Shadows aren't grey! Paint lively shadows! - Watercolor Tutorial by Tim Wilmot #46

Don't paint grey, lifeless shadows. Get some color into them to make your sunny paintings more interesting. This video is a based on a street scene (Bergerac in France) and focuses on thinking about shadows as a very important part of watercolor and helping with the range of values in your picture.

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In this demo I will be covering...

1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolor subject. How to simplify the scene. Why are shadows important.

2) Materials I use such as the paper. I will also cover the paints I use and the palette, plus how I hold the different brushes for different techniques.

3) Doing the outline sketch as the first step. How to draw figures and cars.

4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and then the foreground.

5) Shadows and more shadows. Introducing color as the paint is still damp.


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