the style we're going to be doing
is wet on wet mixing wet paint with
other wet paint on our paper
it works really well for blending colors
together sort of seamlessly
making gradients adding subtle shadows
anything where you don't want such a
clean
crisp edge so for this exercise we're
going to draw a peach
which we have here i think it's perfect
for this because we have these
pretty reds bleeding into oranges and
yellows and that's going to translate
really well for mixing wet paint colors
together
before we begin painting i want you to
think a little bit about where
all your supplies are on the desk
i like to keep my palette next to me i
really don't want to be reaching for
anything
i find that maybe if my water is over
here and then i dip the brush in
i end up dripping water onto my painting
and ruining it
so i want to keep the water close to me
i like to have a paper
towel to dab my brush onto after it's
wet and i like to keep that under my
palette
but again as you paint see
where your hand is going notice what
feels comfortable and if anything
doesn't feel comfortable just start
moving things around until it does
so getting started i'm gonna look at the
peach and select my colors
and i can see here i'm gonna want
yellow orange red kind of a
deeper red purple and then
go to the colors that i have on hand and
see how i can begin to mix those
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so get some yellow on there um
i do have orange i don't usually use my
orange that much because i can just
put a little red in with the yellow and
sometimes it's easier than like
getting that tube out so i'm actually
gonna take a little bit of purple out
because
some of these areas are so dark that
they're
almost brown or black
if i mix that with the red i might get
that color
so yeah a little red plus purple ended
up being
that color so what i did is i just
started with
a section of that dark red but then this
is where the wet on wet comes in i want
to add a little more shading down here
so i just
dip my brush back in that purple and
just adding it on here it kind of blends
in and makes a
darker area so i'm using
just three colors yellow red and purple
but within these three colors
i can mix orange i can mix a darker
yellow
i can mix a deep red a red purple
and i'm blending them together on the
page to create
a full spectrum that goes beyond just
the three
really kind of just feeling it out and
doing one color at a time and
blending it together as i go some of it
is
thinner and some of it's thicker and
that's okay
although now i'm kind of looking and
seeing that maybe like this yellow
isn't popping out as much as this yellow
so
i'm gonna go back and mix an even
lighter yellow
and just like
dab that on top and see what happens
i'm just trying to be loose with
everything like this isn't the best
drawing i've ever done
but i could take the same technique this
took what a minute and i could do the
same
peach five times and then
maybe end up with one that i'm really
happy with so some of the ways that this
the first one dried
it might i feel like maybe the paint was
a little
watery so i'm just i'm doing the second
one and
just trying to put everything down a
little bit thicker
this time while still like this still
letting these little
accidents happen in the blending and
see what happens here
in using this wet on wet method it
allows us to add some tonal variations
to anything that we're drawing
it might be in objects that are more
simple if i'm drawing a face
i have to think about the way that it's
a three-dimensional
object in the world and how
light bends around it it's like makeup
contouring where you're like making it a
little darker on the outside so that
that
part recedes and even if your drawings
are kind of abstract that's something
you can do to make them feel a little
more realistic
kind of left some little white spaces
too just
i don't know to give it a loose
haphazard feel
not concerned with filling out
the entire page
maybe i'll make the stem that kind of a
greenish
color see i'm already liking that one
more
and this is the most purpley one we have
i'm really kind of just observing and
mixing my colors
onto my palette and then onto the page
as i go since i'm painting a little bit
more freeform
i'm not just sticking to
exactly what i had mixed out initially
so those are already looking better than
the first one
just adding a little bit more darkness
over here to give it some more
dimension
i do think as i'm doing this i'm
handling the paint
more translucent than i would in other
styles i could
try another one right i'm painting it
more thickly
but it it might also just be the nature
of this object that makes me feel like
doing it that way
like i'm just taking up a little paint
at a time and then
dabbing water when i need it
like that one is thicker and you're
pretty much getting the same thing
really
which i actually like that more because
like this area
the purple now that's drying it isn't
even reading
is that dark because it's so watered
down here
it's better peaches can be pretty tough
to draw
but i think it's a good place to start
because it gives you a lot of different
colors
to play around with within one object
but
feel free to draw it a few times and
maybe pick your favorite drawing
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