Watercolor Tutorial Unit 31 CTC

Oh the days are just flying by and I've had these pictures for a while. I've been procrastinating because there is only one more painting after this one. :-( last 2 weeks of school are poetry Memorization. 

I hope like me you have had a renewed interest in the sky. Last night as my daughter and I were walking at dusk we discussed how we would paint the sky.It was all grey and pink and orange.

So here goes Day 2 

 Tape down your painting if you want it to dry flat. 

 here is how I set up my pallet. I read though the directions first in hopes that maybe this time I wouldn't make one mistake. Look how I paired the paints in the way I would be mixing them. 

Mix up your paints prior to wetting your paper. 

As you can see I didn't mix them up first but I struggled to keep my paper wet here. It wasn't that dry of a day but I think overall my paper is as dry as a flattened sponge 

 Brush paper with water.

 Blot with Paper towel. 

 Paint an even light blue sky. 

 Now do the yellow. 

 Add some blue into your light blue wash to make it more intense. 

 Almost ready for the "hill" smudges. 

 Mix up blue and green 

 Paint in some smudges in a hilly formation. 

Ok all done for today. Put your painting in a safe place to dry. 

 But since we're blogging. I'm going to dry mine super quick with a blow dry set on low. 

 Day 3

 with my round brush I mixed up a green paint. 

 See yet another mistake. Somehow yesterday I dripped one dot of blue wash on my yellow!
I'm gonna have to cover that up! 

I didn't like my green it was too close to yesterdays So I fiddled with the color a bit. 

 That is better. 

Made some smudgy trees.  

Don't use your tip to make smudges it will take forever and gives them to much detail.
Here you can see the left side is made with the side of the brush and the right side is made with the tip. Experiment and play around with your brush to see what it can do.  

 Ahh thats better see how almost all of the side of my brush is in contact with the paper. 

 Now add more blue to your paint. 

 Make bushy trees. 

 More Bushy TREES! 

 Now add ea touch of black paint to get a blueish green.
Be careful with the black a little goes a long way. 

 Now paint more trees with leafy tops. (That means let lots of yellow back ground to show through.) 

 See lots of the background is peeping through. 

 Ahh my masterpiece. 

 here are photos of my kids painting some follow the directions exactly others follow their heart... 

Ahh uniquely Sweet Potato 

This one feels very Dr. Susseish (if that is a word!).

Well next Tutorial post will be the last for this school year I can't wait to see what next year brings! 

CTC Unit 20 Watercolor Tutorial

I sure hope I  understood these directions! When it said use blue to drop in clouds I went with what I thought she meant. I'm not very good at that technique tho. I do enjoy it but I need more practice, but on the whole I think that is a good thing since your tots will be doing this for the first time and so the bar is set pretty low... 

DAY 2

 Our supply photo.... lots of colors. 

 You will need black and white if you do not have grey. Here I go mixing it up. 

 Wet grey. 

wetting the blue 

 To drop in blue clouds I mix plenty of water into my light blue paint.
I've switched to this type of pallet because it helps contain the liquid. 

Wet the paper  

 If you work with your paper up right your clouds will drip down and be of a different style. 

I'm following the negative space of the cloud.  

 This is just the beginning of how I drop in clouds. I'm imagining the storm clearing away, it's breaking up and blue sky can be seen peeking though. 

The wet technique has softened the edges of the top clouds. 

 I went in and added the grey and softly infiltrated the the upper clouds. 

 I have No idea if this is right :-) But when I followed the instructions I ended up with a tornado. 

Dabbing off the excess paint really worked well giving me white where there was too much grey.  

Now I wanted lots of flowers. I followed the instructions trying to make masses of them.  

 Do you think I made to many? See how I'm following along in the book. 

Notice how my flowers are just dabs of paint. i used my light green here to add the bent stalks. 

 Part of me wishes I had a better point on my fine brush. 

 More stalks.... 

 I'm now wondering why I added so many flowers But I don't have to add stalks for each one it's up to my whimsy how many I do. 

 I don't have an orange so I mixed some up. Notice how I am adding red into yellow not Yellow into red. adding the darker color in to the lighter in small quantities gives you more control over your paint. 

 See eventually I take over the yellow paint but I have still plenty of red. 

Mix up some pink if you don't have any.  

 Dab dab dab

Here we go with orange 

 Maybe next time I won't make as many flowers...

 Still dabbing. 

 And Complete! 

Here is Little Miss Sunshine's. Sweet Potato was away when hers is complete I'll pop it up.