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Portrait of a Toucan - Keeping Transparent and Getting Non Streaky Darks

teacher avatar Nadine Dudek, Professional Watercolour Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:57

    • 2.

      Materials

      2:28

    • 3.

      Sketch

      1:11

    • 4.

      Starting the Top Beak

      6:34

    • 5.

      Bottom Beak

      2:31

    • 6.

      Starting the Darks

      6:51

    • 7.

      Second Beak Wash

      4:58

    • 8.

      Finishing the Darks of the Beak and Eye

      7:44

    • 9.

      Finishing Off

      12:57

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In this class you'll be painting a Toucan portrait

In this lesson you will learn to 

  • Keep clean using transparent colours
  • get strong darks without leaving streaks 

The class is broken down into simple easy to follow sections so that you can pace yourself and enjoy the process. 

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Nadine Dudek

Professional Watercolour Artist

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Hi, I'm Nadine,

I'm an Australian watercolour artist with a particular interest in wildlife art. I love the spontaneity of watercolour and the wonderful effects that can be achieved with very little input. I strive to keep my paintings loose and love the challenge of drawing the viewer into the work through a well placed shadow or detail.

For me, the quicker the painting and the fewer the strokes the better the result. I endeavour to teach my students to relax and remember - it's just a piece of paper.

To see more of my work head over to my webpage or find me on instagram and facebook


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Level: Intermediate

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Nadine. Thanks for joining me for class today we're going to be painting a toucan. Just because I think if you love watercolor, you're going to love painting a toucan, these big stretches of beautiful transparent, color are really fun to paint. And it's really a lesson in. Getting the colour in in just clean single strokes and not fiddling too much, letting it dry. And also the other thing I want to look at today is getting, I'm often asked about the darks about the blacks getting solid blacks without leaving streakiness. So that's the other thing that this lesson is about today. So what we'll do is we'll go through the materials, go through the sketch, and then we'll paint step-by-step. And hopefully when you're finished, you're happy with your painting and you can upload it for me to have a look at. 2. Materials: Okay, We'll go through the materials for this class. I'm using a reference photo from pixabay. You can download that from the Skillshare site. And I'm painting flat on a board. I'm not taping down and I'm using 300 gram Arches cold pressed paper. I've got a regular HB pencil and eraser for the sketch. For my brushes. I'm using three today. I've got this large neef, it's a size ten, it's a squirrel taklon mix this one, i've written the details of which brushes in the materials list. Whatever you've got I'm sure will be fine. You just want something that's big enough that you can go the distance. So don't pick a tiny brush to try and do is beak. And then I've just got a couple of small round synthetics for the detail. In terms of the paints now, for the yellow and red for the orange of the beak I'm using two Daniel Smith paint. So I've got pyrol red and hansa yellow medium. You could use cad red and cad yellow for that. If you've got those. I'm using another yellow. I've got a little bit of yellow here in the cheek and for that I've just got some yellow ochre from Winsor Newton or you can use some raw sienna for that. For the black, I'm using. I like art spectrum, Payne's gray for these darks. Or sometimes I would use Daniel Smith indigo. Either one is fine. This might be hard for you to get depending the art spectrum, depending on where you are. Because there's an Australian brand. For the blue in the eye, I've just used some Winsor Newton, French ultra because most people have that kicking around in their kit. It doesn't really matter. Whatever blue you've got will be fine. and then I'm just, you don't really need this. I've got some Van Dycke, Daniel Smith, Van Dyck brown underneath the Beak here, a bit of a shadow. You could use some burnt sienna here, or you could even use whatever black you're using for the rest of it to do the shadows. don't specifically go and buy the Van Dycke brown, Although I do like this, it is quite nice. I use it a lot. Then I'm putting a little highlight in the beak and a little highlight in the eye. Just with some art spectrum, white gouache. Other than that, you need a palette. I've got a tub of water or maybe a few tubs of water because you will need to keep cleaning your water because we're using yellow to keep everything tidy. And just some toilet paper, or some tissue to clean up your brushes. And I think we're probably ready to start the sketch. 3. Sketch: We'll start off with the sketch. Really simple. I do want you to be careful of the curve of the beak. You really want that beautiful shape in properly. Now, I have drawn this probably a lot darker than I would normally, just so that you can see it on the video. I will say be careful of your pencil lines in these areas where we're painting yellow because pencil is really difficult to get off underneath the yellow. So maybe these ones up here keep them a little bit lighter. Also don't go too heavy on the black of the beak here on this line, because we will let that bleed a little bit into the yellow underneath. So go easy on the pencil. Don't get too fussy about, don't worry about all these stripes. And I've also ignored, it's got like a serrated line along the joint. of the beak here. I haven't worried about that. I'm just giving myself a straight line to keep life simple. So that's really all you need if you don't want to sketch it up yourself. I have uploaded a template for you to use, but it is a pretty simple sketch, so give it a go first before you give up and use the template. So we're ready to start to paint. 4. Starting the Top Beak: Okay, We're going to start onto dry paper into the yellow. We're going to do the top beak first and then we might do the yellow orange around the eyes. So I've got some Hansa yellow medium and some pyrol red squeezed out in my palette, you're better off using, I've got some dried up stuff from yesterday. You're better off squeezing out some fresh paint. And I'm going to use my size ten brush for this just because I want to go the distance. So what I don't want to do is have a small brush trying to get across the page and have to keep loading up, getting more paint, getting more water so use. Use a larger brush. Make sure it's clean. Make sure your water because we're using yellow, make sure your water is super clean. It's really easy to get mucky when you're using yellow. Okay, so milky consistency. Yellow paint straight onto the page. Now I'm going to start, although this is black. I'm actually going to start in here because we're going to be painting the dark over the top. So I'm going to start at the tip of the beak, press down really hard so that I spread my brush out and come into the, doesn't matter if I paint over that because that's going to be black. Get another, load up my brush again. Coming underneath that line, trying not to go. I'm touching to where I was before, but not painting over it, just joining the edge and one more, pushing down all the way through. I'm not going to quite make that so I've just dried. I just took the excess off my brush and just closing those gaps. I don't want to introduce water there. Now, while that's wet, I don't care that I haven't quite come to my pencil edges here, but I'm not too fussed about that because I know I'm going on with black. I'm going to switch now to a smaller brush. Take off the excess water, pick up a little bit of pyrol red. So pretty dry brush. And while this is wet, I'm going to come along that top. Got to keep a really steady hand. Washing my brush, dry brush, just tidying up, dragging that red I'm just dragging that red into the yellow there. You can see here my pencil is quite heavy. That's what I was talking about, that you want to watch your pencil lines. Okay. So I've got that little bleed of red. I've still got water in the page. Pick a bit more pyrol red taking off the excess water on the heel of my brush but touching it to the tissue. And then I'm just going to drag a couple of lines. of red I've probably not I've dried my brush, see that's dried my brush too much. So I'm just going to pick up, go again, little bit of red through there, dry my brush. And now I'm going to pick up a bit of yellow in-between those two lines. So what I'm looking for here in this first wash is a few, a bit of mixing on the page. I'm going to put another yellow here and I'm keeping the light up the top so I'm picking my yellow again and just dragging it I just, I can do that a few times. I just need less water in my brush than on my page. And I'm going to drag that. As I said, this doesn't matter because it's going to be black underneath there. But just so that this doesn't push back, I'm just going to drag that paint forward a bit into the tip that's going to be black. Right Now what I'm going to do, this, will have another wash over the top. What I want to do is avoid the temptation to fiddle in here. I just need to let that dry knowing that I'll put another layer on later. I am just going to back off. So I'm just drying my brush, just that join there. So again, I don't want to introduce any water. I want to retain this light. That's really important to retain that light there. So I've been in here for long enough. I need to come out of that. I don't need to worry about the messiness here because that's going to have black over it. What I am going to do, while I've got this yellow is I'm going to paint around the eye here. I'm going to start with my yellow. Picked up a little bit of paint, milky, milky paint. I might need to switch to a smaller brush. I'll just see whether I can get, It's okay. If your brush It's got a good tip. I've got a bit much water there so. I'm just drying it on my brush, coming up to my pencil line. Now, if you've used a heavier heavier pencil than a HB, like if you used a 2B or something, you might find that that pencil moves and gets mucky in your yellow, which is why I tend to not use darker pencil. Pop that in. And I think I probably want more light than that at the top. So I've just got some water and I'm just going to pop a little bit of water in the top part of that eye. So I'm flooding with water, taking off the excess. Alright, and now again, while that's still wet, now I'm going to grab a bit of pyrol red and just let it mix, so I'm touching into that yellow. I find that letting it mix, although I'm after an orange here, I find that it's more interesting if you let them mix on the page, than mixing up orange in your palette and putting it on, I think you just get much more. Movement interest, nice things happening. If you let the paint do the work for you. I'm just washing my brush. just drag that around a bit and I'm getting very close to mucking. So I've got to. I can feel that I've not got long before I have to get out. So I'll just tidy up that shape. Remembering that I can always add more. If I need to. Got a bit messy on the edge where I'm going to put the blue, but I'm not going to worry too much about that. That's where I'm going to stop. Let that fully dry. Then we'll come back in and we'll do the bottom with the beak. 5. Bottom Beak: Okay, So it's been about 10 min now and I'm fully dry in here. So I'm just going to start the bottom beak now. Same idea in that we're going to paint first with yellow and then I'm going to drop some hansa red in there. So clean water, clean brush onto dry paper, loaded up my brush with a milky consistency yellow. come into that tip, push down. I am leaving a gap between the top and the bottom for now. As I just joined that. I don't have to get all the way yet. Alright, then I need a bit more paint and now to tidy up the bottom bit. So you should be able to get this in two. Strokes. Again, not terribly worried about coming over into this part of the beak where I'm gonna be black. Now while it's wet. Switching to my smallest synthetic or my middle sized synthetic, picking up some pyrol red while this is still wet, dragging in some red paint. And again, so when I'm doing this, I'm really focused on I've got my hand hard on the board, there on the page, and I'm dragging my whole hand. I'm not moving my wrist. I'm taking my whole hand across. Because I find that it's easier to get that shape in. Tidy up and, take the excess off. I'm just going to tidy up this tip here. Okay. And then I'm going to turn because I want to get a red right on the bottom. edge, so a bit more pyrol red get some water, take off my excess again, dry brush and know I keep saying that, but it's so important you don't want to introduce a whole lot of water. Just dragging. I'm holding the page because I'm not taped down. I don't want the page to move. Alright. And then I need to come out of that. Let that dry. I'm going to let you have a breath for a minute. We'll let that fully dry and then we'll paint the black of the body. 6. Starting the Darks: Okay, now it doesn't really matter if this isn't dry because I'm staying out of there for a minute and I'm coming into this part of the bird. Now, what I'm gonna do I often have people ask, how do you get a clean black without streakiness? And really for me it's about wetting the page, first not going straight onto dry paper. I'm going to take my larger brush and I'm going to wet down where I want to put my dark. so coming. Just to the edge of my pencil line. I'll hold up my page in a minute and you can see how much water I've got. I want it, I don't want it saturated. And I am going to be a bit patchy towards where I finish off. Let me see if I can catch the light. So I'm not absolutely pooling water, but I do want it a bit damp and right to my pencil edge preferably. Okay, I've got all sorts of bits of fluff and stuff in here this bit of paper has been kicking around my studio for a while now the other thing I wanna do is make sure I've got freshly squeezed paint. If I'm trying to pick up dry paint, I'm going to have to put too much water into it. It's going to dilute it. And then by the time I get onto the page, it's going to be really wimpy. Okay, So really toothpastey paint coming in. I'm going to start in the middle of the bird. Come up. So you can see, if it's not moving, you've not got enough water on the page. And I do want to work quickly because I don't want this to dry off before I've gotten all that dark on. Now going to switch to my middle sized brush now to push out to the edges. Because I want to retain a little bit of light on the top. I might close it in, but I initially, it's easy to make it darker, harder to get the light back if I decide I want to. Just looking at my reference photo, does he, he does have a few flicks. I'm not sure if this brush is fine enough. I'm just going to drag a couple of little feathery bits out of the back there, But my brush hasn't got a very good tip. So be careful of that before you drag too much or you'll make it a really fat head. I'm just coming to join to my edge there, down the bottom here. I'm just going to move it around a bit and get myself some broken edges. So I'm dry on that paper here, so I can pull that down. And on the front here, Does he have he does he just got a few flicks down there as well. So I'm just dragging from the wet paint onto the dry page. And I'll just let that travel down. I probably need a bit stronger here. I don't want too many lights, so I'm just sitting back. The reason I've been messy down here is that I don't want to cut the subject off to look like a I've cut him off at the neck. I want it to disappear. Now. I need more dark in here. So while it's still wet, I'm picking up some more toothpaste paint, dropping that in and letting it bleed. You can see these darks pushing out. Maybe a bit more here. Then I want to look up here. I reckon I want it darker where it touches the eye. I don't mind the light on the top there. I'm going to pick up my tooth pasty paint, make sure my brush is really dry. And I'm just going to drag a little bit of that paint along the edge. And maybe in here, just, just trying to decide where I want to keep my light, wash my brush take off so I've got a clean dry brush now so that I can push around a bit in there without introducing a whole lot more water. Because the page is pretty wet. and I'm still painting flat. I'm looking down here, I reckon before, before it, I nearly have to get out, but before it dries, see how my waters come because I dragged those out onto the dry page. I've now got this transition, this hard line between where the water, where the page was wet and where it's dry. I don't want that. So I'm just going to, actually I might have to go to, I'm going to pick a smaller brush now and this is my size one. Pick up solid paint. And I just want to drag out into those little flicks i did because I don't want to actually go to get, so I've not got enough water on my brush. I don't want that gray. I want that to be dark. Okay. And then when I come down to here where I've got this transition, dry my brush, just going to worry my damp clean brush over that join so that I don't get a hard edge between where I've been with the wet brush and this dry wash. Just teasing it down. Now, if you don't go hard enough, if you don't get enough pigment on, and this will dry lighter than this. It doesn't matter. Once it's fully dry. We can do the whole process again. But I'd like to try and get it pretty strong. In that first wash. I'm flicking paint all over the place, which is bad when it's something as dark as this. Alright. I don't really, I'm just sitting back there that little, I'm not sure about that little flash of light. I'll see how I feel about that when it's finished. And I've got a little bit of light here that you might not be able to see but I'm just going to close up here. So again, my, my brush is drier than my page. And then I can feel I can feel I'm starting to fiddle I need to stop, get out and any problems. I will deal with later. What I'm looking at is whether I need to make this darker here to get the curve of the head. but I've been in there for too long now, so I'm going to stop, come out and let that fully dry. 7. Second Beak Wash: While that's still, I'm still a little bit wet there, so I'm going to come back into the beak, finish off the wash in here and probably put the blue around the eye. So what I need you to do is make sure you have crystal-clear water. So go and change your pot, wash your brushes, and make sure that everything is clean because we're going back to yellow. All right. And keep your hand out of the wet. I'm going to get initially some clean water and clean brush, my big brush. I'm just going to make I'm just going to wet down just a little bit. I'm going to stay out of this top bit. I'm just going to paint, a line of water, across there. Then I'm going to pick up my, a bit more yellow. I'm going to come underneath that and paint a line of yellow. And then I'm now wetting my beak with the yellow instead of with the water. Alright. Now, I'm all nice and wet. I'm just going to run my dry brush just over the transition between the yellow and the wet. clean water there. Grab my, middle-sized brush, grab some pyrol red. I'm going to touch it into the pyrol red, and maybe a little into the yellow as well. And then I'm just going to, so I've got a little bit of yellow and a bit of red on my brush. I'm just going to pop into that wet page. A few little stripes. Wash my brush. And I'm just going to drag my brush through. just to rough it up a little bit. Probably need a bit more yellow in them. So I'm going to wash my brush, pick up a bit of yellow and just touch a bit of yellow in. So really all I want is just a few verticals Now, I'm not just looking at my reference. I'm just going to drag it. I'm just dragging my brush just along that edge because I had that lump of paint there. Sitting back and watching what that's going to do. Wash my brush. I've got a piece of hair there. Might have to stay until it dries. And then I'm looking, I'm going to soften that edge. You might not be able to see it but my yellow has run in to that water. So I'm just dry brush softening off that edge. Okay. I'm going to come to the bottom, beak and I need that to be a bit stronger. I'm going to wet that down with yellow. So I've got clean clean yellow. Now. I'm going to pick up some pyrol red and just drag that through a bit. Just want it a bit stronger. So wet in wet, wet down with yellow first, then my red. Now it may be that we need to put a bit more dark on with some Payne's gray. Bull I'll just see how I feel about that before we, I probably want to do the darks of the beat before I strengthen that. I am going to go slightly harder, didn't get any paint with my pyrol red, underneath. So the join between the top and the bottom beak there. So I'm not saturated because I don't want the paint to move too far. And then I'm going to stay out of that and see what that does. While that's drying, I'm going to come over to the eye, wash my brush. I might need to switch now to the smaller brush. I'm going to take some French ultra. I'm going to paint around that. I've got some French ultra in my palette here. It doesn't really, you could use cerulean, it doesn't really. That might be. Think that's french ultra. yeah that's french ultra. Okay. Some blue anyway, your favorite blue I'm just I'm all dry in here. So I'm just painting around that, keeping probably more light at. the top. And then I'm going to come out and let that fully dry. 8. Finishing the Darks of the Beak and Eye: Okay, So I'm dry now and we're going to do the black on the tip of, the beak and these two darks in here. So I might use my medium synthetic to start with what I'm going to do. I'm going to make this a little bit damp on the join where the transition from the black to yellow. And then I'll go into dry paper here. So clean water, starting in the middle of this shape there and just pushing it out to my pencil edge. Just a little bit of water. I don't want to flood it. 9. Finishing Off: All right, So what we're going to do now is we're going to come into this white part, which isn't, strictly speaking white, it's got a few colors in it, but what we're gonna do is make use of the paint that's already on the page. I'm going to take my small synthetic. I've changed my water, so I've got clean water just make sure my brush is clean. I'm going to wet down. come into this sort of not quite in the middle of the shape. This brush isn't perfectly clean but that's alright. And I'm just going to walk some water around carefully. Then I'm going to come up and just touch just to the edge of that Payne's gray. It's dry, but it will still, Payne's gray or indigo. Those really staining colors They will still run for quite awhile even after they dry. So I'm just, want a little bit of paint. That little sort of blurred edge there. not sure how well that's going to come across. And if it doesn't move, that's okay. we can put more paint in, more pigment in, if this doesn't run for you. So see how it goes. Well, not very dry there. See I've got a bit more running there, but that's okay. If you touch it and it runs too much, just keep cleaning your brush and wicking it off. Alright, so that's started. I'll need a bit more than that, but I'm happy with the little bleed that I've got there. I'm going to come around and do it on this edge as well. So here I'm going to wet down further out. I'm not going to touch the dark until I've got that water on. Then I'm going to come and I'll start down the bottom in case it runs too, see how it's still going, now Payne's gray, will do this, see how I've got this blue there. Sometimes I love that, sometimes I don't I don't mind that I'm just pushing it back because I don't want it to go too much. And so you've gotta be careful I'm using a small brush because if I put a whole lot of water here, it will run a long way and I don't want that. I just want everything. I just want a little bit of movement. So I'm just washing my brush, teasing it to that edge, being careful not to let it run too far. I just find that these bleeds are a little bit more interesting than anything I could just actually paint on the page. You get some really nice soft effects. If you don't get any bleeding, you can wet it down. do exactly the same way, but then grab a bit of fresh Payne's gray and drop it into the wet area. It is a bit more risky. It's just you, it's easy to get too much pigment. Okay, now, I will have to join up here. I've got a little bit too much of a gap there. See, I might do it. Just do it with some water and let that run a bit more. Okay It's okay to be subtle. You can keep it subtle and that's fine. We are going to go darker underneath here once that's dry. But I'll let that dry before I do that. A couple of things I'm going to do while this is drying. So I want to put some, little bit of warmth, a little bit of yellow probably through here and strengthen that shadow. I'm going to come underneath the beak and I'm going to paint a line of water. I might use my slightly bigger brush. I'm just going to paint underneath where the two beaks join the top and the bottom join Just dampen it off a bit. And then I'm going to take my small brush. As I said with the sketch, I've ignored the serration. I'm not interested in that. I'm just going to drag. I've got Payne's gray on my brush. Not enough. Payne's gray. Ive got some. there, just want to drag a bit more of a dark just so that it's a little bit clearer where that separation is, That's nearly it. But I don't want, I want it to bleed a little bit, which is why I wet it first. And I'm going to just close that gap a little bit, so darker on this, just teasing that down to cover the whole tip of that bottom beak. And that's probably enough on there. Now, again, this is still, still drying. Still haven't got enough in there yet, but I'm going to pay my attention to this eye just for a second. So what I want to do, is get a little bit of orange around the corners here of the eye. So clean that brush that had the paynes on it. Wet down just around here, I touched to the, I didn't mean to do that. So I might be doing it with there you go instead of orange. I'm doing that dark, that little shadow with bleeding, Payne's gray. So while that's damp I'm going to pick up, I am This time going to pick up a little bit of yellow and a little bit of orange and mix them in my palette a bit and just drop a little bit of paint into that wet page so that I can strengthen up, give it a bit more contour, bit more 3D here. I'm just washing my brush, teasing that up. I want to stay out of the light on the top here. And so, I say as I drag my brush out, so I'm keeping that yellow, I'm going to strengthen probably a bit more red, I think down here. So into that wet page, touching into the Payne's gray, made it a little bit harder for me because I'm trying to now balance the bleeding, bleeding black. Now that needs to be more orange. so I'm going to grab more yellow on top of that. I'm just slowly building it up and leaving some flashes of light. But you've got to, got to keep cleaning my brush or I'll just drag that pigment everywhere. So we've got to keep making sure I'm washing and drying it off. I think I probably need a little bit of that colour, so I'm going to put my brush in that and just drag it over the very top of the eye they're probing it a little bit more color. Just over the top. Okay. Carbonyl things I'm going to do and let that fully dry and then I'm going to put strengthen up the blue just under the eye. But this is dry now. So I'm going to take my medium brush. I'm going to wet the page just a touch. In the I guess he's Jake. Yeah. I'm going to grab a little bit of yellow yellow ochre. Just going to pull just a touch of yellow ocher, wet and wet lady. Just for a little bit of warmth, if it gets too much, I can just touch my tissue to it, so just a little bit. I'm not sure how well that will come through. Actually, you'd be able to see it on the photo of the final painting. Just a little bit of warm through there. And then I'm going to come under now, I'm going to use some Van **** brown. You could use some burnt sienna, burnt sienna or, or really anything dark that you've got. You could even use the Payne's gray or the indigo. I just want a little bit of more of a shadow underneath here. So I'm going to wet down the page first. I've treated much Hugh Van **** brown terribly. And so I've got these kind of draw it up mess, but I'm going to have to use sex. I don't have any cheap. And I'm just going to pop that in the webpage somewhat with my small brush. Just strengthening up that shadow. But my brush and tease my damp clean brush along the edge so that I want, I want that soft transition. If when you do that, it makes it two lines. Once you've soften that edge, grab a bit more paint and just drop it back in. And it doesn't matter again, if the Payne's gray or indigo or whatever you're using, blades have fun. I'm just keeping an eye on that edge. Then I'm just going to strengthen. I'm pretty dry enough I think in there. So I'm going to put one more little layer of french alter. I'm going straight onto the dry page. I just want to make it slightly darker on the bottom part of that. Either the top, like when you look at the reference, you can see it's quite dark. I'm probably not going to go quite that strong. I've gone onto the dry page and then I'm just picking up a bit more paint and dropping it into the bottom there. And if it dries too light, you can do exactly the same thing once it's fully dry. Okay. Then last, last detail. I'm going to take a touch of white gouache. I've got straight into my tube. I'm going to pop a couple of little white spots in the eye. And then I'm going to pop, you might need it. I'm going to pop a little highlight just on the front of the beak here. To do that, I'm going to grab a touch of paint. Touch my whitewash. I'm going to start up high. I'm going to put just a lawn of gouache on, come off. Drawing my brush. Then I'm going to blend that in the paint underneath. Wash that off. Just so claim that if it, if it blends too much and you lose that highlight, which I probably have done then let me just you can just know that that's damp. You can grab a bit more. You might need. It depends on how you bakes looking and just come straight onto that will blend in with whatever you put underneath. If you put it on and you don't like it, you can paint over top of it. It's just a little flash of light. So just, just as little subtle highlight on the tip of the beak there. Sit back. Possibly I've got a couple of little flashes of light in there that potentially I will have to fill in. But I think I probably want to let that fully dry. So I think I'm I'm think I'm done and I don't mind. I said at the beginning that I might fill in some of that, but I actually don't mind the light that's up there. So yeah. I think that's probably probably done. So once you've gone through the exercise and you're happy with your painting. Pop a picture up under the projects. If you've got any questions you can ask anything under the discussion tab. I've always loved seeing your work and if you post it on your socials, if you tag me, then I can have a look and give you a follow. Alright, thanks for joining me.