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Painting Snow in WatercolorMadeleine Jacobs
Because watercolor
is so fluid, I can easily manipulate my paper and color to get the water
and color to flow where I want creating 'drifts' which is what I did in
the lower part of the paper. The lightest part of the scale of the values
on my value chart, which is the white, would be my paper
My first washes of blue where pretty light washes....and I blended them carefully because I didn't want any hard lines when painting my snow drifts. Painting snow should look soft and have no obvious lines.
When this first snow wash is dry, prepare a second one because you will now begin to choose where you need to deepen your values. Snow drifts DO overlap each other causing shadows and fissures making them darker in places. You want to merely add more blue at this point, (whatever blue you choose to work with) and less water. You can tell that my snowdrifts are deep,
heavy and appear to be COLD! In lower left, I gave a deep contrast to the snow just above it. There are at least three repeat washes here of blue, each one a successively darker one the than the one before it. Let each one dry before apply the next one. Take care to not muddy the washes with other colors if you can. Occasionally I add a hint of rose to my drifts so that there is a slight purple case and I do this so that there is an additional tone to my drifts, but I try not to muddy them with browns, or yellows etc. I try to keep my snow drift colors as pure as possible.
Madeleine Jacobs. February 2/17 /2007 Comments on this post? Visit ...http://armchairpaintclasses.blogspot.com/
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this is where I will not put any water (therefore not allowing any
accidental overflow of pigment of any kind). In my blog comment,
