Quick Tip 307 - Painting White in Watercolors
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A subscriber asks for clarification about using a white paint in watercolors. Artist/art teacher Dianne Mize weighs in with some do and don'ts.
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Thanks Dianne, great to hear you teaching some watercolour tips...
My pleasure 😊
Diane, I have been teaching for years but I never fail to learn something from you. It has so much to do with the fact that you are one of the best teachers I have ever come across.
Your demonstrations are superb. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing .
Wow, thank you! It's a pleasure to do these.
Thank you Dianne. Very well described and explained.
You are so welcome!
Excellent as always...🙏🙏
Thanks a lot 😊
Thank you for such sound advice...💯😍
My pleasure 😊
Thank you. I'm working on a foggy mountain snow scene now and this will help. When I 1st started I tried painting white as... white & that was also the 1st time I realized that the white paint would never be as bright white as the white paper. 🥴 I was really confused. Also, about porcelain pallets that I can't afford, but HATE plastic. My roommate hit the dishes/chinaware departments at Goodwill and Salvation Army. For about $5-10 bucks I got a porcelain butcher's tray like you have there, a couple of rectangular porcelain serving trays in sizes from small dessert 3x5 to larger 6x8 and 8x10, a couple of porcelain saucers that would hold high water wash colors and a couple of porcelain plates in different sizes. Hot dang!
Porcelain butcher trays make wonderful palettes.
I love you, you give very helpful tips in simple and you reminds me for my grandmother :)
😊 thank you
Hi Diane! Thank you for this. I’ve learned a great deal from your color theory, notan, and value videos. I am delighted that you are illustrating some watercolor techniques. I have 2 watercolor questions for consideration:
1. If one wants NOT to use white paint to paint for patches of bright white or a building facade that is nearly white, how might one use “colors in whites” in a manner similar to using colors in shadows (In order to keep the painting lively and textured)?
2. How does one go about choosing (or building) a moderately limited palette for watercolor? I have watched your tips on oil palettes, but I find that watercolor paints mix differently than oils. I would love to have a working studio palette of between 16and 20-ish colors. How did you arrive at the range of choices on your ‘regular’ watercolor palette?
Thank you again for all you teach us.
To your first question, Lynn, it is the opaqueness of white as well as gouache that changes the character of the transparency of watercolor. The only other way to raise the value of watercolor is to use water as white.
To you second question, my watercolor palette is very similar in color to my oil palette-- Daniel Smith sap green, Holbein viridian hue, WInsor Newton Antwerp blue,Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine blue, Carbozole violet, Quinacridone violet, Carmine, Cadmium Scarlet, Cadmium yellow orange and Winsor Yellow.
I arrived at this palette by the lightfastness of the paint and how the colors progress around the traditional color wheel.
BTW, your hair is so beautiful and healthy and shines so nice on camera.
I blush. Thanks.
Great, very good information. Might even start to experiment with the thusfar untouched white in my set.
You should and good luck!
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you!
Great...tip or instruction
Thanks! 👍
Thank you 👍
You bet!
Great tip! also, fun to play hooky during the day to watch such excellent education. Fascinating how white "cools" acrylics but not every other medium. Wish I knew more about chemistry of paint and why that is so.
Anne, I think it's both chemistry and physics. If you want to did deeper into how paint works, get The Painter's Handbook by Mark David Gottsegen.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Will do. Thanks. I was thinking of going out West where there's a materials woman who digs out her own ochre, etc. and then makes paint out of it, but the pandemic occurred.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction the book is delightful. He is certainly very opinionated, which is enjoyable to read.
Thank you a lot!
And a question for maybe another Quick Tip: How to select the right frame for an oil painting?
That's a big one. A lot of folks frame according to their decor, but my attitude towards framing is that if you see the frame first, it's too much for the painting. I prefer a simple floating frame.
This was fascinating! Thank you!
Our pleasure!
That grey painting behind you... looks like maybe you used some of these techniques in it. I was so hoping you'd talk about that painting! Wow!
That painting is how I caught one of our winter skies after a rain. It is done in oils rather than watercolor.
Merci! :)
Merci et merci d'avoir regardé.
Would you do a video on ART critique methods...like Feldman method...or any other method to analyse our own painting...to improve?
See Quick Tip 292 where I use the Mize 😊 method.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you🙏🙏
Maybe you don't know how important your knowledge and experience to people like me is....you are my go to Bible in my ART interest. I'm hobbyist...but art became passion because of you and few other artists like Mark carder, Andrew tischler...
I painted cards recently in watercolour and found these these processes. Amazing how easily white gouache contaminates the mixing pallette and the rinse water.
I think the purists consider proper watercolour to be transparent. White, an opaque colour, makes it "different". Yet they are both water based with the same binders. It's an interesting argument.
I don't think it's a valid argument either, Connie. That attitude mostly comes out of the American Watercolor Society, but the masters of the past invalidate the argument.
Dear Dianne, do you have a quick tip about tonal relationship? should i look into the quick tip video where you explain the analogue, tetrad etc or is this something else? if you've already covered this can you help me find the video?
Enjoy this beautiful day!
Check out Quick Tips 295, 289, and 274. We use the word "tone" when referring to values.
I feel biggest challenge in watercolours is retaining white of paper
It's a matter of control.
Oh... quick question. What is that rectangular floor stand light you're using? Do you have a link to where to get it? 🙂 Thanks
That one is the Neewer RGB 480 LED light. They also have a newer model with 530 LED's It is available through Amazon.com.
neewer.com/products/neewer-led-light-10096594
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Aces Thank you. Apparently it does what my smart bulbs do in hues, but rectangular frame and with the barn doors and the fancy things like fireworks, and other scenes.
Thank you, Dianne, very helpful! And just an incidental, I was wondering if you generally stand to paint with watercolor?
Funny you should ask that, Joani. Actually, I both stand and sit when working with watercolor. I stand when doing washes, and sit when doing more detailed work.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction That makes a lot of sense! Thanks!
What white paint are you using? Acrylic? Titanium white? Chinese white? Thanks ..
also .. what are those 2 brushes you are using??
The white is titanium white gouache. The larger brush is a SAA Extra Large Oval Wash brush, and the round brush is an Escodo Versatil #10.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you! Those 2 brushes look luscious!
Kind of changes the colors to pastel as well.
Yes.
for me, titanium white is an effect color, not a mixing color... so white have a place in my palette... I mean how else I'm going to paint stars and snow? masking fluid? no thanks... that is just making things unnecessarily complicated.
Thanks for adding that, Calvin. However, I have found that using the point of an Exacto knife to pick out tiny bits of dried color is highly effective for indicating stars.
What was the big brush you were using?
That brush is an SAA Extra Large Oval Wash brush.
SAA is the Society for All Artists. (It took some hunting to get that abbreviation spelled out!! They expect everyone to automatically know., I guess)
It's more like gouache when the white is added
The white IS gouache is it not?
There is a watercolor white and gouache. I see no difference between the two. Gouache is, after all, opaque watercolor.