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10 Easy Watercolor Fruits

teacher avatar Madonna Guinn, Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:00

    • 2.

      Sample fruit illustrations and inspiration

      0:38

    • 3.

      Tools and Materials

      1:36

    • 4.

      Brush Practice

      1:12

    • 5.

      Papaya

      1:49

    • 6.

      Orange

      1:05

    • 7.

      Avocado

      1:17

    • 8.

      Kiwi

      1:05

    • 9.

      Apple1

      0:55

    • 10.

      Banana

      0:59

    • 11.

      Strawberry

      0:48

    • 12.

      Watermelon

      0:42

    • 13.

      Lemon

      0:44

    • 14.

      Blueberry

      0:30

    • 15.

      Project

      2:31

    • 16.

      Thank you

      0:39

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    10 Easy Watercolor Fruits is a 18 minute class that will help you paint directly in waterbrush or aquabrush. We are going to make an illustration of fruits with only one brush. This is a very exciting class and you will learn how easy it is to paint fruits in loose style.

What you can expect in this class:

  • Painting Fruits inspiration
  • Tools and Materials 
  • Basic Brush Exercise 
  • Easy and Simple Fruits Illustration
  • Gain confidence
  • Get to know your brush
  • Painting directly in aquabrush or waterbrush

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1. Intro: Hi, everyone. This is my daughter, my Monarcas administrator. Welcome to the class of 10 easy water color fruits. In this class we will be baiting 10 simple and easy watercolors groups. You see only one water brush classes for beginners than anyone. Collections, fruits, your own style. I'm going to show you how to pay directly in the water brush so you get to lose and unique illustrations there. Simple brush, explored level of skills, water color. Join merely class. Let's get started. 2. Sample fruit illustrations and inspiration: your arm, a simple for its illustrations that I bank it in water color and they use her friends for this painting's visit. On this plush. It's a website for really beautiful photos. Then you can search fruits, and there's already many houses to us from, or you can use your own reference on It's up to you. 3. Tools and Materials: here to us that I will be using in this class time, said Montreal. A quarrel Wonder it bills this a great fan. Gold breast paper Winsor and Newton Cotman, Watercolor said. This is 1/2 penny, students said, which consists of fortify pins. I love their colors, transparency and permanence. This is a little expensive compared to other brand because of this quality, but this warning is a great investment. If you love watercolor, if you're a beginner, I advise you to start with a student watercolor, especially yours. So trying to get used to with this me true and after wars you can optimum or expensive. Born before I tried to use different guys a border colorists like in two spins before in brands to see how I like the color pigment Aqua Barrage does is a mental arts Coburn. She can purchase it online or order in Amazon. But if aka brush is not available to you just used, which already haven't. But I encourage you to just use one brunch for this class to get to know your brush well, water vapour teller 4. Brush Practice: all right. Today we are going to explorer brush. I encourage street this. Use the brush that you're going to use for this project. Our guys, I'm going to use to spend a large aqua brush and let's see what it can do for the first exercise that straws and lines you can experiment with different guys lines thick and thin , line straits, pursed and broken. After that loves addressed on the shapes you seen your brush. Let's draw different kinds of shapes. You can fill it away to your desired colors. 5. Papaya: It's the by a time. This will be our first route that were going to faint. I'm going to paying it lose. I encourage you to set aside your pencil and used to brush to draw the outside of the fruit . That way you will practice your hand and holding the brush, and it will help you to get to know your breasts. Well, I want this. Put fire to the correct, so I'll be going to put more orange and red color together. Don't worry. If you put a lot of water to wait, you have your thinking gets too much. I use a paper towel toe, absorb board the water. I'm using my technical pen to draw it shapes of disease, and I'm going to finish it with a black or watercolor and well, that color does seats all black. But instead I'm going to leave some a wide part open as a natural highlight. Using Uncle brush can be sure you get first special if you is Greece, the brush or you accidentally produced more water than it's you expected. All right, worried done, and let's go to the next 6. Orange: it's orange Time is useful. I'm going to draw the outline often orange. Why? You see my aqua brush, Remember when drawing the outline make sure you pick the lightest caller only cell with a caller. I would like to work on the light told they're finished up in the dark tone. This is an example off layering colors to fully understand instead of baking directly in direct caller telling I like east pain and worry Calderwood, lead shade are pain for So you put more details to paint the Paul in lose radiologist fresh down the ACA brush by putting a little pressure to with toe Make them work. We're pitifully okay. We're going with 7. Avocado : less paying avocado in this illustration and going to show you how to fix one. The problem in painting watercolor Notice that I use different shade of green in my outlying. I made a mistake, and it's not green that I want to use it first. You will think that. Oh, I messed it up already. But, hey, it's one of the beauty off watercolor. All you have to do is rinse the brush and Wallace still wet. Wipe down some extra water in the paper towel well, and try to absorb the water in the green park off, or at least lessened them. So it's easier to blend with the right green collar that you will going Teoh The work finished Double Carreno and less pain Q B in the next lesson. 8. Kiwi: skewered time in this road and going to use better. What book? Which means and going to mix colors. Weller's what, together, this myth that gives unique effects and texture compared to drive two colors colors. I'm going to use my technical plan to try this drug Deceits Q b Don't overdo deceives. Just make sure it's scattered around and very go. It's very simple in this illustration, and let's move on to our next fruit. 9. Apple1: for Apple, I outline the shapers using the aqua brush. At first it looks like bell pepper or tomato, but Dorial. Let's put somewhere layer to it. So with the illustration of a little more apple. Nor does I live some highlights to the Pruetts. By adding black to red, it gives more darker color. Opposer is pained when the colors are less. You have more control of the There you go. Let's pain this strawberry. 10. Banana: All right, let's pain bologna. Let's start by drawing the outline. I use only two callers here, like green and yellow. I want to be griping, and them better with that, your light grand. It gets moral realistic. Look to it. By training in with dark and light color, your illustration shows more interesting effects. 11. Strawberry: All right, let's pain strawberry and going Teoh. Show you how easy it is to paint strawberry. Let's start by drawing the shape off the food and going to mix orange and red color says the middle part off strawberry is lighter. The side of it. I'm going to use crumple paper dio Give us, um, nice texture to wind. I will decide more years on totally different and where die. 12. Watermelon: Let's paint water, Mylan, this crunchy. And what are your fruit ISS? One of my favorites to paint, I said. For the simple For you can paint them. In many ways, you can put door Keret or concentrator read to the top part and layer at the bottom. I'm going to use my unit pin and Sikora. This means, and there you go. We're done with watermelon, and for the next video, we're going to paint lemon. 13. Lemon : It's 11 time. Let's straw Dean, shape off the lemon. First, make sure you live some white part or like part on the food. Everything gets to light for you. The caller up for you to call her the lemon. You can add more yellow to it. Where this illustration. I love to include Billy for details. 14. Blueberry: for the last fruit. We're going to pay blueberry. Let's draw a circle around shape and let's get a switchboard is darker and lighter by adding black to your choice and color will help your illustration bringing tap to this making lose and it doesn't have to be perfect. And there we go. Where I weighed are 10 water color fruits. 15. Project: for the class project. I want you to pay different guys off. Good in your own style. This keep it lose easy and simple. I can't wait to see what you come up with and bigger AP Off illustration and good luck. 16. Thank you: Thank you so much for watching big lies. I hope you enjoy and they help you. It is making easy watercolor fruits. If you If you are interested in painting more water Caller, you can check my honor Water caller glasses. I have a one exploring watercolor raising lively and colorful attached to this If you're interested in sending shoes, I got one blessed about raising your old shoes the last time and happy facing.