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LET’S PAINT
MIX THE FOLLOWING WASHES:
Light value: Quinacridone Gold
Medium value: Quinacridone Burnt Orange
Grays: Light value Neutral Tint.
You can add a bit of Ultramarine Blue or Winsor Violet for additional grays. Please yourself!
BIRD & DAISY
Step 1: Beginning in the yellow center of the flower, pick up Quinacridone Gold and wet the center, picking up Quinacridone Burnt Orange as you reach its outer edges, even dragging it just a tisch past the outer edge of the center. Rinse the brush, pick up the Gray and continue to fill in the remaining unmasked areas of all the petals. Ideally, you will use more than one Gray for this.
Step 2: Be sure the paper is dry, then apply masking fluid to some highlights inside the center. While this is drying, work on dry paper and put
a bit of color onto the bird’s wing and beak, as shown on Step 2.
Wash light Neutral Tint over the entire breast and across the bottom of the wing. This wash is light but important.
Now mix darker brown (Burnt Umber+ Quinacridone Burnt Orange) and wash the daisy center. It is okay for a bit to run just outside the center of the flower. Let it all dry.
Step 3: Wash medium value Burnt Umber onto the top of the bird’s head, then let it dry.
Now we will darken the left side of his face and breast. Mix a medium value gray-brown (Burnt Umber+Neutral Tint).
Wet his head and down the entire breast. Watch the paper until it has just lost its shine— you will be able to see it! Then pick up just one drop of paint in a small brush and touch it to the darker side of his face. If it “explodes” outward, there is too much water. Dry your brush, thicken your mixture with more pigment, then try again, picking up only one drop! While the paper is still damp, stroke the same mix down his entire breast. Start at the top and stroke downward. Don’t dab the brush because dabbing releases extra water— use a stroking motion like drawing in soft feathers. Don’t play! Let the water soften the strokes for you. The most challenging part of watercolor
is learning not to play! The water will do a lot of blending for you if you only let it do its job. The less you touch it, the fresher it will look!
STEP 1
STEP 2
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