Easy Watercolor Art Journaling - No Effort Painting

1. Introduction to No Effort Painting: Can you paint with watercolors? Loosely? It's not that easy, is it? Some voice inside the office says, Do it nicely. Don't go over the lines. Paint everything. Don't mix up the colors. Maybe it's our art teachers or parents from when we were kids. Whoever they were, they were wrong. Let's make a mess. Hi. My name is Fati, but you can call me Fab. Fab is not short for fabulous. I am fabulous, but it's just not. I'm a watercolor artist, online teacher, and productivity enthusiast. Check. What's that? Productivity enthusiast. Like, I'm a big fan of productivity, but not quite there yet. I want to make this class because when I teach or show, for sketch journaling, painting doesn't get the credit it deserves. I call it dismissively splashing around, and it takes the least amount of time. But it's essential. While it's not hard to paint the way I do, it might not be intuitive for you. It certainly wasn't for me. I had to train myself to be able to do this. So by the end of this class, you will be able to paint so loosely your watercolors will feel spontaneous, bold, and full of energy. This class is for anyone. You don't need any experience or prior knowledge to take this class. If you feel like you can't quite grasp the idea of what no effort Sketch learning is, you can go back and watch other classes of mine on this topic because this is the part three of the series. Other than that, grab your watercolors and watercolor paper and get ready to splash around. Look, again, I'm saying splash around painting, proper painting. Than that, you might need a brush, a cup of water, and some pages on your sketchbook with ready to paint drawings. Since this is no for painting, we are not going to slow down with drawing. That was the previous class. During the class, I will break down how I paint with watercolors when I'm doing no for sketch earning. We will talk about how to choose colors, coloring the subject, coloring the title. Latin colors mix, how to make a mess on purpose, the art of splashing and the art of not painting, bloody everything. So your class project is to let loose. I want to see an art journal page from you that is so loose, I'm going to think that you were drunk when you painted it. I can't wait to start painting with you. This is my favorite part. Let's go. Jack, are you ready to let loose? Actually, I want to see you a bit tighter. You are already losing 2. Your Class Project: Rigidity. Your class project is to let loose. Can you do that? This is my 16th class, and I've seen hundreds of projects from my students, and most of the time, what I see is you can't let loose. I think it comes from our childhood. My childhood is full of memories where I was being told, do it like in the example. Don't go out of the lines, do it properly, follow the lines. I understand that when we are little, we need a little structure to be able to draw the letters properly and draw a circle evenly. But I think this rigidity leads to rigid people, rigidity, quite a word. Rigidity. Your rigidity is boring me, basically, Jack. That's what I'm trying to say. You need to let loos. And later on, it's very hard to let it go. We don't even think about it, but it's there. It feels like it's against our very being. It's embedded in there somewhere. Anyway, that's my hypothesis. And some of the students projects I see prove my hypothesis. That's why I have the mission to break your shackles and set you free. Believe me, it's much easier to paint this way, and it's much more expressive and artistic and unique. So I want from your page, painted loosely. We will get into the details in a minute. But basically, take your color, put it on the page, wash the brush, take another color, do the same. Let it touch to the previous color. Maybe take another color, splash, splash some more, take a photo, and share it with us. Okay, let's not lose time here and get to the part where we will let loose. Did you see the word play there, Loose, loose? No, I have to explain every joke to you, Jack. Onwards we go, Jack, to the materials. 3. Materials and What Do I Pack in My Backpack: What am I going to use for this class? The materials video? Here they are. It's not much, I have to say. Let's go through them. Let's start with this group here first. This is what I have in my backpack. This is my little set I made with what is this thing called Elastic band. Yeah. So let me take that. Of this keeps it all together in my backpack and it's very useful. This is my tiny sketchbook. Let's put it aside for now, and let's have a look at the paints. This is my painting set from Kuretake brand that you can see the name here. I hope it's in focus, Kuretake. And I think this set is called Ganzi tambi. Does those who say here? No. But it's called Kansai Tambi. I will write it on the screen. This is my eraser, but I don't really use it when I do not sketening since I don't use pencil, but I keep it with me. You never know what you're going to if I'm going to do another project or something, if I come up with some other idea, I might use it. So these actually, I don't use, but they are always in the set here. And inside this section not made for this. This is the box of this small set from Kartage. I have a bigger set of this with how many colors one to three. I think 48 colors of the same brand, and this is the smaller one with one, two, three, 12 colors, and it comes in this box. And I thought usually I was carrying around a box of pens and brushes and so on. But I wanted to make it lighter at some point when I started doing Noy ford sketch journaling with small sketchbooks. And this is very light in my backpack, and I really like it. I have one thicker brush. It's number eight and one thin brush, it's number three. Let's put them here. And in here, I have a tick pen. You know, I like from my drawing class like the previous class on first sketching with a tick pen, I like drawing that it has more weight on the paper and it looks better. And I have one brush pen, and I don't usually use this for noifskeing, but recently I started doing lots of abstract and what's called neurographic art, and that's going to be probably the next class, and I'm using this for that. And the paints have this cover which also also doubles for me as a place to mix the colors put to the side as well. And this is the set. I think in this set originally, there was in this lilac. I took it because I use it often. Later, I'm going to tell you why. And this blue, I think I d from the big set and maybe the black as well, but I'm not sure now. This is Number 20. Let's see what is under if I can pick it up. Yeah, this is number 20, that's supposed to be here. Maybe the beige wasn't here, number ten. Yeah, this is number 11. So there was something else. So the colors I use a lot. I took it from the big set and made a set for myself that this kind of covers my basic needs, basically that I have a nice bright yellow, and this color I use a lot for wood and baked stuff because, you know, I go to coffee shops a lot. And I have an orange. I have a sort of a pinkish red. I don't use red that much. And this blue and lilac and beige, they are opaque, and I like their effects on into the other pins that it kind of pushes them and moves them around because they are heavier. And I have two types of green and this is I'm actually missing a bit of a brown here, but I usually use the black and this. I'm not sure what this was. Was it burned amber? It doesn't say here, but number 46, yes. This is what came with the set. And then I have another blue here, navy. But it looks darker than it is, actually. On the paper, it's much lighter. So I have this set, and I have my noFg sketch journal. It's small. I think this is nine by nine. And normally, you know, I have let me find you an example. Actually really like using this coming. Let's push this aside a bit. I actually really enjoy using this from SMLT art because you can break away the This maybe you remember from my first no for sketching class, I was using this mixed media sketch album. And it also takes the water very well, as you can see, it's hardly banded. And so, but as a present, I got this yellow, small, very cute sketchbook, and I want to use it. So at the moment, I'm using this one. And inside, you can see this actually upside down that I think, yeah, I started in Turkey, and all these pages are actually on YouTube. There is a special series on YouTube for now for Sket journey on holiday in Marmar Turkey. And then let's speed up a bit. This is where Marmars finished and back to Warsaw. And and this is how I usually do. When I go to coffee shops, I draw the scene from them. And so, like I said, I started doing some abstract as well, and this was in the previous class, this page, the same scene I created in the class. And then from Spain. But since you are here, I can just show you guys maybe and this is La agrada Familia. If you haven't watched my Barcelona class, I do five different styles of the same building and experiment with different styles. And that's where I'm at at the moment. We recently been to the mountains, but for the mountains, I was using another sketchbook and that's a little bit bigger, and this one will be a bit more kind of combining my traditional sketch journaling with no effort sketch channeling, and I'm working on this at the moment. This is what my son Drew. And some more abstracts. This is coming. I'm working on this tool, and this is the page from the months I haven't finished yet. But anyway, it's about materials, not about drawings. Let's go back to the materials. So I have a small box of sets. I showed you just two pens, a pencil and two brushes inside, and my tiny sketch book. And always have some kitchen towel with you and small jar for water that usually I keep it full in my backpack. I open it, even if it's not perfectly clean. It does the job still. And with this, I can do like two, three paintings, and it still would be fine. And you will see during the class, I'll be using this as well. And also in a coffee shop, it's very easy to just go and fill it in the bathroom. So that's my tiny jug. And this is it. This is my set, the set of watercolors, brushes, pens, even just this pen, we can say just number five and little sketchbook. This is it. That's what I use. So this is what we're going to use in the class as well, and I will see you with the first lesson, which we will talk about how to choose colors, and then we will get to the paintings. But first, we need to talk about address the issue of choosing colors because that can be difficult for some of you, I imagine. So I will see you on the next lesson. Bye. 4. How to Choose Colors: Welcome back. So we're gonna splash around and let loose and it's all fun and games, but how are you going to choose the colors? I try to categorize how I go about when I'm choosing a color when I'm doing my paintings, so we're going to have a look at them. This was a bit funny. I don't know what this is. So we're gonna have a look at them. Like, shall we? Where is the confidence? Place or location. This is the most straightforward approach. Whatever the colors of your subject is, that's what you use on the page. Try to pick two colors from the scene and apply that on your page. You don't have to color every single thing. In fact, don't paint more than three objects. Day, sometimes the day you are out can carry special importance. For example, we took our son to the pride parade here in Warsaw, and of course, on that day, I use the rainbow for the title. Or if it's Valentine's Day, you could use hot pink or red and green for Christmas. Feeling. This is something more abstract, but I do it from time to time. For example, my wife and I give each other one, free afternoon once a week, and on those afternoons, I usually go to a cafe I like and draw. On those days, freedom is the main feeling, and when I'm painting, I usually use the color green because for some reason, green is associated with freedom in my brain. So you can try to find some colors for the feelings you are having on that day. Person. This is like tagging people in your paintings, but with color. I love this kind of use of colors because it would be unique for every person. For example, my wife's favorite color is lilac, so when I'm out with her and drove that day, I use lilac for the title or background. It almost feels like this color represents her presence. Or when I'm out with my son, I use the color yellow because it's his favorite color. And this is the way I choose my colors, but you don't have to do my way. You can choose any color you want. There are no los. You can paint everything blue and call your blue era, then move on to pink. It's up to you. But I thought I would show you the way I do, so you can decide how to go about it. At the end of the day, color is a very personal matter, and you should experiment and see what feels good for your eye. In the next lesson, we will start painting and we will start with coloring the subject. See you next lesson. 5. Coloring the Subject: So what I did for you guys, I think this is going to be one of my favorite classes because I always say that for painting for me, the drawing part is like preparation, and painting part is the fun part. So I kind of make my own coloring books, basically. And while I'm drawing, I can't wait to the part that I'm going to paint. And this is just a painting class. What I did from my existing pages, I made for my personal project cafe portraits that from all the cafes, you know, when I started No sketching, it was with the like, this is one of the first ones that I was just throwing what's in front of me, yes, my coffee, my cake, whatever I'm eating. And then I want to move on to a bit interior of the places. So I came up with the idea to make a cafe portrait. So I was trying to capture a portrait of the cafe. Either it's the coffee station or how it looks inside or outside. So I just recreate it from the origins I painted, and I'm going to paint this for you here in this class to show you how I am doing the painting, basically, like this or like this. So we will get into that now. Let me pull this together. We're going to start with this one for coloring the subject. For this lesson is about coloring the subject. Let's keep this one around here. And as you can see in the photo, this is already a very colorful place. So there is nothing wrong with getting inspired with the place. And I say, you don't have to stick to what you see and you can do whatever you want. There are no rules. But in the meantime, sometimes, what you see is inspiring and that's what you want to capture. And that's what I did on that day. I really want to normally, I don't use this many colors and fill the page so much, but the place was so beautiful. That's what I wanted to capture, and that's what I did. And so that's what we are going to do here. Let me bring my paints. For this class, I'm not even going to use my big set because this usually happens at a coffee shop. It's no effort. Like, it's in the name. And I don't carry the big set with me. I carry this small set, and I just changed a few colors from my big set. I want to have this lilac with me and this blue I use a lot, as you can see, they are running out. And I'm going to do the class with this as well. So I'm going to use, I think, when I'm outside, I have this brush with me. This number eight. But I'm going to use for this class this number 12. I want to show you guys that I want them to be a bit more messy. We're not going to get into the tiny details. In here, I have two water cups. Normally, I use if I'm in my studio, I use two cups for clean water and dirty water, so it lasts longer this way. But when I'm outside, I'm just using my there. This tiny jar, I have, and sometimes the water inside is not even clean, and I will just pour some water in this. And this is going to be here and we go to start. You can see like, there's green on the wall. There's a brick wall, wood, and the blue chairs, pink chairs, black chairs, it's a beautiful place. This white bear. I think I wrote the name wrong. I think it's supposed to be white bear. Sorry about that. And let's start with a bit of orange and just very roughly, I'm applying and I'm taking directly from there, I'm not diluting anywhere. If it's a bit more, a bit less. And I'm not trying to, like, just smerge across the page. I say that I don't care about where the lines start and finish. But if there is a corners of the wall that's giving a bit of white space in between helps to give this feeling. So I leave a bit of white there. I don't make it all the way orange. And now for this brick wall, I'm going to also take some orange, but I'm going to use a bit more of it. And I'm gonna hoops. I'm getting tangled with my setting here with my long brush. I'm going to add a bit of this on the page, just like that. Sorry to differentiate a bit. But I'm not going to go more into that. And I want to do this quickly while the painting is still wet. I'm going to go into this green wall. As you can see, the color start mixing. I don't worry about that. I encourage that. Do that. It's okay. And this green was actually coming here as well, I think. And then I see a bit of wood here. I'm going to apply that. Not everything has to touch and mix. Sometimes you can just leave it a bit of a gap between them and sometimes let them touch it like, play. This part in here, there was a mirror, so I'm not going to get into that, and let's do it bit of color for the furniture here. Sometimes when I check if I have too much pigment on the brush, I drop a bit of it on the side on the paper towel. So there are these chairs with black and white flowers. So I'm not going to paint it white all the way. Pine painted black all the way. I left a bit of white space. And at the back, I see there is this painting, and the background is black, so I'm going to just apply the background like that. I don't know. I'm not going to even feel the middle, to be honest, but it gives the feeling of the place. And over here, I have a yellow lamp. In these places, I often felt like these cousins of the coffee shops I like. That's why I want to do this project. And it often comes from the yellow of the light. So I always make it come out a bit of the lamp. And actually, I also see some more yellow here. It's here, or it mixed with the I think these tables had like brass on the side. Okay. And as you can see, the page is already filled up with lots of colors just like our place. And here, there was a pink chair is, of course, more complicated than just pink. It has lots of patterns going on, but we're not going to go into that. For me, there's a pink chair. So today I'm going to add this pink here, so it will represent the chair. And behind it, there's a blue chair. So I'm going to pick some of this baby blue. And there's also some blue chairs here. And just like that, I'm actually done. And for the we will get into the titles, coloring the title in next lessons, but should I get into that now or later? Okay. This was the coloring the subjects. We did the coloring subject. And I'm not going to get into title. We will talk about titling in the next lesson. One thing we shouldn't forget to do, of course, I think the main color here for me is this nice orange. So I'm going to splash a bit, and I'm going to leave it at that. So now I'm taking this to the side. Later, I'm going to show you how it dried. For the next one, I have this one, and the original was like this. This I want to show this as an example as Less is more. And sometimes, you don't have to make it so colorful like the last one, that it can be definitely less. And here, I like the simplicity of it this cafe was very nice and I want to paint it how it looks the entrance. And it was just a green wall and the yellow warm light was coming through the window, and the door, and that's what I want to capture. So now we have a unpainted version here, and I'm just going to pick up some water and some green paint, and very roughly, I'm going to color the green. And then while it's still wet, I'm going to add this yellow for the light coming from inside. I will definitely going to let it go out because that was the feeling of the place that this yellow was radiating from the windows, and I'm going to this to door as well, and I'm going to come outside like this. So as you can see, just two colors and there was a sign. And just like that, it's done. But again, in here, I think yellow is the hero color. I'm going to splash with the yellow a bit around. And now we're done. Wasn't that quick? Wasn't that no effort? And did you capture the feeling of the place? We total. So this is also it. I'm going to now put this aside, and of course, I have to wait for it to dry, but in the edit, I will show you how they all dried. And yeah, that's what I'm gonna do now. After that, we'll move on to the next lesson, and we will talk about coloring the titles, which is our day. Talk to you soon. Thank 6. Coloring the Title: Okay. So, welcome back. In this lesson, I always confuse the class and lesson. In this lesson of this class, we're going to focus on the coloring the title. And for that, I have two examples, but those two examples are, again, one of my originals I did back in the day on Valentine's Day last year with my wife and I made a copy of that now to do it over. We'll quickly paint this as well. Maybe we want to like in here, but maybe I will just do quick splashes. Let's see. And also another one pica. Again, the original is here, and here's a copy of it I made for the class just for painting, waiting, and we'll start with the Valentine's Day. So let's put this aside. So this lesson is about the title. Painting the title like after painting your subject. But let's start with painting the subject because sometimes it also helps where the title is going to go, so I don't think it's a good idea to do it on the empty. So for this in the original image, this was from a coffee shop we visited. Now, I think in here when I'm going paint the subject the sofa is kind of the main character here. So let's give some color to the sofa. And those two frames on the wall, I like how they look. Let's put this, sorry, paintings here. And there are also those frames with two different colors. I'm not worried with what's inside. I don't think that's that important here because it's about the place and the Valentine's Day, and I'm not using my tiny water here because on the side, I have my waters here and I get distracted by them. I put them away. Okay, and let's put some color to this frame, too. And there is, again, similar wood color this coffee table is. But I'm leaving the drinks empty and like unpainted. I didn't go over them. And I'm not going to go into the wall, but these pillows look fun. So I'm going to get it bit of color, but I'm not bothered mixing purple on the side in this set. I don't have a purple, but I'm just going to put a bit of this blue and a little bit of this pink and will do. And for the balance, I want to put some color here, so I will give some color to the plant as well. So there's a bit of a green over there. And in the original, what I did because it wasn't really important, what's inside the frames. I'm not going into the detail. I gave a bit of blue color here just to represent something and some reddish orangish color here, and that's it. Later on, I carried this blue to the title. That's why I want to show you this taking something from your subject. And in the same time, this green cafinera we have in Poland, they have this very orange in their logo, very distinctive. I'm going to add that, and the rest of the sign is also black. That's also good for the balance in this white space that actually stands nice. So I will just add a bit of black. I'm trying not to touch the orange here because I want that orange to be visible. And so just like that the image is done, and after this, usually I move on to title. And for title, I try not to make it complicated. I use one or two color stops. And like I mentioned before, sometimes I use one color and take one color from the subject so that there's a bit of a connection going on between the two. And in the original one, I use Lilac, this one. And this is another way I pick colors. I think I mentioned this before that pick a color based on the people. This is this color, this lilac is my wife's favorite color. So when we are together, I often use it somewhere on the page to it's kind of tagging someone, but just with colors. So I'm adding a bit of lilac here, and I'm going to take this blue from here and take it into the letters. And for the splashes, I'm going to use the lilac, that is the presence of my wife with and in the original IC, I also did a bit of black splash here, and I like how it looks, so I decided to keep it for this, as well. And that's how I do the titles. I picked a color tagging my wife. It's her favorite color Lilac because that was the day we spent together, and the blue came from the subject. So I'm going to put this aside, and later again, you will see how it looks. And the next one I said is this one. Again, this is the original I made. I put this aside. So quickly, I will do this, that this is not the color for the coffee, but I don't have that brown. So like I was saying before, use what you have, and I'm going to eat a bit of black here, and the rest I will drop and make this look a bit darker. So it will have this bit of brownish, darkish color. And as you can see, I'm just mixing it on the page. And underneath, there is this wooden usually for wood, I use this I think this is ore. And also, I have a kind of a bun here, and for baked stuff, I also usually use this color. But to make it a little bit more interesting, I will add a bit of this light brown. Let's see what is the name of this. I don't remember. It doesn't say, but, like, it's like burnt amber or something. This way it's done, the painting. I think, and again, here in the original, we did two colors title and in here, let's do one. And I was saying this before that I pick also colors by like the feeling of the day. And this was a day out I was by myself, and the theme of the day was freedom, let's say, and for some reason, I connect freedom with green, and I will add a bit of a color just like that. Like, I didn't follow any box, any lines, I didn't feel any boxes. I didn't try to color the individual letters, which you can do if you want. But I decided to just do a bit of a smudg with my brush, and that's it. And I think this needs a bit of a splashing. And for that, I'm going to use the green. And just like that, we are done with this too. I think I should take this here, so I'm not covering the entire screen with my hand when I'm trying to wash my brush. And I'm putting this aside to dry. And while we're at it, let's do the titles from the previous lessons as well because I didn't do it's there. So for this one, in the original, I also didn't and this is again, another option. You can just leave it as it is. But I think here, this was again date with my wife. I could use Lilac. But because there is this just two words best be question mark, I think I want to do two colors like one brush stroke this way, one brush stroke this way, and let's see how it will turn out. And what colors would that be? I think I'm going to again, use the lilac because it was with my wife and I'm going to use the yellow from the painting. So I will follow my own lessons. Let's see how it turns out. So one brash struck this way, I said, and one breast struck this way. So I will just leave it like that. And I'm putting this aside to dry as well. And from the previous lesson, there was also this. And in the original I made, I used, again, green because it was again, I was a day out of the freedom to represent the freedom there was green, and there was orange here. But I think that I can show you actually the original it's here. To make it different, I'm going to use this I want to use blue. I think it will go well with this orange, so I will, maybe I should have washed my brush better. I'm picking some blue, and I will apply in two places like this, and in the middle, I'm going to use this orange, but I don't want to be too strong. And I will just leave the colors to their own thing and mix up. So this was it for the titles. I'm just checking my notes if I forgot anything. Let's see, you can use a single color. I mentioned that. You don't always have to paint the shapes. And inside or outside of the boxes. I also mentioned that in the haircut day in this one that you can just you don't have to fill the boxes. You don't have to follow the lines. You make up your own rules. And make it go out of the box, fill half of it, fill none of it. You are the boss. Just like I said, add water and make it bleed out. We can actually do that here a bit. And I was mentioning the green came from the freedom. I also mentioned that. Okay, so I think I covered all my points. I wanted to tell you, and this is going on the site. I almost knocked down my water. Well done. Yeah. So this was it for the titles. I'm gonna now edit write versions of them so you can see how they turned out, and I'm gonna see you on the next one. Bye. 7. Letting Colors Mix: So for the next one, I have one example for this letting the colors mix. It's this one. I made it back in 2023. I think this might have been the beginning of coffee portraits that I want to actually do the store fronts. But then I realized not every store front is very painting friendly. Like, sometimes it's really nice inside, but outside is just a door, but not in a good way. So I decided doing the coffee portraits. Later, I moved on to interiors as well. And I made a copy of it for us to paint now. I wanted to use this lesson to tell you to let the colors mix. And let's put the orgino there. We don't need it. So in this one, again, the original image is not much, as you can see on the screen. It's not much. You can see it's October, middle of October in Poland, it was a gray, very cloudy day. It was getting dark. There wasn't much going around. The inside of the place is lovely. I love this cafe and I go there. I try to go there often. It's like the name suggests local to me, but there wasn't much. So making the tricks you can use with watercolors can actually elevate a situation that is not very pretty. This place had gray walls. I will pick up a bit of black and dilute that. Oh, that came out rather strong. Well, that will be another example on maybe how mistakes are Okay. Now, I think that's enough pigments. Let's make it go around. Basically, it's all gray because it's the gray walls, gray building behind, and everything gray. But watercolor has one fun thing you can do it mixes well on the page just like that. And if you are quick about it, And I want this yellow to come out of the page a bit to represent the warmth coming out, radiating outside the cafe. So you can break this actually boring gray black colors and make it a bit more fun. And the sign over there was already white. I'm going to add a bit of a green here there was, and I think this could definitely use some yellow splashes. Can you see how much more interesting than just a gray blob here? And I will go a bit even further with the mixing colors, letting the colors mix because this color coming from the cafe is almost like orange. So I want to make it a bit more orange because of that. So again, in here, I'm letting the colors mix. And this was another free afternoon. So now you know the drill. If I'm out, I'm using the green color to represent that. But maybe I will use different green just for. So now the free part, I'm going to emphasize with this color, and I don't want to use the yellow again for some reason, I don't want to be too much. I want this part to stand out. So I'm going to use this kind of beige just to make it a bit more interesting. And I think I will leave it like that and let the colors do their own things. And as you can see, you can let the colors mix to arrive at much more interesting results than I think like, stick to the photo. There's nothing wrong with that, but if it's a bit boring, use what you have, yes. So I will show you how this turned out when it's dry, and then we will move on to making a mess on purpose. See you on the next one. 8. Making A Mess (on purpose): Now, for this one, I'm picking the sample image. I have this one from Chekovka that page I did in 2024, April, apparently. Or about a year ago. I'm just thinking, by the time you see, will it be a year? But no, it won't be still a year because I want it to be out quickly in February. And in this one, we will talk about making a mess on purpose. And as you can see, I did a nice mess here, and it is a controlled mess that it looks like something, but it's not completely abstract. But still, while painting, making a mess in this no effort painting environment is recommended, and let's do that. So I made unpainted version of it for painting with you guys. Maybe you can do this with your own paintings as well. If you have already taken Mino for class and you made some pages and you weren't quite happy how they turned out, you can try to recreate them after this class and try to see the difference. So for this one, my first advice for making a mess is using a thick brush, and don't worry about the fine details. We are not going to try to paint the details of the cake here and so on. It's all about the broad strokes. So the main thing here, let's go with the chair first, maybe. It was a beautiful yellow chair, very comfortable in that cafe, I remember. And always leave some white gaps. Like if something has a corner, try to leave a white cap there that represents that this is not a continuous flat space. For example, let's leave it as it is. I like how it looks. For example, this table, this wooden table that I'm just adding, don't try to fill every line. And in here, leave a bit of a white gap between. And this represents that there is a break there, and this is always a good idea. Now what I will do is I have this color and wooden floors are similar color, but kind of lighter. I'm going to dilute this a bit, and then with what's left, I'm just going to apply it to the floor just like that very roughly. So I guess for this, I could say with yellow with yellow that normally when you go outside, you don't have the chance to in a coffee shop, take out 50 different shades of all the colors you have. You have to make with what you have. In here, I have I think 12 colors, one, two, three, yeah. And you need to learn how we can make the best of what you have. And in here, I have, let's wash rush first, maybe. And as you can see, I'm using this water. It's getting dirty, but it's still fine. You don't have to rush to the bathroom every moment. In here, there is my backpack. And over there on the wall, I like that there is this drawing of a coffee thing. The origin looks darker, but I decide to break it from the frame because frames I want to do black can vary roughly and, again, I think I did too much. I will pick some of that so that the lines under will be visible. Okay? And is there anything else? Maybe I have a drink. Maybe I can add some color to my drink to create a bit of a contrast there and same color can go for my cake, maybe a bit of this like Okay. Like that. It was a cheesecake, I think. And I think on the table, there was my actually this set of watercolors as a green box, maybe you can see from here, and it was standing right over there. So I'm going to put it there. But, look, I went out of the line a bit, so it's more visible. And yeah, so this way, use a big brush. Don't follow the lines, let the colors mix, make a mess. And the biggest part of making a mess for me, is splashing. However, I like the black splashes when the painting is dry, so they stay like little dots. It gives lots of character to the painting this way. But if you are going to splash with similar colors, like I think this one could use a splash of yellow that it won't disturb so much what's going on here and it will make it more interesting. So let's do that. And for the title in the original, I use yellow, but I think in retrospect now, I want a bit of a contrast with what's going on here. So I'm going to use, I think, should I use this brown, it would be taking the colors from here. Or go completely something out of the colors we use, then I'm going to use this. And I will just leave it as it is. Maybe I will let it bleed a bit downwards. You can even lift it to go colors go down a bit. And once it's dry, I'm going to add black splashes to this. And that's also that gives this messy watercolor look, which I love. But like I said, when it's black, I like doing it once it's dry because I want to see the black splashes as they are, not mixing into the colors and destroying kind of what we made so far. So this was making a mess. And after this, I'm going to show you how it end up with the black splashes once it's dry. So this is all for making a mess. After this, I will see you on let's see. Oh, splashing. Maybe we can do it for the splashing part if it's already dry. I have cafe Niro and on the right. Okay, so I will see you on the next one. Bye. 9. Splash, Splash and Splash Some More: So on this one, we're going to focus on splashing and there are two ways to do that on wet or on dry. For on wet, I decided to just do not representation. What was this word? Demonstration. For this, I want a bit of clear water, so it will show better. I'm going to put some one half of it clear water. And another part let's use maybe this one, I always like this color. My color for wood or baked goods. So give your colors the chance to become something else by letting them mix with another color. And one way to do this is by splashing on them while they are still wet, just like in here. So let's say I want to have more reddish color I want to add to them, and by splashing them, can you see how much difference that makes? And let's pick another color, maybe some blue came out a bit strong. And by adding some blue to that, you see, when you have these kind of patterns going on in your paintings, this makes total difference. This is the beauty of watercolors. You can do this on the page just like that. And while your paintings are still wet, feel free to splash on them to make them more interesting, give more depth, give more character. And now, this is one way to do it. Another way to do it is while it's already dry, this is also an option because then actually, there are some examples of it on my background I create for this class. You can see so many splashes already here. Later probably I will make a painting out of this with some drawing patterns. I'm really into that now. That might be the next class actually, little spoiler here. For this one, let's take this example. This was one of the first non effort paintings. This was actually the one that's not the first one, but after this one, it kind of found its footing that is using tick pan and continuous contour drawing in sort of blind contour and so on. But later when I looked at it, I realized, I didn't splash on this one. And you can definitely go and fix this by going back to those paintings and splashing sorry, splashing on them when it's dry. These splashes, by the way, they just happened in the previous lesson when I was painting the a copy of this and I splashed and some of them must have landed here. And in the one I made in the lesson, I use green splashes. You can see how much this already looks loose and this fun watercolor feeling it has just because of these splashes. Let's make a difference than this one. And let's not use green splashes and maybe use like I was saying in the previous one, making a mess, strong black splashes, strong black color. I was telling you that I like it on dry because I want them to stay as they land. And I think one part I will do here, like, because there is this darkness here and a bit here, And when you compare with this one, they have a totally different feeling, don't they? Like, this one is more airy and fun. This one's a bit more serious like splash what's going on. Like, it has a strength to it, and I do like that. So you can definitely splash on your paintings. You can go back to those you already made and splash it like this. You won't be you won't regret it. So this is going on the side to dry. And while we read it in one of the lessons, I don't remember now which one. This was the first lesson, maybe. I made this one, and I use yellow splashes. There are already some splashes on this one. You can see. But I feel like it's not quite making an impact on this painting because it's kind of green is mixing well with yellow and it's not very visible. So for this one, I will I should wash. I think now it's about time to change this water. I was saying, it's okay, and it is. Up to some point, I'm just pouring some fresh water. Give me a second. Yay. I did it without making a mess. It's good to make a mess on your pages. It's not so good when you do it in your sit on your clothes. So on this one, I decided it needs some splash. So for this one, we can also make an example of splashing wet on dry, like doing like you can't splash dry, like splashing on dry. This is dry and this is wet. And I decided to go with this lilac color that I picked from. It was a date with my wife, and this is her favorite color. So this will represent her presence. And like that. I think this will be more visible, a little bit more around the title as well. I'm going to wash my brush. This is it for splashing. We did it on wet and end up with this now dry, look at how fun these blocks of color look. This was from just water splashing on water, you end up with this and this was splashing on the yellow Ochre or whatever it was. Or you can splash on your existing paintings or after they are dry. After this, I'm going to show you how they end up once they are dry. And I will see you next one, which will be the last lesson, leaving lots of white. See you on the next one. 10. You Do Not Have to Paint Everything: So for this one, we're going to talk about living lots of white. And the original I made was this in 2023, April. Wow, this was almost two years ago. And I think this will be a good example of living lots of white. As you can see, there's not much going on here, and still I love this page actually. It's one of my favorite pages. One of the early pages of NE for Sketch earning and still one of my favorites because there's very little going on, and I still love how it looks because of how much white space was left. So let's try to recreate that. So you don't have to paint the entire page. I know in the first example, the first lesson did this because it was that kind of a place. It was colorful. I wanted to capture it. So I made, lots of colors on the page. This is also okay. But in the meantime, you don't have to. Pick two, three items you want to paint and leave the rest. That would be my advice to you most of the time. You can leave the background white. You can leave the table white. You can paint everything. Leave the subjects right. Don't do what they expect you to do. Never let them know your next move. Okay? This is the trick to it, that you don't have to do anything by the conventional rules. I think you picked it by now throughout the class. I was telling you, don't follow the lines. You don't have to feel inside the boxes, you don't have to fill outside the boxes, just make up your own ruse and kind of breaking the mold with this class. So for this one, in the original, it was like this that I did just leftover of the muffins we had with my wife, and the lilac is coming from being with her. And there is this green caffeine had this orange in their logo, and I just put a bit of orange there, and that's it. And the coffee inside the mug. So for this one, let's try to go a bit differently and do a bit opposite. I'm not gonna paint things I paint over there, and let's see how it turns out. I'm going to go with the table first. Table is there. And I'm not going to do the background. In the background, I put a bit of a lilac because I was with my wife. I'm going to put just over the wife. This, by the way, very opaque color, but later when it dries, it goes to the background and it's okay. And I will just do it like that and splash over there to break it. And I think still the subject needs a bit of help. So what I'm going to do that I will put it almost looks black anyway. I will put some black for the coffee. Maybe I can break it with a bit of this brown. And I'm going to leave these white. I'm not going to bother with them. I think this orange is also very strong here. So I'm going to add that. And so I pick some black and drop some of it here. So there's a bit of black left on my I'm going to add a bit of shadow to things, just to step out of it and do it a bit differently. And this way, we are leaving lots of white space. We didn't do everything. We didn't paint all the things on the table, and we didn't do the background. And what I'm going to do, I want to use this orange, and I'm going to splash here a bit with orange, and that will be it. So again, you don't have to paint everything. You can leave lots of white space. This was the original one. This is the new one. They're both from the same moment in time and two different ways. They're both okay. So you can do whatever you want. Just make up your own roos. And this was it for leaving lots of white. But we left lots of white and nobody died. It's fine. Like I said, don't do what they expect you to do and never let them know your next move. And with that, we finished our class. This was the last lesson, and, of course, I will show you how it end up when it's dry at the end. And after this, we will go to conclusion, seeing the conclusion. Bye. 11. Conclusion (and Something More Maybe?): Conclusion with. Thank you very much for staying with me until the end and congratulations on your concentration levels. These days, people can't even make it until the end of a Tiktok. I'm saying that, but in my mind, Kendriamar's song, not like us is keep playing and Okay. Let's focus and finish this. Let's remember what we did. We talked about how to choose colors, and after that, we repainted some of the pages from my nowarsket journal. We focused on coloring the subject, coloring the title, letting colors mix, making a mess on purpose, splashing on wet or on dry, leaving lots of white. The main lesson I want to give with this class is, if you want to let loose when you're painting, you have to let go of the fear of being wrong. You don't have to paint like anyone else but yourself. As long as you are putting the brush to the pen, no. Don't put brush to the pen. I don't know what that does. Again, as long as you are putting the brush to the paper, you are winning. Please remember to leave a review. When there are good reviews, the ski hair CEO comes and strokes my hair gently, and I don't want to miss out on that. Also, it lets me know what you like and you don't like, which is an Edit plus. Remember to follow me so I will feel loved and appreciated. You can also follow me on various social media platforms. I'm all over the place. I'm all over the place. And don't forget to share your class projects. I'm looking forward to those. They are really good for my self esteem. This is all from me. Are you feeling loose? You got to let loose. Thank me later. Jack, I'm letting you loose, meaning you don't have to come here anymore. Stay creative. Stay loos. See you on the next one. Bye. Videos recording two. Let's go, Jack. Okay. What's this about, Jack, headphones? Like, what am I DJ? It was your idea. I look ridiculous. Okay, okay. Let's just do it. Can you paint with watercolors? Loosely. Loosely? Loosely? What's this voice? Jesus. Okay. Calm down. And I don't know how much noise this makes when I'm picking it up. I'm gonna put this away. Jack, stupid idea. Visual cue. You coming. Social media expert to me, all of a sudden. Hi, my name is Fati. How do you get stuck on that? My name is Fati, and I'm checking because Jack doesn't like when I go out of the script. He's very strict about that. So by the end of this class, you'll be able to. Again. So by the end of again, don't rush. Don't rush. You can go back and watch the I'm showing every which direction. Just find them wherever. Which way should we Like, where are the previous classes this way or this way? Like, this is showing to the right. This is showing to the left on the webpage. I will go with this one. Let loose. I want to see an art journal page from you that is so loose, I'm gonna think that you were drunk or drunk. I'm, like, a bit drunk at the moment because I can't speak. Check, let's go. Check. Let's go. Jump, something. Can you speak, please, properly? But I'm doing it to myself. Do you see it? I'm telling myself to do it properly. And this is exactly what I wrote about my childhood memories that I was being told to do it properly all the time. It's just get stuck there. Again, let's wait for the plane to pass. Anyway, that's my hypothesis. And some of the that's why I have the mission to break your shackles and set you Again, expressive, artistic and unique. I try to categorize the way I go about choosing a color when I'm doing my paintings, so we renew? Again, I. This is the way I choose my colors. Again. Not good. When I'm not writing the scripts, it's a nightmare. Thank you very much for staying with me until the end, and congratulations, congratulations. I don't know what it is. Again, as long as as long as as long as as long as too much too many hands, too many hands. I have too many hands. No, I have perfect amount of hands. Two is an idle number. Please, please remember, please let let alone. Again, I lost focus. Okay, now, stay creative. Stay loose. I don't know what's left. Okay.