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Karlyn’s Kits © 2014 Karlyn Holman • NO lesson materials may be reproduced without permission • NO images may be entered in shows • Finished painng may be sold and reproduced. Using Watercolor Pencils to Create a Graphic Look • KK099 Use your favorite colors to negavely paint around the flowers. Choose transparent colors like Winsor yellow, quinacridone gold and quinacridone burnt orange. Keep misng the surface to encourage the color to move parally into the petals. Stretch gauze into zigzag lines and apply to the background. I prefer to use manganese blue because it readily sinks through the gauze to form lines. If you use dye- based colors, they will float away. Place medical gauze in the center of each sunflower to create texture. Add harmonic colors from yellow to quinacridone gold to scarlet lake to quinacridone burnt orange to alizarin crimson and finally French ultramarine blue to produce those very dark lines. 2 To add color sanding, place a stencil on the damp paper. Next, shave watercolor pencils using 100-grit sandpaper, dropping the shavings into the stencil (page 17). When you remove the stencil, use a fine sprayer to add addional wetness over the color sanding. When this extra moisture dries, the colors will bond to your paper. Use colors that are already established in your painng. I used harmonic colors of orange and green to create a paern that enhances the painng. 3 To change the color within your added shape, apply the new color on the outside edge of the dark color. 5 Back the new color into the dark color to create a blended color. 6 Add more of the new color and again back it into a blended color. Lose the edge and salt the transion if desired. 7 Add clean water and lose the edge into the light of the paper and again, salt if desired. 8 Add interlocking shapes on dry paper, choosing a dark value color. I chose Antwerp blue and quinacridone burnt orange. Designing these shapes is challenging and fun. Simply select the sunflower that is at the top of your painng and decide if you want the flower inside the shape or breaking out of the shape. Connue down the composion, and every me you come to a flower, decide if it will be inside the shape or breaking out of the shape. I like to have a lost and found look, as illustrated in the boom of this painng. All the edges are lost between the boom shapes. 4 *The thirsty brush technique: take a flat brush, dip it in clean water and then remove almost all of the moisture from the brush using a towel. The brush is now damp and “thirsty.” This slightly damp brush will liſt the color off easily. Draw your image using a watercolor pencil. I used a Kimberly® black pencil. Wet the paper slowly with long, sweeping strokes and do not work the brush back and forth. The watercolor pencil will do its own thing and create beauful gray shapes. If it looks like you are losing too much white, do not worry about it. You can liſt some of the gray with a damp thirsty brush technique* or just trust that your painng will look great with those beauful graphic grays. 1 Pg. 1 of 2

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Page 1: Using Watercolor Pencils to Create a Graphic Look • KK099 1 4€¦ · Using Watercolor Pencils to Create a Graphic Look • KK099 Use your favorite colors to negatively paint around

Karlyn’s Kits © 2014 Karlyn Holman • NO lesson materials may be reproduced without permission • NO images may be entered in shows • Finished painting may be sold and reproduced.

Using Watercolor Pencils to Create a Graphic Look • KK099

Use your favorite colors to negatively paint around the flowers. Choose transparent colors like Winsor yellow, quinacridone gold and quinacridone burnt orange. Keep misting the surface to encourage the color to move partially into the petals. Stretch gauze into zigzag lines and apply to the background. I prefer to use manganese blue because it readily sinks through the gauze to form lines. If you use dye-based colors, they will float away. Place medical gauze in the center of each sunflower to create texture. Add harmonic colors from yellow to quinacridone gold to scarlet lake to quinacridone burnt orange to alizarin crimson and finally French ultramarine blue to produce those very dark lines.

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To add color sanding, place a stencil on the damp paper. Next, shave watercolor pencils using 100-grit sandpaper, dropping the shavings into the stencil (page 17). When you remove the stencil, use a fine sprayer to add additional wetness over the color sanding. When this extra moisture dries, the colors will bond to your paper. Use colors that are already established in your painting. I used harmonic colors of orange and green to create a pattern that enhances the painting.

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To change the color within your added shape, apply the new color on the outside edge of the dark color.

5 Back the new color into the dark color to create a blended color.6

Add more of the new color and again back it into a blended color. Lose the edge and salt the transition if desired.

7 Add clean water and lose the edge into the light of the paper and again, salt if desired.8

Add interlocking shapes on dry paper, choosing a dark value color. I chose Antwerp blue and quinacridone burnt orange. Designing these shapes is challenging and fun. Simply select the sunflower that is at the top of your painting and decide if you want the flower inside the shape or breaking out of the shape. Continue down the composition, and every time you come to a flower, decide if it will be inside the shape or breaking out of the shape. I like to have a lost and found look, as illustrated in the bottom of this painting. All the edges are lost between the bottom shapes.

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*The thirsty brush technique: take a flat brush, dip it in clean water and then remove almost all of the moisture from the brush using a towel. The brush is now damp and “thirsty.” This slightly damp brush will lift the color off easily.

Draw your image using a watercolor pencil. I used a Kimberly® black pencil. Wet the paper slowly with long, sweeping strokes and do not work the brush back and forth. The watercolor pencil will do its own thing and create beautiful gray shapes. If it looks like you are losing too much white, do not worry about it. You can lift some of the gray with a damp thirsty brush technique* or just trust that your painting will look great with those beautiful graphic grays.

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Karlyn’s Kits © 2014 Karlyn Holman • NO lesson materials may be reproduced without permission • NO images may be entered in shows • Finished painting may be sold and reproduced.

Draw some of the veins using double lines. On dry paper, add quinacridone gold, starting in the center of the leaf. Stop the color before you touch the edge of the leaf and lose the edge with clean water.

Start your reversals by adding darks against the light background. I used quinacridone gold on the petals.

Add additional black watercolor lines and spray these lines with your fine mister to keep the graphic look.

Using restraint to finish a painting can be the most difficult concept for an artist to grasp. Leave some lines unpainted. I used a minimum of color to finish the sunflower leaves and petals. Resist the temptation to paint everything you drew and allow the graphic quality of the painting to emerge.

The final color to add is the quinacridone orange, echoing the color of the center of the flowers.

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Add Antwerp blue over the quinacridone gold and stop the blue before the edge of the gold. When you lose the edge, you will have a lovely green leaf that has tones of white, gold and green, an effect that is impossible to achieve if you are using a mixed green.

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