Painting Watercolors
Watch the video
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Watch Stephanie Sachs paint a quick watercolor
Watch the video "Sketch Pad: How to Paint a Quick Watercolor", uploaded onto YouTube on 19/05/2007 by GeronimoMaui (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hSDovlsbQNI).
Cloze Activity
Below you have some excerpts from the video scripts. Fill in the gaps (only 1 word per gap) as you listen once again.
- Then take your hands and create a so that you could in the composition making the of your hands the of your painting.
- Next take your pencil and sketch in your . Here I’m going to create the nice banana leaves that I liked, some crotons in the , the nice plumeria at the edge, and, of course, the beautiful view.
- Once I’ve finished my , then I’m going to take my Sharpie: must be a marker. I prefer a fine point. I’m going to use it to permanently place my sketch on my paper.
- The first is just going to be yellow, orange, and red. Those are the colors, that will stop you from creating any colors. And remember: the green those colors turn out beautiful.
- Now I’m going to take a blow-dryer and blow-dry my first completely dry. You should not be able to touch it and feel any moisture. This is critical to a good watercolor.
- After your painting is completely dry, it’s time for your colors, which will be your details: green, purple, blue.
- I use a smaller and I start going back in creating all the detail work. Again, because I’ve created it with a Sharpie, I don’t have to worry about staying exactly in the lines.
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