Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a galaxy
with watercolor.
First, we prep the colors that we will use…
A light and dark red, a cherry, a blue and green.
Then, with clean water, we get the paper wet.
I place the pad, a little bit tilted, so that the water will run.
Good! Now we start adding color.
Sometimes we can just add it and let gravity, the color
and the grain of the paper, work for us.
Nice!
The green is going to be going across from the bottom left,
all the way to the top right.
Imagine the colors of a galaxy.
We add more tone and we let them mix, by themselves.
This is very fun!
I will never be bored of playing with colors.
As it begins to dry we can place others on them,
more intensely.
As you can see the sheet of paper is still damp.
Good!
We reinforce the green that goes across the surface,
as we had agreed.
More or less like this.
We add some other tones over here... light and dark red
and purple around.
And now with some salt, we are going to experiment
a special effect.
We scatter particles around, which will absorb the water,
and therefore the color.
When it dries, it look like this.
We will use this texture as a base, although it will have
more layers of paint, on top.
We get the paper wet again.
And reinforce our colors with more pure pigment.
What I mean is that I didn´t mix them with other colors
or other tones.
But I took them straight from the container to the paper.
When it dries the watercolor always loses intensity.
Therefore, to achieve bright colors sometimes one has to repeat
the procedure.
We place fresh paint, once more.
I like it how is it looking!
How the colors mixed and mingle, amongst them.
By the way, the list of materials is in the information below the video.
The borders of this painting of this universe, are going to be
fearly dark.
For this I mix, Prussian blue and black.
The paper still is slightly damp, which is perfect, for this effect.
A good watercolor paper which is thick, retains water
for a fairly long time.
Very well! Practically we are done with our background.
We give it the last touches and wait for it to dry.
And now we take, white pigment, a lot of paint and little water,
so that it is opaque, and using another brush
to sparkle, we create the stars!
The painting starts getting an almost magical dimension.
If needed, you can also add, some by hand.
It´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo