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"A Moment with Yong"
Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Painting a landscape

Inspired by the photograph Cheryl took of a beach, Yong wanted to use it to do a quick watercolor landscape painting to demonstrate how he would use a photo reference and combine other elements into a painting.

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Painting of a statue (part 1)

In this demonstration, Yong demonstrated the proper methods to do a drawing for observation step by step. He shown you how he thought at each stage in the process. He pointed out the problems at each step and the solutions to avoid the common mistakes.

 

Painting a statue in watercolor

Painting of a statue (part 2)

Yong demonstrated how to observe the high-light area, middle-tone, and dark value areas in a painting. He showed you how to start the first wash to cover most of the painting, and group the areas which have the similar value and tones.

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor technique: lifting-off

In this video demonstration, Yong showed us a way to correct and improve a watercolor painting after it has been dry, by using the lifting-off technique. Yong used his student's watercolor landscape painting as a sample, step-by-step demonstrate how to use...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor techniques: make-over

Yong described the process should start from the idea. He used a pencil to put down the changes that he was going to make to the painting. Then he used lifting-off technique to light-up the areas that were too dark.

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor portrait demon #5

In this 20 minute watercolor painting, Yong demonstrated the use of complementary colors in the composition and design. In this step-by-step video demonstration, he shown you that the concept and design started from the observation of the personality...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Quick watercolor portrait demo #4

A portrait painting of a person who is wearing eye-glasses presents another layer of challenge. Yong used an asian student model in this 20-minute portrait demonstration. He shown you started from drawing, when to ignore the eye-glasses to pursue...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Quick watercolor portrait demo #3

Yong planned the process of this quick watercolor portrait painting as using light to dark traditional method. First Yong used a pencil to make the marks on the paper, to organize the thoughts.

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Still-life watercolor painting

Through this watercolor still-life demonstration, Yong used his unique tell and show teaching style, with his easy-to-follow steps, from positioning the painting on paper, manipulating the prop setting in the painting, adding elements to perfect the composition.

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor brush-work #1

Using a round brush with medium among of water, I first get the yellow up to the middle part of the brush, and take the red only with the tip. I lay the brush about 10-degree angle from the paper surface, and move it slowly...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor basic color mixing

In this basic exercise, Yong show you how to complete a color ring of different colors by mixing the three primary colors: Red, Blue, Yellow. Yong demonstrate his simple color mixing theory and method, to introduce...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Color-Study For a Home Portrait

This compressed 4-minute video presentation, shows the steps of my color experiment and my approach to pursue the harmony of the colors. This demonstration was completed in one session...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Painting a yellow rose flower

Many watercolor friends expressed that painting a flower is much easier if without the background. Yes, painting one object alone is much easier because we don't need to consider the relationship to other subjects...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Still-life watercolor painting

Yong first put yellow into the area for the bananas, then he mixed yellows and reds to define the areas for the mandarin oranges and the two persimmons...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Watercolor brush-work #2

This section of practice is using a dry paper without wetting it. There are a few elements affect your watercolor brush marks: water saturation, how much water in the brush with the pigment; brush handling position...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

A 20-minute watercolor portraiture

A friend of mine came from New York and would like to be my model for this portrait painting demonstration. She is very pretty and kind lady. First I started from drawing, a very loose drawing...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

How to prop a still-life setting

Setting up subjects for a still-life watercolor painting is an important stage of the creative process. It requires time, experimentation and thought. I can easily take one to two hours to set up my props...

 

Drawing for a watercolor painting of a statue

Quick watercolor portrait demo #2

To start this quick watercolor portrait painting, I used a pencil to do a rough drawing to outline the layout and define the main elements in the painting. I used a 1.5 inch flat brush to start the first wash...

 

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