Abstract Watercolor Angels

1. Angel intro : Hi there. Uh, this is Brendon Knoll. And in this class, I'm going to be teaching you how to dio easy abstract watercolor angels such as this one you see here. And this one you see here. Anyway, that sounds interesting to you. And you want to learn an easy way to you? Paint some easy abstract watercolor angels, then enroll on. Let's begin. 2. Angel supplies : Hi there. This is Brendon on. This is module number two and creating easy watercolor abstract angels. We're going to go for the materials that you need. So I'm gonna be pinning on this camps and watercolor cold press paper. It's pretty inexpensive paper, and it works pretty well on its in the thighs. Nine by 12 inches. I use a pellet that it's basically a square white plate that I picked up the dollar store. It works really great for appellate. And then I'm using my main pilot, which is a mix of several different brands of from professional quality paint. But you are welcome to use whatever water color that you have on hand. This, um, abstract angel that I do probably utilizes five or six colors. This is just my swatch chart, and then I have a little call it Roland. I've made one of the groups that have long to on Facebook. They were talking about how they like to see all the artists materials that they're using, including their water container. This is my water container, and that will be off camera. And, um, I have a little make a fiber cloth that I used Teoh control the amount of water that remains on my brush when I go to pain, and that's it. So you just need some watercolor paper and motorcar paints something to mix your colors on if you like, And you could even use your palate there. Sometimes I do that and some sort of water dish and some brushes. Since this is the loose style, I'm going to be mostly using this Rafael quill and size 03 I like the Rafi Aquiles because they actually had a lot of texture without any effort on my part. And they're just They're just beautiful looking brushes, aren't they? Anybody like to paint with those, right? So I'll be using these brushes and detail brush, which is daler roundy round and zero. And that's it because they're abstract, so they don't have to look exactly like it. I'm excited. Thank you for enrolling. I'll see you in the next module 3. Abstract Angel Demonstration: Welcome back. This is going to know going to be starting this class. So I like to just pain on the pad. And I used these little alligator clamps to clamp it down. And that just keeps the page from buckling as I paint. Okay, And that's it. So I'm gonna move this a little bit off camera so I can just have a little bit more room. And I like to start this abstract angel off by painting a little oval for her base. And I have done this both ways. We're sketch out kind of an advance where I'm going to go and and this way I don't get out in advance and actually like it preferred without being sketched out advance. It just seems more exciting and organic. Okay, So sketch out the face or paint your face. I like to use some water down my jello burnt sienna because I think it makes a nice Caucasian skin tone just like that. And I'm gonna do the neck, and that's it. Pretty simple. And what That dry You're taking any mother classes. You know that I am impatient and don't like to wait for things to dry so well, that's doing its thing. I'm going Teoh start putting in some hair and this particular angels gonna be belonged. So I'm going to start out with more of that burnt sienna, but just a little bit darker and start putting in some blonde hair by just putting dots are presenting the hair. And since I'm gonna be doing several different colors, it just has to be pretty loose. Right now, it's no big deal, just kind of put some dots and there to represent the hair. One thing that I love about watercolor is besides its transparency, it's how beautiful it is. I just love how easy it is to work with if you work with the medium and not instant as in its wild and crazy, and it's going to do what it wants. So don't get crazy about it. Just kind of let it do its thing. And this is this pains going to be you, utilizing a lot negative space, which means we paint around the weight. And so in my mind's eye, I see her body here and I see her wings here. And so I'm just going to start painting those out background there and I think I'm gonna go with So this blue looks real nice right now. Almost. This is a Thilo blue fellow brutal, which I love. And I'm just mixing it with what I already had on my palette. And I'm just gonna kind of start putting in the wings. They're going to be very Jackie, very loose. I don't want any hard line blend that I wrote on in my mind this just then that her dross. The great thing about painting abstract is you don't really have to worry about it looking perfectly realistic because it's an abstract angel. So it's not meant to look Grill. I just meant to be pretty and representative of the huge. Also, the wings discolor. Think it's beautiful, extra her her color. At this point, I think it will be beautiful later. So that already looks beautiful, doesn't and it's just so pretty. Watercolor is just so beautiful, and I love the way the killer as it's drying. It's, you know, blooming here, which some, maybe more traditional Monica artists don't care for. But I love it. I love that blooming and that him example of the think of the word unpredictability is really kind of fit. But the unpredictable nature of other colors, they're wild. And it's all the things I love about watercolor, and they're just gonna do their own wild thing. And that's cool, man. I won't uncle with it. B while b crazy. And I'm gonna put in the other side of her dress. This is our main shape so that it's in. So we've got her head her neck, We've got her dress Who got her wings? And now I'm just going Teoh, pick up some more that deluded Majella O burnt Sienna and put in Oh, some arms from down under side She's abstract. So you know, I don't look like arms that could just be representative of what? There's arms And she looks cute like maybe she has, because it kind of crossed over that blue. Like maybe she has some gloves on just kind of neat. So with the hair, has we've discussed previously? I'm just doing dots, and so I like to do my my hair color with two or three different colors of whatever I'm going for and with blond hair, I'm gonna end up with bright yellow, but just a little bit. This is yellow Ogre started out with some less deluded, less diluted paint of the Ajello burnt Sienna. And now I'm just coming in with dots of Ajello, Loker. And I'm not worrying about it Mixing, mingling with my background, which is blue and still a little What? Because that's the beauty of watercolor. And I just go right straight off the pallet, grabbing that hello or good getting my hair on there. Yes, that's my hair. Right. So I didn't want that dry a little bitch, And then I'm gonna go in there with some lemon yellow, and then I'm going Teoh to the oh, the little flower floral headband right there as the strike is a little bit more. See that texture? Yes. I love that. That'll start happening as the paint starts to dry. Okay, so what I'm doing here is I wanted to just deep in that those wings jacket around the the wings when they're out. Did this painting from movement always amazed when people went by her artists don't like this color, Stella blue like it's too bright. It is bright, but I love it. It's beautiful, beautiful player, and I really especially love it mixed with, like cerulean blue. I would say that my very favorite color blue is that little blue makes with civilian. It makes it with some degree, some of that. I just love what's going on with their care around here. It's really great. So I don't like to wait for things to dry, as you know, but sometimes you do it. Just have to wait for them dry. And I'm going to have to read some of this tries that I can put in some shading on her skin there, finish up her hair and then put in the have been after number home, a little darker brown that don't put little William pressure on the top with hair. Lou, I think I always come into the halo and white, but then it just isn't Look, I want you usually end up putting it and yellow. I think that her hair looks a little bit more floor at this point, which is good, and I'm just gonna have to let it drop because it's just a little bit to it. It's bleeding everywhere. Don't go like this exactly where I wanted to go there, but that's okay, The beauty of it. Abstract on the colors, just doing their own thing. Watercolor. Love it. I would like to get a little bit of pink in There's cheeks, and I think I'm just gonna go for Barbara. Because what, That great dad in there? Yeah, People. - Okay , so I really am gonna have put that try for a while now. So what we've done is we've painted in the kind of face ship in the next shape. Then we use the negative space to worker wings in there in her dress. And then we just took various shades of what I would consider to be blonde hair and we daughter did it throw Israel wet and there, and I did drop in some pink fur, some cheeks, and we're just going to have to wait for it to dry Now. During that time, it'll do a bunch of backgrounds. I am going to put a little bit of blue in for this kind of give some dimension to this dress. Or maybe I'll use this Graha that I've got over here. I might use that. Just why not, Right? Make it colorful. And then I'm just gonna have to let it dry for a while. And then once it's dry, I'm going to come in and paint a floral headband and then paint, um, some leaves coming off of that and a little halo. And then she's done. And I think that she's really cute. She's really pretty Already. I love the way that watercolors just doing its own thing around here. And I think she's gonna be really pretty and help you like to come in with some grey. Just make some to some lines under givers dress, Um, dimension. That was easy enough, and I might even use that for two. Adds a dimension to those wings, just adding some water to kind of stop on the edges. So it's not so straight line because everything's release here, relatives that I love it. I love it, It really is. So I think I will go into those wings, and I tell you that this color I'm using right here iss um, it's ST Petersburg White Knight Payne's gray, so I don't know how that compares anybody else's Payne's grave. I'm just gonna gonna look it out. Well, I imagine that the wings would be give it movement. Oh, look at that. The blue came into the the things That's pretty. I'm gonna little that is pretty. I'm going to try and stay away from that. I just want to have some movement in those wings and they don't wanna and you lose all that negative space. Just what brush? It's often in those clients. Just a little bit. A movement on this painting is actually almost done. Like I said, I'm gonna wait for it to dry that I'm gonna come in and do a headband and her halo and she's gonna be done. And I hope that you like it. Okay. And welcome back. So this has, um, sat for a little bit and it takes some time to dry, and it's looking great. I think so. What we're going to do now is just put some, um, final pieces on it, which will be the the floral headband. And I'm gonna go with the pink kind of rose is just gonna do some loose circular shapes. Teoh represent their roses and pink. The great thing about abstract because it doesn't have to look riel ballistic. It's just a representation, right? That looks good. I think. And now I'm gonna grab some green. And I switched to my detail brush. Were you on that great tow mater, and it's gonna the best to be representative. Don't looks good. Put band for good. Brendan Level Angel and I had a little bit of yellow because you Okay, so we've done the headband, and now we're gonna do the halo, and I'm going to try doing it and wait. No, I didn't wake wash on this too, so that we can go over color that there. I like it. I like it a lot. So I'm just gonna put in some finishing touches which we're going to be some shadows around her face and just to kind of get for some dimension on her chin for some definition and under the floral headband, I just defined her face a little bit. Just show over dimension with that. The skin over the blue sky looks like gloves. And I'm going to get some dark brown just to add a little more dimension to the hair. And I just love the way I think, um, water color when it dried, just kind of spread and a little darker around the edges on the hair, and I love the way it flowed. Hope, control everywhere. Just beautiful, I think. Put some just a little bit of shadow. Andre and I want to stand out a little bit more Epsom with the lighter her? Yes, with Brown, just to give a little more a bit more to mention and they think that we're just about done . I'm going to shade a little bit underneath this. Okay, so we just at a little darker brown around the face to get a little bit more definition and some little darker brown spots in the hair to give that a little more depth and little shadow under the halo. And we'll just review the process that we used to create this easy abstract watercolor angel. First, we started out by painting a circle for the face and the neck, and then we did little dots in the various shades that we would use for blonde hair. And then we painted the arms, and we use negative space to kind of defined those wings and the dress. Then we added in some grey just stripes, really, and to create movement and definition and mortar that out, so that was really loose. Then we let it all dry and came back in and did a little floral headband and halo, and we called it done. And I hope you've enjoyed this class. And if you have I learned anything and enjoyed it. Please leave positive review and consider following me on Instagram or Facebook, which means a lot in the Internet world. Thank you so much for taking this class by.