Watercolor Artist – October 2019

Laurie’s

demo

Dori Beth

18 Watercolor artist | OCTOBER 2019

Step 4

I paint the dark values first.

Step 3

After I apply layers of atomized background,

I remove the masking fluid.

TOOLKIT

SURFACE

• Fabriano Artistico
  140-lb. cold-
  pressed paper
  PAINTS


• Daniel Smith:
  quinacridone gold,
  quinacridone rose


• Winsor & Newton:
  lamp black, cobalt,
  Antwerp blue
  MISCELLANEOUS


• masking tape,
  masking fluid,
  Pebeo drawing
  gum, Holbein
  mouth atomizer Step 2
  Before I atomize the background, I mask off the
  subject and seal the edges of the masking tape
  using masking fluid. One of the benefits of atomized
  backgrounds is that I don’t have to use masking
  fluid to keep background color off the subject.

Step 1

I make a detailed drawing based on

value shapes, joining like values together

in one shape regardless of color.