Posted in Watercolors on Apr 10th, 2008
This entertaining article was written by SuZ Hume from Original Watercolor Art .
SuZ Hume is a watercolorist and potter.
I’ve learned through many years of my own watercolor mistakes and others that when you think your watercolor is broken … that that’s not necessarily true! I taught art at the secondary level for 15 years […]
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Posted in Watercolors on Apr 2nd, 2008
When you live in the right hand side of the brain for most of the time as I do, you are forever seeking out alternative ways to express creativity.
By profession I am an established author with a string of bestselling traditionally published books to my bow, and when I’m not writing, I produce watercolor sketches […]
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Posted in Art News & Stories, Watercolors on Feb 24th, 2008
Some interesting information and facts about five modern watercolor artists, including the particular methods each use to achieve the end result. The watercolor artists are:
Pablo Picasso
John Minton
Graham Sutherland
Ben Shahn
Edward Burra
It is interesting to note that the drawings by these painters are invariably without tone. Perhaps, because they favour watercolor they make more use of line.
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Posted in Learning Art Basics, Watercolors on Jan 27th, 2008
Watercolor can be roughly divided into pure or transÂparent color and opaque color.
Watercolors are made with pure pigment mixed with gums or glues, usually gum arabic for transparent color and gums and emulsions for opaque color. The emulsions here would be egg yolk, casein and linseed oil and glue (parchment clippings). The gums would probably […]
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