Expressive Cityscapes - A 10 Day Watercolor Practice

1. Welcome Back !: [MUSIC] Painting a cityscape has always been my dream. [MUSIC] It's not easy. There are so many things you need to learn before attempting your first work. There is sketching, there is perspective, and the last one, the color composition. Well, trust me, I have done more than once regarding the color composition. What if I told you guys that I have found a simple way, a shortcut if you will, to paint these cityscapes in very simple and easy steps. You don't need a lot of watercolor skills to attempt these simple cityscapes. Do you know wet-on-wet technique and wet-on-dry technique? The two most simple exercises in watercolors, and of course, a little bit of sketching. Then this class is for you. This class will go on for 10 days, and on each day we're going to paint a very expressive cityscape. All of these projects are looking similar. It's because I have created a special color palette. We're going to paint all the class projects with the same colors. Along with the colors, we're going to also discuss the rest of the supplies that we're going to need to get started. Are you in with me on this 10 days project of painting simple and expressive cityscapes? [MUSIC] Hi. I'm Sukrutha, watercolor artist and art instructor. [MUSIC] Well, without further ado, let's jump into next video. [MUSIC] 2. Art Supplies: Let's discuss art supplies. I'm going to first start with the brushes. I have used only two brushes for this entire class. My silver black velvet number 14 is the primary brush, I would say, because I have used it for literally everything. This is my silver black velvet number 6 brush. I have used this one for detailing. Coming to the papers, I have used a Fabriano, 300 GSM, 100 percent cotton paper. It's artistic paper, as you can see here the watermark. You guys probably know this is my most favorite paper because I've used this paper for almost all of my classes. I love the texture and the water-holding capacity. But if you don't have this one, you can use any 100 percent cotton paper. The color is actually the most important part of this class. I had to make sure the colors look very bright and lively. I have created a special color palette, which will be in the next video. The colors part, I won't be mentioning here in the art supplies. You can move on to the next video to get the details about the colors. The tissue papers are very important, a water jar, and a masking tape. I guess we have covered all the art supplies that we are going to need to get started. I'm going to see you guys in the next video where we will discuss about the special color palette that I have created. Thank you for watching. 3. Color Palette: See in that supplies and now we'll see the color palette that we're going to need for all the ten projects. [MUSIC] There are total of eight colors, which I'm going to swatch on the paper. You will get the idea of which shed you're going to have to use if you don't have these particular colors. I'm going to first start with primary yellow. This is from a brand called Sennelier. If you don't have Sennelier, you're free to use any brand, but make sure it's a primary yellow. I have all these colors on my palette here. Just before this, I have painted a couple of class projects. That's why my palette is so messy. The second color is Sennelier orange. Obviously, it's from the brand called Sennelier and I have observed it's a little bit darker than the oranges in all the brands. So that's okay. It doesn't make much of a difference. Use any brand you want. This is Queen Rose from White Nights. To be honest, I absolutely love all of these colors. Doesn't matter which brand they are from. Because while I was painting, these colors are getting mixed up very smoothly. I just love that. This is French vermilion from Sennelier. It's such a bright red. I love this color. I have only used French vermilion to paint flowers, but I love to use it for an entire painting, maybe one day. This is dioxazine purple from Sennelier. Forget about this purple. The next color is my another favorite. It's Tallow blue from Daniel Smith. When you see a sunset, and just after that, the sky becomes dark and you catch this color in the sky just before the nightfall and just after the sunset. That's why I love this color so much. I always try to catch that color in the sky. I have recently taken a picture from my recent trip. You can see that color in the sky. It's wonderful, isn't it? Now comes forest green from the brand Sennelier. It's darker shade of sap green. You can use any brand of the color you want. Just make sure it's in the darker shade of greens and not the lighter shade. The last color is indigo, it's from White Nights. You guys know it's a must color for me. These are all the colors that we need, but wait, we are not done with the colors. There are two more important colors that we're going to have to make on our own, which are actually very important. One is the shadow purple. For that, I'm mixing Tallow blue and Queen Rose. You know this color is used to paint all the shadows in the painting in the class projects. [MUSIC] For the next color, I'm going to mix orange color and purple. This gives a burnt sienna. You might be wondering, you can easily get a burnt sienna tube. But I wanted to mix my own color because the one in the tube was very dull. I wanted the burnt sienna to be very fresh and very lively and very bright because that's the soul of these cityscapes and are very cheerful to look at. [MUSIC] The entire class projects are actually made of these two sheds, shadow purple and burnt sienna. We have used other colors, yes. But these are the pillars. Make sure you have these two colors ready. [MUSIC] In some cases, I have used a darker shadow purple shed. For that I have mixed Queen Rose with the indigo. But that's very rare. I have always used Tallow blue and Queen Rose. For burnt sienna, I have mixed dioxazine purple and orange. [MUSIC] That is it guys. These are all the colors and sheds that we're going to need to start our tender journey of painting cheerful cityscapes. I hope you have all these colors. [MUSIC] I'm going to see you guys in the next video where we're going to start with our first-class project. [MUSIC] 4. Class Project 1 - Sidewalk: Let's start with our first class project, and the first step is always sketching. There are no tips and tricks in this video, you only need a scale and a pencil for a good sketch. If you find sketching along with me a little bit difficult, you can always go back to resources tab and you will find an image of the sketch ready and you can sketch it at your own pace and then come back here to continue the painting. Since this is the first class project, I'm painting a very simple house with a lot of flowers and a road in front of it. Small door here. This little house is actually having two doors, so this is the small one and the one that I'm sketching right now is the bigger door, and of course, it will have a larger set of flowers. I'm going to just place where the flowers and green tree should be. We're not going to be painting a detailed flower and plants. Just we're going to put the colors. This is the bigger door that I was talking about. Word of caution, do not sketch the door right now with me, wait a couple of seconds then I will get the shape right, so you can proceed. Everything looks great right now. You can pause the video right here if you are not done with the sketching and sketch at your own pace. We can later start with painting the first layer. But first the colors, but we have already talked about the colors before. I have taken those on my palette right here. We are set with the sketch and the colors, let's get started with the first layer. First, I'm going to take my Silver Black Velvet Number 14 brush, and I'm going to wet the entire paper with it. At first, I only added the water in the house area, later I have realized I'm wasting my time because to make it work, I'm going to first have to start with the sky, so I have to wet the sky area as well. The entire paper except the road area, you need to add the water and that's what I'm doing right here. I'm using a tallow blue to paint the sky. Paint very carefully, do not let the blue color touch the roof or any of the sketch over there because the flowers will be coming there. This is summer season here. It's very hot, so I have to work faster before my paper gets dried up. Very quickly, I'm adding orange color. These are the flowers by the way. The paper is still wet, so the color will spread very easily. If you are in the hot area like me, as you can see right here, the paper has already dried up. I'm going wet that little area and I'm going to continue painting these orange color. I'm going to take the forest green and I'm going to paint green color leaves in between these orange flowers. You have to alternate between orange and green until your paper dries up. Now, do not make it too orangey and do not make it too greenish, make sure you find the perfect balance and by the way, this is not the final step in painting these flowers and plants. We're going to have to add one more layer in the next step later. Right now you're just going to have to spread these two colors, orange and the green, with the perfect balance. Now, I'm going to take a tallow blue and Quin rose. I'm going to make a little bit of shadow color, I'm going to add it on the wall of this house. I'm not completely adding this color to the house, I'm just adding at specific places. Make sure you follow exactly what I'm doing right here. Your paper doesn't have to be soaking wet. Mine is damp. It's time to mix another one of the important colors, burnt sienna. I have mixed purple and orange to get this bright burnt sienna color and I'm painting it on this roof. My paper has already dried up at least 70 percent, so it's okay. Your paper doesn't have to stay wet for all this, only for that flower and plant part, it has to be wet. Now I'm going to add the roof here as well with the same burnt sienna color. Now, you have to forgive me for this, I don't know how this color ended up here. I think I spilled it over at some point, I don't know. Now you have to bear that ugly sight of color, but it's one of my favorite color so I didn't mind, I hope you don't too. Now we're going to paint the road. I'm wetting the road area with my Silver Black Velvet number 14 brush and I'm going to take the light shade of burnt sienna. I actually took the darker shade later, I have removed the color. I'm warning you guys to take the lighter shade now itself. Now it's perfect. I'm going to take the shadow purple and I'm going to paint lightly over the road. This indicates the shadows that are falling on the road. The shadow purple is the perfect color, I guess. With my smaller Silver Black Velvet number 6 brush, I'm painting a few details. The paper is still damp here, so it's easier for me to just blend the color. Now I'm taking my favorite color, indigo, and I'm going to paint the doors with this color. As you can see, the first half, I'm filling it with the darker color, and the second half, I'm just dragging the color down without adding any color. It shows that the upper part, the dark color, I mean, it is covered in the shadow and the rest of the door is lighter in color because it has no shadow. It is one of the important details to get the door right, so make sure you are painting the doors in two different shades. With the same indigo color, I'm going to add a few more details. This detail is important because it's going to help you differentiate between the wall and the road so do not skip it. Instead of tallow blue and Quin rose, I'm going to be adding indigo and Quin rose because I need the darker purple shade. I'm going to add that color just under the roof. Now with a wet brush, I'm going to blend this color into the wall. I'm going to just let this darker indigo color spread into that darker purple shade. The paper is still wet here, that's why this effect is possible for me. But if your paper is dried up, do not try this step. I'm adding this darker purple shade at random places on the wall. With that same darker purple shade. We're going to paint the details on the road I mean. These are the shadows that I'm painting at the edge of the door. Make sure the door is not in a uniform color. You have to show variations using different shades of the color. I have messed up a little I did not add green color at the edge of the paper, so I'm adding it right now. That is it for the first layer. Now we're going to have to let the paper dry completely before we get started with the second layer. Once your paper has completely dried up, it's time to add second layer. Second layer is all about adding details and there are lots of them. First I'm going to start with adding the shadows to the roof. I'm using indigo color for that. Follow my brushstrokes. You're going to get that the shadow part and the roof part perfectly. Add a layer of indigo under this roof as well. It shows that the roof has the shadow below the wall. Now let's take the tallow blue color and let's add this color to those two dots. You are going to have to add a few more details to it. But we're going to let this layer dry first. Now comes the very longest part of this painting. I'm going to take orange color and I'm going to take the green as well, not together, separately. I'm going to just add the flowers. This is not a detailed flower. Just add the dots. They're going to look fantastic at the end. First complete with the orange color later you can add the green. It is done. We're going to take the darker, purple shade and we're going to continue adding the shadows. Remember, I told you, we're going to have to add details later to that door. I'm going to take indigo color and I'm going to get started with adding the details. Adding the details. I meant adding the shadows. To add the shadows, I'm using indigo color and just follow my brush strokes. It'll be easier for you. You're almost there. Now we're going to add the shadows to the road. For that, I'm going to be using the darker purple shade. Now take the shadow purple color the mix of tallow blue, and quin rose. We're going to get started with adding the shadows for those flowers on the wall. Very careful while painting the shadows because it is very easier to get carried away. Just paint in one direction and in the same shape as well. Here, I'm painting the shadows in diagonal shape. Please follow that as well. Do not paint the shadows in a straight line. A little bit of last-minute detailing, but that's just my problem because I don't know when to stop. For now, though, this class project is perfect. I hope you guys enjoyed painting this simple but very cheerful cityscape with me. I'm going to see you guys tomorrow with a brand new class project. Thank you so much for joining me. 5. Class Project 2 - Mountains Afar: [MUSIC] Hello. Welcome back to today's class project. This class was super hit yesterday and I hope it continues to be the same for the rest of 9 days. For today's class project, I am following a reference picture. Whenever I take a reference picture, I don't always sketch exactly the same. I always change a lot of things. Today is no different. I have only taken a couple of buildings on each side of the paper from the reference picture, and I've skipped a lot of things. That's why I'm not going to share the picture on the screen, it'll just be here on my table. If you guys find sketching with me a little bit difficult, that's completely okay. There is a final picture of the sketch in resources tab. You can pause this video, go there and screenshot the image, and sketch at your own pace. You guys know that I had surgery on both my eyes, muscle surgery, so it's still a bit difficult for me to actually sketch. I found that painting is not that difficult, the difficulty comes only when sketching because I have to move my eye a lot from reference picture to my paper. Really that's why the sketching part is so long for this class projects. Under normal circumstances, this would have taken me around 5 minutes or 6 minutes tops. If you guys want to save some time, my suggestion would be to go to the resources tab where I've shared the final sketching picture and sketch from there. Today's class project is probably my third favorite. I just fell in love with the simplicity of it all. There are only two buildings and there is a road and a shadow. My favorite part is the mountains which will come in between these two buildings. One of my favorite things to paint in watercolor is the street light. We have the street light for this class project. Now we're going to just place the plant on the wall. We're not going to any details, just like yesterday's class project. Finally, the mountains that I was talking about. After that, the sketching is done. Did you guys get your colors ready? I've got mine right here. Let's get started with the first step. My silhouette black rounded brush, number 14. I'm going to wet the first building with clean water. Make sure you're not adding water to that street light as well as doors and windows. Let's get started with the dark shadow color. I'm using indigo and queen rose to mix the shadow color instead of phthalo blue. Paint the colors at random places and then blend it all in. Do not completely make this building into shadow purple. Remember we have to paint those plants in wet on wet, so I'm going to take my smaller brush, number 6, and I'm going to take green color, and I'm going to get started with the first layer of plants. We have painted orange and green yesterday and today we are painting only green color. As you know, this is only the first layer. We're going to have to add details later after the paper has dried. Let's add a little bit of shadow purple on both sides of the plant, the top and the bottom. Let's mix orange and purple to get burnt sienna so we can get started on painting the roofs of the building. [MUSIC] Blend it with shadow purple. I'm taking indigo color and I'm going to get started on painting those doors and windows. Yesterday we have painted the doors with a small technique. That is, the top part should be in darker color and the bottom part should be lighter. I'm painting these doors and windows with the same technique like yesterday. For the large main door here, we're going to use burnt sienna and I'm using orange and purple to get the color. This door too in the same technique, the top part should be darker color, and the bottom part should be lighter. Now the interesting part, I'm taking primary yellow color and I'm going to paint the borders at the bottom of the building. This step is not my own idea. I am following the reference picture for this and I found it really beautiful that you add an unexpected color, so I did not want to skip that. Roofs are looking really dull, so I'm going to add one more layer of burnt sienna. Now one side of the building is done. We're going to paint the other side of the building. It's very small. It's going to take only two minutes, I think. Paint with all the colors that I have used on the other side of the building that is burnt sienna for the roof and indigo for the doors. Now we're going to take the forest green again and we're going to add the detailed layer to those plants and leaves. At this point, the paper should be dried. But if your paper is still wet, you have to wait a couple of minutes until it's dried to paint the second layer of the plants and leaves. We are done with the second layer of plants. We're going to keep this for drying and the next step will be a little bit tricky, but not difficult. That is, we're going to paint the sky. I'm going to keep this for drying and I'll come back once it's dried. My paper is dried. I'm going to keep it in the opposite side and I'm going to start wetting the paper with clean water, the sky area only. Do not proceed with this step if your paper is still wet or else the burnt sienna you're seeing on the roof will just come off into the sky area and we do not want that. Move to the other side, take tallow blue and let's get started with painting the sky. This is why I love Fabriano paper so much. You can just see how buttery the paper is. The paint is just gliding into it so smoothly [MUSIC] [MUSIC] I just take the shadow blue and I will paint the road now. Make sure there is not much difference between the tallow blue and the shadow purple. But if for some reason the difference is showing up, there is a distinct difference between those two colors, it's okay to not worry because we're going to still have to paint the mountains. Painting the mountains will cover it up, cover any difference that you see between the horizon line and the road. We'll go on adding a few more shadows on this large building and I'm using shadow purple for this. Let's add the shadows on the smaller building as well. This is my favorite part, the mountains, and make sure the paper is completely dried, and I'm taking forest green color and I'm going to start painting those mountains. It's very easy step, but it's going to give you a lot of depth to the painting. Relying completely on the reference picture for this mountains' part. As you can see, the mountains are covered completely in the background, so I'm going to just attempt to replicate the same on my painting as well. The green color is looking lighter here because I have accidentally dipped my brush in the yellow color. I'm going to mix some shadow color, and I'm going to get started on painting the shadow that has fallen on the road. Painting shadows is a very tricky part. You have to use the same color but at different tonal values to give the shadow effect. Now you're going to have to also make sure to add shadows at the right place. This is why, especially if you are a beginner in painting cityscapes, I strongly advise you to follow a reference picture, so you will know where to add the shadows. Now I'm going to use the indigo color and I'm going to paint the street light. Pre-observe I'm using a small technique to paint the street light. That is, I'm adding darker color of indigo on one side, and I'm intentionally keeping the other side in a lighter shade. This skews the realistic effect to the street lamp. [MUSIC] We are actually done. But you guys know that I don't know when to stop. I will keep hovering over my painting for at least 30 minutes after it finishes. Right now, I'm adding a few shadows using shadow purple color. [MUSIC] Then we are done with class Project 2, and I hope you guys enjoyed painting this one, just like you have enjoyed painting yesterday's class project. I'm going to see you guys tomorrow with a brand new one. Thank you for joining. 6. Class Project 3 Sunny Portugal: Hello guys, welcome back. Let's start with class project 3 and I'm following this picture. Of course, I'm going to make my own changes so I will not be sharing the picture. I'm going to start with the sketching of course. If you want to sketch at your own pace, you can directly follow the final picture of the sketching in the Resources tab. Today's sketching will be very simple, and, of course, the painting will be simple too. The picture that I'm following, the reference picture, is from the country called Portugal, and it's a street view. If you google street view pictures of this particular country, you can see a lot of similar cityscapes that we are painting in this class. Yes, if you want to experiment these type of cityscapes on your own, that's where you should start because they are so similar to what we are learning here. Today's sketch is about three buildings. One is on the side, the other one is our main focus, which is on my right. The middle one, which is actually my favorite because it will be so far behind and we have to paint it with lots of shadow color, and I enjoyed the process of painting that particular building. Sketching is almost same as previous class projects. We have doors, windows, and we have those plants and flowers. I'm almost done with the sketching, and I hope you guys are ready for the next step. Please make sure you have the color palette ready. I have mine right here, and I'm going to get started by wetting the paper, wetting the sky area with my silver black velvet number 14 brush. We're going to get started with painting the sky first. For a change, I'm going to mix a little bit of indigo to Phthalo blue color. I want the sky to look darker in today's class project. Let's paint the sky very carefully. This is wet-on-wet technique, by the way. I'm sure you guys know. The sky is done. We're going to just paint that ground as well with the same color, but we're going to lighten the color so much that it's hardly visible, because we are going to have to add the shadows later. Once that is done, we're going to keep this one for drying. After it's completely dried, we're going to get started on painting those buildings. Paper has dried. I'm going to wet the building that is on my right with clean water. I'm going to use two shades of green today. One is a lighter green and one is darker green. For the lighter green, I'm going to mix yellow color with forest green, so I get sap green color. I'm going to paint those plants and leaves, of course, in wet-on-wet technique, just like we have done in previous class projects. Want to achieve depth in your paintings with watercolors? You need to add a lot of different shades of the same color just like I'm doing right here. I'm alternating between light color, light green color, and the dark green color. Now I'm going to take red color, French vermilion, not orange, French vermilion color, and I'm going to get started on painting those flowers just under that green foliage that we have painted. Already mixed burnt sienna, which is the mix of orange and the purple, and I'm just going to add a tiny bit of it in those red flowers. Like I said, I want to add the depth to those flowers as well. I'm going to take more burnt sienna color and I'm going to get started on painting the roof of the building. Take Phthalo blue and very lightly paint that window over there. Now I'm going to quickly take the forest green, and I'm going to add the details to that foliage, green foliage. We are not done with the building that is on my right. We're going to come back to it later but for now, we're going to finish the buildings that are on my right and in the middle. Take shadow color and wet the area, and then add the shadow color to that building. We have to add shadow color here, because these buildings are in the shade, and they're not having that direct sunlight on them, so they will be a little bit darker color than the building on my right. While we are at it, let's add green and red color. Of course, burnt sienna. Now let's get started on the building in the middle. For this, I'm taking indigo mixed with Queen Rose. I'm taking the darker shadow color because like I mentioned before, this building will be far behind than these two on my right and left, so it'll be a little bit darker. That color, the darker shadow purple is spreading into the road, it's okay. You can just dab it with a tissue paper. It is drying. I'm going to add the shadow purple to the building on my right, just under the roof. Now while we're at it, let's add the shadows to that green foliage as well as the red flowers. This painting I have observed that the green color and the red color has completely dried. I'm going to continue adding that detailed leaves using green color and later I'm going to add the red color as well. These are the steps that we have done in previous class projects as well. I'm going to add a few details to those window as well. I'm not going to go deep into it. This is a shadow part. I'm using indigo color for this. I use the same color, indigo to complete these two little windows as well. This building in the middle, I was looking at the picture, there is a distinction between the top side and the bottom. The bottom is a lot darker so I'm just adding the darker shade of purple at the bottom of this building. Add a few more details to differentiate the wall and the ground. Burnt sienna to paint the roof. Add the details, of the flowers and the green foliage on this building as well. Add a few stems to these green plants on my right. It is just something I saw on the reference picture. I thought I should not include it, but at the last minute I decided I would because they were so cute not to. Another round of shadow purple for the building in the middle. Your shadows on the roof as well. Wing on my left was looking rather pale and plane so I'm going to add a few more shadows to it as well. The same shadow purple color, I'm going to complete the shadow on the ground as well. Details of the shadow on this side of the building as well. More details to the building in the middle. Same shadow purple color, I'm going to add a few details to that window and under that roof as well. The shadow is not looking that good and it has to look very detailed so I'm going to add one more layer of the shadow. I'm going to take the forest green color and I'm going to add a couple of trees on these buildings. I'm intentionally adding the pine tree, on the masking tape, I just want a glimpse of it to be seen in the painting and not the complete tree. But if you want to paint the complete tree into the painting, you can as well, you don't have to paint on the masking tape. Apply more on this side of the building as well. That is it for today's class project. I hope you enjoyed painting this very simple, but very bright and colorful cityscape. I'm going to see you with a brand new class project tomorrow. Thank you so much for joining me. 7. Class Project 4 - Flowery Street: Hey guys. Welcome to today's class project. As usual, I'm going to get started with the sketching and I'm using a reference picture. But there are a lot of changes that I'm going to make because the picture is not even 10 percent of what I wanted to paint today. There will be no road and there will be no shadow on the road in today's class because the angle that this photograph was taken is completely different, it's upward angle. But the contents are all the same. There is a building and a few plants and flowers, windows and a roof. No compromise on the color palette and that's a relief. As usual you can find the final sketch in the references tab. I would suggest you guys to open up that image and sketch at your own pace. Because personally I find it really impossible to paint along with someone. There were these plants and flowers on the right side of the building in yesterday's class project. We're going to have the same in today's, but there is a difference. There will be two gorgeous flower pots too on the wall in this class project. I have never painted a flower pot on a wall before, so it was challenging, but at the end everything worked out and I actually enjoyed painting this particular building in this class project. Isn't it great when you take chances and it works out at the end? It is not a big deal probably, but I enjoy small victories. We are done with the sketching. I hope you have your color palette ready and I have mine right over here. I'm first mixing the shadow color. Later, I'm going to take my silver black velvet number 14 brush and I'm going to wet the building that is on my left with clean water. Sure you are not wetting those doors and windows. Let's add the shadow color to the building that we had just used water and make sure do not just paint the shadow or wall of that building. Just at random places and then blend it properly. Burnt sienna and just paint those little flower pots on the left side of the building while the paper is still wet. Now I'm going to take the Thalo blue color and I'm going to paint those windows on the left side of the building. Paper is wet, the color can bleed out into the building. You can just use the tissue paper for that to dab the extra paint. Now I'm going to wet that building in the middle using clean water. Later, add the shadow color just like we have done to the building on the left. It is drying, it's time to wet the building on the right with clean water. Add the shadow color only on the top. To add the flowers and the plants first, I'm going to take green color and I'm going to get started with the foliage and I have also mixed a little bit of yellow in there. We're going to paint the flowers as well as the plants at the same time and we're going to also paint both layers that is the wet on wet as well as the detailed layers back to back because the paper is not that wet and I don't want to waste a lot of time for that. It's looking so beautiful, isn't it? Get started on painting the roofs and for that I'm mixing burnt sienna color. If you see that friend's picture, there is no roof in burnt sienna color, it's just what I I'm painting on my own. Sure you are not leaving hard edges between the building and the roof. Make sure you're blending that color into the building properly. Follow my brush strokes so it will be easier for you. Add roof to this building as well. The door on this side of the building it will be in burnt sienna color as per the picture, so I'm just going to add the burnt sienna color. Let's complete the painting of these small flower parts on this side of the building. I'm going to first add burnt sienna later I'm going to add green color. Later using a wet brush, just drag the paint down so it indicates that the shadows are falling on the building. But if you find that your color is bleeding too much into the shadow do not attempt this step, it can be a little tricky. I'm going to just add this one small line of the paint near the door using burnt sienna. I just found this on the picture as well. Paint the window from this one. The building in the middle. Take burnt sienna and paint the roof for this building too. The same burnt sienna, let's work on these flower parts. Now I'm going to start adding the details. It could very well be called the second part of the video because this only consists of adding the details as much as possible to the entire painting. This indigo color I just wanted to darken these windows and then I'm going to add the shadows as well. Let's paint the same for this window in the middle. Like I said, we're going to add a lot of details, and details include shadows. Start with the building in the middle, and later we can move on to the building on my right. Well, this detail is not in the reference picture. I wanted to add the shadows for these windows as well. It might look messy, but then it was looking fine. I would suggest you guys to follow along with me. But in any case, if you find this step totally unnecessary, you can always skip. My most favorite part, adding the shadows to these plants and flowers. Do not add the shadow in a straight line, make sure you're adding it at an angle. That's how the sun rays fall if you observe any picture or anywhere else. That's an important detail to remember. That is done, it's time to paint the sky. I think this is my favorite part, not the shadow part. I'm going to wet the paper with clean water first. I only start adding the halo blue color. Do not be impulse, you make sure you check the borders. Do not paint over those rules. Make sure to add very slowly. With this sky a few more details on the windows. I'm using indigo color for this. We're almost done. I really hope you enjoyed this class project today. I'm so glad that you guys found the previous class projects very helpful and very fun to paint. Thank you so much and I'm going to see you guys tomorrow. 8. Class Project 5 - Little Houses: Hi, welcome to today's class project. Today's painting will be very simple. I'm going to just paint a couple of buildings, houses, and then there'll be a road and shadow of course. That's what we have painted for all of these class projects I know, but I will try to include a few more extra details for this painting we'll see. As usual, the picture of the final painting will be available in the resources tab. If you find sketching with me a bit difficult, you can directly refer that image and sketch at your own pace. I told you guys that I'll make some changes that I'll include a few things in this painting. One of those is this one, the poles. We haven't sketched the poles before in previous class projects. I'm going to include a few flowers as well on the left side of the painting. Final step is to sketch those doors and windows. You guys have your color palettes ready? Without any delay, let's get started by wetting the paper with clean water. I'm wetting the entire paper except that road area. I'm using tallow blue to paint the sky. I'm taking a smaller brush and Quin rose, I'm going to quickly add those flowers wet-on-wet like we have done in previous class projects. Since that is done, I'm going to take shadow color, lots of it. I'm going to paint these houses with the shadow color. These houses as they go back, they should be lighter in color. The first one that I'm painting here is in darker color and the one behind that is a little bit lighter, and the one behind it is even lighter. Now, there is this small building here in front of the first one. There is a small line that should be even more darker. This one that I'm painting right here. Now I'm mixing this gorgeous burnt sienna color. We're using orange and purple. I'm going to paint the roofs of it burnt sienna now. You're seeing the color variation right at the building that is behind the main one is lighter and the behind one is even lighter. To get the lighter color, you need to add more water and less paint. Taking Quin Rose and I'm going to add the detailed leaves, just like we have done in previous class project. But if the paper is still wet, you have to wait a couple of minutes to try this step. I'm painting the roofs once again with the burnt sienna because they are looking very dull after they have dried. Yeah. Lets take shadow color and paint the main house with it. We'll now read the road area with clean water first. There will be a few more layers that we need to paint for this road, but for now I'm using the mix of shadow color and burnt sienna for the first layer Now like we have done in previous class projects, we are going to paint a few details at the borders of the wall on the road. You can distinctly see where the wall ends and the road starts, it's very important detail. We'll keep this drawing and I'll come back once it's completely dried. How dull the colors have dried, we have to add a few more layers to few more things later, but for now we're going to paint the doors and the windows. For this, I'm using indigo color. I'm mixing a lot of shadow color, so I can get started on adding layers of this shadow color onto these houses. Make sure the windows and the doors are dried up before attempting this step. Mine was still wet but I think I managed to not make a mess, but I would advise you guys to wait a couple of minutes until your paint has dried; the windows and the doors, and you can carry on after your paper has dried. I'm mixing shadow color again, so I can get started on painting the shadow that is on the road which is always my favorite. suggestion here would be to paint the shadows in less brushstrokes. Do not make a lot of brushstrokes because they tend to leave a stain on the ground which actually will not look smooth, that's what we are trying here while painting shadows especially. The same shadow color I'm going to add a few more layers to these houses using indigo color, I'm going to get started on painting those poles and the wires. Just adjusting a few things on the road, this is another layer. This is also the last layer that we're going to paint on the road. For this, I'm using a shadow blue color. Near that wall I'm going to be adding a few more details, and for that I'm using indigo color. Add one more layer of burnt sienna color to the roofs of these houses. That is it for today. I think today's class project has been the easiest of all of those that we have painted before and I'm going to see you guys tomorrow with a brand new class project. Thank you so much for joining. 9. Class Project 6 - Sunny Side: Hello people. Welcome to today's class project. A few months ago I was practicing for this class. This was one of my practice pieces and I thought I would recreate it for today's class project. [MUSIC] The picture of the final sketch will be available in the resources tab. You can refer to that image and sketch at your own pace. [MUSIC] All of our class projects are in portrait mode and this practice piece is in a landscape mode. At first I thought it will be difficult. You're not to convert it into portrait mode, but the trick was to increase the area of the sky. I did not think it would turn out so good but wait till the end. This one has to be my favorite class project so far. [MUSIC] Random lines that I'm painting on these houses are actually shadows. It all make sense at the end, trust me. [MUSIC] Such a simple sketch. We are done with sketching. I hope you guys have your color palette ready. We're going to get started. I'm going to wet the sky area with clean water and I'm using my silver black velvet brush. [MUSIC] Mixing my tallow blue with the indigo to get that darker shade to the sky. [MUSIC] You can use cobalt blue or ultramarine blue in the place of tallow blue. [MUSIC] I'm done with the sky right now and I'm going to keep it for drying and I'll come back once it's completely dried. Let's mix orange and purple to get burnt sienna and let's get started on painting these roofs of all these houses. I am going to paint the darker color on the left side of the roof and on the right, it'll be in lighter shade. The roof will be lighter in shade on the right because it has no shadow over it. While on the left, the shadow of this small building you are seeing on the left is falling on the roof. [MUSIC] Let's paint the roof of this next building here using the same color and the same brush. [MUSIC] End it into the house softly using a wet brush. [MUSIC] Now, let's paint the building in the middle with shadow color. The roof will be dry by now, but if yours is still wet, please wait a couple of minutes and then get started with the building. [MUSIC] While this is still wet, I'm going to be adding a few drops of burnt sienna into the mix in order to give that extra drama. Paint the next building with the same color, but make sure you are leaving just a small wide gap between these two buildings. [MUSIC] Bring that burnt sienna into this building as well, while the paper is still wet. [MUSIC] Touch burnt sienna to this roof over here. [MUSIC] Blending, I'm also adding just a touch of shadow purple. Make sure you are not adding too much. This one has to be in whiter shade and not in purple shade because sun is falling on this building. Sun is not falling on this side of the building so we are covering it with the purple shade. [MUSIC] Of course a few drops of burnt sienna. Because burnt sienna is quite dull on this roof so I'm adding one more layer. Using indigo color, I'm going to get started on painting these windows and the doors. [MUSIC] You guys know how to paint these doors and windows. The top part should be in darker color and the bottom should be in lighter shade. [MUSIC] With indigo, I'm going to add a few details on this roof over here. [MUSIC] The most important part of this class project starts. Mix a lot of shadow color because we're going to be adding the shadows for all these houses. Keep in mind that shadow should be only in one direction and as you can see, the direction that I'm choosing is diagonal. [MUSIC] These two buildings on my right will mostly be in white color because the sun rays are directly falling on them, they will only have sharp shadows, while the two small buildings on my left will be mostly covered in shadow color because they are in shade. [MUSIC] Paint the shadows in very less brushstrokes. Also, make sure you have lots of shadow color in your palette because while you're mixing, these shadows will get dried up and it'll not look smooth when you continue it. [MUSIC] I'll take a small break from talking and let you guys enjoy painting these shadows all by yourself because this is my most favorite part in this class project. [MUSIC] Hope you enjoyed the process and I'm going to splatter some remaining paint. Then I'm going to take forest green color and I'm going to get started on painting those trees in the background. [MUSIC] By the way, we're not completely done with painting the shadows. We have a few brush strokes left. [MUSIC] We'll continue it after finishing up these trees. [MUSIC] A lot of shadow purple color now and we're going to paint shadows to point O. [MUSIC] These details actually make no sense but please follow my brushstrokes and trust me, they're going to look wonderful at the end. [MUSIC] I'm just going to darken this wall just under the roof. That makes these shadows look even more realistic. [MUSIC] I'm going to take the indigo color and I'm going to paint a few light poles, just like we have painted in yesterday's class projects. I have loved them so much and I wanted to paint in this class project as well. [MUSIC] Paint a few birds, because we haven't painted birds in any of our class projects. [MUSIC] That is it for today's class project and I bet you guys loved this class project more than any of the previous ones. I'm going to see you guys with a brand new one tomorrow. Thank you so much for joining. [MUSIC] 10. Class Project 7 Beach Sun: Hey guys. Welcome to Class Project 7. Today, we are going to grease. [MUSIC] I'm going to get started with the sketching. As usual, you can find the picture of the final sketch in the References tab. Most of you guys messaged me that you loved the sketching part in all the class projects. I'm very glad to hear that because when I started to go for this particular subject, I was really worried about the sketching part because I was never really good at sketching. That's one of the reasons why the sketching is very simple in all of these class projects. The thing that actually help me in getting the hang of these sketches is observation. I always take time and I will wait patiently for at least 10 seconds before I put the pencil to the paper. Most of you don't know this, but I always try the sketch on a small piece of paper before I attempt on the main paper. They all the tips that I can give you guys about the sketching. I know only a few. Like I said before, I'm not an expert. This is something new in this class project, the street light, and I'm going to have to use a new technique to cover it up, that is using masking tape. We're going to have to paint the sky, so I don't know how we can cover that up. We have to paint around it. Instead of that, I'm using masking tape to cover that small area. We're going to need masking tape to cover that horizon line as well so we can paint the sky easily. It's perfect now to paint the sky, so I'm going to get started by wetting the paper, only the sky area and make sure you don't wet that building over there. Use clean water. Also, I'm using my silver black velvet number 14 brush. I'm using thalo blue color. You can use cobalt blue or ultramarine blue for this. I'm painting very lightly. Perfect, isn't it? I'm going to keep this for drying and I will come back once it's completely dried. I'm breaking our code guys. This is the extra color that I'm going to use today, turquoise green from Sennelier. I'm going to use it just a little bit to paint the ocean. If you don't have this color, I think everyone will be having turquoise blue, so use that. I'm going to just take it on my palette. I'm going to remove that masking tape covering the horizon line as well because my paper has dried. Using two colors to paint the ocean, thalo blue and turquoise green. I'm also going to mix a little bit of yellow into the turquoise green to make it look more lighter. At the horizon line, we're going to paint the darker color that is thalo blue. Slowly, we're going to add turquoise green as well as turquoise green and yellow mix. Gradually, we are going to make it lighter. That is done. Take thalo blue and add these small horizontal lines while the paper is still damp. You are showing that the water has ripples. A lot of shadow color because we're going to need it in the next step. We're going to first wet the area. You can wait until the ocean part is dry, but my paper is already at the stage of drying, so I just got it out by wetting the paper. I'm taking shadow color, I'm going to add wherever the color is necessary. Follow my brushstrokes and paint where I am painting. The shadows are very important part for this class project. [MUSIC] Let's add one more layer because clearly this is not enough. [MUSIC] By using indigo color, I'm going to paint a few details, like we have done in previous class projects. You guys remember that we are going to have to add details between the wall and where the road starts. I'm going to just go ahead and paint those shadows between wall on the road using indigo color. [MUSIC] Paint here using shadow color as well. [MUSIC] Also clearly, this is not enough we're going to have to wait until this layer dries so we can proceed with the next layer. I'm going to come back once it's completely dried. [MUSIC] Using shadow color, I'm going to paint one more layer of the details. [MUSIC] In spite of the wall should be in a darker color because it is in the shade. [MUSIC] Paint, the shadow color to this part of the building as well. It's in the shade too. [MUSIC] I'm going to add one more layer of shadow color here. [MUSIC] Using the shadow color, let's paint the shadows. My favorite part of the class project. [MUSIC] Plotting the paint isn't my habit. You don't have to do it if you don't like it. Now, I'm taking indigo color and I'm going to paint the door, but make sure the paper is dry there. [MUSIC] We're going to wait until this whole paper dries up so we can get started with that street lamp, which is also my favorite thing to paint. [MUSIC] The paper has dried, so I'm going to remove the masking tape. [MUSIC] Entire lamp is painted in indigo, so use only that color. [MUSIC] Also use a smaller brush so you can paint the details easily. [MUSIC] Normally, I add the light indigo color in that white-space, just like when you see a bulb which is on, you don't see a dark color, it will be in lighter shade. [MUSIC] Leave this one drying and I will come back once it's completely dried. I just have to add few more details. [MUSIC] Add one more line of indigo color, but only after it's completely dried. Add that line towards the right, not in the middle. [MUSIC] Fix indigo color to your already mixed to shadow color to get this darker shadow color. I know it's very confusing [LAUGHTER] so I'm painting this one more detail. It's like I'm painting a shadow on the shadow. [MUSIC] At this point, I'm just finishing up those small details that you go for before removing the tape. [MUSIC] Today's class project is really very limited in colors. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. I'm going to see you guys tomorrow with a brand new class project. Thank you for watching. [MUSIC] 11. Class Project 8 Serene Street: Hey guys, welcome to today's class project. I'm going to get started with sketching. As always, you can find the picture of final sketch in references tab. Today is the date and only two days left for this class to complete. I don't know about you, but I'm feeling sad already. I'm going to come up with a new class very soon. Thank you so much for showing such support to this class, especially after I have taken a long break. As you can see, today's class project is also a very simple sketch. A few houses and a plant on my right. I'm going to probably use only green color for that. I'm not going to use more than one color. I will not complicate it by sketching a lot of things here. I'm going to keep it simple. I'm going to now get started by wetting the paper with clean water. I'm wetting only the sky area. I'm using my silver black velvet number 14 brush. I'm using Phthalo blue to paint the sky. If you don't have Phthalo blue, you can use ultramarine blue or cobalt blue. Paint very carefully and do not paint it in a very dark color. Just light blue is enough. There is this gap in between two buildings. It's okay if you can't get the paint in there. We're going to come back for it later, we're going to paint it again in later steps. This is sky and now you don't have to wait for this one to dry because we're going to have to paint that plant in green color wet on wet. I'm using forest green color here. Any dark green will do if you don't have forest green. I'll wet this area a little bit so I can get this green color. That wet on wet effect. Now, this is only Step 1 in painting this plant. We're going to come back for it later. We're going to have to add details in wet on dry. Remember, we have done this before in all of our class projects almost. Technically, you have to wait until the sky and the plant dries up, but here the temperature is 44 degrees today so it's already dried. But if your work is still wet, you have to wait for a couple of minutes before you get started on painting those roofs. For the roof I'm using burnt sienna. Now I'm going to add shadows to these buildings wherever the shadows are needed so get your shadow color already. In a few places, the darker shadow color will be there, so almost all of these buildings will be in light shadow color. This is light shadow. I will tell you where the dark shadows will be there so you guys can differentiate the shades. This is light shadow as well, the one we are painting now. Now comes the dark shadow color. I have added a lot of indigo to the shade. The roofs are looking really dull so I'm going to add one more layer of burnt sienna. I'm going to paint the road now. For that, I'm going to be using two light shades of burnt sienna and shadow color. I'm going to just add a little bit of shadow color in-between two buildings over there. It shows that there are two very little buildings at the horizon. Now I'm going to Phthalo blue here because I have missed adding at the beginning. I'm going to take the indigo color, I'm going to add lots and lots of details. With the same indigo color, I'm going to complete painting those windows and the doors. Guys know how to paint these doors and windows. The top part should be in darker shade, the bottom part should be in lighter. Complete this side as well. With the same indigo color, I'm going to paint a few more details. You know I can paint details for hours so I really need someone to stop me, especially while painting the details because it never is enough. If you guys really want to paint along with me, you can, but if your painting is looking perfect, you don't have to add thousands of details. Take darker forest green color, I mean darker green color, and we're going to add the details for this plant over here. Paint those stems using burnt sienna. I have again fallen in this well of adding details. I'm using a mix of shadow color and indigo color to give those last touch ups. This class project is the shortest of all and I really hope you guys enjoyed painting this with me. I'm going to see you guys tomorrow with a brand new class project. Thank you so much for joining me. 12. Class Project 9 Before The Summer: Hi everyone. Welcome to Class Project 9. As always, I'm going to get started with sketching. You can find the picture of the final sketch in the references tab below. [MUSIC] Only two days left for this class to complete. [MUSIC] I have mixed feelings about this. Obviously, I'm very sad to leave these projects behind. I'm also very excited to get started with new projects. I have been experimenting a lot behind the scenes and have taken a long break in Feb and March and I've used that time to explore a lot of different teams in watercolor. [MUSIC] I'm very excited to bring those projects to you very soon. I'm also very thankful that you keep showing me your support and you keep sending me all these messages that you love my classes and you love my ideas. That means so much to me. [MUSIC] I hope you guys got your colors ready because we're going to get started with the next step. That is, painting the sky. I'm using my silver black velvet number 14, brush and tallow blue color to paint the sky. [MUSIC] Do not use darker shades of blue for painting the skies. You can use any light color, light shade of blue. Cobalt blue would be perfect. I would also recommend ultramarine blue. Now while the paper is still wet, I'm going to use my silver black velvet number 6 brush, and I'm going to use forest green color. I'll get started on painting the foliage plants in wet-on-wet. [MUSIC] We have to paint very fast here because at least here, there is a heat wave going on and my paper is drying up really fast. I'm not kidding, it's 44 degrees Celsius here. [MUSIC] Clearly, you have to wait until this paper dries before starting on painting the roofs using burnt sienna. Like I said, my paper has already dried up, so I'm going to get started on painting the roofs using burnt sienna color. [MUSIC] It's completely normal if your work is not looking like mine. If I paint this again, there is a 90 percent chance that it won't be looking exactly the same. That's how watercolor works. Because there is wet-on-wet technique here as well, you can't predict the results. The only thing that is important is learning the techniques so you can paint on your own. [MUSIC] Mixing a shadow color. I'm mixing it in a very light shade so I can get started on painting those houses. [MUSIC] Be careful when adding the shadow color because you can very easily add a darker shade. It will just ruin the painting because these buildings are facing the sun, so they have to be in lighter shade. I'm going to tell you when I'm adding the darker shade so you now differentiate between the two shades. Now, this is a bit darker shade, but not that dark. I hope you are getting what I'm saying. Just add little bit of indigo or tallow blue so it will become a little bit darker than the previous shade. I'm going to wet the road area with clean water now so I can get started painting the road as well. I'm using my Etsy love block Number 14 brush for that. Zinc two shades. Just like I have used, these two shades ready to paint the road. The burnt sienna, as well as the shadow color. Not final yet, we're going to have to paint another layer for the road. Now I'm using indigo. I'm just going to paint a few details. Now, one more layer of shadow color, but this too is not final. We're going to have to paint again. You guys, if I'm using darker shadow color, I had just added indigo color to the already existed shadow color to make it a bit darker. I'm adding it to these shaded areas. These two sides of the houses are in the shade. The direct sunlight is not falling on them, so they have to be in darker shadow color. The same shadow color, I'm going to just go in there and add a few details. We'll use indigo color and we're going to finish these doors and windows. I'm going to take forest green color now and I'm going to finish up painting the foliage in wet-on-dry. But I'm going to paint only on the left side. I'm going to leave that foliage in the middle and on to the right side alone. I'm not going to paint wet-on-dry technique there because they're in the background and we're going to have to add details only to the foliage that is on the foreground. Take the shadow color. You are seeing these two blocks. The one that is facing you should be in darker color, shadow color. The other one should be in the lighter because sun is falling on that side and not on this side. Same applied to those houses as well. I'm using shadow color and I'm painting lots and lots of details. When I say we are painting lots and lots of details, it means that we are at the end of the painting. It's just like shopping. At the end of it, you're just going to throw whatever you see in your cart. It's just like that, it doesn't make sense. You just have to act on that impulse. We're going to paint one more layer of the colors to the road. I'm just going to add darker shadow color and then indigo color, light indigo to make the road look shaded at the foreground. The background is lighter if you absorb. The sunlight is falling there. The foreground is covered in the shade because there are lots of houses on the foreground. I hope I'm making sense because I'm just explaining how the light works here. I enjoyed painting today's class project. I'm going to see you guys tomorrow. Thank you so much for watching. 13. Class Project 10: Hello, guys. Welcome to class project 10. I have saved the best for last. This is actually the first one I have experimented with the faster project, but it came out so good so I thought I would keep it at the last. The picture of the final sketch is available in the reference tab below. As always, please go through it to sketch out your own pace, I understand it to be difficult to paint along with me. I wanted to go for a very simple sketch at the beginning. Like I said, this was the first class project, but I ended up going for very complicated reference picture. I had to adjust a lot of things from picture to the painting. That's why I'm not showing you guys a French picture because there is nothing similar to it. When compared to all the class projects, this one can be a little bit complicated, there are a lot of steps to follow, so that's one of the reasons why you have kept this for the last. You have already got the practice painting all those nine projects so it'll be easier for you to paint this one. As you can see, I cannot make up my mind on what the sketch from the reference picture. This was the class project and the first experimental also, so that's why the sketching part is a bit messy. Again, my suggestion would be to directly go for the final picture in the reference staff. You don't have to see all this mess. I also want to let you guys know that I appreciate you joining me for this 10 day watercolor practice. I have received so many messages and there are so many reviews for this class, I appreciate it so much. We're done with the sketching, so I hope you guys have your color palette ready. We're going to get started with the first step. I'm using my silver black or red number 14 brush and I'm wetting the sky area with clean water. Don't wet the lantern just wet the background area, that is, sky. I'm using Polo blue to paint the sky. I have to add one more layer to the sky, which we have never done in previous class projects, but this, we're going to have to add two layers. I'm going to walk through it when that step comes. But for now, paint with Polo blue color. Now, once the sky is done, wet the road area, add shadow color to the road. I'm going to let this one to dry completely before we move on to the next step. Since the paper is completely dried, wet this building right here on the foreground with clean water and later, we're going to add green color foliage and red color flowers using wet-on-wet technique. I'm going to first use forest green to paint the foliage. I'm going to use French vermilion, which is the red color, to paint the flowers. Now, I'm going to take shadow color. I'm going to just add a few details to this building. Now, take burnt sienna color and we're going to paint the roof of this building. Add shadows under the roof using the shadow color. Instead of using indigo, I'm using a mix of Phthalo blue and forest green to paint this door right here. Paint a few details at the wall and in-between the wall and the road using indigo color. While this building is drying, we're going to move on to the next one. I'm using shadow color, but I'm using very light shade of shadow color. Do not use the dark shade. Using the same color that I've used to paint these doors, I'm going to finish up painting these windows. Now paint the roofs of these two buildings right here. This is the one and there is a house in the background as well in-between these two buildings, we are going to paint the roof for that building also using burnt sienna color. I take the Phthalo blue color and I'm going to paint the small detail you see at the edge of this building, the one in the middle. Indigo color, I'm going to add details to these windows. Time to add one more layer of the shadow. Make sure painting this border of the road as well using indigo color. Comes the interesting part and I think this is my favorite step in this class project. I'm adding the shadow for this building using shadow color, of course. A few drops of burnt sienna, wet-on-wet like we always do. Now add indigo color to the shadow color to make it seem darker than the previous buildings that we have painted. Add green color foliage while the paper is still wet. While everything is drying up, I'm going to use indigo color to finish up painting this lantern. Using the same indigo color, I'm going to paint a few details. Again, use indigo color to paint this detail as well. Green color to paint wet-on-dry of this detail here. Now add one more layer of the dark shadow color for this road here. Use the same color that you have used to paint the road in order to add one more layer to the sky like we have discussed at the beginning. This step concludes our expressive cityscapes class. I hope you guys had fun painting all the 10 class projects and I really appreciate you guys joining me because I have taken a long break and then I came back. You're still here supporting me. Thank you so much for that. I'm going to see you guys very soon in my next class.