7/11/12

Continuing Watercolor (July) - Sertoma

This is the start of the buffalo piece.  I added the color on wet paper, added some salt, covered it with wrinkled wax paper, and put something slightly heavy on top.  There is the start of some nice textures and color.  I plan to mask out the horn (as I should have done to start with) before I work on it again.

This is the sheet I worked on to show you the textures from saran wrap (purple) and wax paper (blue) with masking tape down the middle (removed now).  Then I dribbled on some rubber cement and added some washes of color.  The light areas are from the packing tape used as a resist (removed now)

This is the tomato I demonstrated in class.  Remember I made a grey (mixed the compliments) and started with the tomato.  I wet it first (more damp than wet).  I then shaded the tomato paying attention the the values.  I let that dry and wet the background.  I dropped in the grey following (loosely) the values.  I demonstrated 'blooms' or 'back-washes' as well as salt.  Then I started to add some detail.  This needs more detail before the color is added.  The other tomato I worked on is below under the Thursday Morning Class heading (that's where I started it).