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Hello Everybody, today I will be showing you how to use watercolor. Our subject for this video is going to be… an Apple!
This is an apple that I painted as an example, and as I paint, I will be going over several art techniques and terms you should know.
But! Before we begin, we need our… materials!
You will need your watercolor, your water, a delicious apple, A square of Bristol paper, another paper for your paint swatches, a paper towel, your brush, eraser, and finally a pencil.
As I’ve mentioned I will be using several art terms as well as watercolor terms, but I will remind you of the definition once more as I go.
To start, I will begin to sketch out the apple. In this step it is important to take note of the Proportion (which refers to the height, width, and depth) of the Apple, because we also want to make a good Composition (how the image is “balanced” on the canvas)
After the first sketch, I take my eraser and lighten the lines because unlike other thicker mediums like oil paint, watercolor is light and cannot cover the dark graphite.
After that we no longer need out pencil and eraser.
I now will begin to apply a water “wash” to my apple sketch. A Wash refers to a thin layer of water that has a bit of watercolor paint mixed with it. In this case I am making a clear wash without any paint so that I may use the “wet on wet” technique. Which means blending different colors together when the canvas and brush are both wet.
After I’ve applied my water wash, it is now time to apply paint to my apple using the wet-on-wet technique. Before I commit however, I test my brush on the swatch paper so I know what color and how strong the pigment will be before applying it to my paper. (The strength of the pigment refers to how much paint I picked up on my brush).
Now as I paint, you can notice how the paint seems to “move” without me touching it. This is the watercolor Feathering which is the pigment of the paint moving through the water. This way the color can spread evenly through the paper without making streaks.
After the first wash dries, I will use the wet on dry technique to begin Rendering the apple. The wet on dry technique is like the wet-on-wet technique except this time the canvas is dry, so when I use the brush on the painting, the watercolor will only spread to where I touch the paper with the brush and not everywhere. Rendering basically refers to painting details until the object becomes more realistic and three dimensional.
Notice how I avoid a small patch of white on the corner of the apple painting. This is the Highlight of the apple, aka the lightest part of the apple. Here I did not paint on top of it because once you apply watercolor to the paper, you cannot take it off.
Now that I have my basic colors, I will apply the core shadow of the apple. The core shadow is the opposite of the highlight and is the darkest part of the object.
And notice how I left a bit of the apple lighter than the core shadow. This is because that section of the apple has reflected light which is the light that is bounces off of the white paper and back onto the apple.
Then finally after all the details I will paint the cast shadow which, as the name suggests, is the shadow that the apple makes on the surface it rests on.
And there we have it, a watercolor apple. Thank you for watching and have a nice day!
Hello Everybody, today I will be showing you how to use watercolor. Our subject for this video is going to be… an Apple!
This is an apple that I painted as an example, and as I paint, I will be going over several art techniques and terms you should know.
But! Before we begin, we need our… materials!
You will need your watercolor, your water, a delicious apple, A square of Bristol paper, another paper for your paint swatches, a paper towel, your brush, eraser, and finally a pencil.
As I’ve mentioned I will be using several art terms as well as watercolor terms, but I will remind you of the definition once more as I go.
To start, I will begin to sketch out the apple. In this step it is important to take note of the Proportion (which refers to the height, width, and depth) of the Apple, because we also want to make a good Composition (how the image is “balanced” on the canvas)
After the first sketch, I take my eraser and lighten the lines because unlike other thicker mediums like oil paint, watercolor is light and cannot cover the dark graphite.
After that we no longer need out pencil and eraser.
I now will begin to apply a water “wash” to my apple sketch. A Wash refers to a thin layer of water that has a bit of watercolor paint mixed with it. In this case I am making a clear wash without any paint so that I may use the “wet on wet” technique. Which means blending different colors together when the canvas and brush are both wet.
After I’ve applied my water wash, it is now time to apply paint to my apple using the wet-on-wet technique. Before I commit however, I test my brush on the swatch paper so I know what color and how strong the pigment will be before applying it to my paper. (The strength of the pigment refers to how much paint I picked up on my brush).
Now as I paint, you can notice how the paint seems to “move” without me touching it. This is the watercolor Feathering which is the pigment of the paint moving through the water. This way the color can spread evenly through the paper without making streaks.
After the first wash dries, I will use the wet on dry technique to begin Rendering the apple. The wet on dry technique is like the wet-on-wet technique except this time the canvas is dry, so when I use the brush on the painting, the watercolor will only spread to where I touch the paper with the brush and not everywhere. Rendering basically refers to painting details until the object becomes more realistic and three dimensional.
Notice how I avoid a small patch of white on the corner of the apple painting. This is the Highlight of the apple, aka the lightest part of the apple. Here I did not paint on top of it because once you apply watercolor to the paper, you cannot take it off.
Now that I have my basic colors, I will apply the core shadow of the apple. The core shadow is the opposite of the highlight and is the darkest part of the object.
And notice how I left a bit of the apple lighter than the core shadow. This is because that section of the apple has reflected light which is the light that is bounces off of the white paper and back onto the apple.
Then finally after all the details I will paint the cast shadow which, as the name suggests, is the shadow that the apple makes on the surface it rests on.
And there we have it, a watercolor apple. Thank you for watching and have a nice day!