To start the detail work, I'm going to start working on the cork here. So I have some leftover paint from doing the title. If I didn't, I just mix a little more black with a teeny bit of purple. I'll re invigorated with a little more color and a little water. And I'm going to just make a sharp point with my brush. And I'm just going to create some kind of circles but they're more like dabs.
And I'm going to go lightly on the top here where our highlight is, and a little thicker over here where our dark spot is to give the texture of cork. The same thing down here. I'll go lighter on the highlight because we wouldn't see so much with a light and a little darker on the side here. Then I'm going to rinse my brush and I'm going to mix a little color of a sepia and I'm going to do the same thing and it will dry much lighter than our dark color here and I just want to put a few shapes Little thickness here and there. And this will help give the illusion of cork the texture of cork. I want to go in with a little more water on my palate and a little of this black color.
Not too much though I'm not trying to go dark again, I'll add a little purple to that. And again, not too much, I don't want it to look purple. I just want it to have a little hue and I'm going to come in here and I'm going to outline my labels on my bottle. Just very gentle strokes. creating those shapes. Make sure you connect the lines, they don't have to be perfect.
It's a watercolor painting. You just want to create the illusion of a label. But you do want to connect those lines on a large Your label here I'm going to create the outline first and then I'll fill it in. And when I fill it in, I'm going to fill it in sparsely. I don't want to fill in 100% of it. I really want the only area to be filled in completely to be the title on this illustration.
And that's enough of a contrast to so it doesn't look like it's part of the the actual artwork of their illustrations, but it is cohesive and it does stand out as the title. It doesn't get jumbled up in the words you're not distracted too much from it. So again, I create my outline of my label here and connect all the pieces. And then I'm going to go in and just drop in some color here and there. When I have about two thirds of it, with pigment down, just going to dip my brush in water Knock off some color so I can control it and just go in there and blend those colors. When it dries, the area that had more water and less pigment will dry lighter and create a little variation.
And I like that look. Again with my SharePoint, I'm going to go into this top label. Just add a little bit of areas of darkness. So it blends and coordinates with our bottom label. To take that same color on my brush, make a nice sharp point and I'm going to outline the strainer very quickly. Not going to get it 100% there might be areas that I skipped over because I want to use a very light hand.
Just want to create a nice edge. I'll do the same thing here with a nice sharp point with the outline of this timer. I'll go in an outline the center of the timer. Now while I'm here, I'll make a very sharp point with my brush. And I want to create like a clock face on the exterior of this circle. You could also do it on the interior if you wanted.
I'm just gonna do it on the exterior. So I make the 12, six, three and nine slots. And then I'll go in and just make two slots in between. And that's just to suggest that it's a clock face. We'll let this layer dry and we'll come back and add more details.