Learn to paint watercolor portraits with Jane Paul Angelhart
Learn watercolor portrait painting from Jane
Paul Angelhart and her passionate approach to watercolor painting.
In The Watercolor Portrait you get to see
how Jane follows the colors in unexpected directions, and lets the colors bloom
under her attentive watch, while maintaining a fine balance. You'll see why she
calls watercolor painting a lucious experience, "like applying colored butter
to a canvas." Learn how to paint multiple luminous layers, without dissolving
previous layers and muddying the color. Take your watercolor painting to a new
level.
The Watercolor Portrait
Painting a portrait in watercolor is a lot like raising a child. It is a tight rope act, an incredibly fine balance between letting the vibrant transparent colors grow and bloom in unexpected directions… and being a careful and thoughtful guide, coaxing and coaching and watching…ever careful not to meddle too much with a brush and spoil the beauty. After fifteen years of painting watercolor portraits, I am still enthralled with the process. I begin each painting with excited expectation, a mother wondering if I am up to the challenge. I can't imagine a better job.
The visual treat of a watercolor is its transparency…. its clean, pure color. What better medium to use for a child's portrait? There is no white paint; so careful planning is essential to the process. The portrait is painted from light to dark (just the opposite of an oil approach). It takes calculated finesse to create multiple luminous layers, without dissolving previous layers and muddying the color. Carefully layered washes give a watercolor painting its characteristic sparkle and glow.
Watercolors were once thought of as a sketch or study medium for subsequent oil paintings. With lightfast professional pigments, ph balanced papers, and archival framing techniques, watercolors have the potential to outlast oil paintings and are fast becoming the medium of choice.
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