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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Use A Sponge
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Friday, April 17, 2015. One way to insure that the paper will accept the pigment is to pre-wet the page using a natural sponge. First, this removes the sizing on the paper, making the application of the paint more uniform. Second, it slows the drying time down. Finally, it creates soft edges that can later be contrasted with hard edges. Posted by Carol Jessen. Friday, April 17, 2015.
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: The Star on Each Plane
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Thursday, March 5, 2015. The Star on Each Plane. Sometimes it's a good idea to de-emphasize the foreground or background by painting wet-into-wet to keep the edges soft. But in some landscapes, I like to look past something interesting in the foreground to something interesting in the mid-ground and the far distance. In this way I supply a pathway through the scene. Wet-Into-Wet, G...
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Workshops
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Thursday, May 14, 2015. All Saints By The Sea Chapel". By Carol Jessen, Maine Artist. Last week I gave a workshop in St. Charles, Missouri. My students were great! We had a fun time, and I hope they learned a lot, too. So many students are not squeezing out enough paint on their palettes. You can't mix a dark with a tiny bit of paint. Posted by Carol Jessen. Thursday, May 14, 2015.
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Room With a View
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Monday, February 23, 2015. Room With a View. Now that I have to start thinking about packing up to go back to St. Louis, it's finally gotten warm enough to paint outdoors in a T-shirt. It is 76 degrees here on the panhandle this afternoon! I'd stay longer but I have an important doctor's appointment. Posted by Carol Jessen. Monday, February 23, 2015. View my complete profile.
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Step-By-Step
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Friday, January 30, 2015. Concentrating on values rather than color can make the painter's job much easier. The wet-into-wet sky and foreground first wash employed yellow ochre with a touch of burnt sienna very lightly applied. Work quickly so the colors will blend. If you don't work fast, the page will start to dry. Posted by Carol Jessen. Friday, January 30, 2015. I've been drawi...
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Go Figure
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Sometimes a landscape composition will benefit from the inclusion of a figure. The fisherman in this painting anchors the scene, even though the painting is about the waterfall. I am convinced that most men who fish secretly do it because it gives them a manly reason to be out in nature. The quiet (well, waterfalls aren't exactly quiet! Posted by Carol Jessen.
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Save the Whites and Paint the Negative Space
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Friday, April 10, 2015. Save the Whites and Paint the Negative Space. Keeping the negative shapes relatively neutral in color was also helpful to keep them subordinated to the sails. As a result, any orange and black accents stand out. Don't forget about my May workshop in St. Charles, Missouri, and my annual Maine workshop in July! Posted by Carol Jessen. Friday, April 10, 2015.
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Soft Edges - Hard Edges
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Soft Edges - Hard Edges. Tying Up" by Maine Artist, Carol Jessen. In this painting of a lobsterman tying up his dinghy, the sky area provides a foil for the hard edged shapes of boats. Creating soft edges requires speed. This takes quite a bit of practice to understand the ratio of water to paint. It's like practicing the scales. Skip at your own peril! I've b...
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World: Sequence
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Carol Jessen's Watercolor World. Impressionistic watercolors with tips on composition, techniques, values and color choices. Friday, March 27, 2015. Most watercolorists will tell you that you begin with the lights, proceed to the midtones and then punch it up with the darks. Goodness knows that's the way I was taught and how I've painted through the years. Also, certain color combinations would create muddy darks. It always resulted in an ugly mess. Here's an example of this approach. Wet-Into-Wet, Grada...
