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Beginners Guide To Watercolors: 10 Days Challenge

teacher avatar Richa Saxena, mandala & watercolor artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:59

    • 2.

      Hope

      3:55

    • 3.

      Dream

      7:23

    • 4.

      Gratitude

      6:39

    • 5.

      Smile

      5:25

    • 6.

      Paradise

      2:20

    • 7.

      Joy

      3:22

    • 8.

      Serenity

      4:17

    • 9.

      Love

      5:14

    • 10.

      Peace

      6:25

    • 11.

      Pride

      7:15

    • 12.

      Recap

      0:57

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Hello Everyone,

Welcome back. I am back with an interesting and amazing class "Beginners Guide to Watercolors- 10 Days Challenge". In this class we'll be painting 10 beautiful landscape painting for the next 10 days. It isn't mandatory to start the challenge on the first day. You can join it on any day accordingly to your convenience and pace. The main motto behind this class is to develop a creative learning practice daily minimum for ten minutes.

The purpose of a daily drawing challenge is to help improve your drawing and observational skills. The more you draw, the better you will get. Repetition will also help improve your creativity.

No matter what your skill level is, you will improve with practice. How quickly you improve will depend on how much you practice. Even if it’s only for a few minutes a day. And if you can practice for a few minutes each day consistently, that will add up to a significant amount of change if you stick with it.

The key is to paint something every day, for 10 days. If you can do this, you will see improvements in your drawing skills.

 So Lets get started 

  

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Richa Saxena

mandala & watercolor artist

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Hello, I'm Richa. I am an Indian mandala and watercolor artist. I've started my mandala journey in 2018. Prior to that I worked in corporate sector for ten years. I quit my job and started as an hobby and now I am a full time artist. Mandala for me is meditation as it helped me stay focused and relaxing too. I've taught more than 800 students through my mandala class. I've organized workshops in different cities as I love to share my knowledge with art enthusiasts. Here I am teaching different aspects of mandalas in different forms and techniques. So far I have launched two classes on mandalas and there's so much more coming in upcoming days. I am also a watercolor artist n I start painting with watercolors three years back and since then there's no looking back. Watercolor is such a ve... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome back and I'm back with an interesting and amazing class thickness guide towards the global standards challenge. This class. We will be painting these beautiful landscapes for the next ten days. It is indeed mandatory to start the challenge on the first day. You can join it on any day accordingly to your convenience and peas. The main motto behind this class is to develop a creative learning practice. No matter what your skill level is, you will improve with practice and how quickly you will improve. It depends on how much you practice. If you can practice for a few minutes each day consistently, that will add up to a significant amount of change if you stick with it. These are the landscape that can easily be done in ten to 15 minutes. So it won't take much of your time, it just take a regular practice to do these paintings. So I hope you guys will enjoy this session as much as you did the previous ones. So let's get started. Thank you so much guys. 2. Hope: Hello everyone and welcome back to day one off. Identity is watercolor challenge, beginner's guide to watercolors. And today we are going to paint this board silhouette, the colors that I'm going to use a lemon yellow, permanent orange, scarlet red portion, blue, cobalt blue ivory plaque. And the vapor that I'm using, it's slanted variable 200 GSM, a 100% gotten. So we will start being prepping our paper by doing a clear wash off water. Make sure you just do it properly to make it damp enough to work in layers. And I'm gonna start with lemon yellow. Then I'm gonna add permanent orange, ScalaCheck, blue, cobalt blue, one-by-one in the layers. Now I'm going to draw the silhouette in the foreground of our painting. And I'm gonna use bush and blue mixed with black to paint this board. The piece. I hope you guys have enjoyed this session. Thank you so much for joining me. 3. Dream: Hello everyone and welcome back to the second deal, beginner's guide to watercolors. Today we are gonna paint this beautiful Netscape. And the killer said we're gonna use a crimson motion blue, cobalt blue. And I already. Let's get started. Again. Gonna work on wet-on-wet technique. You have to video probe paper properly. First saw that it would be damp enough In build layers on it. And I'm gonna start with crimson red. Just starting from the center of our being deemed to the upward part of fun painting. And Dan, I'm going to add the blue and the upper section of our painting. Right upper corner of our painting, I'm going to add some sheets of floorlets. You can use Persian blue here to add more depth than that night sky. I'm going to add fundamentally intensely blue on the edges of my reflections. To give it up a bit more realistic. I'm using white gouache to paint the morning and it's a friction. I'm using ivory black to create the silhouette of the island and the cheese. 4. Gratitude: Hello everyone and welcome back to the third tier of beginner's guide to watercolor challenge. And today we are gonna paint this beautiful seascape. And the loads that we are going to use our lemon yellow, permanent orange, scarlet thread, I already black and burnt sienna. And the paper that I am using it as Lana aqueous, 200 GSM, a 100% cotton paper. So let's get started. We'll start with wetting our paper evenly. And then I'm gonna start painting from the center to the upward part of the painting. I am using lemon yellow. Lemon yellow, and then I'm gonna use permanent orange. Now I'm gonna add some strokes of it with my flat brush to create the clouds and amusing lightest tone off the scholar trend. Now I am using the lightest tone of black library to create the clouds of the evening sky. I'm using Scala trade, took kids and distant clouds and sky. Now we'll start painting. I will start with the lightest tone of a shin blue. The bottom part of our painting, I'm going to add the lightest tone of lemon yellow Silvana, where you are just working with these two colors. Make sure that you are leaving a white gap between both of the colors. So when you are going to match them, they won't create a green pigment. Altogether. You have demands these two colors with the help of a clean brush to create the proposal waves in the water US society of your flat brush, just press it down on the paper. It will create the broad thieves. I am using burnt sienna to create the rocks and to create the board silhouette. 5. Smile: Hello everyone and welcome to day four. Door of identity is watercolor challenge, beginner's guide to watercolors. And today we are gonna pay this beautiful seascape and the colors that I'm going to use our lemon yellow, permanent Dorian, scarlet, red bands, sienna, and the BBA that I'm using, Islamic quartile, 300 GSM, a 100% cotton sleds get started. We will start by prepping our paper. I'm going to first draw the layout of a seascape. Once it is done with a prepper paper, by doing a wash of clear water. I will start adding lemon yellow in the center part of our painting and I'm going to drag it down to both of the ends, the bottom part and download area. Now I'm going to add permanent orange because we're paying dinner evening seascape. That's why if you have put excess pigment, you can remove it with the help of your flat brush. The top area of our painting, I'm going to add some scarlet red. And once it is done, we'll proceed further. Now I'm going to add our little mountain made with the help of a scarlet shed. Painting. Mountains. The rocked by painting in the foreground with the help of a dark skin. These wild flowers. I'm using. Josh. You can use any detailing brush on 0 number one, number. 6. Paradise: Hello everyone and welcome to the D5 of identities, beginner's guide to watercolors. And today we are gonna be in this beautiful sunsets silhouette and the colors that I'm going to use our lemon yellow, permanent orange to him suddenly Persian blue, I already black. And the paper that I'm using it as an egg query, all 300 GSM and a 100% cotton paper. Let's get started by preparing their paper. And we're going to do a flat wash of clear water properly. I'm gonna start by adding potion blue in the top area Alpha painting. I will drag down to the center part and just clean my brush on the paper. And now I'm going to add Crimson Lake. Now I'm going to add yellow in the center part of our painting. And we're gonna create a gradient background. Soldiers clean your brush in the water and chemo excess pigment from the beeper like doing I am doing. Now our background is ready AND rule start creating the silhouette bandwidth, ivory black. This is the far most easiest project and attendees of beginner's guide to watercolor challenge. I hope you guys like it and add painting is almost complete. So see you guys in the next one. Thank you. 7. Joy: Hello everyone and welcome to the DSX soft India's watercolor challenge. And today we are gonna paint his boat silhouette escape and the color that I'm going to use, lemon yellow and burnt sienna. And the paper that I'm using Islam Query 300 GSM, a 100% cotton paper. So we're gonna start by prepping our paper with a wash of clear water. First. I'm gonna start adding by lemon yellow in the center apart. And I'm gonna drag a dual bottom and do the upper DVR. And then I'm going to add burnt sienna, the medium tonal value of burnt sienna in the uppermost part of our painting. So make sure you are adding colors slowly and gradually bought, bought too much of pigment once because you won't be able to control it, needs some planters. Once our background is done now I'm gonna paint the mountains. I'm going to draw the outline of the mountain and I'll clear my brush in the water. And I just fill up with Philip mountains with a clear water. Once it does, try and draw the silhouette of art board, I'm going to paint the darkest tone of burnt sienna. Now we're going to add the shadow part at all. And I'm using the darker, stony value of burnt sienna. 8. Serenity: Hello everyone and welcome back to D7 of attendees watercolor challenge. And today we're gonna paint this beautiful night landscape. And the colors that I'm going to use our permanent audience, Rosewood color from drafting girls and ivory black paper that I'm using. It's Lana acquitted alternately GSM and a 100% cotton paper. Let's get started by a plumping up people with a wash of clear water. I'm gonna start by adding permanent orange and the center of our painting to woo the bottom part of our painting and to the upper tail area. Then I'm going to hide the Rosewood color from graphed angles. It is a shade of red in-between. A bit mix of red and black, but it's a beautiful shade. But no-shows if you don't have this fun. You can also use red with the slight handoff, Mars Black in it for loop perfectly. You can also use scarlet thread. If you don't have this color. Draw the silhouette of our land and leave some gaps in between to create our Lee calls and the color that I'm using footed as this, I already plan. 9. Love: Hello everyone and welcome back to day off. Identity is challenged beginner's guide to watercolors. And today we are gonna beam these mystical mountains and the colors that we're gonna, we're gonna use our permanent orange portion, blue, I really black. And the paper that I'm using that slanted querying 300 GSM, 100% cotton. So let's get started by prepping our paper with a wash of clear water. I'm gonna start beading permanent orange in the center part of our painting and take it to the upper area. And then I'm gonna push in blue on the top part of our painting. Make sure you're gonna leave white gap between board of the colors so you can mix it with a clean brush. Once our background scales. So today we're gonna start painting our mountains and we're gonna use the lightest are not Persian blue first. And then we're gonna gradually increases, buy more pigment, pigment layer by layer. Okay, and please do use your hairdryer to quickly dry the Lias. So there will be no batch. And between Take your time while doing failures of pharmaceutical monkeys. And if you want, you can select any other color that you want. When I'm talking about the tonal values of a particular color like here, it's potion blue. The latest Donald value means less pigment and mod water. When you start gradually adding pigment, fund by one to York ballot. With the water, you'll get differentiates off one color. So that is called the tonal value. The latest value is more or less pigment with warm water. And the highest value is pigment and less water. For the last year or pharmacy my own dance, I'm gonna make splashing bluefin ivory black to get the duck is stone. 10. Peace: Hello everyone and welcome back to D9, tough attendees, watercolor challenge, beginner's guide to watercolors. And today we are gonna be in this beautiful forest and the colors that I'm gonna use a lemon, yellow, sap, green bonds, CNOT, and the paper that I'm using, it does non-equivalent trendy GSM watercolor paper. So again, we're gonna repeat the same process. We are on a trip in our paper with a wash of clear water makes sure you just make the paper damp enough when you are working in layers. I'm going to start maybe ending with lemon yellow and the blue spot of RBD. And then Indian yellow. After that to the center part of her painting. Then we're going to **** greens. I'm gonna make sap green with The Dorf, Indian yellow to give in shade. Dark tonal value of balance and bottom by painting. Start painting our cheese. To create the darks. You can use your fan brush and if you don't have a fan brush, you can use your detailing brush to create that effect. You can use different values of burnt sienna to create different shades in the odd shapes. 11. Pride: Hello everyone and welcome back to the last day off identities watercolor challenge, beginner's guide watercolors. And today we are going to paint this seascape fuel. The colors. I'm going to use our cobalt blue, persian blue, sad green, virgin hue been CML, the paper that I'm using, Atlantic Grill, 300 GSM, 100% cotton paper. We're going to draw the layout of our seascape first. And then we'll start prepping our paper with a wash of clear water. I had started painting with the ludus rami value of cobalt blue, little bit off lighters mixed them that. Then I'm going to use the Persian blue to show the depth in the sea. Randomly placing my colors. And you can also drag friends to complete our work. In the project section, you'll have an idea where you have to please the colors. I'm using the dark to an off Gabon blue to add more depth in our scene. And after that, I'm going to use differentiates off. It seems like sap green and we're going to add more details. Make sure venue or adding colors, you just leave a white space around the eyelids so we can add the white quash to paint the leaves that it's false. Now we will start painting on islands and I'm gonna use the lighter stony value, all burnt sienna first. Just read your paper first and then start adding follows. I have started in sap green just to show where the greenery parties and I'm going to use the darkest are no buttons he and not on the edges of the island. To give it a prominent look. Now, add a darker tone up Sap green. I'm gonna use white gouache to paint the waves. The waves always use the dry brush technique. That means your brush should be damped. There shouldn't be a mole of water, and there should be more pigment or color that you are using. Okay. And done, and once it is done, add some more details on an island with the dockets do on-off sap, green and burden who makes we will be using dry brush technique for that. 12. Recap: Hello everyone. So let us do a quick recap what we have done in the last Andy's, okay. These are the ten landscape we have painted and the last Andes. And these are very easy to do techniques. Basically, we work on wet-on-wet technique. And I hope you get the technicalities of this technique and you'll learn something from this session. Please do upload your projects in the project section. I would love to share them on n star and do share your views about the class or anything you want me to get it covered in my next session. Thank you so much guys for joining me in. Thank you.