Here we have right here, number one paper 140 pounds soaking wet, it's been soaking for about 10 minutes. You can see it slaps down. It's quite saturated you see how it slaps down. If it doesn't slap down, fall down. It's not wet enough and a little trick is to because it's been soaking you want to take off the surface water, you can use a cotton rag. I like using clean axes simply because they're pure and clean.

And I just let them dry out and you can reuse them. The only time you can reuse the Kleenex and I'm going to take some cobalt blue and Let's do a, what's called a dispersion test. We're just going to touch it. And then we're going to watch it disperse. The cobalt doesn't disperse too much. Next one I'm going to try is fail a theme.

Very little water, mostly just paint. We'll do a little test with a stroke. There's the alizarin crimson. You'll notice that it's dispersing more all starting to disperse the try the Indian yellow. You can see that the fellow the fellow and the lizard and Crimson are winning. And here we have Henson Yello ha And so there's our dispersion that's on 140 pound paper.

Now you can see if I was painting that if I wanted that effect fine, but as the paper dries and we put the paint on the second time, you'll see that my dispersion is less the papers wet. When I swipe the brush, the color will disperse. Then I might clean my brush again. Get some read a few blogs at the bottom there, that's okay. And I will put some red in. Notice that the paint is mixing on the paper.

Here comes the yellow at the bottom. Getting to know when and how much water to use. That's the art of watercolor painting. paper here is just wet, it's not shining. And now I'm going to do a little quick little landscape. Gonna use this big brush and this big brush.

Okay, a wet the brush, that's called priming the brush. Get a little bit water out. I'll start with a yellow on the corner of the brush, two corners and I'm just going to put some yellow right through the middle of the paper. brush it off, take a little read, put it through there. And at the top, a very small amount of failed blue. Lots of rags are great.

With water color, you pretty much need a lot of rags. And I'm going to take a different blue here and take a little bit of cobalt blue. And I'm going to tilt my board and I'm going to go on an angle. I'm going to take this brush and I'm going to twist it Next thing I'm going to do, it's going to downsize my brush and I'm going to get a strong Indian yellow. And while this is drying for another one true here and here, notice because the papers wet, saturated, I'm not getting any hard edges. Got it now go a little darker here.

Put some vertical sin I guess we've decided on mountains you will see this hard edge here. Gonna soften it just bring my brush over there. Put a little bit of a Go here. The nice thing about really wet paper is you can pick up things or take them off as you want. Well, I'm going to take now, a smaller brush and I'm going to mix up my first secondary color. I'm going to go with a very strong, pale blue and alizarin crimson.

Remember I'm painting upside down. So what you see is what you're getting. Now if I want a little reflection in the water here, put it in like that. Turn it up because this is dark and add a little dark here to match it. Maybe a little more I want to get, lift a little bit here, my brush right off. Let's see I've got a little hair in there from the goats here.

It's looking good. If I really want to pick this up, I'll take this brush right off And then I will fold it up and slowly pull it across. You don't want to do this too many times as the paper will get stressed. But if you do it a few times it will look great. And then I might put in another there's a pier. So I think what I'll do here is I'm going to put a little line on an angle brush.

Last but not least, take a little brush like that. Pull straight down. This will look different. in about five minutes, it won't be as dark. Now notice how I'm lifting some of the paint off. This looks a little bit more like a marsh over here.

Few times gets the texture and now we're gonna let that dry. See what it looks like in a few minutes. Okay, here it is after drying. for about five or six minutes you'll see those little marks at the top. So when your papers wet and saturated if you hit it with a blunt object, you'll get dark spots. Okay, here we are about 40 minutes later.

35 Minutes later, the paper is still I'm just lifting it up here so you can get a better look at it. Paper still wet and damp. So you can see the dark marks have really shown up well. Now because the paper still damp, I can put some more darks in here. I'm going to take a little bit more fail Oh, and I'm going to give it a couple sweeps. Let's just see what happens.

I was drying up, see that dry stroke there. I like that. I'm going to just try that again. Could you straighten out a little bit. The brush dries out at the end and we get a nice little dry spot in there. could do the same here and sweep it Nice sweeping strokes.

I don't want to lose that yellow, but maybe I'm picking up this is going to reflect down here. I might just leave a little bit of it showing this getting some reflections in here now now tilting the paper Okay, can soften the edge here with just water. See how that because the paper is wet, still Oh, look what I'm getting here. some happy little accidents here. I think what I'll do here is I'm going to get as dark as I can get with a little scene and some lizard crimson. Wanna hold my brush up here?

It's gonna leave a couple little white spots showing there. See those little white spots. And now look just tilt the paper this way. Well, a nice reflection here. If I had not wet the paper, but an hour ago, this would not be working. Now notice how it's clean here.

I haven't touched it clean, clean, clean, nice reflective quality net, there's very little detail. I have a nice spill in here, a little white area here. And here. Sometimes it's not the best to have one huge dark area. So what I'm going to do is before it dries, I'm just going to lift off as mark here, like that. So any little effect that you'd like to have, oh, I see there's another little white spot there.

I might just add one, three is a good number and one down here. Okay, that's enough. Don't touch it, run. Know when to stop. Let that dry.