Watercolor

1. Watercolor I chose this media because I would like to use it in my next piece

2. Vocabulary • achromatic color: refers to the absence of color (blacks, whites, greys) • analogous colors: colors which have a common hue • binder: the substance in paint which holds the pigment together; in watercolor the binder is soluble gum/gum arabic • cold pressed: paper which is passed through a cold press druing the drying process. A medium surface, slight tooth. • color: the perceived wavelength of light reflected from the surface of the subject • complementary colors: colors which are directly opposite one another on the color wheel • cool color: the visual temperature of a color. green, blue, violet, etc. • dry brush: created by painting with a brush with is damp with color. hard/fuzzy edges & lines created by brush hairs. • gouache: the term used to describe opaque watercolor

3. Vocabulary • hot pressed: paper which is passed through a hot press during the drying process. Smooth surface. • intensity/saturation: the brightness or pureness of a color • intermediate colors: colors found btwn primary and secondary colors. • local color: the natural color of a particular object • neutral colors: colors which have their intensity/saturation reduced. the most effective manner to reduce intensity is to add the complement; adding black or white also reduces intensity • paint: a mixture composed of pigment, vehicle, and binder • paper weight: actual measured weight of a ream of one kind of paper • pigment: the color substance (clays, stones, animal and vegetable matter, synthetic dyes, etc.) found in paint • polychromatic colors: a random selection of colors • primary colors: colors which cannot be mixed (red, yellow, blue) • ream: standard amount of paper. 20 quires (20-25 sheets). 480-500 sheets. occasionally 472 or 516 sheets.

4. Vocabulary • resist: preserving the white of the paper or lightly tinted areas by adding a material which protects the paper from further development during the painting process. rubber cement, liquid Frisket, alcohol, salt. • rough: not pressed. paper which is skimmed from vats with a screen and left to dry. Very coarse. Deep tooth. • secondary colors: a color created by combining two primary colors (green, orange, violet) • shade: the addition of black • spattering: spots, dots, of color created by flicking a brush or toothbrush loaded with paint • subjective color: color chosen at random by the artist and not commonly associated with a particular subject • support: a surface, the material, on which a painting is executed • tachisme: the application of paint by throwing, dribbling, or blowing paint across the paper

5. Vocabulary • tint: the addition of white • triad: three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. • value: the lightness or darkness of a color • vehicle: the element fund both in paint and added to paint which allows the pigment and binder to spread • warm color: the visual temperature of color. yellow, red, orange, etc. • wash: thin transparent layers of color which allow the white of the paper to show through • waterclor: a painting medium based on a transparent wash system of painting which uses the white of the support, paper, as highlights. Sometimes opaque paint is appled for accents; however, the essence of watercolor is transparency. • watercolor block: a tablet of waterclor paper which is glued on all four sides. a painting is executed on the top sheet and when completed is cut fromt he block. a clean piece of watercolor paper is revealed when the painting is cut away. Using a watercolor block eliminates the need to stretch paper. • watermark: (papermark) created by laid and chain wires laced and stitched into the mold. 13th century. papermaker's symbol/location of mill or labeling molds in sets of two. • wet on dry: a wet paint loaded brush applied to a dry surface. the end result is hard crisp controlled edges and forms clearly defined. • wet on wet: the application of wet paint to a wet surface. the result is soft fuzzy edges and bleeding color

6. Techniques Dry Brush: • Hold brush on the side, spread the color quickly and lightly over the paper to cover an area with rough broken color. • go over it again with brush to soften or wash it down. • technique is good for creating textures and showing brushwork.

7. Techniques Gradiated Wash: • Paint an area that goes from light to dark using a wash technique so that no brush marks are showing

8. Techniques Varigated Wash: • a wash of two colors that bleed into each other. • make a gradiated wash first, then introduce the second color slightly overlapping the first color. Tilt your paper at an angle and allow the colors to bleed.

9. Techniques Wet on Wet: • apply new color without waiting for the previous colors to dry so that they bleed and blend into each other without any hard edges or back runs. • There is not much control with this technique but the results can be very spectacular and rewarding.

10. Techniques Wet on Dry • Once the first layer of paint is dry, then you can overlap a second layer of paint. • Overlapping colors can give you another color and is also known as superimposing a color.

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