Watercolor Workshop Demo at Chennai, 26th-27th April, 2014

My demo on Techniques of Watercolor at the recent 2 days Watercolor Workshop in Chennai on 26th - 27th April, 2014. 

We practiced from simple washes to building tonal values with transparent watercolor layers, differences of using various pigments, usages of warm and cool colors within a composition, some brushstrokes and fun tricks too. 

Thank you everyone for your participation and I am pleased to see your passion for this beautiful medium! Looking forward to meet you all again!!!

Medium: watercolor on 300 gsm Fabriano paper [cold pressed]
Size: 10 1/4" H x 14" W

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Quick and Small sketches

Quick and Small sketches in watercolor on handmade paper.

Just to let you know, I'll be teaching in a workshop on watercolor techniques on 26th-27th April, 2014 in Chennai. Come and join me to learn these techniques of painting in watercolor and lift your artworks to a higher level with confidence. Only few seats available!

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Keeping the color palette clean with frsh colors

well, according to the master watercolor artist Charles Reid, one way of judging how fresh the colors are in your just finished painting by looking at the color palettes you have used to mix colors for the painting. if the colors are still fresh in the wells and mixing areas, chances are they will be fresh in your painting as well. these are my palettes after a finished painting today. the wells were not cleaned up in the middle of the painting process and used from start to finish. apart from only few, most of the colors used were allowed to mix directly on the paper.

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From doodles to final painting - stage by stage approach.

sometimes my original paintings are based on ideas generated from random and quick doodles done in fun way. here's an example how the idea was conceived for the watercolor painting 'Deep in the woods'.

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Another WIp post.

Few stages with added notes of a recent sketch i did live from our kitchen window of the street in front couple of days back.

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the major wip stages of the cylinder watercolor sketch i did couple of weeks back. hope this helps!

a feedback is very much welcome, i would love to hear about it. thank you all :)!


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had a very nice workshop on the subject 'fantasy landscape' or 'landscape from imagination', organized by penciljam studio, Bangalore in November '12, primarily focusing on composition and water color as main medium, though not necessarily limited to. there were 9 participants and it was 2 days of nice experience for all of us!!

here are couple of pictures!

thanks to all...