How to paint a Christmas Crown

1. Intro and class project: Hello and welcome to MySQL share class. My name is Alexandra and I am watercolour artists. I paint since my childhood and luckily today I work as an illustrator. Watercolor is my absolutely favorite material and I will share with you my own tips and techniques. So today I propose you to bend a beautiful Christmas ground, which has a lot of different Decker elements. So you will definitely have fun banded all of them. And of course you will learn something. You of course you can paint your own Christmas ground, remove or add another different Decker elements. The technique is the same. So now let's prepare the materials and let's get started. Okay. 2. My watercolor palette: So I just show you my watercolor palette. For this Christmas ground, we will use, especially read something. I am using other reason crimson, also some green, some blue. I am using ultra marine. I also use black or natural did for the round, I am using Sienna and also yellow. And if you have yellow ochre and some violet. 3. Christmas flower: So I will start with the flour mix with red and pink because I like when my shapes have a different shades of color, liquid mics. So don't be afraid to mix. I'm starting color in the first leaf. You see it's very, very light and transparent. I add a bit more red car. And when my shapes, I can add a bit more color to the angles. That the process is almost the same. Just don't forget, do not coloring beliefs which are touching each other because when they're wet, it will damage your scholarship. I am not as different tiers of my leaves here. So I can remove it using a clear and almost dry brush. So I just wipe it with the paper and I start to blend it very carefully. I am adding more color and blended again. So now my beliefs are dry and I can continue to fill the rest. I make them. Okay. Yes. 4. Orange: Now let's coloring our orange. So for the orange, I will mix yellow and red. And I'm started at an interrupter strokes. I will leave whitespace. So precisely like some little rectangle. And when it's still wet, I am adding a darker color. Again. I'm continuing doing the process with more dark color. So I would like to make my orange a bit more dramatic. And so I even add some Sienna to my shapes, to the circle and also to the circle, and also a bit to the border of my circle. So it's very, very tiny. And if you are comfortable, you can do it. And maybe if you haven't little tiny brush, just live it just like that. So even in more details with liquid car, don't forget to live this white particle. It hopes to recognize our orange shape. Okay. 5. Sugar stick: So let's begin our sugar stick. Now we will make our sugar stick and I will make it read. I will start with this part. So what I am doing, I am trying to color all shape at once. And I will leave little glare of flight, this little rectangle. First, you should just work with the first shape. So I am adding darker color and you see it's almost dry, so I should be careful. So I just add to the site to show the volume and I blend it. I blend it carefully. So you shouldn't be in disorder. You should dash your paper in only one direction and be very delicate. I can add a bit more darkness here. So now I can continue with the rest. Actually, I decided to add another red shape here to the end of my sugar stick. Okay, so now let's go to this guy. I will make it red and I just simply coloring. 6. Bell cookie and cotton flower: So now it's time for the cookie. So for the cookie, I will use the mask. It's actually for Culver, the wide decor. And if you haven't did, you can use whitewash for example, or if you have or just make you cook you only with brown color. So I imagine this guy from Windsor and Newton, I have my old little synthetic brush for that. Because if you will use your normal brush, you should, you shouldn't be very, very careful. So this why I am using very old and so I am don't worry about my normal brushes. So I'm adding mask to the counter and a bit of little dots. And now I will leave it to drain. So now we can color the cotton flower. For that, I will use very transparent mix of brown and blue in Maine be violet in order to create some kind of gray shade. But this mix should do very, very transparent. So I fill in the shape everywhere. It shouldn't be very transparent because our current flower is actually white. So we should just shapes. We can continue with a gold belts. I will use yellow ochre and yellow and even sierra. So I'm coloring the bells and add more to this site to create the volume. I will also add color. I will just color and this would shapes with a dark brown. Let's prepare the mix of Brown, especially the right side as well. 7. Berries and anise: So for the berries, I decided to make them blue. So I will leave little glare flight. And I will add darker blue to the bottom of my embarrassed. To make my blue even dagger, I will add a bit of black. Beat my paper. Because for me, it's a bit too much blue, I think. And again, Edin dark colored the bottom. And now let's leave it to dry. I will use dark brown and I will simply fill the shapes. I will leave the middle of each shape. I will color it later. I am also aid in darker color somewhere because as I said, I like differentiates. I'm also add in darker color somewhere because as I said, I like different shades of color. 8. Finishing anise, cookies, sugar stick: It's actually the same process as a blue wants. Now finished. I will use just Les Brown to the Meno off the shape. Finishing bells. So I will just add more shadows. And finishing tree kooky suggests maybe the same process for the bell cookies. So now I will feel what shapes of my sugar stick. And for this, I will use Actually what I have on my palette. Just make it apparent. And they make it orange circle as well as the same color. I will finish my bill. So IRAs my mask, and I've finished with some extra dark details. Hi. 9. Holly leaves: Greenleaf's transparent enough. I will mix green and yellow. Now, I am preparing my mix with green and blue. And I tried to make it more dark and dance even a bit of violet. So I'm coloring the half of my leaf. I am, I didn't go to the angles to make it more dramatic in the second half of my leaf. But I'm leaving just a thin line in the middle. Okay. 10. Christmas tree branches: So for the Christmas tree branches, First, let's make a dark color. I will use green and I will use l sub black to make it really, really dark. It will be your branch color. Now with the sharp end of your brush, just mainly theme line. Do the lines of the branch do not make them very, very straight. And so sometimes they could even change the direction. Then they collide and trying to add them in more natural way. You can also add some duster branch, which will make it even more natural. So I used three green shades for this tree. It makes my embrace more interesting because it's like playing with my shapes. And you repeat this process. Okay. Hi, right. 11. Green leaves: And we're almost done. I will use only one green color, but I will mix it with the blue and some violet coloring. My least. I am adding more doctors to the bottom. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. 12. Final words: So, thank you so much for joining this class. I really hope you learn something new today and especially ahead and fun. So don't hesitate to upload your works and ask me questions if you have it. I have another watercolor classes here on skill shares. You are welcome to check it out. And you can also follow me on Instagram to see my other works. So I hope to see very soon on my next lessons. I wish you a very, very nice holidays and see you. Bye.