Watercolor Bowl Painting Supplies

Series Summary

The art of watercolor painting has been practiced since the time of the ancient Egyptians, when frescoes were created by a process of applying water-based pigments to wet plaster. Watercolor painting also has a rich history in Chinese and Japanese art and has been used to add color to beautifully illuminated manuscripts in cultures throughout the world. What we think of as modern watercolor painting began to develop in the 1500s with Albrecht Durer's landscape studies. The popularity of this medium spread and spawned many disciplines of watercolor painting, including the 17th century British school and the California style of the 1920s. Simple still life paintings are the best ways to learn a new method of painting. In this free watercolor video series, an art teacher will demonstrate how to paint a monotone bowl. Learn what supplies you'll need to get started, how to trace the image onto your watercolor paper and how to practice blending techniques. This step by step guide will show you a watercolor painting from start to finish. Learn how to paint with watercolors in this simple project.

Video Transcript

"Ok right now I'm going to do a watercolor painting of a monotone of a bowl including the background. For that I'm going to use the paint called Payne?s gray. I will need a brush, a round brush like this one. It should be size 6 through 12. This is an 8 right here. And if you're using a palette like this one called a traveling storage palette you'll spray it first with a fine mist in order to get the colors wet so they'll come up easily in the brush, or preferably, you squeeze a little bit out so that you have fresh paint to work from which allows you to get to the darkest, densest tones when necessary."