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1. Tropical Fish & Turtle Class Welcome: Hi everyone. Thanks
for stopping by. Welcome on into my studio. Today I have for you a watercolor piece that is
for people of all abilities. If you've never painted before, you're still going to have
a great outcome if you follow my videos step-by-step. And you can stop
and start them as needed so you're comfortable
with the process. If you have
experienced painting, then you're going to zip right through and you'll
be able to just relax and enjoy that process. And getting the zone. And all of you are
going to walk away. Beautiful brightly
colored tropical fish and a turtle that's going
to mail your heart. And some Coral and Seaweed. And I thought the funnest part
of all was these Bubbles. I'll show you a
technique that will make perfectly round
Bubbles. Every time. We are going to learn
some great techniques to add to your toolbox
such as Wet on Wet, some dry brushing and glazing, and a lot of detailed work. All of these things
will help you in your Art portfolio
moving forward. I hope you'll take the
time to join me today for this great
piece. Hi everybody. My name is Kerrie Sanders
and I'm an artist to teacher and a creative
here in St. George, Utah. I'm just outside of beautiful
Zion National Park. This down in the corner of Utah. And it's so beautiful here. It's, we'd love to
be outdoor painting. We have projects going on. And if you've ever like to know more than just checked me out at Kerrie Sanders art.com or on instead at
Kerrie Sanders Art. I have taught many, many students over
the years and I was lucky enough to have
a big box store, pick up my book and publish this and send
it across the nation. Over 10,000 sold along with a pattern packets that
they sold to big box stores. I just have such
a love for being with people that are like-minded that we just share ideas. We've found things
back-and-forth and I loved it, the energy in the field
from people and learn from them while I'm teaching
them a little bit too. So I hope that you'll
join us today. If this looks like
a FUN class to you, then grab your paints and
let's get started together.
2. Long Fish Pattern & Wet-on-Wet Technique: We're going to start
our first fish. It's the one at the
top. I'm going to call it the long Fish. I'm sure there's a
real name for it. I'll show you an actual
picture of the Fish. But here's what
we're going to use. Opera pink, orange, dioxazine, purple, and violet
that you have will do. And cobalt blue and
then white gouache. This is white gouache. And we'll go ahead and grab your supplies. And we'll start right in. For those of you that
are beginners and have never transferred
a pattern over. I wanted to take a moment, show you how to do that. So you're going to take the PDF that I have
provided for you on this skill share
page and a piece of tracing paper and
just copy that, just transfer that over. Once you've done that, you're going to take
your watercolor paper and a piece of graphite paper, put the gray side down. And then you're going to
lay your pattern over it. And what you do is take
sharp pencil or pen. Or oftentimes I use a stylus so that I
don't ruin my pattern. Or I'll paste, or I'll put
another piece of vellum on top of that so that I
don't ruin my Pattern. And I can still transfer
the pattern on. Now, when I say transfer
the pattern on, this is literally all
you need to trace on. There is no need for you to trace bubbles or
seaweed or coral, or even the details of the fish. All you need to do is the
outline and the Fins. And some of the details
very lightly on the turtle, but I didn't even put eyes
or stripes or anything. So be aware of that. You don't want to put every
detail onto your patterns. So go ahead and transfer that. And we will go ahead and
get started together. Okay, we've traced
our pattern on and before you move it out of place, before you move your
pattern out of place, just do a quick look
to make sure that you have everything that
you want on there. And once you do,
remove your pattern, and we are good to go. We're going to dive right in with some wet on wet technique. And we're going to begin by
just getting some water on a medium round
brush and just put some water where we want
that purple stripe to be. Don't worry about
this little fin. Just go right over it
and make sure you give it a little bit of curvature
as you place your water in. Remember that paint is going to flow wherever the water is. And so that's why won't, even though you can't see it, we still wanna be aware
of where we're placing our water because it's
going to have a big impact. And then we're going to pick
up some of them are purple, love this color so much, and start to touch it in. I always touch in the middle because you can
see that It blossoms out, which is exactly what
we want it to do. That's Wet-on-Wet. And let's let that do its thing for a minute and
see where it's going to go. And I'm going to add some more intensity
right down the middle. Great. That's automatically
going to stop where the water stops so I don't
need to worry about it continuing into
the rest of the fish, it's going to stop. And so while that's doing that, Let's go ahead and do our
Fins with our cobalt blue. Let's pick up some
of that cobalt blue. Let's do a really light wash. So I would say probably
80 to 90% water on this. And you can start here
on the large fin. And we're just
really going to wash this in meaning all
the same value. We just want to light color and we're actually going to
lift some off in the middle. So we'll start by
washing it in and go ahead and put a little
bit of a jaggedy edge here. That's a technical term. Jaggedy edge. But
if you think of a fish's fin, It's
kinda jaggedy. So same here where it's
going to meet the orange. Alright, now while
that's still wet, I'm going to just put to
have clean water brush, take all the blue Up. And in the center area,
we're going to touch him, press and lift and wipe that off and you
can see how it lift off The blue, which is just
what we want to do. So we wanted to leave
some on that outer edge. Good. Alright, I'm
gonna switch to a smaller round now and
we'll do the other Fins. If you're curious, I've
switched to a number for round and I'm going to be careful to not
touch the purple. I don't want purple
up in my FIN. Nice. Now we're gonna do the same technique of lifting
off while it's still wet. Clean water brush
Tuczyn pressed. Leave it on that outer edge. It's gonna be so pretty
when we put in the white. It's going to look
awesome. Alright, let's do the lower Fins. Again, we're not touching
the purple is our last one. Let's lighten it
up in the center. Okay. Let's let that dry. I've come back to my medium
round and I'm going to pick up a little bit of water
and get my paper wet. Just on the back half
of the long Fish. And then I'm going to pick up some orange and touch that in. Love, wet on wet. It's so PFK-1. And once you become
comfortable with it and you can anticipate
what it's going to do, then you feel more control. Some people avoid wet on wet because they don't have control. But you actually do. You just need to practice
and get comfortable with it. Alright, we're gonna let
that flow out a little bit. And while it is, Let's
pick up some water. And we're just gonna do
the top half of the Fish. Purple around the mouth. And pretty much a
straight line across. And stop there. It's an orange over there. If that rolling. And let's come back over here. And I'm just going to smooth a little bit on the outer edge. I want it to be lighter at the top and add some
contour to our Fish. Now at the bottom
while still wet, we're going to pick up some
of this awesome opera pink, one of my favorite
colors to do flowers with and anything that
needs a real pop of color. And this Fish calls for it. I'm excited that
we get to use it. And I'm just going
to touch them in on the lower half of the Fish. Notice I'm doing an
up and down motion. I'm not doing a stroke, I'm not doing anything that's going to
disturb that orange. And let that blend by itself. Let's just let it go. Let's come in now and blend
our orange a little bit. I'm gonna bring it
across my purple gently. Now it's time for us to add
some strong kink down here. So I'm going to start by
putting some water in. And I am coming right up
to that orange because I want those to the
blend together. And when to soften
the lower edge. I'm going to strengthen that. I'm going to pull some up. Remember, we're going to
put that eyeball there. Ms. Soften that with water. And I'm going to add the
tiniest amount of cobalt blue. Over here around the eye area. I only touched it
once you can see how it spreads fast and dark. I'm going to touch it one
more time. Just go slow. Alright, let's
strengthen some of this orange watercolor
always dries. One value, lighter. I still want it lighter
on that top edge. And I actually would like
a little highlight there. So I'm just going to touch
him press Let's let that dry. Now that are Fish
is completely dry. I just took a pencil and just lightly did a
little circle there. It doesn't have to
be perfectly round, just close enough to
give us a guideline. And we can go ahead
and put in the eye. And I'm just going to use
some of this cobalt blue It's easiest to just
kinda turn it upside down to get the second
half of the circle. Okay, Great. And
while that's drying, let's just add a little
emphasis in a couple of areas. So I'm going to stick with this larger round and pick
up some of this opera pink. It's probably a 70, 30
ratio on this 70% water. And we're gonna
start back here at the tail. Just a little. Let it go into the
tail a little bit. And then we're going to
bring, we'll emphasis, we're going to add some
curvature. I like that. Then let's pick up,
well that's wet. Let's pick up just the
tiniest amount of our purple. And this is when I say tiny, I mean like 9010, 90% water. And let's just finish,
at least on mine, I needed to finish out
this little stripe. But I also want to add
just some deepening around the fist under
the mouth a little bit. I love that. Okay. While
we're going for it, Let's pick up some
more of his opera. And we're going to
add one more strike. Let me just get a feel for it. Again. It's going
gonna be curved. Curved, but it's
going to be curving the other way and not, not severely, but I just
kinda getting a feel. I going this way. Kinda
when you're sketching with a pencil and you get a feel for things before you lay it in. That's that's kinda
what you want to do. Yep. Then line it up
with that mouth, latin. And then we're going to
soften it a little bit. Like what that's doing. That's great. Soften
that edge and touch. We don't want to lose
the strip, this stripe. We just want to soften
it a little bit. I do like that. How are you doing, guys? You haven't done
with this? Green if you're holding your
breath, breathe. Alright. Now that
our eye is dry, Let's just bring in a little
more that cobalt blue that we touched in earlier
and let's touch and just a tad around that. I now mine is dry so
it's staying put. Bring it down where it's more
wet and let that blend in. And I'm going to soften it.
Water. This is just water. There's no right or
wrong here, guys. So be kind to yourself
and enjoy the process. We're also going to come
in with some white. We're not finished
with the process. Snow, it's going to
turn out just fine. I just picked up a tiny
bit of pink to kind of model that in a little bit. Okay, great. Now
let's let that dry. And while it is, we're going to pull
out our white gouache and get started on those Fins.
3. Long Fish Blending & Details with Liner: I will often use a piece of scrap watercolor
paper that I've just cut if I messed up on
something or I was tired of it and I cut
it up into strips. And I use it for
testing out values, color values, and
all kinds of things. But I do use a lot
for my white gouache because I can see it
better than on my palette. I just want to make sure that I have
the right consistency. So we're gonna do
a lot of Lining, which means you're
going to want your your gouache quite thin. And I'm rolling it between
my two fingers as I pull, which gives me a nice fine tip. And we've put it over here so
you can see on some color, it gives me a nice fine line, which is what we want. So go ahead and thinned
down some of your gouache. And I'm actually going to
just turn my Fish sideways. You'll have better success if you just work
with your paper. You don't have to always
have it one direction. And we're just going to add
some lines on top of the blue to give our
Fins some dimension. Now notice I am
contouring my lines. These are curved,
these are straight. And ever so gently
bring a few of those into that
body of the Fish. These, you're going to
come this direction. Notice I'm going onto
the body of the fish. It's really coming
together. Good job guys. Let's put the eyeball and now sticking with
a nice gouache. Now we are going to use
this gouache for lips. Lips. I guess they do. Great. And those
will stand out more with the background paint again, so no worries there. This Fish has a little bit of
orange accent on his thin. So let's get back going. It's just a colorful
little fella. Let that dry. If you've taken
some of my other classes, you know that I'm
a real proponent for stepping back
occasionally during your piece and taking a good look at it from a
distance like 6 ft away, because you get a
different perspective. And sometimes you'll pick on, pick up on something that
you would like to change before you get too
far into things. And so that's what I would
recommend at this point because we're going
to go ahead and put some white on
top of this Fish. Now, if there's anything
that you want to change, if you want to intensify
your purple or your pink or anything that you'd
like to attend at this point, this would be a great time to do that and see if there's
something you'd like to change. When I stepped back, my peak was too
light right here, so I put a touch more of the opera pink down and
then I actually did just a drop of a cobalt blue and wash that a
little bit to blend. And I'm much happier there. In fact, I've decided I'm
gonna do that right here. The purple and the orange went
a little too gray for me. And so I'm just going to have, I want a bit of this cobalt
blue on top of it and see if I can blew
it up a little bit. And we can go ahead
and get started with our white highlights. Now, I'm going to
use a fine liner and I'm going to switch
to gouache from a tube. It's just easier for me to use. We're going to add
some dots to the Fish. And then we'll
soften those dots, which add a highlight and kind
of a shimmer to our Fish. A neat technique, still
thinning down that paint. And there's not going to be, I'm not doing these like in a set pattern
just so you know, you can if you want, but once you start
a set pattern, you better stick with it. And so I choose not to. I'm actually going to bring
a few dots up into the fin. Many intensify a
few of these marks. We don't want to
get carried away. And we'll do the On the bottom, we
need that to dry completely before we can
come over at with our flat. I'm going to bring
white, orange. I'm going to fill
this in all the way because I want to be
a true cobalt blue. Fill it in white, and then come back and do the cobalt
blue on top of it. You can leave yours the
way it is if you want. While we're making sure
our white gouache is dry, I'm just going to come
and listen cobalt and add a few key strokes. Almost Fins. There we go. Okay, enough noodling with that. Let's go ahead and finish out the highlight
of our whitewash. I'm going to come
in and use my small flat for this one to use my
tissue and some clean water. Just gets them on the brush, dab lightly and we're
just going to ever so lightly go over that. I'm going slow and gentle. Slowing down. We're trying
to put a little bit of a shine on our Fish. Rarely see it on the
pink. Isn't that pretty? Now if you were a more
advanced painter and you want to paint in
individuals scales, that's kinda what
we're emulating here, are individual little scales. Awesome. Okay, Let's let that dry. While we have our flat brush
and some white gouache, we're gonna do what's
called dry brushing. So we're just going to pick
up a little of this paint. And then we're going
to turn around and White must have
been off 90% of. Let me see if I
can show you here. Still too much
paint. There we go. That's what we're looking
for is it's really dry. Look good. Alright, Are White
should be dry. And so we can go ahead
and put that back in. If you did it with
me. I'm gonna go ahead and put that
cobalt blue in. And I'm going to pick up
straight from the pink. So pretty thick. Oh yeah, I like that color
so much better. Feel like it's more true to the Fish and works better
with the color palette. Alright, we're done
with this one for now. We will come back to it with some more stronger
highlights and finish out the I
with the liquid ink. Let's get ready to move on
to our next round Fish. I'll see you in the next
video. Good job guys.
4. Round Fish Wet-on-Wet & Fins Base: Welcome back. We are ready
to start our round Fish. I'll show you a picture
of the actual fish. I'm sure there's a real
name for it somewhere. But today we're going to be
using for our round Fish, the cobalt blue,
dioxazine, purple, orange, French vermilion, and probably a cad red light
or bright red would work. Cad yellow, medium, gamboge, and then our white gouache. And so go ahead and grab
your palette for this one. And let's jump right in. We're going to get started
right away on this Fish. I just wanted to point out the
angle from his mouth twist tail because we're going to start by washing
in some of the cad, yellow here and the orange here. So in other words, it's not going to be an angle like this through the
middle of his towel. It's going to be to
the top of his tail, from his mouth to the top of
his tail, an angle that way. So let's go ahead and get started and we can just
actually wash it right in. We won't be using wet
on wet at the moment, so just go ahead and wash. It's probably a 5050 ratio
between water and paint. The tiniest little
mouth and nose. I'm just going to bring
it down with some water. And again, I'm keeping that line in mind there. Now. I don't want a straight line because
that will look silly. So I'm going to take water
and just soften that. You notice I'm just
kinda wiggling my brush along that edge. Has water. If you need to touch your paper,
do that. Greg. Okay, Now we're gonna do
the same thing with orange. Oranges. Pretty strong. We're going to take
it down a notch. Maybe 80% paint,
sorry, 80% water. And for this, if you look at the example
that I've given you, we're gonna go right
into his tail here. And go ahead and bring it down. Here we go. Alright. My paint. And bring it right
up to that yellow. It's okay if they touch if there's Yellowstone, Well,
it's going to blend. That's fine. That's great.
I would like it too. So let's a little, it's probably a 9010 ratio here. Force a little blending. I just got water to soften. Great. I'm going to come in
with some stronger orange. And to touch on the bottom where I feel
like it needs to be strengthened a little bit. Beautiful. Okay, guys, while
this is drying, let's a smaller round. I'm going to use my number four and some of this cobalt blue. And we're going to do the
outer edge of the fin. Go ahead and turn my board. Okay. I'm going to turn it
just a little bit more. Sorry. Okay. Now, let's just
go ahead and get some going. First. I'm just gonna kinda
get a feel for the outline. At this point. I'm not going all the way down
to the edge of the again, you can see
I'm curving my lines even though they out starting
all the way up at the tail. Keep that contour line going. I'm just using the
tip of my brush. If you're more comfortable,
pull out that Liner brush. Dry. Alright, if
everything is dry, then go ahead and just Place the eye and make sure that you're
happy with everything. I did a tiny bit of reshaping of his
little mouth On mine. It was round and and I needed it to be a little more sharp. So this is a good time to step back and take
a look at things. But if you're ready to move
forward, Let's do that. And we're going to pick up a
small round and some orange. And we're going to float in those pretty little stripes
that go down over the yellow. Want to make sure
that your yellow is, is pretty dry because we're going to noodle it a little bit. That a technical term. So we're just going
to wash it in. I'm just going to use
this zigzag motion and I'm not going to come down
too far into the orange. I mean, obviously it's
going to meet the orange, but I'm just going to soften
that a tad with water. We're not gonna go into the eye. Good. How do you do OK,
sticking with the orange, but I moved to a fine
point, scrolling brush. I'm going to add some of this orange and it's
really fine inky, so probably a 9010 mixture, but we're gonna go ahead
and bring some of this down into the in the body, into some of that blue. These come down into
the body and Fish. Right? Let's let that dry. Alright, if your
stripes are dry, Let's go ahead and
intensify hearing. They're picking
up thicker paint. 60, 40. And I'm just going to use that same kind of zigzag emotion that we used, that kind of keep it isolated. We're down the center
here and there. Great. Okay. Now we can
also just add a few dots. Okay, if the bottom half
of your fishes dry, then we're gonna go ahead
and pick up some of his beautiful Vermilion,
this red color. And we're going to glaze. Glazing is taking a
watered-down version of another paint and washing over it to end
those two colors blend together beautifully
to make something that's lighter or darker, whatever you're trying to do. So let's start over here on the tail just so you
get comfortable with it. And we're just going to lightly wash this over the orange. Then I'm going to
softly blend the edge. And you can see
how it just makes that orange and the
red blend together. It just pops. Love it so much. We're gonna go all the
way across the bottom. Uniform. Let's let that dry
5. Round Fish Details & Lining: When it come in with a
little darker vermilion. And just add some emphasis
on this bottom portion. Coming in with clean water. I'm just going to gently blend. Alright, and now
we're going to take a little bit of the
blue, cobalt blue. And we're going to
add a little bit of shading on these gills now, if hopefully you still have the line where your
Gil is, if not, you can add it or pretend
like you can see same for this little thin here that we just literally paint in white. But we do want to add just a little bit of
shading around it. Alright, it might
look funny now, but trust me, it's
gonna be fine. Let's let that dry. And while it is, we can go ahead and put some coloring in
around the eyeball. And I'm going to switch to a smaller round and he's
my four and some gamboge. Both of these fish have
the prettiest eyes. It's really drawn to their
coloring in their eyes. While we're here, let's
add some white dots. Doing a lot on the tail. If you look at the actual
fish, it's pretty transparent. I just wanted to to the
orange to show underneath. Deal there. Let's go
ahead and put the lips. Probably 9010 here. I'm just going to
put on the gill, their life that fade. Let's go ahead and put
in this little thin. Now let's switch
out to our flat. He kept us a little
bit of this thin, thin wash, this 9010 wash. I'm going to soften that edge with a little zigzag.
See how it straight. I really want it to
be more zigzaggy. Now is zigzag and we're gonna keep this
thin, transparent. So let's come back
to our Liner brush. Turn your fish so that
you can pull out. The curvature here is going
to be really important guys. Great. How did you do? Alright, I hope you have
taken the chance to step back 6 ft and look and see if there's anything else
that you want to do. Up to this point, we
are now going to take some of this cobalt
blue and emphasize just the outer tip of his Fins. And we're almost done guys, this is just flying by. I hope you're having FUN. I'm having a blast. I
love these bright colors. So this time I'm going to start on the outer
edge and pull down. And that's going to give
strength to the outer edge. And I'm not going to
come down very far. I don't want to lose
what we've been doing. Great. Can you see
the difference? So let's go ahead
and finish that out. Too dark. Attach that
to bark dark in a spot. Use your handy-dandy tissue and just touch it and
it will come right up. Sticking with our cobalt blue, we're going to do some dots. I'm assuming you
step back and you don't want to make
any changes here. I didn't make any
changes to mine. But we're just
going to emphasize these this area here with some cobalt blue on
top of the cobalt blue. I'm going to put a few
above super tiny and I'll probably touch them with
a tissue after to even make them fade more. There. You can see that. Let's go ahead and
if your fin is dry, Let's go ahead own slashing and take some of our white
now and add some dots. And let's let all of this dry and then we'll come
in and finish that. I, and move on to our turtle. Alright, so I'm
going to use my pen, which is waterproof, and go ahead and put
in the center I. You can use paint. Sometimes for tight circles. It's just easier to
use a pen or a marker. And if you want, you could do a fine line around the outer
edge of the eye. Can see how that just
sets it in a little bit. And we'll come back and
do highlight some white. And let's go ahead and
move onto our turtle. So I will see you
in the next video.
6. Turtle Wet-on-Wet and Details: The palette that we're
going to be using for our turtle is cad
yellow, medium. My green, undersea green, cobalt blue, Mayan blue,
and dioxazine purple. And then we'll be using
our white gouache again. If you want to go
ahead and gather the colors that you
would like to use, we will get started
on our turtle. Okay, for our turtle, we're going to start
by putting a wash of light green on the head. This is probably 90% water, so ratio just go right
over the eye. That's okay. And then for the legs, Let's come over to
our Mayan blue. Again, It's probably
a 9010 mixture. Little leg that's
poking out over here. Let's do his back feet. Okay. While that's drying, let's go ahead and
his shell wet. We're gonna do some wet
on wet technique here. Just lay in some water. This is gonna be phon. Get ready guys, Here we go. Now, I'm not coming into
this shell piece right here. You can. I'm not. And we're going to pick
up some of our purple. And we'll just
going to touch it. That gorgeous. Going to
touch it here and there. Remember that paint is only going to go where
you've put the water, so don't be worried
that it's going to bleed out somewhere
that it shouldn't go. And let's go ahead and pick
up some of our cobalt blue. So pretty this is the thun park. Pick up some of our light green and then just a
tiny bit of our yellow. Great. Okay. Now I'm going
to take a smaller brush. Number four, just
some clean water. And I'm going to noodle it a little bit along
this upper edge, smooth it out of tab. All that. So pretty alright, while we have our
cad yellow here, let's just go along. This is his tummy and
go along that hands of his upper edge. And where those lines
would go. Great. I'm just picking up some purple. I'm going to do
two little areas. Great. Back here. Speech should be dry, so it should be saved. But a couple of things here. Add a little scalloped edge to a show and just randomly pick up some
different colors, guys. Great. Much of this Mayan
really watered down. And around the
yellow on his tummy. Beautiful. Great. I'm going to use my
number four round and pick up some of this
beautiful Mayan blue. We're just going to
add a little bit of shading here and there. So let's start by adding
a little bit of a wash. This outer edge of his front. Is it a fin or a leg or I hope I don't offend anybody
that lives by the ocean. Please understand.
I'm from Utah. I am landlocked and
I'm not familiar with sea creatures with
their technicalities, so I enjoy them. I love them and appreciate them. So please don't be offended. Okay. So just going to soften
that edge a little bit, not too much because it's
okay to have a defined, we want this to look
like a curls and there have a little dimension. And we're going to work on
it a bit with these spots and whatnot. Over here. I'm going to soften it a
little bit more. Here we go. And let's put a little shade here under the neck on
this one that's over here. Now let's pick up a
little more of this Mayan that's dry. Go ahead and
add a few dots of green, light green, little
bit of yellow. Then I'm going to come in
with some darker myelin. Darker, meaning it's not as thin down as what
we were doing with the wash. And it's still
wet where the green is. That's okay. But lens
flowers out a little bit. And just kinda Washington
the I that whole round area. Keep that in there so
we can work around it. And then we're going
to add some spots. I'm just going to deepen those little wrinkles
on his neck. Good. I've turned my paints
upside down as you can see, and I'm using my small flap and picking up some of this
Mayan blue that we used earlier to do the tummy
or the belly of our turtle. And I just wanted to clean
up that edge a little bit now that we're not quite
so Wet everywhere. Else better. Let's turn
that back around now. I took a moment and
used a pencil and reapplied the lines
on the upper shell. So if you've lost your
lines like I had, go ahead and put those in so that you can see
where they are. And what we're going to
do now is just kinda intensify some of
those color areas. And I actually, I'm going
to tone some of mine down. For example, I have a lot of
this light green and I want to pick up some of the ocean green and just tone
it down a little bit. So I'm gonna do a light
wash, probably 90% water. I'm using a number for round. And in just some areas that I'm going to stay
within this section now. And just kind of wash. I don't want any hard edges. Let me soften that down. So all of ours are going
to be different guys. I would just recommend that you do what feels right to you. I'm doing this darker color towards the indentation
of the shell. So it's a little
shadow, so to speak. That's great. I'm going to do the same thing along
the bottom edge. You turn my board. Just because it's easier to
use your wrist this way. Or if you're left-handed, you can turn it the other way. And I just want to emphasize
a little shadowing here. Now, I'm also going to
enhance some of the coloring If I would like to be
a little bit darker, I'm going to strengthen
some of the blues now. This cobalt blue. Nice. Okay, how to do
while that's drying, let's put a little bit more of the shadowing with her my end. Okay. Picking up some
of our yellow now. This is going to have
white on top of it, so it's gonna be fine. But I wanted to just be
find that a little bit. I think we need to
just let this dry completely and then
we're going to pull out some white gouache. Alright, I stood back 6 ft
and took a hard look at my turtle and realized
that I need to lift out some highlights to make
it look more contoured. So you take out
water on your brush. And I want each of these little
pockets to look round it. I'm just going to
reconstitute that paint with the water on
my brush and then touch it with my
handy-dandy tissue. And you can see it
lifts that write-off. I think we're good. And I think it would be
easiest if we start by just lightly adding the
lines of the shell, we're actually going
to come in with the liquid ink at the
end and do stronger. But it will help us
with definitions as we go in and add more highlights
now, so let's go ahead. Use a liner brush and
a 90 to ten ratio. So it's really thin down. Gouache. It's gonna go on
super light. That's okay. It's, it's kinda like using a
pencil first sketch, right? It's, it's not going to
matter in the long run. It's not going to show, it's just to help us. And let's just add
these little lines in. That helps so much doesn't
think it would help us on the outer edge of
the shell as well. So let's go ahead and
continue again in 9010 ratio. Let's do a light indicator. And then the bottom
edge is going to have a lot of scallops. Compared to the top. See how these come up. We are, like I said, we are going to do that in the bleed proof
white at the end, so it'll be darker
and more permanent. We're just doing this super, super light CS, this is drying. You can see how light
it is. That's okay. It's just giving us
some guidelines. Now, let's do some dots
on the back of his head. So we're going to pick
up some thicker gouache. I'm going to this
thinner gouache. We're just going to
glaze with some of the thin down wash that's
going to dry really light. I'm not going to the outer edge because I want that
to look dimensional. How we put this darker down
on the outer edge and I know it looks a little
dark right now. That's okay. Listen water. Alright. Well, since we have
our flattening or hand, let's just keep going
should we think? Okay, so what we're going to do? Is, we're going to add
some highlight and emphasize the contouring
on this cute little tummy. Okay, and for this, we're
going to want it quite dry in the go-to other side. I know that's to wet. It's easiest to see if you go over something you've painted before there you can see
how dry that's going on. And that's what we want. So makes sure that
you contour this. So let's start maybe back here. And we're just up
towards the top. A little emphasis like that. Right there. Okay, Very good.
Now, if you want, you can add a little bit. I wouldn't get carried away. A tiny bit on some of these outer edge scallop
pieces of his shell. I'm not going to do too many. Be honest. Just a little
hint here and there. Gouache can take over it. Who's the boss? I am. Okay. Now we can go in and add some white dots on
his arm right there. And we need to play with that. I and we're ready to move on. That was FUN, wasn't a guy. Oh my goodness, it was fine. Alright, let's use some of
his white, thicker white. Almost straight from the tube. Go ahead and add some white dots up here
where it's highlighted. Don't go into this darker part. Wraps around his arm. Scatter a few now. Maybe he has a few on his back feet. I need
a different brush. Let's work on the I
thinning our gouache down. We're just going to
give No No turtles have I don't know if there
are wrinkles around sir, what it is, but little
lines around the eyes. Just say that something
down quite a bit, pulling up to a fine tip, I'm rump rolling it. Alright. I think
we can leave that. And we are going to
come back when we pull out our liquid ink. Let's let that dry
completely and we will get started on our Seaweed
bubbles and coral. I'll see you in the next video.
7. Coral, Seaweed, and Bubbles: We are to the point
guys where we are going to put our
coral in here are Seaweed here and do
our background and our bubbles and will be
finished. This is so exciting. And so what you're going to
need for your palette for these final three sections
are undersea green, opera pink, cad yellow, medium, gamboge, Mayan
blue, light green. You're going to need some
more of your white gouache. And then to finish off our Fish and do a little bit
of work on our coral, you'll need the
bleed proof white. So gather your
materials together and we will go ahead and get
started on our Coral. We're going to start with
the cad yellow medium Coral. And I will post a picture of the coral here
so you can see it. We're actually going
to mimic live coral. That is this a stock photo that I pulled off
of the Internet. And something that you'll
notice is that it tends to grow from a main stem and then it branches
off from there. So if you were doing
a tree would leave it pretty much like that, but coral tends to
grow out and out. Okay. I'm going to stop now and fast-forward while
I do the yellow portion. Okay. How to do guys? We're
going to let this dry. And then the next section is
going to be this opera pink. And the reason we want
this to dry first is because we're
going to actually do a portion of the
pink on top of the yellow as if it were
growing in front of it. And then we'll do the
same with gamboge after. So let's let that dry and
we'll pull out our upper peak. Okay, Let's let our
opera pink dry. And our last section of coral
is going to be our gamboge. We'll just kinda
put some down here. Good job everyone. Okay, the next step on
this coral is to add these little spines
on each little vine. And that might sound
a little tedious. Just take your time and stop
when you need a breather. I'll give you an example here. I think you'd probably see
it best on his gamboge. You just add these little lines. There's no you can't
go wrong with them. We're going to come
in and do some white over them as well. If you look at the
reference photo, you'll see what we're doing. Let me just show you this and then I'll hold it up
close to the camera. And then I'll put the
camera into fast motion. I don't put you to sleep. Alright, so you can
see we just need to add these little spines and I missed one little spines
on each one of these. Now where they
overlap, take it easy. You don't need to do all of the pink and all of the gamboge. But anyway, this is
what we're going to do. I'm going to put the camera into fast motion and I'll see
you on the flip side. It's time for us to put
the seed, the seawater in. And you're going to need a little stack of
handy-dandy tissue and just have that on the ready because
we're going to want to add some texture
to the water, have a mixture of
paint ready to use. So this is my end and it's
watered down quite a bit. And what we're going to
do will probably start at the top so that
we don't smear it as we come down what you're
just going to lay some in kind of haphazardly here. And quite a bit of water, at least 90% water, if not more, then you just lightly touch it and you can see how it gives that a nice texture. And if you don't
like certain areas, you can go back in
and smooth it down. But once you start,
you want to keep going and we're just gonna go right around those
Fish carefully. So as far as the coral girls
don't want to smear it. But if you want to, you can very gently lay a little of the
ocean water over it. I just going up and down. And then kind of tapping
with your tissue. Okay. Let's let that dry completely and we're going to
come in and do our seaweed. Okay, I'm using a Liner brush. It's a little bit thicker than
the one that we have been using because I
just wanted to put in the stems of a few
seaweed that is growing. And we're going to
want to just, you just kinda wanna kind
of winging it guys. The best thing that I've
found for this is to go fast, not slow. So just be brave and kind
of go with the flow. I'm actually going to turn
my board upside down. Because again, I want
to take advantage of the natural curvature
that my risk provides. And I'm going to bring
a stem up like this. So I'm going to start
at the bottom here. Great. Now I'm just going to strengthen those
stems a little bit. And then we'll go ahead and add the little blooms
that come from them. I'm not worried about
that separation there because we're
actually going to put a couple of strands
in separately. Okay, So working with
this same color, we're just going to put in
little tufts of seaweed. And I started
actually at the top. But always pull
from the stem out. I have switched to that
smaller Liner brush and to some light green. I'm just going to add a few
sprigs here and there to give it some dimension
and some depth. We're going to pick
up a little bit of this Mayan blue and add just a little emphasis of
shadow around the Fish. And we're going to
blend that in nicely. Just give it a little
technical term I'm full of. Especially around the mouth. Right? Be afraid to soften
the edges with your tissue. You see how that just makes
that Fish pop a little bit. You don't have to go
all the way around it, but just certain areas because they have white
lips and White thins, you just need a
little extra help. Good. I like that. Maybe a touch around the Turtle. Okay. If there's anywhere else
that you would like to add a little stronger
emphasis in your water, then this is the time to do it. For example, I just have
a bare spot right here. I think. Let's get ready
to do some bubbles. I'm going to show you a trick
8. Detailing Bubbles and White Ink Highlights: The small bubbles
we can definitely freehand with no
problem. Large bubbles. You can either use a
stencil or you can find the size of a circle
that you're happy with. Mix some of your Mayan
and you just touch that. It puts it on the surface. And then you touch
your paper and lift. And then you come in with
your brush is too small, nicely tipped brush
and noodle it. So now we have a nice circle, but with bubbles you kinda want them to be
transparent, right? So we're going to lift off, like we've done on
some of our Fish. When we wanted to
highlight. We're just going to touch and
press and lift and put that paint on
our tissue and leave a nice little
outline of a bubble. And after it's dried will come in with some white and
give it a nice highlight. Right? Okay, let's do it again. Little smoothing on that
outer edge. That's okay. Alright, So I think
I have to there and then maybe I'll do a
few little wins there. Don't worry about these
being purposely round. It doesn't matter. Bubbles or fan. Awesome. Alright,
let's do some more. Hi, and then let's just add a couple up all have one
coming from the turtle. Nicely done. Wasn't that? Alright, let's let
everything dry. We are going to do
the fine details and pull this piece
altogether and make it pop. So the only two colors that
we'll be using for this are going to be the Mayan blue
and some white gouache. And now it's time to
pull out our bleed proof white for
some white Inking. And basically the only
brush I'll probably be using is this fine liner. The first thing that
I'm going to do is just kinda fine
tune our bubbles. So it's kinda nice
if you want to, to put a little
bit of a outline, just a real soft, gentle. We don't want it to look
like this strong outline, but just kinda emphasize part
of the edge of the bubble. So I'm gonna do probably an 80 or 90% water
ratio on this. Alright, finished out your
Bubbles and step back and see if there's any
fine tuning you want to do on your Turtle. If you need to
emphasize anything or add a few extra spots. I did go back in and add a
little bit of shading right here with the Mayan blue on
mine just to let you know. But if there's anything
else that you want to do with your mind blue now is the time I've pulled out
to my Bleed, Proof White. And I'm going to be
using this fine tip. Again. I prefer to work on a little scrap
of watercolor paper, so it's very close to me. But you do have to
be careful if you do it this way and be aware. You don't want to spill
on your beautiful artwork at this point. But I'm going to basically
work from the top-down. It takes a little
bit longer to dry. We don't want to smear anything, but we're just going to add a little highlight
on these Bubbles. This Fish just has a
round circle for the, I. Can just add a few
stronger ones. Now that we have
our background in, it's okay to wholesome of this
white into the background And I think I'm good there. Okay. We'll move on down. Okay. This is just going to have a little shine on
the black portion. Look bad. If you
need to clean up the mouth at all or
emphasize it's more. Alright, step back
and see if you're happy with that one.
Before we move on. Hey, let's keep moving down. Alright, we have some
work to do on our turtle. So we're gonna start by
outlining this shout. Alright, now I'm going to add just the slightest amount
of highlight here, just little streaks me to
smudge it with my finger. Now, coming back to some
thin down Bleed Proof white. If you look at the reference
photo of the coral, all of these little protrusions
have white on them. It's like this fuzzy white. So I'm going to just let me demonstrate on the
darker so you can see it. We're just doing the same
thing that we did before. Only we're doing it with white. So I'm going to
speed up the camera and do all of these in white. And I'll see you
on the flip side. That was a lot of
work, wasn't it? Alright, that is done. I am going to just take myself small flat with a
touch of water. And I'm just going
to lighten this up a little too streaky for me. Okay. Just to let you know, when I stood back, I came in and out of
a couple of things, I added a few bubbles over here just to balance
things out a little bit. And I defined some of my pink
coral that had gotten lost. Then I did add one
little sweep of purple on the edge of his fin there just to tie in
the show and the thin. So if you have stepped
back and tweaked whatever you felt needed to be taken care of. Then
guess what guys? We are finished and it's time
for us to sign our name. Always take the time to sign your name and claim
your artpiece. It'd be really proud of
what you've accomplished. I'm so proud of you
for doing this, and I hope that you
learned a few things along the way or sharpen the skills
that you already have. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this
class with me. I will see you in the next
video and we will wrap up
9. Class Project: Well guys, your class project is to go through all the
videos step-by-step, and follow the instructions. And you'll walk away with
this complete project of a couple of Fish and Turtle with some Coral and some seaweed. And after you've finished, if you could just snap
a picture and upload that in our student Gallery that's on the bottom
of this page. Just by clicking on the
green button that you, that I'm showing you here. And that will allow you
to upload that easily, but that's a great place for us to communicate well
back-and-forth. And it's also fine
for us to see how each other's projects has completed and each one will
be a little bit different. But I love to see the creativity
that each of you have. And it'll be a great forum
for us to talk to each other. So if you could do that,
that would be awesome. I will see you in the
final video as we wrap up
10. Congratulations and ....Bloopers: Well congratulations
guys, I'm so proud of you and happy that you've
completed your project. I hope you feel good about it. I hope you'll learn
something along the way or sharpen your skills
and enjoy the process. If you did and you know someone else that might benefit
from this class, all you need to do is look for this button and you can
share the link with them. And both you and your friend will benefit financially
from Skillshare, which is pretty cool. If you would like to see
a little bit more of my artwork or keep in touch with me outside
of Skillshare, you're welcome to do that. You can find me at Instagram at Kerrie Sanders arts
or on my website, Kerrie Sanders art.com
where you can feel a bit more of my portfolio and what's happening in
our neck of the woods. Also, if you would like to take more of my classes
here at Skillshare, I would love to
have you join me. All you need to do is type
in my name, Kerrie Sanders. And you can see a list of the
classes that I'm teaching. Here's a few samples of my
most recent classes that did some really FUN
summer classes. If it's an urban sketching
on the lighthouse and some wild flowers that
are in watercolor and ink and their
fantasy flowers. So you can't go wrong. They're just relaxing. And you learned some
great techniques with wet on wet splattering and dry brushing and Inking and
all the things that will help you in all of your
future classes to come. Join me with some more classes,
that would be awesome. Alright guys, I am going
to let you go for now. And I yes, that means
is time for Bloopers. Don't tell my kids and
grandes, I'm not. Perfect. Bye for now. Your class project
is to complete one fish. That's not true all the best. This is the last time. This is my last time because
I'm gonna get it right. You get it right. Well, hi everyone. Come on into my studio today. I have for you a FUN piece
that is some turtle. Some turtle, no. Center shoulders back. Also, if you would like to. Hi, can I think what I was
gonna say senior moment. And the process for
Bubbles is so Fine, will be learning some. I think I already said all this
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