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1. Trailer: Hi, my name is Emma, and today I propose you to being the symbol of
holidays, fireworks. It's not only a workshop litigated to paint
in watercolor, but also some relaxing
and fun ED to be. And of course, I'm showing everything from the
beginning of the end, not only about materials and watercolor washes and about
F had some special trace, but also some basic theorem, form and the secrets of
drawing and painting, especially file,
it's two-in-one. It's learning the
secrets of watercolor. Painting, bright and
festive subjects suitable for Christmas
and New Year postcards. I hope you will have fun
and you will paint with me. So let's begin.
2. 1 Materials: Okay, So briefly
about materials, what we're going to use
to paint these plots. First about paper. I'm painting on 100% cotton. It's 300 gram and the
size is 24 on 32. I'm painting on honeymoon. But of course, you can paint
on any paper you have. It must be watercolor paper. And if you don't have
your paper in blog, you should also
have some kind of tablet to apply the
sheet on the tablet. Then about paints. For this dark era, I used three colors. Is sepia, brown, blue, and the neutral chains. Basically, if you don't
have neutral tint, I'm using it generously
here in this dark places. So if you don't have it, you can simply have one
dark brown and warm dark blue to create
the really dark mix, grayish, bluish and so on. So basically, this is used for creating the
background than we need some red and yellow
green for these areas. And each can be
practically every rat and every green color is just used to in a few drops to
create these color. So these and then for the paint, we need some yellow
and some orange to create these
fragments on the rocks. So basically, if you
don't have shaming care, if you don't have
professional paints, ordinary pellet will be
totally enough because it's important to have dark tones to create
these dark areas. And it's important
to have some yellow, some orange, some
red, and some green. And I think that it will be founded in every
watercolor palette. And also I'm using opec, white, opaque white watercolor. But again, it's not strictly and you can
use gouache or you can, can use no opec white because we are making all these white areas with using the masking fluid. I have masking fluid. It's blue. So basically, any masking
fluid also suits. And about applying
the masking fluid, I have found these. It's too thick, it's
plastic too thick. And I found it very useful
to apply the masking fluid. It's from plastics, so it's easily cleaned from the
from the masking fluid. And also you can use any truth cheeks or
if you prefer the brush, you can also use brush, but be prepared to have
some unnecessary brush. These brushes from
some children's sat. And it's not used
in mind painting. And I use this brush to
apply the masking fluid. I don't use it in this course, but in case you don't want to use certain article
or something, you can simply use some unnecessary
brush because masking fluid reacts badly
on hair brushes. And about brushes. I can paint these plots
with one wash brush. It could be scleral
imitation or squeal. I have cosine or so. Any brush that
holds the amount of water and paint suitable
for painting large areas. Then something techniques brush with sharp tip for details. And then some brush or
to apply the water, maybe to mix pigment
on the sheets. So I use for this purpose, classic makeup brush, um, and also I'm using this big
brush for applying water, but it's like a, that you have only free
brushes than we will need. Careful water. Cheap if you need to glue
the beeper on their tablets, we will need a pencil. We will need kitchen towels. And also unnecessary
but pleasant. Some hard eraser to take
off the masking fluid. It's all for the materials. And they are relatively easy to find and you can use
practically any pains, any paper and brushes
and any masking fluid. You can find.
3. 2 Theory: So theory of
painting, fireworks. The first is shape. You can see that fireworks
are usually round. And it's important to remember, if you look closely, you can see that they
can be a lethal oval, but a little they are round. So it's basically
very important to remember that they
should be round. Okay, then flashes and some flashes, bright fragments. They are located on
different stations. So the common form of
the firework is round, but these ends in
different, different lines. So it happens
because the photon, the border is
aesthetic impression of the process in the dynamics. And pay attention to these that they enter
in different parts. And don't paint like this. So they should not
an equal distance. They should be like like
ending in different locations. And also a couple more words about the location
of the flashes. They of course, all
come from the center. But there is a law of, of, of linear perspective. And some this splashes we see located to us,
to the viewer. So they are shorter. And usually it happens
closer to the center. They are shorter and they are arranged and
locate it differently. So if you look closely, Hera, the part of the firework that is closer to us
because it's a sphere. So it's a sphere. But we are painting this
sphere on the flat paper. So we should look that is die erection and low key. And so like, it's like, wow, OK, OK, OK, OK. But here they will be shorter
and locate it differently. Fourth is about the
light in the Santa. Depending on the phase
of the firework, they will be either a
white areas or not. In our case, we see
no light zone here. But if you look at
the other fireworks, it's the other stage
of this firework. And here we can see
that it's white. We have no white area here, so we cover it with with the background
tone in the center. Also important thing is that light appears when
you have darkness. So it's very important to mix that dark as possible
paint for the background. And if you are painting
on cotton paper, as I remembered to that, watercolor, lights
when it dries. So don't be afraid to mix really dark color and
apply it to the paper. Because if the background
will be not dark enough, the whole fireworks will
look less spectacle. So six is that many
people forget about it, but there is a visible traces of smoke around the fireworks. It's the smoke from the
previous fireworks. And it's very easily done
exactly in watercolor. When we paint a less background, more light background
in these areas. And it also creates a feeling
of that it is smoke here. So this part is really
darker than these. This part is darker than this. And it's important for
the realistic painting. And in general, fireworks, I symbol of the holiday
joyful moments. And it's the perfect
subject to draw on a postcard present or loved one for Christmas and New Year. I hope you will love this
class and let's begin.
4. 3 Pencil: So now the theory is, I hope, clear and let's solve
that pencil sketch. Remember that I said that these fireworks
shouldn't be around. So we begin with the marking, the center of both to
fireworks that we have. And I'm placing them
on the thoughts. So maybe, you know,
the thirds line, those rule that says that
objects that are placed on the crossing of the lines that divide the painting into three parts look
more harmonious. So basically, I'm placing one fireworks on the upper left and one for firework
on the lower right. And I begin to mark with a pencil lines that will
form my future firework. And I'm trying to
create and to draw these lines so that they end
will form a round circle. And it's important because
if you have not so round, I work, it will look
not so natural. And also, it's very important that you draw the
lines not equal. So Don place them
in any direction and don't make them
look like very similar because they end
on a different direction. And also the angle of
these fireworks is a little bit different
because it's a sphere. So if you want them to
look to have volume, please make sure that
they are not very equal. Because if you understand
what I mean, that fireworks, we see the parts of Iraq
in different direction. And also in the Santa, they are shorter than on the on the end of
the 05:00 folly. So in the center is important. And now, when I had finished
the pencil sketch for the first my firewall, erase the line the surround
that was on the Santa because there because it was only additional line to help
me to understand where, where I have these Center. And beginning to draw
the second firework. The principle is the same. I'm just placing the lines. The lines should
tend to the center, but they should be a little different in
different direction. And the whole form of the
work should be round. And also marking some line that will make my firework
look more realistic. And as in previous, in the center, there
shouldn't be a shorter lines. If you see on the
reference photo, you can see why it's so. And I will place the reference photo here
on the right side so you can clearly understand
why they are so formed. Also looking that my firework
is around, It's not oval. It's, it can be lethal
little oval but early Alito, because the form, their
own formula is natural.
5. 4 Masking: So when the pencil
sketch is done, it's time for applying
the masking fluid. And I have found too thick. It's a plastic too thick. If you don't have these plastic, you can simply use any
too thick you have, or you can use the
unnecessary brush. But care about the movements when you're applying
the masking fluid because it shouldn't be applied, as I'm showing here, it should be applied
horizontally to the paper to create the necessary feeling
of the lease follows. So I'm applying
these masking fluid. And while I'm applying, I'll tell you that
masking fluid is a liquid resin that dries
on the paper and allows us to make to have the white areas on the paper white and
covered with paint. As you know, in watercolor, white is the paper. So masking fluid can
be useful in painting, and especially when we're
painting such kind of subjects. So when we need to have these, now, these uncovered few lines. And also it's useful when you're painting
the bright light. Whether we have less than dedication to painting
the bright light. You can locate it if you want. And now, I just don't I'm just applying these masking fluid based
on my pencil lines. That's a drought. And
as you can also see, I am turning my tablet
with a paper on it because It's
more convenient for me to place these masking fluid when it's
closer to my hand. And by the way, these two thick these
plastic toothpick has an interesting
texture on it. And these these texture is stamped on that paper
with masking fluid. So as I have said previously, it's not necessary to to
have exactly this too thick, but it's convenient to use it. And also the masking fluid
damages the hair of the brush. So if you're applying this
masking fluid with the brush, please take some
unnecessary brush because because it's dries very fast to and it glues the
hair of the brushes. So when applying masking fluid, no need to use favorite brushes. Also. You can say that, oh, I don't have masking fluid. It's totally okay. You can cover the
areas on the paper, not only with masking
fluid, but, uh, you can also have some candle. Candle doesn't let the
paint dry into the paper. So and also, you can
use kinds of masking tape that is cultured on
these, these fine stripes. But because it's
not so convenient, so I recommend to use masking
fluid for this purposes. It's a long siege of applying all these fireworks wide places. But it's needed because when we will be
applying the paint, it's it's obligatory to have the white
places on our paper. And so I, in fact, I don't like this
stage because I like painting and not applying
the masking fluid, but in any case,
it's just necessary. So I continued to
make these strokes. And also there are
masking fluid that's white and masking fluid
with cava collage, my masking fluid has a blue
color and I have chose it for studying purposes because it's more clearly
seen on the camera. When I'm painting myself, I use my all my other white masking fluid
because it shows me the my my paper and
not these blue lines. And now I'm taking some also
unnecessarily brush with a very hot hair and like
splashing them, masking fluid. You can see that I'm digging
the hair with my finger. And it creates these very, very fine and very, very small splashes that
we'll look also very huge. And they will also create the extra texture
for my painting. So just a few strokes. And that's all.
6. 5 Washing: Now my masking
fluid is completely dry and I'm beginning to apply the clean water on
all the sheets so the areas that are covered with masking fluids will
not be affected, not be will be without paint. And I'm generously
applying the water on the sheet because I will
wash and I need water, plenty of water to have enough time to wash
out all the place, places that I want
to end to make a watercolor look
like watercolor. I'm taking away excess
of water with a towel. And I'm taking the color
that is called natal twins. It's like brownish,
violet t gray. A very beautiful if
you don't have it. Just mix some sepia with
some violet, some blue. And I'm applying these paints. It should be really dark because there is no
light without dark. And watercolor. When dries. It's more, it look more pale
than when it's applied. So I'm applying like
plenty of paint. And where I have
these fireworks, I'm applying some other color to look the painting
more interesting. And simply washing all the areas with really dark,
dark, dark paint. It's neutral tint. Maybe in some places I
will use some Delft, do a synchrotron blue. And yeah, yeah, I think it's time to use blue and
the dark blue color, so I'm mixing in
that wrong blue with the sepia brown to create like poorly or dark gray blue color. I don't use ready black colors. But I'm mixing gray, dark gray with the mix of
the throne and sepia brown. And that's why I have
applied plenty of water on my sheet because I need time
to apply all the paint. I'm trying to make. Not make the strokes, not with, with one equal paint,
but with different. And now it's a good
time to use them. Beans from the tube. Why? Because they are really concentrated and it's the maximal
concentration of the color. So it will be useful. And some red column just to make my wash a lot
more interesting. And I'm applying these
colors in the centers or in the parts of my fireworks. And also I am applying
on some places, I'm applying not so many paints. And also I'm turning the tablet because my watercolor flows and gravity is a big help
to flow the paint. And now it looks
like really dark. But I know that it won't be
so dark or when it dries. I'm applying, applying
thick layer of paint to create these, these ethics. And also, as I told you
in theorists action, some places not so dark because it's the smoke
from the fireworks. So I'm thinking in advance. So where will they
have these smoke? And I'm now trying to make these Wash look not
similar in any places. So I'm applying
here neutral tint. I'm applying in the throne blue, somewhere at, somewhere white. So I'm creating
similar but not equal, a wash because because it
will look more natural. And now I'm taking my God brush. It's brush with very soft hair. And I'm mixing that
pigment that I have and removing some of the pigments on the areas where
I want to have the smoke. And so basically, it's first
you apply that here move. You apply, you look
what you have. You look where you want
to have more dark places, where you want to
have my light places. And also applying the color and creating this feeling of the night sky with
a light on it. And also watch how
your paper reacts. Because the speed of paper drying is if you paint these
in India where I have hot, your paper will dry more
faster than when you are painting these in Norway where needs,
where it's cold. So the speed of paper drying
is about room temperature, the humidity, and so on. I can see that my paper is dry because I constantly
add more and more paint. And when I'm adding paint, it still it's still a wet. But have some places
in some areas that are not so wet that
I beginning to dry. And I'm careful or
looking where I have these shiny paper, shiny paper on the
light means that the paper is wet and
you can wash it.
7. 6 Final details: I have dried my paper. You can see that the
watercolor layer is more pale that I applied it, but it's dark and
it's very good. And now it's time to
remove the masking fluid. I'm doing good with some
hard eraser that I have. You can do it with your fingers. So I have heard a life
hack that you can do it with some plastic on your
plastic bag on your fingers, not to injure their fingers. But for these purposes, I prefer these harder eraser
and also don't forget about the areas where we not
only the fireworks but the areas when we splashed
the masking fluids. Because if you leave the
masking fluid on the paper, then within time it will
begin to be yellow. So it damages the paper if you
alleviate for a long time. So please watch carefully and remove all the masking
fluid that you have. When I finish to remove
all these masking fluid, I take away my tablet, clean the table
and song because I don't like dirty table
where I'm painting. A case number table is clean and I have removed
all the masking fluid and I can start to create
the effect of the light. I'm taking some transparent
yellow that I have. It's simply called yellow. But if you don't have
exactly this color, you can use any yellow. You have these yellow spots. We need them to create
additional effort of the volume. So I'm applying these yellow, not on all the areas, white areas the head, but on some places. And maybe it will not look. So it isn't seem
so on the camera, but these yellow places, they are really seen in life. So if you are painting these for some postcard or so,
it will be seen. So just a few
places with yellow, few lines that one places are covered with white and some places are
covered with yellow. Now you know the
spectrum is when you have white than yellow, than orange, than red. So now where blank yellow
and later we will apply some orange to create
these feelings of delight. And of course. Now, it's also seen that our fireworks
local like fireworks. And I'm adding some
orange to some places. It's important that you leave
the white areas because, because if you cover
everything with oh, yellow and orange, it won't
shine and it won't look so. So as it looks now. So just a few straw strikes
and few movements of your brush on some places will create the
feeling of the light. And also the second firework. It also shouldn't be covered
with not only yellow but RH. And also important thing
is about color contrast, that orange on the green from the solid green from the fireworks and
orange and the red, they look like
harmonious together. And I'm looking, it's
basically about the feeling. I'm looking where I have some Places and some areas
that look dull and unnatural and adding some
more orange in these places. And of course, looking that the white areas are not totally covered
with this orange. I have looked at my painting in general and decided
that I want to have more whiter areas here and also to make some minor changes in the
form of the firewall. So I'm using a pack white, but not in cleaved form. I am mixing these
APAC white with some yellow to create
that APOC, yellow. The yellow that we'll also look a little bit different than on the masking fluid. And I want also to splash
these APOC, yellow. And I'm splashing it to create different
textures and so on. So the splashes
will look not so as the splashes from the
masking fluid and they will look a little bit
different when they dry. And I love when we have like different textures
on the painting because different injections and so on, they create interests. So basically now I'm applying these opec yellow
on some places. And when I'm applying it, it looks that they are
practically the same as the areas that were
covered with masking fluid, but now they are not
the same and they will dry and they will
look in another way. So I'm just applying in
some places where I feel that I have not enough white or my form of my four
firework is not so round. And I'm adding these small
details with these opec, white mixed with yellow. You can use for this
purpose is goulash. You can use a white pen
or any ub uc marker. Now, I think my painting is ready and I'm moving
masking tape. And to looking what I have here. And I think this
painting looks good. It's a really cool subject
to paint on the postcard. It's very Christmas Eve. And I wish you
Happy Christmas and you here and hope that
you loved this lesson. Thank you.
Anna Zadorozhnaya, Watercolour artist
