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Watercolor technique

First project Acrylic technique used with the watercolor painting is the best. Well it has been interesting coloring pages with watercolor all the time. But today is Acrylic day. It is going to be a simple design like a border pattern. Firstly, I decided to use Acrylic blending with crimson red and lemon yellow to level up with Gamboge watercolor. And then that is what I got as a main background. Design is challenging whether to go for one color or more. So I chose both of Acrylic watercolor combination. Where the first design of Acrylic would not hold on and that is why the color smudged and left the edges sparkling. So, I tried with Watercolor and that stayed. Yeah ! 👍🏻👍🏻 Second wash of Acrylic Redcrimson was to paint the whole design to rejuvenate the look. And yes again that worked. So I gave the same look to the Watercolor design.  And then was third wash I drew a circle black microtip pen to make it notice more than before. Even the design under the oval shap...

Watercolor pattern

. Watercolor pattern tile is the best way to describe itself as a wonderful pattern sketched out with imaginary line or design and then apply watercolor paint to it. Now, that the idea of making a pattern tile starts we are so happy to show you some of the wonderful pattern tiles.  Take a scan of that petal drawn and make a repeatitons pattern. you can get its color values too This is a cute little floral pattern which was painted in watercolor with pencil and sketch pen.  Floral  pattern tile is digital art. Then taken on Canvas print as Greeting cards. I felt like a most happiest person after the printing of the cards. Here it was another image of my Watercolor magic.  and making a beautiful pattern tile. Recently I painted a font pattern  It is in watercolor so I tried to do its pattern I was so amazed at it first but...

Watercolor paper and different mediums

This page has amazing features of Watercolor paper and the mediums. Watercolor as a medium can be with lots of different mediums and styles. We can use a Masking fluid to prepare a wonderful Greeting card. medium is commonly used as not only the substance but the materials, tools and techniques of artwork, for example in the above picture. In this case,  I had applied the determines drying times, durability, and even the glossy or opaque aspect of the end result. The artist can use a certain color values to this different mediums I have just tried. You can see the blending, marking, granules, varnish, honey effect and white ink effect. And there are many more of some mediums that I have yet to try them as a practice. Follow the link for your reference.  https://finearttutorials.com/guide/watercolour-mediums-a-comprehensive-guide/ Honey with Watercolor and Acrylic are my favorite. Here you can see the blending and marking of Cambo...

Language of lettering

Alphabets are usually linked with a standard of letters. This makes them useful for purposes of collation, sorted in a specific order, known as the alphabetical order. Term Alphabets are useful for reading and writing. Types of alphabet for example – small letters, capital letters, cursive letters, printable letters. Calligraphy is writing letters with special tool and styles. Hand lettering is drawing letters using any tools you want. Fonts are digital tools such as keyboard. It involves beautiful writing using specific strokes. Hand lettering  Lettering styles are typography designs of font, for specific projects. These could be business letterheads, customized signage, versatile fonts, or unique handwriting. This is in addition to handwritten document. Lettering are of 10 types                     Serif                  Sans serif...

Textured Watercolor paper

Texture is a visual surface charatestics added to the work of art. It also means the physicality of colors variation of depth in a painting. There are four different kinds; actual texture, implied texture, invented texture and abstract textur. Here the image is got the gesso effect where the paint is applied after the gesso brushed. There are 3 ways to apply watercolor texture 1. Chop sticks or straw 2. Cling wrap 3. Bubble wrap  Watercolor paper comes in two sides — one side has a smooth side and one side has a rough or textured side. It is best to use the textured side for the textured works on rough paper. But at the same time “whichever side you like to use” you could use both sides. The only real difference being a subtle variation in texture. Watercolor medium is the hardest to paint then the opaque medium Acrylic or Oil paint. Where the mistakes are difficult to erase as the appear in the layers applied on to the watercolor paper. Now, thi...

Acrylic watercolor weekend

Painting has been there from young age. But with the time that has passed and I have become addictive to this hobby.  It is more of my livelihood.  Watercolor has a very fine texture, combination of acrylic, ink, poster color, chalk paint gives a resist pattern of the Canvas. Today I took some time out and I got my color kit, brushes and sat down to paint. On a watercolor paper it is easier to do the shade part and the gradient background. Acrylic technique can  be done by layering the brush with enough color and also with more water and less paint. After a half an hour break, I got my Greeting card sample and I did some petals on top of the heart like shapes which are stuck onto the card. It was looking beautiful and styled card. I was with class session on Watercolors.  Now, as the Acrylic color was left I thought why not I paint for some more time. I took out my Coloring book and picked up a page that would suit the best.  ...