One of my favorite things to do is to divide the picture up so that you can get two pictures out of it. They don't have the exactly in the middle, but I'm going to put a line through here. And I'm going to put two here because eventually we're going to be probably cutting these into two pictures. So we want equal whitespace on each side. Then we just go around the edges with this tape, it's painters tape, so it has a very low acid and it's not tacky. It doesn't leave a lot of residue on your picture.

And I like these small pictures because small is easy to handle, and you don't need really big tools. So there we go. I'll just finish that up. And I want to show you our first little evergreen tree, and how nicely it's going to fit in here. This is just a quick little sketch lots of verticals, you see a few horizontals alone tree is going to be misty using our web paper and some rocks. So let's take a look at this.

And let's draw this picture and then transfer it onto here. I've gone over it with my pencil, put it on here, tape it down. And then go over everything with my pencil. Just rub rub, rub, rub, rub, rub rub everywhere here. All these areas get robbed and it'll show up on the back side very faintly which is what I want. I want it thank now I have two options.

One, let me just show you it. Let's see it could take my pencil if you like pencil work and you can colvard with your pencil because you're going to be doing this in watercolor. So there's our other drawing beside it if we need some help, I even have this one. So all these reference material, that's what you want, you can take your time filling it in your finger to rub it in, you could spend, you know, a fair amount of time just drawing it in in pencil. Couple of these lines going down here just to remind me that the Miss is falling down. It's going to be a beautiful misty little drawing.

Now that is a simple drawing. I could take my pen which I like pens, and just add a few marks in here in there. You don't have to do that. Just a little bit he put my name for finished it. I like it. It's good, simple, nice vertical round, very pleasing shape.

Can't wait to paint that one. Got a big jug of water now we're going to get serious. We're going to take our little picture that we did, we went through the process. I'll put it there for reference. And that was the pencil one which we transferred on here and I taped it up with this Low tack tape, we're ready to go. Let's get started and take the biggest pressure you have are going to wet the paper.

So we're going to use this clean water here, just for wedding. I'm not going to use it for cleaning my brush. So I have my big squirrel hairbrush here. And I'm letting the paper get a good little soak of water. Now, as I'm putting this on, it's the French watercolor paper. The arches paper is now becoming wet.

It was dry, but now it's wet. It's not puddling but it's soaking the waters going down into the paper, and the fibers of the paper are moistening and getting receptive for any moisture. It's like a sponge. bunch. Once the sponge is wet, it will only take so much water and then it will be saturated. Now why is it my paper buckling crinkly because it's 140 pound and it's taped.

Now anything under 140 pounds, say 90 pounds, it would probably buckle a bit, but if you stay small, that's a half sheet. you'll do fine now, you can't paint right away. To let it sit for a minute. You can see the big puddle of water there. Tilt the paper a bit and just tap it gently to pick up the big drips, puddles work sometimes, but mostly we want to just tell out the extra water so water runs downhill. I have my brush here with the blue.

And I'm going to just come down with a blue stripe right here. One there, click a little more one right over the rocks here for shadow area and one more right beside it. Now depending on how I tilt my paper, by tilted this way, they'll run together. And that depends on how wet your paper is. If your paper is really wet, now it's good to run all the way over to the other side and fall down. So I can coax that a little bit by putting another swipe across the right across there.

Now it's running downhill, water runs down. Now you notice I'm watching. Let it keep going down hill. actually looking at it from here, I'm going to clean my brush in the big jug. And I'm going to keep that tilted. So you have to switch hands go ahead, because you don't want to pass over your paper with a wet brush, you might drop water on it and ruin the effect.

You'll notice that I've very patient, I've been waiting and look, look what it's doing. It's doing all the work for me. All the work is being done. Now I clean my brush, and I'm going to take a little bit of the yellow hair Much and I'm going to sweep it across the bottom. Now I'm going to turn. I think I'll do one more sweep here besides the tree.

Sorry, this L shape there. Now you know when this hits that, it's going to turn into green, which is okay. Because it could be misty green, behind here, Misty green few mountains. But in order to think I'm ready to do is I'm going to clean this off. Again in big jog. I'm still watching See, I really haven't painted much.

I'm mostly watching. cleared off and ready to take a little tiny bit of lizard crimson. Like very little, see how thin it is going to have no more water to it. there and I'm going to sweep it Look at the green see the green happening down here. I'm going to sweep it right in here. So when the blue eventually gets to the red or the Crimson will turn into a nice violet, and probably won't sink much more.

Now, something behind the tree I think a little while while in here because it's wet. Now you see the violet picked up a little bit of yellow. So that's okay. Actually, I think I will add a little more yellow and red together to get more of an orange. I don't want to put it here because that'll turn gray I can pick up the drip now. See the big drip here.

So drying my brush off. I could pick it up or I could run it back. Let me I'm going to see what looks like if I run it downhill again. I don't want to go too far is that sky up there. I'll be a little bored. Whoo.

I saw some things happen there. Watching is very important. I'm thinking I'm going to be safe and pick it up. Look what's happening because the papers wet I can lift off. As I dry off my brush, I can lift off some of the paint on the rocks. I could even lift up things here but this is drying.

Because that's drying. I don't want to be touching that too much because any additional water going on that will change it and I like it the way it is. Backing up my trips. You know what? That's pretty decent. I think I'll just watch that now.

Put it down flat and watch it. Now everything's wet. Everything, but it's drying up here. The rocks are still wet. I'm going to go for a smaller brush. And I'm going to mix on the paper.

The paper is wet. It'll tell we'll put some red in here or Crimson just to drop in here to drop in here. We're gonna watch and see how much it spreads not to me. This is really wet. So I'm not going to touch that. Oh, look.

It's going up here. That Oh, K, you like that clean off my brush. Let that dry for a second watch it. The lizard really disperses quite a bit quite a bit. It's one of the paints that disperses really well. Very, very thick look see quite thick.

Just going to put a little dot right in here and mix it on the paper. Mix it on the paper and the paper starting to dry so it's not dispersing quite so much maybe a little bit. And now I'm going to start with a little bit into the tree. Drop. Look at that go look at that dispersive drop out there that amazing just to live little teeny touches mixed at work. We got a little rocks here.

So I'm just kind of put a little touch in touch here. We have these little strokes here. Not quite sure what they're going to be, but they might be trees. I think I'll leave that alone. This one I'm going to stroke it through with the blue and this one with the blue right into the rock. Nice.

Clean off my brush. I'm watching it tapers wet. The paint is fairly dry. I don't care for this too much but I'm going to leave it mind you the papers wet but it's drying. best to leave it for now. Now here's what I'm gonna do.

I'm going to take a very small amount of yellow now and put a little yellow Where it's red, working a little yellow. This is not quite a look exactly like this when we're finished because the paints are going to mix together on the paper. Notice the mixing the paints on the paper rather than in the palette. There we go. Time to let it dry and watch it. Okay, it's dried a little bit.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a little bit of water here. I only waited like a minute or two. I'm just going to gently pull a little bit of this rock texture. Notice how it's turning brown down into the water like this that will bring off One straight across here. Don't hit the top of the rock I'd rather be through the middle. Now because this is darker here, I can just tap my brush gently and come in there with a little darker there.

May be a little darker. Notice I'm using vertical strokes for the reflections. And I can clean my brush off really well. Remember the papers wet. I can do a lot with wet paper. So my brush is really cleaned off right there.

It's quite clean up. And now I'm just going to stroke through here with dry brush. Lift off a little bit. There we go. That's the thing to do now is to let it dry for a few minutes, say five minutes.