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Modern Watercolor provides a colorful and fun approach to working with watercolor! Use the easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful, colorful artwork featured throughout the book to create dynamic leaves, flowers, trees, and simple geometric shapes and patterns.
This dynamic and inspirational guide from professional artist Kristin Van Leuven, owner of the online shop Hello Lovely People, will set you down a path of exploration as you learn to play with watercolors. Learn to use basic watercolor techniques and principles to create beautiful, expressive works of art. With Modern Watercolor, discover how to paint in watercolor by harnessing the medium’s unique transparent qualities to create stunning works of art, stationery, gifts, and more. From selecting your first watercolor paints to learning to blend colors into a unique palette, this book will guide you as you begin your artistic journey and create cohesive, rich works of watercolor art.
The easy-to-follow lessons explore using watercolor on different surfaces, how to create basic shapes using fun techniques, and how to create myriad gorgeous effects that can be achieved with different brushes and strokes. You can even learn how to add layers of dimension and texture, as well as how to work with resist techniques to create pretty patterns and gorgeous backgrounds.
Whether you’re an experienced artist seeking a playful escape or a beginner who has never held a paintbrush, there’s something for everyone in Modern Watercolor.
The Modern Series of books offers a fun, contemporary approach to working with traditional art media, demonstrating that with the right type of instruction, encouragement, and tips, drawing and painting success can be achieved by any artist or creative type.
Also in the Modern Series:Modern Colored Pencil, Modern Acrylic, and Modern Drawing.
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Modern Watercolor
Color mixing, mark-making, brushstrokes, resist techniques, and more. This exploration of watercolor painting has it all for artists who want to learn to work in watercolor in new and exciting ways!
Color Chart Mixing
It’s important to not only know how to mix other colors from primary colors, but also to know how to mix the specific paint colors on your palette. Most watercolor artists have a wide variety of colors on their palette. It’s helpful to make a color chart of all the different hue combinations your paints can create!
Helpful instruction on: Tools, materials, and supplies Color theory Mark-making Brushstrokes Shapes and patterns Resist techniques Painting botanicals Painting animals Painting landscapes Much more!
Greenery
Although not as obviously varied as the vast array of colorful flowers, greenery can be just as beautiful and comes in many shapes, sizes, and shades of green. There are several easy ways to paint lovely greenery to add to your botanical paintings.
Allover Patterns
Triangles and diamonds are easier to paint if you draw the outline of the shape first and then fill it in. Use a round brush to paint triangles and diamonds. Then try creating some allover patterns combining the same shape in different sizes and orientations.
Animal Art
Animals, especially your canine companions, make great subject matter for watercolor painting. You don’t need to add a lot of detail to paint your favorite critters, either. Just start with a quick pencil sketch, and then use simple strokes and a few fine details. The human eye fills in the rest!
Hand-lettered Watercolor
The basic brushstroke principles also apply to watercolor lettering. You can use the body of the brush, as well as the tip, and will utilize pressure in the brushstrokes. Combining letters or phrases with watercolor art makes for a lovely painting or gift.
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing; Illustrated edition (September 19, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1633223566
ISBN-13 : 978-1633223561
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.5 x 11.6 inches