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Gillian Marklew Allen (United Kingdom) “Still life with Sage” - Watercolour..
THIS WEEK we were painting this cockerel in the style of an artist called Kate Osborne
We began by practicing washes with our brushes at a very shallow angle and severely editing our brush marks, then pulling the fronds out of the wash before it formed a hard edge before adding the salt for texture, we also practiced painting the tail feathers before 'fronting' by pulling a body of colour out to the dry area beyond the tail feathers, pressing our big brushes to the surface to get fat lines, then gradually releasing the pressure to this the lines out towards the edges to gradually this them out to a point.
Here are some student paintings, and lets remember that for week 10 from scratch this is really impressive, what has been learned so far is..
Learning how to paint without freaks or blotches,
learning flow control
Using enough water and painting faster
painting within a complicated shape,
Pulling shapes out of the main body, and 'fronding'
Plus, using hard and soft edges with
We began by practicing washes with our brushes at a very shallow angle and severely editing our brush marks, then pulling the fronds out of the wash before it formed a hard edge before adding the salt for texture, we also practiced painting the tail feathers before 'fronting' by pulling a body of colour out to the dry area beyond the tail feathers, pressing our big brushes to the surface to get fat lines, then gradually releasing the pressure to this the lines out towards the edges to gradually this them out to a point.
Here are some student paintings, and lets remember that for week 10 from scratch this is really impressive, what has been learned so far is..
Learning how to paint without freaks or blotches,
learning flow control
Using enough water and painting faster
painting within a complicated shape,
Pulling shapes out of the main body, and 'fronding'
Plus, using hard and soft edges with