This week we continued our exploration of the book Just Add Watercolour: Inspiration & Painting Techniques from Contemporary Artists, by Helen Birch
We took inspiration from the work of Becca Stadtlander, to explore using both watercolour and gouache (or body-colour) together. We created washes using wet-in-wet, and when they had dried, we added gouache layers and detail over the top. We mixed and created our own greens with various blues, yellows, and ochres, and used reds to de-saturate and also to darken our greens. We took a detour to look at how to create dark purples by surprisingly adding lemon yellow, and we then looked at creating rich and interesting blacks by using the same method, as well as mixing the other complementaries, reds & greens, and blues & oranges (in this case, a burnt sienna).
Many of these images are not finished, so we may have some updates next week! Thank you all for a great art session!
