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1. INTRO WATERCOLOR: Hi everyone. I'm a professional fine
artists and art educator. Let's go shocky to Hugo and welcome to my
Skillshare class. I have been painting
since childhood and never really left it for more
than a decade now, I have painted tons
and tons of wildlife, like birds and animals. And being an architect graduate, I enjoyed painting cityscapes,
landscapes and cityscapes. And my art works have been sold nationally and internationally. Follow me here on Skillshare or on my social media pages like Instagram to get
the latest updates for my future classes. Where I'll be teaching
various mediums of art in both traditional
and digital formats. In this class, we'll be creating mesmerizing mountain
scape and watercolors. The first thing that comes to your mind when you talk
about mountain scapes. To me, it reminds me
of my childhood days. When you used to
go for trekking. Used to go to all
these beautiful places that matches and area. It reminds me. Beautiful pine trees, trees, meadows, small, small timber hearts, and beautiful skylights. And what should I see both the beautiful sky and the clouds. I decided to paint one of these beautiful mountains
came from a reference image. I created this lovely
class for you all. In this class, I will be guiding you with all the art
materials that would be required and will directly jump into the composition
of the painting. I will teach you
how you can compose the painting without directly copying the photograph, as is. Subsequently, will also be going into the
sketching of the whole. And then we will start
the painting process. So this class is meant for intermediate and
advanced artist. But even if you're a
complete beginner, you can join me in
the class because I'll be teaching
you step-by-step. Also, I would like to suggest to you, if you're a
complete beginner, you can check out my previous
classes and just try out those basic cloud formations and landscape permissions so that this class will be much
more easier for you. So I would suggest you to just watch the complete
class together. And then again, you can watch
and paint along with me. Because watercolor is a medium
which will dry very fast and as soon as it dries and you won't be able to
get the same result. It's better to just watch it first and then try to paint it, will be leading for
your class project in which you'll be making
this beautiful landscape. I will be ready to
give you the feedback. So if you guys are excited as I am, I will see
you in the class.
2. ART SUPPLIES: So the materials will be
needing for this class would be a very good watercolor paper. This is handmade paper, 300 GSM. It comes in the form of a block with a stuck
on all four sides. So the paper doesn't buckle. If you're buying loose sheets, you can use masking tape to tape down the
paper so that it doesn't buckle because we'll be
using a lot of washes of water and a 100% cotton
paper, or 300 GSM. Then we'll be needing some good artist quality watercolors. This is 24 colors set, and I've added some more color, indigo, neutral
tint, some browns. Basic color. Set of 24 would be
more than enough. And we can always mix and match. But an artist grid
would be really good. For brushes. I use very
many kinds of brushes. And mostly they are these
natural hair brushes. These are some Chinese
calligraphy brushes, which I really like
to use for washes. You can also use mop
brushes like this. Then I use some flat brushes. These are very old brushes. Now they are not even
available in the market. These other, these are
mongoose hair brushes. But now they are not available. But these bamboo hair brushes
are really good as well. Then I love using, using this brush by Salvo. For larger washes. I use these brushes. Then for smaller detailing. I go for this and for
our final touches and completely finer detail things
I use these liner brushes. These are also really
good for the final work. Other than this, I'll be using to water does one for clean water and
one for dirty water. Then I'll be using
pencil and eraser to sketch out my idea
in the beginning. I also use an opaque
white for that. I use a gouache paint. You can use gouache
paint from any brand. You can also use postdoc hello. This is also a very cheap
pasta color from Gamblin. You can use something like this. I prefer using these tube set. You can also use a
pan set if you have. I generally like to take them out in a palette
and then let them dry. And whenever I'm using it, I
just put some water on it. So I generally use one. What is pretty also so I've just like sprayed water all over it like 510 minutes in advance
so that the colors there, they get very nicely wet. Generally like to keep
my paper at an angle. So I've kept a pencil box below this so that I get
a nice loop so that the water doesn't
collect and don't give those really bad patches. I also use some dirty cloth
for wiping off my brush. In between. And some tissue papers. If I want to lift some
color, I'll need this. So that's about it for now. If I think I need
something else, I'll let you know. Alright, gather
your art supplies and I'll see you
in the next class.
3. COMPOSITION: So this is my reference image
I've saved from Pinterest. I'll be changing a lot
of the composition. Also. I'll be changing the format. This isn't a portrait format and I'll be making it
in a landscape format. Also. I might just remove this
mountain Navajo. Let us see. So while we sketch it, I can see how I want to
compose my drawing. Also, I would just
probably shift the whole thing on the
top, something like this. So that the focus
remains on the heart and the pine trees at the heart will be our main
focus over here. So let's begin.
4. SKETCHING: For this sketch, I will try to draw a draw as
light as possible. So firstly, on the market where the mountain
lion is going, since it's above the horizon, the lines will be coming towards the same beautiful timber cottage. Tried to give the
texture of accordingly. These are some plants around it, shoves it on another small hut where you were just completely
hidden behind the bushes, but you can still see the roof. Oh, does that ever be
covered with shrubs? And there's this wouldn't
be a mountain at the box. And it would be
fine too easily go. You don't have to detail
it a lot right now. Just a rough sketch will do. So while I'm sketching,
I'm also thinking of the mode for the painting. Do I want the light setting to be very bright and
very blue sky? Or I want like a very
nice soft lit sky. Right now. You can start taking those kinds
of decision at this point. I think that's about it. We can make one or
two here as well. The distant pine trees. They just add to the
composition quite a lot. So making them, that's about it for now. So that will be our sketch. Now, we'll start
with the watercolors and see you in the next class.
5. PAINTING SKY: So let's start with this guy. I always try to start with the things which
are the further most. So I'll start with
this guy right now. For this guy, I'll do wet and wet technique completely
with the sky area, leaving some of the three areas. I can also use a
bigger flat brush. So I'll dip the
brush very well in the water so that it can
completely absorbed the water. And generously read my people. And bright I can send. The background will look
much lighter than the trees. I'm planning to
completely vetted. My cottage will also
be much darker than the sky so I can wet my cottage. But then right now I'm
trying to paint around it. You can always check
the paper if it is properly vet R-naught
by moving it like this. And the light will reflect on the paper and the place where it's not properly
vetted, it will be very mad. So just see if you've properly read the whole paper nicely. Know, some nice orange shade. You can mix it by
mixing yellow and then I'm mixing some orange
and some vermilion, red. And all the color would be
looking very bright right now, it will dry much lighter. This I'll mix some violet. And so my trauma in blue. This looks too harsh, so it makes it a little
bit of orange and not neutralize the color. I'm also making some clouds. Now I'm washing my brush properly and picking
up some color. I'm just lightening
up some of this down. Adding some ginger
fortune she had not said before this thing dries, I have to quickly add some
green and some Prussian blue. I'll make some nice
pretty green color. I had a tinge of orange and
add it in the background. Really light wash.
And I'm going to have to be little careful with
though tree over here. You're going to
probably take this color a little higher also. Now after washing and drying my brush properly and
again lift some of this color from here, even from him. And this step has
to be done very quickly before your
paper starts to dry. I think this is enough. I skies over. Now. I'll see you in the next class and we'll
start with the truth.
6. PAINTING TREES: Now I've switched
to a smaller brush. You can use a round brush
also for this stage. You can use any of
your round brush. Now I'm using some yellow
ocher and some gamboge yellow. And I stopped with the pine trees and might be, but it's not
completely dried yet, which is a good thing because
I want some software to 0. And again, this step has
to be done nice and quick. It gives some natural effects and we can make it other colors
as well before it dries. If you don't have yellow
ocher in your palette, Naples yellow will also do. Or you can just work with
gamboge yellow and mix a little tinge of brown or something that
would also work. Kept us get kept. This gets a little darker for you guys to see
it in the camera. But you can go with a little
lighter pencil marks also. Because otherwise, show
through the paper, work through the color is
not mixing some sap green. The same mix. I start adding it
here in the center. So this will be a
midtone for the trees. So try to leave
some whitespace is also in-between the tree, which is like the background,
which will be seen. Like in our case, the sky
is visible through it. I prefer using this
small brush because the water and color stays
in it for a longer time. And you can keep creating for a longer time
without refilling the brush. But if you're not very confident
with this thicker brush, you can always work
with a smaller brush. Now it makes it a little
orange, little bloom. And make a nice
deep color and mix some sap green into it. I've also added
some violet to it. Just gets a little deeper. I'm just giving some shadows. We have to simultaneously create a negative painting for this
area, for these bushes. I'm still a little wet. So I wanted to just add some
trees in the background. And again mix the
blue and green. Light orange. Because it looks like
very, very pigment. And right now, yeah,
something like this. Now I'll just add some. It'll be like an
illusion of distance. I have to add very
few trees like God, for this day's yard, paper
should be still wet. Just want to just give a glimpse of a forest and a distance. The paper has dried out. Just try to read the paper
a little bit in this area. Makes it, the paper
is completely dried you giving some harsh
trees which we don't want. Now really make these two trees which will be with
the same procedure. So again, we'll
take some gamboge, yellow and yellow ocher and
mix some lemon yellow window. If you want, you can
knock, of course, practice the trees
on a separate paper first For directly going
on to your final drawing. And if you're a
complete beginner, you can always check out
my previous two classes on watercolor landscapes. But I've also taught
how to do clouds, how to do wet on
wet, wet on dry. So there you will
get a, get an idea. And after practicing when
you come to this class, this class will be much
more easier for you. No, I'm mixing sap green
again to this mixture. If you feel they're
drying out too dark. Some of the ideas you can lift. It's because the paint
is so nicely with these colors are blending in
very well with each other. I do have a darker
green on my palette, but I prefer mixing my own
darker green for this purpose. You can also use
your darker green if you have it directly. Sometimes I just mix this
neutral tint and added in a few places to deepen
it a little bit more. And then didn't color as
it's called by nice green. All in gambling company
and all of living. Tried to use very less offered. Last two, pine trees are left. And for that we'll be
mixing the same color, but little less of
yellow. This time. Remote of greens and blues
because it's at a distance. So our latest one will be the green region mix this blue to it. I'm going to deepen
this a little bit more with the puppet. So our major arteries are done. Now in the next lesson, we can start with the
heart or the grass. We can decide what we
want to start with.
7. PAINTING THE COTTAGES: Now for this stage,
I've switched to round brush. This
is the best cell wall. Now number eight, it comes to a nice point and
it's a little smaller. So it's good to handle
four smallest pieces. So we first give the
wash for the hot. So for this I'm mixing
a little bit of red, a little bit of orange. Something to Rio. I'm mixing more water. This is very watery
consistency right now. And do this, I'm adding
a little button, which is the violet shade. Neck and drink down this perfectly valid shade
with it at the bottom. Shadow should be
much more darker. Again, we'll mix the same
color. Some oranges. Now a little bit of violet. They didn't make it
automatically on its own. Notice areas that we can add a little bit
more of shadows. Same thing will happen
on board designs. These are generally made
of those terracotta tiles. We can use that and
detail it with this. You don't even have
to make exact lines. Then no shadows, we can use this neutral tint like so. I'll wait for it to dry
before I do the Windows. In fact, if I want,
I can just give the inside of the
window right now. There's blue mixed
with orange color. Let's drop some deeper shade
on this under the top. Cmv can do it for this one. And to drop the same color onto the time this hard drive, we'll move on to this one. This looks very dark. So I'll just take my Ahrens and what Bu,
some burnt sienna. Again, you have to
do a little bit of negative painting
for the other tree. You can make the brown and
add the appropriate to it. So but I want him
violet will give another very dark tone. I believe the right over here. We learned a little
bit of orange. Keep leaving the rights. Excellent. So now until the
time this drives, I've started with the program. And I'll see you
in the next class.
8. PAINTING THE FOREGROUND: So again, for this stage, I'll switch to a
little bigger brush. Let's start with lemon yellow. Again. Start with giving some nice highlights
to the tree. Again, some mid tones. The McDonald's, the stem
I'm keeping very clean. I'm not using yellow
ocher here because I want to segregate the styles
and tricolor also. Then I'll use a condo. I would be adding the
branches a little later. Wait for it to dry
a bit too dark time and start adding some
colors on the other side. So for this, I'll use
a nice light green, emerald green kind of
a thing mixed with yellow to give it a
nice color of grass. I'll do some yellows
before that. And just add some
of the places here. I thought I'd give
a whole Washington leave it this tinge. This old lady ever be darker
in here, doesn't matter. Discarding a few tens
of orange urine there. According to the
reference image. Now, when I had this
nice green tinge. Just adding from software
bushes right now. And then we can add a little
bit more than the end. Once and trash in this week and probably atom
B per column of sap green. And a little bit off previous mix and add
some more shadows. This Liao had already tried. I can add my branches. Now again with yellow ocher, I'll just quickly give
some lighter shades. We'd have to repeat the same procedure
once the layer dries. In the meantime, let's
do the grass over here. If I wanted to keep
the grass very, very light and very bright, think it's the closest to us. And then this, I take off
my brush off with this arm, take a very small brush
and add some flowers. I'm using this
rose madder color. Opponent rolls, I
think it's called. I'm just plotting small these some nice bright shows
us some sort of loss. I don't know. Wireless shade. They will actually
walk us shadows again. Because I'm
on these plots. I don't want to overdo this. This is almost dry. Now, once it completely dries, I'll come and do some
finishing touches and some motor bushes over here. Alright, see you
in the next class.
9. FINAL DETAILING: So now again, I use this small
brush and do the bushes. That toilet paper is dry. Yellow ocher will be
for the highlights. If you feel your
colors are drying, you can always, you will expect some borderlands split again. And then again, we'll
have the purple, orange. It's going to be a nice
brownish tinges will give developing the
bushes like that. Mix the same color. Green. I'm hoping you remember the green little bit of orange. And really make some
shadows for this. The shadows would be
falling under bushes as late as falling from him. We can also add more
shadows over here. In fact, we can switch to a smaller brush and
start detailing out the cheese and bushes. They use. Silver brush number four. Now we can start giving
nice shape to the tree. You can start detailing
out like that. Not off shadows and
Orland right places. Bring the tree alive again. My God. This nice gentleman I learn more. Drawn to. You can also use
a liner brush for this. I think this is
solving the purpose, so I'm just doing it
with this one only. I'm just adding
some marks to show the cross and some
landscape urine there. Just to do some final touches
to grow your office today. I'm places you'd have to make the color very, very diluted. Anything. There's much work
being probably enough. We don't want to
overdo it because our focus is still the house. No. I just make some
nice green, violet. This nice dark orange. And just add the subtotal V0. There's some sort
of very dark brown. I'm just getting
some texture here. And then we're going to just
supposed to be very dark. I'm finishing touches
here and there. Just slide now and we can also give some branches to these. This should be very, very light because these are
in far distance. The contrary see much. I think that's about it. So,
but this painting is over. I'll see you in conclusion, and I'll show you the painting. A little zoomed manner, Isabel. Alright. See you guys.
10. CONCLUSION: So with this, we've completed
our final painting. So this is how it looks. I would really like to
see what you create. You can upload your work in
the class project section. So that will be your
class or Humbug. And I would love to see
how you've come up out. You don't have to use
the exact same colors. You can come up with
your own version of it. I would really love to see
what you create in this class. I hope this class
has helped you and you've been able to learn
something out of it. If you create this
artwork and if you upload it on your
social media pages, please do remember to tag me at Akanksha phi naught
and use my hashtag, hashtag extra fine arts. And this will help me to see your work and I'll be able to share it in my
stories as well. If you have any doubts, you can definitely ask in
the class description box or you can directly hit me on my Instagram page
or YouTube page. And it's under the name Akanksha find not only you can
ask your parents if you want me to create some
similar classes or something new or on
some particular topic, you can definitely
write to me and I will try my best to
create that class. Alright, I hope you enjoyed, and I hope you learned
a lot from this class. I will see you in
the next class. Take care, bye, bye. Happy painting.
Akanksha Agrawal, Fine artist & Graphic Illustrator
