Technique
This is no news for you if you have painted watercolor before. But watercolor dry lighter. It is frustrated, when you think you got the right color and value on the palette, and when you first put that paint down on the paper. Later find out that it is too light when the paint dry. There’s no way to avoid it, that’s the nature of watercolor, or shall we say physics.
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Oceanside, San Diego
What is visual language. Let’s break the term apart first. Visual is what you see. Language is a form of communication, either speak or written. Simply put, visual language is to communicate with the viewer by what you show them. In this case, it is your painting. Since my day job is working on sci-fi video game. Visual language becomes very important, because even though we are creating futuristic looking environment, objects and characters. The players need to get what are they seeing in the game, and they need to get it in an instant!
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detail of the painting Summer Fun
To have light in the watercolor, you have to paint around it to preserve it. There's something what I liked to call the "breathing room". The paintings will feel dead when you try to fill everything in, because you didn't leave any breathing room.
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To differentiate one artist from another, master to apprentice, is their sense of shape. If you strip away everything else, technique, ability to mix color and put down washes, shape is the defining element that makes a master who they are.
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