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Watercolour, the fifth lesson: landscape, wet on wet and fog

During the summer courses offered by CIAM in Casacalenda, the majority of participants experienced the two main techniques of watercolor: Banat-on-wet and glazing . To paint this landscape in three colors using the two techniques. If you want, before you put water on paper, you can draw a picture to mark the hills and river. For the more advanced, do not do the drawing.

What you need for this lesson:
100-percent cotton paper and 300 grams per m.quadrato
-color: transparent yellow, red cadnium, and cobalt blue (you can also do with ultramarine)
- brushes: round and square (the latter is not essential)

First stage: the sky (wet on wet) Ben
wet the paper with water. This time I did not put the tape because I used the blochetto paper. You can work so directly, without the need to set the paper on the tablet. To help with this exercise, place the pad at an angle of 20-25 degrees to help the color to fall.

After very wet, place the transparent yellow on top of the paper, up to half, leaving a little 'white space on the right. Dilution of color: the media.

Wasting no time, add the red to yellow cadnium without covering it entirely.

Next, add a few patches cobalt blue.

If the paper is drying, take the steamer and add a little case of rain water.

Allow to dry before moving on to the second stage, ie the glazing to paint the earth.

Second phase: the earth (wet-dry)
When the paper is dried well (there must be moisture) and then take a cobalt blue glaze imitating a landscape of hills, like those of Molise and leave blank a lake and a river that runs diagonally across the paper in imitation of the river Biferno.

Fare una seconda velatura per dare più rilievo alle colline più vicino e sul resto della carta.

Fare una terza velatura sempre creando altre colline e finire la velatura fino alla base della carta. Notate il piccolo paese sulla collina alla base della carta. Fate qualche ritocco usando sempre la velatura.

Ecco il nostro acquerello completato. Divertitevi usando diversi colori (solamente tre colori). Per i soci del CIAM, mandateci i vostri esercizi per avere commenti alla mail:  ilciam21@gmail.com

Loreta Giannetti
watercolor artist
CIAM President