Tom Shepherd
kicked off his art career using graffiti pens to draw bright and colourful custom artwork on guitars, but the infinite variety of subjects, and the endless possibilities of other media was always beckoning him.
Subsequently daring to pick up a brush, his encounter with more traditional media, opened a world of imaginative inspiration. Now, with watercolour very much at the forefront, Tom loves the challenge of tackling a wide variety of subjects. Find out more at www.schoolofwatercolour.co.uk
Email: tom@tomshepherdart.com
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The final step in this painterly approach to watercolours is to achieve diversity of edges. Although it is the last piece of the puzzle, in many ways I feel it is the easiest to understand, and with a few pointers, relatively straightforward to apply to our paintings. Better still, I have often observed that basic guidance and encouragement to consider edges can immediately take students’ work to the next level.
What do we mean by edges?
Simply, I think of edges as the transition between one area of a painting or subject and another. For example, the shift from an object to its background, the transition from an area of light into shadow, one colour into another, one object into another, and so on.
There are several types of edges that should be included in each of our paintings. For instance, a transition can be precisely defined, obvious, or sharp – let's
