Advancing with Watercolor: Painting Water "Boats and Reflections" Soft Edges

THE PROJECT BOATS IN CALM WATER FREE PDFhttps://userfiles.faso.us/98794/26834... Soft Edges Dawn breaks over the water and the air is damp and soft. The tethered boats are barley moving and the reflections dissolve into the placid water such a calmness - How can I paint this ?? The Drawing / Design There is very little to be done in the drawing - a few boats on the soft water…Wait - did I say boats - boats can be trick to draw so lets pause the painting button a moment and spend some time with boats in doing our drill we will go over some of the finer points of boats and arrangement. 1 - once we practice some boats without we are ready to place our boats into some calm water 2 - When we start arranging /composing - we should always work towards variety - many of these boats are the same construction but we can vary them through placement. Here is a great lesson on the value of variety. 3 - lets give a few more details to the near boat and make the others “Boats by association “ Our technique is driven by the desire to create a certain”feel” or mood to the atmosphere …theses intangible elements are like a recipe- we first need to know the ingredients. In such a moment the soft edges and slow transitions are vital to the mood. Watercolor Technique The watercolor technique used in today's painting centers are Lund wet into wet technique. This means that we add color into a wet surface. This terrifies the novice and experienced hand as well. We will practice of few things in our drill and tonal study before getting to the painting of Boats on calm water .