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Painting Expressive Watercolours
Mike Chaplin, Diana Vowles
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Painting Expressive Watercolours
Mike Chaplin, Diana Vowles
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Mike Chaplin is one of the most popular art experts on the very successful Channel 4 series Watercolour Challenge. In this book he reveals how he works and puts forward his ideas and teaching methods, offering plenty of tips and practical advice for the amateur artist.
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Art TechniquesThe Natural Landscape
Traditionally, British watercolour painters have always had a strong affinity with the landscape and they have also been great travellers at home and abroad. Working en plein air makes us aware of the subtlety of nature and what we can learn from it about line, tone, colour, pattern and in particular a sense of the place.
Skies
The range of tones in a clear sky from the horizon to immediately overhead is remarkable. This is because when we look upwards our view through the earthâs atmosphere is shorter than when we are looking straight ahead towards the distant sky, so the blue wavelength is less distorted by impurities. Gradating to lighter tones of blue towards the horizon is essential to establish a sense of distance, and if you fail to observe this any work you put into achieving a recessive effect in the land below will be wasted.
The angle of the sun has a huge effect on skies, particularly if there is reflected light from large expanses of water which is bounced back up to the clouds. Try working at different times of day in varying weather conditions and alter your own position in relation to the light.
Breaking the rules
We are always told not to put the horizon halfway up the composition because it will divide it in two. Here I have shown two studies that break this rule and make a strong point. The sky has such an effect on the landscape, particularly in the case of reflections, that the two elements often both fall within the same paint range. In these two paintings the composition becomes complete because of the echoes of colour and tone between the land and the sky. The horizon is bridged and the painting is balanced.
Wherever you choose to place your horizon, do not think of the sky and the land as two separate entities. If you paint the sky as one operation and the land as another it will be obvious that the painting is split in two. You need to take a unified approach and this does not apply just to colours and tones but also to the type of marks, be they calm or vigorous, so that the temperament of the painting is coherent.
Remember that the sky is always changing and is a constant source of fresh subject matter, even if you have to paint through the window because of bad weather.
Weather effects
Watercolour is a particularly good medium for capturing fleeting moments of weather. Its very elusiveness as a way of working will sometimes catch exactly that transparency of space that weather brings.
You often cannot see weather, only the results of it. I do not recommend that you strap yourself to the mast to capture a storm at sea as Turner did, but, more realistically, that you write notes to use as an aide-mĂ©moire when you are back in the studio. It is quite difficult to resolve a vague intellectual idea about a particular weather effect into the practicalities of painting, but if you write it into a sentence you actually have to formalize that idea into something quite specific. âThe wind whipped the leaves from the treesâ or âthe sky turned dark with snow, speckled dark and white in a whirling textureâ gives you the factual information you need in the studio when the painting is underway. You can also conjure up the emotion involved: âwind whippedâ is alliterative, sharp and spiky and inspires brushwork with hard spiky edges and some sharp diagonals. I find there are such analogies between the structure of writing and painting that working in another medium for a few minutes can give me the clue as to how to express the idea in paint.
Subtle treatments
Mist, rain and snow act as a transparent or semitransparent veil of weather interposed between artist and subject. Mist is one of the most difficult weather effects to catch but it can be done by laying veils of horizontal transparent wash over the underlying painting to obscure the subject beyond slightly. These need to be laid very fast or they will disturb the painting underneath. This is a time when acrylic paints are useful. Used very wet they look exactly like watercolour but once they are dry they will not be disturbed by further washes, so you can lay a series of glazes of very pure, subtle colour.
On a gloomy day, do not be put off by the threat of rain â it can introduce highlights where previously none existed. Light reflecting from shiny surfaces can give a sparkle to paintings, and stones or slates that look monotone and flat when dry will become a pattern of light, medium and dark tones once they are wet. There is no need to show rain falling; dark clouds and reflections will tell the viewer the story, and you can also include figures with umbrellas or oilskins.
Snowy ground becomes a giant reflector and shines light upwards on to nearby objects and buildings. Normally the sky is lighter than the ground but now it will be a darker tone, especially if more snow is on the way.
Water
When it comes to degrees of difficulty in painting, for most people the elusiveness of water ranks pretty high. In fact, there is no elaborate trick to painting water; you just have to study what is happening to the water in a small area. The larger picture is just lots of those little areas put together and it is merely a question of endurance getting it all down!
Many people find disturbed water harder to paint than a flat surface, but understanding the nature of the reflections provides the clue as to how to tackle it. Each wave is like two mirrors, one coming towards you and reflecting what is behind you and the other surface lying away from you to reflect what is in front of you. So, for example, if you have a big tree ahead of you and the sky behind, h...