I've been thinking about taking up painting, and was looking at starting with watercolors. Any advice for a beginner?
Well I think that before you actually start painting, you should understand the history to better educate yourself. The watercolor paint has pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
Aw man, I was never good at art history. What if I just watched some Bob Ross videos? I bet I could make something pretty great!
Haha that would be a great start. Bob Ross is a legend. I bet he would tell you that "watercolor" refers to the medium (you) and the final artwork you create.
Legend is certainly approaching what he was. He would probably tell me that watercolor means whatever I want it to mean, lol.
However, this term has been more and more passing out of use.
The traditional and most common "support"—material to which the paint is applied—for watercolor paintings is paper. Other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum, leather, fabric, wood and canvas. Watercolor paper is often made entirely or partially with cotton. This gives the surface the appropriate texture and minimizes distortion when wet. Watercolors are usually translucent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a pure form with few fillers
Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont; Rockland Gallery, Maine; and the Ford Foundation and International Business Machine Collections.
On December 20, 1974 Sevens died at his home in the colonial Mexican Silver town of Alamos. Mexico.
Philosophy.
Stevens wrote in his published “Notes for a Painting Class.” In 1956 “Most of watercolor painting is done best before you start to paint, that may be true of any form of art, but I think it applies most to watercolor. It is what you do