Continuing Watercolor - Sertoma

Value study painting (one dark color).  This is a great way to  get good control of watercolor.  Practice value studies as much as you can to learn to guide the water and paint.

This is a value and color study painting (use two colors - complimentary colors).  This is a great way to learn about values and a bit about color mixing.

This is the rubber cement painting.  This is for fun as well as for learning how to mix colors, do some washes, discover  how to make textures, glazing, using resists, etc.  This is for experimenting and learning.  The process we used is to apply the rubber cement to the dry, plain paper first (we dripped, splattered, and brushed the cement).  Then we painted some light washes trying various techniques..  After this is dry you can apply more rubber cement, allow it to dry, and then glaze and paint more color, textures, etc.  This process can repeat for many layers.  Then we will remove the rubber cement and study the piece working with shapes, values, and color to create an interesting composition.