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1. Welcome!: Welcome to this fun class, where we paint easy,
loose watercolor veggies. Hi. I'm Contin all. I'm an artist, illustrator, and a Skillshare top teacher. My work has been used for books, wa arts, products,
and even tattoos. I have my own line of
watercolor brushes, which I call the ultimate
watercolor brush set. Since I started my
watercolor journey, I have come a long way. Today, I have a strong
community of like minded watercolor
enthusiasts on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook,
and even Skillshare. This class has been specifically designed to master the technique
that I enjoy the most, which I call pulling the paint, and I use this all the time
for all my floral paintings. The subjects for this
class are vegetables, and I have deliberately
kept them simple to focus on the importance of
practicing the technique. In fact, this summer, this class can be a fun project to paint with your kids as well. We will start by looking at the materials which are
required for this class. Then we will have a small drill to understand this technique. Next, we will start painting
the different subjects. This class is perfect
for families who are looking for a fun creative
activity to root together. The class is going to
be extremely bigner friendly and the perfect
place for you to get started. Let's go have some fun and discover the joys of
painting together.
2. Class Orientation & Materials: Before we get started
with the painting, I just wanted to
orient you about the classes and the
materials used. This class has been
divided into two sections. First is the drill where we
practice this technique, which I call pulling the
paint from the edges, and then we start painting
the different 12 vegetables. The sequence in
which you want to paint the vegetables
depends upon you, but do watch the last lesson where we add the
finishing touches. Now let's look at the materials which are required
for this class. For the class, you will
need a watercolor paper. I'm using a 300 GSM paper, which is from Canson, and this is going to
be a thick paper. But you can use a
smaller one as well. I paint all the vegetables
on just one paper, but you can just use smaller sketch book if you
have a sketchbook. That's perfectly fine. Then for the paints, I'm using some red, blue purples, and if
you want to mix them, you can mix them and
create your own colors. I do cover color mixing in one of my
foundational classes. I will not be covering
it in this because it's all about having fun and just using what's
there on your pale. If you're using
tube watercolors, you will have to have a
spe to mix the colors, but if you have pants,
that's fine as well. Then you need a round brush. I'm using size to round brush, which is not too
big, not too small. I works fine for small
vegetables like this. I'll keep a jar of water with
me to dilute the paints if required and a paper
towel to dab my brushes, and with this, we can get
started with that drill.
3. Practice Drill: Before we get into the class, I wanted to practice the technique that I'll be using a lot throughout
this class. I call it pulling the paint. In this technique,
you will identify the darkest edge of the object. For example, I'm assuming the
light is coming from here, Let me just put that
as a perspective. I this is where the
light is coming from. Everything on this side
will be the lightest, light, and this is
the shadow area. Everything here will be darker. I'll keep the darkest edge here. This is where the darkest. You pick the paint on
your brush and then you put the paint at
the darkest part of it. We're using single colors. We're not mixing colors, it's really really
simple technique. We're not complicating this. In the darkest part,
you put the color and then you wipe
your brush clean. When I say wiping
your brush clean, It's basically I
dip it in water. I clean it completely. It has clean water and I
remove all the excess water. I'm just wiping it clean. It's a damp brush still, but it doesn't have
dripping water. This is the brush that
I will be using to pull this paint to the
rest of the object, which is on the
lighter part of it. Again, I felt the
water was less, I just took a little bit more and wipe my brush to
remove the excess. As you can see, it pulls
the paint when you start touching it
with the wet brush. That's why I call it
pulling the paint method. Now I have a lighter
shade of this going from the darkest gradient to the lighter part
of it on its own, because watercolor
flows with water. As soon as it touches
the wet brush and you spread the water
around in the object, it will go from the darkest
part to the lightest area. This is what I want to achieve throughout my class as well. This is what I call
pulling the paint, depending upon how much part
of it you want to keep dark, you can try this again
with a larger dark area. In this, I wanted a
very small dark area and a lot of light on this side. But if you want a darker radia, I'll probably put more paint larger area,
something like this. I just roughly define the
edge of the darkest area, and then again clean my brush, dip it in water and
wipe it, not too wet. Then use this wet
brush to just pull the paint to the rest of the ob. You'll get the gradient
on its own because it is water colors and
it flows with water, and we're going to use
that flowing property of water colors to get a gradient. The other technique
that usually people would use is wet on wet
to get the same effect. But I prefer using this pulling the paint
because it's much easier to control and you know exactly the area which
is going to be dark. And how much you
want to spread this. I'll show you the wet on
wet technique as well. In wet on wet technique, you have to first wet the paper. Since you can't see how
much water is there, I'm going to use a little bit of muddy water to show you
how wet the paper is. It's not dripping
wet, but it is wet with the first layer
itself is quite wet. Then you drop the paint
in the darkest area. This is the wet paper, then you take the
paint on your brush and drop it at the darkest
area, which is like this. I find this a bit
more challenging. First of all, I don't know how much paint will be
required in this case. And how it will be spreading. You can see the spread is not even because of the way
it is and then you have to clean your brush and make sure it
evenly gradients out. Sometimes the water is
too much in one area, it'll just go and settle there. I find this a bit
difficult to control, but you might get
similar results. If you prefer that, you can
use the wet on wet technique. However, this class is focused on pulling
the paint method, which is my favorite way
of painting loose style. Again, let's try that. One more time. Now I want to keep the
darkest area on top. For example, I'm painting
something like an apple. I'll just make the
top like a rough one, which has the darkest paint. If you want to drop like a purpish thing to
make it even darker, you can then use ah, da brush, not too water. I thought it was too much water, so I quickly dab my
brush and just spread it throughout the Now
you might ask, what about areas
which have two edges? For example, in this apple, for example, you might want to have the top dark
as well as the bottom. You You can just mark
the darkest area here again before you start pulling the
paint to the bottom. Then clean your brush again, clean of all the paint
with a wet brush, touch it with water. It'll nicely spread to
the rest of the apple. I'm just making the shadow
here because the light now, I'm making it on the left, so I want to make
the shadow here. That's the simple technique. This is called pulling the paint technique
and we're going to use it all the time
throughout the class. Some of the vegetables, I'm not using this technique, very few of them, but
we're just having fun, we're painting something fun. Let's get started with
the vegetables now.
4. Carrot: The first vegetable that we paint is going
to be a carrot. So grab some orange
on your brush. I'm going to use my usual pulling the paint
method for this. For the carrot,
I'm going to keep the light coming from
the right side again, and I'll make a
darker edge here, just, which is the
top of the carrot. I'm going to drop
the dark one here and basically just
draw the carrots edge. Then I'm wiping my brush clean. Let me just show you
every time I do this. I'm just wiping it clean
and then I'm going to use this damp brush to pull this paint to the
rest of the carrot. It gives a really nice effect. I love the watercolor bleed and it's much easier
to control than wet on wet. As you go down, taper it and
just make a root from here. This gives a beautiful effect. While it's wet and
grab some green and make the stem and
the leaves on top. And I want to do it while
it's wet so that there is a slight bleed of
green into orange. Just touch the orange slightly and make these little
shoots coming out. Then use the same green to
dab and make some leaves. Just dab it. You don't have
to take too much paint. Let me just show you. Now let's try this again
for one more carrot. We'll make a bunch of carrots. While the first
carrot is drying up. Again, take some orange on your brush and I'm going to make a bunch of
carrots at the back. Similar concept, put the orange at the darkest area, which
is on the left side, and then wipe your brush
and using the damp brush, not too wet, pull the paint
to the rest of the carrot. Leave a small gap between the first carrot
and the second one so that they don't bleed into each other and just pull it to make a
little tapering edge. While it's wet, again, grab some green and take
out these little shoots, lightly touching the
orange, not too much.
5. Beetroot: The next vegetable we're going
to paint is the beat root. For this, you'll need a
permanent rose pinkish color, and we're going to use
the same technique, which is the pulling the paint. I'm going to make a
dark edge like this, semicircle, which is the
left side of the beat root. Then clean the brush and pull this to the rest
of the beat root. We like this little water
and paint mingling. Make sure your brush doesn't
have too much water. If you feel that the paint
has spread too much, you can always drop more
paint on the darker sides. Then use some more paint on your brush and pull it like
this to make the root. Make the root a little darker. While it's wet, again, take some green and we'll
make the same shoots like the carrot and some
leaves on top. This is your pet root. For the leaves, we can
make them a little bigger. We can just make a little
bigger leaves this way to make them a little
different looking than the ones for the carrot.
Something like that. When it dries up, we can
add some more detail to it.
6. Eggplant: The next vegetable we're
painting is the egg plant, and for the eggplant,
you will need purple. We're going to use that same
technique that we've been using the pulling the paint
method, which is my favorite. For the eggplant,
we're going to make the base first,
which is like this. I'm just basically
drawing it with a brush instead of a pencil. I've dropped the color and now
I'm wiping my brush clean. It's just damp, and I'm pulling this into the rest
of the eggplant. Like a rough shape
of a eggplant. Thing like that. Let's make another egg plant
in a similar way. I'm going to just drop
the dark color for the base and then wipe my brush and pull it for
the rest of the egg plant. Like this. Then just drop the darker shades. At the edge. And then take some green and let's
make the stem for this. Stem is something like
this like a triangle on top and just to
make the top stem. Same with this one, I'm
going to make it like this. That's a cute egg plant. Y.
7. Radish: The next one that we're
going to make is a radish. For the radish, it's
a white vegetable and it's not really
easy to paint white. What we're going to do is use a very dirty water to
just define the radish. It will be like a
brownish water, so, grayish brown water. You can just make a lot
of different colors and see how you can make
that grayish color. I'm going to make that
same like a carrot. But since there's no paint, I'm just basically using this dirty water to define
the shape of the radish. Very similar to
the carrot shape. I'm sure you know that. One side of the radish is lighter because the light is
falling from there. I'm just going to use a clean brush to pick up
some of the paint from there or the dirty water basically to give that
shine on one side. And then we'll make the
leaves for the radish. Again, it'll be like
cute shoots coming out with some leaves like this. I'm just stamping my brush
to create the leaves. Nothing too detailed. It's
all about being loose and fun. That's a ish.
8. Tomato: The next vegetable we're
painting is a tomato. Again, take some red on your brush and make a
circle on the left side. Basically the darker edge, always having the light
falling from one side. Make a circle like this
and keep the top white, not too much paint, then take a clean brush and pull this to the
rest of the tomato. Just complete this circle here. I'm keeping the top
white because I want to add some leaves there. Like this. If you want to
drop some darker colors, you can drop at the base. Then clean your brush
and take some green. Let's make the stem, which is like this in the center and pull this
to make the leaves. This one is messed up
a little on this side, so I'm going to use a
clean brush to pick up the water and paint
and clean this up. I'm going to use the red to drop it. That's a tomato. I feel like making a
tomato half as well. Let's make a half of the tomato. Again, take your red and I'm
going to mix it a little bit with orange to make
orange red for the half. I'll make this similar circle. Just the outline.
This is a cut tomato. Then take a little
bit of orange and yellow mixed to make the center, which is just dots to make the part where
you have the seeds basically and take some orange or red and drop
it at the edge of this. And let this try. Then we'll add more details. While let's try, you can add
the stem again the same way, and this with some leaves. Let it try before we add more details to make it
look more like a tomato. I'm just going to paint
here because we corrected it lost a bit of paint.
9. Chili Pepper: Now we're going to
paint a red chili. Again, grab some
red on your brush. For the red chili, we'll make the base of
the chili first. Just make a line
curved line like this. The top and then
clean your brush, very little water and pull this to the rest of it
with tapering downwards. It's tapering this way and leave these little white gaps to
make a shiny edge to it. Make it look like the
shine is on this side. Then you take some green, make a triangle again
on top and a stem. That's your cute red chili.
10. Spinach: O Now we're going to
paint some spinach. For spinach, you grab some green and make a
round like this. It's an oval actually not around and with a little
bit of pointed tip, something like this to make
it look like a leaf and add some similar ones at the
background, similar leaves. And just pull them to
make the stem for this. Once it dries up, we're going to add some more
details to this. When you want to
make a lighter area, just wipe your brush and just pull some of the paint from here to give a little
bit of a highlight. Now we'll let it dry and then add some details later
for the spinach.
11. Broccoli: Another fun vegetable
to paint is broccoli. For the broccoli,
again, grab some green, darker shade of
green and just dab your brush to make the florets. I'm using a darker green. If you don't have
a darker green, you can mix blue with
the green that you have. And make these little spots dab your brush to
make the florets. Then take the lighter
green on your brush and dab it in some parts to make some
variation in colors. Now clean your brush, again, same pulling
the paint method, and I'm going to pull this
to make the stem like this. It's very loose
and watery style. This is your little broccoli. If you feel the
water is too much, and you want to
pick up something, dry brush and just dab it. Pick up some of the paint.
12. Garlic: Now we'll paint a garlic. Again, for the
garlic like radish, you need very dirty
water, brownish water, very light, and put some together in one bunch
so that we can just pull it. I'm just putting
some brownish color. If you want, you can
add some pink as well. It has a little
bit of pink tinge. Then clean your brush and pull it to make a semicircle like
this from both the sides. And then pull it here as well. And make the shoot on top. It's not very clear. I'm going to take
some pink brownish pink dirty pink basically, and drop it at the
edge of this garlic. I'm just going to
make some roots coming out from the bottom. Now let it dry and then
we add some details.
13. Mushroom: Now, let's make a mushroom. For a mushroom, you'll need a brown color and
a yellow ochre. I'm using yellow
ochre and brown. What I'll do is just drop
it at the top first, which is the brownish one. And then clean my brush
and pull this for the rest of the mushroom,
which is whitish. I'm using this pulling
the paint method everywhere as you can see, it's my favorite
way of painting. It makes things so much easier, and then make the stem, which is also watery. You can even drop very light black and some
parts, very lightly. And take some yellow ocher and drop it in some
parts at the bottom. That's room super simple,
nothing much to it.
14. Cabbage: The next one is a cabbage. Again, grab your green, and the cabbage
is like a circle, and it's not very well defined. I'm not actually doing anything. I'm just randomly placing
some paint like this and making some leaves as well with a darker
green on the edge, mix it with your lighter green. Very roughly defined. I let it be, then we'll add more details
when it writes up. This is it for the
cabbage first layer.
15. Pumpkin: Paint a pumpkin next for
the space that we have. Let's take some yellow ochre
and drop it at the bottom. From which we're
going to pull it. Again, clean your brush
and pull this upwards. This is your center
of that pumpkin. Now again, grab some
yellow c and put it at the edge like this
and then pull it again. This time you make a
little bit of a curve for this pumpkin, like this. Let's do it again
on the other side, take some yellow occur. Place it here, and then pull it and make a little
curve like this. Let's do one more,
one, small one here. Then pull it. And follow the curve basically. If you feel the point
is, you can drop more. Like this. On top, then you add a stem,
take some green. Drop it and the stem is a
little crooked for the pumpkin. You can drop it like this. That's a cute pumpkin.
16. Finishing Touches: Now in this lesson, we're going to add details to everything which
has dried up. Let's start with
adding some details. I'm taking a dirty orange
for the carrot now, mixing it with the green, and I'm just dropping it
with small lines just to add some details and
dimensions to this, small lines. Nothing drastic. Same thing with the beetro
take a purple mixed with pink, to make darker lines, and just drop it across
to make some details. For the beet root. These
lines across, not too much. If you want, you can add some details on
the stem as well. With some darker green. Now, even for the egg plant, just using the darker green since I already
have on my brush, and just dropping it to
make some smaller details. This is totally optional. Take some purple and
define the edges now, if you want to, to
make it darker here. Especially as a shadow
behind this is the eggplant, which is behind, so I'm
just making it darker. And a little bit more
defined, not too much. Again, for the radish, take a brownish color, d brown and similar
horizontal lines, just to add some definition. If you want, you can add small
roots coming out as well. The reddish has some roots, especially at the bottom. To add some detail because
it's a white vegetable. This will give a little
bit more detail to it. Again, you can take
a dark green and just add stems and
veins to the leaves. For the spinach, we
definitely want to add details because we
didn't do anything. Especially for the one
which is in front, the front petal or the leaf, add these little veins, center line and the end lines, and define this leaf clearly. For the rest of the leaves, it's optional if you want to define you can or you
can just let it be. The definition
doesn't have to be on each and every leaf to make
it look nice, one and lose. I'm just adding it to one of the leaves. That's your spinach. For the tomato, I'm taking a
black to fill up this space between tomatoes
edge and the seeds. That's your tomato. Again,
not too much detail. For for the garlic,
take a dirty pink, mix it with some
grayish brown and add some lines like this
curves with a small brush. Something like this to
give it some definition. It has these little cloves, which I want to show. And the cloves have these lines. Again, I still want it
to look lose and easy. Not too detail.
That's your garlic. Now grab a green and just make some details for broccoli as we similarly like you did for
others. Just a few lines. Nothing too much.
Now, the cabbage is again one which
didn't have any details. So take a darker green. We'll make these lines coming out to make it look like a leaf. Even here. Dark green. Some lines. Here you can just define some
leaves like this. Make like semicircles around it, and the center you can make it. Just color to give this. Leaves are overlapping
look to it. For the room, I think we can add some black dots to make
a little bit definition. I'm just making the base
and some black dots here and here to just make
it a little bit more detail. And make some shadow
under the cap like this. So that it doesn't
look completely flat. Lastly, is the pumpkin. The pumpkin looks
actually pretty okay, but we can add a line like
this to define the sections. Lake a darker brownish color
and just define the lines. For this, you can also
take a little g dy gray and make a base
to make a shadow. You can do that with
other veggies as well. I just want to do
it with pumpkin, but you can do it with all
the veggies. Add a shadow. And with this artwork
of vegetables turn, I hope you enjoy these
loose easy veggies. I had a lot of fun
painting them, and I'm very happy
to see the results. So I'm looking forward to
seeing how you make it as well.
17. Final Thoughts: I hope you had fun
in this class. It was a really simple
technique and I use this all the time for
all my floral paintings. This is the fundamental building block to
the way I paint. If you like the lesson, then do leave a review. It really means a lot. If you have any questions
during this technique, then please ask me in the
discussion stab below. I would be happy to
answer your questions. For future class updates, follow me on Instagram as
well as on Skillshare. Until then, happy painting.
Kanchan Kaul, Artist and Illustrator
