7-Day Watercolor Challenge: Paint Atmospheric Landscapes in 15 Minutes

1. Class Introduction + Overview: Imagine painting beautiful atmospheric watercolor landscapes in under 15 minutes. Hello, friends. I'm SaninaNabil, a top teacher on Skillshare and an author to the book, Bold and Beautiful Watercolor Skies. In this class, you will learn how to let the water and pigment flow freely, allowing the paint to move naturally and work its own quiet magic. Welcome to the 70 challenge where we will take a more expressive path, focusing on capturing the feeling of a place without overthinking the details. It's all about letting go, trusting the flow of watercolor, and allowing your intuition to guide each breaststroke. With each painting, you will explore new color combinions and create stunning compositions. I will walk you through the materials and techniques, making it easy to follow along and enjoy the process. Each painting takes less than 15 minutes. Just enough time to pause, breathe, and create something beautiful. So if you have God a moment to spare, come paint with me and let's bring dreamy landscapes to life. 2. Art Supplies You'll Need: All right, so let's start by having a look at the materials you will need for this class. I will start with the paper. According to me, the paper is the most important aspect of any watercolor painting. So the paper I'm going to use is from arches. It's 100% cotton watercolor paper. This one is a cool pressed paper, and here's the size I'm going with. It's 12 by 15 centimeter. You can compos your painting however you like, but please be sure to go with an artist create watercolor paper. That is what matters and have cut the edges. With my hand, you can absolutely keep the border. If you prefer that way, you don't need to tear off the sides. Okay, so that's all about the paper. Now coming to the colors. I'll be using watercolor tubes for this entire session. They'll be from different brands, and I will explain the colors at the beginning of every painting. We'll be working with the maximum of four colors for every painting. Now to mix your colors, you will need a mixing palette. This one is a ceramic mixing palette. You can go with any palette that you normally use. Now let's talk about the brushes. All the brushes I'm going to use for this class is from the brand silver brush, but the brand doesn't matter. You can go with any brush that you normally use. Please try to go with similar sizes. Okay. So the first brush here is a 1 " wash brush. We'll be using this one to apply a coat of water onto the entire paper. Then I have another flat brush, which is a half inch brush. Then I have three round brushes, size number eight, size number six, and size number two. These are the five brushes I'll be using don't have the exact same size, that's totally fine. Try to go with any size that is nearly similar. The next thing you will need is two jars of water. One has to stay clean, and the other one is to rinse off the paint from your brush. Then you will need a pencil and an eraser. There is only basic sketching like horizon line and some minor things. Okay, so for that, you will need a pencil and an eraser. Then the next thing you will need is a masking tape. You can fix your paper onto a drawing board or onto your table. And then finally, you will need a paper towel to dab off the excess amount of water or paint from your brush. Alright, so those are the materials you will need for this class. Keep them ready, and let's get started. Oh 3. Before We Start : Okay, so before we start, there are a few things to keep in mind to have a beautiful painting experience. First, I will show you the paintings that we're going to do in this entire challenge. Here is the first one. All the paintings that we're going to do in this challenge can be finished in 15 minutes or even less. Now the next one is a beautiful sunset. This one is one of my favorite. Then we have a very beautiful and minimalist, foggy forest, the favorite. Then we have a simple lavender field, more like an abstract one. Then we have a foggy meadow with some beautiful white flowers. I really like this colour combination. It turned out really beautiful. And then we have a monochrome painting. I have only used paint screy for this entire painting and a bit of white. Then finally, we have a simple misty lake. Okay, so those are the seven paintings we will do together in this watercolor challenge. Now, the very first thing I want to talk about is the border for this painting. You might have noticed this irregular hand ton border. Honestly, it wasn't really for aesthetic purpose. My paper was in a very bad condition. I think it was an old batch of paper, and the paint started seeping into the borders, making it really dirty. So initially, I thought of fixing it with some guash paint, but then it was quite difficult to do that for all of these paintings. So I decided to tear off the edges to give it a rustic look and to solve my problem. So, yeah, tearing of the border is absolutely not necessary. You can keep your border. Now, the next thing I want to talk about is the importance of using a good quality waterclour paper. If you look at this painting here, we are going to do the entire thing in one single layer. So in these kind of paintings where we are creating that foggy atmospheric landscapes, it is very important to make your background state wet for a longer time with a cellulose paper or a student grade paper. This might be a bit tricky. So it is very important to use 100% cotton watercolor paper. Over is artist grade. Otherwise, it will be a frustrating experience and you won't enjoy the process. Okay, so be sure to go with a good quality watercolor paper. You can see the process here. There was no break in between. The entire painting is done in one single go, starting with a background, adding the details and everything. Okay. Now, that brings me to the second point. Maybe it is a better idea to watch the process before you start your painting, and then you can join me along. This way, you're well informed about the steps and what to expect next. Now, this painting is a bit different. We will start with the background, and then we will add the full crown details, which are these trees. Now there is another one here, the misty Lake. For this painting, we are going to do everything in one single go without any break. We'll paint the sky and the lake together. Then we will add these trees and all these elements. So every painting is different and the color palette is different. I think it's a good idea to run through the video before you start your actual painting process. Now, in these paintings, you can see we are playing with different tonal values. You can see lighter tones, medium tones, and darker tones, which means it is really important to work with clean brushes. Keep a separate brush for adding water onto your background. This way, it will stay clean, and there won't be any paint stains on it. In the same way, it is also equally important to check whether your brushes are clean. I mean, the actual painting brushes. So before you start applying paint onto your paper, rinse your brushes in clean water and dab it on a paper towel to make sure there is no leftover paint on your brush. It might seem very silly, but it is very important. And also the next important thing is to keep your paint ready before you start painting. I'll be explaining the colors at the beginning, so squeeze out some paint onto your palette, and also make sure you have some clean working space on your palette. My palette is quite dirty. Ignore that. We'll be working with a maximum of four colors, so that's all the space you need. So yeah, that is it. We are good to go. Now without wasting any more time, let's start with Of painting. 4. Day 01 - Quiet Fields: Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to day one of painting beautiful atmospheric verticular landscapes. And here is our first painting. This one is one of my personal favorite. It's a simple yet a beautiful painting. I think you can finish this in less than 15 minutes. Anyway, for the sky, I'm going to go with a combination of gray and orange. The color you see on the top, it's a really, really light tone of pains gray. You can also use indigo if you prefer that, but go with a lighter tone. So that's the first color you will need for this painting. We'll use a darker tone of pains gray for the landscape as well. The next one is orange. This one is cellular orange. Go with any orange you have got, even vermilion will work. So these are the two colors I will use for the sky. Then from there, we will start the meadow. And for that, I'm going to go with a mix of yellow ochre and sap cream. This one is to turn my grain into a more earthy grain, if that makes sense. But if you have olive green, you can use it acetus. You don't need a mix yellow ochre and grain together. But if you don't have olive green, just pick some yellow ochre or orange and mix that with sap grain. Okay. The beauty of this painting is those earthy greens. So I would recommend not using sap green acts. Now, depending on the amount of yellow ochre or orange you're adding into sap green, the color can look different, and that's totally fine. So right here, I'm adding some orange and yellow ochre with sap cream. So this one is more like a brownish green. See that? It's a darker olive green. You can see that color in the background. So yeah, those are the colors and the color mixing process. Now keep all the colors ready on your palette, let's give it a try. All right, so I'm starting by applying a coat of water onto my anterior paper and make sure you have the colors ready before you start applying water because we're going to finish the entire layer in one co, the entire background layer. Then we have to add some details on top of it. Okay. So my paper is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to go with the flattrsh. First, make sure it is clean. And then the first color I'm going to pick is gray. I want a really light tone of gray. That's a color I'm going to use for the sky. Add some water into your paints gray and turn that into a lighter tone and apply that on the top. If you don't want to use gray, you can also use indigo. That's another color choice. You can see the color is pretty light. Then I'm going to wash my brush. I'm going to pick a little of orange. This one is cellllar orange, and I'm going to apply it over here. Then I'm going to spread it and blend it with gray. Now towards the bottom, I will make the color more brighter along the horizon line. Okay. So that's a blend of gray and orange and only along the horizon line, herd is a bit brighter. But I feel like the colors are really dull. I'll apply some more over here. To bring in a bit of contrast in our sky, I think even the gray could have been a bit more brighter, but never mind. I'm not going to go over it. For now, I will apply some more orange because when I introduce the landscape, this will get covered up. Okay. Now with the same brush, I'm going to pick some green. This one is sap green, and I'm mixing a bit of yellow ochre with it. This is to turn that into an olive green, sort of a color. Now I'm applying that towards the bottom. Okay. If you use sap green acid is, it will be really bright. Maybe we can add a little of orange Jasper. So I want a color which is more earthy, and that's why I'm adding green with orange and yellow ochre. If you have olive green, you can use it directly. That is too brownish, so I'm adding some more green into the mix, and I'm adding that onto the background. Just apply your paint. It doesn't need to be a clean blend or anything. Maybe we can add some brownish color as well to bring in some texture and tonal values. See that? So it doesn't need to be a clean blend. Now I'm adding some more taco toune, picking some paint screen, mixing that with cream. Now, adding that at the bottom in a very messy way. So my idea is to bring in some texture and tonal values into the background. It doesn't need to be a clean blend at all. Okay? Now, I'm going to keep this brush aside, and I'm going to go with a round brush to smudge the colors. So if your background is messy, it will look like there is some textures. If it's clean and perfect, it will look flat. So messy is what we need right here. I'm picking a bit of orangish grain, and I'm going to add in some lines and some textures onto the background. So it's more like the grassy line, but not perfect ones. This way, I'm just spreading the colors into each other and I'm introducing some texture onto the background. First, we can add some texture far away along the horizon line. The background is still wet. So I'm starting off with this point. Then we can come along towards the bottom. Okay, so go with a medium tone and add in some sheps along the horizon line, let that spread into the background. I made the color a bit more darker, and I'm just adding some shapes over here. Just some random shapes to show the plants far away. Now, along with that, I'm also going to add some grassy lines in a very messy way. You can see them clearly. They are not perfect, and that's fine. Our intention is to create some texture in the background. And even if we add them in a perfect way, it won't stay perfect as the background is wet. Now I'm making the color darker, and I'm adding some more lines, especially at the bottom part. It's a mix of pain screen and sap cream. See that? Don't overdo it. Add a few only at the bottom. The rest can stay as it is, because only at the bottom, you want to introduce a much more taco tone compared to the top. I'll add some more, and then we can let this dry. Alright, so that's how it has turned out. I'm very happy with the result, other than the bleed I have on either side. But now I can't help it. There's nothing can be done. So I'm gonna leave it for trying. Okay, so that is right perfectly. Next, we're going to add some details onto the background. And for that, I'm picking some yellow ochre, and I'm adding a little of sap green into it. Okay. Now using this color, I'm going to add some plants onto the background. I can see a patch over here. To cover that up, I'm going to add my first plant on top of it. So these plants that I'm going to add are quite simple. You have to start by adding a line, a slightly irregular line to make it more natural. See that? It's not a straight line. It's a bit irregular. Now onto this, I will add some more lines, just some branches. Maybe we can make it a bit more taller than just add a few more branches. Again, irregular lines. Similarly, we will add more branches, then some leaves and some flowers onto the top. Okay, I will add another one right next to that. So the color I'm using here is a mix of yellow ochre and sap cream and it's kind of an opaque color because there is yellow ochre in it. You will see that when I'm adding the lines at the bottom, where I have the daco tone. First, I will add some more leaves over here. Okay, so it's a combination of branches and leaves. See that? Now, I will add a few lines over here, then you will see the color. So right here we are actually layering a lighter tone on top of darker tone, and it is still visible. The reason is we have added yellow ochre into sap crane. Okay, so go in a similar way so that we can make use of the layering method, just like gouache. This is the color I used. It's yellow ochre from Shinhan. I guess all the yellow ochre works in the same way. So try it out. If it's not happening, maybe you can use naples yellow, instead of yellow ochre. Now I'm going to add another line. Towards the bottom, it is showing up very beautifully. I will add few lines as well. I don't think I need to add a lot of lines at the bottom. We already have enough texture in the background. Initially, I was quite upset that I didn't go with a darker gray. But now looking at the entire painting, I'm happy with the colors. They're looking very soft and everything is going so well together. Now onto these tips, I'm going to add some teeny tiny leaves. My first plan was to add some flowers. Then I thought of keeping it simple. So I'm just adding a few tiny leaves on the tip. But if you want to add some flowers, it's totally fine. You can go the same detail and add some teeny, tiny flowers on the top. Okay. Now I'm going to continue with this detail. Maybe I will add a few more plants onto the background to fill in all the gaps. Now I'm doing the same for this one, adding few lines first. Then I will add that top detail, and that is it. So if you want to add more plants onto your background, you could do that. This one is our full ground element. So if you want to make it more dense and more thicker, that's totally fine. You can go ahead and add in as many plants as you like. I think I will add one more I'm just deciding where to add the next one. Maybe I will add that in between these two. So, yeah, that's our painting. Now, the only thing I'm going to do is I will add some leaves at the bottom and maybe some grassy lines as well. And with that, we'll be done with our painting for day one. It was a really quick painting. I think we took less than 10 minutes so far, and it's really beautiful. The best part about this painting is that brighter orange we used in the background. If that was a lighter tone, it won't look this beautiful. Alright, so with that, we have come to an end. Our first painting of this challenge is officially over. Now it's time to peel up the masking tape. I was expecting a clean border, but it's a mess. I think there's something wrong with the paper. Otherwise, it won't bleed like this. Anyway, it's a first painting, so I cannot leave it like this. So I'm going to grab some white quash, and I'm going to cover up all these. I'm just keeping it real. Maybe you always have wondered, how do I get clean water all the time? No, I don't is a clear example. So after all those work was done, I decided to cut off the edge, and here is the final painting. You can keep your border. You don't need to cut it off. Anyway, if you haven't tried it yet, do give it a try and let me know if you liked it. 5. Day 02 - Glowing Sunset: Hello, dear friends. Welcome to day two of painting beautiful atmospheric landscapes, and here is our painting for the day. I really enjoyed creating this piece, and I can't bear to show you how to do the same. I will start by introducing you to the colors. So the very first colour we will need is a yellow. The one I'm using here is carmum yellow light. Go with any similar yellow you have caught. The next one is a yellowish orange. This one is carmum yellow orange. And then we need a brighter orange. This one is cellular orange. You can use vermin or any similar brighter orange you have got. So that is yellow and two kind of orange. Now, if you don't have yellowish orange, it's totally fine. You can just mix that yellow and vermilin together to create a lighter yellowish orange. Now, the next two colors you will need is brown or Brzena. This one is permanent brown, and then finally, you will need pains grey. If you don't have pains grey, you can go with plaque. So these are the colors you will need for this gorgeous painting. Yellow, yellowish orange, then vermilion or any similar orange, brown and painkscrey. Okay. Now, let's give it a try. Alright, so I have my paper ready here. For this painting, you don't need to add any sketch. We can start right away. Maybe you can just add a horizon line just for you to understand where you should be putting the colors. So I'm going to add a line right at the center, and there is it. So the top part is going to be the sky, and the bottom part is the lek. Now, make sure you have all the colors ready on your palette. We need a yellowish orange, a brighter orange, brown and pinkcrey. Now, when these colors are ready on your palette, you can start by applying a quart of water onto the anterior paper, using any of your clean white brush. Okay. So the brush I'm using here is a 1.5 inch brush, and it's clean. Okay, so my background is evenly wet. Now let's go with the medium sized round brush. This one is size number eight. But first, make sure your brush is clean. Now I'm going to start with this yellowish orange. Now, we're going to leave some space at the center, and let's apply the yellowish orange on either side. We have to add some yellow at the center. But I just realized I haven't taken out yellow on my palette. So let me do that first. You can go with any of your warm yellow. The one I'm using here is cadmium yellow. You can also use gamboge yellow or any other similar yellow. Now take a little of that and apply that at the center. Okay, so we're not going to really show the sun acetus, we're just going to show that glow at the center. That's it. So we have some yellow at the center. Now I'm going to go back with orange, picking a bit more brighter tone. And I'm adding that on either side. So you can see the way how I'm moving my brush from either side with the center while retaining that yellow. Now, gradually, I'm going to make the colors more bolder, so I'm picking a bit of brown, mixing that with this brighter orange, adding that on the top. This is just the beginning. We are going to make the color more darker. But maybe before that, I will just apply some more orange. I'm mixing these two oranges together, and I'm going to add a few lines here on either side. While retaining the yellow at the center, I'm not going to touch that part. See that? So from either side, apply some lines towards the center. Your background is wet, so they will nicely blend into each other. Now I'm going to pick a bit more darker brown, and I'm adding that towards the top. Just adding some random lines and shapes. But I'm not touching the yellow. I think there's a lot of water. So I have dabbed it on a paper towel. Now a bit more orange. So we have to create that contrast, and it has to be a play of light and dark. So at the center, we have a lighter tone. Then on either side, we have introduced some medium tones, and towards the top, we have made it more darker. I think you can already see the glow here. So only if you play with light and dark, you can bring in that contrast. I think I will add some more yellow at the center. It is not really prominent. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. I'm pretty happy with the colors and the glow we have created. Now in a similar way, I'm going to apply paint towards the bottom, starting with orange, adding that on either side while leaving some space at the center. The same way how I painted the sky, and that's where I'm going to introduce some yellow. Now towards the bottom, I will add some brown. Then I will go with yellow. Okay, so I'm going to clean my brush, picking some yellow, adding that at the center. Okay, so that is yellow. Now I'm going to go back with orange, adding lines from either side. Okay. So the base layer is almost ready. Now, we have to introduce more darker tones. We have to add some clouds on the sky and also some lines on the lake to bring in that contrast. So I'm picking some more brown, adding a few more lines onto the sky. See that? So just like how we did earlier, add some lines from either side without touching the yellow. Okay. Similarly, we have to add lines at the bottom as well, onto the lake. I will start from the bottom, making this part darker. Then gradually I will add some lines onto the top. Our background is still really wet, so we have to make use of the time and add these lines to show the movement in the water. Okay. The only tricky part here is to work faster. We need to add in all the colors and all the lines before the background dries up. Now I'm dabbing that on a paper towel, picking a bit of orange. So I want a paint which is not too watery. And with that paint, I'm just going to smudge the lines to give it a softer look. Right now, those lines are spreading a lot and it doesn't look very smooth and soft. So go with a lighter orange and then just spread it out. See that? You can see the difference it made. Now I'm going back with brown to add the trees and the landscape far away. Adding some shape here while the background is still wet. See that? It will nicely spread into the background like a soft blur, making it appear it is foggy. Similarly, on the other side as well. I'm adding some brown shapes. But towards the center, we have to add in some orange. You should not use brown acetas. So clean your brush, then pick a little orange and use that color towards the center where we have created that clue. Now, clean your brush again, and right at the center, use really lighter tone. See that? Now you can smudge the bottom to give it a better look. Alright, now it's time to introduce more darker tones. Right now, the colors are quite medium tones, so I'm picking some brown and adding a little of paints gray into the mix. So this is the time we're introducing paints gray into the painting. All this while we were just using orange and brown. First, I will add some shapes over here, only onto the left end. I won't be adding similar shapes on the right. So only over here onto this extreme side, I'm adding some shapes. See that? Make sure not to bring them too close to the center. We have to retain those orange and yellow at the center. So add them only onto the extreme side. Now, you can just much it. Okay. So just like the sky and the lake, whatever elements you're adding into the painting, if it's closer to the sun, it has to be lighter. So I'm picking a bit of orange, and I'm adding that towards this part, which is closer to the sun. Now cleaning that and making it lighter again over here. See that? You can really see the glue now. Now to the extreme end, I'm making it a bit more darker, only over here. The rest can stay as it is. Just like I said earlier, you have to play with that colors. You have to introduce dark and light to create that sense of contrast in your painting. Otherwise, everything will look quite plain and flat. Okay, so the landscape is in. Now with the same color, I'm going to add some lines onto the water. My background is still really wet. So just onto that wet background. I'm adding some lines. So when you add these lines, try to leave some gap in between. Don't add them too close to each other. Okay, you can see a bit of orange and yellow in between. And that's how you should be adding those lines. On the other side, I'm not adding much. Okay, I think it can stay as it is. Let's focus on the left side. There we have that bigger landscape element. Now, I will add a few more shapes over here. And with that same color, that darker brown, I will add some more lines onto the background. Okay, so it's a darker brown. It's a mix of paints gray and permanent brown. Now only onto the left side, I'm adding a few lines, leaving some gap in between. So we have to see all those colors in the background, yellow, orange, medium tone of brown, darker tone, all of those colors. Okay. So that's how it has turned out. We still have to introduce some more taco tones to give it a better look, but I will first finish up this part. Adding some more patterns over here, but it looks like this part has dried. The rush is quite wet still. I'm not really sure what happened only on this part. Anyway, that's it. That's the landscape in the background. Honestly, this painting is quite complete at this point, but to me, I'm a perfectionist, and to me, those lines are not looking really soft. So there is one trick that I always do to make those lines more softer. So clean your brush, then go back over some orange. It has to be a medium tone, and your breast should not be too wet. If it's too wet, dab it on a paper towel before you add these lines. Minus a bit of wet. So dab it on a paper towel. Now extend these lines. Go very light handed. Don't put a lot of pressure. Like a feather touch. Gently smudge those lines. This will give it a softer look. Along with that, you can also add some lines towards the right side. Okay. So honestly, at this point, if you're happy with your painting, you can stop it. It is in a good shape. But to me, I wanted to add some more darker tones while my background is still wet. So if your painting is starting to dry, you can stop it at this point. Otherwise, go with the darker tone of brown and introduce a few more lines only on the left side. So this step is completely optional. If you're happy with your result, you don't need to add any extra lines. You can call it done. In case if you're adding them, try to leave some gap in between. Don't add the lines too close to each other. I'm focusing only on the left side, and onto the same areas, I'm adding an extra line. I'm going with one more round, making the color more darker and introducing another line, again, onto the same area. So this time, it is only on the extreme end. I'm not spreading that too much towards the center. Okay, so you can see the difference it made. The colors are more darker, and there is a beautiful contrast. Earlier, it was all medium tones. But then it's completely optional. The earlier version was also really beautiful because with this painting, the trick is making a background stay wet for a longer time. So if it is starting to dry, don't attempt this. Leave it as it is. Otherwise, you will ruin your decent looking painting. Okay. I will just add a few more shapes over here, using a Taco tone. Just some teeny tiny shapes only on the top. The rest is looking good. Alright, so that is it. Now, there is one more thing that I want to do, which is fixing those lines, especially the ones at the bottom. You can see they are looking a bit rough, so I'm picking a little of orange, and I'm smudging these lines to give it a softer look. Right now, that spread is not really beautiful. So pick some orange on your brush and spread out those lines. This will make those lines very soft and blurry. See that? It instantly made a difference. Now, I have a bit of naples yellow left on my palette from the previous painting. So there's one more thing which I would love to do, which is, again, completely optional. If you want to do this step, you can take out a bit of naples yellow, which is a pastel yellow. I'm switching to a smaller brush, picking a bit of niples yellow, and I'm going to add a few lines underneath the sun. Let me pick some paint and show you how I'm going to do that. Okay, so right over here underneath that glowy part, I'm going to add a few lines onto the leg. See that? So naples yellow is a mix of yellow and white. It's a pastel yellow. So when you add lines using this color, it will really show on your paper. If you're using the normal yellow like cadmium yellow, Cambos yellow or any other yellow, there are chances it might not show on your paper. So if you don't have naples yellow, there's nothing to worry. Add a bit of white watercolor into any of the yellow you were using earlier and add in a few lines. Alright, so there we are. We are done with our painting for the day. But to give you a finished look, I'm thinking of adding some birds onto the sky. So with my smaller brush, I'm taking a bit of paints gray. Maybe a darker brown is better than paints gray. These are super tiny birds, and they are far away. So go with any of your smaller brush and add in a group of birds, three or four of them. I will add one more here, maybe another one onto the top. Now I'm thinking to add another one closer to the sun using brown. So let me clean off my brush. Then I will pick some brown. It can go with brown or it can go with a mix of brown and orange. Now I'm adding a bird over here with that brownish color. Okay. If you want to add more birds, you could do that. I'm going to stop it here. I will make this a bit more brownish. And I will add the same brown onto this one. Alright. So that's it. That's how my painting has turned out. It's a gorgeous painting, and I really like the glow we have created here. Give it a try if you get to try it, and let me know if you liked it. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'll be back here soon with our next painting. 6. Day 03 - Foggy Forest: Hello, dear friends. Welcome to another day of painting beautiful atmospheric landscapes, and here is our painting for the day. Now, for this painting, you will only need three colors. The first one is indico, then sap cream and some pink screy. Okay, so keep the colors ready, and let's give it a try. Alright, so let's start. First, I'm adding a horizon line. Which is a bit below the end of the paper. So start by just adding a line, that's a sketch. Now you have to make sure you have some in deco, sap cream and pink screen on your palette. These are the three colors you will need for this anterior painting. So keep them ready. And when you have them ready, you can apply a coat of water onto the anterior paper and make it evenly wet. And using my washbush. This one is 1 " wash brush and applying a nice even coat of clean water onto the anterior paper. Okay. Run your brush multiple times back and forth, just to be sure the water has reached everywhere. And there won't be any pools of water if you do so. Okay, so my paper is evenly wet. Now we can start applying the paint onto this wet layer. So I'm going to keep this brush aside. And I'm going to go with a medium sized round brush. This one is size number eight. Go with any brush of your choice, any medium size brush. Now, the first color I'm going to pick is indigo and making sure the brush is clean. Now we'll go with a medium tone of indigo, and we'll apply that on the top first. Then gradually towards the bottom, we will add more green and a darker tone. Okay, so go with any of your medium sized trash, add some water into in tigo and turn that into medium tone. Now apply this on the top part. As you're coming down, make it a bit lighter. I'll apply some more on the top. Okay, so towards the center, I'm not adding much paint. Only on the top, we have a medium tone. I'm making it lighter as I'm coming down. Okay. Now, right over here, I will apply some medium tone. So in between, we have a lighter tone. Then on the top and the bottom, we have a medium tone of indico. I'm spreading that into the background. Okay. Now I'm going to go with green with the same brush. I'm picking some sap cream. First, we can go with a medium tone of green, then gradually we can make it darker towards the bottom. I'm adding more water, and I'm making it lighter. So that's a tonal value I'm going with. I'm applying that over here, and I'm gently blending that with the blue. Now towards the bottom, I will make it more darker. So I'm picking indigo, and I'm mixing that with sap green to make it more darko and I will add that at the bottom. See that? So towards the top, we want to retain that lighter tone or medium tone. And at the bottom, we want to introduce some textures and taco tones. So just add that in a very random way. You can leave it acets and it will nicely blend into the background. And you can see those textures we are creating. Okay, so make your green darker by adding some indigo or paint green to it. I'm adding more darko tones. Okay. The top part, you can leave it as it is. Right now, I have added some paint green with green, and that's the color you see right now. Okay, so that's how the background has turned out. If you want to add some more taco tone, you could do that. Now I'm going to go the smaller brush. This one is size number six, and I'm going back with intigo we will need a medium tone. Now using this color, I'm going to introduce some leaves and some foliage onto the top. This one is somewhere between a darker tone and a medium tone, simply add some patterns like this onto the top. Don't make it too dark, go the similar tonal value, and we have to do this before the background dries out completely. Be quick and introduce some patterns and some textures onto the top. I will do the same on the other side. We only need some on the top, don't overdo it. In between, we need a lighter tone as well. So on the top, we have this foliage. Then in between, we have a lighter tone. Then again, towards the bottom. We have a medium tone I can. That's how it is. So follow that pattern. So only on the top, you can see that medium tone towards the bottom, I have made it lighter. Maybe we can make it slightly more darker. I'm picking more indigo. I'm adding some more patterns onto the topmost area. I'm just adding that onto that wet background in a very random way. I'm not following any particular shape or size or anything. Simply add that paint onto the wet background and smudge it in a very light handed way. Don't put a lot of pressure, and that is it. So that's how it has turned out. If your background is still wet, you can add more patterns, more taco tones, or more lighter tones. Whatever you prefer? I think it's in a good place. I don't want to add any more patterns. So I'm going to call it done. But before I leave it for trying, I'm thinking of adding some more taco tones at the bottom using paints gray. These are the places where I'm going to add the trees. So just in between, I'm introducing some darker tones on either side, because I'm planning to add one tree on the right and another one on the left. And that's where I'm adding these taco tones. But it looks like the background has almost dried. So the best thing to do right now is to stop and wait for this to dry. And that's what I'm gonna do. Alright, so let's leave this for drying. All right, so that's how it has turned out. It has become a little faded, but it is still very pretty. Now the next step is to add the trees onto the background. And for that, I'm going to go with indigo. I will start with the medium tone. I'm adding some water. Then I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. Now, I will start with the first tree using this tonal value. I'm adding that over here. So you just need to add the tree trunk. We're not going to add new branches or anything. Now towards the bottom, I will tap it off using a paper towel. So just take a soft tissue and dab it off. Now, in a similar way, we can add more trees. You can use a lighter tone or a similar tonal value for the rest of the trees. I'm dabbing that off towards the bottom. Okay, so this will create a foggy effect quite easily. You don't need to put any extra effort. Now, I'm going to add my next tree. Maybe we can add a branch here. Otherwise, they will all look the same. I'm extending this one towards the top. Then I'm adding a branch. Okay, so that's my second tree. Now, in a similar way, we can add more. You can add them wherever you like. You don't need to follow the same spot and the same cut of tree. It can be a straight tree or an irregular shape or an inclined one. However you want to add them, you can add. So the first set of trees I'm adding right now is using a lighter tone. Then I will do the same using a slightly darker tone. And then we will go the final round of trees. I will add one more over here using the same tonal value. Then after that, I will go with a medium tone. So add the shape of your tree, then towards the bottom, dab it off using a paper towel to create a foggy effect. Now, I'm going to add the next tree using a slightly darker tone. So that's the kind of color I'm going with. See that? Extending that towards the bottom. Here, I will pick some water and I will make it lighter. Okay. Now the rest, you can dab it off using a paper towel. See that? How easily we created a fog effect here. So that's a trick. Now in a similar way, if you want to add more trees, you could do that. I think I will add one more using the same tonal value. Okay, so those are the background trees. Next, I'm going to go the foreground trees. And for that, we have to use a slightly darker tone of intiko for the base. Then onto that, we will introduce some textures using pinks gray. So start with the darker tone of intiko Maybe one tone darker than the colour you used earlier, then outline the tree. Go with an irregular shape, more like an organic shape. Okay. The color I'm using here, it's a darker tone of intico. Add in your tree the basic shape. Then we can introduce the textures. Now onto this, I will add a branch. Maybe we can make it a bit more thicker. Towards the bottom, I think I'll just dab it off. Now onto this, I will add a branch, maybe here. Now in a similar way, I will add one more tree. But before that, I need to introduce the textures. We have to do that while the background is still wet. So first, add in the basic shape. I'm almost done. Okay, so that's my tree. Now onto this, I'm going to add some textures using paints gray. I think I will use a smaller brush. I have taken some paints gray on my brush, and I'm dropping that in a very random way onto the wet layer. You can add them wherever you like. I'm just adding some shapes and some lines onto that wet layer. As the base layer is still wet, when you add these darker tone, it will spread in a way leaving a beautiful texture. There is nothing to worry here, simply add them wherever you like. I'm going to add a few towards the bottom as well. See that? So just drop in that darker tone without worrying too much, and that's our tree. I will add some more here and also towards the top. Okay, so that is it. Now in a similar way, we can add one more tree. I'm thinking of adding that towards the right. You can add them wherever you like. You don't need to follow the same pattern, or if you want only one tree, even that is totally fine. I'm going to add that over here. So first, you have to go with a medium tone or a dako tone of intigo. Then add the basic shape of your tree and finally add the textures. If you have noticed I'm placing the tree where I have those taco tones on the ground. This way, we don't need to put a lot of effort showing the roots and all those details. See that? So I have placed it right where I have introduced those taco tones, go in a similar way. And wherever you have those taco tones on the grassy land, introduce your tree right over there. Okay. Now, let me quickly finish this tree. Mm. Alright, so the tree is ready. Now I'm going to add some branches onto these two trees using pains gray. You can add as many branches as you want, but go with a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. And add branches, in a way, they look more natural. Go with a nice curvy irregular shapes. Okay. I will add one more here or maybe here. Okay, I'm not going to overdo. I think this one is in good shape right now. So I'm gonna call it done. If you want to add more or if you want to add one more tree, that's totally up to you. You can add that. You can add more branches and more trees. Maybe one more tree on the left will be really nice. Anyway, that's it for the day. It was a quick and lovely artwork. I hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you so much for joining. If you haven't tried this painting yet, give it a try and let me know if you like it. 7. Day 04 - Moonlit Night: Hello, dear friends. Welcome to another day of painting at Masrik Landscapes. And here is our painting for the day. It's a monochrome painting, and the only color you will need is Paints gray. We'll be playing with different tonal values of gray to achieve this result. So for the background, we will play with a lighter tone of gray as well as a medium tone. We're going to achieve the result by varying the amount of water we are adding into the gray. So the color you see here is a medium tone. Then for the final details, we'll also be using a taco tone. Okay, so that's how we're going to achieve the result. And here's the gray that I'm going to use. It's from Rembrandt. In case if you don't want to use Pains Gray, you can also use indigo for this particular painting. Now, along with Pains gray, you will also need some white gouache or watercolor to add the moon and the reflection. Okay, so that's all about the color. Now let's give it a try. I already have my paper ready here and even the colors. Now, the first thing I'm going to do is adding a line, which is the horizon line. To divide the sky and the lake. So the top part is the sky and the bottom is the lake. Now, I hope you all have some pain screen ready on your palette. So somewhere over here, I will have my moon and then the reflection right underneath. All right. So the sketch and the paper and the colors are ready. Now we can start by applying a quatter water onto the entire background. Apply a nice gentle coater water onto the entire background. Don't make it too watery. Run your brush back and forth to make sure the coater water is even. Okay, now I'm going to switch to my round brush. You can use a round brush or a flat brush. The one I'm going to use is size number eight. First, make sure it is clean. Mine wasn't had some leftover violet on my brush. Okay, so I'm starting with a medium tone of gray, and I'm applying that at the center first where I have the moon. So in a circular way, I'm applying that paint. So over here, I need a lighter tone. Then around that, I want medium tone, and towards the outer side, I want the color to be a bit more darker. So that's a plan. My background is too watery. The colors are spreading a lot. Anyway, I'm using a medium tone right now or maybe more like a lighter tone. It has yet to be medium, I think. Okay, now with the same brush, I'm picking a medium tone. And I'm applying that onto the top first. Then leaving that lighter spot at the center, I'm adding paint from either side towards the center so that I can retain that lighter tone. Okay, the color can be more darker. Otherwise, it will be too dull. So from either side, I'm adding paint towards the center. Try to retain a bit of lighter tone at the center. That's all. Okay. Over here, you can see a little of lighter tone. That's all I could achieve, but that's enough. Now I'm making it more darker, going with some more medium tone, adding that onto the top first. Then from either side, I'm adding that towards the center. That lighter tone is still there. Okay. Maybe just maybe we can make it a little more darker because it's a night scene, and I want the colours to be a bit more darker. And, you know, with watercolor, it tends to fade a little when the paper has dried. So let's not take a chance. I think maybe we can go with one more round of darker tone. If you're happy with your result, you can leave it as it is. You don't need to add any more paint. But to me, I think this top part can be a little more darker and also on either side. Otherwise, that contrast won't be there. Now, I will just spread it into each other, and then I will go with the lake. Otherwise, by the time I start the lake, the paper would dry up. So I'm just gently spreading them into each other. All right. So that's the sky. I'm kind of happy with the way it has turned out. I have achieved a lighter tone at the center, then some medium tone around it, and also on the top. I don't want to overdo and ruin it, so I'm leaving that aside and I'm going with a lake foror which I'm going to use Pains gray. I will start with a medium tone. I will apply that onto the entire background. Then just like I did for the sky, I will start making the color more darker from either side. Okay. So go the medium tone or a lighter tone first, apply that onto the entire background. Then go the darker tone. You can add some at the bottom first. Then from either side, add paint towards the center. So here you have an imaginary horizon line. Keep that in mind. Considering that, you can add paint from either side towards the center in a linear way. So at the center, we are leaving some lighter tone, which is going to be the reflection. You can keep on building that color. We don't need a lot of lighter tone at the center. So once you start adding that taco tone, you will automatically lose that lighter tone at the center. So don't worry a lot. You can keep on adding that taco tone, some at the bottom, then a few lines from either side. Okay, even if you totally lose that lighter tone at the center, it's fine. We can add them with white paint. Okay, so there is nothing to worry here. The only thing you have to be careful is the wetness of your paper. Before your background dries, you need to add these lines. So from either side, keep on adding some lines. See that? There is still some lighter value at the center. Add more lines. We don't need this much lighter tone. Okay. So that's how we're going to build upon the background, start with the lighter to, then make it darker and darker by adding these lines from either side. Now you can really see that glow here. Now, I have cleaned my brush and I'm dabbing it on a paper towel. Okay, with that clean brush, just go to quickly run it back and forth. See that? Just to smudge and make those colors a bit smooth. Okay, so that's it for now. Now I'm going to go with a darker tone to add the horizon details. So with the same brush, I'm going to pick a darker tone of paints gray. And while the background is still wet, I'm going to introduce those elements over here. Is the same way how we did for the other paintings. So you can make it higher at some places, then lower at some places, just to add that realistic character. Okay. And if your paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel before you add these elements. Otherwise, they will spread a lot, and it will be very difficult to control the way they are spreading. Once we're done with this, we need to add the moon and the reflection. But before that, I think I can add some more elements here, maybe make it darker. And then I need to add some more lines onto the lake. Okay. So the background elements are done. I'm not going to touch it again. But with the same tonal value, I want to add some more lines onto the lake. But before that, let's clean up a brush and lift off some paint to define the horizon line. So gently take off some paint and introduce a very subtle horizon line. It doesn't need to be super white. It can be a little faded. And next, we're going to go p with paints gray again, a darker tone, and I'm adding some lines onto the leg. Once we added earlier, it's not visible. So we can define this a little more better. So just like how we did earlier, leave that gap at the center. Then from either side, add some lines. Alright. I think that's looking really nice right now. The colors are so good. But I know it will be one tone lighter when it dries. That is what I'm scared about. Anyway, that is it. Let's leave it for trying. Look at this look at those colors. So that's what I was telling about earlier. The colors will tend to fig a little, which is very normal with watercolor. So in the initial layer itself, we have to go with a darker tone. Anyway, what's done is done. Now for the next step, I'm going to squeeze out some white quash onto my palette. Now go with any of your smaller brush, pick some paint on your brush, and we're going to add a teeny tiny moon over here. And then we need to add the reflection. It won't be very much visible as the colors we have used in the background has faded a little. But still, I think it is visible. Okay, now with the same brush, I'm going to add the reflection, which is just a few lines on the lake underneath the moon. So underneath the moon, add few lines. Okay. I think we should have gone with a much more darker tone. Anyway, what's done is done, I will make it a bit more brighter, going with one more round, adding those lines again. Alright, so that's a reflection and the moon. Now the next task is to add the grassy pattern. Ovs is going to make a lot of difference over painting. Right now, it is very dull and it is very boring. But with the next step, it is going to change into the next level. So clean your brush, the same smaller size brush and go with a much more darker tone of paints gray, which is more like black. Okay. If you want to use a rigor brush or a liner brush or any other kind of detailing brush, you could go with that because we're going to add plenty of free hand lines. See that? So go with some nice curvy freehand lines, and then onto that, add some leaves. So these are the plants and the reeds growing along the river. Okay. So add some nice free hand lines, then some leaves onto that. I'm focusing on the left side, I will add a few more bigger ones like this. Then at the bottom, I will add some grassy lines to cover that part. Okay. Our interior background is quite tall. So only if you add a foreground element, which is very dark, our painting will look complete. Otherwise, it will be just boring. So yeah, this is a final step. You can add these grassy pattern and plants and reads wherever you feel like. Some of the lines can be really long and curvy. I'm going to add a nice long one here. Then onto the tip, I'm adding some teeny tiny lines. Okay, so go these kind of lines, add them in different orientation. Some of them can be straight, some of them can be long and curvy. It will add a lot of realistic character to your painting. Don't add them all in the same way. Let them be wild. Okay, so let's add these lines, and after that, at the bottom, I will introduce some more thicker lines. All right, so the major plants are in. Next, what I'm going to do is with the same brush, I'm going to add some lines close to each other at the bottomost area to make this area darker. I don't want any gaps in between. Otherwise you won't feel that contrast. So I'm just going to cover this part. I'm adding some lines close to each other, just some free hand lines. And then I'm going to cover this part. So without much gap, add them close to each other. It doesn't need to be perfect. We're just trying to cover that bottom area. So just keep on adding them as many as you can and cover the bottom. They don't need to be as long as the previous ones. They can be in a medium or a short of size. Our intention is just to fill this area, so you can just add them however you like. So I'm just adding a lot of them without lifting my hand, and that's how I'm filling it. Similarly, I will add them on the other end as well. So wherever I'm seeing some cap, I'm filling them by adding more and more lines. You can see the difference now. Earlier, there were a lot of gaps in between, and for some reason, the painting wasn't looking complete because there wasn't any contrast. Now, when I fill the bottom, when that darker color was introduced, it looks very much different. It looks complete, and it looks beautiful as well. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. You can see how gorgeous it has turned out. The only thing I regret is not making the background a little more darker, but here is the final result. It is still beautiful, I think. If you haven't tried it yet, do give it a try and let me know if you liked it. 8. Day 05 - Misty Lake: Hello, hello. Welcome to another day of painting beautiful atmospheric particular landscapes. And here is our painting for the day. So as usual, we will start with the colors we will need for this beautiful painting. You actually only need two colors. It can be indigo or any other blue of your choice. And along with that, you will also need some sap cream. The color you see right now is indigo. But when I started off with indigo, I wasn't really happy. So I decided to mix some cellar blue with intigo to make the color a bit more brighter, if that makes sense. Otherwise, you can just go with prussian blue or any other blue of your choice for the background. So I just mix these two colors together, intigo and celliarblue. Because when I started off with indigo, I felt it is really dull. So this is the kind of blue I will be using for the background. It is not necessary to mix these two. You can just go with indigo. Okay. Now, along with this, you will also need some sap cream, and that's our next color and a final color. You can also try the same painting with a different color combination of your choice. It could be indigo and violet or maybe crimson and violet or some brownish colors, maybe brown and orange. Aw, these are the colors I will be using indigo, Palo blue and sap cream. Okay. Now let's give it a try. Let's start with our next atmospheric landscape. I have my paper and the colors ready here. So for this one, we don't need any sketch. You just need to imagine a horizon line. O is going to be somewhere at the center of our paper. We don't need the sketch really, so I'm just going to erase that off. But just imagine that's where our horizon line is going to be. Okay. Now we can start by applying coated water onto the entire paper. Before you do that, make sure you have all the colors ready on your palette. We need indigo or any other blue that you prefer. Then along with that, we will also need some sap cream so apply a gentle coat of water onto the entire paper. Run your brush multiple times just to be sure the coater water is even. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to go with a flat brush. You can use a flat brush or a round brush. I'm going to start with indigo. I will apply a medium tone onto the top and towards the bottom. Then towards the center, we have to make the color lighter. So go with any of your flat brush, then apply a medium tone. Then gently, make it lighter. Then go with that medium tone again, apply that at the bottom. See that? So the center, we have a lighter tone, and on the top and the bottom, we have a medium tone. I'm not really loving the vibe of indigo here. It looks a bit dull. So I'm thinking of mixing some blue with indigo, maybe a hilo blue or Persian blue or any other blue. Let me see which I can crab quickly. All right, I got one. This one is cellar blue. It's more like a To blue. You can use indigo acets. There is no problem with that. For me, I feel like it's a bit dull. You will see the difference now. See that? The blue is a bit more brighter and vibrant. Okay, so go with prescient blue or any other blue of your choice. It doesn't need to be ItigoO you can just make some prussian blue or any other blue of your choice with intigo and make it a bit brighter. Okay, so that's how the base layer has turned out. I have a medium tone on the top and the bottom and towards the center, I have made it lighter. Now, I'm going to keep this brush aside, and I'm going to go with the arm trush. This one is size number six. I'm mixing the same colors again, indigo and cellar blue. Then on the top and the bottom, I'm going to add some more deeper tone. More like some clouds and some textures on the sky. Add some lines in a very random way. We'll have to maintain that lighter tone at the center then on the sky and towards the lake, we can add more taco tones and textures. With the same color, I'm going to add some lines at the bottom, which is our lake. I think we can make it more darker. Otherwise, when it dries, it will look very dull. I'm going to pick the same color again and I'm repeating the same exercise, some more clouds and textures on the sky and some lines at the lake. See that? Make it more brighter towards the bottom, and then some more clouds. It is actually a very easy painting and a beautiful one as well. But the tricky part here is making your background stay wet for a longer time as we're going to paint the entire thing in one single layer. So that's how it has turned out. Now to even out everything, I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel. So this will remove that excess amount of water and paint from my brush. Now with that kind of dry brush, I'm smudging the paint back and forth. Just to make it even. There are some hard lines. So this will smooth out everything. Okay. Now we're going to add some horizon details. The trees and everything in the background. For that, with the same brush, I'm picking a Darko tone of intigo. Now over here, I'm going to add a detail. See that? So just start with a rough shape and make sure your paint is not too watery. If it's too watery, dab it on a paper towel before you add this shape. Otherwise, it will spread a lot. I'm going to add some lines on the top to make it look like there are some pine trees over there. I'm adding that shape only on the right side. The left side, I'm leaving it astous just to create a foggy atmosphere. Now I have cleaned my brush, and I'm smudging this part, and I'm making it lighter. Okay. You have to do all these things very quickly before the background dries out. That's the main reason why I went in with a small piece of paper because it's easier to handle the wetness of the paper. If it's big, it will be very tricky. Anyway, now I'm adding some lines on the top over here. Okay. So that's how it has turned out. We have the background details ready there. Next, I'm going to go with the landscape. And for that with the same brush, I'm picking some sap cream. You don't need to clean the brush. You can go with sap cream directly. Okay. So this one is a size number six arm brush, and with that, I'm picking some sap cream. Maybe we can add a bit of indigo because we don't want that bright pleasant cream. The green can be a bit dark, add a pinch of indigo into sap cream and then add in some lines over here. You can leave a gap in between and then add your grain. The background is still wet. So there are chances they will spread a little, which is completely okay. Don't worry about that. But don't go with the watery paint with spreading a lot, dab your brush on a paper towel and then add this line. I want to add some darker tones and texture aspll, but before that, I will clean my brush. Then I will dab it on a paper towel. Now over here and gently smudging the paint to give it a smoother look. Okay, I'm really loving the way this one is progressing. The colors are really beautiful. Now I'm going to pick the darker tone. I will add some textures, and then we have to add the reflection as well. The color I'm using right now is a mix of indigo and sap cream, and I'm adding some dako tones at the bottom. Then also adding some tots and some textures towards the top as well. Okay, I won't be touching the pine trees that stay as it is. Only over here towards the right. I'm adding some taco tones. The left has to stay. Don't add any taco tones over there. Next, we can add reflection. Now I'm picking some indigo. And I will start with the pine trees. Similar to the shape we have added earlier, I'm adding a shape over here. It can be a bit different, that's totally fine, but try to go with similar heights and similar shapes. Okay. So I started off with the tacotun on the right. Now I have cleaned my brush and I'm smudging it and making it lighter. Now we're adding some lines to show the pine trees. It's the same thing we did earlier, but in a mirror image. On the right, we have some toler trees, add them over here in the reflection. Now, I will add some green asphalt, being that mix of indigo and sap cream. I'm going to introduce that over here. When you're doing this, leave a gap in between. That is really important to create that foggy atmosphere. Okay. Now maybe I will add few more lines on the leak. This is just to show that water movement. Add some lines with the same paint. Okay. Now I will just push these trees a bit more down to make it similar to the top. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. Now we're going to introduce some textures and some more pine trees. But before that, I will clean my brush, and then I'm going to lift off some paint from here. Just wiping my brush in a straight line. And then smudging those paint to give it a better look. It's a really beautiful color combination, and I'm super happy with the way it has turned out. But I think to make it look complete, we can add some more taco textures and a few pine trees. So I'm going back with a mix of intigo and green, and I'm adding some taco tones onto the right, mostly towards the bottom, just to make it look like there are some plants or grass or some kind of things over there. Otherwise, it will look quite plain. Just to introduce some taco tones, if you feel like there is enough, you don't need to add anymore, and that is it. Maybe we'll add a few at the bottom as well. Not a lot, maybe a few lines. It is starting to dry, so I don't want to take a chance going with a pine trees. This one is completely optional. If your painting is starting to dry, you can leave it at this point. If it's not. Maybe we can add one or two pine trees. My paper is still a little wet, not completely wet. You can see the paint is not spreading a lot, which means it is almost drying out. I'm adding one tree there, maybe one more over here. It's a very rough tree. Add a line, then add some shapes onto either side. I'll add the reflection as well. So these trees are very basic. They're not well detailed. We're adding them on a went background. So even if you go in a very much detailed manner, it won't stay in the perfect shape. So just add a line, then add some shapes messy shapes onto either side to introduce the foliage and do the same thing for the reflection. All right. So that is it. That's how our painting has turned out. If you want to add more trees, you could do that, or some tacotuns or some textures or anything that you want to add. But only if your background is still wet. Otherwise, it's a good idea to stop it here. Okay, so that's how it has turned out, and I'm really, really happy with the result. It was a really quick painting. I think we took less than 10 minutes or maximum 12 minutes. I hope you all enjoyed it. Here is the final result. Give it a try either with the same color combination or a different color combination of your choice, and let me know if you liked it. Oh 9. Day 06 - Purple Evening: Hello, dear friends. Welcome to another day of painting beautiful atmospheric landscapes. And here's our painting for the day. Now I will start with the colors you will need. So the very first color you will need is a mix of violet and indigo. That's a color we'll be using for the background. I mean, for the sky, as well as for those landscape elements. So this one you see here is indigo. Then along with that, you will also need violet. Now, in case if you want to use indigo for the sky, you can use it as ittus without mixing that with violet. To me, I'm going to go with the mix of these two colors just to make it a little different from the usual colors we use. Now, there's one more color you will need or sap cream. Now, sap cream as well, I'm not going to use it as it is. I'm going to go with a mix of indigo and sap cream. Okay, so these are the three colors you will need for this beautiful landscape. In case, if you want to use ident green instead of sap green, that's totally fine. Okay, so these are the three colors you will need. Along with this, you will also need some white gouache or white watercolor. Alright, so I have my paper and the colors ready here. Now, I'm starting by adding the horizon line a little below the center of the paper. So that's where I'm placing my horizon line. Okay, so the top part of the sky, then bottom, we have a meadow. That's how we need. Now, before you start, make sure you have all the colors ready on your palette. You will need indigo, violet, and green. Once you have the colors ready, you can start applying a clean coat of water onto the entire paper. And make it evenly wet. Okay. So my paper is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to keep this brush aside, and I'm going to go with a round brush. Go with any of your medium sized round brush. I'm going to go with eight. Now, the color I'm starting with is a mix of indigo and violet. I want a color which is more like a bluish indigo, if that makes sense. I'm mixing some indigo and violet together. I will apply this color on the sky and I will show you how it is looking like. It can be more violetish or it can be more bluish. You can apply any color you feel like or you can just go with indigo acetys or violet acetas. Anyway, this is the color I'm going to use. I'll make it a bit more brighter. Okay, this looks fine. Now, as I'm coming down, I'm making the color slightly lighter. So I'm not going to pick any more paint as I'm approaching towards the bottom. So on the top, it's more like a medium tone, towards the horizon line, it is slightly lighter. Now, I'm going to straightaway go with the grassy land. With the same brush, you don't need to clean it. Now, the color I'm going with is a mix of green and intigo, sap green and intigo. We want the colors to be a bit darker. So just mix some sap cream and indigo together. If you feel like you can also go with ident green. Even that will be a nice color combination. Okay, so that's the kind of color I'm going with. I'm applying that towards the bottom in a very random way, leaving some caps in between. So it's a mix of indigo and sap green. Now, along the horizon line, I'm introducing the same color. Okay, so there's a slight gap between the sky and the grassy land. Now I will make the bottom more darker, picking more intco, adding that at the bottom most areas and some lines and some shapes in between to bring in some kind of texture. Okay. So while your background is still wet, add in some taco tones here and there. So that's our sky and the grassy land. Now, I'm going to apply a bit more taco tones. Then I will start with the horizon details. We want to introduce some landscape elements along the horizon line, which are going to be blurry. So while the background is still wet, we need to introduce them, and that's our next task. Okay, so I'm going to keep this pressure aside, and I will go with a smaller brush. This one is size number six. Now for the landscape elements, the color I'm going to go with is the same color I use for the sky in a darker tone. So I'm mixing some violet and indigo together. So this time, the color is slightly darker than the color of the sky, and using that color, I'm going to add in some random shapes along the horizon line. We have to apply this while the background is still wet. So don't wait for a longer time. Add them right away. I have left a slide gap in between. If you can do that please. Otherwise, we can introduce that by lifting off some paint. So onto the end, I'm making them higher. And in between, it is shorter. If you go the waring height, it will add a realistic character to our painting. So add them in a waring height like this. And at some places, the color can be a bit more darker. You can see the way how I'm dropping it. Okay, so just add those shapes onto the background and let that spread into the background, however it feels like. Okay. And if your paint is too wet, you can dab it on a paper towel. Don't go with that super watery paint. Alright. I will add in some more taco tones toward the bottom. So I'm mixing some indigo and violet again. And over here, I'm adding some dots and some shapes of the dako tone, and you can see it spreading into the background, leaving a nice texture. I'm doing the same on the other side as well. You can still see a gap in between. See that? But on the left side, I couldn't leave any gap. The color spread a bit more. Anyway, that's how it has turned out. We can introduce that gap again. All right. So those are the landscape elements. I'm really loving the way this is turning out. That moody atmosphere is really nice. And it's a beautiful color combination as well. I will add a little more Okay, so that is it. Now, I'm gonna clean my brush. And then I'm gonna dap it on a paper towel. Now with that dry brush, I'm going to lift off some paint from here in a straight line. Okay. So once you've done that, dab your brush on a paper towel. And if you want to repeat it, do that one more time. No more than that. Okay, so we have introduced that line again. So this would make it look like a foggy landscape, and that's what I'm trying to do here. Okay, so that's a first step. Now we have one more thing to do. Oh, it is adding the flowers. And for that, I'm going to go with white quash. I will squeeze out a little of paint onto my palette. Now, at this point, my painting is almost starting to dry, so I have to act very quick. Have taken some white paint on my brush. Now using that, I'm adding some dots onto the background. It doesn't need to be like a properly shaped dot or circle or anything. You can just keep on adding some dots close to each other. They don't need to have a particular shape. And since our background is still a little wet, they won't appear too prominent. They will look a little faded and blurry, and that is totally fine. So just make use of the time and keep on adding some dots wherever you feel like. You can add them as different different groups here and there. So I have added some along the horizon line, then have added some towards the bottom. In between, there is some green color. So that's how you should be adding them. Don't cover up the entire background. Okay. Now in a si lo way, I will add some more flowers onto the other side. Alright, so I've added enough of them. They are a bit blurry. They are not an opaque white, and that's fine. We'll be adding some more flowers at the end when everything has dried completely. For now, I'm cleaning my brush, and I'm going back with a mix of violet and indigo, the same colour I used earlier, and using that color, I'm going to add a few trees, few pine trees. This one is not necessary. Only if you want to add them, you could do that. Otherwise, just skip this step. So at some places, the background is still wet. Over here, it is still wet. So the tree is a bit blurry. But the other one, it has kind of dried, so the tree isn't that blurry. So when you add these trees, you will get a combination of both, some prominent trees and some blurry trees. This one is also blurry. We don't need a lot of trees, just three or four of them, or maybe two on one side, two on the other side. And also, this one is not necessary as p. So just decide on whether you want to add them or not. These are very basic trees. I'm not looking into the detail. See that? It's a very rough shape. I'll add one more here and maybe one more. And that's it. I think with that, I will call it done. Because the background is starting to dry and I don't want to mess it up. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. Maybe I feel like adding one more here. Now, at this point, if you want to call it done, you could do that. We have added all the details. We have the sky, the meadow, and the pine trees, and also the landscape elements, even some flowers. But I'm going to do two more extra task, which is not really necessary. And for that, I'm going to go with a smaller brush. So I'm keeping this one aside, and I'm picking my size number two unreh which has got a much more better tip. Okay. Now, I'm going to go back with a mix of indigo and sap cream. And I'm going to introduce some grassy pattern. This one is completely unnecessary. Only if you want to add in some more texture and details, you could do that. So wherever I have these green gaps, over there, I'm adding some grassy lines. Not a lot, just a few here and there. I won't be adding them everywhere. I'm focusing only at the bottom area where we have these darker tones. So I'm just adding some lines, some shorter lines. And you can see they're not very prominent, which means it's totally okay if you don't want to add them. I will add a few more because when I started it, I will add some more onto the other side. Only at the bottom, that's where I'm focusing. I won't be adding any onto the top, so I'll just add a few here. All right. Now, after this, there is one more task left, which is adding some more flowers onto the background. Using a much more brighter white. The ones we added earlier, they are looking quite blurry. They are not at all visible. So I thought of going with a much more opaque and clear white, and then we can add some more flowers in between. So I'll quickly add some more grassy lines onto the background. And then I will straightaway go with white. Okay. So this one is nearly done. Now I'm going to switch to white, have taken some white paint on my brush. So this time, there are a few differences compared to earlier. The first difference is the background has dried completely, and I'm using a smaller brush and the white is more opaque. Okay. Now, you can add as many flowers as you want, but try not to cover that background color. You want a combination of that blurry flowers and the prominent ones. This would make it look more beautiful. I'm focusing on the bottom part first. Then I will add some onto the background. I'm really loving the way this is turning out, especially with those white flowers. I think it was a good decision to go with one more round of flowers. The ones we added earlier, they are not very visible. Okay, so just go with any of your smaller brush and go with opaque white. It could be either guache or watercolor. If you're using watercolur, try not to add a lot of water because watercolor is more transparent compared to Guache. If you have guache, go with that. Okay. I will add some more onto the background. I'm picking more paint, adding some teeny tiny dots far away along the horizon. I don't want to add a lot over here because it's far away, and we have that blurry white over here, and that's enough, I think. And that's it. That's our painting for the day. It turned out really beautiful. I hope you all enjoy the process. Give it a dry fa to try it, and let me know if you liked it. 10. Day 07 - Lavender Fields: Hello, dear friends. Welcome to another day of painting beautiful atmospheric landscapes with watercolor, and here's our painting for the day. It's a simple lavender field, more like an abstract one. Anyway, let's start with the colors you will need for this gorgeous painting. The very first color is indigo. That's a color I'll be using for the sky, for the mountain, as well as for the landscape. But for the landscape, I will also be going with another color, which is a mix of sap cream and indigo. I'm not really sure if we can see that on the painting. I have used that color towards the bottom of the landscape, but it's not really visible. Now, the next color you will need is violet. This one is permanent violet from Shinhan. Now you will need one more color or its rose. It's a beautiful color. This one is permanent rose again from Shinhan. So these are the four colors you need for this painting, indigo, then a mix of indigo and sap cream, permanent violet and permanent rose. Okay, so I have my paper ready here. Now I'm starting by adding a horizon line. Now we have to add some inclined line to show that lavender field. So imagine a vanishing point and add some angled lines like this towards that vanishing point. I have added four of them here. Okay, so that's our sketch. This is all you need. Now we can start painting. Before you start, please be sure you have all the colors ready on your palette. When you have them ready, start by applying coat of water onto the end paper, using any of your clean white brush. Run your brush multiple times, just to be sure the water has reached everywhere and there's no pols of water. We need a shiny even coat. Now I'm going to go with a medium sized round brush. First, I'm making sure it is clean. Obviously, it wasn't. So I'm starting off with a light tone of indigo. I'm adding that onto the wet paper. Now towards the horizon line, I'm making it a bit lighter. Maybe we can drop in some more paint. Otherwise, when it dries up, it will be much more lighter. Okay, so start with the medium tone, then make it lighter towards the horizon line. You can use a flat drish or a round rush. Both will work. Alright, so that's a sky. Next, I'm going to go with the lavender field. I'm using the same brush. And to start off, the color I'm going with is a mix of rose and violet. So in this mix, I will have more rose and less violet. I have both the colors ready on my palette. So with the same brush, I'm picking some rose first and adding a bit of violet. Okay. Now, I'm starting off on the bottom. So that's the color I'm going with. So towards the bottom, I have used a very vibrant and pr tone. Then towards the horizon line, I'm making it lighter. Okay, so that's a base layer. Looks like there's a lot of water on my sky, so I'm going to clean my brush, and I will fix it before I go the next step. Because all the water was floating down and it's going to spoil my lavender field. Okay, so the sky is fixed. Now I'm going to go back to the lavender field. I had taken some color earlier. It was a mix of violet and rose. So this time there is more violet in the mix than rose, and using that color, I'm adding those angled lines. See that? So just add them in, and towards the bottom, you can introduce those taco tones. Okay. It's kind of very rough and messy right now, but that's okay. We can fix it. So for the next step, I'm going to go with the smaller brush, and I'm picking the same color because with a smaller brush, I will have better control, and there won't be a lot of paint on my brush, and this way, I can control the way it is spreading. So I'm adding some more paint in the same way. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to wash my brush, and I'm going to go with a clean damp brush, not completely dry and not completely wet. It is just damp. Now with that damp brush, I'm just smudging the paint. If there's a lot of water, please be sure to dab it on a paper towel and then gently smudge the colors. Don't put a lot of pressure. Be very light handed when you're doing this tip. Now if you look at the picture, you can see that gaps in between, which is really important. Between every section, you need to have that tiny cap, and that is how it will look like a lavender field. Don't cover up the entire area. Now I'm going to go back with indigo, and I'm going to add the horizon details. So I'm thinking of mixing a bit of green with intigo. This one is not really necessary. If you want to go with Intigo acets, you could do that. Now, right over here, I'm adding some shapes. See that? It's a mix of indigo and a bit of sap cream. Now, add some shapes on either side. Towards the center, I'm not adding much. Over there, I want to introduce a snowy mountain. So I'm adding this on either side. Maybe towards the center, we can make it shorter. I'm adding some taco tones using intco. So I'm just dropping in that paint. You can add some torts or some shapes. Anyway, it will spread into the background and leave some beautiful texture. Okay, so on either side, I have added some shapes. Now I'm adding some taco tones as well. Don't bring this too much towards the bottom, because it will spread into the lavender field, and you won't have that blurry horizon line. So that is very important here. Now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm dapping it on a paper towel. Then I'm smudging that a little. If you want to add more taco tones, you could do that. Okay, so those are our horizon trees and plants. Now I'm going to lift off some paint from here. It is starting to spread into the lavender field. I'll do that one more time. Okay, it looks better now. Now I'm thinking of adding some more darker tones. The background is still wet, so I can drop in some more paint. If you're also starting to dry, you can leave it as it is. You don't need to add any extra paint. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. Now, I'm thinking of adding some pine tree kind of shapes onto the top. You can either leave it like this or with the same paint, I mean, indigo, you can add some shapes onto the top, only if your background is still wet. Otherwise, this won't be a good idea. So in case if your background is still wet, add some lines towards the top. Just to make it look like there are some pine trees over there. It doesn't need to be perfectly shaped. You can just extend that paint towards the top. Okay, so that is it. Now, there is one more quick thing we have to do, which is adding some textures on the lavender field. And for that, I'm going to go with a mix of valet and a bit of indigo. So we need some kind of dakotne. And with that, I'm adding some grassy lines. See that? Again, it doesn't need to be perfect. Our background is wet. The idea is adding them while the background is still wet. So be quick and add some taco tones at the bottom. You can see the way how I'm adding those taco tones. So we have different sections here. I'm adding them along the bottom side. So it's just a matter of adding some grassy lines, some messy grassy lines, and that's it. Okay. Now, before I leave this for drying, I'm thinking of adding some more pine trees. So I'm going to go back with indigo. Then I will simply introduce some more lines towards the top just to show those pine trees. Right now, they look very blurry. Okay, so towards the top, I'm adding a few lines like this. So it is just 8 minutes into the painting, and we already have a beautiful result here. Now, once we're done with this, we need to add the snowy mountain. So painting atmosphic landscapes are quite easy, but then you have to plan them accordingly. You need to plan everything in advance. You need to know which color to use when and how to add them in. You won't have much time to think in between. Okay, so we have to do everything before the background dries. That's a tricky part. Anyway, this is how it has turned out. I will add a few more lines here, then I will leave it for drying. All right, so that is right. Now the next step is to add the snowy mountain. And for that, we need a medium tone of indigo. Okay, so clean your brush properly, then add some water into indigo and turn that into a medium tone. If it's too light, when we add the snow, it won't be visible. So try to go with a medium tone. So I'm using a color which is more like the color I have used on the top of the sky. That is the kind of tonal value I'm going with. Okay. So I've taken the paint. Now I'm going to add the mountain. If you want, maybe you can add a light pencil sketch and then add in your paint, or it can go right away. Okay. I'm going to start adding the shape first. I'm adding that over here. So let's start by adding the shape. You can go with any shape and any size. For me, I'm just adding them in between these trays. Now I'm picking some water and I'm making it lighter towards the bottom. Okay. And I'm just spreading that into the background without disturbing the trees and plants. So make sure there's no much water on your brush. Just make it damp and spread it out. Okay. So that's our mountain. I think I will add some more paint, and also I will fix the shape a little. Okay, so that is the mountain. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry before we add the snow. If you want to fix the shape of your mountain, you could do that. You have to do them all right now before it dries. I think I will alter the shape a little. And also, if you don't want to add the mountain, even that is totally fine. Maybe you can add a few birds and call it done. Anyway, that's a mountain. Now I'm gonna leave it for drying. All right, so here we are. Now, the only task left is to add the snow. And for that, I'm going with some white gouache. If you have gouache, please go with that, or you can just use white watercolor, but don't add much water. We need a dry opaque paint. So I'm picking the paint directly from the tube with my smaller brush. Now I'm going to add some snow onto the tip of the mountain. The rest is going to stay as it is. So only on the tip, I'm adding some lines using this white paint. So start from the tip of your mountain. Then from there, add some lines towards the bottom. These are just some simple lines. They don't need to be of any particular shape or thickness or size. Okay. So simply add some lines towards the bottom. If you can try to go the dry paint, don't add any water. This will make them look very nice. It will have a realisti texture. Okay, I'm picking some more paint. I'm adding a few more lines. So from there, I'm adding that dry paint towards the bottom to introduce those snowy texture. You can see how beautiful it is turning out. I'm loving these textures. It's very easy to paint a snowy mountain. I used to use this technique quite a lot. Alright, so we're nearly done with our mountain, and I'm really loving the way this painting has turned out. If you want to add some more snow, you could do that. But don't add a lot towards the bottom. Focus on the top, along the tip of the mountain. And that's it. Here is our final painting from this collection. I hope you all loved it. Thank you so much for joining and happy painting.