Early Morning On the Rocks a digital watercolour painting in progress

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2.      Sky painted with Watercolour (WC) wash and some clouds added by erasing some with soft eraser (this was done after the Watercolour layer was dropped because erasing WC is difficult. It often erases more than you want in a square shape, especially if you are attempting to erase a very small area

3.      Done by outlining shape with Lasso Tool and painting inside selection with a Digital Watercolour.

4.      Some Watercolour  glazing done to bring out the colour.

5.      Edge of trees darkened with Digital Watercolour (DWC)  and tops of some bushes painted in.

 

 

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 3 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

The illustration above shows how I have captured the water area with the Lasso Tool and painted the water with a Watercolour wash brush keeping the paint inside the selection.  

The texture overlay layer is now in there too! Please see the post on how to add a texture layer here.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 4 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 This illustration shows the second layer of colours, a variety of greens and olives added to the water inside the selection.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 5 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 

 

 Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 6 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

Please view the tutorials on painting rocks for this section because I used the same techniques basically.

Painting Wet Rocks in Digital Watercolour (link to this tutorial) 

 

Tutorial for Painting Shore (link to this tutorial)

 

 

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 7 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 I have used the same method I usually do for painting shoreline coniferous trees. There is a detailed tutorial  on this topic here Painting Coniferous Trees on a Shoreline  (Link to post)

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 8 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

This illustration shows where I have added shadows of the rocks in the water.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 9 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 This illustration show the multitude of layers dropped and the digital watercolour layers dried.

I normally don't like to keep this many layers open at a time because Corel Painter 11 tends to crash when I do this, but I was lucky this time and it didn't! Also shows where I have highlighted the edges by removing some of the paint by erasing. Also shows the addition of some plants on the right foreground rocks.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 10 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 This illustration shows where I have added some more watercolour washes to the sky to intensify the blue and have done some erasing in the clouds.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 11 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

The illustration below shows the canvas layer lifted to a watercolour layer and wet slightly to blend things a bit. There is a post about how to do this here. Using the wet entire watercolour layer

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 12 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 Shows all the layers dropped and some digital watercolour darkness added to rocks.

 

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 13 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 

Illustration below shows where I have highlighted the edges by removing some of the paint by erasing. Some final little touches in the water to show some farther away ripples and final brightness and contrast levels balanced.

 

Early Morning on the Rocks - Illustration 14 Copyright Joan A Hamilton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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