This is the fishing boat "Clematis" moored in the estuary at Christchurch, New Zealand.
This is the scene we will paint today, using watercolors on Saunders 300gm paper.
Always use good quality paper, as washes etc. will be easier.
The image is converted to greyscale and the contrast level is adjusted to give a faded image, this reduces the amount of ink used during printing.
Using the poster function on your printer, it can be printed to any size required, spread over several sheets of paper. For those who want to see an alternative method of printing across multiple pages (or for those who have printers without this feature), be sure to check out our tutorial!
Sheets are trimmed and glued together ready to trace onto your watercolor paper.
Line Drawing
If the lines are too strong, use a putty eraser to lighten before painting.
Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber,French Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Light Red, Alizarin Crimson, Paynes Grey
Unless you are extremely confident in laying fast washes and painting around objects, I would suggest you mask off the boat and the white reflections in the water.
I use "Art Masking Fluid for Watercolor" made by Winsor and Newton.
The background houses and radar dome on the boat's superstructure were also masked.
With the paper upside down and the board tilted at about 15 degrees, apply a graduated wash from the tree lines to the top of the paper.
Dilute the wash with clear water as you work towards the top.
Using a mixture of Ultramarine with a touch of light red, apply a wash to top left corner allowing the paint to run wet into wet.
On the lower part of sky, just run the paint in streaks across the paper in a diagonal direction and allow it to blend.
Paint in the distant trees using payne's grey with a touch of raw sienna, changing to raw umber as you reach the waterline.
Before this dries add some payne's grey to give the trees some shape - soft edges will be produced as the original wash is still wet.
Very little detail or tone as they are in the distance.
Just a hint of activity!
Some detail is also painted to far right shoreline, keeping it simple and distant. Use a diluted mix of paint.
Using horizontal brush strokes, paint the water in, leaving some of the paper showing through.
Use blotting paper to lift some of the wet paint, creating lighter vertical bands.
The narrow strip at shoreline will be painted later.
Fold a piece of blotting paper in half to give a thicker edge.
While the paint is still wet, blotting paper is used to lift some of the paint.
While held on edge, the angle of blotter is varied to produce a variety of ripples.
To the left, you can see the results obtained after applying blotting paper to the wet wash.
The paint has to be blotted immediately after laying the wash, in order to get the maximum effect.
Boat and white reflections still masked with fluid.
First washes on water completed.
An additional wash is added to the background water, in order to emphasize the darker reflections.
The reflection of the boat's bow line is painted first to give some direction and length of reflections as a guide.
No straight lines!
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