Loose Butterfly Wet into Wet Easy How to Paint Watercolor Step by step | The Art Sherpa

Hello everyone, I'm Cinnamo Cooney, your goalkeeper. Today I will show you

step

by

step

how to

paint

this abstract and striking

butterfly

in

watercolor

. This is a very beginner friendly lesson, if you are trying to learn

watercolor

it will be of great help to you. you learn the wet and wet technique, but there are actually several stages within the wet and wet technique where it is very wet, less wet and barely wet, and the layers of this

butterfly

allow you to learn to see how you

paint

, your brush strokes and Your techniques change as the moisture level in your paint changes, so it's a really fantastic painting in itself, but it's also a great learning opportunity.

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What we're going to do is let you guys tell you where things are and while we're usually inclined to share with you the direct links to where things are, we're going to avoid that so we don't put you in Facebook jail yay platforms everyone is crazy really seriously I've been to all of them they all have things um oh hi grace porter is here okay a scc blanton I'm jen butterfly hey yay yay like this it's going to be a lot of fun so look what we're painting today this butterfly

loose

I'm going to leave this to a side and I'm going to work on 140lb Fabriano cold pressed art paper what does that all mean it means it's very thick and heavy it's made with 100% cotton so it holds water consistently and it's bumpy that's what which means cold pressed, is bumpy.

I also have this in a block and the blocks are where all the pages are glued together and then you just have a There's a little area where you can release the page and what that does, especially in a technique like this, is prevent it from the page warps or wobbles and it can be really nice for you as a beginner to not have to struggle with the whole page tilting or doing something crazy because the paper warps when it's wet. You can also tape the paper down. You can glue both sides and tape it if you don't have the option of having a notebook.

What I will tell you is even before you update your paint improve your paper I personally recommend fabriano let me explain my relationship with them I am friends with them and they send me pads but I also buy pads so that is what I buy when I buy they like me and they send me pads, but one hundred percent my recommendation for this paper is that it is a fabulous experience to paint on 100, if it wasn't I might still be friends with them because they are still lovely, but I wouldn't talk about their product no matter what but luckily it is well so we are friends and i can talk about it oh i see janette's i think it's sweet and vicki anderson and hat taylor bella, sherry and diana i love our facebook family hello facebook family hello youtube family are you ready, do you see this now?

I have a bottle sprayer here for ants, it's a micro sprayer and it's really fantastic because it produces a fine watercolor mist. I also have a nice big wash brush, this is Raphael's soft water and it's great, it does watercolor or ink, it's a faux squirrel. I'm also friends with the people at Raphael so I love the products and then I go to art events and become friends with the people who make those products, if you're wondering how this all happened, this is how it happened to me because I combined them like you're so wonderful and then it's cool so I like this but any wash brush will work you're just trying to get it. a thin layer now one trick I have is because I want the water to be clean, I can spray my paper with water or what I can do is dip it in water and just make sure there's a wet layer, if you just do this here now, this is wet enough to be shiny, it shouldn't be puddled, so wet enough to be shiny it shouldn't be puddled, I'm going to go back and forth, I have red Hyrule or if you're doing the sun. ellie in san lea red i have nickel yellow ozo elegant yellow any yellow just a bright fun yellow opera rose um opera rose is wonderful i use the sennelier eh you could use any just it's a bright pink it's just a touch of pink i have altered blue i have quinacridone magenta and I forgot to turn off my phthalo blue, so I'm going to put in a little bit of phthalo blue because I think I use a little bit in this, so this tube of watercolor that looks small is actually giant and it will last, I mean. the paint, if I didn't paint as fast as I did, I probably tried to do it before I got anything out and I'm going to start with just a 14th round, it's not a particularly big brush, I'm going to get it wet and let's start with kind of a light purple, like this that I'm going to take my ultramarine blue and my quinacridone and mix them together and create a purple.

I'm going to add a lot of water to That's right, look how it's a very wet purple and I'm going to come here. Now I have a vertical line that I've drawn lightly with pencil and I've made a couple of little arcs up, but if I'm down here in my In the bottom third, I'm going to come here and paint an arc with that little bit of purple. I'm going to go back a couple of strokes and kind of fill it in very lightly. It's a very light color, guys, and it's going to spread a lot, it's going to bloom on the paper, ah, I see, carolyn, hey love, okay, so let's load it again now, could you come here and just imply the little butterfly body, which is just a little line receding at an angle from here to here on the paper, as soon as it's there it goes back to the lower wing, little brush strokes when I get towards the center I'll change the direction curve and join again here we are I'm going to arc upwards just brushing and again the paper is still wet so everything is spreading and it's so soft it just spreads and it's so soft and come here and add a few more little flares.

I'll come here again. in that three-quarter area and just go over now you can put the traceable directly on the paper and just do this over the traceable, that's okay, you might just have some lines, but you have to realize that in watercolor the lines are fine. . let's bring a little bow here and see how I'm vaguely hinting at those wings. Let's see what a light wash is like. Oh, Karen says A4 was a canvas size. A4 is a type of paper and you can't really do watercolor easily on A4 or acrylic paint, is that a size?

Yes, A4 is a size that has to do with how they cut paper correctly, but isn't that true for a printer? Yeah, you generally find that a paper size is a little bit larger than its counterpart, uh, for a cut paper. and then there are about eight, I think it is very common in England. I get that question more often in Europe, yes a4, a3, a2 are the cuts, so what it is is the weight of the paper and the brand of the paper is usually too light and no. designed for watercolor and it's not the size, that's the glue on the paper that lends itself to watercolor, am I right?

John does a lot of our printing, it can be anything that is measured by a number, usually for a printer and it's probably not what you're looking for, yeah, now I have this and what you'll notice is that your paper will become a little bit more dry, a little drier, and that's what we want. We will enter. I'm going to get a little bit out of myself. top pink, it's a fun color that's not always true because sometimes they measure the paper in weird ways, you just know it's a measurement, okay, I'm going to go back for my butterfly body and just do a little

loose

brush stroke up and a little bit here on the wing so I would go back to the same point and brush outwards and just loosening up the strokes keeping them loose so that part of the wing is wet again, I could go in and get a little bit more of my all-terrain blue and a little bit more of my pink here I stroke a little bit there I'm here again layering it so that our first diffuse is still there it's still happening it's just a little bit lighter these little strokes are kind of a curve and they have a lot of fluidity to them and what you need to pay attention to is Like, well, when my paper is very wet, it blooms one way, but when it's wet, it blooms another way, how does that feel?

How does that affect? your control as an artist, those are the things you're playing for and we painted over this all the way dry, which is a lot of fun, I think you know that because you really start to learn the different applications of paint and how it's applied. It's going to hit you so light it's so light now I'm going to come here to my altered blue and my quinacridone again and I'm going to do purple you could use purple if you're using cake paint molds you know you could be like oh I'm going to do let this be purple.

I'm going to bring this purple here between the wings to make the body of the butterfly. I'm going to rinse it off and go ahead and go in. my little bit of my phthalo blue, I'm going to make little loose brush strokes to start defining these little wings and you can see on the edges, where it's dry, it gets a little bit tighter, but where it's still wet on the wing. it stays pretty controlled i'm here little loose brush strokes here at the ends it can be a little disconcerting to paint in this open way oh thanks jennifer i really appreciate it and uh lollipop strawberry says you can use oil pastels instead of using correct paint and amy on top says that the butterflies are so pretty ah tonya it's the outline tutorial available later I'm not confident in my ability to follow the skills yes totally available right after the show here we go I feel like the butterfly is on the website but I haven't checked it, so I say it in a very insecure way, but I'll be confident after the show, so what I'm doing there is adding a little bit more blue just because I felt like it might be helpful that I'm going to go into my ultramarine blue here, pulling that now down here in the background, I'm going to get a little bit of my pyrrole red, maybe I'll move on to my yellow bear and I'll make a nice little orange by making two little brush strokes down, so I go down, wiggle, wiggle just a little bit, let's put some orange in, maybe it will go up a little bit on this wing and even go up.

One of the other fun ones is top pink and nickel ozo yellow or any yellow really like opera pink it's just a great color just bring it in there very wet very very wet now while it's all wet one of the things I can do is take some color, right? like my top pink and my yellow and I can splash and you will dry it contains splashes outside the wet areas of the wings and inside the wet areas of the wings that will splash will spread and bloom a little bit of yellow I think I'm going to rinse and come back with a little opera rose now something you should know about your watercolor, how it looks now is not how it looks when it's finished, it changes a lot and that's because as the paint dries and continues to pull onto the paper, it will soften and spread and change almost think of it as developing oh yeah and bella says beautiful butterfly and larry says very creative I appreciate it uh can you scroll back up on that I saw someone said it was lost? the beginning of class um on facebook which one uploads a little bit on facebook yes facebook um judy says i missed the beginning of the video and now i'm way behind judy will it be a short video?

You can just watch us go Review it and then play it again as soon as it's done and it's good. Something you may not know about live painting videos. What I love as a teacher. It's almost easier than being live with people. You don't have to keep up with me. you can pause me you can rewind me you can mute me if you don't like the way I talk I really like this comment I love your art you don't like it so much I like it that's great mute me okay I'm okay don't be offended boo it's all good I'm going to continue.

I'm going to get some of my purple again. I'm going to take my quinacridone and my Quinn magenta and at this point some of my butterflies are not quite there. As wet as it was, so I can take this darker color and it still blooms, it still softens, but not in the same way as before. It goes down the middle, you can see it's blooming, it's creating a structure, not the only structure, but just a few and me. can come on the outside of this little wing here and I'm doing it almost like a calligraphy stroke, it's like a writing stroke where I'm on the tip of the brush and I go around the outline of the wings and just being loose and watching it is almost fun and that helps find the base of those wings.

I'm going to go in and take out a little bit of my top pink stroke of that color just to again create a little similar wing definition. to what I did on the lower wing and I can even get in some of my phthalo blue and quinacridone magenta thatthey create a much deeper indigo right outside where the areas are dry just that and really guys that's all there is to do and you can do this more than once you can do it small you can do it big you can practice with different colors, but what they learn when they start from the beginning. wet the paper and then continue working while it dries and dries and dries that's how the paper changes properly and I'm reluctant to even use a hair dryer on this because I don't know if there's any way for John to notice it, but even As these droplets dry, they change the wet droplet a lot.

This dry drop will be very different than it is now, so you really want to let everything finish before deciding how you feel about your painting. It's like wait and see, hello. caroline love uh and then sharon says i can't mute you love your verbal instructions and listening to your heart well thank you very much um darcy collins does the angle of the image relative to the angle of the paper affect the way the paint flows no it really does ? However, what happens is that when you wet the entire page, it will buckle and bend, and the buckling is what will affect where the paint tends to pull and pool, which is why we want to pre-stretch our paper, which is an act of soaking. both sides by placing it on a flat board or a flat piece of glass and taping it down or using a watercolor block now in my Amazon store, what I do is like, I guess, a hashtag ad for the FTC.

I have an Amazon store, yes I get an affiliate, you can use it as a shopping list, you have to buy from there. I have a list of things I've tried and I'm happy with what you should know about Strathmore. Strathmore buys its paper and lots in bulk and sometimes it's better. than other times, so it's kind of hit and miss, but when it hits, it hits, it's great and when it misses, uh, I'm so sorry, you know what happens, you can just write to them and say no, vanessa is talking about the newspaper in Europe, uh. just for the confusion about a4, it's a european size, they have a3, a4, a5 etc, the bigger the number the smaller the paper, board, canvas etc. um, oh, and Amy says she missed it again.

Someone asked him what I am. Amy asks me what question. I missed it? Well, that was, let me see if I can. It was if you were going to do the red lantern painting next month. The red eyeliner paint. I think we were supposed to do like last year's Red Lantern or you mean Disney. one I don't know I think you mean disney one could be amy it means disney I'm still a little scared of disney amy no it hasn't been it's been a challenging time on the platforms you know uh I like it I like it I have to do it I don't know amy my answer my honest answer is I promise you tons of art classes when it comes to Disney what will happen is like if you have ever been in one of those types of gorges where you have to jump from a high rock into an area of ​​deep water and you think you go there and you don't know if you're going to jump and then you come back and your friends are done.

You don't know and you don't know and you don't know and then all of a sudden you jump, but you don't really know you're going to jump on that jump, that's how I am with Disney, like with Star. wars with Disney with all that, to Sometimes I just jump in and say I'll let the lawyers handle it and then other times I'm like oh my gosh, I don't want to lose my channel, so I really flip, so if that's what we mean, that's what's going on. . Can watercolor gouache be used instead of liquid white acrylic? It can absolutely be removed.

We met. I hope I'm not killing that, yeah, yeah. Amy is like tangling a lantern, yeah that's where I'm just on the tangling thing, I just don't know, the thing is Rapunzel is an old property, but the graphics that Disney creates around these old properties belong to them and are having a bit strange and difficult year, so I don't know how you feel culturally. I have to look to see how many removal notices they are doing on etsy. That's literally how I make that decision. um and ld is sharing the red lantern i made for the cherry tree q-tip i love that painting i wish i was making a lot of books when i made that painting i love that painting um kathy hill says how often do you post live paintings like this so now we're in the middle of family chaos, but there's usually a watercolor Wednesday every Wednesday and then there's one, two, and three acrylic painting lessons, so I personally have 1,500 or maybe more than 1,500 lessons on my website now, so we do between 150 and 250 lessons. between acrylic or watercolor per year, however, there will be big news coming soon coming at the end of June, the beginning of my birthday, happy birthday to me, where watercolor will suddenly get a ton of lessons.

You will be scared when you see what is coming. I'm so excited, it's like it's a dream come true. We're going to do some interesting things together. Marion says: can you make a video on how to mount and frame a watercolor? Please, I can, it will be fun. good to make um uh look blanton says cinnamon how can I find the name of my Sennelier palette? There were no names on it. I'm confused. What do you mean by that? You mean there were no names in the oh? Do you mean retirement when? we put the paint on your palettes if that's what you mean um they're just metal butcher trays the metal butcher tray is that what you mean yeah pants uh the pants yeah, they were just they bought the pants, you can find them, so I've had this happen before c blind and then I'll give you this advice so let's say you buy a watercolor palette and somehow you don't accidentally throw away the color location names or you don't see them or the packaging is throw it in the trash and say: ah, I don't know what's there.

You can go online, you can use Amazon or the Cinnalia website to do this and you find the exact paint palette that you have and it will give you a layout of the molds there, on top of that, I found it on Pinterest. Sometimes artists take samples of molds and they may have taken samples of the mold you have and I may have taken samples of the mold you have somewhere on one of my watercolor blogs and they may have set it , so if you ever lose your colors, I don't care if it's silly, I don't care if it's koi watercolor, everything is cheap on Amazon, someone somewhere has seen it and posted it online and you can find it just by searching. uh show and then name the exact watercolor pan that you have something will pop up or you go to the company's website and it will show you okay so I'm going to say the answer that you were looking for for the young jedi because that's what what I'm wondering uh lindell smith says thank you and ld says I'm loaded with candy this candy is the best candy you've ever seen arrive I'm super excited um kelly peterson it doesn't matter if it's a butcher the tray is convex if you mean convex in the base, yes, because the watercolor could pull all the way to the bottom, you want it to be level, you want it to not bend in any way because you don't want to see how it is there. it's a little bit like an arch the watercolor is thrown here that's fine on the edges i can control that but you want the places where you wash it to stay stable and the reason we like ceramic butcher trays or butcher trays ceramic or ceramic coated is because I see how the watercolor stays where I washed it, I can reactivate it at any time, I can come here at any time and get a little bit of that color again and come back and paint so I never lose my paint, it's the best .

It is my favorite. I think I use fewer brushes than I thought I was going to have to this time, John, so yeah, I'll reactivate it. Look, it's simply reactivatable. I'm going to use my little one. This is if you're wondering. what this is a raphael precision they do acrylic or watercolor they are pretty good brushes um I like them but there are a lot of good brushes out there so I'm not trying to say that you have to have this or that obi-wan sherpee sherpinobi oh congratulations on all the things that they get for us, they work so hard and we benefit so much, you are welcome and listen, hit the subscribe button, hit the follow button on Facebook.

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Be good to yourselves and I want to see you on an easel very soon, bye.