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if you're wanting to learn to paint watercolor Landscapes then it's really a good idea to start with something simple like this because it's uh not got much perspective in it and uh it's really easy so here we go and I'm just going to drop in the cadmium blue and spread it out by squeezing a little bit on my brush to release the water as we go along and um I find I have found so far that I can get quite a lot of control here and I'm going to drop in a little bit of yellow because we're going to have a slightly um streaky yellowy sort of Sky effect just a little bit a little bit more down here and we'll spread that out little bit more blue the nice thing about Naples yellow is that it doesn't go green when it hits blue you get a sort of slightly gray tone so that's that's a good thing so there we are just a nice light sky maybe put a little bit more in over here because you know um watercolors dry much lighter then they start out which is constantly confusing to all of us so we're not smoothing that all out I'm just giving it some variation there and I'm hoping that as that dries that will continue to have a bit of variation okay so then once that's dry I'm going to come in and lay in some mountains in the distance maybe put a little bit more yellow down there right in the background so I'm going to uh yeah I'm going to come in with a slightly darker but still light shade and do we're going to do layers of mountains in the distance so we'll dry that off and I'll be back in a tick okay so back to the cadmium blue again now it's dry and we'll just put in a line of hills in the background it doesn't really matter um how you do that line and then we're going to just drag that down and then wet that with a little bit more squeezing on the brush and let that bleed down so gives you a nice graduated wash and then we let that dry and now for the next layer I'm going to use bits more of a violety blue color so it's a bit of Windsor Windsor violet mixed in with my cadmium Cobalt rather and then we come in with another layer of hills and then just again a little bit more water wet it and let that run down and then we're going to pop the hair dryer on again and then some more of the same maybe a little bit more bluish a little bit darker [Music] dry it again and then again a little bit [Music] darker the hardest thing about this is trying to make the line of the pills random the second hardest thing is wondering what the dogs are up to when they suddenly start to Bar of course technically speaking I should probably wait for this to dry naturally as I often have been known to say but um I want to get this done a bit more [Music] quickly so this is quite [Music] fun you can experiment as you go along of course trying out different things ways of holding the brush even [Music] [Music] don't know how that's going to work out now I'm going to try to mix up some greenish dark greenish blue so that's quinacridone into ultramarine and then I'm going to bring in a line of mountains here that might be a bit more green than I wanted it so I'll just pick up bit more blue so now I'm just making that wet in the [Music] foreground and I'm going to paint this bit here in a mixture of colors that I imagine would be appropriate for a mounting side trees that is to say so we're just dumping in a whole lot of blue mixed with quinacridone gold make some dark greens and I'm going to let that come down like that in the front a bit of violet perhaps to make some darker darks with the blue that's all going to spread out pointy bits for trees in the distance there and then on this side we're going to do it much more Violet a violety uh blue cuz that's going to be further away so that's windso Newton uh windso purple with [Music] the conone gold and ultramarine gives some really rather lovely Rich mixtures of color there we let that go fuzzy we drag that up a little bit and that will go [Music] fuzzy and back here this needs bit more reinforcement there I mean imagine that that's a valley filled with mist [Music] and coming back here as this is drying a little bit we can add a few more darks going into the parts where it's darkest and then some lights some brights where it was brighter and then I will let this dry rather than using the hair dryer on it and we'll see what I see how that turns out okay so here is the sketch painting I've just done which I'm going to now attempt to uh do again um on slightly different paper this is sketch paper and um so I've tried out these paints with the addition of a little bit of black and uh I'm using this this palette here just to mix things in in the middle there so uh so I'll put that to one side and uh I'm going to be using some um I'm going to use my last sheet of Archie's paper that's in this pad here um that was also sent to me by lovely friend um which is not I'm not dropping hints by the way don't get me wrong I'm just saying um that I've had some lovely things that I've been able to use to share with you so that's really nice nice um so I don't want to make it I'm not going to make it as big as this piece of paper I'm going to make it approximately the same size as that um so I'm just going to um take a take I want I was going to do it on this bow Hong sheet this is B Hong paper which is also not too bad um another gift actually come to think of it uh but I didn't like the ratio the the height versus the width of the paper isn't quite right for what I wanted to do so I want what I wanted was something a little bit higher so I'm just going to give myself an outline like that and then I'm going to move that down a bit move down to about there so that's just to give me a rough indication so it'll be a um just be sitting in the middle of that piece of paper so and um so the sketch I will have up on the website for you to to um to use if you want to use that I'm going to start off with the house which I'm going to put just off just um about just over a third of the way across and somewhere slightly less than half way up so around about here you try not to put the center of Interest which of course in this particular case is the house um don't put that too close to the center that's a sort of wall just sit down I can't draw if I'm standing up can I so um this is a an Italian view umbrea um where a cc and these paints are to be found and the characteristic uh architecture there you call it that it has a very low slope to the roof not at all steep because they don't get much snow there so they don't have to have steep roofs to let snow fall off of um and then the walls are relatively High uh probably because Italy having [Music] been um inhabited by the Romans for a long time I expect they probably were so good at um building that they wanted to make their buildings tall I don't know anyway so right at the top there the windows tend to disappear into the eaves of the house the uh doorways are often arched like that and relatively small and then there'll probably be a few sort of masonry lumps standing around there um so then the hills of umbrea are rounded so in the background we would have some some rounded Hills sort of rolling away into the distance there and then the characteristic um tree is the those tall dark cypresses I suppose they are we have them here well yes we do actually in [Music] France so they're very tall and dark and iconic for Italy and and then these little bushes going down here and another little Bush preps just here and uh this is a I think that's a bit too tall I've made that a bit high so just have a little Bush here and another one here I'm just copying my own sketch so and then um that's where the roof line is and that's the wall so we're going to have the hill going up here and um then coming down again and drifting off out and over here we'll have some more slightly smaller because they're in the distance more of these um Cyprus trees that's what they are isn't [Music] it and then in the foreground I'm going to um imagine so that that's going to go up there like that and then imagine the foreground has got kind of arable field so something growing maybe corn in the foreground here and over here perhaps um there might be a small Vineyard or something like that okay so that's the sketch and now I'm going to try out this brush here this one that came with the set and we'll see how that goes so let's just wet [Music] the [Music] sky first of all and uh the reason for doing that is so that when we drop the glue in it can spread nicely without too much trouble and uh on my trial I think I used the Periwinkle which is quite a nice blue probably want a little bit more on one side than on the other so it's quite a good idea to sort of Dash across [Music] and uh don't fuss with it too much let the let the water to do the work so I just leave that to blend thing is when you're doing your sketch you tend to sort of um just Dash it in and and then go on to the next thing when you're doing the actual painting you start to fasten then it never turns out quite so so free as you would wish it to so then the heels in the background we need to do those in a kind of bluish green so um we've got two greens here which are can see them swatched out here I just did that there's something called deep sea green and then there's forest green I suppose forest green probably be a good place to start since it's obviously a forested hill so I put that there and that is obviously far too harsh for um for what we want for the hill we want it strong but we don't want it like phthalo blue that looks phthalo green that looks like it's it's got to have a little bit more um uh warmth in it so various things we could do we could try quinacridone gold now that brightens it so that's not what we want either let's try some brown this is chromite brown yes I think that's probably going to work so we just put more Brown in there and uh once we've got that reasonably intense like that we going to have to try it out on a piece of paper just to make sure I've got something remotely appropriate um piece of paper is there a piece of paper in the building [Music] probably be okay maybe a bit more Brown and maybe a little bit of a little bit more green perhaps okay I don't want to make it too dark there some CR acridone in there because I need the um what do you call them Mr stand out too so okay so so we'll come in here for the distant trees and also on this side here I'm just going to paint over where I'm going to put the trees cuz they'll be darker so just put that in Fairly Loosely and then just drag it down with some water same here [Music] and then I'm going to put a little bit of yellow in here so this is quinacridone gold so we just pop some of that in to let it sort of meld and leave that for a minute and I'm going to go to the to the roof now this uh this brush is interesting because it's very very soft and uh so it's actually quite hard to paint with but um let's see [Music] does have a nice [Music] point and uh I probably ought to put a little chimney up there I think it's going to run into the sky but never mind get that from happening and come back to the room once that stopped it's dry good thing about archers paper is if you get something like that happen you can just lift it out it's not a problem um all right I think I might swap to a brush that I'm a bit more familiar with for the next thing and I'm going to paint the uh stonework of the little house and that's um that is that is English red that's color that is not in this set so just to be perverse since I'm painting Italy I'm going to use something that's called English red and then I shall add to that a little bit of Krone or maybe this orange color what was it called pido orange yeah we just drop some of that in to warm that up and let that bleed and then afterwards I will add the Shadows of the door and the window and darken up the roof as well and then we need some more green these bushes here so sort of yellowish put a couple of colors in [Music] there start off with a kind of yellow yellow green Green in the background and then you can make it sort of Darker as you come forward so I'm using the mix I did for the the hills yeah I'm just going to strengthen the top of the hill there a little bit uh right so maybe Touch of orange in the background here again [Music] and some darks at the [Music] bottom pop some more darks in here as well give us the edge of the building so keep that side perhaps a little bit darker than this side cuz here we're going to in a minute when that's dry we will put in our trees and um so then I'm going to um pick up some Krone gold and I'm going to sort of sweep that up here using the side of the brush so it's a kind of broken effect so that it's not absolutely solid put some over there we want to make this a nice sunny scene so there some more here cuz if there's one thing you know about Italy is that it's sunny and then we're just going to sweep in some strokes and broken um what do we call that um dry brush effect yes when you get that Lively [Music] effect and then um some more quinacridone gold here to just make that more definite [Music] and then back to the uh the dark green which we mixed with some brown to get that strong green distant [Music] green a touch of koncone in there as well and then we might just put in some here where I said that they might you might imagine that that was a vineyard with the lines of plants growing there and then we're going to come in again with the same sort of darker color and put some Shadows underneath these bushes to indicate where the branch uh the Trunks and things are reinforce this as well TR there's one problem with watercolor much as I love watercolor it does always dry lighter then you would hope it would be wonderful if it actually dried the same color it was when you put it on anyway it doesn't so there we are so now I'm going to add some black to this green and I'm going to hope that the trees are going to be okay [Music] doesn't matter if they bleed a little bit it's probably a good thing [Music] [Music] actually for [Music] okay I think perhaps I can do the window now in the house so we're coming with a bit of dark dark brown or black or dark red green something like [Music] that and we just pop that in and then we're going to pick up some more reddish brown so the edge the shadow of the roof [Music] [Music] and I thought probably a little bit of brown mixed with a bit of orange for the roof maybe so they do have these sort of Orange miles [Music] [Music] [Music] okay and then we're back again to this dark green that we [Music] need and then we make the one next to it a bit more yellowish [Music] [Music] strengthen that a little bit few more of those trees in the background might be quite nice to have some really sharp darks here in the [Music] front maybe a couple back here and then um I want some Krone gold oops Krone gold here and we're going to an indication of a corn or wheat field with some kind of a little bit of a vertical bit of vertical movement there counteract all of the horizontals in the foreground and um we will also want some over the other side as [Music] well and blur that a bit if you wanted to put flowers in the front you could easily put sunflowers or something like that there instead instead of um Wheat Field I'm just going to make that a little bit darker just [Music] here I'm going to soften that a [Music] bit um and the roof requires a chimney over [Music] there and then um we just need to drag that down a bit inside the door because I put a window sill on something like that so I'm going to paint a Seaside seam and uh I'm going to be copying this painting which I did I don't know when a couple of years ago three years ago probably um and I'm just going to do it quite quickly I'm going to explain what I'm doing as I go along and if it doesn't work out um I won't be put putting the video up so you won't see it anyway so I'm just picking up some cobalt blue actually ultramarine could have been cobalt blue I was hoping it would be this is Cobalt it's very [Music] similar actually no it isn't that's ultramarine okay so we have or maybe it's Cobalt this Cobalt what am I talking about this is ultramarine this is Cobalt on this side so we're just popping that in coming down to roughly where the line of the trees is going to be and I'm just dropping that in with a size 11 round brush now I'm just going to pick up a crumpled tissue and I'm going to lift out some clouds just by dabbing the crumpled tissue into the Cloud area I'm going put a bit more blue up the top there and do that again to show you that uh if you're not happy with the strength of the whole thing in the first place you can just do it again so let's just do that again and you can see there's a hair there get rid of that okay so crumpled tissue and we just lift out some clouds like that and come back in with a little bit of a harder press like that maybe one up there and let the paint kind of replace itself into into wherever it was going to go now this is a little bit of Winds of violet I've got here um which I'm just going to drop in on the horizon line like that and I'm going to also just pop in a little bit of quinacridone gold just on the edge of the Horizon like that and then just lift some of that [Music] out blend it in a little bit and then we have a kind of [Music] a distant View and then we go back to the blue just drop a bit of blue in a far distant Hill whether this is going to work out or not and then um for the beach or the sea I have a little bit of uh gray just gray down the blue a little bit and and then using the side of the brush just do some sweeping Strokes across like that don't fiddle with it and then for the foreground the sand going to make that a sort of [Music] pinkish gold so that's quinacridone gold and lizin crimson and a little bit of blue make it a little bit brownish and then we'll just pop that in really loose for the beach and then we'll want some some more brownie colors so I'll mix some more quinacridone gold with Winds of violet to get a nice nice Brown and then we just drop a few bits of brown in there for you know just some texture on the ground and what we have to do now is we just have to let that dry so now we're going to start landscape little mini landscape number two and uh same kind of idea I'm just going to wet the area of the sky these are little paintings just about 4X six and um pick up some cobalt blue and I'm pretty sure it is cobalt blue and I've mixed it with a little bit of something brownish something pinkish to give us a wintry sky this time and I've left a little space there to indicate a cloud that's another way of doing clouds on this one that I did before I lifted them out with tissue so you get quite a white cloud and this one I'm just leaving a space um where the clouds are and now I've mixed up some green which is a mixture of um sap green and a little bit of blue a little bit of quinacridone gold until I'm sort of happy with the color and painting from imagination I mean you know you can do whatever you like so I'm just dropping in some trees and I'm just doing vertical Strokes like that I did a little Mark there so just lift that out and then I'm going to pick up some olive green mixed with Krone to make it a bit darker and also mix it with some winds of violet to make a nice dark green and we'll drop that in at the bottom here I'm still using the uh number 14 uh sorry number 11 uh round nylon brush this is a draw well brush from Japan and uh then we'll come back in with a little bit more even darker and just put [Music] some some dark Greens in there you have to trust a little bit to the um to the process because you can't or if you paint Loosely the whole point of painting Loosely and that's what this is all about is um can't really predict exactly what's going to happen so if if we're going to assume this is on water um which we could then we'll just sweep in some water there like that and then we're going to come back in and drop in the reflections of the trees underneath which is what gives if if anything does gives the impression of water and then on my original hair which I painted a while ago I had some um some rocks they were kind of brownish weren't they so we'll need a bit of brown in with the blue to give ourselves a brown browny gray color and we just drop something in there like I say it's never going to be exactly the same as it was before it's impossible if you do it like that then one way that you can make it look like it's water is to grab a card and then just scrape through where the reflection meets the water just lift it out a little bit [Music] I'm just going to do some dry brush across the front here and then we'll let it dry and then we'll probably put some of these some of these rushes like I've got here put some of those in here we need to let it dry now so putting that aside let it dry and we go back to this one and um yeah we need to define the distance a little bit so we're going to come back in with some quite light move violet some kind of actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to change this because I'm not totally happy with that yellow so I'm going to paint the distant Hills over the top of that and [Music] then I'm going to put another layer in front like that and then come back with some light gray in the water like that okay that's better and then here it was going to be pinkish yellowish pink for the sand [Music] so okay now I do want to put some [Music] people I just want to make these darks a little bit darker here so some blue to some brown it's just random doesn't have any particular [Music] meaning now when that's dry I'll be able to put my little people in which you can see here there's a a couple standing on the beach there and we could put them about here I think probably be the best place for [Music] them and um while I'm waiting for that to dry that one and that one are now both wet I'm going to do some butterflies if I can find a piece of paper um I don't know what that paper was that I was painting on but it was probably I would say most likely CLA fortain ety valve 140 lb hard sorry cold pressed watercolor paper um which uh you can get if you want to go to one of our leaks that would be highly appreciated and then we get a tiny tiny little commission from Amazon although it doesn't actually cost anything to use so now this is just a little bonus while I'm waiting for this to dry I'm going to paint some butterflies in a in a way that I haven't done before now this is what I would call an ice breaker or a warmup I am suggesting that you just paint outline and fill in in water and you can see where you've painted if you just tilt it slightly then pick up any color at random and just drop it in make it a color rather than mud just drop it [Music] in adjust the shape a little bit so it looks more like a butterfly than just a splodge maybe take a slightly smaller brush and pick up some darker color the edges perhaps this is one of the reasons I don't like tiny brushes because they they don't pick up the paint okay so then we just let try [Music] that and then in the middle you'll see the benefit of this once they start to dry just dry that off in the middle and I'm going to come in you've got a choice quite often I use a watercolor pencil this is a shler Kat aquarel and I just quite like the way you can get different amount of Darkness just by how hard you press but then for the antenna you need a pen and then I would leave it like that if you want to you can come in with water and refine the shape of the body like that and if you feel that's too dark can lift some of the color out adjust the shape until you're [Music] happy and then do the same thing again suggest you pick up the paper because you can't see if you're looking at it straight on just paint roughly the shape which is basically a fat cross and then pick up your color let's say this one's going to be sort of golden brown just drop that [Music] in and then go for something slightly darker so want some more of that and then we need uh to make that darker brown what shall I use I really want I just use this this is uh English red or Venetian red just drop that in at the tips one or two little bits here little bits there and then need to dry the middle a little bit because otherwise the Black Pencil will run too much so then we're going to put head body and T and then we'll let that dry too and so [Music] on this idea kind of came because a lady said um she wondered whether if she was to draw less and come in more with paint right from the get-go her paintings might be looser and I thought you know what you've got a point so let's not draw at all okay so we've got this nice uh blue one here now so we'll just drop in some darker blue at the tips of the Wings there and down here and [Music] here and we let that dry then we come in and somehow think actually I don't want to do that with that I'm going to do it with paint for this blue one like that and T and you can if you want you can go around them with pen like that but uh sometimes it's nice to have them really soft and then carry on until the page is full have another green one I have to pick it up because otherwise I can't see where I put the [Music] water and there's all sorts of different variations that you could do darker color down the side [Music] and if you drop the body in with paint rather than the pen and then maybe just a little bit a shadow that's another way of doing it and if you feel that it's gone a bit dark you just grab your tissue and lift something out it's always possible to adjust and we let that dry so now having spent some time doing those um I come back to this one and my original here that I'm redoing has got some bull rushes on the front there and so I need a fairly small brush for that and some dark dark brown so I'll mix some [Music] black with some brown this is CP I expect so I've just made it a bit darker turn some [Music] so just some few darks over here a few Pebbles on the [Music] beach and I think we'll P that one [Music] done and we have the other little beach seene and uh this is not necessarily all that easy doing people but um you need a fairly small brush I've got a um size five here and uh one thing to remember [Music] with um bodies is that you start off with a very very small head I shall put them in the distance so let's let's put them here so we have tiny head for the man and then he's going to be wearing blue shorts here and then his body and his leg legs one leg I always think it's best to go with the flow and if your adults turn into children then go with it so then we want some red uh cuz he looks like a little boy so I'm going to change that I'm going to say [Music] mother my dark hair [Music] and her legs and maybe little dog in the distance maybe a ball [Music] a little blue shadow standing on the beach so I'm going to be doing the initial drawing on this in ink and I'm going to be using um India ink which is actually Chinese India Indian ink rang King is is one this one is called machine intense Indian ink so that's all a bit confusing anyway I'll put a link to that in the description below I've done a very Hasty uh sketch on here just with the side of a pencil and now I'm going to come in and I'm going to start with the trees and I'm going to allow them to kind of grow out of the uh paper I'm using a piece of stretched watercolor paper this is I think this is um l or color paper and um and I'm using a glass pen um which is a very nice thing to draw with you can go quite a long way with one dip into the ink with this pen quite interesting how much you can do with it so very pleasant experience it's nice and smooth it flows beautifully nice even um uh line and you can break it up as much as you want and so my my trees are leaning in towards the water and I'm just going to take the main branches out over uh cross over one another and I'm just enjoying this I I'm not um don't have a particular plan I'm not going to um try to create a masterpiece this is just um an enjoyable way to relax now the Builder has gone home and uh heartly recommend this as an anti- Builder the antidote and the thing is just make sure all your branches as you go up they divide and they get thinner because you don't want a big fat one coming up the end there misbehaving and then once you've got enough what you think of is enough trees you can come in and just do some really nice um squiggly outlines because you if there's one thing you don't want to do it's to draw every leaf on the tree some people do I don't too lazy so we'll get the basis in and um so just think of the the uh the leaves as being in kind of clumps and then once we've got these kind of clumps in and these clumps are going to reflect your personality you know you can't it can't be any other way so whatever happens is going to happen so then I'm going to just sketch in the horizon line there which is going to go right the way out like that and then down here we've got some something of a kind of Bank like kind of thing going down to the water we had it here I'm working through this and lots of really fantastic opportunities for just letting it all happen so you've got your little beach type of thing there these trees could probably being a bit fatter so we'll just strengthen them up down that side there with a bit more I imagine the one thing that you might want to do with an ink pen made of glass is just not pressed too hard so I need to restrain myself on that but uh I don't know how strong it is I think it's made from the same sort of glass they make Pyrex dishes from so it's probably fairly strong anyway um so up here we're going to going to do a kind of scribble of shadow of the trees growing along the edge of the lake in the distance there and then we need to come up a little bit I'm thinking of Canada while I'm painting drawing this this is making me feel like the I don't know the Manitoba or somewhere like that where you have these long legs and then we'll put some reads down here some may or bull rushes few squiggles on the water take these branches up here a little bit further as well and I'm going to put some color on there okay so great fun drawing with that so I'll put that back for a minute there and I'll just close up my ink now if I'm going to do this uh in watercolor I will probably just restrict myself in terms of colors quite a bit and uh my usual blue is um cobalt blue so we'll use that for the sky and maybe also for the water or we could use Cerulean um which I don't have I'm out of Cerulean so I'm going to go with Cobble uh then Krone gold is always a good color for the shades of autumn I know I've got that somewhere what have I done with it is this it it looks like it K acridone gold and then maybe a touch of olive green maybe a little bit of seia or burnt sienna I'm not sure at this particular moment in time so I think uh as you can see the top of the the tree has been cut off I have cut off the top of the tree I'm going to use my um uh cat's tongue my zen art um black tulip cat's tongue brush for this only because I've got it and um I'm going to start off and just drop in some a Krone gold and a bit of burnt sienna give myself a an nice kind of rusty autum e sort of and I'm just going to put it in in in kind of loose a loose way not really joined up and um a little bit more bur in maybe a little bit of blue which is going to give me a bit more of a kind of shadowy sort of thing and we'll just see how that goes with this brush we want a nice variety of colors don't [Music] we so we'll see how that goes and then um I think probably a good idea to approach the sky and we'll just let's just make it nice and loose this is you could call this a loose painting and uh it is it is going to be loose don't forget to put a little bit of blue in the holes in the tree where the the birds fly through and uh make that nice and the idea of kind of wind swept clouds going across the sky perhaps might say so then we're going to be looking for some green in the distance and distant Green in my opinion is usually on the blue side so uh we want we want that to be a little bit fairly strong on the on the uh cobalt blue so we just remember this is pen and ink this isn't pure watercolor now we're going to come back to the water so we want a little bit of blue with a touch of green and [Music] um and we just this watercolor paper is fairly quick to absorb and fairly slow to um agree to be altered so we will just try to make our Strokes as definite as possible right from the GetGo and um now we need green and blue and quinacridone gold for these foreground grasses and things so let's just use oh and also perhaps a bit of R Sienna and you can hold the brush in a different way if you feel you want the impressionistic style and then we're going to sweep across the front here a little bit using a kind of dry brush technique very quickly a little bit more down here perhaps in the way of Blues now I don't really feel very happy with the trunks being as light as they are so I'm going to put some brown in there and some blue because I remember being told once that tree trunks weren't Brown and I've sort of had a phobia about accidentally making them too Brown ever since then so plenty of blue in the tree trunk area but not so that it looks [Music] ridiculous okay now we might might want a little bit more on the water at the back there just to [Music] and [Music] maybe just some grasses in the foreground here too and the last thing you want to do is to overemphasize and do too much detail I always remember Roland tilder saying you have to have an area in your painting that allows the eye to rest and I think that's very important and here in this particular case it's the water I think and this area here which is the restful area and uh but I do think it would be quite nice to have a couple of birds coming in over the water so I've done those in pencil and uh we will um enhance those later a little bit and uh the other thing is having got to this point I now feel that um I want to bring this Branch a little bit [Music] stronger and to also bring one out to the side there to balance the way these are put another another whole Tree in there at the back because that's doesn't look quite right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so I just want to put some I don't know if I can use this on the side yes you can there we go some nice random calligraphic [Music] marks might be easier to do that with a brush to be honest uh let's see here's my black tulip [Music] yes yep that's exactly what we needed some strong stronger lines down there and uh this brush is perfect you can see how that just brings and then maybe a little bit more dry brush [Music] I'm just going to do quite a simple sky with some uh nice little clouds which in the way I do clouds is I just leave spaces on the paper just painting around that seagull used to call them gizel in the family you know it's funny isn't it families have their own um code words sometimes because a child uh will invent a word and my children's father um couldn't say seagull but he wanted to so he used to say gizel and it kind of I don't know the family really thought that was hilarious so everyone used to talk about gizel um yes so I'm just dashing in a little bit blue in the sky leaving some holes so it's like a winds swept Sky just like what we've got out there today the sky full of clouds that are moving across somewhat faster than you might want them to um this is a piece of ceramic that I'm going to just use to mix some green so we have that blue same blue if you want Harmony in your paintings don't use too many different colors use half a dozen colors like this and then you'll have something moderately harmonious so I'm just putting in now the distant Hill which comes down to the Sea and if it goes it runs up like that which is quite a nice happy accident actually because um that makes it look like there's some trees in the distance on that Hillside there so you w worry too much about changing that and then I think I'll probably put the sea in I'm going to break my own Ru as far as the sea goes because I want the sea to be slightly different Blue from the sky so we're going to make it somewhat turquoise I'm just going to use turquoise straight out of the palette there and going just pop that in and just spread that out down to about here where the sea is going to be and then I'll probably use a little bit of canac rodone gold for the sand and just dull that down a tiny bit with a bit of green because you know going have slightly irregular there okay so we just let that b um now the roof of the house like I said we're in Britany and here most of the roofs are slate we'll well they they started out as real slate obviously not anymore so we'll make that gray and then most of the houses are either white or very light uh cream as is a sort of something creamy so I'm just going to put some shadow in in Violet in a few places because it's a it's a White House and uh chimney pots going to stay I don't know what am I going to make the chimney pots I might leave those for a minute till things dry um okay so now the flowers here we're just going to pop in a few different pops of color and just kind of let it run thinking High dangers on this side with the pink and the lilac and on this side more like daisies or sunflowers or whatever with that kind of color and then we'll want a little bit of green forther sort of grass in the front let that all run and then maybe we would imagine uh that the foreground here is very light so we might imagine it was kind of a Sandy um uh dry I suppose is what I'm trying to say dry dry grass going to put those flowers in there we just bring that background color down to here like that and uh then we'll take a look at the seagull maybe seagulls are easy really aren't they because when you think about it they just have a sort of gray Wing like that and then a black eye and a yellow beak and then yellow legs so that will do for him okay so now I just have to wait for that to dry and we'll come back and we'll do the windows and the door and the flowers here the grasses around there and the mailbox we have to let that dry now because it's all wet down here okay so that's that's dry now and what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop in some flowers in the foreground here and I'm going to experiment with different brushes I start with the I'm not happy with that one I'm not going to just with that let me see what could I use I want some just some little dots for the colors really [Music] and sometimes that's better yeah sometimes you have to experiment don't you you can't just get it right every time so the idea here is to just have some very super simplified flowers so I'm mixing um quinacridone gold with a little bit of alizarin crimson to give me a kind of uh orangey color and [Music] um and some of them are going to be more red so and we're going to vary the sizes so it's like a big herbaceous border with pretty flowers and we might want to put in a few L looks ly ones perhaps in background something like that and then that's when I will use my rigger long this is a Zen art rigger pick up some green and just flick in some stems not worrying too much about the green staying green but it's going to go through those flowers and just look like a random mess no not mess when you do it it won't be and then we'll go back to the other brush that I had which is a number six I think for some bigger green patches to make sort of leaves and we don't we don't want to do too much of that just enough um then I think I want to do something with the house so I'm going to mix some dark purpley blue thing to do the inside of the windows and I've chosen purple because I've made the Shadows on the house uh lilac so we just pop that in like that and then just drag it down a little bit to give a varied shadow in the corner of each window and then um probably want to just paint those G those uh tables are they what are they called anyway things above the windows then maybe we'll put some little blue shatters on and make the door little front door make that turquoise and then I think I'll paint the mailbox yellow making qu quone gold and then the pole that it's standing on just make that brown so if you add um Winds of violet to con and gold you get quite a nice [Music] Brown and then we'll mix up a dark green using quinacridone and um cobalt blue or whatever blue that is and just put some grass in down here must forget the red flag now I need to let it dry again okay so this is dry now and I'm just going to use some got some white ink here this is uh uh Windsor and Newton white ink and I'm just going to use a little bit of that just to put the uh the details for the windows in in white so white bars a white frame so something like that a little white window there just to make it look a little bit more Handel and gretly I think and uh yeah I felt that that had come out a little bit a little bit dark so I've decided to put some touches of white that's better and uh you could put smoke going up into the sky if you want it to for the fireplace or whatever um and the other thing I need to do is to write mail on the side of the thing there I don't know what color that would normally be in but uh just do it in sort of gray oh yeah nothing special today I'm going to paint this one and uh it's going to be a very easy one I hope I don't know if it's going to work out or not um but I'm using my usual color so we'll start with a very light wash into the sky of cobalt blue leaving spaces for clouds and we just let those um find their own level and then I'm going to mix up some cobalt blue with some winds of violet just to give me a darker um blue blue which I'm going to use for the line of the sea little bit more blue in [Music] there and then we'll just bring that down and then this scene has got some Greenery at the sides here so I'm going to mix some Krone gold with some cobalt blue and I'm just going to lay that in there and let that mix and mingle and then we'll do the same over the other side here maybe a little bit darker [Music] and perhaps a little bit more bluish down the bottom [Music] here and then I'm going to take some Windsor Violet with a tiny smidgin of cobalt blue in it and I'm just going to draw a nice shadow here over the [Music] sand you can pretend there's something off you know off camera so to speak okay so that's the first stage in this little painting and uh what we have to do now is we have to go and have a cup of coffee and we have to let that dry and come back to it and do the next thing but if we touch it anymore at this stage um we will probably regret it so I should be back soon that took 3 minutes okay so the underpainting is now dry so I'm going to come in with some more cobalt blue slightly darker so a little touch tiny Touch of um Winds of Violet in it just to make it a little bit darker and then I'm going to try to um put in a relatively straight horizon line like that and then we're going to break up the surface of the water a little bit like that so we just have a um [Music] an area in the middle which is a little bit lighter and then the s's a little bit darker that focuses as in on the horizon and then I'm going to probably revert to a slightly smaller brush and picking up a seven here and um this Greenery here I'm thinking um things like Bay grapes and um sea well not seagrass that's underwater but a sort of you know um the sort of thing that you find in a tropical Paradise so we'll put some sort of circular things on there and then we'll mix up some green with the Cobalt and chacone make that A Little Bit Stronger and then just whoops that's a little bit too strong I think I might have got a little bit too much there but that's okay so then we'll just put in some shadowy grasses and bits and [Music] pieces and maybe [Music] a palm tree just leaning [Music] in I've got another I've got two videos actually of um how to paint palm trees which if you go and look at those you'll be one of very few people cuz hardly anyone has looked at them I don't know why but um I thought they were quite nice cuz lovely bright colors but nobody seems interested in palm trees how can that be anyway [Music] so a little cluster of um um seidy type of things and then over this side I'm going to keep it a little bit more simple and we'll just drop in a few Pebbles here and keep it on the blue side so as contrast to this rather hot side we're going to have some grasses growing up there like that and then I'm thinking we need to come into the Sandy area so I like Potter's pink for sand so [Music] let's just drop some some sand in the front there and bring it down here and if you go over in places The Violet The Violet will obviously go darker still so um you've still got your shadow in the foreground there and then I'm going to um put some texture in by picking up a bit more of the Potter's pink on my toothbrush and some Krone gold and I'm going to think shells and stones and things like that so we need a bit more bit more color I'm going to cover up the sky to protect that and the [Music] SE and then some more size ible blobs near the [Music] [Music] front and it's time to let that dry and then we'll come back for the final final touches oh I just noticed something okay so I'm just going to pick up some quite intense um white gouache and I'm just going to do a little bit of white calligraphy on the front there uh on top of where I've put the St uh the spatter to give the impression of of water and sort of break that up a little bit and uh so that's that's that and then as you can see I've got um I put some sails in the distance for the some some boat and I'm just I've cut them out of paper and I'm just positioning them and playing around with them to see where they would be best placed and uh I think I might put them maybe the biggest one should be near the middle but not completely something like that with one over to the left a little bit but you want to make them into your focal point so something like that probably just put a little bit more there and I could also I could take some white and uh do a few spatters if I could make it runny enough there we are few spatters in the foreground there but then I want the I want the white to be quite thick so that I can paint over over the blue but the first thing to do now I've decided where they're going to go I need to make a template and I'm going to do a little bit of lifting out um because otherwise the blue will show through so I've cut some strips of paper and then I'm just going to place them to make a triangle like this where that particular sail is going to go and then going to come in with some clean water on my brush and I'm going to try to lift out some of the blue just by using that as a template and then I'm going to take a piece of tissue blot it away take away my mask and there I've got a blue area for the bottom of the boat bottom of the sail so then we'll do the same over here and put the sail there take the clean brush you can do it with a sponge as well or stencil brush any brush would do and it doesn't matter if the line's not super super sharp you just want to get rid of most of the blue and uh then we'll let that dry I have another one over here [Music] doesn't have to get rid of every last vestage of the blue just enough to make it easy to paint over with white because that's what we're going to do so now I just need to either dry that with a hair dryer or let it dry and then I can put my sails in and then we'll be done so I'm going to get the haird dryer and I'll be back in a tick okay so that's now dry so I'm just going to come in with some gouache [Music] and paint over those little triangles and then I'll put just very slight Shadow underneath where the the boat is [Music] I think I might put a little bit of blue in [Music] here and I might just add a bit more color to the Bay grapes on to the palm tree and I think that's probably about it [Music] uh a few dark spatters maybe I'll just put the mast in for the boats I'm going to roughly put some water in the sky I'm not coloring in the whole I'm not painting over the whole thing with water just a little bit like that and then I'm going to take a different brush and I'm going to pop in some very separated bits of very dilute lizar and crimson and then some very more dilute than that even some very dilute um quinacridone gold like that and then um some let's let's say cobalt blue over here perhaps and the key to making this loose is to leave I think lots of gaps for the light maybe we want little bit more here and here and then we're not going to play with that because if there are there are no rules about watercolor but one of the things about loose water color is that you're better off if you don't play with it once you've laid it down the color that is so I'm going to put a little bit of little bit more blue along the horizon here we're going to come down a bit [Music] more and and um maybe we'll go a little bit on the darker side as we come down there I'm just going to wet that and then here we're going to start the sea so going to pick up [Music] some uh indigo blue brush that across there got a nice little bit of dry brush effect there so we won't argue with that and then just making it up as I go along really it's really what I have noticed though just bring that down there like that and leave that for a sick and um I need a piece of paper towel PKA to dab that out expect you saw that happening I didn't cuz I was concentrating on the next thing there we are all better okay um and then we're sort of thinking Bermuda here or I am I'm thinking pink sand Bermuda so we put some nice pink sand in here and then um let's go for a slightly Greener [Music] blue for the water here just and then maybe the line on the horizon is always very dark isn't it strengthen that up there a little bit maybe and then I suppose it would be nice if this was what's the word melded in a bit and this will be the first layer we might have to come back we will have to come back for sure when that's dry and um add to it because we don't know at the moment what's going to happen but I do know that if I add water paint to this sky at this point I'll get cauliflowers and all sorts of things will happen so we'll leave that to dry and then come back and do the next step okay so this first stage is now completely dry I just finished it off with the hair dryer to make sure that it was completely dry and now I'm going to basically repeat what I did initially for the sky very lightly going over um leaving some gaps um going over so as not to disturb what's underneath so being very light about that and uh then I want slightly smaller brush than the one I've used to wet with and I'm going to be picking up a little bit bit more Li lierin CRI crimson and dropping it in where the pink is overlapping into some of the yellow a little bit and this is where you need to trust your intuition a little bit be a bit um you know just go with the flow sort of thing [Music] so you want it to sort of overlap let's put a bit more pink down here perhaps just think Sky while you're doing it a little bit of gray merging there which is quite nice cuz there's always a little bit of Shadow under your clouds and then down the bottom going to in another row just close to the Horizon there do matter if that if we get cauliflowers there it won't matter too much because it'll just look like piled up Banks of cloud and we can keep our fingers crossed about that now um and maybe we need a little bit more perhaps I'm just going to put a little bit of yellow and pink in there behind those clouds there a bit of a gap isn't there there so try and hope and pray that that doesn't look stupid when it dries you never know um right so then the sand in the front is also pinkish yellow so we'll just dropping some more pinkish sand color dropping a bit more um of the same color that we had there before and then I'm going to come in again with the indigo along the back so this is basically just a um deserted Beach let's give you some IDE on how to possibly do a Seascape you could add um boats along the horizon you could put people walking along the front um do all sorts of things but I'm just trying to just indicate roughly how you could do do the basics and we just put some dos here and there where it's happened to go kind of dark just emphasize it as it comes along towards you so you've got there's not really big waves going on here but just give the idea of water a little bit considering the painting in watercolor ought to be easy but never is and then the thing to do is to let it dry at this point want to have lunch come back when it's completely dry see whether you want to do anything else to it just softening all of those lines there okay so lunch beckons now it's completely dry again and um what I'm going to do next is I'm going to darken the Horizon with some um more purplish darker kind of clouds because since we've got the sea um being quite dark I think that probably it would be a good idea to have the the clouds in the distance kind of looking a bit like storm clouds so I'm just going to dab in some some colored some purple colored clouds along the horizon bringing them down sort of a little bit uneven to where the line of the sea is and uh just sort of take them up don't want that going up that high you can always use a tissue to dab away your clouds if they don't turn out quite the way you want that doesn't hurt sometimes it can give a really good um uh effect so let's uh let's drop a little bit more blue in here and hope that that's going to to spread hopefully and um maybe a little bit more up here and we'll see how that looks when that's dri first the sky is going you can never tell it's always a bit of a pot luuck really so then I'm going to bring in some where it's a little bit darker I'm going to emphasize it where it's light I'm going to leave it to be light for and then um for the foreground I'm going to really cheat and I'm looking for a toothbrush cuz I'm going to spatter there we go here is a toothbrush so we'll need a piece of paper we'll put over there and then and some Quin acedone gold greenish do that and then maybe just a few sort of neutral slightly larger okay so we let that dry and see what that looks like so you have a couple of choices if you want to put a bit of life into this painting um you could put a boat or to just cross the Horizon like that you don't need to put anything in as far as the actual Hull of the boat goes just the white sails cuz that's all you'd be able to see at a distance like that you could also just touch up some of the white surf that you've tried to leave a little bit of so I'm using Windsor Newton white ink for this just putting that in some fairly random places yeah and then you could put in the sky very far away some seagull just come in closer so you can see that can put as many boats as you like perhaps we'll put three three different boats there and as the white dries a little bit you need to come in sometimes and just put a second coat so that's the sky area wetted there and I'm going to just lift the board up a little so it's on a slight slope coming down like that and then I'm going to pick up some Caribbean Blue and drop it in from the top and just let that drift down and we just put more in as we go down and in a second I'll just lift the um board up a little bit so that it flows a little bit more downwards and I'm going to this time put just a little bit of uh mauve in to indicate just a few sort of cloudlike um elements as we get down towards the horizon so do it like that and and then I'm just going to pick the board up and encourage it to bleed a little bit like that so now we've got our beautiful sky and then underneath the horizon line we're going to put some sea and in the Caribbean or anywhere tropical like that tends to be in the distance much darker so so I've just picked up the color and I'm going to drag it along there like that and then come down forward from there and don't forget to stop when you get to the sand like that and then we'll just put a little of the um quinacridone gold across there to indicate some of the sand and we'll leave it like that and uh I'm going to and this bit will leave blank for the minute because that's going to be finished off at the end and now we'll leave it to dry so I'll be back in a second when it's dry now it's time to do the now it's dry it's time to do the um trunk of the trees and I'm going to start off with purple and I'm just going to drag the purple down until the more or less runs out and then I'm going to pick up quinacridone gold and I'm going to come over the top of that and then bring that down onto the beach so by then the color has changed a little bit as it's going there so you have a a kind of counter change and uh maybe we'll just because this one's not as blue as the other one we might need to add a little blue to give some hints of green so to that so we'll just do that and then another thing we can do to make the trunk a little bit more interesting is just to scrape into it and uh I need to wait for that to dry a little bit before we do that so in the meantime we'll do the other the other trunk and we'll just come in here with purple again and I'm going to drag that round following the line I drew before so like that and then over the top of that with the acridone gold quite thick and drag that down too and that gives us a lovely mixture of colors there and you don't want to play with it too much because that would spoil it so we just add a little bit here little bit there and uh then we just leave that for a few minutes to just start to sink in and then I'm going to scrape into it a little bit to give a bit more texture to the um to the trunk let's see whether it's ready yet it all depends how thickly you put it in in the first place there we are so you can do that and you can do it with the broad side of a cut piece of credit card that's what I tend to use like that and you can go into this one too just give it some texture cuz I think quite a lot of palm trees have spiky bits sticking out as they go up don't they so you can do that if you want or not depends whether you feel that you want to do that okay so now I'm going to start on the um the FR of the Palm trim going do the one behind first and uh just going to use quite a big brush brush and just flick down to do the the fondy bits don't be too precious about it you want to let the color do the work so as I say follow the color so let the paint tell the story and where you go up here into the sky it's brilliant because you get the the blue from behind showing up underneath so you get these wonderful colors and we might want to tie that together a little bit with some some qu acridone some sorry some um Caribbean Blue mixed in there just to join it together one up there a nice green one one and uh then we're going to go into second one so let's do nice dramatic brondy leaves and we change colors don't want them all the same color because the sunlight where it shines onto these leaves will give you loads and loads of different colors and lots of different appearances so some you might want to press quite hard and give the broader effect and sometimes you don't and then we want some coconuts in the middle there so we Dro in some nice dark color some nice purples and dark blue dark um cariban blue and purple we let that bleed a little bit let stick a couple of dark notes in there and we'll see how that goes and put some cross lines in there too so this one is a a little bit more involved than the previous one that we did earlier today just to show you a few more techniques and then now I'm going to put in some uh some Bay grape leaves which are kind of round sort of blobs like that and we're just going to vary the color a lot and Vary the size as well quite a lot and if we aren't happy with something we can always dab it out a little bit if it's a little bit wrong and then let's put in some grasses and we make them in kind of golden color as well as green because um they'll be a bit dried out won't they if they're on the beach so and then we're going to have a few purple dabs down here just to um give the Shadow and of course we need a few STS in there so we're going to make that from the blue and the [Music] um all three colors together mixed with some chacone is going to give us a dark green there we are and uh let's just bring this down a little bit here and then and then I need some pale very pale liloy blue which is going to give me shadow of the tree trees on the hot sand of the beach so there we are and I think maybe we'll just add a dark line to the Horizon there to indicate where the water gets deeper in the distance and now I think perhaps the second layer of one fr uh interest [Music] there I don't want to make make the sky too dominant so we're just going to basically Chuck in a little bit of pink and the reason for choosing pink is because it's Sunset right and the sky is on the pink side so rather than getting all confused with trying to make a a fancy sunset I'm just going [Music] to just going to make it very [Music] neutral and I'm going to leave lots of air so around the things like the lighthouse and everything I'm not going right up to the edges because I don't really need to and then um I think some bluish tones bluish green very uh grayish for the [Music] hills so there we are and we'll we'll paint the birds later I think now we could we've got a choice as far as the um Lighthouse goes as to what color we're going to do I think usually they tend to be on the red side don't they so um maybe I will give it a red stripe red and white stripe that's what I always think of them being like that and then obviously at the top here going to have some blue because or [Music] gray and then the Rocks well my favorite Rock color has got to be Nuno which is this color and just po put that in there add a little bit of blue to it to give us some shadows and just drop in a couple of shadowy spots there let that bleed leave that alone now I think I'll just uh swap back to my smaller brush and I'm hoping that this is going to dry fairly quickly um the roofs need to be a nice I don't know um grayish color maybe or should they be brown that's a good question because um if they were slate they would be gray and if they were thatch they would be brown so it's up to you probably more stylish would be something on the blue gray side something on the Mish kind of side um let me think what shall I do [Music] um what about inden Throne [Music] blue let's try that inden Throne blue I think Daniel Smith do an indan Throne blue too this is a Gallow and then if you add if you want to make them varied I just added a little bit of lizin crimson to the end and Throne to make it a little bit darker like that so different slightly different color and then the one in the background there we could you could do this one a little bit on the green side and then this one down here cuz it's front ways on it's going to lose most of its color just make that sort of gray and then we want to pick up some something sort of very dark brown or blackish for the windows and we just paint the sort of top and one side for the windows to give a little bit of depth like that you can do the same for your doorway [Music] if you want to put those uh lines of the window bars in you can do that afterwards with a white pen so I think that's probably what I'll do just put shadow in and that sort of gives a little bit of shape bit of perspective and you don't have to use black for this I'm using a mixture of um I don't know some dark color colors mixed up together anything dark like there no door there okay and then the the harbor wall I think um I thought it would be nice to do it in two colors and so I was going to put kind of this is quinacridone red gold and then underneath a little bit more shadowy so just add some phthalo blue for example to [Music] that just to give it I don't know just to make it sort of more of it and then take that same color up and into the distance so it's going to get fainter up there and then [Music] obviously have to do the [Music] steps and this is another ladder here so we're just poping some Shadow on that one too and maybe [Music] um some darker at the bottom that hopefully will sort of bleed in a little [Music] bit okay and you could if you want to uh indicate some stones in the harbor wall just by dropping in some color that will uh makx and mingle quite a [Music] bit and we're going to want then some pale blue for uh to give oh not quite that dark to have some shadow on the houses [Music] pick one side and put the Shadow on say for example here the [Music] left and if you don't think it's dark enough you can just add a bit more and let that blend [Music] okay um there's a small error there that was meant to go down further all right uh the while I'm working with the blue I could do some color on the some Shadow really cuz he's a white these birds so they just need a little bit of blue shadow and depending on how um how much detail you want you could you could put in their beaks want and a lot of these gals have a pretty dark sort of tip to their wings so you could just drop that in and let that bleed a bit for example and up here we can come back into the lighthouse a bit more Dimension there if you wanted to um now we have to choose what color we're going to do our boats and I'm sort of thinking green greeny blue something for for this one maybe [Music] a bit more [Music] [Music] green and then perhaps we'll make the Wheelhouse blue perps and more shadow in there and then maybe sort of Red Roof just because why not then this boat um don't really want to put too much color in here so maybe we'll make this one blue so it could really be considered to be white and we'll put the shadow of the sail in it's quite a big um area so we don't really want [Music] to make it too much but then we'll put the man in a red wrong wrong red wrong red this should be this red plus we've got a couple of people up here who ought to be wearing nice Red Jackets cuz they're Walkers and then they would have jeans on no doubt like that and now pretty much the last thing is going to be the sea so bearing in mind this is Cornwall it's not going to be very blue um just drop in [Music] [Music] some [Music] water this paper is not behaving very well at all even though I'm barely touching it it's um bubbling up and I'm barely I am literally barely touching this which is strange because up until now all the pages in this book have not been bad at all and I've quite enjoyed painting on them but this one all of a sudden is not behaving at all and uh hopefully when it's dry those marks will disappear and I'm also thinking what am I thinking I'm thinking [Music] little bit more color underneath the boat [Music] so and in front of the lighthouse preps that's pretty shocking actually what's happening with this paper I don't know why that's happening okay so having done that we now need to let it [Music] dry okay so now this is dry and I've had a little bit of a think about it and um yeah it's uh it's looking okay and um we're sort of thinking I'm sort of thinking we can put in a few um things like a few Shadows for example on some of the uh areas of color so a little bit of more red there and then uh probably just to indicate shape because it would have Shadow on both sides we put a little bit of blue there um and then maybe come into the sea a little bit with some lines and I'm using um gouache for this because um if you use gouache for lines on top of watercolor you can use ordinary water color um but the gouache kind of stands out a little bit better so that's probably uh one good reason for for using it to darken certain areas if you want to do that so using different different shades of blue to give some effect of waves and things on the or ripples at least and you can do as much of that or as little as that of that as you you as you want and you could paint in some um some clouds if you wanted to in white or you could leave the sky as it is you could obviously add a little bit whoops you wouldn't want to do that I picked up something completely wrong there but we just who that around a bit until it disappears I was going to say it could just um darken some part of the hills a little bit to make the houses stand out a bit better um and then really what I'm doing is I'm just going around and uh using watercolor here just um emphasizing the Shadows a little bit with watercolor and then I'm going to actually use for the stones on the Harbor I'm going to go around them with if I can make that work it's not my day today is it yeah there we go so we go around the stones with the white gel pen just just to give them some shape again optional I'm just kind of thinking of things as I go along how I would do this maybe just do some without any color on the inside like that and then probably I would turn now to the um pigma pen and [Music] um as I said at the beginning this is where you can come back in you've got your sketch you've got your color now and you can come in and if you want [Music] to just emphasize all the [Music] details I quite like having a combination of a little bit of line and wash and uh quite a bit of line only a little bit of wash you put sort of [Music] kind of I don't know little bit of feeling in there with the line that you can't really do with paint if you want to you know could have some small stones along the top of the harbor wall like that some decorative stones [Music] [Music] now this boat here I know you think it looks as if it's up in the air but it is and it is because it's being repaired so it's on a stand so we just put the stand in there and uh pretend that that's being held up and probably I need to just grab some some paint and pop a little bit of shadow inside the boat and underneath and maybe we put a little bit of brown in one or two places maybe these windows would have shutters would be quite nice and this wheel needs an outside edge like that uh fence is coming along here that house is meant to be a little bit further away so we won't worry too much about details for him and maybe a tiny bit [Music] more Shadow under the line of the roof [Music] just emphasize the railing a bit here don't want people falling out of the lighthouse do we and some lines for the C and you could go on like this for ages you could could continue to do this for ages uh but I'm not going to I'm going to stop soon I think we put an edge around the top of this boat and I think he needs a head he's looking a little bit you [Music] know there we go he's got tiller here I'm not quite sure how to draw that so I'm not going to bother and maybe he should have a name on the boat here put something here starfish this one ought to have a name on it too shouldn't it fish manga and him some hair [Music] and I think that will do oh I know what I was going to do need a little bit of uh shadow on the inside of these doors and windows oh my go maybe you put bit here too oh yes and these P holes which I'm sure he wouldn't have but I just thought the hole of the boat looks a bit boring so and add a little bit of Timber line imagine that that's a boat made of wood and the chap is inside here just draw the ghost of him here shadow so there somebody in there okay uh there's a flag up there he's got a flag here white one and put the Eyes in for the bird Maybe [Music] see just going to lightly pop in the the glue and leave some gaps for um for sort of imaginary clouds come down to the horizon line just let I like to leave the sky nice and active as if there was um a wind blowing if you see what I mean and um so I wouldn't touch that again even if you feel that it's not dark enough and it probably won't be but wait for it to dry completely before you put in another layer of paint because if you go back into it while it's wet it will be ruined even if you think you've got a little mistake or something it won't be anything like the sort of mistake you'll have if you go in again so then I'm going to use Caribbean Blue for the sea seems appropriate because I sort of feel as if this is Caribbean and I'm going to hope that I've put enough masking fluid there so just paint the SE in like that remember I put a bit of wax resist in there to give me a little bit of a little bit of um foam on the waves and it doesn't matter if it runs a little bit into the sky just pretend that you forgot to put your glasses on that day and we'll bring that down there and then we need some very a Sandy color and Let's Pretend We're in the Bahamas and that the sand is pink rather than yellow so we just do that and then we're going to put some Shadow the same kind of thing on one side of our Sand Dune so just bring that down roughly like that leave that to sort of dry um and then once that's dry then we can come in and do some um Greenery so I'm just going to paint in the distance here a little bit of land so far in the distance and we probably want a little bit of this shadowy color here as well try to remember not to paint to the edge as I said I wouldn't okay so the mixtures for the greens um chacone gold mixed with some blue and we'll just pop that in here for the sort of grassy top of the Sand Dune keeping it Loose with gaps and then we want a little bit down here as well I think and then perhaps another patch here we're going to let that dry a little bit and um the cobal blue a little bit of pink makes it a nice gray so we'll put some more strong sun cast Shadow coming down the side of the June something like that and then maybe we want a bit over here let's pretend the sun's coming this way so we'll put the cast Shadows of the uh fence posts which are going to be something like a brownish kind of color so uh Potter's pink mixed with canacon gold is is going to give us a nice light brownish color vary the color so they're not all the same for okay and I'm working with quite a big brush as you can see here and then I'm going to be mixing up a bit more of a greeny color let's try Caribbean with quinacridone to give us a nice bright green drop a little bit of that in from place to place uh bay grape lots of interesting colors we can put in some purple too okay and uh maybe this need some stems okay so I'm going to um add some more blue to the sky two reasons one I didn't really go over the boats properly so we need to darken that down so the sails stand out and secondly because as I said it always dries back much lighter and I'm not doing I'm not doing what you might call a realistic sky but what I'm doing is the impression of a windy day that's the idea anyway so that's that um and I might darken the color of the SE line a little bit along there as well [Music] um now uh what should I do next maybe I'll do a little bit of pink spatter a little bit of Potter pink I'm going to just put some spatter on the sand here and also in the foreground and then I'm going to grab a riger and put in some grasses in the foreground too so Krone got gold a dash of cobalt [Music] blue there's always a tendency when you're doing this kind of thing to overdo [Music] it and you know well you know what I mean I'm trying this is the first painting of the day I'm trying to uh remember everything I ever knew about painting and one of which things is less is more [Music] this is the patch of green that I'm working on somebody asked me in one of the comments yesterday what color green I used and um I mix most of my greens to be honest from Cobalt and quinacridone and sometimes olive [Music] green sometimes Windsor green but I've usually got a kind of patch of color on my [Music] palette dry grass is trying to do fine few fine grasses praying that the sky is dry I think it is [Music] [Music] need a bit of uh Shadow on one side of these posts don't we so that's the green mixed with Potter's [Music] pink which gives us quite a soft dark [Music] which we need we need a dark green which I'm just trying to drop in for these grasses [Music] here and then maybe a little bit more of the pinkish [Music] [Music] and we've got the boats here and I need to rub that out but that's not dry yet so [Music] try and put that nice dark line in that you always get on the horizon in the Caribbean [Music] incredible unrealistic looking but still it's the way it is [Music] okay that will probably do for the minute so I'm going to let that dry and then I'll rub out the the white for the sails and we'll see what happens then so I've added a little bit of green grass there um because it seemed to need it and now I'm looking for my rubber to see whether I can rub out this masking fluid so we are there's one boat that seems to have worked okay fingers crossed for this one not too [Music] bad okay so those are all right I just need to get a a small brush let's see what I've got here a little size two um let's what color should we do the hulls [Music] um sort of dark blue I think and just a tiny stroke doesn't need any more than [Music] that one or two little darks here and there to sort of just bring the whole thing to life [Music] sh [Music] sh [Music] sh [Music] I'm going to start with some blue fairly weak and we'll drop that in at the top you can leave a few holes if you want as you're doing it and then I'm going to use um yellow don't want it too strong uh but I'm going to mix it with a little tiny bit of um Can acridone gold which I hope is going to stop it from going too green so we pop that in and then I'm going to put in some AO red no sorry puril Purl red and you can see that that kind of explodes it's quite interesting going bring that down to the Horizon and then I'll come back with small blue at the top just dropping it in [Music] and then more of this orangey red now you don't really want to play with that any more than that just let it do its thing and then if you're not happy it's not pungent enough for you you can come back again and um put another layer on and then we need this the water in front so I'm going to put um a warm color which is kind of a reflection there and then probably you could go one of two one of two ways here you could either go back to your Cobble blue or you could use Violet and Cobalt together which gives a perhaps a nicer color and then just kind of bring that in a little bit and then perhaps strengthen the orange effect in the distance put a little bit of orange on the purple and then at that point that's yeah that gives us a start in the far distance we have to wait for that to dry now and um so the idea of making the um boundary less involves taking that off and so while we let that dry we move it up a bit now I haven't done this before so this might not work but it might probably I should probably wait for the whole thing to dry completely to be honest but this this paper dries really quickly so then you just position that there like that and that will give you a very narrow don't press it down too hard just just press it down at the bottom and let it sit and prey prey hard um so then your next one is going to be we're going to do two more so we'll need another piece of this we put that here this idea of doing these tiny paintings could be adapted for uh book marks and um other small paintings of course greetings cards in general birthday cards and so on and so forth of course okay so we'll do this one next so we need some Violet for the sky I just need to clean that up a little bit cuz it's gone a bit brownish and we're going to keep that fairly fairly light [Music] and just pop that in at the top there and then we want some of this orange that we mixed before and put that in underneath blend that [Music] in and then the next layer is going to be Violet again and it's going to be the distant Hill line um so oh yes I should probably have indicated oops where the um water line is and uh so yeah so the we come from there and then we go up and just drop in the Hills distance and then we want some more orange for the water this side put some some purple perhaps [Music] I'm using b b Sienna there for that and when that's dry I'll paint the the trees um so then this one now has to be moved I just peel that off pop that down there like that and we do number three which is going to be a little square painting So this one's got a sort of Hill in the [Music] front and then Golden Lights coming down in here a little bit of purple there and then we're going to paint a little little bit of blue up here cobalt blue again and uh let's go for azarin Crimson perhaps with a touch of orange for the sunset which is going here and then some purple move Violet for the distant Hills over there and then a Bluer slightly Bluer for the one in [Music] front and then we have to let that one dry too so now we'll go back to the one at the top [Music] you can see we've got a nice line there just put that back there and what we want to do now is go for a smaller brush and pick up some purple some sort this is Windsor Violet I think and uh [Music] just painting an irregular line for the trees in the distance and partway across we just change to Orange so Krone gold and a bit of red [Music] [Music] just to indicate where the light is hitting Those Distant [Music] trees and then we're going to want some a darker purple color on the water here and I'm going to mix that with some quinacridone to make a more of a brownish purple darker darker [Music] darker so we have a nice delicate sky um is a bit more delicate than this one I'm not going to touch it because probably end up ruining it if I do and then we need some purple and probably a bit of black to make this nice and dark for the for the reads and you can just do whatever you want there really you might only want to put in a couple [Music] you have to be kind of moderately Brave really if you don't like risking everything with a brush you could use a pen you know one of those calligraphic pens [Music] they call them brush liners or it [Music] [Music] you could put in a couple of birds in the sky over here and if you want you can put in some reads on this side too do them differently you could do just straight ones like that with a few bent tops so that's that one done pretty much you could put in a few more Strokes in the water if you want and you [Music] could make the line here darker [Music] okie dokie so that's that one and then now we're back to this one here where we've got um the idea is we'll have a little bit more lilac for the mountains in the background so they're sort of veiled and I think I might put a bit more blue in the sky and a little bit more orange in this one perhaps maybe a tiny bit of explosing red seen a color like that before it's just incredible a little bit more [Music] blue and then we need need a smaller brush I don't know maybe I might even want to use the very smallest and we want some uh concone gold mixed with blue I think or Violet cuz we want a sort of Rusty Brown for these trees it's going to have to be fairly thick because it's so small so we're [Music] just I've got um phthalo blue mixed with canone for this one make it a bit darker and then go back to the quinacridone I want to make that a bit taller but it's not quite [Music] dry and then we just want to put some trees along the far distant edge of the lake like that and then we're going to have to come in with some much darker purple give the trees some shape [Music] [Music] [Music] and then swap to a slightly bigger brush number three and uh and drop in some orangey Brown here a little bit more a few more Strokes like that take that over here to and maybe just a tiny bit of greenish over here to balance okay so that's that one and [Music] then final one here we're going to do some more of those gsh on trees but we need to just improve the distant [Music] Mountains and the foregrounds needs to be a bit more Licky and then we need a little bit more gold in the sky here and then a bit more blue up here okay and then the trees start with the tall one over here it's going to go down to there [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] [Music] cock's having fun out there not sure what he's going on about and then we're heading into sort of more purpley area over here and the trees down here are going to be more [Music] Mo this kind of design really lends itself very well to all sorts of subjects like um obviously flowers and little outdoor iconic things like um you know uh lamp on walls and window boxes and stuff like that you can do a nice kind of selection of different things so there we are there's our little trees and we just swap to a slightly bigger brush just slightly and a little bit of lilac move not too dark for here just put some more Strokes in there so there we are okay that will do just need to remove our masking tape so there we are three little Landscapes hope you enjoyed that if you did give us a like And subscribe and I'll see you again soon bye everybody bye-bye Liam come [Music] on Sor he's in

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Published: Sat Jun 15 2024