- Hi, I'm Kath Macaulay.

This is "Pocket Sketching" and we're gonna be doing splashing water.

It's one of my absolute favorite things, here's an example.

It's not so much about the water (upbeat music) as it's about what's behind it.

Come join me for a fun time of discovering how to make splashing water look like it's water and not a bunch of lead or rock.

It's fun and you'll really enjoy it, come join me.

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- Water takes a little bit of thought before you start.

There's enough, it's sensitive.

This happens to be my very favorite subject.

So I'm gonna open the paint set just because it gives me a moment to get into the zone so I can do it.

So here we go.

A couple of paints are stuck on the lid, that's okay.

You just stick them back in where they go.

Not a big deal.

When they're new, they ride high when they swell with water and it's easier to do this when they're pretty clean.

So start out with water.

Where's it coming from?

That's important, what is it falling over?

I have an example here that's actually pretty good.

This is Sue's garden.

I also have a rough out from it, but notice where the water's coming from.

It's coming from up here.

It's falling over rocks.

What if it's falling straight?

What's the angle if it's falling straight?

Is this it, it just comes down, okay.

If it's falling over a rock, does it come out and down?

You got to notice.

You really got to pay attention.

You've got to get into water and what it's doing.

So if it's coming down like this, does some of it go out like that?

Okay, now how can you see it?

If I try to do this with a pen, there's my water.

That doesn't work too well even when I add water to it.

There's gonna be a bit of a problem here.

So let me add water to it and just a moment.

I'll get the water out, ready to go.

And when I add water to it, do I get water?

Actually I get black lines.

That's gonna be a little bit hard to turn into water, so what am I really, really, really looking at?

I'm looking at the darks around the water.

So let's go back to this same shot.

The darks, do the darks make the water?

You see there are lines in here from the pen, but let's try that over again.

Let's try it using the pen.

Put that down for a minute.

And if I were doing this and looking at a scene outdoors, the water's coming down like this.

This is the water.

There's the other side.

How do I see it?

Because there's something dark over here.

Is that dark a rock?

Then strengthen it, a rock is strong.

Strengthen it, the rock has lines, what's okay.

What's the water doing at the top?

Can you actually see it if it's coming over a waterfall?

What about the other side?

Again, it's not falling off the edge of the Earth, probably not.

Anyway what's on the other side?

Now watch what happens when you make the darks.

Bring the dark up to the water, right up there.

Now begin to build the darks, not the water.

There's a rock and you always have to get used to how much humidity you're dealing with.

There's another rock, I can strengthen those later.

And here's another rock, guess what?

In the middle is the water, so now how do you get that effect?

If I come in with this kind of dark, it's not gonna look like water.

By the way, that line's gonna have to be hidden, so what do you do about this?

Well, in the lid of your box is the answer.

See all this dilute paint up here?

This is the answer.

What's around the water comes next.

There's a bit of the water.

How much do you put in?

Darn little until you're almost done.

Are these rocks supposed to be stronger than this?

Good chance, some ultramarine blue and I might do a little mixing here.

That's a pretty murky gray right there.

Nothing wrong with that, that's strong.

Come in and make a rock have more oomph.

I'd actually say have more guts, but.

Okay, now that's stronger and I'm very tempted to do something that's a way lot of fun right now.

Is that a mistake?

Yeah, but you can get rid of it.

Here's what's a lot of fun.

Wait just a minute.

Meanwhile let's doll this one up a tad.

Make it a little stronger.

What about what's above it, really?

What's coming down here?

Does it splash, does it splash?

If it splashes, leave room for the splash.

And then down on the bottom, you're gonna have the bottom of the splash.

You can do this with the brush and you could do it with a pen, either way.

Probably normally I'd be doing it with a pen.

Okay, now how do I get this to look more like a rock?

It's one of my favorite tools.

This is a credit card.

There's a rock, paper happens to be cold-pressed paper, it's got texture.

It'll look like granite when you press it.

Oh, I don't want that to be at the same place the other one is, really, and I need to put that someplace, okay.

That makes that look more like a rock.

Here comes a splash down here.

Now when I was looking at this one, there's a whole lot of rocks.

There's a scrape, there's another scrape.

These are all scraped.

But let's go to one that I've started and have you see what happens as it goes along because it's not effective.

It's weak, it's very weak.

It should be movable at this time.

This is one that I got started.

Is that right side up or is that upside down?

No, it's right side up.

You see, you can't even tell.

But remember I mentioned that you do a little bit of light, light, light work up in here?

There are lines, there's a line there.

There's a line there to find out where it is.

But now this is the stuff out of the lid of the box.

To make these rocks have more guts, go over them, the rocks are solid.

So if I wanna make that more strong, stronger.

I wonder what happens if I bring this in, go around these.

Those are your splashes.

That might be slightly different in there.

There's the outline, see that water come out?

It almost doesn't matter how you do it.

What matters is that you do it and in a minute, I'll start one from absolute scratch.

But I wanted to have you see the difference when you add darks because the water doesn't exist until it's in something, on something.

Then it really starts to exist.

What about this one?

Oh, and you don't wanna accent anything that's truly weak.

You wanna accent the strong because that's what you want somebody to see.

Not the worst, not the very worst, the best.

That's a good rock.

But now you see that water, don't you?

Then come down in here.

These rocks had a different color, but look at it begin to pop.

It pops because of what's behind it.

Not because of what it is, but the contrast with what comes up behind it.

So let's add a little bit more contrast right here and see how that, well, what about that red one?

Pick up some red.

Stick it in here.

I want it to be reddish.

Reddish.

Can you see it now?

Now this rock is in front of.

At this point, I can change what juts into the water, especially if that happens to be weak.

Then you come out and clean this up so it's in front of.

Now I might want that to be still stronger.

Make something a bit darker and come in stronger.

Maybe not that strong.

Maybe that's too much, but that can be changed.

Then here, how about that one?

Want a little more water in the brush?

Remember this is building the waterfall.

Not so much the rocks but the waterfall.

This one right here, this is pretty contrasty because of this light, but I'm gonna change it a tad because I want it to look natural for a rock, not to look like I left a light.

Darker here, it was a good choice, darker there.

I like it, and I can live with that.

That's a neat expression.

Can you live with it?

I add a bit of dark that helped that one, that's gonna help that one, okay.

Now what if we go back and pick up a bit of a scrape here and there?

I especially like it here.

Just leave it like that.

How about there, there, this one?

It's a little bit too dry to get it to scrape.

What happens if I wet it a touch?

It's the only red rock by the way, so that red ought to be in the other rocks.

Gonna make it work.

Did you notice I'm picking that up out of the lid of the paint box?

This is where you get your slight changes.

Not your major changes, your slight changes.

Major changes go directly to the paint.

Slight ones go up there.

It's got some of that red in it now and I'm playing around with it, bringing it down here.

Okay, now this one.

Did it get get wet?

Do you see how much that waterfall's coming out?

What about really dark right down there?

This is a pretty good color, I like it.

Don't want it to look like I just manufactured it and I like coming in under there.

Okay, little more scrape there.

See how it goes.

I don't like the line.

I mean, this is getting picky.

I don't like this sweeping line under a rock.

Rocks are abrupt.

They're not exactly play things.

Can I get it now?

But you see the waterfall.

What if I just leave it there, will that work?

Yeah, I think it does, leave it.

Let's kind of leave a line.

Now I have not put anything up here and I don't have to.

I can say I'm happy with this.

Now let's go from scratch and do the water at the bottom.

Since it's all about splashing water, I'm happy with this.

Okay, that was that weak waterfall that you saw a few minutes ago.

It is now changed.

And by the way, if you wanted to keep the original, either take a picture of it or scan it in your computer onto the same paper, keeping the original before you change it because once you get these darks on, there's no really going back.

Although you can make changes, you won't go back to where it was initially.

Oh, I see something that could use a little change in here just for the fun of it.

See this little splash at the top?

I want that to be a little bit splashier if I may say so.

What happens if I come in here and darken a tad?

And I'm also gonna add a bit of color now as if there were green around.

There you go, coming in on that splash.

Get a little bit more over there.

Could do the same down here.

This is a dynamite potential splash.

It really is, so it comes down like that, leave space and you've got the splash.

And then clear at the bottom, you're gonna have the water come out like that, clear at the bottom.

And that also would not all be green.

It's gonna be reflecting whatever is around.

That could be it right there.

See the differences a tiny bit makes in splashing water?

Why wouldn't there be a touch of green in here, why not?

Not much, each tiny thing you add changes it a bunch when you're playing with water.

When you get through this, let me show you how to get to the splash that's really at the bottom, that little splash down there and the little splash up there.

Let's just run some water down on a piece of paper and see what happens.

So we're gonna go back to the pen and what happens if I've got water cascading?

I like to have that rock in there first 'cause it sure helps.

Doesn't matter how that rock is.

Does the water come out like this?

Possibly, down here like that.

I'm stopping before I get to the bottom because I wanna have a good, big splash.

Putting in some of the darks that are gonna occur in it.

Is there an area here like that?

Does it come around the corner?

When does it stop the splash?

And just kind of feel it as you go.

Is there a dark behind it?

Boy, that's gonna help 'cause you need that dark.

You need the dark to see the light.

Just bringing the dark in so it'll be able to play with it.

Gonna have a dark over in here too.

If this one's closer to you, it should come down farther on the page.

Farther than that one.

So there's the dark.

Pen makes your darks, probably the most efficient.

I don't have a black in my paint set.

Don't plan to either.

Okay, I'm gonna come down still farther with the water.

This determines how that splash, and then does another rock come out over here?

Why not, why wouldn't it?

Now does that make me have to come down lower over here perhaps?

Guess where you're gonna see it?

Right back there, okay?

We've got the beginning of a waterfall with a heck of a splash.

Put the pen away.

If you don't, it dries out.

Should mention that as I go along.

Now how do we get this stuff out of the lid of the box?

I don't think I'm gonna do the rocks first this time.

I'm gonna do the water first.

So a neutral, neutral paint, just neutral.

Actually I've got it right there on the line, there it goes.

Then a little bit over here.

I don't even need this.

That gave me a little green.

You don't want it really strong.

Take that line and pull it.

Whoops, I picked up a side line.

Okay, down in here, pick up the line.

There's a a whole pool in here.

There's a pool there.

Pick that line up.

It didn't take much.

it doesn't take much.

Now come down here to the dark line that's gonna be around.

Does it come up, does it splash back here?

If so, is there any color in that splash?

Does it splash from there?

Whoop, too much, how about in there?

Little bit down in here.

Now splash it just a bit.

You're gonna need that same color in a minute.

In fact, transfer a little bit from here to down here, okay?

Now splash it up a tad bit more.

Don't dump the water, bad form.

Pick this up, bring it in here.

How much more do I want?

More than that, okay, now you go directly to the paint and I want it neutralized a touch.

You'll see it in a minute.

Not enough, gonna add, this is green added with red and you begin to get the color of a pond.

Are there little bubbles in here?

Oh, there's another way to make little bubbles.

There are lots of ways.

Okay, how about right there?

That's probably gonna be pretty good right there.

Test it, I like that.

Now what about those rocks?

This looks pretty funny right now, so let's do a little changing on the rocks.

This time I'm gonna go with just the black line doing it.

See how powerful that is?

See how wet it looks like it's getting splashed on?

This would be a little darker right there.

Do I need more ink?

Come here and get it, move it there.

This, is it lighter up there?

Worry about that later, that's not bad.

That's not bad at all.

It's a good shelf.

Make that shelf darker.

Now come in here and get this edge as if it were splashing.

And then come across the rock at the bottom.

Okay, the rest of the rock.

The rest of this rock.

Moving in here to get the lines to go in the solution.

We'll get to that later on another episode, but right now this is kind of a cool rock.

This is the stuff that's in the brush.

Look at it build that rock.

Okay, what about the other side?

Do you see how much that waterfall came out?

It's all about what's behind it, not about what it is.

Rather quickly, here comes the other side.

The water's in front of it.

There it goes, there it is.

Bit more, more lines.

Oh, come in, splash, splash, splash and there's the rock.

It wouldn't come down like that.

That's gonna have to be more level across there like that.

There you go, you get the idea.

You play with it.

Down here, make it look more like water.

There you go, horizontal lines to make it look more like water.

If it were flat water instead of splashing, oh, by the way, there would be something above this too.

I didn't think of that.

How about a tree real fast?

Get that out of the way so I don't hit it.

Just forest.

Really fast, there you go, that forest behind it.

That's the side of the brush and this is flat water.

Notice the difference, splash, flat.

Wanna get flat look flat.

Let's see if I can get this down at the same level.

Horizontal line makes it look flat like that.

Okay, we've gotten through the splash part, but what about the part at the bottom which is gonna lead to something else anyway?

Down here you get to flat water.

How do you make flat water?

I'm mixing up a couple of colors.

I want it to be greener.

This is dilute paint.

Horizontal line, whoops, little bit more of a horizontal line, there you go.

This is flat water.

That's gonna look flat.

Another one over here, loop it.

There you go, loop it.

It's gonna look flat.

Now I'll show you one that is flat water and just show you how it got there.

Oh, and reflections too.

The reflections, you've got to pick up what's above it.

You've got to put the color that's above it in the water, and you don't have to be really careful because you can make that look like water in a minute.

Let me pick up something that is about that dark and so oh, probably a bit.

No, I have another green.

I wanna try this one 'cause it's a cold scene.

I want a cold green.

A little bit of burnt sienna.

That's pretty brown, wanna go greener.

And now just bring that across.

Basically like that, that'll do it.

Come down here, get another one.

A few more down here.

That's your flat water and that's water going across a reflection.

You see how easy that is?

And if you don't like something like the color on that beach, you can change it.

This is where dilute color in the lid of the box pays off.

Majorly gonna change it.

Try this, now there's some purple down here.

Would there be too much, dilute it.

That worked, get rid of that drop.

That much worked, and a little bit more color.

Would any he be down there?

Probably a little bit, and that's about it.

That's how you do flat water.

Anyway that's pretty much splashing water and next, what are we gonna do?

I like to call it churn feeding because it's the stuff you do in keeping your paints clean, working outdoors.

Things that you gotta know to make this easier to work with.

Lots of things that I just do naturally that I don't tell you about like part of the time I was dipping the brush off over here.

You probably didn't see it.

How do I open the paint set?

How to close it.

Just things you ought to know in general to make this so much easier.

To work with the water soluble pen and the equipment, what it is and pretty much how you kind of take care of it.

(upbeat music) That's what's coming up next and it's a lot of fun, but it covers quite a few odd things like how do you work in public and not get disturbed or not get seen to be an idiot?

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