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How To Make The Best Out Of Abstract Watercolor Painting

By Linda Ruiz


Painting is an all-time exciting activity and requires some professionalism to make it more perfect and appealing. The common requirements to in this activity are a paint brush, a piece of watercolor paper and at least one hour of your time. These equipment aids in ensuring that an individual transforms his or her ideas into that beautiful and colorful abstract art. Abstract watercolor painting cannot be carried out just from nowhere, one will need guidelines which should guide you in coming out with a masterpiece of a creation.

Apart from texture, pattern, form, shape, color and line, this particular art include much more. For better understanding, this article touches most on shape color and pattern. The instructions should also demonstrate the procedure on how to mix watercolors in creation of analogous colors. The procedure can be used in creating personal watercolor painting in a variety of colors. In addition, different shapes can be incorporated to make the painting more appealing.

To begin with, draw simple shapes on the watercolor paper using the pencil. There are several outstanding shapes that can be used in this particular drawing but all will depend on what shapes you love most. They include trapezoids, teardrops, rectangles, circles and triangles.

To follow, add some pencil shapes and make them as simple as possible. Connect the initial shapes with the new ones. To avoid confusion, use different colors to distinguish between the two shapes. After drawing the simple and basic shapes, use watercolors from a pan or the watercolors in the tubes. The choice on what to use will be determined by the budget at the table. Using a pan is a bit cheaper and economical.

The clear lid of watercolor case will lift up becoming a watercolor palette. In this case, you can now mix the colors. A plain white paper can be used behind the palette since it is clear. This makes it easier to see these colors mixing. After you are through with the painting allow the leftover paint to dry on the palette and eventually close it. This is done if one plans to reuse the already mixed colors later.

Afterwards, take a small brush and choose a particular color. By the color of your choice, paint a selected shapes on your paper. Once you have filled in some few shapes, select another color and place it next to the initial one on the palette. Mix the two colors using a brush. Using the new color attained from the mixing, fill a few shapes.

Taking an example of the first color to be red and the second yellow, the outcome will be orange. White color ought to be added to lighten it. All the paint should not mixed together. By our example, you should leave some red and orange in case they may be required once more. The new pale and ochre color should be used to fill in more shapes. You started with red, to orange and eventually ochre, time to try out something different and maybe darker. This will be attained by mixing red and brown on a palette. Use the resultant color to paint the rest of the shapes.

Using the colors of your choice, follow the above steps to mix colors on the palette and fill in shapes until all are painted. One can stop here if the outcome is appealing to them or go ahead to for a detail-addict.




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