 Hey guys, how are you today? All righty. It is the 16th of November. It's a Wednesday I did a live broadcast earlier where I painted this particular painting and lost the footage I don't know if it was YouTube or me. I don't know Anyway, so we're gonna Replicate this again, and we're gonna do a real-time tutorial. I'm not gonna fast forward so this might be a long video So fair warning. There you go. All right, so this is the completed journal. There is a flip for this It's on my channel. Look for it, and you can see all of the watercolor work that's in here I'm going to get out the original inspiration photo, which is here. This is a fluid Cold press watercolor block So by block I mean that it is glued all the pages are glued together on at least two sides So that when you watercolor with it the paper really can't warp and bend and do strange things It stays nice and flat So the first thing I need to do is get clean water. Oh my gosh, so here's my water from earlier So let me go do that and I'll be right back So this is how I started the other page as I started with a pencil sketch now This is a stapler pencil. This is an HB. So it's a kind of a hard lead and I just did a quick pencil sketch of You know the basic shapes in the inspiration photo and I didn't even and haven't every time I've done this taken the whole photo I'm really only doing like this part of the photo Every time I do it. I think oh, I'll do the whole thing. I never do the whole thing I don't know. I don't know what that is, but I just yeah, I just don't and so just you don't have to you know sketch every detail we're gonna do something loose and Digestive and that's what yeah, that's all we're gonna do and you know just Use a light touch of your pencil. You don't need to draw dark We just want to get the suggestion in there So we'll have something like that then Can you see that? Think that all right now the Inspiration photo and a number of others you can get in my Facebook group in the photo albums and if you Join the link is want to join if you're not a member already the link is in the description below Okay, so now we're gonna take this is a pilot varsity Disposable fountain pen it is not waterproof not waterproof, and I want to use that to my advantage so I'm going to use it To sketch on Some of the hard Man-made Architectural shapes like the sort of bridge here that's going over the water I Believe if I'm not mistaken. This is a scene from Scotland from a lock in Scotland And I'm not gonna sketch in a ton of details, but I am going to sketch in a few You want to do kind of just enough to suggest what it is Just just like that. I'm not gonna do any more than that then I am going to take a My round rosemary and company Round it's not round triangular rosemary and company paintbrush My watercolor brush, and I'm gonna take just water. There's no paint on here and just the tip of it and using the Photo as a guide I'm going to put the water in the areas that I want the ink to bleed into to help me start to suggest the shadows in the painting and To you know blur and smudge some of the lines Not all of them just some I've done whole Paintings with just this pilot varsity pen and when it bleeds it's sort of a blue-gray. It's a really interesting color That's looking pretty good already, right? All right, so now just like I start every other painting. I'm gonna do the sky so Earlier today when I did this I used a Combination of manganese blue and cobalt blue and at this point my palette is really dirty So we're gonna get out a plate here That I can mix on Now this is a mixed Make some trouble coughing. This is a mixed palette with coir Windsor Newton Grumbacher Sinelli a there's one schmink schmink a color in here a yellow That I got as a sample So I'm gonna put some of the manganese blue And then I'm gonna take a little bit of the cobalt blue and mix that into the manganese and get this interesting color And we're gonna use that on the sky Now in an ideal world you want to leave White paper Where the clouds are and not put paint there to suggest your clouds? Sometimes I get too carried away and that doesn't happen And that's fine. You can always go back in with some white acrylic paint or a white gel pen if you need to So that's pretty good Already I like it. All right Now the mountains in the background are grayer I'm re-arrange everything so I can reach they're grayer and lighter than the ones in the foreground so we are going to go in with some Neutral I used neutral tint in the original original piece that I did earlier today. So let's do that again now this neutral tint is a Windsor Newton check mark is windows. Yeah, Windsor Newton paint is very very well pigmented So I'm gonna add a bunch of water to it and get kind of a thin washy Color a light color It's how you get your lighter shades of certain colors of paint is by just adding water I'm going to use that watery Version of this color to start suggesting the shadows Where the water is and I will say I enjoy painting with you guys live It's so much easier to do this when I'm doing it on camera like right now because if I make a mistake I can just stop the camera So much easier. All right So that's pretty good Now I'm going to take some of this dark. This blue here is darker blue. This is Thalo blue some neutral tint. I think there's some cobalt blue in here So I'm gonna take this I'm gonna add a little bit of the neutral chin to it and get kind of a grayish blue and We're gonna use this grayish blue here on this mountain. That's closer And I'm going to then put a little boops bit of the pigment and then I'm going to Add some water And I'm adding the water in the direction. I want the paint to flow So I don't necessarily want it to go up. I want it to go down So I'm going to try to keep control of where it goes by controlling where the water is We're using the photo for inspiration. We're not looking to copy it exactly. We're using it for artistic inspiration If you want an exact copy hang up the picture Okay, so whatever goes above the water should be reflected in the water So we're gonna add a little bit of this down here and I have to say I think I like the way this one's turning out better than the one I did earlier. I don't know what that says. So again, my Neutral tank got contaminated with the blue over here, which is fine. I'm gonna take some and put it over here And then again, I'm gonna add a bunch of water to it So we get a lighter version of it and I'm gonna use it to there's some stones here in front of the bridge Take some of the darker and I'm barely touching the brush to the painting Barely barely and you notice I'm leaving some white paper So that the colors kind of stay where I put them and don't bleed into each other It's a little bit wet. So it's blooming upwards, which I don't want So we're gonna tap that we're gonna lift that tap it back with a rag and we're just let that dry for a little bit We'll work on something else so I'm gonna take some green and I think I'm gonna start out with Hooker's green and We are gonna start putting in some green greenness some green green suggestions using of course the photo is inspiration add some pigment and Get the water brush wet and then you saw me Blot the brush off on my rag so it's not drippy. It's wet, but it's not drippy wet Okay, then I'm gonna go in with sap green, which is whoops, that's not sap green That's green gold. I do want that color, but not like a second I'm gonna go in with sap green which is a little bit more yellow and warmer than the Hooker's green and then the green gold is even warmer now one of the things I love about watercolor is how You know transparent it is and how much you can see All the other marks and layers through it from what you've already put down So have some fun with that and experiment Okay, then I'm gonna take some of that green gold Which is a very warm color and you probably don't need a ton of it. So Go easy. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. Oops There we go I'm gonna dry this part right here with my heat embossing cool knocking things off the table and Yes, the paint that's already on here can be reactivated But it's not as easy it's easier said than done and if you dry it first You can control more where the next layer of paint goes, which is what I want So again, that's just the neutral tint and then I'm gonna go in and I used purple So I'm gonna go in with this is dioxazine purple This is a coir watercolor coir is by golden and I did use this color in the original painting That I did that I lost the video on and I'm purple in my opinion purple is a really great shadow color and I used it in this painting original painting for that So I'm gonna put a bit of it down. I'm not gonna go too far before I come back with the water because I do want it to bleed and blend At least I think I do This is a coir watercolor like I said, so it is very very well pigmented so a little bit of it really goes a long way and Because it's watercolor you can't take it back so use it sparingly and If you want to switch up some of the colors in your painting from what is shown in the original photo And the original photo colors are distracting you then maybe think about printing the original photo in black and white And that way you're really just looking at the tones and shades and you're not Being distracted and overcome by the original colors and shades in the painting So I love this brush because you really can get you know a fine Sharp line if you want by just barely touching it to the paper using that tip or you can really lay it on thickly and Get a Wash By laying it down kind of flat, which is fabulous. That's looking pretty good. I'm liking it better than the other one All right, I'm gonna put this up here Again, you can get a copy of the original inspiration photo over on my Facebook page I'm gonna go back in with a little bit of neutral tint And we are gonna put Suggestion of a shadow of the building we're gonna go in with some raw umber which is a golden e-color and We're gonna use it to Give our start to try to give our painting some pop Some life so we're gonna use it to Hopefully indicate some lightness and brightness or at least to head us in the right direction anyway Okay, I do also want to take our neutral tint and use it to Help with our shoreline My stomach is very gurgly. I don't know if you can hear that on camera. Hopefully not Now you're all gonna listen for it though, right? so I want to Use Let's see. I Think I'm gonna use some of the purple As a and I didn't do this knee original one, but the purple is warmer, of course than the neutral tint, which is very cool and blue gray The purple is more red, so it's more warm than that color, so I'm gonna use it to Be the highlight shadow color. Does that make sense? I may go in while it's wet with some purple lake, which is a red It's really like a maroon color It's a really great color. The purple lake is a Windsor Newton I'm gonna mix it with the Dioxazine purple, which is a choir and I'm gonna Warm that purple up even more. That's good. I like that. I'm gonna take some of our blues And add them To our water. Okay, we're gonna dry the whole thing Okay, I have my Derwent colored pencils here So let's go in with some of those. This is what colors this deep cadmium So yellow yellow yellow and these are not water soluble. They're just plain old color pencils Well, not plain old. They're they are Derwent, but you know what I mean. Let's go in with This is Delft blue So it's dark The only thing about using something like this on top or anything really on top of your painting is you want to make sure Make sure things are dry so spend some time and dry them and Don't feel like you have to outline things you want to you know add more color and more Interest and more marks with your other tools and products. Okay, and then I'm going to add some There's this one Imperial purple Again with the purple. I know I don't know where the I have this fascination with purple right now and then I'm going to go in with a green so this is Grass green. I Don't have my reading glasses on You know, or I should say like my dad does I don't have my eyeballs on Okay, so there you have it here is our painting for today Done similarly in a similar fashion to the one done earlier on watercolor Wednesday live I'm going to zoom out Here is the original inspiration photo And here you go So that's it I hope that you have some fun doing some quick easy little landscapes have some fun with it Switch up the colors be expressive and I would love to see what you do join the Facebook group And you can tag me in your posts and that's it for today. Don't forget the most important things Support my channel, please by shopping in the Etsy shop. The new 2017 stamp line is available for pre-order You can also click on the fan funding button on the YouTube channel's main main home page. You can Do any one of those you can also buy my book over at Amazon Just go to the Amazon search box and put my name in it. 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