First thing we're going to do is wet all the picture with water. Now the pencil depending on the pencil you've used, it may smear a little bit Don't worry about it will just add a nice effect to the picture. So here we go. We've wet the picture on one side and of course the water is puddling and that's okay. As long as we know what happens when water puddles, this will be fine. So wet the paper and then I have selected a new paper towel, give it a couple seconds to sit and penetrate.

So the second secret about water or the secrets about water is it penetrates or it soaks in at sea see this fail blue and I'm going to put it In like that, see how it's puddling and spreading. Checking what's called the dispersion. I'm seeing how how far does it disperse. Not too bad. We put a little bit in the sky here. Remember, you don't have to have perfectly blue skies all the time.

So very watery paint going on to watery paper. wet. Everything here is wet. Think I'll just pull that blue over there. wet, wet, wet, not thick paint. Just wet paint and the sun is coming this way.

So I'm thinking of a shadow here. Look at that spread. I don't even mind if it goes a little bit on the tree. Because part of the tree could be in shadow also. So notice just tapping along the top, checking how it's dispersing. We don't want to be fiddling around trying to paint in between all the limbs.

So I'm going to take some of the pure yellow and find a nice clean spot. Put it on the edge of the brush. And I'm going to give it a little bit of a stay away from the blue. And I'm going to put it where it's a little bit clean and white. And I'm also looking at my other picture And it had some yellow in the foreground. So I think I'll put some yellow up here.

Notice I'm staying away from the birch Street. Got a big puddle up there. Think I'll deal with that right away and what do I do till the paper a bit and pick up the drips. Pick up the drip. just tilt this paper right up there we go. Take a little bit of the take a little bit of the ultra marine this time see what it does.

Ultra marine is a little bit thicker and paste here. Then the fellow bought. It really has a great hue to it. Let's see what happens. little gray or blue or look at this little cloud, I'm getting in here, papers drying there. Okay, I put a little bit up there, put a little bit in here.

Just gonna let that disperse downwards. See just a little bit along the top of the sky. I don't care if it goes over my birch tree. Because this blue comes out nicely, you can lift it very well. They was a little hard to lift up. So notice I'm not painting right over my tree, but I'm painting near the limbs.

And because it's wet, blue is going to fall down almost looks like rain. But I want to look at this here. This is great. They called take my small brush. So when you see a little happy accident like that, don't be afraid to put along a little farther by taking a little bit of water. Add a little blue in there.

Just drop it in, and that cloud is going to show right up. I'll do some hair too. Now my papers wet so I can add small amounts of blue without any fear of being big, hard marks, because it's wet, there's not going to be any dark mines. edges are all going to be soft. And I leave it. Notice I'm watching.

I put the collar on. And then I watch and see what it does. This is a very important spot here because it's starting to drift. Now what happens is your paper if it's too wet, and it puddles too much, the paint starts drifting up like that. So what you do get yourself a dry brush. Very nice.

Tilt the paper. let it drift down this way and pick it up with your brush. We don't want too much paint drifting around as a drip. Keep an eye on your drips. So these are all light tones I put in, there's no dark tones. I haven't even used red yet.

Now I'm going to take a small brush, and I'm going to get the birch tree. On the side. I'm going to see if I can do this with a little bit of Halo and a touch of ultramarine. So I'm mixing my two blues. And I want it to be just a little bit of pain see touching it. I'm going to do a check right here.

See the yellows moving into here? No problem. Watch this. Take a little towel, touch it. We want a little bit of yellow at the bottom because the light reflects into the bottom of the tree. But let's see what happens if I take a little bit of this on the edge of the tree.

I want the tree to look like it's three dimensional. So I think I'll take this side of the tree, the right side of the tree and add a little bit of blue. That blue there and this blue are getting hard edged. So I take a little water on my brush and clean it off. soften the edge and leaving the white middle. birch trees have a shine to them.

And in order to make the shine, you have to leave a little bit of white in the middle. They also have a little Bit of a violet cast. So I've added a little alizarin on that side. I don't know if this is still a little dry, but I think I'm okay there. And they're out in the ground. A little bit on the rock.

See how I've added this little, just little touches of color? Oh, look, it's bleeding out there, see, which tells me it's still a little wet. So what do I do with that? I can leave it, deal with it later or I can fold a towel into the shape I want. Put it right into the tree. Take my finger, just sort of press down a bit, and that'll suck up the water and stop it from drifting over.

Perfect. Actually, I liked that whole thing there. So I've put the paint on. That's looking very birch tree Nice, be careful, don't touch anything else. lifting off a little bit here and there. You can even rip a little piece of towel like this and go over some of it so that you get the white paper back.

Look at that. Perfect, nice white section up. It'll look like the sky is behind it. And I wasn't fussy, I didn't have to put in a mask or anything like that. Just carefully setting my boundaries as to what soft edge and what's hard edge. Just touch it to a few of those little birch lines because I gave this the paper towel treatment.

See it's not drifting all over the place. The very little bits of paint can make a great difference. This is probably very wet, I think I'm going to stay away from their little voices saying to touch that one. I'm going to try. See what it's like in the middle here. Not too bad.

Might drift a little bit No. Remember the that the branches on the birch tree are darker at the ends. So I'm just trying out a few little touches here. This has drifted a bit but I like it. I think I'll add a little more over here on this side. See the little rubbing up the brush.

We don't have to do big areas, we can just add little sections and maybe a couple of these for now. Okay, next thing before we let this dry a bit is to get this a little darker here and here. Just set off the birch tree. So I'm going to make up a little bit of ultramarine with a very small amount of red and I'm going to tilt my paper. I'm going to tilt it this way. Oh, that's pretty dark.

Coming right up to the birch tree, see? pretty brave Mr. mavi. Sort of holding my breath. But I want that contrast of dark and light. Now I could turn my pitcher upside down here with over like this. To get this edge you see because water runs downhill.

I don't want to point it at my tree. And I can get this little this little branch back later probably with a razor blade. But I do want that birch tree to stand out and have a good contrast there. Hey, you know this is working out well because Wow, look at this. This is great. Looks like I have that piece of birch bark that's kind of come away from the tree there.

Remember, anything you don't like can always change later. Wow, that looks pretty good. I would leave that now because watch is very important. You want to watch what you're doing. Don't be always doing, make some of your doing watching. So I'm going to put a little bit in here because I have it here.

Now I'm matching tones Papers still wet so I can add little bits into. I'll even show you a dark here. Quite a dark ultra marine and lizard, drop it in little bits makes the difference. I'm gonna let that dry for a minute and we'll come back to it after it's dry.