Tecnicas Basicas De Acuarela

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Автор: Greg Albert, Rachel Wolf

Название: Tecnicas Basicas De Acuarela

Издательство: Idea Books

Год: 2004

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 117

Язык: Spanish

Размер: 54.5 MB

Basic Watercolor Techniques.

“Watercolours” is a term that refers to all techniques that dilute paint with water. Acrylic, gouache and tempera are the other, opaque, types of watercolours. Aquarelle has as its most important characteristic that it is transparent. It is made of vegetable, animal and mineral pigments that are grinded with water and thickened with Arabic gum. For paint in tubes, glycerine is added for fluidity.

Traditionally, when creating an aquarelle, no white paint is used: paper is white and where the image is white, you leave out the paint. The white of the paper is the only white used in an aquarelle. Aquarelle paint is transparent, lighter shades are achieved by thinning the paint with more water. Aquarelles often have a fresh and spontaneous look: the transparency does not allow for endless “repairs” by applying many layers…