Watercolor painting by
Maggie Deng
Maggie Deng's watercolor learning experience:
Last Saturday, I saw my classmates’ paintings in the class. How beautiful paintings they did! Whatever flowers, people, mountain or water, they all look like the real things. To compare with my paintings, I though they are so ugly and I did not want to show them in the class. I had confusion of why my paintings did not have the real sense. After our professor explained the good ways and the short ways of our assignment, I learned that a better painting could follow some important ways as below:
First, to adjust which way the light comes to and makes that part lighter. The other part should be darker and the shadow will be next to it if you need it. Second, to paint from observation not just copy from picture. Also, to consider the main object with the background. If the main object is lighter, the background should be darker. If the main object is darker, the background should be lighter. That will be easy to stand-up the object from the background. Finally, to revise the painting again and again and it will be got better. I followed these ways to practice. And I saw my paintings are better than before.
