Abstract Watercolour Landscape using Aquapasto | Experimental Demonstration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video I am demonstrating the use of a watercolour medium called aquapasto. This is a gum arabic based medium which you add to your paints along with a small amount of water for a thicker consistency or more water for a more creamy consistency. The paint then behaves more like oils or acrylics and can be applied with a palette knife or a brush. I have often used acrylics over my watercolour paintings to add a highlight of colour or just an interesting contrast of textures so I was super excited when I heard about the existence of this! Another wonderful thing about it is your do not need any special solvents like you might do with oil and you can use the same brushes you use for your watercolour paints (though I did use an acrylic brush just to be on the safe side). If you do give it a go please let me know how you get on in the comments.
I have often used acrylics over my watercolour paintings to add a highlight of colour or just an interesting contrast of textures so I was super excited when I heard about the existence of this! Another wonderful thing about it is your do not need any special solvents like you might do with oil and you can use the same brushes you use for your watercolour paints (though I did use an acrylic brush just to be on the safe side). If you do give it a go please let me know how you get on in the comments.
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Materials used:
- Archers Cold Pressed Rough Grain Paper.
- Winsor and Newton watercolours: Paynes Grey, Burnt Umber, Titanium White
- Schmincke watercolour: Phthalo Blue
- Winsor and Newton Aquapasto
- Brush and Palette knife
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Did anyone else see the potential for an abstract pastel butterfly? Of course, the potential options are endless. Looks splendid!
Yes thats true! I think there are many possibilities using this medium. I think I will make another video using this again. Thank you for your support!
Oh my!.how gorgeous your water color paintings are, I love
these abstracts you made with the new medium. I'll have to give it
a go. Thank you so much for sharing these lovely soft abstracts.
Thank you so much and I am really glad that you like the paintings. Please let me know how you get on! 😊
I'm encouraged to try this by your very relaxed attitude and beautiful results.
That is great to hear! I hope it goes well 😊
That looked like fun...gonna try that too.
But will replace Arches with Baohong...😄
Thanks for the video.
Fantastic! I have not heard of Baohong..I will look it up 😊
Thank you for the demonstration! I saw this medium last week for the first time and was very curious about it, so your video came in perfectly on time for me :)
Thats great! I was excited to find it. I hope you get on well with it! Thank you for your comment.
Thank you!!! so beautiful and yes, please keep them coming. Your vids really inspire me!! 🤩
Thank you so much for your encouragement, I am so glad they are inspiring you its fantastic :)
Thank you. These are fabulous. ❤
Thank you so much 😊
These are gorgeous and really come to life when you put the frame around them! ❤
Thank you so much! Yes its great to have a few frames about to see what things look like cropped 😊
I like very much your démonstration 🙂☺️ first time I heard about aquapasto ❤mixed with watercolor .thank you for sharing🎉😃
Oh thats great to hear! Glad it was helpful. Hope you get on well with it if you decide to give it a go 😊
@@annamabellaedgley ohhh yes I will 👍😊
@@annamabellaedgley what paper do you recommend for mixtes medias ( watercolors ,aquapasto ,inkt)?
For something like this I would use a watercolour paper. For this I used Archers cold pressed fine grain. But any good quality watercolour paper would do (though I wouldnt use anything with a rough texture). Even a good quality sketch book made for watercolours could work. For other mixed media I have in the past used a specialist mixed media paper (it was made from bamboo I think). I found it great for the pastels I used but the watercolour did not go on quite so well. Hope this helps! 😊
@@annamabellaedgley bamboo 😊? The only paper that I know made with bamboo is from Hahnmühle
Thank you so much for sharing your experiments. Just love the way those turned out. Want to give it a try 😉
Yes its always fun to start and not know exactly how things will turn out 😀. Hope you enjoy trying it out!
Thank you - something new to try - enjoyed your demo, and beautiful paintings.
Yes! I am glad you found something new, thinking about it I can not believe I did not know about aquapasto before!. Good luck experimenting :)
Love what you did with the new medium! Nice work! Thanks for the info and demonstration.
Thank you 😊 I am so glad that it was interesting and helpful for you!
Can't wait to try it out 😊
Brilliant, good luck and get back to me in comments about how you get on if you can :)
So lovely
Thank you 😊
Thank you really liked them. Can you tell me were to buy the mounts ? Thank you in advance.
Yes I can look out this information over the next few days. I brought them from a framer who was selling on ebay. Its a custom size. The outside is 8” x 10”. Can I check where you are? Are you in the UK? I am not sure about delivery but he is in the UK.
Facinatibg, Rather like gouache?+
Not exactly like gouache but yes there are similarities. However, I found it easier to scratch marks into the aquapasto mix. Also, my mix was opaque since I added titanium white. However, if you do not add white then the mix of aquapasto and watercolour would retain its translucency :)
Also, I would say the drying times are slower with aquapasto and it has a sheen (rather than matt like gouache) once dried :)
@@annamabellaedgley Thanks Sounds appealing. :-)
I'm wondering if I can add Aquapasto to a puddle of watercolor not out of the tube?
Yes! You definitely can. I also have used it much thinner. So I added a small amount to very watery watercolour. I applied the paint in washes and it just changed the consistency of the paint. So you can experiment with paint/ paint/ aquapasto ratios..
Cold press is not rough grain. The three textures of watercolour paper made by Arches are hot press, cold press (NOT), and rough.
Yes! It was rough not cold pressed. Thanks for pointing out my error I might see if I can add some text to clarify on the video