Beginning a Watercolor Painting with Nancy Couick - Part 5 of 5

Featured Art Supplies in this Video: Nancy Couick paints on the Arches Watercolor Block, 140 lb. Cold Pressed, 9" x 12" which you find at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff: http://bit.ly/tra5CL.

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Pulling the green on top of the red just darkens the red. That happens because they're complimentary colors.

I'm going to grab a light pink and apply it to this light green leaf. When that dries it will look as though you're looking through that leaf.

Backgrounds--optional. Just decide what you want to use. What would you see when you looked at this rose bud? You'd probably be close to the ground looking up, maybe the sky, just go for what makes sense.

I'm going to put just a touch of blue in this background - not necessarily to have a blue sky, but to enhance this flower. We talked earlier about paint traveling to the edge of the moisture and not going any further. If I were to put water on here and add that paint and leave it here, I'd end up with a halo around the flower.

I'm painting this whole piece of paper with water because I know this gradual transition from dark to light may not show at first and not until I put this away and come back and get ready to frame it.

I'm propping this up on the masking tape to avoid having this water collect. Sometimes if it's flat it causes ripples in your paper if it pools. I'm going to take some cobalt blue and just touch it around the flower. I'm not doing this in order to have a blue background but merely to enhance this flower.

I don't want you to actually notice the blue when all is said and done. This wasn't totally dry and is starting to run a little bit so I'm going to lift that color and push it back into that area. Then there's a good chance you'll never notice.

Red on the other hand will run! Try to keep your reds almost to the end.

So here I'm just trying to diffuse it--out and away.

It's amazing how it makes this flower pop. Sometimes very subtle changes can make all the difference.

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[4dlynx]

What kind of paper are you using?

[cheapjoes]

@4dlynx Nancy Couick paints on the Arches Watercolor Block, 140 lb. Cold Pressed, 9" x 12". We added a link to this product to the top of the video description, since YouTube doesn't allow links in the comments section. Hopefully, that helps!

[Sliverkitten1]

Ur awesome!

[tubeVault]

Excellent tutorial. Enjoyed all the 5 videos, thanks for sharing. Inspired to paint, will share once done. Can we use dryer while using water color?

[LeopardsChangeSpots]

Inspiring. I have been teaching myself watercolors for a long time but this is the most helpful series of tips and techniques I have seen. Will certainly be trying this. Thank you for sharing.

[starthi]

nice how to do the background

[brenbray513]

Thank you, Nancy. These were great videos! I just finished my first rose bud and I'm pretty proud :-)

[kixan65]

This was absolutely great! I´m really inspired to start painting now. Another thing, you have a very lovely voice, it´s really pleasant to listen to.

[soulcomfort1]

This was absolutely wonderful for a beginner! I have learned so much from this series.  Thank you so much!! :)

[glasman9]

Very nice demo..thanks