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Watercolor Painting Course

WaterColor Painting Course

The technique of watercolor is one of the oldest forms of painting in the world. The earliest forms could be traced back to the stone age when people used charcoal or other natural pigments to draw paintings in the caves. Watercolors as the name suggests are water-based pigments that use gum arabic as a binder. Even though it is a versatile technique, watercolor paintings are susceptible to damage over a long period. They don’t last for a very long time and might fade away with time. Many popular paintings had suffered irreparable damage over time.

Watercolor is easier to apply and dries quicker than oil painting and painting finer lines with greater precision becomes easier with watercolor. Watercolor is mainly applied on paper bases but other bases like wood, leather, etc could also be painted using watercolors.

As adults, we all have memories of using watercolor in our art classes during school. Not only is it easy to apply and paint, but it is also popular with children because of its accessibility. Learning how to use watercolors correctly and creating great pieces of art could become easier with a basic watercolor course.

Toolkit required in Water Color Painting Class:

  1. First and foremost, watercolor paints. It can vary from tube paints to watercolor cakes that come in palettes. Using gouache could also be important as it could act like watercolor even if they are opaque. They can produce highlighting effects and increase the vibrancy of the paint.
  2. Brushes, from goat to sable or even nylon could be used in our drawing classes.
  3. Watercolor paper comes in three different types: Hot-pressed (HP), Cold-pressed (NOT) and Rough.
  4. Sea sponges, not always but could be used at times to create texture to your art.
  5. Mixing palette for creating your exact desired shade of paint.
  6. Stationeries such as graphite pencils, sharpeners and kneaded erasers.
  7. Masking fluids and tapes for adding more details.
  8. Support panel.

Types of Watercolor painting: 

  1. Flat wash: It is a simple and basic technique, so much so that one hardly realizes that they are applying it. It involves dipping your brush in the paint and spreading the paint over the desired area. One thing to keep in mind, paint it as one hue and not in different shades.
  2. Graded wash: Graded wash painting technique shows a transition from dark to light. 
  3. Variegated wash: It is a wash technique involving two or more colors blending into one.
  4. Wet on dry: It involves painting a wash on paper and then painting a layer of colors on top of it after it dries up.
  5. Dry on wet: It involves using a wet brush with paint on a dry surface of the paper.
  6. Wet on wet: As the name suggests, it involves painting on a wet paper surface using a wet brush.
  7. Stripling: To create unique textures, a series of dots are painted on a concentrated spot using a brush. It can be neatly done using stencils.
  8. Underpainting: The underpainting technique is basically a monochrome wash of color. After that, layers of transparent color are added to give it a luminous effect.
  9. Drybrush: Use a dry brush on a dry sheet of paper, the resulting painting turns out highly textured.