For our final project, we had a guest watercolorist come in and teach us his technique of applying masking fluid and mixing and layering watercolors. I chose to to paint two pineapples, one sliced open for my final. Self Evaluation1. Explain the process you had to use to create the poured watercolor painting. The first step in each new layer was masking the lights that you wanted to keep. Then you had to put water on the painting, a lot if you wanted light colors, not as much for dark colors. Then it was important to drop the colors in the places you wanted to see them on the painting.
2. Describe any difficulties you had with this process. Some difficulties I encountered were making the layers dark enough in the beginning, and keeping colors in one location so they wouldn't mix too much. 3. What were 4 things you learned from this project? I learned a new technique for painting in watercolor, how to use masking fluid, how to mix watercolor paintings, and how to plan where you want lights and where to add more value. 4. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I would allow less mixing of colors and keep some areas red and some blue, and I would mask out less areas each layer to add more contrast and value. 5. How did you use layers, textures, and color to create a successful piece? Each layer of the piece added more value and texture, and the colors mixed in different layers to provide more value to the piece as well. 6. Do you feel that the mini watercolor lessons were beneficial to you learning more about watercolor? Explain. Yes, because each mini lesson taught a different technique, so by the end I felt I had a good grasp of how to use watercolors in many different ways. 7. Was having a guest artist a positive experience? Explain. Yes, having a guest artist gave a new light on a new technique of watercolor, and hearing different techniques from different people has helped me develop many different experiences and techniques with watercolor. 8. What did you learn from the guest artist that gave you more insight into being a professional artist? I learned that a lot about art is experimentation and finding your own grove in a medium or multiple mediums of art.
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After the initial still life, we were tasked with drawing another fruit/veggie, only this time using four different techniques. This helped us further our control watercolor paints and pencils.
Two of our first tasks for the water color unit was practicing different techniques that would aid us in the rest of our projects in watercolor, and practicing how to use value in 9-step value charts and establishing light sources and shading with four objects.
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Megan PetersonSenior at Apex High School. Archives
June 2018
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