Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor by Nice Claudia

Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor by Nice Claudia

Author:Nice, Claudia [Nice, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2011-05-29T21:00:00+00:00


SKIDSHACK, 10″ × 8″ (25cm × 20cm)

Pen, ink and watercolor.

CHEROKEE CABIN, 10″ × 8″ (25cm × 20cm)

Watercolor enhanced with pen and colored ink.

RELICS, 16″ × 20″ (41cm × 51cm)

Watercolor enhanced with pen and colored ink.

FADED PAINT, 10″ × 8″ (25cm × 20cm)

Watercolor textured with drybrush work and pen and ink.

CHAPTER FOUR

FADED AND PEELING PAINT

The weather has done its work. The old red barn has faded to a burgundy pink, disappearing altogether here and there to reveal the original wood, clad in dignified gray. The white farmhouse up the road has also mellowed with age. There's a warm patina glazing its white walls. Stains from rain-spattered soil, wind-driven dust, and creeping rust and algae have all left their marks. Along the eaves, curls of white paint have peeled back like wayward locks of hair escaping the confines of a hat. The sight is enough to make the caretaker groan, filling the mind with thoughts of restoration—scraping, priming and repainting. But to the mind of the artist, the color and texture of faded, peeling paint can be a delight. So much so that a whole faux finish industry exists, providing products to make new paint look old, checked and dull. In home furnishing, old is in, and in artistic renderings, the patina of time is definitely more interesting.

This chapter will show you how to depict the look of old paint, how to fade the colors to mellow hues and how to recreate the checks, peels and cracks that add history to the house. For distant buildings, some layered drybrushing will do the trick. For closer studies, only the imagination will limit the ways in which pen, ink and watercolor textural effects can be combined to suggest faded and peeling paint.



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