Author Archives: Bob

The Beauty of Colour

When I first started at the Faculty of Art in Nottingham, England, I learnt that the first of all simple colours is white (although some would not admit that white and black are colors), the first being  a source or receiver of colours and the latter totally deprived of them. Primary colours are those that cannot be made by mixing together other colours. The three primary colours of light, as opposed to pigment - from the visible light spectrum are ...

Óleo

Oil painting is a pictorial technique in which the coloured matter is obtained from the mixture of the colouring pigment with the oil. This mixture serves to join the different pigments between them and these with the support the most used oils are flax or walnut. The colors of the oil are colors obtained from resinous solvents to oil. Currently, oil colors are sold prefabricated in tubes, although they often tend, over time, to decompose due to an excessive amount ...

Watercolor Technical Drawing

The technique of watercolor consists in applying semi-transparent layers, which will be superimposed to achieve darker colors. It is painted from light to dark, that is, the white color is not painted, but the white of the paper is reserved. One of the most used techniques is wet paper, also known as wet watercolor. It consists of wetting or moistening the paper on which we are going to paint, and then, with the brush well loaded with color, we give ...

Graphite 

La técnica de grafito es la menos complicada para trabajar. Debido a su forma, peso y tamaño, el lápiz es el instrumento más fácil de usar, lo que no requiere un pulso excepcional para ser utilizado y lo que borra fácilmente. Los lápices de grafito se gradúan según su suavidad o dureza en una escala que va de 8B a 8H: la letra B designa la suavidad y la dureza H. Retrato técnico gráfico El número prefijado a estas letras ...