Painting rocks in watercolour part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2022
- This video is a traditional painterly technique for painting rocks in watercolour (watercolor), focusing on the beautiful shadow shapes and 3 dimensionality of the rock.
This video is intended for anyone, from complete beginners to those looking to master new skills.
If you have feedback, comments or suggestions for new videos please pop them in the comments section below. I also love to see the work you are doing so please feel free to share.
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My favourite supplies are Arches or Saunders Waterford rough 300GSM paper and most of my paints are Windsor & Newton artist quality.
My palette generally consists of - (all W&N unless specified) French Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Turquoise, Alizarin Crimson, Rose Madder Genuine, Cad Red Light, Schminke Cad Red Orange, Light Red, Brown Madder, Neutral Tint, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Cad Yellow Light, Indian Yellow, Diox Purple, Green Gold, Indigo, Pyrolene Green, Holbein Lavender, Art Spectrum Australian Grey, Art Spectrum White Gouache.
Depending on the subject matter I will add some other colours to my palette as needed. When I am working on flowers I add some pinks like Quin Magenta, and Purple Lake to the mix.
The brushes will soon be available on my website www.cherylbrucecreativ.com/shop as they are a bit tricky to source so I have decided to stock them myself. It is a weasel hair brush that can be widened out to a flattish tip which I find great for a range of mark making.
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You are such a wonderful artist!
thank you so much Beverly, that is lovely.
Wow! Thank you! I learned so much! You are a great teacher!
Didn’t realize how chill painting rocks is.
Apparently all painting should be chill! A passer by when I was painting out at Alice Springs asked us if we were relaxed and when my friend (a professional paintier for 50 years) explained that it was not actually really a relaxing process he told us we must be doing it wrongly then!
Amazing
Nice job I finally understand rock painting!
Thank you for this example. I love both examples you painted! Thank you for taking time to post these tutorials. They are so helpful! 💐💐💐
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Beautiful rocks painting
Enjoyed it watching
Thank you for sharing
👋🎨🖌💕
you are one of my most favourite artist /teacher to learn from thank you
Thank you Lia, that is so kind!
I just found your rock painting videos. I love them so much and will give this a try. They're beautiful!
Thanks to TH-cam algorithms, I just "found" your wonderful channel. Thanks ever so much for sharing your talents with the world! This video was saved to my instructional video folder of videos that I will use as reference. I only have about a dozen saved, as I am quite selective.
That is awesome to hear Joy, thank you for your kind comment. I think the comments are what make the algorithm pick up the video and put it on the suggested list, so it is lovely that people take the time to leave a message.
Nicely done Cheryl , and I like your way of introducing warmer colours into the surfaces of the rocks. best regards John
Love this tutorial, Cheryl. Very helpful.
So glad! thanks for your message
Thank goodness for part 2! This is exactly what I needed for my Grand Canyon watercolor!! It was all too red I need to make the shadow shade more mauve and with more blue less orange/red!! I’ve learned so much in just 2 videos! Thanks queen
You are so welcome! Thanks for your comments Shelly, I am so glad they helped. I have an exhibition on at the moment in Balmain, Sydney and you can see lots of rock face paintings on my website in the gallery From the Harbour to the Heart . They were all very orange/red cliffs though, so I was tackling those colours you mentioned needing less of.
Great trokes
Thank you for this tutorial. It has really helped me.
So glad to hear it helped!
Beautiful work ❤
Thank you
Thanks for sharing ❤. You explain things so well in your tutorials. I actually feel like the most challenging subjects are understandable and doable, and I'm not just making wild stabs in the dark, hoping for the best.
You are so welcome! Thank you for such a great comment I am so glad to hear that you feel like it breaks it down for you.
wow..this was so wonderful to watch, your painting style is beautiful and I learned so much! thanks !
You are so welcome! And thank you for all of your positive, supportive comments Deborah.
Fantastic!
Très beau!
👌thank you
Love your work!❤How long have you been doing this, how did you learn? Thank you
Hopefully you got my email reply? Thanks for your kind words
Wonderful tutorial ❤What is this marvelous brush you are using?
Well the brush is the secret to everything! someone was just saying yesterday to me that when they get their brush they will paint like me.... and of course they will! It is sometimes a bit tricky to find - it used to have a code BW170 but that one is no longer available. If you email Tammy at artspacepopupgallery@gmail.com she can source them for you if you are in Australia or happy to ship from Australia. I am at the moment trying to locate an overseas source for people in UK/USA/ Europe.
Wonderful painting and video. What type of paper are you using here? It doesn't appear too be buckling at all. I don't understand the difference between hot/cold pressed. I think cold is smooth and hot is more coarse, which buckles less with heavy washes and does the weight play in? Also, in this video I noticed that you were mixing colours on the pallet, do you ever mix the colors by layering them? Like putting say a yellow down then going over it with a blue and blending them on paper too make a green by layering? Cheers!
Hi, I use 300gsm Arches or Saunders usually rough. I don’t tape the paper down because I find it buckled less if it’s not constrained. Hot pressed is smooth and great for flowers and portraits in particular. It is much more difficult for water scenes or landscapes. Medium and rough are cold pressed and have texture. Arches and Saunders rough are my go to paper for landscape and seascape paintings.
I don’t really mix green on the paper my putting blue then yellow. I would mix a variety of greens on my palette and then apply those but I might drop in blue or yellow straight on the paper to adjust it or add variation. I do work like you mention in shadow areas - if you watch the seagull video it’ll make sense). I drop in the mauve then Naples yellow or cerulean to make it glow cool or warm in certain areas. Or a shadow on grass I drop mauve then green (the local colour) into it.
I think to mix the green or other secondary on the paper you need really good control of the pigment to water ratio and many students I observe don’t use enough water in the first lay down of colour to give time to add the second colour without getting blooms (assuming it’s a larger are of colour). I’m constantly saying ‘three strokes then pick up more - don’t stretch the paint in your brush as far as it goes’. Hopefully all of that makes sense ?
@@cherylbrucecreativ Makes sense, thanks for clarifying the hot/cold press. Like my photography, I just do the best I can with what I've got. I'm sorta new too watercolor and my problem is I try and make lemonade with oranges! I had purchased a bunch of Van Gogh brand colors (tubes) and some of them (either burnt/raw umber) has turned a gross shade of baby poop, and when I try and make a wash for skies the colors don't lay down like how I want, even when I try doing wet/wet. I think the biggest problem is the paper (cheap store brand) from HobbyLobby. I think I'll try some of that Arches and see what it's like. Thanks!
@@kdj.imagery4317 oh cheap paper is a false economy! And yes Raw Umber is baby pop yellow. I don’t use it for much but I have it in my palette. Makes a great sand colour by adding rose madder genuine and if you have it a touch of Holbein lavender to grey it off a touch. Yellow ochre or Raw sienna are much more versatile colours.
@@cherylbrucecreativ Cheap paper is a false economy, is that anything like a double negative? :) I may go and buy some Arches paper and experiment a little with it. However, I looked at some colors on the web and the cost of tubes (which I would prefer over pans) is as much if not more than oil paints. I think I saw a set of 12 counts (artist) around 80 dollars and (student) around 35-40. I think I'll probably stick too oil pastels. I'm able to do more with them for less...Love your videos though, keep up the great work!
@@kdj.imagery4317 "Cheap paper is a false economy" is an accurate description. You think saving a few dollars is a great thing until you experienced feeling discouraged and frustrated every time you use the "Cheap Paper".
Great can I mention I am dyslex and we need your type of instruction as we have short term memories and need slower and more precise speech thank you marie
That's good to know. I usually speak very quickly and softly so I have been consciously slowing down when I am recording, but also when I paint sometimes I speak slower because it's hard to find the right words while you are painting. Thank you
I need to ask a dumb question !!! I know that you will give me a very informative answer. :-). Why use the mauves instead of a darker brown for the shading ???? TIA
Not at all a dumb question Lind,y I had to think about it and look back at the video. Generally I think of shadow on white as mauve so if the shadow falls on a colour other than white I generally still think of it as mauve with the local colour dropped in - ie the yellow ochre in this case. I'm also think I may not be a big fan of a lot of brown in paintings so I guess I tend towards the more colourful liveliness that the mauve gives. The elaborate if a shadow of a tree is falling across a green grass paddock, I don't paint it a darker green, I paint it mauve and then drop darker green into parts of it. Or the side of a building - picture yellowy orange stucco like in Spainish buildings I might do the reverse order and use a darker yellow/orange but will then drop a mauve into part of it to ensure it reads as shadow rather than a darker color paint on the building (I reverse the order because it is easier to avoid making grey). I also think about cool and warm into the shadow. If it is a shadowed side of a building the shadow is generally warmer than the shadow the building casts on the ground, so I will generally drop some naples yellow into the shadow on the building to warm it. I do the same on boat hulls with the naples yellow and it makes the shadow glow. If you are looking at paintings on my website you will see examples of what I am talking about. - also the seagull video I discuss shadows from memory. Hope this helps
@@cherylbrucecreativ Wow....thank you so much Cheryl. I wish I had your brain and knowledge. Im g oing to print your reply out and keep it on my painting desk !!!!!!!. I dont suppose you live in Sydney and give classes ????????
@@lindyhawthorne2164 Years of brush mileage and a love of colour! I am on the Central Coast at Wamberal and yes I do give classes. I am about to have a little holiday then prepping to exhibit at The Affordable Art Fair so I don't restart classes until July, on Wednesday mornings. Then I'm teaching in France in Sept if you feel like a lovely 11 day retreat painting with me!
@@cherylbrucecreativ Sounds wonderful, but Im in Sydney. Have fun.
@@lindyhawthorne2164 no problem. I do have a demonstration coming up at the Hornsby Art Soc meeting but I can't remember the date off the top of my head.
Excellent