Watercolors: What You Need To Remember

Watercolors appeal not only to adults but to children as well. What’s great about it is that for those who have painting experience already, learning watercolour painting is another thing to explore. While, the for beginners, watercolour painting is fascinating to explore.

For taking care of painting materials remember to be:

• Use your paint generously.

• Use both sides of the paper. If you made a mistake on one side then you may successful on the other side of the paper.

• Cover your tube or cake of paint so that it would not get hard.

• Use fresh paint everytime. Using dry and hard paint would just wear your brushes out.

• Keep your palette clean. Never leave paint on it.

• Clean your brushes and make sure that it would also not get hard.

• Whenever painting make sure that you have clean rags.

• Use enough water, too much water can make paint uncontrollable.

Here are some useful painting tips using watercolors from Ron Ronson’s painting school.

• When painting distant greens, make them look week. Make the foreground greens rich in color. To add texture, you could make the greens appear muddy.

• When painting the sky, make sure to keep the clouds appear smaller if they are far. Do not use tissue to dab the clouds.

• When painting water, remember that water is colorless, its color is from what surrounds it. Rivers and seas, would have different characteristics, therefore it would look different.

• When painting rocks, it could be given strength by rapid directional strokes.

• When painting trees, leave to leave some foliage missing so that the body or stem of plants will be show.

• Buildings and old houses can also be a subject of watercolour painting. When painting buildings avoid similar color on the walls to avoid boring look. When painting a town, there is no need to paint all the doors and the windows. You could just pick some to convince the one who is looking at it.

Painting people and animals is another difficult subject to do. There are some painters who are very nervous about adding people and animals to their art works since they are afraid of not meeting any man’s standards.

• When drawing animals and shoes, make sure that they will have shadows. This will keep them anchored to the ground.

• Put shadows on the figure to ensure that they would be anchored to the ground

• Try to paint the figures smaller, thinner rather than being stumpy.

• Make your figure fit the picture.

• For the figure to standout, counterchange them. A light figure for a darker background.

• Do not let the head of the figure get too big.

Make sure that these steps are always being practiced. A craft which is not practiced is more likely to be forgotten or never develop. Watercolors as a form of visual art could surely teach a person a lot about colors, tonal values and establishing distance. it would just require patience and of course, practice