About Jennifer Rose tutorials

Guest tutor Jennifer Rose has created tutorials teaching her loose watercolour painting style, using a combination of wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry techniques. Meet her in the video below:

Equipment:

Further to Jennifer's introduction to her equipment in the above video, you can find more information, as well as buying links, for her equipment here.

Reference images:

Jennifer often works without a single reference image, but instead takes her inspiration for a painting from looking at a collection of images and selecting the various elements (colours, shapes, composition) she likes most from the different images.

Paper stretching:

Jennifer doesn't usually stretch her paper for her paintings.

The creative 'interpretation' process:

Check out this video where Jennifer shares her entire creative process from inspiration through to starting her painting.

Glossary:

Below is a brief glossary of the key terms Jennifer uses in her tutorials which are relevant to her style of painting:

• Almost dry - when your painting does not quite feel dry to the touch, but is more towards dry than damp. Jennifer sometimes allows her paper to almost-dry between applying layers of paint
• Blend - to bring one colour into another on the paper, uniting the different colours and allowing them to mix together on the page
• Enhancement - adding colours or shapes for the purpose of complimenting other colours and shapes in the painting, or to add interest and enhance the aesthetics of the overall composition
• Merge - another word for blend; where colours have run into each other on the paper. This can either happen when the layer underneath isn't fully dry and wet paint is applied over the top of it, or when two wet areas of paint next to each other are joined up
• Pigment - the colour particles in the paint. These become mobilised when the paint is mixed with water
• Semi-dry - when your painting is still damp to the touch, but the wet sheen has disappeared from the paper. Jennifer often allows her paper to semi-dry between applying layers of paint
• Water marks - where the pigment in the paint has travelled across the wet paper and can't travel any further because it has reached the edge of the wet area, it gathers at the edge and forms a darker line. Jennifer celebrates the formation of watermarks in her loose watercolour paintings as they create pleasing effects that enhance the 'loose' look
• Wet-in-wet - applying paint to paper which is already wet, whether it has a layer of water or a layer of paint underneath it. When you paint wet-in-wet, the pigment in the paint travels through the water and can merge with other colours on the paper.