Watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, colored pencils, ink... These are all media with which we create paintings and drawings. Each one of
them has certain technical requirements to make it work. Once we learn the skills of the technical part, we can use that to work the principles for creating.
The two--technical skills and principles--are distinctly different, but too often folks get confused about that. Nevertheless, any lesson I teach
using oil paints can be applied with watercolor or pastel or any other medium!
The late Nita Engle was skilled in the technical part of watercolor, Scott
Christensen is proficient with the technical handling of oil paint, and Albert Handell is most adept at the technical application of pastel. Yet all three use the same principles for composing and creating their paintings.
Let's flesh out that idea: One of our major composing principles is value gradation.
Here's an image that shows value gradations. I've indicate three of them with arrows.
Value gradation enables transitions of one value into another. How to make that gradation in any
medium will depend upon the behavior of the medium as well as your technical skill in controlling that behavior.
- This image contains the principle of gradation.
- Working with it as your reference, use that principle to apply your skills in three different media.
- Be aware while you work how the technical skill is used to employ the principle.
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