How do you fancy painting a ren in water color? Now let me show you some clips of my main Patreon video on how I painted some of the ren's feathers. Let's make a cell. Now one of the things I like to do before start painting is test out some of the colors which I can see within the photograph. Obviously for the ren I'm looking at different browns and things like Tiennes, like Bernce Tiennes, or Orce Giennes, Bern Thombe, and even a mixture of lamp black in there as well. So lots of testing first is one I always recommend before it goes to the main painting. Now looking at the painting I'm kind of working out from the photograph we're going to add the darker details. I mean so far on the paintings you can see I've kind of put a few layers on there already. Still not quite there yet, I still want to think about the different kind of depths of tone. So I've got the light layers, I've got mid-tone layers, now I'm getting some of the darker layers on there as well. All the way from the foundation wash in fact. When you look at the bottom the bottom of the ren you can see where I've added a bit of a foundation wash to begin with. And as that foundation wash as you can see which I prefer to kind of build on top of as you go along. I'm looking at the veins within the feathers and trying to think about the shape and all the little text as you can see in there. But one thing I do make sure of as well is looking the direction of all the brushstrokes that go to go into. Actually if you fancy having a golden paint in this ren all the way through for you start to finish pop along to my Patreon channel, I've got it on there. And there's no voice over it, it's just real time, my paint aside chat and talk if you know what I mean. So come join me and have a go at painting the ren all the way through from start to finish. So I'll continue with this now, now I'm looking at where all the wing feathers tend to fall over the kind of prime with feathers on the ren. And I actually want to think about the ren as well as it's all these little tiny marks, all these vertical kind of horizontal, vertical and horizontal stripes. So what they as you are, you've got the vertical lines going down there, people just gotta think about how these tend to fold on top one of them. So that wouldn't mean that some of the lines in between would need to be darker in places. Sometimes thinner, sometimes thicker, kind of wider. Because you gotta think about how a feather would lay on top of another feather. One thing I tend to use a lot of is my 00 brush. Now this is, I'm not on commission so don't worry, this is a Windsor Newton Kotman series 111, okay size 00. So if you're interested to have a look for that, I've got some links down below, within my main content. If not, have a look at my website and you find it's a link on there to go to so you can go and get one of your 11. They're not expensive, it's a synthetic brush. And but it tends to give not too much bounce and they're quite light, so you've got a bit more control over the marks in which you make. One of the kind of characteristics I find about the red as well, is that on the wings you can see there's a lot of little white marks. Now I will use, and a bit later on, some watercolor whites in the main video. You don't see that on this part, I know, but you'll see it in the main video. And by adding watercolor whites, that will really kind of bring out, if a bit more kind of zing, whatever word you want to call it, sparkle, a bit more 3D kind of feel to the rim. But it's getting there slowly now, but still needs a little bit of extra detail. Sometimes you don't have to use watercolor white, if you don't like it. The lifting paint off is one way of doing it as well, you can do it that way around. But using the lifting off technique, again, I do show people that within my main videos, on how to do that, how to remove paint, but by doing it in a fine, minute detail. The thing is as well, when you're loading a brush up, a double zero brush like I've got here, you have to load it up in a sense of, load it, then take a bit of paint off, okay? So you've got to think from that kind of thing. If you don't, when you go to the main painting, such as this round, the soon as soon as you touch it, to put your double zero brush onto the painting, you get quite a bit of a blob of paint, so always take off, by tapping it once on the piece of tissue. Just that little bit of paint, just give your, the typical brush up a little bit more sharpness, and also the finer of marks, as well as the set. As you know, that's kind of working, the finer's the detail, but the finer's I can possibly go anyway. I want to paint in to be able to look kind of realistic, but not photographic, because otherwise, I might as well just take a photograph, I know. How dark is it? How I found an eff done the evalances it go. So it's all these things that's come from a mine wall, some paint in this. So this will give you some ideas, just some basic ideas on how I painted this running water color, and all through a lot of layers, many layers of detail, the building gradually to get darker and darker, as you would normally do with the water color way. Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this, it's on your short preview, so that's just some hints and tips on how I paint the reds feathers in water color. Now if you fancy having to go at this and working on a complete video tutorial, I'll guide you through step by step, showing you a variety of techniques on how to do that. I'll also give you the outline drawing, the PDF guide, and the photograph to work from as well. To find out more, just simply click on the links below, and remember to click on like, subscribe and share, and of course you can always comment down below as well. Now the question of the day is, do you use water color white? If so, which one do you use? Let me know, put it in the comments below, and I'll talk to you again very soon.