10 Minute Woodland Leaves - Beginner Watercolor

1. welcome!: Hi there, and welcome to this ten minute beginner level leaves class. So this being a short form class, I thought it might be fun to time ourselves. So I've set my clock for 2 minutes. Just going to run very quickly through materials before we get started. And I'm using a size ten round brush. This is a Princeton one, and the size ten is Scudder. Then I've got a mechanical pencil, 0.7 vapor castle. Now, my green of choice is undersea green today, but any green you fancy. And I'm using che hot pressed. This is 300 grams, 140 pounds, and it's a four size. I just wanted to run through for those who don't know how you can upload your project. So underneath the class, there is about section Projects and Resources, reviews, discussions, and you can also access the full transcript from the class. So to show your project, you can click on Projects and Resources and on the right, submit project. So when you're ready, let's get started. 2. Our Class Project - Woodland Leaves: So here we go. I'm going to set my alarm clock for 10 minutes. And yes, I did buy this with my adult money. I love rainbows. So we're going to paint four different leaves together, some of my favorite shapes. I've chosen onto Sea green. We're going to start off with a smaller round brush, and I'm using a size four so we want our mixture to be quite watery because I want to bring out the granulating properties of the undersea green. We're going to be adding little details with our pencil. If our paint is too dark, they won't show up. So let's draw out a very simple stem structure. So two stroke leaves. And I just dropped a little bit of water in the base. I'm using the side of my brush, so it's not straight on. It's from the tip down to about two thirds of the way, and you can bring your leaves in or out. You can already see how beautiful this color is. It's so natural, and I love it for leaves. So we're really working with the granulating properties, keeping our paint nice and wet. And just adding little leaves as well. I've just got my last stem here. Let's pull down a larger leaf at the end and add some water to it. And a wee leaf there and here. So for number two, let's paint a very simple fern leaf. So with this one, we're using our round brush in a fairly blunt way. So we're not worried about tip, belly of the brush and up again to a tip. We can interrupt the brush flow, and it gives us a slightly more blunt shape. And it's almost like one continuous line. We're just bringing them into that pencil mark in the middle. Super easy. I love painting these. Dropping in a wee bit of water. And then we can drop some pigment in some of them towards the base and add some smaller leaves in between the large ones. And we'll end with that one. Onto leaf number three. And let's lay down another curvy stem with our pencil. So this time I've gone up to a size ten round brush. So let's paint four or five leaves to one point on the stem. So this would be like your cleaver or more tropical leaves also have this shape. Some can be larger than others. And then we can drop in some pigment to the base of the leaves. So we're leaving some space between each cluster of leaves. Again, very easy to do because we're just working to one area with those leaves. And then finally, a very, very simple leaf with our size ten round brush again. That's gonna mix up a little bit more paint. And this is a tip and then belly of the brush, a wiggle, and then up to a tip again. So you've probably done this in a lot of classes, and some of mine may be dropping in some water so we get some lovely granulation and blooms. I like to place a leaf over leaf every now and then. And as we get to the bottom, we can do larger leaves. And smaller. I like the unevenness of little clusters of leaves like this. Not all the same and each little leaf having its own character. So we don't have to wait now for this to dry. We can go in with our pencil because we can move the paint around just a little bit. Some of these leaves are dry, and that's fine, as well. Just adding those little details that if you've done other classes of mine, you'll be familiar with. Of course, you don't need to follow what I'm doing. Just follow your heart and make some marks. Follow your heart to make a mark. Quite like that. Just going around that we on there. Now, on our fern, we can just go along and do some very simple lines in some of the leaves. Super easy, super restful. And all the way around that top one, I think, maybe that one. And then I'm just going to move over to our fourth leaf here. We've got a pool of paint there, which is always handy because we can pull the paint with our pencil up to the top of the leaf. This is a very delicate maneuver, similar to ones that you may have done with the dip pen, but we're utilizing the paint. That's already there. So let me check my little alarm clock, and I have 1 minute left. Maybe 1.5. 3. Thank You! : So all that remains to be said now is a huge thank you. And I'll see you over in discussions or on Instagram. Bye for now.