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Watercolour Painting Workshop by Chitra Vaidya – Part 2

In this video of step by step watercolour painting, artist and art teacher Chitra Vaidya does a watercolour painting demo as part of the art workshop. This step by step watercolour painting guide takes you through all the steps and its nuances in an easy and friendly manner. This watercolour painting workshop video will be useful as a learning resource for school children, college students, hobby artists, amateur artists, parents as well as teachers.

Artist and Art Teacher Chitra Vaidya

Artist and art educator Chitra Vaidya, well known for her watercolor painting, does watercolour painting demonstration in this art workshop video ( Part 2). An avid painter and a popular art teacher, Chitra is an alumnus of Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. She has been conducting art workshops and painting demonstrations for students, corporates and other organisations.

About watercolour painting video

This watercolour painting workshop video has been created for Khula Aasmaan. It is meant for school children, college students, hobby artists, amateur artists, emerging artists and just about anyone interested in learning to paint, especially watercolour painting. This painting workshop video is part 2 of the two part videos on step by step watercolour painting.

Comments by Chitra Vaidya

This is what artist and art teacher Chitra Vaidya has to say about this art workshop :

“I love to paint the light and shadows at the different times of the day. When the sunlight falls on the objects , it creates a dramatic effect. The whole composition becomes interesting. In this video, I got attracted to the effect of sunlight on the trees and plants in the courtyard , the lamp at the gate and the greenery outside. The whole composition is of

various shades of greens.

I did pencil drawing with minimum lines on handmade paper. Then I covered some area with a wax creyon. Wax creyon acts as masking for water colour painting. Those parts remain covered and the background washes can be done freely. I started painting with transparent washes of water colours. It is so nice to see the colours flow freely on the paper. That’s the speciality of water colour medium.

Starting with light colour washes, the painting goes step by step to dark colours maintaining the contrast. Delicate brush strokes of leaves , warm colour plant, dark stem of the tree and the lamp makes the landscape interesting.”

Painting completed at art workshop with watercolour painting demo by artist and art teacher Chitra Vaidya

Artist and art educator Chitra Vaidya’s comments on this painting workshop in Marathi :

“दिवसाच्या वेगवेगळ्या वेळी दिसणारे ऊन सावलीतील दृश्य रंगवायला मला आवडते. एखाद्या वस्तूवर सूर्यप्रकाश पडला की त्यातून खूप नाट्यमय परिणाम साधला जातो आणि समोरील दृश्य आकर्षक दिसू लागते. या व्हिडिओ मध्ये मी अंगणातील वृक्ष वेलींवर पडलेला प्रकाश, फाटकावरील दिवा आणि फटकाबाहेरील हिरवळ याकडे आकर्षित झाले.

कमीत कमी रेषांमध्ये मी हॅन्डमेड पेपर वर चित्र काढून घेतले. त्यानंतर वॅक्स क्रेयॉन ने काही भाग रंगवून घेतला. जलरंग वापरताना वॅक्स क्रेयॉन लावलेल्या भागावर रंग बसत नाही त्यामुळे तेथील आजूबाजूचा रंग अतिशय सुलभतेने देता येतो. या नंतर मी चित्र जलरंगाने रंगवण्यास सुरुवात केली. पातळ पारदर्शक प्रवाही रंग एकमेकात मिसळताना बघायला खूप छान वाटते. हेच तर जलरंगांचे वैशिष्ट्य आहे.

प्रथम फिक्या रंगाचे भाग रंगवून नंतर हळू हळू गडद रंगांचे भाग रंगवले. नाजूक पानांचे ब्रशने दिलेले फटकारे, उष्ण रंगसंगतीतले छोटे झाड, गडद रंगाचा झाडाचा बुंधा आणि फाटकवरील दिवा या गोष्टीमुळे हे चित्र आकर्षक झाले आहे.”