Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a road with trees
in watercolor.
I begin by making a sketch with my mechanical pencil.
This will be simply of the road and the trees.
The trees will be on both sides of the path.
I placed the watercolors here on the right so that you can
see how I mix them and I use them.
I have mixed a green and a purple, pretty diluted with water... and when
putting these two together, we get a grayish purple, which
is good for the color of the distance.
The color of the trees at the distance I meant [laughter].
The color of the distance, that´s an interesting, intangible-phylosophycall
concept [laughter].
And we paint the rest of the trees, although I will go over the closets
ones again, to make them darker.
And we get all the paper wet and then add it a tone, as well
as some foliage. Like so…
Very good!
And while the paper is drying, we can add some more, the
dryer the paper of course the least the paint will run.
And we add tonalities to the foliage, like more yellowish
or brownish or green. And we paint the road but leaving some
whites, to indicate the sunlight that came through.
I´m using one of those watercolor pads, that have
the paper attached on all sides, so that it doesn´t wrinkle
as much with the water.
Once you are done you cut and take off
the sheet of paper to use the next one up.
You can see the exact list of materials, in the information
below the video.
I want the light to be shinning from the end of the road.
And therefore in order to create this effect, I need to darken
pretty much everything else.
So I get the paper wet again,
and I use a grayish purple, for the atmosphere.
I also need to darken a lot what is closest to us.
And now that the paper dryed, I will go over some of the trees again,
lighter at the end, the ones far away, and darker and darker as they get closer.
These ones for example will be of a medium darkness.
Like this.
Very good! Excelente!
And now let´s do the ones on the other side.
This road will have a lot of trees!
It´s very nice!
And we do some details to the ones on the back,
very lightly!
I LOVE painting watercolor so much!
It´s a fantastic medium with a lot of light.
We still need to seriously darken the trees that are nearer by.
This to create this foggy and light atmosphere, that
I envision for this painting.
By the way, the inspiration for this, although I didn´t copy
it exactly, it´s a gorgeous photograph of the Northern Irland
by Stephen Emerson.
I will place the link also in the description of this video.
Very good!
Let´s add more color to the foliage and to the road,
to increase even more the light effect.
Unfortunately I lost the last shot when I give the last passed to the
painting. But luckily you can see how I sprinkle some paint,
to give a nice effect to the leaves.
I dropped some green and now let´s do some brown.
That looks nice!
If you do this, be careful and practice somewhere else before you
do it on the painting.
Very good! It´s done!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo