Watercolor LIFTING made SIMPLE: cloud shapes and Valentine's card / Step by Step tutorial

☁️☁️ Making clouds today!

☁️☁️ In today’s video I’m demonstrating different lifting/blotting techniques with paper towel and brushes to create cloud shapes.

In my experience, low-staining blues such as cobalt blue work best for lifting.

High stainting blues such as phtalo aren’t well suited for lifting. Different pigments, as well as different papers will lead to different results, so make sure you test a few to find your fave combo.

☁️☁️ Download template here:
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☁️☁️ Supplies:

Canson XL cold pressed watercolor spiral pad, 300gsm/140lb
Fabriano cold pressed watercolor paper 300gsm
Other paper examples: Arches cold press cotton 300gsm, Strathmore 190gsm (from Visual journal), Moleskine watercolor album 200 gsm, 25% cotton


Princeton snap Filbert brush size 12
KUM Germany Memory point flat 20

Alohawatercolors Blue canoe (Cobalt blue) and Shark (gray ochre) https://www.alohawatercolors.com

Pilot Color Eno mechanical pencil with erasable blue lead, 0.7
Tombow fudenosuke soft brushpen

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Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Supplies
00:50 Wet paint and towel
01:50 Wet paint and brush
02:46 Wet paint, combo
03:09 Dry paint
04:23 Valentines card
05:15 Background
05:46 Lifting
06:26 Second layer
07:03 Lettering