Monsoon Sunset Sky-Using Watercolors

1. Hello!!!: Hello everyone and welcome back. Monsoons and my country has already begun and there's greenery everywhere. The fragrance of the fresh flowers and grass is so delightful and refreshing. The sky looks so gorgeous with the different patterns of those fluffy monsoon clouds. I truly miss some words and sunsets, but Mother Nature never fails to amaze us. The beauty of sunset can also be witnessed on a monsoon day. The sunsets in monsoon are just unique and gorgeous in its own way. I made sure they are an engineer and a very passionate watercolor artist. In today's class, we will be exploring and painting a gorgeous monsoons sunset sky. This class is curated with a beautiful color palette. So come join me and let's paint the sky together. 2. Materials You'll Need: Okay, So let us take a look at the materials. So the first is the paper for today's class. I will be using Saunders Waterford. This is a 100% cotton and it is 300 GSM, as you can see it has mentioned. So this paper is, you know, ideally very good for the wet-on-wet technique as well as other watercolor techniques. You can see the texture. But if you are someone who has not invested in these kinds of papers, then I highly recommend you to do that as you can go with whatever paper you have gotten. Okay. So next is the brushes. First is the flat wash brush to evenly wet the paper. Next, we are going to paint the entire painting using a single brush that is the size number 12. Okay, this is the larger size brush. You can go with your quill brush if you have that. And lastly, I'll be making use of some smallest size brushes, size number six. And for all of these brushes that I'm showing is from the brand Princeton, okay? So you can use any brand of brushes that you have gotten may not be like you have to use Princeton. Alright, So those were the brushes. Next, let's take a look at the colors that we will be using today. So I'm going to be using the colors from my palette and it is already squeezed. These are all the colors from the brand White Nights. But if you don't have wide nice, you can go with any brand of colors. The colors usually don't matter. Okay. So next is, we will need two jars of water. One clean water to, you know, take the fresh paint. Another is to clean the dirty paint from the brushes. So you need two jars of water. Next, we will need a masking tape and you will also need some tissue to wipe off the excess amount of paint and water. Alright, so once that is done, the next thing that you will need is a board. So I'm using an acrylic board to tape down my paper. So these were the materials. Grab them and I'll see you soon in the next section. 3. Color Palette: Okay, So let us take a look at the colors that we will need for this painting. The first on the top you can see this is an ultramarine color and I will also be using some boil it. Then we're going to have crimson or carmine. And for all those yellow sheets will be going with Indian yellow, indian gold. And we will also use some orange. And then to add those dark fluffy clouds are gone with Payne's gray. At the bottom of the sky. I'm going with the Van **** brown mixed with the yellows. And finally, to add those minor details, I'm using my Payne's gray. Now to get the pastel effect. I'm going with my wife, watercolor. So we'll be using pinch of white watercolor. So all of these colors are from the brand White Nights. And you can see I have watched all of these colors. So you can go with any brand of colors that I'll see you soon in the next section. 4. Lets Paint the Sky!: Okay, so let us begin the painting first. Let us apply a clean code of even water onto our paper. So you can see I am making use of my large sized brush, that is the flat brush or wash brush. So make sure you completely wet the paper and this will allow you to work on the wet on wet technique for the longer duration of time. So you need to be a little bit patient over here while wetting the paper. Because the more you read the paper, that is the number of times you wet the paper. What matters at the end? So do not skip this step and be patient and go for 23 rounds of wetting the paper evenly. Alright, So I'll quickly go ahead and wet my paper. Okay, Now that the paper is evenly wet, let us begin with the painting. So first, I'll be going with ultramarine. You can choose any blue of your choice. But we're not going to add this blue directly onto the sky. We want a pasty looking sky, and hence, I am going to mix my ultramarine with my white watercolor. So you can see I'm using a tiny pinch of that white color, okay? So do not add too much, otherwise, the color may fade out. So go with a medium tone. Alright, so I'm making a mixture ready so that I can easily go ahead and drop this paint. And I need not create the mixture again. So I'm just making a good amount of mixture well in advance. And I'm using my larger size brush, that is size number 12 and this brushes from Princeton. But you can go with any brand of brush that you have got. Preferably, I would suggest you would go with a larger size brush. This way, it will allow you to cover the larger part of the paper in a single go. Alright, so now I'm intensifying the color and I'm going with a violet or purple shade. So if you do not have violet or purple, you can make use of Prussian blue, even that. Go well. So go with your choice of colors. The sky is yours. You can paint it however you want. Okay. So yeah, I'm just trying to create a blend between all of the colors. I'm not laying these colors like a flat wash. So we do not want a clean blend over here. So the sky is always uneven. Some parts of the sky or dark, some parts of the sky are lighter. So that's what we actually want to achieve. All right, So I'll quickly go ahead and add this. Alright, I think we have added enough of that darker shade of violet. Now, let us go with our next color. So according to the reference picture that I have, I see a little bit of crimson and my skies. So again, this crimson is not going to be used directly. We'll have to turn it into a paste, it'll color. And that is done by adding a pinch of white watercolor. Alright? So you can see we get a nice pinkish baby pink tone. And at some places I'm going to directly take the crimson from the palette and add it without mixing it with the white watercolor. So this way we'll have different kinds of tonal values for our sky. Alright, so keep adding the pink. So if you do not want pink, then you can choose different contrasting color that will get blended with the blue. Alright? So, yeah. Meanwhile, since the bottom part is slowly starting to dry, I have slightly wetted the bottom region. Okay. So the next shade that is towards the bottom of the sky, we would be having a bright tonal value. That is where exactly our sun is there and the sun rays are spread out on this guy. So for that I'll be going with Indian yellow, then I'll be using Indian gold. And on top of these colors I'll be using orange tone. Okay? So make sure you do not touch the blue on this guy when you have yellow paint on your brush. Otherwise you're gonna get greenish hue onto your sky and you don't want greens and your sky. Alright? So just be a little careful over there. Okay. So let me just go ahead and drop the different shades of yellow. That is Indian gold and Indian yellow. Alright, so now I'm taking Indian gold. Do not worry if you don't have Indian yellow and Indian gold, doesn't really matter. You can choose any choice of your yellow or any yellow that you've got for that matter, you can even go with the lemon yellow. Again. We just want those yellowish tones for our sky. Now on top of this, I think I'm gonna go with my orange. Adding some orange tonal values you are in there. So again, you can see my brush strokes and brush moments. It's not really flat. I'm just going in a very organic manner just to create the cloudy look for the sky. Okay, So do not have a nice blended finished for your painting because that will not give the realistic look for your Skype. So just go in a very random and organic way and place your colors wherever you want. Alright? So let me just add more of these colors. Alright, so towards the bottom region we will be depicting the faraway buildings and some bushes. And for that, I will be, for the bottom layer of the sky, I will be going with the darker tones. So I'm using Van **** brown, but in case you do not have like a brown, you can go with any other brown. Or if you have CPR, take a little bit of that and mix it with your orange and you may get the shades. So this is the composition of the sky, refers to end with the bluish tones. That is with the V1 with a pistol blue. And then we went with the crimson. Then we added some shades of yellow. And then we added when Nike brown towards the bottom. Alright, so this is how the sky looks at the moment. Okay? So now, before this guy drives, we want to add nice amount of fluffy clouds. Since this is a monsoons and said, We want to depict the monsoon plus the sunset. So to depict those non monsoon, we're going to add some nice dark fluffy clouds and make sure it's dark. And again, I'm going with my same larger size brush because I'm pretty much comfortable with this brush to create those fluffy clouds. But if you're not comfortable, then you can go with the smallest size brush. I'm adding the clouds in a very random and organic way. I'm just rotating my brush in a circular manner to create those organic shapes for the clouds. So if you might, if you might have seen the clouds, they're not in a perfect shape. They're always scattered and fluffy and you have different kinds of shapes. So if you feel like you're not comfortable at it, you can just look at some reference pictures or you can straight away, go out and look at the sky and just, you know, judge those clouds and come back and put it on your painting. Or you can just simply follow what I'm doing here. But the clouds need not be always perfect. It's always scattered. So each one of you at the end of this class will have a different shape for your Cloud. And that is what we call a realistic painting. And everyone's imagination is different and all of that. So you can see at the two places, I've added a big patch of Cloud. And as I come down towards the yellow tones, I'm making the clouds a little bit smaller and lighter. Okay? So these are the scattered clouds. So let me quickly go ahead and add these clouds. Make sure you don't go overboard. Because otherwise you're going to hide, hide all the underlying colors, and your sky will be completely hidden with those dark clouds. So we don't want that though. Agenda of this class is to bring out that monsoons and said feeling. And we want to have those sunny layers in the sky along with the monsoon clouds. Alright? So I'll quickly go ahead and fill up the sky with small clubs. Alright? Alright, so I think I've added enough of clouds. I think the top area looks a little bit blank. So I'm thinking to add a small patch of cloud, they're not making it too much dark. So it's not very prominent gesture in there a little bit. And now you can see for adding those smaller, tiny clouds, I've switched to my smallest size brush. So it's up to you. You can go with a larger size brush or you can switch to a smaller size brush depends upon your comfort zone. Alright, so, yeah. So I know that watercolors will tend to drive and shade lighter. I tell this every time in each of my class. And so I'm making use of the time of the wet paper and I'm going again over all of those clouds and adding the Payne's gray over it again. Okay. So, yeah, I forgot to mention that this color for the clouds that I'm using here is Payne's gray. But if you don't have Payne's gray, you can straightaway go with black. But I wouldn't suggest that you can mix a little bit of black with ultramarine blue or black with Prussian blue and get that darker tone. Okay. So, yeah, so you can see how I'm adding those patches of clouds, just intensifying some areas. Okay. So the reason why my paper is still wet is because this is 300 GSM and a 100% cotton paper. And since I also wetted my paper for almost three to four rounds or you can say even five. That's why my paper is still wet. So I would recommend, highly recommend all of you to do this step. Yes. I'm already in love with my sky. It's looking so beautiful and so gorgeous. The colors in the sky, those you, those blue and the pinkish tones and the Sense8 tones at the bottom. It's altogether a different game. Okay, so once your painting has nearly dried, you can start adding the bushes and the small towers are small buildings at the bottom. Okay. So I did not wait for my paper to get completely dry. That's a trick away her because I wanted to make these bushes to be a little bit blurry since they are far away. I just wanted to be I just wanted it to be a little bit blurry and it's not the main focus of the painting. So the main focus here was this guy. And hence, I did not wait for the paper to dry. I'm just, you know, it's a little bit damp and I'm just straight away going and adding those. Again, this is a very simple thing. Just go ahead and randomly create some tiny bushes and create some tiny buildings. Okay? Again, go in a very organic manner. There's no particular shape or there's no particular rule to be followed over here. Okay? So I'm just gonna go ahead and randomly fill up the entire bottom area. 5. Thank You!!!: Okay. So it's time to peel off the masking tape. Please make sure your paper has dried completely. Once it is dry, you can take off the masking tape. I can't wait to show you guys the final painting. I'm already in love with that soft, fluffy sky. It's looking so stunning. All the colors in the sky are looking so pretty and so beautiful. So you can always have own composition for your sky. So it doesn't matter which color you're going with. Just choose nice contrasting colors and your sky will be pretty okay. So take a look at it. I hope you liked today's painting. And if you did, then do posted in the class projects section. And I'll take a look at all of your class projects. If you're posting on Instagram, then do tag me using my Instagram handle, my pins story. And I'll see you soon in the upcoming class. Until then, take care, stay happy, and bye-bye.