I'm really stuck in here! Oh man...
My son frank invited me and Jeanette and the husky mixed Smooth out onto his 1966 Glastron
speedboat with its C4 Evinrude engine and its jet smooth ride and its Cadillac-like
steering it sped us along the hudson river pasr lighthouses all the way to Middle Fround Flats
which were just fill and empty of trees at one time but now it's a wild island with
squatters shacks and lots of things to paint. Oh this looks like a good spot...
...it's quicksand!
I think it organizes into a simple number of values: Just the
gray of the water this reflection and then the whites of the tops of the seats and the stripe
it is raining but thanks to this diffuser system
you'll keep the worst of the rain off of the palette
and the painting this page of my watercolor sketchbook happens to be primed with a brayer
gradient this is a very smooth gradation of color from blue at the top to a warm color at the bottom
used as a priming layer and i'll paint over that with gouache or opaque watercolor to make a brayer
gradient you use a linoleum block printing brayer about four inches wide with water-soluble block
printing ink mixed with some acrylic medium to keep it from reactivating it when you get it wet
i don't have my normal metal palette here so i'm using a piece of lucite that's a siding grid
and i have my gouache and watercolor squeezed out onto the surface
while the rain patterns down on the diffuser
i start laying in the big shapes uh that i've laid out in my preliminary drawing
and they said it was just going to be cloudy today i don't know if i should
tilt this diffuser away from me and make it drip forward or toward me and drip toward my face
i love the color of this reflection which is kind of
a warm color because the river has quite a bit of sediment from the recent rains.
The light not only bounces off the surface of the water like a mirror but it enters the water
and illuminates it from above i can also get some white and paint over that
priming color to make it more that light gray color that i can see in the distance
oh man the wind is really picking up and blowing the rain underneath the diffuser
right onto the painting and with gouache you can't do that it's going to mess it up
i've got a plastic bag over the left hand side of the sketchbook which was getting wet
it's i'm really stuck in here help smooth
oh man
careful oh you dropped the phone what happened the phone
what happened the phone scratched it was it okay let's take the outer cover off oh
oh my paints keep getting wetter and wetter nothing's drying at all which is crazy
and there's frank sitting in the convertible boat reading his stephen king paperback novel
it doesn't quite feel like the sunny swinging party boat that we had expected
now this reflection is what fascinates me the most the way the dark lines zigzag over the light
gray background everything's a little bit wet and that's good for doing this kind of pattern
it's darkest here under the engine
and then i can paint the top of the white upholstered seats
and the top of the dashboard and the stripe that goes over the front of the boat
and there's a bunch of little chrome details around the steering wheel speedometers and
the reflection of the inside of the plastic windshield
and then the highlight along the diagonal edge
then i can put the rope that's tying down to one of the anchors
i think we better get back on board
the rain is continuing and it's getting late in the day it gets a little air bubble in there huh
yeah for some reason the motor won't start we tried the starter motor that didn't work now
we're trying the pull start on the flywheel two hours later it's still not starting
it's getting colder it's gonna be night soon we gotta swim to shore or call the coast guard or
keep trying i'll tell you what happens but first i wanna tell you more about those brayer gradients
they're part of a new video coming up in a week or two the whole video is called gradients and it's
part of the color and practice series it's mostly practice and a little bit of theory i'll take you
through six different ways of mixing gradients and so you'll do exercises to follow along with
and then we'll do on location paintings of the alleyway landscape with a spot of light in the
middle of it but we'll also do ferns in the woods and we'll do an outdoor landscape with clouds
all using this idea of color changing from one area to another this is a great way
packed full of information but a great way for you to not just watch videos but also put them
to practice and do the practice yourself so you really learn it so check out color and practice
gradients and the link is in the description well the battery's nearly dead we got the bubble out
of the fuel line and cleared the carburetor and i think we can do it in the world yeah oh yeah
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