www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff I paint from photographs for the most part. I find it works well for students and also I tend towards realism. It's something that beginners can understand. They can tell whether it's right or wrong. I think that there are a lot of techniques to learn and you need to learn the rules before you know how to break them. I think it is difficult to paint loosely in watercolors when you first start. I use a color photo and a black and white photo. The black and white is your instant value study. I believe that we have a lot of technology tools and we should use them so before I start painting I make a photograph. This particular one was a rose bud and that was one of several hours of shooting of probably 50 different roses and 50 different combinations with different light sources. I shot for hours in my kitchen. I went out and bought tungsten bulbs and everything else that you think you need for true color. I was getting ready to pack up and all of a sudden the sun came really low through the side window and hit this rose bud and I went "that's it!" So I can tell when I see something if I want to paint it or not. This rose bud actually it this color everywhere but the way the light hits it it bleaches out the color but gives it great shape, great dimension, great texture and that's what we want to learn how to do. So we'll paint this rose bud today. Many artists will start and they tell you to ...
Beginning a Watercolor Painting with Nancy Couick - Part 1 of 5
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Beginning a Watercolor Painting with Nancy Couick - Part 1 of 5 Video Clips. Duration : 9.87 Mins.
www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff I paint from photographs for the most part. I find it works well for students and also I tend towards realism. It's something that beginners can understand. They can tell whether it's right or wrong. I think that there are a lot of techniques to learn and you need to learn the rules before you know how to break them. I think it is difficult to paint loosely in watercolors when you first start. I use a color photo and a black and white photo. The black and white is your instant value study. I believe that we have a lot of technology tools and we should use them so before I start painting I make a photograph. This particular one was a rose bud and that was one of several hours of shooting of probably 50 different roses and 50 different combinations with different light sources. I shot for hours in my kitchen. I went out and bought tungsten bulbs and everything else that you think you need for true color. I was getting ready to pack up and all of a sudden the sun came really low through the side window and hit this rose bud and I went "that's it!" So I can tell when I see something if I want to paint it or not. This rose bud actually it this color everywhere but the way the light hits it it bleaches out the color but gives it great shape, great dimension, great texture and that's what we want to learn how to do. So we'll paint this rose bud today. Many artists will start and they tell you to ...
www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff I paint from photographs for the most part. I find it works well for students and also I tend towards realism. It's something that beginners can understand. They can tell whether it's right or wrong. I think that there are a lot of techniques to learn and you need to learn the rules before you know how to break them. I think it is difficult to paint loosely in watercolors when you first start. I use a color photo and a black and white photo. The black and white is your instant value study. I believe that we have a lot of technology tools and we should use them so before I start painting I make a photograph. This particular one was a rose bud and that was one of several hours of shooting of probably 50 different roses and 50 different combinations with different light sources. I shot for hours in my kitchen. I went out and bought tungsten bulbs and everything else that you think you need for true color. I was getting ready to pack up and all of a sudden the sun came really low through the side window and hit this rose bud and I went "that's it!" So I can tell when I see something if I want to paint it or not. This rose bud actually it this color everywhere but the way the light hits it it bleaches out the color but gives it great shape, great dimension, great texture and that's what we want to learn how to do. So we'll paint this rose bud today. Many artists will start and they tell you to ...
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