Exploration And Practice Of Watercolor Illustration Art

In the natural history museum has a set of extremely fine natural history ofwatercolor originals, these illustrations was published in1705, whether books orillustration, from Maria, the great entomologist Sibylla Merian and natural historyartist. She creatively put insects in various growth morphology and host plants with thepainting in the screen, will be scientific and artistic beauty and a furnace, artistic andscientific value of strong, was later entomologist and natural history of art very much.Her motherland is especially proud of her, Germany in1992500issued by the Markbill, the back is merry Ann painted caterpillars and dandelion, positive is Merianportrait. Her watercolor illustrations of both realism and exaggerated, colorcoordination, details handled properly. Especially for light grasp, is more accurate inplace, has the very strong infectivity.In today’s society, science and technology and virtual world largely took over theartistic interpretation of the location, illustration designers rely more on the computersoftware visual effect, lead to the design of language expression and the singleness oftechnique of expression, the same work machinery, impersonal and intimacy. With thechange of people’s aesthetic orientation, hand-painted watercolor illustrations of theartistic charm, the unique visual tension, to reach a consensus from the form and theaudience, resonate from the heart, is paid more and more attention, worthy of ourin-depth inquiry.According to Merriam hand-painted watercolor illustration works as thebreakthrough point, the origin of watercolor painting and illustration of the overalltheoretical analysis. Then cited author pictures of Merian from research and text data,infection etc. from watercolor illustrations to create the spirit of initiative, imagecreated by the performance, the purport of the works, art of watercolor illustrationswere analyzed. From the organizational forms, brushwork, color use, use of media andways of thinking of the watercolor illustration creation practice are discussed. Theabove research, aims to deeply understand the art form of watercolor illustrations,update the concept of creation, to improve the creative ability in practice.