Acrylic Painting : For Absolute Beginner

1. Introduction: So in this, we will be learning five different types of painting, all different types and very vibrant and very beautiful paintings. We will be learning in this entire course. So we will first start with the materials which we will be needing for doing the entire painting. Then comes the brushes and brushes techniques, how to use the brushes, then the color theory, the color wheel, everything we learn from scratch, the color combinations, how we can mix and match the colors. Everything we will learn in detail in this. And apart from that, we will be learning five types of blending. So this is one type, which in this we are using one color blending, then comes three types of pine tree, then the complete painting, then comes the second two color blending with two types of palm tree complete painting. The second painting. Then comes the painting with three layers. Then the complete painting of the tree. Then comes the fourth one, which is the circular motion blending. Then nice and beautiful candle painting. Then the last one is bouquet effect, blending with nice beauty of the winter scape, here we will be learning in detail. So without wasting our time, let's start with our first lesson that is the color wheel. 2. Materials Required: Welcome back. So let's start with the materials. So these are the materials. The first is the known book, which is 300 GSM and 100% cotton pressed. So whenever you are doing any acrylic painting, use 300 or 300 plus GSM paper. These are quite thick papers, as you can see. Apart from that, you can also use the uh, Everything is written. When you buy the books, everything is written over there. Now, this is the canvas sheet, which is a ten sheet acid free, and it is primed already. Prime means gesso is applied. This white gesso is applied on this. This also you can use. But in this case, we will be using our normal sheet paper sheet. And this MDF board also you can use for painting, acrylic painting. Anything you can use apart from glass, so then let's talk about the colors which we will be using. So we'll be mostly using primary and the neutral colors. So three primary colors and two neutral colors blue, yellow, red, black and white. Whatever blue is ium blue and yellow is lemon yellow, white and red is cadmium red. So these are the tape which we'll be using masking tape, then the palette knife. This is the glass plate which I will be using for mixing the colors. Then comes the cloth for wiping your brushes. Then comes the two jars. Now here you can see, I already have two jars in this. You can take two separate jars, one for clean water, and one for dirty water. All these are materials which we will be needing apart from this pencil if needed. So now let's see what all brushes we will be ding. The first brush is the flat brush which we will be kneading. I'll show you how to use those brushes as well here. Synthetic brushes mostly we use when we do the painting. So the first brush is the flat brush. Why it is flat because again, the shape of the brush is flat. That's why it is called as flat brush. So it comes in different sizes like one, two, four, six, eight, ten. This is, um, a normal size brush. Now, the size of brush again depends upon the size of paper. You can see mostly this brush is used for blocking the things, giving textures to the painting. Using the tip of the brush, just making a straight line. All these types of things we use with this type of brushes. Mostly in these classes, we'll be using these brushes for texture and blocking of the entire painting. The second is the round brush. So round brush also comes in different sizes. Varieties of sizes it comes. It has a nice fine tip on the top with a round shape. This is a round brush of size too, which I'm using here. This is very good for creating the circular motions or circular painting if you want to do, we can use the round brushes. Then for creating some nice leafy textures, some nice, tree lines, some branches and stems. All these are used for with this brush, some nice tree lines if you want to use, you can use these brushes. Then comes the, um, when you use the tip of the brush, it will create a thin line, but when you will use the whole entire brush, it will create a thick line. This is how the round brushes is used. Now let's talk about another brush that is the rigor brush, which is, again, very important brush. Let's see how we can use that brush. This rigor brush or liner brush apt same the rigor brush has a little longer hair, and it is very thin brush which is mostly used for doing the lining and outlining of the things. It is also called as liner or rigor brush. Let's see how this brushes. Now, this also comes in different sizes, actually, two by zero, three by zero, zero, zero is the biggest, then two by zero, small, then the smallest is three by zero. So this is nicely used for drawing the lines. And whenever we use these rigger brushes, again, you have to use a very liquid form of color. Then only you'll be able to create some nice fine lines. Try to practice on straight lines, horizontal vertical diagonal, all these types of lines. And when you use the entire brush, it creates a little thicker line. These are the techniques which we use in this brushes, some small lines. Try to practice the lines by making the color a little fluid. Then only you'll be able to create some nice fine lines. Now the fourth brush is the fan brush. This all comes in different sizes, zero, double zero, triple zero. These are the sizes of brush. Again, it also comes in, written as one by zero, two by zero, three by zero. Now, this also comes in different sizes to four, six, 810. As the number increases, the sizes also increases. Again, I will be telling the size of the brush depends upon the size of your paper. So in this case, the paper which I will be using here, is mostly a five size paper. So now comes the fan brush. Fan brush is, again, it's like a fan on the top with Bristol this is a Bristol brush. So here for textures, I will be using this fan brush. It is not a synthetic brush. It is a Bristol brush. So bristle brush is quite hard brushes which are very good for creating textures. Again, very damp brush I have to use, and you can see how the textures are being created when we use these damp brush. This brush is also very useful for creating different types of textures and mountains, waters, and trees. So one of them is creating pine tree, which I will show you in the upcoming classes, so how to create these textures in the pine tree as well. So these are all the brush types which we will be using here. So, very useful all these brushes are you can use in any form of painting. So without any wasting our time, let's start first with the color wheel. 3. ColorWheel Theory: Hello, friends. Welcome back. So now let's start with first. Let's see what are the primary colors. As you can see, I have already taken out all the three primary colors, that is ralium blue, cadmium red, and lemon yellow. These are the three primary colors we will be using. Now, acrylic is a polymer type thing which when dries, it becomes rigid. Even if you drop a single drop of water, nothing will happen. So again, here, water is used as a binding medium for mixing, for blending. Here, we use water as a medium. Now let's talk about the colors. What are primary colors? Primary colors are nothing but the colors which we cannot make. That's why they are called as primary colors. So these are the three primary colors, as you can see, blue, red, and yellow. I'm just making the chart so that you can see what all are the primary colors and how the secondary colors are formed. Now, the secondary colors are again formed by mixing the two primary colors. Let's first add the primary colors here by using my flat brush. I will just dip the brush in water and I will grab the color directly and just put this yellow color. Now the second color, wash off your brush nicely before using any other color. Wash off it nicely and then take this clear water and then use another color. Every time you have to follow this process whenever you are using a different color. Again, I will wash off my brush and grab that red color. So this is how you have to wash off your brush and then use the color. You can see I haven't put water in these colors. I'm directly using the color. The water is only on my brush. Now when we combine these two colors, that is red and yellow, again, the secondary color will be formed, that is orange color. Now the red intensity is more and yellow intensity is less. So whenever you are mixing the colors, try to add more yellow and less red. Then only you'll get that perfect orange color. Similarly, the red and blue gives a violet color. Again, here also the red intensity is more. Try to add less red and more blue to get a nice violet color. This is also a secondary color. Why they are called a secondary color because two colors are mixed to form the second color. Now we will mix this blue and yellow to get another secondary color that is green. These are the three secondary colors which are formed by mixing the two primary colors. Now let's mix the color and see how the secondary colors are formed. I've just taken this yellow and red mix. Just mixing red and yellow. And if you want to lighten the color to more orange, just add a little more yellow to this to get a nice orangy shade. So just grab your brush and see what color is formed when we mix these two primary colors. It's a nice, fine orange color which is formed. Now comes another color which is Nagin, you have to wash off your brush before using any other color. And also the palette knife you have to wash. Now let's mix this blue, little bit of blue and and little I will take red as well. So now the blue quantity is more than red, since the red intensity is more. That's why I have added less red. Likewise, when you are mixing the colors, try to add very less amount of red. Don't add too much red. Now, it is more towards the bluish side, so I will add a little more amount of red to this to make it more violet. Just adding more red to create a nice violet light violet color. Now comes another combination which is yellow and blue. The more yellow you will add to the blue, the more lighter the green color will come, and the more blue and less yellow is there then the darker green color will come. This is the variations where we add the colors. Now, just adding this yellow to this and just mix the colors nicely and you'll see a nice vibrant green color has come up. As you can see, this white, very bright color of green. You don't need all the colors when you are painting, you can always mix the colors and make the colors, which we will be learning in the upcoming classes. This is nice green color which has come up. Now let's see how to make the color wheel. This is a chart of primary and secondary color. Now let's see how we can make the color wheel. Just grab your compass or any circular thing, make a circle first. Just make a nice circular thing, and after making the circle, we will divide this circle into four parts. Once the circle has been made, this is the center point. I will just divide the circle into four parts. You can use your scale or ruler for creating the lines or you can directly use if you are comfortable creating the straight lines. You can see I've divided into four parts. Now I will divide these into 12 parts means two parts each. Every block will have almost three parts. The four parts, each block will have three parts in that, 12 parts. So total, there are 12 parts which are there. If you'll count, you'll get it. There are 12 parts. Now let's give the number to this. First, we will add the primary color over here, that is the red color. Then we'll leave three parts one, two, and three. Then again, we will add again, the primary color that is blue. Then again, we will count one, two, and three, and again, we will add the primary color that is yellow and one, two and three. We I have marked two, wherever I marked this red, blue and yellow first, I will fill the colors and then we'll make the secondary color. Let's start by just filling the colors. I'm using here my round brush for filling the colors because these are steep lines, so this will be easy for me to fill the colors without going the colors outside the boundary. So gradually fill in the colors. This way, you'll not only learn how to fill the colors, and you will get hands on on the round brush as well. So first make the outline and then start filling the colors. Then the colors will not go outside the boundary. So just wet your brush and just grab the colors. You don't have to mix any water in this color. This is a fine red color which I have just filled. Now I will just wash off my brush and fill again the second color. That is blue color. And similarly, I will be doing for yellow as well. Now, once all the primary colors are filled, now we will make the secondary colors and start filling. So you can see nicely I filled the primary colors. Now the secondary colors. Secondary colors will be where the two number is, that is in between. All the secondary colors. Now here, the secondary color will be violet because it is in between red and blue. That's why here will be violet. Now in this between yellow and blue, there will be green color where there is two number. Now here it will be orange color. Because it is in between yellow and red. So now let's put all these colors which we have already made when we were doing the secondary colors. So just fill those secondary colors in that. Again, first, whenever you are filling the colors, if you feel that your brush has dried, just wet your brush and grab the colors and fill it again. So now you can see I filled this orange color. Similarly, I will be filling this violet and the green color. So this color wheel is very important, not only for knowing how to mix the colors and how we can match the colors. That is also very important. When we do painting, which color to use so that it will look very beautiful. This is also very important. Create this color wheel nicely, and if you are creating this color wheel, if you have any doubts, any questions, you can always ask me. You can DME on my Instagram. That is Mohii Art Gallery. Any questions, whichever questions you have, you can ask me. Now, again, here the dark violet color I have filled. Now the primary and the secondary color is filled. 4. Color Wheel Theory: The parts which are left are the tertiary colors. Now, what are tertiary colors? Tertiary colors are nothing, but it is a combination of secondary and primary colors. Now, this tertiary color is between the red, that is the primary and the secondary is the violet. Here, the color will be more towards the reddish side. That is, it will be a reddish violet color which will come up. Now, again, in the number three, the color which is between the violet and the blue, it will be more towards the bluish side, it will be bluish violet color. Again, tertiary color is nothing but mixing of the secondary and the primary colors are called as tertiary colors. Wherever there is one and three number, we will be putting tertiary colors. Here, blue and green, it will be more towards the bluish side, again, that is bluish green, you can say. Here it will be yellowish green. Different values of colors will be formed when you mix all these colors. You'll see this. So we'll now see what all colors are being formed when we mix these tertiary colors. Let's see and mix the colors first. Now here I'm mixing in this orange a little more of this yellow. This is a yellowish orange which has come up, as you can see here. So just fill in the colors. These are varieties of colors which are formed in this entire color heel things. In this color wheel, we are only making 12 colors, but we can make any number of colors by mixing these primary colors and the neutral colors. Now, this you can see a little towards the yellowish side, it is a yellowish orange, which you can use for any orange color thing or if you're making orange, you can use this orange color. Now this is more towards the reddish side, it is a reddish orange color, like a tomato color, you can say, it's like that. Slowly, we are just filling all the colors and you can see how the colors are coming up from the when we are mixing the colors. Now again, I'm mixing this yellow more to this green. Now, see how nice light green colour has come up when you mix this yellow to this green color. Whenever we are making any leaves or anything, we don't have to think about what colors to use. You can just mix the colors and you can make your own color. Whenever you are making this chart, make it in a big nice paper so that you will have it forever and you can see whenever you want to. Now, here it is mostly a bluish green. In this green, I will add more blue to this, it will come as the bluish green color. So you can see it's a bluish green color. Now, two more left. It's more towards the bluish and violety side. First, we will add more red to the violet color to give that more of a reddish violet thing. Again, adding a little more blue to this. Actually I'm making more blue is more towards bluish side. So it is more like a bluish violet, as you can say. Oh So now one more is left. That is the reddish violet. So in this violet color, we will be adding more amount of red in this. So it will create a nice reddish, violety colour. Do it slowly, wet your brush and grab the colors. That's it you have to do. First outline the borders and then fill the colors. Then it will come as very neat color wheel painting. So we can see the whole color wheel is now complete. Now let us see what are the warm colors and cool colors. First, the warm colors are first six colors which are there. These are warm colors starting from the red. All these are warm colors. Why they are warm colors because they're related to sun, the fire, and these are all cool colors. Again, why they are called as cool colors because they are mostly related to trees, greenery, water. That's why they are called as cool colors and warm colors. Now let's see the neutral colors that how the neutral color is formed. But before that, let's take out some colors that is white and we'll see what all colors are formed when we mix this white and black also with all these secondary primary and tertiary colors. These are all experimental things which you have to do on your own. The more experimentation color mixing you will do, the more you'll get an idea that how much quantity you have to mix. Now, the neutral colors are nothing. These are black and white, or both of them are neutral colors. Now mostly when we add these neutral colors together form a gray color. Let's see and mix. When we'll add let's add horse black, wash off your brush, and then take this white and just apply. Now if I'll mix white and a little bit of black, it will create a very it is now a dark gray color. Suppose if I want a little more darker color, so I will add more black to it and if I want a little lighter gray color, I will add more white to it. Likewise, the color changes. Now if what happens if we mix this red and white, it will create a nice light reddish color. If I will add more white to this, it will create a nice pinkish color. It depends upon the quantity of the neutral colors you are adding. This is all just an experimentation. Try to experiment with all these primary and secondary colors and see what all colors are formed. Not by mixing just white, by mixing the black. Now see, this is a light yellowish color which is being formed. Now let's mix this black and yellow together and see what color is being formed. A nice this olive color is formed when you mix this yellow and black together. Very little amount of black because the black is the very intense color among all. So you have to mix very little amount of black when you are using. Now here, see, I'm just mixing white in this blue, you'll get a nice light blue color. Then I'm adding little black to this. It will create a different kind of blue color. So it all is the experimentation thing which try to do it. And see what all colors are being formed when you mix these colors. Now let's see what are complimentary colors. Now, the opposite colors are called as complimentary colors. When you use these complementary colors together, it will create a very nice picture of the painting. Any painting if you're using complimentary colors, it looks good. But if you will mix the two complimentary colors, it will create a very muddy color. Let's see and mix the two colors. These are the two colors that orange and blue, let's mix orange and blue and see what color is formed. First making orange color, and I'm mixing in this orange a little blue color and see very muddy color is formed when you mix these two colors. Why they are complement because they complement each other. If you're doing any painting, you can use these complimentary colors together, but don't mix them. Otherwise you'll create a muddy color. Let's start with our first blending that is with one color. 5. Blending With One Color: Hello, friends. Welcome to our first lesson that is blending with one color. So these are the materials. Blue, serium blue, I'll be using carbon black and titanium white. Apart from that, these are two brushes, flat and the rigor brush, thin brush, masking tape and palette knife for mixing the colors, and this is the sheet. Now, let's start first with taping of the masking tape, how we need to tape it. So we need to keep a half of the tape on the paper and other half on the base, whichever base you're using. The base which I'm using here is the acrylic sheet on which I am just taping it down. Any base you can use, you can use wooden base, any cardboard thing, whichever you have, you can just use that base and just tape it down very nicely and it should be pressed nicely so that all the corners are taped properly, then only that perfect boundary look will come up, that border look, that white border. If you want a thick border, you can use thick tape as well. It's your choice. Now, tape it nicely, check that all the ends are taped nicely. Now we will start with the painting, which is the blending with one color, and the rest are neutral colors. So first color which I'm using here is the blue color. This is urllium blue. So just taking sullium blue, and then colors other color which I will be needing is the white color. First part, erleum blue. I will be taking it in at least three parts because I want the transition from dark to light. First part, I will keep it like this, that is blue. Second part, I will add 50% of blue and 50% of white into it, and then in the third one more of white and less of blue. According to that, we have to make the color values. Just mixing and first I'll mix the color with my palette. So nicely, I will just mix the color. So now you can see there are three values of color. One is dark, one is mid and one is light. Just mixing the color nicely, and then I will be just putting the colors from dark to light, the transition will be from dark to light color. Let's start with the coloring. Again, flat brrush we will be using here. And then water, just dip your brush in water and nicely and just remove excess of water. Then just grab the color directly with the brush. Water is already there on your brush, so no need of extra water just grab thick colors and just apply it from the top. You can see I'm just moving the brush in the horizontal manner. Try to move the brush in only one direction, not in different directions. First I'm applying one third with this color with this dark color. You can see I've just applied this nicely the coat of this. Now I will use this lighter color and apply here and I will pull this light color and blend it very lightly and take it above. How you have to blend the colors, brush should always move from lighter color to darker color, not from dark to light. Otherwise, each and every value of the color will become dark. Every time whenever we are moving the brush, move the brush from light to dark. So this is how we blend the colors. With very light pressure of the brush, you have to blend the colors. Now I will use my lighter color. Wash off your brush and take this lighter color and apply first the light color and try to blend the color and move the brush above to the darker color. Now again, I will wash off my brush because already the dark color has come upon my brush. Then again, I will take my lighter color and start putting these colors below. Okay. Now you can see the blending which has been done from light to dark. But still, I can see the line which is in between the lighter and the mid dark color. What I will do is I will just take this dark color because this lighter value is more than the mid value. I'm just applying this mid color and first moving it upward, and then I will move the brush in downward direction and I will try to blend the color with the lighter color. So just trying to now again, I will wash off my brush, remove excess of water, and with my damp brush, I will just try to blend the color with the lighter color. So very nicely with very light pressure, you can just blend it. Now you can see the transition from dark to light. This is what we want when we are doing the blending with one color. You can use any color. You can try it out with yellow, with blue, with orange, any. Now, this has dried up completely. Now I will apply again, one more coat to give a nice smooth finish to this one coat blending. Just take again this color, wet your brush and grab the colors and start doing the same thing which we did in the previous part. Just take in first the darker color. Then I will take the lighter color, that is the mid lighter color, and I will start blending the color, first wash off your brush and then take the light color. And then blend the colors, move the brush from lot down to up. Wash off your brush if there's too much color on your brush and just remove the water from your brush and use the damp brush for just blending it. You can see how nicely it has blended. Now you can take this color and then move it downward. Moving the brush downward, and then we will use the lighter color. You can see when we apply second coat to it how nicely the blending is being done. Now in my hand, there was white color. Now I will remove that mistake which has been done below. You'll see here. I've just added now the lighter color, wash off my brush and just removing excess of water and just taking again, this lighter color and blending it. You can see how you can easily hide your mistakes with a base color which you have used earlier. This is the technique also to redo your work. If you have done any mistakes, you can just redo it. This is the whole blending technique which is with one color. Let's do some paintings on this. 6. Pine Tree Painting: Welcome back. So now let's see how we can draw three different types of pine tree. So let's take our rigor brush. I'm just using black here. Just making the color a little fluid. Whenever we are using the lines or anything, just try to make the color a little fluid so that you can easily draw a nice fine lines. Now, if you use the tip of the brush, it will be thin. And as you use the whole brush, it will be a thick line. So as you can see, the upper part is a little thin. I'm just giving a little shape to it to this line here we will be seeing three types of pine tree, which we will be drawing over here. So I'm just creating three lines and we'll see how these three pine trees will look. Thin above and as it goes down, it is thick. This is how the tree structure is. Again, the third line. Let's start first with first pine tree. It is very simple. Mostly the pine trees are in triangle and shape. So I'm just giving a rough dot like lines and just moving the brush in the diagonal manner and I'm just creating the strokes with my lineup brush. As you can see, these are all diagonal lines. These are not straight lines. These are little curvy lines which I'm drawing here and very close to each other. I'm also covering the dots which I have made just for the triangle shape. By using these lines which are very close to each other, I'm just covering the dots as well. This is one type of pine tree, which you can also call as Christmas tree. This is the way we make the pine trees very easy, very simple. So just adding the lines and filling it up. Try to add the lines which should be very close to each other. Don't give too much gaps in between. Otherwise, it will not look good. Now one side I have already done. Now I will do the other side. Other side also same. I'm just creating again, some nice diagonal lines, diagonal plus curvy lines. It's not only diagonal, but these are curvy lines. Make sure that your color is in fluid form. If it is thick, these lines will not be formed. You will end up creating thicker lines. That's why the color has to be in fluid form when you are making these lines. You can see how easy it is and it's looking so beautiful. Just like that, you have to fill in the entire things. Very slowly, just keep on shaping it. Now we will do the second pine tree, which is again, very easy and beautiful. First I'm just creating a nice line. Now I will here use my fan brush. Now, in this case, you have to use your damp brush and just take the color with the tip of the brush, just grab the color on the tip and you just have to move the brush in to and fro direction and in a curvy manner. You can see how I'm moving the brush, just like a half U shape thing. Just taking a little bit of color on my brush and just making it in a putting the colors like this. This is one of the easiest way to draw the pine trees with your fan brush. Now the second one is now the third one, sorry. The third one is, again, a little tricky, but it looks more real and realistic. First, these are just dots and lines which I am trying to create over here, as you can see, very small small dots I'm creating and as I'm going outward, I'm making it a little thin. So just random dots and lines. I'm just making it, and I'm trying to create the shape of the pine tree in the upward direction. Likewise, you just have to create the dots and just fill the middle portion a little bit more. When you are going down, don't keep it empty. Make where the lines are starting, it should be th and as it goes out, it should be thin. Likewise, you have to move the brush and just grabbing the color, making it thick as we are going out, it should be the dot should be less. Ticker dots at the adjoining and as it goes out, it becomes thin. Then only that shape of the leaves will come up. Just dots, random dots and lines I'm trying to create You can try any of these three pine trees in this painting, whichever you feel like, whichever you feel that it's good and it's easy for you. You can try any of these three and just adding some more textures. If you are trying this out, do share me on my Instagram that is more in the art gallery. I would love to see your project works if you are painting this. Just see how the three trees have come up. You can also add some grasses like this with just a tip of the brush you can use and create some nice fine lines in different directions. These are small grasses. All are different types of grasses, these are small grasses which you can add at the bottom of the tree line. So like this, you can just decorate your whole painting. Let's start with the main painting. Now my whole background has dried up completely, as you can see. Now I will use my brush, which is the so let's start with using our first brush, which is the flat brush. First, I will create mountain. First, I'm using this white color with a mix of this lighter color, a little bit more of this mid color. Just adding both the two colors and creating a little lighter version. Or you can see a little darker version of this lighter color. Just have created first mountain, which is very light mountain which is at the back. What I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to create here overlapping mountain. Now I'm using this completely blue color. Again, I'm creating another mountain which is overlapping the first one. Just taking this blue color and moving the brush in the vertical direction. It's okay if there are brush marks, this will add beauty to this painting. So just making it like this. Now I will use the mix of blue and black, not completely black, but blue and black mix and the third mountain. Third mountain, I will try to overlap with the second one. It's like this, overlapping it and again, painting it vertically. The last one, which I will be doing it with completely black color. Complete black color. Just fill it up with this black color nicely. Always take the color. Don't mix any water inside the color. Just grab the color. Water should only be on your brush. Only while doing the lining part, we add water. Apart from that, we don't add too much water in acrylics. 7. Final Pine Tree Painting: So now let's start with the pine tree making. Here I'm using the same brush, the rigor brush, making the color a little fluid, and let's start with the first tree. So the first tree, I will be making a little taller and the second one, I will be making a little shorter. First one, I'm just creating a nice line with black color. If you are facing any issue while drawing directly with black color, just draw the line with pencil and then do it. So now just drawing a little thicker line and then just grabbing the color and starting from the top. I will add again small textures first, small small dots and lines. Now first, again, there's another technique which you can do it instead of creating those triangle dots. You can just add these diagonal lines as you go down, these digal lines should increase in size and that will come into a triangle shape. You can see I'm increasing the size of these lines as I'm going down. Then you can add these dots on these lines. This will help you to add the dots easily. Dots and textures in random fashion. And don't keep too much gap in between the lines. Otherwise, it will look like these leaves are very far apart. Keep a little gap in these when you are creating these lines, don't give too much gap. It is a time consuming process when you create such type of trees, but the end result is very beautiful. Just try it out by just creating random dots and lines and I'm sure you'll be able to do it. Now, you can see how nicely it's coming up when we have drawn the lines. So I'm just putting the dots on both the sides and as I'm going outward, I'm doing it with one dot. First I'm putting the dots on both sides of the line, and then as I'm going outward, I'm just making the.in a single line. Always keep in mind that you have to keep the color fluid. Fluid doesn't mean that the color should turn into gray. Fluid means that color should move and the color should be black. Don't put too much water also that the color changes to gray. That should also not happen when you are adding water to this black color. Adding some lines, some branches which are not having leaves. Now I will draw the smaller one. Now, the smaller one, I will draw the lines upward. Now this is downward. The leaves, then this, I will draw the leaves in the upward direction. You can see I'm drawing the lines in the upward direction. Pine trees are of many types. These are some of them which I have shown, but there are numbers of species of pine trees which are there. When you go to the mountains, you will see there are so many varieties of pinetree which you will witness. You can draw any type of pine tree according to that 31. Any pine tree which suits you, you can draw it. If you feel that this is difficult, you can draw the first one and the second one, any one, whichever you feel like you can just draw it. If you're trying these paintings to sag me and share on my Instagram, that is Mohni Art Gallery. You can see I have just completely filled this up with whole textures. Now in this I will add some snow effect as well. Let's see how we can do that. So little snow effect, which I will add over here, just taking my thick white colour and I will add some textures just to the shapes of the leaves which are there just little little textures here and there. I'm just trying to add it. So very little little amount of thick colour of white you have to add. Don't use thin colour. Tick colour of white. Now, you can see how beautiful this tree is looking like it is fully loaded with snow adding some textures to the branches and the tree trunk as well. So when you use completely this thick color, it also adds some dry effect to it. I've not used any water in this. I'm just taking thick colour of white and I'm just applying these thick colors dots and lines to these leaves. Now, you can see how it is looking. Now let's add some that moon. Just taking the color on my finger, very light a little water was also there. Very light shadow with my finger I've created with thick white color with my round brush, I will create a nice.in the center. This adds shiny effect and this shadow which adds beauty to this moon. You can see that. This is the complete painting which I have done. You can also just make so a little bit, let's take out the tape and see how it looks. Just adding a little more white to give a nice thick color onto this moon. Do it slowly, take your time. No need to do it in a hurry because all these paintings take a lot of time when you're doing it for the first time. Just take out the tap very slowly in a diagonal manner, very slowly. Otherwise, the paper will tear. So you have to take the paper very slowly, and you can see the border which has come up. This is how we create borders when we do such type of painting. I always use this masking tape when I do my paintings. This is our first blending technique with one color and with one painting is done. I hope you enjoyed it. Let's meet in our next lesson. 8. Blending with Two Colors: Hello, friends. Welcome back. Now, let's start with, again, the next blending. So here I've taken first red, then little amount of red and more of this lemon yellow I will take first. So just taking more amount of lemon yellow. So it should be the ratio of, like, 80% of yellow and 20% of this red color. Like that type of ratio I'm taking, and we'll just blend this color first, mix this color with my palette knife, and we'll make a nice orange color. So if you feel that orange color is very dark, you can add a little bit more of this yellow to it. I will take separate yellow as well in this so that we can create a nice value of different yellows, different orange in this. Like some complimentary orange, some tertiary orange we can use here. F the middle, I will use the lighter color to the sides, I will use the darker color. This is how we are going to paint as this is the waterscap the seascape, you can see. I'm making a line in the center. Likewise, I will be painting above a little darker color first. That is the red color. I've just applied red color, thick amount of color on the top. So you can see take thick colors, just wet your brush and grab the colors and start doing it. Again, flat brush here I'm using. Now again, I've taken this orange color, and I'm just trying to blend this with red first. Then I will go downwards. First, blending is needed because both the color has to be wet if you need proper blending. If one color has dried, you cannot blend it. Now, in this case, I have not washed off my brush because already this color is similar. That's why I've not washed off my brush. Now I will wash off my brush and do the lower part. Now for the lower part, I want a lighter orange. I'm just mixing a little more yellow to this orange to make it a light orangy color, and then I will start filling it. Just light orange color and try to blend first the colors, wash off your brush, and remove excess of water and just grab the colors, this light orange color and then try to mix the color first. That means blend the color first with the upper orange color. Just blending it and then take the color below. This is how we do the blending of colors with two colors, as you can say, there are two colors, one is red and one is orange. Orange has different values, darker orange and lighter orange. So now, same thing we will do below. So first, we will add the lighter color, and as we will go down, we'll add darker color. So this is like that since it is a reflection of the sky, so that's why we are doing it in opposite directions. So first, the light color and then the darker color. So first, you can see I've just applied lighter color first, and then I will use orange color. Just first adding this then adding orange color to it. And I will blend this color with this yellow color first. Just wash off your brush. Now again, blending should be from light to dark. That's why I have taken just yellow and I'm trying to just blend this color with this orange color. As you can see, I'm just moving the brush into and fro manner with a very light pressure on my brush. Again, I'm taking this orange, darker orange, as I will go down, I'll take red color. This whole blending is the why we have done like this because we want to create the above, that is the sky and below will be the water. Water is always the reflection of the sky. That's why I have painted this in this form. Wherever you feel that blending is not proper, just try to blend it. Now we will wait for this to dry, and then we will add one more quota on this. Now, once this has dried completely, just touch with your hand and see if it has dried. Now, if it has dried up completely, then you can add second coat to it. Just wet your brush, again, grab the same colors that is red. Now why we are doing a two codes, when we do two codes, it gives a perfect finish to the backgrounds. That's why we apply two codes of this. You can see how the finishing is coming up when we are applying two coats. That's why we mostly try to do at least two codes, even if you are using any canvas sheet or any wooden base, you have to do at least two codes of it. So I'm just applying the colors. Same colors which we have added earlier and just trying to blend the colors with the similar color. Now, you can see there is a line in between the orange and yellow color. So with the damp brush, you can just blend the colors without any color, just with damp brush. Sometimes we don't need also the colors to blend. If there are enough color on your sheet, you can just blend with damp brush. Now when we apply second code, we don't need a very thick color. It's okay if a little bit of watery color is there because already we have applied a thick layer of color below. Now just taking this whole blending part and just trying to blend the colors. Here also I'm just blending it with the damp brush. Now I'm taking this red color and just applying it below. Again, washing off my brush and taking this orange and trying to blend this with red. This whole blending is almost complete. We'll just wait for it to dry before we start any detailing in this. But before we will learn how to draw the palm trees, I'll show you two different types of palm trees. Let's start first. We'll wait for this to dry. 9. Palm Tree Painting: Now, let's first see how we can make the palm trees. So I've just taken black, and I will be using my rigor brush here, rigor brush or liner brush, whichever you have, you can use that. Make the color a little thin and just making first the little slanting line. It is not a straight line and giving at steep triangular shape to it. Don't make very thick triangular lines. It is a very thin line, as you can see. And just filling it up with this black color. Now again, whenever you are doing any line or thing, try to use thin color, mix a little water into your black color and then use it. Don't use thick color. Now we'll create some curvy lines. These are all some curvy lines which we will be creating the leaves. So just nice curvy lines. Don't make it very small also. It should be half the length of your main trunk. So it should be like that, so it should be half of it. So that much big line you have to make. Now just creating some nice long curvy lines, and then we'll start drawing the leaves in this leaf pattern. So the middle part should be a little more thicker. So I'm just adding a little more thickness to this just by dabbing my brush. And then I'll start creating the lines. These are also slanting lines. Again, these are also curvy. These are not straight lines. Again, when you are creating such type of lines, make sure that your color is thin. Don't use thick color. Otherwise, you will end up creating very thick patches of lines. Try to use thin color when you are creating this type of lines and don't make very small small lines. I should not be very small it should be of good size. So you can see how I'm creating it, and these are not very small lines, but these are quite little bigger lines. And it should be that much bigger that your whole tree looks filled with these lines. It should not look like there is empty space in between. So that much big lines you have to create. All these are some nice curvy diagonal lines which I'm trying to create. I'll fill this whole lines which we have created with these types of lines. Do it slowly, take your time. No need to do it in a hurry. Very slowly, you have to do it. You can see somewhere sometimes I have not created the entire lines from the scratch of the painting somewhere, I've just started from middle because each time we cannot see all the leaf details, sometimes it is hidden. That's why I'm not creating all the leaves here. Some of the leaves are hidden as well. Making some falling lines. It's a very simple and basic technique of drawing the palm tree. Whenever you want to draw the palm tree, use this technique, you'll never fail and it will be really very beautiful. So just draw very fine lines, use thin color. A few things you have to keep in mind that use your rigor brush, use thin color, not too much thin that the color becomes gray. It should be thin that much, that the lines which you are creating is coming out to be thin. If you're not sure, just test it on some of your paper that the lines are coming thin or not. Like this, you have to create the palm tree. I'll show you one more form of palm tree which you can create. This is another form of palm tree. Now here, you can just overlap the leaves like this, just by creating one more. Like this, you can add numbers of leaves in this just by making it overlapping one on top of the other. So again, one more I'm adding because I feel that there is space, so I'm just adding one more over there. This is one palm tree which we have done. Now let's add one more. That is another form of palm tree. This palm tree you mostly see in the desert area or something like that. First palm tree you mostly see in the sea area. Now, first time creating the triangle shape, and I'm just filling that up with black colour. Just filling that up with black color, creating the triangle shape. I. No. It's not compulsory that only five triangles are only there. This depends upon the space which you have. Now I have five to six triangles which I have created and now I'm creating little longer lines in this to give more texture to this palm tree. You can see I'm just making it a little more longer lines of these same leaves, same triangle which I have created over here. This is also very simple and very beautiful tree palm tree, which is mostly seen in the desert area. But in our painting, we'll try to capture both of the trees so how we can fit in that. These are the two palm trees. Now let's start with our painting details. Now this color has almost dried, touch with your hand and see if it has dried or not. Then just taking this black and red mix, I will first draw the center line. Just using my rigor brush, I'm drawing a nice center line. Now the center line has been drawn. Now I will create some background textures. Just mixing black and red. Again, I will try to create some nice distinct trees which are being visible from very far distance that I'm trying to create over here in the background part. Just with your rigor brush, try to give a random shapes up and down shapes to this area and try to color it with this nice, dark, this maroonish color. Just giving random shapes to it. Now the other side, I'm making a little more taller. I look like there are some mountains which are there and the backside and just covering it with same color. You can see I've just covered it with the same color. So a little bit textures, I'm giving on top of it, little bit lines and textures on top of it. Now the middle part is done. Now we will do the lower part first. With my flat brush, I'll just wet my flat brush first, make it little pointed with my finger, and then I will use the color. The color should be darker than your background which you're using. Now here I'm using a mix of this orange and black and I'll create some textures. So it's like a brownish color which will be formed when you will mix this orange and a little bit of black to it. Tabbing the brush and creating these textures, just dabbing the brush. When you do it in a pointed form, these textures will come up. Don't press it very hard, use very light hand with very light hand. If you press your brush, it will create thick patterns. If you just touch it, it will create thin patterns. So we want thin patterns, so don't press your brush, and very closely, you have to do it. Don't keep it too much gap in between. The more closely you will do it, the more beautiful it looks. Very easy and simple technique of drawing this water part. So if you are also trying this painting out, do share me your project and tag me on my Instagram that is Mohii Art Gallery. I will love to see that. So just simple textures, I'm just adding and filling the whole thing, mixing a little red when I'm going down to make a little more darker texture. So you can see how closely I'm making all the textures. Take your time and dot very slowly because all these texture thing takes time. 10. Palm Tree Painting Part Two: Now one layer of texture is done. Now we will add some more textures. Which are in between where I will be making the sunset part. The first, I will take this yellow and make the circle. Take thin color and just make a circular first the shadow of the sun and the inside, I will just add white color. Now again, here I'm using my round brush for making this a round shape, taking this thick white color and making a simple white round shape in the center. This is how we'll make the sunset of sunset. Now you can see how bright it is looking when we have added white to this. Now we will create certain reflections of the sun light. I'm just taking this white and same technique I'm using here, just take thick white and create the textures. Ticker and up as you go down, it should be in in thin. It should be a triangle and shape. This is how it looks like triangle shapes. As to the sides, I will be adding little yellow colour. First I'll take a little yellow colour and to the sides, I will add some yellow textures as well. Just first in the center little bit and then taking little orange color and making it a little more now since my yellow has finished, I'll just take a little more of yellow first, and then again, I'll take thick yellow and apply it to the sides of this white color. Now again, I will take thick white color, and again, I will create same texture, and I'll just go down. What we are doing is we are doing the layering thing. This is called as layering, which we are doing over here. So our water part is done. Now we'll create some trees. Before doing any trees, we'll first at the base below. Again, with my rigor brush, I'll just take some shapes. I'll create some shapes and I'll just fill in this area with black colour. Now, once you have filled this area with black color. This is a little land area which is reflected here and just filling it with my same rigger brush, you can use round brush here as well for filling the colors. Adding some grassy texture on the top. Just with the same black color. Now we'll create one tree that is the first tree which Crew created. So if you have any issue creating the tree directly with black color, you can first draw with your chalk or with your pencil, watercolor pencil if you have with white, watercolor pencil you can draw or with chalk you can draw, or with pencil also you can draw. But remember when you're drawing it with pencil, you cannot remove the pencil marks. But if you're drawing with chalk or with watercolor pencil, you can easily remove that with water. So just drawing the line first. Simple triangular thin, very thin line. And same thing we'll be doing here also, like we did in our previous painting of drawing this palm tree. So first I have drawn the tree trunk, then the leaf lines we will draw and then we'll start the detailing of the leaves. Now we'll start drawing the lines. Just enjoy this process of drawing. Now, once you have drawn the lines, then we'll add some leafy details. Simple taking your color and here also take thin colour. Don't take thick colour. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to paint thin lines. Take thin colour and then first draw these small lines, diagonal lines. Same technique I'm doing here also, which I did in the previous palm tree painting. Same technique. The first one which we did the same thing is this one also. Little bit of lines can vary, but almost the whole idea of this is same. Do it very slowly, take your time and do it. It's not required that you have to complete it in one go. You can take breaks, you can do it. You can do the pace painting in one at a time, and then next day, you can do the whole detailing thing. That also you can do. It's up to you how you want to do your painting. If you want to add certain more ideas into this. Yes, you can add into this. You can add two more trees into this. I will be just adding two trees. You can add two to three trees in this. It's all up to you. Now, here in one side, I have shown the tree. You can show the other side also. So it's all up to you, up to your creativity, how you can paint it. So just adding the leafy textures. So one more tree we will be adding over here. That is the second palm tree which we did. So this is almost done. The tree part, one more line I'm drawing so that it doesn't look like empty spaces there. I want the whole tree to be very compact and very, like bushy. That's why I'm adding one more tree line over there. 11. Final Palm Tree Painting: So now let's add one more tree. That is the second palm tree which we did. Now, this how I'm drawing is that half of the tree is there being reflected in this painting and other half is behind. So like that, I'm just trying to it. So just half of it is reflecting. And then the leaf lines. Again, the triangular shape first, and then I will draw the lines. Now, this tree I've drawn little small. I'm showing it like that this is very far away. That's why I'm showing it a little small in size. According to the space, you have to fit in. So you have too many space if you are large space, then of course, you can draw a bigger tree. So it all depends upon the space which you are using. You can paint this on an A four size or you can just make the half of A four size and you can paint this. Take A four size, make it into two half, and you can just do this painting. So just adding more leafy textures. Now, the above part is done. Now let's add a little bit more grasses below. Just using the same color and making it thin and just making very thin grasses in different directions. Don't make the grasses just in one direction. Make it in different directions. Then it will look like a real grass. Grasses are never in one direction, try to make it in different directions. Then only it will look a little more beautiful. Add a bit more white texture to this. Lit more white. I'm adding thick color of white. Don't use any water in this, thick white color and adding this texture just below the sun, you have to do it and to the sides, yellow color, both the sides. Now to this painting, you can also add flying birds. With my round brush, or you can use your rigger brush and I will draw two to three small birds which are flying, not very big, V shape, and that's it. I'll not add too many details in this. Now let's take out the tape and see how it looks. So I hope you have enjoyed doing this painting and see you in our next lesson. 12. Blending With Three Colors: Welcome back. So now let's start with another type of blending, where we will be using three colors. Again, this is the landscape shape. So let's start with the colors. First, we'll mix the colors and make three different types of colors. So first, I have taken red. I've taken two parts of red first, and in that red, I will mix. In the first one, I will mix yellow. So I will make a little pastel shade. When we talk about pastel shade means we add more amount of white in that. So I'm taking this yellow, little bit of yellow. And in this also, I will leave it separate and yellow color. So first, in that yellow and red mix, I will also add now we added in this white or pastel shade. Now we'll just blend the colors. I'm adding little white to this yellow also and little white to this red as well. The three colors which I'm making is little orangy color with a white touch in that this I'm making a little purplish color. I've added little blue also to this. I'll first mix the colors. Again, the intensity of red is more, so the blue quantity should be more and red should be less. Again, in this, I want to make first and mix this yellow and white with my palette knife. Just mix it well with your palette knife and then this white, red and yellow mix. This will create a nice orangy color. You can see a nice orange color has been formed. When we add white to any color, the color becomes more opaque. That's why white is required sometimes to make the color a little more opaque. But here we are trying to create some pastel shades. That's why we are adding white over here. So I want a little lighter color, so I've just mixed a little more white to this orange shade. Now you can see, I'm just mixing it properly. Now I'll mix the third color which we will be using. That is the violet color, which we will be using in this painting. I'm just mixing the three colors and you'll see a nice pastel color will be formed, a light violet color. So these are the three colors which I will be using for my complete painting. Apart from that. You can see I've just created this three color combinations, which we will be using in our painting. Let's start with our painting. So here, again, I will be using my flat brush for painting this. I'll be keeping separate white as well because we'll be ding when we will do the blending part because again, this violet and orange is complimentary colors, so we don't have to mix those colors, otherwise, those color will become gray. That's what we don't want. Let's first add the line, which will be the foreground below of this painting, and the rest will be the background. Sky. This part I have left for the foreground and the rest above is the sky. Let's start first taking this orange color. So first, little white and little lighter orange shade, I want. I'll just mix a little white in this first I've applied it on the top, as you can see, it's a very pastel shade form of color. Now I've just mix a little bit of this violet to this light color, and then I will apply a little bit more of this color on top to make it a little more pinkish and orange in color. So just mixing these two colors nicely. So we have to divide the colors into three parts, so that's what we want here. So first part is done. Now we'll add the second color, which is the yellow color. So first, I've applied this yellow. Again, I don't want to mix this yellow and that color. So I'll just take this yellow here, and then I will just apply first I will do the blending part. Then I'm just taking white and this lighter color and putting the brush in between and moving the brush in the to and fro directions, as you can see, so only there itself, I'm moving the brush. I'm not taking the brush anywhere. Where the two colors are meeting, I'm just blending there the colors so that the lines become blurry. That's what we want in our painting. So now you can see the line has become a little blurry. So now we'll proceed further below. Again, I'm adding a little bit more of this yellow in between. And then this orange color and a little bit more yellow to make it a little lighter and more yellowish orange. I'm just applying this orange color first, washing off my brush, removing excess of water and just taking this yellow and blending it with this orange color. So always try to blend your colors with your lighter color because if you blend the color with the darker color, everything will become dark. So try to blend the colors with the lighter color which you have. Now, again, I'm taking this violet. Now, this part I'm painting it in a little half circular manner. So a little half circle it is like this. And in the center, I will be adding more of this orange color. Wash off your brush and then grab the colors when you are doing this. Just first painting this part. Before taking any color, wash off your brush nicely and then grab the next color because all are different colors as you can see, don't mix the colors with one another. Wash off your brush whenever you are done with the one color. Again, I will wash off my brush, and then I will take little white and I'll try to blend these two colors together. So with white color. So very lightly with very light pressure, you have to blend the colors. Don't press your brush too much. Otherwise, it will create brush marks. Now the Billow part, we'll wait for the first upper part to dry and we'll do the Billow part with just black color. So I've just taken black color and below part. I'll cover this whole area with black color. Here we will be creating some nice grassy textures. Take thick white black color and with your flat brush, just painted in vertical direction. It's okay if there are brush marks in between because we will be creating grassy effects, little bit of textures is okay if there are textures with the brush marks. Now, you can see the below part. I've just covered it with black. Now again, I will add some more colors on the top. This has dried up. Now again, I'll add the colors. Now whenever you are adding two coats of the colors, just make sure that your color has dried the first coat and then use the second coat. Don't use it on the wet one. Otherwise, sometimes the background color starts coming off because it becomes sticky when it is half dry. Repeating the same thing which we did earlier, same colors, one more at of this. Now, this is a time when you can fix your mistakes, whatever mistakes you have done over here, you can easily fix it and just do the blending right. So just taking this nice orange color mixing it with little white, and I'm just applying it in the center and trying to blend the colors, removing excess of color from my brush, and with the damp brush, I'll just blend this whole thing. Sometimes sometimes with damp brush, you can easily blend these colors very nicely. Now, again, this yellow color in between. Go slowly and don't press your brush too much. Do it with a very light pressure with a very light hand off your brush. Then only that nice blending will take place. As you have to remember that whenever you are blending, both the color has to be wet, then only you can blend it properly, otherwise, you'll not be able to blend the two colors. So slowly, slowly we are doing the blending of colors. And after that, we will be doing some detailing. So this blending is almost done. Just one more layer of black veil put and that's it. He taking a little more of black and just adding one more coat of it. This whole background thing is done. Let's do the detailing part now. And 13. Tree Painting Part One: Welcome back. So now let's start with the detailing. First, we'll do the grassy texture. For this, we need to make green color. So we'll start with making the green color. In this, we'll take yellow and blue. So first, I've taken blue color. And then to this blue, I will mix yellow to this to make green color, as we have done in our color weed, and we have seen how to make secondary colors. So likewise, I'm just making a nice greenish color. Just mix it nicely and this nice bright green color will come up. It depends upon how much you are mixing yellow. If you're mixing too much yellow, it will create lighter green. If you're mixing a little less yellow, it will turn out to be a little darker green. We want a mid green, like that, you have to mix the quantity of yellow. So now let's use our fan brush for this texture. Wash off your fan brush, remove excess of water from your fan brush just by wiping it off with your cloth, and then just first add the textures above like this with the black color. Then again, wash off your brush, remove excess of water and use this green color with the tip of the brush with very light and just the tip of the brush you have to touch and create these textures. Don't press your brush. It should be very light pressure of your brush just the tip of this brush has to be used and your water and your brush should not be wet. It should be a damp brush. If it is wet, this type of texture will not come up. Keep in mind that your brush has to be a damp brush or a dry brush. It should not be a wet brush. Otherwise, you will end up creating thick textures. I'm just using the top edge of the brush and I'm making these textures. Try to make these textures very close to each other. Then only it will create a nice grassy look. So almost we are done with this texture thing, and then we'll start creating the nice tree structure in which we'll be making the tree branches, its sub branches, and some leaves. Let's see how it's going to be. So for the structure which I will be drawing is again the black color only. But before that first, I will add the sunset, which is the sun in between. So for this, again, I will be using white color and yellow color. For the center part. So just taking a little bit of yellow. And first with my round brush, small size round brush you have to use like size two or four and first create the round circle, mixing a little white to this yellow and creating a nice round circle. Then on the outer part, I will be adding a little orangy texture, mixing a little more of this yellow to this orange and just adding the outer shade of this sunset. And very thin color it should not be a very thick color. Just making in a nice circular form and just smudge the colors just the brush so that it will not look like a very sharp lines. Just with your wet brush, you just have to smudge the colors. This is called as a glazing technique where you can see the colors which are below and the colors which are above. A very light texture of this orange color, which has come up. Just creating a little more shape to this. Use thick color when you're creating the center part. So now let's start creating the trees and branches and the sub branches. For this, we will be using, again, the rigor brush. Make your color a little thin. Don't use very thick color. Just add a little bit of water to this black color and then start drawing first the lines. Now, if you have hesitation of drawing the lines directly with black color, you can draw it with pencil or with your chalk or with your watercolor pencils, and then you can do the black color outline. It's up to you, it's your choice, how you want to draw it. So just slowly, slowly, I'm just building the structure of the tree first, and then I will go to the detailing and everything. Mostly the tree structure which is mostly steep on the top, and as it goes down, it becomes a little thick. This is the pattern of most of the trees. Tree trunk is also thin on the top and thick at the bottom. First, I'm just drawing the lines You can see I've just drawn nice lines. The tree and the tree trunk and the main branches. Then I'm drawing these sub branches as well. So these are thick branches which I am drawing here. I will be drawing sub branches and stems as well in this. Try to make the lines in a zig zag form and the base where the joint is, it should be thick and as it goes out, it should be thin. It should be like that pattern. Again, don't use thick color, otherwise you will end up creating very black patches. Use thin colour, thin color means the color has to be black only, but it should be fluid color. To make your black colour fluid, you just have to add little water to this black color. If you are using black color, very little amount of water is required to be mixed in this. If I'm just making first the branches. I will just fill in the colors with my brush. You can fill in the colors with round brush also or with your ga brush. It's your choice. Oh so slowly, slowly, I'm just filling it up with this thick black color. I'll use my round brrush to speed up the process. Just filling these whole branches and tree trunk and the sub brranches just giving a nice filling to these lines. Take your time and do it. Don't do it in a hurry. Otherwise, you will not be able to do it nicely, take your time and do all these detailing thing. Now, you can see I've just blocken all these thick branches. Now I will start creating some thin branches, some thin stems and branches like that. Again, I'm using my rigor brush to create some nice thin lines. 14. Final Tree Painting: All these lines I'm just creating with my own imaginations. But if you want to practice these types of trees, just take any picture from Google, search any tree or banyan tree, and search from Google how the branches are and how these stems are coming out. If you want to practice it, this is the best way to practice to take out some pictures and just see how the branches are moving. Currently, I'm just doing it with my own imagination. I'm just trying to create more and more stems and thin lines. So it's not necessary that you have to follow the same pattern which I am doing. You can choose your own or if you are a beginner and you want to follow it each and every steps, you are good to go. It's not an issue. You can always try first and then go for the experimentations of your own. So all these types of paintings where you have to draw lots of stems and branches takes a little bit of time. So don't do it in a hurry, take your time and do it. It's not required that you have to complete your whole painting in just one day. You can take two to three days to complete the entire painting. It's completely up to you. And if you're trying out these projects to share your project works and tag me on Mohii Art Gallery, I love to see that. You can see I'm just creating the branches here and there in different directions. Once this whole branch thing will be done, then we'll create some nice leafy textures. You can see it's already looking very beautiful like this. You can leave it like this also, if you don't want any leaves to be created over there. You just want this type of tree. It is absolutely fine. You can just leave it like this with just the branches and sub brranches and stems coming out. Or few leaves you can just add in. You can see I'm just adding some small small stems in between. Now let's add some tree textures. Now for the tree texture, I will be using again my fan brush, again, the damp brush you have to use. A little bit liquid color is fine, but not too much. Just with the side of the brush, I'm trying to create the textures. Again, with very light pressure of your brush, you have to do it. Don't press your brush, with the tip of the brush, you have to create these textures. Very light pressure just first creating on the top. Try to use a dry brush, don't wet your brush, and this is the bristol brush which I'm using here. If you don't have this brush, you can go for the flat brush and create the textures. Again, if you're using flat brush also, use the damp brush, don't use wet brush. Just adding some textures above. When we add this type of texture, you don't have to create the leaves one by one. These textures play a role of the bunch of leaves which are there. Simplest way to add texture to the trees. So I've just added to the sides and a little bit in the center. You can see I've not filled it too much, and now I will just add a little bit more textures on the top with my liner brush, some random dots, just to give a shape of the leaves which are in the outer part. Making the lines more highlighted with the black color. So textures, random textures. I'm adding some lines on the outer part of the tree. This is not necessary. If you want to leave it like this, you can leave it like this. But I want the textures of the outer part to look like leaves. That's why I'm adding these small small dots and lines on the outer part. Again, this is the same brush which I'm using rigor brush. And again, color should be liquid. It should not be a very thick color. Adding few more stems here and there. This is just the experimentations that we do where we can add a little bit more branches and sub brranches that it will look more nice. These are all the things which comes up when we do more and more painting. With my gray color, I'm just adding a little texture, just lines in this tree trunk part and the main branches, I will also add these textures. These are just lines which I'm just adding small small lines, and I'm filling up with this on the main branches. This add little beauty to the painting as you can see. Now we can add some reflections. You can leave the painting like this. It's your choice or you can just add the sun rays which are falling on the grassy part. With your flat brush and just take anything which is like a ruler or scale or something or a pen, anything which you can take and make the color a little liquid transparent and just taking my brush and making the nice line. This is how we make the line so that it is completely straight. Again, take the color as liquid, don't take thick color, take thin color, then only that texture will come up. Like this, you can just add some nice rays which are falling on the grassy part. So this is it. I will not add too much rays in this. This is the complete painting and a little bit of this white and yellow mix L in the center to make this whole this sun more brighter. This is the complete painting. And more you will do these things, the more it will come up. So it is a never ending task of just redoing and editing the things and correcting it. I'm just highlighting the outer part of the sun little bit more. Then let's take out the tape and see how it looks. Do try it out and share your project works and tag me on Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery. This is the complete painting. 15. Circular Blending: Hello, all. Welcome back. Let's start with another type of blending which is in circular motion. Here I've taken red. I will take one more red you can take any red, whichever you have cadmium red, crimson red, whichever red you have and a little bit of black, I'm adding to this. Don't mix too much black in this. Otherwise, it will be completely black color, it should be 90% red and 10% should be black. Just mix the color nicely. It should turn out to be a dark maroonish color. Now I'll just add a little bit more because I don't want so dark color to be there. So I'm just adding a little more of red to make it a little maroon color. Now what we will do is we'll start painting by using our round brush, whichever size you have bigger size, take your round brush and just dip it in water. And the first color which we'll start is red from the center. So from the center, I'm just moving in an oval circle form. And first, I'm just rotating my brush in the circular motion. So try to use the side of this round brush. Don't use the point of this brush. Try to use the side of this brush. So first I have just applied red color. Now I'm using this mix of red and black. First, I'm just making it in an oval shape, and then I will try to blend this color. Just I'm making it like the oval shape, washing off my brush, and remove excess of water if it is, just take red color and try to blend this in a circular motion. This is how we blend the colors when we use a round brush. So again, I'll just wash off my brush, take red, and from the inside, I will move outward. This is how we have to blend in the circular motion, but still you can see the lines are there sometimes with just red and just moving the brush in the outward direction. Every time whenever you're starting from inward, you have to wash off your brush and then use the color, the lighter color. Always, the lighter color should move outward. And it's like that. Now I'm using the maroonish color which I have made, and then I will apply that black color. First, I have added this maroon color. Now again, I'm taking this red color and moving the brush in the outward direction. As you can see, I haven't moved the brush inside. Now since a little bit of color is just moving the brush in the outward direction. And if you have a little bit of color on your brush with a darker, you can move inside because I don't want a very bright red color. That's why I've taken this color a little bit inside as well. So now, just adding more of this color to the outer boundary. You can see I'm just moving the brush in the circular motion and just painting it. Now I'm adding this black color, and I will try to blend this with this maroon color. Just blending it with this maroon color, as you can see, just applying the color first, and then I will blend with that lighter color, which is the maroon color which we have made by mixing black and red. This painting you can do with your round brush also, you can do with your Filbert brush also. Filbert brush is nothing, but it is a half circle brush which is used for painting. So this also you can use and also you can use the round brush. But try to use bigger size round brush size eight or six. Don't use a very small size round brush. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to paint the entire thing. Now you can see I'm just blending the colors in the circular motion. Like this, we have to blend the colors. Now you can see there are few lines in between, so I'm just mixing this color and just making the shape correct. Just making this circular motion and just blending the colors. I will also take the colors a little bit inside as well, but by taking this red color. Again, I'm moving the brush in the circular motion. This is how you have to blend the colors till you feel that it has properly be blended. Still, I can see there are lines there inside between the two colors. I will blend it again, that color. But first, let's add a little bit of white below. Don't leave any gaps when you are doing this because then only the proper shape of the border will come. Try to put everywhere that black color wherever there is area which is left out. Now again, we will just wash off our brush and just taking our colors and we'll start blending. Now I'm just taking this red again, just applying it in the center. Again, I'm just trying to blend this color. Now again, I have taken this maroon color and just blending it very lightly. Don't press your brush, blend it in a very light manner, very light pressure and use side of the brush, not the front tip of the brush. Try to use the side of the brush. Then only that perfect blending will come up. Now I think it's looking quite perfect, a little bit more of blackish color is required and it's completely fine now. So just blend till you feel that it has blended and there is no sharp lines in between. So then it is perfectly blended. 16. Candle Painting: So now once the background has dried, now we can paint here. So just touch and see if your background has dried. Still, it is a little bit wet, so we'll wait for a little bit more time so that it completely dries out. Then only draw anything. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to paint. So now once it has dried up, you have taken three colors here. You can see that is blue, yellow and white. This is lemon yellow, which I have taken. Now I'm first drawing the shape of the candle with my white color. Now, here it is very difficult to draw with pencil, so you can use any white chalk or white watercolor pencil to draw this. Or you can directly use this acrylic color and draw if you feel it comfortable. Just have drawn some and just drawing some wax which is melting molten wax, which is coming down, just drawing the shape of this. Now first, I will cover this whole candle thing with different colors. Which is it will be yellow, orange and brown. We'll make different different colors. First, I'm just doing it with white color. I'm just filling this area with white color. Now why I'm adding white color over here? Because if you will add any color like yellow, orange, it will not come out as nicely as when you on the white background. That's why I'm coloring this whole thing with first white, and then I will do the coloring of the candle. So I'm just covering this whole area with white color by using my round brush. Here you can also use your flat brush for just blocking this whole thing. When we fill any color to any object, it is called as blocking. That's what I'm doing here. I'm just blocking the colors, white color. It's okay if the white is not perfect finished. It's fine because we'll be adding different colours to it. It's a little bit of uneven thing is fine. So now we will add the flames, but before adding flame first, we will add the lower part, we'll fill the colors and then we'll start with the upper part. First, yellow color. I've just taken this yellow color, and I'm mixing a little white to this so that the color becomes a little more opaque. So the white is the most opaque color. So as you mix white in any color, the color automatically becomes quite opaque. So I'm just adding this yellow and white mix. Very little amount of white I have added, not too much. So don't add too much white if it is there. So just adding this orange color, and I'm just pulling it down first. Use thick colors because we have to blend also these colors in vertical direction. Mixing little white little red into this yellow to make it orange and just adding orange below. To the second part. I'm just trying to blend this yellow color with this orange color, just making it in the vertical direction. This is how we blend the colors. Now, I'm just taking this again, yellow and I'm trying to blend with this orange color. This is how we will do the blending of this color. Now I'm just adding little black to this orange to make it a brown color. So when we add little black to this, it becomes a little brownish color. That's what a we are making it. Adding a little more of this color. I don't want a very dark brown. That's why I have not added too much black to this, adding the colors below and pulling it down. This is how I have just done the candle below part. Now I will do the upper part also. But before that, with my same brush, I will be adding some yellow above and some yellow and white mix, I will just add a little bit more of this white on top, which is the base and little bit to the sides as well where there are molten wax which is there. There also, I will add some yellow color. But first, let's draw a line with white color. Just drawing the line with white color, very fine line with my lineup brush. I've just drawn the line with white color and then little bit of color I will put on this molten wax as well with my lineup brush only because it is a very thin area. I'm just adding a little bit more of this yellow part over here. So it looks a very difficult painting, but it is not. If you'll try it, take your time and do it. Don't do it in a hurry. Take your time and do it, then the result will be perfect. Just follow the steps which I'm telling. I'm using thick white color to give a nice texture to this molten wax. Just thick color, use thick color without any water and give the texture of this molten wax, thick lines. I'm not using thin lines here. Now we will draw the above part of the there is a flame part. H let's first give the shape of it. With my round brush, I'm just trying to give a round circular shape to this first. And then I will just fill in this with white color. Thick white color you have to use here. Don't use thin color. Always thick white color when you are creating such things. Then only that brightness will come up. So you can see when I have added this thick white color, it's looking so bright. Now I will add lemon yellow to this to make it more bright. So just adding little more lemon yellow on top of it, just on the top of it and that's it. Now I'll just create some shadows which are there some lights which are coming out. That's what we will try to add. Now again, the color should be very thin when you are adding some textures like that. Don't use thick color, thin color. I've just mixed white so that it becomes more a little opaque color, but use thin color here. Don't use thick color when you are creating some nice lights or shadows which are coming outside. Just adding this lemon yellow and white mix first. Then I will add a little bit of orange as well. Just making it more circular. Then I will add a little bit orange. Little amount of orange I've taken. So I'm taking a little more of this color and little white to make it more opaque. But don't take too much color on your brush take very little little color when you are doing this. And also, I'm blending this with yellow color. So here also, we have to do the blending part. Take thin color, but you have to blend with this yellow as well. So try to blend this with yellow. Just putting on both the sides this color. And now I will just wash off my brush and take this red colour, and I will blend that orange with this red color. You can see outside, I have done the blending part with red color. Again, here, red, also, you have to take in a liquid form. Don't take very thick red color. So just blending it, this orange. Now, again, I have taken this yellow and I'm trying to blend this with orange color. Orange will only blend if it is wet. If it is dry, then again, you have to apply orange over there. So that you have to take in mind that both the color is wet, then only you can blend the colors. If one of the color has dried up, you cannot blend the colors. So that's what you have to keep in mind that before blending any colors, both the color has to be wet. Now you can see how the light bright light is shining when we are using this type of color. Now just adding more of white first. Just adding a little more of white to this part above also, a little bit yellow on top. I'm just adding again and little yellow to the sides. So now I will add here the details. But first, just creating more shape on the top with yellow color. Just adding a little bit more to the sides, just the line to add more highlight to this nice bright flame. Now I will add the flame which is inside that black that black thing which comes that black thread, which is there. But before that, I will just take lum blue and add little blue textures below to give an effect of the flame. You can see you must have seen when there is flame, there is blue part as well in that flame. That's what I'm trying to add over here. My white color is wet, my white has not dried. I'm just applying on top of that. When you apply this blue color on top of that, it will automatically turns into light color. Now with my liner brush, adding thin line, which will appear to be as a thread and one more V line, thin line, and this is it. Now I will add little yellow on the pillow part and not much details are needed in this, little small details are more than enough to give that beauty to this painting, adding more this bluish part, and this is it. You can see how bright this painting is looking. Now, if we'll just take out the tape and see how it looks, So this is a final painting. Let's meet Anna next lesson. 17. Bokeh Blending: Hello, all. Welcome back to our last blending technique that is called as bouquet blending. So this is the landscape shape which I've kept the paper. Now, we will be using here blue color and the two neutral colors to do the blending. So first I'm taking blue color in three different parts. And to first blue color, I will be mixing white. That is more amount of white because I want a light blue color. Then to the third one, I will be just taking a black in that because I want a darker color. First, blue in which I have mixed that white, half of white and half of blue, separate white also I have taken and the second blue, I will keep it like that. In the third blue, I will add a little bit of black to it to make it a dark bluish color. Let's first mix all these colors, not blend. You have done so many blending techniques that it's coming like blend. Just mixing these colors nicely and then we'll start with the bouquet blending. Now, this type of bouquet blending is used in many paintings. Now, this one I'm doing like a landscape one, but you can use also for creating any portraits or anything. So again, round brush, whole first outer part light, and inside, it will be the darker color. So first, I'll take the lighter color. So taking wet my brush and completely damp brush I have used, and just taking now the second blue, which is a little darker than the first one and then with the side of the brush, you have to blend. Don't use the complete tip of the brush, just the side of the brush to blend the colors. Now, just wash off your brush and remove excess of water and then slowly do the blending part. You can see how I'm blending the colors with the side of the brush. Every time you use the side of the brush for blending it. Now just taking again the lighter color and trying to blend this again. This is how we have to blend the colors together. Now, again, I will use the darker color and just now in this time, I'm not washing off my brush again and again because as we go from light to dark, it is fine, but when you go from dark to light, it is a little difficult. When you are taking the colors from light to dark, it's not required to every time you have to wash off your brush because the colors are similar. So just taking this blue color again and just putting it and moving the brush in the circular motion. Mostly I want the sides to be light and the center to be a little darker in color, and I'm just smudging all the colors in a circular manner. This is a little tricky. It looks easy, but it is a little tricky technique. So try to use only the sides of the brush and don't use too much water on your brush. It should be a damp brush. Don't use too much water. Now again, taking my lighter color from the side, and then the blue color. Then again, this darker blue color I will take. Taking the darker blue and just putting it in the center. Sometimes your brush becomes a little sticky. So just wash off your brush, remove excess of water, and then do the same technique. Because in this process, your brush becomes sticky when you are moving the brush in the circular motion. Now again, taking this lighter color first, applying it to all the sides of the corners, and then the darker blue. So the blue which I have not mixed and taking again this lighter color than the darker blue in the center. This is how you have to blend and mix the colors in a circular motion. So just taking this darker color and just blending the middle part and just trying to make the middle part more darker than the part which is outside. So when you will move the brush in the circular motion, this type of blending will come up. Again, taking a little white in this blue and just adding a little more of lighter color. Same thing we do when we do the bouquet painting of any. Suppose you want to create any flower or any bird or any animal portrait. We can use this type of blending to create the bouquet effect. Just adding more white to this blue and creating more light colors, especially to the corners. Now again, I will take this blue color and add in between because I want a little darker color in between. Now see till now I have not washed off my brush. I'm just using the same brush and doing it again and again. Now again, taking the lighter color and just more light color and just putting it to the sides. You have to do this process till you feel that it has perfectly become a bouquet texture. And move the brush in the circular motion when you want this type of texture. Don't use water on your brush. It should be a damp brush. Then only that texture will come up. Now, this texture why I'm creating here, I want to create a snowy bouquet effect. That's why I'm creating this bouquet effect in the background. Then on top of it, I will be drawing the branches with fallen snow and everything. That's why I want the middle area to be a little darker in color. I'm just making it a little more dark. As you can see, I've just made this middle part a little bit more darker. Now, once this whole background is done and once it has dried, you can always overdo another coat on this. That is perfectly fine, but wait for it to dry and then do it. Otherwise, Now again, I'm taking this white color or this color has almost dried, so I'm just taking this white color and with this small amount of white, I'm just moving it in a circular motion. Just applying it to the sides to feel look like snowy effect, snowy bouquet effect, just to feel that with white color. Take very less amount of white color when you are doing this. Don't take too much white color on your brush. So just adding here and there, this light white texture. This is it. Now we will be doing some detailing on this. 18. Winter Vibe Part One: Welcome back. So now you can see my whole background has dried completely. But again, I will add a little bit more darkish color to the center part because I feel this is quite light. So I'm just adding a little bit more this dark texture in the center, more bluish. Just making it a little dark, especially the center part. Just moving the brush in circular motion and with damp brush, I'm just creating the texture, especially in the center part. This is the center part which I have made a little more dark which we have done. Now I'm taking a little black here and now first we'll draw the branches. Here I'm showing just half of the branches which is just reflecting from one side. So I'm just taking my round brush and some nice black color, charcoal black, and first, I'm making the lines. Now, you can just make nice lines first, and then you can do the whole coloring thing. I'm first making the line how these branches will be, and then I'll give a proper shape to these branches. There are two branches which are coming from above. So making it a little thick from top and as it goes down, it should be thin. Again, the color should be fluid when you are drawing this. Don't use very thick color. Since I'm using this round brush, so I haven't added any water to this color because already water is there on my brush. But when we use ga brush, we definitely add some water to this color because ga brush does not hold too much water. That's why we have to add a little bit of water to this black color. Now I'm just creating first the branches and sub brranches and some nice tiny stems here and there, just with black color. You don't need many colors in this. This is one of the technique that how you can draw the branches in the trees. Mostly the branches are thick from where it is starting and as it goes outward, it is thin. And make the branches a little bit more of a zigzag form. Then it will look more nice. Don't make it very straight. Now I made the thicker branches. Now I will take my rigor brush and make some thin one. Just taking this black color and making some nice branches here and there. I'll add some water to this black color. Then again, I'll take this black color and he'll try draw the stems. The branches are the thicker one, sub branches are a little thinner than that, and these are the stems which are more thinner. So just enjoy the process of making these nice lines and you can also follow the same lines as I have done because again, we have to create the lamb, which is there on the tree. It's the half tree which is reflected the half branch of the tree. It's not the full tree, but yes, you can show the full tree as well by doing this. But since I have to show you here the bouquet background, that's why I'm just showing the half branches and rest are not visible. You can see I'm just adding few branches here and there. Take your time and do it slowly. When you will do the branch thing perfectly, then the whole painting will look like very beautiful. So first, I'm just drawing the stems, sub brranches and some small branches as well. Mix of that. Always use these fine liner brushes when you are drawing such type of branches. Don't use very thick brushes. Otherwise, you will not be able to draw these thin lines. Try to use these nice rigor brushes of size zero or two by zero and drawing some nice fine lines. Once we have drawn all these branches, we will be drawing the lamp which is hanging on the branch of the tree. First, we'll create the chain. These are small chains like this which I'm creating and then we'll create the lamb. Again, if you are not able to draw it directly, draw it with your pencil or watercolor pencil and then do the outline. It's your choice, how you want to draw it. Now, you can see I've joined these two lines and now I will create the lamp first with black color. First drawing the outlines and then we'll do the detailing. Very simple painting yet very beautiful once it is done completely, you will see the output, how it looks. Take your time and draw it very slowly. Now, the lines which are parallel to both sides. This much is the drawing part and a little bit more lines I will draw some more tree lines and branches I'll draw which are there, just crossing these chains. Drawing here and there with my own imaginations. So small lines and stems. Now I will just color this above area with black. Again, here, I'm using my round brush and just covering the above part with black color. And making the above line a little thick. So this is it for the upper part, making these lines also little thicker with my round brush. 19. Winter Vibe Final: Now once this lining part is done, now I will start adding the candle which is there in the center. I've just taken yellow color, and I'll take a little bit red also first yellow color, white color, and red color as well. So all the three colors I've just taken out, and now I will start drawing first the candle. Candle base, I'm just using white and red mix to draw the base. Just thick rectangular line. I'm drawing here. Thick line, as you can see. It's a very bright color which has come up when I've added this white color to this red. Now I'm adding a little texture with mix of white and yellow above just a round oval texture to give a nice highlight of the flame which will be coming up and a little bit of orangy color to the sides and to the side also where the light is being reflected on that. So just adding the edges with some nice orangy and yellowish color. Now I will add the flame first, just making it a little bit more dark, this candle. After that, just with white color, I will take thick white color and I will draw the flame here. Very simple yet beautiful painting it is. You can see I'm just giving a little shape to the candle and a little bit more yellowish in the flame part. This is it. I will just add a little bit more highlight to the sides of the lamp to make it more bright. You can see how bright and beautiful it is looking when all these bright colors have been added to this, especially with this blue background. Now we will add some snowy effect to these branches. For this snowy effect, we will be using first. Little bit more branches I'm just adding here and there. For the snow effect, I'll just be using again, white and blue color with my round brush, I will try to create this snow effect. I've taken white and this thick white and bluish color mix and just creating some snow textures. These are not smooth shaves, just random up and down shapes I'm creating So this color is a mix of yellow and white. It's not complete sorry, not yellow. It's the mix of blue and white. So it's not completely white color. You can see I've added a thick layer of snow on the main branches. Similarly, we will add some more snow to the stems also and to the sub branches as well. This is how we can create some snow effect which is on the trees. Now I'm taking this rigor brush and making a nice outline on top of this snow with white color, just with white colour. This is one of the technique of creating a nice, beautiful, realistic snow which is there on top of the branches, adding some more lines here and there. Now, use again this thick color or creating such textures, don't use thin color. Adding some snow effect on this also. Just some th nice colors and adding Now, you can see how beautiful this painting is looking after we have added this non effect. So if you're trying out this painting, to tag me on my Instagram that is Mohni Art Gallery. I would love to see your artworks since Christmas is also coming, so this is the best painting you can gift it to someone in this special occasion. Just adding some more fine lines here and there. Again, taking a little bit more black color and drawing the lines which have been hidden because of this yellow color, making it more sharp. So small small things matters a lot when you are doing these types of paintings. So this is our fifth painting which we have done, and we have learned total of five paintings till now. So if you're trying it out, any of these five paintings to tag me on my Instagram, that is Moi Art Gallery. I hope you enjoyed this whole lesson of blending techniques, how we blend the colors and how we paint the landscapes and the candles, and the bouquets, everything. So if you liked the class, Please do share your project works. I will love to see them. Adding little highlights and that's it. We are done with this whole complete painting. We'll take out the tape now and we'll see how it looks. Just adding few more lines here and there. Now this is the whole painting. Let's take out the tape and see how it looks. Slowly take out the tape because we are using paper. This is the complete output. I hope you enjoyed these classes and thank you so much. 20. Bonus Lesson Part One: Hello, friends. Welcome back. So let's start with our bonus lesson. So I have taken the sheet in a portrait format, and I have just taped it with the masking tape. So first, I will draw a mountain, and then we'll start with the painting. Just a rough sketch. It's not very difficult. A simple and easy mountain I'm drawing over here. Since in the whole lesson, there was no mountain painting, so I thought to include this as well as a bonus lesson. So I'm just drawing an overlapping mountain, one overlapping mountain and others are behind. Simple drawing. So now let's start with the painting. We will be doing first the background. So the colors which we will be using here mostly primary colors. So blue, black, white, red, and cadmium yellow. And the brush, again, the flat brush. So let's start with the painting of the background. So the first color is the mix of blue and black mix. So a little bit of black, not too much to make the color more dark. So I want it to be a little darker in color because this is the evening sunset time where the darkness has started and the whole sky is quite dark. So I'm just making the color a little bit dark, and now I will just add a little bit of red into this and to make it a little magenta or you can say violet color. And again, I'm just adding the color behind and just blending both the colors together. So as we will move down, we will add more of violety color. A little bit more of this red I'm adding to it and a little bit white, also. So you can see the color which is a little bit lavender color, it has come up. And I'm just trying to blend both the colors. You can see the brush is only on my water is only on my brush. So that much amount of water you need, not more than that. Gain a little bit more of this red and white mix to make it a pinkish color and just applying it below and blending the colors simultaneously. Here, I'm trying to create a very vibrant sky with full of different different colors. So now I will include a little bit of pink and then yellow. So just taking a separate red and a mix of white into it, and I will add first, this pinkish color. So just adding a pinkish color. So you can see it's not blending, so I'm just adding a little bit of violet to it, and I'm just trying to blend again with this pink color. So this is how we blend when the colors dry up, as we have seen in our previous paintings as well. So now I will be adding this yellow color with a mix of little bit of white to below portion. So just taking yellow color and just applying it below, mixing a little bit of white and adding below the entire section with yellow colour. This is cadmium yellow, which I'm using here. Now, again, you can see my pink has dried a little. So I'll just be taking a little bit of pink, and then I will mix this with the yellow color. So when pink mixes with this yellow colour, it turns out to be a little orange color. So it's okay. So just a little bit of mix of colours. Now I will be adding a little bit of u more of this pink, and I will just try to blend more of this color. A little bit of blending is required over here. So just taking my brush damp brush and just trying to blend all the colors and moving the brush in the upward direction. Now, again, taking this yellow color and mixing it with this nice orange shade. So till you feel that the blending is perfect, you need to just move the brushes in to and fro directions. And now I think I'm done with this background part. I will start adding some stars to it. Just wet your brush. Just wet your brush a little bit and just sprinkle some of the colors on top of it. Just sprinkle it like this to make a little small small star formations will be there. So just adding a little bit more of water because I want bigger stars as well. So I'll just make it a little watery and I'll add more stars to this. Very simple and easy way to add stars. You can see how nice this background is looking once I've added all the try thing. Now we will do the mountain part. So first, what I will be using here is the round brush for doing the lining part. So just the lining of the outlining of this mountain first and then we'll start filling the colors. Simple outlining with black color. So you can see the background is looking so vibrant. I'm just making this mountain a little more, like, steep and just adding here a black color because this area is inside the shadow form, so I'm just adding black to it more. So just adding a few more lines and details, and then we'll start filling the colors. So just adding the lines where the shadow and where the rocks are the black rocks are. Same with my round brush. Very simple and easy technique to paint the mountains. Now on top of it, I will be adding this pinkish color which is on the top of it, this pinkish color, and at the bottom, I will add mostly bluish purplish shade. So mostly on top, a little pinkish. Then I'm adding some nice bluish, pinkish color in the bottom side, just taking a little bit more white because everything has turned out to be pink. So I'm just mixing a little bit more of blue and white and just adding some more values to these mountains. So here I'm just filling the colors. I'm not bothering about how the brush movement is there, if there are brush marks or not. It is fine if there are brush marks because we want little bit of brush marks on the mountain. So it is perfectly fine. You can paint it in any directions, whichever directions you want. It's up to you. Just filling the whole empty area with the same color. Once we are done with the complete filling of the colors, then we'll start adding the details. You can see I have just filled the entire color. So areas are dark, some areas are light. So it's perfectly fine. And if there are brush marks, that is also perfectly fine. Now we will be adding some details in these mountains. So for this, I will be using my liner brush and a little bit of blue added to this black. 21. Bonus Lesson Part Two: Welcome back. Now, let's start with the detailings. Here I'm using my rigor brush and just adding few details with a mix of black and blue color. Just adding a little bit of lines and textures with my rigor brush. So it will look like that the pinkish part is the snowy part and the other part is the back mountain which are getting reflected. So just trying to add a little bit of lines and textures to this. Adding few more lines, bigger lines. Now I will be using the Bristol flat brush and just taking the colors directly, and it is a completely dry brush and adding some textures, a little bit of textures on the sides of this blackish part. It adds a very nice texture to it, and just add the tip of the brush. Don't use the complete brush. Just use the tip of the brush, and it is a completely dry brush, and it will create a very nice dry texture on the mountains, as you can see. Whenever you need to do any texture part, always use dry brush and bristle brush. It will create very nice and beautiful textures. And see how the textures have come up. Now again, I'm using my rigor brush and just using some textures and lines here and there to make a little bit more variations to this mountain, adding a little bit more variations to this mountain. Here, also, when you are adding some textures, don't use completely dry wet brush. It should be a damp brush. The only that textures will come up, just lines and here and there, some nice textures. So once we are done with all these textures, then we will start adding some more starry lights above. Now I will start adding a little bit of white texture to it, a little bit of white to give a little snowy effect on this side as well of the mountain, which is the dark side of the mountain, B side, you can see. So just adding few thick colors. Don't use too much water in this, directly use the color and give a little textures and highlights with the white color. Adding these thick textures will give a magical effect to the mountains, and it will look like that snow is just above these mountains, which is covered entirely with snow, giving effect of that. In acrylics, the more you layer your painting, the more you add textures, the more you layer your painting with different varieties of colors, more it creates the realistic version of the painting. Now, you can see I'm adding a little bit more white textures in a vertical manner. Once you feel that there are lots of textures of white and this on top of it, now we will add a little bit stars, which is coming from the mountains. Now, again, for the stars, I will be using my bristle brush, again, the completely dry brush with a mix of red. So it will give a pinkish texture to it and straight from the mountain to the top. So it will be like a V shape, as you can see, and just using the tip of the brush to create this texture, and it creates magic when you use the bristle brushes. And don't try to press these brushes. Used in a very light manner, and just the tip of the brush and it's completely dry brush. So you can see how it is looking. So this painting is almost done, and I'm just adding few more stars, bigger stars in this background. So I hope you enjoyed this bonus lesson. And if you're trying it out, do tag me on my Instagram. That is Mohini Art Gallery. Or you can share me on the project section, and I love to see it. So you can see how bright and beautiful this mountain is looking with a vibrant background sky. So just I'll remove the tape and let's see how it looks. So, finally, just the last part of this tape is left, and this is it. And thank you for watching. 22. Second Bonus Part One: Hello, friends. Welcome back to another class. Now, this is the landscape shape which I have put the whole paper and put down the tape. Center line and the center line is a little above the center, and these are the colors which we will be using. So let's start with our blocking first. We will be using flat brush here for the blocking of the entire thing. So first, we'll start with the background, and then we'll go towards the C part. So let's start with the blocking. I'm just wetting my brush, and then I'll just take this blue, which is cobalt blue over here, which I have taken. So taking first this cobalt blue and a little bit of white. So I want a little light color, so I'll make more white to it, and a little bit black to make it a grayish blue color. So I'm adding a little bit more white to make it a little more light, bluish grayish color. I don't want it to be completely blue, so that's why I'm adding a little bit of black to this whole mix. So now I will be just starting with blocking of the background. So first, this color. So just take enough of color so that you can completely block in this entire area. So taking, again, this color, and I'm just moving the brush in the horizontal motion. Mixing a little more white and then adding this color and blending it together. So simultaneously start blending the colors when you are adding the light. So as I'll go down, I will make the color a little more light. So a little more white to it, and I'm just covering the entire area which is above area, that is the sky area. And then I'll do the C part. It's just making the color more and blending the color. Now you can see upper part is dark and the lower part is little light in color. So now, so now let's start with the lower part, that is the C part, which is the middle ground. So let's take first the darker color. So here I will be applying first the darker color, that is the mix of blue and a little bit of black to it. So I want a perfect dark bluish color. So first, I will make the line with my tip of this flat brush, where take the colour thick color and start making the line, which is the straight line. And after that, I will just try to blend this color with the upper color so that it will look like a blurry line which is in between the sky and the sea. So I'm just taking, again, the same color, and I'm just applying this lighter color, and I'm just trying to blend that put the colors together. So I'm not disturbing the line. I'm just blending the upper part so that line looks a little blurry. Now, I'll move downward, adding a little more colors to it. And first, I will add on the above part a little dark bluish color. So in this, blue is more and black is very little amount. So don't add too much black, otherwise, everything will turn out to be black. So a little amount of black is needed, not more than that. So just covering the upper part, and as we will go down, the color will start changing, as you have seen in the sea. Now I'm mixing this cadmium yellow and white. Now you can see the color which is being formed over here. It's like a turquoise color, which is very dark turquoise color. I don't want such dark color, so I'm just muting it with the white color. So adding more of white and making it more lighter in shade and just applying on top of the blue color. So simultaneously start blending the colors as well. So you can see how nice teal color it has come up, teal or turquoise, whatever you say. Both are a little similar. Teal is a little more lighter than this color. So very nice and beautiful color has come up. Now I will be adding more white to this white has got finished. So I will just take more of white in this palette. Now, let's add more white to this color, and I'll start filling the lower part. So you can see the variations of colors which are being formed with just these primary colors and the neutral colors. So you don't need all the colors for making your painting. You just need your primary colors and the neutral colors to create different numbers of colors. So this is the advantage of using the color. And in this way, you will learn color mixing as well. So if you're a beginner and you want to start something in acrylic just by the primary colors and the neutral colors, and you are good to go. Now you can see the variations in the sea color from dark to light and how we mix this yellow and created such nice, beautiful color. So now let's do the lower part, which is the land for, that is the foreground part. So for that, I will be using mostly the grayish color. So simply this black and more amount of white because I want light grayish color. I don't want a very dark grayish color. So I will add a little bit more white to it. Now again, my white has finished. So here you have to use lots of white in this. Then only that color mixing will be done because mostly in this painting, we have used lighter shade colors. So that's why here white is needed. So now I'm just adding more of white to this and just filling the foreground with my same brush. You have seen we have filled the background, the middle ground, and the foreground. Now we will start with the detailing of this. So a little more darker color at the lower part. So just applying a little darker color and we are done with the blocking. Oh 23. Second Bonus Part Two: So welcome back. Now my background has dried completely. Now we can do the detailing. So I'm using here my filbert brush of size too for creating some beautiful clouds, fluffy clouds. I'm just mixing a little black to this white and first making the structure of the clouds with this color. And then we will start adding a little white in this. I'm just dabbing the brush and mixing the brush in the circular motion. Take very little quantity of the colors and use dam brush. Don't use wet brush. Otherwise, these type of clouds will not be formed. So try to use dam brush, and now I'm using a thick white color to create this shape and moving the brush in circular motion. This is a very good brush for creating clouds. I'm still planning to make one class on just the clouds and how the clouds are being formed. How you can make some beautiful realistic clouds. But still, that is in progress. So just adding some few clouds here and there. This is a very basic clouds which I'm teaching here, very basic form. So just adding few little clouds here and there. So I will not be adding too many clouds in this. I'm just adding one more layer of this white color and just small small clouds below, just to give an appearance that these clouds are very far away and this cloud is a little closer to the sea. So just giving a little shape to these clouds and creating very small, small clouds below. So just washing off my brush because whenever you use this type of technique, sometimes the brush becomes a little sticky. So better wash off your brush if you feel that the brushes have become sticky and just a few little clouds pillow, very small clouds. Now, let's add some more details with my rigor brush. So just taking this thick raw white color, and I will start creating the waves. So very simple waves, thick colour you have to use in this. Don't mix water when you are using this technique. Just thick colors. See, I've just added the textures. Thick textures you have to add and just try to shake your hand a little bit so that this type of zigzag textures will come up. So somewhere it is thick, somewhere it is thin. So these type of textures we have to add in this curvy waves effect. So one more wave we will add to the outer part. So that will be a little thicker wave than this one. The same technique we will be using here also for the other waves. Take thick color, and there's a middle wave in between, and just one more wave we will start adding to the outer part. So once we have added this texture, it should be a thick color. If it is a thin color, it will not look pretty. So try to use very thick raw colour. This will add a little more vibrance and beauty to this wave painting. So it's very simple technique which I have used here. Use your liner brush or rigor brush or size zero brush, and you have to create these textures. Now I'm just outlining this area with a dark grayish color. So making a grayish color and make it the color a little fluid because whenever we are doing any outlining part, the color should be a little fluid. So just outlining the outer area to give a little edge to these waves. So thin line you have to add on the outer part of the waves. Now I will be adding a little more shadow effect with my again, the filbert brush. But this time, I will make the color a little lighter, and I'll just add the textures, make little darker than the background color it should be. And you don't have to use very thick color. Just make a little thin color and just add the highlights on the outer part so that it will look like a shady effect like the shadow effect of the waves. So just giving a little shadow effect to the waves and just blending it with the base color. Since it is a very thin color, that's why you can easily blend the colors, which is called a glazing technique you can say I've used over here. So I wanted to show this painting to you guys so that I can complete each and every part in this topic because it's a basic level painting and I want to cover each and every topic. That's why one topic I have used as the mountain. So I've covered the top area, and now I will sprinkle some the black and white color below, which will look like a small pebbles and stony effect it will give sprinkling. Like we did in one of our painting, just sprinkling the lower part. I've covered the upper part so that the sprinkler does not go in the upper side. So now I will sprinkle it with white color as well. Again, my white has finished, so I'll just take out a bit more white, and then I'll start sprinkling it with white color. There's one technique which is used in sprinkling is if you will use it very closely and very wet, it will create bigger drops, and it will create from far distance, it will create very small, small tiny dots. So it depends about how much water you have added to this color. So you can see how nicely this look is coming from below. Like small small pebbles and white pebbles are there on the sand area. So this is the whole painting. I hope you enjoyed it. And to try it out and you can share me on my Instagram that is MohniAtGallery, or you can just tag me in. It's up to you to share your project works. I would love to see them. And just making again this line a little bit more bold. And we almost done with this painting. You can add here palm trees, your choice. It's up to you whatever you want to add over here, how you want to decorate your painting. It's completely your choice. You can add here one palm tree on the side and you can give the shadow of the palm tree below. See how creative you can do anything in this painting. You can add grasses below. It's up to you how you want to make this painting. This is my idea of doing it. So just removing my tape carefully. I hope you enjoyed this painting, and thank you so much for watching.