How to Paint Detailed Parts of a Painting with a Watercolor Glaze

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"Hi, I'm Sue Rose with Expert Village and today we're talking about doing glazes and transparencies in watercolor. I put my rose madder on my background and I've gone over it with the cobalt blue for the water letting a lot of my rose madder shine through so that you have a kind of like under water scene. Where you have the blue and now everything is a setting color because repetition is important in painting. I'm now going to be a little more intense and add some of this cobalt blue to my fish being a lot more intense. See I kind of like every other strip being blue and remember in painting you don't want two of anything. So let's do another strip, here let's do 3 or 5, let's do 3 blue strips here and let's bring it down here and let's put a little bit of our blue down here. Remember we don't want all hard edges either so it's alright to let this bleed into the other. Now I added my blue let's add again let's add some of the rose madder inside to the fish. So I'm going to take the big section of this rose right here and add that to my fish, a little bit darker and remember we don't want one we want two. So let's put a little of the rose madder up here with the fish so I need one more shape, where am I going to put that? I think I'll make a little piece up here of the rose madder, remember you want to put everything all around till the eye goes like that. So then I have three pieces of my rose madder and let's kind of make this mosaic and add some emerald green to it. And I like say the green right here see how nice this green with the rose shining through looks and once again we do not just want one of that color. We have to have 1, 3 or 5 so let's put some little green back here for our fish. Stay tuned for our next segment on transparency on watercolor."