Brown to go in so like the tops of the ears, for sure, maybe a little inside the top of the head and you'll notice areas around the eyes but really only in areas where the lightest fittings so we want to keep careful and make sure that there's enough water in there. fairly large areas where we can wash overall. So we can get away with that pretty far. Because this brush holds a lot of water can be really good for picking up for these sort of wash area areas, and then as we want to we can kind of pull some back Putting the water down before we start keeps it fairly contained so that it's not flowing all over the page if we just set it down. So here we go. And we have some water and we have some lighter coat of paint down.

So if we want to work what and so what we can get started and take some of this Burnt Umber a little bit of a pain spray in there. It's okay to have a little variety when you're working with animals because their coats have a lot of variety. So you're gonna get a lot more intrigue in there. If you get a spot where you didn't want paint, best ways to get a clean brush and just pull it in this area has a face. I'm gonna keep it pretty light here because there's some light that shows from under the first so we're gonna keep a little color there but not too much. And you can kind of keep going in filling in a few spots in there.

Things we didn't test it later. So while this is sort of settling in and going and just test a little bit a little bit so, orange so I'll put a couple of reds in the And then number that's probably gonna be a little too. Yeah, that's too brown. So I'm kind of walking you through my brain process through this, I don't usually stop and think about it as much. But you know, gives you an idea of how I go through, it's starting to look a little bit more like the peak on there might be a little more of this sort of lesser in red or in crimson. So that looks pretty close.

And if I dilute it down, I think it's going to look even better. Sort of muted. So I think that's pretty nice. I can kind of start with that in here. And once I do it it's it's pretty heavy. But one of the things about watercolor is that it dries lighter then it looks when you put it down and part of that is the pigment flowing in paper and getting absorbed.

And then we got one more question Hear in the eyes, it's sort of nice green yellow. We can try that with the Booker screen or canvas fact green is a nice color. Green is not always our file or has it good light fastness, so it may not be the best choice always. But if you're just, you know, scanning this in emailing photo to somebody or something like that, that's one option. I feel like this is a little too greensville. So I'm gonna take a little bit of yellow ochre and just mix it in a little bit.

If I do this, now that's looking pretty close to the eye color. If you like To be more green, you can leave it more green I like to be a little more accurate. So I might even use both of these tones because there's some shadow in her eye and just to get that cooler tone in there so it's good to test these a little bit and want this to be pretty. Sometimes you might want to go smaller doing this to try and get the shape correct and something like this. Otherwise it can be a little bit dark outline around her eyes so it'll help you shape it a little bit later as well. This is where having a piece of paper towel comes in handy.

You can lift up color pretty easily. If you notice in the photo, this is actually this darker. I'm gonna call it back end up going more actually as we could take. So, take a little bit of this a little bit of the number here. I'm just gonna drop in a little bit here in the nose now if you want to wait until the end to do, I kind of feel like it's nice to have that a little bit. When I do oil paintings and acrylic paintings.

I like to make sure that I have a dark and a light and a bright color on my painting so that I don't go too muted with my colors or too light or too Dark with them because it's easy to kind of go one way or the other. So they're gonna let that bleed in a little bit like just give them a little more fun, loose feel. Now we're going to let this dry for a little bit so that we can go in with another layer and that it's not gonna just kind of bleed everywhere. So we'll give it a minute and let it dry.