You are only limited by your imagination.
In my previous post, Negative Painting with Texture, I used most of the techniques described below. In this post I will describe them in more detail and include a couple that I did not use...
Brambles. Clicking on this image will take you to this painting on my website. Click to see my gallery of Fruit & Flower Paintings or more of my New Paintings.
Or click "more" to see the painting in three steps... Pebbles, with texture."It's a happy talent to know how to play." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Here's how...
A Trick of the Eye.  "In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false." - Edgar Degas.
As you know in watercolour you cannot paint a light tone over a dark one, unless you use opaque paints. When learning to paint we start by drawing a picture and then colouring-in the shapes, usually with paint straight from the tube or pan. This method doesn't allow for the beauty of watercolour to be fully exploited. Negative painting is an alternative approach in which the subject is established by painting around the object, rather than by painting the object itself. |
Eleanor Mann
Putting a "Spotlight on Watercolour"I am a watercolour artist and tutor. Welcome to my painting blog.
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