Hello, welcome to art-tutorialsonline.com. My name is Paul Priestley and this is a second of
my watercolour basics series. What I'm going to be looking at today is how you can lay a layer of
water on a piece of paper, you can then drop paint on top and watch the paint bleed just to the edge
of the water and create some wonderful effects. Let's make a start. Now for this time I'm going
to show you how to lay in a large wash and then to layer washes on top of it and create edges. There's
this how it works. I'm going to just block in first of all a very large area, just using lots
of wet paint. You might even just use a little bit more water in my brush, you see what I'm doing, just
blending it in, just so I can get a nice wash coming down here. Okay, I have a very simple sky
I'm just using water here you see and I'm blending it in, so I've got that nice soft supple effect. Right
I'm gonna leave that there, let it dry. And I just want to draw a little line along it as though it's
hills in the background against this sky. So I'm just going to draw a very, very little curve, comes
up and over there like that. Okay now, this is the trick. If you just get plain water and paint up to
that line and then just put water below. If I then mix up a green just want a little bit of
yellow to my blue here, so I can create a nice green tone. What I'm going to do is just drop
my colour along here. And block the green in and the nice thing is that the green will only flow as far
that the water that I put in, and it will can create an edge along the water. Now I'm just going to bring
this green down further because, we're just going to keep repeating this technique on top. So we're
just going to let that dry. When we painted the plain water on here the colour bleeds to the edge
and forms that nice sharp line which is really quite useful. This mark here has been caused by
a puddle in the water. I'll cover all that sort of thing later on, but we'll not worry about that for
the moment. Imagine I am now going to do the same sort of thing. I'm just going to do a layer, you
can build up layers in watercolour by just putting one layer of colour on top of another. It's the same
colour you always work from light to dark. So don't put the dark tones on first, always put the light
tones on first. I am going to simply paint another hill just printing plain water, hill comes across
there this time. I'm just going to put plain water underneath here and I'm just going to put another layer of
colour on, but you'll notice the colour can't bleed over the line. So I'm just tapping the colour in. There we
go. You see how I've now created a nice effect with my landscape. You see how that line comes
across there, a very a sharp edge and its just does done by putting plain water on first of all, which
is a wonderful effect. But let's let that dry. Now that layer is complete I'm just going to lay on
another layer of water. Just plain water and just stroke it across. I am then going to just drop in
colour just as I did before and you'll notice that it will just bleed along the edge and create that
wonderful sharp edge. You can just keep repeating this as many times as you like, building layers
upon layers, upon layers, until you've got the effect that you really want. So I hope you can see
how we can build up layers simply by using water to create edges. Thank you for watching art-
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