24. ARTISTS FAMOUS FOR THEIR WATERCOLORS
Franklin Booth
Franz Marc
Fred Martin
Frederick Childe Hassam
Georgia O'Keefe
Gerard Richter Gustave
Dore
Helen Frankenthaler.
Honore Daumier.
John Constable.
John James Audubon
John Marin.
John Singer Sargent
Joseph Mallord William
Turner
Joseph Raffael
Lisbeth Spenger
Louise Stanley.
Mary Cassat
Mary Snowden
Maurice Prendergast
Paul Cezanne Paul Klee
Philip Pearlstein
Raoul Dufy
Robert Bechtle
Sam Francis
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Moran
Wassily Kandinsky
William Blake
Winslow Homer
Albrecht Dürer
Anders Zorn
Andrew Wyeth
Arthur Dove
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Szyk
Charles Burchfield
Charles Demuth
Edmund Dulac
Edward Hopper
Egon Schiele
Emil Nolde
Eric Fischl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Eugene Delacroix
Francesco Clemente
34. watercolor is powdered pigment suspended in gum arabic,
with a little glycerin and honey added.
pigments are derived from minerals, plants or metals
gum arabic is gum exuded by some kinds of acacia, used in the food industry, in
glue, as the binder for watercolor paints, and in incense.
glycerin is a colorless, sweet, viscous liquid formed as a byproduct in soap
manufacture. It is used as an emollient and laxative, and for making explosives
and antifreeze.
honey added so it's more gooey!
43. Work from light to dark
Allow each step to dry
before proceeding to the
next
44. Step by Step
Work from light to dark
Allow each step to dry
before proceeding to the
next
45. Student work in progress – on a large 30x40 paper taped to a table
46. the brown/pink is painted underneath, and then the dark blue sky is painted on top,
after the bottom layer is dry ..
47. Watercolor can also be
combined with opaque
white gouache or acrylic
in a ‘mixed media’
technique.
you can see white
strokes painted on the
hull of the boat,
and then glazed over
with a transparent blue.
John Singer Sargent, (detail), c. 1920
51. The chromatic scale
enhances the
illusion of “light”
• Lighter value in the light
• Brighter intensity in the light
• Warmer (orangey) red in the light
(vs bluer purplish red) in the shadow