Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a watercolor forest.
The first thing we will do is to get the paper wet.
This paper is fixed to a pad
specially made for watercolor.
If you are using a loose watercolor sheet,
you should tape it all around to a board, so that it doesn't get too wrinkled
with the water.
Once it is all nicely wet we will begin with the lightest color
of this painting, in this case, a yellow which will indicate a glare of the Sun
in the background.
Then the next lightest color is a light blue that will be in the atmosphere.
But with a tissue paper I will pick up some of it
because I want some small lighter areas that will be illuminated by the Sun coming
through the foliage of the trees.
This will be a forest slightly with a fantasy feel.
We can start adding some trees and the ground, but I will not make the ground
solid because as I told you I want some light to show through.
The paper is dry now. I will get it all wet again to give a layer of soft foliage.
Since the watercolor paint is transparent we should begin with the lightest colors
and then add darker and darker ones, because we cannot add a light color
on a dark one.
Ok good it is all wet now so it is ready to add
these leaves I was talking about.
Let's add them in different sizes and intensities.
Remember that when the watercolor dries it turns a little bit lighter.
Except for the yellow that we added at the beginning, everything else
is going to be in blues to give this a bit unreal fantasy feel that I am
looking for, it is not going to be a realistic brown for the trunk and green
for the leaves.
These trees that are in the background will be very light,
a bit ghosty if that world exists [laughter].
One thing that I love about painting and drawing
is that you can make up your own stories, you can put your own visions on paper.
These two trees are a little bit closer to us and therefore will be just
a little bit darker than the other ones farther away
and I get the paper wet
again, this time just to even it out. Sometimes the paint gets thicker or
darker at the edges of what you painted and we can even the paint out with that.
Now that it is dry again, let's paint a closer tree much darker, when we paint
the branches we can leave some spaces blank in between to then paint some
leaves down, and spatter a little bit of paint like this... hitting one brush with the other one.
All right!
we can lift any unwanted ones with the tissue paper
and now, with a very old and worn-out brush that I found in my studio,
let's paint the rest of the foliage. These old brushes are great for it because they are
totally uneven. And we add some more.
Good!
Now the tree that will be the closest to us ...
right here
and it will be of course bigger and darker.
I´ll draw the branches first,
and then the leaves.
With our ancient brush [laughter].
Let's draw the shadow of the trees since the light is coming from the background,
this one more over here actually
and then I think we need a dark ground, close to us of course
further away will be lighter.
And let´s paint the shadows of the other trees
like so...
Very good! ¡Excelente!
It's done!
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Subtitled By Grethel Trejo
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