Unit 4 - Water Color

Formative Practice

Follow along with Mr. Manders as we work through watercolor layering techniques together.  
Steps

• Tape all edges of watercolor paper to a drawing board or other hard surface.
• Sketch basic shapes of subject matter capturing proportional relationships, placement of objects, and some details.
• Apply water to the negative space (around objects).
• Paint background (negative space) with layers of black paint to achieve desired value changes.
• Mask out the highlighted areas with masking fluid, tape or glue.  
• Apply water to the foreground object(s).  Paint shapes that depict the objects value changes.  
• Create texture in orange and lemon peels by sprinkling salt on wet pigment.
• Repeat the previous step for the rest of the composition.  

Watercolor Masking Fluid

The images displayed here are copyrighted and used without permission, so they will be removed at artists' request.

The Art Problem / Your Project Assignment:

Positive Negative Space Composition
Using the techniques you've learned from the formative practice activity, create a water color composition that depicts use of positive and negative space.  

 






Things to remember for your composition:

1. Mask off lightest areas as a masking technique.  Use masking tape or rubber cement.
2. Layer the water color in washes.
3. Create detail and value with different techniques.
4. Use salt to create texture.

Project Due:
Thursday, March 5

The below images are just examples of traditional landscape water color paintings.

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