Penny Soto - "Lace - The Fun & Easy Way" for Watercolor and Acrylic Painters

Penny Soto's Steps to Watercolor
Lace - The Easy and Fun Way! Lesson #1, Page 1
	Well, I have just returned from doing a workshop in Buffalo, New York! The Buffalonians are such creative and wonderful people. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I have never met such giving people. Our class was full 26 students and all together about 40 or so for auditing. We learned a lot about comparative drawing, color and color temperatures, complementary colors and how to gradate them, shape, form in painting, composition, flat field washes, under painting and over painting, planes on the painting, pushing and pulling a painting, values, drawing your map, and so much more. It was a full workshop and my apologies for wearing them out! Plus the awesome experience of getting to see Niagara Falls! Just Breath taking!!. Because I was with my Sister in Art, Denise, and she is so very special, we saw a “double rain bow” one on the American side and one of the Canadian side! Below is one of the 112 photos I took of the Falls! Such a thrilling experience to see, it just makes you stand there and cry!
So, let’s begin our lesson! I thought since the last lessons have been quite difficult we will do something fun! I demonstrated airbrush in New York and a lot of people were very, very interested in it. So if you don’t have an air brush, this is the easy way to do this painting with just a spray bottle and watercolor!
Supplies you will need: Half Sheet of Arches 300 pound cold press watercolor paper and scrap paper. Rubber glove that fits tight. FINE mist spray bottle. Try it out first on a piece of scrap paper. You don't want a spray bottle that leaks or drops "dots" of paint. Watercolor pigment in a tube (wet) you can squeeze into the spray bottle. A piece of lace material of your choice. You can purchase this at a fabric store or look around for an old piece of lace- a pattern that you like. Drafting tape Miskit ( liquid fluid for masking out parts of the paper so you can keep your paper white in watercolor painting). You can purchase this at any art store. Windsor Newton Miskit is what I use. A ruler if you like for your widow sill Now that you have all your supplies in front of you, take your paper and draw the windowsill first. You can make it any shape you like. Just as long as there is not a line in the middle of the painting.
Don't do this	Your composition should look more like this.
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Penny Soto's Steps to Watercolor

Lace - The Easy and Fun Way!