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Super Watercolor Painting Composite Brush Tips For Illustrators

By Douglas Schmidt


We would like to see examples of your color work, said the hand-written message on the postcard from an art director at a children's book publishing house. I guess it did because I didn't hear from her again after I submitted my hastily assembled watercolors, or rather, photocopies of them. The following article will take us through the theme Super watercolor painting Composite Brush Tips for illustrators.

I've learned a lot since then from painters, art directors, and fellow illustrators, who were also, thank goodness, teachers at heart and generous. The result is that I've learned that what I'd thought of like the scary part of illustration was not so scary or all that complicated. In fact, it's tons of fun. It turns out that art doesn't have as many rules as a lot of other subjects. A handful of design principles apply to illustration as to almost all kinds of visual art.

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Think regarding a dominant color for your painting. You'll add a few, though not many other colors to your palette - most importantly a color that's opposite the dominant color, which you can use to darken or neutralize the other colors a bit where needed. Start in on your painting with a mid-tone wash of your dominant color.

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Your wash solution should be well-saturated with the pigment so that the color goes down rich and strong - though not opaque and heavy. Tilt your painting board just a bit, so that washes run slightly with gravity down the sheet in just the one direction - down toward you. If you see a slight liquid bead forming at the bottom edge of your brush strokes, that you're working with a brush that's wet enough and that you have your board tilted just right.

A good watercolor tip is one you might hear from any professional house painter: Work with the largest brush you can get away with - for the economy of means, the brevity of technique. This means, cover the surface you need to, but don't overwork a passage. Less is usually more. If you can complete a whole section with just one juicy swipe of the brush, great!




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