Materials And Tools For Watercolor Painting
Posted By Jean on December 7, 2011
Brushes, paints and materials for watercolors for writing in watercolors, you must have several pieces of different brushes. Large flat brush is usually used to to cover the paper with water and wash time dust. Soft flat brush is required, from proteins or goats. Large round brush – the main tool watercolorist. They are made from proteins or column. Brush with a sharp tip can cause large amounts of paint, or draw thin lines. Brush of a giraffe is more rigid, so it is convenient to add the paint brush in wet places.
Relatively rigid sable brush to use is not necessary. The main requirement to watercolors – the homogeneity of the coloring pigment. If the paint remains on the paper in the form of grains of sand, then it is better to discard or use for quick sketches from life. Most convenient to the so-called semi-dry paint, sold in trays. Paint the aluminum tubes squeezed on the palette, they quickly wither and used the same way as paint trays. A large number of colors in the set does not necessarily have, in fact, it's just uncomfortable because you have to remember what combinations thereof are picturesque, and which give the dirty shades.
Enough to have five or ten most used colors. A list can be found in any book on painting. This Blue fc, cadmium yellow, red and orange, ocher, umber, emerald green, black. For drawing fine lines, you can use an ordinary metal pen, typing into it a saturated solution of a small paint brush. Use ink or ink to watercolors to be carefully as usual ink and color ink very spread out, and the pen is easy to make a big blot. Paper should be white. If you want to use a variety of colors, then with white paper to work will be easier. On colored paper color may change in unpredictable ways. The paper must be glued. This means that water will be absorbed relatively slowly. Watercolor paper, sold in packs of a few sheets of A3, suffers usually yellow, and a bad sized. Finally, the paper should be thick enough. Drawing in watercolor on writing paper may be just as possible to painting on a thick color porous paper or a gray cardboard. However, the use of thin or toned paper should rather be attributed to the painting techniques, rather than to the material. On this Site
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