Translucent Jellyfish / Knitting
Translucent Jellyfish
Wet the entire paper, and without waiting, with the wash brush, let large dense washes of mixed or juxtaposed blues diffuse, nuanced in places with a little magenta.
Tilt the paper to obtain pigment movements in the water.
When the paper becomes matte, start the lifting by pumping the blue with the medium and/or beveled brush where you want to obtain the light effects in the body of the jellyfish.
Let the halos form, but pump up the excess water if you feel overwhelmed. In the damp matte finish, nuance the main jellyfish with magenta. Depigment the filaments on a dry surface.
Knitting
After carefully drawing the balls of yarn and the needles, abundantly wet the paper in all directions. Let it soak for 5 minutes, distributing the water well to avoid the formation of puddles, then empty the excess water.
With pasty pigment mixed in the palette, apply Winsor red. It must bleed but not too much, and must not produce thick deposits either.
Make a dense cream of violet from ultramarine and magenta. Deposit some on the second ball of yarn without waiting.
While the paper is soaking up water to its core, pump up any puddle that might settle on the sheet. It is on this condition that it will remain stuck to the block throughout the session!
With the beveled brush, deposit creamy ochre into the second ball and Mars black in the shadows where the threads cross, and a violet-blue on the needles.
At your convenience, apply cerulean blue shadows either on a wet surface in a dense wash, or on a dry surface in a light wash.
Proceed with a few liftings to introduce highlights on the woolen threads. And the needles.
Sign and frame!
End of the watercolor lessons!
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