I am starting a new watercolour demonstration in a series of shorts. I am using a very special large bushy hogs hair brush from Barcelona it is wonderful for expressive washes plus it holds lots of paint so you can paint larger, I mixed a cadmium yellow and dropped some water into the paint to loosen the pigment, then I wet the extra rough textured watercolour paper 425 gsm 200 lb bockingford. Big sporadic sweeps with the brush all over the paper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrkgTg6SdQo
I go back over my trees and woodland canopies in a green shade that just brings them out more and then a using the filbert brush I use it on a drier area and press and drag using the side of the brush.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-5Oc0GH9pg
I’m in Wiltshire driving back from Salisbury and I stop the car to take in the beautiful colours of the sunset to dusk over the Vale of Wardour.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNi9v-R7_bg
Using the three colour technique I create the depth of the darker colours that bring out the warm colours. Use the same brush so you keep the flow and keep mixing quickly to create the diversity in your colour palette, be experimental.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzM2J4XbDU
I am starting a new series of step by step watercolour demonstrations in wet on wet technique and a three colour technique. I will start with the washes and showing you a beachscape scene, inspired by one of my favourite places on the Dorset coast called “Studland”.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mazxkuMumE
Softening the pebbles with my sable hair brush and creating some sea grasses with my Japanese mop hair brush. Try and make a green with all three shades of paint vermilion, yellow ochre and Prussian blue only use a small amount of vermilion. Make sure you mix with the brushes you are using to apply on the paper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmQRtruuDY