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1. Introduction: Hello friends and welcome
back to my Skillshare canon. Today, I'm happy to present
to you in my newest classes. It's a very easy
introduction to wash. The subject ID is an avocado Y. And avocado, not only
avocado is very good fruit, but he's one of my favorite
subjects, is easy. It's the perfect
introduction to washer. It's very, very beautiful. Today we're painting and
avocado step-by-step. Although avocado, It's an easy subject at
the end of the class. So you will master many, many skills related to wash. You will learn how
to mix colors. You will learn how to lay a colors without lifting
the color underneath. You will learn how
to blend colors. You will learn how
to add highlights. The last but not least, you will learn how
to fix mistakes. Yes, because washer is
very forgiving medium. And that's why it's so
easy to fix mistakes. I come from watercolor. Watercolor activists
in a region, but few squash every day in a small sketch
book like this. Fruit food is one of my
favorite subjects like today. Avocado made the
paper should when we grade the ground for
one week past the ground, do you just choose any
background that you prefer? You can even change through to just follow the same process
that I'm showing to you. Hi. I'm originally a
watercolor artist, as you know. We're off. She's a daily around with me. I love to me because
small sketches on the survey third sketch book. I love painting slow
landscapes or food or fruit. The cute little
subjects that you will be able to
paint as well after these glass going today in
supplies that you need. And then we baked
without fear with me, step-by-step class, you
will be very happy. Wash it is so much fun.
2. Supplies: Hello. We'll give you an
example of supplies. We'll be using for this class. Let's start with paper. I use a smaller
square sketchbook. Digits by Artesia. It's a cellulose paper. You don't need fancy
cotton paper for washes, especially if it is hot press, saw smooth disease. Quite smooth. It is ideal for sketching. I use a small format
because our sketch today is going to be very simple
and ideal for a small size. I like to sketch a small sizes. Then we need some artistic, but you can fly on the border to have
some crispy borders, some PCs paper paper. You can also use the washi tape. You need the fabric. First date, then I use a
cliff like the paper doesn't move while drawing the
other page. Maybe. Then I need a pencil
and an eraser. I like to use a pencil
eraser like this set. It's very, very nice to use
disease from fabric Castile. Then I need a palette knife to scoop book from my palette. Then I will need some brushes. You need a bigger brush. If you have a term
for the background, then you need some
flat brushes or a filbert brush or a flat brush or what
you have is the same. And then some smaller
round brushes for details. What you have, it's
perfect. Washed shirt. You don't need a brush to
software like in watercolor, but you need the
syntactic brush with some stronger results
with a certain spring. The brushes that you
use for acrylic simple. Don't spend too much on brushes. Then of course we
need some water. I have two jobs. The water's very bigger, one for clean water and the
other one for dirty water. So I clean my
brushes in the water and then I can take some clean water in a jar
that is always clean. Then you need a palette. White one is perfect. You can also use
your good leader. I always do. When it's fairly dirty,
you just throw it away. The important thing is that
the background must be white so you can use a dish
or a lead or what you want. But why? Thank you. Need some watercolor. This is optional, but I like
to use the children parents very cheap for the background
or an under painting. Disappear under washer. They turned on. Then of course you need painter. What I suggest, if you're
a beginner is to start with the set of 24
students grade washer, for instance, at teaser, is a very good value for money. You get good quality
for a reasonable price. This because there are many convenience scholar that
you don't need to mix in. If you're a beginner,
it's nicer, it's more fun and
it's easier if you have many colors to choose from. Another choice, to buy. A set of artist grade
gouache disease. Design your brush by
Winsor and Newton. It's very good. But the limited number of
colors, it's only ten. What I personally do, instead, I have started with
student grade quash. Then once I finish a
tube from our teaser, I add ET tube of a brand
that I lie like talus, which is very good. When certain new terminal, I have added some color
satellite will match like this. Light green is called
linden green from Winsor and Newton is another
one from royal talents. It's Naples yellow. Another brand that I always recommend that my
memory warship. The brand meets an Italian
brand value in itself. It's good brand. So that is another Winsor and
Newton Naples yellow. One of the best
available brands. It is shrinking,
hotter than washer and easiest really one of
the top artists brands. Let's say that you
can start with the key with a set of 24 colors. Then you cannot. Some paints
that you like very much. You replace the
student grade tubes with new tube from
professional brands. That's the best way. Don't forget to buy
a larger tube of white wash or because the white gratia is the color that you
will use the mouse. And you need the large shoop I by white quash in large quantities and
they use it very much. Also, you will be
needing some paper, towel, spray bottle to spray water on your paint
and on your panelists. One last advice for
supplies is to keep your paint box like this one. It's really convenient. It stays fresh for
weeks and weeks. I provided you spray
the ones in y we've got some water and you
don't waste any paint. You just lead when you're
finished and you put it away.
3. Pencil Sketch & Underpainting: I have my reference image
in front of me on my iPad. I start my very
easy pencil sketch. It has the shape of
similar, lesser. Try to make them more or
less of the same size. The same shape. Here is the seed
because it's too hard. The same fruit. Martin s. You don't need
to be perfect about. Some resemblance. Makes it more realistic. Just be loose at this stage
and then you clean it up. The larger here. I clean it up. Clean it up. You can now use a
kneaded eraser. You make the lines a stronger so that you can
see them through wash. Rounded in the bottom. There is almost the shape
of a drop, the seed. I'm happy. I still clean it. It's time to paint
our underpainting. For the underpainting,
I choose watercolor. I could also use some
gouache, really watered down, but I will use a cheap
watercolor children paint, very, very cheap that I
only use for backgrounds. I think I will use. You can use any color because
you will cover it in wash. But I will use yellow. Lemon yellow. We'd be not in
contrast with my avocado, which has a lot of yellow in it. So use a very large brush, flat large brush,
and just give you a generous hand of
what their color. Or a thin wash. The whole page. Now we let it dry and
we start painting. As soon MCT is dry.
4. Let's Paint!: We start filling the
flagship of the avocado. For this phase, I will use a filbert brush
or a flat brush. I'm using a flat brush. Filbert brush, which is theseus. A filbert brush with the round
tip would be also perfect. Do you see is a
feedback crash would be perfect if I'm
using a flat brush. We start with the outer
part of the flesh. And I will use color from Winsor and
Newton called linden green, which is a very
light yellow green. If you don't have it. You can meet some green
like some permanent green or sap green
and lemon yellow. I take some of these
thick, a smaller brush. I'll use my smaller filbert. I think. Watery mixture not
too thick because the first layers in washer
must always be watery. These watery mixture of
light yellowish green, which can be a mix of
yellow and green paint. The outer border of my
avocado, I paint both. Remember that if you are
mixing yellow and green, not prepare a larger quantity, that you are sure that you
can have the same color. Here. I can change the shape. I see this flatter
in the bottom, so I will go like this. They can always also
make it a bit rounder. I correct the shape
directly with my brush. Now it's used to stay wet. I take some time out of yellow to green and go
towards the center. Just a first overlap like this. Then I waited mix the sweet white to make it
not only lighter, but also more opaque. I have this mixture
of white and yellow, which is more opaque. Go even more towards the center. It's very easy. Unpleasant stage. Just blend everything
from very well. Here we have the seed so
we don't feel leaked. We take some primary yellow, the rounded overlap, the green. You see I don't waste
any paint if I use my box, my air-tight palette. And also it has 36 wealth. And my watercolor set
only has 24 tubes. I can add some convenience
color that I like. My linden green, which is
one of my favorite colors. I go inside with
the lighter yellow. Blend it very well. I also feel the inside. Let's say that the light comes from flight, comes from top. I will have light, even lighter. I add some white side
here of the whole, we have the whole of the seeds. So here it's going to be light because the light hits here. And then I will take some
yellow ocher mixing. The primary. Yeah. I always create slides that Carrillo here change color. You need to reinsert
your brush very well. Otherwise you contaminated
the new pain, then you take some
primary yellow object. Blend it. Here you have the
lighter version of this. Yeah, loss of some
color here. You blend. Always remember that blending
is very easy with wash because gouache can be
reactivated with water. Now, the very light one. Now we go back to
the first avocado, to the first half, we take the yellow ocher, we bend to the seed
that what I can do is I start with a scene layer of
yellow ocher. Everywhere. I add some burnt sienna. Towards the bottom. You'll remember always that
the light is coming from top, gonna have a darker
colors on this side. Now you can meet some white, the yellow ocher so that
you have lighter value. Here where the light
hits the seat. You can have lighter version
of these yellow ocher. Then you blend
towards the Becker. Always blending. You can even add
some factor brown. I take some crescent here. Then you can blend it again. The CDA has some sort
of stripes that go towards the center so
you can replicate those. Your brush movement
like the sun, the flesh of the avocado, dry. We can see that the
goal should always say dry doctorate in lighter values. Sorry, it's a bit too, too dark. Actual avocado has
a lighter value. So what we can do is say, we add some white to
our mixture of yeah, Low primary yellow and white. We add some Attach of our green so that
it's a bit greenish. True of our green here. We give a second layer of green and add some lighter, fantastic and wash that. You can always correct
your mistakes. Second layer should
be slightly thicker. Stop. You'll go with now around the edge of these
seed that you must go very new blended. You rinse your brush. So we've been damp clean brush. You can blend me. Same. On the other hand, a greenish white. Wife must always be
applying generously. By larger tubes. I never get tired of repeating. Then with a clean
fraction, we just we finished the week, the flesh of the avocado. We go to the next step, which is the background.
5. Background: For the background
or you can choose either light gray like
the reference image, which is also very nice. You can choose it as setColor. I think I will choose a
pink, for instance, itself. To obtain a pastel pink, I could either use, I have some ready-made mixer, you can prepare it in advancer. I show you, I will
add some magenta to a lot of y because for, because you need just
a little touch of pink because it
dries much darker. Maybe some more in
Prepare enough paint for the whole background. You'll see we have these
beautiful pastel pink. Maybe give layer. And then if it is not
opaque and flat enough, I will give you a second layer. I go with the larger brush. Be careful near the
edge of the avocado. If you don't feel
confident that you can leave this out and go. We then wrote date your brush for the space between the two halves of
the bad more paint. I always make these mistakes. These it would be
the warning for you. It's not just me. I will prepare some more. Tell you secrets. So really important in the ground if it is
not all the same, because it's also nice, varied background saw
not completely flat. You can turn off your sketch book to make it
more comfortable to you. We have the day to
reach every corner. We scuffle. Do the Macondo. Just certainly very important to turn
it so that you're comfortable with your hand. It depends very much if
you are left-handed. If you're right-handed like me, you must find a
position that he's comfortable for you
because painting be a joy. If that's true. You see
I've made a little mistake, but in Washoe,
mistakes are very, very easy to fix because gouache is very forgiving
because of its opacity. Now, this try it wouldn't become even
more opaque once dry.
6. Add Depth: We can't go back to the avocado. Watch my reference image, I see some lighter spots
on the side, more yellow. So I cannot some
primary yellow mix it with some yellow ocher. I will have it
here on this side. On the side. We let these dry
so then we can as a final step, add
some highlights. Here. I need the white highlights. I take some pure straight
from the tube whiter. We've my filbert brush. I could also blend
it with some yellow mixed with white on the edge, so I don't have hard edges. Ecuador rainforests degree
in undertone of these parts. So we take some
green and my linden green or your green
mixed with yellow. Mixing some yellow that
I have on my palette. And I will give some stroke. Reinforce this greenish
tone that I have a here. Shadow fakes out to
the green, the flesh. I couldn't even use
some pure green here. Quick crashes stroke. Just to give some
roundness to our whole. Same here. I need similar roundness. I will take some more blended. Let's add a highlight just here where we see it
on the reference image. Fix some white highlight here. I also see one here. Then I can slightly
blend the edges. Very careful. Very, very likely. White if you need these, you can. Just now what we need the
outer skin in darker green. Now we need to detail brush
and not to find because the skin has a
certain thickness. And we need this dark green. We take some permanent green. Any green will do. We make Sita with some
darker brown going to tamper that you obtain a very darker
green to my chamber here. It more green. What you think is too dark. Here, it's going to be
much lighter once dry. Don't be afraid to
put darker values. It's almost greenish brown. It's not the green
is not the brown. What do you do now is you
go around the avocado. We've almost the shaky end because it must be irregular to give
these organic feeling. These keen of the avocado. Same on the other. Follow the direction that
suits your hand back there. So you need to be
comfortable here also, you can turn your quantities is still wet. Some more. Green. You can add some yellow to the green that you have obtained, but you take your linden
green or green mix with yellow and you
can slightly blended. Grounded. It's almost a wet on wet. Same on the other side. You have the feeding vector, you got dark brain, turn your brush, nice and clean, and dry your brush. You can take some yellow now to even blend even
better with these. Look at how organic it is now, you use the colors that
you have on your palette. You can even use your best now, blend it very, very delegate or otherwise,
you'd leave study. The color underneath. Landed with some yellow. You can use different
values of yellow. Differentiates different
tint because it's a fruit, it's organic, it's not plastic. Color varieties always welcome. We can still add some white
here because once dry can be slightly reinforced
just in the center.
7. Final Touches: Now the best part which
is taking a day off. To do this, you need some care because you don't
want to tear the paper. So what I do, I hit the tape but with the
heating tool or a hairdryer. I'll be back in a
minute when I have a heated the tape because
he makes the glue Mel, it's easier to tear it. Now, some care, you
tear off your paper and be careful to tear it
off a way from the sketch. That can happen. You tear the paper. Not in the sketch is on the board there and
you can fix it with some quarter like this.
Just do what I do. Here. You have your avocados In wash. Now that I have
chaired the paper, I realized that maybe I could
give some last touches. Things that I can always do, which is some shadow behind the avocados
and behind the seats to give more realism
into my sketch. So I take my filbert brush that I take some fire
lit, for instance. The violet to my darker green. The recreate some shadow here, hind the avocado. Then you can blend it with some background color that they had just not too hard. Same here. We take very thin crescent. Leave it like this. Also. Blending. I see that I have canceled some of my beautiful darker green, slightly recreated over,
even if there is purple. It's perfect because it gives color variation that we've just reached ACH where I think I
need somebody's touching. You could never do this week. The watercolor, It's
fantastic. Me, perfect. It's done. Even more beautiful.
8. Congrats & Final Thoughts: You have fainted your
avocado with me. So proud of you. I wouldn't be very
happy if you can upload your project in the gallery so that I can give
you my feedback. And other students
can see what kind of result anyone even in beginner can accomplish
with this class. Also, you can follow me on social media and you can find me on Instagram
under my name. And he said that if you post your Chicago sketch,
forget to me, I will be in July to
show your project in men's stories that we hear and see you in my next class with the new project that
we can paint together. Thanks a lot for joining my class and friend of
You, Zhao from Italy.
Elisabetta Furcht, Making Art Accessible
