One Minute Watercolor Ep.03 – Mossy Falls
March 21, 2020
So – to be honest, this sketch is just a test of my shiny new setup for recording paintings. New overhead mount and wireless remote control for Laurel’s DSLR, new microphone for voice over, and coincidentally – Adobe has some new software called Premiere Rush – made for editing quick and easy jobs like this.
Remarkably, with that many new pieces of technology, I was still able to record, edit and publish this today! Frankly, I’m amazed :)
Here’s the painting :)
And a few closeups of areas I like!
Scraping with scissors.
Wet-into-damp. (Indigo + Olive Green into watery Indgio + Titanium White)
A little area with calligraphic brushwork from a splayed out old sable. Old sables never die! They just get better at painting foliage.
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Citizen Sketcher 
Thanks for posting this Marc.
Great set up.
Looking forward to seeing more💙
Full of movement and atmosphere, it’s a great piece 😍
Really like your style!
Nice work!
Marc, Thanks for a bit of ‘fresh air’. The mossy greens really set off the B/Gr water.
Liked the painting. I needed a dose of the outdoors.
Great tutorial Marc! Did you mist the paper water a sprayer before the first drops of color?
Not the spray mister, but you’re right the paper’s damp. What I done was a sketch of the major shapes in ‘invisible ink’ – water with the tiniest tiniest bit of white in it – probably dirty with some yellow from the looks of it.
I could get lost forever in all of the swirling shapes! What brand of quill brush was used for this piece?
Hey Emily – now – I usually recommend a sable brush – but this happens to have been a very affordable synthetic called Princeton Neptune. I bought these one time for an article on vegan painting. They’re actually quite nice, and you can get them much larger than a natural hair brush – even if they don’t last as long – just buy two :)