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Master Loose Painting Style - Learn To Paint A Winter Cityscape In Watercolor

teacher avatar Sukrutha Jagirdhar, Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello Welcome !!

      1:25

    • 2.

      Art Supplies

      1:41

    • 3.

      Color Palette

      4:59

    • 4.

      What Is Loose Painting Style ?

      4:40

    • 5.

      Class Project - Sketching

      10:17

    • 6.

      Class Project - Masking Fluid

      3:16

    • 7.

      Class Project - First Layer

      12:14

    • 8.

      Class Project - Second Layer

      11:40

    • 9.

      Class Project - Third Layer

      10:02

    • 10.

      Class Project - Final Details

      13:31

    • 11.

      Thank You !

      0:28

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About This Class

If you have always wanted to paint a loose and expressive watercolor painting but do not know where to start , this class is for you..

Loose watercolor painting emphasizes on capturing the essence and mood of a scene rather than painting a detailed image..the focus is on getting the shapes and structures right and not much on detailing..

Things you will learn in this class

  • How to emphasize on painting shapes and structures in the project
  • Learn to let go of control and perfectionism while painting
  • How to avoid sharp detailing in the project
  • Learning not to overwork the painting
  • Emphasis on capturing the mood and essence of a painting rather than on painting a detailed image

The class basically has three techniques..

  • Wet On Wet Technique
  • Wet On Dry Technique
  • Rewetting Technique

This class is perfect for Intermediate and advanced level artists who wants try a fun and adventurous painting..if you are beginner, you can learn a new style of painting in this class, maybe you will fall in love with it ?

At the end of this class you will not only have a clear and precise understanding of loose style of watercolor painting but also have created a whimsical loose watercolor winter cityscape..

Materials You Will Need

Paper – Fabriano artistco 100% cotton paper

Colors – Whitenights Paints

Brushes – Silverblack velvet no 14 & 6,Silver Hake Brush

Tissues, A clean water jar, a masking tape and masking fluid

Ready ? Lets get started..!!

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Sukrutha Jagirdhar

Watercolor Artist

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Welcome to this cozy and creative winter watercolor class! I'm so excited to have you here as we paint a peaceful winter landscape together.

This class is designed to be a relaxing and therapeutic escape--perfect for unwinding and enjoying some "me time" over the weekend. Whether you're new to watercolors or a seasoned artist, I hope you find joy and inspiration in every brushstroke.

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1. Hello Welcome !!: If you always wanted to paint a loose and expressive watercolor painting, but do not know where to start. This class is for you. Loose watercolor painting emphasizes on capturing the essence and mood of a scene, rather than painting a detailed image. Hello, I'm suckered into watercolor artist based in India. In today's class, we're going to learn how to paint a beautiful lose winter cityscape. First, we will start by getting to know what all the art supplies that we're going to need. Later we will learn a few simple tips and techniques on how to paint a loose style of painting. After that, we're going to get started with our class project. This class has basically three techniques. Wet-on-wet technique, wet on dry, and riveting techniques. Since perfect for intermediate and advanced level artist wants to try a fun and adventurous painting. And if you're a beginner, you can learn a new style of painting in this class as well. Are you ready? Let's get started. 2. Art Supplies: Coming to that supplies, I'm going to first talk about papers. I have used Fabriano, 100% cotton, 300 GSM, cold press papers. I these papers in roles and I cut them up using a cutoff. Especially allow the texture of these papers. But you can use any papers that you have. Make sure there are 100% cotton and 300 GSM. Have only use three brushes and they're from Zillow Blackwell wet. This is hockey brush. I use this for the initial washes. These brushes, silver black velvet number 14 brush. This is the brush that I mostly used in this class project. And this one is number six brush, I use this for fine detailing. I have used Winsor and Newton masking fluid for this class project to cover up a few areas. If you don't have this, you can use white gouache. Instead. I have used palate, tissues and water jar and masking tape. These are all important by the way. A special color palette for this class project which will be discussed in the next video. 3. Color Palette: I have used only three colors. And all of these three colors are from a brand called White Knight. This color is golden deep. It's somewhere between yellow and orange. And the second color is burnt sienna. You have seen me use this color a lot. The final color is pines gray. Use these colors in combinations. That is, I have mixed all of these colors together at some point. So now I'm going to discuss all the color combinations that I've used here. Finally, I have used white watercolor to paint this. No, this is not Gosh, this is white watercolor. Let me swatch these colors out first and later I'm going to tell you the color combos that I've used. I will start from light to dark. This is golden deep. I'm going to take burnt sienna next and binds Greer at last. Let me label this with my pen. This cafe bar that you see here, I have used golden deep mixed with burnt sienna. For the top part of the paper beside that black door, I have used a mix of burnt sienna with pines gray to get that dark shade. And for those buildings in the background, I have used a very light shade of golden, deep burnt sienna and pints gray mixture. Like I said, it is very, very light, so very less pigment and a lot of water. I've used pines gray to paint those doors for those buildings. So these are all the color combinations and the colors that I've used to paint the cityscape have White Nights brand colors. You can use any brand of the colors that you want. And for the shade, Please be particular to all of you will be having the golden deep shade so you can use orange color instead. That is it for the color palette for today's class. So we'll jump into next video and see WhatsApp. 4. What Is Loose Painting Style ?: Let's talk a few things about loose painting style. When you paint the essence of a landscape, instead of painting a very detailed picture, it is called loose painting style. Now, I'm going to list out a few things about this particular style. And as we move into the video, I'm going to explain all of these things into detail. Have an example, a landscape here. I've just drawn a few buildings and a car. And I'm going to start by wetting the paper. Last point about loose painting style is to paint only the shapes and structures in the landscape. E.g. I'm gonna be only emphasizing the structure of the buildings. That is, I'm going to be painting very lightly, very loosely, the buildings and the doors. If this was not a loose painting, I would have given a lot of attention to the details, This buildings. But for now, I'm only painting the right shapes. Loose painting can be done mostly wet-on-wet. But in this landscape we're going to use wet on dry technique as well. And we're going to use reverting to the second tape in loose painting style is to avoid very sharp detailing. E.g. I. Could have done a lot of things to the store. I could have added shadows, I could have added the border and Gilmore structure, but I'm only adding one layer of pines gray, and I'm leaving it at that because the shape is important and not the detail. The last step is to lose the control. I know losing control is not something we can learn in a minute. It takes a lot of power in us to stop ourselves from being perfect. But loose painting is all about that. The goal here is to have fun and to feel relaxed while painting, instead of burdened by perfectionism. Capture the emotion you feel when you see a scene in the nature. All this is nice to hear. I know, but it's not going to happen in a single die. So I would suggest to consider Hi class as a practice for you to learn loose painting style. For me, it took a lot of trials and practice to paint loose painting style. It's quite difficult than I thought. But finally, I'm here. I hope you guys give this class a try. And who knows? You might just fall in love with this style. Are you ready to find out? Then let's jump into the next video. 5. Class Project - Sketching: Let's start sketching. I'm going to draw the sidewalk. Sketching the sidewalk first also gives me perfect perspective. Find the process of sketching with me a little bit difficult. I have uploaded the final sketch, MAs in the resources tab below. You can download the image and directly trace it onto your watercolor paper. The sidewalk. I'm going to draw that big cafe board. That's our main highlight of this painting. And for your convenience, I'm going to place the final image here on the screen so that you can understand what I'm sketching here. I tell it as Cafe, and it doesn't have to be perfect. You can always correct it with white quash later. Now this is the sidewalk and this cafe board are the main things that you need to watch out for in this sketch. So if you get these two things, right, you can build remaining structures one by one. And this is the phone booth that I'm sketching just beside the sidewalk. Now sketch those three dose that you're seeing in the final painting. I'm going to sketch those traffic lights. The car and be careful when painting the car. Because I believe if you are new to this, if you are painting the car for the first time, it can be a little bit confusing where to add the shadows and where to leave the whitespace. So I would suggest to draw and paint carefully. Now, let's sketch the man in the sweatshirt. I think it is a jacket. Right now, wearing a jacket as well. It's very cold here. Forgotten to sketch the door here. So I'm gonna do just add onto the buildings on my left. The remaining part of the car. I actually forgot to sketch it before. We're done with the sketch. In the next video, I'm gonna show you where to add the masking fluid. And if you don't have masking fluid, that's fine as well. I'm going to tell you a little trick in the next video. So let's move on. 6. Class Project - Masking Fluid: Start with applying the masking fluid. Always apply the masking fluid with the brush that you don't always use. And also it should be very thin because you can get the details right. I'm going to apply the masking fluid to this cafe. Only the letters tapply on this traffic lights as well. Structure you see on this door about. If you don't have masking fluid, you can always use whitewash, e.g. for these letters on this cafe board, you can use whitewash to write those. And if you don't have white quash, also, it is okay. You can use white watercolor paint. You just have to take a lot of paint and very less water. And now I'm going to splatter some masking fluid in order to get that snow effect at the end. Before we move on to the next video, we have to let this masking fluid to completely dry. So yeah, I'm going to do just that. And I'm going to see you in the next video. 7. Class Project - First Layer: First things first, keep your paper at an angle. Trust me, it really helps. I'm using my masking tape for this paper using clean water and hockey brush. I'm going to now mix burnt sienna with a little bit of Payne's gray. To get this light brown shade. Keep in mind, this color should be very light because we're going to paint the left side of the buildings using this color. And they have to be very light. Until you get to share, right? Start painting. And we're going to paint this top part of the building as well using the same color. But we're going to come back and add burnt sienna later. Remember, this is a loose style of painting, so do not worry too much about the color flowing through the edges, the borders of these buildings. It's perfectly alright. Now we're going to darken a little bit. So I'm going to use burnt sienna just a little bit. A mix of burnt sienna and pines gray, a little darker mix because I have not satisfied with the color. I'm going to add that color over here. And here as well. I'm going to take a little bit light shade of pines gray, and I'm going to paint the doors for my comfort. I'm gonna be turning this board a lot. So if you are like me, do not hesitate to work at your own comfort. For now, I'm going to be adding the pine screen light shade, but we're going to work on this again. Can see the paper is still wet while I'm adding this pines gray and the color is just flowing out of the border. And that is perfectly okay. We are going for that. I'm going to add darker shade of pines gray. So these two dose here. I'm going to move on to add more details to this side of the building. And I'm using a lighter shade of pines gray, and my paper is also getting damp. It's not completely wet. It's drying. So I'm going to have to work faster. I'm gonna completely covered this part of the building in light Payne's gray. And for the dose I'm going to be highlighting with dark shade of pines gray. Continue painting the dose using the darker shade of pines gray. Painting loose style of watercolor can be very intimidating if you're just starting out. So that's why I will keep reminding you throughout the class to let go of the control and to just paint what you feel like. Your feelings and emotions should be highlighted when you are going for a loose style of watercolor. All of those doors are done. We're going to move on to right side of the painting. And I'm going to get started with darker Payne's gray this time. And I'm going to paint the building with pines gray. And I'm going to leave the dose without adding any paint. The paper is still wet. You can see the pines gray is just seeping into the door area, which I told you to be left alone without any painting. And this is perfect. If we are going for a detailed painting, this would have been a nightmare. Hope you guys are enjoying this free flow watercolor painting. I'm having a lot of fun here. Now I'm going to mix this golden deep color with burnt sienna to get this bright orange color. And I'm going to paint this area with this color. This is the highlight of the painting. It'll look very bright. And I'm going to mix a little bit of pines gray to this burnt sienna mixture. And I'm going to paint this area with that color. Now with a damp brush, remote access of a pines gray that is here in the door area. Remote as much as possible. If your paper is dry it up, it's okay. You can add water, whitewater color later. We're going to paint this one but with fines great as well. I'm going to paint this area with burnt sienna as well. And this is it for the first layer. Very simple and very adventurous. So I'm gonna see you in the next video and see what's up in the second layer of this painting. 8. Class Project - Second Layer: Let's start with the second day. I'm going to first paint this little door here using pines gray. And the one that is right about this phone booth. I'm going to cover up this small mistake that I made. I don't want this door to be this lengthy. So I'm going to add burnt sienna and golden deep mix a little bit, you know, to reduce the size of the door. This is not actually a mistake. I just made a different decision. The middle of the painting because the door you see right here looking a bit larger than the one that is right below it, the white one. And it did not look good. I'm going to paint this traffic light pole using burnt sienna and golden deep mix. Width, golden deep color. I'm going to paint the board, the little board here with pines gray. I'm going to paint that smart traffic lights board. Same colors. That is burnt sienna and golden. Dave, I'm going to paint the window of this phone book. So I'm using lighter colors here instead of pines gray because there is a light that is inside the boat. I want to highlight that part. Because pines gray to show the shadows. Now with that pines gray, I'm going to paint the door here. Want to let you guys know that all the techniques that we used in this video, the second layer video, is wet on dry technique. So in the previous video we have used wet-on-wet a lot. So like I said, there will be three techniques in this class. I think you can guess what's coming in the next video. That's right. It's re-weighting technique. All these techniques that way that we have used so far in this class have been in a very loose sense. Are, you can say in a free flow. We are not very particular about details here and that's very important. Like I said, I will keep reminding you throughout this class to let go off the control and to enjoy the feeling of painting. And not just the, not just getting the perfect landscape at the end. Now, I'm going to take golden deep color. I'm going to paint this cafe board with it. But this is not the only time we're going to have to paint this board. We're going to have to add the details later. So for now, go with only one color, golden deep. Now I'm going to take Payne's gray and I'm going to complete painting this poll here. And of course the poll that is holding this cafe board with the same pints gray, I'm going to complete painting this balcony railing to distort door at the top. And don't forget to paint drill links to these two doors as well. We're going to paint the car. I'm using Payne's gray for all of these things so far I have used pines gray only and a little smaller brush. You're not these are all small details, so I have to use a smaller brush. We're going to paint this pole as well using pines gray. Again, with pines gray, I'm going to complete the sidewalk as well as you can see, I'm not painting in a one swift motion. I'm kinda using a dry brush technique. It also shows there is a snow there. Now, like I said before, in the next video, we're going to go for reweighting technique. For robotic technique to work, you have to let this layer to completely dry up. So I'm going to come back once this paper is completely dried. So yeah, see you in the next video where we're going to go for third layer. 9. Class Project - Third Layer: Start the third layer only when your paper is completely dry so that we can rewet. For riveting. I'm going to take my hockey brush and I'm going to very gently lay down the strokes. Though I have been very careful about trying time. You can see a little bit of pigment coming out of the borders for these e.g. for those poles and dose. But it's okay because we are anyway going for a loose style of watercolor painting and we are actively avoiding the perfection here. I have reread the paper mainly to add this white watercolor. I'm doing just that. Not going for any specificity here. I'm just picking random places and I'm adding this white watercolor. Now, it's time to add the white color at specific places. So I'm gonna take my small number brush and I'm going to take the white watercolor again. First, I'm going to start with the door right here. And this car and all of those traffic poles, and especially that cafe board. Be generous with the white paint. If you have white gouache, you can use that as well. Now I'm going to add a little bit of Payne's gray in the foreground to indicate there is a road. Some paint. It gives more depth. I'm going to add snow to the store at the top of the paper. Now, I'm going to proceed adding the snow at all the places that I think it could collect like on this. Especially on these boards and the buildings and the door right here. On my right. I'm going to add the snow, but this railing as well. And lots and lots of snow on the sidewalk. The next video, we're going to remove that masking tape and we're gonna work on that cafe board as well. And a lots and lots of details are there even though this is just a loose landscape. So I'm gonna see you there. 10. Class Project - Final Details: Let's paint the final details of this landscape. I paper is dry. I did not want it. And now using pints gray, I'm going to first paint the human figure here. Lot of white paint to show the snowfall. I'm going to remove this tape for now, but if you guys want to keep it, you can. So after that, I'm going to walk on removing the masking tape and few other details. Let's work on a few more details using white color. There is no specific protocol here. I'm just looking at the landscape and I'm seeing what else I can add to this. Gonna remove the masking fluid now for this traffic light, and that's no droplet. We're going to work on cafe later. Add green color. After that, I'm gonna be adding golden deep and finds grave for this traffic light. On the top of the slides you can paint burnt sienna. I'm going to add one more layer of gold and deepened burnt sienna for this pole right here. It got washed away when I was rewriting the paper. Are bright red color for this car lights here. I'm going to read this cafe board with plain water. And I'm going to add burnt sienna, especially at the edges in order to show the depth. Next step, I'm going to remove the masking fluid for this cafe board. So you're going to have to wait until this burnt sienna is completely dried up. The board has dried. Now I'm going to remove the masking fluid. Now. I'm taking this Naples yellow color. If you don't have it, you can use the golden deep color. I'm going to use it just a little bit. And lots and lots of white color. I'm using Naples yellow to not q this white color. Now to those letters, you can see how little of Naples yellow I have taken here. It's mostly white color. This is also time character shapes of these letters. So take full advantage of it. And now to the important part, if you don't have masking fluid, you can directly go with white color while writing these letters. And it will make a little bit of difference. Like you can't see these letters very brightly, but that's okay. Now, using the mix of burnt sienna and pines, gray color, I'm going to add the shadows for these letters. I have already worked out where the shadows should be on a bit of paper and a piece of paper. You can see that as well. For your reference. Not all do the shadows part. Now, this is the last part. I had lots and lots of snow. Wherever you think is necessary. That is it for today's class project. I hope you guys enjoyed painting this very unique cityscape. And for the final part, I'm going to cut the edges of this paper's a little bit because they are looking to white. So other than that, we are done. Don't miss the next video. 11. Thank You !: We are at the end of the class. I hope you enjoyed painting the class project. If you try it, please post it in the project section below. If you have any queries, feel free to ask in the discussions. Going to see you guys in my next class. Thank you so much for joining.