Watercolor Paintings
The art of painting is one of the subtle skills that have imparted a sense of aesthetics and beauty to artistic creations. Watercolor paintings started when paper was first invented in China and the technology of papermaking spread all over the world. The first forms of watercolor painting was created on walls, using water based colors, or pigments on wet plaster. They are also known as Buon Fresco Painting, one of the most famous examples being the Sistine Chapel.
Eventually, the Renaissance painter Raphael Santi started using watercolors while painting cartoons used as tapestry designs. Since then watercolor painting has spread widely and been chosen by many famous artists, as their medium of painting. Watercolor painting has its own special features and use that makes the painting look beautiful on bases particularly suited for watercolor painting. Handmade paper can be an ideal base to work with watercolor that helps in accentuating, and thus enhancing the typical features of watercolor painting often standing out from most of the other mediums. The paints used in watercolor are made of dye or pigment that is ground finely and added with glycerin, or viscosity to help the colorant stick to the surface of the painting.
According to the traditional methods watercolors are applied with brushes, however, now, many other techniques are used for applying it. Watercolor painting techniques are not very easy to master, and if the required skills are acquired properly they can be lovely presentations of portraits, photo-realism, and figurative art. The type of painting demands a perfect blend of the colors, keeping in tact their quality and clarity at the same time, considered to be the most difficult area to gain expertise. Watercolors paintings are considered to be ideal studio component because of the odorless quality of the medium, ease in cleaning and quick drying nature.
Several online watercolor tutorials can be found to know and learn about the intricacies of watercolor painting. These online guides provide guidance from the basic steps of how to hold a brush while using watercolors, and move on to the different techniques used for applying the medium on different textures and surfaces.