Beginning Watercolor Class
Instructor: Tom Tiedeman (858) 592-5121
Module 5-Lesson # 5 Irish Castle
Kit Colors:
Burnt Umber
Ultramarine Blue (dark)
Cobalt Blue (light)
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Yellow
You will learn:
Pen and Ink
Wet into wet color mingling- wash
Lifting
Light source awareness
Highlights and shadows
Masking fluid
Pen and Ink with Watercolor Wash
1. Draw or transfer the castle picture onto paper.
2. Note sun angle and add arrow to your painting.
3. The pen we are using is a Micron .01 (permanent ink)
4. Pen and ink techniques may be done in any of the following ways:
crosshatching, contour lines, parallel lines, stippling, criss-cross lines, scribble and wavy
lines. We will use the criss-cross line method (randomly crossing hair like strokes)
Watercolor wash may be done first or after the pen and ink work. (we will experiment
with both ways). Permanent Ink will not run when wet.
5. Start pen and ink on castle with only indications of some of the brickwork (do not outline
everything).
6. Use more lines in shadow area, less lines in highlight area.
7. Wet entire sky area around the castle, leaving castle and land dry.
8. Wet into wet sky colors. Blue and a little brown to make it look like rainy sky.
9. Add distant ground colors while sky is still wet to get a little blending affect, rather than a
hard line.
10. Wet Castle and add light colors, keeping the bright side almost completely white.
11. Add dark (mingle darker shades together) shadows after castle has dried some.
12. Wet land around castle and add colors (exaggerate colors in foreground by rocks. Then
while wet, but drying (magical moment), use palette knife to scrape rocks.
13. Add details of shadows around rocks when dry.
14. Mask out swans.
15. Wet all water area over swans and add blue colors, leaving some white and some dark as
in picture.
16. Add colors of castle and land as reflections, while water area is still wet (damp).
17. Add details shadows of swans, darker indications in the water (while still damp)
18. Sign the picture