WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.140 --> 00:00:04.950 I love to use the measurements 2 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:07.930 and the proportions and, you know, 3 00:00:07.930 --> 00:00:10.870 just little things like having an eye space 4 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:15.870 between the two eyes is important and the nose 5 00:00:16.090 --> 00:00:18.930 is the width of the space between the two eyes. 6 00:00:18.930 --> 00:00:21.020 Just all these little simple tricks 7 00:00:21.020 --> 00:00:26.020 that are spelled out to my students in a live workshop. 8 00:00:27.450 --> 00:00:32.450 You don't have to have it, you know, fabulous skills. 9 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:35.770 You can trace, you can use a projector, 10 00:00:35.770 --> 00:00:39.980 you can do all kinds of things to get your image. 11 00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:44.750 Now I would start with flesh on one side of the painting. 12 00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:49.750 The photo is shaded just on one side as it is. 13 00:00:52.070 --> 00:00:54.840 Ah, if it wasn't, I'd make up the lighting. 14 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.850 Because with watercolor you have only the opportunity 15 00:00:58.850 --> 00:01:03.350 of the dry, white paper for light. 16 00:01:03.350 --> 00:01:05.380 So I just leave one side. 17 00:01:05.380 --> 00:01:08.590 You've got enough to do with the other side 18 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:10.473 and getting that sorted. 19 00:01:12.570 --> 00:01:16.270 We can get these really great little 20 00:01:16.270 --> 00:01:18.090 stiff brushes from Walmart 21 00:01:22.490 --> 00:01:26.160 because quite often these ones are now a bit too soft. 22 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:28.950 This one works really well, too. 23 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:32.410 So we wanna have the effect of around this here. 24 00:01:32.410 --> 00:01:36.070 So we're going, we'll have dark flesh and then a pale flesh 25 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:38.363 and then the light on that side. 26 00:01:41.910 --> 00:01:46.850 So definitely softening the edges of the paint 27 00:01:46.850 --> 00:01:48.893 with this nice stiff brush. 28 00:01:50.980 --> 00:01:54.603 You can see some nice marks coming up in this already. 29 00:01:55.970 --> 00:01:59.920 That's dried so because this brush is nice and stiff 30 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:02.610 I can give it a little bit of a scrub there and 31 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:08.633 dry it, soften the edge easily. 32 00:02:10.517 --> 00:02:13.270 You wanna do a good painting, 33 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:16.240 so you wanna add interest on every level. 34 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.270 You're not, you don't think, Oh, well, that's the undercoat 35 00:02:19.270 --> 00:02:21.400 so I'm not gonna worry about that. 36 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.310 Every level is gonna show through with watercolor. 37 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:27.783 So every thing you put on there is gotta count. 38 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:33.650 Okay, so I've just put some extra detail in with this 39 00:02:33.650 --> 00:02:35.850 nice mixture that I've got here, 40 00:02:35.850 --> 00:02:38.820 which is the same colors as the shadow color, 41 00:02:38.820 --> 00:02:41.593 but not as much water, obviously. 42 00:02:44.710 --> 00:02:46.510 Just very carefully. 43 00:02:46.510 --> 00:02:50.650 And notice how I'm holding the brush very softly and gently. 44 00:02:50.650 --> 00:02:54.020 And I've got a lot of scope when I hold it like this. 45 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:57.343 I can, you know, really move my wrist around. 46 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.400 And I'm gonna color in this whole area, 47 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.360 but she's got light coming cross here. 48 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:07.360 So I'm gonna leave plenty of light on the iris 49 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:09.643 on the light side. 50 00:03:11.270 --> 00:03:12.870 So I've got options later 51 00:03:12.870 --> 00:03:15.113 to put the light where I want it to be. 52 00:03:19.390 --> 00:03:22.433 This one's come up nice, nice and dark. 53 00:03:23.410 --> 00:03:25.590 And I'm going to put this black shadow 54 00:03:25.590 --> 00:03:27.343 across the top here, too, 55 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:32.380 'cause the eyelashes went down there 56 00:03:32.380 --> 00:03:34.470 and then up there like that. 57 00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:43.770 If the brush is too wet, that's just gonna run everywhere. 58 00:03:43.770 --> 00:03:45.970 And if it's too dry, nothing happens. 59 00:03:45.970 --> 00:03:50.330 So you'll learn over time with practice on this one. 60 00:03:50.330 --> 00:03:55.330 I can't give you a really good why if... 61 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.630 Just practice and trying different things 62 00:04:01.630 --> 00:04:02.823 that you'll get that. 63 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:08.980 So I've got that really-made, slightly dirty 64 00:04:10.450 --> 00:04:12.033 color for the top lip. 65 00:04:13.430 --> 00:04:17.538 You don't, you wanna, I don't know how to describe it. 66 00:04:17.538 --> 00:04:19.310 You wanna be proud of your painting. 67 00:04:19.310 --> 00:04:23.253 You wanna put as much effort into a good painting. 68 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:29.710 Really wanna soften the edges of the lips. 69 00:04:29.710 --> 00:04:32.873 And they'll look, appears more natural if they're soft, 70 00:04:34.340 --> 00:04:36.603 even if the person's wearing lipstick. 71 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:46.393 Now because the hair is behind there, 72 00:04:48.150 --> 00:04:52.270 I'm going, instead of coloring in between 73 00:04:52.270 --> 00:04:54.683 each of those stripes there, I'll just. 74 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:04.560 I've got to try not to get too much onto the brush. 75 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.673 Too much of the brown. 76 00:05:06.673 --> 00:05:09.633 Her hair is getting darker and darker. 77 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.080 I like lots of water 78 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:17.293 and it's such a great opportunity to go crazy, 79 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:20.820 especially with long hair. 80 00:05:26.490 --> 00:05:29.610 That's waterproof on the back and fabric on this side. 81 00:05:29.610 --> 00:05:30.543 It's beautiful. 82 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.123 So you can see the blonde streaks are coming back in there. 83 00:05:44.442 --> 00:05:45.275 That's better. 84 00:05:46.610 --> 00:05:49.059 So it's not gonna drip too much, but, ah, 85 00:05:49.059 --> 00:05:49.892 That's better. 86 00:05:49.892 --> 00:05:51.350 Thank you everybody. 87 00:05:51.350 --> 00:05:53.800 See you all again some time soon. 88 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.213 Take care. Bye-bye. 89 00:05:57.074 --> 00:05:59.491 (soft music)