Fun & Easy Watercolor Techniques for Beginners for Painting Marine Animals

1. Watercolor Marine Animals Trailer: Are you looking for a sound Quick and easy projects to paint just for practicing essential watercolor techniques. And to have fun playing with colors, then painting the cuties will melt your heart. This class offers you a wonderful opportunity to learn and practice essential watercolor techniques while painting fun and easy marine animals. You will explore brush control, color mixing, and color blending effects, wet on wet techniques. And how you can add those stunning textures which will help you to create the illusion of volume. Hello, I'm Nina Also known as Music art on Instagram, water color artists specializing in loose style art educator and art therapist in training. I'm a full time watercolor artist teaching watercolor art both online and in person with a special interest in those art techniques which are benefiting our mental and emotional well being. My mission in all my watercolor classes is to share with you the joy from painting with watercolors. And the joy from the creative process. What a color can be or well mean, if you are just starting out. That is why my goal is to help you to feel relaxed, playful, and enjoy this medium in a step by step manner. In today's class, you will find a wide variety of marine wildlife to paint. And the lessons can all be done or you can pick and choose. Each lesson is self contained so there is some good variety to work with and to put your quota cal skills in practice. All lessons are in real time, so you can paint alone with me. If you find this class too easy for you. I have a variety of classes available at different skill levels on painting loose style without pencil sketch, which you will find especially helpful if you are looking to loosen up your style. Throughout this class, I will be sharing plenty of tips and tricks so that for sure you will manage to get these gorgeous textures. If you have any questions or need any advice, just post them in the discussion board below. I'll be sure to read and to reply every single post. Remember to click the Follow button to be the first to know when I launch a new class and when I post a new giveaways. Also, you can follow me on Instagram music card in order to see my latest works are ready. Grab your brushes and let's dive into painting. 2. Materials: This class, I will use watercolor paper, just a simple block of watercolor paper that is cellulose. One watercolor paint, watercolor palette. Then we will need a pencil eraser, waterproof liner, or marker. Two brushes, one which absorbs quite well water and holds that water to make moisture in the paper. Another one for introducing the color. Just two brushes, water, pot, better to use, two, one with clean water and another one for cleaning your brush, kitchen towels, the paper tissues for removing their extra moisture from the brush. Then we will need salt. I'm going to use in sea salt and a bit of clean. Just prepare all these materials and let's move to the practical part. 3. Prepare Your Colors: Wet on Wet Technique: Before we'll start painting our sea creatures. First we will prepare our colors, which we are going to use. We'll make some fun warmup exercise. Actually, we will create this small universes. For this, I will use a piece of paper that is just normal watercolor paper that is cellulose one, I will use two brushes. One is for making wet area where I'm going to add the color. Another brush is for introducing the paint in such way like you will avoid washing too much your brush and it will be quicker the process. Let's prepare your colors and let's get started. We will start with two colors which we are going to use, or at least I'm going to use these colors for my se, creators. And you can choose some similar colors which you have or the ones which you would like to use here. In this exercise, you can try those pairs of colors which you'd like to use for se creatures. Here I will use yellow, that is cadmium yellow one color and another color is olive green. Here you can take also one yellow which you like and one green. The aim of this exercise is to see how these colors interact one with another. Which effects and which color mixtures we can get. I'm moisturing this area of paper just with clean water. I'm using two water pots. One is for cleaning my brush, and another one with clean water, which I'm using for moisturing my paper here. I have be careful not to leave here too much water so that it won't be some petals in it. Now, just directly from the pen, I'm introducing the color first that is yellow, like this. Then with olive green, some are the sports, we can see how beautifully the colors interact, one with another. One machine I wanted to ask you to have prepared is also a jar with salt. I'm using here fine sea salt. We can introduce it just at some point and to see which effect it can create like this, just in small part of this circle or another circle, we are going to use the same. That is cadmium yellow med. Let's see how these two colors interact the same. I'm moisturing this part of paper just with clean water. Here we are, preparing the colors for our sea creatures. Then we will also, after this warming up exercise, we will be able to act quite quickly. We will know already which colors we are going to use, then it will be also quite easy. We will enjoy the process of painting. Again, I'm starting with cadmium yellow. Just introduce it directly from the pen like this. The second one is Med. Here comes, and again, let's introduce at some part a bit of salt. I would like to pay your attention that it's very important to add salt when the paint is still wet. Then you will get more effect. For example, in the next circle, let's try to add salt not immediately when, once we were painted, but we will leave for a while that it will get dry. Then you'll see that what could be the result. For our next color mixture, I will use cadmium yellow and cadmium red. Here we have used cool version of red. And for this one, like some warm red, just checking your colors, which you have. And the same, let's prepare the surface just with clean water like this. We prepare some circle for this circle. We can use the third color as well. Also prepare olive green. We will as well olive green that we will. Olive green. That you know that green and red are complementary colors. By mixing these colors, we can create as well shadows. Now let's introduce the color. I'm adding cadmium yellow, then cadmium red, like this. And like this we see how beautifully they're mixing. Also with just clean brush and dry one that you remove, extra water with paper towel you can play a bit and to help to move the pigment if you'd like, we will introduce as well a bit of olive green in that area where there is red. Here we will introduce a bit of olive green. It will create some shadow. We have talked with this pain. Let's wait a while, not introduce salt immediately. Let's wait till it will get dry a bit here. Also you can see that I have one pedal from this side and what I can do, how to remove this pedal actually just with clean and dry brush with a tip. I'm passing it for here and I'm removing extra paint like this. Meanwhile, it's getting dry. Let's introduce the colors which we are going to use for our next color combination that is the same, cadmium yellow. I have some really beautiful color, which is Kinakredon violet. If you don't have this color, you can use just normal violet because the effect is going to be the same, it's more like the shade or into your violet, you can add a bit of rose color. Or for example, even if you will add a bit of Medet or kardon, rose or magenta, then the color will be similar to this one. Meanwhile, let's add a bit more of salt. Here. I see that the color has got a bit dry. And we'll see also depends at which stage you're adding salt, that the result could be also different. That the surface it contains quite a lot of water, can create big spots. White spots in surface contains less water. It can create like smaller bits of We spaces. In this case, first you will test your salt. How does it create the salt effect? And another thing that you will know also which effects you can create and which surface you need for creating these effects. Meanwhile, let's make wet one more surface for here. And let's check the color combinations. First, I had cadmium yellow, like this quite a lot. And now I will introduce Kina cre, Don violet for this side. It's like two colors which are really active and they create beautiful effects. From another side, I would introduce just normal violet. Wow, that is really beautiful color combinations. And also another interesting thing, while you're adding salt, it's better to edit in the darker areas, then the effect is going to be stronger. For example, in this mixture of yellow and red, it's better to introduce salt in the red areas here, the same yellow and violet. It's better to introduce salt in darker areas. In this case, that is violet, the contrast is going to be stronger and the effect will be more noticeable. 4. Prepare Your Colors: Color Blending: Now let's move to another color combinations which I'm going to use for painting sea creatures. In this time it's going to be based on blues. Just check blue colors which you have. Choose one which you like more. In case you have a Serulian blue, then it's really beautiful color, you can use it. In my case, I will base my combinations on really beautiful color. That is cobalt turquoise, it's like this. You can use any blue which you have. And now you will check which color combinations you can create with that blue, which you have chosen and whether you like these color combinations. Another blue I'm going to use that is ultramarine blue. That is easier, probably you have in your color palette or some similar blue color. Then I will need a wilet, which we have used before. I will use one more color, that is indigo. Also, you can have some paints gray. You can check that color to mix it with blue or more or less like this color. Let's prepare the surface here just with clean water, making this circle. Let's start to introduce the color. I'm starting with the light one with cobalt turquoise. Also why I like this color that it contains. I like granulating effects and really beautiful, I really like this color. Then let's introduce a bit of ultramarine blue. I'm adding all colors directly from the pen. I do not dissolve them. They are quite concentrated then while adding wilet will create really strong effect. Really nice, probably for here. Also a bit more of whilets, color combinations we are going to use for creating our W. Then a bit of indigo to add just somewhere here, here for this side. You can see that it's like the darker value of blues. It's darker than violet and we will use this color for some shadows. Now let's introduce our salt in this dark area. You will see how magic effects it will create, or I hope that it will create here. Also in the light area, we will see what we will get from the color combinations. One more color combination which we are going to use for this, I will use the color which is called magenta. But also you can use Quinacridone rose or any kind of rose like Med rose. Some prose colors which you have, they would be really perfect. Another color which I'm going to use that is ultramarine blue and Quinacridone violet. Let's make it the surface, yeah. Now let's start first introducing magenta like this. Then let's add a bit of ultramarine blue. You will see that while mixing it can turn into some purple areas. And Kinagreden violet, that is also quite nice combination. At some points you can violet if you don't have incid. And gold violet also would be nice. The color combinations we are going to use for our jellyfish. One more color combination which we are going to check, that is Cobal turquoise, ultramarine blue. And why let, let's prepare the wet surface. Now let's introduce the color. I'm starting with Cobal turquoise. This, then I'm made in ultramarine blue violet. That violet is so active color, it creates so beautiful this watery effects really beautiful. On this final one, let's add a bit of salt in order to see all the effects of salt. First, we'll have to dry all these circles so that they would be completely dry. Then we will be able to see which salt effects they have created. The paint has gone dry. And let's remove salt just with fingers. Then we will see which effects they have created. Let's have a look here. It's almost not noticeable effect because also there are, both colors are light. It means that with light colors, the effect is not so noticeable of salt. Here, we can see that it has created quite interesting effects here the same. But you see that it could be also really different ones. For example here that the paint, I think that it was drier than in this area and it has created like this small star. While here, I assume that it was still too much water in this part and that salt has got dissolved, let's say like this. The same has happened, for example, in this part. Just try play with different paint and to see that still too much water in the paint, then you can get probably like this effects. Or if it's less amount and it's getting already dry, then you can get this kind of effects. We're done with warming up exercises. Now let's dive into painting our se creatures. 5. Watercolor Blowfish: Our new sea creature is going to be blue fish. For this, we will need cadmium yellow, olive green, orange. Or I will use a color which is called Akinaerdon Gold. We will need also some salt, which we are going to place in this area. Prepare the colors. Let's make under drawing that is really simple. Just circle here is going to be for here another one. And that will create some funny ice like this. And they would be looking more this way. Later we will place some of this texture the way around. I will start with waterproof marker drawing the ice. I remember to leave some white areas for here. And the mouse, it's going to be really funny. Bluefish. I'm removing some pencil lines. Let's start. I'm using two brushes, one with clean water I will cover the shape, and another one for introducing the color. Let's start here. I introduced just a bit of water in the area. We will be the parts and a bit more of water For this site, our blue fish is ready to get colored. Let's start with cadmium yellow. I'm taking the color directly from the pen, and let's introduce it for everyone. Let's have fun to play with colors like the Rodes here. Another color which we're going to introduce is olive green. I'm start to introduce olive green from outside towards the center. For here, I introduce more like this with some brushstrokes and more concentrated olive green. What we need is more concentrated olive green to introduce in these areas with the brushstrokes up from this side. Now it's time to add this texture. I'm using gold. Also, you can use burn ciena triangles. I would say that with burnt sienna it looks better all around the body, these triangles like this. So now it starts to get the volume. Also, I will add a bit of king yellow and here, and here. And let's add now salt, salt. We're going to introduce only in this lower part of the body. To create some texture for here, I noticed that here is missing one part of yellow. I will cover it with yellow. 6. Watercolor Crab: Our next secret is going to be a crab, funny crab. For this, we are going to use cadmium yellow, cadmium red, and a bit of ultramarine blue for creating this shadow. What I would like to pay attention when we are going to prepare our under drawing is that here, pay attention to leave this space, it gives more dynamic. And also to make some funny legs. That also creates some funny balance and funny gestures to this crap, this claw as well. Try to make it a bit outer. If you're ready, then let's start with our drawing that is quite easy. We will start first with some ellipse like this. Here we are going to place ice quite big. He's looking a bit up. Here is going to be the mouse. Let's add color that he's quite happy and telling us, hello, how are you like this? And for here, another clock, big one like this. And then some legs. Funny legs for here. Another one also have prepared the sea salt because we will need for creating texture. We will need some sea salt. In this case, we're going to introduce salt in this area. Leave in the bottom this one solid color. Okay. Then let's start with our waterproof marker. First, painting the eyes, this and the mouse. Then I remove a bit my pencil lines. Also enjoy the process that you can create a different type of crap that probably, you know better or you have your own vision how the crabs are. And that would be really interesting to see them. Just try to make really funny animals. We'll start just with clean water. I'm covering the body of the crab, so avoid to touch the area of mouth and of eyes like this. Now we will introduce cadmium yellow. Try to make mainly a middle part with yellow because then once we will introduce red, all everything, what would be left from yellow, it will play more like the highlights and it will create also some additional volume to our crap. Then I'm introducing cadmium red here that we will place salt on the dark paint. And once it will remove this dark pigment, you will be possible to see that color which is underneath in our case that is going to be yellow. And it also creates some nice effects that really like texture created by the sea. Now will add the mixture of cadmium red with a bit of ultramarine blue. It will create darker value of red like this. This part will introduce here at the bottom. Now let's add salt. Just place the salt here in the top part. Let's see which texture it will create. It should be really nice like this effect of sea salt, which actually creates usually on the sea shelves. Now let's move with the clo, clean water. I'm making the areas that we will use the same colors here. It has introduced a bit of red in the area of close, we aren't going to introduce salt. That's fine. Let's start with cadmium yellow. For here, cadmium yellow. Now, cadmium red, also from outside, I'm starting to add the color like this, like this end for this site as well. Let's add more red color, and here a bit more red color. And the legs. And let's paint these legs here just to cadmium red. Now let's introduce also this darker version, that is cadmium red mixed with ultramarine blue. Probably I will need to mix a bit more of color here and a bit of ultramarine blue here. In some shadows here from this side. You can add a bit more to the legs from one side, from inner side. Then they will look more like real legs with some shadows and with some volume here, a probably for here. Let's introduce a bit more. If it's still wet, then don't touch. If it has got dry, then you can add a bit more of dark lo in that area. Our crab is ready now. We'll have to wait until it will get completely dry, and then we'll be able to remove sea salt. And to see the effect which it has created, it seems that my crab has got already dry and I can remove the salt. Here we have a really nice texture. I think that it gives some of this hint that this crap is just came out from seawater. Just having sun bing. 7. Watercolor Jelly fish: The next secreta, which we are going to paint, is going to be jellyfish. For this, I will use the following colors. Magenta, royal blue, or also you can use ultramarine blue violet or acrid on violet. Also, I will use salt. Have this prepared and let's start with under drawing. That is going to be quite simple, just half circle like this. And for here is coming this part which helps to move jellyfish legs, let's say like this. Okay, so let's paint also ice funny ones. Then I remove a bit the pencil line to make it quite light with waterproof liner. I'm drawing the ice. I'm going to use two brushes, one with clean water just to moisture this part of paper, and another one to introduce the color. We will start first covering this area with water, just clean water. Pay attention not to touch this area with ice because otherwise the ice won't be white like this. And this lower part, just some kind of moments like this. We will start with magenta. We will introduce, or you can take, any other purple color which you have. Let's introduce in these areas. Next one is going to be blue. I'm going to use royal blue here in the lower part. Introduce this blue when mixing with magenta, it's turning a bit into violet. Do not leave white spaces. And here, just three movements like this. Now we'll add the darker accents with violet here in the lower part here from this side, here in these areas. Now it's time to add really quickly salt, salt. I'm going to place in the lower part here like this and also on the legs. Yeah, it seems that this part we have done just that extra salt which is not necessary now. We'll have to wait until the paint will get completely dry, Then we will be able to remove salt and to see those effects which it has created. Once the paint has got dry and I have removed the salt, my jellyfish looks like this. I think that effects with salt. I like my jellyfish. I hope that your jellyfish is also as, as my one good job. 8. Watercolor Octopus: Our music creature which we are going to paint is this octopus. That we will need the following colors. Cobalt, turquoise, or you can take another. Any blue, which you have Magenta or Kinocdonrose or Med Rose. Then Kinocdon violet. And let also yellow for star, also will need salt. Also salt nearby. Let's start with under drawing here. I start with circle, that is going to be the head. Then I just remove one part of this circle here is going to be the head of my octopus. Like this. Then that is to add many legs. Feel free to create your own octopus with as many legs as you wish. The shape which you like, that is completely your fantasy and how you imagine looks like your octopus. My one is going to be quite thoughtful like this. What I'm going to eat for dinner. One more leg for here, probably one more. This way it will get lost completely with so many legs. You can create as many legs as you wish the way you would like them to be located here, we will add ice. Mmm like looking forward to that dinner here. Some little star just like this. My idea that here is going to be like hair, it's my imagination of octopus, my one will look like this. I will remove some extra pencil lines that not to make them so thick that they won't spoil the color painting. Just feel free to create any shape of octopus you like. Then we create some funny textures. I started with waterproof marker, just making the eyes like this, the mouse as a star. Also, I will separate it. I will remove more pencil lines. Let's get started. First, I cover with clean water. I'm going to use two brushes, one for covering with clean water is a shape, and another one for introducing the color. Here just with clean water. Like this here, the legs, too many legs. Let's introduce the colors first, which we are going to introduce. That is cobalti color, which I was looking for here. I'm introducing for the whole body, this is cobalt. Introduce quite quickly the colors so that the surface won't get dry. In case it will get dry. Just again, that area where you're going to introduce the color, make it wet with clean water and keep on adding colors. I will introduce a bit more concentrated in some areas around the ice. Here the next color which we are going to add that is going to be magenta or Kinecdon rose. I will add mainly here where there is I have octopus gold, let's say like this Here she has some really beautiful hairstyle. Then in the spots this here we will introduce salt in the area of legs. And here we need to move quite quickly so that these surfaces will be still wet when we're going to introduce the salt. Then I'm adding kind violet here, this leg and also here. This area of, from this side a bit for here. And the area of here like this are here a bit darker. Occasionally, I have introduced some color on the mouse and it has disappeared. I remove, just with clean brush, you just remove the color. It's clean. Dry brush a bit more here. Probably now we need to move quite quickly to add salt. I will add a bit more color here and here. It's just like trying to make some also dark accents and this will create the illusion of volume for here. I'm introducing the salt in this area, on the legs. I think that there is some special word for the legs of octopus. But unfortunately, I don't remember it. That's why I call this legs like this. I think enough salt now. We will have to wait till everything will get dry and we'll be able to remove the salt and to see the effects which it has created. And we'll finish painting the star. I will paint it yellow. You can choose any color which you like, like this. So our cute Octopus is ready. Okay, it seems like it has got dry already, the paint. So let's remove the salt. Here is my octopus, really beautiful. The only thing that I would say that I have placed salt a bit too late, the effects aren't really strong. But it gives some texture and quite nice effect. If you haven't got any texture from salt, it means that probably you have placed it already too late. Or maybe too early when it was too much like water. But in this case, I think it was too late. And just try again. And for sure at some moment, you will manage to create these beautiful textures with salt. 9. Watercolor Sea Horse: Now turn of our new sea friend, that is going to be sea horse. For this, we will need the following colors. That is, a cadmium yellow, olive green green, and ultramarine blue. Also, we will use sea salt for creating some interesting textures. Let's start with under drawing. It could be a bit more complicated the shape, but for sure you will manage. We will start with ice white big eyes looking for him and another eye, we don't see it completely. That is going to be like this. Then let's create more or less like this is going to be the nose, the mouth like this. Then it goes lower and finishes this way. Then going up, we are making this shape for here. It goes on another line. It has this using half circles, actually, even a bit more probably like this here, this way. And then his tail is finishing like this. It's going to be like this. For here. Here they have some wings, I'm not sure how they are called, but something which helps them to move for here is going to be some another hairstyle, let's call it like this. I think that we are ready with the drawing. Let's make with the waterproof marker. Let's draw the ice. Another H. Yeah. Now, just with a razor, I'm removing some extra lines so that they won't be so thick. You can create your own version of sea horse. I'm just showing how it's like my way of interpreting the shapes of sea horse. Let's make the surface have also sea salt prepared, we are going to use it for creating textures. Let's get started here a bit more of clean water like this. I'm just covering the whole body with clean water. Now let's start with colors. I'm going first to introduce cadmium yellow. Just with some free brush strokes, just enjoy painting and adding the colors and to see how they are mixing. That is really relaxing. Usually the best results you get when you have really enjoyed the process, then actually the result doesn't matter, as it usually happens. Then the result is really beautiful. You see how it has happened. I have enjoyed, I have enjoyed, and that was the most important, and I didn't care what was the result. Here we're introducing olive green, our second color. We're introducing it, starting from the border and going more down like into the depths of his body. Why is this here more olive green. Here. Like this brush strokes, we're making the wings a bit more from this side. It starts to get dryad, my paper. We'll need to move a bit quicker here. I'm just brush strokes creating some, I don't know this texture, this hairstyle, what has now we will need to mix olive green or just normal green, which you have green with ultramarine blue. That is going to be like quite dark value of green. I will use it in the shadows. For example, here just with some brush strokes. Then this part here to introduce some lines here. Also some lines a bit more color and here as well create some texture. One more is going to be for here, for the wing and probably let's add a bit more dark. This mixture of green with ultramarine green, with ultramarine blue. Here I have, you can see the paint is quite concentrated and we will add it here in this area. Just the lines and free brush strokes here. Some lines as well, for here. Darker values just with brush strokes for here, for here. Also to make it a bit like to separate the wing from the body like this. Now let's add quite quickly, salt, salt, we're going to add here in this part, I'm afraid that it could be already too late that it has got the paint. But let's see which effect we will get here. We can add some other for here, but I wouldn't touch this part. Or you can try also to place salt for this area and to see which effect it will create. But I think that I'm looking more for this effect in this area where there is more interest in the texture then our sea horse is ready. We'll need now to wait until it will get dry completely, and then we will be able to remove the salt and to see which effects it has created. It seems that already the pain has got dry. Let's have a look at which effect we will get with the salt. Because it seems that I have placed it quite late. I'm not sure whether it will have any effect. Yeah, you can see that in my case, I have placed salt too late. Actually, it hasn't created any texture. But anyway, I feel quite happy with my sea horse. I hope that in your case, you have got some texture. If not, just try once again and it's just to catch the moment when you need to place the sea salt and to get the interesting effect. 10. Watercolor Sea Shell: The next creature which we are going to paint is a snail with such really funny shell. For this, I have prepared the following colors. That is, a headmum yellow kind violet or violet, cobalt turquois, or any blue which you are going to use. And also burnt sienna or any other contrast color. It could be also red or some orange colors which you can use for the colors of the shell. Also have prepared some transparent clean that will need it for creating also some funny effects. Let's start with under drawing. For here, I will start with ice. Here is a really funny effect. When you are making another eye a bit upper, it just looks funnier. Then let's make it like this here, it's going to be like this. Then the main body, just the way you feel like this one is going to be like this. Probably too big. I don't know. We'll see. The shell is going to be just like this. It's a really huge snail I'm going to make. Okay. But then definitely for sure that you will be able quite clearly everything, all the process. I remove some pencil lines with a razor, then with the waterproof marker, I'm drawing the dice. This here is another eye and what I'm missing is the mouse. Like this, it's more cheerful and it will make everyone to smile. Then let's remove some pencil lines here. I would like to make it more like this. Then it looks, it's for here that it won't be noticeable thick pencil lines, otherwise it will be quite complicated to remove them. Once we will place the layer of water colors, then let's start. We will make in two parts. First the body, we will use cadmium yellow. I will use kind violet or also you can use violet on. We'll place the colors, we will use some sea salt for this area. Second part, we will make the shell. We will introduce colors, which is going to be, in my case, that is cobalt turquoise and burn Siena and a bit of Kinocdon violet. Then we will place cling for creating the texture. Let's start with the body. I'm using two brushes, one for covering with clean water and another one for introducing the color. Now let's cover with water the area of the body of the snail. Be careful not to introduce the water into the mouth and into the eyes, otherwise they won't be white anymore. We will start with cadmium yellow. Let's introduce cadmium yellow, mainly. It should be in the middle part here, a bit here around the mouse. Now let's introduce violet or Kinocrydon wallet, if you have this beautiful color. The same for here. Kinocrydon wallet, we introduce starting from the border in such way it creates also of volume like this. Also it helps to separate one part of the body from another like this to introduce just several so that it won't be everything uniform here. We have already the body of the snail. Let's play some salt here. Just on the body, it will create also quite nice texture. I hope so. Like this. Meanwhile, let's move to another part. I would like to ask you to have prepared the clink already. Otherwise, the clink we need to place even faster than salt. Let's start with making the area of shell. Also, have prepared your colors. Some blue, Some orange could be or red and purple, or violet. Or a carden violet. Or you can choose other colors and create some beautiful color combination. Okay, let's start with introducing the color. I will start with cobalt Tq. Let's add quite concentrated color because then with water, it will get completely like really clear light and it won't be noticeable. Let's introduce quite well the color. Next one I'm going to introduce Burn Siena. I like the combination of these two colors. They give quite interesting effects. Just like creating the lines or this here for this side, a bit more of Burn Siena, really cheerful color and also add it really concentrated. Otherwise it will disappear and it won't be noticeable. Now let's add Kinocrydon wallet. Kinochrydon wallet, mainly in the lower part. That also it will show a bit like the separation between the layers from this side. For here, from this side I see that it's too much water and here it can create some dirty parts. I remove like this actually with Ingrid and Violet. I'm making now like to show the division between different layers and to create a bit more volume to show that there are light areas and also there are dark areas. I will add a bit more of cobalt turquoise. It will be more concentrated. Now. It is time to add our cling. Just make it with wrinkles. But it's better to make wrinkles more like flat. Don't make, this won't give any effect. The wrinkles should be this way. Then we start to place our cling. Let's press it really well, this way. Like this. It could be that the colors has go out from their outline. But we'll see here I have placed my cling now we'll have to wait till it will get dry quite well here, the colors. And then we will be able to remove the cling as well to get dry. This part, this part will take, I think, a bit longer then we will be able to remove the sea salt and to see which effect it has created, It seems that now the paint is completely dry. I will try to remove the cling, we'll see what we will get. A beautiful, I really like how it has appeared, the pattern and really beautiful texture and quite nice, I like it. I hope that you also has got some really unique pattern on the shell and looking forward to see it also. Let's remove now the salt. We will see which effect has created the salt. It just also some texture and it seems nice. I think that I'm quite happy with my snail. 11. Watercolor Sea star: For painting star, we will need the following colors. Cadmium yellow and metal, red and olive green. Also, have prepared sea salt, some waterproof marker eraser and pencil. Let's start first with preliminary under drawing, I will start just from that. We will make five lines. There would be where the skeleton of our C star. Then we're just connecting them like this, like this. This one I have made a bit in another direction like this. Our outline of our star is ready for my star. I'm using just normal watercolor paper now let's paint ice looking in that direction. If you're done with the drawing then with a soft eraser, need as. I'm just removing the line so that it won't be so noticeable that it would be quite light line with waterproof marker. I'm drawing the ice. Remember to leave a small white area in the eye so that it would be more alive, the effect that the star is looking at us. Then I'm going to use two brushes. One is for making wet just with clean water, the area of the sea star. Another brush is for introducing the color. Prepare your brushes. We will start with the fun part. Also have prepared nearby sea salt or any other salt which we are going to use that to introduce it quite quickly. Then we start with covering the surface. Be attentive not to make wet the ice. That's why the color will get into the ice and there won't be any more white ones like this quite quickly. I see, for example, that I have introduced some water into the eyes of my sister. What you can do if it has happened to you as well, just with the paper towel like this and you remove this like this. You have removed already this water which can spoil here like this. Now the surface is quite wet and let's start adding color. First, I add directly from the pen yellow. That is cadmium yellow, which we have used also for our exercises. I'm covering the whole surface with cadmium yellow, like this. Then I'm introducing also quite quickly, second color that is made red. I'm starting to edit from the outside, following the outline of the star. It's really bright and cheerful. Here I add a bit more color, probably a bit for here. Now we will mix some color, which we are going to use to show the shadow, to give more volume to the star that is mixing madd with a bit of olive green. The color is going to be a bit more like brownish red. This, we will add in this area here from this side probably a bit more. And for here law now really quickly, let's add some salt, salt. I'm going to add just in the middle part that it will create some texture but it won't destroy the outline of the star. I want that the outline would be like the points of legs going to be quite defined. The texture of the star is going to be more in the middle part of the star. Here we can help to join the colors just with clean brush. We are done. Now we'll have to leave our start to get dry. Once it will get dry completely, we will be able to remove the salt and to see which effects it has created. Now it seems that it has got dry completely the paint. Let's remove the salt and see the texture which it has created. Yeah, that now our star looks like from the sea or from some ocean. Really beautiful this texture. And I really like how it has turned out. I hope that you're also happy with your stars. 12. Watercolor Turtle: Our next se creature is going to be Turtle. Have prepared the following colors which we are going to use. That is cadmium yellow, olive green, ultramarine blue, metered and incred violet. Also have prepared a piece of cling which we are going to use for creating a pattern on the shelf. Just have prepared already. Let's start with the drawing that we will start from the shelf like this or any other shape which you like. And then the head and my turtle is going to look in this direction and some mouse that my one is going to smile. She's really happy. It's really nice, sunny day. She's enjoying that. We're painting here. Here are going to be the legs. Another leg here on the first leg is just somewhere for there and we don't see it. I yeah. More or less a bit smaller. So here we have our turtle. Let's start with a waterproof marker. I'm making the dies and the mouse like this. Then I remove pencil lines with soft eraser. We are ready. Let's start with legs and with head. Then we will finish painting the shell. I use two brushes, one for introducing the color and another one for making the surface. Just with clean water, we're covering the areas avoiding the area of ice so that not to introduce the water here. The legs, let's make first this leg and then we will move to another one. We'll start with cadmium yellow. I introduce quite a lot of cadmium yellow. It's quite concentrated directly from the pen. For here a bit more. Next one is going to be olive green. I also take it directly from the pen, it's quite concentrated color. I'm starting to introduce it from the outer part, like this, my really happy turtle, and then also the legs. We'll hear from this side, and now we will add a bit like these shadows. For this, I will use olive green, with a bit of ultramarine, ultramarine blue. Then I will get this dark area color. I introduce it just where. I assume that there is a shadow just here. A bit more of this color that is olive green mixed with ultramarine blue here. Now let's move to other legs, this one just making wet with clean water. And this one, let's introduce the color first. It's going to be cadmium yellow. I noticed that I have introduced lots of water. That you can notice that it's like a pedal. I just removing it with clean brush like this. Again, I introduce cadmium yellow in this part here. Now a bit more of olive green from outside, towards the center like this. For here, the turtle is getting happier because it gets more colorful and full of life. Then I introduce a bit more of this darker somewhere, probably here and here. Now is the funniest part that we're going to create a pattern on the shell. For this, we will make wet this area and we'll use three colors. That is cadmium yellow, Madertkdon violet. Or you can use violet. And then once we will introduce the color, we will use clean. We will need to make the wrinkles. Also, pay attention to make wrinkles this way and not like this. This won't work, it won't create any texture. That's why I have also your cling here somewhere nearby. To act quite quickly, then let's start to make wet first with clean water, this surface like this. Try not to touch those areas which have been already painted so that not to move the paint. Now, let's add the color first is cadmium yellow. Try to make, to edit more in the top part of the shell. For here, like this. Next one, Madd, I'm also take it directly from the pen. Let's here more color, more concentrated color. Because later when we will add, the color will be removed partly by the cling and it won't be so bright. That's why don't worry to add quite a lot of bright color here. Now, violet or in a crud on violet we're introducing here in the lower part, also quite concentrated, really beautiful color here in combination with olive green, it also looks really beautiful. And here a bit from this side, have prepared already your clean. We are going to create some really nice textures. Make the wrinkles. The more wrinkles you make, the more interesting mosaic you will get. Then let's start to place it. Also while placing, you can create more and more wrinkles while placing the cling one, it seems like it has been placed at the end. You have to press it really well, so it will get stuck and want more like this. And now we will have to wait until the paint will get dry and we will be able to remove the cling and to see which beautiful effect we have. Receipt Now, patience. And let's wait a while. Meanwhile, you can paint another creature. It seems that my turtle has got dry completely. And now we can remove the, let's see what we have here. A beautiful pattern. And it gives also some volume to the shell. And I really like it. I hope that your turtle as well has really nice and very unique shell. 13. Watercolor Walrus: Now let's paint Walrus. First, let's prepare the colors which we are going to use. I will use the following colors. That is u, cobalurquoisen, I will use blue, which is called royal blue violet. Also, I will use indigo prepare some similar colors, or maybe you may choose other ones. Also have sea salt prepared. Let's start with the drawing that is going to be like this, maybe a bit wider Here, I will make the F like this. Here will be a second part, and here will be the back feet, might be like this. And here we will make some funny ice outer teeth. Here, this mustache, I will make some funny hairstyle so that it won't be so boring. Let's remove a bit pencil lines with waterproof liner. I'm making eyes first, like this, really big eyes. And another now I will remove the pencil lines so that they won't be so remarkable here. And also let's make with liner the areas. I'm going to use two brushes, one for clean water to cover these areas with water to make them damp. Another brush for introducing the color quite quickly. We are making this area be attentive not to add water in the area of is like this. And this part also keep an eye so that if one of the parts will get dry, just make it wet again. But make it wet before introducing the color. Introducing the paint. I will start with cobalt turquoise. Choose any light blue which you have, we'll start to introduce it a bit. Funny hairstyle like this over here and then the backside as well cover quite well. This is going to be like the light part here as we can but not a lot because these areas, we will make them darker from the beginning. Here we have now let's introduce, I will use royal blue, that is a bit different. That is a mixture of violet. That is a mixture of violet and blue, ultramarine blue, and also white. You can add other colors as well, so other different blues or maybe your one is going to be pinkish. I don't know. Just try different colors. Use those colors which you like. Then for sure you will get something really beautiful. Like this. Now I will introduce Wallet in the dark areas, for example. For here I will start to edit from the lower part and go in upper like this here. It's going to be this way. He also more in the lower part. Mm hm. And a bit more of violet for here. This part is starting to get dry. We need to move quite quickly. A bit of hair looks much more beautiful. Here is some mustache. Let's say a bit darker part for this. There probably I think like this. Now we will introduce the darkest color, that is indigo. Or you can use some black mixed with the ultramarine blue. So that is like some lines to show the volume for here, in the lower part. For here, here some more lines separating, introducing now the darkest color in order to create this illusion of volume. I think we already done. Yeah, and here let's introduce several lines. Now he looks really cute. Now we need to move quite quickly and to add some salt, I'm going to add salt in this part where there is Mustache. Let's see which, in effect it will create just this line here. This line I'm adding salt. And here in the lowest part, for here, just in some areas, not many like this. And here I am ready with my Waldr. Now we will have to wait until it will get dry completely the paint. Then we will be able to remove the salt and to see which effects it has created. That's how looks my walrus once I have removed the salt. Really interesting this effect. What about your one? 14. Watercolor Whale: Now we are going to paint whale. For this, we'll need the following colors. Turquoise, coal, turquoise, ultramarine, blue violet, and indigo. Just prepare some similar colors which you have. And we will start with under join. Also prepare salt. We will need salt. I'm going to use fine sea salt. That is going to be quite easy. That is more or less circle shape. I will take it a bit for here. Then the tail just like this. My wail also will be from here there would be water like this. Let's make the ice. I see it like this. You can create any whale and it's completely up to your imagination. I will show only the colors and the textures which you can create, but I'm sure that everyone will get their own whale. Generally, all the creatures are going to be really beautiful, happy, and full of waterproof. Adding the ice, the mouse then remove some pencil lines. We will start with adding color. Now let's start with painting. I will use two brushes, one for clean water to dampen this area of the whale, and another one for introducing the color Just with clean water. We are making the shape of whale. Be attentive to make the area of ice that we need to leave them white. We will paint in two parts. First the body and then separately we'll paint this boof of water. A my whale is almost wet and is ready to swim. We will start with Cobal turquoise, or any other light blue which you have here. Here, let's introduce the color quite quickly. Because the water gets dry, the next color is going to be ultramarine blue. So, and let's start to edit here in the tale for here. Now let's add violet. Just enjoy the process. That is the most important thing. Paint the whale the way you see, the way you imagine all whales are going to be different, but really lovely and cheerful and happy. Just enjoy the process. I made the color mainly from the outer side and trying to live light areas in the middle. But it just your imagination. Now we will introduce the darkest color that is going to be here in the lower part here. But before, let's add a bit more of ultramarine blue in the top part of the tail. More concentrated just in the top part of the tail here. Now, Indigo, the darkest color we will add here. At the very bottom. Yeah, But just a bit, not too much. And now it's time to add salt. I'm going to add salt here in the bottom. Yeah, really nice. Then also, I will place here on the top part of the tail that it will create also the effect of drops of seawater or some nice texture. That's it. I know probably I have introduced salt too early. Let's add a bit more salt for this area. Now let's move to this part. For this, we are going to use cobalt turquoise and ultramarine blue. Or you can choose any light blue color and a bit darker color. First, we will make wet this area also have prepared the salt. We will place it here in the top part. This part you can see that it's already has introduced some water. This. Let's add cobalt quiz. Just a bit like this, mainly in the top part. And then a bit of ultramarine blue also in the top part for here. And this more or less like this. Now let's place salt on the top like this. Just the top area. Remove some extra salt if it has fallen. Now it's the most complicated part, to wait till it will get dry in order to be able to see all those effects which it has created. But here you can notice that salt started to create beautiful effects. It looks really nice once the pain gas, God, I have removed salt here. How looks my wall with the really beautiful textures and salt effects. I hope that you have enjoyed the process. Good job. 15. Final Thoughts: Welcome back and congratulations on completing this class. I do hope that you have painted with me and have enjoyed the process and not just watching and if you just have watched it. So now I encourage you to take your brush and just play with colors with water, have fun, feel like this. This is time which you dedicate to yourself and just to relax and to play with colors and with textures. So it's really fun when you feel set. I really recommend you to come back to this class and to create some funny creatures. Let's have a look at what we have explored together. In this class, we've learned some of the most fundamental techniques of watercolor painting. From brush control and color blending, to creating stunning textures, capturing the essence of the creatures. So I hope this classo will help you unleash your creativity and develop your own unique style. The techniques shown in the class, you can apply to any other subject. Just let your imagination fly and let yourself play with shapes and colors. Remember what a color painting is, not just about technical skills, but also about expressing your creativity and personal style. So keep on painting and experimenting. I want to express my gratitude to each of you and everyone because it's really inspiring to see your artwork. So please share in the class gallery your creations. And I will be glad to leave you my feedback. If you're going to share your artworks on Instagram, please do not hesitate to tag me and to use this hashtag paint with music so that for sure I will see your artwork and to support you in your our journey. 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