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“The right use of color can make any composition work.” F. Porter
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Van Gogh
My new workshop is focused on flower painting, negative painting, background, lifting out technique, and painting without a preliminary sketch.
The process of creating, adjusting, and manipulating watercolor edges during the painting process is crucial to draw attention to the focal point so a painting without a good balance between hard and soft edges can become a flat composition.
Do you agree that a single rose is not a flat shape? There are many petals, some of them are closer to the viewer, and other petals are more distant: we can see different planes when we pay attention to only one flower so I lift out pigment to shape my flowers and also to emphasize depth and volume.
The lifted-out areas will have a soft or lost edge after the first lifting-out brush stroke. If I lift out the same area many times we will have a harder edge so the timing here is important: how humid should be the watercolor paper to allow a lifting out that will create a hard edge? That’s the key to my wet-on-wet painting, the right moment to lift out the pigment.
I will paint multiple flowers during the first day, some of them without any preliminary sketch: the English Rose with its multi-layered petals, the scented Stock flowers, the Asian Chrysanthemum, the poetic Water Lillies, white and pink Cosmos, and the Pink Tea Tree. More flowers can be included in the first session: white Poppy, Carnation, and white Lupins, for example. If we have time, I want to paint as many flowers as possible to show different lifting out techniques, different flowers, and different effects according to the watercolor paper used (cold or hot pressed and also rough paper).
I would like to paint more than one English Rose, one of them will be painted without any previous drawing so the English Rose watercolors will be the main demos as it’s a complex flower shape.
We will also talk about positive shapes and negative painting: the lifting out process creates powerful positive shapes and if we add more contrast to the background we are working with negative space or with the background so yes, this workshop is about the background and how to use it to enhance the foreground.
Let’s face the challenge together? Painting without a preliminary sketch is rewarding, we have to portray the subject fast and loosely!
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Van Gogh
My new workshop is focused on flower painting, negative painting, background, lifting out technique, and painting without a preliminary sketch.
The process of creating, adjusting, and manipulating watercolor edges during the painting process is crucial to draw attention to the focal point so a painting without a good balance between hard and soft edges can become a flat composition.
Do you agree that a single rose is not a flat shape? There are many petals, some of them are closer to the viewer, and other petals are more distant: we can see different planes when we pay attention to only one flower so I lift out pigment to shape my flowers and also to emphasize depth and volume.
The lifted-out areas will have a soft or lost edge after the first lifting-out brush stroke. If I lift out the same area many times we will have a harder edge so the timing here is important: how humid should be the watercolor paper to allow a lifting out that will create a hard edge? That’s the key to my wet-on-wet painting, the right moment to lift out the pigment.
I will paint multiple flowers during the first day, some of them without any preliminary sketch: the English Rose with its multi-layered petals, the scented Stock flowers, the Asian Chrysanthemum, the poetic Water Lillies, white and pink Cosmos, and the Pink Tea Tree. More flowers can be included in the first session: white Poppy, Carnation, and white Lupins, for example. If we have time, I want to paint as many flowers as possible to show different lifting out techniques, different flowers, and different effects according to the watercolor paper used (cold or hot pressed and also rough paper).
I would like to paint more than one English Rose, one of them will be painted without any previous drawing so the English Rose watercolors will be the main demos as it’s a complex flower shape.
We will also talk about positive shapes and negative painting: the lifting out process creates powerful positive shapes and if we add more contrast to the background we are working with negative space or with the background so yes, this workshop is about the background and how to use it to enhance the foreground.
Let’s face the challenge together? Painting without a preliminary sketch is rewarding, we have to portray the subject fast and loosely!
Photos are for illustration only.
Workshop Topics:
1. Loose Florals: Lifting Out Technique
- Flowers: Drawing and Anatomy;
- Negative and Positive Spaces;
- Pigments: Lifting Out;
- Background Shapes;
- Background Abstract Patterns;
- Colors Choice for Backgrounds;
- Balancing the Composition;
- Creating Bridges Between Foreground and Background;
- Brush Strokes: Lifting Out;
- Edges: 3D Effect;
- Positive Shapes and Background;
- Painting Without Drawing.
DEMONSTRATIONS
a) English Rose 1;
b) English Rose 2;
c) Water Lily;
d) Cosmos;
e) Stock Flower;
f) Chrysanthemum Mum;
g) Pink Tea Tree.
This workshop is a two days format: the second day will be a mentoring session. You can send one painting to my email from June 13-16 (by morning). I will clear your questions and provide some feedback about your paintings on June 16 (the second session).
Photos are for illustration only.
WORKSHOP BENEFITS:
- A limited number of participants: you can interact with me and ask your questions.
- 100% live and interactive like my in-person workshops.
- Q&A will be available after each demo: my 20 years of experience as a painting tutor will help you to reach your goals as an artist.
- Five days before the workshop you will receive my list of materials (colors, paints, brands, brushes, watercolor paper suggestions, and many photos/references).
- All workshop demos and sketch photos will be sent out to you after the workshop within five days.
- The second session is a live critique/mentoring session: I will provide some feedback about your paintings. I will also clear your questions and repeat, if necessary, a few things explained in the first session.
- The main demonstrations will be uploaded to my Youtube Channel. You will receive a private Youtube link and this link will be active for a limited time.
Photos are for illustration only.
Registration: via Paypal
After your registration, a follow-up email will be sent to you with the link, password, and additional orientation for this workshop.
Please, note that a free zoom account is necessary to join Fabio Cembranelli's workshop.
Cancellation Policy:
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and ask for a refund, a 60% refund will be issued. No refunds can be given for withdrawals made within 7 days of the first session.
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and decide to attend a future workshop, your payment can be fully transferred to one of my future workshops. You just need to email me and ask for a payment transfer.
After your registration, a follow-up email will be sent to you with the link, password, and additional orientation for this workshop.
Please, note that a free zoom account is necessary to join Fabio Cembranelli's workshop.
Cancellation Policy:
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and ask for a refund, a 60% refund will be issued. No refunds can be given for withdrawals made within 7 days of the first session.
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and decide to attend a future workshop, your payment can be fully transferred to one of my future workshops. You just need to email me and ask for a payment transfer.
Photos are for illustration only.
Photos are for illustration only.