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1. Halloween Pumpkins In Watercolour: In this video, I'm going to be painting some really
fun pumpkins. I'm going to be painting
your traditional pumpkin, but I'm also going
to be experimenting with other art supplies. Because I've got so
many art supplies that I really don't use, I just thought this would
be a really good way of experimenting with
different art styles. If you want to have
a play around with your art style and just
see what type of mediums you maybe you've got some art supplies laying around and you haven't
used them for ages, just grab those art supplies
and honestly have a go at this because you'll find it's so much fun and
relaxing to do as well. It's also interesting
how you can bring your creativity out just by swapping up your art supplies
and using other mediums. And I'm going to be using my
favorite sketch book today. This is the Chalab sketch book. It's the four size. The reason why I love
this is because it's got 100% cotton paper on it. It's the only sketchbook
I've used with 100% cotton paper in it. But I love the fact that you can paint on both sides
of the paper as well. And it comes out amazingly
on both sides of the paper. You wouldn't even
see a difference. I'm going to be
using that today. I'm also going to
be using some bock, inferred watercolor paper, which is compressed
and it's 140 pounds. I do buy it in a sheet, but I mainly work on
pads or blocks because I'm just a little bit lazy and I don't like to
stretch my paper. What are you waiting for?
Grab those out supplies, grab a drink, and follow along with me today.
Unlet's go in.
2. Sketching The Pumpkin and Using The Traceable Line Drawing: I'll show you how to
draw a simple pumpkin. Now all you need to
do is start with this long oval shape that's
the middle of the pumpkin. Then with the size
of the pumpkin, you want to start on the side
at the top a little bit. And you want to come up and
around and create this curve. But then you want
to stop it just above the bottom of
this middle bit. Then on the other side,
you can do the same thing, just do another curve. Then I'm going to start at
the top of this one here. I'm starting from
this joint here. I just put a cross there. That's where I'm starting from. I'm going to draw another curve. I'm going to make it a
bit thinner this time, so it's a bit more narrow. And I'm going to
stop about there. Can you see how
I'm not coming in completely to the
bottom of here? Then I'm going to
draw in the stalk. And you can draw the stalk,
one key if you want. You can draw it a
bit more straighter, but I do like to have a
bit of a one key stalk, and then you want to put like
a little curve on the end, Then you'll always
have at the back of the pumpkin these little lumps. I want you to have a go at
drawing your own pumpkin, but I will be including a line drawing of this
pumpkin that I drew. This is a bit more of a
irregular shaped pumpkin, so you've got the two
segments at the front, then you've got the curves
on the sides like that. You've got two segments
in the middle. I've drawn them quite
irregular shaped. The pumpkin is not completely
flat to the ground, so you've got the bottom
bit sitting on the ground. And then the rest of the pumpkin is lifted because it is rounded. Then I've got more of a
straight stalk as well. So I haven't drawn the stalk crooked or anything like that. You'll find a traceable
line draw into this pumpkin in the
Resources area. This Resources tab is just
underneath this video. What I want to show
you is how I actually transfer my drawings to
my watercolor paper. All I do is I flip over the paper and then I'll
take a soft pencil. This is a two B pencil
and I'll hold it on its side like this and I'll just scribble over
the back of my drawing. So I'm just applying some graphite to the
back of the drawing. And you can see that
I'm not actually coloring in the
whole of my paper, I'm just applying it to
where my drawing is. Then I'll flip over my
paper and I'll position it. Now, you can also cut
this out if you prefer. Cut close to the edge of your drawing so you don't
have to cut around it. Just be careful not to
cut off the drawing itself and just cut
around your pumpkin. Then because you've cut it out, you can actually
see a lot better. But you're placing
it on your paper because you haven't got
that white background. I like to do this.
Sometimes what I'll do now is take
a sharp pencil. This is just my
mechanical pencil. It's a rotrin ticky and
I got this from Amazon. What I'll do is just
press on my paper. I'm just tracing over the lines. Can you see how I'm holding
it flat with one hand? What I like to do
is actually move my fingers quite close
to where my pencil is, that I know that that part of
the paper is staying flat. Because if you have your
hand maybe over here, this part of the paper might move because you're
not holding it flat to the paper is a bit more tricky if you
cut it out like this, to actually keep the paper flat. I'm finding it a bit trickier
than I would normally, but I think that's
a small sacrifice because I can see better now where I'm
putting this pumpkin. So I'm making sure that none
of this pumpkin gets cut off because I'm using quite
a small piece of paper that's helping me
out a little bit. We want to do is just hold
your paper nice and flat. You could always
type this down if you think that would help you, if I lift up my drawing. Now, can you see
how that's actually transferred the
drawing onto my paper?
3. The Traditional Pumpkin: We're going to paint the
traditional pumpkin. And for this pumpkin,
I think it's very useful to know what
complimentary colors are. Complimentary colors are colors that are opposite
on the color wheel, like orange and blue, purple and yellow and red and
green, or pink and green. When they're mixed
together, they actually neutralize each other. So you can use these colors and mix them together to
darken each other up. You can also create neutrals, like browns and grays when
placed next to each other. They also help
each other to pop, or they really
compliment each other. In a painting, for
this first layer, I'm going to start
off with a really light layer of pyal orange, but you can use burnt
sienna or acadmian orange, or just any orange
that you've got. Really then I'm going to
use a slightly darker mix. So I've just picked
up a bit more paint. While the first
layer is still wet, I'm going to paint
over my pencil marks. And I'm bringing this
paint quite far into the segments because this is
going to be our mid tone. Because we're working
wet into wet. Those colors are blending
into one another. Lovely. I'm making sure that I bring that mid tone in
quite far into the pumpkin, because I don't want that color to just sit
on the pencil marks. We are going to darken
up those segments a little bit later on with
some nice dark paint. So I want that mid tone to
come right into the pumpkin. And you can see that I'm leaving almost like a egg shaped
area in the middle. You don't have to be
too specific with this. My paint does look a little bit darker in that area and
I didn't mean it to. I probably just picked up
a little bit more paint on my palette than I expected to. And I'm just painting on the outside of the
pumpkin as well. If you're wondering
what brush I'm using, this is my size ten
silver velvet brush. And now I'm taking a damp
brush and just blending up those edges where the paint has dried a little bit too
quickly for my liking. I'm going to allow this
layer to dry completely. Now while that dries, I'm going to paint the stalk. So I'm just taking
the same color. This is the pyl orange. And I'm just going to paint that all one color in the pyl orange. And you can see that
it's noticeably darker. I've got some burnt
sienna on my brush. Now, I'm going to use
this as the mid tone. It's a bit more watered down. I've added quite a
bit of water to this. It's not completely thick. What I'm going to do is
just paint some water on. So I'm going to paint some clean water all over the pumpkin. This is a really
easy way of just quickly painting a pumpkin and having lots of fun with it. Being completely
stress free as well. I just find this so relaxing. I don't know what it is
about painting pumpkins, I find really relaxing. All I'm doing is just
smoothing out the water. Then I'll take my burnt sienna and I'm going to just follow the curves where my
pencil marks are. That's where the dips of
the pumpkin is going to be. That's where it's naturally
going to be darker. I'm not going to paint this
all over the segments, just my pencil mark and where
the dip of the pumpkin is. Don't worry if it
spreads out a bit. I just love though, look, because this is a mid tone, it's okay that this spreads
a little bit further. I'm just painting it, the
segment at the bottom as well. Then also this one here. You can see I'm being
quite messy with this because the one side of my pumpkin has
dried sided to dry. I'm going to take a clean, damp brush and just
blend that edge out. I want to keep it nice and
soft while it's still wet, I'm going to take some
slightly thicker bin. I'm going to also paint
that down the segment, painting it wet into wet. We get nice soft edges. I'm using my brush
up on its tip now, so I get a thinner line. I paint it really in where
that creases the pumpkin. Can paint it at the bottom as well because the
pumpkin is going to be dark at the bottom anyway. I'm just basically using
the tip of my brush. We I'm just painting that. I'm just going to take
some diluted burnt sienna and paint these
top sections here. Then taking a clean dump brush, I'm just going to
blend these edges out. Because my paper is
not the best paper. I'm getting this
spidery effect where the paint is not blending
out very nicely. I'm just blending it out, but you might not
have to do this. I'm just using a
clean dump brush to coax out some of the paint. I'm going to add a little bit of grain now to the burnt sienna. And I got this from mixing
ultramarine blue ambience. Nf, NF, I'm just going to add that to the stalk
right at the bottom. It's going to be
the darkest area. Then I'll also paint
it on the one edge. Paint the whole
of this. Going to leave a little high
light at the top. Brush off and then just
blend up the edge. Then take in some dark gray. I'm going to just drop that
in and allow it to bleed out. Taking it down the one edge, allow it to bleed
out wet into wet. I don't fess with it too much, just allow it to
do its own thing. Once this is dried,
now I'm going to put a glaze over the top of
this to brighten it up, and you'll see a massive
difference when I do this. I'm going to show you
a really easy way that you can brighten
up your pumpkin. Now with a really light
glaze of a bright color, I'm using lemon yellow. And this is a beautiful
bright yellow. It's almost a neon yellow. It's a gorgeous, cool yellow. All I'm doing is using
a really thin watered down layer over the
top of my pumpkin. You're still getting those bright under layers
showing through, but you're going to add a
bright glow to the pumpkin, which I love just by adding this extra subtle little layer
makes such a difference. Can you see how much that's brightened up the pumpkin now? It's gorgeous, isn't it? And then I might actually add
a bit to the stalk as well. It just really
brightens that pumpkin up and makes it stand
out quite a lot. I'm going to add some gash now. I'm just going to
take this straight from the tube and
it's permanent. White designers Gh, parts of my paper is
still a little bit wet. You might see a bit of
blending out going on, or a bit more of a
subtle highlight. All I'm going to do
is just add that to the pumpkin just to add
the subtle highlights. And it does make the
world of difference. You can see that because
my paper is wet, then that guash is blending out. And that was the look I
was looking for because I didn't want like a
super bright highlight. If you wanted to blend
it out a little bit, take a damp brush and
blend out the edges, and add a bit of
water to your guash. If you don't want it to
look really, really bright. You can see I'm just blending
out the edges a little bit. We might add a little bit here. My paper has dried here, so it's a bit more bright. Also, add a little
bit here as well. I'm not being too
careful with this, I'm not painting in
any particular shape, just adding a few
subtle highlights. And I might actually
add a little bit to the stalk as well, just on the one side, because that came out a bit too bright. I'm just going to
take my damp brush and I'm just going
to rub my brush over just to blend the one edge so it
doesn't look too harsh. Can you see what makes a bit of a difference? It's beautiful. What you can do if
you wanted a bit more of a bright area, you could allow it
to dry a little bit and then add a bit more gush. On top you got two tones. Then you get the light white and the very bright
white on top.
4. The Splatter Pumpkin: For the next pumpkin.
I thought I'd do a really fun splashy pumpkin. Just have a little go
at splattering paint onto the pumpkin and just
having loads of fun with it. You can use any colors
that you've got, but these are the exact colors that I'm going to be using. Windsor blue, Green shade, and it's by Windsor and
Newton Professional. I got Cascade Green, that's by Daniel Smith
and I love this color. It's a granulating color and it's got a bit
of brown in it. When it granulates,
it's a beautiful color. I highly recommend this one, and then I'm going
to be using ariolin, so this is like a
greenish yellow and it's actually
a cobalt yellow. And I've got those colors
in this little dish here. This is going to be
a lovely easy one, especially for beginners. So all you need to do is
take your clean water cover, the whole of the pumpkin,
including the stem. So I'm just taking
my large brush, it's the size 12
Da Vinci Casaneo. It's a lovely quality brush
and all I'm doing is just covering the whole of my
pumpkin with the clean water. You might actually see some of my pencil dissolving
in the water. That's because I'm using a
water soluble graphite pencil. If you want to know
what pencil I use, I'll show you here. Next comes the fun part. And I'm literally
just going to take some watery paint
on my large brush, and then I'm just
going to lightly tap the back of my paint brush. The reason why I added the water first was
because I wanted these drips to really fan out and blend into the
water and become soft. And you can see that
happening here. All I'm doing is just
tap in the back of my brush to disperse these
little water droplets. This is going to add
lots of texture to the pumpkin parts of the
pumpkin started to dry, so you get that water droplet is going to add a
variety of textures. Then I'm going to
rinse my brush off. I'm going to take the yellow, so this is like a
yellowish green color. It's nice and watery. You don't want to have
it nice and watery. And then you just
tap the back of your brush to disperse
the water droplets. You see how the pain
has started to fan out a little bit and spread
within the water. But because my paper
started to dry, those droplets are a
little bit smaller. Now all you do is just simply
tap the back of your brush. My paint is going
absolutely everywhere. At the moment, I'm going
to take the cascade green. This is a beautiful color. I highly recommend this. This color was recommended to me by so many artists
for such a long time, and I finally took
the plunge to get it. I'm so glad that I did. It's gorgeous. I'm just
simply tap in my paint brush, this is going to add lots of
interest to your pumpkin, so you're just going to get
a completely different look. Obviously, this is not
going to look realistic, but you're going to get that
really painterly style. We're getting the soft, blurred edges in the middle and then on the outer edges we're getting dry droplets
or those dry droplets. What I'll do is wet my
brush a little bit more now and I'll wet it quite a lot. And I'll just add
some really big blobs of color. Don't
worry about this. You are going to get some
back winds going on, but I like the look of that. I'm going to leave this
to dry and then we'll add more layers on top once
it's completely dried. Now that the splashy pumpkin has dried on the first layer, we're going to add
the second layer. So I'm just going to wet this again with some clean water
all over the pumpkin. Then take my watery paint again. I'm going to grab the blue, I'm going to tap the edge
of my paint brush. You could always
paint wet on to dry. And we'll do that in a minute. I'm just going to
add a second layer. I'm not going to add drops
all over this second layer. I'm just going to
put them in a few areas so that we got some of the background showing through taking the cascade
green. Now drop that on. Then I've also got
my Aol in yellow. I love this color, just tapping it in a few different
areas, not all over. Then we'll allow that
to dry completely. I will actually take a few little splatters
onto the stalk as well. We can see that these
splatters are landing around and off the
pumpkin as well. But that all adds to the effect, finishing off the painted
layers of this pumpkin. Now I'm working wet on dry, This layer has dried completely. Now I'm just taking my watery paint and I'm just going to tap the
back of my paint brush. I've got a slightly
smaller brush now. Can you see how
the splatters are? A little bit smaller
than previously because they're landing on dry paper, they're
not spreading. So you're going to get
smaller little flex. You're going to get a completely different look with
the dry paper. Taking some blue,
a few little flex. You don't have to go
too wild with this. This is just to add
lots of interest. I'm also going to
add a little bit of the areolin yellow as
well. I love this color. Such a beautiful, bright yellow. You don't have to add
these splatters all over. You Decide just to add them on the left hand side or
the right hand side, or just in the middle. It also depends on the size of your brush to how big your
splatters are going to be. If I take this really
large brush now and I just use a dark
gray just to show you the difference,
I got a dark gray. And if I just tap on
the back of my brush, because my brush
is a bit larger, now you're going to
get bigger splats. It all depends on the size of your brush to how big your
splatters are going to be. I'm going to take
some into the stalk. I'm going to leave this
to dry completely now. And then we'll work on top
of a black fine liner pen. I'm going to use my
black fine liner now this is by Uni pin and
it's a waterproof ink. You do want to allow
your paint to dry completely before you put
any ink over the top. I decided to go for a
real scratchy look, so I'm not drawing
real fluid lines. As you can see, it's a really scratchy,
really messy look. And I was just playing
with style to be honest, because I've never
done this before. So I decided, do you know what normally my lines
with a fine liner, a really fluid, really crisp. And I decided I wanted to go for a bit more of a messy feel. And I had so much fun actually playing around
with my technique. Because if I didn't do this, then I would never
have known that I actually love this technique
that I'm using here. So I'm so glad that I tried this out and I loved
all these activities. I love to us, in the fine line over the top of the water color, I think it gives the pumpkin
a real illustrative look. And I know I'll
definitely be using this technique in my
future paintings. If you wanted to, you could add some extra detail with
a white Posca pen, or a paint pen, or
a gel pen as well. So I've just got a Posca pen
and this is a larger nib, so it's 0.191 0.3
millimeter nibs. All I'm going to do
is just use this to add a few little highlights. I'm not paying
particular attention to where these highlights
are going to go, I'm just focusing mainly on the top areas where the sun might be hitting
the top of the pumpkin. My Posca pen is running
out a little bit, so it's not coming
out very well. My little girls got hold of
this in the summer holidays. They used this quite
a lot on the stones. They painted stones with them. They're running out. I
don't go much left of this. Can you see it
does make a bit of a difference with
the highlights. Just add a few highlights. This is this pumpkin finish now.
5. The Layered Style Pumpkin: The next pumpkin I'm going to paint is completely stylized. I actually got this
inspiration from another Youtuber paint in this really unique,
stylized way. I really love the look of it. This is really simple
and all you need to do is paint in
really thin layers. We want to work
from light to dark. I'm going to use a really
thin layer of this galaxy. This is a super granulation
color by Schmink. I love it. It's a beautiful color. All I'm going to do is add
a really thin layer of. The reason why I'm starting with this color is because
it's granulate in, I want the granulation to sit in the grooves of the paper. That's why I'm using this as the lightest color that there's no other
paint underneath, so we get all that granulation going on with the first layer. I'm just taking a really
watered down version of this. What you want to do is
allow each layer to dry completely before you move
on to the next layer. Because we want that
real stylized look. You want to have the hard edges
showing of the next layer coming through When you
pop the next layer on. You want to be painting
on the dry paper, so you get that wet on dry. Look, I'm going to
also paint the stalk, but this is a bit darker. I didn't mean to pick
up really dark paint, but it doesn't matter
with the stalk, because the stalk is darker. Anyway, I'm going to take on the stalk and then I'm going to allow this
layer to dry completely. I've got some diluted
Quinacridone red, and here's the
consistency of my paint, so it's really thin, really diluted with lots
of water in it. Working on the second
layer of this pumpkin, now all I'm going to do is take my thin red layer and
I'm just going to paint this in areas of the
sections to leave parts of the first layer showing
through because it all adds to the effect we're going
for these hard lines, that's why I'm
painting wet on dry. I'm not going to blend
these edges out, but you can see that
I'm leaving some of that layer showing through. I'm not being particularly
tidy for this either. What I'm going to
do is just paint around the outer edges of each section with this red. I'm going to leave a bit of the pink in the middle showing. I want to use that as
a bit of a high light. I'm also going to take it
over this middle bit here. This is a really easy technique, if you're a beginner, this is
a really lovely one to do. Then I'll also add
it to this section. Here I pick up a bit more paint, so that's why it's a
bit more concentrated. You can see that
I'm just purposely leaving bits of that under
layer showing through. There's a bit of a
puzzle going on. All I'm doing is
just B in my brush, on her cloth and then using my quite dry but dampish brush to pick up some of that paint. I'm going to round
off the edges, leave in a bit of this lighter color showing through on this
outer edge as well. Then I'll also take
some of that onto the back here he is. I'm going to leave
some of that light. I'm actually going to
paint the whole of that in there because that's going to be
quite dark anyway. Then I'll leave the
top of this stalk that lighter color so it looks
like the light is hitting it. We're going to allow
this to draw completely now before we work
on it a bit further. Continuing to paint
on this pumpkin, now in thin layers, I've got some turquoise. All I'm going to do is run my turquoise down the one edge. Can you see how I'm leaving
some of that pink showing? Now all you want
to do is just make sure that the layer that you foot down actually
shows through. Then I'm going to take that
over the left hand side. I'm just using more of
the tip of my brush now, I'm not being very careful. These lines are a little
bit irregularly shaped, can never say that word. I don't know why. I'm just using the value of
my brush to add more paint to the paper. What I do want to point
out is that you want to use colors that layer
over each other well, because I know that pink and blue work really
lovely together. Because if you layer those two colors on top of each other, you're going to get
more of a purple. It's going to turn out with
a nice color at the end. But you wouldn't
want to layer green over the top of pink because they're complimentary colors. You're going to end
up with a dull color. You do want to maybe have a color wheel next to
you or a little bit more about color
theme because it does help you a lot with
your paintings. It's definitely helped me
a lot with my paintings. I'm going to run
this all over now. Can you see how I'm
leaving the bits of the pink of the paper now? Painting it over this
section as well. What would be the
point in putting down a color just to
cover it back up? We want that previous color
to be showing through. You don't have to do
circles like this. If you wanted to do some
really irregular shapes, that is completely up to you. I just decided to
do these circles. I don't even know
if they look good. I got too much paint
on my brush there. All I'm doing is just
rinsing off my brush. I'm just taking off some
of that paint because I don't want it to be too thick. Otherwise, it's going to cover
up the layers underneath. It's actually still too dark. Just taking my damp brush, I'm just diluting that
paint on the paper there. I'm going to allow
that to dry now. And all of these edges are hard edged and they're
supposed to be like that. I decided that the last layer
is going to be a lovely, dark indigo because it's
one of my favorite colors. I think it's an
ideal moody color to use for Halloween objects. All I'm going to do is
just paint it around the outsides of these shapes, actually just outline
this shape here that this shape on the right
hand side really stands out. I'm actually deciding
not to paint this one, going to paint just
this one on the left, although it does
look a bit weird. I'm not particularly now can say that in love with this pumpkin, I'm glad I tried it out
because I can see that actually this is a really
lovely technique to use. I might not have done it in the best way with this pumpkin. I love the fact that I'm skipping these
segments because I just think it makes those
other segments really pop, the ones that I'm not painting
with this dark color. I think it's helping to
make the other segments pop out a bit more because
I'm not painting them. Blend this out a little bit. Blend this out so it
looks like it's splendid. I know I said I wasn't
going to blend any edges, but I just felt
like blending that. Just one then. Because I want this segment
to stand out a little bit. I'm just going to paint down the left hand side that I'm
going to take my brush. I'm only blending the
tops on the bottom. I'm not blending
the whole thing, just the top and the bottom. It blends in a bit more. Actually, I really
like this effect. This was loads of fun to do. The last thing I'm
going to do on this section here
is my Posca pens. I love Posca pens, and half the time I never
know where to use them. I thought this would be the
ideal thing to use them on. I'm going to add some detail in. I just want to add a
few pops of color. I thought what better way
than to add the pops of color in these little sections here that I haven't painted. I'm just adding a little
bit of the purple, like a circular shape to add it to this
area here as well. I might add a bit here too. Can you see how I'm just not really thinking
this through. I'm just doing playing
and having fun with this. I might actually use this to outline this stalk here as well, on the top of the pumpkin. Then maybe use it
around the edge here. Like I said, I'm not even
thinking this to be honest. I'm just doing what I
feel in the moment. Actually, I'm having so
much fun doing this. Outline each section might
leave a little gaps. I think I want to outline this section as well
to make it stand out a bit more just at the bottom. Then I'll also outline
the side of that one. This one is more
of a cartoony look and it's very stylized, but I really do like it.
6. The Blended Colors Pumpkin: For this next pumpkin, we're going to do
some really fun color blending on the paper. This is one of my favorite
ways to paint with watercolor. I just love the properties
of water color and how you don't get the same effect
with other mediums. The colors that I thought
I would use are just some of these colors that I've
already got in my palette. What I thought I would do is use some popular Halloween colors. I got dark blue, orange, I got some purple, and then I use some dark
gray and some green as well. Those colors all
mix well together, apart from the
orange and the blue, because they're
complimentary colors. When they're mixed together, they will create
more of a dull look. I'm going to try
my best not to let those two colors touch if I can. I've already pre wet my paint. I just added a little puddle
of water into each well, and then I let the
puddle of water sit. I'm going to take my large
brush again and I'm going to start painting over the
pumpkin with some clean water. The reason why I'm doing this is because we're blending
wet into wet. We want to have a
nice wet first layer. Otherwise, those colors
are not going to blend into each
other nicely enough. Taking the clean water and
smoothing it all over, then I'm going to simply
start dropping in my colors. I will take some purple. I'm not paying particular attention to where
these colors are go, and I'm just going to
randomly pop them on. I got a bit of dark purple
here mixed with a bit of blue. It's a really
lovely dark purple. I'm going to drop
that in. I might want to paint around the edges. Then I'll take my
orange, drop that on. You can see that I'm just
randomly dropping these colors on this orange color, if you're wondering is
orange or piral orange, I'm going to take my
cascade green as well, because it's one of my
favorite colors at the moment. But you can't have Halloween
without green anyway. I'm going to pop that
on. Can you see how? Because we've wet
the paper first, those colors are blending
really lovely into one another. This is a bit of ultramarine
blue and I was just remembering not
to touch the blue and orange together
if I can help it. What words go nicely
with the orange would be the dark purple
because that's not really going to
affect the orange. I'll put the dark
purple next to that and then allow the purple to
blend up into the blue. If you end up getting puddles
like what I'm getting here, just dry off your brush
a little bit and use your brush as a sponge to
suck up that excess water. What it'll do is it'll suck
up the water into your brush. I've got a little bit
of Windsor blue here, because I love Windsor blue. It's a lovely bright color. I'm just going to pop
that into a few areas. Just add that
beautiful pop of blue. Might actually take that
blue at the bottom as well. Then a little bit
of darker gray. This gray is a luna violet. It's beautiful. It's one
of my favorite colors. Look at that gorgeous,
creamy texture. All I'm just going
to do is just add it to a few areas
on the outside. This is looking quite
dark to start with, but it is going to dry lighter. Don't worry if you
add your paint and it is a bit too dark, water color is always dry, lighter, the paint will
sink into the paper. I'm just using the
tip of my brush now to paint on that dark color. Then I might actually add a
few little water droplets, so it's just some clean water. Just add a bit of texture. You don't have to
do this, but I love using water droplets
to add texture. And you don't have to put
it everywhere either. What you want to do is watch
your paint dry a little bit. If you add the water droplets, when your paint is soaking
wet, it's not going to work. But when the sheen starts
leaving the paper, that's when it's a good time
to add your water droplets. Can you see how it's
pushing the paint out? So it adds some
beautiful texture. I'm also going to add
the green to the stalk as well because I love
this green so much. This green came highly
recommended for using on landscapes because it's quite a natural
looking green. But because it
granulates as well, you get that sort of
subtle brown fleckiness. You can probably see
it happening here. I'm going to allow this
layer to dry completely now. Then we will work a
little bit on top, but this makes a really fun and easy first layer
for the pumpkin, so you can work on top of it. You can work on top of this
with any medium you want. Because it's watercolor, it's going to be really easy
to work on top of. I'm going to take my
dioxazine violet. All I'm going to do is
work on the section. I'm going to follow
the pencil marks. I'm going to paint my dark
areas on the left hand side. Then as we get to the middle, I'm going to paint on
the right hand side. As we move to the right
hand side of the pumpkin, I'm just using my size ten
silver black velvet brush and this paper has dried. All I'm going to
do is just paint this purple down the one edge. Then taking my damp brush, I'm just going to
run that damp brush along the edge to soften it. I'm working on one
section at a time. Then taking my dark gray, I'm also going to run down my pencil marks while
that paint is still wet. And that's going to darken up that section and make the groove look
really dark and deep. You can see that you
don't have to paint a traditionally colored pumpkin. You can use whatever
color you want and it's still going to
look like a pumpkin. I'm going to do the
same on this part here. I'm just going to
paint thick ish lined on the left hand
side of my pencil mark. Then taking my damp brush, I'm going to blend
that edge out. Just running my damp
brush along the edge, you can see it's softening. Then taking my dark paint, which is the gray, you could use pains gray,
you could use black. You could use a really dark
purple if you've got one. Or a really dark blue. Just as long as
there's more pigment than water, it's really dark. I'm actually going to take that over this middle bit as well. Then I'll just use my damp
brush to blend that edge out. I'm going to also paint it
down this left hand edge here, painting it down the middle bit. This is the purple. Then while
that paint is still wet, I'm going to take my brush. This is just a
damp brush and I'm just going to run
it along the edge. Can you see how that's
visibly softening the edge? And then take my dark paint, I'm going to run
that, the crease. I'm just using a
smaller brush here. This is my size four
and it's a long round. It's by Princeton and
it's an aqua elite. I love this brush, honestly. One of my favorite
brushes at the moment, such a beautiful brush. I got another one, which
I think is a size 12. I just love how pointy
they are at the end so you can get into some real fine
details with them working. Now on the right hand side, I'm actually going to
drop in a bit more of the dark purple because that's
really lightened up there. Working on the right
hand side of this one. Now, just my purple. You can see I'm painting
on quite a thickish line. I don't know if I've lost
the shape of this shape. If I have, I'm so sorry. If it looks a bit different
to the one I started off drawing then just
using the damp brush, blending the edge out, then taking my dark gray, adding that to the shape
or the edge of the shape, while that paint is still wet. Then the last thing
I'm going to do is also paint it along
this edge here. Then take my dark gray. I'm going to also paint
along my pencil mark. You can see that I'm being quite irregular with my shapes, and that is because a pumpkin is really irregular
along those lines. Anyway, I'm just going to
take my cascade green, I'm just going to
use that instead. It's not like really
in your face dark, but it's very similar to
the color that we've used. And then at the bottom
there is that gray color. So then I will take the
gray paint that on. It's just a tidy up the edge and you don't
have to do that. If you like untidy edge, that's completely up to you. Then I'm just going to take a
damp brush and I'm going to blend that edge out,
it's nice and soft. Take this purple into
the stalk as well. Actually, I've just
got that dark purple. The darks violet. I think this has got
a little bit of gray mixed into it because it's
a bit darker than usual. Dioxazine violet is usually
a very vibrant color, but in my palette,
it's a bit dark. Today, I'm just going to
paint it to about there. And then take in my damp brush. I'm going to blend out the edge. Then I'm also going to take
my gray at the bottom. All I'm doing is just tap in my dark color into
the base here. I'm not being very careful, you know, painting
any particular shape. I'm just painting
around the bottom, Darping my brush so that the paint disperses
up into the water. Then I will actually paint it down the left hand side as well, but I don't want
to complete line. So what I'm going to do is
just use the belly of my brush and paint like this if it's not spread in
as far as you hope. Just rinse off your
brush. And use a damp brush to blend at
the edge a little bit. I'm going to use some
of my dark purple in this area here
because I feel like that only needs darkening
up just a little bit. I thought it would be nice to add some metallic paints because I've got these little paints and I don't really use
them very often. These are the calero
colors by fine Tac. And they're the purple colors. Yeah, I thought I'd
use the silver and the purple because we've got
purple in the pumpkin. And silver, I think
always goes with like mystical Halloween
themed things. So all I've done is just
added a little puddle of water and left it sit
in there for a little bit. So with that it
activates the paint. And I'm just going to
paint this in a few areas. You can see that it's
coming out quite dark and that's because
these are really pigmented. They're really good
quality metallic paints. You do want to be careful
if you've got these paints not to add too much pigment
if you don't want that. But I like the look of that. I'm just going to
add it to the top. Then I'll blend my edges
out because I don't want a really harsh edge. I'm just taking a damp brush
and blending up my edge, especially with this
one here because the edges are a
little bit too harsh. I'll blend the edges around and also around
this one as well. Then I'll take my silver. I'll also add that, I might add that on top of the purple just in a few areas. Then I'll also add it to the
top of this area as well, just make it stand out a bit. I might add it to the top
of this stalk as well. It just adds a little bit of shimmer and shine
to the pumpkin. So I'm not going to go
all over with this, but I thought it would make a
lovely shimmery difference. Can you see It actually looks
lovely in shimmery now.
7. The Brusho Pumpkin: I'm going to start off by
wetting this pumpkin with some clean water because I want the paper to stay
wetter for longer. I can work on this a bit longer
because we're going to be using some water color
and brushl with brusher. You do want the paper
to be nice and wet when you use it because
otherwise it won't work. I'm going to make sure that
this is a nice, wet pumpkin. I got some Ronacrodalegenta. This is a lovely pink color. I've added lots of water to this to get a
lovely light layer. I want a nice light layer to start with because
we're going to use this as the highlights
or the lightest areas. I love Rnachrodale magenta. This is a beautiful color as you can see when
you water it down. It's like a very light pink
or a very light mauve color. It's beautiful. All I'm doing is painting the whole
of the pumpkin in this color. If you're wondering
what brush I'm using, this is my Da Vinci Cosmo top. It's a size ten and it's
just a pointed round brush. Now, all I'm going to
do is take my brush o, I've got some violet here and I'm going to
sprinkle that in. This is going onto
the wet paper. Sprinkle it in, not
going too wild with it, because brusho goes
a really long way. Then I'm going to use one of my favorite colors, which is black. I thought this would be an
ideal color because black and purple always go really
nice together, don't they? For Halloween? Look at the texture on that.
How beautiful is that? I love brush so much. Now what I'm going to do is take some slightly more
concentrated magenta. I'm just going to run
that down the creases. I'm allowing some of that color to bleed out into the pumpkin. And you can see that
I'm accidentally picking up some of the brusho, not too fast about
that because I think it all adds to the effect. But if you don't
want this to happen, you could always let this
dry completely and then rewet your pumpkin and then
go in with the second color. This is going to
be the mid tone. It's just going to add a bit
of depth to the pumpkin. I've just added a bit more of
the magenta to my palette. It's got less water
mixed in and more paint. I've just picked up a
little bit more here. It's not mixing with the brush, it looks more of
a magenta color. I'll also take that around
the outer edge as well. My paper has started to dry. I'm a little bit in that area. It's not spreading out as far. I want to make sure that this is coaxed out a little
bit because I do want to add a
slightly darker color, closer to the creases
of the pumpkins. I want this to be
more of the mid tone. Going to add that to
the top there as well. And then around the outer edges, all I'm doing is allowing some of that color to bleed out. So we've got more
of a thicker layer lend out that edge there. It's become a bit too harsh. I'm going to continue
to work wet into wet, but I am going to take
a smaller brush and that's because I
don't want to add too much water to the paper. This is just my size six
silver black velvet brush. I'm going to take some purple. So I've just got some doukas. I'm violet. And I'm going to
run that down, decreases. It's got more paint in it now
and not much water at all. This to be lovely and dark, all I'm doing is follow
in my pencil marks, I'm just painting on
that lovely, dark color. You can see that
my paper is still wet because it's
bleeding outwards. We're going to get some
lovely soft edges with this. Add in a bit on
this side as well. I can see that my paper has
started to dry a little bit, so I'm trying to
work a bit quicker. Take your time with this
because it can be a bit fiddly. Obviously, you want
to work quick. If you want to
work wet into wet, this color has got less
water mixed into it. Now, this is a lovely dioxazine
violet by winds, Newton. I love this color. This is the professional color as well. So I do have the Cotman color, but this one is the Winds
Newton professional. Now what I'm going to do is
take some lovely dark indigo. I've just got some indigo
by Windsor Newton here. I love this color.
I'm just going to start dropping
that on the bottom. I want this to be
the darkest area, a lovely shadow at the bottom. Can you see how that makes a massive difference,
doesn't it? Then I'll take some even
more concentrated indigo with hardly any water in it. And I'm going to really
outline the bottom of that pumpkin with a dark color. I'm also going to
take that dark color into the middle here
where it's going to be, the darker where the
root hits the pumpkin. That's going to be
a really dark area where it's creating a bit of a shadow and a bit
more of a hollow area. Then I'll also take that just slightly into the crease
to make it look quite deep. My deep crease. Just using the tip
of my brush now. So we don't allow that color
to blend out too much. I don't want it to
travel too far. I'm also going to darken up the edge of this crease as well. I'm just using my
brush on its tip. My dark, creamy
mixture of paint, water color, does dry lighter. So I did want to make sure I got a lovely dark color in there. And then I'm going to also use
it on the right hand side. My hand feels really shaky. Shaky. Look mad.
Also use it on this. You could also
skip a little bit. If you want, you don't have to paint it
all the way around. Then I might actually use it to outline the edge of
the pumpkin as well. Just to make it
really stand out. I accidentally made the edge
of this a bit too thick. I didn't really
want it that thick, so that was an accident. I just used the tip of my brush. I'm also going to outline the edge of this part
of the pumpkin as well. Like I said, my hand
is really shaky today. I don't know why
I am a bit tired. Outline this, Outline that part. And then we will paint
the stalk as well. All I'm going to do is
rinse off my brush. I'm going to pull up some of that indigo using a damp brush. Blending this edge out. I'm just using my damp
brush to pull up the paint. It's a lie diluted mix
of the indi Go now, just creating a bit of a
darker color on the stalk. You could always use the purple. I'm going to actually paint over this with the
purple in a minute. But I just wanted to get a
slightly darker color on here, because the stalk is
going to be darker. Then I'll add a bit
of the indigo at the end to create that
little stalk end. We'll also paint some of the
indi, Go down the bottom, it creates a bit of a shadow at the underneath of the stalk. Yeah, Some lovely dark color. Now, just on the very
tip of the stalk, it's just indigo using
the tip of my brush. And then we'll
allow that to dry. And once it's dried,
I will paint over it. I'm going to paint
on some magenta now. So this color is completely dry. I just wanted to paint
on the magenta so that it ties this stalk
in with the rest of the pumpkin on this
lovely light glaze. I've got my indigo again now, and I'm just going to add
a nice dark thin strip at the bottom just to
create a bit of a shadow. And that is that pumpkin finish. Now look at my
beautiful texture. It's lovely, isn't it? If
you don't have brusho, you could always use
your water color. And when you pop on
the first layer, you could tap the edge of your paint brush and that
will create little splatters. You're going to get the
same effect with brusho. It is really
pigmented and you've got separate colors
in each pigment. For instance, in the violet
there is mainly just violet. But then in the black, you've got all these different colors. So you've got a bit of orange, you've got a bit of black,
you've got a bit of blue. With the brusho, obviously
there's very pigmented. But I just wanted to show you that you don't have
to have brusho, But if you have got brusho, this is another way
that you can use it.
8. Your Project: Did you have fun
watching me today? Did you follow along with me? Let me know in the
comments box below, what your favorite art style
was that I used today. And did you try
any of these out? I really encourage you to grab those art
supplies and give this a go yourself because
you're not going to learn anything unless
you do it yourself. You do learn through doing. I believe you can watch as many Youtube
videos as you want, but you're never going
to unless you actually get those supplies out
and do it yourself. Have you painting. Have a
lovely rest of your day. And I'll see you in
my next video. By.
Lindsey Dawn Art, Watercolour Artist
