Now that our background is dry, we're going to create our first layer here of our seahorse. So I'm mixing my colors first and with my number six brush, put some water on my palate and I want to make three colors, three distinct colors for now and then we'll blend them on the seahorse. So I'll start with some of this lemon yellow. I'll just put this in one of the sections. And I want this to be a lot darker than the background. So very vibrant.

And then I'm going to pick up this deep yellow. Over here, it has a little orange hue to it. And I'll make another section over here of more deep yellow. But I'm going to combine that with a little bit of this vermillion to add a little more of this. deposit a little more water. I have a feeling I'm going to need more pigment here.

So it makes a little more of this lemon yellow. Then with a wet clean brush, I'm going to go and I'm just going to saturate the entire seahorse. Leave a little border so that I can make a nice edge. But I want it nice and saturated. So I'll start at the tail and work my way up. Go over one more time, just to make it really wet.

And then I'm going to start at the head. And I want three basic spots, a very light color. And that's gonna be the the main head and nose here. So I'll just posit that color that they vibrant lemon yellow. And I'll go around and create that shape. And again, I don't have to get the entire area with color, I can leave a little white splotches if I like.

And I'm going to come over here on the back end just underneath this section of the tail. And again, I want to create that nice outline. And then I'm just gonna do a little bit here at the end of the tail. Because it's the lightest color, the other colors will overtake it. So it's okay to do a little more than I intended originally. I'll come in here and just drop in more pigment so it's nice and saturated, particularly on those major areas I wanted and just let it blend the color blend on the others that I'm just going to switch to my next deeper color.

This is the deep yellow, and I'm going to come in here and I'm just going to add more pigment And create the shape here this little I call it a crown using quick little strokes and then when I reach the area where there is the lemon yellow, I'm going to deposit it and just let it run. So once I have a nice outline, I'll come over here and go down the back a little bit of the ways. Pick up more of this lemon yellow. And I'm going to stay on the back here as well, but I'll leave a little spot over here. And then I'm not going to do all go all the way up for a little I don't know what this is on his back here, but I'm going to just go to the edge here. Then I'll come here.

Carry this medium yeah down through the tail, and on the side as well. So now we have a good portion three quarters or so of our seahorse colored in with various shades of yellow. I'm going to switch to a smaller brush because this deeper orange is so dominant. So this is my number two brush. I'm going to come in here and just pick up a little of this deep yellow, and I'm going to go over the belly creating the outline. So I'll be very careful creating that outline.

And then I'm going to pick up this deep color and I'll just drop it in various spots. Again, I want to be careful in the areas that are on the border of the seahorse and I want to create that beautiful edge and then I want the colors to run So to make sure that happens, I want to make sure the area is still wet. When I deposit my color it's not wet. I'll go in there and introduce some more water or some more pigment, the lighter yellow. And I'm going to take my brush and it's going to go over that area on the belly. Pick up more pigment, and I want it to be darkest at the edge of the belly.

And I'm going to come over here on this little section of the back. Introduce that orange. While I'm creating the outline. I'll pick up my painting to have the colors run a little Getting nice blends over here. Then to take this orange as well. And I'm going to go over the color I've already put down, just depositing it in little dabs on the end of the tail.

And I'll put a little right at the end here. And this is what I mean we're at the original pigment has dried. So I'll deposit a little bit of color. rinse my brush to remove that deeper orange color. Pick up more of the lemon yellow. And I'll add it back here.

Catching some of that color we just just introduced. Take more of that lemon yellow, re wet the face. And then with whatever's on my brush, I'll mix it with a little this orange, just add a little bit of the orange and various spots. Again, just hoping to get them Color blend and really play with it and see what you like. And I'll turn this around, colored it and run exactly here the way intended. So I'll just give that a little helping hand and I'll let this first layer dry.