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Painting A Snowman in Watercolour : A Magical Christmas Winter Landscape Tutorial

teacher avatar Lindsey Dawn Art, Watercolour Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Watercolor Snowman Intro

      1:10

    • 2.

      The Drawing

      3:10

    • 3.

      Colours and Supplies

      1:42

    • 4.

      The Sky: Adding Texture With Salt

      3:23

    • 5.

      The Snowman's Body and Scarf Shadows

      2:56

    • 6.

      The Head: Adding Shape and Shadow

      2:35

    • 7.

      The Snow: Painting White Subjects and Adding Texture

      2:33

    • 8.

      The Hat, Scarf ang Gloves

      7:10

    • 9.

      Finishing Touches

      8:18

    • 10.

      The Snowflakes and Your Project

      2:00

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WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT

Learn how to paint a snowman in watercolour in this easy to follow, step by step watercolour lesson.  You will learn how to paint white subjects in watercolour such as a snowman and snow using simple techniques.

This is a fun and colourful watercolour christmas tutorial that will I think you'll find relaxing and cheery!

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:

  • How to add texture in watercolour using simple items found around your home
  • How to use salt in watercolors
  • How to draw a snowman using simple steps
  • How to paint whites in watercolour
  • How to splatter paint in watercolor to add texture to your painting
  • How to darken watercolour paint
  • How to paint a simple winter landscape

Paint Colours Used:

  • Lavendar (Daniel Smith)
  • Lunar Violet (Daniel Smith)
  • Windsor Blue (Windsor and Newton)
  • Hansa Yellow Deep (Daniel Smith)
  • Quinacridone Red (Daniel Smith)

Alternative Colours You Can Use:

  • Lavendar - (dioxozine Violet or any light purple)
  • Lunar Violet - (paynes gray, Indigo, Black)
  • Windsor Blue - (Ultramarine/cobalt/cerulean/manganese blue, Cobalt Turquoise)
  • Hansa Yellow - (Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, New Gamboge or any yellow)
  • Quinacridone Red - (Scarlett Red, Cadmium Red)

Supplies List:

  1. Watercolour Paper: Fabriano Artistico, 100% Cotton, Block, 9x12 inch, Cold Pressed.
  2. Brushes: Pointed Round Brushes Sized 2, 6 and 10 and a pointed oval wash brush size 1 inch
  3. Ceramic Mixing Pallette: Jacksons Art or Amazon
  4. 3 Jars of Water
  5. Cloths for dabbing brushes
  6. Water Spray for activating dried paint
  7. Pencil and Eraser for sketching

If you have any questions or you need any help or feedback, please send me a message or start a discussion on this class page under the discussions tab and I'll get back to you!

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Lindsey Dawn Art

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1. Watercolor Snowman Intro: Hi and welcome to this step-by-step watercolor snowman lesson. We will be learning step-by-step how to paint this fun little snowman. Follow along with me with your paint and learn how to paint a lovely blue sky. I'm going to show you how you can get texture in your sky using some salt. And I'm also gonna show you how you can splatter the water into the paint background as well to get some lovely texture within your background. We're going to learn how to add some subtle shading and color to the white snow man, because not all white objects are completely white. There are lots of reflected colors. There'll be painted nice and slow for you so you can see exactly what I'm doing. I will include lots of up close shots as well of the facial features and small details. Just so you can see exactly what I'm doing. You'll also learn how to add texture using paint splatters and also plastic cling wrap. So we're gonna be adding some lovely texture to the snow. And this is probably my favorite parts of the painting. So what are you waiting for? Grabbed those paints. And in the next lesson, I'll show you how to sketch the snowman. 2. The Drawing: In this lesson, you're going to learn how to sketch the snowman. And I'll be breaking this down into simple steps. So first of all, draw a horizon line. So this is just gonna be wearing my sky, is that at the top and the snow is at the bottom. And then I'm going to draw these two curved lines. So this is going to be the snow man's body. I'm just dragging it up at the top and the bottom. So it kinda looks like a vase shape, two curved lines at the top. And this is going to be this no man's house. And then I'm going to start drawing in the snow man's hat. So I'm basically draw in these lines over the age of his face and then joining them up. And I'm going to give him a little floppy hat. So he's going to have kind of like a little Santa hat. I'm also going to draw this circle shape. So this is going to be the little bubble on the end of his hat. And then I'm going to start drawing these long rectangle shapes for the scarf. So you can draw the scarf however you want. What I would suggest is having a look on places like Pinterest, Google, Places like Pixabay and Unsplash for some ideas for snowman. Snowman, snowman is scarves because all scales can be different shapes, colors, sizes, and lengths. But I decided to draw this snowman scuff like this. I'm now going to draw in a rectangle and K, if any, on the edges to make it look a bit more cubed. If things are a bit more curved rather than sharp, and they do end up looking more cubed. I'm also going to add three circular buttons. Okay, for him to circle eyes. So this is like coal in the snowman and then I'm gonna do this upside down. So oblong shape. This is gonna be this no-man's carrot nose. And then I'm going to do some little circles for his mouth. Now you could just do a regular mouth shape. So you can just draw a curved line if you prefer to do that. But I liked the look of these little coal mouth, then I'm going to start drawing in his arms. So two little sticks for arms. And I decided to put a little glove on EN. So I'm making sure that I draw a curved line to make it look like the sticks are going inside the glove. And then I'm just going to draw a simple glove shape. So this is just a mitten shape. I'm also going to draw another stick arm on the left-hand side under making sure that those lines are very narrow. Then I'm going to draw the glove again. I'm making sure I draw the thumb pointing in towards the head. Because if you have a look at your own hands, your thumbs pointing in towards your head, if you hold them up in the air like a snowman, I'm going to use my Staedtler Mars plastic eraser now because it's nice and thin to erase these lines. So I'm just going to erase some of my pencil marks. Then I'll use a very soft brush to brush off the eraser pieces so I don't get the oil from my hands on my painting. Next, I'm going to show you the colors that are used. 3. Colours and Supplies: Now I'll show you the paint, colors and supplies that I used. I'll be using Daniel Smith lavender dioxazine, violet. I'll also be using quinacridone, red and Hansa yellow. This is the deep. And I love this. It's by Daniel Smith. And also unify lesson, I'm gonna be using that for the darkest areas and also Winsor and Newton professional Winsor blue. Or you can use any blue that you have, French ultramarine and cobalt, turquoise and nice to use. I'll also be using some white gouache. So this is the designers Winsor Newton Range. And I'll also be using 100% cotton Fabriano artistically paper on a block. The size is nine by 12 ". I'll also be using my large 1 " oval pointed wash brush. Then for the small details, I'll be using a size two and a size six pointed round brush, and these are by silver black velvet. I'll also be using a size ten, and I'm going to use a spritz bottle to activate my paint. I'll also be using some salt full texture in the background. Some plastic cling wrap. If you don't want to use plastic, then you could use maybe a brown paper bag scrunched up. I'm not going to be using a mechanical pencil for sketching the snowman and my trusty eraser. I'll also be using a ceramic palette for mixing some cloths, for dabbing my paintbrush, and some clean water containers. And I do like to use three water containers with clean water. Next we're go into painting the sky. So grab that salt for texture. 4. The Sky: Adding Texture With Salt: In this lesson, we're going to paint the sky. So you'll need your salt for adding texture. But if you don't have salt, Don't worry about it. We are going to splatter some clean water into the sky and you can add texture to the sky that way. So it looks a bit like snowflakes. I'm starting off with my large oval pointed wash brush. I'm going to paint in the sky. I'm painting on dry paper. So I did a pre wet the paper first. And this is the Winsor blue That's going onto the paper. I also added a darker color by adding the Lunar Violet in with the Winsor blue. And if you don't have Lunar Violet, you could use another color like indigo or Payne's gray would work really nice. Just another dark color to add to the blue to darken it up. But that's completely optional. You feel free to paint this all in one color if you feel like that's best. And I did wish that I started painting around the snowman features first because the way that I painted this Latin at the top of the paper. And then working my way around the snowman, I did find that more difficult. So I wish I had started painting around the features first. So painting around the arms and the hat on the face. And then moving onto the larger areas of the background. I'm using my size ten brush here. I love these brushes because they've got a lovely pointed end. If you're not very confident with using larger brushes, do use a small brush around the areas of the snowman and you can get more control with a smaller brush. So I'm just carefully painting using the dark blue and also the Winsor blue as well. I'm just painting carefully around the snowman. I don't know if you noticed, but this dark color really makes the white areas of the snowman really pop off the page. And that's because of the contrast between the light areas of the snowman and the dark areas of the background. This is a really good way to bring out a white subjects and make the white subject really stand out by adding a dark color next to the light areas. I'm also adding another layer of the blue because I needed to smooth it out. But you don't have to do this if you've got a nice even layer on the sky, you don't have to follow what I'm doing here. I just felt like I needed to smooth it out because I was getting a few backgrounds and uneven drying marks. I'm loading my brush up with some clean water now it's happy in that water into the background. So I'm making sure that I tap this water into the background while that paint is still wet. Because if your paint such joy in this isn't going to work, you do need to have wet paint before you do this. I'm simply just tapping the back of the paintbrush. This adds little droplets of water onto the paint. And it pushes the paint outwards and creates this lovely texture. I'm going to take my salts now. So this is sea salt. You could use regular table salt or any size salt that you have and apply this to the paint while the paint is drying a little bit. So you don't want the paint to be too wet and it can't be completely dry or at work. And I'm just going to allow this salt to dry completely before moving onto the next step as well. So next we'll be painting this no man's body and adding a shadow around the scarf as well. 5. The Snowman's Body and Scarf Shadows: We're going to paint this no man's body now. And although a snow man's body is white, if you have a look at a white subjects, even if you look at a snowman, you'll also see reflected colors in that white snow man or white object. So I'm going to pop in a few shadows and I didn't want to use a gray because I do want this painting to be quite vibrant and fun. So I'm pretty wetting around the scarf and the snow men's bodies. And I did paint over the buttons as well with the water. And I'm taking my lavender. This is very watered down. And if you don't have the lavender, you could use a very watered-down dioxazine violet or a very light blue if you have when. That was really nice as well. And I'm just going to paint around the scarf. I'm going to paint on a little bit of the body. So I'm not painting the whole of this body. I'm going to leave lots of the paper showing. And that's because I want to have a really light body. I want to create highlights by leaving areas of the paper showing on that I'm going to take my damp brush. So this is a clean damp brush and I'm just blending out the edge to make it nice and soft. So you can see that I'm just blending the year job. I'm keeping this lavender very diluted. I'm very light because I do want this to be light. The key to painting a white subjects is to keep your colors really diluted and very light in tone. While the lavender is still wet, I'm going to start dropping in some shadows using very diluted Lunar Violet. Now if you don't have Lunar Violet, like I said, you could use a Payne's gray or a dark color like an indigo, or you could just use a darker version of the color that you've popped down on the snow man's body. So you could just use it a bit more concentrated and that would create a lovely shattered. Then I'm going to run this color down the edge of the scarf. So because that scarf is coming over the snow man's body, we're going to naturally get a shadow there. So I'm just painting that on using my size six brush. I'm also going to paint it underneath the scarf as well. And then using a damp brush, I'm just going to blend that out because parts of this painting has dried now. I've got more concentrated Lunar Violet on my brush now and I'm just going to run that down the edge of the scarf. So this is going onto the wet paper. So that paint that I previously popped down is still wet and you can see it bleeding outwards. This is just going to really bring that scarf out and make it really pop off the page. I'm also going to add a nice non diluted, so a very nice thick mixture of the Lunar Violet just around this edge here in the top corner. And I'm just going to run it down a little bit down the edge of the scarf, but not too much. Just a little bit underneath the scarf as well to make it really stand out. Make it very dark where the scarf is hanging over this no man's body. Next we're gonna be adding shape and shadows to this no man's face. 6. The Head: Adding Shape and Shadow: We're going to add some shape to the snow bands head and face. Now. I'm going to add some shadows to his face. I'm starting off with some clean water. I'm painting carefully around his nose because I don't want that dark color to travel into the news area. But I have painted over the eyes and also the mouth because we're going to paint them in a darker color anyway. I'm going to pop on the same color that I used for the body. So this is the lavender very diluted. And I'm going to start painting that on the right-hand edge. And that is because I want the light to be hitting the left-hand side of the snow man's face. If we paint the shadows mainly on the right-hand side of his face, that's going to make his face look more domed or more rounded. And it's going to give his face some color as well. So we're not just looking at a flat blob on the page is going to make his face look really interesting. I'm also going to add a little bit of lavender to the bubble on his hat as well. Now with slightly more concentrated lavender, I'm going to run that at the base of the hat. So this is going to create a shadow. And also at the top of the scarf as well where his head hits the scarf. And I'm also going to paint this in a rounded shape. This is gonna give the head of the snowman a nice bowl shape. And I'm also going to add that to the bubble on the hat as well. So I'm going to take a damp brush and just blend that out to make it nice and soft. And now taking some of the Lunar Violet, I'm also going to run that at the base of the heart, but you can see that I missed a little area. So this is my knee go in into the depths of the heart with the dips in and it might be slightly more in shadow. I'm also going to run a little bit along the side of the face to really darken it up and make that bull bull shape of the head look more rounded. I'm also using a size six brush if you're wondering. So this is my smaller brush again. I'm also using the Lunar Violet to add shadow to the bubble is fail. So just a little bit where it hits the hat and also around the edges to make it look more rounded. And using my clean damp brush, I'm going to blend some of that color out just to coax the color out a little bit so we get a bit of a mid tone. I'm also going to add some of the lavender to the left-hand side, but it's very light and then I'm going to blend that adjunct as well. Next, I'm going to show you how to paint the snow and add some texture using some plastic wrap. 7. The Snow: Painting White Subjects and Adding Texture: In this lesson, we're going to add the snow and we're also going to add texture. I'm gonna be using lavender, and I'm also going to be using some plastic wrap. So I'm going to start off with my oval pointed wash brush, laying down some clean water all over the snow. I'm making sure that I carefully paint that water around the snowman. And now I'm taking some very diluted lavender and I'm keeping this lovely enlight to start with. We are going to build the color slightly, but I want to keep the tone lovely and lights because snow does look white, but we're going to have reflected colors. And these bit of lavender is just going to create shadow and depth on a bit of form to the snow. So we are going to leave bits of the paper showing I'm taking slightly more concentrated lavender now, but it is very light style. So I'm just going to use some sweeping motions with my brush. I've just picked up more concentrated paint. So this has got slightly more paint in it and less water, but it's still very light. And I'm just going to add a few sweeping motions with my brush just to add a bit of shadow. You can see that the paint is not very concentrated. It has got water mixed into it, but my brushes not dripping with water. So it's not spreading really far, is staying where I'm putting it. But I am just going to use a few sweeping motions in a few places. Now I'm going to scrunch up my plastic, wrap, open it back up, and then lay it down on this front part of the snow. Now I'm going to kind of squeeze it and moving it around. You can move it around wherever you want it to. And this is going to create the patterns on the paper. So wherever you see the bits of the plastic touching the paper, that's going to create the pattern on the paper. So you'll see the paint showing through the plastic wrap when you put it down. I'm just going to use my fingers to move it around and press it down. Now you want to leave this to dry completely before you remove the plastic wrap. And in the next section we're going to paint the scarf, hat and gloves. If the snowman. 8. The Hat, Scarf ang Gloves: We're going to start painting the scarf, hat and gloves if the snowman in this lesson. So taking the quinacridone red, I'm going to start off with a nice medium consistency. So this is lovely and vibrant, or quinacridone, I've really vibrant anyway. So even if you add quite a lot of water, those quinacridone red colors are still going to add a lovely punchy pop of color. And because they're very concentrated in pigment. So this is a medium consistency. Like I said, I would say this is milk consistency. So it's probably got 50 50% water and paint mixed with it. So I'm just going to paint the main part of the scarf. I'm starting off on the left-hand side. And then I will come along with my smaller brush. And I'll add a bit of the yellow into this. Just painting on some curvy lines while the paint is still wet. Then I'll continue with the quinacridone red. I'm going to paint this over the top of the scarf as well. So you can see I'm just taking my time with this because I don't want to be painting on some of the snow man's face. First, I am coming in a little bit at a time with yellow swap in my brush over and making sure that I paint wet into wet while the paint is still wet. You could always allow the scarf to dry completely before you add these yellow stripes. But I just liked the look of the fuzziness of these stripes. It made it look a little scarf, look a little bit more woolen because you had that sort of blight outlook. I'm painting the top part of the hats now using the quinacridone red again, I've switched to my size six brush because I just felt I had a bit more control in a smaller area using my smaller brush. And I'm just going to paint that quinacridone red all over the heart. Taking care of painting slowly. I'm quite a slow painter anyway. But take your time with this. There is no need to rush this at all. Just enjoy the process. I love painting with watercolors. I find it really relaxing. And especially painting snowy Christmas Eve themes like this. I just find it, it gets me into the Christmas spirit a lot. Now with a bit more concentrated red, I'm just going to run that over the top of the hat and also just along the left-hand edge. And I'm just blending some of that color out a little bit. I've got the Lunar Violet. Now. I'm going to apply that to the heart, just the base here where it hits the fluffy white parts of the hat. And that's going to create a lovely shadow, just making it look a little bit more. 3d. Unit also brings up that color up. So it looks like there's folds in the hat. I'm just going to read some of that color down the left-hand edge of the heart and also at the base where it hits the little palm, palm as well. Now I get to painting the gloves and I'm using my size six brush again. So this is just the quinacridone red is going on again. Now I've got some Lunar Violet on my brush and I'm going to apply that to a little bit if the glove mainly around the crease of the thumb. And that's going to create a lovely shadow and make it look like a 3D object. Also, I'm going to apply some underneath of the glove where it hits the stick of this no man's arm. I'm going to start off this glove with the Luna file it because I wanted it to be a bit darker. So I'm just going to start off the glove like this. You could always do it this way. If you prefer, you don't have to start off painting the glove and then do the shadow. You could just paint the underneath and then paint the red of the glove just like what I'm doing here. So continuing to paint that quinacridone red Lulu for the glove and using my size six brush again. And then I've got the Lunar Violet and I'm gonna run that down the edge of the thumb, also around the curved crease of the thumb, and down a little bit of the side of the globe as well. So you can see here, I'm just allowing that to bleed out into the wet area of the glove. I'm now mixing up some of the quinacridone, red and the hansa yellow. To get this lovely orange color, we're going to use this on the snow man's nose. So I'm just carefully painting that in using my small size six brush. And if you're not very confident with using larger brushes to use a size two or resizable, that would be a lovely, nice small size to use. I'm going to use my unify less on the bottom as well, quite concentrated. And because we're painting because I was painting that onto the wet area of the nose. It is going to dilute that color a little bit and that's why I was going in with quite thick paint to create that shadow. Now I'm going to start painting in this no man's eyes. And I left a tiny little part of the eye white. So I just preserved a tiny bit of the paper. If you're not very confident with doing this, you could always go in afterwards with a white gel pen or white pencil or some white gouache or acrylic paint that is completely up to you all use some masking fluid. But I just decided to leave a little glint in his eye. And then I was just painting on the tiny little coal mouth. I'm going to mix up a brown now using my primary colors, which are the blue, red, and yellow together, I'm just going to experiment with mixing different consistencies of those three colors to get this lovely brown color that I'm using on the stake of the arm. Now, don't worry if you don't want to do that, you could do is just use a premixed brown that you've got, a burnt sienna. Burnt umber would be really nice or sepia or Van **** brown, Something like that would work really well for this stick arms. But I just like to use the colors that I'm using and it just is a bit more challenging like that. I do like to see what colors I can come up with by mixing the colors that I'm using in the painting. I'm also using my very small size two brush to run down the left-hand, right-hand edge of the steak. And also at the base where his arm was hitting the bubble of the hat. I just use Lunar Violet there and it was quite concentrated. Then I've got some of the lavender again. It's very diluted to keep this white part of the heart more white than colored. But I did want to add a bit of a shadow to make it look more 3D. And this is going to create shadows. Add a pop of color, and it's not going to look so flat. And next we'll be adding the finishing touches for our snowman. 9. Finishing Touches: Let's add some last little touches to our snowman now. So starting with the Hansa yellow and you know, just painting the buttons. So using my size six brush and carefully painting in these three cute little rounded buttons. And then be very careful with smoothing it out and making it look nice and rounded. Taking the hansa yellow now I'm adding the very smallest amount of the Lunar Violet. And the reason why I'm doing this is because yellow and purple are opposites on the color wheel. And when they're added to one another, they sort of dull each other down. So I wanted to have a more dull version of the yellow to create nice shadows. And so now I've got the quinacridone red and also the Lunar Violet mixed together. So we want to create a lovely dark red. I'm going to use this for the shadows on the gloves. So I'm just painting this onto the dry paper just to run the crease with them. And the main part of the glove, meats and also down one of the edges. And I'm just carefully painting that on. And then I'm just going to also add some shadows on the sides of the scarf. So this is the dark red that I just mixed up. I'm just adding this using my size six brush down the edge of the scarf. I am going to make this shadow nice and thick. And then I'll come along a little bit later on and I'll use a damp brush and I'll blend it out. So this is my size ten brush now, just nice and clean. And just using some clean water running that brush down the edge of that paint while the paint is still wet, it will bleed out and create a nice soft age. Now we're going to add some shadows using some diluted dark red that we just mixed up. I'm just adding some little triangle shapes and some curved shapes on the scarf just to add a bit of depth and to make this graph look a little bit folded. So what are the most expert person to be creating shadows? Because I'm not that clued up with painting fabric to be honest. But I did sort of guess at where the shadows would be. And I'm just painting that around the edge of the scarf. I did have a good look at scarves on snowman online and got a really good idea of where to put these shadows. I'm going to start off with a curved shadow around this one edge of the scarf. I'm just printing that down the one age and nice thin strip of the shadow. And then I'll take my bigger brush loaded up with clean water and it is damped, not completely soaking wet. And I'm just painting that. I'm running my brush along the edge of that color to allow it to bleed out. I'm also painting in that shadow color underneath the top part of the scarf and then blending the edge out. So I'm starting off with a nice mixture of that dark red and then taking my clean brush and blending the edge out. Now I've got slightly more concentrated paint and I'm painting a darker shadow. So I'm painting the dark shadow around the edges of the scarf to really make that scarf and lift off this no man's body. And creates a really nice sort of 3D look. And it's going to add more depth to the scarf and make it really pop off the page. I'm also going to add a bit of shadow to the bubble and then blending the edge out with my damp brush. You do want to make sure you don't have too much moisture in your brush. Because if you do, the water is going to push the pigment out and you're going to get backwards and cauliflower effects going on. I'm going to use some very diluted Lunar Violet snail and running that along the edge of this no man's face. I'm also going to use some Lunar Violet just to edge parts of the button as well. And that's going to create a bit of a shadow. And I did make this a bit too dark, so I just used a tissue, sits up the dark edge of that button away. And I'm using a more diluted mix of the Lunar Violet now, so I didn't want it too dark. Then I will come along with my damp brush. I'll blend that out. I'm going to remove the plastic wrap now. So make sure that you've allowed this to dry completely before you remove it. But look at that amazing texture. This is definitely the most amazing part of the snowman. I think I just really loved that it really captures my eye. Now I'm going to use some Lunar Violet and this is nice and dilute it. I would say this is probably a coffee consistency, so it's got water mixed into it, but it's also quite vibrant. So you can see the Lunar Violet quite a lot. I'm going to create a shadow. So I'm painting that around the bottom of the snowman, around part of the edge of the snowman. So if you think about the light hitting the left at the snowman and then it's casting a shadow to the right of the snowman. I'm going to just paint that shadow coming off the right hand side and off into the snow. So I am going to leave a few bits of the paper showing in between. Then I will come along with my damp brush and I'll just blend that color out so you get a mix of tones within the shadow, then it's just going to blend it out a little bit. I'm going to blend the bottom with a damp brush. I've got more concentrated Luna file. Let's now and I'm painting that along the bottom of this no man's body. This is going to make it look like the snowman is stuck in the snow. So it's creating a bit of a shadow where his body is in the snow. I'm also going to add a slightly darker Lunar Violet. And then I popped down for the first shadow onto the wet areas of the shadow that I've put down. This is slightly darker, Lunar Violet now and I'm just using the darker shades because when a shadow is right next to an object, it's always darkest right next to that object. Now using some of the lunar file and I'm going to start flicking on these little splatters. I'm just brushing the brush over the tip of my finger and then allowing some of the paints to splatter onto the paper. So I like using my finger because it's more, I get more control with the splatters go. And now I've got dark or quinacridone red. So I got this red again from the dark red we mixed up code, yeah, which was the quinacridone red and the lunar Phi Latin mixed together to get a nice dark red. I'm using my size two brush here to sort of paint on these little frills of the scarf. So this is gonna be the Little Willie ends part of the scarf. I'm Kevin. Some of those ends to make this graph have a bit of movement on the ends. And some of those ends are going to be a bit longer, some are going to be a bit shorter to give it a bit of interests. Then taking some Luna file as I'm going to paint that over the top to create a bit of a shadow. And also, I'm going to paint some of that Lunar Violet in-between the red wool threats. And that's going to create shadow as well. They, so it's going to give the ends of this shadow more interests and more dimension. Next, we're going to put some snow splatters and the backgrounds to make this extra festive. 10. The Snowflakes and Your Project: I'm going to splatter in the snowflakes now. So I'm gonna be using some white gouache for this. So this is nice and creamy mixed with a bit of water. I'm using the end of my finger again to get some directional snow splatters. So I'm just brushing the brush over the edge of my finger and I slowed it down for you here to show you that I'm splatter in that over the background. I'm also splatter in it over the snowman. So you can see some of the slow splatters. A London on the snowman scarf, face hats, gloves. This is going to make the snowman look really christmas. C is going to bring the snowman into his surroundings. And so it doesn't look like he's a cutout object on a piece of paper. He's in a snowy scene and the snow is covering him just as it would be in the sky. So I'm just using my finger to make those snow splatters go in all different directions really. And then I'm using the tip of my brush to add a few little snow splatters myself. You could always use the other end of your paint brush and dip your paintbrush in some watery paint like this. Then use that to add the snow splatters and that becomes more rounded. But I did get better control, just use the ends of my paintbrush. You could always use a smaller paintbrush if you preferred as well. I think a size two or a size four would work really well for this. Your project now is to go and paint your own snowman using the skills that you've learned in this class. Remember to share your snowman pictures with us in the projects and resources area. I'll give you some feedback if you ask for it. But we always love to see your beautiful creations in whatever stage of the painting process you're at. Do remember to give me a review as well because I love having your feedback. And it's happy painting.