Wet-into-Wet Watercolor : The Complete Guide to an Essential Watercolor Technique

by Speckmann, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780823057146
• ISBN10: 0823057143
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

This handbook develops the art of wet-into-wet watercolour into an entirehilosophy of watercolour painting through three approaches. First, thertist should discover what is involved when painting on a fully saturatedurface. Next, they should learn how to work a painting one section at a time,nd finally, how to practise the "painterly approach" which exploits theurface of the wet paper without sacrificing expressive brushstrokes.;Theolume also explores transparent glazing, lifting and washing off colour andasking. Tips are provided on composition, value contrasts, colour andexture.

Table of Contents

A Painting Philosophy	8	(12)
Finding a Creative Harmony	9	(1)
Capturing the Elusive Moment	10	(2)
Materials	12	(26)
Paints and Pigments	13	(2)
Choosing a Palette	15	(6)
Various Watercolor Brands	21	(2)
Using Acrylics, Inks, and Pastels	23	(2)
Brushes	25	(3)
Watercolor Papers	28	(1)
Brands of Paper	29	(4)
Scale	33	(1)
Equipping Your Studio	34	(4)
Basic Approaches	38	(38)
How Wet Is Wet?	39	(3)
Working on Saturated Paper	42	(3)
Explorations on Saturated Paper	45	(4)
Creating a Complete Painting on Saturated Paper	49	(2)
Painting by Sections	51	(5)
Explorations of Painting by Sections	56	(6)
Creating a Complete Painting in Sections	62	(3)
The Painterly Approach	65	(6)
Explorations in the Painterly Approach	71	(3)
Creating a Complete Painting with the Painterly Approach	74	(2)
Wet-into-Wet Techniques	76	(30)
Wet Glazing	77	(1)
Factors in Wet Glazing	78	(5)
Explorations of Wet Glazing	83	(1)
Manipulating the Paper	84	(2)
Masking	86	(4)
Explorations of Masking	90	(1)
Pouring	91	(2)
Explorations of Pouring	93	(1)
Lifting Color	94	(2)
Washing Off Technique	96	(1)
Explorations of Washing Off	96	(3)
Textural Effects	99	(4)
Refining Edges	103	(2)
Brushmarks	105	(1)
Applications	106	(38)
Land	107	(3)
Sky	110	(4)
Water	114	(4)
Rocks and Mountains	118	(4)
Snow	122	(4)
Trees	126	(4)
Structures	130	(4)
Flowers	134	(4)
Still Lifes	138	(4)
Shadows	142	(2)
Index	144