The transparent beauty of watercolor painting

Humans on a transparent substance, there is always a strong interest and a lot of beautiful imagination and desire. For example, transparent water, such as transparent glass. So far in the various types of glass mosaic in the Church in the West is the use of light generated through the beauty of transparent, resulting in bizarre and mysterious Visual effects, an important part of church art. Live Earth three-fourths is the sea, and sea water transparency, quiet, deep, deep blue world will never provide us with constant thoughts on things remote and pursuit. In the field of painting, watercolor painting is to shine bright achievements "meaningful", fill up the vision of a psychological need to meet everybody's pursuit of the beautiful transparent sense of taste, won audiences of all ages, this characteristic is other art that does not exist. From the comparison, adhesion of materials oily paintings using a deep, rich, very stiff brush, Lee scrapers, sophisticated canvas, toning oil as the intermediary media, picture a thick, heavy, rich material with delay. Despite oil painting also has transparent descriptive, but oily of pigments impossible has watercolor as pure clear clear; China painting to ink rhyme ignorant for highest standard, color tends to elegant, pigments to mineral and plant material for raw materials, although also pursuit transparency, but traditional pigments of manufacturing technology about ancient elegant, coupled with in health paper Shang painting, and because paper of absorbent, color of transparent sense weakened, even in cooked paper Shang for heavy color, due to layer Layer product dye, is difficult to reached transparent of requirements; color chalk is with gypsum powder plus pigments of dry strokes, There will be no sense of transparency, color prints, including wood block print, due to the registration of layer upon layer overprint, sense of transparency is also far less than watercolor. In contrast, art supplies watercolor paints a greatest feature is its transparency, as well as important indicators of the quality of its pigment, transparent, and tend to cost a lot. Water saturation and gradation of color is diluted with water, and use of paper texture and reflection, screen most of the light is the paper itself. As the watercolor "transparent", the paper presents a paper on the surface texture of beauty of nature. This transparency makes sense of natural landscapes by artists to create, achieve the ideal of more pure, gives a comfortable mental feelings and actions. Keep drawing white light at the end of the height of reflection needs skilled technique of watercolor painting, watercolor effect in itself such as TAM vocational water in winter, precipitation completely. Drawing the upper layer overlay, can either be subtle levels, and can maintain a sense of air. Zen is the highest State of "clear view road", transparent watercolor, wash qianhua, escape the hustle of Li Visual effects, can be described as "out of clear water Lotus, natural beauty" (Tang•libai), pure and clear beauty.
In addition, the technical content of watercolor painting, transparency is the essential and primary, to screen color transparent artist you want the effect of many years of training. Works both representational and abstract imagery or save form; bold and delicate in style or sense of weight to the problems of transparency, it is not easy to do. Watercolor put pen to paper-free, in one step, every single are tangible, color, water, requirements. Less overlap, even without overlay, to ensure the sense of transparency and the smooth feeling of the color, which will undoubtedly bring specific actions on the various techniques when painting difficult, really need courage and accurate modeling capabilities of watercolor painting, and this is the moving of watercolors, was the so-called "infinitely expansive opportunities exist in". Setting up exercises to radio music everyone can do, to rise to art level; Ballet must be professionally trained, tiptoe dancing souls photo taken of inferior spirit charms sporadic.
Conversely, if in transparent watercolor pigments added has a coverage of silty material, can modify, thick paint, gouache in China. And not the art species in the world, at best subsidiary of watercolor portrait painting, called the opaque watercolor painting. In China have a lot of authors, it is important because every year of fine arts subject examinations of candidates of color selection of the materials, but precisely because of its opaque paint effects in an embarrassing situation, on the artistic value and aesthetic taste of far less transparent watercolors. The basic fact is this appears to have done a horse team, who will eventually make good little