Painting grapes is a fantastic lesson to share with a friend or grandchild. You should pick the grape leaves and freeze them until just before you need them. This makes the leaves more relaxed and they make betterstamps. These leaves can remain frozen for a long time and still be effective.
Grape Lesson 2
Using a HB pencil, draw some vines for the leaves and grapes to form an attachment. Using thinned YES Paste for glue, I designed in some light-toned collage papers. Be sure to overlap some of the papers and to keep the papers close to the vines. Cut out some round or oval shaped grape circles to use for the grapes. Leave the paper dry and apply quinacridone gold and Windsor yellow on the veins on the back of a dry leaf. Place on the paper and press with a dry tissue. After you have completed stamping the leaves on the dry paper, wet the entire rest of the paper and apply some pure warm or cool color ( I used quinacridone burnt orange) in a path to start your painting
Add additional pure complementary color (I used Antwerp blue) next to your first application of color. Be sure to use a fine mister to keep the paper wet or touch the edges of the color with a wet brush to keep the edges soft. Stretch the gauze behind the leaves and through the grapes to suggest branches and vines in the background. Place the cut circles of wax paper onto the wet paper. Add additional color if desired before applying the grape circles. Add salt if desired. Place a stencil over the wet surface and sand watercolor pencils into the stencil using a 100 grit sandpaper. Spray with a fine mister to be sure that those watercolor particles really melt onto the surface. When completely dry, remove the grape circles, gauze and leaves. With a HB pencil, draw in shapes to enhance the composition. On dry paper, paint in the shapes and negatively paint around other shapes. To complete the painting, I lifted out the grape shapes with a stencil of the grape shape cut out of acetate and a damp Mr. Clean magic eraser. Lastly, I added green Caron D”Ache crayon over some leaves and on parts of the background. I also added more collage paper using thinned down YES Paste. I also sprayed gold marbleizing spray.
Materials List
Arches Cold Press
Frozen Grape Leaves
Stretched Watercolor on Frame
HB pencil
Wax paper
Scissors
Collage paper
YES Paste
Gauze
Table salt
Gold webbing spray
Stencil
100 grit sandpaper
Caron D’Ache watercolor crayons
Ruler for lines
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
Acetate
Salt
Unryu Paper
Dorlands Wax or Krylon Clear
15 ноя 2023
