Alwyn Crawshaw - Watercolours

Because the paint dries quickly – especially if you are under a hot sun – watercolour painting does not favour faint hearts. If you think you are in that category, don’t worry. You will gain confidence as you read and work through the book.

Before you start a painting, you need to have a plan of campaign in your mind. Naturally, as you progress, this will become second nature to you. When I was at art school I was taught to look and observe and, ever since, I have always looked at the sky as if it were a painting and considered how it had been done – in which medium, with which brush, which colour was used first, and so on. I see things as colours, and techniques of painting.

PAINT CONTROL

Nevertheless, you will have to accept the fact that not every watercolour painting is a success – not to you, the artist, that is.

You will find that you paint a beautiful picture, everyone likes it and it is worthy of being put into an exhibition, but there will be passages of that painting where the watercolour was not completely under your control and it made up its own mind about the final effect. Well, this is an accepted characteristic of watercolour painting – only the artist knows how he made the paint behave or misbehave! But when you paint a good picture with plenty of watercolour effect and it was all under your control, then you will have achieved a small, personal ambition which will no doubt elevate you into that special band of dedicated watercolourists.

	French Ultramarine
	Crimson Alizarin
	Yellow Ochre
	Hooker’s Green No. 1
	Cadmium Yellow Pale
	Cadmium Red
	Coeruleum
	Burnt Umber
	Payne’s Grey

The first six colours illustrated above are the colours that I use for all my paintings. The following three I only use occasionally. All these colours will be referred to throughout this book. Please note that this colour chart is produced within the limitations of printing and is intended as a guide only.

ADDITIONAL COLOURS AVAILABLE

Naples Yellow

Lemon Yellow

Permanent Yellow

Cadmium Yellow

Aureolin

Chrome Lemon

Gamboge (Hue)

Chrome Yellow

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Indian Yellow

Chrome Orange (Hue)

Cadmium Orange

Chrome Orange Deep

Vermilion (Hue)

Permanent Red

Rose Doré (Alizarin)

Scarlet Alizarin

Scarlet Lake

Carmine

Crimson Lake

Permanent Rose

Purple Lake

Purple Madder (Alizarin)

Permanent Magenta

Cobalt Violet

Permanent Mauve

Violet Alizarin

Prussian Blue

Indigo

Monestial Blue

Cobalt Blue

Permanent Blue

Alizarin Green

Sap Green

Monestial Green

Olive Green

Hooker’s Green No. 2

Viridian

Terre Verte (Hue)

Cobalt Green

Brown Pink

Raw Sienna

Burnt Sienna

Light Red

Venetian Red

Indian Red

Brown Madder (Alizarin)

Raw Umber

Vandyke Brown

Warm Sepia

Permanent Sepia

Davy’s Grey

Neutral Tint

Ivory Black

Lamp Black

Chinese White

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