How to Apply Details to a Sunset Watercolor Painting: Part Three

Video Transcript

"Good morning again. This is Sue Rose with Expert Village. We're going to finish up with the details on our watercolor sunset by putting the houses and the lighthouse in. I'm going to leave a little bit of a window in this house here so we can have a little light shining through. Once again, mixing the red and the blue. Going up here to my lighthouse. It has a little thing up at the top. It's easier to work down. You want to be careful not to get your sleeve into things. It has another little thing like this. I'm awfully glad that I saved my original painting my lines are gone. Then the dome of the lighthouse is up here and it's got some light shining through that so I'm going to leave the light on that. We're beginning to get some details with this. Continuing with the lighthouse. One of the things in painting that you need to remember is that you need both hard edges and soft edges. Hard edges are defined. Soft edges are when one thing blends into another. You can see I've left the door and the window here on this house with the lighthouse behind it. The roof of the other house. Mixing some more of the red and the blue. Let's leave a window up here in this house so we'll have a little balance. I'm going to start with the top of the roof here. Let's put a little chimney in. Using my red and blue again. Now, do you remember what I said about hard and soft edges? I'm now going to take this land here and I am going to put a soft edge in here with the land and the water. I'm going to take strictly my blue now. We have added the light house in the building. Do you remember what I said about soft edges? I'm going to add some more emphasis to the water. Stay tuned for the next segment and I will show you how to add your soft edges to this painting."