Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and as you requested it here is a very simple tutorial on watercolor.
I'll use this painting set, a small container of water to clean the brushes,
a bigger one to use clean water on the painting,
and some brushes of different sizes.
As we went over last week if we apply paint on a dry surface,
we will have precision and sharp edges
or we can get the paper wet first,
and then apply the paint in which case will run beautifully.
I'll be using this watercolor paper pad, which has the pages attached to it
so that they don't wrinkle with water.
If you are using loose sheets, you should tape them to a board all around.
Ok good!
let's get started.
With some water in the brush we grab the colors
and mix them.
I use an ultramarine blue and a Prussian blue, which are medium and dark,
a purple, and burnt Sienna,
which is a reddish-brown.
You don't need this large of a painting set necessarily,
I'll just be using five or six colors.
Good!
now we get the whole paper wet,
with plain water, in this case it is a little bit stained because the brush wasn't totally clean
but it's ok, not a problem because we will be adding color...
the important thing is to get the whole paper wet.
And I will be placing this eraser under the back of the pad, to lift it.
It can be anything of about that size.
And we add the color,
this is the fun part!
I lifted the pad with the eraser so that the paint will run down.
Let's mix more paint and I want this a little bit uneven.
When the watercolor dries it looks lighter,
so this difference will hardly show
but still I don't want it all even.
This will be the sea and we will be painting a sailing boat, on it
as you probably saw in the thumbnail photo of the video.
We let it dry and then let's add to the mix of blues a little bit of black,
which with the water will look gray, and paint the sailing boat.
Starting with the hull (that´s the body.)
Let's do the mast,
all the way up here
and the sail.
The one in the front,
which is catching a lot of wind
like so...
and the other one for their back, as a thin triangle
and we will fill it in.
All right!
Let's add also some very thin lines,
some ropes up here.
Ok!
Now for the reflection, one thing that we can do is get that area of the paper wet
and dry a little the edges, so that they don't show when the water dries,
we let it dry for a moment
and then we paint on it
so the reflection will be blurred.
Once it has dried more, if we want we can reinforce some lines
and then we will paint some waves
but 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: ¨Sailing Free¨
[Laughter]
As for composition, the boat is about one third up
and one-third to the left,
having plenty of space in the direction to where he's going.
The list of materials that I am using, is in the information below the video.
And it's ready!
I hope this simple tutorial was helpful...
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Subtitled By Grethel Trejo