Watercolor Painting an Orchid: Stem

Video Transcript

"And now the next step is going to be to put in the green. So we are going to clean the brush, and we're going to come back with cobalt blue and yellow. And it's alright to have this darker tone in there because we are going to put a little bit of panes gray in there too. A little yellow ocher. This is not yellow ocher, this is. Okay. I want a little blue in there. So I'm sort of getting an olive tone for this. I want sort of a mild olive darker green. And I'm going to do the stem with this brush. Now you notice that I'm not filling out the entire stem. I'm going mostly to the right of it. But sometimes in the middle. That's because I'm coming back with the smaller brush with clean water in it, not very much clean water, just a moist brush. And I'm going to work it so that the whole thing is not solid green. And here we are just going to soften this. Okay."