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Click here to see this email on the web |  | Thursday, December 8, 2022 | | A Plein Air Watercolor Demo - in 5 Steps | By Bob Bahr | Share this article:     |  | The following is a watercolor painting demonstration from Yong Hong Zhong, featured in Plein Air Magazine (February/March 2019).
This is part of a series featuring a leader in the art community who will be joining us on the faculty of Watercolor Live, a virtual art conference taking place January 26-28, 2023, with a Beginner's Day on January 25.
Yong Hong Zhong came upon this scene while he was participating in the Paint the Peninsula plein air event in Port Angeles, Washington. The competition was marked by thick, choking smoke from the California wildfires, but even in tragedy, an artist can find beauty. "Even though I felt guilty because the fires were so devastating, the sunsets at that time were just amazing," Zhong says. Plus, the smoke simplified the visual elements and compressed the values.
|  | Zhong uses a selection of Chinese calligraphy brushes to get the effect of both round and flat brushes.
| — advertisement — |  | Step 1: Largely because it was a demonstration, Zhong spent little time on the graphite drawing. He quickly moved on to wetting the entire paper and washing in the background using the wet-into-wet method. He carefully brushed around some areas to retain the white of the paper in key spots. |  | Step 1 |
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Step 2: The artist waited for the wash to dry completely, as the edges going forward needed to be sharp. His marks at this point were immediately bold, with crisp lines and angles. He did this using a rather large round brush — a Chinese calligraphy brush that allows him to flatten it for such effects.
"It's similar to a round brush but allows you to get a more chiseled edge," he says. This inexpensive brush also allows him to mix colors on the brush, so two colors go on the paper at the same time, in the same stroke. He was going for expressive strokes and colors here. "I wanted to make sure that I was capturing the experience I had in that specific moment — the engulfing smoke," he says.
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