First, dry painting and wet painting
Dry painting is a multi-layer painting method. The dry ground color is colored by layered coloring method, which does not pursue infiltration effect, and can be easily colored repeatedly, which is easier to master and suitable for beginners to practice. It is the specialty of dry painting to express positive and clear body structure and rich color levels. Wet painting can be divided into wet overlapping and wet joining.
Watercolor painting mostly combines dry painting and wet painting. The picture with wet painting as the main part is dry painting, and the picture with dry painting as the main part also has wet painting. The combination of dry and wet is full of expression, dense and dry, and full of fun.
Second, the mastery of water.
The use and mastery of water is one of the keys to watercolor techniques. Water has the characteristics of infiltration, flow and evaporation in the picture, so you should be familiar with "water-based" when painting watercolors. Giving full play to the role of water is an important factor in watercolor painting. To master moisture, we should pay attention to time, air humidity and water absorption of drawing paper.
Third, the "blank" method
Compared with the techniques of oil painting and gouache painting, the most prominent feature of watercolor technique is the method of "leaving blank". When drawing darker colors, some light and white parts need to be "left blank".
Proper and accurate blank or light bright color will enhance the vividness and expressiveness of the picture; On the contrary, improper blank space can easily lead to trivial and messy pictures. Mark the blank with a pencil before painting, and skillfully leave out the key details when painting, that is, dots and faces.
In addition, where the contrast colors are adjacent, the other side should be blank and colored separately to maintain their uniqueness. Some beginners leave unnecessary blank shapes and then paint colors along the outline, while others make the blank places dead, too rigid and lose vitality along the outline. Empty is accurate and vivid, which is the embodiment of skilled skills. Repeated practice in practice makes perfect.
Fourth, brushwork.
The brushwork is the method of using a pen. The use of pens is closely related to the use of water and color. When painting, each stroke contains water and color, or the color of water is less, or the color is more than water, or the color of water is moderate. Watercolor painting has a large painting area, and the brush strokes are hidden by the infiltration of water. It feels subtle to reset the color strokes when it is wet, and the strokes are clearly visible when the painting is dry.
Historical development of watercolor painting
Abroad, German painter Diu Lei was the first person to paint watercolor landscapes. When he studies painting, he often uses watercolor landscapes and animal and plant paintings. He carefully observed nature, worshiped and praised various forms of nature, and many of his works became models of visual art.
The main watercolor works are: landscape, white rabbit, big lawn, alpine scenery and so on. Diu Lei's sketches of animals and plants pay great attention to parts and details, so that the charm of artists in animals and plants can be fully displayed. His landscape paintings are also very real, and the arrangement and structure of mountains are both perspective and poetic.
Before18th century, watercolor painting also had a light color operation, and the color was not very rich. At that time, it successfully described the subtle changes in the wild atmosphere. In watercolor portraits, poetic landscapes and exquisite miniature paintings, we can see the development of color, which laid the foundation for modern watercolor painting.
18th century and19th century, American artists felt that watercolor painting seemed to be particularly suitable for depicting the natural environment, life interest and national characteristics of the United States, and watercolor painting developed rapidly in the United States. This flower of art is in full bloom in the wet land of America. America became the birthplace of modern watercolor painting in18th century and19th century.