Here we have all the materials you need except for the paints and water. We have 140 pound Arches Cold pressed paper. We have a small brush here, a small round, a medium, a Chinese brush and a flat brush. Over here is painters tape, which has a low tack, meaning that the acidity is very low and it won't affect your paper and it comes off easily. Do not use masking tape or scotch tape. They're highly acidic.

There are some scotch tapes that might not be but just to be safe. painters tape is probably your best bet and a rag so that you can recycle it, wash it up. I'll be using an archival brush pen. It's called For some of the drawings and a permanent Sharpie for other drawings, I do it in pen. You may use pencil and erase the pencil after you're finished when the painting is totally dry, but I'm using a pen, because pencil is really hard to see, when you're demonstrating on a film, it just doesn't show up properly. So I'm using ink instead of pencil.

One of the things you're going to need is a board such as this, this is just matte board that you can tilt and this will help the water flow and also this is what we take our picture to. So you're going to be working with smaller papers in the first project and you'll be taping them on their tape it because we're going to be doing dry paper and unless your paper is saturated with water as soon as you add water to one side of the page. And when it if you don't wet the other side it will buckle even if it's up to 200 pounds, eventually it will get worked or buckle. So we're taping the picture. I use the low tack painters tape comes off easily. And you just pull it this way, don't pull this way.

If you pull your tape this way, you'll rip the picture. It'll actually take the paper off, especially if you're using a 90 pound paper, hundred 40 pound paper you're safe but still pull it this way when you're taking it off. And when you take it off, you have a nice white edge which shows you a picture off. So I just take my thumb and make sure it's sealed along the edges. Presentation after your picture is finished is part of the painting and nature of paint. Paint needs water These are called water color paint because they need water.

They give you the color but you have to provide the water. Now, there are two ways to use watercolor paints. One is full strength on your brush without water. That means that the paper has to be saturated with water. That will be our next lesson. This lesson is going to be using paints that are thinned with water and then applied to dry paper.

You'll need a small brush, a medium brush and rag. Remember small tools, small piece of paper, big tools, big piece of paper. We're going to add water in here. And we're going to add water here and we're going to add water here. So we have three little wells full of water. And now we're going to just use one color.

We're going to be using the fellow blue, not to cobalt, but to choose a brush that's not too big hold your path, your palette, take some on your brush, just the tip of the brush, get a blob on there, like that. And then put it in the water and thin it. In the first well, notice these three wells for pretty much the same amount of water. If you want to get scientific, you can use a an eyedropper and put an equal amount in each. See how the second one got lighter. It's not quite what I want.

So I take a little of the first one. And just by looking at that color, you can see which one is lighter. Then I go to here, and I'm borrowing from this one and you can see Going from here to here, I will get a dark, a medium and light. Now if that's not dark enough, I could add a drop more. Make sure it's all mixed. And now rub my brush, tap my brush on the rag, I'm ready to pay.

This is my water container. Don't get a little cup of water. Get a big jug, big container. That way you don't have to keep changing your water and interrupting the creative process. So big jug of water. If you look at this brush, it's the Robert Simon's synthetic round brush round meaning it's going around this way it's rounded, as opposed to a flat brush.

Once you finish painting, what you'll do is put a little soap in your hand here and add little water to the brush and you'll Work that brush back and forth like this until the water and soap come out clean. Now I've not dirty this brush but it by demonstration you can see if it was dirty. So by cleaning it off, put a little more soap in my hand, get a good pure soap. And you keep doing that until the brushes clean, just swishing it in the water doesn't get it done.