Expressive Winter Landscapes - Watercolor Paintings | 4 Projects

1. Introduction: Welcome to the class, expressive winter landscapes. In this class, we are going to paint for gorgeous winters cave paintings. Hello, I'm Shannon and artist based in Bangalore, India. You can check out all my artworks on my Instagram handle, watercolor. This class will help you to level up your watercolor skills. We will be discussing about various factors affecting the highlight and shadows while we paint. Then we will also learn about how to achieve depth in the objects we paint. We will talk about the importance and application of tonal values. I'll walk you through all the art supplies that are needed for the class. Then we'll work on the composition part and the colors required for the class. We will have some drawing exercises as well. Once you're ready, we'll move on to the painting process, where we will paint each painting step-by-step. Every step will be explained with great instruction. I'll also be sharing some helpful tips during the painting session. So come join me in this class and let us together create this beautiful winter landscapes. So without any further ado, let's get started. 2. Art supplies: Okay, so before we start the painting process, let me walk you through the art supplies that I'm going to use for this class. The papers that I'll be using for 40 GSM handmade paper. So this is 100% cotton for 40 DSM and rough texture. So you can see the texture is slightly rough. Okay? So all four papers are the same. Talking about the brushes, I'll be using these four brushes. This is my mop brush. This is size eight round brush. The mop brush I'll use for the washers and to cover the larger areas. This is for the medium-sized brush strokes and size six as well. Then they have a size two round brush for detailing part. And this is my old brush, which I use for painting the foliage and the foliage, the branches and anything very loose and anything that I want to paint very randomly. I use this brush so that the bristles. I don't care even if the Brazil school bag, because this is a very old brush and the bristles are really worn out. Now talking about the colors, I have this color palette where I have stored the colors. This is violet, red, and blue, different shades of red. There's a low or a yellow ocher. So toluene blue, sap green, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue. Once you are now been Dumbo, Payne's gray, indigo. And this is pink. Rose my door and pink. I have two shades of pink here. This is black, this is white. White I use for making the paints a little opaque. You'll see that in the class. And I have orange, raw, umber, viridian green, but he didn't heal. Okay. So these are the colors and the palate has these wells where I can mix my colors. This is my new palette which I started using a month I go. I'm really enjoying it because I don't feel the need to have an extra palate or plate. I can do all the mixing right in this palette and wipe it off once I'm done with one painting. That's about the colors. Also, I will be using gouache paint and mixing it in this ceramic bowl. So if there's any paint left in this, I can go back and use reuse this again. This is my gosh, color and the ballot. They have a spray bottle, water spray bottle to wet my colors and also the paper. This is really helpful to wet the paint and the paper. Then I would be using napkins, wiping off the water to have water in this. And I can just slide my brush, remove all the water. Or I could even do it like this and remove all the water from the brush. So having tissue paper napkin by the side really helps me a lot. And I also use some tissue papers, something like this, very soft tissue papers to lift off the paint or to perform some lifting techniques are and we have two jars of water. So the water is already dirty, excuse me for that. But yeah, you can maintain two separate jars while painting so that only one jar of water gets dirty and other one remains clean. I would also be using oh, pencil eraser and an eating it. And so this is really helpful to remove all the darker pencil lines. And then I have this hairdryer, which I use for speeding up the drying process. I'll make the paper dry faster with the help of this hairdryer. Then I have this small booklet, this I use for the composition and the colors watching. That was about the supplies. Let's get started with the class. 3. Understanding Winterscapes : These are the four main things that we're going to learn in the class. So if you observe these paintings, the common element here is the snow. So we will learn more about how to paint. Let's have a look at the painting one by one. In this painting, here you can see there are some highlights and shadows in the snow. It's not just plain white, right? Similarly in this painting as well, you can see the brighter and the shadow side. These two paintings as well, where the snow has some depth in it. How do we achieve the depth in the snow and what are the factors affecting it? It mainly depends on the source of light. When the light falls onto an image, it gets reflected very brightly. In this painting, the source of the light is from the right side. The shadow is cast on the left side. Here we can assume that the light is reflected on this part and the backside of yours darker. Same in this area as well. In this painting, we can observe that the shadows are around the houses. And in this, the shadows are towards the foreground area. Now that we have understood the factors affecting the light and shadows. But how do we paint those highlights and shadow areas? We're going to use multiple tonal values of Apollo and the whiteness of the people to achieve highlights and shadows. I'm using ultramarine blue, then I lose it so different tonal value to paint the dramatic effect in the snow. Me show you with the help of an example from taking this color in thicker consistency. Now if I add water to this, this becomes our midtone consistency. Then as I keep adding water to it, it becomes more and more diluted. This is a lightest tonal value and this one is the thickest color. Somewhere in-between we have the mid consistency. So using the combination of these tonal values, we can paint the snow. It may not be only ultramarine blue. You could also use indigo or any bluish color. This is another color. I'm using indigo here. Now if you add water to this, it gives you light midtone consistency, again, adding more water. So you can see we have different tonal values of two different colors here. Say I want to paint a Snow's cape. Then I'll paint the background or element first. And synthesis small. I'm going to add multiple tonal values. So I have used diluted blue and then mid-tone blue. Next, let me show you the example of mountains. I'll be painting two mountains where light is reflected from different sides. You can watch me paint your annual understand the difference. I'm considering the right side as the shadow side. So you can see the left side. It automatically got highlighted when we added the darker color. For the second one, the source of light would be from the right side and the darker side would be on the left. So I hope you have understood how the direction of light matters in any elements you paint. Similarly, we will do this for the temple shape, your lighter color, and the darker color. So if you want to paint something, absorb the light and shadows on them, then you will be able to easily recreate the image or come up with your own compositions considering the source of light. 4. Project 1 - The Temple: Before we start our project, let us have a look at the thumbnail. So the thumbnail for this painting goes like, Oh, we'll have a mountain. And here are the four pillar of this mountain. We have a temple. You can practice this temple on a rough piece of paper so that you feel confident when you are drawing on the actual painting paper. Behind this, that is a small hill. In the foreground. We have some trees. Here. We would be considering the sunlight over here from this side. So this part would be brighter. And this way, the shadow side, the light again. Fonts on the right side. The left side, automatically it becomes darker due to the lack of light. This creates a three-dimensional mountain shape. And even for this temple, the light would be reflected on the front, on the right side. Backside of this template will automatically look darker. And here we have some trees. So we'll keep it very simple and cheap. And the sky color is also very mild. The colors that I would be using. So first is YA lit, then I lose a lot. For the brighter side, your scheduling. One channel. For the darker side. You would also need some ultramarine blue, burnt umber, cobalt blue for this mountain, plus green. And we will need a black color. Payne's gray is also fine. You can go with any similar color that you already have. Okay, so let's get started with the painting. I'm going to save down this masking tape. So once you have a Amnon, the paper, just run your finger over the edges to make sure we have tightly sealed the paper. Okay? No, I'm going to draw the sketch. So I have any data zone and a pencil. I'm drawing a shape that is similar to a triangle. And then dividing it all around 30% for the backside and the 70% toward the front side. I'm not so great with drawing the building shapes, but I'm still learning and trying. Right behind the mountain, there's this Haley, and in the background we have the mountain. So this is our though for tail part of the mountain area. I'm going to keep my cardboard in or tilted position. So let's start with the sky. I'm going to apply it clear water above the mountain area. So we'll go with wet on wet technique for this. Make sure you're applying even coat of water throughout this area. Now, I'm going to take a break before I let some federal in blue. So here I have used very mild colors for the sky. No, I lose my needing it is to lift off all the darker marks from this ample shape. I don't want it to have darker lines while I paint. So I'm going to paint the lighter area first. So here I'll take a look and apply this paint in a very diluted form. I'm considering the source of light from the right side. So this will be highlighted. And the backside know the adjacent side will have the shadows. So first, here I'll be painting a board the site with the same color as the base layer. Now, here, I'm going to add some tree-like shapes. This is the base color that I'm going to add. Some opening as well. On the upper part of this tree area. I'm going to solve can do, I do with clear water? Okay, So I let this dry. Okay, So this layer looks dry. You can touch it and see if you feel it is not dry enough, then wait for it to completely dry. Okay. Now, I'm going to paint the shadow side of the mountain, okay? So I'm going to take a darker color. So this is a bluish gray color. Take it in a very diluted form. Paint around this area. Here. When you are applying the paint, be very careful. You can leave some white gap also. Next one, so fine. Here I'm using a mop brush for easier coverage of the area. So here we have the other side of the bright monk and right, we're going to apply water. Leave it as it is. Next, I'll be adding shadow on the other mountain. So we have to write and highlighted sites in the mountain and to darker or the shadow sides who do not want any patches here. So I'm just applying some damp brush. So I'm dropping in some darker color to break the uniformity in the mountain. This will create uneven appearance. Again, avoid the sharp edges here. I'll just use a damp brush to soften the heart. He bark. Now with the same **** brush. I'm going to just know, glide over this area to create extra. Okay, so I'm going to try this area. Alright, the paper looks dry. So next we're going to paint the darker side of the temple. So I'm gonna take burnt sienna and yellow ocher. Will use this color in a diluted form. Apply on the shadow side of the ample. Will also take some ultramarine blue. I'm trying to keep a balance of cooler and warmer color in the shadow side. So here we don't want to create any sharp edge. So I'm just blending with clear water. Okay. So once this is done, I'm going to dry it. No, with the same brown color. I'm going to paint the shadows on the highlighted side. So this creates a sense of depth in the front part as well. So I'm keeping it as simple as I can. Don't want to complicate it with lots of shapes. I'm taking very diluted color. So here I'm going to add a center for midtone value and blend it with clear water. For any element to have a sense of depth, it should have 0 or darker tone, mid-tone, and a lighter tone. So here we are trying to create the same laying some color on the shrine part. I'm drawing this area using a hairdryer. If the paper is wet, we won't be able to add the details, right? So I want this area to be completely dry. Now take our darker brown color. With this darker mix, I'm going to add the details now. On the shadow side, the lines are slightly inclined. Also add the details on the sunlit part so that I can easily figure out the directions. Follow the pencil marks that we have drawn earlier. I'm adding some lines depicting the intricate work on the temple. It is enough if you can try to capture the essence of the image. You don't have to walk on each and every detail. Next, I'm taking slightly darker color. On the other side, I'm painting it with the slant, slightly inclined line. So here what I don't want this line. So if we just blot it with clear water, I think I'll leave it as it is. For now. Let's see what we can do later. Now. I'll take and ultramarine blue, mix it together and add some texture on the mountain area. So I'm simply adding some lines creating a sense of depth. This area. We can also know glide your brush, creating some darker texture. Try to keep it as minimal as you can. On the highlighted side, you can add some mild, actually like effect using darker color. So I'm using black. So for this mountain, I'm going to add a greenish blue color. Mixed cobalt blue and sap green. Again, on the bottom area, I'm going to spread it with clear water. Don't have to paint exact shape of the mountain. Just create an impression of the background mountain. Now, you can take your fine liner brush with darker brown color. You may add some tree trunks. Paint as many trees you want. That's up to you. So we can use a green color. The upper area, just to prevent the paints from falling on the temple. And I'm going to splatter some paint here. Okay, Now to spread that effect, you can dab your finger. So you can see a nice darker and lighter highlights in the tree area. Now I'm taking black and applying some details. So adding darker color to any object in the painting is really important. We should have darker and lighter tonal values. When we add darker color, the lighter color, it automatically gets highlighted. So that's really helpful to bring out the accents of two. The object that we are being can add some boards. If you don't want any words in your painting, then just skip this step. It's up to, you know, if you want to give some snow effect, you can use squash. In a thicker consistency. I'm adding very little amount of water so that my brush can hold the paint and mix it in thicker consistency. Okay. I can splatter the paint. The aid the snowy effect. So yeah, we are done with the spending. No. Next, remove the masking tape. So this is how our painting look like. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your class projects and the project gallery. 5. Project 2 - The Cottage: Welcome to the second project of this class. Let us talk about the thumbnail of this class project. We have a house and a tree, or next to this house, a little closer to the viewpoint, that is this tree. A small tree here. This foreground is covered with snow. The darker color here indicates a sense of shadow in the snowy part. Drops in the sky. It indicates the snowfall. Okay. Yeah, that's about it. Now, let us draw the thumbnail. We'll first draw the heart or the cottage. And a pine tree by the house. Around this foreground area, that is giant tree. The tree is there. There's no foliage, your dried tree. Somewhere. Here we have the horizon. So the background, we have some trees. In the foreground. There are awesome, no grass blades. The entire foreground area is covered with snow. Again, the snow has some depth in it, so we will be painting it with various tonal values of ultramarine blue. Okay, so now let us have a look at the colors. I'm going to use, indigo and ultramarine blue. We'll use different tonal values of this color to create the snow. Then I'll be using sap, green, cobalt, burnt sienna, one, Dumbo, umber, and Payne's gray. We would also need white gouache paint for the snow in the sky, in the tree and every bad. Okay. Let's get started with the painting. Okay. So I've done the masking tape and run your finger over the edges, make sure it is tightly sealed down. Okay. Now I'm going to draw the composition of the painting. So somewhere here we have the heart. So I'll start by painting the roof, starting with the front side and then adding the backside. I think the walls. It's pretty much understood. Right? You can draw your own shape of house. Now. I'm drawing the chimney on the side. Now I'm going to draw a giant tree somewhere closer to the foreground. Add some wobbly or branches in the tree. Do not keep it very straight. On Adele pine tree over here. For now. I'm just going to mark the lines. Later on. She can add all the details as we paint, mocking the areas for the grass blades. So this is pretty much about the composition. Let's start the painting process. So first I'm going to paint the sky. So I will mix in the wall of a bond. Tambo. Also paints gray. So I'm going to keep the paper in an inverted manner so that the color flows backward. We'll start applying the paint for the sky. Look carefully, apply it around the heart area. Here. I'm going to leave some white area for those. No. I'm going to leave this white space for the tree trunk. So here I'm going to paint another branch. Painting around that area. Paint the sky before the paint dry out. There. Don't want this area to have a sharp line. So I'm applying some white area, white doll, oh, sorry. Water here so that it gives out white-collar crime. Leaving negative spaces wherever I need. And then painting the rest of the area for this guy. Next, I'm going to dry the paper for some time. And when the paper reaches about 60, 70% state of dryness, then I'm going to stop and apply some water droplets. So that will create nice blooms in the sky, suggesting the snowfall. In order to let the paint is completely dry, let it reach to about 60, 70% of damp state. Now we're going to apply to the water. Now I'm going to try it again completely. So you can see we have this white droplets in the sky. Okay, so I'll stop drying here. Now, I'll turn around this board and you can see these tiny droplets. They appear like a snow in the distant area. Now I'm going to paint a tree shape with water. So here I'm drawing pine tree with clear water and my size six round brush. So this will act as the base for the tree. So I'll use or bluish green color. So I have mixed blue and sap green. In some areas, not everywhere. Though, shape of the pine tree foliage. This is the initial layer of the tree. We're going to add darker layer later on. Once you're done creating this initial layer, we can stop it and then we want to paint the other element. Moving on, let us paint the tree. So I'm going to mix the colors for that. So here I'll take burnt umber, burnt sienna in a very diluted form. Makes it a bit while it. And I'm going to use diluted tone of this color for the base, wash off the tree. I'll also be leaving some white space for the snow. Now, use brown, burnt umber, burnt sienna, and paint the house. That is the cottage that we have drawn. I'm painting the walls here with brown color. We will leave the roof part as it is for now. And nato, or the snowy effect. I'm going to add some background trees. These trees are at a distance from the viewpoint. We're painting them in a pale color. Anything that is not in the focus will be lighter in color. Okay, So here as well. Now think darker green color and mix it with a bit of Payne's and burnt umber. We get our darker Green Knight. With this darker color, I'm going to add some foliage in the tree. So here you can see we have different tonal values, lighter and darker color. This makes the trailer organic. You can paint the pine tree in your own favorite style. You want. Now to separate it from the background and this midground area. I'm going to extend this tree snow part so you can distinguish between the snow and the background area right? Now, pick any bluish color and apply it under the tree to suggest a sense of shadow in the snow blended with the ground area here. Now, we'll take ultramarine in diluted form and we will paint the snow. So Yomi, at adding blue lines, this will act as though shadows in the snow part. So this indicates a sense of shadow in the snow area. So these white areas, the reflected part, and the narco, and diluted ultramarine blue. These are the shadow part of the snow. Now let's also add some shadow areas on the roof of the house. The white color of the paper. It indicates the reflected light on the roof and diluted blue, which is the shadow part, indicates the shadows in the roof. So it's a combination of lighter and darker color, which adds a sense of depth. I'm using brown for the chimney. Also. I'm adding some extra color and on the roof to give the shape of the snow. Those know, when it is accumulated over the roof, it cannot have a straight shape, right? So I'm trying to give some shape, your grid darker color. Also adding some darker color on the adjacent wall, which is the shadow part. Now with this paint has dried. So I'm adding another layer of re-entry. Well, here are as well. Right behind the house. Next, I'm going to paint the giant tree. So for this, I'm going to use one Tombow plus bit of Payne's gray. I'm adding some lines, also saving some lighter brown color. You want to make sure that you have all three colors. Darker brown, mid-tone brown, and white. To add some blue as well from some manias. Now I'm adding the branches, also saving some white part and on though branches to suggest the snowy effect. Now with the help of my fine liner brush, I'm going to add the branches and it wakes. Gently add as many branches you want. There's no restriction to add only these number of branches. I'm painting the branches in a loose and irregular way. You can also overlap the branches. Burning, I don't own the paper can actually help you to get the shapes right. No bake slightly bluish color and add those shadow, darker shadow part. So whenever I feel there's something wrong, I lift up the paint that I've applied. You can do that as well. Big brown and add some grasses. Here I'm taking a row on bar, adding some grass blades at random areas of this node. Now adding some darker color to add some depth. And on this area. Also adding some grasses and on the pine tree. And the heart. Next noticed gosh paint. So this is white gosh. I'm taking the paint directly from the tube to have a thicker consistency with this paint, I'll apply it over the branches to have snowy effect. That is the snow collected over the branches. On this tree. We can add some white patches depicting the snow. So now let's take white paint, splatter it as the snowfall. I'm taking away a thicker consistency so that it appears white even after drying. Also flattering it over the sky. You can add some darker ultramarine blue to create for the shadows in the snow part. You can lift off some paints if you feel it as well, more than required. Alright, so we are done with this painting. Let's peel off the masking tape. All right, So we have removed the masking tape. This is how our painting looks like. Once it is ready. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Boucher your class projects under the projects gallery. I would really be happy to see your works. 6. Project 3 - The Village: In this project, we are going to create this artwork. So let us get started. So before we start with the painting, let me walk you through the thumbnail of the beam. Okay. Who's embedded? In the lower half, like 40% of the people will resolve for the ground area. And here we will be drawing some random shapes for the houses. In the background. We have some trees. These trees are distant trees and they're appearing blurry and shape. Somebody closer to the foreground. We have a tree or a giant tree. And there are some grasses in the foreground area. The foreground, from the mid ground to the foreground. We have this area covered with snow. So you can see there is variation in the snow palette as well. Some bed with darker color, right? Yeah. So we haven't another tree here. Some trees in the background. This is the thumbnail of the painting. Now let us have a look at the colors. For this guy, I'm going to use an ocher. Payne's gray or sorry, YA lit. Also use some bonds, Yan'an bond. Glue. I'm somebody. Umbo could also use some black or mix your own black by using blue, brown and all those colors. Then we would also need some white gouache paint for all these white highlights. That's about the thumbnail and the colors. Now let us get started with the painting. Okay, let's get started. Apply the masking tape. Run your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Okay, so the paper is taped down neatly. Now, let me draw the composition of the painting. I'm going to divide the paper into like, I think about 64%. The sky area is the sixth and the ground area is 40%. Okay? So here I'm going to draw some houses. These are very simple shape of houses. Nothing complicated. The lower area will not keep a straight line. Maybe you want to have it a little uneven appearance. Behind this, we'll paint some trees. From the foreground. Midground area will draw a straight line. That will be our tree. Making sure we don't have any sketches inside the tree area. So it is it off? Okay. So I'm gonna use my needing it is up to remove the darker pencil lines. I'm going to take an orca, apply lots of water in this and paint the sky. So renewed approaching around the tree trunk and the roof part of the house. Be very careful and not apply paints inside that area. Or you could just roughly apply the paints and later on you can use white gouache paint. Be very mindful when you're applying the paint. I don't want the roof. He wouldn't have to paint flow inside the roof area. You could use a tissue paper to lift off the paint. I'm taking the board so that the paint flow in the opposite direction and we will get a clean wash. So now I'm switching to my size six round brush. And I'll take YA lit and Payne's gray one. So a bit of indigo. Her into this. I'm going to add some white, so some brown to mute it down. So we'll use this color for the background trees. Gliding my brush and creating this foliage effect. You could use multiple colors as well for the distant treeline. Dabbing my brush to create the impression of tiny leaves. Maybe we can add some blue color as well. Just break the symmetry. Also some brown. Okay, so we have painted though distant background trees. Now. I'm going to add know like red and yellow. On maybe orange. Paint this house. Use any color of your choice. That's up to you. For the next house, I lose signal in blue. Mixed, I'm thinking which color to use. I think I'll go with the pink color. This part over here is the extension of the same house. Now you slightly darker blue. For the shadow. For the background extension loop. This house. Adding shadows to any object makes it look three-dimensional. That's what we want in our paintings, right? Since the sky is elevation color, our snow would be somewhat neutral in color instead of ultramarine blue. So I'm going to use a bit of burnt umber. And ultramarine blue mix. Also add slight bit of white color. Now to achieve or softer snowy effect in the foreground. I'm going to spray some water. And I'm applying this diluted color mix. You can already feel a sense of snow and the shadow in the snow, right? So leave some white paper whitespaces for the reflected light in the snow. We do not want the color of the houses to bleed inside the snow part. So let's just keep it flat on the table. Makes darker blue color and apply on this wet snowy area. So this acts as the darkest tonal value in the snow. From using it and other tree. Some places around the houses for those shadows can see I'm trying to give us land inclined direction to the snow lines. They give us the visual cues for those land or sloppy appearance in the snow. I'm going to use brown in the same mixture and paint some of the areas in this tree part. I want to save some white color in the tree. So I'll paint only some of the areas. Now for the tree trunk into multiple branches. You can add as many branches you want. So the initial layer, I have painted it with a lighter brown color. Later on we can add the details. Part is wet here, so the color is bleeding into the sky. I'm going to lift off the paint using my tissue. So we'll leave it here for Brian. The paper looks dry. Next, I'll use a diluted version of blue. Let us this Payne's gray and paint some random branches. I'm painting the branches very irregularly. You can also overlap the branches. Notice how I'm wearing the brush strokes as I paint. Now I'm adding some darker colors in-between. This will add a nice variation in the branches where we have lighter and darker color based on the light reflected on it? No. Let's add some darker color on the trunk part. Writing some darker color for the branches. And I want to also add some overlapping branches so that the looks natural. Now for the distant tree foliage that we have painted, need to add some branches from those trees as well. So I'm adding these distinct branches as well. The user doesn't have to be very detailed. You can just create the impression of the tree trunk and the branches. No, I don't. The midground area, I'm going to add another tree. So look at where the tree trunk originates. So this is an own does snowy area right? Next I'm going to add some details like doors and windows on the houses. Do not have to paint exact shapes of windows and doors. Just create some tiny impression of the shapes that you want to create. A new tree. Bluish color for the roof. This is adding depth to this, knowing the roof. So here I'm adding some darker color around the houses so that it creates a tonal contrast. Currently, I'm feeling that everything looks very mid-tone him color. So I want to add some darker colors. Glasses and on the bottom of the tree. It was all fine liner brush if you want, or you could also use the pointed tip of the brush. Anything that works for you. So I'm going to splatter some paints, you're in the foreground area. Next, I'm using darker Payne's gray on some of the branches to create tonal contrast. So I want to add some darker foliage behind the house so that the roof gets highlighted. This tree foliage right behind the houses. When we have these darker foliage on the trees behind the houses, the roof, that is the white color of the roof. It automatically gets highlighted. So that's the purpose of adding this darker color in the background. You can use whitewash. Although this is an optional step. If you want, you can add white color or leave it as it is. But adding white will bring out a nice contrast when darker and lighter color. Well around this area here near the houses, I feel we need to add some darker color so that the houses get highlighted. So I'm using a mix of burnt umber and Payne's gray and just dropping some color. It doesn't have to mean anything that you can live up to your viewer's interpretation. Now, I'm adding some white around the tree trunk. This will separate it from the background. For some reason. I don't really feel satisfied with the horses. So I think I'm going to add some darker color here. I'm going to use a mid-tone color of red and yellow ocher. So yeah, this looks better. Now. Let's add some grass blades in the foreground. Alright, so I'm done with this painting. Let us peel off the masking tape. Okay, so there you go. This is how my painting looks like. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Know, share your class project and other projects calorie. I would be really happy to see your equations. 7. Project 4 - The Church: In this chapter, we will be painting this artwork. So let's get started. Before we start the painting, let me walk you through the thumbnail so that you get familiar with the compensation. So somewhere here we have the horizon. And here we have a building. This is like a George or a chapel. Roughly going to draw, there's no measurements as such. And in the background we have some distinct blurry trees. Here we have some tree trunk. In the foreground. We have this snowy area covered with some grasses. The colors that we're going to use, Payne's gray in different tonal values. Okay? And we have burnt umber, cobalt blue, raw umber, and ultramarine blue. Again, in different tonal values for the lighter and darker color in the snow. You could also use some black for the outlines here. In blue for the sky. So these are the colors, but you can go with any alternative color that you already have. Okay. So that was about the thumbnail and colors. Now let's start the painting. Alright. So let's start by taping down the masking tape. Run your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Now, I'm going to draw a building. So this is like George or a chapel. Somewhere here. We will have this line, parallel, straight lines. And I bought that. Draw a straight line from here, these two lines. So this should look like this shape. From there. We already draw another shape. I'm gradually building this towel one-by-one. We'll repeat the same thing for the upper part as well. Two parallel lines and then a horizontal line connect them together. The purpose of doing this is to achieve a cylindrical shape in the tower. There could be numerous ways of drawing this in easier way. But this is how I draw and this is my approach. If you know any easier way, you can draw it in your own style. No, I'm drawing this arch like shapes from the center of this Mach point and then draw our triangle shape. So now next to this, we'll draw a line again. I want this building to IPO cylindrical. That's why I'm drawing these lines and trying my best to give it a cylindrical shape. These buildings, it doesn't have to be perfect. Or creating the impression of it is just enough. Now, let me draw a tomb for this building. Well, I think this looks like mosque, right? I'm not sure. Let me draw it again. Yeah, this looks better. Yeah, so we are done with the sketching part. Now, I'm going to use my needing it is 0 and wipe off all the darker pencil marks. So I'll use Payne's gray color, a bit of ultramarine blue as well. So this should be a cooler gray color. Okay. I'm going to paint the shadow side. Considering this side as the light source. I'm going to apply paint on the right side. Plus under though shapes that we have created. I'll be using though color of the paper that is white or paper color for the highlights in this building. I'm applying water and on this area to achieve or mid-tone consistency. The white parts in this building, it is going to act as the highlight. The darker bar being the shadow side. Now, I'm going to wet this area and paint the sky. I use Sedona and blue for the sky. Carefully apply the paint around the building. We could have painted the sky first, but then we wanted these white highlights, right? So I chose to paint the sky later once we have the building initial voice of the building ready. Same time using a mop brush. It really helps me to cover larger areas. So this initial wash is done. Now I'm going to add some more thicker consistency of the rule in blue, depicting the clouds in the sky. Okay, so we're done with the sky. Next, let us find the distant treeline. Lettuce mix the colors required to paint the distantly line. I'm going to use mutate blue color. So I'll take cobalt blue and burnt umber, and I'll mix a tiny bit of white color paint the distant treeline can also use some brown. When we are painting around the building. May very careful though, paint might bleed inside the building area. Since we're painting wet on wet, we are achieving or softer, blurry background for the distant treeline. Do not let any paint blade inside the building area. If it does use a tissue paper to lift off the paints. I'm using some shades of brown, like burnt umber, raw umber in middle of this tree line. This creates a variation in though student trees. You can use the knee back of your brush and Beanstalk. Tree trunks. I'm going to dry this. No, use Payne's gray. Paint the outline. Hello, wet brush handy so that you can spread the colors nicely. Apply paint around this arch. I'm adding some darker color for the tomb. The white part would be the highlighted area. Adding some windows and a door. You could use a fine liner brush to add these tiny lines. I'm using mild pressure to create lines with my existing brush here. This is size eight. No, I'm adding a slightly midtone value so that we have a nice contrasting balance from light to mid tone and then go darker color. If you feel your tomb has some darker color, you can lift off the paint using a damp brush. Now, I'm going to paint the trees. Notice the origin point of these trees. This is what creates a sense of depth when we're painting the background elements. Next, let us paint the branches. So I'm ******* drunk into multiple parts. Now, let us outline the building area. So I'm using black color here. Adding some final details on this building. So now we're going to take ultramarine blue, many diluted form. Okay. That's a bit of burnt umber to move down the vibrancy. Now let's apply this color mix in a zigzaggy pattern. Now, wash your brush and take clean water. Smudge door hard lines. We are trying to create a sense of reflected light and also shadows at the same time. Applying some loose brush strokes in the foreground area. This will act as a sense of depth in the foreground. Snowy part. I think some mid-tone color of ultramarine blue. So here. You could also use bunch here, not all burnt umber. I'll add some grasses. This will be wet on wet because the paper on some areas of it, right. So only on those areas I'll apply this paint. Okay, so let's dry this layer completely. No, use any darker brown color. And add some grass page. Make sure you have right amount of paint in your brush. Not too much, not too less. Just right amount. No splatter, some ultramarine blue. For the branches here. I'm going to wipe off all the water from the, from the brush and paint the tiny branches, just paint some irregular shaped branches. So here I'm adding some darker strokes in front of the building. You can add any details you want. Now, I'm going to add some free flying birds in the sky. Okay, so we're done with this painting. So we are done with this. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your class projects under the projects gallery. I would really love to see your box. 8. Thank you!!: Hello again. I hope you had fun learning session with me in this class. If you enjoyed watching this class, please do leave a review or feedback for me. Under the review section. That would really mean a lot to me. Also, don't forget to post your projects and other projects gallery. I'm really looking forward to seeing your class projects. I'll see you in my next class. Until then. Bye-bye.