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I learned my craft by painting local nature scenes. I would go out on location and just take some color and start laying it in. I really like Aspen trees (or Birch trees as people in the west call them).
I like to start off with some really interesting wonderful color and let the paint mix on the page. It's much more exciting that way. You can spend 5 minutes mixing a color in your palette and by the time you get it on your palette it probably won't work.
Just have fun. Don't try to control it, because if you do you'll run into all sorts of problems with this.
First I have to get the color in here and let it mix and dry a little bit. When the shine goes off of the paper when it gets wet, when you put water and paint on the page it will sit on the surface until the paper opens up and accepts the color.
What I can do now to save some time is I can block in some dark trees. Paint your group of trees as one unit, then you can go back and fine tune and showcase a certain area of certain tree. I started with a green, then I went to a purple and I went into a red over here. Let's see what happens here.
Just work the brush any which way. I like to stand up when I paint, then I get the action from my shoulder, as opposed to sitting down where the action would come from my elbow.
I like to try all sorts of different mixtures. If someone tells me I can't use a color with this color I often ask myself "why?" You're in charge of this business so you should be able to use any color you prefer. So who knows what will happen when you start mixing these colors together, but just have fun. That's where exciting paintings come from - when people take a chance.
Let's try scraping now. I use a butter knife because you can get a very thin scrape by how you hold it on the point, or if you hold it on it's edge you can get a very wide scrape.
For this size I think it will be just fine to go in like this. See how easy that is? What I'm doing is scraping the paint away from the paper. Here I'll put in a few upright limbs.
I don't like to take too much time to paint. I think the faster you paint these things the better off they are. Try not to think too much. I think that has ruined more paintings - procrastination. Just jump right in, be bold, be fast, and enjoy the process.
I'll put some uprights here like this, and smaller branches like this.
Whatever I have in my palette I'll just pick in and lay in very quickly for the water. I like to get in some different colors in here.
If you like a color, by all means use it. This brush will not do anything until you tell it to.
Where the water meets the bank and the snow, we'll soften that edge up. Hold your brush upright and pull it directly across.
Now we're going to do some reflections of what's happening up here.
Let's grab some of our colors from the top and just pull it straight down and let the color mix on the page. I'll come in with a little red, and our darks. Be sure to paint your darks more dark than you think you'll need.
Let's have a color journey here folks, and have an exciting painting when we're done!
What we can do next is soften this along here. We want it to look very very wintery and cold.
If you wanted to, you can also take your butter knife and scrape a few images in here if you like. Now once again I'll come up here and drag my brush across the snow bank on the waterline.
That should complete this exercise.
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When I paint my city scenes, I like to include human interest - groups of people doing various things like walking, lifting, standing on a corner, whatever.
Here are a few examples on gesture studies on people. I do a lot of negative painting. What I'll do is get the gesture of the figure first, and then I will come in and put a head on. I usually put it in at an angle.
This figure here will be wearing a white jacket so what will happen when I come in and negative paint the background, the jacket area will be completed.
Watercolor is timing. What time should I do what and when? I like to put these groups of people together to where we can have some of the color from some of the fashions bleed into the one right next to it.
This figure will also be wearing a white jacket. His arms may be a little long there so I'll fix that. Now I'll put in someone wearing overalls. He will also be wearing a white shirt.
Let's see if we can put one more figure in here for a nice grouping. This guys jacket will define this other figure's jacket.
Now I'll put my dark background in and I can start defining hats and edges. In negative painting you paint what's behind the object to make the object appear.
That's how you can complete a nice series of folks standing around. You can have some fun with the background here using a big brush. Let the color mix on the page. Don't be afraid of approaching one of these quickly. I love to work with a big brush.
When this dries you can put in some minor detail, like shoes or redo an area.
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Put darks in wherever you think you need these darks but don't overdo it - you want to keep it as simple as possible.
Be sure you wipe up the water underneath your painting because if you don't, it will syphon back into the paper and make a blossom on the front of your painting.
Then we'll dry this real quick and put our trees and light source in.
We're going to apply a glaze over these areas to create a light source. Once we create a light source a painting is finished in my estimation. You may have to come back in and do a few areas of correction.
I havea couple of trees I want to put in here first. We don't want to overdo it - just give the indication that it's a tree. The more you do here, the more you'll distract from everything else. So keep it simple.
This tree looks old and tired.
My light source will be coming from the left. What I'm going to do is mix my colors. I'll apply a shadow here and there where it makes sense. This mixture I'm putting on will dry transparent.
If you put a little time thinking about what your final product is going to be you'll have a lot less aggravation.
The backs of these cars will be in shadow, too. We're editing on our shadows - pushing things back and bringing things forward.
Here in the corner I'm putting a shadow in from an object that is out of the composition. It's throwing a shadow across the page like that. In essence what we've done is redirected the viewer's eyes to where it should be.
We need a few extras here and then we'll call it completed. Little details like heating vents sticking out of roofs. It really adds to the overall painting.
One of the last things an artist should do is sign your work. It becomes a design factor.
Thank you very much!
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I would like to show you how to quickly put a city scene together using a big brush, bold colors, interesting shapes, people and cars using the exercises I showed you before.
Using a big brush we'll start off with some straight Cobalt Blue.
Start at the top and run it across very quickly. We can start cutting our shapes in like this. I think this particular scene is from York in England.
I really enjoy painting the English countryside.
I do not draw on my paper, I guess you folks out there have already guessed that. Once I have a line established on the page, I was always taught to never cross it. This will free you up and will enable you to do something very very interesting.
I like to treat painting as if I had colored paper and a pair of scissors - very quickly and simply.
If you work in big shapes as I'm doing now, and you work with great color and you work fast, you should be able to come up with something very enjoyable.
Next I'll come down here with a smaller brush and put in the roofs on these houses.
This board is on an angle so the paint will pool up along these edges here. You just want to pick it up with your brush.
I think it's important in watercolor to let the paint mix and not try to control it. Otherwise you'll become aggravated and it will show in your work.
Now I will go in and start filling in my figures. Before I can do anything else I need to establish my foreground and then I can negative paint my storefronts around the people and the cars that we have set up here.
Very simple and it's still the same process that I showed you when painting figures and painting automobiles.
This car here will give it some scale. Don't be too critical of your work, just get it on quickly and with authority. I believe you'll like the outcome. Next we'll come up here and I'll put some more people over here.
Then I can start putting in the storefronts here. I'll have a nice white building here with some windows in it, but first I have to establish some areas that will showcase these cars.
All the while I'm thinking of how I can speed this process up. When I paint quickly like this I'm not thinking about anything. I'm only thinking of just getting the paint down on the page quickly. I don't want to get real analytical about it, or let my mind catch up to me because then I'll start second-guessing myself. Once you start second-guessing yourself, you'll have real problems.
When this dried and ran into this wet area here I lost some of that definition, but I believe I can wait until it dries and put a little dark right there and I think it will pull right out and be just fine.
Near the cottages right here, this area will remain white, but I'm going to put some objects in the foreground here. My shadows will take care of some of this.
If this is dry we can come in and start applying some darks along the roof top line.
Now, watch this. We can put our foreground in like this - be sure to go around your cars and people - but this is starting to come together.
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When you're doing a city scene and you're including your people and buildings, it's always a good idea to include some automobiles - cars, trucks, big rigs, 18 wheelers, all sorts of things.
I will come over here and just start with the windows first. What you need to do is put your tires on it like so, and you can paint the tail lights if you like. In 4 of 5 quick steps you can have a semblance of a car. I don't try and paint different models of cars, I like to just give the impression that it is an automobile.
You can have your sedans, your big SUVs, etc.
Here it's the same process on a larger scale.
When I tried to figure cars out I went to a Wal-mart parking lot and I'd sit there and just draw cars.
One thing that's very difficult to paint is a Volkswagon. You can come here with the back window like this and the tail lights.
Remember scale. You can come in here and throw in a quick figure if you like.
Here in the background start laying in some color, and define the tops of the cars.
Once you're more familiar with this particular painting method, then you can start refining your automobiles anyway you would like.
Remember your scale when you put people up next to the cars. With my darker color I can start refining areas even more here.
When you put color on the page it's probably going to dry about 40% lighter in value than when you put it in.
Say you want to fill in the color for the body of the car. Approach it the same way we have so far, but wait for everything to dry first. Then you want to apply the body color after everything has dried.
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That would be so awesome :- )