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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. This is mega animal
watercolor artists face in Bangalore, India. I just love water coloring
and I'm just in love with painting things which
are inspired by nature. And in today's class, I'm going to teach you
something which is really, really simple, easy, and fun, and it's
perfect for beginners, as well as for somebody who just want to play around
with watercolors. So this is what I
will be teaching. These two different types of vases are the different
types of leaves. So there are total ten vases
and ten different leaves. And you can mix and match them. And the techniques which I'll be showing you in this class, you can go ahead
and come up with your own variation and
paint, stuff like this. So it will be really, really cool and fun to try. So without any further delay, let's go ahead and
start with our class.
2. Materials: Alright, so let's go
ahead and have a look at the materials that
we'll be needing. This is a number
eight round brush. You can use any brand of brush, which is number eight. If you're not comfortable, you can even go ahead and use a slightly smaller
like number six, then two jars of water. And then this is the color
that I'm using today. It's from a set from Daniel Smith and
hear it as a swatch card, which I have already
with me and you can see how bright and vibrant
the colors are. So make sure that whichever
colors you are using, they do have some bright
and vibrant colors, some tissue here. Then a 100 per cent
watercolor paper. I'm using this small size. You can choose a bigger
size also if you want. So this is a four by six card
which I'll be using today. And I'll be taking you through all the steps that
you need to follow to create this simple and
easy watercolor doodles in two different colors sets. So let's start with our class.
3. Set A Vases: So let's start with our
first set of vases. And this is just a small
four by six paper. You can use a bigger one if you're more
comfortable with that. And then I'm just starting
with my number eight brush. If you find it difficult to
paint with a larger brush, then of course you can use a
number four or number six, whatever is more easier for you. We're not drawing
anything and I'm just using the tip
of the brush here. And this is a
beautiful opera pink, which I have used here. And again, I'm just painting
a very simple vowels here. And I'm applying
the color first. I haven't done any
veteran veteran thick. I'm just doing wet on dry and just giving the
shape to the vase. It's just a very simple
watery kind of a was and then just filling the color in and then washing the brush. And then we'll just
spread this color. We'll leave a little white
and a little light color just to show the
variation and shadows. And as these are
just simple to do, you don't have to go into
any detailing or anything. And this is basically the
technique that I'll be using for all the buses. Just like this. And then nicely blending in, picking up a little color, whether wherever there is extra white-space is
really, really important. Just to make it make it look a little bit natural and
give it a little shine. Otherwise, your composition or illustration will
look very, very flat. Anyways, it's a 2D and
flat illustration only. But if you don't
leave the space, was this will look
really, really flat. So like this, I'm going to use different
colors in this one. And once we are done
with all the vases, then we'll hop on and then
do the leaves for this one. I'm keeping this palette
to pinks and purples. So this one is a
different shape. I'm not using any
reference or anything, just whatever comes to my mind. Some are long, some are thin, some are broad, some are short. Just like that I'm painting. Leaving this little whitespace. Lifting up the color
from here alphabet. So all you have to do is roughly outline your vows
with your brush. Remember to leave the
whitespace on the white line. Those are just two basic things that you have to
follow for this. And other than that, just
enjoy the whole process. You can see I'm not doing any
kind of detailing in here. Very, very simple and fun. So this will also help you
understand your what colors better Like how,
how do they work? How easy is lifting them, how transparent they are? So you'll get to
know quite a bit of that about your colors
when you do this. Also, you'll learn how
to use your brush, how to use the tip of the brush, and how to basically
draw with your brush. So for this one, I'm just making a little neck here and this is very thin and a long, long one. I've just washed my brush
and now I'm just spreading the color and being
careful about the light that we want to leave. So if you make them
like this transparent, they also have a nice glow which makes them look like
ceramic or glass. So it helps with that as well. So this is a nice magenta
that I've used here. Move on to the next one. You can also mix your colors. You can mix a little bit
of being with a little bit of blue to get another kind
of a violet or purple shade. And you can also start
with just one color. For example, if you're
starting with this opera pink, then you can start
adding blue to it. And just add like a one drop, then two drops and three drops
and four drops like that. You can go ahead
and create a lot of shades with your only one
sheet that you started. You can also use different
values of one color. Like you can start
with the magenta, very, very dark,
highly pigmented, and then just lighten it up and create the rest of
the vases like that. So this is, again
very simple one. I'm using a little bit
of purple for this. And this one is
just like a glass, very simple glass shaped. And you can see that
although these are really flat or two-dimensional, but still they are
looking very, very nice. Now we are on to our
last one in the set. Again, I'm mixing a little bit of purple for bubbles. Like you'll get lots
and lots of shades. If you mix your bubble
with pink and blue, you'll get more brighter
and vibrant colors. If you use red, they will
be more like a violet and those kinds of shades
that you will get. So this is very, very reddish. Makes just a little
blue in the magenta, and it's mostly reddish, only. Lifting the color. Just to leave that
nice glowing here. We are done with it. In the next part of the
class, we'll do the leaves.
4. Set A Leaves: Alright, so let's
start with the leaves. So what I will be
doing is again, playing with a lot
of greens in here. And again, using the brush to draw everything and it will
be really, really simple. So you can just think about
the leads that you must have seen if you want to
do your own version. So I'm thinking smaller
leaves, longer leaves, broad leaves, leaves of
the palm and like that. And just keeping it very
simple to paint this leaf. I'm just using the
tip of the brush, pressing the brush
and lifting up. So that's the very basic thing. Dip, press and lift it up. Dip of the brush, press it and lift it up. And you can do different
shapes of the leaves. Shapes. I mean, like taking
them at different directions, not everything very
straight and in going in one direction, not
very symmetrical. So just meet them, being them all over the walls, on all the sides. And some of them shorter, some of them longer, using the same basic technique
of tip, press and lift. Let's move on to this one. And this one, again, I'm using the tip of
the brush and just kind of doing this very thing
with the tip of the brush. I have this nice shade
of green in here. And then just scribbling a little bit of zigzag or wavy pattern to
meet these leaves. I'm not applying too much
pressure on the brush. And by lifting, I'm giving
it a very nice point. Giving the leaves
are very nice point. So this is the second variation. You can also choose the
greens as per your choice, you can do the same color, are the different color, or do the same technique
as I said before, take one color and keep adding yellow or blue to it
to vary the shade. So for this one, I'm creating these thin stems which
are coming off the walls. So as before, all in
different directions and not straight lines but a
little curvy line like this. And then using the
tip of the brush, painting small,
small leaves on it. So basically I'm just letting the brush
and lifting it up, just touching and not odd it on the paper and then
just lifting it up. So very, very simple. So I'm going to try that again, the first one that
we did before, but this time with a
little bit of stem, like this mini stem is
coming off first and then leaf is going on that. So stem and then pressing the brush a little and
then lifting it up. But the leaves are not as
large in size as before. So stem and then again, press deep breaths
and then lift. So very, very simple technique
for the sun as well. So let's try something
different for this last one. And we're just going
to do two stocks. So one heel, one here, and then just using
the tip of the brush, I'm just touching the
brush and lifting it up. Like tap, tap, tap,
tap and putting these random dots
all near the stem. So this can be like
a grassy flower or some kind of grain
or something like that. So just using the tip
and doing tap, tap, tap all around the brush and very random order but
not spreading it out, just keeping it
limited to the stem, just painting it near to the stem so that it
is thin and long. And yet it has this
beautiful texture. So just use the tip, make sure you do not
have too much water or too less water to paint this. That's about it. Our first
set is totally done. All the vases are done, and all the different, five different
types of leaves are done here in five
different vases. So I hope you are
enjoying it so far. Do painted along with me
as it will be really, really fun and very
relaxing and very easy to try just to brush up
your skills and have fun. So let's move on to our
set two in the next part.
5. Set B Vases: Alright, so next stop. Let's start with the
next set of vases. So again, we'll be using just our brush, not
drawing anything. So this time I'm going to use a little bit of warm
color palette with some nice bright
oranges and yellows. So this will be really
good for fall cards or for fall art if you want to try
that. Let's start with it. Just think of basic shapes
when you are painting this, there are no rules, so you can go ahead and use your own imagination and use
different kinds of shapes, like triangles or hexagonal or any kind of shape
that you like if you don't want to paint
this standard ones. So just the trick is to outline
it first with your brush. First, have a picture in your mind so that you
don't mess it up. And then just put it on
the paper like this, as we did before, the white line or the white
gap that you have to leave. And a little bit of
lifting up off the color. Because this lisp lifting up or this leaving the
whitespace will really make it look like
glass or ceramic vase. So just don't strain
yourself too much. Go, we'd go easy
sometimes when you just pick the brush and
just start with it, it will just come to you. So just keep that in mind. Stay relaxed deep. The basic geometric shapes are the basic shapes
of the vases. So for this one, I'm giving it a little bit of longer
shape like this. And the colors, as you can see, the reds and the yellows and oranges are what we have
begged for this set. Very, very simple and basic. And like this, we'll move
on to our third one. Now let's go for
something cute and round. So this is what I'm doing here. Just using the sides of my brush to make
the circular shape. And then painting the top. And we have to remember
our white gap here. And then just
completing the shape. So let's go very, very basic with this. So just a simple
rectangular shape using the tip of the brush, pressing it a little bit. And on Done. Another very basic shape, but something which we
have not done so far. And that's about it, really, really easy and fun. And the next part we'll add
some fun leads to this.
6. Set B Leaves: Alright, so let's start with the second set of the leaves. Are these vessels are
really warm and vibrant, so perfect for the
fall season as well. If you want to paint something, you just fall themed. This can also go on a fall card or you can also
create artworks out of it. So let's go ahead
and see what kind of leaves are we going
to do for this one? So let's start with
our first one. And I'm going to do a very
basic palm leaf for this, for that and using
the tip of the brush and painting the stem first. Like this, make sure that you do it as thin
as possible for that. Just rest your arm and
then just move your hand. And then again the
same technique. Dip, then press the brush a little and then lift
up with a fine tip. And again, I'm painting
the leaves a little bit random, not
very symmetrical. This is just like a China, a bomb or that kind of a leaf. And we will do this
on the both sides of the stem and
the leaves will be coming out at the same point. That means they will
not be alternating. But coming on like this, again, makes sure if you
are painting small, your brush is equally loaded
with paint and water. None of that is extra, no extra water or extra paint. And then as we move up, the leaves will become smaller. So we start with
bigger leaf and then just keep on reducing
the size gradually. And then for the
next one, again, we'll do some smaller leaves. Again, a few stems
coming out of it, and then a few
smaller leaves on it. You can vary and use any
green that you want. Just a few stems in
different directions. And with a little girl and very, very thin using just
the tip of the brush. And then small, small leaves, very, very near and
very, very thin. So I'm just making strokes
with the tip of the brush. I'm not wearing the on
the the size of the leaf. I'm just doing straight, straight lines using the tip of the brush to make
these tiny leaves. So this kind of leaves
you might see in a lot of trees and plants like that you
may not or tamarind, so that kind of leaves. So whenever you
are out in nature to try to observe
how the leaves are, how the shapes are, How's it coming
out from the stem? What's the, what's
the structure of it? Are the alternate, or
are they in pairs, how they are and all those observations will
lead to really, really help you when you
paint something like this. Let's try another palm leaves. So this time we
can do a fan bomb. So again, very, very simple, one stem coming out, drawing the stem with
the tip of the brush. You can see how
my hand is nicely rested so that the
tip of the brush, so the stem is ten. So we'll start at 1 and we'll make a fan of a shape, again, tip of the brush, pressing it and lifting
it up and slightly waving it to give a
natural shape of the leaf. So maybe two smaller ones here. So it's very, very simple. All you have to do is just use your brush and a
little creativity. This one, Let's try the grassy
thing that we did before. So I'm carefully drawing a line, avoiding the leaves
that we painted before. And then this time again, we're using the same thing, tip of the brush and dot dots, but we're going to do that
in a triangular shape. So again, this is
like a grain or a grass flower, just like this. So you can outline the triangle
first and then just fill it in like this. So say we're doing
the other one. Also very, very simple. Anyone can try this and
the only thing to remember is that your brush is not
loaded with too much water, otherwise, this kind of
detail will not be possible. Just like this simple and easy. And it looks so different
from what we did before. Okay, So this last
one is really, really fun and my
favorite as well. So I'm using this yellowish
color, ocher yellow. You can also use ocher yellow
or you can mix your own. And I'm just making stems, straight stems out of this, this time they are not curvy. These are very, very straight. And as you must have
guessed by now, I'm making some cocktails on it. So after drawing
your long stems, if you have not seen a cat tail, you can Google it and check out how the flowers shape it is. It's actually a grass. Then just like this, I'm making this shape. It looks really, really pretty. And it's super easy
and fun to paint. You have to leave the
little tip on the top, which looks at, which makes
it look even nicer like this. And it looks really,
really cool. Maybe we can add one more. So there's a stem for this
one is very, very straight, not go V, like the
web done before. And then just let go of this flower head that we
are going to paint on this. That's about it. We are done
with our second set as well. I hope you enjoyed
painting this with me. And then the next part, I'll let you know
your class project.
7. Class Project: Alright, so I hope
you enjoyed painting this class with me
and this is really easy and simple and
something you can try on a day when
you are bored and just enjoy and have fun with the colors as
your class project, you can go ahead and
paint any one of these, whichever you like, or three
or two, whatever you want. And then just have fun with it. Choose the leaves you like, the colors you like. You can try your own
combination and just follow the steps
and instructions that I have given in this class. So I'm looking forward to your submissions and
if you liked this class, don't forget to leave a review for me if you have
any questions. Do let me know. These are super,
super easy and fun. So do give it a try. You can just relax with colors, as I said before, and just enjoy the
whole process. You can mix and match the leaves and the
vases, for example, you can just go ahead and
paint this leaf with this was this leaf with
this descender. So there's a lot of
things that you can try. And as I said before, you can do the vases
in contrasting colors or same colors,
whatever you wish. So I will see you in my
next class. Thank you.