Understanding on the paintings from the Travel Book of Amrita Tiwary
Painting and painting media are always an attraction for any eyes, mind and soul. If a painting achieves to get the attention of a viewer's Eyes, Mind and Soul then that's the achievement and success for the Artist.
A visual artist captures the beauty of objects, landscapes, anatomy (human, birds, animals) and brings it to life with their techniques and various medium that they use. One such very attractive and most difficult medium is WATER COLOUR. This is a medium which brings life to paintings in its own way. This medium may not be shiny, pasty, thick, etc. like Oil or Acrylic Paints or even like Pastels. This is an absolute Water based medium and the most fun and interesting medium to work with. Here, Amrita has worked with this medium during one of her travels and has captured the beauty of nature in a very easy and simple manner. Let's see a simple step by step illustration of a very simple landscape - A house partly covered with a Banana tree which is standing in front of it. She named it as "Always There".
Title: Always There in Water Colour. A painting from travel book of Amrita Tiwary
The Sketch Part:
Sketching for these kind of work is mostly very minimal. Just to understand the position of each object.
Lets see the steps of painting for "Always There"
Start with the roof. Create a water base first followed by making the colours flow with the direction of water. As you feel that water is playing as per your mood, start with the colours and make them play. How? The colours that the eyes are able to capture, start applying them in the manner and direction that will give a form to the roof. Avoid the leaves part. Add the indentations, lines, popping effect as well the wooden rough texture effect.
Steps for Walls, Windows, Doorways:
As the roof is drying, we move to the walls. The application and play manner with colour and water continues to be the same. The colours here should not only be for application but also consideration of light and shadow comes in play. Here the wall texture, the brick texture, the rods or any wooden stick that happens to be present, needs to be showcased and added with the right amount of brightness and shine and texture.
Banana Tree & Land Area:
Each leaf has to be given equal importance. The colours should definitely be as per the understanding of Light Source and its direction. Water should not end up diluting the shine or actual translucency of the paint. Each paint should look as if hey belong there and make each leaf breathe on its own.
As for the land, keep in mind, the green area starts right from the end of house wall, in fact covering the bottom part of the house and spreading till the tree. The fall of land is important here. It should not appear to be flat. It needs to have the ups and downs and movement of the land.
The colours that were used for this painting:
House roof: raw umber, Prussian blue, white, black, burnt umber & yellow ochre
Walls: Vermillion, black, burnt sienna, raw umber, cobalt mixed with white (for lines) and watery crimson.
Banana leaves: lemon yellow (watery based), viridian, sap, lemon yellow and viridian mix (light green effect, viridian and bit of black mix (dark line effect).
Stem(bottom of tree): Sap green, black, sap and yellow ochre mix).
Land: all greens and a bit of black.
As this is from the Travel Book of Amrita, she has tried to capture only what was right in front of her eyes and what immediately caught her attention. As an artist, she believes that "it is always beneficial and worth to capture as much as one can and keep creating, the magic happens on its own."
Artist: Amrita Tiwary, India
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