Watercolor Tutorial - Finding the light without masking fluid

Do you struggle with masking fluid or liquid frisket? Do you find it tempting to reach for the white paint to get those lights in your watercolor? Well in this step by step demo, I’m painting a patch of very bright light hitting the sea. We are ’Contre Jour’ and painting into the light with silhouetted shapes and the texture of the beach to contend with! 0:00 The problems with masking fluid. Source photo and composition 3:27 Outline drawing. How to draw boats and figures 8:30 How to do a watercolor wash 15:40 How to paint a beach in watercolor 28:16 How to paint distant boats 31:13 How to paint boats on the beach 34:47 How to paint figures in a beach scene 39:23 How to paint dark shadows in watercolor 43:25 Adding finer details to the scene 51:29 Painting critique and summary At the start of this video, I show my source photograph for the painting. If you want to keep referring to this during the video, then copy the URL of the video into another br