Watercolor dictionary

Watercolor dictionary

 

Have you ever wondered what a watercolor is well…

Facts.

 

  • A water color is practically just a normal color with a different shade almost like blue and dark blue but water colors are a little bit more complicated than that


  • There are two main watercolor companies called Winsor and Newton


  • there are original colors like brown, blue and more


  • You need to add water to the paint to make it a watercolor, if you don’t the color will just dry out.

Definition /Dictionary

 

Dilute-adding water to paint in order of lightening the color of the paint 

 

Intensity-A color’s brightness or strength

 

Glazing-Adding a thin layers of one color over another color

 

Layering-Adding color that have been mixed over another color to change its value or intensity

 

 Value or Tone-The different  from light to dark of a color to find out shadows and highlights of an object

 

Tint- creating color by adding more water then usually to the original to created a weaker color

Movement- the effect that you get when you let water move around the page

 

Water into color- where you use water to mix the paint on a pallet onto the paper

 

Color into water- where you paint the page with water first then add color into it 

 

Dry brush-a dry brush with little paint and liquid over the paper for texture

 

Landscape-A large area with little scenery,like a desert landscape

 

Cool colors-colors that make you think of coldness

 

Warm colors- colors that make you think of warm places

 

Atmospheric perspective-Creating the illusion of distance by fading colors and taking away detail.  

 

Dilute  

Intensity

 

Glazing watercolor

 

Layering

 

Value or tone

 

 

 

Tint.

 

Movement.

 

Water into color

 

Color into water

 

Dry brush

 

Landscape.

 

Cool colors

 

       Warm color

 

Atmospheric perspective

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