THE POWER OF LIGHT Light makes an object looks alive, real, and not boring. This is important to use Light in Watercolour Painting. Light can be the sun itself, sun shine, sun ray, strong shadow of a building or tree, reflection on water or snow, slippery path, etc Light can give impact to our visual…
What Watercolour Equipment should I choose? I would like to share the equipment to paint with watercolour. The modest equipment are watercolour papers, watercolour paints and watercolour brushes. The others equipment are : Board for painting Clip to hold the paper or Tape (Scotch Magic Tape) is very good, not too sticky and not ruin…
Is it Important? Like music, there is a note with low sound and there is other with high sound. Without tone watercolour painting, the painting looks dull and boring. Tone is different with colour. We can create tone without colour. A monochrome can create tone (pencil, graphite, etc) With only one colour we can create tone, from…
What is The Creative Focal Point? Actually Focal Point or centre of interest is part of the composition. It draws the gaze of the viewer. Without a focal point, the viewer will not have something to rest their eyes upon. To create an interesting painting, first, we must determine what is the focal point in our…
What does this mean? Drawing is essential in painting, without good drawing the painting will have no soul, even in drawing Watercolour Painting. I would like to start my sharing about drawing with Drawing tools. Drawing tools are varies from the modest to luxury. Pencil is simple this might be the first thing I can grip with my…
What is a Watercolour Composition? After my sharing about the placement Focal Point and Perspective, I would like to share other things about watercolour composition, but this composition can be used to another kind of painting/drawing. There are many things to consider in composition, these sharing are from my comprehension which are easy to remember. Let’s…
This time, I want to continue sharing a simple composition : After we determine the focal point in a painting and where to put it on the painting area. Next is PERSPECTIVE. There are Linear Perspective and Aerial Perspective. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE means that everything far is smaller than everything nearer to us – the painter or…
How to Start Painting With Watercolour? In this first sharing about watercolour painting, I consider that we are ready with the equipment to paint with watercolour. The modest equipment are watercolour papers, watercolour paints and watercolour brushes. I have posted the photos of equipment that I use in my instagram artkhatulistiwa and facebook artkhatulistiwa. This is…