A Guide to Liquid Watercolors. Learn to Paint Pebbles and Cactus.

1. Introduction: Let's learn new art medium and explore colourful world of liquid watercolors. Hi, my name is Anya. I'm Polish illustrator based in Italy. Lately I graduated from children's books illustration and the Academy of Fine Arts in Italy. I work with mixed media and in my art, I use really different art supplies and techniques. I invite you to take this class if you want to learn new arts medium and new art techniques. But also if you are wondering, well, it's liquid watercolors are, maybe you don't know if to buy them, if they are good for you, or maybe you already have them at home, but she didn't know how to use them. Maybe you're intimidated by them or not sure how they work. In this class, I will show you what our liquid watercolors, some fun exercises to know the basic techniques. And later we will apply those techniques to paint fun illustrations, pebbles and cactus. You can choose to paint one of them as the class project. You can paint all pebbles or cactus, or if you want, you can try to paint both of them. I decided to do this class because I really love colors and vibrancy of a liquid watercolors. Liquid watercolors can provide you not only vibrant colors, but also a kind of transparency that the traditional watercolors not always can give. So I think it is really, that is fun to know. By the end of this class, I'm sure that you will know better this medium and that you can apply the knowledge and other contexts in your art. This class is for all the illustrators, professionals, amateurs. Also, if you're a beginner, I will explain all the basic knowledge and techniques. So if you feel inspired, then jump into the next lesson where I will explain more precisely the steps and the project that we will do in this class. See you there. 2. Class Project: For the class project, I would like you to apply one or more of all of the techniques that we will learn here and paint one illustration, I will show you how to paint pebbles and cactus. And you can choose to paint one of them, or pebbles or cactus. Or if you wish, you can paint both of them. Here are the steps that we will take in this class. First, I will show you what are the art supplies that we will use. And especially, I will give a deeper look into the liquid watercolors. I'll show you different kinds that I have, their main characteristics. And then we will test them on paper. I will show you the characteristics. You can join me and explore, try to know them better. And also, I will show you the difference between liquid watercolors and the traditional watercolors. Then we will dive into the sun, basic and also modern liquid watercolor techniques. Even if you already are familiar with this kind of exercise, I find it every time. Very good exercise to warm up yourself, to know your medium better. So we will try different techniques and different fun ways of how you can apply liquid watercolors. And finally, we will apply all the techniques and paying the final illustrations, levels and cactus. And you can choose which one you would like to paint for your final project. I would like you to post all the projects in the project gallery. I will show you here. Just click over here and upload your project. Also leave comments, doubts, questions. If you have any, maybe write a little bit about your experience with liquid watercolors, the July kit, the struggles you have, or maybe you had, or maybe the nice surprise us what you liked. And I'm very curious to hear your experience. So grab your colors, your paper sketchbook. And if you're not sure what supplies we will use them jump into the next lesson. 3. Art Supplies: Let me show you what you will need for this class project. For this class, our main protagonists are the liquid watercolors. So I will use basically this one. It's a clients. You can find different brands out there, e.g. those are little bit different because those are concentrated watercolor. So there are liquid watercolors, more concentrated. They are different from the other, Dr. Ph. Martin's liquid watercolor. But still there. They are. The same, the same thing at the end. Another brand that I have is PBO upper Bell. I'm not sure how to pronounce it, and it's still liquid watercolor. You can find those in art supply store and you can buy them separately. So maybe it's more convenient to have just a few bottles. The colors that you prefer. If not, you can also find them online and then maybe it's more convenient to take whole set. I think there are six colors set and maybe more. Yeah, so those are the liquid watercolors that I have. Then obviously water, I suggest to have to borrow else. So you can wash your brush in the first and then in the second. I will use paper towel to clean brushes. It's really very handy and you will use a lot of it. Can be tissue or maybe a cloth if you don't want to use paper towel. And also brushes for this project, I will mainly use one size brushes. One size brush, the medium one and the small one. But you can also take the big one, e.g. square one, where we will make the background for our exercise for our project. Also, probably I will use also this ten for details, for extra textures. I will use salt. This one is the kitchen salt and also water in this spray tube. I will do all the exercises and this in the sketchbook. This one is the regular, normal sketchbook. So you can use your sketch book as well, or you can use a regular watercolor paper. Here is the list of all the art supplies. And then the next lesson we will see more closely water liquid watercolors. 4. What Are Liquid Watercolors: In this lesson, I will show you what our liquid watercolors. I will walk you through all the characteristics and also show you some differences between traditional watercolors and liquid watercolors. So hopefully after this lesson, you will have answers to your questions about this medium. So what are liquid watercolors? Liquid watercolors are a type of watercolor paint where the pigments or dies or in a liquid form. They are different from traditional watercolors because they are consistency is thin and watery and it's here basically it's liquid. Also in signed they have die and not pigments. E.g. here for sure. And this for sure. In this one, I'm not sure if there is any pigment because in the bottom of the bottle, I'm not sure if you can see it. The powder remains, so every time before I will use it, I have to shake it. So maybe in this one there is a pigment, I'm not sure, but generally, other liquid watercolors have die inside and not pigment. Basically, the colors are really vibrant and electric. You want achieve some of the colors with traditional watercolors. Sometimes it's good to add a drop of liquid watercolor to your basic watercolor if you want to add vibrancy and saturation to your color. Also, the transparency is different between those two. As you know, watercolors are translucent. But when you will paint with very saturated color, not diluted color, and you can achieve bake color. Also, there are different kinds of transparency for each watercolor. So there are some watercolors that are really more opaque than others. And with this watercolor, liquid watercolor, you can never achieve opaque color. It will always be translucent swatch. Also with liquid watercolors, you can get very homogeneous swatches. That's because they don't have pigment and so they don't do granulating. So if you're searching in your art and your illustration style, plain swatches of a vibrant, plain color than I would recommend you to try those. I heard that the main problem with them is that they are not light fast. It means that the color will fade away with time because the light will make it fade away. My experience with is that the illustrations that I did until now are still very vibrant. And I don't have this problem, but maybe it depends on brand. Maybe because the illustrations that I did are not hanging on the wall. So basically they they don't have contact with light. I have three kinds at home. E.g. alkaline from a talents. Right now you can find them in this round bottle with a pipette. You can apply color. It's very handy because you don't have to dip the brush into your color so you want to contaminate it. Once they were like this and this, We're bottle without the pets. Then I have a bell or PBO. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. They also are provided with a pet. I like them very much. And also the third type that I have is Dr. Ph. Martin's. Those are concentrated watercolor. So it means the color is more vibrant and more concentrated, but it's still liquid watercolor. So here's the summary of the liquid watercolor features and brands. So now that we know a little bit more about liquid water colors, then let's test them and see what we can do with them. 5. Painting Techniques Part 1: In this lesson, we will paint, we will try different techniques. Also. Play a little bit, e.g. with salt. For me, it's always fun to try techniques if you already know this kind of exercises. I invite you to do them also with liquid watercolors that the clips that I will show will be similar to the traditional watercolor techniques. I also explained in a deeper way the basic watercolor techniques in my class about traditional watercolors. Later on we will apply all those techniques and our final illustrations. I will start with some swatching. I want swatch every color that I have. I wanted just to try them out. If you don't know liquid watercolors yet, you didn't try them yet. Then you can warm up in just like this by creating some simple swatches and circles. Right now, I'm showing the different brands that I have. The pads always prepared or without. So let's get started. There are many ways that you can apply liquid watercolors. I will try to apply directly with the perfect. I think it's very handy. You can put your drop directly on the paper or on your color palette. Right now, I want diluted by want to see their consistency there, transparency, just like that without looting. So I will swap out different brands. This one is a bell. So as you can see, the color is really vibrant and saturated. This is the thing that I really like. The watercolor, liquid watercolors, they behave like ink. Swatches, are really homogeneous. And now I will paint a client because I wanted to show you that among different colors you can find the ones that are more saturated. And the one that I'm more translucent. E.g. as you can see, this one is already translucent. I think it's already diluted. Maybe it gives this kind of diluted effect, e.g. also, this one, this one is blue, Celeste blue, very, very light. I didn't dilute it. It's applied directly from the bottle. So you can see when you will buy your liquid watercolors that some of them are more delicate and some of them are more condensed as colors. And try it now I will try Dr. Ph. Martin's. Those are concentrated liquid watercolors. They should be more saturated and more intense as the color. I usually shake them before I will use them because they will usually have color residue on the button. The difference is not so big between Dr. Ph. Martin's and e.g. higher swatch. I would say also that the bell is more saturated and vibrant. But I can assure you that Dr. Ph. Martin's hence really vibrant and intense colors as well. Now, I just wanted to show you quickly a difference between a liquid and traditional watercolors rights now I'm applying normal, traditional, regular watercolor in pen. And you can already see there is some pigment moving and it's very dense. I applied color. And I hope that you can see the difference. So this is liquid watercolor and it's quite the same. I wanted to choose the same tone. And you can already see it's much more light. It's not diluted, and it behaves more like ink. It has the dye and it doesn't have pigment. And it's now I want it to mix both traditional watercolor with liquid watercolor. To add a little bit of saturation and vibrancy to your color. I already used quite vibrant color, which is this bluish turquoise shrinkage watercolor. And I added a drop of Dr. Ph. Martin's chalk wise. Maybe it's a little bit too much. But I wanted to show you this technique that you can use if you want to increase the saturation and vibrancy of your traditional watercolor, then you can mix them together. Obviously, you can also dilute liquid watercolors the same as you would do with the traditional ones. So I will show you a quick exercise for transparency. So you have to start by painting a swatch of the most saturated color, most dense color, in this case directly from the bottle. And I will just pick a little bit of water. I want wash my brush, but each time I will dip it and clean it more. And while the swatch is still wet, I will paint with a brush which is cleaner every time that I will dip it. So you can see that you can achieve different tonalities of the same color. We can also apply your color on the color palette and try to dilute it directly from the color palette. So she diluted a little bit my first swatch, and then I added more water. So it's quite simple. I just would like you to try it if you, if you like, because I think it can be helpful to know this medium. So try to swatch it, play with different transparencies. Try to dilute your color and see what colors you can achieve. Now, let's try layering technique. It means that we will paint over the color. We will do overlapping. I already painted my swatches of color. So the first thing that you should consider is that your basic, the first layer, the basic layer of color should be dry before you will paint over it, over it. Sorry, if you want to avoid the blending of colors, then you will have to be quick. You don't want to move to match the color that it's underneath. So here e.g. the two squares overlap just in one angle. But later on I will try to do more overlapping. I wanted to show you this exercise also to show you the excellent transparency that liquid watercolors half. And that is different than traditional watercolor transparency. I didn't want to repeat it too often here, but as I already told, the swatches are more homogeneous and flat. And also for this reason, layering and overlapping is different. So I think it is a really good technique to exercise with liquid watercolors. As you can see, the color underneath doesn't activate match. That's because the color underneath is dry. And I already and I also tried to paint quickly without insisting. I don't want to color, to blend, and to reactivate. So try this. At the beginning. We want to be able to achieve two separate colors that are overlapping. Then don't worry. Probably. You will have to do more exercises. Probably are color was wet, e.g. later on you will see that I also wasn't patient and I layered new color and the color underneath and blended. It's also about the patients and doing exercise. So I will leave you with this. So in this precise moment, I wanted to show you that my layering didn't succeed because I wasn't patient nav and the color underneath was still wet. And as you can see, it's activating and it will, it will simply blend with my new layer. And also, it's more difficult if you're painting more layers. E.g. I'm painting right now over to colors. It's more difficult to not activate those colors. But as you can see this time, I succeed. The color was dry. So I invite you to try this technique, to do exercises. And if you wish, you can upload them also with other basic techniques in your classes, project, and share your experience. In the other lesson, we will continue to play with other fun painting techniques. 6. Painting Techniques Part 2: Welcome to the second part of painting techniques. So now that you're more familiar with liquid watercolors, Let's jump into playing with other techniques. I really like this part, especially if you're new to some medium, you want to know it. It's really great way to warm up yourself, to unblock yourself. If you feel blocked, if you don't know how to start this way, you really now to get better medium and to play. So no pressure, no expectations. And play around. I think liquid watercolors with those kind of exercises are really great and you will see how really beautiful effects they can create. So I already written down the techniques that I want to try. The first one was wet on dry technique. And though most of them are the same that you can Use also traditional watercolors. But the difference is that you will see, you'll see by experimenting by using liquid water colors, sorry, by your own e.g. this wet on dry technique with two colors that will blend. I find it really fantastic because they blend in a different way than traditional colors, than traditional watercolors. To. The first technique was simple wet on dry when you paint color on dry paper. And now is blending part, which is really exciting. Here you can also see the difference that the colors that are blending are more homogeneous. They don't create the granulation, granulation effect that you would probably would have with traditional watercolors, you will see some cauliflower effects. Color blooms if you know what I mean. Here. It's the color is more homogeneous and now I will try wet on wet technique. So first you paint with clean water. You can also paint the color if you like. I use the clean water and then you apply drops of color. You can do it with a pipette or with your brush. It's up to you. I think it's also a great way to experiment with different tools. And that provides you different effects. E.g. was Prussia have more control. You can apply less color. And if you drop a color with a pipette, you can create an explosion of color, which is obviously also great. Now, I will try the same technique, but with painting the color, I will paint the green color and then apply glue as I did in the previous circle. Now wet on wet technique, but I will blend more colors together. So first quarter and then I will paint with more colors that will blend together. So how the technique that I really enjoy. So it's like wet on wet technique, but another way around. So first you paint color and then you drop water, clean water on it. So it's the same technique that you create with traditional watercolors and to create so-called color blooms. And also here you can see the difference because in liquid watercolors the color blooms will be more homogeneous. And I didn't know the word. But you can see that it's different. So I'm trying it and play with it. I think it's really, really cool. Now let's try the salt exercise. I will do it with wet on wet technique right now. So I paint with water than paint with color. And while the color is still wet, I will sprinkle a little bit of kitchen salt. You have to use. A huge amount, just a tiny bit here and there, a few grains of salt, and then wait until it will try to remove the salt. I will try different colors. I will use dark tones this time, just to see the difference. You can do it as well. You can try it with my blending. 12 or more colors. Light with darks are just darks. You can create a different effect. So I just wanted to see the difference. One of the techniques that I use for the often is using the spray, the water spray in the bottle. So I will try it on one color swatch. I would suggest to use darker colors to see the effect. You have to spray your water while the color is still wet. Right now, I'm praying. I hope you can see the tiny little dots that are lighter. And the effect will be visible. Also, why when the color will dry. Once again, I want to show you the difference between the traditional and trick with watercolor. But this time with color blending technique. On the left side, there is a traditional watercolor, and I'm blending ultramarine with indigo. And you can already see there's some granulation. There is some more dense color. Basically. You have less control and you can predict less. Because traditional watercolors, because it's pigment based, can create really different effects. And you can really, you can't really predict what will happen. I mean, also here, when you blend colors, on the right side, there is the liquid watercolor. Obviously, you cannot predict how the color will blend. But the thing that you can be sure that the color will be more flat and homogeneous. So it will be more soft. There won't be pigment that will be spreading around. The color will be because it has dye, pigment will be more homogeneous and flat. Here already you can see that some granulation and pigments. So I hope it is clear for you. I invite you to test it on your own and see the difference. E.g. here I painted the background with the traditional watercolor, traditional ultramarine. And you can see there is a lot going on. There are some color blowing, water blowing, pigments. Also here. You can see where the color, the water spread it and create a really interesting, interesting cauliflower effect. And yeah, so once again, try to play around and try different techniques, different colors. You can mix traditional and liquid watercolors and C on your own, how it, I hope you've got more familiar with liquid watercolors and that you are no longer intimidated and that you had fun with those techniques. Share in the project gallery the outcome of your exercises. And if you have any questions or doubts, also, you can write down in your project or in the discussion of this class. In the next lesson, we will apply all the techniques and we will paint pebbles. 7. Painting Pebbles: Welcome. In this lesson where we will paint pebbles, we will apply all the techniques from the previous lesson. So we will play basically with wet on wet techniques. We will apply salt, we will apply water on color, color on color, we will blend that. Yeah, basically all about being expressive, letting flow your creativity. My advice would be to not plan too much. Obviously, you can plan What's the snakes he wants to use. But after all, let yourself go dance plan and just play with this exercise. It's about exploring, not being stressed, not painting details, not doing something really final. You can do more pebbles, more illustrations. If you're not happy with one outcome, you can try another. Thought also, try not to be perfect. Embrace mistakes and embrace the process because I think this exercise is excellent, excellent to relax and play. So I invite you to do this. Also in this exercise, I will use limited color palette. Don't stress out about colors. Use the colors that you feel like. You can also use this exercise to explore which colors work best and which don't. Just play around. So what you will need for this exercise Is your sketchbook or your watercolor paper. It's up to you. I will use a sketchbook. It will be handy to have also clean water, e.g. if you will use color on water technique, also, brush or paper towel and assault and your liquid colors. I will use a selection of warm colors. So there will be browns, e.g. reddish brown, mahogany. This is the PLO and Saffron. And I will also use a gray, light gray because they think it will create lovely contrast. You can use your selection of colors, you can use. My advice is to use a limited color palette. It could be 34 or even two. If you have just two of them. Two is the minimum and it's enough to play and see the interactions. Wet on wet technique. If you are not sure what colors use than mucus limits yourself. And e.g. you only warm colors as I do or on the cool colors. So let's get started. I already draw sketch with a pencil. Usually, I probably wouldn't do that. I would play around with shapes. But for the purpose of this class, I just drew the outline. So feel free to do as you prefer. So I will start with wet on wet technique with painting, with water. So I will paint with a clean watcher the first shape. So you can put more water. Maybe I will show you now. Yeah, Exactly The more walter. So the colors will blend really. It will be difficult to control them because it will be very rare. Lot of water and a lot of movements here. So you can do also this kind of exercise to see what happens if you will use more water for this technique. And what will happen if you were to use less water, e.g. here? If you put too much water, then you can lift it with dry brush. And dry your brush and your paper towel. You can control it in this way. I will try to make it a little bit less watery. Let's see what happens. It's still spreads really quickly. Also maybe because I use the pipette. So try to use as well your brush. And you can control it a little better. You can make smaller marks. So you can see here, there's still people of color. That's because I used a lot of water, not of watercolor ink. Here, I will see yellow color as well. I will do wet on wet technique for color on color. More or less as I did here. I could add to walk through a sample of water. Could also do it here. No planning here. It's about seeing what will what will happen. If you're not happy with a color results? It can happen. E.g. I'm not so convinced that the yellow, bright yellow, It's so good in this combination. You can, while it's still wet, try to move farther solutions or you can just let it go. I mean, It's exercise on also for me to let myself go. Notes being perfectionist. Just to play, play with your art. Now we could try e.g. blend two colors with wet and dry technique. Dark brown. I will add salt to this bit is enough. And it will have to dry them too. Scrub it off, and we'll go. So here. As I said, there was no right and wrong. My water is already colored. I could to try to play a little bit with gray and add a little bit of yellow. Now, this is happening. Again. A little bit of salt over here, like this stuff. So I will have water also here. Now I wanted to show you what's, what's happen if two pebbles to touch and to create blending between two pebbles in purpose. Again, this lovely mahogany color. Two of them should be who we really wedge. Split. The colors, blend together. So I think pebbles are really perfect for this kind of exercise. Because the colors are good. You can play with colors, with shapes, textures. It's very expressive technique, but also relaxing. You don't have to worry about final results. I will let blend those two together. Let's say that this one, I will make all gray. I'm deciding when I'm painting. Feel like I'm really getting relaxed with this exercise. I'm letting myself go to Europe. You can try to lift your color also with brush. So e.g. for this, I cleaned my brush. I will try to live well to have to be aware that with liquid watercolors won't be able to. Reach the white paper because they're very strong dice and they already colored to your paper. So maybe you will be able to get a little bit lighter tone by lifting it. It's one to be white as it would be with watercolors. Because what it follows, pigments are easier. They don't penetrate so much your paper as the dice, dice do. So look here, there's really a lot of water. This one. I can split it like this or I can help myself by tapping and lifting little bit. But I'm really curious what will happen if I let it dry like this. So I will just lift a little bit. Here. Maybe. You can also leave it like this. Alright. So here look the water flow this direction. That's what I mean when I say that you don't have control when you use really watery swatches to treble cleft. Maybe I could play with water on color will leave drops of water. Here in there. Again, it's really very liquid. So probably it will spread a lot. We tried to do it here as well. Here it's little bit better when you have less water, less color. My kids, e.g. take all the red. Do some more that not all disaster. What I loved this disaster. That's okay. I will add soap here and there. This one is quite dry, but I want to see if it's going to make any reaction. That's it. I think those colors are cool. Maybe some of the browns, e.g. this one is not so nice, but it's also for you to play with your colors, e.g. we can write down the colors that you use. In the future. You will know what color combination use if you like them or to avoid. So I will write them down and wait until my pebbles are dry. So the illustration is dry. I helped myself with dryer. You can wait until it's dry naturally on you can, you can use a hairdryer as well. The soul will survive. It's one Sloan fly away if if, because it will stick to the water. It was almost a try, but as you can see, it did leave a really lovely texture. Let's see here. Oh, look how lovely. It left the dark outside. The inside. Color remained light. Also, this one is really beautiful. So here I really love this leveling effect. And also here I really like this effect, which reminds me of the purples that I collect on the beach or e.g. shells, sometimes this kind of texture. Okay, So this is it. I will throw away the salt. So I'm happy with the result. Not of the colors are so interesting, e.g. as I already said, this one, maybe it's not so interesting. Also these crayfish be a little bit vibrant, but it's okay. That's like I said, experiments. I wrote my colors so I will know if I will repeat this color combination and future are not. So. Create your own hovels, play around. You can make them really a lot of color combinations. At least one of them. I will be happy to see them in the projects gallery. Okay, so I hope you had fun with this exercise. Let me know. And in the next lesson, we will see how to add layering and we will paint the cactus. See you there. 8. Painting Cactus: Welcome to the lesson where we will paint characters. So we will use again all the watercolor techniques that we used for the pebbles, but we will also use layering. So for that, I will paint background and the cactus. I will paint later on, later on, the background. A word that this exercise can deal with difficult. Feel free to paint the Texas without, without a background. I will use limited color palette, but feel free to use your own colors. Mine will be yellow for background and greens and blues for the cactus. If you want to use other color combinations, then go for it. If you want to use more colors, also, feel free. Do it. I limit myself to make the process easier, but it's up to you. Again, don't be afraid of meeting ever. We are here to explore. So I hope you will have fun. I thought of painting also cactus, Because when I painted the pebbles, I saw that it creates, it's really lovely textures that reminds me of the cactus I see here in Italy where I live. So here we will try also layering technique. So first I will draw background and then I will let it dry. And I will paint over. The dry layer. Can be a little bit tricky. So if you feel like you want to try to do the cactus without a background, go for it. I will use a yellow color for the background. Then I will use blues and greens for the cactus. I already drew the shape of factors. I left randomly the color drops and then I will diluted with water. It's really vibrant. Yellow, but it's okay. So I was thinking I could try to add water spray on texture. We'll see if it will be visible. I have this spray bottle and while it's still wet, Let's see. Yeah, some texture is created to you. I will use a little bit of hairdryer to dry it and then try with spray again. Alright, I dry it a little bit. It's still wet. Not totally dry. So let's see if now the waters water texture will be more visible. In some points it is. There is a little bit of texture. Let me show you example here. Here. So I will finish to dry it with a hairdryer. Alright, so my background is ready. I prefer as my colors. I will use green, blue greens, and blues. For maybe five. And tried to limit myself. I left the red color from the other from the previous exercise, but it shouldn't influence so much your color if you want, you can change your water and we will basically try the same techniques. I will try to play with colors. But the difference here is that you have the color in the background. So let me show you what happens where I will, when I will apply water on it. Okay, So what happens is that your color reactivates when you put water on it. And so it's a little more difficult to control. But let's start and see what happens. I put quiet screen. I will also put blue to see what will happen. Little bit bluish. So it's okay. I thought that it will be more grainy. But as you can see the yellow in the game. I will also use salt. Because I am searching for the textures that we created with the pebbles exercise. I will jump into another part of characters because this one is wet. I will wait until it's dry and I don't want the colors to blend. I want them to overlap. So I will jump from the wet parts to the dry part and vice versa. Right now, I will apply color directly on the dry color. And we'll see if it will activate less. As you can see, yeah. The grain is more greenish because yellow activates more slowly. You have to be quick in order to not to move your color, your background color to match, because the more you will paint with a brush, the more you will move your color, the more you will also move the background color. And I will play with my wet-on-wet techniques. So again, I leave it so I leave it to dry and I will jump to the other parts. Let's not forget the cell. Doesn't have to be everywhere. Sorry, my battery went off. So I finished this part. In the meantime, at the end, I covered it all with water and then I add a few drops of light blue and this dark to acquire. And then I added salt. Now I dried also the wet part. I will try to do overlapping. So here I will overlap two layers because I will overlap the layer, the yellow background and the part of cactus, I will reactivate more colors. So let's try again, do the same thing that I did here. So as you can see, the color starts to smile. That's because it's reactivates. Maybe if it will, let it dry a little bit more, maybe overnight, it would ****** less but still smudge. So now I will try to make some wet-on-wet technique. Again. You can see I'm not too precise. I'm trying to be quick. And the precision is not my best quality. They have to admit. I wanted to see if I will add drop of water. It still works. I'm creating water blobs too much. Okay. And again, it's nine, little bit of salt. Lands. Jump to another part. Here. I will paint directly with blues. I will try this light. I wanted to create overlapping transparent layer of color. I will say if 0 make it. It's tricky. And the color underneath, they activate it. Here, as you can see, some of the green, it will happen. It's nothing that you can control, but what you can do is you can paint quickly and turn back on this color. You want activated too much and you can create, you can create this overlapping effect that I wanted to show you. So I will try also to this the same shear with a smaller part of the capitalist. I will use this time, greeny yellow, sorry, light green this one. Morning, a few drops and again, I will have to be quick. Also to jobs. All. Try to do it with a brush. Darker green as well. This one, e.g. it also creates this texture that you can find them cactus. I think we kept this was a good idea. After all. I will continue with this technique. I will play with the techniques that we saw is that you already know and are familiar with. Maybe the last thing that I will show you here, it's tried to put the water on over the dry color and see what will happen. I will leave few drops and let them dry without lifting. Here you can see they reactivated the color. Okay, so here is a tricky because there's still salt. I could take it off, but I forgot, so I will just leave it. Remember to wash your brush really well. You want, you don't want the cell to enter through your bottle with color. And again, I will use lighter color for the smaller part. Oh my gosh. Watch. My brush fell and it's thrashed everywhere. Those are accidents that happen. One drop felt here. I will try to remove it, although I think will be quite impossible to remove, it. Only gets worse. But hey, this is sketchbook. I can edit it in Photoshop later on. I want to print it. Right? So the cactus is dry. I will take off the salt. So here it is. I'm really happy with the results. Look how long did it texture is created? It's created at the end of the blue. Turn. Green as I, as I thought, it will look at the different kinds of effects, e.g. this was water on wet color and this one was water on the dry color. And I love both of them. The salt is really perfect for the capitalist texture. So I think it's a really good idea. I never thought I will paint cactus. I will do it more often because I really enjoyed it. And as you can see, another disaster happens. So this is my fault because I didn't close the bottle. Well, and the splash and the color and the splash. Look at my hand, also unhappy. So be careful, be really careful. I will embrace my mistakes and to try to be more careful in the future. So what I will do is that I will dip pen, normal pen that you will use for calligraphy. And they are alkaline, so you can use it as my ink. And TRO middle here and they're not everywhere. I was wondering what will happen is I will use green because probably it won't cover. Maybe on the brighter parts. I will see what will happen if I will add light, color. Maybe I will proceed with creating needles. Right now. I will leave you here and I will show you my final result. I'm really curious about your process. What colors did you use? They just travel with some things if yes, then write about it. In the next lesson. I will summarize all the steps that we took and give you the last thoughts. See you there. 9. Final Thoughts: Congratulations, you made it. I hope you've had fun. Thank you for taking my class. I invite you to post your project in the projects gallery to share your thoughts. And also, I invite you to comment on other projects. It's really great when we support, support each other. So leaf likes and comments also on the others projects. Let's recap the steps that we took in this class. First, we saw all the features of liquid watercolors. Then we try it fun and easy painting techniques. And then we tried to apply them on two different illustrations. One of them was pebbles and the second one was cactus. If you enjoyed this class, I asked you to leave the overview. It will be really helpful for me, for my visibility, but also, if you think that I could improve something, then also let me know. I'm really here for you and I'm really curious about your feedback in your impressions On my classes. Also follow me on my Instagram and on my YouTube. I hope you had fun and I hope to see you soon in the next classes. See you bye.