Painting Koi Fish with Watercolors : A Guide for Kids & Beginner's

1. Introduction to Watercolors : Painting Koi Fishes (0:21): Since childhood, I always dreamt of having a pet, and the vibrant colors of the fishes made me fall in love with them. Hi, I'm Subheti, an artist, art educator, and the founder at the Flight of an Artistry. In this course, let's learn together the basics of some watercolor painting with some tips and tricks. And let's get started. 2. Getting Started - Basic Art Supplies & Tools (0:39) : Hello, and welcome back. In this class, we will learn about what art materials will require to draw the Coy fishes. Firstly, we'll take a four size watercolor paper along with the board, palette, brushes. We require zero size and a four size brush. Masking tape, fiber castle watercolors. You can choose any brand watercolors. Some water, cesar to cut the masking tape, tissue, and cloth. In the next class, we learn about outlining our oi fishes. See you there. 3. Applying Masking Tape & Outlining the Koi Fishes (6:51): Hello, and welcome back. In this class, we will learn about how to apply masking tape to the board along with the paper, and let's also outline our coe faces. So before starting the class, let's understand how to mask our watercolor sheet. This is masking tape. Tape your masking tape, half of the paper, edge of the paper, and half of your board. Keep dragging till the end. Once you reach the end, cut it with a cesar. Follow the same. Stick it half on the paper and half on the board. Let stick. Half and half. Cut the ch. Let's start with outlining our Cefashes. From the masking tape, leave almost 1 " of your hand and start the first ifsh. Let's draw the tail of the coifsh. Et's draw the fin. Middle fin. The right side fin. The eyes. We are done with the first cofish. Let's come to the second one. You see the bigger fin and from there, just leave 1 " and from there, just make a dot and follow the dot till here. Start your second Cefsho. It's about the deal. And the fence. Now, the eyes. Just draw a center line very lightly till the end. Follow the same on the first quafish. Draw some ripples. Very lightly. Water ripples. And that's it. We are done with outlining our coefcs. In the next class, we will learn about some basics of watercolor with some tips and tricks. See you there. 4. Bringing the Koi to Life : Painting the Body & Fins (10:11): Hello, and welcome back. In this class, we'll start painting our coy fishes with watercolors. Let's take light blue. Take all the colors in your palette one by one. Some yellow and orange. Let's first start coloring our ifshes, dip your brush in the water. Start with water washing your Kiefishes entire fish. For this, any size of the brush would work. Now, secondly, dip your rush in water, let's take some orange. And just touch it. Dip your operation with water. Again, take some orange. What's the center. Just touch it. Let it spread, and to the tail, dip it in the water, clean your brush fully, and start just spreading the colour. Clean your brush. Take some water and repeat the water wash process in the fins and leave it to settle. Repeat the process. Start with water washing your oy fish. Only the half face part of it. Get some orange color and start coloring your fish and let the water do the magic cure. Clean your brush. Repeat the water wash process. Till the end till the tail of the fish. Let's add some orange again. Clean the brush. Just evenly spread all the colour. Water wash the fin. Both the fins. Now, let's take some yellow and start coloring in the fin. Both the fins. Let's repeat. Let's take more yellow and colour it in the face of the first coifsh grab some tissue. Let's remove the excess water from the fish. Follow the same process with the second fish. Let's take some yellow. And color the first coeffich in the center. Clean the brush. Let's take some orange, add some darker orange towards the tail. Let's add depth to the fish. More orange and more detailing. Et's grab some yellow. A mix of yellow and orange. Me water. Just let the colors blend. Let's take some red and a bit of orange and color the second ifsh just blend the colors. Keep adding water. Let's take some yellow. Wash the brush completely with no color and just water wash the fish. Let's take some red color the tail of the first fish. In the brush blend the colors. Take some orange and colour the fins of the second coifish. And wrap the tissue and remove the excess water from the second coifsh. And the next class, we learn about giving some water texture to the background. See you there. 5. Creating the Water Texture in the background (8:25): Hello, and welcome back. In this class, we learn about giving water texture to the background. So for the background, we are taking a bigger size of the brush, which is four. Let's start with whitewashing the background. Wrap some light blue, dip in the water, and start coloring. Spread the colour evenly. Let's take some dark blue. Always make sure to water wash the paper before applying any color. And choose smaller areas as the water might get dry faster. Let's take some light blue and start coloring in the area of water wash more blue. That's again, water wash the next area in portions. Okay. Let's take some dark blue. Let's water wash again. Mol the water. Easier smudging of water colors. Let's take some dark blue. M. More dark blue. We keep removing the excess water. Water wash the remaining area. Let's grab some light blue. Let's take some dark blue. Let's take some do blue and start coloring the sera more du blue. Whitewh seria. Let's take some doblue start coloring from the edges. Let's take some light blue, dip it in the water and start coloring from the tail, the fish and plant light in the dark blue coming to the end of the paper. Let's take some dark blue and start coloring. Repeat the process in all the areas of the dark blue. Water wash the section. Take the dark blue. Have some light blue. Yes. More light blue. Let's move the excess water. Just gently dab the tissue paper. In the next class, we learn about giving finishing touches to our artwork. See you there. 6. Final Touches : Adding Details & Highlights to Your Koi Fishes (14:12): Hello, and welcome back. In this class, we'll learn about adding some ripples and finishing touches to the artwork. Let's add the final depth detailings to the background. That's water. What are the edges. No dark blue. Let's take some black and add it to the edge. Blend it with the dark blue. A all the details on the dark blue. Black. Blender colour. Let's take some light blue. A mix of dark blue and black. The final finishing touches. Okay. Take some light blue and start coloring just keep adding water. Now let's use zero number brush and draw the eyes and the water ripples with the black and outlining our coefficients. Outline our coifsh with black to move the excess water. Wash brush. Take some light black. And make up a cent line in the coifsh sallow the same. Wash the brush very properly with no residue of any black paint, clean the brush, dip it in the water. And now take some white paint. Let's make some ripples in the water. Start from the bottom. That's my entire painting. H, a m. M, That's it. We are done with our painting. Now we have reached the final part of the painting where we carefully remove the masking tape. Well, this brings us to the end of this course. Hope you guys enjoyed painting the Koi fishes along with me. I would love to see all of your koi fishes. Please click a picture and tags on Instagram. If you guys would like to connect with me personally, feel free to reach out on my social handles. See you in the next course. Bye bye. 7. Bonus : Sneak Peak (0:37): Hello. Here's a bonus sneak peek from our coffee painting course where we explore different coffee tones to create depth and texture. Let's mix this all together. Since we have mixed all of three things, I'll show you the tone of the coffee shades. If this sparks your creativity, enroll in our course today and start painting with coffee. Thank you.