New Techniqu

I decided to try a new approach to the "drawing" part of my watercolors, something I learned about from Penny Soto, one of my favorite watercolor artists. In her book, "Painting Glowing Watercolors", she discusses the need for a full value range sketch on watercolor before painting. Basically, you do a complete drawing and then using a kneaded eraser, you erase the whole thing before you paint. This leaves you with a very detailed guide and you haven't ruined the paper by erasing with a rubber eraser.

Again, my theme is river rocks. The photo shows the sketch very dark, in real life...it's very very light....perfect to paint over.

I'll come back to this when I start the actual painting, and show the progress.

First, Im trying to finish a book by Jim Kosvanec, another one of my favorites watercolorists, "Transparent Watercolor Wheel" his color theory is awesome. His book is based on your colors as transparent as possible and knowing how colors interact to either muddy up a painting or give it that luminous stained glass clarity that we all strive for.

Do me a favor! Check out both of these artists, it'll be an inspiration!