Happy New Year my friends! Let's start 2025 in a gentle way by practicing a very useful skill in watercolor painting: shading. In this video, I am going to either create or use shading in a couple of different ways to either accentuate a focal point or create dimension in a shape. I hope you will feel like either painting or relaxing with me!
#mixed_media #abstract_watercolor_painting #relaxing_art #intuitive_painting_techniques
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* Watercolor paper (Arches, cold pressed - https://amzn.to/3OEcLiq)
* Paper cutter - https://amzn.to/4ghN3Mx (for this process, I cut my paper to approximately 7 x 10 inches)
* Artist tape - https://amzn.to/3D8ye0n
* Water
* Paper towel
* Watercolor in Burnt Umber (https://amzn.to/49rIv48), Turquoise (https://amzn.to/4gkCKHL), Van Dyke Brown (https://amzn.to/3ZWuvfy), Phthalo Turquoise ( https://amzn.to/3ZWuvfy), Neutral Tint (https://amzn.to/4gGurXd) and Titanium buff (https://amzn.to/4gWbTSI)
* Watercolor in Classical Gold - https://amzn.to/3P59Kb2
* Watercolor brushes in varying sizes - https://amzn.to/3NMUUWp
* Micro mini brush - https://amzn.to/4dSrq5g
* Fountain pen - https://amzn.to/3CWFFb7
* Ink for fountain pen - https://amzn.to/3Zh5U3A
* Dotting pen - https://amzn.to/4gcaIxK
* Ink for dotting pen - https://amzn.to/4gbth5X
The music for this video was provided by the You Tube Audio library: Thank you Jesse Gallagher and Kevin MacLeod for giving us permission to use your zen compositions! Almost in F - Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
I recorded my video using my iPhone and edited my video using iMovie.
My thumbnail was created using Canva.com. Many of its features are free and so easy to use!
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And most of all, thank you for watching! Have a great week and happy creating!
Gabrielle :)
00:00 Introduction
10:57 Starting the shading process
23:49 Shading to accentuate a focal point
30:25 Shading using stippling
32:40 Shading to give dimension to objects in painting