Ref 1153 Watercolor - theme contest --"In the dark Woods" (creative exercise)


"Imagination, creates reality in the dark Woods"

Ref 1150/1151.- Watercolor // Partial and total modeling paste within the watercolor painting


2 exercises regarding modeling paste addition
1st case just adding in the top of the tres illuminated by the moon as final touch
(modeling paste mixed with deep yellow watercolor)

2nd Case mixing with cerulean blue to paint directly above the paper
 --- (Stardream blue color paper 105 lbs)

Ref 1149.- Watercolor // Texturizing wet over a mix wet of < "60%alcohol,40% wáter" damping surface >


Alcohol and water don’t mix, so it creates a neat effect when you add some rubbing alcohol to your painting. I’ve found to get this effect to work well, you need to really make your paper wet! Also, try to use a higher concentrate of alcohol (ie: 60% as opposed to 50 or 40%) through out semi-final steps
This is the result to apply this technique within the following painting;

Step 1.- The first background step it was  by painting with my water colors, over just wáter "wet on wet" to sketch the main reference idea; ---(as I planning in advance I added some masking fluid for the grass and rocks previously)

 

2nd Step.- Let id dry troughly and then according with this procedure I change my wáter pool from wáter to a mix of alcohol-wáter (70%-30%) to damp the paper in a partial way with the help of a plastic sponge.- add then darker watercolor tones over the brushes áreas

TIP:_  Have some old tissue paper lying around?-- Scrunch it up and after painting a piece of paper with some bright and deep colors, making sure your paper is nice and wet (same blend) , press down on it gently with the crumpled up tissue paper. You’ll get a great texture  this way.

 

 

2-3.- Step --The previous wash must be only sligthly damp, in order to achieve soft edges without the colors flowing into each other so wait until the sheen has diminished, and then in semi dry condition with the help of an spatula or plastic card make some scratchs to suggest highlighted branches

4th Step.- Now I apply the brigthest greens (try to mix your different greens thru, blue with yellow preferably) keep adding scratchs to créate more interesting shapes and definitions into the brushes

 

Note.- the "alcohol/wáter mix" once it dries opaque vibrant tones. but separates and/or break  the different colors interestingly.- so take this in account making previous testings over scratch paper

 

5th Step.- Definition and final touchs with fine brushes to créate and suggest particular branches, you can use either the alchol/wáter pool  or wáter pool depending  if your defining rocks (soft focus) or branches (more in focus lines)  integration into the painting and also take away the masking fluid of it as required

Ref 1152.- Watercolor // Modeling paste as watercolor painting body

Molding Paste can also be used to create foundations for painting either to create texture over a smoother surface, or to smooth out a textured surface. The absorbent qualities of Molding Paste make it suitable as a ground for nearly every painting and drawing media.

Ligth Molding Paste it is excellent for building surfaces and creating textures. Dries to a hard, yet flexible, opaque film. Blends with colors to tint  .- you can paint over it and/or blend with colors

This is the result to apply this technic over Stardream colored paper 105Lbs.
(you can use any hard weigth paper )
Ref. 3D idea found in the web

 

visual steps;

 

.The color of this paper is denominated by Stardream paper brand as  quartz

1st Step.- I masking a frame into the paper to work with; with a hard surface beneath 

I added a layer of ligth molding paste with 4 watercolor blendings in accordance with:

 A.- For the sand I use ochre+flesh applied with spatula as it become dry I wet my fingers to smooth the surface adding just wáter above it near to the ocean foam I added orange

B.- For the ocean I did use a dab of viridian + cerulean blue also with spatula but no need to smooth the surface as in the sand área but add radially to follow a wáter ocean flow

C.- For the waves just raw modeling paste

Note; The waves at this moment are not necessary to be so big



 

Now I mixed brilliant pure watercolor with modeling paste to be added into the dry previous painting in accordance the different subjets.- within the painting idea

Now you can increase the size of the foam waves (when the idea is more clear base in the subjects on it)

 

Ref 1148.- Watercolor exercise

"A good performer needs a good audience"

Ref 1147 //--- Watercolor exercise

"Sculpture is a three-dimensional object with a message... Painting is an object with a three-dimensional message"

Ref 1146.- Watercolor & Modeling paste over Stardream colored paper


This is the result of this particular process (see graphical steps below)

1st Step.- With black watercolor and a round brush I delineate the flame contourn and matches body

2nd Step.- Modeling paste application into the flame contourn completed with a small spatula, is also easy to blend watercolor with modeling paste to work by layers as they dry

Ongoing activities

watercoloring

Additional modeling paste

"Love is a fire that burns, but is never seen"