30 Day Watercolor Challenge : Let's Explore Winter Season with Watercolors

1. Hello & Welcome back!: [MUSIC] [NOISE] Painting with watercolor is so much fun, right from wetting the paper with clear water, pouring the colors and watching them blend and bleed into each other, and create the whole magic. It's a really beautiful process. Sometimes painting with watercolors can be incredibly challenging. But in the very next moment, it may surprise you with stunning results which you will be really proud of. Hello my dear friends. My name is Zaneena Nabeel. I'm a mother, an artist, and an architect. I have been using watercolors since childhood and my fascination for this medium has grown so much over these years. Winter is one of my most favorite subject to paint, creating those moody, foggy, snowy landscapes is such a thrilling experience. I'm super excited to invite you all to a 30-day watercolor challenge where we will be together painting 30 gorgeous winter landscapes. [MUSIC] This class is designed as a daily challenge, which will run for 30 days. Starting from today, for the next 30 days, we will be painting a gorgeous set of winter themed watercolor paintings. [MUSIC] We will paint a series of stunning northern lights, foggy mornings, chilly evenings and so much more. This class is suited for artists of all skill levels. Even if you have just started using watercolors, this class works perfectly. This entire challenge is power packed with incredible techniques and wonderful class projects. I'm certain that by the end of this challenge, you all will be a lot more confident in your watercolor skills. [MUSIC] Are you guys ready to explore this snowy season with watercolors? Put on a cozy sweater, or grab a cup of coffee and join me to paint a gorgeous collection of winter landscapes which you can flout. 2. Before we begin!!: [MUSIC] Always buy a paper which is made for watercolor painting. You will find a whole lot of varieties of watercolor paper in the market, Some of them are cellulose, some of them are cotton, some of them are a mix of cotton and cellulose. Always try and go with a paper which is 100% cotton. These are two of my favorites, one is Arches. This is 100% cotton and it is 140 lb. Same with the other one. The other one is from Canson. It is their heritage series. Both of these are cold pressed watercolor paper. For this entire course, I'll be using paper from Canson. This is a texture my paper has got, it is moderately textured. Most of the time we get frustrated with watercolors just because you're using the wrong kind of art supplies, especially the paper. Using a good quality watercolor paper has a huge impact on the intracellular. If you're really serious about improving your watercolor skills, never paint on a student-grade watercolor paper. Try and invest on a good quality artist watercolor paper. Trust me, this is going to be a game changer. You will start to enjoy the process and you will love this medium like never before. The same thing goes with sketchbooks as well. It is much more easier to get the right watercolor pad. But to find the right sketchbook is difficult. This paper is quite thick, but it doesn't have any texture. It is only good for sketching and light washes. It is not 100% cotton and it cannot handle multiple layers of water. I have just kept it aside for some sketching exercises. Now I have another sketchbook here. This one is a custom-made sketchbook, and it is made out of 100% cotton watercolor paper, which is made for watercolor painting. A [inaudible] for me is batches and color studies. You can see that card just texture. Ever since I started using 100% cotton watercolor which of minimum 140 lb thickness, I have never bought cheap cheap watercolor paper. I know it can be a bit expensive, but this is going to be a real game changer. If you're really serious about improving your watercolor skills, there is no other choice, you have to go with 100 % cotton watercolor paper, which is of minimum 140 lb thickness. The more the thickness more better, but it can be more expensive as well, so go with a minimum thickness of 140 lb. Make sure to go with a really light pencil sketch, no matter which pencil you're using, whether it's an HB pencil, or a 2b, 1b, or a 4b. Make your pencil sketches as light as possible. Watercolor is a transparent medium. In this watercolor challenge, we are painting winter landscape. To bring in that snowy character, we'll be going with really light watercolor washes and we'll be reading the paperwhite as well. Go to really light pencil sketch, otherwise, your pencil lines will be visible in your painting. We don't want that. You can see the light sketches I have added here. That is tone you should be using for your pencil sketch, not just for this watercolor challenge, this is something you need to keep in mind whenever you're adding a pencil sketch for your watercolor painting. Don't put a lot of pressure. Be very gentle and add a pencil sketch as light as possible. Never study watercolor painting without having any idea about the color palette and the techniques that you're going to use. These are some thumbnail sketches I created earlier for a different project. These little paintings will give you a better idea about how to approach your main project. I still remember I have ruined so many watercolor paintings in my early stages just because I didn't plan out the colors and the techniques properly. This exercise is really important if you are going with the new technique or if you want to try a new color combination. These paintings can be really small and it doesn't need to be detailed. It is just to get an idea about the color palette and how to approach painting. It is going to make the whole process a lot easier. If you really take care of your watercolor brushes, you will never have to buy the same brush again. It is really important to keep your brushes clean. There shouldn't be any leftover paint on your brush after you have finished your painting. I normally use this brush cleaner. I use it quite often for my gouache brushes, but for my watercolor brushes, I just use it once in a month or maybe once in two or three months. This is just like a mild soap. I'll quickly explain the process that I follow normally. First I insert my brush in warm water, then I rub my brush in the soap. There will be some latter that is formed on your brush. Now wash on that plateau in normal water. Instead of a brush cleaner, you can use any mild soap or shampoo. It works the same. Take care of your brushes. Always use two jars of water whenever you are doing a watercolor painting, it is really important to work with clean water to get fresh and vibrant colors. I always keep one jar of water side and whenever I'm in need of clean water, I just grab that one. The other one I normally use will always have the paint from my brush. If in case you're not able to work with two jars of water, try and replace your water as frequent as possible. If you work with muddy water or dirty water, you're painting will also look muddy, it will lose that fresh character. It is really important to work with two jars of water or keep replacing your water frequently. Try to clean your brush properly. Every time you go from one color to another, you might be working with light colors and dark colors. Imagine if you work with blue first and you're using the same brush to pick yellow. If you didn't clean it properly, you will end up creating a green. Always clean your brush properly before you switch from one color to another. Just to be sure, you can dub your brush on a paper towel to make sure there is no leftover paint on your brush before you go with the second color. Always make sure the previous layer has dried before you go with the next step. When you're working with watercolor, you need a lot of patience. Always wait for your background layer to dry before you add in your details. If you want to speed up the process, you can always use a blow dryer or a heat tool. This can speed up the process and you can add your details much more quickly. That is it. I think we are all sort to begin this journey. [MUSIC] 3. Materials you'll need: [MUSIC] Now, I'm going to take you through all the materials you will need for this course. We'll start with the watercolor paper. The one I'm going to use for this course is the Canson heritage cold press watercolor paper. Canson has a lot of varieties of watercolor paper, but this one is my personal favorite. When you're getting a paper for your watercolor projects, there are three things you need to be careful about. The first and the foremost of all, the paper should be 100 percent cotton. If the paper doesn't mention 100 percent cotton, it might be of cellulose, but isn't that great for watercolor projects, so always go with the paper with this 100 percent cotton. The next thing is your paper should be at least a 140lb. This indicates the thickness of your paper, and this means your paper can handle multiple layers of water. The last one is the paper has to be cold pressed. But this one is a personal choice. If you would like to work with more textures, you can go with rough paper. If you would like to work with very minimum texture, you can go with hot pressed paper. Let's take a look at this image. You can clearly see the difference. The first one is hot pressed and it doesn't have any texture. The second one is cold pressed watercolor paper, which has a moderate amount of texture. The last one is rough, which has a lot more texture than the other two. Keeping those things in mind, decide on your watercolor paper. Now, this paper part is 26 centimeter by 36 centimeter, and I have divided this paper into six equal parts, and that is the size I'm using for my paintings. Each of these divisions are 12 centimeter by 13 centimeter. I got this dimension by dividing the paper into six equal parts. It's a small size, but you can decide on the size of the paper you want to work with. If you were to go with a much more bigger size, that's totally your choice. Here is one of the painting we'll be doing. I just took this out so that you can understand the size. That's the size I'm going to go with. You can see, I have just divided that piece of paper into six equal divisions. Decide on the size of the paper you want to go with. Whichever the size you're going with, just make sure to go with 100 percent cotton watercolor paper, which is going to have a huge impact on your painting. Now, I'm going to fix my paper on a board. This one is MDF panel. I'm using this as my packing board. We just need a piece of cardboard or any other piece of hard surface, to fix up a paper on to. For some of the paintings we'll be doing in this course, we'll have to lift our paper and tilt then turn it around to make the colors blend into each other. I would recommend fixing your paper on a backing board rather than on your table. The next thing you will need is a masking tape. We have to fix our paper onto this board, so obviously, you will need a masking tape or a washi tape. Mine is a normal masking tape, which I got from a stationary shop. It isn't an expensive painter's tape or anything, and it works perfectly for my paintings. You can use any of the masking tape or Washi tape that you normally use, which works well on your paper. That's all about the watercolor paper. Now, let's take a look at the brushes you will need. Throughout this course, I'll be using four different brushes. The first one is 1.5 inch Mottler brush or a wash brush. I'll be using this brush to apply water on the entire paper. I don't use this brush for anything else, so it is quite clean. If you don't have such a wide brush or a wash brush, that's absolutely okay. You can use any of your bigger sized brushes. Just make sure it is clean before you apply water on your paper. Now, the next brush I have here is half inch flat brush. You can use any of your medium to bigger size flat brush. Then I have two round brushes; one a size number 8, and the other one a size number 4. The wide brush is from Princeton, and the other three are from silver black velvet brush. Just grab any of the brushes that you normally use which is the same size. We discussed about the watercolor paper and the brushes. The next important thing is about watercolor paint. Throughout this entire course, I'll be using tubed watercolor. These are from the brand ShinHan, it's a coloring watercolor brand. These are their extra fine premium watercolors. I'm not allowed to work with freshly squeezed paint, so I'm not going to squeeze this out onto a palette and keep them in advance. According to the painting we are doing, I'll be freshly squeezing out the paint [inaudible], and at the beginning of every painting, you will get to see the colors you will need for that particular day. But it isn't necessary to use freshly squeezed paint, you can use panned watercolor, or you can squeeze out the paint in advance onto your palette. In both the cases, I would recommend using a water spray. In case if you are using dried out paint on a pallet, or watercolor pans, display some water on it in advance and keep it aside for 10-15 minutes. This will activate the paint and it will make your colors look vibrant and intense. You can easily pick the colors as well. [inaudible] your water and leave it aside for some time, let it act to it. The next thing you will need is a mixing palette. I'll be using this small super cute ceramic palette for my paintings. For all the paintings we'll be doing, we'll just need four colors or maybe five, not more than that. Any small palette will work. You don't need to go with a big palette, even a dinner plate will perfectly work. Just take out anything that you can mix your paint on. It just needs to be a non-absorbing surface. It can be plastic, or ceramic, or glass, it doesn't really matter. The next thing you will need is two jars of water. I have seen people taking this very silly, but it is very important to have two jars of clean water. We'll be keeping one jar aside and whenever we are in need of clean water, we'll grab clean water from the other jar. Always keep two jars of clean water so that you don't need to run in between. For some of the paintings, we'll need to add a pencil sketch, so you will need a pencil and an eraser. Whenever you're adding your pencil sketch, always go with light lines. Don't make it too bold and strong. Only you need to see them when your painting dries, so don't put a lot of pressure. Go with very light pencil sketch. The last thing you will need is a paper towel. You can also use a cotton cloth. When you're doing your watercolor painting, there are many instances where you will need to use a paper towel. Sometimes, it is just to remove the wetness off your brush and make it clean. Some other times, it is for the dry brush technique. Always keep a piece of paper towel or a cotton cloth right next to you while you're painting. That summarizes all the materials you will need for this 30-day watercolor challenge. Now, there are two more things that I want to show, which isn't really necessary material. The first one is a drawing pen, and the other one is a wide sharpen. These are going to make our life so much easier. If you have them, it is going to be a bit easier to add in the detail. Otherwise, we can just use a detailing brush and adding those teeny tiny details using our brush instead of a pen. For this painting here, you can easily add those white snowy patterns on the tree using a wide sharpen. The same can be done using new white gouache and a pen as well. But it is going to be a bit more easier with a white sharpen. The same goes with those thin, delicate branches. If you have a black pen, it is much easier to add those delicate branches. This one is from art line, you can use any of the drawing pen or sketching pen. I just realized I missed one of the most important art supply you will need for this course, which is white gouache or white watercolor. It's a window thing towards watercolor challenge. Obviously, we'll need to add in lots and lots of snow onto our painting. I'll be using this white gouache from an Indian brand called Brustro. If you don't have white gouache, you can also use your white watercolor. For this painting here, you can see those white patches on the tree. For that, we'll be using white gouache. For this painting to add in those stars, we'll be using white gouache. There are multiple uses for white gouache and it is just one of the most important tool to make our paintings look snowy. That summarizes all the materials you will need for this entire watercolor challenge. Quickly go grab them and get ready to enjoy your course in doing watercolor challenge. [MUSIC] 4. Day 1 - Winter Evening: [MUSIC] Let's start with the wafers painting. I have a piece of paper already here. This is the size I'm going good with, but you can go with any size that you prefer. Then I have my clean palette, and two jars of water. Everything is ready. Now I'm starting by applying masking tape onto the four sides of my paper. I'm going to fix this onto this board. I'm using a one inch masking tape. You can either use a masking tape or a washi tape, whichever that you use normally. Well, let's quickly fix the paper onto the board. I prefer fixing my paper onto backing board rather than onto the table. This way it is easy for me to lift and turnaround my paper while I add the details. For some of the techniques we'll be using in this course, you will have to lift to paper and you will have to turn it around for the colors to blend in a very natural way. Fixing paper onto a board, it can be any piece of cardboard or it can be even an old magazine or a notebook. Something that you can fix your paper onto it can be anything. Also when you're applying your masking tape, make sure to run your fingers on top of them multiple times, to make sure that there's no gaps in between. This way you will get a clean boarder. If there are some gaps the paint can sip into and you won't get that clean border. Just run your fingers multiple times after you have applied your masking tape. My paper is ready. Now I'm going to add a line a little bit of the center of the paper. The top part is our sky and the bottom is the snowy ground. That is all you need to add for the pencil sketch. Is it simple? Now let's prepare the colors. For the snowy ground I'll be using these two colors. I'll be mixing indigo and royal blue. I don't want to use indigo asses because it's a dark blue. I want it to be slightly brighter. I'll be been mixing indigo and royal blue. You can also use indigo and Prussian blue or indigo or ultramarine blue or any other blue. It just makes a little off indigo, but any other blue that you're using, and create a slightly brighter version of blue. We don't want it to be too bright and too dull. That is a recent why I'm mixing these two colors. There is one more reason, the indigo that I'm using here, it is from the branch in hand. It is slightly darker than the other indigos. I'm not really a fan of the indigo from this brand because it has a graystone rather than blueish. I really loved the indigo from Sennelier, but that's almost worse. I thought I will just mix a bit of royal blue with indigo to make it a bit more brighter. For this painting, I'm starting with the snowy ground not the sky. To paint the snowy ground I'm using my half-inch flat brush. We'll be painting the sky only after this dries. Just like I mentioned earlier, I'm going to mix indigo and royal blue. If you have a more blueish indigo you can directly use that you don't need to mix it with any other blue. For example, if you have indigo from Sennelier, I think it looks like most similar to this, so you don't need to mix it. This is the color I'm going to go with. We'll be using the [inaudible] technique. The first step is to apply an even coat of water onto the anterior ground. I'm going with my one-and-a-half inch wash brush, and [NOISE] I'm dipping my brush in clean water, and I'm applying it even coat of water onto the anterior bottom part. [NOISE] We don't need a lot of water, just a shiny coat of water it's all we need. Gently apply a coat of water following the line you have added. Now, I'm going with that color I created [NOISE] by mixing indigo and royal blue. Over the bottom we'll be going with a medium tone. As we approach that line we have added over the middle, we'll make the color lighter. Start off with a medium tone and apply that only to half of the area. Now wash the paint from your brush, clean up properly. Dry the brush on a paper towel, and get rid of that dark and intense blue. Now that there are slightly wet brush, blend the color and make it lighter towards that line. That's how the baseboard should look like. If you want to make the color more taco over the bottom, you could do that now because your background is wet, you can make use of that time and add in some more deeper tones over the bottom. But the top area should be lighter. I'm cleaning my brush again and I'm making it a clean blend. Run your brush only in a horizontal way. We need a smooth and clean blend here. I think that looks fine. I will run my brush one more time in a horizontal way and make the blend a little more smoother. That is a base layer that was only ground. [NOISE] Now we have to wait for this to dry. You can either use a blow dryer to speed up the drying process or you can just wait for it to dry naturally. Mine have dried. For the next step, I'm using a smaller sized brush. This one is a size number 4 round brush. I will just wash my other brush properly and I will keep it aside. [NOISE] For the sky we'll be using the same flat brush. I don't want to have any blue stains on it. We'll be using crimson and orange for the sky, so we need a fresh color there. I'm switching back to my size number 4 round brush, and I'm going with a slightly darker tone [NOISE] of indigo. I'm not adding a lot of water. Now I'm tapping my Bichon of paper towel. We need to dry paint on the brush, it shouldn't be too watery. Once you have taken paint on your brush, just tap it on a paper multiple times to remove the excess amount of water. Now using this dry brush we are going to add a pathway. It isn't really a pathway, it is something that is created by the footsteps. You'll have to go with a very messy manner to make it look like it's the footsteps. I'll be adding it in a cool way. I'm starting from that further end. Now using that dry brush, add in a curvy line, in a broken manner. It shouldn't be a smooth curvy line, go with the broken manner and use dry paint. Don't go with a solid color. The background is completely dry and you're using a dry paint. I haven't taken a lot of paint on my brush. I have taken bare minimum paint, which you should really try. Over the bottom closer to the masking tape, you can go with pico patterns compared to the further end. But again, you should be using dry paint. All you need to do was go with dry paint, use a smaller size brush, and using the tip of your brush keep scrubbing on the [NOISE] paper and adding some broken line, which are thin at the further end and thicker and taco at the bottom part. It can be a little messy. It doesn't need to be a perfect shape. Just add in some random shapes in a curvy way. [NOISE] Now I'm washing of the paint from my brush. I'm going with a really light one off indigo. I'm just adding few patterns [NOISE] using that lighter tone. Again, I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel. I'm trying to smudge those darker patterns. I don't want them to be too prominent. Add in some more little buttons right next to those darker ones we have added. I will make [NOISE] the color a bit more darker over here. Going with a much more taco tone of indigo, and just adding that over here. You can see the patterns have added here, they're really messy. This is how you should be adding them because we are trying to make it look like footsteps. That's a snowy ground. You can see how beautifully we have got a curvy pathway there. Now the next [NOISE] step is to paint the sky. For the sky, we'll be going with a variegated wash of two colors. For that I'm switching back to my flat brush. This one has the same path inch flat brush I used for the snowy ground. You can use any of your medium too because it's a flat brush. These are the two colors I'm using for the sky, Warmaline and crimson. We'll be mixing these two colors together to get a peachy color. Towards the bottom, we'll be using crimson acidus. On the top you would have that peachy color, and towards the bottom, closer to that line, you have a crimson shade, so that is how I have planned it. I hope you all have crimson and warmaline. They are common colors. You get it in all the basic watercolor boxes. If you don't have go with any of the colors which are similar. Instead of Warmaline, you can use scarlet red spill if you don't have it. We have the colors ready. As I said earlier, I'm going to go with the peach color I'm not using Warmaline acetus, but if you want to use more often orange color in your sky, you can use Warmaline acetus without mixing that with crimson. I'm going to start by applying a quarter of water onto the sky. I'm going back with my one-and-a-half inch wash brush. [NOISE] I'm dipping my brush in clean water, and I'm gently applying an even coat of water onto the entire sky. We just need a shiny coat of water. Don't add a lot of water and make it a pool. Run your brush multiple times to make sure the coat of water is even. We are doing a wet on wet sky and they're going to go with a variegated wash. For that, I'm going back with my [NOISE] half-inch flat brush. Make sure there's no blue stains on your brush from previous wash. Make sure it is clean. Now, [NOISE] I'm mixing a bit of wamerline and crimson to create [NOISE] pink color. I'm going with equal part. [NOISE] Just mix these two colors well. That's a color I'm going with. I'll be starting off with an intense color. Then as I come towards the middle, I'll make the color lighter by adding some water. I will again make it darker as I'm approaching the horizon line. You can see how pretty this color is looking. I just mix a bit of vermilion [NOISE] and crimson together. Now, towards the center, I'm using a bit of vermilion, [NOISE] just a little bit, and I'm adding that over here, and blending that with the peach color we added earlier. Now, I'm going back with the peach color we created, going with an intense tone, applying that over here. Finally, going with crimson. Again, going with an intense color. Now, filling up that end tail line in crimson. On the top we have a medium tone of that peach color we created, and then we made the color lighter, and we went in with a bit of vermilion. Then we again went back with a peach color. We used an intense color. Now, we're good with crimson. That's the sky. Now we need to create a clean blend of all these colors. To get a beautiful blend, you need to run your brush in a horizontal way. Don't run your brush in any other direction. Just keep running it from left to right, in a horizontal way. Now, I'm cleaning my brush and I'm tapping it on a paper towel. My brush is just dump, it is not too wet. I'm running my brush in a horizontal way to make it a clean blend. That is the sky you can see how pretty those colors are looking. I'm really loving the color combination. Now, there are two things we need to do before the background dries. The first one is adding some trees over the horizon line. The second one is we need to lift off some paint from the sky to create a sun. Those are the two tasks, we need to do them quite quickly before the background dries. First, we will add the trees. For that, I'm using my size number eight round brush. I'm going with a really intense tone of indigo. You can either use indigo or Payne's gray. Go with a really dark tone because we're going to apply this onto the dark background. When it dries, it will look really dull. In order to get the end result really bright and pretty, you will have to go with an intense tone. I have taken paint on my brush. Now, I'm adding this wet paint onto the wet background. You can see how nicely they are spreading into the background. First you can add a line using that dark tone of the indigo and clean up that horizon line. Now, simply drop that paint onto the wet background in some random shapes. As we are applying a wet paint onto the wet background, this will nicely spread into the background, making those trees look little blurry. This is exactly what we need. You can see those feathery effect on the top. Now, at some places, you can pull the paint a bit into the sky and go with a very organic shape. Don't put a lot of pressure, simply dropping that wet paint onto the wet sky. Let it spread in it's own way, don't try to control the way it is spreading. The first step is done. Now, the next step is to lift off the paint from the sky. For that, we need a clean brush. Wash all the paint from your brush, clean it thoroughly. [NOISE] My brush is 100 percent clean. Maybe you can try dabbing it on a paper towel, just to make sure there's no paint stains on it. Now, I'm going to run my brush in a circular way and I'm going to lift off some paint from the sky. Apply some pressure. Then you brush in a circular way. See that? If you're using 100 percent cotton watercolor paper, your paper will stay wet for a longer time and you can easily do this. Every time we lift off the paint, make sure to dab your brush on a paper towel. Keep repeating the same step until you get a clean white circle there. Every time you do this, there will be some orange paint on your brush. Before you go next time, you'll have to clean your brush. If there is a lot of paint, rinse it in your jar of water, otherwise, just dab it on a paper towel. The best part about this technique is that you will get the outer shape of your sun a little blurry, and this will automatically make it look like our sun is glowing. If you're going with a clean white circle, once everything has dried, you won't get this effect. But there are chances your background might have dried by the time you lifted off the paint, or you're not using 100 percent cotton watercolor paper. In that case, don't worry at all. Just apply a white circle using your white gouache or white watercolor. It is just that you won't get the glowing effect but your painting will be still pretty, so don't worry at all. Now, onto the center of this circle I have created here, I'm going to apply a bit of white gouache to make it look like it is glowing. We just need a teeny bit of white gouache or white watercolor. I'm directly dipping my brush in this tube and picking some paint. That is all we need, just that tiny bit. Now, right at the center of this white circle, I'm adding some solid opaque white. This would make that glowing effect more prominent. In case if your background has dried, you can skip the previous step of lifting off the paint and directly go by adding a white circle. Now, I'm running my brush in a circular way to make that outer shape blurry. I don't want to see that prominent shape and that is the reason why I'm doing this. That's done. Now, lets wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. The colors are looking a little dull than earlier. When the painting was wet, the colors we're looking very bright and pretty, but when it dried, it has turned out a bit lighter than earlier. But this is one common thing with water colors. The colors tends to fade one tone lighter when it dries, that's something which we can't handle so we'll let it be the way it is. Now, for the next step, I'm going with peach black. You can use lamp black or mass black or even paint scree. We just need a dark shade. It can be even indigo. Our final task is to add some trees. It's a very simple tree. Which will be the color you are going with, whether it's Payne's gray or black or indigo, go with a really intense and dark tone. Also, you should be using your smallest size brush or any other brush which has a pointed tip. It is good to go with the detailing brush because we need these branches to be very thin and delicate. I'm starting with the main tree trunk, which can be slightly thicker. Go with a thicker tree trunk. Before you do this, make sure your background has completely dried. Otherwise, this can spoil your entire sky. Our task is pretty simple, just adding a tree with some empty branches. The only thing you need to be careful here is getting those branches very thin and delicate. If you're not able to do this with your brush, maybe you can switch to a pen and add in those branches using a pen. Only the main tree trunk has to be thicker. The rest has to be as thin as possible. It is this thin branches which make your painting look more pretty. The brush I'm using here is size number 4, it has a very good pointed tip. I think you can see that by the lines I'm adding here. I'm adding some more branches on the other side. Maybe I will add one more tree right next to this. I won't be adding a lot of trees, maybe just two or three. You can decide on where you want to add your tree and how many you want to add. Those things are totally your choice. If you want to add three or four, you could do that. I think I will just add one more. Right next to this, I will add my second tree, adding as many branches as you can. This would make your tree more and more beautiful, so don't be lazy. If you cannot add these with your brush, just like I said earlier, use your drawing pen or sketching pen. I use my pen quite often, there is nothing to be shameful about that. Whenever I don't feel confident enough to add those delicate details, I just go with my pen, and I will add those details with lots of confidence, which I may not be able to do with my brush. It's good to have a drawing pen or a sketching pen in your collection. You can check all the materials section to see the pen that I normally use. That is from Artline. There is another common pen from Micron. I was just trying to explain it is okay to use a pen, it is so much better than spoiling your otherwise decent looking painting. If you are not feeling confident, just go with your pen. Now, I'm going to add a second tree right next to this one. I think I will go with a shorter one. I won't be making it as tall as the first one. I won't add these many branches as well. [MUSIC] I have added two trees. Now, we need to add some dry brush patterns right underneath the trees. Otherwise, it will look like it is floating in the air. To make it look like [inaudible] onto that snowy ground, we need to add some deeper tones and some shadows right next to these trees. I'm using the same brush and dabbing my brush on a paper towel. It already has that black paint. Dab your brush on a paper towel multiple times and make sure that there's no water content on your brush. Now, just add some dry brush patterns right where the tree is starting. Don't add a lot of dry brush patterns, we just need a little of it, and that too where the tree is starting, make sure to dab your brush on a paper towel multiple times so that those patterns won't be too prominent. We are adding these patterns only at the area closer to the trees, we are not adding it anywhere else. That is it, we are done with our painting for day 1. You can see, I have added only little patterns right next to the tree. You should be adding only this much. [NOISE] Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here's the finished painting. I'm quite happy with the way it has turned out. It was so calm and beautiful. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining. I'll be back tomorrow with our next project. 5. Day 2 - Northern Lights: [MUSIC] I have taped down my paper already. I have my clean palette here and the brushes are ready. I have two jars of clean water. For this painting as well, just like the previous one, you just need to add in a line. Go with a very light pencil sketch and add a line a little bit of the center of the paper. The top part is your sky and the bottom part is your snowy ground. Add in a line a little below the center of your paper. That is the pencil sketch. This one is going to be a really pretty northern light, which it's going to be the most easiest one you ever painted. Now let's take a look at the colors you will need and squeeze them onto the palette. I have four colors here, indigo, permanent violet, cobalt green, and cadmium yellow light. We'll be using all these four colors for the sky. Just over here at the horizon line, we'll be mixing a little of yellow with cobalt green to make that cobalt green a bit more bright and greenish. We'll be starting with violet. Then on the top we'll add some indigo to make it more darker, and as we come down, we'll switch to cobalt green. Along the bottom horizon line, we'll introduce a bit of yellow and we'll make it more greenish. This is how it was supposed to be. This was the sky I did. But then there was something wrong with my papers so I have taken out a new paper and I'm starting all over again. But I have all the colors ready here. I have indigo, permanent violet, cobalt green, and cadmium yellow. Instead of cadmium yellow, you can also use lemon yellow or gamboge yellow. You can use any cool yellow. I just changed my water into a clean one. I'm adding the pencil sketch again. Luckily, this painting didn't had a complicated pencil sketch, so this was an easy one. Now let's start painting. I'm using a flat brush. This one is a half inch flat brush, and I'm going with a very intense tone of violet. This color is permanent violet. If you don't have a violet watercolor tube, you can also mix and create your own violet. You can use Prussian blue and crimson and create a gorgeous violet of your own if you have an individual tube. To paint the sky, I'm going with wet on dry technique, which means I'm not applying coat of water on the sky in advance. I'm directly applying the wet paint on a dry paper. In case if you're more confident with wet on wet technique, you can apply a coat of water on the sky and then apply your paint. I'm starting with a intense tone of violet and I'm applying that on the top of my paper. Just like the previous painting, I'm running my brush in an horizontal way, and I'm adding the paint. Onto a half of that portion I'm applying violet. Now I'm washing off the paint from my brush and I'm switching to cobalt green. Now I'm adding that right where I stopped the violet and I'm mixing them well. Try to get a clean blend. You'll just need to run your brush in a horizontal way. Don't use any other brush movement. Well, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and, again, running my brush in a horizontal way to get the most beautiful blend. That looks so cool. Such a pretty blue. Clean your brush thoroughly. There might be some violet stains on your brush. Make sure it is properly cleaned. Now, just pick a little of cadmium yellow and mix that with cobalt green and create a greenish color like this. You should use more cobalt green and less yellow. As I said earlier, it can be gamboge yellow or lemon yellow. Now, apply that color onto the leftover area. Just mix a bit of cadmium yellow or any other yellow and mix that with cobalt green. You can see the difference here. On the top, that bluish color is cobalt green, without yellow and the bottom, the color is more greenish. We added a little of cadmium yellow. This is the base idea. We need to get a clean blend of violet cobalt green, and that modified cobalt green. Now, l'm going to pick some indigo and I'm just making the top area a bit more darker. But if you're quite happy with this sky, and if you're background has started drying, you don't need to do this step. You can just keep adding this darker tone. I don't want you guys to spoil your otherwise decent looking sky. Now, I'm going back with little of violet and adding that in and trying to blend these colors. It might be a little tricky if your background has started to dry, you may not be able to blend the colors so skip this completely if your background has started to dry. That's my sky. I'm pretty happy with the colors and the blend. To make my sky a bit more interesting, I'm going to add a violet line where we have added the cobalt green. Again, this is also optional. Add it only if your background is still wet. Otherwise skip this step completely. To add a violet line, I'm switching to my smaller brush. This one is size number 4 round brush and I'm picking a bit of violet, which is not too watery. If it's too watery tap your brush on a paper towel and just add a line over here. Just dry your brush on the right side and add a line. Now, clean your brush properly and switch to cobalt green. Now, pull that line again towards the inside. This will make that line merge into the background. It wouldn't make it too prominent. That's the sky. I'm really happy with the colors. I think it's one of the prettiest and easiest sky I ever painted. I hope you guys are happy with your sky as well. Now, let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The background has dried completely and it is looking slightly dull than earlier but still so pretty. For the snowy ground, we won't be adding any paint. We are going to leave the paper white as it is. We'll just add some shadows and deeper tones at the end. It is going to be mostly paper white. Our, our next task is to add some mountains in the background. For that, I'm using a very light tone of indigo. I'm using my same brush that I used earlier, size number 4 round brush. Load your brush with a lighter tone of indigo, add enough water. Don't go with a darker tone. Go with a really light tone of indigo and add in your mountain. It's a very simple mountain. We are not going to add any other details onto this. You can go with any shape, but don't make it too huge. Go with a low-lying mountain. Because we are trying to make it look like this are really far from us so go with the similar size. Go with a very organic shape. At some places you can make it taller and at some places you can make it lower. This will make your painting look more interesting. Go ahead and add in your mountain however you want to. Along with this, you can also clean up that horizon line, make it a straight line. [MUSIC] I have cleaned my brush properly because I'm going to use the same brush to add some stars. To add a new stars, you will either need white gouache or white watercolor. I'm going to take out the white gouache. White gouache is more opaque than whitewater color so once your painting has dried it will still stay opaque. But with watercolor, there are chances it may tend to fade a bit. Just squeeze out a little bit of white watercolor or white gouache depending on what you have with you and add with your drops of water. Now, to get that teeny tiny stars your paint shouldn't have a lot of water. If you feel like there's a lot of water condensed in your paint, just dab your brush on a paper towel and make sure it is not too watery. [NOISE] Now, take out another brush and gently tap on the smaller brush and create some stars. I'm adding few only on the top area where we have those darker tones. You can add in as many as you want. There is no limit for this. As a very therapeutic process I count of all of those stars most of the time. Feel free to stop yourself whenever you feel like you have added in enough of star. Once you have added enough of stars using the same brush, you can add some bigger stars as well, a [inaudible] in places. To get those teeny tiny stars, consistency is the key. Your paint shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too thick as well. It should be something in between. If you're not too confident about the consistency of your paint, the simple thing you can do is just dab it on a paper towel and the paper towel will absorb all the water content and leave your paint a bit dry. Then you would end up getting those, small splatters. That is one thing you can do. Or you can just try splattering on a scrap piece of paper and make sure the size is right and then splatter on your painting. Whenever I'm teaching to paint the night sky, I focus a lot on the size of the stars. The reason is that it can turn your painting into an absolutely stunning one, and again, also ruin your painting if the consistency is not right. If you're not too sure, always try splattering on a scrap piece of paper and make sure it will turn out right. That's a sky. For the next task, you will either need Payne's gray or neutral tint or black. Go with what you've got with you. The brand that I'm using here, ShinHan, they don't have Payne's gray instead they have neutral tint and that is the reason why I'm using neutral tint for all the paintings. Whenever you see me using neutral tint just use Payne's gray. Now using neutral tint, we're going to add some teeny tiny pine trees in the background, which are going to be in an abstract shape. We are not going to focus a lot on the detail. It is just an abstract shape. You can see the way I'm doing it here. These are really far from us, so you don't need to put a lot of effort in detailing them. In between you can add some bigger ones as well. I'll just take out a scrap piece of paper and I will show you how you can have these. This might be really small for you to understand it. I have a scrap piece of paper here. Now this is more like a water drop shape, but just a little more longer. Add in a similar shape. I don't know if there's any other name for this shape. Now, onto the outer side you can add some teeny tiny patterns. That's the basic idea. For the smaller ones, you don't need to add any of those patterns onto the outer shape, you can leave them as it is. For the bigger ones, you're adding, you can add some patterns on to the outer shape to make it look more realistic. I hope that idea is clear. Now, we can add in as many trees as you want. Some of them can be on the horizon line, and some of them can be on the snowy ground. For the ones I'm adding along the horizon line, I would simply add that base shape; I won't add any other details. Using the tip of your brush, just add some smaller shapes like this. The bigger ones are also not too big. Focus on the overall picture, don't focus on each and every tree. You can see the one I have added here , it's very attracting. In a similar way, at some places, add taller ones, and at some places add shorter ones. The one that are on the snowy ground, you can make them a bit more detailed compared to the ones on the horizon line. Quickly add in as many trees as you want on the entire horizon line. [MUSIC] You can see how pretty our painting is looking already. Over here, I added two bigger trees. Now I'm adding few on the horizon line, those are really tiny. I'm just adding base shapes using the tip of my brush. At some places you can create some group of bigger trees, and at some places you can create a group of smaller trees, and at some places you can go with different sizes. Paint it with all kinds of combinations, this would make your painting look more interesting. Don't add the trees in a similar way. Also, you can leave some gap in between. You don't need to fill the entire line with so many trees. Just add them in a very random order. Now, we'll add some shadows underneath these trees. I'm using my same brush and the same paint and I'm removing the water contents from my brush. You can see the paint I have on my brushes is slightly dry. Using this brush, I'm going to add some dry brush patterns underneath all the trees. Focus more on the trees which are on the snowy ground. As I said earlier, we just need a [inaudible] patterns, don't make it too prominent. Dub you brush [inaudible] multiple times to make sure that there's no much paint on your brush. Add very light and very little dry brush patterns underneath all the trees either using paints gray or neutral tint or black, just make sure not to highlight and make it too prominent. These are really far from us, so don't focus a lot on the detailing. We just need to see some shadows and [inaudible] there, it doesn't need to be too bored. That is it. I'm really loving the way this painting is progressing. You can really feel that sense of distance in this painting. It is really looking like those pine trees are far from you, and that is why we made those trees very small to bring in that sense of distance. Our next task is to add some details on the snowy ground. I'm planning to add a fence over here, not a continuous fence, maybe just one or two wooden post. Otherwise, our ground will look really empty. Along with that, I think we can also add a pathway using a really light turn-off neutral scent, our payne's gray. I will add that first. Depending on that, I will locate my fence. Go with a light tone of payne's gray on your portrait , that will [inaudible]. Add a curvy line which has to be really thin, especially at a place where you're starting your line. Make it curvy and bring it down. Over the bottom, maybe you can make it a bit more thicker. But not the slanted line, go with some dry brush line. In a similar way, I'm adding another line. See that? It looks so pretty already. We haven't added any paint onto the snowy ground. But our paintings is looking so personally without no much effort. That's the magic of paper white white. If you use the right amount of paper white, you can make your painting look super snowy and you can really bring in that window vibes in your painting. We just added a pathway using a lighter tone off neutral tint and we simply use our dry brush line. Next, I'm going to add a fence here, not a continuous fence, just one or two wooden post to make the painting look a bit more interesting. I'm going back with neutral tint, but this time I'm using a really intense tone. I'm adding the first wooden post and deliberately making it slightly inclined. These wooden posts are not really necessary if you're already happy with your painting and if you want to leave your crown very simple, you don't need to add this. Maybe you can check out the end result and if you feel like adding them, you could do that. Otherwise, you really don't need to. That's our first wooden post. Onto this. I'm going to add another one which I'm going to make it look like it has fallen onto the ground. I'm adding an inclined line like this. That's our second line. I'm adding another one which is going to be much more shorter. That is it. Our final task is to add shadow as well as some snow onto these wooden post. Wash all the paint from your brush and switch to a very light tone of indigo. You should be using a really light tone of indigo to add the shadows. If you're not too sure about the color, maybe you can try it on a scrap piece of paper and make double sure that it's too light. Just add in an inclined line. This totally depends on the size and height of your wooden post. The other one is quite taller, so the line has to be much more longer and it has to be in the same direction of the previous one. That's the shadow. I'm going to add a bit of deeper tone over here just to make it look like it has gone into the ground. Similarly, keep doing the same thing onto the other two wooden posts as well. I haven't taken any other extra paint on my brush, I just have a light tone of indigo. The brush has some amount of indigo and it is slightly wet. I'm just marching that same neutral tint of the wooden post, I'm not taking any other extra paint. Finally, we need to add some snow onto these fence. I already have some leftover white gouache from which we used for the sky, so I'm just picking the same. Go with a very thick and opaque version of white gouache or white watercolor, and add some snow on the top of this wooden post. The rest of them are on the snowy ground, so even if you add them, it won't be really visible. Just add some snow onto this one. Along with that, you can also add some dry brush lines on the wooden post as well. Don't add much water to your white gouache or white watercolor, go with dry paint and add some patterns. [inaudible] we don't need a lot, just to make it look like there are some snow. That is it. We need to add some last minute touches on the ground. Right now it is looking quite clean and empty. I'm washing off the paint from my brush, and I'm pulling back with a little of neutral tint, a very light tone. I'm adding some random patterns on the ground, they have to be really small and less prominent. Don't go with a bold color. We just add few here and there, especially closer to the wooden post. That looks good enough, I'm going to leave it here. For the last detailing, I'm going to switch to my drawing pen. This one is a drawing pen from Artline. You can use some very basic normal black pen. I'm going to add some strings onto these wooden post. If you're confident enough, you can use your brush as well. I'm not that confident. I don't want to accidentally add a bold thick line. I'm very sure I won't get this kind of line with my brush, so I'm just using my pen instead. That is it my dear friends. We are done with our painting for the day. I'm really happy with the sight, especially the colors we used for [MUSIC] the sky and the snowy ground. I really hope you guys enjoyed it too. It was an easy one and it turned out really pretty. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll e back here soon with our next project. [MUSIC]. 6. Day 3 - Foggy Night: Hello. Welcome to day three. Today's painting is going to be a really simple but a pretty snowy, foggy landscape. The entire painting is going to be in one single layer. We don't have to wait for the ink to dry. We can keep on adding the colors in one single layer. You just need three colors for this entire painting, which is violet, indigo, and neutral tint. The violet I'm using here is permanent violet, the same one we used to yesterday, and this is one of my most favorite color. You can see that by looking at the tube itself, I'm almost finishing this too. Here is a closer look of the painting that we're going to do today. You can see those foggy trees and that beautiful snowy ground. Everything's looking super snowy and foggy. It is quite easy to create this effect. You need to add all the colors onto your background while you're background is still wet, so you have to be bit quick and consistent. That's the only important thing in this painting. The rest is quite easy because there is not much complicated details on this even for the trees, we're not going to go into detailed shape, we are going with a very abstract shape, see this? You can do this painting quite quickly as you don't need to wait for anything to dry. Maybe altogether you need just 20 minutes or even less. So for the sky, I'll be using violet. As I said earlier, the one I'm using here is permanent violet, you can mix and create your own violet. That's absolutely okay, or you can go with any other color of your choice. For the pine tree, I'll be using indigo. For the snowy ground as well, I'll be using a lighter tone of indigo. Then for the pathway at the middle, you will need indigo as the last neutral tint or base cream. Then to splatter the snow and the stars, you will need white gouache or white watercolor. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. I have fixed my paper already. Now let's add in the pencil sketch. It is not a difficult sketch, it is just a road. So start by a narrow road, as you're approaching down, make it more wider. So this is the shape I'm going. Over here, we have some trees. We don't need to sketch them. They'll be going into very abstract shape. We have taller trees on either end and as we are approaching the vanishing point, we'll make the trees more shorter. That's the basic idea. You don't need to sketch those trees. This is just an indication. I just want to show you how the painting is going to look like. Now, let's take a look at the colors. I already have them on my palette because the first one I tried didn't turn out right, so they are already on my palette. We have two colors I'll be using for the sky, violet and white, other than these, you will also need indigo, will be using indigo for the pine trees as well as for the snowy ground. Other than those, you will also need Payne's gray or neutral tint or black, and also white gouache to add the snow. These are the colors you will need. Now, I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the entire paper. You don't need to leave the road or anything. You can simply apply a coat of water onto the entire paper. So I'm going to grab my 1.5-inch wash brush and I'm applying a clean even coat of water. Keep running your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere, and you haven't left any part of the paper. The paper has to be evenly wet because we are going to paint the entire background in one layer. The paper is evenly wet, now I have the colors ready here. I'm starting off with violet. I'm going with the bright and intense tone of violet. This one is permanent violet, the same color we used yesterday. I'm applying that on the top of my paper. I'm using a flat brush here. I think I may need a bit more violet. That is enough. Now let's add the paint again. I'm adding some water, you can see the color I'm going for, it's really bright. Now, we need to make the color lighter. For this painting, to make the color lighter, I'm not dipping my brush in water, whereas I'm taking some white gouache and I'm making the color lighter. Some people might feel offended by what I'm doing here because this is not the way how traditional watercolor works. To make the color lighter, we always use water, not white gouache or white watercolor. But for me, I do watercolor in my own way, I don't follow the rules. I just do it in my own way and if it makes me happy, that is what I care. If you are so much inclined towards the rules, just use water instead of white gouache or white watercolor and make the color lighter and make it till you reach almost to that road. Our next step is to add the trees. Our background has slightly dried, it is not wet as before. But that's fine, the sky is wet because we just apply the paint onto the sky. We're going to switch to indigo and we'll be adding some abstract trees in the background. As the background is still wet, they will nicely spread into the background looking really blurry and that will bring in that foggy character to our painting. To add the trees, I'm going to use my round brush. This one is size number eight round brush. You can use any of your medium to be size round brush. To add the trees, I'm using a medium tone of indigo. If your bottom part has completely dried, maybe you can apply a coat of water just over here. Now, I'm going to switch back to my round blush and I'm adding the trees, see that. So this is how your paint will spread into the background when you're adding those trees as you're applying this paint on a wet background. Your paint shouldn't be too watery. If you feel like it's too watery, just dab it on a paper towel and keep adding some abstract shapes like this. The tree should be shorter at the center, which is the vanishing point and as you're going away from there, make them more taller. You can see the way I have added my trees here. In a similar way, I'm going to add the trees in the other side as well. Starting with a medium tone of indigo. Over here, your trees has to be taller and as you're approaching the vanishing point, make them shorter. This is the base layer, we used a medium tone of indigo. Now I'm going to go with a bit more brighter tone, I'm adding some random shapes like this. In this one, we're applying in the trees in the foreground and the lighter tone will look like the trees in the background. You just need to drag your brush towards the top and add some shapes like this. It's like a conical shape. We are trying to create an abstract shape of a pine tree here. I'm just pulling the paint towards the top. Now for few trees, we can add a pine tree shape on the top. Again, it doesn't need to be detailed. We are going to create a foggy effect here, this will be really blurry when the paint dries, so just to add a very sharp shape, you don't need to show the entire tree. Just add some foliage on the top. I added two trees on the left side. I will add two or three on the right side as well. Our background is still wet, so you can see how they are spreading into the background. They are now already crisp and sharp shape. I added two trees over here. Maybe another one here, a taller one, so the composition will look nice. I'm just pulling and pushing my paint towards either side and adding some sharp shape. I think that looks nice, maybe I can add one sharp tree over here. It is looking so foggy already. Now we can drop in some darker tones, just some random dots and shapes at the bottom. That is set. Now let's paint the road. I'm using indigo for the road, going with a darker tone. The base layer is going to be indigo and we'll be adding more darker tones using neutral tint. The background is still wet. You can see how the paint is spreading into that snowy ground. That is exactly what we need to create that foggy effect so don't worry about that. You can see the outer edges of this road. Right now the border is looking a little messy. We want to get rid of that feathery look, for that, I'm getting a clean brush. So this one is my size number four brush. You can even use a smaller or a bigger size brush, the size doesn't matter. Go with any of your round brush. It has to be really clean. Now, just keep on pressing your damp brush along that outline and get rid of that for feathery look, you can do that over here as well. My brush doesn't have any paint, it is just slightly wet. Keep pressing on that outer border. This is it, you can see how pretty our painting is looking already. So the base layer is done. If you look at the painting, you will feel like there is some deeper tones and some details missing, and that is exactly what we're going to do next. For that, I'm going to take a bit of neutral tint, you can also use Payne's gray. If you don't have neutral tint or Payne's gray, you can also use black. I'm going to squeeze out a bit of neutral tint. We'll be adding some deeper tones on the road and we'll add some branches on the pine trees and few deeper tones on the snowy ground as well. I'm going to go with the darker tone of neutral tint. I'm using my smallest size brush. When you're adding the deeper tones, don't add it too close to that bottom. We want that indigo shade along the outer border of the road so leave a small gap and then start adding the darker tones. You can make it really dark at the bottom end. And as you're approaching the horizon line, don't make it too dark, so go to a really dark tone and add it along the bottom corner. Then keep pulling that paint and add some deeper tones on the entire road. Now we can make this area more darker, go to a more intense tone of neutral tint, dark Payne's gray. When you are adding a deeper tone on this corner, try to leave a gap in between so you will get a nice line through that road which will make it look like the road marking is visible, which is a really blurry one. It isn't very sharp and prominent. It's a very small detail, to be honest, but then it is going to have a huge impact on your painting. It will make that road look like it's real. Now you can see how pretty our painting is looking already. I have added enough of deeper tones on the bottom corner. I made it a bit lighter as I was approaching the vanishing point. I think the colors have come out really great. This is the line I was talking about. It's just a very simple line, but it made a lot of difference in our painting. Our next task was to add some details on the snowy ground. We haven't added any paint onto our snowy ground, but it is too looking super snowy. I think it looks fine. But maybe we can add some more deeper tones. We'll be adding some branches onto the pine trees as well using the neutral tint. First, let's add those deeper tones in the snowy ground. For that, I'm going with the light tone of neutral tint. We're going to add some dry brush patterns using the lighter tone of neutral tint, add some water and make the color lighter. Once you have taken paint on your brush, dab the brush on a paper towel, and remove the excess water content. Now just add some smaller random patterns. We don't need a lot, just a few here and there. We're going to retain most of the paper white. Be sure not to add a lot. Also, keep in mind, we don't need these patterns to be too prominent. Go with a light tone of neutral tint, dark Payne's gray, and add some teeny tiny dots and some broken lines. You can see the way I'm adding them. I'm just pressing the tip of my brush and adding some messy patterns. That is done. Now the next task was adding tree trunks for these pine trees. We'll have to go the very thin and delicate line as they are too far from us. Be sure to go with any of your brush which has a pointed tip. You can use your detailing brush like size number zero or one. We need them very thin and delicate. It shouldn't be too prominent. If you're not confident about adding these lines, you can either skip them or add them using a black pen. First, I will add some deeper tones at the bottom. Just like how we added on this snowy ground. I'm just adding some little dots and some broken line, but it's a more deeper tone. Maybe we can add few random dots on this snowy ground as well. So that we don't need to add them again. Now adding some branches and tree trunk. See, look at the line I'm adding here. They are very thin. They are hardly visible. This is how you should be adding your tree trunk as well. Go with a medium tone. We don't need a really dark and prominent line. You can add some branches onto that tree trunk. This line has to be really thin and delicate. If you make them too bold and prominent, you won't get that foggy effect. Be sure to go with a detailing brush or just use a pen, as I said earlier. Now, I'm just going to add some more deeper tones at the bottom so that we can really define that area. I think that looks fine. I'm just adding some dry brush patterns over here using a medium tone of neutral tint. Don't take a lot of paint on your brush, go with some dry paint and just keep pressing your brush over here. Our idea is to define those pine trees so we want to make that bottom area more dense. Now I'm going to do the same on the right side as well. I'm just dragging my brush and adding some darker patterns using a dry paint, only at the bottom. I won't be adding this towards the top. The top, I'm going to leave it as it is. We want that snowy and foggy character on the top. Be sure not to add any darker tone over the top. Now we can add those branches on the tree trunk. It is just a simple straight line, but very thin and delicate one. Now onto that, you can add few branches as well. That is it. To define these pine trees, we simply added some dry brush patterns using a darker tone of neutral tint, and we also added some branches. Now we need to add few more details onto the snowy ground. I feel like the right side is looking pretty empty. I'm going to go with a lighter tone of indigo. Just over here, I'll just add some indigo, a really light tone. The other side is looking okay as there is no much snowy ground over there. But this side, it's huge. I'm just adding a lighter tone of indigo over here. I'm using a really light tone of indigo. I'm just dragging my brush towards the inside from the masking tape. Our painting has completely dried. This is how it is looking right now. Now the last step is to add a moon and also to add some stars and some snow onto the painting. Clean your brush properly. I'm going to cover the bottom. I'm grabbing some white gouache. Now I'm going to take out another brush and I'm tapping on my smaller brush and creating some stars. These can be considered as [inaudible] stars. Keep tapping on your brush and adding in [inaudible] dust into your sky. That's done. Now, I'm going to add a moon using the same bright gouache. I'm going to add a tiny circle. You can decide on where you want to add it. I'm going to add it over here. I don't know why I covered the bottom part because I want some snow over there as well. Once I'm done with the moon, I'll splatter some white on the bottom part as well. We'll have some snow on the pine trees as well as on the road. That's going to be the final task. Let me quickly add in the moon. I'm adding some bigger stars as well. Just pick some random area and add a bigger dot using same white gouache. I really love this painting, the color combination and that snowy feel has come out perfect. Now the final step is to add some snow on the road as well as on the pine trees. Just like how we added those dots on the stars, splatter some white dots on the road as well as on the pine trees. You can add it as much as you want. There is no limit. You can make it super snowy by adding lots of white. For me, the best part about this painting is that we didn't have to wait in between for the background to dry. We added everything in one single layer. Everything has to be super snowy and foggy. We need to make use of that wetness of the paper and add everything while the background is wet. Otherwise, we won't get that snowy effect. With that, we're done with today's painting, let me quickly peel off the masking tape. Here you go. Here is our wild snowy night. I'm really, really happy with this painting and I really enjoyed the process. Hope you all enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our next project. 7. Day 4 - Camping under the stars: [MUSIC] Hello, my dearest friends. Welcome to Day 4. Today we are going to try a super-simple night sky. It's a really simple one, but the [inaudible] snowy mountain. Let's take a look at the colors you will need. For the sky, I'll be using three colors; Indigo for that taco-toe on the top, then over the middle, I'll be using some royal blue. Instead, you can also use Prussian blue. Towards the bottom, I'll be using turquoise blue. Those are the three colors you will need for the sky; indigo, royal blue, or any other blue, and turquoise blue. We'll be using the same colors for the snowy cloud as well. Other than that, you will need cobalt green for the tent, and also a neutral tent to add the final details. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. I have my paper already here. First, I'm going to tape down my paper. [MUSIC] I have fixed my paper properly onto the board. Now, I will squeeze out the colors. As I mentioned earlier, for the sky, I will be using three colors. I already have some turquoise blue on my palette, so I will need indigo, as for last, royal blue. Instead of royal blue, you can use Prussian blue, or Sadolin blue, or any other blue of your choice. For most of the sky, we'll be using these two colors. We're going to create a dark and intense tone on the top, and just next to the mountain, we'll be using a bit of turquoise blue. To paint the sky, I'll be going with a wet-on-dry technique, which means I won't be applying a coat of water onto the sky. If you prefer going with a wet-on-wet technique, it is absolutely up to you. Apply a coat of water before you apply the paint. Because some artists always prefer going with wet-on-wet technique rather that wet-on-dry, it will be a bit easy to blend the colors as you have a wet background. It's totally your choice. The size of the paper is quite small, so I feel it is okay to go with wet-on-dry as well. But as I said, it's totally your choice. If you want to go with wet-on-dry, or wet-on-wet, choose whatever feels best for you. We have the colors for the sky ready. Now let's add the pencil sketch. We'll need to add a camping tent as well as some mountain to the background. You can find different types of camping tent if you look for some images on Google. These are few examples. You can pick something which is more simple than this. The one I'm going to draw here is something similar to the third one. First, add an arc line like this, and then connect the bottom with a straight line. Then again, bring the line down. Now from here, connect to the other point with an inclined line. The one I'm drawing here is a very simple tent, it isn't complicated. But you will find much simpler one, task for that much better ones in Google. If you're happy with this tent, you can follow the same, or you can go with a much better one. I have added a base shape. We will also need to add an opening that you'll be entering the tent. The third thing, we can add value paint. Now, we need to add the mountains. I'm starting from the left side bringing it down. Now, from here I'm again taking it a bit up. That's the mountain. Now adding just a straight line. I think I've left the line a bit more towards the top. That looks fine. I'm going to erase out that second line. That's my pencil sketch. Don't make your mountain too huge, go with the similar size. We're going to focus more on the tent, not the mountain. If you made the mountain really huge, you will have to add a lot of details because it will look like it is too close to you. This is a safer size so that we don't need to add a lot of details. I have added the pencil sketch. Now, I'm going to go with my half-inch flat brush [NOISE], and I'm going with the really intense tone of indigo [NOISE]. I'm going to apply the wet paint on a dry paper [NOISE] I'm not applying a coat of water first, I'm directly adding the paint. Go with the really bright tone of indigo, and add that intense tone on the top of your paper. Now, the second color we're going to go with his royal blue, you can use Prussian blue, or ultramarine blue, or any other blue of your choice. I'm again, going with an intense color. Now, I'm adding that right next to indigo, and I'm blending them well. Now, [NOISE] I'm washing off the paint from my brush. I'm picking some more blue, and I'm making it a clean blend. I'm just running my brush in a horizontal way and trying to get a clean blend. Once you have got a clean blend, wash out the paint from your brush, and switch to the next color which is turquoise blue. Now, following the outline of your mountain, gently add that onto the leftover area. Be sure not to add any paint onto the mountain. Be a little careful when you're applying paint over here. If you want to use a smaller size brush or a round brush, feel free to switch to a different brush. Now, make it a clean blend. [NOISE] I'm quite happy with the blend, but I feel like making the top area a bit more darker [NOISE], so I'm picking some more indigo, and I'm applying that on the top. That's the sky. I'm quite happy with the colors and the blend. Meanwhile, we wait for the sky to dry, maybe we can start with the snowy cloud. It is not touching the sky, so we may not have any problem. As we are painting a night scene, we'll have to go with a darker color for the ground as well. Just like how we painted the sky, I will start with indigo, I'm going with a medium tone, and I'm using my flat brush. For the snowy cloud as well, I'm not applying any water. Now I'm switching to royal blue, again, going with a medium tone. I just mix royal blue and indigo to get a more brighter blue. Now [NOISE] I'm washing off the paint from my brush, [NOISE] and I'm making the color lighter. You can apply that on the top of the tent. It's absolutely okay as the color here is lighter. Also, we'll be using a blue color for the tent, so it wouldn't be a problem. Now, we can apply some medium tones in the background. I'm just mixing some indigo with royal blue. You can also use Prussian blue or any other blue instead of royal blue. I don't want the blue to be clearly tar, and I don't want it to be too bright as well. That is the reason why I'm mixing these two colors. You can see here the area around the tent, we made it lighter, and the area away from the tent, we made it darker. This is the base layer. Now we need to add some deeper tones while the background is still wet, especially over the bottom and the area away from the tent. For that, I'm switching to a round brush, [NOISE] and I'm going with a much more intense tone of indigo, and I'm adding some lines. The brush I'm using here is size number 4. Just randomly add some lines onto the wet background. We don't need a lot of them next to the tent, add them away from the tent. Concentrate on the outer corners, and add some lines like this. We retained lighter area around the tent, and we made the outer area more darker. Now, using the tip of the brush, we can add some deeper tones around the tent as well. Just follow the shape you have added there, and just add some dots and random shapes right next to the tent. It may look slightly messy, but that's absolutely okay, it doesn't need to look perfect. Now I'm going to take out a paper towel, and I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel. I'm adding some dry brush patterns as well. Just push and pull that paint, and add some deeper tones over here. Leave the tent clean, don't add any paint onto the tent. Now, you can randomly add some little patterns on the snowy ground as well. Now, I'm going to go with a much more darker tone, and I'm repeating the same step. This time I won't be adding so many patterns like earlier. I think that looks clean enough, I'm not going to add any more pattern. I have left the tent as it is, I haven't added any medium tones or a deeper tone unto it. I have just added some deeper tones around the tent. Next, I'm going to splatter some stars onto the sky, so you will need a white gouache or a white watercolor. If you are someone who loves painting night skies, it is good to get a white gouache, because white gouache is more opaque than white watercolor. The stars you are applying onto your painting will stay more opaque than white watercolor. Now, to apply the styles you will also need cobalt green. We're going to add some shining blue stars, so we'll just need a pinch of cobalt green, or we can use turquoise blue as well. You can just mix a bit of white and turn that into a basal color. Now, I'm squeezing out some white gouache. The colors are ready. Before we start splattering the stars, I will show you what I mean by those blue shining stars. Take a look at the finished sky. I have splattered some stars using white, and then you can see those bigger stars, the shining blue stars. That is what I'm going to create with cobalt green. You can decide on whether you want them or not. You can just go with the white stars as usual, that's totally your choice. Now, to splatter the stars, I'm going to use my smaller-sized brush, add few drops of water, and turn it into a loose consistency. It shouldn't be too thick and too loose as well, it should be something in between. Now, tap on your brush [NOISE] and add in some teeny tiny stars. [NOISE] If you feel like your paint is too watery, you can tap your brush on a paper towel. You can see the size of the stars I have got here. [NOISE] If your paint is too watery, you will end up getting big splatters, which means spoily sky, so be a little careful. If you're not sure about the consistency, maybe you can try splattering on a scrap piece of paper. [NOISE] If you feel like you're getting them right, you can apply that onto your main painting. I'm concentrating more on the outer area where I have those darker tones. [NOISE] I'm adding some more. [NOISE] Add it as many as you want [NOISE]. I think I have added enough. Now we can add those shining stars. This step is not really necessary, I already show you how it will look like, so you can decide on whether you want to add it or not. I had some white gouache on my brush. I mixed that with cobalt green. Now, I'm adding through bigger dot on the sky, in a very random manner. Go with a similar size and add in five or six or seven, how much ever you want to, but go in a very random pattern. Don't add them in a single line, or in a specific pattern, make it as random as possible. If you don't have cobalt green, just mix a little [inaudible] with turquoise blue and you can do the same. Or if you don't want a blue shining star, you can do the same thing with white gouache or white watercolor, without mixing a second color, just add a bigger dot like this using white so you will get a white shining stars. Okay, so I have added a few. Now, I'm going to wash out the paint from my brush [NOISE]. Wash it thoroughly, and tab your brush on a paper towel. You can see there is no paint on my brush. Now, using the slightly wet brush, I'm just making these circles a little blurry. Just run your wet brush, around that dots you have added there, and make it look blurry. This step is what makes your stars look as if they are shining. Adding that, bigger dot using any color you prefer, it can be blue or white. Once you have added enough of them, wash the paint from your brush earning us a clean brush, which is slightly wet, and then make those white dots a little blurry. Maybe I will add one more here. The side is looking pretty empty. You can decide on whether you want to go with blue or white, as I said earlier, and add in your dot and make them look blurry. Now, I'm going to go back with white gouache. Use a brush which has a pointed tip and pick some clean white gouache. Now, onto the center of all the dots you have added here, are the teeny tiny white dot. You can see how it is shining already. This is what we're going to do for all the stars here. Go with white gouache and add a teeny tiny dot onto the center of those blurry blue dots we created. All right, so that is it. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some bigger white dots as well. We have some blue shining stars as for lesson five stars. Again, when you're adding your bigger stars, go in a very random way. Don't add them too close to each other, or don't add them in a particular pattern, make it as random as possible. Now, the next step is to paint the mountain, as well as the tent. That is the two things which are left. Either, we can start with the tent and apply the base color, and then we can move to the mountain. For the mountain, we will be using a lighter tone of indigo and we'll be adding some deeper tones using neutral tint. We're going to create a blue tent, and the major color you will need as turquoise blue. We will be using a bit of cobalt green, turquoise blue and indigo. We'll use indigo to add the deeper tones. I'm starting with some white, I already have some white on my brush. Now, right at the center, there we will have that opening to the tent, add in some white gouache. It can be white watercolor [inaudible] both of them will work. Now, wash [NOISE] out the paint, and go with cobalt green. Around the white you have added here, apply some cobalt green. Now, tab your brush on a paper towel and try to blend them. Our intention is to make this area lighter and around those we'll be adding more deeper tones, so that, it will look like there's some light inside. That is our idea so first apply a bit of white gouache and around that apply, cobalt green, and try to blend them without really getting rid of that white gouache. Okay, so try your best to retain that white gouache and apply cobalt green around it. You can add a bit more. Now, I'm going to switch to turquoise blue. [NOISE] Go with the medium tone, and apply that onto the leftover area, and blend them well with the cobalt green. Run your brush along the outline you have added, and just fill that up in turquoise blue. To make it look like there is some light source inside the tent, you need to play with lighter and darker tones. We started off with white gouache, and around that, we added cobalt green, which is a lighter blue and around that, we are going with a medium tone, which is turquoise blue. Once I have added turquoise blue onto the entire area, I'll be going with indigo, and I'll be adding some darker tones around the outer shape. This will automatically make it look like there's some light source inside the tent. Try and retain the lighter tones at the center. No matter which color you're using for your tent, whether you want to go with a green, or an orange, or a yellow tent, this is the same principle that you need to follow. You will have to make the center lighter, and then around that, you can play with medium and darker tones. Now, I'm going with indigo, and I'm adding that towards the outer shape. I won't be adding any over the center. I'll be [inaudible] more, so the lighter tone is over there. Now, onto all the corners, I'm adding some indigo. You can follow the outline of the tent you have added, and focus mainly on the outer shape. Add those darker tones onto all those corners. I hope the basic idea is clear. This is the same stuff you can follow whenever you're painting a tent, no matter which color it is. If you're painting a yellow tent, you can play with yellow, orange and brown. You can start with a very light yellow, and around that you can add some orange. Then maybe you can go with some vermilion as well as brown and make the outer areas more darker [NOISE]. That's a base layer, now, we need to add some more details onto this. That we can do after we have done painting the mountain. To paint the mountain, I'm going with the lighter tone of indigo, and I'm going to apply that onto the entire mountain, add in some water and create a really light tone of indigo. Now, apply that onto the entire mountain. You can simply fill that up when you're applying the paint. If you can, try to leave some white gaps at the top, only at the top so it will look like there is some snow. We won't be adding any white gouache under this to make it more snowy. Just on the top, and at some random places, you can leave some paper white, just some really small shapes. I'm going to do the same on the other side as well. I'm leaving some white caps along the top line. Now, the rest of the area and filling up in a lighter tone of indigo. For this painting, we won't be adding any other snow using white gouache or white watercolor, so if you can try and leave those teeny tiny caps at the top along the outer shape. If you are not able to do that, that's absolutely fine. All right, so that's the base layer. Now, I'm going to go with a bit more darker tone of indigo, something similar to this color. I'm adding that along the bottom line. We need some deeper tones along the bottom line. We are going to make the top area more lighter. [NOISE] Now, wash out the paint, dab the brush on a paper towel and simply smudge those colors into the background using a slightly wet brush. This can be slightly rough and messy, it doesn't need to be a clean blend, so don't worry if you don't have a clean blend here. We just want some deeper tones at the bottom, and some lighter tones on the top, and we have less on paper white as well. Okay, so that's the base layer, just like the tent, but both of them are looking very lifeless. We need to add the final details onto the tent as well as onto the mountain, to make it more lively. Now, we'll have to wait for the entire painting to dry, before we add the final details. [MUSIC] The entire background has dried. Now, for the final step, you will need some neutral tint or paint gray or black. You'll just need a little. We're going to add some dry brush pattern using this color onto the mountain. As for last or final details onto the tent, we do some markings like all those divisions and the opening. Let's start with the mountain. I'm using my size number 4 drawing brush. You can use any of your smaller to medium-sized drawing brush. You will need a paper towel, so pick out a paper towel and keep it next to you. This is really important. Now, go to taco tone of neutral tint and dab your brush on a paper towel. Make sure the paint doesn't have a lot of water. We want a dry paint on our brush. Now, we're going to pick some random area on the mountain, and we're going to add some dry brush patterns using neutral tint. This is really easy and at the end, we're going to get a gorgeous snowy mountain. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that you should be going with the dry paint, not a watery paint. If you feel like your paint is too watery, keep dabbing it on a paper towel multiple times. Add some tiny patterns using a dry paint just on the top. We won't be adding much on the bottom, we'll be focusing more on the top. Using the tip of your brush, keep on adding some dry paint. You can see I have got them here. This is the main idea. We are going to add some dry brush patterns using neutral tint. You can add in as much as you want but focus mostly on the top. But don't fill up the entire background. We still want to see that indigo color on the background. This step will take a bit of time. Even though it's a very simple step, you need to put a lot of attention here. The patterns you're applying shouldn't be too bold and prominent. You should be really careful about going with dry brush patterns. Don't use the paint which is watery. Every time you pick the paint, make sure to dab it on a paper towel to make sure the paint is not at all watery. Now, I'm adding some dry brush pattern over here onto this pocket. You can see how gorgeous our mountain is looking already. In a similar way, we'll need to add some dry brush patterns using a taco tone of neutral tint onto the entire mountain to make it look more realistic. You can clearly see the difference between the left side and the right side. The left side is looking very plain and boring, whereas the right side is looking so pretty. That's the magic of those dry brush patterns. Now, I'm using a really taco tone of neutral tint, something which is close to black and I'm adding some more patterns. If you notice, I'm adding them in a sloping way to make it look like a valley. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and adding some more patterns. Starting with the tip of the mountain, I'm taking them in an inclined way and I'm taking them to the bottom line of the mountain. This step is something that you can keep on doing that has no limit but take a look at your painting at regular breaks and analyze how your painting is progressing. If you feel like you have already got that snowy character and if you're happy with your mountain, you can leave it as it is. You don't need to add more patterns just because I'm doing it. I have added enough of patterns on the top. Now, I'm going to add some dry brush patterns along the bottom line as well. The top is looking quite good. We need to make that bottom look prominent, otherwise you won't be able to see that transition from the snowy mountain to the ground. Right now, everything is looking as one single plane, so we need to add some dry brush patterns over here. I'm using the same color, using the same brush and I'm simply dragging my brush towards the top and adding some dry brush patterns. After this, we need to do the same thing on the other side as well. We'll add some patterns on the top using a dry paint and just like how we're doing here, we'll add some patterns on the bottom line as well. With that, we'll be done with our mountain. Let me quickly add them in. [MUSIC] We're nearly done. I will add few more patterns over here behind the tent and that we'll be done with the snowy mountains. I'm really happy with the way these mountain has turned out. We started by applying a light tone of indigo onto the anterior mountain. Now we have added some dry brush patterns using a taco tone. This is how our painting has turned out. I'm really happy with it. I hope you guys are happy with your painting too. Now, the last step is to add the final details onto the tent. We already have some dry paint on our brush so using the same paint, we can add some dry brush patterns right next to the tent as well. We don't need to add a lot. We have already applied some dry brush patterns using indigo so just add a little next to the tent but randomly. You just need to scratch your brush and create these patterns. Sometimes it is very surprising how those very messy dirty patterns can bring a life in your painting. If you look at those patterns in a closer way, it is really messy. It's very rough and it doesn't have any beauty on its own. But the impact and the beauty those messy patterns can bring into our painting is really magical. It can turn our painting into a very realistic one. I have added enough, I think I can call it done. Maybe a little more messy patterns. It is just some teeny tiny lines and some dots and some random shapes that I'm adding here. All of this is going to bring a lot of beauty in our painting. There's no particular shape for this. You can simply scratch your brush and add an enough of patterns wherever you want to add, but focus more on the area next to the tent. You don't need to put a lot of effort on the outer area. This is this how our painting is looking at the moment. Now, the last step is to add the opening on the tent as well as some divisions, which will make our tent look more realistic. Right now, it is looking quite empty. First, let's give it a good shape. I'm using my size number 4 brush and I'm cleaning up the outer shape of the tent. Go with the brush which has a pointed tip. We don't want these lines to be too bold and prominent. Now, I'm adding the other division here. See the line? It's really thin. This is the line you should be going with. That looks nice. Now, the last step is to add the opening. For that I'm not using neutral tint. I'm going with turquoise blue because over here, we have a light source so the line won't be that sharp. Go with turquoise or Prussian blue. Now, I'm going to add a line over here first. When you're adding this line, break it in between where you have the white gouache. Wash all the paint from your brush and dab your brush on a paper towel. We need to make this area lighter. Actually, my brush doesn't have any paint. I'm pulling the paint from the top line and extending that towards the bottom one so we have a lighter tone at the center. Now, we can pick some indigo and add a little of that on the top. Just a little only over this area and at the bottom. This is how our painting has turned out. Now, the very last step is to add the opening. For that, I'm going back with turquoise blue. Go with a really light tone of turquoise blue and add an arched opening here, so go with the curvy line on the top, bring it down. This is your opening. Make sure to go the really light one, don't make it too bold. Also, the line has to be very thin and delicate. [NOISE] My mind is saying to add a shooting star. This is absolutely optional. If you would like to add a shooting star, just pick some white gouache and just add it along or if you're happy with your sky, you don't want a shooting star in your sky, skip this step completely. I'm just adding one over here. You can actually try out the same painting with any other color combination of your choice. Maybe you can just change the color of your tent or maybe you can change the color of your sky. If you want to try it with a different color, just go ahead and post them in the class projects, I would love to see that. With that, we're done with our painting for the day. I'm really happy with this one, especially the tent and the snowy mountain. Let me quickly peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here is the finished painting. I really love the texture and the entire feel of this painting and those shining stars. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I hope you all had a great time painting this card just snowy night. I'll see you tomorrow. [MUSIC] 8. Day 5 - Crimson lake: Hello my dearest friends, welcome to Day 5. Today's painting is going to be the quickest and easiest one from the entire challenge. This painting won't take you more than 15 minutes, and it will just need three colors which is: crimson, permanent yellow orange, and neutral tint or Payne's gray. It's a really easy one, so let's begin. I had the colors ready on my palette, and I have fixed my paper. Now let's add the pencil sketch. We'll start by adding a straight line, a little about the center of the paper. The top portion is your sky, and over the bottom will be adding a lake at the center, and we'll add some zigzags, snowy crown on either side. Just add a curvy fluid snowy crowned on either side. You can go with any shape that you prefer. That's the right side. In a similar way, I'm going to add a curly line. Go the very curly organic shape. This will make your painting look more pretty. That's a pencil sketch. I already have the colors on my palette. Maybe I might need a bit more crimson. I just tried the color combination and it looked gorgeous. These other two colors I'll be using for the sky; crimson and permanent yellow orange. Then over here we'll be adding an abstract trees. For that, I will be using neutral tint. Instead of neutral tint, you can also use Payne's gray. These are the three colors you will need for this entire painting. I will need some more crimson. We have the colors ready. Now, I'm starting by applying a clean coat of water onto the sky. For that, I'm using my 1.5 inch wash brush. Now apply an even coat of water on the sky. My sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to go with my flat brush, and I'm starting with permanent yellow orange, going with a bright tone applying that along this line we have added. Now, I'm washing up the paint from my brush, and I'm switching to crimson. Again, going with a really intense tone, and I'm applying that on the top of my paper, and making it a clean blend. On the top we have a bright tone of crimson, and over the bottom we have a bright tone of yellow. For the next step, you will need a round crush. I'm using my size number 4 round brush, and I'm going with the medium tone of neutral tint. This one is size number 4. Go with a medium tone. Now, first I'm adding a line over here. Our sky is still wet and they're applying a wet paint on a wet sky. I'm simply pulling that paint into the sky to create some trace over here. In the background rise, these trees will have a blurry look, and that is exactly what we need to make our painting look foggy. The color I used here is neutral tint. Instead of neutral tint, you can use Payne's gray. We applied a wet paint on a wet background. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry. You can either use a blow dryer to speed up the process or you can simply take a break and come back when you're painting has dried completely. The background has dried, and this is how it is looking right now. I'm quite happy with the blend and those trees. Next we need to add two pine trees. I'm going to go with two. If you want to go with just one, or if you want to add three, that's totally [inaudible]. To add the pine trees, I'm using my size 4 brush, and I'm going to really dark tone of neutral tint. I'm going to add it over here onto the left side. First I'm adding the tree trunk, just a straight line. Now, I'm just adding some lines on either side in a very messy way. I will do this until I reach the bottom end of that tree trunk. So as you come down, you need to make your lines more longer. Overall, you have a triangular shape for your tree. You can see these are really messy lines. I'm not really going too much into the shape of the pine tree. Simply keep on adding these messy lines onto either side of that tree trunk until you reach the bottom end. Now you can see we have a nice pine tree here. It is a very simple one. You just need to focus on the overall shape and keep on adding those messy lines. On the top, those lines should be shorter and as you come down, they have to be wider. Overall you should have a triangular or a conical shape. That's my second pine tree. If you want to learn how you can draw different kind of pine trees, maybe you can look at my [inaudible] class. I have a dedicated class for pine trees, so be sure to check it out if you want to learn all of these kind of pine trees. Our next task was to paint the lake. To paint the lake as well, we are going with a wet-on-wet technique. First I'm going to apply a coat of water onto the entire lake following that curvy line we have added. I'm using my flat brush, and I'm adding a clean coat of water. Oops, it isn't clean, but that's okay. As we're going with the yellow and crimson, I think it wouldn't be a problem. But please make sure to go with clean water. Now for the lake, all the colors behind the sky will be reflected onto the water. Let's start with the permanent yellow orange. I'm using my flat brush. Starting from here, I'm applying some permanent yellow orange, taking it a bit down. Now I'm switching to crimson, applying that over here and making it a clean blend. Simply run your brush around those shapes you have added and fill up the entire area in crimson. Be a little careful while you're applying your paint. If you want to switch to a smaller size brush or a round brush, feel free to do that. That entire area in crimson. Over to the bottom, you can go with a much more intense shade. It doesn't need to be this light. Of course, I will apply this color onto the entire area. I will blend that with a yellowish orange. Now, I'm going with an intense color; a really intense tone of crimson; I'm adding that at the bottom. You can see it is really intense. That's the beauty of this painting. We'll be adding a much more deeper tone at the bottom after we have added the reflection. We need to quickly add the reflection before that yellow dries, so that has to be our priority. Quickly add the crimson over the bottom and blend that with the yellowish-orange. The base layer is done. Now, I'm switching to my size number 4 round brush. Go with any of your smaller-sized brush, and go with a medium to an off neutral tint or Payne's gray, and just drop in that medium tones over here. This is a reflection of those trees in the background. Simply press the tip of your brush on that wet background. The background is wet and the paint you're applying is also wet so they will nicely spread into the background making a beautiful reflection. Depending on the height of those trees you have in the background, add a reflection in a similar way, and their we have those two big pine trees, we'll need to make it more darker. But first, we can finish off the base layer then we can come back and add the other ones. I just cleaned my brush to make this area a bit more smoother. Now that looks fine and I'm going back with neutral tint and finishing off the reflection. Here here also the reflection will be visible as we have a line of trees in the background. Now, just at the area where we have those two big pine trees, we'll need to make the reflection more prominent because those trees are in the full, The others are in the background so they can be in a lighter tone. But for these two pine trees, we need to go with a darker tone. We can come back to that later. First, we need to make the bottom area more darker. I'm switching back to my flat brush and I'm going to really dark tone off neutral tint. I'm adding that over here. I will take it a bit more towards the top, then I'll switch back to crimson and make it a clean blend. right Maybe I'll do until till here while I'm brushing up the paint from my brush and I'm cleaning it properly and putting to crimson and just dragging my brush in a horizontal way to make it a clean blend. The blend looks nice. Now, we need to add some darker tones underneath all the snow patches. For that, I'm switching to my smaller-sized brush and I'm going with the darker tone off red. I'm just mixing a bit of neutral tint with crimson to create a darker shade. Underneath all these snow patches I'm just adding a thin line. Our pattern is still wet, so they will nicely spread into the background making it very soft and smooth. We need to do this for all the snow patches. Just follow that outline and add in a darker tone. Now, adding a little over here as well. That is it. You can see how pretty our painting is looking already. I'm really loving it. I think so far, it took only less than 10 minutes. Now, we don't have much of task left. We need to add the reflection of that pine trees as well as we need to add some shadows on those snowy grounds, that's the only task left. The reflection of the pine trees has to be added while the background is still wet, so we don't have much time left. I think that area is almost drying because we've added the paint over here at the beginning. It's been almost 7-8 minutes maybe, so I'm going to go wet, neutral tint. I'm adding the reflection right underneath the trees. We need to go with a similar height of the tree we have added. The first one is a bit taller and the second one is shorter. Bring your lines down until you create a mirror image of the same tree. You can see those lines spreading into the background. This is exactly what we need. If you wait for too long, the background will dry and you may not be able to create this effect. Be a little quick if you feel like you're painting has started drying. If you're using 100 percent cotton watercolor paper, the background will stay wet for a longer time because a cotton paper will absorb those water. That's one reason why you should always use 100 percent cotton artist-grade watercolor paper for your painting. If you have never tried a good quality artist watercolor paper which is 100 percent cotton, I think you should definitely try it. It's really a game-changer. You are going to enjoy the process like never before. I have added that reflection. Now the next step is to add those shadows and reflections on the snowy grounds. Right now we're just looking quite clean and empty. For that, I'm going with a really light tone off neutral tint or Payne's gray or we can even use indigo. First, I will add few lines underneath the pine trees. I haven't made the background wet, I'm just adding some lines following that bottom part of those snow patches. The color I'm using here is really light. Make sure to go with a similar color. Don't go with a dark color. If you're using a really dark tone, you will have to make your background wet. Otherwise, it will stay prominent. If you're not too sure about the color, try it on a scrap piece of paper and make sure it is really light. The bottom media hasn't dried. The lake over here is still wet, so be a little careful when you're adding those shadows on the snowy ground. Try not to make these two colors touch each other. Otherwise, you can wait for this to dry when you're adding these shadows in the snowy ground. That's another thing you can do. That is it. Now, there is one last thing that I want to do. I want to make the shadow underneath those snow patches a bit more darker. Once everything has dried, I will go with neutral tint, and I will add some more deeper tones underneath all the snow patches. So let's wait for the background to dry completely. All right. Here you go, everything has dried completely. Let's go back with neutral tint. This time, I'm going with a really intense color. I'm adding a thin line underneath all the snow patches. At some places, I'll make it a bit thicker and at some places, I'll make it thinner. Go with a combination of thicker and thinner lines. It doesn't need to be a continuous line, you can break it in between. These darker tones will make our painting look more interesting. You can see the way I'm adding it here. At some places, I'm making it thicker, and at some places, I'm making it thinner. Intentionally, some places I'm leaving in between. I'm not adding it everywhere. Over here, I went in with the combination of thin and thick line, and that is it. Now maybe we can add some dry bush patterns on those snowy grounds. There's a bit missing here. Now, let's add some dry brush patterns on those snowy grounds. We already have some neutral tint on our brush, so I'm just having my brush on a paper towel. I'm removing that excess amount of water and making the paint dry, adding some dry bush which buttons over here underneath the pine tree. Now, I'm going randomly and adding some patterns here and there. Not a lot. I want most of the area to be clean white. I don't want a lot of patterns. Just a bit here and there. Make sure the paint is really dry, and they shouldn't be too prominent. All right. That looks perfect. If you want, you can add some birds on the sky. One or two flying birds to make it a bit more interesting. I'm really happy with the result. I'm not going to add any birds. Now, I'm going to peel up the masking tape. Wait for your painting to dry completely before you peel off your masking tape. Looks like on the top area, the paint has faded into the border. It looks a bit messy. I'm not happy with that border, so I'm going to grab my white gouache, and I'm going to fill that up. Just picking some paint, some thick white, and I'm going to fill all those messy borders. Usually, I don't do this, but this time it's a bit too much, and I really cannot stand this border because for the rest of the painting, I got a beautiful border. So I think this has to be done. Let me quickly finish this. All right. Here's the finished painting. Now, I'm happy with the painting as well as the border. I hope you all had fun painting this quick and easy snowy landscape. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next project. 9. Day 6 - Snowy Night: [MUSIC] Hello my dear friends. Welcome to Day 6. Here's the gorgeous snowy night we are painting today. It's a really simple and a pretty one. You will just need four colors for this entire painting, and they are ultramarine blue or any other blue of your choice, then the next color you will need is turquoise blue. Those are the two colors we'll be using for the sky. Then you will need indigo to add the foggy trees in the background, as well as for those two big pine trees. Then to splatter the snow and to add the stars and the moon, you will need white gouache. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. Now let's begin. I have fixed my paper. Now, as we discussed earlier, for the sky, we'll be using two colors, ultramarine blue and turquoise blue. Instead of ultramarine blue, you can use any other blue of your choice. It can be Prussian blue or cerulean blue or any bright blue. Along with that, you will also need to turquoise blue. I guess those are the two colors you will need for the sky. The sky is going to be pretty simple. We'll be just going with a variegated wash of these two colors. Now, I'm going to add a pencil sketch which is nothing other than a line. I'm adding a line a little bit at the center of the paper. The top, we [NOISE] have the sky and the bottom, we have the snowy ground. Now, I'm using my one-and-a-half-inch wash brush and I'm applying clean coat of water onto the sky. Just like yesterday's painting, this one is also pretty quick and simple. We have a beautiful blue sky and a snowy ground, and we'll be adding two snowy pine trees. That's a highlight of this painting. The rest is quite simple and plain. Now, to add the paint onto the sky, I'm using my flat brush. If you don't have a flat brush, it is absolutely okay to use a round brush, but go with the bigger one so that it is easy for you to apply the paint and also to blend them. I'm going with the really intense tone of ultramarine blue, and I'm adding that on the top of my paper. We're going to go with a wet-on-wet sky. We already applied a coat of water. [NOISE] Now I'm going to go with the second color and washing up the paint. Now, I'm going [NOISE] with turquoise blue, adding that onto the leftover area, and I will make it a clean blend. The color is pretty dull at the top, I'm going to make it more darker. The turquoise blue looks fine but we need to make the top area more darker otherwise, it [NOISE] won't look like a night sky. Let's go back to ultramarine blue. Adding that on the top and again, blending it. To get a clean blend, you just need to run your brush in a horizontal way, from top to bottom or from bottom to top. Don't run your brush in any other direction. Now, I'm switching to turquoise blue and I'm blending it well. That's the sky. I think the blend is looking pretty nice. Now, we need to add a moon. I'll tell you what happened. I tried to lift the paint just like we did on the first day but it didn't really came out well. By the time the background dried, it just vanished. It didn't stay the way I thought it would, so I didn't really get a good result here. The first painting was nice, it came out really well so that was what I was intending to do here, but it was a fail. I tried lifting up the paint as you can see here. I tried multiple times but then at the end, I compromised on that glowing effect and I went in with some white gouache and I added a moon using gouache. If you want to try that glowing effect again, you could do that. Otherwise, just add a white circle using white gouache or white watercolor. Here, I just picked a little white gouache and I added a small circle. Now, I'm making that outer border blurry by going with a wet brush. To be honest, this also didn't work so at the end, I went in with a clean white circle. This is what I did at the end. Why I am saying this is because you don't need to waste your time doing this. If you would like to go with a clean white circle like this, or if you want to try that glowing effect, you are free to do that. Maybe it will work great on your painting. For some reason, it didn't really work with me today. I didn't really want to change the painting because I was really happy with the sky. Yeah, those things happens. No matter how experienced you are, those things that are bound to happen. If you want to go with a glowing effect, you could do that. Otherwise, go with the white circle. Now, we need to add some trees over here. It is those foggy trees, so we need to add them while the background is still wet. We'll just follow the shape of that snowy ground and we'll add some trees over there. For that, I'm using indigo. Go with a slightly darker tone. I'm using my size [NOISE] number 4 round brush, [NOISE] adding some water. This is the color I'm going with. Now, first we can add the color onto that shape. Then we can add some watery paint so that it will spread into the background, creating some foggy trees. Simply it's a very impactful technique to paint snowy watercolor landscapes. As we are adding wet paint on a wet background, they will nicely spread into the background, making them look foggy. By the time the background dries, it will have a very beautiful effect. It will look moody and foggy. That's one common thing we can use to create misty and foggy landscapes. Yesterday also we used the same technique. We used it twice. The first one was to add [NOISE] those foggy trees just like how we are adding today, then we use the same technique to add the reflection. [NOISE] We used it twice and we got a beautiful painting yesterday. It's the same technique that I'm using here. I'm using indigo today and I'm going with a darker tone. At some places, I'm making those patterns a bit taller and at some places, I'm making it lower so it will have a very natural look. Now, we have to wait for this to dry. After that, we can paint the snowy ground. It's drying time. [MUSIC] The sky has completely dried and this is how it is looking. I'm really happy with those foggy trees. It has came out great, much better than how I imagined. Our next task was to paint the snowy ground. For that as well, I'm going to go with the wet-on-wet technique. The first step is to apply a coat of clean water. You can see here I have two jars of water. One is really dirty, which I use for rinsing off the paint from my brush, and I have another jar here with clean water. This is the main reason why I always tend to work with two jars of water. Now, I'm going to grab some clean water and I'm applying an even coat of water onto a snowy ground. When you're applying the water, leave some gap at the top. Don't make your wet brush touch that indigo color we have added over there. The paint may spread into the bottom and it can make your snowy ground a bit messy, so be little careful. Now, I'm switching to my round brush, and I'm going with a medium tone of ultramarine blue. You can use the same blue which you used for the sky. Go with a medium tone, don't make it too light and don't make it too dark as well. We need a tonal value, something in between. Now, just add some thick and thin lines on that wet background. You can see how beautifully they are blending into the background. When you're adding these lines, remember to leave some gap in between. We need to see some white and some blue streaks. Maybe at the bottom, you can make it a bit more brighter. See, these are the lines I've been talking about, those white gaps. That is it. Now, if you feel like your background is too watery and the color you have added is spreading too much, grab a piece of paper towel and have your brush on a paper towel. The paper towel will absorb the extra water content. Now, just run your brush along these lines. With the simple trick, you can get rid of that bleeding look for your lines and you can make it smoother. You can see how beautiful it is looking right now. It's a very a simple trick but it has a lot of impact. This happens mainly because your background may be too watery and the paint you went in with is also watery. That is when this happens. But it is quite easily fixable. This is how our painting has turned out. Now, let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] Everything has completely dried. I'm really happy with the painting. The snowy ground and the sky is looking really gorgeous. I think it already looks like a gorgeous painting. Now the next task is to add the pine trees. I'll be adding two pine trees. Then we need to splatter some stars, as well as the snow to make up our painting look super snowy. Also we need to add some snow on the pine trees as well. Before that, as I said earlier, I'm going to grab some white gouache and I'm going to clear that moon. Just going with the thick white paint and I'm making it a clean white circle. I really wanted that glowing moon for this painting, but then it didn't happen. I'm just accepting the way it has turned out. I have added the moon. I think it looks much better now. It was looking a little messy earlier. Now I'm happy with it even though I don't have that glowing effect, it looks clean. Now the next step is to add the pine trees. For that, I'm going to go with a taco turn off indigo. I'm planning to add them on the left side because this is where we have lots of space compared to the right. The moon is closer to the right side. I think it is better to add them on the left side. I'll be adding two big pine trees. I'll just indicate the location using a pencil. That's going to be my first tree. It is going to be this huge. Now I'm going to add the next one closer to this one. It is going to be a group of two trees. If you want to add another one next to the moon, you could do that. But I'm going to go with two. Now I'm going back with my brush. I'm starting with the straight line, which is a tree trunk. Next step is to add the foliage. This one is going to be a pretty simple tree. I'll just show you how you can do it. From that tree trunk, drag your brush towards either side and add some messy patterns like this. It doesn't need to be perfect because we'll be adding snow onto this. We just need to get that overall shape of the pine tree. As you're coming down, make those patterns more larger. I mean, you should have a triangular or a conical shape at the end. I'm just pulling the paint from the center towards either side. On the top, I have smaller patterns and as I'm coming down, I have bigger patterns. I really don't know what I should call the shapes. Maybe I can call it baggy. Maybe let's call it baggy. It's going to be a baggy shape onto either side. On the top, they have to be smaller, and as we are reaching the ground, make them more bigger. I know it's a very ugly tree, but don't worry. We can make it beautiful by adding the snow. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add the second one. I added a tree trunk. Now I'm adding those baggy shapes on either side. They are really big patterns and messy and ugly ones. I'm very sure at least some of you may be thinking, what does she really doing? This is the most ugliest pine tree you have ever seen maybe. But trust me, trust the process. It's going to look beautiful at the end. That's the base shape. Now we need to add some snow on to this to make it look more beautiful. Wash all the paint from your brush, cleaning thoroughly, and let's switch to white gouache. I'm going to grab my white gouache. I'm typically picking some paint from the tube. This is a really bad habit, but I always does this. I'm trying to change it. But somehow I always go back and pick the paint directly from the tube. Never mind. Now we need to have the snow while the paint is still wet. Then I'm going to read for that color to dry. Take some white gouache or white watercolor on your brush and just add them onto these foliage, onto those baggy shapes, on the top of those baggy shapes. This ones can also be messy. But trust me, at the end, by the time you finish the tree, you're going to love it, especially after we splatter the stars and the snow. I'm almost reaching the bottom. You can see here the snow we added onto these foliage it's not looking that prominent, but this is exactly what we need. We don't want them to be too prominent. We want that foggy effect for our tree. There is a reason why we are adding the paint while the background color is still wet. We used a darker tone of indigo for the tree and we added a base shape of a pine tree. Now onto that, we're adding some snow patterns using white. We can add up the tone here. It looks really dull over here. I'm just randomly adding some white color onto the pine tree. That looks so cool. I really love my pine trees. I'm very sure at least some of you are doing a happy turns seeing your pine tree. This is a reason why I said trust the process, keep going. You're going to love your pine tree at the end. They are not done yet. Once we splatter the stars and the snow, that is going to look even more beautiful so wait for it. Our next task was to add the shadow for these pine trees. For that, I'm going back with ultramarine blue. I'm going with a medium tone. I'm adding to inclined line, something like this. Do it both for the trees. Now I'm dipping my brush in clean water and I'm smudging them into the background. I don't want these lines to be too prominent. We want a very blurry looking shadow. First, make some into the background, we'll be adding multiple tones over here. This is the base layer. First use a medium tone of ultramarine blue or any other blue, and add a line. Then smudge that into the background using clean water. The reason why I'm starting with ultramarine blue is that we already have the same color in the background. We have already added some lines using ultramarine blue on the base layer. These lines will go well with the background. If we add the darker tone directly, it might be a bit difficult to smudge them into the background. First, start with a medium tone of ultramarine blue or whichever blue you are using. Create an area like this where we can add the taco tone so that they will nicely spread into the background. Once you have added these lines, go with a clean brush and apply a coat of water onto the rest of the area without putting a lot of pressure. Just smudge that using clean water and make the rest of the area wet. Now when we are adding the deeper tones, they will beautifully blend into the background without looking too prominent. Now it's time to go with a darker tone and add that underneath the tree. You can play with a darker tone of indigo as the last ultramarine blue. Add them right underneath the tree. You can see the way how they are spreading. It is to get this result, we made this area wet by adding a coat of ultramarine blue and also we added a coat of the water at the bottom. Now you can confidently cover the taco tone of indigo and add some deeper tones right underneath the tree. It will beautifully blend as the background is wet. You wouldn't need to put a lot of effort here. I think we can make it a bit more darker. I'm going backward indigo. I'm adding few more deeper tones underneath the tree. The area underneath the tree will be really dark due to those shadows. Now just pull that into the background and add to inclined line, which is a real shadow of the pine tree. That is it. Now we are going to go with the last step, which is plotting the stars and the snow. Now this step is going to make our painting look super snowy as well as super pretty. Let's go ahead and add the snow. I'm using my white gouache. Maybe this time I will squeeze out some paint rather than picking the paint from the tube. Now turn the paint into the right consistency by adding a few drops of water, [NOISE] and take out another brush and tap on your smaller brush where you have your paint and add an inner false snow and stars. We can't plot it everywhere. [NOISE] Go ahead and add as more snow and stars as you want. [MUSIC] That's done. We have some clean white gouache on our brush. In case if you want to, you can make the shape of your moon more clear, as well as you can add some opaque white snow onto the pine trees. Don't add a lot, just add few patches in a very random way. [MUSIC] [NOISE] That is it. We're done with our painting for day 6. Let me quickly peel off the masking tape and show you the finished painting. I'm really loving this painting. I think it has a perfect pine tree and Christmas [inaudible]. I hope you guys loved it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 10. Day 7 - The Pink Sky: Hello. Welcome to Day 7. Today we are going to paint this gorgeous snowy mountains. We're going to keep the sky very simple, and we're going to focus more on the snowy mountain. As you can see here, I have used a pink color for the sky. A pink and a violet. I wanted to try a baseless sky today so these are the colors I used, brilliant pink and mineral violet. These colors are not very common. You can use any of the violet or purple color instead of mineral violet. It looks more like a purple than a violet. Instead of brilliant pink, you can use any other basal pink, or you can just start a bit of white gouache or white watercolor to crimson and create a basal pink like this. Those are the two colors I'll be using for the sky. If you want to go with a blue sky or a different sky, you could do that, or you can try out the same sky we did for Day 3, where we used white gouache to make the color lighter. You could try out the same for the sky as well. For the mountain, these are the two colors I'll be using. For the sky, I'll be using ultramarine blue and neutral tint. You can see that base light blue there, that's ultramarine deep. Then to add those deeper tones and those tri-brush bar tones, I'll be using neutral tint. In short, you can also use Payne's gray. Those are the four colors you will need. Any basal pink or any other pink, then a purple or a violet, then ultramarine blue, and neutral tint or Payne's gray. I have my paper ready here. We need to add the pencil sketch, which is two mountains. I'm starting with the 1st one. Now I'm adding the 2nd one. Both of them are of the similar size. We need to add an irregular line at the middle. It is depending on this line, we'll be adding the shadows and deeper tones. This line is really important. Start from the tip of your mountain and add a curly flow-y, irregular line like this. That's a pencil sketch. Make sure to go with a really light pencil sketch as we're going to retain most of the paper white. We don't want that pencil line to be visible. Also, don't skip adding that irregular line at the center. This line is going to be really helpful when we are adding the deeper tones. Don't skip that. I'm going to squeeze out the colors onto my palette. For the snowy mountain, we'll be using ultramarine blue as the base tone. We'll be using a very light tone of ultramarine blue and we'll be adding the base layer using this color. Then for the sky, the two colors you will need are mineral violet and brilliant pink. As I mentioned earlier, you can go with any pink and any violet. Both of these are a basal shade, but you can go with any color that you prefer. Also, if you want to tone your violet and pink into pixel sheet, you can either add a little of white gouache or white watercolor and turn that into a basal color. Other than these colors, we'll also neutral tint or Payne's gray to add the final details onto the mountain. The pencil sketch and the colors are ready. I'm going to start by adding a clean coat of water onto the sky. I'm going to grab my one and a half inch wash brush. I'm dipping my brush in clean water. I'm applying an even coat of water onto the entire sky. Be a little careful when your closer to the mountain. We don't want any water or paint to bleed into the mountain. We are going to retain most of the paper white and we want it as clean as possible. I'm going to switch to my flat brush, this one is a half inch flat brush. I'm going to go with a variegated wash of violet and pink. I'm just cleaning my brush to make sure there's no paint stain because I want a clean violet and a clean pink. I don't want to compromise on that. Just make sure your brush is clean. I'm starting with violet. This one is mineral violet. It's something like a purple color, not really a violet but they have named it as mineral violet. I'm going with a medium shade and I'm applying that on the top of my paper. You can apply that till almost half of the sky. Wash off the paint from your brush and coat with pink. Just fill up the left over area in pink and try to get a clean blend of these two colors. As I said earlier, we don't want any paint or any water on the mountain. We are going to read most of the paper white so it has to be clean. Be extra careful when you're applying paint onto the sky around that mountain. Gently run your brush along the outline of your mountain and flip that area. I have applied paint onto the sky but it is looking slightly dull. I think I want to make it a bit more brighter. I'm going to go with another layer. I will make the colors a little more vibrant because we don't have a lot of foreground element in this painting. All we have is a snowy mountain, which is going to be in white mostly. It is good to make the sky a bit more brighter so that our mountain will stand out. I have squeezed out a bit more violet. I'm going with a much more darker tone and I'm applying on to the top. Just like I did earlier, I'm running my brush in a horizontal way. I'm splitting to pink. Our intention is to create a clean blend of violet and pink, which will be the colors you're using. As I said earlier, you can go with any color of your choice. I had done a similar painting some time back. For that, I used ultramarine blue and cobalt green. Maybe, if you want to go with a blue sky and then a pink sky, you could try out that color combination. We can paint the mountain using the same technique but for the sky, you can go with any color of your choice. That looks like a clean blend. I'm pretty happy with the sky. Now comes the lifting technique to create a glowing moon, which I failed yesterday. But I'm not going to give up. I'm going to try it again today. For that, I'm switching to my round brush. My brush is clean, there is no paint on my brush. It is slightly wet. I'm going to run my brush in a swirly way. Then I'm going to lift off some paint. This has to be done while your sky is still wet. Decide on where you want to add your moon. Keep running your brush in a circular or a swirly manner like this and lift off the paint. Every time you pick the paint, dab your brush on a paper towel, and before you go next time, your brush has to be really clean, otherwise you'll be keeping on adding color onto that same spot. You won't get that white circle like this. It is really important to dab your brush on a paper towel if you have picked some paint. If you have to dip a lot of paint, it is better to rinse off your brushing water rather than dabbing your brush on a paper towel. The main idea is your brush has to be clean before you do this. Otherwise, it won't be able to get a white right. I think that looks good enough. I'm going to grab my white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor depending on what you have carried with you. Both of them will work. I'm dipping my brush directly in the tube. You guys already know I have this weird habit. If it's a lot of paint like splurting the stars or adding it onto a particular area, I would prefer squeezing it out. Otherwise, I just dip my brush in the tube itself because for this painting we just need white gouache only for the moon. We're not using it anywhere else. For the snowy mountain, we are going to retain most of the paper white to create the snowy effect. I just added a white circle onto the area where we lifted off to paint. Add a new moon, slightly smaller than that white patch. It shouldn't be of the same size. This is to get that glowing effect. That's the sky and the moon. Let's wait for this to dry completely. The sky has dried completely. Now, it's time to paint the mountain. For the mountain, as I said earlier, first I will go with a very light tone of ultramarine blue. It has to be really light, so add quite a lot of water and create a very light tone of ultramarine blue. I'm using my round brush here. Now, I'm just going to add it along the line we have added here. Remember, we added that irregular line at the center of this mountain. I'm just following that line, and I'm adding a very light tone of ultramarine blue onto the right side. Simply follow that line. Start with the solid color and as you're coming down, wash out the paint from your brush and just smudge that into the background in a very irregular way. It doesn't need to be perfect. It doesn't need to look smooth or perfectly blended. Simply smudge in to make it lighter towards the bottom. Now, do the same onto the other one. Start with a solid color, and as you're almost reaching the bottom of that irregular part, wash out the paint from your brush and smudge it. That's the first step. Now using the same color, we will need to add few lines and some random pattern on the other side as well. Again, go with a really light of neutral tint, add enough of water. If you're not too sure about the color, maybe try it on a scrap piece of paper and make sure it is really light. Now just add some to content random lines on the other side using a really light one of ultramarine blue. We don't need a lot. We want to read in most of the paper white. That is spin. This is the base layer. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry completely before we add the final details. Maybe I'll add a little more blue over here. Now just smudging that. That is it. Now let's wait for this to dry. I think our mountain is already looking so pretty. Now the only task remaining is to add those deeper tones and dry brush patterns onto the mountain, and that's going to make our mountain look so gorgeous. The only color I used is ultramarine blue. I used a very light tone of ultramarine blue and I added some medium tones onto the right side of the mountain following that irregular line we have added, and onto the other side, I added some random lines using a really light tone. Our painting has completely dried. For the next step, you will either need neutral tint or Payne's Grey. If you don't have any of these two colors, you can use black or any similar color. I'm going to squeeze out a bit. This is the only task remaining, and this task is going to make our painting looks so pretty. We'll only be adding some dry brush patterns using black or neutral tint dark Payne's gray. You will need a paper towel or a cotton cloth. Using my smaller size brush, this one is size number 4. Now I'm picking some paint. This is neutral tint. Dabbing my brush on a paper towel. Every time you pick your paint, be sure to dab your brush on a paper towel, it shouldn't be watery. We're going to go with a dry brush. Just add some patterns onto the left side. I'm starting with the left because over here I'll be adding very little, and I'm going to add more patterns onto the right side. You can see the patterns I'm adding here. They are very light and they are hardly visible. This is how you should be adding them on the left side. As I said, we're going to focus more on the right side where we have added those medium tones. Don't take a lot of paint on your brush, and every time you pick the paint, dab your brush on a paper towel and add very little patterns onto the left side. This is actually one of my most favorite technique to paint a snowy mountain. It's very easy yet you can create a gorgeous, realistic looking snowy mountain. But then you need to have some patience because you cannot just pick the brush and go directly and add those dry brush patterns, it has to be really light. Every time you pick the paint, be sure to dab your brush on a paper towel. Don't rush, take it slow. Now, let's add some other patterns to on the other side. I'm picking some more paint because on this side, we are trying to make it look like there are more shadows. Just like how we started, follow that irregular line you have added and add in your dry brush patterns following that line. You can make that area more darker. Just follow that line. But again, we're using dry paint, our brush is not at all watery. Just keep on rubbing or scratching your brush on the paper and add some low dry brush patterns. Maybe at this point you may have a feeling like your mountain is not looking that great, but that's absolutely okay. Keep trusting the process and keep going. By the time we add the final details, it's going to look pretty. For now, just focus on that irregular line will have added at the middle and add in more patterns over there. As you keep on adding these patterns, you will slowly see a gorgeous, realistic looking mountain popping up on your paper. This is where I have reached, you can see those gorgeous textures. I'm adding some more darker patterns along that irregular line at the center. This will automatically make a beautiful contrast between the left and the right side, and it will make it look like the light is hitting on one side, and you have so many shadows on the other side. It is these shadows and deeper tones which will make your mountain look more realistic. This step is really important. You can see how carefully and how slowly I'm adding these patterns because I don't want to mess up the mountain. Because if you rush, you may end up adding a big prominent pattern which may spoil all the effort we took so far. Go in a very careful and slow way and add some dry brush patterns. Now, I'm going to add some teeny-tiny trees onto the right side mostly. It is nothing but some tiny lines, so I'm picking some more neutral tint. This time I'm going with a watery paint, it's not a dry paint. Now, I'm adding some teeny-tiny lines mostly onto the right side where we have added those deeper tones. Just add some teeny-tiny lines close to each other. Using the tip of your brush, add some teeny-tiny lines close to each other and make it look like there are some group of trees over there. You can see this cluster. At some places, make it as thin and delicate as possible, and at some places make it slightly bigger so that it will look more realistic. It is nothing but some simple lines. Using the tip of your brush, keep on adding some lines like this. Our mountain is looking so good, I'm really loving it. I hope you guys are loving your mountain too. It was pretty simple. We started off with a light tone of ultramarine blue. Then onto that, we added some dry brush patterns. We focused more on the right side, where we had add those medium and deep patterns and onto the left side, we barely added any patterns. Now we are adding some trees. You can add in as many as you want. There's no real limit. You can decide on where you want to stop. But focus on going with very thin and delicate trees, don't make it too prominent because we are going to make it look like this mountain is really far from us, and that is the reason why those trees are appearing too small. So if you add big and prominent trees, it will go out of proportion. I'm going to add few more trees, then I think I can call it done. My dear friends, and with that, we're done with our painting for the day. I'm pretty happy with the way this has turned out, especially that pink sky. I think I have never tried a pink sky. Before I peel off the masking tape, I want to fix the tip of the mountain, the first one. I'm picking a bit of white gouache. When I apply the paint onto the sky, I by mistake added some paint onto the mountain and I lost that pointed tip, so I added some white onto the left side, and I'm bringing back the tip of the mountain. Now, I'm just mixing that with a bit of ultramarine blue, and I'm fixing the other side as well. That looks perfect. I think we can call it done. I'm going to quickly peel off the masking tape, and I'm too excited to show you the final result. I think we managed to paint a snowy mountain quite effortlessly, and I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Here is our pink sky and the gorgeous snowy mountain. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. 11. Day 8 - Multicolor Sky: [MUSIC] Hello my dearest friends. Welcome day 8. Today's project is a gorgeous night sky. Before we start, let's have a quick look at the colors. I'll be using four colors for the sky, which is opera pink, violet, turquoise blue, and royal blue. Over this corner, the left corner, you can see some pink. For that, I'm using opera pink. This isn't a very common color. You will need to buy it as a separate tube. I'm not really sure how many of you have it. If you don't have opera pink, you can go with crimson, or any other pink. I want to create a bright pink corner over here. It can be even crimson if you don't have opera pink. So that's the first color. Then over here you can see violet, which is obviously my favorite, permanent violet, and if you don't have violet, you can always mix and create your own violet. Then over here, that bright blue you see here it's turquoise blue. Then to create these darker corners, I'll be using royal blue. If no royal blue, we can use any other blue. It can be Prussian blue. Okay, so those are the four colors I'll be using for the sky. We'll be making the background wet and will be simply applying the wet paint on the wet background and we'll keep on tilting our paper to create the sky. We won't be using our brush much to create this blend. You can use any four colors or even five of your choice to create the sky. It doesn't need to be the same colors that I'm using here. Now to add those trees, you will need black or Payne's gray or neutral tint. Finally to add the snow and the stars you'll need white gouache or white watercolor. Alright, those are the colors you will need for today's project. Now there's one thing I need to mention before we start. To create the sky, we'll be tilting and turning our paper so that the color will blend into each other by its own. So you shouldn't be fixing your paper on the table. Grab a piece of cardboard or any backing board so that you can easily tilt and turn around your paper, okay? Just be sure not to fix your paper on your table. I have my paper already here, and I have the colors from my palette. Now I will just try to line right at the center of this paper, which we'll do at the sky and the ground. That's the only thing you will need to add for this painting. Now, for this painting, we'll be trying out the watercolor for methyl, which means we'll be directly pouring or applying the wet paint on a wet background. We'll keep on tilting and turning our paper so that the colors will blend by its own. We won't be using a brush to blend the colors and that means that our chances your table may get messy. So if you're using a white table or something that's stains put up a paper or a plastic sheet so that it won't spoil your table. Alright, so I'm going to start by applying a clean coat of water onto the sky. I'm using my 1.5-inch brush, and I'm applying enough water. Run your brush multiple times to make sure water has reached everywhere, okay? Now I have a piece of wooden block here, I'm going to place this underneath my paper so that my paper will be in a tilted position, so the colors will flow down and you'll be able to get a clean and a small plant. The gravity will pull the paint down, so you wouldn't need to put a lot of effort in blending colors. It will do a ton magic. All right. [NOISE] I'm using my round brush. You can use it with a flat brush or a round brush. It doesn't really matter because we're not using the brush to blend the colors or we'll just dropping that watery paint on a wet background. Okay, so I'm starting with opera pink. If you don't have opera pink, go with crimson or any other pinkish. I'm going with a medium tone and I'm applying that onto the left side. There is no particular order that you need to follow. You can add the colors that you have chosen in any way you want to. Next time picking from violet. I haven't washed my brush, I'm directly picking the paint. Now I'm adding that right next to pink. Okay? [NOISE] Now I'm washing all the paint from my brush, and I'm going with turquoise blue, [NOISE] adding that next to violet. I really don't have any particular image in my mind. I'm simply applying the colors in a very fancy motto. I think now I will cope with a better violet. I'm adding that next to turquoise blue. We have some more space left [NOISE] and then I'll go back at the top turquoise blue. The colors have already started flowing down. You can see how they're spreading and floating into each other. If you want to turn any color into a more intense fun, you can make use of the time, your background is still wet, so go with the brighter tone, and apply that onto the wet background. For me, I'm not really happy with the pink. It is looking really dull, so I'm going with a much more intense pink, and I'm applying that over here. [NOISE] I'm still not happy with the pink. I think I will need to use some more pink. I want a really bright pink corner over here, so I'm adding some more paint. I think now it looks much better. [NOISE] Okay? Finally, I'm going with a really dark tone of blue and I'm applying that onto both the corners, so we'll have a nice contrast. Right now we haven't gone with a really dark tone, so you can see how pretty that turquoise blue and that pink is looking when we applied that intense tone of blue. Now our only task was to tilt the paper in all direction so that the colors will flow and spread into each other creating a beautiful blend. Right now, I'm tilting my paper down. Now I'm tilting that in the opposite direction so that the colors will float back. Depending on how watery your background and how watery your paint is, keep tilting your paper in all direction so that you get a beautiful blend. My background isn't that watery, so I'm going to leave it at this position. But if you feel like your background is still a lot watery and if the paint is floating down in a very vigorous manner, keep tilting it in a different direction, or just lay it flat. If you keep that in a tilted position, all those darker dawns may flow down, and you may not be able to get that gorgeous light two-sheet we have all the bottom. Also, we fall those darker tones flow down, everything that looks and love, you won't be able to get a different variety of colors in your sky. Okay? I'm going to leave it like this for a few minutes. I'm not going to go away. I'm still here. I'm watching the way the sky is drying because we need to add those funky trees in the background. For that, the background should be slightly wet. When you feel like the paint has settled, it is not floating anymore, we can add those trees. Don't use a blow dryer to speed up the process. Leave it as it is, and watch the way it is drying, and whenever you feel like the floating has stopped, we can add those trees. Alright. Here is how my sky has turned out. I'm pretty happy with the blend. But then the right side is looking a bit messy, that's okay. Then we splatter the stars and the snow, it might not look this prominent, so we can color up that a bit. Now onto this wet background, we are going to add some trees, like those foggy ones we usually add onto wet background. I'm picking my smallest size brush, and I'm going with neutral tint. I'm going with a rarely to enough neutral tint. Now just drop that wet paint on the wet background, so that it will spread into the background and create a foggy effect. You will have to go with a darker tone, because the sky is already very dark. If you go with a lighter tone, it may not be visible. Go with a really intense tone of neutral tint, and add some random shapes like this. At some places it can be higher and at some places it can be lower. This would make your painting look more interesting. The left side has almost dried, so I didn't really get that blurry effect here. Never mind, let it be as it is, but on the right side I was able to get that blurry effect and it looks beautiful. Now let's wait for this to dry. After this dries up completely, we'll be painting the snowy ground, and we'll be adding some trees as well as some snow and stars. Let's take a break and come back when it dries completely. The sky and those trees has dried. Next we're going to paint the snowy ground. First we have to apply a coat of water, and onto that we'll be applying some pink and violent. Just some random thick lines using a medium tone of violet and pink. Then onto that we'll be adding a pathway as well. First I will apply a coat of water. I think the color combination we used for the sky has turned out really nice, especially that bit of pink at the bottom corner, as well as that turquoise blue at the center. Those two areas are my favorite. I think I'll have to do this on a bigger scale and enjoy this color combination one more time. Now, I'm going to go with a medium tone of opera pink. If you are using crimson, go with a lighter tone or a medium tone of crimson. Now, just add some lines on the wet background. I'm adding pink onto the left side because this is where we have pink on the sky, so I'm following the same pattern. The colors we have on the sky will be reflected on the ground. Depending on where you have applied pink or crimson, follow the same pattern on the ground as well. Now I'm going with a medium tone of violet, and I'm adding that onto the ground. Again, I'm adding some random lines, leaving some white gap in between. That's a base layer, now we need to add in a pathway onto this wet background. Now, go with the medium tone of violet that is not too watery. If you feel like your paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel. If it's too watery, it will spread into the background. We don't want that. Take out a piece of paper towel or a cotton cloth, and dab your brush on it to remove the excess amount of water. The background is already wet, so if you go with the watery paint, it will spread in a very vigorous manner. You can see it is already spreading, so I'm dabbing my brush again. Now I'm adding the line, go with a curvy line. You can make it thicker as you come down, but at the starting it has to be thin. Now leave some gap and add in a similar line. You don't need to take it till the other end, just take it till that turning. You can see how I made it thicker at the bottom and it is thinner at the other end. Now using the same color, you can add some random patterns. Focus more on the bottom, we don't need a lot at the top. We started off with a light tone of pink and violet, we applied that onto our wet background, we simply added some thick random lines. Now we added a pathway using a medium tone of violet, and we added some patterns as well. Now we need to go with a much more darker tone. I'm just mixing up a bit of blue with violet, and I'm adding some more patterns following that curvy pathway we have added. Just drop in some more darker tones. Now, dab your version of paper towel, now smudge that to make it slightly blurry, we don't want them to be too prominent. Over here, you can add few tiny patterns following that pathway, but focus more on the bottom part, where it is thicker. Over there you can go with much more darker tones, but go with lighter tones at the other end, that pathway is far from you. You can see I added the darker tones only at the bottom, the rest I have left as it is. I have added darker tones only where the road is closer to the masking tape. Maybe we can make it a bit more darker. Once you have added those patterns on the bottom area, dab your version of paper towel, and smudge that into the background to make it blurry. That looks good to me, I think I'm going to stop it here. I'm going to go with the next stuff, which is splattering the stars and the snow. I'm going to take out some white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor. To splatter the stars, I'm using my smaller size brush. Now I'm adding some water, and I'm turning that into a right consistency. As I mentioned in the other paintings where we have splattered the stars, your paint shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too thick as well. If you're not too sure about the consistency, dab your version of paper towel, and remove the excess amount of water. This way you can be sure that you will get those teeny-tiny stars. Otherwise, sometimes you may end up with big splatters if your paint is too watery. Now, keep tapping on your smaller size brush, where you have taken your paint, and create these stars. Concentrate more on the darker area, because on the lighter area the stars won't be that visible. Wherever you have applied that darker tones, add in more stars. I think I have added enough of stars. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some bigger stars as well. [MUSIC] All right. Here we are. Now, our final task is to add the trees. I'll be adding some hanging branches from the top corner. As for last few trees on the ground, I'm using my size Number 4 round brush, and I'm going with a really dark tone of neutral tint, to add the branches. You can either use paint gray or black. I was actually planning to add the hanging branches on the left side, but then the sky has turned out really pretty and is quite dark as well. I'm not going to add the branches over there, I think I will add that on the right side. Because over here, I'm not really happy with the sky, so maybe these branches can cover up that mess a bit. I think the right side will be better. First, I'm starting off with a thicker branch, which is the main branch. Then onto those, I will be adding some thin branches. We will add few trees on the ground as well. Maybe you can take a look at the finished painting and decide on whether you want to add this branch or not. Maybe you can just add the trees on the ground, this one isn't really necessary. Just start a hanging branch however you want to, and whichever side you want to. [MUSIC] That's that hanging branch. Now, I'm going to add few trees on the ground as well. I'll add two trees on the left side, and two on the right side. I'll start with the right. I'm just adding few trees with empty branches without no foliage. I'm starting off with the first one. Add a line, which can be little thicker, which is the tree trunk. Now onto this, add some thin branches. To add the thin branches maybe you can use a pen, if you're not able to get them with your brush. That's the first tree. Now, I'm going to add another one right next to this. After this, in a similar way, I'll be adding two trees on the left side as well. Let me quickly add them in. [MUSIC] All right, the trees are in. The next task is to add some shadows and deeper tones on the ground. We already have some neutral tint on our ball brush. I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel. We're going to add some dry brush patterns. Tap your brush on a paper towel multiple times and remove the excess amount of water. We can add few at the bottom end of the road. Just focus on this bottom end and add your dry brush patterns over there. Follow that curvy line and add in some taco patterns on the bottom and few lighter patterns on the other end of the road. Don't make these patterns too prominent, go with a really dry brush and add few patterns which are barely visible. That is it. Next task is to add the shadow for the trees. Right now they're looking like they're floating in the air. It doesn't look like they are rooted onto the ground. I'm going with a really light tone of neutral tint, and I'm mixing that with a bit of violet. The color you're using to add the shadow should be really light, so try it on a scrap piece of paper if you're not too sure about the tonal value of the color. I'll just mix up pinch of neutral tint with violet, and I'm adding a line right at the bottom of the trees in an inclined way. We just add a line. It shouldn't be too thick and bold. Go with the similar thickness of your tree. There is no more space on the right side, so I just add the tree trunk. You don't need to add those branches. Now, let's do the same thing on these trees. Over here, I'll be adding the branches as we have quite a lot of space over here. You don't need to add those branches as an exact mirror image of the tree. Just add them in without thinking too much. Also, you don't need to add all the branches, maybe you can add two or three. That's a shadow. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that it shouldn't be too thick and prominent. You should be going with a lighter tone. Now, right at the bottom of the trees, I'm adding some taco tones. Going with the taco tone, off neutral tint and just matching that into the background. Just some dry brush patterns. My dear friends, now I'm washing up the paint from my brush. [NOISE] Then I'm going to switch back to some whitewash, and I'm adding some snow onto those branches. I'm going to go back with a thick, creamy, opaque white gouache. I'm adding some snow onto this branch. You don't need to add snow onto the anterior branch. Add it here and there. At some places, you can go with a thicker patch, and at some places make it thinner. Just pick some random spot and pockets and add some snow. [MUSIC] To be honest, I added this branch just to add the snow. For some reason, I really love adding those patches of snow onto the roof, as well as onto the trees, onto the mountains as well. That's my favorite thing about snowy paintings. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add little highlights onto these trees as well. I'm just randomly adding few broken lines onto these trees. It is not a continuous straight line, and it does not too bold and thick. Add in your white in a similar way. I'll just skip this, it's not really important. It is just some highlights, it is not snow. [NOISE] With that, we're done with our painting for Day 8. I'm really happy with the color completion we used for the sky. It is something which I haven't tried earlier, so I'm really excited about it, and here it is. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. 12. Day 9 - The Grey Valley: Hello. Welcome to Day 9. Today we are going to try a simple yet a beautiful monochrome painting. For all these days we were trying vibrant and colorful snowy landscapes. For a change, I thought we'll try something in monochrome today. For today's painting, I'll just be using one single color but just neutral tint or paynes gray. Let's begin right away. I'm starting by adding a line at the center of my paper. We'll be playing with different tonal values of neutral tint. Then third, we'll create all the depth and details. As I mentioned, the color I'm using for this entire painting is neutral tint. Which is very much close to paynes gray. If you want to try out the same painting in any other colors like indigo or violet, you could do that. Just follow the same technique and tweak the color. I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the sky. I'm grabbing my 1'1/2" wash brush. I'm applying an even coat of water. Follow the line we have added at the center and add your water only onto the top half. Now, for the sky we'll be going with the gradient wash of neutral tint. Wash your brush thoroughly. Make sure there's no other paint still on your brush. Because we've been using this brush all these days. There are chances there might be some paint still on the brush. Make sure it is clean. Now, let's go over the neutral tint. We'll start with a medium tone. On the top, we'll apply a medium tone of neutral tint or paynes gray. As we come down, as we're approaching that horizon line, we'll make the color lighter. Make it as light as possible, over that horizon line. Start with a medium tone and run your brush in a horizontal way so that we get a clean, smooth blend. Don't run your brush, in any other direction. Keep running it from left to right in a horizontal way. The color isn't that vibrant enough on the top. I'm going with some more paint and making the top area a bit more brighter. That bottom area can stay as it is. We don't want a darker tone over there. Just on the top. You can make it a bit more darker. If you want. I will go with some more paint and I will make the top area a bit more darker because when the background dries the colors will appear lighter. It is better to go with a bit more darker tone, so that the sky will appear a bit more brighter. I'm adding some more darker paint on the top. It isn't that dark. It is in medium tone of neutral tint. Now, I'm running my brush in a horizontal way to make it a clean blend. I'm not adding any paint on the bottom. I want that area to be really light compared to the top. Now, I'm going to pick some paint using my round brush. The same glowing technique which I've been using all these days. I'm grabbing my round brush. A clean round brush, which is slightly wet. There is no much water, it is just damp. Now, I'm running my brush in a circular way and I'm lifting off the paint to create that glowing effect. Just run your brush in a swirly way and lift-off some paint. You can see that effect. Every time you pick the paint, be sure to dab your brush on a paper towel. If you don't clean your brush. Rather than lifting the paint, you will be adding paint back. Be sure to clean your brush after every spore. I think that has come out nicely. Now, let's leave it for drying. This is how my sky has turned out after it has dried. I'm quite happy with the color and the result. Now, our next task is to add in the moon. For that, I'm going to take out my white gouache. You can either use a white gouache or white watercolor. We'll just need this to add the moon. We won't be using white gouache for anything else. It can be even your white watercolor. Now, add in a circle. Right at the center of that glowing effect we have created here. Just a small white circle. You all know I'm someone who loves to work with vibrant colors. Whenever I do something in monochrome. I feel like it is incomplete. I always look for more elements, so that I can make it look complete. But then when I tried the small version of the same painting. I really fell in love with it. I was really able to feel that snow and wintery vibes from this painting. I thought it's going to be a very simply yet a beautiful addition to our otherwise vibrant collection. All right, that's a sky and the moon. Now, I'm going with one tone darker than the color we used for the sky. I'm going to add the mountain. Take a look at the color you have applied over the bottom of your sky and go with one tone darker than the color. Add a low-lying mountain. Don't make it too huge. I'm bringing it even more lower as I'm approaching towards the right side. Now, I'm taking some water and making it even more lighter. Okay, this is hard. You should be adding your mountain. Leaving some gap at the right side. Maybe we can make that top area a little darker. Just over here. For the mountain as well we are going with the gradient wash, on the top you have a slightly darker tone. Over the bottom you have a lighter tone. Now, using the same shade, I'm going to add some trees on the right side onto that little area we have leftover here. It's not really a well detailed shape. I'm just starting a very random shape. At some places I'll make it taller and at some places I'll make it lower. This is really far from us and we are going with a very light tone of neutral tint. It doesn't need to be that detailed. We'll be adding more trees in the foreground. Without worrying too much. Just add some shapes like this. I've made it taller on the right end and I made it shorter as I'm approaching the center. Now, we have to wait for this to dry. My [inaudible] has dried. Now, for the next step you have to go with a one tone darker than the color we used for the mountain. Take out a scrap piece of paper and try out the color. This one is close to the tonal value of the mountain. We have to reduce the amount of water and we'll have to go with one tone darker. This looks fine. Now, using this shade. I'm going to add in some trees. These ones are also going to be abstract ones. We're not going to detail them out. First we can add a line. Then onto that I'm going to add some lines close to each other. I'm going to create a cluster of trees. At some places you can make those lines a bit taller and at some places you can make it lower, so it will have a more natural look. I started with taller trees. Now, as I'm approaching the center, I'm making them shorter. This painting is really simple and you will be able to create a beautiful result. There is quite a lot of time you'll have to wait for your background to dry. Which is really important for this painting. First, we had to wait for the sky to dry. Then we had to wait for the mountain to dry. Now, once we finish this. We'll have to wait for this also to dry. I have added them till here. Now, I thought I will add few stand-alone trees rather than a cluster. Using the same color, I'm going to add some abstract pine trees over here. I think we have done this earlier. I think it was our second painting where we did that. You see [inaudible] northern lights. Just add those random shapes of trees over here. We don't need a lot of them just maybe five, or six, or maybe even less. Leave some gap in-between and add a few trees. Again, these ones are really far from us, so you don't need to put a lot of effort. Just a random shape is all we need. Just focus on the tonal value. The shape of the tree is not that important. As it is really far from us. I'm thinking off making these trees a little more taller. Let me quickly do that. That looks good enough. Now for the next stage, we'll have to go with a much more darker tone of neutral tint or beans gray. Reduce them on the water, and go with the darker tone. The first one is lighter, then the second one is a medium tone. Now, we're going with the really dark tone which is close to black. We will be adding more pine trees using this darker tone. Before that, we'll have to wait for this to dry. The background layer has dried. Now we can add another pine tree just using a darker tone. I'm using my smaller size brush. These trees has to be really small. We're going to go with this tonal value. Make a really dark tone of neutral tint, or beans gray, or indigo, or any other color that you're using. Now, let's add in some trees. For these trees also, we're not going with a very clear pine tree shape. We're going with an abstract shape. Now we don't add in trees from left to right. They're not covering up that entire line. We are adding them as groups. For some group, we'll go with taller tree and for some, we'll go with shorter trees. I'm adding my first tree. This is the maximum size I'll be using for the tree, the rest will be much more smaller. You can see the shape I have added here. It is really small and yet it has a lot of details. It is not that difficult to draw this tree, it is really simple. Let me show you. I'm going to grab my scrap piece of paper, and I'm starting off with a straight line. I'm showing you a bigger size so that you can clearly see it. Now I'm just running my brush towards either side and I'm adding some messy lines. As I'm coming down, I'm making those lines more wider. Overall, if you look at it, it should have a long triangular shape. Right now it is looking really messy. Our next task is to fill up those gaps. Using the tip of my brush, I'm filling up those gaps. Gone a very messy way, it doesn't need to be perfect, as it is really far from you. If you're going with a bigger tree, yes, it has to be detailed, but these ones are really far from us. You can see the maximum size I'm going with. The rest of the trees are going to be really small. We just need a rough sheet, when you look at the overall picture, it should look like a pine tree, that's all what we need. I have my first tree here. Now, I'm going to add the next tree. Use a darker tone and use a smaller size brush, and [inaudible] delicate lines, especially for the top of your tree. That area will be really visible as we have used lighter tones in the background. You can see my second tree. I made it much more shorter and is not at all detailed. know just looking at the overall shape. Now I'm adding much more taller one, similar to the first one we did. I'm taking my brush on either side and I'm adding some messy lines and I'm filling that gap together. That's my third tree. Now onto the fourth one. That is how we should be adding our trees. Now adding different groups of trees. Some of them can be taller and some of them can be shorter. Go with really random groups, don't make all of them look the same. Add them however you want to. If you notice, all the trees I have added to now, they are on the snowy ground. Now I'm going to add some super tiny ones on the horizon line. They have to be really small, so you can go with a very rough shape, adding few here and there. See the size I'm going with? They are really small. Now back to the bigger trees, I'm going to add few on the left side. I'm taking them to the snowy ground. I'm going with a medium size tree, adding another small one here. I think we have added enough. This is how our painting has turned out. I'm really happy with the way it is progressing. We just used a single color and we played with different tonal values. It has come out really nice. I'm really happy with it because I'm not someone who get that excited with monochrome painting. But this one has really changed my mind. Anyway, let's go with the next step. I already have some neutral tint on my brush, which I use for dark trees. Now I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel, and I'm making the paint dry. Now, our task is to add some darker tones underneath the tree, the ones on the snowy ground. Go with a dry paint and add some darker tones right underneath the tree by they're standing. The first step is to add some dry bush patterns onto the places where they're standing. Afterwards we'll be adding some shadows. Because for the snowy ground, we won't be adding any color. We're going to leave the paper white after this to indicate the snow. It is these dry bush patterns and the shadows which will make it look natural. This is really important. Just add some dry bush patterns underneath all the trees. The ones which are on the snowy ground. The other ones you can just ignore, the ones on the horizon line. You don't need to add any darker tones over there. That looks nice. You can already feel that snowy vibe here. Now, let's go with a lighter tone of neutral tint. Add an inclined line, for all the trees which is going to be the shadow. We just drag and add a line. Be sure to use a lighter tone. Add them for all the trees, and they have to be in the same direction. The painting is looking so good. Now the last step is to add a pathway. Otherwise, that snowy ground will look really empty because we used a half and half composition. Half of it is the sky, and half of it is the snowy ground. Now I'm just thinking we could have gone with the three-foot and the one-foot composition. The three-foot as the sky and just one-foot as the snow, so we didn't need to add that snowy pathway. Anyway, I'm happy with the painting, so their is no much complains. Now to add a pathway, you have to go with a really light tone of neutral tint or beans gray, which will be the color you're using. The color has to be really light. Try it on a scrap piece of paper before you add them in. Now I'm adding a curvy line, which is the pathway. You can see the color I'm using here. It's something similar to the one I used for the shadow. Now I'll start with a very thin line. Make it to curvy, and when you're approaching the masking tape, make it more wider. You can add one more similar line, parallel to this one. Leave a tiny gap in between. Then adding your second line. You don't need to take it until the other end. You can stop at the curve. That is it. That's our painting for the day. We just used one single color for the entire painting. We played with different tonal values and we created a gorgeous snowy landscape. I hope you all enjoyed it. You can try this with any color of your choice. Maybe you can try this out with violet or indigo. I think I really want to try this with indigo after this. I think even a brown or a shallow green would also look nice. Do give it a try and let me know your thoughts. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll repack it tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. 13. Day 10 - Polar Lights: [MUSIC] Hello, welcome to Day 10. Today, we are going to do another beautiful night sky. It's a gorgeous glass project and I'm really sure you guys are going to enjoy the process. All right, so I have fixed my paper. Now let's take a look at the colors you will need for today's night sky. These are the four colors I'll be using for this entire painting. Cobalt green, cadmium yellow, neutral tint and royal blue. Instead of royal blue, you can use any other blue that you've got. It can be Prussian blue or ultramarine blue. Instead of cadmium yellow, you can use gamboge yellow and instead of neutral tint, you can use Paynes gray. Those are the colors you will need. Now, I'm going to apply a piece of masking tape a little below the center of the paper. The top area is the sky and the bottom part is the water. More than threefold of wallpaper is going to be the sky. This is the way how I have composted it. Now, I'm going to decode the colors. This one is cobalt green. We'll be using three colors for the sky, cobalt green, cadmium yellow, and royal blue. For this painting, we don't need to add any pencil sketch. I'm going to start to right away, the first step is to add an even coat of water onto the entire sky. I'm using my 1.5 wash brush. I'm applying a clean even coat of water. Run your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere. We'll be applying the wet paint on this wet background, and we let them flow down to spread into each other. Apply enough water so that it won't dry out quickly. You can see that nice shiny coat of water. My paper's evenly wet. Now let's start applying the paint onto the paper. I have both my brushes here. My flat brush and my round brush. I'm going to use both of them simultaneously so that I don't need to wash it quite often. I'm starting with my round brush. I'm going with cobalt green, a very bright tone of cobalt green and applying some paint towards the left side. Just a thick line. Now I'm going to add another line towards the right side with same color, which is going to be in a inclined way. The first one was a straight line and this one is more rough and inclined line. Now I'm picking some yellow. You can see the color has turned into a gorgeous green. I'm simply adding a little of that onto the other line we have added. I want one of those lines to be more of a bluish and other one to be more of greenish. That is the reason why I added some yellow. Now I'm going to wash off my brush. Now we're going to add a second color, which is royal blue. As I said, you can use any other blue of your choice. It can be Prussian blue or ultramarine blue or any other taco blue. [NOISE] Now, I'm picking some blue going with a very intense tone of this shade. I'm applying onto this leftover area we have left in-between. Don't worry about how they're blending into each other. Simply add a darker tone of blue onto all the leftover area. You can see the way how they are floating down. The sky that you're painting today may not look like the one I'm painting here. Because we are making use of the gravity and we're letting the paint float into each other. You can never predict how the colors are going to float into each other. If I attempt the same sky, I'm not going to get the same result again. It will be different. We let go of all the control and the fear that have over the medium and let it blend and float into each other in its own way. You can see the way I have applied the colors. Now, I'm going to tilt my paper in all directions so that the color can float into each other. There is some empty space at the left corner. I thought the colors will float, but then it stopped in between. I will need to pick some more paint and I need to add it to all here. I'm picking some more cobalt green and I'm adding it. Maybe I'll need to pick some water and make it more watery. Otherwise it won't float. Adding that paint in. No, just pushing that towards the blue so that the colors can float it into each other. Now picking some more greenish tone. I'm mixing some yellow with cobalt green to turn that into a greenish shade. Okay, so there is no empty spaces. They have applied paint onto the entire paper. Now I'm again going to tilt turn on my paper in all direction so that the colors can float into each other. When you are tilting your paper, there will be some excess runoff of the paint on the border. You can take out a paper towel and remove that excess runoff so that it won't spoil your table. This can also float back into your painting so it is better to clean it off whenever you see this excess paint on the border. I'm going to grab a piece of paper towel and I'm wiping off that excess paint from the border. Now, I'm again tilting my paper upside down. Looks like the paint is drying. It is not floating. Now, at this point of time when the paint has stopped floating, we can use a clean flat brush to create a different effect. My brush is clean. Now I'm just dragging the paint into each other to create a different effect. Again, see, I'm just dragging my paint from top to bottom. I have kept my paper upside down. I'm not running it in both direction. I'm just dragging my brush in one direction. Every time I do this, I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel and I'm cleaning my brush. I'll do it again. Hold your paper how you want to. I'm holding it upside down. I have thoroughly cleaned my brush. Now, I'm just dragging that blue paint into the green in one single direction. I'm just pulling that paint. Just pull a little into the green. You don't need to apply a lot of pressure. I'm using the tip of my brush and I'm gently pulling that darker tone into the lighter tone. Use the tip of your brush. Don't put a lot of pressure. I'll do that over here. I'm simply pulling the blue into the green in just one single direction. That's one thing you need to be careful about. You shouldn't be taking your brush back and forth. Add those lines in just one single direction. Okay so that's the sky. You can see the result we got here. Our sky is looking so pretty. I really wanted to make those corners [NOISE] a bit more darker. You'll have a lot some here. But it looks like the paint is dried. I'm not going to take any risk because I'm happy with the sky. We'll let it be as it is. Now before the background dries, there is one more thing that I'm going to do. For that I'm using my smaller size round brush, this one is size [inaudible] round brush and I'm picking some cobalt green. It shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too thick as well. Go with a slightly watery paint. Now just add two dots using cobalt green in a very random way. This needs to be done when your sky is wet. Don't wait for a long time, add them right away when the sky is wet. Don't make the paint too watery. Go with a slightly watery paint and add dots like this. If it's too watery, it will spread too quickly and you will end up getting some blooms on your sky, which we don't want. We don't want them to spread a lot, so be careful with the consistency of your paint. [MUSIC] This is how it has turned out. Now, let's wait for this to dry. I'm really happy with the sky, especially that green area. [MUSIC] Alright, this guy has dried completely. Our next task was just apply to the stars. For that I am using some white gouache, you can either use white gouache or white watercolor. Let me take out of the top white gouache, now, I'm going to take out my small size brush and another brush to tap on it. I need two drops of water and two on your white gouache into the right consistency. [NOISE] It shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too thick as well. If a feel like your paint is too watery, you can add additional paper towel. This will help in turning your paint into the right consistency. Now, pick up another brush, tap on the brush where you have taken your white paint and create some stars. Concentrate more on the darker area and add enough of stars. We want them teeny tiny star, so the consistency is really important. If you're not too sure about the consistency, you can try splattering on a scrap piece of paper and be sure that this stars would come out right, and then you can apply them on your paper. Go ahead and add in as many stars as you want, especially onto the darker areas. [MUSIC] Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some [inaudible] star [inaudible] , especially onto these part we have added earlier. This we've done this blurry spots into shining stars. Right at the center of all the spots, add a white dot. [MUSIC] You can add few other [inaudible] white star [inaudible] . Going a very random way and add few [inaudible] white spots here and there. You can add as many as you want, so that's this guy. Now, I'm going to peel off the masking tape which we have applied to separate the sky and the water. This has to be done when the sky has completely dried. Peel it off at an angle, once your sky has completely dried. Our next task was to paint the lake, we'll be using the same clothes we use for this guy. The first step is to apply coat of water. So I'm going to switch back to my 1.5 inch wash brush, and I'm going with a clean coat of water. Gently apply a coat of water, don't put a lot of pressure when you're closer to the horizon line. The colors in the sky may float back into the water, so be very gentle. We'll go in the same order as we apply the paint on the sky. I'm starting with cobalt green and applying that onto the left side. We'd have to replicate the same colors in the sky. Now I'm going with that greenish color and applying that on the right side. Just add them in onto the wet background. Now, just the same way how we applied paint onto a sky, we can apply blue onto the leftover area. I'm going to wash off the paint from my brush. I'm switching to royal blue. Could really talk to enough royal blue, and apply that onto this in-between area, so that's the center. Now, we have some space on the right side. This is how our water is looking right now. We have applied cobalt green and that greenish color and royal blue, now, I'm keeping my flat brush aside and I'm switching to my smaller size brush. This one is a size number 4, round brush. Now, I'm just running my brush in a horizontal way and I'm trying to paint into each other and creating some lines. The background is wet, so it is quite easy to do this. You simply need to run your brush in a horizontal way and add some lines. We haven't taken any paint on the brush, we are just making use of the paint we have on the lick, and we are dragging to paint into each other. You can see how easily we made the reflection. On the left side, we'll have something that has gotten into the sky, never mind, I can fix that with a mountain. I'm quite happy with the lake, maybe I will call it a darker tone of blue and add some lines on the right side. I have taken some paint and I'm adding some lines, now, dragging that into the cream. If you wish to make the background more darker, you can go with a much more darker tone of blue and do the same thing on the left and the right side. I'm pretty happy with the lake so I'm going to leave it like this. Our next task was to add the mountains. Before that, we'll have to wait for the painting to dry completely. It's drying time. Looks like the backlog has dried completely. Now, to add a mountain, I'm going to use white gouache. I'm using my size and before round crash, I attempt taking some white gouache. Now, all here I'm going to add a mountain, not a huge one, a low-lying mountain. You can add it either on the right or the left. I need to correct these mistakes so I'm adding my mountain on the left side. We will just need to add some white on the top of the mountain. Now, towards the bottom, I'm going to go with blue, the same blue that I used earlier, which is row n blue. First add in the basic shape of your mountain, add that in white. After you have added the basic shape, switch to blue. It can be either Prussian blue or ultramarine blue or indigo, which will be the blue that we were using. Now, add that blue towards the bottom of the mountain and blend that with the white. It doesn't have to be a clean blend, we just need some white color on the top, and the light blue over the bottom. We'll be making more darker, and we'll be adding some deeper tones and some patterns on the mountain to make it look more realistic. The first step is to go to the base lip that you have white on the top and blue on the bottom. As I mentioned earlier, it doesn't need to be a clean blend, we just need some white on the top and the blue at the bottom. We'll just adding a mountain following the horizon line without worrying a lot. [MUSIC] That is a base shape. Now, I'm just dragging that blue towards the top. I don't want it to be a clean blend. I want to have more textures and more patterns on the mountain so I'm just dragging that blue towards the top, to add some textures. For the next step, you will need some Payne's gray or neutral tint or black. We're going to add more and more texture on the mountain. Right now it is looking quite plain and flat, it doesn't look like a mountain. Let's take out some neutral tint. We'll be applying some medium as well as some darker tones using neutral tint. We just need a little. I'm using my same round brush, size number 4 round brush and I'm picking some neutral tint. First, I will start with a medium tone. So, go with medium tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray and add some teeny tiny patterns on the top of the mountain. Add them as a sloping line to make it look like a valley. We don't need a lot, just add a few here and there. We are going to retain in the white we have added over the top and we'll just add some random patterns using neutral tint here and there. There has to be really tiny. You can add the mass, a broken line or some dots. It doesn't have any particular shape. You just need to keep pressing the tip of your brush and add some messy little patterns like this. You can see the impact of those little patterns already. In a similar way, just add some teeny tiny patterns here and there, but retain the white we have added over the top. [MUSIC] I have added some patterns using medium tone. Now I'm going with a really dark tone of neutral tint and I'm adding some more patterns. Just follow the same pattern and add some teeny tiny dots in a sloping way. You can see how pretty our margin is looking already. Now, on the bottom I'm going to add another mountain using a darker tone of blue. [NOISE] First, I will add the base shape using a darker tone of blue. This is going to be a really low lying mountain. In the background you have a snowy mountain and the foreground you have a darker mountain. I'm starting off with blue and I'm going to add the base shape. Go with a really small mountain, don't make it too huge. Let me quickly add the base shape. [MUSIC] That's the shape of the mountain. Now towards the bottom to fill up the rest of the area, I'm going with neutral tint. You can go with a darker tone and fill up the bottom area, make it a clean line. Now, continue that until the other end. The technique is more or less the same as we used for the snowy mountain. We started off with blue and towards the bottom we are using neutral tint. Now, once we've finished this anterior line, we'll add some white patches on the top to make it look snowy, but not a lot, just few lines. I'm continuing this until the other end. Over here, I'm making it really low, I'm just adding it as a line. Now, we can add another small mountain on the right side. I'm continuing the line and adding a small mountain here, in a similar way how we did the other one. On the top we will have to have a bluish tone and towards the bottom we should have a neutral tint or Payne's gray or black. Add that in, a small one. I don't want a snowy mountain here and I don't want to make it too symmetrical, so I'm just going with a small mountain here. Now I'm picking some white and adding that onto the top of the mountain. Now just merge that into the background and make it look snowy. We don't need a bright white, just a little. It doesn't need to look too prominent, so add a bit of white on the top of the mountain and just merge that into the background. You can do the same for the other mountain we have on the left side. Pick some white gouache or white watercolor and add that onto the top of the mountain, then just merge that into the background. As I said earlier, it doesn't need to look too prominent, so don't go with a very thick opaque paint. Once you have applied that paint, smudge that into the background and make it look subtle. Let's do the same on the other side. All we need is just some white tones on the top of the mountain, which shouldn't be too prominent. That is done. Now, our last task is to add some patches of land on the water. This will make our painting look more interesting. So I'm going to go back with neutral tint. This time I'm going with a really dark tone. Use any of your smaller size brush. We're going to add some thin slices of land so you'll have to use a brush which has a pointed tip. Add a tiny cap and add your first patch of land. We'll be adding few more patches in a very random way. Some of them will look like a linear patch and some of them will be like a small patch like this one. This is just a little detail which is going to make our painting look more interesting. We don't need a lot, just few small patches closer to the mountain. We are not going to add any over the bottom, closer to the masking tape. Just few lines and small patches right next to the mountain. When you're adding your patch leave a tiny cap. Don't add it too close to the mountain. Maybe we can add one or two small patches here. You can see the size I'm going with. They are really small and thin. Our major focus is on the snowy mountain so these are just some small simple additions which will make your painting look more interesting and it will also bring in that sense of distance. [MUSIC] That is it. With that, we're done with our painting for Day 10. [NOISE] I'm really happy with the sky as well as the reflection. I think I haven't tried this kind of a sky before and I'm quite impressed. Let me peel off the masking tape. Make sure your painting has dried completely before you peel off the masking tape. To speed up the process, you can use some blow dryer or a heat tool. [MUSIC] Here is our gorgeous night sky. I think I really like the mountain as well. Everything has come out just perfect. I hope you guys enjoyed today's class project. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our next [inaudible] landscape. 14. Day 11 - Glowy Winter Evening: Hello, welcome to day 11. I hope you all are doing great. Today, we are going to paint a beautiful window evening. It is really simple and it is really quick as well. For the sky I will be using violet, crimson and permanent yellow-orange. I'll be using the same colors for the snowy ground as well. Then to paint the trees, I will be using brown and neutral tint. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. We will be drawing the background with variegated wash for the sky. As I said earlier, we will be using three colors, which is permanent violet, crimson and permanent yellow-orange. If you want to try a different color combination, that's totally up to you, it doesn't need to be the same colors. If you don't have permanent yellow-orange, you can also use gamboge yellow. Don't worry if you don't have permanent yellow-orange. I already have the colors on my palette. Maybe I would need a bit more violet. The colors are ready. I'm going to apply a piece of masking tape a little below the center of the paper so that we can nicely paint the sky without worrying about the snowy ground. Add a piece of masking tape a little bit of the center of your paper. The paper is ready. As I mentioned earlier, I'll be applying three colors for the sky. I'll be starting with violet and then I will go with crimson and over the bottom I will use permanent yellow-orange. First, I'm starting by applying coat water and dip in my 1.5 inch wash brush in clean water. I'm applying even coat water onto the entire sky. Run your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere and also the coat water is even. I'm switching to my half-inch flat brush. You can either use your flat brush or a bigger size flat brush. I'm starting with violet going with a medium tone and I'm applying that onto the top of my paper. That's violet. Now, I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush and I'm switching to my second color, which is crimson. Again, I'm using a medium tone, applying that next to violet and blending them well. Again, washing all the paint from my brush. Then I'm going with permanent yellow orange. Now, I'm applying that onto the leftover area. Closer to the masking tape, you can make the color a bit more lighter by going with some clean water. Right now the colors are looking slightly dull and the blend is not that clean. That is our next task. We are trying to get a clean blend and making all the colors slightly brighter. I'm picking some crimson, adding that over here. Going with some violet, adding that onto the top of my paper. Now, I will run my brush in a horizontal way and make it a clean blend. That's the sky. On the top you have violet, then over the middle you have crimson and towards the bottom we have a yellowish orange. It's a pretty simple sky, we just went in with a dedicated wash of three colors. Under the bit background, I'm going to add a mountain. I'm starting low with permanent yellow orange. You shouldn't be going with a watery paint. If your paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel because our background is already wet. If you use a very watery paint, it will spread onto the background. Be sure to dab your brush on a paper towel before you add a mountain. You see this orange color, I'm going to add a basic shape of a mountain, a low lying one, it's not a huge mountain. Add in that anterior margin using that yellowish orange. Now, let's pick some brown. Towards either corner I'm going to add some brown. I'm going to leave the center in orange, I'm not going to add any brown over there, only onto either end, I'm adding some brown. You can use either brown or burnt sienna, both of them will work. First add the basic shape of your mountain using a yellowish orange. Then onto either end, add some brown. Don't add any paint onto the center. You can make the brown a bit more darker by adding a dark neutral tint or print screen and that darker tone of brown onto either end leaving the center as it is. You can already see how pretty our mountain is looking. It is looking like the sunlight is hitting on the center. We started off with orange, then onto either end we added some brown to create that glowing effect. Now, before we go with the next step, we have to wait for this to dry. The background has dried completely. I used a blow dryer to speed up the process. But then there was some paint on the bottom. Due to the force of the blow dryer, the water went inside my sky and spoiled a bit over here. I was really happy with the sky, but then that little mistake spoiled my sky. Never mind, let it be. Now, I'm going to be level the masking tape, which I applied at the center of my paper. I'm really happy with the glowing effect we have got here. It is looking so gorgeous. Now, for the snowy ground, I'm going to use the same colors as I used for the sky. First step is to apply a clean coat of water. Go with some clean water and apply an even coat water onto the entire ground. Be careful when you are applying water closer to the mountain. Don't make your wet brush touch the mountain. Leave it teeny-tiny curve when you're applying your water. Now, I'm going to switch back to my flat brush and I'm starting with the yellowish orange, going with a really light tone. That looks too dark. This is the color you should be going with. Go with a light tone of yellowish orange or even yellow. Apply that closer to the mountain. Now, let's go over some crimson. Go with really light to medium tone, it shouldn't be too dark. Apply that next to the yellow. For the bottom go with violet. Maybe we can add a bit more crimson and then switch to violet. Now, applying violet over the bottom. As you can see here, I'm using the same colors I used for the sky for the snowy ground as well. But then I'm going with a really light tone, I'm not making them as bright as the sky, but the colors are the same. It doesn't need to be a variegated wash, we can just have some yellow on the top and some crimson and then some white over the bottom. Now, I'm going to pick some crimson and I'm adding some lines. Just few random lines. That looks clean. You can clearly see here the crimson I used is really light, it's not too prominent. Go with a similar color and add one or two lines on the snowy ground. Now, we'll have to wait for the entire background to try. The painting has dried completely, our next task is to add the trees and a setting sun. Maybe we can start with the setting sun. Using my size number four round brush, I'm using a bit of white gouache to add the setting sun. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor. We just need a teeny bit of white gouache. I'm not using white as it is. I'm going to mix that with a bit of yellowish orange. I'm adding a yellowish sun, so just a bunch of yellow and white, mix them well, and add in a teeny tiny circle, which is our setting sun. Maybe your sky over here is really light and if you use a yellowish tone, it may not be visible. In that case use white, you don't need to add yellow into it. Add in your setting sun. That's done. Now our next task is to add the trees. Now, just like how we have painted the mountain, I'm starting with orange. We need to create that glowing effect on the tree as well, maybe for one or two which is closer to the sun. To create that effect, I'm starting with orange, and I'm adding the base shape of the tree using orange. Then onto that, just like we added brown onto the mountain. We'll be adding some brown and neutral tint, but first start with orange, add in the shape. You need to create that glowing effect only for the trees which are closer to the sun. The ones which are away from the sun can be in brown or black. Now I'm picking some brown, we add some medium tones as the last branches using brown. I'm going to leave the left side as it is, which is where the sunlight will be hitting, and I'm adding some brown on the right side. Now we can add some branches onto this using the same color, but make sure to leave the left side as it is, don't add any darker tone over there. That is the area where the sunlight is hitting the tree. Now for the rest of the tree, we can go with brown. I'm continuing the line with a darker tone of brown. We can add some branches as well using the same color. I'm planning to create this glowing effect only for this tree. For the rest of the tree, I'll just use brown or neutral tint as it is. I won't be putting this much effort, but if you want to create this glowing effect on two or three trees, that's totally up to you. The trees that you're adding next to the sun should have this glowing effect. Now I'm going to add one or two more branches onto this tree, and I will add few more to use using the same color. Now I'm adding my second tree. These are not going to be that detailed trees, it is just some lines and some branches onto it. I'm making them as simple as possible. Let's use a darker tone of brown and add in some more trees. You can either follow the same pattern, adding some simple trees in a similar way, which doesn't have a lot of branches, or if you want to go with a very detailed a tree, you could do that. Also, you can decide on the number of trees that you want in your painting. It doesn't need to be the same as mine. I'm using a darker tone of brown for the tree. I just added up and just neutral tint with brown, and that is the color I'm using. That is the second tree, maybe we can add some darker tone onto this tree as well. Just matching that. At the bottom and at the top we have darker tones, only at the center of it the sunlight is hitting, we made it a lighter tone to create that glowing effect. We have three trees here, now I'm going to go with a much more darker tone by adding some more neutral tint, and I'm going to add some more trees and some wooden post. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not making all the trees well detailed. Some of them are just going to be some long sticks, and I will add few tiny branches onto them. You can go in a similar pattern. Over here I'm adding another wooden stick. That looks nice. Now in a similar way, we can add few on the left side as well. You can see how I'm adding them, it's more like a combination of some sticks and some long trees. Now we can add some more branches. Maybe I will add one or two more trees on the left side, and maybe one on the right side as well. I'm already in love with this painting, especially the glowing effect we have created. It's a simple trick, you just need to play with different tonal values of orange and brown to create that effect. The areas which are closer to the sun has to be in a orange or a yellowish tone and the area which is away from the sun can be in a darker tone. It is quite simple to create that glowing effect. Do give it a try. Now I'm picking some more brown and adding another tree on the right side. Maybe I will stop with this one. I think I have added enough. I don't want to fill this entire painting with trees. I think it looks cool, we can stop it here. Now our final task was to add the shadows, with that we'll be done. Let's wash out the paint from our brush, and go with a really light tone of neutral tint. I'm mixing that with a little of violet. It's going to be a wildish gray or a grayish violet. Add in enough water, and make it as light as possible. It shouldn't be too prominent, be sure to check out the color before you add a new shadow. It has to be really light. Now we're going to add an inclined line, right at the bottom of all these trees. I'm starting with the left side. Right from the bottom of the tree, I'm adding an inclined line, and I'm taking it till the masking tape. I'll do the same for the second tree, add a line, and extend it till the masking tape. Now let's do the same for all the trees we have added here. Be sure to check out your color before you add a new shadow. It shouldn't be too prominent. Go with a similar color. Right now we have added the shadow for the trees we have on the left side. Just like how we did earlier, start from the bottom of your tree and add an inclined line. Now, extend that till the masking tape. Be sure to go with a lighter tone, that is something that you need to be really careful about. Once you have the color right, it's pretty easy, you just need to add an inclined line. The next thing you need to be careful about is the direction of your shadow. Consider the sun as your reference, and for the trees which are onto the left side of your sun, add the shadow towards the left side, and for the trees with are onto the right side, add the shadow towards the right direction. It is as simple as that. Our painting is looking so pretty already, now there's one last thing that I want to do. There is already some paint on my brush, that grayish violet, which I used for the shadow. Now I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel, and I'm making it slightly dry. Now using that dry brush, I'm pulling some paint from the trees and adding some darker tones on the ground, right where the trees are standing. There is no paint on my brush, using that slightly wet brush, I'm just pulling out the paint from the trees itself. That is it. With that we are done with the our painting for day 11. I'm really happy with the way this painting has turned out. It didn't take a lot of time, and the techniques we used were quite simple. I think we used the perfect color combination to explore that glowing effect. It has turned out really great. Now I'm going to peel off the masking tape. This is our finished painting. It is looking so calm and pretty. I hope you guys enjoyed today's painting. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next winter landscape. 15. Day 12 - Dancing Lights: [MUSIC] Hello, welcome to Day 12. Today we are going to paint another beautiful northern lights. Here is a painting that we're going to do today. It literally looks like the sky is dancing. Let's begin. I have my paper ready here. Now, I'm going to apply another piece of masking tape, a little below the center of the paper. I mostly apply a masking tape to get a clean line but if you don't want to apply a masking tape, that's absolutely okay. Just add in a line, which is your reference line to apply paint on the sky. Now for the sky, I'll be using three colors; lemon yellow, cerulean blue, and indigo. We won't be using lemon yellow as it is, I'll be adding a little of cerulean blue to lemon yellow to create a neon green. We'll be adding that swirly line using that green color, then we'll be filling the rest of the area in cerulean blue and indigo. Instead of cerulean blue, we can also use Prussian blue. I have squeezed out all the colors onto my palette; lemon yellow, cerulean blue, and indigo. Now the first step is to apply an even coat of water onto the sky. We're going with a baton wet sky. This one is a half-inch wash brush and I'm dipping my brush in clean water and applying a shiny coat of water onto the entire sky. My sky is evenly wet. Now I'm going to switch to my round brush. This one is size number eight round brush. Go with any medium to bigger sized round brush. I'm mixing a little of cerulean blue with lemon yellow [NOISE] to create a beautiful neon green. We don't need a lot of blue, just a little is all we need. Now turn that into a slightly watery consistency. Now using this color, I'm going to add a nice swirly line right at the center of my paper. We'll be just adding one single swirl and we'll be enveloping that in cerulean blue and indigo. At the center, we'll have a beautiful green swirly line and towards the corners, we'll introduce a dark blue. I'm starting over that swirly line. You can see the way I'm taking my brush. There is nothing to worry, just add in a simple swirly line. Your background is already wet and the paint you're using is also slightly watery. Just add in a beautiful line. That looks nice. Now I'm going to switch to our flat brush. I'm not washing the paint off, I'm just keeping it aside because we might need it later. Let's keep it aside with the paint. Now, I'm switching to my flat brush. This one is a half-inch flat brush. I'm going with cerulean blue, going with a very dark tone, and adding that next to the green we have applied and filling up the rest of the area. Go with the bright blue. It can be Prussian blue or any other blue. When you're closer to the green, run your brush in a swirly way but we need to retain that swirly line. That is the identity of this painting. Now we can keep adding more darker tones onto either corner. We're going to make that center area light and the outer corners more darker. Retaining the green at the center, add in more blue onto either corner. Some paint has gotten into the green, so I'm just taking that out. That looks fine. Now I'm going with indigo and adding that onto the corners to make this area more darker. When we add more darker values, this will automatically enhance the green swirly line. [NOISE] Now our task was to make all the colors looks smooth, so I'm grabbing my round brush and I'm running my brush in a swirly way to blend the green with the blue. It doesn't need to be perfect and it doesn't need to have a clean blend, but we just need to get rid of that strong transition. Run your brush in a swirly way and try to get rid off that strong suppression line. On the left, you can see how we have a strong blue line. That is what we are getting rid of. Run your brush in a swirly way where those two colors are meeting. Now we need to do the same onto the outer corners as well that indigo is touching cerulean blue. I'm washing out the paint from my brush and having it on a paper towel. I'm grabbing some cerulean blue. Now I'm just dragging that indigo into cerulean blue to make it slightly smoother. Our intention is not to get a clean smooth blend, that's not at all our intention. We just need to get rid of the strong separation line between the colors. That is only what we're doing here. Now I'm back at that swirly line. Running my brush in a swirly way. There is a lot of blue on my brush, I'm cleaning it properly. I'm, again, making that swirly line more smoother. I don't have any paint on my brush, it is just slightly wet. Now I'm taking my brush in a swirly way. You can apply your darker tones on either corner however you want to. But at the center, where you have that swirly line, make sure to run your brush in a swirly way so that you can rate in that green swirly line. That's the only thing you need to be careful about. The rest of the area you can apply your paint however you want to. That's our sky. Our major focus here is to rate in the swirly line, so we apply darker tones onto the corners in a very random way. But then we try to rate in that swirly line by running our brush in a swirly way when we are closer to that area. That's something that you need to be careful about. Now let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. The colors are looking slightly dull than earlier. But that's something very common with watercolor, which is not in our control. But I'm really happy with this four under-colors we have got here. We ran our brush in a wavy way to rate in that swirly green line. That's the only thing we really emphasized on, the rest was quite easy. Now our next task is to splatter some stars. First, I'm going to remove this masking tape I applied at the center. That looks clean. Now to splatter the stars, I'm going to grab some white gouache. As I always say, it can be white gouache or white watercolor. The consistency is what matters. Let's grab some white gouache. Now I'm adding a few drops of water. I'm using my smaller size brush. Just few drops of water and turn that into right consistency. If you're not too sure about the consistency, as I always say, dab your brush on a paper towel. This will remove the excess amount of water and will turn into the right consistency. Now grab another brush or a pencil or a stick. Now keep tapping on your brush to create some stars. [NOISE] I'm focusing more on the darker corners because on the green area it won't be visible. Focus more on the outer corners where you have applied those darker tones and add an inner four stars. That looks good enough. I'm not going to add a lot. Now I'm adding some bigger stars using the same brush. Using the same brush, I'm adding some bigger white spots. [MUSIC] This can be done using a white gel pen Aspen, which might be better, if you have white gel pen. Otherwise, just use your brush and add in some bigger white spots. That's the sky. We're done with the sky. Our next task was to paint the snowy cloud. For that, I'm switching back to my flat brush. I'm applying some water. Looks like there is some blue on my brush. Never mind. Anyway, I was planning to go with a lighter tone of over here. That task is done. Now I'm going with some indigo and I'm adding that towards the bottom. Closer to the horizon line, you should have a lighter tone of indigo and towards the bottom, you should have a darker tone. I need to make the bottom area more darker. I'll be rating that lighter tone at the horizon line. I won't be touching that area. Just go with a gradient wash of indigo. I have a lighter tone at the top and a darker tone at the bottom. Now using the same color, you can add some whiter lines as well. I'm not really happy with the darker tones. I think I will have to go with one more round. I'm grabbing some more paint and adding some more darker tones at the bottom. I'm not really going with a smooth gradient wash. I'm adding some lines, thick lines, using indigo. Now it looks better. I'm happy with the results. Now we have to wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] That has nearly dried. Our next task was to add the mountains. For that I'm using white gouache. I'm using my smaller size brush. I'm going with a nice creamy white gouache. The mountains I'm going with are not that huge. I'm going with some low-lying mountain. I'm starting with the first one. When you do this, there are chances the blue paint in the background may come off. You can clearly see that here. I'm picking the blue paint from the background. The white mountains, I'm adding here, is not looking that white. It is looking bluish, but that's absolutely okay. Just focus on the size of the mountain. This is the size you should be going with, don't make it too huge. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add two or three more mountains and I'm going to fill up that horizon line. [MUSIC] I have added a mountain using white gouache. On the left side, they are looking a lot bluish, but on the right side it is looking slightly white. However, that's absolutely okay. We don't need to worry how they are looking right now. We are going to add more deeper tones and more texture onto the mountain, and we'll make it look more beautiful, so let it be as it is. Don't worry about how they're looking right now. I'm washing off the paint from my brush. Now, for the next task you will need some indigo. We are going to add some blue tones on the mountain. Right now our mountains are looking quite plain. It doesn't have any texture or any shadow, so that is our next task. You can add a medium tones however you want to. Our major focus is to add more medium tones and darker tones at the bottom. I will try to retain the lighter values on the top of the mountain. First go with a medium tone of indigo and add in some medium tones. Towards the bottom you can make it more darker by going with a more darker value of indigo. You can clearly see the first mountain. I have added some medium tones and then I added some darker tones at the bottom, and I try to retain some lighter tones on the top. This is the same way how we'll be adding medium and darker tones onto the other mountains as well. First, I will add a darker tone at the bottom. I'm going with the darker tone of indigo and I'm adding a line. Now I will simply push that paint into the snowy mountain and add some medium and darker tones at the bottom. We'll just add in a line first. Now, keep pulling that paint. Keep in mind that line shouldn't be visible at the end, so keep pulling that darker tone into the mountain and get rid of that line. [MUSIC] I have added the medium tones. You can see I got rid of that line at the bottom and I simply smudged the colors into the background. Now, I'm going with a slightly more darker tone and I'm adding some lines here and there, just some broken lines. We don't need a lot, just a few here and there. You can clearly see how roughly I'm applying the paint. It doesn't need to be any perfectly-shaped lines or anything. Just go with some broken line and add them onto the medium tones. We don't need a lot. Just fill in a very random way. You can see how gorgeous those mountains are looking. Now, I'm switching back to a bit of white gouache, and I think I will make the top area a bit more lighter. Right now we really don't have a white tone on the top of the mountain, so I'm grabbing some white gouache and adding few bits and pieces on the top of the mountain. That's the first one, adding few on the second one as well. Not a lot, just some white tones on the top of the mountain. That looks good enough. I'm really happy with the sky and the snowy mountains. For the snowy mountain we started off with the white gouache, we added the base shape first, then on to that we added some medium tones using indigo. We added more darker values at the bottom and we tried to retain the lighter tones on the top. Now maybe I will add a bit more here. That looks like the mountains are done. Now, our final task was to add a tree. I'll be adding that towards the right side where we have that green swirly line, but if you're happy with your painting, if you don't want to add a tree, you can stop your painting here and call it done. Now, for the tree you will need either black or neutral tint or Payne's gray. I'll be using a really dark tone, which is something close to black, so even black will work. Now, use any of your smaller size brush. I'm using my size number 4 brush and I'm adding a tree. I'll just add one single tree with lots of branches. Now, when adding a tree, go with a very interesting profile for your tree. You don't want to make it a boring tree. Go with a beautiful organic shape and make your tree as realistic as possible. First I'm going to add the main tree trunk, which can be a bit thicker. You can see the color I'm using here. It is very much close to black. This is the reason why I told you if you want to go with your black watercolor, that is also possible. It doesn't need to be neutral tint or Payne's gray. Now I'm going to add more and more branches onto this. Now, I wouldn't really recommend you to follow the same lines and the same branches that I'm doing here. You can go in your own way and add a new tree however you want to. Go with a very interesting profile and add in a beautiful tree. [MUSIC] I have added a main tree trunk and a few branches. You can see how beautiful our painting is looking already. This is not enough. [LAUGHTER] We'll need to add more and more branches. For the thin branches I would recommend you to go with a brush which has a pointed tip or any of your detailing brush. We need to get very thin, delicate lines, so be sure to use a brush which has a pointed tip, or you can use a pen to add in your branches if you're not too comfortable with your brush. I'm warning you, if you don't add in your branches in the right way, it can spoil your otherwise beautiful-looking sky, so be very careful when you're adding your branches. If you are not at all comfortable with your brush, go with a pen. That's absolutely okay. No one is going to find out. For me, I don't really follow the conventional method and I don't follow the rules. I just want the whole process to make me happy, and I need to feel satisfied and happy when I look at the end result. That is what I more care about, so how I'm adding the branches doesn't really matter to me. I really don't want the process to stress me out and confuse me, so better go with a pen if you're more comfortable with that. It looks like I have added enough of branches. Now, for the last step, [NOISE] I will need some white gouache. I'm washing off the paint from my brush. Now let's switch to white gouache. I'm going to apply some white tones onto the right side of the tree. You can apply them either on the right or the left. Choose either one of the side and apply a dry broken white line. It doesn't need to be a continuous bold line. In fact, it doesn't need to look like a line. We just need some white tones. It can be some dry brush patterns or like a broken line. Whatever it'd be, we just need some white tones on the right side of the tree. Go with a dry paint and add some white tones on the right side. These are not snow. It is just some highlights. You can see the instant difference that white tones made on the tree. Earlier it was looking quite flat. The white tones made it look a lot interesting. It looks like the tree is reflecting the light. Choose either the left or the right and add some dry white lines. Focus more on the main tree trunk and also the thicker branches and add your white tones onto them first. After that, onto these branches, we can add a broken white line. Just add a random broken white line using a dry paint. You don't need to add them on the light green area because they won't be visible, so it isn't that necessary. You can concentrate on the area that you have darker tones on the sky. You can see the ones I'm adding right now. I'm adding some branches as well using white gouache. I think our tree is looking gorgeous. Maybe we can add few more white branches, especially under the area where we have darker tones. The one I added right now it is looking too bold. Don't add such branches. Go with very thin, delicate branches. After you have done adding those white tones onto the tree, you can add some branches using white gouache as well, but just like I said earlier, go with very thin and delicate branches. Don't make them too bold. That's the tree. Now, we need to add the shadow as well as some deeper tones on the snowy ground. For that, I'm picking some neutral tint and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. Right where the tree is standing, I'm adding some dry brush patterns using neutral tint. I'm focusing on the area where the tree is standing. I'm not adding any other patterns. I will concentrate over here and add some patterns right next to the tree. I'm really happy with this painting. I cannot tell you how much I love the sky, the snowy mountain, and those highlights on the tree. I think everything has come out so perfect. Looks like that is done. Now, the very last task is to add the shadow of the tree. For that I'm going with a light tone of neutral tint. Let's pick some water and create a lighter tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray. It has to be really light so add in enough of water. Now, using that lighter tone you have created, let's add a thick line starting from the bottom of the tree. Add a thick line without lifting your hand and continue that till the masking tape. My dear friends, with that we are done with our painting for Day 12. [MUSIC] Here's our gorgeous dancing light. I cannot tell you how much I love this painting. I think I have said that enough. I hope you guys enjoyed today's painting. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with another beautiful snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 16. Day 13 - Golden Sunset: Hello, my dearest friends. Welcome to data pin. Today we're trying over the gorgeous golden yellow evening. For today's painting, you will just need four colors which are permanent yellow-orange, brown, indigo, and neutral tint on paint screen. For the sky as well as for the lake, we'll be using permanent yellow-orange and brown. Then to paint the snowy ground, you will need a very light tone of indigo, and finally, to add those trees in the background, you will need neutral tint. Also, you will need some white gouache to add the white highlights. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. I have my paper ready here. Now let add the pencil sketch. I'll start by adding a line slightly above the center of my paper. More than half of all paper will be the lake and the snowy ground, and just 1/4 will be the sky. Add a similar line. Now we can add some snow patches, go with some curvy line, and add some snow patch on either side. Whatever is left will be the lake. Just add some curvy shapes on either side, which is going to be the snowy ground. I'm just adding them, however, I feel like, I'm not really following any photograph or any reference image. I'm just adding them, however, I feel like at that point. You don't really need to follow the same shapes that I'm adding here. You can go with however you want to. We will just need some curvy shapes on either side and whatever space we have left at the center will be the lake. Just add them in however you want to. Please make sure to go with very light pencil sketch because it will be retaining most of the paper white and if you go with really dark pencil sketch, these lines will be visible, many who have applied your paint. Go with really light pencil sketch, don't put a lot of pressure when you're adding your sketch. I'm just editing the shape over here. That is the pencil sketch. I think it looks fine. We can take out the colors and start painting. For today's painting, I'll be using two colors mainly which is permanent yellow-orange and brown. You can use any yellowish-orange and any brown. It can be burnt sienna as well. If you don't have permanent yellow-orange, there is nothing to worry. You can just add a little of [inaudible] or scarlet to gamboge yellow and create a similar color. In your mix, you should have more yellow and less [inaudible] or scarlet. That's permanent yellow-orange. Now I'll need some brown as well. I will be using permanent yellow-orange and brown for the sky as well as for the lake. For the snowy ground, I'll be using indigo which I already have on my palate. Let's start painting. First, I'm going to apply a coat of water onto the snow patches. For that, I'm using my size number 8 round brush and I'm dipping my brush in clean water. First, we will paint the snow and then we will paint the sky. Just apply a coat of water following the outline you have added. Don't add a lot of water, just a shiny coat is all we need. Keep running your brush following the outline you have added there. Add a shinning coat of water. I have added a coat of water onto the anterior snow patches here. Now I'm going with a really light tone of indigo. You can't see the color here. I have added some water, and I made the tone lighter. Now let's apply that onto these snow patches. We are starting with the snow patch. Then after this dries, we'll cope with the sky and the lake. Now let's add that light tone of indigo and on the bottom line of all these patches, add a little on the top. Focus mostly on the bottom line, which is where you will have more shadows and deeper tones. Run your brush along that bottom part and add in a lighter to medium tone of indigo. We can see the color I'm using here, it isn't that light but it isn't that dark as well. It's a medium tone. Now I'm picking another brush which is dry, it doesn't have any paint. Now I'm running that dry brush along the paint we have applied here, to make it look smoother. Right now it is looking feathery. There is nothing complicated here. It's not a difficult technique. Once you apply the paint on a dry brush and too much source colors in the background is already wet, so this task will be really easy. That is the first task. For the next step, we have to wait for this to dry. After this, we'll paint the sky, as for last lake. As I mentioned earlier, for both the sky and the lake, I'll be using permanent yellow-orange and brown. You can go with any other color combination that you prefer. You can paint the snowy ground the same way, and maybe you can go with the wallet and a blue sky or orange and a pink, any color that you prefer. Let's wait for this to dry. That has dried. Now our next task is to apply paint onto the sky. You all know we'll be using permanent yellow-orange and brown for the sky, as well as for the lake. We'll be going with the variegated wash. For that, I'm using my flat brush. On the top, we will coat with permanent yellow-orange, and over the bottom, we'll be using brown. First I'm starting by applying clean coat of water. The sky is evenly wet. Now I'm going with permanent yellow orange. I'm using a medium tone and I'm applying that on the top of my paper. Now as I'm coming down, I will go with brown. You need to get a smooth blend of these two colors. Go with the really bright tone of brown and apply that next to permanent yellow-orange and blend them well. Towards the bottom, you can go with the really dark tone of brown. Now add a straight line and clean up the horizon line. We use a Tibetan red variagated wash for the sky, we use permanent yellow-orange and brown. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry. My sky hasn't dried completely, but I thought I will carefully apply paint onto the lake. It is only at the top which I need to be a bit careful about. I'm switching to my round brush, this one has a size number 8 brush. I'm starting over with permanent yellow-orange. I'm applying that one here. On the top, I'm using permanent yellow orange and as I'm coming down, I will apply brown. It's going to be creating wash of the same colors we use for the sky. In case if you're using any other colors, just follow the same technique and apply your colors in the same way. Run your brush carefully along those snowy patches and add in permanent yellow-orange. Over here, you can simply apply permanent yellow-orange. Now as I'm coming down, I will be switching to brown. Maybe almost half of the lake, I will be applying this yellowish-orange. Almost a threefold of the lake, we have applied permanent yellow-orange. We have to switch to brown. Let's apply brown onto the leftover area. Where the permanent yellow-orange is meeting the brown, try to get a clean blend. You can make the color more and more dark at the bottom. Right now, I'm using a medium tone of brown, but we can make it more darker closer to the masking tape. I'm adding that dark tone of brown at the bottom. Along with that, I'm adding another patch of snow. I'm leaving some gap, some paper white, and enveloping that in brown, so we got another piece of snow here. I'm filling up the rest in brown. This is just optional. I thought there is a lot of space over here, so I thought of adding another piece of snow. You can fill up the rest in brown. This yellowish-orange and brown is one of my most favorite color combination to paint sunset. I have tried this color combination quite a lot, and every time it has turned out really great. That is the reason why I thought we could try a golden yellow sunset. I have added brown. You see the same color, I'm going to add some shadow underneath all the snow patches. Our background is still wet, so we can make use of the time and add some brown tones underneath all the snow patches. Looks like this area has slightly dried. Never mind, once we have added the brown, we can come back with some yellowish-orange and blend that into the background. Just add a slightly thick line using brown underneath all the snow patches. Follow that shape and add some brown. We have one more patch here, now another piece. I'm washing off the paint. Let's go back to permanent yellow-orange. My brush is clean and I'm picking some yellowish-orange, and I'm trying to blend the color into the background. Apply that yellowish-orange right next to those brown tones you have added, and simply put that into the background. We don't want that line to be too sharp and strong, we need to blend them into the background. If your background is still wet, you would have got a clean blend, they would have nicely spread into the background. But then my background has started to dry, and those lines are looking quite strong which I don't prefer. I'm using under layer off yellowish orange to blend the brown into the background. You can see the way I'm doing it here. It's quite easy if your background has dried, you don't need to worry at all. There are so many tricks to fix your painting. I need to add a bit more on the left side. That looks fine. We can add some more brown tones towards the bottom, we can make that area more darker. I'm going back with the brown, and I'm adding that towards the bottom, then I will blend that with the yellowish-orange, so going with more and more darker tone and blending that with a yellowish-orange. After those, we'll have to add one more round of shadows with the darker tone. First, let's try and get a clean blend of yellowish-orange and brown. We can go with the darker tones. I'm mixing a bit of indigo with brown to create a darker tone, just a tiny bit of indigo and more brown. We need to fix this piece of snow which we can't do at the end. I'm adding that darker tone underneath the snow patches. I'm going with a thicker line for the snow patches right at the bottom which is closer to the masking tape. For the ones which are away from the masking tape which are closer to the horizon line, I will go with the thin line, I will make it this thicker. Towards the bottom where you have applied brown, you can go with a thicker line for the shadows. For the rest, you have to go with a thinner line which is something you need to be really careful about. I will start with the left side, that's the line I'm adding. They're really thin and is not thick as the previous ones. In a similar way, we can add a thin line onto all these little patches. We already have applied a medium tone of brown. Now, we're going with a really dark tone and we're applying a thin line in a broken way; it doesn't need to be a continuous line. You don't need to add it along the entire shape, just add it as bits and pieces. I'm adding a similar line for this snow patch here. Take a look at your painting and wherever you have those snow patches, add in a thin line using a darker tone of brown You can see how pretty our painting is looking already. Earlier those new patches were looking a little weird, but right now when we added the colors onto the lake and then we added those deeper tones, it is looking so gorgeous. This is the magic of deeper tones and shadows, it can instantly enhance your painting. To make your painting a little more interesting, at some places, you can extend those lines. See that? That's what I mean by extending those lines. I'm going to do the same thing to fill more places to make the whole painting look more interesting. I'm using the darker tone of brown, and I'm extending those lines That's done. Our next task was to add some random shapes in the background to make it look like that has some trees. I'm using the same darker tone of brown I used for those shadows. Using that color, I'm going to simply add some random shapes on either side. I'm starting with the right side. Use a darker tone of brown. Just make some neutral paint and brown together or paint gray and brown, or even black and brown and create a darker shade like this and add some random shapes along the horizon line. Towards the center, I'm making them shorter and on either end, I'm making them taller. Using the same color, the same dark brown I have created, I'm going to add one or two trees. Adding your tree, something like yesterday, go with a very interesting shape for your tree, don't make it very clean, straight line, go with an organic shape and make it as interesting as possible. I'm starting with the main tree trunk which is a thicker line. I will add another thick line which is the second tree, so I'm using the same color, mixing brown but neutral paint and adding the second tree trunk. For this one, I'm going with an inclined shape, so both the trees will look entirely different from each other and this will make our painting look more interesting. That's the basic tree trunk. Let's add some more branches onto this I actually started off with two trees, but then I combined them and turned into a big tree. Now, adding some lines on the other side as well. Over here, I'm not adding any proper tree. Just few thin branches along the horizon line. I'm not bringing it down, I will just leave them at the horizon line. Just add few thin delicate branches. Make sure to go with thin lines, you can use any of your brush which has a pointed tip. Now I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to remove the excess amount of water. I want a dry paint on my brush. Grab a piece of paper towel and dab it multiple times to get a dry paint. Now just add some dry bush batons, right where the tree is standing. Concentrate on the area where the tree is rooted onto the ground and add more over here. Afterwards, you can randomly add some dry bush batons but be sure not to add a lot. We want to read in most of the paper white. Just go in a very random way and add a few dry bush batons here and there just to make it a bit more interesting. You can see I have added very little. That is it. Now we have one small part left at the bottom where we need to add a lighter tone of indigo first and then we need to add these dry bush batons. Before we go ahead with the next step, let me quickly finish that. For the time being, I added a light tone of indigo onto that snow patch. For the next step, I'm going to grab some white gouache. The next step is to add a sun, for that, I will be mixing a little black powder and an orange with white to add a yellowish sun, I don't want a white sun. I will just show you how it will look if you add a white sun, it would be too prominent. Right now I'm using white gouache as it is. You can see how prominent that sun is looking. We don't want the sun to be that prominent. I'm going to grab a bit of yellowish-orange and then applying that on top of the white circle I've added right now. See that. That's a color I'm going to use for the sun. Just mix a little of yellowish-orange with white gouache and add in your sun. Now let's add the reflection. For that, I'm using a slightly more brighter tone, which means either need to add a little more white otherwise it won't be visible. Right underneath the sun on the lake, let's add some white lines. See that. Right now, I'm using that yellowish color which is not really visible, so I would need to pick some white. Now I'm going to add some more lines using white gouache. These lines should fall right underneath the sun. You can bring them to the bottom. I'm adding some more lines over here. Those are the white lines. Now I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush and I'm going with a slightly wet brush, dabbing my brush on a paper towel. I'm just running that slightly wet brush on top of the lines I have added to make those lines look more subtle. I don't want these lines to be too prominent. When you run your wet brush on top of the line you have added, it will turn them into really small thin subtle that is what I'm trying to do here. The technique is simple, apply your white lines using white gouache or white watercolor, then wash all the paint from your brush and go with a slightly bent and press turn your brush on top of the lines to make them look smooth. That's the league. We are done with the background. Now for the final touches, we need to add some more branches onto the tree. For that, I'm using a black pen. I'm using this drying pen from Artline because I want the branches to be very thin and delicate. We already have added some branches using our brush, I want much more than branches, which I'm going to be able to get using my brush so that is the reason why I'm using a pen. If you're too comfortable with your brush, you could do the same with your brush. But then I would suggest you go with a pen, this way you can easily add them. When you're adjusting any delicate lines using your brush, you always feel some stress, but with the pen, you can add them in a very careless manner. There's no way you can make a mistake. You can add them however you want to. This pen is like my best friend. I use it quite often. Whenever I feel like I need to add those thin and delicate lines, I never trust my brush I directly go with my pen. I have added enough of branches. Now the next step is to add some white highlights onto the tree, just like how we did yesterday. I'm switching back to white gouache and I'm grabbing my size number 4 round brush. Now simply add some white highlights onto the tree. This is a really simple step but then it will have a huge impact on your tree. Earlier our tree was looking so lifeless but then after adding these white highlights it really enhanced the tree and it is looking so lively. There is no order or there is no side, particularly you can simply add some white highlights onto the entire tree and few onto some branches. You don't need to add them on to all the branches just make one or two and just add a broken line using white gouache. You can also use your white gel pen to do the same maybe that's going to be much more easier. Anyway, we just need some white highlights here and there. No matter whether you use your brush or pen, it is not as complicated as those branches. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add some white highlights onto these branches as well. You can see here, I'm not adding continuous line, I'm just adding few try white lines here and there and that is it. As I said, it is just some highlights you don't need to add them as a thick bold line. Now the last step is to add the shadow of the tree, for that, I'm going with a light tone of indigo, something similar to what we used for this newly crowned. Maybe one tone darker than that, but not too dark. Starting from the tree trunk, add an inclined line on the sleek crowned. I'm adding another line for the next tree trunk. This one is slightly thinner than the first one because I just followed the thickness of the tree we have added. Maybe we can add one or two branches using the same color. My dear friends that is it, with that we are done with our painting for day 13th. Let me remove the masking tape. Looks like I have got a clean border this time. There is no bleed along the border for me for some reason but clean border makes me so happy. A beautiful painting with a clean border is a wisher for every artist and my wish has come true today. Here is the gorgeous painting we have created. I absolutely enjoyed the process, hope you all enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I would be back tomorrow with our next snowy painting. 17. Day 14 - Birch Forest: Hello. Welcome to day 14. Today, we are going to paint this gorgeous birch forest. You won't need a lot of colors for today's painting, you will just need crimson, violet, brown or burnt sienna and neutral tint. The major color for today's painting is crimson and violet. We'll be using the same color for the snowy ground as well as for the sky. Now, if you want to try out any other color combination, if you want to go with blue blue violet instead, you could totally do that. Those are the four colors you will need for today's painting. Violet, crimson, burnt sienna or brown and neutral tint or Payne's gray. Now, I have my paper ready here. I have already taped it down onto the board. Now, I'm adding a pencil line, a sloping line, which separates the sky and the ground. That is the only pencil sketch you need to add. Now, just like I said earlier, I'm going to use crimson and violet for the background as well as for the snowy ground. Towards the bottom along this line we'll be adding up the tough neutral tint. You can also use Payne's gray. Those are the colors we'll need for the background. We are going with the violet red background. First, I'm applying a coat of water. I already have the colors. Maybe I might need a bit more of violet, so the colors are ready. Now, I'm going to grab my 1.5 inch wash brush and I'm applying a clean coat of water onto the entire sky. Gently apply a coat of water. Your paper has to be evenly wet. Run your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere. Don't add any water onto the snowy ground. Now, to apply the paint onto the background, I'm using my flat brush. This one is a half-inch flat brush. You can either use a flat brush or a round brush. I'm going with a medium tone of crimson first. Now, I'm just randomly adding some thicker lines of crimson onto the wet background. Picking some more crimson. There is no particular order or there is no particular way that you need to follow. You can add in your crimson wherever you want to, leaving some gap in between. Now, let's wash all the paint and switch to violet. Again, go with a medium tone. Now, on the remaining area, you can add in violet. Just apply that onto the in-between areas and also towards the bottom. The background is already wet and we're applying wet paint onto the wet background. It will be really easy to blend them into each other. Now, I'm going with a bit more brighter tone of crimson. Just picking some more crimson. I'm making these corners more brighter. Because when the background dries, it will be slightly lighter. I'm just making use of the time, while the background is still wet, I'm adding some more brighter tone of crimson. This is how my sky is looking right now. Now, towards the bottom, I'm going to introduce some neutral tint, just like I said earlier. I'm going to pick some neutral tint. For that. I'm using my size number 8 round brush. Go with a slightly darker tone. Now, we are going to create those foggy trees along this line. Just add them onto the wet background. At some places you can make them taller and at some places you can make them shorter. Just the same way how we did in the previous paintings. You can add some thick lines to make it look like trees. Now, clean up that line. That is the background. We simply apply crimson and violet onto the background. Then onto that, we added some neutral tint to create that foggy key. Now, let's wait for this to dry. Now, there's one thing that I want to mention. It is always better to wipe off the excess amount of paint from the masking tape. There are chances this paint can flow back into your painting and create some bleed on the corner, especially if you're using a blow dryer. It is always good to wipe off this paint from the masking tape and keep it clean when you're leaving it for drying. [MUSIC] I was quite impatient, so I used a blow dryer. Here's how my pattern is looking right now. It is looking so pretty. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. Now, it's time to paint the bottom, which is a snowy ground. We'll be using the same colors we use for the sky. First we'll apply a clean coat of water and we'll make that bottom area wet. We'll be using lighter tones for the snowy ground. We won't be making the colors as bright as the sky. First let's apply a clean coat of water. I'm just washing all the paint from my brush and I will keep it aside for the next steps. Now, let's apply a coat of water onto the ground. I have another jar of clean water here. I'm gently applying a coat of water. Be a little careful when you're applying water along that top line, don't make your watery brush touch that trees. Maybe you can leave a tiny gap and we can fill that up when we are applying the paint. Now, I'm switching back to my round brush. I'm going with a light tone of crimson. I'm adding some thick lines, just some random lines. For this as well there is no particular order. Now, let's wash all the paint and let's switch to light violet. Now, add that also into this wet background in a very random way. Now, let's add some paint onto the top line. For that I'm using a light tone of violet. I'm carefully applying that along this line, without making the trees wet. That's the ground, I have simply applied some violet and crimson onto the wet background, leaving some white gaps in between, but it isn't allowed lot, just few gaps here and here. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The background has dried completely. The next task is to add some birch trees. For that I'm using my smallest size brush. This one is my size number 4 round brush. To add the trees, I'll be using white gouache. This is the most interesting part of this painting. We'll squeeze out some white gouache or white watercolor. Now, we're going to add the tree trunk using white gouache. Go with a very thick creamy opaque white paint and add in the base shape of your tree. Decide on where you want to add your trees and add a thick tree trunk. I'm planning to add three trees. This is the first one. Go with a thick tree trunk like this and add as many trees as you want. Let me quickly add three trees. [MUSIC] That's my first tree. We'll be adding more details onto this using brown and neutral tint once it dries. In a similar way, I'm going to add two more trees. I'm starting with the next one. Make all the three different from each other. One of them can be slightly inclined and other one can be straight. Try to make all of them different from each other. Add them in. [MUSIC] I have added the trees. Now, for the next task, we will need some brown as well as some neutral tint. Instead of brown, you can use burnt sienna and instead of neutral tint, you can use Payne's gray or black. I'm mixing a bit of neutral tint with brown to create a darker brown. Now, let's add that onto the left side of all these trees and blend that into the background. We have a nice bond, amber sort of a color on the left side and the rest of the tree is in white. Just follow the outline and add a line using a slightly watery [inaudible] of brown amber. Then dab your brush on a paper towel and blend that into the background. I mixed a little of brown with neutral tint to create brown amber. You can use it directly. Otherwise, you can just mix the same way I did here. All we need is some brown tones on either one side of the tree. It can be the left or right. Now, in a similar way, I'm going to do the same thing on to the other two trees as well. I'm mixing some brown with neutral tint. I'm adding a line on the left side. Once I have added that line, I will spread that to the background. Let me do this for both the trees. [MUSIC] That's the base layer. You can see here, I I gone with a clean plant. I simply applied some brown tone towards the left side of my tree. They're looking slightly rough which is absolutely okay. If you've got a clean blend, that's also okay. We'll be adding lots and lots of textual and patterns onto these trees. It doesn't really matter whether you have got a clean blend or a rough blend. We need to add more pattern using brown onto these trees to make them look more realistic. Right now it is looking quite weird. Let's add some brown patterns. Looks like that background is still really wet, it hasn't dried completely. Let me try that again. Yes, the background is really wet, it hasn't dried completely, so let's wait for that to dry. Meanwhile, we can start adding the trees in the background. For that as well, I'm using a darker tone of brown by mixing some neutral tint with brown. Now, I'm just adding some empty branches onto the background using this darker tone of brown. You can add as many as you want. I'm adding the first one here. It is just some empty branches, nothing complicated. Go with the brush which has a pointed tip and add in some branches like this. Some of them can be tall and some of them can be short. Right now, I'm using a medium tone of burnt umber, in between [inaudible] neutrals and [inaudible], so that will be our darker tone, and I will use a lighter tone of burnt umber as well. We'll have different tonal values and this will make our painting look more interesting. For the next one, I'm making the color even more lighter by adding some water, and I'm adding my next tree using that lighter tone. [MUSIC] Keep switching from one color to another, go with darker tone and lighter tone, and add in as many trees as you want in the background. The trees are in. Now, I have some darker tone on my brush, a darker tone of brown, so I'm just dabbing my brush on a paper towel and I'm making the paint dry. Now I'm just adding some patterns at the bottom to make it a little more interesting. Go to the dry paint and add some patterns over here, especially towards the bottom of all these [inaudible] I've added here. Now using the same brush, we can add some dry brush patterns onto the bigger trees as well, right where they're standing. I'm taking some more paint, dabbing it on a paper towel, now adding some dry brush patterns over here where the trees are standing. I'm not adding it anywhere else, just a few right where the trees are standing. Otherwise, that bottom media will have a look on [inaudible] and that is a reason why we are doing this. Coat a really dry paint, don't make them too bold and prominent. That's done. Now our next task was to add three main details onto the brush trees. For that I'm using the same color, neutral tint. You can go with the darker tone. Now dab the brush on a paper towel and make your paint dry. Dab it multiple times and be really sure that the paint is dry. Now using this dry brush, we're going to add some random patterns onto all these trees. This one is still slightly wet, so I think I will start with the last one that has dried completely. Now, our task is to add some dry brush patterns using a darker tone, which can be neutral tint or Payne's gray or black, just add some random dry brush patterns onto that entire sheet. There is no particular rule for this, you can add in as much as you want, but make sure an auto fill of the entire background color. That's a first step. Now we can go with a normal paint which isn't really and add some broken lines onto the tree. You can add them at an interval. Don't add them too close to each other. Again, see the way I have added them. It's not a clean decline, it's a messy line and this is how you should be adding them. Now, I'm adding another one on the other side. You can add few on the left and few on the right. At some places, you can make that line more thicker. This is really a random pattern. At some places you can add them as a line and at some places, you can add it as a thicker dot. Make it as messy and rough as possible. It doesn't need to be a clean sheet. You might have seen birch trees, so the shapes that you have on them are really random and irregular, they are not a very regular pattern. In a similar way, I'm going to add some patterns onto the other two trees as well, plus we can add some lines on top of the face of the tree, and along with that, I'm adding some dry brush patterns as well. It's accompanies now dry brush patterns and some bolder patterns. You can see how pretty our trees are looking already. We added some dry brush patterns onto that delight background we have added earlier and then onto that, we added some thicker patterns as well using a darker tone, and that is our birch trees. Now, we have one more tree left. You can't really compare the one which we haven't added the patterns, as well as the one we have added the patterns, they look completely different. You can see the impact of those patterns. The first step is to add some dry brush patterns. Just add in as many as you want but just like I said earlier, don't cover up the entire background. We want to see that lighter values in the background. Now along with that, you can add some messy horizontal line. That's the technique. Instead of applying white gouache, maybe you can mask out those areas using masking fluid and you can take them out while the background has completely dried, and then paint them in the same way. Now I'm adding some more bigger patterns to make our tree look more interesting. That looks like a hole over there. That's a much more bigger pattern than the ones we have added earlier. Similarly, you can add some bigger dots and some patterns using a darker tone onto all the trees. Our next task was to add some branches onto all these trees. For that, I'm using a darker tone of neutral tint and I'm adding them in a very random way. Go with the brush which has a pointed tip, and add in some thin and delicate branches. You can add a thicker black dot where these branches are starting. We'll start with the black dot and then take your branches. You can see the branches I'm adding here, they are very thin and delicate. This will make your painting look more interesting. Go with the brush which has a pointed tip and add in some branches in a very organic shape. Add enough of branches at wherever you want to, there is no limit. You can add them onto your board. I think I've added enough of branches. Now the next step is to add the shadow of all these trees. I already have a bit of neutral tint on my brush. Now, I'm going to mix that with a bit of violet, and I'm going to turn that into a lighter tone by adding some water, so it's going to be more like a grayish violent. Mix some neutral tint to our Payne's gray violet and add in some water, and turn that into a lighter tone. We don't want a darker tone. We need a really light tone of this color. Try it on a scrap piece of paper if you're not too sure about the tonal value. Now starting from the bottom of the tree, I'm going to add a thick line using this color I have created here. This is a mix of neutral tint and violet. Watch out the way I'm applying these lines. I'm making them slightly curly. This will make it look like there are some bumps on the snowy ground. Just add in a tiny curve. Let's do that for all the shadows we're adding. See that? That's how you should be adding your shadow and go the thicker line, and also the tonal value should be light, don't make it too dark. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add another line over here, just to make it look like there is some tree on the other side, and also this will fill up our snowy ground. Now, we can add shadow for these trees as well, which has to be very thin line. It doesn't need to be thick as the previous ones. Adding another one here. Maybe one more. Those are the shadows. Now I'm washing off the paint from my brush and I'm going to grab some white gouache. This is for the final step. I'm going to add some white highlights onto these branches, just like how we did yesterday and the previous day. I have taken some white gouache and I'm adding a very thin, delicate line using white in a broken way. It is not a continuous line. Similar to what we did yesterday, make it as thin as possible and add a line in a broken way. You don't need to add it on to all the branches. Just pick one or two branches and add this broken white line. I think I will add that onto this one as well. It wouldn't be really visible because we don't have such a dark tone in the background. Maybe over here as we have that neutral tint, it might be slightly visible, but towards the top, we don't have a darker tone. Make sure to go with a thin line. You can also use your [inaudible] pen if that's more comfortable for you. I'll have one more branch at the bottom, adding a broken white line and that is set. With that, we're done with our painting for Day 14. Let me quickly remove the masking tape. Here is the finished painting. I'm really happy with these trees. You can see those gorgeous textures. You can use the same tree for any of your other painting. By mistake, I test on the shadow while it was still wet and that is why it is looking a little odd. Other than that, I'm completely happy with this painting. I hope you all enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I will be back tomorrow with our next new landscape. 18. Day 15 - Green Lights: [MUSIC] Hello. Welcome to day 15 which means we are already halfway through our watercolor challenge. I wanted to make it extra special, so we're painting a gorgeous northern light today. But, this is one of my most favorite color combination to paint a northern light. It's a gorgeous color combination, and it is easy to pull off. Let's take a look at the colors you will need. To paint the sky, I will be using permanent violet, turquoise blue, and cobalt green. Then to paint the snowy ground, I will be using indigo. To add the final details as well as those pine trees, I'll be using neutral tint. Instead of neutral tint, you can also use Payne's gray or black. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. The first step is to tape down your paper properly onto a base, you shouldn't be fixing your paper onto a table, fix it onto a hard board or any backing board. We'll be using the wet-on-wet technique, so make sure you have fixed to people properly. I'm adding a line which is below the center of the paper. More than 3/4 of the paper is going to be the sky, and just a little over the bottom is going to be the snowy ground. I already have indigo and violet from a previous painting. I will need to take our turquoise blue as well as cobalt green which are the two other colors I'll be using for the sky. I'll just wipe this area with a wet paper towel so that I have some space for the new colors. This is one great thing about ceramic color palettes, they are easy to clean. You just need to make your paper table wet or use a vet to wipe. see that? It's clean and it's ready for the new colors. Now, I'm going to squeeze out cobalt green and turquoise blue. We'll be using three colors for this sky: violet, turquoise blue and cobalt green. This is a gorgeous color combination, and it is very easy to blend these colors. I'm starting off by applying a coat of water onto the sky. I'm using my one-and-a-half inch wash brush and I'm dipping my brush in clean water. I'm gently applying a coat of water onto the entire sky, make it evenly wet so then you brush multiple times and make sure the water has reached everywhere. Now, we're going to apply the wet paint onto the back-to-back count. For that I'm using my flat brush, this one is half flat brush. You can use either your flat brush or round brush, it doesn't really matter. I'm starting off with cobalt green which is the light color from the ones we have chosen. First I will start with cobalt green, then I will go with turquoise blue and finally I will go with violet. Pick some cobalt green, go with a bright tone. It's a gorgeous color to use in our night sky, especially if you use it against a darker sheet, it will complement the color really well. I'm adding two wavy lines using cobalt green. That's the first one. I'm adding another one towards the left corner, the topmost corner. That's Cobalt green. We can switch to turquoise blue. You don't need to wash your brush, you can go with turquoise blue directly. I'm picking some paint and adding that right next to cobalt green. I'm adding turquoise blue onto the bottom right corner. Let's add a bit of a here. Where we have a bright cobalt green, add turquoise blue right next to that. This is how our sky has turned out. Onto the leftover area, I'm going to apply violet. Go through really in instrumental violet and to apply that onto the remaining area we have on the sky. First I'm starting with this corner, applying that in a triangular shape, now onto the bottom corner. Using the same color, we can add in some lines. I'm going to drag my brush from the masking tape towards the inside, some of them can be longer, some of them can be shorter. Our task was to introduce some lines using violet. Simply drag your brush towards the inside, you don't need to add a continuous line, just drag them in. The background is still wet so the lines you are adding will nicely blend into the background, you don't need to put a lot of effort. Just add them in a curvy and a wavy way. I will quickly clean the shapes, some paint, has entered the snowy ground so I'm just fixing that shoe. The next step is to go with a top coat on a violet, and I'm adding them onto the same lines we have added right now. I'll go to with a bright tone of violet. In a similar way how we did earlier, I'm going to drag them towards the inside. We need to make those violet more darker and intense. It is only then we'll get a striking contrast in our sky. Go with a much more darker tonal violet and add in some more lines. You can follow the same lines you have added earlier and just drag them towards the inside. That is our sky, you can see how pretty it has turned out. I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush, and I'm going to keep it aside for the next step. Let's take a break and let's wait for the sky to dry. [MUSIC] The sky has completely dried. The next task was to paint the snowy ground, maybe after that we can start splatting the stars. First I'll add a coat of water onto those little area we have left at the bottom. Make sure not to add any water onto the sky, run your brush in a very gentle way. To add the paint, I'm using my size number eight round brush, you can use any of your medium sized round brush. To bring this snowy ground, you can use a medium tone of indigo just at the bottom. Towards the horizon line, you will need to make the color lighter. Start with a medium tone and apply that towards a masking tip. This is the tone I'm going with, it isn't that dark. Just at the bottom, you can go with some medium tone, and you can live the top area as it is, you don't need to add anything over there. On the top, it is mostly the paper white, we haven't applied any paint over there. But towards the bottom, we have went and with a medium tone. We can add some more lines using a medium tone, but treating the paper white over the top. That's our snowy ground, now let's wait for that to dry. After that, we can't splatter the stars and we can add some trees in the background so that's going to be the next step. [MUSIC] It really has dried completely. The next step is to add those trees in the background. For that I'm using my smallest sized brush as well as the size number 4 round brush. I'm going to talk about or off neutral tint. Initially, I thought I will add these trees using a medium tone of indigo, but then later I realized it is not looking that great because I wasn't really able to bring in that contrast in the painting. I decided to go with a darker tone. You can really go with a darker tone, just ignore what I'm doing here right now, because I started off with a lighter tone then later I turn that into a darker tone. All we need to do is just add some lines close to each other, some other lines can be taller and some of them can be shorter. Just fill up that horizon line using some lines. I'm adding them towards either side, I'm not adding any trees right at the center. I'll be adding a pathway, so I want to make that area clean without any trees. What is this sum to content lines close to each other and I'm making some of them more taller. It will look like some trees are taller and some are shorter. This is the color I used at the beginning, but I wasn't really happy with it, so I changed everything into this color here. [inaudible] black and add new trees. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side as well. I'm starting off with a line. I'm just defining that horizon line, then I will add some lines onto this. On either side, I will make the trees taller and as I'm approaching the center, I will make them shorter [MUSIC]. Those are the trees. I'm not really happy with the trees on the right side, I think I'm going to clean the shape a little more. Earlier I went with a lighter tone so that is why they are not looking at that sharp. I'm just adding some more lines to make it look more sharp. [MUSIC] The trees are in. The next task is to splatter the stars. For that I'm using some white gouache. I already have squeezed a bit of white gouache onto my palette. I'm adding a few drops of water, and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to remove the excess amount of water. This step will make sure that you will get those teeny-tiny stars, you want them to creating big splatters. Because to get the right size of the stars, you always should work with the right consistency. This might be a little tricky if you're doing it for the first time. To avoid mistakes, you can try splattering on a scrap piece of people. I'm going to add more stars onto these darker corners. You can see this dark violet corner here, I'm going to concentrate more over there, because the rest of the areas are lighter values, we don't have much of darker values on the sky. Concentrate more on the area that you have darker tones and splatter as many stars as you want. But once you have splattered enough of stars, using the same brush, you can add some bigger stars as well. Go in a very random order, and add some bigger dots here and there. [MUSIC] Here's how our painting is looking right now. I'm really happy with the sky. To make our painting a little more interesting, I'm going to add some pine trees. Maybe one or two, not many. I'm starting with the first one. For that, I'm using a taco tone of Payne's gray. First, we can add a bigger tree, then maybe we can go with smaller ones. That's a tree trunk. Now onto this, I'm going to add the foliage. Using the tip of my brush, I'm just adding some teeny tiny dots and some patterns. Whenever you're painting a pine tree, the major thing you need to keep in mind is the overall shape. As you come down, you need to make your foliage more thicker and more wider, and overall, your tree should have a triangular shape. On the top, I added very little patterns. I just simply kept on pressing the tip of my brush and added some messy patterns. Now as I'm coming down, I'm making them more wider, and it is the same technique. Just keep on pressing the tip of your brush and add some teeny tiny dots close to each other. But as you come down, make it more wider. Now I'm going to take it until the bottom where we have added those trees. Also, you can see here, I didn't go with a very intense and thick foliage. At some places, I left some gap in between, especially on the top and towards the bottom, I made it more denser. You can go with any kind of composition you want for your tree or if there is any other particular way which you use for your pine trees, you could do the same technique. You don't need to follow the one I'm doing here. That's my first tree. Now I'm going to add another one. For the second tree, I'm going with the less foliage. This is going to be mostly empty branches. First, add your tree trunk. Now add some empty branches. These lines have to be very thin, so you have to go with the brush which has a pointed tip. Following the tree trunk, add in some empty branches. Now on to some of the branches, we can add some foliage. Go with a taco tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray, and simply keep on pressing the tip of your brush and add some dotted pattern onto some of the branches. You can skip few in-between. This will make your tree look more realistic. This one is a really easy pine tree if you struggle with the normal one. First, add in a straight line, which is the tree trunk. Then onto that, you can add some empty branches. Then pick few branches and add some foliage onto that and your tree is done. Now onto the left side, I'm going to add another one. For this one, I'm not going to add any foliage. It is going to be just empty branches. First add in a line, then onto that add some empty branches. You can decide on how many trees you want in your painting. If you want a really dense and thick foreground, you can add in more trees or just add one or two on either side and then add some empty branches. I'm adding one more here. Now I'm going to add another taller one on the right side. I'm starting with a tree trunk. It's going to be really high and I'm adding that in an inclined way. Add in the line which is the tree trunk. Now onto this, just like how we did the first tree, we can add in the foliage by pressing the tip of the brush. Keep on pressing the tip and add some teeny tiny patterns. On the top, go with very little the pattern and as you're coming down, make it more dense and thicker. Also in between you can leave some space. This would make your tree look more interesting. Let me quickly fill that up. [MUSIC] The right side is done. Now onto the left, I'm not going to add any trees. I will just add some empty branches. You can decide on if you want to add more trees. If you would like to add, you could do that. In case if you're adding trees on the left side, go with a different composition than the right side. Don't add similar trees. Maybe you can make them more taller or shorter. Go with an entirely different composition than the right side. [MUSIC] The trees are in. Now the last step is to add a pathway at the center. For that, I'm using the same brush and the same paint. I already have some taco paint on my brush. Now I'm dabbing that on a paper towel to remove the water content. The paint that I have on my brush is really dry. Now using the dry brush, I'm going to add a curly pathway. I'm starting from the center, and I'm making it curly. Now take it down until it reaches the masking tape. At the bottom, you can make it more wider. But at the starting, make it more narrow. It is just some dry paint, I haven't taken a watery paint. You'll have to dab your brush on a paper towel multiple times to make sure you have dry paint on your brush. Now using that dry paint, just add enough curly pathway. This is the last step. By this, we are done with our painting for Day 15. [NOISE] Now let me quickly remove the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here is the finished painting. I hope you all had a great time painting this card just not [inaudible] lights. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next winter landscape. 19. Day 16 - Chilly Evening: [MUSIC] Hello, my dearest friends. Welcome to Day 16. Today, we are going to paint a beautiful winter morning. This one is a really easy and a gorgeous painting, and we haven't tried this color combination earlier. The colors you would need are Prussian blue, permanent yellow orange. Those are the two colors we'll be using for the snowy ground as well as for the sky. Then for the trees in the background as well as for the ones in the foreground, you will need brown. For those deeper tones, we'll be just adding some blue into brown. We won't be using neutral Tint, or Payne's gray, or black. Technically, you will only need three colors for this painting, which is Prussian blue, permanent yellow orange, or any other yellow or orange that you prefer, and some brown. You can also use burnt sienna instead of brown. I have my paper ready here. Now, I'm going to add a line right at the center of my paper. That's our pencil sketch, that's the only thing you need to add. Now, I'm going to apply a coat [NOISE] of water onto the sky. We're going [NOISE] to go with a wet-on-wet sky, and we're going with a variegated wash of blue and permanent yellow orange. Apply a nice shiny coat of water onto the entire sky. For the sky, I'm going with a wet-on-wet variegated wash of Prussian blue and permanent yellow orange. Instead of permanent yellow orange, you can also use any other yellow. To apply the color, I'm using my flat brush [NOISE] and I'm starting with a [NOISE] bright tone of Prussian blue. [NOISE] Now let's apply that bright tone of blue on the top of our paper. You can apply this almost till three-fourth of the sky, but as you're coming down, you'll have to make the color lighter. I have applied a medium tone of blue, almost till three-fourth of the paper. Now, I'm going to wash out the paint from my brush. I'm going to go with clean water and I'll make the color lighter as [NOISE] I'm approaching the horizon line [NOISE]. Because the second color we are using here is permanent yellow orange, if you mix permanent yellow orange with blue, you will get a muddy color, which we don't want. That [NOISE] is the reason why we're making the color lighter [NOISE] as we are approaching the horizon line. Closer to the horizon line, make the color lighter, as light as possible. There is some blue over here so I'm just lifting off that with a paper towel. We have a nice blue on the top and we have made it lighter along the horizon line. To apply the second color, I'm using my round brush. This one is a size Number 8 round brush, [NOISE] and I'm going with a medium tone of [NOISE] permanent yellow orange. I wouldn't be adding a lot of yellowish orange, I will just add [NOISE] a little closer to the horizon line. I'm just adding some lines. I don't want this color to spread into the blue, so I'm just adding some lines where we have that lighter tone of blue. Along the horizon line, you can apply it as a solid color, but closer to where you have blue, add some teeny-tiny lines. Don't try to blend them. This is the same thing, even if you're using a yellow. Blue and yellow will create a green. In case if you mix them, you will end up having green in your sky, which we don't want. Be very careful when you're applying your yellow or orange. Make it light as you're approaching the blue. Also, don't try to blend them. I have added a yellowish orange towards the horizon line, and on the top, we have a bright tone of blue. I didn't blend these colors. I carefully added some [NOISE] lines using a lighter tone of permanent yellow orange, there we have those blue. That is the sky. Now let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. The next step is to paint the snowy ground. For that as well, we'll first apply a coat of water. [NOISE] I'm grabbing some water and [NOISE] I'm applying clean coat of water onto the entire ground. [NOISE] Now [NOISE] I'm switching back to my round brush and I'm going with permanent yellow orange. This time I'm going with a lighter tone, and I'm just adding some lines using yellowish orange. Just add some random lines. Just a few, we don't need a lot. It can be some thick and thin lines, a combination of thick and thin lines. We are trying to make it look like the sunlight is reflecting on the snowy ground. First, make the background wet and go with a medium or lighter tone of yellowish orange or yellow, which will be the color you're using, and add some lines onto that wet background. [NOISE] Now let's wait for this to dry. Just like the sky, if you apply your second color, which is blue, right away after you have applied your yellowish-orange, you may end up getting a muddy green in your snowy ground so we'll have to wait for this to dry completely before we go with the next layer. I used a blow dryer to speed up the process and the background has dried completely. Now we'll have to apply another coat of water on top of the base layer. I'm going back with one-and-a-half inch wash brush and I'm gently applying a coat of water on top of the yellow. Now we can go with our second color, which is blue. Go with a [NOISE] lighter tone. I'm using my same round brush, so wash it properly. Make sure there is no paint stain on your brush. [NOISE] Now go with a light tone of blue, which will be the blue you were using. Now we can add some blue lines also onto the snowy grounds, but don't put a lot of pressure and disturb the background layer. We don't want to create a green in between. Just add some blue lines onto the background. You can add them where you don't have a lot of yellow. Gently add some blue lines. At some places, you can go with a thicker line, and at some places, you can go with a thinner line. Maybe we can add a bit more brighter tone where [NOISE] we don't have a lot of yellow. I'm just adding a medium tone of blue over here where I don't have a lot of yellow. Now maybe another line towards the bottom. That is it. Now we'll have to wait for this also to dry before we go with the next step. [MUSIC] Everything has dried completely. You can see I didn't end up creating a green on the sky as well as on the snowy grounds. Now for the next step, I'm going with my smaller size brush, we are going to need a little of brown or burnt sienna. I'm going to squeeze out a bit of brown onto my palette [NOISE]. We just need a little for some trees in the background, as well as for the big tree in the foreground. First, I will add the trees in the background. I'm not using [NOISE] brown as it is, I will mix a little of blue with brown to create a burnt umber color. Let's add in a bit of blue, [NOISE] this is the color I'm going with. [NOISE] It's a lighter tone of burnt umber. Now, I'm going to add some trees along the horizon line. This one is not going to be that detailed, it is similar to the ones we used to add earlier. This one is nothing complicated, it is just a rough shape. It is very far from you so you don't need to detail it out. Go with a random shape and fill up your horizon line. I'm going to leave some gap in between at the center so I'm just adding these trees on either side. At some places, you can add some lines and make it look like there are some trees popping out. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side leaving some gap at the center. [MUSIC] Okay, so that is how it is looking right now. Now we can go with a bit more darker tone of the same color and add some teeny-tiny buttons right at the bottom of this trace. Just over here adding some taco tones, it can be aligned or some teeny-tiny pattern. We just need some taco tones at the bottom. We don't need a lot, just a little to define the horizon line. So that is it. Our next task is to add some lines on this snowy ground. After that, we will add a tree and with that, we'll be done. Now clean your brush properly. [NOISE] I'm using my same smallest size brush and I'm going with a lighter tone of blue. I'm using a really light on a blue, something similar to the one we used for the snowy ground. Don't make it too dark. Now using this color, I'm going to add some lines on the snowy ground. Be 100 percent sure that the color you're going with is really light, so try it on a scrap piece of paper. We don't want these lines to be too prominent, so go with a really light tone of blue. Add some lines on the snowy ground. Some of them can be thick and some of them can be thin. But when you're adding these lines, make sure to leave a gap in between. Don't add them too close to each other. You can see here, I have left some gap in-between, and you can see that yellow in the background. Now, I'm adding underline in the opposite direction. I'm running my brush from the left to the right. Okay. Now you can add as many lines as you want, but make sure to go with the light tone and don't add them too close to each other. Those are the two things you need to keep in mind when you're adding these lines. It can be in any direction, and some of them can be thick and some of them can be thin. That is it. Now let's wait for this to dry. After this dries, we'll be adding in a tree and that's the last step. [MUSIC] Okay, so the bottom part has dried now or we can add in the tree. For that, I'm using brown. [NOISE] Go with the medium tone of brown. I'm using my smallest size brush. First, I will add the tree trunk, which can be a thicker tree trunk. Then onto that, we'll be adding so many branches. We'll be just adding one single tree. You can add it wherever you want to. I'm going to add it over here. Go to really organic shape, but don't make it like a straight line. Make it as interesting as possible by going with organic shapes for your tree trunk. You can make it thicker. Then onto that, you can add more and more branches like a baby curvier branches to make your tree more interesting. You can see here, I'm using a medium tone of brown that is not too dark and it is not too light as well. Now we can add some branches. You'll have to use a brush which has a pointed tip to get thin and delicate branches. Don't use optical brush. I'm adding my second tree trunk. It's going to be a tree which has two tree trunks. You can add in your tree however you want to and wherever you want to. You can add as many trees as you want. I'm just going with one single tree, but it's going to be a bit bulky tree. If you want to add two or three, that's totally up to you. Now using the same color I made in tone of brown, I'm going to add more and more branches onto this tree. [MUSIC] Now, to the same brown, I'm adding a bit of blue to create a darker tone. Using that taco tone, I'm just adding some lines onto the tree trunk. It is just some highlights like a line, so you can just add it on the right or the left side of your tree trunk. It doesn't need to be a continuous line. It can be a broken line, and you don't need to add it everywhere. Just few taco tones here and there. Now maybe using the same color, we can add some more branches. I think I will switch to a pen and add some branches so that I will get them as very thin and delicate ones. Using this brush, I'm not really that confident. I may not get them as I wanted, so I'm switching to my pen. This one is from Artline, it's a drying pen. Now I'm randomly adding in some more branches. You can use any of your sketching on drying pen or any other normal black pen, and adding more branches onto a tree. This would make our tree look more realistic. You wouldn't be getting this kind of lines with your brush. That is the reason why I always use pen to add these kind of lines. It is a good addition to have a drawing while sketching pen in your collection. At the times when you cannot trust your brush, you can go with your pen. Now the final task is to add some dry bush pattern to the right where the tree is standing. I'm just dabbing my brush on a paper towel. I already had that taco tone of brown on my brush. Now, right where the tree is standing, I'm just adding some dry bush patterns. Only over here, I won't be adding it anywhere else. Just add some dry brush patterns closer to the tree. You can leave the rest of the area as it is. Now the very last step is to add the shadow of the tree. Wash all the pain from your brush. [NOISE] Let's go with a medium tone of blue. I'm using Prussian blue here, and I'm making it slightly darker than the color to use for the background. Don't make it too dark. It has to be just one too darker than the color we have in the background. Be very careful not to make it too dark. Now, just in a similar shape of the tree, you can add in your shadow. It doesn't need to be the same. I have two tree trunk here, I'm just adding that. Now I'm adding some random branches. I'm not really following the shape and the pattern of the tree. And I'm just adding that in a very random way. If you have gone with one tree trunk, just add in one, and if you have gone with two tree trunk like the one I'm adding here, add in two tree truck, then add some branches in a very random way. Now, there's one last thing that I want to do for that I'm going to take out my white quash. The step is really optional. I'm already loving the painting. I'm just grabbing some white quash and I'm adding and setting sun. Just a tiny circle over here. This step is really optional. If you don't want to add the sun, you can leave your painting as it is. Isn't really necessary. This is the last step. With that, we're done with our painting for day 16. [MUSIC] Here's the finished painting. I'm really loving the color combination and the way the snowy ground has turned out. I think that's my favorite part about this painting. I hope you all had a great time painting this colleges in the evening. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 20. Day 17 - Aurora Borealis: [MUSIC] Hello. Welcome to Day 17. Today we're painting one of the gorgeous Northern Lights or dancing lights. I must say this is one of my most favorite painting from the entire collection. For the sky, I will be using leaf green and royal blue. You can use any of the yellowish green or you can just use lemon yellow. Instead of royal blue, you can use Prussian blue or ultramarine blue. We'll just need any yellowish green or yellow and any other blue. Along with that, you will also need neutral tint or Payne's gray or black. Then to add the highlights and to add the streaks, you will need white gouache. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. Let's begin. I have my paper ready here. As I mentioned earlier, these are the two colors I'll be using for the sky, leaf green, and royal blue. You can use any bright yellowish-green or you can just use lemon yellow. Then instead of royal blue, you can use ultramarine blue or Prussian blue. Now, I'm going to add the pencil sketch. First we'll add a horizon line a little below the center of the paper. Now, we can add a low lying mountain. That's a very low-lying mountain, it's not that huge. Right below the mountains, we'll have a lake. To separate the lake, we'll have to add a ground. You can go with a curvy shape, and add in a snowy ground, which will eventually give you the lake at the center. That is a pencil sketch. Now, I will erase off all these additional lines. I will make it clean because we'll be reading most of the paper white for the snowy ground, so I don't want these pencil lines to be visible. That is it. Now, as we paint, we'll be adding two or three tall trees, which you don't need to add right now. I just wanted to show you where we'll be adding those trees. We have everything ready. Now, instead of leaf green, as I said earlier, you can use lemon yellow, if you don't have any yellowish-green , that's absolutely okay. Instead of royal blue, you can use any other bright blue, it can be Prussian blue or ultramarine blue. Don't worry if you don't have the same colors that I'm using here. Now to start with, I'm applying a clean coat of water onto the entire sky using my one-and-a-half inch wash brush. Dip your brush in clean water. Apply an even coat onto the entire sky. You can apply the water onto the mountain as well. You don't need to retain it. My sky is evenly wet. Now, I have two brushes on my hand, my flat brush as well as a round brush. Just wash your brush and make sure it is completely clean because we're going to use a bright green for the sky, and we want that to look really fresh and vibrant. Just make sure there is no other paint stains on your brush. Now, first time using my round brush, I am going with a very bright and intense tone of green. Using my round brush, I will apply some curvy, wavy lines of the sky. I think I will go with three or four. Adding my first one. See that? Now in a similar way, I'm going to add two or three more lines, leaving some gap in between. We'll be introducing blue onto those gaps. That's the second one. Now onto the in-between spaces, I'm going to introduce blue. I'm not washing off the paint, I'm just keeping it aside, and I'm switching to my flat brush. I'm going with a really bright and intense tone of royal blue. Now let's add that onto the in-between spaces. We have three green lines here, and we have added blue onto four area. Now, let's wash off the paint and switch back to green. Let's try to blend the blue and green together. We don't want the green to be this thick, so let's try to blend them. We want a very thin line of green. The rest of it has to be blue. Try to read in a bit of green, and you can apply blue onto the remaining area. This is how it is looking right now. Now, let's switch back to blue. Let's make the blue areas look more intense and darker. This will automatically enhance the green shade. Our intention here is to retain a little of green and add in blue onto the remaining area. As we're keeping on applying different layers of paint onto the sky, it will stay wet for a longer time. Again, make use of this time and apply more colors onto the sky. Now, I'm running a clean brush along the green lines just to make it a bit more clean because right now it doesn't look clean. There is some blue that has got into those lines. Just run a clean brush along the green lines to make them look clean. Every time you do this, tap your brush on a paper towel so that there is no paint stain on your brush. Now we can apply more blue. This would make those green lines look more enhanced. If you have noticed Northern Lights, the beauty of Northern Lights is the contrast, so you have to always play with a lighter tone as well as a darker tone. Right now we're trying to read in a bit of green, and we're going to add some darker tones of blue right next to that to bring in that contrast. I'm going to go back with a brighter tone of green, and I'm applying that along that line we have added earlier to make it look more brighter. Go with a really intense tone of green. Don't make it too light and don't add a lot of water. Our background is still wet, so you can make use of the time, and add in a brighter tone of green along the lines we have added earlier. Run your brush in a BBB to make the green more intense. You can try out the same sky with any of your other favorite color combination. You can try this out with violet and cobalt green. That's one of my other favorite color combination to paint a Northern Light. Now, I'm planning to make the blues more darker so that it will bring in a lot more contrast in our night sky. If your background is still wet, you can add a darker tone of blue onto the top corners to add more contrast to your night sky. This is how it is looking. I'm pretty happy with the result. Those green lines are looking so beautiful. I think I will need to fix that bottom area. Just running my brush over here to make it look clean. That is our sky. Now, let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] The sky has dried. Our next task was to paint the lake. I'm going to use the same colors for the lake as well. First, I'm going to apply an even coat of leaf green onto the entire lake. I will add some deeper tones using blue onto all the corners. First, I will just fill that up [MUSIC] using this leaf green. Now let's go with blue and apply some darker tones. [NOISE] Onto all these corners, I'm going to add some blue and I'm just dragging that towards the inside. At the center, I'm going to retain the green tones. Towards the corner, I'm going to make it more darker. Just follow the shape you have added there and add multiple tones along those corners and also outline. We have added the colors. Now is dab our brush on a paper towel and go with a slightly dry brush. Just push and pull the colors into each other to make it look more smoother. It doesn't need to be a clean blend. Just drag your brush towards the inside. At the center, we want that green color and towards the corner and outer border, we can use more darker tones. Now let's add more and more darker tones. I'm going with a much more intense tone of blue. Adding that onto all the corners. See that? You should be using a very dark tone of blue. Now, add that onto all these columns. Just like how we did do a layer, just drag that towards the inside. Now to make it looks smoother, dab your brush on a paper towel and gently match those colors words inside to get a more smoother look. I have my paper towel here and I'm dabbing my brush on it. My brush is dry, it doesn't have a lot of paint. Now I'm just pulling and pushing the paint. Then darker tone towards the inside and adding some lines using that color. So you can See at the center, I retain most of the light cream [NOISE] and all that I have made tone and darker tones. You can keep running your dry brush back and forth until you're happy with the blend. I don't have any paint on my brush. I'm dragging my brush in the back and forth direction, in a horizontal way. That's a leak and now let's wait for that to dry. Maybe we can start adding the mountain. We just have to be a bit careful so that the color doesn't float into the lake. To add a mountain, I'm using my smallest size brush. This one is a size number 4 round brush. The color I'm using for the mountain is neutral tint. You can either use black or paint green. We're going with really dark tone which is very much close to black so even black will work. [NOISE] Let's go with the dark tone of neutral tint or paint green or black. Let's add in the mountain. The lake might have not dried. Be really careful when you're adding the mountain. Maybe you can be able to when you're adding the mountain so the color won't spread into the lake. Now, as I mentioned earlier while we are adding the pencil sketch, I'm going with a very low lying mountain. This is rarely far from us, so go with the smaller size. Don't make it too huge. [MUSIC] The lake is really wet. I think I will need to take a break. Before that to dry to complete the mountain. I was really impatient, so I used a blow dryer to speed up the process. I'm going to fill up that remaining area in neutral tint. [MUSIC] Okay. That's is the mountain. We can pain the snowy ground. For that I'm using a light tone of indigo. I don't have indigo here, so I'm just mixing up a tough paint gray. I mean neutral tint, but a bit of royal blue. I can create an indigo color. I don't need to take out a new paint onto my palate. Just an excellent job you are using with a bit of paint gray or neutral tint or even black and create a darker version of blue or just use indigo directly. Now first step, adding some lines onto the snowy ground. Then I'm dipping my brush in clean water and I'm trying to blend the color into the background. I don't want them to be too prominent. There are two ways to do this, just like I'm doing here. You can either add some lines and then use a wet brush to smash them into the background or you can make the background wet first and then add the lines onto that. With [inaudible] the way we just need some blue tones on the snowy ground in a very random way. Now, I'm going with a medium tone of neutral tint. I'm adding some teeny tiny petals here and there. We don't need a lot. Just pick some random idea and add some broken line and some patterns. Use a medium tone, don't make it too dark. That's the snowy ground. We can wait for that to dry. Meanwhile as this dries we can start adding more details onto the mountain. For that, I'm using a bit of white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor. We're going to add some white tone towards to the top of the mountain to make it look like there's some snow. Use any of your smallest size brush and go with some white gouache or white watercolor. We just need a little. Now let's add that onto the top of the mountain. We just need some white highlights on the top. I'm adding some dry brush patterns ready little often, not adding a lot. Onto the top of all these mountain to have added, add some dry brush patterns using white gouache or white watercolor. Don't add a lot of water to your paint. Make sure to go with the dry paint. We want that opaque white to be visible. Focus on either right side or the left side and add some white tones. You can leave the other side in that darker tone. This would make him look more interesting. You can see here, I haven't added a lot, but it is looking so gorgeous. Now maybe we can go with a much more opaque version of white and add in some more highlights. Just turn to the top. Just add some broken lines and some teeny tiny patterns only to the top of the mountain to make it look more snowy. That is the snowy mountain. Our next task was to add in the trees, which is the most interesting part of this painting. Is going to be something similar to the one we did for the brush tree painting. These ones are also brush trees. But then for this one, we just use white as for last neutral tint, we're not using brown this time. The first step is to add in the base shape of the trees using white gouache or white watercolor. Go with that oblique version and add in the trees. [NOISE] Don't add a lot of water or the thick creamy paint. Adding the base shape of a pine tree. Go the beautiful we don't, make it a straight line. Make it a little bit curvy and wavy to make your tree look more interesting. I'm going to add my first one. [MUSIC] That's the first tree. I haven't taken until the other end. I have left it in between. Now I'm adding the second one right next to the first tree. I will make this one slightly slanted towards the right side to make it different from the first one. Try to go a different shape for all your trees, don't make all of them look similar. After this one, I will be adding one more tree on the right side, you can decide on where you want to add your trees and how many you want to add. It doesn't need to be treated like I'm doing here. It can be four or five or just one. It's totally up to you. [MUSIC] In case if those trees are not being that opaque, you can go with one more layer and make them look really opaque. I have added three trees here. Next, I'm going to add some branches using the same white gouache. [MUSIC] We don't need a lot of branches, just add it a few here and there. We'll be adding more branches using neutral tint at the end. For now, just add few branches like this. Now, for the next step, I'm going to go back with neutral tint. We're going to add some deeper tones onto the trees using a smaller size brush. Make sure there's no white paint on your brush. Now, let's go with neutral tint. For this step, you will have to make sure the trees has completely dried. We're going to add some dry brush patterns using a darker tone of neutral tint onto all these trees. First take out the paint, then tap it on a paper towel and make sure your paint is dry. Now, randomly add some dry brush patterns onto these trees. Just keeps crashing your brush and add some weird patterns. It doesn't need to be perfect. You can see the way I'm adding it. I'm just running my brush along the white shape we have added and I'm just adding some dry brush patterns using a darker tone of neutral tint. Instead of neutral tint you can use Payne's gray or black, but make sure the trees has completely dried and you're going with a dry brush not the paint. Don't add a lot of water. If you feel like it is too watery tap it on a paper towel. You can see the difference of those dry brush patterns I've made. It instantly made our tree look more realistic. One one on the right side is looking super weird as it is just a plain white paint so let's add some dry brush pattern under this one as well. Be sure to go with a dry paint. Now keep dragging your brush on that tree and add some dry brush patterns. This is a very simple, and a beautiful way to paint a bush tree, especially when you have a darker tone in the background. It will look really pretty like the one we're doing here if you have use really dark tones in your sky. Now, I'm good with a darker tone, which isn't really dry and I'm adding some bigger patterns on the tree at random places. I accidentally dropped my brush and created a mess here. I will have to somehow fix all these patches here. I don't want to get rid of this painting. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. I'll just add some deeper tools to hide those patches. Let me quickly fix this. Meanwhile, you can take a brake and enjoy how I'm fixing this [MUSIC]. I have managed to fix those patches. It doesn't look that bad. Now let's continue adding more patches onto the tree. Just like I said earlier go with a darker tone. It doesn't need to be a dry paint. Now add some bigger patterns on the tree using that darker tone in a really randomly. We don't need a lot. Just pick some random spots, and add in those bigger patterns. It doesn't need to have any particular shape or size and is just some random messy patterns. You can see the ones I'm adding here. Don't add a lot of them close to each other. It looks like that is done. I'm really happy with our trees. I'm going to get extra beautiful because we have those brighter tones on the sky. This is how our painting is looking right now. Looking at the painting, I really feel like making the water a bit more brighter. Let me come back with some green and add that over here just to make it a little more brighter. This is not a necessary step, so feel free to skip it if you're already happy with your lake. I just want to turn it a little bit brighter and that's it so I'll just add some more green onto the center where we have those two trees. [MUSIC]. That is it. I think the water has a different blue right now after adding the second layer of green. Now I'm going back with neutral tint, and I'm going to add some highlight onto those white branches. Use any of your brush which has a pointed tip and add in a thin line onto these white branches. It doesn't need to be a continuous line. It can be a broken line. Make it as thin and delicate as possible. Add in similar lines onto all the branches you have added using white gouache. Similarly, at the end we'll go in the opposite order. We'll add some branches using neutral tint. Then onto that we'll be adding some white highlights. Let's finish this off first. [MUSIC]. You can see the way I have added them. I didn't really follow the entire branches. I added the lines in a broken way. Now using neutral tint, I'm adding some more branches. As I said earlier, once I have done adding the branches onto those, I will be adding some white highlights, so I'll wash all the paint from my brush, and I will switch back to white gouache. All of these has to be very thin and delicate lines so it is really necessary to go with a brush which has a pointed tip. You can go with any of your detailing brush or any other brush which has a pointed tip. [MUSIC] I have added the branches using neutral tint, then onto that, I have added the white highlights. Now I'm going with some more white gouache and I'm adding some more thin and delicate branches. These are going to be really thin. Don't add the mass thick lines. If you're not confident enough, you can either skip this step or you can add using a white [inaudible] but make sure to add them in at very thin and delicate way. If you add a lot of branches, this would make your tree look more beautiful but they has to be really thin. I think I have added enough of branches. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some white highlights onto the mountain as well, especially onto the bottom. Just adding some white here. Now, I will add some snow patches on the water as well. Go with a thick creamy white gouache and add in some linear patches on the water to make it look like there are some snow patches. We already have some snowy ground on the foreground. These little white patches of snow on the water will make it look more beautiful. The lake we have added here isn't that huge so be really careful about the size of the snow patches you're adding. I would suggest to add some linear thin patches. Don't make it too huge. [MUSIC] That is it. Now finally, we need to add some shadows and deeper tones onto the snowy ground. Wash all the paint from your brush, and switch back to neutral tint or Payne's gray. We'll just have some random dry brush patterns onto the entire snowy ground, but we will focus more on the area where the trees are standing. Over there we'll have to add more patterns so first add some patterns onto the snowy ground randomly, then add more dry brush patterns where the trees are standing, especially onto the areas where they're standing. Just add some patterns right at the bottom of this tree. We already have added enough of medium tones onto the snowy ground so just focus on the area where the trees are standing and add some darker tones over here. You can add some teeny-tiny patterns and some broken lines as well using that darker tone. But we don't need a lot. I'm not really adding the shadow of the tree. l will just leave with this. That is it. I'm really happy with today's painting, especially the color combination and the trees. The entire composition looks great. I cannot tell you how much I love this painting. Looks like I need to fix the border, there is a lot of blue over there. I have fixed it. I just applied some white gouache and I fixed the border. Here it is. It doesn't look that bad. I'm really happy with the painting, so I didn't really feel like leaving the border messy. Here's the thing for Day 17. I hope you all had a great time painting these gorgeous norther lights. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next winter landscape. [MUSIC]. 21. Day 18 - Little Red Cabins: Hello. Welcome to Day 18. Today we are painting two little red cabins surrounded by snowy mountains. It's a simple and gorgeous painting. For the sky as well as for the water, I'll be using cerulean blue, that's a major color I'll be using for this painting. Then to other deeper tones, I'll using indigo. If you don't have cerulean blue you can use Prussian blue or any other blue that you've got. now for the snowy mountain, for the background layer, I'll be using lighter tone of ultramarine blue. Then to other deeper tones I'll be using indigo. Finally, for the little cabin, I'll be using pyrrole red. These are the colors you will need for today's painting. If you don't have any of the colors that I'm using here, feel free to go with any color which is similar. If you don't have pyrrole red, that is absolutely okay. Just use crimson or vermillion or any other bright red of your choice. The colors you will need are cerulean blue or Prussian blue or any other blue. Then you will need indigo, pyrrole red or crimson or vermillion and a bit of ultramarine blue. Let's start. For today's painting, we'll need to add a pencil sketch. First I will add a line right at the center of my paper. We need to add some mountains. I'm adding some medium sized mountain. I'm starting from the left side. That's the first one. Now I'm adding second one. The third one can be a bit more huge. Another one over here. I have four mountains here. Right at the center of all these mountains, I'm adding an irregular line. We'll be adding our medium tone and deep blue tone following this line. If you add this, it's going to be really helpful. Those are the mountains. Now we need to add a patch of land at the bottom and after that we'll be adding two small cabins. That is the boundary sketch. We can add the doors and windows as you paint. You don't need to add them right now. Now it's time to take out the colors. As I said at the beginning, for the sky, I'll be using cerulean blue and for the water as well I'll using cerulean blue. You can use Prussian blue or any other blue that you've got. To add the deeper tones, I'll be using indigo. Now to paint the mountain, I'll be using ultramarine blue. We'll just need a light tone of ultramarine blue. If you don't have ultramarine blue, it is absolutely okay to use Prussian blue. Let's start by painting the snowy mountain. For that, I'm using a smaller size brush and I'm going with a really light tone of ultramarine blue. Once we have painted the mountain, we can paint the sky. Let's start with a light tone of ultramarine blue. Clean your brush properly and make sure there is no other paint stains on your brush as they go in the really light tone. We want a really fresh and clean color, so make sure there is no other paint stains on your brush. Let's apply that light tone of ultramarine blue on the right side of all these mountains. We have added a line at the center. Just follow that line and add a lighter tone of ultramarine blue. As you're coming down. You can turn that into some random lines. On the left side using the same color, you can add some lines. Most of your mountain should be your paper white. We are not adding a lot of color. Just on the the right side where we have added that irregular line, we are adding some lighter tones. Apply a light tone of ultramarine blue onto the right side of all the mountains following that irregular line. On the left side, we can just add some lines using the same color. Now let's do the same for the other two mountains. That's the snowy mountain. We have a little piece of land on the right side. Onto that, we can add some lines using the same color. You don't need to make it red, just add some lines using the same color. Let's wait for this to dry completely before we add paint onto the sky. That has dried completely. The next task was to paint the sky as well as the lake. First, we'll start with the sky. Let's apply a coat of water onto the entire sky, and even coat of water. Be careful not to add any water onto the mountain. You can leave a tiny gap so that the water doesn't enter the mountain. To apply paint onto the sky, I'm using my flat brush. I'm going with a medium tone of cerulean blue, adding enough of water and turning that into a medium tone. Our background is already wet. Now I'm applying a medium tone of cerulean blue onto the wet background. While I'm adding the paint, I'm leaving some gap in-between. I'm deciding some lines. In between I have some lighter tones and in between I have some medium tones, so that's how the sky is going to be. I'm carefully running my brush along the outline of the mountain and I'm filling up this area. Just on the top, I have left some white gaps. It's a pretty simple sky. We have left some gaps in-between. Over there we have a lighter tone, and for the rest of the area we have a medium color cerulean blue. Meanwhile, the sky dries, we can start painting the lake. For the base layer of the lake, we'll be using cerulean blue. We'll go with lighter tones closer to the mountain and over to the bottom, we'll go with darker tones and closer to the cabin we'll need to apply some red on the lake. We'll need to squeeze out some red as well. This one is pyrrole red. You can use crimson or vermillion if you don't have pyrrole red. You can go to any red that you've got, it just need to be a bright red to make some contrasts in our painting. We haven't painted the cabin gate, which isn't a big deal. We can do that later. First, I'm applying a clean coat of water onto the entire lake. Just be a bit careful not to add any water onto the cabin, as well as onto the mountain. My lake is evenly wet. I'm switching back to my flat brush, and I have my smaller size arm brush ready here to apply the reflection of the cabin. We'll start with a light to medium tone and we'll apply that onto the bottom, and even the top area more lighter because we'll have those reflection of the snowy mountain. We want the top media to be lighter and the bottom to be darker. Now we can add more darker values at the bottom. This is going to be your base layer and we'll be adding more reflections and more darker tones under this layer. Be careful not to add a lot of darker tone at the top. Now I'm switching to a bit of red. I need to add a little of red over here before the background dries. Just take a little of paint and add some reflection right underneath your cabin. You are going to add a lot of red tones on the water, just a little right underneath the cabin. That is it. Now let's switch back to blue. To add the rest of the details and deep into the water, I'm using my smaller size brush. Right now this brush doesn't have any paint. I'm just adding some lines using that medium tone of blue. I'm not taking any new paint, I'm just pulling and pushing the paint on the paper itself to create these lines. Using the same color, we can add some lines on the top as well. Right now we don't have any blue tones on the water closer to the mountain, so we just need to add some lines using a lighter tone of blue. Okay, so that's the base layer. Now, we can add more deeper values onto the water. I'm using the same brush and I'm going with a much more deeper tone of cerulean blue. This isn't that watery, so if you feel like you're paint is too watery, tap it on a paper towel. Now, let's add some lines on the water using that darker tone of cerulean blue. While you're adding these lines, make sure to leave a little gap in between. Don't add them too close to each other. You can see here, there's a tiny gap that I have left in between so just randomly add some thick lines onto the wet background. Leaving some tiny gap in between. You can see those ones here so that is what adds a lot of beauty to your painting. It makes your water look more realistic. Now, if you feel like those lines are looking feathery, you can tap your brush on a paper towel and then add your lines. It is because your paint is too watery, you are getting that feathery effect for your lines. If you tap your brush on a paper towel, you can get rid off that effect. Now, I'm just lifting off that feathery effect using a clean brush. If you haven't got any gaps in between, you still can add them by lifting off the paint using a clean damp brush. That's a lake. Onto the top, go with a lighter tone and towards the bottom, go with that darker tone. That's only thing you need to keep in mind. Now, I'm washing off the paint from my brush and I'm switching back to red. I want to add two more lines using red onto the water to make the reflection more prominent. Go with the medium tone which is not too watery. If it's too watery, tap your brush on a paper towel. Just add some lines over here, some small lines. For this one as well you can leave some gap in between when you're adding your lines. Just closer to the cabin you can add some dark lines. We'll be coming back to this later. I'm going to be adding some more details onto this. For now, this is all you need. Next, I'm going to add some more detail onto the water. Right now, we have just use a darker tone of cerulean blue, but we need to add more darker tones over there. For that, I'm switching to indigo. I'm using my size number 4 round brush and I'm adding some thick lines onto the blue background. You can see here, I'm leaving a tiny gap in between and also make sure to damp your brush on a paper towel. If you are getting that feathery effect for your lines, you just need to add these lines at the bottom. We don't need it anywhere else, the top has to stay lighter. Just add three or four lines using a darker tone of indigo. Now, let's add the remaining details onto the mountain and later we can pin the cabin. I'm switching back to a darker tone of indigo. Our next step is to add some dry bush pattern onto the mountain to add some texture. Once you have taken the paint on your brush, damp it on a people towel and make sure you have removed the excess amount of the water. Now, let's add some dry bush patterns onto the right side of all these mountains. This is where we have applied that medium tones. Let's concentrate on this side and trying to really add some dry brush patterns. We don't need a lot, just a little here and there. Focus more on the right side where we have applied those medium tones. We are still going to retain most of the people white. Onto the right side, you can add some deeper tones. You can add them along the irregular line at the center and just add some deeper tones. Now, let's draw the same onto the other two mountains. That is how our painting has turned out. Now, I'm going to apply paint onto the cabin. For that, I'm using this bright red. This one is called firewall red. As I said, you can use crimson, or vermilion or any other red. Now onto this fall, the front facing wall of the cabin, I'm going to add a bright tone of pyrrole red. Onto the other wall, I will add a darker tone. Carefully, follow the outline of your cabin and add an implied tone of red onto the front facing wall. I have added red onto the front facing wall of both the cabins. Now on to the other wall, we can add a darker tone. To create the darker tone, I'm just adding a bit of indigo with pyrrole red. Let's pick a bit of indigo and mix start with pyrrole red. I don't want to take our payne's gray or neutral scent so that is why I'm using indigo. If you already have some other darker tone like payne's gray or neutral scent or black, you can mix a little of that into your red to create that darker tone. Now, just apply that darker tone on the other side of the water. So on the front wall, we have a bright tone and on the other wall, we are adding a darker tone because on the other side, the shadow of the roof will be falling on that wall so we need to call it a darker tone. Now, let's do the same onto the other cabin's wall. I'm adding a darker tone under this base of wall here. Along with that using the same color, I'm adding some deeper tones along the roof line. We'll be coming back to these cabins, we'll be adding some lines on the wall. As for last, we need to add some doors and windows. Right now, this is what you need to do. Now to add the remaining details onto the cabin, we'll have to wait for this to dry. Meanwhile, we can start adding some deeper tones on the ground where these cabins are standing. I'm going back with a darker tone of indigo and I'm adding some darker tones on the ground. We're just adding some dry bush bottoms. Now, I'm adding some darker tones along the bottom line as well. For the bottom line of your [inaudible] ground, and add some deeper tones. That is it. Now using the same color, I'm going to add some more dry brush patterns onto the mountain. Just for the bottom. To me, it looks like that horizon line hasn't really defined. Right at the bottom, I'm adding some more deeper tones using a darker tone of indigo. Let us just add some dry brush patterns, only at the bottom line. To define the horizon line, I'm not adding it in anywhere else. Somewhere over here to define the line. I think that looks good enough. The next task was to add the remaining details onto the cabin. Looks like it has dried already. First, I'm adding some teeny tiny lines onto the walls using a medium tone of brownish red. I have just added a pinch of indigo into red to turn that into a brownish red. Just add some thin delicate lines onto the bright red wall. I'll go with a medium tone. Don't make it too bold and thick. This is really far from us, so it shouldn't be too prominent. I have added the lines onto the cabin. Now, I'm going to make that reflection a bit more prominent. Right now, it is looking really dull so I'm going back with the brighter tone of red. I'm just adding some lines on the water right underneath the cabin. You can see here, I'm using a bright tone of red. I'm simply adding some lines. We don't need a lot of just a few right underneath the cabin. That is it. Now, we can go back to the cabin and add the doors and then tools. First, I will add a chimney using a darker tone of indigo. You can also use payne's gray or black or neutral tint or any other darker tone. Use a darker tone and add a small chimney onto both the cabins. It is just a thin line using a darker tone. You can add that onto a roof of both the cabins using the same color and gently defining the shape of the roof as whole. The small isn't looking that bright and tricky. Maybe we can add a layer of white gouache to make it look bright and opaque, that we can do while we add the details onto the cabin. That is the last task. For that, I'm going back with indigo and I'm adding the doors. Before you adding the door, just make sure the paint has dried completely. Once it has dried, add in the simple door onto both the cabins, just down to the piece. That's the first one. Now I'm adding a similar door onto the other cabin as well. Once we're done with this, we need to add a white outline. For that, I'll be using white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor, or you can use a white champagne if that is more comfortable for you. I'm just picking the paint directly from the tube as I don't need a lot of paint. We're just adding a white outline for these doors. But you need to use any brush which has a pointed tip because we need to get these lines as thin and delicate as possible. Let's add in a white outline for both the doors. [MUSIC] That's done. Now, I'm applying some white gouache onto the roof as well. As I said earlier, it does not looking that prominent, so let's apply a thick creamy white gouache onto the roof to define it properly. That's a painting for day 18. It's slightly different from the other paintings we did. That's a really simple one. We haven't used any complicated techniques. We already know how to paint this green mountain. We had just incorporating the lessons we learned already. Here is the finished painting. I hope you all enjoyed painting these little cabins. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow. Let's have our next a snowy landscape. 22. Day 19 - Foggy Forest: [MUSIC] Hello, my dearest friends, welcome to Day 19. All these days we tried lots of vibrant color combinations. So I thought we'll try something in monochrome today. Here's the gorgeous snowy forest we're trying today. It's very easy to do and the only color you will need is neutral tint or Payne's Grey. We already did another monochrome painting using the same color. For some reason, I really love doing monochrome painting with Payne's Grey or neutral tint. If you want to try any other color that's totally up to you, maybe you can use indigo or a forest green or any darker color, where you can play with multiple tonal values. Choose your color quickly so that we can start right away. Now let me take out some neutral tint onto my palette. This one is more or less close to Payne's Grey. This particular brand that I'm using here, Shinhen, it doesn't have any Payne's gray. Instead, they have neutral tint, which is similar to Payne's gray. You can use Payne's Grey or any other color which is similar. You can use shadow green or forest green, or indigo if you don't want to use Payne's Grey. That's the only color you will need for now. Later to others, know will also need a white gouache. But for the major part of the painting, you will only need Payne's gray or neutral tint. We have the color ready here and my paper is also ready. Now the first task was to apply a coat of water. You can leave a little gap at the bottom and apply the color onto the rest of the paper. We just apply a clean coat of water onto almost three fourth of the paper. I'm adding water almost till here. The reason why I'm doing this is because I don't want to accidentally add any paint onto the bottom. I want that area to be mostly in paper white. We'll be just adding some medium tones and some dry brush patterns. That's the reason why I'm not adding any water onto the bottom. Now let's start applying the paint. For that I'm using my size number 8 round brush. Before you apply the paint just make sure your brush is properly cleaned and there is no other paint stains on your brush. Because we are going with a very light tone of Payne's gray and you won't be adding any other colors. By accidentally if you add any blue or red or violet onto the sky, that's going to make your painting look really bad. Just be sure that your brush is properly cleaned. I've already started applying the paint onto the wet background. My intention is to make the center lighter and I'm going to add more and more darker tones onto the outer corners. Now this doesn't need to be a clean blend. You can simply keep on dropping a medium tone and a darker tone of Payne's gray onto your paper. As I mentioned earlier, at the center, make the colors lighter and onto the outer corners you can add more deeper values. At the moment when you're dropping the paint onto this background, it may not look that clean, but that's absolutely okay. When it dries, it will look really nice. Don't worry about how it is looking right now. Now, I'm going with a much more darker tone of Payne's gray. I'm dropping that onto the outer corners. You can see I'm not adding any paint at the center, whereas I'm making the corners more darker. You can see how messy my background is looking, but that's absolutely okay. Simply keep on dropping the paint onto the wet background. Just keep in mind right at the center we need lighter tones and onto the corners we need darker tones. That's only thing you need to keep in mind. Now, I've washed off the paint from my brush and I'm running my clean brush on top of the paint I've applied here to make it look a little better. Right now it is looking very bad. I'm just pushing and pulling the paint into each other to make it a bit better. Maybe we can add some more darker tones onto the corners. That is the base layer. I retain the lighter tones at the center, and I made the outer corners more darker. Now I'm running my wet brush at the bottom line right over here. Because at some places it is looking a little rough. It hasn't really blended with the background. I'm just running my wet brush. That is it. That's our base layer. Now I will have to wait for this to dry before we add the remaining detail. [MUSIC] Here's how my background has turned out. It is looking super foggy already. Now, for the next step you will need a smaller size round brush. We are going to add the trees. I'm going to use my size number 4 round brush. We are starting with the light tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray, which will be the color you are using. Before we start adding the trees, take out a paper towel and keep that next to you. Now let's go with a lighter tone and add in our first tree. I'm adding it over here. You can see the color I'm going with, it's a really light one of neutral tint. Now I'm just dabbing the paint from the bottom. This way you don't need to put a lot of effort in making them blend with the background. It will just seamlessly go with the background. Just take out a paper towel and tap the paint from the bottom. If you don't do this, that bottom part of the tree will look too prominent and you won't get that foggy effect for your forest. Once you have added your tree, take out a paper towel and just dab the paint from the bottom. Now I'm adding my third tree. I accidentally added some paint here, so I'm turning that into a branch. Right now we are using a medium tone of neutral tint. We'll be adding more trees using the same color. After that we will switch to a darker tone and we'll add some more trees. Here's the third tree. Now I'm tapping the paint from the bottom. You can see how it is looking right now. It doesn't look that sharp or it doesn't look too prominent. It is seamlessly go in with the background. This is the reason why I told you to dab the paint from the bottom. Now using the same color, I'm going to add some more trees. You will have to play with different tonal values. Otherwise your painting will look quite plain. To create that depth, it is very important to play with different tonal values. Using this shade of neutral tint I'm going to add some more trees. I have added enough on the right side, I'll need to add few more on the left side. [MUSIC] I think I will use a much more lighter tone and I will add one of trees at the center. I'm not going to add a lot over here because I want to retain the white. Compared to the outer area, I want the center to be really light. Now let's go with a much more darker tone. It isn't really dark. It is one tone darker than the color we used for the other trees. Using this tonal value, we need to add some more trees. But I think we'll have to wait for the others to dry. Otherwise, if our brush touches the other trees, it may spread into each other. I don't want to make such silly accidents, so let's wait for the trees to dry. Meanwhile, we can add some tonal values onto the bottom. First, I'm applying a coat of water onto the area we have at the bottom, just gentle wash of water. My paper is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to switch back to my round brush and I'm going with a medium tone of neutral tint. For the bottom as well, we're going to read in most of the paper white. I'm just adding a few dots and some little lines using a medium tone over here. We don't need a lot, just adding a few dots here and there. Onto the wet background, add some teeny tiny dots and some lines using a medium to light to tone of neutral tint. Now a dab a brush on a paper towel and just smart tools colors into the background to make them look less prominent. We don't want them to be seen as individual shapes. We want them to go seamlessly with the background. All we need is some lighter values of neutral tint on the ground. You can see the way how they have turned out. I only added a little patterns using a lighter tone on to the wet background. I haven't added a lot. I have read in most of the paper white. That is it. Now let's wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] That has dried. Now, our next task was to add the remaining trees. For that, I'm going with a medium tone of neutral tint. This one has to be one tone darker than the trees we added earlier. Something similar to the one we added at end on the left side. Using that color, I'm going to add a few more trees. It's the same step. It is just that the color is much more darker than the earlier one. Other than that there's no other different. Just add in some more trees using a bit more darker tone of neutral tint or Payne's Grey. I'm adding my first tree. Once you have added your tree, use a paper towel and dab the paint from the bottom. That step needs to be done for all the trees you're adding. Take out a paper towel and gently dab the paint from the bottom. That's the color I'm using. Now. I'm going to add few more trees using the same color. [MUSIC] I've added few more trees. Now we have to wait for this again before we coat the next tonal value. We're just going to be a much more darker tone. Let's wait for the background to dry. [MUSIC] That has dried. Now let's go the last round of trees. For that, we'll have to do some much more delicate or off neutral tint. Which is really dark, some things a little too black. I'm adding my fostering. Make sure your background has dried completely before you do this. We don't want the colors to spread into each of those. Be really careful. Now, notice it's the same step. It is just that this time we're using a much more darker tone of neutral tint. Add new tree, then tab the bottom using a paper towel. You can add as many trees as you want. But to make your painting look more interesting, make some of them more thicker and some of the more thinner. Also go with different types of tree. Don't make all of them look the same. I have added my first tree. Now I'm adding the second one, which is going to be slightly more thicker and maybe a little inclined. Just keep that in mind. Make all of them different from each other. Also you can add enough of branches as well, using the same color. Go ahead and add enough of tree as many as you want there is no limit. But make sure not to add a lot at the center. It would be great if you can read in the lighter tone toward the center. Don't add a lot of trees over there and make it busy. [MUSIC] You can see how pretty our paintings looking already. It is looking really foggy. To create this effect we only played with different tonal values of neutrality. It was really easy. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that you will have to wait for the background leaves to dry before you go with the next layer. That is really important. Otherwise the colors may spread into each other, and you won't get this result. Now I will add one or two trees. I wouldn't be adding any of the center. I'll add one over here and maybe one more next to that. Now at the bottom, just dab it using a paper towel. I think I will just start with the tree. Maybe I'll add one or two branches onto this one. I wouldn't be adding any other trees. Let's add one or two branches and call it done. But if you want to add more trees, it's totally up to you. You don't need to stop it here. This is how our painting has turned out. I'm really happy with it. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some dry brush buttons at the bottom of the trees as well as on the ground. That will be shown on top. Just add some dry brush buttons at the bottom of all these trees. Just few patterns. We don't need a lot. Now we can add few at the crown as full. I'm just taking them as a pathway and I'm adding such patterns on either side. I can't tell you how much I love this thing doing because it was really easy and we just used one single color. The reason we called is really magical. Now our final task was to add snow onto these trees. Will be splattering some snow as well as we'll be adding some snow onto these branches. Before that, I'm going to add few more branches onto these trees. Maybe I will add few trees branches on the plant as full which will look like there are some plants over there. That's the final task. These are some dried branches as well as some dry plants. Go with the branch which has a pointed tip. This one has to be really thin and delicate. Adding two or three on either side. [MUSIC] I have added these branches and twigs along that [inaudible] . It's really looking like there is a pathway leading to a foggy forests. Now you can wash all the paint from your brush and get rid off neutrons and dark things clean. For the next step we building it, white gouache or white watercolor. We are going to splatter some snow as well as we add some snow patches onto the branches. That's the last step. This last step will make our painting look more snowy. So take on your smaller brush and take some white gouache on it. Dab it on a paper towel so that the paint is not too watery. Now using another brush, just keep on tapping on your smaller brush and add enough of snow onto your painting. Literally there is no limit you can add as much as you want. Keep on splattering some white gouache or white watercolor onto the anterior painting without any feel. [MUSIC] Now comes the final step using the same white gouache, I'm going to add some white patches onto the branches. This would make it look like that or some snow accumulated onto the branches and it will automatically make our painting look more snowy and more beautiful. This is the last step. Go with a much more opaque version of white gouache or white watercolor adding some snow onto all the branches. At some places you can add some thicker patches. This one will be visible only on the darker area. You can concentrate more on the trace we have added onto the outer corners. Onto the center, we have used a lighter tone for the background. It might not be really visible. Now we can add some dry brush patterns onto the tree trunk aspect. We don't need a lot just few patterns. Now in a similar way let's add some snow onto the branches on the left side as well. Because we have some darker tones on the side. [MUSIC] Our painting is looking so pretty. It really has that foggy, misty effect. The most surprising part is we just use one single color to create this effect. Now, I'm going to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here is our gorgeous foggy for us for Day 19. I hope you guys enjoyed painting this monochrome painting. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll pack it tomorrow. But add those snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 23. Day 20 - Street Lamp: Hello my dearest friends. Welcome to Day 20. Today we are painting something which is different from the others we have done so far. We are painting a car, just street lamp. Trust me, you guys are going to have the process. For the sky, I'll be using indigo as well as cerulean blue. Onto the corners, you can see that dark tone, that's indigo. The other blue you on the background is cerulean blue. Instead of cerulean blue, you can use Prussian blue or any other blue that I have coat. Then for the street lamp, I will be using permanent yellow-orange, brown, as well as neutral tint to add the deeper tones. Instead of that yellowish- orange, you can also use any yellow that I have coat. If you don't have permanent yellow-orange, don't worry about that, okay. Those are the colors you will need for today, indigo, any blue of your choice, then you will need permanent yellow-orange or yellow. Then you will need brown or brown thinner. Finally, to add deeper tones, you will need neutral tint or plain gray or dark. All right, so let's start. I have my paper ready here. We need to add a pencil sketch, which is that street lamp. The one I'm going to add is quite simple, it is just some straight lines. If you want to go with a much more detailed one or a decorative lamp, you could do that. You can just follow the same technique. The reason why I use this regular shape is that it is very easy to mask it out. We can just use masking tape and cut that and the shape to cover the street lamp. If you go the decorative shape, you might have to use a masking fluid. Just decide on what shape you want to follow for your street lamp and just add that accordingly. This one is really simple. I think even a beginner can draw the shape quite easily. That is the basic shape of our street lamp. Now under this, we need to add a top covering that is also going to be in some regular line, it's not a difficult one. Now, we can add a small thickness. Finally, I'm going to add another rectangle inside the bigger ones. This one is going to be in glass, and this is where we have the light source. Over here, when we are painting, we'll use a lighter tone and around that, will add the darker tones, okay. That is the pencil sketch. Now we need to mask all the street lamp. This one is really simple shape, so we can just take out a piece of masking tape and cut that in the same shape of the street lamp and just attach that onto the paper. I'll show you how you can do that. I have a small piece of masking tape. Now, I'm going to gently stick that onto the street lamp. You can clearly see the pencil sketch we have added. Now just trace out that shape. I'm using one-inch masking tape. If you're using a smaller tape, you might have to stick two pieces together. Now just trace the shape. Once you have added a sketch onto your masking tape, gently remove it and cut that shape out. Instead of masking tape, you can also use masking fluid, but then you will need to plan your painting in advance. It will take quite a lot of time to dry properly. That is a main reason why I don't like using masking fluid. I never pre-plan my painting, so masking fluid doesn't work for me. So I have cut that piece, now I'm sticking that back onto the paper. The masking tape I'm using here is a very normal one. I got it from a stationery shop. It's not an expensive painters tape. I guess most of the masking tapes will work. Now let's take out the paint. For the background, I'll be using indigo and cerulean blue, as I mentioned at the beginning. Instead of cerulean blue, you can use Prussian blue or any other blue that you will coat, or even you can use purple or violet or any other color. You can use any color of your choice. We just need one dark color and one bright color. Okay, so that was indigo. Now I'm going to squeeze out some cerulean blue as well. These are the two colors I'll be using for the background. Now the first step is to apply an even coat of water onto the entire background. Oh, oh, looks like there was some blue on my brush. Never mind. Glad that I'm using the same color for the background. The first step is to apply an even coat of water onto the entire background. You don't need to leave the lamp. You can just apply the water on top of it. My paper is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm using my brown brush, this one as my size number eight brown brush. I'm starting with the bright tone of cerulean blue. I'm randomly applying that onto the wet background. For the street lamp, only where we have the light source, we'll be applying lighter tones. For the rest, we'll be using darker tones, so it doesn't really matter if you add blue on top of it. So that's blue. Now I'm going with indigo, and I'm making the outer corners more darker. Painting this background is quite simple, you can go with any blue of your choice and apply that onto the background first. Then go with a darker tone which can be indigo or any other color. Using that color, make the outer corners more darker. Don't only apply a lot of darker tones closer to the street lamp. Although you can leave the medium tones and just onto the corners, you can apply more darker tones. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind. We just need darker tones on the outer corner and medium tones around the street lamp. You can add them however you want to. I think I will make the outer corners more darker. I'm using a very dark tone of indigo and applying that on to the corners. Let me tell you, it doesn't need to be a clean blend. Just apply the color however you want to. You can see how messy my background is looking. The only thing I focused is, I left medium tones around the street lamp, and I added darker tones around the corner. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind when they're applying paint onto the background. Now let's wait for one or two minutes. Not more than that. We need to add some branches onto the background, but it is still wet. Well, let's wait for a few minutes. When the background is not too watery, and we can add the branches. Don't go away. Just stay there for a few minutes. All right, so I waited for nearly two minutes. If it's always quite warm and hot, you may have to wait for just a minute or less than that, okay. Now I'm going switch to my smaller size brush, and I'm going with a darker tone of neutral tint. My brush is quite messy. This one is size number four brush. I don't think you can see the number of the brush. Anyway, this one is size number four brush which I use normally. For the other paintings, I think I use the same brush. Yes, I use the same brush. Now go with the really dark tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray of black, which will be the one you are having. The paint wouldn't be too watery. If it's too watery, just rub it on a paper towel. Because the background is already wet, if your paint is too watery, it will spread in a very vigorous manner. Once you have taken the paint, just rub it on a paper towel so that it can control the way the paint is spreading. Now using a darker tones, I'm going to add some branches onto the wet background. My background is not too wet, and the paint that I'm using to add these branches, that is also not too wet. If you feel like your paint is too watery, as I mentioned earlier, just rub it on a paper towel. You can see the way they're spreading. This will create a nice foggy effect for those branches, and that is the reason why we are adding these branches onto the wet background. Just add in as many branches as you want, onto the wet background. We'll be adding more branches once the background dries, so this is just a background layer. I have added some branches onto the wet background, they're looking little blurry and that is exactly what we need. Now onto those we're going to apply some snow, so wash all the paint from your brush and take out some white gouache or white watercolor. Our background is still slightly wet and we're going to apply the snow onto this wet background. Clean your brush properly and switch to a white gouache or white watercolor. Now onto all the branches we have added, apply a thin line of snow. You can add a line in a broken way, it doesn't need to be a continuous line, and you don't need an opaque wash or white, it can be slightly watery, we just want to make it look like there are some snow in the background. This one is just a background layer, once this dries, we'll be adding some more branches using a darker tone of neutral tint. Onto those branches we will be adding snow using an opaque white. Quickly add snow onto all the branches you have added, and let's wait for this to dry. The background has dried completely, our next step is to add some more branches using really dark tone of neutral tint, our paint is gray or black. Go with a really dark tone and add enough of branches onto your background. The branches cant run through the straight line and that's absolutely okay. Don't worry, you don't need to cut your line in between, let them overlap. We'll be using a darker tone for the straight line, so it doesn't really matter. I'm starting with my first branch. You can add them wherever you want to and however you want to. Also, you can add as many want, there's no limit for this, but make sure to make some of them more thicker and some of them thinner. This will make your painting look more interesting, and go with some interesting shape for your branches. Let me quickly add some more branches onto our background. That is how our painting is looking right now, our next task was to add snow onto these branches as well. For that, as I mentioned earlier, you can go with an opaque white, clean your brush properly, and switch back to white gouache or white watercolor and add in snow onto these branches. Add them as a broken line, you don't need to go with a continuous line. At some places you can add a thicker patch and at some places it can be a thinner patch, and this will make your painting look more interesting. So just add in your snow. This is a really easy step, it doesn't require much of attention, you can add it however you want to. At the end, once you finish the painting, we'll be splattering some more snow onto the entire painting, so even if you miss some spots, that's absolutely okay. That done, now our next major task was to paint the street lamp. For that, we'll have to wait for the entire painting to dry completely, so let's take a break and wait for our painting to dry. Once the background has dried completely, gently remove the masking tape that you have applied on the street lamp. In case if you have used masking fluid, remove that. Wow, that looks super clean. Now I'm going to change the water, this one has turned really dirty. I will just grab my other jar of water, because for the street lamp we'll be starting with a lighter tone of permanent yellow orange, so we don't want any blue to get inside the lamp and create a muddy cream. Go with a clean water, and thoroughly clean your brush. Here is the two colors I'll be using for the street lamp, permanent yellow orange as well as brown. If you don't have permanent yellow orange, you can either mix and create your own permanent yellow orange, or you can just use gamboge yellow or any other yellow. We just need a tiny bit of yellowish orange. Now we need some brown auburn. The colors are ready. Now, to add the deeper tones, we'll be using neutral tint. Those are the three colors you will need for your street lamp. I'm using the same brush which I use for the branches. I'm washing it multiple times just to be sure there's no other paint stains on my brush. Now, I'm going to apply a little water onto the street lamp, just at the center. Now, on here, we are starting off with a light tone of permanent yellow orange. It can be yellow as well, it doesn't need to be yellowish orange. Just apply that onto the center where we have the light source. Now, around that we are going to add some brown. Go with a medium tone first, and apply that around the color we have applied. Now, we'll be keeping on building the color, we'll be making the outer corners more darker so that we have a nice contrast and it will look like a light. Now, we can fill up the remaining area in brown, a medium tone of brown. Now, for the rest of the street lamp, we'll be using a darker tone which is more or less close to black. That is the reason why I told you it is okay to add the branches on top of it. Now let's go with a much more darker tone of brown and apply that onto the outer shape. At the center, we need to retain that lighter tones, and onto the outer bottom, you can apply some medium tones, and also onto this line, that line at the center. We can see here how I have retained that orange color at the center, and around that, I used a medium tone of brown. Now, let's go back with a darker tone and add that onto the post. I'm using a darker tone of brown and I'm defining the shape. Go with a darker tone of brown and simply fill that up. We'll be adding more deeper tones onto this. The base layer has to be in a darker tone of brown. We have the base layer now let's go with a bit of neutral tint and add that onto this side. On this side, I'm adding some shadows and I'm going to leave the other side as it is in a darker tone of brown. Using the same color, you can add a thin line on the other side as well but you don't need to add a lot of deeper tones, focus on one side and add new deeper tones only on one side. Now, I'm going to add a line over here. You're going to put a lot of effort in detailing the street lamp. We'll be adding lots and lots of snow onto this. Your major focus should be on the street lamp, have the light tones, over there try to retain most of the lighter tone, and around that introduce more darker tones. That's the only thing you need to be concerned about don't worry a lot about the rest. Before we add the remaining details onto the street lamp, it has to dry completely, so just check if it has dried. If it has dried, go with a darker tone of brown. Let's add in all these lines. We haven't really defined the shape so that is our next task. First, I'm adding a line at the center. Now, just run your brush along the shape you have already added there and define the shape of your street lamp. For the major outline which I am adding here, it can be slightly thick, but not too thick but for the ones at the center, for the smaller rectangle you have to go with a slightly lighter tone as well as thin lines. You can see the lines I'm adding here they're thin and I'm using a lighter tone as well. Now, we can add another division at the center, one vertical and one horizontal line. Now, let's go back with a darker tone and add in some more deeper tones at the bottom, just over here. This is the bottom part of the street lamp so obviously, there will be a lot of shadows, and that is what I'm adding right now. Onto this space add some darker tones. Maybe you can add some onto this corner as well but the center area has to stay lighter, this is where you have the light tones. Don't add any darker lines over here but around the shape, you can add more darker tones. I'm just using a darker tone and I'm defining the outer shape. Our painting is slowly taking its shape. I'm really happy with the way it is turning out. We have a nice background as well as the street lamp, that contrast is really beautiful. Now, we need to add a top covering onto the street lamp which is not really visible once you have added the paint, never mind it's a pretty simple shape so let's add that in. After this, the next task is going to be splattering the snow, which is the most interesting part but the messy part as well. Just use a darker tone and add in that top shape. It can be painted green or neutral tint or a darker tone of brown, so add in that shape. Here is our painting. It is looking so pretty already. Now, the last is to splatter the snow, clean your brush properly and switch back to white quash or white watercolor, and mindlessly splatter as much as snow as you want. The more the snow the more pretty your painting will be, so keep adding them. Whenever you feel like you're happy with the result you can stop it there. That's a lot of snow but I'm really happy with the result. Now, finally, I'm going to add some snow onto the street lamp as well, onto that top covering. Add a really thick part of snow onto the top of the street lamp. You can make it really thick so that it will stand out and make sure not to add a lot of water into your white quash or white watercolor, go with a really opaque washing. Otherwise, it will look really dull once it dries so go with an opaque washing and add a thick part of snow. You can see here onto the left side, I added a hanging piece of snow to make it look like there is some snow dripping down. Finally, I'm going to add some more snow onto the branches and that will be done. We are done with our painting for day 20. Now, it's time to peel off the masking tape. Here's the finished painting. I hope you all enjoyed painting this snowy street lamp. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. 24. Day 21 - Frozen Lake: Hello, welcome to day 21. Today we are painting on card this frozen lake surrounded by snowy mountains and pine trees. It's a really pretty painting and a beautiful color palette too. I will quickly explain the colors you will need for today's painting. The major color you will need is indigo, cobalt green, and neutral tint. Then you will also need some sap green. We'll be mixing that with neutral tint to make that into a darker green. For the sky and for the snowy mountain, we'll be using indigo. Then for the frozen lake, we'll be using cobalt green. Then again, we'll use indigo to add those deeper tones. Then to add a trace in the background, we'll be using a darker tone of green by mixing sap green with indigo or neutral tint. Finally, to add some highlights, we'll also need white gouache or white watercolor. Those are the colors you will need today. Let's add the pencil sketch. I'm starting by adding a line at the center of the paper. Now we need to add some mountains in the background as well as some on the foreground. Add a medium-sized mountain on either side. Now at the center, we can add some smaller-sized mountain. All we need is some smaller mountains in the background and some medium-sized mountains in the foreground. You can add them however you want to, it doesn't need to be the same as the ones I'm adding here. That's a mountain. Now, we need to add a lake at the center. To define the shape of the lake, I'm going to add some pieces of land or of snow on either side. Just add some curvy pieces of land on either side and what you have left at the center is your lake. That is the pencil sketch. These are the three main colors I'll be using for this painting; cobalt green, indigo, and neutral tint. Now I'm going to squeeze them onto my palette. For the sky, we'll be using indigo and for the snowy mountains as well, we'll be using indigo. To add the deeper tones, we'll be using neutral tint. Then for the lake, we'll be using cobalt green and we'll add the medium and deeper tones using indigo. It's going to be based on a limited color palette. We have the colors ready. I'm planning to start by painting the lake. There is no particular reason. I just felt like painting the lake first because cobalt green is one of my most favorite color. First, I'm going to apply an even wash of cobalt green onto the entire lake. Just follow the shape you have added there and gently fill that entire area in cobalt green or any other pastel green or blue that you're using. You can use cobalt teal or any similar color, it doesn't need to be cobalt green. If you don't have cobalt green, you can just mix a little of white gouache or white watercolor with turquoise blue to create a similar color. Simply fill that up. For the sky, you'll be using a gradient wash of indigo. If you want to start with that, you could do that, that's absolutely okay. I don't know for some reason, I had really wanted to start with the lake. I have applied paint onto the entire lake. Now I'm going with indigo and I'm adding some deeper tones onto all the corners, especially underneath the snowy ground we have added. Just follow the shape and add some darker tones. Now wash off the paint and dry the brush on a paper towel. Gently drag those lines into the bluish color we have in the background so it will look smoother. Be really gentle, don't put a lot of pressure. Once you have added those deeper tones, simply push that color into the cobalt green to make it look smoother. I think I will add some more deeper tones especially at the bottom, so I'm taking some more indigo and applying that at the bottom area. Add new deeper tones especially at the bottom of those snowy ground and a little at the bottom. Once you have added that, simply push that into the background to make it look smoother. I think I will make those deeper tones a bit more darker. I'm not really happy with the color because when this dries, it will look little lighter, so it's better to go with a much more darker tone. I'm using a much more darker tone of indigo and I'm adding that at the bottom area of all these pieces of land. Because for these pieces of land, we won't be adding a lot of color, we'll be simply retaining the paper white. If you have some darker tones over here, it will really enhance the shape of the snowy ground and that's the main reason why we are adding this deeper tones over here. That's done. Now the next task was to paint the sky. I will be going with a gradient wash of indigo for the sky. Closer to the mountain, I'll be using a medium tone and towards the top, I'll be using a lighter tone. Wash all the paint from your brush and switch back to indigo. Start with the medium tone and apply that closer to the mountain. I'm using my flat brush, you can use a flat brush or a round brush. I'm applying the paint directly on the dry background, I'm not adding any water. First, gently run your brush along the outline of your mountain and add a medium to enough indigo over here. Now clean your brush and get some water and try to make the color lighter towards the top. That's the sky. Now we have to wait for the entire background to dry before we go with the next steps. The sky and the lake has dried completely. Our next task is to paint the snowy mountains in the background. For that as well, I'll be using indigo. To paint the snowy mountain, I'm using my size number 4 round brush and I'm starting with a medium tone of indigo. Right at the top, we'll be leaving some paper white, we won't be adding any paint over there and towards the bottom, we'll be going with a darker tone. It's a really simple technique to paint a snowy mountain. You just need to leave some paper white at the top. Start by adding some lines, just some random lines. It may look slightly messy but that's absolutely okay. I will just zoom in the camera and give you a closer look. Here it is. Following the shape of the mountain, I have just added some lines, leaving some white at the top. Now towards the bottom, I'm simply filling that with a medium tone of indigo. This is our first mountain. We have another smaller one on the right side. In a similar way, I'm just adding some lines, leaving some paper white at the top. Now we can make the bottom area a bit more darker. Exactly over here. Dry the brush on a paper towel and simply pull that color into the top area. Go in an inclined manner and just push and pull that color. Try to retain some paper white at the top, don't add any paint over there. Now in case, if you couldn't retain any paper white, that's okay. We can come back and add some white gouache. You can see how pretty it is looking already. We easily created a snowy mountain by retaining some paper white. Now maybe we can make the bottom area slightly more darker. Now I'm cleaning the shape as well. We'll be adding some more darker tones onto this at the end once the background dries. The technique was quite simple. Start by adding some lines using a medium to enough indigo. While you do that, remember to leave some paper white at the top. Then towards the bottom, we can simply fill that entire area in a medium to enough indigo. Later, you can add some darker tones and simply pull that towards the top. At the bottom, you have some darker tones and towards the top, you have some paper white. Now we have another mountain left over here. Be little careful. The other mountain hasn't dried yet. If you are patient enough, you can wait for the other one to dry or you can use a blow dryer to speed up the process. In a similar way, how we did the other mountain, I'm going to leave some paper white at the top and I'm going to fill the bottom area in a medium tone of indigo. I'm being very careful and I'm being very slow because the other mountain hasn't dried yet. Those white gaps at the top of the mountain is really important. That is what brings the snowy character to your mountain. Remember to leave them when you're adding the paint. Now I'm going to go back with a medium tone and I'm just filling the space to correct the shape of the mountain. There was something wrong with the shape of mountain, so I'm just fixing that. That's done. Now let me quickly add deeper tones onto the other mountain towards the bottom area. This is how we test on that. They have dried. It isn't that bad so I think I can start adding the paint onto the other mountain. For that, I will need some sap green. I'm going to mix up the top sap green with indigo to turn that into forest green kind of a color. I'm not going to use sap green directly. Let's squeeze a bit of sap green. We don't need a lot, so don't take out a lot of paint. I'm using my smallest size brush. I'm starting with a medium tone of indigo and I'm applying that onto the top of the mountain. Be careful. If your snowy mountain in the background hasn't dried yet, maybe you can wait for few minutes or you can use a blow dryer to speed up the process. We don't want the colors to spread into the mountain in the background. That is the reason why I'm telling you to wait for a minute. Now I'm starting off with a medium tone of indigo and I'm carefully applying that along the outline of the mountain, the one in the foreground as you could see here. Now let's do this for the other mountain asphalt. You have to use a color which is one-tone darker than the color you use for the stony mountain in the background. Otherwise, you won't be able to differentiate between this two and you won't get that depth in your painting. What will be the tonal value you use for the snowy mountain in the background. The Guangdong darker than that and use that for the mountain in the foreground. I hope that makes sense. Now I'm going to fill this up as well. I have applied an even wash of indigo onto the anterior mountain. Now for the next step you will need some sap green. We're going to add some random shapes at the bottom to make it look like there are some trees. For that, I'm taking a bit of sap green and I'm mixing that with indigo to create a darker tone of green. I'm not using sap green as it is, it's a very pleasant color to use in a snowy painting. We need something like a forest green kind of a color. Just add some random shapes on to the wet background. The right side is still wet. I'm not really sure about the left side. Maybe it might have dried, but that's okay. Anyway, just quickly add some trees using that taco tone of green. These are the ones in the background, so it doesn't need to be detailed. It doesn't need to have any particular shape. Just like we did for the other paintings, add some random shapes. At some places you can make it taller and at some places you can make it lower. Just add them in. In case if your background has dried, that's okay. You still can add them. You can see here my background has almost dried. I wanted to add them while the background was still a little wet so that they will look frocky, never mind, that didn't happen. So I'm just adding them on the tribe background. Now using the same color, I'm going to add some lines over here on the snowy ground. It's the same color. Just add a few lines closer to the trees. I think our painting is looking so pretty already, especially the color product we have used. It's going so well together. We need to add more trees as well as more details onto the mountains. But for that, we'll have to wait for the entire thing to dry. Meanwhile, all that dries, we can start painting the snowy ground. For that, I'm using a light tone of indigo. I'm adding quite a little water. I'm turning the indigo into a really light sheet. You can use a tonal value which is something similar to the one we used for the background mountain. Now, just add a thick line right at the bottom of the snowy patches. I haven't made it wet, I'm just using a lighter tone of indigo and I'm adding a thick line right at the bottom of all of these shapes. Now in case if you feel like those lines are looking too prominent, you can dip your brush in clean water and just match them into the background. I think only for this one, I'm feeling like it's a bit weird, for the one on the right side. The others side looking quite okay. This is how our painting has turned out. The next task was to add the remaining details onto the snowy mountain that had tried completely. I'm using a darker tone of neutral tint. I'm dabbing level shown up people towel. We're going to add some dry brush patterns. Use the smallest size brush and go with a really dry paint. Don't use the watery paint. First begin add some lines onto the ones in the foreground. Just follow the profile of your mountain and just add some sloping lines using that dry paint. We just need some texture on the mountain, it doesn't need to be perfect and there is no particular way that you have should be adding them. All we need is just some textures, so go with a darker tone. You can either use a darker tone of indigo or Payne's gray or neutral tint. Add some dry brush patterns using that taco tool. Now let's add some dry brush patterns onto the mountain in the background dashboard just at the bottom. I won't be adding a lot. Just at the bottom to define the shape of the mountain, I'm adding some dry brush Patton's. Yeah, go with the really dry paint and keep on scratching your brush on the paper and add some Patton's. We still have to retain most of the paper white we don't need a lot of Patton's on the story mountains in the background. Now using the same color. I'm going to add some tracer over here. We have some darker tone of green in the background. Right in front of start, I'm adding some trees using a really dark tone off neutral tint. This ones doesn't need to be that detailed, you can go with a very random shape. I hope you guys remember those pine trees we added, those rough shapes which were really far from us. The same shape that I'm using here, you can add a few here and there. Some of them can be bigger and some of them can be smaller, go with different clusters. Some group you can add three or four. For some of them, you can't just add one or two. Make it as random and interesting as possible. Add as many as you want. Maybe I will show you the shape again on a scrap piece of paper if you don't remember it. It is just a rough shape. Go with a really dark tone and add a new droplet kind of a shape. That's the shape. I hope you guys remember now. Let's add them in. The ones I added they're mostly on the horizon line, but I want to extend some onto a snowy ground. I'm just making some of them bigger by extending them towards the bottom. We have some on this snowy ground as well as few on the horizon line. Now, for the ones on the snowy ground, I'm adding some dry brush patterns at the bottom. Dab the brush on a paper towel and simply add some dry patterns at the bottom of one these trees. The ones which are standing on snowy ground. The ones in the background you can leave it as it. You don't need to add any patterns over there. That is how our paintings looking like now. The final task was to add some snow using white gouache onto the mountain and the foreground. Take out some white gouache or white watercolor. We are again going with some dry brush patterns. This time we're using a different color. I'm using my smaller size brush and picking the paint directly from the tube as I don't need a lot. I'm not going to squeeze it out. Take on the paint and tap your brush on a paper towel. Just like how we added those dry brush patterns using the darker tone of neutral tint, we are going to add some dry brush patterns using white onto the mountain and the foreground. Don't add a lot of paint and cover up the entire mountain. Be sure to go with dry paint. Don't make it too watery. Just add some random lines using white gouache. Now, in a similar way, we'll have to add on to the other mountain as well. The simple trick will make your painting look really gorgeous so don't skip this. Go with some dry paint and add some random lines onto your mountain. Go with a sloping line. Now we can add a bit of white gouache behind these trees. This would make our painting look even more prettier because this will bring an instant contrast in your painting as we have used a really dark tone for the trees in the foreground. Pick some random places and add some snow behind the trees. You don't need to do this for the entire mountain. If you add a lot of white, it will lose the impact. Just pick some random places and add some white behind the trees. I'm adding few here. I hope the idea is clear. Pick some random places and add some white behind the trees. Here is our paintings. Officially we aren't done with our painting. Then if you want to tweak some of the shapes, like over here, I'm not really happy with the shape of the mountain. I'm just picking some white and I'm fixing that shape. We're going to do some tweaking. This is optional. If you're already happy with your painting, you can call it done. I fix the shape of the mountain and now using the same white gouache, I'm going to add some smaller parts of snow onto the lake to make our painting look more interesting. Again, this is also optional. I think before that I will just add some medium tone of indigo onto this patch here. The snowy patch at the bottom. I'm not really happy with the shape. I'm just trying to make it look a bit better by adding some medium tones of indigo, but doesn't look like it's happening. Maybe I will just fill this with white gouache and turn that into a different shape. I think that's going to be better. Let's leave it like this for now. I'm switching back to white gouache and I'm going to add some small snow patches on the lake. Just some smaller linear patches to make our painting look more interesting. Go with really opaque version of white gouache or white watercolor. Add some small patches like this. Don't add a lot just add few here and there. My dear friends, officially we are done with the painting. For my satisfaction, I'm just going to fix this shape here. Otherwise, I won't feel 100 percent satisfied with the painting because I'm really happy with the rest. Just this piece of land I'm not that happy with, especially the shape. There's no way I can leave it like this. I'm going to turn this into a different shape and bringing that down. I am going to fill that in white gouache. I'm not really a perfectionist, but then there are some things which I cannot really stand. That's the only reason why I'm doing this. I'm going to quickly finish this. Please don't judge me. There you go. Here is our finished painting. I cannot tell you how much I love this painting, especially the colors we have used and those tress in the background has turned out clearly pretty. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our next we learn landscape. 25. Day 22 - Artic ocean: Hello, hello, welcome to Day 22. Today, we are painting a cute scene from Arctic region. You will need a lot of colors for this painting, it's based on a limited color palette. The major color you will need is ultramarine blue and indigo. Those are the colors we'll be using for the sky as well as for the ocean, and also for those snow blocks. Then you will need some white gouache as well as some neutral tints or paynes gray. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. All right, so I have my people ready here, now I'm going to add a pencil sketch. To bring in that snowy field for our painting, we will have to [inaudible] most of the paper white, so be sure to go with a really light pencil sketch. Otherwise, those pencil lines will be visible because we are not adding any paint onto this mount. I'm attaching an image here, of the finished painting so that it can just follow the lines. You can choose a sketch how well you want to, so adding your pencil sketch. Here's the pencil sketch. I made them as light as possible. Our first task was to build the snow on the lake. For that we'll be applying a coat of water onto all the ships we have added here, so make sure your brush is clean. I'm using my size number eight round brush, and I'm gently applying a coat of water onto all of the ships we have added. Take even of your smallest size brush, and keep that aside so we can add the water and paint that along. I'm starting with this shape here, I'm adding a gentle coat of water onto that ship. Looks like there is some blue paint on my brush. Now I'm switching to my smaller size brush and I'm going to really light turn off ultramarine blue, and I'm adding some paint onto the right side. The background is already wet, so I'm just dropping a lighter tone of ultramarine blue. You don't need to add it onto the entire ship, just add to your anterior, got a really light tone. That is one thing you need to be careful about. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add a lighter tone of ultramarine blue on all the ships. This is a really, if you step, you need to apply a wet coat of water onto all the ships, then onto that, add a light tone of ultramarine blue. Just your lines and some tones you're in there. It doesn't need to be perfect and it doesn't need to have a clean blend. Just dropping, I'd like to turn off ultramarine blue onto these boat ships. There are two things you need to be careful about; the first thing is called a lighter tone, it shouldn't be a darker tone. You can see the color I'm using here, it's a really light one of ultramarine blue, and the second thing is don't add a lot of paint. We need to retain most of the paper white to bring in the snowy character. Those are the two things you need to be careful about. Now, let me quickly finish the other side. Okay, so I have added the base coat. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry. The next step is to paint the sky, as well as the ocean, so it's drying time. All right, looks like that has dried. Just stretch and see if it has dried completely, otherwise, wait for few more minutes. Now to paint the ocean, am taking up the tough indigo, I'm going to mix that with ultra marine blue to create an ocean blue. I don't want the color to be too bright, as well as too dull, so that's the reason why I'm mixing these two colors. This is known as ultramarine deep, just mix a bit of ultramarine blue, and indigo to create a very beautiful ocean blue. Now, let's apply a darker tone at the bottom. As we go towards the top, we can make the color lighter. Gently run your brush along the outline of those ships. Don't add any paint onto those snowy ships, this is the reason why I told you to wait for the background to dry completely, otherwise that they may spread into each other and it may create a mess. Wait for few more minutes if you feel like your background hasn't dried yet. I'm using a flat brush here, it's absolutely okay to use it on brush. You can use any brush that you're comfortable with. The only thing you need to be careful about, is that don't add any paint onto those snowy ships. You can use a brush that you prefer. Just take your brush along the outline and adding that causes blue onto the ocean. We'll be using a really dark tone at the bottom and as you're progressing towards the top, we will make it lighter. I'm going to apply this blue, almost till half of this ocean. You can already see that beautiful contrast between the ocean blue as well as the paper white. It is already looking super snowy. Now, I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush, and I'm going to make the color lighter towards the top. We have a darker tone at the bottom, now we're making the color lighter, so wash all the paint from your brush, and make it lighter over here. Once we are done adding these base layer, we'll be adding some darker tones underneath all of these ships, just to show the shadows and reflection. Be really careful when you're adding paint over here. You can go with the smaller size brush, if you're not too confident with your bigger size brush. Once you have added the paint, try to make it a clean blend. Right now, it is a strong separation, I haven't really blended the colors so I'm tapping my brush on of people towel. I'm running my brush in a horizontal way to make it a clean blend at this junction. At the top we need a lighter tone and towards the bottom we need a darker tone, so that's the base layer. Now we can add some deeper tones underneath all the ships, maybe I will just remove this attachment here, that little base. I think now it looks better. Okay, so that is a base layer. Now it's time to go with the darker tones. We need to add them before the background dries, so I'm switching back to my smallest size brush, and I'm going to really dark turn off indigo. Got a really dark tone. Now right underneath all the ships, add a thick line, they will beautifully blend into the background as it is still wet. You can go to really dark tone, maybe you can add some over here right at the bottom. Now, adding some over here, we have some more ships at the top, so this needs to be done for all the ships you have added. Get the darker tone and add that underneath the ship. Now for the one on the top we can go to a little lighter color, because we have used a lighter color for the background, so for the reflections on the shadows as well, we can use a lighter tone of the same color. Add in some water, and make it lighter. It is not too light and it's not too dark as well, it's a medium tone. Now we can add some lines using that color over here. Let's blend that into the background using a slightly wet brush. I'm just pulling the paint and making it a clean blend. Looks like this area has dried a little, but as for him it's not really able to get a clean blend, so I need to push and pull the color to make it look better. We don't want such a strong line, so go to the wet brush, and try to blend that into the background. This is where we have reached, I think we can already get that [inaudible] from this painting, just because of the colors we have used. I think the main reason is that dark blue we use for the ocean, and I think we can make it a bit more darker, to turn that into a much more deep ocean. Just over here, I'm adding some darker tones. I think I will leave that top layer as it is. Now I'm happy with the colors, but I feel like I should have made the top layer a bit more brighter because when this dries there are chances, it may look a little dull. Anyway, let's see when it dries, how it does look. If it gives, we need to add some more brighter tone, we can do that later. Now the next task was to paint the sky. For that as well, I'm going to use the same color and mix of ultramarine and indigo. You can use any blue of your choice, It doesn't need to be the mix. You can use ultramarine, acidosis or sadolin blue or Prussian blue, it's totally a choice. I'm going to apply a solid color onto the sky, so I'm just using that mix. I'm going with a medium tone and applying that on top of my paper. Now as I come down, I'm going to make it slightly lighter, not too light, just a little light. Go with a medium tone on the top and as you come down, make it lighter. Here we're asked would be very careful not to add any paint onto our snowy ships. Down your brush carefully along the outline and add in new paint. It is more or less like a solid color. On the top, maybe the slightly brighter but not too much. You can either go with the solid wash or gradient wash of any blue of your choice. The only thing you need to be careful is to apply paint very carefully, while you're along the snowy mountains. That is it, now let's wait for this to dry. Just while I was waiting for the background to dry, I realized I didn't add any shadow over here so that is our next task. I don't know whether you guys added it or not. If you haven't go with a medium to on-off indigo and add a thick line underneath the shade. Now we can blend that into the background by going with some clean water. It isn't that difficult. Clean your brush and go with that pressure and try to blend this into the background. Just keep pushing and pulling the paint into the background so we will be able to get a clean blend here. Maybe we can make the other areas also a bit more darker. I don't know, I'm not really happy with the color here. It is looking too dull for me so I'm going to go back with the darker tone. I'm adding some more shadows just at the top, a little over here, and onto the background as well. If you're already happy with your background just leave it as it is, this isn't really necessary. For me for some reason, I'm not really happy with the color. I feel like it does look really tell. Now I'm washing off the paint from my brush. I am switching to a bigger brush. Then picking a lighter tone of the same color. I'm applying that over here to make it a clean blend. I won't be adding any paint at the bottom. I'm quite happy with the bottom part. We have got a very beautiful view over there. I need to apply the same color all over here to make it a clean blend. Right now the bottom and the top is looking as separate pieces. We need to make it a seamless blend. Okay, that looks nice. It was quite easy. I thought I would have to apply some more paint at the bottom, but then it was quite quick. Okay, so the next task is to add some more shadows onto the snowy ground, so that I'm going back with a bit more darker tone of ultramarine blue. Not too dark and not too light as well, it's a medium tone. Towards the bottom of all the shapes we have added here, I'm going to add a slightly thicker line using a medium tone of ultramarine blue. At some places, you can make it thicker and at some places, you can make it thinner. They're not really adding them as a line. Once you have added the line, go with a clean red brush, and try to blend that into the background so that those lines wouldn't look too prominent. First you can add a line onto all the snow pieces here. Now wash out the pain or just take out another brush. I'm trying to blend that into the background. It's not really a blend, but we are just trying to smash the color into the background so that they won't look like a line. We can do the same for the other ones on the top. Now for the ones on the top, as they are bigger pieces compared to the ones on the bottom, we can add some tones to the top as well onto the surface of that snow pieces. I don't know what to call it. They are not really mountains. They are some accumulations of snow. Maybe I'll just call them as snow shapes. So let's do the same for the one we have on the left as well as on the center. For this one, I'm just adding some lines from the top to bottom only on the right side. Now, adding a line at the bottom. Now use see brush and too match that into the background. We don't want them to be seen as lines and that is the reason why we are matching that into the background. Now we'd have to do for the same on the right side as well. All right, so this is how our painting has turned out. Now let's wait for this to dry completely. After that, we'll be adding some vitals onto the water, as well as we'll add some [inaudible]. Okay, for the next step, you will need some white gouache or white watercolor. We're going to add some more reflections using white. Just on the top. We won't be adding any at the bottom. We just need a little more white gouache or white watercolor. Now use a small size brush. My major focus is on this big sheet we have at the center. I'm contemplating on this area so go with the smallest size brush and take white paint on your brush. I'll just add some thin, delicate lines underneath this big space. It is nothing but just some white lines right underneath the ones we have added on the top. Over to the bottom, we are not adding any white lines. We'll just concentrate on the ones we have added on the top. It doesn't need to be a continuous line throughout the entire sheet. I'm just adding them on the side, onto this corner. I will take them a bit more down. You can see the lines I'm adding they are not too bold. I will take it a little more down so that the water will look more interesting. Right now it is quite plain at the top. Over the bottom as we have applied tone of blue, it is looking so much better, but on the top it is looking quite dull and that is the main reason why I'm adding these white lines. Okay, so let's add some more white lines on the top. Be sure to use a brush which has a pointed tip. We don't want these lines to be too prominent. Keep that in mind and also go with a slightly dry paint. Okay, so that's how our painting is looking. Now we have a small area left at the top. I'm going to add some dry white lines over here as well. These white lines are making it look like our water is shiny. You can clearly see here, I haven't added a lot. I just added few lines on the top area. Onto the darker parts, I haven't added any line. This doesn't need to have any particular style or a particular order. Just add some random lines underneath the snow patches. Just on the top where we have applied that lighter tone in the background. That is set. Now the last step is to add one or two boards onto the sky. For that, I'm going to take out a neutral tone. You can either use neutral tone are Payne's gray or black. I'll just add to birds. Because the sky is quite plain and I think it will look better if we add some birds. But this is really optional. If you don't want to add them, you can leave it as it is. Use the smallest size brush and go with the darker tone of Payne's gray or black. First I'm adding an inclined line at a small decline. Now from the center, I'm adding another inclined line, which is the wing of the bird. Now adding another one in the opposite direction and that's our first bird. It's quite easy to draw. Now I'm adding the second bird. For this one, I'm going with a different posture. I will make the wings wide open. Now, adding a teeny tiny circle at the center and that's our birds. Now onto the wing, I'm going to add some white tone. You might have seen those black and bite birds in the Arctic region, maybe the Discovery Channel. That is exactly what I'm trying to do here. I'm just adding some white tones underneath the wings. That looks really dull. I think I will have to go with a much more opaque version of white. Let me just pick some paint from my tube and make that white look more opaque. Right now it isn't really visible. Okay, now it looks better. Add a line underneath the wings for both birds. All right, so that is it. We have finished our painting for day 22. Let me quickly peel off the masking tape. Here is the finished painting, it's a really easy one, if you haven't tried it yet, go give it a try. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I will back tomorrow with another [inaudible]. 26. Day 23 - Camping under Northern lights: Hello, welcome to Day 23. Today we're painting very gorgeous Northern lights. It's a really magical one. You can see that beautiful sky. So the colors you will need are indigo, cobalt green, and cadmium yellow. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. Then for the camping tent, I will be using cadmium yellow, permanent yellow-orange, and brown to add the [inaudible] and deeper tones. For the snowy ground, we will need indigo, and to add the final details, you will need neutral tint or Payne's gray or black, and also just splatter the snow, you will need white gouache or white watercolor. So those are the colors you will need for today's painting. First, we need to add the pencil sketch. There is nothing much to draw. You just need to add a line at the bottom so that separates your sky and the snowy ground. Now we need to add a camping tent, which is just a triangular shape. So just add a medium-size triangle right at the center. It is a bit different from the camping tent, which we see normally. This one isn't a triangular shape. Now starting from the tip, we need to add some divisions. So extend some lines towards the bottom. I have added two small divisions on the right side. So that's the third one. I will add few divisions on the left side as well. Now we can extend these lines. So that's how our tent is going to be. It's a quite an easy sketch, there's nothing much complicated in this. Now under this, I'm going to apply a piece of masking tape and I'm going to mask it out so that we can be in the sky quite easily without worrying about the paint entering the tent. So I'm going to grab a piece of masking tape and I'm applying that over here. I need to cut the other piece. So I'm taking out a pencil and I'm drawing this line. Now, I'm going to cut that out. You can also use masking fluid if you're more comfortable with that. Now, I'm going to put that piece back. So follow the line and stick it back. Now we need to apply another piece on the right side. Now we can add another piece at the bottom to protect the snowy ground. So this way we can apply paint onto the sky without any fear. We can try and apply the colors and just play with it without really worrying about the paint and doing the tent on the snowy ground. So that is the reason why I'm masking this out. The paper is ready. Now we can take all the colors. For the sky, I will be using indigo, cadmium yellow, and cobalt green. These are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. We'll be applying darker tones at those places, I'll be using indigo and to add those Northern lights, I'll be using cadmium yellow as well as cobalt green. These are three colors I'll be using for the sky. Now let me squish them onto my palette. If you want to try out a different color combination, please feel free to do that. Just follow the technique and use any of your favorite color combination. Also, I have other colors ready here. Now the first step is to apply a coat of water onto the entire sky. We can simply apply water to the entire sky without really worrying about the tent as we have applied masking tape on top of it. Run your brush multiple times and make sure the water has reached everywhere. Now to apply the paint onto a sky, I'm using my round brush. I'm mixing a bit of cobalt green with yellow. I want a slightly greenish color. Instead of cobalt green, you can use any of your other favorite color. So just follow the technique if you want to use any different color combination. Now, I'm going to add some swirly lines. I will add four or five of them and in-between spaces, I will be adding the darker tone which is the indigo. So that's the plan. So just adding some lines like this, some very curvy lines. So instead of this color I'm using here, you can use leaf green or any other bright green. I just wanted to do with cobalt green into a little more greenish one. So that is the reason why I'm mixing a little of yellow or you can use lemon yellow as it is. Now, I'm going to keep this brush aside. I'm not brushing off the paint. Now I'm switching to my flat brush and I'm going with a really dark tone of indigo and I'm simply applying that onto the in-between spaces we have left in here. So between all of these lines, we have left some gap. Now, our task was to add our darker tone over here. It can be indigo or any other darker blue that you prefer. Don't worry about how they're looking right now and don't worry about blending them. Just apply the color on to the background. Right now, our intention is to apply the paint before the background dries. We can blend them as we go. So this is how our sky is looking right now, I just use these two colors and I applied them in an alternate way. Now, we need to start making the colors look more smoother. So I'm just running my brush along the indigo I have added, and I'm just trying to blend that into the cobalt green. Now I'm going to keep my flat brush aside and I'm going to switch back to my round brush. The dark color is looking quite okay, but we need to blend the other one. So I'm going back with my round brush and I'm picking some more cobalt green and I keep adding some more paint onto all the spaces that we have applied earlier, just with the same color and I add some more paint over there. So every time we're applying the paint onto this wet background, we are making the background wet again and again, so this way the background will stay wet for a longer time, and again, keep on blending the colors. So that is how the sky is looking right now. I'm quite happy with it, but I want to make the colors more darker. So I'm going to go back with the dark tone of indigo and I'm making all the colors more darker. So this will bring a lot more contrast in our painting and this will automatically make our sky look more pretty. If you have seen the Northern light, it's a gorgeous play of contrast. There will be a really dark color against a light color. That is what brings the beauty of a Northern light. So that's the exact same reason why I made the indigo more darker. Now, I'm going to wash out the paint and I'm going to switch back to my round brush. Now we need to try and make the blend a bit smoother. I'm picking some cobalt green that [inaudible] and I'm dabbing my brush in a paper towel, and I'm carefully running my brush in a [inaudible] where we have these junctions where the indigo is touching the cobalt green. We can repeat the same on to all these areas. So every time you do that [inaudible] with your brush, you need to wipe it on a paper towel because there are chances your brush might have some indigo on it. We don't want any indigo to get into that cobalt green. You really don't need to wash it, just dab it on a paper towel and that is all you need. So that is how our sky is looking right now. I'm quite happy with the blend. Now there's one more thing that I want to do before the sky dries, it is still slightly wet, so I can make use of the time. I'm just mixing a bit of cobalt green with cadmium yellow and I'm creating that greenish wash and I'm gently adding a little onto few of the lines that have had it on the sky. See that, that's a greenish color. I'm just adding a bit over here, onto these three lines. Now I'm washing off the paint and I will try to blend that again. I'm also really happy with the contrast. So that is why I introduce some yellow. If you are pretty convinced with the sky, you don't need to do this. And if your sky has dried, don't do this. This will only work if your background is still wet, otherwise, leave it as it is. And also if you're doing this, don't use paint that is too watery. Always dab your brush in a paper towel and make sure your paint is not too watery. So that's the sky. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. Now, let's wait for this to dry. Now, that has dried completely. Now our next task is to splatter the stars. For that, I'm going to take out some white gouache, you can either use white gouache or white watercolor. Pick up some paint and add a few drops of water and turn that into the right consistency. Don't add a lot of water and turn that into a watery consistency, we need something in between the watery and the thick washing. If you're not too sure about the consistency, all you need to do is just dab your brush on a paper towel and then splatter the stars, this will give you those tiny stars. Now splatter as many stars as you want. I'm going to concentrate more on the outer area where we have these dark tones and after this, I will be adding some bigger stars as well with the same brush. Let's do that. [MUSIC] The sky is done. It looks gorgeous. Now, once everything has dried completely, we can remove the masking tape. Be very gentle, don't put a lot of pressure. Carefully remove it at an angle, looks like that worked. I was a bit afraid that the paint has seeped in, but the masking tape has worked wonderfully. It really helped us a lot. The next task was to paint the tent. For the tent, I will be using cadmium yellow, permanent yellow orange, as well as brown. We'll start with cadmium yellow. We'll be applying that onto the entire tent. Then we will add some medium tones using permanent yellow orange and brown as well. Let's start with cadmium yellow. You can use any of the yellow you have got. Start with a medium tone, and apply that onto the tent, especially onto the center. Around this yellow, we're going to add some orange. You can use any of the orange you have got, or you can just mix a bit of yellow with vermilion or scarlet, and create an orangish color. Now, apply that onto remaining area. If you paint the right gloss, you can easily create that glowing effect. Right at the center, I had luster yellow. Around that, I'm adding some orange. Just add them without worrying a lot. We just need some yellow at the center, and some orange and darker tones around it. That's only been your concern about. I'm going to add some more orange onto the right side, going with a medium tone, and applying that over here. Onto this, we'll be introducing more deeper tones. First, we will use brown, and we'll add some more deeper tones. That's the base layer. Using the same color, I'm going to add those divisions. I'm going with a medium tone of orange, which isn't bad watery. I'm adding the divisions in a very rough way. We'll be adding more deeper tones. Right now, this is all you need. Let's go with brown, a medium tone, which is not too watery. Let's add that onto the outer corners. Just like I mentioned earlier, at the center, we need to read in most of the lighter tones. Towards the corner, we can introduce more darker tones. It doesn't need to be a perfect blend. Just add them however you can, don't worry about the blend. It shouldn't look like two different pieces, that's only thing. Other than that, it doesn't need to be a clean or a smooth blend. You can see the way I have added them. I haven't got a clean blend here, but then it is still looking okay. We created the background using yellow and orange. Now, we introduce a medium tone of brown. We added those divisions in a very rough manner. Now, I'm going to go with a very dark tone of brown. I'm picking some indigo, and I'm adding that with brown. Now, I'm adding that deeper tone onto these corners. Again, don't use paint which is too watery. Go with a slightly dry paint because the background is still wet. If you add them, the watery paint, it will spread into the background. You won't get the mess lines. Go with the paint which isn't that watery. Now, add the divisions. Use a brush which has a pointed tip. Don't make them too bold. Also, you can see the the way I'm adding them. I'm not adding the line at the center. Right at the center, I'm just leaving the orange line we added earlier. I'm not adding any brown tone over there. Just at the top and the bottom, I introduce some brown tones. At the center, I didn't add any brown tones. Over there, I just left the orange lines, which we added earlier. That is how our tent is looking right now. I think you can already feel that glowing effect. Now, let's paint the snowy ground. For that, I'm using my size eight 8 round brush. I'm going with a medium tone of indigo. In the bottom, I will use a medium tone. Towards the top, I would make the color lighter. This is the color I'm using at the bottom. Now, I'm washing off the paint, and I'm cleaning with some clean water. I would make the top area lighter. The camping tent might not have dried completely, so be a little careful when you're adding paint over here. Don't make the blue touch the yellow. Be very careful. At the bottom, I have a medium tone. Towards the top, I have a lighter tone. For this one, as well, you don't need a clean blend. We just need some lighter tone on the top, and some medium tones at the bottom. That's only thing you should be concerned about. It doesn't really matter at all, if it's a clean blend or a rough blend because we'll be any way adding some textures onto this. Even if you have got a clean blend, it wouldn't be visible. Now, I'm going to pick a bit more darker tone. I'm adding some lines on the outer corners. I'm just dragging my paint from the masking tape towards the center. I'm not adding any medium tones closer to the tent. That area, I have left in a lighter tone. Now, I'm washing off the paint from my brush. We need to add some yellow onto the snowy ground. I'm using a slightly dry version of yellowish orange, and I'm adding a little over here closer to the tent. Just a little. We don't need a lot. Be careful not to add a lot towards the blue, where you have those medium tones. Over here, we have a lighter tone. It wouldn't really affect the background. We're trying to make it look like the light from the tent is reflecting on the ground. Remember to use a paint which is not too watery, you can try to brush on a paper towel. Then add those yellow tones. Because the background is already wet, you shouldn't be using a wet paint. Now, we can wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] That has dried completely. The next task is to add some trees in the background. For that, I'm using some neutral tint. I'll just squeeze it over here. There is no more space left on my palette. You can either use paint gray or black. Go to a really dark tone, which is very much close to black. You can use black tricky. Just like I normally do, I'm just adding some trees using some lines. I will just add some lines close to each other. Some of them will be taller, and some of them will be shorter. I'll be just filling this entire line. First, I'm defining the shape. It doesn't need to be a straight line. You can add some bumps, and you can make it sloping. Just adding a line however you want to. Over here, I'm just taking a bit down. I have defined the horizon line. Now, our task is to add some lines close to each other. Just like I said earlier, some of them can be taller, and some of them can be shorter. Add them close to each other, and add some rough trees. It doesn't need to be a defined shape. I'm not going with a very detailed shape. It is just some lines. If you want to go with a much more detailed version, you can add some pine trees, and just fill up the horizon line. I'm just adding some lines. To be honest, I don't have the patience to add that many pine trees. Maybe you can go the rough shape, or just add few pine trees in a detailed shape. Rest can be these lines. Add them however you want to, and fill up the entire horizon line. [MUSIC] That's done. You can see how pretty our painting has turned out when we introduced those trees. Using the same color, I'm going to add some more details onto the tent. Just like I did earlier, using brown, I'm adding a small line at the bottom as well as on the top. At the center, I'm not adding any line. This one is going to be much more shorter than the brown line. At the center, you have an orange line, where you have the light source. Then onto either side, you have a brown line, as well as a darker line at the ends. That is how our tent is looking right now. To make the tent look complete, we need to add those lines on the top. I mean, the sticks on the top. Just extend some of the lines, and take them into the sky. All of them can be of different sizes. I haven't seen such a tent in my real life, so I suppose these are some sticks, where you tie the cloth or the canvas of the tent together to make them stay. Just extend two or three lines. One of them can be longer, and other ones can be shorter. I'm randomly extending some of the lines. Finally, using the same color, I'm going to add a thin line at the bottom. Just a small line that we have these divisions. Now, I have some darker tone on my brush. I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel, and I'm going to turn my brush into a dry one. The last of this, to add some dry brush patterns onto the snowy ground. Dab it on a paper towel. We can add a few closer to the tent. Just a little. We don't need a lot over here. We can add some onto the ground, especially towards the bottom, closer to the masking tape. You randomly add them. There is no particular rule for this. We don't need a lot there. We have that lighter tone in the background. You can add some closer to the tent, as well as towards the bottom that we have those medium tones, going to randomly. Make sure your paint is very dry. If you're not too sure, dab it on a paper towel multiple times before you add these patterns. That is it, my dear friends. We are done with our painting for Day 23. [MUSIC] I'm really, really happy with the way this one has turned out. The sky is looking so magical, and so is the tent. I think the colors have come out so good. I cannot tell you how much I love this painting. I really want to be there right now. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy painting this gorgeous dancing lights. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 27. Day 24 - Foggy Day: [MUSIC] Hello, my dear friends. Welcome to Day 25. Today we're painting a easy peasy snowy landscape. I think this is going to be the easiest and the prettiest from the collection we have done so far. The only colors you will need are indigo, neutral tint or Payne's Grey and brown. Then to add the snow, you will need white gouache or white watercolor. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. I have my paper ready here, and these are the three colors. Now, I'm going to add a pencil sketch. We'll lead to add that cabin, which is just a triangular shape like yesterday's painting. So just add a triangle right at the center of your paper. You can decide on the size you want to go with. This is the size I am going with. It is not that huge, it is not that small as well. Now, add an irregular line, it would separate the sky and the ground. Now, we can add a square shaped window at the center. So that is the pencil sketch. It's an easy one. Now, I'm going to squeeze out the colors onto my palate. That's indigo. Then you will need brown or burnt sienna. We'll be using this one for the cabin. Then you will need neutral tint or a Payne's Grey. Those are the three main colors you will need for this painting. Now, I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the entire people using my one-and-a-half inch wash brush. You're going to leave the cabin, you can a coat of water onto the entire paper. We're going to paint the background in one single layer. Then later once everything dries, we'll be painting the cabin. I have applied a coat of water onto the entire paper. Now, I'm going to grab my flat brush and I'm going with a medium tone of indigo. For the sky, we'll be using indigo. Go with a medium tone and apply that onto the top of the people. As you come down, make your color lighter. This is the color I'm using on the top and I'm making it lighter as I'm coming down. Try to get a clean blend. It's a simple gradient wash. On the top, you have a medium tone and closer to the cabin, you have a lighter tone. That's the sky. Now, I'm going to go with the same color and I'm going to apply that at the bottom. Over here we have a medium tone. Now, again, as we're going towards the top, we can make it lighter. But for that, I'm using my round brush. I don't have any paint on my brush. I'm just pulling and pushing that paint towards the top. I don't need a clean blend here like the sky. We just need some medium tones at the bottom and some lighter tones at the the top. Just keep pushing and pulling that paint towards the top. It can look slightly rough, but that's absolutely okay. We have applied the color onto the sky as well as onto the ground. Now, I'm going to switch to my smaller brush. This is my size number 4 round brush. I'm good with a darker tone of neutral tint. If you're using Payne's Grey go with a darker tone, just make sure your paint is not too watery. We're going to add some trees in the background. We are going to create those foggy trees, so the paint shouldn't be too watery. Your sky is already wet, so go with a slightly watery paint. Now, just add some random shapes over here right behind the cabin. At some places it can be taller, and at some places it can be shorter. Add along the outline of your cabin. Now, continue that to the other end. If your paint is too watery, it will start spreading into the ground. Go with a slightly watery paint. If you're not too sure about the consistency, maybe you can tap your brush on a paper towel and make sure it is not too watery. You can see here my paint is not spreading a lot. This is because I'm not using a watery paint. Now, you can push and pull that paint into the sky to make it look a little smoother. Finally, dab your brush on a paper towel and just run it over here to make that line look clean. Otherwise you will have a feathery effect there. You can see the paint was spreading down. This step will limit the amount of spread. Now, let's go back with a darker tone of neutral tint and add some more trees over here. In the background, we have used a lighter tone of Payne's Grey and the foreground, we used to darker tone. This will add a sense of depth in our painting and also it will make our foggy trees look more beautiful. Just add some abstract shade. On the top you can add a rough shape of a pine tree, but this ones are going to be really foggy so you don't need to put a lot of effort. Just randomly add some foliage on the top. It doesn't need to be a well detailed shape. I'm just taking my brush on either side and I'm adding some foliage on the top. In a similar way, I'm going to add some more trees on the other side as well. Just keep in mind the ones you are adding right now using a darker tone has to be slightly shorter than the ones we have added in the background. Otherwise, this will cover up the entire background, and the lighter tone won't be visible. [MUSIC] That's done. Now, I'm going to wash out the paint from my brush, and I'm going to switch to a lighter tone of indigo. We will need to add some more deeper tones on the snowy ground. Now, I'm going to go back with a light tone of indigo and I'm going to add some dry brush patterns. You can add few closer to the cabin as well as onto the outer corners. We don't need a lot, just a little. Go with the dry paint and add some random dry brush patterns. That is how I'm adding them. They're just some rough and messy patterns. That is set. Now, we can wait for the entire background to dry. [MUSIC] The background has dried completely. Our next task is to paint the cabin. For that, I'm using a brown tone. I'm not using brown acidosis, I'm going to mix up the indigo into brown to create a darker color. You can use either brown timber acidosis or you can just create your own darker tone of brown. Use either brown or burnt sienna and mix that with a little bit of indigo or Payne's Grey and create a darker washing of brown. I'm using my smaller size brush for this task. Create a darker tone of brown and fill up the entire cabin in that color. [MUSIC] At the bottom, go with an irregular line. Don't add the paint as a straight line. When you add that as a irregular line like this, it would make it look like there is some snow on the ground. Be sure to do this. Don't make it a straight line. [MUSIC] Now, let's pick some indigo or [inaudible] or black and add some deeper tones onto the roofline. I will just add some over here onto the left line. Now, using [inaudible], I will add a square, where we are going to add a window. Just add a rough square shape. If your background is still wet, the color may slightly spread into the background, but that's absolutely okay. We have added the deeper tones. I feel like there's a lot of gap on the right side. I'm going back with that brown color we used earlier. I'm just fixing the shape over here. That is set. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry before we add the final details. [MUSIC] That has dried completely. Next, we're going to add some snow. For that, you will need a white gouache or white watercolor. I'm going to squeeze out a bit onto my palette. I think it is better to add the remaining details of the cabin before we splatter the snow. I'm going back with a darker tone of brown. I'm using my size number 4 round brush here, and I'm mixing some indigo with brown. We'll need to define the roofline as well as we need to add the window. Then we need to add some horizontal lines as well. Go with a darker tone and draw the roofline on either side. Just a bit black or paint's gridline. Add that one either side. Now, we can fill up the window using the same color. Add a square and fill that up. Around the window we have some deeper tones which we added while the background was wet. Now, once this dries, we'll be adding a white bottom for the spring too. Now, let's go with a lighter tone of the same color, add two drops of water. Using that lighter tone, add some horizontal lines starting from the top. Just add some horizontal line until you reach the bottom. [MUSIC] That is also done. Now, we can start adding the snow. Again, either use white gouache or white watercolor. First, we will add some snow on the roofline, and then we can splatter some snow onto the entire painting. Squeeze out some white gouache or white watercolor onto your palette and don't add a lot of water, go with a very thick and creamy consistency because we need to add an opaque white onto the roofline to make it look like snow. Just add up thick, irregular line. It doesn't need to be a clean straight line. At some places, you can make it thicker. It will look like there is a lot of snow on the roofline. Maybe first I will add a thick line on either side. Then onto some places, I will make it more thicker. Now, I'm adding some thickness here. See that? It's already looking so snowy. Now, in a similar way, I will add some thickness on random places. Maybe on the top of the roof I will make it look like the snow is dripping down. I'm just adding a line over here and taking the snow a bit down onto that wall. That's the straw-dripping effect. Now, let's fill up this side as well. [MUSIC] That's done. Now, we need to add a thick part for the window. You can also use a white gel pen if you're more comfortable with that, or we just need a thick, white color. It doesn't really matter whether you're using white gouache or a white gel pen. [MUSIC] That is also done. You can see how pretty that cabin is looking already. It is looking so personally. Now, we'll be splattering a lot of white onto the entire painting to make it look more snowy. But before that, there's one more thing we need to do. For that, I'm switching back to a [inaudible] and tattered brush on a paper towel. We are going to add some tri-bush patterns on the ground. Just add some random patterns just to make it look like these are some footsteps. You can add few patterns around the cabin and also towards the bottom. We don't need a lot, just a few here and there to bring in more texture on this plain ground. Make sure to go the dry paint if you're not too sure about the consistency. Keep dabbing your brush on a paper towel until you feel like the paint is dry. Don't go the watery paint. That's done. Now, I'm going to switch back to white. I'm going to splatter enough of snow onto the entire painting. You don't need to look at whether it's a sky or the cabin on the ground. Just splatter enough of snow. [MUSIC] Finally, using the same color, I'm going to add some snow onto the trees as well. I won't be adding a lot. I will just pick some random area. To add up thick parts of white snow. Just add few here and there. Don't add a lot. It shouldn't be too prominent. Pick few trees and add some white snow onto the top. Don't make them too huge and don't use a very thick opaque paint. You can go with a slightly watery paint because I don't want them to be too prominent. Now, let's do the same on the other side as well. If you use a very opaque white paint, they will look really prominent and you won't get that foggy effect in your painting. That is the reason why I told you to go with a slightly watery paint. It's not too watery. By watery, I mean, it shouldn't be too opaque. It looks like we're done with our painting for today. [MUSIC] I'm going to quickly peel off the masking tape. I think I love this color palette. It really has that snowy mood. Here's the finished painting. It is really looking so personally. I hope you guys enjoyed today's painting. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I will be back here tomorrow with the next snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 28. Day 25 - Snowy Night: Hello, my friends. Welcome to Day 25. Today, we're painting under snowy landscape with a very limited color palette. You will only need indigo, Payne's gray, as well as white gouache or white watercolor for this painting. The only colors you will need are indigo, Payne's gray or neutral tint, or black. To splatter the snow, you will need white gouache or white watercolor. I have my paper ready here. Now, I'm going to add a line, a little below the center of the paper. Now we have a street lamp as well as a bench. I'll be adding the bench as well as the street light somewhere towards the right side over here. This is going to be the rough shape. You don't need to add the sketch right now because when we add the background color, it won't be visible. It doesn't really help if you add the sketch. I just want to show you how it is going to look like. That's going to be the rough shape and size of the bench. Next to that, we will be adding a street lamp. You can add the street lamp which is just a straight line, and from the top, you can add an arc. Other shape like this, we need to indicate the location of the street lamp because over here we'll be making the color lighter. Now I'm going to squeeze out the colors onto my palette. As I mentioned earlier, you will need indigo as well as neutral tint or Payne's gray. We will paint the background using indigo. Then we will add the details using neutral tint and in the end, once everything dries, we will splatter some snow using white gouache. I have the colors ready on my palette. Now, I'm going to apply a clean coat of water onto the entire paper, go with a wide brush and apply an even coat of water, keep running your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere. I have applied a coat of water onto the entire paper. Now for the next task, you will need a flat brush. It can be even a bigger size round brush. I'm starting off with the darker tone of indigo and I'm applying that onto the top of my paper. On the top, you can apply a really dark tone of indigo, and just toward the street lamp, you can make the color lighter. I'm applying a very dark tone of indigo on the top. First when I started painting, I thought it is better to leave some gap at the center and make that area lighter where we have the street lamp. Then later I realize it is better to paint the entire layer and then lift up the paint using a clean brush. Just ignore what I'm doing here and apply your paint onto the entire background. We are using a darker tone on the top and lighter tone at the bottom, which isn't really light, just a medium tone. On the top, you need a really intense tone of indigo and towards the bottom, you need a medium tone. I'm going to make it more simple. Just on the top, you need a darker tone and over the bottom, you need a medium tone. That is the background layer. Now, I'm going to take off my clean round brush, which doesn't have any paint and it is just slightly wet. It doesn't have a lot of water, it is just damp. Now I'm running my brush in a circular way and I'm lifting up the paint. This is the same technique we used to paint the glowing moon. But today, we are using the same technique to paint a street lamp. Lift up some paint. You can see that glowing white circle there. This is exactly what we need. Keep doing it until you're happy with a white circle, make it as light as possible. We'll be adding a street lamp in a way the light fixture comes here. We'll be adding over light, right where we have added that white circle. Now before the background dries, we need to add some trees in the background , those foggy trees. For that, I'm going with the darker tone of neutral tint. You can also use Payne's gray. Now I'm just adding some random shape at the background. As I always say, some of them can be taller and some of them can be shorter, go with the darker tone and just add some random shapes like this. Again, fill up that entire line with similar trees. You can add a few darker trees as well in the foreground. Just a few, we don't need a lot. That is the background. Now I'm going to wash out the paint from my brush. Rinse off all the paint from your brush and tap it on a paper towel, it shouldn't be watery. Now gently run that brush over here to make this line clean. Otherwise, you will have a feathery effect there, we are trying to get rid of that feathery effect. Now you can dip your brush in some water and apply some medium tone of indigo on the snowy ground. Just pick a little of paint and add that at the bottom. It is just like applying using a medium tone of indigo. You can see how pretty the background is looking already. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry before we go to the next details. The background has dried completely. The colors are looking slightly dull than earlier, I really wish I used darker tones in the first layer itself. Don't mind, let's see what we can do. Now for the next step, you will need a round brush, a smaller-sized round brush. This one is my size number 4 round brush. Now we need to add a tree, the street lamp, as well as the bench. Go with the really dark tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray or even black. First I'm going to add the tree onto the left side. I'm just adding a very simple tree with empty branches. If you want to go with a pine tree, that's totally up to you, add any kind of tree that you prefer. I'm adding my tree over here and adding the main tree trunk. Then after this, I will be adding some branches. You can see that's a very simple tree. Now, maybe you can add another one over here. It's totally up to you if you want to add more trees, you could do that. I'm just adding another small one here. Now, this is where we'll be adding the street lamp, right over here, so that the light fixture will come on that white circle. Leave some space where we can add our bench. Go with the smaller size bench, otherwise, your painting will go out of proportion. Go with the similar size. First add a horizontal line, leaving some gap, adding another horizontal line. Both of them can be slightly thick. Now if you're leaving some gap, add in a much more thicker line. That is the basic shape of the bench. Now we need to add some legs for this. Just keep in mind that we need a rough shape. It doesn't need to be detailed. Go with the similar shape. When we splatter the snow, the details won't be visible. It wouldn't really make any sense to add any details on this bench. Now add some legs, two on this side, and two on other side. That is it. Now I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel. I'm going to add some dry brush patterns on the ground, where we have the bench as well as the trees. We'll be adding some more shadows at the end. For now, just add some dry brush patterns. I missed to add a line. We need to add a vertical line on either side for the bench. That's done. The next step is to add the street lamp. I'm going to start with a straight line right next to the bench. I'm going to add it over here. Now from the top, I'm going to add an arc line. Stop it here. Now when you're adding a line into the white circle, don't use that darker tones. We just wash some of the paint from your brush and go with the lighter tone and then extend the line into the white circle. Or here, we'll be adding a white light, which we can add when we splatter the snow. For now, I'm just adding some darker tones at the bottom, just some dry brush patterns. That looks fine. Now we can start splattering the snow. Take out some white gouache or white watercolor. We have to go with an opaque gouache and we're going to splatter enough of snow onto the entire painting. It's a very simple step, but this is going to make a lot of impact on your painting. It will instantly turn your painting into a very magical snowy landscape. First I will add a light onto the street lamp. Go with an opaque white gouache or white watercolor and I'll have a circle. That's our street lamp. Now before we start splattering the snow, we can add some white tones onto the street lamp, the bench, and the tree. I'm starting with a street lamp and I'm adding a dry white line onto that line. Now I'm going to do the same onto the tree as well as onto the bench. For the bench, you can add some more snow, at some places you can make it a thicker snow patch to make it look like there are some snow accumulated over there. But for the tree, it is just like how we did the street lamp. I will be simply adding some dry white lines on to those branches. Let's do that. After those, we'll be splattering the snow onto the entire painting. That is going to make a lot of difference to your painting. [inaudible] for that. I think you can already see a great difference in your painting when we added the snow. But in the end, when we splatter the snow it is going to look magical. The bench is done. Now, I'm going to add some white highlights onto the tree. It is just a dry white line. I'm not running the line continuously. I'm adding the lines in a broken way. You can see how I'm breaking it in between. Just add some white highlights on to all the branches. That's how our painting has turned out, it is looking really beautiful. Now before I start splattering the snow, I'm going to go back with the lighter tone of neutral tint. I'm going to add a shadow for the street lamp, for the bench as well as for the tree. I'll first add a line, an inclined line for the street lamp. Now in a similar way, I will add few lines for the tree as well, that's a shadow. Now for the bench, I will add a thick line over here using a lighter tone of neutral tint. That is it. That's a shadow. I'm not going to put a lot of effort in here. Now, I'm again going to wash the paint from my brush and I'm going to splatter the snow. Take out some white paint on one brush and then take out another brush and keep tapping on it to create these splatters. You can add in as many as you want, there is no limit. You can add them until you feel happy and proud of what you're painting. Let's do this. This is going to be the last step, it is going to have a huge impact in your painting. It will instantly make your painting look more snowy and more pretty. I have added enough of snow onto the entire painting. You can see how pretty and magical our painting is looking. Now, it's time to peel off the masking tape. Here is the finished painting. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. It was quite simple. I think we took less than 15 minutes for the entire painting and we only used three colors, including white gouache. If you haven't tried it here, give it a try, I'm very sure you're going to love it. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our next winter landscapes. 29. Day 26 - Snowy Mountains and the Cabin: [MUSIC] Hello. Welcome to Day 26. We're just few days away from wrapping up the challenge. I hope you guys are enjoying it so far. Today we're painting a very simple layer, a pretty snowy landscape. I'll quickly take you through the colors you will need. For the sky, I will be using cerulean blue and turquoise blue. If you don't have cerulean blue, you can use Prussian blue. Then for the snowy mountain, to apply the background color, I'll be using a lighter tone of indigo, and to add the details, I'll be using neutral tint. Then for the literal cabin, I'll be using brown as well as a bit of permanent yellow orange where we have the bin tool. Then to apply some snow as well as to splatter some stars in the sky, you will need white gouache and white watercolor. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. Cerulean blue or any other blue, then turquoise blue, indigo, neutral tint, or Payne's gray, permanent yellow orange or any other yellowish orange. Then burnt sienna or brown. I have my paper ready here. Now, I'm going to add a pencil sketch. We need to add some mountains as well as a cabin. I'm starting by a line. I'm adding some low-lying mountain. Got some small to medium-sized mountain, we don't make it too huge. We can add an irregular line at the center. We can add a small cabin here. The spinning is going to be quite plain and simple. We won't be adding a lot of details. For the snowy mountains as well as for the snowy ground, we'll be retaining most of the paper white, and we'll just add a light one of indigo and some torque tones. Let's start by painting snowy ground as well as the mountains. Pick out a teeny bit of indigo. We just need a little. We'll be going with a very light tone. I will just cruise out the colors for the sky as well. That's cerulean blue. You can use Prussian blue or any other blue. Then you will need some turquoise blue, which is a second color we'll be using for the sky. Okay, so the colors are ready. I'm going to apply a coat of water onto the mountain. As I said, we're starting with the mountain, and when it dries, we'll be painting the sky. I'm using my size number 8 round brush to apply the coat of water. Make sure your brush is clean. Just try it on a scrap piece of paper. Just as indigo to water, only onto the mountain. Don't add any water onto the ground area. To apply the paint, I'm going to switch to my smaller size brush. This one is my size Number 4 round brush. Make sure your brush is thoroughly cleaned. Now go to really light one of indigo. I'm going to add some light to enter the indigo on the right side of the mountain. It doesn't need to be in a particular shape. Just focus on the line we have added. Add some tones on the right side. Now we can add a little onto the left side as well right over here. Somewhere along the line, the bottom line. Just be sure not to add any paint onto the ground. Because on the top we need a lighter tone, and just at the bottom, we'll be adding some medium tones of indigo. Right now just focus on the mountain, and add on a medium to lighter tone of indigo. I'm going to wash the paint from my brush, and I'm going to dab my brush on paper towel. You can see the color we applied on the mountain is not looking that smooth. We're going to run our damp brush on top of the color we applied to make it look smoother. We'll have to wait for this to dry. This is the base layer. Once this dries, we'll be adding some darker tone using neutral tint. Now let's bring the snowy ground. I'm going back with a lighter tone of indigo, and applying that at the bottom. I'll pick some clean water, I'll make it lighter. I'm going to go back with my pixel brush, and I'm dipping that in clean water. Just adding that over here, as you could see, I'm not adding any paint along this line. I'm not touching the mountain. Right underneath the cabin, I have left some paper wide. It's very dry over there. I haven't added any paint. If I make that area wet, the paint gets spread into the mountain, and you won't get a clean line of work here. That's the reason why I haven't added any paint along this line. Either you can wait for your snowy mountain to dry and then paint the snowy ground. Otherwise, just still even cap like this, and then paint your snowy ground. We'll have to wait for this to dry completely. After that, we'll be painting the sky. [MUSIC] That has dried completely. Our next task was to paint the sky. For that, as I mentioned earlier, I'll be using cerulean blue and turquoise blue. I'm going to paint a wet on wet sky. First I will apply a clean coat of water onto the entire sky. But right next to the mountain, don't add any water. We can go with that paint directly over their, so leave a tiny gap when you are adding water onto the sky. My sky is evenly wet. The next task was to apply the paint onto the sky. I'm going to with turquoise blue. I'm using my flat brush. Let's start with a medium tone. Add a few drops of water and tone your turquoise blue into a medium tone. Apply that over the bottom. Gently run your brush along the outline of your mountain. Over there you can use the color slightly lighter. I haven't added any water over here. I'm directly going with the paint. I'm carefully running that along the outline of the mountain. Don't add any paint onto the mountain, be really careful. If you want to use a round brush, that's totally up to you. No problem. Just go with a round brush. We just want the sky to look clean. It doesn't really matter which brush you're using. I have added turquoise blue. Now on the top, I'm going to go with cerulean blue. You can use Prussian blue, ultramarine blue, Pina blue or any blue you have got. We just need a darker tone at the top and the turquoise blue on the bottom. Or in case you want to try any other color combination, if you want to go with purple and blue, please go ahead. Just be sure to make the color darker on the top and lighter at the bottom. That's the sky. I think I can make the top area a bit more darker. It doesn't need to be a clean blend, you can apply the color how you want to. As I said earlier, just be sure to make the color darker on the top and lighter at the bottom. You can add them however you want to. I'm going to go back to turquoise blue. I'm adding some more at the bottom, especially over here. There are some paints missing at this area. Maybe we can pick some more cerulean blue, and add that on the top. I'm deciding some indigo into cerulean blue to make it really dark. I'm not really convinced with the color. Maybe a bit more over here. Don't focus on getting a clean blend. Just by adding some line on the sky, we can make it more interesting like the one I added here. Or if you feel more comfortable by going with a clean blend of two colors, that's totally okay. You don't need to add a line in between. Just add the colors however you feel works for you. We just needed a darker tone at the top and a lighter tone at the bottom. That's the sky. Now, I'm going back with my smaller size brush, and I'm going with a medium tone of neutral tint. We are going to add remaining details onto the mountain. We don't need to wait for the sky to dry. We are not going to touch the sky. It's okay. Once you have taken the paint, dub your brush on a paper towel. We're going to add some dry brush patterns. Let's focus on the area where we had added indigo earlier, especially onto the right side of the mountain. That's the area where we need to add more dry brush patterns. So good, very teeny tiny patterns and add a few along that lighter tone we have added. This is the area that you should be more focusing on. We don't need a lot on the other side where we have to let the paper white. Just be sure to go with the dry paint. Add few dry brush patterns. We don't need a lot. We're going to reach in most of the paper white. Because I want a really clean look for my mountain, I don't want to make it too busy. Just add a little patterns. Don't forget to dab the brush on a paper towel. Be sure you're using a dry paint. Let's add few around the cabin as well. I want those medium tones. Let's go back with a darker tone of neutral tint. Let's just add a few lines and little dots onto the same area. Again, don't add a lot, just to let is all we need. If you don't, some broken line. They shouldn't be too huge. That is it. In a similar way, we need to add some patterns over here as well. I'll dabbing my brush. First time adding some medium tones, some medium dry brush patterns. Now, onto those just like how we added earlier, I will add some darker patterns. It's a really simple way to paint a snowy mountain. We have to start with the lighter tone of indigo. Just add some medium to lighter tones on the right side or the left side. You can choose whichever side you want. Then once it dries, onto that you can add some medium tones using Payne's gray or neutral tint. Just some dry brush patterns. Then again, you can go back with a darker tone and add few dots and some little patterns. That's a snowy mountain. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. Now when we added cabin, it will look even more prettier. I'm just thinking of making the sky a bit more darker. Anyway, I have some neutrons still on my brush. I'm going to add a tiny pathway leading towards a cabin. Maybe after that, I can make the sky more darker. Because of the sky is more darker, it will impact the snowy mountain. It will look even more pretty. It will have a really striking contrast. Anyway, let me finish up this pathway. I'm just using the same dry brush, and I'm adding a pathway using some dry paint. Using the same brush, I'm just adding some more at the bottom. Not a lot, just a little. You can see they're really light. That is how our painting is looking right now. Just in case, if you want to make the sky more intense like me, let's add one more layer. Otherwise, you can just leave it there and just watch what I'm doing. I'm going back with turquoise blue. I'm going with a medium tone. I'm applying that along the outline of the mountain. I'm carefully running my brush. I have added some turquoise blue. I will switch to cerulean blue, and I will try to make it a better blend. That's really in blue. Adding that over here. Now taking that towards the top. Now, I'm not trying to get a clean smooth blend here, at some places, you can have some dark tone and at some places, you can have some lighter tone. We just need a smooth look for the sky, that's it. Now, I'm really happy with the sky, the colors are looking so much better. Earlier, it was looking quite dull so that is a good idea to apply one more layer. Now, we have to wait for this to dry. The next step is to splatter some stars, then we need to detail out the cabin. Those are the two tasks remaining. Actually, we do need to wait for the sky to dry. Meanwhile, we can paint the cabin and by the time we paint the cabin, the sky will dry so there is no waiting time. Let's squeeze out some brown and some permanent yellow-orange. Those are the two colors I'll be using for the cabin. Instead of permanent yellow-orange, you can either use some yellow or any other orange and instead of brown, you can use some brown seaman. We just need a little, we don't need a lot. It's a small cabin. Now, first, we need to start with permanent yellow-orange or yellow or any other orange. We only need a tiny bit of orange so I'm directly picking the paint from the tube. We need that only at the window, the rest is all going to be in brown. Add some orange right at the window, at the center. You will need to follow the shape of the window. Add some paint around the window as well. This is how it is looking. Now, around that, we are going to add some brown. Go with a medium to darker tone and around the window, just add some brown or brown seaman. This brown will nicely blend into the orange you have applied there leaving a lighter tone at the center where we have the window. Add some darker tones around it. It will automatically look like there is some light source at the center. Now let's add some deeper tones. I'm just mixing up a bit of brown with [inaudible] and I'm adding that along the roofline, a little on the side, and a little on the other side as well. Just follow that triangular shape and add some darker tones. Just a little. You still want to see that orange and brown so don't add a lot. Now, let's paint the roof. First I thought I will make it a small roof by just adding some [inaudible] or indigo onto the roof. But then as we have the snowy mountains in the background as well as the snowy ground in the foreground, it wasn't really visible. I thought of making it a brown roof and just add some snow on the top. This was how it was looking earlier and then I decided to cover it up with the darker tone of brown. I'm just using the same color I used to apply those darker tones and I'm going to fill this up. Be careful not to add any paint onto the other side. It might be still wet. It's really wet and you're afraid the paint will spread into each other. Please wait, let it dry, and then apply your darker tone on the roof when everything dries. This is how it is looking right now. I think it is looking much better than the snowy roof. I'm really happy with the way this painting is progressing, especially the snowy mountain against that blue sky and that little cabin. The sky has dried completely, our next step is to splatter some stars on the sky. For that, I'm going to grab some white gouache. I already have some white gouache on my palette, I'm using my smallest size brush, I'm loading my brush with some white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor, the consistency is what matters. It shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too thick as well. Now, cover the foreground, the snowy mountain, and the cabin using a piece of paper. Now we can start splattering the stars. Keep tapping on your smaller brush and adding enough of stars. If you are not too sure about the consistency, dub the brush on a paper towel and then add your stars. This will prevent from getting those big splatters. You will automatically get these teeny tiny stars. Go ahead and add enough of stars. After I'm done splattering, I'll also be adding some bigger stars using the same brush. Let's do this. [MUSIC] The sky is done. Now our next task was to add the remaining details onto the cabin. I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush and I'm switching to a darker tone of brown, the same color we used for the roof and I'm adding a very tiny line around the window, just an outline. First, add an outline, then you can add another line at the center, a horizontal line. That's the window. Now, I'm again washing off the paint from my brush and I'm switching to white gouache. We are going to add some snow patches on the roof. Major portion of the roof is still going to be in brown, we are just adding some white tones. We are not going to add a lot, we'll just add a little towards the right side. Just add some dry paint onto the roof. [MUSIC] You can see here, the major part of the roof is still brown. Now, I'm adding a little at the center where we have that junction of the roof. Now, maybe we can add a thin outline for the window. Only on the top line and also on the left line like an L shape, an inverted L. That is it. Looks like we can call it done. Now I'm going to remove the masking tape. Remove it only when the painting has dried completely and remove it at an angle. Don't rush. Be very gentle when you're removing your masking tape. There is some bleed along the top border. Never mind. I'm going to fix that with white gouache. Anyway, here is the painting. You can see how gorgeous it has turned out. The sky, the snowy mountain, and the little cabin. Everything is looking so pretty. Before I wrap up today's painting, let me quickly fix this. [MUSIC]. Here it is. I hope you guys enjoyed today's painting. Thank you all for joining me today, I'll be back here tomorrow for our next real landscape. [MUSIC]. 30. Day 27 - Winter Sun: [MUSIC] Hello, my dear friends. Welcome to Day 27. Today we're painting [inaudible] just winter evening, which is very much different from the color palette we usually use. For the sky, I will be using a little of violet then permanent rose, some orange as well as some yellow. Those are the four colors I'll be using for the sky and the same goes for the lake. Then for the snowy crown, we'll be using a lighter tone of violet. Then to add the finer details, you will need some brown as well as Payne's gray or neutral tint or black. All right, so those are the colors you will need for today's painting. First, we will need to add the pencil sketch. Start by adding a line slightly below the center of the paper, somewhere over here. Now, we need to add the ground. Once we add the ground we'll automatically create the lake. First, I will add a line, then I will add some wavy shapes on the left side. All right, so that's a pencil sketch. Now I'm going to squeeze out the colors. As I mentioned earlier, the four colors you will need for the sky are permanent violet, permanent rose, cadmium yellow, brilliant orange. These are the four colors I'll be using. Instead of permanent rose, you can also use crimson and instead of brilliant orange, you can use any other orange. It can be vermillion as well. Instead of cadmium yellow, we can use gamboge yellow or any other yellow that you have got. We just need a little of all these colors. We're going to go with a medium tone. Don't take out a lot of paint. We just need a little of at least four colors. That was permanent violet and permanent rose. Now we need some brilliant orange as well as yellow. This one is a really bright orange. You can also use vermillion or any other orange. Now the last color you will need is yellow. The one I'm using here is cadmium yellow light. You can use gamboge yellow or any other yellow that you have got. We have the colors ready. We'll be using the same colors for the sky as well as for the lake. First, I'm going to apply a clean coat of water onto the entire sky. We're going to go with a wet on wet sky. I'm going to take out my one-and-a-half-inch wash brush and I will apply a clean coat of water. Run your brush multiple times to make sure the water has reached everywhere. To apply the paint, I'm going to use my round brush, this one is a size number eight round brush and I'm starting with orange, a medium tone of orange, and I'm applying that along the horizon line. I'll start with orange. Then from here, I will switch to yellow. Then I will again go back to orange, then rose, and then violet so that's the order. That was orange. Now I'm applying a bright tone of yellow right where I stopped the orange. Just add some yellow. Now we can switch back to orange. Add that next to yellow. It doesn't need to be clean blend, just add in the colors onto that wet background. Let it blend and bleed in its own way. That is the beauty of the sky. Now I'm washing out the paint from my brush and I'm going to permanent rose applying that right next to the orange. Now towards the top, I will add a little of violet, so I'm again, washing all the paint from my brush and I'm going to the last color. As you can see here, I'm using a medium tone of all these colors. They're not too bright and they're not too light as well. That's the sky. Now in case if you want to make any of the colors more brighter, you can make use of the time, your background is still wet, but don't make it too bright, we want medium tones. Maybe I will add a little of orange at the bottom. I think that bottom area is looking really light. When it dries, it may look slightly dull, so I'm just picking some more orange and adding that over here. I think these four colors are looking so good together and I'm really loving that yellow we have added at the center. All right, so that's the sky. I'm just cleaning the horizon line, making it a straight line. All right, so that's the sky. Now, meanwhile, we wait for this to dry. We can paint the lake using the same colors, but I won't be adding any violet, I'll just use the other three colors. I'm going to start with orange. I'm going back with a medium tone. Adding that over here leaving that snowy ground. Now, I'm going to pick some yellow and add that right next to the orange and I'm blending that well. Now washing up the paint and going with a clean yellow and adding that over here. Now towards the bottom, I will go back with the medium to one-off orange as well as permanent rose. First, I will add a little of orange. Then I will pick some rose and add that at the bottom. That's the lake. This is going to be the base layer. We'll be adding some small stones as well as some reflections at the end. For now, this is all you need to add. Now let's wait for this to dry [MUSIC]. All right, so that has dried beautifully. I'm really loving the colors. Now the next step is to paint the snowy ground. For that, I'm using a light tone of violet. Wash the paint from your brush, make sure your brush is clean. Now let's go with a light tone of violet and add that onto the snowy ground. Go with a really light tone. We'll be adding some medium tones along the bottom line. For now, just use a light tone. Now using clean water, just blend that into the background. We don't want them to look like sharp lines. Just use some clean water and smudge them. Now let's go back with a medium tone and let's add a line along the bottom shape. Just follow the outline of the snowy ground and add some medium tones of violet only at the bottom. You can see how I have added that on the top. Now let's do the same for the other ones as well. Just along the bottom line add some medium tone. Maybe we can make it a bit more brighter. Let's go back with a slightly more darker tone of violet and do the same. [MUSIC] For the next task, I'm going to go with a darker tone of brown and I'm going to add some dry brush patterns onto the snowy ground. I'm using my smallest size brush and I'm going with a darker tone. If your paint is too watery dab your brush on a paper towel before you add these dry brush patterns. Now, let's add a few along the bottom line, where we added those medium tone of violet. Do that for all those bottom line. After that, we can add some random patterns as well, but we don't need a lot and don't make it too prominent. Make sure your paint is really dry. Don't add a lot of water. Keep dabbing your brush on a paper towel multiple times to make sure there is not much water. Now using the same color, that darker tone of brown, I'm going to add some little stones onto the bank. You can add some more water into the paint and make it slightly lighter. I'm using a darker tone of brown and I have added some water to make it a little lighter. Now I'm adding some small little stones over here. You can add as many as you want, but don't add a lot towards the center. Focus more on the river bank and add them over here. They has to be really small. Don't make them too huge. I'd be adding some stones using a medium tone of brown as well as a darker tone. Right now I'm using a darker tone. I'll do the same by a medium tone. I'm adding some more water and making it more brownish. Now using that color, I'm going to add some more stones. It should be a combination of a darker tone of brown as well as a lighter tone. I mean, a medium tone as well as a darker tone. You can see the color. Just randomly add some smaller stones like this along the river bank. You can add as many as you want. There is no restriction. Now we can add some more using the taco tool. It is this to print on a value. We'll add more pure digital painting. Don't add them using the same color. Add some of them using a taco tool and then add some of them using a medium tool. Don't make them too huge go to similar size. I will add some small stone set [inaudible] not a lot. Just want love to hear on there. That is it. Now the next task was to add a tree. I won't be adding the entire tree. I will just add some hanging branches from the top. I'm using the same taco tone of brown, and I'm using my smaller size brush this one is my size symbol for brush. First I'll start with the main branch, then onto that I will be adding some smaller branches as well. I'm adding that on the left side, the main branch can be thick then onto those you can add as many branches as you want. It has to be thin and delicate. That's my main branch. Now, I'm going to add plenty of branches onto this using the same brush. If you want to go with the detailing brush feel free to do that. Because the major element of this painting is this hanging branches. You have to give them some focus and attention. Don't add all the branches in a similar pattern, make it as interesting as possible. That's my main branch. Now I'm going to add some thin and delicate branches onto this. [MUSIC] You can see the difference that branch has made made the painting. It is looking so much complete right now. Earlier it was looking quite plain. Now, I'm going to add some more branches. Maybe I will add one next to this. Over here. You can see the thickness. They are very thin and delicate. Go with a similar size. You have to use any of your plastic brush to get those thin and delicate branches. Now from the top, I'm going to add some more hanging branches to make our painting look more interesting. Add in as many as you want there's no limit. You can add them until you get lazy. [MUSIC] I think I have added enough, but I want some more branches which are going to be really thin than this. Some more delicate branches. For that, I'm using my drawing pen. This one is from aniline. Now using this pen, I'm going to add some more branches. You can see they're really thin and delicate. I don't think I can get these lines using my brush. I would need to pay a lot of attention if I want to get such thin details. It is better to use a pen for such thin and delicate branches. Let me quickly add some more branches. [MUSIC]. That is done. Now, I'm going to go back with my smallest size brush and using a light tone of brown, I'm going to add a mountain go with a really small size, don't make it too huge, we are going to make it look like it's really far from us. This should be the size that you're using for your mountain. You don't need to continue along that entire line. You can add bits and pieces. We added a little on the right, and a little on the left, over the center. I don't add any. You can go with any composition that you prefer. That's the mountain. Next we need to add some more medium tones on the water, especially where they have those little stones, may need to add some reflection on underneath this. Before that, I'm going to add a small setting sun for that. I'm using white quash. I'm just picking some paint directly from the tube. I'm adding a small sun over here. A teeny tiny sun. Just use white watercolor or white quash and add a small and white circle. Now we can add some reflection on the water. The colors are really light. It may not be really visible. Still you can add some white lines on the water right underneath the sun. That is it. It's not that visible so light will be. Now I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush. I'm going to with the medium tone of orange. I'm going to add a little of medium tones underneath all the stones I have added here. Just a thick line. After you have added that decline, just dip your brush in some clean water and smudge that into the background. Now let's do this for all those little stones. The color we're going with shouldn't be too bright to go with a medium tone of orange, then add a slightly decline underneath all those little stones you have added after that you can smudge the color using some clean water so that it won't be too prominent. This is going to be the last tip. But this will be done with our painting for the day. [MUSIC]. We are done with the whole painting for day 27. It is looking so gorgeous, I think I should use more of these colors. I don't know for some reason, I always love using violet and blue and such colors. But this one has turned out really nice and it has that really pleasant and calm look. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back here tomorrow with our next winter landscape. [MUSIC] 31. Day 28 - Northern lights: [MUSIC] Hello my dear friends. Welcome to day 28. Today we're painting other gorgeous Northern light, which is going to be one of the most easiest and the prettiest one you have ever painted. It's a beautiful color combination as well as you will learn how to paint that snowy mountain. That is also easy. For the sky, I will be using three colors, which is royal blue, turquoise blue, as well as leaf green. Instead of royal blue, you can use any other blue that you've got. It can be Prussian blue or ultramarine blue or any other blue. If you don't have leaf green, you can use any other brighter green that you've got, or you can just use lemon yellow. If you want to use the same color, you can mix a little of blue with lemon yellow to create a greenish color. For the sky as well as for the lake I'll be using the same colors. For the mountain I will be using black watercolor. Then to add the snow, I'll be using white gouache. Those are the colors you will need for today. I have my paper ready here and I have the colors ready as well. Here are the colors I'll be using, leaf green, which is that bright green along the mountain. Then I will be using turquoise blue at the center. Then on the top, I will be using a really intense rough royal blue. I will be using the same colors for the leak as well. The first thing I'm going to do is applying a masking tape little below the center of the paper. The top portion is the sky and the bottom is the lake. Now let's apply a coat of water onto the entire sky. Make sure the water has reached everywhere, because we're going to go with a clean blend off these three colors. Keep running your brush and make sure the papers evenly wet. It's a very simple sky, we'll be just be applying these three colors onto the sky. Over the bottom we'll be using green and towards the center we'll be using turquoise blue, and towards the top we'll be using royal blue. I'm starting off with green. This is the color you can see how pretty it is looking. Apply that green almost till half of your paper. Now wash off the paint, and let's go with the second color, which is turquoise blue. I have it ready here, so go with a medium tone and apply that right next to the green and try to blend in. Now for the rest of the area, I'm going to go with royal blue. As I said earlier, you can use any other blue that you have got. We just need a bright and dark tone of blue. Go with the darker tone, and apply that on the top of the sky. On the top make it as bright and intense as possible. I think I always say this whenever we are painting Northern lights, it is the contrast what makes a Northern light more beautiful. It is the same for this painting as well. I have added the colors but it looks like there is no much turquoise blue in the sky, so I'm going to go back with turquoise blue and I'm going to add that at the center. Maybe I will need to squeeze out some more paint. The background is still wet so you can make use of the time and add in more and more colors onto the sky. I'm using much more brighter tone of turquoise blue and I'm blending that with royal blue. Now we need to make it a clean blend at the bottom as well, where the turquoise blue is touching the green. I'm picking some green and I'm running my brush in a horizontal way from left to right to make a decline blend. That is how will your sky should be looking. At the top you should have a dark and intense run of blue. At the bottom you should have a green to bring in that contrast. Now just in case if you want to make the colors more dark, especially on the top, you can pick some more blue and make it more and more intense at the top. Maybe I will add one or two lines. This is optional if you're already happy with your sky, and if you're not too confident about doing this just let it be, don't add these lines. Now in case if you're adding those lines, it is better to do it with a round brush. I'm picking my round brush, and I'm taking some green. I'm just trying to blend that lines into the background. See that? You can see how pretty it is looking right now. Earlier it was looking a bit weird. Use your round brush and just keep running your brush in a horizontal way and make those lines look more smoother. That is a sky. I'm really happy with the colors and the blend we have got. Now let's wait for that to dry. After that, using the same colors we'll be painting the lake. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. Now, let's remove the masking tape and start painting the lake. As I said earlier for the lake as well, we will be using the same colors. I'm starting with green and I'm using my flat brush. Go with the medium tone of green, apply that onto the left side. Towards the right side, I'll be using more of darker blue because I'm going to add a huge mountain on the right side. If I use a darker tone on that side I wouldn't need to add a lot of reflection, so that's a trick. Now, we can add some turquoise blue. Now onto the remaining area, let's add blue. The blue I'm using here is royal blue. You can use any other blue that I have got. We just need a bright and dark tone of blue. Just add that onto the right side. You can make it as dark as possible. Because for the mountains we'll be using black, so if you use a darker tone you wouldn't need to add any reflection. For the next step, I'm going to grab my round brush. I already has some green paint on it, it looks like I didn't wash it earlier. Pick some green paint on your brush and keep dragging those blue towards the center. This will make it most smoother. Just drag it like I'm doing here, and that is it. Now let's wait for that also to dry. [MUSIC] That also has dried. Now let's add the mountains. For that I'm using black, you can also use Payne's gray. We need a really dark and intense to tone of Payne's gray, if you're using Payne's gray. Toward the right side I'll be making the mountain more taller, and towards the left I will make it shorter. As we have added a darker tone on the right side that is how we should be doing. You can go with any kind of shape that doesn't matter, but then make sure to add a taller mountain on the right and the shorter one on the left. I'm starting from the right side. Before you add the mountain, make sure the lake has dried completely. Otherwise, please wait for it to dry. If it has dried completely add in your mountain. You don't need to follow the exact same shape for the mountain, you can go with any kind of shape that you prefer. But just like I said earlier, towards the right go with the taller mountain and toward the left go with the shorter mountain, that's only thing you need to keep in mind. [MUSIC] Let's add the mountain. That is the mountain. I'm using the same black color, I'm going to add some patches of land; just some smart strips. This will make color painting look more interesting, so just add some thin strips of land. You don't need to add it towards the right side, just add them on the left where we have we have that bright green on the water. For this one as well you don't need to follow the same shape that I'm adding here. Go with any kind of shape that you prefer, but then go with thin strips. Don't make it too huge. If you make it too huge it will go out of proportion, so go with some thin linear strips of land. Along with this, you can also add some tiny rocks. [MUSIC] That is also in. I just feel like changing the shape of the mountain a bit especially for the bigger mountain, so I'm going to quickly alter the shape of the mountain and after that we'll have to wait for this to dry. When it completely dries, we can add in the snow using white gouache or white watercolor. Just to co-create, we can come back when everything has completely dried. [MUSIC] The background has completely dried. For the next step, you will need some white gouache or white watercolor. We're going to add some snow to the mountains. If you don't have gouache don't worry, just use white watercolor. We need to try paint to add the snow, so don't add any water. Pick some paint and tap it with some paper towel and make sure it is really dry. Be sure not to add any water to your paint because this technique is quite easy, but you have to go with a really dry paint. I think by the first try you will get to know how beautiful this technique is. Onto the mountain, I'm going to add some white patches using that dry white paint. I'm adding them as a sloping line, so from the tip of the mountain just add some dry lines in a sloping way. When you're adding your dry white lines, don't add lots of them close to each other. It is actually that contrast of black and white which makes it looks snowy, so be sure not to add a lot close to each other. I'm just adding them onto one side of the mountain. Starting from the tip of the mountain, I'm adding some dry white lines in a sloping way and I'm intentionally leaving some black on the other side to bring in that 3D effect for the mountain. I think it is already showing in the painting. We can go with a much more opaque version of white and add in some more snow. This is the basic idea, you need to play with that contrast, don't add a lot of white too close to each other. In a similar way, I'm going to add some white dry lines onto the other mountains as well. Those small ones on the left side. Starting from the tip of the mountain, I'm adding some inclined line, our sloping lines. You can see it is pretty easy and it wouldn't take a lot of time, but the only thing is you should be using a dry paint. Don't add any water. This technique works beautifully if you have used a darker tone for the mountain especially something like black or indigo. If it's a lighter tone, it wouldn't have this impact. I'm going with a much more opaque tone of white and I'm adding little more patterns under the same area where we have added the patents earlier, but at some places I'm going to make it a little more opaque. You can see this little black corner here, I have a similar corner on the bigger mountain as well. It is actually those little details which add a lot of beauty to your painting. It will instantly make your mountains look more beautiful, so don't forget to leave such tiny caps in between. This is the same reason why I told you don't add a lot of white too close to each other. We need to play with that contrast. It looks like I have added enough of white onto the mountain. In a similar way we need to add some dry patterns onto the patch of land as well, so keep dragging your brush and add some dry white patterns onto this piece of land as well. Just add few patterns here and there. We don't need a lot for this one, like the mountain. Just a little here and that is all we need. We're nearly done with our painting, we just have one task left which is adding the reflections on the water. On the right side I'm not adding any reflection, over there I used a darker tone of blue. We'll just add the reflections on the right side, so go with the greenish-blue. Just pick some green and mix that with a little blue, and turn that into a medium tone. It shouldn't be too dark, we can add a few drops of water. Using that color I'm going to add a thick line underneath this patch of land. Do this along the bottom line of the entire shape you have added, we'll have to do the same for those tiny rocks as well. Go with the medium, turn off bluish-green and add some lines underneath the rocks as well as that piece of land. Maybe I will add a little over here just to get that continuation. My dear friends with that we are done with our painting for day 28. It took us only less than 15 minutes to paint this beautiful Northern light, and it was a gorgeous color combination. I'm going to peel off the masking tape, [MUSIC] and here is the finished painting. I really love the color combination as well as these mountains, they are looking so gorgeous. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Thanks a lot for joining me today, I will pack you tomorrow with our next new landscape [MUSIC]. 32. Day 29 - Black Sand Beach: Hello, hello, welcome to Day 29. Today we're going to paint one of the most famous black sand beaches in Iceland. You might have seen this image in Google or you might have been to this place. This is one of the places in my bucket list and I would really love to visit that beautiful beach. For this entire painting, we will just need three colors, which is neutral tint or Payne's gray. Then you will need brown or burnt sienna. Then to add the details on the beach, you will need white gouache or white watercolor. Those are the three colors you will need. Now, let's start by adding the pencil sketch. First, I'm going to add the horizon line, which is a little about the center of the paper. Now, we need to add a mountain. I'm going to place it almost onto the left side. Is a cluster of mountains, so on the left side and making it a low line one and then towards the center, I will add a huge mountain. Then again, as I'm going towards the right, I will make it lower. That's a sketch. At the bottom, you will have that be would for shoreline, which you don't need to sketch now. We can do that by layer painting. This is how it is going to be. Even if you add the sketch it won't be really visible when you apply the paint, so there is no point in adding it. We have the sketch ready. I'm going to squeeze out the colors. I'm going to use neutral tint. You can also use Payne's gray or neutral tint. Then the second color I will need is brown. Instead of brown, you can also use burnt sienna. Those are the two major colors you will need for today's painting. I think I have mentioned this couple of times. The brand I'm using, ShinHan, it doesn't have a Payne's gray color, instead, they have a neutral tint. That's the reason why I'm using neutral tint for all the paintings. You can also use black or Payne's gray. Then the second color's brown. Those are the colors. We have them ready. I'm starting by adding a coat of water onto the sky. Just as general coat of water. You can run your brush on top of the mountain. There is no problem because we're going to go with a darker tone for the mountain and we'll be using a really light tone of neutral tint for the sky. So it shouldn't be a problem. To apply the paint onto the sky, I'm using my flat brush and I'm going with a light tone. I will just add some lines using this light tone of neutral tint. It can be a flat wash or it can be including gradient wash as well. You can add your color however you want to. I'm just applying a solid wash of this color. I don't want to add in a lot of details onto the sky. I think even a gradient wash would be nice. You can add it however you want to. Just go with what your mind sees. That's the sky. It's a very simple sky. We'll have to wait for this to dry. The sky has dried completely. Now, I'm going to paint the mountain. To paint the mountain, I'm going to use my size number 8 round brush. You can use any of your medium-size round brush. I'm starting with a darker tone of neutral tint. On the top, I will use a darker tone of neutral tint. Then towards the bottom, I will introduce some brown. Let's go with the darker tone and apply that along the top line of the mountain. Just follow the outline and add in your paint. It's a very simple step. Go with a really dark tone of neutral tint our Payne's gray, and apply that along the outline of your mountain. You can apply this almost to threefold of the mountain, then towards the bottom along the horizon line, you can add some brown. That's a step. That is neutral tint. Now, onto the remaining area, I'm going to apply brown. I'm washing out the paint from my brush and I'm switching to brown. As I said earlier, you can also use burnt sienna. It doesn't need to be brown. Just apply that onto the remaining area and blend that well. On the top, we have added a darker tone of neutral tint and towards the bottom, along the horizon line, we have added some brown. Now, onto the right side, you can add some very tiny mountain just to continue that line. Make it as small as possible. Those are the mountains. Now, let's wait for that to dry. That has dried. Let's start painting the beach. For that, first, I'm applying a coat of water. Keep running your brush multiple times to make sure the water has paste everywhere. To apply the paint onto the beach, I'm going to use my flat brush. You can either use neutral tint or Payne's gray or even black if you don't have any of those two colors. First, we can go with a medium tone. Let's apply that onto the entire area. Gradually, we'll make the left side more darker compared to the right because it's going to be a black sand beat. Let's start with the medium tone. Let's apply that onto the entire area. That seems a bit dark. I'm adding some water and making it lighter. Let's apply this onto the entire area first. That's a medium tone of neutral tint. Let's start making the left side more darker. I'm picking some more paint, which is a really dark tone of neutral tint. From the left side, I'm dragging my brush towards the center so that I have a darker tone on the left and a medium tone on the right. It doesn't even clean blend orienting, just add some darker tones on the left side and we make it slightly lighter than that on the right side. I think we can make the left side more darker. Otherwise, when it dries it may look slightly dull. Let's pick some more darker tone of neutral tint and again, drag the brush towards the right side. You can use a really dark tone of neutral tint over here. Even if it looks like black, that's absolutely okay. Go with a really dark tone of neutral tint or Payne's gray. That's a base layer. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry. That has beautifully dried. The next task is to add the white highlights. We'll have to add some snow on the mountains as well as we need to define the beach. That is the next task, which is the only remaining task. For that, you will need some white gouache or white watercolor. Squeeze out some white paint onto your palette. to add their details, I'm using my size number 4 round brush. You can use any of your smaller-sized round brush. I think first we can define the beach and then paint the snow on the mountain. I'm starting from the farther end. First, I'm adding the shoreline. That's the shoreline. I have used white gouache. Our task was to make this more weak. Once you have added the rough sheet, you can take more white paint and make it more opaque and a much stronger line. Then we'll be adding some dry bush patterns onto the right side. We're going to leave the left side as it is. We won't be adding any dry patterns over there so that we can have that black sand. Make it more thicker. You don't need to follow the same shape. You can go with any other shape that you prefer for your shoreline. Make it more thicker and then we can add the dry brush patterns. I'm just adding one wave. If you want to add one or two waves, you could do that. In a similar way, you will need to add another line. Then you will need to add some dry brush patterns. That is how you should be doing it. I have added the shoreline. I have made it thicker. I'm tapping my brush on a paper towel. I'm going to add some dry brush patterns towards the right side. It is only when you add those dry brush patterns, you will get that foamy water look. Otherwise, it is very difficult to bring in that splashy water effect in your painting. Just tap your brush on a paper towel and keep on adding some dry brush buttons towards the right side. It doesn't need to look clean. Keep on adding them until you feel like you have got that beach feel. You can see how gradually we are turning back into a beat. It is just the magic of dry brush patterns. Keep adding them towards the right side. Just make sure to go with it dry pain. That's only thing you need to keep in mind. The way they look doesn't really matter. You just need to keep on adding them to get that complete feel of a beach. I think I will make that line a little more bolder, and then I will again add some more dry brush patterns. This is how our painting is looking right now. All of these, while we were adding those dry brush patterns along the way, now we need to add some of it from the wave as well, so you just need to keep on adding some more dry brush patterns onto the other side of the water. I mean the area away from the wheel. Just keep on adding some more dry brush patterns. As I said earlier, it doesn't need to have any particular shape or size or look. You can keep on adding them. Just scratch your brush on the paper and add some white patterns. Go ahead and fill that entire area and touch dry brush lines Now let's wash all the paint from our brush, and let's switch back to neutral tint. Now using neutral tint. We're going to add a shadow for the wave. Go with a slightly darker tone. This doesn't need to be a continuous line. You can just pick some area and add a bold line like this, go with the color with a slightly darker than the color you haven't the background. Otherwise, it won't be visible. You can already see the difference, those wave got a three-dimensional effect. In a similar way, let's add reflection onto the top part as well. This is a very simple step, but then it has an instant impact in our painting, you can see the different here. The waves are looking so beautiful. Now it's time to go with the last step, which is adding snow onto the mountain. For that, I'm adding some dry brush patterns, so let's go back, but white quash or white watercolor. It's going to be in similar way how we add snow onto the mountain yesterday. I think you already know the technique, so it's going to be really easy. This is the painting we did yesterday. Remember those dry brush patterns. They're going to use the same technique here , so well, let's begin. Just be sure to dab push on paper who travel before you're starting beneath those dry brush patterns. Now onto either one side of the mountain, it can be either right or left, add some sloping line. Using that dry paint. You can see the way I'm adding it here. I'm just adding them towards the right side. Starting from the tip of the mountain, I'm adding a sloping line, and in between, I'm leaving some cap as well. I'm not adding those patterns too close to each other. We need that contrast, so let's keep on adding some dry brush lines and a sloping way. If adding the slopping way it has a different effect or you can go with the snow-capped mountain, you can add to some snow on the top and leave the rest to as it is. You can decide on how you want your mountain to be. We already used this technique yesterday so you know how it is going to look like. It can be either this way or you can just add a snow cap on the top. You just need to add these dry brush patterns only on the top of the mountain. You can go with a much more opaque and thick a wash white gouache and a thick snow on the top. I hope this technique was easy and you all were happy with your painting yesterday. Now by the time you finish this painting, you will be really good at it. My dear friend, and with that, we're done with double painting for day 29. We just have one day left and I'm really excited about it. Now let's quickly peel off the masking tape Here is our gorgeous black sand beach. I hope you all enjoyed being in this easy-peasy snowy landscape. Thanks a lot for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow with our last on landscape 33. Day 30 - Let there be light!: Hello, hello. Welcome to Day 30, which means we are wrapping up the challenge today. I'm excited as well as a bit sad about the fact that we don't have painting to do tomorrow, but that's okay. I can come back with another great idea. Here's the painting that we're doing today. We'll paint a small little cabin surrounded by pine trees. Now let's take a look at the colors you will need. For the sky, I will be using two colors, which is turquoise blue as well as indigo, and we'll be using indigo for the snowy crowned passbook. Then for the cabin, you will need any yellow and brown. I'll be using cadmium yellow. You can use any other yellow that you've got. It can be gamboge yellow or any other yellow. Then to add the finer details like the pine tree and to add darker tones, you will need Payne's gray or black. All right, so those are the colors you will need for today. Now I have a paper ready here. We need to add a sketch. We need to add that little cabin. First, I'm adding a line. Then onto the right side, I'm adding a little cabin. It's a very simple cabin. If you want to go with a different kind of a shape for your cabin or if you want to add a tent, you can't do that, that's totally okay. Now I'm connecting these two points, so that's a roof. Now I'm adding vertical lines from all these points, and I'm making them meet the ground. Now we can add a small window. That's a sketch. Now we can't start painting. As I mentioned earlier, for the sky, I will be using turquoise blue as well as indigo. If you want to try with any other colors, you could do that, just follow the technique and use any color of your choice. I'm starting by a medium tone of turquoise blue. I'm going to apply this color onto the entire sky. You don't need to apply water. Put slightly watery paint and apply that onto the entire sky. You can just go with the flat wash. You don't need to make it darker or lighter. Just apply a flat, solid wash. I have a flatter medium turn-up turquoise blue onto the entire sky. Now onto this, we're going to add a darker tone of indigo, so cover the darker tone of indigo. I'm using flat brush here. I'm dragging indigo from the top towards the center. You can see the way I'm adding it. I'm simply dropping the paint towards the bottom. Don't put a lot of pressure. Be very gentle. Add some lines using indigo. You just need to drag your paint from all the three sides towards the center. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that you should be dragging your brush only in one direction. As you could see here, I'm dragging my brush from top to bottom. I'm not taking it from bottom to top. That's a major thing. Also don't put a lot of pressure. Be very gentle. You just need to drag your brush from top to bottom, and they will nicely blend into the background as it is already wet. Now if you want to make the color more darker, you can go to much more darker tone and keep repeating the same step. On the outer corners, I have a darker tone, and over the middle, I mean, over the bottom there we have the cabin. We have medium to lighter tone. Keep dragging your brush towards the bottom only in one single direction. Don't take it back. This can be done using any color combination of your choice. Use a medium tone for your background, and then add these lines using a darker tone. That's how the sky has turned out. Now I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush, and I'm going to grab a bit of white gouache. Now onto the sky before it dries, I'm going to add a milky wing. For that I'm using a bit of white gouache. You can also use white watercolor if you don't have white gouache. We just need a little, and we are not using an opaque version. We are going to use a slightly watery version for this. I'm using my smaller size brush. I'm squeezing a bit of white gouache onto my palette. Adding few drops of water, and turning that into the right consistency. Now I'm just dropping that onto this wet background in an irregular shape. That's first line. Now I'm adding the second line. Keep tapping your brush on the wet background and create some random patterns like this using white gouache or white watercolor. Add just a random line. You can add it however you want to. I have added three lines here. If you want to add two or if you want to add just one, that's totally up to you. I've added the white paint onto the sky. My sky is still slightly wet, it hasn't dried completely. Now for the next step, I'm going to take out a dry brush. This one is my size number 8 dry brush. It doesn't have any paint, it's dry. Now using this dry brush, I'm just tapping on top of those patterns I have created here so that it will go well with the background. Otherwise, it may look slightly prominent. Take out any of your dry brush which doesn't have any paint or any water and keep tapping on those patterns you have added and make it look less prominent. I don't want them to stand out as a prominent shape on the sky. That's the only reason why I'm doing this. Now at this point, your sky might have slightly dried or maybe completely dried. Might have almost dried. In ways we are going to add some trees in the background. For that, we're going to use a lighter tone of indigo. If it's still wet, you will get a foggy effect for your tree. Otherwise, also it's absolutely fine. Let's go with a medium tone of indigo first and add some random shapes. Onto the top of the shape, we'll be adding some pine trees. We are only focusing on the top shape of the pine tree. The rest can be just a solid color. Once this dries, we'll be adding some detailed pine trees and the foreground. The first step here is to add some random shapes along that entire line. Then onto the top of those, we can add those pine tree shapes. Let's fill this up. I have used a medium tone of indigo and I have added that random shape onto the entire line. Now at some places, I'm going to add a shape of a pine tree, just the top shape. Pick some random spots and add some rough shapes of pine tree like this. You don't need to add a lot, just add few here and there. They don't need to be really detailed. These are really far from us. Just go with the rough shape. First, add the tree trunk, then keep turning your brush on either ways and add some messy foliage onto that line. That's your pine tree. The ones we're going to add in the foreground will be pretty much detailed. These ones can be like this. That is how it is looking right now. Next, I'm going to add few more trees which are going to be slightly more taller than the previous one. Again, I'll be just adding two or three at some random places. I won't be adding a lot. I'm still using a medium tone of indigo. I'm making some trees a bit taller than the previous ones so that our painting will look more interesting. Let's add them in. Again, these ones also doesn't need to be that detailed. On this side we'll be adding some detail trees. Just keep these ones very random and rough. Now, the next task is to splatter some stars. First, I will cover the bottom using a paper towel. Now let's splatter some stars onto the sky. You'll have to go with the paint which isn't really watery and which isn't really thick as well. Go with the consistency which is between thick and loose. I'm going to take the paint on my smaller size brush and using another brush, I'm going to tap on my smaller brush and I will create plenty of stars. If you're not too sure about the consistency, whenever I feel like the paint is too watery, I always tap my brush on a paper towel so that the paper towel will absorb the excess water content and you will end up creating those teeny-tiny splatter. That is one trick you can follow if you're not too sure about the consistency, or you can try splashing on a scrap piece of paper and when you're confident enough, you can splatter on your main painting. Now, this is a technique that I normally use, but I have seen people using two brushes to splatter the stars, and some people tap on the brush using the hand to create the stars. Which will be the technique that you are more confident with, you can do that. It doesn't need to be the same technique that I'm using here. Let's splatter enough of stars onto the sky. After splattering, I will also be adding some bigger stars using the brush. I added stars mostly on to the outer corner where we have used that darker tone. Onto the lighter area, it won't be really visible. Focus more on the area where you have applied darker tones. I have splattered enough of stars. Now, using the same brush, I'm going to add some bigger stars. For this one, I'm going to mainly focus on the area where we have applied the Milky Way. Onto those areas, I'm adding some bigger stars. It's just a bigger dot using the same brush. Go in a very random order. Don't add too many of them close to each other. Let's do that. The sky is done. The next task is to paint the snowy ground. For that, I'm starting off with applying a clean coat of water. Be careful not to add any water onto the pine trees. We can leave a tiny gap over there so that you won't accidentally add any water. Now, to paint a snowy ground, as I mentioned earlier, I'm going to go with a medium tone of indigo. Take out a medium tone of indigo on your brush and add that medium tone at the bottom closer to the masking tape. As you go up you can make it lighter. Let's start by adding a medium tone over here. I'm just writing some lines onto the wet background. I'm not bending it as a background wash. Keep on adding some lines on to that wet background. It has to be lighter as you are closer towards the cabin. It can be a medium tone as you're away from the cabin. That's only thing you need to keep in mind. Be sure to leave some white gaps in between. That is what brings a snowy character for your painting. Over here, you can see I have left the white as it is. I haven't added any paint. Now, maybe just to the bottom, we can make it slightly more darker as it is a night sky. This corner is really away from the cabin, so you can make it a bit darker. I think we can add some more darker values onto the bottom left corner. I'm going to grab some more darker tone of indigo. I will make this left side a bit more darker. The area closer towards the cabin is really light, and the area away from the cabin is really dark. Grab some more darker tone of indigo. Just like how we did earlier, just add some lines. Drag your brush, don't make it a sharp line. When you drag your brush, the end of that line will be really small and if you draw them, it will look really sharp. That's the difference. Just keep on dragging your brush. This is how we get that smooth-looking line. Now I have washed all the paint from my brush and my brush is slightly wet, and I'm turning that clean brush towards either side to make it look more smoother. After this we'll have to wait for this to dry, then we can paint the cabin as well as we can add the pine trees. That's a snowy ground. Let's wait for that to dry. Now let's paint the cabin. For the cabin, I'm going to use a bit of yellow. The yellow I'm using here is cabin yellow light then I will need some brown, as well as some neutral tint. You can use any yellow that you've got, then you will need brown tint or brown. Then for the darker tones, you can either use black or pink, gray or neutral tint. I'm taking some yellow directly from the tube as I don't need a lot, and I'm adding that right on top of the window. Now, I'm going to switch to brown and I'm going to fill up the rest of the area in brown. You can start by adding brown around the yellow window. Then you can simply fill up the entire shape in brown. Now, wash all the paint from your brush and dab it on a paper towel, and I'm going to make this area smoother. Right now we can see that brown and yellow are separate divisions, so we're going to try to blend them. All we need to do is just run your clean, slightly wet brush on top of that junction to make it look smoother. This is the base layer, now we need to add some darker tones before the background dries. I'm going to squeeze out some neutral tints, and I'm taking a bit of paint on my brush, just a little, and I'm going to add some darker tones, underneath the roof line. First, I will add onto the side of the wall. Use a paint which is not too watery. If it's too watery, it will spread into the background as it is still wet. Now, using the same brush, you can add some thin lines. Now, let's add some deeper tones onto the other side as well. I'll start by adding over here onto this side of the wall, now I will add a little underneath the roof as well. Adding the darker tone doesn't look that dark enough, so I'm going to go back add a little more darker tone of neutral tint, I'm going to add some more deeper tones just like the way how I did earlier. Using my brush, I'm going to add some lines, these ones are looking really nice. Earlier, I think the color was slightly dull. I think now we can really get that effect of light coming through the window. Earlier, the colors were really dull, so we didn't really get that effect, now it is looking nice. Now, we'll have to wait for the cabin to dry before we add the final details. Meanwhile, we can start adding the pine trees. I'm going to add three or four huge pine trees on the left side, you can add as many as you want, so I'm going to add my first pine tree over here. I'll just add a line using a pencil, so that's going to be the height of my pine tree. You can make it even more taller or shorter, that's totally your choice, so that's going to be the height of my first tree. Now, I'm using my smaller size brush, this one is a size number 4 round brush, and I'm using a darker tone of neutral tint here. I have added a line which is the tree trunk, it is slightly inclined. Now, onto that, I'm going to add some foliage, I'm just running my brush towards either side and I'm adding some messy lines, you can see they are looking really rough. Now, you can keep on adding more messy patterns as they come down. They can be much more bigger than the ones you have added on the top. See that, I'm just adding some random rough messy shapes. If you look at the shape overall, you can see on the top I have smaller shapes and as I'm coming down I'm making them more bigger, and more messier. Don't be scared, you're going to get it right. The first step here is to get that overall shape of our triangle, a long pointed triangle. Now, using the tip of my brush, I'm going to add some dotted buttons. Just randomly adding some dotted buttons close to each other onto that entire shape, especially onto the outer side. See that? That's how you do your pine tree. This is a very easy step, you just need to do it one or two times to get a hang of it. I think you'll get it by the end of this painting. See that? Under that rough shape you have added there, simply keep on adding some dotted pattern, and there you have your gorgeous pine tree. That's our first tree. Now, in a similar way, I'm going to add another tree right next to that. Which is going to be slightly shorter than this one. I'm going to make all the trees look different from each other so that our painting will look more interesting. You'll add them in a similar way. You can either reduce the height or increase the height, or maybe you can play with the density of foliage. I'm thinking to make it much more shorter. Again, I'm going with an inclined line, and I'm thinking to add less foliage onto this one. On the top I'm adding some foliage, and I left some gap in between, and now I'm again adding the foliage. You can see it is entirely different from the first one, it is really short and it don't have that dense and thick foliage like the first one. Now, I'm going to add another one on the left side, which is going to be much more taller than the first one we added. For this one as well, I will make less foliage, I will add such thick and dense foliage like the first one. I have added the tree trunk and I'm adding some messy patterns on either side by running my brush in a messy way. Now, I'm taking my brush down, as I'm coming down I'm making those shapes more wider. On the top you should be having smaller shapes, and as you come down, it has to be more wider, so that you have an overall triangular shape. Now, I'm leaving some gap in between, and I'm adding some more foliage, and now I'm going to make it more thicker until I finish up the tree. In a similar way, I'm planning to add one or two small trees on the other side, closer to the cabin, but I won't be adding any huge trees, maybe I will just add one or two smaller ones or something which is of a medium height. You can compose your painting however you want to and can add as many trees as you want. That is it. Now, the last task is to add the remaining details onto the cabin, we need to finish off the roof as well as we need to add more details onto the wall. Let's do that. Maybe first we can add the reflection of the light on the snowy ground. For that, I'm going back with my cadmium yellow and add a bit of yellow over here. I have just added a little, now I'm washing all the paint from my brush and I'm just matching that into the background. That is it. Now, we can add the remaining details onto the cabin. For that I'm using neutral tint, you can also use Payne's gray. First we're going to add some dry brush lines onto the roof. We're going to leave most of the paper white and been just add few lines here and there. The most of the roof is going to be in snow and we're just making it look like the roof underneath the scene seen some places. Be sure to go with a dry paint if you're not too sure about the consistency, keep dabbing your brush on a paper towel, don't add any bold and permanent line. That's the roof. Now, I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush, and I'm going in with a little white gouache. The shape of the roof is not that clean, I think when I painted the sky some blue got into the roof, so I'm just cleaning that shape using white gouache, I'm making it a nice pointed tip. Now, adding some white on the other side of the roof as well, so it's a clean white line. Now, it looks clean, much better than before. There is a small bit of white here, I'm going to hide that using neutral tint. That's done. Now, using neutral tint, I'm going to add some more deeper tones onto the wall. I also want to add a small chimney here onto the roof to make it look more cute. I think I will add that first, then I will add the remaining details. It's just a small thick line. Add that onto the roof and that's your chimney. I already have an inclined line on the roof right the chimney, so I don't need to add the shadow. You can add a small inclined line on the roof just to show the shadow of the chimney. Now, using the same color, I'm going to add some more deeper tones onto the wall. I just added a think line underneath the roof and also onto the edges of the wall, just to define the shape of the cabin. Now, I'm adding some more lines onto the wall. Where I have the window, I'm adding a small outline for that and then I'm continuing the line. The lines are very thin and delicate, don't make it too prominent. With that, we're done with the whole painting for day 30. I'm going to remove the masking tape and I will show you the finished painting. Here is our painting, I hope you all enjoyed painting this last one from the series. I really don't want to end this challenge, but that's not technically possible. I'm going to wrap up this beautiful journey by sending you all a message. Even in your busiest days, try to find some time for yourself, and do what lights you up.