Watercolor Painting of a Watermelon Slice

In this watermelon watercolor painting, there are some challenges in here. And we're going to introduce dropping ink a dark color inside a wet area. Let's start with a composition drawing. I'm going to use this B graphite pencil and make sure I have enough for the reflection at the front over here. So the watermelon is not going to be very, very big. So I'm going to use my finger to do it like that. That's the bottom. I got the idea. So there will be the left side over here, the bottom over here, and the right side will be here. Okay, I'm going to draw the rough shape, the skin of the watermelon. Spend enough time in the drawing step. It's very important to get your mind have a strong feeling before you start painting. Reflect it. So inside over here, this is the red color. A little water drop at the bottom here. I want to capture it. And I have a little water at the bottom over here. Now we're ready for the watercolor painting. I'm going to use this one inch flat brush. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to get the little red color. Not just red color. It looks like a little bit red orange color. So I'm going to take a little yellow color too. I'm going to add a little bit more water. I'm going to start putting the color here. Oh, that looks very nice. They're looking at the edge. That's good. Now look for it. And there will be lots of wet into wet coming up. Okay, that's good. Now I just fill in the color into this wet area. I'm going to soften the edge a little bit later. Now I'm going to quickly use another brush. I'm going to use this larger calligraphy brush. And I'm going to just soften. Do a little lifting for the edge. I need to do this a little bit faster because I don't want it to getting dry too quickly. I'm going to have this a little bit softly. Just have the edge a little gradually blending in. That's good. The timing is very crucial in a watercolor painting. That's good. Okay, now I'll come back here with the one-inch flat brush. Now I'm going to have the color a little bit thicker. I've got a little bit yellow color on this side. Take it from this side. And now I'm going to come back here. You see that? It's still wet enough. That's good. I'm coming over here. Inside over here. A little bit darker red color. Now on the outside over here, I'm going to add a little bit more yellow. I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going to just use the wet brush and blend the color a little bit. Like that. Have the color a little bit lighter on this side. Lift up some color. Lift up a little color over here. Just use the edge of the brush. I'm going to try to create a texture. A little light texture like that. And maybe I have to come back to do that a little bit later when it gets a little bit drier. Over here, I'm going to make it a little bit softer over here. This appears to be a little bit softer in the distance. You try to capture the feeling. It's very important to keep this kind of texture. At this point, I want to come back to have a little bit thicker red color. Like that. Just a little thicker red color. Now I'm going to just drop it in right over here. Because I want those colors to appear to be as a natural texture of watermelon. And over here, I want to just have the red color. Just put it in here. This is called dropping. When the color really thick and dropping into quite a wet surface paper, the new color would graduate, fading. It still have enough form. Keep that little texture. Really nice. Drop in, give a little texture. But still have a little soft fading texture. That's good. Technique dropping in is usually dropping a darker color. I'm going to mix a little blue color and mix a little bit darker. I'm going to get the red and the blue together. This color is much darker. Now I'm going to drop in over here. See the texture. This is very important process. One hand show the texture of the watermelon and the other is show the shadow in the area. Okay. Now at this point, I can come back with the one inch flat brush. Now clean the brush. Also remove all the excess water. Now come back here to do the lifting. Just use this side. Now it's a little bit drier now. So I can create that light, soft texture on the top. Just have some soft, light texture. Like that. That looks good. A little bit over here too. And add a little bit over here too. Maybe a little bit here. Now on this side, I'm going to have a little bit orange, red color. Don't need that much color. Just a little bit. Just make it a little bit thinner. Okay. Now come back here. Still leave a little white shape over there. Now I'm going to use the clean brush to soften the edge. It looks good. I'm going to change my attention. Put a little color to the skin and also the soft outside, soft green color. Take the yellow color and take the blue color. This is a very good color. So I'm going to do a star over here. Very nice. I'm going to make it a little softer a little bit later. I'm going to use the side of the edge. Like that. Have the color coming in a little bit. Like that. That's good. That's just on the side. You can see this. Very nice connection. Now I'm going to clean my brush. Come back over here. Have a little bit softer edge. Back a bit softer. Like that. Maybe also show a little bit gray color. A little bit gray color. Have this. The purple color with the yellow color. It looks very gray. Have a little bit blue. Okay. That's good enough. I'm going to let go the excess color. I'm going to take the blue color mixed with the red. Now this color is very dark. There's a present blue with some red color. Now here you go. Now I'm going to see. I'm going to put this one here first. Okay. This looks good. Another one. And this one I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. A little bit different. And this one I'm going to put it here. Like that. And this I'm going to have it show a little bit like a cover. Portion of the scene. And this one I'm going to have even darker. Let's get a little bit blue. I'm going to show a little bit. That's it over here. And then here I'm going to show one a little bit more clear. So how much water that still remaining on the paper is very important for how it would end up look like. So now I'm going to have this one. I don't want to make it so big. That's good enough. And show a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit. It's good enough. And maybe a little bit over here too. Like that. Okay. I'm going to come back to even add some a little bit more red color back in here. It looks like. I want the color a little bit richer. Over here I can touch a little bit. It's okay. That's good. Come back here. A little bit red. Sometimes we just have the color settle. It maybe change the feeling. So I'm gonna clean my brush. I'm just going to use just the wet. Soften the edge a little bit. Okay. Keep the texture. Kill the texture. Make a little bit softer. Okay, that's good. Don't remove all the texture. Keep some texture. And the top of it. That's good. So this is very good texture over here. Keep some light edges. Okay. I think the red is much better. Now I'm going to come to doing the skin. I'm going to take. This is quite a bit of blue colors. I'm going to maybe have something a little bit cleaner. So I'm going to take the yellow color. I'm going to take the yellow color from this side. There you go. Like this. A little bit water. Now let's see. I'm going to apply the color right over here. A little bit water. Any round brush is good for this application. Let's see. Take a look at the bottom over here. It has a little bit blue color. Now take a look at the shape. Come down over here. Like that. Okay. And I think I'm going to add a little bit more blue color and red color. At the bottom over here, it can be much darker. And the water over here, a little bit darker. And edge over here. I'm going to do a little something after this dry. And a little edge over here. Pay attention to and a good observation. Now look at the top over there. I'm going to need to add a little bit darker color. Add a little bit more blue. And I'm going to start to have some texture, skin texture. Like this. There's a little reflection at the bottom over here. I will do that after this dry. I'm going to use the lifting up after dry to create those a little bit light blue reflection on the table. I'm going to have a little bit more darker color. When you have some color really, really dark with the three primary colors, you have to use the blue and the red color together. It's quite soft, the skin texture. That looks very good. I'm going to add a little yellow color here. Yellow green color. So at this point, I'm going to continue with the color on the table. So I'm going to take this color. That's good. Take this color right over here. I expected the color would touch it. It was just going to blur connecting together, which is fine. And also, I'm going to go over onto the water drop. Actually, there's a little water drop laying on the table. And there's a multiple way to do one. Try to achieve one result. But try it. If it doesn't work, try another way. Okay, right over here. Just use the water and have the color. Blend in, that become lighter and lighter. Nice. At the bottom over here, I'm going to make it a much, much darker. Because right now, wet is so easy to let the color blend. Put the really dark color right in here. Now, you can see that the color actually getting into the water drop area. It's okay. In that case, we're going to go for the plan B a little bit later. And we're going to do that after a drive. And I'm going to do some cleaning. I'm going to just let go all the wet. I'm going to come back here to soften the edge. I'm coming over here. Have this a little bit soft. We do what we can while it's still wet. All right, now I'm going to come back with this one inch flat brush. I'm going to start lifting this area. You see, you just use the brush like almost 45 degree touching the surface. You see, I'm going to just lift up a little bit of that, showing there is the reflected light. That, that's good. So, I'm just going to get a little bit blue color, a little bit blue purple color like that. Get a little red in here. Here we go. Just apply a little blue color on the edge here. See this? Beautiful. I need to apply some yellow color. You see, the color on the edge over here, it actually reflected the green color from the watermelon's skin. A little bit green. There. Okay, let it settle and come back later. I'm going to get a little bit blue color, touch it on the skin. And the bottom over here, even darker. A little bit lighter. Okay, that's good. Now, come back to the red area. One hand, I like this texture, but I think it's maybe a little bit too much. So, I'm going to just use the edge and just soften a little bit like that. I'm going to keep that. That's fine. Over here, I'm going to make it a little softer. That's much better. And on the top over there, I don't want just one little bit, just white. I'm going to have a little red color over here to show the separation between the watermelon and the background. And also, I'm going to have a little bit softer over here while we're waiting. The bottom drive could be a little bit more texture. Okay, and a little bit light color over here too. That's good, a little bit like that. Okay, the bottom now is getting dry. Now, I come back here. I'm going to use this small calligraphy brush. So, first, I'm going to add some really dark color at the bottom here. I'm going to mix the red and the blue color because I don't need lots of this color. So, I don't need to taking lots of big pile. I'm going to put it right here. Yes, it looks really good. This area is very, very deep. Take a look at the bottom over here. The water drop is a little bit darker. I do want to do a little bit lifting on this side. Get a little water. And here you go. This is very dark. That's good. As far as it would go. And add a little water like that. Okay, a little bit dark color at the bottom here too. Good. Okay. Now, in the catch the shadow, I'm going to get a little bit yellow color. And a little bit blue color. And I'm going to have this softly merge into the surrounding. So, this dark color is not isolated. The dark color is part of the catch the shadow. Like that. That's good. Soften it. Now, that's good. Now, I'm going to come into the area on the ground. I'm going to take a little blue color. So, it should not be just white. So, make it a little bit, a little bit dimmer. That's good. I come back to get a little bit more transition inside that light sheet. I'm going to start do a little lifting inside here. I'm going to have a little bit like that. Inside this little water drop area. I'm going to pay attention to the water drop. All you want to look for is the shapes. Over here. Let's soften this area a little bit. A little bit clear from the color around it. Like that. That's good. It's already better. A little change. That's good. It looks a little bit more green. So, what I need to do is get a little yellow color. Maybe too much yellow. Yeah, too much yellow. So, I have to put a little bit. Let's take the yellow away. Put a little blue color. Now, this color much better. Okay. Now, come back to fix a little bit more later. Now, take a look at on the other side. Get a little bit blue color on this water area. And the front over here. I'm going to have a little bit like that. Keep a little bit like that at the front. Okay. Expand that. Make a little bit softer over there. Just looking for shapes. There's nothing else. The shapes, the color. How dark is the shape. Now, I'm going to have this a little bit yellow. Cross the blue. Have a little bit more like a green color on this side. Okay. That looks good. And I'm also going to apply some yellow color. Put it on the skin. So, now I can make it look a little bit brighter of the skin. I'm going to take a little bit this color. A little gray green colors. I'm going to fill it in here because it need to be darker. Okay. I'm going to also apply this color. The water drop on the table. Now, I'm going to take the dark color. The blue color. I'm going to come back to fill in the color. Make this a little bit darker. It's good. Now, I'm going to use a little bit yellow color. And extend this color. Be able to see how the color affect each other. It's very important in a still life painting. Now, softly blend the color outside. Now, all I need to do is to get a very dark color around here. And outside over here. A little shade. Show this. The water drop shape. Like that. And now, also the center over here. The bottom. You see there. A little bit shape. Like that. Part of a circle. And on top over here, I have a little bit dark shape. The dark area. Like that. And now, it shows like a little water drop. Now, take a look at the shape on the table. Now, this side needs to be darker. I'm going to use the little green color. And gradually connect it. That looks good. Now, come back. Use the one inch brush. I'm going to add this a little bit softer. To the final touch to the table. Now, this painting is already finished. Now, it's your turn. Have fun.