Small brush does small things. This is really dried out and I want to show you how to work on dry paper. Now there's that little spot that looks like bark coming up. So I'm just taking a little bit of this paint here. A little piece of paper just to dampen it a bit and just created darkened around that little spot with a small brush. There's times when you want to be very, very careful when you're painting.

Other times you want to assume a boldness so that your paintings a combination of pleasing little effects carefully oldness people get excited about certain areas of the pitcher I'm not too worried about the color right now I'm really concentrating on what we call contrast. There's a little limb coming out here or a branch. And I'm making that so that I don't touch it. dry paper when not touched by the wet brush remains dry, and you can keep that contrast and get a good sharp image here. Now I'm going to start fading it out here. And I'm going to add a little more red to it just using three colors.

And I can extend that later. Now you'll see I'm coming to the rock now. And I think I'll go right over this section here. And I can make that branch go up a bit later. Pour, I can shorten it right now to about there, which I like. And now just take water, water will create a transition from the dark paint to the light paint and it's still darker than the Top of the Rock.

Now the purple is going over the yellow, and the lovely brownish worn brown color. Now it's too hard there. That's, that's a hard edge, you know, dark right there. So just tap in a little more to get a soft transition. So not only can you have hard edges, you can or soft edges you can also have soft transitions. And this is starting to look like another rock here.

I might just round that off. Now that's what we call a nice little happy accident. We ended up with another rock, although it was grass in the beginning. So watching is important. You're watching what happens. Let's get a little bit of the pure blue in here to a little bit more of the failover.

And let's make a soft transition. A hard transition is like from cold to warm. So I'm gradually building up with this little brush. Nice transition that So there we go. There, dry brush. See the dry brush and make that right into water there.

You really can't go wrong with watercolor. If you go dark, very gradually. Okay, now I'm just going to give the mountain a little bit More of a character by adding some green mixed in here. Just little strokes of green. The papers just damp enough so that it's kind of give me a tree texture. There we go.

Just adding a little tree texture to texture is very important. textures exciting, makes your picture dramatic. tells a story. I'm just gonna leave that right like that. Take a little bit of this brush here and just dry brush some grass into here. Some texture, texture.

Okay, time to establish a little bit of orange. You can see from the photograph birch trees can have very, very dramatic oranges. So I take a little bit of the Hansa and a little bit of my cadmium red. And right up in the sky I'm going to I could almost close my eyes and just pop in a few of the orange leaves on the extremities and in the middle in here and a few on the ground to show that it's fall and some of the leaves have fallen. So there we go. Now there will also be a few green leaves except a very beautiful warm green and add a few green leaves.

Color accents always make your picture exciting. Too much color makes it very very unpalatable. Just too much color and let's add a couple of dark ones. See, random is random. Don't try to plan or try to control. Get your leaves in there and get some random leaves in there.

Perfect. Let's take a little break. Now a small brush is a safe brush. So don't be afraid to get safe if you feel like you might be losing control sometimes play it safe. Take a small brush and take a small area. Put a little paint on a little water and take that little blue area here.

Let's define this cloud. painting your picture upside down or sideways sometimes will give you a better perspective on what your picture has as far as design qualities, shapes. shapes are important in pictures. Okay because this is what now I can Do something I can add very strong blue. It's gonna take a little bit of the ultramarine it's gonna drop it in here. Whoa, okay, even I got a reaction on that one, add water.

Bring it over. And let's see what happens if we let the painting. Do the work. I like that run down. Then turn it use your paper towel. soften the edge.

Pick up the drip and leave it for a few minutes on an edge. Let it run downhill for a while. See what it looks like before you leave Pick up that little drip, or you'll get a bleed mark. This is what really makes a birch tree and that's the shine in the middle. Now in order to do that you need a cool side and a warm side and white in the middle. We will start with the warm, a very small amount of the cadmium red.

You could use a small amount of orange anything that will get up the side of the birch tree. Just I'm just going to do one little section to show you. Now you see the white paper here. Then I'll come on this side with a little bit of the warm and then leaving this white space in the middle that follows up the tree. I'll just take a little tiny bit of the fellow blue and I'll bring it up to the warm red. Now I have to clean out my garage and very well.

I've got my water here and make sure my brushes really clean by touching it to a paper towel or rag. Yes, it's clean water. And now I want to still leave the middle dry. Member we're balancing dry and wet here and soften just a bit of the edge there. Especially up here you can see it now because this is wet and this is what I can probably add a little more darker blue in here. And see if I can make this white part stand up.

There we go. And now I just continue up the tree with that little bit of blue on one side in order to make the shine on the bark, you're always adjusting a few things and maybe add a little more. A little more shadow down the grass here. There we go. A little bit here and there. Then we have a little bit of a shine on the bark.