Wet into Wet Watercolour Underpainting Tip

Canadian artist Linda Kemp gives valuable insight into how she prepares a Wet into Wet Underpainting. This was included in the Special Features on Linda's "Painting Outside The Lines" DVD.

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[ezzavezza]

Hmmm, Perhaps this video should be titled - "I just don't like pans". I thought the colours on the right hand side looked gaudy and abattoir-ish.

[Juicypaint]

A finished painting using Linda Kemp's techniques results in vibrant and imaginative fine art, in comparison with ladies' coffee club birdhouse/wheelbarrow paintings. Previous commentors don't have the benefit of seeing a finished painting in Linda Kemp's style to understand that her approach is gaudy, amateurish, or stupid. What is shown in this video is Lesson 1 in her exciting alternative approach to watercolor. Not shown are Lessons 2- 20 which explain the need for strong, vibrant color.

[jaxgirl13]

Thank you for the tip. This explains why my colors are not a vibrant as sometimes I wish they were once dried.

[banjovialone]

A silly video of no value whatsoever.

[pherankh]

@CT2507

"deluded colors"? I like that. Kemp has demonstrated enough times over the years that she knows what she is doing, and has great instincts. I don't think you'll find any "flowers on napkins" in her website gallery

[mary12rose]

Wonderful! I learned.

[peachy6969]

I really wanted to like this video but she is a little biased in her approach. This is particularly evident in her colour mixing. Of course you won't get a variety of tones if you thoroughly mix the colours on the palette, which she only did for the pans. Anyone can get vibrant colours from dried paint pans, it might take 3 seconds more patience or a different technique but it is possible. I agree that wet paint is faster, but I don't agree that it is better.

[bklynjavagrl]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[veaudor]

@CT2507 Not necessarily. If you work fast and mix colors on the paper, as I do, you want strong colors so that all comes out in the first shot. It's all about keeping colors pure.

[veaudor]

@CT2507 Not necessarily. If you work fast and mix colors on the paper, as I do, you want strong colors so that all comes out in the first shot. It's all about keeping colors pure.

[dkw12002]

@veaudor Absoluely. The amount of water is the only diff. between pan and tube paints. I use a spray bottle to spray each individual pan of color to soften it so I can easily pick up more concentrated pigment. What might happen with pans is that you could contaminate colors by dipping one pigment into another if the brush or water isn't clean and that changes the brightness of the pigment. That shouldn't matter unless you are painting a bright, light area. Then I use new water and new paint.