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[Music] hi everyone Dian here welcome to my studio hope everyone's feeling good today and ready to experiment um I'm going to be giving this painting ago I've already painted it once as you can see and I'm going to try and do it again now something that people often talk about when they're learning watercolor or when they've actually been doing watercolor for a while is how to paint loose and they want to be sort of painting outside the lines so to speak and um there's lots of advice for how to do that and a lot of it doesn't work a lot of it is good advice but doesn't necessarily cut mustard so to speak um what I'm going to do today is inevitably going to be loose so if you're really keen on painting loose I suggest you give brusso a try this is what it looks like when you buy a box of it there about $40 for a box of 12 colors comes in different assort and um I'm not affiliated with brush o I'm not not promoting them for any particular reason I've just have this in my cupboard and I thought well I really to try and use it um you only need to buy a couple of colors or maybe four or five for this painting and each one is around about 7 to1 for one of these containers if you decide just to buy a few colors and you'll never run out I mean once you've got one of these unless you take the lid off and I wouldn't take the lid off off don't take the lid off please don't take the lid off because it goes everywhere but what you do is you get yourself some push pins like this these ones with little handles are good better than the ordinary flatheadedgorilla it's like a a pepper pot and you can just sprinkle some of the color onto your paper and that's the best way to do it that's the only way of having any kind of control here so I'm going to show you it's easier to show you than to um tell you and I'm you don't have to do the ink over the top by the way all depends on what you want I painted this and then I dried it and then I decided to bring some more form into it a little bit with some ink but you don't have to it all depends how it turns out really so I'm going to put that on my bookstand in front of me so I can see it but you can't and I'm going to now take a a brush any round brush any brush at all really I'm going to use a round one and also a filbert and um what I'm going to do is just pick up some clean water and then I'm going to put in basically some half circles for the heads of the flowers and it doesn't really matter where you put them and of course you can't even see where you're putting them because it's only plain water actually if you want to you can tint the water a little bit so you could see it I could do that I could make it easier for all of us probably not a good idea to do it with green however um so I've got three there and this is the kind of painting there's another one this is the kind of painting that may or may not work you know you never know really um um but it's fun it really is actually quite quite fun so there's five flowerheads there on my paper and I haven't given it too much thought as to where I'm putting them but I've just kind of put them in a kind of random Arrangement there then we go to the colors and we go to the first color which is lemon that's the lightest color and I'm going to carefully see where my damp bits are and then I'm just going to shake my pepper shaker once or twice on top of those wet areas trying to keep it not from going anywhere else because it does go everywhere if you give it half a chance so then we'll go to the yellow and I'm going to do the same just one shake like that and just don't touch it leave it to do its own thing and um you could say oh this would be fun to do with the children no don't I wouldn't recommend it I would not recommend it because it will go everywhere so we're up to the orange now we've had yellow lemon and orange and I'm going to go for scarlet now and so where it's kind of become a little bit more intense in those areas that's where I'm going to concentrate or try to so there we are there's our red and yellow tops to our daisies and then this is where I sit down cuz you can't really do that sitting down not easy anyway okay so this is exciting bit just wet your brush I think a um like I said a filb but is probably a good idea for this and then just drag the petals out like that and it's definitely a process of um what's the word exploration and all the color will run everywhere and it looks like loads of spiders crawling across the page but don't worry just keep going and you can oh I forgot that you can at this point adjust your uh composition a little bit maybe you think at this point oh I should have had another one up there so maybe you'll just pop in a bit more yellow at the top with perhaps a bit more Scarlet don't bother about the other two colors okay and I might put a bit of bit more red in this one it looks as if it's lost its shape completely so that's that and then um the next thing of course when you get to this point in your flowers you're going to want to put some leaves and things in so we'll draw in some stems first of all in red because that's the color that we have so we just bring those down like this and and then I'm going to put a few leafy shapes in here and there and then we'll get the green so we've got leaf green and I'm just going to tap the green trying to avoid this is where you do need to actually be a little bit careful just avoid the flowers because they'll just go Brown if you put green on top of red as those ones will up at the top there now the green is a mixture of several rather violent colors um and what you need to do at this point is turn these into something where you're actually going to go in and mix right so we're going to just smush it around a bit like that and try to turn these areas into something that resembles leaf and these ones are going to be a little bit different from I mean it's bound to be the case that the painting will be different from the one I did earlier it wouldn't be oh if if it wasn't would it there we are and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to spray the whole thing with water I've got a little cheap spray here it doesn't matter what it is and then I'm just going to go over the whole thing and what this does is it activates the paint wherever the brush o has fallen and water hits it and immediately it starts to run and you get a very loose effect so what I did with the other one at this point was I took a piece of tissue paper and then where I feel I might have a little bit too much color I'm just going to dab away way a little bit so you're doing a bit of like this here where that's [Music] run a little bit of uh modification of nature you know this has happened spontaneously and we're not going to try and change it much just where the running has run away with itself so to speak so but you want all these nice areas of free flow and at this point then uh I think it might be a little bit heavy there yeah so at this point um probably we need to let it dry or probably even better still is to just get the hair dryer and and whack it on and let that do its thing okay so that's dry and I think that's looking pretty pretty don't you um so you have a choice some people would leave it like this you could you could actually say I think that that's an abstract floral and I'm happy to leave it like that you definitely could in fact I might but on the other hand you could take various steps to develop this and you could say Okay um I'm going to paint in a little bit more uh in a slightly more controlled way so you could pick up some greens and you could put some Leaf shapes in the background a few perhaps you know develop these ones in the front here or you could take um a pen any kind of fine liner and do some Line work um I want to mention a book actually here at the moment since I'm thinking of it called um ink and wash florals by Camila dambo bricks uh I don't actually have that book in color actually I have got it I have I bought it on Kindle um it's very hard to read a book on Kindle though don't you think but anyway she's got a book out which is quite interesting because she does a lot of ink and wash in watercolor and this is something she could help you if you got a hold of that book that would help you a bit with this technique if you're interested in it um I'll put a link to the book in the description below it's on Amazon of course and also if you want to W watch a review of it um uh K over on Art Book Nook I put a link to her as well so you can go and watch it over there you can see all the different pages of the book she goes all the way through um all the way through the book looking at every page now question is what I'm saying to myself is what do I want to do now um you can see the flowers quite clearly that's obviously the head of the flower and the petals here and this one here and so on and so forth so I mean I'd be perfectly happy to sit here and and um draw on top of that or alternatively what we could do is I will show you now how I went from basically there to there earlier this afternoon so let's do that shall we I'll show you exactly how this one was painted from scratch all the way through so it's two totally different uh results two completely different um paintings at the end of the day starting from exactly the same [Music] place for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for for [Music] f [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] f [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] that [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] there [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so I'll let you go highly recommend you get yourself a few bottles of this Russo stuff but don't give it to the children so I'll say bye-bye for now and uh Happy painting bye everyone bye-bye 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