What are the three secondary colors?
Red, green, and blue are known as the primary colors of light. The combinations of two of the three primary colors of light produce the secondary colors of light. The secondary colors of light are cyan, magenta, and yellow.
What do you need to know about watercolor paint?
Watercolor paint is a translucent art medium. Watercolor is basically a colored pigment in a water-soluble binder. The paint dissolves when you add water allowing the pigment to spread with a brush. If you’re serious about pursuing a hobby as a watercolor artist you need to know what watercolor is.
What’s the last watercolor wash you need to know?
The last watercolor wash you need to know is the wet on wet wash. This technique is one of the easiest and most fun to create. You can let loose, play around with colors, and create something wholly unique and unexpected every time. First, you need to wet your paper with clean water.
How can I find out how much my old painting is worth?
Use an online image search to check whether your painting is a copy. Once you have identified your artist, check his or her other works online to see what they sell for. If your painting is valuable, approach a local auction house. Look for one that specialises in works of art for the best advice.
What’s the difference between wet and dry watercolor washes?
If your flat wash looks a bit streaky or uneven, feel free to wet your brush and go over it again, starting at the top and working your way to the bottom. This should smooth out some of the uneven patches. A wet flat wash is the same as a dry flat wash except that you wet your watercolor paper.
Do you have to do value studies for watercolors?
After you’ve done a lot of preparatory value studies for your watercolors, you may find that you can automatically visualize the composition of light, medium, and dark values without actually painting them on gray paper.
Why do watercolors have so many different colors?
The beautiful thing about watercolors is that within one color, you can create many other colors just by exploring its values. It is also a great demonstration of why, when painting with watercolors, you don’t really need to use white.
Use an online image search to check whether your painting is a copy. Once you have identified your artist, check his or her other works online to see what they sell for. If your painting is valuable, approach a local auction house. Look for one that specialises in works of art for the best advice.
How to figure out the proportions of a watercolor?
You can figure the proportions out mathematically, or you can perform this simple exercise. Lightly draw a diagonal line between the bottom left and the top right corners of your watercolor paper.
