Painting 33

Ref. 1083 Watercolor / Selective Focus with modeling paste and underpainting techniques

Transparent watercolor can be used in glazes or layers to create a wide range of colors!  You can create under painting texture, color combinations and /or prepare a careful under painting likeness
For the following Project; I did a combination of techniques in which I didn´t follow a particular rule, the idea is to créate texture in a different way, I love to discover new methods, thus I discover new opportunities and I have fun


This is the result of the following exercise;

Materials needed;
watercolor cold press paper 240 gr
charcoal bar
iridiscent gold médium
Modeling paste
artistic varnish
round brushes
Watercolor set * colors indicated into the steps;
permanent White (gouache) 

Preparation Step , I prepare fine powder by scraping a charcoal bar and add into a pool of watercolored wáter,
I prepare 3 different colored pool containers.-  ultramarine, carmín & médium yellow, more powder was added in te first one plus iridiscent gold médium you can see results  in the scratch paper before and after adittion testing

1st Step Rather than painting the entire area, leave some white, dry spots; these can be left white or painted a different color later, so base in my previous ligth pencil guide sketch I fluid masked accordingly with and old fine brush and let it dry  I divide the painting área in 4 background tone imaginarium scheme, painting first left darker area

2nd Step.- Now gradually integrating the following two pools  on the rigth side first the carmín and finally the yellow - upper rigth side is just white color paper (you can see the powder dust within the paint

Next spray the área ligthly with your pump wáter sprayer, this will help set the texture,  now rinse up the entire paper again with your sprayer to lift up with absorbent paper, you can assess the pattern repeating the technique for more texture, the ides is to avoid 2D same and/or similar color scheme

(where there is masking fluid you can see how dark color is agglutinating giving us the deep sense

3rd Step.- Repeating rinses process (if needed) and let it dry completely - at this stage you can take away part of the masking fluid to give additional hues through out the painting process

 

Note the iridiscent médium is usually mixed with the watercolor to increases gloss, appearing more luminous than color washes alone

4th Step.- Remanent masking fluid is taken away rubing gentley with your fingers
Complementary colors are chose for a gradual shadowing for yellow--> violet, for blue---> orange plus payne,s grey for the base trying to get more contrast color impact between light and dark as I´m suggesting different flowers location,
"I´m suggesting flowers location because the main idea of this painting is try to represent out of focus foliage as my first main stage so you don´t need to work details yet", however I start to detail some by the center (designed  focus área of interest) to in some way start to get integration with following steps

 

5th Step.- Before this paper be completely dry, spray wáter again in order to fade some color boundaries  and for additional lifting of colors to integrate a gradual light source from upper right, that will complete our out of focus scene underpainting first stage, which once you be satisfied with the result --- let it dry completely -  

 

6th. Step.- In order to créate the focus área adding texture for an additional 3D effect I took advantage of modeling paste and again with same flowers color I mixed them to start adding in a selective área with the help of a small spatula.- Here again I suggested flowers form but this is the moment to try to define them better

So far this is the result which you need to wait for dry

7th. Step .- By previous exercises I did use artistic varnish with good results over modeling paste, this time trying to be creative I mixed the aristic varnish with a dab of yellow ink and I cover with a big round brush all paper área, over the modeling paste spots  it Works better however over the paper it works like a new color glazing

 

8th Step.- Watercolor paint still Works fine over all this previous layers, so in order to integrate and complete this exercise I fill with additional ligthest color some áreas to créate and integrate the final atmosphere  and apply pure white at the base for final reflections lifting color in all edges with and absorbent paper to integrate those pure colors

 

Pros.- The result with the iridiscent médium on the dark side, gives some additional reflections depending on the natural light source when you looking at this painting and the 3D effect  with selective focus is achieved,

 

 

 

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