Now I want to demonstrate this concept of wash defined pattern and line. So all three layers aren't always applicable to every painting, but it just gives you a strategy and a way of looking at a painting and breaking it down to decide how you might approach the painting of your subject matter. So I took it with a nice leaf shape, we're going to do a Christmas bauble. I'll demonstrate this in four steps. So on the first step, we do our wash over the entire shape. Secondly, we define different areas using a glazing technique.

Step three, we start to add pattern and detail over the previous areas we've defined the step four, we add lines and small details to finish off the painting. I'm going to split the first layer into two different areas to make my Christmas bauble. multi-coloured, but if I want these to bat up against each other, I need to let it dry. In between, we need to be working light to dark for this activity just like with the previous activities, and here you can say I've done my orange wash, let that dry, and then done a turquoise wash in the middle. In step two, we are defining sections of the painting. So it might be that you're defining areas of pattern.

It could be that you're defining segments of a leaf, it really really depends on the context. You can glaze areas with the same color. If you remember our transparencies exercise, you'll see here I can put turquoise over the first layer of turquoise and it's still going to show up so we're defining different areas in that way. For step three pattern, I am switching to a smaller brush so that I can start to work with more details. I need to mix a much thicker wash than before. So It can show up over the previous layers of paint.

And like with our other exercises, you need to let the previous layers dry before you come in with these little details. Then step four is for adding details we need a really, really thick wash, I'm using my zero paintbrush. This is when you would be using black or white highlights to finish off the pace. But as you can see here, you can also use darker color that is already in the painting as well. So I'm adding some outlines and some definition. And I'm also adding blue over the top of the yellow which works because it's thick.

And then even I do to add red dots and circles over my blue layers. Because I've got nice thick, dark red, if I was trying to lay a yellow over the top of the turquoise or the blue, that's just not going to work because it's such a light pigment So you really do need to plan out the way you're going to work. And to consider whether something is going to read on top of another color or not only my brush quite vertically, so that I can work with precision to get those lines and those circles exactly where I want them. So once again, to recap, we've got step one, wash, step two, define, step three, pattern. And step four line. And just like that, you've added four layers of color.

I'm giving you the skills here to be able to incorporate as many layers as you need for the project that you're working on. And having said that, you're not always going to be doing a wash, a defining layer, a pattern and align area. So I'm showing you a couple of examples of how I build up layers in my work using different components of this sort of strategy. So with this little babushka guy here, you can see with his jacket that I have put down a wash, then I have to find his his collar on his jacket by using a darker wash to glaze these areas. Once that's dry, I've added in lines for the stitching and to define the slaves. So I've done that in three layers.

I haven't obviously put any pattern in that this project here was for a flyer. And I've done a whole pile of really bold, bright washes, and that I've gone in and I've added some pattern in with some different lines and shapes like that. So that's two layers, but it still gives a graphic look, and there's a lot of detail in here. All right, this one here. So, if you look at the ocean, this is multiple layers. And this is using some wet and wet techniques, which we haven't covered at all in this class.

But I put down a wash in this area first, some extra layers for booting up color and forgetting the softness through here. And then I've in my second layer, I've defined this section of the wave and I've made this darker in this lighter. And then I haven't had any pattern, but I've used lots of lines and dots to bring in the the contours and to show and convey the shape of the wave. So once again, that's sort of a three layer approach. This was two layer approach. And this was another three layer approach.

So it really depends on what you're doing. This one down here. Hopefully you can see that's pretty small. This little guy here his vest has got one layer for the wash. And then I line the dark gray line is defining the shape of the best and the pockets and then the white ink is the pattern. So again, there's three layers there, but it's just a variation on on this gray one up here.