Boats, Ripples and Reflections in Watercolors

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Shaika, a watercolor artist and teacher, and I'm super excited to welcome you to the Skillshare class, boats and Reflections in watercolor. In this class, we will explore the calm atmospheric world of boats and the reflections they cast, whether it being a still water or gently moving water from moody monochrome, eerie sunset hue, you'll learn how to paint structure and softness, balance, and light all in watercolor. We will work through four different class projects, each designed to build confidence and strengthen your techniques in watercolors. If you have taken my earlier class watercolor techniques, how to achieve eye catching ripples and reflections, you will find this class to be a natural next step. If you haven't to revisit this class to learn the techniques, to paint the ripples in watercolors. We will apply those articular techniques here, combining them with different vote formats and pulls composition. Class is ideal for beginners and intermediate watercolor artists looking to strengthen their watercolor story telling. Grab your paints and brushes and let's sail together. I'll see you in the class. 2. Materials: H. Let's look at the materials that we require for this class. Starting with the paper. I will be using Archie's 100% cotton, 300 GSM paper. I have this paper pad with me, and what I've just done is I've cut the paper into two parts, and this is what I'll use to paint each of the class projects. Next, for the brushes, I've used a large size brush from the brand silver velvet, a medium size brush, again, from the same brand, and a detailing brush from the brand Princeton. You can use any large size, medium size, and a detailed brush that you have. As we will be painting wet on wet to make the application of water easier, I've used this Haque brush from silver velvet. You can use your large size brush as well to apply an even a water onto your paper. Moving on to the colors, I've used mix of artists create colors, be it from PWC, white knights, Magill Mission. You can use any colors that you have. Then we would need two jars of water, one to rinse off your brush, and the other one to apply even a water to your paper. I will be using a board to tape down my paper onto a surface. This is the board that I will use, and I'll use this masking tape to tape down the paper onto this board. Next, we'll use tissue paper or a rough cloth to wipe off your brushes. I will be using these two ceramic plates, as you can see, it's all dirty, but I'll be using these two ceramic plates to apply the colors. Next, we will use masking fluid. If you do not have any masking fluid, don't worry. You can still paint around avoiding the areas of the boat. To apply this masking fluid, I'll be using this old brush that I have, so that's for this. That's all that you would need for this class. Gather all the materials that you have and I'll see you in the first class. 3. Monochrome Misty Morning: Hi, everyone. This is the class project that we will be painting in today. Okay, so I have my paper here and with the masking tape, I'll tape down the paper onto this board. Okay. My paper is ready. I was just rating my fingers across the edges of the tape so Dad you know, there's no gap between the tape and the paper. And now we'll start with the sketch. This painting is a monochrome painting. It has group of boats, say this is one boat. M It could have reflection like this. Then say there are few boats this side. Another one goes like this. Then there is one which goes like this. I say there's a pole over here and all of these boards are attached to this pole. Reflection for this boat would be like this. It's a very still water. So you will have identical reflection of the boots. Now, just using my eraser, I'll erase off this. So basically, that boot is hidden with this boat right? Using my kneelding eraser now, I'll just tap off to lighten the graphite marks. The color for this painting is neutral tint or paints gray. It's a monochrome, so I'll just take it out onto my palette. And now we will start with the painting. Using my large size hake brush, I'll just apply even coat of water throughout the paper. You can use any large size brush that you have and take time on this step. You would ideally want to wet the paper very thoroughly. All the threads of the paper should be wet that will allow more time for you to work on wet or wet. Mm. I think this is enough. Using this tissue, I'll just dab off all the excess water from the corners. Now, using my large size brush and paint gray, we will start with the painting. I'll start from bottom to top because as we go up, the tone of the color reduces. I'm specifically trying to avoid the boats. Similarly here as well. Whenever you pick your color, start from the top and then move down. This is called as a gradient effect. You bottom and your top has a higher tone of color, whereas if you see in the middle, it's very, very light. That's what we're trying to achieve. I'm just trying to get a seamless blend. The graphite marks are not very much visible, but that's okay because the sketch was very light. We're able to paint the boat even without the graphite marks, so that should be okay. You see I'm just running my brush from top to bottom or from bottom to top to make sure there is a smooth blend between the layers. And Okay. So now let's wait for this to dry and then we will paint out the boats. Meanwhile, using the same tissue, I'll just tab off all the excess water from the corners. Okay. The painting has now all dried using my medium size brush and paint scray, we will paint in the boats and the reflections. So starting with the diluted version of pains gray, I'm just trying to add in the boat color first. And I want this to be a little more lighter. So just adding in a little more water to dilute the color. Before applying the colour to the paper, make sure to dab off all the extra water from the tissue. Okay, so that's the boat. I'll just add in the torso of a man. It is very far from the shore, so we won't be able to see the details. But adding this makes it evident that there is someone sitting on the boat. Okay, so this is the boat. Now, again, taking in paint scrape and painting the first boat over here. So as you come near to the shore, the darkness of the boat color increases. Okay. And then we have the third one over here, the darkest one, which would come like this. So I'm not painting the second boat here yet. As the first one is still wet, the colors would spread and the two boats won't be evident. For this boat, I'm just adding some darker tones towards the left, and as the area is wet, it is spreading out. So I'll just clean my brush and blend this out. This will help to give a dimension to the boat. Now for the reflection, taking in diluted tone of pain screen, and as the water is still, the reflection would be a mirror reflection. Just adding that over here. With a very diluted tone, just ting this out. We have this also over here. This is the reflection of the first board. Now, before we move on to the reflection of the other boards over here, there is one board that we had painted here, which is actually a very diluted tone. It is mostly white, but it has some tones, adding that as a very diluted tone of pain screen. Meanwhile, this nearest one that we have, it will have a reflection like this, adding that out. This one would have reflection over here, which will go till the time we get the other boat coming in, so it will still here. For this light tone boat, reflection would be something like this. Mm hmm. Okay, so these are the boats and the reflections. Let's just wait for this to dry and then we'll just add in some minor details to just close onto the boat and the reflections. Meanwhile, that dries using, again, a very dark tone of paint scrape. Here say you have a wooden pole and you have your boats basically tied up to that hole. Okay? Here would be the reflection of the pole. I just add in some broken lines between these two to separate out the boards that we have. So there is also some line on the board, which can be separated out in the reflection as well. Okay. So that's the end of the class project. This was a very simple and an easy one, just one color. We tried to create a monogramatic and a still lake view. We have a boat which say somewhere in the far, so you styluted in color. You have three boards near to yourself, so you have them in some darker tones. Of the masking tape now. Okay, so this is the final look of the painting. So I liked how using just paints, gray and working with different tones of the color, we were able to achieve this look. Thank you for joining for this class project. We'll meet you again for another one. Till then, bye bye. 4. Soothing Sunset Lake : This is the painting for today. Okay. Let's start with the class project. I have paper here, and I have my board. Using the masking tape, we will tape down the paper onto the board. Okay, so the paper is ready. I'm just running down my fingers across the masking tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. Now let's start with the sketch. One third is the sky, so somewhere here is the horizon. We have our sun over here and the reflection of the sea somewhere over here. Now, moving on to the boat, the boat is somewhere like this. You have this section. You might not get the sketch perfect at the first dry, but take your time and try to sketch out the boat. This here is the bottom of the boat. You have your planks coming in here and this coming in here. I will just rework on the boat. It has not quietly turned out the way I wanted. And your boat will come like this. This looks better. Now your reflection would be as it's almost a still water, not completely, but still little wavy. You will have your reflections coming in like this. Okay. So your boat is tight with the rope. Okay. Okay. Now, what I'll do is using my kneelding eraser, I'll just lighten the graphite marks. Okay. Now let's start with the painting. Using my big parquet brush, I'll apply even coater water throughout the paper. Take your time on this step and make sure that your paper is thoroughly wet. More time you spend on this, more time you will get to work on your background. The background for this one is a very soft tone background. So that's why I'm applying water over the top of the boat as well because the boat would be in a darker tone versus what we have in the background. Okay, so the paper is now wet using my tissue, I'll just dab off all the excess water from the corners so that once the paper starts to dry water from the paper would not seep in into your painting. Now, taking in my large size brush and yellow orange, dabbing off all the excess water, I'll start with a very light tone of orange at the top. This is the sun, we'll have little darker tones of orange towards the sun and as we move up, the tone becomes lighter. Now using let and dabbing of all the excess water, I'll add in that shade as well towards the bottom. Now, using my medium size brush and wallet, mix of wallet and indigo as well, I'll add in some trees like strokes. Towards the corners somewhere over here, you have some trees as well onto the banks. Trying to get that feel. Dabbing off all the excess water, picking up more of violet and adding that towards the horizon. And thinning up my brush and this sun that we had created, right? So I'll just maintain the whiteness of that. By using, again, my medium size brush and orange, dabbing off all the excess water. I'll just add in some orange strokes towards the bottom side. Just depicting that the sun is setting and you have some darker tones of orange towards the bottom of the sky. And as you go up, the tone of the orange decreases. The sky is okay. Now again, using my large size brush, we'll try to paint the bottom. Again, your orange would somewhere be in the middle and just apply some orange tone. And using clean water, we'll just apply a little bit more water over here just to rewet the paper. We have some orange over here. And then we will have some of the violet as well. The reflection of the trees and all we will have some of the violet coming in here as well. As we're painting a reflection, so I'm just having my stroke this way, top to bottom to give it the reflection of effect. Taking a little bit of indigo as well because we have that tone towards the corners, and then with indigo, sorry, with violet, just dropping in more colors. Taning up my brush again, tapping off all the excess water using yellow orange, just trying to blend this out. Towards the bank area as well, I'll add a little bit of let Again, taking a little bit more of orange, dabbing off all the excess water, we had our sun over here, right? So near the sun, we had a little bit little of darker tones of orange, right in the sky. So that's what we also try to depict over here. Okay. This blends out with the violet. And with indigo, add some of the bluish tones towards the bag area. Okay. Now again, moving to wild and adding a little bit more tones of Wold it. Okay. Now, what we'll do is I'll just take up my clean tissue and dab off all the excess water from the corners to make sure that these do not see back in. And using my medium size brush, I will just try to get that whiteness back to show the sun. Just add a little bit of darker blue towards the corner. I think we should be good now. Let's just wait for this to dry now, and then we will work onto the boat. Till this dries off, right? I'll just try to make this sun area white. Along with that, I'll also lift some color from this horizon line. This will give a missed feel to a painting, just cleaning up brush, dabbing off all the excess water, and just picking up color from some places. Okay. I think we should be good. Now, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will paint our boat. Okay, so the painting has not dried. I'll take a little bit of burned sienna onto my palette. We will use that to paint the boat. Now, using my medium size brush and indigo, a very diluted tone of indigo, we will start painting the boat. So I'll start with the first layer right now. Similarly here as well. Well not paint onto this box that we have. We will add it with another shade. But other than that, we can paint this side. Now, very, very diluted tone on this side. Okay. Now, taking a little bit of darker tone and towards this corner, I'll just drop it off. Similarly towards this side as well. The bottom section of the board will be a little bit darker than the others, right, because you will have the shadow, and now just cleaning up my brush and blending all of this out. Just dropping a little bit more of Tarkat to get that smooth blend. Now, using a very diluted tone of burnt sienna will add in over here, the inside of the boot, being very careful near the section where the brown and the blue will meet because we've just right now painted the blue. I've just left some gap over there for now. Okay. I using my small size brush, basically the detail brush and mix of indigo and pain scrap, dabbing off all the excess water on the fared background, I'll just add in these two stripes. Let me take a little bit more color, tabbing of all the excess water, and I'll just add in these two stripes. For now, it will spread, but then once the spackround dries, we add this again, then it will become more prominent. Using this small brush itself and burn Sienna, I'll just add in some color over here. The boat that we will paint is very detailed, so just take some time Again, taking more of neutral tint or paints gray and just add in some details over here. Meanwhile, the other thing dries off, we will just add in some details over here. Mm. Now, taking a little bit more darker tone of burn sienna, dabbing off all the excess water, and we will just apply it over here. Over here, and this side. Now, cleaning up my brush, dabbing off all the excess water, and we will just blend this out. Taking a little bit more of burn sienna and just chopping off some color at the edges. Now again, cleaning up the brush, dabbing off excess water, and just blending this out. This hair like strokes that we see we will just blend all of this out. Now taking in my detail brush and pinscrave trying to add in some details to this side of the boat. Being very careful with a very steady hair, just trying to build this. You could also use your black one liner pen if you are not comfortable into painting this. Now, with some mix of indigo and pain scrap, this side, just trying to add in little darker streaks over here. As this is an old boat, right, you would have some rust streaks here and there and also because this side would have the shadow of the planks or in the side of the boat, right. So this would be a little darker. So just adding that darkish tones, okay? With sepia, basically your paints gray and burnt sienna, which is sepia, dabbing off all the excess water before I add those dry brush strokes, we just add this wooden pane. These lines depict the wooden pane of the boat. And now with paints gray and dry brush streaks, we'll just add in. This gives the effect of this being the surface of the boat and also it be little rustic. Okay. Now, using the sepia, basically your burn sienna and pain scray mix. There are these wooden plants where people sit right. We'll just chart it out. We'll add in more details, but for now just making them a little bit more structured. Again, taking indigo on my small size brush, dabbing off all the excess water. We'll just add in some wooden lines over here. Taking in more indigo, dabbing off excess water, and adding it towards this side as well. Now, taking in burn Siena, dabbing of excess water and adding some lines and tone over here as well. Mixing this with pains grey to get a darker tone or sepia. I'll just add that over here to give a little bit more of dimension. Similarly taking in burn Siena, dabbing of excess water, and dropping them some streaks on this side as well. And dabbing off all the excess water, making these dry brush strokes on the bench. Now, taking in paints gray, dabbing off all the excess water, we will add in some more final details. Now, taking in my medium size brush, indigo, dabbing off all the excess water will paint on the shadow. Say starting from here as the water is slightly moving, so we will have wavy reflection, making those marks. The darkest tone would be where your boat touches the water. Similarly, the side as well. This would be the darkest, adding in a tinge of paint gray thinning up my brush, taking a little bit of indigo, and just blending this out. Using the detailed brush, taking in mix of pain screy and indico, adding in some darker tones at the corners of the reflection. Being very careful to make sure we maintain the way we look. Okay, now let's wait for this to dry before we add in some more details. Okay, this all has not right. Just adding in the final touches to the painting using paincray and smallest size brush, adding of all the excess water. I'll just add in the rope details to the boat. So the boat is tied with the rope right while we had sketched out. So I'm just adding that and this would also have a reflection. Taking in again indigo, dabbing of all the excess water, and just adding that in over here. Now, bring in again the pains gray dabbing of excess water. We'll just add in few birds to the sky. Okay. Now using again the paints gray and the same brush, we'll just add on some final details to the boat. And now I using my white chil pen. I'll just add in some final details with white, some highlight. Oh That's it. I think we're done with the painting now. This looks beautiful, right? Peeling off the masking tape. And this is the final look of the painting. We'll meet you tomorrow with another class project. Till then, bye bye. 5. Fiery Sunset : Hi, everyone. This is the class project that we will be working on today. I have a paper here on the board and using the masking tape, I'll just tape down this paper onto the board. Running my fingers across to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. Now, starting with the sketch for this one. So this is the horizon line that we have. We are going to paint a sailing boat today. So say, this is how it goes. H And this is where the first flag comes in. Here's the second one. So some strings attached. You have the fourth one coming in here. This looks better. We will be painting a sunset view so we don't need too many details over here, but it's good to know what all we're going to paint. So it gives us a view of how we can have that done while we work on it. I'll just clean this up a bit. I think we're good. Okay, let's start with the painting, taking my large size brush and water. I'll apply even coat throughout the paper. Take some time on this step and make sure that the paper is thoroughly wet. Move your brush across the paper so that there are no corners that gets left out. And also, there are no puddles of water at any one place. Okay. What I'll just do is using my tissue paper, I'll just tab off all the excess water from the corners. Okay. Now using my large size brush and cellular yellow, we'll start painting the sky. So we also paint out the water reflections because those are the same colors that we have onto the sky would be also reflected on the water. That's it for yellow. Now taking in permanent orange, we will add that to the sky as well as the water. I am purposefully keeping the top of the sky blank. You will know why in few minutes. Now taking in vermilion. You can see I am just playing around with the color and applying horizontal strokes to the sky, as well as the water. Okay. And at the top, we'll add in the violet. Voilet when mixed with yellow or orange gives a muddy color. So making sure we don't mix them a lot, and this is the reason we didn't start with yellow or orange from the top. Okay. So that's the first layer that we have. Okay. Now using my medium size brush and yellow, taping of excess water, we'll try to clean up the sky and add more tones to the sky as well as the water reflections. Okay. Next, going ahead with orange, tabbing of all the excess water, adding this tinge of orange near the horizon, and then trying to lay it around in the sky. Similarly on the waters as well. Okay, now taking in vermilion, tabbing of all the excess water, just trying to add in some clouds or streaks onto the sky. Okay? Okay. And similarly, we'll also add some reflection as well. Okay. And using the oiled tabling of excess water, adding some darker tones and clouds. Okay. Similarly, just adding a very slight tone on the reflection side as well. Okay, what I'll do is using the yellow dabbing of all the excess water, we just try to blend all of this out. So yellow is the base that we have in the water, and orange, red are all the reflections. So I'm just trying to blend everything out with the yellow that we have. Okay. And towards the bottom of the reflection, this is more on the red side, just adding in more of the red tones. Okay. Let me just dab off the excess waters from the corners. Mm. I'm pretty much happy with the way this has turned out. Let's wait for this to dry and then we'll see in case we want to add another layer. Okay, so the paper has now dried. Now using my medium size brush and paint gray or black, we will paint in the bowl. So I've taken in my paints gray, and starting with this corner for now, we'll just add in the shade. Being very careful near the corner areas. Okay. Okay. Now taking in a little bit of a darker tone and just dropping it out at some places. Now, cleaning my brush, dabbing of excess water, and just blending all of this out. Now, similarly, taking in again diluted form and we will paint out the black. I've just added some colour onto the corners, cleaning up my brush, and we will just try to blend this out and get a lighter tone somewhere in the middle. Be very careful while painting all of this. You can use your small size brush to get that cleaned up look. I'm switching onto my small size brush, taking in the color, and just being very careful on the black. Again, taking a medium size brush, taking in the shade, and just adding that over here. Similarly, for this one as well. Being very careful on the corners and the edges. There is a small line here which I'll add at the bottom of the flag, leaving slide tap. This is what is your pole, I'm just taking in my detailed brush and being very careful For this one as well, adding in a thin line to depict the whole. And here too, we have a short line. Okay. Now again, taking in my medium sized fresh dilute tone of black or pain gray and we'll paint out this flag. Whenever you take in more color, dab off excess water and then apply the brush on the paper. Okay, so this is the first one. So it's cleaning this up. Okay. And the second one, I know it overlaps, but because it's not seen, we can just paint this out this way. Okay. Now again, moving on to using my small size brush, we'll just add in the strings that we have of these flags, okay? A very diluted tone of paints gray using a small size brush, we will just add some tones to this section. We'll just leave out the window area that we had sketched here. Okay, so this is done. The darker tone will add this part of the boat. Now using a tone slightly darker versus what we used to paint this section, we'll add that to the corners. This will give an effect of the sun behind the cabin area, the gradient of lighter tone to a darker tone. Okay. Now again, using my small size brush, taking in faint gray or black, we have the railings. We just add some highlights to this. See this is another small top of Twist that's darker. And we will just blent all of this out. Okay. Okay. Now, once this dries, we'll add some people and all those things. Now what I'll do is using indigo and paint scram mix, add some tone onto the windows. Okay. You don't want it to be very precise. I just want to make it a little bit different versus what we already have, right? The black and pinscrey. Okay. Now for the reflections, I'll shift to my medium size brush, and using paints gray, dabbing of all the excess water will paint in the reflections. Okay. So this would be as is, okay. And then you can start having these wavy strokes depicting the reflections. So you have this over here, right? You will have reflection of this thing. When you are very near to the object, right, which is, for example, the boat is the object over here, your reflection in the water would be very thick. But when you start moving away from it, it becomes hiller, okay? Okay. Now say for this one, the reflection starts somewhere here because it's a little longer, right? So the reflection would also go a little longer versus the first one. Then you have here two reflections. It would be a little thicker. You see the strokes that I'm making. I'm just making wavy strokes to depict the reflections. And at the top, it is almost the same, right? So it becomes tharer and thinner. Okay. This I'll make a little bit more thicker because you have the flags together, and then it starts to split away. Now, what I'll do is using the small size brush, add heaer strokes towards the end. Also, the corners of the reflection that we have over here, right, due to the waves, we would have broken streaks. So using the detail brush, we will add those. Okay. Now again, using the same brush, dabbing off all the excess water. This is dried, right. So I'll just say add in some people standing over here near the railing, some over this side. And we will close it with some birds flying in the sky. Just adding two or three. No more. Yeah, I think that's all. I will just clean up my brush and using very diluted tone of paints gray, add some shade over here and also add strings and all that you have, right? We'll just add that as well. Okay. I think that's all for the painting. Let's wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. Okay, so the painting has all now dried. Let me peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. Hope you enjoyed this class project. We meet you again for the next one. Till then Bye bye. 6. Blue Waters: Hi, everyone. This is the class project that we will paint today. I have my paper here ready. Using the masking tape, we'll tape down the paper onto the board. Make sure to run your fingers onto the masking tape. This is to make sure that there are no gaps between the tape and the paper. Okay. Starting with the sketch for this one. So here we have our horizon line, we'll have some far away mountains. Our boards are over here. There are two boards just sketching the same. This is one and say the other one is same shape is here and it's in this side, Both of these boats are in the water and it has this boy. Now, what I'll do the reflection for this boat, it's a wavy water. So you will have the reflection, something like this. And similarly for this one as well. For this bow also, you will have some reflection, similarly this side as well. Okay. Now for this one, what we'll do is I'll use a masking fluid and add that onto the boat and the bove and also some of the reflection area because the water is going to be darker versus the color of the boat. So just to preserve that whiteness of the paper, I'll use a masking fluid. I'll be using the one with anilar and using an old brush, what I usually do is I dip the brush onto the water. I have a bar of soap, so I just add a layer of soap onto the brush. And then I pick up some of the masking fluid, add it onto my plate. This is basically a lid which I use for my masking fluids. So I just add it. I I'll add very little water, and now, I'll just apply the same to the boat and the vow area. And also will preserve, as I said, the whiteness of the paper for the reflections too. The boat and the reflection of the boat as well. I just realized did not sketch out some of the reflections. So I'm just directly adding some lines of the masking fluid. Okay. Let me take a little bit more of masking fluid. And this is how the reflection would be. Look at where we broken lines. I'll just add it. Then we'll also add it to the boat. What will happen is when we remove the masking fluid, the sketch that we have made specifically the internal details would go away. But as it's an easier sketch, we'll be able to make it again after we remove the masking fluid. Now here as well. I'll just add some wavy lines to support this boat as well. I think we are good with the masking fluid, making sure noneother area is left. Okay, so we'll leave this to dry now. I'll clean up my brush, change the water. And while this dries, we can paint the sky area. But let's clean the water first because the water has your masking fluid particles. Okay, so for the sky, we'll be using the serene blue shade. I'll just use my large size brush and apply some water at the top. Doesn't have to be a wet on wet splash, just little water. And with erleinblue that I already have onto my palette, it's going to be a gradient wash, so I'll just add the darkest shade at the top and we'll just bring down the breast with the bottom, and we'll apply some water as well. Okay. Be very careful with the horizon line. Again, we brush top to bottom. Just add a little bit more color at the top and getting it at the bottom. A very simple sky. The sky is easy because the focus of this painting is your water ripples. So let's wait for this to dry, let's wait for your masking fluid to dry, and then we will paint on the water, the ripples, et cetera. I'm just dabbing off all the excess water from the corners so that the color do not see back in while the paper dries. Okay, so the paper has not dried, masking fluid has dried, and now using my large size brush, the hake brush that I have, I'll generously apply a coat of water onto the water and the ripple section. Take your time on this step and make sure that your paper is thoroughly wet. Being careful around the horizon, you can see I'm moving my brush to and fro and making sure that every inch and collar of the paper is wet. And this will help keep your paper wet for a longer duration. And when your paper is wet for a longer duration, you will have longer time to work on your background. Okay. I just take my tissue paper and wipe off all the excess water from the corners. And now using my medium size brush and cobalt blue, we will start with the water. Okay. I've taken in the koba blue, dabbing off all the excess water, I just add in the strokes. It will be darker near us, near this area. And as we move towards the horizon, the water will become lighter. Once again, taking in cobalt blue, a slightly higher tone, and we'll just start adding in the water ripples. The ripples are thicker and dense near to our eyes, and as we move further, they become lighter and thinner. Okay. So as of now, whenever I'm picking my color, I'm trying to make the strokes near the eyes so that the darker tone gets applied over there, and with the latter tone and thin strokes, we will just paint the ripples towards the horizon. As you can see, my strokes are all similar throughout the tone of the color changes. Mm. Now, I'll just take indigo, mix some with cobalt blue, that will basically give us a darker tone of cobalt blue, dabbing off all the excess water, and I'll apply that tone to some of the ripples. And as I move towards the boat, the strokes become little thinner. Dabbing of all the excess water and with a very light hand, just applying some tone over onto the horizon. What I'll do is I'll just clean off my brush, dab off all the excess water, and try to lift some color from between these ripples. I'm just taking up some color and dabbing off onto my paper. Specifically this area, we were getting the haline structures. Now taking an indigo, again, dabbing off all the excess water and applying this darkest tone. Now, near the boat as well, you will have some darker tones because of the shadow effect, so I'm applying the dark stone over there as well. But as I move towards the upper section, what I'll do is I'll take my detailing brush, take a very diluted tone of indigo, and apply that. This will give me very thin ripples. Again, taking in some of the cobalt blue as well and just trying to add in very thin strokes for the ripple. These are generally very, very light. Okay, now with the medium size brush, tap off all the excess water, and I just try to blend all of this out. Make the tones a little lighter. And the hairline strokes that we have, those will also get reduced. Okay, so the waves and ripples are not very prominent, but they are there this side as well. So I'm just trying to maintain some whiteness of the paper, and I'll also try to remove the hairline strokes. Now, this looks good. What I'll do is using the tissue, I'll just remove the water droplets and the color from the masking fluids. If it's easier, then we'll remove. Otherwise, we will let it be. This one is too prominent. Let me just blend this out. And if your paper has started to dry, do not add any more color, and let's just stop. Okay? Because if you add in more water, it will give a cauliflower effect and your ripples, whatever you have painted till now, would all get disturbed. Okay. So now let's wait for this to dry, and then we will remove the masking fluid and paint the boats. Okay? The paper has not dried. The waves have come out beautiful, right? Now, what I'll do is using my medium size brush and a very lightish tone of neutral tint or paint gray on the horizon, I'll just add some hills These are far away and not very easily visible. So this will also give you an opportunity to clean up your horizon line. So I'm just adding some zigzags. And so this is where it ends. Now, just filling the gaps. That's it. This is what we have at the horizon now let us remove the masking tape. With my fingers, I'm just peeling off the tape. See, as I mentioned before, the sketch that we had drawn, that's all gone, right? Because the masking tape is pulling out all the graphite marks as well. Not to worry, we will get that again. Here it is all masking fluid removed. Now again, just sketching out the boat. A very rough sketch because we will anyways paint out Now, taking in my medium brush, we'll paint the first pot in milion, so I'm just taking vermilion. I already have it onto my palette. Just taking in a generous amount and we'll start with this pot first. Okay. And just adding some onto this bench as well. While this rise using senilar yellow will paint in the bow. I'm starting from here. This is the first bow. Say, this is the smaller 1 second. And you can also actually add in the water reflections as well. Similarly here too. Just adding it some reflections. Okay. Now, taking in a very diluted tone of vermilion, tabbing off all the excess water, I just add that shade to the interior of the boot. Similarly, the side as well, and we'll add more shades to it sometime later. Now, the other board will paint in the shade of dark blue. So I'm taking a mix of indigo and paints gray and dropping that tone over here. Be very careful of the bot that we had painted. What I'll do is I'll just clean up my brush a little and just pull the color from there. Now again, taking in a darker tone and similar to this sport, we'll add in the shade here as well. While this darker boat dries, the orange boat has dried up. So what I'll do is I'll mix a very small tinge of paint gray to this orange to get a very rusty tone. So you can see this is a very rusty tone that I've got over here. And using this, I'll add in some of the details to the boat. Remember, we had sketched a line over here, right? So we will just highlight that with this tone. Okay? Besides these darker colors. I've just added in the pains gray. Now again, with that darker tone, I'll add in some shadows over here. With the darkest tone, just some highlights here and there. Okay, so that's the boat. And with this darker tone, the last thing that you want to add is add some stripes to this boat. So it's a wooden boat. So it would have some wooden stripes. I'll just clean up and blend this all out. I've just taken clean water and I'm just blending all of this out. Now again, using a medium size brush and lion, we'll add in the reflection. This is where the reflection starts. I'm purposefully leaving out some white caps because we'll add in the ripples of blue colour as well, the water ripple shade. We had painted them wet on wet, but we will also add in some wet on dry strokes as well. You can see I'm also adding some additional oranges as well. Okay. Now with the other one, I'll take a very dark tone of indigo, add in little pains grave needed, and that would be the reflection that we have over here. It's called a block reflection. If your orange has not dried, be very careful because the orange has not yet dried. Otherwise, let's wait for the orange to dry and then you can add these reflections. I'll add some overlapping reflections once this orange has dried off. Meanwhile, we are yet to paint the interior of the second road. I'm just taking a very diluted tone of indigo, dabbing off all the excess water and just adding on that shade. Now while the other things are drying, I'll just use my paint screen and paint out thread that's tying the boat to the bow. This will also have some reflection and that's how this will go. Okay? Again, this side as well. And then this is the reflection. Okay? Now, using indigo and my small size brush, the detail brush, I'll add in some ripples effect onto this. What? Just adding some waves. Wherever you have these white spaces, and they don't need to be exactly covering up your white, it can be overlapping your orange as well. I'm just adding some darker tone of the ripples. Okay. In a very diluted tone and add some this side as well. Diluting it more. This orange one, what I'll do is I'll take a little bit more of orange. This has to be absolutely orange, I'll just cover this up and add a little more reflections of orange. Basically trying to cover up the whites. Similarly, using the pain scray will add in more reflections to the boot. The orange was wet before, right. So now using pain scray, we will add some overlapping reflections as well. And now with detailed brush and paincray I just add, again, some tails to the boot. This looks good. And the other thing, the last thing that I'll do is I'll just use my white pen and add in some highlights on the spot specifically because it's just too dark, right. So I'll just add some highlights to this spot. And we also add it here as well. They would always be some white highlights on the ripples as well, Just adding at some places to give that effect. Okay. I think that's it. Let's wait for this to dry and then we'll peel off the masking day. This all has dried. What I'll just do is using very darkish tone, like when the reflection happens, right? The point where your water touches your boat, it's very dark. Just added pain scrape. And using my medium size brush, I will just blend this out. So the harsh lines won't be visible. Or what you can also do is use your vermilion and using that, just try to blend this out. Okay, we're done with the painting. This was the only thing that I wanted to add. Let's wait for just this section more to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. This is all now dried. Let us remove the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. Is is 7. Conclusion: Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope you enjoyed painting these peaceful scenes as much as I did. We explore a range of moods and techniques from misty monochromes to glowing sunset, all while learning how to bring both and their reflections to life on paper. If you work through all the four projects, amazing. And if you're still working through them at your own pace, that's perfectly fine, too. Watercolor is as much about patience and presents as it is about technique. Don't forget to upload your class projects in the project section. I would love to see your creations, and it's always inspiring for other students, too. Whether it is just one painting or all four, feel free to express your thoughts and feedback in the review section. And if you enjoyed this class, you might also like my earlier one, watercolor techniques, how to achieve eye catching ripples and reflections. It's a great companion class focused just on water texture and ripple effects. Thank you again for painting with me, and I hope this class has brought you confidence, calm, and creative joy. Until next time, happy painting. Bye bye.