Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and by popular demand, today we will make a watercolor.
We will paint a girl sitting on a branch tree and with some owls.
We begin with a light grayish blue
and with this we sketch the shape of the head
and the features,
using a fine brush.
The paint is diluted with water
to obtain this transparent very light look.
We draw the neck and shoulders...
and then we come down the legs and arms.
She will be sitting holding her legs.
I'm using a watercolor pad, that has the pages glued and stretched.
If you are using loose sheets, you may want to tape them to a board
so that it doesn't wrinkle with the water.
She will have a hood
and a dark coat,
but we will achieve the dark value with layers,
at first we keep using the same paint
to sketch the whole thing.
Remember that the watercolor is transparent
and therefore it should be applied from light
to dark.
So first we go light and then we can darken and darken.
Let's paint her shoes and then the branch, where she will be sitting.
Let's draw it like this and then a smaller branch over here, that goes higher,
strategically placed so that we can perch three owls on it.
They will be right here...
with an owl look [laughter].
They will be three dark owls, since I think this watercolor will be a little bit on the darkish side,
but not too much.
Her coat will be hanging down which should resemble, a little bit, the tail of an owl.
Ok, very good!
now we get the whole paper wet,
except for the woman.
And we lay the paint on it.
While it is still wet, we can add some green
for the setting of the trees and foliage.
Once it dries, I'll get the whole paper wet again
this time the whole thing, and we apply another
very light wash,
and this time we can go over the woman
because I don't want her totally white,
this will give her a very light tone!
And now we should paint more trees...
three trunks, that as they will be at the distance,
they will also be pretty light, and we should leave those like that.
While for example the darks on the woman and the trunk where she's sitting on
will be much more intense.
We all know that the owl is emblematic or a symbol
of wisdom and knowledge.
People who are related to owls are said to see things that others don't,
that others don't understand,
so they can perceive the true reality behind any deceit.
But there are also other qualities that we associate with the owl...
they are often seen as mysterious,
I think mostly because they are awake at night
and we see it the night as dark and with mystery.
In some cultures like Native Americans seeing an owl is a sign of death.
However, not as catastrophic as we see it,
it was more like an end of a cycle
to give place to a new one.
In greek mythology, the owl relates to wisdom and femininity.
He was a symbol for Athena, goddess of wisdom, strategy and the arts.
According to myth an owl sat on Athena's blind side
so that she could see the whole truth
and he was of course a symbol of higher wisdom.
By the way now I am adding a little bit of more color...
a little bit of color to her.
The complete list of materials that I am using, is in the description below the video.
And if you made it all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
please in the comments write me the secret code:
"The three wise owls"
[Laughter].
We intensify some of the color and it's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo