Loose Watercolor Essentials: Painting Boats and Water

1. Introduction: Hi and welcome to the thrilling and captivating world of watercolor painting. As a beginner, mastering the Art of creating a loose yet accurate painting can feel overwhelming and daunting. Where do you start? What techniques do you use? How do you bring your vision to life on paper? In Loose Watercolor Essentials, Painting Boats and Water, you'll discover all the essential processes and techniques that you need to turn any photograph into a stunning and impressionistic scene. With my guidance, you'll learn how to create a masterpiece that not only captures the essence of the scene, but also showcases your unique creative style. I'll demonstrate my entire process in real time, from the initial drawing and composition of the scene to the careful layering of light, shadows and the final addition of details and highlights. Together we'll go through how to paint boats, water, houses, and skies. Join me on this exhilarating adventure into the world of watercolors. And you'll learn how to create or awe-inspiring boat and water scenes with ease and precision. Whether you're an experienced artist or a curious beginner, this class will equip you with the tools and techniques to unlock your full creative potential. I'm excited to get started. So let's unleash your inner artist together 2. Materials Required: Okay, I want to talk a little bit about materials so that you can decide what to get or if you have materials at home, which ones to choose. And for the scene, I'm using two types of watercolor paper. They're both made of 100% cotton. But this is a smooth hot press paper and this is a medium texture or cold press paper. A little bit different because you've got texture and this one, whereas this one's completely smooth, It's easier, I think For Beginners to paint on a textured paper. Washers just apply more easily. It's a bit more forgiving, whereas this stuff here, everything appears sharper and more contrast and you also have more vibrant colors, but it's difficult to get in those large washes, so something to keep mine, I think try both. But yeah, that stuff is most and most used For Beginners, I think. And most important thing obviously is the cotton content. If you don't have any of that cotton watercolor paper, just use what you have got. I've got a bunch of brushes here. These are mop brushes. And the mop brushes are great. They've got a large belly, hold a lot of paint. Okay, but they also have a sharp tip to cut around shapes. So I'm using that leaves mop brushes for the water, the skies, large washes, even those rooftops at the buildings. The side of this boat, even to get in those larger shapes in one go. So you're not continually having to reload your brush, go back to it over and over again. So fantastic. Those are essential brushes. I've also got some of these other brushes. These are synthetic ones for detailing. So when you look at the windows, sales waves and the water, windows out the batteries and stuff like that. It's mainly just the round brush and the flat brush that I'm using over here, Tim create those shapes. And I'm also using a bit of white gouache to whitewash is great for bringing back some of the whites that you've lost in your previous washes. I've actually added some of it in back there for the fence, some of the highlights, a lot here for the sales, the mass and then going into the water as well. Little sparkle in reflections in the water. Super important. Sometimes you might make some mistakes and you can just go over, over in the white again on the other side of that boat. Really important for these Boats scenes to have some of that gouache if possible. I know some people like to use masking fluid, but I'm not a big fan of that. So in terms of other colors, so we've got the sky here, bit of cerulean, blue. So it's a light blue. But if you don't have cerulean blue, just use a bit of ultramarine blue, but dilute that down the buildings here. I've got yellow ocher and also a bit of burnt sienna, nice reddish brown color, some browns here on the sides of this wall. I'm mixing up a gray here and neutral tint through using the three primaries, red, blue and yellow and yellow to mix up a gray and then dilute it down. In the Boats. I've got a bit of parallel red, bit of orange as well that I've mixed in here. Same sort of turquoise see blue color. So I'm mixing turquoise and a little bit of ultramarine blue to create this darker water scenes so that the water has to be darker than the sky. You notice I've also got some really dark areas of the water-like here at the back and the reflections and stuff like that just mixed in some more ultramarine blue and also a little bit of neutral tint where possible. So the really dark areas that they're just more neutral tint, I've picked up a really dark black neutral tint color can mix of black itself by again, mixing three primaries together. Those work quite well. But that is pretty much it 3. Colorful Boats - Drawing: First thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to mark out where the edge of the water starts. I would say it's about a third of the way into the scene from the top. Okay. Just about a third of the way through. And I'm gonna just draw a line of rough line going into the scene. This is the edge of the water. Over here. You can see there's actually some kind of essence, basically just a wall. Okay, So this is just, again, a quick indication that this can change afterwards. Okay. There's a few little steps and what have you there or that side. Then you've got this air that goes into the water like this. Okay. Something like that. And behind that, you've got a white bridge, okay, that just juts out. And I'm going to draw a bit of fatty and, but it's not gonna be a huge part of my scene. Even hear this like these little bits of haired real. So I can just pencil that in quickly. The houses in the back. A really complicated and I think the best way to simplify it down, it's just the drawing, the rooftops case. So if we have a look at the side and also want to get it a bit of this sky as well. So I'm trying to just make sure I've got some of these rooftops look at that. Just some of them smaller than others. They all come across some of them a little slightly different sized as well. But I'm simplifying it down. I know the reference photo has a lot more detail in these houses. But I think it's going to be a lot better if we simplify them down. Okay. Do you get to this back area here? You can just see the just see the houses just overlap with one another. It gets smaller, little bit smaller. There is a larger sort of building here. I don't know what it is. Just rejig this one side of it there as well. And there we have it another. Now the building and I can just simplify, separate out the houses by a few downward lines like this. Okay. Good. I think in the background I'm going to have to look. There are some houses and stuff in some areas of the background, but I'm going to just make it a bit of sky in that section, okay? So draw it and just see what it looked like. But I think to simplify it down, it's gonna be much, much better. Okay, So we're gonna get in an indication of this boat here. And the why don't wanna do is mark out the center of the page right here, right in the center. Because this is where the whole the front of the boat actually starts there. Like that. You've got this top section of the boat like this. Okay. Inner part of the boat. And also the top of it like this. Like that. Just straighten that up a touch. He's got some windows here. And also some windows here. Just redo these, make them a little bit more detailed. Smaller, the middle one here. That good. Okay. The bottom of the boat coming in like that, back of the boat just to chat out like this. Hey, comes down and this is where you've got another boat just coming out the edge here like that. Top of it just sticking out and just kinda forming forming the edge. Right to the edge there. Just that same boxy shape on top. This alter it a little bit as you go the front of the boat. Like that? In the bottom of the boat, which I will kind of get it to disappear off a little bit at the base. Like that. You've got this up of these rigging coming across like that. So it'll join this one up. That not the boat here in the back there. And you've of course got a few more of these other Boats. And simplifying them down. Back into the boat like this. That the type of look another one here, larger like that. And the back-end of the boat there. Bits and pieces inside. But this is called a darker. These back sections here a bit darker, light source coming from the left-hand side. And I'm thinking to myself, I might exaggerate this one here to back the Boats a little bit darker on the left-hand side like that. Okay. Let's have a look at another boat here. And a side of it like this. Just make the top of that a little bit more to find that. Kate, look, what else do we have going on in here? So far? So good, we've got a basic indication that those ones in the background, but what are put in a few of these other Boats? Again, just overlapping here, red boat, the distance, the back of the book, they're just simplify that down again. There's lots of rigging in bits and pieces in that boat fishing gear. Simplify that down. And most important thing is the shape of the bottom part of the Boats, which you get further off in the distance. That becomes more important really to put in too much, putting some of the details just scribble domain like that. Darkness in here and here as well. Okay, good. What do you think I'm going to get into this pit of pathway here? It's not necessary. Okay. We've got the wall there. We've got obviously like a little bit of detail as well for their buildings and simplify this down. I'm just gonna put in bunch of these windows just to remind myself later on to get them in with a smaller brush. Okay. There are cars and things like that here. So we can figure, I could just simplify this down and getting objects almost that they look like cars, but it doesn't need to be much at all, just a little indication of something there. The bottle of these houses and shops as well have a little bit of darkness which is gonna be important here, the base. So I will get that in location of that. That would you do some tidying up these boats here? That one there. Okay. That okay. They should be good for now painting 4. Colorful Boats - First Wash: Alright, so let's go ahead and get started with our First Wash. So I have myself some color. I'm going to pick up, pick up. I'm going to pick up a little bit of this red. This red and maybe it's orange mixed through very light mixture of this color. And drag that across here. It's a pie role, pyrolytic orange, pure lead orange. Like this. Warp that you can see here in this boat. And be careful to cut around the white areas of the Boats as well. So using the tibia brush. Okay. And don't stress just getting a little Wash and that's all you need between top of this on top of the boat here as well, the right-hand side. So I can just while I'm there, just get that one in at the same time. And I'm using a lot of water in this mix. Okay. It's probably about 60, 70% water. Okay. I've got that burden. Okay. Good. Okay. Let's continue working. The rest of the colors with the Boats. There's a little bit of yellow ocher. It's put in touch to that on the rooftop. Like that. It's have a look at the other the other one. I've also noticed that this probably this side of the Boats little bit grayish. Just put it a touch, a gray here, just due to the shadow light source coming from the left-hand side. So I'm just dulling that down a little bit. Do the same thing here, a little bit of gray here. Either on the deck like that. No need for any shadows or do you think yet? Just really light shadows, I suppose like that most that you would have get in there. But want to just reshape this boat with a little bit the bottom a bit more. There we go. That's better. Okay. And fantastic. The boat at the bottom, I'm just gonna put in a bit of blue. Okay, a little bit of cerulean, or if you've got just a bit of ultramarine blue really is fine. Tiny bit ultramarine. Alright. Remember it's all just really light colors. I'm thinking for the reflections as well. This one up the front. A tiny bit of red in the water would be would be nice. Something like that. Come back to this afterwards. Like a more same or I could dulled down red like this, like a warmer color here, the water but don't overdo it like that. Okay. And let's have a look. All the other boats in the background. I can pick up even a bit of turquoise. Just blue, really light colors for the Boats. And the boat to the right is kinda like a yellowish color there. Just put a bit a yellow running through it. Like that. If you do get some mixing, Don't worry, just let it be a bit of the shadow there on the back of the boat. Just a softer shadow. Do the others, since I'm here at the same time, is more this orangey red color here, tiny bit there for that boat and the distance. And what, you're probably going to get some mixing. Because of this. We have that one's just white ones behind or more of like a bluish color. Okay. Okay. Well, those Boats will be doing their own theme. And while that's drying off a little, I'm going to just go into the background a bit And work on yet basically just work on some of those houses and things. They're simplifying this down. I've got some burnt sienna. Might actually get going with a bit of yellow ocher for the rooftops, yellow ocher and burnt sienna. Some of these, a little bit lack of light on the rooftops, but not overdoing it, just touch of that light. This is going to help to just draw out some light source and then the top of the scene up get some fluid. But I'll wait for this rooftop area to dry first before I go in there. Now some of these houses, you could probably just leave white. But for example, you might pick one or two like that. Some of the bar kind of like a bluish color as well, so that yellowy colors. So it doesn't really matter to me, especially because we are going to be getting into shadow on top of this color later on anyhow. The cars and stuff below, over here, down below, this wall is darker. I'm going to pick up some brown. This is just some brown ocher. I'm not actually that dark blue, yellow ocher and brown ocher mixed together to get into this wall. Okay. You really want to focus on getting in a Wash that connects everything up in terms of the the background, the foreground. Okay. Good. Alright, so now it's time to do the Water and mix them up over here on the right-hand side, I've got myself a bit of blue, ultramarine blue. And I'm going to need a few different colors here. A bit of turquoise see color as well. Turquoise color would be nice just over here. The ultramarine, we'll just darken it off a bit. Just starting off around here. And notice in the water there are some lighter bits, this turquoise color. Now, that's what I'm doing. I'm just trying to mimic that. And some of the scene. Hey, the whole First Wash that not fussed about accuracy at all. The shadows of these bits and pieces will come later. So don't worry, if it looks a bit light at the moment, that's what we want. More turquoise see color at the back. Here. Smaller brush will help. But a little mop brush here. But just cut around these Boats. Okay. Some ultramarine, I'll add some ultramarine running through here now, some darker blues, too much of this turquoise color. So I'll just drop it a bit with this darker color here, ultramarine. And I've got so neutral tint as well. That's gonna help to just shift things around a bit, make it a bit darker. More ultramarine. Here. There's a lot darker swatch of blue that just runs through the base here. Can you see that this large sort of darker shade of blue there? But I want this all to join up nicely. We can get a bit of it running downwards as well. Just some inconsistencies in their work a bit on this back-end section. Same sort of deal. I'm just gonna pick up that same turquoise color and cut around these Boats. Back that up a bit higher, there doesn't matter. This all goes up until this wall, which I've left the last minute so that I can get into more sharper edge. Hopefully. This. Okay. Alrighty. Now this is all just drawing off in a bit, but I'm going to just do the sky now, some turquoise for the sky, maybe some ultramarine and there as well. Cutting around these rooftops. These should more or less be dry now, I guess most parts should be dry. Especially on the left. You can leave a bit of white showing on top as well. That helps so that it just doesn't all mixed together. Hey, there we have it. Bit of blue. This stuff I don't want running down too much, so I'm just going to lift off a bit of that paint. And we'll leave this Wash to dry 6. Colorful Boats - Highlights: Finishing touches for bits and pieces, I'm gonna put in some of the windows and stuff of these buildings. Often the distance K, just to create a bit more interests back there. Okay. Like that. Maybe be a shadow underneath here the roof tops. That in. Happy to shadow. They're good. Right? Now. Some Wash need to put in some quash bit of yellow gouache. We're basically just got some yellow paint, watercolor paint and mix it in with whitewash. This and I've noticed by, for example, would be masked is more kind of yellowish. So I can put that one in like that. I've got enough gouache on there, make it quite concentrated so that it dries quite light. There. We are just getting some more of this raking and stuff on the boat. You see also that you can get a bit of this reflection that the water. Okay. What else do we have? This boat doesn't have amassed these two here. A few out the back. We can just simplify them down like this. Just getting a bit of light and grab some white gouache as well. Squeeze out the palate. Because this is our chance to bring back some of the whites that we've lost. A bit of water. Let's have a look at the front of that boat. She could do with a bit of extra light and the mast. Just redo that bad. Maybe a little blobs on the side of the boat as well. We can put in there and sparkle or two in the water. This is where the magic happens. Some of this white paint will bring back, see some hidden complexity in this scene. But you have to be very, use it very sparingly. Reinforcing the top. These Boats and also the side of them. We might get a bit of light bouncing off here and there. Like that. Let's put in another must disappears off this rigging stuff. Sometimes it comes down like that. What that doesn't matter. It's have a look. What else can we put in this car, the distance there? Not a car. Them perhaps anywhere that you see that I perhaps it's a little bit too dark. This is where you can go in and bring back some of that that light here. I can just correct parts of it as well. We're just not been careful enough. Bit more. Wash here. Top of the Boats here as well. Light they're coming off. You've even got like these Boats connected BY look like something connecting them up. But there's definitely some rigging, some ropes and stuff just coming off the front of the Boats. He's the boat here. Like that. Hey Not just squeeze out a bit more of that white mortality. You stop and pretty quickly. Okay. There's another boat here, maybe. Just getting a bit of PHI must. Okay. Who put in a bit of few little dots and things here as well because there is a boat behind there. But I've not really bothered to get in front of a mass that runs through as well. Like they're this other boat. I'm good. But more just also to outline the edge of that boat here in the front. Bring it out of touch. This one as well. And you've got a bit of this. Boats have these names. This one is an interesting name, isn't it? Okay. This one says a KD. Okay. Now, a little bit of magic for the reflections of the Boats I just thought are getting a bit of white running downwards for some parts of the reflections. Stuff that went a bit more, squeeze out some more white that white coming down as well. And for the reflection of the mast to that, just joined it on with the water better. So it doesn't look too obvious. A few little sparkles in the water as well. Perhaps, like just running through. In areas like this. Painting, the background here and there. Sparkle. Just want to redo that bit. And what I've done just as some finishing touches is again, just like added in bit more light, little bit of gouache on top of this section of the wall. And really for most part of it, it's it's finished. You just picking out some little bits and pieces that you want to bring out. These little sparkles a great of putting them in. And they pull together Painting make it just look less monotonous. Here on the right side as well, thought I'd just adding a bit more color or something there. Okay. Balance it out. These little bits of speckles and things in the water do want to overdo it though, just gotta be careful. Little bit of orangey color, orangey sort of Wash, watercolor, paper paints. And I'm just you can see some of the Boats is like a little bit orangey color down at the base where it touches the water. So look at that and just bring some of that through, right in the end. That much effort at all. This surprisingly helps to balance that the scene a bit. Even on the rooftop, you got speed of red up there as well. Orangey red color that some of these thicker red paint to make it the more interesting boat is actually not the, not the best condition. Bits and pieces like this can help create that rustic look to it. Easily like pizza just stick out the back of the boat like that. These railing in real things. Just to get a few of those in. Just a touch here and there. You more brushstrokes contain the indicate this re-link. It gets extra detailing not necessary. Just something nice to add on this section you use well, there's some re-link Bridge. Quickly get that in. You set up before. Painted mostly with just a flat brush. Really goes to show you don't need 1,000 different brushes. Just need a few. That's it. Right? And we're finished. 7. Simple Boats - Drawing: Okay, let's get started with the drawing. The one thing I wanna do is really just separate the scene directly in half. Because we'd see with the land at the back finishes off, brought down the back of the steps and kind of where the Boats start on the water. That's about halfway through the page. So it's quite the photographer has already done us a little favor here in terms of separating out the sky and the water. That's an interesting kind of composition because there's kind of water behind as well. So it's mostly at the end of the day, it is just water. I'm in the background and in the front as well, but yeah, 5050 composition. So let's go ahead and do a bit of sketching out. Now that we've got the line through the middle there, we're gonna look at these Boats and I'm thinking to myself, well, what should we go and put them in exactly as they are, or should we change them up a little bit? I'm going to firstly just put in a bit of the land here at the back. We know that it starts will come through about here. Okay, So just a little line roughly where the land isn't. There's a walkway up the top there as well. And just see a little walkway or a road, gravel road or something like that. Can see bits of fence and things sticking out. And there's even a boat behind as well. Unlike that, there are these trees here that we are going to be able to just sketch in the rough basic shape of these trees. Bit of a tree shape there, here. A bit of another tree shape here. Okay? These trees are just growing right here onto the front of this bit of land. It's kinda hard to see with this one. Actually two trees as one there and then another one here you can't really see, but look, it's just me just, just getting in a bit of detail and a lot of this stuff here will be done wet into wet anyway. I do like this. Steps just coming down. Can you see that these little little steps just coming down into the near the Boats at the front. So I'm just going to pencil that in like that. You've got a boat sitting up the top here. Let's, let's give this one a crack, K, the bottom of the boat. Let's just get the bottom of it in here. It's sitting right there. Okay. She quite a lot of detail going on in there actually. That's the front of it. Okay. And the bottom of it here. Little darkness and of course you've got some shadow underneath the boat as well. There'll be the shadow. That should be good. And some details in the Boats as well. I'm just going to quickly scribbling a little bit of detail on this cloth or something here in the back. Matter too much. Okay. Some of these bits bits and pieces, and we've also got the mast. Yeah. Okay. Due to the sale. Another mask. Let's make this one a bit taller and then we can just change this one up a little bit, coming on a slight more of a slope. That okay. It seems to be something coming down. I'm just trying to get it to there we go. Something here that rigging off the boat. There's all kinds of details off the back there as well. It's tricky to see exactly. But something like that. Okay. Another bit coming up like that as well. Just change it up a little bit taller. So there's that boat and the background, and you've also got a bit of a shadow here. You'll notice that the light is running from left to right. There is a little boat back there and the distance let me just see if we can see if we can get money in. Just a little indication of a boat there in the background. It's not a huge deal. Something like that. Okay. It's gonna be interesting because this is all going to look like the sky normally in a scene, but we need to imply that it's not. And these little boats coming in from the distance is going to help with that. But there's not necessarily really to put them all in. Just I'll draw it in and we'll see how we go later as to whether it makes sense to put it in or just leave it trail behind there. Okay. So let's go ahead and see here there's a Area, will the Boats dark? Area here? I'm just going to draw in. You can see there's some light there as well, a bit of light. And I really want to make sure we leave some of that to the end. But let's go ahead with the Boats and let's think, what shape do we want to make these? I think I'll start off with this one here. And they have a hard to say, it's kinda like a mix between a cylinder and the rectangle. Okay, so that's the back one like that. And really trying to, you're really trying to simplify this down. You can see there's actually some shadow in the back of that section of the boat. But really that's all just white. They're where it hits the water. You've got a bit of darkness at the base. I'm going to just pencil in some of that. They're okay. And let's put in this mask right here. This rigging. I find that it helps to also draw it in with kinda broken lines. That makes sense. Some broken lines. It just makes it look like it's catching a bit of light. It's getting this other boat here, the back of it like that. And that section there. Let's get in the front of the boat. It really almost reminds me a bit of drawing cars. There are some similarities. There are also some some small differences as well. Okay, Then they're not as boxy shape. They're going a bit more of an organic flowy. They kinda like, uh, a mixture between a rectangle in a cylinder. That rectangle very go. It's another one. It's another one in there and you're underneath as well. You've got some darkness, so I'm gonna just draw that. So you just underneath this area of light, you gotta be the darkness there is remembering to put that in. What else have we got about a few more boats here. Let's get in this one. The back of it first, probably like that, that same shapes, semicircular shape like that. Get half-moon and getting the solder the boat. And of course the top part of the boat as well. This one's a little bit easier to see like that. And again, the mask that's going to go directly up there. Some rigging and things like that. This one here is parked dot just more or less with the back facing and a tiny bit to the side showing through, tiny little bit to the side showing through soul. Emphasize that here. Besides a bit of that, they're in a bit of this mast also going up like that there. Now the two boats left to go. One here. So kinda facing towards as this one's docked in the opposite direction. Opposite direction. Maybe you have it detailing on the boat as well like this. And the mast straight up like this again. And we have one last one here. Quite a big boat compared to the rest. Also because it is seems to be a little closer. Something like that. Kinda similar to that one but just a bit bigger. A little bit bigger like that. That mass going up as well like this. And I think we have a good sketch. Of course, you've got some little bits of pieces of things here. I don't even know what that stuff is, but we've got most of it in 8. Simple Boats - First Wash: Let's go ahead and get started with the painting. And I'm gonna pick up a bit of turquoise. You can use cerulean blue as well. I'm just going to use turquoise here. And I'm gonna go straight into the top of the scene. And she tilt the paper a little bit downwards. And I'm using pretty much mostly about a 20% mix of paint and the rest of it water. Okay. I'm just going to carry this Wash down the page and I'm also taking care to potentially also just cut around things like this boat. Okay. Little loops lost anyway, but it doesn't matter around that boat. Bring this all the way down. Important thing is to leave human eat, leaves some of the whites. So when you get closer to these Boats, you'll notice I'll just kinda cut around a bit and leave some bits of whites and things like that on here. And this is for that reason to leave some white and a little bit of sparkle in there. Because one we're going to, some of these Boats have a different color and a lot of them are pretty much just white further down below. So I want to preserve that. Need the boat. You notice there's a bit of this water color as well, that cooler color. So let's go around and these trees as well just cut around them and touch like this. I'm round them a little bit. There. Here. Just a bit of this wet and wet because there's some slightly darker areas of the water there in the back. I thought I would just darken that alpha touch. And as we move down, we start to find that we have areas of green coming through and I'm going to mix up bit of this undersea green, this undersea green and maybe some yellow. Just to lighten it up a touch. I'll go into this a bit later as well, but something like that. Maybe a bit of this yellow ocher or buff titanium to just join it up in this top section as well because we do have some area of this pathway or whatever running through. Just want to get some of that, an indication of that in areas. And the rest of it, I'll just make a greenish color here. Okay. Now I still want it to be pretty light. So in terms of the mixture I'm using, it's mostly just water. Okay. I think I'll go over it again later on. But notice I'll just cut around. The Boats. Doesn't have to be perfect but just a little cutting around like that. Yeah. This boat as well because they're all white. So we gotta be pretty careful. Yeah. I know this area some of these areas are actually darker, but we will put in some color wet into wet and just a moment. Okay. But I want to get into the lighter wash first. Okay. A lot of Wash. Same goes for these trees at the top here I've noticed probably a little. They could be just a touch of yellow. Maybe a yellow up here. It will be green anyway. Let's just put that in like that. Good. If I leave a bit of white, that's no big deal as well, just to touch that, blend that in and because I'm doing it now rather than before, it doesn't the green doesn't bleed into everything too much. Okay? Just tilt the paper if you find that everything is running together too much. Okay? The goal here is really just to get in some of the lighter tones. Valleys, green back here as well. I don't have to connect it all up. I can leave some white as you can see there. Okay. So let's continue to move on. I'm going to work a bit on the you use a small flat brush for this Some of the darker bits, because we have some dark bits underneath the jetty. I prefer to mix up my own dogs actually. So if I got a bit of purple, purple, bit of brown, blue here as well. Mutual tint. Just mix something up that's pretty dark. And you'd be cooler as well. Just underneath this kinda jetty area near the Boats. So this is where I really want to cut around a touch so you can see and create a bit of extra contrast. Leaves Boats. It's really great opportunity to do this and encourage things to blend together as well. You can see little bits of tiny bits of blending back there. Okay? This allows you to create quite a dark contrast around the Boats. Can kinda shaped them nicely like this. Some of it will blend upwards, no problem. But as long as we retain that white is what we want. And some of these bridging area at the top there as well, I want to retain some little bit of light showing through. But it is very dark here. So you're using really the darkest value that you can find. That there's not a whole lot of water in here. There we are. Good. Now, let's have a Work. Work a little bit on the trees and the reflections of the trees. I'm gonna do this first drop in a little glitch. I think what we can probably do is dropping the reflections of the trees first and then I'll get the water around it. So the the darkness of the trees, but then of course, you cutting around the, is a bit of white underneath the boat here as well. So you cutting around that leaving that reflection of the boat there. It's it's kind of like Greenish colored reflection. It's a dulled down, so it's not completely green color. So I've got some maybe some brown, a bit of blue or something mixed in there as well. That but where you see the Boats, you just cut around the to leave a bit of that white to show a reflection that don't have to make it too obvious, even just a quick thing like that. Do the trick to move this one around and like this, that you really just mirroring that shape. You can see shape of the ships. Ship above like that. Yeah. Good. Okay. So we've got a bit of that going on and I'm just going to connect this up and let's getting the rest of the reflection, the darker reflection. Again, it's just a mixture or whatever I have on the palette. Some of these will come down as well. Like that. I kinda, some shadows and reflections are quite soft on the edges as well. So it's not a huge, a huge amount of darkness in the air around the edges. But let's just get in some of this stuff and coming down like that. These reflections of the trees above, that's what we're trying to imply. The background, their general shape of them. Darker. More here. Good. Start playing around with some of these other pigments. The same, same color as the sky and the same consistency is this guy now picking up a round brushes, smaller round brush, or a mop brush. We'll cover mop brush. Now this is gonna be a little bit. It's almost the same color as the top, but just touch a little bit darker. So I'm picking up more concentration of this pigment and I'm just mixing it through this. Mixing it through you might get a bit of joining on. That's good because it is going to be Wet anyhow. Okay. But I want it to have some kind of blended edges. You see, it's not perfect. And go back into it later and add some more darker bits as well. Okay. As you can see, I'm painting with the paper on a slight slope as well. This is really helping to carry this paint downwards. More pop a bit of this stuff, this too much darkness in there, right? Some more of that blue. Bring some of that through here, get that to permeate a bit through the, these little bits of speckles and things in the water. You don't need to color the color at all when as well, you can leave some white there as well. I'm going to put the paper flat on now so that it doesn't move. The pigment doesn't move too far down widths. And let's just finish this off like this. We have it, the rest of the turquoise. Right? Notice there's a few little ripples and things in the water as well. Have a play around with that in a moment. But I'm just having a look further up. What can we do? Well, I think we can work on the the little trees more so some green bit of darker green and I'm going to work just drop this in on the right-hand side of the tree. With this flat brush. Just to getting a bit of darkness feathered in areas. Is that this tree here, this darkness in there as well. I'm just going to leave some of the tip of the top of the tree and some of the sides. But notice how I'm leaving a bit of the yeah, that lovely, lighter green color that's going to help with implying that light coming in from the left. Something like that. It's all wet and wet work as well. Maybe a smaller, smaller but a round brush like this is going to help. It's just more of organic shape that you'd find. Rather than a flat brush. This just darkening that those tree shapes touch like that. Not only that you do get some of these permeating further down the page so that you've got some darkness here. Okay, the trees just casting a shadow underneath. Like that. Really quite dark. More neutral tint perhaps in here would be good. Really quiet, dark underneath. Join it all up. Get the paper and a bit of a slant as well. We're going to get some shadow here as well, but I'm going to rejig that later on. Have a look Work and some of these Boats has touched just adding some details. On the back of the Boats. I've noticed it's you've got a bit more of the shadow here to the right. So just get that in the back right-hand side of the boat. There's the back of it like this. Can see this shadowy shape. And I'm using just a bit of water. And the beauty of this grayish paint that I've mixed up before. To just get it in the darkness in the back there, in the shadow of the water as well. You do get a bit of this darkness permeating through. I'm going to mimic that. Mean this one's almost just all in the front. Water as well. There's a bit of light to the left side of the boat. So leave that in a trial. This one, the right-hand side bit of darkness there. And I'm still using a fair bit of water in this. But by the way, it's not all just really dark color. I'm using decent amount of water in there. K This one here as well, right-hand side bit of darker paint. And we'll bring that into the shadow as well like that. So we've got some little bit of shadowy looking areas. I'm going to pick up some neutral tint. And let's see if we can get ourselves in a bit of the detail of the underneath the Boats perhaps like here, where it touches the water. So I'm picking up neutral tint and just drawing the brush off a little bit and putting in a little indication of where the boat hits the water, that anchors it gives it a bit more presence. All right. That maybe have a look here, underneath here and that one to the right as well. Okay. I've even got some indications of like some darker shapes inside the boat as well. Like windows and such. A window maybe sides of the boat. Like little little indications like that. I'm going to just work on this boat up the top here. So she got some yellowy color in it, some brighter yellow color. Dial that down a touch. Yellow. There. Bring that across. Bottom of the bird is actually darker and I don't know what color is really. I'm just going to use this brownie color there to just seal it off at the base like that. Okay. Here we go, something like that. It's also there's some kind of hanging off the bat. You know what, that is? Some kind of thing there. Okay. Good. Let's give it a quick dry 9. Simple Boats - Second Wash: What I've done here is that I've just gone through, picked up a bit of white gouache and add it in some reflections from the Boats. And build the rigging often the back and the distance as well. Anyway, that you think you might want to bring back a touch of light, bit of that white gouache. I've also added in a touch of the gouache with yellow here as well to bring back a touch of that background. Area with the road is I'm also going to just work on some stuff here in the foreground. You can notice there's like a little jetty use something and he'd lost it. We'd lost it. So I'm going to bring it back out a little bit of yellow and white mix together. Just indication of it. I don't want to be to want it to be too much of a feature. Let's the stairs are like them. Me just get in a bit of this rigging. Little touch apps and things like this really, really does help to bring bring out some highlights in detail. I didn't notice as well that the these two little boats here probably could do with detailing would be the detailing like that. The right-hand side here as well for this right-hand side of this boat, little bit of darkness there can barely even tell that it's a boat. It is reflection in the water, maybe a trail behind like for that one, you see just where it came from. That will help to emphasize it. This one here, just a bit more darkness in there and some, the two little reflections beneath that boat as well, maybe some white some structure to it. So the waves are just pushing apart the water. Difficult to really see. I'm just going to erase the remaining bit of pencil that you see running through in this wall. I think we're just tidy it up a little. Just raise over the top, especially on the Boats and it's going to make the biggest difference. There's tidy it up a little bit and testing and we are finished.