Hello, welcome to art-turorialsonline.com. My name is Paul Priestley and today we're going to
be investigating watercolour painting. We're going to be starting from absolute basics. We're going to
be using one of these, a paintbrush. And one of these a hake. Yes, you'll find out how they work, we're also going
to be exploring the two basic techniques, which are wet on wet on wet on dry. Let's make a start. Okay,
if you're going to do watercolour painting you really must invest in some reasonable materials.
First of all paper, I've not stretched this paper because it's just going to be a very simple
exercise we're going to do today. You need to invest in some reasonable, good quality watercolour
paper. Don't be tempted use copier paper, cartridge paper or anything like that. Watercolour papers with a
slight tooth to it, it's quite thick and it will be brilliant to paint on. It's worthwhile getting some
good quality watercolor paints. Don't be tempted to just use poster paint from your local newsagents,
or something like that. Go to an art shop get some reasonable quality paints. The same applies with
brushes. Just a little test, don't be tempted to buy very cheap watercolour brushes. A lot of them were
made of squirrel hair, for example. A good little tip wet a paintbrush just tapping like that,
hold it horizontally, if the end of it flops over isn't going to be no good to paint with. Squirrel
hair brushes won't do that, they'll just flop over and quite obviously you're wasting your time
trying to paint with them. You'll notice here I've got three types of brushes, these are basically
standard brushes. This is at number fourteen brush, this is called a mop and usually used for putting
large blocks of water onto your piece of work. This does exactly the same thing, but it's much
much cheaper. It's called a hake, again you do the same thing, it's for wetting the paper to
use wet-on-wet techniques. I'm going to show you the two basic techniques of watercolour painting.
First of all we're going to use wet on wet and wet on wet is exactly as it sounds. I'm going to
wet the paper, I'll put a little drop of water on now, don't get the paper too wet. It should be just
glistening slightly. I'm going to mix up a colour, for example, if you're doing a sky or something
like that I'm just going to use a blue here, as you can, see just a blue. And I'm just going to
gently drag the water at the colour across. I'm not going to do anything to it and it's dragging the
colour across like that. Nice gentle strokes and I'm just going to leave it. Now you'll notice the colour
comes out very, very soft, all just blends away. You'll also notice the colour particularly blues, sinks
into the little valleys in the paper you see. Now that's basically wet on wet. Now watch what happens
when we do wet on dry and this time I'm not going to wet the paper first and watch what happens. Get
your brush fully loaded, but this time I'm going to hold my brush like that. I'm holding it in my hand
like this and I'm going to hold the brush almost parallel to the surface and I'm going to just drag
the brush across now watch what happens now. We don't get the smooth effect that we had before,
you get a much more textured effect. Now this nice textured effect as you can see. A drop of paint on.
Now imagine you're doing a sky, this time, but this time, the sky has got one of those little
drifts of cloud and you'll notice now that the sky has come out very, very, patchy, very detailed, very
textured. Quite different from that. Watercolour is a combination of these techniques and playing around
with these techniques. Now I'm going to let these dry I'm going to come back and I'm just going to
put the same this on top of that and that on top of that. Now these two have dried what I'm going
to do is to use the wet on dry technique on top of the wet a wet technique. This is dry you see it's
nice smooth surface but now, imagine I'm going to, I'm just going to make a stronger blue that's all,
now, I'm going to use the same technique again. Holding the brush very flat as you can see and
I'm just going to drag the brush across. I get this nicely textured effect. So, I can get this textured
effect on top of this very soft effect, so the two together, see this lovely love the textures
here, but really we'll really, really good. I can also do a similar thing. If I move this up here
I've now got my wet on drawing. I'm now going to use wet on wet on top, so for example, let me just
change the color slightly. So when you put a little bit of crimson in here to make this slightly more
purpley, just going to test it here just to make sure it's not too strong. What I'm going
to do now, paint right over the top. But before I do that, I'm just going to dampen it slightly.
Now you must make sure this is perfectly dry first and you just
like that. Don't go backwards and forwards otherwise you'll pull the paint off, which is not what we want to do
and I'm just going to. You see, I can tint the paper behind and I can put large areas you see.
I'm just tapping now into the wet paint. You see, here look at this lovely effect you can get. See
now, I've got my detailed bit and the textured bits here and I've got these very soft settled bits
over the top. What I would suggest you do, is you get a couple sheets of watercolour paper and you
practice this. Thing to remember is not to put too much paint on the brush. You don't want the
paint too thick, you don't want it too dark. Don't for example, be trying to paint with that. So
think. It's going to be far too strong to do this, just do it nice and soft and subtle to start with,
and see how you get on. Practice, practice, practice, don't fiddle. Thank you for watching art-tutorials
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