Hello Sketcher,
It's hard to think of a blank page as an essential part of a watercolour sketch. For example, many watercolourists struggle to leave highlights untouched.
But what if half the page were untouched, and left blank? That's how you depict light when it comes to watercolour paintings. By doing nothing! Well, not quite. The darker you make the object next to the highlight area, the more the light shimmers. It's like magic!
In this sketchalong tutorial I show you how I do exactly that during an afternoon's sketch session at the seashore near me. I have a beautiful new electric bike with a basket in front, that I got especially so that Reuben can come with me on sketching jaunts. He loves it: I have put a very luxurious dog bag inside the basket (it was a bit small),securely tied in, so he can hunker down with the zip closed over his bac k, with just his head peeking out, and feel the wind in his hair as we zoom along.
All members of my online sketching community have the sketch sent to them via email, starting today, 24th June 2024, so if you like to print something out, or look at a reference sketch on another device as you work, then be sure to join. Not to mention that you get access to nearly two hundred 90-minute classes when you sign up...covering every topic I could think of. Just go to my website and follow the steps. It costs €19.99 per month - for access to literally hundreds of classes, with more to come. I guarantee you a busy summer if you try to do them all!
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And happy sketching!
23 июн 2024
