Watercolor Painting – 4 Tuesdays – $125 10 am to 12:30 pm – 4 Tuesdays, April 3, 10, 17, 24 (course will also be offered May 1, 8, 15, 22) We will explore a variety of subjects, such as landscape, water, and others. Everything is demonstrated clearly, and supported by a website with videos. Suitable… Read More »
Composition is, of course, an important skill to develop. Many books have been written on the subject. DaVinci is reported to have recommended that young painters look at mold stains on the walls and try to see landscapes. This is sometimes referred to as ‘forced’ or re-purposed composition. Henry Rankin Poore wrote on it in… Read More »
We have had a lot of fun doing paintings by scraping out. With Acrylics we use a white vinyl eraser ( preparing the surface by under-painting with titanium white). With Watercolors we use a cut up credit card) preparing the surface by under-painting with gum arabic before painting). Tony O’ Hi Tony, you may recall… Read More »
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Getting a little bored with simple realism? As the title suggests, here is a way of seeing and painting called “Color as Tone”, sometimes called ‘arbitrary color’. Actually the hue may be arbitrary, but the tones or tonal value shapes are not. I am sure that we all, at some stage of our painting development,… Read More »
People have asked if reflections should be longer, shorter, or the same as the actual object. The annoying answer is “It depends.” I made a little sailboat (about 3 inches high) by carving a white vinyl eraser and making a sail by cutting a credit card, painting it white and drawing a curve with a… Read More »
I’m going to re-do this one as soon as I can – It was a real quick and dirty demo and looks like it. I will leave it up for a couple of weeks as people requested. The process is more or less valid. Video follows. T
Yesterday I drew as a demonstration at the Shadbolt Center Burnaby for the “Rhododendron Festival”. Charcoal and pastels on office easel paper about 24 x 36. Hyped the colors a bit in P-Shop. The idea was to promote classes and participate in the Civic Festival representing the Shadbolt Center. I always enjoy doing this type… Read More »
https://vimeo.com/190479147This is a little demonstration I did in Nov 2016. Still Lake Reflections Watercolor Demo (3 video segments) {Nov 2016}
This was a demo-lesson in basic watercolor done late at night when I was a little tired! But, it uses some interesting techniques. First, I show it as a ‘paint-around’, then as a ‘liquid rubber-resist method’. (I used ‘Pebeo’ brand but there are many others). Then I used FW Acrylic Ink for the ‘whites’ to… Read More »
Some Important Concepts for Watercolor Tony O’Regan toregan@ecuad.ca Video Website: www.toregan.com These are a few of the principles to become aware of and to master in watercolor. They exist in all painting mediums. They are somewhat special in watercolor, partly because of its ‘transparent’ nature. It is necessary to plan the execution – a… Read More »
I have been doing a lot of experimenting with gum arabic and watercolor on paper. I started doing it when I had some fun scraping out acrylic paint with white vinyl erasers. This didn’t work well with watercolor, however, I found that using gum arabic and credit card plastic as scraping tools DID work. Gum… Read More »
Can you see that I used the exact same process for all these pictures? No Kidding: Identify the LIGHTS, all else becomes MID-TONE, add DARKS, finally, add DETAIL. Read on below the pictures – and read the ‘Step-by Step Post’ re each picture – Blossoms, Apple, Sailboat, Girl 🙂 I am putting up individual posts that… Read More »
This last image was done as a quick lesson-demonstration at White Rock South Surrey Art Society July 2017:
This is a quick demonstration of the tonal process applied to an abstraction in watercolor, using mainly negative painting. The idea is that the same process can be applied to landscape, still-life, portrait or any genre. Demos for those genres will follow.
ALWAYS wear protective gloves when your hands are directly in the paint. Scraping-out or scraping-in is an old technique for achieving interesting lines and forms, different from the effects from a brush. Here I used cheapo white vinyl erasers which can be sliced, or even cut partially and broken, to achieve a variety of edges/effects.
This vid is a quick watercolor sketch demo at The Shadbolt Center as part of Tony’s Art School drawing course spring 2016. The subject is a Lummi Island, Washington beach scene provided by my friend, Bridged L., who will be opening a gallery there in the near future!