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Merry Christmas to all of you!
I hope the holidays are wonderful and creative for you.
I am happy to have this lesson for you, even though it is a
repeat.
This is
something exciting and “creative”. Impress your friends and family with
your own hand painted Christmas Card! It’s fun and a good
“reminder lesson” in
gradation and color gradations. It also gives you a chance to see all the
wonderful “hues of colors” you can create. For those of you that are
beginners, refer to pages 44 thru 51
in my new book “ Painting Glowing Colors In
Watercolor”.
Ready?
Let’s get started. I am painting this in the same fashion I paint all
my other works, except, no shading. We want the painting to look like
“Stain Glass”, so there will be shapes of different colors.
Let’s
start with the drawing. You can create your own or copy mine. The
photo is a 8.5 x 11. Just print it out and trace it onto 300 lb cold
press watercolor paper. |
FIRST STEP
Click
on the drawing picture to
enlarge it and print it.
Close the window when
finished to return to this lesson. |
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After you have your line drawing done, erase the
“excess graphite”. We don’t want that to intermix with our pigments.
It will muddy it and we want this nice and intense.
Start with clean water and an array of yellows, oranges and reds.
Paint in around the candle flam, yellow to deep orange red. This is
only our “under painting”. Then Gradate the
petal on the flower from red to red orange without any water marks.
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Penny
Soto's 