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How to Create Perfect Washes with Watercolor Watercolor Essentials: How to Create Perfect Washes
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Some yellow here, not everywhere, just leave a few little blue spots and then just dry brushing it over. The stronger their backs. Now this is farther away. So I'm going to even fin my yellow more here. It's going to be almost imperceptible, but it's going over this and it is making a difference. As I added in here, a stay away from the shadow.

Keep the shadows cool. But a yellow on here a little more, a bit in the water. A little bit on the snow, a little bit there. A little bit. Just popping in little yellow here and there. Now I'm going to go over this area with yellow, dry off my brush did little tap stroke.

Pop it in a little bit on the trees here, definitely on the trees just to kind of go up and down. joining them up with a little bit of color bringing them forward, warm colors, make things come forward, cool colors make things recede. I'm going back to my original blue here. Looking at what I have here, darkening up a few things with very thin little washes of color. This is still a little wet but that's okay. I'm going to sweep in a few shapes with the blue no Just when you put the blue here comes a shadow.

Sweep it in. Try and get the shape of what you're doing. I think we need a little green up here. I can drop in a little video on there. Oh yeah, that's nice. But in there, because the screen here, put a little bit of yellow in there.

Staying away from the clouds. And now I'm just adjusting with the yellow on the trees and back to the blue. Think I'll give this little little shape there. That's nice. A little shade. there and a little bit darker here.

Remember, are going to soften the edge Put this whole thing in shadow here. That whole area and shadow. Keep the edge soft. dry off the brush. soften the edge. I'm going to come along here with a good strong brown I think.

So first I'll do my yellow. Especially right here. Let it dry for a minute. Drop in a little bit of red. These are the little finishing touches. tilta turn it let me just turn it here for you.

Show you what's gonna happen here. So only gonna going to go where it's wet. Now what I'm hoping will happen is the air it's going. It's gonna all blend in and create a little bit of a incident. There, this building going up there, a little bit of blue in there. There we go where it's wet or I put that shadow bringing this mountain into a shadow right over there with that light blue gently, gently and softening the edge.

Softening the edge. You can see just dropping the colors in Little more hair. Cut the shape here, same shape there. soften the edge. Sometimes when you're doing a painting like this and or any work at home and you feel like you're losing it, trying to get it finished, put it aside, start new and sometimes never gonna soften here. Sometimes I work on five or six pictures at the same time.

The tilt member tilting, very important, just water. Just water just coming across. They see that lines a little bit too defined. So we're going to add a little more here. Let it run in there. But a catch up to this one.

Catch it up. It's catching up and then pull it back. Catch it up. Good. Be careful watch when I pull it back, look how it bleeds in there. I've got to be careful.

If I let that bleed too much, it will lose its graded wash look. I think we're gonna be okay here. And I'm gonna do something next. Oh, that looks much better there. See that nice grade wash. I don't lose that gonna leave that light there.

I like that. I'm taking the last thing is this this has to equal here. I'm thinking I'm going to get some purple here or violet. And put it in like that blob in, cleaned off the brush and make my shadow area here. A little darker. There.

Oh, like that better. I'm just going to need a little blue are going to be a little bold here. actually going to take some a swipe hmm It's wet. I'll be okay if I swipe in there. Yes. Maybe one more right here going up.

There we go. There we go. Whoo. I can see the back of this. Maybe one more. There we go.

Whoo. Now I can see I want to make this stand out. See one thing leads to another, make that cloud stand out and take a little of the purple. I just want to put one little blob on like that. Clean off my brush. It's wet.

Now I can spread around. I don't want to touch the green on the tree. And that will make that stand out a little. Push it through there. soften it here. There we go.

Now remember, let things dry. Don't start putting too much paint on. If it's wet, each layer must try to get the right effect. And I'm going to put what's called an oblique something Not an angle coming across here. And it's going to be a deeper shadow. See the white part there.

Soften it a warm violet. A little more here, pulls this out. Every time you put a little bit of something next to something, it affects it. So this is now coming out brighter. There we go. One more there for a little darker.

And a little more here is I'm going to create a shimmer around here. And the way to do that is to take a little bit of the violet that we were using and I'm going to come down and darken Everything here, put it in shadow. putting things in shadow is very important. See, now, take my brush and soften the edge and leave that little white spot showing there. Remember, see how I did a few white spots in here. But I don't want to do them all in.

I can always get rid of them later. There's my purple or violet, got a little bit out of hand there almost. And there and I'm going to put a little bit over here to action. Because the mountains here, there, that's about right. It's all about adjusting. Coming right over here with this violet color.

And this is a little too strident. A good way to key down the green is with a little bit of red or violet and a little bit in the water here. There. Okay, last little spot is to take your utility blade. Now the utility blade is a good way to pick up a few whites going to use a lot of it, but right along here, it would be nice to have a little bit of a white reflection. Notice on the paper totally dry when you do that, it picks it up a bit.

If you've got a little dark area here, pick that up with a little bit of the utility blade. I usually use a brush, a dry brush to get rid of it. Maybe clean up in this area here. Usually one direction. an exacto blade works really well to a couple little strokes in the water. And of course the moment of truth is when you peel the tape off, peel it away.

Don't pull straight down like this. Pull it away from the picture. And as I said know when to stop. There we go. Hold it away from the pitcher. There we go.

Add it to the wall and you've got yourself your no grip, no slip picture.

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