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How do you make things look shiny?
This workshop is about something many beginning artists don’t consider: reflected light. We’ll learn how colorful objects can influence each other. This effect is surprisingly easy to replicate with wet-into-wet watercolor, and we’ll practice that by painting a few gum balls. We’ll also learn how to create the candy’s shiny surface using masking fluid.
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You Will Need
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Step 1
Watch the video tutorial
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Step 7
Working on one gum ball at a time, paint the main colors on each and add shadows while those
colors are still wet. Use the largest brush you’re comfortable using for this (I used a #10 round
brush).
Red gumball = bright orange (cadmium red light) and hot pink (opera).
Red shadows = deep red (alizarin crimson), purple (dixoazine mauve).
Blue gumball = bright blue (cyan)
Blue shadows = purple (dioxazine mauve)
White gumball = water with just a bit of grayish blue (cerulean)
White shadows = various colors from the other gumballs listed above -
Step 10
Mix quite a bit of yellow for the background. This is a mixture of cadmium yellow light and cadmium yellow medium. If you don’t have those yellows, and yours is a little too cool/lemony, add just a bit of orange or red to it to warm it up. Using a large brush, paint the entire background above, around, and below the gumballs in one shot if you can.