Using gesso with watercolour
I came across an article that described the use of a gesso ground for use with watercolour. A gesso ground causes a few problems, but it also creates a number of opportunities, not found when working on more traditional surfaces. Gesso is an acrylic based ... Read More
Tag: watercolour painting
Skin Tones
Painting convincing flesh tones is one of the challenges of portrait painting. Painting skin tones in watercolour can be even more challenging. But with all honesty painting skin tones in watercolour cannot be achieved by using tubes of flesh tint and portrait pink.
Unlike working with acrylics, we ... Read More
I have recently come across the work of an artist called Michael Morgan. He is a great watercolour painter, whose landscape paintings could be mistaken for oil or acrylic paintings such is their boldness. This man is now in his 80’s and obviously has a wealth of experience. What ... Read More
Imagine you want to paint an orange or similar object that has a textured surface one way of doing it is to paint the orange tonally so it looks three dimensional. Cut a paper mask the same shape as the orange and place this over the orange so only ... Read More