Easy Fruit Paintings: With Watercolor Karin Markers

1. Introduction and Class Projects: Hi everyone. I'm Maria. I'm currently a student and in that direction program, and also a graphic designer and a lettering artists in love with Watercolors. Hence, this is my favorite topic. In this lesson, we will be using Corinne markers to create fearful watercolor paintings. Karin Markers, a water-based markers that can be blended. And they are to create a wide range of colors. And in practice, they are a great alternative to traditional watercolors and offer the convenience of a pen, the ability to create a watercolor like look. Throughout this lesson, we will be completing three projects using our set of Karin Markers as are linking. Our first project will be a juicy Watermelon Slice, followed by a bright and sunny Lemon. And lastly, a fresh and tangy Kiwi. So grab your crude Markers and that gets started on creating some amazing watercolor paintings. 2. Class Materials: So for this class, what we need is just watercolor paper. In this case, I'm using stonehenge, aqua cold press. The thicker you can find the paper the better because we are going to be using a lot of water. And we're gonna be putting, be adding more and more color into the paper. So I recommend you using are the thickest paper you can hand. This is 300 g, 140 pounds. So I found this toward the well with the Creighton one curse and the the type of project Berlin into today. But you can use any watercolor paper that has 300 grabs. We're also going to need a water brush any size you want. On this case, I'm using number six, but you can use any water brush hacked Home. We're going to need a pencil. We're going to need an eraser. In this case, I'm using with fibro Castile, the kneadable eraser, because it's very light on watercolor paper. It does not destroy the little texture it has. What else we need a lot of paper towels, the ones that absorb very, very nicely. We also need a micro bend just to do little black details on our Paintings. And of course, we are going to need our Karin brush Markers. And of course you will need the brush markers. I have the big box, which has, I think 60 colors, and they come with three blenders, so there's only 60 colors and near. And every color has its own code and its own name. But you could also use the small packet that I think comes with 12th. If I'm not wrong, it doesn't matter. As long as we learn how to use these markers. 3. Getting to Know your Karin Markers: These are the Karin brush Markers and these are water-based markers. That's the special thing about them. And in here they have a lot of ink, which makes them very juicy. I think these markers are very special. I haven't found any other ones that are like this. So that's why I love using them. And if you press it down, you see how much ink it has. And you can actually blend it with water, which makes them very easy to use. A Watercolor Markers. You can see use add some water and says they are very saturated. The Inca can just extend throughout the paper very nicely. As you can see, they also have brush point, which makes them very good for lettering. So they can make strokes and the thin strokes. And every time you push them down, you can have a lot of ink to use and to pigment. Now, the brush tip is very delicate. We don't want to destroy it, so I don't recommend just coloring as any marker on the watercolor paper. If you have no texture on the paper, then I guess it's, it's it's okay to use them as irregular marker. But if you are using a texture paper like the watercolor paper, I don't recommend it because then the tip will start to have little hairs coming out and it's just going to destroy your pen tip. So I guess that's the special quality of the Karin Markers. They just are filled with a ton of ink. And since they are water-based, you can actually make them and mix them very easily and they don't dry out also. So if you're working with a lot of Markers at the same time, you can just remove the cap and they can stay like this for a couple of minutes not to hold on. I mean, but I have kept them. I don't know, maybe like 10 min while I was working on a projects. So I've kept them open and they have been dried out. Always. Use the markers at an angle. Never like, try to paint them straight down and because it's going to ruin your tip. So always try to pull them out of 45 angle with the paper. So whenever you need to, maybe put some color in, go like this, or if you want to make a brush stroke just will it down like that. Where if you wanna do a thinner one, you can just go up or just try to make the angle a little bigger and just make choline very lightly, or almost like touching the paper very lightly. We're not pressing it down when we're doing lines. Because they were very delicate. The brush tip is very delicate and we don't want to go in it. So we're barely touching the paper whenever do we do a line. We can go like this. All we can push it down, but always in an angle we do not want to push it down with the tip perpendicular. I guess those are some tips that I have that I tried to do whenever I'm using the Karin markers. So I don't really, in my paintings 4. Blending with Watercolor Markers: So Karin, have a piece of paper and we're going to start practicing with our brush pens. If you are not familiar with these brushes, they are so easy to use their marriage juicy. And the plan here is to just try to play with them and with the wires so you can make any shape you want. So for example, I'm going to do just a circle. And the first thing we're gonna do is wait a wall surface with our water brushes. We're going to just press them a little. And we're going to wet the whole surface. So we need the whole circle to be completely wet. We wanna do is just pour a little bit of ink into the circle and then expand the color. With the wire. I have my whole circle wet. I'm going to get up, start playing with any color you want. I'm just going to press it, press it down. And then just using the water brush, I'm going to expand the color. As you can see, these pens are very juicy. They have a lot of thing that says they're water-based. They can be expanded with some water. So there you have your circle. We've expanded a little bit of ink that we port with the pen throughout the whole circle. So that is our first practice. And I have here my paper towel and I can just wipe my brush off until it comes up clean. And then it is ready to use with another columnar. So let's try it one more time. Let's do another show goal. We can try with any color you want. And this time I'm going to do the same. We're just going to put more ink. Maybe. I'm going to press down my water brush. I'm going to wet the whole surface. I'm just going to make sure I'm putting water all over the circle. And now I can try maybe with a brown color, which is dark. You can press it as many times as you want, depending on how saturated you want your circle to be. So maybe this time I'll press down three times. And I'm going to mix it with water. I compress it down as many times does I want, depending on how dark I want it to be. That would be my second try. Now, what we're going to try to do next is try to do a blend. So I'm gonna do another circle. I'm going to blend it with water. We're gonna make all around very saturated and the middle is gonna be very light. Because that is another exercise that we are going to do on our projects. So I'm gonna do the same. I'm going to wet my whole circle with water. But this time I'm going to put color all around my circle. And then we're going to just try to blend it in, leaving the central a little light. So I'm going to use a dark color and I'm just going to go around with the marker. Very lightly, almost touching the paper. Just go around very light like that. Then we're gonna go with the water brush. Just try to blend it in. But trying to leave this circle, the middle part of the circle, Barry light. So that way we're going to have a little gradient where the corners of the circle are very will not coroners the borders of the circle are very saturated and the color just starts blending with the water. Very transparent in the middle. When you feel like your brush is very saturated with color, you just clean it up on the Paper towel and then just keep going. So I'm just going to play with the water blending it. I'm trying to keep the center very transparent. And we can also do this with two different colors. This time I have all the granola round and then almost in the center, there's no color at all. And it gives a volume perspective. And that will be my third exercise. What if we want to blend two colors together? Which is what we're gonna do. There are two ways of doing this. We can first put in the light-colored and then put little touches of dark. Or we can do happen half. So in this exercise, first of all we're gonna do is we're going to put the lighter color. So we always start with a lighter color and then just adding the dark ones. So in this case I'm going to use the yellow again. And I'm just going to try to blend it down. Cover the goal circle with this light yellow. Try to make it very uniform all around. And then I might want to add some green. So if I want to add some green, I'm just going to put it like here maybe in the bottom, but I'm going to blend it very carefully, but I just want the green on the bottom part. If you feel there's too much water, if it's too much saturation, just clean it up with the paper towel. Anytime you need. If I want more green, I can just add more ink. In this case, I do want more green. These colors since are very saturated, the roof flexible. So I can also increase saturation of the yellow if I want to. Just be very careful not to go over the half of the circle that I'm doing. Gonna clean it up and just to add more water and try to make this gradient disappear and the middle. Very likely. So there's no half and half works. Just a whole blend from green to yellow. So this time I want more yellow because I feel it's too light. So I just put Morton going to clean my brush just in case there are some green left. And that is how you can keep mixing your colors, fixing the saturation by adding more ink, more water, and creating any blends you want with a different columns that you have. So as you can see, these colors are very, very saturated. You can also try practicing making one little rectangle on one side. You can the other one on the other side. And just trying to blend them in an acting one with the other, always start with a light color. So we start pulling the color from the light to dark. I'm going to have to press down because this is very, very dry. I just need the yellow to come to the brain because the green is very dark. Not the other way around. I'm gonna have to clean this very well so the yellow, yellow doesn't get dirty. That is how I can blend the very dark tone, the very dark green tone with the yellow. I'm not happy with the results that can just add more color. Add more saturation to either side, put the dark one or the light one. That is how I get my blend. And that is how you can practice. On even before you paint. You can just select Which color should have been a blend together as see how they do. So for example, this time I'm going to blend may be so yellow, red one. I should have like an orange in the middle. I'm going to clean my brush, just make sure it's very, very clean. Up, press it down so tough a lot of water. And I'm going to pull the yellow one because the yellow one is lighter and the red one. I'm going to clean it very well. Whenever I want to go through the yellow part. Then I'm going to start blending with the red. We're going to clean it again. Then I'm going to have a very nice blend from yellow to red, which comes out a little orangey, pinkish color. So I can start by testing my blends before I put them into my Art. If I don't like these lines that I have here, I can just pop more color and fix them. Can put more yellow here as well. Keep working on my blend until I'm satisfied with it. There you go. I have two different lens from red to yellow, from green to yellow as still one more. Just in case. This time I'm gonna do, I guess, pink and blue. So I can put some turquoise here. And I'm going to put something here. I should have a purplish color in the middle. Now this time I have to start on the pink side. So I'm going to blend it down to the leg. And then the turquoise as well. Then I'm just kinda try to mix these on the middle. Hub. A nice. So it's just a matter of practice. Once you get it right, you're ready to put it on your Art. What happens if, for example, I put too much purple here? It's still dirty. I just add more pink. And I can make them more saturated. I can increase the saturation of the pink. So it will fix my black. And in order to raise any lines or any marks, I just keep going through the paper until they're gone. For these, I want to really try to fade this line that I have. And I'm putting work pink because I don't like that line. I want it to be more and more and more pink. I'm there. I have my three blends. 5. Juicy Watermelon Slice: So we're going to start with the first of a projects, and it's gonna be the watermelon. And the colors we're going to need are these, so it's red. To O9. We're going to use series 375. We're going to use gold to 83 and olive green to 81. So for this simple project, which is going to do a basic triangle. So I'm just using piece of paper. Don't really have hold overrule low right here on my desk. So I'm just gonna use a piece of paper. We're going to try to do a very nice triangle shape. As you can see. Who's just drawing two lines, kind of making a triangle. Then I'm gonna join the lines together with a round shaped line. I might also want to do another line right here. This doesn't have to be perfect, so just try it anyway, you want to, we're going to start coloring. We basically need just a piece of toilet paper, kitchen paper, any type of absorbent. So we can clean our brush. We need our water brush with some water in it that you can put R for colors. That we said in the beginning. If you want, you can erase the lines a little bit with any type of eraser, you have. The first step we're gonna do is we're going to press our water pens. So the water goes through this and we can get some water flowing. We want to wet. The whole surface is part of the triangle. We want to wet. It just makes sure water is flowing, but just try to make this space and be as humid as possible. We're going to start with the bread. Doesn't have to be perfect. We're just playing with the collars and we're going to try do the marks with the Markers soft as possible. So we don't row in. The tips. Know from Markers. And we're just gonna go down. We can also just push it down. And as you can see, the water will start doing its magic. As we go through what an grab our water brushes and just mixing the color, the water. We don't want to take too long trying to make this perfect because we need the surface to be constantly weights. We don't want to leave any marks share. So that's why we need to work fast. This is just experimenting with color blends with the Watercolor Markers. We're going to try to smooth these lines. If you want darker colors. We can just keep adding reward color and more water. So maybe I want these parts to be kind of light. I don't want any marks. I want everything to be blended in. As I said, you can clean your brush so you can get lighter shades, will just start laying with the blends. That's why we're going to use our pink tone. Sometimes some parts of the Watermelon can be like a little kind of purplish kind of indication. And sometimes we have some just add it. Any order we want doesn't have to be specifically in any place for not doing any realistic painting. We're just having FUN with the collars and the blends. We can just keep trying to make straight line there. Whenever you want some clean parts where there's not too much saturation of color. Just go in with your clean brush and the rest can keep blending together. So maybe there are some parts that you think should have More red and that is where we keep adding color into the parts that we want them to be more saturated. This is mostly Watermelon, such be more red. You love the saturation these markers have specially, when we do, this type will work. So you're gonna see how these colors becomes so saturated once they dry. And I like the tip of my Watermelon to be really red. Then just have some pinkish yellowish spaces. We can just cleaner brushes, teeth. Maybe I want some right down here. Try to kick this part kind of light. And we're going to proceed with the bottom part. We're then and try to wet this as much as we can to not spill everything like I'm doing. And just wet the part where we're going to put the outside, the green part of the Watermelon. And we're going to use our agree or didn't do this by doing the outer part. And as you see, it has a ton of water in. It just starts doing its magic, starts flowing. We can put some parts that it has more saturation and just add a fire. And as you can see, water is Very nice to us with these markers. Because it actually blends the colors. We can clean some areas if you want. To finalize, we're going to add some peachy color down here just a little bit to make it more creamy. To make sure you clean your brush. You can add as much as unlike the changes of tonality from red to have some yellow here, I have some pink colored here, I have some white here because sometimes watermelons have those changes in colors naturally. And then how it blends with the green on the bottom. Now we're going to let it dry until we can put some of the seats on top. And we're going to make it very easy by using our and after your Watermelon as completely dried. You going to start by erasing the lines, pencil and St. have. Of course, you'll only be able to erase the pencil lines that are outside of the painting. Because if they're inside the Watercolor, they cannot be erased anymore. When you're done erasing, you can just use any type of microbe going to do some of the seat. And this can be anywhere you want or not doing realistic painting, which is going to do them like little drops, backdrops. Nicole are. You can put them basically anywhere you want them to. For example, I'm going to do too. I don't like to do things symmetrically. So I'm just going to try to do them anywhere, but maybe more on this side. That's it is could be on my finished piece. As you can take, it dries very nicely. Very soft blend 6. Sunny Lemon: For our next project, we're going to use any type of round base that you have, which is going to try to put it in the middle. Or we're going to race around it. We're going to trace a circle. Try not to make it too dark. Xihuan and get rid of the lines sidebar, which is going to make a circle. And what we're gonna do here is with our same piece of paper or you have a roller. We're just going to try to find a middle here. No, I'm gonna make some light. Nor are to separate fruits. But the more in perfect, it looks, memorial it looks because fruits are not symmetrical, the merit not made perfect. So we're going to try to do is keep this center space. And that's it. We have our lemon slice. And if you want, you can also be erase a little bit all the lines so they don't stay in your drawing. Sue, for this next project, we're going to use the cold to eat three, we're going to use an olive green to a one man. The cell-free zone project. We're going to need our water brush. We're going to need to paper so we can clean our brush and we're going to use are three main columns. And we add the lines for us to make like a guide to do all the parts of the lemon. And we can start with 11 little triangle. Within a weddings. Were the nets make our brush low with ton of water. And we're going to work in parts. So this would be our first part. Once it's really wiped, we can start adding some color. In this case, I'm going to start adding some of this green. And then maybe here in the bottom, I want something a little darker. I think that's too dark. Now we're just going to start blending. So maybe this looks too dark or the dentist blend, blend it with a lighter color. As you can see, the green is going to start to be a little lighter, not so dark. The colors are going to blend very nicely. I can make this part softer if I want to. And finally, I want to add some yellow here. That's it. For the next parts. We're just going to rotate and we're gonna jump. One triangle. Awareness. Start working with the with the next one. So we'll let this one dry before we start doing the one close to it. And do the same thing. We're going to play with our callers, play with the water, play with the blend. If you feel the green which shows is a little too dark, you can just pick another color. I started experimenting with it. So for example, this one, I want to make it a little more yellow. I'm just kinda put the dark right at the beginning. And we bends are there. Then I'm going to put yellow tone of yellow. And were then and just blend it in. We want to make these as different as possible. We don't want to make them all the same. That's why we have to try To make the blends a little different each time. If you want to clean your brush and do so and maybe have this part be a little bit more transparent. You can mix only two colors in one, then makes salt three on the next one, make some darker shades. So just keep exploring. Keep playing with your callers. And today you're done with all around. So and have completed all the pieces. We can just try to make this a little long, but they're not long enough. It can just read, touch anything you want. While everything is still wet. If you don't like some places, I want to make them darker. For binary, you just, for example, wet that part and just add more color. And it will be just like another layer of watercolor. Just try to make sure you blend it in with water, then you won't see any marks on top of it. So that way you can dark in any places that you want. Maybe I'm going darken these spots to maybe this one. This one. The center. I just wanted to be a little darker. Just make sure that you blend them in. So it doesn't leave any marks. If there aren't any marks and you you don't like, you can just put the water brush on top and just blend them in. Again, it doesn't matter if they're dry or not You can fix it. What door? Just one little part may seem, which is the out-of-pocket, which you've been awesome to it together. Or you can leave a space line in-between sore then press her water brush and just try to make a round shape around it. The same width all over China to take so much time because we needed all to be wet. You can go through it again in case you think it's tried up a little bit. Just go around. Go round and round. It doesn't matter if an LEA you just looks more natural. Now. I'm just going to add green color. I'm not going to add any on yellow. Just going to start putting some light green on some places, dark Crayon others. And as you can see, there are prices that this has been although dried out, but it doesn't matter because we're going to stretch the color and we blend that it. Now we're going to blend it in. We're going to try to fix the width. The width is the same. Line goes through her around Lemon unit pits to a light. I can just add more saturation, dark green, light green. And if you want more yellow in it as well. But I'd like the outside part to be darker than the inside. It just ink that's held on and talk. Be my brush. And I'm done with this piece. I'm going to let her try 7. Tangy Kiwi: For this next projects. Then to need our pencil, we're going to need to eraser hard paper towel. And of course are creating workplace. Root gonna be using Almand to 16. We're gonna be using gold to 83. Sulfur yellow, which doesn't have a number, I think, olive green to a, U1, Sandstone 174 and set B. What we're going to try to do is to ovals. One kind of on top of the other 11 is gonna be the Kiwi that is cut in half. And the other one is gonna be the outside of the Kiwi. So I'm going to try to measure my middle here. But I draw a line down. Another one share to do one of the Kiwi. And I'm just going to make our rough sketch of an oval. So once you have it, this is gonna be on top. So I'm going to erase this bottom part. And I'm also then and try to erase the middle lines that I've made. If you've made any and make it a little more clean soap here I have the inside part of the Kiwi. Now I'm going to make a little line here so we can see the outer part as well. And I'm going to draw just a very irregular shape in the middle. So it's my middle part of the Kiwi and this is gonna be the outside. If you want, you can just go over with the eraser a little bit so the line are not so dark. We get started. I'm going to start with the inside part of the Kiwi. I'm going to stop with my water brush. I'm going to push it down. I'm going to make sure it's clean in order to start painting over it. So just as we did on the practice and on the previous Projects, I'm going to push it down. So there's water coming out. And, um, we're just going to cover the whole inside layer. Cover it with water. Make sure uniform. And what I'd like to do first, always have a cover race on a Kiwi, which is gonna be the almond color. So I'm just going to grab the almond and I'm going to push it down several parts of the drawing and make a uniform layer of all night, which is gonna be kind of like my base color. And I'm going to put all the other colors on top. But I want the island to be the base. Make sure you don't call it inside the irregular shape in the middle. That's gonna be of like a blast step we're gonna do. And I'm going to try to spread the whole color around it. Like so. Next, I'm gonna keep my surface wet. And I'm gonna try to add some yellow is time. I have my gold. And I'm going to do the same. I'm going to try to add it. Item in the shape of a sudden. Because of the Kiwi lines tend to go from the middle to the outside bar. So I'm just going to try to make a colors blend, but try to make them in that way. Coming out like everything is coming out of the middle Next I'm going to add sulfur green. Just going to add some touches the same way I did last time with the yellow. But this out I'm going to do with the sulfur grading and blend. And it's very, very, very, very delicate. Forget to add some dark. The middle, I'm barely touching the paper. Just try to go around it. Go clean, wet brush. And I'm just going to try to pull pull the color out. Like in a sunshade. I'm going to clean my brush as many times as I need to. Just going to add some darkness to it. Try to blend it. You can rotate your drawing if you need to. And in this case, I see it like it's too dark, so I'm going to just add some yellow again. Just add some yellow on my three spots selected. And just try to make it very saturated on those spots. So I can actually see the difference in tons that I have. I want yellow in those places. So I'm not going to blend them completely. I'm just going to let them be there. And the same thing, I'm going to do the same with the sulfur yellow. Because I want these callers to be very clear on my painting there and other parts here. And another one here. And I'm going to clean my brush, press it down because I want more water. And I'm going to just do another round of water on top because I'm gonna do that. I'll type part of my Kiwi. And I want the whole surface to be what? Cyclin blend it. This time I'm gonna go through the outside, but very, very, very delicately. I want a very thin line around the Kiwi. Like no, I'm good. I tried to blend this So wizard Kiwi is dry. We're going to color the inside with aliment. So very carefully, holding the brush marker in an angle, we're just going to try to color and all the inside. With alpha, try not to touch the green borders because then they're them become what? They're going to start blending with their home. And now we're going to try to do the outside here, semicircle part of the QE. We're going to try to do it very, very delicately because we don't want our brown colors to mix with the queen. So I'm going to try to put the water leaving a small space. Small wipe line in-between. Tried to go around in non touching the side of my Kiwi. And then I'm going to start adding, I could add some gold. Gold as a base color. I'm gonna quit selling of a sandstone which is kind of like a light brown. The bottom part is where I want it to be darker. So I'm gonna make just a very thin line trying to bear they touch the paper. With my dark band. Just blend all three colors together. I worked in to let this dry. We can keep going with this. And it's basically the same step as on this little semicircle that we did. We're going to press down are what our brushes and we're gonna start painting. I'm going to leave the same, just a little white border there. So I don't mix the greens with the browns. I'm just going to cover the entire space with a lot of water. Trying not to mix the greens. I'm going to try to blend this first with yellow. I'm just like I did on the other one. I'm going to oh, this is so I'm gonna get my golden. No, I'm just kinda put a base color of yellow. I want on there. And just blend it in. Then I'm going to start adding color brown ones Tangy going to add the sandstone. But I'm going to try to add it on this bottom part. I'm going to try to leave this space lighter and just the parts around it. Maybe make it a little darker. And I'm done. I'm done with my Kiwi. I'm going to let this dry in order to put the little details 8. Painting Details with a Fineliner: Our Kiwi is dry. We can just add some little details. You have some seeds around here. So just a microbe then. We can add some little seeds around it. Just going round and round. Different sizes. They can be close together, they can be a little farther apart. We can also make some that are coming out a little bit, maybe just a little Heider at Details. With them I Copan, just little dots. I can also add some details. For example here that I have this, I can just add irregular lines around it. I don't have to go look, store the whole thing, just make them like little irregular cut lines. I can make some little hairs here that are from the from the Harry outside of the Kiwi. They don't have to be irregular. It can just say around with tongue. You can add little dots. That is how I like to add little details to my Kiwi Council. Little data inside. It just adds a little more interest into the drawing. The hairs don't have to go on all on the same direction. That is up to you. And I can do the same here. Just make little lines around it. That's tries a little hairs, maybe just in some places, just because Q is our little hairy. And that is my artwork finished for the key, just like we did for the Kiwi. We can also add some little details. On the same way with their lemon. We can just add some broken lines, some little dots 9. Thank You: Thank you for joining me in this watercolor class using Karin marker. I hope you've enjoyed exploring the different techniques and effects that these markers can create. Remember to always experiment and have FUN with your eye. You'll be off gained a new appreciation for the versatility of watercolor and the convenience of using Watercolor course. These markers are of great tool to have in your artistic toolkit and I encourage you to continue practicing your skills. Thank you again for joining me in this class. If you have any questions of one to see some of my work, you can reach me on Instagram under a mariatypesletters. Please feel free to share your artwork with me and keep creating and happy picked