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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. This is mega annual watercolor artist
based in Bangladesh, India. I'm also the founder
of by the art bug. In this class we are
going ahead and painting are beautiful and
read drastic door, which is vintage style. I will take you
step-by-step and tell you all the materials and tools that you will need
for this class, how to add all the different
details and the textures without any further delay. Let's start with this class.
2. Materials: Let's go ahead and have
a look at the materials. The first one is the paper. This is a 100% cotton, 300 GSM. The next one is the watercolors. I'm using my Winsor and
Newton watercolor set. And along with that, this red, which is the pyrrole
red from Daniel Smith. And I'm just adding
this to this palette. Then I have my number eight
round brush from Princeton, along with that
two jars of water. Images advice all the time with watercolors because
one you can use for washing the
brush and one you can use whenever you
need clear water. You will also need the
sketch of the door. So if you want, you
can draw it or you can also go ahead and print
it out and trace it. And before painting
we have to just erase it and make it
a little bit lighter. We will start with the
background and the next spot.
3. Background: Let's start with painting
the base for that. I'm just going
ahead and applying some clean water as a
wash onto the sides. If you're worried
about your paper getting buckled or
wrinkle than they will always go ahead and
use some masking tape and tape it to a board
or to your table. Once you have nice and
clean layer of water, you can go and pick
up any gray color or any other color that you wish to apply as a background. For that, I will just
take some color on the tip of my brush
and I will start dropping it onto this and then gradually we will be spreading
it and blending it in. Make sure that you have
enough and ice water. And also at the same time, there are no puddles in that. You can mix your own
gray or you can use any of the grades that
are there in your palate. I'm just mixing up
a little bit of black with one of the
blues that I have here. And just adding more color to
the sides and the corners. And then a little bit the
center here and there and then blending it up all nicely
while the water is still wet, the paper is still wet. Just like this. Keep applying a little bit of paint and keep on blending it. Same thing you have to repeat, but the other side as well. For this mini plant
here and just using sap green from the palette
and as you can see, eyes is first applied
a little bit of water and then again using
the tip of the brush, I'm dropping in the paint
and then just spreading it. You can vary this a little bit, make it lighter from a few sides and darker
from the other. If you're imagining
that the light is coming on from the right side, then you can leave
the light right side, lighter, and the left
side a little bit darker. In the next lesson,
we will go ahead and start painting our
bougainvillea tree.
4. Bougainvillea: The bougainvillea
first you can add water to it and then add
the pyrrole red from Daniel Smith because
we are going to match the flowers with the
doors of Pablo gorillas. And using this nice,
beautiful bright red. Just like this, you'll
have to keep on dropping color somewhere light
and somewhere dark. Wherever you want the
flowers to be darker, you can take more
pigment and when, wherever you want them lighter, you can take less pigment. And make sure that you are first applying a clean layer
of water so that the flowers blend in nicely and they look
more prettier that way. You can see that the flowers
that as it is drying, they're becoming more lighter
and they are blending in. So that's why we need a
lot of learning in this. Now we could also start with
the green if you wanted, you can apply a clear
water for this. But since for this one you, if you don't want
too much spreading, then you can just go ahead and start with the green
color directly on your brush because
we don't want the green and red to mix into much. For this, I'm just
using wet on dry. And also could remember where you are painting the
flowers over the door. You have to first erase the
pencil lines from that part. For the green also, we have
to use the same technique. The first layer will
be a little lighter, so I'm using very less
pigment and just dropping in like dots from the tip of
my brush to meet the leaves. So that's about it. We can just leave it here
and come back to it later. And in the next part, we will go ahead
and start our door.
5. Start the Door: The door also, we will be using
the wet on wet technique, so I'll just take some
clean water and apply a wash. Then going to start adding the
viral read the door. We want to give our door
a little bit of Fintech. I'm just applying a very
little yellowish brown with the flat brush and doing one
more layer of water first. And then we'll start adding the viral read,
which I have here. Make sure that you
are using very light because we don't
want it to be very dark. Otherwise the red of
change its color. Once this is done and
the paper is still wet, we'll start applying the red. As you can see, I'm applying
it in lines like this. And then it will naturally and gradually go ahead
and spread up. Just like this carefully, you have to do the outline. And then again towards the
right side you can apply a little bit less pigment as we assumed that the light is
coming from the right. Just reducing the
red a little bit. That's how watercolors work. When you want to show shadow, you can add darker
pigment and when you want to show light, you can just add less pigment
and add more water to it. If you are painting along again, just follow what I'm
doing or you can also do your own
version is keep in mind that the places which are in
the shadow will be a little bit darker and the polices which are in the light
will be lighter. That's all for the door for now. We can just go ahead and add a second layer
to the eigenvalue. For this layer, we
will only do wet on dry because we don't want the color to spread
too much this time. So I'm just taking a little
bit color on my brush, the tip of my brush, and then just putting random
dots here and there at a distance so that
it gives the feeling of flowers which are a
little bit brighter. And we also don't want to
cover the whole thing. The little light red which was behind in the first layer
has to be seen from here. So just be careful about that. And just continue with this
dark pigment on the tip of your brush and just
supply random dots like this to create
the effect of flowers. Later on we will be
adding on more color to it to highlight it even more. Okay, so for the next layer, you can mix a little bit of
black or a little bit of brown to your red to just
deepen it or darken it. Then again, you will
apply the same thing, but this time you
will have to do it a little bit lesser than
the bright red that we did, the full Sb remote want too
much black or too much dark. So just to create the
effect of shadow, darker color, we'll just put
a little bit here and there, add a few random places. And you can already see
how it is highlighting and the flowers are
just popping out of the paper and it is
looking so pretty. The next part we'll go ahead and do the stem or the
trunk of the Bogan Berlin, and also add a little
bit more highlights to the green the same way
as we did with the red.
6. Painting the Trunk: Here I'm using a
little bit black. This is from Winsor and
Newton only for the stem, so we'll be adding a little
bit black to the brown, the burnt umber, and making
a little bit darker shade. Just take a little black
and mix it with the brown. Just like this. Then we'll go ahead
and apply it onto the trunk or the stem
of the building, really a tree in-between. You can just keep on washing
your brush a little. If you weren't lighter
color, wherever you want, darker color, you can pick up more pigment on the
brush and just apply it. Since this is a thin and a
little bit delicate part, you can just use the tip
of the brush and apply very little pressure to get
those nice and fine lines. Just keep on following the pencil outline as a guide and keep on
adding the brown, blackish brown to the stem
part of the Balkan video. Stem is done. We have to add the highlights to
the green part. So again, I'm taking the sap
green and it's the ArcGIS. You can either mix it
with brown or black to create a darker
Huo darker color. And then same thing we will do, we'll apply it and dots. Again, we will be using wet on dry because we don't want too
much bleeding or blending. We want to highlight. Just like this,
we will apply it. Yes, using the tip of the
brush and randomly applying a color and create
beautiful depth. The treaty effect. You can just use
your own judgment. How would you feel if
you want to add more, you can add more to the
green or to the red. But for me it's mostly done now. And we'll do a little bit of mortar jobs in the end
if they are needed. And in the next
part of this class, we will go ahead and start
adding color or pigment to the brick highlights
which we have around the door on this arch
that you see here.
7. Start the Brick Arch: So far the bricks also we will be doing a bit of layering. First of all, as usual,
we are doing wet-on-wet. So start with fresh and
clean wash of water, mixture of brushes
nice and washed. Just applying the water evenly. You don't want any puddles or we don't want it to be too dry. Also, just follow the
outline of the pencil. And firstly, I'm using ocher
yellow, so very light. And then just mix it, mix it with a little red
to darken mentality, give it that little dark hint, and then just spreading
is nicely and evenly as a first layer read, you have to use
just to spread it nicely all over. Just like this. Once this is done
as a second layer, we'll start adding a little
bit off more brown colors. Here I'm using burnt sienna and then just adding
a little bit, as you can see in the video, that how I'm applying
it a little, little on all the bricks and also varying the
hue of the color. Some replaces I'm using dark and some places I'm
using light and also leaving space so
that you can see the first layer that
we did, the need. Just continue doing
same on both the sides. Then again, we'll start with
a darker layer of the brown. If you don't have these
bronze availability, you can use any other
browns that you have. So this is the burnt umber. Again, I'm just
following the brakes and adding a little bit
darker here and there. A few of them are lighter, leaving spaces
in-between so that you can still see the first
layer at some places. Just repeat this
on both the sides. So as you can see as we
move up on the layers, they become a little
bit more defined. Now you can clearly see
how the brakes are looking separate and different than
they are just popping out. That is what learning
will help us do. Finally, this white part
which we had loved before, just with ocher yellow. I'm just going and
filling it in. Just a little bit
fragment and then just spread it all over and
blended in nicely. Before we move ahead, Let's also add a few jobs to this mini plant which we had. I'm done earlier
the first layer. So for the second layer, again, I'm wetting it first
with clean water and then applying a little
bit darker green, the sap green as
it is from here. And later on you can add
a little bit brown and black and then add your
third layer to it. So just random dots, just using the tip
of the brush and keeping my hand very
light and very free. Now we can add the third color, which is green but
very dark one. And as we did with
the Bogan video, we're not going to put
this darker one too much, a little bit here and there. Let's go ahead and
add a little bit of more greens underneath
the book on video. So I'm just taking up
first wetting the paper, a GUID we're doing wet on wet and then just randomly putting green color on both
the sides like this. As you can see, since
the paper is wet, the color will just spread. And then again, we will use the same techniques of
layering that we used before to add more depth and more
detailing to the spot as well. If your color spreads too much, you can always use the
tissue technique and then just dab it with there
and soak the extra color, all the extra water up. Seemed that the base apply
some clean water and then take some green
or brown or green, whatever you prefer and then just add the color and then
just keep on spreading it. You have to add a little bit
more to create variation. As you can see, the step in front of the door there we
can add a little bit dark, we cannot make the
brown and then just nicely spread it and blend it in to clear that
lovely height effect. And add on more detailing. You can add a little
bit more darker color near the spot to make it darker. Also, create the
effect of shadow here. Because clearly we assume that the light is coming from
the right-hand side, so the shadow of the port
will fall like this here. More detail with shadows
we will do in the end. And also let's go ahead and
add some color to the port. Since then the door
is already read, Let's add some different
contrasting colors. So I'm using my blue here. You can use any blue that
you have, cobalt blue, civilian blue, blue
that you like. And I'm just adding this here. So it's not too bright, but still it creates a beautiful contrasts
with our red dough here. And same rules we have to
follow here of light and dark. The left side will be darker or more pigment will go there, and the right side will
be a little lighter. So we just spread the color there and keep it
nice and light it. In the next part of this class, we will go ahead and add more details to the
plants that you see here, what it is to the door
and we also have to paint our lamp and the house numbers are Let's hop on
to the next spot.
8. Painting more Elements: Okay, so in this part we
will add a little bit of more highlights.
The plants here. I have just taken a
little bit of black. You can also mix green and the black if you don't prefer
painting with black. I'm just adding some
highlights here, just blending the
color a little. You can keep on adding
a little bit of more highlights to the
part in front of the tool. You can use any of
the Browns, blacks, Greece, whatever you
prefer for this, for this green bed
here you can again go ahead and add
the second layer. So again, we are
doing wet on dry with a darker shade of
green and let it bleed. Or you can add a third one
which is even dark Good, create the shadows and
keep that one minima. Let's start painting
outdoor light or the lamp that you see here. So you can use any colors from black to gray to dark
blue to do this. Using black and just
using the tip of the brush outlining the lamp. And then later we will just
go ahead and blend this in. For this bottom part, we can just leave
the lines as is, so you can just draw the
lines very lightly here. Same thing with
the house number. You can just use the tip of the brush and paint
on the number. You can use the pencil
as a guideline. Also, you can do a little
bit of dry brushing that is used very little
pigment and water. And then just rub
your brush on it just to highlight the
number plate a little bit. Then we can just
go ahead and blend the top part of the lamp. Again, follow the same rule of light which is coming
from the right side. So keep that lighter and keep the left side a
little bit of darker. For the glass part of the light, you can just use a
little bit blue, mix it with the black
to create a gray. And then just add
it very lightly and then just blend it
in with more water. We don't want to
put too much color. We just want to put a little
bit of highlight here. That's all for this next part, we'll go ahead and highlight
our door a little bit more.
9. More details on the Door: Okay, so let's start with the
detailing on the door now. So again, I'm using
the pyrrole red. And as you can see
that the dual we have made is made up of wood panels. So we will do panel by panel, and I'm also doing a little
bit of dry brushing here. That means that I have
pigment on my brush, but the brushes not very wet. And then I'm just
scrapping the brush gently on the piper to get
this kind of effect, which is called
the dry brushing. It will give a nice
beautiful effect of worn-out paint from
the wooden door. Just like this slowly, you have to do panel by panel. You can vary the paint also a little bit to show a little bit of
distress on the door. It's a painted wooden door. And you can see how Dr. Rushing creates such a lovely
and pretty effect. That's the technique basically
that we are going to use and I'm doing
it panel by panel. So you can clearly
see the difference between the different
panels on the tool, mostly using the dry
brush technique. You can finish all the
panels on the door. Once we are done with the
red will take a little bit black on the tip
of the brush and we'll fill in the gap
in-between the panels so you can see how I'm
moving my hand a few places. I'm doing very thin line
and add a few places. I'm just pressing the brush gently to widen the
gap a little bit. So this is the same
thing that you have to repeat in between
all the panels. Just like this. Wherever you want to widen the
gap a little bit. And if you do it uneven, then it looks really nice and has that perfect
vintage look. Since we are doing a cottage
country style vintage effect will also take a
little bit of brown. So I'm using burnt
umber here and then again I'm dry
brushing it over the red to create a little bit of worn-out or old would effect for this brown one. We are
not going to overdo it. So I have done it on one of the side panels and then I'm doing it more on
the bottom here. As you can see in the close-up, just a little bit of
dry brushing like this. Weekend do on the top as well. Adding a bid-offer read
again to the panels just to highlight even more and make the red pop
out a little bit. You have to do this carefully
because we don't want to win the dry brush effect
that we did before. So only in-between the gaps where the color is very light. You can fill it up as n. When you paint, you can just use the colors as body or
preference for the door. What do we desire is a vintage
kind of wooden effect. So make sure that you
are getting that. Let's do a little bit
of touch-up here in the gap between the
plant and the door. Just adding a little
bit more color here. We are mostly done with this. And in the next
spot we'll go and add highlights to
the brick arch.
10. Highlight Brick Arch: Here I'm mixing a
little bit brown, which is the burnt umber here. If you want, you can add
a little bit of black to it like this. And then we will be using the
tip of the brush and doing some highlights just to make the brick area pop out a little. I'm just very loosely and lightly outlining
the bricks here. As you can see, just like this. Then again, we will repeat
the dry brushing techniques. So this time we will do
it with burnt umber. And as you can see, I am doing it on
the brakes very, very lightly and randomly, who just follow this back on. And then you'll get that nice,
beautiful textured effect. That is also defined the bricks on the inside part of the arch. Let's fill color in
the door knocker. I'm just using black here and
using the tip of the brush. Just outlining it. Like this. Let's add a little bit
of more detailing here. So what I'm doing is adding these graphics just using black and just using
the tip of the brush. So for this, you have
to have a steady hand. If you find it difficult to do this, the larger
number of brush, you can always use a detailing
or a smaller number brush. In one go you have
to do you cannot overlap or do this
over and over again. So just lightly
creating this nice, beautiful Greg in the wall. Then we have to do the
brakes on this side using the same technique as we used before to do the brakes
on the other side. Adding a little bit of
dark color to this side to show a little bit of
shadow, shadowed areas. Just I haven't looked
a bit black and then just leaving it up on the red. Adding a few more details, the same drugs that
we did before on the other side get repeat a few years on
this side as well. Let's add a little bit of more detailing to this part
in front of the door. Just adding darker color. You can use brown or black,
whichever you prefer. Brown is a little bit torn down on black will create very dark. So it's always a good idea
to use either brown or gray. Just mixing and blending
the colors in nicely. Then again to add texture and variation, some dry brushing. That's all for now. If you find, you can add a little
bit of more highlights and then I'm mixing the
color to add shadows, which we will go ahead
and do in the next spot. So just mixing a
little bit of blue in black and then adding
lots of water to it. And we'll see how to
create the shadows on the bougainvillea and other
parts. In the next part.
11. Shadows & Finishing Touches: Okay, so now we are mostly
done with the painting. And the most important part is adding the highlights
or the shadows, which we will do
in this last part. As I told you before, I have an extra little
bit of blue and black and added lots
of water to it. So this is a technique that we will use to create shadows. And I'm just doing a
layer of that under the flowers and the leaves a
little bit here and there. And as we did before, we assume that the light is coming from the right-hand side. So just keep in mind wherever
you are putting the shadow, it has to be on
the opposite side. And then further trunk. I'm just taking the color and this mimicking does follow the shape of the trunk and
try to do this in one goal. You can stop in between, but don't try to overdo and
overlap it again and again. Otherwise, if not,
look very nice for adding shadows, all I'm doing is using that
mix of gray and black with lots of water
and then just, um, mimicking the shape or following
the shape of the object behind which we want to
put the shadow like this. And then we can go ahead and do some in the arch of the door. So we'll just follow the art. Since we have to
do this in one go, you have to be really
patient and careful. You can always practice
this on a scrap paper. If you're not very confident. Just follow exists are. Because if you overdo it, the red will start
building of and a lot of mixing and smudging and all
muddy colors will come off. On the inside part
of the brick arch. Also adding some shadow
to the door knocker. Let's do a little
bit of touching up on our board as well. Adding more shadows
near the thought. The final part, we'll
just go ahead and add some fallen
flavors on the ground. So I'm just taking
some viral, read. Very, very deep color, lots of pigment and then just placing some random dots
on the ground here. Make sure that you
don't overdo this. Okay, so that's
about this class and I hope you enjoyed
painting this with me. And in the next spot I will tell you about your
class project, what you have to do and
what you have to submit it.
12. Class Project: Alright, so that's it
for your class project. I just want you to repeat the same painting
that we did today. Just follow all the techniques and ideas that I have
shared and paint your own version and I hope you liked it
and I will see you in my next class. Before we end. I will also like to remind you that if you liked my class, don't forget to leave
a review for me. And I'm looking forward to
your submissions. Thank you.
Megha Cassandra, byTheArtBug - Artist, Crafter & Educator
