Modelled Drawing in Water Color Exercise - example paintings.
Hi Steemians, sharing with you another exercise I have learned from the book 'The Natural Way to Draw'. It is based on the modeled drawing exercise I mentioned in previous posts however, this time it uses watercolor instead of pen, pencil or charcoal.
The exercise involves 3 watercolors - burnt sienna, yellow ochre and black. You must not use watercolor paper, tough manila paper is better for the exercise. Like the modeled drawing exercise you use dark colors to give the sensation the form is pressing back when you would normally press harder with your pen or pencil.
You build up the whole general form with the yellow ochre to start with. From center to the edges. The next step is to go over the vertical and horizontal contours with your mixed color of burnt sienna and black while thinking about where the form goes back or goes towards you.
The paint should be applied thickly and the color full. This exercise is not about watercolor technique or the right colors it is the same as the modeled drawing exercise but with a different medium. It is about getting used to representing the 3 dimensional form with paint in the most simple way possible to later build from.
If the paint moves too much you used too much water. The less water you use the more control you have over the application of paint.
This exercise is a good exercise to practice representing form in a different medium. It may not look great as a painting but teaches and trains you to capture the form of the object you are seeing accurately and is worth attempting it.