Video: How to Paint Details with a Watercolor Glaze: Part One

Learn how to add transparent glazes to detailed parts of your water color painting in this free art lesson on video.

Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Sue Rose with Expert Village and today we're talking about transparencies in watercolor. I've added two transparent colors to my background, now I'm beginning to add some to my fish. I am going now to begin to add some details to my fish. So I'm going to take my green and I'm going to go over the tail and some of the details on the face. This time I'm going to add my green and I'm going to make it a little bit thicker because I want most of the tail part of the fish to be the green but some of the cadmium red is going to show through. I want a jewel look to this fish so I'm going to continue be sure to try not to over work your paper. But you can see where the green, some of the rose madder and the blue is going through and then I'm going to put a little bit of this green here on this fin of the fish. But I'm going to soften it up here because I don't want all hard lines so I'm going to soften this and blur this line a little bit here. So it kind of goes like this on my fish and then I'm going to take my green again and I'm going to go up here and around add some green here to the front of my fish. This is a little heavier and then you do on your background transparency. Put your colors as you can see we'll show through. And remember you want all of your strokes to go in one direction and you do not want to scrub a little more green here and I'm going to put just a little dab of green up here on his tail. Stay tuned for the next segment where we finish the details on our fish.

How to Paint Details with a Watercolor Glaze: Part One

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