How to Paint a Watercolor Apple 🍎 TWO Different Ways | One Subject Two Styles

Today we will be painting a single apple subject in two different styles with watercolor! One, using a dry brushing technique, with plenty of hard edges and thin overlapping layers; and the other, using wet on wet, rendered with softer boundaries and fewer layers. This is an easy enough exercise for beginners to follow along - perfect for practicing water and brush control, and exploring the range of effects you can achieve by simply varying your techniques.
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🎨 MATERIALS USED 🎨
PAPER:
- Stongehenge Aqua Coldpressed 100% Cotton 180lb/300g
PAINT:
- Winsor & Newton Watercolors (Winsor Red, French Ultramarine)
- Daniel Smith Watercolors (New Gamboge, Perylene Red, Pyrrol Red)
BRUSHES:
- Art Secret Squirrel Brush (artsecretshop....)
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[@morrisonwatercolors]

Fun video. I like the dry brush apple the best. 😊

[@dsmith9572]

If you scrape to give highlight hard edges, the wet/wet apple will look shiny

[@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919]

The dry brushed one is my favorite. It looks very painterly and has such a beautiful punch to it. Just found your channel and loved the first video so I subscribed!

[@boxesofsheep]

Thank you so much! I'd have to pick the dry brush one too - just really satisfying to look at 😁

[@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919]

@@boxesofsheep It really is and I think part of the reason is because the values are better.

[@johnkanzler6646]

It has a nice glow from all the glaze layers, doesn’t it?🙂

[@aleidadiaz2261]

Excellent tutorial! The dry looks so textured and almost cubist

[@recreepy]

thank you for bringing so much beauty into the world.

[@Growingold62]

Thanks!

[@boxesofsheep]

Oh heck!! Thanks so much!!! 💗💗

[@tommylee6741]

awesome video!! i am very biased towards wet on wet. life is chaos, embrace it :D keep up the good work!

[@boxesofsheep]

Haha yesss that's best reason 😁 Have a good week Tommy!

[@tonybabb3525]

Beautiful! I have been experimenting with mixing different shades of the same color lately, like you did here with the reds.

[@mlarks28]

I thought you were a bit tough on yourself regarding the wet-in-wet version, I loved it. The shadow bleed was a game changer. Lovely, informative piece,again. Around this neck of the woods people were burned at the stake for doing this kind of stuff (and, of course, if they owned a black cat!). If you're ever in this part of 'leafy England' I reckon they'd probably cut you some slack... don't bring the cat, though. 😉

[@royana29]

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[@linmara]

Today i got my first watercolors and seeing your tutorial gives me an idea of how to start using them ❤ loved it , have a nice week

[@boxesofsheep]

Aww that's awesome, I'm so glad to hear! Hope it goes well 🙏

[@corasartworks]

I subscribed.

[@user-ou2zr2be6y]

Fantastic video. thank you. Would like to have seen the reference.

[@allonewordcaps]

Why don’t you like cadmium red? The video is great too.

[@boxesofsheep]

Thank you! Nothing against the colour, which I love, but it can be irritating to the skin sometimes.

[@allonewordcaps]

@@boxesofsheep Good to know. Thank you for answering my question.