Alluring Poinsettia - Master Heavy Watercolor Washes

1. Introduction: Quite CDS on one of the most beautiful, colorful, bright, as well as the orange flowers in the Christmas season. So many of us think that the red leaves of the CDS are the florals. But all the yellow box in the middle of the points, the ideas are there. Whereas the red, the green, or the news. Hi guys, I am pretty good enough. They're not as instructor or mothers Skillshare teacher. I'm Brian donor or five imbeciles by the manufacturer, handmade sketchbook. I guess big banks kind much more. Many of you already know me, but to the people who are joining me for the first time, I go by Vinny watercolor illustration, not later on Instagram, most of my artwork displayed over there. Today, we, we're going to do a watercolor painting of poinsettia, is going to be typing. And you're going to have tons of every lesson, whether it be drawing or painting in layers have been explained in terms of sliders, which you can always refer back once you are done with the painting, I have uploaded them in the resources section. Along with the sliders, there are few examples which we have covered. It really is interesting and you can practically understand each concept much more detail with emphasis on light, shadows and negative painting. One city us, bring back a lot of joy, energy, laugh, happiness in this Christmas season. That's one of the reasons you can give them to me on your and your wants. This class is more suitable for intermediate to advanced level lattice. But if you are just starting out and want to gain some knowledge about heavy washes and fundamentals of watercolors. This has a lot to offer. So let's think when CPS and start with our first lesson. 2. Class Overview: Let me give you a quick review of the glass and how we are going to progress. The first is all the videos array at a time. So you can paint along with me. After every layer is complete, you can drop the class and get back to it later on, wherever you get some time. Each of the videos are short span so that you can draw paint. Hi, do your final detailing. Do watch the class on a bigger screen because status not only going to help you to see that I have done, but it also helps you through step-by-step to understand how we are going about through the entire part of the course. It starts with how and what you need in terms of the material. Whether it be brushes, paints, watercolor, anything that you need, how to go about the drawing process. There are three basic drawing process that you have. Freehand drawing, grid drawing, and tracing the sketch method. Each one of them is explained in detail. Once that is done, we will go over the initial washes of the background. That is a flat wash, gradient wash and a variegated wash. Once these are done, we are going to understand the negative painting in detail with a few examples. After we finish all of this in terms of the technique, you, we will start with the final painting on the techniques that I have discussed. The forehead is actually segregated into various sections. The drawing part, which is the part one, covers a lot of these methods. And then we start with the final sketching part. Similarly, the background washes. We'll go with a2. A3 is about understanding of basic aspects status you're layering and glazing. I'm part four moves on to one of the very important concepts about negative painting, which you can observe over here. Not only we get to enjoy and understand all these concepts of our watercolors, but also have a beautiful painting of points CTO, which goes with the season of Christmas and New York Yankees U2 are enough for the Christmas season. I want to find points CTS meet you in the next lesson. 3. Materials Required: Cisco's a bit about although requirements that we have from the materials perspective. Because starting out with two jars of water, one is blue water and an adult for washing our brushes. What are the kinds of brushes that we made? For me? I have kept, these are the essential brushes and others is always good to them. This is a one-inch Princeton Neptune wash brush, not really needed for our paper. The paper size is 30 innervating centimeter. We will talk a bit more in detail as we progress. Is quota size one, size two brush, whichever you have, the Vinci mop brush. And this one I have as a Skoda size zero brush. I will need, of course, op-eds cell phone doing the freehand line drawing. Though there are other options too, which I have discussed for growing. This is the scale. The scale is always great. We have just in case you are cutting your people or anything else you want to measure like the grid method, etc, which you want to apply for your drawing and sketching. This can really help. I haven't eating, so not this gating. So of course you can have for other biases, It's great to have even on kneadable eraser like this one to take off all the extracting them. And so I would leave it up to you, which kind off an eraser. Let's discuss a bit about colors from the green part. You can have olive green, indigo, greenish yellow. For the rejects. I am going ahead with my cadmium red. Quinacridone, gold, compostable, para any kind of yellow that's available on your ballot. You frankly do not mean only gambled, yellow or something that's not there with you. It can be any Arlene, yellow or yellow that's available, Indian yellow, etc. That's one of the reasons I have not shown you any one single color of yellow dots there. You can always keep this scenario or yellow. I think that's this pastel, like how you do it. Yes, you can have a tube like this one for yourself. And see what we mean. The people's point of view. I have told you the size, the size is 13, indicating centimeter. I'm using a 300 GSM, hundred percent cotton. One-fourth of the people. Now, this is very important as such because we are going to have heavy wash. Now for heavy washes, I do not prefer going ahead with 185 GSM people because that might buckle or bed and Menon stick to the surface. We have by our side about which I will discuss the cost. This is the size that are if this is the people that I prefer and the sizes to lean into 18 cm, as I have told you. This has got two sides. One is a bit more grainy and another is Would you can use both the sides irrespective of which one and which side is true fuse and beside you should not use water equally possible. And this one in particular is my base where I would be sticking my paper. It is an acrylic board. It's pretty easily available anywhere in the market. Want to fly or by something like this, that would be great. It actually helps the paper to stay wet for a longer period of time. And that's really important when you want going ahead with any kind of heavy washes. I always prefer one single kind or something like that, but I would really tell you to get one partner's, your people might dry off. In the meantime, you paint that. I really don't want a situation like that. Okay? Liquid masking, fluid. This is very important for the middle part, where majorly then are the flowers. So hence. So keep this handy. It is very, very small area, so you do not need to worry. Now is power of tissue. Digital is very, very important for any kind of painting that tissue really helped solve everywhere. And that's one of the reasons I always always asked you guys to keep that handy. You can have with kitchen towel, you can have known the towels, whatever is available with you guys. Keep it handy for yourself. You want to pick up the colors, etc. You'll find one of the CVA. We have discussed everything that is needed. Let's now jump on to our next lesson. 4. Poinsettia Part 1 Drawing: Let us first discuss freehand line drawing with pencil. You can choose any pencil of your choice. Just start. Try to have an HB pencil. It could give you like the graphite max. Watercolor is a transparent medium, and therefore we should get very light rough bite marks so that it becomes really easy for us to have a clear picture rather than having any kind of provide marks beneath it. We start by using a pencil, drawing the middle part, and then going over with our free hand line drawing for the leaves. You can either use this method or co-head with the second or the third method. So many of us have this misconception of not using the tracing method for our painting. But for me, it's more like understanding the techniques of watercolor. Rather than think much about tracing. In case you want a bigger painting, just take a printout of the size that you choose and have a better outcome. The scanned copy of the sketch is provided in the resources section. You can go ahead and download it for your reference. Trace. This with a permanent marker on the backside, apply the pencil mark and go over it with a ballpoint pen. The ballpoint pen helps to get the darker graphite masks which you need on top of the paper that you're using for the final painting. Finally, the last one is grid drawing, which is majorly dividing your paper into nine equal halves. Now this nine equal halves really helps you to place your subject in the place where you want. It is also willing to help you to understand the golden rule of thirds, where you practically divide your paper into nine equal halves. And then let your subject line in the focal point, which are basically the intersection of these lines, rather than placing it in the middle of the paper. The focal point really helps any kind of a painter to have all the energy as well as the attention into those areas where you have added the subject. And it is really great outcome for all the spectators who are watching you painting or who are really watch it. You're fine. Lockdown. Hi guys. I'm super excited to teach you poinsettia, which is the Christmas plant. And we are going to do all kinds of techniques. And this one starting with a background wash, which is like a heavy wash. And then going on well with some of our most important techniques like glazing, negative painting, background washes, darkening of various layers, learning and whatnot. So let's jump one with our first part which is measured either drawing, I'm going ahead and drawing a few smaller circles, which is basically the middle part of the poinsettia plant. Once I'm done with this, I would extend towards the left, right, and all the parts for adding the lease, as well as the red filter. We need to extend it on all sides now as we had already done with the melody part, where half made about eight to nine small, small circular kind of structures. And these are basically for showing the middle part has happened. Only. Once this part is done, we will go ahead and start adding leaf kind of structures now, once it is something which has leafy structure on all the sides. So just try to add it in a way that the whole of the plant is basically pleased towards the ripe. I do not like to place my subject just in the metal hand. Some, I like to do it this way. According to various people and various artists, they like to actually have structures in different manners. So I would leave that decision up to you if you are more happy or placing it towards the center of the school, had an Android, according to mean, just adding some bigger leaves would be great. Once you are done with these bigger leaves, a very simple structure of going ahead with this. Part of the point here is to add layers. Now, letting would be structural, in this case, the Viewers of the leaves which are towards the bottom, they are more on the green part, whereas what comes towards the top is more on their head side. That's the main structure which we are going to follow. And I guess that would be pretty easy for all of you. Now, since this is heavy wash, I'm going to go ahead with variegated wash. It's important to always have an acrylic sheet by your side. Acrylic sheet would really help you to stick with the particular people with that and even allow paper to remain wet for a longer period of time, as we have done for all the earlier illustrations. Yeah, This is the most complicated out of them all because we are going to actually learn a lot more like negative painting. Or if you say lifting up the colors, all of it is done in this particular part of the illustration. Hence, it is Last one. Okay, I guess I have spoken enough about what we're going to do, how you're going to do what you're going to attempt hand. Now, I am pretty sure you are all geared up to start painting this part. Let's just finish off the sketching first. Another aspect which I can tell you about the sketching is just Rho. So go and then just try to add these leaps that would be more easier for you to do it. Few of the people even like to do poinsettia by layering. I think there are various ways of doing it. But this is one of the more prettier race did the word. So let's keep on working through the sketch. I will keep layering on some word lease wherever necessary, and then draw the stem of this point, CTL, land. Once I am done with the stem of this poinsettia plant, then we can start by applying or clean layer of wash on the top as well as on the backside. Backside is most important because we need to go head and stick it to the acrylic board. 5. Poinsettia Part 2 Background Wash: Most of you will know about these basic three washes, but let's go through each one of them a bit in detail. The first is the flat wash, which is basically equal pigment spread. Similar value of pigments on the whole paper. This is one of the easiest washers if you were doing on a smaller size people. But in case you are going ahead with a large size paper, you have to have a bowl of color and then start applying the color on the people vote. This is one of the basic starting points and you won't have come across it at some point or the other. But it's important to always know how to have concrete wash that as the first and foremost flat watch. The next is the gradient wash. You can do it with one single color, which is moving from darker and lighter tonal values from top to bottom of the paper. This can be done two ways. What flat wash as well as gradient wash, wet on wet as well as wet on dry. Next comes the variegated wash. Applying various pigments in different tonal values across the people. Again, it can be done both ways. That is wet on wet and wet on dry, but might be preferred method to go ahead with is the wet on wet method. We will be using this method for our initial background wash. And hopefully you can find It's important as well as you can really see a lot of usage even in your future projects. Once we have applied the water on both the sides, it's time to start with a variegated wash. Variegated wash is something that you already know and I'm pretty sure invited you guys might have done earlier or you might not be willing to say name. As such, the variegated wash, but you all have used to during our watercolor journey, I would really tell you that this variegated wash is going to be very simple way we are going to use all the warm shades. I love to use warm shades for my painting. Though many might feel that there should be a balance of cool and warm black. I just feel for the bank run when you add these warm sheets, it just adds so much more bling, warmth, and beauty to your painting that you'll see is they can't take your eyes away from it. I'm taking off all the extra water that I feel is there on top of the paper. What happens is that you will really find the background to be pretty common in these cases, which is absolutely fine. We're not here to just take away or cauliflower effect or something like that. It's cool to have those quality Florida effect for these kinds of paintings. Going with my most beautiful color, that is Indian yellow. I have been actually using the scholar or the permanent yellow light. Both of these colors are almost similar and they both actually gives such a fantastic combination. You will see that I've started applying to clean. Now this is basically the lighter value of cream or more of the greenish-yellow that you usually observe? I would be going ahead with some of my red and applying it towards the top area of the leaves, as well as I will leave some white spaces. As you observe. This whole painting is not about to fill up all the spaces. And it's more about it. Go ahead and add colors and few and leave a few spaces. That's more about variegated wash. We're not going ahead with a single color, flat wash or agreed hated wash, which is more about two colors. So you create a gradient out of it, or one color, you create a gradient out of it. Variegated wash goes all way. You can have more than one color to color, three color, whatever way you want to achieve your particular job background, you can do it at. This particular thing I have been using in many of my colleagues, your paintings too. They have retreat or not so beautiful throughout. Not due date. Though, it took me a long time to understand how I really want to apply this variegated wash. You will even seen me actually pulling off some of the veins from the middle of the part of the poinsettia plant. This is majorly to just take away the red spot as these are more on the yellow side. And hence, I am not applying some of the masking fluid. Now, if you are going ahead with wet on wet, what happens is that for shade, which comes once your paper is dry off, is way more lighter than what you observe when you are doing a wet on dry. So be very sure whenever you are going ahead with a wet on wet technique, you are. Colors would be lighter. And it's time to go with one of the fantastic sheets, one of the most pretty shades and sorting doctors shades for this season. To celebrate this season it has to be red. I am going ahead with some of my thread and the quinacridone. This is one most beautiful shape that I've come across with Daniel Smith. It is a combination of red and very light base. I would say it's one of the most pretty colors that are being used. Smith has ever come up with. You already know what are the two sheets which has been used? Jeannette, who go there is only one single shade. But yeah, it looks like it has two shades in it. Oops, I dropped my brush right now. It's absolutely fine. Just pick up the color. By the way, the shade is PR 209 or so. In case you want to go ahead with any shade of this, please go ahead and just turn purchase that. I think this is one of the best sheets for florals for any kind of laurels that you want to paint and paint are on the warm side. 6. Poinsettia Part 3 Layering & Glazing: Here we are going to learn about the major washes. The passcode is applying a light wash of pigments on top of the entire paper or on the selected space. As you can observe what I'm doing in my video. The second is all about glazing. Now, before we go ahead with the glazing lectures, jump on to the learning. Why, as we have already applied our first layer, It's important to understand a bit about layering more in detail. Planning is the first step and this is practically, I would say the beginning or you can say the foundation of any kind of painting that you want to do. In case you are letting, you can say that you are adding depth. As you can see in the video, we are slowly progressing and we are coming one after another layer as we move from the left towards the right. Whereas leasing is a bit different from letting in terms of it's also about applying another layer on top of the first year that you have attic, either to create the depth or the luminosity depending upon what you are trying to paint in terms of the area. But for me, glazing is kind of an uneven wash. Come back to the larynx, which is more often even wash. Whether you do layering or glazing. Usually what I've seen is there are two to three washes, which is quite enough for any kind of a learning exercise. In case you are going into more realistic painting where you are creating shadows as well as depth. You might need four to six major washes for layering. Though this is not a mandatory approach. You can have even eight to ten washers depending on the kind of paper you are using. But 300 GSM arches, 100% cotton paper can easily take about six to seven washers without any difficulty. In case you are creating a huge painting where you want to have more washes, please go ahead and switch to a thicker paper. Either it be 620 GSM or full 40 GSM depending on what you need. One important aspect of even or gazing are going ahead with the second year where when you are painting is to not have seen Carlo kind of similar intensity in all the places. Now, similar intensity, I mean, you need to change the values. If you are going ahead with one single color, I have chosen two colors in this case, one is my quinacridone coral, and another one is red. But both of them are pretty dark. And hence, when you are working with the shades to make sure that you do not forget to add water. We want the places I drew clean up, then pick up my brush at the beta sheets or just go ahead with the same brush. Washing and adding water on the sides. This is a very important aspect of painting. Florals or row with the kind of leaves point CTO, or anything that you paint. It's important to understand that we are not going ahead with the oldish similar shades and flat washes. We are always going to change it and you're always going ahead with eradicated cautious, even if it would be crazy. So that's how it is going to be. And let's go ahead with the top part of leaves. This part is majorly the red side, and you will observe that now I'm going ahead with some of my Compose Opera. Now composer brands again, one of my favorite colors that I have been using for various of these paintings. It has PB 19, W6, NPR one, W2. Yes, something that I have discovered very simply. It's a beautiful shade of opera, pink and you can really use it for many of your paintings. I'm adding some amount of yellow and then, and just extending it. This is simple, easy, and very, very interesting. So let's continue with it. Something that I have learnt in this painting is not to apply a lot of colors where it is white. Just going ahead with very, very light shade and letting it blend with the background is again, a very good idea of how we should proceed with our paintings. Okay, it's time to switch on to our thinnest brush and just blend it with some indigo and add the darkest value on the sides, as well as you can draw some of the parts. Even with this, the various shades that I get, I think is one of the most interesting aspects of painting. This point cdr, you can seriously create our various ID of colors only by mixing some video fit here and there. And that's it. I am not using pilot in particular for this painting. I am going ahead with only indigo to create darker values which I need. So one thing that you need to understand, vigorous, this particular technique will only pull up your paper is wet enough. And secondly, we are not working on answers and battles, or else the colors move from one particular battle to another particular battle. And really we do not want that, whether you call it a bedroom leaf, whatever it is. But we are not going to allow the window, the panels from one to another. This is something that is very, very important when you weren't going ahead with our painting. Either at the floral sleeves, anything which is more precise, and we really want to add those layers and it's important to let it dry. And then we go ahead with the next TO, particularly. This is a one-step ahead of glazing. I would say we are going ahead with another layer on top of the second year, but we have added, it really helps us to define that depth that we need in the painting. As well as I am not going to add this color towards the top area. Heap and blending brush handy. And we are going to just add some of the wins into the fee part or the floral part of it. It's going to be simple, yet very, very pretty. I am always, always so happy to do these kinds of simple, yet quick and easy techniques which can really add value and more expression to your painting. Now, expression is something that always lies in the eyes of the spectator really see. So I have always have to look at your painting. So changing your style, just adding a bit more, I would say flavor to your painting would really add on that aspect for yourself. Okay, going ahead with some more of our darker values are on the left side as well as on the right side. Once this part is done. And you can see that most of the parts of your red area is dried off. Just go ahead and start adding the colors on the adjacent leaves. Now, over here, as we laid it down and go towards the bottom area, it's important to start adding a bit of green here and there. I'm going ahead with the greenish yellow for now. I will use it for this part of my leaf and then go ahead with the top part where I just adding some of my pinks and then just blending it with the background. The work is so much reduce now and yet it looks so effective and so interesting that I am just filled with joy in my heart as well as in my eyes. Something that I'm always, I'm always proud of is teach you various techniques and the various ways in which you can reduce your work yet have a very beautiful outcome. This is not a big nose or an absolute beginner spot. I would always say that, yes, it's great to have an initial learning before you go ahead with this particular class are together, but you can always give it a try. It's a bit more advanced. I would not deny it, but if you have attempted all the audio paintings, I think it would be easier for you even to go ahead with this. I'm to go along the sides and just highlighted a bit, add some color. And that's it. Not going to touch each and every part to make it more differentiated? I am going to just add three drops of colors here and there and define the boundary of the particular beautiful leaf and fluoro of the poinsettia plant. Minimum work is always, I think it gives you the maximum outcome. And towards the top where you have more of whites, It's great to do minimum work pictures, even by doing that minimum value, you can get a great outcome. But this particular path might not work when you are going to watch the bottom part of the point C DR. Plan. That's one thing which I want you guys to understand it when there is a light side, which you want to show it, minimum is maximum, whereas when you are on the darker side or towards the shadow, but you have to go ahead and apply the darker values, as well as the added ward wherever it is necessary. 7. Poinsettia Part 4 Shadow Leaves: There are majorly three rules which I have followed for negative painting. First of all, let's just understand what is negative painting. Negative painting is when you are actually adding darker values in and around the subject rather than painting within the subject. Now, the kind of negative painting that can be done fosters a flat wash lattice. You have a particular object or subject like a circle or any kind of leave, any kind of structure, whatever is there, you go in and around it and give it a flat wash. That is going to be one negative painting. The second one, which I use the most is the inconsistent wash. This is usually one single color, but in various values in and around the subject or create the focus on the subject. Which means that you are changing the values over the wet place here and there so that you get are defined subject. But in the various values of the background which you want, it is very much used in any kind of a loose floral painting. Oral status, even used in any kind of floral painting where you have defined shapes and sizes. Anywhere you will find this use of. It is really on a high note that you use it. The next one is blending. Now I am really into the spot. Now applying the inconsistent wash can then blending it with the background with the help of clear water. It is majorly to create various values. It helps to actually write another layer where you create the depth for the bottom part of the point CTOs, as you will observe when we progress in this painting. As well as it helps you to even add or change the values wherever you think you did not add the correct color or it is lighter. In the second goal, you want to add a darker shade. It helps you to add that with the help of a wash. It's another kind of variegated wash, but you are not painting within the subject. You are painting outside those objects. Hence, this is most used method that I have for my negative painting. You can absorb on the right-hand side, we did lead net worth only TO water while we were working on the negative painting. Over time. What I have understood through my watercolor journey is it's not an important aspect to apply. Flat wash. What's important is create that atmosphere, to create that depth, to create that expression. Which is really a way to better painting and which really gives a weight and a better understanding of watercolors. Wherever you will see that I have left some white. I'm trying to keep that light intact. And wherever you are observing me, hiding the darker values, it's mostly towards the bottom where majorly there are shadows. This is something that you have to understand and always keep it in your mind while you are adding your colors, light and shadow. Expressing it to your watercolors is a very important aspect and it will not come on the first day. Or there are various ways to also show it. It is not going to work just through like the spark in the first go. It takes a while to understand. And once you get to understand it, it's important to realize that yes, you can show it in various ways to, as I have told you, sometimes leaving the whites is great and sometimes even blending your colors, but the white is great. Another way of working through it as false, going ahead with this point c, d up part of the plant, and then going with the background. As I say, there are various ways to do it, but since we are working with the heavy washes in this particular case. So going ahead with the background wash was the first and foremost important aspect that we did apply to our painting. I need to tell you one thing that this particular leaf is to instead, which means that we see the front as well as the back part of this leaf. Hence. I need to alter both the shapes. One of the pot I'm applying in red and coral, whereas the other part or the other side of the leaf I would be applying in green. This is something that you can use even in your future paintings if you weren't doing any kind of florals. And it will really, really help you with projects that has different kinds of light and shadow. Oral steroids are twisted leaves. There are various phases of the fat you need to show so all that it can be used or pretty efficiently going with some green and then blending it. Now the screen is majorly the olive green that I'm using. I am using it to width read as well as the boardroom. I would leave that decision up to you which color you want to go ahead and use it. But yes, these are the sheets that I love to use and practically showing that tip of the shadow area is very important in this case. I think that part is shown up pretty clearly. Right now. Let's paint another part of the leaf towards the top area, again, in the darker value compared to what we have applied. It would be more on the green side compared to the red that we have applied. It's a mix of red and green to be more precise, so that we can see that there's a differentiation. It's important we will apply some darker value of green on the backside of the leaf area. And you can see I'm using a very thin brush to go ahead and apply this. Once I have applied it, I would even add some things on the other part of leaf area that is towards the right and I don't, some of the darker vine use it. Again, all very thin brush I have taken for doing this part. So go ahead with a size zero or size one brush maximum. You can also go ahead with liner brushes, whatever is available with you. So if I see so many of us do paint from life span, I would say that you'll just see them pain. That's the best way to go about it. But for flow rules, some, I would say flowers, some, he's going to die, they are going to work. And hence, having good reference photograph always helps. In this case, good preference for grabs Kohn, like those assets, which you can always refer back to and from them, flowers and every season to have an impact on the plurals and the pleural sac you paint like during the winter season, we see in India more of roses, etc. Whereas when we go on the summer side, we see other kinds of florals saw coming up heads as to whether changes theta different kinds of florals and hence them might be an intent even in summers to paint roses, which we see in the window. And how do we do it? We do it when we capture it with photographs. I would always tell you to capture these photographs at various stages. When helpful, if you have a plant at your house which is flowering maybe arose points into any kind of flowers or plan that you have. Do capture various photos of. Wet violet is growing while it as blossoming. That can really help you to understand not only about that particular floral, when light falls on the petal, how color works, and how the shadows work when the various kind of firm light and shadow effect that follows. So many of the people initially, when we started off, don't mean yes, you have to apply the darker values for the shadows, but what are the values? How do I get to understand those values? Do I applied or darker color like black, indigo paint screen? No. That's not the case. Always. Never ever tried to apply the black shade for the shadows. Do try to apply to cooler shade for the shadows, along with a drop-off some point sheet. 8. Poinsettia Part 5 Final Details: I really don't have much of sliders, pointers, videos to explain any photo. The techniques we will be using the same techniques that we have known every day, which is glazing, layering, negative painting, et cetera. For completing this part, Let's start now. We have the law applied. Use colors. So cream, it is greenish, yellow or the green. And when Nike queen. But how, and what's the value that you should use as something that needs to be always directed. And I guess this is one of the most important aspects which I should discuss with you while you paint the leaves to make sure that you go ahead with the light value of the olive green or the greenish yellow that you are using. Whereas when you are going ahead with this part of the painting where you have to go ahead and add the shadows. It's mostly your olive green and the Nike Green. I am truly going ahead and applying the colors in real time. And once you have a look at it, you can understand that color mixing is happening with the similar kind of sheets that we have used for the plant area. Now, this is something that I have learned. Never go ahead and use the darker shades. Use the same sheets that you have used for the plant, even for the shadows, just change the value of it and use it. This is something I think comes with aligning. As you paint more and more the amount that you should apply, the lighter values, the darker values. You should use water and just blend it. I'm using some greenish yellow now and then I would use some yellow to blend it with the background absolutely. Orders. You can also go ahead with only simple water to blend it. I am practically using the glazing technique right now to go ahead with another layer for our background. Let me tell you a bit more about pleasing. Leasing is a technique that is used to either warm up or cool down various areas of the painting whenever it is needed. And it is mostly transparent washes. Now these transparent washes on majorly, either with the warm colors, cool colors as I've told you, initially be happier. So cool colors for the shadow area. And now we're using the warm colors for dog, ADL where we have more of light. When we went ahead with the glazing technique for the leaf area, it was more to understand the shapes and sizes. Whereas when we are going ahead with it right now for our background, it is more to define the shadows and the darker areas, which is actually completes our painting. Hence, Some keep adding some more of our own lives. And once we are done with it, go ahead with some yellow and blend it. Yeah, that's what we have done even while we were going from the left side towards the top. That's what we're going to do. Even on the right side where we could do it. Always keep two which are support our handy. Though you'll see me typing it more in the garden char read, I'm washing the brushes, but another jar would really help you improve, wash the brush and clean water which was needed at that stage. We're going ahead with one more layer of darker value of green. If you see the other layer has already dried off and now I'm going ahead with the darkest value. As I feel I was not satisfied with what we did come up with. Adding some shadows was important. I'm going to do that. Laurel for I would say it's in progress. So every painting that you do doesn't come with any rules as such. As you progress, you do change a lot of rules, etc, that you have made. As I am now, adding one more leaf towards the bottom. And you can see, I did draw it right now compared to what we had in our initial been. Yeah, that's what it is to continuously adapt change as part the dynamics of the watercolor paint in watercolor painting into one of the most dynamic mediums that I have come across. Ignored only gives us a lot of surprises, but it also teaches us how to change ourselves depending on the needs and requirements of that particular painting. The only important aspect of keeping now two jars handy with loss office. Anytime you need clean water, like I will need. Now, I can go ahead and just blend it with the background. I really do not need to think again about getting that fresh source of water or apply to all water which is really not in good condition as we wash our brushes on it. I'm going ahead with my darkest value of the green. And this is majorly my Venn Dicey green, which we are going ahead with, the Van ****. A green looks very pretty. In case you have this green, you can always go ahead and apply some glue or indigo into your old queen and get a color that is close to this one. I guess. That's it, just that I'm not very happy with the stem with the negative painting which we did. So there will be a bit of change that I'm going to do in terms of lifting up of the colors from this particular space. And we'll use a flat brush exactly the way you saw me doing it right now, and use it in an absolute perpendicular manner. And now it happens because of this absolute perpendicular manners that you can pull up the paints very easily, take it off on the tissue and again repeated the brush right now is in our semi wet clinical condition. You can say it doesn't have a lot of water but it's wet enough to pull up the paints. That's what is most important. Just one aspect. If you go towards the middle, you will see that there is load of lightest value. Or the first quote, Woolf colors that pitted apply. We might have to go over it with some darker values. But before we do that, it's important to add the yellow is yeah, for the real part, we have to apply the yellows and they will make the whole painting stand out altogether. I can guarantee on that. We did add some subgroups in the middle, not the point CTO plot. The important aspect of it is either you can leave it at this stage where it looks more like a flat wash or add some depth into it. For me, adding some depth really adds flavor to the painting which I want. If you observe closely, I'm using a size zero brush to add the step gets wet. Beriberi simple process, only a very light color that you need. And if you see closely, not that I have added it in a lot of amount, but a bit of it here and there would help you to get that that that UT which you need. Finally, I'm cutting the side. So many of you asked me, how do I get this kind of postcard, the shape and just cutting the sides here. It's very helpful and it makes the painting look so much more pupil. When I see it, I am myself Stan, do please. So short that it came out so well known that you have to have a very beautiful painting always, but sometimes it's an add-on, unmute yourself. Surprised with QP and the softness as plus the hard edges that we get in it. I initially only told you that two of the paths have to be darker compared to few of the parts which can be like. Now, this is something that I have observed over time. We really need some darker values in some of the places or else it will not yell up with the background that we have added. Putting off the paints wherever it is necessary, you can use a size one, size zero brush for doing this. Assigns to size zero brush is also fine. See, it all depends upon the size of the paper that you use. This is something I have always, always toward each one of you. Go with those sides of the paper that you want to work on with. Forming, working with a file size paper comes really handy. And I have been working with a five sides people. I don't know for how long date, whether it be painting heavy washes like these or whether it be some landscapes or any kind of sketching painting whatsoever. I do. I am so happy with using my if I size people. Okay. I guess that looks fantastic now and we have to just finish it off in a few places. Have a finding look at the painting because this painting doesn't meet the boots. So that's the best part about the painting. You can go as you want. There are some patrons in bottom area. But when you are doing these kinds of paintings, it is bound to happen. We cannot control the water in these cases. If you are going ahead with deep, then it's easier to control where sometimes even if you clean the sides. Yeah. What it does grandma work as we even have water on the backside of the people? Overall, it is competent. Want the copy in terms of judging how to apply that light? That's absolutely okay. You will understand more of a dime. I guess. I am super happy, excited with the final outcome. Let's just finish it off, let it dry and have a family look. 9. Conclusion: I hope you have enjoyed painting along with me. I am painting for each one of the optimal your projects in the project gallery. I would love to have a look at each one of them can give valuable feedback. Usually I conclude one or two tips along with it, which can help you in your future projects and what a college in case you have like anything about this class. Do we pass? It is a great source of motivation for any teacher, mentor from whom you have taken the plus. It really helps me to not only understand what are the highest total video, but it also helps me to understand what I can improve in the next few lessons. Can't wait to see you all in the next class. So good, but half of fantastic Christmas and Happy New Year.