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Watercolor Lessons with Lisa Fertig
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Learn to paint beautiful watercolor pictures with these step-by-step lessons. Lisa Fertig works in watercolor, acrylics, and oils and has produced a substantial body of work in a number of categories including landscapes, still lifes, and abstracts.
- Added on: Jul 5th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Lisa Fertig
- Listed in: Drawing
- Tags: art painting How-To watercolor lessons
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Northern Woods
Start with these reference images:Start at the top of the page with blue hues, adding water as you progress down the page. Indicate the horizon line with some burnt sienna and yellow ochre. Look at your value study and leave the light values by addin...
Willow Tree
Start with these reference images:Starting at the top of the page work your way down with the local hues. Indicate the water with the sky color. Keep your values light. Let dry.Indicate the background trees with a darker value. Start to sculpt out th...
Grand Marais
Start with these reference images:Start painting background to foreground on the composition. Using a blue hue indicate the top of the sky. Come down adding water to your brush and a slight amount of red or pink. Come down to the horizon line. Let dr...
Roses
Start with these reference images:For this painting we will be doing a wet into wet technique. Wet the entire paper with clean water. If you are working on a board you will have to staple, tape, or bulldog clip your piece of paper to the board.Start ...
Winter Stream
Start with these reference images:Begin painting the background sky area with a light value. Continue into the foliage area, watching your negative shapes (the sky) as well as your positive shapes (the trees). Make interesting shapes. Show where the ...
Joe Pie Weed
Start with these reference images:Starting at the top of the page using blue hues, continue down the page introducing greens in the foliage areas. Watching your value study to see where your lightest lights are, make the horizon line a light yellow. ...
