Paint with Me: 15 Days of Easy Watercolor Landscapes

1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. I'm Shalika, a watercolor artist, and I welcome you to paint with me 15 days of easy watercolor landscapes. I am so happy that you are here and I'm excited to paint alongside with you for the next 15 days. Whether you are a complete newcomer to watercolors, or you have been painting for some time and simply wants to build a consistent creative practice. This class is designed to help you enjoy process of painting one small artwork each day. Over the next 15 days, we will create a collection of beautiful beginner friendly watercolor paintings inspired by nature and peaceful landscapes. Each project is thoughtfully designed to be approachable while helping you explore essential watercolor techniques, such as creating smooth washes, blending colors, building layers, adding textures, and finishing your painting with simple details. This class isn't about creating perfect paintings? It's about showing every day, enjoying the creative process, and becoming more confident with each brush stove. By the end of these 15 days, you will not only have a collection of finished paintings, but also a stronger understanding of watercolor and the confidence to build your own landscape. I'll guide you through each project step by step, sharing my process, color choices and techniques along the way so you can paint comfortably at your own pace. So grab your enthusiasm, set aside some creative time each day, and let's begin this wonderful watercolor journey together. I can't wait to see you in my class. 2. Materials: Let us look at the materials that we require for this class, starting with the papers. I'll be using Archie, 100% cotton, 300 JSM paper. I have this paper pad with me and I've cut these papers into these smaller size papers for us to paint on. Then we need the brushes. These are the brushes that I have used. I've used this Hake brush to apply even coat of water onto the paper. These two large size brushes, one medium size brush, and two detailed small brushes. Moving on to the colors, I use mix of colors from different brands, megaloms, shin hen, Sennelier, white knights, and I use this squash from rostro. Then we need watercolor palettes. I use these two watercolor palettes. I always have colors on them so I don't wash it off. You'll have one jar of water. You can also have two so that you can have one for clean water and the other to clean off your brushes. We will also need masking tape to tape down the paper onto a board. This is the board that we will use to tape down the paper with the masking tape. Next, I have this rough cloth. You can also use a tissue paper if you want. This is to dab off your excess water and to clean off your brushes. We will also need a pencil and an eraser to sketch out for our sketches. That's it for the materials for this class. Gather all the materials that you have, and then let's start with the 15 day journey. 3. Day 1 : Beach Sunrise/Sunset: I have my board, I have my paper ready. I'll just tape down this paper onto the board. Okay. Make sure to run your fingers between the gaps of the paper and the tape. Okay, now for a quick sketch for this one, we have our horizon line somewhere over here. Okay? The sun is somewhere this side. Okay. And we have our brushes, and the water come somewhere over here. Okay. Let me just using the kneeling azul, just lighten up these graphite marks. Okay, now this is my hake brush. I'll just apply an even coat of water throughout the sky area. Using your tissue or the rough cloth, dab off all the excess water from the corners. And now switching between the large size brush and the medium size brush, we will start with the painting, taking in yellow, dabbing off the excess water, start with the sky. Okay? Moving to Indian gold and adding that as well. Now I'll switch to the medium size brush. I'll take in orange, tabbing of all the excess water. We'll try to build in the bottom section of the sky. I will mean adding that depth to the sky. Just playing around with the colors that we have already applied, the yellow, the Indian gold, and trying to build in the sky bit by bit. So you will have a yellowish tone coming in from the top and you will have darker, orangish, reddish tone coming in from the bottom. That is what we are trying to add in over here while trying to maintain the whiteness around the sun. Okay. We're taking a little burn sienna and adding that to the bottom of the sky. Okay, what I'll do is using this rough cloth, I will just add on to the sun that we had built right and try to remove the colors from the sun area, taking a mix of burn sienna and vermili and just adding that to the sky. I will have some yellowness over here, so gust adding that it can be more vermilion. To blend it out, taking some orange, dabbing of excess water, and just blending this out with the sky. Similarly this side as well. Okay? What I'll do is just try to maintain the circle that we had created. So I'm just lifting off some color from around the sun to bring in that brightness. Okay? Just clean up your brush, tab off all the excess water, and just lift off the color from the sun area. That's it. Now again, taking a little bit of orange and just trying to blend it out. That is major for the sky. We will just have to be mindful of the sun till the complete layer dries off and keep on lifting of the color as in when we see some color coming in onto the sun area. So till this dries off, just be mindful of this. While this dries, and I'll continue to have a look at this, using my hake brush again, I will just apply even coat of water to the bellow section, but being careful of the fact that we have the color over here. I've left some gap. I don't know if it's visible, but I've left some gap between applying this new layer of water and the colors that we have from the sky. Let me just dab off all the excess water. Okay. Let us also tap in onto the sun, again, using the dried brush, lift off the color. Now using indigo, we will just add in some streaks like this. Okay? I'll take an orange and add in some layer of the orange tone as well to the water. Okay, the middle section would have more of orange. And taking indigo, dabbing of excess water, I'll just try to add lifting off some color and trying to see it doesn't bend off it again, little bit of more indigo and trying to build in the layers on the water? That's it. These thread like streaks that we have, I'm just working out to remove these, just blend these out. Taking a little bit of more orange and trying to just get that into this middle area that we have. This will have a lot of reflection of the sun, just trying to maintain that. Now, what I'll do is I'll take in my detail brush, take indigo, and with that, I will just try to add in some layer of indigo waves between the oranges that we have. C say I'm working with a very light hand, just adding in some streaks here and there, okay? So streets in between these oranges. Just blending this out with a dried brush. Almost there is no water on this. Just trying to get that round shape of the sun. Okay? Okay. This one, don't worry. We will anyways have a mountain range coming in on the horizon, so that should be fine. Just trying to see if there is a way to add a little bit more depth to the water a very light hand, detailed brush, less of water, more of color, adding in some streaks. Water is far the view that we have, so that's why we don't have very evident waves and ripples, but you can just try to add some to just give that depth to your painting. I think that's all. Similarly from the orange, I will just add some here. Now, what I'll do is this has tried using a neutro tint. We can add this giving an effect of a mountain range at the horizon. So I've taken very less water and more of color to get this done. I have just added some brush strokes of indigo color just to give some tint. We will just add in some bushes. So for now, just adding in this layer of neutral tint. And then we will add in the grasses and the plants. Or taking in my detail brush, neutral tint, dabbing of excess water, starting from this itself, I will just add in these streaks, you can see. I'm adding these streaks over here. Some shorter, some taller, some thin, thick Actually, we can extend this. I think we had it till here, right? I'm purposefully keeping these like this so that we can build in the grasses, okay? Now, then, just try to build in the grasses. Some are toys, some are shorts, some ten. Um And now what my is, we just add in some flowers in some of them, okay? Now again, because it's a sunset you, so you will not be able to see the flowers. So that's why you have all of these things in black color. Adding some. Oh yeah, that's it. And what we'll do is this section. You can just add in some drops of water to give you some different effect. You can see this will bloom out and we give some effect. Now, the last thing that we do is the sun that we have right. I just use whiteqh my detailed brush, and we will just mark it out. Very careful in this do not rush this process. As this is sunset and you have the sunset sky, I think if you have been following my classes, you would know I would not leave the sky barrel, and I would definitely add in some birds. So just taking neutrtin my detailed brush, and adding few birds. That's it for the class project. Some of the parts are still wet, so let's just wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking cake. Okay, paper has not dried. Let's peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. It looks so serene, right? I'll see you now in the next class project. 4. Day 2 : The Lone Tree: I have my paper here. Using the masking tape, we will tape down the paper onto the board. Okay, paper is now ready. Let's look at the quick sketch. So around three fourths of the paper is your horizon lying. You have your tree coming in from here. Still here. Okay? And then you will have your leaves branches of the coconut tree or the palm tree coming in like this. Okay. And this is here your sand and beach. Okay, simple sketch for this one, tapping off to lightly graphite marks. Okay. And for this one, what I'll do is using the masking tape, I will just add this over the horizon so that we have a very crisp horizon. Okay? So this part is your sky, we'll paint that first and then we'll come to our beach section. Now again, taking in my hake brush, apply an even coat of water to the sky area. I'm just running my brush to make sure that there is no pool of water that is formed when we apply the water. Okay. Now again, using my rough cloth, I will just quickly dab off the excess water from the corners. Okay? Okay. Now using my large size brush and serlein blue or cobalt blue or any other blue that you have, we will paint the sky. You can choose to leave some white caps. It's a very simple sky, blend of fun color, leaving out some white spaces for depicting the clouds. What we can also do is using your tissue paper or your cloth and making it something like a tip like this, we can paint out the clouds. See, I'm just dabbing off my fingers, drifting up the color, and trying to get in the clouds shape. Okay. And what we can do is using my detail brush and a very, very diluted tone of paints gray or neutral tint, we can add in the shadow of the cloud. Similarly, say this side as well. It's very, very diluted. So That's it. Now, we will wait for this to dry and then we'll paint on our waters. The paper has not dried, t we just peel off the stape now we will start with the sea. So I'm just taking in my medium size brush, taking in indigo, tabbing of the excess water. I'll just add that indigo on the horizon, be careful of the tree branch that we have. Taking a little bit more. Again, dropping off that color. Okay. Now, taking in turquoise green and just blending it out, building hair turquoise Blue, seeking side as well. Just blending on this out. Oh We also adding a little bit of bright blue just to bring in little tone change to the sea. Okay? Just let me just add a little bit water to the paper, and then we will blend all of this out. Going ahead again with indigo, dropping that tone at the horizon, okay? H Okay. Now going ahead with turquoise blue and just adding that tone as well. Okay. And a little bit of bright blue, too. Okay. Now for the sand, what I'll do is I'll take an Indian gold and just add that to the beach idea. It's okay if some of this blends out with your blue. Okay. I'll take a little bit of burn sienna and drop that tone as well. Just adding that near the. These thread like streaks, right? I'm just trying to reduce them. It's okay even if it comes in because we will add in the white foam of the C. I'm just trying to lift off some color from here to make it a little lighter. Okay, I'm just cleaning up my brush, lifting off some color just to make it a little lighter. Okay? Okay, I think that's it. This should be good. Now, we will have to wait for this to dry before we start painting the tree or adding in any details to the beach. Okay? The paper has tried almost 80%. Now, we can start with the tree. So I'll start with Indian gold diving of excess water. We will add in that shade on the tree, okay? Well switched, burn Sienna, d of fixes watered and add the tone towards this cod. Now, what I'll do is I'll take a neutral tint and add that to bone Sierra to get sepia, and I will add that tone as well towards this section. So we will have a darker tone of our tree towards the side sunrays are coming in from there. So this area would be a little brighter compared to the rest of the tree. Cleaning up my brush, taking a little bit of burned sienna, and just blending all of this out. Actually, let me take a little bit of Indian gold and use that to blend this out. You can add a little bit more of neutrtint at some places just to bring in that depth. Now, for the tree leaves, I'm going to use my detailed brush, with the detail brush bit by bit. Taking in burn sienna. I just adding ready to get these lines. Now, I'll take in sap cream. Actually, I'll take in yellow with a very little add in a very little bit of sap cream to it and start painting this side because your son is this this way. So you will have some leaves which are a little lighter in shade, right? So we'll start with that. Adding some to this branch as well. This one, too. You can just add a little bit in all the branches. Okay. Now I'll take in sacre dabbing of excess water and build this on top of it, okay? Just lay on with this, add in some larger streaks, some thick, some short, okay? So just start from the inside and just let it go. Just leave it, okay? This side as well. S starting from the inside, and then you can see, I'm just letting it go. Be careful of your water that you have. It has almost only dried, so I can keep my hand. Otherwise, you wait for your paper to dry and then build on this, okay? It's looking nice, as we build on it with different layers of green, it will look more beautiful. We will add in different tones of green as well. So this will look more beautiful. I'll add a little bit of neutral tint to sap green to bring in a little darker tone of green and we'll add that on this. We will just keep on building a little bit more of darkness to this green that we already have. I'm liking how this tree is turning out. Okay. I think what I'll do is I'll just not directly take neutral tint and just add very little strokes towards the inside. This is the darkest tone of greens that we want to add. So I'm just taking in directly the neutral tint to build that up, okay? And it will be mostly towards the inside the sun rays are not reaching over there, right? And you have a lot of leaves in the inside. That's where we will add them the most. Okay. That's it. Now what I will do is take in a neutrtint dabbing of all the excess water. We'll just add some dry brush streaks on the paper, see. You can see as I don't have any water, I'm able to create these textures. These are called as dry brush strokes because your brush does not have any water. And if you just pick up the color, this is how you get the streaks. No, I have cut a little water, so I'll just dab off all the water still more dab off, and I'll just run my brush across this. And coconut trees have rings like this, right? So I'm just trying to build in that rings. So that's why all my strokes now are trying to bring in and create those rings. Okay. Now for the waves, we're going to use white quash. Okay. And now with my medium size brush and my detail brush, again, for creating the waves as well, right, we will be using the dry brush technique itself. It's the first layer, we will add. So I have tapped off all the excess water and more water to be removed. I'm just trying to build in the waves. Taking in more color and just building on the waves. You see? You can build in your waves. Okay. Now what I'm going to do is using my detail brush and gouache dabbing off all the excess water. At least for this corner right, for the beach side, I add a differentiator this is what you have the waves coming in, so just building that here. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is using my medium size brush and white quash, I'll just try to add in some these streaks, okay. Okay. Now again, using my detail brush, I'll just try to create in these lines these forms, right? I'm just trying to bring that some structure to a continuing with the waves. What we can add is at some places just a little bit of waves, right. In the middle of the Seau sometimes see small waves forming, right? So I'm just trying to add that. Okay. What I will do is, I'll take in burn sienna, mix it with neutral tin to get sepia, and we'll just try to add that here at the bottom of the waves. When your waves touch your sand, right, that part of the sand is the darkest if you note it, right. So I'm just trying to build that. And now using Indian gold, we'll just blend it out. So this is that part of the sand. You can add it a little bit more. Doesn't have to be just exactly near the waves, so you can just add it as if water has passed in from here, and that's why you have the darker shade of the sand. Okay, adding in some darker platters here. Okay, that's it for this painting. Let's just wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. Do one thing using a white gelpin, I will just try to add in some white waves on the sea. Again, just depicting that there are waves coming in. Add some. Now, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. Okay, the paper has not dried. Let's peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. It looks beautiful, right? I'll see you again the next last project. 5. Day 3 : Ocean Horizon: Welcome to day three. Okay. Just running my fingers across the tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. There is a such no sketch for today's class. I will just add in this tape to mark out the horizon. Say this is the horizon. Okay. Okay, using my hake brush, just apply even coat of water to the sky area. You can see I'm just running my brush across the paper, the sky section and making sure that there is no section which is left from the application, and also making sure that there are no pool of water anywhere on the paper. Okay. Now using my tissue, I will just dab off all the excess water from the corners is to make sure that the water does not see back in to the painting when the painting starts to dry. And now using my medium size brush and nelar yellow, we'll start with the painting, dabbing off the excess water, and just going to apply this color on the middle section. Okay. Cleaning of my brush, taking in orange, dabbing off again the excess water. I'll just add that towards the bottom of the sky. Okay. Now what I'm going to do is using the compose blue, a very diluted tone of it, you can use any blue that you have. My compose blue got mixed with indigo, but that's okay because we do want different layers, right. Just apply the color to the sky. Always start with lighter tone, and then bit by bit, you can build on the tone of your painting. It's easier to manage your painting that way. Taking a little bit more of compose blue and just adding the tone, another layer, okay? Now I'm taking the yellow, dabbing off the excess water and building that too. And now similarly, the orange. Okay. Now, using indigo dabbing of all the excess water, I will add in some clouds to the painting. So you can see, from the left, I'm just adding in some clouds. Okay. Similarly, taking a little bit more of indigo and adding some clouds from this side as well. You can see my strokes like I'm pulling off indigo from left to right, and just trying to add in the clouds. Okay, this side as well. Okay, taking a little bit more of indigo and adding a little bit more of the hoisin Just cleaning up my brush and blending all of this out to just reduce this thread like streaks that we see the hair like streaks, trying to reduce that. And now what I'm going to do is using my detailed brush and indigo, tabbing of all the excess water, I'll drop in some small clouds in the middle area. And also try to build in the clouds that we have already added in. Okay. So it happens that you start with a big cloud, but the tail of dead Cloud as you come to the tail, it becomes small, right? That's what I'm trying to build with this detail brush. Small, small streaks of cloud. Sore this side as well. And also take a little bit more of orange and try to build some clouds below the blue ones that we have. S here, adding a little bit of orange clouds. This side as well. Just in some places to bring in that different depth with the sky. You can see I'm just using my detail brush and adding in some clouds. Let me take a little bit more of indigo and build some clouds over this side as well. I'm switching it between orange clouds and blue clouds to just build in some different tones. You can see every time I take up more water, I dab off all the excess water because the paper has now started to dry, and if I add in more water, it will cause in blooms, so I don't want that to happen. So what now I'll do is because I'm still not happy with the sky, I will take in my dakebush and with a very, very light hand and very little water, I will just apply an even coat of the water on the paper. And now we will build on the sky. It's very dry at my place, so the paper is getting dry very fast. So I'm just trying to add a little bit of compose blue, and now taking indigo, trying to build in the sky again. So in case whenever you're painting and you're not very happy with your painting, right, you can always wait for it to dry, add another layer of water, and then try to paint again. Now I'm taking an orange, dabbing off the excess water, and just building in the sky. Now, again, taking in a dense tone of orange, dabbing of all the excess water. Just try to add in some clouds now taking in my detail brush and indigo, dabbing of all the excess water, we'll try to build in the clouds. You can see I'm just pressing in my brush and trying to build in this guy. You can play around with the sky and add in as many tones of blue that you want. So the top one, I'm just trying to wiggle that a little bit more darker. So I'm just adding a little bit more cloud streaks on top of the one that we already have. Similarly, this side as well, just trying to add a little bit of more clouds. Small. It's a cluster of very small small clouds. So I'm just trying to build that and here I will just clean it up and we don't want these hair like streak side, so we will just clean it up. Using a clean brush, damp brush, dabbing off all the excess water, I'm just running my brush through the paper. This looks much better. Again take in a little bit of blue. I will just try to build in some dense clouds or darker clouds here as well. Now let's wait for this to dry, and then we will start with our ocean. I'll just take in again the tissue and make sure that the water from the corner is all soaked in. Okay, the paper has somewhat dried. I'll just peel off the masking tape, and then we will paint in the ocean. Now for the sea as well, I will just take in my hake brush and apply even coat of water on the paper. I'm just careful on apply near the horizon. Just keeping a very small gap over there. We will add our color directly. Just dabbing of excess water from the corner. And now taking in my medium size brush indigo, we'll just add that on the horizon. You can see I'm being very careful while I'm applying the color over there. Work on it very slowly and apply the Now, I'll just clean my brush and I will just lend this color out. Okay. So using an orange, just add streaks of it the middle section. This section would have the most of the orange, so I'm just adding that Tanning off my brush, just blending this out. And now, using in paints gray and indigo combination, we will just add in the color. So you can see, I'm just adding in indigo from the sides similar to this side as well, paper has started to dry a little bit, so let me just apply the color and then we will build in the layers. Okay? Now, what I'll do is I'll switch onto my detail brush. I'll take in painscreen indigo mix, tab off all the excess water, and just try to add in the layer over here, okay? Just a little bit of wave like streaks. As I said, we will not be painting a lot of detailed things, so I'm just adding in a little bit of streaks here and there to just give it the effect of water. Take in my medium sized brush, orange, tap off all the excess water, and just try to add that tone. O taking indigo, just trying to bring out more depth to the color. I'm not adding anything no waves or anything, just taking an indigo and just trying to build that tone, from the sides. Taking a little bit of paints gray as well and adding that too from the sides. You can say I'm working with very, very light hand dabbing off all the excess water every time I go and pick up color or more water, cleaning up my brush and just trying to blend this out. Clearing of my brush, taking in a little bit of pange and adding the tone. That's it. That's all for the painting for today. Let's wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. Okay? So paper has got dried. Let's peel off the masking tape. The pile of copper beautiful. Looks beautiful, right? I'll see you again in the next cart. 6. Day 4 : Golden Reflections: Welcome to Day four. I have my paper here ready. I'll just tape down the paper onto this board using the masking tape. For the sketch for this class, so this is the horizon line. This is where we have our boat. Okay. Have a rod like this. So this is the boat, a very simple sketch and a simple boat and say this is where your reflection of the boat will come in. Okay? Now, starting with the sky, using my hake brush, I'll just apply an even coat of water throughout the sky. I'm making sure that no corner of the paper stays dry and also making sure that there is no pool of water that gets formed on the paper. Being very careful near the horizon, spending some time on this step to make sure that the paper is thoroughly wet, the threads of the paper are wet. The more the paper is wet from inside, the longer it will stay wet and the more time you will get for painting the sky. Using the rough tissue or cloth, we will just wipe off all the excess water from the corners. This is to make sure that the water does not see back in when the paper starts to dry. Now, starting with the painting, using cobalt blue or bright blue or serlein blue will start with the sky. You can see I'm just painting the blue till say half of the sky, starting from the top till this half area. Now I'll take in yellow and add in that tone. Yellow and blue when mixed together gives you green, so be very careful when you paint it on the edge. Okay. And now taking in orange, dabbing off all the excess water, just adding in some streaks. Taking a little bit more of orange and trying to add some orange clouds in the town section of the sky. It's not a very cloudy sky, so you will not have a lot of clouds, just adding some tones of orange as clouds in the sky. Taking a little bit more of yellow, dabbing of excess water, adding that in the sky. Okay? This is a very simple sky you can see. We're not going with very complex details, the orange is what I'm trying to build in the lower section. That's it. Okay, that's it for the sky. Now, while the paper dries using the masking fluid, I'll add that onto the boat so that when we start painting the water, the boat is safe from getting any colors on. So I'm just taking some masking fluid. I have this old brush, add some soap to my brush. Okay. Take up the masking fluid and just add it. I usually remove it on a palette or something and then apply the masking fluid. But today, my palettes are all busy with the colors, so I'm just directly applying the masking fluid from the bottle. That's it. Now, let's wait for the paint to dry. Let's wait for the masking fluid to dry, and then we will paint out the water. The masking fluid has all dried up. Using my large size brush, I will just apply even coat of water on the water area. Again, I'm going through my brush multiple times to make sure that the paper stays wet. So what I'll do is I'll just put this below. So what happens is all the water that you have applied, right, all the excess water will automatically flow down because of gravity, and then you can tap it off with your tissue paper or with your rough cloth. Let me just take my cloth and just remove all this excess water from the corners. Now using my medium size brush and detail brush is what we will paint the water. First, starting with bar glue or serlo, the blue dirty have used for the sky, I'll just apply a layer of water. For now, we will leave out the reflection area. Even if some slight color goes in, that's okay. No worries. But we will purposefully not try to add in any color over there, okay? Now I'll take a little bit of yellow, a very diluted tone. You can see it's very, very light, right. So I'll just add that to the water as well. Now, taking in orange, diluted tone, dabbing of excess water, and adding that as well. Now, using this detailed brush and orange, dabbing off all the excess water, I'll add in very, very thin and light waves at the horizon side. Okay. Using this medium size brush and a darker tone of the blue, dabbing off all the excess water painting the waves. So near the eye view, the waves are darker and thicker and as you move away, it starts to become lighter and thinner. So that's the thumb rule that we're going to use and paint out the waves. Whenever I take in color, you can see I try to paint in the thicker waves near the eye area. And then when I know that the color is lighter on my brush, I tend to paint out the farther one near the horizon ones. Okay. Now again, I'll take in Takatn of blue, which is indigo, dab off all the excess water, and just add in in some places near the eye view waves. Okay? Now, what I'll do is using this detail brush and indigo, dabbing off all the excess water. I'll try to build in these wave streaks. Okay? Taking in the lighter tone of blue, the cobalt blue or the serine blue that you have, and again, adding in the waves. Near the boat because of the reflections, the waves would be a little darker, so I'm taking indigo and adding that tone. Now, what I'll do is I'll take in a bit of orange, dab off all the excess water, and in between, we also add a little bit of orange waves. Between these blues, there is orange as well. Okay. I'm just lifting off some colors between the waves to give it a wave effect. Taking a little bit more of indigo, dabbing off the excess water, and just trying to add in the waves here and there. Okay, the paper has started to dry. So what I'll do is I'll wait for it to dry off completely, and then we'll apply an even coat of water and try to paint in the waves again. Just trying to lift off some of the colors in between the waves. Okay, let it completely dry off. We will add another layer, and then we will paint on the waves again. Okay? The paper has almost dried. I'll take in my brush and apply an even coat of water on this side with a very light hand as we don't want to move the colors that we have applied in the base layer. So with a very gentle hand, I'm just applying another layer of water. Now, we again follow the same steps and paint out the water. So taking in the blue, dabbing of excess water and adding the same. I'm just trying to make the waves again. I'm just going to add a little bit of neutral tint to indigo to get a very dark tone and add to these waves near the pi area. Okay? Now, taking in my DTape brush and taking in indigo, add in some of the thin streaks. Okay. Now tapping of all the excess water and with a very light and thin hand, just adding some water waves on the horizon side, okay? M detail brush and neutral tint adding some streaks on the high side. Okay. Now I will just lift off some color in between these waves. Let you take the medium size brush, and just lifting off some color in between these waves. As the blue and the indigo is a staining strain of color, you will still have light bluer shade on the paper. That's it. Let's wait for this to dry, and then we will add in more highlights on the waves and paint out the boat and reflections. Okay, paper has now all dried. The waves have come out beautiful, right? Now, we'll start with the boat. For that, I'll just first remove the masking fluid that we have applied. So with your fingers or with a eraser, you can just quickly remove this masking fluid. As the sketch has also gone away, so I am just very lightly re adding the sketch that we had. The main reference is still there, so just adding in those details that got removed with the mask. Now, using my medium size brush and burnt Siena, I'll add in the first layer on the boot, dabbing off all the excess water. Just adding these details. Taking in sepia. So from the left side, I'm just adding in Tarkaton of brown, which is sepia and just blending that out with burn sienna. Okay. I'll just take in burn sienna again, dab off all the excess water and add that on top of the sepia that we have applied, okay? Okay. Just adding a little bit of burn sienna again on this side and just blending that out. Now, for the other side, I'll use in sepia, a very, very diluted ton of sepia and just add in this color, a flat wash of the same, okay? Taking in slightly darker tone of sepia and we'll just add that on the edges and let that blend out. Now, while this dries, we paint out the reflections, at least the first layer. So I'm just taking in sepia. So the reflections near the boat would be the darkest. So the one that's touching the boat, right, that's usually the darkest. So I'm just adding that And this side, say, there is sun reflection. So we have burned Sienna this side, right? So I'm just going to take in burn Sienna and add that over here. We can blend out both the shades and just add in these line like streaks. You could leave in some white spaces as well. That's all okay. You see I'm just trying to add in different tones of own sepia and burn sienna and just building in the reflections. Now because it's a wavy water, your reflection will also be wavy. So that's what I've tried to depict here. Now, what I will do is using my detail brush and burn Siena and sepia mixture, I will just add in some slight small reflections here and there. Just the edges. I'm just trying to build in the reflections. This rod would also have a reflection, so it's over this side, right. We will just add in something like this depicting the rod. So the reflection starts longer, and as you move away from it, becomes shorter. Building some this side as well. Just some reflections here and there. This looks beautiful, right. I'll just take a little bit of burn sienna and neutro tint mixture and just these details. Now, using my Indian gold, dapping of all the excess water, I'll add that tone on this line that we have, right. So I will add the Indian gold over here. Okay. And towards this side, just a little bit of burn sienna to bring in the different tonal value to this. Okay. Using sepia, adding sitting that we have on the boat, right? The wooden planks to sit. I'm just adding that over here and on this little rod, as well. This part of the boat, this is the darkest, so I will just add in burn sienna and sepia. And actually, this is what the tone should be of this side as well. So using my medium size brush and this tone, dabbing off all the excess water, I will just add a fresh wash to the boat. Taking in burn sienna as I come here and just blending all of this out. At least on the section where your water touches your boat, there should not be any whiteness. So I just trying to blend it out. We're just left with one tiny detail on the boat, but as the surface is still wet, so we'll wait for it to dry. Meanwhile, on the horizon, right, I'll just add in some mountain range using neutral tint. They are very far from us. We're just trying to build it on the horizon, okay? This one is little more farther than the first one. So you have them in the lighter tone, okay? This one is a little bit darker as it's front of the other one. Just cleaning up the sit. This looks good, and while we are waiting again for the boat to dry off, I will just add in some boards using neutral tint. That's it. I think these are enough. Now, adding the last final details, again, using my detail brush itself and neutral tint, we'll just add in the line that we had sketched out, right? Remember? So we'll just add that in over here. That's it. Now, what I'll also do is using indigo, I'll just also add some water ripples as well. That's it for today's class. Hope you like the class project. Let's peel off the masking tape. Okay. This is the final look of the project. Hope you enjoyed today's class. I'll see you again in the next class. 7. Day 5 : Path to the Sea: Okay. We'll come to the next class project. I have my paper here ready. Using the masking tape, we'll tape down the paper onto the board. I'm running my fingers onto the paper just to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. Now starting with the sketch. This is the sky and this is basically the horizon. Mounted trail coming here, another rocky surface come in side and say this is the great. And this is where we have the path. Okay? Then we have the greenery over here and the rocky surface over here. So this is the greenery part, and then this is the rocky surface. Okay. That's it for the sketch for this class. Using a yielding eraser, I will just lighten the graphite marks. You can roll your kneading eraser or you can just tap off and slide in the marks. Now, starting with the sky, I'll use bright blue for the sky because the sky area is very small. I'll use my mop brush and just apply an even coat of water. That's it. Now again, using the cloth or the tissue, I'll just tab off all the excess water from the corner. Now using the medium size brush, bright blue, just add in the sky. It's a very simple sky. Just leave in some white spaces. And That's it. That's all that we have for the sky. We will have to wait for the sky to dry before we can start painting the sea. Otherwise, the sky and the sea, the color will blend off between them, okay? So we will just quickly wait for this to dry, and then we will paint on the water. Okay, the paper the sky has dried. Now we will paint out the beach area. So I will take in my large size brush, we'll take in turquoise blue, and we will just add that color onto the horizon. In between, we will also add in u to give in different tone of blues the water, basically. At the horizon, I'll just add tinge of indigo, Okay? Using my medium size brush and indigo, I'll add that darker tone to the horizon side. Okay. Now using turquoise Blue, dabbing of excess water, we will just blend all of this out. Just at some places we'll add in a little bit of indigo to bring in the depth and the shadow effect. Okay. That's it for the sea. Now for the hills, starting with yellow. Okay. We'll add in first this side because we have just painted the Sea, right. So I don't want to touch that data otherwise the color will bleed into the water, but we're starting with this. And if you see I'm having my strokes like this, we'll just add in the greens and the yellows. Taking in different tones of green. So I'm just taking in sap green for now, dabbing off all the excess water and trying to add that tone. Taking in some olive green, adding that as well. Also taking a mix of neutral tint and sap green to get a little darker tone of green and dropping that tone as well in some places. Okay, taking it more of yellow, dabbing of excess water and just blending the harsh edges out. Similarly painting out this side as well. Starting with cellular yellow. Okay. Adding in the greens taking in olive cream. This first layer is a free flow sort of layer where you can drop in the different shades of green, darker green light. And then we will build on top of this and add in some flowers, some textures to the greenery that we have. Let's wait for this to dry slightly. It will dry off in very quickly, but let's just wait for this to dry. Meanwhile, I'll just take in a little bit of indigo, dab of excess water, and try to just clean this out. What I'll also do is I'll take an Indian gold, a very diluted tone of the same, grabbing of all the excess water. We add the base layer to the pathway. Taking in burn Siena and just dropping off some darker tones towards the border side, intersection of the pathway and the grass. We'll clean up all of this in the second layer that we add, so it's okay if some color spills over. Similarly, let's paint out the base layer for the rocky surface. So I'm taking in very diluted tone of burn sienna, starting with that and then we will add in the darker tones of brown. Okay. This is one rock that has come in. Let me also pull out en Dike brown and add in those details as well. Okay. Now using neutral tint, dabbing of excess water will drop in that toll too. Similarly, this rocky surface as well. Nutritent Okay, so again, that's the base layer. Now for the greens that we have, so this is a green pathway with flowers and grasses. So we will now start building on the grass streaks that we want to add in. So I'll take in my detail brush and my medium size brush, and using in sap green, starting with that, we will just add in a few streaks of grass. So the one which are nearer to our eye would be very evident to be seen as grasses, right? So I'm just adding those. And the one that we go a little far off, we can just add in dot like streaks to just depict that there are grasses, right? Okay. And very far off, we will not be able to see the grasses as such, so we can just tab in some colors like this. Okay? I'll take a little bit of olive green using my detail brush, tabbing of the excess water, we'll add some olive green streaks as well. Okay? Actually, let me take sap green. And instead of these very evident streaks, let's just build on to the grass. The way we had created the first layer. We will just try to build on the grass in a similar way. I know it'll messy, but let's see if you are able to revive this, and if it does, then I'll add this as a class project as well so that you all get this experience of rebuilding your painting as and when required. Okay. Taking some darker tone of green and adding them at some places as if it's a cluster of grasses, right? I'm just trying to build that out in some places. Okay? I think this looks better. And now we will just add in some flowers on this. So let me take in cadmium red. Dabbing off all the excess water, just dropping in some cadmium red in some places. And we will add it again once the paper is dried. Basically this layer is dried. But this basically will give you some effect of flowers being there. And in a very similar way, using cadmium yellow, dabbing off all the excess water in a similar fashion, we will add in some yellow flowers as well. Okay? Again, once this will dry, we will add in another layer to bring out the brightness of the flowers. But this looks good. Following the same approach for the other side of the grass, taking in sap green, just dropping in some colors for diet apply an even at of water on this area. That will help us blend out the colors very easily. Now taking in sap green, dabbing of excess water, dropping off some colours. Similarly taking in leaf green. This is basically your cellular yellow and sap green mix. I already have that as a color. So I'm using that. If you do not have it, you can mix in your sap green and yellow and just adding that tone as well in some places. Okay? Now, taking in your olive green, tapping of all the excess water. So on near the path right, I'll add in the sap green to give that little darkness to the path. Okay. Now taking in the darker tone of neutral tint and olive green and just dropping off that color in some places. Okay? I'm also taking a little bit of just neutral tint and dropping of tat tone as well in some darker tone areas to bring in more depth. Now, taking in my detail brush, cadmium red, orange, and just dropping off those colors. I'd be a lot of flowers this side. Similarly using in cadmium yellow and just dropping off some colors. This is a bed of flowers. It's been just filled with flowers. That's what we are trying to show in here. Okay. I think that's it. Now for the path area, again, I'll wet the paper. This just helps in building that softness that we need. Okay. Now with burn sienna and neutro tint mix, basically sepia, dabbing of excess water. We will add in some darker tones towards the corridor, so these could be like the shadow from the grasses, right? So that's why you have these darker tones. Similarly here as well, you would also have your grasses coming up on the pathway, right? So that's why somewhere it is getting a little broken. Again, add a little bit of burnt sienna and just dropping in some darker tones to depict stones and pebbles that you would have on the footpath. Okay. This is okay, blending out the hair like streaks. Now for the rocks, we will start with the Bendike brown, or you can also use burnt umber, above all the excess water, and we will try to paint in the rock. So you can see I'm just trying to add in the color. My brush does not have a lot of water, and in gym some places trying to build in the t the direction of my brush strokes are from top to bottom so that we get that sloping feel to the rock. Okay? Similarly now on the other side. Okay. Without covering the whole of the base layer that we have added, we will just add in these streaks, okay? Okay. We'll wait for this to dry and then we'll add in a dry brush stroke of pain screy. Let this dry off, and then we will add in the final layer on grasses, flowers, rocks, and the sea. Okay, now using in pink gray or neutral tin, dabbing off all the excess water from the brush, we will add in dry brush streaks. I still has water and dabbing of all the excess water, adding in the dry brush streaks. Okay, so we'll learn the side as well. Continue to build in the rock. Okay, I'll take in the detailed brush and add a little bit more of details to the rock. Okay. Just in some places, adding in very dark tone of paints gray. Okay, now with the same brush, you will add in the flowers. So I'm just taking in cadmium red or cadmium orange. You can take whatever color you want for the flowers, and I'm just adding in some flowers here and there. Okay. Similarly, taking in cadmium yellow. So these are very small, small wildflowers that we have, right? So they are always in a group together, and that's what we're trying to build here. Now, what I'll do is taking in this detail brush and olive green and neutro tint makes a very darker tool of green. I'll just try to add in some streaks, at least for these flowers, okay? Just trying to build in that. Okay. You can also take in sap green and add those streaks. I'll add in some here as well and then add in some flowers to these. They will visible as I said, only to the nearer eye area, right? The other areas, it might be not very evidently visible. So you can drop that off and again say just adding in the flowers. Similarly, we will add in the flowers this side as well. So I'm taking in cadmium orange, cadmium red, adding in the flowers, add in as many as you want. Farther from your eyes, you will just see a bunch of them, but you will not see the gaps between them or the stem between them. Similarly, taking in cadmium yellow now. It could be in some places there are just so many flowers that you can't even see the stem. Okay. Similar way, adding some streaks like not adding a lot of them, at some places. Now, taking in sepia, dabbing off all the excess water, just adding some details on the pathway as well. Just some mud and rocks that you see. Twigs you will also have fallen leaves, twigs and everything, right? So just adding that on the pathway. See, again, you can also try to build in the drivers streaks over here. What I will also do is there could be some flowers that have using my very detailed brush, I'll add in a few more stems over here. They're very, very thin, just to bring in a little bit more depth. Okay. Now moving to gosh. Using white gouache, we will add in the waves crashing on the rocks. There would be waves that would be crashing on the rocks. So using white gouache, we will just try to add I have literally no water onto my brush. I'm just taking the guash directly from the tube and adding in these details. As they're very far, you won't see it in too detail, but you would be able to see some white foams forming near the rocks because of the waves hitting them. So that is all that we're trying to create here. I'm extending this out a little bit onto the water. There could also be some white spots here and there as well because it's a pathway between the flowers and the grasses, you would also have some highlights coming in over there. Okay. That's it. For this class, let's just peel off the masking tape. One thing that I'll do is using my white gel pen, we'll just add in some foaming waves near the rocks. That's it. This is the final look of the painting. Hope you enjoyed the class, and I'll see you again in the next class project. 8. Day 6 : Twilight Peaks: Welcome to the next class project. I have my paper here ready using the masking tape. We'll tape down the paper onto the board. Okay, I'm just running my fingers on the tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper for the sketch, for this class. Say, we will have our mountain ranges coming here. I'll paint them out randomly, but I'm just adding a slight placeholder types. This is where trees starts coming in, and this is the foreground. You will have three trees on this side. Okay? So that's the class sketch. Now using my hake brush, I'll add even coat of water ski area. I'm running my brush multiple times to make sure that the paper gets thoroughly wet. This will give us more time to paint our sky. Okay? Using my rough cloth, I will just dab off all the excess water from the corner. And now, starting with the painting, using my medium size brush and Indian gold, we'll start with the painting. So I'm just applying that color somewhere from the middle section to the bottom. Okay. And in the top, I'm going ahead with quin rose or crimson red, adding the colors. Okay? So the crimson ish is like a slanting one where you have a darker tone coming in from the corner and a little bit from the top as well. And the Indian gold is what you have as the background waste color, okay? I'm just building on to the sky, okay? And now taking an Indian gold, dabbing of excess water, and just blending this out. Using my detail brush and crimson red, dabbing off all the excess water, I will just add in little bit of clouds coming in from this side. And on the same one, using my toilet, dabbing off all the excess water, this side, I'm just trying to build in some clouds. It's just a bunch of fluffy clouds floating in the sky. And say, somewhere here is the sun, and I'm just going to lift off the color. Taking a little bit more of quin rose and adding that. I'll just take a little bit of orange and try to build that between the pink and the Indian gold that we have. Now taking an Indian gold and just blending all of this out. Adding in a little bit more of pink, clouds like streaks. Okay. From the top as well. I think that's it for the sky. I will just again use my detail brush, try to build on the violet clouds that we have, add, you know, another darker layer on top of it. And there could be some clouds here and there, which is blending out between the pinks and the lets. Let me see if I can just build in a little bit more of quin rose or add in slight purple tone on top of the quin rose that we have just to give it a little bit more of drama on the clouds. Just trying to add some clouds here just to bring some harmony on the sky side. Now, using let, dabbing off all the excess water. Let this actually get dried off, and then we will paint off the mountain. So we will add in the layer again because we don't want these hair like streaks to come in. Let the paper dry off completely, and then we will add in the mountain ranges. The paper has not dried. Now using the let, we will start painting in the first range of mountains. Okay, so here is the range Okay. And now we will just blend this out with wallet, very diluted tone of wallet, okay? Okay, so this is the first mountain range. Okay. Similarly here, we have a mountain range, so it's somewhere, both of them are similar lines. So we just add this as well. Okay. Okay. Now for the second mountain range, we will have to wait, let this dry completely, and then we will add in the second range. The second range actually comes from here. So we will add that once all of this is dried. Okay? Okay. This has dried. Now I'm going to take again let and add a tinge of indigo to it. Okay. And then start painting another range which starts from here and goes to here, okay? So say this is the range of mountains that we have. Okay. Same approach. We will just add in a darker tone at the peaks. And now, what I will do is se my large size brush and just blend all of this out. And again, using my medium size brush, just adding in the colors and blending all of that out. Okay, so you can blend that out till the bottom of your paper as well. We just need to make sure that the mountains have a natural blend and natural misty effect that comes in, okay? Now, again, let's wait for this to dry. We will paint in our next range of mountains after this. Okay, this has not right. Now, just using Indigo, you will add in another mountain range. Okay. And now I'm just going to lend this out. And using my medium size brush, we'll just top it off with some color for it to naturally blend off with the water that we have applied. Okay. Now again taking in some water and just blending this out. Okay. Now again, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will add in the second last layer of mountain with trees. Okay, the paper has not dried. What I'll do is I will mix in sap green with paints gray or neutral tint to get a very darker tone of green and using that, we will add in a mountain with the trees. So I'm just going to add in these streaks. Okay. But what I'll do is with this detail brush is where I will add in these streaks. Okay? So it gives a little bit more of the fineness. So let me first then just add in these three light streaks. These are all very far. So you would just see something like this. And I will just add that color towards the bottom. Okay, so the slope that we had right, this is what this would be. You might have some darker tone, some places, you would have some slightly lighter tone. So we will build on top of it, okay? The very detailed tip, you can add these streaks. Now, obviously, they will be, as I said, sometimes just you can just use in a lighter tone of darker green. So you have basically more of your sacre and less of neutrtint. But then there will also be places where we will have more of neutral tint and less of your sap green. So we will just paint that accordingly. Can just drop in any color that you want. Just let it be a darker tone, not just the sap green. So you can mix and you can even take olive green, which is basically nothing but a mix of sap green and burn sienna and just add these streaks. Okay. That's it for this layer. I just add a little bit of three streaks. Now what I'm going to do is using seniliar yellow and sap green and a mix of both of them, which is basically your leaf green, we will paint in the foreground. But we'll just be careful that we have just applied color over here. So just being a little mindful of that, although it is not a very wet wash, so the colors might not spill over, but just still being careful about it. Okay. Now taking in some of your leaf green, taking in sap cream. Okay. And what I'll also do is towards the corner, I'll take a little bit of darker green and add those two. Okay, so that's the base layer that we have. Let this thrive. We will just add some trees towards the side that we have. Okay? This is not right. Now, using my detail brush and medium size brush, we will paint out trees. We'll add in two trees over here. Remember, we had sketched out to three lines. Now, what I'm going to do is I'll use in a mix of cadmium green and sap cream and then try to build on that tree. So say here is that tree, and we can also add in a darker tone paints gray as well. Okay? Just painting in the pine trees. I add a little bit more of paints gray. Taking in the mix of cadmium, green, sap green, and neutral tint, we will paint this tree out. Now, at the background, we have a darker green the trees that we see right. Now, if we add in sap green on top of it, it won't be visible. If we add in neutral tint, that might also not be very evidently visible because the background is super dark. So what we have done is we have mixed in cadmium tone to your green and paints gray, and using that is what we are painting out this tree. No cadmium has opacity like gouache. So because of it, we are able to see the colors, a lighter tone of colors on top of the darker background that we have. Okay? So that's the reason of leveraging cadmium. So if you don't have cam green, you can also mix in white gouache to your sap green and paints gray mix, and you will get something like this. Okay? Similarly, painting another one over here, again, starting with a very smaller tip and building in as we come down. Okay, I think that's it. What I will do is using in my medium size brush and sap green, dabbing off all the excess water, we'll just blend this out. Lastly, birds. So take my detail brush and neutral tint. I will just paint some words fining the sky. That's it for the class project. Let's wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the masking tape. Okay, painting is not right. Let's just peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. Hope you enjoyed this class project. I will see you in the next. 9. Day 7 : Whispers at Dusk: Hi, everyone. Welcome to the new class project. I have paper here ready. Using the masking tape, tape on the paper onto the board. I'm running my fingers across the tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. For the sketch for this class, it's a simple sketch. We will just have a mountain range over here. This is the sky and we'll have one tree side. That's it. The sketch is ready. Now, let's start with the painting. So I'll use by Hake brush and apply even coat of water throughout the paper and spend some time on this step to make sure that the paper is thoroughly wet. I would ideally want the paper to stay wet for a longer duration because we are painting sky, and it's best when the longer the paper stays wet, right? The more chance you have to work on your sky. And with the sky that we are painting today, we would ideally want the paper to stay wet longer. So I'm just running my brush across the paper to make sure on two things. One, nothing gets left out on which the water is not applied and two, that there is no pool of water onto the paper. Okay. I will just dab off all the excess water from the corner. Okay, I'm just taking a little bit of water again and adding in the final layer of water. Starting with the painting, I'll use my medium size brush and we'll start with queen rose, dabbing off all the excess water, start to build in the sky. You can see just a few places I'm adding in these strokes and also starting in with a very diluted tone for now, we will see how the sky goes and bit by bit, we will add in more tones. Okay? Now, taking in violet, dabbing off all the excess water, and I'm trying to build in the violet sky now. Moving on to darker tone, the corners and the top have darker tone clouds. So I'm just trying to get that What I'll also do is using in very lighter tone of blue, I'll add some of that color in these white areas that we have. The base layer ideally is of quin rose and blue. Quin rose and blue makes in purple. So even if it mixes out, that's okay. But we at least have the base layer. And what I will also do is I will just add in this for easy flow of color and water. And now again, starting with let, I'm trying to build in the sky again. This side as well. Again, another dab of purple clouds coming in. This side, say we have some longer streaks of purple clouds coming in. So we're just adding that. Okay. Now, building onto the sky. I'll take a little bit more of quin rose, adding more color to this sky area. So you have your quin rose clouds and top of it is what your purple clouds have started to come in. That's what we're trying to show over here. Okay, taking a little bit more of purple and building onto this section as well. Within the purple color as well, you will have some areas which would have a darker purple tone, and there would be some which would be lighter tone. So just trying to build that in, okay? Uh Just taking a little bit more of dark purple for the top clouds, adding in their tone side as well, a little bit more of purple tone clouds. Building in some pockets of darker tones, okay? And finally, in the bottom side, the purple tone clouds. Okay. I'll just take a little bit of quin rose and add some streaks to this bottom side as well. Okay, with just no color and almost mill water. I'm just trying to blend the clouds out to not have these hair like streaks. I'll take a little bit more let and just add in some tone over this side of the sky, along with very, very diluted tone of Queen Rose, as well. Okay, that's it for the first layer. Let this layer dry. We'll have a quick look and see how this one looks, and accordingly, we will paint out another layer or we would paint out the full round. Okay, the paper has dried. I'm liking the sky. They could have been a little bit more of, say, darker violet coming in here and there, but I like the softness of the sky, so I'm just going to continue with this. Now, what we will do is we will paint in the hill and the tree. So just taking a neutral tint, adding it the hilly area. Just blending this out, okay? There could be some grasses here and there, so just adding that. You can see I'm just making this grass like brush streaks. That's it. Okay. And now for the main tree, I'll use my both the detailed brushes. So the tree is somewhat starting from here. Just adding some leaves at the top. There is another branch over here. There are some leaves this site too. You can see I'm just creating these dot strokes from the brush. Again, another bunch of leaves, say, slightly darker than the other ones, and there is another branch branching out and with a lighter leaves density. We will just keep on adding the branches and the trees like this. Another one goes here and you have some leaves on top of this. Next is I will just tense out the tree branch here. Work on this tree very slowly because this is the only element that we have. This painting basically focuses on the sky, and the other focus is on the tree. So paint it out with a lot of patience and take your time in building this up. Okay. So there is a branch that is coming out from here and then branching into thin branches. And you have only little leaves on this. This is the one where we will be showing the branch on the focus, this area, and then there are very little leaves on this section of the branch. That's it. Now, say in the below one, there is another branch branching from this side to two different branches. But then this has leaves. So I'm taking in the bigger detail brush and adding in the leaves. So this has a denser leave section, so we will just at that out. Okay. Now this is, again, a denser leaf section of the tree, so I'm just going to add in these dot dot streaks and depict the leaves, okay? This is good. Okay. Say some leaves, but not many. And there is another branch buching out from here. And this has your leaves at the tips tips, adding. Okay. So that's all for this class. The tree has come out really well. I will just do one more thing because this comes to be very straight line, right? So I will just add in some branches, some protrudings to give it some natural. Similarly, this side as well, some branches, some protrudings. Okay. That's it. Let's peel off the masking tape. Okay. This is the final look of the painting. Hope you enjoyed this. I'll see you in the next class project. 10. Day 8 : The Evening Whispers: Welcome to the next class project. I have my paper here ready. Using the masking tape, we will tape down the paper onto this board. Okay, I'm just running my fingers across the tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. Now for this class, there is no sketch. We're just going to paint out. Okay. Now, let me just take some time and apply even coat of water throughout my paper. The more time you spend on this step, the longer your paper stays wet. And we're painting sky, right? So I want to spend a lot of time on painting the sky and the clouds. So I will add in multiple layers of water to make sure that each and every thread of the paper is wet. What I'll do is I'll keep this here so that all the extra water, it flows down, and then I can easily remove it up. Okay. Let me just take my cloth and wipe off all the excess water from the corners. You can see there's a pool of water that has form at the bottom, so I'm just going to wipe it off. Now, using my medium size brush and bright blue cobalt blue, serle blue, any but that you have, we will start with the sky. So just add in these blue clouds in some places. Okay, that's it. Now taking in cellular yellow, capping up all the excess water. Going to add that at some places. Taking it more over this side as well. Okay. Similar to this side too, adding this out. Okay? Now, taking in quinose dabbing off all the excess water, start with building the clouds. You can see with a very lighter tone, I'm just adding in some quinose clouds. The quinose and blue gives you purple, right? So we can just build that out and I will also add in the quinos over here as well. Okay. Similarly, this side too. Taking in more colors and adding some over the side as well. Can see I'm working on with a very, very diluted tone. We will build on top of it once we have the base layer ready and we want to build in our clouds. But for now, a very, very diluted tone is what we will use to work our clouds with. Say here as well. Now, in a very similar fashion, taking in volet, we will add in that tone as well. So you can see, I'm just trying to build in the clouds. Okay. Taking a little bit more of wallet, adding that here as well. So more on this side. Okay. This came in as a darker tone, but it's okay. We will blend all of this out. Okay? Okay. You can see I've added in very, very diluted tone. Now we will slowly build on the colors. So I'm taking in Quinn rose, dabbing off all the excess water and trying to add that layer onto my clouds. Now in the same area, I will take in my toilet, dab off all the excess water, and add in that tone too. You can see the streaks are all these C shaped streaks. I'm going to use that to build on the clouds. I'll just try to lift off some colors here and there to bring in some contrast. Taking in in rows, adding in cellular yellow as well in some places. And now going ahead with violet and adding in the ta clouds. The base is in some places you have your sunlight you have the yellow clouds coming in. But the main structure of this class project is where you have your pink clouds, the quin clouds and then on top of it, we add in our violet ones. Okay. So see here, there could be some clouds over the side. Again, taking in quinros and building onto the clouds over here, taking in violet and just dropping off the color in some places. Okay? Similar with this side as well. Just building on the clouds. So you can see I'm following in the similar pattern, places where I have added in yellow in the first layer. I'm adding it in the second layer as well. Otherwise, it's all quinros topping it up with the let. And the brush strokes are all similar see strokes or the fluffy cloud streaks because we're trying to build in that fluffy clouds. Okay. And I'll take in queen rose, tap off all the excess water, and add that in some places. This is where we have the darkest purple clouds. So I'm just going ahead with purple tone and adding another dense layer on top of the ones that we already have. Plus, what I'm also going to do is mix in your purple with indigo to get a little bluish purple tone and add that too on top of this. So this is like the darkest tone which you have in this cloud area. Similarly, this area as well, we will add in let. The paper has started to dry on this side, but let's see if we can build in and then let and indigo mix, we will add that in in some places to bring out the denser clouds that we have. Okay, taking in quinrose as well and adding that to just to give that effect that there is purple cloud, you have the quin rose clouds as well. So just building that in. Okay, I'm just taking in quin rose and just in some places, just adding those clouds. So I am playing around with this because my paper is still wet. If your paper has started to dry, especially from the middle area, do not work on the clouds anymore. Okay? Like when people had started to dry from this bottom section, but that's okay because I could still paint out. I could still blend out the harsh edges. But if your paper has started to dry, so then just wait on it, let it dry completely. Okay, so I'll also wait for this to completely dry, and then we will see if we need to add in another layer or we are good with it. Okay, paper has dried, and this is the final look of the sky. Now I'll just add in some minor details. So using painscray with my fine detail brush, we'll just add in some say electric wires from one end of the paper to another. Okay and say another one going somewhere like this. Okay. And so there's one which is going like this. Now what we will quickly do is just paint out some birds sitting on this sire. There's another sitting over this side. Say one sitting over here. And say some are flying in the sky. Just add in as many birds as you want because this is just the sky. We don't have any other element apart from birds. That's it for this class, we'll just peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the class, very soft pastel sky. Thank you for joining me in this class project. We'll see you again in the next world. 11. Day 9 : Sunset Canopy: We can do the next class project. I have my paper here ready. Again, using the masking tape, we'll just tape down this paper onto the board. Okay. I'm just running my fingers across the paper to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. And now using my Hake brush, we'll apply an even coat of water throughout this paper. This one as well doesn't have a sketch, can just directly apply water on the paper. I'm going to spend some time on this step, again, to make sure that the paper is very thoroughly wet because the more time you spend on this step, the better your paper gets wet from the threads, and the longer your paper stays wet, so the longer you get to paint out your sky. Making sure that there is no corner on the paper which does not get wet and as well as there are no pools of water that gets created at any corner or anywhere on the paper. Okay, using my cloth, as usual, I will just quickly dab off all the excess water from the corners. Okay, moving my brush again. Let's start with the painting using my medium size brush and ennilar yellow. We start with the sky, just applying an even wash of yellow on the bottom area. Okay. Moving on to quin rose, adding that as well in the middle section. This is just the base layer that we'll be adding in, so you can just create a gradient wash of these colors. Next, moving with serleine blue or bright blue or cobalt blue, or even Prussian blue. A blue that you have, you can just add in the tone. And now with violet, just adding in the top layer. This is the base that we have. And now we will build in the clouds starting from bottom, using orange, dabbing off all the excess water. We will just add in some clouds, taking in quinos again, dabbing off all the excess water. We will build in some quinose clouds as well from this direction this time. Okay. Taking a little bit more of quinrose, dabbing of excess water, and building in the clouds from here as well. Taking inlet, dabbing of excess water and trying to build in the wilt skies from the top to her sky. You can just play around the way you want. Just add in the clouds. Say, there are some clouds, purple clouds here on top of the pink that we have, so we will just add that as well. Okay. Now on this side, on the quinose, I'll just take a little bit more of quin rose and add in those clouds. Another layer just darkening it out at some places. So there are very small small clouds coming in, okay? Similarly, taking in more orange, dabbing off the excess water, and trying to build that in on the lower side. Okay? Moving back to the top, taking a little bit more of bolet and just adding that to the sky, taking in a mix of indigo and let and adding that to you're taking in let, tabbing of excess water, and adding the clouds from the top left. I seem slowly slowly building onto the sky. We add in more layer in between. After the first layer is done, you have your base sky ready. In some places, you just add in the darker details. Okay. I'll take a little bit more of quin rose, above all the excess water, and try to build in that within this purple cloud as well. Adding some to this side as well. Let me just take a little bit more of quin rose and adding that layer on top of this section of the clouds that we have. What we'll do is we'll take in let, dab off all the excess water and try to add the darker tone of the let as well on top of these clouds. Again, taking in quinros dabbing off the excess water and trying to build in this side of the clouds as well. Okay, that's it for the sky. We'll just take in clean brush, run it across the clouds. I'll just try to lift off some color here and there to bring in some highlights. And with this orange, I'll just add a little bit more on the clouds and just bending it out. Okay, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will add in our tree element. The paper has dried. Now using my small detail brush and black or neutral tin, we will just paint out the so we have the branches coming in like this. So there is another one protruding like this, and then you have the spits coming in. And another one. Now, I will use the brush and just chart out these very thin tree streaks. So you can spend some time on this and just add in very, very thin tree streaks over here. Okay. You can see him just with very light hands, building out the branches. You can take it in any direction that you want. Okay, that's it. This completes car painting. Let me just peel off the masking tape. This is the final Look of the painting. Hope you enjoyed this. I'll see you again in the next class project. 12. Day 10 : Sunlit Meadows: For the next class project, I have my paper here ready. Using the masking tape, we will just tape down the paper onto the board. Okay, I'm just running my fingers across the paper. This is to make sure that there is no gap between and the paper. Now for this one, we just need a horizon line. So say, this is the horizon line that we have, you'll have some hills over here, and then this is the foreground and then some trees. If you want, you can even skip the sketch. That's okay. Now using my large size hake brush, I will just apply even coat of water on the horizon area, okay? Taking some time on this step to make sure that the paper is thoroughly wet. The more time you spend on this step, the longer your paper stays wet and the longer you get to paint your sky or any painting that you want to do. I'll take my cloth and just dab off all the excess water from the corners. Okay. Now using my medium size brush, we will start with the painting. So I'm going to take in blue. You can use any blue that you have on your palette, dab off all the excess water, and just paint out the top of the sky like this. Okay. Again, taking a little bit more of blue and just painting this out. Now taking in yellow, dabbing off all the excess water, we'll just add in some yellow tone to the sky. You want the yellow brightest to be at the center area, so I'm just applying that and then just pulling that color to the other sections as well. Now, blue and yellow when mixed together make green, just be very cautious on that part. It's not that we do not have a natural blend so you see I've tried to create a natural blend, but just being cautious that we do not blend them a lot and now taking in orange and just adding that over here. Okay, taking a little bit more of orange, so yellow and adding that to this section, the middle section that we have, and just pulling that up to the upper corners as well. Now, using orange and dabbing off all the excess water, we will try to add in some clouds on the middle section of the paper, so you can see just adding some of that. Again, taking a little bit more of orange, dabbing off all the excess water, and adding the clouds. Now, taking in dabbing off the excess water and adding that very carefully, very lightly on top of the orange. The orange and let do not go together, so that's why we are being very careful and just adding a very lighter tone of bolet on top of the orange clouds. Now taking in neutral tint or paints gray, dabbing off all the excess water and adding that on top of this in some places, as well as adding some just paints gray cloud coming in from the sides to the middle section. You can see it just added some clouds here and there. That's it? Let me just tap off some water. I think some of that is getting seeped back into the paper. So I'll just take in my blue once again and just add that over here and say we have some blue clouds, okay? Okay, taking in yellow, blending this out. Okay. I'll just use this lifting technique, and in some places on the blue sky, we'll try to pull off the color. Okay. Now, what I'll do is using this orange and vermilion, actually, we'll just try to depict the sun. We'll take in yellow, say, carve out a sun. Okay? And then using my detailed brush, taking in vermilion and orange mix. S there are some clouds coming in from between the sun and just blending all of that out. Again, taking in yellow, just trying to blend that in and on the sides just adding in a little bit of orange or vermilion to bridge in that sun effect. Okay? Okay. So we did not create this at the first go because our paper was very wet, and if we would have tried to create that, we would have not got the results that we want. So there is say this red cloud which is passing through the sun. So that's what we're trying to create here. The colors would blend out, so it's okay if this goes away. Okay. And taking in this vermilion, just blend this out. So that's it for the sky. Oh, no, I've got a blue. You can see a water blue forming. So I will just take in a little bit of yellow, dab off all the excess water, and try to blend it out. So these accidents do happen, which is okay. We just need to take in a little bit of color, almost no water and just blend it out. That's it. The bloom is taken care of. Okay? The very, very, very diluted to because we have anyways added water over here, right? I'll just add in very few paints gray clouds to bring in some more drama to the painting because it felt all the clouds were just coming from that one direction. That's also okay. If you want to paint that. I just thought because my paper is still not dried, I will just add in few more streaks. That's all. And I will just try to remove these hair like streaks and blend all of this out. That's it. I will not touch it anymore now. So now let us wait finally for this to dry. Okay. The paper has now dried. The sky looks beautiful, doesn't it? Now, we will paint the foreground, start with olive green, which is nothing but a mix of burn sienna and sap gree dabbing of all the excess water. We'll add in a mountain range over here. Okay, what I'll do is I'll add a little bit of neutral tint and add that darker tone on this. Okay. And now using olive cream, just peel this out. Lutrotintmx. You can drop in at some places just to bring in that diversity, that this is a far off hill, right, and obviously it will not have a uniform color, so there would be some changes here and there. Okay. That's it. Wait for this to dry, and then we will paint the front area because if you apply the colors now, this will bleed into it and we don't want that to happen. So let's wait for this to dry, and then we will paint off. Okay? So this has somewhat dried. Now using my large size brush and clean water, we'll just add that onto just a layer or so because we don't want a lot of water as well. Okay. Now using my medium size brush and a mix of sap green and yellow, basically the leaf green color, which is a mix of sap green and yellow. I'll just add in the tone over here, taking in yellow, just add it over this side. Okay. And now taking in sap green, we will just add that in some places, okay? And I will take in olive green and add that tone as well. Okay. I'll take a mix of paints gray and olive green, just a little darker tone and add that that's it. Now, again, we will have to wait for this to dry, and then we will add in paint out the trees. What I'm going to do is I see there is a very light white space that has got left out, right. So I will just use in yellow and just very slowly paint this out. Okay. And just blending all of this. Okay. Now we'll wait for this to dry, and then we will paint out the final trees that we have, and we'll be done with our painting. This is not right. Now, let's paint out the trees. So I'll use these two detailed brushes. We'll start with painting the trees. We'll use olive green and paint gray mix because it's going to be a darker tree starting from here. So there is a small one over here. I've added in a little bit of neutral tint to bring in a little diversity as well. So we will keep on adding more of neutral tint as we go down just to bring in a darker tone of leaves towards the bottom. Okay. That's it for the first one. I just take a little bit more of neutral tint and add in some tone on what we have already painted. Okay. Now for the next one, again, starting with a mix of olive green and neutral tint, we have another one over here and similar way, starting with some smaller leaves. And as we move down, we'll add in denser leaves over there. Okay. Now, you keep on building this, and I'll add in some denser leaves as well. Okay. There will be some overlap between these two trees. Okay, that's the second one. We will add in a third one over here. Again, the same thumb rule, starting with less of leaves at the top. And as you come down, we will add in denser leaves, okay? Okay, we will add in a very small one over the side. Okay. Just adding a little darker tones in the top as well. Okay. And one final tree on the side. Okay. That's all. Little bit of water spilled over here. So I just thought we'll just quickly add in the colors again. That's it. Now, we'll wait for this to dry, and then we will peel off the mask tip. While this dries, let me quickly add in some birds. My paintings are always incomplete without birds. So we're just taking a neutral tint, dabbing off all the excess water es adding in few words. Now, let's wait for this to dry. And then we'll peel off the masking tap. Okay. This has not right. Let's peel off the masking tape. This is the final look of the painting. Hope you all enjoyed the class. We'll see you again in the next class project. 13. Day 11 : Harbor of Light: Welcome to the next class project. I have my paper here ready. Using the masking tape, we will tape down the paper again. Okay, paper is ready. I'm just running my fingers across the paper to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. Now for the sketch for this class, we will have a sky, cloudy sky and water, and we have save a boat over here. And the reflection. That's it for the sketch. Now for the sky, using my Hake brush, we will add an even coat of water throughout the sky. We can actually apply water on whole of the paper, and then we can build on the sky and the water together. Spend some time on this step. Make sure that there is no section on the paper left without water, and also make sure that there are no pools of water getting formed anywhere on the paper. The more time you spend on this step, the longer your paper will stay wet and the more time you will have to paint your painting. Let me just give a few seconds for the paper to just soak in the water. Meanwhile, I will just tap off all the excess water from the corners. And now starting with the painting. I'll switch between the brushes as and when I feel comfortable. For now, starting with the painting, I'll take in yellow and we'll add the tone over this side and this side. Okay. Now taking in ultramarine blue, tabbing off the excess water, which is building on the sky, the first very light layer at the top. Similarly, adding the same the bottom as well. Okay. That is the base layer that we have. Taking in my medium size brush, using an orange, starting again with the diluted version, Dablopon the excess water, we will try to build in some orange clouds. E Okay. Similarly, we will have the reflection of the same in the sea as well. So I'm just adding some orange, taking a little bit more of darker tone without water and trying to build in this orange sky. And similarly, trying to build in this orange in the water as well. H Now, taking in ultramarine blue, dabbing off all the excess water, we will start to build in some clouds in the sky. You'll see another bunch of clouds say this side, we have a very big bunch coming in from this side. I'm just trying to first add the base layer, and then we will build on top of it with different tones of ultramarine blue and pains grey. Okay? So we also have some of these blue clouds coming in on top of the orange, okay? Similarly, building on the sea. This is the ultramarine, adding a little bit more tones to it. We have clouds, right, so just adding ultramarine blue some places. What I will do is for the ocean, taking in mix of ultramarine blue and paint gray, I'll just add in some of these darker tones as my water areas it's getting too dry, right. So I'm just trying to add some of these darker tones to the water. Once this dries, we will add in more waves to the water. But just for now, while this stays wet, I'll just add in some darker tones, okay? Now, again, focusing on the sky, taking darker tones of ultramarine blue and trying to build in the clouds that we already have. Again, now for the clouds as well, I'll take in a mix of ultramarine blue and gains gray to build in the darker tones and just add that. Say some darker tones this side as well. I'm going to add in very small small cloud aches on the sky. So there is a big cloud that comes in from the corner and then that splits into small clouds. That's what I'm trying to show here. Okay, I'm again taking ultramarine blue, dabbing off all the excess water and trying to build in these clouds that we have. Okay, taking a mix of neutral tint and ultramarine blue, dabbing off the excess water and building that too in some places. Okay. Just dropping off some color here and there and letting the water blend it out. My paper has started to dry, so I'm not getting very clean blends. So I will just clean up my brush, tap off all the excess water, and with just dry brush, run my brush across the clouds to just smoothen out the edges. Okay? I'll also take in again a little bit mix of paints gray, and ultramarine blue and see if something can be added to the water, whereas you see my water has started to dry, so I'll just leave it off. Please do not add any brush strokes if your painting has started to dry. We will add in more details later. Okay. So you can see I'm just cleaning up my brush and trying to blend out all of these harsh edges that we have. Okay, that's it. Now, let's wait for the painting to completely dry. Then we will add in the other details. Okay, the paper has now dried. What I will do is I want to paint in the sea a little better. So I will just apply water on this section of the paper, and then we will repaint the waves. So I'm just going to take in my hake brush and just apply a layer of water with a very light hand. Okay. You see? And now using my medium size brush and ultramarine blue, we'll just add in some water waves. I've taken in a mix of ultramarine blue and paints gray to add in these darker waves. And then with just the ultramarine blue, I'm dropping in the color. Not creating anything new, just on the waves that we already had, right? I'm just trying to add in some Darkatols Okay. Similar to this side as well. And over this side, too, taking in orange, dubbing of the excess water, and trying to build in the waves here as well. Or taking in ultramarine blue. Okay, that's it. Now, cleaning up my brush, tapping off all the excess water, I'll just try to lift off some color from between the waves, give it the natural look. Okay? Taking in my medium size the detail brush and ultramarine blue, just going to repeat what we already did, but with a thin brush to get in some well defined waves. I'm just making sure that every time when I pick up more color, I just dab off all the excess water so that the excess water does not flow in the paper and cause blooms switching between the ultramarine blue and the pink screen. Okay. That's it. Well, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will paint in the details. Okay, the paper has to dried now using a medium size brush and paint screen or neutral tint, we'll add in some mountains on the horizon. H And now just adding in some details. Okay, now using my detail brush and, again, paints gray on neutral tint, I'll paint out the board. Now, this boat will also have some reflection. I'm just going to add that the water touching the boat would be absolutely dark, and then you will have the reflection waves coming in. So we will just add that. Towards the boat, you will still have some darker and denser reflections. As you move away, the reflections become thin and scattered. Okay? Taking ultramarine blue, very similar way. We will also add in some reflections in the water as well. It's mostly on the same pains where we have had the waves painted in right. There itself, we will just add in some of these water ripples. Okay. I'll take in some, which is a mix of paints gray and ultramarine blue and add those as well in some places. The water was near the boat would be somewhat a mix of the colors. So I'm just trying to get there. So far off waves, okay? Similarly, I'll take in orange, Dabbing off all the excess water. We'll add in some orange waves or reflections as well, okay? Okay. That's it. Just adding in some orange reflections here and there, although it's blue water, but you will have some So just adding a little bit of more waves. That's it for the painting. Do you think we should add in some birds? Let's add in some birds, as well. Okay, that's it. Now let's peel off the masking tape. Okay. This is the final look. Looks beautiful, right? Thank you for joining this class project. We'll see you again in the next one. 14. Day 12 : Golden Wires: Hi everyone. Welcome to the next class project. I have a paper onto the board. Using the masking tape, we will tape down the paper. I'm just running my fingers across the tape to make sure that there is no gap between the tape and the paper. So for today's class, there's no sketch that we need, or actually we do. So we just do one thing. Let me just sketch out some electric poles. It's going to be a simple sky for today. That's it. Just added in as a placeholder for us to know where to paint out our electric poles. Now using my hake brush, I will just add in an even at of water throughout the paper. That's it. No taking my large size brush, starting with orange, we will paint out the sky. It's going to be a simple, fairly simple one. After all the days of painting little complex skies, I thought of adding in a very simple one for today. So that's the orange. Next, I'll take a little bit of vermilion and add that to the base. There are days some days when you just want to paint in a very simple landscape. This is for one of those days and at the last, taking in yellow, adding it at the top. So that will exactly be a sky. I will just build on to the layers a little bit. But these are the only colors that we will need, starting with the yellow at the top. Okay. Okay. Taking a little bit more of vermilion, that taking in more of orange. Oh. And at the end, taking a little bit of yellow and adding in the final. That's for the base. The sky is still going to be pretty simple. But before I add in a little bit more details, I will just tap off all the excess water from the corners. We forgot to do it after adding the water layer. You can see there is a lot of water on the corners, and then this will seep in into the paper when the paper starts to dry and we don't want that to happen, okay? Now, what I will do is using my medium size brush and paint scray dabbing off all the excess water, I will just add in just one cloud actually on this side. And one more in this middle area. That's it. That's all the cloud that we will add. As I said, I wanted the sky to be pretty simple today, so that's it with the sky. Now, let's wait for this to dry, and then we will paint in our pools. The paper has now dried. Now using neutral tint, we will add in the electric poles. Using my medium size brush, and again, with neutral tint, you will add in some leaves towards the corners. With a detailing brush and little tint, we will add in the electric wires to the boards. You can see I've got some black smudges on a paper. So what I'll do is using my clean brush and water, I will just try to just blend it out, and then using my rough cloth or you can use a tissue paper as well, just dab off the water that you have applied. So your colors will have been this smudge that has happened, that would be easily managed. So this is a trick that you can use in any of your paintings. If any of your color gets smudged, you can just try to blend it out with the clean water and then just dab it off with a tissue paper or your cloth. And at last, we will just add in some birds in the sky. Okay. We're done with the painting. Let's peel off the masking tape now. This is the final look of the class project. Hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you in the next one.