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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. 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.
2. Blue Mountain Ranges: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video, let's
go and see how to paint in some
background mountains. As you can see, I
have a fan brush and I have some white and some
Persian blue going on. I'm using watercolors mainly. Most of the colors used in
this painting are watercolors, and this is a watercolor paper, which is approximately the
size of an A four sheet. Okay? Let's take some white
because that's distant, so we definitely need white. And more importantly, we choose the color blue because
we want distance. Blue is is cool in value. It's not warm at all. So we can take in
some of this color, come right away here. Yeah, that's the right place. Look at that beautiful beautiful you can
cut in the mountain. And you can add in some
water if you want. I added just few drops of
water to get that fine edge, but still this is
in the background. So lack of detailing
helps helps a lot. Yeah. And I have to come
towards the bottom. It's not too late to
add in some white. Same brush, take in some white. Simple. And I'm doing
this one paint is wet because to blend the colors, paint the preliminary
rule is that the paint has to be wet and there should be
minimum two colors. Otherwise, of course, there is dry brush blending
technique as well. But we're not looking
for that. We're looking for some smooth blend. Dry brush blending can
leave some harsh edges. So don't want to use that here because this is in
the background. And over there, look at that. Here and over here,
as you can see, I'll just add in
some more white so that it's less vibrant, less vibrant, and the attention of the view goes straight
into your painting. Okay, so with that set, go back to the palette taking
some more of the blue. Oh, that's way too
much. That's okay. We can take in more
of that and take in a lot of white because
I've taken in a lot of blue. It's sort of come
right over here. And the trick is, you
should have a lot of mist. And let's sort of come
right over there. Yeah. I like it. So it's come right
away here and there and sort of drop in that color. Maybe we'll have in
some huge pine trees, but still we want that dgrowd. I've added a few
drops of water again. Okay. I sort of
placing that color. And preferably, I use
Prussian blue because it's vibrant and it gets a lot of
depth into your painting. You can even use cobalt blue. That's fine, as well.
As this is sorry, this is a watercolor painting. I will dry very quick. So I have to be quick enough to get the elements
at the right time. Let's take in some white, same principle that we use
on the mountain behind this. Let's create a lot of mist, huge amount of mist. Maybe more of that paint. Yeah, there we go. Oh, yeah, that's more like it. It's something here too. And you can see a
small little like, things popping up over here, over here and all,
like pine trees, that's a bonus because we want those things minute things to make this painting
look realistic. In the next video, let's go and see how to paint in
some trees over here.
3. Mid Ground Trees: Hi, and we'll come
back to video. In this video, let's go
and see how to paint in some bushes some tree, foliage things over here. So I've taken this brush. It is the fan brush, and I'll go in some
black straight into some black because when
I say it's over here, it's not in the foreground. It's somewhere in the
midground, so we need some grayish shade as well, don't pure black, simple. And it'll be shorter compared to these two because we
want in depth, okay? So that's sort of great here. And yeah, yeah, that's
the color I wanted. Look that it's mixing with
that blue and it's turning gray. That's more like it. Yeah, there we go.
Yeah, I like it. And if you want, if
at all you want, you can sort of come over here
and add in some darkness, some extra foliage, extra sheets to make it look
interesting and realistic. Yeah, there we go. That's good. I hope you're liking it. So now, I'll let this to dry
for about five to 6 minutes, and let's go and add
some highlights. Okay. So let's take in some limel that same fan brush with
which we painted that. I cleaned this brush with
water, so it's night. It's nice, bright and clear. I'll take in some
green, lot of green. This is sap green,
and this is limel. So take some green. We'll take it with a greenish side today. It depends on your mood
and it's total au. But Okay, so let's
come over here and start dropping some of these tiny little
details over here. Yeah, that's more like
it. Tape in there. And I'm assuming that
these are pine trees. So look at the way I'm doing it when I'm
playing the highlights. Some are big, some are small, some are on the front,
some are at the back. Yeah. That looks good, you know, when you look back
from a few inches. If you're painting on a canvas, just make sure you look
back at a painting. Now, I've taken more
of sap green and let's here from this four prop. I might use the I could
have used, in fact, you know, the modified fat
brush if you know me before. I've used that brush, and
it's very good for this, this should lack
some detailings. You should not get complete
detailings to be honest. So I'm doing with
the fan brush to get a generic shape
and approach. I'll right? We go
here. Sort taping. Yeah. It's add in some axopyides for these and
let's come right over here. Imagine the shape of a pine tree and dropping it
right over there. Yeah, there we go. You
can bring them a bit up. What? Yeah, there we go. Now, to get in some contrast, I'll take in some
black and some blue. Just a light mix, and it came off on a paper towel or on a cloth or a
rag. That's okay. But it sort of comma here and pleasing here at the bottom. That's the trick.
Soft pleasing at the bottom plays a major
role here. Look at that. Sort of and as we go towards the background that is there, we reduce the pressure because we don't want
a lot of textures. The textures
indicate some depth. So we don't want that.
So sort do here, sir. Look at that. Okay,
so in the next photo, let's go out and see how
to paint in some grasses.
4. Grass: And we'll come back to a
new video in this video, let's go and see how to paint some grasses professionally. So for that, I'll take in
some limel and some green. I just come over here and use the tapping technique
to get in the grasses. Of course, you can
go back and add in the highlights when you want, and it's sort all the way
down till there. Yeah. We want some there as well. That sort of brightens
color by adding some limel or lemon
both are the same. If not the same, they
might be different, but the functionality
is the same. They give a lot of
brightness to your painting. And that's sort of
getting over here. I'm very excited
for this painting because it has a lot of variations in the value
and the contrast. No. And what have you? You know, it's very much
interested in painting. So let's sort of
getting that over here. Maybe we'll have some water.
We'll see that later. And so that's the basic
structure, as you can see. And now let's go in some black. Yeah. You don't want
gray, pure black. I repeat, it's pure black
and no blue, nothing. Just in pure black.
And if you want, you can wipe off your
brush just a bit. If you want, in the sense,
if you feel there's too much paint on the brush
and it might be muddy, you can definitely
wipe off your brush, not clean it, wipe it off. If you clean, the
entire paint goes away. So it's sort of
come right here at this corner and some
please and some die. And as you grew it, the paint on the brush gets
lesser and lesser, yeah. So paint gets lesser and lesser, you have scope to
get more texture, more textures, more realistic, more realistic, more depth. So that's all interrelated. You'd have a lot of depth by taping this and shut off from the bottom, go
towards the top. Bottom, in a sense, foreground. This is a foreground, and this is the background. So don't start from
there. Just start from the foreground and
go back. That's it. Simple. Let's go to wipe off the brush
as much as possible and rely on the paint that
is there on the brush, the stain, atolurs there
on the brush lids. That. Yeah, there we
go. There we have it. So you got grass here and
come right over here as well. This is in the foreground. This is also in the foreground. Now, before going for that, let's add in some darkness
over here so that it looks more dense and a
lot of depth created. Yeah, you want to tap it
very lightly, not too hard. To get textures, it
might be any brush. In order to get textures, you have to tap it lightly. If you're using
the correct brush, the right brush, and you're
tapping it very hard, you won't get that texture. And I've wiped off my brush, and that's here, take out
the grass like that, yeah. Obviously, we can go and add
in some more highlights. That's not an issue. But now it's time for highlights
on these grasses. So I'll take some,
let me show you. So I'll take in some limello
mixed with green, whatever, green is left, but it's mainly
limelo or lemon lo. Okay. Ill sort of come
over here because that is going to
be the brightest and the lightest as well, because that's in
the background. Just a basic reference. Okay. Yeah, we're going the
right track. Yeah, great. So tap it very lightly, even for this simple formula that I can give you
if you want texture, even if it's irrelevant brush, but if you apply less pressure, you
will get the textures. That's for sure. So you have to apply very
little pressure. And one more trick
I can give you for applying very little pressure
is hold the brush loose. Hold handle very loose. If you're holding it very tight, you cannot do it.
Simply cannot do it. Yeah. So it's come
right over here. Taking a lot. Color the tip of the brush. Don't take it on the
entire brush tip of the brush, it should work. And it will work, I'm sure. You're doing so good as of now. Yeah, there you go. I leave that gradual transition. So I'll take in some
more over here and I'm not loading any paint
now on this fan brush. I want that gradual transition, so that it looks
realistic and adds in depth automatically and
it beautifies the painting. Yeah, there we go. Just
here and there. Not much. Yeah, that's good. A bit over here and
there, just to touch. Lighten it up. So this is
getting mixed with the black, and it lightens itself. So yeah. Darkest, midton, brighter colour and
the brightest color. That's the way I would go.
5. Foreground Pine Trees: Hi, and welcome back
to our new video. This video is to
see how to paint these pine trees
in the foreground. For that, I've taken my
modified side Brush. Drop in the sheave of that. Basic shape of that tree. That being trunk tree trunk.
That's a basic reference. We go one tree at a time now because this is in
the full round, so we need a lot of detailings. Yeah. I'm taking that
same bluish black color and they start come here top, not at the very top,
just somewhere over here and tap in some
beautiful foliage. I would suggest you
to add in some water, not too much, just a bit. Okay. And now I've switched
over to pure black. Right here, take out
something off the gun. Yeah. So coming back to
this and just sort of tap it very lightly, again, you want textures, tap it very lightly and
take very little pain. That's a trick. Okay.
Let's have it there. Just filling up the caps. You can leave some
holes or some pockets. Swim through so that
it looks realistic. Look at that. There we go. It looks a bit different. We're going to fix
that now itself. You can make this tree as
big or as small as you want. Yeah. Let's come over here too. Leave in some gaps and
that's going to help. I like it. I personally
like this tree, especially using this technique. Like trees which are painted
using these technique. It's very simple, very useful, very effective and looks very
professional and realistic. It gets in that
foreground field for you. Look at that. Tapping
it just tapping trick. Tapping gives you so much. Why not use this method? Yeah. We have this beautiful
little tree. Look at the top
part of that tree. That's pin as well. For that, I'm going to turn brush insert towards the side, actually, not to a certain
angle to side. Tap it. It's a different
angle, as you can see. You want to make this
dense Yeah, there we go. Right? Making it denser. Now let's have another
tree next to it. This is almost straight. Yeah, that basic
reference will do it. Taking paint, not
paint added water, paint a water colour paint. Look at that I'm
skipping the top, skip a bit at the top, come down and continue
with the process. That's not too far. Almost that's not in
the midground as well, so you can add in some
detailings not an issue. Taking a lot of that col. When you add highlights,
you'll see the depth. There we go and just a
bit over here and there. I can attach these two over
here for the time being. Let's come here at the top. It pleas in some color. Yeah, we have to pine trees in sup most important thing
is adding the tree trunk. Otherwise, how will the
tree stay on the ground? Now, let's go ahead and
clean up the bottom of these tree trunks by
adding some grass. That gives us a very good
excuse to paint grass. Yeah. You get that
off that trio. So over here as well. Sort cleaning some loose spots, making them look clear. Look at that. Over here as well. No taking too much paint. Just a bit. Maybe it's
going even on a tree trunk. These are very big
grasses, I think. Lo coming. Theta light.
6. Highlights On Pine Trees: Let's go ahead and
add some highlights. To add the highlights,
I take it in sap cream and lemon. More
of sap green this time. Okay, let's get
going. Let's choose this stream first
because that's common. So we have to take
care of a few things. Let's start off from there and I'm tapping in
very lightly again. This shows how
important textures are to make your painting look realistic. Maybe
we need more green. Slight is coming from the left, but still we need green to
make them look realistic. Tapping it very
likely very gently. Look at that? There's in there. Yeah. There we go. And let's come on this tree
over here so that we can distinguish between the two
trees, that's the way we go. I'm using doing this with
a modified flat brush. As you saw me do that before. Yeah, maybe a little
bit more a bit more. Yeah. Skip some spots,
make them realistic. As you go towards the
top, you can skip lot those spots so that
they look realistic. Yeah. There we go. Let's come
over here and start to blend or try to make
them fit together. I'll take in very little paint. Come right over
there and tap it. Tap it a bit hard.
Something over here too. This requires a lot of patience. As you're seeing now.
Yeah. There we go. That takes some over here too. Very little very
little pressure. Sometimes some spots
require no pressure at all. Yeah. That's going to enhance the painting
and the pine ones. Don't want to cover everything. Yeah, that looks good.
Map of the brush. Wipe off on the hand
itself. There we go. If you want that greenish
effect at the top, not too much of that green
is shown through leaves, but we need some
of those effects. We'll be using some plaque
with that same old brush and compared here and start
tapping in with some interest. Yeah, there we go.
They're sort of tapping here and there
that will mute the colors, the extra bright
over bright colors. Look that, that looks realistic. And that's what I wanted, and
that's what you will get. Okay and on this tree. That's to bet Is pick. Yeah. We go on just to be even
darker because it's back. And a lot of detailing helps. It's defined trunks
a bit more. Yeah. But make sure some flat
tree trunk is hiding behind that grass if you're painting
a pine tree on the grass. Something like that. Slide, pull it and
leave it off like that. And we need some shadow. As I said, the light
is coming left. We have to add a shadow. Let's try it out pull it. Pull it. Yeah, that's enough. The angle of the sun
is different, I guess, and this angle from this, that should come from
the bottom bottom most part of that tree.
That is a tree trunk. Yeah, there we go. That automatically
makes it bright. Look at that. It
tags like sunlight. The greens, the light greens
and the bright yellows here, they get even
brighter because I've added the shadow and
it gives that effect. With this, I'm come
to end of this class. I hope I add some value to your knowledge and enhanced
your painting skills. Thank you so much for
watching till then, and thank you so much. Take care and bye bye.
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