Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hi, I'm ash, and welcome you to this class on landscape
painting with watercolors. Whether you're a beginner
to landscape painting or an artist who wants to
enhance painting skills. You are at the right place. In this step by
step master class, I will help you to master
landscape painting, which will in turn make
you a confident painter. This class is going to
be perfect for you, where I teach landscape
painting from scratch. So let's begin our
landscape painting journey, and I'm very excited to see
you in the upcoming lessons. Alright, seen in the next video.
2. Materials: And we'll come back
to a new video. In this video, I'll
be showing you do different brushes
which I use. First one is the fan brush. This is an worn fan
brush and it's not new. It's quite old, or you can
say it's quite used as well. If not old, it can
be quite used. With this, we can achieve
the textures of trees, paint the sky, of course, you can use a better
one for the sky. Yeah. In these two, I feel the left one is
better for painting skies. Of course, it's ya brushes. You can figure it
out. The next one, by the way, these
two are fan brushes, and this is a rigger brush. Bring it closer to the camera. Number two, rigger brush. Now with the rigger
brush, you can paint foreground grass and
you can paint fences, the accent highlight to fences, not the first at
highlight for the fences. You can use a filbert brush, a very thin filbert
brush to paint that. But in this class, I've used this rigger brush, the number two rigger
brush to paint the fences and to get the
accent highlight of the fences. Okay. And this one, also I've made use of this
one is it's a round brush, but as you see from the side, it looks like a flat brush. It's not a flat brush. It's a round brush, okay? And you will pretty much
use this to paint foliage, four crown elements works very similar to the rigor brush, as long as it is chiseled. Sometimes the worn
round brushes, you know, the bristles
are open like this. They're not flat, and you
cannot use them for painting. You know, crisp detailings like accent highlights
or, you know, painting different
things like leaves, four round leaves where
you're very specific about the shape of the
leaves, you can't use it. But of course, you can chisel
it by adding in some water. Now I've added some water, and you can also chisel this by adding a
little bit of paint, not water, more paint. Since this is in watercolors, you can add more paint to this and ill it out on the palette, go and keep the position right and you can chil
it out pretty easily. Yeah, so these are
the brushes which you can use on any
landscape painting, and it's universal. Okay. I'm not saying follow
the same landscape. You can do bit tweaks here
and there and you can change, you can experiment with
the colors with brushes. But for this class, I've used these four
brushes mainly. And in the upcoming classes, I'll show you more
about the brush, the usage of each brush, how to use it, how
to go about it, how to go about and
paint a landscape that looks professional, and how to make it
look realistic. Okay. Thank you.
3. Sketching For Reference: We'll come back to a new
video. In this video, let's go and sketch out the landscape that
you want to paint. So more than half of this
part above will be the sky. That's a good plan. Let's
drop in some basic outline. We got a reference. Also
it's known as the Horizon. I'm doing it very lightly because if you change
your mind later, you can just go and erase it
and there'll be no marks. Over here, we'll
have some trees, just basic little ones. This is just a basic sketch, and when you go ahead and paint, this will come into life. This will come to life rather and something over here too. Just sort of varying
the length height of each tree that are not the same no two trees are of
the same height. That's another trick. To get the depth in your
landscape paintings. Okay, something like that. So do just a bit. Okay, cool. And now maybe here we'll
have in some grass, some shiny grass and we'll
have some flowing over there. And what if you
have a house here? Okay, a basic one, not too complicated.
Okay, something like die. And be very careful.
Do it very lightly, very lightly and very gently. Something comes up here too, the roof part of it. This is going to add
in some depth as well. The perspective is
going to add in depth. Let's sort of sketch it right there and they don't have to be perfect.
That's the advantage. Don't have to be perfect. That's okay if they're a bit not aligned with your
idea, that's okay. Okay, something like that, and have a door as usual, there's a house you'll
have. Okay, so that's it. Sky, trees, house,
and some grass. Shining grass, I'll show you paint grass in
the later videos. Okay. But this is where you would go with en
landscape painting, the basic sketch. Alright? Yeah.
4. Evening Sky Painting: Hi, and we'll come
back to a new video. In this video, we'll be
seeing how to paint a sky. So it's an evening sky, and we'll have some
sun action there. Okay. So let me just
dip my brush in water, and the brush I'm using
for the sky is fan brush. It's an old brush. That's okay. In fact, it's a
bonus if you have an old brush because
the bristles will open as you can see from
the side, just focus that. Look at the bristles, if you
look at from this angle, it doesn't look like
a fan brush at all. If you look at it like
this, it's a fan brush. You can make it
out. Now, I'll take in some white and I will
dip my brush in water, just straight away, take
some water and some yellow, mostly white and yellow, looking for a very vibrant sky. And as I told you,
we have a sun. So just go ahead and mark where the sun is approximately don't
have to be perfect. One more thing, if you noticed, when I was planning
for this landscape, I used a pencil sketch. But for the sun, for the
sky and for the sun, I'm not use anything. Okay? This is just for the land, things which are there on land, like the house, trees, they live on land,
so you sketch them. But now the things
on sky, maybe, let's say you have a mountain,
then you can sketch. Okay. Before this one dries out, let's go ahead and sort of place in some beautiful
little glow in the sky. And be careful some of the
paints mixed with the sketch. Okay. I'm being super loose here because you have to go and blend this and a
decent amount of water, not too less, not too much. But yeah, decent water,
decent amount of water. Okay. That's cool. Let's take in one more step. And let's sort of finish
off this yellow part sky. And I've added some
white to lie Mellow, and this is watercolors. So it'll be pretty effective. Okay. So it's okay if
you come into a bit of if you come into the house
with a paint, that's okay. Little bit on the
house. That's okay. That's what we want
because everything should fit together
as you can see here. Alright. Now I'll take some
yellow and some orange. That's the mix of the
color as you can see, a soft orange color and dip
the brush again in water. Let's come here to the top. It's sort of blends. You can pretty much use this in any of your
landscape paintings, translate this into any
landscape paintings and that'll help
and that'll work. And it's very effective. Mark mark my words. It's very effective. Okay,
something like that. And let's come over here, too. We don't want to be we don't
want it to be too even. Okay. So that's another trick. Don't make it even,
make it really spread and don't let it be concentrating
in one single place. And this also act like clouds. Okay? This is also going
to act like clouds. Basic strokes, but
still effective to make it look realistic and
interesting, moreover, I'm sure when you want
to make your paintings look realistic and exciting, interesting, you can just say
you're on the right class. Simply just reduce the
size of the sun. Okay. In fork is this. Okay, let's take in some of the color and place it
right over here too. It blending it soft blend,
blending with colors. And this is dry. This is 90% dry already. Just put placing in some Paint
blended with some water, brushing water, not too much. Of course, this is
a watercolor paper, and this is considerably thick. This is considerably thick. I can bear some amount of
water or something like that. Cool. We're done with sky and let's go and paint in the
trees in the next video.
5. Painting Pine Trees: Hi, and we'll come
back to a new video. In this video, I'll be
demonstrating how to paint, pine trees somewhere in the background as well
as in the midground. If you look at this, it's
almost in the midground. So a simple little tip
that I want to give you here is this is a
landscape painting, and it's a sunset
or sunrise. Okay. So trees which are near to the
sun will be slightly warm. When I say warm, they'll be in orange or brown or some
red or some yellowish tones. Look at that in that
tone approximately. So that's square and paint that. Okay? It's going to
paint that very nicely. Covering the sketch of course. Wanted that sketch
to be seen and it's going to be pretty
mistye as you have seen. Yeah, that's the way
it is here and there. Now, I'll take some. I show
you on the same palette, I've taken in some lime
mellow and some black, not that dark, go transition into that
dark color as soon. I'll take that color
and let's come here in between want them
to be too defined. This is the same old brush. The thing is this is a new brush in a sense, the same brush. I'll replace it with new brush. But this is of the same type,
no change in the brush. You're just going
to tap it and make them look very light. Okay? And you want them
to look realistic. Don't you? Okay, let's come
up here, some more of that. This one will have very little. Yeah, I like it. I hope
you're liking it, too. Let's sort of come right
down here and sort of increase the
height of some trees. Yeah, that's the way
it's going to work. Okay. That's great. Take
in some more of it. And a pro tip here is, if you have seen, I've not added water for this
detailing because I want it detailed and I don't
want it to be somewhat, you know, like smudged trees or like that. These
are pine trees. These are very crisp, and you need some
detailings with top, especially if they're in the
middle or in the foreground. Oh, yeah, that's the way it is. I'm pretty much using
the same color. Just wearing the shade, just wearing the color, mixture, ratios, for example, here, I added some more
orange approximately. Yeah, so that you can get some variations in the
landscape painting. And I want you to achieve it. So I'm all out to explain it to you and sort of you can
place in some more of that. And in scrub, you lose
a lot of retailing. That's the reason you can
tap it and it'll help you. Okay, cool. I like that part. Okay, so let's mo on
to the next video.
6. Grass Painting: Hi, and we'll come
back to this video. In this video, let's go and
see how to paint Grass. Okay? So let's see
how to paint a grass. So after getting
some limo this is the same old brush shown
when I was painting the sky. Okay? And just sort of
tapping it, not too much. It's not that hard, but
it's very effective. Okay, and I'm not adding water. Okay, if I'm adding
water, I'll let you know, but just, you know, for you to be on the safer side. I'm telling you don't
add water for this. One more thing if you add water, it'll be good for
the time being, you can blend, you
can do all that. But one disadvantage of adding water is after
it's going to dry, it will dry a shade lower. For example, blacks would
look like gray almost. So you'll not get that effect
of black if you add water. Not only black, any
color for that matter. I'm just letting you know, okay? And something over
here, blending it. Yeah. That's what
I wanted and I'll take some black
straightaway some black. Let's come right in here and
drop in more of that color. Maybe if you want,
let's not do that now. If you want to go
and add more of that darkness here blend it. There's a bit. That's cool. And something over here too
just add in some contrast. Again that light sky
and these dark trees. And I'm liking it.
I like this method. This is the method I use in most of my landscape
paintings, okay? And here, too, just a tap it. Don't want to
scrub, don't blend. Okay, don't add water. Just sort of you know, tap it. That's it. Just go to tap it. And
let's come over here to before it's too
late and it dries. Let's come over here
and start placing in the shadows and some mid tones, this will mix with
this and mid tone, the black will mix with yellow, yellow limelO lemon lo. Sometimes you see that
labeled as lemon lo or limlo. Both are almost the same. You don't have to
worry about it. Okay, so that here I can
afford to scrap because this is not that detailed, okay? Scrubbing to get the basic
overall texture. Okay. Okay, just took a pause
and I took in some limeno. Yeah, this works. This totally works,
and I'm happy with it. Okay? Just a bit
over here and there. That's it. When yellow
and black mixed together, you get a beautiful
little green color. And if you add yellow
ochre and black, you'll get a natural
little color. If you're going to
add some lime mellow or cadmium low with the black, then it will give you a slightly different
shade of green. That's okay. That's
still earthy green. You can use that for
painting grass, all that. Pretty straightforward
technique and very effective as well. Okay. It's coming
into the black. I sort of play more of
that color or that paint, rather, whatever
you want to say. Okay. Yeah. That's cool. Painting the grass is very
important in landscape, especially in
landscape like this. And you can pretty much translate these things into any of the landscape paintings. For example, the tree, the sky, the grass, the
house, all of that, you can pretty much, you know, translate that into any of
the landscape paintings. Now, I'll take in some
yellow and drop it in here. Don't tap too hard because we don't want
the black to come out. I'm using again, to
be more precise, I'm using the same fan brush. Okay, let's do it in layers. That's a trick. Let's
do it in layers. You got a lot of depth. There are two ways or many
ways you can get depth. Some of the techniques which
I used to get the depth is through color that is
further towards the sun, and this is almost
in the foreground. And that's by color. You get
depth by color and depth by shape and depth
by layering. Okay? That's the way you get it. Yeah, something
comes out like that. Yeah, I'm liking it.
That's pretty cool. Okay. Yeah. So let's go and paint the house
with a different brush.
7. House Painting: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video, I'll be demonstrating how
to paint a house. Okay. So I'll just zoom in. And move to paper this side. Okay. So on a new palette, have three colors black, white, and brown,
all are watercolors. So we'll take in some white. You would have gets
it right because white is the lightest
color almost, and this is near to the sun. Okay, let's su and make the
sun a bit more defined. If you want, you know, if you lost the shape of the sun or you want the sun to be, you know, very precise, then you can add this
sort of blending it. Yeah. That's cool. Okay. By the way, let's come back to
this and put in some white and some brown. Okay. And if you want, you can definitely
take some limo I'm taking it from
the leftovers. Mostly brown and you
can see here. Okay. It's going to be
brown thick paint. Can get rid of that paint and wooden faces, but
I'll go directly. Okay, something like Of course, you can go back and
have a clear cut out of the house by
adding in some brass. Something color, some
of the bright colors on the pad I place it
right over here. By the way, this
is a round brush, a medium sized round brush, not too big, not too small. I place it in fight over here. Cooling. I like it. Let's see some black
and the sauce. Use it right over here and take off the paint
from the bottom. Okay. And in some white. Just some white and come here and paint in the
roof of that house. It's some gray and as
it's going to come down, we'll add in some more black. I flatten the brush. Of course, if it's
a bigger painting, you can use a three
quarter inch brush or the fan a new fan brush. Okay. Because you want it to be, you know, flat, at the
tip of the brush. Okay? That's the way we are
going to paint the house and just wipe off my brush
for the sake of blending. And let's come right over
here and put in some blend. I'll take in some
more of that color and place it there for the sake of good blending.
Yeah, I like it. Just follow these steps and I'm sure you're going to do it. There's a bit there. Take offs paint off the brush. Let's come right about here. Add the blue on the
beautiful little roof. You don't want this
to be over blended, you want it to look like a
paint and here we'll add in some chimney and Black. Just in some black. Yeah, I like Okay. Again, take off the excess
paint off the brush and let's blend them together and take
in some more white. This is all about experimenting. Okay? Let's sort of
lend that there. Okay. Yeah. So that's the way
we paint the house. And let's do in a very bright
color in the same brush, and I'm not going to, you
know, add in some water. Now I've stopped
adding in water. We need it even darker. So I'll take some black. Yeah. Okay, so we've
painted everything. So you need to go
paint the wall, the back wall of the house. So beautiful little. Let me show you a beautiful
little brownish gray colour, grayish pn whatever. Yeah. She will take that. Let's come back about here. There's that color. Yeah. If you want, you can add in some water where you
feel you don't want much detailing and you
can skip the process. Like you can fasten the process. You can quicken the process by adding water,
but not in detail. Never in a detailing spot. Especially you want
to get some texture or you want to get depth. Don't add water. Okay, now, I just wipe off the brush
again over a cloth. Normal cloth. I'm not using tissue papers here
and don't use it. Let's come over here and give it a beautiful
little blend. That will make you look
realistic and interesting. Talk. He. As usual, we will take in some lightons of
white and yellow, Lime yellow. Let's pit here. That's way too much.
Gonna take apex pin. He's this. Yeah, we'll look at that later. Just a bit over here and there. Add in some glue on that
house near the sun. We'll look into that part later. Okay. We have a house. I'll take in some white, just some white. That's becoming black. Now I'll mix it some peach
color by using in some brown, a little bit of
flamlo and white. It's come back over
here and fix this. I want this to be even brighter. Let's go to fix that. Pretty much the same brush, the detail, not detail. This is the round brush. What do you think
you try to do that? To, you can also shape the
house, the door all the time. So I'm missing it. This is the palette,
new palette. That's my palette for today. Blend of black should
kind of help it. I paint over there. Just a bit, and we'll
wipe off the brush once again and blend this
very soft blend. Don't want this to too much. Now I'll go into some black, which is behind me. Let's come here and
place in that color. Yeah, a little bit over here, the top as well. Just a bit to make it even. A. So let me just zoom out. This is the way your
landscapes going to look like, and moreover, let's go ahead to the next video
and add some fence. And I'm very excited
to show you. Okay.
8. Painting Fence: And we'll come back
to a new video. In this video, we'll
go ahead and paint some fence to this landscape. Okay. So for that, I've taken in some
black and some brown. Again, all are watercolors, and I'm using that
same round brush. So decide where
you want to fence. Let's say we want one over here. Yeah, on over there. And I'll just show
the perspective. This is in the foreground. So make the tallest fence
first and keep that as a reference and make
other fence a bit smaller. Yeah. So this cannot
be the same size or more than this unless until you have a
different plant. So let's sort of come right over here and place in
more of that color. Yeah. And I've taken some
black and brown, that's it. Yeah, something like that,
and a bit here and there. Look at that. That's going
to lead you to the painting, to the house, to the sky, the trees, all of that. Okay let's flatten the brush
even more. Look at that. It looks chiseled, let's play some word they don't
have to be perfect. Yeah, they don't
have to be perfect. It's a bit here and there. We'll make it look even more realistic and more
professional, by the way. As it's going to go by,
it's going to get thinner, very thin and not that defined. Okay. And we'll wait for this dry for two or 3
minutes and it'll come back. Okay, so now we are back, and I've taken some each color, beautiful little brownish color. So add some white. You ocre and just
a touch of brown. This is a rigger brush. We can think of it as it's a bigger version of
the lineup brush. I hope you know what
a lineup brush is. Let's come right over
here. The sun is there, angles are going
to matter a lot. And this is not a very bright
color. Just here and there. And never go too bright
in the first coat itself. I will save that for the later part of
painting, of course, we have to go with
the highlights, but not so early and
they blend them. I give that soft feel. Yeah, I like that. They blend. You could make use of a blender
brush, but, of course, acrylx as far as I
have painted till now. I've not used blender brush in acrylx because it's
going to dry very quick. Okay, something like that. Come over here too,
and more frightening. The main thing which I'm looking on this particular fence, the time I'm spending on this fence will not be
the same for all these. It'll be even less because
this is in the fourth prong. Yeah, and it has to be detailed. Just load it like that,
and we'll go ahead and add accent highlights to that. So let's take in some
white and some loco. And no water is added,
something like die. You die? It's that easy and it's effective
at the same time. Yeah. If you can try the brush, or you can wipe off excess paint from the brush and you can just come back and blend it with color or with
dry brush tnding technique, which is a very
famous technique in acrylics and
watercolors as well. Let's come over here and basic little texture.
Don't want too much. Just a bit This has
to even brighter compared to this
because it's closer to the sun. Hope that makes sense. Let's come on this one, this will get even
brighter, but less paint. Going to go with the highlights
in the first code itself. We don't want to have too
much detailing there. Okay. Wipe off the brush. Sting of the excess
paint off the brush or almost more paint
from the brush. Not only is, you can take
off the entire paint from the brush and come back and
you sort of blend this. Don't add water.
If you add water, the plaque will get triggered. Okay? So the black
which we painted for the fence will get triggered and you will get darker color. So don't add water
in the details. That's a simple trick
which will work. The sun is there,
we have to change. This is a different type of painting which you
can translate to your landscapes that same batch let's go over it and this will
place it right over there. Soft blend and this
will have motion. And we need to add the
shadows to the fence as well. Don't forget that. Dry as you will not have that much contract compared to these two. So let's take in
some more paint. They thick paint of whiteout
cleaning the brush. It paint right here and there. Okay? Maybe let's get in some plant action and let's of textures with
help of flack yeah. Blended with dry brush
planning technique. Yeah. That looks quite decent. We need some more
contrast for that. Let's go ahead and
listen some brown, some warmer colors with black. Is a very good color
to be used with black. Yeah. Make it that. So we'll go ahead
with some more black, and let's sort of, you know, place in some shadows. I think we can use
the fan brush. Okay? So I'm going to load
the brush this. I need to add in some black
and I'll be in a minute. As you can see, this is the same brush which I
used before for the sky. Now we'll take in some
black. That not too much. Just one side of the
brush where it's flat. Figure it out where it's
flat and then you can. It's not there.
That's not the thing. The shadow is not going to be there because the sun is there. So the shadow will be over here. And you're soft blind with
the finger or the fan brush. Okay? This will be
slightly like this. There's indications. That's it. Nothing
too complicated. And follow angles of the sun the direction the
light is coming from. Something like that. In a lot
of paint again not a lot, paint, we can blend that
easily pretty easily. Take of excess paint
off the paper. Place it in right over there
and something over here too. But Yeah. Now, we will go
ahead and fix that. So for that, I'll take
in some fan brush. And an old fan brush
and some lamino. Okay. That's sort of coming and placing
more of that color. Yeah. I sort of placing the basic little things which make the painting look good. Or you can even put the painting with more perfshion.
You get that? Just a bit over here and there. Yeah. And something
comes over here too. Now the last thing
we're going to do is head in some
birds in the sky. You can hear me,
there are some birds chirping in the background. Let's come here and
pay some bird action. Yeah. Maybe another one. These are the final details to bring your paintings to life. Okay. Something like that, but here and there
should kind of fine. A very thin stroke. Okay. And now, lastly, let's come over here
and add in some of the shadows so that they
get blended or not there. But it's here,
simple. Something to. Yeah, you can use the
round brush instead of the fan brush for placing the shadows. Something like that. The last thing, what I'm
going to do is go and add some mass and highlight
with a much better color. Okay? Something here too. And I'm using the
rigor brush for this. Change to touch. Okay, so with this, I come
to the end of this class. I hope I've added some
value to your knowledge, and please leave your reviews as I want to take some
feedback from my students. So please leave
your reviews, okay? And this landscape painting, don't just think of this
as a landscape painting. You can pretty much
play around with this, the tones, the shadows, the contrast, the
brightness, all of that. And you can get a
different painting. Maybe instead of the orange sky, you can have a blue sky. Okay, then these things will
be less warmer and more, you know, it will
be even greener. So that's some of the things
which you can experience. But yeah, this painting is
good enough for you to, you know, show you how
to paint a landscape, the perspective,
and all of that. Okay. Again, please leave your reviews. Thanks
for watching.
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