Water-Colour Paper – A Cheap Tip

WATER-COLOUR PAPER – A CHEAP TIP

A cheap way of getting water-colour paper to paint on, is to buy it in large sheets from art shops. You will need a board and gum tape…all very cheep. You can get a timber merchant to cut a piece of chip board to any size you need, just make sure it is big enough for the size of picture you want to paint. My board is about 3 feet by two and a half.

Painting Fine lines

PAINTING FINE LINES

A rigger brush is very useful for painting in fine lines, to either construct your painting or other fine line work like details in buildings. The bristles are long and fine so they hold a lot of paint but have a fine tip for the lines. I use one when i’m painting rigging on boats or ships and the radio wire on the fighter aircraft paintings running from the tail fin to the cockpit.

Composition Techniques

COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES

Part One

Today’s tips – Composition:

1. When adding a small amount of buildings/people/trees etc to a painting, it is important to add odd numbers. Therefore, if you add trees, add one, three, five, etc, instead of even numbers.

Creating Distance In Artwork

CREATING DISTANCE IN ARTWORK

Tips for today:

1. To create distance in any drawing or painting, you must bring warm colours forward, as opposed to thinned, cold colours to create a far away, distant look. For instance: if you are painting hills, the foreground hills are denser and warmer than the more distant hills, which are painted in cold, weaker colours.