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Loose And Impressionistic Watercolor Landscapes

teacher avatar Raniya Ali, Justartsbyraniya Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      What is this class about?

      1:21

    • 2.

      Materials you'll need for the class

      2:38

    • 3.

      Class Project 1 - Sunset landscape painting

      27:47

    • 4.

      Class Project 2 - Country road painting

      45:47

    • 5.

      Class Project 3 - Riverside landscape painting

      44:46

    • 6.

      Class Project 4 - Meadow landscape painting

      39:58

    • 7.

      Final thoughts and Conclusion

      1:09

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Join me in this watercolor landscape class to master loose and impressionistic style of painting. This class is ideal for both beginners  and experienced artists looking to explore loose styles and techniques.

You'll learn the essentials, from selecting appropriate materials such as watercolor paper, Color palette and different brushes and its uses, to understanding detailed techniques to achieve different watercolor effects.

The class includes four landscape paintings in different compositions. Through each painting process, you will explore many techniques and color mixes to paint realistic effects.

Ready to unlock your creative potential and immerse yourself in the world of watercolor landscape painting? Join me today and start creating amazing art!

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Raniya Ali

Justartsbyraniya Watercolor Artist

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Hello, I am Raniya. Welcome to my Skillshare profile!

I am a watercolor artist living in UAE.

A clinical psychologist in the past, now passionate about painting landscapes. I love painting since childhood and nature has always been inspirational to me. I enjoy pleinair painting time to time and You can see my works in Instagram and painting videos on Youtube!

I hope that you will find inspiration and helpful tips through the classes that i post here. I am glad to share my knowledge with you! I will keep this page with more exciting classes and contents!

You can post your comments and feel free to share your tips , suggestions and critiques and that way we can keep in touch and keep learning together.

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1. What is this class about?: Everyone, welcome back to this new watercolor landscape painting class. In this class, we'll practice to paint four different watcar landscapes in loose and impressionistic style. I'll take you through the complete materials we need for the class, and we'll start the class by sketching your masterpieces in a more looser and easier way, and we'll also focus on color mixing and painting without losing transparency of the watercolors. And also, we'll learn to use laying techniques and re vetting techniques and more veteran wet techniques in watercolor landscape paintings. And we'll also learn to practice more realistic and detailed style of painting trees and other landscape elements, like sky and clouds and pathways and river and reflections like that. And we'll also practice to paint without losing the perspective of the picture. Throughout the landscape paintings, we'll practice a lot of wetn wet techniques and dry and dry techniques and using your brushes in many different ways. So finally, you will paint four different watercolor landscapes in four different compositions, So welcome to the class and see you in the next video. 2. Materials you'll need for the class: Okay. So first, let's see the materials we need for this paintings. I will use this, Bahng artist watercolor paper, and this is almost a size, 100% cotton and 300 GSM. You can use any brand of watercolor paper, but you have to use 100% cotton and 300 GSM papers. And for the brishes, I will use this hake brush for wetting the whole paper. Um, like this hake brush will has lot of water, and it's easy to cover large areas for wetting. And I have the small size of the same brash. I will use both. And maybe for some re wetting and some lifting techniques in the paintings, I will use flat brush, and you can use a medium size and a little bigger one for some retting and lifting techniques. And yeah. And I will also use this small size mob brush. You can also use any round brush. But mob brush again, will halt a lot of water, so we can use it for loose techniques and yeah, to paint trees and sky, clouds. This is very good. And I will also use one detailer. And these are by brand golden maples. I have a code, if you want to purchase from their website, very good quality brushes. And yeah, you will need also one pencil and eraser. And for some highlights, I will use a roll, white pen, or you can also use white gah or a pack white for some highlights and final details. And also, you need to jars of water, and maybe I'll use this spray bottle for some rewetting or some, like that techniques. And yeah, this is the mixing palette I'm using. And for the exact colors for each project, I will mention it in the coming videos. That's it. That's it for all about the materials, and yeah let's start the paintings. 3. Class Project 1 - Sunset landscape painting: Welcome to Day one. I hope you're ready with all materials, and today we're going to paint a very simple landscape. First, let's start with the pencil sketching. Okay, I will fix the horizon line. And most of the part is going to be sky. So around here and let's make it like a slope or a hill top. And I'm going to add a small pathway. Pathway should be wider as it's coming for ground and more thinner as it towards the horizon line. Yeah. That's it. Let's add a mid line for the bathway. I think that's it. Now, we can add some trees here and around the hilltop in different shapes and sizes. I'm adding some bigger trees and very sh trees. And this part is going to be very background, some blurry mountain or some aerial view. So let's leave it like that. Yeah, and we'll paint some clouds from here and. So that's it for the sketching. Now let's wet the paper. Now I have my small size mobrih, and let's start with the sky. I'm going to make it a little mod sunset kind of sky. So I will take gao and let's add some yellow colors here and there. Leave some white space almost in the center and then paint around it. Okay, I will show you the palette. Yeah. Now, L et's add some orange yellow mix. And just paint it here and there. Let's take some more bright yellow and add some small. Yeah, that's it. Now, let's take some serlin blue and mixing with some ultramarine and let's fill the upper part. Make it lighter. Don't worry about mixing blue and yellow orange colors. Let it make some greenish shades also. Sky colors are very vibrant and very different. Especially when it comes to sunset. Yeah, that's it. Now, we have to paint some clouds. I'll take some in the go and a orange to make it a little purplish. Yeah, that is almost like a reddish shade. Add some clouds here and there. Again, let's make some indigo and red and make it lighter, not very dark clouds and some tiny details or small clouds here and there. I think I will switch to my small size brash and add some tiny strokes for the clouds. Yeah, I think that's it. Now, let's move to the land part. I think I have to wet the paper. And now let's wipe the water from this pathway. So we can make it lighter. Yeah. Now, I will take some green mixing it with d mixed into and red colors for the clouds. We can make it more mody and dark and fill the colors. Let's mix it with some intco. Make it more darker around the foreground and more lighter towards the upper part. Let's add more colors. Mixing this green with a pack to make it And that's it. Let's fill it this side too. Remember the shape of the pathway. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Well, let's add some more colors here and there. I think I will wipe some colors with a flat brush. That. That's it. Now, let's add some more darker colors in the fork down. We'll get the focus towards the mid part. I think I'm mixing Sap green and azo green and a little indigo and adding more and more layers. Don't just filling it completely. Oh. Oh. Now let's move to paint the background details. Let's make it foggy and moody mountains and details. I will take some pack white and a little indigo and some ultramarine. Yeah. Now let's just paint it. Fill the colors. Oh. And let's soften this edge with a wet brush. And I'm going to add some more colors. Let's make it some details or some elements in the very background. I'm trying to make it more here and there. Mixing with some yellow. Don't worry about re wetting your paper. That's okay. Because you're using 100% 300 GSM paper. It will halt of layers and a lot of water. Yeah, I think that's it. Now, let's just dry this layer. Okay. Now we have to paint the trees. And yeah, I will use this same mob brush and indigo and sub green small mix of azo green. M your brush a little drier and just just scratch it on your paper. Remember to paint it carefully and do not overwork. Some tiny dots around the corners. Let's add some more darker colors. And you have to leave this part very sharp to get that shape and perspective of the painting. Now I will switch to this brush and paint some smaller trees. Make it irregular and not in a specific pattern. No symmetrical. Okay? I will add some more details like some branches or some states. So grass. Okay, I will paint some makes very tiny and small details also. Make it a little darker with some indigo and a sap green mix. And here also. Yeah, that's it. Now, I will paint some very tiny details around here. We have to be very careful to not overwork here. Make it very sharp and tiny. In different shapes. You can also look at your painting from a little distance. So you can see where you have to add more details or where you have to lift or you can make any changes as per your idea. I think I will add one more tree around here. You can see how I'm moving my brush. So It is not really very wet or not very dry. With a perfectly damp brig. We can do the details easily. Yeah, I think that's it. Now we have to work on this pathway. First, I will take some beer mixing with a little in to make it and just fill the path with this color. That's it. Now, we had to make it more lighter here. Yeah, that's it. Now, we have to shape it with some darker colors. So let's add some sharp details. I'm trying to blend it to for the other side. Yeah. That's it. Let's add some details here, and there's some tiny dots. And also we have to make it a little more darker here. By doing this outline, we'll get the pathway detailed and beautiful. I think that's it. Now, let's dry this layer for the pathway. And we can add that mid line of the pathway. Remember to make the midline to according to the shape of path. Let's add some tiny dots here and around the mid line, so we'll get it natural. Yeah. I think we are done. Yeah. Now we have to add some details to the trees, so I'll use some white or pack white. And with the same detailer, I'm going to add some details to the trees. Yeah, that's it. Now here also. Let's earn some here also. Okay, I think we're done with the painting. Now, let's say the final look. I hope it was easy to follow and simple be a friendly one for you. So yeah. Let's say that. Final. So, let's move to the next painting. 4. Class Project 2 - Country road painting: So I hope you're ready. Let's start with the pencil sketching. I'll fix the horizon line a little lower. Yeah, that's it. Now, I'm going to add a pathway. This side, I'm going to add the pathway. Remember to make it narrow and then make it wider as it coming to the fir ground. Yeah, that's it. Now, I'm going to add a bigger tree around here. And some more trees around the horizon line, some distant trees. Yeah, that's it. I want to reshape this pathway at. So Yeah, that's enough. We'll also make the sky a little more cloudy and still clear sky. This pathway will go invisible behind the tree. Yeah, that's it. Let's add line to the pathway. I think that's enough? Now, let's start the painting. First, we will start with the sky. So let's start wetting the paper. Let's make it more simple and loose style. I hope I'm not going to overwork on it. The whole paper is perfectly wet now. Let's start painting the sky. I'm using this small size pre again, and let's take in go with a little black. This is paints gray, I think. The mix of both. I'm going to paint some shadows to the clouds, make it very lighter. And paint here and there. Don't worry about any shapes or something. Move your brush freely loosely and a make some saves. Yeah, that's enough. This part, I just left for painting the sky. I will take some cerline blue with some ultramarine. I always paint clear sky blue colors with a mix of cerline blue and ultramarine. Even you can just use maybe cobalt blue or similar to this mixture. Yeah, and just paint the sky by shaping clouds. You can see how I'm using my bridge. I'm just using the tip only to paint some small dots like this. And just scratching it over on the paper to paint bigger more thicker strokes. Remember about the shape of the clouds we are painting. Maybe I will add some here. So here. Maybe some here too. We have to do this on the wet paper. I mean, the painting the sky, then only we'll get that softer look for the clouds. You can also darken the sky a with more layers because what color will more lighter. Yeah. I think that's enough. Now, let's start painting the land part. First, I will use some yellow oc. Before that, let's just the land part again. That's just paint this path with some yellow o for the first layer. Yeah, that's enough. And let's just straightly paint these two parts with some azure green and some sap green mix of both a and just fill it over the space. Remember to paint it carefully around the outline of this pathway and fill it over here around the horizon line. Same like this side too. Azo yellow and sap green. This is actually zomthin yellow. Sorry, zomthine, green by vanco al talents. And the same shade is available incan by leaf green. So it's almost a lush and sunny, beautiful colorful green. I like to use in my landscape paintings. O Remember to leave this part because we'll paint more bigger trees here in the mid part. Now let's make some darker colors around the foreground and just shape the pathway. I'll take my small detailer and it's sap green and in a little indigo and sap green. With some azo ello also a little more darker version of this green, and it just makes some depth and dimension. Okay. I'm going to add some lines like this that's like overlapping some grass or some leaves the pathway. Let's make some more colors, Sap green and indico with some zoe green and add more layers that is wet on wet. So dots here in there. L And here also. Yeah, I'm shaping that pathway again by adding some darker colors around the outlines. Yeah. That's it. I hope you can see the change or the look of the pathway by adding more details to the sides. L et's add more colors here in the Adding to the already painted ds, make it and contra. J Yeah, that's it. Now, let's move to pain the trees. Okay, I think I'll stop now, and let's paint these two trees. With more darker colors. Okay, I'll take ing again and with. And before that, I will start with the first layer. That is somete green, and let's just paint it over here. Remember to paint it very for the outline. This is the first tree, this is a little taller and here is also one more tree that is a sh. So we'll paint the outline. This tree is overlapping this one. So we'll paint it here more crispy and detailed. And this part is also important. So remember to paint it carefully. We can paint some tiny dots here in the I'm using this mob brish. With a mob brigh, we can paint both loose trucks and tiny little dots also. Yeah. That's it. Now, I'm going to paint this side with colors. Yes. Same like we did the side. I mean to make some tiny leaves and dots and maybe stems or branches Oh. And also, let's just make some dark dots here. Will make more sub grain and in the go and make it like some shadows, some crispan, detailed ones. O. I will switch my brush to this one and just carefully painting it around here. Don't worry. We can make more crispier details with mixing white paint with this of green. You can just paint it, but still you have painted it carefully. Scratch it over here for some details of grass or something like that. Here too. Okay. And let's do it the side lighter. Yeah, that's it. I think I have to the side. This is how I always overwork on my paintings. But sometimes I love it. Let's make it a little more darker around here. I think I will work on it this side again with some pack white mixing some azoe grain. And a little this indico and Sab grain mix. Let's just paint it over here. Yeah. And here, also, let's make it more white. Blend it over the space. Yeah, I'm going to add more highlights. Yeah. I think that's enough. And also, we have to work here. So I'll dry this layer. And I'm going to add some highlights to this tree. And I'm going to blend this side like that. Oh. Yeah. That's perfect. And also, let's add some details to the tree with the same mix of opaque white and azo green. So I'm going to add some trunk and branches. That is going to be very sharp and thin. Yeah. That's it. O I think I will add here to paint it only inside the shadows. Yeah. I think that's enough. I'm still again working on this street. And pending crispy and detailed highlights to the tree. Love. Love Yeah. That's perfect. That's enough. Now, I'm going to add some pure white that is on my palette. And I will add some white dots here and there for more details. No, I think that's perfect. Let's move to paint the horizon line. I'm going to ret the horizon line part. I'm not wetting this part. I mean the land part. I'm just wetting only around here. And we'll paint the horizon line details like the distant trees and mountains within that space. Yeah. Paper is perfectly dry so we can reve it. Yeah, that's it. I will take some in the go again with a mix of cerli and blue. And I'm using a moody, more foggy kind of bluish shade. And let's just Bind it over here without overlapping the I mean, the horizon line. Paint it ad the tree carefully. Here you can see I added some dots with this mix of colors over this tree part to make it more detailed. So y. With the straight line. Let's do it here also. Yeah. I think this side viper is dry, so I'm going to just The focus should be this tree and this pathway. That's why I'm blending or making the distant details softer and blurry. Painting it around the tree very carefully. Yeah. I think I will lift some colors from here. Yeah. That's enough. And I will add that mid line for the pathway. With some very lighter colors. I want to make it more wider around here. And let's add some details in the foreground. Like some grass or leaves that is overlapping the pathway make it very crispy. O Yeah, I think that's enough. Okay, now I'm going to add some shadows to this tree that is going through the pathway. So let's take some very lighter color. Do not make it darker. We have to use very lighter color. This is a mix of Serling blue and indico. I'm using that same mix and with a lot of water, you can even taste the color on another paper. Yeah, that's perfect. And let's paint the shadows. Veers this bridge. Yeah, that's it. We have to make it very sharp and crispy. We can see the things the shadows, we have to make it transparent and very lighter colors. Yeah. That's enough. You have to paint the shadows always by following the shape of the land and the details there like that. Yeah. That's it. Now, let's say the final look. We're done with the painting. Yeah, that's it. Now, I hope you learned some technique for painting a tree like with a detailed look by using white goche or a pack white, and also without losing the transparency of the whole painting. You can use white guache or a pack white paint in verticor pains paintings with some tricks and techniques and confidence. And yeah, I hope you got the technique for the sky painting and the perspective of the picture and the pathway and also painting the shadows. So yeah. L et's move to the next paint. 5. Class Project 3 - Riverside landscape painting: Hi, everyone. So welcome to our third day of painting loose and easy acal landscapes. Today, we'll paint a simple lakeside view with some trees in the background and also the tree reflections. First, let's start with the pencil sketch. I'll fix the horizon line in the center a h than center. Yeah. I'm going to fix it here. Because most of the part is going to be the lake and and then this part is going to be the sky and some background blurry mountains. That's it. You can always do the pencil sketching very lighter. And also, let's do the outline for the lake. Yeah, that's it. And maybe from here, I'll do the outline for the other side. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Let's fix one tree here. And maybe one more here. Yeah, that's it. I will fix one tree a here. We'll do the outline only for the trees. Yeah. That's it. And we'll paint the reflections of the tree here. Yeah. Okay. Let's start wetting the paper. And also, I'm going to fix the paper like in this direction. Yeah. That's perfect. So let's take some in the go with some pack white. And also, I'll take some ultramarine to mix it with this in the go. And let's just point it out here because it's just a moody sky. The clouds and details are not visible. So yeah. I'll make it more darker in the upside corner and more lighter towards the horizon line. Yeah, that's it. Let's make a little more darker. Yeah. That's enough. I will wipe colors from here because we need the lake or the water pot more lighter. I'll wipe it here. Then let's start painting this land. I will take some green. I'll mix it sap green and azo green. Maybe I want to mix it with some gambog yellow. Yeah. That's perfect. I need a little olive shade, but still like a sap green. So I'm going to paint it around here. Make it sharp and here. More sharper. Yeah. And let's wash the brish. And then with a clean brish, let's spread those colors around here. Okay I will add colors. Yeah. Okay, I will more darker colors. Here. That's how we'll make it fluffy and more dimensional. We'll start with the first layer that is lighter, and then we'll add more darker colors around the foreground part, and we'll make the part that is going towards the horizon line more lighter. That's how we'll get more dimensional and stile lose and fluffy effect. Yeah. That's enough. Okay. I will paint around here. Let's start with more like lighter. Make it more lighter and this part. Remember these lines because that is going to shade the look of the lake. Yeah. The brig, I switched to this detailer now, and let's add some details. Mixing green, Azoe green, and some gab yellow, and also. To make it, I have added indigo. Let's make it more rec and on the fork down. Yeah, I'm adding more colors because it's getting more lighter. Yeah. Now, let's start painting the lake. I will use this I think five by eight size flat brush, wash brush, and let's just ret this part. Remember to not overlap the land part we painted. H. Vet it here very carefully. Yeah. Now, we'll paint this sky colors around here, that is a mix of ultramarine and a little indigo. And some white. I'll start adding here. And also, I think I want to lift some colors around here to make it a little more irregular, the shape of the lake. Yeah. That's enough. Let's add some more colors in the foreground of the lake. O Do not paint it continuously with darker colors. You can make some white gap in between to get that dimension. Okay. I think I want to reshape the lake around here. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's paint the three reflections. Okay, I will take the same mix of colors, g and d and they go and also gamboch yellow and some opaque white. Now my brush is loaded with the paint, mix of these colors, and now I'm going to wipe this brush on a tissue and then start painting here. Here is going to be the tree and I'm going to paint here. Remember the shape of the tree you're going to paint here because we have to follow that almost similar to this shape here also. Also here is one more small tree. Yeah. And let's make it a little more darker. Yeah, that's enough. Also, I will just reshape this part. And let's do like this for the reflection of this land part. Yeah, I think I will make it. And so here too, as the colors are spreading around and dry more lighter. We need to add more players. Mix in the go to the green shades to make it. Also, I think I will add around here too. Okay, that's enough. Now we'll paint this background details. That is going to be some blurry mountains. I'm going to just ret that part, the sky part. With the big size flat brush and just it without coming towards the lake and land part. Yeah, I'm retting it completely, the land sorry, the sky part. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's mot to paint similary mountains or similary background elements with the x of indico and white. Okay. I just going to make it flat. And also, I'm going to wipe it a little bit because it's going too high. Yeah, that's perfect. And also, I will add some more darker sports here and there. With a mix of indigo and a little. This green mix. I like some details in the very background. Maybe some trees or some houses. Add some dots. Yeah, I think that's enough. Now I will paint some details like reflections here. This is going to be very lighted. I'll mix some water to this grains, and let's make it lighted. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's enough. Okay, let's Yeah. Now, let's just dry this layer. And let's start painting the trees. I'm going to paint it with this small size flat brush and let's take the same mix of colors and let's start the first layers. We'll add more darker layers later to the trees. Remember the outline we added, scratch it over here. Because by scratching your brush on the paper for trees, you will get some tiny details like this by that texture. You can do like that. F and it's also here. Yeah. That's enough now, we'll add more colors. Sap green and indigo, and add some colors around here. Like we did yesterday, and shadows to one side. Remember this part. By adding darker colors to the trees, we're also making some sharp or more crispy details like some leaves or grass that is overlapping the trees around here. M it very around here also. And let's make iter here. The lake is still visible through around here, do not cover that part. Some dots here and there. Yeah, I think that's enough, and we'll add here too. Yeah. Okay. Now, I'm you to add one tree here with the same technique. Just pin it over here. Same like we did here, I'm to scratch on the paper. I hope you are seeing brush moment. Let's make some small tree here. Yeah. So now let's add the layers. We have to alas add the layers before the first layers. So Yeah, I think I will add more tiny dots around here. Again. Now, let's add some more details. Like some tree branch or stem. So And also here too. Maybe from here. Okay. And I'm going to add some dots a on that for some dry leaves. Make it dry. Make it really dy, dogs. Yeah. No, that's it. And I want to add some more darker dots to make it more detailed. And just planting it. Yeah. No, I think let's add some details to the tree with a. I'm going to a Oh. And add some branches. Make it very sharp. Maybe one here, more here. And also some little dots around here. Yeah. And so I'm going to add here also from this space. So it will look more natural. Yeah. And around here too. I want to make it more sharp. Yeah. That's enough? No, I think let's add some tiny details around here. So I will take some indigo and grain mix. And make the tip of your brush very sharp. You can wipe it on your tissue or cotton clothe. And this is already like mix it here. With the direction of that blend, you to add some Here. So dog hidden there for some details. I think I will make it more dcor and this part. Yeah. That's enough. And just blending it a little. B, we don't need it more sharper. Yeah. That's enough. Yeah. I think we are almost done. Let's add some more details. I And I'm going to add some details in the water. So yeah. Like some very tiny dots and lines with some in the go. Remember to make it very tiny and small and sharp. And some stones or rocks in the water. And that down part of the stones I mean to blend because it's just inside the water under the water, and just the top part is what we can see and also maybe some here Just make it an novel shape and then blend that color downward. Yeah. Of the more dining in here. Yeah. And also let's make it a little dug to one side. Yeah. And also, I think we'll add some pack white lines around here for the highlights. Oh. O I'm just fixing some details like with pace with a mix of pace and this in the go mix. I'm going to add some dots around here to make it more interesting. Yeah. You have to do this layer very dry. Yeah, I think that's perfect. If you couldn't leave the spots like the visibility of lake through the trees. You can add some white gash. I mean, maybe a pack white around here. And you can create that spot again. Yeah. I think we are almost done. I need to fix this part a little. To make that line between water and land partly more visible. Yeah, that's enough. Yeah, we are done. Now, let's say the final look. Yeah, that's it. It's like MD Lake view with some trees. So I hope you learned the techniques of painting MoD background and sky and lake reflections and some trees. That is a little more natural and detailed way. I think I love it. I really like the look of the trees and the all over, the painting looks nice. So yeah, that's it. Let's move to the next painting. That is going to be the fourth painting. So yeah. 6. Class Project 4 - Meadow landscape painting: Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing great and welcome to our fourth day of painting what color landscapes. I'm trying to make it more simple and easy to follow than all other classes. Because I know when I start painting, I feel like adding more details and more details and I make it complicated, this time, I'm trying my maximum. Today, we'll paint a simple meadow with some trees in the distance and with some foreground textures and details. Let's start. I'll fix the horizon line almost not in the center, a little lower. Yeah, that is the center point. I'll fix the horizon line around here. Yeah. Okay. And I will add one tree around here. There's not really very big some small trees in the background. And maybe one more here and one sm tree here. And we'll also add some trees or some background elements above the horizon line. Yeah. That's enough. And we'll also paint some grass or leaf like textures in the foreground, we'll paint some cloudy sky here. So yeah, first, let's start wetting the paper. Okay. Now, I'll take this same brush we used for our previous paintings also. This is a small size more bh. I'll start with the sky colors. I'm going to take some cline blue with e with a mix of both. That's it, and I'm going to just Just make some cloudy shapes here and there by painting the sky also. Let's make it a little more warmer around the horizon lie. I'll take some opera pink to create a little peachy shade. I'll take some opera pink with some orange. Okay, I'll mix it with some yellow. That just cam mellow. Yeah, that's nice. Maybe let's add some pack white. Yeah, that's perfect. Now with this mix of color, let's before that, we have to wipe it around here just under the horizon line and fill it around step out horizon line. Don't worry about the trees. Well paint it more darker, so you can paint it over that space. Yeah, that's nice. Also, let's just spread it. I'm going to paint the same colors on just some clouds here and there like some sunlight reflections on the clouds. Yeah. That's enough. What Okay. Now, before it gets dry, let's paint some clouds. I'll take some more opera pink to this ultramarine. Yeah. Maybe I want to make it a little more darker, so I'll add some into ultramarine and opera pink with this mixture and make it very lighter. You can just dab your brush on a tissue, some paper. Okay, I think I want to make it more darker. Yeah, some gray shade. That's perfect. I think the spot is started drying. I will spray some water. You can spray water from a little distance. And Yeah. Paint it over the cloud space we created Maybe let's mix some more color for the clouds. Pain and indigo and with some. Ultramarine, we have mixed for the clouds. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's enough. And we'll paint some more. Cloud shadows around here with this small sized bridge. If you're feeling like you want more control over the colors you're adding to your paper, you always have to check the wetness of your paper and also your bash. Painting beautiful sky and clouds is one of the important part of painting nice landscapes. Same like trees. Yeah. That's almost done Yeah. Let's leave it like that. I'm going to dry this layer. Now, let's start painting the meadow. So I'll start the paper. Yeah. And I'm going to just wipe some water from the very foreground. Yeah. And with the same bh. We to take some yellow car with a little azo yellow. And let's just add that color in here. Scratch it over the paper. Yeah. And let's make some dark spots here and there. And now I'm going to Yeah, I think I have to wipe it around here. And to use some dry texture like for some grass or leaves in the meadow. The tip of some grass. That's why I'm creating some moments like this with my brush. Okay, I will show you on another sheet of paper, like how to load your brush with ello cer and a zo yellow mix and movie brush like this. So we'll Yeah. Like this. So we'll get this texture and we'll paint it here for more details, like from here. So it will look more natural and interesting. Yeah. Now, I will add more darker colors around here. So I'll take some sap green to this mix. And just paint it over here. Yeah. And now I'm going to make that shape again upward. And I'm going to make it more around the foreground with indico and sap green mix. Oh. Okay. Now I'm going to add some shadows or some more colors. In between that. So I'll take a mix of yellow ocher and ultramarine. I have already mixed it here. Yeah. I want to just dim it down. We don't want that bright white spots all over. Yeah. But still it's somewhere here like that. I'm not covering it at all. Let's add shades here and there. That's Yeah. But I think this party started drying, so I will just ret that part. So we'll take my big size f Let's just. Maybe you can paint without. That's also fine. But you can always do retting and re layering techniques in watercolor paintings when you're using 100% cotton, 300 GSM papers. So yeah. Now I'm going to add some this dark green and indigo mix spots here in the meadow. Let's make some tiny tiny dots. And maybe some bigger one as it coming towards for ground. No so tiny and little dots. Make it irregular here and there, not just a straight line. Also, I'm going to add some more depth with this yellow cur Mx. Bend it around here carefully. Yeah, I'm bending it like negative painting technique by shaping that part. We're also shaping the foreground details. Maybe I'll make it in the with yellow. I'm just mixing that green and your lower a little bit. Yeah, I'm adding that dark mix. So bigger lines like this for some overlapping gas or leaves. That's enough? Let's add some more dark dots with a the indigo. Make it irregular and Yeah. You can see that by adding these details. I'm also shaping this part or the view of this meadow part, like this line. So we have to paint it around the carefully. Make it some lines and dots here and there. Don't make it more detailed. Yeah. Also, I'm going to add some also. Yeah, I think that's enough. And we're going to paint the bigger tree around here. If that, let's add the details around the horizon line. So I'm going to re just about the horizon line with this flat brush. That is my magic brush. For rewetting mainly. Yeah, that's enough. And let's start painting some details. I'll take some ultramarine and some a pack white. And I'll make some they go and mix it with some grain also. I'm mixed it with of back white and ultramarine and let it in the code, then I'm it with some of this green mixture. So I hope you didn't get confused about the color mixes. Okay. Now I'm going to blend it a bit. Blend it down a little bit. And I think I'm going to wipe it around here because we don't need it that higher. Okay, that's. And also, I think I have to lift it around here. Yeah. Yeah. That's enough. And Now, let's add some bigger trees. I'll take the go sorry, Sab green and they go. And we did the outline around here, so I'm going to I can see I'm scratching my brush over the paper. Yeah. Make your brush very dry and add more details. Maybe I will add some here. Some tiny details around the tree. And maybe here also. Yeah. And make it so grass that's all will happen the scene. Yeah. That's enough. Yeah. Maybe I I feel like adding some here. So tiny dots. Yeah. I'm going to shape it with more details. Maybe I will add one tree here. That is little smaller. I want it to blend it a little bit here. Maybe I will add some highlights here for the tree with a mix of pack white and a little acer and some green with this mix of greens. And let's make. We had to paint it on the wet surface. O. Yeah. I think that's enough. And also here. So here, also. Yeah. So let's make the other side a little more darker. So I will take some indigo again. And let's paint it over here. O. Yeah. That's enough. Just make it a little darker and here, too. Maybe here. Yeah. And I think I need more details. Like some ds. I enjoy painting trees and I can't stop painting and adding details like this. Yeah. We are almost done. So we have to add some details around here. So let's do that. Maybe some lines. With some in the go. Yeah, like some just sharp lines in the same direction of the meadow. And some details or some tiny dots on the tip of that line, some madding. And also, I'm going to do the same with some this mix of colors for we mixed it for the tree with that same mix. I'm adding some highlights. Make it very thin and sharp. Okay. Just one line this like in the same direction of the meadow going with the wind and adding some leaves like that. Maybe you can paint some like this also. In different directions, you can add it. Yeah, that's enough. I will cover this spot. I feel like adding some shadows here. Yeah. 00. Yeah, that's enough. And maybe I'll add some flowers like some tiny dots with some red mix it with pack white. More red and little pack white only. And some tiny dots here and there don't paint it like some any flower shapes or something. You can add some tiny dots. Maybe you can paint over these white spots. We have here and there and so here. Maybe I think I want to add more red flowers. And I need to add some details to the tree like maybe some branch or trunk. Yeah. That's set enough. Yeah. I think that's you know. Let's say the final look of the painting. So that is the final look of this painting? We have done some flow di sky and some four ground textures for the meadow and for the trees and some bigger trees and some details and flowers as the final details. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and you learned some techniques to paint meadow and trees. So yeah. 7. Final thoughts and Conclusion: Yeah, thank you so much for joining this class, and I hope you have learned to paint water are scapes with more confidence and in more loose and realistic and detailed style. And if you have any doubts regarding the class about the materials or the techniques we followed, you can ask in the discussion box or you can mail me through my e mail. This starts by rani@gmail.com. And always remember that watercolor landscapes are a little tricky compared to other mediums. So painting with confidence is very important and by understanding the proper techniques and more practice, you can definitely paint more realistic and beautiful watercolor landscapes. And also gradually, you will develop a unique, your painting style. So don't forget to post your class projects in the project section, and I can't wait to know your feedback about the class, so I can understand where to improve for the next class. So yeah, thank you so much again and bye. See you soon with a new class.