Easy Urban Sketching With Watercolors - A Collection of Three Paintings

1. Welcome to the Class: When we talk about watercolors, it's a very free flowing artistic medium. When we combine a basic sketch with the medium of watercolors, it can turn into something really beautiful. Hey buddy, I'm Rick Pat. I'm a self taught independent artist and an interior designer by profession. You can find most of my artworks being displayed on Instagram. I go by the name Shira Artisans. In this class, we are going to create three beautiful urban sketches, combining it with the medium of watercolors. There are going to be three beautiful sketches that we are going to do based on houses. The class is best suited for intermediate artists, but also beginners and advanced level artists can write. They're going to start by learning about all the art supplies in detail. We're going to talk about the brushes that we are going to use. We're also going to talk about the markers and the pens that we're going to use. They're going to talk about the color palette in detail. The best part about the class is that you will need only two brushes to create the entire painting. Before starting with all the class projects, we are going to have a beautiful practice session in which we are going to learn about all the elements in detail. The practice sheet will help you a lot to enhance your painting skills. We're going to start with a basic sketch, painting the background, having a vibrant sky. So we're going to move in a step by step manner. I'll be teaching you how you have to paint all the elements in detail. You're going to enhance the entire urban sketch and the watercolor painting together by using some depth and detail. Using the markers, you're going to add a beautiful message using some amazing craft work. It's a very simple and easy class based on urban sketching. I'm very happy and excited to share this class with all of you without any delay. Grab your art supplies and join me in this creative journey. 2. Art Supplies: Everybody. Now let's talk about all the art supplies in detail that you will need for this particular class in case you're missing out on any particular art supply. No need to worry at all. You will find it very easily in any nearby local art store. Now let's talk about the first art supply, which is a simple fevistick. It's basically a simple glue stick. We're going to use this particular glue stick to add some beautiful messages into our class projects. No need to worry about the brand. You can use any other good alternative as well. Then next up, we have a simple pencil to draw a basic sketch before starting the class project. The next up, we have the most important art supply, which is the brushes that we are going to use. These are basically quill brushes of size 0.2 You can use a round brush as well, that is absolutely fine. The best part about this particular thing is that you will need only two brushes. Then here I have a simple black marker. This particular marker is from fabricasle. It's a thin tip black marker that we are going to use to add some beautiful details in the entire painting. Then another one is a simple marker as well. This is also a black marker, only we can use this to add some beautiful text in the entire painting. Then again, I have one more marker which is from Faber Castle. This marker is a little bit thick that we're going to use to add some beautiful dark background in all the paintings. You can observe the tip of this particular marker, it's a bit thicker than the first 21. We're going to use the markers after we are done with a basic sketch. Now let us talk about all the watercolors that you will need for this entire class. There are going to be five beautiful, cool watercolors that we're going to use. The first one is bal blue, cerreline blue, light green, deep green, and gambage. These are all the five watercolors that you will need for this entire class. No need to worry about having the exact same shade of the color. You can go for any other good alternative as well. That is absolutely fine. Then I have a simple tissue paper here. This particular art supply is very important in water colors, so that you can dab your brushes on it and remove excess amount of water and color. Then next up, we have a simple color palette. Try to have a good surface area in your color palette so that you can take out multiple colors, as you can observe here right now. Then next up, we have a simple container that we're going to use to have some clear water in it. Don't worry, this is colored water right now in front of you. You will need container to take some clear water so that you can make a nice combination of water colors together. Then you will need a simple tinted paper, which is going to be darker in shade. And a white paper on which we're going to add some messages. A simple scissor that we're going to use to cut that messages that we're going to create. Now let's talk about the sketchbook on which we are going to create the class projects. The size is 5.8 " by 8.3 ". It is 140 GSM. A GSM basically means the thickness of the paper so that you can apply heavy washes on it. You can observe the sketchbook. Right now, I have already created some beautiful sketches in it in case you are missing out on a sketchbook, you can definitely use loose watercolor sheets as well. That is absolutely fine. Or else in case you're having a sketchbook, only you can paint on it and then you can remove the paper also in case you want that to be framed. You can observe one of our class projects in this particular sketchbook. This is how we are going to create all the three class projects. These are all the art supplies that you will need for this particular class. No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular art supply you can go for any other good alternative. Now let us move towards the next part. 3. Understanding the Color Palette: Everybody, now let us talk about the color palette that we're going to use in all the three class projects you can observe. Right now, I'm ready with all my art supplies. Nearby I have a simple small sketchbook, and in this particular class project, you can observe these beautiful, cool colors that we have used for the entire painting. Now I have a small sketchbook right in front of you. But before that, let me talk about all the water colors. I'll be placing all the tubes one by one in my hand so that I can take you a little bit closer. As you can observe, these are five beautiful, cool water colors. The first one is Gambage, then we have Cerlline blue. Then we have Cobal blue, light green, and deep green. These are all the five water colors that you will need, no need to worry at all. In case you do not have the exact shade, you can go for any other good alternative as well. That is absolutely fine. Now one by one, I'll be showing you all the five colors on this particular sketchbook so that you can observe how they are implemented on the paper. I'll be taking my Quill brush of size zero and I'm going to take the first color which is cobalblue. You can observe in the color palette. I have already taken out some good amount of color, take a little bit of water and lose in the color up. And you can observe in this particular sketchbook, I'll be applying it in this little manner. We are not going to apply it on the entire surface, just a small patch so that you can get an exact idea of how the color is going to look on the entire paper. Once we are done applying the first color, you can clean your brush in some water and dab it onto the tissue paper. Take some good amount of water again. And this time we're going to take some Cerline Blue. You can observe in the color palette. I have added a little bit of water into the color, and I'll be again applying a little patch so that you can observe it in detail. Now once we are done with ceruline blue, I'm going to take some gambage using the same steps I'll be applying its small patch. You can observe that in this particular sketchbook, I have just labeled all the colors in the bottom portion so that you can get an exact idea. This is how you can also create your entire color palette so that you know how the color looks on the entire paper surface. Right now, I have applied deep green. We are left with the last color which is light green. You can just add a little bit of water in the color palette. Now I'm going to apply the last patch. Now you can observe all the five colors in a separate section and with its labeling on the bottom portion. Now on the bottom area of the sketchbook, I'm going to combine all the colors together so that you can observe how the colors are getting a nice variation. Once you have applied a nice patch of deep green, we're going to continue it with light green. Then similarly, I'll be continuing it with bald blue. No need to hurry at all. Try to do it in a very slow and steady manner. This is just to get an exact idea of how the colors are getting a nice variation. This is basically a cool color palette. I'll be taking some serulene blue, continuing it with bal blue. Then we have last color, which is gambage. You can already observe a beautiful variation from deep green towards gambage. It's a nice color palette that is forming. We have used only five water colors. This particular part of creating the entire color palette on a rough scrape of paper or a sketch book will help you a lot while you are applying all the colors in your class project. Now talking about the last color, which is basically a black color, which we're going to apply using a marker only. You're not going to use it with water colors. You can observe, I have just applied a nice patch of solid black color using this thick marker. Now you can compare all the colors and the black color also together, which is forming an entire color palette. And you can just compare it with the class project placed in the left portion. So these are all the colors that we are going to use for all the three class projects. No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular color. You can go for any other good alternative as well. Now let us move towards the next part. 4. Lets Practice the Elements: Hey everybody. So before we start with the class projects, let us practice some elements in detail so that you can get an exact idea of how to draw the sketch and combine it with watercolors. So this is the entire practice sheet that we are going to create, just below the color palette. I have some beautiful space. I'll be showing you how you can simply draw a house using a simple marker. Let us start by drawing a simple house. I'll be using a simple marker having a pointed tip. You can observe, I have drawn a simple roof which is triangulated. You just have to draw these two slopey lines. And no need to worry about perfection while sketching. You just don't have to draw a perfect line. Just try to have a rough line, but it has to be in a good perspective. You can observe I have taken one more horizontal line in the bottom portion. Right now, we are directly using a marker in case you're not that much confident enough to sketch the entire house directly towards your practice sheet. What you can do is you can use a simple pencil, and you can create the sketch using the pencil first, and then you can use the marker on it. Now I have completed the entire house with the walls and the base. We have drawn two beautiful windows in a simple square and just added some frames, adding a vertical and horizontal line. And you can observe, this is how you can just simply sketch a simple house. You can also observe a similar house in one of our class projects, which is placed on the left hand portion. It is not at all necessary that you try to draw it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. You can create your own composition and the shape of the house as well. Now we are going to have some beautiful plant body in the entire class project. These are basically plants. You just have to move your marker in this rough and random manner, creating a beautiful organic line to make it look a little bit in depth. I'm just adding this black patches in between portion, you can observe that we have created a nice plantation body also using a simple marker. Then we have a tree also, in a particular class project, you can observe that you just have to create this natural line. As you all know that plants generally have a very natural and organic shape. There isn't any specific shape that we are going to draw. It's a very random and natural way of drawing. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. Once you are done drawing the entire bush, you can just simply add this vertical line, which is basically the trunk of the tree. This is basically a simple style of creating a beautiful sketch. Now we have some staircase, so you just have to draw these rectangular shapes. You can create a combination of steps, as you can observe in the class project as well. Now in this particular class project, you can observe a simple lamp post. You just have to draw a vertical line using the marker and a line in an angle having a small light at the tip. You can add the light boxes also in between. This is how you have to use your marker and create these beautiful shapes. We have some nice windows and doors also. In this particular class project, you just have to draw a simple rectangular shape, add these little vertical lines, and you can just make a nice composition of the dog and windows. We have another door which is having a pointed roof. You can create that as well. You can observe that I'm not adding a single line while I'm creating the sketches. I'm trying to have double lines and I'm just making it in a very rough and random manner. That is what sketching is all about. By using a pencil and the marker together, you can create beautiful sketches. And you can practice them on a rough scrap of paper initially. And then you can move towards your final painting. That will definitely help you a lot to enhance your painting confidence and your chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now, I have used some beautiful Coval blue in my Quill brush of size zero. Add a little bit of water in the color palette and just simply paint the background. Use the tip of your brush to paint in difficult areas. Similarly, I have painted the roof of the entire house as well, taking some darker tones of the color. While you're painting the entire house, make sure that you do not take the color inside the windows and the door in case a little bit of color goes inside the doors and the window. That is fine, because this is a very natural and free flowing medium. No need to worry about perfection. Now I'll be taking a little bit of gambage so that we can create a beautiful contrast with the color of the house and the doors and window. Similarly, we'll be adding a little bit of landscape in the bottom portion using the tip of the round brush. Now I'll be painting the plantations. So I've taken some good amount of deep green and light green together. Add a little bit of water in the color palette so that you can loosen the color up. You can observe that I'm using the tip of my quill brush to add these little dots, having a good amount of color so that we can create a nice texture in the outline of the entire plantation. Similarly, I'll be painting the trees in the bottom portion. We are already done with a sketch, having some good amount of black marker. I'll be just creating this entire solid color of deep green and light green together on the outline. You can just randomly use the tip of the brush to create a nice organic shape. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can create your own composition and you can also work on your brush strokes. Similarly, will observe that for this particular practice sheet, there isn't any particular thing about perfection. I'm just randomly moving my brush and covering the entire area. You can observe in the staircase. Also, there's a little bit of color outside the outline, which is absolutely fine. It creates a nice authenticity to your entire sketch and painting. You can observe using bal blue. I have painted the windows and the door, some little windows and the entire lamppost. You can add a little bit of color in the color palette and splatter some color by tapping your finger onto the brush at the end. I have added some labelings in the entire practice sheet. This particular practice sheet will help you a lot to enhance your painting confidence. You can find it in the resources section. 5. Painting 1 - Vintage House: Everybody, you're most welcome to the first painting, which is a vintage house. As you can observe, I'm ready with my sketchbook and I'll be using a simple pencil to create the basic sketch of the entire painting. You can observe we are starting with the roof of the entire house before using the marker, which is going to be black and create a nice outline for the entire sketch. We are using a pencil so that we can get the exact idea of where to draw the elements. This will also help you a lot to enhance your sketching confidence. Now, whenever you are sketching with a pencil, just make sure that you do not go for perfect lines. Whenever we are sketching, you can observe that whenever I'm trying to draw a vertical or a horizontal line, even if a slant line, there are multiple strokes that I'm applying on it, there shouldn't be one single stroke defining your entire line. Sketching is not about perfection. It is about getting a basic sketch of the particular thing that you want to paint. You can observe that once we are done sketching the houses, we have one small house on the left hand portion as well. Into that, I have drawn these little windows, which are basically rectangular shapes. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner. Observe the movement of my hand whenever you're sketching, try to keep your hand in a very loose and free manner. No need to make it very stiff. Now, once we are done drawing the vintage houses, we are going to place some beautiful plants around it. You can observe that I'm just using the tip of my pencil creating these organic lines, forming some beautiful bushes around the house. Similarly, we are going to have a beautiful tree on the top portion. I'm just adding a very random and natural line creating a beautiful outline of a tree. A simple vertical line, which is basically the trunk of the entire tree. You can observe it's a very random and natural way of creating some beautiful plantation. No need to worry about the perfection. Now we have some space on the bottom portion between two bushes. We're going to add some staircases. These are basically rectangular shapes, having some variation in the placement you can observe as I'm moving towards the bottom area, I'm slowly increasing the size of the rectangular shape. This is basically the perspective. Now, once we are done with the rough sketch, we can just apply some more pressure to the pencil and make the sketch a little bit darker. You can observe that near the tips or wherever the lines are touching, we are going to have some darker values of the graphite pencil in case you want to know the details about the pencil. It's a very simple pencil that you can find it in a very local nearby art store. There isn't any particular Gb of this particular pencil, You can use any pencil, that is absolutely fine. It's a basic sketch only right now you can observe that I'm just adding the lines again and we are just adding these horizontal line on the roof so that we can make it a little bit in detail. Wherever we have the tips, we can just apply some more pressure on the pencil so that we can get some nice pointed edges. You can also observe I've added a double line near the window. I'm just enhancing the entire window by applying a little bit of pressure on the pencil. Again, I'll be telling you the same thing. These are basically rough sketches. No need to worry about perfection also. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. It is absolutely fine if you have some differences in case you want to create your own composition and a beautiful scenery. Having a beautiful vintage house, that is also absolutely fine. You can decide the position of the house, you can place the bushes according to your convenience as well. You can observe I have just created the darker tones near the staircase, and I'm just enhancing the bushes by applying a little bit of pressure in the pencil and we're done with the entire basic sketch. Now we are going to use a simple marker to make the entire sketch in black, and it's going to create a beautiful contrast with the background white paper. The step is absolutely same, you just have to follow the pencil line that we have drawn. Just make sure that you do not go out of the line that we have drawn using the pencil in case you go also, that is absolutely fine. You can just apply a little bit of more strokes to cover the entire mistake. You can observe that I'm trying to apply a little bit of pressure on the edges so that we can get a nice rough sketch of the. Entire scenery with this black marker as well. I'm adding these little vertical lines to create some minute details. It will enhance the entire roof area and make the painting look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. I'll be telling you why we are using a marker instead of a black pen. If you observe carefully when you're using the marker to create these rough lines on the pencil line, you will observe that on the ends there is going to be a little bit of darker tone of black value, or it will create a nice dot on the ends. It enhances the entire sketch very nicely. Rather than a black pen, you'll observe a beautiful outline for the entire sketch in case you want to experiment it with a black pen. That is also absolutely fine. Now in the small windows that you can observe, I'm just adding solid black color by applying maximum strokes inside it. Similarly, I have added these vertical lines on the roof, on the smaller house as well. Now you can observe we are just creating the outline for the entire window. You can observe that my hand is completely free and in a very loose manner. No need to make your hand stiff in case you make any mistake. Also, that is absolutely fine. It's a very rough and natural sketch. Similarly, we are going to create the outline for the plantation as well. You can observe carefully that my marker is not moving exactly on the pencil line. You can see the randomness of the entire sketch. It is absolutely fine. Similarly, I'll be adding the outline for the tree as well. You can observe that I'm using the tip of the marker carefully right now. And you can apply a little bit of pressure to get a thicker stroke. Also, in case you're not that much confident enough to use the marker directly towards your final class project, what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. It will definitely decrease the chances of making mistakes and it will help you to enhance your drawing confidence. Now I'm adding the outline in the staircase area as well. You can observe that I'm not applying a single stroke, I'm just adding a lot of strokes to create one single line. This basically creates a nice rough texture also. So it's basically a style only no need to worry about perfection. And you can just practice it as much as you want to. And then you can come towards your final class project. We are done adding a beautiful black outline for the entire sketch. Now let us enhance the elements. So it's a very simple and easy step. You just have to add these little black patches by applying maximum strokes where we have these little cavities in the bushes. So it's a very random and natural process. No need to worry about adding these little black patches in the exact same way I'm adding right now. You can decide the position of these little small black patches according to your convenience as well. Now let me tell you the reason of adding these little small black patches. It will basically create a beautiful contrast with the entire white background. What happens is that when we apply water colors to the entire sketch, it becomes a little bit dull. The black line will get a little bit bloody, and it will be a little bit lighter in tone. By adding these solid black patches, it creates a beautiful contrast with the water colors as well. The sketch can look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. Now, similarly on the bushes that we are having on the upper portion, I'm also going to add these little black patches. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner. Try to apply maximum strokes to get a nice black patch. You can also enhance the lines wherever you want to make the black outline a little bit thicker by adding maximum strokes on it. Also, in case you're not that much confident enough to add these beautiful black patches directly towards your final class project, what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while drawing. Your chances of making mistakes will be very less you can observe. I have simply added one more line on the entire outline, creating the entire sketch in a very darker manner. This is basically my style of creating a beautiful sketch, which is a very rough and random way. There is no perfection here. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I have drawn right now. Now in this color palette, you can observe that we're going to use two colors, cobal blue and ceruline blue to paint the background, which is a beautiful, vibrant sky. Take a little bit of cobal blue in the color palette and a little bit of ceruline blue. No need to worry about the exact shade. You can go for any other good alternative as well. Now I'll be using my quill brush of size to take some good amount of clear water in it. We're going to apply a thin coat of water in the background. Use the tip of your quill brush to paint in the difficult areas and make sure that you do not move inside the house or the bushes. We are going to paint the blue background only in the background area. You just don't have to move your brush inside the elements. You can move a little bit in the staircase area, which is going to be blue only once we have applied a thin coat of water. Take some good amount of water in your brush and add it in the color palette. Now simply just apply the tip of your brush near the outline area and you will observe that the color will spread automatically. You can use the surface of the brush as well. Apply a little bit of pressure on it, near the outline. Just be careful and use the tip of your brush and you can observe a beautiful background. The reason behind applying a thin coat of water initially is it is basically known as a wet on wet technique, so that the color can spread a little bit in a natural and random way. You can observe. I have created some nice natural patches near the staircase, also now inside the staircase also, we are going to paint some bal blue and erolene blue combination. I'm just using the tip of my quill brush. Now here also, you can observe that this is not at all about perfection. There is some space left also with white background color. That is absolutely fine. It's a very random and natural sketch. We are combining it with porter colors. I'm taking some clear water in the Quill brush and you can observe I'm just adding it on the outer area and it will spread the background color a little bit. Now let me tell you this once again, that no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can create your own combination of colors as well. You can also paint it in your own composition. Now I have taken some good amount of ceruline blue and I'm adding it on one of the walls of the vintage house. It's on the left hand portion. It creates a nice combination with the background. That's why I've added this particular color. Now on the front wall also, you can observe that I'm using the tip of my quill brush of size zero. Be a little bit careful in case there is a little bit of color inside the window. Also, it is absolutely fine. No need to worry about that. Similarly, we'll be painting the wall of the smaller house as well. You can add the darker tones on the topmost portion. It's a good combination of color and water together. Wherever you want to have lighter shade, try to have more water and less color. Wherever you want to have darker shades, try to have more color and less water. To make the sketch look a little bit more classy, you can simply tap your finger to the brush and splatter some color around in a very natural way. Again, no need to worry about perfection. I'll be taking some gambage in my color palette. No need to worry about the exact shade you can go for any other good alternative. You can also experiment with the color as well. Now I'll be taking my quill brush of size zero. Again, take some good amount of color and water together and you're going to paint the roof. You can also observe that this particular color also creates a nice contrast with the colors that we have used initially. Now again, it's a very rough and random movement of the brush. You can observe it's a simple horizontal movement leaving some space in between as well. You can also observe carefully that while we are applying the water colors, the black marker lines are still visible and it creates a nice detail in the entire sketch. You can also observe the reason behind applying a darker tone of marker as well. Even after applying water colors, the outline is still visible and the sketch is really clear right now. That's why we applied a thick coat of solid black color. Now, similarly using the bal blue color, I have painted the chimney as well. Now we are going to paint the plantations. So we are going to combine deep green and light green together. Take a little bit of color in the color palette. I'm taking deep green and I'll be also taking some light green as well. Now we are going to combine both the colors together and paint the bushes with these colors, creating some nice plantations in the entire scenery. It's a good combination of all the colors together that we have in the color palette. Take a little bit of water, loosen the color up, combine both the colors together, and simply apply it in the entire bush. Again, no need to worry about getting the color outside the outline. It is absolutely fine. You can observe that I've covered the first tree now. Similarly, we'll be covering the other bushes also near the house area. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner in case you're not that much confident enough to paint the color directly towards your final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will definitely help you to improvise your painting skills and enhance your confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. You can observe that we have covered all the bushes and the tree using deep green and light green together. I'll simply tap my finger on the brush, flatter some color around to make the sketch look a little bit more classic. Now again, I'll be telling you the same thing. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted right now. You can create your own composition and a beautiful color scheme as well. You can always experiment and explore. Now to enhance the entire sketch and the entire painting, we're going to use a thick marker, which is basically a black marker only having a thick tip. And we're going to apply this solid black patches to enhance and make the entire painting look a little bit in depth. This is basically my style of making the entire painting look a little bit more attractive. You can apply the black patches randomly according to your convenience. I'm just trying to add them near the bushes that we have painted. So it's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to create these little vertical lines combining together, forming these little black patches around the bushes. Right now, this basically helps us to enhance the entire sketch. And you can observe that it creates a beautiful contrast with the colors and the white paper background as well. We already applied a beautiful color on one of the walls of the venttage house. We're also going to make it a little bit darker so that it looks a little bit more attractive. You can observe that I have added the patches on the left hand portion as well. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply these solid black patches in a very slow and steady manner in case you're not that much confident enough to apply the patches directly towards your final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to enhance your sketching skills and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now, you can observe that I'm using the tip of the marker to apply these strokes again. And we're going to make one of the walls completely black very carefully. You just have to use the tip of your marker and apply a solid black patch on the entire wall on the left hand area. No need to hurry at all. You can observe the movement of my hand and the tip of the marker. It's a simple vertical movement combining all the strokes together. Now you can observe a nice contrast of the entire wall. We can also enhance these staircases by applying these horizontal strokes. And you can observe that, again, I have applied these strokes in a very rough manner. It's not a complete stroke I have left in between. Only now again, we are going to add a little text on the entire portion of the painting, making the painting look a little bit more aesthetic. I'll be writing a small message on a rough scrape of paper which is white. You can use any rough scrape of paper, it is absolutely fine. The message that I'm writing is, everything you imagine is always real. It's a very simple positive o, you can write in a good calligraphy and you can simply cut it out using a pair of scissor. I've written the message in two steps. We have one line on the top portion, another on the bottom portion. Simply cut it out, leaving some space. And you can observe we have got two rectangular pieces. Now to enhance both the pieces, we are going to use a nice dark blue paper. You can use any other good alternative as well. It is absolutely fine, whichever is available with you now, you can just cut off the extra edges from the message paper. I'll be using my glue stick and we're going to apply it on the back side. Make sure that you apply the glue on the back portion. No need to apply it where you have written the message. Be very much careful while applying some glue and just paste it on the dark blue paper. Carefully apply some pressure using your finger so that the paper can get stuck to the dark blue paper completely. Similarly, I'll be adding some glue on the smaller message as well and apply it just below the first one. You can observe I have left some space around the messages. Now we're going to cut it out again. This time you're going to leave some space having some dark blue in the background. No need to hurry at all. Try to cut it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that your cuts are perfect and be very much careful while you're using a scissor. Now you can observe that we have got a nice dark blue border for both the messages, and it makes the messages look a little bit more attractive and aesthetic. It will also create a nice contrast with the painting as well. You can observe we have some extra edges, You can just simply remove it. Be very much careful while using the scissor. Just make a parallel cut with the paper edge. Just remove the extra portion, no need to hurry at all. Try to cut it in a very slow and steady manner. You can remove the extra pages and we are done with both the messages. Now you can place both the messages according to your convenience. It is absolutely fine. You can decide the position. I'm basically going to place it here on the bottom right corner. You can apply some more glue on the back side of the messages. And apply some good amount of glue so that the messages do not get removed from the painting. Now you can simply apply some pressure using your finger so that the message can get stuck with the entire painting. No need to hurry at all. Try to do it in a very careful manner and you can observe we have added a nice positive quote in the entire painting. Now using my marker, I'm just going to add a little text which is handwritten. It's watercolor painting, you can write it in a good calligraphy. No need to hurry at all. Try to write it in a slow and steady manner. We have created a nice combination of painting message and some text together. I'll be using the lid or I can say the cap of the glue stick which is circular. Add a little bit of water in the color palette and simply use this to get this nice circular shape. Simply dab the cap to the color palette and place it on the entire watercolor paper. In this combination of two circular shapes, or even one, is absolutely fine. You can do it according to your convenience. It's absolutely fine. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully and they are done with the entire painting. This is how you can create a beautiful combination of an urban sketch with a medium of watercolors. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next painting. 6. Painting 2 - Blue Cottage: Everybody, you're most welcome to the second painting, which is a blue cottage. As you can observe, I'm ready with my sketchbook and all the art supplies nearby. Now this time we are going to directly sketch using a marker. In case you are not that much confident enough to sketch it directly using a marker. You can use a simple pencil to initiate the initial sketch, and then you can overlap it using a solid black marker. Right now, I'll be just drawing the house initially. We're going to start by drawing the roof first. So it's a simple, rectangular shape. Now, while you're using a solid black marker, no need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner. It's going to be a very rough and random sketch, so no need to worry about perfection. You can also observe that I'm not applying a single stroke to draw a simple line. I'm applying multiple strokes to get a nice sketch. So you can observe that I have drawn a simple window inside this rectangular shape. We also have a small triangular shape just above the rectangular shape. Now to make the window look a little bit more attractive, I'm just adding a simple vertical and horizontal line to draw the frame of the entire window. Now let us draw the walls. These are, again, simple vertical lines and a small horizontal line, which is going to be the ground line as well. I have extended the ground line on both the sides because we are having some more elements. Also, you can observe that I'm adding few more strokes to make the line a little bit thicker. Now I've added a simple horizontal line. And we're going to draw the door. And one more window. No need to hurry at all. Observe carefully, and you can observe that I'm also adding few more strokes to make the sketch look a little bit more rough and authentic. This is basically my style of creating sketches and it is absolutely fine. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. You can practice and you can just make sure that you are able to sketch in an easy manner. I'll be adding these little strokes, enhancing the entire house. So you can observe, we have drawn the entire cottage and it looks really simple and elegant. Now we're going to add a little chimney, but before that let's add some fence on the right hand side, draw a simple horizontal line. We are just drawing a double line and we are going to add these vertical lines, which are part of the fence. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner in case you find that your lines are not that much straight, it is absolutely fine. No need to worry about perfection. Sketches are always very much random and rough. Now, once we are done with the fence in the right hand portion, I'm going to add a little chimney which is a little bit heighted than the entire cottage. It's a very simple and easy technique. As you can observe, we have drawn the entire chimney. Now let us add a nice bush which is basically going to be green and this is a part of plantation. In the entire scenery, you just have to draw organic and natural shape. There isn't any specific way of drawing it. You can draw it in a very random and natural way. Now we are going to have one more fence on the left hand portion. It's again, a very simple and easy step. Just draw these double lines having a horizontal and vertical lines forming together. Now this time we are going to have some horizontal lines in the between portion as well. This basically makes both the fence look a little bit different. Now we're going to add a little bit of bushes on the background just above the fence that we drew on the left hand portion as well. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. You can create your own composition of the bushes as well. You can create your own composition by placing it in different manner as well. We are done with the entire sketch. Let us add some nice road in the front area. I'll be adding one more horizontal line. And you can observe I have drawn it in a very rough manner, not a single straight line. It's a very rough and random way of drawing. You might be wondering why we are using a marker rather than a black pen. There's a reason behind it. If you observe carefully, the marker leaves a little bit of black dots and it makes the ends look a little bit thicker and darker. It creates a nice depth and detail in the entire sketch. You will also observe it carefully while you're drawing it practically. We are almost done with the entire sketch. Let us add these little black patches. We are just going to add these vertical lines, or we are just going to add these rough black patches in certain areas to make the sketch look a little bit more in depth. No need to hurry at all. Just take your time. Observe it carefully. And just apply some more lines to make the sketch look a little bit more darker and in depth, in case you're wondering why we are adding these little black patches in the entire sketch. Let me tell you, once we apply the watercolors, the sketch might get a little bit lighter in tone to make sure that the sketch is also in an even tone with the watercolors. We are just adding these black patches in certain areas so that it looks a little bit more in contrast and the sketch is completely visible. I have added a little bit of plantation in the bottom portion as well. Now let us paint a beautiful I've taken some cobalt blue and ceruline blue in my quill brush of size to take a little bit of water in the color palette, to loose in the colorra. Use the tip of your quill brush to paint in difficult areas. Basically, the outline of the entire house and the plantation. Make sure that you do not move inside this particular area in case you move also. That is absolutely fine. It's a rough way of creating a beautiful watercolor sketch. It is absolutely fine. You can, but make sure that you paint it in a very careful manner. You can observe a beautiful, vibrant sky. It looks really amazing when it dries up. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. You can simply take some more amount of color and make the entire background a little bit more wider by applying some more strokes on the outer area. Now let us state some darker values of Cobal Blue. I'll be taking my Quill brush of size zero. Add a little bit of water in the color palette and make sure this time you have more amount of color and less water. We want a nice saturation of the entire color. I'll be using the tip of my Quill brush to paint in difficult areas. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that you do not apply color inside the window because it is going to be in a different color in case it does goes inside the window. That is also absolutely fine. You can observe I have covered the entire roof using cobalt blue and seruline blue together. And it is a little bit darker than the background color because we have used less amount of water now. Similarly using the same color, I'll be painting the fence which is in the right hand portion. Simply use the tip of your quill brush and apply the color and you can observe a beautiful contrast with the background as well. Now similarly we'll be painting the fence on the left hand portion. You just have to apply the brush above the lines that we have drawn using the marker. Now, I'm just adding a little bit of blue color in the road area as well. I'm just applying the strokes in a random way, only there isn't any specific way of applying them now. Simply using the tip of the quill brush. I'm painting the door and window in the ground floor. No need to hear at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. You can also observe that the lines that we have drawn using the sketch pen are not that much faded or becoming lighter. Even after applying the water color, they are still visible. And that is the most amazing part about the entire sketch, I'll be using a little bit of gambage in the color palette, using my Quill brush of size zero. Apply it in the window, on the roof area, and the chimney that we have painted. No need to hurry at all. It's a simple vertical movement and just paint it now we have some space in between the fence there. Also, you can apply this gambage. It can enhance the entire fence area and creates a nice contrast with the blue color as well. I have added it a little bit in the bush that we have on the left hand portion as well. Right now you can observe that there is no perfection while we are painting this particular scenery. I'm just applying the color in a very random and natural way. You do not have to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You might get a different output and that is absolutely fine. This is the specialty about this particular sketching. As you all know that water colors are a very free flowing medium. I've taken some deep green and light green together and I have painted all the bushes. You can observe that it is absolutely fine if the color goes outside the outline as well. This will make your entire painting look a little bit more authentic as well. I've taken some darker tones of the color having less amount of water in it. In case you have axis amount of water, just simply dab your brush to the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. Now simply tap your brush on the entire bush area, leaving these darker tone dots, you will observe a nice variation of dark green and light green together. Now similarly, I'll be doing this on the bushes that we have in the bottom portion as well. In case you want to loosen the color up in the color palette, just simply add a little bit of water. Now let us paint the road. I've added a little bit of green on the left hand portion. Take some gambage and just apply it on the entire road. You will observe a nice combination of green and gambage together you can observe it's a very random and natural way of painting. You can see how roughly I'm applying these strokes to make the painting look a little bit more rough and authentic. We are almost done applying the colors. Now let us add some gambage on the bottom portion, you can observe the movement of my Quill brush, and I'm just adding it on the bottom portion. Now in order to create some nice aesthetics in the entire painting. To make it look a little bit more attractive, add a little bit of water in the color palette, loose in the color. I'll be taking the cap off my fevistic. I've just added these little circular shapes in the painting in a very random way, only. There isn't any specific way of adding them. You can decide the position according to your convenience as well. This basically makes a nice classic style of a coloring. I'll take my quill brush and tap my finger on it to splatter some color randomly on the entire painting. No need to hurry at all. Try to do it in a very slow and steady manner. We are almost done with the entire painting. Now I'll be taking my marker, which is having a thicker tip. Now we are going to enhance all the elements together. Initially, we apply small black patches in the entire painting to make some nice depth and detail. Now this time we're going to apply some bigger black patches which is going to create a nice contrast of all the elements and the background. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply these little vertical lines combining together, forming a nice big black patch. This is basically my style of creating some nice urban sketches. Combining it with watercolors, it makes it look a little bit more authentic and creates a nice sense of sketching in case you're not that much confident enough to apply these dark black patches and you do not want to spoil your beautiful class project. You can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting, so that the chances of making mistakes will be very less. And you can develop some more confidence of applying these beautiful black patches in the entire painting. You can observe I have added it on the fences and some more strokes on the bottom portion, very randomly, in a natural manner. Now let us add some beautiful messages, basically some positive quotes that we're going to add to enhance the entire painting. I'm going to write a nice positive message. Art is like therapy. Creativity takes courage. You can select any positive te, according to your convenience. It is absolutely fine. I'm having two lines basically. And then I'm going to use a pair of scissors to cut them carefully, leave some white space, and just simply remove the entire message. We are going to have the message in two parts. Basically, you can observe how carefully I have divided into two parts. Now, once we are done removing both the messages from a rough scrape of paper, you're going to add a darker tone paper on the background so that both the messages gets enhanced. I'm going to use a dark blue paper. You can go for any other good alternative as well. You can use any other color paper as well. I'll be using a fevistic, applying some glue on the back side of the entire message. No need to her at all. Try to apply the glue in a nice way so that it gets stuck to the paper in a good way. Similarly, I'll be adding some glue in the second message as well, and placing it just below the first one. Simply dab your finger onto the message so that it gets stuck with the background paper. I'll be using the same scissor and removing the messages again. But this time we have to leave some dark blue space so that we get a nice outline. You can observe how beautiful the entire message looks. Once we apply a nice dark blue color in the background. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the edges in a careful manner. We are ready with both the messages. Now we are going to place them in the entire painting. You can decide the position of both the messages according to your convenience. You can place it in whatever manner you want to, even if you want to place it in a vertical manner, that is also absolutely fine. The reason behind adding these beautiful messages is so that we can make the entire painting look a little bit more aesthetic and attractive. In case you want to place one message on the above portion and one on the bottom, That is also absolutely fine. You can make your own composition. I'm going to place both the messages on the top left corner. I'll be adding some glue again in the backside portion. No need to hurry at all. Do it in a very careful and steady manner. I have placed one message. Similarly, we'll be adding some more glue in the second message. Once you're done applying the glue, just place it below the first one. Now you can observe we are done with both the messages. I'll be using my another marker, which is basically a black marker only. And I'm going to write watercolor painting on the bottom right corner so you can observe that we have nicely composed all the elements together. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 7. Painting 3 - Town House: Everybody, you're most welcome to the third painting, which is a town house. As you can observe, I'm ready with my sketchbook and all the art supplies nearby. We are going to start with a basic sketch using the marker, only in case you're not that much confident enough to draw the basic sketch directly using a marker. What you can do is you can use a simple pencil and draw the sketch first, and then you can overlap it using a marker. This will help you a lot to develop confidence to draw directly using a marker. As you can observe, we are starting from the topmost portion, which is basically the roof of the entire house. It's a simple rectangular shape and a smaller rectangular shape having a small chimney or outlet on the top portion. You can observe carefully that while I'm applying these strokes for the sketching part, I'm not applying a single stroke. I'm basically giving it multiple strokes. This is basically about rough sketching. We are not talking about perfection. Here. You can observe we have added little window and I'm going to add one door also. These are basically rectangular shapes only you just have to simply add vertical and horizontal lines together forming these beautiful doors and windows. You might be wondering why we are using a marker rather than a black pen. The reason behind that is if you can observe carefully while I'm using this particular marker on the edges, you can observe a small black dot which comes when we leave the entire strokes. You'll observe a darker tone at the ends that you won't able to give using a black pen. But it is absolutely fine in case you want to use a black pen that is completely okay, you can explore according to your convenience. Now, similarly we are going to repeat the same flow that we have drawn on the top portion. Again, I'll be just adding a square shape on the bottom part. And then we're going to add the little door and windows. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner if you observe carefully. Right now, I'm sketching directly using a marker in case you want to have a basic pencil sketch first, and then you want to use a marker that is completely fine. Also, you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while sketching, and your chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now, in the ground portion, I have a different type of door, which is pointed on the top portion. You can experiment all the time. We are adding these little staircases. Now I'll be simply adding a horizontal line, which is basically the ground line for the entire sketch. Then we have another building on the left hand portion. It is going to have a pointed roof. This time you can just simply take a slant line and add these little vertical lines to enhance the entire sketch. This basically creates a beautiful contrast with the white background. Now I'll be having a little plantation, which is basically a bush on the bottom left portion. You just have to draw an organic line like this. Now to complete the entire building, I'll just add the wall and these little windows, you can fill in solid black color. Applying these little strokes so that the windows become a little bit more in contrast. And you're going to add a little lamp post on the left portion. One thing that I would like to tell you all is that no need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. Sketching is not about perfection. It's all about creating rough strokes which replicates something. Once we are done drawing all the elements on the left hand portion, let us add few building elements on the right hand side as well. I'll be having a small building portion. You can observe this is a combination of horizontal and vertical strokes. It's a very simple and easy technique. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner. I'll be adding the last building element. On the right hand side, I'm adding these horizontal lines, replicating the floors. And one vertical line which is basically the walls. We have drawn few windows. Adding these horizontal and vertical lines together, I'll be adding these little vertical strokes to enhance the floors. Now we have one simple tree in between. Again, you can observe just a simple organic line which is very rough and random, forming a small bush. You can create your own shape and composition of the entire tree as well. And a little lamppost as you can see, combining horizontal and vertical lines and few elements, we have completed the entire sketch. Now just below the ground line, we are going to add few floor tiles. You just have to draw these lines and perspective horizontal line which is going to form the entire flooring. As you move towards the bottom part, just increase the distance between the horizontal lines. That will give you a nice perspective. And you can add these little dots at the cross section. As you can observe, we are done with the entire sketch. Now I'll be using my quill brush of size two, and we're going to apply a thin coat of water in the background. No need to hurry at all. Use the tip of your quill brush to paint in difficult areas. Make sure that you do not move inside the sketch area in case there is a little bit of portion that is absolutely fine. No need to worry about that Now, once we have applied a thin coat of water, I'll be taking some cobalt blue and seruline blue together. And simply apply it on the first layer of water. And you will observe a nice spread of the color automatically. You can observe that I'm using the tip of my brush to paint in smaller portion. The reason behind applying a thin coat of water initially is it is basically known as a wet on wet technique in which we apply a thin coat of water initially and then the color. This helps us to get a nice blend of colors together and the color can spread automatically. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab it onto the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. Now I'll add a little bit of water in the color palette. Take some more color and we're going to paint the ground area. You can observe that using the entire surface of the brush I have used to color it. On the bottom portion, we have applied a thin coat. Now you can take some darker tones of the color, having less water and more color in your brush, and just add these little dots at the cross section. This will help to get a nice, attractive aesthetics. We are almost done painting the background, which is the sky area and the ground area. Now I'll be taking my Quill brush of size zero. Take some good amount of cobalt blue and cerulene blue together, and just simply paint the doors and windows, also the railing that is in the front portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. You can observe that I'm using the tip of my brush to paint. In this smaller portion. Try to keep your hand very loose and free. No need to make it very stiff. Similarly, we'll be adding the color in the building that we have drawn on the left hand portion as well. If you observe carefully, I'm not trying to paint the elements in a very perfect manner. I'm just simply leaving the strokes. It's a very classic way of combining urban sketches and water colors together. We are almost done adding the blue color to the smaller elements. Now I'll be taking some gamba, so you can observe in the color palette. You can add a little bit of water to loosen the color up. And we're going to paint the remaining elements. Starting from the roof for the left building, you can observe the way I have used my round brush or basically the Quill brush of size zero. You can add a little bit of deep green gambage to get a darker tone. You can always combine and create some variation in the colors. You can also create your own color palette. Right now, the color palette that I have selected is basically a cool color palette. Now similarly, we'll be adding the color in the entire walls of the building. You can observe the movement of my Quill brush. It's a simple horizontal and vertical movement. I have left the doors and we do not want both the colors to blend together. That's why you can just simply add the color carefully in case you are not that much confident enough to add the colors directly towards your final class project. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. You can observe we are almost done painting all the building elements. Now let us add some deep green and light green together to the plantation. In the color palette, just take a little bit of water. Combine both the colors together, which is deep green and light green. Take some good value of the color. Make sure that you create a nice composition of water and color together. Simply paint the entire bush. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner in case your color goes outside the outline. It is absolutely fine. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab your brush to the tissue paper. It will absorb axis amount of water and give you a nice saturated color in your brush. We are done with both the bushes on the bottom portion. Now I'll be painting the entire tree. Also you can observe we have covered the entire tree and I'll be leaving these small dots in the outline. Take some darker tone of deep green and just dab your brush. It's a very random way of dabbing the brush. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, just simply dab your brush to the tissue paper, it will remove axis amount of water and you'll get a nice saturated color. I'm adding these little dots around the outline so that the plants look a little bit more aesthetic. And it creates a nice contrast in the entire painting as well, in case you want to practice all the elements and paint them in a rough scrape of paper or you're practicing journal, and then you want to come towards your final class project. It is absolutely fine. It will help your lot to develop confidence while painting. Now I'll be adding a little bit of water in the color palette and just take some good amount of color. Tap your finger onto the brush and splatter some color on the entire class project. It's a very random way of applying these beautiful splattering effect. This makes the entire class project look a little bit more classic. Now I'll be using the cap of my fevistic, which is basically a circular shape. Take some water in the color palette, loose in the color up. Simply put the cap in the color palette and add these little circular shapes. You can decide the position of the circular shape according to your convenience. It's absolutely fine. Now let us add some beautiful messages in this particular painting as well. I'll be writing a positive quote. There is peace, satisfaction, and calmness in art. You can decide your own message as well. It is absolutely fine. Now, once you have written the message on a rough scrape of paper, simply remove the extra portion. We have two lines. Basically, I'm going to separate that as well. I'm going to use a pair of scissor. Be a little bit careful while you're using a scissor. We have separated both the messages. You can remove the extra part from the sides. You can observe we have two beautiful strips. And now we're going to add some nice dark background. I'll be using a dark blue paper. You can go for any other good alternative as well. Put some glue on the back portion and just apply the entire message on the dark blue paper. Similarly for the second message also, I'll be applying some glue. Just put it below the first one. Now we are going to leave some border. Just use your scissor carefully and leave some dark blue space this time. So you can observe that we get a nice border which is dark blue and it creates an nice contrast with the white paper. No need to hurry at all. Try to cut it in a very slow and steady manner. You can observe we have got both the messages with a nice dark blue color in the background. Now we are going to place them in the entire painting. You can decide the position of the messages according to your convenience. It is absolutely fine. You can place the messages in a horizontal manner or else you can also place them in a vertical manner. You can decide the composition. Simply add the glue in the back portion and place it on the entire watercolor paper. No need to hurry at all. Just simply apply some good amount of glue so that it do not get detached from the painting. Apply some pressure using your finger. You can observe carefully that we are done adding the messages. Now I'll be using my marker and I'll be adding a nice text, which is watercolor painting, using some nice calligraphy. I'll be using my marker, which is having a thick tip, and we're going to add some solid black patches. No need to hurry at all. Be very much careful while adding these black patches. The reason behind adding these black patches is that we can create some nice contrast in the entire painting and it creates some nice depth. Also, this is basically my style of adding these strokes in my sketches. You can create your own as well. You can decide the position of the black patches. You can create your own composition as well. You can observe I'm slowly enhancing all the elements. I'm adding these black patches in a different way. We are adding it near the bushes. There is no specific way of adding them. You can just apply it in a very random way, but it has to look aesthetically good. You can observe that we are adding a few more strokes in the bottom portion in case you're not that much confident enough to add these black patches directly towards your final class project. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. It will help you a lot to develop confidence while drawing. Also, your chances of making mistakes will be very less. No need to hurry at all. Just apply these strokes in a very slow and steady manner. You can carefully observe the movement of my hand. Also, just try to keep your hand very loose and free. We are done adding all the black patches as well. I'll be just enhancing the ground area as well. Just simply adding these horizontal lines in the floor area. You can observe it's not even overlapping, so it's a very random way of adding the lines. We are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next part. 8. Class Conclusion: When it comes to exploring different art forms, I love to explore them in detail. The most amazing part about watercolors is that you do not have to worry about perfection. There are a lot of possibilities of creativity once you start exploring them. While I was creating this particular class, I made any number of mistakes. And that is something I always tell my students, never to be afraid of making mistakes. One thing that I always tell my students is to maintain an art journal in which you can practice on a regular basis. And keep a record of your artwork. In case you have any questions or doubts related to the class, feel free to ask them to the discussion section I would be very excited to see of your class projects into the project gallery. No need to worry about the output. You can definitely explore and experiment with the class projects also. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted. Keep learning and practicing. It would be really great if you leave a review for the class. As it encourages me a lot, my class can reach many more students like you. I'm very happy to share this class with all of you and I hope that you enjoyed and got to learn something from this particular class. Thank you so much for joining the class and happy painting.