Mini Class: How to Paint Grass in Gouache

1. Class Introduction: Hello, everyone. I'm Chen Chibi an artist from Vietnam. In this mini glass, let's paint simple, peaceful glass together. It is a short and sweet glass and perfect fit into your busy die. If you are completely new to Gass, feel free to check out my glass. Gas for Absolute beginnessblack Black-Eyed Susan in vintage style first. Otherwise, let's jump in and start painting. 2. Tools and Materials: Hello, everyone. In this very first lesson, let's talk about the tons and materials we may need to use in this class. In this class, I will. This is my 36 color bobs we certainly don't have to use on 36 colors and feel free to use any bobs color you have at home. The quality of this glass band is not very good. I use it because it is very cheap and convenient to purchase in Vietnam. And we need a piece of watercolor paper. So that is ten and 15 centimeters or five 7 ". And we need some brushes in this class and we use two round brushes more one big so that we can create the variation of the grass and flowers and one or two flat brush so that we can paint the background more quickly than using row brushes you need a mixing palette and a jar a butter that's on for now. So let's start to paint in our next lesson. 3. Painting the Background: Back to this lesson. In this lesson, let's start to get dirty with paint and we will paint the background first. In order to paint the background and all the leaves of the grass, we need to make three different green three different shades of green. I will use olive green as a base and feel free to use different greens in your pint box. This is olive green. It is the medium green for this glass. I will the similar olive green, and I will mix it with a little bit of black to make the heat shade of the green in the grass. And another. This one I will mix it with it is lemon yellow to the brightest shade of green. So I think we need another shade of green. So I mean, I think we need to use around four shades of green in total. I mean, it a little white here to make the shade green. And so now let's start with painting the background. So I I mean start with the olive green, the medium green first and I use this flat brush. So feel free. Spend something in the paper. Now, as we start to make the **** green using black and olive green. Green random but more focus on the on the bottom of this grass area. So let the pain to I mean, to move freely because this is wet picnic and the more messy, the more natural thing this flat brush, but I am lazy to clean it, so I just change the brush. Now let's mix the brighter shaded green, red lemon yellow, and olive green. I will just drop it on some area of red area. Now I see that it is too I mean, it is too it cannot cover anything, so that's why I think now we need to use the we need to use the white here. So if I will put it on some area this grad to with light shade of green. Now, we finish painting the background of the grass. You see, just let the paint to move freely. This is red on well technique, and even if the paint already dry is not a problem for the background, the messier, the better. Now we wait for it to dry completely before coming back to paint the grass. 4. Painting the Grass: No, the background is really dry and let's start to paint some grass. So in order to paint grass, I will use two round brushes, one bigger and one smaller. So I will start with the bigger brush first and then using the small the smaller brush on top. So let's start because I need to touch my hand on the paper. So I will use the light shade of graph first and use the use pain we have already mixed. I think this is the medium shed the green, but feel free, we don't have to be too strict about the odor of using the pen. I think I this line of sheet of green. So we just use the random brush shop to paint the grass. And we just need to make sure the more lock green at the bottom of the background and the light is on the top, because we imagine that the light is from the top, but otherwise just use random color and shop to mix it together. The more messy, the more natural So now using the duck te shade of green at the bottom of the painting. So before moving to use the smaller brush, I will use it hair dryer to make everything to dry first. So now I will use this smaller brush to paint the grass. So we start either with the medium green or the lighted greens. I think for this guy, I will start with the lighted greens first and the more lighter green on the top and the more darker green on the bottom. But otherwise, just random shop, we don't have to follow any room. The messier, the more random, the better. Then the medium. I do feel that I want it to have more lemon yellow here. Feel free to unto the color along the way to make the painting more interesting. The general rule is to make a bunch of random brush chop and we focus more on the darker green on the bottom and the lighter green on the top, but otherwise, it just mix together. And in order to create the brighter shade of green, we use lemon yellow and white and darker shade of green is black. I think that's on for the grass. Now we need to wait for it to dry before bending the flower on top of this. 5. Painting the Flowers and Final Thoughts: Now the paint is pretty dry and let's paint some flowers on top of this. So you can you can just I mean, splush paint on top of this to make some random small flowers. But in this guise I want to start with some blue color that is untamin. I mean in this blue color to paint some flower on the background and in this small round brush. In this example, I was purple. I use violet, but for this guy, I think I want to use I add some wire so that the pain is not too dark. I mean, you just need to put some dot and it create the illusion of flour. For the main flower, I mean is white. And mix it with a little bit of oath yellow. So it is kind of yellow ochre. Just make a little bit of odd yellow with white to paint the main shade of the white flour. I will use this big brush to paint the main flower first. I mean I want to g to group the flower here. Now we will move to I think I will in this big brush to paint. Each flower has your choice, you can choose five or six or seven or even ten is okay. It is not a big problem. I just there's some random white flower here. Now move on to the smaller I think I will use this little brush to splash some color food. I will use the small dot here for the guy to bent the smaller flour. I think I will use the green to add some more random dodge because it creates the illusion of some kind of flower buds. Check us some random dot. These two covers two small white dots here and there. Now, wait for the two dry before painting the center of the flowers. Now, the flowers is already dry and let's paint the center of this. I mean, any yellow color on your paintball. And and add a small.in the central the flower. Instead of ending a perfect circle, I mean, I just add some.in the central so that it looks more natural this way. The more imperfect of the flower, the more natural the green field, I think. And I ame random. Just do. Okay. So you can use this yellow but for the blue flower I want to use dad yellow. This is yellow. Again, a random dot allow the flower to make everything tied together. Now, we need to have something to. I mean, the darker shade of the centre of the flower knowhow is ochre some ochre and some amber to dark brown. I think I forgot to ask some sench the flour here. You can wait for the sench the flour to dry before adding this, but I don't think I need to wait for it to dry because it is okay to graze some kind on we e here. I think it is easier. I at for it to dry completely, but honestly, I am lazy here. So just put it here and there and it is okay for the pain to move and mers together. And finally, the final step. I just want to use the pour the poor y here, and add it on some flower petal mean to make it pop and with the death the pending. But just a little bit here and there. We are done. Thank you for participating in today class. Please upload your project on the project going recession as well, give me a review for the class and I'll see you in another class.