-Jane Haynes's freehand watercolor painting
Like watercolor, just like China's ink painting. You can show infinite artistic conception with the least colors and strokes. It seems simple, but it is really difficult to achieve artistic conception.
Watercolor painting does not have layers of oil paintings, but it looks fresh and clean, like a simple poem and light music in painting. Only by properly mixing water and pigment on a piece of paper can we achieve a moist and ethereal feeling.
Jane. Haines' watercolor painting is just like this. The cover of the book is a kingfisher, a few strokes, but delicate and charming.
When I first opened the book "Jane Haines' Freehand Watercolor", I was infected by her bold and meticulous painting style.
Born in England, Haines was lucky enough to travel around the world because he worked with her husband and met many outstanding artists. She was deeply inspired in every way. She mentioned the Great Wall of our country and the ink painting of our country, and her painting style has been integrated into the charm of our oriental ink painting.
She said that she paints with heartfelt enthusiasm every day, and life is a journey worth enjoying. In this book, she teaches us to form our own painting style instead of following a famous artist. She taught us how to draw directly without sketching and create amazing paintings. How to grasp the essence of things, not just some details. This requires us to know more about life.
She taught us how to choose the right brush, how to draw color cards, how to choose paper and pigments, and even taught us how to use color palettes in detail. She said that interesting painting themes, gorgeous watercolor pigments, favorite brushes and exquisite drawing paper can not only make our works better, but also make the creative process more enjoyable.
In the book, Haines specially trained in watercolor, and Haines compared them to a watercolor gym.
She firmly believes that watercolor can truly reflect people's mood and personality. Yes, otherwise the psychological technology of painting therapy will have no reason to exist.
She taught us to preheat colors and test color matching with small pieces of paper. Play some games of color and water. Save it when you're done. You'll need it at any time. This can also lead us to discover some new color schemes. We can also make various textures in color, such as sprinkling salt, to lay a good foundation for our formal painting.
The next step is color shaping. Bold quicksand salt method, let us see the changes of water and pigment on paper step by step.
Then teach us to build a flamingo step by step, use quicksand and salt to create the effect of flamingo feathers, and finally depict details such as mouth and eyes, and a flamingo with a vivid image appears in front of us. Expand your imagination, there are endless possibilities.
The author has been accompanying us with encouraging words in the book.
This is also the difference between this book and other watercolor courses. It seems that Haines is always around, constantly encouraging you and telling you that it doesn't matter, you can do it. Try again, don't worry, you will succeed. Undoubtedly, this is simply too important for some beginners. The reason why many people can't persist is that they retreat because of obstacles. If you have these proper encouragement, you will regain your confidence and have the strength to persevere.
There is a chapter in the book about building confidence. The author says that even experienced painters can't really be fearless in many cases. Does this sentence make you feel better? It's not that you can't, but that you may hesitate to write. This is normal.
Life is not perfect, why force art? The following figure shows how to effectively use reflux pigments to increase the diversity of simple tomatoes.
Interesting, isn't it? The author is really a gentle and tolerant person, who encourages us to continue while teaching us skills.
The part of painting Yu Meiren teaches us how to use splash technology and tells us how bold we should be. At least beginners will not be afraid after learning from the author. You can also start testing one right away. One of the techniques for making carnations, which I have tried, is very useful.
Jane Haynes mixed her own understanding into the traditional watercolor techniques, and introduced many techniques such as wet painting, color washing, negative shape, splash color, watermark water mark, transparent color layer, background color blooming and so on. The best thing is that she insists on leaving blank naturally in her works instead of using blank liquid, which makes her painting skills more exquisite. On page 98- 129, the book explains the specific exercises step by step, such as kingfisher, mouse, cat, koala and so on. /kloc-after 0/20 pages, explain the creation of portraits and landscapes step by step.
What did you learn from the book Jane Haines' Freehand Watercolor?
Be sure to take the time to understand pigments and their interaction with paper.
Don't rush to finish a work, learn from every work.
Follow your heart.
Form your own style.
Sum up from mistakes.
Believe in your ability.
The author's paintings are beautiful and artistic, and his words are reasonable.
Remember the author's words: "Everything is possible unless we deny him ourselves."
Infinite exploration makes painting every day more like a new adventure, so we must have the spirit of adventure, try many times and experiment many times to create amazing paintings.
The book Jane Haines' Freehand Watercolor needs to be read many times. You can look at the author's painting style and learn painting skills from the author. You can also learn how to live from the author. How to become open-minded and cheerful, and become a warm and sunny person? Even if we are old, we won't regret it. Because we are always curious, keep a pure eye to capture all the beauty and record it carefully. No matter what your painting level is, please relax yourself, calm down and be happy before painting. Everyone is a born painter. It's never too late to realize that you have the courage to pick up a brush.
She said in the preface: "When we imagine, we can always get unexpected gains." She said that she loved painting since she was a child and never thought that painting would become such an important part of her life. But she never stopped along the way.
She often relaxes in her quiet garden and feels the beautiful natural scenery around her. Think about how long it has been since we stopped to look at the flowers and plants around us. Especially the beautiful April day on earth now. Pick up your photo album and sketch in flowers and leaves. Painting in nature is the best spiritual yoga. I believe that one day, your paintings will become endless.