Frank Webb-Using Your Head, Heart, Hand

A clip from Frank's DVD, Using Your Head, Heart and Hand
Chapter 7, Layering, putting our paint on in one, two, three, layers. The purpose, well to get a certain degree of flatness because all the edges will be sharp. Also, I'll get mixtures by overlaying rather than direct application. I'll make all this on dry paper and gravity will help me a little bit here. As I go across the top, I'll just paint everywhere that's not meant to be white I put the wash. And I move down the painting. Maybe it's just a little too dark so I add a little water. I make sure a bead forms on the bottom, see gravity forms a bead on the bottom. I work horizontally. I'll allow that white boat in here to stay and I paint around my boats, so let's get down towards the boat shapes, and as long as you maintain a bead at the bottom it will not form an edge. Maybe you can keep your color moving continuously. I'm painting around my boats. And I'm running a little bit shy here. I should have left more white on my staircase here but this will be fine. When I'm done I should have a background mother wash here that is not too streaky.
OK we just about reached bottom. OK we've reached bottom. Maybe there no need to paint around this, I'll just include and hit this with my dryer.
So now that my paper is dryer, I'm going to put aside my lid from my palette now because I no longer need mother washes. I'm going to make washes now, maybe I ought to do something with the beach next and run a wash of pink across the beach. That will give a violet look to it. Is that too much, well maybe and maybe not. I'm going to go with it anyway. I'm going to also go beyond the boundaries here and use it for other shapes as well. Maybe I can use it for my roof up here and make it separate from the sky. Maybe I'll run it through that sailboat that's inside the boathouse. So you see what I'm doing here is trying to make my washes go beyond their immediate boundaries. In almost all cases seeing how far I can take a wash and that pulls my areas together, gives me a certain amount of togetherness. Let's do the back of the boat as a pink too. Now I have another drying period so I'll hit that again with the dryer.

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