{"id":8231,"date":"2021-02-19T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:47:40","slug":"beginning-of-watercolor-painting-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-falling-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/beginning-of-watercolor-painting-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-falling-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of Watercolor Painting of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water"},"content":{"rendered":"I am starting a new watercolor painting of one of my favorite works of architecture from the 20th century–“Falling Water” by Frank Lloyd Wright.\u00a0 It’s a great work.\u00a0 It is the culmination of Wright’s architectural visions for many years before it was formally designed on paper and built.\u00a0 I know this from reading his book.\u00a0 Wright tells the story of how the client for the house was two hours away when he called and asked about how the house design was coming along.\u00a0 Wright told him that he should start driving now if he wants to see the ideas he had ready to present.\u00a0 But nothing had been started except what Wright had in his head.\u00a0 Wright quickly summoned the help of his interns to create the drawings based on his direction over the next two hours.\u00a0 Two hours later when the client arrived, this masterpiece was revealed.![\"\"](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
As an architectural artist I will attempt to capture the spirit of this great work.\u00a0 Watercolor is a sequential medium where values and colors are layered and built up over time.\u00a0 I would like to add “screen shots” of my progress on the painting to show how the process works along the way.\u00a0 So the first image is the genesis with some preliminary values filled in to begin to define the house and environs.\u00a0 Limited palette, sprinkling warm or cool color around in a balanced application to serve as underpainting.\u00a0 Most of these areas will be overpainted at a later time, but not all.\u00a0 The second image shows further areas of underpainting–the more white areas get painted, the greater emphasis is put on the white areas that remain.\u00a0 I see the flowing waterfall as the primary element that will ultimately stay white.\u00a0 I also want to use the same colors in the house and use them in the landscape in order to confirm Wright’s vision of organic architecture that springs from the earth naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am starting a new watercolor painting of one of my favorite works of architecture from the 20th century–“Falling Water” by Frank Lloyd Wright.\u00a0 It’s a great work.\u00a0 It is the culmination of Wright’s architectural visions for many years before it was formally designed on paper and built.\u00a0 I know this from reading his book.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,11,1],"tags":[17,51,80,86,118],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-architectural-rendering","category-personal-fun-stuff","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-architectural","tag-illustration","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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As an architectural artist I will attempt to capture the spirit of this great work.\u00a0 Watercolor is a sequential medium where values and colors are layered and built up over time.\u00a0 I would like to add “screen shots” of my progress on the painting to show how the process works along the way.\u00a0 So the first image is the genesis with some preliminary values filled in to begin to define the house and environs.\u00a0 Limited palette, sprinkling warm or cool color around in a balanced application to serve as underpainting.\u00a0 Most of these areas will be overpainted at a later time, but not all.\u00a0 The second image shows further areas of underpainting–the more white areas get painted, the greater emphasis is put on the white areas that remain.\u00a0 I see the flowing waterfall as the primary element that will ultimately stay white.\u00a0 I also want to use the same colors in the house and use them in the landscape in order to confirm Wright’s vision of organic architecture that springs from the earth naturally.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JMG-Fallingwater-2-1024x752.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\")
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