whites in areas of the painting without regard to their impact will diminish your chances of success.
This weeks video on preserving the white shape, I hope you like. Remember to let me know if you have ideas for a video. Go to facebook and like me and youtube to subscribe to my channel