Video: Adding Surroundings in a Watercolor Journal

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Learn how to add surrounding in your watercolor journal in this free art video on how to paint with watercolors.

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On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Libby Caldwell and I'm here to tell you about water color journaling. Right, now I'm going to put in the trees on either side and I'm going to use this brown for the tree trunk out there and actually this one as well. And I'm going to use the water color, pans of water color here, for the leaves. So, you can test on a piece of paper. I always keep a piece of paper at the side, just to see how it is. OK, so beginning with the tree on the right, you just, because your sky is dry, you can put in, and I'm not trying to make this exact again, it's the general impression. You can dip into the water, like that. And now, I'm coming into the area that's going to be writing. So, I'll just carry on but I'll make it looser, you see. And now, I'll introduce another green which is the one I'll use on the other side. And just drop it in there while the paint is wet. OK, now the tree on the other side, I have some branches and a tree trunk. So, I'm going to put those in first but keep it pretty wet. And if you don't like quite where something is or if there was another tree in the middle, I wouldn't put it in because it just wouldn't look balanced. OK, coming into my green, and to do it while the brown is still wet so that they blend, they'll run together on their own.

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Adding Surroundings in a Watercolor Journal

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