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How to Draw a Dreamy Moon Phases Painting with Watercolors

teacher avatar Bea Bottazzi, Illustrator | Watercolours & Ink

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      1. Intro

      1:20

    • 2.

      2. Supplies

      2:22

    • 3.

      3. Sketching

      6:05

    • 4.

      4. Prepping the Paint

      5:00

    • 5.

      5. First Layer

      11:51

    • 6.

      6. First Layer - Full Moon

      2:58

    • 7.

      7. Second Layer

      10:37

    • 8.

      8. Final Details

      11:44

    • 9.

      9. Final Details - Full Moon

      2:52

    • 10.

      10. Gold Ink

      10:05

    • 11.

      11. Final Thoughts

      0:29

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About This Class

Lunar phases have always had some magical and fascinating feeling about them and if you have wondered how to paint them with watercolours, then this class is for you!

The project of this class is to create your very own watercolour painting of a lunar phase that you can hang on the wall or perhaps, gift it to someone you love.

During this lesson, you will learn:

  • how to use a very basic wet on wet technique
  • how to use salt with watercolours in order to achieve mystical details
  • how to add magical elements using gold ink.

You don’t need to be a professional artist or even have some prior knowledge because I’ll be explaining every single step very clearly so that you can achieve amazing results and be happy with your painting.

I hope I’ll see you in class!

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1. 1. Intro: a lot of my skills on their mixed with the artist. This car T o r. To create your our moment fighters. Painting gives what colors. So you always want to achieve such a result that they lost is perfect for you. We're gonna explore a basic what? What makes then between shows create interesting details your painting and also golding toe medical elements toe any of your drawing. So I you decided to join me in the next video for show you old supplies you're gonna need 2. 2. Supplies: Hello and welcome back. I'm happy that you decided to join me and they a slash in. So now I'm gonna show you all this. Plus, we're gonna use first of all, whether made some would call people And I'm using council global cold press paper. But on paper you are It's fine as long as it's for what colors So induced painting. I'm gonna use thes three brushes their size ton 60 for small details. So regarding the pains, I'm gonna use Naples younger rest permanent. So I left a permanent Fred the reason why I'm using this three. That's because I want to create my own shades out of these three. But if you ever color, they really life that go for it, understood what you are. Another important all as the golden we're gonna give it. This one is from Wenger uneaten but its gold metallic bronze. I think it's one of the bashan. So I'm also gonna use are not masking Floyd's and so that I could have really crispy artist But this is optional. So if you have it, use it Otherwise it's not that important that I'm also gonna use a compass to create really smooth circles for the moment only exist. But if you don't have it and you just have a round object and it's fine on off course, we're gonna need some tissue paper for all what colors and the poor. If we're also gonna need some kitchen sold so that we can with it on our water colors so that we can create a really nice details So as you can see, the material sneer is not that much. So I hope you're ready to begin painting with me. 3. 3. Sketching: Okay, so first of all, I'm not gonna use the entire PayPal because I feel like it's a big way said, Well, I'm gonna Dough is recreate the size within your one which is gonna be throw it you two centimeters arctic on 12 centimeters wise. So what I'm gonna do in our is just cut the paper into. So now that cut the paper, we can start by tracing the middle line that we're gonna fall away for creating the circles . Now that we have the line, I'm gonna measure the day on the top of my compass, which it's kind of being only reason to want more. That actually be a total 55 which means today on itself should be around free, live you this You can see we are gonna 0.5 pages. So we're gonna start with the middle one, which off course should be in the middle of paper and then we're gonna trouble the other two below as above So the sun until should be. But sheep steam Tito's from the top. So I'm gonna use my compass to create a very small circle. Shut Now change. I want to talk to be shamed as the bottom. I'm gonna actually measure distance between these two words. Replicate the same on this side. Okay, I know that we have our basics. Catch they don't. I'm gonna remove all these pencil marks like the middle line buried The needle move so that we can proceed with the are much employed. So now that we are at this point, you're ready to apply the art mosque employed, show the stage, remember? Said, by applying the masking Floyd, I know the problem. You can see much from the camera up, but don't worry, because these are the past. Remarks are supposed to be no toe visible, so the people doesn't get rulings. And if you don't have the mosque employees, then you can just skip this stuff. You need to be very careful of the stage, because it's quite difficult Reynolds masking Floyd on the flight again. So that's something to use. We brush. So this stage, we're gonna wait. So the mosque, it's void really drives, and in the meantime, we can prepare our pains 4. 4. Prepping the Paint: So we're gonna prepare the paints now. I'm first of all, I just cannot. Swatch thes calls for yourself. You can see Oh, they really look like this is a very pale orange pink. I think it's kind of like asking home. Then we have the violent one, and then we are Thanks Crept Well I want to achieve is basically the's or cold pinkish color. And of course I have to create it from dish. So when you create a color, you always need to pay all of a pension on which or you're mixing with. Because sometimes I create a color that I really like done. Basically, Jobs forgot what I used. I want you to play while of affections for it, of course. Revenge, a dark shades and so soft. Do you think I really like this one? Now let's review over radish. Done what? I used book. I think it's actually really good. Maybe some old Yeah, that's so regarding the dark value. I basically did the same thing I did here, but I also a little bit off blue because as a show on the reference, actually, I have used these really dark or bullshit I want to recreate that another big toe, and this is It's really dark bought. We're gonna use it mainly forward your life. So actually, it might even be be talk show did stage. You just choose to call it that you want you ever want to be, Though you just truck to create thought valued Show that you end up with, um a dark and soft for you covered like this. Well, I want to just Well, yes. So I lost the finals. Watch with this. The thing that were relegated together, these two colors shall know the weirdo preparing find we're gonna show you on the next video where we're gonna start with the first major. 5. 5. First Layer: welcome back. And these lessons we're gonna do with the first layer off paint, which is where we're gonna apply the short as well. So be sure to start these Russian with your soul to run next to you because we're gonna need it needs to be applied. Very force shall be sure to have it. So, no, As you can see the masking Floyd us completely dried, we're going to start with this first more. So it's just to remember I'm gonna show you to you on the screen, the reference picture. But basically he's more will be left on. So he should be really court like thes parts and then lonely fainted. But we still want to have this horrible shape. Show year is also where we're gonna introduced. What what's technique, which is really easy, but also quite frightening for someone show. Just be sure not to panic because you can't control the pain. So don't you worry about so the weapon works to look. It's basically one what's the paper with clean water up. And then you applied to paint on top of it. So the worked paper that gives a very different feeling from wet on Dr. So just clean water. But is he clean? What stands her so cool, But especially these parts. You can see my fresh start calling about myself That needs to stay. What kind of work falls? So the shape? Yeah, It needs to be kind of off course. We don't more off straight line. So you're gonna at some water? Has moved about on, by the way. I'm using the choice ton. No, not a ploy. Some looking dog she needs. I don't just stopped toe basically or the edges here next to record with dark shit. But also unit to kind of used this technique pointy that are going this more thing. It was a little, but take a wall of water on Congress. I know there's actually doesn't matter, because it's still the 1st 8 years. No, Definitely one. No other things that women do it. It's got some mortal into the brush. Did this create top corny folder tucked. Now, that's when we apply the shoulder. We can see there's no No. So, actually, this will suck water up, which is you can see in all of this. Seems like he s taken. Basically, Will the color all its book, I would rate very good and resource No, I want the circle one which, of course, it should be fooled around in this room. So they're trying to create the mind. Just you. We start by what? What's in? Go in tars Gordon and applying that lighter shade. So starting from year old as lonely building enough way should be around your tradition. Ship their bites. You got the call Cruciate here. We're not even just like trying to bite, agree, brush just us just up to the side stock part off home and the court there. So it's really pretty. Is it about the leadership? But even just are this. I think it's creating a really nice thoughts, but also I don't want that. Are Kershaw just from the out of line force? Remember old stuff? First day year, You want to card? I always think it's still worst because it doesn't look at all as to find a job. I think so. About school here, right? So, no, I want to mobile toe thes tune, which basically off the same shame ones have just stayed Well, I believe that before no one is actually the artifical one. So I want to love it. Live it as the final. So I actually finished my, uh, live machine, so I'm gonna try to repeat the same as they did before. So this is when thes structures with some before are coming handy. Because I can just put new cool here. I don't see applause. It is from the original one. So should break the clothes. So I'm gonna percent with this one. So yet again, we worked the Tarsem sore cool. First traditions remember? It still should be before to me, the line, like the dark shades. So wait, if you're trying to mix to pains, you know, on the bake off so that we create kind of like 1/4 coehlo. Mitch. Visual interest? Yeah. We want to create a transition. Make sure toe west being hard surface, because sometimes there are some small sports. You okay? I know that I made doc shade paint. They're not proceed. But that's what which you know, supposed to be very close to waking show. You start. You can't buy what seems into our circle. If you have some dark things as I do on brush, then just try to push it in on the side. Very supposed to be a doctor, One should building up. I hope the most thing about asking for the stop if I have to just lifted the stays here. Sure you have to come in with you should pay for something like that. Dark shades supposed to be over the line. So one night 6. 6. First Layer - Full Moon: to know before him on the full moon. So we start as always, by wetting the entire surface now onto dark shorts, which is just about here and here. I would like this more. Now we're gonna create that cauliflower a fact that so you cannot release yet right now for when it dries up. Just get some homes abroad that you do like this. But now we are sold again. Wait until everything is tried so we can proceed with the second year. 7. 7. Second Layer: Okay, so first of all, we need to be sure that everything is tried. A So you can see it. This winning the media, it's not drive yet, but because to start working on the other one. So the first thing that we do it, it's just rubbled the source so you can actually agree. See details that shoulders created, which are really interesting. But of course, most of the pain is basically gone. So what we do know is that we received by doing the second year. Well, which year old should be the final one? So we start as we did before by wetting the tar surface again and then creating the second near by building about that light and dark colors. So we kind of want for these details. So they're not that visible like No, - But like this, I feel like he's for dark. One newts be the thread. - So we appreciated the 2nd 1 God, watching the inter surfaced kind of boring details. I feel like he's Children won't be what you are, actually, because now this is actually over the line that we thought we were doing before. - Okay , so no onto this one I got the same thing that we did the 1st 1 Proceed with this one again . Show what? Team circle? Well, let's try to remember what Truman size we are paying Teoh. - Now , since my full still what? We're gonna wait till frothy drives, and then we can proceed on the second. Your foreman. Okay, My form one has dried, so you sold. Okay, so the phone is off course, The most complicated one, But we're is decided in live for the Our dark areas are gonna be here from the year. Perhaps we can kind of presov a crater like these, You hear him? So what year we're gonna start by watching the service. This is for for than that. It's even because when I used the inter servicemen like year that we use, just follow it Cool, actually leading to split this space, trying to brand so reupped keep creating interest. - I tried to place a lot of pain here. I know. I'm going to create the cauliflower, attacked it, something like this. So you leave a lot of pain, you know, small part of the surface, and then you go on top of it with just water on the brush. We can do some things, you know, but yeah, as you can see. Addition, It's kind, big toe removed water. Just go in with my brush, Doc. - So we leave everything to dry. Show that we can remove the mosque in foot, shape, sleep. 8. 8. Final Details: welcome back. And there's lesson we can proceed by removing the mosque in tape. I was so in case that we won't fix steak in addition to actually read to the outlying so they pop even more so she takes everything in stride, just removed the masking tape. Okay, so I know that we are at the stage. I actually realized start the own phases are not that visible because Chappelle here we didn't have a nice transition. But a lot of pain actually is here, so it's no softer fact. Well, this one, I believe, is to dog here. We kind of the same. Fulham has to 1st 1 show. Um, I won't proceed by fixing these mistakes. And basically, what I'm gonna use is these old brush is, like, really old and quite rolling show. The only thing that we have to do is, um, put some water on it. And that kind of scrapped the paper. Of course. Not too much otherwise guess, Roy, but this technique, you can use it for any steak you might make for women called condition. I would try to make these area writer I really like the poor, actually, because as you can see I loved the short overnight here, and I did it, so he kind of, like, stayed on the paper, giving these really nice result. If I show up onto this your work, I'm actually also another thing. Like, if I feel like these mornings, no lighting off in this area as a contrast, I can make the other area dark. Hope so. There is also a way to fix it, and it's not really a mistake. It's just water cooler is quite unpredictable. So every time you have to come up with a solution fixing something, Okay, Now what? Everything is dries we can appreciate by making the outlines even crispier. So I'm gonna use my zero size brush, and I'm gonna get just a little bit off the dark kind. The year is actually, um, quite difficult because you need to be very precise. So what we do is just applying the circle itself is that we take some water. Just try to I always want to be sure when I blend something. So sometimes I have to blend just year. But I actually burn time. Two years. I'm sure I won't have a straight line or you know the results will be much better. So they stop is quite optional, like difference on your personal taste, but also on the result that you are achieved already but actually feel the makes the models for people more shoulder try. We want to do it. You need to be fast with. Otherwise, it's quite difficult to do that if you wait too much time. So I really think it's much better than before. But I want to make some more details. So she tried to have them asking Freud anymore, but I used the's a smaller brush size steaks and again, as we did before. Please, just what the surface, even though these time trends what? Just like also that to Paul that I think I'm gonna need until we are so pains. So the the moon phases is actually more visible. Try it with the dark shades closer to the offerings. Stops darker area already. And then I have these details here, so I try to kind of all of them, so it makes more realistic a fox. Okay, think addition is perfect. I really like that. Should I move on to dish one on way start again with one. So just find that washed the brush, just walked up forces in the middle, and then just repeat the process. Okay? Okay. No, the other side. I appreciate it with the size six. Just water tonight on here to stop to follow what? You really are on the paper. So why thes think area you and yeah. So I'm just going on top the lot basically shop, adding more paint where there's already that kind of thing. Otherwise we're gonna lose old details. We have been always dog, like, nearly all flights to give, like a media for you to make things even more way wishes up the paper tried. Just go for coming blood. Everything in, uh, with the cold floor trucked again. So yeah, I know we basically fall the same process for these other Children. 9. 9. Final Details - Full Moon: Okay. Now, on to the most detailed one, that room. And also here we start by applying the circle, even move on And remember that we chose to have the doctor charge year and the year showed those will be We need to keep them in this direction, while so always pushing to the media. No, we are for the other side. I think you can already see the result. Like it's completely different just by having the outlines. So no, we're gonna What? The entire one ago? Even though I want to destroy these details in this. So we need to be careful. Not too little thing that almost it's gonna at quarter four flocked here. Remember, it's just water and you talk on the paper to so I think it looks really good. No, we wait, everything tries completely, and then we can proceed by adding the colder in details 10. 10. Gold Ink: way almost rich. The aunt of these lesson In these course, we're gonna final course and detail on. I will prepare my king Fear on regarding the supplies. I'm gonna use this size zero brush on these wooden stick. So what I did in my regional painting was just toe few details every morning phase except the full one where I tried to be more detailed. So don't worry. It's gonna be beating whatever resource you're gonna get. There's gonna be ready tight away because this is no the realistic more I shall. You could basically Topol however you want. And if you're using the same income using, be sure that your mix it before otherwise it's really watery. And we really want a gold fact. So I actually also know upstairs. I'm just gonna tell to assure some shapes, try not to pick up too much thing, but you could try to create some shapes and then but dish wasn't stick. I just covered. I tried to do small lines because it's quite a people with dish from Even though it's just a size zero, I wonder if we want a more water. In fact, just that's water. So basically some ink. At some point I had some water, and then they kind of did the cauliflower fast. So you stop with some incarnated. So I think it creates a realistic look way you can always come back like it's better not to have too many details. And then in cases, just go back if you really want to. So the 2nd 1 beginning one. Just dip your brush. So I tried toe like decide to point where position it done. I just go back with You don't have to be precise. That's the thing. Like, don't even try to recreate what I did because But if you just put it But we're doing on the morning and just try to move it around basically Europe use. Of course, you need to be short golden stick because you know, the paper got fluent. - You know, we person but this farm still the same poll shows. So just that something decide where we want to position for as your Countess. I tried toe position it in the darker side, but just to get your details, she were. You kind of make sense to call. Look, it's like a got feeling I think. But if you don't like something that you can just add a little water and try to plant in like this, sure think they're too close to each other way. Work under four where they shall. I don't want to create it sort of crater, so hopefully it will go. So I think the best way to approach this is actually what the surface where place agree to , I think just not true. But since we try to hold our own, I want Teoh. Something's your dish on this side. So I got I think we could. So it's not like thes two moons to work like the golden Details. But that was different. I think what we'll try toe unsuitable. I actually just want to smoke it all because I think it's too harsh. I don't like stocks getting just No, I think because you really like this. Affect one. You just place what? Untended? Being cool, Spread Not true. This is basically the final result. I hope you like it. And I hope you enjoy painting with me. 11. 11. Final Thoughts: thanks so much for joining these claws. I hope you enjoy it. And you're happy with your drawings? I would really like to see them so you can share them on serum or also in your projects off . I hope I will see you in my next cough.