Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques: Watercolor Landscapes Video Download

Description

You will love this watercolor painting video if:

• You are looking for easy techniques for painting landscapes
• You want to explore negative painting techniques
• You want to loosen up your painting style

Discover Linda Kemp’s simple and exciting techniques to use negative painting in landscapes. Linda will demonstrate how to paint layers of negative shapes to suggest a variety of trees, blowing grasses, distant fields, and wild flowers. Learn to simplify color and shapes for painting loose and direct. Explore watercolor techniques for working with transparent and opaque paints, how to paint wet-into-wet, dry brushing, glazing, and how to use a stiff badger brush.  Follow along as she demonstrates in two different landscape paintings.

In Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques: Watercolor Landscapes you will find:

• Texture techniques for using fine lines, spritzing with water, painting with the handle of the brush, creating smooth passages, and more
• Fun painting techniques show you how to use a bristle brush (or Linda Kemp’s Badger Brush) with watercolor
• 83 minutes of detailed expert instruction

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To get the most of Linda Kemp’s instruction, check out these videos + companion PDFs in the series.
Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques: Watercolor Landscapes Companion Guide
Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques Watercolor Flowers
Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques Watercolor Flowers Companion Guide
Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques: Light in Acrylic
Linda Kemp’s Negative Painting Techniques: Light in Acrylic Companion Guide

About Linda Kemp
A full-time artist and ambassador for negative painting, Linda Kemp teaches workshops throughout Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Her award-winning paintings are in several collections around the world, and have been featured in publications such as The Artist’s Magazine and Watercolor Artist. Linda is the author of Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines and Simplifying Color & Design for Artists. For more about Linda, visit LindaKemp.com.

OUTLINE:

1. Introduction
2. Landscape Symbol Making
3. Layering Landscape Symbols
4. Choosing Your Subject
5. Demo 1: Underpainting & Brush Techniques
6. Demo 1: Adjust & Create Shapes
7. Demo 2: Paint Loose & Direct
8. Painting Review

MATERIALS:
Watercolors (Linda uses Holbein)
Exercise Paintss:
Cobalt Blue
Raw Sienna
Olive Green
Phthalo Blue (red shade)

Demo 1 Paints:
Quinacridone Red
Cobalt Blue
Leaf Green
Quinacridone Gold
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Violet
Raw Sienna

Demo 2 Paints:
Olive Green
Permanent Violet
Ultramarine Deep
Shadow Green
Ivory Black
Royal Blue
Quinacridone Magenta
Quinacridone Gold
Leaf Green
Gray of Grays
Vertiger Blue
Jean Brilliant number 1 and 2
Lilac
Lavender

Brushes
soft, synthetic brushes (Linda uses flats, but rounds are fine if you are more comfortable with those–the larger the better)
1-inch flat
small round
rigger
fan
badger brush (from Holbein–similar to a soft, long-haired bristle brush for oil painting)

Surface
Strathmore Aquarius watercolor paper (or quality paper of your choice) for exercises
Strathmore Gemini 140-lb. cold pressed watercolor paper (or quality paper of your choice) for demo

Other
Water Container
Paper towels
Spray bottle that spits (versus one with a fine mist)
Non-porous painting board
Wooden board for drying
Tracing paper or mylar
Sharpie or other permanent marker
Watersoluble marker or pencil
Watercolor palette with large mixing area