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Wet in Wet: Watercolor Workshop.


Through exciting visuals, this series of videotapes shows experienced artists how to expand their watercolor techniques, and helps the beginner understand and master those skills upon which all watercolor painting watercolor painting, in its wider sense, refers to all pigments mixed with water rather than with oil and also to the paintings produced by this process; it includes fresco and tempera as well as aquarelle, the process now commonly meant by the generic term.  is based. In each section, viewers will be instructed on the application of many new techniques through detailed exercises, candid advice and step-by-step demonstrations.

Parts I and II ($69.95 each), Exploring the Medium, discuss the workplace and methods of handling the painting pigment pigment, substance that imparts color to other materials. In paint, the pigment is a powdered substance which, when mixed in the liquid vehicle, imparts color to a painted surface. , water and paper. They illustrate how to achieve wet-in-wet washes, flat washing and charging, before moving on to demonstrating ways of drawing with water by letting color flow and controlling the flow of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.

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. Wet washes on dry paper, including the use of flat wash, graduated wash and back wash, are next illustrated. The use of outwash outwash

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 closes these two tapes by demonstrating the watercolor painting of an imaginary landscape.

Tape III ($69.95), Secrets of Painting 3-D Objects, illustrates how to recognize and create light and shadow effects with the watercolor medium. This tape emphasizes how light reveals form, illustrates how light and shadow are perceived, and demonstrates painting a solid white form. It goes on to help viewers Help Viewer is a WebCore based HTML viewer aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/Help Viewer.app. The default file extension is ".help". Help index files are generated with Help Indexer.  sec the relationship of forms and how to present them in the painting of a three-dimensional composition.

This series is of value to anyone interested in watercolor. It provides useful information and illustrates ways to achieve special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques.  within a reasonable amount of time. This series is best suited for use at the secondary level of instruction.
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Publication:School Arts
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Date:Sep 1, 1993
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