Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a waterscape
in watercolor.
We begin by tracing the horizon line about on the upper third, and then
with masking fluid, we mask the little Sun, this is so that the paint
doesn´t get into it.
Then with pencil, let´s sketch were the waves and the shore
will be.
Like so.
And we also mask a reflection that will be on the sand,
just where the water waves end.
All the way over here.
Alright! and let´s add some masking fluid, also for some
reflections below the sun.
Good!
And now with a big brush and fresh water, we get
the lower section of the sky wet.
And we add some yellow by the Sun, and orange further away.
With a tissue paper we can pick up some
of the paint from the sun.
And we may add some touches of blues and reds.
Once dry, I flip the paper pad around and get the whole sky
area wet.
Including the color stripe.
I lift slightly the farther part of the pad, so that when I´m applying
the blue paint, it doesn´t run so much into the yellow.
Once it dries I flip the pad again, and this time I apply the paint
for the sea on dry paper.
I am holding the brush nearly parallel to the surface and with not
a lot of paint, so as to leave some white areas in between.
This effect works especially well if the paper texture is rough.
Like this one.
The exact list of materials that I am using is in the information
below the video.
Then I get the sand area wet and I add a brown.
Let´s paint a little bit of a reddish and yellowish below the Sun.
As a reflection.
And so as to give some depth to the painting, we need something
dark, close by.
This will be something like a rock here on the shore.
Remember that the watercolor dries a little bit lighter than
when you apply it, so once it is dry I give it another pass.
Another layer.
I´m using a mixture of a dark blue, dark brown
and black for this.
And here by the rock, there will be a little bit of water.
That comes in when the wave arrives.
Very good!
¡Excelente!
With an eraser we can carefully rub the masking fluid, to take it off.
And we may add some color to those blank areas.
I added a darker cloud and I will also darken, a little bit, the sand.
Because I want the reflections to look lighter, and the sand was
about the same tone as the reflections.
So we needed to darken it. And I moisten this area of the cloud
and paint it a little bit darker still.
I don't want the paint toward the Sun so I pick it out with a tissue.
And I darken further, the sand, because against the dark tone
the reflections will look lighter.
Which is my intention.
And as I mentioned to you earlier, to give depth to the painting
we should have something dark close by us.
So further closer than the rock I paint some plants, like this...
This should automatically make the rest of the painting look farther away.
I don´t want symmetry so pretty much every plant I paint, I
try to make it different to the other ones.
The last touches and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo