How to Watercolor

Video Transcript

"How do we do a watercolor painting? Well, it's really not very hard and it can take a long time or a short time. You can either do it very very tightly or very very loosely and here I will try to show you how to do a loose water color painting. I have my pencil which normally I am holding really pretty close to the end of the pencil. I don't want to get terribly detailed because I want to do some of that with my brush. I'm looking at three peppers orange, red, and yellow and I'm going to do just a light little drawing of them to get me started but I'm not going to over draw. I'm not going to worry about it too much I'll worry about where the edges are and so when I'm using my paints, I think primarily. So I've got this nice red pepper behind them and they're all on this turquoise mat. So I'm done with my drawing. That's about all I'm going to do for the drawing and I'll chose not a very big, well I'll chose this brush. I've got water here and paint here ready to go and for this one, in the front, I'll first lay down a nice yellow. Sort of as an under painting as you will. I can still those brush strokes and all and I'm going to come in there and darken that certainly and paint a little shadow underneath it as well. But, I wanted to get in there a bit so I'm going to put a bit of dark onto here and a little bit underneath it because I see a really dark shadow underneath it. I'm going to try to help define this line here. I can't do too much yet because it's pretty wet. But, let's get that in there and maybe a touch of red in with that to make it just a little warmer. I'll come back to that in a moment as it's getting a little bit drier. But, let's come over to the next pepper right now so that we can let that sit and cook for few minutes if you will. Let's come in the back one and load this up with some nice dark. I'm just still putting more paint on, more. I can't come in here because you can see that it's too wet and do you see how I've gotten a big blur so I couldn't come in there until later, until it were all dry. Now, here it's kind of dry and I can bring that around. I actually could turn that. I've got a big line here where this meets. I don't like that, I can come in here and take that out. So you can do lots of changes once you're and also one other thing. Usually when you paint any still life you want some sort of a shadow underneath of the objects. Now here I had a, we aren't done with that, here I have kind of a turquoise color cloth but you can come around and make a shadow under your objects that carries some of this color and some of your object. I would have to come back here later and work on this and I would also want to give some background. Maybe just a simple background like maybe it would be wallpaper. I think that gives you at least some idea to finish. Do it a little more carefully than I've done it here but this opens up the idea to you and how to do something very loose and quickly. So, until next time, this is Eileen Pestorius."