Gouache Landscapes: A 12-Days Painting Challenge | Beginner friendly class

1. Introduction - 12 Days of Gouache Challenge: I really admire nature for its soothing and healing powers. It gives the assurance that the light comes after the darkest night. Isn't that amazing? If you are a nature lover, then this class is for you. I have curated these beautiful landscape paintings just for you. Hello there. I'm Shannon to ban, an artist and art educator and also an NGO based in Bangalore, India, has always been my passion for as long as I can remember. I used to paint and color a lot as a kid. You can have a look at all my art works. I go by the handle, watercolor. I regularly share about my art, live updates and behind the scenes. If you are interested, you can follow me on Instagram. Lately, I have started loving painting with gouache because I can combine watercolor and acrylic techniques in one single medium. Here I get to experience the beauty of both the mediums. Pens I thought of making this goes landscape challenge that you too can experience the thrill of painting with gosh. This is going to be a 12 day challenge where we will create one painting each day for the next 20 days. Even if you're a beginner and gouache, you can still join the challenge, as I have explained briefly about the required techniques and simple and easier way. Also, I'll be showing you some examples to gauge the subject and break it down into more doable way. All the class projects will be shared in real time so that you can follow along with me. So join me in this talent so that we can together create stunning masterpieces. I cannot wait to see you inside the class. So without any further delay, let's get started. 2. Overview of the Class: Welcome to the class. I'm so glad that you decided to join this tenant and invest your time to level up your skills. Before we begin, I'll walk you through the class syllabus. First. I'll walk you through the art supplies that I'm going to use. Then in the next chapter, I'll be talking about the techniques, the examples of color blocking, layering, and the brush strokes. Then we have a chapter on color and color mixing, where we learn to mix our own colors. I'll show you some examples on how to achieve depth in the element. I'll also talk about the importance of good-quality papers. Finally, we will hop onto the painting challenge. So let's get started. 3. Art Supplies: Let me walk you through the art supplies that I'm going to use for this class. Starting with colors. I'm going to mix my colors on this palette. So it has multiple wells in it. It becomes easier for me to mix the colors. And the colors that I'm using are brushstroke, gouache paint. Don't worry, you don't need all of these colors. I'll be mentioning about each and every color before I use. Next comes the paper. I'm using, Saunders cold press paper. This is basically watercolor paper. The hundred GSM, 100% cotton, cold press texture. You can use any similar cold pressed or hot pressed paper. Next, the brushes that I'm going to use, our graft or more size ten, large brush for the washer. Then they have graphed a move or size seven round brush with pointed tip. I'll be using this brush for the regular strokes. Then I'm using filbert brush, size six. And a size two round brush. Next to my fine liner brushes would be size three by zero and size triple zero. Both of these are how a fine tip, which is ideal for detailing works. Jars of water, one for cleaning the dirty brushes and other one. Take the clean water for the washes. Some napkins, clean, palette, and wipe off the brushes. A water spray bottle to keep the colors moist. And also it can be used for wet Ingo papers. So this is an optional thing. It is really helpful if you have it. If you do not have going, it's okay. I'll be using this hard cover of the book to tape down my paper. While painting. Social tape down the paper, you would need masking tape. I'm using masking tapes of two different sizes. For the sides, I'm using half-inch tape and for the bottom part, I'm using 0, 0, 1 " tape a ping it this way. We'll give it a Polaroid appearance. Next, we would need pencil and an eraser for sketching. Alright, so these are the supplies that I am using. You can go with any alternate supplies that you already have. 4. Techniques + Examples: Alright, so before we start the painting challenge, let me walk you through some of the basic techniques that I'm going to use for this class. I'm going to keep it very simple so that you don't get overwhelmed with a lot of techniques. Let us start with the two widely known techniques, wet on wet and wet on dry. These two techniques will be used across all the projects. In wet on wet technique, wet paints are applied onto the wet layer. So we need to have a wet surface first. As you can see, the colors played really well, creating a soft and blurry background. So this technique is ideal for the base washes or painting the skies. Next one is wet on dry. This means we are applying wet paint on dry paper. As you can see, it creates a nice crispy lines when applied on paper. If you see these ripples, then it is the result of applying wet on dry in multiple layers. So each and every element in all these paintings can be broken down into simpler steps like wet on wet or wet on dry. Painting trees, ripples, or any defined the detailed work can be done using wet on dry. Next is color blocking. Color blocking is nothing but preserving the area for certain shapes or elements. This helps us pain too. The elements layer by layer, e.g. let us consider these mountain ranges. I'll be color blocking it with the base colors that I want so that I can distinguish my elements in the painting. Once I blogged these colors, later, I can come back and add the details that I want. This will just be the base layer for us to identify the color blocks. Now, if you observe this example, I have preserved the grayish or bluish tone for the distant mountains. And for the foreground area, I have a lowish brown and a darker brown for the foreground mountains. So this way I can choose an allowed the colors to specific elements in the painting. Next is layering or detailing. Let's say we have done the color blocking. Then what is the next step? So here, layering or detailing comes into picture. I'll use the same example for this one as well. Layering helps in achieving depth and dimension in the painting. Like it adds shadows and highlights. Here. For these mountains, I'm adding darker color. So when you add darker colors, the lighter color gets highlighted by itself. Also, there is no rule that you have to apply one single color. You can add as many colors you want. Next, we will talk about the brush strokes. I'll be using this craft a more size seven round brush, and it also has a pointed tip. So I can use this pointed tip for painting the trees or any fine lines. It can also be used as medium brush stroke or thicker brush stroke. I'll be using a mix of all these brushstrokes. Next is fine liner brushes. So here I have two brushes for tiny detailing work. One is three by zero and other one is triple zero. So this creates very minute line, which is ideal for detailing work as our painting size will be smaller. So we would need these brushes for tiny detailing work. Then go with any alternative fine liners. The next brush is filbert brush, which means flat brush, which has rounded edges. Or you can even use a flat brush. This is an optional brush door, but you can use this for creating textures. So it is really helpful to get you even textures in the painting. This is called on dry. On dry, which means we are using dry paint on a dry surface. This technique can be used for creating snow-capped mountains. So I have snowy mountains here in some of the paintings. I'll be using the same technique or late. Also, I have used the same technique to create texture in the muddy pathways. Alright, let's talk about the next brush. Here I'm using this makes you would need a larger brush for the washes to perform wet on wet technique. Having a larger brush would be very helpful in covering the base layers very easily. Next, we'll talk about splattering technique. Use any rough paper to cover the area that you do not intend to desktop. They take ample amount of paint in your brush and splatter the paint on desired area. This is very helpful to create some texture or noisy effect. It can also act as filler element in the painting. Now, I'll go back to the layering technique. We had applied one layer of darker color. Now that is dry, we will apply another layer. So as you can see, we have three different colors here. Lighter brown, mid-range of brown, and now it is black. So you can see it has created a nice depth. In the mountain. Chapter, we will talk about the tonal values and how we can make our own shades using the basic colors that we have. 5. Color Study - Tones and Mixes: Tonal value refers to the tonal range starting from darkest all the way till the lightest tone. So I personally approach it in two different ways. One is with the water and the one is with the white color. So let's say we have a color. So I'm taking viridian hue. So the darkest shade will remain theme for both of them. We are using the color directly or with a little bit of water. Okay, let me demonstrate the entire tonal range with water. So as you can see, the color intensity has reduced. We'll keep doing this as long as we get a watery tone. So this diluted version is lightest shade. It has minimal colors in it. 90% of it is water and only 10% is. You can even dilute it by adding water to it. Next one is with the white color. So you're in this approach, you add white in order to make the color lighter. In watercolors, we go with the water method and with acrylics. Whereas in acrylic, white color to make it lighter in tonal value. So that's why it is said that gosh can be painted in both acrylic and watercolor style. So I use a combination of both, and that works perfectly fine for me. I hope you to figure out what works best for you. Okay, back to this. So now you can see we have achieved this lighter tone. The lightest tone in the range has more white and less of viridian hue. Now let's say you want to achieve darkest value of green, then you can add black to it. So I add black to some colors to achieve depth in the painting. If you are painting does not have a right amount of contrasting colors, then it is going to look flat. So make sure you have well-balanced tonal values in your paintings. Okay, So let us discuss about the color mixing part. In this challenge, we are going to use a lot of moody colors. So let's see how we can create our own moody shades without having those readymade colors. Okay, first we will start with moody blues. So I'm going to take ultramarine blue. You can even go with the cobalt blue as well. Thickness, shade and mix it with the burnt amber. And next week been Tiana. And you will get bluish gray color, which is quite moody. Then you can add white or water it down. We will see the lighter color. So you can even add black to make it darker in color. Next, I'm mixing it with the blue, mixing different colors and see what you get. So you might have completely different colors from mine. Next, let us make some greens. So first I'll take olive green. Now to this, if I add yellow ocher, it will give me a yellowish green color. Now suppose you do not have olive green, then you can take sap green, the regular green that you get, and mix a bit of red. So we'll get a similar color. If you add more red, you will get a brownish green. And adding white to it makes it a little opaque and paste. Helen Keller, you can always combine a yellow ocher with any shade of greens. Now for the distant areas that have hazy green colors, you can mix blue with green along with some black. So this will give a distinct hazy appearance. For the darker green color are the shadows of the green color. You can use green color mixed with black. For the grasses. You can use yellow ocher, burnt umber, one sienna, yellow ocher mixed with the burnt umber, black or any similar brown shades. Now if we mix white with this color, we will get a pasty yellow, like a desert sand color. Alright, Next, let us see how we can achieve using layering. Let's say we want to paint or water. So what we will do is we'll first paint the base layer using a lighter color. So here we will go from light to dark. This is also like color blocking. And then adding the layers. You would have to wait for the colors to dry. But I'm being a little impatient. Yeah. I'll just add it on the wet layer itself. So take any darker color. I'm mixing a bit of red onto the same color and apply some horizontal lines depicting the ripples. So you can see it has created this depth in the water. Had we painted it with only one color, it would have looked just flat. Absorb it when you paint. Next time applying black color. I'll be using a similar technique for the painting as well. Next door, let's say we want to paint a mountain. I'm painting this base layer. Next we will apply darker color. This adds a sense of shadows and creates a dimension in the mountain. In the lower part, I'm adding the shadows and upper part has this highlighted green color. Next, we will demonstrate some mountains. Here. I'm painting two layers of mountains. Now this difference in tonal values uses an illusion that the mountains are away from each other. The mountain that is far from the viewpoint appears slightly hazy or dull. And the one that is closer to the viewpoint appears darker. These simple things you need to remember why I love painting. Alright, so let us move on to our painting project. 6. Importance of Papers: In this chapter, I'll discuss the importance of paper quality. Most of you might not get desired results even after following all the instructions in the classes. So paper is the most important thing in the painting. Now I'll take three different papers. First one is diary sheet, which is one-ninth to GSM. Then I have my Saunders 300 GSM, which I use for all the project. Then the third one is by Bruce true mixed media paper, which is 250 GSM. These papers works good if you follow acrylic method. But if you want to combine watercolor techniques, and you should opt for a better paper, which is at least 72 or 300 GSM. Now let's see how it goes. I'm taping it down using masking tape so that it doesn't buckle up. Now I'll apply some water, will show you the capacity of the paper. The paper is wet. Now let's apply some palace. This mixed media paper tends to accumulate the colors at one place. Whereas in Saunders you can see how the color spread equally. Now when it comes to the ivory paper, the initial wash will be good. But as you run the brush over the paper, you can see the fibers coming out. If you are using a watercolor paper of at least two or 300 GSM, then it would be easy for you to work on layers and get the desired result. But with non watercolor papers, you can still go with the acrylic techniques. However, you will not be able to achieve watercolor results for the background washes. In my gouache paintings, I prefer using acrylics and watercolor techniques. So this is the paper that I would recommend if you're following my classes. In the initial days of my gosh journey, I would only follow acrylic technique, which would make me a bit frustrated because I was not able to achieve the beautiful effects of watercolors. I wanted to combine methods of what a pillows and acrylics so that I can bring out the best of both the mediums. Okay, back to our papers. I'm just randomly adding the colors. And you might feel that it is looking fine. But while painting they experience will not be good. So always go for better papers. This is what it happens with the ivory paper. I hope you have got a better idea about the papers. 7. Day 1 - Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Let me show you the color palette for our first class project. First guy, it is going to be a Boolean and crimson. Although you can go with any alternative color. Next, further distant mountains, I'm going to use ultramarine blue and burnt umber. If you do not have ultramarine blue, go with cobalt blue. What are similar? Next for the hills, I'll go with olive green. If you do not have olive green, then you can make sap green plus bond number. It will result in a similar shade. Now for the darker colors in the hill, I'm going to mix black with olive green. Okay. Next comes the next for the mid one, I'm going to use burnt umber and black. For the foremost tail. I'll use white, black, and blue. When you mix these, you'll get a bluish gray color. Next for the reward. I'm going to mix it in with the blue. You can directly use a teal color if you have. For the shadow part in the water, I'm going to mix a bit of burnt umber to these two colors. On the boundaries of the water. I'm going to use black. We'll also need L0 or go. Alright, that's all about the colors. You can go with any alternative colors that you have. Here's a small thumbnail of the painting. You can try this on a small piece of paper before attempting the painting so that you get confident with this object. I'm shading some of these areas to represent the shadows. 8. Day 1 - River through the Hills: Welcome to day one of the challenge. Today we are going to learn to create this painting. So let me explain the elements briefly. There's a peaceful sky and hazy distant mountains in the background. In the mid ground, we have a range of hills, each one with its unique characteristics. Then there is a river flowing through these steep valleys. The color of the water is really refreshing. The boundaries appear darker because of the custard shadows by the hills. And there are some pretty birds in the sky. Okay, let's get started. Apply masking tape on all the sites. On the sides. I'm applying this half-inch deep and I'm using a 1 " masking tape for the bottom part in order to give it polarized APRNs. Alright, let us start with the sketching. Draw the horizon line. I'm just marking the area that will be visible. And we will draw hills on either sides. Draw these overlapping shapes. And then it is the part that is not required. So it is a very simple sketching. You need not add all the details right now. We will do that as and when we paint. Let us move on to the painting process. I'll be going with wet on wet technique. So I'll apply clean water using my larger brush. I'll start with painting the sky. I'll take blue and crimson. Dilute these colors and credit across the sky area. We are using the lightest tonal value. You can do anything you want with the sky. Next, I'll mix some blue, black, white. So this gives all very dark blue color, which is ideal for the distant hills. Also, I'm adding some brown and the darker blues in-between. This adds a sense of variation. Moving on, let us paint the midground or hills. I'm taking olive green plus a bit of brown and blue. So you need a very brownish or darker green color. My paper is still moist, so it is easier to spread the colors. This is why I prefer using watercolor paper so that I can go with watercolor techniques. So I'm basically doing the color blocking right now in the lower part of this hill. Applying not good, like very darker green color. This is closer to black. This will act as the shadows, enhancing the lighter part on the upper area. We will come back to this later once it dries. But for now, you can focus on color blocking. Moving on, let us paint the next adjacent or Hill. I'm going to use yellow ocher. Wait, a bit of blue in it. So this makes a very early dawn and apply it on the main hill that we have here. You may not achieve the same shade. You can even use. White with the bond Dumbo open Tiana. That is also fine. Now, moving on to the foremost hill. I'm using grayish color for this. Currently we're just blocking the colors. Later on. We will add the details and everything or leg. Now, let us move on to paint the water. So I'm using this is like a blue-green color. Also mixing it with a bit of cerulean, blue, and white. So it gives us a cool aqua blue color. Moving on, we will add details in this green area. So I have taken a very darker green color. Here. I'm adding some dots and vertical lines so that it's still an illusion of pine trees. Even some spaces in-between and keep adding these lines. This on the other side as well. So I had some places. I'll add these clustered three shapes so that it looks natural and breaks the uniformity and symmetry in the painting. Notate brown color and repeat the same steps on this main door, hilly area. You can use a darker brown by mixing black to it. And I'd asked shadows in-between. I'm applying some darker shade at the bottom area. Next for the foremost hill, I'm using darker gray color. So you just have to follow the gradation. It goes from light to dark. In the bottom part, I'm adding darker colors. This is to create an illusion that the water is touching the hills. It appears darker. Next, I'm switching to my fine liner brush to make these tiny details on the green colored Hill. I tiny lines depicting the weeks and branches of the trees. Also adding some extra, on the other hand says, well, moving on. Let's add some birds. So I'm using darker gray color. Next, let us paint the shadows in the water. So I'm mixing blue. We read in hue and some burnt umber make kind of Palo. If you have a ready-made color, you can go with that. I'm mixing my own cheered here. Okay. So we will apply this color around the hills. You can go with horizontal brushstrokes here. When we are painting around this main areas, we will apply zigzaggy brushstrokes. The next thing black and apply it as the borders for the hills. And some darker shadows. So we can do it very randomly. Now, apply black in the shadow part of the water. This is a reflection of these hills in the water. And the mid area is reflected by the sky. It is very bright and lit in APRNs. We have to visualize before you paint. Makes them mixing black with the viridian hue. To create a darker turquoise color. Apply it on either sides of the water shadows. In the mid areas, we will apply very minimal amount of these darker lines because it is brighter in color. We do not want darker shadows in the mid areas. These darker lines will only be prominent in the sites. Next, we'll take thick white paint and apply it on the hill here in the midground area. So here we are adding final details on the hills. Next we will add some details onto the green colored hill. So I'm taking black color and applying vertical lines to define it shape. So I think there's a darker color, creates a nice sense of contrast in the overall appearance. We have lighter color, we have mid tone green, and then here we have black color. So this creates a nice balance. So let me add some more darker greens to make the shadow is wider. Now we will take white and apply it on the water to high dose and so highlight and chin in the water. Adding some distant boards, making them very small in order to create the illusion of distance in the painting. So we are done with this painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is how our painting looks like. I hope you enjoyed this project. Do share your class projects under the projects gallery. I would love to see them. I'll see you on day too. Bye bye. Apply this color on the empty spaces. We will leave it here for now and come back to this. Once the layer dries. Next, we will mix cobalt blue and brown. So this gives us a darker moody blue color. I'm adding this on the distinct area. I applied. I need dogs. So that is the detailing work. Again, there's no compulsion to add details in the distant part. You can leave it as it is. 9. Day 2 - Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Before we begin, let us talk about the painting and the colors that will be used. In the top part we have sky and some misty mountains in the mid ground that are again misty mountains, but we can see the trees as well. Towards the foreground, we have this mountain. Since it is closer, it demands some detailing work and also some pine trees in the foreground. Now let us talk about the colors. First guy and the misty mountains. I'll be using Persian blue and burnt umber. Now, if you do not have Persian blue, then you can go with the ultramarine or cobalt blue. And as we move towards the mid ground or mountains, we will add black along with the ocean blue and burnt umber. For the foreground mountains, I'll be using yellow ocher, burnt umber, and black. And there are some pine trees as well. Now, let us draw the thumbnail of the painting. This is just for your understanding. So first, I'll be marking the distant mountains. For the midground or mountains, there will be trees as well. The shape or need not be same. Since it is a part of nature, it can be of any shape and size. And towards the foreground area, we have this mountain, since it is closer to us, so we can see the details as well. There are some pine trees around this area. We will also add some free flying birds in the sky. So yeah, that's all about the thumbnail. 10. Day2 - Misty Mountain Ranges: Welcome to day two. Before we begin, let me explain the elements of the painting. Firstly, we have sky. Then in the distance, far away area, we have misty mountains. And in the mid ground, again, there are more misty mountains mature. They look slightly bigger than the background ones. In the foreground area. We have a closer view of the mountain and some trees around it. Okay, let's get started. I'm going to apply masking tape on all the sides. Make sure all the sites are tightly sealed. Now, let us get started with the sketching. As you can see, there are a lot of distant mountains covered with missed. So I'm roughly mocking the outlines for the mountains. In the foreground. We will have this mountain. This mountain is closer to the viewpoint, so we can see the detail on this. Okay, so let's get started with painting. I'm using my larger brush for applying water. We will go with the wet on wet technique for the base layers. Next, lettuce mix the colors. I'm taking Persian blue and burnt umber, mixed them together. And then we'll start applying the paint from the top part. This will depict the sky. Next, we will take black and mix it with Persian blue. Now, apply this darker blue, suggesting darker clouds in the sky. Moving on, let us start painting the distant mountains covered with the midst. The whitespaces will leave in between, will depict the midst in the painting. Paint as many layer of mountains you want. There isn't no fixed number as such. Next, for the midground area, that is the mountains in the midground area, I'll paint the base layer first with the diluted version of the same color. Applied, different tonal values of the same color, so that we get a nice variation and in the mountain ranges. Next, let us take this darker color and apply on the peak of the mountains. Next, I'm mixing burnt umber Bush in blue plus black. So this is a very darker color. You can even use black. But if you mix these colors together, it will give you undertone of blue and brown color. Here we are painting the next mountain range. Here. I'm intentionally moving my brush in order to get these wobbly strokes. Next with the help of another brush, I'm applying this lighter blue color so that it creates a nice misty effect. Similarly for the previous one also, I'll do the same thing, being some tiny dots depicting the trees on the mountains. Next thing, the same darker color again. And swiftly apply the paint creating another layer of mountain. I'd vertical lines suggesting the tree line. If you notice, I'm painting the lines in different sizes. In order to avoid the uniformity. Right below this, we will paint another layer of mountain. Apply clean water and paint down to create a gradation. This will help us achieve a beautiful misty effect. If you have followed my previous watercolor classes, you might already know how I create misty effect. So here also, I'm using the same technique that is pulling the paint down using clean water. And any kind of trees you want to make the mountains look organic. Audio can keep them flat as well. So we have already painted or three or tongues. Now, let's add the foliage. You just have good dab the brush in order to create the impression of the foliage. We will repeat the same for the lower mountain as well. I'd watch and pull the paint down. So you can already see the misty effect being formed by the paint. Moving on, let us paint the foreground mountain. I'm using a yellow ocher plus one Tiana. And tiny bit of burnt sienna applied on the right side because I'm considering it to be the highlighted side. The other side will be the shadow. On the other side, I'm applying burnt umber mixed with 0 tiny bit of black. So you can see this is very darker brown. And on the lighter side, I'm also adding this darker color. It doesn't have to be exactly the same replica of what I'm creating. You can go ahead with whatever shape you want for your mountain. Now, around these mountains, I'll be painting some pine trees. Just the regular style of pine trees that I create. Straight line and then some zigzaggy shapes apply vertical lines as filler elements here. So whenever you want to have the area filled with trees, you can just add some more lines in between. Next, I'll take black and add some random lines on this mountain. You're so it creates a definition in the mountain, right? I think some more pine trees. So for the highlights, I'm using a yellow ocher in a thicker consistency and just dabbing over the mountain area. Since it is closer to us so we can see all the colors and a tiny details as well. Okay, So we're almost done. Now, I'm going back to this previous mountains and filling in these white areas that we have. And also adding some shapes. It's optional if you want, you can do it or you can leave it as it is. So this is the time when you analyze your painting and see what is missing or how it can be improved. Okay, let's add some free flying birds in the sky. I'm using black, yellow. Also, I have a class on Skillshare where I teach the basics of painting words. You can check that out if you have any difficulties painting the birds. We are done with this. Let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is how our painting looks. Gorgeous, right? With all these misty mountains. If you have painted along with me, go share your class projects under the project gallery. I would really love to see your recreations. 11. Day 3 - Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Before we begin, let me show you all the colors that I'm going to use. For this guy. I'm going to use brownish blue color, which can be achieved by mixing cobalt blue, burnt umber, and a tiny bit of black. You can even go with Persian blue or ultramarine blue. Next for the mountains, I'm going to use burnt sienna, burnt umber, and black, and also some shades of olive green. Next in the foreground we have this grassy line. We'll use a logo and olive green for the same. Then we have a tiny house. For that. We will use black for the roof. You can either go with yellow ocher or mid yellow. Now for the water, you can use cobalt blue and a tiny bit of burnt umber. That's all about the colors. Now let us have a look at the thumbnail. In the faraway area, we have horizon and some mountains overlapping each other. In the mid section, we have water flowing through this part. In the foreground. There is a tiny house. You can draw simple shape as well. There will be friends right behind the house. That's all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting chapter. 12. Day3 - A Hut by the Riverside: Welcome to day three. Before we begin, let me explain the elements of the painting. There is a cloudy sky and distant mountains. There is a river flowing in the mid area through the mountains. And in the foreground we have this grassy lines and a heart. That's all about the elements. Alright, let's get started. I'm going to tape down this paper using a masking tape. For the site. I'm using a half-inch masking tape. Okay, let's move on to the painting part. I'm using a mechanical pencil for sketching. Draw the horizon line. Somewhere on the upper part of the paper. We will start drawing the mountains lab, these mountain shapes so that they appear like they are located closer to each other. Wipe off the extra lines that we don't need. Now it has created an illusion of mountain range and mid valley part. We will resolve it for the flowing water. Then in the lower part, Let's draw a boundary for the foreground area. Inside this area, we will draw a tiny heart or a house. Simple shape house, nothing fancy at all. Make sure you're creating a symmetry on both the side. Draw some windows. Then in the backside we will draw some fence. Okay, now let's get to the painting. Now take clean water and apply above the horizon line. So we are going to paint the sky using wet on wet technique. Let us mix the colors I'm using, or by blue plus a bit of black to make a very darker blue color. You can even use Payne's gray if you have. As you can see, I have applied the darker paints on the upper area. For the area closer to the horizon. I'm applying these tiny strokes depicting the clouds. You need not achieve the exact same result as mine. Just play around with colors and how fun. You can try and use other colors as well. There is no restriction as such. In my painting. My idea is to have darker clouds on the top part. And the word is the horizon. It will be slightly lighter in color. Okay, Let us move on to pain, distant mountains. So you can directly take been sienna or one number. I'm mixing the colors by myself, so don't get confused with this. So the color that I mixed yours looks similar to one Tiana. I played on distinct mountains. It is really helpful if your brush has a pointed tip so that you can paint these tiny areas. Alright, so we have painted all these mountain ranges. You can pause the video if you need more time. Moving on, let us paint the river water. So I'm using or throughline and cobalt blue mix of these two colors plus a bit of white. You can use any blue that you live. Gently apply the paint around these mountain areas. If the mountain layer is still wet, there are chances that the color might bleed into the water area. So be very careful. So this will be like a wet layer for the water area so that we can paint another layer of wet paint onto the same layer. I hope you are getting my point. The reason behind doing this is to read in the whiteness of the paper, to depict it as the highlight on the river water. Next I'm mixing a bit darker blue and apply it on the sides of these mountains. So as you can see, I'm applying this darker blue around this mountain area. And also in the mid part, creating a sense of ripple or a moment in the water. Adding another layer of blue here. And this time it will be a bit darker than the previous shade. This creates a sense of depth in the painting. Your painting will not look flat if you create multiple layers, adding depth and dimension to it. Next we will make so one Dumbo, less black. Achieve darker brown color. Apply this darker brown at the foot of the mountain, where it is partly submerged in the water. I'm adding these darker paint to create texture kind of effect in the mountain. So next, I'll take filbert brush or you can even take a flat brush. So clean this brush, wipe off all the extra water. So we'll go darker brown color in this brush and apply it in upward direction. And apply the paints in upward direction. So as you can see, I'm gently adding some extra to the mountain. The idea is to have an uneven appearance on the mountain surface. Next, I'm switching to my size two round brush. And we'll take black color and paint around these mountain areas. We will paint these tiny rocks partly submerged in the water. As many as you want. Okay, so we will leave it here for now. Let us move on to the foreground elements. So here I would be using yellow ocher plus olive green. As you can see, I'm applying both the colors. Having a variation of L0 and green mixed, mix, olive green plus black omega darker green color, and apply it on this foreground area. This creates darker nipped in the ground level. Next, we'll move on to pin the house. So I'm using a yellow ocher for the roof. You can use any color of your choice. Next, lightest spin the walls. So I'm using dark and concentrated black. Also, I'm using a fine liner, which is size two round brush for better precision. Because I don't want to paint outside the walls. You can either paint a very simple house or you can add details just like how I'm doing right now. Switching to my fine liner brush for this tiny line. Now, a darker green or black and swipe your brush more Li. This kind of breaks the symmetry in the new pane windows. Next, let us add some dimension in the roof area. So I'm adding these tiny dots and lines. Also adding shadows under the roof. And the color I'm using is darker, yellow ocher, which means I've added a bit of black to it. Adding tiny lines and dots on the roof. Effect. In the foreground area. I'm adding this darker green color, grasses. This prevents the painting from appearing flat. I'll add these lines and connect them together, making a fence. Then we will add some rocks. We will add some free flying birds in the sky. So this step is optional. Some people do not like to have words in their painting. So it's up to you. If you want. You can add them or leave it as it is. Now moving on, we would need to add some ripples in the water. I'm using a fine liner brush and adding some horizontal lines depicting the ripples closer to the foreground. Because since it is closer, we can see the details or the ripples, Right? So yeah, you can use diluted blue color similar to that of the background. Now, let us add some dark colored shadows in the ground area. So you just have good nap narco green or black color on the grassy part. Okay, So we are done with this painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Go share your projects. I know the projects gallery. I'll see you in the next step. Until then. Bye bye. 13. Day 4 - Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Before we begin, let us have a look at the colors that we would need. So you can take any blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, and mix it with a tiny bit of burnt umber. Get a moody blue color. For the water. We will use the diluted version of the same color. For the dried prices around the lake, we will use yellow ocher, burnt umber, and also black. In for the heart PR. I'm going to use scarlet red. You can go with any alternative red color. That's all about the colors. Now let us move on to draw the thumbnail. In the upper half, we have horizon line, and then below that we have this distant mountain. Then there is the stream line. Then we draw a small hut. Then the boundaries of the leg. So you already have dried grasses and or some Bart Lisa moist or grasses in the water. Yeah. That's all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to painting chapter. 14. Day 4 - Gloomy day : Welcome to day four. Let me quickly explain the elements of the painting. So here we have this clear sky and a distinct mountain. Then there is a tree line. Then we have lake in the center and around the boundaries of the lake. That is a heart and some partly submerged land and some grasses. So that's all about the composition of the painting. Alright, let us start by taping the masking tape. Now, let us start the sketching part. I'm going to roughly mark the composition of the painting. So draw the horizon line in the upper half of the paper and we will mark the boundaries for the land. The major part is for the leap. And then we have the boundary for the land. And some parties are most grassy area. Then above the horizon line we have mountain and some treeline. Closer to the horizon line, we will have a tiny hut. So yeah, that is pretty much it about the sketching. We will add rest of the details while painting. Now let us move on to the painting part. So I'll be applying clean water using my larger brush. This is because I want to go with wet on wet technique for the base layers. Now, let us mix the colors. So here I'm mixing a low aka plus a tiny bit of burnt sienna. Along with that, I'll also makes ocean blue plus bit of black for the darker blue color. So these two shapes will mix and keep it ready. I'm applying this NACA, bluish black alert on the sky part. Also apply the same color for the lake water. And on the boundaries of the lake and towards the foreground area, I'm applying a bit darker color. Moving on. Aco, ocean blue, one Dumbo, and a bit of black. Let's white. White because we want to make it a little opaque. Now we will apply this for the distant treeline, since it is away from the viewpoint and more towards the horizon. So we're trying to make it a bit hazy and less detail. So you already, you can try to create the impression of trees. Makes sure that you are leaving a tiny white space for the heart. Next we'll paint this mountain, which appears very hazy. So you can use any blue collar. Makes knock up closer to black. Now with this darker tones, we will paint some trees in the distant area. And dab the pointed tip of your brush vertically so that it creates the impression of trees. So this way it will be easy for you to create these shapes, right? So go with whatever feels easier or comfortable to you. Next, I'm going to take this brownish, yellow color that we mixed earlier. So you can mix burnt umber and yellow ocher or yellow ocher plus burnt sienna. Anything that you'd like in your painting. So I'm applying this on the boundaries and also on the partly submerged area. My paper is currently a bit moist, so it is easier for me to apply this color. If your paper has dried, then you can maybe spray some water or apply some water using a larger brush. If the paper is not moist, then there are chances that you will get very hard edges and that might not look very appealing. Next, I'm making this darker brown color mix and applying underneath these grassy areas. So this will act as the shadows of the grassy part and also adds a sense of depth and dimension to the painting. Next, we will be adding some grasp layers in this area. So like I said, this is a grassy lined by the lakeside. We're going to have a lot of grasses here. Use a fine liner brush for better precision. If you're using a thicker brush, you will end up getting thicker strokes, right? Also apply a mix of brown and black grass blades so that we have a nice combination of lighter and darker colors. The objects in the foreground will appear slightly larger than the objects in the midground area because it is closer to the viewpoint. You will. So when we are approaching the midground area, we will draw a slightly smaller grasses. Now, black or darker brown color, and swiftly apply some brushstrokes in the foreground area. Towards the foreground, I'm applying some zigzaggy brushstrokes using brown color. So adding these random textures acts as the filler elements in the painting. Again, applying some black brush strokes at random areas. Moving on, let us add some ripples in the water. So I'm mixing motion low, wide and one number to form the seed. Now, let us add some horizontal brushstrokes. I don't the boundaries of the leg. This acts as the shadows near the boundaries. Moving on, let us paint the heart. So I'm going to use red color. Will only paint the walls and leave the roof as it is. I'm using black for the door and the window. I'm also towards the horizon. I'm applying this black color in order to create a separation between the sky and the water. Next to using my fine liner brush, I'm adding some tree trunks from the lower part, some darker color and on the boundaries of the lake abuse some dimension. Now it's time to add some free flying birds in the sky. I'm going to paint very tiny birds. Also. I had some dotted lines near the horizon depicting the shadow of the trees. So take a rough paper and cover the upper part. On the lower part, we are going to splatter some alos, mostly darker brown color, and splatter the paint near the grassy area. This creates a very raw and natural effect in the grasses. Alright, so we're done with this painting. I hope you enjoyed this session. So this is how our finished artwork looks like. Mary Moody and gorgeous, right? Would it be endings are my favorite. If you have painted along with me or if you are intending to paint, then share it under the projects gallery. I would love to see your works. Okay. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye bye. 15. Day 5 - Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Before we begin, let me walk you through the colors that are required for the sun and the sky. We are going to use mid L0 and Scarlett. And for the mountains. I'm going to mix made L0 and burnt sienna. And pushing for domestic effect and the darker shadows in the mountain. I'm going to mix Persian blue and black and some burnt umber. For the ground. I'll use colored red, burnt sienna, and yellow ocher. For the trees. I'll be using black color. And also for the sunlit effect, I'm going to add some burnt sienna on the trees. So these are the colors that I'm going to use. Next, let us have a look at the thumbnail. Here. On the right side, we have the right sun in the sky. And there will be Mountains which will be sunlit. And in the lower half, we have the ground level. The ground will be reflected with the sunlight. And there are some pine trees. And the shadows of the pine trees. 16. Day5 - Sunlit Mountains & Trees: Welcome to day five of the class. I'll walk you through the composition now. So here we have bright sky with glowing sunlight. In the distant area, there are mountains and it has bright sunlit effect due to the presence of sun. At the foot of the mountain that is Misty APRNs their arteries and the shadow is being tested on the ground. So that's all about the composition. Let us start the painting now. Let's get started with the painting. I'm going to apply masking tape on all the sides. Once you have aimed down the paper, ran your fingers on all the sides will make sure it is tightly sealed. Now let us mark the composition of the US up until now in the lower half of the paper, I'm marking this ground level. Then I'll mark some vertical lines for the trees. So that is it for now. But I stopped the details we will add as and when we paint. Okay, so let's get started. I'm going to apply clean water throughout the paper. Okay. I'm going to follow wet on wet technique. Let's start the painting. I'm going to paint the sky first. So here I'll take a low and paint or circular shape. Now take clean water and soften the inner part. As chi has a bright sun. Next door, it red and yellow mix it together to form an orange shade. I played around the sun. Since we are going with wet on wet technique, it is easier to blend the colors. Now for the rest of the sky, we will apply diluted shades of red and yellow. Moving on, let us paint the distant mountains. The mountains that I'm going to paint will be sunlit in appearance. So first, I'm applying this L0 ACO midtone consistency of yellow color. Next big burnt sienna and mix it with yellow. Apply it right below that yellow color. The next color would be pushing blue. So when we apply person Lou over the yellow tone, we will get a greenish tone. Do not panic when this happens. I have done it intentionally to get a mix of bluish greenish tones. Next, I'm trying to create a misty effect, the foot of the mountain area. So here I'm using a diluted black color. Next I'll apply another layer. So I'm applying mix of Persian blue and black. So when we darken the upper areas, no misty area automatically gets highlighted. Also applying another layer of a low tone when densify the sunlit effect and darker colors in domestic area so that you create a nice variation and it doesn't look flat. Next, let us makes bone Dumbo, and this will give us 0. Louise Brown don't apply this shade right below the misty area on the ground level. Now, I'm dragging the paint in upward direction. So that it creates the illusion of trees. Next day, black and apply it right below this ONE that we have applied. Again, drag the colors in upward direction. So here we have a mix of brown and black layer. Next I'm going to mix the red with Montana. So we are trying to create a sunlit effect on the ground as well. In the lower part, I'm applying some brown shades. So we have painted the ground. Now in order to create some depth and slope effect, I'm going to add some shadows using a darker brown color. Not worry about the shape. You just have good dab your brush and create some horizontal strokes. No paper is still moist. Okay. So now on this moist area, I'm going to paint artery. Since the paper is not fully dry, we will get a blurry effect in the tree. Let us paint another tree. I am using the simple zigzag shapes to create the pine trees. No fancy trick as such. Okay, now let us give some sunlit effect on the trees as well. So I'm taking one Tiana and a bit of red and adding on the branches of these binaries. Adding them on the outer ends will create that sunlit effect. Then, in order to create that fuller effect, I'm going to add some vertical lines. As filler elements. You can add as many straight lines as you want. No strict number as such. I loved the paper to dry completely. Moving on, we will paint some more pine trees, which are closer to the foreground. The previous layer of pine trees where further away from this point. Moreover, this will be done using wet on dry technique. The background is completely dry. We will get crisp and neat. Raise your paint the branches in irregular and random way. Make sure that you're not creating symmetry on both the sides. I'm taking my time to add these tiny little branches and leaves. This will help it look more organic. So you can add as many pine trees as you want. There's no specific number in my mind. Okay, So we are done with these pine trees. Now, let us paint the shadows. Since those Andres or from behind, the shadows will be on the opposite direction. So let's paint the shadows using darker color. Here. I'm using water spray to water it in the foreground area. If you do not have water spray, then you can gently apply a coat of water. Applying the paint on wet area helps spread really well. You can see how the colors are spreading on the ground area. Now, take a yellow ocher and apply over the brown areas. This creates a vibrant sunlit effect on the ground as well. Alright, let us add some birds in the sky. You can use black for the other parts of the sky and for the areas near the sun rays. I'm going to use brown color to create sunlit effect. Also, adding the brown color on the pine tree as well. The reason is same, creating sunlit effect. Next time adding some actual on the ground level. So apply some black or darker brown color. Hi, I drink some more voids in the sky. Alright, so we're done with the painting. Let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is how the painting looks like. Isn't this gorgeous? I hope you enjoyed creating the sunlit painting with me. Louis, share your paintings with me. I would love Odisha them. I'll see you in the next painting session. Until then, bye bye. 17. Day 6 : Color Pallete+ Thumbnail: Let us have a look at the colors required for this painting. For this guy, I'm going to be using. Once you are non scarlet, you can even go with bone number. Now for the trees, I'll be using these four colors, burnt sienna, burnt umber, Scarlett, and L0, and black further tree shapes. Next for the mountains, I'll be using black and cobalt blue. You can also use white for the snowy patches here. But I leave the blank area for the snow. Now let us draw the thumbnail to understand the elements. I'm very in the main area. We have horizon line. Then we will resolve the area for the snowy ground. Next we have the treeline. And behind that is the mountain. So below the horizon is the water. And we can see the reflection of the elements in the water. In the foreground, there are some rocks. That's all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting chapter. 18. Day6 - Autumn Reflection: Welcome to Basics of the class. Before we begin, let me walk you through the composition. In this painting, we have mirror image of the elements in the water that are partly or snow-capped mountains. And same is the reflection. Then we have trees, which gives autumn wipes with all the orange shades. In the mid section we have snow-capped ground area. And then in the foreground, there are some rocks. So that's all about the composition. Let's get started with the painting. I'm dipping down the paper using masking tape. In the bottom part, I'll be applying to half-inch masking tape instead of one one-inch tape. Run your fingers over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Okay, so now let us get to the sketching part. I'm drawing a straight horizontal line in the center. Then resolve the area for the snow part. This will be the area for the treeline. Behind this will be the snowy mountains. The same thing for the reflection as well, because this is the mirror image right? Now let us start the painting. I'll apply water above the mountain area. And same in the reflection as well. So we will paint the sky first. It goes scarlet red and mix it with Monte Alban, Dumbo will get a brownish red color. Apply some angular strokes in the sky as well as in the water. Moving on, we will paint the tree line section. Apply water to perform wet on wet technique. It's okay if your water is with dirty because anyway, we are going to paint some brown colors you're in the mid section. Make sure you leave this tiny white gap for the snow. Thick L0 and mix it with scarlet red. This will result in an orange shade. Now take this color in medium consistency and apply on the wet area. Do not apply the paint on the mid area. This will be resolved for the snowy part. Next we will paint another layer. Now, the bond Dumbo and scarlet red. Apply this shade on the lower part of the tree line. Repeat the same for the reflection as well. Next we will paint the third layer. So take black, one, Dumbo, and scarlet red. So this will form a darker brown color. Apply this on the lower part. So now you can see there are three layers in this treeline. One is a lowish and then we have reddish tone. And the last one is the darker brown or closer to the black sheep. Being vertical lines depicting though tree shapes. Okay, so we will leave it to you all for now. Moving on, we will paint the mountain. So take cobalt blue and mix it with black. We will get a very darker blue color. Make sure your brush does not have too much paint. Brush, remove the extra paint and or glided on the mountain area hard to achieve this snowy extra. So as you can see, we have achieved this snow-capped mountain effect. Repeat the same thing for the reflection as well. In case you're not able to achieve these whitespaces, then you can apply white go screens separately. Next, you can apply black color for the darker shadows in the mountains. Next, we'll take black and apply on the boundaries of the land. And this node, this creates depth in those snowy area. And with this black, I'm adding some horizontal lines depicting the ripples in the water. Now let us spend some pine trees aren't straight lines and then add branches. You can even use zigzaggy strokes to paint these pine trees. My brush has pointed tip, so I'm able to paint these pointy branches. You can go with any brush that is comfortable to you. Moving on, let us add some more depth in the snowy part. Two, I'll apply clean water and then apply diluted cobalt blue. For the shadow and depth effect in the snowy area. I'm using black color to define the shape of the mountain. So this will be an optional step. Now, I'll be adding a pine tree. So after painting the trunk, I have switched to my fine liner brush. So I'll only be painting the branches with normally use. Add some vertical lines in the treeline area. Act as the filler elements. Moving on, we will add some tiny rocks in those snowy area. Just paint some dots to create the impression of rocks. Add as many pine trees you want. It's totally up to you. Now. Been some rocks in the foreground area apply any darker color first. So this is the base layer. Next, we will apply some highlights using lighter colors. I'm using lighter blue color yellow. Lastly, we will add some free flying birds in the sky and also paint the reflection in the water. Alright, so we are done. Now, let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Bushehr, your class projects under the projects gallery. I'll see you in the next chapter. Until then, happy painting, Bye bye. 19. Day 7- Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Hello there. Let us talk about the colors that I'm going to use in this class project. For the green color that you see here. I have mixed varied in Persian, blue and black. I'll be using this in different tonal values. Now for the pathway, I'm going to use burnt umber, black for the tree foliage on the left side. I'll be using black color for the lighter tones there. I'm going to mix viridian hue, version blue and black. Now for the water droplets here on the sides of the foliage, I'll be using white. Now, let me show you the thumbnail part. In the upper half, almost around 60% of the paper. I'm going to draw this pathway. You can just draw this C shape. On the distinct area. We will have some trees. The foreground trees will be much darker when compared to the distance or the background trees. On the side. That is the left side, we have the tree foliage covering the frame. That's all about the colors and the thumbnail. Now, let us move on to painting chapter. 20. Day 7 - Atmospheric Pathway: Welcome to day seven of the class. Now, let us discuss the composition of the painting. In the distant area, we have a foggy atmosphere and there is a pathway heading towards the foreground. Some pine trees in the mid ground area, and some tree foliage covering the sides of the frame. That's all about decomposition. Now, let us set up the paper for the painting. I'm taping down the paper on all the sides using masking tape. Once you tape the paper, just run your finger on the sides so that it is tightly sealed. Now let us mark the composition of the painting. So I'll first draw the horizon line. And from there I mark the pathway. Draw a C shape to depict the pathway. Another set of lines to suggest the boundaries. Alright, so this is enough for now. The rest of the details we will add as we paint. Okay, so let's get started. I'm applying clean water throughout the paper. We will be following wet on wet technique. Hence, I'm wetting the paper. No lightest mix the colors. I'm going to take viridian hue and Persian blue. Now, let us mix a darker turquoise color. I'm taking pushing blue, black and viridian hue. Now a paper is wet. So I'm going to apply thicker paints on the left side, right next to the pathway. As very approaching towards the right. Apply very minimal amount of paint. Apply the paint fully on the left side and leave some gap for the pathway. Now, drag the colors in the upward direction to create a graded effect. These graded colors will help us. Hu of foggy atmosphere, bit of white sky. No, while the paper is still wet, we will paint some pine trees. This will result in a blurry appearance. Paint pine trees of different sizes. You can see how foggy it is turning out. Apply darker paints at the boundaries of the pathway. Next, I'm going to mix black with the existing color. And all will apply on the boundaries of the pathway. Now we'll apply it on the left side as the base for the tree foliage. Moving on, let us paint though. I'm mixing burnt umber and a tiny bit of black. This will create a very darker brown color. Apply this shade on the pathway, go with medium consistency paint. Since we are applying on a wet surface that is wet on wet technique, it is going to appear much lighter when it dries. Apply some C-shaped strokes. Now on the boundaries, I'm applying black color. I love this layer to dry completely. You can even use a blow dryer. Alright, the paper has dried completely. Now let us move on to paint the foreground element. I'm mixing black in consistency. Now let us paint the pine tree foliage. I'd curved shapes. Then I use. Next we will mix slightly lighter tonal value by mixing a tiny bit of white and green to black. Use this tone for the midground. I'm sorry that my hand is covering the food page, but you can just paint the pine tree shapes. The left side will be covered with darker trees, and the right side will be brighter. Now, let's paint or darker tree on the right side as well. I'll paint the tiny tree in the distinct area as well. Now, let us add another layer of foliage. On the left side. I'm using my size two round brush with a paper black paint. So we will paint some pine tree branches here. Earlier we painted the base layer so that we don't have to add all the details. Now this is the final one. And that's how the layering works. First we paint the base layer. Then we add or fewer final details. Pain some more branches outside of the tree structure so that it appears on the pathway and also on the sky part. Next I'll draw some branches on the right side. The three parts of these branches are outside the frame. Next, using black color, we will define the boundaries of the pathway. So just apply some dotted lines. Next to create a sense of texture on the pathway. We will use the dry brush technique. So take a damp brush and some paints as well, and glided over the pathway. This will create a rough texture on the pathway. Next, ACO, thick white paint and apply it on the tree on the left side. This will act as the water droplets in the three branches. Now, I'll add some final details. Using my fine liner brush. I'm painting some pine tree branches, defining the brown part. Now let us add some free flying birds in the sky. Let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is the final look. I totally love the atmospheric vibe of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting along with me. Do share your class projects under the projects gallery. I would love to re-share your work. I'll see you in the next chapter. Until then, bye bye. 21. Day 8 : Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Let us talk about the colors that I'll be using for the class project. For this guy and the distant mountains, I'll be mixing cobalt blue and a bit of burnt umber to get a moody blue color. Now for this, so snow-capped mountain, I'll use black for the darker colors. For the Green Mountain. Yeah, I'll be mixing cobalt blue, and yellow ocher. For the darker shadows on that. I'll add black. Now for the brownish mountains, I'll be mixing one number plus scarlet red for the darker shadows. Again, black for the highlight here, you can use white. Now for this yellowish mountain, I have mixed yellow ocher and white as the base. For the shadows. I'm mixing one tamper with a yellow ocher. And for the darkest shadows, I'll be adding black to brown mix. Next for the road, I'm going to use a mix of black, cobalt blue, and white. Then for the river water, I'll be mixing blue gradient you and wipe. You can also use steel as an alternative for the birds. I'll be using black. That's all about the palace. Next, let us talk about the thumbnail of the painting. I'll start with the midground mountains, so that I have a base for the distant mountains. So once we have this area, we will also add the distinct mountains. We have added the mountain on the site. Now we can add the road. And then this area is for the river water. We can see some parties are most rocks. That's all about the thumbnail. Now let us move on to the painting chapter. 22. Day 8 - Vivid Mountain Ranges : Welcome to day eight of the class. Before we start, let me walk you through the composition of the painting. We have a very subtle sky, and then there are some distant mountains. Each one has different colors and textures in it. Then there is a road. And on the other side, we have a river flowing to the mountains. And there are birds flying in the sky. Let's get started. I'm taping down the paper using masking tape. Once you apply though, you run your fingers on all the sides just to make sure it is tightly sealed. Now let us start the sketching. I'm mocking the horizon line somewhere in the center. I'll first draw the distinct mountain. Then I'll be drawing the mountains that are in the mid ground and which are closer to the foreground. This will be the road. And then we have a ground section in-between. You can pause the video and take your own time to make the sketch. I looked at a picture of final painting in the resource section. You can take that as a reference. Drawing. Another mountain range in the midground area. So the stream that you see here will be the reward flowing through the mountains. And I'll draw some tiny rocks on the rewards dream. That's all about the sketching. Now let us move on to the painting part. We'll start with the sky. Apply what? My water is a bit dirty, but that's okay. I'm going to apply cobalt blue mixed with a bit of burnt umber. I'm keeping the sky very subtle. Moving on, we will mix the colors for the mountains. I'll take medium consistency of cobalt blue and a bit of burnt umber. Applying this as the base layer for the mountain on the left, I leave the upper part of the mountain as is, to apply another shade. Next, I'll lighten the color by adding white. So this is the color for the farthest mountain. Next time, adding some dots and lines using darker colors to create a sense of depth and dimension. If it is plane, then it is going to look flat. So just add some random lines and dots. For the next mountain range, I'll be creating a snowy texture. I'll be applying some lines, leaving some spaces in between, and also gliding my brush to create this snowy effect. Also add some darker blue or black in-between to highlight the whiter part. Next, I will mix cobalt blue, and yellow ocher. This will give a greenish color. And I'll apply this on the empty space that they had left earlier. Also, I'm taking some yellow ocher directly and applying it on this. So now we have a mix of three different colors. Mix. I'm going to take bond Dumbo, and mix it with red. I'll apply this on the mountain in the right side. Next, make so white with a yellow ocher. I leaped like this on the left side mountain. So right now we're painting the base layer for these midground month binge. I'll also apply the same color in the middle area. Next, let us take black color and apply the bottom of this mountain. This will act as the shadow for this mountain. As we move towards the upper part of the mountain, we will add tiny lines. Next we will add darker colors. On the brown mountain. I'm baking black. And in the lower part, I'll add the boundaries. Then for the upper pipe, I slightly add these tiny lines. I think this brown on another mountain. So painting these mountains with different colors as the base layer helps us distinguish and paint each mountain separately. Next, we will paint the river water. So I'm going to mix it all in blue, viridian hue, and bit of white. You can even take it a color. So take this color mix in a very diluted form and apply the paint, leaving some white gaps in between. Moving on, we will paint the road, mix white, cobalt blue, and a bit of black. This should look like a bluish gray color. Apply the paint on the boundary first and then apply water inside this area. Next, we'll go back to the river water. And on the boundaries of this reward, I'll apply darker concentrated paint and also apply it on the media areas. Okay, Next, let us make SO brown. Hello. This should be a mid-range brown. Apply this on the left side. The mountain ways. We'll apply some dots and lines creating a sense of texture and depth in that mountain. There is no particular pattern that I'm following. I'm just randomly adding these lines. On the mid part as well. We will draw these zigzaggy lines coming towards the foreground. Next, mix bond Dumbo with black and apply around the boundaries of the road. And also around the boundaries of the water. I'm randomly adding some dots and lines in this section to create a sense of depth and or illusion of shadows. You can even glide your brush to create a textured effect. Next we'll move on to the left part. Here also, I'll do the same thing, adding these lines, creating a sense of shadow and depth. Right now, it might look a bit darker, but when it dries, it is going to appear a little lighter in color. So we are following layering technique. That is, we are painting details on the base color block area. Now let us add some rocks in the river water. On the sides. I'm adding tiny dots. Now we will go back to other mountain ranges and add some details wherever required. I'll go back to this green one and add some black lines. When the paints are all dried, we can see the actual appearance of the painting. So we will get a better understanding of where we need the shadows and the highlights are going to go. You can add the darker and lighter colors at the end. I'm roughly sliding my brush on the mountain ranges to create the texture defect. Next, with the help of lighter colors, I'm going to add the highlights. So with the help of white or lighter color, you can add though, these highlights on the mountains. So here I'm defining the shape of the road. Now let us add some birds in the sky. If you are drawing bigger size, but that means they are closer to w point. And if the board Scipio smaller, they are further away from the viewpoint. In this green colored mountain. I realized that after drying, the shadow appears a bit dull. So I'm adding more black. Alright, so we're done with the painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your class projects. The projects gallery. I'll see you in the next class project. Until then, bye bye. 23. Day 9: Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Let us discuss the colors that we would need for the class. For the sky, I'm going to use made a law in diluted form. For the mountains. I'll be using black and cobalt blue for the white snow. I'll preserve the white color of the paper. Next for the road, I'll mix black, blue, and white. For the tree line, I'll be using these five colors. Yellow, Scarlett, burnt umber, burnt sienna, and black separately. So as you can see that a lot of colors here. And for the tree trunks, I'm going to mix black and white to make a gray mix for the words I'll be using black. Next, let us discuss the thumbnail of the painting. So somewhere in the lower part we have this horizon, line and vanishing point. From there, we have this reward and treeline. In the background. There will be distant mountain which will be covered with snow. We have three trunks and branches spread across the treeline. The lower part will be darker due to the presence of shadows. So yeah, that's all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting chapter. 24. Day 9 - Road through the Trees: Welcome to day nine of the challenge. Let us discuss the composition of the painting. We have a yellow sky and a snow-capped distant mountain. There is a tree line and a road going towards the horizon, and it vanishes at that point. The trees, your autumn wipes. And there are birds flying in the sky. So that's all about the composition. Let us start by taping down the paper on your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Alright, now let us start the sketching. I'll be marking the basic composition. Somewhere around the lower half of the paper. Margot vanishing area for the record. And from this point I will connect two lines towards the foreground. So this will be the road in the painting. Then a mocking the area for the treeline. The reward. And the tree is moving further away from the viewpoint. So as it goes away, it tends to appear smaller. In the distant area, we have mountains. These mountains will be snow-capped. Okay, so that is it with the sketching, rest of the details we will add as we paint. So let's get started. I'm taking my size seven round brush and I'll wet the paper for wet on wet technique. You can either go with the water spray or you can use a large brush. Now, let me start with the sky. So I'm applying a load for this guy. Apply very diluted paints as you move towards the horizon. Cobalt blue, black. We'll mix these two colors to form a darker blue hue. Now, I'm going to paint the snow-capped mountains colors with damp brush and gently glide the brush to create this texture. Make sure to leave some white gap in-between that will suggest the snow in the mountains. First, we are adding that extra with lighter color. Then we will add some concentrated paint. Okay, So we are done painting this snow-capped mountains. Next, lightest spin the road. I'll be using cobalt blue, and black. Apply this mix in medium consistency. Okay, next we'll take once Yana and mix it with a darker mix we have. So it will create brownish, blue mix. I'm going to apply this on the boundaries of the road. Next, big black, and we will apply second year on the road. We're trying to depict this as a concrete road. So let's make it very dark. Notice my brush strokes here, I'm not fully applying the paint. You can see some tiny gaps in-between the brushstrokes. Okay, Next we will paint the tree foliage. So I'm mixing red, yellow. This will give an orange shade. But that makes, I'm adding a bit of burnt sienna. Now, apply this on the top part of the foliage area. Here. I'm also dabbing my brush on the sky, but this will be the loose foliage. Next, lettuce mix darker brown color for the shadows of the foliage. In the lower part, I'm going to apply this darker brown color. This will be the base part. Later on we can add the details. Next, I'm going to mix scarlet, red, burnt sienna, and yellow. Orange-ish red color, which we will apply in the midsection of the treeline. So here we are trying to achieve upgraded effect on the crown part of the trees. I'm adding these loose foliage using the tip of my brush. So here, there is no fixed shape as such, you can randomly add tree leaves. Next, let us makes red, yellow, and brown color will make it a little darker. I'm mixing a bit of black to it. Alternatively, you can use any darker brown color. Now, we're going to add the darker shadows in the foliage part. We already have lighter tones, right? So now let us add this darker foliage. This will make the tree look organic. I'm using my size seven round brush with pointed tip, so it is easier for me to create these leafy shapes. Paint leaves off different shapes and sizes. Also tried to read in the orange color in the background for the highlights in the tree line. Next we will add some more black to the current mix. So this will become darker brown color. We will apply this on the bottom part of the artery line. Shadows in the foliage. Next, we'll take a yellow and a little bit of red. And I'm dabbing the brush to create these lighter colored foliage. Moving on, we will mix a bit of white with the current mix and then apply it in the middle of the tree foliage. This will act as the brighter colored leaves in the foliage. I'll apply some more darker colored leaves to create a sense of nipped in the foliage. Next, I'll be mixing white and a tiny bit of black to make gray mix. With this gray mix, we will be adding three tongues. Indoor tree line. Use a fine liner brush. We will paint these trunks on either side. As we move towards the horizon line. Though size or the height of the trunk decreases. Because of the rule of two perspective, the elements that are closer to the viewpoint appears larger and the ones that are far away from the viewpoint APR smaller. Next time adding some branches on this tree trunks so you can paint them in any shape. I'm leaving some gaps in the middle of the trunks. That is to create an illusion that it is covered with the foliage. And it suggests that the tree trunk is partly visible. Moving on, we will take a black color and apply this on the road. To add shadows of these trees. You can glide your brush in order to achieve this extra effect on road. Next, I'm switching to my fine liner brush and using black color, I'll be adding some tiny twigs and branches at the crown part of the trees. I'll also be adding some trunks and branches at the lower part of the tree line. Alright, moving on, we will create a pattern kind of effect on the tree trunk. I'm adding these tiny lines on the gray trunks that we have painted. I think these lines creates an organic impression in the tree trunk. Next, I'll add some more tree trunk using black color. I had some branches randomly on the top and the lower part. It's totally up to you. Now let us add some highlights on the tree trunk. I'm using white color and applying it on the sides of these are tree trunks. So now we have a mix of shadow and highlight. Adding some leaves in the foreground, trees. Moving on, let us add some highlighted foliage. I'm using a low. I just dab it on the upper part where I have created these tweaks. Next, let us add some details on the road. So I'm adding the boundaries using gray color. I'll also paint a divider in the center. Next with the same color. Paint some dots near the boundaries of the road and the tree line. Next, I'll be doing the same thing with black. This creates an impression of noise and some texture on the ground level. Now let us spend some boards in the sky. Now, the graph paper covered on the upper part of the painting, some gray or white paint on the brush to sprinkle the paint. So you have the splattered paint all over the road and the bottom area. Next, I'll do the same thing with black color. All right, so we're done with the painting. Now, let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your class project under the projects gallery. I would love to reshare your works. I'll see you in the next chapter. Until then. Bye bye. 25. Day 10: Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Before we begin the painting chapter, let us discuss the colors that will be required for the sky. I'll be using yellow ocher with a mix of burnt umber and black. For the pathway, I'll be using black in diluted and thicker consistency. And I'll also use the same for the trees as well. Next, for the grassy area on either side of the pathway, we will go with a yellow ocher, burnt umber, scarlet, and black. So these are the colors. Now let us have a look at the thumbnail of the painting. We will draw a pathway in the center. And there will be a slopey area on either side of the pathway. When we will have some pine trees on the side. So you will have partly visible three branches. The road we'll have some rough texture. So yeah, that's all about the thumbnail. Now let us move on to the painting chapter. 26. Day 10 - Grassy Slope: Welcome to date and of the class. Let me walk you through the composition of the painting before we start. So here we have clear sky and towards the horizon we have atmospheric dust. And there is a pathway. And on either side of pathway we have this brown grassy area. And there are pine trees. And on the sides we have some partly visible trees. So yeah, that's all about the composition. Now, let's move on to the painting, but let us get started. I'm going to tape down the paper using masking tape. All the sides. Once you have applied the tape, just run your finger on the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Now let us mark the composition of the painting. Here, I'm drawing two doors to mark the pathway, and then I'll connect it towards the foreground. Next we will draw a slopey lime and some vertical lines for the tree trunks. That's all about the sketching. Rest of the details we will add as we paint. Firstly, we will wet the paper to perform wet on wet technique. Next, take black in medium consistency and apply it on this white layer. A yellow ocher, and add a bit of brown or black to make it a bit darker shade. Now, apply about this sloping line. This will act as the atmospheric dust in the background area and we will blend it into the clear sky. So the upper part of the paper we will keep blank and no colors. Next, lettuce mix yellow ocher and scarlet red, and also a bit of burnt umber. So this will be a kind of reddish brown. I'm going to apply this around the boundaries of the road. Now. I'm going to apply second layer on the road, supply black again. Now in order to create some highlight in the road, I'm lifting the paint using my damp brush. Next, I'll add some darker color as well. So it will be a nice combination of lighter and darker color on the pathway. Moving. Okay. Alright, moving on, we will apply this yellowish brown on either sides of the road. This brown color will act as the grassy area in order to create some depth. Or I mentioned in the grasses, we will add some darker brown color in the form of Dodge. Now let us add some distant trees using diluted black color. I'm simply drawing some vertical lines in a wobbly manner. Next I'll be adding some black patches in the grassy area. So whenever we see anything in nature, it is never uniform or perfect in shape. It has some unevenness in it, which makes it even more beautiful. There is no strict to brushstroke as such, I'm randomly dabbing my brush, creating unique impressions. Now, let us cover the sky part of the painting and splatter some darker paint onto the pathway and also on them and also on the grasses. Now, if you observe the yellowish brown color that we initially applied as the base, now acts as though highlights in the grassy area. So that is the beauty of the layering technique. In the next step, I will apply scarlet red on the grassy area. This is just to add a sense of contrast in between no L0 and darker brown. Moving on, we will paint some distant trees. So I'm using my fine liner brush to paint these tiny trees which are away from the viewpoint. If you observe the brush tip is very fine. And I can paint very tiny lines. If you have such brush, you can go ahead with that. Else. You can use whatever is available with you. Next, I'll be painting the trees in the mid ground area. I need branches and leaves on the ground part of the tree. As you move towards the bottom part of the tree, you can increase the size of the branches and leaves. I'll paint some random lines on the pathway to create a sense of noise and textured effect. On the side of the painting, I'll be adding some leaves and branches depicting the tree which is out of the frame. I'll repeat this on the left part as well. Adding some free flying birds in the distance area so they appear very small. Next, I'll apply some red color on the tree foliage. Now that we have added red colored leaves on the trees, it will also justify the red color on the grassy area. It will suggest that the leaves are falling on the grasses. All right, we're done with this painting. Now let us gently remove the masking tape. There you go. This is how the final painting looks like. I hope you have enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your class projects under the project gallery. I would love to see your works. I'll see you on day 11. Happy painting. Until then, bye bye. 27. Day 11: Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Let's talk about the colors required for the sky. I'm going to use ultramarine blue, black, and white. You can also use cobalt blue. For the sign. I'll be using yellow ocher, ultramarine, burnt umber and wipe. And in some areas, I'll also use scarlet red. For the seawater. I'll be mixing viridian hue and white. In for the darker green shrubs. I'll be mixing olive green and black. For the distant mountain. You can make some burnt umber and cobalt blue or ultramarine blue. Now, let us discuss the thumbnail of the painting. Around the mid area. We have horizon. On the left side, we have slopey signed area. The right side is for the seashore. There is a mountain in the distance. In the sky. We have beautiful clouds. In the foreground. We have some shrubs and bushes. So yeah, that's all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting chapter. 28. Day 11: Seashore and Sand Dunes: Welcome to Day 11 of the class. Let's talk about the composition of the painting. We have a beautiful cloudy sky. There is a distant mountain. And on the left side we have a slopey sand dune. On the right we have a seashore. In the foreground signed area. We have these darker green shrubs. That's all about the composition. Let's get started. I'm taping down the paper using masking tape. Your finger on the edges to make sure that it is tightly sealed. Now let us draw the composition of the painting. Somewhere in the mid area. I'm drawing horizon line. Right above that. I'll draw this slope b or another distant mountain like shape. Next, I'll draw the marking for the sand dune. Towards the foreground. I'll mark or slopey area. Here. I lightly mark the area for the seashore. Alright, that's all about the sketching rest of the detail we will add as and when we paint. So let's get started with painting. I'll apply water on the sky part. So here we are going with wet on wet technique to paint the sky. For that, I'll mix a blue bit of black and white. Now, apply this mix on the wet surface. Applying this makes on the wet surface gives us a soft appearance in the clouds. The blank whitespaces resembles the white clouds in the sky. As you move towards the horizon area, apply tiny blobs of paint. Next I'll apply a black eye shadows of these dark clouds. Medium do diluted consistency of black color. Next, let's paint the sea. So what I'm going to make viridian hue plus a bit of white. Now at the shore part, I'm going to apply some white. Will. I just offer me texture in those seawater? Next, let us makes the sand color. So I'm going to use yellow ocher, ultramarine, blue, and white. If we mix these three colors, we will get mutated alloys. Greg, hello. Apply this on the area by the seashore. So here I'll just erase the horizon line that I had drawn so that we get a nice slope area for the sand dune. Next I'll mix a similar shade, but I'll also add a bit of L0. I'll apply this as the base for the dune area. Next big bond, Dumbo and apply on the distant mountain that we have. You're also applying some cobalt blue. Blend the two colors in-between. On the upper part, we will apply clean water to soften the hard edges. Now to the same time, makes sure I'll apply a bit of scarlet red. I'll apply this in the form of dots and lines to achieve a sense of depression. We will get lighter highlights and darker shadows when we apply these darker colors. Next to mix a bit of black and burnt umber to the same mixture and apply on the boundaries of the sand dune here. And also in the inner areas. Eight black and apply as darker patches. We will also have some darker green plants in the sandy area. Next, I add a bit more of a yellow ocher to the sign mixture. Apply it in though foreground area. Leave some white spaces. Apply clear water to soften the heart. I just hear. The lighter area will act as the highlight. Next, I'll mix burnt umber with the sand mix and apply in-between these signed areas. I think this will prevent the sign from looking flat and dull. So we are trying to create mixture of lighter and darker colors. Next, mix olive green with black. This will give us a very darker green color. Now, I'll be adding some foreground plants on the signed area. Also add some horizontal lines to create a sense of boundary. Apply black around these plants to create the cast shadow on the leaves itself. Adding more white on the seashore area. I had some white color in the middle of the sea depicting the whales. Next I apply this darker mix, the white area, to create a definition on the sea whales. Using the same mix, we will apply some texture on the signed area to create the definition. Then apply black in the foreground area. Next up, light black around the horizon area. Now makes very didn't heal with a bit of burnt umber and create a darker texture at the district area of the sea. This creates an illusion of depth in the seashore. Now, let's add some definition to the sky part. I'm using ultramarine white and a tiny bit of black. And adding some darker and opaque clouds. Spray some water. Or you can apply some clear water around the darker clouds. The clouds in the upper part of those Chi, will appear bigger compared to the clouds in the lower part of the sky, which is towards the horizon. Now let's apply some darker shadows on these clouds using black color. Alright, so we are done with this painting. Let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is how our final painting looks like. I hope you enjoyed this class and had fun painting along with me. Do share your class projects under the projects gallery. I would love to see your recreations. 29. Day 12 : Color Pallete + Thumbnail: Let us talk about the colors that we would need for the class. The sky is clear, so I'm just using the color of the paper. For the distant mountains. I'll be mixing by the blue born Dumbo, white. For the other mountain, I'll be adding a bit of black to all these colors. For the rocks here. I'm going to use burnt sienna, cobalt, blue, and black as the base for the water. I'll be mixing want Dumbo and cobalt blue plus a bit of white. And for the foreground, plants, I'm going to use black, olive green, and red. So that's all about the colors. Now, let us talk about the thumbnail of the painting. The horizon line is on the upper half. Above that we have distant mountains. Below the horizon is the lake water. And we have some partly submerged rocks in the lake water. In the foreground, there are some plants and some wishes. This area is mainly filled with shrugged nurture all about the thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting chapter. 30. Day 12 - Plants by the Lakeside: Welcome to date, wealth of the challenge. So let us talk about the composition of the painting. We have a clear sky and then there are distant mountains with different colors depicting a sense of perspective. Then we have lake water. Parties are moist rocks. In the foreground. We have these plants and flowers. That's all about the composition. Let's get started. I'm taping down the paper using masking tape. Once you are done, run your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Alright, let us mark the composition of the painting. In the upper half, I'm going to draw this horizon line above, which will be the distant mountains. In the midground area, we have these. Below the horizon is the lake water. In the midground area, we have rocks that are partly submerged in the lake water. Alright, let's get started with the painting. So I'm mixing or by blue with white and a bit of burnt umber. I'll use this muted blue color for the distant mountains. And for the next layer of mountain, I'll be using slightly darker color. This adds a sense of perspective. The lighter one being the farthest mountain. Moving on, I leaped like clean water below the horizon. So now I'm going to paint the lake water. So let us mix the colors. Cobalt blue, bit of black and white. So this will be a muted blue color. You can even go with any other color of your choice. I'm applying horizontal brush strokes, leaving some white spaces in between. Moving on, let us paint some foreground elements on the same **** surface. I'm using a black color. I'm creating the impression of leaves and grasses. There is no strict pattern or any shape in my mind. I'm just randomly filling the space. Next, I'll use a slightly lighter color and fill in the gaps. Next, let us paint the rocks that are partly submerged in the lake water. I'm painting with black as the base color. No, the bottom area, I'm going to play burnt sienna. Alright, we will leave it here for now. Moving on to the horizon area, let us add some details here. So I'm going to add some wishes and grasses. Using black color. Next we will be adding some highlights on the rocks. So makes Montana white and a bit of blue. So we'll get a muted color for highlight. Apply on the top area of the rocks. Next, we will take slightly darker color. This is to paint the reflection of the rocks in the water. Next, olive green. If you do not have olive green, and then you can take some green and black. I apply some leaves of green color. In the bottom part, I'm going to just fill up this blank area with black paint, some tiny lines in upward direction. The big thing though, short of these plants. Next aches scarlet red. And we will paint some flowers. Alright, moving on, I'll be adding some ripples in the water to depict a sense of movement. So I'm just adding some horizontal lines using my fine liner brush. Next, let us add some details on these rocks. So I'm using black color. Also adding some other rocks that are partly submerged in the lake water. Next, I'm going to add some highlights on the rocks. So using gray color, it makes white and scarlet red to add highlights on the flowers. Lastly, we will add some birds in the sky. Okay, So we are done with this painting. There you go. This is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Boucher your class projects under the projects gallery. I would love to see your works. Also, please share your review or feedback for this class. Thank you.