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Citrus Watercolor Magic: Exploring Fun Techniques for Fruit Illustrations

teacher avatar Will Elliston, Award-Winning Watercolour Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome To The Class!

      3:02

    • 2.

      Your Project

      2:08

    • 3.

      Materials & Supplies

      4:38

    • 4.

      Drawing The Main Shapes

      3:52

    • 5.

      Painting The First Slice

      7:36

    • 6.

      Painting The Pith

      6:47

    • 7.

      Painting The Segments

      8:00

    • 8.

      Background Elements

      7:20

    • 9.

      Painting The Grapefruit

      9:56

    • 10.

      Adding Shadows

      2:13

    • 11.

      Painting A Whole Lime

      6:48

    • 12.

      Painting A Sliced Lime

      5:29

    • 13.

      Painting The Leaves

      7:55

    • 14.

      Varying The Greens

      3:15

    • 15.

      Finishing Touches

      3:30

    • 16.

      Adding Some Bubbles

      4:17

    • 17.

      Final Thoughts

      2:46

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About This Class

In this class, we'll delve into the delightful world of watercolour painting as we explore the vibrant and refreshing essence of citrus fruits. Watercolours offer a unique and enchanting opportunity to capture the luscious colors and textures of fruits, making them an ideal choice for illustrating the citrus family.

Throughout this step-by-step guide, you'll discover the fundamental techniques and tricks of watercolour painting. From mastering brush control to experimenting with color mixing, we will lay a solid foundation for your creative expression. By understanding how to create textures and employ various brushstrokes, you'll bring the juicy and succulent qualities of citrus fruits to life on paper.

This class will provide you with a variety of resources, including reference images, templates, and colour palettes, to support you in your creative journey. You will receive guidance on selecting the right brushes, mixing colours, and composing your painting to create a visually captivating piece of art.

By the end of this class, you will possess the skills and knowledge to bring these juicy fruits to life on paper, showcasing their vibrant colors. Whether you seek to decorate your home with stunning artwork, design personalised greeting cards, or simply immerse yourself in the joys of watercolour painting, this class will empower you to create beautiful, refreshing masterpieces of citrus fruit illustrations.

Thank you so much for your interest in this class!

I’ve been painting for many years now, taken part in many exhibitions around the world and won awards from well respected organisations. As well as having my work feature in art magazines. After having success selling my originals and 1000s of prints around the world, I decided to start traveling with my brushes and paintings. My style is modern and attempts to grasp the essence of what I’m painting whilst allowing freedom and expression to come through. I simplify complicated subjects into easier shapes that encourages playfulness.

You'll Learn:

  • What materials and equipment to need to painting along
  • Basic technique to complete your first painting
  • How to avoid common mistakes
  • Choosing the right colours for your painting
  • How to blend colours and create textures for different effects
  • Making corrections and improvements
  • Finishing touches that make a big difference

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1. Welcome To The Class!: Hello everyone. My name is will Elliston, and in today's class, we're going to dive into the colorful world of citrus fruits, will be focusing on creating a vibrant and easy illustration of the delightful fruits using watercolours. Citrus fruits are not only visually appealing, but also hold a special place in the world of Bob's bright colors, juicy textures and tangy flavors have inspired artists for centuries. In this class, we will explore how to capture the essence of citrus fruits through watercolour techniques. I've been a professional artist for many years, exploring lots of different subjects, from wildlife and portraits to cityscapes and countrysides seems I've always been entranced by the possibilities of watercolour. But when I started, I had no idea where to begin or how to improve. I didn't know what supplies are needed, how to create the effects I wanted, or which colors to mix. Now I've taken part in many worldwide exhibitions, been featured in magazines, and been lucky enough to win awards from well respected organisations, such as the International watercolour society, the Masters or watercolour alliance, Winsor and Newton. And the SAA. Watercolour can be overwhelming for those starting out, which is why my goal is to help you feel relaxed and enjoy this medium in a step-by-step manner. Today, I'll be guiding you through a complete painting, demonstrating a variety of techniques and explaining how I use all my supplies and materials. Whether you're just starting out or already have some experience, you'll be able to follow along at your own pace and improve your watercolor skills. If this class is too challenging or too easy for you. I have a variety of classes available at different skill levels. I like to start off with a free expressive approach with no fear of making mistakes as we create exciting textures for the underlayer. As the painting progresses, we'll add more details to bring it to life and make it stand out. I strive to simplify complex subjects into easier shapes that encourages playfulness. Throughout this class, I'll be sharing plenty of tips and tricks. I'll show you how to turn mistakes into opportunities, taking the stress out of painting in order to have Fun. Also provide you with my Watercolour Mixing Charts, which are an invaluable tool when it comes to choosing and mixing colors. If you have any questions, you can post them in the discussion thread down below. I'll be sure to read and respond to everything he post. Don't forget to follow me on Skillshare by clicking the Follow button at the top. This means you'll be the first to know when I launch a new class or post giveaways. You can also follow me on Instagram at will Elliston to see my latest works. So let's get our brushes ready and paint some stunning fruits and watercolour 2. Your Project: First of all, thank you so much for choosing this class. I'm very happy that your head during me. Watercolour is such a wonderful medium that allows us to express ourselves with its unique blend of transparency and bluesy. It's perfect for capturing the vivid Hughes and delicate textures of citrus fruits, which are known for their bright and refreshing qualities. Throughout this class will be focusing on a step-by-step approach that will guide you through the entire process of creating your own vibrant citrus painting. The techniques you'll learn today can be applied to future projects, allowing you to further develop your watercolor skills and explore your creativity. In the resource section, I've added a high-resolution image of my finished painting to help guide you. You're welcome to follow my painting exactly or experiment with your own composition. As we're going to be focusing on the painting aspect of watercolour. I've provided templates you can use to help transfer or trace the sketch before you paint. It's fine to trace when using it as a guide for learning how to paint. It's important to have the under drawing correct? So that you can relax and have Fun learning the watercolour medium itself. Whichever direction you take this class, it would be great to see your results and the paintings you create through it. I love giving my students feedback. So please take a photo afterwards and share it in the Student Project Gallery. Under the project and resource tab. I'm always intrigued to see how many students have different approaches and how they progress with each class. I'd love to hear about your process and what you learned along the way. Or if you had any difficulties. I strongly recommend that you take a look at each other's work in the student project gallery. It's so inspiring to see each other's work and extremely comforting to get the support of your fellow students. So don't forget to like and comment on each other's work 3. Materials & Supplies: Before we start the painting, Let's go over the materials and Supplies. I years. Having the right materials can greatly impact the outcome of your artwork. I'll go over all the supplies I use for this class and beyond that, very useful to have at your disposal. And we'll make it easier for you to follow along. Let's start with the paints themselves. Unlike most of the materials will be using today, it's a lot to do with preference. I have 12 stable colors in my palette, and I fill up from tubes. They are Cadmium Yellow, Yellow, Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, Cerulean blue, Lavender, Purple, Viridian, Black. And at the end of the painting, I often use White Gouache for tiny highlights. I don't use any particular brand. These colours you can get from any brand. Although I personally use Daniel Smith, Winsor, and Newton or Holbein paints. So let's move on to brushes. The brush I use the most is a synthetic round brush like this, a Skoda polar brush or this Van Golf brush. That very versatile because not only can you use them for detailed work with their fine tip, but as they can hold a lot of water, they are good for washes as well. That also quite affordable. So I have quite a few in different sizes. Next are the mop brushes. Multiple brushes are good for broad brushstrokes. Filling in large areas and creating smooth transitions are washes. They also have a nice tip that can be used for smaller details. But for really small details, highlights or anything that needs more precision. I use a synthetic size zero brush. All brands have them and they're super cheap. Another useful brush to have is a Chinese calligraphy brush. They tend to have long bristles and a very pointy tip that perfect for adding texture or creating dynamic lines in your paintings. You can even fan them out like this to achieve for or feather textures as well. And that's it for brushes onto paper. The better quality of your paper, the easier it will be to paint. Cheap paper crinkles easily and is very unforgiving, not allowing you to rework mistakes. It's harder to create appealing effects and apply useful techniques like rubbing away pigment. Good-quality paper, however, such as cotton base paper, not only allows you to read work mistakes multiple times, but because the pigment reacts much better on it, the chances of mistakes are a lot lower and you'll be more likely to create better paintings. I use Arches paper because that's what's available in my local Art Shop. Award spray is absolutely essential. By using this. It gives you more time to paint the areas you want before it dries. It also allows you to reactivate the paint if you want to add a smooth line or remove some paint. I also have an old rag or teacher which I use to clean my brush. Cleaning up the paint before diving is in the water will make the water last a lot longer. It's always useful to have a tissue at hand whilst painting to lift off excess paint. Also, you never know when an unwanted splash or drip might occur that needs wiping away quickly. I also have a water droplet to keep the paints wet. When you paint, it's important to have them a similar consistency to what they're like in the tubes. This way, it's easier to pick up sufficient pigment. A hairdryer is useful to have, speeding up the drying time and controlling the dampness of the paper. And lastly, masking tape. And this of course it's just a whole paper down still on to the surface to stop it sliding around whilst painting. Also, if you plan on painting to the edge, will allow you to create a very crisp, clean border. That's everything you need to paint alone. I encourage you to experiment and find out what works best for you. Now let's get ready to start the painting 4. Drawing The Main Shapes: So to sketch this out, I'm going to break it down into very simple steps. Starting off with just circles. Circles, various sizes. Maybe one there, one here. You could do them at different angles as well, depending on how you want the slices of the fruit, wherever it's orange, Grapefruit Lime, coming out one behind another. The other one. Then maybe have a leash. A leaf coming off here, few dots here, maybe another shadow coming off. They're using very light using the side of my pencil just to do a light stroke, not indenting the paper at all. That maps out quite quickly. Then you go into the details, find the middle few lines going out. The different segments. Starting on this one. Unless size decide. I'm just going to drawing whatever Segments. Of course you can use my outline in the resource section and keep it nice and organic. It doesn't need to be super neat. Then we'll come back entirely up later. I'll do that off camera at my own speed so that it doesn't bore you. So good practice for drawing because he had to draw lines at different angles. So I'm going to finish this drawing off by myself. Get it all nice and neat so that I can scan it in and creates a nice template for you to follow along. And I'll see you in the painting stage 5. Painting The First Slice: So I'll put the tape on. Not because I'm going to paint to the size just to hold it in place. And said that if it's the paper starts to curl when it gets too wet or dry, flat again. Now I'm going to start off with this Slice on the left and work my way across. If you're left-handed, work way, work your way from the right to the left. And because citrus colors are so vivid with their colors, we're going to have quite limited palette. We're going to use nice bright yellow, nice bright orange and some green. And that's virtually all the colors we'll be using list here. Cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, cadmium red, and viridian green. So I'm going to start here. And they're going to start. Was the, The Pith. I guess. The Pith is not so vibrant, so I'll add a bit of yellow ocher into that. Just go down there. I liked working with a bit of speed just because it keeps things spontaneous and Fun. If I slow down and focus on the details, it often ruins their energy. And they were all unity of the painting. That tissue just to dab it parts off to give it a bit of interesting texture. Now, go going with the yellow, pure cadmium yellow to paint the different segments. Very vivid ones, obviously. Quite. But it's, it's it's orange, this one I think. But I got to start with the yellow in there. Because even though an orange is an orange, some of them, the interiors are slightly yellow, like this one. David bit of orange in there. Just to make it a bit more orange. You can vary the colors. You can vary what kind of citrus route you want to paint wherever you want it to be, an orange, Lime, a Grapefruit. Whichever colors you want, is quite relaxing. No pressure. Just filling in the lines. Was The makes me think why more people don't do this. It's interesting seeing the trend of coloring in books when it's not so much more difficult just to do this instead. And then you get your own painting at the end to your own original painting. You can gift or frame yourself. If it's a bit too orange, I water it down a bit. I always do a test stroke before I fully commit so that I can add more water and dilute it or pull a bit of water away like that. That's too much orange. So what I'll do is I'll add a bit more water to spread it out to the rest of the painting, rest of the segment rather. That's a perfect amount of orange. Now, then I'll just add together to even this out. Same again here. Now maybe in where it meets the center, I'll add a few more strokes with this orange just to add some texture. Those little bubbles or I don't know how to explain in words. That's why I'm attracted to Art because I can do it visually. The little pockets of liquid that you have in the segments. Segments within the Segments. Now I'm going to go back. They said two bits and add a bit more. Because when you slice an orange or a lemon, there is a bit of transition between the white of the Pith, the skin. I'm just adding a bit more. I think a bit of texture. I'm not looking at the reference image that much. Just dabbing my brush along, splat some water. As it's Drawings to create a bit more texture as well. To set the translucency of the White Paper comes through and just illuminate the segments because that's what makes the citrus glow. You see the light go inside and disperse and it makes it very vibrant 6. Painting The Pith: I could do a similar thing here. While I'm waiting for, Let's try another orange. I think I have these two oranges. This one a Grapefruit and this one a Lime. Making sure that overlap. This one will be the center of interest, the one with the most detail. These ones can be looser. And then because they're looser, It will focus it in a bit like a camera when you have an auto-focus. So you got part that you want with extra details and rest just blur out. If you add it all equally focused, it'll be a bit distracting and disorientating for the viewer. What your viewers eyes won't know where to land. So you can, you can just delete it. Bit better. Grapefruit. Even though it's got a red center, it still has an orange Pith. So I'll just paint that in. Whereas having a tissue at hand to dive out some pigment that I've ever done. The nature of watercolour is making mistakes and then correcting them. You never know how it's going to go. It's so unpredictable. You just have to work with what happens. If it doesn't go your way as perfectly normal, it never goes anyone's way directly. You just have to work with what it does. Don't feel bad about that. Yellow Pith there too. So mainly we're just focusing only LAs at the moment. And then I'll bring in the red and then The Greens later. Now, for this, orange, can then go back here and paint the skin course at vibrant orange lattice maybe to vibrant eye-catching for where it is on the edge. Remember that's the center of interests, so I don't want it to compete. Just going to put some yellow into it to neutralize it a bit. Good. And now painting and ten, going into the first stroke of orange. And I'm going to go in some more yellow bit more orange. Sun palettes. Swirl this around. I'm gonna get to let that dry. And just on the edge here, I'm going to carry that all the way around. A very fine line. Getting around. If you don't have a small enough tip or your brush, go to a smaller brush. It's a bit drugs, I'm drawing some liquid out there. Now I'm going to paint The Segments. Not I'm not yet actually going to do that. I wanted to paint the shadow first before I play in that. Thinking about it 7. Painting The Segments: I'll paint the Segments on this one. Again with the vibrant yellow to begin with. Adding lots of liquid in there. This one, I'll make a bit more dynamic by changing the tones around having some dark areas and want some lighter areas. Posing some orange and some areas and letting it spill out. Don't worry so much if you go over the small lines because you can come back at the end with whitewash. Even though it's orange. I'm making it quite Yellow in some parts just to make it a bit more diverse, add a bit of variety to it. Looking a bit of water on it. Keep it exciting. Make it darker in the middle. And then as it goes towards the edge, then it goes more Yellow. Do some strokes coming out middle. And then starting from the other end with the Yellow. Leaving a few white gaps. Few more white splatters. Few more drops of Yellow. Really have Fun with where you drop the pigment. That's what it's all about. Otherwise, you may as well painting a different medium. It's about really exploiting the medium, seeing what they can do. Now using that similar orange, they're a bit of yellow into it. Going to paint outside again. Outside peel using a bit of Burnt Sienna, because Burnt Sienna is actually a Burnt Orange, a darker hue of orange. So it looks like orange in the shade. The shadows. Now, just as it's drying there, I'm just going to go over those white lines. Just disturb them a tiny bit because I don't want them to be pure white. But I made sure that it's almost dry before doing that, I didn't do that straight after. Like what I did there with the Burnt Sienna cell. Just going to drop that in a few more places. Adding a few more strands from the middle to the outside of that Burnt Sienna. And like I said, it's dried a bit is had about 4 min to dry. So it's still damp but it's not glistening wet. So when you do a stroke like that, it softens it and it bleeds out, blurred out. It's all a hard edge. Now I'm going to do a few slats of pure water. Then tap with the tissue, refine that edge a bit. Refining the edge of a center on the outside to make it looked like being inside of the PIL Slice rather 8. Background Elements: Again now that's dry. I'm just going to paint a soft shadow that's on top. Coming off Stan. To do that, I'm just going to use a bit of black, a bit of warmth to it, a bit, bit of burnt sienna. Maybe a better Alizarin crimson. Can disbelieve it out. Say need. Maybe make that shadow a bit harsher and dark and peel just to separate it by that. Okay. Now I'm going to wait for that dry. Now maybe it's time to paint one of these leads. While I'm waiting for everything else to dry and to mix a green, I'm going to use that same copy in yellow and a tiny bit of viridian green. It's very potent. So just to tie a little bit, a bit of a time, always easier to add a bit more than to take away. The timeless little drop. Changes it to a green salting of that side quite light. Adding a bit more water to the middle there. Then I'll make it darker. A bit more Viridian. Then a bit of ultramarine blue. Because by itself, Viridian is a bit too artificial I find. So adding a bit of blue will make it a bit more natural. One strong stroke there. Now I'm gonna go straight from the yellow onto the painting and it will mix itself organically on the paper. Going down to the bottom. Connecting it up, touching bit of yellow there on that side. Again, connecting it. Why allowing it to do its own thing and mixed together. Now I'm just going to let it dry. I'm trying not to interfere with it. Now that's nice and dry to the touch. So let's painting that section. We're going to use Cadmium Red for that. Nice vibrant Grapefruit. Cadmium Red is quite potent pigment that stains the paper so you have to make sure it doesn't dry when you are applying it. Because otherwise it will be difficult to blend. You have to work quickly with it. Some colours. A low staining, which means you can just rub the pigment off and it will be white paper again, the wideband away. But pigments like this, like the red Cadmium, Cadmium red. It stains so you can't rub away. It says that on the tube, it shows you the staining values on the different tubes of paint. You know what you're getting when you buy a tube. You know what to expect? 9. Painting The Grapefruit: I let that dry as it will. Now I'm going to paint this red section here. Same color. Nice. Great. Fuchsia, red. Maybe a touch of Alizarin crimson just to give some warmth or coolness to it. Robert, coolest. Cadmium Red is quite a warm. Red. And Alizarin crimson, slightly cooler on the color scale. I'm careful with my brush marks, how I leave them. When I'm painting, I lead them in the direction of where they're going. So if they do happen to dry, at least it won't look out of place if I just left a mark like that and then dried than it would look obviously quite unnatural. So if I'm starting to paint, I at least do it like that in the direction so that if it dries, it's not a complete disaster. Sometimes I have to keep on reminding myself to talk because I just get so relaxed and into the, into the moment of painting. Getting in touch with what maybe want to start painting in the first place. Again, we can come back with the White Gouache whitewater color later to do any corrections if we happen to go over the line. Now we're going to use this war spray because I've let it dry there. And I can't just use the brush because it will enter pair can it's dried too much. So if I just do a light spray like that, evenly distributes more water so that it worked. Great, ugly textures. Let's give it a few seconds. The water to reabsorb. Now I can go back and I want to make it a bit lighter, so I'm taking some liquid off there and putting it at cleaning my brush and just going to add a few splatter water to make it more interesting. Now I'm going to use the color already on my paper to paint this one. As a good thing about watercolor, you can just remove what's already on the paper around. That's a good way to unify the colours. Mixing and matching what you've already got on the paper. You put some really thick pigment on the side, just say that bleeds out. Careful not to go over the edge here. Can easily happen So there's actually not much technically going on here. It's good for beginners because you can learn, experiment with the basics, basic ideas of how to manipulate Watercolor. Without too much pressure off doing lots of technical details. Few dabs of the orange. Just again to add a slight bit of interests, bit of variety. So painting each segment quite lightly. And then the very tip where it gets the center, we add some thick pigment. It's a bit darker. Like that. Just bleed while it's still wet. It'll bleed downwards. And create a bit of depth and realism to it. Even though we're not trying to do a realistic painting here. Just having a bit of Fun. Racing, using vibrant colors. Can add a bit more orange to his heel. Down here in the shadow. There's another shadow here. Pretend the bit of black. Ashley, now it's too wet to do that now. So I'll just leave it at the time being. If I, if I add that now, it will interact with that and it'll, it'll ruin the effect. S-plus a bit more water 10. Adding Shadows: See how the leaf has dried and create some nice natural textures there. Now let's try. We can go back and emphasize some of the anatomy I'll delete. Mixing a bit of mixing is using, but as your black paint, a shadow coming here. The black I use is called Neutral Tint, because Black by itself is quite intense. Stub and colour. But Neutral Tint, even though it looks just like black, it has the ability to mix with other colors a bit better. It doesn't look so flat or boring. Adding a bit of blue shadow. Then painting from the top-down that can bleed into their 11. Painting A Whole Lime: Now I can paint this line here. And Robert, rather than a slice, is just going to be a full-on Lime. Again with the viridian. Green and Cadmium Yellow. Top of the line will be quite bright and Yellow. Then the second half will be a bit more green. Again, you don't need to put that much pigment of green to make it look like a Lime. It's a very potent pigment. Viridian by itself is quite a dead color. So you need to put in some yellow to really give it some life. Now we're actually very lightly bring out splat, bring out some of that pigment. Let it bleed out. Give me a bit of vitality. She's splat so pure water to create the texture. Now go back to this shadow down here. Feel that it needs a little bit more. Now I'm going to paint that shadow here. But I tried to do earlier. I wanted to do it earlier but I couldn't because the other section was too wet. Going to emphasize the edge of this orange up here. Okay, I'm going to add a light shadow here. I should have really done that before, but it's okay and you can work around it. No shadow around here. Now that dries it will 12. Painting A Sliced Lime: These line segments Now, bit more intricate here because there's a leash just going over it. We don't want to share it because it will affect the light tones. You dabs of yellow in the middle. Doing this all with an eight number eight brush. It's so handy, gets the perfect size because it's got a nice tip. And we're not doing any large washes, so you don't need to go any larger this stage. This painting. You do the whole painting of this brush. And only three colors, three or four. Big lens. Again a bit darker. Now the tips, the end than in the middle. Might feel uncomfortable. Might be difficult to paint all these segments to begin with. But after doing it, after about 30 of them, it actually becomes quite quickly. It's taken me much less time to paint this one as it did that first one. So everything takes a bit of practice. Drawing water out and pigment from the middle, make it a bit lighter. Using the hairdryer to dry it off, speed things up 13. Painting The Leaves: Now to pay it, the rest of the leaves and the skin of the line. The few bubbles here, Bubbles I'll splat. So does some interesting visuals. Cerulean blue, I want to slightly different green. Some Viridian, very thick contrast here will merely really make the orange pop. Really loading my brush with a thick pigment and paint the stem of that leaf to in my brushes, I'm actually going to paint the shadow. Shadow. I want to add going over the Lime before I paint the leaf, because it goes over starts here. Okay, Here's along here. Going back to that dark Viridian. They're really painting it very thickly in that corner. Maybe even a bit of pure black right at the very end of it. Now I want the green on the Lime to be more vibrant than the green on the leaf. So I'll add more yellow to the line and leave this a bit muted. I'll even put in a bit of muted yellow ocher, which is a more muted down Yellow. Then let it interact with that green that we just put up there. Connect it. Add the water just to wash it all down. Vibrant streak right there. Who maybe have pure water and pigment was a rush out of it. Ten to the bottom. Paint. The rest of this PL, actually, I missed that. So now for this leaf, leaf textures 14. Varying The Greens: Have to make it a different green to the Lime as well as it will look like it's the same. Then the Ochre based green here. Bit darker at this edge, darker on that tip right there. It's very satisfying having a fine tip on your brush. This isn't even an expensive brushes either. To cheap one 15. Finishing Touches: Now it's going to add a lovely yellow here. And then add the nice vibrant green. Right there. I went more yellow, they're actually more vibrant. I was too much there. Went over the line tool. Can draw that out using the tissue. Following that. Yeah, there were no you tabs me go right on that edge. Right up there too. Lettering is going to add some pure water just to agitate it and get it to mix in 16. Adding Some Bubbles: Now to add a few bubbles around the outside. I'm going to add a few bubbles because citrus fruits remind me of juices, some drinks. So adding Bubbles is quite a nice way to associate that. Come from single green ones With bit more of a yellow one here. This yellow ocher, orange ones here. Few more orange ones up there, I think. Pure yellow. You can add another green when THE then some red, some red ones here. To complement the Grapefruit. More orangey, red maybe. Here. Few wall Sri, Yeah, diluted reds here. One in here. Okay, Now I'm going to completely dry off and rub out the pencil lines. And we'll review the painting. In the next step. 17. Final Thoughts: Welcome back and congratulations on completing the class. I hope you've had been watching. And if you haven't already given this painting and go, now's the time to put what you've learned into action. Throughout the course, we've observed the unique characteristics of citrus fruits, their vibrant Hughes subtle textures, and the interplay of light and shadow. By paying attention to these details, we were able to create an exciting and vibrant illustration from brushstrokes to layering techniques. Each stroke or the brush added energy and life to our artwork. The techniques you've learned today can be applied alternating to citrus fruits, but also to other subjects who wish to paint. Watercolours offer endless possibilities for creative expression. I recommend you to continue to explore this approach with different fruits. Remember, watercolour painting is not just about technical skills, but also about expressing your creativity and personal style. I encourage you to continue exploring, experimenting, and pushing your boundaries to create your own unique watercolour masterpieces. As we come to the end of this class, I hope you feel more confident and comfortable with your watercolour painting abilities. Practice is key when it comes to improving your skills. So keep on painting and experimenting. I want to express my gratitude for each and every one of you. Your passion for watercolour painting is so inspiring. And I'm honored to be your teacher. If you'd like feedback on your painting, I'd love to give it. 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Once again, thank you for joining me today. Keep painting, keep exploring. And may your artistic journey be filled with vibrant colors and endless inspiration until next time, happy painting