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Cow in Water Tutorial - Part 2 - Advanced (Patreon)

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2023-10-02 23:03:47
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Here is Part 2 of the Cow in Water Tutorial.

Part 1 is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90217870

All of the files you need to complete the painting are attached below my message to everyone on Part 1.

Louise

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If you are looking for tutorials you will find all of them on the indexes below.

Tutorial Index Links to bookmark:

Website index with linked images: https://www.louisedemasi.com/patreon

Clickable Word index: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34865676

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Cow in water for Patreon Part 2

Louise De Masi ©

Comments

Cheryl Totty

Hi. I'm VERY new to watercolor, and new to your Patreon channel. Sorry if you've answered this, either directly or through observing how you work, but I have a question about general workflow. I know about painting light to dark, but how is this applied? Do you paint light on all objects in the image and then proceed to paint darker across them, or do you paint light to dark on one object, then move to another object and paint light to dark? Does the process depend on one's style, or is there a best practice, or is it something else? I'm finding myself doing it object by object, but I'm not sure it's the best way. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work and talent with us!

Louise De Masi

Hi Cheryl, I try to paint light to dark across the whole painting, usually not individual sections. Its hard to gauge how dark you need to go in small sections, as well as that, dark colours lift really easily. Once they are applied to the paper you don't want to disturb them because you'll get in mess. So it's always good practice to leave the darks to the end if you can. This post might be of interest to you: https://www.patreon.com/posts/56363611

Cheryl Totty

Thank you for the response. I'll go and read the post. ❤️

Darin

I am wondering how to edit paintings for prints when the painting has a background.

Louise De Masi

Hi Darin, When the painting has a complete background I don't do much to it. I scan it and then I lighten it slightly in Photoshop to get it ready to print. That involves using the 'curves' tool. I raise the curve slightly in the middle and that's about it.

Darin

Hi Louise. Yes, I understand that. I should have written "when the painting has a partial background", or as a splash of color, like some of your flowers. Or use Saunders Waterford extra white paper, maybe?

Louise De Masi

Hi Darin, If there is white paper showing on a partial background I remove the white area in Photoshop with the eraser tool before I print from my scan.

Basia

Wow, Just completed this wonderful tutorial....for me one of the best I've done with you....You have definitely "captured a moment " with this one.....those first tentative steps into the water... lovely layers of transparency & reflections etc......a great lesson for me as I have never tackled water like this before.....Many Thanks !

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much Basia - I'm glad you enjoyed it. Well done on tackling water for the first time - sounds like you nailed it!

Barbara

How do I find the index of tutorials in the app? Barbara

Louise De Masi

Hi Barbara, Dom here. It should be pinned as the first post on the home page.

Christine Detrick

Yes, I did learn some things! One of them was your color mixing. I'm painting a scene from the farm I grew up on in Vermont. My dad was a dairy farmer, and we had Holstein cows (as is this one in your painting). I painted it once, but the colors weren't right, so I will repaint it using your color mixes and post it when I'm done. Thank you!!