Let's Paint a Seascape with Gouache

1. About the Class: Guash is a very versatile medium. It can be used in various techniques, including layering, plenting and creating both opaque and transparent effects. It is this incredible quality that allows artists to explore different styles and approaches in their work. Hello, friends. My name is Janina apple. I'm an artist, an art instructor and an author. Gas is one of my most favorite art medium, and I love to explore different subjects with guash. For some reason, I have a special love towards painting seascapes. I love to try different color compinations and different settings. Today, I'm here to invite you all to a skill class, we're going to try this carga scape. Before we start with the painting, we will take a quick look at the materials you will need, and also some essential techniques. This will give you a better idea on how to approach the painting. Through this class project, you will learn color blending and mixing. Then you will learn how to create a seascape in the easiest way. Along with that, we will also try our hands on creating some realistic textos, and thereby creating a beautiful rocky mountain. Without any doubt, the t project is going to be a wonderful experience in learning new techniques. So if you have some time to spare, and also some quash paints with you, join me right away. And let's paint this courageous skip together. 2. Materials you'll need: All right. Let's start by looking at the materials you will need. I will start with the paper. The particular paper I'm going to use for the class project is from Canson. Canson has a lot of varieties of paper. This one is from the Heritage series. This one here is a hot pressed vertica paper. See that? It is one 40 B, and also it is 100% cotton. I love using hot pressed vertica paper because it doesn't have any texture. You can see the beautiful blend. It looks very smooth and even. That's one reason why I love using hard pressed articular paper for my quash paintings. You can go with any paper of your choice, preferably a thicker one over T texture, and the size of the paper is a six. You can go with the different size and proportion of your choice. Here's the size. That's all about the paper. Next, let's have a look at the colors we will need. For this painting, we don't need a lot of colors. We will need a blue for the sky. The color I have used here is marine blue. Just go with cillin blue, Precim blue, bal blue or any blue of choice. This is the one I'll be using. We'll use a medium tone on the top, and we'll make it lighter using white toward the bottom. We will need a blue, A blue of your choice. These are the other blues I have got. It's sure blue and cerliin blue. Just go with any blue of choice. We just need a bright blue. That's a first color. Now, along with that, now just like I mentioned earlier, the next color you will need is white. So we have chosen the colors for the sky blue and white. The next blue you will need a Terque blue. Which is the color I'll be using for the sea. If you want to, you can actually use the same color for the sky as well. You can use turquoise blue for the sea, as well as for the sky. That's our next color. Now, just in case if you don't have turquoise blue, you can mix some prussian blue or any blue with radian cream and you can also add a bit of white to create a similar color. That's our next color. We'll use turquoise blue, white, as well as a bit of black for the sea. You can see those textures and all that. For that I will be using black. That summarizes the colors you will need for the sky as well as the sea. Now for the rocky mountains, you will need yellow ocher and burn sana. These are the two major colors I'll be using. We'll also be using a bit of darker brown. If you have burned tumper you can use it directly, or you can just mix a little of black with burn senna to create a darker brown. Those are the colors you will need for this painting. The next material you will need is obviously a mixing palette to mix in your colors. This one is a small ceramic palette. You can go with any palette you have card. It doesn't matter. We just need something to mix the colors. Now coming to the brushes. Abusing four different brushes for this painting. The first one is a flat brush. It's a size number eight flat brush, Albusing this brush to apply paint onto the background, especially when I want to create a blend. We just need a medium size flat brush. It could be eight or seven or nine or ten. The next three brahes are round brushes. I have size number six, two and zero. I will use size number six to apply paint onto the mountain, and the other two I will use for detailing. Those are the brushes I'll be using. You can change the sie according to what you have. The next thing you will need is obviously a chair of water. For the size of the painting, we're going to do one char works. But if it's getting super herty, always remember to replace the water. Now, the next thing you will need is a masking tape. I'll be using this clear tape. Let me show you the packaging box because I always get question about this particular tape. Here's the one. It is from the brand three M. It's a magic tape. Just go with the tape that you normally use. It can be a washy tape or a pain Do tape or any kind of masking tape. Now the next thing you will need is a pencil and an eraser. We don't have a lot of sketching to do. The only thing we need to add is the rocky mountains. For that, you will need a pencil. Now, the final thing you will need is a paper towel. Whenever there's a lot of water content on your brush, we can use a paper towel to dip it off. That summarize all the materials you will need for today's painting. The only thing you might not have is the exact same colors I'm using here, which is totally fine, as I mentioned at the beginning, we just need some kind of blue for the sky, as well as for the sea. If you have turquoise blue, use that, or you can just make some radiant green with any of the blue to create a similar color. Keep all the materials ready and join me in the next video. 3. Before we begin: All right, so here is a project that we're going to try. Before we start, I want to introduce you to some quick techniques, which will help you throughout the process. The major elements in this painting is the water and also the rocky mountain. For the mountain, we're going to play with some try patterns to create those textures. For the water, we're simply going to add some lines onto the entire background. To create that sea like texture. It's not a complex technique, it's quite simple. Let me quickly show you those techniques before we start. I'm taking a bit of black onto my palette. I'm not going in well detail. I will quickly show you the approach that you need to follow so that you have a better idea before you start. Now, the brush I'm going to use here a size number zero. You have to go with any of your smaller brush and pick some paint on your brush. I'm picking some black. Now onto the tier, we need to add some thin lines. So irregular wavy lines. We're going to add them onto the entire background to create that C like texture. You have to use a smaller brush and simply keep on adding lines like this. They don't need to have any particular size or thickness or any particular shape. Just keep on adding simple lines onto the entire background. That's how we're going to create that texture. It's actually a very simple technique. When you add a lot of them onto a blue background, it will automatically look like C. While we add these lines, we will also play with different tonal values. Where we have a lighter tone in the background, we will use a lighter towards the bottom, where we have a taco to, we will use a taco to. That's the first technique. You'll get a better idea as we start to paint. The next technique I want to introduce is how to create the dry brush patterns. Once you've taken the paint on your brush, you will have to adapt that on a paper towel to remove the excess amount of water. Once you have made sure the paint is dry, you can create these patterns. For our painting, for the rocks, we have used yellow ocher, onto that, we'll keep on creating these patterns using different tonal values of brown. Here is a closer look. It is just some messy try patterns, nothing complicated. But when you add a lot of them with different tonal values, it will create a very beautiful natural looking texture. So all you have to do is pick some paint on your brush, then dab it on a paper towel. And make sure your paint is not too watery. Then add the try patterns. At some places, we will use a bolder pattern. At some places, we will use a very messy try pattern. All those different patterns will add a lot of beauty to our rocky mountain. Those are the two essential techniques we will use in this painting. I'll be explaining all the steps in detail as we paint. For now, I just wanted to give you an idea about the approach and how simple it is. Now let's give it a try. 4. Part 1 - Painting the Sky and Sea: Today we're going to try a beautiful seascape. Trust me, it's a simple one. We're going to add some messy textures to create that rocky mountain, which is a major feature of this painting. The rest is a grad and wash and some textures, so it's a very interesting process, and I'm very excited to paint with you all today. So without wasting any time, let's give it a try. All right, so I have my paper ready here. I have fixed on my table with a clear tape. Now, I'm going to start by adding the sketch. Actually, you just need to add the horizon line and placing the horizon line at the center. Now, towards the right, we will need to add some rocky mountain. You can go with any shape. I'm going to add one here. You don't need to add the sketch. I'm just showing you how I'm going to compose the painting. When we are painting, all this will be covered in paint, and it won't be visible. There is no point in adding the sketch. I just want to show you how the painting is composed. Yeah, to start with, you will only need a horizon line, which you can add at the center. Now the first color you will need is blue. This one is marine blue. I'm going to pick a little with my flat rush. This one is size number eight, I'm mixing that with some white. You can go with any blue of your toys. It can be turquoise, blue, cobalt blue, Prussian blue or any other blue. Turn that into a medium tone. If it's too dry, added drop of water. Now go with any of your flat brush and start applying that on the top of the sky, on your brush back and forth in a horse oner direction and apply an even coat of paint. Now as we're coming down, I'm going to make the color a little lighter by introducing some white, the same brush, I'm picking some white, adding another drop of water because the paint seems a bit dry. Now, I'm just running my brush back and forth, only in one single direction. See that. That's how you get a clean blend. If you run your brush in multiple directions, you won't get a clean blend. You will end up seeing those brush marks in the background. I'm taking a bit more white. Now the next thing is it is best to coat a flat brush, preferably a bigger one or a medium size brush. According to the size of your paper. If it's a smaller brush, you will have to run your brush multiple times to full the background, and you will end up having some brush marks. Okay. So that's how it has turned out. I'm cleaning my brush. I was actually going to give it a blend, but then I thought of introducing some more blue on the top. So I'm just adding a bit more, a medium ton of blue, and I'm blending it. You can see it clearly, I'm just running my brush back and forth in a horizontal direction. That's only brush moment I'm going with, and that's how it has turned out. It's a clean, beautiful blend. The magic to get a clean blend is going with a flat rush, preferably size number eight or nine or ten. Then while you're applying the paint, a brush only in horizontal directions. Now I'm going to switch to a rush and I'm picking a bit of white. This one is size number two. Now with this brush, I'm going to add some lines onto the sky. Just a few here and there. Ticker ones. See that. My background is still slightly wet. I have applied that fresh paint. Now onto that background, I'm adding a few lines. If your paint is dry, you can add a few drops of water. Now you can add the lines wherever you want to. Next, I'm adding a line over here. There is no particular order or rule for this step. You can add the lines wherever you want to. You can add them on the top, put the bottom. It's totally fine. If you don't want to add the lines, even that is fine, the sky can be a simple gradient wash. I'm adding a few more lines to make the sky look more attractive. Maybe a few more towards the bottom. See that? This is one of my favorite method in painting a sky. It's simple, yes so beautiful. You can create a realistic sky using this method. That's a sky. If you want to add more lines, you could do that. I don't want a dramatic sky. I want a simple sky. With this, I'm going to call it done. But if you want to add more lines, it's totally fine, go ahead and add some more lines on the top or towards the bottom. That is done. Next, we are going to paint the sea, for that, the major color you will need is turquoise blue. If you don't have turquoise blue, that's totally fine. You can just make some red and green with brushing blue and a bit of white asphalt, then you can create a similar color quite easily. I'm squeezing out some turquoise blue, and also a tiny bit of black. On the top, I'm going to go with a lighter to, which will be a mix of turquoise blue and some white. Then as I come towards the bottom, I will make the color more taker. In a way, let's start with a lighter tone, so I'm picking some Terce blue, and I'm mixing that with white. Now that's the color I'm going to apply along the horizon. Maybe it can be a bit more lighter. That looks fine. Go with a similar tonal value along the horizon line and use a flat brush. It's the same brush I used to paint the sky. It is size number eight. Now, I'm going to keep applying the paint. I I come towards the bottom, I'm applying turquoise blue actus without any white. See that. On the top, we have a lighter tone, and towards the bottom, it's a medium tone of turquoise blue. Now towards the bottom most area, we'll have to go with a much more taco tone. For that, you will need a taco tone of turquoise blue. I'm going to squeeze out some more paint. There isn't enough left here. Now you will need a tiny bit of black. I already have it on my palette. Maybe I will first fill this area, then introduce black. Okay. Let me quickly fill this up. I absolutely love turquoise blue. It's a perfect color to paint C scapes. Now I'm adding a bit of black to make the color more darker, and I'm going to add that taker to along the bottom. I will blend that into the background. If you have created your own turquoise blue by mixing radian green and prussian blue, you can simply add a bit of black into the same mix to make your color more taker and apply that along the bottom. Then just blend that with the background. We have a lighter tone on the top, and towards the bottom, we have made it a bit more taker. That's a base layer. I'm very happy with the colors and the blend. I think I will need to add some more taco to towards the bottom. First, I will blend this area. That's a base layer. Now, only at the bottom, I want to introduce a moto. I feel it isn't dark enough. I'm going to leave the rest acts and only at the bottom, I will add some moto to Now I'm really happy with the blend. Earlier, we didn't have enough of darker tones at the bottom. It was looking more like a same tonal value. Now if you want to add more, you could do that. It's totally fine. But we need that gradual gradient, a lighter tone on the top, and a darker tone towards the bottom. That is all what we need. It can be more taker or more lighter towards the top. Those things are totally fine. That's our base layer. Now for the next tip, I'm going to go with my smaller brush. This one is size number zero, go with any of your smaller brush or a brush with a pointer tip. Now I'm going to go with that same color I mixed and created earlier. You see that color. I'm going to add some shapes and some lines onto the background. See that? My paint is super dry. I'll need to add a drop of water. Now let's keep on adding such lines. The next step is to add these lines onto the entire background. This might take a while because we need to add lines onto the entire background. Okay, so let's begin the adventure. Try to go the smaller bridge that is really important. We need some thin and delicate lines. They don't need to be too thick. Okay. Now keep on adding some irregular lines onto the background with that smaller brush. According to the color you have in the background, you can go for one to darker. See that? They just have to be visible. Towards the top, we can make the color a bit more lighter. Similarly, towards the bottom, we have to make the color more darker. Otherwise, it won't be visible. Okay. Just keep on adding some tiny, tiny lines onto the background. They don't need to have any particular shape or length or anything. You can add them quickly and carelessly. You don't need to put a lot of effort. We need to fill this entire area. By the time you fill that entire area, it will start to look more beautiful. Right now, it might not really look that nice, but then that's totally fine. It is part of the process. Let's go ahead and add in so many lines onto the background. It's not visible. I need to pick more paint. The major thing to keep in your mind is the thickness of the line. Don't make it too thick and bold and also go the tonal value, which is not too dark. Over here, you can see it is just one ton darker than the color I have used in the background. Go in a similar way, we have to have some lines in the background, but they should not be too prominent. I hope I'm making sense. That's how it has turned out. Now I'm going to add more and more lines. I will start from the top, and then I will come towards the bottom. We can finish that area first. On the top, we have a lighter tone. The color I'm using is not too dark. See that? It is just one to darker than the color. I have use for the background. Don't make it too dark and prominent. Okay. You can apply the same technique whenever you're painting a water body, whether it's a sea or a ocean or a lake or a river, anything. When you're adding these lines to bring in some texture, go with the color, which is just one to darker. That is not really visible. I need to add more paint. Just the same way, try to experiment and explore. If it's not visible, go with a color, which is one to darker. If it's too prominent, make it a bit more lighter. Okay. This looks fine. Finally, I have cut the color. Also, you can add a drop of water. It doesn't need to be an opaque paint. Don't add a lot of water and make it watery. Just a few drops is all we need. See that. Now with that color. Let's keep on adding some teeny tender lines onto the tier background. They are not very perfect. You can see they are quite messy. But then if you add them onto the tier background, it will look really nice. Let's go ahead and do this. I'm nearly done with the top. Now I need to go the rest. The technique is going to be exactly the same. Only thing which is different will be the tonal value. So towards the bottom to make it visible. You have to add these lines using a slightly darker tone. So I'm going to finish this area. Then I will go with the center part. H. So this sat has turned out and you can see those textures. It is looking really beautiful. But we have only reach the center. Now, we still have some more AR left at the bottom. For that, you will need a slightly taco Again, there is no change in the technique. It is exactly the same. Just keep on adding some teeny tiny lines to the entire area and fill it up. Depending on the color you have in the background, try to go with a taco to or a lighter tone. I have added with the same color I used earlier and I have made it slightly, and I'm adding the lines. This one is a really simple and easy step. But then it might take a bit of time as we have to fill up a lot of area. But it is something you can do without putting a lot of effort. You can do it quite carelessly. Now I have some more area left at the bottom. I will fill that a passwll in a similar way. So here is a closer look. You can see they are quite messy. They are not at all perfect. I'm not putting a lot of effort here. I'm simply filling that up, and that is all you need to do. Just like I mentioned earlier, the only thing to keep in mind is the tonal value. Don't make it too prominent. And also go the smaller brush and try to make those lines very thin and delicate. All I'll nearly done. I have just a little more space left at the bottom, and with that, I will be done with this step. Now, just take a look at your painting, and if you want to add more, maybe towards the top or towards the bottom, go ahead and do that. I'm quite happy with the way it has turned out. I'm going ahead with the next step. Over the adding some more waves, but then using a taco tone. I'm picking some more plaque. Using the taco tone. I'm adding some more prominent waves in between. See that? Just add a tiny wavy line. Only in between, don't add a lot of them. See that. Have added three so far. Maybe we can add a few more. This can be super random. You can add them wherever you want to. It doesn't need to be too detailed. Go with any of your smaller brush or a detailing brush and go with the taker tone. Just add a few wavy lines in between using that taker tone. Okay. See that? We don't need a lot of them, we only need a few in between. Right now I'm adding them at the bottom, where I have a darker trone in the background, and that's how it has turned out. Now we can add a few towards the top as well in a similar way. The thump role is the same. Even when you're adding these lines, you have to go the color, which is only one to dark Don't make it too prominent. Towards the bottom part as we have a darker ro in the background, I have used a color which is similar to black. But for the middle part, I'll have to make the color a bit lighter. Okay. So it's a mix of black and turquoise blue, and I have added a few drops of water. Now with that color, I will add some waves at the center. I won't be adding towards the top where I have that lighter tone. Because that area is quite far from us and the waves and all those things won't be visible. Let's add a few more over here, and with that, we'll be done with this step. Once we're done with this, the next interesting task is to paint the rocky mountain. I'm very excited for that. In a way, this is how it has turned out. You can see all those textures and the waves we have created here. I think it looks really beautiful. 5. Part 2 - Mountains & Final Details: Okay, so let's go with the rocky mountain. I'm going to add that over here towards the right side. Maybe first we can add a simple sketch. This is mainly to get a rough idea on how to add the paint and how to add the darker toes. If you want to go for a different shape, it's totally fine. I had seen a picture, but I didn't save it. I'm just trying to recall how it was like. Over here, I'm adding a big mountain. Now there is something like a cave. A opening. I'm going to add the opening over here. And then I'm continuing the shape. You can just type in in Google Op interest, Rocky Mountain, then you will find a lot of inspirational pictures. Maybe you can try to replicate any of those shapes. I'm trying to recall what I saw. That's the first one. Go the irregular shape to make it look more realistic. I need to add one more next to this, but before that, I'll just erase off all these unnecessary lines. Now, right next to this over here, I'm going to add a smaller mountain. It's more like a tapering shape. That's a sketch. As I said earlier, if you want to go for a different shape, that's really fine. Now, before I start, I need to clean up my palette, so I'll just quickly clean this part, here it is. The first color you will need is yellow ocher. I'm going to squeeze out some yellow ocher onto my palette. Then you will need some brown and also some black. I already have some paint there, but then it is dried up. I'll take out some more paint. You will need some white as well. Maybe let's squeeze out white first. Now a bit of brown or burn Cena and also some plaque. We will need four colors, yellow ocher, white, burn Cena and black. All right, so I have all the colors ready. Now, we have to begin with a base layer, which is a mix of yellow ocher and white and apply that, I'm using my size number six. Let's start mixing the colors. First of I'll pick some yellow ocher, mixing that with white. Now maybe if you feel the color is really light, you can add a tiny bit of brown or a pine of black. Okay. Just a neutralize the color and give it a grayish look. We're going to use this color for the base. Then on top of it, we will add plenty of textures, the color can be a bit different. Basically, it is a mix of yellow ocher and white. Only if you need, you can add a bit of brown and a bit of black. Now, I'm going to apply this paint onto the entire top part, and only towards the bottom, I will introduce some taco. Then on top of it, we will add a lot of patterns, a lot means a lot. They're going to be some messy textures. Let's quickly finish the base layer, and then we can start with a texturing job. This one is nearly done. I mean, just the base layer. We have a lot more things to do. Now, in a similar way, I'm going to add some paint onto the other one. I'm going to fill up almost 90%, and I will leave some space at the bottom to introduce some taco. Go the mix of yellow ocher and white and then fill that rocky mountains, almost 90%. Next, with the same brush, I'm going to pick a darker toon of brown, have some burn na and black, I'm mixing them together. If you have burned umber, you can use it directly. You don't need to mix and create any new color. Now that darker goes over here along the bottom line. Now, simply drag your brush towards the top and push the hat into the yellow part. This can be super messy at this point, which is totally fine. Don't worry a lot about it. So go onto all those corners and bottom part and introduce the tacotons. I haven't added any water. It's a dry paint. Now, in a similar way, I'm adding some tacoton onto this one. So the color I'm using here is a mix of burned cena and plaque. You can also use brown or any similar color. Then create a tacoton and introduce that onto the bottom part. Okay. Now, we need to smudge it. I think it would be great to pick some more yellow ochre. I have just wiped my brush. I haven't cleaned it. Now, I'm just adding that in between and I'm smudging the paint in a very rough and textuy way. I don't want that to have a smooth and finished look. I want it to be super messy and textuy Okay. To get that rough texture, I'm not adding any water. It's a dry paint, and I'm simply scratching and smching the paint. Literally, it is scratching and scrubbing. I don't think there is no in other words to explain it. I feel it's a good idea to switch to a smaller brush. The other one is giving me a very hard time. It's the same process, the only thing which has changed here is the brush and I'm again smching it. If you want to add more brown, you could do that with the same presh pick some brown. I mean, the taco tone, and add that in a can onto the places you feel, it is not really there. I'm just adding a little onto this corner and also at the bottom. Then I'm again smudging it. It is more like scrub not really smudging. I'm quite literally scrubbing the paint and creating some texture. See that? That's the kind of textures you need to create. This is just the first round. We're going to add a lot more textures onto this. Go to try paint and keep on smudging or scratching or whatever you want to do. We need that yellow ocher color on the top and that taco brown at the bottom. Then plenty of textures onto the surface. Let me tell you at this point, it won't look very attractive. Don't give up. It is totally fine. We are going to add a lot more textures onto this and it is going to look a lot better. I'm just picking some more yellow ocher. I'm again adding some textures over here. Honestly, there is no rule or order here. You just have to go with a tri paint and keep on adding some textures onto the surface. You can go the lighter brown or a darker brown or even black. That's how it has turned out. Now in a similar way, we need to fix all the other areas. Basically, for this painting, the steps are repetitive. We added some textures on the s. It was repetitive, Herea it is just a matter of adding similar textures. Okay. Now, there's one thing you can do if you're not really happy with those tried textures. I'm very sure some people may not like it. In that case, you can clean your brush and go with a damp brush and smudge those patterns. To give it a little more smoother and softer look. To me, personally, I prefer those dried textures, but everyone have their own likes and dislikes. In that case, you can go with a wet brush, just a damp brush, not to water brush and smudge those patterns. To give it a softer look. See that? To me, as I said earlier, I prefer those try patterns. I'm going to go ahead with those try textures. But if you prefer this over dry, you can smudge it. That's totally fine. I hope that is clear. Now I'm going to go back with that taker brown, I'm going to keep on adding more textures onto this rocky mountain first. In between, you can have these bigger patches. It will make it look more beautiful. We'll be adding them later. First, maybe we can focus on adding some textures onto the anterior surface. Then we can add some bigger patches and more taker tones. I'm just running my brush on that surface, and I'm creating some random textures there. It is still really messy, but that's totally fine. Don't worry a lot about it. Now I'm picking a darker tone. I'm adding more texture, but you can still see that yellow ocher in the background, which is really important. Don't cover it up. We need that yellow color in the background. I mean, yellow ocher. Then we need some textures on top of it. Now, I'm going to go ahead with the next one here. I'm just dragging my brush with the top, I'm adding some messy textures onto the surface. Be careful, don't add any paint into the sky. It's good to go with the smaller brush. Don't use a bigger brush when you're doing this step. I'm picking some yellow ocher. There's a lot of gaps in between. I'm just filling those gaps, and I'm adding some textures again. That is a first round of texture. Now for the next round of textures, I'm going to go with the taco brown. I'm mixing more plaque percena Now you see that color, I'm adding another line at the bottom. Then I'm again scrubbing it towards the top. Just run your brush in an up and down moment and create some texture there. It doesn't need to be perfect and there is no rule that you need to follow. Simply add some textures. See that. It is starting to look really beautiful. I'm picking more paint. Adding some more texture on the top. Now, the same step I'm repeating from the top towards the bottom. We have a base layer and using a tacoton of brown. We have added some messy patterns, and that's how it has turned out. Next, we're going to add some bigger patterns onto the same using a taco tone. I'm picking that taco I'm adding a slightly bigger pattern in between. They're looking a lot more prominent. Early we added some patterns which has been spread across the surface. Now we are adding some bigger patterns in between. Go that Taco brown just add a few more patterns in between. You can add them onto the corners and also onto the surface. Okay. See that? So in a similar way, just add a few bigger patterns in between. Now, there is one thing I want to do before I go ahead with the final set of patterns. So I just claim my brush, and I'm going back with that lighter brown or that lighter yellow vocer I'm going to create a rough Texary outline for that rocky mountain. Right now, it has a clean shape, but I want a slightly irregular shape for that rocky mountain. This one is a quick simple step. You just need to make that outline a bit irregular. You can go with that mix of yellow ocher we created earlier. Or you can go with the brownish color. It doesn't matter much. Anyway, we have some textures there. No matter which color you're going with. Give it an irregular outline to make it look more rocky. See that. Now, on the other side as well, we need to add a similar line. Just keep shaking your brush and make it an irregular line. That's all. We have to do the same thing for the bigger one as well. See that. The shape is more messy and rough right now. Earlier, it had a smooth curvy shape. I think I should have done this at the beginning, but then I missed it. Now, in a similar way, let's fix this one. I'm picking more paint. I'm adding an irregular shape for that mountain. You can modify the shape however you want. You can make it more spiky and irregular. Let's quickly finish this. Then we have to go with the last round of detailing with a taco tone. I'm just running my brush in a very irrecular way. That's it. Those are our mountains. Now let's go the last round of detailing. For that, you will need a dakoto brown, so I'm cleaning my brush and I'm switching back to a mix of burn sena and black. This time, the color is going to be much more taco than the one I used earlier. I'm adding more plaque. The brush I'm using here a size number two. Now, I'm going to apply that taco to along the bottom part of the mountain. I'll start with the line. Now, this is the same way how we did earlier. I'm going to add some rough textures onto the surface. First, I will drag my brush from the bottom towards the top, and I will introduce those textures. I'm adding a few onto this side as well. The bottom most part of the rocky mountain will have a lot of darker textures and those shadows, and that is what we're trying to introduce here with a darker. No, I'm just dragging my brush towards the top, and I'm just spreading that textures. It is the same up and down moment which I did earlier. Now I'm picking more paint. And I'm adding a few bigger patterns in between, adding one there. Okay. See that? It is much more prominent. We need to create a series of textures and tonal values, and that's how we can bring a realistic character to a painting. If it's plain and empty or without a lot of tonal values, it won't look that nice. Always start with a lighter tone for your background, with a mix of yellow ocher and white. Then go with a dakot of brown, then add in your textures, and finally go with a taco tone. That looks quite prominent. I'm just matching it with a dam brush. The edges and the outlines are a bit tricky. If you want to add a few drops of water into your paint, if you feel it's too dry, you could do that. That's not a problem, and then just smudge it. That side is fixed. I'm smudging this area again. A little more. Yeah, that's it. This one looks quite nice. I'm very happy with the result. There's a lot of textures of different tonal values. We can see yellow ocher, some brownish tones, and also some blackish tones. Now in a similar way, let's add the final textures on to the picker one. I'm starting from the bottom, adding a line like the previous one. Then I will smudge it. I think there is no need to say it. You can clearly see the difference between the smaller mountain and the bigger one. The smaller one is looking a lot more realistic with those taker textures. This one haven't reached there. It is still missing something. And what's missing here is the takers. Over here, I'm adding an irregular line to show the cave, similarly on the other side asp Now, we could smudge it towards the top. From the bottom, drag your brush towards the top and spread those patterns. It's just a simple up and down moment. Your major focus has to be at the bottom part. That is the area where we will have a lot of textures and deeper tones. Focus on this area, add a line, then drag your brush towards the top and spread out those patterns. See that? We have so many tonal values here, and those textures are starting to look a lot more realistic now. We have some more area left here. I will smudge it. Then I will also add some patterns on the top, just a few here and there, not a lot. I want more deeper tons at the bottom compared to the top. On the top, I will just need a few patterns in between. Just the same way how we did for the previous one. I'll fix the sheep first. All right. That's a bottom media. Now I'm adding a few patterns onto the top using that taco tone. But first, I will fix the cave. I think it looks quite weird and very coy, so I'm just making it irregular. It looks a bit better. Now with the same color, I'm going to add some patterns onto these corners. Like the other one we did. See that. They are a little more bigger and prominent. Onto all those in between spaces, you can add similar patterns. Over here, I'm adding another one. And I'm adding a line as well. See that? They don't need to have any particular shape or size. It can be a thicker line or an irregular shape. Just add a few onto the surface of the rocky mountain to make it look more interesting. Don't add a lot. We already have enough of textures and patterns there. Just add a few in between and that's all. That's how it has turned out. I'm very happy with the result. It looks a lot more realistic now with all those deeper tones and textures. I hope you guys are happy with your progress as for. Now, there is one final task left before we wrap it off. Which is adding some reflection and textures underneath the rock. To introduce those reflection, I'm going to go back with my first color, which is a mix of turquoise blue and a bit of black. Okay. Now with the taco tone, I'm going to add some lines underneath the mountain. Only over here, I wouldn't be adding any towards the bottom. Just where those rocky mountains are standing, we need to introduce some more lines. Right now, it looks like it is floating in the water. It doesn't look like it is standing there. To make it look like that, we need to introduce these lines. It is really important. Otherwise, your painting won't look complete. It's the same lines we added earlier. I'm using a mix of turquoise blue and a bit of black. I'm just adding a few lines underneath the bottom side of the mountain. See that. We only need a few. Don't add a lot and go with a similar tonal value. Don't make it too dark or too light. I will add a few more over here, and also towards the other mountain. For this tip, use any of your smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. Don't use a bigger brush. Now just add a few lines. Once you're happy with the result, you can just stop it. I'm really loving this part where we have that lighter tone in the background and the darker reflection at the bottom. Now I'm adding a few more lines over here. The thickness of the line is really important. Go with some thin delicate lines. And also don't go overboard. Only add a few ta the mountain. That's the only area you have to focus. In the background, you should have that lighter tone, and also towards the bottom. Now, there is one more thing that I need to do, I'm going to go with some plaque. Just a tiny bit, and I'm mixing that with turquoise blue. Waco I'm adding a few lines ta the rocky mountain. See that. This is to add some final touches and I'm adding them only along the bottom line. I'm not bringing them down. I think that is looking perfect. I'm very happy with the result. That reflection made a lot of difference. Earlier, it was looking quite weird. These lines are very, very important. But also, you should not go overboard. We only need a few lines to depict the reflection. All right, so that's how it has turned out. It looks a lot more beautiful than I expected. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. Remember to peel off your masking tape at an ankle and don't pull it off quickly, be very gentle and carefully peel it off at an ankle so that you won't rip off the paper, and also make sure your painting has tried completely before you peel off the masking tape. Otherwise, while you're peeling off the masking tape that wet paint will come off. Anyway, that's our painting for the day. I hope you all enjoy it. I can see some lines here. See that. It is actually that horizon line. I'm picking some more taco to. I'm just adding some more texture here to hide that line. It's just a few textures so that I can cover it up. Now it looks perfect. I have covered most of it. Here it is. You can see those textures we have created. I'm very sure at the beginning, you might not have liked it, but you can see the kind of textures we have created and the way it is looking right now. If you get to try it, give it a try, and let me know if you liked it. Oh. 6. Thank you :): So we made it to the end. Thank you so much for joining. I hope you all enjoyed painting this quick escape. If you're here to try it, do give it a try. There isn't any complex techniques involved, and I'm very sure you're going to love the painting that you create. And if you have tried it, I would love to hear your thoughts about my class. So please consider leaving a review and also upload your artworks in the project section. Thanks again for joining and happy painting.