Watercolor Painting a Rocky Stream

Today I'm going to show you how to paint this rocky stream with watercolor. Before we begin, please share in a comment where you're joining us from and what would you like to see more in our future videos. If you haven't done so, please subscribe to this channel. Come to our Patreon to learn about our Enjoy Now member benefits and the ad-free full member learning center. And you can join us now for free. We already did a painting lessons using acrylic. How we're going to do that with transparent watercolor? And now I'm going to walk you through this process. I want to show you the material that I use. This is mediums of watercolor paper. Cold pressed, 12 by 9 inches. The paints using Jetman's finest watercolor paints. I only used these four primary colors. Yellow, red, two different blue colors. I'm just going to use a little bit cool color. Just a little bit tiny blue. And let's take a look. And if you haven't watched the acrylic painting demonstrations, and you can go under the opaque painting library. And take a look over here. This rock and I think this is this rock over here divided into like three. Almost three. So I'm going to show you that what I observed. This is a rock over here. And this is a little bit less. That is a rock here. Like that. And that's good. And over here. And almost like a half and half. Like that. And then coming over here. That is one. Connecting these two. And that's another rock over here. And see that? That's a shadow. That's good. Like that. And then have another rock connecting over here. But a little bit dimmer. That's good. And this is pretty good. Now, what we're going to do. We're first going to use the flat brush. And I'm going to make a little shadow over here. But before we do that, I'm going to start a little bit lighter color. Okay. First, I'm going to take a little bit yellow. Take a little bit red. So a little bit warmer color. Now, here we go. Now, I'm going to put that a little bit over here like this. And take a little bit more yellow. There you go. Like that. And this is going to be a little bit darker. So here we go. This is the light side. Just put a little bit light color in. And this a little bit lighter color. And you may not see the orange color in the light area. It's actually orange. A little bit more orangeness. Sometimes we can amplify the difference between the light and shadow. So now I'm going to use a little bit tiny blue color. And put it over here. And maybe the red shade blue color. I'm going to have that a little bit over here. And the bottom over here. And this side, you can see that a little bit cooler color in the shadow area. Like this. Okay. You can leave a little bit more dry brush somehow. That will be fine. I got over here. I'm going to have a little bit tiny. There you go. A little bit more blue. Maybe a little bit more green shade blue color. But take a little bit red. This is good. Like this. Now I'm going to put that onto this side. A little bit too much. Take a little bit yellow color. That. This is good. There we go. This whole rock. Whatever you see right now. It may not be dark enough as we moving forward to make the other area even darker. Okay. There you go. So you don't need to too nervous about it. So it's okay. And you can change the shape if you want to. Okay. This is no critical. Have to be one way or the others. Okay. There we go. Like that. I'm going to have this. The shadow over here. A little bit darker on here. Now I'm going to walking into this area. I don't have to get into the very dark color right away. And I'm going to mix the yellow. And this is good. A little bit more like a light brown color. Okay. Here you go. Like that. And you got this is good. And over here can be a little bit dimmer. So I'm going to take a little bit blueness. There you go. Like that. That's the shape here. And I leave a little bit light at the corner over there. I'm going to have this color all the way into the background. Because it's going to be the background even darker. This way. So it's okay to make the color a little bit more stronger. A little bit exaggerated. That's totally fine. Okay. This is good. Now I'm going to come into the front over here. That will be really, really quick. And I'm going to mix the blue color. I'm going to mix that in here. I'm going to get quite a bit of yellow. There you go. I'm going to just start walking into the front over here. And take a little bit more yellow. Okay. Here we go. And that the green color coming up to the water over there. And this is good. This will be the base color. And also I have the green color over here. And the reflection even though it's not dark enough. Okay. I'm going to take a little bit more yellow color. Okay. Here we go. Like that. That's good. Use just a little bit the tip of the the flat brush. You can cover or define the smaller shape. This is good. Right over there. Leave a little gap between this. Very good. Coming over here. And this rock. Keep looking for the shape. That's good. Like that. Wonderful. Now coming down over here. And directly come down here. And cut into the shape over here. Keep thinking about shape, shape, shape. And think about the value of the shape. Make it a lot easier to knowing what you look for. Okay. That's good. Wonderful. Now coming over here. I'm going to get a little bit tiny more blue color. And corner over here. There you go. Like that. That's good. And I'm going to come in over here too. Define it even a little bit more. Take a look at this rock. I'm going to have this. That's good. Right there. And a little bit more blue onto the shadow here. So here you go. Like that. And then on top of this rock. Wonderful. I'm going to have a little bit catch the shadow. That's good. Now looks pretty good. And the top over here. Now I'm going to also use this corner of the brush. Coming a little bit tiny more into this shadow side. This is good. And keep using the larger brush for a little bit longer. Before we go into the detailed shape with the clicker brush. Okay here you go. Like that. This is good. Wonderful. Now coming over here. This is another gap over here. But we can take care of that a little bit later. Now take a look at down over here. And coming down over here. A little bit more. A little bit cool color. Coming down here. This is good. And a little bit darker here too. There you go. Now I'm going to have this a little bit tiny darker. I'm going to take a little bit yellow color. And oh this is a beautiful color. I'm going to put that here a little bit deeper green color. Also a little bit darker. Darker than the rock up over there. This is good. Like that. And I know that the shape over here. It's not exactly look like that. But this is good. And could be even better. I'm going to have this. Just keep all your mind open. Your sense open. Just like you know remember when we were younger. Like the 20 years old. Yeah we don't really need to figure out what we're going to do when we're 60. We need to worry about the thing that we at that moment. And because everything we do or everything we did when we are younger. And actually it would be the step stone into the future. And here we go. This is good. And we can also keep a little bit. Have a little bit tiny darker color. This is still a little bit wet. Which is perfect. I'm going to have that. A little bit suggestions. And what is inside here. That give a little bit suggestion. This is good. Like that. I'm going to have a little bit darker over here too. Now I'm going to quickly coming down to the front here. Now see that here. And a little bit reflection there. This is good. Like that. A little bit darker at the bottom. This is good. And here we go. A little bit darker here too. I'm going to make that. The darker shape. Now what I want to do. I'm going to modify the big color at the front here. And some a little bit darker. A little bit more yellowish. And I'm going to see. So I'm going to take this color. And get a little bit tiny tiny blue color. Okay a little bit tiny blue color. Yeah a little bit more blue. This that's just perfect. I'm going to have that here. And I'm going to have that. A little bit more like a dry brush. Going through here. I have some. This is perfect. Okay that's good. Like that. Reflection. The underwater. But a little bit too early. The thing about the smaller shape. Because we need to identify the larger area. Okay. Figure out the large movement first. Okay here you go. Like that. I really like it. And this is a little bit more green. Now coming down here. And take a look at that. I'm going to have that. A little bit dry brush. Just see through this. A little bit larger. A little bit bigger. Thinking. Okay now I'm going to just have a little bit blue. I'm going to take this blue color. And here we go. Like this. And maybe a little bit too much. Just the blue color. Okay here we go. Here a little bit more of the blue color. Like that. That's good. And the front over here. Have a little bit dry brushes. Like that. Prepare that texture underneath. That's good. A little bit softer. Tiny. This is good. And up over here. Now you can see the color need to be a little bit softer. Like that. That's good. Right there. That's good. Like that. Have a little gap. That's great. Now at the front over here. And I'm going to prepare a little bit more yellow. Now this is perfect. A little bit more yellow color coming down here. Like that. There you go. That's good. I'm going to also have some yellow color at the front over here too. And also going to have a little bit kind of yellowish. But a little bit red for the rock under here. Now this is the good time to put a little bit color in here as well as here. Because they are kind of wet. It's perfect. And get a little bit blue. Okay. This is good. Right here. That's good. And come here too. A little bit more darker color. And then outside of this dark color. We also see there's some a little bit blue. Now take a little bit more blue right in here. Okay. That's good. And also right in here. A little bit blue and the red. Just screen your eye. Keep screening your eye to see the difference in the value contrast. Okay. Here you go. Like that. Yeah. This is under the water. Doesn't need to be very clear. This is very good. Gonna have that a little bit more. A little bit soft shape. Like that. Perfect. Let's use this dry brush and keep going. And trust the thing would come together well. Don't need to have the too much control. Trust that things would come together. That's good. Like that. Tap on it. And the front over here. I'm gonna have a little bit more of those nice shape. Some reflection. That's good. Like that. Now if things would actually come together. More and more look like the underwater. This is good. Right. Just use the tip. Just tap on it. And we can do a little lifting if we want to. Okay. Some little bit sharper details. We can come a little bit later. Okay. That's good. Like that. Now this is already look more as rock. Underwater rock. Yeah. Here we go. I'm gonna have this a little bit darker. Right on this side. Like that. That's good. Now we're gonna work into some a little bit deeper tone. Deeper shape. Here there's some very interesting line across over here. We're gonna see. Like that. Take a look at the line. Very beautiful. Like the moving line. Somewhere a little bit thicker. Somewhere a little bit thinner. You can see that because of the reflection. We already have a little bit cooler blue color over there. That looks really good. Okay. That's good. Like that. There we go. Wonderful. You can see the movement. The direction of those line. This is a multi layers. That's very interesting. Okay. And you can see that this rock have a little bit shape like that. We come back to it. We define a little bit more later. Okay. This is good. Right here. A little bit darker. That's the shape. Interesting. Okay. Come back over here. Pay attention to the gap. That's just the line. The gap. The lighter shape. There you go. Somewhere over here. A little bit thicker. Somewhere a little bit thinner. This is good. That's good. Come in here. Like that. Nice. Now come in here. See a little line cross over. Okay. Here you go. Wonderful. That's just a little bit deeper color. Let's see how those deep color connected. It's not always the same kind of width. You need to pay attention. Find a pattern. Find a rhythm. Of this. That's good. A little bit deeper color here too. Okay. Take a look and come back over here. Now. Put this also a little bit deeper. But I don't want to make this really clear. Like a straight line. I'm gonna have to find an interesting dynamic shape. And see how that move. How that disconnected. Somewhere. And some there. And somewhere is coming back to be clear. I want to have another glaze. I'm going to just take a little bit blue. Take a little bit blue here. Now I'm going to glaze that from here. This is a little bit darker color here. Okay. Yeah. That's good. I'm going to have that a little bit coming over. Here you go. A little bit over here. I'll try to connect it to enhance the movement. A little bit more like this. Okay. A little bit more movement. That is good. A little bit blue. A little bit blue here too. And keep organizing. Keep organize the color. So don't make it look just flat. There's a lot of things going on under the water. Okay. Let's get getting the color. Come down a little bit more here. That's good. Here too. Okay. I can have a little bit more tiny yellow. And coming on the side over here. I can make this outside of this shape and make it look like more like an idea of the shape of the rock shape. Okay. Small rock. Okay. That's good. Right there. And that's good. See this? A little bit low though. You're not just painting the color that you see. I was painting the feeling that you see. I'm going to have a little bit more yellow in here. Okay. Now that's a little bit too much. So I'm going to have this a little bit softer. Coming over. And I'm going to have a little bit more yellow into here too. A little bit tiny yellow. Okay. That's very strong. And I'm going to have not so much. Okay. A little bit. And I'm going to put this a little bit more yellow shape. A little bit yellow shape over here too. And a little bit more yellow in the water here. And also a little bit tiny, tiny red at the bottom of the rock. This is good. Okay. The rock looks good. I'm going to have a little bit tiny more blue. Okay. Sometimes I mix this to the red shade and the green shade blue color together. That's good. Beautiful. Okay. Wonderful. Like that. There we go. That shadow. Connect that. And I'm going to actually remove a little bit using the lifting. Remove a little bit of this shadow shape. I'm just going to brush over a few times. Make this rock extended a little bit more. Oh, that's beautiful. I'm going to use a little bit, a little bit blue. And put it in here. That's good. Make that feel like it's a little bit more like a tone. And also doing that little bit tiny more here too. Okay. A little bit darker here too. That is good. Little bit dimmer. Wonderful. The outside over here, I can make it even dimmer. That's just good. Like that. This maybe a little bit more texture up over there. That's good. Little bit shadow here too. Okay. Nice. That's a little bit catch the shadow on this side. Even a little bit tiny more. Okay. Now come back to the middle over here. I'm going to take a look at, I'm going to have a little bit tiny red. Not so much tiny red right here. I'm going to showing that this rock. Okay. Here we go. A little bit red. Mixing the blue over here. Don't make it too strong. That's good. All right. Looks good. Look like the underwater feeling. Going to have a little bit more here. I'm going to have also a little bit red. Showing could be the rock under here. Okay. This is good. Now I think this painting is finished. If you enjoyed this video so far, please give it a thumbs up and share it with your friends. Come to Patreon to learn more about our enjoying art member benefits. I'm looking forward to see you in our next video. Stay creative.