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Painting 2 is wet into wet oranges. Fair warning, this entire painting is wet into wet start to finish, but you totally got this!! Watch all the way through first to get a feeling for the speed and amount of water I use. If you want to work in sections because your paper dries too fast, that works too! The goal is to get a feel for how the water works with the paints, get ourselves to practice moving faster, and let go of perfectionism and overworking the details. I can't wait to see how you do with this one! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Paper: arches 140 lb cotton 9X12" paper that I've cut into 3X3" pieces, giving me 12 pieces per page.

Paint: For this project I am using a split primary palette- cad yellow deep, lemon yellow, cad red, magenta, ultramarine blue, cerulean, indigo and sap green. For today's painting I am only using lemon yellow, cad yellow, magenta, cad red, ultramarine blue and sap green.

Brushes: round 4 and 10 - Princeton brand.

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/PEibzQBZXAc

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Heather R Hare

I think you said you’re using Winsor & Newton pigments this year, yes?

Kristin Van Leuven

Yes! I can’t get the word “magenta” out of my head, but for W&N it’s permanent rose.

Heather R Hare

Oh that’s good to know! I was looking at the sap green… yours is so much darker than mine! I didn’t realize there was such a disparity between Cotman and the pro stuff

Kristin Van Leuven

I’ve been thinking about trying another tube of sap green from W&N too because the paint from this tube has been SO sticky. Makes it so much darker because I pick up a lot of pigment without activating it with water, almost like gouache

Ann Marie

Can't wait to try it

Harry Brownsell

I have Quinacridone Magenta from W&N for my pallet. It's a very vibrant pink and I really like it.

Tara

Hey Kristin! Thanks for another great lesson! I was watching a tutorial where another artist wet both the front and back of his paper in order to extend the wet time. What are your thoughts about that? I assume you work quickly enough that it’s not necessary for you, but I wondered if it might help us slow pokes on projects with lots of wet into wet aspects.

Kristin Van Leuven

Yes this is a great technique! I have done this before, but usually for much larger pieces of paper. I do think I work quick enough for up to a 5x7” without worrying too much about the dry time, but I would be curious to see if you try it on the 3x3”!

Lizzy Carol

I’ve been wondering the same thing! I had a lot of “my sap green isn’t dark like her sap green 😭” moments—but then saw the other posts and felt better. Also need to practice mantra more 😅

Cherith

This was really fun... almost feel panicked trying to work to fast lol! But the Arches paper makes SO much difference. So glad I listened to you and spent the money on it.. really worth it. Thank you!

Tara

Thank you! Yes, he was working on a larger paper, and tends to do wet into wet for the entire first pass at his landscapes, so that probably explains it!

d2marq

Winsor Newton has lots of colors named similarly, wondering which one? Ultramarine (green shade) or French Ultramarine? Cerulean Blue or Cerulean Blue (red shade)? Cad Yellow or Cad Yellow Deep? Lemon Yellow (nickel titanate) or Windsor Lemon?

Kristin Van Leuven

I would go with French ultramarine, plain cerulean, and cad yellow deep. I think the lemon ones are super similar so that’s totally up to you, I did lemon yellow

Kristin Van Leuven

I’m so glad!! It really does make a difference especially with wet into wet

Ruth

Was I also seeing oranges on your nails, Kristin? So cute! Even though I can be a bit of a slow poke, which is driven by being detail oriented, I can’t wait to loosen up and try the reverse wet into wet technique.

Cristina Nava

This has been a very interesting exercise. How do you control your paints when adding a color for not to get moody. Also when it dries, loses all the color. I think painting with oranges and reds are the most difficult colors to paint wet on wet.

Kristin Van Leuven

Less water and more pigment when I’m adding the paints helps, but there’s definitely some muddiness that comes from the blue/green blending in. If I notice too much of the blending I use a thirsty brush to pick it up. Oranges and reds are absolutely tricky for that reason. I add magenta because it brings out the brightness and then near the end of the painting I added lemon yellow back in almost as a glaze to help the orange pop a bit

Cristina Nava

Great. Thank you for the recommendations. I was using too much water on the paint itself. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I also glazed it at the end but maybe was not the color it was needed.

Morgan Powis

This was fun! I struggled with blooms and too much water but I think mine came out pretty good!

Ann Marie

This was fun but boy I struggled

Maike

Good morning from germany, I didn´t start the oranges yet, but I wantto say I LOVE your nails :-) especially the little oranges at it

Heather R Hare

It’s actually a little disappointing to hear that it’s not supposed to be that dark - I really like the dark! I’ve been struggling to find what I would call “forest green”. Similar tones to sap green, but dark like Perylene Green. Like you’re getting from your sticky sap green tube! I am eying Daniel Smith’s sap green as it seems to get a little darker than WN, but it also seems a little duller than WN, and I’m not sure I like that 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jeanette

I really enjoyed painting this one!!!!

Roseanne Therese

This was wonderful! The class on New Year’s Day helped so much 💕

Laurie VanDerMeid

Mine also came out so light and muted and the stems and leaves ran a bit much but the colors are really pretty !

Gigi Hyland

Oh my. This was a difficult one for me. I had trouble getting the dimension/shadow on the oranges as well as the skin texture! Will keep trying.

Jennie

Ooof that was a challenge. Definitely not my best but enjoyed the process.

Jeany Pfaff

I have the Daler Rowney paints- Is Alzarin Crimson close to a magenta?

Marlene

That wasn’t my favorite. I had such a mess, so redid it in my own style.

Tweety

me too! :)

Virginia Perejda

Loved doing this! I am a true beginner, and made sure my colors were mixed and ready to go.

Darlene McGrady

Never tried painting fruit before...It was challenging, but fun!

Anita Wrigglesworth

I loved this one 😍 I'm very happy with my results 😁

Nivedita

This is beautiful 😍

helen

Á little late to the course. Loved this one so much!

Lizzie P

Thank you for an interesting tutorial! I was a bit slow so my paper dried and stopped blending. I needed to add clean water back. But my painting turned out pretty good at the end.

Donna Hale

Thank you for this lesson, this is exactly what I've been waiting for-that fuzzy watercolor look. It was such fun. And thanks for repeating to go quickly, I always want to over-work my paintings.

Jennifer McCarron

After 2 tries I gave up. I even played the video at .5 speed. You'd think my water would dry up cuz I went too slow cuz of that but nope, still just bleedy blooms all over the place

Adelheid

It's a shame that translation into German isn't possible.

Linda

That was fun! And so helpful! Loved the experience of creating more light with adding and at the same time picking up the water! I’m only just starting watercolor since 2 weeks and am really using your 100 squares to just let myself play and figure it out. 🥰