Achromatic Gouache Painting - A Collection of Landscapes and Seascapes

1. Welcome to the Class: The day I started exploring Art on its different styles, I knew I had some intense love for painting landscapes and seascapes. All over. There is a different piece and it, hey everybody myself protect Patel. I'm a self-taught independent artist and an interior designer by profession. Dating is something that I love to do the most and make Art as simple as possible for all my dear students. This class, we are going to create ten beautiful gouache paintings, having different styles of Landscapes and Seascapes. The class is absolutely beginner friendly with easy and simple techniques to paint. The best part about the classes that you will need minimum Art Supplies to paint all the ten class projects. We are going to start by talking about all the Art Supplies that you will need. They're going to talk about the watercolor papers and the brushes that you will need for this entire class. I'll be teaching you how you have to side tape your watercolor paper. We are going to learn how you can create a beautiful gradient effect using only two colors, which are going to be black and white. We are going to paint beautiful little minimal elements which are going to combine and form ten beautiful class project. Each project is explained in detail so that students can understand all the steps carefully. As someone who's very passionate about teaching odd, my major focus is to create some beautiful classes for beginners and intermediate artists who are trying to develop their skills and become more confident than Art. So without any delay, grab your Art Supplies and join me in this beautiful Art journey. 2. Art Supplies: So before we started is very important for all of you to know the correct Art Supplies that you will need for this entire class. So here I have all my Art Supplies being placed on my desk. And the most amazing part about the Art Supplies is that you are going to need very minimal Art Supplies for the entire class. So let us start with the watercolor people that we will need for this class. So the size of the watercolor paper is A6 basically, and it is 300 GSM. Or GSM basically means the thickness of the Paper so that we can apply heavy washes on it. We also have an off our paintings here as well. So you can observe the exact size of the Paper since we are going to use it in a landscape format. Now the next Art Supplies is basically a simple color palette in which we can take out some good amount of color, mix it, and create some good combinations. The next up we have brushes that we are going to use for the class. So there are three brushes basically. So the first one is a simple flat brush, size four. And we are going to use it to create some beautiful background wash on the entire watercolor paper. Next up we have a simple round brush, size four. Then we have another round brush of size six. You can also use a one-inch flat brush to apply ten god of water on the watercolor paper. That is also absolutely fine. Next up we have a simple Tissue paper to dab the brushes to remove excess amount of water and color. Then we have a simple 1 " masking tape. So this is a Tape which we are going to use to side tape the watercolor paper. Now, the most amazing part about the classes that we are only going to use two colors, which are going to be black and white. And using these two colors, we are going to create ten beautiful projects. Then I have a simple cup in which we are going to hold some clear water so that we can clean the brushes and use it wherever needed. So these are all the odd supplies that you will need for this entire class. Now let us move towards the next part. 3. Lets Tape the Paper: So before we start with our first painting, it is very important for all of you to know how you have to cite tape your watercolor paper. On my desk as you can observe, I have my watercolor paper ready and willing to paint it in a landscape format. You can observe that I have placed it in a horizontal way. Now let us talk about the watercolor paper first. So these are 300 GSM watercolor paper and the size is A6 and you're going to place it in a horizontal format. Now let me also tell you why we are going to apply a masking tape on the sides. So once we apply this masking tape on the side, then we'll be starting the painting. And after the painting is done, we'll remove the masking tape so that we get this beautiful white borders. And the painting can look more presentable and finished. So just make sure that you place your watercolor paper in a position you are comfortable to paint with. So once your watercolor paper is being placed, let us start from the top portion. I've taken a piece of masking tape and I'm trying to apply it on the watercolor paper. So make sure that your masking tape is parallel with the paper edge. Tried to keep some portion of the masking tape onto the watercolor paper and some portion on to your desk. And just simply tap your finger on it and make sure that the tape is stuck in a proper manner when the watercolor paper and the surface so that it does not move. So similarly, we will be placing the masking tape on the sides as well. I have placed one on the right side and other will be placing on the left portion. Now we have applied the masking tape on all the four sides. And you can observe that these tapes are parallel with the paper edge. Now simply tap your finger onto the masking tape carefully so that you make sure that it is stuck completely. Now let us move towards the next part. 4. Project 1 - Hills by the Beach: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the first Painting which is Hills by the Beach. I hope that you've got an exact idea how you have to side tape your watercolor paper carefully. I'm ready with my two colors, which are going to be black and white, a cup of water, my color palette, Tissue paper, and all the brushes on the left-hand portion. So here you can observe an extra brush of size 1 " flat brush. So incase you do not have a 1 " flat brush. That is absolutely fine. You can use your size four flat brush as well. So we are going to apply a thin coat of water initially onto the watercolor paper using this 1 " flat brush. So no need to hurry. You can do this step in a way careful and easy manner. But before that, let me draw a simple horizon line which is going to subtract the sky area and the water body area, which we are going to have for this particular painting. I'm just using a simple pencil and I have drawn a line in-between the watercolor paper. And I'll be using my flat brush initially, and we'll be applying a ten quarter-on-quarter on the top portion, which is about the origin line which we have drawn with the pencil. Now while applying a thin coat of water, no need to hurry at all. Make sure that you have applied water on the complete area of the watercolor paper. Also, you have to take care that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now this is basically known as a wet on wet technique, which we are doing right now. So we have applied at ten god of water initially, so that while we are going to apply color onto the watercolor paper, it can spread in a very smooth and good way. We are going to create a beautiful gradient effect in the sky area. I have taken my size four flat brush and I've taken some white color and my color palette, as you can observe. Now you can take us Pair brush or you can take any waste production that you have and simply take some black color as well into the color palette. Now I'll be using my same plaid rash of size four, and we'll be mixing some amount of black to the white color. And we are going to create a beautiful gray shade. You can add some amount of water so that the color can lose a little bit. And you have to mix it in a very proper and good manner. So no need to hurry at all. Make sure that you do not add excess amount of water to the color that we are mixing right now because we have already applied at ten coat of water onto the watercolor paper. You can already observe the I created a beautiful shade of gray by mixing some white and black together. No need to worry at all incase you do not get the exact shape. It is absolutely fine. They can be a little bit difference in your shade. I've used the same brush of sides board and I have applied few horizontal strokes just above the horizon line as you can observe. So we have applied this color on the bottom portion only. Now to create a beautiful gradient effect, what we are going to do is we are going to apply some solid black color onto the top portion. I have taken the same flat brush size four and add some amount of water onto the black color as you can observe in the color palette. And we are going to apply this solid black color on the top portion, which is right now a little bit white. So just mix the color well and just apply the same horizontal strokes that we have applied on the below. Abortion. Makes sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper that will not look nice when we are done with the painting and we remove the masking tape. I have applied the solid black color till the gray shade that we have applied. Now you can clearly see a line of difference between both the colors. Now we want to create a beautiful gradient effect. So simply just clean your flat brush size for dabbing onto the Tissue paper so that all the excess amount of water will be removed. Make sure that you have cleaned your flat brush in a very careful way and there isn't any color in between. Make it dry and just apply the flat brush between the colors as you can observe. You can also observe the movement of my hand. I'm just applying it in a horizontal direction without moving it on the up or bottom portion. And you can already see how beautifully both the colors are blending together. Now slowly, I'll be moving towards the top portion and you can see how beautifully the color is getting transitioned. So this is how we have created the gradient effect on to the sky area. Now similarly, we have some water body onto the bottom portion, which is just below the horizon line. So the steps are absolutely same. So just have to follow the same steps. Does take some solid black color into your flat brush. Size four, apply a nice horizontal line just below the horizon line You can observe that we want a nice crisp horizon line. So that's why I'm just using the tip of my flat brush. You can add some amount of water to the colors if they are dried. Also, no need to hurry while doing this. Just make sure that you have a very steady hand and try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. So you can see I've applied the gray color on the bottom portion. Now simply make sure that your brushes dry and just blend both the colors together. We are done painting the entire background. You have to leave it for a while to dry completely. Now once it dries up, you can observe the gradient effect carefully. Now, this is how does sky area and the water body is going to be. Now let us start with the first element for this particular painting, which is going to be a beautiful snowy. Now incase, you're not that much confident enough to paint the snow hail directly. What you can do is you can use a simple pencil. You can create the shape of the Hills that I'm doing right now. And you can already observed that Hills generally have a very natural shape. So no need to worry at all. You can also create your own shapes as well and create your own composition. The line is very barely visible, but you can just make it a little bit darker in case you're not he able to see it that much clearly. Now I'll be using my brush off size six round brush basically of ethics. We can also use size four round brush as well. That is also absolutely fine. We are going to take some solid white color in it. And as you can observe, I'm using the tip of the round brush to paint and the difficult areas like the outline basically. And then once you come towards the inner portion, you can just use maximum color and create this beautiful texture. So as you can observe that I'm having very less water in the brush so that we can create a beautiful texture defect with the paint and try to have the less amount of water and more color into the brush. So you can observe the Forest Hill, which is in the center, which is the bigger hill that we have painted. Now, once you're done with that, we are going to paint this on this side area. So again, observe the movement of my round brush. I'm just making a rough area on the middle portion of the entire mountain or we can see the solid surface of the entire mountain. Now, let me paint the hill on the left-hand portion as well. Use that to paint the outline of the entire mountain. And as you come towards the inner portion, you can just observe the movement of my round brush. Also incase, you're not lag much confident enough to paint the mountains directly to the painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape off paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. We can consider this as the force layer of this snowy mountains that we have painted. Now once it dries up, we are going to use the round brush of size four. And we are going to take some vibrant white, again, directly taken from the color. And I'm adding very less amount of water in it. And they are trying to create some depth in the entire snowy mountain. I'm just going to create this lived and white effect on the right-hand portion of the entire mountain. No need to worry at all. It is absolutely fine. You do not have to worry about painting the exact same way I'm painting. You can create your own natural textures and do the entire mountain as well. You can also play with the shapes and sizes of the mountains. You can observe the movement of my round brush. I have done it in a very random and natural way. Now we are going to have some Hills on the front portion. So just simply clean your round brush size four. And this time we are going to take some solid black color in it. So these solid black holes are going to be on the front portion. Can observe that I'm using the tip of my round brush so that I can get a thin line to create the outline for the entire solid black mountain. And no need to hurry. I don't do it in a very slow and steady manner. I'm trying to have the points on the Black Hills and between the White Mountains so that we can create a nice composition between them. And you can also create your own shapes for the Mountains as well. And you can also create your own compositions between the snowy hills and the Black Mountains that we are painting right now. Now, once we are done with their entire outline, what we are going to do is that we are going to fill in solid black color inside the entire outline potion. So no need to hurry at all again. Just make sure that you paint it in a very slow and steady manner. So just take some good amount of color in your brush and apply it inside the outline. Try to have less amount of water incase. You find that your color is dried-up in the color palette. You can add some amount of water and lose it up. Now while painting towards the horizon line, be a little bit careful and try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. So I'm just using the My round brush and very carefully I'm just moving it in a very horizontal direction. Taking care of that. I'm not moving into the water body area. So as you can observe that we have painted the black has also, and you can also see the composition of both the white Hills and the Black Hills. Now let us create some beautiful wrong bodies into the water body area. Now these round bodies are going to be into the water body areas. So they can be a lot of variation in the sizes. You can just try to make some natural shapes on the rocks. So I'm trying to take some rock bodies from the right-hand side. And you can see, I'm trying to create the outline first and then I'm trying to fill in some solid black color inside. So to create a good composition in the entire painting, I'm trying to have a nice rock body on to the bottom right corner, as you can observe right now. So there isn't a specific way of creating this particular rock bodies. Also incase, you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape off paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting so that they can be very minimum chances of making any mistakes. You can already observed that I'm trying to have a nice variation in the sizes of the rock bodies that we have in the water body. Now, let me draw to ten lines which are going to replicate some waves in the water body so that we can create some nice composition. Once we're done with the rock bodies, what we are willing to do is that we are going to make it a little bit realistic. So just take your size four round brush, try to have some black color with very minimum amount of water in it. And you have to create these little horizontal strokes just below the rock bodies. So you can just simply observe the movement of my round brush. Size four, I have taken some amount of black color, having a very less quantity of water in it. And I'm just making these little horizontal strokes. Now you can observe the details in the horizontal strokes as well. As we move towards the bottom portion by making the strokes, you can just decrease the size of the strokes that you are making. We have created this beautiful reflection effects so that the rock bodies doesn't look very simple and plain, can look a little bit realistic and in-depth with the water body. We have created two wave lines that we are going to make a little bit realistic as well. But before that, let us add some white slowly rock bodies in front of the Black Hills as well. I've just created a very natural shape by using the tip of my round brush. So just simply create an outline and then you can fill in solid white color inside. Now similarly, I'll be adding one more rogue body just on the right-hand portion. So the step is absolutely same. You just have to simply create a beautiful outline. You can play with the shapes as you want to. You can create your own natural rock bodies as well. You can play with the composition. And we're also going to have white snow Rob body on the left-hand portion as well, connecting with the wave line. Once we have painted the entire rock body, we are going to add the same kind of reflection effect that we have given in the black rock bodies as well. I'm trying to have to rock bodies on the left-hand portion connecting to each other. And we can create some smaller rock bodies in-between the water body as well. You can observe the movement of my round brush. I have created the solid white patch and we are going to add the reflection effect using the same steps. We are going to have very less amount of water in the entire brush and a little bit of color, which is going to be white. And you have to make these little horizontal strokes just below the rock bodies. Make sure that as you move towards the bottom portion, you can decrease the size so that the reflection effect looks a little bit more realistic. Now similarly, I'll be adding some reflection effect on the rock bodies that we have painted on the left-hand portion as well. Now we have to wave lines which are a part of the entire water body. So to make it look a little bit more realistic, I'm just adding a draft stroke of white line just above the black line that we painted initially. So it can look a little bit like real VM that is coming towards the water body. You can just simply observe the movement of my round brush. I'm just using the tip of the brush to paint the white portion just about the wave line, and to enhance the Blackrock bodies as it is, a very dense and depth format. So we can just add these little horizontal strokes below them as well. So we are almost done with the entire painting. Now let us add a very beautiful element to the entire painting, which is going to be a little moon. I'm using my round brush off size four, I have some solid white color in it. And by using the tip of the brush, you just have to create this little ark. And you can see how beautiful the entire moon looks. Use the tip to paint the painted areas and you can fill in solid white color and make it a little bit thicker on the center portion of the entire moon. No need to hurry a ton in case you find it a little bit difficult to paint directly onto the painting. You can practice it on erupt scrape off paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. We are done when the entire painting now let us remove the masking tape. So while removing the masking tape, be very much careful. Try to remove your masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. And no need to hurry at all. Do it in a very slow and steady manner. But let me remove the last tape as well and you can already observe the beautiful white borders that we get once we remove the masking tape. So as you can see, the final Painting is ready and I'm really happy with the final output. I hope that you enjoyed the first class project and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 5. Project 2 - Light House: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the second painting which I have named as the lighthouse. As you can see, I'm ready with my watercolor paper and we are going to use my 1 " flat brush to apply a ten coat of water initially to the watercolor paper. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. This is basically known as wet-on-wet technique, in which we apply a thin coat of water initially. And then we are going to apply some color so that your brush can move very smoothly on it. Now you can observe and my color palette, I have created a beautiful shade of gray using some black and white together. And now we'll be adding a darker tone of black on the top portion. No need to worry at all incase you have minor difference in the shades. It is absolutely fine. Make sure that you do not take axis amount of water in your color palette because we have already applied a thin coat of water in the background. Now simply clean your size four flat brush, dab it onto the Tissue paper, make it dry and just blend both the colors. And slowly you can move towards the top portion and you can see how beautiful the entire gradient effect looks. Now once the entire background is dry, we are going to start painting the Light House. I'm using my round brush off size four, and I have taken some solid black color in it. We are starting from the top portion, so I have just made a semicircular shape and a small tiny tower on it. Use the tip of your detailing brush or I can see the round brush off size four to paint this thin lines. Now we are going to create the entire towel for the lighthouse. I'm going to create two lines which are diverging and are not parallel. So just have to draw the outline Forest and incase you're not that much confident enough to paint it directly from your Painting Brush. You can just use a simple pencil, create the outline, and then you can fill in solid black color inside. So you can observe that we have painted the entire Light House. And now we are going to create some beautiful landscape area on the bottom portion. So I'm using the tip of my round brush again and we have created a nice outline depicting the entire landscape area. Now once the entire outline is done, we are going to fill in solid black color inside. So just simply take your round brush, have some solid black color inside, and simply you have to fill in solid black color. So make sure that you do not have access amount of water in it and more color. And you can just observe the direction of my round brush. You just have to make these little vertical strokes covering the entire area. Awesome one to hurry at all, tried to do it in a very slow and steady manner, make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. If you feel that the color is getting emptied from the entire brush, you can take some more color from the color palette, add some amount of water, and then you can paint it again. You can see we have almost painting the entire landscape area. I'm just trying to finish it up on the right-hand side, bottom corner. You can try to create your own outline for the Landscape area as well. You can experiment with the outline and you can then fill in solid black color inside. I'm just trying to finish it up. Now. I'll be using my same detailing brush of size four, which is basically a round brush. And we are going to add some beautiful grass are, I can call it as shrubs in the Landscape area. So you just have to use the tip of your brush to create the outline for the entire shrub. We can call it as and just fill in solid black color inside connecting to the Landscape area as well. You can observe the movement of my detailing brush. I'm using the tip of the brush to create this beautiful grass effect. There are also going to add this. Now, let us add some shrubs on the right-hand portion of the landscape as well. The technique is absolutely same. You have to use the tip of your detailing brush. Create these little strokes, making a beautiful grass body. Or I can see the structure of the entire shrub. And then you have to fill in solid black color inside connecting to the entire landscape area. We are creating a connection between the Landscape and leave shrubs so that it can look like an entire cell out. So we are almost done painting the entire shrub area as well. I'm going to add some little shrubs near the lighthouse as well. So I'm just trying to paint it on the right-hand portion, creating little strokes again and filling in solid black color. I'll be using the tip of the detailing brush to add these little strokes so that it can look in more detail. You can also play with the shapes of these shrubs, and you can also create a good composition by placing them here in there. Now, I'll be using the tip of my lettering brush to create some beautiful fence onto the landscape area. You just have to make thick strokes, vertical strokes, basically creating little fence. Let us also add these on the right-hand portion. Now once we have painted the vertical strokes, we are going to connect them by adding two thin lines. So try to use the very tip of your detailing brush to create a thin black line connecting the vertical fence. Incase you feel that your brush is a little bit dry. You can add some amount of water in it. Now to enhance the entire black element, I have taken some solid white color and my detailing brush, which is of size four. And we are going to paint some beautiful vertical lines on the fence. And we are going to create some small windows in the Light House. You can just observe the movement of my detailing brush. I'm just using the tip to paint these little windows. And we are going to create some staircase just below the Light House and a curved manner. And it is not going to have a perfect shape. You just have to make these rough strokes and horizontal direction. And as they move towards the bottom portion, you have to decrease the size of the strokes. Now using the same detailing brush I'm going to paint a beautiful moon. It is a very simple technique. You just have to create a circle and you have to fill in solid white color inside. And we are done with the entire painting. Now let us move towards the last step, which is removing the masking tape. No need to hurry at all, do it in a very slow and steady manner. Try to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe the beautiful white borders that we get once we remove the masking tape. And this is one of the most satisfying part. Once you're done with the entire painting. Now I'll be removing the last tape as well. And we are done. So you can see the final output of the lighthouse. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details. You can see using minimal elements. We have created a beautiful painting. And I hope that you got to learn something from this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 6. Project 3 - Pair of Boats: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the top Painting which is Pair of Boats size. You can already observe. I'm ready with my watercolor paper, and we are going to start by applying a thin coat of water using a 1 " flat brush. In case you do not have a 1 " flat brush, you can use your size four flat brush as well. Now the reason behind applying a thin coat of water initially is because this is known as a wet on wet technique. So you can observe that I'm creating a beautiful gray shade and my color palette and the brush can move easily on the watercolor paper. And we can blend the colors together in a very nice way. So just add some black and white color together and no need to worry about the shade. You might not get the exact shade that I have created, but there can be a little bit change. Now, we are going to create a darker tone, which is going to be near to black. You can add some amount of white in it. So you can see the difference between the bottom gray shade and the above dark abortion. Now simply clean your size four flat brush, dry it up and just blend mode the colors. So you just have to observe the direction of my flat brush. And I have just made a nice gradient effect. So just have to make your brush dry without any color and blend mode the colors. So this is how we have created a beautiful gradient effect. Let it dry for awhile. Now let us start painting the Boats. I'm using my round brush, size four. You can also call it as a retailing brush. And we are going to use the tip of the brush and I'm starting to paint the boat from the top portion. So initially we are going to create a triangular shape, which is basically the huge clot that modes generally have from which the winds move the entire boat. I have created a small triangular shape and we are going to create the body of the boat on the bottom portion. So just have to create the outline initially and then you can fill in black color inside. To make the board look a little bit more realistic and in detail we are going to create two strokes which are going to be some ropes that will make devote a little bit more attractive. So simply use the tip of your detailing brush and create these little two strokes. From the top portion of the triangle tool, the entire board body. So you can see how easy and simple it is incase, you're not that much confident enough to paint the board directly onto the background. What you can do is you can take a rough strip of paper, practice it, and then you can come towards your final painting. Now, since the entire water body is going to be on the bottom portion, we are going to create a beautiful reflection effect. So you just have to make these little horizontal strokes. And as you come towards the bottom portion, does decrease the size of the struggles that we are making. Now. Similarly, we are going to paint another boat which is going to be a little bit bigger in size. The steps and method is absolutely same. You can just use the tip of your round brush. You can create an outline also even incase you want to do that and then you can fill in solid black color inside. But since this boat is a little bit bigger, so you have to make sure that it is bigger in size as well. I have created the triangular shape, fill in solid black color inside. And now we'll be painting the body of the boat, which is going to be on the bottom portion. You can see how I'm using the tip of my retailing brush to fill in difficult areas. Incase you find that the color on your brush is drying. So you can just add some amount of water in the color palette and then you can lose him the cholera. I'll be adding the details to the entire boat, creating these little two strokes. And you can also make some horizontal strokes onto the rope. Now similarly, we'll be painting the reflection effect for this board as well. So you have to make these little horizontal strokes which are going to be bigger near the boat. And as we come towards the bottom portion, you have to decrease the size of the strokes that you are making. Make sure that you have very less amount of water in your brush and more color. And make sure that the brushes a little bit dry as well so that you can create a nice reflection effect. We are done with both the Boats. Now, let us add some rock bodies to the water body so that the Painting can look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. So the method is absolutely same and you have to just simply create a beautiful outline. And you can play with the shapes of the wrong bodies as well. So just create the outline first and then you can fill in solid black color inside. One thing I would like to tell you is that since rock bodies and Mountains generally have a very natural shape, so it does not at all necessary that you try to create the composition and painted the exact same way I have painted. You can create your own style of composition and the position of robotics as well. I have created a bigger rock body on the bottom-left corner, and some smaller rock bodies just above that as well. Let us have some rock bodies on the right-hand side as well. I have created a simple horizon line and I'll be placing the outline first and then I'm filling in solid black color. Now while you're doing this step, no need to hurry at all. Take your time and painted in a very slow and steady manner. Also incase you find it a little bit difficult to create the composition of the rock bodies and to paint it directly to the background. What you can do is you can take your rough scrap of paper or an odd journal on which you practice on a regular basis. You can practice it on that first and then you can come towards your final painting. Now the way we painted reflection for both the Boats, we are going to create the reflection for the rock bodies as well. So that it can look a little bit more realistic and a little bit more in-depth. So you can observe that I'm making these horizontal strokes which are bigger nearer to the rock bodies. And as we move towards the bottom portion, we are just decreasing the size of the strokes that we are making. So while doing this, we are having very less amount of water in the brush so that we can get a nice textured reflection effect. Now I'll be taking my round brush size four again, just cleaning it up with water. And we'll be taking some solid white color. And I have just painted a small moon. On the right-hand side. You can decide the position of your moon as well. It is absolutely fine. It is not at all necessarily that you painted where I have painted. Now once you have decided the position and painted the moon by creating a small circle with solid white color. We are also going to create its reflection effect onto the water body. So the steps and the method is absolutely same, but instead of black color, we are having white color. So we are making these horizontal strokes near to the moon. We are having bigger horizontal strokes. And as we move towards the bottom portion, we are going to decrease the size of the reflection effect. Now we can enhance the rock bodies also since the moon light is falling on the entire painting. So we're just adding these little horizontal strokes of the white color near to the bigger boat, near to the rock bodies as well. So this particular step generally takes some time, so you have to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Also make sure that you have very less amount of water and more color into your brush. And you have to observe the movement of the brush as well. So not only to apply a lot of pressure onto your brush, just keep it very light and simple. So you can observe that I'm adding the white strokes near the rock bodies on the left-hand portion as when we are almost done with the entire painting. Now, let us remove the masking tape. And this is the most favorite part of mine. And as you can observe that we have got a very nice white border once we remove the masking tape. So one thing that you can keep in mind while removing the masking tape is that tried to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. Now I'll be removing the last tape as when we are done. As you're going to observe, the entire painting is ready. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something. Now, let us move towards the next Painting. 7. Project 4 - Rocky Mountains: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the fourth Painting, which is Rocky Mountains. And as you can observe, we are going to have very minimal elements and we are going to create a beautiful painting. My watercolor paper is ready with the masking tape. We are going to apply a ten god of water using a one-inch flat brush. Incase, you do not have a 1 " flat brush. You can use your size four flat brush as well that you can observe and my color palette. And we are going to use some black and white together and create a beautiful shade of gray. No need to worry at all in case you do not get the exact shade of gray that I'm creating right now, it is absolutely fine. There might be some difference. Make sure that you have minimum amount of water and more color since we have already applied a thin coat of water. And this is basically known as wet on wet technique. That we can move our brush in a very smooth way. Now will be taking some dark black color on the upper portion. Since we want to create a beautiful gradient effect, you can already observe the difference between both the colors, the gray shade that we have painted on the bottom portion and the black color that we have applied on the upper portion. That is a thin line of separation. Now simply clean your flat brush and make it dry completely and you just have to move it on the line of separation and this horizontal direction to blend both the colors in a very nice way and let it dry for awhile. Now once the color will be dried, you can observe the beautiful gradient effect. Now we are going to use our detailing brush size four digits, basically a round brush only to create some beautiful mountains. You can observe that I started to paint it from the left-hand portion, creating a beautiful outline. And we are going to have some gap in-between the mountain as well. So you can observe that I have given the outline of that as well. Now once we have painted the entire outline, we have to fill in solid black color inside and only to hurry at all, painted in a very slow and steady manner. Take your time. Also, one more thing that I would like to tell you is that Mountains and drop bodies generally have a very natural shape. So you can create your own natural shape as well. And you can add on in the outer area as well by using some solid black color. You can change the decomposition of the mountain and the position as well. You can observe the movement of my round brush. I'm trying to make the vertical strokes to fill in solid black color so that it can look very evenly once it dries up. Now onto the bottom portion, just try to have a simple horizontal line. We are done painting the first mountain, having some gap in-between. Let us paint another mountain. And again, it is going to have a very natural shape. Only. The steps and method is absolutely same. You can create the outline fast and simply. You can fill in solid black color inside. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the black color that we have applied right now onboard the right and left side. Now, we have painted both the mountain bodies. We can create a beautiful reflection effect of it onto the water body. So the steps of doing this is that you have to make these little horizontal strokes which are going to be bigger near to the mountain. And as we move towards the bottom portion, you have to decrease the size of the reflection effect that we are creating right now. So try to have very less amount of water in your detailing brush and more color and just observe the movement of the brush. This is basically a step where you will need a lot of patients and try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Try to create the reflection effect as much as realistic as possible by applying maximum amount of strokes. And you can also play with the strokes as well. So you can see, I'm trying to create some nice depth below the entire mountain body, which is a little bit bigger in size. Now similarly, we'll be creating the reflection effect for the second mountain body as well. So I'm trying to apply the horizontal strokes, which are going to be a little bit bigger near to the entire mountain body. And as we are going to move towards the bottom portion, I'll be just decreasing the size of the strokes that I'm making right now. Now in case you will find it a little bit difficult to paint it directly onto your gradient background and you do not want to spoil it. What you can do is you can just simply take our simple wraps paper of paper. Or you're practicing our journal in which you practice. You can paint the Mountains. You can decide the composition, you can decide the position as well. And then you can come towards your final painting after practicing. Now by doing this, the chances of making mistakes will decrease a lot. So you can simply do that. You can observe that I have created some beautiful reflection effect onto the second mountain body as well. Now to make the painting look a little bit more attractive and have some more minimal elements to it. I'm trying to have some rogue bodies onto the water body as well. So just simply give a nice outline to the wrong body and create the same reflection effect that we have created for the bigger Mountains as well. So as I told you that Mountains and rock bodies generally will be having a very natural shape. You can create your own natural shapes as well. And you can also change the position of the rock bodies incase you wanted to. Now, applying the reflection effect, the step is absolutely seen. Try to apply some horizontal strokes and just below it. And as you move towards the bottom, potion just increase the size of the strokes that you are making. To make the painting look a little bit more attractive. I'm trying to add some more rock bodies on to the left hand bottom corner and some more rock bodies just above it. You can create your own rock bodies as well. Similarly, we'll be adding one more round body onto the right-hand bottom corner. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper that will not look nice when we remove the masking tape. We are almost done painting all the elements in the entire painting. Now will be Painting beautiful moon. So just use your round brush of size bowl. Clean it up in water, take some solid white color and you just have to paint a small circle in-between the Mountains in the sky area. Now, that is also up to you in case you want to change the position of the moon. That also you can do according to your convenience. Now, I'll be adding the reflection of the moon onto the water body so that the painting will look a little bit more attractive. The steps are absolutely same, but instead of black color, we are having white. This time. We have increased the size of the horizontal strokes near to the moon. And as we move towards the bottom portion, you can just decrease the size of the reflection. You can also just make little strokes near the mountain area to enhance both the Mountains and make it look a little bit more realistic. By adding these little white strokes. You could just have to use the tip of the brush to create these little thin white strokes. Now comes the most favorite part of mine, which is removing the masking tape. While removing the masking tape, make sure that you will remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful Painting. Also make sure that you remove the masking tape one-by-one. You can already observe the beautiful white borders that we get once we remove the masking tape. And we're left with the last one. Let me remove the last masking tape as well. And we are done with the entire painting. You can observe by using minimal elements we have created this beautiful painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 8. Project 5 - Country House: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the fifth Painting, which is a Country House. So again, for this particular Painting, also, we are going to just combine some minimal elements and create a beautiful painting. I'm using my 1 " flat brush to apply a ten coat of water to the entire watercolor paper. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper incase, you do not have a 1 " flat brush. You can use your size four flat brush as well. So now will be just repeating the same step by making a beautiful gray shade, by mixing black and white together. And we are going to apply this color on the bottom portion of the entire watercolor paper. So by using this particular gray shade, I'm going to cover half of the watercolor paper. And on the abortion we are going to take some dark tone of black color. Since we want to create a beautiful gradient effect, you can observe the movement of my flat brush. It's a simple horizontal movement. Makes sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. You can see the line of difference between both the colors. Now simply take your size four flat brush, clean it up in water, make it dry, and blend both the colors together. You can move towards the about potions slowly as well. And you can see how beautiful Bode the colors are looking once they are blended. Now we'll wait for the entire background to dry. Now once the entire background is dry, I'm going to use my round brush size four and we are going to create a beautiful landscape area, which is a little bit higher on the left-hand portion and a little bit lower on the right-hand portion. Once you have painted the entire outline, we are going to fill in solid black color inside. You can also play with the outline. You can create your own natural shape for the landscape as well. Once the outline is done, you can just simply filled solid black color inside. So try to have maximum amount of hello and you're detailing brush and less water so that you can get a nice saturated black color once it dries up. Also make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. That will not look nice when we remove the masking tape. So as you can observe, we are done with the entire landscape area that we have painted on the bottom portion. Now let us start with the first element, which is the Country House on the left-hand portion. So the Landscape area is a little bit higher on this particular area. So to paint this particular house, we're starting with the rule. We are going to use the round brush size four. And I'm using the tip of my brush to paint the roof. The rule for is a little bit smaller on the left-hand portion and a little bit bigger on the right-hand side, since it is having some details in it. Now you can just simply draw a vertical line to paint the walls. And we can just move towards the right area by filling in solid black color inside. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. We are going to have a nice door on the right-hand portion. So we are leaving the space in between. And you can create a beautiful curvature on the top portion. You can use the tip of the round brush to paint in the difficult areas. And also no need to hurry at all. Just take your time and paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Now will be just adding some shrubs near the house. So using the same detailing brush, I'm just leaving these little strokes near the house so that we can add some details to the entire painting. Similarly, we'll be adding some little shrubs on the left-hand portion as well near the house. Incase, you're not that much confident enough to painted directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape off paper initially. And then you can come towards your final painting. I'm trying to add a bigger shrub on the right-hand portion, which is just me oh, by the masking tape to make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now once the outline is done, you can just simply add some solid black color inside. We are adding two little chimneys on the roof of the entire house. Just make these little two vertical lines a little bit thicker. Use the tip of your detailing brush so that you can paint it nicely. I'm just adding a little bit of frame to the dough that we left initially. Now we are going to create a beautiful bridge, which is going to be there on the niche that we have created. On the right-hand portion, the Landscape area, which is basically a little bit lower. I have just simply drawn a horizontal line. And you can make it a little bit thicker. Once we're done with the horizontal line, we are going to add some vertical lines which are going to act as pillows for the entire bridge. Make sure that each and every vertical line that we are Painting are parallel to each other so that it can look aesthetically nice. And I'm trying to make it a little bit thicker also so you can apply a little bit of pressure on your detailing brush. Incase you find that your lines are a little bit thinner. You can add one mode stroke to the vertical lines to make it look a little bit more taker Now once we're done with the vertical lines, we are going to add one more horizontal line on the top portion. Now this time, make sure that this horizontal line is parallel to the first one that we painted. And it is a little bit thinner than the first one. Now, using the same detailing brush size four, take some solid white color in it, and we are going to paint a beautiful window in the entire Country House. We are also going to enhance the chimneys by adding two little vertical lines in it. And the force to window that we have left, which is basically acting as a door as well. To just have to enhance by adding these little vertical lines on any the sides you want to. That is absolutely fine. You can take your call to make the bridge look even more attractive. I'm adding these little white lines to it. And you can observe that it is creating a beautiful contrast with the background. Also, it enhances the entire bridge. I'll be taking some more solid white and my detailing brush. And we are going to paint a beautiful morning just about the bridge. So I'm trying to have the moon on the center portion of the bridge a little bit above from the bridge as well. You can decide the position of the moon according to your convenience as well. It is not at all necessary that you paint it in the exact same way I'm painting. We are also going to and Landscape area by adding these little strokes using the detailing brush. Just simply use the tip of the brush. Now using the same detailing brush, I'm taking some black color again. And we are going to draw one vertical line and a simple horizontal line. Two lines basically act as the frame for the entire window. And the step is really easy and simple, just painted in a very slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your detailing brush and apply minimum pressure so that you can get a very nice thin line. Now I'll be taking some more solid black color and my color palette, as you can observe, I'll be adding some amount of water so that the color can lose a little bit. And we are going to paint some beautiful birds into the sky. No need to worry at all. The step is very easy. You just have to use the tip of your detailing brush and create this reshaped in the sky. Try to have the shape a little bit thicker on these anti-abortion. And as you paint the wings, just to make it very thin, it will take a lot of patients and you have to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Take your diamond painted in case you're not that much confident enough to painted directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a raft, scrape off paper, and then you can come towards your final painting. So we are done. We then dive painting and you can see how beautifully we have combine minimal elements and created a beautiful landscape. Now comes the most favorite part, which is removing 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 the beautiful white border that we get once we remove the entire masking tape. And you can observe the final output once we have removed the masking tape. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details for the entire painting. I hope that you enjoyed painting this particular painting and got to learn something. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 9. Project 6 - The Dense Lake: Hey everybody are most welcome to the sixth Painting, which is The Dense Lake, says you can observe my watercolor paper is ready with the masking tape. I'll be using my one-inch flat brush to apply a thin coat of water initially and make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Incase, you do not have 1 " flat brush. You can use your size four flat brush as well to apply the ten coat off water. As you can observe in my color palette, the step is absolutely seemed to create the gradient background. You have to apply a nice shade of gray mixing black and white together, applied in the half portion of the entire watercolor paper. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. You can observe the direction of the flat brush as well. It's as simple horizontal movement, tried to have less amount of water and more color. Now we will be simply taking some darker shade of black on the upper portion. The method is absolutely same. Just make the horizontal directions. Now simply take your size four flat brush, clean it up and water. Make it dry using your Tissue paper. And just applied on the line of separation between the black and gray shade. And simply let the entire background right. Now you can observe the entire gradient effect carefully. Now once then died, background is dry. We are going to create a simple horizon line which is going to separate the water body and this guy area. Now just above the horizon line, they are going to have some beautiful trees which are very bushy. So you have to use your round brush size four and simply make some little strokes on the outer area, which is going to create the entire shape of the tree. And you can observe that I'm just making these thin strokes in random directions, creating a beautiful natural shape of a tree. Now once you're done with the entire outline area, we are going to fill solid black color inside. You just have to leave the strokes on the outer portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the false tree that we have painted. Now similarly, we are going to create some more trees which are very bushy. But as we move towards the left hand portion, we are going to decrease the size of the trees that we are painting right now. Incase, you want to create your own composition of the Trees. And you can play with size and position of the Trees. That is also absolutely fine. It is not at all necessary that you paint it in the exact same way I'm painting. Now you can observe that as I'm moving towards the left-hand portion, I'm trying to decrease the size of the trees. Now. I'll be painting the very small tree. Then we are going to have these smallest tree. So this is how we are going to create a beautiful perspective. Now slowly we are going to increase the size of the trees that I'm painting right now. These steps to paint the entire tree is going to be exactly same the way we painted the Trees initially. Incase, you're not that much confident enough to paint the trees directly to your final painting. And you do not want to spoil the entire background. What you can do is you can practice it on a lab, scrape off paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. As you can observe, that we are done painting all the trees just above the horizon line, makes sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now to create some depth and details to the entire water body, what we are going to do is that we are going to create some beautiful reflection effect of the Trees into the water body. Now, according to the size of the trees that you're observing just above the horizon line. They are going to create the reflection effect. Now near to the Trees, you have to create these little horizontal lines. And as we move towards the bottom portion, we are going to decrease the size of the horizontal strokes that we are making according to the size of the tree. Tried to have these horizontal strokes. As you can observe, this is how we are going to create variation in the reflection effect as well. Make sure that you do not have access amount of water in your detailing brush. Try to have more color so that you can create these rough horizontal strokes incase, you will find that your brushes very much dry. Then you can add some amount of water into the color palette. You can also observe the difference in the reflection effect that we have painted. There is variation in reflection effect as well. You can see the bigger reflection effect and the smaller one according to the size of the trees that we have painted. So we are almost done painting the entire reflection effect as well. And make sure that you do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. No need to hurry at all. Now we are going to add some beautiful lotus leaves onto the water body. So these leaves are also going to have some variation in sizes so that we can create a beautiful depth and detail. I'll be using my round brush size four. And you can observe that I'm using the tip of the round brush to create these oval shapes. Having some distorted shape, basically not an exact oval-shaped. So there is a cut in-between. You can just paint it in are smaller and bigger size according to your convenience. You can also create your own composition of the leaves together as well. Just make sure that the leaves are very much flat and you create some good variation in sizes. Also, no need to hurry while doing this. You can just take your time. Painted in a very slow and steady manner. I'm just increasing the size of the leaves on the right-hand bottom portion as well. Also incase, you find it a little bit difficult to paint directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape off paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. By doing this, the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Also, you can just simply create your own composition of the leaves and you can do radiation and sizes as well. So we are done painting the leaves on the bottom portion. Now let us add some very tiny and smaller leaves on the about portion, which is just below the horizon line. So the steps and matter are absolutely same. You just have to create these little oval shapes using the tip of your detailing brush, having solid black color inside. Now using the same detailing brush, try to have some solid white color inside and paint a small circle just above the smallest tree that we painted. So this is how you have to paint a moon and you can decide its position according to your convenience as well. I have painted it just above the smallest tree that we painted. Now we're going to add the reflection effect of the entire moon onto the water body so that the painting looks a little bit more aesthetic. So the technique is absolutely same. The reflection effect that we painted for the trees, but this time we are using white color. So just simply make horizontal strokes. And these strokes are a little bit bigger near the horizon line. And as we move towards the bottom portion, we are going to decrease the size of the reflection effect. To decrease the size of the horizontal strokes that you are making. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. So we are done with the entire painting. Now comes the last step, which is removing the masking tape. And which is a very satisfying step as well. So try to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe the beautiful white border that we get once we remove the masking tape. You can observe how beautifully we have combine some minimal elements and created a beautiful painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 10. Project 7 - Forest Road: Hey everybody are most welcome to the seventh Painting, which is a Forest Road. Basically. You can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape. I'm using my 1 " flat brush to apply a thin coat of water initially, make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Incase, you do not have a one-inch flat brush. You can simply use your size four flat brush as well. Now you can observe in my color palette, I have taken a nice shade of gray, mixing black and white color together. No need to worry at all. Incase you do not get the exact shape. It is absolutely fine. There might be a little bit of difference. Now, on the upper portion, we are going to apply some solid black color. So you have to just observe the color palette. I'm taking a darker tone of black, add some amount of water and more color since we have already applied a thin coat of water onto the watercolor paper, no need to have more amount of water in your brush. It will automatically move in a smooth way. You can see the line of difference. Now we are going to blend both the colors. Just simply clean your flat brush, dry it on the Tissue paper, and just make these horizontal strokes blending mode the colors. Let the background right. Once the background is dry, we are going to paint the landscape area. So now I'll be using my round brush off stifle and I'm using the tip of the brush to paint the outline for the Landscape area. You can observe. We have just kept a slope on the right-hand bottom corner and we are going to fill in solid black color. No need to hurry at all. Try to observe the movement of my brush. I'm just making these little vertical strokes, having good amount of color in it and less water, make sure that there isn't any space left in-between. So we are almost done applying the solid black color inside the Landscape portion. You can use the tip of your detailing brush to paint in the difficult areas. Also, it does not at all necessary, all compulsory to paint the landscape area the exact same way I have painted, you can create your own composition and position of the road as well. Now using the same round brush, we have created some more Landscape area on the right-hand bottom corner. Now let us paint the first element, which is going to be a simple house. So I'll be using my round brush size four. I have some solid black color in it. You can see that I'm using the tip of the brush to create the outline initially. So we're starting with the roof portion. Once the entire outline is done, we have to fill in solid black color inside. And you can just observe the movement of my detailing brush. Try to blend it with Landscape area so that disallowed can look complete. So as you can observe in gotten beautiful shape for the entire house, we are going to add a little shrub just on the right-hand portion of the house. Just make these little strokes. I'm also going to add a little chimney on the roof so that the House can look a little bit more attractive. Now on the remaining portion of the entire landscape area, we are going to create some beautiful trees, which are going to have different sizes. And we are going to create a beautiful composition. The steps to paint the entire Trees very easy and simple. You just have to create little strokes on the top portion and you just have to apply to vertical strokes, creating a nice mask for the entire tree. You can create your own composition for the trees as well. So there can be combination of two trees together, one single tree, then again two trees together. So that means you can create your own composition of the entire coldest. Now incase, you find it difficult to paint it directly to the final painting. And you do not want to spoil your beautiful gradient background. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape off paper or an Art Journal. And then you can come towards your final painting. So by doing this, you can just minimize the chances of making mistakes. You're going to observe the variation of the sizes and the length of the tree that I'm creating right now. I'm also trying to have some gap in-between the Trees as well. To add some little details to then dietary. What you can do is you can just leave these little strokes on the outline of the entire tree so that the tree can look a little bit more attractive. Now to paint the trunk, just simply use your round brush and use it to create a small vertical line which is going to be attached with the Landscape area on the bottom portion. You can already observe that I'm almost done painting the trees. Let us add some more trees on the right-hand portion so that the painting looks a little bit more attractive. I'm adding two more Trees and a combination. The method and steps are absolutely same. Also, you can create the variation in the sizes, and you can also experiment with the shapes as well. So we can paint one more bigger tree. And the method is absolutely same. You just have to leave these little strokes. Strokes can be in any direction. You can keep it on the bottom portion as well and just simply paint the tree trunk. Now we are going to paint a beautiful moon. Just use your round brush and paint a small circle and between the trees, you can also decide the position according to your convenience as well. Now to enhance the road, I'll be using the detailing brush and applying these little thin strokes near the outline of the entire Road. You can observe how beautiful the entire Road looks and it gives a nice contrasting effect. Ten hands, the chimney and the outline of the house. You can create these little strokes near them as well. Now we'll be painting a small window in the entire house using solid white color. Tried to create a nice square shape. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Now to enhance the entire landscape area, we are creating these little white strokes on the top portion of the entire land so that they can be a difference between the house area and the Landscape portion. To make a beautiful frame, we are using some solid black color, just make us simple vertical line and a horizontal line in-between the entire square. We are going to add some shrubs on the top portion of the Landscape area so that it can look a little bit more attractive. So just have to use the thin stroke of your detailing brush. Just use the tip and add these little strokes creating small shrubs. We are adding some more shrubs and between the trees as well. You have to paint it any other tree trunk, make sure that it doesn't merges with the entire tree that we have painted. You can keep it on the bottom portion. So now we are almost done with the entire painting to enhance the details in the entire tree, what we are going to do is that we are going to leave these little strokes on the entire tree bush that we have painted so that it can look a little bit more attractive with the beautiful gradient effect that we have painted in the background. No need to hurry at all. Observe it very carefully. We are almost done with the entire painting. Now comes the most interesting part, which is removing the masking tape. Try to remove your masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe the beautiful white borders that we get once we remove the entire masking tape. You can see how beautifully we have just used some minimal elements and created a nice painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something. Let it dry for a while carefully. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 11. Project 8 - The Pine Trees: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the eighth painting, which is the pine trees. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper, with the masking tape. I'll be using my one-inch flat brush to apply a thin coat of water initially on it. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. So this is basically known as a wet on wet technique on which we just apply a thin coat of water initially. And then we will be applying the color so that the brush can move in a smooth way. You can observe in my color palette, I have created a nice shade of gray using some black and white color together. Mix it well. It is not at all necessary that you get the exact shade that I have created. There might be a little bit of difference and that is absolutely fine. Now will be taking the darker tone of black on the top portion. And you have to slowly move towards the bottom potion. Applying these horizontal strokes, you can clearly observe a line of difference between the black and gray shade. We are going to blend it to make a nice gradient effect. Clean your flat brush of size four, make it dry and just blend the colors together. Now let the background dry for a while. Once the entire background is dry, you can observe the gradient effect carefully. So now we are going to paint some beautiful pine trees in the entire gradient background. Let me explain the entire steps. You have to just use your round brush of size four. And we're going to use the tip of the round brush to create a simple vertical line. In case you're not that much confident enough to paint the vertical line directly from the brush. What you can do is you can draw a line with pencil and then you can use your painting brush. Now once you have drawn the entire line, we are going to start creating these little strokes which are going to be very rough and random, but they are going to have variation in sizes. Start painting these strokes from the top portion. And as we move towards the bottom part, we are going to increase the size of the strokes that we are making. It's a very easy and simple technique to create a beautiful pine tree. You just need to practice it a little bit. In case you're not that much confident enough to paint the pine tree directly to your final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scribble paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. Now, I'm going to have one more pine tree on the right hand portion of the forest pine tree. But this time the pine tree is going to be a little bit smaller than the first one. So you have to paint the vertical line a little bit smaller. And these steps are absolutely same. You can observe we have painted too beautiful pine trees. Now we're going to paint some more pine trees on the left hand portion. But these pine trees are going to be very smaller in size. So initially I'm going to create the vertical lines deciding the position of the pine trees. And as I said, you can draw the vertical lines using your pencil as well. And then you can use European brush. The steps are going to be absolutely same. You can create your own composition of the pine trees as well. You can decide the position according to your convenience. Now, I'll be making these little strokes starting from the top portion and as I move towards the bottom, but I'll just simply increase the size of the strokes that I'm making. These are the simple steps of creating some beautiful pine trees for the entire painting. Now let us create some beautiful reflection effect since these binaries are on a water body. And we have some little landscape in between the binary and the water body. We are going to create some dense reflection effect. It is a very simple step. You just have to create these little horizontal strokes, which are going to be very much dense near the pine tree. And as we move towards the bottom potion, we're just going to decrease the size of the strokes that we are making. Try to have very less amount of water and more color in your detailing brush. Let me remind you once again, it's around rush of size four. You can observe the movement of my round brush as well. I'm not applying too much pressure. Just make it very lightly and try to practice it. Make sure that you do not apply a lot of pressure that will give you a solid black color in the reflection effect. And we don't want it to be that much dense. In case you're not that much confident enough or find it difficult to paint the reflection effect directly to the final painting. And you do not want to spoil your gradient effect. You can practice it on a scrap of paper or on your art journal initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to minimize the chances of making mistakes. So now I'll be adding the horizontal strokes on the entire water body in a random and natural way so that the water body looks a little bit dense and it can give a nice attractive effect to the entire water body. No need to hurry at all. Tried to apply these strokes in a very slow and steady manner. You can also create your own composition of these strokes as well. Now let us add some little rock bodies in the water body so that the painting looks a little bit more attractive. I'm just trying to add these little solid black patches having some natural shapes. As you all know, that mountains and rock bodies generally have a very natural shapes. So you can create the outline initially. Then you can fill in some solid black color inside. The process of getting the reflection effect is going to be absolutely same. You have to create these little horizontal strokes, which are going to be bigger and near to the entire body. And as you move towards the bottom portion, you can just simply decrease the size of the strokes that you're making. Try to have less amount of water and more color into your brush. Don't apply too much pressure just to make it very lightly. I'm also adding a little bit of rock bodies on the right-hand portion as well. And you can add some brown bodies in-between the binaries as well. On the bottom portion. Also, it is not at all necessary to paint it in the exact same way I have painted. You can create your own composition and position of the pine trees and the rock bodies as well. You can try to experiment as well. Now, I'll be painting a beautiful moon in the sky area. Just take your round brush, size four, make a small circle wherever you want to. I have just placed it on the center portion. Now to add the reflection effect of the moon onto the water body, what we're going to do is instead of black, we have taken some solid white color in the round brush. And you have to make these little horizontal strokes. Again, the method is absolutely same. Near to the moon, you have to make bigger horizontal strokes. And as you move towards the bottom portion, you can just simply decrease the size of the strokes that you're making. So the step is very easy and simple. Just try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Try to have some patients don't apply too much pressure to the brush, just keep it very light. You can observe how beautiful the entire reflection effect looks for the entire painting. Now comes the last step, which is one of my favorite step, which is removing the masking tape. So try to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already absorbed the beautiful white borders that we get once we remove the entire masking tape. So we are almost done removing the entire masking tape as well. Let me remove the last masking tape as well. So you can observe how beautifully we have just used some minimal elements and created a elegant painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed painting this particular landscape and got to learn something. Now let us move towards the next painting. 12. Project 9 - Flock of Birds: Hey everybody are most welcome to the ninth Painting, which is Flock of Birds. Size you can observe. I'm ready with my watercolor paper and the masking tape. We are going to use a 1 " flat brush to apply a thin coat of water initially. And this is basically known as the wet on wet technique, so that when we apply the color, your brush can move very smoothly. No need to worry at all. In case you do not have a one-inch flat brush, you can use your size four flat brush as well. Now in my color palette, you can observe we are making a nice shade of gray, mixing some black and white color together. Try to have less amount of water and more colors since we have already applied a thin coat of water initially, you can simply observe the movement of my flat brush. It's a simple horizontal movement. Make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now we are going to take a darker tone of black color you can observe in my color palette. And similarly, we are going to apply the horizontal strokes on the top portion. Now to blend both the colors, just simply clean your flat brush, make it dry on to the Tissue paper, and just apply the horizontal strokes in-between both the colors. So this is how you have to blend both the colors. Now let the background dry for awhile. Now we're going to start with the first element, which is going to be a beautiful branch. So I'm using my round brush size four, having some solid black color in it. And I'm using the tip of the brush to create a beautiful natural branch, a tree branch, basically, it is absolutely fine. You can create your own natural shape also. So initially we are going to start with a main branch, which is going to be a little bit thicker. You can apply multiple strokes. Then we are going to create these thin branches coming out of it. I'm using the tip of my detailing brush as you can observe. Now once you move towards the end portion of the entire branch, you have to just apply the least pressure on the brush so that you can create a nice thin line. Also, it is not at all unnecessary or compulsory to paint the branch in the same way I have painted, you can create your own composition and shape of the branch as well. We can also add these little brush strokes. We are almost done painting the branch. Now let us add some small leaves in the branch area. So we just have to use the tip of your detailing brush and create these little leaves. We are basically adding this particular element to make the branch look a little bit more attractive. They can be variation in the sizes of the leaves as well. And you can add them wherever you want to. But we're not going to add too many leaves, just some amount of leaves that will look a little bit nice with the gradient background. Also in case you're not that much confident enough to paint the branch and the leads directly to the painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a raft strip of paper initially. And then you can come towards your final painting. Now, we're starting with the first board, which is sitting on the branch to just take your detailing brush, use the tip of your brush and just paint a small circular shape, which is going to be the head of the board. And you can add a thin stroke on the right-hand portion to create its beak. Now using the tip of the brush, I'm going to create the body of the entire board. So starting with the outline first, just create the entire shape of the body. And then you can fill in solid black color inside. You can already observe that we have created the upper body of the entire board. And it is looking really nice as well. This particular element might be a little bit tough to paint. It will take some time and patients to paint, no need to worry at all. Incase you feel that it is a little bit difficult or you're not that much confident enough to painted directly to the final painting. You can practice it on a rough scrape off paper first and then you can come towards your final painting. This will minimize the chances of making mistakes. Now we're going to paint the board, which is flying in the sky. The steps are absolutely same, but this time we are going to have open wings, starting with the head. As usual, we are going to create a beautiful circle shape. Add a little strokes to create the beak. Then they are going to use the tip of the brush to create the wings. Just simply add the outline Forest. Now once we are done with the outline of the wings, we are going to create these little strokes, which are going to be the feathers of the bud. This is basically a step there. You will need a lot of patients and you have to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. You can observe how beautifully I'm trying to create these little thin strokes to create the feather of the entire board. Now we're going to create a steel which is going to be on the back portion, just have to leave some little strokes and the no motion. Now you can observe that we are done with the entire outline for the board. We are going to fill in solid black color inside the cell outlooks complete. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that there isn't any space left between. Also can play with the shape and size of the board as well. You can create your own composition of the branch and boards together Now next up we have another board which is going to be on the right-hand portion. This time the board is going to have both its wings in one direction. So again, we'll be starting with the four-step, which is painting the head, creating a small circular shape and a big coming out of it using the tip of your detailing brush. Then we are going to paint the wings, which are going to be in one direction. Just have to create the outline and fill in solid black color inside. Leave thin strokes from the ring so that the Fido's can look more in detail. So you're going to observe that we are done with all the three Birds and we have painted it in a very nice way. There is a good composition between the branch and the Boats. You can also create your own composition. You can play with the shape and sizes of the Birds and the branch together. Now let me add some rogue bodies on the bottom portion so that the painting looks a little bit more complete and aesthetic. A very simple and easy technique. You have to create an outline for the rock body in the water body. And then you have to fill in solid black color inside. Creating a beautiful sellout. You can create the composition of the rocks also according to your convenience, since rock bodies have a very natural shape. And then we'll be adding some nice reflection effect, which is going to be some horizontal strokes near the wrong body, which are going to be a little bit bigger. And as you move towards the bottom portion, you can just decrease the size of these tools that you are making. Let us add some more rogue body which are going to be a little bit smaller in size. Johnson below the words that we have painted. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Also, you can practice it initially on a rough scrape off paper, and then you can come towards your final painting. We are done with the rock bodies now let me take my round brush off size four and we are having some solid white color in it. Just draw a simple circle which is depicting the moon. You can decide the position according to your convenience as well. I have just tried to take it on the center portion. Now using the same detailing brush, you have to make these little thin strokes on the upper portion of the branch, enhancing the details. Now using the same detailing brush, we're going to create some beautiful reflection effect onto the water body so that they can be a difference between the water body and the sky area. We are using the same white color, making some horizontal strokes which are bigger on the top portion. As I move towards the bottom part, I have just decreased the size of the stone that I'm making. So we are done with the entire painting and now comes the most favorite part of mine, which is removing the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe how beautiful the white borders look once you remove the entire masking tape. Now let me remove the last masking tape as well. So again, you can observe that using minimal elements we have created a beautiful, elegant Painting. You can definitely experiment with all the elements by creating your own composition as well. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next Painting. 13. Project 10 - Coconut Trees: Hey everybody, you are most welcome to the tenth Painting, which is Coconut Trees, which is the last painting of this particular class. So I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape. And I'm going to apply a thin coat of water using my 1 " flat brush. This is basically known as the wet on wet technique. In case you do not have 1 " flat brush, you can use your size four flat brush as well. Now we are going to apply a gray shade on the bottom portion to create a beautiful gradient effect. Try to mix black and white color together and create a beautiful gray shade. Need to worry at all. You might not get the exact shade that I have created. It is absolutely fine. There might be some difference. Now we are going to apply our darker shade of black on the top portion. Try to have less amount of water and more color into your brush. Since we have already applied a thin coat of water initially, you can observe a line of difference between both the colors. Now we are going to create a beautiful gradient effect. Just simply clean your flat brush and make it dry completely. And then you have to blend both the colors together, creating a beautiful gradient effect. Now once we have applied the flat brush, which is completely dry in-between both the colors. Let the background dry for awhile. Now once then dial background is try. We are going to start with the fourth element, which is going to be a big Coconut tree. On the left-hand portion, I'm using my round brush size four. I have some solid black color in it. And we have to create these little thin strokes, which are going to be the leaves of the entire Coconut tree. So initially we are deciding the position of the leaves which is adding a main branch. No need to hurry at all. Just make sure that you paint it in a very slow and steady manner. I'm trying to connect all the branches together at the center point. And you can also see that I've made the strokes a little bit smaller on the bottom portion. Once you're done with the main branches, we are going to add some little thin strokes on the main grunge using the same solid black color. Try to have less amount of water and more color into your detailing brush. Use the tip of the brush to create these little strokes. You just have to apply very less pressure and just make these little strokes. And you can observe this is how the coconut tree leaves looks generally awesome. One to hurry at all, try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Incase you are not that much confident enough to paint the Coconut Trees leaves directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can take a rough scrape off paper or a practicing our journal. Practice the coconut tree on that fourth and then you can come towards your final painting. This will minimize the chances of making mistakes. On the upper portion also, we are going to repeat the same steps by applying these little thin strokes connecting to the main branch. You can add variation in the sizes of the leaves as well. So as you can observe, we are almost done painting the bigger Coconut tree. Now we are going to have 1 mol coconut tree, which is going to be just on this side of the first one. And it is going to be a little bit smaller in size, but the method and steps are absolutely same. We are going to create the branches. And then we'll be leaving these little strokes aside. Since this particular tree is a little bit smaller in size, so you will need a lot of patients and you have to paint it very slowly so that you do not end up spoiling your painting. So we are done Painting Buddha Coconut leaves. Now we are going to have a nice Landscape area just below it. I'll be using the same detailing brush size four, which is basically round brush only, have created a nice outline for the Landscape. And you can create your own composition as well. And we are going to fill some solid black color inside. Now while painting the solid black color inside, make sure that there isn't any space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. That will not look nice when we remove the masking tape. Also tried to have more amount of color, solid black color. You can observe that in the color palette and less amount of water incase, you find that the brushes dry, then you can add some amount of water in the color palette to lose the solid black color. Now we are going to have some rogue bodies on the top portion as well. So I'm just trying to create a beautiful outline and then we are going to fill some solid black color inside. You're going to have some nice variation between the rock bodies. So you can create a bigger one and a smaller one. So you can have different sizes and you can also create your own composition as well. Once we are done painting the rock bodies, we are going to add some nice reflection effect to it as well to create some more depth and detail. Since the rock bodies are onto a water body, that's fine. To do that, we are going to add some nice horizontal strokes near to the rock body. Now these particular strokes are going to be a little bit bigger near to the rock body. And as you move towards the bottom portion, you have to decrease the size of the strokes that you are making. No need to hurry at all. Try to make the strokes in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that you have very less amount of water in your brush and more color. We are almost done with the rock bodies as well. Now let me take my round brush size four again, clean it up and just take some solid white color. We are going to paint a beautiful moon near to the rock bodies on the right-hand portion. You can also decide the position of the moon according to your convenience as well. You can experiment with the shape and sizes also. Now to create its reflection effect onto the water body. This time instead of black, we are having white color. So we are going to make these little horizontal strokes. So start by making bigger horizontal strokes near to the moon. And as you move towards the bottom portion, you can simply decrease the size. Then hands the Landscape area. I'm using the thin detailing brush creating these little strokes onto the rock body to enhance it, create a beautiful contrast. We are done with the entire painting. Now comes the most favorite part, which is removing the masking tape. So try to remove the masking tape and an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can already observe how beautiful the entire white border looks. Once you remove the entire masking tape. Make sure that you don't this particular step in a very slow and careful way. Now let me remove the last masking tape as well. And we're done. Here is the final output of the entire painting. And you can observe how beautifully we have used minimal elements. And we have combined them together to create a beautiful elegant Painting. So you can absorb on the left-hand bottom corner that while removing the masking tape, I took out some portion of the color. So this might happen even if they tried to remove the masking tape very slow and in a careful manner, but no need to worry. Just take some solid black color and you only dealing brush and just cover the area up by applying a little thin stroke near to the corner area. This is how you can cover this particular portion. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details of the entire painting. Let it dry completely. I hope that you enjoyed creating the last painting and got to learn something 14. Class Conclusion: In order to create some beautiful landscapes and seascapes, I came up with a glass which needs minimal Art Supplies. And by combining minimal elements, we have created some beautiful paintings. Grading this class for all my dear students was a great experience for me. And I made a lot of mistakes while creating all the Class Projects. And that is something I always tell my students do not get afraid of making mistakes. As an artist, I always suggest my students to maintain an arginine, to practice on a regular basis and keep a record of your artwork. I would be really excited to see all of your class projects into the project gallery. Phaedo, ask any doubts or questions you have related to the class. Let me know your reviews for the class. As it encourages me alone. You can definitely explore and create your own Landscapes and Seascapes, paintings as well. Keep practicing and happy painting