During the last days of January 2018 I was able to witness how colorful and peculiar moon could be!
I was with my brothers walking to pier when I concluded that the Blue Blood Moon was such a spectacular scenery above the sky, I wanna catch it during the moment but my phone and our DSLR could not capture it well. Hence, last night I gave my photographic memory a realization and painted it for more or less five hours! (I slept at 3 AM to come up with such project)
I want to show you how guys! I hope you like it.
THE MATERIALS
~watercolor paper 16x20 dimensions
~watercolor
~water (ofcourse)
~pencil
~different sizes of paint brushes
~toothbrush
~pallete
~tissue
~blower
~plate
Using the plate, trace a circle to be your moon outline.
Make sure it's not too dark not too light.
Pick Prussian Blue as the color of the sky and begin spreading, you may opt to color the outside of the outline first to keep the moon neat and clean.
Keep spreading. I actually spread the color by twirling the brush to create a layered illusion of dark and light hues.
While still wet, add darker hue (less water to Prussian Blue to make it darker) on the edges so it would appear lighter around the moon.
Let it dry. I blowdried it to hasten the process.
Use the toothbrush to produce tiny splatters and serve as your faraway stars. White watercolor to sparkle.
Press the toothbrush...like this.
And release.
There... your tiny faraway stars. Please control your toothbrush so your sky will still be a sky with stars and not stars with a sky. Lol.
This time use your smallest brush to create bigger stars.
Distribute it well.
When already satisfied, let it dry.
Let's proceed with the moon itself. Use Chrome Yellow.
Leave the right edge portion untinted.
Set to dry.
Apply the Orange color . Begin on the left side to the right.
Twirl the brush when spreading to create dark and light hues.
Apply Red on the left edge of the moon to make it darker.
We are almost there.
Add intricate details to the moon to make it more realistic.
Almost there!
Add freckles to the moon. Use the combination of light gray and light brown. (You can actually make it lighter by adding more water)
Clean all edges by masking it with white. And we are done!
FINISHED PRODUCT!
Thank you very much and I hope you like it!
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Very nice! Well done!
Thank you very much! :-)
Wow! So beautiful! You Really have a very good talent @superjongky . Keep it up! Many of us are happy to see your artwork.
Thank you very much sir! :-)
Amazing! More works please!
Thank you! :-)
There is nothing more satisfying than painting stars with a toothbrush :D
Lol. Haahha. That's humor. Thank you!
I mean it! lol :D I did an artwork similar to this about a month ago
Well thats cute.
You too are cute!
Everything is cute! :D
Hehehe but you are not a thing...
What am I then? lol
Hair dryer and toothbrush is life! Keep making great art! I'm a follower!
Thank you Mam!
congrats!
Thank you sir!
Im not sure why I wasnt given such talent hahaha :(
Really great art @superjongky! :D
Thank you thank you! Keep trying so you'll release the beast in you.
Hahaha salamat! High morale nasad ko ani XD
Awesome. I am delighted to see how the colors come together. I want to try it. I hope someday to be able to paint like you.
Thank you man. Keep up! :-)
Woow ang ganda. I'm inspired to do painting now. I definitely love your work. To think that you use some cheap materials to make a masterpiece is really great. Iba talaga pag pinoy eh.
Hehehe thank you po. Practice lang po...
I'm also an artist but I don't do paintings yet. Maybe in some future I will do. Feel free to visit me.:)
Sure. I follow you
Thanks man. I aplreciate it.
Okay. Godbless! :-)
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Thank you. Thank you.
Just wow... I am just a newbie. This makes me elated! Woooh Thank you
Hi there! Your art is awesome!
Hello! Thank you! You should try it!
LOVE your wonderful watercolor painting tutorial, @superjongky! Giving it a big smile in @jerrybanfield's Resteem Request curation channel. ;)
I paint so when I saw you about to use the toothbrush to spatter for the small star effect, I wondered if you'd coach on how to NOT get too many spatters. So imagine my chuckle when I read under your next photo:
"Please control your toothbrush so your sky will still be a sky with stars and not stars with a sky. Lol."
PERFECT!!! ;)
I think you may have meant 'left' here?:
"Apply Red on the right edge of the moon to make it darker."
I did wonder what paint you used to add the freckles. Was it raw umber, @superjongky?
Anyway, upvoted and will resteem and FB/tweet. Good luck with your Resteem Request and all the very best with all your art work both offline and here on Steemit! ;)
Thank you I didn't notice that. Noted Mam. I'll edit that. That's definitely LEFT.
For the freckles I used combination of light gray and brown.
Done editing Mam...thank you so much.
Wow! That was quick, @superjongky! Great going and best of resteeming luck again. ;)
And just realized I hadn't followed, so took care of that just now so I don't miss out on your other tutorials.
No prob. Just an itsy bitsy thing. Ok, that makes sense. Gray and brown. Will make mental note so I can use when I'm 183 and getting out my canvases again. ;) Thanks, @superjongky!
Thank you Mam. Best luck! Godbless.
Wow!! This is a big art piece!!
Thank you. Thank you! :-)
Well done! Even children can get inspiration from these steps you have provided. More artworks to come!
Thank you. You can check on my dream catcher coffee painting too. It's easy too