Watercolors

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Works

Here my attempts, in reverse chronological order. I'm currently practising imitating watercolor paintings I find online. Less frequently, I try to reproduce photographs.

2018

2018-04

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2017

August 2017 - Watercolor lessons

During my stay in Berlin I casually found a watercolor teacher, who organizes 1.5h sessions for small groups of beginners. It's been greatly useful and rewarding.

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  • Konzerthaus Berlin

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  • Gethsemanekirche

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This time I include various phases of the execution to document the process. After half the drawing was complete (2) I started trying to render reflections on the water (it's supposed to be a lake landscape). At this point a number of things went wrong: I failed to moisture the paper sufficiently; I tried to use a clean brush to absorb color in horizontal lines (giving the illusion of water ripples, and adding depth to the composition) but it didn't work; I didn't wait for the color to dry before trying to amend errors with other strokes of paint… and other orrible things.

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(with the reference picture I used)

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A couple of experiments with colors. Terschelling paper.

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Terschelling paper.

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Fabriano paper.

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Fabriano paper.

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Fabriano paper.

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Links

Artists

Gear

I'm currently using:

  • Paper
  • Colors
  • Brushes
    • Da Vinci 16, synthetic
    • Boesner 50/1314-3 (for water)
    • Daler Rownet watercolor brush set
    • random "Giotto" brushes I had at home
    • Pentel Asquash waterbrush
    • Boesner waterbrush set

Author: Stefano Rodighiero

Created: 2024-06-10 Mon 20:25

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