8 Days of Watercolor Landscapes With Easy Painting Techniques

1. Welcome to the Class: When we combine vibrant colors together, it turns out to be something really beautiful. If you observe landscape carefully, there are a lot of colors that you'll find. Welcome to eight days of watercolor landscapes with easy painting techniques. Watercolors is a very versatile medium in which you can create these beautiful landscapes. Without worrying about the output and perfection, just enjoy the process of creating these beautiful eight paintings based on landscapes. Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to my new class, myself Rock Patel. I am a self taught independent artist and an interior designer by profession. I personally love to explore different art mediums and styles and not stick to one particular thing. So if you're joining me, you'll find a variety of classes that I create. Before starting with the class, I'll be giving you the details about all the eight class projects that we're going to create. We are also going to talk about all the art supplies that you will need for the entire class. In case you're missing out on any particular art supply, you'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store, or you can go for any other good alternative as well. We are going to use poster colors, which is very similar to watercolors. You can use watercolor tubes as well. It is absolutely fine. We're going to learn about the color palette in detail so that you can get an exact idea about the colors. Before we start with the class projects, there is going to be a simple practice session in which we are going to learn about all the elements and how to paint them in detail. The practice sheet will help your lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. It will be like a warmer exercise. We're going to start with the class projects, which includes beautiful abstract blue sky. Some amazing elements like mountains in detail. There are going to be houses that are going to be little elements like ens, grass, et cetera, which we are going to paint using easy and simple brush techniques. The best part about the class is that you will need only two simple brushes to create these minute details in your paintings. No need to worry about the output. You just have to enjoy the process of creating all the beautiful landscapes. At the end, we are going to add a simple text to all the paintings to make it look a little bit more attractive. By the end of the class, you'll be having a collection of eight beautiful landscape paintings. The class is absolutely suited for beginners and also intermediate and advanced level artists can try it. So without any delay, grab your art supplies, and join me on this creative journey. 2. Details About the Class Projects: Hey, everybody, before we start with the class projects, let us talk about all the projects in detail so that you get an exact idea of all the eight paintings that we are going to create based on landscapes. So here I have one of the class project that I have named as Hill Road. There's a beautiful road going towards the hills, surrounded by these little trees and pine trees. I have added a nice color palette on the topmost portion and a little bit of text. Then we have another class project, which I have named as the temple. The major element is a nice, red, vibrant temple with a lot of greenery around and some pine trees. You can observe the details carefully. We have added some minute stones and rocks in the bottom portion. Then next up, we have another class project, which is a red roof. So I have named it as red roof because the house is having a beautiful, vibrant red roof, which is also combining with a lot of greenery surrounded by it. Then we have a nice road with a fence element in the bottom portion, as you can observe. Then we have another class project, which I have named as green mountains. So there are going to be a nice combination of mountains with a lot of greenery in it. There is going to be these beautiful combination of roads in the bottom portion that we're going to paint. There are a lot of pine trees as well that you can observe. Then we have another class project, which is the cottage. There is going to be this beautiful house with a lot of windows that we are going to create. You can observe a combination of the sky and the pine trees as well. There is going to be a little bit of landscape in the bottom portion with a nice fence element. I have added the color palette as well. Then we have another class project, which is into the forest. There are a lot of mountains and pine trees and a beautiful curved road with a beautiful fence element, and it is one of my favorite class project. You can observe the way we are going to create this beautiful subtle sky and little grass elements in the entire landscape. Then we have another class project, which I am named as Village House, that is going to be a nice, vibrant, ca yellow house with a lot of landscape around. A fence and some pine trees completing the entire painting. Then next up we have the last class project, which is the snowy hills. There is going to be a beautiful giant snowy hill that we are going to paint with a lot of landscape elements and an abstract sky. If you observe all the eight paintings carefully, there are some similar elements which combines together to form some beautiful landscapes with different composition of all the elements together. I hope that you got an exact idea of all the eight class projects that we're going to create. Now let us move towards the next part. Oh. 3. Art Supplies: Hey, buddy. Now, let's talk about all the art supplies that you will need for the entire class. No need to worry at all. In case you're missing out on any particular art supply, you'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store, or you can go for any other good alternative as well. So here I have a simple sketchbook in which you can create your color palette and some practice element on the bottom portion. It's a simple sketchbook that you'll find very easily, or even you can use a rough scrape of paper to practice these elements. This is a simple sketchbook of size A six. That I generally use to practice. So it is always good to maintain an art journal in which you can practice on a regular basis. Then we have the next art supply, which is a simple masking tape that we are going to use to place it on the watercolor paper so that the paper will not move while you're painting. It's a simple paper tape that we're going to place on the corners. Then the next art supply is a simple color palette. You can observe I'm already having a lot of colors in the entire color palette. Make sure that your color palette is having enough space to take up some good amount of colors in it and mix them well. Then the next art supply is a simple container, which is having some water in it. You can observe it's a sky blue water. Of course, we're going to take some clear water. So this is basically an essential element to clean the brushes and use water whereever required. Then next art supply is the most important art supply. These are the watercolors that we're going to use. Basically, I'm using poster colors, which are very similar to watercolors. Let me take a bunch of four colors together to give you the details. So the first one is yellow co, as you can observe, then we have cobalt, cerlin blue, and crimson red. Now, let me give you the details of the next batch as well. We have black, green, light green, white, and burnt sienna. So these are nine basic colors that you will need for all the eight class projects. No need to worry at all. In case you are missing out on any particular color. You can go for any other good alternative as well. It is completely fine. Now, I'm going to use poster colors, which are going to be very similar to watercolors. In case you do not have poster colors, you can use these watercolor tubes as well. It is completely fine. The effect is going to be completely same, so no need to worry about that. So I hope that you've got an exact idea about the colors that we are going to use. Now, let us talk about the next art supply, which is going to be the brushes that we're going to use. The best part about the classes that you will need only two brushes. The first one is a quill brush of Size two, and the second one is a round brush of size zero, which is basically a detailing brush. So these are the two brushes that you will need for the entire class. Now, in case you do not have a quill brush, you can go for a round brush of Size four as well. Then the next art supply is a simple black pen that we're going to use to add some text to our paintings. Then we have a simple pencil and an eraser that we can use to create a basic sketch before we start painting. A The next up, I have a simple tissue paper, which we are going to use to dab the brushes and remove axis amount of water and color wherever required. So it is always good to keep a tissue paper nearby. It will be really helpful while you're painting. Now comes the last art supply, which is also very important art supply, the watercolor papers that we are going to use. So these are A six size watercolor papers, and it is 200 GSM. The 200 GSM basically denotes the thickness of the paper so that you can apply heavy washes of water colors on it. So always make sure about the GSM. It should be 200 GSM. Let me show you the watercolor sheet as well. On this sheet, we are going to create the class projects. I hope that you got an exact idea of all the art supplies that you will need. In case you're missing out on any particular art supply, you'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store, or you can go for any other good alternative as well. Now let us move towards the next part, which is understanding the color palette. 4. Color Palette: Hey, everybody, now, let us understand the color palette that we are going to use for the entire class. It is going to be a beautiful vibrant color palette that we're going to use. I have my practice sheet over here, which is a simple sketchbook, where I have labeled the color palette and all the colors that we are going to use. All the colors are also placed on the topmost portion as you can observe. Apart from white color, we're going to apply all the colors on this particular sheet so that you can get an exact idea of the color application. You can observe two of our class projects here. There are these beautiful color combinations that we're going to make. We are also going to add a little patch of all the colors that we're going to use in the class projects to make the paintings look a little bit more aesthetic and attractive. So I'm ready with my color palette sheet. Let us start with the first color, which is going to be black. I'll be using my quill brush of size two, and we're going to add a little bit of water and color in the color palette. Mix the colors well together and apply a small circular portion of the color onto the sheet. Now, I will simply clean my brush in water, dab it onto the tissue paper, and let us take the next color, which is burn Ciena. Now, again, take the color in the color palette, mix it well with water. Make a good combination of color and water together and apply the color onto the sheet. Now, you might be wondering why I'm showing this particular step. It is very essential for you to know that the color application on the paper is very much different once the color dries. So this particular part will help you a lot to understand the saturation of the color once the entire color dries up. Then I have taken the next color, which is co yellow, and made a nice small patch just above its labeling. Then we have the next color, which is crimson red. I'll be taking a little bit of crimson red in the color palette, and I'll make a small circular shape and apply some color inside it. You can observe a beautiful patch of four colors in the topmost portion, which is a part of our vibrant color palette. Then let us start in the bottom portion as well with green. Just create a small circular shape and apply the color in the inner portion. Now, the next color is going to be light green, which is a little bit lighter than the first one. These two colors are going to be major colors in all the class projects because we are going to use them in the entire landscape area. She'll find these two colors in the major portion of the entire painting. Then next up, I have cerlin blue and Cobalt blue, which are going to be these two beautiful colors, which are going to be very much vibrant in all the paintings, where we are going to create some nice abstract clouds, which is the part of our beautiful sky. So these are all the eight colors that we are going to use in the class projects. White is not over here because it is not going to be visible on white paper. Also, we are not going to use white color that much, so it is absolutely fine in case you're missing out on white color. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the eight colors carefully and the application on the paper. The colors will get a little bit less saturated once the color completely dries. So that's why it is important for you to know the entire color palette carefully. So now let us move towards the next part, which is the practice session of all the elements and how to paint them in detail. 5. Lets Practice: Hey, buddy, now, let us practice all the elements and how to paint them in detail. All the eight paintings are going to have these beautiful landscape elements in which the elements are going to repeat and have a different composition. So once we are done with the entire color palette, you can observe these paintings, where we have these elements like mountains, pine trees, these beautiful, minor grass elements, some little trees, some stones in the bottom portion, these beautiful hills that we are going to paint. So if you observe carefully, we have some similar elements like these pine trees, some grassy elements in the bottom portion, and the mountains that we are going to paint. So there is going to be a difference of composition, but the painting technique is going to be completely same. Also, if you observe carefully, there are these little textures in the mountains and the bottom portion of the entire landscape, where we have created these little grassy elements as well, which is very easy and simple to create. So there is going to be a little bit of practice session that I'm going to give you so that you can observe these steps carefully, the brush moments, and how you can hold your hand in a careful manner. So let us start with a pencil and create a basic sketch. So I'm starting with a pencil. We are creating these little hills. You can observe the shape carefully. No need to apply a lot of pressure on your hand. It is going to be a light sketch, which basically helps us to know the entire position of the mountains and the trees. I have created a simple horizon line in the bottom portion and a simple street, which is in a curved manner. Then I'll be adding these vertical lines, which basically represents the position of the pine trees. Now let us start with the first element. I've taken my quill brush of size two. Take some water from the container, apply a thin layer of water in the background. Make sure that the brush does not move inside the mountain. Now take some cobal blue and light blue from the color palette, and just simply dab your brush onto the entire surface. The color will automatically spread, which is basically known as a wet on wet technique. No need to worry at all, the clouds will form in this abstract manner only, and no need to worry about getting the clouds in the exact same way. It is absolutely fine if your clouds are a little bit different from mine. So I hope that you got an exact idea of how we have to create these beautiful abstract clouds in the sky area. Now, let us start with the mountains. We have to take a good combination of green and light green together. Now simply apply it on one side of the mountain, Let a little bit of white portion be left on the right hand side, which creates some nice depth and details and make the mountain look a little bit in three. Now you can simply apply the entire color in the bottom portion. Now, there is going to be a simple white street, which is in this curved manner. You can also consider it as a road as well. Now I'm going to apply the green color in the remaining portion as well. Just use the tip off your quill brush and carefully apply it in the outline first. And then you can apply the green color in the remaining portion. Similarly, on the other side, you can do this particular part. You can apply some water to make the color spread automatically and make some nice difference in the entire grass portion. Now I'll be taking some nice darker tone of green. So take less water and more color in your brush and apply these little strokes on one side of the mountain. It will create some nice depth and detail and make the mountain look a little bit more in depth. Similarly, you can add the darker tone of green in the bottom portion, applying these vertical strokes. In case you want to make your green a little bit more darker, you can add a little bit of burnt sienna or black in it, but make sure that you do not take a lot of black color. Just take a little bit of black color and simply dab your brush on certain areas. It will create some nice depth in the entire landscape portion. The color will automatically spread because the base color is a little bit wet right now. No need to hurry at all, just enjoy the process, and just observe these steps carefully. Also, one thing that you do not have to worry is not to get the painting in the exact same way that I'm creating right now. There might be a little bit of difference between yours and mine, and it is completely fine. In fact, you can create your own composition as well. Now, let us start with the pine trees. The pencil line is still visible. So you just have to take your round brush of size zero. Start from the topmost portion, create a simple vertical line, and simply start adding these little strokes, which are smaller on the topmost portion. And as you move towards the bottom area, just increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We are not completing the entire pine tree with this particular black color. We want a little bit of depth and dimension in it. So that's why I have just kept the pine trees in a half portion only. We're going to paint the remaining half portion with dark green. So I'll take my quill brush and take some dark green in it. Now the remaining portion of the pine tree, we are going to paint with dark green. So it's a nice blend of solid black color in the topmost portion and a beautiful dark green color in the bottom portion, which basically blends with the landscape that we have painted in the bottom part. So it creates some nice depth in the entire landscape. Now, similarly, I'll be taking my round brush of size zero and take some black color in it, add these little strokes on the mountain portion, to make the mountain look a little bit more in depth and detail. You just have to randomly apply these strokes. There is no specific way of painting it. It will make the entire painting look a little bit more in detail as well. Trust me, you'll definitely enjoy the entire process of creating the landscape if you don't worry about perfection. It's an abstract form of creating the landscape using watercolors, so no need to worry about perfection. Also, if you observe carefully, using a detailing brush, which is basically this round brush of size zero, I'm creating these little grassy texture also. It is basically creating the vertical lines only in a smaller portion. So you can add the grass wherever you want to in the entire landscape portion. Now, in order to make the entire landscape look a little bit more aesthetic, I'll be adding a little bit of fence element on the road. So you just have to create these horizontal and vertical lines combining together, forming a beautiful fence element. And you can add a little bit of grass in the bottom portion to make these strokes look a little bit more perfect. Also it blends the fence with the bottom area. So we are done with the entire practice sheet. I hope that you've got an exact idea of the common elements that we are going to paint in all the eight class projects, but it is also going to have a different composition. Let me give you a little bit closer look to the entire practice sheet, which contains the color palette and the elements in the bottom portion. The practice sheet will act as a warm up exercise for you before you start with the class projects. So I hope that you enjoyed the entire part. Now let us move towards the class projects. 6. Painting 1 - Snowy Hill: Hey, every buddy, you are most welcome to the first painting, which is snowy hills. So as you can observe, I have placed my watercolor paper with two masking tape on the corners so that the paper will not move while we are painting. So let's start with the hills. We are going to draw a basic sketch using a pencil. Observe the way I have created this pointed structure on the topmost portion. It is absolutely fine in case you want to create your own composition of the mountain. Then I have created a simple horizon line in the bottom portion, which is having a little bit of distance from the mountain. This will help us to create some nice landscape area in the bottom part. Now, I'll be taking my quill brush of size two. Take a little bit of water in it and apply a thin coat of water in the sky area. Make sure that your brush should not move inside the mountain area because we do not want the blue color to move inside the mountain area. Try to apply an even coat of water so that the color will spread in a nice way. So now, I'll be taking some cyline blue, which is very near to sky blue color. Take some good amount of color, mix it well with water, and simply use the tip of your quill brush to add these little patches in the sky area. You will observe that the color will automatically spread. Try to leave some space in between the patches, and it will automatically create these beautiful cloud effect in the entire sky area. No need to hurry at all, try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. This particular technique is known as a wet on wet technique in which you apply a thin coat of water initially, and then you take some good amount of color and apply it again on that particular layer so that the color can spread automatically in the entire surface. Now, you can take a little bit of cobalt blue, which is a little bit darker than Seroln blue to create some nice depth in the entire sky area. So you can again dab your brush in this dotted format. And you'll observe these darker patches of blue color in the entire sky area. So I hope that you've got an exact idea of how you have to create this beautiful abstract sky. Now, let's start painting the mountain area. It is a very simple and easy technique. You just have to take a little bit of black color in the color palette. Add a little bit of white. So that we get a nice gray shade. And then we can take a little bit of water in the brush. Now start applying these little patches on the mountain area. We are not going to cover the entire mountain with these solid gray patches. We are going to cover it on one side, which is particularly left hand side. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to add these little strokes combining together to form some beautiful depth in the entire mountain. So you can observe that I have left white space in the right hand side of the mountain, which creates a nice three D effect as well. Now, to make the shade a little bit more light, you can add a little bit of water so that it will get a little bit less saturated. You can add few little strokes in the right hand side as well to complete the entire mountain. Whenever you're working with water colors, make sure that the more amount of water your pigments will have, the lighter the saturation of the colors will be. And if you have less amount of water and more color, the saturation of the color will be more in the entire painting. So you can observe we have created a beautiful, snowy hill, and it is a very simple and easy technique. We just have added these gray patches, and now I'll be taking a little bit of black color. And I'll just create a nice contrast on the left hand side of the entire hill by adding these little black patches. No need to hurry at all, do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your quill brush to add little strokes combining together, forming these beautiful abstract patches. Now you can observe that the entire hill looks a little bit more dramatic, and it looks really nice. Now, let us start with the landscape area in the bottom portion. It's a very simple and easy technique. I'll be applying a nice coat of water in the bottom portion in a very random and abstract manner. There is no specific way of applying it. Just make sure that your brush does not move inside the snowy hill. Now take some good amount of light green and dark green in the color palette. Mx it well with water. And start applying these vertical strokes, starting from the left hand side, slowly move towards the right hand side. You can observe that I am adding these strokes in this pointed manner on the topmost portion, which basically creates some nice grassy effect. You can carefully observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush. And since we have already applied a thin coat of water initially, that's why the color will automatically spread as you can observe. Now, slowly, we'll add these horizontal strokes in the bottom part to make the entire landscape look a little bit more abstract. You can add a little bit of co yellow and burn sienna to make a little grounded effect to the entire landscape area. So it basically creates a nice brownish color in the bottom portion as you can observe. Also, one more thing I would like to tell you is that no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I am painting right now. You painting might differ from mine, and it is completely fine. Since it's an abstract form of landscape painting, it is completely fine. Now you can take some dark green and apply it on the topmost portion of the grassy effect that we created initially. So that it creates a nice contrast with the hill that we have painted on the topmost portion. Now, I'll be taking some solid black color in the color palette, mix it well with water. Now we are going to add a beautiful pine tree in a certain area. So you just have to use the tip of your quill brush and simply create this simple vertical line. Now to paint the pine tree, it's a very simple and easy process. You just have to create these little strokes on the topmost portion. And as you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes that you're making. Slowly, you'll observe that the strokes will form a beautiful pine tree, and in the bottom part, you can just add the strokes in the center area as well. Now, similarly, you can have a noice variation in more pine trees, so you can create the vertical lines with a difference in the height and slowly add these little strokes to complete your pine trees. It is absolutely fine in case you want to create your own composition and position of the pine trees. Just follow these steps and paint them. Now you can carefully observe that I've created a beautiful combination of five pine trees together. Now, I'll just add a little bit of random abstract landscape area around. You just have to create these patches. You can leave some space in between as well, since we already have a dark green color in the background. That will create a nice abstract effect. So if you observe carefully, the background layer of green color is still wet. So if you apply these solid black patches, it will spread a little bit in a nice way. And you just have to create these little patches only using the tip of your quill brush in a very random way. So there is no specific way of painting them. You can just add these little patches around. The reason behind using a nice solid black color is so that it creates a beautiful contrast with the green color in the background. Now, if you observe carefully using the tip of my quill brush, I'm adding these little vertical strokes combining together, which forms a nice grass effect in the entire area. There is no specific way of creating the composition of the grass. You can do it according to your convenience. But you'll definitely enjoy the entire process of painting the grass. You can observe how minute details enhances your entire painting. So we have almost painted a beautiful landscape in the bottom area. Now, in order to enhance the entire painting and make it look a little bit more attractive. We are going to add a nice fence element, which is a very simple and easy technique. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush, try to have a nice black color in it. Just apply these vertical strokes, and then a simple horizontal stroke, combining all the vertical lines together, and it forms a beautiful fence in the entire landscape area. This is how you can paint a beautiful fence element in the entire landscape. Now, to make the painting look a little bit more attractive. What I'm going to do is that all the colors that we have used in the entire painting. We are just going to create its little patches on the topmost portion in this circular form. So I've started with black color, take some black color in the color palette and just simply create this circular shape. Similarly, we have used dark green and light green together to form a beautiful landscape. So I have painted them again. You can just create it in whichever shape you're comfortable with. I have painted it in a circular form. Then I have taken some ca yellow and created its circle. Then comes the last color, which is sky blue, which is basically cylin blue and Cobal blue that we have used. And these are the colors that we have used and painted the entire landscape. Now, let us remove the masking tape so that we can move the painting, and we're going to add a beautiful text, which is going to enhance the painting even more. So I'm going to write landscape painting using a simple black pen in case you want to write any other message. According to your convenience, it is completely fine. There is no specific way of writing. You can write it in your own handwriting. In case you want to write it in a creative manner, that is also completely fine. Also in case you want to draw a reference line using a pencil and then write the message, that is also absolutely fine. So I've written landscape painting on the left hand side, and I'll simply add a date in the bottom portion. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Using some basic elements, we have combined them together and form this beautiful landscape painting in an abstract manner. I hope that you enjoyed the painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 7. Painting 2 - The Cottage: Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to the second painting, which is the cottage. So as you can observe, I'm reading with my watercolor paper placed on the desk surface. Now let us start with a basic sketch. There is going to be a beautiful cottage, which is basically a house only, having a lot of windows in it. So we are starting with a triangular shape, which is basically the roof of the entire cottage on the topmost portion, followed by these vertical lines, which is forming the walls. No need to hurry at all. Whenever you're drawing a basic sketch, always take your time and try to draw it in a very careful manner. Because it is basically the reference before we start painting. Then there is going to be a nice random landscape in the bottom portion connecting with the cottage area, so you can create a nice random line followed by a simple street, which is basically a road coming out of the landscape area. Then we are going to draw the windows in the entire cottage. So there is a combination of six windows in the wall on the right hand side, and we can add few more windows later also. So I'll be adding two windows on the left hand side as well. So this is the basic sketch which is required. Let us start with the sky area. So I'll be taking my quill brush of size two. Apply a thin coat of water in the background. Make sure that you do not move your brush inside the house element. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water on the entire paper surface. Now we are going to take some good amount of cerlne blue and cabal blue together, forming a beautiful sky color, and just simply dab your brush onto the paper surface. No need to hurry at all, just simply apply the patches in a very random way. There is no specific way of applying the color. You can just randomly move your brush and apply these little patches. You'll observe that the color will automatically spread forming these beautiful cloudy effect in the entire sky area. This is also basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially, and then we apply the color. This basically helps the color to spread automatically. And you'll definitely enjoy this entire process of creating this beautiful abstract clouds in the sky area. Now, let us start by painting the cottage. So I'm starting with the roof element. Take some good amount of ocher yellow in your color palette, using your quill brush of size two. Since it's a very small area to paint, so you can use the tip of your quill brush to paint in this particular area and make sure that you do not move out of the pencil line. Now, similarly, we are going to paint the walls in the bottom portion, but it will be a little bit lighter than the roof element. So I'll be adding a little bit of white in ocher yellow. You can add a little bit of water as well for the color to spread in a nice way. Then I'll just apply a little patch of the color in the entire building structure. You can observe the way I'm moving my hand and brush to paint in the entire area. You have to use the tip of your entire brush to paint in a smaller portion. Now, in order to create some depth, I have added a little bit of burnt sienna in my cer yellow color, and to make a nice darker color, I have just added it in the wall, which is in the right hand side. You can also apply the color patch on the topmost portion of the entire cottage to create some nice rough texture in the entire building structure. Now, let us take some solid black color from the color palette and enhance the entire building structure. It is a very simple and easy step. You just have to take some solid black color. Use the tip of your quill brush, to enhance the outline initially of the entire roof. You can observe the way I'm just adding a thin line. If you want to use your round brush of size zero, that is also absolutely fine, and you'll be also able to add this thin line using your quill brush as well. Now, I have added these horizontal lines in the entire roof area to make it look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. Similarly, using the tip of your quill brush, you have to add these solid black patches in the windows as well. So there is a combination of six windows in the right hand side. Similarly, we have two windows on the left hand side as well. So this is how we have painted the entire cottage in a very abstract manner. Now let us start with the landscape area. I'll be taking a thin coat of water in the bottom portion. Just make sure that you do not move your brush in the entire street that we have created using a pencil, which is basically a road element only coming out of the landscape. So I've added a thin coat of water in the remaining portion. Now take a little bit of ca yellow and burn sienna together in the color palette. Now, we'll just add these little patches, and you'll observe that the color will automatically spread since we have already applied a thin coat of water in the background. Again, this is known as a wet on wet technique in which you apply a thin coat of water initially. Now, I have randomly created these patches of burnt sienna and ca yellow, leaving some white spaces in between as well in the landscape area. You can also add these little strokes on the topmost portion to create some dynamics. Now, let us take some dark green and light green together, forming some beautiful grassy texture as well. So you just have to take some good amount of light green and dark green in your quill brush. Again, you have to add the strokes in a very random and natural way. There is no specific way of painting it. And we are applying the brush in the remaining portion that we left while we were applying burnt sienna and ca yellow. You can create a combination of small and big patches of this particular green color. Also, you can add these vertical lines to form a beautiful grassy texture. You can observe a great combination of both the colors in the landscape area. Now, using some good amount of dark green and light green together. I'm adding these vertical lines combining together, forming a beautiful grassy effect on the topmost portion. Similarly, we can add this particular color on the left hand side as well. You can observe the way I'm moving my brush to create this beautiful grassy effect. Now, you can add these little strokes on the bottom portion of the entire cottage as well. Now, let us take some good amount of solid black color from the color palette, and we're going to add a solid black patch in the bottom portion as well. We're not going to cover the entire area. You just have to apply the brush in certain areas only. Using the tip of your quibra, you'll be able to create these little solid black patches. Now, if you observe carefully, we are adding these little solid black patches around the road area, which basically creates a noise contrast and enhances the entire street which is coming out of the entire landscape area. Now, similarly, to add a nice grassy texture in the bottom portion. But in a very small amount, I'll be adding these little black strokes around. You can also enhance the grassy element near the entire cottage area by creating these little vertical lines. Again, I'll be telling you the same thing. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way. I'm painting right now. There can be difference between your painting and mine, and it is completely fine since it's an abstract form of painting. So you can observe that we have enhanced the entire landscape area. Now, let us move towards the next part, which is painting a beautiful pine tree in the entire landscape area. So we are going to add a simple vertical line using our quill brush of size two. Now you have to add another vertical line, which is a little bit smaller than the first one. The entire process of painting the pine tree is going to be very much satisfactory, and you'll definitely enjoy it. Start creating these little strokes, starting from the topmost portion, using the tip of your brush. And as you move towards the bottom area, simply increase the size of the strokes that you're making, and you can connect it with the landscape area that we have painted on the bottom portion. Similarly, you can repeat the same steps for the next pine tree that we have created on the right hand side, which is a little bit smaller. You can definitely play with the composition of the pine trees and the position as well. So this is how we have created a combination of two pine trees on the right hand side. Similarly, we'll add a huge pine tree on the left hand side as well. The steps are absolutely same. You just have to create a simple vertical line, which is a little bit bigger than the first two that we have created. Then you have to start creating these little strokes, starting from the topmost portion. And as you move towards the bottom area, you have to increase the size of the strokes. No need to hurry at all, try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. Similarly, you can add few more vertical strokes to complete the entire horizon line. And if you observe carefully, the pine trees should look the part of the landscape. It should not look separate. That's why we are adding few more strokes, where there is a meeting of the landscape area and the pine trees bottom. We have taken a highly saturated solid black color. That's why we have less amount of water and more color. Now let us move towards the next part, which is adding a beautiful fence element in the entire landscape area. It's a very simple and easy step. You just have to create these vertical lines first. Using the tip of your quill brush, then you can simply connect the vertical lines using a simple horizontal line. No need to hurry at all, do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. In case you find that the windows are a little bit less saturated, you can reapply solid black color in that particular area. Now, in order to create a nice depth and detail in the building structure. I'm using the tip of my quill brush, adding these little vertical and horizontal strokes. And I'm finding that the cottage is looking a little bit plain, so I'm adding two more windows on the building structure, which is a little bit elongated. So you can create these rectangular shape in this vertical format. So there's a combination of two windows around. So we are almost done with the entire painting. Now, let us add the color patches, all the colors that we have used in this entire painting. We are going to create its patch on the topmost portion. I'm starting with solid black color. So take some good amount of black color in your color palette, add a little bit of water and just create a circular shape. So in order to create a nice aesthetic effect to the entire painting and to make it look a little bit more attractive, we are doing this particular step. It is not at all compulsory for you to create these color patches in a circular form only. You can create it according to your convenience. So we have used some burnt sienna and cer yellow as well in the building structure and the landscape area. So we have created its patches on the topmost portion. Similarly, in the landscape area, we have used some dark green and light green together. So we have created its patches as well in this circular form. And you can observe how beautiful these color patches look on the topmost portion. So these are enough color patches in case you want to add the Cobal blue and Selin blue color patch, that is also absolutely fine. Now, simply remove the masking tape carefully so that you can move the paper, and we are going to write a nice text in the entire painting, to make it look a little bit more attractive. I'm going to write landscape painting, and you can enhance the entire text. You can also write the entire text in your own calligraphy. In case you want to draw a simple reference line using a pencil and then write the text. It is completely fine. You can also write the message according to your convenience, so you can change the text as well. I'll be writing a simple date on the bottom portion and the entire painting is complete. Now, let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe the way we have combined these minimal elements together to form a noise abstract landscape. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. I. 8. Painting 3 - Village House: Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to the third painting, which I have named as a village house. So you can observe that I'm ready with my watercolor paper being placed on the desk surface, and I have placed it using two masking tape on either sides so that the paper will not move. Now let us start with a basic sketch, which is going to be a simple village house. So we are having a nice triangular roof on the topmost portion, followed by these vertical lines, which adds a nice detail to the entire house. Now, let us complete the entire house structure by adding a simple horizon line, which is the line of the landscape, followed by two vertical lines which completes the entire house. There is going to be a simple door element and some windows in the entire house. You can draw the entire rough sketch of the house according to your convenience also. Then we have a nice street coming out of the entire house, which is basically a nice road element. You just have to create these random lines on the bottom portion, forming a nice street Then we're going to add vertical lines, which basically will add a nice reference to the entire painting, where we are going to paint some pine trees. So this is the entire basic sketch that we have created. Now let us use our quill brush of size two, and we're going to add a thin coat of water in the background. No need to hurry at all, try to apply an even coat of water. Make sure that your brush should not move inside the house structure, since we do not want to paint a sky area in the house element. Now once we have added a nice coat of water in the background, you're going to take some ceruline blue and just simply dab your brush in this random manner. You will observe that the color will automatically spread, and you just have to randomly move your brush. You can also leave some space in between, and you will observe that the color will spread automatically forming these beautiful cloud effect in the entire sky area. There is no specific way of applying the brush. You can just randomly move it. So no need to worry about getting the clouds in the exact same way I'm painting right now. There might be a little bit of difference between your painting and mine, and it is completely fine. So you can observe how beautiful the clouds are looking, and you can also observe that I have not moved my brush inside the house element. Now, apart from the sky element, there is going to be a beautiful landscape as well in the bottom part that we are going to paint. I'll be taking some good amount of green and light green together in the color palette, mix it well with water, create a good combination of water and color together. Now we are going to apply a nice stroke of this green color in this random way in the left hand portion. Then similarly, we are going to add a nice solid patch of green color in the right hand side. So you can observe the movement of my quill brush, the way I'm adding these vertical strokes combining together and forming a beautiful green patch on the right hand side of the entire house. You can observe the way I'm carefully using the tip of my quill brush just above the roof element so that the color should not move inside the house structure. Now, you can add the color in the remaining portion. Similarly, we have this solid green color in the bottom part as well. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and paint it. So now I'll be taking some good amount of green and light green color together again from the color palette. You can be a little bit careful near the roof structure on the right hand side and left hand side. Now we are going to add the color in the bottom portion, starting from the horizon line, you can use the tip of your quill brush to create the outline initially for the street that we have created. Now you can add the darker color and you can just complete the entire portion. Using some water, you can spread the color as well, and you'll observe that the saturation of the color will decrease, forming some nice variation in the entire landscape area. So you can spread the color automatically, and you can also add some darker tones in the entire area. No need to hurry at all, do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. You can observe the way I'm spreading the color in a very random way. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way. Now I'll be taking some good amount of black color in my quill brush and we'll enhance the entire landscape area. So take some good amount of black color from the color palette and simply dab your brush in this random way just below the horizon line. You can also add these strokes near the street to enhance it. You can observe that I'm moving my brush in a very random way only. There is no specific way of painting it. So you just have to create these dotted patches in the entire landscape area and the color will automatically spread since the background is still wet. Similarly, to create some more depth around the entire house, I'm going to add this beautiful solid black patch around the house as well on either sides, using the tip of my quill brush. No need to hurry at all, you have to do this particular step with a lot of patience and try to paint in a very slow and steady manner. Now let us enhance the entire house element using some co yellow. Take some good amount of occ yellow in your quill brush and start painting the entire roof element. Whenever you have to paint a very smaller portion, try to use the tip of your brush and simply add the entire color in this solid patch. You can observe the way I have painted the entire roof. Similarly, we have a nice wall in the bottom portion with a lot of windows and doors. You're going to paint that as well. So in case you find that your color is getting finished from the brush, you can take some more color from the color palette. Make a good combination of burn sienna and co yellow together, and you can add the color in the wall in the bottom portion. No need to hurry at all, use the brush carefully. You can observe the movement of my hand and the way I'm using my brush to apply the color. So we have added a nice background color for the entire house. We can add details after that. So I'll be using my round brush of size zero this time, and we are using the tip of the brush carefully to add some minute details to the entire house. I've started with the roof element in the bottom portion, which is a simple horizontal line. Now let us add the vertical lines in the entire roof structure to make it look a little bit more attractive and in detail. No need to hurry at all. You can use the way I'm using my hand and the tip of my brush to add these beautiful vertical lines. You can observe a beautiful contrast of this solid black color with the background color that we have painted. You can add a little bit of.in the ends of the entire vertical lines where it is connecting with the horizontal line. Now, similarly, we are going to enhance the entire house structure in the bottom portion as well. You can start by adding the vertical lines on either sides. Now let us paint the windows, which is these little rectangular structures. Then similarly, we have a nice door element, which is connected with the street. You just have to paint it completely black, and you can give it a nice outline using the tip of your round brush as well. Similarly, we have two more windows on the right hand side. You can paint them black as well. I'll be taking some more solid black color and let us enhance the other elements like some grass in the bottom portion. You can add these little vertical strokes combining together, forming these beautiful grassy texture on the entire landscape area. Since we already have a nice dark green color in the background, the entire solid black color will look really nice. So it's a very satisfying step, and you'll definitely enjoy this particular part. You just have to use your round brush of size zero and add these little strokes together. And there is no specific way of adding this grassy texture. You can add it wherever you want to. So no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can add this beautiful grassy texture just above the street element as well. It will look really nice. So the entire black color basically enhances the entire painting. It creates a beautiful contrast and creates some nice depth in the entire painting. Now, once we are done adding these grassy texture, we are also going to add some little stones in the bottom portion. It's a very simple and easy technique. Create these little oval shapes using the tip of your round brush of size, and you can add them wherever you want to. I'm adding it in certain portions only. Now, to make the landscape look a little bit more aesthetic, let us add a nice fence element. You just have to use the tip of your round brush and create these vertical lines having variation in the height. You can create a double line also to make the vertical line a little bit thick. Once you're done with the vertical lines, take some more color from the color palette and add a horizontal line connecting all the vertical lines together. You can paint an irregular line connecting all the vertical lines together. It makes the entire fence look a little bit more authentic and natural. Now, let's start with the pine tras, which is going to be a very satisfying process of painting. So you can already see the vertical line that we created using the pencil. Start from the topmost portion, start creating these little strokes, and as you move towards the bottom part, just increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We're not going to paint the entire pine tree with black color. We're going to just keep the topmost portion, solid black. And the remaining portion, we are going to paint it using dark green. I'll be using my quill brush, take some good amount of dark green from the color palette and start painting where you lift the solid black color. You'll observe a beautiful blend of the black and dark green together, and it creates a nice gradient effect also. Now, slowly move towards the bottom part and blend it with the landscape area that we have created in the bottom part. No need to hurry at all, try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. Try to use the tip of your quill brush and blend it with the landscape area in the bottom portion. You can observe how beautiful both the pine trees are looking right now. Now, I'll be taking some solid black color, and I'll be adding a little bit of plantation just on the right hand side of the house. You can observe the color. We get a nice blend because the background is a little bit wet right now. So we are almost done adding the pine trees. Now, let us add a little bit of details in the roof of the entire house. It's a very simple and easy technique. Just try to keep your hand very much steady and free and use your round brush of size zero, add a little bit of black color in it, and create these horizontal lines. Start from the topmost portion and slowly come towards the bottom area. You'll observe that the roof structure gets a little bit of more details from the vertical lines. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint in a very slow and steady manner. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free. This will help you to move your brush in a comfortable manner. Now, if you observe carefully, we have this beautiful plantation on the right hand side of the entire house. We can enhance it by using our round brush of size zero, take some solid black color and try to create these beautiful little strokes on the topmost portion, which basically creates a smaller pine tree, and it creates a nice effect to the entire landscape as well. Similarly, you can add these little strokes on the entire landscape in the bottom portion as well, wherever you want to. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way. You can create your own composition as well, and you can add these solid black strokes according to your convenience. Now, I'll be just adding the small patches of the colors that we have used in the entire painting. To make the painting look a little bit more aesthetic and a little bit more attractive. It is not at all compulsory for you to do this particular step, but if you want to, you can definitely do it. So I've started with solid black color, and I have just created a simple circular shape and completely filled it with solid black color. Now I'll be taking some dark green and light green, which is the major part of the entire painting. So you can create the circles of these two colors as well. Now we have another color which is going to be ca yellow, and you can also add a little bit of burn Ciena if you want to. So you can observe this particular color in the entire house that we have painted. Then the next color is burn sienna. So you can clean your round brush again and take burn Ciena in your color palette. Add a little bit of water so that the color will get a little bit loose. And then you can apply this color patch also. It is not at all compulsory for you to create the color patch in a circular form only in case you want to use another shape or just create a simple patch, that is absolutely fine. So we have added five color patches. Now let us paint the last one, which is cerlin blue, which we used in the sky. S create its color patch on the topmost portion as well. So you can observe we are done with the colors. Now, I'll be using a simple black pen to add a date in the bottom portion. This helps to remember whenever we created this particular painting. Wherever you find these little patches in the entire landscape area, you can use the pen to create a nice oval shape. Now, simply remove the masking tape and you can rotate the painting in this way to add a little text. So I'm going to write watercolor painting. You can write any other text if you want to or any message you want to add towards your painting. You can enhance the entire writer. It is absolutely fine if you want to write it in your own calligraphy and handwriting. It is completely okay. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe the way we combined all the elements together to form this beautiful abstract landscape. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 9. Painting 4 - Into the Forest: Everybody, you are most welcome to the fourth painting, which I have named as into the forest. So as you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on either sides of the corner so that the paper will not move while we are painting. So I'm starting with a basic sketch. We have created two beautiful mountains, as you can observe, and there is a simple horizontal line in the bottom portion, which will spread the mountain and the ground area. Now, there is going to be a simple road in a curved manner that we have started from the horizon line, and you can just come towards the bottom area, creating these two curved lines. Then you can add these vertical lines, which basically gives an idea of the position of the pine trees that we are going to paint. Now, let us start with the sky area. I'll be taking my quill brush of size two. Take some good amount of water from the container and simply apply a thin coat of water around the paper surface. Make sure that you do not move your brush inside the mountain area because we do not want the clouds to come inside the mountain area. Now, I'll be taking some cerline blue and just simply dab your brush in this random manner, and you'll observe that the color will spread automatically in the entire paper area. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially and then the color so that the color spreads automatically, since we have a good amount of water in the background. Now you can use the tip of your brush to apply the color near the mountain area so that you do not move your brush inside the mountains. You can observe how beautiful the entire sky area is looking. It's an abstract form of creating these beautiful clouds. Now once we are done with the sky, let us move towards the mountains. To paint the mountains, we are going to take some light green and ocher yellow together this time, Mx it well in the color palette. Add a little bit of water to loosen the color up. Now start from the topmost portion of the mountain, and we are not going to cover the entire mountain. You can leave a little bit of space on the right hand side. To create some nice depth and dimension to the entire mountain. Now slowly use your entire brush to paint the remaining portion of the mountain and move towards the bottom area. So this is basically the base coat of the entire mountain. Now we'll take a little bit of dark green and create some nice depth and make the entire mountain look a little bit more green. So you have to create these little patches on the entire mountain. Slowly start applying the color, and you're not going to cover the entire surface. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush and apply the color in certain areas. Similarly, you can add a little bit of patches on the right hand side as well, but don't cover the entire white area. Now, I'll be adding a little bit of solid black color to make a bit of contrast of the entire surface that we have painted on the left hand portion. No need to hurry at all, use the tip of your quill brush and slowly apply these little patches. You can observe how beautiful the entire mountain is looking. It's having a lot of colors in it, and basically the entire mountain is greener. So you can observe these steps carefully. You can also observe the way I'm moving my brush. You can take a little bit of water to make the saturation of the darker colors a little bit less. No need to worry about perfection. Also, no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You have to enjoy the process. It's an abstract form of painting, so your painting might differ from mine, and it is completely fine. Now I have taken some good amount of dark green from the color palette, mix it well with water. Start applying these vertical strokes in the bottom portion just above the horizon line, to create a noise forest area, basically having a lot of green color in it. Now you can observe the way I have just combined the vertical strokes together to form this pointed structure on the topmost portion. Now, slowly, we are going to cover the remaining portion in the bottom area as well, but make sure that your brush should not move inside the road area. So you can definitely use the tip of your quill brush carefully to apply the color in the remaining portion. Take some good amount of dark green color, add a little bit of water in the remaining portion, to make some nice depth and dimensions to the entire painting. You can observe slowly, we have created a nice green area in the entire bottom portion, leaving the entire road area. So the white color basically creates a nice contrast with the green color as well. Take a little bit of solid black color in your quill brush and just randomly apply these patches around the road area. You can also add the solid black color in the remaining portion just above the horizon line to create some nice depth in the entire forest area. The background color, which is green, is still wet, so your black color will spread a little bit, and it will look really nice, creating some little shrubs around the entire landscape area. You can also use the tip of your quill brush to create these little vertical strokes combining together to form some beautiful grass effect. While you're painting the entire landscape area on the bottom portion, don't worry about perfection. It's an abstract form of painting, so your strokes and mine will definitely vary, and it is completely fine. Now, let us start painting the pine trees as well. It's a very satisfying process, and you will definitely enjoy the entire steps. We already have these vertical lines that we have drawn using a pencil. Now you just have to follow the pencil line, start from the topmost portion, using your round brush of size zero, create a simple vertical line. Now start from the topmost portion, creating these little strokes, and as you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes that you're making. No need to hurry at all. Try to observe these steps carefully. We are not going to paint the entire pine tree with solid black color. We are going to paint half of the pine tree using solid black color, and the remaining portion is going to be using dark green color. So once you have painted half of the pine tree using solid black color, take your quill brush of size two, take some dark green color from the color palette in case you want to add a little bit of black color in it. It is absolutely fine, but it should not be solid black. Now, start painting the remaining portion of the pine tree using this particular color and blend it with the landscape that we have created in the bottom area. You'll observe a beautiful gradient effect, which is having a solid black color in the topmost portion, and the bottom portion is dark green. It creates some nice depth in the entire forest area. Again, I'll be telling you the same thing. Don't worry about perfection or painting it in the exact same way. It's an abstract form of painting, so you can definitely play with the composition of the elements. There might be a difference in the color combination as well, and it is completely fine. Now you can observe that we have created a nice blend of the pine trees with the landscape area in the bottom. Now the pine trees becomes a part of the landscape that we have painted in the bottom area. We have created these little solid black patches in the bottom area, which creates a nice look of the shrubs. Now, I'll be using my round brush of size zero, which is basically a detailing brush only, having a very thin tip. We are going to create some nice grassy effect, which is a very satisfying process. You just have to combine these little strokes together, forming a beautiful grassy texture in the bottom area. You can add this grassy texture near the solid black patches that we created using our quill brush. It will look really nice and your shrubs will get a nice definition. Slowly, I'll be adding these little strokes on the right hand side as well. So we added a lot of vertical strokes and created a beautiful grassy texture. Now, it's time for us to create another element, which is a fence. So we are going to paint a beautiful fence on the side of the road. So you just have to start by creating these vertical strokes. Now once we are done, adding the vertical strokes, you can also give it a double line. Connect it using this thin horizontal strokes, which is basically an irregular line, connecting all the vertical lines together, forming this beautiful fence element. You can add a little bit of grassy texture near the vertical lines to make it a part of the entire landscape area. You can also add a little bit of more grassy texture on the above portion. Now, once we are done with the entire painting, we are going to add the color patches of all the colors that we have used in the entire painting. So I've started with solid black color, create a simple circular shape and simply fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. Now, we have the major color that we have used is green and light green. So you have to similarly create circular shapes of both the colors and fill in that particular color in the inner portion. So again, it's a simple circular shape only. In case you want to create a random color patch or use another shape. That is absolutely fine. Also, in case you do not want to create the color palette on the topmost portion. It is absolutely fine. I'm using a little bit of ocher yellow. We have not used a lot of cer yellow, but we have mixed it with green in the mountain area. So you can add that color as well. Then we have the last color, which is colin blue, which we have used to create these beautiful abstract clouds in the sky area. So you can create that particular color patch as well. So we are done with the color patch as well. In case you want to create a lighter patch of cerlan blue, add a little bit of water, and you can add that particular color as well. To make the color palette a little bit more vast and having a lot of options in it. I'll be using my black pen to add a date on the bottom portion so that you know when you painted this particular painting. Now, I'll remove the masking tape carefully, and we're going to write a simple text, which is watercolor painting. You can add any message if you want to in your entire painting. You can enhance your calligraphy and use whatever handwriting you're comfortable with. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe the way we combine these elements together to form a beautiful abstract landscape painting using watercolors. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now, let us move towards the next painting. 10. Painting 5 - Green Mountains: Hey, everybody, are most welcome to my fifth painting, which I have named as Green Mountains. So as you can observe, I have placed my watercolor paper on the desk surface, and we're going to start by creating a basic sketch. So I'm basically starting with the mountains in the center portion. One is a little bit bigger. Another one is a little bit smaller. Followed by a simple horizon line, which spreads both of them. Now, there is going to be a road which is coming out of the horizon line, and it is again splitting into two different roads. Then we have these additional vertical lines, which basically represents the pine tree position. So there we are going to paint the pine trees. You can decide the number of pine trees you want to have towards your painting. So we are done with the basic sketch. Now let us start painting the sky area. I'll be using my quill brush of size too. And we are going to start by applying a thin coat of water initially. No need to hurry at all, take some good amount of water and just apply an even coat of water on the paper surface. Make sure that your brush should not move inside the mountain area. Near the mountains, you can use the tip of your quill brush to apply some water. Now I'll be taking some cerulne blue in my quill brush, make a good combination of water and color together. Now simply dab your brush in this random manner, and you'll observe that the color will automatically spread on the entire surface of the paper. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially, and then the color. You can carefully observe the way the blue color is forming these beautiful clouds in this abstract manner. No need to hurry at all. Also, no need to worry about getting the clouds in the exact same way I have painted. Your clouds might vary from mine, and it is completely fine. Now, in order to create some darker clouds, you can take a little bit of cobalt blue and just add a little bit of patch of this particular color as well. So this is how you can paint a beautiful abstract sky area. Now let us start with the mountains. I'll be taking a little bit of light green in the color palette, mix it well with water, and we're going to start by adding the color on one side of the mountain only, which basically means you have to leave a little bit of white space on the right hand side. Now you can fill in the green color in the remaining portion. Let us take a little bit of darker green in the color palette. You can mix it with a little bit of black also to get a darker shade of green. Now, this time, you do not have to cover the entire area. Just apply the green color in certain portions of the mountain, and you'll observe these beautiful green patches forming a nice texture. So this basically represents that the entire mountain is green. So I hope that you got an exact idea of how you have to create a beautiful mountain with a lot of grass and trees in it. So it looks completely green right now. You can add a little bit of texture using a little bit of black from your color palette. So you can use the tip of your quill brush to add this beautiful texture to your mountain. It basically makes it look a little bit more in depth and detail. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to add these little textures. Now, in the remaining portion, where we have left a little bit of white space. There also you can add a little bit of texture. Now we are going to start by adding a little bit of green and light green together in the color palette, and we are going to apply the color in the bottom portion where we have the entire landscape. So again, it's a very simple and easy process. You just have to leave the roads and just apply the color in the remaining portion. So to do that particular thing, use the tip of your quill brush and simply apply the color in the remaining portion. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to apply the color in certain areas. In case you want to create a little bit of dynamics in the remaining portion, you can add a little bit of water, and you'll observe that the color will automatically spread in the bottom area. This is how you can create some depth and details in the entire landscape portion. Now, to make a little bit of darker tones, you can use a little bit of burn sienna, and you can add it on the topmost portion just below the horizon line. Now, I'll be taking a little bit of solid black color in the color palette, and we are going to simply dab the brush in certain areas. You can start from the horizon line to create some nice depth in the entire landscape portion. You can observe the black color will automatically spread in a very natural way, since the background green color is a little bit wet right now. So you can observe that I'm adding it in a very random way. There is no specific way of applying the color. You can just do it in a very random and natural way. So no need to worry about getting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. Now, from the color palette, I have taken a little bit of darker shade of green. You can add a little bit of ocher yellow and black in it and just combine these vertical strokes together forming this beautiful forest area, just above the horizon line. No need to hurry at all, just carefully observe the movement of my hand and the way I'm creating these strokes. So now you can observe a beautiful forest area just above the horizon line. Apart from this, we are going to add few pine trees, and we are going to enhance the landscape area in the bottom portion. So now, what we are going to do is that we're going to take some solid black color in the color palette. I'll be using my round brush of size zero this time. You can add a little bit of solid black color in the color palette. Mix it well with water. Now let us start with the first pine tree, which is on the left hand portion. You can simply add a vertical line. Now, you have to add these little strokes from the topmost portion. And as you move towards the bottom area, just increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We're not going to cover the entire pine tree using solid black color. We're just covering half of the portion of the pine tree. Similarly, I'm going to do the pine tree on the right hand side as well. Now, once we are done, adding half portion of the pine tree, we're going to paint the remaining portion using dark green. So you can take your quill brush again of size two. Take a little bit of dark grain, mix it well with water. Now start applying the strokes again, increase the size of the strokes, and try to blend the entire pine tree with the landscape area that we have created on the bottom portion. So slowly, you'll observe that the pine trees becomes the part of the landscape that we have created just above the horizon line. And it also creates a beautiful depth and a gradient effect in the entire pine tree. You can take a little bit of solid black color in your quill brush and simply dab it in this dot format on the left hand portion of the pine tree to make it look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. Now, let us add some minor details in the entire landscape area in the bottom portion. Take your round brush of size zero, add a simple vertical line in the bottom portion, and just add these little strokes combining it with the landscape that we have created already using dark green color. There is no specific way of painting it. You can do it in a very natural and abstract manner. It is completely fine. In fact, in case you want to create your own composition and position of the trees, that is absolutely fine. So this is how we have added these little trees just above the horizon line. Now, apart from this, we are going to add a nice grassy texture using this particular solid black color. So it's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to take a good amount of solid black color in your round brush and just add these little strokes combining together to form a beautiful cluster of grass. No need to hurry at all, just do this particular step carefully. It is also a very satisfying process, so you'll definitely love and enjoy the entire process. You can randomly add the grassy texture wherever you want to. Now, apart from the grassy texture, we have one more element in the entire landscape area, which is going to be a beautiful fence. There is a very simple and easy technique to paint the fence. So you just have to add these thin irregular lines, and then just combine it with these vertical lines just above the landscape area. You can also make a double line of the horizontal line as well. And in case you want to combine the vertical lines with the landscape area in the bottom portion, you can add few little strokes in the bottom area. Similarly, I'll be adding another fence in the road that we have on the right hand side as well. You can observe carefully the way I'm moving my round brush. So we are almost done completing the entire landscape. Now let us add few minor details like these little stones in the bottom portion. So it's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to use the tip of your round rush and create these little oval shapes, having variation in sizes. You can decide the position according to your convenience. It is completely fine. And wherever you find that you want to add this beautiful grassy texture, you can do that as well. Now, I wanted to enhance the road as well, so I'll be taking a little bit of solid black color and just give a simple outline to the entire road using this particular black color. No need to create a complete perfect line. You can just break it into segments and create an irregular line, just to define the road in a nice way. So you can already observe the way we have combined all the elements together and formed a beautiful abstract landscape. Now on the top portion in the top right corner, basically, I'll be just adding these little patches of colors, and these are all the colors that we have used in the entire landscape painting. This step is not at all compulsory for you to do, but in case you add these little patches, your entire painting will look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. So I've started with solid black color, just simply draw a circular shape and then fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Then we have a little bit of cer yellow. You can just add that particular color patch as well. Then we have a little bit of light green and green, which is the major color in the entire painting. So you can add those patches on the above portion as well. In case you want to create the patch in a very random way, that is also absolutely fine. It will look really nice. Now, I'll be adding the last color which is cerlin blue, which we have used in the sky area. So these are all the colors that we have used in the entire painting. You can add a little date in the bottom portion so that you can remember the day on which you painted the entire landscape. Then I'll be using my black pen to add a simple text to the entire painting. I'm writing watercolor painting. You can write any message you want to. It is absolutely fine. You can use any calligraphy and your own handwriting to write it in a very creative manner. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Combining these natural elements together, we have formed a beautiful abstract landscape. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 11. Painting 6 - Hill Road: Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to the sixth painting, which is Hill Road. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper placed on the desk surface. I'll let us start by creating a simple basic sketch. There is going to be a nice huge hill. You can create it in a combination of two. No need to hurry at all, use your pencil simply to create a basic sketch. Then there are going to be two different hills on the bottom portion, align towards the left hand side, followed by a simple road which is coming out of the hills. This is the entire basic sketch that you need to create. Now let us start with the sky. I'm going to use my quill brush of size two. Simply apply a thin coat of water in the background. Make sure that your brush should not move inside the hills. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water on the paper and make sure that your brush should not move inside the hills. So you can use the tip of your brush to apply water near the hills, basically the outline of the pencil. Now once we have applied a nice coat of water, we are going to take some cyllin blue in the color palette. You can also add a little bit of cobal blue if you want to. Now simply dab your brush onto the paper surface in this random way. You'll observe that the color will automatically spread on the paper. This is because we have already applied a thin coat of water in the background, and this particular technique is known as a wet on wet technique. Near the mountains or hills, you can use the tip of your brush to apply the color. You can also observe that I have left some space in between, which basically creates some nice dynamics in the entire clouds. So this is how you have to paint the clouds in the sky area. Now once we are done painting the clouds, let us move towards the hills. I'm starting with the first hill, which is a little bit bigger than the two hills that we have created in the bottom portion. I'll be taking a good combination of light green and co yellow together. You can also add a little bit of dark green. Now we are starting from one side of the hill. We have to paint a little bit on the left hand portion. So I have left a little bit of white space in the entire hill. So it will create a nice depth and detail to the entire hill, and it will also make it look a little bit more realistic. So once we have covered the entire hill with this beautiful light green color and left some space in the right hand side. We're going to take a little bit of green color, which is a little bit darker and saturated than the first one. You can simply use the tip of your quill brush and add these little patches on the entire hill. There is no specific way of applying the patches. You can just randomly move your brush. We're not covering the entire surface. No need to hurry at all, try to apply the patches in a very random way. Now, clean your quill brush and water, and you can apply some water around to spread the color and make it look a little bit more authentic. We can also add a thin coat of water in the white portion to make it even a little bit more light green. Now, once we have painted the entire hill, we are going to create some more details in it. I'll be taking a little bit of solid black color in my quill brush, and using the tip of my quill brush, I'll just enhance the edges by adding these little strokes around. No need to hurry at all do this particular step in a very careful manner, and just apply these little strokes randomly. So you can observe that we have almost painted the big hill, which is in the background. Then we have two more hills in the foreground. So we are going to take a little bit of green and light green together in the color palette, mix it well with water and start applying the color. You can observe that I'm using the tip of my quill brush to paint in a careful manner so that I do not move outside the outline. Now, slowly, we are going to cover the entire area, but make sure that you do not move your brush inside the road. So that's why I'm using the tip of my quill brush near the road. In case you find that your color is getting finished, from the brush, you can take some more color. Now I'll be adding the same green color in the right hand side of the road as well. You can observe carefully the way I'm using my brush. You can also add these vertical strokes together and create a nice forest area just above the horizon line. Then you can simply follow the road line and cover the entire area with this green color. While you're using the brush, no need to worry about perfection. The way I'm moving my hand in a very natural way. You can do that as well. Since it's an abstract form of painting, so no need to worry about perfection. Now we're going to take some solid black color from the color palette and just simply add these little patches of solid black color. You'll observe that the patches will automatically spread since the coat in the background is wet, and this is also known as a wet on wet technique. I'm adding this particular solid black color near the road to enhance the entire road element. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. Your painting might have a little bit of difference than mine, and it is completely fine. In fact, you can create your own composition of the hills and the road as well. You can decide the position also. So now you can observe that the hills that are in the foreground are a little bit more darker, and it creates a beautiful contrast with the background hills. Now, let us paint some beautiful pine trees. So I'll be using my round brush of size zero, take some good amount of solid black color in the brush, and start applying with a simple vertical line. Now you have to add these little strokes on the vertical line, starting from the topmost portion. Try to have little strokes on the topmost portion, and as you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We are not going to cover the entire pine tree with solid black color. The remaining portion of the pine tree is painted with green color. So you can observe a beautiful radiant effect also. So this basically creates a beautiful depth in the entire pine tree, and the pine tree will look a part of the landscape that we have created in the bottom portion. You can take some more black color in your quill brush and apply it on the left hand portion of the pine tree. You just have to dab the brush using the tip of your quill brush. Now, I'll be taking my round brush of size zero, and let's add few details to the entire road element by creating some nice solid black strokes. I'll be adding these little trees on the outline of the road, which are completely solid black. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to create these oval shapes, and to make it look a part of the entire landscape, you just have to create these little strokes combining together, forming a nice grassy texture. Now, similarly, we are going to repeat the same steps. And we're going to add these little trees on the outline of the entire road, having a beautiful variation in these size. You can simply follow these steps. Oh. So you can observe that we have added a lot of small trees on the outline of the entire road. We have also added a few little trees on the mountain line as well, and you can observe how beautiful the entire road is looking. It creates a beautiful contrast with the landscape color in the background, which is dark green. Now, similarly, you can use the tip of your round brush of size zero to enhance some details on the entire mountain as well. You can create some thin lines. You can create some nice rough texture by adding these little patches of solid black color. Again, I'll be telling you the same thing. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. It's an abstract form of painting, so your painting might vary from mine, and there might be a little bit of difference, and it is completely fine. In fact, you can have your own composition and you can decide the position of the elements as well. Now, similarly, I'll be adding a bit of texture in the hills that are on the background as well. But we're not going to create a lot of solid black patches on that. Now, to make the landscape area look a little bit more attractive in the bottom portion, you can add these little stones by having these little oval shapes using solid black color. You can have a nice variation in the size and put it in a combination of two to 3 stones together. Now, on the right hand side, I feel that the space is a little bit empty. So that's why I'm adding another pine tree. The steps are absolutely same. But this particular pine tree is a little bit smaller than the first one. You just have to start applying these little strokes using solid black color, and I have used my round brush of size zero. Then take your quill brush of size two and apply green color just below that. And slowly, you'll observe that the second pine tree also gets a beautiful blend with the bottom landscape area. You can also add these little solid black patches on the left hand portion of the pine tree to enhance it and make it look a little bit more attractive. So we are almost done with all the elements. We can add few details in the bigger pine tree as well. So I'll be using my round brush of size zero, take some good amount of solid black color in it, and apply these little patches on the bigger pine tree. So I hope that you got an exact idea of how you have to paint the entire pine tree. It's a very beautiful step, and you'll definitely enjoy creating it. So we are almost done with the entire painting. Let us add the color palette on the topmost portion. It is not a compulsory step to follow, but in case you want to add these little patches of all the colors that we have used to create this beautiful abstract painting. You can do that. So I've started with cerlne blue, which is used in the entire sky area. You just have to create a circular shape and then fill in that particular color in the inner portion. Then I have taken some ca yellow, and I have created its patch next to cerlne blue. Then we have burned Ciena. So we added a little bit of cer yellow and burn sienna, where we want to create the landscape a little bit dense. Now we have two more colors left, actually three more colors left. One is light green and dark green, which is the major color in the entire painting, where we have created the entire landscape. So you can add the color patches of light green and dark green, followed by the last color, which is solid black color. So black color basically always enhances all the elements, and it creates a beautiful contrast. It gives depth to your entire painting. So now I'm adding the last color, which is solid black. So you can observe these little dots looks really nice and makes your painting look a little bit more attractive. Now using a black pen, you can add a date in the bottom portion so that you can remember when you painted this entire painting. Now using the same black pen, I'll be adding a little text in this vertical format. I'll be writing watercolor painting. No need to hurry at all, write it in a good hand writing, using any good calligraphy that you know. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Combining all these natural elements together, we have formed a beautiful abstract landscape painting. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 12. Painting 7 - The Temple: Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to my seventh painting, which I have named as the temple. So as you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper placed on the desk surface. They are starting with a basic sketch, which is the temple. So you can start with a simple vertical line and a semicircular shape just below that, followed by two vertical lines again, and a simple rectangular shape. Then we have these two curve the shapes on either sides, followed by another simple rectangular shape, and then you have to add these huge vertical lines, which is the part of the main wall. So this is how we have created the entire structure of the temple. Now we are going to have a little bit of landscape in the bottom portion. So I have created a nice irregular line on either sides, and there is going to be a simple road forming from the landscape. We have a simple door in the entire temple in this rectangular form, and you can add these little windows as well. Now we are going to add some vertical lines, which will tell us about the position of the pine trees in the entire landscape. You can decide the position of the pine trees according to your convenience as well. Now, let us start with the first step, which is painting the sky area. I'll be taking some water from the container, and we are going to apply the water using our quill brush of size two. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply the water in an ice way and make sure that you apply an even coat of water on the entire paper surface. You can apply the water using the tip of your quill brush near the temple. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially, and then we are going to apply the color. Now I'll take a little bit of cyline blue in the color palette, mix it well with water. Now simply dab your brush randomly on the entire paper surface, and you'll observe that the color will automatically spread. While you're dabbing your brush, just make sure that you leave a little bit of white spaces in between. No need to worry about painting the sky area in the exact same way. It's an abstract form of painting, so your clouds might be a little bit different than mine, and it is absolutely fine. So you can use the tip of your brush near the temple. Now we are going to take some light green and dark green in the color palette, mix it well with water, and we are going to paint the landscape just above the horizon line. So you can carefully observe the movement of my quill brush. I'm just moving it in this vertical manner and combining the vertical strokes together to form a nice forest area just in the background. Make sure that your brush should not move inside the temple. So be a little bit careful near the entire sketch. So you can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to paint this particular area. Now using the same color, we're going to add this on the bottom portion as well. Just be a little bit careful. Use the tip of your quill brush near the road. Now using the same combination of light green and green, we're going to paint the remaining landscape area as well. You can observe the way I'm covering the entire portion. In case you want to create some variation, you can add a bit of water as well. No need to hurry at all, apply the color in a slow and steady manner. Also, no need to worry about painting in a perfect manner. Now, I'll be taking a little bit of black color in my quill brush and simply dab the brush in this random way, creating these little solid black patches. I'm generally adding the patches near the road, and you can also add it just below the temple area as well. We already have a nice green color in the background, which is a little bit wet. That's why the black color will spread in this amazing manner. You can observe the way I'm adding these solid black patches near the temple as well. It creates a nice depth in the entire landscape. It also separates the sky area and the landscape in the bottom portion. Now, once we are done adding the solid black patches, I'm going to paint the entire temple, so you will have to take a little bit of crimson red, and we have added a little bit of ocher yellow in it to make the saturation of crimson red a little bit lighter. Now makes the colors well in the color palette and start applying the color from the topmost portion. So we have this tiny little semicircular shape and followed by a rectangular shape. You just have to cover the entire temple with this particular color. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush carefully to paint the entire temple so that the color will not move outside the outline of the pencil. You can observe a beautiful, vibrant color, which is this beautiful crimson red, and it creates a nice contrast with the background as well. Now once we have painted the entire temple, we are going to add some minute details in it using our round brush of size zero. Make sure that you have applied the color in the entire portion, let it dry for a while. Now once the entire crimson red color is dry, you can use your round brush of size zero, take some good amount of solid black color in it, and start applying it on the outline. It's a very simple and easy step. You just have to keep a grip in your hand and try to keep your hand very much loose and free so that you can give the outline in a very comfortable manner. You can observe the way I have started from the topmost portion, and slowly, I'll be moving towards the bottom area. Whenever you are giving an outline, make sure that you take good amount of color in it, and you get a nice solid outline using this black color. Now, just below the semicircular shape, we also have this double lines that we are doing right now. Apart from that, we're also going to add some minute details using this particular brush. So now, I'll be adding the line on either sides of the entire temple, which is basically the walls. Then we have these little windows in rectangular shape and a huge door, which is also in rectangular shape. So we have painted it completely black so that it creates a nice contrast with the background color. Now, using the same brush, I'm adding these little grassy texture by combining these vertical strokes together in a very small and tiny amount. Now, I'll be taking some more solid black color in my round brush of size zero, and we're going to add some minute details in the entire temple. It is a very simple and easy step. You just have to create these little vertical lines. In case you're not comfortable adding these little lines using your brush, you can use a black pen as well. Slowly, I'll be giving these vertical lines in the bottom portion as well. Now, let us add some nice grassy texture in the entire landscape area. It's a very simple and easy step. You just have to add these little vertical strokes, combine them together, form a nice cluster of grass in whichever area you want to. Generally, if you add it near the solid black patches, it would look really nice, so you can carefully observe these steps and follow. Oh. Now, apart from the grassy texture that we have given using our round brush of, we can also add some stones in the landscape area. So it's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to use the tip of your brush, create these little shapes in the landscape area. Now, if you observe carefully, the pencil line is still visible, where we are going to paint some beautiful pine trees. So just create a simple vertical line and start adding these little strokes from the topmost portion and slowly move towards the bottom area. As you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We're not going to paint the entire pine tree with solid black color. On the topmost portion, we are having solid black color, and in the remaining portion, we'll use dark green color. So you can observe. Similarly, I'm painting the next pine tree as well, which is a little bit bigger than the first one. Now we have the last pine tree, which is almost similar to the first one. So you can observe in all the three pine trees, I have not added solid black strokes till the bottom of the ground area. Now we have one more pine tree in the left hand side of the temple, which is a little bit bigger. So the steps are absolutely same. Create a simple vertical line. Start adding these little strokes from the topmost portion, and as you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes that you're making. So we have almost painted the topmost portion of all the pine trees. Now I'll be taking my quill brush, and we are going to take some green color in it, mix it well with water, and use the tip of your quill brush. Start applying the strokes again just below the solid black color. If you observe carefully, you get a nice blend of both black and green color together. It creates a nice gradient effect, and the reason behind using a green color in the bottom portion is so that the pine trees will get a nice blend with the bottom landscape area. So the pine trees will look a part of the entire landscape. Similarly, we are adding the green color in the remaining pine trees as well. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very careful manner. Also, you will definitely enjoy this entire process of creating these beautiful pine trees. In order to enhance them, you can take your round brush of size zero. Now to add some more grassy effect to the entire landscape. You just have to create some more strokes combining together, forming some beautiful solid black landscape portion. Now, apart from the grassy texture, we can also add these little trees in the entire landscape area. I'm starting to paint these little trees just above the horizon line. You can observe it's a very simple and easy step. You just have to create these little oval shapes. Now, following this particular technique, you can paint the remaining trees on the outline of the entire road as well. It will make the entire landscape look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. So now we are almost done with the entire painting. Let us add the color palette of the entire painting on the topmost portion. This particular step is not at all compulsory for you to do, but if you add these little patches of the colors, it will look really nice, and all these colors are basically used in the entire painting. So I've started with solid black color, just create a simple circular shape and fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Then we have the major color that we have used, which is green and light green, which is in the entire landscape. So you can create their circles as well. Since we also have a nice light green color, having a good quantity of water in it, so you can add a nice solid light green color as well, which looks really nice in the bottom area. Then we have the next color, which is cylin blue, using which we have painted the clouds in the sky area. You can use Cobal blue also in case you want some darker clouds in the sky area. If you observe carefully, all the color patches looks really nice on the topmost portion. Then I have the last color, which is crimson red, which is used in the entire temple. So you can observe that we have created the entire patch of colors. I'll be adding a little date using my black pen in the bottom portion so that we can remember on which day we have created the entire painting. Now, using the same black pen, I'll be adding a little text, which is watercolor painting. You can write it according to your convenience, using any handwriting you love. And we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Using all the natural elements together and combining them, we have created a beautiful abstract painting. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now, let us move towards the next painting. 13. Painting 8 - Red Roof : Hey, everybody, you are most welcome to the eighth painting, which I have named as the red roof, and this is the last painting of the entire class. So let us start with the basic sketch. I'll be using a simple pencil to create a roof of the entire house. You can observe it's a parallel gram on the left hand side, followed by a slopy roof on the right hand side, and then you have to add these vertical lines forming the entire wall structure. Then we have this irregular line forming the horizon line for the entire house, and you have to add this little road as well. We are going to have two rectangular windows followed by one rectangular door on the walls of the entire house. So this is how we have created a basic sketch. Now, I'll be adding these vertical lines, which basically represents the position of the pine trees. Now, once we are done with the entire basic sketch, let us start with the abstract sky area. So I'll be using my quill brush of size two, and we are going to apply a nice coat of water in the entire surface of the paper. Just make sure that you do not move your brush inside the house area. Now, once we have added a thin coat of water, we are going to take some cerlan blue from the color palette and just simply dab your brush randomly on the paper surface. You'll observe that the color will automatically spread on the paper. You can leave some white spaces in between, which will help you to form these beautiful abstract clouds in the sky area. Make sure that you do not move your brush inside the house element. You can use the tip of your quill brush near the roof structure. Now, once we are done adding the sky area, take some dark green and light green in your quill brush and just simply apply it in this random way. We are just connecting these vertical strokes forming together a nice forested area on the right hand side of the house. Similarly, you can add these strokes on the left hand side of the house as well. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint in a very slow and steady manner. Now, slowly, we are going to paint the landscape area in the bottom portion as well. I'll be taking some green color from the color palette, add it in the outline of the entire landscape area. Wherever you want to decrease the saturation of the color, just add a little bit of water in that particular area. Your darker color will automatically spread in that particular area in a less saturated manner. Now, I'll be taking some nice green color again from the color palette and let us cover the area in the right hand side as well. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to spread the color and create a nice green effect. So we have created a nice base color. Now let us add some depth and dimensions. I'll be taking a little bit of black color from the color palette in my quill brush. Simply dab it near the outline of the road, and you can also dab it on the forest area that we have created on the topmost portion. There is no specific way of applying these little patches. You can randomly apply it in any area to create some amazing abstract effect. You can observe that the base layer is still wet. That's why the black color will spread automatically. And this is basically known as a wet on wet technique. Now, let me add these little patches in the bottom portion as well. Now, once we have added the black patches, let us paint the beautiful red roof of the entire house. I'll be taking some crimson red in my color palette, mix it well with a little bit of ocher yellow to decrease the saturation of crimson red color. Now take some good amount of color in your brush and start applying it on the outline of the entire roof. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush to create the outline first. Now, once we are done with the outline, we are going to fill in crimson red color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all, take your time, paint in a slow and steady manner, and just fill in the entire portion with this particular crimson color. You can observe how beautiful the entire color is looking. It creates a nice contrast with all the colors. Now once we are done with the entire roof, we are going to paint the walls of the entire house as well. So this time we are going to take some burnt sienna and ocher yellow together. Now slowly start applying the color in the walls of the entire house. You can observe again the way I'm using the tip of my quell brush to paint this particular area. Whenever there is a smaller portion to paint, always apply very less pressure on your brush and try to use the pointed tip of your brush so that you can paint in a very smaller portion in a very careful manner, and your color will not move outside the line. So we have almost completed the entire house with a beautiful crimson red roof and a nice cer yellow wall. Now, let the color dry for a while and take your round brush of size zero, take some good amount of solid black color in it, and you're going to apply a nice outline to the entire house. While you're giving an outline using a detailing brush, always try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff. You will observe that the solid black outline will enhance the entire house. It will create a better contrast with the entire surrounding. So I'm creating these slant lines in the entire roof to create some minute details and to make the entire house look a little bit more attractive. Similarly, you can add these little vertical lines in the walls and you can fill in solid black color in the windows. Now you can observe that the entire house is looking really nice. I'm adding solid black color in the windows that are present in the next wall as well. I'm also going to make the door completely black, and you can give an outline using the tip of your round brush. Now you can observe that we have created the entire house in this beautiful abstract outline using solid black color. Now we are going to add some minute details in the entire landscape by creating this beautiful grassy texture. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to combine these little strokes together and you have to form this beautiful grassy texture. There is no specific way of adding this grassy texture. You can just randomly apply the brush according to your convenience. If you'll add it near the solid black patches, it will look really nice. If you observe carefully, near the road, also, we have these beautiful solid black patches, and there you can add these little strokes and define these shapes in this particular manner. You'll definitely enjoy the process of creating and painting these little grassy texture on the entire landscape area. It also enhances the entire landscape. You can observe that it also creates a beautiful contrast with the green color in the background. Now, similarly, I'll be adding these little stones in the landscape area. The step is very easy. You just have to create these little oval shapes using the tip of your down brash. You can have a nice variation in the size of the oval shape as well. P Now, let us paint the pine trees. So the pencil line is still visible. You just have to create a simple vertical line initially. Then you have to start creating these little strokes from the topmost portion and slowly come towards the bottom area and increase the size of the strokes that you're making. We are not going to cover the entire pine tree with solid black color. Only half of the portion is going to be solid black. And then the remaining portion is going to be painted using green color. Now I'm also adding these little strokes in the second pine tree as well, which is a little bit smaller than the first one. We also have one more pine tree in the left hand side as well, which is again a little bit smaller than both the pine trees that we have painted. Now, once you have added solid black color on the topmost portion, you'll have to take some green color in your quill brush. You can make it a little bit darker by adding some black in it. Now, using the tip of the quill brush, just try to apply the strokes again and increase the size of the strokes that you're making. Complete the entire pine tree, and you'll observe that the pine tree gets a nice blend with the background color, which is basically the landscape that we have created in the bottom portion. You can also observe a nice gradient effect of the solid black color and the dark green color in the bottom portion of the entire pine tree. Now, I'll be adding another beautiful element, which is a simple fence in the front portion on the road. You just have to create these irregular lines followed by the vertical lines. And to make the vertical lines a part of the entire landscape, you can add this grassy texture in the bottom portion of the vertical line. To make the fence look a little bit more attractive, you can double the vertical lines as well. You can observe the way I have used the tip of my roundbrush to create this beautiful fence element. So we are done with the entire painting. Now I'm going to simply add the entire color palette on the topmost portion. I'm starting with the solid black color, which basically enhances the entire painting by creating a nice depth. Just create a simple circular shape and fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Now we are going to add two more colors, which is green and light green, which is the major color in the entire painting, using which we have painted the entire landscape. Then we have the main color, which is the crimson red color, which is popping out in the entire painting, creating a beautiful roof structure for the entire house. Then I have created a nice cer yellow circular shape, which is a beautiful color patch that we have used in the walls of the entire house. Then we have the last color, which is my personal favorite color, cylane blue, using which we have created a beautiful sky area in an abstract manner. Now, I'll be using a simple black pen to add a date in the bottom portion, which basically helps to remember when we created this painting. Now, simply remove the masking tape, rotate your painting, and we're going to add a little text, which is watercolor painting. You can write any other message according to your convenience. It is absolutely fine, using a good calligraphy. So we are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Combining these natural elements together, we formed this beautiful abstract landscape painting. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. This is the last painting and the class project of the entire class. Now let us move towards the next part. 14. Class Conclusion: Watercolors is a very versatile medium that you can explore. While I was creating this particular class, I made any number of mistakes, and that is something that I always tell my students never to be afraid of making mistakes. You are always free to explore and experiment. When we talk about landscapes, there are a lot of elements that you can paint and combine together to form a beautiful painting. The practice sheet will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. All the eight paintings are very easy and simple to create. You're free to explore and experiment with the composition of the entire painting. You can also experiment with the color palette. I would be really excited to see all of your class projects into the project gallery. Feel free to ask any questions or doubts you have related to the class. It would be really great if you leave a review for the class as it encourages me a lot, and my class can reach many more students like you. No need to worry about the output, just enjoy the process of creating. At the end, I would like to say, keep learning, keep practicing. Thank you so much for joining the class and happy painting.