Procedure To Perfect Abstract Watercolor Painting

By Linda Ruiz


Painting can be both a hobby and a profession. All in all, to make your painting more appealing and awesome, you need some professional touch. To be successful in this activity, you will need a paint brush, watercolor paper and one hour of your time. With the required equipment, one will be in a better position to put his or her ideas into action producing a masterpiece. Abstract watercolor painting needs some procedures to be perfected to a good creation.

Apart from texture, pattern, form, shape, color and line, this particular art include much more. For better understanding, this article touches most on shape color and pattern. The instructions should also demonstrate the procedure on how to mix watercolors in creation of analogous colors. The procedure can be used in creating personal watercolor painting in a variety of colors. In addition, different shapes can be incorporated to make the painting more appealing.

At first, use a pencil to draw simple shapes on watercolor paper. The choice of the shapes to use will be determined by you love for objects and what you want the end product to look like. The most regular shapes incorporated include, triangles, circles, teardrops, trapezoids and rectangles just to mention a few.

To follow, add some pencil shapes and make them as simple as possible. Connect the initial shapes with the new ones. To avoid confusion, use different colors to distinguish between the two shapes. After drawing the simple and basic shapes, use watercolors from a pan or the watercolors in the tubes. The choice on what to use will be determined by the budget at the table. Using a pan is a bit cheaper and economical.

The clear lid of watercolor case will lift up becoming a watercolor palette. In this case, you can now mix the colors. A plain white paper can be used behind the palette since it is clear. This makes it easier to see these colors mixing. After you are through with the painting allow the leftover paint to dry on the palette and eventually close it. This is done if one plans to reuse the already mixed colors later.

Use a small brush and the color of your choice. Using the color chosen, select some shapes and paint them. Once through, take another color, place it adjacent to the primary color on your palette. Using the brush, mix them. The resultant color ought to be used in filling in more shapes in the watercolor paper.

Taking an example of the first color to be red and the second yellow, the outcome will be orange. White color ought to be added to lighten it. All the paint should not mixed together. By our example, you should leave some red and orange in case they may be required once more. The new pale and ochre color should be used to fill in more shapes. You started with red, to orange and eventually ochre, time to try out something different and maybe darker. This will be attained by mixing red and brown on a palette. Use the resultant color to paint the rest of the shapes.

Using the colors of your choice, follow the above steps to mix colors on the palette and fill in shapes until all are painted. One can stop here if the outcome is appealing to them or go ahead to for a detail-addict.




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