The Annotated CJAS Watercolor Discussion: Content and Subject Matter

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Content and Subject Matter

• Choosing a Subject

  • Religion and Art
  • What do you paint?
  • Most popular watercolor genre among buyers?
  • What type of subjects sell?
  • Painting subjects: Close to home or Travel?
  • What do people like?
  • What will you paint if you are painting from the heart
  • Painting subject matter

Specific Subjects and Rendering Techniques

• Shadows

  • Shadow Colors
  • How do you paint realistic shadows?

• Landscape/Plein Air

  (also see Mixing Greens)
  • Plein Air Experiences
  • More Plein air..
  • Plein air pallette, style and subject matter.
  • Plein air
  • Outdoor painting

  • Skies

    • Night Skies
    • Skies....
    • Favorite Sky Methods
    • What color.......? (sunsets)

  • Trees and Grass

    • Plein air trees
    • Pine Trees

  • Snow and Winter

    • Let it snow..
    • Winter
  • Painting a rainbow

  • Water

    • Help! reflections on water? need quick answers
    • Water, Water, and can't paint it at all!
    • How do you create the spray of the sea hitting a rock?

• Figure

  • Figure drawing / Painting sessions

  • Heads and Portraits

    (also see Mixing Flesh Tones under Color Mixing.)
    • Portrait painting
    • Green underpainting in a portrait
    • Painting Watercolor Portraits
    • Watercolor Portraiture
    • Painting Humans (Faces, Mostly)
    • Trying to paint faces
    • How does one paint flesh under diaphanous material?
    • Pigments for fair-skin portraits

  • Hair

    • Painting grey hair
    • Painting blond hair
    • Painting hair

• Still Life and Objects

  • Watercolor Still Life Instruction
  • How to paint steam
  • Color(s) of blue dungarees
  • Color mix for "flamingo pink"
  • Painting Black fur
  • Painting fur and feathers -
  • Techniques for painting shiny metal objects