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1. Introduction: Hi guys. Unwelcome once again to my Four Seasons painting Serious. We're going to let nature be a guide on art teacher. I'll be painting and drawing trees, leaves, forage and other things found in nature as their beer in each season. Because there is so much we can learn from this season, and I think each one gives us on the plate just a perfect thing we could focus on at that point, like there is no better time to study the bare bones on the structure of trees than winter . Just like there's no better time to learn about wildness of colors than autumn. But spring spraying gives us a unique chance because cheese and this beautiful season done the most amazing shades of pink and white there it once poetic, fragile yet overwhelming you almost too beautiful to behold. So what can painting this incredible spectacle to just about art? Well, first, it's a fantastic chance to practice work allies, which is a perfect medium for capturing the fragility of this almost transparent pink petals. Using this medium also leads us on to the next crucial element of art. Studying variety, we learned to make a watercolor value scale and look how layers can create an illusion of dark and light total differences. And then, like the auto class, which focuses and bright saturated colors, we learned to make colors more certitude. Gentle bail inelegant. We will learn all these elements step by step and make small studies and eventually take us deals to the next level to create from scratch to beautiful blossoming trees. So thank you, guys for general means cast. I hope you enjoy it.
2. Supplies: Well, you could I need a pencil. Some sort to sketch things. This is just a nature. Be like, then sell. You need defensively. Probably gonna need some sort of razor needed or normal needed on you. Gri need instead of four colors on this one is mine. They mostly and Windsor and Newton. I made this set myself, but just off colors that I liked so you could do to make your own or via lan on. And then you're gonna need some water on here and use new giant lobster soup here because stay still. It's a good excuse to buy some lobster stupor. Maybe makes a painting stay still on, obviously brushes these ones a size six year and two brushes. You know, nothing. Nothing fancy here at all on. And then you go to a palette so amusingly talk for the Jarrah, actually. And then this said here to make it simple, Amusing. Also called paper. Well, in this case, you great something thick. So I'm just using this bad this mixed with their black. You can do something else, but it should be pretty thick. So I would go from thinking around 300 and thickness because we're gonna be doing a lot of layers. And if it's fin paper, it will be in a terrible state. So thick paper on gun optional things, some pencils. So, for instance, just normal Cal offensive students. Or you could use past a tensile so watercolor pencil. So this is just you got a friend giving finishing touches more of your own magic if you like this kind of thing. But it's functional, and you need a hair dryer for making a little stray faster, so Vegas.
3. Colors of spring blossom: right. So now we're gonna find colors we're gonna use for the paintings on when you look at a picture. I took cross sample of this every new cover. The territory's just amazing, by the way. It goes all the way everywhere. The whole region is like this, and when you take a picture, it can be overwhelming. It's really too much, too much gallery. You think it must be so bright, and he's just tempted to use the brightest colors. But actually, you could check this with for the shop. Or there are some other ways I'll show you. If you just bring out image like this or another territory like this, for example, and you just simple around with color, pick a tool. Just click Here you see, it's a little bit less kind of bright and dramatic as you think. The the light spectrum again. You see, it's a little bit lilac e d. Saturated got a grey age from the shadows again. This is a grayish color, so it's not as bright, and even here we can do the same. And again we she this is of it. So really what you expect, Actually, when you look at it. It's a lot of gray just clicking around. So okay, And another way to get your palate would be to go Teoh Color that it'll come. Uh, you don't need an account unless you saving things. If you just want to try something from a picture, click on this camera on Don't think somewhere where you can just choose your true through where, Why It's here in spring on, Ben here we can just apply. For example, this guy aren't you see, this kind of verifies what we fault. They pretty de saturated. There have been great doubt on there. Quite lilac you. So it's kind of pink plus light look, sort of thing going on here on this just randomly sandals. But you can also drug it around and you see the awkward gray actually on. And the same goes for a friend the whites tree that we have here on some of the beautiful tree which we could also tried a sample exactly the same way. So let's just try this and you will see in this case, it's the same. So here it iss So, for example, this sampling this point came from the tree itself. And you see, it's not exactly why it it's a bit great. And you could also just drag these things around the look How great that, IHS. This is a bit like you, Bluey. Um, this side again is a bit like a blue research the brightest blue here, this is a bright blue. And that's this guy, actually. So the blossom is not it also as bright as we would expect. So that's useful for us, because now we know that the colors that were mixed are going to be quite the saturated and not the brightest, best possible things that weaken because it just really is tempting to go full work its scholars that we just discovered on Let's try and find him. So I remember how we saw he's gonna use this little thing for Palate. Remember how we saw? Okay, there was quite a bit of thinks. I'm using this, please, the lettering crimson. But there was also a little bit off kind of lilac a thing. So I'm adding magenta. But you could also actually had a little good, just a tiny bit of blue to kind of make it a little bit vitality. And okay, so now we have ah, really pretty bright color ET, but we don't want it so bright as we discovered, we want to saturate under saturated of it so you could do it just by adding the complainant . So here we adding green to a mixture on data you shed quite a lot more saturated, and this actually reminds us a lot of the some of the cars that we found. So I market and scraps I prefer if we mixing colors just to work on those scraps of paper, I find it easier. So here we contests, you see, it's it's pretty dull down. There is really a lot like the color we saw on the on Photoshopped when we sampled on. Of course, we can dilute this'll with quite a bit of water. We will get something more like this. That's pretty okay, was a color for a cherry chase. So again we just makes, um, Eliza in which is really right. Could a firm break pink but cool, cool red color with a bit of magenta? And then we had a green to the mixture to turning down. But also you could go a bit further and have some day is a great great here on it just to take it. It's semi transparent, so in just to take it down and much again. So you see it's slightly deepen our because it's more. It's a tiny with less transparent, so it's a bit more saturated. But these are not bad cars for us. And I think we found something decent to work with. I'll show you When I was experimenting this some of the cars a if come across and again. This one is a lot similar to that, but a bit darker on. Better like it. So much is too dark and these are just variants diluted off different colors. But again, here they orbit de saturated. But that was just an early practice. But Okay, so we're pretty happy with this and it's easy enough to make now we also gonna look at making a blue color, so I'm just going to use this thing on very quickly. I'm going to use ultra Marine I should, either The grey blue color that we saw in Photoshopped waas a little bit like just going around your Palatine of Indians and scraping all the old colors. He was a bit like this, but in that case, I'm gonna use a bit of ultra Marine on these. David's great to great down quite a lot. And let's see what we're getting. Ok, all right, Well, it's a bit lilac e. There was probably a bit of a littering mixture left on my brush, so it kind of worked a bit for that. What? What we're gonna do here is we're going to stick with this thing. These colors that were discovered on, we're gonna dilute them, and then by using layers, we can lay the month to get the doctor spots. So we actually just going to use for tree, just that's color, and then we very value, as we will see in the next to it here.
4. Value scale: discover that colors that we want to use and now I'm going to show you how we're gonna use them. So, actually, we're just gonna need kind of what are the guys that we found? Just this one. But we're gonna use it quite diluted. So probably about there. Kind of a lot of faults are less pigment. So I want to show you how we gonna paint out cherry blossoms and trees. And for this, we're gonna basically do them value scale like this car. So here, I'm just going to show you from scratch how I made it. It's very simple. So we just draw director angle and then we divide it. So 1234567 will do way doing it's just creating layers and drain them off with a hair dryer . So, you know, to plant the 1st 1 we leave empty, and then they go and we try to be as even as we possibly can. If it kind of gather stores the end, it's It's better than guns towards the end. Ricketts. This is anyway, a darkest point, and we can just remove the excess a little bit if we find It's too much. Okay. Now, to save time way, get a hair dryer. It Okay, that was first layer. Now what? Exactly the same thing. But we leave this one also. I'm painted trying to it quite fast from day. If it does this, just try to collect it a bit. There's still too much of a problem. The last one is gonna be again. Sure you get the idea by? No, we're just always leaving one. Don't use ahead. And I'm just not even going to bother with removing it. Well, maybe a little bit. Okay. Lost. That's names Final one, but I'm sure you didn't get the idea, but, you know just yet. So this is what we're gonna use to paint. I territories were going to use the property for a car that the grades layers and like that , we can increase the value of Christopher, so this would be the highest. And and then they got me values and the values. So but just to show you so I want to show you the whole thing with blue guys, but it's it works out of the same way. So you can see on the same scale for blue for the white tree. So yeah, it's basically exactly the same principle
5. Cherry blossom: So before we add Dolphin Teoh painting the Blossom, we're just gonna look at the examples. So, for example, here we have a picture of a close up military branch. You could see some of the front and then a few members of the back Also, uh, well, the general impression that you get you see how fragile, almost magical they look and they really very poetical, fleeting. It's something that can always can be captured. It's too transparent. It's too surreal. It almost doesn't really exist. It passes by within a week or maybe two weeks, and there's beauty and then it's all over. So it's this kind of quality of this transient quality is fragility that we want to capture . And when we're painting with flowers and you can see how it's made of layers. So if you look at it, it's gonna you could see through it, right? So I mean, here you could see through each layer hot there. This one shows, and they're Each layer reveals the next. That's how fragile they are. If you think about it, they basically transpiring, right. I mean, you get similar effect with leaves, but there it's a bit speaker and in these ones are almost transparent. And so here you could see your practice just like changing. Almost so it's It's a beautiful, beautiful structure that consists of layers of petals, and that's why we're gonna use border color. And that's why I think it's a great medium for capturing this transit qualities in these flowers. Because it's exactly this. It's Larry on a layer on top of layer. I noticed that the edges are literally straight. There aren't really any particular shapes. I mean, it's all kind of you could see its you could kind of draw ovals around it, but it's also a little bit random. There is a general structure for sure, so you could just go observe it a little bit more. But you have to remember it will kind of ultimate lights in the areas. Of course, it's a three dimensional object to hear you could have your shadows from the way the battles of shaped, and then you would get a patch of light, a little darker pedal like a little presentable saying Here here is very prominent, have been there is good, and then in the middle you have the darkest park. And you could also see here. So the edges of built So it's beautifully, Certainly jagged. Kind of No, not at all straight. So we have to better line on then. Here again. You see very well how the center is always darker, but also the way its shape. So again, your players and you could just think of this is kind of starting from the very bottom layer underneath and then building at a glaring problems up there. So that's pretty much what we gonna do on in this video. We're gonna try to paint blossom, blossom using the layering that I showed you s o B. Basically, we're gonna use that technique to paint. So to make sure we have enough of our colors and no, we just, uh, stent. It's pretty watering this making sure. So try not to think about what you're doing. Let's say Okay. Well done. They firstly random layer. And now I would take off with pigment. No, we've come with a headrest driver again way really trying to be quite random with you. Think too much about it on Use the hair dryer to dry off ritual there. No, Said she create slightly random patterns. We top it with a until but if she were not deliberately painting anything, just clearing their acting there. Let me drive, baby Doctor in the middle. Okay, so that's one. If you just let it dry on just about some details way could mix up of it the same sort of mixture, but more like with more pigment, basically. So just do that separately of it. And then we just did you find some details like set in the middle way? Want to add some character? You could also do this with a pencil. I'm eating the same brush because it goes to a point. It's going Okay, well, just whatever works, right. But you see, here, essentially, we just used what color itself way Didn't have to think too much way to think about too much about what we were doing on again. You could drive yourself and add even a little green thing in the middle. So just to show you thes were the ones made earlier and then I used essentially exactly the same technique. Here is a different types because cherry blossoms are also different types. This is a bit more triangular this kind of more ground on this kind of a mixture of the two . But to finish them off, I used the pencil just a normal color pencils and think, instead of using work on. But again, it's really up to you if you want to do that way or do the whole thing in watercolor. But you see, have free days and we're just layering. I'm in funny shapes. So one shape of to the other kind of creating random structures trying to think too much. Yeah, here, here we have our cherry blossom.
6. Let's paint mini trees in blossom: So what's ah kind of cheese? Do we get in spring? Well, these are two examples of our blooming trees on weaken. Just, uh, simplify their shapes a little bit. So this one, you can see categories like that a little bit good sale sticking out. That's one shape. We're gonna see a lot in spin spring trees on, then This one here is OK. You could draw a bit of oval or a circle around them, but it's actually more like kind of radiating the lines shape. No, he's like a hugging tree. He wants to hug you. Very sweet. Yeah. So now it says if Well, now we have, like, a speech bubble, and then we're going dancing. So this is two examples. Then we have this one. Um I get it something quite similar, so we could just draw boom, kind of around think about around it. But it's also one that's reaching out for light and for hugs, regulatory que tree on, you see, even goes lines good down this world, um, on our next one. Is this gonna heart shaped guy? You see, this is the truck, and then it kind of goes boom, boom was very cute. Look at its nice heart. Uh, this one, they sort of more along the the lines off kind of global something when this perfectly round. But yeah, overly, Maybe on this one again is our radiating happy treat That sticks out what we could do It struggles. It goes full because the trunk seems to be a part of all this radiating assembled thinks Yeah, it's not that happy reaching, hugging on this one is more are around one. So you see this really a lot around the city. It goes like this. It's almost if I could draw. It's almost a perfect circle here that we get so on day also here you see, the trunk is a little bit tall under than the other one. So, um, less blossom, Chuck. Okay, there's a remain shapes that we see a lot. So now in this video here, we're gonna look a bit at different types off blooming cheese on. We're gonna look at the way they have made so way have made some color here I would like and then here is just an example of the cheese inmate, a different types. So you see the round ones, as we saw already on this kind of more triangle shape, if you differently, visit the sticky bookie wants. And this is a nice front white toe. Terry went around and this is the one that goes like this that we sold. So there's a different types of trees who could make. Let's just try to make a few of that. So we're gonna need, um, a piece of faith, for we just say we want to make, um I don't know, sticks to and first, like with a blossom, I'm going to take the really the most slightest possible mixture. And I'm just going to randomly very randomly trying not to think. The're only thing you should think about a little bit is the shape of the tree you want. So okay, you see what I mean? I am getting the shape I want a bit. At least I'm moving in that direction. So I wonder kind of sticky ones. Now we just add random to stuff digging with a paper towel on. So say that I want once there starts with probably Joyce quite quickly. If not just maybe not. Just go with a head right quickly. Okay. And then we just like with a blossom almost completely around them, leaving your ad second layer. So this is really like what we did with the value scale when we were just painting on top and then for randomness again Fatal takes care more organic types of textures. So of course, we just keep going on off course. We could mix another color. It's not waken. Just use a few others. Teoh kind of create some touches your in there, but this is the basic structure of what we're doing. Just using layers does it makes it quite simple. You will see that the least. Unless you think about what you're doing here, the better the results. Just Okay, so, you know, there will be some shadows, right? So, I mean, you emphasize some thoughts and not all. Maybe, um, I really don't think too much about exactly what you're doing. That's right. Use more of this. Anyway, you get the idea. I'm just going to continue like this. Well, and well, the pink ones air drying. I'm just gonna make something that of blue so that we also do a couple of the animal white trees So here goes the lightest you possibly can almost getting dirty water color don't make a round shape. So we want one round trees. Maybe one goes like this. And I'm just working on both kind of at the same time. Always. Whenever one is dry, got another one deciding. OK, But I think the square is that these want to go. We're fine, just it's about some splashes of friends. But now the blue one do a layer of this. It just did you find parts too much Can handle destruction making. Just remember your shape and as long as you have diluted enough your colors, it'll be fine. I think you could continue until you've got more details if you like, but a finger. It's pretty enough. We want just to show you the principle, of course. And now it could Just little trucks didn't forget they never, especially with Cherries. They kind of charity way just said little trunks and you. You see, this is a simple way to to paint blossoming cheese without too much thought, and they come out very organic looking, which is nice. You want this kind of things poking out just a bit. I mean, like this. This is a six little miniature trees of different kinds painted really without much salt, Just using players of color, we're gonna use a bit more concentrated pigment. So is the same color I'm using here, but just less water. So it becomes quite concentrated when you see we're just starting kind of little detail here and there. - These ones are a bit gonna firm. Strokes are shorter, so they kind of almost like a little balls. So what? So much of a fool? Air, but just dabs, okay?
7. Pink cherry tree: So in this video, we're just going Teoh, use what we've learned on put it together to create a bigger size stream or detailed one. So here I already sketched shape off the tree general shape. But actually what I'm doing is just selecting one of the trees we already painted in our little small study video on. I'm thinking of doing this with around one. It's easier, I think, to paint, and it's also really fun shape. So what I'm doing is just kind of sketched out. Only the outline off, where the ground, where the blossom is and then where the trunk is. I don't want to make the joke too big. I am military. If you can see that, it's it's really just a circle that goes this way and a little drunk coming up. And I don't want to make too big a convivial, ugly. It's huge, but you know the president you already. It's the same as we were doing before, so we just some dilute this as much as we can. Not too much water. Be careful not to put crazy amounts of water because it will take ages to dry. Am your back on the paper and silicon bad. So here again around them shapes. It's exactly the same principle as we did in the small study or in the blossom, even diluted. When you're painting, leave a little bit of whites gap stuffed. So you seen. That's just people tell to make even more random textures. Great. But don't forget that way We're going from light to dark on way of painting quite random. The shape said we're making a quite random also when we are drying, a nice trick is to call your paper a little bit at an angle so than you're paying drips of it. And then you will get these kinds of shapes just by. I'm going it differently actually. So you could hold it like this and then with a hairdryer, vaginal bitten place. Okay, you see, the kind of shapes were getting it's really kind of wild. Just keep going until you want to stop. But my kind of one guide here is that kind of the bottom of the trees, typically bit darker. And then the bottom off the leaves in the bottom of the blossom is quite dark. So here and there you could scatter some darkness, starting darkness everywhere without the darkness and also closer to the trunk. It's typically a bit dark up to so, like these parts, it looks more natural if you add layers inside there on, we know that with our round trees thes from organic and also whenever they around cheese with. Sometimes we have these little things just kind of stick out little branches. So when you could have that, so, yeah, I will continue working on it a little bit. What you get. The idea is just really thereafter. Later I am, I might add, also some slightly different color this time. But for this I would just make someone gente on a great such created just for accents of kind of magenta color. Every now and then and then I will do maybe one of the final layers. Well, that's slightly more pigment color. - Remember that until now. Well, until for this whole project, we haven't really used much else. Aside from the fact that poor color can be layered on to create different lights or shadows on also just observing the kinds of shapes that's cheese, steak and the kind of shapes the blossom takes. So it's really hasn't been a lot more than kind of being observant. Okay, so how how does it work? And and then just glaring watercolors. We haven't written down much else, so that's right side of this simple way. It's also really nice, because what kind of perfectly captures this kind of fragility. The blossom is incredibly fragile, almost see through, and that is perfectly captured by layers and transparencies of watercolor. That's why it's so ideal for this, I think s so I'm just adding a slightly more pigmented version off our magenta mix. Just add a bit of magenta here and there. As we remember, that was quite a lot of Lileikis going on, but this it's kind of just to make the air talk a bit more interesting. Now we couldn't accept something for the truck. In this case. I would go for burnt umber. Andi would use also some a little bit of green left over, and that's fine. Essential fit its fight that is there. I would use a bit of violent because, um, off the lilac in the pedals, you get a lot off reflection from the trump, actually. So if you look at the cherry tree trunk. It's a lot of the time. I don't know if the photo you can see so well, but I know they're in real life. You can see how it goes. Really blew in purple, actually. So here. I'm just going to make 1/2 sort of more shadow signed on them. And you just continue with the branches. I'm gonna let it dry. First way, put a bit If you would just remove ideally pencil marks here just with a razor. I'm gonna do that next, and then give it another drive ahead. Right here. Just go for the finishing details which could do with your watercolor brush and just slightly more pigmented version off off the colors. If you want you at the bit of cross on, you know, you could just makes up some interesting green colors. Just stuff. Kind of like little strings next to it. It makes it makes it more interesting. More funding to do it with different strokes of your brush from the States and brings out the reds magenta compliments. But if you want to do Skiles so but I think I'm gonna leave it like this. Just remove the marks on. Um, do you want more details?
8. White tree: No, it would be really fun. Teoh paint one of the white trees. So we're just gonna be inspired by the ones we made. Let's say we want to paint something like this, so just keep this somewhere besides as inspiration but same things with think one. We just got a lightly, lightly sketch the shape. Remember when we did the shapes of the trees, we saw that they could take kind of this tail, and then the crown shaped something like this. So that's the guy we're going to sketch, and then the draw quits. Go. Something like that I'm gonna keep This is a landscape. So this is still really a study. So you don't worry too much about a composition in these kinds of things were still practicing, so Okay, well, lightly sketched out that guy just to remind you these colors was what we made before with ultra Marine on Davis Grace. Actually, it's just gray with ultra Marine to it so that it's blue and agree on. Off we go. We're doing the same thing as we there waiting with their think one. So that's about okay, Maybe even more water once it slightly to for my liking really ticks him off. T Did you see the motions amusing? Just like before. Quite random. Try not to think about what I'm doing into the top. We typically see on more white blossom there. And I think we sought to the picture really in one of the videos and there were whites really, really wait parts at the top. OK, way so feeling this I will be a good start, so I know I'm drying it with dry like before. Make sure you are leaving a lot off white space around this guy. You could always make it a little bit whiter H area, but wait about putting some darker pigment around it because it gives the illusion that Theo area is almost white and it's closer to the trunk. Another darker. It was kind of like painting clouds in a way, you adding pigment and almost random shapes the way and then way. They told to make it a bit fluffy on a bit lower, random, even outside. It took a good topic because good old away everywhere. Okay, that sir was pretty right. I think it's quite enough. We're just slightly delayed some of these centers on, uh, do the trunk next here I'm getting again use. But in this case, else add a little bit of fortune, Marine, because that's what was in a blossom. So it will be reflected in the truck very delicately. I think them for the white G. We could other sky so that it stands out debt up from the background. So for that, I'd Makesem Ultra Marine. We want the bright colors. So this with cerulean blue. Because, remember, even with fighter, we saw how bright sky waas So this guy gets pretty Brighton Spring, of course, but it's we want to do it so that the treaty against it stands out better. What do you think? Okay, sure. I used quite so concentrated ultramarine color for the sky to give it more contrast. So it stands out really well and also because it makes us tree stand out, which is what we want. Waves little branches there. Don't forget to make the trunk pretty dark. And you can really get you dark. But you can be too light and not enough contrast. Okay, remove thats with this. If you could continue, I didn't detail as long as you like, but it's better if you slightly concentrated pigment for that more concentrated than before . For sure. Then we put back around the last one. We just have little dots scatters. Okay? You, I'm sure. Get there and you do this.
9. Thank you!: so a huge giant Thank you for joining me in this glass once again on Let's just quickly review what we've learned. We've learned loads action. So we know now how Teoh make colorless that are ideal for blossom. We also know how to air these colors, using just a simple property of what color? That it can be layered like this. We can create shadows on highlights. We've learned to make cherry flowers on little blossoms by again, just making the very transparent and layering them the beautiful poetic transit. Little things and we've even learned how to create larger scale pieces are white or pink trees blossoming in spring. So we've done all this really without too much thought. Too much study. Too much overthinking is just by using what color I am using layers getting a colors right on experimenting. This just take quite a bit of practice. You we'll probably find that you need to kind of look around a bit different Cherries, different trees, different types of blossom. But essentially we've learned that were good observation skills on with a bit of control over your watercolors, knowing how to layer things which might also take a little bit of practice, but he will come. You can create some really easy but very beautiful pieces, so well done again, guys. I can't wait to see your results on. Thank you.
Yana Knight, Story of Yana
