Tree branches, brushstrokes of colour (#club100)
A very good way to gain confidence and handle the use of colours in watercolour is by painting tree branches like the one that I show and explain below.
Start by painting the trunk or thicker branches with a very clear, almost invisible warm colour. You can use a yellow or ocher or light pink. Using the colour here just to make the trace of water visible.
Then, immediately, before the line dries, apply a few touches of a darker colour, it can be blue or brown. The colour will spread only on the surface that is wet, it will not spread further.
With the help of a wet brush, you can spread the colour and begin to paint thinner branches, dragging the paint outwards.
To draw fine branches you have to hold the brush almost perpendicular to the leaf and keep it at an even distance on the paper.
Later, while the line is still wet, we apply another colour that can be a reddish brown or an ocher yellow and we continue drawing more twigs with a fine brush.
If you see that the branches are very loaded with colour or if you want to change the tone of the paint, you can absorb the excess with a kitchen towel and then, paint again with the colour you want.
Make several exercises like this. You will see very quick progress.
I wish you a very nice day!
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Hi Jorge, I noticed this watercolour tutorial and like it very much, I wonder when you add darker colour on first warm watercolour layer, how long you wait before applying and how wet is your brush. Do you dry it and then pick up more more pigment and less water loaded brush. The end result looks nice with so many colours.
Hi dear @stef1, I think you know the answer to those questions, you already have experience in watercolour.
Anyway, as you know, the paint must be wet when adding another layer so that the new one follows the same path, otherwise, the colour will expand outside the initial layer.
In watercolour, the trial and error method is crucial to know how, when and with what load we can apply the paint. This is something difficult to explain verbally.
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