How to paint dolphins in watercolours

1. Introduction to painting dolphins in watercolours: Hi friends. My name is Alex. I'm a water colorist, illustrator. And they welcome you on a new Skillshare class. On today's class, I want to share with you a very interesting painting. It is how to draw dolphins and the pentose in watercolors. What is this about this class is that we will show two dolphins in movement. It wouldn't be just a simple dolphin, and it will create just highlights, mid tones and shadows, but it will be something catching the viewer's eye, the attention of the viewers eye. And you will learn how to paint different colors of blue as well. You will combine different warm colors, cool colors. And we'll see how dolphins can be created not only with one color, but with a multitude of those. And I invite you into this class and because you will learn how to draw correctly the adult fans, you will learn how and when to use fluid mask. And you will also will you use to learn two main techniques that we usually use in watercolors. Wet on wet technique and the wet-on-dry technique. With wet on wet technique, you will learn how to create the base, how to create the first wash, and to create one beautiful Chess brand colors. Even if we will use the different colors of blues, the transition will be so smooth that it will look like one beautiful color. Then on the second layer, it will be more about wet-on-wet to go into and dry technique that we will work with lots of details. Actually on the details here we will do a lot more attention because dolphins have different colors. There's not only one color. And as well because you will learn how to show the waves in the sea. And the wave also has some jobs, some white drops of water. And I will show you how to learn and to paint it correctly in watercolors. So what are you waiting for? Let's get started. 2. Supplies we need for the class: For working with dolphins, I advise you to take a watercolor paper. I will use 200 GSM watercolor paper in your keys. Look what you have. I advise you to go with higher density of the paper. If you have 200, it is okay. If you have higher, it is better. I will also use a washi tape to a straight chop the people and the data, they will start getting a feel. For the drawing itself. I will use At Penn cell B or HP, look what you have. But don't use e.g. for beer or six B because of the color of the pencil drawing will be too bold and delete, it will pop up in watercolors. Water and watercolor is work, works like fixative for the chewing. And once the paper is wet or painted over, we can remove it with a need within the eraser because of the color wheels take, I will use a kneadable eraser or you can use these kind of eraser. Look what you have. Just try to use this kind of flipping eraser kindly not to damage the paper because later it will be seen while working with watercolors. You will need to clean water and a hairdryer to dry the layers. Meanwhile, we will work with wet on wet, wet on dry techniques. One of the supplies that we will use on this class with adult females will be fluid mask. What it means. This fluid mask, we will cover the tall fence and it will cover the jobs of what's it to create the white effect on the paper. Fluid mask is a great tool for any artist or when you want to leave some highlights, some whitespace is on the paper. And this is the case. How we apply the fluid mask. We will need a paintbrush. But this brain being brushed, needs to be one of the pen brushes that you'll want to use in the future or something that you aren't network to get damaged. How we prepare the paintbrush, the Bainbridge should be covered with soap because in this and then working with fluid mask, if you don't prepare it previously with the soap and go with the fluid mass or damage a paintbrush. And in most of the cases, second time, you'll want to be able to paint anything with these Paintbrush. For this reason, I advise you to get with soap. Then once it is salt well, you take with fluid mask cover or the surface you need to cover and believe the work to dry. Meanwhile, the word choice, you kindly remove the fluid mask from your paintbrush. Don't believe your paintbrush with fluid mass because you want to be able to remove it once it dries fluid mask, it is important that you leave the work to try and then only go over with the painting if the fluid mask is not dried on the paper and you already start to paint, then it took me probably that the fluid mask will be filled with the color. The paper will get damaged, and the paintbrush that you will work as well will get damaged. So pay attention to this. Let's talk about the beam brushes that we will, we will need a flat paintbrush to wet the paper and then to work with the background and the wet on wet technique. For the wet-on-wet technique, I will use a bigger paintbrush and square because it will take more caught what the color is on. It will be easier to cover the surface with the one color. Then once working with the details, I will work with this synthetic brush number six in. It will help me to create smaller details. And because here is synthetics, it is, it is not as smooth. Lines will be better and clearly seen on the work. To watercolors, I will use my 36 bands. What the colors? White tonight. If you don't have such a huge bleed with the watercolors, I advice you to go with whatever you have and don't mix up the colors. One with 12 **** colors, you can work. I will explain you about the blues, but in any case, you can adjust with the blues. You don't need to take exactly the same colors as I did. And you will need as well. It is sure to remove the excess of water of color from European brush. You can also use kitchen towels or anything that will help you to work better. 3. Drawing in pencil dolphins: Difference. Let's talk about sea life. And in this class, I want to paint with you some dolphins, a pair of beautiful dolphins in the water. We will talk about how to draw those, how to paint the water. The dolphins itself. Here we have a dolphin that is going up. The dolphins bodies is very similar to a wave. Okay. Here we have a splash off the water and we don't see the body or the body of the dolphins. It is very important to draw the memo itself at the very beginning. Very good, because lately it will help us to paint with watercolors. If I'm drawing too fast for you, just make sure to stop or to make these videos earlier. And follow all the steps to draw the dolphin. And the dolphin. It doesn't have perfect hearing kinds of difference between the body. Okay, The first dolphin is done. Now what I want to make is to draw the splash of the water. Because this splash of water, we will apply some masking fluid, white mask, as you can see it here. To preserve the whitespaces. And we need kind of splash of water that we have over here. This bash of water, you, it's not necessarily to repeat. The same thing that I'm doing. Just take your creation, creativity to another level and create this blush of water on your own. How you feel it. Here we have some jokes. Let's draw the wave. The wave itself is like this. And we have splash for what's over here. And then we have another wave. That is all. And as well we have splashing water over here. And we will apply a mask. And here we are doing. Now the dolphins are under the water. Okay? As I mentioned, the drawing is very important throughout all the work. Please dedicate time for drawing well, the dolphin, because it will be easier to paint it later. Okay. My both dolphins are ready to be painted. What I'm doing next is removing all these lines. And I will leave a very thin line. While the painting. I'm removing gloves applies just to prepare the workforce. One line only. And as you can see, now my drawing has thinner lines. I tried to draw it with thicker lines because I wanted you to see how I draw it. You can be guided throughout my drawing process. But now I'm applying very thin lines only for myself. Just to follow throughout the work when I will be painting. 4. The process of application of fluid mask: Now we will apply fluid mask. As I mentioned previously when I was drawing, it is white masking fluid. It is kind of a fluid that helps to preserve whitespace is on the watercolor paper. For applying it. You can take a paintbrush with that. So it is one of the English that you don't use because it will be damaged by throw the work and something that you are not afraid to damage as well. You have to put some soap. As you can see, I applied some soap already on it. I will have to apply this mask. Why apply soap is because this soap, the paintbrush, to be damaged even more than it will be applied. My white mask on the splash on the whitespace as well. I will apply on the edges of the dolphin on this one because I want to preserve clear edges and to have the painting light. It is important that after you apply the preserving mask, the white mask, Let's wait mask. You have to wash it quickly the paintbrush, because even if you want to use it for watercolors, the more fluid mask is, is trying quickly and it won't be possible to remove from a paintbrush. Here it apply more, some drops. So here we took too much. Masks, can be white, it can be yellow or can be gray color. We're even blue color. Lots of artists look for blue or gray color of my apple fluid mass because it is easier to see where you have applied the fluid mask, where you have the edges. But I think that for this composition with white mask as well, We can work. Mask is done. I have to wash my brush and we'll start with watercolors. 5. First wash wet on wet technique: We already did this step one and step two, we have lightly sketched the dolphins on watercolor paper. And then I applied the masking fluid to the borders of the air-bone of dolphins, splashing areas in the surface waters. Now this masking fluid is tried more or less. You can touch it and you will see that the dislike, a gum. I will paint the water and the Skype. For this, I prepared a bowl of water. It is important to have the bigger bowl of water or a bigger jar of water because in this case we will, It won't be necessary to change it. Every certain moment I prepared my palate, I prepared to paint brushes. This one is my beloved one is the lynching. It is square root and it is easy to paint all over the surface. And this is another da Vinci paintbrush. It's synthetic. Hair is firm enough. It is easier as well to make some specific touches. Let's start. My watercolors. Watercolors are White Nights and yes, care per liter. 36 colors in Ben's. Many people ask if in pans or tubes, which one is the best? It depends on each artist, everyone will say it differently. I read that the color is different, independence. And in the tubes, and the tubes are better than pens. From my own experience, I would say there is no difference. The difference, the only difference that is made is that when we are painting with pens, what happens? The colors are going with another colors and whatnot. So click. In tubes. It is easier to preserve with the cleaner next part of the painting and to have a proper painting. Light and bright and whatever. I prefer parents because visually, it is easier for me to have all the palate over here. And just easier when you are going to paint, to paint something, you just open your palate and have all the colors to see and don't spend the time to get it from tubes. On the other hand, if you want to paint something with very clean colors and you want to paint with few colors, then if course tubes are better, in this case, I will paint the edge of the sky over here. I will paint with cerulean blue. Cerulean blue is this color. It is light enough. And I add even more water. Okay, So food mask can be that it's not properly like in my case. I will leave it to dry a little while, more masking fluid. My fluid dries better now, dried better now. And I have to wash Quickly my beautiful paintbrush. If it happens, you as well to me, then please just take care to watch it quickly. Because fluid mask will stay into your beam brush and it will be really difficult to remove the fluid mask from the paintbrush. As I mentioned, I apply cerulean blue. Throughout the work over here. Where is this guy? Here we have this guy. And what I will make now, meanwhile, it is wet. I will deepen the color and we'll make more truly at the top. And then it turns from darker color into a lighter color. Just very dark. Color over there so that it touches the dolphin and the same. To create the water wash, I will paint the entire area directly over the dolphin so I'm not applying fluid mask. I will apply one color over here as well. I will take some turquoise color, turquoise blue. And we'll take some green. Let's see what will happen. Okay, good. I took green with turquoise colors and they mixed it. And I add a lot of water water color to the water enough. And I paint all of the surface all over. I have enough painting on my palette. And I apply, the first wash of the water will apply here as well. And I will add some lemon boom, lemon or cadmium lemon color. As you see, I cleaned it. Now I take a proper color and add it over here because we have some sunlight coming over here and over there. Okay. And I will add some blue, cobalt blue color to the water. I will make some touches over here. You can see how I remove firstly, some touches that I don't like. And more cobalt blue colors to my water. Okay. So the first wash is there and Stan, what I will have to do is to try it quickly with a hairdryer. 6. Second wash, wet on dry, giving more intensity: I have tried my work. It is still a little wet. It, it's not properly dried, but it is great because now what we will do, we will work on the washes on the next wash on the water, creating dark blues over here on the left side, and transitioning to lighter greens over here, and yellows over the right part. Okay, let's do, let's try it. If you want. You can use them at the masking fluid for the second dolphin because in this case, we will try not to apply overhead. But now I wanted to show how we can work without applying the masking fluid on the North and we will just take care not to touch it. I think that I will use some ultramarine color over there. Let's see, cobalt blue. Both colors are great. And I apply here. And I tried to go around my dolphin and pay attention that over here, I paint the color in direction of the wave. But here below of the dolphin will create the color. That looks like we have lighting coming. So I'll paint this way. Take care not to paint my dolphin in watercolor. Why we use the masking fluid? Even if I will paint with a darker color or the dolphin, what will happen? That the color will not be clear enough, clean enough. And that is why we need to create these spaces. Lighting color, and the washes to be only applied where it is. More blues. Let's see how we have here. And then three in boom. And paint some darker color over here. And at the same time, I'm using yellow color. And I'm using on the way over here and adding some lighting. This ClO, when it is still wet. Here turns into beautiful green color. And this is the idea. We'll apply some two-plus column over here. So I make the, the wash looks darker. For removing the excess of the water, I use a tissue, you can use a kitchen towel. And Hera use some ultramarine blue color to make it darker color. Over here. Just the wash. Looks beautiful, right? Let's derive this wash and move to the next one. I have tried it with my hairdryer and it's the moment to feel the masking fluid. Region clip y with our fingers. Or you can use and eraser. Just take care not to damage too much of the watercolor paper. And not to have your fingers with Creamer with something or leash that you can leave a dark mark on the paper. Gently removing. And over here we've got some paint with a lighter color. I think I'm done. Okay. Okay. I see that I have some mask over the paper. I don't know how it happened. And now whatever. I will take a thinner paint brush and we'll work on the data. Firstly, what I want to do is to apply cobalt blue color over here because it will make the difference of the wave. So it will be about another wash. And we proceed with wavy lines, wavy colors. We can make some slight differences with took was blue color. Gently moving all over. I'll wave is or here. Multi-million dollar. And intensifying the wave, making it darker. As you can see him to freed the cover. I'm just looking for the wave, searching, searching the moles of the way. I paint little bit here on the Splash. Because it just left to white. We need to be white, but I want just to adjust some of the details. Taking some turquoise colors and tan clay. Moving from yellow to talk while scholars tomorrow, green colors, right? And inside of the Wave, I will add some indigo color. You can do two terms now. Gently moves more water to come out. Yeah, hello tones. We will remove some of the intensity of the color over here. And I take in the blue. You can see little by little, I look for some darker tones, are some target Duchess. And I will add some blue over here because I don't really like how it turned. Mix with cobalt blue color. Just to make this brush more natural than it is now. Over here. Wherever I paint more. But this blush, I tried to turn it to neutral. To me how I'm doing this wash. Now I have to try it and we will work on the next one. 7. Working on first dolphin, wet on dry technique: Finally, we are moving little by little to the dolphins. We will paint first the underwater dolphin. And I will add some bluer color scheme to create the effect of looking at a more distant objects through what? I'm using. Cobalt blue color. I'm taking another being brash. The music cobalt blue color. Okay. And green. Now, I think we'll take some ultramarine color and add some colors over here. And leaving whitespaces. Now it's about working on the small details. Let's take some coupon. And little by little, I applied to class color because it's a greener over here. And then I apply son, cadmium lemon. It's too much. Okay. Here, more light. Here, more paint, more. Over there. I applied cerulean. Wherever I have some smaller light to species because it is easier to make a beautiful wash without damaging the work. And I will use some English shirt color. Maybe. We'll add to my cobalt blue to make this change of color. And we'll add some covering over here. Just making it more pink color. The heavier shadows on the dolphin, I will use indigo color. For me to dance. I will use ultramarine color. Let's take a look. I'm mixing with, with indigo because I want to make it beautiful. Transition. Now on the ultramarine car. Really watery. And to making the transition once again. Morning Diego. We're here and here too. Okay. It's often is done to create the leaping dolphin. I will add into its shapes different colors like Carmen color, some lemon yellow. Cadmium lemon, sorry, cadmium lemon colors. And turquoise and ultramarine blue. In this type of we will paint all the light value losing the dolphin. So but we will try not to over paint and just living white area of the water. Some color here to mix beautifully. I think I spent a little bit dark and we remove one. I will paint more with Grameen, color it in kilos. That is just to don't be afraid about the different colors. And mixing those will call beautiful and interesting becomes our toughen. I'm eating some cadmium yellow medium hue here. Some more color to class car. That is, I just wanted to plant it. And then yellow. Sure, I make a wash. Here. I look for interesting effects of the water. This plan shelter water. Here we go. This interesting effect makes one to another. 8. Working on the second dolphin, wet on dry technique: With my wash complete, I can now apply the darker values to provide contrast, make the dolphin really pop. Using, I will use some combination of indigo, ultramarine blue and burnt sienna lens to it. Indigo color. I'm taking another thinner pen brush, as you can see it. And with indigo blue will apply here. Here, another edge. Paint it. Over here. I will make some burnt sienna. And I have burnt sienna over here, and some indigo colors over here as well. Hello Maureen to go blue over here. I'm using some ketamine color and blinding some ultramarine as well. So the idea is to mix different colors just to make this color of gray that we have on the dolphins to beer in more interesting color. We'll take with some bright blue as well to apply over here. To make this beautiful dolphin in color. Shoes. And I will take some ocher color to the darker color. I will make some touches here. And here. I will take once again in Diego. Because I don't like that this edge is dried up too fast. And they want to have a more colorful and smoothly or transition. And with with burnt sienna, sorry. We'll take some problems over here to here. More cognitive me alone. We're here to here. Okay. Ketamine color and some burnt sienna here. Now I will take some yellow color and we'll work on the way over here. While my dolphin is drying. I will take some turquoise color paint below this here. Just to make a transition from one color to another. And make some shadows here. And make this beautiful and interesting effects of splash. I'm shadowing the job's making these drops to look natural. Because with white mask, sometimes it happens that we have too much white space and it is not so naturally looking. Now we'll take some ultramarine color, will always ultramarine color as well. We can make some shadows of the jobs just to make these combination of shadowing, sharing. And over here, I have lots of splash, splash, splash over here as well. And I make these kind of lines just showing the direction of this flesh. I changed from ultramarine color to turquoise blue. But my turquoise blue is very light. I applied to law to for Tony it. So my dolphin is dried more or less. I take some indigo. I already applied some burnt sienna. And now we're here. We'll take and paint some of the intense colors. And especially I'm working on the mouth. As you can see it. Just creating the form. The mouth. I'm grading it small, beautiful lie. Some intensity here. And here. And on. This smaller dose that we have here, I paint the eye. I applying Degas, and I paint once again the mouth wine. And then you see I have left here some lighter color. I will apply through Lynn Bloom. I will take now wash or tempera. It is a white color. I take it over here and paint some dots in the water just to make this flesh more neutral. So our work is done. Let's see how it turned out. Here is our beautiful finished work with two dolphins. I think it's turned to be amazing. I really hope you enjoyed it. I want to see your works to end your dolphins. Thank you. Bye. 9. Conclusion: I really enjoyed creating this video for you. I love dolphins. I would say that there are such 3D creations. I really hope you enjoyed this class as much as I did. If you have any questions, any doubts, please leave a comment below. I will be happy to read it as well. I will be really grateful to you if you share your final results with me. If you also have any questions on the process and something, it is still under the question, then please don't hesitate to contact me. I will be happy to help you during the process of painting. So till the next time, Bye.