| Ever wonder "what the heck am I going to do with the
background?" Do you ever get so excited with painting the subject matter that you
"forget" to even think about the background? This
happened in my painting "$1000 Fine. I was so excited about painting the California
State Poppies (you get a $1,000 fine if you pick them) that I just wanted to put down the
color and vibrancy on my watercolor paper that Isaw.
Let's make it clear from the start, I think you should definitely plan
out your painting, but sometimes in an artist's
life that just doesn't happen. Especially when you are first beginning to paint. Or
sometimes, you just can't think of a background that will compliment the subject matter.
It's easy to get so overwhelmed with a subject and not "plan out" the
composition, design and background.
Well, in this lesson we will learn how to paint "Direct Flat Field
Washes", so you never have to worry about backgrounds again. In "$1000
Fine", I used transparent Blue-green colors, to give it a soft look and still push it
back, and compliment the Orange colors.
Materials...
How to...
Examples of "Direct Flat Field
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