Beginner Watercolor Class: Winter Wonderland

1. Introduction: In this class, we are going to paint this wild landscape. You learn how to draw a wet-on-wet technique in the background. How to draw these blobby trees. And then how to sparkle use guy with some stress. And then I'm also giving you a lot of tips and tricks what you need for watercolor and how you get the right results. This is a total beginner class. So if you have no experience with watercolor, this class is just for you. And we're going to start somewhere and you're getting a result. So if you would like to draw this, please join me in this class. 2. Material & Preparation: For this class, here you can see all the material we are going to need. So here's a pot of water was two areas because any to wash out the British. Of course. Then I have three brushes. This is a very white one. You can see because I need to fill the whole piece of paper. And then I have three more of them for the detail. This one is a two. Here comes an 86. Most probably, I will just need one, maybe the Sikhs, but we will see. So I just have them handy. And I usually have a towel here so I can dry the brush. And I also have something like that here, the tissue paper. So for the same reason in my box here there is a lot too, mix my colors, and I also have a color swatch. This is really helpful, and you can easily do that. I'm going to add that here to the class. You get a sheet and you can print it out and use it for your color palette. So no matter how many colors you have, you just wash them so you take the pure color and fill these little squares here or rectangles, and right under them the number of your cows or you don't do that and just watch them. So the reason why I do that is because usually my color here is much different from the color I have here. I can easily make sure I have the right color when I'm drawing. So when I'm using this color and I have to go here and I have to put this one and say it said you usually don't know really if it were. So. So that's why and I haven't always Henley and with me, next thing I have a little piece of watercolor paper. Here you go. So I can, before you go on to my to my sheet, I can just try it out here and see if it's okay. Let's say I have a little piece of paper. Why I need that is because I wanted to sparkle later some stocks over the paper. And for that, I will have something which is not so smooth here. So I put some color on it and brush over it for the paper. And that's why I have those sinks here handy. You see, that's all nearly all beside that. I also have washi tape and why I need that, I'm going to get the paper from my luck here and then put it here on the table. And I can easily release it later for use washi tape. That's why. Yeah, I believe it's much more handy. Anyway, so we can get started. There's a little bit of work to do before we can. First thing is I need to get the paper for my look here. If you need to be a bit careful, you can also use a ruler and go on the reef, but usually it's so sick that you don't have to. You're just Yeah. You know what paper I use. Show you. It's a Brittania. This one. I believe it's a really good one. It's tests 300 gram, a 140 LPS, as you can see you. So I believe it's a really good one. And I'm also using Winsor and Newton colors. No matter if it says Sri Lanka here, it's just the box. And these colors are from Winsor and Newton is student quality, and that's totally fine. You do not need to tube soft all you can have them and I'm sure a buyout, they glue a little bit more and they most probably better. But for our purposes totally enough, it's absolutely fine if you have these kind of colors. So now I need to decide how I'm going to draw my landscape. Now. So here's my little sheet of paper. I'm going to put that here on the table just because it gets pretty wet. So I need to be careful. I have my paper really healed. 3. Painting the Background: Wet on Wet: So that's it. And now we first need to water of paper because we have put it here on the table is pretty easy. Know, make sure you have clean water and then go over your paper. We're going to draw wet in wet for now. And that's why I'm have to wet my paper first. Never put the brush down in your plot. Just always make sure it's sending all lays on the ground. So just showing you because I'm going to need that brush and I'm going to use this color here because it's a nice blue. And this might be a little bit too strong to see. I have a lot of blues here. And I could even add a little bit black or brighten them up a bit, but I won't. I just, I'm going to use that color. And of course I have that swatch. I know where it is in my box here. So I need to wake up these colors a little bit. So I need to add some, watch her, and then I'm going to add that here to my palette. He sees pretty strong color. So that's why I'm going to add some water for now. You always start super light. And then you can be I can add more color later on. And then you Yeah, you can decide what you want to do, but I want to start lighter and go on later. You see, that's how it looks right now. And I'm going to brush it here over the backward. Since it is a sky in the night, I'm going to make it darker for sure. But for now that should be fine. Just going adding a bit more water anymore. Now, I won't put into my palette and just use the whole thing so they get it ready doc. But if something shines through now, so a little bit of white from the paper or something. It doesn't really matter because it is already live blues. So that's why it's a good idea to have it first of being filled just with a color. So now we're going to add a bit of black here. I want to have some mountains, but I'm not getting completely rid of the blue adding that as well. So I think it's a nice way from the top to the bottom. Shangqing. More color. What I want do that with a big brush to swaying a second. For a night sky, a little bit darker. Usually use your brush just in one direction. You see me doing right now. And if you feel you have too much color, just go over it. You can take some off here. You see it gets a little bit lighter. And depending on what you want, That's how you go on the paper again. You can always get darker. Okay, Now we need to wait a little bit to make sure it dries. You see here is a little bit of white left. I'm tears. It is comes in a little bit darker but he has to lose. So we really just need to wait a few minutes to make sure it's dried. And then I go over it again. Okay. So we need to get a little bit darker as we said, Sorry, go over it once again and you see it gets dark. But I will say because we have the dark trees in the background. So I'm going to have the same bit lighter here. 4. Shooting Stars on your Watercolor Landscape: Okay, Before we go on, I'm going to sparkle the sky. So let me use a mention of this acrylic color and put it here on my paper piece. Already too much, I guess. So you really don't need a lot. And then you use something like that. Russia, that here. It would be better if you have another brush. And it's okay. Now sparkle use guy onto you see recurse. I haven't waited before. It's completely dry and walks a little bit more. The color. 5. Painting with Watercolor: Trees in the Wilderness: Okay, Next, we need to get the trace into our painting. Some freshwater, nearly black. The blue. Why? Because I don't want to have such a huge contrast here. So I'm going to make that a little bit brighter. This is what I call the block technique. So I'm going to draw this here and then I'm going to just go over age and move my along the stem here. It's fair if you start on the top and then go down to the bottom so you can get wider here. You can also have really super polite trees in the background that I decided not to have these trace here. And we might go over it in a bit and it just takes a bit to dry again. So let's see how it turns out. And then we go over it again. You see I'm using different techniques. So whether it's a wet on wet or wet on dry, you need to be flexible with that. So now it's wet on dry, crispy already have some dry in the background. I always catch myself by starting on the bottom. Go up again. And don't be afraid to leave it as it is for now. A bit more later. Your first try, you can go over and have a trace here. You might also want to add a stem here, the background. So we can pretty thin brush. Getting dark. Student Try again. So I will need a little bit more of a white color. Okay. So far. 6. Your Watercolor Project: You might have guessed, that's also your project. You're going to start growing the breadth ground and Cusa wet on wet technique. Then add the dark blue and edit a little bit of a lighter gray. Maybe you as a little bit more gray, darker gray. That's totally up to you. And then you start with light trees in the background and draw in the foreground even darker one. Go ahead and sparkle. Of course here the sparkles, I think they give the whole thing a very nice touch. I might want to have had it a little bit darker. You. That's not how I turned up. So go ahead and use a little bit of that crude color or maybe you have another color, some wide and sparkle the background. Yeah. Please go ahead and post whatever you have created and the gallery, I would love to have a look. And if you have any questions, please at anytime contact me and let me know.