have you ever felt like you've done a watercolor and it just hasn't got any
impact at all that it just looks a bit wishy-washy it's got no punch there's
something missing and you're not smiling well I might have a solution for you and
that's what we're going to cover in this video
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on any of the content so one of your problems could be that your washes are too pale
too insipid and what we're going to do is we're gonna take this little fellow
down to the gallery and I'm gonna do a little quick study of him to show you a
solution if you just paint with light paint it's a bit like playing chopsticks
on the piano up on the right-hand side of the piano what you want to do put
some darks in and it's a bit like using the whole piano the music is so much
better the painting is so much better this may sound incredibly simplistic but
the reason people are not getting their darks is because they're using dried up
old paint in their palette you can use the dry paint in your palette but to
bring it to life for me to add water as soon as you add water that weakens it, it
lightens it and it's okay for the lights and the mid-tones but you'll never get
those big juicy darks that you want you've got to squeeze out fresh paint
fresh paint is the answer I know that sounds simple
so the big thing that's going to make a difference is the darks that you put in
don't be afraid of the darks when you put your darks in and you've got whites
in you going to have something that's so powerful let's just take a look at the
whole painting quick look you need to have a few darks in your picture to give
it form and you can see from this little figurine how the darks in the figure
make a difference
notice that the darks that were put the figure improves it a bit but look
at this when I put the darks in the background pow
look how dramatic that looks check this out look at the difference this makes
have a look at the comparison of these two pictures the light and the dark
or the one where it's just painted with light paint and the one way we've added dark
paint such a big difference which do you prefer? I would imagine it's the
one with the darks in it. well I hope anyway the darks in the figure give
the figure form the darks in the background push it out and give it
impact both are important and both you need fresh paint to do it if you've got
a painting that looks a bit wishy-washy and you want to give it impact whack
those darks in. go on, grab an old painting one that you're not happy with because
it's too pale put those darks and it'll make a huge
difference you have a choice of leaving the paint in the tube saving all that
money or take the risk you squeeze the paint out and you increase your chances
dramatically of doing a good painting your call thanks for watching if you
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comments what problems you have with watercolor maybe I can help you out in a
future video so say hi let me know and I'll see you next week