Okay, I've turned my papers over and the next thing we need to really learn before we start our first real project is the really wet paper. So we're discovering wet, dry and watch. Now the watch part really is important. In this one. I've put on four good swipes five of water and I have a puddle, water puddles. Now, I'm not going to let them soak very long because I want to show you the puddling nature of water.

And what happens when we add fairly stiff or dry paint full strength from the tube or rolled around in to in your cake pans. There's the first time we did there's a huge puddle on there. I'm sure you can see it. Watch what happens. Okay, it's only going to go to the edge of the puddle. Now they all look pretty good.

They all have a very magical effect. Because we're watching, we wet it. We took dryer paint, and we're watching the dry paper on the edges. None of them are going past the edge of the dry paint. Now what's happening here is the paint has done its magic. It's done things we could never imagine.

If use it because it's wet, if you start rubbing at this point, you destroy the magic. That's why we need to watch. Now we can add to this, but we can rub it if we want to keep this magic. So if I added a little bit of pate, I have to be careful. What kind of paint Am I going to add thick paint or thin paint. If I add paint with too much water, it's going to do something here so that you may not want so here I'm going to add a medium Paint into what's already drying here.

Let's add it to the dry part no spreading see already even that little bit of time spreading a little more. It's very wet here. Okay, it's like a puddle. That's not that's not what you want in watercolor. So what do we do? It's all puddled.

What do we do here? Well, it's drying here, you can actually see it drying. If I add water to it, I will create what's called a bleed mark. See, now if we leave that for a minute, you'll see what happens to that. So this yellow is too thick. It's a thicker color.

So hence yellow, if you want it to be transparent has to be very thin. Let's see how a lizard responds to the dry skin spread it, it's spreading more than the yellow to the Not so dry and to the extremely wet puddle. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Whoa that is a puddle and do if you've got this puddle thing happening, you can clean your brush off or it looks like I need to change my water pretty soon.

And you can bring that puddle. Whoa My gosh, look at that water does run downhill. So here's where you might think, oh I'm under control not true. Wherever you hit the soft wherever you touch with the brush creates a soft edge. Water will follow wherever you create a wet pathway. water runs downhill.

So these little experiments are great, but in and out themselves, they're it's really just play day. You have to know why the water does this and when you want to use it to do something. Here's the hard edge. They're still wet here. And it's dry here, dry here. Okay, if it's dry, I'm going to take some Alizarin Crimson with a little bit of water on my brush to touch it here so that it's not too wet.

And I'm going to put in a dry stroke in the middle, but I'm going to let it touch the edge. Now I have a hard edge where the white is a soft edge here, and look at that beautiful little. So this is doodle art. If you want to call it is nonrepresentational, but you certainly can learn a lot And you don't know how to you don't have to be able to draw a darn thing. You're just learning the principles of wet, dry and watch. Give this one real swipe.

Ah, see, wet, dry and watch. If this is wet, I can bring my brush, wiggling it, see wiggling, it gets more paint Oh, skip a spot, touch the wet, skip a squat, touched the wet and it's starting to dry here. That's good. And finish it right off to the bottom here. Just experimenting with wet, dry and watch. I know it's wet here is very dry here.

It's a little wet here. still wet here. So I'm going to put a swipe through here. haven't used water runs downhill yet? Oh, there we go. I found a little downhill.

Now watch, I can encourage it with little drops of paint. See, water runs downhill, water puddles and water soaks. I'm not going near here because it's drying. But if I did, I would know what happens. And I'll tell you what's going to happen if I take some blue and I come up to this little wet area right here. To turn it around, it's wet here.

It's wet here, but it's dry right here. So if I add a little bit here, it's going to make what's called a bleed mark. Watch, see where the dry paper is. See that is great watercolor artist called Westlake Kandinsky. And this is what he did in a lot of his watercolors. He just played with edges.

And there are two kinds of edges. Dry, hard, wet, soft. I'm gonna go a little darker there. My paint now this is the fellow is quite Dry rubber up just a little drop. Now can you see some puddles on my paper because the waters running downhill. Look at the puddles the yellow has mingled with the blue and when the yellow and the blue reach the red they formed a gray and you see that gray puddle here.

If I want that gray, I have one option which is to have a clean brush and add water to it. But this is dry. So I think what I'll do is pick up the puddle. dry off the brush. keep letting it run into there because I don't really want gray right now. I want to keep my painting bright and clean.

So the yellow went in the blue form the secondary color traveled down here, those two colors mingled into the red and started making your gray. Let me see if I, here's another one here happening here. I don't mind this one I think I will encourage this one with water. soften the edge. There we go. For see another one.

I mean I could spend hours on this, just using these principles. wet, dry, soft edge, hard edge, wet, dry, wet, puddle it at dry pate. It disperses and always watching, watching watching now let's do a project.