Achromatic Abstract Watercolor Landscape Painting

1. Welcome to the Class: In order to create some beautiful abstract landscape paintings, which are very easy and yet simple to create. Ipod, let me create a class in which you require minimum art supplies. No advanced paintings, goods. We are going to create three beautiful abstract landscape paintings, which are going to be easy, simple, and elegant to paint. Hey everybody. I'm just like I'm a self-taught independent artist and an interior design and my profession. You can find most of my artworks on Instagram. I go by the name, ship it out. So we're going to start by knowing about all the art supplies that you will need for the entire class. No need to worry at all. You will find all the art supplies very easily in any nearby loop, Gladstone. They wanted to talk about the watercolor paper and how you have to cite David in a proper manner. Before moving towards the final paintings, we are going to have a beautiful practice session in which I'll be teaching you how you can paint all the elements that are used in the final paintings in a very easy way. That are going to be elements like pine trees having variation and sizes, houses, abstract backgrounds and windows that we are going to learn. That'll be starting by creating a beautiful abstract background using symbol black color will be blending all the elements with the entire background that we have created. Having an amazing abstract format. Watercolors generally gives you a beautiful output that you can't even imagine. Once the abstract background is dry, we're going to blend all the elements with the background. All the elements together combines to form a beautiful painting. And we are also going to add some beautiful minute details to the entire painting. The glasses absolutely suited for beginners and also intermediate and advanced level artists can try it. I'm very happy and excited to share this class with all of you. We are going to have three beautiful class projects. So without any delay, grab your art supplies, join me and let's get started. 2. Art Supplies: So before we start, let us talk about all the art supplies that you will need for this particular class. No need to worry at all that are very minimal art supplies that you will need. And you will find them very easily in any nearby local art store. Let us start with the first one, which is a simple spray bottle that you can find very easily. So there is some water and we're going to use this to spray some water on the NDI watercolor paper. Next up we have a simple cup in which we are going to have some clear water. This will help us to clean up our brushes. Now for the entire class, you will need only two colors, which are going to be black and white. These are basically watercolors and no need to worry at all in case you do not have legal tubes, you can go for smaller tubes as well. Then next up we have a simple tissue paper. This will help us to remove access amount of water from the brush. Then we have our simple masking tape of size 1 ". So we're going to use a masking tape to tape the watercolor paper so that we can get a nice, beautiful white border. Now let us talk about all the brushes that we're going to use. So these are basically quill brushes, but in case you do not have quill brush, you can go for round brush as well. So you can see how beautiful tips all the brushes are having. So let me talk about the sizes. The first one is of size eight, then we have size two. Then we have sized for the last one is size zero. So no need to worry in case you are missing out on these brushes. You can definitely go for round brush as well. Now let us talk about the most important art supply that we need for the entire class, which is the watercolor papers. These are the watercolor papers that we're going to use. And the important part that you have to keep in mind is the GSM. So these are 300 GSM watercolor papers and the size is a fine. Gsm basically stands for the thickness of the paper so that you can apply heavy washes on it. Then the last art supply is a simple color palette. So I have a simple plastic palette. You can go for any other good alternative as well. So these are all the art supplies that you will need for the entire class. Now without any delay, Let's move towards the next part. 3. Lets Tape the Paper: Hey everybody. So before moving towards the class projects, let me teach you how you have to cite tape, your watercolor paper. So as you can see, I have my watercolor papers ready here. Let me give you some details about it. So these are watercolor papers of 300 GSM. The GSM basically stands for the thickness of the paper so that you can apply heavy water washes on it. And the sizes a file. So here is the entire sheet of watercolor paper that we're going to use. So just simply place it on the desk wherever you want to paint. And we are going to paint it in a vertical format. I'm just placing it in the position. Now, once you are done with the position of the watercolor paper, what we are going to use is a simple masking tape of size 1 ". So no need to worry at all. The process is very easy and simple. The reason for putting up a masking tape is so that we can get this beautiful white border. Once we are done painting and we remove the masking tape, let us start putting up the marketing. So I'll be starting from the right side. So just simply put some part of the masking tape onto the watercolor paper and some pot onto the desk. And just make sure that the masking tape is parallel with the paper edge so that you can get a nice parallel white border. Once you place the masking tape, just simply apply some pressure using your finger or thumb to the masking tape so that it gets properly stop. Now I'll be applying one masking tape on the top portion and another one on the bottom side. So this is how you have to take your watercolor paper 4. Lets Practice the Elements: Hey everybody. So before we start with all the class projects, let us practice all the elements that we are going to use and all the paintings. So let us start with the pine trees. You can see my watercolor paper is ready with the masking tape. So initially we can use a simple pencil to draw these vertical lines, as you can see, which is having variation in sizes. You can directly draw these vertical lines using your quill brush directly. Also. Once the vertical lines are being drawn, you have to use your size zero brush. Take some solid black color in it. Start from the top portion and just mean these little strokes coming towards the bottom part. As you move towards the bottom part, you have to increase the size of these strokes. You can observe that I have painted the first pine tree. Now similarly, you can observe that the second line which I have drawn using my pencil is a little bit bigger. So the pine tree would be a little bit bigger in size, but the process is absolutely same. You have to use the same brush of size zero. Take some solid black color in it. Start making these little strokes coming towards the outer portion and becoming thinner in size. And you have to move towards the bottom but increasing the size of your stroke. Then we have the pole pine tree, as you can observe. This is again similar with the first one. You just have to repeat the same process. No need to hurry at all. Just practice it with some patients and take your own time. Now you can observe in the painting we have some little pine trees also, which we can also consider as shrubs. You can see I have drawn little vertical lines and I'll be just adding these little strokes around the entire line. So the strokes wouldn't be bigger on the bottom portion and will be less in size or I can say shorter and size on the top portion. This is how we are going to create these little shrubs, or we can say little pine trees, which are on the bottom portion, as you can observe. Now we have a beautiful house element or the entire class projects that we are going to have. So there are going to be three different styles of houses that we are going to paint. What I would suggest is that in case you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly from your detailing brush, which is of size zero. What you can do is you can create an outline using your pencil first, and then you can fill in solid black color. I'm using the brush directly, but you can observe the outline which I'm making right now. You can see I'm using the tip of my brush of size zero. I have created the roof. Now, just adding the outline of the walls. This is the basic shape of the house. And I have added one more roof on the left-hand side. Once we are done painting the outline of the entire house, we are going to fill in solid black color inside. Tried to have some good consistency of color and less water so that you can get a nice solid black patch. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and paint it with patients. Also use the tip of your detailing brush to paint in the difficult areas and on the bottom potion, don't worry about the finishing. We're just trying to paint the house so that you can get an idea how you have to paint it. In the final class project, you are going to paint some beautiful little chimneys on the top portion. These are just two solid black lines on one rule and on the other roof as well. You can see we are done with the first house. This is the type of house that we are going to have. Now will be waiting for the entire solid black color to dry. So let us create the second house, which is a little bit different from the first one. I'll be creating the truth. Again. I'll be telling you the same thing in case you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly with the detailing brush. What you can do is you can use your pencil, create the outline first, and then you can fill in solid black color inside. You can see this is how I have created a nice side view of the entire house that has a little bit of vintage and type. And we'll be adding one chimney. Let us add to only on the top portion. This is the second house that we are going to have. Now let us start with the third one as well. This is going to be a simple perspective. I have just created an outline on the roof and I'll be painting the walls as well. Now once you are done with the entire outline will be filling in solid black color inside. You can observe the movement of my detailing branch. And we'll be adding little chimney as well. You can see how beautiful the entire cell out of the house looks Now we'll be waiting for the entire solid black color to dry. Here I have my quill brush off 50, ready again? I have cleaned it up and we'll be taking some solid white watercolor, will be just painting these little windows on all the three houses. You can see how I'm using the tip of my detailing brush to paint the windows. And why invite only so that we can get a beautiful contrast. No need to hurry at all. Tried to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your detailing brush to create these little square and rectangular shapes. Now, also you have to wait for the white color to dry up for awhile. Now using the same detailing brush, I'll be taking some black again. And we'll be painting the frame of the entire window. You can see how beautifully we have got some beautiful parks in the entire window. This is how the entire house will look, enhancing the entire painting. I'm also adding the frame in the second and the third house. No need to hurry. You just have to make this vertical and horizontal line to create the frame. Now you can observe we are done with all the three houses that we are going to use in the entire class project. Now, let us combine all the elements together. Now I'll be using my quill brush of size eight. I have taken some good amount of water in it and just spread it naturally. On the bottom portion of your practicing paypal, make sure that you have applied the water evenly. No need to hurry at all, take your time and apply the water in a very careful manner. Now as you can see, we have taken our quill brush. I'll say zero again, and I'll be taking some solid black color, having some water in it. Now, simply use the tip of your brush and dab it in this natural manner. So since we want an abstract background, there isn't any particular way of doing this. You just have to dab your brush onto the paper in a very random manner as you can observe how I'm using the tip of my brush. And you can see how beautifully and naturally the water is spreading. Now we'll wait for the background to dry. So as you can see, how beautiful abstract background we have got and the water is dried completely. So this is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply the color after we have applied our coat of water on the watercolor paper. I'll be using my brush, which is of size zero again. And we're going to paint the first element, which is pine trees, which we painted initially, as you can observe on the top portion, I have drawn the vertical lines using the brush itself. And we are just blending it with the background color. In case you're not that much confident enough to paint the vertical lines with the brush. You can use a pencil to draw the reference line first, and then you can use your painting brush. Also does not have been necessary to paint it in the same composition I have painted. You can do the variation in the sizes of the pine trees. You can select the position where you want to keep the house, et cetera. You can see I've painted three pine trees, and I've blended it with the abstract background that we painted. Solid black. Now will be blending the house portion so you have to observe it carefully. I have painted the outline of the roof as you can see. And now I'll be filling in the solid black color inside. You're going to observe how beautifully the house is getting blended with the abstract background on the bottom portion. Now using the same quill brush, I'll be adding another roof portion on the right-hand side. You can also paint the walls filling in the solid black color inside small chimneys on the top portion using the tip of the brush. Now let us paint the last element, which is the fence. To just have to simply paint these little vertical lines on the left hand portion, blending it with the background. Use the tip of your brush and connected by small thin lines. So this is how we have painted the fence. We're done painting all the elements. Now let us add some minute details, which is the window size to be taking solid white color and Mike will branch of size zero. Let's clean the brush because it was already having some black. Now just use the tip of the brush and apply a small square shape. Again, if you do not find it easy to paint it directly from your brush, you can definitely draw a square using your pencil and then you can paint it with your brush. Does add some white fence also to enhance and create a beautiful contrast between black and white. We connecting the small vertical lines by adding a nice horizontal thin line. Now to paint the frame, I'll be just adding one vertical and horizontal line on the white color that we have applied and the house. You can see the entire practice sheet is ready. Just remove the masking tape carefully. I have labeled all the elements. You can have a nice look to the entire practice sheet. That would be really great if you create a practice sheet before starting the class project. That will definitely help you to get a better output. 5. Project 1 - The Dense Forest: Hey everybody. Now let us start with the first painting, which is the dense forest. So as you can see, I'm ready with my watercolor paper, with the masking tape. All my art supplies are well-placed. Mole Douglas, Black and White are simple color palette. A tissue paper, spray bottle to sprinkle some water onto the watercolor paper. All default brushes that you will need in case you do not have equilibrium, yes, you can definitely go for round brush as well and a cup of water. So since we are going to create a beautiful abstract background, we want to have a nice coat of water. I'll be using my spray bottle and sprinkling some good amount of water onto the entire watercolor paper, as you can observe. Now, once you can see the light reflection onto the paper, this is a good amount of water onto the watercolor paper. I'll be using my quill brush of size eight and will be spreading the water alone carefully in case you find that that is excess amount of water in your quill brush as well, then you can dab it onto the tissue paper. You're going to observe the movement of micro brush. I'm trying to spread the entire water carefully on each and every area of the entire watercolor paper. Make sure that there isn't any space left in-between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. That will not look nice when we remove the entire masking tape. As you can see, we have applied a nice tan coat of water. Now I'll be using my quill brush of size four. And I have taken some solid black color, having some good consistency with water in it. You can observe. And also in case you find that there is more color, less water than just apply some more water into the color palette. I'll just use the tip of your brush and apply the solid black color and this random format. No need to worry at all. And also no need to hiring. It's an abstract backgrounds, so we just have to apply it in a very random and natural way. So there isn't any specific technique of doing this. You can observe the color is reading automatically, and this is basically known as a wet on wet technique as well. So we have already applied at ten coat of water initially onto the watercolor paper. And now when we are applying solid black color in it, with some good amount of water in the brush. It is spreading in a very natural and abstract format. On the base, you can definitely use your quill brush to apply some more darker tone of black. You can also observe that I'm leaving some spaces of white in-between because we don't want the entire background to be solid black. Now I have simply cleaned my brush and the saturation of my black color is less now will be blending it with the above ocean. Now, simply, again, always cleaning my quill brush of size eight completely and will be just applying the water code. Again. You can see it will blend with the entire paper automatically. This is the entire abstract background that we wanted to create. Now we'll wait for it to dry. I know it might not be looking that great right now because we haven't added the elements yet. Now we'll be using quill brush of size two. And we'll be painting the first element, which is going to be the pine trees. I'm using my brush. And as you can observe, I'm using the tip of the brush to draw the vertical line initially to paint the pine tree. And gives you an all that much confident enough to draw the vertical line directly from the brush. Once you can do is you can use a pencil and write with that first, and then you can use your brush. So now using the tip of your brush, you have to create these little random strokes and upward and downward directions. And as they move towards the bottom part, we are going to increase the size of the branches that we are going to paint for the entire pine tree. You can observe that I'm just moving my brush and this random direction. But as I'm coming towards the bottom part, I'm increasing the size of the strokes that I'm making. No need to hurry at all, painted in a very slow and steady manner. Now as I come towards the bottom portion, I'll be increasing the size of the strokes that I'm making right now. And I'll be blending it with the abstract background that we have created. Domain the binary look a little bit more attractive. You can add these little branches using the tip of your brush. We are almost done painting the entire pine tree. I guess this is the biggest pine tree in this entire painting. Now apart from this, we are having few more binaries to paint. The process is absolutely same. So simply observe and follow. Another pine tree I'm digging on the right-hand side. And this is a little bit smaller than the first one. So the vertical line will be a little bit smaller. And the process is absolutely same. We are going to create the middle strokes. And as they move towards the bottom portion, we are going to increase the size of the entire pine tree. For this particular G Also, you have to blend it with the abstract background black color Now we have few smaller binaries that we are going to paint on the bottom portion and we're going to blend it with the solid black color that we have on the bottom part. So the process is absolutely same, one vertical line. And you have to just make these amazing strokes. And no need to worry that you are not able to paint it in that same way I'm painting. This is very abstract and natural form of painting. Trees. And you also know that trees have a very natural shape and their branches are very random and natural. You can also create your own compositions as well. The important part is that you've got the technique, how to paint it. So no need to worry about the abstract diagram. You can also create your own abstract backgrounds as well. Now let us paint one more pine tree on the left hand portion. So the process is again absolutely seen the first vertical line. And we're going to create these little strokes on the top portion. And as we move towards the bottom bond, I'll be increasing the size of these tools that I'm making. Now again, I'll be repeating the same steps, but you have to blend it with abstract background, which is on the bottom portion. We're done painting the pine trees. Now let us move towards the next element, which is a beautiful house, which is on the center of the entire painting. I guess almost on the center, will be creating the outline of the house initially, in case you're not that much confident enough to create the outline using the brush directly. What you can do is you can draw it with pencil first and then you can use your brush. I'm using my quill brush of size zero, and I'm trying to create the outline of the entire house. So you can see I've drawn the rules and I'm now drawing the walls. I'm also having a little roof on the left-hand portion. So you just have to draw the outline and then take some solid black color in your brush again. And we're going to fill in solid black color inside. No need to hurry. A doll painted in a very careful and slow manner. Use the tip of your detailing brush to paint in difficult areas. So you can already observe that we have painted the entire roof with solid black color and the roof that we have on the left-hand portion as well. Now, let us paint the walls of the entire house. So again, take some solid black color in your quill brush and you can observe the movement of Mike will branch. I'm trying to blend it with the abstract background. It might look right now a little bit to read, but once it dries up, it will give a nice blend together. So you won't be able to figure out the difference. Now let us add some minute details to the house as well. Also, you can use the tip of your brush to enhance the details. And then data hub where there are difficult areas like sharp edges. Let me paint some small chimneys. So you just have to draw these vertical lines just above the roof portion so that it can create some minute details to the entire house. And you are painting would look a little bit more attractive. Now I have clean my brush off size zero, and I'm going to use some solid white color to paint a beautiful window. Now just simply take your quill brush, have some solid white watercolor in it, and have less amount of water. Draw a small square. And as you can observe, I'm using the tip of the brush to paint this squared. And I'll be just painting another square on the other side as well. In case you find painting the square directly a little bit difficult from your brush, you can definitely use your pencil first and then you can fill in solid white color inside. Let us add one more window on the bottom portion where we have a smaller roof as when. Now let the color dry for a while. Now using the same brush, just clean it in water and we'll be digging solid black color again. And aqua brush of size zero. Using the tip of the brush, we are going to create some frame in the entire window to make it look a little bit more attractive. As you can observe, you just have to use the tip of your brush, mix symbol, vertical line, and a horizontal line. And you can observe how beautiful than data window looks. Now, as you can observe, we are done with the entire house element as well. Let us paint a beautiful moon in the sky. You can consider it as a son as well, since it's an achromatic painting, you just have to paint a small circle carefully using the tip of your quill brush of size zero, you can paint it very easily. And we are done with the entire painting. Since there is this center portion which is a little bit empty, I want to add a little bit of roof element here as well. So you can just draw an outline and then you can fill in solid black color inside. You can also draw or paint walls just below that and blend it with the abstract background. And now we are done with the entire painting. Now, let us remove the tape. No need to hurry at all. Tried to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your precious painting that we have created. You can already observe the beautiful white border that we have got once we remove the masking tape. This is the most satisfying, but trust me, let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details in the entire painting. So this is basically the first project, which is an abstract landscape painting. And I hope that you'll want to learn something new and creative from this particular project. Now let us move towards the next project. 6. Project 2 - The Vintage House: Hey everybody. Now let us move towards the second project, which is the vintage house. Again, I'm ready with my fresh watercolor paper and we're going to use a simple spray bottle, having some water in it, sprinkle it as much as possible, try to have a good amount of water in the entire watercolor paper. Now to spread it evenly on the entire watercolor paper, I'll be just using my size eight brush. And as you can observe, I'm just reading the water completely in the entire watercolor paper. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now I'll be taking my quill brush of size four, and we have taken some solid black color in it, as you can observe in the color palette. And try to have a good consistency of water and color together. And just using the tip of the brush, I'm just putting it on the watercolor paper and you can see how beautifully the color is spreading. This is how you have to create your abstract background. And no need to worry about the outcome that is not at all compulsory or necessary that you will get this theme abstract background that I'm painting right now. It can have variations in shapes, since it's a natural form in which it is spreading. So now to read the color a little bit more, I'm using my quill brush off 58. Again, that is some water already in it and no black color. You can just simply observe the movement of my brush. I'm taking it upward and the color is spreading, as you can observe. And only to worry at all tried to do it in a very slow and steady manner. Now let us do this on the bottom portion as well. You can observe the moment. I'm just trying to blend the color. We are almost done with the entire abstract background to create a little bit more depth on the white portion that we have above. I'm using my size eight brush and just moving it in this particular direction so that you can make it a little bit more dense in the background. Now let us wait for the background to dry completely. So once the background is dry, I'll be taking my quill brush of size two. And I've taken some solid black colors in my color palette, as you can observe, tried to have less amount of water and more color this time since we are starting with the pine trees, I'll be starting by drawing a simple perpendicular line. And in case you are not that much confident enough to painting directly from your brush, what you can do is use a simple pencil. Draw the vertical line first, and then you can come with your painting brush. To paint the pine trees. I'll be starting by applying little strokes from the top portion. And as you come towards the bottom band will be increasing the size of the strokes that we are making. You can observe that I'm using the tip of the brush to make it look very realistic. And this is how you can paint the branches. No need to hurry at all. Painted in a very slow and steady manner. So as I'm moving towards the bottom part, you can see I have increased the size of the entire pine tree. And that is how natural pine tree basically looks. Now we will be blending it with abstract background so that it looks as if it is the part of the painting. And you can definitely observe the way I'm using the tip of the quill brush to enhance the branches that we have in the entire pine tree. Now let us move towards the next binary, which is going to be on the left-hand side. But this time it is going to be a little bit smaller. The process is absolutely the same. You just have to draw a simple vertical line. And then you have to make these little strokes from the top portion coming towards the bottom part. And then you have to blend it with them, that abstract background. So we are done with both the pine trees. Let us add one more. On the right-hand side of the bigger pine tree. You just have to simply observe the process and no need to hurry a doll painted in a very slow manner. So it'll be blending this particular binary with the abstract background as well. So we are done with the pine trees that we have on the top portion. Now, let us paint some pine trees, which are going to be a little bit smaller in size. In the bottom part. You can see I have simply again drawn a vertical line and then I'm just trying to add a little binary on the bottom portion. The process is absolutely same. And using this particular quilt brush, you will be able to make these beautiful branch strokes AND gates you are missing out on a quill brush. No need to worry at all. You can use a round brush as well. That will also somehow give you this type of output that we're getting from the quill brush? Now we are done with the pine trees. Let us paint a beautiful vintage house. I'll be using my quill brush of size zero. And we'll be starting with the outline first so that we get the exact idea where the house is going to come. No need to hurry at all. And in fact, if you are not that much confident enough to create the outline directly from your quill brush. What you can do is dry it with pencil and then you can come with your brush. Now will be just filling in solid black color inside. You can observe the movement of my brush and I'm just trying to blend it with the abstract background. Also, you can give some good finishing using the tip of your brush and also try to spread the entire black color in a proper even done, make sure that there is less water and more amount of color in your brush. You can see very naturally the colors will blend with the abstract background. Right now it's a little bit wet. Once it dries, then you'll be able to see the final output. You can already observe a beautiful fell out of a vintage house. Now let us add some minute details to the entire house. So we'll be painting two beautiful vertical lines which will replicate some chimney on the house. And that will also enhance the entire painting. Now, in the painting, you can consider this as a mall or a sun sensors and achromatic painting. So you can consider it either way. You just have to simply paint this small circle. Use the tip of your brush to paint it in a perfect manner. We are almost done. Now we will be adding few details. I'll be using the same quill brush of size zero, and we'll be adding some fence effect on the right-hand portion. So no need to worry at all. You just have to make these little vertical lines which are a little bit thick and also not perfect since these are wooden planks, so you just have to paint it in this format. And also by adding this fence element, it will also enhance the underpainting. Now let us connect all the vertical lines by putting ten horizontal line, which is not going to be a perfect horizontal line. You just have to connect all the vertical wooden fence elements. So this is how we have created a beautiful fencing element in the entire landscape painting. So now I'll be taking my will branch of size zero again and we're going to add a beautiful window to the house. Initially also, we are using the same brush. You just have to clean it up in the water. And then you have to take some white color so that you can get a beautiful vibrant white color. And you just have to paint this beautiful rectangular shape and the house that we have painted. And in fact, if you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly from the brush, you can dry it with pencil and then you can fill in solid white color. Let us enhance the fence as well. We're just adding this little vertical line on the right-hand side so that it gets a little bit more contrast with the background. Now, same thing you can do with the chimney as well. Now let us add some details to the window as well. So I'll be just painting the frame, digging the same quill brush of Psi zero and some solid black color, draw simple vertical line and horizontal lines. You can observe how beautiful than died houses looking. Now let us remove the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Tried to remove the masking tape and, and angles so that you do not end up tearing your brushes, watercolor painting. And you can already observe how beautiful white border we have got. Then dark painting is ready. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details. I hope that you enjoyed painting this particular abstract landscape painting as well. Now let us move towards the next project. 7. Project 3 - The Calm Village: Hey everybody. Now, let us start with the Project Three, which is become village. As you can see, again, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape. Using the spray bottle, I'll just sprinkle some good amount of water on the entire watercolor paper. And now we'll be using a size eight brush. And just make sure that the brush is clean. And we'll just spread the color in a good manner. Make sure that there is no space left between the watercolor paper and the marketing team. Also tried to spread the water and then even format. So we are done. Now, I'll be taking my cradle branch of size four. And we're going to create a beautiful abstract background. In the color palette. We'll be taking some good amount of solid black color. No need to hurry at all. Try to maintain a good consistency of water and color together. And simply will be using the tip of the branch. And I'm just letting the color flow. You can already observe the color is naturally just blending with the entire watercolor paper. So this is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially, and then we apply another coat of water and color together. So this is how abstract background is formed. Naturally. You can see how the color is spreading. Also, as you can observe, that the colors spreading in a natural format. So it is not a dog compulsory that it will be in the exact same manner. I have got the entire abstract background. It can be a little bit different for you as well. So now I'll be using my size eight brush again, and I'm just blending it with the white portion in the entire watercolor paper. So we do not have any color and this particular brush only some amount of water, as you can observe, just have to blend it with the white portion. So no need to worry about the background. It can be very natural and authentic. Now just simply wait for the background to dry. And once the background is completely dry, we'll be taking our elements to paint. As usual, we are going to start by painting the pine trees, which is the first element. I'm using my quill brush of size zero. And as you can observe, I have simply drawn a vertical line. And in case you're not that much confident enough to draw a vertical line directly from your brush. You can do is you can just draw the line using a pencil first and then you can use your brush to paint the pine tree. I'm just making these little strokes from the top portion. And as we move towards the bottom part, we have to increase the size of the stroke that we are making. You can observe that I'm using the tip of my brush to get this beautiful natural log of a pine tree. And this is how you have to leave the strokes. You can observe the movement of my brush carefully. Now once we move towards the bottom part, we are going to blend it with the abstract backgrounds so than the pine tree looks the part of the painting or I can say the part of the background that we have created. So as you can observe, we are almost done with the entire pine tree. You can also make very pointed out the top portion. Now let us paint another binary just on the right-hand side, but a little bit smaller. So the process is absolutely same. Assemble vertical line to get a nice reference where the position of the pine tree is. And you have to simply painted in the way we have been doing the first pine tree. At the end, you have to make sure that you blend it with the abstract black background. So now I'll be having two more pine trees on the left-hand portion. As you can observe, I have drawn the vertical lines initially only, and now I'll be making these strokes. You can see this is how you have to paint the pine trees in a very natural and random way. You don't have to worry about the perfection here since it's an abstract landscape paintings. So no need to worry about the output. So you can see how beautifully the bunch of pine trees is looking together and it is being blended with the entire background as well. Now let us paint the house. So this time we are going to have a beautiful house on the right-hand side portion. So I'm starting with the roof. And to paint the house, we are going to create the outline first. In case you do not want to create the outline directly using your paintbrush. What you can do is you can use your pencil. Try to create the outline with the pencil first, and then you can use your painting brush. You can observe, I have created two beautiful roofs. One is a little bit bigger and another one is a little bit smaller in size. Now we'll be filling in solid black color inside. So make sure that you have good amount of color in your quill brush. The size of the brush that I'm using right now is also zero. Also one more thing I would like to tell you is that in case you're not having a quill brush, no need to worry. You can use a round brush as well. So now you can clearly observe the fallout of both the houses. You can use the tip of your quill brush to add some minute details and to paint them that difficult areas. I'm just trying to blend it with the abstract background on the bottom portion You can use some amount of water and color together to blend the background together. We are almost done painting the houses as well. Now using the same quill brush, I'll be taking some solid black color again, and I'll be using the tip of my brush. And we're going to paint two beautiful little chimneys on the roof portion of the house. So you just have to draw this rectangular shape above the roof and no need to hurry adult painted very carefully. So as you can see, we are done with our two elements, which is pine trees and the house. Now we are going to take some solid white color and the quill brush of size zero. And we're going to add some minute details. So this is going to be two windows. So as you can observe, I'm using the tip of my brush to paint a small square shape on the forest house as you can observe. And similarly, we'll be adding one more window in these smaller houses. When while doing this, you have to paint it in a very calm and slow manner so that you do not make any mistake. In case you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly from your brush. You can use a simple pencil to draw the basic shape, which is a simple square. And then you can fill in solid white color inside. Now using the same quill brush, I'll be adding some little fence element in the entire painting to enhance the details. You can observe. I'm just drawing these vertical lines and these are a little bit thicker on the top portion. And as they move towards the bottom part, I'm just making it a little bit thinner. So from the top portion you just have to leave your brush. And this is how you have to paint the fence element. There isn't any particular format in which we are creating these little fence. You can make your own composition and create the fence element as well. So I'm adding few fence on the bottom portion as well. Also, if you want to decide the position of Defense where you want to paint it, you can dry it with pencil first and then you can apply the white thin strokes. Now we'll be connecting the vertical lines by using the tip of the brush, adding these little thin horizontal lines. And we're done painting the fence as well. Now, let us enhance the windows. So I'll be taking the same quill brush. I have cleaned it with some water, taking some solid black color, just draw simple vertical line and the white portion of the window and assemble horizontal line. So this is how we have painted the entire frame and it will enhance the entire look of the window. Now we are just going to paint a simple moon or sun, whatever you want to consider, you can consider it, since it's an achromatic painting and just draw a simple circle. Now, let us remove the masking tape. Tried to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe how beautiful the white border looks. This is how the final painting looks. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details. I hope that you enjoyed painting this particular painting and got to learn something new. I'm very happy to share this class with all of you. 8. Class Conclusion: In order to create some beautiful landscape paintings, I came up with a class where you need minimal art supplies and some basic art techniques to paint. When it comes to creativity, that is a lot of things that you can explore using watercolors. As an artist, I suggest to my students to always maintain an agenda that you can practice on a regular basis and keep a record of your hard work. No need to worry about making mistakes. It will definitely improve your artwork. I'll be really excited to see all of your projects into the project gallery. In case you have any questions or doubts related to the class, feel free to ask them into the discussion section. You can definitely explore and create your own landscape paintings as a red. Let me know your reviews for the class, has it and courageous me a lot. Thank you so much for joining the class. Keep practicing and happy painting