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   Watercolor Artist Roy Fuller uses the following techniques to do his Fast Watercolor Paintings in Less Than 15 Minutes. If your available painting time is limited ,try these suggestions to speed up and improve your paintings.

    1).  Use proper perspective in your watercolor drawings. Poor perspective will overpower great technique. Make sure objects in the foreground are larger than objects in the middle ground or back ground. Use lighter values in the background and darker in the foreground. This will give the illusion of distance. Make sure your buildings are larger in the foreground compared to background buildings.

   2).  Use one of the 4 major value patterns. Watercolor Artists long before my time determined that the masters all used one of a few different value patterns on all their paintings. There are actually eight or nine different patterns but you can do hundred's of paintings with just one or two of them. Study the patterns and pick the one you like best and stick with it for a while. You will see a huge improvement in you overall paintings. This is one of the single most important things you can do to improve your paintings.

   3).   Use shapes and symbols instead of trying to reproduce what you see in nature. Develop your own set of watercolor symbols for rocks, trees, mountains, oceans, etc. This is how many watercolor artist find themselves or develop their own personal painting styles. Study the symbols other artists use but try to build your own set of symbols.

   4).  Use papa, mama and baby symbols and shapes. Don't add dozens of rocks, trees, buildings, shapes, etc to your paintings. You really only need a big one, a medium sized one and a small one to convey most landscape concepts. Adding to many of them makes the watercolor painting look overworked and makes it more difficult to add variety to the symbols and shapes. 

   5).   Use variety in your shapes and symbols. Make one tall, one short. One wide and one narrow. One dark and one lighter. Be especially aware of variety when using alternation and repetition. The shapes must include a variety of size, shape, color, contrast, value, direction and dominance.

   6).   Don't put your center of interest in the middle. This is a very common problem with novice watercolor painters. Make sure your COI is not an equal distance to either side of the paper. Put it in the upper right, upper left, lower right or lower left side of the watercolor paper.

   7).  Try to incorporate the greatest contrast around your center of interest. For example surround your COI with your darkest value and use a white COI for maximum contrast and focus on your COI.

   8).   Use three different values in your watercolor paintings. Use light, mid-value and dark values in your watercolor paintings. This is not color, it's the darkness or lightness of your colors. I suggest a mid-value background (sky, water, foreground), with a large dark interesting shape about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of the mid value area, and a light (or white) shape overlapping the dark shape.

   9).   Use interlocking edges on your shapes and symbols when possible. First use an interesting shape and then interlock it with the shape it is overlapping. This can also be referred to as incident at the edges. You want your shape to intrude into other shapes with interesting edge incidents. This could be an antenna sticking up from a roof top of a house or a tree extending up from your dark shape into the sky. This is called edge interlocking and makes your shapes interesting.

   10).   Use oblique or diagonal shapes when possible as they signal action or movement in a watercolor painting. This is more interesting than a static object.

   If you employ the above design techniques and suggestions into your watercolor paintings you will have a much more interesting watercolor panting. These design techniques also apply to oil, pastel, acrylic and mixed media paintings as well.

             This painting method is very relaxed un-rushed. It's the planning and process that makes it quick.

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   Roy prefers doing his watercolor paintings in less than 15 minutes. He completely wets both sides of the watercolor paper after sketching his design on the paper. As the watercolor paper is drying in the next 12 to 15 minutes he applies the sky, the distant foliage, the foreground and by this time the paper is usually almost dry. Now before the watercolor paper is completely dry he scratches in some trees, buildings and other objects. By now the watercolor paper will be dry and it's time to add details with a liner brush. This is also a good time to add some hard edges to the outside of your symbols. You need to collect your own symbols for objects and use them in all your paintings. Never paint exactly what you see or how something in real life would look. You have to use your symbol collection for your trees, buildings, rocks, boats, etc. Simplify everything in your watercolor paintings. You only need three size of each symbol, a small, a medium and a large. That's really all you need. Don't clutter up your watercolor paintings with dozens of trees. All you really need is three unique trees with different size, height, width, value and texture. It's really that simple!   Free How To Watercolor Demonstration

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                       This Method Is Very Relaxed & Not Rushed As The Name Implies.

   

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    My watercolor workshops are designed especially for anyone not having a lot of experience in watercolors or someone developing a frustration level with watercolors. You'll learn the basics of design and composition to make your watercolor paintings advance to the next level. You don't need any painting experience or watercolor background to paint 15 minute watercolors. I'll show you everything you need in my workshops. You also don't need any special drawing skills as we only use very basic outline drawings.

    I am constantly surprised at the number of watercolor artists that don't use proper design and composition techniques in their watercolor paintings. Variety, Alternation, Repetition, Dominance in your textures, values, shapes, symbols and colors will make your paintings come alive. Value Sketches, Center Of Interest, Diagonals and Obliques will make your paintings interesting.  Even the master painters of the 16 century used these design techniques in their paintings. Proper design, composition and perspective is a must if you want your watercolor paintings to "POP" with freshness. I'll show you how to simplify your paintings to abstract shapes and symbols before you start a painting.

    My painting technique utilizes the basic foundations of the watercolor medium: Paint quickly with big brushes using the minimum number of brush strokes. This is really the secret of doing fresh, spontaneous and transparent watercolor paintings. Get in quick and get out, and don't go back in again.

   I call my painting method "Watercolor Paintings in Less Than 15 Minutes". I'll show you how to use some watercolor design techniques that will allow you to paint beautiful watercolors in less than 15 minutes. You'll be amazed how easy it is to paint a watercolor painting. Anyone can do 15 minute watercolor paintings. I only focus on the basic design concepts that will make your watercolor paintings come to life in One Day Workshops. I only use the the three primary watercolor paints (Red, Yellow and Blue) and three different sizes of big paint brushes ( 2 inch, 1.5 inch and 1/2 inch flat brushes). So the supplies are relatively inexpensive.

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       Watercolor Workshops are focused on the basics necessary to make a watercolor painting come together. Things like composition, doing a value sketch before you start painting, Simplifying your design, basic design elements and principles that make up a great painting. These are the things that will breath life into your watercolor paintings. Keeping your painting applications and techniques fresh. His technique involves wetting the entire watercolor paper completely before applying any watercolor paints. Then applying watercolor paint quickly with the minimum number of brush strokes. The paper dries in 14 minutes so you have to work fast. Another couple minutes to work on some details and the watercolor painting is finished. By painting quickly with big brushes and employing the minimum number of brush strokes you will have the most spontaneous, fresh looking and transparent watercolor paintings possible. You only need a rigger brush to sign your name with. Always use the biggest brush possible for what you are painting. I often use a 3 inch flat brush on a 1/4 sheet watercolor painting. Attend a Florida Watercolor Workshop and learn how to put it all together.

                                                                                            

   

      Artists Comment On Roy Fuller's Method Of "Fast Watercolor Painting":

 Frank Webb - "Roy Fuller's watercolor works exude a freshness born of great speed. This fleetness of touch can only be made when the painter's mark is sure and with a conviction of the shape to be made with a minimum of adjustments."

 Sterling Edwards - "Roy's work is very nice...loose, fresh, and clean!"

 Leslie Ruth - "Your work is wonderful and "refreshing". You capture the true essence of the medium."

 Judy Champion - ".....Very impressive!"

 Ron Bigony - "Really like your watercolors, the colors are so pure and transparent."

 William Maurer  -  “Good extemporaneous use of color and wet technique…..” 

 

   

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    Actually Watercolor Artist Roy Fuller prefer doing his paintings in less than 15 minutes. He completely wets both sides of the watercolor paper after sketching his design on the paper. As the watercolor paper is drying in the next 12 to 15 minutes he applies the sky, the distant foliage, the foreground and by this time the paper is usually almost dry. Now before the watercolor paper is completely dry he scratches in some trees, buildings and other objects. By now the paper will be dry and it's time to add details with a liner brush.

    This is also a good time to add some hard edges to the outside of your symbols. You need to collect your own symbols for objects and use them in all your paintings. Never paint exactly what you see or how something in real life would look. You have to use your symbol collection for your trees, buildings, rocks, boats, etc.

   Simplify everything in your paintings. Use a small, a medium and a large symbol of everything you paint. That's really all you need. Don't clutter up your paintings with dozens of trees. All you really need is three unique trees with different size, height, width, value and texture. It's really that simple!

   

 

   

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     Watercolor Artist Roy Fuller is the founding editor of International Watercolors.com, a website dedicated to helping all watercolor artists both amateur and professional with international exposure for their paintings and watercolor workshops.            

 

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  Roy Fuller watercolor artists    "Watercolor Artist Roy Fuller is an internationally known Watercolor Artist & Watercolor Workshop instructor and has been painting watercolors for more than 25 years.  He is the Number One internet artists for "International Watercolor Workshops", and "International Watercolor Artists".  Roy Fuller is also the Founding Editor for International Watercolors.com, the Internet's # 1 "International Watercolors"  and "International Watercolor Artists" website for all talented Watercolor Artists. Roy offers opportunities for emerging as well as professional watercolor artist to show off their watercolor paintings online internationally. Roy painted in oils doing the Bob Ross technique for many years and then switched to watercolor painting about 20 years ago because of the clean up associated with oil painting.  The price of oil paints and canvas is also much more expensive than watercolor paints and watercolor paper.

    Roy Fuller lives in Southwest Florida just a few miles from the world famous art town of Matlacha, Florida. Roy is an Engineer and is always looking for more technical ways to make his paintings better. He focuses on only a few of the rules or tools of painting and design. He relies on his experience of these design theories, but does not dwell on them to much during the painting process. Roy is also an avid tennis player and finds he plays his best tennis when he simply keeps his eye on the ball and forgets all his training. When you paint a painting in less than 15 minutes you have to stay focused. You don't have time to think about what to do, or changes to make, you just do it from instinct and training. The same as playing your best tennis. It's called being in the zone. You have to free your mind of all the training and rigid formalities and just play the ball. Let your intuitions guide your brush and your subconscious will always be aware of the rules and tools of painting that you have learned. You need to think Abstract Shapes when you are designing your paintings. Design the shapes in your painting as if you are doing an abstract painting and then simplify your painting to basic shapes & symbols.

    Developing your own set of symbols for objects is when most artists find themselves as an artist. It's these set of symbols and shapes that set you apart for all the other artists.  You have to bring something different to the table to make your mark as an artist. For many years I had just tried to copy the painting style of other artists. Then I realized what I needed as a watercolor painter.

    Roy's style of watercolor painting takes less than 15 Minutes and many watercolor painting projects can be completed in less time. His techniques allow you to paint quickly.  He focuses his workshops on painting design and techniques and makes sure his students have a solid design and then how to apply the watercolor paint quickly with as few brush strokes as possible.  This gives you a fresh and glowing painting in less than 15 minutes." 

   Beginners and professionals find Roy's Fast Watercolor Painting style is easy to adapt to and opens many doors of possibilities. Even watercolor artists that do detailed watercolor paintings will discover ways to implement Roy's techniques by doing quick under paintings or initial watercolor washes that they can add details (or possibly overwork) the painting afterwards.

    Roy doesn't use a liner brush or small brushes at all. He lets his process of painting do the minute details in his painting. Examine all the details in his art work and keep in mind it's all done with BIG brushes and the minimum number of brush strokes. He would rather end up with an un-finished painting than an over worked painting. You can always add details with a liner brush such as limbs, shadows, etc. If you overwork the painting or create mud then you cannot fix it after words. 

    Most people don't have hours, days or even weeks to complete a watercolor painting.  Roy Fuller can teach you how to paint beautiful 15 minute spontaneous watercolors! Many of his paintings are completed in less than 12 minutes. The quicker you can complete a watercolor painting the more fluid and spontaneous it will look. The secret is doing all your planning and design before you start painting and use big brushes and the minimum number of brush strokes. It's really a very simple process, but most watercolor artists make it too complicated.

                                                Keep It Simple!

   Many times Roy will have his students paint a watercolor painting without a sketch or an idea of what they are painting. This is letting the painting paint itself and can only happen when you're doing wet into wet watercolors. Some of his best watercolor paintings were completed this way. Just wet the paper and apply one color while immediately introducing another color and letting the colors blend on the paper. This method is somewhat similar to Oil Painter Bob Ross. He would just start painting the clouds, then add a mountain and then he would see a tree here and a rock there. He would point out all the Happy Accidents as he called them. These are usually what makes a painting special. The same thing happens in watercolors if you let the paint flow freely. Roy's fast painting method also get the student comfortable with watercolors. Students learn not to fear what the paint is going to do but rather embrace it and enjoy it and have fun letting the watercolors flow freely.

  Also painting on 1/4 sheets instead of full sheets takes the pressure away from students. They have 8 opportunities to paint a great painting from one full sheet of watercolor paper. Four on the front side and four on the back sides of the 1/4 sheets. Some of my best paintings were done on the back of failed watercolor paintings. Hey it's part of the history of the painting you are doing and makes the painting more valuable. If you see a watercolor painting is going south, throw it aside and let it dry. In the meantime grab another 1/4 sheet and start again and again if necessary. You have 8 shots to get it right. Then pick the best of the eight paintings for your final painting.       

            Roy's Painting method is very relaxed and not rushed. It's the planning, the design and the techniques that makes it quick.

   I put my palette between me and the easel. This way I have to hold my arms out in front of me and use my arms to paint instead of my wrists or fingers on the brush. This gives you better relaxed brush strokes and eliminates the tendency to put in to much detail and overwork the painting. 

    Roy decided after several years of oil painting that it was time to move on to a more spontaneous process. A painting process and technique that doesn't require weeks or months for the paintings to dry completely. Watercolors dry quickly and you can make corrections quickly. Watercolor is a medium that uses very inexpensive art supplies compared to other painting mediums. You can sit down for 3o minutes and finish a nice watercolor painting. Very similar time frame that it took Bob Ross to paint his beautiful oil paintings on television.

 

    Roy has studied the books, DVD's and workshops and techniques of watercolor artists including Tony Couch, Tom Lynch, Cathy Johnson, Judi Wagner, Edgar Whitney, Skip Lawrence, John Lovett, Sterling Edwards, Tony Van Hasselt, and many other watercolor artists. It has taken Roy many years to perfect his style of FAST WATERCOLOR  PAINTING.  He completes his paintings in less than 15 minutes and often less than 12 minutes by simplifying his paintings and planning the painting before starting and using a strong design. He has learned to utilize the special qualities and characteristics of watercolors like spontaneous color mixing using wet into wet for most of the painting. Done with big brushes this keep your painting loose and fresh. It also takes the work out of watercolor painting and makes it FUN to paint again! Roy adds very little if any details to his paintings with smaller brushes. The small details will paint themselves with this technique if you only let them and don't resist letting Happy Accidents happen.

    The best way to bring all this information together and improve your watercolor paintings. Even if your style of watercolor painting depends on detailed paintings that take hours or days to render, you will still benefit greatly from learning how to paint quick and loose under paintings that you will add washes or glazes to later. Also all the design concepts discussed in his workshops apply to all mediums of painting. These are the same design techniques utilized by the masters of painting for centuries.

     Roy Fuller lives in Southwest Florida near world famous Matlacha and has websites dedicated to international exposure opportunities for amateur and professional watercolor artists.   

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    Roy Fuller has been painting watercolors for over 25 years.  His watercolor painting demonstrations and workshops DVD available online are focused on the basics necessary to make a watercolor painting come together. Things like composition, doing a value sketch before you start painting, basic design elements and principles that make up a great painting. These are things that will breath life into your watercolor paintings, keeping your painting applications and techniques fresh.

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        Painting Technique - Simplify your subject. Watercolors really "pop" when you show only the basic ingredients needed. Don't add to many trees, buildings, rocks, mountains, etc. If you are painting a photograph, use design techniques to reduce un-necessary clutter in the painting. You want your center of interest to be the star of the show. Make everything else in the painting point to the center of interest.

 

                             "Only One Star Should Shine In Your Paintings"  Roy Fuller 2002

 

        Painting Technique - Always get the paper as wet as you can before you begin applying watercolor paints. Depending on your environment you may only have 7 minutes before the paper starts to dry.

 

                       "Plan Like A General & Paint Like A Beaver"  Roy Fuller 2000

 

       Painting Technique  - Don't dilute your paint to the point of liquid.  For painting the beach, the foreground trees and bushes you want your paint to be like toothpaste. This will give you a little more control over the wet in wet process also.

                "Use Your Happy Accidents To Make Your Paintings Special."  Roy Fuller 2003

 

     Painting Technique  - Paint from wet to dry, from large shapes to small shapes, and from light values to dark values. All this is done while the painting is drying in the first 7 minutes and also as you apply additional watercolor washes or details.

 

          "Try Letting The Painting Paint Itself, You Might Be Surprised"  Roy Fuller 2004

 

     Painting Technique - Use larger brushes such as 3 inch, 2 inch and 1 1/2 inch flat brushes and paint as quickly as possible. Once you paint something - don't go back into it again. This will keep the painting fresh looking. 

 

    "I'd Rather Have An Un-Finished Painting Than An Over Worked Painting. You Can Always Add Details To An Un-Finished Painting, But There's No Fix For An Over Worked Painting. Get In And Get Out Quickly." 

                                                     Roy Fuller 1999 

 

     Painting Technique - Don't try applying the paint uniformly as this is not always pleasing to the viewer.  Instead add some variety in your brush strokes, the paint mixture, the size of shapes, the value of shapes, the number of shapes. 

 

                            "Variety is the spice of everything nice" Roy Fuller 2001.

 

     Painting Technique  - Apply paint with your brush quickly.  Don't stay in one spot going back and forth, move around the paper in light, sweeping strokes and changing your direction continuously. It's the variety in your brush strokes you want to focus on.  Always use variety in you painting from the design to the completion. Always paint trees different heights, width, texture, values and colors. The same goes for rocks, mountains, people, clouds and everything else.

 

 

                                 "Design Slow and Paint Fast" Roy Fuller 2005.

 

 

     Painting Technique  I always do best when I paint on a slight angle.  You can experiment slanting your board upward off a flat table by placing a book, etc. under the outside edge.  I usually paint with my backboard in the vertical position so my students can see better.

                                                                                      

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