From Line & Shape to Complex Surfaces: DVD excerpt from Gerald Brommer for Watercolor Artists

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{This video is an excerpt of Gerald Brommer's video From Line & Shape to Complex Surfaces" available for purchase at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff.}


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I'll come in at this point with a pen and start drawing new buildings. You can do these things with figure painting, still lifes, landscapes, anything.

This is a nice fine line that draws beautifully. Then I can bring in fatter lines at the bottom so they get nice and heavy and look at how organic that line looks.

I can always add more color to this. I'll grab my brush and make it darker behind the building with a deeper color in the sky. I can blot a little bit on that since I have gesso under the color.

Wonderful things begin to happen with the surface by blotting and wiping, etc. The shapes really start to come out. I love this incredibly rich surface. All of this stuff that's underneath - all the textures from the fiber in the paper are all showing through and I can just keep drawing on top of that until the whole thing gets finished.

Here's another version with a lot of details. Every square inch is different as far as the surface is concerned. You can see the lines underneath the gesso, under the paper and all of these things really create depth.

I draw outside of the shape, I can draw lines inside the shape, I can use shape as an edge to make things pop out, and I can make value contrast - all of these things work together to create incredible depth and texture.


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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• texture
• lines
• watercolor painting
• artist instruction
• gerald brommer
• gesso techniques

[dkw12002]

Beautiful technique. When I think of ink and watercolor, I think of Charles M. Russell, the prolific Western artist who often sketched beautiful scenes on his personal letters in this style.

[jhhymas]

Thanks for these--I've loved Brommer's work for years!

[wikisam92]

I LOVE IT xd