Watercolor
A spark of goodness created all of us, so a poet said. In like manner, all of us have that creative spark. In some of us this spark is pronounced, in most, it has to be cultivated. Nonetheless, it is always there whether admitted or not. We feel it all the time. This is why we strive to pamper our senses. This is why all of us are drawn to the beautiful, the grand, and the majestic. We can never be fully satisfied until we create. And until we learn to create, we will always stand in awe to those who do never knowing that we have the same quality in us.
Failure is an Ally
It is painful to admit that. Wish it were not so but wishing would not change that. Vincent Van Gogh for all the worth of his paintings now, only sold one commissioned painting in his lifetime out of the numerous masterpieces that he did. A portrait not very well received by the patron but paid nonetheless. Picasso, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Goya, name it, all have struggled at first until masterpiece after masterpiece were made, accepted, and praised by the public.
A spider can spin a web right after it is hatched and a deer can leap a few moments after it is born but for all our superiority, we have to learn, struggle and learn some more if not from previous mistakes, from the mistakes of others until a task is as perfect as our limitations would allow us to be.
With so little time
A cliché goes "We live and learn" until a wisecrack added, "by the moment we learned it will almost be too late to live". If that is the parameter by which achievements have to be set, then nothing created will have been created. The truth is art is created for the sake of creating, nothing more. Art is a reward in itself. It does not matter if it is recognized nor condemned, praised or ridiculed. History has proven time and again that the opinion of the majority is not always right.
And so Express Yourself
Because you are a co-creator, create. Lives are lived more fully when we create. It is good if the talent is already there if not, it often comes after trying but even if it is said that there is none, who cares. Not every master has the talent when they were just starting. The talent is developed in a manner by which intelligence is also developed. But even when the talent never grows to the level desired, art is still a good way to express oneself. It is a release; it is relaxation and developing focus and coordination. It is development of tastes and expressions that otherwise would have remained dormant. In art, the person runs an entire gamut of experiences translated to tangible forms sometimes known only to him.
It is the only known human activity that to be effective does not require much brain as much as gut activity. More than anything else, it is spiritual and intuition development. An experience that brings us closer to the spark of goodness that created all of us.
The wet in wet technique is distinct only to water color paintings. Using this technique produces an effect that is not possible in any other medium. To do this, the entire paper is laid flat and is brushed wet with water. When the paper no longer wicks, the work begins by plunging it with a paint-saturated brush. The effect will generally be large areas with irregular color definition. The subject of the painting is then defined and sharpened as the color dries. There are different procedures of wet in wet technique that presents different characteristics.
Backruns
This effect is achieved by the natural tendency of the paint to be drawn from the wetter surfaces to the dryer surface of the paper. This is commonly referred to as the blooms, watermarks, oozles, backwash, or backruns. As the pigmented water runs from the wetter to the dryer surface, it carries along pigments leaving the wetter areas with a lighter shade and depending on how the backrun is treated; it will leave an image with a serrated edge. This effect is commonly used for lighting contour of an object and at other times simply for decorative purposes.
Salt Texture
Since the salt will absorb water, this technique is used to create snowflakes in the picture and other imperfections in the color. A salt will rot the paper overtime; a fine water spray using a spray bottle held three feet from the painting is used as a substitute with similar effect. Fine grains of sand could also be sprayed over the surface that will be brushed off later.
Dropping in Color
Here the artist dilutes a defined area with paint or water then the artist drops in color through the brush that has been loaded with paint. The added shapes are then manipulated by stroking or tilting. Backruns are induced by adding more color or clear water or lightening up the surface by wicking. This technique produces an effect that is tasselated.
Paint Diffusion
When paint is applied to a wet surface, the tendency of the paint that is applied is to be defused into the wet water that surrounds it. This creates a feathery effect in the edges of the object that is painted. The paint diffusion technique is further shaped by tilting the paper while still wet.
Pouring Color
The artist applying this technique pours quantities of paint on the different surfaces of the paper, and using brush, tilting and spraying, merges the paint together producing an area that has a profusion of different colors and color variations. When the mixture is not so wet, the colors are then manipulated by brush into the desired forms. Before this technique is applied though, predetermined white areas are covered with masking tape, a film, or a latex resist.
The Cling Film Technique
This wet in wet technique creates special effect in the painting trough the use of a kitchen cling film. The cling film is applied over the wet pigment and manipulated to form ripples and ridges. When the painting is dry, the cling film is removed revealing the effect on the painting that the film has made.
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