Classic Watercolor
Illustrations
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Classic Watercolor, what does that
mean? We all know what watercolor is and roughly how it
generally looks. If you have ever put watercolor paint on paper,
as often done in children’s classrooms, you would realize that
water on regular paper causes wrinkles. Then with those wrinkles
the color will puddle and give you an uncontrolled application. Classic Watercolor is a technique which allows you to avoid that problem. The paper is a cotton rag paper. This paper is as you might expect made of cotton rags. The cotton material is shredded, mulched and bleached. This makes a watery slurry which is pressed into a mold and then dried, leaving a rough surface or rolled to make a smooth one. Hot press or cold press. The beauty of this paper is that when it is soaked with water again, mounted on a board, then stapled or otherwise attached to that board it will shrink when it dries. That way there is no buckling of the paper. The watercolor paint is usually transparent. This means that when it is applied to the cotton rag paper it is designed to stay wet with puddles and manipulated by adding color to that puddle or dry brushed for various effects. The white paper does glow through the transparent paint and gives a luminous look. This technique is usually referred to as Classic Watercolor. The medium is often used for illustration purposes and photographically reproduces very well. It can be printed in color or brought to grey scale for black and white printing. Most of my illustrations are done on an 11"x17" format for ease in copy machine reproduction but the illustration can be painted on most any size paper excluding very large paper. I provide paper copies on slick and flat paper as well as a CD that can be used for applying to web pages or sent to printers to sent off to potential clients. Please amble through my examples by clicking on the artwork.
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