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1. Introduction : Hi, welcome, my name is Nadine. I'm a watercolor artist
from Melbourne, Australia. Now, in keeping with the
simplicity of this exercise, you're not getting
a fancy production, we're keeping it really basic. So what I want to do today
is practice brushwork. This is just meant
to be a loose, fun exercise where you can see the kind of marks
that your brush will make and how little you can get away with to portray a subject. I don't want anyone getting caught down, caught
up in detail. I don't want anyone
over thinking, oh, I haven't, this is the
same as the reference or I need to put this
in or none of that. We're just making some marts. We're using one brush and we're moving quickly
through the process. We'll go through the sketch
that I'm using for this, which is very minimal
just to shape the boats. We'll go through the materials and then we'll get painting.
2. Materials: First things, first,
materials that you're going to need
for this exercise. So, this is a reference photo. This is mine from Hobart. It was there last
week. Beautiful Spot. I'm using 300 gram
archers coal press paper. Now, I'm not taping it down, but today I am painting
on a board because I want to tilt the painting while we're working
normally a paint flat. But today I'm going to tap it just on a little bit of a tilt. I'm using a regular HB pencil and erasor for a little bit of a sketch and the
paint now you can actually use whatever your
favorite paints are for this. I've kept a bit true
to the reference, but it really doesn't matter. I'm using Daniel Smith, Pyro red, Winsor, Newton
Su Daniel Smith, indigo. And a little touch of
wind, yellow ochre. I also do have a little bit, I don't have the tube out, some Daniel Smith
Vandyck in here as well. But I say it really
doesn't matter. Use whatever you like. It is important that you
just pick one brush. This is an exercise
about working out the different strokes
that your brush makes. Pick your favorite brush
and stick with it. This is just a
little six synthetic from neath Comes
to a nice point, holds a reasonable
amount of paint. Other than that,
you'll need your jar of water, your palette, and some tissues and I think we're ready to have a
look at the sketch.
3. Sketching Up: Okay, so for the sketch, I'm keeping it really simple because I want to paint loosely. I need to keep the
sketch really minimal. All I'm doing is giving myself the shape of the holes here and a little bit of an indication of the walkway in the middle. Also a little bit of an idea of where my masks are going to end. I haven't actually
come up as high as the one in the
reference photo. I'm going to make it a little
bit easier for myself. I'm not worrying about
all the buildings and all of that business
in the background. I'm not interested
in that at all. I just want to keep it simple. I considered not
giving you a template, but I took pity because
you really do need to get the shape of the
holes right. I do. If you would rather use it, I do have a template that you can download from the
skill share site. I think that's
we'll get painting.
4. Getting the Boats in: For this, what I want you to do, I need you to tilt the
page just slightly. I'm just going to resting
on my computer here. I don't want to really upright. Just a little bit of a tilt. I want you to take a breath
and relax into this. This is not meant
to be stressful. This is practicing brushwork. And I want you to not overthink, which I realize is
easier said than done. So I'm going to start
in this red boat, going to take my brush pick up. I've got some pyro red in here. Want to milky creamy mix
of the red come straight onto the dry paper I
paint in this first hole. I'm not being too tidy, just whacking some paint on. Get a bit more, and then I'm
coming to the other side. I've initially left a little bit of a gap just so I
know which side which, but I will close
that in a right. Just getting that shape
hole in olo, that gap. Then now I'm going
to wash my brush. I'm going to paint up to the hole of that boat
and I'm just going to a little bit of that red run and drag it just across
a little bit. All right. Going to come and move to the other side to
help myself move to the other side
first up I'm going to grab I've got a
bit of yellow acre, I think in here I'm going
to give myself a couple of horizontals.
Couple of verticals. I'm coming from
the dry page into, It doesn't matter if I touch
this wet that I've had here. Moving across and now I've
hit the blue boat here. I'm using some cerulean. I've gotten this well
now the boat is white. But I need some color on it. I don't want it to be because I'm not
painting a background. I do need a bit of color. I'm coming creamy. Again, I haven't got border in that my paints dried up a bit, which is not ideal. Milky wash the blue on one side, make sure I get the shape right. Coming to the other side, keeping it fairly light. Wash my brush, come up and touch into that
bottom of that hole. Now this is right off a bit. Now I'm going to
take really veggie, my past paint, not much
water in my brush, a lot of pigment
coming onto the page. And I'm just going to whack
a bit more red to restate. I'm just going to
drag a little bit of that red walk through my page, just a few little marks. I'm going to do the
same thing now on. The blue might be harder
because my paint is really dry. I usually like to
squeeze out fresh paint, which I did for the red,
but I didn't for the blue, because I need a new tube. You'll get better color if
you're squeezing out fresh. I've had to put a lot
of water into that to get it to come up, but I don't want the
pigment really diluted. So I'm just going to wick
some of that water off page. Still wet. I'm still going to
get a little bit of running if I put that in. Okay. Now I'm going to think about what's happening
at the top here. I want to blah a color for each of those at
the top of the boat. First up, I'm going
to take some, we really get enough paints
to dry a bit of a line in. Messy is fine, coming for
the red where I've got nice, freshly squeezed out paint. So it should be easier.
Right? So a couple of lines in there,
wash my brush. Now I'm going to
grab some indigo. Now I am going to squeeze out some fresh paint for this
because I want it stronger. Okay, so now I'm going to
pick up really creamy paint. And I'm just going to suggest I'm putting my
brush a bit a bit. I'm not up on my tip,
I'm down on the side. And I'm just going to
drag my brush across and give myself start thinking, paint a couple of windows
in there, all right? Again, really messy. Don't need to get too
worried about it. Then before I let you stop, I'm going to suggest
a couple of lines to start thinking about my mask.
Now the masks are white. I'm not going to do that
on a white background. So I'm just going to take
the brush that's had the indigo paint my tissue, so I've not got much
pigment on there. Don't put your hand
in the wet paint. Now, I'm I'm resting my hand on the page giving myself some balance
with my little finger. I'm just up and down, give myself a couple of marks. It doesn't matter
if they're messy. I'm just starting to
put in some stuff. But what I don't want to do, I don't want to
paint in everything, and I don't want to paint
a really solid line. I want to keep it nice and
loose, nice and messy. Okay? Then I'm going to come out of that
and let that dry.
5. Adding Some Shadows: Okay. I'm completely dry now, in about 10 minutes, probably couple of
things going to do now. I want to bracket the boat. Some of this nonsense
that I've got in here, I want to put a little
bit in this side as well. Then I'm going to
start to darken off the left side of each boat. Start with, I'm going to take the same yellow ocher
that I had in the middle here and I'm just going to
give myself a little bit of nonsense on each side. Just to settle it in so that my eye doesn't want it
out of the painting. Now, I'm going to come on here. I want to use some indigo with a little bit of my
chiral red on this side. I'm going to take a
bit of my indigo, make a mess in my well. I'm mixing a bit of the red
with a bit of the indigo, and I'm going to
come straight on. And drag that. Again, I want to keep dragging my paint through. It might not be dark enough, but that's just to
start to darken off. Then I'm going to bring I've got this gap here, which
I don't really like. I've got a dry page there. I'm going to bring a little
bit of that indigo through. Now I've hit this hole of this
side. The same thing here. I don't actually need to mix indigo has got a bit
of blue in that, so I don't need to mix my cer
with the indigo for this. I'm just going to
come on straight with my indigo paint in this side. Pull drag a little
bit under that one. Wash my brush and just drag
that through a little bit. I feel like I want to put
I just picked up a bit of cerlian and I'm just going to drag some nonsense
through each side. I'm changing the
angle of my brush. My red here probably needs to be a bit balanced over this side. I'm horizontal vertical, just making walking some
nonsense through the page. Really not thinking about it. Now this is still wet here, so I'm going to do
that same thing where actually I might
use in the reference, the line under the
boat there is black. I'm going to to
pick up some indigo while this page is still damp. Okay. I'm going to
restate under there. I want this bleeding
and spreading. I don't want to paint
a line as such. I want to use the water in the page to give
me some interest. I'll do it on the
other side as well. Now, I need to strengthen up
whatever's going on in here. So while I've got
that in to go in my brush and I've got a
bit of water on the page, I'm just going to put
in a few more marks. So I'm just practicing the shapes that my
brush will give me. Because I'm being
quite random and I've got a mix of the
wet and the dry, I'm getting all these little
interesting reflections and bleeds in the water without
having to think about it. I just look at the
shape of that one, just choose all
that one off a bit. What I can do is I can give
myself a little bit of a reflection of my masks
in there if I want. Soften Soften'm just
dragging my wet brush, D brush over that just to
let it bleed a little bit. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, still damp in here. These still aren't going
to be dark enough, but I'll go with a second
round on that when that's dry. I want to restate
while it's drying. I'm going to pick
up on this side, I'm going to pick up a
bit of cerliRally need squeeze out some fresh
paint. I can't see it. What I'm trying to do is just get a bit of a line
on either side there and there's that
extra line in the middle. Again, broken strokes, don't paint me a
really solid line. I'll do the same on the
other side with them. I'll keep it simple
and keep the red. I'm just going to
pop a little bit. A few more lines in there. Now I need to think
about a bit more about what's
happening up in here, bit more stuff in here,
the top of the boat. So Okay. I'm going to maybe
maybe I use some band. I've got some bandit
brown in here, there are all these
lobster pots in the front of this boat, which
I don't want to paint in, but I'm going to put
in a little bit of brown and just give myself a few little flicks of things going on
in the boat there. I don't want to paint the pots. I'm just giving myself
a few different marks. I'll do the same thing. On this side, arular
strokes, don't overthink it. Now that brown, I'd also
think I quite like that in the deck to give a bit
more in the walkway here. To just give so I've got
dry strokes there that give me that break. I've got nonsense
after nonsense. Now, do I need any more? I might put red always
nice alongside the blue, so I'm going to pop just
a couple of little again, nonsense marks in that
boat. Maybe a few more. In that one. I might tidy up I might give
myself in these windows. I might extend that
one just a bit more tidy up my
shape just a touch. So I've got really thick paint. Just straightening up.
You might not need it, but some of mine there
need maybe just a touch. I'm going to put just a bit of a dark underneath each of those. I'm starting to
fiddle. I'm going to come out of that
and let that dry.
Nadine Dudek, Professional Watercolour Artist
