Watercolor Painting - Crocus Flower in Field-How to use Salts-Wet on Wet- Wet on Dry Technique

Hi everyone! Welcome to my channel. Painting Yun here. Today, I want to share with you how to paint beautiful crocus flowers in the field in watercolor using a few different methods and techniques. In this painting, I will use wet-on-wet technique and use a sum of salt and watercolor water drops in the background area. Okay, here is a reference photo. It has four flowers and huge tree trunk here. The tree trunk is too big, so I will change the composition a little bit. So, remove a part of the trunk like this and add another flower in front of the left foreground area. Okay, before we start, let me show you my beautiful materials for brushes. I'm going to use a two-inch flat wa-hon brush for the background area and Escoda and DaVinci brush. And colors, sap green, cobalt green, burnt umber, ultramarine deep, bright violet, oprah. So, if I need on my own palette colors and paper towel, cream, two cups of the water, and oh, paper. Paper type is I'm going to use a World Archie cold-pressed 140 pound paper. First, start by sketching with a two-inch pencil on watercolor paper. So, I'm going to place my flowers in the center here. Not a center, a little bit of a right side with a good composition. So, first, I'm going to place my huge trunk, tree trunk, a little bit of a tilt to the right side and flowers here. I'm going to put here and small flowers, another small flowers in here. Okay, and then try changing object on your own. So, we can be a creator, right? Okay, and then also we do not need to draw the same as the reference photo exactly. So, I placed a little bit of tilt the trunk and added some small buds, small flowers in here. Okay. Okay, next step, we are going to use a wet-on-wet technique and for the background use some light watery colors. So, first, we are wet the paper. Use a big wash brush. Okay, for the sky area, first, get some ultramarine deep and cobalt green. Okay, tilt the paper side to side, making holes. Change the brush and some of the bright violet. Take some bright violet mix, oprah. I put on the background area for the sunflowers. Here is the crocus field. So, many flowers in the background area and in front. So, we are using this flower color here and there, just touching the paper. Yeah, mix together. Okay, still, this paper holds a lot of water. So, it's a good time for using the splatter technique. So, I'm going to use some deep background color. Okay, here, foreground area, I will use some burnt umber and burnt sienna. Burnt umber makes ultramarine deep, so I want to get very strong density color. We already applied the first layer on the trunk with the background color. Still, this paper holds a lot of water. So, now, it's a good time for using salt on the foreground area. This is salt. This is sea salt. You can use the table salt also. After dry, this salt makes some of the beautiful extra effect. Okay, big tree trunk, take some very deep and strong density color. So, I mix, burnt umber makes ultramarine deep. So, get some color, draw some pattern on the trunk. Okay, I'm going to do some scratch on this trunk area. So, you can use the back of the tip, back of the brush of the tip, or you could use some knife or a nail. Hi, I'm come back here. So, we're going to take out this salt. Use the paper towel, rub gently and slowly. Okay. This flower is behind this flower. So, color I will a little bit lighter than this color. So, kind of make, I'm going to make a little bit of a blurry color. So, add some less contrast color on this flower. Just a tip and under the flower area. Okay, next, bright violet, a thick and strong density of color. So, I'm using this mixture of the purplish color. I put on this down area of the flower. And then, draw some lines in the petal. All petals has some lines in the petal. Actually, they are veins of the flower. This is stems. Okay, here, draw some lines in the petal. I'm going to touch the tip of the petal with a strong density of color. Here, too. I want to add some bright color on the highlight area. And so, I'm using oprah color. Take a look. These flowers, so beautiful, right? Color is so vivid. What I'm doing now, take some yellow color, put on the stem one. Here, too. Okay, next, I'm trying to apply color on this leaf area. Take some sap green mix, ultramarine deep. So, I want to get very dark, strong green color. Yeah, already this paper hole dried. So, I cannot use the wet-on-wet technique. So, and then with the clean water, you can dilute some of the color. Yes. Okay, I'll finish this painting. Thank you for watching this video. See you next time. Bye.