Watercolour
Elephant sketches, watercolour on Saunders Waterford 140lb NOT watercolour sketchbook
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ How to add movement and life to your sketches of animals
■ Practise wet-in-wet watercolour technique
Watercolour is perhaps the most immediate and exciting of all paint media. No other pigment compares in pure luminosity and clarity of colour. The joy in watercolour lies in the way it captures a mood and evokes an atmosphere through its wondrous loose translucent washes, colours blurring effortlessly together, and sharp, hard or deliciously soft edges. It can have a sublime delicacy of an almost ethereal quality yet pack a punch, too. In this way, watercolour is unique.
Why watercolour?
Some media lend themselves better than others to the description of movement, and watercolour is definitely the best for painting the fleeting quality of light on a landscape, patterns of light and shadow falling across the back of a moving animal, and the distorted chaos of disturbed water as a bird rises in flight.
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