Using Your Head, Heart & Hand by Frank Webb (DVD Excerpt): Watercolor Painting Instruction

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{This video is an excerpt of Frank Webb's video "Using Your Head, Heart and Hand" available for purchase at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff.}


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This chapter will focus on layering - putting our paint on in 1, 2, 3 layers. What's the purpose of this? To get a certain amount of flatness because all the edges will be sharp otherwise. Also, I'll get mixtures by overlay rather than trying to make direct applications.

I will do all this on dry paper. On my board I have a sketch I made in a boat yard of an old boat against a shack. As you can see it is not a value drawing. So I created that as an important next step.

Then I'll produce what I call my "mother color." This will be made over here on my palette and I"m going to use a depression in my lid to mix up a batch of mother color.

Whatever the mother wash color is here will be used as the color dominance in my painting. First I'll tilt my paper by tilting it up a bit. As I go across the painting, I'll paint everything that's not meant to be white.

As I move down the painting if it's a little too dark I'll just add a little water. Take advantage of bead forms as you work, too. As long as you maintain a bead at the bottom, it will not form an edge - you can keep your color moving continuously.

I'm painting around my boats. When I'm done I should have a background mother wash here that's not too streaky. Now I'll take a dryer to this.

At this point I'm going to do another wash on the beach areas. I will also pull this color beyond the boundaries and use it for other shapes at well like the roof up here to make it separate from the sky. What I'm doing is trying to make my washes go beyond their immediate boundaries. I will see how far I can take a wash to pull my areas together.

Now I'll dry again. This time I'm going for a darker mixture for building shapes and shadows. Just focus on silhouette shapes with fluid paint. Keep it flat with no gradations.

Now you see how the silhouette area shows and we'll go in the smaller areas with darker paint after a quick dry.

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[amjPeace]

How I wish I could go to Boone and take a workshop! Thanks for the lesson, Frank!