Northern Lights Watercolor Paintings For Beginners - 8 Days Watercolor Challenge

1. Introduction: When I started working with watercolors, I never knew that the output will be so unpredictable. When we look at these beautiful vibrant colors, we get super excited to use them. In this class, we are going to paint in different watercolor Polaroids based on northern lights. This is going to be our watercolor challenge for eight days. Hey everybody. My sense that I'm a self-taught independent artist and a professional interior designer based in good jump, India. I'm very excited and very happy to invite you all for this eight days watercolor challenge classes. Absolutely beginner's friendly. And once you complete all the aid paintings, you are definitely going to fall in love with them. Initially, we are going to start with how you can cut your watercolor paper into smaller ones. Before moving towards the final painting, it is very important to have a little bit of practice session where we will learn the elements and the background. Giving you all the details about the art supplies that we are going to use. And it is very important to use the correct watercolor paper as well. I'm the brushes that we are going to use initially will be starting with a basic sketch in each and every painting, we'll be talking about the watercolors that we are going to use. I'll be teaching you how to use a wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry technique, which is going to play a major role in creating each and every Polaroid. Painting Northern Lights is going to be truly peaceful and you're going to definitely enjoy the process. One thing that I always tell my students is that no need to be afraid of making mistakes. You are definitely going to learn from that. The glasses well arranged in a sequence so that you understand each and every step clearly and in detail. So I'm very excited to see all of your projects into the project gallery. I'm really happy to share this class with all of you without any delay and grab your supplies and join me in this creative journey. And let's get started. 2. Art Supplies: Hey everybody. So before we start, it is very important for all of you to know the correct art supplies that you will need in this particular class. Here I'll be giving you all the details about the art supplies that I'm using. And only to worry at all in case you do not have the same art supplies you can go for any other good alternator. Let us start with watercolors first. These are the watercolors and that I'm using. These watercolors are from rooster. And these are artists grade watercolors. In case you are a beginner, I would suggest to you to start with students range watercolors that will be best for you initially, then you can produce the professional ones. For this class, you will need us as air as well, since we are going to cut and she'd watercolor paper into smaller pieces. Then we will be needing a masking tape to tape the side edges. This is basically a one-inch masking tape and you will find it very easily in any nearby local stationery. Now let us talk about the watercolor paper, which is the most important part when you are working with watercolors. The watercolor paper that I'm using is from Kansan and this is 300 GSM one-party LD. And the sheets on cold pressure. The reason behind using good quality of watercolor paper is that these papers are a little bit thicker than a normal paper. And this paper can take heavy washes that we apply in watercolors generally. Makes sure that you get the correct GSM for your watercolor papers. Now some basic requirements like a sharpener and an eraser. Now whenever we are working with watercolors, it is very important to keep a paper napkin cited by that you can wipe off an extra amount of water. Now let us talk about the handy stuff. Initially, you will need assemble pencil, which I know that everybody will be having to draw a basic sketch. Then for this class you will need a white man. The white pen that I'm using is from Sakura Gelly Roll. Now let us talk about the brushes that you will need. For this class, you will need only three brushes. The first one is a one inch flat brush, which we are going to use to apply a background wash to your watercolor paper. Then the next one is a quill brush of size two brushes from Risto. In case you do not have a quill brush, you can go for round brush as well of size 12. Then here I have a detailing brush of 0, which is a round brush. Basically. These are all the three brushes that you will need. Now since water is the major element in watercolor paintings. So you will need a simple flask to carry some water, some clean water. Then the next one is a simple ruler, which is all steel edge basically in which we have readings in centimeters and inches. The ruler is required to cut the vice ice sheet into smaller paintings. Then you will need a simple color palette. So this is basically not a color palette. I had just simply taken a plastic lid of a container. And this is basically a little bit uncomfortable one for me, but you can go for any other color palette as well. These are all the art supplies that you will need for this particular class. No need to worry in case you do not have the same ran. You can go for any other good alternative. Now let us move towards the next step. 3. Lets Practice Northern Lights: Hey everybody, welcome to the first factor session for this particular class. And I'll be taking you through the steps, how you can paint the Northern Lights easily. The main element. And this entire glass is not an lights, which you can see in the background of these little paintings. You can see how beautiful these colors looks in the background. I haven't experienced nothing lights live, but I would love to see them someday. Let me be due how you can bend these amazing backgrounds with northern lights. So here I have my E Fi size sheet placed here on my board and we are going to just fight stupid with our masking tape. Simply take the pieces of your masking tape and try to make a battle alignment with the paper edge and simply please the masking tape on all the edges. Make sure that you do not. Please be masking tape and an angle. Because when we will remove that and the end, then you won't get perfect straight edge on the painting. Now let me please be masking tape on the top and the bottom edge as well. Again, I'll be very carefully aligning it with the paper edge. And once you place the masking tape, make sure that you just simply press it with your finger or thumb so that it sticks to the paper and no water can pass through it. Let me leave it on the bottom part as well. Now since we are going to practice for different paintings in this particular sheet, replacing one masking deep on these enter. No need to be that much precise. You can simply place it approximately on the center. Then one masking tape will be pleasing for degree. I'm taking another piece of my masking tape and I'm placing it on the center. Again, no need to be that much precise. You can just simply take our center approximately. Then I'm just simply dabbing my fingers, all that get stuck to the paper carefully. We are ready with four different parts. Now let us take our flat brush up one inch and I'm simply applying a ten code of water on the forest painting area. Make sure that you apply the pin code off model correctly. You have to make sure that no area is left. Now again, just simply observe in my color palette, I have simply taken some purple. Now we'll use our brush tool and add some amount of water that it spread evenly on the sheet. So the technique that you are observing right now is known as wet-on-wet technique. Since we have applied at encode off water already on the paper and our brushes also wet. It will spread naturally and this technique is known as wet-on-wet. Initially, we have applied some patches of Bhopal. Now we will add some batches of ultramarine and the remaining spaces. There isn't a particular method of doing this. You can do it in an actual ray pattern you want to make. Just tried to be a little bit careful while doing this so that you do not make any color patches. Again, I'll be taking some darker values of ultramarine and adding some water in it. And you can just simply adapt your quill brush on the edges. So this is basically the first technique of painting the northern lights. And I hope that you understood the first method. Now let us move towards the second painting area AND gates. You'll find this video a little bit faster. You can definitely slow it down. There's an option below. Now again, I'll be simply applying a ten quarter of model, which comes under our wet on wet technique. Very carefully. You have to simply apply a thin coat of water and made sure that no area is left. Now, we are taking our quill brush again and I'm taking some Bhopal values and micro brush, adding some water in it so that it can spread evenly. Now what we are going to do is that we are going to make two strokes so you can absorb the first one and the second one above that. Once they made these little strokes, it will spread evenly on the wet paper. Now I'm digging the quill brush and again, I'll be taking some values of ultramarine in it. Will be making the stroke and the center first. And then we'll be applying the color to the remaining part. Since this is a practice session, we are taking any random colors you can go for any other colors as well. Green and Dramaten, or any combination of colors that you like. I'm just taking purple and ultramarine because I liked them the most. This is the second method of painting the northern lights. Now let us move towards the third painting area. Again. Similarly, you have to apply a thin coat of water with your one-inch flat brush. Now once you are done with applying the ten god of water, again, take your quill brush and take Berlin it. Now this time we are going to make these torques and a little bit code manner. So just simply observe the movement of my brush to be starting from the top portion and coming towards the bottom part. B assembly tilting my brush in a curved fashion. Once you are done with the purple strokes, take ultramarine, mix it with some amount of water. May be forced stroke with ultramarine on the center portion between the two bubbles torques and then cover the remaining area. We are done. This is the third method of painting the northern lights. Now let us move towards the fourth painting area. Simply take again your one inch flat brush and apply it in cold water. Make sure that you will do this particular task in our patient manner. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and practice. This is just a simple practice session with simple if ice ice sheet, which you can do one time, but you can also practice it multiple times on separate papers. Now coming towards the last technique, I have simply taken some purple in my quill brush. And I have made three strokes coming towards the bottom bond. And one single point will be taking some ultramarine. And again, you have to start filling it on the middle area first. I have made these strokes between the Bhopal strokes first and then covering the remaining area. These are all the four techniques in which you can paint the northern lights. I wanted to give you a quick explanation about how you can paint the northern lights. That's why this redo is a little bit faster, but no need to worry at all while we're painting the 48 paintings, that won't be the case. You can paint it with me. It's going to be slow and steady. The videos, I didn't deal timeframe. Now let us move towards the second part for the practice session. 4. Lets Practice Some Elements: Hey everybody. So we are most welcome towards the second part for the practice session. In this, we are going to learn how you can paint the remaining elements. So after painting the background with northern lights, it is very important to paint the elements as well. That you are painting looks given more attractive and beautiful. So here I have my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll. And this white pen is basically a very nice one, which gives you a very nice, solid patch of white color. Any northern lights, you can find a lot of stars in the sky. So what we are going to do is that simply take your white pen and add these little dots on the darker areas of your Northern Lights, which is basically ultramarine. And you can also add them in the purple area as well. This is not at all difficult. You just have to simply tap your white pen in the darker areas of the background. I hope that you got an idea how you have to draw these dots. Now, I have just simply made a little circle on the bubble area to replicate Amon. So take your quill brush and add these darker values of black in it. The color palette if you're going to absorb. And I have simply made these little mountains as the fourth element for our false painting. Now for the second painting, you can just simply add these landscape area by applying a solid patch of black color. I'm digging some black again in my quill brush and I'm drawing three vertical lines, which are going to be our pine trees. Now I'm making these little strokes on every individual line to paint these little pine trees as the elements bodies. Second painting. This is basically a brief idea for you all to understand how you can practice the elements. And no need to worry at all in case you find this video a little bit faster, you can definitely slow it down. There's an option below, only to hurry at all. You can just simply observe the methods and techniques that I'm using initially. And then you can slow down the timeframe and paint it with me. So far, the third painting element, we are just simply drawing a little bit of landscape with darker tone of black. And we'll be drawing a little house on the right area. Once you are done with the house, we are going to paint two pine trees on the left portion. I have simply drawn toward the goal lines. And we'll be adding these bush, Adrian, by applying these little strokes. Similarly, I'll be giving these little bush to the country as well. These are the elements for the third painting. Now let us move towards the fourth one. Again, I'll be taking darker values of black and I'll be making these little strokes, which is replicating grass area. You have to use the tip of your brush or you can use a detailing brush as well. And simply fill the remaining portion in the bottom with solid black color. Let us paint little reindeer. I'm starting with the horns on the top. Use the tip of your detailing brush and simply make these little horns on the top area. Now I'll be painting the face area. Time digging some more amount of black. Move not with yours first. Then you can just simply paint the face and the body area. You can make the outline first and then fill it with solid black hole. So this is how you have to make a contrast with the background and the elements. The reason behind selecting black for the elements is so that you can represent what is in the front and what is in the back. Now we will be removing the side that is simply take the middle Dave forced and remove it very slowly. Now, I'll be removing the side groups as well. As you can see, once you remove this IT, how beautiful the edges looks. Let me remove the last step as well. So the entire shaped for the practice paper is ready. Now let us add a little bit of the do's and each, and every element. Adding my new details will enhance the paintings a little bit more. So what I have done is I have simply taken my detailing brush on psi 0 and will be taking some solid color, which is titanium bite. Now to add some depth in the mountains, I'm just simply adding these strokes on the right-hand side. By applying these random strokes on the mountain, it looks even more realistic. On the second painting, you can apply the similar strokes on the landscape area. Now for the third one, you can draw the windows of the house. I can see that white comes in a very good contrast with the black. On the fourth painting, I have added a little bit of strokes of light on the grass area and on the window. I hope that you got correct idea of how you have Dupain the northern lights in the background and how you have to be in the elements which are on the front portion. Now let us move towards the next spot. 5. Lets Cut The Paper: Hey everybody. So I hope that you've got to learn something from the practice session. Now let us prepare our watercolor paper. These are little mini paintings. We are going to cut an a by size watercolor paper into little ones. Only to worry at all. You will need only to shade watercolor papers. I have my one A5 size watercolor paper. And we're going to cut this into four equal bonds. So we'll be drawing one horizontal and vertical lines, but we will need certain measurements today. I have my steel edge. You can use a regular ruler or a scale as well. We'll be using the dimensions in centimeters. Let me draw the horizontal line first. Take your ruler and place it approximately on the center of your watercolor paper horizontally. On the left side, put it on 0, and on the right side we have 21. It's from 0 to 21 centimeters. Half of that would be 10.5 centimeters. So I have simply put a dot on 10.5 centimeters. Now simply align your scale with TB per edge. Make sure that the scale is parallel to the paper edge and draw a vertical line. No need to hurry at all. Do it very carefully and slow manner. Now let us draw the horizontal line as well. So again, I'm taking the scale in vertical position and make sure that you align it with the paper. Read the scale and the voltage are parallel. Now this is from 0 to 115 centimeters and half of that would be 7.5 centimeters. So I have put one dot on the right side. And similarly I'll put one on the left side. Now just simply put your scale in horizontal way. Align it with the paper edge, make sure that it is parallel. And then again, draw a horizontal line. You can see we have divided the entire file size sheet into four equal parts. Now we are going to cut all the four parts, and this is a simple Caesar. And just simply follow the line that we have drawn. Make sure that you do it very carefully and follow the line and proper manner because we don't want the page to be uneven. I haven't gotten the vertical line now let us be ours is on the line as well. Again, I'm simply following the line that we have drawn with pencil. Now for the second piece also will be repeating the same step. And it's done. You can see that we have got four equal pieces of the watercolor paper from n phi is ice sheet. And now we are going to paint on individual painting. Now using another A5 size sheet, you have to repeat the same process and you'll get another four pieces like this. So it is a bunch of eight protocol or people's ready with you and you can paint on each one-by-one. We are ready with the watercolor papers. Now let us start with the eight days watercolor challenge. 6. Reindeer: Hey everybody, Welcome to the forest painting. And I'm very sure that you are going to enjoy this first painting of the Northern Lights. So let us talk about the watercolors that you will need for this particular painting. The first one is purple, and you will need ultramarine, blue, and black. These are all the four watercolors that you will need for this particular painting. You can see that our mini watercolor paper is already taped down on my desk. Let me show you my color valid ones. I have said that all the colors here. You can see I have my cup of water reading an additional napkins side-by-side. So that began wipe off extra amount of water. Here. I have my one inch flat brush in my hand. As you can see, we are going to use this to apply ten coat of water on the watercolor paper. So simply take some amount of water in your flat brush and apply it on your watercolor paper. Be very magenta and do it slowly. Make sure that you do not leave any space in-between. Also, make sure that you have applied the water on the edges. Don't be in a hurry at all. You just have to keep calm and let the water settle on your watercolor paper. And also make sure that you do not apply very less amount of water because this is going to be all wet on wet technique. If you have not taken the practice session yet, go fast and checkout the practice session so that you get a clear idea how you have to paint the northern lights. You can see that the thin coat of water is applied to our watercolor paper. You can also get a good idea of whether you have applied the water correctly or non-binding the light reflection. Now here I have my quill brush of size two. In case you do not have a quill brush, you can use a round brush of size 12. That would also work perfectly. I'm digging some pople in my color palette, adding some amount of water so that it spreads. Could manner and our watercolor paper. You just have to simply mean these random patches. I'm just dabbing my brush and moving in some random directions. There isn't any perfect way of doing this. You can do it in whatever manner you want to do. I'm just making a little bit of badge on the top portion and a little bit on the right area. You can see that the spread is happening in the purple color due to the already applied water on the background. And this is basically known as a wet on wet technique. You can see I have cleaned up my brush and I'm taking some ultramarine and Prussian blue together, adding some water. You're going to absorb my color palette. Dig good amount of water in your brush. And now we'll be painting the remaining spaces which are divided spaces around the purple color. You just simply have to tap your brush and this random manner dry to fill in the areas. Now one thing that you can keep in your mind is that you have to do it a little bit faster when you apply both the colors because the thin layer of water that we have applied initially might be drying. So just be a little bit careful and apply it in a bit faster way so that you can cover up the entire area with a good amount of blending in both the clouds. I'm just filling it. On the remaining spaces. We have the entire bottom area. So you can just simply apply the ultramarine blue on the bottom part as well. Now you can take a little bit of darker tones and put it on the above area by dabbing your brush. You can also apply it on the edges and gardeners. Right now you might not be finding it that much attractive or aesthetic. But trust me, when this dries up, the blend of both the colors would look early, amazing. And in watercolors, that is also one thing that you have to keep in mind. That color that we have applied initially welcome one shade lighter when it dries up. We'll wait for the background to dry and now it has dried. So we'll be drawing a basic sketch of a reindeer. I'm using a simple pencil. You will start with the top portion, which are the horns of the DEA. So I'm just drawing a rough sketch which would be a little bit helpful when we paint it with black color. So initially I'm drawing the arms on the top area and I'll be putting these little strokes to enhance the horns of the deal. Now, just below that we have two ears and the entire body. I'm just drawing the face area a little bit. And then I'll be putting the body area in front of that. If you are confident enough to paint the DR directly also, that is also fine, but it would be great if you try it with pencil false so that you get a nice reference. We have some grass AT are also on the right and left area of the deal. You can draw with pencil that also, now I'm taking some darker values on black and my detailing brush. This is basically a round brush of size 0, which is also known as a detailing brush, so that you can paint the difficult areas. Now you can see that I have taken some darker values of black and my detailing brush. And we'll start with the horns of the deal. So let us start with the left on. I'm just simply trying to make a little stroke. Use the tip of your brush so that you can get pen or strokes. No need to worry at all. Just do it in a slow and steady manner so that you do not make any mistake. Since this is a very minute Andy billing, but you have to have some patients because in case you move your brush and wrong direction, then you can spoil your entire painting and you have to do the entire process again. Painting the background. I'm adding the little elements in the horn. You just have to make these little branches so that it looks even more attractive. Similarly, I'll be making these little branches on the right horn as well. It's almost done. Now we'll be starting with the ears. You just have to draw the outline first and then fill in the area. Have been did the left ear. And there is one more on the right path. You can do that as well. You're going to observe the movement of my brush and I'm slowly filling the area of the entire India. No need to hurry at all, do it in a slow way. And then again, we have the neck portion. I'm just simply moving it in a down direction, filling up the area. You can see that I have taken the solid black color and painting the entire India, make sure that you have more amount of color and less than water, because once the entire black color will dry, it shouldn't look in a grid on, it should look solid black. Only. Now I have completed the entire body of the rainbow. And you can see it looks really beautiful. If you want the same output, you have to be a little bit slow while painting so that you can paint it in a detailed manner. Now we are done with the rainbow. Now let us paint the remaining areas, which is the grass area around the deal. So we have a little bit of grass on the left portion and on the right portion. So the trachea is that you have to use the tip of your brush and make these little strokes. Can see how pointed by strokes looks and it gives you a nice effect of the grass. Similarly, repeating the same process, you have to apply the little thin strokes on the right area as well. More a little bit upwards. And you can do it in a natural way also. It is not at all necessary that you paint the same way that I'm painting. You can you can give a different angle to the grass as well. Again, once you are done with the outer area for the grass strokes, which is looking really amazing. You have to fill in the area. So simply take solid black color and fill up the entire area. On the bottom portion. Make sure that you do not leave any space. I have completed on the right area. Now let us paint on the left area as well. Again, I'll be taking some darker tones of black and covering up the area. On the left portion. You can see that the reindeer is almost dried up and you can already feel the dark, solid black color. We do not have any kind of Quraysh don't do it. So that's why it is important to have less amount of water and more color on your brush. We are almost done with the painting. Now it is time to add some details. Here I have my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll. You can use any other good alternative as well. Now we'll be drawing some stars in the northern lights that it looks even more attractive. Now what do you have to do is that you can just make random dots on the darker areas of ultramarine that would enhance divide color. Also, you can add these little dots on the popular area is when you have some liberty, you can draw these stars in any random way you want to. You can have some variation in the sizes as when you can draw some stars a little bit bigger, you can draw some stars a little bit smaller. There isn't any particular way of doing this. Now you can just randomly tap your white pen and draw these dots. I'm just covering up the entire area. You can simply observe. We had done drawing all the stars. Now let us enhance the reindeer. Sam just adding some few lines on the horns. You can see that I have just added some little lines of my pen so that it gets even a nice contrast with the background. I have added some little lines on the ears as well. So we'll be removing the tape now. Be very much careful while removing the side dip. There is a trick and you're moving the site tape that you can remove it and an angle so that you do not end up during your watercolor paper. You can observe how beautiful edges we have God, but there is a little bit of spread of colors. This generally happens when we do not apply the masking tape that much carefully, but no need to worry at all. You can fix that dust. Simply take your white pen and we are going to apply some nice bite shade on the extra color that has come out of water. Using this white pen, you can simply finish up your painting and give it perfect edge. On the abortion also, I can just give it some finishing touches. And it's done. You can see how beautiful the forest painting looks. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next painting. 7. Little House: Hey everybody. So I hope that you enjoyed the first painting. Now let us move towards the second painting. Let me tell you about the watercolors that you will need. The first one is Prussian blue, then you would need black, light green, and titanium byte. So these are the four colors that you will need. Simply take your one inch flat brush and apply a PIN code off water. And the watercolor paper that is already site tamed. I have already kept my watercolor paper ready. You can also do the same. Just simply observe the movement of my flat brush. I'm just trying to apply a thin coat of water on the paper. Since we are going to paint the northern lights using a wet on wet technique, this is needed. Let me also tell you the reason behind doing this. When you apply a thin coat of water and your watercolor paper. And then you apply the color with some amount of water in your brush. And thus spread of the color is so amazing that it looks absolutely the same as you observe the northern lights. Now I'm taking my equilibration of size two and we'll be starting with some light green. And you can just observe the color palette. I have some amount of water and some light green, and I'm trying to mix it well, make sure that there is enough amount of color on your brush and just simply tap it randomly on the paper. There isn't any particular pattern or method to do this. You can randomly tap your brush, but make sure that you also leave some white spaces because we are going to add some darker values also of Prussian blue. You can see I have made two batches. One is bigger, one which is on the left side, and one is a little bit smaller. So yeah, this is how you have to just make a natural kind of look. Initially right now you might not be finding it that much attractive, but once it dries up, you will see the results. Now you can just simply observe in my color palette, I have taken some Prussian blue and mixing it with water. Now, you have to simply put the color on the remaining white spaces, slowly tap it on the white area. We have already applied the lighter green values, but now we are applying the Prussian blue. I'm just trying to fill the whitespace with the tip of my round brush. You can just simply observe the movement of my brush. Now we will be covering the bottom part. Once we're done covering the white area, you can just simply cover the entire bottom part, which is absolutely white. You can also dig a little bit more darker values and your quill brush and add it over the edges and corners. That will be absolutely fine. Now since the watercolor paper is wet, you might not be finding it that much attractive, but as it dries up, you'll see the results eventually. Now, I have simply taken my detailing brush and I have my black color in the color palette. As you can see, this time, you do not need to have that much amount of water. Try to have some darker values of black. And we are painting the landscape area on the bottom part of the painting. This is not at all difficult. You just have to draw a random line first and then you can just fill in the black color on the bottom part as I'm doing right now. You can also observe the movement of my detailing brush so that you do not use maximum amount of your color. We are almost done painting the landscape area. You can see while we are bending the bottom portion, the background is almost dried. And you can see the results. How the blend of light green and blue is happening. Now we are going to have a small house on the right portion. Using my lettering brush. Again, I'll be stopping to pin that. You can just simply observe how we are going to paint a little house. Let us start with the topmost portion, which is the roof for the house. So these are two slant lines, one on the left and one on the right. So we are drawing the outline first. Once you are done with the roof, draw two vertical lines, one on the left and another on the right one, and simply fill in the black color. You might be wondering why we are painting the entire house blank and making it match with the landscape area. But don't worry, we're going to add some minute details which will make the entire house a little bit more attractive. As you can see, I have completely filled the entire area for the house. Use the tip of your detailing brush to paint the difficult areas. So I'm just trying to take the roof area which is a little bit out from the walls. Let us add a little chimney also on the right area. We are almost done painting the entire house. Now let us move towards the left portion where we're going to have to pine trees. So initially you will be painting the first one, which is on the very left portion. Now for doing this, that is a very easy and simple technique. If you are not that much confident enough to paint it directly to the final painting if you want, you can do is that you can go to the practice session, learn how to paint the pine trees. It is very easy and simple. Practices one to two times on enough sheet of paper. And then you can come towards the final painting. What I'm doing is that I'm trying to make these little strokes from the top portion and I'll be coming towards the bottom. But now once you are starting with the top portion, what do you have to do is that as you come towards the bottom part, try to make the strokes a little bit bigger than the one that you have made on the top portion. Once you start doing this, you will observe that you will get a nice shape of the binary. You can already see how beautiful this looks. Now I'm coming towards the bottom part and I'm trying to make the branches a little bit more broader so that it looks even more bushy. No need to hurry at all. You can do it very patiently and in a very slow and steady manner. Now there is going to be another pine tree just on the right side of defaults to one. So again, using the same method and same procedure, you have to this second binary as well, but this time a little bit above from the first one, so that it looks a little bit more bigger than the first binary. I'm just trying to repeat the same process and we are just painting the branches. You can just simply observe the movement of my brush. While you are observing. One more thing that I would like to tell you is that from a very hectic day of your Voc are if you are painting on a part-time basis. What happens is that when we create these little paintings, It's like a stress buster. You'll feel so much calm and peaceful when you try to create these little paintings. At the same time, you will learn a lot of new things also. As you can see, we are done with both the pine trees and you can already see the composition looks really beautiful. Now what I'm going to do is I'm using my white pen. As I told you, we are going to enhance the house. So I have just simply added ten line of my white pen on the bulb portion so that, you know, it can get a nice contrast and it could look a little bit more vibrant from the background. You can also add a little line on the chimney. Now, we're going to paint the window. So basically drawing the window. So I'm just trying to draw four squares. Be very much careful and patient while doing this. As you can see, I have drawn four squared. So it looks like that is light coming out of findall. Now let us add a little bit of depth on the landscape area. What you can do is that you can show a little bit of reflection of the light that is coming out of the window. By giving these little rough strokes on the ground area. Just simply tapping my white pen like this. Let me tap it a little bit on the pine tree. On the bottom of the pine tree. This is how you can add these little minute details to the painting. You can also replicate a little bit of snow on the trees. My adding these little strokes on the branches of the pine trees. I'm just simply tapping it. By doing this, you can give a nice effect of SNL. We are almost done with the painting. Now it is time to add some details on the background layer. We have paint in the northern lights. So I'm just drawing smallest circle on the Prussian blue area. So that divide gets even more enhanced. You can see how beautiful the moon looks. Now we'll be adding some stars. My tapping our white pen on the darker areas. We just have to use your white pen and simply draw some little circles. And you can tap it as well according to the size you want for those doors. But I would suggest you not tap it more rather than drawing circles. Now we'll be just simply repeating the same step by adding these little dots on the darker area. You can just observe how beautiful these little white dots. Looking into your painting. We are almost done adding all the stars into the painting. Now it is time to remove the side. Now once you are done with the painting, it is very important that you remove the site team very carefully. So try to remove it in a very slow and steady way. Because if you are in a hurry, then you might end up during your entire painting, be very much careful while doing this. Remove the side tip in an angle so that it gets detached from your watercolor paper very easily. Without removing any color and Depot. You can see how beautiful the edge looks when you remove the site tip and divide water is enhancing your entire painting. This is the last one. I hope that you liked the painting. I'm very much satisfied wouldn't be in dire result. Let me show you a little bit closer. You can observe the details. This is very easy and simple painting for your daily practice. I hope that you will try it and I would be really excited to see your projects into the project gallery. Now let us move towards the next painting. 8. Snow Forest: Hey everybody. So you're most welcome to the third painting for the northern lights. Now let us talk about the watercolors that you will need for this painting. The first one is purple, then you will need Prussian blue, black, and titanium white. These are the four colors that you will need for this particular painting. I have placed my watercolor paper and it's ready with the site tip. Now let us start with a basic sketch forced with a normal pencil. What we are going to do is that we are going to have those snowy landscape aliens and assemble road passing by. I am trying to draw it and lighter tone initially so that if we make any mistake, we can erase it. Now in-between both the landscape area, we are going to have a little road coming towards the bottom portion. If you observe the perspective, the road is going to be thinner on the upper side. And as they come towards the bottom part, it is going to be broad enough. As you can see, we have drawn the road as well. Let me darken up the landscape area is read a little bit. So now we'll be starting with the watercolor. So let me take my one-inch flat brush and let us apply a thin coat of model on the sky area where we are going to paint in other lights. And make sure that you apply a thin coat of water till the landscape area only because we don't want the color to spread inside the landscape area. It is going to be a little bit snowing. That's what you can do is you can use the tip of your flat brush and apply the water on the outskirts of the landscape area. The way I'm doing right now, you can just absorb any moment. As you can see, we have applied a nice thin coat of water. Now we'll be starting with the watercolors. I have my equivalent rush of is2. You can use a round brush also instead, if you do not have a quilt brush, that will work absolutely fine. So we'll be starting with some purple initially. What we are going to do is we're going to make two beautiful strokes with purple, which is going to replicate the northern light. I have taken some Bhopal but good amount of water in my brush and we have already applied at encode off mater. So you will observe the spread very beautifully. And this is known as the wet-on-wet technique basically. So as you can see, I have made my false stroke. And then a second stroke just above that. You can also apply another layer on it that you can have a darker tone of it. As you can already see that it is spreading naturally. This is basically the wet-on-wet technique which we have used. Now we'll be mixing some Prussian blue and I'm using its darker values and microvilli brush. You can already observe the white spaces where we are going to apply these darker values. In-between I have applied the four-stroke and then you have to cover up the remaining white area. On the top portion. I have covered it now. Let us cover it on the bottom area as well. So you just have to follow the stroke with your brush and you can cover the entire area. Now make sure on that value or moving your quill brush you do not move you up. We'll brush inside the landscape area because we wanted, right. So that's why I'm making it very carefully. I'm trying to paint it on the outskirts using the tip of my brush. And also make sure that you do not leave any whitespaces. Be very much careful and patient while doing this. No need to hurry at all. Just make sure that the photo that you have applied initially do not rise up because if it has been dried, then you won't get that good effect with the northern lights. Now initially you might not be feeling that it's not looking that great, but trust me, when it dries up, it is going to look really beautiful. And also one more thing I would like to tell you is that the color that you are seeing right now will be one shade lighter when it dries up. So we'll be waiting for it to dry and you will see the results eventually. Now let us start with the road. I have taken my detailing brush outside 0, and it is basically a round brush. And you can see in my color palette, I have dark black color in it. No need to take maximum amount of water in it. You can take little bit of water to loosen up the color. And you have to simply covered the road area. Be very much careful while doing this. The reason behind selecting detailing brushes so that you can paint it on difficult areas. I'm using the tip to paint thin and small areas where we have the landscape area as well. And you can fill in the entire color after that. Once you are done with the outline area, again, I'm digging the darker values of black and I'm covering the entire white area in-between. We are almost done. Now let us take some lighter values of black. What I'm going to do is that we are going to give some depth and details to the landscape area, which is on the left and right side. I have just simply cleaned up my detailing brush. And what we are going to do is that we are going to simply tap it on the mountain area false. This is also going to be like a wet-on-wet technique, supplying a thin coat of water on the landscape area initially. As you can see, I have also left some white areas in-between. The reason behind doing it is that it looks a little bit more natural and it will give it a nice, rough texture. You can see we have already got a little bit of grayish tone, having some white spaces in-between. And I have taken some lighter values of Prussian blue and I'll be simply dabbing it on the mountain area. Since it is a wet-on-wet technique, it will spread automatically. You'll get a nice effect. You can just do it randomly. There isn't any perfect method or pattern of doing this. But make sure that you have lighter tones. Have already enhanced the entire landscape area. In case you do not find it that much easy or you are not that much confident enough to paint it directly to the final painting. What you can do is you can use a rough scrap of paper on your regular practicing book on which your practice. You can practice this painting on that first and then you can come to the final painting. Now let us paint the pine trees, which are the major element in this painting. In case you are not that much confident enough to paint the pine trees. What you can do is you can go to my practice session and you can observe how we have to paint the pine trees. But it is not at all difficult. Just select 1 on the top portion. You can draw vertical lines as well. But in case you do not want to do that, you can make these little strokes, the one I'm making right now, start with smaller strokes on the top portion. And as you come towards the bottom part, you have to increase the size of the bushes that we are painting right now. You can see how beautiful this little pine tree looks and it also enhances your painting. And we took Kinsey, this is how you can paint a little pine tree. And by using the same technique, we are going to paint some more pine trees. Let us paint one on the, the right side of the false one, but a little bit smaller in size. So it started with lower point. There's also holds the perspective. As you can see, how beautiful the binary looks. Now repeating the same process, let me paint another pine tree on the left area. This is also going to be a small pine tree. Then the bigger one. Sam, just trying to repeat the same process. You can observe the movement of my detailing brush. And in case you are not that much confident enough to paint the pine tree directly to your final painting. You can practice it on a rough scrape off paper first and then come towards your final painting. Let us add some little pine trees on the right-hand side landscape area as well. Adding the little minute details and answers your mini paintings. And at the same time you can also learn certain new elements. You can incorporate these little trees into your watercolor Polaroids on a regular basis. If you are having a very tight and very busy schedule, what you can do is that you can take up challenges like this. Mini paintings which are based on any particular theme. And you can practice this paintings on a regular basis, digging up a single painting on each day. Because this won't take much of your time. Each and every painting will barely take ten to 15 minutes. Now in case you find your binary is a little bit lighter in tone, what you can do is you can take some darker values of black and you can apply it on the central portion of the pine tree so that it looks even more darker and dense. You can add these little strokes also on the landscape area. Now I'm using my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll and gives you a nice solid white color. And we are going to paint a little moon just in-between the both landscape areas. You can see how beautiful this little moon looks. And I have kept it a little bit higher from the horizontal line. Now we'll be drawing these stars. This is not at all difficult. You just have to tap your white pen on the darker areas, which is brush and blue basically on that divide color will give you good contrast rather than the popular later. I'm just tapping my white pen on a random manner. You can also make these dots smaller and bigger accordingly. Dab it on the areas where you feel necessary. Once we are done with all the stars in the sky, it will look really nice and aesthetic. This is basically a night view and northern lights are generally found during the nighttime only. So that's why the stars will give it even better look. Now will be removing the side deep. Be very much careful while doing this. I'm trying to remove the site tip in an angle so that we do not end up tearing our watercolor paper. You can already see how beautiful the edge looks when we remove the tape. And now we're left with the last one. Let me remove that as well. You know what? I just loved to remove the side pips. It's so satisfying. And I'm so excited to see the final look. Yeah, this is how it looks. And let me show you a little bit closer. You can see how beautiful this mini painting look. And it won't take more than, more than ten to 15 minutes to paint. I hope that you enjoyed the process and what to learn something new from this Mini Polaroid painting based on northern lights. I will be really excited to see all of your projects. Now let us move towards the next painting. 9. Pine Trees: Hey everybody, welcome to the fourth painting for the Northern Lights. So let us talk about the watercolors that you will need. But first one is cadmium yellow, ultramarine, light green, and black. These are the four colors that you will need for this particular painting. I have my watercolor paper already ready with side deep. And I have simply taken my one inch flat brush and we are applying a thin coat of water. No need to hurry at all. Do it very slowly. This is a process where you have to apply a thin coat of water very carefully. This is basically a wet on wet technique in which we are going to apply the northern lights. Once you are done with the thin coat of water, just make sure that you have not left any space. Also make sure that there are no water bowls in-between. So you can just simply observe on the right side, I have my color palette ready with all the watercolors that we are going to use. Now we'll be taking our quill brush outside AND gates. You do not have a quill brush. You can use a round brush, upsides 12, that would work perfectly fine. We are starting with some cadmium yellow and green together. I'm mixing it well in my color palette, you can just simply observe add some amount of water because this is going to be a wet on wet technique. Now we'll be making some nice thin strokes with my brush. I'm simply starting with the top right corner, coming towards the bottom-left area. You just have to simply observe the movement of my brush and you can see how beautifully it is blending since we have already applied a thin coat of water, this is basically known as a wet-on-wet technique. I have made one more stroke, just below the first one, and we'll be covering the entire area on the bottom part. That does take some more light green in-between. You can observe how I'm mixing the colors together. No need to worry at all. Nothing. Lights are natural form of lights and has no particular shape. So it does not at all compulsory to paint the same way that I'm painting. You can just simply follow the steps as I'm doing. Now. We are almost done with cadmium yellow, light green. Now we'll be filling up the remaining whitespaces with ultramarine. Just clean your brush and clean water container. And we are now mixing some ultramarine, add some amount of water and make sure that your watercolor paper is still wet. That's why it is very important to apply a nice coat of water initially only so that you can get a nice and blend off mode. The colors. You can see I have taken some ultramarine and my quill brush and now I'll be filling up the remaining spaces. Only to worry at all, just follow the movement of the brush as I'm doing. And we're just going to fill in between areas. The way we made the strokes with our cadmium yellow and light green. Similarly, you have to fill in the area with ultramarine as well. Also make sure that you do not have access amount of water in your brush that will definitely volume painting. Now you can already observe how beautiful the northern light effect looks. And one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that the color that you are seeing right now, which is visible on the screen, will become one shade lighter when it dries up. This is something you have to dig in mind value of working with. Watercolors. Select the density of the colors that you can apply, some darker tones on the corners and edges as well. That looks really nice when you remove those, I dip. Now let us add some darker values by adding a little bit of black and ultramarine. You can observe in my color palette how I have blended all the colors together. I'm just simply adding these little color patches on the corners and edges. It's always good to use watercolors as much as is required. So I have taken some more ultramarine since it was finished. Now I'll be mixing it again. So take some darker values of ultramarine, add some amount of water, and observe in my color palette carefully. I'm trying to add some darker values by adding a little bit of black in it. When you do that, what happens is that the color becomes a little bit denser on the corners and edges. When you remove the site tip. It looks really nice and beautiful. Similarly, I have just simply followed the strokes that we made while painting the northern lights. And we'll be filling up the entire area that weighs only. You can observe how I'm moving my brush. And you have to just repeat the same steps. This has completely wet, dried now, and when it will dry, you will see the output. I'm trying to add a little bit of darker values on the left edge as well. The reason behind using a quill brush in case you are using a round brush, is that you can use it stick to apply these nice thin strokes. In case you are finding this difficult to paint, what you can do is you can simply go to the practice session. I've explained in detail how you have to paint the northern lights. Now after drying, what we're going to do is that we are going to add the elements. But before that, let me blend the northern lights a little bit more. I'm just trying to apply the code again on it. You can see I have a clean brush with some amount of water and I'm just trying to follow the pattern. I think that we can add some darker values of ultramarine on the right edge so that it looks even more beautiful. So take some darker tones of ultramarine, start from the right edge and come towards the left portion, simply follow the pattern. This will give a very nice effect when it dries. You can add a little bit of strokes on the bottom part. Where do we have these cadmium yellow area? Now after drying the entire background, what we are going to do is we are going to take our detailing brush of size 0 and we are going to take some solid black color. You can observe it on my color palette. I have taken very less amount of water because we want a solid patch of black. Now we are going to paint a little bit of landscape area. So this is basically a very rough landscape area on which we are going to paint some pine trees. So you can do this in whatever manner you want to. I'm just trying to make a landscape area by drawing the outline for us. And now we're filling up the entire area with black. You can see the random surface on the top portion and the solid black color just below that. Now makes sure that you have maximum amount of black color rather than water because when it will dry up, it will look a little bit grayish if you have more amount of water rather than color. We are done with the landscape area. Now I'll be taking some more dark black values and my detailing brush. And we are going to paint some pine trees. So what I'm doing is that I'll be locating the DDIs. May we are going to have these binaries. So simply take your detailing brush and draw a vertical line. So the first one is on the left side. Then let's take one on the sand, double-check. One more, which is of the same size as of the false 11, which is bigger than all the remaining three. This is how we have located the positions of the binary by drawing simple vertical line with solid black color. And I will be painting the bushes. You have to start with the top portion and you have to paint these little branches as I'm painting right now. You just have to make these little strokes. And when you come towards the bottom bond, increase the size of the branches. Trust me, this is not at all difficult. You just have to simply use the tip of your detailing brush and be very much careful while doing this. In case you are finding this difficult to paint, what you can do is just go to the practice session and observe how we have to paint the pine trees. And you can simply learn it on a rough scrape off paper first and then come to your final painting. You can see how beautiful the binary looks. Now I'll be painting the remaining three also by using the same method starting from the top portion. And I'm trying to just pain but bushes. As I move towards the bottom part, I'll be increasing the size of the bushes. Since the method is same, I have just faster than up the video so that we can consume some time, but no need to worry at all. If you are painting with me, you can just slow down the video by decreasing the timeframe. That is an option below. You can observe how beautiful the pine tree looks. Now we have the last one. So again, we are just following the same method and bending the smaller pine tree. How cute it looks. Now one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that tried to have solid black color in your detailing brush. Because in case you have maximum amount of water rather than color, it will dry up and be presenting as great. I'll be using my detailing pen, which is a vitamin basically from Sakura Gelly Roll. We are going to draw these little stars. This is not at all difficult. You just have to tap your white pen. On the darker areas in the background, which is ultramarine. You can see how beautiful the stars are looking. You can also have some variation in the sizes. I engage. You want the star to be a little bit more visible. You can tap it a little bit more. You can just simply try to draw a little circle. You can see how beautiful that stars are looking in the background. You can just simply follow the steps and draw these little stars in the background. No need to hurry at all. You can do it slowly. Try to have an even composition of the stars that it looks even more aesthetic. We are almost done with the painting. Now let us add a little bit of snow on the binaries. So just use the same white pen and add these little strokes on every layer of the bushes. This is not at all difficult. You just have to make these scribbling on the pine trees. This is basically small zigzag line replicating snow on the trees. And we are done with the painting. Now let us remove this. I did. This is a very interesting and satisfying bond after you complete your painting. So just try to remove the tape in a very careful manner. Make sure that you remove it in an angle so that you do not end up during your watercolor paper. And we're done. You can see how beautiful the edges are looking. Let me show you a little bit closer. I hope that you enjoyed the painting and I'll be really excited to see all of your projects. Now let us move towards the next painting. 10. Elegant Deer: Hey everybody, welcome to the fifth painting for the Northern Lights. So now let us talk about the watercolors that you will need for this particular painting. The first one is Prussian blue, then you will need cobalt blue and black. These are the three colors that you will need. Isn't it amazing? I'm using my one inch flat brush to apply a PIN code off water initially. And you can see my watercolor paper is already ready with this idea. Just simply take some clean water in your flat brush and apply our ten code of bottom on the watercolor paper, make sure that you do not leave any space. Because we are going to have a nice spread effect when we apply the background for the Northern Lights. Also makes sure that you do not have any water bowls in-between. So try to have a nice even coat. This is going to be really quick and easy painting, which I'm very sure that you are going to like it. Now, let me apply one more ten god of water again so that we can have a nice spread. I found it a little bit less, so that's why I have applied it again. Now here I have my quill brush, which is upsides too. In case you do not have a quilt brush, you can use a round brush as well of size 12. That will work perfectly fine. So yes, starting with some cobalt blue, initially, tried to have some nice darker values of cobalt blue with some amount of water. And we have already applied at the encoder of water on the watercolor paper. Now we'll be tapping our quill brush, but cobalt blue on it and create these random patches. Nothing lights are basically natural form of lights which are having really nice color effect. But it is an unnatural form. That's why it is not compulsory to paint the same way I'm painting. There can be a little bit of difference, that's absolutely fine. Dust. You have to simply follow the process and method that I'm doing right now. It is absolutely fine if you do not get the exact button that I'm trying to have in the background. So now let us take some nice darker values of Prussian blue and paint the remaining area. I'm just trying to apply it on the corner initially, make sure that your site tape is completely stuck to the paper and it is not lose because that will not give you a nice borders with the white paper. So I'm trying to fill in the areas which are white and just use the tip of your brush. Or in case you're using a round brush. The reason behind using a quill brush or a round brush is that you can apply the color on difficult areas. Right now it might not be looking that much nice, but when it will dry up, you can see the outcome. That results would be really great. This is basically a wet on wet technique in which you give the two colors are nice combination together. And you can see the blending effect when it dries up. The final output will be definitely very much different. One more thing that you have to keep in mind when you are working with watercolors, is that the color value that you are seeing right now? The density of the color basically will be one shade lighter when it dries up. Select the pigments accordingly, and try to have your shades and darkness. According to that. Time digging some more Prussian blue and my color palette because I'm feeling that it is a little bit lighter. So just take some darker values of Prussian blue and tap it on the remaining spaces that we am doing. Now you can see it is looking a little bit darker than the one we have applied earlier. I'm just trying to tap it on our random manner. There isn't anybody color, pattern of doing this. You can just do it in a natural way. Also use the watercolors in the amount that is required. No need to waste the colors. Gaze it as a shortage of using. Then you can take again from the watercolor tubes, but no need to waste the colors. I hope that you have gotten the correct idea how you have to paint the northern lights in the background. So you can see it has dried up and now the effect is completely different. Now in my color palette, I have taken some black and we are going to paint some landscape area. You can observe that I have my detailing brush upside 0, which is basically a round brush. We are going to use this detailing brush to paint the remaining elements. So take some amount of water in your detailing brush and have some solid black values in it. Make sure you do not have access amount of water. I do have more amount of color rather than water. Because when It dries up, it has to look dark black, solid color. But in case you have more water rather than color, then it will look a little bit grayish tone. You can already see I have just drawn an uneven line initially and I'm just trying to fill the remaining area with solid black color. Make sure that you do not leave any space. Try to apply it in a perfect manner by filling up all the area carefully. Now let us move towards the next element, which is having a nice reindeer, which is on the ground eating some grass. You can use a symbol pencil to draw a basic sketch initially. In case you are confident enough to paint it directly with your detailing brush, then that is also fine. But if you are a beginner and you're trying to paint this particular painting, I would suggest you to do it with pencil first. Also, it is not necessary that you write with pencil in the final painting directly. What do you going to do is that you can practice this on a rough scrape off paper false, and then come towards your final painting. Due to the background which we are having, which is all Prussian blue and cobalt blue. The drawing might be not that much visible to you, but you can just carefully observe the outline. Let me draw it with a black pen so that you can get the exact idea how the rain, the overlook would be fine if you do not use a black pen, you can directly painted with your black color. But just to show you how I have drawn the render, I'm just giving it an outline with my black pen. This is how the entire AND of a look. By the way, I'm making a mistake. This is not a reindeer, it's not having any horns. We are going to have a simple demo here. So sorry for that. Now I'll be just simply using my detailing brush and we are going to fill it with solid black color. Again, I will repeat that tried to have nice amount of color rather than bottom. Because if you are going to have more amount of water in your detailing brush, then when it will dry up, it will look a little bit gradient rather than solid black. The reason behind using a detailing brush is that you can paint the difficult areas like the legs where we have very small area to paint. So by using the tip of your detailing brush, you can use very nicely. We have painted the entire deal. Now let us paint some grass on the landscape area. Use your detailing brush and add these little strokes representing some grass on the landscape area. This is not at all difficult. You just have to make these little strokes like the one we are painting right now. Just observe the movement of my healing brush. Now, I'll be using my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll gives you a very nice solid white color. By using this white pen, we are going to add little stars in the entire background. Tied to add these little stars on the darker area where we have painted Prussian blue. You can have a nice contrast between light and the dark background. You can have variation in sizes of these does. So in case you wanted smallest stars, you can just simply tap your white pen. And in case you want some stars to be a little bit bigger. So try to draw a small circle there. Sam, just trying to cover the entire background with these little stars. Having an even composition. You can also add some styles in between the legs of the deal. Since the background is completely visible behind the ear as well. And we are almost done. Now let us use the same white pen to draw little more on the cobalt blue area. I'm just trying to have small moon. It's not a complete moon, It's basically a half moon. Not a half-moon actually are quantum one. Now it's absolutely your joints. You can draw a full moon as well. Now let us remove this IT very carefully. Try to remove it in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your entire watercolor paper. You can see how beautiful the edges are looking at the painting is really amazing. You can add these little lines in the DR and the grass also with your white pen so that it looks even more beautiful. I hope that you enjoyed this painting. I would be really excited to see all of your projects. Now let us move towards the next painting. 11. Magical Mountains: Hey everybody, so you are most welcome towards the painting for the northern lights. Now let us talk about the watercolors that you will need. The first one is black, then you will need Bhopal, ultramarine and titanium white. These are the four watercolors that you will need for this particular painting. Here I have my one-inch flat brush and you can see my watercolor paper is ready when the site tape. Now we are going to apply it then coat of water on it. This is basically going to be a wet on wet technique to paint the Northern Lights. I'm going to apply it then coat of water initially, make sure that you do not leave any spaces in-between. Also, one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that make sure that you do not have any water pools in-between. So try to have even coat of water initially only. I'm adding a little bit of more water so that you can have a nice and blend. Also makes sure that you have good amount of water on the edges. Now let us start with the background for the northern lights. Here I have my quill brush of size two. You can also use a round brush that would also work perfectly fine. We are going to start with some pulpal initially. So I'm taking my brush, you can observe my color palette. We're going to have some nice dark values of pulpal and some amount of water that spreads naturally and began have on eyes and blend of it. Make sure that you have enough amount of water and color at the same time in your quill brush, so that you can use the same brush for a long-run, starting from the top portion. And we are making this stroke coming towards the bottom portion. We are making one more stroke on the right side and one stroke on the right edge and one stroke on the left edge. You can see that the strokes are coming towards 1, which is on the bottom part. Here in this particular painting, the bubble is replicating the northern lights. Now we'll be painting the remaining spaces with some nice ultramarine. Just assembly, clean your quill brush or a round brush in case you're using, try to have some darker values of ultramarine unit. And we're filling up the whitespaces and between the bulb, the stroke pattern is same. You have to just simply observe the movement of my girl brush. Try to cover up the white area. You can see the blend is looking really beautiful. Also, the painting might not be looking at much aesthetic right now because it is wet. Once it dries up, you can see the blending of Buddha colors. Now one thing that you have to keep in mind while using watercolors is that the opacity and the density of the color that you're seeing right now. It will be one shade lighter when it dries up. The density of the gallows accordingly. Now I'm digging some more darker values of ultramarine. And I'll be adding these amazing darker values on the edges. As you can see. You just have to simply tap the brush and move it in the pattern as another lights are moving towards the bottom portion. The technique that we have used to paint the background is known as the wet-on-wet technique. Now the wet-on-wet technique basically means that there is an already applied coat of water in which we are applying another color that we get, a natural blending. You'll get a very soothing tone of the colors when it dries up. We are almost done with the background area. Let me cover the bottom version as well with some darker tones of ultramarine. You can observe how beautiful the combination of purple and ultramarine looks together. Now once it dries up, you will see the results and it will look really amazing. Now I'm just trying to add a few details and between so that it doesn't look uneven. Gaze you'll find this particular pattern of painting the northern lights a little bit difficult. What you can do is you can simply go to the practice session and you can practice it on and off, scrape off paper first and then come towards your final painting. Now you can see the background is dry and it looks really amazing. The combination of purple and ultramarine. I have taken some darker tone of black and my color palette, which is solid black color. And I've used my brush to paint the mountains. So you have to use the tip of your brush to paint the outline first. And then you can just simply fill the color on the remaining portion on the bottom part. Now one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that right to have more amount of color rather than water and your aqua brush this time because if you're going to have more amount of water, then the black which is visible currently on the screen, will be a little bit grayish. Make sure that you have more amount of color rather than bottom. Also makes sure that you do not leave any space between the tip and the watercolor paper because when we are going to remove it, there shouldn't be any white area left. So dry to apply the color very nicely and carefully. No need to hurry at all. Take your time being the mountains according to your wish as well. It is not at all necessary that you paint the mountains that we I have painted. Now you can see the mountains have dried up. I have waited for that. And you can wait for that as well or you can use a hairdryer to dry them. And the color is looking absolutely solid black. That is absolutely fine. Now just simply observe my color palette. I have taken some titanium white and my Healing Brush oxide 0. And we are going to make some rough texture on the mountains so that we can replicate some snow. I've drawn a line in the middle of the forest mountain, which is a very random and natural line. And applying these little rough strokes using the detailing brush on the right portion. To get this nice texture of fight on the mountains. What do you have to do is that take your titanium white and the color palette and have very less amount of water in your detailing brush, then only you will get this particular texture. No need to have more amount of water that would definitely not give you this particular texture. You can already observe how roughly the brushes moving by adding this particular patch of white and some areas. What you can do is that you can have solid white on the tip initially. And then as you move down in the mountain, you can just make the strokes less. As you can see how beautiful though effect is looking. Now I'm adding a little bit of more texture. This is basically a very natural process of doing so. No need to worry if you do not get the exact same results as I'm painting. What you can do is that you can use a simple scape of paper, draw these beautiful mountains, paint them with black and practice to have this particular texture with titanium white. Then come towards the final painting. You can also observe the movement of my detailing brush and the way I'm trying to add these little textures on the mountain. Now you might be wondering why we have used solid black in the mountains. So what you can see is that in the background we have a very lighter tone for the northern lights to enhance the amount dance and have a good contrast with the background. We have used solid black color, but it's absolutely fine if you want to go with a brownish shade or even a white that would also work. Now I'll be using my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll to draw the stars in the background. So try to add these little stars and the darker areas of ultramarine so that it can get a nice contrast also. We can also add stars in the Bhopal that is also fine. You can draw the stars according to your requirement. There can be variation in the sizes as well. If you want smaller ones, you just simply dab your white pen. And in case you want it to be a little bit more brighter, tied to have some circles as I'm doing right now. You can observe how beautiful the stars are looking in the background. Try to add them and then even tone. I'm trying to cover the entire area. You can simply observe how we have to tap the white pen. And we are almost done drawing these dots in the background. Now using the same white pen, let us draw a small moon, which is basically a quarter moon on the sky. I'm trying to just fill the white color in-between. You can see how beautiful the Mamluks and our painting is ready. So now let us remove the tape. Be very much careful while you're moving this. I did try to remove the side tip in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your watercolor paper. You can already see how beautiful the edges looking. I hope that you got to learn something from this particular painting and this won't take more of your time. I would be really excited to see all of your projects and let us move towards the next painting. 12. City Lights: Hey everybody. So you're most welcome towards the seventh painting for the northern lights. Now let us talk about the watercolors that you will need. The first one is light green, then the second one is blank. The third one is ultramarine, and the last one is titanium white. So these are the four colors that you will need. Let us start with a basic sketch. Here I have my simple pencil and you can see that I have my watercolor paper ready with the site tip. As you can see, I've started with the left edge and I'm coming towards the right bond, drawing the symbol horizon line, which is a little bit uneven. Then from a little bit of the right area, we are starting to have a road which is going to be getting brought on the bottom side. We are just simply trying to follow the perspective that it's thin on the upper portion and broader on the bottom part. There's going to be simple mountain. So this is a single mountain. As you can see, I have just drawn it above the horizon line. And that's it. This is the basic sketch. There are basically three elements in this particular painting. Landscape area, which you can see on the left and the right road in-between them. And assemble mountain on the above portion. So here I have my one inch flat brush and now we are going to apply a thin coat of water initially so that we can paint a nice northern light effect. Makes sure that you apply are even coat of water so that there isn't any space list. Now the reason behind giving ten god of water initially in the background is this is going to be a part of your wet on wet technique. What happens is that we are initially applying it in code of water right now, and we'll be applying the color on it so that you get a nice blend between two colors. Here I have my quill brush upsides too. In case you do not have a quill brush, go further down branch of size 12. That would also work perfectly fine. Now on the right area and just simply observed my color palette. I'm taking some darker values of light green in my quill brush and adding some amount of water so that it spreads evenly on our theme code of water. Now using the quill brush, just make one stroke just and the scope manner. You can observe how I have made these tools strokes and you can already see the blending. Since we have already applied at the bottom, there is water already in our brush, so the color will spread very nicely. Now I'm digging some darker values of ultramarine. And we'll be adding these pillars in the whitespaces which are left now. In this particular painting, light green is representing learner than light. Again, just absorb my color palette. I've taken some darker values of ultramarine. And now the false stroke you have to make in-between the two light green strokes. And then you can cover up the entire area. Applied ultramarine on the top right corner. And now we'll be moving towards the bottom left area. You can observe the movement of my brush as the stroke that we made initially via does following that up and trying to cover the entire background area. And you can already observe the blend between the light green and ultramarine type. Now, since this is wet and now you can see the difference it has dried up. You can also observe the output, how beautiful the blending is looking right now. So you have to wait and give it time. Or in case you do not have that much time, use a hairdryer and you can dry your painting. We are done with the entire background area. Now, I'm going to take some solid black color in my color palette. And they are using a detailing brush, which is basically a round brush outside 0. And initially we'll be starting with the outline for the mountain. I'm just trying to give an outline initially. Once you are done with the outline, just fill the entire area with solid black color. Now, let me also finish it by giving the entire black color on the bottom bond. The reason behind using a detailing brush for this is that you can paint on the difficult areas where you have smaller abortions to paint on. You can use the tip of your detailing brush very carefully to apply colors and difficult areas. Now whenever you are working with a black color, just make sure that you have less amount of water and more amount of color. The reason behind that is that whenever you have more amount of water in any particular pigment, whether it is black or any other color. What happens is that when it dries up, it will look a little bit grayish and tone and it will not look that much solid black. So try to have more amount of color rather than water. Now I'm just trying to complete the entire mountain, just observe the movement of my Healing Brush. I'm trying to fill the color for the people who are on a regular basis and have a very hectic schedule. And a non-metal time to practice and paint on daily basis. For them, this watercolor challenge would be really great. Because these mini paintings won't take much of your time. At the same time, you will very much improve on your painting skills. Now, I'm just starting to paint the solid black color on the road in-between the two landscape areas. Again, I have done the same technique. I have started with the outlines fast and then we're filling up the central area in case you find the color a little bit stiff and not that much easy to paint, then you can add portal, but make sure that it is innovating minimum quantity. By adding a little amount of model, the brush movement will be a little bit more smoother. You can see we are done with the road area as well. You can observe that the road is enough perspective manner. On the front part, which is on the bottom area, you will find the road a little bit broader. And as we come towards the mountain area, it is getting very much tin and vision that is basically due to the perspective. Now what I've done is I have simply cleaned my brush and add some amount of water. And we are going to add these little strokes on the white area on the landscape that we can represent a nice texture for this, no. There isn't any perfect or particular method to do this. You just have to randomly tap your brush the way I'm doing right now, you can observe the movement of my day dealing brush. You can already see how beautiful that extra looks and it gives you a nice effect of snow on the landscape area. Now similarly, on the other landscape area, which is on the right portion, you have to repeat the same process. I'm just rubbing my Healing Brush, trying to add some beautiful texture pattern on the landscape area. We are almost done doing that. Now what you can do is that you can simply use your white men. The white pen that I'm using is from Sakura Gelly Roll. It gives you a nice solid white badge, as you can see on the screen. What I'm doing right now is I'm trying to replicate a little bit off City area which will be having a lot of lights. So we are just trying to have a combination of 423 dots or more than that. But try to have it in a line because generally street lights are placed in a symmetrical manner, but it does not at all necessary. You can place the dots in a random form as well. I'm just trying to tap the white pen and trying to replicate a little bit of City area. You can see how beautiful the white color looks and it is giving a nice contrast on the background because the mountain is absolutely black. Now we are done with the City area. Now what we'll be doing is that using the same white pen, we can just simply add a tiny moon just above the mountain, have some space between the mountain. And then you can just make a small circle, fill it with a solid white color. You can do this with white titanium color as well from watercolors. Are you can just simply draw it with your white pen. That will be also fine. Now using the same byte when we have to replicate some stars in the background, which we'll look at really nice. I'm just tapping my white pen on the darker areas in the background, which is basically the ultramarine one. On that. The stars will look even more vibrant. But you can also add some on the light green, not as also fine. You can have the variation in the sizes. If you wanted a starts to be tiny and small, just simply tap your white pen and engage. You wonder, starts to be a little bit bigger than you have to draw a small circle. You can see the combination of stars that I am drawn. There are some stars are a little bit bigger and some are a little bit tiny and small. So that's it, it's done. Now what I'm doing is that I'm taking some lighter tone of ultramarine, adding some amount of water in it. You can observe in my color palette the way I have taken it. This time, what you have to do is try to have more amount of water rather than color because we want some lighter tones on blue on the landscape area. The reason behind doing is that small is generally white only, but to enhance the landscape area, I'll admit, and this is basically a painting. That's why we are adding some amount of blue. You can see how beautiful it looks when you give a nice detailing area, the landscape portion, you just have to simply tap your brush on the bottom part. Again, there isn't any particular method of doing this. You have to just randomly move your brush. And we're done. Now use your detailing brush of size 0. Again, that same one which is around brush basically have some diazonium bite in it and make sure that you have solid white color and less amount of water. Now we are trying to enhance the mountain area. So what I've done is I've started from the tip of the mountain and we are going to enhance it, replicating some snow by adding these little patches, which will give a nice effect of snow and having a good texture. This is not at all difficult. Just make sure that you do not have access amount of water in your detailing brush in case you have just tap your brush on the tissue paper and you will remove the excess amount of water and you'll have more amount of color in your brush. And as you can observe that I have given the batches and texture on the right area of the mountain so that we can give it a nice 3D effect as well. Let us add a little bit of texture on the left portion as well. So try to have the patches in our minimum area only don't make it too much because then the mountain won't look that great. Now we are done with the entire painting and it looks really amazing. Let us remove the tape. Be very much careful while removing this. It. Remove it in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your watercolor paper. You can already observe how beautiful the edges are looking. Dressed me, this is the most satisfying part. After you finish your painting. It's very peaceful when you remove the tape. I'm done with the last one as well. And our painting is ready. Let me show you a little bit closer so that you can observe the details. I hope that you enjoyed the painting and want to learn something new from it. I would be really excited to see all of your projects in the project gallery in case you have any questions or doubts related to the painting or the techniques used, feel free to ask it in the discussion section. I will be truly happy to answer them all. Now let us move towards the last painting. 13. Snow Land: Hey, everybody's who are most welcome to the last and the final bending for the Northern Lights, which is painting aid. Now let us talk about the watercolors that you will need. The first one is Prussian blue, the second one is purple. Then we have black and titanium white. These are the four colors that you will need for this particular painting. As you can see, my watercolor paper is ready with the site. Now you will need us in bold pencil to draw the basic sketch forced. That does start with the horizon line forced. The bottom part, I have just simply drawn a rough line which is not straight. You can draw it in adults and random manner. Now let us draw the mountains. The mountains are generally having a very natural form. Again, dry it according to your way also. This particular painting, we are going to show some eyes on the ground level. So I'm just trying to draw it. You can just observe the movement of my pencil. Now once we have drawn one line, we are going to repeat it again so that we can show some level difference. And yeah, that's it. This is the basic sketch and that you will need, and I hope that it is not difficult. You can draw it the same way I have drawn. It is absolutely fine if you have some minor difference. Now let us take our one inch flat brush and apply it in coat of water in the background. Since we are logging on a wet on wet technique to paint the background, drive to apply it in code of water very carefully. Do not leave any whitespace. Makes sure that the code is even and do not have any water bowls in-between. Now no need to worry at all in case the water is a little bit in the mountain area because we are anyhow, we're going to paint the mountain completely black. That is fine. Now I am taking my quill brush outsize tool. And in case you do not have a quill brush, you can go further down brush of size 12, that would work perfectly fine. Initially, we are taking some darker values of poeple. You can observe my color palette. I'm adding some amount of water in it so that we can get a nice blend of the colors in the background. Now we are ready to paint the purple in the background. And you can already see we have applied at the encoder of water in the background. This is basically a technique known as wet-on-wet. So now I'm just trying to apply some patches of Bhopal. Again, there isn't any particular pattern that you have to follow. And other lives are generally a natural form of light. So you can do it in any way. You want to try to leave some white spaces in which we are going to add Prussian blue so that we can define the Northern Lights very nicely. I have made two nice patches of Bhopal, as you can see. Now you have to just simply clean your brush and add some darker values of Prussian blue. I'm just adding a little bit of water and we are just trying to mix it well in our color palette. And I do have enough amount of color in your brush tool that you're going to cover the entire area. Now you can already observe in our watercolor paper the Bhopal is nicely blended with the water in the background. Now apply the Revolution lu in the remaining area. Tried to use the tip on the difficult areas where you want to blend the colors. Now I'm just trying to cover the top right corner first. And then we'll be moving towards the left area. You can see where we have difficult areas. You can use the tip of your quill brush, or in case you are using a round brush that will also work perfectly fine. This is the reason behind using this particular brush so that you can add colors to the difficult areas nicely. Right now it might not be looking at much aesthetic to you, but since it's wet, when it dries up, you can see the results very nicely. The blend between both the colors. I'm just trying to add a little bit of water where we have the meeting on both the colors so that we can get a nice blend. Now you can just simply observe how I'm trying to put my brush between the two colors. Blend is looking really beautiful. Now you can observe the combination of Prussian blue and purple together. Now let's wait for it to dry. In case you didn't know how to. You can use a hairdryer or you can let it dry naturally only. Now we'll be starting with the next segment, which is the base area where we are going to have some icebergs. I have simply taken some Russian blue and add in more amount of water so that we can get a lighter tone of it other than more color. I'm just trying to cover the area you can observe the pencil line has already visible drive to fill the color inside. This would be the first step on which we are painting right now. Then we have a level difference. Don't paint between the two lines. Be very much careful by doing this. Use the tip of your brush to paint in the difficult areas. Now let us add a little bit of more water and make it a little bit more lighter. Now I'm painting the second step. I'm trying to use the tip of my brush so that there isn't any mistake. Finally, the last one, not only to Wudi in case you have got your color inside the lines, it is absolutely fine. We are going to paint black on it so there won't be any problems. So it is not going to be visible once we apply solid black color in it. Now in case you want a little bit of texture on the ice surface, what you can do is that you can simply use the tip of your brush and add these little strokes on the edges. Once it dries, you can get a nice effect on the entire surface. Now let us start by painting the mountain. So I've taken some solid black color in my color palette as you can observe. And we are having a detailing brush outside 0. So just simply try to start with your detailing brush on the above version. So I'm trying to draw the outline first and then we'll fill in the entire color. Now one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that whenever you are working with black color, tried to have more amount of color and less water because when it will dry up, we do not want to have a light gray shade of it. We want us all in black color. That you have to make sure that you have wood density of color rather than water. Can already observe that we have somehow got a nice shape of the mountain. Now I'm just trying to fill in the color. And it will be fine if you take some amount of water for us mood moment of your branch, but don't take it in an Access amount. One more thing that you have to keep in mind while working with watercolors is that the shade or the density of color that is visible when it's wet. It'll be one shade lighter when it dries up. Joules the gala density accordingly. And also the reason behind selecting a detailing brushes that you can paint in the difficult areas by using the tip of this particular brush. Now we are almost done painting the entire mountain. Make sure that there is no space left. That light watercolor paper that is in the magnum is not visible. Now let us paint the level difference time taking some more darker values of black. And we are going to start with the left. And I'll be simply coming towards the right portion. And you can just observe the movement of my brush, how I'm trying to use it. And also you can see how we are utilizing the tip of the detailing brush, since it is very thin and difficult area to paint on, but it is absolutely fine. The detailing brush will be really helpful to you. Let us paint another level as well. Now the steps are very much clear and visible. This is how the landscape is my link from one step to another. And then we have the mountain area. Now what we are going to do is that you are going to add a little bit of detail by using the same detailing brush. What do you have to do? Take some solid black color and add these little lines near the steps of things that we can add a little bit of detail and it will look really nice and aesthetic. This also acts as certain amount of texture and the steps. We are almost done with the painting. Now it's time to add some more details so that it looks even more attractive. Now here I have my white pen from Sakura Gelly Roll and gives you a nice light color patch. We are going to paint a little bit off nice and small moon. You can see I have drawn a small circle. And you can see how beautiful the moon looks with a nice contrast with the Prussian blue in the background. Now using the same white pen, you can draw these little stars and the entire background. I'm just simply dabbing my light pen on the background area. You can have a nice difference in the sizes according to your requirement. In case you want to smaller stars and tiny ones, then you can simply tap your white pen randomly. And if you want them to be a little bit bigger and then you have to draw a smaller socket. The stars are more vibrant and visible on the darker background as you can see. Now, simply repeat the same process. Died who have an even composition on the stars in the background. That will make your painting look really nice and good. And we are done. Now let us use our detailing brush again. And I have taken some titanium white in my color palette if it is visible to you. Now this time, what do you have to do is that tried to have very less amount of water in it and more color. And we are going to end the mountain area. What I'm doing is that I'm just trying to make these little strokes on the top of the mountain which is the tip basically. You have to apply these little texture on one side of the mountain only so that it looks and gives a nice 3D effect. So this is not at all difficult. You just have to apply these little patches case. You'll find it difficult. What you can do is that you can go to the practice session, practice this on a rough scrape off paper first and then come towards your final painting. Let us add some more details on the left portion of the mountain as well. Now we can see how beautiful the mountain is looking rather than a solid black color. We have added some value to it. Now simply removed as I dip, be very much careful valuing this and remove this item in an angle so that you do not end up during your watercolor paper. You can already observe how beautiful the edges are looking. This is also one of the most favorite parts of my embed video moon, this idea, it is really very satisfying. We are ready with the entire painting. Let me show you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details. I hope that you enjoyed all the aid being things more than, than light. I will be really excited and happy to see all of your projects into the project gallery. In case you have any doubts or questions, feel free to ask it in the discussion section. And don't forget to see the final thoughts for this particular class. 14. Final Thoughts: Hey everybody, this is the first class from rest off all my classes, which is based on a watercolor challenge. This is somehow very much especially to me. You have no idea how unexpected the outcomes can come whenever you're working with watercolors. So try to explore them as much as you can. In case you do not get a great output. And only to worry at all, keep practicing. As an artist. If I have to give you a best advice for your art career, then it will be that trying to maintain an art journal in which you practice on a regular basis. Whenever you get some time doing this, you can always rectify your mistake and improvise on that. Also, this helps you to keep a record of whatever you have learned in art till date. I hope that you enjoyed the class and got to learn something new and creative from this. I would be really excited to see all of your projects into the project gallery. Feel free to ask any doubts or questions you have related to the class and the discussion section. In case you're on Instagram, do tag me, I go by the name shutdown foundations. I would love to repost your work. Thank you so much for joining my class and happy painting.