Free watercolour realtime demonstration tutorial ruined castle

Описание: In this video I give a short intro explaining that this is mainly a realtime video illustrating the steps and processes I went through to paint this ruined castle in watercolour. I used Winsor and Newton artist’s pigments on stretched watercolour paper with a Not surface 300gsm. The paper was WHSmiths own spiral bound watercolour pad, which I bought in a sale at a bargain price to use for demonstrations in my classes. It actually stretched and performed very well. For camera work I used a CanonEOS 1300d DSLR and a Crosstour CT9500 for back up and the small time lapse piece at the end. The video has a voice over narrative throughout that explains my thought process and is delivered in the way I narrate when I perform a live demo. Ie I didn’t write a script. Editing was done on ipad in the imovie app. My previous studio videos have mostly been filmed in time lapse but I have recently improved my photo setup so that I can do more tutorial or demonstration style videos when the subject lends itself to such output. THis particular project is the latest in a series of ruined castle watercolours, all with similar compositions but developing the approach with each successive piece of work. This practice approach helps with idea development and experimentation and also helps build confidence. The idea of the class demo was to use nice subject matter but the photo ref, often lacking light or much colour had to be analysed to understand the structure and form of the subject. The idea was also to introduce light and colour and effects to create an imaginative painting rather than just slavishly copying or trying to copy the ref, which would have produced a fairly dull painting even if done accurately. In the UK we often get dull, overcast days when working outside or trying to take ref shots so this exercise is quite useful in terms of re-interpreting subject matter. ie- how do we make a painting of an eyecatching subject when we only manage to get a dull photo from it. Obviously we need experience and knowledge to make such changes work well but just having the knowledge that we can do that is rather liberating and can spark new directions in creative processes. We must expect mistakes and failed paintings along the way and that’s part of the practice ethos. See those ‘failures’ as prep.