Monochrome Winter Landscapes with Watercolors - Learn to Paint using a Single Color

1. Welcome to the Class: [MUSIC] Have you ever made a monochrome watercolor painting? I think there is something fascinating about the color pallete. It is incredible to see how we can achieve reading tip and dimension using just a single color. By using tonal values, you can express the mood, the emotion, the atmosphere, and everything you want to convey in your painting. Hi everyone. My name is Zameena Nabeel. I'm a mother, an artist, an architect and a Skillshare top teacher. I'm originally from India and I'm currently residing in Dubai. Both places we don't get to enjoy the snow in winter season. We often travel two places to enjoy the snowy weather. But this time we have no plans for the winter holiday. I thought of creating a winter collection of my own using watercolors. The snowy paintings are absolutely unique and beautiful. I have put them all together as a class so that I can try them too. We will start the class by looking at the materials you will need in detail. Then we will talk about the color Payne's gray, which is the only color you will need for this entire class. Then we will talk about tonal values and how we can achieve a tip and damage in your painting, just by using a range of tonal values. Then we will start with our beautiful monochrome winter watercolor landscape collection. We'll be doing 10 minimalist winter landscapes and all of them can be done in less than 30 minutes. Every project start with a technique section, so that you know how to approach that painting beforehand. This will make you confident enough to handle the project. If you want to learn about how to manipulate light and shadow, and if you want to know how to create depth and damaging your painting using just a single color, you are at the right place, and I'm going to help you with that. It is going to be an incredible journey, exploring a single color and you will end up creating a beautiful collection of snowy watercolor landscapes, which is not just beautiful and minimalist, but also timeless. If you are excited to create a unique snowy winter collection, quickly go grab all your art supplies and chime in the next section. Let's get started. 2. Class Overview: [MUSIC] Before we deep dive into the class, I want to give you a quick idea about what the class is all about and how it is organized. This class is all about monochrome watercolor landscapes, and we'd be doing 10 beautiful winter landscapes using just a single color. This is the first one. First I will show you the antique collection. The second one is a gorgeous snowing mountain. This painting is going to be really helpful for you. You can use the same snowing mountain in your future paintings as well. The next one is one of my most favorite from the antique collection. It's a beautiful painting. You can see the tip that we have achieved here just by using a single color. That's the third one. Then we have a moody winter morning. This is my another favorite, I really love those textures on the rocks. That's a fourth one. Next we have a gorgeous merry Christmas tree. It is absolutely easy to paint this Christmas tree and you're going to enter the process. That's a fifth one. Next I have here as a moody waterfall. This is another favorite of mine. I really love the reflection and that contrast we have achieved here. The next one is a snowy forest and the fig trees. I really enjoyed working on this, especially adding those texture on the tree. It's an absolutely simple painting and I really loved that foggy mystery feel. The next one is black sand beach. This is one of the places which comes two my mind whenever I think about monochrome. I love painting those beautiful beaches from New Zealand. Next one is a snowy road. This one is also another gorgeous painting. You can see that foggy feel here. I can literally feel this look here and I think being squeezed the perfect color to paint the snowy road. Next to the snowy leak. This one has a moody mysterious feel. I love those branches. I have added some snow and some texture onto them. I think that little detail has a lot of impact on this painting. That's the entire collection will be doing ten different monochrome watercolor landscapes. All of them will take you less than 30 minutes so we can easily fit them in your day. It's indeed a gorgeous collection, and the best part is you will only need one single color, which is Payne's gray. We'll be playing with different tonal values to achieve the depth and dimension for these paintings. You can see how beautiful each of them are looking. It's a beautiful feeling to know you don't need a lot of colors in your collection to create a gorgeous setup paintings, you will just need one single color to create a beautiful setup into landscapes. That is what this class is all about. We'll have a look at the color Payne's gray, then we will try the tonal values. The basis of this class is the tonal values. We are going to achieve all the tip, the mood, the emotion, the damage, and everything is in tonal values. With this class, you will also understand the possibility of single color as paintless. There's a lot you can achieve with a single color. I have broken down each and every project into a technique section and appealing section. Before we start with every project, I will explain about the techniques you need for that particular painting, which will give you a definite idea about how to approach that particular project. For example, if you consider this project here, snowy mountain, you will try how to add those shadows and also the textures. We'll just put them together when we're painting the class project. Also if you look at this one, the moody pinto morning, we'll be trying that background and also how to paint those rocks. You just need to put them together when you're doing your project. I'm pretty sure this will add a lot of confidence when make any mistakes when you're doing your project. If you're ready for an incredible experience, join me in the next section. [MUSIC] 3. Materials you'll need: Let's begin by looking at the materials you willing for this entire class. I will start with the paper. For this entire class, I'll be using Arches watercolor paper. This one is an Arches aquarelle watercolor paper, which is 100 percent cotton. It is 140 lb. So 140 lb means it is quite thick and it can handle multiple layers of water. Also it is a cold press watercolor paper, which means it is moderately textured. It can go with any watercolor paper that you prefer. It can be from any plant. But I would recommend going with the paper itself, Arches grade quality to get the best results. If you use a paper which is not really made for watercolors, the process can be really frustrating, and it wouldn't be able to enter the process because you might not get the techniques right. To get the best results and also to entire the process, it is always good to go with paper which is made for watercolors. Try to go with any Arches grade watercolor paper, which is of minimum 140 lb and is 100 percent cotton. According to texture preference, the paper can be cold pressed, hot pressed or rough. That is totally your choice. Now coming to the size of the paper, so for the entire class, I have composed the painting and a square format. This one is a 12th centimeters square. You can either go the similar size or it can make it a bit bigger or a bit smaller. I would recommend going with a square format because that is how I have composed all the paintings. But if you wish to go for a portrait or a landscape format, you can do that. You can just modify the details and fix that onto a landscape or a portrait format. Now the only color you will need for this entire class is Payne's gray. We'll be using different tonal values of a single color to create all the paintings. That is how we will be adding the depth and dimension in our painting. The Payne's gray I'm going to use for this class is from the brand Rembrandt. You can use any other Payne's gray [inaudible] . The pigment number for this one is PBK6 and PB15. According to the pigment the brands are using, the color can be slightly different. It can be a bit of grayish or bluish. That's a major color you will need for this entire class. But along with that, you will also need white gouache or white watercolor. As we're painting the winter season to add the snow, we need some white paint. It can be the white gouache or white watercolor. You can see all the snow on the trees and those branches. To create that, I'll be using some white gouache. Along with Payne's gray, you will also need some white gouache or white watercolor to add some extract textures and some highlights. If you have gouache, I would recommend going with that because it is more opaque than watercolor. But if you don't have gouache that is totally okay, just use your white watercolor. That's the magic ingredient to create the snow in our painting. Next, you will need a mixing palette to mix your colors. I'll be using the small ceramic palette. It has too wealth. We don't need a lot of space to mix colors, so you only have two colors, white gouache and Payne's gray watercolor. Even a small palette would really work for this entire class. Just go with any palette that you have got. It can be a smaller palette or a bigger palette, a ceramic or a plastic, anything would work. Now let's talk about the brushes you will need. What you see here is my favorite collection of brushes. I have five brushes here. These are my go-to brushes. I'm very comfortable with them. For almost all my paintings, these are the brushes I use. I have a huge collection of brushes, but I rarely use them. These are the ones I always go for. The first brush I have here as a one-inch wash brush, this one. We use this brush to apply a clean coat of water onto the entire background. I always keep this brush clean. I don't use this for painting. Now the second brush I have here as a half-inch flat brush. This one is to paint the background, especially in case we need a clean, smooth plant. You can use any of your medium sized flat brush. Then I have a medium size round brush. This one the size number 8. This is again to paint the background. Then I have two other brushes. This one is size number 6 round brush and a size number 2 round brush. Size number 6 round brush is mostly for medium size detailing and smaller detailing. Now, this one is for the fine and delicate detailing. This brush has a really nice pointed tip when dipped in water. Let me show you that pointed tip by dipping my brush in a little water. See that. There's a [inaudible] just point a tip, which makes it perfect for the fine details. We need to add something and delicate brushes and also some fine details. We will need a brush that has got a pointed tip. Now, you'll also need two jars of water. One has to stay clean and the other one the students are the paint from your brush. Next you will need a pencil and an eraser. For some of the paintings, we will need to add a sketch first. In that case you will need a pencil. Now the next thing you will need is a masking tape. I'll be fixing my paper onto my table directly. You can either fix your paper onto a table or onto a drawing board. This is a tape I'm going to use. You can use any of the masking tape you have got or even a washing tape. Now, last but not the least, you will need a paper towel. If you don't want to use a paper towel, you can use a cotton cloth. We'll be using paper towel to clean our brush obviously. But along with that, we'll also need a paper towel to create these try patterns. We'll take some paint on our brush, then we will tap that on a paper towel multiple times. That's how we're going to create a dry paint to create those textures. That's all about the art supplies you will need for this class. I hope I covered everything. Quickly go get them read and join me in the next section. [MUSIC] 4. Payne's Grey: Paint creates a color that is loved by many artists and hated by some others. Some artists don't use paints gray at all because of the black pigment inside it. They prefer mixing and creating their own gray shade with already seamless ready-made tube. But this is a color that I absolutely love working with, especially for monochrome painting. If you know how to play with the tonal values, it's a beautiful color to play with, and that is exactly what we're going to try in this class and you will end up loving this color even more. Payne's gray is invented by an English painter, William Payne, and that is how it has got its name, Payne's gray. Now the one I'm using here is from the Rembrandt plant. The pigment number is PBK6 and PB15. The pigment number on your paint's gray tube might be different if you're using a different brand. Almost all the brands have different recipes for creating paint's gray. They all look different. This one is more of a bluish gray and I absolutely love this one. It is not so much granulating. That's the main reason why I love this Payne's gray because Payne's gray assets has a granulating property. Especially if you're using Payne's gray from Daniel Smith, it is highly granulating. According to the brand that you're using, your color might be slightly different from mine, but that's okay. It is not going to affect your painting much. Now, I'm going to swatch out this color I have here. This one is Payne's gray from Rembrandt. Its a beautiful color. I love this bluish tint it has caught. Now I will make it lighter by picking some water so you can clearly see that bluish tint. See that? That is Payne's gray from Rembrandt. There are many other brands who have a much more bluish tint to their Payne's gray. I think Magellan's mission is one. Their Payne's gray is much more bluish. This one is still a grayish color, but it has a blue undertone and it's not that granulating, which is why I allow Payne's gray from Rembrandt. I love Payne's gray from White Night as well. Even that is a coolest color. You can see those fine textures if you take a closer look at this patch. But it normally used to settle\ and fade away and the painting dries. In general, the pigment Payne's gray has a granulating property, but it differs from brand to brand. Dynamos with Payne's gray is highly granulating and even after the painting dries, it used to be somewhat prominent. That's the main reason why I don't like paints scraped from Daniel Smith. I'm not a huge fan of granulating watercolors. I feel like they don't match my style. I rarely use them in my paintings, but if you prefer a granulating watercolors, you can use Payne's gray from Daniel Smith. Any of the Payne's gray you have got? No, I will show you two more colors. I have neutral tint and pitch black here. I will scratch out these colors as well, and I will show you the difference. Neutral tint is a gorgeous color. It's a combination of two pigments, PV66 and PBK11, and pitch black as PBK1, which is single pigment color and it only has a black pigment. Now, I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. It was fast these colors so that you can clearly see that the difference. That is neutral tint. Now let's take out some pitch black asphalt. There are many varieties of black available in the market. You will see Mars Black. Then you will see ivory black and many more. This one is ivory black from art philosophy and this one is pitch black from Shinhan. All blacks are central pigment color, so they all look more or less the same. Now, I'm going to swatch out neutral tint as well as pitch black so that you can see the difference here. I'm starting off with neutral tint. This is a gorgeous color. Mostly instead of Payne's gray, I used to go with this color because it doesn't have any granulating property. It's a cool gray. I love using this color. If you asked me to pick one between neutral tint and Payne's gray, I would always go with neutral tint. It is such a gorgeous color. But neutral tint is not so common. You can see the difference between these two colors. This one's a little more bluish than Rembrandt. That is exactly what I love about this color. Now we have pitch black here. I will swatch out this color as well. You will rarely see a difference. Black is a really strong and dull color. I only use black in my paintings when I'm adding a sellout or some detail. In those cases, I use the paint and its strongest form. I never dilute that. If I died with this color, it is a really dull and pale color. I'm not at all a fan of black. It's a warm color compared to the other two. I think can you really see that from this patch itself. I don't have a lot of Payne's grays in my collection, so I'm not going to space them out but just watch out all the Payne's gray have got and compare the ones that you want to go with. If you prefer granulating property, you can go with such a brand or you want a more bluish cray, you can go with that brand. Just swatch out the paints gray's you have got and go with the one that you prefer for your monochrome paintings. If search in the Internet, you will find a variety of Payne's gray from all the brands. Most of them provide us fash along with the color. Just in case you want to invest on a new Payne's gray, just have a look at the patches and go with the one that you prefer. Payne's gray from Shamrock is a great option. Never buy Payne's gray from [inaudible] Machine. It looks more like indigo. It is so blueish that it doesn't have any quality of a gray. Another good option is Payne's gray from White Nights. I had it before and I finished that anti-R2. That's when I switched to Rembrandt. I'm really happy with it. I never got a chance to buy another tube of Payne's gray. Next, I'm going to show you some more these patches I got from the Internet. There are four varieties of Payne's gray here. The first one is from Daniel Smith, second one is from Winsor and Newton. Then you have Holbein. Then we have seen earlier, you can see all these patches are looking different from each other. That is because different brands use different pigments to create their Payne's gray and their recipes are different from each other. In case you are looking forward to buy a new Payne's gray, keep all these things in mind. There are warm grays and there are cool grays. Have a quick comparison of the pigment they're using, and decide on the one that you want to go with. Before we start with our project, I want to talk a little about tonal values and why are they so important in a monochrome painting. First, I'm going to start with a darker tone, a really dark tone of Payne's gray. Then I will keep adding more water and I will make it lighter. Right now I haven't added a lot of water. It is Payne's gray in a strongest form. You can see how dark the color is. See that. It is very much close to black. Now, I'm going to keep adding more water into the same color. I'm going to make it lighter. Earlier I had more pigment and less water. Right now, I'm adding a bit more water into the same color to make it a little lighter. The second spot is a bit more lighter than the previous one. Similarly, for the next one, I will add more water and less pigment and I will make it lighter as I progress down. You can see the difference. The first one is really opaque. The second one is looking much more transparent than the first one. Now you can see the third patch is again much lighter and much transparent. Now for the next one, I'm adding more water and less pigment. See that. The color is much lighter. Now the last one is a really light tone of Payne's gray. Over here, I have achieved five different tonal values of Payne's gray. If you play with different proportion of pigment and water, you can get plenty of variations in between. As you all know, in a monochrome painting, we are going to use a single color and we're going to create a different mood, different expression at different dimension depth. Everything is in a single color. We're going to achieve all of that using different tonal values. When you're doing a painting with multiple colors, for the sky, you can use blue, for the landscape, you can use green. That way it is very easy to convey what you have in your mind and it is much more easier to convey the same message to others. But when you're doing a monochrome painting, we are going to achieve everything using tonal values. By doing monochrome paintings, you will understand tonal values, how you can use different tonal values to create contrast in your painting. You will also learn about light and shadow. Here's one of the painting from the collection. You can see that depth here. For the background layer, I used lighter tones, and for the fulcrum layer, I use darker tones. Same goes for this painting as well. That is how we're going to use tonal values to create a different depth and dimension in our painting. By the end of this class, you will understand to create a gorgeous painting, you don't need a lot of colors. Just one or two colors is all we need. In short, you can achieve a lot using a single color. Here's another painting that we're going to do. In this painting, you can see the striking contrast between the lighter tones and the darker tones. We also have achieved a lot of depth here just by playing with different tonal values. Here's another one. You can see that foggy, misty feel we have achieved in this painting. There's a lot that you can achieve with a single color. Whatever you have in your mind, whether it's atmosphere, the mood, the meaning, or the emotion, everything can be conveyed using a single color. 5. Project 1 - THE LONELY TREE: Our first predictor is a lonely tree standing on a snowy ground as a really easy protect. We have moody sky and a beautiful tree. The snowy ground is actually the people white, we'll be just adding some texture onto that. As you all know, the only color you will need for this n-tier projectors Payne's gray. We'll be using a little of white gouache to add the snow. Other than that, you will only need one single color. Before we start, I will take out some paint onto my palette, then I will show you the different tonal values we're going to use for the painting so you have that approach right, and it is going to be really easy for you to handle the project. I've taken out some paint onto my palette. Now, I'm going to add two drops of water, and I'm going to turn that into a medium tone. You can see here for the sky, I have started out with a medium tone. Then as I'm coming down, I have made it darker. First I'm adding few drops of water, and that's a first tonal value you will need. See that. We'll be using a similar tonal value for the sky. Then we'll make it darker as you progress down. To make your color more darker, you should be releasing the amount of water and use more pigment. Now while the background is still wet, we'll be adding some landscape onto that. Along the horizon line, you can see their deeper tones. We'll be adding them onto the wet background. That's our next tonal value, which is very much close to black. It will be seen that three different tonal values for the sky and also for the lake. The sky and the lake is pretty simple, we'll be just using gradient gouache of these two colors. Then onto that, maybe adding some details using a darker tone. Now, coming to the snowy ground, you can see there is no much details as it turns the paper white. But what defines the snowy ground is this line you see here. We need to define the shape of the snowy ground when we paint the lake. Then onto that, we'll be adding some teeny tiny pattern using a dry paint. Now the major feature of all painting is this lonely tree. This tree is what gives a character to our painting and also what defines our painting. Other than that, you don't have a lot of details. The tree is really important, especially the shape you're going with. We should use an interesting shape for the tree to make it look really gorgeous. Now using my smaller flat brush, I will show you how you can create the snow on the ground. That is just some dry patterns. But on the tree, I'll be using some white gouache to create the snow. Let's try this out. The snow along the road and also along the ground. We'll just need to leave some people right at the bottom where you have the root, where the tree is starting. The rest of the shape can be in a solid color, so I'm leaving some gap at the bottom and I'm going to add the rest of the shape of the tree. Just a little bit, I don't have a lot of space on this paper, so I'll just add that bottom part. To create the dry patterns, you will need a paper towel. Once we have added the shape, we need to dabble our brush on a paper towel to make the paint dry. I'm going to take out a piece of paper towel and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel multiple times just to be sure the pain is really dry. Now using that dry paint, I'm just creating some patterns at the bottom, leaving most of the paper white. Let's dabble our brush again and add some more patterns. You can see how instantly we made the tree smoothie. It's just a matter of leaving that bigger wide at the bottom by adding some dry patterns. Now to make it look complete, you can add some dry patterns in the ground as well. This is the easiest way how we can paint a snowy ground, because you don't need to paint it. You just need to add this texture. Other than that, the entire paper is going to be plain white. Before I start, I think I'll quickly fix the shape of the tree. It is looking a little short, so I'm just fixing that shape. That's all about the color palette and the techniques you need for this painting. It's a really simple painting. You're just going to play with different tonal values of Payne's gray. Then onto the tree, we'll be adding some white textures and onto the ground, we'll be adding some Payne's gray textures. That's all you need to know before you start with the first monochrome painting of this collection. You don't need to mix and create a lot of colors and there is no much complicated techniques involved. For the same reason you're going to fully enter the process and surely you're going to enter the magic and depth of a single color. Now it's time to start with our first painting. I have everything ready here. I have two jars of water, a clean palette, my paper, and Payne's gray. First I'm going to start by adding the pencil sketch. It's a very simple sketch. We just need to add the ground line. Just add a simple irregular line like this on the right and making it a little higher. Towards the left, I have made it a little lower. That's a sketch. Now we'll be adding a tree somewhere over here. I'm just showing you the location. You don't need to add the sketch right now. We can do that when we're painting. We will be following an interesting shape for the tree. Now this is where I'm adding the horizon line and that's the sketch very simple line. Now it's time to start painting. First, I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. As you all know, for this entire series I'm going to use only one single color which is Payne's gray. But if you want to try the same painting with a different color, that is totally okay, you can go with indigo or any other color of your choice. I have taken out the paint onto my palette. Now before I start, I'm going to apply a piece of masking tape along the horizon line. Take out a piece of masking tape and apply that right along the horizon line. I want a clean line over here. That's the reason why I'm applying a masking tape. That is done. I have secured it properly. Now we can start painting. For the sky, I'm going to use wet-on-dry technique, which means I'm not going to apply for the water. But if you want to go with wet-on-wet technique, you could do that. You can just apply a clean one coat of water onto the entire sky before you start applying the paint. For the sky, I'm going to use wet-on-dry technique and I'm using a flat brush to apply the paint. This one is a half inch flat brush. Now, I'm starting off with a medium tone. Then as I'm coming down, I will make the color more darker. I'm adding some water and I'm turning that into a medium tone. I want the sky to be really moody, so I'm starting off with a medium tone. Then I will make it darker as I'm coming closer to the horizon line. I will just patch out the color for you just to see the tonal value. That's the color I'm going to start with. Then it will get darker as I'm coming down. I'm taking enough paint on my brush and I'm applying that in a horizontal way. I want a clean blend. I would recommend using a flat brush, this way you will get a better blend. Now add that onto your entire sky. Maybe plus two can fill up that entire sky in a medium tone. Then you can apply some darker tone only at the bottom or we can add a darker tone at the bottom, then blend it into that medium tool, which will be the method that you're more comfortable with, just go with that. We just want a darker tone at the bottom and a medium tone on the top. That's a base layer. Now I'm going to make it a better blend. I have cleaned my brush. Now, I'm dabbing that on a paper towel. Now I'm going to run my clean brush on top of the background layer to make it a clean blend. That looks fine. Now I'm going to keep my flat brush aside and I'm picking my round brush. This one is a medium-sized round brush. It is Size number 6. Now using this brush, I'm going to add the remaining details along the horizon line. For that, I'm using a much more darker tone of Payne's gray. Go to a really darker tone and dab that on a paper towel. If you feel like your paint is really watery, because our background is still wet. If the paint is really watery, it will start spreading into the background in a very rigorous way and it'll be very difficult to control the way it is spreading. Got a paint which is not too watery, and add some random shapes onto the background like this. I'm adding them only onto the left side. I'm not adding them on the right. Just keep adding some shapes using the tip of your brush onto the left side. That's the sky and the details are on the horizon line. If you wish to, you can add some details on the right side as well. But I'm adding them only on the left. That's our sky. Now, I'm going to leave this for trying. This guy has dried completely and just looking super moody, and that is exactly what I need. If you go for lighter tones, you won't be able to create that Moody effect. If you want a moody effect similar to this, you should be going with medium and darker tones. Anyway now, I'm going to peel off the masking tape so that we can go the remaining details. Gently peel that off at an angle so that it won't rip off your paper. Now we can start painting the lake. For the lake, I'm not going to add a lot of details. I will be starting off with a medium tone. Then as I'm coming down towards the ground, I will make the color more darker. First I will splatter the color so that you have a better idea about the tonal value. This is the color I'm going to use, and it's a bit darker than the color we used earlier. I'm starting off with this tonal value. Then as I'm coming down towards the ground, I would make the color slightly darker. Now using any of your medium-sized round brush, let's start applying the paint onto the lake. You can try swatching of the color before you add that onto your paper. It has to be a medium tone. Don't make it too dark. See that? That's the color I'm using. Now carefully apply that along the horizon line. Now as I'm coming down, I'm going to pick a darker tone and I'm going to fill that remaining area in a darker tone. We have already add an outline there. That shape is really important. Carefully apply your paint along that shape you have added there. The shape is what makes your snowy ground really interesting. We're not going to add a lot of details onto the ground. Carefully apply the paint along that outline you have added there. You can see the color I'm using here is slightly darker than the color we used earlier. Which will be the tonal value you have started with, make it slightly darker as you're coming down. Now using the same color, I'm going to add in some lines. Just add a few lines to make it look more natural. It is nothing complicated. Just run the same fresh back and forth and add a few lines. There is some paint missing on the left corner over here, I'm just filling that. That looks nice. We can add few more lines using a darker tone. I'm picking a slightly darker tone of Payne's gray again, and using that color I'm adding a few more lines onto the same background. See that? Gently add few lines. We don't need a lot. Just add few where you have the deeper tone. Go the similar thickness when you're adding the lines, don't make it too bold. In case if you're using a different color for your painting, whether it's indigo or violet or any other color, at the same method that you have to follow. Start with a medium tone, then make it darker as you're coming down closer to the ground. Then using a darker value, add in some lines, just to add some textures onto the background. Anyway that's a leak. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry. After that, we'll be adding our tree, which is going to be the most interesting part of this painting. Let's take a short break and come back when this has dried. That has dried completely. Now it's time to add the tree. For the tree, I'm going to go with an interesting shape. I will just add an outline, just a rough shape. You can either follow the same shape or you can go with a much more interesting shape if you prefer. My tree is going to be a little curvy. See that? So that's the shape I'm going with. Now to add a tree, I'm going to go with a much more darker value of Payne's gray, which is nearly close to black. That's the tonal value I'm going to use. See that? That is really dark. Go the similar tonal value. Now using this color, I'm going to add the tree. First, I'm going to add the major tree trunk. Then onto that we can add some smaller branches. For the tree trunk, you can use a medium-size brush or any brush you have got. But when you add in the branches, it is really important to go with the smallest-sized brush or brush with a pointed tip to get thin and delicate branches. First let's add an interesting shape for the tree. I have chosen a shape for the tree keeping in mind where I need to add the snow, so I would suggest you to go to similar shape. That's a basic shape. Now I'm going to make it thicker, especially the bottom half. The top half can be slightly thinner. The shape of the tree has a lot of importance for this painting because we don't have any other details. This is the major detail that we have here. The way you're adding the tree will have a lot of impact on your painting. Don't add a normal regular tree, add a tree in an interesting shape, either this way or a much more interesting shape. That's the basic shape. Now onto this, I'm going to add some more branches. First I will add the major branches using the same brush, and after that, I'll be switching to a smaller-sized brush to add the delicate branches. Let's begin adding the branches. You can add the branches however you want to, you can add them towards the left or towards the right. Maybe they can be dropping down. There is no particular order or method that you need to follow. Make them really interesting, that's the only thing I would recommend. Go for very organic and natural shape so that your tree will look more realistic. I'm adding the first one here. I said earlier these ones are going to be a bit thicker. These are the major branches. Once we're done with this, we can add the thin and delicate ones. That is the first one. You can see the shape I'm going with. I'm trying my best to give it a more natural shape. Maybe we can extend that a little bit. I'm picking more paint and I'm making this a little more thicker. That's a basic shape. Now I'm planning to add a thicker branch somewhere over here. This one is more like a broken branch. I'm not going to add any other branches onto this. That's going to be a little thicker. I'm going to leave it like that. I think the overall shape of the tree is looking pretty good. When we add the tiny branches, it will look more interesting. For now, the basic shape is looking quite nice. Maybe I will just extend this one a little bit. Now using the same brush, I'm going to add some snow on the ground. After that we can add the tiny branches. I just dabbed my brush on a paper towel and using some dry paint I'm adding some texture right where the tree is meeting the ground. See that? Right there you have the root just keep adding some dried patterns. I'm just trying to make it look like the root is covered in snow. Don't add a lot of patterns, leave enough of gap in-between, and just add a little. It is really important to go with dry paint. That is something you have to keep in mind. If you're not too sure about the consistency, keep dabbing your brush on a paper towel multiple times before you add these patterns. Don't use the watery paint. Keep that in mind every time you add these patterns. Now I'm picking some more paint, some dry paint, and I'm adding few more patterns. Well, here you can clearly see the way I'm adding those patterns. I'm leaving enough of a gap in-between and I'm just adding a few. When you're doing a snowy painting, always remember less is more. The less details you add, the more better it will look, especially when you're painting a snow-covered ground or something like that. You don't need to add a lot of pattern. The major portion has to be your paper white. Now using the same brush, I'm adding few more patterns onto the ground, in a very random way. They're super tiny. I think we can only feel the snow here. Even though we haven't added a lot of details onto the ground, that snowy character, it is still very prominent. The major reason for that is the contrast. We have used a medium and darker tone for the league. At the bottom we have left the paper white. We have a really nice black and white contrast here, and that is making the snowy ground look more beautiful. That is where we have reached. I'm pretty happy with the way it is progressing. I hope you all are enjoying it too. Our next task is to add the delicate branches for which you will need a smaller-size brush, or any tiny brush or any brush with a pointed tip. We need those branches to be very thin and delicate. I'm going to use a Size number 2 round brush. This one is from silver black velvet series. It has got a very nice pointed tip. I love this brush so much for the lines I can add with this brush. Anyway, using this brush, I'm going to add some delicate branches onto the tree. We already have the major branches. Now we need to add as many smaller branches as we can to make our tree look more and more interesting. Go to any of your smallest-size brush or a brush with a pointed tip, and keep adding some thin and delicate branches however you want to. There is no particular way that you need to follow. It can be any way, but just be sure they are very thin and delicate. Now just in case you are not confident enough to add these delicate lines using a brush, you can use a pen. There are so many different pens available in the market. I love drawing pens, the one I showed you in the art supply section. In case if you want to use any of them, that is totally okay. You can add these branches using a pen. Just go with whichever you are comfortable with and add them however you want to. It's just that if you add these lines in a thicker way, your tree will go out of proportion. It won't look interesting. The thickness of these branches is a really important factor which defines the quality of your tree. Anyways, I hope what I'm trying to convey is clear. Now, let's add in as many delicate branches as we can. You can add them in any direction. Some of them can be dropping down. Some of them can be towards the left or the right. Also, if you want to add a lot of them, that is totally okay. In case if you want to add just a few, even that is okay. That is done. Our next task was to add snow onto the painting. The ground is already is super snowy, so there is no worry about the ground. But we need to add some snow onto the tree as well. For that, I'm going to use some white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor. If you have gouache with you, I would recommend going with that because gouache is more opaque than watercolor. Only if you don't have gouache, you can go with watercolor. Anyway which will be the one you are using? We have to go with a thicker and opaque consistency. Don't add a lot of water. We just need to add few drops of water just so that we can pick the paint. Just one or two drops is all we need. Now using that thick dry paint, let's drop in the snow onto the tree. If you feel like your paint is too watery, remember to dab that on a paper towel. Now I'm adding some dry patterns onto a tree using white gouache. First I'm adding a small patch over here closer to the ground, just to show there's some snow on the tree. Now, along this line, I'm adding a thicker patch because we have darker tones in the background, the snow will be really prominent. That's the main reason why I told you to go with medium and darker tones for the sky. If you use lighter values, the snow won't be that prominent. Our sky is quite dark and moody, and the snow that we're adding will be really prominent. This will instantly make our painting look a lot better. You can see that already. Now I'm just extending that a little bit. For the top line, follow the outline of your tree. Towards the bottom, just add some dry patterns. It can be a very irregular shape. It doesn't need to be any proper shape or anything. You can see the way how I'm adding it. On the top, I have a clean line. Then it is just a random patch. Now you would have understood why I bend in with such a shape for the tree. See that snowy patch. I think it looks really nice. Anyways, that's the bottom half. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add that in the top half as well. But on the top, I'm adding them over this line. This is the side where it is facing the sky. The other side is the underside. So the snow will be falling on the side. It is exactly the same way how we added earlier. On the top, we go with the regular line, following the outline of the tree. Then towards the bottom, just add some random patches. But be sure to go with an opaque paint. Don't add a lot of water. Just add a few drops. The paint has to be mostly dry and thick. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind. If the paint is loose and watery, it won't be opaque and prominent. Your tree won't have that snowy feel. So to get that snowy character, it is really important to go with the paint that is totally opaque and thick. Now these are the only two sides where I'm adding a lot of snow. For the rest, we don't have any thicker branches. I'm just adding a few bits and pieces of white in-between. I'm not adding a lot of snow onto the other branches. They're quite thin and delicate, so we don't have this much impact. Anyway, just to continue that, I'm adding few pieces of white paint onto this bit here and maybe a little onto the top. But again, see it is not that prominent. Over the bottom, we have a darker tone in the background. That is a reason why it is really prominent. Anyway, that's our painting. If you want to add more branches, you could do that. Maybe you can add some birds as well, so those things are totally achieved. I'm honestly really happy with the way it has turned out, even though there is no much details. I absolutely love the calm, moody and peaceful feel of this painting. That is our first painting from the series. Now I'm going to peel off the masking tape. When you're peeling off the masking tape, always peel that at an angle. Also make sure your background has dried completely before you peel it off. Here is our first moody winter landscape. I'm someone who allowed to work with bold and vibrant colors but sometimes it is good to take a step back and check the beauty of a limited color palette. It is really incredible to see the depth you have achieved using a single color. Actually, we have used two colors. We have used Payne's gray plus white gouache. But you can skip using white gouache. You can just mask out the areas where you have snow. You can just remove the masking fluid when you're done. That will be completing with just 100 percent made of one single color. Anyways, that is the first painting from the series, and I hope you all enjoyed it. 6. Project 2 - SNOWY MOUNTAINS: [MUSIC] Our second project is really gorgeous, really simple snowy mountain. You can see that stunning mountain, which has been created just using one single color. This project is all about playing with different tonal values of Payne's gray to create light and shadow. Before we start the project, I will quickly take you through the techniques so that you have a better idea. Now the character of your snowy mountain will be defined by the way you add your sketch, the line at the center, this curvy wavy line, it is really important. We'll be adding lighter values on one side and darker values on either side. We'll start by adding some simple sketch, then we will see how we can turn that into a gorgeous snowing mountain. That's a very basic mountain, like the way we normally add. Now, I'm going to add a line at the center, just a simple line. Now similarly, I'm going to add another mountain, but this time I'm going to make that line at the center a bit more curvy and wavy. You can already see a difference here, the second mountain is looking more interesting, just because the way we added that line at the center. That is exactly what I meant when I said that line at the center, which you're going to add have a lot of impact on your snowy mountain. Now, onto the right side we'll be adding more of medium tones. Then onto that, we'll be adding some lines onto the wet background using a slightly darker value just to make it look like they're sloping down. And onto the other side, we'll weigh in most of the paper white and we'll just add some texture using a darker tone. It is not that complicated. Anyway, before we start, I will quickly show you how we can paint this. I'm starting out with a medium tone of Payne's gray. I'm going to add that onto the right side of the mountain. I'm just following my brush along the line we have added at the center and I'm filling the right side in that medium tone. Now similarly, I'm going to paint this one as well. Carefully run your brush along the line you have added, you have to get a clean and crisp line at the center. I have added paint onto both the mountains. Now, onto this, while it is still wet, I'm going to add some lines using a slightly darker tone. I think that paint is really watery so I'm tapping my brush on paper towel and I'm adding some lines in an inclined way. See that? We can add them onto the other one as well. Just a few, they don't need to be too prominent, we just need some subtle lines with the background. Now using a lighter tone, I'm going to add few lines onto the other side as well, the left side. Just a few lines. That's the first step, we have to show the shadows right now but to make it look really natural and realistic, we need to add the final textures using a darker tone. See that? Those are both shadows. Now we'll have to wait for them to dry. Meanwhile, we can see how we can create those dry patterns. It is not a complicated step, we just need to get that hang of it. The key is using a paint, which is not too watery. Pick some paint on your brush, then tap your brush on a paper towel or a cotton cloth until you feel like it is not at all watery. Just rub your brush on the paper towel until you feel the paint is really dry. Now using that brush, simply keep on adding some dry patterns. See that? You'll be adding similar patterns onto a snowy mountain. The moment you start adding these textures onto the background, you will see an instant difference in your mountain, it will look a lot more realistic. It is just some random dry patterns that we're going to add, but their impact is huge. Just take out a scrap piece of paper and try adding these patterns. It can be a really small paper. Just get an idea how to add these textures before you start with your project. Now, I'm going to add same patterns onto the mountain and I will show you how powerful they are. On that little sketch we have added here we have two sides for the mountain, a lighter side and a darker side. We'll be adding more patterns on the darker side where we have shadows and onto the other side we'll be retaining most of the paper white and we'll be adding very minimum patterns. Now I'm adding similar patterns on to the mountain exactly the same way how we added earlier. Trust me, it is really easy, you just need to have some dry paint on your brush. If you're not really sure, you can dab your brush on a paper towel and try creating similar patterns on a scrap piece of paper and then add that onto your main painting. Now I'm adding similar patterns onto a lighter side. Over here, I'm going to add very little, I'm not adding a lot. The best part about this technique is that they don't need to have any particular shape or size. The moment you add them onto a mountain, it will instantly make a difference. You can add them however you want to. I'm adding some more patterns onto the right side using a darker tone. See that? Just a few patterns in between to make it look more prominent. That's the basic idea. Of course, you need to add your sketch, then you need to add in your shadows using a medium tone. Then you need to add the textures to make it look more realistic. It's a very simple, straightforward technique. I'm very sure you're going to love your snowy mountain, especially because we are playing with a single color. Now just in case if you want to try the same painting with indigo, that is totally okay. For the base layer, you can use indigo, then you can use a darker tone of indigo, our Payne's gray to add the textures. For the sky as well, you can use indigo. Anyway, those are the techniques you need to know for today's painting, it is really simple. It's just a matter of adding that rough and messy textures on to your mountain. I really can't wait for you guys to try this super gorgeous, super realistic snowy mountain using a single color, which is the highlight of this painting. If you guys are ready, let's try it out. [MUSIC] We already had a look at the necessary things you need to keep in mind when you're painting a snowy mountain. Now, it's time to give it a try. I have my paper already here and I have two jars of water and my palette. Now the first step is to add the pencil sketch. The sketch is really important when you're painting a snowy mountain. It's according to the sketch, we'll be adding the deeper tones and shadows onto the mountain, which will have a huge impact on the way it is looking. Let's add in the sketch first. You can either add a mountain in a similar way, or it can go to different shape for your mountain. I'm adding only one mountain. This a bigger one. Now from the center, I'm adding an irregular line. This line is really important, we'll be adding our deeper tones onto the right side of this line. Please don't add a simple curve, go for a nice curvy wavy line. Attaching an image of the finished painting here, I think this will be more easier for you to look at the finished painting and add the sketch. I'll be erasing off some bits and pieces. Obviously, looking at the finished painting it's more easy for you. That's a sketch, we'll be adding our deeper tones onto the right side in an inclined way to make it look like they're sloping down. Now maybe we can add a small piece here to make it a little interesting. I'm just changing the shape a little bit. That's of a mountain. Now we can start adding the paint. I'm starting with the mountain. First, we can apply the base layer of the mountain and after that, we can paint the sky. So I'm using a medium to light a tone of Payne's gray. It is not too dark and it is not too light as well, and I'm going to apply that paint along that outline we have added here. I'm adding a few drops of water onto my palette and I'm creating a medium tone of Payne's gray. As I said, it is not too dark and not too light. I will just splash out the color for you to give you a better idea. Right now, the color's a little dark. I will need to add more water into this. I'm trapping more water and I'm turning that into a medium tone. This seems fine so that's a color I'm going to use, and to paint, I'm going to use my medium-sized round brush. The one I'm using here is a size Number eight round brush. Now, I'm going to carefully follow the outline here. Maybe we can drop in some more water, a little more. Okay, that seems fine. Now, I'm going to fill this entire area in this color. When watercolor dries, it will tend to fade a little. That's the reason why I'm going with a medium tone. It will be a little lighter when it dries so go to similar tone and value, which is not too light and not too dark. This one is a really simple snowy mountain, you just need to follow the step. The first step is to apply a medium tone of Payne's gray onto the entire right side. The key is following that shape you have added. Don't add any paint onto the other side. Carefully follow that outline and add your paint. While the be right now it is just the base layer, we'll need to add more and more details onto this to make it look more realistic. That's the base layer. Now, before this background layer dries, we need to add some details onto this. For that, I'm picking a little darker tone of Payne's gray, it is not too dark, the color has to be a little darker than the color we use for the background so I'm picking that darker tone. It shouldn't be too watery. Now using that color, I'm going to add some inclined line onto the mountain. See that? So in a similar way, you can add more and more lines. We're just trying to create some texture here and we want to create that sloping feel for the mountain. That's the main intention of adding these lines but be sure not to add a darker tone. Go with the color which is a bit darker than the color you have used for the background. Simply keep on adding some lines onto the wet background. The shape of the line is really important, they have to be an inclined line. Add them in a similar way and don't add any paint onto the other side. You have to be really careful about that too. So keep adding some more lines until you're happy with the result. I think you already feel that sloping field here, if here keep adding more, that will be really prominent, and also watch all the tonal value of the color you're using, they don't have to be too prominent. They should be there but not too prominent. So go this in tonal value. There is some paint missing here. I'm just filling that up. See that? I want the shape to be really nice and crisp. So that's the first part, now we have to wait for this to dry. Meanwhile, we can add some deeper tones onto the other side as well. I'm talking about this area here, right behind this mountain. Over there as well, we need to introduce medium tones like the one we added earlier so I'm picking the same color, dabbing it on a paper towel to make sure it's not too dark. Now, I'm going to add some paint behind this mountain and also onto this corner. See that? Now I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush, and using a clean brush, I'm just merging them into the background. I don't want these to be too prominent. We want the prominent shadow on the other side. This side has to be mostly white. So pick some clean water and smudge that into the background. We are trying to make it look like we have shadow and all the deeper tones on the other side and this is the area that light is hitting. So this has to be lighter compared to the other side so don't use any deeper tones, cover lighter tones like this. Now I'm adding few more lines using a really light tone onto these areas here. They need to be padding with [inaudible] so go for the lightest tone of Payne's gray and add these lines. Please be sure not to add any paint or water onto the other side, we need that clear and crisp line at the center. So please be really careful when you're adding paint closer to that line. I think the background is looking pretty nice and you can see over here as well I have added some medium tones but at the bottom right underneath that mountain, I tried to reach in most of the white space, I haven't added much of deeper tones on that side. Now, onto the side as well, I'm adding a few lines using a lightest tone of Payne's gray. We can see the color, it is barely visible, go with the similar tonal value. These tonal values are really important when you're painting a snowy mountain, the less you add, the better. So always be really mindful about the tonal value that you're using, don't just jump and go the darker tone, try that on a scrap piece of paper and be 100 percent sure before you apply that onto your mountain. Anyway, that's our base layer. Now, this has to dry completely. Before we go with any other step, we need to paint the sky as well as we need to add the final details onto the mountain so let's take a short break and come back when this has dried completely. [MUSIC] The base layer has dried. I'm really happy with the shadows and the tonal value we have used. I hope you guys are happy with your background layer too. Our next task is to paint the sky for which we're using Payne's gray. I don't need to explain the color because we are just using one single color for the entire painting. For the sky, I'm going to start with a medium tone of Payne's gray, and as I'm coming down closer to the mountain, I'll make it lighter. You can either use a flat brush or a round brush, whichever will be the brush you're using be very careful when you're getting closer to the mountain. You need to follow the outline and apply your paint carefully. I'm using a medium tone right now, but I think the color can be a bit more darker. I want a clean blend here so I'm only taking my brush back and forth in a horizontal way. I'm not using any other brush moment. I want the sky to be smooth and soft. Now towards the bottom, I'm going to make the color lighter so I'm picking some water and using the same brush, I'm making a color lighter. To apply the paint around the mountain as well, I'm using the same brush. It's a flat brush, but it might not be that comfortable for you. In that case, you can use a round brush, just to apply the paint around the mountain. It is really important to follow that outline and apply the paint. Don't add any paint onto the mountain. If you feel like it is better to use a round brush, please switch to that. The basic idea is to get a clean, smooth blend of Payne's gray starting with a medium tone on the top and lighter tone towards the bottom. Now I'm running my brush back and forth in a horizontal way to make it the best blend. There's nothing complicated here, it's a simple gradient wash of Payne's gray. If you can try to go for a clean smooth plant, otherwise, all satisfying, just don't worry about that. Anyway that's the sky, now we'll have to wait for this to dry completely before we go to the final details. [MUSIC] The anterior background has dried completely. Our next task, and the final task was to add the remaining details onto the mountain, which can be a bit boring, but that is really necessary to make your mountain look more realistic. Bear with me, and also the step might take some time. We will need to add plenty of dry patterns onto the mountain. Be really patient with this step. I've taken some paint, I haven't added much of water. That's how we'll be adding the dry patterns onto the mountain. We'll be using the tip of our brush and we'll just add some teeny tiny patterns onto the mountain to create those texture. Try the same on a scrap piece of paper and understand the consistency of the paint that you have to work with. It shouldn't be watery. If you feel like it is watery rub it on a paper towel before you add the patterns onto your mountain. Once you get an idea about the consistency, it is really easy to add this texture. The easiest way is to keep a paper towel next to you, and every time you feel like the paint is watery rub it on a paper towel until you feel like it has become dry. Using that dry paint, keep adding some teeny tiny patterns onto the mountain. I'm starting out with this corner, the small corner on the top. My major focus is actually on the other side where we have applied shadow. On the side I wouldn't be adding a lot of patterns, so be really careful about that. We have to add more and more patterns on the other side. Now we have more shadows. On this side where we have [inaudible] more of the wide space, we don't need to add a lot. First I will finish up this corner here, then I will keep on adding similar pattern onto the other sides. I think that is pretty good. I have added enough. Now, I'm going to add some onto this larger surface. This side is a lighter side, we don't have a lot of shadow here. That means we shouldn't be adding a lot of patterns. Just start a few random patterns here and there. They can be anywhere you want to. There is no particular order or method that you need to follow and they can be of any shape. Just be sure not to add bigger shapes, go with smaller shapes. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind. I think can already see how the mountain is coming to life. Earlier it was looking quite plain and flat, it didn't had any depth in it. Right now when we're adding these patterns, it is just some simple dry patterns which doesn't have any proper shape or just doesn't have any proper order. We are just randomly adding them in, but they have a huge impact on your mountain. You can see those textures and how they are making the mountain look different. See that? Now in a similar way, I'm going to add some more patterns onto the side. This side is nearly done. I need to add few patterns onto that curvy corner, as well as onto the bottom-most area. With that, I'll be done with this section here. First, I will add that onto the bottom area. You can see the way how I'm adding the paint. It is a dry paint. There's literally no water on my brush, and using bad brush, I'm just scrubbing and adding some patterns onto a mountain. It is too dry. Maybe I need to add a few drops of water. Now I'm going to add few onto this corner here. See that? You have to be really stingy when adding these patterns onto the lighter side. On the other side, maybe you can be a bit more generous. I will add few more, and with that this side will be done. Then we need to add some more patterns onto the other side, which might take a bit of time. If you want to take a break in-between, feel free to do that and come back when you feel relaxed. That is our lighter side. Now, I'm going to start with the other side. There is nothing new, it is exactly the same method we used earlier. We need to add plenty of dry patterns on this side of the mountain. I'm starting from the top and I'm adding them in an inclined way. This the same way how we added those sloping lines. I'm focusing on those lines and I'm adding these patterns following those lines. See that? It's the same method, but I'm adding those patterns along that sloping line. Just so written that sloping character of the mountain. Pick some paint on your brush. If you feel like it is too watery, dab it on a paper towel, and keep adding your dry patterns. Don't add a lot and fill up the entire mountain. Means you retain most of the background color. Add them in a very random way, retaining most of the background color. These textures that we're adding right now will give you a mountain more finished feel, and it will make it look more realistic. But according to me the major role is played by that background layer, the way you're adding your shadows and the way you're adding that curvy line up the center has a lot of impact on your mountain. Then onto that we can simply add these dry patterns to give it a more finished feel and some texture. We can see the way how I'm adding those patterns. I'm just following that incline line I added earlier. Ought to them, I'm adding some dry patterns. Right now, I'm adding some more patterns using a much more darker tone of Payne's gray. See that? In-between I'm adding these patterns using a really intense tone of Payne's gray to make our mountain look more interesting but don't go overboard and don't add a lot of texture. Be really mindful about the amount of texture you're adding onto the mountain. If you add lot, it will make your mountain look busy and it won't have that snowing character. In a similar way, I'm convinced that other section I have at the bottom and that will be done with this side. Then we have a smaller section on the other side, which also needs to be done. Let me quickly finish this. [MUSIC] That is done and I'm really happy with the textures. This is how our painting is looking right now. Now we have one more smaller section left on the left side that also needs to be done. In a similar way, I'm going to add few patterns onto this section as well but this is a lighter side, we don't need to add lot. Just add a few patterns in-between. Be very stingy about the section, don't be generous. I think that looks good enough. I'm not going to add more. I really hope you guys are happy with your snowy mountain too. The only thing I would like to change is the color of the sky. I feel like it is looking really dull. I'm just planning to add another layer on top of this, which is not at all necessary if you're happy with the color of your sky. Actually, I had peeled off the masking tape and I was about to wrap it off. Then I felt like if I make the sky more darker, it will have an impact on the mountain. It will make the mountain look more snowy, and that is exactly what I tried here on my sample painting. Actually it really made a difference. This one is completely optional, only if you want to you can make this sky more darker by adding another layer on the top but be really careful when you're applying paint closer to the mountain. [NOISE] Be extra careful if you're planning to make the sky more darker, just the same way how I'm doing it here. I'm starting off from the bottom and I will go towards the top. I'm carefully running my brush along the outline of the mountain. First I'm adding the paint here. See that? Don't add any paint onto the mountain if you're doing this step. Now, as I'm going towards the top, I will make the color more darker. It's the same way how I did earlier, but this time I'm going with much more darker tones. That is the only difference. I'm picking more Payne's gray, a little more darker tone and I'm adding that onto a top. I still want to retain that clean and smooth blend. I'm trying my best to make it the best blend. I'm running my brush in a horizontal way. I'm not adding any other brush moment, which might spoil my clean blend. That the sky, I think it turned out pretty nice. I like it better than before. Maybe I'll show you a comparison of the previous color of the sky and this one. Anyway, with that, I'm done with my snowy mountain. I think it turned out really nice. If you didn't follow the step, you might have already finished your painting. I'll have to wait for this to dry before I peel off the masking tape because I chose to do some extra tasks. [MUSIC] My dear friends, the sky has dried completely and this is how it has turned out. To me, I feel like it really made an impact on the mountain, that snow is really prominent now. I don't know, maybe you might not be feeling that way. Anyway, the best part is we're done with our painting and we can peel off the masking tape, paint, adorable, gorgeously mountain. Let me show you a closer look of the painting and those textures. See that? I think it has come out really nice. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you want to try, do give it a try, it is just a matter of getting that dry brush pattern right. Once you get the hang of it, it is going to be the most useful technique in your entire watercolor journey. Yeah, give it a try and let me know if you liked it. [MUSIC] 7. Project 3 - SNOWY BRANCHES: [MUSIC] Our next painting is a real winter wonderland. I cannot tell you how much I love this painting, especially the depth we have caught here as a simple you're a gorgeous painting, which will really give you that window white. You can see it was blurry branch in the background, which is exactly what gives that depth to this painting. That's what we're going to try in this painting, and I'm really excited for you guys to try it out. Before we start with all painting, let's quickly have an understanding on how we can create that blurry theme to your background. I have a tiny piece of paper here. I'm going to add some gray paint onto the background, a medium tone. For now I'm just adding a flat wash. But for our main painting we'll be using different tonal values of Payne's gray. On the top we will use some lighter tone, then towards the bottom we use more of medium and darker tones. That's more background. Now, onto this wet background, I'm going to add some branches using a slightly darker tone. For that I'm using a smaller size brush. Now, I'm going to add some lines onto a background and we'll see what's happening. You can see here the line is trading a lot, it does not really looking like a line. See that. At the bottom, you can see how the paint is spreading. This means your background is super watery and that also means you have to wait for some minutes before you add those lines onto the background or you have to go the paint that is less watery. I'm taking paint again on my brush and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel just to be sure the paint is not watery. Now you've seen that I'm again going to add some more branches onto the wet background. You can clearly see the difference here. This one we added right now is looking much better than the one we added earlier. Once I've added that paint onto the background, keep adding lines onto the wet background using a paint that is not too watery. At a point you will understand when you should be adding those lines. In case if you feel like your background is too watery, you can wait for a minute or two then again, try adding those branches. We're not looking for clean and sharp lines we need blurry lines, but it shouldn't spread a lot. It should still look like lines. Keep adding those branches onto the wet background to understand that perfect timing. When you keep adding them, you will gradually understand that perfect timing to have the branches to get the perfect result so that's how we're going to paint the background. If you just look at the background layer, it might look a bit weird but that is totally part of the process, don't worry about that. When we add the foreground layer of branches and also when we add the snow everything is going to look a lot better. Once the background layer has dried, we will go with a really dark tone of Payne's gray and we'll add some branches using that darker tone. In a similar way, we'll be adding some branches for the foreground layer. Finally to bring in the winter rights we'll be adding some snow onto these. First we will add some snow onto those branches then we'll also be splashing some snow onto this. That's how we're going to paint our snowy branches. To add the snow, I'll be using white gouache. If you have gouache, I would recommend going with gouache because it is more opaque. If you don't have gouache, there is no problem you can just use white watercolor. There's one more thing I want to mention before we start. I tried a sample painting earlier for which I used more often medium and lighter tones. For the one on the left, you can see it is more of darker tones and just because of how use that darker tones and medium tones on the bottom. You can see the snow is much more prominent. This is something you need to keep in mind when you're painting the background layer. Don't use lighter tones, go with medium and darker tones, especially towards the outer corners and the bottom. Otherwise you won't be able to bring in that snowy feel to your painting. As snow watercolor tends to fade when it dries. If you go for lighter values it will be even more lighter when it dries so just remember to use more of darker tones and medium tones for your background to get that best snowy feel [MUSIC] I have my paper already here. I'm starting off with applying cold water onto the anterior background. For that, I'm mixing my one inch wash brush and I'm applying a clean cold water. Turn your brush multiple times just to be sure the water has reached everywhere. Add a lot of water, we just need a shiny coat. My background is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to use my size Number 8 round brush. I'm starting out with a medium tone. Now I'm going to randomly drop in some paint onto the background. There is no particular order or method here. I want the colors to be a bit more darker towards the bottom, and lighter towards the top. That's the only thing I'm concerned about. Other than that there is nothing complicated here. You can simply drop in your color onto that wet background. We can use a medium-size brush or a bigger-size brush and keep dropping in your wet paint onto the wet background. Right now what you're painting is the background layer. We want a blurry and foggy feel for the background. Honestly there's nothing to be worried about. You can keep on dropping your paint. Now, I'm going to pick a much more darker tone and I'm going to add that at the bottom. You can see the way how I'm adding the paint. Honestly, you don't even need to look at your paper. You can simply drop in your paint onto the wet background and create different tonal values of Payne's gray. It doesn't need to be clean, smooth plan you can simply drop in your paint. You can see the mess here. It is a very messy and rough blend. We can just continue similar way. There is no need to make it perfect. The only thing I would recommend is to play with medium tones and darker tones. Don't make it too light. If you make it too light when we're adding the snow, it won't be visible. You can see the color I'm using right now it's a much more darker tone and I'm adding that towards the bottom corner and also a bit towards the top. At the end when everything dries we'll be adding lots and lots of snow onto the painting. For that to be really prominent and visible we need some medium and darker tones. I have applied paint onto the anterior background and you can see it's a total mess but that is not a problem. Now, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and using a damp brush, I'm just making these patterns a bit smoother. Just run your damp brush on top of those patterns wherever you feel like it is looking really rough. When you're doing this be very gentle. Don't put a lot of pressure and distort that background layer. Gently run the tip of your brush and push and pull that paint into each other to make it a bit smoother and softer so that's a base layer. Now onto this, before it dries, we need to add some branches. We're going to add those branches onto the wet background so that they will look a little blurry and foggy. Now before you start, there are two things you need to be careful about. The first thing, the wetness of your paper. You shouldn't be adding those branches onto a heavily wet background and also the wetness of the paint that you're using you shouldn't be using a watery paint. If both the background and the paint that you're using is really watery, they will spread into the background and it won't look like branches. You will understand that when I start adding the branches so don't worry, if you weren't able to follow what I said. I'm starting out with a medium tone again. I'm using a smaller size brush here. Now before I add the branches, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel just to be sure the paint is not too watery. Now I'm starting to add the first branch. The background is still wet, it hasn't dried and it's not too watery. It's been a minute since I have painted it. The water content hasn't dried. Now using a slightly dry paint, I'm going to add the first branch and you can see the way it's spreading. I will add another branch towards the bottom and you can see the way it is spreading. Your background is super watery. They will start spreading into the background very fast and it will be very difficult to control the way it's spreading. We have to wait for a few minutes before you start adding these branches in case your background is still really watery. Also be sure to go with the paint which is not too watery. Now, I'm going to add plenty of branches onto the wet background using a wet paint. You can add them however you want to. You can add thicker branches or thinner branches it doesn't really matter. These are going to be in the background so when the background dries, they will have a blurry and foggy feel, that is what we're looking for. Just add them on to the background before it dries. Now, I'm going to add another one here. There are some paint missing on this side, I'm just filling that up. Now, let's add another one. You can see how that line is spreading. It is not spreading a lot, it is still looking like a line. If the background is really watery they won't look like line it will just spread into the background and it will lose the shape. It is not that difficult you will get to understand when you add one or two lines. If the lines are spreading a lot, you can wait for a minute or maybe less than a minute. When you feel like the paint has setup, you can keep adding your lines. This blurry background, even though it looks a bit messy, it is really important in creating that depth so don't skip adding these lines, you can add as many as you want. But be sure to add them before the background dries. We need that blurry and foggy feel for these lines. We don't need to look perfect. They can spread into the background, which is totally okay. Actually that is exactly what we need here. Your background might look a bit messy right now, but that is totally part of the process. Don't stop it. Don't give up. Keep going. I'm going to quickly add few more branches before the background dries then we can leave this for drying. Go ahead and add in as many branches as you want before you background dries [MUSIC] My background has started to dry, the lines I added right now didn't really spread into the background so I'm going to stop it there. I'm going to leave this for drying [MUSIC] The base layer has dried and the solid has turned out. It is still looking a little weird, but that is part of the process. You need to trust me and you need to trust the process. Our next task is to add more practice onto this background, but this time using a much more intense tone of Payne's gray and we are adding them onto a dry background. The lines we're going to add there'll be very crisp and clear. It won't spread into the background. I'm using the same brush. You can use any of your smaller sized brush or a brush with a pointed tip, and I'm picking a really dark and intense tone of Payne's gray. This is very much close to black. Before you start, just have an idea of where you want to add your branches. You can add them however you want to. To make it a little easier, I'm attaching an image here so that you can have a look and you can add in your branches in a similar way or a different way. Try not to add a lot and make it too busy. We need to see that background layer asphalt so just add a few in the foreground. The major focus has to be the background layer. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to create that depth in the painting. Just add one or two main branches, then add some smaller branches on to that. I'm just trying to figure out where I should add my second branch. Maybe let's add that this way and connect that to the main branch. I think that is looking really thin. I will make it a bit more thicker. Otherwise, when we add the snow, it won't be that prominent. I'm picking some more paint and I'm going to make the same branch a bit more thicker. [MUSIC] This brush is a wonderful brush, it has a really nice pointed tip. It is size Number 2 from silver black velvet series. It is one of my most favorite brush. I allowed to add my details using this brush. It is really important to have one or two detailing brush in your collection, which you're more comfortable with. It doesn't need to be an expensive brush. There are so many miniature brushes available in the market, which are really cheap. Wow, I really love this branch. I wasn't really sure what I'm doing it but I think I love that twist. Now under this main branch, I'm going to add some smaller branches like this. You can add them wherever you want to. see that? There has to be really thin and small. I think can already feel that depth in the painting when we added this darker branch. I'm really loving the way it is progressing. Now I'm going to add another branch. Again I'm just trying to figure out where I should add it. First, I will add some more tiny lines onto this branch then I would go with my next branch by the time I can figure out where I should add it. That looks fine. Now I'm going to add the next branch. I'm thinking to add that on the top, right about this one. If you want to, you can actually add a pencil sketch first, then you can follow that line using your brush. If you feel that is more comfortable for you. Otherwise, you can just go directly with your brush and add the branches. This is not a complicated step. Once you get comfortable with your brush, it is really easy to add these lines. Now onto this, I'm going to add some smaller branches. You can add your branches in any direction. They can be towards the top or toward the bottom, or towards the right or towards the left. You don't need to add them the exact same way how I'm adding it. Go ahead and add in as many branches as you want. [MUSIC]. That is done. Now I'm going to add some branches towards the bottom. I'm really happy with these branches. First I will add a smaller branch onto this. Then I will add another thicker one at the bottom. Towards the bottom for the background layer, we have used more of tucker and medium tones compared to the top so it is really nice if we can add a branch over there. Because when we add the snow, it will be really prominent. Once I'm adding some smaller branches onto this one, I will add a thicker and bolder branch at the bottom, so take a look at your painting and wherever you have that tucker and medium tones add a new branch on that spot so that it will look really nice when you add the snow. Now, I'm going to add the last branch towards the bottom where I have these darker tones. As I mentioned earlier, you don't need to follow the exact same way how I'm adding the branch. Just add them wherever you want to. Just be sure to make the main branch thicker, then onto that, you can add some thin and delicate branches so that's my major branch. I will add another one toward the top. Then onto this, I will add some smaller branches and with that, we'll be done with our second layer. [MUSIC] That was the last branch. I'm not planning to add more. Already, the painting is looking quite busy. I don't want to make it super busy. This where we have leaves. Now, just in case if you want to, you can add some more delicate branches, but don't make it too thick and prominent. Use the smallest size brush or any of your detailing brush, which has a pointed tip and add some super thin branches onto the area where they feel they are little empty. If you feel like there is already a good amount of branches on your painting, you don't need to make it too busy. You can just stop it there. You can leave your painting for drying. If you keep going, you will feel like having hundreds of branches. Don't make it too busy and don't go overboard with your detailing. The moment you feel like it is getting too busy, just call it done. Okay. So that is it. I'm really happy with what has turned out. I can really feel a depth here. The base layer and the branches we have added right now. They all are looking so good together. Now, it's time to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] That has dried completely. Our next task is to splatter the snow and add some snow onto the branches. I'm just cleaning this section using a wet wipe. See, it is super clean. This is the reason why I love ceramic palette. Anyway, I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. What I'm using here is white gouache. If you have white gouache, go with that. Otherwise, you can use white watercolor. Now the next task was really interesting. First, we can add some snow onto the branches. No matter whether you're using gouache or watercolor, don't add a lot of water. We need a thick opaque paint. Use any of your smaller size brush or a medium-size brush and add a few drops of water, just so that you can pick the paint. Now using that opaque white paint, I'm going to add some snow onto the branches. This one is a really easy task, but it might take a bit of time depending on the amount of branches you have added. I'm just concentrating on the thicker branches, and after that, I'm just adding a random shape using white gouache, just to make it look like there are some snow trapped on the top. We just add them in. At some places, you can make it really thick to give it a more natural feel. That's the first branch. Now I'm picking up more paint. Add in a very similar way, I will add snow onto the other branches also. Once you start adding snow onto the branches, it will really start to look like a winter wonderland. Go ahead and add in a false snow on all the branches who have there. First, again, concentrate on the thicker ones, then onto a smaller one, we can add later. [MUSIC] I have added snow onto the first two branches and you can see how gorgeous it is starting to look. Similarly, I'm going to add snow onto the other branch we have at the bottom. This step is absolutely simple. There is literally nothing to worry when you're adding the snow. It can be of any shape, it can be of any thickness. Even if you accidentally add some paint onto the branch, that is also totally okay. There is nothing more easier than adding snow. Now, towards the top, we have more of lighter values in the background. But towards the bottom, we have more of medium tones. When you're adding the snow here, you can really see the difference. See that? The snow is looking more prominent here, because we have more of medium and darker tones in the background. But on the top, it is not that visible. Just because we have more of lighter tones. I'm really excited to add snow onto this one because it's going to be really prominent, see that? This is the main reason why I told you to go with more of medium and darker tones to the bottom. This way, you can really capture that snowy character in your painting. Otherwise, it won't be that prominent and you won't be able to bring in that snowy feel to your painting. I'm really loving the way it is progressing, especially adding snow at the bottom. So gorgeous, right? Over here, I think we can add some snow onto the thinner branches as well, because they will be visible. Unlike the top part over there, we have lighter tones in the background. That's the reason why we didn't really concentrate on the thinner branches. See that? Even if it is a thin white line, it is really prominent. Now I'm adding some snow onto this corner. Maybe we can add a thicker patch here. Now let's add some snow onto the left end, we have something on branches on the side. On top of them, I'm adding a broken line. I don't want the line to be continuous. I'm just breaking the line in between and I'm adding some white highlights onto all these branches. I really love the way this is progressing. The mood of this painting is really making me want to go for a vacation and enter the snowy season. Anyway, I cannot do that right now, so let's go ahead and finish the painting. I'm just trying how it will look like if I add a white branch, but I think it looks a bit weird, so I'm not going to add any more white branches. I will distribute the same step and add white snow onto the other branches. You can see the one I added right now, I simply add a snow cap onto those branches. I'm just adding one tiny line here and that's the snow cap. Maybe we can add snow cap on to the other ones as well. I think it is really looking nice, that little snow cap. Let's add one here, maybe another one here. Depending on wherever you have those tiny branches, you can add a snow cap onto them and also you can randomly add some snow on to the surface. Keep repeating the same step until you feel like you have added snow onto all the branches you have there. I'm really loving the bottom left corner. Now I feel like I should have introduced some more darker tone to the top. But no mind, it's a beautiful mix of lighter tones, medium tones, and darker tones. No much complaints. I'm very much happy with the way it is progressing. Anyway, this is how it has turned out. Now, our final task is to splatter some snow to make it even more snowy. I already have some paint on my smaller brush. Now, I'm going to take another brush. Using my second brush, I'm going to tap on this [NOISE] to create some snow. Again, just try to splatter them onto your anterior painting. You don't need to worry about where you're adding them. They can be everywhere. Just go ahead and add an inner personal onto your anterior painting. Beginning of paint on your brush and just keep tapping on it, using another brush. You can add more over the bottom, then you have that medium tones. On the top, it might not be that visible, but still you can add some. Let there be snow everywhere. [NOISE] Let's make it as super snowy painting. I'm thinking more paint. Adding some on to the topmost corner. [NOISE] See that? Keep adding them until you feel like you're happy with the result. This will make your painting look extra pretty. Go ahead and add an inner personal onto your painting. [NOISE] I cannot tell you how much I love the depth we have gotten this painting. [NOISE] I really love that blurry foggy background and that snowy patterns. I will quickly add some more snow. Then using the leftover paint, I'm going to make that snow a bit more prominent. I think at some places, it is looking a little dull. I'm just overriding them with some more paint. Anyway, I have some pain left on my palette. I'm just using that leftover paint. Otherwise, it will just try and crack on my palette and it won't be of any use. Let's make use of that paint we have already squeezed out, and make this snow a bit more prominent. If you want to add more, you can make use of the time and add them in before you wrap off your painting. I'm already planning to try the same painting with a bit more darker tones in the background. I really want to see how that would look like. Once I'm done with this, that is my next task. If you guys do give it a try, I'm very sure you won't regret that. Anyways, but that, I'm done with my painting. Now before this paint dries, I'm going to quickly wipe off those white paint from my brush, my hand and everywhere, I have added in. It is going to be a difficult task if it dries. Right now, I can just wipe off everything using a wet wipe. Now, it's time to peel off the masking tape. The painting has dried completely. I'm going to gently peel it off at an angle. I'm really hoping I've got a clean border. I'm just a bit worried towards the bottom where I have introduced multiple layers. Anyway, let's see. [MUSIC] That's a clean border and I'm really happy with it. Here's a closer look of the painting. I think the depth that we have achieved here is really gorgeous. I'm really loving that blurry background and that sharp foreground. Simple and beautiful, isn't it? I hope you guys loved it too. If you want to try it, do give it a try, and let me know if you liked it. [MUSIC] 8. Project 4 - WINTER MORNING: Our next project is a calm and peaceful foggy morning. I really enjoyed working on this painting, especially that details on the rock, also that vanishing horizon line. It is really simple and quick painting. We'll be painting the entire background in one single layer. Will start with the medium tone, then we'll make it lighter towards horizon line, and we'll start making it darker as we come down. Then this landscape and the reflection will be adding them on the wet background. That's the base layer. Then onto that when it dries, we'll be adding these rocks and the final details. Its a really simple project, and you will enjoy working with wet-on-wet technique to create that magical feel. Before we start, I will quickly show you how we can achieve that magical, foggy, misty feel. I'm picking a medium tone of Payne's gray first, adding some water. I'm applying that onto my paper. That's a medium tone. Now I'm picking some water, and I'm making it lighter as I'm coming down. At the center I want the color to be slightly lighter. Then I get towards the bottom, I'm making the color more darker. Now we need to make it a clean blend. This is how we're going to paint the base layer. Right now, I'm just using a round brush, but for our mini painting, we will be using a flat brush to get that perfect blend. Anyways, that's a base layer. Now after this, I'm going to add some landscape using a slightly darker tone of Payne's gray. I have taken paint on my brush. Now, I'm tapping a brush on a paper towel just to remove that excess amount of water. The paint is watery, it will start spreading in a very fast way. It would be really difficult to control the way it is spreading. Now using that paint, I'm going to add some landscape onto the wet background. This is where I'm imagining my horizon line is. I'm adding that landscape right over there. That's the landscape. Now we need to add the reflection. Now using a similar tonal value, I'm going to add reflection, looking at tiny gap in-between. Start by adding a line, then add a similar shape at the bottom. It doesn't need to be exactly the same, just go with the rough similar shape. That is how we're going to add that landscape and the reflection on to that background. Now when it dries, it will have a really magical misty, foggy feel. In a similar way, I will add some details from the other side as well. I have taken paint on my brush. Now I'm dabbing that on a paper towel just to be sure it is not too watery. Now using that paint, I'm going to add some landscape onto the left side. That's a landscape. Now I'm adding a line at the bottom. Now leaving in gap in-between, I'm adding the reflection. Looks like the Syria is starting to dry. Using a clean brush, I'm just matching that paint. It looks really sharp. That's the background. We are going to paint our background in a similar way. For our main painting, we will be using a flat brush to paint the background. We'll start with a medium tone, and we will make it light as we're approaching the horizon line. You can see over here on my painting, it is nearly white color. That is how we should be painting our background. Then towards the bottom we'll make it more darker. Now, I'm going to add some rocks. We'll try how we can add those snowy texture onto the rock. I'm just adding one or two rocks here. My background is still wet. I'm just adding them at the bottom. The last one can be a bit bigger. Now we had to wait for this to dry. To make the process easier, I'm going to grab my blow dryer, and I will quickly make this dry so that we can add those patterns. We can right away start with wall painting. That is dried. Now to add the texture, you will either need white gouache or white watercolor. You don't need a lot of paint we just need a tiny bit of white gouache or white watercolor. Then we are going to use opaque paint. We're going with a slightly watery paint, to have taken out some paint onto my palette. Now using my smaller-size brush, I'm going to add the textures. First I'm dropping in some water, and also keep a paper towel ready. Now I'm adding few drops of water and I'm turning that into a slightly watery consistency. Then I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. The trick here is using a paint that is not too opaque. It is still some dry patterns, but the paint is not completely opaque, that is the only difference. You can see those subtle patterns on the rock. That is how we need these patterns. We don't want them to be too prominent and too opaque. See that? Go to slightly watery paint, then dab your brush on a paper towel. You can see those water contained on my paint, I'm not using an opaque paint. Once you have taken the paint, dab it on a paper towel. Using that slightly wet paint, add those patterns onto the rock. See that, it is more like a light gray color, it is not completely white. You can see how gorgeous they are looking. I think they look realistic. Now just in case, if you want to make those a bit more prominent, you can pick some more white paint, and add that onto the top, only onto the top. That is something you have to keep in mind. For the rest, go the loose paint don't make it too opaque and prominent. Only on the top, you can add some prominent patterns using an opaque paint. That's the trend. That is how we're going to paint these rocks. I think they are looking really beautiful. Here is a closer look. Really beautiful. That's all you need to know before you start with this painting. You can see it is simple. First you need to paint that background, then you need to add those rocks. Now, let's give it a try. I have everything ready here. The first step is to paint the background. We're going to use wet-on-wet technique here, which means you will need to apply clean coat of water onto the end to your background. For that, I'm using my one-inch brush. You can use any of your wider flat brush, but just be sure there is no other paints in on it, it has to be clean. Now, apply a gentle coat of water onto the anterior background. You can run your brush multiple times just to be sure the coat of water is even. We don't need any pools of water. I have applied a clean even coat of water onto the anterior background. Now to paint, I'm going to use my flat brush. This one is a half inch flat brush. Now I'm starting off with a medium tone. Don't make it too dark. That's the color I'm using. Now I'm simply running my brush back and forth in a horizontal way, so that I can get a clean blend. Now, I'm going to leave this here and I'm going to pick a darker tone. And we'll start applying this from the bottom. And it will go towards the center. As I'm approaching the horizon line, the color has to be lighter. I'm using a darker tone at the bottom and the Hollister medium tone on the top. But as we are reaching the horizon line, both the colors has to be lighter. So I'm washing the paint from my brush. I'm making them lighter, towards the center. You just need to run a clean brush back and forth in a horizontal way to get the perfect blend. I have made the color lighter at the bottom. I'm doing the same on the top. For this painting, I don't want a clean and sharp horizon line. I want a blurry and weak horizon line. I'm trying my best to make it a clean blend. The key is to run your brush only in a horizontal way. Don't add any other brush moment. This way you can achieve a clean blend. There were some bleed on the top, so I'm just fixing that. Looks like there's a lot of water on my masking tape, it is floating back into the painting. It is better if I just wipe it off using a paper towel so that it won't happen again. I'm happy with the blend. Maybe we can drop in a bit more paint at the bottom just to make it an even wash. That's the background, it has come out nice. Now I'm cleaning my flat brush and I'm keeping that aside. I'm switching to my smaller-size round brush. This one is a Size number 6 round brush. Let's start adding loose landscape and reflection before the background dries. Pick a slightly darker tone of Payne's gray, and let's start adding those landscape. First, I will start with the right side. This is where I'm imagining my horizon line is, and I'm adding that landscape onto the wet background. It's a very simple shape. You just need to add that in right onto that wet background. But just be sure your paint is not too watery. You can see it is not spreading a lot. Similarly, I'm going to add another shape on the left side. In case if you feel like your background is drying out. You can see at the horizon we don't have a clean line. I'm going to wash out the paint from my brush and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. Now, you've seen that clean damp brush, I'm just lifting off the paint, see that? Similarly, I'm adding a line on the other side as well. You can see the difference now. The bottom part is looking like a clean line. Anyway before the background dries, now I'm going to drop in the reflection. Leaving a tiny gap in-between, I'm adding the reflection in a similar shape. I think the color I picked is a bit darker. I think when it dries it will be okay. Let's add a similar shape at the bottom. Be sure to leave that gap in-between that, is important to define your horizon line. Now in a similar way, let's add the reflection on the other side. Go to similar shape, don't make it entirely different. As I said, it doesn't need to be exactly the same. Just call the rough shape that looks somewhat similar. It is just that when you look at the overall painting, it shouldn't look entirely different. Go with a similar shape and size. That's the background. Now let's take a short break and come back when this has dried completely. That's the background. It has dried completely. Now we can go to the next step, which is adding those rocks onto the lake. To add the rocks, I'm going to use my Size number 6 round brush. You can use any of your smaller-size or medium-sized round brush. Also, if you want to, you can start with a pencil sketch. You can just add all the rocks with your pencil. Then you can follow them using your brush. I'm going to randomly add some onto the background. I'm planning to add some bigger ones onto either corner, then some smaller ones in a very attractive way. I don't have any reference image or anything in front of me. I'm just adding them, however, I'm feeling like. Now to add these rocks, I'm going to use a really dark tone of Payne's gray, which is nearly close to black. That's tonal value I'm going to use. I'm going to add plenty of rocks onto the bottom. There we have that taco tone in the background. I won't be adding any drops into the background where I have that lighter and medium tones. I'm just adding them at the bottom where we have that taco tone of Payne's gray. Go ahead and add as many rocks as you want, go with different size for each of them, and go with different shapes as well. Don't make all of them look the same. Onto this corner, I'm adding a bigger one. Similarly on the other corner as well, I will add a bigger rock. Then randomly, I will add some medium-sized rocks as well as some smaller ones. Just add them wherever you want to. Don't put a lot of pressure in following the same spot where I'm adding them. Let's quickly add them in. If you want to follow the same location, I'm adding an image here so that you can just follow that when adding your rocks. I have added plenty of rocks onto the lake. Now I'm just going to modify the shape of this rock here and I'm making it a bit bigger. I'm extending that to the masking tape. Now if you want to, you can add some more onto the background. I'm quite happy with that arrangement. We have enough of bigger ones, smaller ones, and medium rocks so I'm not planning to add more. Now, I'm going to clean my brush. Using the same brush, I'm going to add some reflection. The reflection is not going to be too prominent. I'm going to go medium to warn off Payne's gray. I will just add some lines underneath the rock. It's going to be a real except to pick a medium tone of Payne's gray and add some lines underneath all the rocks you have added. We just need to substitute reflection. Just pick a medium tone and add a simple line underneath the rock. Go with a medium tone, don't make it too dark, and simply add a line. It is very simple. I just want a faded reflection, it doesn't need to be too prominent. Just add a simple line underneath all the rocks you have added there. You can extend out those lines a little bit towards either side. This will make it look more realistic. Go with the medium tone and add some lines. At some places, you can extend that. Do you see that? In a similar way, add reflection onto all the rocks you have added. That part is done. Now the next task is to add the snow. For that, you can either use white gouache or white watercolor. I'm using a paper towel. I'm just wiping out the paint from this section and towel take out some white gouache. If you don't have gouache, you can use white watercolor. Both of them will work. The patterns that we're going to add is using a watery version of white. It is not that opaque. It is very much similar to what we tried in the technique section. I have taken out some paint. Now I'm adding a few drops of water and also I have a paper towel ready here. Add few drops of water and turn your paint into watery consistency. It's the same technique that you need to follow, no matter whether you're using watercolor or gouache. Now, dabigatran of paper towel before you start adding these patterns. Now using that dry paint, keep adding some patterns onto the top part of the rock. We don't want these textures to be really prominent. That's the reason why we're using a medium tone here. Add two drops of water and tone your white watercolor or gouache into a watery consistency. Then pick that paint on your brush and tap it on a paper towel. Then using that dry paint, keep adding some textures on the top part of your rocks. That's the first one. You can see the color. It is not too prominent. It is more like a gray tone. In a similar way, I'm going to add patterns on to all the other rocks I have here. The key is having that dry paint on your brush. Once you have that, keep rubbing your brush on the surface of your paper and keep adding these patterns. It is really easy to do when you have that dried consistency. Maybe before you start, you can try it on a scrap piece of paper, then you can add them onto your main painting. In case if you make any mistake, that is nothing to worry, you can apply another layer of Payne's gray on top of it, and then you can start all over again. Go ahead and add in some patterns onto all the rocks using a dry paint. Be sure to go with a medium tone. Don't make it too opaque and prominent. I have a few more rocks left at the bottom. Onto those as well, I'm going to add some of the patterns. That is done. You can see how gorgeous those rocks are looking. Now just in case if you want to add some more prominent white, you can do that right now. Pick some white paint which is really opaque and add them only go to the top surface of the rock. I'm not going to add a lot. I will just add a little only on the top. Be sure not to add a lot of patterns. The major portion has to be that medium tone. Only onto the top, you can add some highlights. Now I will add similar patterns onto that bigger rock we have on the left side. If you feel like you're adding a lot, just have a brush on a paper towel and case merging them into the background to make them look less prominent. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add some patterns onto this one, and also onto the bigger rock we have on the left side. This step is completely optional only if you want to add some more highlights, you can do that. Otherwise, you'll be happy with the rest of the patterns. You don't need to add them. This is how our painting has turned out. Now there's one last detail I want to add before we wrap it off. For that, I'm switching back to Payne's gray. I'm using a really dark tone of Payne's gray here and I'm using my smaller-size brush. I was actually planning to add some graphing lines on either side, but I think before that we can add some small rocks onto the lake. Just some teeny tiny ones. You can see the size of the rock I'm adding, they are super tiny. Go with the similar size and add them wherever you want to. Now I'm planning to add mine over here and maybe another one towards the side. Wherever you want to add them, you can add such similar stones. You don't need to add the snow patterns onto them. You can just leave it as it is. This is just to add some extra details onto the painting. Only if you want to add them, you can do that otherwise you can just ignore the step. That is done. Now I'm going with the last step, which is adding those crossy lines. This brush has a really nice pointed tip and I'm going to add some freehand lines onto either side. Some nice pointy curvy lines. Use a brush that has a pointed tip and keep adding similar lines onto either side. Just to add some extra details, I'm picking some more paint. Now I'm adding another line. It's a nice curvy line, you can add in as many as you want, but don't make it too busy. I will add one more. Maybe we can add few on the right side as well. It is really important to use the smallest size brush or a brush with a pointed tip. Don't make these lines too bold and thick. They have to be super thin and delicate. That is the final detail. Maybe we can add few at the bottom as well, right next to the rocks. First I will fix these lines, then I will add few at the bottom. When you're adding these lines go with different heights and different direction to make it look more realistic. Anyways, that's how the painting has turned out. I'm really happy with it, especially that vanishing horizon line and also the texture on the rock. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. Gently remove that at an angle so that it won't rip off your paper. Here is our moody winter morning, it's a simple yet a beautiful painting. We managed to finish this in less than 20 minutes. I hope you all enjoyed the process and loved your painting too. 9. Project 5 - CHRISTMAS TREE: [MUSIC] Our next project is a gorgeous Christmas tree. It is really easy to paint the snowy pine tree. Honestly, this is one of the most easiest tree I have ever painted. I'm not kidding, you will see that in some time. For this painting we only have one major element which is the tree. The rest is just a blurry background. First we will start by adding a sketch of the tree. I will add a line first, this is the tree trunk. Now onto this, I will start adding some shapes like this onto either side. As I'm coming down, I will make it more wider to give it that triangular shape. Overall your tree should have a triangular conical shape. You can see how messy those patterns are. Just go with a rough random shape like this. You don't need to put a lot of effort. We can fix it later when we add the paint. I don't need that line at the center, it was just a reference line, so I'm just erasing that off. That's the shape. For our painting, we have a textury background using a medium tone of Payne's gray, and that will add a depth and a contrast to the snow, and it will make the snow more prominent. Right now, I'm not planning to paint the background, we can just try the tree. I'm starting by picking a medium tone using my size number 6 round brush. You can use any of your medium brush or a smaller brush. Go to medium tone, and underneath all the shades we have added here, just add a medium tone. Just keep pressing the tip of your brush, it doesn't need to have any proper shape. It can be a very random shape. We just add some medium tones underneath all the shapes you have here. See that? Just add them in a random way, you don't need to put a lot of effort, just keep adding that medium tone underneath that shape in a random way. On the top, you need to leave that bigger white and towards the bottom you need to add the shadows in the bottoms. I have reached almost half of the tree. Now I'm going to pick another brush and I'm picking some water, and it's not water. I'm just going to make the color lighter towards the top. See that? Towards the bottom, we still have that medium tone and towards the top I'm making it blurry by adding some water. I think and already feel that snow here. This is just the first step. We used a medium tone, then we made it blurry using some water. Now later we'll be adding some deeper tones underneath all the shapes we have here. But before that, we need to finish the rest of the tree. I'm going back with Payne's gray, a medium tone, and I'm adding that medium tones toward the bottom part of these shapes. Overall we need a conical or a triangular shape for your tree. If you feel you need to modify the shape, you need to extend that foliage a bit, you could do that. Keep adding your paint and along with that, you can modify the shape of your tree. The sketch we added at the beginning was just a reference, we're not really falling that intact. Consider the sketch only as a reference and keep adding a paint however you wish to. Now I'm picking my other brush. I have taken some water and I'm making this area lighter by adding that water. That's a base layer, we are done with the first step. I think the pine tree is looking snowy already. But if you compare what we did right now to the sketch, you can see we have some deeper tones missing. That's our next task. The deeper tones will bring in a contrast and it will also make the snow more prominent, and also it will add a more finished feel to our tree. Right now, it doesn't look complete even though it is looking snowy. To add more life to our tree, we are going to drop in the deeper tones. I'm using the same brush. Now, along the same places I added earlier, I'm going to add the deeper tones as well. See that? Towards the bottom side of the foliage, keep adding some teeny-tiny lines and some random shapes using a darker tone. Don't touch the top where we have that lighter tone, leave that area as it is. Keep introducing more deeper tones in-between. I think and feel the difference already. You can compare the bottom and the top. The top part is looking more finished and it looks really natural. It is not a complicated task. You just need to keep on adding some small lines using the tip of your brush. You can see they don't have any proper shape. I'm just adding them using the tip of my brush without lifting my hand. See that? Keep adding them, there's nothing to worry here. You are not going to ruin your painting, we'll be adding some snow onto this and we'll also be splatting some snow. With that double layer of snow, everything is going to look so magical. It's a very simple technique, it's a very simple tree, but you can see the result, it is looking so gorgeous. I would really recommend to try it on a scrap piece of paper before you call it your main painting, you can just take a piece of paper like the one I have here, or you can paint it on the backside of any of your other painting. Just try it out, it's a simple step. You will be more confident before you try your class project. I'm almost done adding those deeper tones and you can see how gorgeous the tree is looking already. Unknowingly, we have created a shadow for the snow here because we used the medium tone for the first layer. Then we use some water to smudge that. Those steps we followed earlier created a natural snowy feel here, which we did unknowingly. 10. Project 6 - MOODY WATERFALL: [MUSIC] Our next painting is a really moody winter landscape. This one is actually one of my personal favorites from the antique collection. That architecture and the reflection is my favorite part about this painting and also the waterfall. It is a really easy painting. We'll start with a gradient wash of Payne's gray for the sky. You can see on the top and the bottom, we have medium tone, and the center we have a lighter tone. For the sea [inaudible] , the base layer is a simple gradient wash, as you can see here. Then after that we'll be adding the reflection and also some lines to create that water movement. Adding this reflection is really easy and interesting. For that, you will need a flat brush and we'll be simply dragging our brush from top to bottom. We'll be adding some lines using a darker tone on the wet background. It is really simple. We can try that out before we try the painting. When you add in those thick lines on the wet background using a darker tone, it really has an impact. You can see how gorgeous that reflection is looking. Then the waterfall is nothing but just some white dry lines. Anyways, before we start, I will quickly give you an idea about how to paint that rock as well as the reflection. Other than that, the rest require simple, straightforward techniques which you can easily follow along. First I'm starting by adding a sketch, something similar to the one I have used for the painting. Now over here, I'm going to add my waterfall, roughly dividing that rocky mountain into two parts. First is this part here, and the second one is the bigger part of the right. For this one, for the background layer we'll use a medium tone of Payne's gray. Then onto that we'll add some texture and some deeper tones using a darker tone. Then after we're done with that, we'll paint the other section using a darker tone. Now, in between these two rocks we'll be adding our waterfall using a white and dry paint. It's a very narrow waterfall. Don't make it too thicker. At the bottom, we'll add some patterns and textures to create that foggy water feel. That's how it is going to be. It is not at all difficult. You will see that in some time. Now, in case if you want to, you can add another narrow waterfall right next to this. That's totally depending on the way you're adding your rock. If there is a lot of space, you can add one or two extra waterfall, or you can just go with one. Now, I'm going to pick some paint, a medium tone of Payne's gray, and I'm going to add that onto the sea right underneath the rocky mountain. Then we can see how to add those reflection. Right now I'm just adding a flat wash. For our main painting, we'll be using gradient wash towards the bottom, we'll make the color more darker. Right now it is just a flat wash. Now, I'm picking a much more intense tone of Payne's gray. To add the reflection, it is best if we can use a flat brush. We'll be using the tip of the brush. Now, let's drag the brush down and add some lines onto the background. So it's just a freehand line, start from the top and simply drag your brush down, creating some lines on the background. This needs to be done before the background dries. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind. It is just some simple lines. You just need to take a darker tone of Payne's gray on your brush, then you simply need to drag your brush from top to bottom. [NOISE] Now I clean my brush, I'm dabbing that on a paper towel. Now I'm gently dragging my brush again to make these lines a bit smoother. Be very gentle. Don't put a lot of pressure. Simply push that paint down to give it a much more smoother and softer look. Anyway, that's how we're going to add the reflection. It is a very simple step. When you have the entire background painted, it will look really beautiful. Right now, I have tried that on a small piece of paper and I didn't go for a gradient wash. When you have everything together, it will look really beautiful. Now using a blow dryer, I'm going to quickly dry this off. Then I will show you how you can add those teeny-tiny lines onto a reflection to create that movement of the water. Once the background has dried completely, pick any of your smaller-size brush. This one is a size number 2 round brush. I'll go with a medium tone of Payne's gray. Don't go with a darker tone. That is something you have to keep in mind. Go with a medium to lighter tone. Now you simply keep on adding some lines onto reflection using a really thin brush. It doesn't need to have any particular size or shape. We can simply add them. Some of them can be longer and some of them can be shorter. But just be sure to go to medium to lighter tone. Don't use a darker value. We're adding these lines to create a moment in the water. To understand that better, I think I will show you a closer look of the painting. Over here, you can see those lines and the reflection together. I have added them onto the inner side. They are really thin and they are really delicate, and I have added them using a medium tone. Now the painting is really simple. You just need to follow the steps and paint along with me. By the end, I'll make sure you have the most gorgeous, moody, monochromatic landscape. [MUSIC] First, I'm going to start by applying a piece of masking tape a little below the center of the paper to divide the sky and the sea. Secure it properly by running your fingers on top of it and be sure there's no gaps in between. Now, we can start painting the sky. For the sky, I'm planning to make a medium tone on the top, then towards the center, I will make it lighter. Then again towards the bottom, I will make it a bit more darker. Now, I'm going to use wet on dry technique, but if you want to go with wet on wet, you can apply cold water and then you can start adding your paint on a wet paper. Now I'm starting off with a medium tone of Payne's gray and I'm using a flat brush here. I want a smooth blend for the sky. I'm applying that on the top of my sky in a horizontal way. Now as I'm coming down, I will make the color lighter by picking some clean water. Maybe we can make the top area a bit more darker because when this dries, it'll be a little dull. All right. That's the top part. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to pick some clean water until making this area lighter. The center, I want the color to be a bit lighter. Now as I'm coming down, as I'm approaching the horizon line, I'm going to pick that medium tone again and I'm going to fill that remaining area in a medium tone of Payne's gray. The same color that I used earlier for the top of my sky, I'm using the same color and I'm filling the remaining area. Carefully add that along the horizon line and blend that with the background. On the top and the bottom, we have a medium tone, and at the center, we have a lighter tone. That's how the sky is going to be. I think the blend is looking quite nice. I don't want to ruin it by running my brush multiple times. I'm going to call it done and I'm going to leave this for drying. Every time you feel like how could a clean blend for your sky or for the sea or any other background that you're painting, don't run your brush over and over again. You might be doing that to make your sky or the background look perfect, but that might ruin your background instead. By doing that, you might also distort the paper fibers. Sometimes you might have noticed that little particles coming off from the surface of your paper, that happens when you run your brush multiple times, putting a lot of pressure. Once you feel like you have got a clean blend, just stop it there and leave it for drying. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. Now I'm going to start adding a sketch. The sketch is pretty simple. We're just going to add some mountains on either side. You only need to add the one on the foreground, the others, we can add them when you're painting. This is a shape, I'm going with. It's a simple shape there is nothing much complicated here so add that in. We're just trying to indicate a location. We can modify the shape later because we're going to use a very dark tone of Payne's gray for this. Now I'm thinking to add a smaller one on this side as well to make it a little interesting. That's a small mountain, we'll be painting these ones later but before we peel off the masking tape, we need to add one mountain here using a really light tone. For this you don't need to add a sketch you can start with your paint right away. In case if you're adding a sketch, go to really light pencil sketch, we need to use a lighter tone for this, this seems a bit dark, let me pick some water and make it lighter. That seems fine, that's the color I'm going to use for the mountain, it has to be really light. Now, let's add that and it's a very simple shape so there is no real need to add a sketch before you start. You can add that right away with your brush. You can see the color I have used here. Now to make it a bit interesting, I'm going to drop in some darker tone onto the top. I'll begin with a bit of darker tone and I'm adding that onto the top of this mountain. Towards the bottom, I'm going to retain that lighter tone. That's our mountain. Now, just in case if you add some paint onto the bigger mountain the lighter, that's totally okay. You can see the way how I have painted because for that one we're going to use a really dark tone, so all these will be covered up. That is our mountain, now we'll have to wait for this to dry and after that, we can start painting the sea. [MUSIC] That has dried now I'm going to peel up the masking tape. I have got a clean line at the horizon, I'm really happy about it. Now, let's start painting the sea. For that I'm going to apply a medium tone on the top and as I'm coming down, I'll be making it more darker [NOISE] then onto the wet background, I'll be adding some reflection. I'm starting off with a medium tone. Maybe towards the horizon line, we can make it a bit lighter. Now as I'm coming down, I will make it more darker. Let's pick more darker and intense tone of Payne's gray and fill up the rest of the area. The base layer is a gradient wash. We're starting off with a lighter tone, then making it in darker towards the bottom. I think I can make it a bit more darker so I'm picking some more Payne's gray and I'm adding that towards the bottom. On the top, I'm rating that lighter tone only at the bottom I want more of darker tone. That looks fine. If you couldn't make it a perfect blend that is totally okay, we'll be adding the reflection to this, so that will fix all of that. Now before this dries we can start adding the reflection. I'm using the same brush for that as well. Using the tip of my brush, I'm going to add some lines. Just some lines from top to bottom. I'll be just dragging my brush from top to bottom like this to create a reflection. For those you should be using a flat brush. Now let's start adding the reflection on either side. I'm picking a really dark tone of Payne's gray. It shouldn't be too watery, if it's too watery, that'll tone the paper towel because if the paint is too watery, it will spread into the background in a very vigorously way and it should be really difficult to control the rate of spreading. There is nothing to worry, from the top you just drag your brush down and free to freehand line like this. Don't put a lot of pressure. It is just to dry. From the top to bottom, so just drag your brush down and there you have your reflection. Similarly, I'm going to add that on the right side as well. Over here the mountain is quite big, so we need to add bigger reflection. I mean deeper, which means the lines has to be a bit more darker. From the top simply drag your brush down. Now towards the right, the mountain's quite higher so maybe you can drag your line under your clear masking tape. There is nothing to worry here, it's a simple step. The only thing to keep in mind is that you paint shouldn't be too watery and you should be using a flat brush. Simply drag your brush from top to bottom and add line onto the wet background. That's our reflection. Now we had to wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] This is how it has turned out I'm already loving the moody feel of this painting. Now, we can go to the next step. Next we're going to paint the mountains. For that, a bigger medium tone of Payne's gray first and I'm going to paint the bigger one on the right side. I'm starting off with a medium tone, and we can apply that on the right side of this mountain here. I'm going to paint this as two parts. First, I'm going to paint this bigger part of the mountain [inaudible] here. You can see right next to this there is a small section left for which I'm planning to use more of darker tones. First I will paint this part then later we can paint the other one using darker tones. Now, I'm going to pick a darker tone of Payne's gray and I'm going to add that at the bottom to create some shadows and texture. Let's pick a darker tone of the same color and let's add that onto the bottom and also onto the surface up the mountain to bring in some texture. Simply add some wet paint onto the wet background. This time go with a darker tone. There's absolutely nothing to worry here, just drop in some darker paint onto that background just to add some texture. It doesn't need to look perfect there is no particular order or method for this. Simply dropping some darker tones. It can be some lines or some dry patterns. We just need some texture here. I'm going to randomly drop in some more deeper tone on to the mountain a little towards the bottom, then some onto the surface as well. I'm using a really dark tone of Payne's gray and I'm adding some lines onto the wet background. See that, so it's a very simple step there is absolutely nothing to worry here we just need some texture on the mountain. This one is done. I think I have got enough of texture here. Now, just in case you want to alter the shape of your mountain if you want to make it a bit more higher or change the shape a little bit you can do that right now. That's the first part of my mountain. I'm pretty happy with the color and the texture. Now I'm going to wait for this one to dry and after that, we can paint this bit here. For the other part we'll be using more of deeper tone maybe we can just use Payne's gray as it is, a really dark tone on this side. Let this dry, meanwhile, we can paint the smaller one on the left side. For that I'm just applying Payne's gray as it is, I'm not going to add any texture or any details. I'm using a darker tone of Payne's gray and I'm simply filling up that entire shape and a darker tone until that horizon line. At the bottom we have a beautiful reflection and on the top we have a mountain. You can see how beautiful it is looking when we added the mountain. Our painting is starting to look more complete when we added the mountain. Now in a similar way, let's paint the other one, the one we left earlier. For that I'm using a darker tone. I'm going to simply through that entire shape and then darker tone of Payne's gray. Maybe towards the left side, we can make it lighter but start with the really dark tone and add that onto this side. First go with a real dark tone of Payne's gray and add that onto the side next to the bigger rock. Now we can add some lines and some shapes. Now, I'm going to wash all the paint from my brush and with some clean water, I'm just making the rest of the area lighter. This way we're filling up the shape and also adding some texture together. That's our rocky mountain. You can modify the shape if you want to. Now, in case you want to drop in more deeper tones or some texture, you could do that as well, depending on the color you have used for the base layer. If it's really dark, it won't make any sense, the texture won't be visible. In that case, just leave it as it is. Now using the same paint, I'm going to add some texture onto the bottom. So I'm just dragging my brush towards the top and I'm adding some lines to add some more deeper tones only at the bottom. Now, maybe using the same brush, we can add some texture onto this one as well. Just add some dry patterns, which isn't really necessary only if you want to, you could do this. We already have some texture in the background, so this one is not that necessary, it is just optional. That is our rocky mountains and the reflection. I'm really loving the rocky texture of this mountain. It is just because we use different tonal values here. We started off with a medium tone and then we added some texture onto it and I think it has come out really nice. Our next task is to add some lines onto the water to show the movement in the water. Now for that, I'm using a smaller size brush, this one as my size 2 round brush. [NOISE] The lines that we're going to add onto the water has to be really thin and delicate. I'll just show you the lines that we're going to add onto the water. See that? So they have to be really thin and delicate. We'll be adding them using a medium tone. It is best to go with any of your smaller-sized brush or a brush with a pointed tip. It looks like there's a lot of water on my brush, so I'm just dabbing it on a paper towel. I'm again going to add more lines. So I'm adding these lines right next to the reflection we have added. Simply keep on adding some lines. They can be of different length. Some of them can be shorter, and some of them can be longer. The only thing to keep in mind is the tonal value. Go with a medium to lighter tone. Don't make it too dark. So right next to the reflection keep adding these lines to create that movement in the water. You don't need to add any other center. Just focus on either side where you have the reflection and right next to that, keep adding some simple, delicate lines. As I mentioned, the major concern here is the tonal value. Go with a medium tone or a lighter tone. Don't make it too dark. They just have to be fairly visible. Maybe towards the bottom, we can add one or two darker lines. That is okay. As we have darker value at the bottom, it is still okay, but don't add any darker lines towards the horizon line. That is something you have to be really careful about. Other than that, it's a very simple step. I think you can already feel that movement in the water. So we started out with a gradient wash of Payne's gray. Towards the bottom, we made it darker then onto that layer, while [inaudible] part we added the reflection. We simply dragged our brush from top to bottom to add the reflection. Now we're adding some lines onto the same background. I'm really happy with the left side, over there we have a small rock but on the right side we have a gigantic rock, so we can add few more lines at the bottom using a slightly darker tone. But be sure not to add any at the center or closer towards the horizon line. So third task is done. Now, our last task is to add the waterfall. So I'm just wiping off the section and I will squeeze out some white gouache onto this section. So in case if you don't have gouache just go with white watercolor, that is totally okay. But if you have gouache, I would recommend using that because it is more opaque than white watercolor. So I'm going to squeeze out a little of white gouache onto my palette. You don't need a lot, just a little is all we need. So this is the gouache I'm using. Now in case if you're using white watercolor, just be sure not to add a lot of water. Just one or two drops is all we need. We need dry paint, so keep a paper towel next to you. In case you feel like the paint is really watery, you can dab it on a paper towel and make your paint dry. Now, I'm going to add the waterfall over here between these two rocks. You can see the paint I'm using. It is really dry and using that dry paint I'm adding some lines onto the rock. See that? It is already looking like a waterfall. It's a really easy step. It is just that you have to go with dry paint. Now just add some lines using that dry paint onto the rock. It's a simple, narrow waterfall. I'm not making it too wider. It's a small painting, so I don't want to bring in a lot of details and make it to the sea. So this is the size I'm going with. It's a narrow waterfall. So pick some dry paint on your brush, go with the smaller brush, and add some dry patterns onto the black rocks. Towards the bottom, you can make it a little wider. In case if you're doing the same painting on a larger scale, you can add one more waterfall right next to this or you can make it a little more wider. But if you're going with the size, don't make it too wide. Go with a similar size, otherwise, your painting will look too busy, so be really careful not to add a lot of lines using white paint. It's a simple step so sometimes you might go overboard, but don't do that. Be really mindful about the lines you're adding. So that's a waterfall. I think it has come out really nice. Now, there's one last thing we need to do. We need to add a texture where the water is falling onto the sea. For this to [inaudible] , I'm going to use dry paint, so I'm just adding one or two drops of water just so that I can pick the paint. I'm using the same brush. It's a smaller size brush. Now let's start adding that dry texture onto the sea exactly where the water is falling. We're not going to add a lot of patterns and textures. We're just adding a dry line right underneath the waterfall. So use a smaller size brush and go with dry paint and add a line using that dry paint underneath the waterfall. A thin line, don't make it too bold and too thick. You can extend that line a little towards either side. So first, add that pattern right underneath the waterfall then extend that line onto either side a little bit. See that? So this is all we need. We don't need a lot of patterns. Now, I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel and I'm just adding some more texture on the top. So right about the sea, I'm going to create some texture on the rock to create that splashy water feel. So right about the line we draw now add some dry patterns onto the rock. This is just to show that water splashing kind of a feel, so we don't need a lot. Just add a little. So that is done. You can see how simple yet beautiful it has turned out. Now using the same brush and the same dry paint, I'm going to add some lines onto the sea right next to this waterfall. They're very subtle, they are not at all prominent. You can see the way how I'm adding it. I'm not picking any new paint. So using the same dry paint I'm adding some subtle lines onto the water, just to add some more texture and some more realistic features. These have to be barely visible, so be really careful about the kind of paint that you're using. Don't use a thick and opaque paint. Now with the same brush, I'm adding some lines onto the other side as well. So it is better not to pick any new paint, just make use of the paint that you have on your brush. That way the paint won't be opaque and the lines won't be too prominent. So that is done. Here is how our painting has turned out. I actually dropped my brush over here, you can see some white patterns. So just to hide that, [NOISE] I'm going to add some birds onto the sky. This is completely optional. Maybe it's not really visible on the screen but if I look at my painting, I can really see that light passes on my painting. Just to hide that, right at that spot, I'm going to add some birds. But this is not necessary. In case if you want to add them, go with a medium tone, don't make it too bold. Also, go with the smaller size. I have added the first bird, now I'm adding a second one. I'm adding the birds exactly where I dropped my brush. I think the birds did a great job in hiding them. I think I will add one more on the top. So in case if you're adding them, go with a similar size and go with a similar tonal value. Don't use a darker tone of paint screen. I'm planning to add one more bird, maybe towards the left side, one of the smaller bird. When I started the painting, I had no plans to add the birds, but I think they are looking really nice, but they're not really necessary so only if you want to add them, you could do that. I dropped my brush on the sea as well. If you closely look at my painting, you can see those patches. Luckily, it happened when I was washing off the paint from my brush, so the paint wasn't that opaque and I managed to dab it off with a paper towel quickly. Anyways, that's our painting. Now I'm going to peel off the masking tape and I will show you a closer look of the painting. Is a really simple painting but I think it has got a lot of depth in it; that reflection, the rocky texture, the waterfall, I think it's a wonderful painting. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Here is a closer look. You can see those texture on the rock and the reflection. I really enjoyed it. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. If we had to try to give it a try and let me know if you liked it. [MUSIC] 11. Project 7 - SNOWY FOREST: [MUSIC] Our next painting is a beautiful snowy forest. I absolutely love working on this painting. It is really easy to create that moldy feel. You will just need a paper towel. It's a very simple painting that we're going to play with different tonal values. For the background, we'll use a lighter tone. You can see those trees in the background, they are quite light in tone. For the one in the foreground, we'll use a darker tone. Then just onto that, we'll introduce some texture. For the snowy ground, we're going to retain most of the paper white and you'll just add some texture and some tiny rocks. You can see the tree. It is something similar to the one we tried earlier for the first painting. Remember this one? The bottom part is going to be exactly the same. Now it's time to try that simple yet brilliant trick with which you can create that foggy effect quite easily. Let's give it a try. I have a scrap piece of paper here. I'm picking a medium tone of Payne's gray and I'm going to add some thick lines, which is the tree. Simply add some lines. Now pick a paper towel and lift off some paint from the bottom, from the top, from the center, wherever you want to, and that's how we're going to create that foggy effect. I will try another one. That's a thicker tree. I have used a medium tone. Now I'm lifting off some paint again to create that foggy effect. See that? It is that simple to create the foggy effect. Right now we don't have any color in the background. Over here we have that medium tone, so it will easily merge into the background without any extra effort. That's the major technique that we're going to use in this painting. Whether using a darker tone or a medium tone for the tree, it doesn't matter. It's the same technique. Now using much more deeper tone, I'm adding another tree. But for that as well, I'm going to lift off some paint using a paper towel to retain that foggy feel. Gently touch your paper towel against the paper and lift off some paint, creating a beautiful natural effect. Right now we have a plain white background. When you have a background color, it will start to look more beautiful. To create this effect, you will just need a paper towel. That's how we're going to create this effect. Now onto these, we will be adding some foliage. I will show that as well before we start. It is just some simple dots which I'm adding close to each other. We're just going to add a bunch of tiny dots close to each other, and that's how we're going to create the foliage. For the foliage as well, we'll be lifting off the paint using a paper towel to retain that foggy feel. All you need to do is just keep on adding some tiny dots close to each other using a medium tone, and lift the paint off using a paper towel. For the tree that we have in the foreground, we're not going to add any foliage. We'll just add some branches. We'll be adding some foliage only going to the trees we have in the background. I will add them in a bigger scale just so that you can be more clear about it. It is just some teeny tiny dots and some small shapes, which I'm adding close to each other. When you add them onto the tree, we'll be lifting them off using a paper towel. There's no real need to put a lot of effort. It can be just a random shape. Simply add them onto your tree, then using a paper towel, just touch on it and make it look foggy and blurry. That's the only technique you need to know for this painting. Now we can give it a try. [MUSIC] First, I'm going to start by adding the sketch. The sketch means we just need to add the main foreground tree, so I'm adding that all here. It has to be quite thick. The rest of the trees we can add when we're painting. We just need to add this tree to indicate the location. You can see it's a huge tree. That's all you need to add. We have the sketch ready. Don't miss to add the horizon line, which is almost a three-fourth of our paper. Now, the rest of the trees, we can add when we are painting. For now, this is all we need. Let's start by applying coat of water onto the entire sky. For that, I'm using my one-inch wash brush and I'm applying a clean even coat onto the entire sky. Keep running your brush multiple times just to be sure the coat of water is even. We just need a shiny coat so the sky is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm using my size number 8 round brush. The background layer is really simple. I'm starting out with a medium tone, and I'm going to apply that onto the background, especially onto the top. Now as I'm coming towards the bottom, I will make the color more darker. You just need to simply drop in that paint onto that background. It can be a very rough and messy background, but we're just trying to create some texture here. It doesn't need to be a clean blend. Keep on dropping that wet paint onto the wet background before it dries. Now towards the bottom, I'm going to introduce a bit more darker tone. As you can see here, I'm gently applying that color onto the background in a very random way. I'm not really making it a clean blend. I'm just adding that deeper tone at the bottom. Now, I'm going to push and pull that paint into the background to give it a better transition. That's the background. You can see how easily we created the background. If you want to introduce some more deeper tones, you could do that. Next, we need to fix the ground. For that, I'm cleaning my brush and I'm dabbing that on a paper towel just to be sure there is no darker tones on my brush. Now using that clean, damp brush, I'm just merging this area. It is just that we don't need a sharp line here. Using a clean brush, just keep pushing and pulling that paint into the ground to create some texture. See that? You don't need to do this for the entire line, pick some places in between and keep smudging the color to give it a blurry feel. Now using the same brush, I'm going to add some teeny-tiny patterns on the ground as well. It's a really light tone of Payne's gray. You can see the color and it's dry. Now I'm simply adding some patterns on the ground using a really light tone of Payne's gray. For the ground, we'll be leaving most of the paper white to create a snowy feel, just like how we did for the first painting. The majority of the paper white has to stay. We just need some patterns here and there to introduce some texture. The first layer has to be using a really light tone of Payne's gray. Later, we'll be adding some stones and some deeper tones using a darker tone. For now, this is all you need. When you're painting a snowy ground, the most important thing is to keep your paper white. Don't add a lot of details and don't make it messy. The majority of your background has to be that white color of the paper. You can see the very little amount of details I have added on the ground. Anyway, that's our base layer. Now we need to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] The background has dried. Now we can start adding the trees. For that, I'm using my size number 6 round brush. You can use any of your smaller brush or a medium size brush. I'm starting off with a light tone of Payne's gray. I'm going to add the first tree towards the left side. Before you start, keep a paper towel ready and also be sure the background has dried completely. Now, I'm going to add my first tree using a lighter tone of Payne's gray. Once I have added the shape, I will use a paper towel and I will dab the bottom part to give it a more foggy feel. That's the base shape. Towards the bottom, we can introduce a little of darker tone. On the top, try to retain most of your lighter values and medium tones, only towards the bottom, you can make it a bit darker. That's our first tree. Now, I'm going to grab my paper towel. I'm gently dabbing my paper towel against the paper to give it a foggy feel. It is a very simple silly step, but then it will have a lot of impact on your painting. You can see how beautiful it is looking already, especially that bottom part, it just merged with that atmosphere. [NOISE] Now in a similar way, I'm going to add my second tree. I'm adding that right next to this one. This time I'm using a much more lighter tone. The beauty of this painting is those different tonal values you will use. You can keep playing with different tonal values of gray. At some places you can use a lighter tone, and at some places you can use a medium tone. Now I'm dabbing the bottom part using a paper towel and there you have it. It just merged into the background. Similarly, you can keep adding as many trees as you want. I don't have much of space on the left side, so I'm going to add the next one to it's right. I think I would add that over here. Towards the bottom, I'm going to make it more darker. That's a medium tone, let's pick a darker tone and add that towards the bottom. When using a darker tone for your tree, it means the tree is much more closer to you, it's in the foreground. If you're using a lighter tone or a medium tone, it means the tree is quite far. That's the basic idea you need to keep in mind. You can add new trees wherever you want to. We're going to convey the depth in our painting using different tonal values. This one is done. Next, I'm going to pick a lighter tone and I'm going to add a thin tree right next to this one. You can play with different tonal values and different thickness to make your painting look more realistic. You can see this one is quite thin. Now, I'm dabbing that with a paper towel to make it foggy. Now in a similar way, we can keep adding more trees. [MUSIC] For some of the trees, you can pick that paint from the center tool, to make it extra foggy. You can see the beautiful effects we have here. These little layers will add a lot of beauty to your painting. You can see that effect here. Similarly, wherever you want to pick some paint, you can do that. You don't need to really follow what I'm doing here. Now this tree, I'm going to extend that till the ground. On the top, I have a lighter tone. Now as I'm coming down, I'm making it more darker and I'm extending that into the ground. Don't bring it too down, just a little below that ground line. For now, you can just leave that tree as it is. Later we'll be adding some shadow and some texture onto the ground. Now in a similar way, we can add few more trees. Go with different tonal values and add new tree wherever you want to. You can add some of the foreground and some on the background. Right now, I'm using a medium to lighter tone and I'm going to add a tree in-between these. Maybe we can make it a little darker. It's a medium tone. Now, I'm going to extend that towards the bottom. I'm planning to extend this tree also to the ground. Towards the bottom, I'm going to use a darker tone because this one is much more closer to us. Now using a darker tone, let's finish off the shape. Also if you want to again, pick some paint from the top and create that foggy feel. Now I'm going to finish up the shape using a darker tone. Just like how we did the previous one, you can just leave the shape here. Don't bring it too down and just leave the shape as it is. Later we can add some dry patterns and some shadows. That's our next tree. You can already see how gorgeous painting is looking because we have different tonal values here. We have added few trees using a lighter tone than if you're using a medium tone and if you're using a darker tone. The tree is starting to get more prominent. Next, we can paint the bigger tree here. For that, I'm using a medium tone. This is just the base layer. We'll need to add more details on this later when the background layer dries. For now, start with a medium tone and fill up that entire shape. I'm actually planning to add some deeper tones onto the left side. First, we can apply a medium tone onto the entire tree. Then we can color with a much more darker tone and apply that on the left side before the background layer dries. Let's make this area a bit lighter. I'm just trying to make it look like this is the side that we have the light and it is the other side where we have the shadows and the deeper tones. Now let's pick a darker tone and simply drop in that onto that background. For now, don't worry about adding the textures or anything. Simply dropping that paint. We can add the textures later. We can add darker tones on the left and try to retain some of the lighter tones on the right side. This doesn't need to be a clean, smooth blend. You can just leave that as a rough plan. Anyway we'll be adding some textures later so whether you have a clean blend or not, doesn't really matter. Now, I'm going to pick a bit more deeper tone of Payne's gray and I'm going to add that at the bottom. Now all we need to do both just add an irregular shape at the bottom. Just keep running your brush as if your hand is shivering and add an irregular shape. This would make it look like there is some snow on the ground and is actually covering the roots of the tree. Just add an irregular line then fill the top. See that? It is exactly how we painted the first tree. Now we'll be adding some darker tones and some texture on the ground later. Right now this is all we need, it is a very simple trick. We are actually making use of the paper white. Now, I'm going to switch back to a medium tone of Payne's gray. I'm just going to add some lines onto the tree. The base layer is still wet. Just keep on adding some lines onto that background to add in some texture. That's a base layer of the tree. I'm pretty happy with the texture and the shape. This is how it has turned out. Our next task is to add the foliage onto the tree. But before that, I feel like adding few more trees onto the background. Maybe I will add one towards the right side, a thin tree using a lighter tone. Have a lighter tone of Payne's gray and I'm adding a thin tree over here. Towards the bottom, I'm introducing a medium tone. Then using a paper towel, I'm just tapping that all to create a foggy feel. That's our tree. I feel like this tree here, it is really light. Towards the bottom, I'm just introducing some medium tone. It is barely visible so I just thought of making it a bit more prominent. I'm adding a medium tone towards the bottom. Now using a paper towel, I'm just adding that foggy effect. That's the background. I'm pretty happy with the tonal values and the trees. Now, in case you feel like there's a lot of space in between the trees, you can add one or two trees onto your background. That's my background, I'm pretty happy with it. Now, I'm going to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] Our next task was to add the foliage onto the tree. Remember those teeny-tiny patterns we tried in the technique section? That's exactly what we're going to add onto these trees. Again, for this step as well, you will need a paper towel to give it a more blurry and foggy feel. I'm starting off with a lighter tone of Payne's gray. Now first I'm going to add some branches. This brush has a really nice pointed tip. Using that pointed tip, I'm adding some branches onto this tree. See that? Now we can start adding foliage onto this. What I'm going to do is using the tip of my brush, I'm going to keep on adding some small dots close to each other. Overall they will look like foliage. It's a very simple step again. Just keep adding some dots using the tip of your brush in a very random and messy way. Overall it will start to look like a foliage. Now in between, you can skip one or two branches. This will make it look more realistic. Just keep adding those random shapes onto these branches you have added. I want to remind you all again, this doesn't need to be perfect. You can simply keep on adding some random shapes onto the background. First, go with a lighter tone and then you can pick a medium tone and keep adding the same shapes. At some places, you can use a medium tone, especially towards the bottom. Towards the top, we can maintain that lighter tone. Once we are done adding the foliage, we'll use a paper towel and we'll dab off the paint to give it a foggy, misty feel. We'll put a lot of effort in making them perfect, we'll be dabbing them off using paper towel. That will make it look blurry and faded. There's no point in putting a lot of effort here. Now, I'm going to grab my paper towel before this dries. Gently touch your paper towel on top of the foliage you have added and that's it. We have got a faded, blurry feel here. Similarly, you can keep adding more foliage onto all the trees and you can do the same thing. I'm going to add some foliage onto this one as well. With that, we'll be done with the left side but we have the whole right side left. If the foliage is really prominent, we won't be able to achieve that foggy feel here so that's the reason why I'm using a paper towel to make it look blurry. I want a foggy, misty feel. You can see how carelessly I'm adding both shapes. You don't need to put a lot of effort here. They can be absolutely messy and rough. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add some patterns on the other side as well. We have a lot more tricks on the right side. Try to play with different tonal values of Payne's gray, don't use the same tonal value throughout. At some places, you can use a medium tone and then at some places you can use lighter tone as well. This will add a lot of beauty to your foliage. I hope the idea is clear. Now, I'm going to quickly add some foliage, add some branches onto all the trees I have here [MUSIC] I'm loving the way it is progressing using a simple piece of paper towel. They created a foggy field here. We need to continue doing the same. We need to finish off the rest of the area. For here, I'm missing a little more darker tone. I'm going to randomly add some patterns onto this tree. Then we can add the branches later. I'm going to quickly fill up the tree by adding some foliage. The step is really simple. You just need to keep on pressing the tip of your brush and add some random patterns close to each other. Altogether they will start to look like foliage. See that? Let's add some towards the bottom mass. Now, I'm going to grab my paper towel and I'm going to gently touch my paper towel against the paper to lift off some paint. Now, I'm going with a bit more deeper tone of Payne's gray and I'm adding some more foliage towards the bottom. Here for the background, we have used more of medium tones compared to the top. We can do that for the fully testable cesium, slightly darker tone of Payne's gray at some more foliage only towards the bottom. Tried to read in that lighter values on the top degree that mistake foggy for you. We don't need to add a lot, just add a few here and there. By adding a different tonal value, we're trying to introduce a visual interest to your painting. Only towards the bottom, add in some deeper tones. Once you have added the patterns, you can again go with your paper towel and just lift it off. You can see here, I haven't added a lot of foliage. I just have added a few here and there. If you want to make your forest more tense center, you can introduce more foliage and make it really tense. Our next step is to add some branches onto the trace, and also we need to add some texture. First I will start by adding the branches. Then using a medium tone, I will simply add some lines onto trees. When you add in the branches, go with a medium or lighter tone. Also is a smallest size brush or appreciate the pointed tip. Now, keep adding some simple, delicate lines onto either side. We just need a simple line like this. When you add them towards the top, you can go for a lighter value and towards the bottom you can use a medium tone. You can add them on to all the trees. Don't make it too busy, just add fuel and also be really careful about the tonal value, don't make it too dark. Go with a medium tone or a lighter tone. That is done. Now, I'm going back with that medium tone to add more texture onto the tree. I'm starting with this one. I'm going to simply add some lines on this using a medium tone, especially towards the bottom. Now onto this one, I'm adding those lines only on the trees where I have used a medium tone. The lighter ones I'm not touching, especially the ones in the background. Now with that, the task on the backroom is all done, now we have a huge foreground tree. Adding more textures and more details onto the streets our next task, this tree is in the foreground, so we need to add more details and the tonal value has to be much more darker. Let's go with the really dark tone of Payne's gray. Now we need to keep on adding some lines onto the anterior tree to show the texture on the tree bark. These lines doesn't need to be perfect. Just keep on adding them until you fill your entire tree. I'm adding a reference image here. You can see those lines. They can be a very simple random irregular line. You don't need to put a lot of effort. Filling that anterior tree is the task. Just keep on adding those lines and fill up that anterior tree. When you first start adding those patterns, your tree might look a bit weird, but that's okay, that is part of the process. You can see my tree here. Those patterns are looking super weird, but that's okay. By the time we finished the tree, it will start to make sense. So don't give up. Keep adding those lines on the anterior tree [MUSIC] I have done adding those lines onto the entire tree, and that's how it has turned out. Beautiful textures. This is why I said earlier when you finish the entire tree, it'll start to make sense. Now onto the tree, I'm going to add some branches. You can add them on the left or to the right. Just add some random branches. The first one I'm adding to it to bottom. This is on the right side. Next one I'm going to add on the left side. Add all the branches is in different ways. Some of them can be dropping town, some of them can be on the left and some of them can be on the right. This way your tree will look more realistic. This tree is allowed me to Foucault element. If you make it really interesting, it will add to the visual interests of your painting. Anyways, with that, the tree is ready. Now I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel and using some dry paint, I'm going to introduce some texture onto the ground. Using that dry paint, you can add some tiny rocks and some texture onto the ground. See that? Similarly, add some tiny rocks onto the Cloud in a very random way. Don't make them to pick. Go for a dry paint and add some simple shapes like this. When using a dry paint to add these rocks, you wouldn't be able to fill up that entail shape and automatically there will be some texture on it and that will make it look snowy. You can see the ones I have added here. It has a mild texture and that is what makes it more interesting. Similarly, using n-type paint, you can add as many blocks as you want, but go the similar size, don't make it too big. You can already see how beautiful the snowy ground is looking. It looks more defined right now. Earlier it was quite flat. Now that through each character is getting more and more visible. Go the dry paint. Once you have taken the paint, dab it on a paper towel to remove that excess amount of water. And using that dry paint keep adding some tiny rocks onto the ground. Now when you're adding them, don't fill up the entire shape. Try to leave some gaps in between to make it look snowy. This way you don't need to introduce any store later. You're doing two tasks together. That is done. Now I need to add some textures as well. For that I'm dabbing on a piece of paper towel and using a dry paint I'm just adding some texture onto the ground. Just a little. I don't want a lot. I'm quite happy with it already. I don't want to make it to the scene. If I make it too busy, it will lose it's really character. Leave all that paper white and just add few patterns here and here. Finally, to make it extra beautiful and green, to add some grassy lines on the ground. Just a few here and there. For the step you have to use the point of brush. You can use any of your smallest size brush or a brush with a pointed tip and just add few lines onto the ground. Go for thin and delicate lines, don't make it too thick. We can add one more here and that's it [NOISE] That's all painting. This is how it has turned out. Now there's one last thing I want to do which is adding some snow onto the painting. Our painting is looking quite complete already, so there's no need to add a new store. I just wanted to make it a bit snowy to me. I'm planning to splatter some snow and also introduce some snow or to the branches. For that, I'm going to squeeze some white gouache onto my palette. This step is completely optional only if you want to add that. Splatter on your painting, you can do that. Otherwise you can just ignore this step. I have taken out the paint onto my palette. First I'm going to splatter the snow. I'm adding two drops of water just so that I can pick the paint. Now using another brush, I'm going to tap on this brush to create some snow splatters [NOISE]. You can ask me a small as you want. I feel like the steps add a little more extra dimension to our painting. But this is completely optional if you don't want to add those plateaus, that's totally okay. Maybe we can just add this snow onto the branches and it can even know the splattering task. I want to make it a bit more snowy. I'm going to splatter some more white snow and pick more paint. Now I'm tapping on it using another brush to create the snow splatters [NOISE] You can add them variable you want to. That is done. Now using the same brush, I'm going to add some snow onto these branches, just onto these ones we have in the foreground. I'm starting with this branch. On the top, I'm not really sure whether there'll be the civil inhalants atom and the background color is really light, so it's not really visible. Anyways, but that we are done with our painting. I'm honestly love with this painting, especially that foggy, moody shell. Now, let's peel off the masking tape and have a closer look at the painting [MUSIC] Here are several snowy forests. I'm in love with this painting. I hope you guys loved it too. My favorite part about these paintings, that texture on the tree. I really loved it. It was just some lines, but then all together, it made it look really beautiful. If you're ready to give it a try, I'm very sure you will allow the process of creating that mistake from you feel you've seen a single color [MUSIC] 12. Project 8 - BLACK SAND BEACH: [MUSIC] Our next project is the most beautiful black sand beach in New Zealand. It's one of the places I have in my bucket list and I love painting this. You can see the black sand and the waves. There's a beautiful contrast in this painting. I will quickly take you through the process. For this guy, it's a simply gradient wash, towards the horizon line, we will be making it lighter. For the sea as well, we will start with the gradient wash then we'll add some darker tones towards the left side to add the shadow and reflection of the mountain. Now before we start, I want to show you quickly how we can paint a mountain. There's actually two different ways which you can use, I will try [NOISE] both of them, so you can choose the one which you are more comfortable with. I'm starting off with the medium tone. I'm adding some drops of water and I'm turning Payne's gray into a medium tone. Maybe I will add a sketch first. A very simple mountain. Now onto this, I'm going to add a medium tone of Payne's gray, and while I'm adding the paint I'm going to leave some gap in-between, especially on the top. Just some random teeny tiny shapes, mostly in a linear shape. See that? While I'm adding the paint, I'm leaving some gap in-between. By leaving these gaps, I'm just trying to show the snow on the mountain. I will just fill up that mountain then it will make sense. You see that? [NOISE] I will pick some water and I will make it lighter. Along the top part of the mountain, you can see I have left some gap in-between. Try to go the similar size when you're leaving the gap, don't make it too huge and also try to leave the gap in a linear way. They should look like some small lines that will make it look more realistic. Now, I'm picking a bit more darker tone of Payne's gray and I'm going to add that in-between the same mountain just to give it some texture and some realistic feel. Just dropping some darker tone while the background is still wet. Now using a clean brush, you can just smudge it. That's the first method on how you can paint the mountain. We are going to use the same method for our class project as well. For the next one, I'm going to add the mountain first. I'm not going to leave any gap in between. I'm going to simply add a shape using my brush itself. I'm not going to add a sketch and fill that entire shape in a medium tone of Payne's gray. [NOISE] This one is much more easier and convenient method. You can try it out and if you feel this one is more comfortable and easy for you, you can go with this method. Both of them will give you almost similar result, so there is no problem in that. Now, I'm going to use a blow dryer and I will quickly dry this up so that we can add the snow right away. That has dried. Now, I'm going to pick a little wide gouache. It can be the white gouache or white watercolor. We just need a little. This is the one I'm going to use, it is white gouache from our Indian brand called Brustro. That is a white gouache there. Now using a smaller size brush, I'm picking the paint. Using that paint, I'm going to add some linear shapes onto the mountain. Just something similar to what we left earlier on the top. Just add some random lines and some small shapes onto the top of the mountain. Don't add a lot. We just need few here and there. You can see both the mountains, they are looking more or less the same. If you feel like this method is more comfortable for you, we can go with this method. It will give you the same result. Here's a comparison of both the mountains, and you can clearly see they are nearly the same. You can pick the method which you are more comfortable with. The gouache is pretty easy. For the sea, we'll be using gradient wash first then we'll be adding some darker tones towards the left side, just to add the shadow and the reflection of the mountain, and that will be all background. Then onto that using white gouache, we'll be adding those white texture on the wave. That's simple. We had a beautiful painting, now it's time to give it a try. [MUSIC] I'm going to start by adding the sketch. First, I will add the horizon line, which is a little about the center of the paper. Now we need to add the mountain. It's a simple mountain and I'm adding that towards the left side. That's the size I'm going with. Go for an interesting shape to make your painting look more interesting. That's a sketch. Now we can start painting the sky. For that, I'm using my flat brush. This one is minus a half inch flat brush. [NOISE] You can either go with wet on wet technique or wet on dry. I'm going to go with wet on dry technique. It's a simple sky, we don't have a lot of space. Wet on dry is quite manageable. I'm starting with a medium tone and as I'm coming down, I'm going [NOISE] to make the color lighter, so I'm picking some water and making it lighter towards the bottom. As a simple gradient wash, we need a medium tone on the top and a lighter tone towards horizon line. Now, I'm going to run my brush back and forth in a horizontal direction. I'm going to make it a clean blend. That's the sky. We have a medium tone on the top and a lighter tone towards horizon line. Maybe we can drop in a bit more deeper tone on the top. That looks fine. As you can see here, it's a simple gradient wash. There is nothing much complicated here. Now, we can leave this for drying. [MUSIC] This guy has dried completely. Now we can go the next step, that is painting the mountain. Now just like how we tried in the technique section, I'm going to leave some gap in-between when I'm painting the mountain. You can either use that method or you can come back and add some textures later using white gouache or white watercolor. I'm starting off with a medium tone of Payne's gray and I'm using a size number 6 round brush here. Now I'm applying that paint along the outline of the mountain and in-between, I'm going to leave some gaps in-between. The shapes I'm leaving in-between it's more like some lines, inclined line. They just need to be something gaps. Just leave similar gaps on the top of the mountain. We don't need a lot, just a few on the top is all we need. [NOISE] As you're coming down, you can pick some water and make it lighter. Only on the top we need a medium and darker tone. Towards the bottom, the color has to be lighter to create that foggy, misty feel. The color has to be really light as you're approaching the horizon line. Now, I'm [NOISE] going to pick my water. I'm cleaning my brush and using clean water, I'm just making this area lighter. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick my one-inch wash brush and I'm going to apply a coat water onto the anterior sea. You just pick [NOISE] some clean water using any of your wider [NOISE] brush and simply apply that onto the entire bottom part. Start on the mountain and then apply that clean water onto the entire sea. I have applied a clean even coat. Now I'm going to drop in some more darker tone onto the mountain, especially on the top. I'm not going to add any darker tone at the bottom. I'm going to reach most of lighter values on the bottom to create that fog effect. As we apply the coat of water towards the bottom, it will create a natural blend here so you can simply keep on dropping your darker tones onto the mountain, especially on the top and it will be a natural blend as we have that water in the background. I might have a little more deeper tones on the left side. You can see I'm retaining those gaps. I'm not adding any paint onto the gap and I'm not adding any paint towards the bottom as well. That's a mountain. Now I'm going to grab my dry brush and I'm just smudging the paint to make it a bit smoother. That is done. Now, I'm switching to my flat brush and I'm going to quickly apply paint onto the entire scene. I'm starting with a medium tone and I'm going to apply that almost at the center. Now towards the top, I'm going to make it lighter, especially towards the horizon line, so underneath the mountain we need a bit of lighter tone. Now towards the bottom, we can introduce more deeper tones. I'm going to pick a really dark tone of Payne's gray and I'm going to apply that towards the bottom. Towards the bottom, we can have a really darker tone, towards the horizon line make it lighter. This again is simply gradient wash. You can see the way I'm applying it. Run your flat brush back and forth to make it a clean blend. That is the base layer. Now I'm going to pick one of my dry brush. There is no paint on it. It is not wet. Now using that brush, I'm going to lift off some paint along the horizon line. I want this area to be a little lighter to create a foggy, misty effect. Now, I'm just going to smudge the paint. See that? You can really see the effect we have got here. I just used a dry clean brush and I'm just smudging the color into each other. Now if you want to, you can lift up some more paint to make the bottom media more lighter. That's done. You can see that fog effect here. That's the reason why they lifted off some paint. Now I will need some more Payne's gray. I want to make the bottom area more darker, so I'm picking more paint, a much more darker tone, and I'm adding that at the bottom. The background is still wet, so they are nicely spreading into the background. Now using the same paint, I'm going to drop in some deeper tones underneath the mountain just to show the reflection. First, I'm adding some onto the left side and then a bit towards the right as well. I'm roughly following the shape of the mountain and I'm adding those deeper tones onto the wet background. Towards the right side reading that lighter value and only add your deeper value at the bottom as well as towards the left side, right underneath the mountain. We are trying to add the reflection and you can see how beautiful it has turned out. When you're doing the step, go with the paint that is not too watery. If the paint is really watery, the color that you're adding will spread into the background. Go with the paint which is not too much watery. There is still some paint spreading into the mountain, so I'm again lifting that off with a clean brush. I'm gently running my brush along the horizon line to pick that paint off. There's some paint missing on this corner, so I'm adding some more paint. That's it. That's our background. Now we can leave this for drying. [NOISE] [MUSIC] The background has dried completely. Now the only task left is to add the waves. For that, we need some white gouache or white watercolor. I'm just cleaning this section to squeeze out some white gouache. If you have gouache, I would recommend going with gouache because it is more opaque than watercolor but if you don't have gouache, that is totally okay you can use white watercolor in that case. Squeeze out some paint. For this step, we need an opaque paint so don't add a lot of water and you will need a smaller size brush or a brush with a pointed tip. To add the waves we're going to use a dry paint. For that you will need a paper towel. Now, let's add a few drops of water into white gouache. Just a few drops so that we can pick the paint, don't make it too watery. Now, I'm going to add the first wave. Go with a smaller size brush or a brush with a pointed tip. Don't make the line too bold. You can either start by adding a pencil sketch then you can just follow that using your brush if that is more comfortable for you. Let's add in the wave. I'm starting from here and I'm adding a nice curvy line, and I will take that till the bottom. It's a simple curvy line. Without breaking it, just add that in. Now we can make it a bit thicker. Just run your brush on top of it again to make it thicker. This one is a really simple but a tricky step. As I said earlier, if you want to start with a pencil sketch, you can do that. That way you can get the shape of the wave perfect. Just in case you feel like that is more comfortable for you start with a pencil sketch. I'm not really happy with the curvy end so I'm just modifying the shape over here. I'm just trying to get rid of that curvy line here. I'll try to lift the paint with a paper towel. It didn't really work. Anyway, I can fix that when I'm adding the dry patterns. Before I start adding the dry patterns, I'm going to make this line a bit more bolder. So I'm picking more paint and I'm again running my brush. The line is not really prominent so my task was to make it more prominent by adding more paint. I'm gently running my brush on top of the line I added earlier to make it a bit more prominent. The way you're adding your wave has a lot of importance in defining your painting because this is a main focal element. We don't have a lot of details in the painting. The mountain is in the background, and we're not going to add a lot of details so try your best to go with a beautiful wavy line. Anyway, that's the first wave. Now I'm going to grab a paper towel and I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel multiple times to remove excess amount of water and make the paint dry. Now you've seen that dry paint, I'm going to add some patterns on to the right side of the wave. Towards the bottom, I want a clean line so I'm not adding any paint over there. Only towards the upper side. I'm adding some dry patterns along this entire line in a similar way we've been adding and the wave on the top. Let's first finish this off. Start by adding very little pattern. Gradually, we can build it on. Gently add your dry patterns onto the right side of your wave. We need to do this for that entire line so quickly add that in. Then we can add our second wave. [MUSIC] Now, I'm going to add my second. This is how it has turned out. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add the second wave right above this one. Again, start by adding a wavy line. This time I'm not making it too prominent. Let's add a simple wavy line right above this one. As I said earlier, if you want to start with a pencil sketch, just do that and then you can follow the same line with your brush and add that in. That's a second wave. Now let me fix the shape. I have defined the shape of the wave, now I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel and I'm going to add some dry patterns onto the right side of the wave. It is exactly the same way how we did earlier. Towards the bottom side, we need a clean line and towards the top side, we need some dry patterns. Keep adding those dry patterns onto the right side of the wave until you're happy with the result. Once I'm done with this, I will be adding another smaller wave right above this, somewhere over here. If you feel like you need to add more patterns, you can go ahead and add that. Take a look at your painting and if you feel like you need to add some more patterns, you can add them onto both the waves we added earlier. I'm done adding the dry patterns. Now we need to define the line one more time to make it more prominent. So I'm going to split out some more paint onto my palette. I'm picking some paint on my brush. I'm using my size [inaudible] and picking a much more opaque tone of white gouache and then I'm going to make the line a bit more bolder towards the left side. This will make our wave look more defined. Just make that line more thicker. It shouldn't be too thick, so go with the smaller size brush or a brush with a pointed tip and add that again. It is this step which will make your wave look more prominent and more defined so don't skip this step. Once you're done adding all those dry patterns, run your brush one more time and add that line. We need to do the same thing for the other two waves as well. [MUSIC] That is done. Now we have one step left, which is adding the shadow for the wave. To add the shadow, we're going to use a medium tone of Payne's gray. Clean your brush properly and switch back to Payne's gray. For this first one use any of your smaller size brush. I have cleaned it properly. Now I'm picking a medium tone by adding a few drops of water. Now using that paint, I'm going to add the shadow for the waves. This step we'll add a three-dimensional field to the wave. Right underneath the wave, simply add a line using a medium tone of Payne's gray. For this one, you can use a much more lighter tone because the background color is much more lighter. It doesn't need to be a continuous line. Just break that in between and add it like this. Similarly, let's add for the second wave. For this one, the color can be a bit more darker than the other one. Now, gently add that in. You can see the way how I'm adding it. It is not a continuous line, I'm breaking that in between. Now we have our major wave left. For that, the color has to be a bit more darker because the color we have in the background is much more darker so if you use a medium tone, it won't be visible. Now, add a line. I'm breaking the line in between, it's not a continuous line. That was the last step, with that we're done with our painting. Now, in case if you feel like there's not enough snow on your mountain, you can go back with white gouache or white watercolor and you can simply add some lines onto the tip of the mountain. This is only in case if you couldn't leave a lot of gaps at the beginning. If you have enough of snowy patterns there, there is no need to add these lines again. I'm adding few more towards the right side of the mountain. That's it. That is our black sand beach. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] I absolutely love the way it has turned out. We painted this in less than 15 minutes. That's another thing which I love about this painting. I'm really happy with the wave and the texture, even the mountain. I really enjoyed the process and I hope you all had a great time painting this quick snowy landscape. [MUSIC] 13. Project 9 - SNOWY ROAD: Our next project is my most favorite from the antique collection. I absolutely love how this painting has turned out, especially that vanishing road. I think it really looks amazing. It's a really simple painting. The only thing which might be a bit tricky would be the trees. But it isn't that difficult, we can try to trees before we start with the painting. The rest is pretty simple, it's a beautiful painting where you can try wet-on-wet technique. We'll paint the sky, the snowy ground, and the road in one layer. That's going to be the peace layer. For the sky, we're going to use the simple gradient wash, then you can see those trees, we're going to add some darker tones onto the background. Then where we have the ground, we leave some paper white. Then onto the road, we'll drop in a darker tone. That is going to be our base layer. Then when that dries, we'll be adding our trees. Then again onto that, we'll add in some snow to make it really snowy. Before we start, let's try out the trees. As we're going to add the snow later, the shape of the tree doesn't need to be very detailed. You can see that from here itself, it is not that visible. We just need to rough shape and then onto that, we'll be dropping in some snow. Even if you don't get the proper shape, it will all be covered. Anyways, let me show you how you can draw these trees. I'm starting with a medium tone of Payne's gray. First I will add the tree trunk, which is going to be a straight line. That is not completely straight. Never mind. Now, onto either side of this line, I'm going to add some rough patterns using the tip of my brush. They're absolutely some messy random patterns. You can see the way I'm adding. Using the tip of your brush, keep adding these dots and some random patterns onto either side. Keep going, it's a simple step. Add them until you reach the bottom of your tree trunk. As I said earlier, we just need a rough shape, it doesn't need to be very detailed. We need an overall shape of a pine tree. Don't put a lot of effort in making it perfect. That's a tree. It's a very simple tree, you just need to try it out. Without any fear, keep adding those foliage onto either side and you will understand how easy it is. I'm adding one more. I'm not lifting off my hand, I'm just adding those dots onto either side. Keep adding them, at some places you can make it more denser, and leave some gap in between. This will make it more realistic. That's how we're going to add these trees. Onto that, we'll be adding some snow. Even if they don't turn out perfect, that's totally fine. I think we're good to start with our painting, that's the only thing you need to know before you start, and the rest is quite easy you can follow them as I paint. I'm going to start by adding the road. That's the only sketch you need to add. Add in a nice curvy road. It can be narrow at the end, and it can be wider towards right bottom. Just add a simple shape like this. We may not be following the exact same shape when we add the paint because we're going to try wet-on-wet technique, which means when we add the paint, it will spread into the background. The road won't exactly stay like this and that is totally okay. First, start by adding a curvy road like this. We can add the rest of the details when we're painting. We'll be adding some pine trees in the background on either side over here and also on the other side. We'll be adding some pine trees. We'll be adding some on the background and also some in the foreground. Those things can be done when we are painting, don't worry about those things now. That's all you need to add. We're good to start. Now, I'm going to apply a color water onto the end of background using my one-inch wash brush. Use any of your wider flat brush and apply an even color water onto the end of your background. Make sure there's no pools of water in between. You can run your brush multiple times back and forth just to be sure the coat of water is even. If the background is too watery, the pain will start spreading quite quickly and you won't be able to control it. We just need a shiny coat of water. My background is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to use my medium-sized round brush. I'll just clean the section, there was some white paint on it. Now I'm picking some water and I'm turning Payne's gray to a lighter tone, that's the color I'm going to use for the sky. Now let's start adding that onto the sky. On the top, I'm going to use a lighter tone, and as I'm coming down I will make it a bit darker, not too dark, something like this. You can see on the top I have a lighter tone and towards the bottom, I have made it a bit darker. Now let's turn our brush back and forth to make it a clean blend. Be sure to put the lighter tone on the top, don't make it too dark. We are trying to create a foggy, moody effect here, so let's not use darker tones on the sky. That's the sky. Now, let's add some landscape at the bottom using a much more darker tone. Pick a darker tone and using that we're going to add the landscape we'll be painting the road as well while the background is still wet. But first, let's add the landscape. You can see the color I'm using. Now, gently drop that onto the wet background. As I'm coming towards the center, I'm making it a bit smaller and towards either side and making it more higher, just to make it a little more interesting. Now towards these corners, maybe we can add some more darker tone. That's the landscape. You can see the way it is spreading. Now to stop that, I'm going to pick a paper towel and I'm going to gently dab off that paint. I just want to control the way it is spreading. I have my paper towel. Now I'm gently dabbing this paint so that it won't come into this wet ground. Similarly, I'm doing that on the other side as well. I have controlled that a little bit, it is not spreading too much now. To make it a bit smoother, I think we can run our clean brush. I don't have any paint or any water, it's a dry brush. We already have some water in the background, so using that dry clean brush, I'm just making this area smoother. That looks fine. Now we can start painting the road. For the road, I'm using a much more darker value. It's a really dark tone of Payne's gray. I have taken enough of paint. Now, I'm going to add that onto that background. To make it look like a solid road, we don't need sharp edges, that's the reason why they're dropping in the paint onto the wet background. The paint will spread and we'll make it really soft and blurry, and that is exactly what we need. Towards the bottom, go to a really darker tone, and as you're approaching the horizon line, make it lighter. Towards the end, make it lighter and make it narrow. You can see how I made it narrow towards the horizon line and towards the bottom, I have made it wider. Also, I have used a much more darker tone towards the bottom. Edges are really blurry. I don't have a sharp and clean outline here and that is exactly what we need. If you want to drop in some more deeper tones towards the bottom, you can add that in, but don't add any deeper tones towards the horizon line. In between you can drop in some deeper tones like this, which will add a lot of realistic value to your painting. The bottom part is done. Now I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. I'm just extending this part. The road is not visible over here, so I'm just making that shape prominent using a medium tone. That's the background. Now, we have to wait for this to try and after that we can add in the snow and the snowy trees. You can see the road. It is looking a little messy. At some places I have a darker tone. At some places have medium tone. It is not a clean and smooth plan. It is looking quite rough. But just don't try to fix anything. Just leave the way it is. Maybe at this point your painting might be looking a little weird or a little messy, but that is totally okay. The only thing you will need at this point in your painting is a dark road and also some snowy ground. The rest we can fix when we're adding the pine trees. Don't worry if you're not 100 percent happy with yourself. We can fix it as we go. This is how the background has turned out. You can see it is looking quite weird, but that is totally part of the process. There is nothing to worry here. Our next task was to add the pine trees, which we already tried earlier. I'm going to use my seismic star brush to add the pine trees and also keep a paper towel ready because at some places we can lift up the paint to create that fog effect. Keep a piece of paper towel ready before you start painting. Now we can add as many trees as you want. I'm going to use the same method that I showed you earlier. I'm going to add the first one here. I have added the tree trunk. Now out of this, I'm going to add the foliage. I'm just adding those teeny tiny patterns onto either side using a lighter tone of paint screen. For this one, I will use a lighter tone. Maybe towards the bottom, we can make it a bit darker. See that, on the top of having some lighter tone and towards the bottom, I have made it a little darker. I'm just stopping there. I'm not bringing that towards the ground. Now, let's go to the second tone. It's a bit more taller, and I'm bringing that towards the ground. Now again, I'm adding those teeny tiny patterns onto either side. Let's add some on the top and bring it down and finish off the tree. My plan is to add taller trees on either side and towards the center I'm going to make it shorter. That's what I have in my mind. Now, towards the bottom you can see the patterns are looking quite prominent. It is not really going with the background so here comes the truck, pick a paper towel, and gently lift off some paint to give it a blurry look. Similarly, I'm going to add another tree, a shorter one over here. I'm using a medium tone. Now, again using a paper towel, I'm lifting off some paint to give it a blurry feel, another one, a much more shorter one. In a similar way, you can add it as many trees as you want. Just keep in mind to use lighter tones and make it shorter towards the center and towards either end, you can make it a bit more taller. Also, you can use much more taco values. Now, I'm going to add one or two taller trees on the side. You can see the color. It's much more darker than the color I used earlier. Now I'm going to add some tiny patterns on either side using the tip of my brush. You can see how messy and random those patterns are. Just keep adding them. Once you add them onto either side, you will get a rough shape of a pine tree. We just need a rough sheet. You will need to put a lot of effort in detailing that. As I said at the beginning when we add the snow and when we splatter the snow, everything is going to look okay so don't worry about the way it is looking at right now. Okay, so that's my first tree. We can see it is much more darker than the ones we added earlier. Using the same color, I'm going to add one more but before that we need to pick a paper towel and make the bottom blurry. Right now it looks like it's floating in the air so let's pick a paper towel and pick some paint from the bottom to give it a blurry look. Okay, so that's our tree. Similarly, I'm going to add one or two trees right next to this. Honestly, you don't need to follow the exact same way how I'm adding the tree. We just need to get that overall shape right. The rest is totally okay. You can make it more taller or more darker or more denser. Those things are totally your choice so go ahead and add in as many trees as you want. Because we used a paper towel to lift up the paint on the bottom, those trees are really merging with the background. Otherwise, they may look like they're floating in the air, so this step is really important. Once you have added your tree, take out a paper towel or a piece of cotton cloth and lift off some paint from the bottom. Just to make it much with the background. I have added one more tree. Now, I'm going to add another one here using a lighter tone. As I said earlier towards the center, as an approaching the vanishing point, I'm going to make the tree is much more shorter and lighter. I'm running my paper towel again at the bottom to give it a more blurry feel. I think I have added enough of trees. I don't want to add more and make it too busy. I'm pretty happy with the result. That's my background. Now, before I wrap it off using a lighter tone, I'm just adding some tiny patterns on the snowy ground. It's a dry paint, so once you have taken the paint, dab it on a paper towel to make it dry. Gently add few patterns on the snowy ground. Don't make it too prominent. We want that white color of the paper to be more visible. Just add a little here and there. Now switch to a darker tone. Again, it's a dry paint and add few more patterns using that darker tone as well. Be sure not to add a lot to make it the same. We just need a few patterns here and there. They just need to be some tiny dots and some tiny lines. Okay, so that is my background. I'm really, really happy with the way it has turned out. Our next task is to add plenty of snow onto the painting. But before that, let's wait for this to dry. The background has dried completely. To add the snow, I'm going to use white gouache. If you have gouache I would recommend using gouache as it is more opaque than watercolor, but if you don't have gouache, that is totally okay. You can just use some white watercolor. Just be sure not to add a lot of water and turn that into watery consistency. We need a paint which is opaque. Have taken out the paint. Now, I'm going to drop in some water and to add the snow, I'm going to use a smaller size brush, this one is my size number 2 round brush. Now I'm adding few drops of water and I'm turning that into a medium tone. I'm going with a medium consistency which is not too opaque and too watery. Now you see that white paint, I'm going to add some patterns onto the tree. These are again, some rough and messy patterns. You don't need to put a lot of effort. Using the tip of your brush keep adding some teeny tiny patterns and some random shapes onto the tree using the tip of your brush. For this to pass well, we are not at all looking at the perfection. You can simply add them in. Is the same way how you added the tree. Once we are done with this tip, we'll be splatting most onto all these trees so everything will be covered in lots and lots of snow at some time. Without worrying, keep adding that snow onto all the trees you have there. This is how it has turned out, you can see the way it is looking. I simply added some white patterns onto the foliage and it looks super snowy. It's an absolutely simple step. There is no need to put a lot of effort. We can simply keep on adding that white paint on to the foliage just to give it some white highlights. As I said earlier, when we add the splatters later, everything will look okay. For now, simply keep on adding that white pattern onto the anterior trees. On the left side add much more darker tone in the background so the snow would be more prominent here. See that? On the other areas we have mostly lighter tones and medium tones. Towards the bottom we have a little more darker tone. Over there as well the snow will be a bit more visible, but with the center, we have a much more lighter tone. Let's add in some more snow towards the bottom. Then in a similar way, we can add snow on the other side as well. We haven't added any snow on the right side so that part is left. On the right side we don't have a lot of darker tones so this is mostly medium tones, so the snow is not that visible, but never mind. This will make our painting look more foggy. That task is done, we have added snow onto the tree. Now, I'm going to pick a paper towel and I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel. Now you've seen dry paint. I'm going to add some texture on the ground. Just a few and be sure to go the dry paint, don't use the watery paint. Once you have taken the paint, dab it on a paper towel, and just add few dry patterns using white onto the road. We're trying to make it look really snowy. At some places you can add a much more opaque version. But mostly it has to be dry patterns. We'll be splattering more snow onto the anterior painting in some time. But this step is dry patterns, it is just to give it some extra texture, so just start few dry patterns as well as some solid patterns on the road. This will make it really interesting. You can see the way how I have added them, I haven't added a lot, I just have added few dry patterns and few solid patterns and that's it. Now, using the same brush, I'm planning to add the road marking, but just actually optional. If you want to add them, you can add them in or you can leave your road as it is. I'm adding the road marking starting with a curvy line and a thin line. Now as I'm coming towards the bottom, I will make it a bit thicker. Initially when I started with the painting, I had no plans to add the road marking but as I progressed I thought it would be nice to add some extra details, and that's when I decided to add these road marking. But as I said earlier, it is completely optional. If you don't want to add the road marking, you don't need to add these. In case if you're adding them, try to follow the same curve of the road. Don't add them in a different direction. That's my road marking. I'll just make this one a lot more thicker, and that's it so that task is also down. Now we have only one task left, which is plotting the snow onto the anterior painting. This is another task you can do without any worries. Pick some paint on one brush and using another brush just tap on it and create those whites splatters. They don't need to have any particular size, you can add them where ever you want to. Just keep adding them until you're happy with the result. You can add few patterns onto the sky, few onto the trees and few onto the road. The most snow the more snow your painting is going to be. Keep adding them until your happy with the results. There is no limit. Just go ahead and add them until you feel like you're happy with the result. I think I have added enough of snow, maybe I will go with one last platter and with that I will call it done. Maybe we can add some onto the road and also onto these pine trees, and that's it. That's our snowy road. I think it has turned out pretty awesome. I'm really happy with it, especially that vanishing road and the snowy effect here. Now I'm going to peel out the masking tape, and then we can have a closer look at the painting. When you're peeling off the masking tape, always be at an angle so that it won't reap off your paper. I think the depth is so much visible in this painting because of the tonal values we have used. We used a lighter tone towards the center where we have the horizon line, and also we made the road narrow and used a lighter tone towards the center. All those little details add a lot of depth and dimension for this painting. Here is a closer look. I can't tell you how much I love this painting. It's a simple painting. The details we used are quite simple. The only detail we added on this painting is the pine trees, which also doesn't need a lot of detailing. It was a very rough and big shape. I feel that was a beautiful process and we ended up creating a gorgeous snowy road. I enjoyed every bit of this painting and I hope you guys enjoyed it too. 14. Project 10 - SNOWY LAKE: [MUSIC] We are on the last project of the series. It's a beautiful snowy lake. The techniques are somewhat similar to the one we did for snowy road. We'll start by adding a sketch to define the lake, then for the sky, you can see it's a symbol gradient partial credit. For the lake we'll use a darker tone, then for the snowy cloud we'll retain most of the paper white, and we'll simply add some texture using a dry paint. Then to make our painting look really interesting, we'll add some landscape in the background, and also to color these trees in the foreground. It's a pretty simple project. We don't need to try out any techniques in advance. We will be simply playing with different tonal values to bring out that snowy mode. Now we can start with the painting right away. [MUSIC]I have my paper ready. The first step is to add the sketch, which is the shape of the lake. You can go for any interesting shape. I will add the horizon line first, which I'll be erasing later. Now on either side, I'm just adding some shapes like this and at the center we'll have our lake. That's the right side. towards the bottom side we'll be adding some medium tones and some shadows. The rest is going to be in paper white. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add a shape on the left side as well. Just a simple curvy shape. Now we can see that shape at the center. That's the lake. I think we can make this area a bit more narrow. I'm just making that narrow. Now in case if you want to modify the shape, you can do that right now. I'm just modifying the shape a bit at the bottom. I think that looks nice. Now I'm going to erase off the horizon line. We don't need that. We are trying to go for a blurry horizon line. We can just erase this off. We don't want to definitely try some line, so we just erase that. Next before I start painting, I'm just going to add the tree to shape the rest we can add when we are painting. I'm planning to go with two trees. I'm just adding the basic shape. That's the first one. Now let's add another one right next to that. That's going to be over here. We have added the basic shape. As I said, we can add the remaining branches and all those details when we are painting. For now, this is all we need. The sketch is ready now we can start painting. First, I'm going to apply coat of water onto the entire paper. For that I'm using my one-inch wash brush and then picking some clean water and I'm gently applying that onto the entire paper. You don't need to leave the lake or the sky or the ground. Just apply an even shiny coat. We don't need a lot of water, just an even shiny coat is all we need. My paper is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to use my medium-sized brush. This one is my size number 8 round brush. I'm using a medium tone of Payne's gray. On the top I will apply medium tone then towards the center, I'll make it lighter. As I'm coming down, I will again make it a bit darker. On the top and the bottom we have a medium tone, and at the center we have a lighter tone. Now I'm picking a medium tone and I'm adding that towards the horizon line. That's the sky, now where the background is still wet, we need to drop in the landscape. For that, I'm going to pick a much more darker tone. There is some paint missing on the top, I just fixed it, now, let's pick a darker tone. I don't want the landscape to spread a lot. I'm tapping the brush on a paper towel, just to confirm the paint is not too watery. Now using that paint, I'm just adding some landscape onto the wet background. If the paint is floating down, you can either pick that with a clean brush or a clean paper towel, not with the hand like I did. Now, let's add in the landscape. See that? This landscape has to spread into the background to create that foggy feel. We need to add them in before the background dries. If your background is drying up, be really quick and add them in, just use a slightly darker tone and add a random shape onto that wet background. Now I'm going to pick a paper towel and I'm gently picking the paint from this area. I don't want that to spread into the ground a lot. You can also use a clean brush to do this. I just want to stop that paint from spreading a lot into the ground. That's my intention. Anyway, this is how it has turned out. Now using a lighter tone, I'm just adding some shadow underneath these areas. We have already added the shape, so grow the medium to lighter tone, and simply add some lines underneath the tree as for last two at the bottom part of the snowy ground. See that? It doesn't need to be perfect, you You simply add them in. It shouldn't be too dark, go with a lighter to medium tone and add that in. This is how it has turned out. By looking at this stage, you can see everything's looking quite rough. Now, we need to make it a bit soft and smooth. For that I'm picking some clean water. First, I will make this area smoother, because I'm gently rolling my clean wet brush to give it a softer feel. Now again, I'm cleaning my brush and using some clean water and making this area smoother. I'm just running my clean brush. It has some water on it. I'm just merging the color to give it a more softer and smoother look. That is how it has turned out. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry and after that we can start painting the lake. [MUSIC] The background has dried and this is how it has turned out. Our next task is to paint the lake. First I'm going to make this area wet. I'm picking my medium-sized brush, and I'm gently applying a coat of water along the outline of the lake. Just apply a gentle coat. Don't add a lot of water. Carefully follow that outline and make that area wet. That area is entirely wet. Now onto the wet background, we can start dropping the paint. I'm going to use my size number 6 round brush and I'm going with a much more darker tone of Payne's gray. See that? Again see the color is quite dark. Now, I'm going to apply that darker tone along these edges. I'm going to leave the center as it is. On this side, as well as on the other side, I'm going to add in the deeper tone. Carefully follow that outline. If you want to modify the shape of your snowy ground, you can do that right now. Just run your brush how you want to and define the shape of your lake as well as the ground. Now, I'm simply dragging my brush down to add some deeper tone over here. When you do this, it will create a depth in your painting. Just simply dry your brush down,and add some deeper tone underneath the ground. You can see the center part. I haven't added any paint over with here. I have just left the paper white. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to clean my brush. Now I'm dabbing that on a paper towel, just to be sure my brush is not too watery. Now, I'm going to run my brush towards the left and right in a horizontal way. See that? On either side you have a darker tone and towards the center you have a lighter tone. Maybe towards the bottom, we can introduce a little more darker tone. This is the bottom part. In a similar way, let's run our brush back and forth in a horizontal way, and finish off the top part as well. We have applied a coat of water earlier, so our background is wet. When you run your brush left and right in a horizontal way, it will create a beautiful effect. Don't add any paint onto the ground. You can see how I have made the lake narrow towards the horizon line. See that? In a similar way, make your lake narrow towards the horizon line. Don't make it wider over here. Now I will fix this part. Then I will add in some more deeper tone. That's a base layer. Now we can start adding more deeper tone underneath the snowy ground, to add some more shadows and reflection. I'm picking a darker tone and I'm adding that onto the bottom part of the ground before the bottom dries. Just gently run your brush along the outline of your lake and add some more deeper tone. Only onto either side, don't add any at the center. Try to retain that medium and lighter tones at the center. That's that. In case if you want to modify the shape of your ground or you if you want to introduce multiple tones from the lake, you can do that right now. In-between, you can introduce these narrow cuts to make your painting look more interesting. That's the lake. Now we'll have to wait for this to dry. [MUSIC] Our background has dried completely. Now our next step is to add these two trees. We have already added the location, now we can start painting them. For that, I'm starting with a lighter tone and the brush I'm using is size number 6 round brush. I'm picking a lighter tone of Payne's gray first and I'm just going to add that around the shape I have added here. See that? It's a lighter tone. Simply add that on the tree. Start with a lighter tone. Now onto those we'll be adding some deeper tone to introduce some shadows and some texture. I'm picking a darker tone. I'm leaving the left side as it is and I'm adding that deeper tone on the right side. There is nothing to worry here. It's a very simple step. Simply add a bit of darker tone towards the right side and leave that lighter tone on the left. Now, I'm going to add some teeny tiny shapes onto the left side. We have some lighter tones and some darker tones in-between. This will add a lot of texture on the tree and it will make it look more realistic. I'm just adding some random dots and some random shapes. It doesn't need to have any particular shape or size, and it doesn't need to be perfect. Now towards the bottom, I'm adding some more paint and I'm just going to leave it as it is. It is something similar to the one we painted first, the lonely tree. Maybe we can add in some more deeper tones onto the right side, a little more to make it more prominent. See that? You can see how beautiful it has turned out. We started off with a lighter tone, and we simply added some shapes and some darker tones on the right side, and also onto the surface of the tree. As I said earlier, it doesn't need to be perfect. We just need some texture on the tree. That is all we need. That's all for this tree. Now in a similar way, I'm going to paint the second tree as well. First I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to switch back to that lighter tone and I will apply that onto the tree first. That's a bit dark. I'm picking some water, and I'm making it lighter. Now, onto this, we can start adding some deeper tones first onto the right then onto that face of the tree. Maybe we can make this tree a bit more thicker especially towards the bottom. So yeah, it's a very simple tree because you can start with a lighter tone then we can start adding some deeper tone to bring in some texture. You can add them either onto the left or towards the right. Then onto the surface as well you can add in some teeny tiny shapes and some random shapes to introduce some texture to make it look more realistic. I'm just modifying the shape of the tree and making it more thicker towards the bottom. I'm not really sure, I think I made it a lot thicker. Any ways, towards the bottom I'm going to introduce some dry paint. So I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and using my dry paint, I'm just adding some shapes here just to give it a feel that there's some snow covered on the roots. This is exactly the same way how we painted the first tree. I hope you guys remember that. Now, using the same brush I'm going to add some dry patterns on the ground as well, just some teeny tiny shapes here and there, don't add a lot. The majority of your chrome has to be the paper white. So retain most of the people white and simply add some dry patterns very randomly. I'm really happy with this part. I absolutely love that narrowly as well as that for the trees. I think it came out really nice. Anyway, let me add few more patterns of the ground but that will be done with this part and the next task was to add some branches onto the tree and also we need to add the snow which is going to make our painting look more interesting. Right now it doesn't look that interesting. I think it looks quite lifeless and boring, so let's make it more interesting. It would be great if we can add some thin and delicate branches, so please go with a brush that has got a pointed tip or any of your smaller brush or a detailing brush. The brush I'm using here is Size number 6. It has got a really nice pointed tip. Now I'm going to add the first branch. I want the branches to be really interesting, so let's go with curvy shape. I'm adding that from here and I'm taking that onto this tree. Towards this side we can make it a bit thicker. Now I'm adding some more branches onto that, some teeny tiny branches. See that? Go to similar thickness or if we can make it even more thinner, that would be really great. Now I'm adding another branch over here. In a similar way you can keep adding as many branches as you want. It doesn't need to be exactly the same way how I'm adding them here. You can add them towards the bottom or towards the top. The only thing I would recommend is not going with similar shapes. Some of them can be towards the top and some of them can be hanging down. So make it as interesting as possible to make your tree look more realistic. Now I'm going to add another one here. I don't want to make it too busy but maybe we can add some more branches. I don't want to make it to empty too. I have added some branches right now using a darker tune. Next I'm thinking to add some branches using a lighter tone. So I'm picking some water and I'm turning the same color into a lighter tone. With that medium tone, I'm going to add few more branches. It's the same strip, the only difference is we're using a lighter tone right now. Earlier we used a darker tone. That's only difference but it's just all the same. Let's go ahead and add some more branches [MUSIC] using a lighter or a medium tone. This is how it has turned out. You can see it has some darker branches as well as some lighter branches. I think I've added enough of branches, just in case you want to add more you can do that. Now, using a darker tone I'm going to add some grass on the ground, so I'm picking more darker tone and I'm simply adding some grassy line on the ground, not large, just a few here and there. Closer to the tree we can add some. Now, over here as well I'm adding few grassy pattern. Now, I'm going to add some more towards the bottom. But don't go overboard, we don't need a lot of details on the ground. We want that paper white to be more visible. So just add a few here and there, don't make it too busy. Along with that you can also add some dry patterns in case you want to introduce some more texture on the ground, just some small texture. As I said, don't go overboard and make it to the sea. I think that looks nice. I have added enough of patterns. I don't want to add a lot to make it too busy. That part is also done. Now we're going to add some snow onto these branches, that's going to be our last task. First I'm going to clean this section. So I'm going to grab a paper towel and I'm just wiping off the paint. Now to add the snow I'm going to use some white gouache. You can either use white gouache or white watercolor depending on what you have got with you. You can also use some white acrylic paint if that is the only thing you have. So the paint is ready, now to add the snow I'm going to use my smallest size brush. This one is my size two [inaudible] brush and I'm adding a few drops of water to make it into the right consistency so that I can pick the paint. It shouldn't be too watery and it shouldn't be too dry. You can add few drops of water so that you can pick the paint. If it's too dry it will be really difficult to pick the paint and if it is too watery it won't be opaque. So only add a few drops. Now, using that paint I'm going to add some white highlights onto these branches. On the top I don't think it will be really visible so we can focus on these branches at the bottom. Over here we have a medium tone in the background, so the white color will be a bit more prominent compared to the top. Over here the color of the sky is really light and you can see the white is not at all possible. I think it's better to focus on the area where we have medium and darker tones to the background. On the top as we have lighter tones, even if you add them I don't think they will be visible. So let's not put a lot of effort on the top, we can focus at the bottom part. Now, for this step we can also use a white gel pen, maybe that will be more convenient for at least some of you. All we need is some white highlight on these branches to show the snow. It can be white gel pen, white water color, white gouache, or white hair click. You can use any of them. So I've added some snow at the bottom, now I'm going to add few on the top as well. If I ignore the top it will look a bit weird. So even if it's not really visible I'm going to add some snow on the top branches. So simply run your brush and add some snow onto these branches as well. At some places it will be a bit visible and that will add a lot of character to your painting, so just don't ignore them. So the service has turned out, I'm pretty happy with that but I'm planning to pick some more white paint and I will add some more snow patches onto these branches at the bottom because this is the only place where I have a medium tone in the background so I'm just going to make the most of it. All I'm doing is I'm picking some more white paint and I'm adding some more snow to make it more prominent. See that? I think it made a difference. Now I really feel like I should have added more deeper tones in the background so that I have more chances to add snow. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. Now, I'm going to tap my brush on a paper towel. I want some dry white paint. Now, using that I'm going to add some dry patterns onto the tree, just a little. We don't need a lot. This is just to add some texture on the tree. So don't add a lot, just few lines using a dry paint and that's it. We're actually done with the our painting but there is one last thing I'm planning to do over the deciding under the branch towards the bottom. So I'm just going to clean my brush and I'm switching back to paint gray. This one is completely optional. I just thought of adding another branch towards the bottom so that I have one more time to add snow. I will add the branch over here because in the background we have the lake, it's a darker tone, so the snow will be more visible. So that's a branch. I just wanted to tell you this step is completely optional. I absolutely love the branches on the top with the snow so I felt like adding one more. If you're already happy with your painting you can completely ignore this step. I'm adding other tiny branches, I'm not leaving any chance to have the snow. That's good enough. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to switch to white gouache. Now, I'm going to quickly add some snow onto these branches as well and that will be done with the last [MUSIC] video of the series. With that, we're done with our last painting snowy lake. I really enjoyed painting this. It turned out really pretty, especially these branches. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape and adorable gorgeous painting. Here it is. [MUSIC] Here's a closer look of our gorgeous painting. We can see those texture on the tree and those snowy branches and the foggy trees in the background. I think it turned out really pretty. I really enjoyed the process and the end result. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. [MUSIC] 15. Thank you for joining :): Hello friends. Thank you so much for joining this class. I hope you all enjoyed creating these monochrome paintings with me. Painting with a single color can be challenging, but it is also a wonderful exercise to understand the medium watercolor. You don't have the destruction of too many colors and too many mixing options, you're just focusing on a single color, and its tonal values. And honestly, it is a wonderful opportunity to focus on the techniques, the tones, the values, and how you can make yourself those properties to create interesting depth in your painting. Y'all once in a while, ditch your color palette and go monochrome and enjoy the beauty and magical watercolor in the most minimalist way. I want to thank you all again for joining this class, because honestly, this was an experimental class and I wasn't really sure how many people will enjoy painting with one single color when all my other classes were focused on bright and beautiful colors. I'm very happy to see many of you have already joined this class and I would love to know your thoughts about this class, so please leave a review. And also, if you have tried the class project, do upload them to the project gallery. I would love to see them. Thanks again for joining, I will see you soon in my next class.