| watercolor & water color painting |
View artworks'
pictures of watercolor & water color painting
You are welcome to send us your own pictures to copy.
Specially for private user and collector, you're suggested to try our
Best
Quality by famous artists in China.
本站文案版权所有, 并保留撰写草稿,侵权盗用者必被诉诸法律。
The copyright of scripts in this website is owned by Toperfect. Toperfect
reserves the manual scripts of original version. Toperfect will take appropriate
legal action in the piracy and infringements of copyright. |
|
An introduction to watercolor & water color
Painting history
At one time all paint was water based and a
lot like gouache to use, The pigments chosen
tended to make a relatively opaque paint and
transparency was seen as a great fault.
Paper did not exist and the papyrus used and
the walls of buildings and tombs did not
suit transparent paints. The colors tended
to be limited and suited bold graphic styles
then prevalent.n |
|
Ancient Egyptian art
typified this use of relatively opaque
waterbased paints. All the pigments used
with the exception of Egyptian Blue Frit
tended to natirally make opaque or
semiopaque paints. Egyptian Blue Frit was
dark so its natural translucency still
covered well. Colors tended to be applied as
pure colors with a minimum of mixing if any.
This paint could cover well anyway but was
often applied thinly over a layer of white.
It wasn't until after the widespread
introduction of paper and changed art tastes
that required the use of a wide range of
colors, many of which were transparent that
the modern materials of watercolor and
gouache were born. The idea of adding gums
to pigments to help them stick to surfaces
is ancient, and the inks used by medieval
illuminators in bibles was quite like
watercolor in many ways, but it was
Durer
wanting to do some 'sketching' on his
journey to Italy who was probably the first
artist to use watercolor in a way that we
would recognize in the form of transparent
washes on paper for its own sake. His
apprenticeship had been in a studio making
woodcuts for the Nuremberg Chronicle and
some of the woodcuts were tinted with
transparent colors in gum and it seems this
was the beginning of
Durer's
famous use of both media. On this site you may get nice reproductions of European watercolor, European water color, European watercolor painting, European water color painting, European water color paintings, European watercolors, European watercolor paintings, European oil painting, European oil paintings, European painting.
Gouache has an origin lost in time but we do
know that the name may have originally been
applied to Tempera by the Italians and that
the idea of adding chalk to make watercolor
opaque developed some time later. As the
ancients knew, opacity is valuable for many
ways of painting, but the new idea of adding
chalk in carefully measured amounts to
interact with and enhance the color meant
that virtually any color could now be
opaque. Gouache as we understand the term
has been in existence for at least 200
years. During the late 19th and the 20th
century the demand for 'designers colors'
meant that gouache ceased to be regarded for
a time as serious art materials as bright
pigments of dubious character became normal
in most ranges of gouache color. Today as
designers abandon paint for photoshop,
gouache is returning to a focus on the needs
of professional fine artist's. There are
many that love the juicy qualities of these
paints. I am sure the ancient Egyptians
would totally agree. |
Advantages of watercolor & water color
Paintinging
Delicate but beautiful
Contrary to popular belief watercolor is not
ancient in origin. Watercolor & water color
Painting from long ago were generally
formulated to be as opaque as possible (more
like gouache than watercolor) as the paints
tended to be used on natural surfaces such
as bark, wood, or stone, Only with the
advent of white papers did transparent
watercolor & water color Painting become
practical, and the first 'great'
watercolorist was probably Durer. |
|
Watercolor & water color Painting are easy
to make in the studio and beatifully useful
paints can be quickly and simply made. This
section deals with suitable pigments and
gums and how to make the paint.
Transparent paint, the delicate touch.
Watercolor & water color Painting was once
made as hard cakes, the pigment ground with
water and gum then allowed to harden.
Watercolor & water color Painting kept very
well that way, but the colors tended to weak
due ti the difficulty of dissolving
sufficient color when needed. The discovery
that a small amount of glycerin and honey
could make 'semi moist' cakes was a
revelation and this is the form that most
artist's are familiar with as pan or half
pan type watercolor & water color Painting. |
|
Watercolor & water color Painting are
easy to make in this form and there are
those that believe that it is the form that
provides the best balance between the purity
of the pigment and usability. The desire for
strong 'hits' of color by many modern
artist's however has lead to the increasing
adoption of a watercolor that is more liquid
and storable in a tube. It's viscosity is
such that the paint when squeezed from the
tube should not run and should not display
excess gum solution when properly made this
way. This tube paint requires more additives
than the pan watercolor, but there are many
creative benefits to watercolor of this
type. On oilpaintingfactory.com it should be
noted that the maker of paint in the studio
is more likely to use their paint while
fresh and so can maximize the pigment ratio
in ways not available to a manufacturer who
needs to assume that paint made today may
not be touched for many weeks, months, or
years. |
| |
|
|