June Tutorial: 🦜🌺 Outlines & Palette (Patreon)

Hi All! ☀️ I just put the finishing touches on our June composition - Cockatoo and Stargazer Lilies. In this tutorial we will practice something very cool - "delayed" or "controlled" wet-in-wet technique, that - with some timing tricks - will give you different and very interesting blending effects.

Excited to finally share this painting, along with the outline and pigment list:) You can get started on the drawing while I am editing Part #1 video for you for this weekend. As you will see in the upcoming video, I ended up doing 3 different versions of this painting, in order to perfect the palette and also to try a dark background. The final painting video is about ~5 hours so I will be releasing 4 videos total over the next 3 weeks. Enjoy! 

PS: please note that I will be going through messages this weekend, so if I've missed any over the past week - my apologies! It's been an incredibly busy time with work this month and I appreciate your patience. 

🎨 WATERCOLOR SUPPLIES:

PAPER: Arches Cold Pressed 140lbs 100% cotton paper, 12 x 12 inches.

BRUSHES: 3 synthetics Chronos from Escoda in sizes 0, 3, and 6

MAIN PALETTE + MIXES

MEDIUM YELLOW: Cadmium Yellow DS. Alternatives: Benzo Yellow QOR, or any medium to warm transparent yellow will work. Avoid cooler yellows such as Lemon Yellow.

COOL/MEDIUM RED: Quinacridone Red QOR. Alternatives: Any medium or cool transparent red. For example: Carmine DS, Quinacridone Magenta, Quinacridone Fuchsia DS, Quinacridone Rose DS.

WARM DARK RED: Permanent Alizarin Crimson. Alternative: Bordeaux DS, Quinacridone Violet QOR (other brands are too vibrant, but QOR is quite dark and brown-ish, so it will work].

BROWN/VIOLET: Perylene Violet DS. Alternatives: Perylene Maroon DS, Quinacridone Violet from QOR {W&N version is too pink).

WARM BLUE: Phthalo Blue RED Shade W&N. Alternative: Phthalo Blue Green Shade.

WARM GREEN: Hookers Green DS. Alternative: any medium to warm green, you can mix your own shade, using warm yellow and blue from above {go heavier on yellow}!

COOL GREEN: Aqua Green DS. Alternative: Pthalo Turquoise QOR, or any cool blue-ish green, you can mix your own shade, using warm yellow and blue from above {go heavier on yellow}!

OPTIONAL PIGMENTS / EXTENDED PALETTE: 

PURPLE: Dioxazine Purple QOR. It's optional, but would be very convenient to have. Alternative: your main cool/medium Red or Magenta + your warm Blue from above.

YELLOW GREEN: Green Gold Daniel Smith. Alternatives: just mix yellow and green from above.

WARM LIGHT RED: Quinacridone Coral DS. Alternatives: re-use your medium red from above. 

ORANGE: Transparent Pyrrole Orange DS. Alternatives: any orange of your choice, or mix your yellow  and red from above. 

WARM YELLOW: Hansa Yellow Deep. Any warm, even orange-y yellow will work. 

DARK BROWN: Burned Umber. Alternatives: any dark brown / purple.

BLACK / DARK BLUE: Indigo. Alternatives: Payne's Gray or pure black. Truly optional.