How to paint silver in watercolor
- how to paint silver in watercolor
- how to paint with metallic watercolors
- how to make silver color in watercolor
- how to paint silver
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Using packing tape as a masking method for large areas and masking fluid for details.Painting Metal in Watercolours
Free Watercolour Demo, Silver Teapot
Metal objects always pose a special problem for painters in watercolour. The purists among us don't like to use a solid white to pick out the highlights, and beginners often avoid tackling shiny metal in still life paintings.
Brass and copper are usually easier, as they have base colours - but what colour is a silver teapot? As with chrome, it depends. It depends on what surrounds the silver teapot. Is is being painted in natural daylight? Incandescent light?
Fluorescent light or a mixture.
For this demonstration I've chosen a silver plated teapot lit by fluorescent light on a no-seam pale green background.
I'm using modern computer technology in this demonstration, but you can still achieve good results the old-fashioned way.
It shows a nice to paint a difficult subject in an easy way.
I printed out an 8" x 10" colour shot and used it as a tracing source. Using 300 lb Arches paper, I taped the print-out to the paper and used artists' graphite paper to transfer the image, using a sharp 5H pencil. Note I kept the actual teapot close by for reference, plus the
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