Watercolor

1. Watercolor A painting technique that uses pigments mixed with water to create a transparent color.

2. What do you need? • Large #12, medium #8 and small #4, round paint brushes. • One large brush for stretching. • Watercolor Paper – medium (cold-pressed) • Masking tape • Paint • Water • Paint mixing tray • Newspaper and paper towels • Wooden Board

3. Prepare Watercolor Paper • Stretch yourpaper by wettingitwith water thoroughly on bothsidesusing a large brush. • Smoothit out withyour hands untilcompletely flat. • Tape it down to the boardusingmasking tape. Tape one side down at a time whilepulling the papertaut. • Dab off any standing water with a paper towel. • Let the paper dry overnight.

4. Why do you stretch watercolor paper? • The stretching process will ensure that your paper is flat and unwrinkled, giving you an optimal surface to paint on. • The stretched watercolor paper will accept paint more evenly. • The finished painting will be flatter and less wrinkled.

5. Stretched Watercolor Paper

6. How do you work with watercolors? • Use water to increase or decrease the transparency of the color. • Paint light colors first, thendarkcolors over them. • Mix colorscarefully to avoidmuddiness. • Mask areas to remain white.

7. Transparent Color – Dry Method

8. Color Wash – Wet Method

9. Alcohol Spatters

10. Plastic Wrap Texture

11. Plastic Wrap Texture

12. Salt Texture

13. Salt Texture

14. Sponge Texture

15. Drip Texture

16. What is a Crayon resist? • The word resist is used to describe the action in which two materials or media repel each other either chemically or physically. • In this art piece we are using crayon wax and watercolor to resist each other and repel. • We will use crayon to outline the design, and then the watercolor will be painted over the whole design.

17. Resist Method

18. Mask

19. Mask