Before and after.
Starting with a completely distorted view of the whole thing...it's not a big room!
I can teach technique, but the expression of a painting comes from within you and is unique to you. A glaze is a wash that is applied over another wash that has been allowed to dry. Layering colour, in other words.
Glazes are extremely useful in altering a picture whilst still keeping it looking fresh. It makes colours appear luminous and creates beautiful nuances not possible by mixing colour in the palette or on the paper, wet-in-wet. If you did the exercise Using Tone To Create Aerial Perspective, you were glazing. You will have noticed that non-staining colours lift and that tone is easily controlled by utilizing the glazing technique. There are other purposes for using a glaze-:  My latest Watercolour PaintingPaintings of other birds and animals (and fish) can be found in the gallery.
"I am still learning" ~ Michelangelo’s motto.  Painting wet-into-wet is an exciting and unpredictable technique which allows the paints to flow and blend into one another in beautiful unexpected ways. The ethereal effects create mystery and intrigue and suggest at reality.
It allows for a variety of colours to be used without making a dominant feature, and by substituting detail with variation in colour and/or tone you create interest in a subtle way. It creates soft edges. Hard edges (wet-on-dry) draw the eye, remember, so having soft, wet-into-wet edges creates contrast. By using the wet-into-wet technique in the background, aerial perspective is created. This technique also creates nebulous passages of colour that help set mood and atmosphere. One cannot predict what will happen, it's a matter of reacting to, and using to your advantage, what happens on the paper. It is the joy of watercolour! For all of these reasons, to me, it is the essence of watercolour painting. The wet-into-wet technique involves "watching paint dry", but in this case it can be far from boring, but you have to be fearless and brave with it! I think it is the hardest of the watercolour techniques to master so I made the following notes which, although complicated, I hope will help... I was inspired to paint this picture by a memory of growing up in the 70's. We would often go to get the milk in only to find a blue tit had already syphoned off the cream, the best bit! With the introduction of semi-skimmed and skimmed milk, and the decrease of doorstop deliveries, this has practically died out now. Other paintings of Birds and Animals can be viewed in the Gallery. My latest watercolour painting  Brixton Hill, London. Cable Tram c1890.The original painting can be seen in the Landscape Gallery and prints can be purchased there via PayPal.
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Eleanor Mann
Putting a "Spotlight on Watercolour"I am a watercolour artist and tutor. Welcome to my painting blog.
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