Hello and welcome to my class! We will be painting watercolor eucalyptus leaves and branches using shades of green and brown. I will start my class with a short three minute practice video of my supplies and colors used while demonstrating leaf shapes and forms. Then, I will demonstrate this watercolor painting of eucalyptus leaves with voiceover explaining my process from start to finish.
Here are some key points we will cover in this class.
- Learn how to mix various shades of green to create realistic looking leaves and stems.Â
- Using a pointed round brush to create various shapes, thick and fine lines and detailed edges.
- Negative space painting a second and third layer of leaves behind the first layer.
- Utilizing dry brush technique and wet-into-wet techniques
- Softening hard edgesÂ
- Fixing mistakes in watercolor
- Having fun!
Supplies:
- Silver Brush Limited, Black Velvet Series, round size 8
- Turquoise d' Pthalo Sennelier watercolor paint or Turquoise Pthalo Green shade. (any shade of blue-ish green will work, or you can mix a blue and yellow to get the shade you desire.) Note: These particular colors are very staining, which means they are difficult to lift out of your paper. Any color in the Pthalo family is staining, but very beautiful.Â
- Raw Sienna (or Yellow Ochre)- Holbein
- Sepia-Holbein (any shade of brown will do, raw umber, burnt umber, etc. Just a dark shade of brown.)
- 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper. I use Arches, or Fabriano, or Daler Rowney Langnton.
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