Oak Leaves & acorns in autumn shades: Part 1/3: Color mixing (Real time, narrated)

** Please note: I've uploaded a new version of this video, with less background noise!
   • Oak Leaves & acorns 1/3: Color mixing *Imp...  

Join me as I paint some oak leaves and acorns in watercolors, talking you through my process. I am painting from imagination, combining loose strokes in some parts, with very intetional, precise ones in others.
My aim is to create a pattern from these seperate branches. And yes! you can see the final result at the end of video #3 :-).
I do encounter some problems along the way, some I try to solve, others I trust will not seem prominent in the end result.

I divided it into 3 videos:
#1 Color Mixing: This one!
#2 creating the loose leaf shapes + the acorns:    • Oak Leaves & acorns 2/3: Creating the leav...  
#3 Adding veins, branches And see how my pattern turned out:    • Oak Leaves & acorns 3/3: Veins, branches +...  


** Materials used:
Lana Lanaquarelle cold pressed watercolor paper, 100% cotton
da Vinci Casaneo round brush #10 (for the leaf shapes)
Princeton Heritage round brush #4 (for the acorns)
da Vinci Colineo round brush #2 (for the cupules & branches)
da Vinci Colineo liner brush #0 (for the leaf veins)
Watercolors: Phthalo blue (Green shade), Manganese blue hue, Sap green, Olive green, Hookers green, Lemon yellow, Yellow ochre, Burnt umber, Carbazole violet, Payne's gray


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