Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

Wet in wet
Diluting
and mixing
watercolour
paints
Minimal
palettes
The surface or paper is used when it is
already wet. According to Blake (1997, 91)
“wet-in-wet ... is sometimes called the wet
paper method.” It is not so easy to use.
What makes the wet method so difficult
is that a brush-load of colour is supposed
to be applied to a sopping wet surface.
Sometimes watercolour generally runs off
in some unpredictable direction.
This is a watercolour method of painting
where the artist applies a thick, heavy,
opaque paint on a surface as it comes
from the tube. And at the stage of creating
pale colours, the paints are heavily diluted
with water. The good point about this
type of painting is the range of colour
effects it produces from the separate paint
consistencies.
This is a method of watercolour painting.
Where by, the artist uses a small range
of colours during painting. For instance,
a watercolour painting can be created
by using the basic three primary colours
along with white and black. On the other
hand, painting with minimal pallets
is often enhanced by under drawing
markings of a pen or ink.
c) Encaustic painting is executed by mixing (paint)
pigments with hot “beeswax not oil” Elkins (1999,
132). Encaustic is suitable for painting on wooden
surfaces and hard paper. Painters who use encaustic
to produce painting artworks; do that, by sculpting or
modelling a mixture of paints with heated beeswax
to hold together onto a surface. For the creative artist
to achieve the desired learning outcomes, special
tools as well as skills may be required to execute this
experimental aspiration. For example, a palette knife,
bee waxes as well as ground pigments. Thus, mix
powder paints or acrylic paint with hot bee wax and
where necessary add linseed oil so that the paint paste
changes into a semi translucent—fresh pigment. Then,
start to paint.
d) Mosaic painting deal with a number of hard colourful
materials, for example glass, wood, tiles, metal, stone
and plastic. These can be arranged together to form
various variegated patterns.
The process and techniques of artwork execution
generally depends on the type of material the artist has
chosen. Mosaic paintings are good for decorating walls,
roofs and floors for houses.
e) Fresco painting is a technique of applying
water-based colour pigment to wet (lime) plaster/
mortar on a wall surface or a ceiling. When the colour
pigments are combined with plaster, they diffuse into
the wet paint plaster—not to peel when exposed to
humidity and wetness. That is to say, the colours in
fresco penetrate the plaster and they become fixed
as it dries. Working with fresco requires the painter to
work quickly and to be attentive to potential problems
since mistakes are not easy to be undone. Michelangelo,
Giotto, Masaccio used this method of painting in most
of their work.
f) Fresco secco is a technique of painting used on dry
plaster. Firstly, the (paint) pigments are mixed in water
before applying them on a dry wall. The fresco secco
approach puts on display brilliant colours than fresco.
In this method the process of working involves using
“the plastered surface of a wall soaked with slaked lime
... Secco colours dry lighter than their tone at the time
of application, producing the pale, mat, chalky quality
of a distempered wall ... ” (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
g) Pastel painting works as a pure form of pigment; it
can be applied onto a surface directly. Using pastels
requires no medium or vehicle such as oil or water
except if the painting artist has chosen to paint by
using a mixed media technique—combining several
media and various materials within a single painting
artwork. Ultimately, pastel painting is capable of
generating greater intensities of hues than most
painting mediums.
h) Egg tempera painting is a method of creating
artworks with a water base paint mixed with an egg
yolk (as a binder) and water. It is easy to prepare and
it is usually fit for use on an already primed surfaces
(to prevent paint absorption). A painting done with
egg tempera has got to be protected from harmful
and damaging insects once it looses its wetness.
Mill for a meal.
A pastel painting
with trimmed
corners.
Materials: Pastel
on bark cloth.
Size: 20cm × 14cm
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