Penny Soto's - Steps to Watercolor

This will be a lesson on under painting, color temperatures and Blue shades. Thanks to our editor, Gloria, we have a beautiful photograph to paint from. However, I want you to concentrate on changing colors, shapes and intensity as much as you want!

We will start with of course the drawing. The size I am painting is 16 x 22. It is ¾ of a full sheet. You can paint this any size you prefer.  You can “project” your photo with an opaque projector if you like. I think that’s fine as long as you sit down and “redraw”it and place in the values. You can project right onto the watercolor paper.

Another way of getting this onto the watercolor paper is by printing the drawing and going to a copy store, such a Kinko’s, and have the drawing “blown up” to the size you would like to paint it. Click on the black and white drawing to go to the page where the larger image is. You can print it off from there or order it from that page.

Make sure you have the Black and White drawing blown up instead of the photograph. You can print it out from the lesson.  At the end  of this lesson, you will find information on how to order both the photo and the line drawing.

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