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1. About this Class: Hello and welcome
to my new class. This class is about
a new fan technique that I really adore
and Mixed Media. We will be painting
a crowded beachscape by using watercolor,
wash, and Pencils. I will share my process
in each detail. And you will learn all
the necessary skills. Painting, a watercolor
background, Mixing your wash so that you can obtain all the values and hues that you need to blocking colors with
the gaussian blend, gouache, and fixing these states and details in chapters
with colored pencil. It's a very **** class. It's a beginner friendly, but it is also suitable for those intermediate students that would like to
challenge themselves. We, the new technique can be the new process for
those who don't know me. I'm Elisabetta, an Italian artist specialized
in water and wash. I scene. That talent is
completely overrated and everyone can
paint just a methyl. So let's dive game that. Doesn't mix
2. Project & Materials: Your project will be to paint the beachscape
using three media. You will be using water column, what are shirt and
colored pencils. And the combination of V3
makes things very easily. Feel free to paint
along with me. Or maybe you can watch the
class and then you can paint your own landscape using the skills that you have
learned in the class. So my recommendation is to watch each lesson
before you paint so that you become familiar with the techniques and you
don't feel any pressure. Once you have finished
your project, it's very important if you could upload it in the gallery
that you find in the class in the
project gallery so that I can give you a
personalised feedback. And other students can see what kind of results
that can achieve. I can't wait to
see your projects. So let's talk about supplies. Hello, Let's start with
talking about supplies. Of course, are being a
Mixed Media Project. Mixed media class. You will need to
different media. So let's start with the Paper. Paper, I'm using
watercolor paper. This is really student
grade, is cellulose. There is no need to use a fancy cotton paper,
expensive paper. Sketchbook is at perfect, is an A5 format. And it, you see I have use this afford for my sketch and don't waste your
money in fancy diaper. To obtain these crispy edge. I have used the washi tape, but you can also
use Artist Tape, irregular Artist Tape about
I find that washi tape is usually much kinder
with cellulose paper. Then you will need a pencil and an eraser for your
initial Pencils sketch. You will also need
some watercolor paint. I'm using four colors. I'm using Naples
yellow, Naples yellow, red dish, Cerulean and
Viridian or any green cold. If you don't have Naples, yellow, you can mix some. Why? I show you, you can need some white water color with yellow ocher and
some Medium Yellow. If you don't have
Reddish, Naples yellow, you can add a tiny bit of
Orange or Vermillion to Naples Yellow or to your previous mix of
white and yellow. Then Cerulean, any
light blue with do, if you don't have as Cerulean, you can mix some white with your cobalt blue or Phtalo blue. And Viridian. Viridian is a cold dark green. And you probably
have Phtalo Green, which is also very good
for these painting. So this is watercolor. Then of course you need
some gouache irregular set with do you can use
student grade or artist grade. For watercolor, I really suggest that you
use student grade. Don't waste your money in any artist grade because
it's just a background, a full Gouache, use the best
quality you can afford. Let's say that our
teaser for me, it's a very good
student grade quality. But I started with
a set over teaser. And then when I
finish your tube, I replaced it with an
artist grade, artist grade. There are many nice brands. I use. Anything that is on
sale, I use talents, Winsor and Newton, my
memory or shrinking, they're all very, very good. Just use what you find, what is available and at ease
is also very, very nice. Student grade. Use it less. Student grade. Don't
use children paint, it's better, it's more difficult
to have a nice result. We change and then we will need a large
tube of white paint. If you don't have a
large tube, It's okay. Just have a tuber white paint. It's better if it is opaque. Opaque is titanium white you
recognize because it says opaque or titanium white
specialty genuine white. If you have the pigment, it should be paid W6, which is genuine wild, but it says opaque. It will tell you if it is opaque Then you need some brushes. You need a large flat
brush for the background. Then I use a variety
of Gouache Brushes. Don't use expensive
brush for gouache because you're going to
use them very quickly. You will going to
wear them out very quickly and use these brushes. They must be more rigid
than watercolor brushes. You can use the same brushes
that you use for acrylic. In any case, it must
have a good spring. Be rigid. I love this shape, but it's called filbert. Can you see filbert brush? It's round, it's flat and round and have it
in different sizes. And also smaller round
brush for details. It's going to be necessary. Then you need them
for your wet media, you will need two jars of water. One you use it for clean water
and one for dirty water. So you will rinse your
dirty brush in one jar, then you can pick some clean water in
the second job also, I use a sprayer, a spray bottle, and use these to
reactivate my paint on the palette when
when it dries out. And also to reactivate my paint, which icky, but in
a stay wet palette. This is just a suggestion that you can use the
straight from toolbar. But I like to keep this
inner stay wet palette. It's really very
tied to help tide. And when I open it, I just sprayed with these they told bottle
and reactivate it. And before you put it away, you spray it again. I saw will stay creamy and moist as though it was
straight out of the tube. It's very nice thing to have. And then you will
need a Mixing Space. I use a ceramic palette for gouache because gouache is
stains plastic very easily. I use plastic for Watercolor
usually, but for gouache, I prefer to use
ceramic cup because it's much easier to clean after wards and a one state and
just comes clean very, very easily, then you need
some fiction paper or a cloth. I use both. These is more
sustainable because you just clean with some soap
or kitchen paper. You need a lot of these
because it gets dirty very quickly with gouache
and Betsy for supplies
3. Watercolor Underpainting: The first thing I do want, I put some paper tape around my papers so that I will
have some crispy edges. Once I'm finished,
just pass your fingers through so you make sure it's
well glued actually paper. I use washi tape. I don't use Artist
Tape because CDs, cellulose and cellulose paper, it's more delicate
and washi tape is gentler with cellulose. If you use a cotton paper, of course you can use
regular Artist Tape bump. And then I draw a line from this corner, reading
irregular line. It goes down here and
here we have the Sea, and here we have the Beach. Maybe we can draw here an
umbrella like notch here. Now the arch here. Stick some small arches. Some to how else? Now the towel here. And maybe you can
put some sticks where you think that you
want to put some people, one person here, one
here in the Sea, to people here. Maybe one here. One here. Someone here. Just cut it, will not be careful not to
make it become a pattern. Or here, this is two in
line with this one just sticks as an indication to people talking to
people when people. And that's it. For your
watercolor Underpainting, you can use children paint
or student grade paint. It's not really important. I'm using some
student grade paint, them using two
colors for sander, which are Naples yellow. In this Reddish Naples Yellow. If you don't have
these two colors, you can use some yellow mixed with some white and a touch of yellow ocher
for Naples yellow. And then you cannot
attach of Orange to this mixture of Naples yellow
and you get this color. Always keep your paper
and or near you. I will put some clean water on this side where you
have the Beach. And as I said, for the Beach
we use this Naples yellow. We use the same flat brush. So that would be a
flat wash. From here, just go towards
the pencils sketch but don't really can change all over, over my umbrella. Now that I'm towards here, I can switch to the other color. You can add a bit of Orange to this so that you have
some color variation. Yeah, but we will, in any case add some
color variation we wash. So here you have a flat
wash of your warm yellow. You see it's like Yellow
Ochre with some white. Okay. This is for the
sand and for the Sea. I will use several Yan. This light, blue, sky blue. If you don't have
Cerulean like this, you can maybe mix
some white dish with some cobalt blue or Phtalo blue. And you will have
a lovely sky blue. So you can mix some blue
with some white and you will have a lovely pastel
color for the scene. I will play wet here. The Sea as well. Go towards yellow
without touching it. These water needs to
make sure that you get the knee bend, wash
hot, dangerous. And I take some
of my light blue. Don't be afraid to
Beach Artificial now, but we use quash later to
make it more interesting. Just a flat Underpainting
these towards the pencil line, towards the yellow
without touching it. You can also add a tiny bit of a colder Green, a cold green. Here towards the show. Some color variation in here and having a two coins. So you'll see that we have
a nice color variation. And the last step, touch is that we take a brush, a clean brush, and rinse it, dry it on a piece of paper. And we wet this line between the sand in the Sea and
we soften the edges. But in any case we will
soften this squash nature. And we love these try. Of course. I will speed up the drying process with the hairdryer if I'm in a
hurry and I will do so. Or you can have a cup of coffee
and let it dry naturally, which is also good idea. I will let use this hairdryer
4. Gouache: the Beach: The advantage of an Underpainting
in watercolor is that the watercolor is not
reactivated by next layers, whereas Gua Sha can be
easily reactivated. We're switching to the Gouache
phase and we need to have very little color
variation to the sand, but we will leave this color as the main color of the Beach. Just some pink. Yeah. And I would take
someone right here. Here. We will mix it with
different colors. I take my wash that I
keeping a stay wet palette, nicely spread it so that I have reactivated
this followers. And I took a filbert
brush like this one. I take some orange. Here. I mix it with some yellow
ocher here, some white. And I will add some of
this pinkish color here, but very little just for
some color variation. Then I rinse my brush and
very likely very gently, I will just blend it so that we have some
interest in the direction, of course, of the shows. Maybe you cannot some
hands and then you just blend it with your brush. And we let this dry. Now, I will put a darker stripe, a wet sand here. And for this, I take some brown. They add it to this, the sum round, and I add
it to this peachy color. I have these darker
shade of sand. And then we put my striper in
a slightly random in here. You can draw the line fast so that you're sure
that it's not too regular. Like this. And then you'll feel it. I think it was black. Here you have your striper
wet sand. Remember that? Slide to perspective like this should be slightly
slanted towards your left hand side. Okay. For the Beach, That's
absolutely it. You can maybe slightly
soft and it would be will be in any
case a hard edge. In reality, you have
wet sand can soften. This
5. Gouache: the Sea: Let's paint the Sea now, the advantage of an Underpainting
in watercolor is that the watercolor is not
reactivated by next layers, whereas Gua Sha can be
easily reactivated. And for this see, it's more FUN because
we take some fashion blue these and we just add it in a
slightly random manner. And it's tribes. And then we add wide. And we put some lighter
stripes here and there. Then you take some of our
colder green so that you get a turquoise yeah, white. Remember that it
darkens when it dries. So I'll make it larger than
you think would be necessary. Some more somewhere, some more pressure MRO for some
color variation. Green. Clean your brush. Sometimes you just want to
clean your brush so you don't mix all the colors
and you take a very, very light turquoise
now and you go towards the shore like this,
just block colors. Because then you will
be blending them. Now you've take a larger
brush like this one, and you've very, very gently
with a slightly damp brush. You just blend these
colors very gently. Very gently. Can also just slightly
move your brush. Just blend the colors so that you have more interesting
background for your scene. You see that this is already darkening, much, much darker. So maybe you want to
add some white here. Paint, any case, we
will be adding later. Okay, you can add
some white here. And then very gently, you blend again like this. And you see that you have a very interesting
varied background. And now we let these dry. We let this dry. We can speed up, but the process with the
heating tool or hairdryer. Now, we will add
some white here so that it follows the real
movement of the way. And for this, I take again
my smaller filbert brush. I clean, it's very,
very well-known. Must make sure that
there is no paint left. And it takes some white. And I tried to make a slightly irregular show with why can just
apply liberally. You're white here. This is titanium
white of course, so it's very opaque and it
will cover, don't worry. We can still reapply the wet
sand but won't be necessary. This is a first layer of white. Now we will just
blend these wide with a slightly damp brush
in a horizontal line. Just slightly. Move this white
towards you blend it. Just slightly blend your white also in
horizontal movement. Then you'll wipe it again. I feel even more,
you'll blend it. Hey, how? You take some Prussian blue dark brush and you will recreate some
wavy lines here and there. For waves. Dark there. Okay? And now you blend
those one hand. You blend the toes
towards the horizon Just one. Clean your brush
and blend it again. So you create a nice movement
and you see here awesome. You can add some green hand. There. Was can you blend it? Just there is no
right or wrong hand. You're just play with your brushes and do Up
different colors so that you could recreate
realistic movement in the Sea, round movements. Okay? And now we have
to dry everything because we will add more
white hair in there. Once again, I use my heating tool to
speed up the process. Now I can put more
whiter on these ways. And they take again my white. I hope this is a
speed drives better. White. At the second row ways. I can really blend this. See, this one. Just gently. More light to some
Touches of White. Ro, wastes behind these ways. Wavy could become a decent to see that everything is credible. So extend, pull it
away from these, should make sure that
everything is nice. Incredible. India. So I stopped with the
Sea for the moment. And I let this dry
before I add people. But I can start adding
people on this side.
6. Gouache Details: Add people, I need a smaller brush and I will
take some yellow ocher. I can put it here what
I had my sand color, how it takes some burnt sienna so that I have this
color, some White. I can also add a touch
of red so that I have this skin color like this. Remember it will dark
and when it dries. So what I do, I add more white. And then we draw some, basically some Carol's when
I want to have my people. So here we have Cairo. Small head here. I don't want dark for the hat. The dark must be really
small for the head. Can I put people went else? Yeah. Maybe these can be
longer cardinals. And let's solve for
people owns be checked. Then I will ask them in the
center, control the umbrella. I can take some orange, some bright orange Here. I take some yellow. The yellow here, and then blend because I have decided that the light
source is from here. So we will have
some shadows here. But we will use colored
pencils to announce shadow. Here I can put some, I don't know, some
burnt sienna here. For a darker shadow. Slightly blend. I want my people to be
slightly more yellow. Wash is amazing because it's opaque and therefore
it's very forgiving. So I just add some
more yellow into this, some cadmium yellow and just draw over otherwise,
mix within sound. Now the Towels for the Towels, I can take a St. Orange before. Yeah. A rectangle. Maybe a bright green. Just choose any color
you like, red, blue. This would be a light green. Any color that you
think might be some couple of twin Towels, maybe different pointing in
different direction in here, I will put the red, like to use the same
colors everywhere so that It's more unified. Some white and I planted some Yellow. You know, it's really very
much matter of layering. Wash. The more you'll
layer three, love. You will be like this. Now let everything dry and then we draw people
in the water. We can speed up the process with the heating tool or hairdryer. For people in the water, I take the same mixture,
is added Yellow. I will put some sticks when I
think I can add paper here. So maybe when talking
to this person here, but her feet will be or
his feet in the water, some will be slightly shorter. They must be. One here The fairway to go from, the further away they
go from the shore, the shorter the found
because the water is taller. Cya here that maybe
talking here. And hand as a person just
standing here, maybe one here. Yeah, the V's, comets. And this model hats. Okay. We can add some
shadows to these aside. For shadow, I take some burnt sienna and then
mix it with some blue, ultramarine blue so that
I have this dark color, almost purple with a very thin
Russia can add some white, maybe take you from
here to watch white. So we have a great, and I hope that I will
have the stick. And so we had this
life is from here, so it should be
more here actually. Then I will cover that
with squash, bass. And then people will
have shadow like this. I like this. These two cancel and cover. So I tried to fix this mistake. Like this didn't work. So when it's trying, I will
cover it up some sand color. Okay. Wavy. And also slightly champion
because it's people not. Please take some this. Now I can add some more whiter on the edge
of this ashore. And I take a clean brush. Even my filbert brush
must be cleaned up. I take some of my
white and I will add some white to show that foam. I will also blend this the
diagram like too much. Like these, perfect. And I can start dressing
these people on the Beach. Very small brush like this one. And it puts some
colors like I take these Brown from the shadow. I make it darker
with the sunblock. And we put them bathing
suit on this lady, just very loose like this
illusion trunks guy. And also here I will put some trunks and a
bathing suit him. Then I change color. And I will use the same
colors like this. Orange. Very nice for some chunks here. Just a square here. Now some red should
be nicer. Rent. Put some wet, wet salad, dab it with some clean paper, put together like this. Then I will fix it
with colored pencils. Right again. Maybe we can give
her bathing suit Okay. For woman. And I'm here to the pupil in the Sea
needs to be fair. So we'll add some color. Even some Yellow Ochre directly. Any, it will be
very loose. Toby. Some blue now, maybe some
of my Prussian blue. This guy. I will also add
some arms now here, maybe one on one side. Arms. Now, as a final step
to people to have some white is though that
we're moving Here. Phone because they're
moving in the world can announcing shadow for them. We always remember
that from here. You should be more.
Also horizontal. Shadow would be
dark blue and will be all the shadows in
the same directions. Like this? Dark blue? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the shadow slightly fix this mistake. It must be completely
dry and hot potato. And I take some of these Orange and it takes
some of my skin color. I bought some white
and just covered it. Wasn't completely dry. Maybe. I take some Y covary to why these try
7. Colored Pencils Touches: Now we switch to
the Pencil phase. We've used Watercolor,
we've used wash, and now we use PennSim, must be very dry. Once again, I use my heating tool to
speed up the process. For Pencil, we must
make sure that our pencils or Welsh happened. And I will take Dark Brown
pencils sharp in it. I put away, you should
justify moment. And I will add a darker
brown line on this side. The head also. Maybe an arm like this. It's going to be very low.
So remember a line on this side and dark line. Line for shadow. A black. A black. Can say, Yeah, we can now shadow. You can use the Brown for this color. Now you take some yellow. Maybe you can put some,
you decide Light. It's very easy process. They contribute very
loose, perfect going. Be very nice because
they're small. They have shadows. Now we add shadows
behind the Towels. Here. Where when the ways
faces downwards, we put some brown
line like this. Yeah, yeah. Here, also, here. Here. It's going to be fan. You'll see, use a lot of
realism to your small sketch. You can also use
this Brown pencils to human Quebec,
shadows and blue. For those. Here. He's
bipolar actually. Ok. Now we need to fix this. We're almost finished. His try I tried to put ball sound color, maybe
slightly darker. More Yellow Ochre. Yes. Ochre. And then blend it. Naples him. Pretty sure you've seen white. It's covered. Fixed. Some Yellow Ochre. Can be layer to happy. Okay. So it's just some
color variation. And let everything dry and then we decide if
we need something more. Maybe we can add some
definition to these two, these umbrella with some
Light Brown like this. Okay? So we can use this slide
Brown for blending this side. People, arms. If you don't see them. We
need to add an air hat. And maybe an empty thing
suit better visible. Then we need to add
some shadow here. Overlapping. We finished. Now, because these cellulose
paper is very delicate, I need to warm it up with this. And when I want me
to happy with this, I can turn it off
without danger. Faring very slowly
away from the drawing. So if you tear the paper, you can fix it and
you don't ruin your drawings. More heating. Okay, We've finished. I hope you had fan. Don't be afraid to keep correcting with pencils
if you're not happy. And you can add other details, maybe a sand chair or more ways. I think I'm finished. I would keep these simple and I hope you have
learned something. I am sure you have. I see you in the next lesson.
8. Wrap Up: You have finished your beachscape
or your landscape, but, and I hope that you're very
happy with your project. So now it's your turn to
upload your project in the gallery so that I can give you my
personalised feedback. So if you upload
multiple projects, like the beachscape and
then your own landscape. But I will give you a
personalised feedback each time. Just shout out to me, send me a message on
the project section. You can also post your
project on Instagram. And if you tag me, you find my account
under my name that for and I can repost
your project in mind. Stories. I'm going to
be very happy to do so. One last thing, I
will be very happy if you could leave a
review for this class, as it will be to
understand what you have appreciated mouse or what maybe I can improving
the future and really have this class to be discovered by other students and also helps my
challenge to grow up. I was really happy to take this journey in Mixed
Media with you. And as you, my next class
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