Educational still life: How to draw a picturesque still life with watercolor paints
Keywords:
educational still life, college students of applied art, watercolor, painting, modeling, colorAbstract
The authors continue to study the problem how to draw an educational still life by students of art educational institutions of the II level of accreditation within the framework of studying the course “Painting”, started in the previous issue of this journal. The article is devoted to the aspect of drawing still life with watercolor paints. The main provisions of theory and practice of the final stage of drawing educational still life have been revealed. It includes a number of tasks: solution of general tonal-color relationships in still life; choice of methods, techniques and means of constructing a picturesque form of color; modeling objects to full saturation with tone and color according to materiality and spatial location; subordination of the components of still life to the whole image.
The authors offer the method of step-by-step drawing of the educational still life, methods and techniques of work with watercolor paints, which testifies to the mastery of students by the final stage of drawing still life. All stages are accompanied by drawings.
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