Channel: Kelly Eddington Watercolors

Category: Howto & Style

Tags: watercolor workshopportrait (visual art genre)art tutorialart workshopwatercolor paint (visual art medium)portrait painting (visual art genre)watercolor lesson

Description: I’ve always wanted to do this: a YouTube watercolor workshop where I explain how I paint a full-color portrait in detail. I will roll them out one per day this week. This portrait is challenging: messy salt and pepper hair, wrinkles, a beard, and shadows. Part one shows you how I “paint” with masking fluid to produce highlights and the way I use the wet-into-wet technique to create skin. Part two is all about intensifying colors and developing shadows. Part three deals with textures, details, and other picky stuff that makes a portrait look realistic. Part four has me blocking in a quick background and adding finishing touches. The entire workshop lasts around 27 minutes. I’ve broken it up into four parts because my computer can’t handle one big video. It had more than enough trouble with these separate chunks! If people are interested, I might try to create one extra fast speed painting of the entire portrait in the future, but somebody needs to get a more powerful computer first. HO HO HO. Big thanks to my cousin Tyler Sharpe, who took the reference photo and kindly gave me permission to use it. Tyler and his wife Natalie are truly gifted photographers, and you can check out their website here. sharpeandwalker.com "Rowen" is available as a print. imagekind.com/Rowan_art?IMID=d33593f8-64b0-4d61-881c-6bb312057787 Please support me on Patreon! patreon.com/kellyeddington Contact me about a commission! kellyeddington@gmail.com All prints: KellyEddington.imagekind.com Online merchandise store: cafepress.com/kellyeddingtonwatercolors Join me on Twitter! twitter.com/kellyeddington Facebook: facebook.com/kellyeddingtonwatercolors Pinterest: pinterest.com/kellyeddington Website: kellyeddington.com Tumblr: kellyeddington.tumblr.com INSTAGRAM: @kellyeddington Main colors used: cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, cadmium yellow medium, cerulean, ultramarine blue, thalo blue, dioxazine mauve, and sepia, all by Old Holland. Opera by Holbein. Masking fluid: Incredible White Mask liquid frisket Paper: 9"x12" 140 lb. watercolor paper by The Langton (paper is attached to the rest of the block/pad, so no need for tape). Brushes: Yorkminster #5 round, #1 American Painter 4000 round, Loew-Corning #6 round, destroyed. Preliminary drawing: 4H Derwent Graphic pencil. Palette: Eldajon from Jerry's Artarama Nail polish: Essie in Splash of Grenadine. :) Music: "Groove Grove" and "Over Under" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0