 Hey guys, how are you? We are going to do some work here on some watercolor As of yet, I don't know what I'm going to name this But I'm assuming if you're watching this then you already know because it's in the title I did one of these recently where the One here on YouTube was a speed through for the most part and the tutorial was over on patreon. This one's going to be a full Tutorial, it's not going to be heavy in-depth tutorial, but it will be a full tutorial So we're going to do something quick and simple I'm going to start with colored pencil, and I'm just looking for a color Maybe don't want to do pink. I have these mechanical colored pencils that I got on Amazon They're by pilot and they're called color Eno I think I'm going to do pink. I Think we'll do pink. We're going to just do some simple flower shapes. Nothing complicated So we're mixed media artists, right? So that means that I'm not a watercolor purist So if I want to use pencil or gel pen or something else with my watercolors, I'm going to do that So I'm going to do an initial sort of just quick Sketchy thing here with a colored pencil. I'm just making some round shapes I have taped off the edges of my journal just because I'm really enjoying right now Having sort of crisp edges to my paintings for the most part I Don't know if it's necessary for this particular one, but I had the tape. It was out. So we're going to use it All right, so we've got our simple shapes there. Can you see that? we're going to start with I think this time I'm going to start with a round brush and Always I always start lighter and work my way darker I think I'm going to start with whole lines permanent yellow orange, which in this palette is the only orange in the palette and This is my floral and cobalt palette. These are the colors in the You can't see that hang on Let's move this all down a little bit. There we go These are the colors in that palette if you want to take a screenshot right about here I'm going to figure out where my son is coming from maybe there because my studio studio light is that way So maybe I'll choose that it's coming from that way Which it kind of is anyway And I'm going to put the orange our tips Or bud tip, whatever these are. I don't know what these are Then we'll grab some water after we get some paint on there and blend out our inner edges a little bit Spread the paint around Okay, I'm going to do the same thing with a light green. So I have this light Jane Davenport green It's a limey green. It's called Jiminy And I want to make it a little bit lighter and less pigmented. So I'm going to add some water I'm going to do the same thing to our leaves. I'm not concerned about the pencil lines Staying on the page. I think things like that add interest to your work And interesting marks to your work, especially in something like this watercolor journal. So Don't be afraid to leave your pencil lines leave your marks and Let them add to the voice of your finished work Okay, that's pretty good. I like that I do have a dryer here handy off that way in case I need to I want to dry things between layers And I don't want colors to blend together too much Right now. I'm not feeling the need to do that, but you never know. I'm going to go into it the darkest red here It's called Frida. It's like a pinky red But it's pretty dark. The water is getting really dirty. This is like my third watercolor tutorial today All right, I'm going to add this to the bottom We're going to do as we did before and we're going to add some water It's going to blend up into the orange Because the orange for the most part is still wet Which I'm okay with and where I need it. I will add some more the red Such a pretty color. I'm working wet on wet in these little flowers. So the colors Bleed some of the pigment will stay where I put it but some of it's going to blend up into the other colors Which is what I want Okay, I'm going to do that something similar with the Leaves and the stems. So I am going to And I might need to add my light green back now because if I turn my head a little bit some of it's dry, but that's okay We are going to start with there's a cobalt green here, which is pretty dark Might not be dark enough But I have a darker green Sorry about all the background noise. My daughter is Also working from home, and I think she's trying to let the dog out I'm going to try to stay away from the orange because I don't want the green to go into the orange Which is a little bit tricky. I could dry it and make my life easier, but you know Okay, so we're going to go back with some water Putting the water where you want the paint to go. Don't put the water Into that orange because you don't want the paint to go there barely touching the paper with my brush Using just the very tip. I get too much on there. I can wash my brush off and lift Okay, I have a darker green here, which is Jane Davenport water spirit It's a dark olivey green. I'm going to mix it with some of the other with all of the other greens here I don't know if it's even dark enough. I might want to add some blue to it I think I'm going to add some of the Jane Davenport ink to it, which is a dark navy blue Yeah, that's better Okay, again, I'm just Barely touching Okay, my battery cut out there. So I don't know what you saw but I added our cobalt green and then blended it out with some water. Then I took The Jane Davenport water spirit and added some of the ink to it the dark navy blue And now I'm going to just go in And very lightly with a tip of the brush Just add some deeper green shadows again, keeping the Greens away from any of the Oranges or reds that are wet because I don't want them to go there That's actually pretty good. I might want to add a pop of just that navy color that Yeah This is the straight navy that Jane Davenport ink Just make it pop Taking a wet brush With no paint on it and blotting up some of the excess paint And or blending out Some places where there's too much pigment It's all about layering and putting The right colors in the right place and suggest to suggest your shapes I like that. All right, um, I'm going to dry this Okay I'm going to take a blue and there's a fan brush in here somewhere. There it is uh, let's do Jane Davenport's Mermaid color Which is a teally green blue add a bunch of water to it. It's not so bright And then we're going to just Okay, any place that you've got paint that you don't want it just quickly go in And just blot it up with a rag a mr. Clean magic eraser works really well by the way All right, dry that Okay, take the tape off Which I didn't really need the tape because we didn't have like we weren't doing a skyscraper or anything But it's nice to do I think Keeps things a little bit contained and I'm going to take that same pink pen that we started with and right under here I'm gonna give it a title. Let's see. I think I did one earlier today. I signed it 2019 I did so that's wrong Oops All right, anyway And I don't think I can erase that. Let's see I doubt it. Okay. Let's fix that. There we go I hope so if I put the right date on things Anyway, there we go. There there you have it. There is a watercolor quick little watercolor painting That would be a cute little painting to put on the front of a card or anything Um, I hope that you all have if you're enjoying the watercolor tutorials that you have some sort of a journal like this That you just can do some watercolor play in This for those that are going to ask me because I know somebody is going to ask me. This is a moleskin. I think Yep, it's a moleskin Yeah, it's a moleskin watercolor journal. Um I don't remember what size it is. Let's see. It's like eight by Five so five by eight inch waters watercolor moleskin journal. 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