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Solution: Bringing it all together in watercolor

Solution: Bringing it all together in watercolor

From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching

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Solution: Bringing it all together in watercolor

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(soft violin music) - So now I've got the basic tones mapped out with the pens, I'm going to be using some Payne's grey watercolor just to blotch in some of these shadows on the ground and a few more around the piece, and then I can start to add a bit more color into the painting. I'm using a flat headed brush, and that's the only brush I use for this sketch, and it's quite nice because it's larger than a round tip, so you have a bit more freedom in your marks that you make. Because I've got the slight texture of the paper, I can dry brush it over it so I get all these little textured marks on the surface. Here I've got a little bit of burnt umber watercolor. Starting with the burnt umber, gives us this lovely warm contrast to the grey pens we started with. And it enables me to easily paint this base color, and then balance my warm and cool tones without going in too strong with too higher saturation color. I'm going to add some yellow ochre. And a bit of the cadmium red. And then a…

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