Hello, welcome to art-turorialsonline.com. My
name is Paul Priestley and today we're going to be investigating watercolour painting. We're going
to be starting from absolute basics. We're going to be using one of these, a paintbrush. And one of these a hake.
Yes, you'll find out how they work, we're also going to be exploring the two basic techniques, which are
wet on wet on wet on dry. Let's make a start. Okay, if you're going to do watercolour painting you
really must invest in some reasonable materials. First of all paper, I've not stretched this paper
because it's just going to be a very simple exercise we're going to do today. You need to
invest in some reasonable, good quality watercolour paper. Don't be tempted use copier paper, cartridge
paper or anything like that. Watercolour papers with a slight tooth to it, it's quite thick and it will be
brilliant to paint on. It's worthwhile getting some good quality watercolor paints. Don't be tempted to
just use poster paint from your local newsagents, or something like that. Go to an art shop get
some reasonable quality paints. The same applies with brushes. Just a little test, don't be tempted to buy
very cheap watercolour brushes. A lot of them were made of squirrel hair, for example. A good little
tip wet a paintbrush just tapping like that, hold it horizontally, if the end of it flops over
isn't going to be no good to paint with. Squirrel hair brushes won't do that, they'll just flop over
and quite obviously you're wasting your time trying to paint with them. You'll notice here I've
got three types of brushes, these are basically standard brushes. This is at number fourteen brush,
this is called a mop and usually used for putting large blocks of water onto your piece of
work. This does exactly the same thing, but it's much much cheaper. It's called a hake, again you do
the same thing, it's for wetting the paper to use wet-on-wet techniques. I'm going to show you
the two basic techniques of watercolour painting. First of all we're going to use wet on wet and
wet on wet is exactly as it sounds. I'm going to wet the paper, I'll put a little drop of water on
now, don't get the paper too wet. It should be just glistening slightly. I'm going to mix up a colour,
for example, if you're doing a sky or something like that I'm just going to use a blue here, as
you can, see just a blue. And I'm just going to gently drag the water at the colour across. I'm not
going to do anything to it and it's dragging the colour across like that. Nice gentle strokes and I'm
just going to leave it. Now you'll notice the colour comes out very, very soft, all just blends away.
You'll also notice the colour particularly blues, sinks into the little valleys in the paper you see. Now
that's basically wet on wet. Now watch what happens when we do wet on dry and this time I'm not going
to wet the paper first and watch what happens. Get your brush fully loaded, but this time I'm going to
hold my brush like that. I'm holding it in my hand like this and I'm going to hold the brush almost
parallel to the surface and I'm going to just drag the brush across now watch what happens now. We
don't get the smooth effect that we had before, you get a much more textured effect. Now this nice
textured effect as you can see. A drop of paint on. Now imagine you're doing a sky, this time, but
this time, the sky has got one of those little drifts of cloud and you'll notice now that the sky
has come out very, very, patchy, very detailed, very textured. Quite different from that. Watercolour is a
combination of these techniques and playing around with these techniques. Now I'm going to let these
dry I'm going to come back and I'm just going to put the same this on top of that and that on top
of that. Now these two have dried what I'm going to do is to use the wet on dry technique on top of
the wet a wet technique. This is dry you see it's nice smooth surface but now, imagine I'm going to,
I'm just going to make a stronger blue that's all, now, I'm going to use the same technique again.
Holding the brush very flat as you can see and I'm just going to drag the brush across. I get this
nicely textured effect. So, I can get this textured effect on top of this very soft effect, so the
two together, see this lovely love the textures here, but really we'll really, really good. I can
also do a similar thing. If I move this up here I've now got my wet on drawing. I'm now going to
use wet on wet on top, so for example, let me just change the color slightly. So when you put a little
bit of crimson in here to make this slightly more purpley, just going to test it here just to
make sure it's not too strong. What I'm going to do now, paint right over the top. But before
I do that, I'm just going to dampen it slightly. Now you must make sure this is
perfectly dry first and you just like that. Don't go backwards and forwards otherwise you'll pull
the paint off, which is not what we want to do and I'm just going to. You see, I can tint the
paper behind and I can put large areas you see. I'm just tapping now into the wet paint. You see,
here look at this lovely effect you can get. See now, I've got my detailed bit and the textured bits
here and I've got these very soft settled bits over the top. What I would suggest you do, is you
get a couple sheets of watercolour paper and you practice this. Thing to remember is not to put
too much paint on the brush. You don't want the paint too thick, you don't want it too dark. Don't
for example, be trying to paint with that. So think. It's going to be far too strong to do this,
just do it nice and soft and subtle to start with, and see how you get on. Practice, practice, practice,
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