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Master Expressive Style of Painting: Four Christmas Cards in Watercolor

teacher avatar Bianca Rayala, Top Teacher | Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      About The Class

      2:03

    • 2.

      Materials

      3:07

    • 3.

      Project 1 Glowing Lamp Post

      20:51

    • 4.

      Project 2 Happy Girl

      31:52

    • 5.

      Project 3 Puppies

      32:25

    • 6.

      Project 4 Doodle Portrait

      30:32

    • 7.

      Project 5 Gift Tag

      3:37

    • 8.

      Final Thoughts

      0:56

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About This Class

Christmas is the perfect time to show tangible love to your family and friends. And What could be a better gift than a hand made art piece that relives precious, timeless memories? Paintings that will speak personally to one’s heart!         

In this class, we’re going to master the expressive style of painting with watercolor through painting four interesting holiday plots that will surely relive your fond memories of Christmas. What I love most about painting in loose and expressive style is that it’s focused on bringing out the essence, the mood of the picture rather than a reflection of real life.

 To start I’ll share the right materials to get you need from choosing the right paper, appropriate brushes and colors combinations to use.

For our first project, We will learn to paint a glowing lamp post on a winter night setting.

 Then we will practice drawing a little girl’s figure and convey a soft, atmospheric background.

Next, we will paint a misty winter landscape with puppies gazing out of the window and lastly, we will create a loose family portrait and explore ways to use it as a gift idea or holiday gift tag.

By the end of the class, you will have a better understanding of how to paint in a loose and expressive style plus you will have 4 heartwarming artworks that you can give as a gift or use as a card this Christmas!

 

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Bianca Rayala

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1. About The Class: Christmas is the perfect time to show tangible love to our family and friends. What could be a better gift than a handmade art piece that relieves precious and timeless memories, paintings that will speak personally to one's heart? Hi, everyone. I'm Bianca Rayala, I'm a watercolor artist. My works revolve around the beauty of life and nature. Watercolor has tremendously changed the way I appreciate things around me and I see it as a special way to communicate a personal story and a message. Over the years, I have taught thousands of students across the world and it is my purpose to inspire people to discover and pursue their creative passion. In this class, we're going to master the expressive style of painting with watercolor through four interesting holiday plots that will surely relieve your fan memories of Christmas. What I love most about painting in loose and expressive style is that it's focused on bringing out the essence, the mood of the picture, rather than the reflection of real life. To start, I'll share the right materials that you need from choosing the right paper, appropriate brushes, and color combinations to use. You will learn to paint a glowing lamppost on a winter night setting. Then we will practice drawing a little girl's figure and convey a soft atmospheric background. Next, we will paint a misty winter landscape with puppies gazing out of the window. Lastly, we will create a loose family portrait and explore ways to use it as a gift idea or holiday gift tag. By the end of the class, you will have a better understanding of how to paint in a loose and expressive style, plus, you will have four heartwarming artworks that you can give as a gift or use as a card this Christmas. I'm excited on what you can create, and I hope this class would inspire you to create handmade watercolor gifts for your loved ones. Let's get started. 2. Materials: Expressive style of painting is the art of using small and big strokes to capture the essence of the subject. It doesn't seek to paint a reflection of real life, but the artist's impression towards the subject. We aim to capture the life and story of the picture in our own interpretation. In this course, we will master the art of expressive painting as we paint four plots that will surely relieve the beautiful memories of Christmas. We will start from learning to paint a glowing lamppost on a winter night setting and then we will practice drawing a little girl's figure and convey an atmospheric background. Next, we will paint a winter landscape with puppies gazing out of the window. Lastly, we will create a loose family portrait and explore different ways to use it as a gift idea or holiday gift tag. Let's see the materials that I will be using to do all these projects. Let's start with the paper. I encourage using cold press paper, which is 100 percent cotton. Cotton paper has a better way of absorbing the paint and water, which gives us better results. Now for the brushes, I primarily use these brushes, the Renaissance red sable hair, size 8 or thin, and Silver Silk 88 ultra round synthetic brush, size 6 or 8. Let me share you also my watercolor palette. The colors that I will use are yellow ocher, burnt sienna, Indian red, perylene violet, quinacridone rose, neutral tint, amethyst genuine, horizon blue, lavender, Payne's gray, indigo, olive green, cobalt blue, perylene red, new gamboge, and titanium white. Other materials that I will need are: pencil, eraser, a board and a tape to hold the paper and to create nice border, two cups of water and mixing palette, tissue paper and some scrapbooking materials for creating gift tags. I have here a waterproof, fine pen, vellum paper, scissors, and [inaudible] string, a gold paint, and also this [inaudible] thermal printer. This is an inkless, portable printer which instantly prints photos from the phone. It is so convenient to use and perfect for creating small gift tags. I will show you how to use this on the latter portion of this class. I will list down and share the photo of all these materials that I use in the project description below this video. I also provided the photos of the pencil sketch and final painting of all the projects in the resource section found in the Project and Resources tab. That's it. Let's not make this any longer because I'm excited to paint along with you and I'll see you on the next video for our first class project. 3. Project 1 Glowing Lamp Post: Welcome to our first lesson. In this class, we're going to paint a lighted lamppost on a winter night setting. Our goal here is to bring out the glowing light of the lamp by creating a contrasting background that portrays a cold and peaceful evening. Let's start with a pencil sketch. I imagine dividing my paper into three sections and I position the lamppost on the first third section. I make it big enough to dominate the page since this is our main focal point. I start with the top part of the lantern and followed by the steel post. I will also add a steel post below the lantern and make it as straight as possible. When sketching, it is important to consider the proportion and alignment of the object. If the lamppost is not straight, the painting wouldn't look that good even if you execute the applications of colors correctly. To give you an overview of the process, we start by painting the light from the lamp. To paint light in watercolor, we leave the brightest part of the light unpainted. Then around it, we will paint a yellow-orange glow. To make it shine brightly, we need to create a dark contrasting background after it. Let's paint. I get a diluted mix of new gamboge mix with a bit of burnt sienna. I paint the inner part of the lantern but leaving a small portion unpainted. I intentionally painted the yellow beyond the border, then I will soften the edge around the unpainted portion to create a soft transition from the brightest light to the yellow color. Next, I mix new gamboge and perylene red to create an orangey color and paint the outer area of the lantern. It is gradually making the color warmer as we go out. I notice that I'm losing the white unpainted portion, so I just use a clean brush to lift off the color. I intensify the orange color a little bit more. Then, next, I will mix the colors for my background. For the background, I use horizon blue and amethyst genuine. I paint with this color on the other fragment first, then I will use a clean brush to softly blend the blue and yellow color. Since I added violet color, which is amethyst genuine to my blue color, I prevented having a green color when the blue and yellow color meet. I paint the area with the same blue mix and soften the blend. Now we need to create depth by creating a darker color for the background using the same two colors, but this time adding more amethyst genuine to get a violet shade. Notice how thick and creamy my mix is. It is really dark and saturated. I add some indigo to get an even darker and richer color. I also add a bit of perylene violet to create variety and interest. I also play with colors in the background. The important thing in doing this step is to keep your mix very creamy, rich, and saturated. If you have a very watery mixture, the light in your nightscape will not shine bright. Using the same colors, but varying the proportion of each color, I create a play of colors and depth in the background. I also tilted my paper so the paint won't backflow. As you go farther away from the light, the background should get even darker. Now that I'm okay with my background, I will splatter some clean water using my brush to create natural blooms that will give extra texture. Next I get the yellowish color to show the reflected light on the banner on the post. I painted just a portion of it. Before we add details on the lantern, make sure that the fragment is completely dry. Since it is a bit wet, I will not work on it yet and maybe I could go back and add some splatters first on the background. Using new gamboge and [inaudible], I will enhance the tonal of value of the lantern. On my initial stroke, I noticed that my paper is still moist and paint still bleeds, I will use a heat gun to dry the surface first. As you do this enhancing step, make sure that the fragment is really dry to create crisp and hard edge strokes. I get a mix of neutral tint and amethyst genuine and will paint the upper part of the lantern. My mix is still creamy to get a very dark solid color. I also use my synthetic brush now, so my brush won't contain much water in it. I want my strokes to be really dark and defined and using a synthetic brush makes the work easier. As we paint this part of the lantern, we need to blend light and dark. As I paint the black portion, I use a clean brush to soften the blend with the lighter portion. This step is very important to make the overall look of the glowing lantern closer to life. I continued on painting the base of the lantern with a broken stroke so we can maintain the looseness. As I paint also the sides of the glass, I don't paint it with solid black from one end to another since we need to portray the glowing light. I will just enhance the side of the lantern by adding light layer of a warmer color. Be careful on doing this step as we don't want to loose the light that we preserved on our first step. Soften the edge with a clean brush to have that smooth gradient. I continue painting on the post, still with a very dark neutral tint. The tonal value of the post must be darker than the background, so it will stand out. Next, let's paint some shadows of snow here on the banner using lavender. I paint just a portion of it with lavender and add some random strokes of red to portray the text on the banner. I will also add some dab of neutral tint just to make the outline more defined. Let's finalize the lamp by adding some dark spots here in the bulb area. Lastly, using an opaque white paint, I get a very thick amount of color which mean very minimal amount of water and make splatters around the background. Different brushes make different splatters size and effect. Try experimenting first to check which brush would make the snow effect that you would like best but make sure that the paint is really creamy so it will not fade out after drying. I will add some white spots on the lantern to portray snow. For this I get the paint straight from the tube to make it really white. This is our final painting. Make sure that your work is completely dry before removing the masking tape. On our next lesson, we will be painting a little girl's figure and convey an atmospheric background. It may look intimidating, but trust me that you can do it. We will paint it in a simplified way so you can surely follow along. See you in the next video. 4. Project 2 Happy Girl: Let's start drawing the little girl holding a Christmas gift on this lesson. When I sketch human figure, I also focus and start on the general shape of this object from top to bottom. Here I start with a basic outline of the little girl's Christmas hat and then the rod outline of her hair and face. If you want to save some time and focus on the painting process, you can download the template of this sketch for tracing. You can find this in the resource section below this video. Here I started drawing the gift box and the ribbon. Next, I draw the winter jacket starting from the fur down to her right arm around the gift. Here you can notice that I didn't draw the details of the face yet, and I also keep my sketch very loose by sketching with broken lines. As we learn expressive style of painting, the main thing that we need to factor in when sketching is to have the right proportion and enlightenment of body parts so the subject won't look awkward. Now I start drawing the basic lines for the facial features. Remember that we don't aim to reflect a realistic image of the girl. What we want to bring out is the essence and the mood of the subject through expressive brush strokes. Here's the sketch of the little girl tightly hugging her Christmas gift with her right arm resting on the table. Now, to give you an overview of the painting process, we will paint the girl in one layer, just like how I do it on my other human figure classes. Since we will do it in one layer, it means that we need to set up the appropriate tonal values on this step. Then once it's dry, we will paint the soft background, and lastly, we will enhance the details and contrast to bring more life to the painting. Are you ready? Let's start. I create my color mix for this skin tone using burnt sienna and a little bit of yellow ocher. I add a little perylene violet and water to have a milky mixture. I start painting the face with a light wash, and then I add a bit of perylene violet on her cheeks and chin for a pinkish glow. Next, I make a slightly darker mix by adding a bit of horizon blue to my existing skin color and paint the side of the nose and shadow on the eyes. Notice that my brush doesn't have much water. That's why my strokes are like dry brush on moist paper. Next, I paint the shadows on the white fur on her hat with lavender. I don't paint the entire fur fragment, but just the shadows. Here I'm painting the hat with a mix of Indian red and Berlin red. My mix is still creamy, so I have this dark vibrant red color for the hat. Let's put dimension on the hat by painting some dark spots using the same mix, but with Berlin violet. Now let's move on to the fur on her coat, I still use lavender to paint the shadows. I also left unpainted portions. Next, I make a nice pink mix using perylene violet and connect with down rows. I paint the bottom part of the arm with dark and add a bit of water to create this blend of dark delight. Doing this step creates a rounded dimension for the arm. As I paint the inner part of her coat, I don't actually mind the details, but I just made sure that the tone is darker than this sleeve, so they would look separate and distinct. Next, let's paint the gift box. I use horizon blue with a bit of amateurs genuine, as I paint gift box instead of making it like a solid fill of color I vary the tone slightly, and also the ratio of the color I mix to have an added interest on the gift. Make sure to make the tone of the other side of gift lighter to show dimension. Here I am just doing negative painting to bring out the form of the gift and separate it from the girls coat. Let's paint the ribbons with yellow. I flatten my brush to create wide stroke. Next, let's paint the gloves. I will use olive green with a bit of indigo. Again, don't make a solid fill of color. There must be a transition from dark to light tone to show dimension on her gloves. I darken the area around the gloves to show shadow on the box. When you're done painting the little girl make sure to dry this layer completely before painting the background. For the background I will use olive and indigo. I will prevent the area with clean water, carefully outline the girl with this clean water. Now, we can start painting. With a saturated mix of paint, I carefully paint around the girl. As light is coming from the left we will make their right side background a little darker. I will not fill the background with color completely, but since the paper is wet, my paints will create a very nice soft edge around. I splatter some clean water for texture, I also check if I have painted even the small parts completely. I paint a table next, we the semi dry brush stroke using indigo. I didn't pre-wet this area, that is why I'm able to create this dry stroke in contrast with a soft green background. Here, I'm just painting over it those white spots around the girl. Next, I will splatter some yellow ocher paint on my green background portraying a Christmas tree behind her. Let's paint the little girl starting with her hair. Then by adding neutral tint, I will paint strokes on top to show some shadows. I feel like adding more splatters of green here on the left to enhance the background and also add few dry stroke on the table. Let's go back to painting the face. I'm now using again my red sable brush as I want a soft and loose straw for the face. I start from the brows with a basic stroke using brown mix. The same thing I do with her eyes. Since we're painting small, little dots and dubs of the brush is sufficient to convey the facial features. You don't have to worry about the details as it is not the focal point of the painting. I now paint the lips using pearl violet and still doing very light gentle strokes. I change my brush again to silver silk and add dark dot on the eye. See how a simple and small dot can make the picture complete. I will do the same dot on the nose and below her lip. Now let's enhance other details like painting the shadow on her gloves to separate it from the gift. I will also add some more strokes here on her lips. Let's add some highlights on the gift box and also ribbon using buttery mix of paints. We need to darken the ribbon a bit to separate it from the girl's face. I will also do some negative painting to define the shape of her face. Lastly, let's add some highlights of lavender on the white fur. Here, our painting is complete. I hope you enjoyed painting this little girl as much as I did. On our next lesson, we will paint a nice winter landscape and pop gazing out of the window. 5. Project 3 Puppies: Welcome to our third lesson. Our subject is so interesting because it's like painting two plots in one picture. We'll paint a misty winter landscape and two puppies inside the house using out the window. Let's start with a pencil sketch. I start with the outline of the curtains in both sides. I make it loose and not so straight. Then here on the lower left side, I'll place the two puppies. I do the same drawing principle of starting from the head going down and focusing on the general outline. I uploaded the pencil sketch on the Resource section, if you need a copy for your guide. Next, let's draw the horizon line and some lines to portray the dried trees on the backgrounds. I'll start with the base wash of the landscape and the interior including the puppies. Then on the second phase, I'll enhance the contrast and add details to finalize the painting. Using lavender and a bit of cobalt blue, I paint the background with a milky wash. I am painting wet on dry. I also avoid painting the outline of the puppies. I also tilt my board slightly to let the paint flow down. I make the upper portion richer in tone by adding more lavender. Next, I mix lavender and burnt sienna to paint the wall fragment. We will make the colors cool because of the winter mood. Next, I use yellow ocher and a bit of burnt sienna and lavender to paint the window frame and wall. Proportion of the paints in the mix to create different shade. As I paint the wall I carefully avoid painting over the puppies figures. Next, I put [inaudible] genuine and my leftover lavender paint for the curtains. I make it a bit darker in tone as compared to the background so it will not look like part of the background, but rather a middle ground. Since my background is still moist when I painted the curtains, the colors are softly blending. Don't worry about this as we will add few strokes later on to define the shape of the curtain. I dry the [inaudible] completely with a heat gun before I start doing the second phase. Now, let's add a bit of details on the brick wall by painting some strokes with a dark brown color. I move my brush sideways to paint the bricks. Don't make it too dark so it won't overpower the puppies. For our next step, I will define the window frame with a thin dark stroke. I use [inaudible] and lavender to make an opaque grayish brown color. Let's paint the puppies now. I get a creamy mix of neutral tint. I felt that there is a small wet portion on the background that causes the paint on the puppy to bleed, so I need the dry it well and I need to create a hard edge on the dog's outline. Even though the puppy is black, we need to take note that the tonal value should still be followed so it will not look flat like a silhouette. With that, I change the tonal value by using paints grade to paint the lighter tones of the head. Next, I paint the puppy's shirt with horizon blue and blending some olive green for extra interest. Again, don't make it a single fill of color to show the form of the dog's muddy. Let's complete the first puppy by painting its legs. I darken some portions on the left leg area and I also add a small stroke to show the front leg leaning on the window. Now, that the layer is moist, I try to lay a darker and thicker paint to show some details or crease on the shirt. Let's move to the other puppy. I use ocher and burnt sienna as its base color. I add more sienna and amethyst genuine to my mix if I need to create a darker tone. If I need a lighter tone, I just add water to my mix. This is to dilute the color. I bring dimension to it's body by darkening the spine and bottom area. I also slightly darken the left side of the puppy. Using a watery mix of peri and violet, I make a quick stroke for it's color. I did the same stroke for the first puppy to add highlights. Next, let's define the curtains using lavender and horizon blue. I start with the swift stroke and then soften the same stroke with a clean brush. We do this to define the edge and make it separated from the landscape background. I do the same step on the next curtain on the right. Let's do the trees next. Using lavender and neutral tint, I start painting the ground with some broken strokes. I don't make it too dark to show this sense. I changed to a synthetic brush to paint the tree trunks. Again, I make the stroke very light in tone. I sometimes dab the stroke with my finger to fill the hollow out. I also hold my brush near the end of the handle and in 90 degrees angle to make the stroke shaky and with less control. Notice that the trunks and branches are painted in broken lines. Next, I use my sable brush and does light dry brush strokes to show a misty background, still using lavender with a bit of neutral tint. I darken the curtains a bit more for extra contrast since we are using almost the same color for the winter landscape and curtains. I also put some dark highlights on some of the trees to show trees in different distance. Let's just add some details in the middle ground just to enhance the composition, like a small brick wall covered with snow here on the right. The loose strokes we are making is sufficient to create an impression of the elements. I will add a few more dark spots here on the brick wall just to finalize the fog on. Lastly, I will add some spots of white paint on the trees to show falling snow on the outside. Make the white paint really thick so it will stand out. I will add few accents of white too on the puppies just to build connection between the landscape and the puppies. I let this layer dry completely and we are done with the painting. 6. Project 4 Doodle Portrait: We are down to the last project on this class. Thank you so much for taking each lesson with me. For our last class project, I will be sharing one special demo that you can definitely use this holiday season. We will be doing an expressive family portrait. I will share how to create quick doodle portrait and apply watercolor and ink from my own family photo, which you can apply when drawing your own family if you'd like to use it as a gift card, or to draw your friends, as it is also a wonderful gift idea not just this Christmas, but on all other occasions. Let's start. When doing portraits on this tile, we focus on two things; the general shape of the face, and gesture of the person. In this way, even though it is only a doodle, we'll still achieve resemblance and captured the memory and moment behind the photo we are painting. As I draw my husband, I start observing the general shape of his head and also the gesture. His head is slightly leaning on his left, so I need to factor that in. I don't finish his body at the moment, but proceed on drawing my son next. Again, I look at the general shape of his face and hair. Check the angle of the face and his arm. Next, I draw my daughter, looking at the same considerations, but this time I also need to ensure that the distance of our heads are not too far from each other. I sketch in a free hand, not being so particular if it looks perfect. Remember that it is a doodle and we are not aiming for an exact replica of the photo. We're just capturing the moment through a quick fun sketch. Now that all our heads are positioned already, I'll go back to drawing my husband shoulder. This time I check the angle of his shoulder and the proportion so his arm won't look too big or too small. I will also draw his shirt, but will not completely finish the entire upper body. As for my son, loose general sketch to show arms and hand is okay. No need to actually draw each finger to simplify the process, and not to get stressed with non-essential details. I just focus on getting the general outline of their clothes and gesture of arm to complete the drawing. Now as we draw the face, we have to keep in mind the angle of the face to position the facial features correctly. The eyebrows are aligned on the top of the ear while the nose on the bottom of the ear. I use simple curved lines to draw the eyes, nose, and mouth. When you're done with your sketch, lighten the pencil marks before tracing it with a waterproof ink. You need to use a waterproof ink to prevent it from smudging when you apply water color. After tracing, I clean it again and erase all pencil marks. Remember once you painted over the pencil marks, it won't get erased anymore. Let's start painting. My basic mix for skin tone is yellow ocher and burn chino. I paint the face with the light wash. I also add a bit of persian violet on the cheeks and chin area. Next I paint the arm using the same color mix. I just darken the bottom portion of the arm for dimension. I will use the same skin tone mix for all of us. Next, let's paint the shirts one by one starting from my husband. I make a mix with a slightly darker tone as compared to the skin tone. When painting clothes, we apply the same step I taught on our second lesson, the happy girl. When we paint the clothes in one layer we paint it by controlling the amount of water in our brush so we can create light and dark tones in one layer. Also, even though we have an ink line art for the drawing, we should still apply appropriate values to show the dimension of the body parts. This is essential to prevent a picture from looking flat. I leave the edge for this shade like this for a loose edge. Now like paint my son next. Painting portraits in this style seems slow pace but it's actually relaxing to do. It's like taking it slow to prevent our beans from going beyond the border. Yet applying the techniques we learned on painting in one layer from our previous lessons. I will now paint my self, I will start with the base wash of my shrink then later on I will darken the back part to separate the arm fragment and make it this thing. Now let's paint the hair, I'll use [inaudible] paints gray for the hair color. As you paint the hair, make sure that the face fragment is dry already so the colors will not bleed. This is my doodle family portrait in watercolor. I encourage you to try this project using your own family photo as a reference. You can practice also with your friends photo, which would be a great and personal Christmas gift idea. I will show you a quick and very simple way to make this portrait to a gift tag on the next video. 7. Project 5 Gift Tag: I love giving and receiving personalized gifts. Here let me show you the family portrait that I did in the previous lesson and I put it in a nice simple frame. I also previously did another one but without color and made it as a gift tag. Gift tags with your family portrait makes the gift look extra personal and special. I thought of sharing with you a very quick and easy way to do it. Well, after you create that your family portrait or any of the other projects that we did in the previous lessons, take a photo of it using your phone. Better if you can capture it on natural light for a great lighting. You can adjust the brightness and contrast of the image on your phone according to your preference. Next, I will bring the photo using my pulley printer. It is a thermal printer that prints images in few seconds. I printed my photo in a sticker paper so I can easily stick it on that tag later on. You can also use a regular printer to do this project but what I like about using a portable printer is the convenience of printing without the need to transfer the file from my phone to a computer, resize the image, and cut the printout especially during the Christmas rush. Here's my printout. I'll stick it on a small piece of card and add a few gold details for a holiday vibe. Using a felt pen I'll write a simple note like Merry Christmas and our family name underneath. Don't forget to punch a hole and add a string or a ribbon. Here's a very easy-to-make personalized Christmas gift tag. 8. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for joining me in this class and I hope that you got inspired to create handmade watercolor gifts for your loved ones. I also invite you to take my other class, the winter wonderland Christmas card class here on Skillshare, where we will be painting fun and colorful holiday cards. I'm excited to see your paintings. I listed down all the materials, the printer and other tools that I used in the project description below. You may also download the pencil sketch and final paintings in the resource section. Don't forget to upload your work and leave a review if this class has helped you in any way. Thank you so much for joining me in this class and I really do appreciate your love and support for all my classes. I pray that you have a wonderful time with your family and have a blessed Christmas.