Anthony Forster Art Classes: watercolour tuition - French Farmhouse Application-1

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COLOURS USED

#1 - Naples Yellow
#2 - Winsor Yellow
#3 - French Ultramarine
#4 - Light Red
#5 - Raw Sienna
#6 - Winsor Blue
#7 - Burnt Umber

BASIC COLOUR MIXES

[LG] - Light Green = #2+ #3
[DG] - Dark Green = #5+ #6
[RG] - Rich Green = #2+ #5 + #6
[WB] - Warm Blue = #3+ sm#4
[LB] - Light Brown = #4+ sm#3

sm refers to the term "small amount"
cw refers to the term "charge with" meaning to introduce a colour into a still wet colour.(Wet-in-wet)

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French Farmhouse

FIRST STAGE APPLICATION


Application of washes. This should be quick using as few strokes as possible to cover any area being worked on. A minimal amount of brush-strokes equals greater purity and translucency of colour.	Planning the painting: Mentally paint the picture before proceeding - analyse the source picture above - and be aware of the colour mixes you are about to apply to each area, try visualising the result. Will the brush you are about to use carry enough colour - have you mixed enough colour - is the mix strong or weak? Try it out on your - trial pad!

Sky. Mix pale washes of #1 and #3, apply as wet in wet. The application of the sky is best achieved with the picture upsidedown. Trees. Using [DG] a colour mix of #5 + #6 and applying Raw Sienna [#5] wet in wet.	Brick/Stone Work. Apply weak mix of [WB] leaving white paper in various places - cw a weak mix of [LB] also add a small amount of weak # 7 to the above colours for the out-house brickwork Path. Apply weak mix of [LB] to the top of the path cw [WB] and add [LB] to remainder of the path.	Vine on the Farmhouse. Apply [LG] at the top of the vine cw with [RG] Ivy on the out-house. Apply [LG] cw [DG] and weak #6. Grass verges Apply horizontal strokes of medium strength mix of [LB] - while still wet cw medium strength mix of [RG]