The Art of Watercolor: Paint Your Vision of the World
Masking and Preserving
A course by user7403467 surname7403467 , Watercolor Artist
Joined June 2021
Explore watercolor techniques to create shadows, textures, and atmospheres that capture the essence of your surroundings
Joined June 2021
About the video: Masking and Preserving
Overview
“I will show you the various ways to preserve white paper, the tools you need, and how to use them.”
In this video lesson user7403467 surname7403467 addresses the topic: Masking and Preserving, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Watercolor: Paint Your Vision of the World. Explore watercolor techniques to create shadows, textures, and atmospheres that capture the essence of your surroundings.
Partial transcription of the video
“Masking and Preserving In this lesson, we're going to use our masking techniques to preserve areas of extreme highlights in our painting. We're now committing ourselves to our watercolour paper. Let's get going. These are the tools I will be using to apply the masking to the paper. First of all, the steel nib dip pen. This is to get nice straight lines and I will be using the T-square to do that, as well. I'm going to be using an old paint brush handle, which we can use to roll and get random shapes on our rocks. This is the masking fluid I'm using, which is a blue one. Masking fluid is qui...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Watercolor: Paint Your Vision of the World
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user7403467 surname7403467
David Poxon is a watercolor artist from England. He first began painting at just five years old when his grandmother gave him his first tin of paint. Since then, he’s been on a creative journey that’s taken him all over the world, from the Far East to South America.
His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions and he has won more than 80 major painting awards. Alongside the artwork he creates, David teaches watercolor painting and hosts events including the International Watercolor Masters Exhibitions. He is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors and the National Watercolor Society of America. He has also written several books, his latest of which, Watercolor, Heart & Soul, has become a bestseller.
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