Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today I'll paint a watercolor.
To begin I sketch lightly what I want to do.
In this case, the horizon with the trees
and a reflexion on the water.
Then I get the paper wet with a large brush,
so that I can then apply the color.
My paper pad is tilted, as you can see.
I do the sky blue, leaving a yellow section for the sun area.
I use more or less the same colors for the reflexion, in the lower area.
Maybe some colors go a little bit darker.
With a tissue paper, I pull off some color to give light where I need it.
I do a greenish background for the trees and add some blue to that color for the reflexion.
I have a snack while I wait for the paper to dry.
And then when it is dry I can do detail to a row of trees
and indicate some waves.
And now I finally do the red leaves which are in first plane.
Remember that the farthest an object is, the colours go fainter and fainter, more greyish and bluish.
And the closer they are, the colors are more and more intense.
Leonardo da Vinci called this, color perspective.
I have been using just one red for this.
Now I mix the red with some dark blue and burnt sienna,
to give the shadows of the leaves.
And with some more burnt sienna, which is a light brown, I do a few dry leaves.
Then I paint the branches where I need them.
Just some sections to support the leaves.
I put some additional red where I feel is needed
and go over some spots, since the watercolor is transparent
and sometimes you need to go over and over some layers to get the intensity of the color.
I do some final details and it is ready.
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