Someone on a blog recently asked, "What are your favorite art materials?" Up VERY high on my list would be recycled items, in this case, newspaper.
I actually had several objectives here: wet on wet watercolor for the sky, layering the buildings using dull colors in the background and more vibrant colors and detail in the mid-ground. I wanted the vehicles and people to appear progressively larger and overlap as students moved into the foreground. A final focus was balance of color throughout.
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| Wet-on-wet sky |
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| Watercolor - dull color |
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| Newspaper for the buildings is great because the columns can dictate the width of the buildings. The mid-ground buildings are painted with brighter colored watercolors. |
Are the newspapers glued to something so they won't get soggy when painted?
ReplyDeleteNo, just used watercolor right on the newspaper and set them aside to dry -- took maybe 15 min. to dry, although it was a hot day.
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