Watercolor Techniques for Painting Liquid & Glass: Still-Life by Steve Curl (Watercolor)
Looking to improve your watercolor skills and take your painting to the next level? In this Steve Curl's tutorial, you will learn how to create depth and dimension in your paintings by playing with shadow shapes and overlaps, and how to identify and capture the different values and reflections in your objects..
Steve, a talented watercolor artist and teacher from Palo Alto, California, will guide you through the process of painting a still life featuring some of the hardest things to paint: a glass of red wine and a lemon.
But before you jump right in, Steve will show you the importance of taking a little time to plan and design your composition. By starting with some quick pencil sketches or "thumbnails," you can develop a roadmap for your painting and avoid the need for lots of corrective work later on. Steve will demonstrate his own process of designing a window to frame his objects and create an interesting configuration.
Once you have your composition planned out, Steve will guide you through the process of bringing your painting to life with watercolors.
By the end of this video, you'll have a beautiful still-life painting that you can be proud of, and you'll have learned valuable techniques that you can apply to your future watercolor projects.
In this lesson you will learn:
- How to create a still-life painting with watercolors
- How to plan your composition before starting a painting
- How to use thumbnails to develop a roadmap for your painting
- How to frame up objects in your composition for an interesting configuration
- How to draw ellipses for the shape of a wine glass
- How to create overlap to give your painting depth
- How to use values to show the way the light hits objects in your painting
- How to create shadows and reflected light in your painting
- How to draw a lemon and a glass of red wine in a still-life painting
- How to create a three-dimensional quality in your painting using shadow shapes.
In this watercolor tutorial, Steve Curl teaches how to improve your painting skills by creating depth and capturing reflections. With a focus on still-life featuring challenging objects, Steve guides you through the process of designing and painting, providing valuable techniques to apply in future projects.