How to Simplify a Scene in Watercolour

Many artists simply paint direct from a photograph and try to paint every single detail exactly as they see it in the photograph. Why paint it then? To be a painting it should be “painterly”, in other words, it should look like a painting, and not like a photograph. Painted to look like a photograph just shows the technical skills of the artist without the character of a painting. The answer to “Painterly” is to simplify. so let’s get started!

In this lesson you will learn:

1.    How to simplify a painting
2.    How to find positive and negative spaces
3.    How to resolve colour perspective
4.    How to use a program like Fotosketcher
5.    Examples: Highly detailed objects right through to almost abstract
6.    Importance of lost and found edges
7.    And heaps more…