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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful video filled with useful watercolour techniques, 3 Jan 2002
By A Customer
This video clearly demonstrates how to create textures and colours in rocks. The methods used include wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, sponging, waxing and salt crystals.It is a delighful video in itself. Set in South Africa, the scenery is beautiful with cobalt blue skies and viridian and cerulean seas. An added attraction is the group of penguins walking around the rocks and sand. To complete the setting, is the background sound of the waves breaking on the beach. Hazel Soan divides the techniqies she teaches into two parts. In the first, she shows how you can depict the forms of rocks, using wet-in-wet for rounded shapes and wet-on-dry to produce hard edges. This is followed by a demonstration of a composition of a beach scene with rocks, starting with the drawing and then using the techniques she has previously taught to produce the three dimensions of the rocks. Throughout she explains the colours she mixes to produce the darks and highlights. In the second part of the video, Hazel Soan demonstrates three further techniques to achieve texture in rocks. She begins with sponging to depict granite rocks, continues with using a wax candle to hold back the highlights and includes salt crystals to produce random effects. The video concludes with a seascape with penguins on the rocks. Here she uses the appropriate skills previously demonstrated to produce the required effects. I really enjoyed this video. It captured my interest throughout and the techniques taught can be applied to painting other watercolour scenes.
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