Big Painting, Small Palette with Johannes Vloothuis Video Download

Description

Achieving harmonious color in your watercolor paintings can be easy with the use of a limited palette. In this video, expert artist, Johannes Vloothuis, walks you through his process for painting a watercolor landscape using a limited selection of colors, simplifying the color mixing process and ensuring all elements in the painting work together to create a unified, expressive image. In this video, you’ll see Johannes create a painting from start to finish, using a limited palette from the initial stages through to the final details. You’ll also learn how to introduce discordant colors in limited amounts as part of a strategy that maintains color harmony, while allowing for variations that add interest and expression to the painting.

You’ll Learn:

• Materials: Selecting the right paper, paints, and brushes for your painting
• Composition & Strategy: Learn Johannes’ unique approach to creating a composition from multiple source images.
• Depth & Atmosphere: See how painting wet-into-wet using a limited palette to create the background of the image
• Structures & Light: The painting develops to the next stage, using the limited palette to construct buildings in the landscape. In this stage, discordant colors are added to draw the eye and create a strong focal point
• Creating Texture: Learn Johannes’ innovative technique for creating convincing surface texture in the foreground rocks
• Pan Pastels: See Johannes use Pan Pastels to create unique effects for fog, water, and atmosphere, proving that watercolorists aren’t bound to the medium.
• Finishing Touches: Johannes analyzes his painting, adds details, adjusts shapes, and brings the painting to a close.

Materials
Limited Palette

• Payne’s Gray
• Prussian Blue
• Permanent Rose
• Transparent Yellow

Brushes

• ¾ inch, ½ inch, & ¼ inch brushes
• Various riggers for thin lines

Paper

• Cold Pressed Arches 140 lb

Additional

• Various Pan Pastel Containers
• Sponges
• Mist spray bottle
• Masking Fluid

About Johannes Vloothuis

Since 2011, Johannes has taught live online art workshops for Artists Network.

Jo, as he likes to be called, has a large following of students because he has been able to verbalize in easy-to-understand terms the complexity of the subjective beauty of art. He feels that by teaching his students why something is done in a painting, how follows by default. He is adept in all the most popular mediums and artists of any medium will benefit with his instruction.

Jo has received several awards such as the top prize in the country of Mexico granted by the Watercolor Museum, the prestigious Pastel Society of America listed him under “Masterful Artists” and has inspired and help grow the skills of over 18,000 artists, some of them being professionals.