Tom Jones: Simplified Watercolor Techniques

A clip from tom's DVD, Simplified Watercolor Techniques

Let's go ahead and get started with this exercise and I'm going to go ahead and mix up a large amount of my hooker green deep watercolor and my ultramarine deep watercolor to get a nice deep rich evergreen color. Now I'm going to switching colors on my palette and on the paper to give you a little more of a variety of color so I'm going to have a darker value of green and a lighter value of green that I'll be using along with that. The importance of the value changes is to give you some variety. Variety is very important. It's what keeps interest in the painting for the viewer. So let's go ahead and start putting some color on this particular sheet of paper. I' going to put the evergreen trees over here but I'm going to paint this actually without doing a sketch in this area. This is very simple. I'm going to change color again just so you can see how I'm doing a variety of color. You'll also notice in here that I'm not painting all of the boughs of the tree. I'm just illustrating or demonstrating at the top to show you that this in fact is an area of evergreen trees. So what I'm saying to you is this. I'm painting an area of trees not and individual evergreen tree. So I'm painting a forest. Back to my palette, a little more color, continue painting and again I'm going to switch to a lighter green which will give you a little more variety. Now, one thing that's very important. I'm going to take at the bottom of this area of the tree and simply pull this color down with the side of my brush. Now this is where a natural hair brush or one with natural and synthetic work very well. What happens is the hairs of the brush will pull away from the main body of the brush and that will give me a rough edge or landscaped looked edge to the bottom of these trees rather than having a flat area at the bottom.

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Howto & Style

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• painting
• art instruction

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@nightingalesworship Tom Jones predominately uses Rembrandt Watercolors available at Cheap Joe's.

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What kind of watercolor do you use?