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Anonymous Fri Oct 17 08:55:12 2014 No.1864920 [Reply] [Original]

How do I learn to watercolor like pic related as opposed to those old lady landscapes or tumblr tier portraits where the colors are over-saturated and run like crazy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 17 09:57:16 2014 No.1864974 -Copy old masters' work -Don't have shit taste

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 17 10:54:22 2014 No.1865011 by painting with watercolor as opposed to asking questions of a bunch of anonymous internet teenagers who do nothing but digitally draw dragons and epic medieval swordsmen and watch animated Taiwanese storybooks all day

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 17 12:27:16 2014 No.1865097 >>1864974 >>1865011 Calm down with that edge, son. You'll cut yourself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 17 12:49:22 2014 No.1865108 you would take art classes with some what similar style.

Anonymous Fri Oct 17 14:56:00 2014 No.1865224

>>1864920
Those artists like Cotman for example, had excellent drawing skills and then took forever painstakingly adding light washes.
Have you seen any in the flesh ? We have in the house and the work is MINUTE to cram all the details in.

Also, I recommend John Ruskin.
"The Elements of Drawing", which does cover how him & PRB bros tackled scenes of nature. My version has illustrations and editing by Bernard Dunstan & is britty gud.

Anonymous Fri Oct 17 15:13:52 2014 No.1865230

I used to have a few pdf on how old masters handle watercolor medium but my HDD died and I never bother to search for it again, mind you those books are written in old times and mostly words without pictures. you can try to search for them though I got it from google book and archive.org

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 21:41:15 2014 No.1866314 >>1865230 Yeah i've found a few and while I love the style of writing and don’t mind the lack of illustrations (Love old textbooks) somthing a bit more practical would be useful.

Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:00:52 2014 No.1866333

>>1864974
>shit taste

this is the boring shit Hitler was rejected twice from art school for doing while progressive modernists that could do more than copy shit they were looking at (why bother? Just take a photo) were accepted. Artists like Egon Schiele and other "degenerates" were accepted because they actually added something in their drawings and paintings that photography couldn't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:02:55 2014 No.1866334 >>1866333 >Egon Schiele just beat up the model and break some of their bones before taking the photo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:09:33 2014 No.1866338 >>1866333 daily reminder that not only modernists destroyed classical art education they're also directly responsible for creating hitler

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:21:31 2014 No.1866346 >>1866333 hitler was rejected not for his architectural paintings but because of his shit figure drawing. he said in his book that they suggested he go into architecture instead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:22:36 2014 No.1866347 >>1866346 he did become an architect... of destruction!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:29:36 2014 No.1866350 File: 110 KB, 707x720, 1411620795229.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1866347 Please stop I feel embarrassed for you.

Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:32:30 2014 No.1866351

>>1864920
well, for the most part paintings like your one there are very small. it also looks like it has a dead color layer, like a monochrome underpainting. then not even much tinting. just some blue washes, a little bit of brown in the figures and the foreground and that's it. then there's a bit of opaque white here and there.

so unfortunately i think it comes down to skill and grace rather than techniques.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 22:38:28 2014 No.1866356 >>1866333 Trips confirm, you a faggot. In all seriousness I was referring to tchnique over concept,

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 23:31:45 2014 No.1866392 >>1865224 Seconded for god tier book. 115

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 19 01:53:50 2014 No.1866474 >>1866346 I guess he was able to concentrate on the figure at the camps Also OP, just learn how to mix yer damn colors and paint from lyfeeee

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 19 02:21:06 2014 No.1866484 Glazing. You build up layers and layers up thinly applied paint.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 19 03:41:56 2014 No.1866512 Why would you want to use watercolor for this when most other types of paint are much more convenient?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 20 15:16:16 2014 No.1868141 >>1866512 >Why don't you just cop out and be a lazy fucker like me?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 20 15:25:16 2014 No.1868147 >>1866484 Yeah, this is all glazing. Make sure to let the layer completely dry before applying the next one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 20 15:26:39 2014 No.1868151 >>1866484 You mean like a donut or like a girls face with cum?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 20 17:06:53 2014 No.1868248 >>1868151 Neither, like the cheeto stains that build up on your fat fingers over weeks.

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