Watercolor is a great painting media that is not easy to be controlled. Artists who want to master the painting techniques need a lot of practices before they can really feel that the results of their artworks are beautiful and can be accepted by art lovers. There are many books available in the bookstores that provide tutorials from how to draw sketches with pencils to how to color them with watercolors. If you are interested in painting with watercolor then you need to have a box of watercolor which contains various color paints. In addition, you will need drawing paper that is thick enough when it is being painted with watercolor. Several types and sizes of brushes will also be needed for that purposes.
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Watercolor Painting of A Beautiful Girl Sitting by The Stream
This watercolor painting is a composition works. In a real life, the beautiful girl was not sitting at the river bank near the falling water. She was sitting in a studio of photography. The background painting was created out of the artist's own imagination.
The painting of this beautiful girl was executed in 2004 using various brown colors of Derwent Watercolour Pencils. Its 72 pencils box provides 16 different variants of brown and around 10 variants of green.
The bamboo tree behind the sheltered pond was painted directly by the artist without using any picture as a model. The artist used to work near the bamboo tree. That's why he could paint the bamboo tree out of his vivid memory.
Title of the painting: A beautiful girl sitting by the stream (Lukisan Cat Air Seorang Gadis Cantik yang Duduk di Pinggir Kali)
Size: 44 cm x 30.5 cm
Year: 2004
Artist: Charles Roring
Media: Watercolor on cold pressed acid free Canson Paper
See other watercolour paintings here at: Art and Culture Stories
Art and Culture Stories
Art and culture have been an integral part of human life. The following articles are English reading comprehension material which you can use to enrich your vocabularies particularly those related to painting, dancing, and music.
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Learning English by Watching The Culture Express
Program of CCTV 9 - CCTV 9 is a state owned TV station of the People’s Republic of
China. It broadcasts in English. Besides presenting news,
sports, and economic programs, the TV station has a special
program for art lovers. It is called Culture Express. Through
this program, TV audience can see various information about art
and cultural events such as painting exhibition, opera and dance
performance, as well as music concert. The program often
features life story of famous artists from China too. Most of
them have given significant contributions to the development of
Chinese art and culture.