Abstract Watercolor Escape – Part 3: Galaxy Art with Masking Tape & Neurographic Lines

1. Abstract Watercolor Escape Part 3: What do you get when you mix masking tape, neurographic art and watercolor galaxies? A relaxing art trip without leaving your chair. Welcome to part three of abstract watercolor Escape. Still abstract, still watercolor. Still a great excuse to ignore your phone for a while. Hi. My name is Fati. A watercolor artist, and online teacher from Warsaw, Poland. When I need to stop the noise in my head, I grab a pen, draw some flowing lines, and then let the watercolor do its thing. That's my version of meditation, and now it's yours too. In this class, we are turning the things up just a little bit. We are going to use masking tape to divide our paper into two contrasting zones, one light, one dark, but our neurographic lines will be the cosmic glue that holds it all together. I'll guide you step by step as we create a vibrant cosmic feeling piece with washes, splashes, planets, stars, and a whole lot of contrast. You'll practice line drawing, watercolor blending, masking techniques, and most importantly, slowing down. This class is for anyone who wants to relax while still making something cool. No perfection needed. Just curiosity, your watercolor set, waterproof pen, and some tape, and watercolor paper. We need to do it on something. As always, you can draw right along with me. Nothing is sped up, nothing intimidating. And at the end, you will have a beautiful painting and a peaceful time of not checking the news. By the way, this is what we are painting today. When you are done, share your artwork in the class project gallery, and don't forget to add what you escape from Laundry, deadlines, your inbox. We want to know. Okay, that's enough talking. Let's draw, tape, and paint our way to chill. Excuse me. Jack says that this is still too intense for a relaxing class, so he wants to do a one more take with my soothing voice. If you want to relax, this class is perfect for you. We will escape into space. I don't know what to say next. So if you are ready, please come in. As always, the next video will start automatically. Was that better? 2. Your Class Project (Escape!): Now we are going to the class project. This is class project. That makes a bit picker. I'm not 16 anymore. Your class project is to escape with me. First, follow me along and draw your nero graphic design. After that, design your mask. No, that's wrong. Mask your design using the masking tape. Jack distracted me. You can do the same style of masking as me or do it differently if you have something against diagonal lines. Because we are masking our painting and doing two different sections, this means there will be two times waiting for our painting to dry. In the first waiting, go and take care of your dishes or maybe folded laundry pile. It's been waiting there for a week. In the second weighting, go and leave me a review and feel good about yourself for helping me out. Once you are done, take a photo and share it in the class project gallery. Now when I think of it, because we are going on a cosmic trip, this is like you are escaping and sending us a postcard from where you escape to, and you painted the postcards by yourself. Isn't that cool? Don't forget to write what you escape from and how you felt while creating. This is it. Looking forward to seeing your creations. Seeing the materials with you. Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack. Jack, are you coming with us? 3. Materials: Watercolors, Watercolor Paper, Pen, Masking Tape: And this and the Welcome back. Here, we're going to talk about materials, but this is the part three of O series. O stands for abstract watercolor escape. So the ingredients, not the ingredients, the materials we need are exactly the same. If you watch one and two, you just use exactly the same. We need watercolor paper and so I'm just going to put the video for the sake of making a standalone class, I'm going to put the same video, and I'm going to show the materials I'm using with one addition. Masking tape. Just add to that list masking tape. This is the materials. So if you already watched it and if you already know the drill, move on to the first lesson. Otherwise, here are the materials plus masking tape, materials. So quickly, let's go through what I'm going to use for this class materials. I'm going to use watercolor paper from Tiger. This is not even an art shop. This is like a kind of everything shop is from Denmark, I think. Yeah, 200 gram. No, 300 grams sorry, 300 gram acid free watercolor paper. It's 18 to 24 centimeters. I don't know what that makes in inches, but it is smaller than A four, and it has a bit of a texture. I like that. My watercolors, Kartake can say tambi. I'm going to use my set these are all the colors from Kartake I have. Other than that I'm going to use this brush pen. I think this is the brand Pigma. And this is also waterproof. It has to be because we're going to draw first and then paint with waters. I'm going to use this fabric castle 0.5. It's not too thin, not too thick, it's good for this project. I have other ones that I use, but I find this 0.5 is ideal. I'm going to use this brush number 12, Renaissance brand, I don't know. I just like the color and both of the Internet ones. And I have my water jars here, one for clean, one for dirty water, and a bit of kitchen towel, paper towel always useful in case of messes and some mess and mistakes. What else? Is there anything else? I think that's it. So other than that, I use the spray bottle to spray my paints and this eyedropper to drop some extra water on them before I use them. And this is all. So I'm gonna see you with the drawing part of the lesson. See you later. No, not see later. See you in a moment. After this, the other video will start. See you next there. Don't go anywhere. We're gonna draw and paint. It will be awesome. Sea. 4. The Idea Behind This Neurographic Design: Hello, everyone. I can't believe we are doing P three already. So today, you know this, we are going to recreate this painting. The reason I picked this one is that I really like this design. But with every new part, I'm trying to bring in something extra, some new technique that you can use and experiment with what you learned so far. So we keep adding to your repertoire, new skills. This one as a difference to the part one and part two, you can start using the masking tape, and that will come in very handy to create this. Look, this reminds me very much of space, of course. I'm sure many of you had the same feeling. But because I picked very contrasting colors here, that this looks like maybe you've seen those images from NASA JWST, James Webb Telescope when it went to space, it was giving these infrared images that made the space amazing. That this part to me, it reminds me of those that this is the space we see normally and this is what the James Webb telescope allowed us to see. And so we will try to recreate this before we get into that. I can show you some of the other things I did with masking tape because let's be honest, the main focus of this class will be the use of masking tape, and as a result, we will do this design. There's, for example, this one I made similar idea, contrasting color palettes. In and out. But as you can see, I use masking tape, but I didn't leave a frame. Later, I went outside that frame as well, and this also makes it look very interesting, for example. Or you can use it much more. I guess, in a conventional way, you use it for masking and you just leave it as white. And this also looks beautiful. And there's another one here. This is an abstract, actually. I imagine looking outside the window, and that was the inspiration here. And again, I use masking tapes. And another one that I really like is this one. I like the color palette here, and you can see this kind of combination of a few other things that's here in these sections. You can see, it's actually the first class we did. It was wet on wet and the colors were radiating from the circles and it's similar. But then after using the masking tape, in the second part, I didn't do that. So the techniques are also contrasting here and it makes it look very interesting. The last one I think with masking tape I did was this that don't focus on the patterns. We'll come to patterns in time. We are getting there. And I love making these patterns, and I keep saying everywhere. And if you follow my Instagram, I mentioned that I show what I'm making grease from time to time as well. But the way I did this, first, I created put the masking tape and created these wet on wet watercolor washes. And then I went on to design. So this is a bit different than these ones because in here, we will first create the neurographic art, and then we will use masking tape, and then we will color it. But this is also an option and we will come to that later. So there is a lot you can do with masking tape, and Let's put these out of the way and get on with creating this design. Shall we? I guess here I will cut and this will be lesson one, and we will move on to making it in the drawing part. 5. Drawing Our Neurographic Design: And this is Okay. Okay, so for now, let's put this on the side. And for the sake of making a good video, this is a big paper and it's more difficult than this A four. I'm going to make a slightly smaller one. I bought a new um watercolor block from Tigers Tiger or Tigers. Is 300 gram, and it's 18 by 24 centimeters. So it's a bit smaller than A four. Et's get page if I can. Okay. And just threw it on the floor. Now, here's my masking tape. It's three masking tape. It's like a Builder's masking tape. Does it rip when I try to take it off, definitely. But all the tapes somewhat rip. You can try to warm it up even with your hand for a while before you take it off. It helps and just be gentle and see where it's going. If it's going to drip, just stop there and try to do it from that same. And we will get there. We will probably have to do all of that in a while. So to make this, we will make a frame, and then we will block out this middle part. But before doing that, we will make our design. And for that, we need to tape as well because this is my favorite circle making tool. I'm going to use 0.5 because it's nice and thick and the lines will be nice and visible. I want them to have some weight because with all the watercolors on it, I don't want the lines to disappear. And I will try to keep a similar design to this one. Let's see how it goes. Of course, I'm not going to try to make exactly the same. And this is one big one. And for small ones, I guess I could use these ones. I see what I did here was one big one and some small ones surrounding it. So let's do like that. One here. Another one here. This is somewhere in between. I think I'm gonna also I want to make it a bit not just the same size as a difference than the first one. So let's this one that's sticking out from the side, I will do like this. I made a mistake there. We'll fix it later. And this is still quite big. This is slightly bigger, so I'm gonna another circle here. You can entirely copy my design here. I don't have a problem with that. I'm saying this because one of my students, Hi Fanny, asked the other day I made these paintings and it was inspired by your paintings. Is it okay if I share them. I was like, you better share them. They are beautiful. And that's why I'm making these classes to inspire you guys. And if you do that and make a painting at the end of the day, definitely share it. You don't have to ask me. Mention me. So I will get to see it, and probably I will share with others as well. And, so feel free to take my designs. Like you can do exactly the same as this one. And I see there is one more here and another one like this sticking out. I love making these circles that sticks out. And one last one here. So we made it slightly different than the original one with varying sizes. And in fact, I think I want even add a few tiny circles. I like the adding these tiny circles, and I usually make them all black inside. And Three ho. Like this. And we will add some lines. As usual, that will actually bring everything together to allow us to do these connections. At one Like that? And I said to go like that and one more going I think from edge from this edge to this edge. I see I did something like that, I want something to go through these definitely. So Good. Like that. Doesn't it look very simple? It won't then becomes this. I love this transformation. I hope you do, too. So now let's start connecting the joints. I think first, I will just make all of the joints like this, and then I will fill it. This is the part to just the music on and enjoy it. This action is quiet in your mind. You can just focus on this one thing. It really works for me. I hope it works for you, too. I know that it works for some of you because you guys were leaving reviews and talking about it. And I'm very happy to hear that. Mm hmm. I don't always put the music, of course, when I'm doing this. I also watch Seinfeld while doing this. I don't know if there are any of you among you like Seinfeld. If you don't know what it is that Seinfeld is a TV show from the 90s created by the committean Jerry Seinfeld. I'm guessing those of you who are from the United States definitely know. Hi, he's the best comedian for me, definitely my favorite. And I love this show. I think I watched it like I even lost count at this point. Five, six times over the entire nine seasons. And I think like two years ago, I made a decision, Okay, I can't keep watching this all the time, over and over. And I still enjoy, but I thought that there should be a time that I will start watching and I, oh, perfect. I will do it for my birthday. That will be the best present for me. So what I do is I just finish watching, and then I'm not allowed to watch until my next birthday. And then on my birthday in the morning, I usually get coffee and something like a cake from my wife, and then I open Seinfeld, start from the first episode. And just when I'm doing drawing or sometimes exercising or doing the kitchen tickling the kitchen, I watch Seinfeld. I think I'm already in season three because it was my birthday a few days ago, third of May. Yeah, so I'm usually doing this and laughing at George and Kramer and Jerry, of course. And I think we're almost there. There's an interesting connection here, here is already smooth here as well. So if there are any of you who also likes Seinfeld, please let me know. It's difficult to find people who still watch Seinfeld, and I wouldn't mind connect with a few more. I think among my friends, there is only one person who loves the show like I do and watches every now and then. And for more recent generations, if I mentioned Seinfeld, they are more like, What's that? And I always explain how it's the best sitcom of all time and all the shows that they like, like how I met your mother or friends was actually basically copied of Seinfeld. Not copied of, but they definitely led the way. Okay, I'm almost done with my connections. And actually, we're done. Now, let's quickly fill them in, and we can start the masking tape and the colors. Because this is a different project and we can use masking tape that this will actually take a bit longer for you guys. For me, I will just skip the drying part and cut that part of the cloth because it will involve doing one part, letting it dry, and then doing the second part so there will be two separate layers. So Let's fill it in. I'm looking I just want to decide to add the thickness, some weight to some of the lines. On this one that goes like this, I always make these sides more. And can you see, like in here, it's not perfect, but I'm going to try to hide it in the curve that I'm going to add like this. Et's call this one. And now the side I'm gonna smooth over my mistakes. Now I will flip it over and do these slides. Start this. And I'm here I'm using my hand peter this from left to right, so Can you see how much it gives just doing this? It feels like a ribbon in the air in the wind. And here is also this, as you can see, it's not very flowing this line. Let's say, I'm going to try to bring it a bit outside like this. Now it looks better. Touch Mar. Okay. And this is done. And for this, should I add it here or here? I think this will go through the circle here. So I think like this I will do it off both pearls. It's so like this. And I will some way to exit here. And same here. And then we have one more line left on me. And again, here, I think I start a bit abruptly here. I'll try to even it out a little like this. Maybe a bit more. And it's going like this. I let add some weight around here. That sometimes it's easier to finish off this. Because at the end of stay, these lines are 0.5, as this one. So bringing this thickness to 0.5, you can do it with the original pen easily. I like that. And it already looks much better. What do you think? Now, let's just feel the insides of our joints, and then we can go and paint. I was saying in the previous class as well, I use the brush pen for this. It feels it goes much faster to fill these kind of gaps. I need to fix these lines a little. And, of course, that's done much better with this one because I want to keep this sharp 0.5 thickness. That's my beginning point for these lines. You can see it's already coming together very nicely. And these, I will also fill it in with brush pan because it covers it very nicely and makes it nice and black. So today, we are making our own space photo from that looks like it came from JWST, James Webb Space Telescope. Because, you know, one of the big things about the JWST was that's capability of infrared. Is Donomi who's interested in space? Maybe that explains why so many of my paintings resemble space. Okay, it's going quickly, I think. We're almost there. We'll be painting this in no time. I other down. Let's make this joint. And this one how many more one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Almost there. I actually have one that I have a design that's ready to go. And for a moment, I considered if I should just tell you guys, Okay, we have been doing neurographic arts. In the last two classes, and I will this time just start from here. Let me know what you think about this, by the way. Part of me felt like you guys can open the lesson and it will be like, Oh, by the way, I have this already ready, so I will just paint, and you're like, Oh, but I don't have a design ready, and I thought we can just do it all together because you will have to put this time in anyway. I didn't want you guys to be left in the middle. When I was a child, there were TV shows for kids that they would show us making something like a house. You can DAY something. And it would always go the same way that they would be making a idle showing how they should do. And then when it starts getting complicated, it will be like, so it's going to look like this. They would already have a made part in their hands ready. So we're going to make the windows a bit bigger, just like this one. And then you would be like, What am I supposed to do? And So I felt like it makes more sense that I will just create this design with you guys, and we will create together. Oh, I left one here. So here's our design. It's got a quick photo. So now we go put away. And in the next part, we're going to paint it like this. So see in the painting part. 6. Painting P1: Masking and Adding First Watercolors: Welcome back. And now we can use masking tape for what's intended to mask, not to make circles. And for that, what I do that you can see it has a certain thickness yes to do the edges. I take certain amount, as long as I need. And then I try to see the edge. And just like this, half of it is covering the paper and half of it is sticking it to the table. And this way around it, it's all even. And even if it's not, no one is walking around with a measure checking the millimeters. Don't worry too much about it, I would say. So I can eno the one. And on the top, I have a look, and it's in the middle. And at the bottom my tie to do the same. Like by the middle, I mean, the edge of the paper is in the middle of the tape. So like half of the tape is covering the paper, half of the tape is on the table, half of it is covering the paper, half of it is on the table. Okay. And now we'll do these edges. That's more or less in place. When the two tapes come on top of each other, make sure to put your nail in this part because the paints might go through this tiny gap when they're on top of each other. So make sure that it's properly down, down. This, of course, helps with holding down the paper so it doesn't buckle. But also, it stops us from lifting it up and letting the water go because in the middle parts, like I said, we're going to use wetonvet. To combat this, you can do this on a cardboard or something so that you will tape it onto the cardboard and you can pick it up and still tilt it to allow paint to go wherever you want. So I think I'm going to start with the middle part because the outside, let's have a look here. Of course, you can have different ways to go at this. You can first do these parts and then go to the middle. That's also define. But these sections are dark. So I think it makes sense that we do the light part first, and then in case it goes out of the line or something, we can still cover it with the dark cover the light pad with darker paint that gives us more option. So I'm going to go with that. So first part, we'll do this is long enough. I will try to keep them parallel. I'm not measuring orienting in a certain way, but what I want is a part of the middle circle, this big circle is sticking out like this, like in the original one. I think this is good. And I think not this line, but this is our line because this is masking, so in the middle there will be paint. These parts. Like I said, press down nicely so that it won't escape and if it does, it does. What can you do? Now, to make it parallel, what I do this one is down already, so I try to bring it close and then collect this. And I will try to keep same amount of, can you see the distance here? I'm trying to keep the same distance here. So it's more or less in the middle of display. And looking at the original, I think it worked out because this circle was inside the infrared area and this. And here they will also. So design wise, I actually love it. I this black dot, part of it will be in yellow, part of it will be in the dark part and a tiny part of it will be still sticking out of the frame, which I love. That I didn't plan for it. I could have, but it happened this way, and I like it. Okay, you can, of course, put more tapes here, but I'm not gonna go into that. I will just be careful. Um, here's my brush. And what I do, I'm going to now, like I was doing in the very first class, that I'm going to this is my circle, it's going to be painted. This is my circle, and this is my circle. And there's also one here. I'm going to I think, use the orange and pink orange orange, pink, pink. I like it. Outside first, I'm going to wet this area, and then I will add color to this part. Actually, I'm thinking I think I'm gonna wet the whole thing and then just start adding colors to the circles and see where that takes us. So let's wet it quickly. This, I have to say, I probably are able to see it. This paper from Tiger, it doesn't do very well with water for some reason that you can see that it gets a bit these colors, but then it goes away. So It should be okay. I should for this purpose. I like it because I can kind of see where I wet it. I didn't think about this before. That first painting I did with this, I was like, Oh my God, what is this? I guess this is because it's cheap. However, this is not the first time I'm buying from Tigers. I didn't expect this to happen. But then when it dried, everything was fine, so I wasn't worried too much about it. Okay, now that it's wet, I'm going to put this aside because I need to access. You've seen it enough, the original. Somewhere I can see. Um, you got there. We're gonna start with we're gonna use orange, we said. And pink. Which pink you use? Which pincure to use where is mine? Oh I almost brought down the whole set. So I think how about these carmine or rose meer deep or rose meder? I think this one sipped lighter. This one, let's check, 'cause sometimes I change places. It says that it should be number 34. Yes. I'm gonna use that con. Actually, I can bring it here. Even here and oranges well. Okay. So I'm using my eye dropper thing to drop some water. I think I need to add some more waters here in the meantime. It right by the time I made a decision. Story of my life. Sometimes it's hard for me to make decisions. That's what I'm trying to say. For example, buying a new electronic device like a laptop or phone. Oh, my God. I check reviews for six months. Okay. And now you stay there. So, our pains are there. Let's bring the chain here for now. Let's mix orange up. Now, the key here is not to knock down the pen of paint onto your painting. I almost did it once or twice. I have to say, let's see, we'll have to figure it out, but it's not going out of the circles as much as I thought it would, but we'll help with that. No worries. Let's just add more pigments to it. Come on, come on, play. I have to say, at the moment, it doesn't look great because of this. We will have to see if I will be able to use this as a class at this point. So let's see. I'm hoping they will disappear like it did before this. I don't know, I guess we see the grains of the paper. Maybe I didn't use this much water before. And let's do the pink as well. Again, let's not knock it over our painting. But I need now some paper to cover these parts. Take this first. And one part here as well. Yeah, so I can splash a bit to make this go out. O. I went too much. I'm hoping a little and taking some extra. And now let's go back to the orange. Some orange splashes could use here. So orange slushes here as well. I also want some yellow here. Is cream some yellow. Okay. I like the color combinations. I'll let some extra in the middle of the circles. They will stand out as the source of the color. Cut Great. That was a mistake, but it looks okay. I tangled with my microphone. Okay. Oh. Because I touched him there, I picked up some pink. I think I'm gonna leave it there. It looks actually nice. To orange here. Women. I'm gonna splash some water as well. And I think this is this is all we can do for now. Let's see how it's gonna behave once it's dry, it's going to look good if these grains will go away. If so, I will continue. If not, I might have to repeat this part of the class. And let's see. And these parts we're going to do next, but it needs to dry for that first. Let's pick this up. We'll probably will be able to close hide this with the deep dark color of the sky, but still. Okay, so this is it for this part now we're gonna let it dry and I'll see you in the next part. Dorothy, it looks really cool, actually. Very colorful sky happening here. That it is a little bit different than this one. But it looks interesting. I'm curious where how it's gonna end up. This is the hard part. Waiting. See you later. 7. Painting P2: Rearranging the Mask and Painting the Rest of the Sky: Hello, I'm back. Now are painting dried. I actually am okay with how it turned out. Like I said, the grains disappeared a bit. It's only visible here, but I kind of like the texture, and I decided I'm going to keep it this way. But after looking a little bit at this one and the originally, I decided that as it is, I like how it looks, actually, that these splatters more on the white, but on this one, it's a bit more yellow and I like at the end this contrast between them. What I'm going to do now very quickly, I took some aulin because I was using cadmium yellow for these yellows, but I think it's a bit too raw of a color that this cadmium yellow is at this one. It looks here much darker, but on the paper, it's like a soft yellow. So I will quickly apply a bit of yellow this outside and leave it to dry, and then we will continue with the second part, okay. That I will just do this very quickly without disturbing because I like these splashes and how they look. I just want to add some more yellow. It will be especially visible around here where it meets the dark, the second layer, it will be And I noticed, actually, I left one part here that also should be orange, so I will also add that. I'm not going to go inside here. I like that it's a bit contrasting from the rest. Thanks. Let's just pick some Orange. Yes Yes. So now I think it's complete and we will continue with the second layer after this layer dries, and we will peel off the tape first. I think I will mount it onto a cardboard for being able to let the water run a bit. Let's see. Sing a bit. Okay. I'm back. Now the painting I think dried. This is my trick that this is a metal cup and it has a flat bottom. When I slide this across is warming up the adhesive on the tape. And then hopefully I won't even embarrass myself. It will be easier to peel without ripping the paper off. So far, so good. Now, let's mold this up a bit. Mars. You can even feel it. Look, I was standing here for longer. It just came off very easily. Now I will take this Sears. Oh, actually, I don't want to rate this because come on, come on, come on. What I'm going to do is almost there. What I'm going to do is I'm going to move this tape just over here. Now, this side, there's a bit of ripping happening, so I will try to come from the angle. So look, this is also good for you to see. It doesn't always work. It again. Look, it's here, you see? But this will be fine. We'll just put down and now we can continue. Let's warm it up. Here, nice. This is basically a tiny handmade iron. I guess this is what irons used to be that they used to put a charcoal inside and it was basically just a metal vessel. It's coming out nice and easy. Now I'm going to put this here and hopefully I won't knock it down later. So this came out easily. I'm going to now move this from here to here. If the color is taking a tiny bit out of the tape where you are taping, it's okay. Like I said, because we planned this a bit, we know that it's going to be darker colors here, so that will actually cover. It's better than doing it a bit too much into the white, so there will be a white gap between them. We don't want a white cap. But even if you end up with a white cap, later, you can just fill it in and mix, not mix, fix that mistake. Now, here, so many cables and everything around. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do, maybe what I should have done at the beginning, again, I'm doing the mistakes so you don't have to. I'm going to mount this onto cardboard. Like this. This is actually back of one of the A four size watercolor blocks I bought before, and you can also do the same. I'm going to mount this on. The reason I'm doing this, I didn't think I needed it in the first part. But now I realizes it would have been but it would give you more options when I want to paint to go from one place to another, and you can just lift it up. So it's taped down, so it holds the papers as flat as possible, but in the meantime, you can still tilt it and let the water run from place to place. Now my paper is a little bit bended, so it's difficult to do it. And also, it's not as sturdy as the table. This cardboard still bends a bit, but it will be okay because now we have a chance to control to flow better. So now, everything is taped down. We can continue with dress. What we'll do here is now, let's look at origin. My process was this. I picked color palette for the middle, this yellow cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, rose madder, and later, I use Arelin. And let's even switch this and our yellow is Arelin, let's say. And every color, I pick the corresponding color to it. So for orange, you can see in the let's say dark dimension, dark dimension that is green. So I'm going to pick a green for that. I don't want to be too dark because in here, I think it's a bit dark, so it's not showing very well with this. So I want a little bit lighter green. And for that, maybe I will pick the subgreennumber 53. So my corresponding color to orange is green. And my corresponding color you can see here. For the pink, this rose matter, I have blue. And I think I'm going to go with my favorite blue, turquoise blue. So my corresponding color to rose matter is the turquoise blue. And for this, you can use black, but I think it's too much. I'm not going to go with black, but there is this blue gray deep. I think I'm going to use this that it is quite dark. It will give us what we need. I think this is what I used here as well, but I'm not 100% sure. I think it's this one number 68, yes. So the corresponding color to the yellow, this outside is this blue gray deep. And that's what we'll do. Now, we are done with these colors. Girls out there. Cadmium orange. Now we have the colors corresponding to them. Here we go. This goes on the side again. Now we're going to add color. For this, let's call this if these are planets, if this is the space, if these are planets, interplanetary space, I'm going to fill it with how was it called? Blue gray deep. Let's put some water directly into this. Pen. And I will do the same for these ones as well. I'm using my eye dropper for this and same for the sap Sap green turquoise blue and blue gray deep. Okay. There is a difference in here, there is more of a flow going on I want this orange yellow to more radiate to create this look. Here, I'm going for more dark space and you just see the colors. At the end, I will still apply these parts like the planet parts, greens and blues while it's still wet. They might mix in a bit, but not as much as here. This is wet on dry. But I'm not going to wait also as far as the background is dried and so I'm going to apply the plants. No, I will still it's still watercolors I like when they mix up. Okay, maybe for the time being, I'll put this next to me and see how it goes. So I'm painting everything except the circles. I think I'm going to do this part by part. First, I will do the I just noticed I didn't press it down here and I don't want colored escape. Hopefully, I'm not too late. But I might be. We will see. If this project fails, I will just put it on YouTube. What do you guys think about that. So I'm putting this In place, I make it a bit darker. It can be a bit uneven. I think I like that look as well. No, I think. I like that look. That's because space is a bit uneven. It's not same everywhere. Now quickly switch to that to the blues first. Um here, I should have this one blue and this one blue. I'm going a little bit outside the perimeters here. I'm going to cover this part. I'm gonna drop some blue around here. Now quickly move on to green. So grease plush as well. Now, I'm glad it's more. I want to be darker space. In those flashes I made, they will add some more color and depth to this dark gray. I'm getting a bit more blue that I want it to be more saturated this part. Here. While I have it, some more blue splashes. I think green green is pretty saturated, but I will pick up some to splash a bit more. How can do this part quickly. I don't know why quickly. We need some more quick A fish. I use the paints directly from the pen. This way, they are more saturated and lots of pigments come this way rather than arranging it on the side, pig amount and keep using it because then when I run out of that mixture I make, I need to make a new one and it's difficult to match. This way, I'm able to control the flow of paints better, I think. That's how I do it. And, I thought this was a circle. Well, this is the lined with these are circles. It's going well so far, but I have to say, I can't anymore in good conscience recommend tiger paper anymore. This is working and it's good example for, um that work with what you have. This is also fine. But it's not the best behaving paper, I have to say. So I will close these parts again. So I can really splash and the blue, this one is blue. And the ones are green. What I noticed is also it dries the paper dries very fast. Some splashes there. Blue splashes and now the green. I felt like there was too much pigmentter so I put some here and then continued here and I'm going back here. I'll pick some green and splash. I'm liking the first part or second part that is first dark part. I'm going to add some more of the dark layer to mix up with the splashes I made. So there will be more blues and greens happening in these areas. Okay. And while this is still wet, I'm gonna make some splashes. And some green splashes. Here as well, I note. Okay. Now we're gonna let this one dry and later on when it's dry, I want because these splashes are wet on wet, so they are a bit more hazy. That this also helps with some depth. When you do splashes wet on wet, that they a bit blend with the background, they are still visible, but they are more hazy. Then when it's completely dry, you do small splashes, like in here, there will be more visible dots. So when you focus on something, things in the foreground, they appear sharper and then the ones in the background are more flu blurred. So it also gives a bit of a depth this way. So now we're going to let this dry. Let's throw these on the side. These scrap papers are very useful. You should always have some handy. Oh, I see some mishap here. How did that happen? Anyway, and now this is gonna dry, and then we will continue. I guess it will be the final part where we take all the tapes off and add the final touches. See you soon. 8. Painting P3: Removing All Masking Tape and Splashing Stars: Welcome back. Now our painting is completely dry. I'm gonna, I have, again, fresh hot water here. I'm going to make this over the tapes and I'm going to peel off all the tapes, and then we will do final splashes that will be like the stars in the sky, I guess. And I mean, I don't want to go into too much space team because that's not everyone's thing, but this one does not represent. This one does look like scraped, so those splashes will look like stars. And in the dark part, there will be white sky. And in the light side, there will be black ones to contrast white because everything here is the opposite of each other. H when it's done? So far so good. Now I'm gonna take the frame off. That there are minor leaks that there is one I see here. I can cover that with some orange. That should be okay. That here is a tiny bit. But it doesn't bother me that nothing major. That these separations look good, this blue to pink, this green to orange. I'm happy with them. This warming up with the cup trick works like magic. Because most of the time I'm not bothered with this, and it rips my paper off. I try to do it. This time. There was only once here. Okay, I spoke to soon I spoke to I had to jinx it tonight. Okay. There's another tiny rip here. But again, with a bit of water, we'll put the tan and I'll be okay. So as long as you are aware and you stop on time, these rips are totally manageable. I'm sure this was the last one. I'm gonna rip another. Frame looks good in the sense that there's not a major leak. The line looks nice and even. Normally, I don't do the frame thing. I I don't know, I find it much more This is too formal and I like the painting to be messy and that's why I guess. But when there's a bit of a play with it, like this is now sticking out of the frame, then it looks interesting. When there's a bit of a play with the frame, then I like it. And we are through. Let's have a look at the over. Well, over, I'm actually very happy, even though this has been a good example of using what you have that you might not have the best of the best. Still, if you put time, the exercise still counts, practicing still counts, you are still improving and the results aren't that bad. When I compare with this, let's have a look. It is smoother. The color transitions, and you don't see the grains as much. It's a different kind of paper. This has much more grains, and usually I like seeing the watercolor paper texture. And so once it's dry, that you can still see the texture here, but actually, I like it. It's just really nothing bad, it's just different. So I don't think there is anything wrong with that. And like I said, it's a good example of working with what you have. Don't think that I don't have this, I don't have that. Important thing is that you do the work and practice. And I think we managed to use the masking tapes. As I intended, there's a nice contrast between the two sides, and now you know how you can use the masking tapes to similar tricks with your paintings. So now let's finish this off. I brought here lots of scrap paper, and I have them because where shall we start? I will start with the dark side. I'll come to the dark side. I'm gonna cover the light side, like this. And on the dark side, also, I don't want to splash over the I want planets to stand in the front, so I'm not gonna do it on the planets. So I'm covering the plants like this as well. So I will try to leave only the dark space exposed. And also, these flushes will go outside the frame as well. And I also enjoy that. Like, there's a frame, but then also these flushes still go out of it. Okay, I think this should do it except here. Okay, now, the way I do this, again, I'm going to put this aside for a moment because I need to white paint. Now, white watercolor is opaque and it does a good job, but it's not like acrylic. So it doesn't cover what's behind it, like completely not 100%. So what I do that I will splash with this a bit. Also, the more water it is the um, less visible it is. You can see in this one that some of them are these are white watercolor and these very visible dots are acrylic. I think I added too much water there, I want more once. Okay. I think we are done with this. When you are picking up your masks, you need to be careful not to push them across the paper and throwing your splashes. So be careful with that. Um, now I'm washing my brush. And Now, technically, I should wait for this to dry, but I feel like I will put this aside because I don't want to splash at I really like this painting. I'll be going to expose this side. I was saying that normally I should wait for this to dry completely. But I don't want this to take forever, so carefully, I will put Can you see these wise they are already disappearing. There is a bit of it's still visible. So that's why we will use the white acrylic on them to make some of the stars more visible. Now I'm removing them, and I'm going to use them in a second to cover other sites because we'll do black splashes. Okay. This is done. Um, I think I will quickly do the where is it? I have this acrylic pen. It tends to leak too much because when you pump acrylic comes from inside, but I don't want a huge white dot here. So I'm just making some nice visible dots. To stand out. Then I'm not pumping here not to have an accident. On the side, I have a bit of a already leaked acrylic, so I'm just dipping the tip of the pen. Adding stars this way, trying to do them as randomly as I can. I'm trying not to make it. Like polka dots, just dots all over the place. I'm trying to really make them clustering in some places and more empty in others. Like I was saying before, symmetric shapes are always more interesting to the eye for me. And now the other side and while we are doing this, these white splashes are drying, it will be easier to put cover on them. More stars like this. You can use this white acrylic pan trick with other things as well later when the patterns come on, I really enjoy making some patterns only with dots like radiating from, I can show me something like these ones. And imagine doing this with white dots on a darker background like this that would look interesting. So now what I'm doing is I'm looking and trying to make some cluster dialect consolations a more stars in one place and trying to make it as random as possible. Okay, I think we are done. I think it already looks much more interesting, more space like this dark side. Now, of course, this side is drying. Okay, I think if I place on the top of it very carefully, you should be fine. I will need a let's put this boiling hot water out of the way first. Okay. I'm gonna cover this side like this. Okay. That worked. And I'm gonna cover this side. We don't need these paints and more let's push them out of the way. Like this, laying on top very gently. Don't e there go. All the splashing is happening from the top, there's a bit of a gap here. You can see it from the top, but I can see from there. If you do from top, it should be okay. And this can be used for covering the separate if it's going to cover too much of it because I want to be able to access these areas. Let's do like this. Because like we did before, I'm trying to cover the plants. Another one here. H Okay, we cover the planets. Tine here. Now what we're gonna do, we're going to take the blacks. Our black paint, black black. And again, I want these blacks to be very nice and visible. So I'm not gonna put too much water. Because we want lots of pigments. I really like it that it's going out of the frame there. Okay, we have lots of starts this way. Now I'm gonna wash my brush. Never leave your brush. Paint. And I don't want this to roll over the painting, so's be careful with the chevy because it did happen. I'm going to take all these again, very carefully. Revealing our painting. What I'm going to do, I'm going to do the same thing I did with the white pen. Oops. And Okay. Everything's fine. We're going to do we have a nice 0.5 here that I want to add some dots that because you can see the black splashes they work well. But the first drops are much more saturated and nice and dark, and the others are a bit faded like these white splashes. So I'm going to add some nice visible black stars here. When the paper is not sitting straight and it goes down and lifts up, this kind of mistakes happen. I just made a little scratch there. So here, yeah. Just a cluster of them. And some over here, the site looks very messy already by itself. I don't think it needs much help. Okay, I think, with that, I'm done quite a messy design, and I actually really like how it turned out. Now, you can see how much actually it goes into if you want to do a bit more planning and end up with a design like this, you use the masking tapes. There's the first layer and the second layer, and then there are the final touches. But overall, there's a bit of a strip here showing us the infrared spectrum of the space while the rest is staying how our eyes usually see. And I'm pretty happy with the contrast we try to create. I think it worked, and I hope it worked for you, too. I'm looking forward to seeing your paintings. And let's look at the original. Here's the original. I'm going to put it on the side. And but when I look at them together, making a smaller version of this, I think we nailed it. That actually when I look at it, because it's a there's a bit of a variation between the yellow and white and pink, This is more successful than this one. This looks more too yellow all over. I think I'm pretty happy with this one in this regard. And like I said, it's not bad, it's just different with the grains of the paper being more visible, that this splashes coming out of the frame. I love it. The lines coming out of the frame. I love it. This way, now in your repertoire, there's also using the masking tapes and you can do different things with this. In the first lesson, let me grab it. Sorry. Here it is. In the first painting, in the first class, we did a flowing design, a bit of neurographic art and made wet on wet very flowing colors. On the second one, we like this. Did more complex design of neurographic art and then did color blocking. I didn't let it all mix, but kept them separately. In the third one, we brought in the masking tapes. You can use the masking tapes to create very interesting looking designs as well. It gives you more opportunities, and you can combine all of these to end up wherever you want to go. I'm only pointing you the way and looking for to see where you are going to end up. This is it for this class and I will see you in the conclusion video. I hope you enjoyed. I totally enjoyed this process, and this is one of my favorite process to do. It takes a bit longer, but it is worth at the end. And also, let me grab the other paintings. This is just one way of using the masking tapes. Let's put that on the side for a moment. You can do many other things. Don't mind the patterns. We are getting there. We will talk about that soon in the future classes that you can do many different designs using the masking tapes. And this was just one example. Maybe in the future, we will do other ones as well. And today, this. So see you in the conclusion with you. 9. Conclusion: So let's go. I'll start with the conclusion with you, but I haven't written it yet, so let's see how it goes, from the head. How is it? Let's imagine the class that there's intro class project materials, we drew, we masked, we painted, we painted, we painted, I finished. It looks good. It's over there. Now. Welcome back. This is the end. Thank you for coming on this journey with me. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. There were some troubles along the way, but I think it only makes our experience even more real. So let's recap what we did today. We did irgraphic art, just like we did in the Part one and Part two. But after that, there's a difference to Part one and Part two. We use the masking tape. We masked the edges of the painting, and also we separated our painting to two distinct parts. After that, we first painted the middle part with the color palette we chose. I chose a very warm color palette, and because in my mind, that was the infrared version of the sky. And for the second part for the corners we picked, we booked. Pooked is like picked, but you do it with your eyes closed. That's booked. We picked a different color palette. If you remember, I picked one color for corresponding to every color from the middle part, and we painted the corners with those. At the end, we took off all the tapes once the painting was dry and we just use some scrap paper to mask this time, the parts we don't want to splash on, then we splattered on our painting the little stars. So this class was packed with lots of useful tips and information that you can take parts of it, whichever part is useful to you and use in your own paintings. If there is only one thing you will remember from this class. I hope it will be how good the creating felt and you will come back when you feel the need to slow down. And a few final reminders, please follow me wherever you can find a follow button here and there. Don't forget to leave a review if you haven't done it already while you were waiting for your painting to dry. Well, Jack says the reviews are a bit low. So can we? And don't forget to share your class project with us. I'm looking forward to seeing them. I write a comment to all of them. I read everything you write. It's my favorite thing to do. Please share your class projects, share your paintings with us so we can all see and appreciate your art. And finally, if you haven't already, go back and watch the abstract watercolor escape Part one and Part two. If you did already, spread the word, tell your friends, this is for everyone. It's for their own good. Spread the word and for me, too. It's good for me if you do this. Please. That's all from us. I hope to see you again in Part four. It's coming soon, probably. And until then, stay creative. See you soon. Bye. Jack, what is it? I'm trying to record the class here. Db. What? Video is recording two. Welcome back. Here is a script. What do you get? What do you get when you mix masking tape, flowing lines. Maybe in here, I should just say cart. A relaxing art trip without leaving your chair. Welcome to part three of Watercolor again, part three of abstract watercolor Escape. A jump finished. Next jump. Again, that was it. That's where you cut the sentence. Some of you say full stop. Today I heard Trump saying equalizing. He says that this is the new word. He came up with it. They are equalizing. Ridiculous. Did it. We are going to use a masking tape to divide our paper into two contra Constantinopols. I think I wanted to say. Jack, what do you think? Again, Mosca. We are going to Hey. Where did you go? Don't do that. We are going to use masking tape to divide our paper into two contrasting zones one light, one dark. But are you kidding me? Light stop working. I'll guide you step by step as you create a vibrant cosmic feeling piece with washes, plushes planets, stars in a whole lot of contrast. With washes, plushies, planet, stars in a whole lot of contrast. Come on. Again. This class is for anyone who wants to relax whilst alone. Again, this class is for anyone who wants to come on, relax. Relax. Again. Relax. Who wants to relax? What's difficult about it? This class is for anyone who wants to relax while still making something cool, while still making something. Did I say this correctly? Okay. I just in case I will say one more time if I didn't say something like while cooling something make. Okay. You can do the same style of masking as me or you can do it differently. Because we are masking our painting and don't forget to don't forget to what you don't the video or we are breaking records after records today, 9 minutes only. Stopping the video now. So, let's learn what we did. No. Let's learn. Let's recap. Again, what is the key takeaway? What is the key takeaway while creating, how good it felt, how good it felt while how good the creating felt, and you will come back again when you feel the need to slow down. Okay, let's try. When you need the feel to slow down. When you need the feel when you feel the need, low. Okay. When you need the feel, that's just wrong. That's just gibberish. Mm. What else? Let's suit it again. And with that, I think we are done.