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1. Welcome to the Class!: Hello, everyone. Welcome
to my Skillshare class. My name is Payal, I'm an artist, an art educator, and an entrepreneur
based in Bahrain. I go by the name
thesimplyaesthetic on Instagram where I share my love for painting
every single day. We're going to go on a
wonderful painting journey in this class where we
explore skies together. Every time I look up
at the sky and see the wonderful colors
blending into one another, and the clouds just floating and adding their own
magic to the sky, I cannot stop myself
from capturing the moment and putting
them on the paper. In this class,
we'll be exploring 10 beautiful skies
together using gouache. Gouache is one of my
favorite mediums to paint with when it comes
to painting landscapes. I love how you can
add opaque layers one over the other just like
your acrylic paint, but at the same time, pin down the consistency of
your paint by adding water, apply lighter washes, and revert your paint
just like watercolors. It's like having best of both
the mediums in one medium. Don't worry if you don't have any prior knowledge
about gouache because we are going to be covering
all the basic things that you need to
know to get started. We'll start off by knowing the right type of art supplies
that we need and then move on to learning some of the basic things that we
need to know about gouache. Then I'll walk you
through some of the basic gouache
techniques that we need to know for
the class project. You can use these
basic techniques, not only for the class
projects of this class, but for your own future
paintings as well. Once we have all the
basics covered up, we'll go on a wonderful
painting journey to explore 10 beautiful skies together
over a span of 10 days. I have designed
the class project in a way that we
learn how to mix and match our own unique colors for the sky using very
limited colors. I will be posting on
class projects together, so that you can start this journey in whatever
time zone you are, at whatever time
availability that you have. But I would highly
recommend that you paint one class project
each day so that you develop your habit of
painting every single day and also end up having 10
beautiful skies together. If you are someone
who is fascinated by the sky and wants to
put them on paper, then gather all your
supplies and let's dive in.
2. Materials you'll need: Let us talk about the art
supplies that we need. First off, you need
gouache paints. Here I'm using the ones
by Winsor and Newton. This is a little
gouache collection of mine which I've
built over the years, but you can use any brand of gouache paints that you have. All the colors that we need for the class projects will be
mentioned in the beginning, but you mostly need
your basic blues. Here I'm using primary blue, Prussian blue, and Winsor blue. I'll be using a
different combination of these in different
class projects but if you don't have the primary
blue and your Winsor blue, you can just take your cobalt blue or your ultramarine
blue as well. Next off, you need
your warm colors. Here I'm using my primary red. Next, I have my cadmium yellow. I have my cadmium
orange right here. You can use any red, yellow, and orange that is available
in your color palette. Next, you need a black paint. This is my lamp black. For the tube, I'm using
titanium white by Brustro. This is a large tube of white paint because
most of the times, you need white a lot
in your paintings, and that is why I
went ahead and bought a larger tube of my white paint. Next, let's talk
about the paper. Here I'm using my normal Strathmore ready cut
watercolor paper. This is 100 percent cotton
paper which is cold-pressed. You mostly want to go ahead
with papers that have lesser texture because it makes the blending
process a lot easier. You can use any
watercolor paper, or any paper for that matter, which has a smoother
texture because gouache is blendable on any surface so you can use absolutely any paper that
you would like to use. I would just suggest
that you use paper with a thicker GSM because then
your papers won't buckle. Just make sure that the
GSM is around 270-300. Next, I have the brushes. I'm using a very limited
number of brushes, you just need very
basic brushes. I have my size 10 flat brush, and then I have
two round brushes. So I have a size six round brush and a size zero round brush. You can use a size
four and a size zero depending on the point that you get with
each of your brushes. If you have a pointed brush or a brush that comes
to a really fine point, you can just use size six. Then I have a size
one liner brush. These are the only four
brushes that I will be using for all my
paintings in this class. Next, you need a mixing palette. I have the ceramic mixing tray, basically which I use
for my mixing palette. I find it a lot better to
mix on a ceramic palette, and that is why I
just use this tray. Next, you need a cloth, a rag, tissues, anything that will
help you wipe your brush. Next, you need two
jars of water. One is going to be the jar
where you rinse your brush, get rid of any color. Next is going to be your
clean supply of water. Make sure that you are keeping two jars of water
in front of you. Lastly, you just need your basic masking tape to tape down your paper on
all four sides, your pencil and eraser to sketch out the silhouettes and the
objects in our paintings. That's pretty much it. Once you have all
your supplies ready, let us go ahead and learn a
little bit about gouache.
3. Gouache Overview & Tips: Let me walk you through some of the
amazing properties of gouache and share some of my
tips and tricks with you. As most of you might be aware, gouache is
an opaque medium. It is a medium between
acrylics and watercolors. What I mean by that is, it is opaque, and you can layer paint one over the other like
acrylic paints. It's opaque, and you cannot
see the layer before that. But at the same time, you can re-wet the paint
once it's completely dry, just like watercolors,
you can also thin down the consistency of the paint
and apply lighter washes. Once the gouache paint dries it has a beautiful matte finish. In gouache, to tone down
the vibrancy of a color, we add white instead of
water, unlike watercolors. Let me share some of my tips with you regarding
gouache paints. Every time you're painting with gouache makes sure that you add a bit of water to it to
thin down the consistency. This makes the blending
process a lot easier. Choosing the right type of paper and brushes are also
very important. Make sure that you're
using a paper which has lesser texture because this makes the blending of
our sky a lot easier. You can use gouache
paint on any surface, which means you can use
them on your futon boards. You can use them on paper, you can use them on cardboard, anything but preferably
a smoother surface. Next, you also need to keep in mind that the best type of brushes that work with gouache are the synthetic hair brushes. I would suggest
using synthetic hair brushes over natural hair
brushes any day for gouache. Most of the times what I feel the difference between natural hair brushes and synthetic hair brushes is that the
synthetic hair brushes make the blending
process a lot easier. Let me just quickly apply
a layer of thick paint. This is my freshly squeezed
paint right from the tube. I haven't added any water
and as you can see when I apply the paint on the
paper, it's quite thick. The blending requires
a lot of effort here. Most of the times my brush is running out of
paint very quickly, and I'm getting that
dry brush stroke. Now I'm just going to dip my brush in a little
bit of water. This is exactly the
amount of water you need. You do not need a lot of
water in a gouache paint. Here, I'm applying a thinner
layer of my gouache paint. There are a few things that you need to note down
about Gouache here. First thing is going
to be that whenever you add another layer
to your painting, you need to make sure that the base layer has dried first. Because this is still a
water-soluble medium, and it still gets
reactivated with water. We want our base layer to dry completely before we go ahead
and add the next layer. You can see my right
the thinner layer of gouache paint is still wet and when I add my
white paint on it, you can still see the blue. It merges with the blue, and I'm not able
to get the bright, vibrant white on the paper. At the same time, on the left
square that I've created, you can still see because
the layer is thick, it took a lot of time to dry and paint, just get reactivated. Now the layer has
completely dried. I'm just going to use
my liner brush here, and I'm going to
make another stroke. Here when I apply the paint, you can see that it's a lot more opaque and a lot more vibrant. One thing you need
to keep in mind that when you are
adding the layers, your base layer has to be thin, but the next layer
has to be slightly thicker than the layer
that you applied before. This way you're not going to reactivate the paint
that is at the bottom. That is why you need to
just go ahead create few squares and just practice this layering technique
once quickly, because this will give you a clearer understanding of what consistency
goes for the base, what consistency
comes for the top, all sorts of things. Next, I'm going to show you another cool property about
gouache and that is how you can reap at the pain
to smooth out the edges. I'm just going to use
my flat brush and create a rectangular wash here. Wait for it to completely dry and then move on
to the next layer. Here you can see I've used a thinner consistency
of the paint. Now that the blob has
completely dried, I'm just going to go ahead and use my size six-round brush, and I'm going to add some
random strokes in the sky. One thing to keep in
mind while adding white paint to any of
your gouache paintings, you need to work in layers
because white dries to be a lot more lighter as compared to the
time when you apply it. That is why to get a
nice opaque white, you'll have to work in
maybe two or three layers. Here I've applied
just one single layer of white just to
give you an idea. Next, I've cleaned my brush
dipped in some of the water, and then cleaned out
the excess water. Here you need to
have a good control over the amount of water
that you have on your brush, and you're just going to
smudge it over the edges. Here you can see the paint gets reactivated and blends with
the blue of the paper. Then I get this nice
and smooth finish to that little shape
that I created. You can practice
this again to get a clear idea of the amount
of water that you need. Now this will play a
very important role when we're trying to blend the
layers between our clouds. Make sure that you
get a good practice of this little exercise. Next, makes sure that you are having two jars of
water no matter what. One is to clean your brush and other is for the fresh
supply of water. Now once we have a little
tips and tricks sorted, let's move on to learning
the basic techniques.
4. Gouache Techniques to Paint Skies, Clouds, Branches & Leaves: Let us learn some of the basic
techniques that we need to know for
our class projects. I'm going to show
you how you create these seamless
blends in your sky, add a few clouds, get the dry brush strokes ready, and also how to make the strokes for our silhouette portion. I've taken my white paint
on my palette and I have a little bit of the Prussian blue on
my palette as well. You can practice this with any color combinations that
you would like honestly. I'm just going to go
ahead with a combination of a blue and a pink color. I've taken my blue and
red on my palette. I've primary red and Prussian blue on my palette
along with white. The first thing that I'm
going to show you is how to create a straight
gradient blend. Here I'm trying to show
you how to go from one color and transition
into another color. I've taken my flat brush
size 10 and I added a bit of water to my paint and I started applying it in a
to and fro motion. Make sure that you are applying your brush in one direction, you're going left to
right and right to left. At the bottom, I have mixed a little bit of white
with the primary red, and I got this pink color. Now here, I brought
the pink from the bottom to the top and
drew from top to the bottom. Then to blend these
two colors together, I'm going to use white. This is going to be one of the most important blending
techniques for our skies, where we want to
transition from, let's say yellow
to orange to blue. We need to know how
to blend the colors without getting any muddy
colors in the middle, and how to transition
these colors smoothly. Here, one of the important
things to keep in mind is to have a nice and
wet brush at all times. When you have water
in your brush, it makes the blending
process a lot easier. Every time you want to add
more water to your brush, you need to just
clean your brush, load it with a
little bit of water, tap in the excess on the cloth, and then start the
blending process. You're going to always
blend blue from top to bottom and go the pink
from bottom to the top. If you think they
are blending in middle and creating
a muddy color, you'll just go ahead and add white and that is going
to fix everything. Here again, you're
just going in this to and fro motion until you have that seamless blend from the pink to the blue color. This is going to be your
normal graded blending in which you're just transitioning from one color to another. Next technique that
I want to show you is going to be
the angular one. This one is straight. You're just going from left
to right and right to left. This is your normal way in which you do
it, it's straight. The next thing that we want
to know is the angular one. Here we're going to do
the same process for the blending but here we'll be applying the paint at an angle. Here you can see I've taken my blue paint on my
flat brush and I'm just going in this left and right
motion but at an angle. Then I'm just going to
mix the pink color apply it at the bottom again in
the left and right motion. Then here I just
wanted to show you the consistency of the paint. You can see it's not too
thin and not too thick. You just need a little
pasty consistency here. Then you just apply it in this left and right
motion at an angle. Similar to the
previous blending, you will be leaving that space for blending the two
colors with white. Here again, you
clean your brush, load it up with some white paint and then start blending again. Like I've said before, this blending is very similar
to the normal blending. The only difference
comes here is because we are blending
it at an angle. We will be using this blending
in our skies and some of the class projects where the transition
between the colors in our sky is at an angle. This is going to be
your angular blending. Once you get familiar
with the blending, we're just going to create one another normal
blending and bottom. Here again, I'm using the first method that I've taught you, go in the left and right
motion and then just blend, take a pink and the blue together using white
in the middle. That is exactly what
I'm going to do. Actually, the next step that I want to show you is how you add clouds to your paintings. I'm just going to show you a
basic way to add the clouds and that is going to
be the way in which we add the clouds in our
class projects as well. One thing to keep in
mind when you are working in layers
with quash is to wait for the base layer
to completely dry before we go ahead and
add another layer. This way, you have lower
chances of re-wetting the paint and that is
exactly what we want. We do not want our
paint to just smudge altogether and not have
the beautiful layers. For that, you need to make
sure that your paper is completely dry before you go ahead and add any other layers. Once my paper is
completely dry now, I'm just going to go
ahead and add the clouds. For the clouds, I'm
going to be using my size 6 round brush. I'm just mixing a little bit of my black paint with the white paint to create
a gray color and I'll be adding a little bit
of the red to it to get a nice purple-grey cloud. You can just create the
clouds in different colors. We'll talk about
the colors for each of the class projects
that we create. Here we are going for a nice
purplish, grayish cloud. One thing to keep in mind
while adding the clouds is that you need a nice
and thick consistency. It is not going to be the same consistency as we
added for the base layer, it's going to be a lot thicker because we want it to be opaque. Now, here I'm just
actually tapping my brush together and moving it around to create a cloud shape. Here, there is nothing really
complicated that happens. You just need to have a
good control of your brush. Your paint needs to be in a thick consistency
so that you get this nice rough finish
to your clouds. Then just tap it together to get a cluster or a volume
in this cloud, and that is how you
add the first layer. For the highlights of the
clouds you're just going to mix a lighter version of the same color by
adding white to it, and then you'll just pick
tapping in at the bottom of the cloud of wherever the sunlight falls
directly on your cloud. Then using that same color, I will be adding
some more clouds at the bottom and around the
main cloud that I added. The way in which I add the
clouds is just going ahead and tapping irregular shapes
and just moving it around. You need to have good control of your brush at the
same time you need to know how to make
these strokes, and that comes with practice. Just practice it a couple
of times and you'll learn exactly how to create
these random strokes. Once you're done
adding the highlights, you're just going
to go ahead and blend the highlights
with the base layer. For that, you just need to slowly clean off all
the paint that's on your brush loaded up with
a bit of water and get rid of any excess paint
on your brush, and then just leave it at the paint and blend
the edges like in the tip section
that I showed you how you smoothen out the edges. That is exactly what
you're doing here, just smoothening out
the highlights so they look like one
whole fluffy clouds. This is your layering method
in which you add the clouds. The next thing that I
want to show you is how to add or make these
dry brush strokes. What I mean by the
dry brush strokes are that you have a very
thick consistency of paint, it has very little
amount of water. I just added a very
tiny bit of water here and I just read the
paint that was on my palette. I'm using this thick
consistency of the paint. When I rub it across
the paper and if it has a little bit
of texture or even on a smoother paper since
the brush is dry and when I slide my brush over the paper, it absorbs the paint of
this layer so whatever remains creates this little
dry brush uneven finish. This is exactly the method in which you add the
clouds as well. Here the consistency
is a lot thicker, so the texture is a
lot more visible. For the clouds we want
a little more water, and a little more
thinner consistency as compared to the ones that
I'm showing you here. This is just to give you
an idea how you can add different textures
to your painting without having to draw them. When you use this method, you can easily add this
rough look to your painting. This is the dry brush method. You can use this technique in your future paintings as well. It's a very important
and fun technique. The next thing that I
want to show you is how to create different
brushstrokes. Now you need to practice
your different brushstrokes because that will help you
a lot in your paintings, and it will completely
change your painting game. Here, I've taken my
size 10 flat brush, my size 6, and 0 liner brush, and size one liner brush. I'm just going to
quickly show you all the type of brush
strokes that I can make with my brushes by applying different
pressures to it. I'm just going to load
my size 10 flat brush first and when I apply
it in this flat surface; so I'm just holding it with the thickest part
of my flat brush, you can see that I get a
nice and pick finish to it. It's a nice flat
wash. After that I'm just holding it sideways and
applying a lot of pressure, and I get this medium
stroke in the middle. Then while holding it
perpendicular to the paper, I get very thin strokes. As you can see here, you
can use your flat brush to create many different
types of strokes by learning how to apply
different types of pressures. The second wash that
I just showed you or the second stroke that
I showed you will be using that for blending our skies in
our class projects. Next I want to show you
my size 6 round brush, so I'm just going to load my size 6 round brush and
show you the strokes. Here you can see this is the fastest stroke that I can make by applying a
lot of pressure, then I have the medium strokes. When I apply very
little pressure on my brush I'm really
light-handed with it. You can see I get
extremely pen stroke. Now when I tap my brush
perpendicular to the paper, you can see that I get
these uneven shapes, and this is what
we're going to use for adding the foliage
in our silhouettes. You can use different sizes of round brush to create
different sizes of leaves, so you can use size 0 brush wherever you want to
add tinier details. You can use a size 6 brush when you want the
foliage to be a lot thicker. Next, I just want to show
you the strokes that I can make with my size 1 brush. When I apply maximum
pressure on my brush, this is the thickest
line that I can make. This is the medium
brush stroke and then when I have a good grip over my brush and apply it very
light handedly, you'll get thinner stroke. Now by using the different
pressures in your brush, you can go ahead and add different volume to your
branches that you make. When you apply more
pressure you get thicker lines so that can
be the pickup branch. When you apply lesser
pressure and lift it off it's going to be your
thinner ranches, and that's how you can
vary the different sizes in your branches using
just one single brush. Now the last brush that
I'm going to show you, it's my size 0 round brush. When I apply maximum
pressure I get the tickets brush strokes
with my size 0 brush, then the medium pressure and then the lightest
pressure again. The light pressure,
I'm basically just trying to
touch my brush with the paper and then just slide it through with
a very light hand and I get the pen is true. Now again I'm just showing
you the taps that I can create with my size 0 brush, so for most of the foliage in
our class projects we'll be using our size 6 and
size 0 round brush. Here again I'm just
showing how you can make different
branches by applying different pressure and then
just stopping in your leaves. It's very random, there's no particular
order in which your footage is
supposed to look. You're just going to
create branches and tap around the branches
to create the leaves. This is going to be all
the brushstrokes that you can make with your
size 0 round brush. These are all the
quash techniques that you need to know for
painting our class projects, we have the different
blending with layering in our clouds and
the different brushstrokes. You can use these techniques in your own projects as well, so let us move on and paint
our first class project.
5. Project 1 - Pastel Moonlit Sky: Speed our first-class project and the colors that we're using, a Winsor blue, cadmium yellow, primary red, lamp black,
and titanium white. I've taped my paper on all four sides using
my masking tape, leaving extra space at
the top and bottom. I've taken the colors
on my palette, as I mentioned before. Now, the pictures that
were taking inspiration from are all going to be
in the resources section. This one is for the
first-class project. You can see it's a
beautiful pastel sky. We are going to change a few things here and
there and make it our own. This is going to be the
inspiration basically. Now, I'm going to make a quick little sketch of everything that I
see in the picture, especially for the silhouettes. Now, using my pencil
I'm lightly going to sketch some branches in trees just to give
myself a basic idea. It doesn't have to be exact. This just helps you with the placements of your
objects in the painting. Once we're done with that, we're going to go ahead and create the colors that
we need for this sky. I'm taking my
primary red and I've added a little bit of
the yellow to add, just a little bit and
I'm adding white. This is just to
give my pink color, a little bit of orangey
undertone to it. I'm just going to show you
the swatch of the color. There's more red, a tiny
bit of yellow and white Next for the blue, I've taken my
Windsor blue and I'm going to add a little
bit of red to it so that it slightly tones popular has like a
red undertone to it. Then I'm going to
mix white with it. I'm not creating a
very purple mix, but I just wanted to be
slightly towards the red side. You can do this with a
Prussian blue color as well. Don't forget to add
white to your mix. This is going to make
it nicely toned down. Next I'm going to show you
the middle color that I need. For the middle color,
I'm just going to mix the pink that I made before and the blue that we just made and I added
a little more red. When you do that it
becomes more purple. When you add white it becomes pastel purple or
like a lilac color, or a lavender color. It looks beautiful. These are the three colors that
we need for this sky. Now I'm just going to go ahead and start blending everything. I've just added
more white to the purple or the lilac
shade that I just made. I'm going to start with the angular blending that we learned in the technique lesson. You're going to be
blending this at an angle and you're going to transition between the colors. Once I lay down the purple, I'm again going to
clean my brush load it up with some pink, and then start with
the angular blending. Here, if you notice
very carefully, I'm not using the flat of my brush while
laying the colors. I'm using it at like a very
perpendicular to the paper. It's perpendicular to
the paper so I get penal strokes so that when
I merge these colors, they look nicely blended rather
than being blended flat. I want the pins strokes while
laying down the colors. While I'm trying to blend them, I can use the flats of my brush, see how I'm not holding it flat. I'm holding it, vertically to the paper so that it creates that little pins
strokes while blending. Now, while transitioning
from the pink to the blue, I actually didn't want to
go to the darker blue. I took the blue, added a bit of white to the mix. Then I'm going to again, at an angular blend, start laying down the colors. Don't worry about blending
the colors right away here. As gouache is a
medium that can be reversed and you
can fix everything. Don't worry about it,
just work on laying down the colors and once we
have all the colors in place and you're happy
with the placement of our colors we'll
go ahead and load our specific colors and start blending them to one another Once I'm happy with
all the colors that laid down on my paper, I'm going to go ahead
and start adding the same colors on the paper and trying to blend these
colors with one another. As you can see, the
pink doesn't look very well blended with the blue. So the idea is to just
blend everything together. I'm just going to put the colors in their
specific location. Wherever there was
a lilac color, I put the lilac
color, wherever there was pink I put pink. That way I'm just going
to blend and transition. We just need to create a
seamless blend between these colors so the sky looks nice and pretty
and put together. This process is actually
a little time-consuming. You just have to blend until you're really happy
with how your sky looks. There is no perfect
way to do it. My way that I've done it is
not the perfect way to do it. You just have to blend. You just have to keep
blending until you're happy with the sky and the
results can be different. It doesn't have to be exactly the same
way that I've done. You can go around, play around. Here Here idea was to help you understand with the
angular blending so the technique
that we learned, I wanted you to apply it
in the class project and see how you can use angular
blendings in your sky. You can use this
blendings not only for this specific class project, but a lot of your
future paintings as well where the sky seems to transition between
different colors. You can definitely use these techniques in
your projects as well. Just keep blending. Have fun until you're super happy with
how your sky looks. Mix-and-match and
just play around. One thing to keep
in mind when you're blending is to make sure that your brush remains fairly
wet during the process. What I mean by that,
suppose you're sliding the brush over the paint and you feel like your brush
is getting dry, you feel like your strokes
are not smooth enough, you just need to touch your
brush with tiny bit of water. Just a little bit.
When you do that, as you can see what
I just did here, I felt like my brush
was not having enough water to do
the blending process. I just dipped it in water
and made it nice and smooth so that the
colors can blend. When you do that, the paints gets reactivated
that you've already laid down and it makes the blending
process a lot easier. I think I've spent enough time trying to
blend the sky and I really love how the sky has transitioned between the colors. I'm just going to wait for
the paint to completely dry before I move on
to the next step. Here all my paper
is completely dry. The paint is all
nice and crispy dry. I'm going to go ahead
and add a tiny moon. This is going to be a full moon. What I'm doing is I've taken
my Size 0 brush over here. I'm going to go ahead and
load it up with some white. I've laid down the moon-shape, the full moon and
then clean my brush, add a little bit
of photo and then reactivated the paint
around the circle and try to blend it with
the water so that it creates that nice
glowing effect. You can always wet, clean your brush completely. Just use water to try and
spread the paint around so that it looks like it
has the glowing effect Once that layer has dried, you can load your brush, I'm using the same
size zero brush, with some thicker consistency
of my white paint. I'm going to go ahead
and add the moon. As you can see, it creates
that nice glowing effect. The only thing you have to
keep in mind is when you're trying to smudge the edges out, you don't want to
use a lot of water, you just need to use the water that is in
your brush already. You don't need a lot of water. Just make sure that you have good control over the
water on your brush. Once that is done, we will just tap in
a few little star. Load your brush with
some white paint, tap it against another brush and the stars will magically
fall for you on your paper. Make sure that you
don't have too loose of consistency here of
your gouache paints, neither too thick. Once the stars have dried, we're going to go ahead and
just mix a little bit of black paint because
now we are going to be doing our silhouette part. For this section I've switched my brush to a size
six round brush. I'm just going to create the
shape of the crown first. Having a larger size brush
makes the process a lot easy, you can fill in
your colors faster, you'll get thicker
strokes faster. But wherever there
are more details, I will suggest to switch
to a smaller brush. Now I'm switching to my size zero round brush and
we're just going to go ahead and add some branches and some trees and we're going
to do all those stuff. I'm just going to
create a branch here. Wherever I create
branches to add the foliage or the
silhouettes of the foliage, I'm just going to tap my brush. When you tap your brush, you create this total
foliage around the brush, which is these nice leaves clustered together
in the silhouettes. You're just going
to be repeating this process so many times until you are happy with your silhouettes
that are laid out. You can look at the reference
picture to understand the placement of your branches and the trees and all of that. Because when you look at them, it gives you a good idea. That is why we say
that we're taking inspiration from a photograph. It helps us understand the placement of these
objects and these things. Now, you don't have
to completely just copy down the picture
that you see, because you have the brush and you have the liberty
to change things that you don't like
about a picture or take in things that you
like about a picture. That's completely on you, how you want to do it. You can just look
at the picture, you'll follow along
or just create your own little foliage,
whatever you like. Change the shapes a little bit. It's all on you. I'm just going to leave
you here in this process. We are just tapping in our brush vertically to
create some foliage. Next, we will go ahead and add the branches on the
left and right. This is very similar
to the branches that I've taught in the
previous classes of mine. If you have watched
my previous classes, you'd know exactly how
to create the branch, but it's very simple. You're just going to
make these little lines and then tap the
foliage on your brush. Here what you need to have
good control over your brush. See how especially while
I'm tapping my brush, I hold it perpendicular
to the paper. When I do that, it creates
that nice foliage effect. Another tip that
you can use here, you can use a brush that bristles of your
brush are slightly spread. When that happens, your foliage honestly turns out
to be a lot better. This is where your spoilt
brushes come to action because you can use them to
create your foliage part. But if you don't
want to do that, you can definitely use
your smallest size brush. You can see how I'm creating
the branches and then just randomly tapping my brush. Bigger strokes
around the branches to depict the leaves around it. There's no particular order. You're just having fun
tapping, make some lines, then tap again, and
you're good to go. I'm just going to leave
you in the process. Enjoy. If you think
I'm going too fast, you can definitely reduce the speed and if you
think I'm going too slow, you can increase the speed. That's completely on you. But, if you want to
just follow along, you can just leave
me right here. Enjoy the music and
just follow and paint all the little foliage
silhouettes that we need. Now that I have my silhouettes
laid out properly, I'm going to switch my brush
to the size six round brush. Since my right side branches
did not look really full, I had thought I'd take
a moment and make it appear nice and full
of leaves and stuff. I'm just going to load my
brush with some black and then tap and bigger strokes and that will make it
appear a lot fuller. But if you don't
want to do that, you can completely
skip this step. All right, I'm just going to
add in the little strokes. You can also
definitely see around, lay back, look at your picture
and see what it's missing. If you want to add something, you want to add some
tinier details, go ahead and do that. Once you're happy with
how your painting looks, you're going to go
ahead and let it dry and then carefully
peel the tape off. You will see
beautiful thin edges. Once the tape comes off, your painting looks
even more beautiful. I absolutely love the
color that we have in the sky and that little moon makes everything so much better. Let's get a closer look to
your painting. All right. We have the beautiful moon, some stars and the silhouettes. We used a really good amount of techniques that
we learnt before. I hope you enjoyed
this and let's move on to our second
class project.
6. Project 2 - Birds in the Sky: Let us paint our
second class project. The colors that you need for this class is when winsor blue, cadmium yellow, primary red, lamp black and titanium white. I've taped on my paper on
all four sides and taken the colors out that I mentioned
before on my palette. We have the yellow, red, blue, black, and
white on the palette. Make sure that you
have more quantity of your white paint because
that's what we use more. This is the picture that we
are taking inspiration from. We're just going to slightly
understand the colors of the sky and do this in our
very own beautiful way. Take your brush and quickly
sketch an uneven ground. You don't have to
worry about making a straight line or anything. You just need to go ahead and sketch a few little
trees and all out. It's not very difficult. We have very little trees
and bushes in this picture. Just roughly sketch things out so that you
get a basic idea. Once we're happy
with the sketch, we're going to go ahead
and paint the sky. For the first color, I'm going to take my cadmium yellow and add a
bit of white to it, tone the color down slightly. Then I'm going to add
a bit of water to make the consistency nice and
smooth and blendable. I'm going to apply it in the left section this
way in the middle. All right. This is going to be the brightest part of my sky, and that is why it's yellow. Next, I'm adding a little
bit of red to my yellow mix. I'm just going to bring a
little bit of yellow down, add a bit of red and white to it to get this
nice pastel orange, peach color. All right. Here is the swatch
for the color. Once you mix this color, you're definitely going to be
having these colors if you mix them in the proper
proportions as I am. Its just tiny bit when I say just touch your
brush little bit. Then you're going to
apply from the left and right in the area that we
leave the yellow color first. Basically the idea for this yellow to be the
brightest color in the sky and then have this
orange color around it and then slowly transition
to the other colors. Now let's see what color
that I'm using as my scene. Each color that I used before, I'm adding more white to
make it more lighter. Using this color, I'm
going to apply it before, above the orange that
I just laid down. This is going to be
the color that will help us transition from the yellow to the orange
to the next color that's really out as we move further. For the next color, I'm
going to mix a purple color. I'm taking my red
and my winsor blue. You don't need to use winsor blue if you don't
have winsor blue, you can use your
Prussian blue as well. It's not a problem. Then I want to mix these two colors
together and add white. Because this one is a straight purple
color and I don't want it to be just too purple. I'm just going to add
white to it later on. Before that I thought maybe
I should lead down on pink. This is swatch for the pink, so it's just a red
mixed with a tiny very, very little amount
of blue and white. I'm just going to lay it
above the orange that I made before leaving that
little space in the middle. Because that will be the space where we'll add the
previous color, or I'll add white that'll
help us with the blending. Here again, this is similar
to our angular blending, but it's not very much
like an angular blending because it's not
very angular right. What I'm trying to say here is like it's not very straight, but it's not very angular. It's somewhere in the middle. Then see here in purple
shade that I made, a purple of bluish
shade that I made, I added white to
slightly tone it down. This will be the darkest
color for the sky. Here are the five
colors that we need. This color I'll start
applying from the top and slowly start
bringing it down, leaving that little space
in the middle where, again, you can either use white or the previous color
to blend everything. Since pink and blue together will not make a
really muddy color, we can use the pink itself
to blend it with the blue. As you can see, I'm
just using pink, the one that we used before to blend this sky in the blue. You're just going
to go ahead and blend all these
colors together now, like we did in our
previous class project while we were blending the sky. Once we have all the
colors laid out, it's time for us
to go ahead and do our blending bits and just have a nice seamless
blend with the sky. Now I'm going to
go ahead and add some more darker
colors to this sky. Here I created an orange
color because I wanted more orange around the yellow
that we just laid before, and I'm going to go
ahead and apply in an angular blending
way as you can see. We're just going to go ahead and add this color into the sky. Slowly try and blend it
with our previous color. While blending, remember you
want your brush to be wet, not too loaded with water, but just slightly wet too that the paint that you have in
the brush or the paints that are already on the
paper slightly get to reactivate it and then you
can do the blending process. Here you are just going
to go ahead and have fun, blend the colors together, and see what you like more. You like a particular
blending or a particular color
combination you like the previous color
combination, whatever. This is going to go ahead
and blend in the sky. Now I've switched to my size
six round brush because I thought I needed this brush to add some final
details in the sky. By that I mean, more pointed blends, basically. This is the same thing
that we did before. The only difference is that this does not have a
tiny bit of blue to it, it's just pure red and it is mixed with a
little bit of white. Just to create those
clouds in the sky. I switch to my size
six round brush, but then it wasn't really
working on that well, so I again switched back
to my size ten flat brush. Then I'm just going to go ahead and do the
blending process. As you can see I'm just
blending everything together. Adding the thinner strokes, adding the bigger strokes, and then using my flat brush and just blend the colors
together so that they look nice and
evenly blended out. Now, I'm really happy with how the blending of the sky looks. We're just going to add a little few little
details here and there, wherever you feel like it. Once you're happy with it, you're just going to let it dry and then we'll move
on to our next step. Here my paper is completely dry and the paint is all
dry and crisp dry. I'm going to go
ahead and mix black with little bit of
red and yellow. So basically creating a
very dark brown mix here. And you can use dark brown mixed with black for that
matter, if you want to. But I didn't want to use a
lot of different colors and just make colors with the colors that I
have in my palette. And that is why I just went
ahead with this brown color. So using your size six brush, I'm just going to
go ahead and make that uneven shape on the ground. And then next I'm
just going to mix the same black that I was using or the brown
that I was using. The brown with a little
bit of yellow to get a slightly lighter brown mix and then apply it on the area below the sun and then again switch to the darker
brown that I have. So they're all looking the
same on the paper honestly. But they'll have a little bit of a difference
when they dry out. So we're just going
to go ahead and then fill the entire space
with the black color, you can switch to your
flat brush as well, if you want to just make
the blending process easy and fill this space faster. Make sure that you have
a nice loose consistency as you can see on my palette, it's not too thick or too thin. It's just nice, beautiful consistency that will help us in having a flow with our brush so that
everything runs smoothly. So once the brown portion
has completely dried up, I'm going to switch to my size zero round brush and we're
going to be making the trees, the branches and the leaves. So you can have a look at your reference picture
just to understand the placement or you can just trace the sketch that you made. But here I'm just going to look at the reference picture and see how
everything is placed. And then go ahead
and add my own type of trees and branches
that I'm generally make. You can do the same
as well or you can just look and try and copy
the reference picture, but that is not something
that I really like to do. I just like to understand
the placements of things and then just
do it in my own way. So for those who are
going to be using the lighter brown mix
that we made above, as you can see. Using that color,
you can go ahead and add leaves and then in some places you can add darker brown mix that
we made as well. So here the process
is very repetitive. You're just going to go
ahead and make the trees and the branches and bushes and whatever that you see in
your reference picture. Just go ahead and
enjoy the process. We will just be
switching between different types of
branches and leaves. The first one that I laid out
was more just of branches, and then the other one
that we laid out is going to be the similar one that we did in our
previous class project. You're just tapping to create the foliage and then add
the branches and all that. That is how we're just
going to go ahead and add your silhouette of
the branches and trees. So you can look at the
reference picture again to understand the placements
and enjoy the process. If you think I'm going too fast, you can slow down the video to your pace and then
follow me along. You can completely do
that. That's on you. So just enjoy the process, add silhouettes, and let's go. Once we're happy
with our silhouette, we're going to go ahead and add a few little birds in the sky. For these birds you're
going to be using your size zero round brush and you're slightly
making an r shape, and then extending the wins out. So you see I make a slant line, then dip down and make an r, and then put the wings back out. So you can just add a couple of birds in the sky
because I felt like the sky looked really
empty and we should add something in the sky. And like the project name, these are the birds
in the sky so of course we're going
to be adding birds. And then once you're
done with that, you're going to load your
brush with some white and add a few little highlighted
portions on your birds. So you can do that
under the wings. Just a tiny little stroke
either on the left wing, on the right wing or
on all the wings. In some places I've added it on just one side of the wing and some of them are on both sides. Make sure that you're
getting really thin strokes. But in case you mess up, you can always cover
up your white with the black to fix things
that you don't like. Just go ahead and add the birds. And once you're done with that, you're just going to wait for
your painting to completely dry and then carefully peel the tape off. Peeling the tape definitely
has to be one of my favorite steps
because it makes your painting stand out even
more and it looks a lot more beautiful once it's not
surrounded by tape. And I'm so happy with the
way this has turned out. The blending in the sky
looks so beautiful, and the silhouettes
and the boards, they all make the painting
look so much pretty. Let us move on to our
third class project.
7. Project 3 - Sunset from the Mountains: Let us paint our third
class project and the colors that we're
using are Winsor blue, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black, and titanium white. I've tapped my paper
on all four sides, and I've taken the
colors mentioned previously on my palette, I've taken a larger
quantity of the white because we need more
white in our painting. This is the picture that we're
taking inspiration from. This is a beautiful
sunset silhouette of a mountain and there are these tiny lights of the people that are living in that area, and the sky just
looks so beautiful and I couldn't stop myself
from painting this. We're going to start off by
creating a simple sketch. Now, the sketch
that we're creating is of the mountain
at the distance, it's an irregular shape. You can look at the
reference picture to just roughly sketch
everything out, it doesn't have to look perfect. I'll just roughly
sketch the mountain. That is going to be
a silhouette part, so that is going to be black. Now, using my size 10 brush, we're going to start off
by painting the sky. For that, I'm going to start
off with the orange color. Now, I'm using cadmium orange, you can use any orange
that you have with you, and to that orange, I'm adding white, so I'm basically just toning down the vibrancy of the orange. I don't want the orange to
be in its most orange form, I just want it to be
slightly toned down, so I'm adding a bit of white. You can obviously vary this by the amount of white you add. More white means
more pastel orange, so I'm just leaving it to
a slightly pastel one, I don't want it to be to pastel. I'm just going to
load my brush with some water, mix the orange. Now, I don't want a really
thick consistency for this, I just want something
that's thin enough for it to slightly
go ahead and blend. I've laid down the orange
and then I've taken white and I'm just blending the pure white with my orange. Now, as I mix the
orange on the paper, since the orange
blends with the white, your white will
automatically turn into a slightly lighter
orange color as you can see. I'm just directly
cleaning my brush, loading my brush with white, and just I start
blending everything. We basically just want
to transition from a darker orange color
to a mid-orange color, to like a very very
light orange color which will eventually blend with
the blues of our sky, that's the basic idea. Now, I'm going to take
the Winsor blue that I have and I'm going to add a bit of red to it because I
don't want it to be blue, I want it to have a
purple undertone to it. Now, if you don't
have been blue, you can use your Prussian blue, you can use that blue
and add red to it in equal amounts and
then add white to it. Now, I thought that it
wasn't as read enough, so I added a little bit more
red for that undertone and this is the basic of
swatch off the color. I'm going to use this color
for the sky, which will, again, transition from the
darker blue color at the top, it'll come down to a
slightly lighter blue, or a blue-purple mix, a blue-red mixed to form a
slightly purplish color. Like I said, it's not
blue in its proper form, it has that red undertone to it. You can skip this process, this is how I wanted it to be, so I just went
ahead and did that. Then I added more red
to it to make it more purple and added white again. As we add the white
to the color, it just slightly
transitions from a very vibrant color to a little toned-down
version of itself. Now, I'm using
this lighter color and I'm going to blend it. Like I mentioned earlier, we are going to go from dark
blue to a lighter version, and then eventually, that white that will
blend with the orange. As we know, when the orange and the blue will
blend together, it'll create a muddy color
and we don't want that, this guy doesn't look muddy, and that is why when
we are blending with gouache or with any other
medium for that matter, when we're blending any colors that will form muddy colors, we'll just leave that
little whites-pace in the middle and then
work up and down simultaneously so that
we blend these colors while not creating any
muddy colors in the middle. You can see in my
painting I have a good amount of white
space in the center where I want the blending
to happen and now I'm just going to move
up from the orange, I'll just slightly try moving
up, and from the blue, I'll slightly try moving
downwards while trying to blend my orange and the blue
in that little white band. I'm going down with the blue, and now I'm going to go
up with my orange color. I hope this makes sense because this is just
a blending process, you can see what I'm doing. We just in simple words, want to blend our
blue and the orange without creating
any muddy colors. One tip that you can keep
in mind while blending with gouache is every
time that you feel that your brush feels dry, slightly wet your brush, and that will make
the blending process for the skies very easy, especially for blends
in the background. Just keep moving to and fro, keep wetting your brush
in the middle if you think it's getting too dry, and the blending will
happen seamlessly for you. Once I'm happy with the
basic blending of the sky, I'm going to go ahead and
add a few little details. For that, I'm loading my brush with some orange and
I'm going to hold my brush vertically
so that I can create really thin
strokes so that this depth with
some far-off clouds that are of darker
orange color in the sky. I'm going to go ahead
and clean my brush, load it up with some
water, not too much water, just a slight amount of water
so that I can just blend the colors and then get
rid of any sharp edges. The best thing about gouache
is that it's revertible, you can always get rid of
any harsh edges that you see by just loading your brush with some water and wetting it. Similarly, at the top, I felt it didn't
look dark enough, so I made a darker color
of the purple instead, I didn't add a lot
of white in this mix and I just added it at the
top and bought it down. Next, I'm going
to clean my brush and just blend it with the sky. Now, you see I created a really harsh edge here and
I want to get rid of that. I'll just wet my brush and then load my brush
with some water, clean brush with water
and just blend it. If you think it's coming down towards the orange and you know that you're going to mess up and create a muddy color
in the middle, you can just clean your brush, load it with some white
color and blend it. Now, I'm really happy with how the blend of my sky looks and I'm going to wait
for it to completely dry. Now, my paper is completely dry, so I'm just going to create
a mix of this color. It's in the same blue mix
puddle that I created. I've just added a bit of black to the color,
not too much, just a tiny bit so that we
get this nice gray shade, and I've added a little bit of white that it's not too black, so we want a slightly
grayish color. Then I'm going to use my brush, it's a smaller-sized flat brush, I think it's a
size 2 flat brush, and I'm going to hold
it in a way that I know I'm not creating
fat strokes with it, we want thin strokes, so keep in mind you have to have a little bit of control on your brush here and you're going to start creating the clouds. Now, you can look at
the reference picture to understand where
to place the clouds. I haven't completely followed
the reference picture, to be very honest with you, I just went ahead and added the clouds as to how I
felt I wanted to add it. Now, I've just added
a few of them. Now that I'm happy with it, I'm going to add more white
to this gray color mixture, and I'm going to go ahead
and add a few more smaller, tinier clouds in the sky. Now, to do that is again, to have good control
over your brush. Just hold your brush vertically and start
applying the clouds. I have switched to my
size 6 round brush, but you can go for a smaller
size brush if you think that your brush
does not give you a lot of control over
the thin strokes. I'm able to get really
nice strokes with the size 6 brush and that is why I just
went ahead with it. Basically, what we're
doing is we added a few of these tinier
clouds in the sky, and then using this
lighter gray color, I'm just going to go
ahead and add it at the bottom of the clouds
that I already laid down. This is basically going to be the highlights of your clouds; you are just going to apply
it at the bottom portion of these clouds and then
use the same color to create a few more
clouds in the sky, that is just the basic idea because when the light is
falling on your clouds, there's going to be
some parts that are darker and some parts
that are lighter, most of the time
it's the bottom one because the light is
falling from the bottom. That makes sense because
your sun is setting, so your clouds are above and
your sun is basically down. That is why the lighter
parts are below your clouds. We're just going ahead with that logic, and that's
what I've done, added these lighter gray color at the bottom
and then added a few more clouds in the
sky and I think we should be done with our cloud spot. I think it was very easy, I don't think it
was really tough to make and we'll
slowly progress to the tougher clouds in the
future upcoming class projects. Now, I'm just going to
show you how I'm going to blend the light gray and the gray that you
already laid down. For that, you need to just make sure that your brush
is not too wet, we don't want a
really wet brush, we just want to slightly
dip our brush in water, tap it on our paper, or anything that you're
using to dry your brush, and the water that's
already slightly inside the brush is the
water quantity that we need. You're basically
just going to touch the color and just smudge it, you're just smudging it, that's the basic logic. Smudge the colors, and
then go ahead and add a few little tinier clouds
if you think you need them. You're just going to
blend the lighter gray with the darker
gray so that it doesn't look very
odd and it's nicely slightly blended
with one another and you don't have those harsh edges
basically, that's the idea. You slightly blend your clouds and I think we're good to go. Once you are happy with
how the clouds look, we're going to go
ahead and switch to our size zero round brush, and load it up with
a bit of white. Now we're just going to make
a crescent moon in our sky. In the reference picture, the crescent moon
is really tiny, and that is why in my painting I have enlarged the size
of the crescent moon. You can make it even
tinier or even larger, whatever makes you feel happy. Go ahead and do that. Once you're done with that, we're going to
switch to our size six round brush
and we're going to make the silhouette
part of the painting. Load your brush with a
nice loose consistency of your black gouache
and go ahead and make this irregular shape and just follow the sketch
that you've created. If you can't see the exact sketch that
you've sketched out, you can go ahead and sketch
it again or just to wing it and see what the
reference picture looks like and then just go
ahead and make it. I would prefer sketching it
out again so that you don't mess up the process and
it's totally up to you. What do you want to do.
You can have a look at the reference picture and just to try to
follow it roughly, doesn't have to look exact. You can just go ahead and get the basic idea from
the reference picture. Once I was done adding the
shapes with my size six brush, I just thought it will be
a good idea to switch to my size 10 flat
brush to just fill the entire space faster
with the black color. Just load your brush
with some black and completely finish this. Then wait for it to
dry before we add those tiny little lights on our mountains of the people
who are residing there. Just finish this and wait for your layer to completely dry. That is one of the
biggest tricks to not re-wetting the paint that
you've already laid down. Gouache comes with
its pros and cons. Let's wait for it
to completely dry before we move on
to the next step. Once this layer has
completely dried up, we're going to go ahead
and add the light. For that, I'm going to take my white that is
already on the pallet. I'm going to re-wet it by adding a little bit of water and then add a tiny bit of
orange to it to make a nice light orange color. Now for the lights, I'm going to transition
from orange and then white. I just don't want all the
colors to look the same. I'll vary the shades that I put on and we also going to
be working in layers. What I mean by that is the
first dot that I create, I'll put the dots and then later on I'm just going to
slightly blend it out with my clean brush so that it looks like it's glowing
and it's not just there. You You skip this part. Do not make it go, you just
don't need to do anything. Just put the orange and
then on top of that put a smaller version of the dot in white so
look like it's glowing. You can create these lights however you like,
wherever you like. There's no particular
order that I'm following. You can look at the
reference picture as well to understand where you want to place them
that is totally on you. I'm just going to leave
you here in the process so that you can enjoy this on your own without me
telling you what to do. You're just going
to pick your brush, put dots in very simple words. That's all you have to do. Have fun and create the
lights on the mountains. Create a more
glowing light around some of the bigger lights
that I have in the mountains. I just went ahead with the really light wash
of the orange or the pastel orange color
and I just put it it around some of the lights to
create that glowing effect. Now it's time to do
the most fun part that is to add a few little
stars in my sky. For that, I'm going to go ahead, load my brush with
some white paint. Tap it against another brush and the stars will
automatically fall for you. This is your step. Go have fun. Go add as
many stars as you want. Then using my size
six round brush, I'm just going to tap in some bigger stars so that it just looks nice
and even. This is it. This is your final painting. Once everything dries up, you're going to go ahead
and carefully peel the tape and see those beautiful crisp edges
that you would have gotten. I absolutely love
getting crispy edges or straight edges and it
makes me really happy. Once everything is out, you can just go ahead and admire your beautiful painting
that you've created. I absolutely loved this
one for how calm it looks. I mean, I love everything
about this so let us go ahead and move on to our
fourth class project.
8. Project 4 - Under the Moon: [MUSIC] Let us paint our fourth class project and the colors that we're
using are Winsor blue, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black,
and titanium white. I've tipped on my paper
on all four sides and peaking the colors on my
palette so I have the white, yellow, red, blue,
and black altogether. The picture that we
are going to take inspiration from is this one. This is a beautiful sky. We will be switching
up the colors a little bit and the number
of clouds that we add into. We're just going to do our
own thing here as well. That is why I said this is the picture that we're
getting inspired from. The first thing that
we're going to do is make a basic sketch. That's the first step. It's always the first
step to just lay everything down on your paper so that you can just
understand what goes where. I'm just going to look at my reference picture and
roughly lay out what I see. It starts off with
an irregular ground and there are some
trees and some bushes. There's another tree on the
left side of which you can see the branches coming outside from the left
side of your paper. We are just going to look at
your reference picture and slightly sketch what you see. [MUSIC] Once I'm happy with how my sketch looks, I'm going to take my size 10 drawing brush
and start painting the sky. Make sure that your
brush is completely clean because I just loaded
it up with some blue. You need a clean
brush and I'm mixing the yellow and the orange
together along with some white. To get this nice light, yellow, orange pastel color. I'll just show you the
swatch of the color. You can mix your yellow
and your orange in equal amounts and see
what works for you. You're just going to mix them
perfectly and then start applying it at the bottom part of your sketch or your paper. Now, as you can see, I've started applying it from the bottom and I'm
loading my brush with some water and paint
each time I move upward so that the
blending process is easy. Now because I wanted
to transition from this color to the blue color that
I'll be adding on, I'm going to load my
brush with some white directly and start
applying it on the paper. This time what I
want to do is not to create an even
blend in the sky, I want it to be uneven, so I'm picking the white and just applying it
on the right side. You must have seen me do that. That is what I want
the blending to not be even but rather uneven. I've taken my Winsor
blue and added a little bit of white to it. Actually a lot of white
to get this color. If you don't have
Winsor blue, again, you can just use your Prussian blue color for this matter and just
blend everything out. I have just shown you the swatch of the yellow that I
forgot to show you before. I'm just swatching these
colors out for you so that you can see what
I'm working with here. Now, using this blue color, I'm going to start
from the top and then slowly bring it downwards. Now we know that these colors
will blend together to get a greenish muddy color in the sky and we
don't want that. You're going to be leaving
that white band in the middle where the blending
process will happen. I'm just slowly
moving it downwards each time loading more paint
and water on my brush. Make sure that your brush
doesn't look completely dry, otherwise it will create the dry brush strokes
and we don't want that. Now, I have cleaned my brush, loaded it up with some white, and I'm blending
the blue downwards. This is your main game. You'll need to create
the blending in the sky without getting
the muddy color. For that, you need to be careful when you're blending
yellow and the blue. One of the best ways to
blend these two colors, especially when
it comes to wash, is to use white. When you use white, you slightly tone
down your color, and then it blends into the yellow or the orange
or vise versa you can just blend the yellow to the blue without getting
that muddy color. Use white wherever
you feel you're a little bit confused on how
I'm going to blend them, so just use white and blend
them. It's going to happen. Now, I told you that we were not going for an even blend. As you can see, the bottom is
yellow and the right side, I've started
applying the yellow, but I thought it
looked too yellow, so I toned it out
with some white. Now the right side is going to be yellow
but at the same time I want the left to
be slightly blue. You'll see me bring the front left and
making these strokes and I'm stopping halfway so that the yellow and the blue
would match completely. But at the same time you
can see hints of yellow, but then also see hints of blue and that's how the
blending process happens. This takes a lot of time, you need to understand
your colors, you need to play around and the first thing
about gouache is you can only re-wet your
paint and fix your mistakes. But if you think
you don't like it, then you add white or
you add a darker color, whatever feels right to you in the moment and you can
always blend and fix it. Now I think the blending
slightly looks okay, it's getting there
though colors are not mixed together to
create anything unwanted. All the colors look
perfectly in place. I'm just going to go ahead and blend it a little bit more. Like I said, make sure
that your brush is on this slightly wetter side
when you're blending. That makes your blending
process really easy. It also makes sure that
you're not creating any very peak consistencies or loading up your brush
with a lot of water, or a lot of paint, and it's not peak sweep. The consistency is
literally the main part. Now, I thought that the
top looked too light, so I just went ahead and added a darker version of
the blue that I used. This time I didn't add a
lot of white to the mix. It's just probably like the darker version and
then I'm just going to bring it down and
blend it with the sky. I think I'm really happy
with how the sky looks. Once the paper has
completely dried, make sure when I say these
words completely dry you noted down because we want
it to be really dry. Now I've made this gray color, it's a mix of your black, white basic, but the tiny
bit of blue undertone to it. The same blue that
you were using, we just add a tiny bit of it
to create this gray color. You can see the swatch
here to see how it looks. This is going to
be the color that you'll be using for your sky. Now I'm going to go
ahead and make this with my size 6 round brush. You can look at the
reference picture again. But here I'm just
going to wing it. I'm just adding as many clouds, I thought I wanted
in my painting. I'm just going to go ahead and start making these strokes, so some of them you make longer, some of them you make shorter, some of them you make uneven and you're just
going to make the clouds. This is a step up from the clouds that you
made before because they are a little
bit difficult to make because there are so
many of them that we make. But the process
remains the same. Load your brush
with some paint and start making these tiny clouds. Now at the horizon, since these clouds are
really far away from you, you will see them in
really smaller sizes. But the clouds that
would make ahead in the class project
will be slightly bigger because they're
closer to you. These clouds are tiny,
make them uneven, don't make them all
of the same size, and just have fun with it. Do not overthink the process. Do not think that
I want my clouds to look perfect or I want
them to look a certain way. Because this whole
process is to have fun. Any clouds you add, even if you look at
the reference you would always end up adding your own touch to it. That
is what happened with me. I ended up adding my own
touch to these clouds. Now once I was happy with a few little clouds
that I added, I am going to add some more. I'm just going to go ahead
and add some more clouds. Before I do that, I created a lighter version of the gray color so I added
more white to the mix. This is going to be
the highlighted part. As we discussed before, I'm going to use this color
and apply the bottom of the clouds just to show that the cloud has some
highlighted portions. I'm going to go ahead
and use this color, create some more clouds using the same color to
depict some clouds, since they're not very dense, light as it's falling
directly on it and it's just reflecting all the
light that falls on it. That is why it's really nice
and it's really highlighted. You're just going to go ahead
and add it at the bottom. [MUSIC] Now using the same gray color, I've added more clouds, that are going to come
from the right side, and then they're going to appear bigger when they're coming
from the right side, but when they transition
towards the left, they are going to
appear smaller. The process remains the same, you're just tapping in the
paint to create the clouds. Just here the thing is that
you are going to slightly try to blend these clouds together because they are one
cluster of clouds, all coming in from the
right side together before disposing
on the left side, so that's one thing
to keep in mind. Now I'm just going
to go ahead add a little lighter tone
of the gray again. I'm making a gray color, and just start to mix
a bunch of colors together and add in black. This, I do want to have
to create an undertone, I wanted it to have slightly
yellow and blue undertone, just mix them together
and then added a bit of black to create a gray. Now I've created a very nice light gray color
and I'm going to use this gray color again to create some
highlights on my clouds. Here I've used three
different colors to create highlights, so you have a really
dark gray color, and then you have a
medium gray color, and then you have the lightest
gray shade that I'm using. I'm just using this
gray color again to slightly put it at the
bottom of these clouds. Again, do not overthink the
perfection of these clouds. It is going to go and have fun, because when you lay
everything together the painting just
turns out beautiful, so don't overthink it. Use the smallest size
brush if you have to, if your size 6 brush does not give you a
really thin strokes. You can use any
brush that you have, and just slowly start just
applying it at the bottom, and if you think it
looks really harsh, the edges look really harsh, then slightly add
water and blend it. Now using the same color, I'm going to add the
highlighted parts on the clouds at the top. I'm just going to show
you the swatch of the lighter gray
version of my clouds. As you can see, it's
really light in color. Using this color, I'm going to go ahead and
add the highlighted parts, so make sure that it's falling at the bottom of these clouds. I'm just stopping in
the highlighted portion and I'm going to
slightly blend it so that it looks as one color. I'm just randomly tapping it, I'm not overthinking
the process here, I'm just having fun, just going ahead and doing what feels right in the moment. Using this light gray color, you're going to add some
highlights on your cloud. Because I felt like the clouds
look drill on the random, didn't have any edges
that were blended. I went ahead and just
wet my brush with water, clean my brush before
and with just water, I'm just going to slightly blend the clouds
with one another. Here my brush, it's
completely clean. This just a little bit of water in it and I'm
just blending it. Now here, what is happening is that the blue that was at the
bottom is getting revert. Whatever I feel like I
need to add more blue, I'm just going to go ahead and
add the blue and blend it. But if you don't want to do
that, that's completely fine. You can go ahead and just blend slightly
touching and blend. Now your clouds are going to obviously look
different from mine. If you don't want
to do this step, you can completely
skip this step. Otherwise, you can just
slightly blend it to have a few little blue undertones or the contrast to your clouds, so you just going to wet
the paint a little bit. If it looks odd, don't worry, we'll just add in some few
little branches and leaves and everything just
will get sorted out. Just lean your clouds and see what works for
you in the moment. Now, once I'm done with
blending the clouds, I've just gone ahead and
added a little bit of gray again to create the
highlighted portion. This little portion
took a lot of time, this cloud took a lot
of time to create. But don't worry, you will just going to look at your cloud and think what it's missing. If you think it's missing
some dark undertones, then you add the dark
undertones for your clouds. If you think it's
missing some highlights, then you add some highlights. If you think it's missing just some tiny little
clouds coming off of it, you create those, just about like stopping, lean back and admiring and looking at your painting
and seeing what misses. If you think that, "I don't
really like how this looks in the moment and I
think I should restart." Just think about it and see if you can fix what you're doing. The next time, obviously, I
want to learn something new from this and you'll
learn what not to do, and I can totally
understand that this process is a little
bit difficult for you. But don't worry,
you've got this, you just need to hang in there, I promise you your paint
again is going to look beautiful when we add the
silhouettes of the trees. Now, using my size 0 brush, I thought of adding a tiny little crescent moon at the top, in that little space, just going to go ahead
and load it with some white and add a
tiny crescent moon. [MUSIC] Paper completely dries out. I'm going to use my
Size 2 liner brush and I'm going to go ahead
and add the silhouette. Now if you can't see your
sketch, don't worry. You can always go back, sketch it again or just wing it, or look at your
reference picture and see how everything looks. This one starts off
with an uneven surface, so you have some grass and you have some uneven ground portion. For that, you need a
brush that will give you thinner strokes and that is why I'm using
my Size 2 brush. You can use any
brush that you have. That's completely up to you. The whole processes here
is very reputative. You're just going to look at your reference picture
and create what you see. You can add in your own touches. While you want to add in
a different type of tree, you can go ahead and add
a different type of tree. It's totally up to you. If
you want to skip some trees, you can skip some trees. The whole process here is
to create the silhouettes. You're going to
create some branches, some bushes, some
leaves and that is it. You can follow me along. I'm going to not bother
you while you're going to this meditative process
of creating the silhouette. The process is very simple. Have a good control
over your brush. Don't try to rush this. Be slow. Take your
own sweet time. You don't have to rush finishing it and just go ahead and
create the silhouettes. [MUSIC] For the branches and the leaves that are coming out
from the left side, you will need to have two
brushes on hand with you. One which will give
you thinner strokes, and the other one which will
give you thicker strokes. Now, this one that I'm
creating of course, does not have a lot
of bigger leaves or more volume to your
leaves basically, so you can use your
Size 2 brush but when in the future we'll be making the one on the left side, I will use my Size 6 brush to tap in the volume
in the sleeves. You can always transition, that's completely up to you. We'll be creating few
branches from the right, few from the left and few
from the top right corner. You're just going
to go ahead and again, enjoy the process. It's very simple. You
can always slow down. If you think that
I'm going too fast, you have the option of slowing down the
videos on Skillshare. If you think I'm going too fast, you can slow it down, follow me along,
whatever works for you and if you think
I'm going too slow, then you can obviously
speed my video up as well, but here we're just
adding the silhouettes of the branches on the three
sides as I mentioned before. [MUSIC] Once I'm happy with
how everything looks, you can go ahead and check
if certain parts require any more details or if you
want to add any details, skip anything, you can just have a look and once you're
happy with everything, peel the tape off carefully and you'll have a beautiful
little painting with you. This looks so nice and
once it's all together, it's just looks so beautiful. Now, let us move on to our
fifth class project. [MUSIC]
9. Project 5 - The Tall Tree: Let us paint our
fifth class project. The colors that we're using are Winsor blue, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black, and titanium white. I have taped down my paper on all four sides using
my masking tape, and I've taken the colors that I mentioned previously
on my palette. We have the white,
yellow, orange, red, blue, and black
on my palette. The picture that we're taking inspiration from is this one. As you can see, it's a beautiful tree with some beautiful sunset in the background and a
few little clouds. This is going to be
the picture that we're taking inspiration from. Obviously we'll change a
few things here and there, but you'll get the basic
idea from this picture. Now, take a pencil
and slowly just roughly sketch whatever
you see in the picture. You have the uneven ground with some far off trees
in the background. Then we have one tree
which is really tall, standing really tall
in the foregrounds, you're just going to
roughly sketch the tree. You don't have to make
it look perfect just to get a rough idea of
what goes where. Once we're done with that, we can start by painting
the background. For the background, I need
to mix a bunch of colors. The first one that
I'm going to show you is this yellow colors. I have taken cadmium yellow and cadmium orange mixed together along with
that about it, a little bit of white. This just tone down the
vibrancy of the color. I'm just going to start
applying it at the bottom, right below I have this color. Here, we will be doing
a street blending, like a normal blending, we're not doing the
angular blending. We'll just be straightaway transitioning
between the colors. Now once I've laid out my
yellow color at the bottom, I'm going to make a nice
little peach color again. For that, I'm mixing
my primary red and cadmium orange together and I'm adding white to the mix. When I add white to the mix, it becomes a nice tone
down based style color. Using this color,
I'm going to apply it right above the yellow
that I've already applied. Then I'm going to blend it. To make the blending
process easy, don't forget to add water. Your consistency of the
paint has to be slightly loose on the loser's side so
that it's easier to blend. For the blue, I'm
taking my Winsor blue. If you don't have this blue, you can use your
Prussian blue as well. I'm just going to
quickly show you the swatches of the colors. Here we have the blue
that we will be using. Next is the yellow that
we used at the bottom. Next, I want to just swatch
and show you the colors for the base till orange or pink whatever you want to
call it that color. Here are the three
colors that I've used. Now, we're going to take
our blue paint and apply it at the top and then we'll slowly start bringing it down. Make sure that you have
a nice tone down blue, not just the blue directly
from the tube because we want it to not be too vibrant. Using this blue, I'm
going to start bringing applied at the top
and then start bringing it and
blending it downwards. You know the drill, we want to blend the pink
and the blue together. For that, we can use
pink directly to blend as they will not form
any extreme muddy colors. But if you want, you can use white to
blend here as well. I just loaded my brush with some white because I wanted
the blue transition to be from dark blue to the light-blue and then
blend it with pink. That is why if you want to
do something like that, you can always just use white. This will make the
blending process or the transition of the
color really smooth. You'll see the
color transitioning from the lightest color of, let's say blue here to a medium blue and then
to a darker blue. Using the white, you'll be blending the pink and
the blue together. The main thing that we want to focus
on here is creating a smooth transition between the yellow, pink, and the blues. Once you've laid out
the basic colors, if you want to add more paints in a particular area
where you think it looks a little bit lighter as compared to what you
thought and wanted to do, you can just go ahead and mix the same color and start
applying it again. Then eventually you have to
keep blending in the sky until you are happy with
how your sky looks. If it is similar to the idea of the sky that you had in mind, you just have to blend. Each time you blend,
don't forget to have a good consistency of
paint at the same time. Don't forget to load your
brush with a tiny bit of water each time so that it
easily blends everything. Now, I just want to show you
another color that I made, which is basically your Winsor blue mixed with a
little bit of red. I thought that I need to have a little more darker colors
for the sky at the top. I just applied it at the top
and then I'm slowly going to start bringing it down just like how we did
before with the white. Slowly brush with some white and then slowly
bring it down. I just thought and
felt that the blue was little lighter from
what I had in mind. We're just going to, this
is what it is about. You keep blending, you keep mixing your colors
until you're completely happy with how the
sky looks and you are just going to play
around with the sky. There is no perfect
way to do it. I am just here to
tell you the steps that are involved or the
techniques that you can use. But you can definitely just
blend it out in ways that you want and you think are perfect for what you
would like to do. Just go down, keep blending in this to
and for motion with your brush until you are happy
with how your sky looks. Once I'm happy with
the blend in my sky, I'm going to let my
paper completely dry before I move on to
adding the clouds in the sky. Here, I think the
sky looks beautiful. I'm just going to
wait for the paper to dry and then we'll be
adding the clouds. Now the paper here is dried out. The paper layer has dried. Now I've made this gray color, which is just mixed off
a little bit of blue, a little bit of black and white. I've gotten this nice
light gray color. Then what do you
want to do is take your size six round brush. Here you need to make
sure that you're using a thicker consistency of paint. It's not too loose. When you are loading your
brush with the paint, make sure that you are getting rid of any excess paint
that is on your brush, so you just twist it
out and get rid of excess paint and start
tapping on the clouds. Here you can look at your reference picture
to see where you want to leave the clouds or
just get an idea of where the clouds are in the sky. You can just add in
a few extra clouds of your own bushes. Well, so here you
can see I'm just tapping my brush and
moving it around. Since my paint consistency
is really thick, it will create a little dry
brush technique here as well, like we learned before, your brush is with a thick consistency of
paint and it's dry, so it just creates
that uneven edge. That is exactly what
we want for our cloud. You don't want it to be
just standing there. I'm just going to
go ahead and add a few little clouds
with this gray color. Then we'll add the
highlights to our clouds, just add as many clouds
that you'd like. Look at the reference picture, just go ahead and do what you
would like for the clouds. Once I'm done with adding these
clouds in the sky, I'm going to go ahead and create a lighter gray mix for which I'm using the same gray
color and adding a little bit more
white to the mix. So you get a lighter version of the same gray that we just used. Each time you add
white, it gets lighter. That's the basic idea. Here you can see how
light the gray is and this gray is
the one that I'm going to use for
adding the highlights. Also one thing you can
see on my palette, the consistency is quite
thicker as compared to the ones that we use
for blending the sky. That is by when we learned before we need to move a layer, the base layer has to
be a lot lighter or thinner as compared to the other layers that
you laid on top. Just go ahead, load your brush with this gray color and start tapping the highlights for the clouds right
under the clouds. As you can see what
I'm doing here, go ahead and add a few little tiny clouds around the shape that you've
already laid down. That gives your clouds
a bit of deviations. Once you're done adding the highlights to
the main clouds, you are just going
to go ahead and add the tinnier clouds with the light gray color
as I told you before. For this light gray color, I'll tell you the idea why
we're using light gray color. These light gray colored
clouds let's say, for example, are the clouds that
are smaller in size as compared to the ones with more entity of the bigger
ones, if you've played before. When the light is falling on it or the sun rays
are falling on it, it's highlighting
the whole cloud. In very simple terms, the whole cloud is highlighted
and that is why it's light gray with maybe tiny bits
of shadows that we'll add. But as compared to
the bigger clouds, since they are more in volume, they have more shadows
because they have more shape. That's the basic idea
that we are going with. Even with the lighter gray colored clouds
that I've added, I went ahead and just added
slight lines above it to depict the shadows
for the clouds. Just very tiny, small ones. Once you're done with that, you're going to go ahead
and clean your brush. It should be free from any
paint that we've used before. Load it with some
water, clean water, and then just wipe any
excess paint on the brush. We don't want the
brush to be too wet, otherwise it will just blend everything together and
we don't want that. We just need it to be slightly wet and we're going
to go ahead and rivet area where the highlights
are and try to slightly blend it with the darker grays. If you think it gets to blended, you can just go ahead and add the highlights again and
slightly try and blend it. Just doing this a
couple of times. It takes a bit of practice to get the clouds put
in place properly. But if you think that
riveting and reactivating your paint is going to be a little bit difficult
process for you, you can just skip that process it doesn't
have to be done. It's completely okay
to skip this step. But I just like having my clouds flow seamlessly
and they should look like one entity and fluffy and nicely
blended together. I just go ahead and rivet the highlights and
blend it all together. Once the sky is completely dry, we're going to go ahead
and add the silhouette. We're just going to follow the sketch of your
uneven ground. Here again, I'm using my
size six round brush. I'm creating that
irregular shape for my crown and I'm just going
to fill in that entire space. You can switch to
your flat brush to fill in that space as well. Then you're going to
just go ahead and follow the sketch of the tree
that you've already made. Now if you think that you
can't see the sketch, you can sketch it out again. To go ahead and follow that, I would suggest you sketch
it out because this tree is slightly more detailed as compared to the ones
we've done before. We want to get the shape right. You can sketch it out. Then just go ahead and follow that line and add your
details to your tree. Here, I'm going to switch
to my size 1 liner brush. Since we need smaller details
and smaller branches, the size 1 liner
brush work spread. You can [inaudible]
brush is wet. I'm just going to
go ahead and make this tree similar to the
reference picture tree. You can have a look at the
reference picture to get an idea of the whole thing and how you want your
branches to look. You don't have to exactly copy the exact
shape of the tree. You can just take an idea and try to do it in
your own sweet way. Add any few extra
branches that you like, remove a few branches
that you don't like. That is completely on you. Just go ahead and make a
really tall tree in the front. Once we're done making the
basic structure of the tree, we are going to go ahead and add a few little details
on the ground. You'll be seeing these photo
of trees and there are different trees and bushes and all that in the background. We're just going to make those. So for this I'm using my
size 1 liner brush and I'm going to go ahead and tap
in these little strokes. Just something that
is very similar to the reference picture and do vary them in different sizes. Don't make them all
in the same size. This way it gives
your ground a lot of variations and a lot of depth. Even though it's a silhouette, if you make
everything look same, it doesn't really
look that appealing. Do varying the sizes, make some palm trees, make some normal tabs to depict the irregular trees that
are in the background. Yeah, just go ahead
and add those. You can look at the
reference picture just to understand the placements and
all that and that'll be it. Once you're done with
that, we'll be going ahead and adding the
details to our trees. Once we're done with the ground, we're going to go ahead and
add the details to our trees. These are strokes here that I'm making for the
leaves on the tree. It's very simple to the one
that we've done before. I've switched to my
size 0 brush that I get a lot more detailed strokes
on the tiny strokes. Here one thing you
need to keep in mind is when you are
making these branches, you want to make
them protruding in the same direction as
the tree is flowing. If it's upwards or
if it's at an angle, just try to make sure that it's going in the same direction, on the opposite direction. This way the tree
looks more structured. You can look at the
reference picture again just to understand
how the tree looks. Of course, you can
change a few things. But if you want to get it right, just go ahead and understand the placements of the branches
and how they're made. The stroke here
again, like I said, is very similar to the
ones you've done before. The only difference is in the previous trees
silhouettes that we did, we were only showing
the branches coming from the left or
the right direction. Here we're making an entire
tree so just stop in this little dots
and then you can make the branches coming
out and tap in again. It's just about filling in
this space basically with this little just
some dots basically. But only on strokes
as random ones. You're just basically filling in the space to make your
tree appear fuller. Just go ahead and do that
on all the branches. I think that would be the
end of your painting. Once you're happy
with everything and it has completely dried, we are going ahead
and [inaudible] off, get those crispy edges. Be careful when
you're doing this. To be a little bit slow and careful because
you don't want to rip your painting apart
while peeling the tape. Once you're done with that, you'll have a
beautiful little quash painting with the tall
tree in the middle, which you've painted on
your own and it's going to look so beautiful and I'm
pretty sure about that. Let's move on to our
sixth class project.
10. Project 6 - Pastel Sunset: Let us paint our sixth class project and
the colors that we're using, are Prussian blue,
cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black, and titanium white. Tape down my paper on all four sides and
taking the colors on my palette as the ones
that I mentioned before, we have the white, yellow, orange, red, Prussian
blue, and black. We the colors on our palette and now this is the picture that we're taking inspiration from. You can see it's a
beautiful pastel sunset and we have some street clouds coming in from the left side. We are going to be
making all of that. The first thing,
like we've done in all our class projects is to go ahead and create
the basic sketch. I'm just going to take
my pencil and sketch out the silhouette
part of my paintings, so we have this uneven
line and we have this little tree or a
bush grows together, it's like one uniform bush
and then we have again, there's irregular shape
with some far off trees and branches
in the background, so it's just going to be
roughly sketching everything out to get a basic idea
of what goes where. Once we're done creating
the basic sketch, let us paint the sky. For the sky, the first
color that I'm using is going to be this
pastel yellow color. In the yellow color, I'm adding a little bit of my cadmium orange
as well to make it a little bit more towards
a yellow orange color. Then we are adding white to this because we want a
nice pastel sky, so here's a swatch of the color. I think it's such a
beautiful yellow color. Using this color,
we will be applying it at the bottom
part of our sky. Here make sure that you have a nice thin consistency of
your wash paint so that it's easier to blend like
we've learned before. If our base layer is a little bit panel when
we add the clouds, it doesn't reactivate
the beat so quickly, so make sure that you
have a nice thin layer of the gouache laid out for
the base for this sky. The next color
that I'm making is this nice pastel
orange, pink color. For that, I'm adding a little
bit of orange to my red, and then I'm adding white to
get this nice pastel color, and then I'm laying it
right above the yellow. Here's a swatch of the color. I think it's such a
nice, cute color. Don't worry about the
blending process right now because we'll be blending
all of this together. The blending process is
like the normal blending. We're not using any
angular blending here, so we will be transitioning straight from one
color to another. Next color that I'm using is this beautiful
pastel open color. For this, I'm mixing my Prussian blue and my
primary red together, and then I'm adding white to it to make it nice and pastel. Here's a swatch of the color. I think it's such a
pretty little color and this is going to be the
color that we lay on the top. I'm just going to pin
down the consistency and applied from the top and then start blending it
towards the bottom. Then try and blend all
the colors together, so you're just going to start
and you are not applying this color in this to and
fro motion, left and right. It's just a straight blending, so it's all about
wetting your brush, keeping your brush
wet enough to help them the blending and start slowly moving that
color downwards. Similarly, we can move
the orange upwards. Now that little white
band space that we have, that is going to be
the space where we use white to just blend these
two colors together. Since we had a little bit
of orange in our bank, it was a good idea to
blend it with white and at the same time I wanted my
transition from the orange, pink color to the
pastel purple color to be in a nice and smooth way. I've just used white in that little whitespace to blend these two colors together. You can always lay colors
one over the other. Lay the colors one
over the other, because it's quash, it's like what colors
it'll get reactivated and gives you a lot of time
with the blending process. Just go ahead in this
to and fro motion until you are happy with
the blend in your sky. I think we've done a pretty
good job with our blending, so we're just going to
leave it right here to completely dry before we go
ahead and add the clouds. Now that my paper is completely dry or the base layer
has completely dried up. I'm going to go ahead
and add the clouds. For the clouds, I'm using a
mix of black, Prussian blue, and lots of white and a tiny little bit
of that orange swatch that we already had
it can make it over that puddle or just basically
create a gray shade. Here's a swatch of the gray
color that I'm making. You notice how the
consistency of this paint is really
nice and thick and that is exactly what
we wanted to have a nice and thick consistency
for adding the cloud. I'm just going to use
my size six-round brush and I'm going to go ahead
and start adding the clouds. You can look at the clouds in the reference picture to
understand the placement. You have these clouds coming
from the left side that are moving towards the
right side and as they move towards the right
side of the paper, you'll see that the size
is clouds are getting smaller so that is exactly
what we are going to do. We are going to have
bigger size clouds towards the left side and ask they transition towards the right
or move towards the right, you will be making
smaller strokes. Here you can see I'm
tapping my brush to create voluminous cloud bases, in the left and
as we transition, I'm using thinner strokes and smaller strokes to
make them appear smaller as they are moving further away
from the observer. Tap in a few little tiny clouds around the other clouds actively laid down the bigger ones. Use that tiny, tiny
little strokes as well that will depict
the clouds that are really, really far away
from the observer. Similarly from the right side, you're going to have a bunch
of clouds coming in and that is again moving and as we get closer
towards the left, it starts to appear
slightly smaller. But at the same time, the
right one is more voluminous, more closer to the
observer to just go into transition and
play with the clouds. Again, you can have a look at the reference picture to
understand the placements of your clouds and don't stress
over making it look perfect. Again, you just have to
have fun in the process. Step in clouds, you want to add some clouds that are not there
in the reference picture, can go ahead and do that. This is your painting and you can make it look
however you want. Once I'm done adding the
first layer for my clouds, I'm going to go ahead and
add the second layer. For that, I'm going
to mix a little bit of yellow and a
little bit of red to the same gray mix
that we already have and this is going to be the mid highlights
for the clouds. I'm just going to show you a
quick swatch of the color, so here is the
color, it looks like a little bit towards
the brown side. But don't worry, this
is your mid highlights and this is what it's
going to look like. Then using my size
six-round brush, we just going to go ahead
and tap at right under the first head of
the clouds that you've already laid down. Just go ahead and apply it under the main layer of
the clouds that you have, so this is going to
reflect the sunlight. That is why it's highlighted
and that is why it is probably at the
bottom of your plant. Once I'm done adding the second
layer for the clouds, we're going to add
the main highlights. This one is a lighter version of the previous brownish
gray that we used. I've just added a
lot more white to that mix and this is going
to be the main highlights. Similar to the previous step, we are going to apply it right under the clouds that
you've already laid. Here you can see me tap and leaving that little
bit of space so that you're able to see the previous color that
you've laid down as well, so you're going to go ahead
and dab in the highlights. You can also go ahead
and really the way you tap it and what I mean by that
is shouldn't be all under. You can sometimes go into circular motion as
I am going as well. This will give it more like a three-dimensional view when we slightly blend
them all together. Just go ahead and tap in the
highlights of the clouds. Don't forget to add
some of the clouds in the sky that are of this
light gray color to depict the tinier
clouds that will completely be highlighted
because of the sun rays. Once we're done adding the
final layer for the clouds, we're going to go
ahead and blend these layers together to make the clouds appear more fluffy. For that, I'm going to
clean my brush completely and then load it with
a little bit of water, get rid of any excess water
you have on your brush. Then slightly blend
these layers together. Wherever you feel like you've blended it too much and you
can't see the highlights, you can just go ahead and add the highlights
simultaneously. So here we're trying
to get rid of any harsh edges with
our layers that we applied so that it
all looks blended together and the clouds
appear to be more fluffy. You're going to go
ahead and start blending the layers together
with your wet brush. I thought of adding a little
more highlights to my clouds by giving them a lot
more yellow appearance. For that, I've just taken the yellow that we laid earlier, and added a little
bit of gray to it. Using this color, I'm just
tapping it on the clouds that are coming
from the left side transitioning to the right. This shows that these
clouds appear to be more yellow in color as compared to the ones that
are on the extreme left. So the process is similar, you're just going
to apply the layers and then slightly blend in with the clouds that you've
already laid down. Then tap in some extra clouds, tinier ones in the sky to
give it more variations, either way, they
will be covered up with a little bit of
a silhouette ball, but that's completely okay. We're tapping on
some of the clouds. Not all of them have
to appear yellow, is just some of them that
have to appear yellow. So you can just go ahead
and add them and then slightly blend them with the clouds that you've
already laid ahead. Keep in mind that
when you're adding these yellow clouds in the sky, don't forget to blend
them with the gray that is already laid down. The idea is to make
your clouds look altogether fluffy and nice, give it a good appearance. That is why blending these
colors together will give them a more fluffy look and will all look
very pretty together. So don't forget to blend them slightly when you are
done adding this layer. Once your sky is completely dry, we're going to go ahead and
paint the silhouette part. For that, I'm using my size six round brush and I'm loading it up with
some black paint. I've also added a good
amount of water to make my black paint
really nice and fluid. And also added a tiny bit of
white and a little bit of yellow as well in the mix so that it's not
just pure black. Using my size six round brush, I'm going to start
painting the silhouette. Now if you can't see the sketch that you've
already done before, which most of the
times get covered up because of the opacity
of your gouache. So I will suggest
that you sketch it out again and then
follow the sketch. But if you don't
want to do that, you can just go ahead and sketch what you see in
your reference picture. I'm just going to make another mix which is off
the black paint that is already there and a lot more yellow and a tiny bit of red. So I need a brown
color in the mix. So I'm mixing a little bit of yellow and a little bit
of red together and applying it on the
right side of the bush along with the black paint
that is already there. We don't want it to be
really black as it is. I want it to have a little
bit of transition between the colors and give it a
little bit of highlights, even though it's a silhouette, I want it to have a
little bit of highlight. That's why I'm transitioning
between these dark colors. I'm applying that brown color
towards the side side of the bush and the little
top which shows that a little bit of light is still falling on the silhouette tree. Just go ahead and finish the
entire section that way. You can just use this
black paint to finish the rest of the
uneven area and then just fill in the
entire space with a normal black color
that we've been using. Or the black, and the white, and the yellow mix that we made at the bottom,
you have that color. It is going to transition
and fill the entire area. Now the process is very similar to our previous class project, and this is because
I really want you guys to practice how you do simple paintings, which has a lot of
similar subjects but at the same time they
have a lot of variations. I'm going to use
this dark brown mix in whichever more red, and that is going to
be the color that I made for these far of trees, which you can see at the
highlighted trees and at the same time I'm adding a little more highlights to
that bush that I laid out. First, that tree
that has a lot of leaves clustered together so on that I'm adding that color, and then slightly adding the
darker mix to blend it out. I don't want it to look
really odd standing there so you can just
blend it out a little bit. Then using that brown mix, you're just going to go ahead
and tap in some bushes, tap in some branches, and leaves so the processes
is very repetitive here. You can look at the
reference picture to understand the
placements of things. Here I'm using my
size zero round brush because I need a lot
of finer details. The size zero round brush works best for my finer details. Here I've just sketched
out the branches, and then on top of that
I'm tapping in the leaves. You can go ahead and
do this process, it's very repetitive
you can follow me along and let's get done
with this painting together. At the top, we need to have a lot more longer
branches because this is a tree that is transitioning
and coming more towards the right
from the left side. For this I'm switching
from my size zero brush to my size six brush, and then I'm going to make this branch coming
from the left. Just transition between
the thicker branches and the thinner branches
and make a bunch of them. It's very similar to
the reference picture. Again, you can follow the reference picture and
see how the tree looks, and try to make it similar and add in your own little
touch a few branches that you'd like to add
that you know what to do you can remove
some of the branches, add in some extra
branches, that's on you, but just try and get
the basic shape. The idea is for a tree branch to come from the left
towards the right side. Don't forget to add some
smaller branches as well, along with thicker ones. Then you can switch to your
size zero round brush, and then start tapping
in those little leaves. Don't forget to switch between the lighter brown color and
the darker brown color. This way your tree just
does not look plain, but it has a lot of variations. Where you need to tap
in the lighter colors is more towards the right side. Wherever the tree is more
towards the right of the paper, you'll tap in the
lighter browns and also add a mix of the light
brown and the dark brown. I'm not really going to
show you exactly where the highlights are because
it's not that necessary here, we're just adding
different variations to our tree that's all. You're just going to add in some extra branches and
tap and the leaves. Very repetitive process so just enjoy and add the
leaves and branches. Once you're happy with how your painting looks altogether, you're going to
wait for it to dry and carefully peel the tip. Be careful again, you don't
want to rip your paper apart, so be very gentle and
slow with this one. Once you peel the tape, you'll have a beautiful
painting right in front of you. I think [inaudible] sunset
looks so beautiful. The colors of the sky
and the clouds and silhouette altogether makes
it look just amazing. Now let us move on to our
seventh class project.
11. Project 7 - Moody Grey Clouds: Let us paint our
seventh class project. The colors that we need are prussian blue, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primarily red, lamp black, and titanium white. I've tipped on my paper
on all four sides using my masking tape and taken
the colors on my palette. So we have the white,
orange, yellow, blue, red, and the black paint. The picture that we're taking inspiration from is this one. This is a beautiful
woody sunset. I love how the oranges blends with this pistel
blue in the sky, and then we have these
beautiful gray cloud. That is exactly what
we are going to make. Quickly, I'm going
to take my pencil and sketch the silhouette part. Now again, it does not
have to look perfect. You can just go ahead and make it similar to the
ones that you see. It is a rough sketch basically, and it does get covered
up when we paint with our quash
because it's opaque. Here we're just
getting a rough idea to understand the placements of the silhouette trees. Once we're happy
with the sketch, we're going to go ahead
and start painting. For that, I've taken
my cadmium yellow and to tone the color
down a little bit, I'm mixing it with
a bit of white so I get this nice
pastel orange color. We don't want to use a very
vibrant version of it, and that is why we
slightly tone it down. Using my flat brush, which is my size 10 flat brush, I'm going to start
applying it in the bottom. Here you can see I'm just
holding my brush vertically, perpendicular to the paper
and using it sideways so that I get these little pin
brush washes as well, and then I'm going to switch from the orange to the yellow. I'll be filling up
that little space that I have in the middle
with my yellow paint. I've taken my cadmium yellow, added white to it, and I'll be filling
up that space that I left between the orange
with the yellow. We're just going to be blending the yellow and the
orange together. Here again, make sure that
you see how I'm blending it. It is in this vertical
motion that I'm getting thinner strokes so that I get these little thin
blends in the sky. Just to blend the yellow
and the orange together, I use the flat
side of the brush. You're just going to go
ahead and add the colors, see what looks less,
what looks more. You just have to try and even it out is just trying to
blend the yellow and the orange together. I'm just going to
stop right here and then we're going to add
the blue to the sky. I've taken my Prussian blue, I'm adding a bit of red to it, and a tiny bit of white. I'm just going to mix
this color together to get this nice base
still type of blue, and I'm going to show you what the swatch looks like in a bit. I'm just going to
start applying it at the top and then start
blending it downwards. For blending, add
water to your brush, and that'll make the blending
process a lot easier. Don't forget to leave that as a wide band space in the
middle because we'll need white to blend the
orange and the blue together. Now, here you can see the using the angular blending
method that I taught you in the
technique part. You're just going to be
blending this at an angle. Then when we want to
bring the blue down, you're going to mix white and just try and
bring it down so there is a good transition from the lighter blue to the darker blue and
to that medium blue, and the lighter blue would eventually merge
with the orange. So there'll be a nice
even transition. Here, you're just going
to play around with the blending like
we've done before. It's just mixing,
re-wetting your brush, re-wetting the
paint, and trying to blend them all
together at an angle. You don't try and get a
nice and seamless blend between the colors. I went ahead and added
a mix of the yellow, orange, and white paint on
the blue part of the sky. Use your size six brush and
just apply it at an angle. Then what you want to do is slightly pick your flat brush, wet it a little bit and start
blending it in the sky. We just want to give our blue a little bit of more variations, you want to add
different colors. Here, the only thing
is that you're using a very light wash of fit, so the yellow is
not too vibrant. You have to make sure
that the yellow and the orange are not
so overpowering. Then, use your flat brush. You just blend it with the
blue so that it looks nice. There are no sharp
edges basically, so you're just slightly
going to blend it out. Here, you're just
playing at an angle, you're just adding the
colors at an angle and trying to make your sky
look as pretty as possible. Each time you feel
that you're having sharp edges in your sky
and you want to blend it, all you need to do
is clean your brush, slightly wet the brush, and then re-wet the
paint that you lead, and I'll just eventually
blend with this guy. Here's a quick swatch of
the blue that I used. I forgot to swatch it earlier, but this is the blue
that I've used. Next, I'm going to
create this gray color, which is a mix of
the prussian blue, white, a little bit of black. You get this nice gray color, and this is going to be
the color for the clouds. Once the base layer has
completely dried out, I'm going to go ahead
and add the clouds. For the clouds, I'm using
my size six round brush, as you can see, and I have use a really thick consistency
for the clouds. I'm going to start
from the bottom. I'm going to be making
smaller clouds at the bottom, and as I move upwards, I will be adding bigger clouds. Here, you can have a look at your reference picture to
understand the placements of the cloud so that
you get an idea of what size clouds
are where in the sky. Also makes sure that you are not aching or loading up your
brush with a lot of paint, but rather you have a nice thick layer of
paint on your brush so that you get this nice dry brush stroke for
the bigger clouds. As you can see, these
clouds that I'm making on the left side are the ones done with my
dry brush technique. So I just load my brush
and slightly blend it out and tap in these
irregular shapes that will eventually turn into
a fluffy cloud when I add the different layers to it. Don't forget to
add tinier clouds around the bigger clouds
that you lace as this will add a lot more volume to your clouds and they all just
look so pretty together. So do add tiny, tiny little clouds in
the sky when you're making bigger clouds. Once you are done adding the basic first
layer of the clouds, we're going to go ahead
and add the highlights. For the highlights I've
added more of white to the same gray mix and I'm going to swatch the
color out for you, so we have a nice
light gray color. Using this color, I'm going
to add the highlights. Like we have done before, we're just going to tap in the highlights or
the bottom areas of the clouds as sunset, the light falls on the
bottom part of the clouds. That is why that area
is highlighted more. You're just going to go ahead
and tap in your highlights. Here again, we're using the
dry brush stroke method, we want a thick consistency
of the gouache paint, not a thin one, and your brush needs to be dry, you shouldn't load your
brush with a lot of water. Keep these few
things in mind and just tap in the
highlights of the clouds, don't forget to add
some tiny clouds in the sky with this light
gray color as well. Once I've added the highlights, I'm just going to
go ahead and blend the highlights with the
base layer as well. For that I've cleaned my brush and it's just water
that's there in my brush. And using this water, I'll just reactivate the paint
and slightly blend it with the base layer so that our clouds look really
nice and fluffy. Once our layer has dried out, it's time for us to add
the silhouette part. Now, if you can't see the
sketch that you've made, you can go ahead and sketch
everything out first, which I suggest
so that you don't miss anything or
make any mistakes. But you can also just
go ahead and add those shapes of the
silhouette part as you see in the
reference picture, you can go ahead and have a look at the reference picture again. You're just going to
follow that step. Using my size six brush, I'm going to go ahead and tap in the strokes for the
irregular shapes of the different trees and different
branches that I see and just add the silhouette
using my size six brush. Whenever I need thinner strokes, I'll just go ahead and use
my size zero round brush. Here you can see I'm not
doing anything different, I'm just tapping
my brush creating these irregular taps of different sizes
clustered together, and when I fill in the space, it depicts the
silhouette of a tree. This is the basic step, you just need to tap, tap, tap and create the silhouette. For the area of the silhouette which is right under the yellow
portion of the sky, I'm going to go ahead and
create a dark brown mix, which is just adding a bit
of yellow and red to my black and I get this
dark mix of brown. Using this brown, I will be adding the silhouette
portion here and then I will transition from this dark brown to the black. You just eventually transition even though it's a silhouette, I just wanted to add a
bit of variations in the dark colors that I make so it all looks
really nice together. At the same time, the black
just doesn't overpower the painting and it just
doesn't look really odd. For that I added or decided
to add a bit of variations. You can skip this brown
part if you wish. You can just go ahead
and do the whole thing with just black, that is totally on you. We're just going to go ahead
and add the silhouette. Once I'm done adding the bushes and the
trees at the bottom, I'm going to go ahead and take some branches out from
the left and right side, so for that I've switch to
my size zero round brush, and just like how I taught you earlier and
what we've done in our previous class projects for the branches that come from
the right and left side, we're just going to
make branches and then tap in these leaves that will make our
branch look really full. You're just going to
make irregular shapes. There is no proper order
in which this is done. If you want to make
bigger branches, you can go ahead and switch to a size one liner brush or a size one brush
for that matter. It's all about looking at
what brush really works for you and what are the strokes
that you can get from the brushes that are
available with you. I will not force you into using one particular size
because the size that I use can be very different from the strokes that you
can get using your brush, so you'll just have
to go ahead and look around to the sizes
that work for you, preferably a smaller
size because you can get really nice thin
strokes with those. That's pretty much it. It does take a
little bit of time and practice to
understand the strokes, but I'm sure if you've taken previous classes you are pretty much familiar with how I make
these branches and leaves. We're just following
that same method. You're just going to
tap in and create irregular shapes and make them appear as branches and leaves. Just go ahead and enjoy
this whole process. Once I was happy with how the silhouette of
the branches look, I went ahead and added a few little birds in
the sky, not too many, just some birds flying and enjoying their life
in the background, enjoying the beautiful
sky and the sunset. Just go ahead and
add few tiny birds, and once everything dries out, you're just going
to carefully peel your tape and reveal
your beautiful painting. I am so happy with the blends in the sky honestly,
and the clouds, they have turned out perfect
and everything looks so put together and I can only imagine sitting and
enjoying the sunset view. Just a closer look at your
painting as you can see, the transition between the
brown and the black mix, our painting look
even better and I'm so happy with the
way it has turned out, let us move on to our
eighth class project.
12. Project 8 - Dramatic Clouds: Let us paint our eighth class project and the colors that we're
using are Prussian blue, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black,
and titanium white. I've taped on my paper on all four sides using
my masking tape. Here are all the
colors that I've mentioned before on my palette. I have yellow, orange, red, blue, white, and the
black on my palette. The picture that we're taking inspiration from, is this one. I love how dramatic the clouds
look in this photograph. The sky blends, look so
beautiful and I mean, I just cannot wait to
paint this with you'll. Let us create a
basic sketch first. Here we're just going to look at the reference picture and create those little dense of
the houses that you can see. These are just different
houses altogether, and it's just a
very simple shape. You just have to look at the reference picture
and sketch it out. It doesn't have to be
perfectly straight. You're just going
to do it freehand. You can see the pole. Here I am actually not
sketching it properly because I know it's going
to get covered up later on. I'm just going to create a very rough sketch to
understand what goes where, but not make it really perfect. I'm just going to create the rough sketch and
leave it right there. But if you want to
create a perfect sketch, you can go ahead with that. That's completely on you. Once I have my sketch ready, I'm just going to go ahead
and start painting the sky. For the first color. I'm going to mix a bit of yellow and white to tone it down. So I have a nice
pastel yellow color. This is going to
be my first color. I've added a bit of
orange to give it a nice yellow-orange
color, look. Here you can see the
swatch of my color. It's not really dark and
it's not really vibrant. It's really toned down
by a dull mix of color. Now, I'm just going to create
the other colors as well, which is the blue. I've taken my Prussian
blue and added a good amount of white
to it to tone it down and a tiny bit of red to it to give it a nice,
and red undertone. I'm not making a pure
purple color here. I'm just going to give it a little bit of a red undertone. Here you can see the swatch
off the blue that I'm making. Now using my size 10-flat brush, I'm just going to go ahead and start the blending process. Here it's going to be
a very straight blend. We're going to be blending
from this yellow color, this based yellow color and
transitioning to the blue. Make sure that your brush
is completely clean and free of all the blue
that you just mixed. Sometimes the blue stays behind and then we mix
it with the yellow. It turns green so
we don't want that. That is why you make sure
your brush is clean. Once you add the yellow, you will be adding white. We'll be blending
white in the sky. Yellow is not very vibrant
in a reference picture. I just went ahead
and added that. Now, l didn't make
it really vibrant. Now I'm just going to add the same yellow mix
and slightly blend it out in that flat vertical
thin stroke method. Then once you've done with that, you will be adding the blue on the top and then
transitioning it down. I'm still trying
to blend the white and slowly start mixing
it upwards here. Instead of bringing the blue
from the top to bottom, I decided to go ahead and just move from dark and
then come downwards. I mean, go upwards. Then once I had the middle color laid out, I thought I'd start with that hook color at the top and then start blending
it downwards. Here, as you can see, the consistency of my
paint is really loose, even if it's not
loose on my palette. It's quite loose on the paper. You need to do that because your base layer needs
to be quite thin as compared to the dramatic clouds that we will be
adding on the top. You don't need to add
a really thick layer for the base of your painting. Here you're just
going to be using the to and fro motion and try and blend this yellow
and transition this yellow, with the white color
so that there is a seamless blend and
it's not muddy or green. You're just going to
transition from the yellow. You'll have white in the sky and then you will have the blue. This is going to
take a bit of time. You'll have to just
move to and fro, keep blending adding
blue or adding white, whatever you think is necessary for your
blending process. Just enjoy this
therapeutic method, makes sure that your
brush is nice and wet. You have good amount of
water when you're blending. So that there's a seamless
plan and you're not creating any rough edges or getting into the dry brush
technique method. Your brush should be nicely
loaded and wet with water. I'm very happy with the
blend of the sky and my paper is completely dry. I'm just going to create the mix that I need
for the cloud. I'm using the same Prussian
blue mix that I used earlier. Here, I'm going to make it
look a lot more purple. I've added red to the same mix. I'm adding more red to
make it look purple. That's the color that
I'm going with for the basic layer, and do add a little
bit of white to it and see what type of purple you get. You need to keep mixing
around so that your color is not too light as compared
to your base layer. It needs to be really
nice and deep and dark. This is the little purple mix that I made. It's
not too purple. It still has a lot
of blue in it, but it does have that little red undertone
that you need for a purple. Using this color, as you can see the consistency of my paint is really thick. Using my size six brush, I'm going to create the
dry brushstroke method. You can see that every
time I look at my brush if I think I had excess
paint on my brush, I'm just going to go
ahead and tap it on the masking tape to get
rid of any extra paint. Using my dry brush method, I'm going to go ahead
and add the clouds. Now, here the shape of the
cloud is a lot more fluffy. The cloud is a lot more
closer to the observer, so these clouds are a
lot larger in shape. You can look at the reference
picture to understand the shape of the cloud
that you're adding, so it's a lot denser. It's a lot thicker
because it's closer. We will be using the dry brush
method to add the clouds. So just go ahead and add
these clouds in the shape of the picture or the shape of the
cloud that you see in the reference picture. You will have to repeat
this a couple of time. Make sure that your brush
is dry because that'll make a major difference in the
way your clouds turn out. Once I have my base
color laid out, it's time to add the highlights. For the highlights,
I have added orange, and red together mixed with
a little bit of white. Here's the color that I get. It's a lot more towards
the red side, obviously. You can add a bit of
the purple mix to it as well so that it gets a
little bit [inaudible]. Using this color, again, using the dry brush method, I will be adding it towards
the bottom of my clouds. As you can see, I'm adding
them at the bottom. You're just going
to go ahead and cover all your clouds
with this color. All the big fluffy
clouds that you have created to add more
depth in them, to add the glowing
clouds, the highlights. These are basically
your highlights. Because the sun has already set, your colors of the clouds
are a lot more dramatic, a lot more very deep. There are not just the lighter
version of themselves, but rather they are
reflecting setting sun. That is why you're adding
the red on the purple. Again, don't worry
about it looking really odd right now because once we
blend the layers together, it will turn out really pretty. Just go ahead and add this layer right below the clouds that
you've just laid out. Once we're done with
the second layer, we're going to go ahead and
wet our brush slightly, and try and blend the red
layer with the purple layer. As you can see, once I just add a little bit of water and
I'm trying to blend it. It just blends and
merges and smudges with the base layer so that it looks as one single
entity and it does not look like it's just
oddly on the layer. You want your layers to
be nice and blended. This is one of the easiest
ways to add clouds. I haven't really gone in the
proper depth of the clouds. This is the most easiest
way you can add it. It does take a couple
of times and a couple of practices that
you need to do, but you will definitely
be able to create beautiful clouds in your sky, looking at the
reference picture, which is still very
easy to follow. You're just going to
blend your layer here. That's what we're doing
before we go ahead and add the next layer or the most highlighted
layer for our clouds. Now, once the second
layer has dried, it's time to create another mix. In this one, I have my orange, and I'm using the same color for the highlights or the
second layer colors. I'm just mixing that and I'm
adding yellow to the mix. I'm just going to try and create a lighter version of the color that I've
already laid out. You can tone it down by
adding a lot of white to it. When we add white, you get a lighter version
of the same color, and here is the swatch of
the color that I made. There is a lot of hint of the
previous color in the mix, as you can see, but it's just a lot lighter
version of that color. Now, using my size
six brush again, I'm just going to go
ahead and tap them in the bottom of my clouds, right below the layer
that we already made. Make sure that you're not
just tapping on the red or on the dark color that we laid before because if you do that, then it doesn't make any sense because you won't be
able to see that layer. You're just going to be leaving some little spaces in
the middle so that you can see the red in
the sky as well. It does look a little bit odd because we haven't blended
our clouds properly. It's a whole process
hanging there, create the clouds at the bottom, and we'll then move on to
blending the layers together. We can use the
same colors to add some tiny bits of clouds
in the sky as well, so just use the same light
of color that you've added and just add a few little clouds
around the bigger ones. Once we're done with this, we're going to go
ahead and again, take a clean brush loaded with very little
amount of water. Just basically slightly touch the water surface
with your brush, and we are going to blend it with the layer that
we've already laid out. As you can see, it gets
a lot more fluffier. It blends together
and it looks like a single cloud and you can see the different highlights
to your clouds. I think it looks
really beautiful. It does look a little bit
odd because a little bit of the surface is wet as
compared to the other layers, and it doesn't look that great when the
paper is still wet. But once it dries, the clouds just
look so beautiful. We're just slightly
trying to blend the orange with the
second layer here, just like we did with our previous layer when
we leave this dark red, maroon, or like a red ocher color on
the top of the purple. We are just going to
blend the colors together so that our clouds look
really nice and fluffy. Once our paper is
completely dried up, we're going to go
ahead and sketch everything out for a
silhouette part again. Using my pencil, I'm going
to sketch the roof first, and then we'll be
making the power lines, but this time we'll be
a lot more careful and try and get in as many
details as possible. Now, again, this is your area. You can make them look
however you want. You can omit some of the lines that you
don't want to make, make some of the important ones, skip some of them
that's totally on you. You're going to be looking at the reference picture
here carefully to try and place the
wires in the right place. Here I'm just
basically sketching out whatever I see in
the reference picture. You will need to have
the reference picture on hand for this because we're actually sketching the elements
in their proper place. But if you don't
want to do that, you can just follow
along and see how I'm making the power
lines altogether, and then just follow me
along for the sketch. Once we're done with that, we're going to go ahead
and start painting. Here I'm just using my black paint and my
size 6 round brush. I'm just going to
fill in the space and follow the sketch
that I have created. Here I'm not really doing
anything that is on my own. I will just be using my
size 6 brush for creating the shapes of the
sketch that I've made. For the power lines,
I will be using my size 0 round brush to get
the nice and thin lines. You can just switch between these two sizes of your brush. The only thing to keep in mind here is that you need to have a really nice thin
even line or try and get as even as you can
with your lines here. That is the only thing. I'm just repeating
what the sketch is and what my reference
picture looks like. At the same time
I will be adding some details of trees and bushes in the area that is
above the roof and that is it. I'm just following
the sketch and doing what the silhouette part looks in the reference picture. I'm just going to
leave you here, let you be and
enjoy the process. It does take a
little bit of time, so take your own sweet
time with the process. Don't be in a hurry to
finish as you finish this. You've got really far, you've come this
far with clouds. So this is basically
the easy part. I know you've got
it hanging there and let's complete the
silhouette together. Once you're done with
the whole thing and the painting
completely dries up, you're going to go ahead and
peel your tape carefully. Every time the
tape really peels, I feel so happy because you get those straight
edges and your painting just pops out and everything
looks so well put together. Here's a closer look
of your painting. I think the dramatic
clouds are on point here. I love how they've
turned out and the power lines make
everything look better. Let us move on to our
ninth class project.
13. Project 9 - Power lines & Streetlight: Let us paint our 9th class project
and the colors that we're using
are: Prussian blue, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black,
and titanium white. I've taped on my paper
on all four sides using my masking tape and
taken the colors out on my palette and the picture
that we're taking inspiration from is this beautiful
street light. You can see the evening sunset and the beautiful clouds
in the background. This is going to be the picture that we'll try and recreate. The first thing that
we're going to do, as usual, is to create
our basic sketch. Take your pencil, look at
the reference picture, and roughly sketch
out what you see, especially for the
silhouette part. You're going to be creating those little shapes
that you see, the power lines that you see. You just going to
sketch it out roughly. Now over here, you don't have to make sure that you are getting a straight
line or whatever. It doesn't really matter
because this is going to get covered up when
you paint with brush. It's just to have a basic idea of the
elements in our painting. Once we're happy
with our sketch, it's time to create some of the colors that we
need for this guy. First, I'm taking
my cadmium orange, mixing it up with some
white to tone it down. Now you must have noticed that most of the colors that we use for the class base
color is very similar. The only difference
comes when we're using different combinations or in tonal value where we add more white or less
white to our paint. I've taken my cadmium
orange added white, and this is the
color that I get. It's a nice space, still orange. I'm going to clean my brush and the next thing
that I'm going to do is create a pastel
yellow color here. I've taken my cadmium yellow, mixed it up with white to
tone the vibrancy down, and here's a swatch of the
yellow that I will be using. Next, I'm going
to clean my brush and the next color that I'm making is this nice
pink, orange shade. For that, I'm taking
my primary red, mixing it up with some white, and adding a little
bit of orange to it. Here, I'm just going to make
sure that the quantity of red and orange that I use
are in equal amounts. Then add white to it to tone
the color down so you have a nice pastel pink-orange color so here's a swatch of the
color that I will be using. You would have just
gone ahead and created all the colors
in advance before I go ahead and start
painting the sky, it's just a good idea to
roughly have the colors that you'd need for the
painting on the palette. But you can just go ahead and
paint and then move along as you move further
in your painting. Here I have taken
my Prussian blue. I added a bit of black
to my blue and then added white so here's a swatch of the blue
that I'm using. Here the Prussian blue
is a little bit darker. It does have white. But the other tone
has a little bit of black because we're trying
to make an evening sky. Now, I've started by
applying the orange at the base and then moved
ahead and added yellow. Notice here again, I'm using
my sideway flat brush, which means I'm getting
thinner strokes and in between the
spaces that I have, I will be filling in
different colors. I went ahead and added orange. Then in a zigzag motion
added yellow and then in between the space of the yellow and the
white of the paper, I'm adding the pink-orange
color that I created. Now again here we're going to be transitioning
between the colors. This pink-orange sky will
slowly transition into the blue and the
darker evening color that we just created. You're just going to go ahead, add the colors, try and
blend them together. That is the basic step. You're just going to
blend the colors. Here you have to just follow a little bit of the
blending techniques that we've learned before. It's going to be a
straight blending, but at the same time we're
using the sides of a brush, which means we are
getting thinner strokes. That is how you add that little scattered
effect in your sky. Once you're done with that, you're going to clean
your brush and slowly add white to just understand the
white band that you need. Once you're done with that, you're going to clean
your brush again, load it up with the blue
color that you created, put it on top, and slowly
start blending it down. Each time you blend, don't
forget to add water to your brush so that the
blending process is easy. You're going to slowly
move the blue downwards. As you come closer
to the orange color, you are going to go ahead and stop there so that you
use white to blend. Here what I did, I added
the blue and mixed it with the little pink-orange
shade that I made made get this
slight muddy color. I wanted the transition
to have that bit of a grayish color
in the middle. That is why at the back. Then I used white to just blend those two
colors together. The orange blends with
that little gray, deep blue color, and then that transitions into
the darker blue color. Now over here you'll have to
play around with the colors, especially the blending part. It's going to take a bit of time to get all the
colors in place, and have that seamless
blend that we've done in all our paintings, so that's one thing
to keep in mind. Don't worry, your painting
is not going to turn out bad because you
added some gray tone. You just have to blend it
with the colors properly. Each time you think your
painting looks muddy, you can go ahead and add
a bit of white because that will make everything
look a lot more better, a lot more in proportion
and everything will just fix itself when you use white in case you've
messed up the blending. Go ahead, use the left and right motion and
create the blends in your sky until you
are happy with how the transitions between the
colors in your sky look. Once you're happy with
how the sky looks, you're just going
to leave it there. Try and not overwork
on the blending, and let it dry before we move
ahead to adding the clouds. For the clouds, I'm
going to be creating this deep purplish
grayish color. For that I'm mixing my
Prussian blue with red, adding a tiny bit
of black to it, and your white mix
of this little, tone down the vibrancy, and do that mix them also adding a little bit of
the orange color, just a tiny touch or a
hint of the orange color, and that will make you get
this purplish-greyish color. I'll just swatch it out
for you so that you can see the color that I'm
actually talking about. You're mixing the red and blue in equal proportions
and adding a bit of orange, a bit of black,
and lots of white. You're just going to go ahead and use this color
for the clouds. As you can see, this is the grayish purplish color
that I was talking about. It almost looks
black in the video, but it's a lot more towards
a gray purple shade. Using my size six-round brush, I'm going to be using the
dry brush techniques. I'm loading my brush, getting rid of any
excess water and I'll start tapping in the cloud. This time I'm just tapping irregular shapes coming from
the left and right side. Make sure that
your brush is dry. If you want to dry your brush, you can just rub it across your masking tapes
that you get rid of any excess water in your brush and start
tapping the clouds. You can look at the
reference picture here to understand the
placement of your clouds. I've just gone ahead and
dimly added it in the sky. Honestly, I just went
ahead and tried to fill the bottom part of
my sky with clouds. Using the dry brush
technique for the clouds works
really well when you want your clouds to
have this rough finish, and you can show that
some of the places, the clouds are more denser
and they're disposing into the sky with the tinier
clouds floating around. Dry brush technique works really well when you want
to create that effect. Here I've just used
that technique to my advantage to create these
beautiful clouds in the sky. Just go ahead and
tap in these clouds. Make sure that your brush is dry because if it's not dry enough, it will not create that effect
that I'm talking about, the dry brush effect. We want the clouds to look
nice and disposed in the sky. In case you are not
getting that effect, it has something to
do with the amount of water or the paint
that's in your brush, so make sure that you're using a thicker consistency
of the paint. As you can see in my ballot, the paint is really thick. At the same time, I don't have a lot of water in my brush. It's close to zero amount of water and that is
why I'm able to get these beautiful dry brush
strokes for the clouds. Once I'm done with
the first layer, I've created this gray color, which is actually the orange, it's in the orange
part so I've added a bit of black and
white to the mix, and I've gotten
that three-color, which is slightly on
the browner side. Using this color, I will be adding highlights to my clouds. Again, load your brush and use the dry brush
technique to tap in these highlights right under your clouds because it's a
sunset that we are going for. Just go ahead and
tap it in to create some tinier clouds with the same color around the ones that you've
already laid out. Once you're done adding the
highlights as the base, you're going to go ahead,
clean your brush and slightly blend this layer
with the layer that's already laid out to make your
clouds look more seamless and all put together instead of having draft edges on
top of one another. This way, your clouds
just appear to be a lot more fluffy and in line between the
different layers. Just go ahead and just
slightly blend it. You don't have to
completely blend the whole highlights together, you just need to
blend the edge that's in line with your
previous layers, especially the top part
of the highlights. Divide it you will
slightly try and blend it with the darker layer and
that's all you have to do. In the next step,
you will be adding one more layer towards
the highlight, which is going to be the
extremely highlighted part. For that, we'll be making
a new mix of colors. Before we go ahead and do that, we want to add and
blend this layer first, and this time I'm using another mix which is
the same orange mix. This time I've added
more white to it and a lot more orange to it so I've gotten this light brown color. Using this color I will be adding more highlights
to my clouds. Go ahead and create this
little color and again, tap in your highlights like you did for the previous layer. Then again, the process
is going to repeat. Once you're done with that, you'll be just slightly blending this layer with the
previous layer. Make sure that you are adding this highlight right below the second layer so that
you know your layer, you can see the different
colors in the clouds rather than the colors just
overlapping one another. You can leave some of the
spaces where you added the second layer and
then go ahead and add this third layer
around it so that you're able to see all
the colors basically. Once you're done
with this layer, you will again go
ahead and blend it out and we'll be pretty
much done with the clouds. Once our clouds have
completely dried, it's time for us to go ahead and re-sketch the sketch of the silhouette that we
see in our painting. Here again I'm just going
to go ahead and look at my reference picture
and try and copy the areas that I see
and then this time make the street light using a scale so that it's
nice and straight. Basically you're just
going to look at your reference
picture and try and sketch what you see in your reference picture
so you're going to be sketching the street lights, the power lines around it. Then just going ahead with your black paint and just overlapping
everything that you see. Just be careful when you
are sketching things out. You want to add in the
details that you want to add. Now, this is again your wish. It depends what are the lines or the power
lines that you want to add and if you think it's
a little bit difficult then you can just
skip those lines, that's completely on you. You're just going to look
at the reference picture and try and create the object as
close to it as possible. If you don't want to look at the reference picture you can just go ahead and
see how I am adding things and then just do as I do which is basically what I see in the reference picture. Once you're happy with
how your sketch has turned out you're going to
take your size 6 round brush, roll it up with some
lamp black color and go ahead and just fill in the
shape that you just sketched. Here the process is very basic. You are just trying to fill in the silhouette section that you just sketched with
the black paint. There's nothing much to do here, there's nothing much to explain. It's very simple. You're just going to fill in
the sketch that you created. When we'll come to the street
light I'll show you how to make the street light
look really glowing. Until we reach that
portion you just have to enjoy the
process of filling in this shape with
your black paint. You can look at the reference
picture again to just understand where the
little trees are, the little shapes are
on the silhouette part. Other than that the
process is very simple. You can just follow
me along here as well and then get
everything done. You don't even have to look
at the reference picture. Just go ahead and
add any branches that you feel like
adding which are not there in the reference picture and just enjoy the process. I'll start talking
again when it comes to the glowing street light
part because before that the process is very basic
as I mentioned before, so enjoy this therapeutic part where you fill in
your silhouettes. When it comes to creating the street lights
and the power lines, you can switch to your size
0 round brush as you will need to create very
thin detail lines. Over here, it's very important to have a good
control over your brush because if you have
a good control over your brush you'll be able to get really
nice thin strokes. Just like you see in
the reference picture the power lines are
very thin and minute. You want to have
a good control of your brush to get
those type of lines. Don't worry, you can just light handedly make
the power lines and if you have a
very light hand over it it's going to create
a lot thin lines. Over here you can see the
reference picture you have like a twist of the wires. For the twist I've
just gone ahead, slightly tapped my brush, lifted it, tapped my
brush and lifted it, and that's how I got that effect but you can completely skip that part if you're not sure how it's going to
look when you do it. Or you can practice it
on another piece of paper before you add it
to your main painting. That is completely your choice. Go ahead and add these power
lines with your thin brush. If your size 0 brush
is not giving you really thin lines you can switch to your size double zero
brush or triple zero brush, whatever brush you feel comfortable with for
creating thin lines. Once you are done
with the power lines, to make the street
light we're just going to mix cadmium yellow with a lot of white and then we'll load it with our size 0
brush and apply it. To get that glowing effect
we basically want to blend the edges of
our circle that we just put in and slightly
spread it around like the sun rays and this will
create a glowing effect. Don't worry if the color
has slightly toned down. We'll create the
first base layer then add some more yellow on the top and blend it
just like the sun rays. Once this completely dries
we'll add the actual shape of the street light which is going to mean street light basically. Next I'm creating
this mix of red, orange, and black to get this
nice and dark brown color. This will be the color that I'm going to use for the highlights. Since this is still
a silhouette, we don't want to create
extreme highlights. That is why to avoid
that I went ahead with a brown mix so that you can see the highlights but not
completely see it. Because of the street lights, some of the area is going
to be slightly brightened. That is why we're going
to use this brown color. As you can see, I've used
this brown color towards the right side of the street
light and on the top of the other poles and on basically the right side wherever you think
the light from the street light is going to fall and I'm just going to
add the brown mix to that. Once you are done
with that and once our street light glow has dried, we're going to go
ahead and just create the semicircular shape which will depict our street light. Once we're done with
our painting and everything has dried
it's time for us to peel the tape and get
our beautiful edges. I think I've said it way too many times now but I really love when the tape comes off. It's one of my
favorite moments and I just love how this
painting has turned out. It just looks like a photograph. I'm so proud of myself and I'm sure your painting
looks bang on. Let us move on to our last
and final class project.
14. Project 10 - Sunset from the Backyard: Let us paint our 10th
and final class project, and the colors that I'm
using for this class are primary blue,
cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, primary red, lamp black, and titanium white. I've taped on my paper
on all four sides and taking the colors
out on my palette. I have the five: orange, red, yellow, blue, and
black on my palette. The picture that I'm
taking inspiration from is this beautiful pastel sunset. It's basically a fence
or a backyard fence, and the sunset is
outside that obviously. The picture taken is from
the outsides of your fence, and I think it's such
a beautiful picture and I just absolutely cannot wait to share and
paint this with you all. For this, you can see you're going to be
using pastel colors. The first thing before
we go ahead and paint the sky is to create
a basic sketch. Just take your pencil, make a straight line that
will depict the fence. You don't have to
use your scale. You can just go ahead and
just roughly sketch it out and then create those little silhouette
trees as well. Now again, this does
not have to be perfect. This is just to give
you a quick idea of how the objects in your
painting are going to look. So creating a rough sketch really helps you
understand the placements. Once our basic sketch is ready, it's time for us
to paint the sky. I'm just going to quickly
show you the colors that I will be using for my sky. First, I'm taking
cadmium yellow and mixing it up with white. This is going to be my
pastel yellow color. Next, I've taken my pastel yellow
color that I made and added a little bit of
orange and red to the mix. I will be getting this
nice pastel pink color, and the third color
that I'm making here is my pastel orange color, which is basically cadmium
orange mixed with white. I'm just swatching
the colors for you. You have your pastel yellow, your pastel orange, your pastel pink orange color, and the last color will be your pastel purple
which we will just make using a mix of my primary blue
and the primary red color. If you don't have the primary
blue shade in your palette, you can go ahead and use your
ultramarine blue as well. I've just mixed primarily
blue with white and added a bit of red and I get this beautiful
pastel purple color, and I think it's just
such a pretty color. I'm just going to quickly
swatch the color out for you. I think it looks beautiful. I just went ahead and added
a little more white to the mix to just tone the
vibrancy of the color. So these are the four
colors that we're going to use and let us start
blending for the sky. Here I'm going to
completely clean my brush, get rid of any purple
that was on the brush. Using my flat brush, size 10 flat brush, I'm going to go ahead
and load it with some yellow and start applying
it in the middle. Right around that area, I'm going to start
applying the orange. Over here, we're
just going to leave the colors out first
before we go ahead and slightly try and blend
all the colors together. As you can see, the area where I had laid the
yellow color first. I'm just going ahead with
the pastel orange and applying it from the site, not going all the way through
and into my yellow color. I'm just stopping midway, and you're just basically
trying to transition between these colors so
that they don't look odd. If you think the orange has
overpowered your yellow, you can load your
brush with some yellow and then go
over the orange so that the yellow
just comes out. Now to transition between the yellow and the orange color, I'm just using white and
then slowly above the white, I will be adding the pink
shade that we just made. Here we are starting with
a straight blend and slightly going towards
my angular blending. That's one way to do it. Over here I'm just
trying to blend the pink color from the right side and the
white from the left side. Now the topmost color
that I'll have is my pastel purple color, and I will start from one corner and slightly
try bringing it down, add white to blend the colors, and add some
variations in the sky. Over here, basically, the game is all about blending. So just go ahead and have
fun with the blending. You know the process, you know the blending
processes by now, and make sure that your
brush is nice and wet for the colors to blend
seamlessly in your sky. You're just going to
be adding pinks and purples in different places and try and blend them together. Once you'll have the placements
of your colors together, you'll just go ahead
and repeat the paint slightly and add in
some darker colors, or lighter colors, or add the
colors that are missing in the sky to get that
seamless blend. In this one, I did not go
in a straight transition. By that, I mean that it's
not going from yellow, orange, red, you notice I'm transitioning
in a straight wave. I have some other
colors in the middle. I'm trying to blend
it irregularly. I'm not blending
it straightaway. You're just going to be having different colors in the center. Let's say you'll have
different colors on the sides. You're just having those
little variations in the sky. If you want to find
more inspiration and understand the
placements of the colors, you can look at the
reference picture. In the reference picture,
you'll see that the sky has blended in an uneven manner. That is exactly what we
are trying to depict here, the uneven blending of the sky. This process might
take some time, but you're going to hang
in there and you're going to finish this because eventually your sky is
going to turn out so pretty and it's all worth
the blending process. Once I'm happy with the
blending and the sky, I'm just going to
let my paint dry before I create any
mix for the clouds. Now that the paper is dry, I'm going to mix
my primary blue, add a little bit of
red to the same mix, add white to create this purple color
that we did before, and to this I will be
adding a tiny bit of black. So this is going to be the
gray color that I will be painting with for the clouds. I'm just taking a little
more white on my palette in case I want to create a
lighter version of the gray. I've just added a
little bit of more white to the mix so that I get a lighter
version of the gray. Using this color, I will show you how you'll be
adding the clouds. Once you're happy
with the color mix, which is trying to get a
nice medium gray color, I'll just swatch the color
out for you that I've used. It has a nice purple
undertone to it which matches the color of my sky. Now, again, using my
dry brush technique, I will be adding the clouds. Over here again, make sure that your brush is completely free of any water and a large
amount of paint basically. If you want to get rid
of any excess paint, you can just tap it or rub it across on your masking tape. It gets rid of any excess paint and only give you the right amount of
paint that you have. Also one more thing
to keep in mind is to use a thicker
consistency of the paint here so that you get the nice uneven finish
to your clouds. We're just going to use this
paint and add the clouds, tap in the clouds in your sky. Over here, I've taken a bit of inspiration from the reference
picture for the clouds, and some of them
are in my own way. I'm just adding the clouds
wherever I feel I should add them and make sure that you're not going
too overboard with the clouds and you're not
filling the entire sky with the clouds because then you will not
be able to enjoy the beauty of the
beautifully blended sky. You'll just have to add the
right amount of clouds. Over here, again, I'm just tapping in
some bigger clouds and some tinier clouds using
my size 6 round brush. Once I'm done adding
the clouds in the sky, it's time for us to
add the highlights. For the highlights,
I'm going to take the same gray mixture
and I'm mixing it in that yellow paddle
that I had for it to have a little bit of a
yellow undertone to it, and I'm adding a
lot of white to get a lighter version
of the same color. Here you can see the swatch of the gray that I'll be using. Using this color I
will be tapping in the highlights like we've learned in our previous
class projects. Right below your main base layer that you have already created, you will be adding your clouds, and once you're done
with the process, you will be blending it with
the layer that's already laid out so that your clouds turn out
to be nice and fluffy. Once you're done
adding the highlight, you are just going to blend
your layers together. For badges clean your brush, load it up with very, very tiny amount of water and just go ahead and
blend this layer. I don't blend all of them. Properly I just go ahead
and roughly blend it out and in places where I think
I've blended it too much, I go ahead and add
the highlights again. This is just a process that
you have to follow for your clouds and
once you're happy with how the cloud
has turned out, you're going to wait for
it to dry before you go ahead and sketch
your objects out. Here again, I'm using
my skill to sketch out my power supply line
or the power lines and you're going to be just copying the structure of the
reference picture here. So I'm just looking at
the reference picture and trying to add in the details to my power
lines as I see them. Once that is done, we'll just go ahead and paint it over
with our black paint. Here the process
is very similar to the previous ones that we've done that is adding the details. You are creating a rough sketch. For a proper sketch
actually plays a very important
role because once you have your structure ready, you just have to go ahead and just fill in the
details basically, just color inside the blocks. I would suggest that you
sketch it out properly. Look at the reference picture
and see how it's done. If you don't want to sketch out from the
reference picture, you can just follow
me along because I'm just doing the exact same thing. I'm just sketching
out the things that I see in the reference picture. Here unfortunately, my phone did not pick up and record this little
section where I added the trees and the branches and the
leaves and the fence. But the process is very
simple and very similar to the ones that we've done before and that is we're just
adding the fence, which is just basically an
irregular straight line. On top of that, I have just switched between
my size zero and size six brush to tap in
some branches and leaves. Just like what
you've done before. There's nothing new
that has happened here. Luckily, it did not. It did play in my
favor and record. Didn't record only the section
that we've learned before. The power line is still safe and we can
paint it together. But here if you think
you need some time, just pause the video, come into the section where
you've finished the fence and the branches and the
leaves and then we can go ahead and paint the
power line together. Now we're just going to load
our size zero brush with some black paint and
we're just basically filling in the lines and
following the sketch. Just load your brush with
black and do exactly that. Fill in this sketch that
you have just created. For the power lines, if you don't get really thin lines using
a size zero brush, you can switch to a size double zero or a size
triple zero brush. The idea to get really
pin power lines is to just apply very light
pressure on your brush. Be very light handed
with that stroke because the more
light-handed you are, the thinner your strokes
are going to be. For any stroke basically
for that matter, it depends on the amount of pressure that you are
applying with your brush. So you can get to view. Of course, you'll have to use a good brush where
the bristles are coming together and
gets a pointed edge. But even the size six brush, you can get really thin
strokes if you know the right amount
of pressure that you need to apply
with your brush. I would suggest us
testing on your brushes, getting a good knowledge on your brush because
once you have that, you know what your game is, what your pressure game
is with your brushes, so you know exactly the
amount of pressure that you need to apply to
get thicker lines, the exact pressure that
you need to apply to get thinner lines and that
plays a very important role. The process here
again, like I said, it's simply, just follow along the sketch that
you have created. Once you're done
following your sketch, knee back and see
if you want to add any extra details and if not, wait for your
painting to dry and then carefully peel
a tape off and you will have this
beautiful sunset right in front of you. I think this sunset
from our backyard would look so beautiful and this is your 10th and final class project and you've
painted along till here. I'm sure you have a
beautiful collection of paintings with you.
15. See You in the Next Class!: This is it you guys, we've reached the
end of the class. I am so happy that you joined
me on this journey where we explored 10 beautiful skies
together using Gouache paint. I hope you learned something
new about the medium and also about how
to paint clouds. If you loved the class, don't forget to leave a
review down under because it really motivates me and pushes me to make more classes. If you've painted all
these 10 class projects, then bring them all together
right next to one another, click a picture and upload it
under the project section. You can also share it on Instagram and tag me
at thesimplyaesthetic. I'll see you in the
next class. Bye.
Payal Sinha, TheSimplyAesthetic- Artist & Educator
