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We have had floods over the last couple of days
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so the weather isn't good enough for outdoor painting
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but we can paint from a sketch indoors.
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This is a pencil sketch of Holywood, near to my home in Belfast
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I plan to paint a simple watercolour in around 15 minutes or so
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I prefer working from sketches
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Photographs can't show you what you saw in a subject
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A sketch can show the tonal differences better than a photograph
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We'll start off with a nice sky wash
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using cobalt blue
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Not too weak. If the first wash is too weak
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it can affect everything else later on.
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I'm using a size 12 soft mop to create the sky
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leaving an edge for the clouds
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I'll use raw sienna for the actual clouds
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and go into the edge of the blue for softness
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Don't worry if it turns slightly green
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I'll leave some edges hard for variety
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With some extra cobalt, I'll bring the sky down to the horizon.
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Below the horizon I'll change to green for the grass
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For green I'll mix a cold yellow with French Ultramarine
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Cold yellows include Winsor Yellow, Lemon Yellow and Aureolin
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For sand I'll use burnt sienna
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Let the colours run together in the first wash
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That's stage one and we can relax. (10 minute drying time)
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We'll continue by painting the parts of the subject furthest back
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I'll use the green I used for the grass with some cobalt to cool it down
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I leave it slightly unmixed on the palette, allowing it to mix on the paper
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I'll add extra cobalt to cool it more
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It is a little too much the same
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so I'll use some pure cobalt
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The trees need to be much darker than the background
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For a warm green, use viridian
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with burnt sienna
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Burnt sienna warms up the cold viridian
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Using the side of the brush, I suggest the trees
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There is a second group of trees
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Painting these trees also paints the side of the building
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Phthalo blue and alizarin crimson make a good purple / gray
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but take care with the proportions to avoid too much colour bias
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With the same mix I will suggest the windows
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Just little lines - the windows are too far away to show detail
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There are perhaps too many similar windows
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so I'll use my finger to smudge them a little
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Never underestimate using your finger as an extra brush
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I need to darken the chimneys so that they are visible against the sky
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I'll use a weak gray
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Ultramarine and burnt sienna
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I'm trying for a gray slightly biased towards warm
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I don't want it to be too neutral
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Too dark
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Probably just too much paint on the brush
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Still too dark - so I'll remove some of the paint
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I'm going to start making excuses here
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Because the camera is in front of the paper
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it is tricky to manage some of the finer details
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It is always important to have excuses as a painter!!
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I'll use the same phthalo / alizarin mix for the other building
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I should really have painted this before the trees
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but things don't always go to plan
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Behind the trees we have some more distant trees
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I'll use a cooler green for them
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Cobalt and raw sienna
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produce a dull green ideal for distance
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I need to darken the nearer trees
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so that the lighter hedge can be seen against them
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Viridian + burnt sienna + ultramarine produces a good dark green
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Because the tree wash is still wet
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the dark merges nicely
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I'm not really painting trees
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They are really just blobs - too far away for detail
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For sea I'll use a gray / blue
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Ultramarine and burnt sienna again
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Some darker green for hedges
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Again I'll use the viridian / burnt sienna mix
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with a little ultramarine
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I leave a gap for a lighter hedge
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I'll put that in later
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The wall is also ultramarine / burnt sienna
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Just a simple stroke across the paper
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and down here too
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Some hedge colour has run into the wall
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but that's not important
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More sea
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Best to let it dry (10 minute drying time)
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I'll paint the lighter hedge
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using a warmer green by adding some raw sienna to the green mix
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There are two walls
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the sea wall and the wall behind the path
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I'll darken to top wall slightly
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It must be dark against the sea
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but lighter against the dark trees
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I'll clean and almost dry my brush
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and this allows me to lighten the wall wash
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I'll put some rocks in at the bottom of the sea wall
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and some marks on the wall to show the slope
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We'll need to darken the grass in part
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You can't see the difference between the sand and the grass
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but that is ok so I need to keep that as it is
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I'll dampen the top of the grass
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and use a darker grass mix of cool yellow and ultramarine
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The darker mix will merge with the damp grass
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Use drybrush for the foreground grass
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It is all to do with tone
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we can see the difference between the grass and the beach
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The beach and wall are a little too similar in tone
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so I'll add some more rocks
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There is a little ship out here
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I'll put it in very simply
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As a simple sketch this is probably ok
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It could be enhance here and there
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We could put a little shadow under the eaves
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and on the front of the chimneys
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That one is a little too obvious
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I think, as a sketch
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that is probably fine.
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I'll leave it as it is