Thursday, September 19, 2013

An Abstract Watercolor Painting In Easy Steps

By Cecile Ingram


Many people shy away from doing any arts and crafts as they feel that they are not artistic. There is an area where everyone can join in no matter how artistic they are. This is the field of abstract watercolor painting, and it is so simple to do, and at the end of the day you end up with your own unique piece of artwork. You don't even need to spend a fortune on materials, and they can all be obtained at your local arts and crafts store.

A simple exercise only needs a small amount of time and a few items. Obviously you will need paper, something firm to fix it to and something to fix it with. Then there is also a brush, a paint kit and some rubber cement. Most people will use tape to keep the paper on the backing board, but here is a tip to prevent your paper ripping. Cut lengths of tape to size and stick them to your clothes. Quickly remove the lengths of tape, this places small fibers on the tape and so it is not quite so strongly adhesive.

For your first attempt it might be a good idea to limit yourself to just two colors. If you use the internet look at something called a color-wheel, and then opt for two colors next to each other. For example blue and purple, or even blue and yellow. Remember that the choice of colors is yours so you could always make the decision to tie one in with an existing color in your home decor.

Once your paper is fixed in position, you can apply the rubber cement in a random style. Let the adhesive dry, to speed the process up you could make use of something like a hair dryer. When the adhesive has dried, you can start painting. You can experiment and find out how the paint merges when it gets wetter. There are no rules as it is your work.

Don't get too carried away with the first painting. The next stage is to let it once again dry, again the hair dryer can be used to help speed things up. Once the paint is dry the process with the rubber cement solution can be repeated, and when that is also dry the next layer of painting can take place. This may be repeated as many times as you like.

Once you are satisfied with the effect you can remove that rubber cement solution. This is a simple matter of gently rubbing it away with your finger tips. As the rubber cement comes away you get to see a pattern coming through. You can either trace along the edges of these patterns or leave it as appears.

The tape which was used to fix the paper to the board can now also be removed. If the tip mentioned earlier was used the paper should not rip while you are carefully removing the tape. Another added bonus is that you will now have a tidy border area.

Just by following those simple steps you will have created an abstract watercolor painting. Such a simple process might give you the urge to try and create some more art. Everyone has a budding artist inside of them.




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