Watercolor Painting a Bowl: Supplies

Series Summary

The art of watercolor painting has been practiced since the time of Egyptian antiquity in the form of fresco wall painting, a process in which water-based pigments were applied to wet plaster. Watercolor painting also has a rich history in Chinese and Japanese painting, and has been used to add color to manuscripts in cultures throughout the world. What we think of as modern watercolor painting began to develop in the 1500s with Durer's landscape studies. The popularity of this medium spread and spawned many disciplines of watercolor painting, including the 17th century British school, and California style of the 1920s. In this free painting video series a professional artist, Cody Davis, will demonstrate how to paint a bowl using watercolors. Davis will begin by introducing the supplies that he'll be using to paint this artistic creation. He'll then reveal some useful techniques for tracing, gradating colors, shading and painting the various sections of the design. Davis will then demonstrate how to use and mix colors in order to fill in the background and different parts of the bowl. Watch these videos and learn to paint a bowl using watercolors today.

Video Transcript

"For this next painting, I'm going to do a simple bowl and it's shadow and background in color. And the supplies we're going to need are, we'll of course we're going to need a pencil and possible an eraser. We'll need carbon transfer paper, especially made to be erasable. You can get this at just about any hobby store. You'll need paint wise, only three paints. Cobalt blue, permanent rose, and some form of lemon yellow. Brushes, we want to use a round brush, this is a number eight, but you can use a number six through a number twelve will do the job too. This is actually a number ten. And if you have a one inch brush that will certainly help with the background."