Learn to Paint Winter Mountains In Watercolors - From Reference to Painting

1. Hello!: Hello everyone. Welcome to my first Skillshare class. My name is Ronnie. I'm living in UAE and practicing what colors for almost five years. I love this medium does for its transparency. I love painting bright, airy landscapes with watercolors. You can check out more of my works into daughters in YouTube and Instagram by the handler starts by Ronnie. In this glass I'll be showing how to create this beautiful winter morning escape. We learn to create realistic shadows. Rate is stick morning textures, glowing sun rays. So see you in the next video. 2. Lets see the materials.: Let us see the materials for the painting. I'm using a 100% cotton watercolor paper. This is by Fabriano. I'm using a masking tape for tape down the paper on my glass board. I highly recommend a 100% cotton watercolor paper for this painting because we are using wet-in-wet technique for the shadows. This guy, sundries and everything. We are using very limited color palette. We need only four colors. Green, blue, indigo, drown any dark brown. Paints gray. We're using white gouache for some details. We need a big flat brush for wetting the paper. I'm using a hacker brush size, the DMM, and fewer round brushes I'm using size 468. We need masking fluid for some areas of the painting and two jars of water and some tissue papers. 3. Practising wet and dry techniques: Indigo and paints gray are two beautiful perfect colors for painting shadows, snowy effects. And I'm using some dark brown for the stone effects and the mundane. And we need some cool blue for this guy I'm using here, Indian green-blue. Before painting, we need to understand few watercolor techniques. One is dry brush technique, which means we are using very dry brush width, the dry paint without any amount of water and scratching on the paper to create some rough textures. Next stays wet on wet technique, the very common technique in watercolor. Wetting the paper first, then applying some wet paint. This helps to create some self looking shadows for the mountains in this painting. This is one of my very favorite technique for creating lawyers and race. Here I'm wetting the paper firstly, then creating yourself curve with the same Gardner I need for this guy. Then painting it around and repeating the same for more dark layers. No, I am carefully lifting the gallows for descend liaise with the weighted clean brush. Before each time lifting, we need to clean the brush and wipe predicts that owner distribute bird. This way we can easily create beautiful Galois and race sue. This has a beautiful three techniques we need to practice before painting. 4. Sketching: This is the reference for Adobe are for lying for this painting. This one I downloaded from unsplash, Sue know, I'm sketching and outline for the mundane. I'm not concentrating for too much details. Here you can see some sharp highlights in reference photo. Demand injured just so I'm using some masking fluid for that. I'm applying very carefully and brush. Let's start the painting in next video. 5. Sky and Sunrays: All right, So let's start the painting. I'm placing my watercolor paper downward with heterotrophy masking. Dave. My masking fluid is alternate dried and I'm wetting the sky with the mop brush size four. I'm wetting this guy around them on the lines very carefully. And then washing with Indian during blue, the color is more lighter towards the mundane. So I'm mixing with more water, creating some very subtly clouds, as in the reference photo. Ready lighter colors. Then I'm using the same technique as in the previous video. I'm creating a circle and painting around with more darker colors. Adding more colors in the right corner for a focused towards the sun. My paper is still very wet. Now. I'm lifting colors very gently. Descend, raise. Here you can see each time I'm cleaning my brush and wiping out extra digit on tissue paper. This is very important to make it non muddy. We are done with the sky, so let's start painting mountains and shadows in the next video. 6. Wet on wet shadows: Condyle is an important party watercolor. I'm wetting the paper here very carefully. I don't want to make sure I knew I did on my paper, so adjust my standing the paper and wiping out extra water on my tissue paper. I didn't want to re-wet the sky part, so I'm letting the outlines very carefully. Now. I'm just concentrating on the shadows of the mountain. I'm painting it with indigo. Here you can see my paint is not spreading too much because my paper is perfectly wet. I'm not covering it in the photograph. And just leaving some spaces as flight. Here you can see some shapes in the shadows. So I'm recreating the C. Might be, but he's still very wet, so I'm adding more. Dr. Carla said the second layer. This helps to create an interesting contrast for the shadows. Here. Just for an hour. Is it a friend's going with the flow? I'm self Jeanine, the clean brush in-between the painting, shaping the shadows by lifting Carlos and adding more. By following that. Have friends. Here in the reference you can see some very lighter shadows and the highlights itself. I'm painting it with lighter colors. No writing the foreground part of the mountain and repeating the same. Focusing on the shadows in reference and recreating it. You can see the difference when I'm adding more darker colors and shadows. It helps to create more contrasting highlights. Now bending them are rendered the same background with very light colors. I'm just focusing on the reference. Recreating some lighter shadows. I'm almost done with the shadows, so let's paint the details in next video. 7. Painting stones and details: My paper is completely dry now, so I'm painting the details. I'm using the dry brush technique we practiced in the previous video. I'm not focusing on evidencing my new details, sorry stones in the photograph. Just focusing on the bigger stones and going with the flow. I'm using a mix of dark, Payne's gray for this details. Make sure your brush is very dry, then they can get this texture. I'm using some white gouache for some sharp highlights and foreground. I'm almost done with the details, so let's paint the foreground and some final details in next video. 8. Final details and finishing touches: I'm just retouching and shaping some little shadows here and there. I'm taking out the masking fluid. You can see the magic of sharp highlights. The building is one of my very favorite part in the beginning. I love seeing my paintings with very clean edges. Guys soon completing your painting.