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1. Intro: Hello friends. Welcome to my class. My name is in. I am a teacher. I started painting through Chinese painting
and calligraphy. Practice. Chinese art, especially painting
and calligraphy, has a very unique style and unique method which is
practice endlessly practice. Through these years
of practice I have accumulated a lot of
these exercise is, and some are really
pretty and good. I want to keep it for myself. I want to use that opportunity
as improving myself. And also I would like
to give as a gift, a souvenir to friends. Eventually, I build
up a business on ET and people like it. Today, I would like to
share with you my journey. And we will start to learn a basic watercolor and
make bookmarks and cars. And eventually we can
turn it into a business, into a lifelong passion. Now let's get start.
2. Painting watercolor background: Okay, hello friends.
Good afternoon. In this video we will produce the background and use water
color wet on wet background. First I prepare the water. Sometimes I use
three little cups that if I need to wash my brush, I will always have a
cup of clean water. Water color. It's so important to have
clean water, right? And to make this water
color a little bit more the color, more dense, more vibrant, I use
a squatter to put some water into this semi dry
or semi moist water color, little pocket or section. This way the water is already diluting a little bit
of the water color. It's much easier to use to make the paper not moving
around, not crinkling up. When you put water, the paper sometimes just lift up because of the surface
tension is not the same. I use this little tape
to fix the place. I use a very, very soft brush. This is a gold hair brush, and this is a gold hair brush. Gold hair brush. But any other brush
which is soft will work. You do not have very soft brush. The more important
thing is you have a very light hand touch, very good control of it. So that when you apply water, you do not use too
much strength to scratch out the surface
of the paper coating. And you put a lot
of water and then put any of the color
of your choice. Why do I use this
particular color? It's just very random. I have this color a
little bit extra. Why not use it? And also it produce
a warm background. I am about to paint
cherry blossom, black branch with
fresh and bright red, orange or pink color. Which makes good contrast
and make good harmonization. Right? Any color you can choose. If I do some cold color, I may choose yellow
or blue or green. Anyway, the method like this, you put a lot of
water and then P in some color and let the
color flow see how it goes. The water takes its own life, the color have its own soul, we just follow them. The result is always interesting, unexpected,
and impressive.
3. Paint cherry blossom : Okay. Hello, friends. In the last video you have
seen I made those backgrounds. So it takes around
1 hour, 2 hours. If it is outdoor, it is faster. It takes some time
to let it dry. I would like to dry it completely so that if I
want to paint something, there is a very
sharp sharp edge. There is no color color
expanding around. I want to have that result. Now, I will start to use
this to start to paint. I use a relatively
brown and black color to paint the cherry
blossom branch. It's a very simple branch. I always do relatively the same method that I have
the opportunity to develop one particular style and understand what
works well once I use light ink to do the branch brown color
with black color. Once I finished the branch, I use Q tip with red color, some orange color,
some pink color. As for the color, each artist, each person has their own
style of using color. I usually use one color. When the color is used up, I into the second color. This way the color slowly you stop and a new
color coming in. I feel this has a better
blending and more harmonious. The color is slowly
transition into a new color. I do not choose
particular one color, two or three color. It randomly blending together, combined together
make the painting a little bit more interesting.
What do you think? So when I dab the red, when you see the
real cherry blossom, it is full blossom with flowers all around the
branch without any leaves. So we do not paint, leave, we just dab here, there a lot of red
dots just by itself. The black branch and
shiny bright red color. The color contrast is very
stunning and beautiful. What we want to paint is
a little bit abstract, a little bit spontaneous, but mostly to express the
passion in our heart, right with the
pedals everywhere. You do not need to think
too much about the detail, but you do need to think about the balance of the color or
the balance of the weight. When I finish
dabbing the pedals, I want to make the branch and the tree trunk
much more intense. I add some dark color there. When I wait for the first
piece of painting to dry, I start to do the
second one each time. I always have two, or three, or even four
or five at one time. So that I can do always the same thing and make
myself more fluent, more fluid in a
particular style, in a particular technique. And at the same time the first painting
will be getting dried. I can do further detail on it. Just keep on practice and not worry if this one works
well or not working well. It's all about practice. The very first painting, it's hard to be beautiful, it's hard to really
speak out your salt. It's an experiment. A discovery, an exploration. You find your reason, you find your method, you'll find your particular
style through doing 1231020, many, many pieces in
Chinese painting. There are some artists, I think in any art style, there are some artists just to practice one thing
for the whole life until they reach to that stage that that particular
painting can speak, their heart can speak, their spirit can speak
their inner romance. Inner passion, inner
anger, inner strength. It's a way of
expressing oneself. Now let's take a
look, a closer up. This one is dried. When this one is dried, I will do some outline. When I do the outline, I use a tiny, tiny, very small, sharp edge. Sharp tip, little brush
so that the stroke, the line, the outline is very seen if you are not
comfortable with it. For example, when I teach
students I give them sharp. If you are not so good at
controlling a soft hair brush, you can use a Sharpie
to do the outline. Now let's take a look
at the outlines. Here are the outlines. Sometimes the outlines
combined with the red color and it becomes
a relatively a dark blob. It does not matter. And it's even more
natural and it's even more intense,
don't you think? So. Now we will see a close up. So I will follow the QT line
but not exactly follow it. Just make one pedal, two pedal, and as much
as I can I follow it. But otherwise, I am not totally
combined with following it because you want some
freedom in a stroke, and this is a Chinese
spontaneous painting style, you first do the pedal. The cherry blossom flower
always have five pedals, sometimes I do five pedals, sometimes I do four pedals, maybe because one pedal
is already falling off. Sometimes two pedals it's just starting to blossom
and it's a flower bud. One pedal. Once I
finish the pedal, I will do the inner statement. A few of the sharp seen line make it stands out even better. At the very end, do some black color, black dots on the branch. It brings up the dynamic, the movement of this painting. Now you can see the
detailed working process. Yeah, that's the stamen. Yes, the flower inner stamen. Yeah, the au, see, you can do this
practice with me or you can take your own time. I am sure each person has their own style,
their own comforts. So you can choose your
way of holding the brush. I am trained for
Chinese painting. I always like to paint
with Chinese hand gesture. You can do whichever
way that feeds you. When it comes out, I really love it. It's just full blossom and the background brings
everything together. It's like a colorful cloud. It's like a big cluster of cherry blossom
on the background. It's, it's interesting
this way, right?
4. Paint bamboo: Okay, hello dear
friends. Good evening. So in this video, we will do bamboo painting. And you can see I will
use different sizes and this is perfect for
making a greeting card. Chinese painting bamboo. We do not call it
painting bamboo. We very much like to
say it writing bamboo. It used very much of the
Chinese calligraphy, the strengths, the
stroke, the movement, the stop, the complete
set of Chinese caliigraphyskill used in bamboo painting
or bamboo writing. You can see it's very much like writing characters and there is no color feeling in each stroke is one
element of the bamboo. When I do this, I usually put the background already
and let it dry. Sometimes I make
2030 50 backgrounds and it just sits there
whenever I get stressed, Whenever I need to
find some comfort, to find something that move
my hand to relax myself, I pick up those
bamboo backgrounds or those small cast backgrounds to do some bamboo to do
some other paintings. The background is
relatively cold, it's a very cool color
and very spirited, right? A little bit blue, a little bit yellow, a little bit of green. Maybe I can do something
in that color family. I want to make it
relatively monochrome. The bamboo I have chosen for
green one, I paint bamboo, always several
steps only bamboo, one branch is lonely. I put one piece of chunk fat
strong bamboo as a backdrop. I paint 1020 of them. Put aside, it will get
dried once it gets dried, not completely dried, it actually takes five
to 10 minutes. I can start to do the
very center point, central point, the main bamboo. The main bamboo is seen and
slender as you can see here. The backdrop bamboo is strong and sick and
the main bamboo is seen that there is some contrast if you have bamboo or if you
have seen bamboo, see the bamboo junction
is actually quite big, like the bones on the
two junction part. On the junction part is
actually quite big, right? So I use a stop of the ink, use some concentrate in
to show that junction. The bamboo leaf, bamboo
leaf is heavy, is sharp. It is better to paint the
bamboo leaf with one direction. It goes from one central point, left, middle, right, right. Each time each cluster I have three or four
bamboo leaves. It's always like this, but the direction change
make the bamboo leaf looks more more interesting
and more volumized. Right, The bamboo
because it's a sharp, because it's a heavy, it always go down. Of course you can paint some
bamboo leaves going up. As you see here, the bottom, the bamboo leaf is going up so that because
it's young, leave, all the young leaves goes up, right on the top part, the leaf goes from one
central point, left, middle, right, left, middle, right, right, left,
middle, right, right. When I paint it, actually in my heart, I have a song sung or I
have a beat in my heart. Dad, let's do it. Okay. Now we have a
piece of new bamboo. Let's get ourselves together. A chu chu and then
left, middle, right, right inside of myself. I always do this. And also in class when I do
class demo with my students, we will do it together in a. It's a lot of fun and
through practice. You just keep on practice. I usually I give
students old newspaper, recycled newspaper,
recycled paper, photocopy paper, recycled paper. Just keep on practice. This is something that you need to just practice one time, two times, ten times, 100 times, thousands of times. Just keep on practice. You do not need
to fill in color. You just right,
right, right, right. I mean, write the character. You just keep on a find
your internal bead, find your song in your heart. I very much enjoy doing this. Now let's take a look. When I do some longer bamboo, this one what you are seeing
here is for making cars. And it's perfect size
for greeting cards. Sometimes I make book marks, which is the same methodology. Now let's take a look. Now you can see I have a
much longer bamboo leaf. I still choose the
monochrome color, which is the same color family. The background is already
blue and the backdrop bamboo, I first paint the
backdrop bamboo. The backdrop bamboo. You want to imagine
it just in your mind? Imagine it. It's a
little bit further away. It's a little bit old. It's a little bit faded color, so the color is lighter. Now it's part for the
highlight bamboo, the main bamboo, and I
choose different color. For example, if
the background is this sky blue color
or turquoise color. For this main trunk bamboo, sometimes I use royal blue, sometimes I use silo blue, sometimes I use sapphire blue. Anyway, there are
different names for it. You want to choose
a color which is another level of darkness
for this main bamboo. And the rest is the same thing. You just need to
elongate your bamboo and put one stroke on the left, one stroke on the right. Dad, keep on doing it. The bookmarks, gifts
for my friends. Sometimes I do Youtube
live and doing the live. Some friends answer questions, they get it right, or they answer other
friends questions. They were nominated for
being the kind person. I send the bookmarks to friends. This bookmark is three
inch by nine inch. Three by nine, it's
long and slender. It is perfect for
putting into the book. And also it can be
put into envelope, the normal standard envelope, so that the shipping fee
will not cost a lot. Anyway, those practical
elements make us more interested in doing
something to express ourself. To give gratitude to
people who helped us, who make our life
more enjoyable. More interesting. That's about it. I hope you enjoy this
process and keep practicing. Keep painting, keep enjoying, and keep sharing good
energy by my friends.
5. Paint pine tree on recycled paper: Okay, Hello dear friends. Good afternoon. This painting, look at the sunshine. It makes me so happy. I like to paint outside. Sometimes there is
a little bit noise, but the sunshine really brings
so much happiness in me. Okay, this painting,
I want to talk about recycled material,
inexpensive material. This is a piece of
recycled paper. This is one piece of paper
that student did some background drawing
and then class finish and then didn't write name and they wanted
to give it to me. I do not want to throw it away. I use it, the color is a
little bit too strong. I wash it with water and then it absorb a
lot of the pigment. Now it is relatively
light and if I do some painting can cover
it up, will be okay. Another thing about using
this recycled material, you do not have any pressure. You do not have
any stress anyway, it's a piece of recycled paper you do
not need to worry about. A lot of time when you know
that it does not matter, it's no big deal. Then you have the total
courage and freedom. And it usually comes out very
good, comes out unexpected. Another thing about
it is a piece of white paper is
very intimidating. Even if a piece of
inexpensive white paper, you have a void in your mind, you, a total emptiness. You do not know where to start. In my class, I sometimes
discuss with students, and I say, you just put
your finger on the paper. Give me a point. I will start. Or I put a point. I put a finger. I put my finger on their paper. You start here,
then we can start. The very first starting
point is very intimidating. Do I make any sense? Because this paper is already having a messed up background, so I know what I do. I want to cover it up, right So I choose that certain place that already
has messed up background. Very first just do some random
and not perfect at all, the branches, one big chunk
tree and some branches. Then you slowly using
different kind of brushes the best take advantage of each particular
kind of brush, particular kind of texture to create something richer
and more interesting. Only brush the scene round tip seen outline
brush is good for outline, is good for stroke, but not so good to
create that fluffiness, you want that fluffiness. Use the cheapest brush because it does not
asap a lot of water. It has this very dry,
very rough texture. It's very similar
to the pine tree, a little bit dry
pine tree texture, which works out
perfect in the middle. I have some three. These are for the background, so I will not put a
lot of attention. The color is light because
it's further away. Right? I just put it there. It creates a sense
of background. But you do not want to
work too much because you want to work on the things
that is the focal point. The method is more
or less the same. You just sometimes
sometimes draw sometime outline
your hand movement, create different movement. This movement will express out into different texture. Keep on. We keep doing it
and working on it. Now we come to the tree of
this main pine tree of it, you can see on the back there
is a big cluster of brown. And it does not look
very pretty and it is out of nowhere. My main purpose is to paint
something to cover it up. I cannot totally cover it up
and it's absolutely okay. The whole idea is to make the tree stands out and all the background becomes
a little bit small, Noise Becomes something, uh, not so recognizable
or ignorable. Doing this, I found this color, this painting mainly
is green and brown. Green cannot be too dark, right? The darkest green is
just to that level. How to make green stands out, make it more intense
color, I put blue. As you can see,
the top is green. Green is lighter
with royal blue. With slow blue, the color
becomes much darker. And I put on the bottom part, It feels like the
sunshine comes from top. The lighter part
has more sunshine, has more light on them. And the lower part, when the sunshine is covered by the dense
leave, becomes darker. Then at the very end, at some branches, some
very random branches, some dried branches, and add some texture some place you
feel it's too too rounded. You want to show a little
bit of the branches, exaggerate a little bit, you just keep, I found doing
painting, there's no end. If you do not decide
to end yourself, you always find something
and it's very hard. And it's actually even more important to know when to stop, where to stop and
just let it be, let it take its own life. At the very end,
I put some grass, put some soil, put some little grass to
make the background, to make it not suspended. To make the tree not
suspended but on the Earth. And dash, Splash. Make sure you do not damage
your house tabletop, and that is it. Moment of truth,
pure of the sticker all comes out right. I enjoy it. It's an experience
of discovering something and give something
that is almost no life, a new life by my
friends. Thank you.
6. Sunset palm tree: Okay. Hello friends. Good evening. A beautiful evening. Here are some of the palm trees background
and palm trees. Actually, I did this painting and when I peel off the sticker, the side sticker, it's
been too long time. So the sticker is a
little bit damaged. I finally decided to cut it out. It's a little bit small and
if you put it together, it's hard to make a set because all the three are
individually different. But if you give out
individually, it's still okay. Each by itself is a
complete piece, right? This painting is relatively monochrome and this painting
is one of the background. I did and then I forgot, and then I pick up it again and cover it up
with a palm tree. Here I have more of
the backgrounds. Some are better, some are, some are more regular, some are more free. Anyway, each has
its own character. For example, this
one is really dark. I have hard time to do
anything to cover it up. Maybe I can do a black just
completely like a let. Let's see how it goes. I always have some of
the background paper ready whenever I need
some inspiration, and it's already
there each time. When I do painting, I always do more than
enough those backgrounds. Also, this video, I
want to make it a real time instead of a lot of
editing instead of voice over, because there is
something very true, very unique, the
energy of originality. So I want to bring
that to today's video. It's relaxing, which is the purpose of us doing
this painting, right? It's relaxing. It's a right paste. Because you will see something unexpected happen and
how we deal with it, I am sure there will be
something getting unexpected. The very first thing, as I always do, I always put a little
bit of water to make the color a diluted a bit. Already melted a bit. So that when I put color in, it will get more
intensified right away. I always have some paper
on the side to clean up and a couple of testing
paper to test my brush, to test my stroke. See, this is already
a little bit dirty, little bit bluish, purplish. And I always have two
or three waters on the side so that if I
need some clean water, I always have clean water. Okay, Let's use this
as a starting point. So when we do palm tree, we first do a trunk, right? And then 1234567,
around five to ten, something like it radiate out. Then you can do this small
one side, another side. It's not easy. So you can turn around
the paper to make sure that your hand
is easy to work. That's roughly the
method of me doing it. If you have better method, go ahead this way. This is roughly a palm tree. If your hand gesture
is not comfortable, the tree going up is
also not comfortable. So do not worry
too much about it. Okay, let's get start. We need something a little
bit bluish, pinkish. This one. How about this one? This one we will have. We already have. Why not using it? Almost the same color, family getting out of range. This is a palm
tree, roughly here, 12345678, roughly like this. And later on we will
get it corrected. Why not use pink color? There's no pink palm tree, but we can just use
our imagination. Okay, here is the palm tree and this palm tree will put
it a little bit purplish d, d on the tree leaf. We need some darker
color at the bottom. Why do we have this dark color? The edge, the place where it is close to the
sunshine is bright. When there is more leaf, it is bright, see less sunshine. And even have even
have more leaf. So it's dark and we want to bring out the
brightness of it. Yellow is very bright. Can put some yellow to
highlight a little bit. At the very end, I do not feel it is very good. We can put some coconut here and there and one coconut fall down. Two coconut fall
down. That's it. At the very end, we can put some splash. The same color tone, bring some liveliness
to the painting. That is it pure. We are done with this
one. What do you think?
7. Beach palm tree: Okay, hello friends. So here we have another one. We have just done
this one, right? It's quite an artificial color. It's not artificial intelligence
but artificial color. We usually do not
see this color of trees and branch,
just an imagination. And this one, we relatively, I want to make it
more or less a little bit more natural color, so the tree trunk will
be brown color, right? Go from here. You see, I always do the same way. It's tedious, but if you can do something right with
the same method and improve your skill, I think this is the way to go. What do you think? Some
of the background color. That's it and let it smear in and then some
darker color is the end. Does not have to
be too accurate. You want it to be free? I used the same brush. I just need to clean it up from time to time, otherwise
everything else. And it does not have
to be very pure color. If you see here, the color is not
the perfect color. I am in you, you are in me. This a little bit. Mixture, launch color, mixed color is even
more interesting. Okay. 1234567. That's about it. We
leave some room here. Do not worry about it. It's not perfect. You have
a lot of freedom in it. For the bottom, I
want to make it a little bit color, right? So I can use teal
or even blue color. Here you can see
it's a teal color. See the bottom layer, I will use a dark color. The other side
where the sunshine, where the light comes, I will use yellow color. See, I have some yellow
color here and there. It makes it bright,
even more yellow. You can not see it. It just creates a feeling of it. And that is enough. That is it. The trunk looks
a little bit bizarre, right? Get to here. And that is the trunk. Now we can do a bit highlight of this branch that it, we can do dabbing some color. I always find some color
that is within it. And this one we can do
the color greenish color, which is the leaf color. Make sure your color is always
have something that goes with some of your
painting color, your existing color, that is it. I like to add some
of this splash to make it a bit
more lively. Vivan. That is it. We have two pieces. Pure it off the moment of t, if it is too dry too, we do not pure it. What we are seeing here, majority of the painting and especially the
edge is not wet, it will not damage the painting. So I can pure it just like that. And also, what is
the big deal, right? It's just a piece of practice. If someone pays
$1,000,000 to buy it, by all means take it. If nobody buys it
for $1 million, it's still, you cherish it and it's just a
piece of paper, right? Do I make any sense? A little bit ridiculous, what I am saying
when I do painting, I am a little bit lost
in my own rambling, in my own, this sauce,
the freedom sauce. And it entertains me just to just to sink randomly, sin, freely, talk freely. I hope this video provides
that kind of wine. And I intentionally not cutting
it out because there is something that is fun and
silly in this kind of chat. What do you think? By
my friends, I love you. I really do, do do
do. It takes time. It takes energy, but
it's a beautiful time. It's fun time, it's
a worthy time.
8. Negative bamboo : Okay. Hello friends. Good evening. Such a
beautiful, beautiful evening. This one, the background. It's so interesting, it's
hard to work it out. I just want to try it. I will try to make it
wash out the background. Let's see if we can
do it that way. I will use water on water. We wash it out. Oh, that is not bad at all. I never thought I can do it. But kind of fun now, we can use some white color. Why not? Right, We can
use some white color. This is not even go
just white color. You just get an idea of it. I think it's interesting
to say the least. When it's getting a
little bit dried, we can add more color,
add more white. Never thought I can do it, but my students has a lot of this background
paper and there's no name. I do not want to myself. Sometimes I do some
color very strong. I really enjoy experimenting
some different way of twins, such as this negative painting. Let's see how it turns out. When you have to
strong background, you can do something
totally unexpected. No, you do not need to have a special background to
do anything unexpected. You can just go ahead and
do something unexpected. It's a new way. I like it. I like it.
9. Lavender bush: Okay, here we have
another background. I am thinking of making it
a lavender field, lavender. Here, here is one cluster, one cluster, one cluster, one cluster, cluster. Okay. That's about it. Now we absorb color here. It does not show very much
because it's relatively light. No use. Now we will do some color and lavender
color, purple. We have some of this, a little bit more blue and pink. We make this purple cluster. Cluster here, one cluster, one cluster. Now we want to add some blue to make blue blue, don't we want to put some white? Why not? Right, the wind, it is getting dried up. We will put some yellow. Okay, we have our lavender. Now we put the branch. This one we will use relatively beautiful
lemon green. Now we will do the grass. Some large garage is needed. Okay. Some garage is some grass. You slater some water here and there. Water some light. And that's it. The color is a little
bit too heavy. Okay. We will let
bring in some green. Green. Well, maybe purple rain. Purple rain. Purple rain. Okay, At the very end, we want to brighten it up. Beautiful yellow, here and there. That's it. I hope that this kind of
view, relatively relaxing, is good for your spirit, for anything, right. Makes us happy. That's the most important lesson learned by good tape. Good tape will be
good for your work. You will enjoy more, you will stress less brain. That happens from time to time and all the time. Okay, that is about it. When it is totally dried, I may add up a little
bit of colors to dry brush to show off a little bit of
the structure of it. But otherwise, that's what
you see is what you get. Thank you very much. I hope a video like this can
be relaxing by my friends.
10. lavender corrected: Okay. Hello, dear friends. So here is the watercolor
bookmark I made. And now I see it looks
a little bit too dark because the
paper background, okay, Because the
paper background is already wet, wet with water. So it changed the
absorbance of the paper. So the color just go everywhere and it's hard to
make a color differentiation. What I am about to do is
actually to take off the color. What I have is this kind
of long slender brush, and I will take the color off. Let's see how we do it. I will have some water here. No color, only water, There is some color. I have not yet totally
cleaned. It's okay. And we will do leaves the
blade here and there. It naturally goes up. You try to make it
not too much water, but if there is a chance
it gets too much water, it's not the end of the world. You can see some of the blade
is even getting out of it. And make it a little bit
more interesting, right? Like this. At this time, I want
to take out the color. How do I take out the color? I will use my paper power. Let's take a look if that works. Do we even need to? Let's try it gets out
some of the color. Once it's get out, actually it's better
not to do this way. But since we have done this way, we can put some more
color in it, right? That's about making us. That's about painting. Every time you try
something new. And what color? Really bright yellow color
is always very bright. So we can put some yellow color. See it? Actually brighten up it. Okay. I will zoom in a little
bit for you to see it. We will just use a teeny, tiny little bit of yellow color. I have some yellow. This yellow color
already diluted. See this way. It comes much more
lively than before. Right? Take out a little bit. That's it. The next
one, when we do this, we will do from the beginning
one stroke at a time. Shall we try it now? Let's do it. I have a
couple of this background. Since this is a little
bit too much, right? It's already have
so much pigment even you try to wash it, it does not show off so
much of the lavender. Let's maybe this one. This one looks good, right? Make the color a
little bit light. We can do this one
on the bottom. We do the green grass on top. We do the lavender. We will use pink, a little bit of pink, a little bit of blue, and make a new color
purplesh color one. We use some blue
color by itself. I like to use color on the run in instead of blending
the color already. I feel it's more
interesting right now we add pink color pink. We have some on the background
so we can dilute it. Here we have some dilute, take out this color does
not show up very much. We do it light, This one we need, we will put some
yellow and white. Oh, it's very much
an impressionist. Just an impression. You do not really need to
be too serious about it. And even if you try
to be too serious, color has its own way, right? Color has its own way. We cannot force too much. And I will put some white color. Make sure my brush is clean. Some white color. You can see here not so white, but the end of the word, see the color lighten
up a little bit. You just want to
get that feel okay. Now we start to do the blades, and we have learned a lesson. We will use a long slender
brush just to do one at a time, sing a song. This is a little
bit tedious job, not very much you can do. Sing, sing a song, and then as usual you
splash some of the color. This brush seems not so
flexible and it's not easy. This one has a long slender tip. It's relatively easy
to come out deep, Some color come out, that's not too much because you do not want to
damage your house, right? That is it.
11. Silver bamboo: Okay. Hello, dear friends. Let's take a look at this one. This one, the background
is very strong. I can either do a
black color to cover it up or to take out the color. Use water to paint like the
other one we have done. We use water to
take out the color. This one I'm thinking
maybe I will use a silver or gold
color to get it out. I have some of these
colors and I feel the gold color will be quite
strong to gold or silver. This will be good. Let's give it a try. Okay, so I will just use
this color and clean up my brush because I cherish this color. Look at it. Look at, look at it. Yeah. Looks pretty
good. All right. We will just go ahead. I should have a place
to blend the color. Okay, that is good. So I will use these
to blend the color so that my color will not
be damaged. Let's do it. Go for it now. We go to the sine one, see how it goes, and the method will be the same. Do it, what do you think of it? It needs a certain color to
make the contrast stands out. Okay, Make it a little bit more. Some color stronger,
some lighter. I'm having fun. And
that is important that we will choose another
color. How about it? This one is a warm background, so we can do something
cold as a contrast. Let's do this bluish silver. We need more, need more. It's a very, um, it's a very, um, subtle color, don't you think? So, The color does not show up. Actually, color really
does not show up. Not bad. This color really, very, very light,
almost invisible. Now we need a large one here. We need some bamba large,
some bamboo small. I want to get this
name more pronounced. What do you think of this one? It really requires
a certain see, oh, the color runs. That is so cool. That is so cool. That is so cool. We will just stop like that. And this one we can take it
out and see how it goes. That's fun because a lot of students like to
do the backgrounds. They make the
background a little bit to be they enjoy color, usually tends to put
a lot of pigments. This method, gold, silver, metallic color method works
out all their painting can be used to produce something as
a very rustic background, as something antique background, as something very
nostalgic background would be very cool,
don't you think so.
12. Shimmer fans: He. That's interesting but it
does not really show of. Okay. I have done all the back.
13. Blue floiage: Okay. Hello, dear friends. Google afternoon. A beautiful afternoon here. I have some of these
papers already made the background and I want
to do some pine trees. But suddenly I found this. Why not do this?
Right? Let's get start such a beautiful,
beautiful afternoon. Before I make any color, I always put a little
bit of water to dilute this color a little
bit so that it comes out much more intense color. That particular water
color works that way. I think it works with
many other water colors. I see a simple way to get
intense water color here. We will do this leaf, let's take a look. I will start to
avoid any mistake. You always start
with lighter color. I make any sense, right? So I will choose to use
some of this old color. One of my way of doing painting, and I have seen some other
artists that I admire use this kind of mixed
up color, not pure. And I found it to have much
more depths and beauty in it. Of course, we do
need good color. Anyway, no talking. Let's get start. He is here. Oh, oh I, K, B, there is something wrong. The first should be much smaller and I made the
very first much larger. But art is about
not being afraid. I just go ahead and do I do want to connect them. So it is a great relation. That is, it maybe we want to make something more intensified. Let's do some purple here. Oh, not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. So if you have a tip
of it like this, this is a little bit too much in the center,
don't you think? So you want to have some different directions. One is a little bit too sick. Let's do another one, this time our color is
becoming a little bit better, isn't it? Like me? This one. We still
use a little bit of that little arts that
we use red color. Look at it here and there. That's it. Not more, not less, Okay? We want more practice, okay? Sometimes the leaves, they
do not have a regular size, they like to grow
whichever way they like. Our job is to follow
however they want, right? Don't force it. You cannot force is, you cannot force other
people to listen to you. You cannot force other
people to agree with you. You cannot force other
people to accept you. Same as painting. You cannot force the
painting accept you. You accept whatever
is happening? Let me do a darker line. This is should ins a
little bit, right? Draw a snake and
put on the feet. Don't know, let's see. But any labor is to beated. It's kind of fun, right? We do have some pink color here, so we can put some pink here. Let's Or very bright. My gender, Small, large. Now we have a large. That's it. Okay, so we have done
three of these foliage. I love foliage. And this one we can do, let's give it to at Mt paper. We can use this as
a practice paper.
14. Pine ridge: No, this is N, okay. This one, we will
do a pine tree, so we have different
color, very light color. Now we have darker here, then we will use a brush. D, oh my goodness, That's, this brush is a
little bit too sharp. It's just to practice, right? We are allowed to
make mistake, right? And we are encouraged
to make mistake, right? Do we agree on that? That's it. Does it look good? Not so good, right? Who said not so
good? Did I say it? Did I say it? Okay. Let's try it again and this time we
use very light color. S the first. Okay. That's the first Dadadadada. We just need some
background, right? Okay. That's the
background layer. Now we come to the
intense layer. So I will use this tied Ddd D D 00. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
15. Watercolor simple mountain tree: Okay, hello the class. So today we do a
little painting, and it's easy and very relaxing. So very first, I put water on the paper so that
I can later on put some color and the
color with the water a space will very freely
flow on the paper. And another thing, you see, I am not putting my
color to the edge, but still I put
tape on the edge. This way, the paper is
much more much more flat. And because of the
tension through the tape, make this piece of paper, much more flat, so it's
easy for you to paint. So just as a practice
note, a little tip. As long as you have
pose, you have the tape, as long as possible, try to put tape on top of
on the side of the paper. It is so much easier. Even if you get yourself a
little bit over the edge. It will look much prettier. And I do not want the color
have a very sharp edge. So I use a paper towel to to
absorb the edge of color. When it is getting dried, it has a very soft transition
into the white background. And I use pencil to do
three mountain outline. It's very simple just
three pencil lines. So this way, I will
draw a very dark color, a very three layer of mountain. The further layer
is the lightest, but the most condensed color. And then the medium layer
is a little bit darker. And the closest layer
is the darkest, a little bit purpsh
from two quas, blue, light sky blue
to pure Uh Cen blue. And then to the very
dark sapphire blue. So this is a three color. You can choose different
kind of color shem, but just to make sure the
further away is lighter, and the closer to you is darker. So we use this method to distinguish the distance
of the mountain. And this is not a
realistic painting. It's relatively
relatively abstract, a little bit on your dream. So Um, it is not very strictly you have
to do a particular way. As long as your color express
what you want to express, and that is good enough. So I put the edge in dark color or in more
condensed color. And the rest, I actually
just use the brush, use water to let the
color slowly transition. As I am working on it, later on, I will still add some darker color and the water color when
it is getting dry, sometimes the color get lighter, and you want to
have some contrast, the color, color
st and you do not want to have too strong
color from the background. The background
should be lighter. The value of the background
should be lighter. And if your background
is already there. Here the background is the pinky sky and
the pinky bottom. So the only way to make it a contrast is actually just
make your trees color. Your mountains color,
a little bit darker. So I use CN blue, the very pure blue and add it a little bit purple so that it
looks a little bit darker. And the tree leaves is
just clusters of water. At the very first, I use light color. And because my brush
has a lot of water. So some of these color
are actually quite dark. So I absorb, I dry the brush
and then absorb the color. And when we know the trees
at the top of the tree, when there are sunshine, it color usually right with sun, it's lighter on the
bottom of the leave. Usually, so I put darker color
at the bottom of the leaf. And just slowly adding the color a little bit
darker at some branches, and let myself just feel
free to put a dot here, to put a dot there. And and I actually
put a little bit black in it so that
the color is strong. And at the very beginning, I make sure that I paint something lighter
and the tree branch. And the tree trunk are
usually quite sin. And this is the time. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. When I
do this voice over, it's it's I need to
drink some water. Don't you feel it's funny? I feel this is even more lively. And by myself,
making some mistake. It makes you a little
bit more relaxed, right? I feel nobody is perfect. And I am just doing here and there to
improve a little bit. It is a relatively
tedious process. And there is not much
you can do about it. Do a piece of
painting takes time and takes practice
and takes sing. And a lot of time, the sinking process is
actually in the doing. When you when you
do the painting, you see the color contrast, the cold color warm
color contrast. But at the same time, you want to see some
depth contrast, right? And some texture contrast. So here I am choosing
a flat at brush. And this one is a natural hair, is from a very rough
the textured here. It's not nylon here, those kind of very
seen, very refined. These are just very chunky
and and the rough hair. So that is good because I want to do the mountain part, right? The mountains sometimes have
some rocks, have some grass, have a piece of a little a little a little
tree tree branch. Just you want to create
different texture. So you just dub dub up and get the edge a little bit darker so that there
is color transition. And also, this brush has some
very interesting texture. And each one sticks out. So that that really helps create a more coherent and more interesting and
differentiated texture. Look at my hair. My white hair. So just to keep on adding
here, adding there. There's no add of it. And when I do it, I was thinking, this
may not be enough. Now I'm thinking, Why
do I take so much time? The whole piece of pap The whole piece of painting
took me around 30 minutes, something, and a lot
of these zig zag do touch and and little details. I added out. But the
painting process is completely the
real time painting. At the very beginning, I tape I tape the blue tape, and I wet the paper and
everything. I cut it out. So you are seeing the whole
process of the real work. It takes time. There is no
no way you get away from it. Just keep on practicing and
paint it and stand aside, sit aside, rethink, and
see what you can add on. I'm thinking this is a
little bit too smooth. Don't you think so the sky
looks a little bit too smooth. It will be better to put
some even extra texture. So I splashed some color. And this splash, you
really need to be careful sometimes when you
get a big blob of water. Boom, it gets a lot of a splash, a big splash does not look good. So practice a little bit. Some people use two sprash. Some people use fingers. Some people use two brushes stuck together to heat
each other together. You get the idea. You practice a little bit, and until you get the best
texture and the best result. And that is about it.
What do you think? Thank you, very, very
much. I love you. I really do two, 22, two. Two to two good bye bye.
16. Outro: Okay, hello, dear friends. With this, we have come
to the end of our class. As you can see, painting is so much spontaneous
and intuitive. You really do not
need to be afraid. There is nothing wrong. Anything that goes
wrong can lead to something unexpected
and interesting. So keep on practice. Share what you have done. I. So look forward to
see your art works. Let's make art always together. We are here. Thank you very, very much. By my friends.
Haiying Yang, Artist, Educator
