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Easy Watercolor Doodles Vases and Greens

teacher avatar Megha Cassandra, byTheArtBug - Artist, Crafter & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:00

    • 2.

      Materials

      1:02

    • 3.

      Set A Vases

      6:46

    • 4.

      Set A Leaves

      5:07

    • 5.

      Set B Vases

      5:22

    • 6.

      Set B Leaves

      7:14

    • 7.

      Class Project

      1:15

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About This Class

This is a super easy and fun beginner and

friendly class! 
Anyone who is intimidated by Watercolors and thinks that Watercolors are difficult can give this fun class a try!

This class will help you understand how Watercolors work using an easy approach.

Not only that you will also learn how to use your brush effectively as there are so many practice opportunities!

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Megha Cassandra

byTheArtBug - Artist, Crafter & Educator

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About Me

 

Hey Everyone, Hi I’m Megha founder, creator and art educator at byTheArtBug. “I truly believe that anyone can learn Art & craft”. I teach online and offline classes & courses at various Platforms. I have plenty of Free tutorials on my Website and Instagram so do check them out.

I believe in simplifying and making art fun for everyone and that’s how I teach it. It is also my way of giving back what all I have learned in 25 plus years.

I am passionate about Art & Crafts Since I was a little girl. Teaching was always my passion, I was a College Professor before I became a full time Artist. So now I am in a perfect place combining both my passions into my profession!

I am a Paper Florist, Watercolorist, Home Sty... See full profile

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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.