🖌 Grape Workshop in Real time on WATERCOLOR by Scarlett Damen

🖌 Paint green grapes in watercolour in this extended real-time workshop, exploring rounded forms, luminous highlights, and richly layered shadows. I begin with a watercolour-pencil drawing, comparing the shapes and positions of the grapes and mapping their highlights. From there, we develop the painting through wet-in-wet washes, softened transitions, deeper greens, and textured finishing marks. Along the way, I demonstrate: • Drawing the grapes and branching stem • Planning highlights before painting • Mixing greens with indigo, cadmium yellow, and Payne’s grey • Blending light and shadow across rounded forms • Softening edges with a damp brush • Building depth through successive layers • Adding broken texture with scumbling • Painting slender stems and darker accents This workshop follows the painting at an unhurried pace, with time to observe how the washes settle and how each layer changes the forms. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction, highlights & colour mixtures 03:57 Drawing the grapes with watercolour pencils 08:12 Mapping the highlights 09:43 Drawing the branching stem 13:37 Mixing greens & choosing brushes 15:43 First grape: wet-in-wet washes 19:23 Building shadows & softening edges 26:14 Developing the next grape 32:48 Preserving highlights in the washes 41:41 Completing the first washes 43:25 Building deeper colour in layers 55:10 Scumbling for texture & depth 58:04 Refining the grapes 1:00:08 Painting the branching stem 1:04:19 Adding dark accents to the stem 1:09:00 Comparing the two paintings & colour adjustments 1:12:00 Final stem details & highlights 1:16:47 Finished painting FREE CLASS ASSIGNMENT, REFERENCE PHOTO & SKETCHES Find the accompanying assignment, original sketch sheets, six-stage graphite study, and printable tracing outline:   / 32897974   MATERIALS Watercolour paper, watercolour pencils, brushes including a fine-pointed brush, clean water, a palette, and a cloth or paper towel. For the grapes, I use indigo, cadmium yellow, and Payne’s grey, with browns and deeper accents for the stems. You can use suitable colours from your own palette. MORE ART LESSONS Explore my free Patreon posts for further lessons, studies, and resources:   / scarlettdamen   Subscribe for more drawing and watercolour classes. Voluntary support through Patreon helps me continue creating and sharing my teaching. Happy painting, Scarlett