Paint Winter Lakes Using Watercolors | Four Class Projects

1. Winter Lakes - Introduction: Window is a season that brings immense sense of magic and wonder to me. Lucky, or those who get to witness the breathtaking snowy landscapes. I come from a place where there is no snowfall at all. I have for lithium the snow, formal photos and videos. And I've always craved to be a part of this mystique wonderland. With my paints and brushes, I transcend into these snowy landscapes of my imagination. Hello, I'm Shannon to want an artist residing in Bangalore, India. I love to paint landscapes and things related to nature. To me, art is like a meditative process. Welcome to my class on painting winter lakes using watercolors. In this class, you will learn how to paint winter themed lake paintings. I'll be explaining agent, every step as we paint. And I'll walk you through all the supplies that will be required for the class. I'll help you understand the techniques with some examples. I share all the details about the colors and the composition before starting the project. Along with the winter legs, you will also learn to paint beautiful skies, trees, reflection, and many such elements. So without any further delay, let's get started with the class. 2. Art supplies used: Hello and welcome to my class. I'm so glad you decided to join my class. I'm going to walk you through all the art supplies that I'm going to use for the project. So let us have a look at the papers first. The papers that I've used here. These are both Hong 300 GSM cold press paper. As you can see, it has mild texture. I have used the backside of the paper, the smooth ER side of the paper. So these are all belong cold press paper. Next, let us talk about the colors. I have used. Artist grade paint here. So these are the shades that I'll be using for the class projects. This is my regular palette that I use for almost every paintings that I do. And it also has these multiple wells where I can mix my colors so I don't need an extra palette for mixing. This comes in really handy. I keep it by the side of my clipboard by Liping so that I can have access to all the paints and the palate. Now, let us talk about the brushes. I'll be using these six brushes. This is Princeton Neptune, size six. I use it as small brush for wetting the paper. It holds lots of water in it, so it's easier to apply water. And the larger areas. This one is size 12, silver black velvet, round brush. I use this for larger brush strokes. Then I have my mid-sized silver black velvet size eight round brush. This is for the medium sized strokes. Again, it has slightly pointed tip which I use for a little bit detailing while I paint. Then I have silver black velvet. I used to, I used this majorly for fine lines and detailing purpose. This is an old brush. It is actually size for our use it for creating foliage effect by just dabbing or just random brushstrokes, mixtures, Princeton, velvet touch, round brush. This is all fine liner detailer brush. So it has this very detailing pointy tip. Size 20 by zero. Uses very rarely in my project where I need to create any details. So that was all about the brushes. Lakes, we would need a pencil for sketching. Next, we would need white gouache paint to add some highlights for the snow and for the trees. Then I'll be using this rough paper to draw the thumbnail. It would need two jars of water. One you can keep for washing your dirty paint, brushes, and other one to take Clearwater? Apparently, both my jobs have dirty water in it. Make sure to use clear water when you start the painting. I would also need masking tape to tape down the paper while painting and Clipboard to tape down the paper. So I'll keep my paper like this on paper down with this ape, a blow dryer to speed up the drying process. So yeah, that's pretty much it. So let us move on to the next chapter. 3. Techniques for backgrounds: In this top row, I'm going to be talking about the techniques that I've incorporated in the class projects to achieve these different background. So let's consider these two paintings. If you see this first blue painting, it has blurrier, soft background. In this pink painting, we have some hard edges for the background foliage. So how do we achieve this variation in our paintings? I'll help you understand it with the help of some examples. So first, I'm going to paint two set of background washes. Before that, let me draw two boxes for the example. Okay, now, I'll wait another box as well. Okay, so let's start applying paint on both the areas. Here. I'm using a low color. Alright, so our background washes ready? I leave the upper area wipe as it is. Firstly, I'll show you how to achieve the blurrier effect. So here you need to apply paint when the paper is wet. So I'll take some darker color and apply on the wet surface. You could use any color. I'm just showing you e.g. this is wet on wet technique. So I've used this here as well in this project. You wouldn't hear all for this background. Ollie, for this painting, I'll be using the other method. I have to let the paint dry. The paper is completely dry. Only when it is dry, you will take some darker paint. So here I'll use my old brush to create the foliage effect. So here I'm applying paint on a dry surface. That's why we are able to achieve this hard and sharp edges. So these are the two techniques, how you achieve different effects. So wet on dry technique is for the pink painting. Wet on wet is for the blue painting. Next, I'll show you how to paint the snow. As you can see, these snow areas and nothing but the blank white paper, along with some diluted colors. These are diluted colors can be mixed by using ultramarine blue or Payne's gray, which suggest cool and warm colors. Let's say this is we have this area here. This area. So I'm going to use diluted ultramarine blue with a slight touch of burnt umber. To make it neutral. You could use any color for the snow. It could be warm or bluish color color or neutral color. So you see, I'm just randomly applying some color. This helps us to build a sense of dimension and shadow in the snow. In this painting, I've used just ultramarine blue. Let's say you have a heap of snow. I'm just going to apply some. Hello. You can blend it with clear water as well. Now, if you have some darker areas around this, the snow part will be automatically highlighted. Similarly here, you can see I've added darker colors to enhance the white snow. So I hope this was helpful. Let us move on to the next chapter. 4. Thumbnail #1: Before we start our first project, let me walk you through the thumbnail of this painting so that you understand the composition in a better way. So I'll first draw this rectangular shape. Remember your paper needs to be in rectangular form so that you get the competition right. So somewhere here, we have the horizon line, another line here for this boundary. Then we have the boundary of the leg. I'll be drawing this in a zigzaggy or blue shape. Now let's draw the boundary or I don't know, foreground area. And then we have smaller heaps of snow in the lake water. Next we have the sun in the sky, and we have the yellow hues around it, followed by pink hues. And around the corners we have this bluish gray Hughes. Same will be reflected in the water. Okay. Then there is some trees here. Reflection of the trees and the water will walk some shadow areas as well. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Now let's have a look at the colors required. Here for this LRU. I have used permanent yellow deep. You could also use cadmium yellow or yellow you have for the pink to use your use crimson plus orange, and then a bit of white to achieve this color. I've used this color in a diluted form for the sky over here. Then. For this guy, who was your, I have mixed ultramarine blue and Payne's gray along with some white. So it will give this kind of color. For the slow. I've used ultramarine blue with a touch of raw umber. Then for the trees have used black, or you can even mix burnt umber and Payne's gray. For the highlights on the trees and the snow, you would need white gouache paint. These were the colors required for the first project. Now let's get started. 5. Project #1: Let's get started. First, tape down the paper. Okay, so the paper is taped down. Once you're done, just run your finger over the edges. Make sure it is tightly sealed. So let's mark the composition of the painting. I'm just going to roughly mark the composition. In the upper half, we will have our horizon line. Then I'm going to mark another line just to indicate the snow part. Next, I'll motto, boundary of the lake. Drawing this line in a wobbly mine up. Next, I'll draw the boundary in the foreground area. Draw it very lightly. Make sure that I know Pentel dent on Paypal. These areas you see here will depict heap of snow in the lake water. Here in the distant area, we will have some trees, but we'll do it as n when we paint. I don't want to sketch any shapes that will be very restricting while painting. So I wanted to have a clean area so that I can form my own shape of trees. When I paint. First, I'll be painting the sky. And for that, I'll be inverting my people and keeping an object under the cardboard so that the paper is slightly tilted. Okay, so let's start. I'm going to use wet on wet technique. So I will first apply water using my size two round brush. Notice how I'm applying water only for the sky area and not for the other sketched areas. I'll allow the paper to solve water for some time. Let's say the paper reduce about 50, 60% of moisture, then we will apply the paint. So wait for some time. Then let me mix the colors required. I'm going to need a low. This is permanent yellow. You could use any yellow you have. Next, let us take Clemson, some orange. And I add a little bit of white. So basically I'm trying to create a peachy pink color. If you have a ready-made color, then go with that. Next, I'm going to make some bluish gray color. So I'll take ultramarine blue and Payne's gray and add a bit of white to it. So before we apply the paint, make sure to check the wetness of the paper. It should have a sheen on the surface. Alright, let's start clean my brush really well and switch to my size eight round brush. So I'm assuming the sun to be here. A small circular shape. Pick the sun. I'll clean your brush and apply this fellow that we have mixed. I think I shouldn't have mixed a little more paint in advance. Never mind. I'm going to mix it now. Apply this paint around the area. Next on the top area, I'm going to apply the bluish gray mix. The paper has absorbed really good amount of water. So you can see that the paints don't bleed very widely. It is blending in a controlled manner. Your brush strokes and doesn't have to be exactly like mine. The overall aim of this is to paint or something like a low area in the center and then some pink colors around. And in the corners we have this grayish color. Now, just Payne's gray. And add some decision trees. So here you have to paint the trees inverted shape because I papers in ordered position. When you come around this area. Fake born Tiana are born Dumbo. With a bit of orange. Create the sunlit effect. Adding any brown color. Sunlit effect on the trees. Again, in the bottom part, I'm adding some Payne's gray. This will add a sense of dimension for the trees. Now, I'll turn my board back to normal position. And there you go. This is the sky and the distant treeline. Know, I'm going to define some tree shapes. So I'll use Payne's gray for these trees here. Next I'm going to paint the water since these two areas are not correlated. So I let it dry naturally and I'll be painting the lake water meanwhile, apply clear water inside the sketched area. Leave these tiny areas that we have resolved for the snow, not apply water inside that area. Okay, so we'll create the exact replica of the sky in the water. Not exactly, exactly, but somewhat similar to those guy. So first I'll start with the yellow hue. And then I'm going to apply this peachy pink color. Next we will apply the bluish gray color. For that, I need to mix the color first. Ultramarine blue and Payne's gray with a bit of white color. Apply this paint around the foreground area. Gently apply and on the boundaries. We do not want to skip this wobbly shaped. Now apply some tiny brush strokes around the pink areas as well. Again, though, reflection of the trees. I'm using the pointed tip of my brush. So if you notice, I'm adding some zigzaggy brushstrokes and on those no boundary. Alright, now let's dry this layer using a blow dryer. Alright, no paper, it looks completely dry. So now I'm going to take ultramarine blue. And I got on the horizon area. This adds a sense of character to the snow and the distinct area. I'm just roughly creating the texture. Doesn't have to look exactly like something. Just randomly add some texture. And even in the foreground area. Apply this to all those new areas that we have. I'm going to mix a bit of burnt umber to the ultramarine mix. This will create a darker color. Now, add this to the background areas. Next we'll take raw umber and then makes a bit of burnt sienna. Mix it together. I'll take this mix and apply in their distinct area. This will act as the partition and the ground below those snowy area. We don't want to have sharp lines, hard edges, right? So I'm blending it with clear water or adding some Payne's gray. This will add a sense of dimension to the area that we just painted. Moving on, let us paint some trees in the background area. So I'm using this size four round brush to paint the trees. And I'm using black color. Notice the size of the tree and the upper area that I have left in this guy. Let's paint some more trees. I'm going to paint trees. A lot of trees in this area. So we can draw as many trees you want. So I'm drawing tiny lines and sunset area. Next, I'm switching to my point it in brush to paint the fine branches and tiny tweaks. This is optional step. You don't have to do it compulsorily. Adding these tiny little details, add a little extra beauty to the painting, makes it look realistic, even though we have painted with the loose style approach. Next, I'm going to create the reflection of these trees in the water. Try to create a similar looking effect in the water. Doesn't have to be exactly like 100% perfect shapes. You can incorporate some zigzaggy brushstrokes to depict a sense of movement in the water. Next, I'll take this peachy pink color and I'll be painting the ripples using the same. Since the water is slightly pinkish ER, because of the reflection. Same will be with the repulse as well. I'll reduce the density of these zigzaggy lines as I approached the main area of the lake again and on the corners and around the snowy part. I'm going to make it a little bit end. Increasing the intensity of the ripples towards the foreground area as well. If you notice, towards the boundaries of this lake, I've painted with darker colors and in the media areas, I've kept it very subtle. So that's what adds a sense of depth to the lake. Now, I'll now can do reflection of the trees in the water. Next, I'll be using yellow color for the LRA pulse here towards the left side. Now, I'm going to take this clean brush and spread the sharp edges that we have. Also applying some diluted payne's gray towards the foreground area. Brown color. Mix it with blue. Find, draw some grasses. So he only made randomly adding some grass blades. Next, using my fine liner, I will be applying some darker color. So making these tiny patches here, this will suggest no water paddles. Next time take white gouache paint. You can also use white watercolor. I apply thick, wide gosh over those snowy heap. Also introducing some new heap of snow, some tiny ones in the foreground. Also adding some thick white paint on the sides of the trees, creating a highlighted effect. Now I'll give some depth over here. I'll add some Payne's gray. I didn't get in the shape of ripples. That's when the white areas will be highlighted here as well. Finally, I'll add some birds in the sky. Some simple shape of birds. You can skip them if you don't want to add. But lastly, I'll add some final touches here and there. Okay, so we are done with this painting. Lastly, we will splatter some white paint. I'm using thick white gouache paint mixed with little bit of water. Alright, so we are done with this. Let us gently remove the masking tape. This is how our painting looks like. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. Share your class project. I would love to see your work. 6. Thumbnail #2: Okay, so before we start our second project, we will draw a thumbnail to understand the composition in oh, by the way, like I said earlier, I'll be using a rectangular paper in portrait orientation. So let's start the composition. Somewhere around the center of the paper. We have some heap of snow. In the center, we have a water stream. This is the lake, and on either sides there is snow. In the background. We have a tree line makes with bare trees and some trees covered with foliage. Behind the trees, we have partially visible sunlight and the tree is IPOs and late as well. So here we will be using yellow and orange juice for the sunset IPR. And then above that, we have some pink hues. And on the upper area of the sky will use purplish blue color. Then we will create the reflection of the sky and the trees in the water. And in this new area, we'll add some more depth and some guiding lines using diluted colors. So yeah, that's about the thumbnail. Moving on, let us talk about the colors required for this project. For the sundries, I'm going to use permanent yellow and orange. Then for the upper pink, cuz I'll be using crimson. For the purplish or violet shade. You'll see that I have mixed ultramarine blue and violet. I'll be using these colors in a diluted form. For the tree foliage. I will be using black and burnt umber. You could also use Payne's gray for a different brownish shade. And then here for the sunlit effect, I'll be using burnt sienna for the reflection of the sky and the trees in the water. I'll be using all the similar colors. And we would also need white gouache paint. So that's about the colors and thumbnail. Let us move on to the painting project. 7. Project #2: I have already taped down the paper. Now, let us start by sketching or marking the composition of the painting. I'm going to draw the horizon line somewhere in the upper half of the paper. Then I'm going to mark the area for the water stream. Draw the stream with some wobbly lines. And as we approach towards the foreground area, we really tried to make the stream broader insights. Around the horizon area. We will draw some slopey curves depicting a heap of snow. Here, I'm going to darken some areas to suggest the shadow or the depth under those node. Just doing it to remember the shadow areas as I bend. Okay, So let's begin. We're going to apply water about this area. Where thing though, entire sky area. So first I'll take permanent Hello. Apply some circular strokes. Then around that, I'm going to apply some orange strokes. Thicker consistency because our paper is already wet. So it will become like a diluted shade later on. Next, let us apply some pink hues in the media areas of the sky. I am using crimson and some purple, ultramarine blue. We'll mix these two shades. Same thing will repeat for the lake water as well. Okay. So here I want the shadows to be very intense. So I'm applying wet on dry technique. The sky was painted with wet on wet. The reflection doesn't have to be exactly like this guy. I mean, you can try to maintain around 90% of the sky in the reflection. Carefully, apply water and on the boundaries of the water stream. Notice how I blend the colors here. I'm going to paint the shadow of the trees. At this moment itself. That is, I'll be mixing brown and blue. Here. I haven't already painted the trees, but I want to add the shadows at this point because it will create a nice wet on wet blend. So based on the reflection of the trees, you can then paint to actual trees. Currently, I do not have a particular shape in my mind. I'm just trying to build some shapes. Since the paper is already wet. We're getting nice and softer blend here. Be careful about the paint consistency. If you're having too watery paints, you're gonna get some blooms. So avoid using a lot of water for this area. Around 70% of paints and 30% of water around the boundaries. I think some lines trying to define the shape of the snow. Next, I take slightly darker color, mixing a bit of black. And I'll simply add some horizontal lines depicting the movement in the water. So now I'm going to make this area dry. I lose my blow dryer. All right, Now the paper has dried completely. Next, we'll move on to paint the tree line in the horizon area. Next, I'm going to take my old brush and I'll be mixing a very darker shade that is burnt umber and black. Now, I'll take the paint, dab off all the extra paint that's there. As you can see, I'm dabbing the brush, creating some random strokes. This will depict the tree foliage and the distant area. When I reach around the area where we have the sun rays, I'm going to add some brown strokes. Create things and lit effect. Here. To achieve the sunlit effect, I'm mixing burnt sienna with brown. You could also use some orange-ish brown. Next, I'll add some red color there. It will add the intense sunlight effect. Or in the treeline. I don't want this area to be just red or orange in color. So I'm adding some darker color foliage as well. Try to keep a mix of different colors here that will create a nice harmony in the distant area. Now take black. Paint the trunk of the tree. I'm using a fine liner brush here to achieve these tiny lines. I love how this has turned out in the center part. Just look at that intense sunlight effect on the treeline. You can add some branches as well to define the tree shapes. Next, I'm adding some darker color for the shadow areas to define the snow. So I'll take black. And I did on the areas where I had marked some pencil lines. Also mix your own black. That's up to you. Now, I'll use Payne's gray bit of ultramarine blue. And I apply some shadows for the snowy heap that we have created. Now we will add some guiding lines from foreground to the background area. This will create an impression that this area is leading towards the background. Also adding some shadows on the right side of the stream. I think some branches. We'll know we're painting this in a kind of loose style, but adding little bit of details here and there, like these branches adds a sense of realistic touch to your painting. So go ahead and add whatever details you want. Next, let me add some grasses on the snow. With this darker color. I'm just adding some random dots here and there. This will create a sense of dimension in the snow. Next, I'm going to use midtone consistency of the gray color we used. And I'll be adding some dimension to the snore. Next I'll use white gouache paint. You could also use thicker or white watercolor. It's up to you. I'm taking this white color directly from the tube and applying it as smaller snow areas in the background part, or adding one in the foreground as well. Next, I'm going to take the same sky color that is orange and crimson. And I'll be adding some ripples. So just paint some horizontal and zigzaggy lines. Lines. They suggest a sense of movement in the water with black color. Some ripples over here. We're adding these lines based on the existing base color. Wherever we have the darker areas, we will use black and wherever this pink and orange, we lose the respect of color. Right? So we are done with this painting. You can splatter some white snow as well. Take thick white paint and mix it with a little bit of water. Like ten goes into photo, splatter the paint. Alright, let's remove the masking tape. Alright, so we are done with this painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. If you have re-created it, then please do share it under the projects gallery. I would be really happy to see your work. I'll see you in the next chapter. Until then, bye bye. 8. Thumbnail #3: Welcome back. Before we start our third project, let me walk you through the thumbnail of the painting. So I'll be using rectangular paper for this project. The orientation will be in landscape mode. Okay? So somewhere here we have the horizon line and I'll be leaving some gaps for the snow here. About the horizon. We have some trees. You can paint any trace of your choice. Then we have the reflection of the trees here in the lake water. Towards the foreground, we have this snowy area. We can draw this in some random shapes. And closer to the viewpoint we have some grass blades and some flowers and birds on these grasses. So here you can see, I have left this whitespace. This is the color of the paper and not white watercolor. So that's the beauty of watercolors. You can make use of the color of the paper for snow. And here I have used some colors to depict the ground. Underneath those. You can alter some of the elements if you want. And here we have some clouds. That's about the thumbnail part. Next, let us move on to the colors. The colors that I have used to heal our Payne's gray for the water here. Indigo and Payne's gray for these trees. Black color for these grasses. Diluted, ultramarine blue. You could also use cobalt blue and burnt sienna. Little bit of burnt umber and Payne's gray. For the bluish hue in the sky, have you settle in blue? And also, once you are now for these grasses. And also you will need some white gouache paint for some highlights and detailing work. So that's about the colors for the painting. Let's move on to the painting section. 9. Project #3: Welcome to day three of the class. Let's get started by taping down the paper. Once you're done with this, just run your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Okay, So let's start the sketching part. As always, I'll roughly mark the composition of the painting. Here we have our horizon line. And gently mothers from your, we have another line to depict the snowy lined in the distant area. Towards the foreground, I'll mark the area for the snow. In the center here we have the lake. Rest of the details we shall add as we paint. I'm going to invert the board. Keep something under the under the board so that we have a tilted position. Now, I'm going to use Payne's gray and I'm going to apply this mix on the lake area towards the foreground. I'm starting with thicker concentrated Payne's gray. Notice how I'm applying paint only around the foreground area. When you apply your just create some random shapes. This will be helpful to suggest the unevenness and around the snowy. Brush. A little bit of water and pull the paints downward. So this way we are creating a nice and soft graded effect in the lake water. Next, I'll move my board in different direction so that a nice even know looking effect is achieved. So now, after some time when the paper is about 50, 60%. Now at this level, I'm going to add the reflection. I'm using my fine liner brush. And with this, I'll be adding the reflection of the trees that we are going to paint next. So here I've created for some time and I loved the paper to dry for about 50, 60%. Then I've applied the paint. The paper needs to be partially wet in order to achieve this kind of effect. If you observe the brushstrokes are not so sharp or quiz, yet they're not very soft as well. So it's somewhere in between. Now I'll invert the board again to normal position. Let it dry. Okay, so this is completely dry. Now let's paint the sky part. I'll apply clear water with indigo, Payne's gray. I'll be painting some trees. You can use any darker color of your choice. I have used a mix of indigo and Payne's Gray. Also makes sure to leave this tiny whitespace here to suggest those nodes around the horizon area. I'm painting that raised in different sizes because I don't want to form that symmetry tool. Make sure you're painting the trees, same as that of the reflection part. Next, let us paint the sky. So here I'll be using civilian blue in diluted form. You could use any color of your choice. Also leave some white spaces in-between depicting the white clouds in the sky. Next, let me add some clouds in the sky using Payne's gray. These are darker clouds in the sky. You can keep your sky plain and simple as well. No restriction on adding these darker clouds. I'm adding some Payne's gray on the tree foliage here in order to create a separation from the clouds. All right, We are done with the sky and the lake part. Now let us pain doesn't know. So let me take ultramarine blue in a very diluted form that I have not captured the color mixing part, mature, you have to just hide or around ten to 20 per cent of color and lot of water. With my size eight round brush. I'm just dabbing my brush, creating its own chip. I'm intentionally keeping this area blank. Next, let us take burnt sienna in the medium consistency and we will dab the paint again, creating some smaller dot like shapes. You might ask, what is this that I'm creating? It is the ground area that is partially visible through the snow. X. I'll be using a mix of burnt umber and Payne's gray creating a darker color. And I'll be applying this around the brown areas that I just painted. Next, load your brush with the same darker mix and flatter it on the bottom-left area. So this is like a muddy surface that's visible through the snow. Next, I'll create the similar thing and on the boundary of the leg. So the other boundary doesn't have to be that prominent. Just keep it very light and minimal. Next, I'll take a thick black paint with a darker black mix. I'll be adding some grass blades around the foreground area. I'm going to vary the pressure in my brush to paint these glass plates. If I apply same pressure, it is going to create a very uniform like lines. I don't want that. So I'm just randomly applying these lines with varied pressure in my brush. Next, I'll take burnt sienna in thicker consistency. And I'll repeat the same with this brown color. You could use any brown that you already have. Now, I'll be painting some taller grass blades. Okay, and now I'm feeling scared that it might ruin my painting with the ticker and bolt brushstroke. There you go. I did it. I think it's quite normal to be scared, but it shouldn't stop you from doing things. So these lines, you'll see they shouldn't be very minimal. And for that, your brush should have very little amount of paint. Now, let me add some birds and flower-like shapes. Again, the position is quite irregular. There is no fixed shape and size in my mind. Go ahead with the flow and do whatever you want to. Next, I'm adding some brown brush strokes at the bottom area of these glasses to make it look a bit fuller. And then adding some random grass blades and leaf-like shapes. The end, it should look very wild and irregular. Alright, let me try this area using my blow dryer. Alright, the paper looks dry. Alright, so we're almost done with the painting. Lastly, we will add some final details using white gouache paint. So take wine, Gosh, or thick watercolor, white watercolor, and apply some white lines around these glass plates. So this will create a nice highlight. In the grassy area. I'm adding some white color on the flower and the buds to suggest a sense of snow on these areas. Next, I'm adding some grass blades around the boundaries of the lake. So here I'm using black. You could use brown or any color of grass you want. Let's add some boards over here. To add some depth. I'm giving this darker shadow. So when I will be want any white area or lighter colors to be highlighted, we simply apply some darker colors, making it look darker and it automatically highlights the lighter area. Use this rule in almost everything I create. Alright, so we are done with this painting. Now, let us remove the masking tape. There you go. This is our painting. I hope you enjoyed painting. This would mean Boucher, your class projects and other projects. Gallery. I would really love to see your work. 10. Thumbnail #4: Welcome to day four of the class. Before we start the project, let me walk you through the thumbnail of the painting so that you understand the composition in a better way. So the paper is in rectangular shape and I'll be drawing it in portrait form. Okay? So somewhere in the mid section we have the horizon line. And then there is this section for those snowy area. Here we have the lake. So here we have some trees. This tree is starting from rest of the trees are little further away from the viewpoint. Where you start these trees decide is the distance of three from the viewpoint. We have the trees here right? Behind that we have a low hills in the sky. The upper areas, I've kept very transparent. And here you'll see there are some background trees. The same will be reflected in the water. And we have some snow heaps in the water. That's about the thumbnail of the painting. You can alter it a little bit here and there. That's okay. Now, let us talk about the colors needed for the background sky. Here, you could either go with permanent yellow deep, or yellow ocher or any L0 you already have. That doesn't matter. Next, for the background blue color, I'll be mixing ultramarine blue and burnt umber. You could also go with indigo murder not use cobalt blue since it is a warmer color. When you mix cobalt blue with the background L0, it will turn greenish in color. Next for the trees, I'll be using black and Payne's gray. Like I said earlier, for the mutate background color, I'll be mixing ultramarine blue and burnt Dumbo. And I'll also be using white gouache paint, further details and the snow here. You could also use white watercolor in ticker form. So let us move on to the fourth project. 11. Project #4: Let us start our fourth project by taping down the paper. Once you are done taping the paper, just run your finger over the edges to make sure it is tightly sealed. Now let us sketch the composition of the painting. First. Let us mark the horizon line. Right next to that. I'll resolve the area for this note. Below. This is the lake part. Next, I'll draw the boundary of the lake around the foreground area. So the area in between these two lines is resolved for the leg. This is our lake. This is the ground part covered with snow. And you're really have some trees. Right? So let's get started with the painting. I'm going to apply clear water above the horizon line. Read the paper thoroughly and wait for some time. So I'm going to use yellow ocher plus a bit of permanent. I'm waiting for the paper to absorb somewhat. Oh, it should be an owned 40, 50% weight. While I'm waiting for the paper to absorb some water, let me mix another color, which is my mutate blue. I'll be mixing this with the burnt umber and ultramarine blue. I'll be adding just about 20 per cent of burnt umber to 80% of ultramarine blue. Make sure you're using a cooler blue because Walmart blew my greenish color when applied on a low. So be careful with that. Now take a clean brush and load your brush with no color. Hello, aka. I'll apply this paint. I don't dismiss area. I mix this in medium two diluted consistency do not apply thicker paint. And the upper part, we will leave it as it is white in color. Do the same thing. Lake water as well. I'll read the third phase first to go with wet on wet technique. I'm directly applying the paint on wet surface and I will not wait for the paper to absorb some water. Next, I'm going to take the Mu, brownish blue mix and apply some vertical brushstrokes depicting the background trees. Try to paint these trees in different sizes and shapes. We don't want to form a symmetrical shape here in the background. No, I'll extend this tree shape by adding some vertical lines. This will act as the trunk of the trees. Since it isn't distinct area, we don't have to worry a lot about all the detailing part. And with clear water, just soften your next I'll mix slightly darker shade of the same color. So here you can add more burnt umber to the mixture. I would still want a little darker mix. So what I'll do is I'll add a little bit of black to the same mixture, which will make it darker blue. Okay, so this color looks perfect. I'll add another layer of these three shapes. With these two shades, we have formed two separate layers in the background. You don't have to paint the exact same shapes, but make sure it looks like trees. No, I want to paint a bigger tree here, so I'll dab off all the extra color and with a damp brush, I'll just apply some minimal colors at the top area. This will act as the base for the tree that we will paint. Next, I'll paint another tree somewhere in the center. Let's add some more trees around this area. You can add as many trees as you want. Now we'll take concentrated mix by taking black and ultramarine blue and some brown. Just apply some zigzaggy brushstrokes depicting the tree foliage. This tree is present somewhere in the mid ground. Using the same darker color. I'll be painting some trees in the background area. Painting trees in multiple layers helps us build a sense of depth in the painting. Now, we'll revisit this area. You can take a large brush and with single stroke, you can read this area. Otherwise, if we're applying multiple stroke, the chances are that you might live the existing paint. So here, I'll take ultramarine and black, makes this mix should appear like a mutant blue color once applied on paper. I also apply some ultramarine blue. Trying to have a variation in the reflection area here. And my idea is to preserve the area around the left center part. So I'll carefully apply the paint here. Next, I'll take some black in thicker consistency and apply some horizontal brushstrokes depicting the ripples in the water. Next, I'm adding some black again around the boundaries. Be careful of the brush strokes. If you are applying very thicker horizontal strokes, you might cover up the entire area. Next I'll take my fine liner brush and with this roundness black. To make our darker brown mix. I'll add some tree trunks. Now, I'm going to add some vertical lines depicting the tree trunks. These folly ages are going to look like some flying trees. You can add as many tree trunks you want. No fixed number as such. For this tree in the right side, I'm going to paint the trunk a little bit thicker. So since this tree is bigger, so we'll make the trunk of this tree, they go and it will start somewhere. So this creates a sense of distance. Now, paint the branches connecting to the foliage. Okay, So we have painted the trees. Now, same thing needs to be replicated in the reflection as well. I'll try to paint similar looking effect in the water. Don't worry about creating pixel-perfect replicas. It is okay if it is little bit here and there. I'll add some more trees to make it look dense. And I had a sense of depth in the background. So I'm adding smaller chunks as well, which will depict the trees that are in the father area. You can extend the branches and add some tiny twigs. It's up to you, or you could even paint some simple straight lines. The choice is totally yours. I'm defining the tree trunks mainly around the bottom part. So here, if we start the trunk of the trees from different areas, it will create a sense of distance. Next I'll be painting though. I need to send branches using a very diluted color. I could use any fine liner brush or a rigger brush to paint these tiny details. Now, I turn my paper around and paint the branches easily. This will really help you to paint them in different direction. Why I'm painting like this is because I cannot keep my hand on the paper. Right? Sometimes the paper will be wet. So if you keep your hand on the paper, it will lift off the existing paint. That's the reason why I always use or hard board API people and not a paint directly onto the table. Painting these branches very irregularly. You can overlap the branches you are. You don't have to create perfect shapes showing exactly which branch belongs to which tree. You don't have to be very clear. You can leave that up to your interpretation. I'll paint some branches on this midground, three as well. Alright, I'll turn my paper around to its normal position. Now, let us add some reflections in the lake water. I'm just painting some vertical lines. Using downward brushstrokes. Next, let us take ultramarine blue in a diluted consistency. Use this color mix and apply at the bottom of the tree part. This will add some dimension in the snowy area and some in the foreground. Next, I'll take whitewash paint. You could also use thick white watercolor paint directly from the tube and apply a little bit of water to it. Load your brush with this white mix and gently splatter it on the whole painting. This will suggest the snowfall and also some thicker paint that ONE door tree trunks. This will act as the highlight and the snow on the trunk of the tree. On the areas where you want to create some highlighted effect. Next with same thicker mix, I'm going to apply it on the lake, suggesting a heap of snow and add some depth to that black color. All right, so we are done with this. Let us gently remove the masking tape. Okay, So this is how the painting looks like. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me and do share your class projects under the projects gallery. And also, if you have any doubts, please feel free to ask me in the discussion section. I would be happy to assist with this. We will wind up this class. I'm really thankful to each one of you who have watched my glass shared your projects. That really means a lot to me. I'll see you in my next class until then. Bye-bye.