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1. Introduction: Making spontaneous wards, gala bindings, these one of my favorite things to do. There's nothing more fun than splashing bandwidth to a Bible and seeing what happens my names on a girl. And today we will create two spontaneous watercolor landscapes. I will first teach you some basic water gala techniques we will use in this gloss. And him quickly discuss the materials that you will be needing. This will be a fine stray spree gloss for hopefully literary lags and let your mind wander. So if you want to go from this to vests, grad, some paper, paint, lots of water, and be ready to later creativity flow. In the next lesson, we'll take a look at the materials we will be using.
2. Tools and Materials: Our guy, first human, some watercolor paper, a variety of brushes, bind, and lots of water. For the first binding, I used this bamboo fiber that I got us the gifts. I quite liked it since the beam spread beautifully across the paper and I was able to lift some color out with a dry brush. It is also very smooth, like off-base paper, which I prefer over discharge paper, usually preferred by Bruce, a thickness of about 300 grams because I used a lot of water. But this one I think was 200 grams and it worked out fine. They need to stretch the Baraboo before painting, you'll need a wooden block or something to mounded on. I'll use something like this that you can just buy in a hardware store or at a bank install and then use gum tape to stick the paper in place. If you're not familiar with stretching watercolor paper and go take a look at my other clause, where I have an entire lesson on how to stretch your paper. For the second binding, I use a 300 gram paper that came on a watercolor block. Watercolor blocks are nice because you don't have to stretch the Bible beforehand. You get us bind directly onto the block and been lifted by broth when you're done, this paper was called braced, which means it has a bit of a texture, is Honors not my favorite, but I decided to try something different. I used an array of different brushes for the projects. I use this big flat brush to wet the paper beforehand and to dropping from color at the beginning. Then I use the combination of round and flat brushes to add more color and to lift our scholars to create different effects. Also used this fan brush, which I like to use displeasure painkillers, and to make some Ross's urine day. And then lastly, one of my favorites is the rigor brush. It's got this fine line. R is perfect for making trees. Wrong shares and all kinds of other things for the banks are not Hispanics. Yeah. Now I've gone to him in the Brown of the client because I bought it a while ago. I just know it was green brand ads. I prefer to buy paints in tubes. And then what you do is you just squeeze them out onto ballads, let it dry for about a day. And then you add this ballad that's always ready. So you can always spray water on aids and clean these areas. But then you have all your colors beautifully organized and always ready to use. Then when you're done, just make sure that everything has dried completely. Then you can close enough. Now we're not bend. Otherwise I've two containers of water like this. It always helps to have too, because you can use the one flow Digi brushes. And then you still have clean water if you want to add some to your binding. And then something else I use a lot is a spray bottle just to add some water to my patenting. And the last thing you need is Baguadao will, at some point you're bound to run all across your Bible. And she'll be glad to have this. Now that that settled fits to get some basic techniques that will help you.
3. Watercolour Techniques: So here we have three different types of papers stretched onto a board. I wanted to show you how different papers have different effects on your painting. On the left, I have a 100% pure gotten 300 grams hot press paper. This is guarantee my paper of choice as I use a lot of water. And gotten paper is great for that. By Biden big sheets that I cut up according to the size are required. In the middle I have a piece taken from a watercolor sketch book, which I would guess was about 200 grams. And I need twenty-five percent cotton fiber. The rest being rude bulb. In case you wondered, when I paint directly in a sketchbook, my paper always particles. This is the first time I've taking a piece out district sheet and I'm curious to see what will happen. On the right. I have a piece of paper taken from a mixed media sketchbook that can be used for watercolor, acrylics, pencil and whatever. It's a 160 grams and I'm not sure what it's made of. I stopped buying sketchbooks like this because it's impossible to get the same results on this that you'll get on peer watercolor paper. I've added this because I know a lot of people have these sketchbooks, especially when they start out. First, I just did my buy-in brush in quite a lot of bind and period on the dry paper. Now if I go in with clear water underneath that, you will see how the different papers have a different effect on springing the pains. Next, I'm going to wait and area and dropping some pane to show you how wait on width will look like. Here you can clearly see a difference between the different types of paper and how the bank spreads on aids. Another technique I like to use is displeasure some pains. Taking a fan brush alerted with a lot of paint and water. And while keeping my risk firm, I shake my arm to create status. You can see the difference between where the lattice fall on the dry paper and on the wet areas. Depending on how good your paper ease, you will have different results. Another fun technique that I didn't use in this class is adding salt. Try fine and coarse salt to see what the results are. Dropping in clear water or splattering clear water while you're painting, you still wait. We'll push away some of the bind to create defects that you're gonna work with. Just one last thing I'd like to add is the effect created by dropping in all goal. Alkyl vicious banked away much more dramatically than the water. This only works while the baby is still weights. But you can get really nice effects if you want to clear away areas where you've already dropped in some pains. Now these three squares might not look like much. But I would highly suggest that if you have different types of papers lying around, go apply on them first, knowing how you're bind to react on different types of paper and with different amounts of water, you'll have a better understanding of what to expect when painting. All of his things take time. And once you make a few of these to get a better idea of what to expect. When you start out, it can be quite frustrating. Cost cheaper by, we just won't give you the same results as high gravity watercolor paper. Obviously, you want to practice on GBA by VR because you will make a lot of mistakes in the beginning, but your results would probably not look like the tutorial you're following done on higher quality by my suggestion is that you work with what you have to be aware of the limitations. And once you're confident, tries something new. Unfortunately there's no quick Judy's excess. It takes time and practice and patients. In the next lesson, we will start with our first landscape.
4. Landscape 1: Laying Down Colours: We start off by weighting the paper. You can either use a large brush or response. Make sure you read the entire paper. With goals, the bank will only go with awardees. Taking a large brush drop in the colors you want to use where landscape, because I'm surrounded by Bushveld. I chose more yellowish green and brownish colours because that's what I'm used to seeing around me. I like to add some verbal for contrast. And this will help with shadows on dog areas later on. Now because this is a spontaneous landscape, you can knit the bank run where ever you want to. The idea is to let the brain do its job and then take it from Bay. Having said that, it still helps to have a general idea of how you want your landscape to look like. He can see that I'm aiming for a tree line and an area in front of the to borrow and to add some rocks and grasses. Dropping in clear water, either with their brush or with a spray bottle will help you disperse the plane even more. At this point, my paper is slightly don't, it's because I want the voltage you run to the bottom so that the bottom of my tree line is darker than the top. Deciding I wanted to add more green. I dropped some in with my brush directly, as well as splotches on with one brush. The paper at the top prevents me from slaughtering, banned all over my table. Now it's important to note at this point that depending on your type of fiber and how much water you used, your results mildly very different. The green slots are booked up really well for me, but had my baby being a bit later, if you'd have mixing completely with the surroundings and probably faded away. This is the point where it's easy to just keep on adding water and bind. But doing too much of this will result in a muddy mess. Since I have a lot of water at the bottom, I moved it around a bit. You create an even larger area of what's going to be a field. Using the dry flat brush, I lived out some areas where I want the tree line to start. This is a good time to splash in clear water. This will disperse Some of the bind and gradually fix to work with lighter. Again, if the finding is still to weight, it won't have the same effect and maybe steer dry. It will have no effect at all. Through trial and error. You will learn to judge when it's the right time to splash more water left out or when to add more bins. Using the dry flat brush, I've dried again and create some grasses by moving the bend upwards in areas where I feel the lives are do straight. This is a good time to stop and step away for a few minutes and lead the bipolar dry little bits. You still want it to be weird to add more effects, but not so with that, all the gardeners just run into each other.
5. Lifting out Rocks and Grasses: Using a dry round brush, I lived at some pains to create rocks. Makes sure to dry the brush Between goes. This is where the quality of your bipolar makes big difference. If you're using mixed media by paper or something from a sketchbook that isn't the greatest quality, the pint we're probably not lift off this. Well. I'm using a bamboo Bible, which I find to be very similar to cotton fiber in the sense that it's very forgiving, was adding and removing water. Using a regular brush. I hold this flat to the Bible, read some more Brazi textures. Still using my rigor, I add more between the rocks to help them pop out. The key to this dog of binding is to have some areas that are detailed on some areas that are loose and abstract. Now that I'm happy with some bottom section, I lied to my binding to dry completely. Next stop will move up to the tree line and start to define in some shapes, there.
6. Starting to Shape Bushes and Trees: The paper has draws completely and I'm looking for areas to push back and to bring forward to give the illusion of trees. Here you can see what happens when you put buying down on drive-by br to blend it in? I add more water. I do this in more areas where I wanted it to be darker. First are the bind and then go in with a clean weight brush to move it around so that you can fade into the surroundings. Another way is to read the area first and then add the band. Here again, I'm adding more details to make the rock stand out while waiting for the background trees to dry. Well aging for one part of the bindings dry. You can go back and forth, adding here and there, bring out more shapes. In the next section, we will add a sky.
7. Painting a Sky: To add a sky, again, use a clean brush to weight the area. Dropping some blue. And remember that the paint will dry much lighter. Makes sure to disperse areas that are too concentrated by dropping in more water. Here, I decided that I didn't like this, but as I made earlier, and I decided to blend them in with clear water, it's completely up to you how abstract versus how realistic you want to bind him to be. The idea of this clause is to just play around and see what happens after awhile. Go ahead and play around a bit more. In the next section, we will start adding trees.
8. Adding Trees and Final Details: Now it's finally time to start drawing in some trees. Using my regular brush, I start adding in the drops off the back trees. At first I do it very lightly because I might come in later and change them. This spot is really up to your creative. I defined the shapes and turn them into trees. Remember the scale doesn't have to be birthdate. This is all about having fun and playing around with what you have. Okay? And that is that spontaneous watercolor landscape. I hope you enjoyed this activity and are ready for the next part. We will make us sick and landscape.
9. Landscape 2: Laying Down Colours: Again, we start off by weighting the entire paper. Dropping some fellows with this landscape. I didn't have any idea in mind. I completely let the plane do its own thing. Add more water to let the pined run and maybe a few more spatters to give some different effects. Remember, you can use the clean dry brush to lift up some colors, but it will work. Beta one subscriber has tried a little bit more. Okay? Okay. When you're happy with the colors, try adding some more clear water drops to create even more textures to work with later. Try not to either do each paper is still very wait. In hindsight, I probably could've stopped here, but it's always difficult to take your own advice. You can try different brushes to see what shapes they will make. Okay? Force yourself to stop and let it dry completely.
10. Shaping Bushes and Trees: Now it's time to define some shapes. Again, I dispersed the paint, I bid down on the paper by going over each was bought death. I'm seeing if I can define some rocky areas and maybe some vicious. When you make area's darker, tried to use the same color as the area you are painting over. That is green on green areas and brown on brown areas and so on. After defining some shapes, tried putting him some tree trunks in places to see if you get something to work with. Remember, you can always go in with clear water and remove areas that you don't like. But to get somewhere, you have to start somewhere. If you feel like you're getting stuck in one boat. Move on to another part. You can always come back later to try out different brushes for different defects. Okay. That's a bottom left my, I got some rock shapes, but the water droplets from early and create it. So I decided to work with him and, but look for shapes that are already present and enhanced. You can make tree stand up all by darkening the button bar H, by making the button pots and leaving the top box where the sunlight gouge them. Lighter gear will give him a more 3D appearance. When you feel stuck or adding more splashes of buying to see what happens. I like using a fine brush to draw out some glasses. But play around with, but you have the disease.
11. Adding Rocks and Defining Trees: You can always add more bind and add completely new areas to your landscape. I felt that this one was too similar to the previous one and decided to put in an extra rocky outcrop. For more dramatic effect, I dropped in all goal to push away the banks. It's always fun to play with different things. For example, you could add salt and see what effects that will give you. Well, one area of painting, his drive to another. Yeah. Knights DOM to get lost in the painting. Got add more tree trunks upon rocks and make the shutter bullets off the trees Docker. Stressful. See, thanks. Okay. It's going to be the next part. We will work with the right side of the page.
12. Mountains and Final Details: In the last section, I just add some details to the background. Did turn it into a mountain. Again with the area where you want the pain to flow and use very little pain to keep the area looking faded and distant. Just adding a few finishing touches here and there. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Step away, come back and eventually force yourself to stop before overworking it. And once you're happy. Landscape number two. In the final lesson, we will do a quick recap. Some steps you can follow to do this on your own.
13. Wrap-Up & Recap: Yea, rabbits have fun clause. I hope you enjoyed it. I heard that you were able to relax, let go, and let your creativity run freely. Now it's one thing to follow along with the time lapse and a whole different thing to go and do it yourself. Here's a recap of the basic steps you can follow. Remainder. It will be slightly different for each binding, but generally, you can try the following. The first of which of bipolar in the area that you want the pain to flow. Remember, the paint will only flow where the water reeds drop in a variety of colors with a big brush, play around with lights and dogs depending on the mood that you want to create. You can tilt your paper to let the water flow and spray dish no water on with a spray bottle or even splashes some with your paintbrush. At this point, you can also add moved paint. Remember that it will look completely different ones, it's dried. So at this point, it's still really hard to judge how your results will look like. This is a good time to let it dry for a bit. Wait until most of the xin has dried. Because if you try to lift out color when it's still to wait, it will have no effects. This is a perfect time to lift out rocks. Remember to use a clean brush and also remember that your ability to lift out color will depend on the quality of your paper. Literal painting dry completely before you move on to the next state. Now that everything has dried, you can start defining more shapes. You can create bushes or trees, pushing back some areas by adding more band. The difference between the dark area that you pushed back and the light area will define your bushes. Tree trunks in open spaces to create trees. You can play around by making clusters of trees in one area, or maybe one week tree in another area. By darkening the undersides of your trees, you will give them a more 3D appearance as the tops of trees are lighter with a reflect the sun and the under BOD still occur in the shade. Additionally, you can try to splatter some old goal while the paint is still wait to disperse sub-band and create interesting effects to work with. Remember, the idea is to just play around and have fun. Who knows? Maybe this class triggered you to do something different. I'm not a new technique to your toolbox. Please go ahead and upload your pictures and let me know how it waits. And then I will see you in the next clause.
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