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I love to use the measurements
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and the proportions and, you know,
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just little things like having an eye space
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between the two eyes is important and the nose
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is the width of the space between the two eyes.
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Just all these little simple tricks
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that are spelled out to my students in a live workshop.
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You don't have to have it, you know, fabulous skills.
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You can trace, you can use a projector,
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you can do all kinds of things to get your image.
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Now I would start with flesh on one side of the painting.
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The photo is shaded just on one side as it is.
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Ah, if it wasn't, I'd make up the lighting.
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Because with watercolor you have only the opportunity
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of the dry, white paper for light.
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So I just leave one side.
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You've got enough to do with the other side
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and getting that sorted.
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We can get these really great little
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stiff brushes from Walmart
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because quite often these ones are now a bit too soft.
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This one works really well, too.
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So we wanna have the effect of around this here.
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So we're going, we'll have dark flesh and then a pale flesh
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and then the light on that side.
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So definitely softening the edges of the paint
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with this nice stiff brush.
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You can see some nice marks coming up in this already.
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That's dried so because this brush is nice and stiff
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I can give it a little bit of a scrub there and
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dry it, soften the edge easily.
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You wanna do a good painting,
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so you wanna add interest on every level.
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You're not, you don't think, Oh, well, that's the undercoat
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so I'm not gonna worry about that.
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Every level is gonna show through with watercolor.
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So every thing you put on there is gotta count.
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Okay, so I've just put some extra detail in with this
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nice mixture that I've got here,
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which is the same colors as the shadow color,
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but not as much water, obviously.
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Just very carefully.
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And notice how I'm holding the brush very softly and gently.
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And I've got a lot of scope when I hold it like this.
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I can, you know, really move my wrist around.
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And I'm gonna color in this whole area,
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but she's got light coming cross here.
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So I'm gonna leave plenty of light on the iris
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on the light side.
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So I've got options later
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to put the light where I want it to be.
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This one's come up nice, nice and dark.
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And I'm going to put this black shadow
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across the top here, too,
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'cause the eyelashes went down there
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and then up there like that.
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If the brush is too wet, that's just gonna run everywhere.
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And if it's too dry, nothing happens.
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So you'll learn over time with practice on this one.
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I can't give you a really good why if...
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Just practice and trying different things
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that you'll get that.
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So I've got that really-made, slightly dirty
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color for the top lip.
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You don't, you wanna, I don't know how to describe it.
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You wanna be proud of your painting.
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You wanna put as much effort into a good painting.
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Really wanna soften the edges of the lips.
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And they'll look, appears more natural if they're soft,
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even if the person's wearing lipstick.
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Now because the hair is behind there,
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I'm going, instead of coloring in between
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each of those stripes there, I'll just.
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I've got to try not to get too much onto the brush.
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Too much of the brown.
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Her hair is getting darker and darker.
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I like lots of water
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and it's such a great opportunity to go crazy,
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especially with long hair.
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That's waterproof on the back and fabric on this side.
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It's beautiful.
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So you can see the blonde streaks are coming back in there.
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That's better.
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So it's not gonna drip too much, but, ah,
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That's better.
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Thank you everybody.
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See you all again some time soon.
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Take care. Bye-bye.
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