Today’s featured image is the little girl from the Hand in Hand set. We’ll be painting her in her cute little dress and boots!
I thought I’d make her dress white so we could think a little about the concept of coloring something that’s white. My paper is white already, so I should be good, right? 🙂 But white in the real world isn’t just white, otherwise it would just be a blob. White might be just white in the very brightest, highlight areas of an image, but there is color in the shadows, which is what defines a shape and gives it detail. So for her dress, we’re going to use some Payne’s Gray (told you it was a favorite!) to add some shading and detail to her dress.
Once again, it’s a mostly real-time video. You can always change the speed in Youtube if you want to speed things up. Enjoy!
Tomorrow is the little boy!
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These videos have been wonderful! I’m learning a lot from them. Thanks bunches 😃
Another great video. I really enjoy watching these tutorials. Very helpful. You are really good at water coloring. I’ll give it a try this weekend.
ANOTHER DAY of a SUPER TUTORIAL, Betsy! 😉 THANK YOU! I put this question on your YouTube Channel, & I’ll place it here too: Is there anyway to label the colors in one’s palette like yours? For someone who forgets, or is a beginner, it would be a great help! THANKS BETSY!!!
Probably not right on the palette, but I made a swatch chart. I’ll try and share a photo of it in an upcoming post. 🙂
THANKS BETSY!!! ;)<3
Can you tell us what paintbrush you’re using? It looks wonderful, and your instructions are so awesome! Thank you so much!
Hi Luanne! Yes, for sure! It’s a super inexpensive #2 round by Creative Inspirations. I picked mine up from Jerry’s Artarama. I talk a bit about it in my favorite watercolor supply video here:
Thanks Betsy. I like that you show and describe ways of controlling the water and actually dipping your brush and mixing the color. These are all helpful techniques to show beginners especially. Many times in other videos those things take place off camera
I am in awe of your talent. That takes a lot of patience.