WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

Table of Contents

1. BACKGROUND
2. PAPER FOR WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
   1. Surfaces
   2. Paper Weight
   3. Watercolour Manufacturers
   4. Questions
3. DRAWING IMPLEMENTS
   1. Brushes
   2. Pencils and Drawing
   3. Questions
4. WATERCOLOUR PAINTS
   1. Colours Needed
   2. Mixing Colours
   3. Questions
5. COMPOSITION
   1. Questions
6. PERSPECTIVE
   1. Linier Perspective
   2. Arial Perspective
   3. Questions
7. PAINTING OUTDOORS
8. RESEARCH
9. BEGIN YOUR PAINTING
   1. Adding Colour to the Sky
   2. Adding Colour to the Ground
   3. Adding Colour to the Ship and Building
   4. Adding Colour to the Trees and Distant Surroundings
   5. Finish Painting

PAPER FOR WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

As I said, in Cornwall I painted on any material I could beg. During the war it was very difficult to buy specific papers. In the history of watercolour painting the early masters used papers that they found available for the purpose: for example. Turner used mainly Whatman papers, which were made in Kent, but he also tinted them up with watercolour washes before use, for picture making. His friend Thomas Girtin used many papers but one of his favourites was a cartridge paper. Cartridge paper was literally a paper used to wrap cartridges up in. It would have been a thick off-white paper, sometimes with a laid watermark on it.