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Hummingbird. A Watercolour Masterclass With Paul Cheney

teacher avatar Paul Cheney, Teaching watercolour and digital painting

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:54

    • 2.

      Materials

      3:17

    • 3.

      Getting Started

      2:22

    • 4.

      Painting The First Layer

      8:41

    • 5.

      Reviewing The First Layer

      1:26

    • 6.

      Painting The Second Layer

      11:44

    • 7.

      Reviewing The Second Layer

      1:16

    • 8.

      Painting The Third Layer

      5:18

    • 9.

      Final Touch Ups And Review

      2:26

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About This Class

Do you struggle with over working your paintings, keeping things loose and free flowing?  Well then this class is for you!  In this class we will cover another method for keeping your watercolor painting loose and not overworked by limiting it to 3 layers.

In this class we will paint this beautiful Hummingbird using only 3 layers.  Each layer is applied using very simple brush strokes and dabs of paint and of course as always, lots of water!  

I am recommending this class for all levels because learning from the start to not overwork your painting is easier than trying to unlearn later on.   The image may seem complex but not to worry I have included an outline that you can use to trace so you do not have to worry about drawing.  Also included is a high resolution image of my painting as well as images of the painting after the first and second layer for you to reference.  You may also use the included photograph to paint from if you prefer, this is what I used to create the painting but most people find it easier to copy my painting vs interpret a photograph.  Either is fine, I can't wait to see what you paint so please remember to share your work in the Projects and Resources section on "Your Project".

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Paul Cheney

Teaching watercolour and digital painting

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Hello, I'm Paul. Prior to the pandemic, I ran a small independent watercolour shop in PARIS ONTARIO. I enjoyed teaching watercolour to hundreds of people in person. Fast forward a few years and I am now transitioning my teaching process online. I think it is imperative when teaching online to do your best to offer the same level of quality instruction. People have to understand the concepts and be able to apply them to their own work. Whether in person or online, learning art is a skill that anyone can master. Sure it might come easier to some people but there is no magic, hidden talent etc.

Art is a learned skill, no one is born with it - like most skills - it just takes practice. I hope you enjoyed my classes, please leave feedback if you can!



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1. Introduction: Hello everybody. Paul here. Today we're going to paint this watercolour Hummingbird. Yes, watercolour Hummingbird, I had to look. This is a painting is done in just three layers. So why did we do it in three layers? Again, in an effort to loosen up our watercolor painting style and to stop us from overworking our painting, we limit it to just three layers. Once you have that limit in place, when it says, Okay, you're done at the third layer, you're done. You can't just keep mucking about with it, making like streaky lines and ruining your painting. This is a fantastic painting for both beginners or anyone just wanting to loosen up there painting style. Follow along, enjoy the painting. And when you're done, make sure you posted in the Projects and Resources section. Thanks for watching and enjoy your painting. 2. Materials: Let's talk about our materials. The paper that I'm using today is Fabriano Soft Press. It is in-between Cold press and hot press paper. It's not a lot of tooth very easily drawn, very easy to move your pigments around. It's still not as easy to lift as hot press paper, but it's not as deepen whatever you want to call that in hot press paper. Not a lot of tooth. The tape that I used of tape down my paper width is the brand is called frog tape. And there you can see it there. And the reason I use that as it does the least amount of damage to the paper. I always make sure I press hard on around the outside of the paper, but not on the paper. I don't want to really get that gummy on the paper. I drew my drawing or outline, basically the same thing you're gonna be using with a fabric castle Water soluble pencil. The idea here is that you don't have to erase the lines. The brushes I'll be using are the large one is a squirrel hair brush made by Da Vinci. It's real hair, holds a lot of water and a lot of paint will be doing our first layer and that one, the second layer we will do with this synthetic. This is basically the same type of this. It's an oasis series 400. It's a mix of synthetic and real hair. It's an older brush, but I can use this to like do some pushing and pulling or whatever, and it's also rather large. The final details will be with the small round brush. You use whatever brush that you have. Don't overthink that. Tried to keep it simple. Try to use the largest brush that you can to fill in any areas. So always like that sort of a general rule of thumb, use the largest brush you can that helps you carry more water and more paint that way you're not leaving. You're not drawing and sketching with watercolor. It's a wash of water that dries on the paper. So think of it more like a mop on a floor versus like how you draw with a pencil. If you had to fill this whole thing in with the pencil, you would have to make lots of little lines and little bits with a Watercolour. The idea is you can put this whole wash on. So we worked down into smaller brushes and smaller brushes. Paper towel here to control how much water I have my brush, I have water, and that's what goes in watercolour paint. Will slide this over. We'll take a look at the palette here. This is a ceramic palette that I bought on Amazon made by a company called, are not made by imported, probably by company called median me ten, I'll put the name in the video by paints on here are Daniel Smith paints. I will list the colors that I use. I'm not sure what I'll use just yet, but I liked this palette is got a nice big area. The wells are nice and large like for larger brushes. But use whatever you have. This is ceramic, so it allows you to see how the paint dries on the palette. You can also use a dinner plate. You could use a tile that you get from someplace like Home Depot or something like that. Got a few extra little bits of paper towel here in case I want to fix a mistake on my paper. My little squirt bottle here. I use this to go around before I paint, which I'm gonna do very soon. And I rewet my pigments with it. I guess if I wanted to wet my paper, I could spray it on the paper too, but I never really do that. So yeah, that's it for the materials time to get painting 3. Getting Started: The main goal in this painting today as well, obviously to paint our hummingbird, but it is also to do it in a maximum of three layers. So why three layers? Because what I see a lot of a new beginner painters is a lot of streakiness and a lot of over working. So I'm trying to go back lately and think about the things that I learned when I was learning painting that helped me get past those problems. I guess. One of the biggest ones is not overwork your painting, keeping it loose, keeping it simple. So limiting the amount of time that you have on the painting and limiting the amount of layers that you have on the painting or two great things we're gonna do. Our first layer will all be all one wash. It's not necessarily wet on wet, but we'll be painting with wet paint into wet paint. Wet on wet is when you wet the paper and then you put the water or the your paint on. Sorry. But we're not doing that. This is dry paper, but I will have a wet area here and a wet area here in a wetter here. And they will touch, the colors will blend and they will smoosh around. And then we'll look at how that was done when we're when it's all dry and I'll show you what it looks like when it's dry. Learning how your paint dries is a really important step in understanding watercolor. So that's why one of those reasons why I always tell people, try to stick to the same materials over and over again. Don't switch up your paper and your paints and all these things because every time you add a new variable, it makes it that much harder. So first thing we'll do is we're going to tape down our painting. If you've watched my other videos, feel free to skip ahead of this. You do not see me apply tape the paper, but I like to tape my paper down to a board. I mentioned in the materials section, I use full sheets of paper. It's the cheapest way to do it. And yeah, when you buy a paper like in a block or something. So essentially all you're getting is the same paper, exactly the same paper. Glute. All the sheets are glued together. So I would rather just have one big giant sheet of paper that way I can make my paintings any size I like. So there I'm ready now. So I've put my drawing on with my water-soluble pencil. This probably won't all come out because I was pressing rather hard, which pushes the pencil into the paper. So my painting may have some lines in it at the end of it. But that's okay. I will see you in a minute and we will start painting 4. Painting The First Layer: As I mentioned in the materials section there, we've talked about all that and that we're using and whatnot trying to get some shadows over there. We're going to use a large brush here. I'm using a squirrel hair brush. Use the largest brush or the best brush that you have. We're going to start with our first layer is basically going to be some of the colours here. They're not going to be overly powerful, are potent. I'm going to leave a white area, a little tiny bit of space around the wire. These two types of feathers meet because I want to be able to control that if I were using hot press paper, I could easily push this down, but with this paper it's going to catch and grab and I will lose control over that. So for the wings, I've got some remnants of some paint here on my paper, but I want to just keep them kinda neutral. So imagine if you are mixing like a red, green, and blue together. If you mix to the right way, you'd get a brown. Alright? So I've kinda got a greeny brown here on my palette. Not a lot of color. I'm not really worried about the color so much. It's more of the value like how light or dark it is that is a bit on the brown or green sides, a warm that up with a bit of brown there. I just want a nice loose area there. I don't want to have to worry. I don't want to I don't want it to be like a solid dark color because there are supposed to be transparent right there, fluttering there, flying around. You can see those little kinda streaks in there like in the areas around here. Or we get those. So that there is pretty much what I'm going to do for the wings for the first layer. So you see how simple and easy that was. I'm going to lift some of this out of here just because I want to apply a bit more intense paint and I don't want it to dry, fly all the way over into down there. You'll see what I mean in a second. For this area up in here, we've got a bit more blue there, I guess. So. One thing was a good quality paint is great, but they are also very potent. Lots of pigment in there. Okay, So let some of those go in there. We're going to let this dry for a little bit. And as it starts to dry, we're going to pull some of these down and streak them out like this so we can do it now I guess. So you can see we're getting those lines in there. So this paint is just sitting on the paper like in those little puddles and I'm just moving it along. You can control it to an extent. So here I've got this puddle kinda coming up in here and the paints doing whatever. Nice thing about these brushes, like a mop brush like this as well. You can literally mop up the paint. See what that is. So imagine this is like water on the floor and I'm just mopping it up. Roll it a bit. There we go. We've got our paint mopped up there. Now I can have a bit more control with that blue color there. Okay, so we can leave that like that. Now let's go over here and get some funky bright green color. I don't know exactly what is, but I wanted to be bright and I want it to be powerful, like it is on this. Our bird here. See how potent that is. Some greenery. We can dab in some other colors. If you're not comfortable, use a smaller brush in this area. Don't feel the need that you know, you got to use a big brush. Sometimes it's easier just to have more control and take it a bit slower. But I'm, my goal is to keep it all in one layer. As I mentioned. And wet paint. Not so much worried about what the colours are there and grab some Phthalo Turquoise here yet. But this along the back here, stop at the top. So have a bit more darker value. I'm gonna come. You can see how much pigment there isn't there and sticks really well to the, to the paints. I will put a link to whatever greens these are. I don't know, I was taught my head that I'm using, but now let's see how because it's wet, those colors now are sticking together. So clean off some of that paint, grab some clean water. I like those watermarks. All about the watermarks. Grabbed some of that Phthalo Turquoise dabs, some of that and they're so clean water. Some of that in there. I just wanted to keep this nice and light up in the top areas there. Okay. Now we're going to darken that down a bit. Maybe a little bit of indigo and they're not crazy about how the shape is on the drawing. I'm going to fatten my bird up a bit here. I just took some Indigo and download it and now I've got clean water. Dabei not in Student want to go on and beak there. Some Phthalo Turquoise up here. There's lots of different colors, so feel free to change yours and mix them around and whatever you like. There's no right or wrong way to do this. Well, I guess there is. If you're it doesn't look like a Hummingbird, well then you did something terribly wrong. But for the most part, there's no right or wrong. Okay. So here I'm going to try not to touch the back wing because I want to see that hard edge there. So I'm just leaving that little space around there. There's some browns and stuff in here. Then I'm going to pay attention to where those are. I think there's some more Turquoise color up here. I'm watching out for where those white areas are there and painting around those. Pull this down here. Okay. Now there are some brown areas there. I'm gonna grab my smaller brush for these because why not? It's right there in front of me. I mean, I use some burnt sienna and a cutting a little bit and actually it's a bit darker. I'm gonna grab Sepia. Sepia is always one of my favorite colors. When I was a photographer. Sepia prints were a big thing. Okay, coming around here, I want a bit more value in there, those lot of water down here. So try not to overdo it too much. Remember where those white areas are there and it comes up here around the eye. I will. Let's see how when we're painting now our colors, they're bleeding together. They're coming in all nice and wet on wet there. And now we have more control over them. We're almost done our layer here. So we're going to leave this wing down here for our second layer. We don't want to get these two colors and I want to keep those separate or else they will bleed up into that and there'll be kinda wishy-washy. We can do our beak now. So for our beaker, I'm going to grab some cadmium red, medium hue, whatever you want to call it. And I'm going to bring this beacon here. I'm just gonna go one layer on the bottom and I'm going to leave it. I will show you why after we just want to establish that there now because remember, this is because we're doing it in three layers and we don't want to go over that. And if it bleeds into the other color, so be it looks cool. It's all about looking cool. Okay, so that's gonna be our first layer. I'm going to come back in a second after I dry this with my hairdryer and we'll show you what it looks like all dry and you can see how the colors all blend together. 5. Reviewing The First Layer: Alright, a painting is dry. Let's see what we got. Here. We have our first layer is all nice and dry. Now, we can look at the colours and we can see how they've all bled together. So that's what I was referring to about the wet on wet paint. Not wet on wet paper but wet into wet paint. So you can see here like how these colors, like our base layer, which is defined, our shape, they won't kinda bled together. You can really apparent here and the browns and stuff. This area in here is where we had that big puddle of water. It pushed all the pigments out so there was just too much water. But that's fine. We can repair this area here and our second layer, we've got a really nice foundation for the wings, so we can put in a little bit more blue under here. And while it's wet, we can bring that out. And if we wanna do the same color like that ready colour under here, we can do that. And we're going to put our feathers on down here. And then we're going to bring up our base layer here. There is in the reference picture, there's kind of a line that comes around here where the shadow areas. So we'll probably leave this area in here and up here just as a base layer for now, but we'll put another layer on down here. We're going to be careful to avoid not blending it in here between these because we want to define this area and these areas as separate because they clearly are in the reference picture and it'll look weird. Otherwise, I will put our eyeball into, and then we'll also put in the top of the beak. That will be our second layer. 6. Painting The Second Layer: Okay, So I think the first part we're gonna do here is we're going to do that top Green bit there. The part that we had too much water from our big water blob and we're on our second layer now. So it kinda comes starts when it started up around here. We're going to bring them brush down and we will come down like this. I'm just putting it on however, haphazardly. And we're going to put this on, define that shape up there. Get some clean water now because it's lighter down here, but we still want to see those feathers. We still want to see that pattern there. So we're going to just define that. This will bring it a little bit forward here. I know I said I wasn't going to touch this, but I think I'm going to put a little bit of those Flexi, kind of highlights in there. One thing that you will learn or have learned probably by now already. If you watched my other videos, I tend to say I'm gonna do something and then I do something completely different. That's just the nature of watercolor painting though. Where we get these different. You see something, say, Well I'm gonna do this and then something happens to the way the water dries and then you end up doing a completely different. So I've got some Cadmium Yellow Light and a bit of that green on my brush here. And I'm using that just to define a few of those areas there. Nothing too crazy. We're going to let as that's drying a little bit, we're going to move down here. And I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to tackle this yet. It's got, I'm going to say we've got Indigo, which is pretty much what that colour is there. I'm going to try and not use too much water on my brush because I want these to be, I want them to come from underneath here. So I'm going to start by just defining where they are willing to try not to be too streaky with it, but just get them they're just like that. I hope that makes sense as to what I was doing. I just want a bit more water. I'm going to grab some favorably which is a bit brighter. Onto the next one there. We can define where the shadow areas are after. For now we'll just get these done up here. Go back to the darker one to find this area here. Dabs on that darker color up there. Okay. Thanks. Those in the other two colors mixed together and I'm trying to do as well. It's all wet and see, I've got that hard line in there because it dries really fast. Which is okay. That's why we're not using a lot of paint. So now you can see because it's on a dry, this one here has bled in to the other side, which we didn't really want. But this one here got to dry too quick. I'm just going to grab some more of the dark color there. And I think some darker area over here. So as these start to dry, we'll come back and we'll do another, another run at this in a minute as this paint dries a little bit. So we're kinda doing everything in timing. So up here we're going to put some blue in, but I want to wait until this dries a little bit before I put that in so that those two colors don't bleed together. And then I want these because I want to have some definition in there. I don't want them to solid lines because they're not. So we want to have a shadow area there and the shadow area over here. Each one has that shadow line down it. Soften those up a bit. Now we're going to grab some of our Phthalo. Turquoise. Yes, Turquoise. We're going to come over here to the bottom. We're going to put some of this in just like we did up at the top there. Careful not to touch that edge. Right all the way up there. Right up underneath her beak there. And we can make some of these hard edges. We can make some of them soft edges. They don't dry on us. We can do that, which has already started to dry. It's all about the timing. That's wet not work all of a better. Doo, doo, doo. Okay. We'll let those dry now. Let's see, and what we're like up here, not too bad. Okay, so we're going to grab some bluey color here, whatever. I'm just grabbing old paint that's on the palette, really matter. Now we're going to try not stick your hand and your paint when you're doing this. And we'll get this area underneath here. It's kind of dark. And wanted that hard. I want to get this pretty wet too because I want to be able to use it to bring down these other areas here like this, up here, come up Clean water to soften that up a little bit. Breakout with some of those edges. Okay. Now we've got a bit more dark area up here where that muscle is, like this arm kind of thing there. I'm just dabbing in a bit more Indigo in there. If you want to bring that along the back edge here, you might want to use a smaller brush for this. Probably should be, but you get the idea of what we're trying to achieve there now hopefully you can see that what sit easy. And there we go. Try not to overwork it, but OK. Now that's pretty good. Alright. I'm not going to touch the bottom wing because I want to keep that separate. We can see we're dry down here now. Come back, grab some of the Indigo. See what color that edge is on there. And we're just putting in the shadows. Keep that edge a bit hard because it is. And so now you can see we've got that feather a look there. But because it was just starting to dry. Now I'm kinda messed mine up here a bit and I'll just make it up as I go because it was starting to dry. Now we got that hard edge that we want for the shadows that makes it look like they're actually feathers. Okay? So if you need to add this point before you go ahead and do this stage, go back, see what it looks like so that you know what the paint is going to dry like. I hope that makes sense. And I'll soften this edge up here a bit. Okay? Alright, good. So we've got some definition there. On our third layer actually will do a little bit right now. I'm going to darken up this top area up here. Now you'll see some like the paint colors aren't exactly the same. As I've said before in other videos, it's more about the value. So I'm trying to just get some shadow and definition here. There, just to give it a bit more of a three-dimensional shape. I'll put a little bit more Indigo, I think underneath here using my small brush. I'll show you in a second. Right down under here to show like these are coming out from underneath. So that is a shadow there, right? And it's not a solid line like these do come up in their feathery kind of things. They're just add a bit of definition. We don't want to overdo it. I'm not crazy about how dark that is down there. Just lifting some of that up but some big blobs of water in. There we go. I don't want to take away from that edge. I think I'll do the same thing up here and my little will call this the armpit. Just give it a bit more definition along that edge. I'm just using Indigo as a shadow. Well, it's still wet. While I'm at it. I'll take my brush and come along. Now let's come over here to our beak. Basically just clean water on your brush. I'm just wetting into the bottom. Now the eyeball over here to the eyeball, I'm gonna try not to stick my giant head in the picture. I still get close enough to see it. We're gonna make a half-moon shape like this. Come around all of zoom in and the video touch that they're printing another layer of this brown up here to get more definition. I'm going to bring it up now that I've got my eyeball in, I can see where that little white line is and I just want a little bit of a hint of it. I don't want it overpowering and so much so that, you know, it's as big, glaring white area there. Okay. So I've just grabbed some Phthalo Blue, Red Shade. Same thing, just adding in another layer here, even going a bit more interest. Let's see where the blues are in the picture. And I'm dabbing and adding in water. Now for our eyeball, that should be dry enough now that we can just touch around with clean water. Let that little half-moon shape fill in. Underneath. I don't know if this is dry enough yet. But underneath here I want to and just define that with a little bit of a dark line. Bring an eyeball out more. In, adding a bit more indigo to make it darker if it's not dark enough. To beauty of this color. This is pretty much black. Well, so we have a few areas in here where we've got some definition. Alright, let's come back and see how it looks when it's all dry 7. Reviewing The Second Layer: Let's take a look at our second layer here. That's all dry now, to be honest, I quite like how this painting looks and I would be happy leaving it like this. I'd like a little bit more highlight, specular highlights, which is a specular highlight is like a refraction reflection of the light off the paper there. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how the eyeball looks. I would like to darken this area here just a tiny bit just to bring the eye closer, like everything we can do to get the I in there. I really like how the back part here kinda came together with that Phthalo Turquoise and a bit of green. I think the head is a bit light up here. So I think what I'll do is I'll add in a little bit of that up in here. And perhaps a little bit along the back edge of the wing here. And very, very light. Some lines down in here. Not too much, so I don't want to take away from it. We could darken this up here more. However, we don't want to compete with the I. So in the real life picture, the bird, you can have those feathers. But ours isn't a real life picture. It's a painting, it's a representation of, so we can make it however we want. And I want the viewer to come to the, I like a portrait. So those are the final adjustments that we're going to make. And then we will say this painting is finished 8. Painting The Third Layer: Okay, So the first thing we'll do is we're going to tackle, we're gonna put some of this here that we've got going on up in here. So I've zoomed in so you can see the final details better and not on the palette. So hope that's okay with you. And mixing in some of that bright green and some of that Phthalo Turquoise there. And I'm just dabbing along. It's not the same color because it's a mixed, but that's okay. We're just going to make this here a bit more defined. Again, we'll just touch some clean water along the edges to break up so that the not too hard edges there grabs same color. And we're gonna come up here to the head. And we're going to follow along this line here where you can see it in the picture there. There's definitely kinda like a little cap almost of color that goes on there. Bring that down there. There. It just ties out in a lot better. I think. There we go, a little bit along the back here. Nothing too crazy. Dub, dub, dub. Some clean water, soften it up. Right TO what else? I said we're going to oh, yeah. We're going to add a little bit of dark around the eyeball. I think I'm what I'm also going to do is make the eyeball just a little bit darker. I'm going to grab some straight up Indigo as saturated as I can get it. I'm just gonna put another layer here. That's what else we said we were gonna do. We're going to make a little highlight area and the eyeball versus just tone it down just a little bit. It really brings the focus and more on the I and it gives you like a connection there a bit more. And now we had this dark edge underneath here. Just dab, dab. I'm just touching in. I just want to see a little bit of shadow in there. Bring this in a bit there. So I'm just almost like taking an arrow and pointing it out the eyeball. That's what we're, we're trying to do, but by using darker colors there just to draw your eye in their a bit more. I don't want any hard edges. I just want it a little bit darker, a little bit more. Why did not want to do that and it didn't not have enough. Whatever you want to call it, it didn't have too much paint there. So now that I is really standing out, we'll put a little bit of shadow down here just to highlight it even more. There. Now we really brought that eyeball home. I'm going to mix some of this red and the red from the beak with a little bit of indigo. Just darken this up a little bit more underneath there. Again, just adding some contrast gives us more definition. We can do the same under here if we want. I know I said I wasn't going to want are you doing this back part along here? We can add in a little bit more, but I don't want that hard line. So be quick to get the water on there. Oh, that was the I think we're going to put it in some very light very, very light. Brownie red. So I will grab some brownie red. I'm mixing a little bit of the red from the beak and some of the Sepia and lots and lots of water. Lots and lots of water keeps it in late. Touch some water and narrative. We just kinda said, Hey, this is the bottom half of the wing there. I'm what I'm doing right now is I'm going over top of the pencil line. Just try to take some of the pencil line lines that I have it in there. Remember at the beginning I told you how the pencil line was very dark. What else? A little few final Touch Ups. I'd like a little bit like definition in here to show there that there's a neck there. Make that fall off a little bit more gradually there. I think I'll do that with water instead of paint there. I like that a little hard edge there. And yeah, I think our bird is pretty close to being then maybe a little bit more. Another some bluey green here. I know you can't see the palette. But again, this is value not colour. I just wondered a bit more darker color in there. To define that. You can see when I'm putting it on, on basically dabbing the brush. And then we're I don't want to have to hard of an edge. I take my brush over here to my water. So you Here's the water. Stick it in. Then I'm just touching along the edge there. Like that. I have got some pencil lines down here that I will erase afterwards, but I'm quite happy with this. I like this. I will dry this off, take a picture of it and show it to you in the finale. 9. Final Touch Ups And Review: We're all dry now. And I'm very happy with how the painting looks. I didn't know that there was an area in here where we kinda got filled in. There is a little white line in there and I think that will help, again, kind of like the arrow pointing towards our brush. So I've got my Gouache here, Gouache, Gouache, whatever you want to call it. Basically it's like really cheap white acrylic paint. That's watercolour paint essentially with chalk added to it or some kind of thing. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to dab very carefully on here, just a few little areas there. Now, if for example, let's say you didn't have enough or you messed up your eyeball. You can use this to plop in the eye. There may not brighter. Whatever you like. Well maybe there was a spot on the beak, right? Like just very subtle. Nothing too crazy. Well, it's still wet. I think this is a bit bright up here, so I'm just going to dilute that down a little bit. I just got some clean water, my brush, just dabbing it, trying to make some bit of the brown in there. I wanted to highlight area there, but I don't want it overpowering. I think that worked well to achieve that goal. Okay, So now what else do we got? The only thing I want to point out here is our layers. Look at our layers here, look what we have. So here, right here is our base layer, okay, This is our very first layer. Remember, we will go back. Let's take a look at that picture now. This is our base layer, here's our second layer. And here we've got 123 layers there. Now, this one we did at the second layer, so it's a bit conceiving, but essentially we did three layers of painting. But what you want to have if we don't do that, we don't break down those layers. We lose this. This is the subtlety of Watercolour, those marks there. This is one color on top of another color. That's the layer when you overwork it, when you keep going at it and you keep pushing it, that's what makes it mud, and that's what makes your painting look overworked. This is a key lesson and loosening up your painting. I hope you liked this video. I like making it and I look forward to making another one, please. Don't forget posterior are finished artwork in the Projects and Resources section so that I can comment on it. Thanks again for watching and I will see you soon.