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1. Intro: Hi everyone. My name is the Disha. I'm an artist and illustrator who loves to paint with watercolors. Watercolor is one such medium which is loved by everyone, but it can be a little scary when you're getting started with it. In this class, I will walk you through all the basic techniques and tips that you need to get started with watercolors. I will talk about what materials you need, what properties to look for in those supplies, how to understand different types of papers and select what is right for you. And then we will work on the most basic techniques that will help you in getting more familiar with watercolors. And for each technique, we will be creating a mini-project. These projects are going to be fun and easy and will help you in becoming more confident with watercolors. Right below the video, you will see these terms under the Review tab. You can leave the feedback for the class under the discussion tab, you can start a discussion, ask a question if you have any, and even submit a project from here. That under the projects and resources that you can use this green button to upload a project and don't forget to upload a cover image for the project. And here you can find the resources PDF to the list of all the materials that I have recommended in the class. And now that we're ready to explore this fun and crazy medium, grab your paints and brushes, and let's get started.
2. Supplies: So let's talk about the supplies that you need to get started with watercolors. I'll talk about all the materials that I have personally used and will give my recommendations based on my experience with them. So first and foremost, we need watercolor paints. What are you going to pains come in three main forms. The first one is the tube paints, which is the most popular one. Dupain's have creamy watercolor paints in them and they can be bought into a ballot. And as they are already wet, all you'll have to do is just add some water to dilute them and start painting. Now you can use any kind of pallets. I use this airtight palette to store them. You can simply pull the tube paints into the wells and let them dry and then the palette is good to go. You can even travel with them without any issues. Here is another option to store the Tube paints
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these bounds you can get on Amazon or any other art store and pull your pins, store these brands in a metal box. I use this magnet strip to keep them in that battle box and then take them anywhere. The second form of paints that you can get are the band bits. Just like the bands I showed you, many brands come with the bandit of their pains, like this one, they are almost the same as Dupain's, but in my experience, I feel they are less pigment and less saturated than the Dupain and are a little hard to activate initially. Then we have liquid water colors. This is from Dr. Ph. Martin's. These are liquid and common. These glass bottles with a dropper, you just have to take a few drops and the ballot and add water and start painting. These babies are very saturated and very vibrant. But one downside of these types of paints is that they are not at all travel friendly, so I just use them whenever I'm in the studio. Now after the paints, Let's talk about the brushes. Watercolor brushes come in so many shapes, sizes that a beginner can feel very confusing. So to start with, you can just buy one or do round brushes, one or do flat brushes and one detail brush. That's it. Now what do you need to look for in a good brush is that the hair of the brush should be solved and must have a fat belly like this one. Another thing that you want to check is that it has a fine point. This helps in creating nice details and works pretty well in floral paintings. I have, I have provided a list of all the brushes that I use and recommend in the Resources tab. Now let's talk about papers. There is a complete section on papers in the upcoming lessons. So I'll just give you a quick overview here. Watercolor paper come in two basic forms. One is cold pressed and the other one is hard breast. As a beginner, it's always a good idea to start with a cold press paper as it is easier to handle and control the paint on it. Or press paper is very smooth as compared to cold press paper. And it is used mostly by the botanical artist, an artist who want to bring realism and their work. You'll find more information in upcoming lessons on vapors. So apart from these basic supplies, we need more though. Usually it's recommended to use at least two jars of water, one for cool colors and another one for the warm colors. Paper towel or a cotton rag to clean your brushes. Then a pencil and a kneaded eraser. And the last thing is masking tape to tape down your paper on the table to avoid any warping. That's all about the basic materials that we need for this class. Let's move on to our next lessons. We're going to talk about how to take care of your brushes and how to find out the best papers for your painting style.
3. Brush Care: Before we move on, I want to share some of the brush care tips with you. If we take your rover brushes, they will last as a really long time. I mean, for years, watercolor brushes are usually very soft and especially the round brushes, they're the most used and most versatile brushes and need some extra care. So the first thing I wanted to mention is never press your brushes tool heart, since they're already very soft. So pressing gently is more than enough. You don't need to press them very hard. This can damage the shape of the brushes. Second thing I wanted to mention is never, ever put your watercolor brush in a jar of water in this position. This is the most common mistake. Almost every beginner mix. If you keep your brush in water like this, one thing, it will change the shape of the brush. And once the shape changes, no matter how much you try to fix it, it will never be the same, which means you will not get the same strokes with your brush. Again, another negative thing that will happen to the brush is that it may break the brush. And other negative thing that will happen to the brush is that it may break the brush. Now, if you look into brush, this is the handle of the brush. This part is called the feral. This is the body or hair of the brush. Farrell is basically the connection between the handle and the body of the brush. There is some kind of glue which sticks these three parts together. So if you keep your brush in water for a long time, the glue will start lose its strength and thus will result in the breakage of the brush. So the best way to avoid such damages is always rinse your brush in clean water after you're done with painting and use a paper towel and dab your brush to take off the maximum amount of water and then keep it flat on the table until it dries completely. Now if you're a regular painter and paint everyday, then I will recommend washing your brushes at least once a month or every 15 days, if possible, with a mild soap depending on the usage. This is a brush cleaner which I use every month to clean my brushes. So all you have to do is wet your brush, then swirl it in the soap, and then drop the brush on your bomb. Like this to get rid of any pigment that is left in the brush. If you don't have a brush cleaner, you can also use a very gentle soap to clean your brushes. And after this, you can either watch it in a jar of clean water or better wash it under running down, holding it and downward position. And once you feel that all the soap has been washed off, then take a paper towel or cotton, drag and remove excess amount of water from the brush. Make a nice tip of the brush with your fingertips and then keep it enough horizontal position for a few hours. Once they're completely dry, then you can give them in the upright position in the brush set origin. So just keep these simple things in mind. You'll be able to use your brushes for years.
4. Watercolor Papers: Let's talk about watercolor papers. There are many types of papers that come in the market. And honestly speaking, paper is one such thing that many beginners struggle with. Finding good quality paper for watercolors at a good rate is not that easy. But I will give you a few recommendations that you can start your watercolor journey without investing a lot of money just to start with. So watercolor papers are basically divided into two major grid. One is student grade and other one is professional grade. Student grade papers are made for low-cost material and may not perform so well as professional grade papers, but they are a 100 percent of good starting point. In fact, I still use some of the student grade papers on everyday basis. So there are basically three types of papers. One is cold press paper, the second one is hard-pressed paper, and the third one is rough texture. The main difference between these three papers as the manufacturing process, or you can say the way they are pressed during the making, the cold press paper has a rougher texture with some tote on the surface, and thus giving more room for the brain to absorb quickly. On the other hand, hard-pressed paper has a very smooth texture and the pain gets absorbed a little slower than cold press paper. Hard-pressed paper is more oftenly used by botanical artist as it gives much smoother edges and helps in bringing more definition in the painting. And the third category is the rough texture, which is even more texture than cold pressed paper. I don't use those papers, so I can't really show it here, but you can try it out if you want to. Hit on a few points that you would like to consider while buying watercolor paper for the first time. One thing that you must take care of when buying watercolor papers is their weight. The higher the weight, the better it will absorb water. So always try to buy a paper which is at least 300 GSM or 140 pounds in weight. This is always written on their packaging. 300 GSM stands for 300 grams per square meter. This is the global standard by which to paper weight is calculated. Ellie paper below 300 GSM will absorb less water and may not give you the best results. Second thing is the paper should be as free. This information is usually written on the packaging of the paper. And acid free paper basically does not turn yellow with time. That is the main purpose. And the third to consider is the texture. Of course, as a beginner, I always recommend using cold press paper as it is much easier to handle as compared to the hard-pressed paper. But if you're a botanical artist or want to have a neat and even edges and smooth texture in your painting, feel free to go with hot press paper. The last thing that you can consider is a 100 percent cotton paper if possible. But that's just a personal preference for some artists. It doesn't really matter whether the paper is 100 percent cotton or not. And honestly speaking, as a beginner, it is not always a good idea to invest in a high-end coordinate paper as they're much expensive than the cellulose papers. Now in the next video, I will show you a comparison between different types and brands of papers, which will give you a better idea about choosing the right type of paper for your work.
5. Paper comparison: In this video, I'm going to compare three brands of papers. So I've taken Arches, Fabriano artistic and Canson XL cold pressed papers. The basic idea behind this exercise is to understand how each type of paper behaves when they use the same techniques on them. So I'm taking some blue paint in the palette and I'm going to add a lot of water to make a nice dilute mix. Okay, so I'll start with the Archie's forced and I will just use a white paint in my brush and start painting some area. And then I will leave it to dry. Now I'll do the same thing on the Fabriano artistically. And always remember that watercolors look darker when they are wet and become lighter as they are dry on paper. I'm going to do the same thing on Canson XL paper. You can barely see any difference here, but I can tell you that the paint on Archie's and Fabriano artistic or papers is absorbing very nicely by, on Canson XL. It is kind of floating to the right side because Canson XL paper is not so textured as the other two are. Okay, so let's start another exercise. And this time, let's start applying some water on the paper first, and then we'll add some paint. And now I'll add a few drops of paint on the wet area. And you can see how the paint is spreading beautifully in water. So this really depends on the quality of the paper, as well as the pigment. Some pigments tend to burst out very quickly in water and some really do not move at all. Now let's do the same thing on the artistic or paper. And now adding the paint and the wet surface. Here, the paint is behaving almost in the similar way as it was doing on Arches paper, as you can see. And now it's time to do the same thing on Canson XL, applying a nice layer of water and then adding the paint. Here you can see that the paint is spreading nicely, but there is a little difference in the flow as compared to the other two papers that because of the surface texture and sizing of the papers. But honestly speaking, amongst during grade papers, Canson XL performs really well. So if you're just starting out, I would say you can always start with Canson XL. And the torque tells them I'm going to do is using a dry brush. So I'm just going to take some paint on dry brush and we'll see what kind of marks we get on each paper. This time, I'm not using a lot of water. I just use my brush and add it to Bombay internet on Arches paper you can clearly see the texture coming up. This is due to the prominent texture of this paper. And doing the same thing on our desk, stucco paper. And you can see that it's giving quite the same results. The texture of these two papers is a little different, but it's very prominent. And that's why we can see such textured marks appearing on the surface. And now let's try the same technique on Canson XL. Here you can see the difference. Does fees like this paper does not have a very prominent texture as the other two papers. Okay, so now we have compared the different types of cold press papers. Let's do the same comparison for hard pressed papers. For our hard pressed papers, I'm going to use Arches hot pressed and Fabriano artistically, they both are 300 GSM. And I'm going to perform the same test as we did on the cold press papers here and start with mixing some paint with water. Always make sure that when you're mixing the water and paint, you don't leave any lumps behind. Alright, so now we have a nice dilute mix. I'll start with our first desk that has wet paint on dry paper. Like so. And you can see the paint is kind of sitting on a surface and not getting absorbed right away. This is because of the texture of the paper. Hot press paper is very smooth as compared to the cold press paper. And thus the paint sits on the surface longer before it gets absorbed into the paper. And doing the same thing on Fabriano artistically paper. And you can see that both the papers are giving almost the same results. So it's just a matter of practice and testing or papers and seeing what kind of paper that you would like to use in your work. Now, let's start by wetting the paper with water and then add a few drops of wet paint in it. And you can see the paint is not flowing easily as it was doing on our cold press paper. And the reason is the same again, which is the texture of the paper. Now we're going to do the same thing on the Fabriano artistically. You may see a little difference in the results in these two papers on camera, but you can only decide the brand for your use when you try them yourself. Okay, the results of the wet-on-wet on these two papers look very similar. It's just that the paint has spread a little more on Fabriano attest to go as compared to the Arches paper, but that is just a very slight difference. Now it's time to do a dry brush test. So starting with the Arches paper, I'll take a very dry brush. Here we go. And you may have noticed that we're getting very smooth strokes on hot press paper as compared to the cold press paper. And that is again due to the smooth texture of the paper. And now let's try though Fabriano artistically making us true like this. As you may have noticed, that these two brands have given almost the same results, man, in my experience, I would always prefer Fabriano artistically paper over arches, hot press paper, because I find it much easier to work on our stucco as compared to the Arches paper. But that is just a personal preference. And I hope these exercises will help you in understanding your paper better and deciding on what works best for you.
6. Wet on Wet Technique: So now we are going
to talk about one of the most important
and basic techniques that is called Weton
wet watercolors. And for that, I have taken
this piece of paper. This one is Archie's
cold press paper, and I'm going to divide
it into three parts. On the left hand
side, I will give you a demo of how ton
wet technique works, and on the right hand side, we'll do a fun project
using the same techniques. So by the end of this lesson, you should be able to create
your own beautiful piece of painting using wet on wet
technique with watercolors. So I'll just use the masking tape and tuck
the paper on the table. One thing that I have seen a lot is that masking tape tends to rip off the paper when we try to remove it after painting. So to avoid that, here's a small tip
I want to show you. Just take some cotton
cloth or rag and then stick the tape on it
first and then remove it. What happens is when you stick the tape on the cotton cloth, it will actually make
the glue a little less sticky and will help in avoiding any damages
to the paper. So I'll just stick
it to the paper now to tuck it
down on the table. And I'm going to
do the same thing for all the sides of the paper. Okay. And now I'm going to make a division using the tape in the
middle of the paper. There are basically two ways you can use the wet
on wet technique. One of the ways is that when the paper is wet with
just plain water, and you add some
wet paint to it. And the other way is
that when the paper is wet with some paint
instead of plain water, and you add another color to it, which will create a beautiful
effect on the paper. So I'll show you
both the methods. For that, I'll just
divide this left side of the paper into equal parts. So now we are ready to
play with our paints. For the first section, I'll use my brush and
rinse it in plain water. Now, I'll apply the water on the whole area
of this section. Just make sure when you're
applying water like this, you don't leave any dry
gaps, and to check that, you can just tilt your head a little to see the
sheen on the paper. Now, once the paper
is completely wet, I'll use some wet blue paint. You can use any color and load
the brush completely with the paint and slowly start dropping the
paint in the wet area. Here you can see how beautifully the blue paint is
spreading in water. This is because of the fact that watercolor paints have gum
arabic in them as a binder, which dissolves in water
very quickly and pulls the pigment particles along creating these
beautiful effects. So you can see how
beautiful this is looking. And this technique is very popular among urban
sketchers and artists who paint a lot of
landscapes and galaxies. So now I'll show you
the second way of achieving wet on wet
with two colors. I'll start by wetting
the paper with water. You can actually use a wet paint instead of plain water here. And once the complete
surface is wet, I'll start dropping in some
blue just like before. Now, once I have added
enough blue paint, I'll start dropping in
some red paint in it. This way, you will see that the two colors will
start blending and mixing with each other and will create a third
beautiful shape. It also depends on what
pigments you use and what type of paper that you're using and how much
water you're using. So pigments burst out
very quickly in water, thus creating
beautiful effects and mixing up with different
colors very beautifully. On the other, some
pigments will not move much due to their
own unique properties. All right, so we have mastered the wet on wet technique
with watercolors, using one color as
well as two colors. Now, let's move on to our next video in
which we'll create a beautiful mini project using wet on wet technique that
we just learned here.
7. Wet on Wet Project: All right, So for the mini-project, for wet-on-wet technique, I will paint an imaginary landscape painting using very basic dawns of blue and green. You're most welcome to join in and paint along with me. So the first thing that I'm going to do as white the whole surface with plain water. If you remember, I kept this right side for our mini-project. So I use a flat brush and you can use any brush that you have. The strider use a larger brush so that you can easily cover the whole area without letting it dry too fast. I'm going to cover the whole area with plain water and making sure that no dry gaps are left. Now once the paper is completely wet, I'll take my round brush and take some blue paint in it. I'll be taking a very pale and dilute form of blue just to keep the color violet light. And then we'll start dropping some of the paint like this to give it a skylight. I'm trying to leave some gaps in the strokes which will give a feel of the clouds in the sky. And if you think that you have a lot of paint or water in your brush, you can always dab it on the paper towel to get rid of extra paint and the brush. So just keep adding blue wherever you want and leave some random gaps to get those cloudy patches also tried to add enough paint on the edges so that it doesn't look very dry. Now as we add wet paint on wet paper, you can see the pigment is creating a very nice effect and organically creating a skylight look. This is what makes it more interesting. Now once you're happy with the STI and we can start with the ground. I'll take some green shade. In the similar way. I'll start adding green paint on the bottom half of the paper. Just adding very light tone of green. We can always add more paint later if needed. I think diving to add more green. So I'll make it a little darker by just dropping some more paint and maybe some more. So you can keep adding paint as needed. Just imagining or simple landscape with some greenery, very clear sky with some clouds, white clouds. Now the first layer is done. I will let it dry for a few minutes. So the paint is a little down, not very dry. I will start with painting some grass using the tip of my brush. Here you can see as the first layer was not completely dry, the strokes are kind of blending with the first layer. This actually gives a more interesting look and add more dimension in the painting. Now, I will add some more grass using the same technique with a little darker shade of green. So we can also add some timings, laurels I'll use or red shade, make very tiny little dots on top of the grass. This will look like a field of wild flowers. Maybe add some yellow florals as well. And there we go. And I think we are done with this beautiful landscape painting. And you can also add some different elements of your own choice, like birds, mountains, trees, anything that you would like to. And the final thing is once the painting is completely dry, we'll take off the masking tape. So here is a small dip. Always remove the masking tape away from the paper, not towards the paper, just to avoid ripping off the paper with the tip. And here we have our wet on wet landscape painting.
8. Wet on Dry Technique: Okay, so now after
wet on wet technique, the next important
technique is wet on dry. In this technique, as
the name suggests, we use wet paint
but on dry surface. So we don't really need to
wet our paper in this case. This is the most common basic and most controlled
way of painting. So I'm just taking my
flat brush and we'll take some wet pink or
red paint and we'll create a simple rectangle
shape, like so. You can create any shape and use any brush that
you want to use. Just make sure that you don't
wet the paper beforehand. Okay, so this was pretty quick. Now we'll do the same
technique, but this time, we'll use two colors
instead of just one color, and we'll see how they
blend with each other. So I'll start with the red paint again and make a
rectangular shape. And while the paint
is still wet, I'll take some low paint and start from
where I just left. You can see that these
colors are trying to blend with each other to
make a nice purple shade. But you can notice that
the blending is not that fast and intense as it was
in the wet on wet technique. This is just because
of the amount of water that we are using in this technique because our
paper was not wet at all. So this is called
ton dry technique. This is very simple, very common and very basic
technique with watercolors. And this is just like
any other medium, like if you color with
pencil colors, let's say, or you use acrylic
paints or maybe crayons, we just color a particular area, and the color doesn't
flow anywhere. So this is just like that. And if you're just a beginner, you should always start
with wet dry technique.
9. Wet on Dry Project: Now that we're familiar with the wet-on-dry technique, Let's make a mini-project using this technique. I'll sketch 0 simple flower using my two, which Benson. You can make anything that you want to, or you can also use the sketch that I have provided in the resources of this class. The basic idea behind the sketch is to paint inside the boundaries. You can also do this project without any sketch at all if you are comfortable with it. Okay, so here's the flower. And now I'll take some red paint in my brush and start painting inside the battles. It's always a good idea to start painting with light dawns when you paint with watercolors to get that transparent look, which is not possible with any other medium. So I always love using more water than paint. And sometimes I also love to add different colors on paper. So I'll add some yellow in different areas of the petals that will give some more interesting shapes as they blend with each other. Adding the colors to all the battles one by one. Maybe I'll add some yellow here to get a more interesting shape. You can go with just one color if you want, or you can just try out different colors at the same time. Just making the last two petals, like shade of pink mixed with some yellow. Like so. Here we are done with the petals. And now for the stem and the leaves, and take some green paint in the brush. Make sure that you always rinse your brush thoroughly before taking a different color and the brush, just to avoid the muddy mixes, if you accidentally mix red or green together, they will end up creating a very muddy color. So just to avoid that. And then start with the leaf. I'll add some yellow in the leaf as well, and you'll see those beautiful yellowish green shade appearing on the paper. This is what I really enjoy while painting with watercolors. And that's it. We're done with our wet-on-dry mini-project. Please share your mini-project in the project gallery for all of us to see and appreciate your work.
10. Blending technique: The next technique that we are going to learn is
called blending. This is another fun technique used in watercolor paintings. If you remember, we use this technique in our
wet on wet and wet on dry exercises where we blended the two colors
using those techniques. So let's do a fun project
using this technique. For that, we can use both wet on wet and
wet on dry methods. So for this project, I'm going to make
circles and try to blend each circle with one another by touching them
slightly on the edges. In this technique, water plays a very important role as it guides and helps the pigment to move and blend
with other pigments. So I'll start with
the wet on wet first. I'll make a circle using just water and then drop
in some paint in it. The paint will start
to move around. And now I'll take
some blue paint and start making another
circle just next to it and intentionally touching them slightly so the
paints can start blending. For this circle, I just
used wet on dry technique, and this way we can keep making more circles with
different colors and just touching them slightly. I'll take some again. And maybe add some yellow here. Just being careful not to touch all the three
primary colors together. Otherwise, they will
end up mixing and create some muddy color.
We don't want that. Taking some blue again and
making another circle here and maybe one here
with red paint. And a yellow one on
the left of this red. So you can see how these
paints are blending and mixing with each other to
create such beautiful shades. This is a very fun
way of creating blooms and beautiful
textures using watercolors. This technique is used in
many styles of paintings, like in modern watercolor
paintings or creating subtle color transitions and
botanical paintings as well. A blue circle here, Just dropping in some more blue, just to get some nice effects. Now, these two blue circles
are touching each other. Let's try making a yellow
just next to them. You can see how the colors
are blending over here. This is what I love about
watercolors. A here. We can also drop in some other
color while this is wet. So try playing around with all these ways of mixing
colors while the paint is wet. A red one here. And maybe a yellow one
on the top right here. We've got some gray here because all the three colors mixed
up, but that's okay. And I think that's it. So here is another
beautiful pattern using blending technique. You can use these patterns and create some beautiful seamless patterns for your products, and you can also use this
painting and technique and create a beautiful creating
for your loved ones.
11. Glazing technique: All right, so now it's time for our next technique called glazing on layering. This technique is basically how to build layers of watercolor paint on top of each other. I love this technique for creating beautiful geometrical patterns. And that is what I'm going to demonstrate here in this video. So this technique starts with wet on dry method. Actually, we can use wet on wet as well. It's just your call. So I'll be using wet on dry. So I'll just take some blue paint and we'll start painting some triangles using my brush. Now, if you want, you can draw a sketch before starting with paint, but I'm just gonna make some random triangles using just a brush. So start with the outline of a triangle and then fill it up with the paint. Let's start simple. I'll make another triangle here. And the same way. And we can also add some different colors like adding some yellow just to get some interesting greenish tone hill. So just keep experimenting with mixing the colors on paper and see what you get. And I'm just trying to fill up the whole space to create a nice overall balance here. Now, I'll keep adding more triangles in the similar way until we have a nice balance on the whole sheet of paper. Well, maybe I'll fill up this gap here. So the first layer looks good and we need to let it dry completely before we move on to the second layer. So you can grab a cup of tea or coffee while the paint is drying. And in case you are in rush, you can use a hairdryer to speed up the process. Okay, so the first layer seems to be dry. Now I'll start with the second layer. This time, I'm going to take some greenish tone by adding some yellow and my Bluemix. And then I'll start creating some more triangles on top of these first ones. Trying to create some overlaps. Like so. And you can see that the triangles below our soul visible here because of the transparency of watercolors. In case if we use thicker consistency of paint, we would never get such result. And this is why watercolors are so popular. Making some more, I'm just trying to overlap the triangles to make a nice, beautiful pattern. That way they look more beautiful. And in case if the first layer is completely dry, the colors will start blending with each other so the layering will not be so effective in that case. So just be careful with that. I'll keep adding more triangles until I fill up the gaps. And what led to watch. Then? Qp. And here is our beautiful geometrical bottom using layering technique and watercolors. What don't you like to create a beautiful pattern using layering technique. I would love to see what you create.
12. Negative Painting: Another basic technique with watercolors is going negative painting. This technique, in my opinion, is really helpful in improving your brush control. So the basic idea behind this technique is that we have our sketch and we are going to be on the negative area, that means the white background instead of the main subject. For this technique, I have drawn a few hardships here. And I will be painting outside of these hearts, which will result in a beautiful design. For this, I will use some red bank and yellows and start painting from one site. So I'll add some yellow to get some blending effects here. Now, as this piece is quite large, so I'm using wet on dry technique because the paper will not stay awake for a long time. But if you are painting small, you can try wet on wet too. But just be careful that the pain does not flow into the shapes. Adding some red and yellow and trying to blend them nicely. Also, the hardship is not so complicated. A few dry negative painting with some complex shapes like flowers. That might seem a little challenging. But trust me, if you practice this technique, you'll get better control on your strokes. This is a little larger piece for this demo, I would say you can simply start with all single heart or a flower or whatever you want to paint. And once you're comfortable with the technique, then you can create a larger painting like I don't care. As you can see that we are getting some hard edges on the paper. This is for girls, debate has dried in that area. You can simply use a wet brush Robert over that hard edge to soften it. And here we have our beautiful pattern design. Now, you can use this technique to create a beautiful greeting card for your mom, your dad, or anyone that you love. Or you can also frame it and hang it on your wall.
13. Thank You !: Thank you for taking this class. I hope you enjoyed the class and got to more confidence in watercolors. I would love to see all your projects. Please do share in the project section of this class. And if you'd like to, you can also share them on Instagram and tag me and delete @markdisha I'll be happy to share your projects in my stories on Instagram. See you next time.
Disha Sharma, Artist & Illustrator
