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1. Watercolor Tutorial Intro: Are you always feeling
like you're too stressed while you're painting that you think too much
of what the outcome will be instead of just enjoying
your aging process. Well, I have felt if any, dams, and that's what I now want
to give you this kind of Porsche where you
don't things about these things and just
enjoy the process. This class is very
beginner friendly. You don't have to have any
previous knowledge about watercolors or for working
with color pencils. We will just start with
adults and work from there. So basically, all of the
painting you see here is made out of thoughts
and some strokes. So we will explore all
these in this class, how I made this painting. And for your class project, you will do your own painting
of favorite polar florals, but you'll find in nature or
you will find them at home. And I encourage you
to actually go into nature or CFO me or plants and carefully go see even
touch them of it and feel them the way
they actually are. That you don't just
look at them once and you just give
them few minutes. You see that details. What they have, what kind of tiny minor details they have, what kind of leaves they have, which shape they are,
which colors they have. Very, very fascinating. So I want you to go
a bit in detail. I watched the flower. When you paint them, you
just let yourself blows. You just remember what
you're imagining. You just basically imagine
what the flower equals. You don't use anymore. It's slower in front of you. You just tried to
recreate it in your mind. So that's why we call it Loose, that you don't think
too much uses a bit through the bean on the vapor. And having been
while you're doing and feeling relaxed
while you do it, and don't think about that. So that's the main thing. I will introduce myself as well. I'm Nora. I'm illustrator
by the designer and textile artist from Finland. And I have been painting with watercolors for more
than five years now. Lately I've been more
doing digital works on VSCO app or perhaps, but I came back to this medium because
it's super feeling, good feeling you get from there. And that's why I wanted to
bring it to you as well. So hopefully see you
soon in my class and thank you for watching. And see you. Bye-bye.
2. What You Need to Get Started: Those you would need is having
any watercolor palette. And you need, of course, sum up for your booth, what 3rd air, some brushes. So watercolor brushes, or any other brushes
you're at home, which you can test
with watercolors, and preferably some
color pencils as well, then some paper which would be at least the 150
milligram weight with switches like
that. Thick paper. And you're set to go
with these tools. You can totally have this
class and no worries at all.
3. Painting The Background: So let's get started. First step with my brushes here. Shiley Eye, keep them Now
here and take them from here. So first beneath this big brush for Background are
making Background. Now. Let's with our
brush like that. So this is the synthetic
brush I'm using. And it was actually
my makeup brush. But why not do use it for something else
also, like today, we use it as a background
brush because it's, you can see how nicely it's
making these brush strokes. It's amazing. So what we do
is we wet our brush and then we gently flow that water together with the
paint on the paper. Just easy, slow, slow motions. And now we can choose
some other color I'm using now purple color. And Let's see what else
we can use as food bit, a bit blue here, let me put it here. Blue feels so nice. We can play. We don't want to make Background
to, to vibrant. It has to be very Mayan looking. It doesn't steal the show
of actual painting on top. Now, once again, a bit. And here, since a bit like gradient goes up like a bit like life and then
down a bit more strong. So I began to do
is we have to wait until it's almost vet. It can be shiny, slightly wet but not that wet. So let's just wait for a second. And then we got back and then
start doing our Flowers.
4. Working With Watercolors Part I: So we're back here, so our painting is almost dry. You can see this
plot here a bit wet. This is a bit with,
and this is a bit red. So we can actually work around them or we
can work with them. So let's see what's
going to happen. I chose today to paint
these pansy flowers. I have them at home and
they're living in a pot. And they're very cute. And as you can choose any
of your favorite flower, I urge you to just,
I'll see you around. And we already talked
about inspiration earlier. So go ahead and choose
your favorites. And I don't want to
put you in the frame, is this is all about
relaxing painting. Calming yourself, letting
your thoughts go, and having FUN while doing it. So let's start to have
them with the bank. Okay, so pansies
are a bit similar to this color summit verbally. And I don't want to do
just the same purple. So let's mix a bit color here. So let me take this same
purple I used earlier here, and let's add a bit water, make it more back. And then I'm going to use some of this pinkish
one English color. So don't be afraid
to make scholars, it just makes her
very unique combo. And also that you don't have
to imitate your Flower. Immediate. You know,
straight away, it doesn't have to be
exact copy of your flower. It can be whimsical. Let's start now. Whimsical way of showing your flowers
on the main thing. So just some thoughts
here and there. I always start with a thoughts. Thoughts work best. So those I'm thoughts
here and they're here. They're very tiny. These bands, these
are super tiny, extremely tiny they are. And I'm starting with
this purple side of them. And later I worked with
this yellow side of them, like white, light yellow. So my best advice is to start making
thoughts and don't be too afraid of paint on
that, on the paper. Because even though it's a bit like maybe hard
to start with, that empty vapor is a bit scary. But once you start
doing these dots, you start to feel a bit 0s. And it gets easier on
the on-the-go or so. Is this basically have to start? You know, like main
thing is to get started. So let's make some
bigger and some smaller. So this one, let's
make it bigger or you can always add like polar. They are your already. But here we have and you
can make them bigger. You can't make them smaller
though, but it's okay. If something is there to
fix in the light later. Everything is almost fixable. This after work around it. So that's thick doing here. All right, so it
looks like I have a random pair of
thoughts or my vapor. Wait, wait for it. So let's with yellow here. Yellow. I'm making it more strong leg
Mongolia, low. Orange here. And then just with
a bit color here. I don't touch them
through March tiny bit. Like, you know, like I just just do the
Gibbs some as, you know. Like if you color all, then it doesn't look
like watercolor anymore. There has to be
some kind of apps, some sunlight, empty vapor. So how this Watercolor
feel that you have like like this kind of
floating feeling that is at Obviously I have to
make this a bit bigger, this purple ones here. They don't really add up the usual to any base bigger
petals than these ones, so they're more behind, so they have to obviously
be always bigger. Everything oxide is everything backside
is actually smaller. In this case, they have to
look a bit bigger. Bag. Otherwise, it looks a
bit three-year-old. Final bit, maybe. Not all. Some of them. Alright. I'm using my
synthetic al-Bashir. Thank you. What do universal size that it's fitting for a smaller work when you use the default
on this front. And then if you put it more
like like flat like that, then it makes a bigger stroke. So let me take like
that, it bigger. I make these with the bid water, but not too much that it
would blend too much there. And then it's like a bit like just looking
like ones up there. There is no separate
feeling them. Yeah. Okay. And maybe just final
shrub it here. Figure. Alright. Now I'm going to add
some blue icon here. And I'm adding good, I haven't. It looks like here
is some other color. Blue now. It's not like naturally they
don't have flow like that. But I'll make mine a
bit fairy tale looking. So That's a bit like
painted flow there. And it blends now
mostly with this yellow and reuse a bit Lesch. Thank ending this
so-called lead to relax. Like OK with their brush. And you're paint and don't
think much anything else. Okay. I feel like one more color here. I'll put a bit more
pinkish also there that have a fift more my
vibrant feeling. So yeah, like I
already said earlier that these reference Flowers, this is just referenced
to have some idea. You can just, you know, well, like for Verge, like and then do something totally different color or shape or you don't have
to keep it natural. Okay. Alright. So I'm not touching
these petals now. I leave them be
because later I'll use my instance watercolor
pencils and then you will add up the lines and Belize and might be using some
other pencils or so. And you can use any answers you'll have at home like what other go
or not particle, just regular coloring pencils. Because the result
might be quite similar. And it's not something
like this class is not something that you have ON stormed the shop and
buy supplies for you. It's like, why do you
have at home you can use? And I'm sure there
is all will be For goal. Yes. So I'm still using the same brush I will make
now this green bar of these flowers may see this
is a dark, dark green. And let's see, this one
is a bit also very like, I don't like this green here has to be a
bit more yellowish, but I can add more
yellow to this one, make it more lighter color. And let's just click point. I think it might be a bit big. I made brush here. And just that your brush
inside and then bring it. They're like, I think I need more light. Quite like I need Yourself. Tiny looking. It might
look garbage bag. And they don't have to look. Blache college doesn't
have to debate at all. These leaves are
exactly connecting. Figure apart. It's like they can float
in that narrows show. This has like when happening. Now embarking job as if it's chronic, this guy, this one finger from that I something to stand
on and otherwise, they're like built land area. So this one, I like that, that comes like
maybe without one
5. Working With Watrercolors Part II: Year or so some ability
in job shop there. Sometimes it gives looks
like your brushes dry then that means it's time
to add somewhat nervous. They can have feels
dry. Otherwise. This Watercolor point is gone if your brushes just
constantly dry. Or another calling
this watercolors and it's already
crashed basically. Yeah. So it might be that
you don't see actually these kind of windings.
Always like that. But I made them like,
like miserable now. Looks like yellow is
whatever dreamy now. But I think I can fix it later. So this leaves are like
crunched together. They're not like separate. They are growing together. And usually like yeah,
it's not always, but sometimes tiny leaves are
more down apprised bigger, but my plan has actually
found by bigger and smaller. So it's not always the case. I guess. There's so many
different like The Blonde. It's crazy if you go
nature and you're just you just don't
go, just nature uses. Also open your eyes and
watch all the plants. Actually watched them like
maybe hold near and achieving. And you start to
understand that there are so different from each other. Every single one of
them is so different. They have their own
characteristics. They're, they're basically
having own micro life there. Of course they have micro life, but inner meaning
that, you know, like micro world basically, like every flower has
someone who sit on it, some bar for this flower demos. And it's so funny and like cool and how
much colors they have. So many followers
are in the nature. And that's blooms for example. They can only maybe
for one week, then they go so short periods. So brady, that's when they're there and when they're going
than fruits are coming, which are also very pretty. So what I'm trying
to say is that they're older than some
moments happening. Like that. Nature is not stable. It's in the moment. So they're very airy looking
now I want some darker, like some darker somewhere. So, you know, makes a bit
different, like feelings there. While I'm doing It's like things that are
already dry here. I'm trying. While you do this kind of relaxing Watercolor
thing yourself, then you don't have, think
about how it comes out. That is, this, this is not
important, how it comes out. It might sound crazy,
but it's not Freely. It's the feeling you
get when you do it. You like the paint on the
paper with the brush. You use your fingers, your hand feels it. You're like, well next
thing that moment, but some things, so really, you know, it's like in that time when you're
painting gets one, um, and painting it's nothing. So that's why on thing too
much about the outcome. Because if you think
too much about all Enjoy will go away and
then you get stressed. And basically painting goes all so weird because you're thinking too much overthinking is one of the
biggest problems in our best start gums then
when you just play around, It's usually the case. And it's the most funny
that like if there are end users maybe take some tiny piece of paper already know and
you pull something. And then that becomes
the best ROI endeavor. And then you're like, Oh, always on so small, crappy, ready for
hardware, use it later. Maybe even This square paper like using school
and oh my gosh, hallway, remove that background. So that's usually the case. The good things happen
when you're not expected. Expecting it. Just something for Fun and it just turns out
to be really cool. It's happened many times. That's what I'm saying,
that when you play around, you this to relax and don't think about outcome
than the best start. But of course, if you
have to do client work, then you have to think
about the demos. So, but that's not today's theme that they
see me. It's not though. Feel stressed. Opposite.
Though. David, relaxed, Well, your painting
and just chill. Have Fun. So I spot here a bit. Like not enough paint. Then maybe here also. I like this brush. I feel more pumping
every dollar. That's the one was
it was good for, for these green bars, but it's like food, it like a big figure
brush, mostly. It's easier to control. Like I feel more
confident in their hand. The standing went to
disappear somewhere. Maybe happy hand. I don't
know what's the point, but I'm just continue
playing with it. Basically, my hand is just
moving around here and there and then adding some
paint here and there. And I'm using a yellow
side also pick bars. As I already just said, there's so many different
colors in their nature. So this might look a bit
yellow even in some way. Especially in the sunlight. Obviously, sunlight
makes everything so bright yellow. Nice. And right here on, So I think something
has to be there. Such too much there.
Nicely mixed up with this other other flower. They're basically
ending in a A&R here. You can think about it.
But what could we do more? So I vote for some
more dots in the air. So these dots are also a bit like flower nectar is
going maybe like that. You know, you're doing. And you will find this access. My tiny humor here. When that's dry, I'm sure
they become more fuller. Their imagination,
flower nectar is like flying in the air. Not exactly that. Looking back, making
a debate fairy tale, my third here, very flower
has something going in there. Then ensure. Alright, immediately some
more movement happened. So I like that we have this whitespace here that not everything is written color. We vote for having
the ground here or no. Okay, let's do it. Let's do the ground or so. So here I have some brownish looking and neuroses, black background Yeah, This you can see that I haven't used my black cat all I'm back very bad luck user. Mostly, yeah,
everything is yellow. Yellow is finishing there. Again, some books. That's lover. That's everywhere.
Here and there. Your banking already. So we're doing math here. Grounds that are okay. Then we can add a bit
brownish like some stones, are there some pebbles? Stuff is happening. Some bevels are here. Pebbles, are there. Some people jar here. Irregular pebbles. Pebbles are there. Maybe, let's put some
yellowish, also. Mustard yellow. Alright. And I think I do have it
stronger in the center that more areas on the side that more molecules
in the center here. And then it goes gradually
lessen the XYZ homework. Let me add some. It goes to smash the Smartsheet
and give it a bit dark. So yeah, I think it's fine now. I'll leave it to
dry because I want everything to drive before
I'm start using my pencils. So to remind you what kind
of pencils I'm going to use. Some gonna use the
stirring pencils. Intense. Their name, their
English company. And it blends nicely with
the water what I want. But also I want that they
just get some natural like like Bonjour to these flowers because
now they don't book yet. Finished, but I want
some loose lines there. So I'm going to
use these pencils. And I'll check goes so you
can use what you have, like your own markers
that you have. So I have these markers. This is no market is, is this kind of like
are high in Makarov, this pen segmenting
these photos I have, I'm not going to use
all of the colors, obviously, just
perhaps some of these. And then I have this
golden marker here, not sure if this goes there. So let's see what's happened. This painting is
unexpected or unplanned. This at all. Use this to it and you'll see gradually what's
gonna happen with it. I also have this
kind of very old, I think this 15-years-old
the cell, it's super old. It's actually olden. It's very good pencils. I have guessed it's
and using it. Now. Vince is also driven. These are metallic branches and this is water color pencils shudder and mint green. I like this polar, could
easily put them away. Now. And let's come back when
it's dry, fully dry. I Bye for now.
6. Using Color Pencils: Hi, welcome back. So the painting is now fully dry and it's safe to start
to use the fences. Okay. So let me just quickly
see which pencils I think first because I don't want
that they're all here. So I'm gonna use these,
these, the screen. Green, yellow, orange. Look them here. Okay, so let's get started. And we're doing some contours. I'm using the purple benzyl now. I'm doing vary a
bit wild pointers. And not everything
needs to be conserved, but I'll just give some
insights there and some outside like that. Now pick some pinkish. I'm like the work that inside of the Fed has some
random color there in fish. This shot to shot. Then I'm going to
use some yellow. Will disrupt your algebra. Linda, bit more. Shoulder. With your own painting. You can just be like, you know, perhaps a bit while looking
lines first and then later you see that they
actually blend really nicely in therapy painting. So just don't be afraid. Use the pencils to
use the paints. Like if you don't like to do
other than go differently, It's not the only
painting you will do. Hopefully. I hope it's not done eventing
you though. That'll be sad. Now. The contour, the best thoughts, I will use this, the bank, yeah, I'll use pink. Make them pop more. I'll use some. What did I say? It I said being no blue. Sometimes I'd say stuff which is like opposite of what I'm
actually wanting to say. I was, I think using
infants and that's fine. Who knows? What was happening in my brains. So yeah, like here. Like so you can
actually see that our flowers or white
flash looking, they don't look super like, like like in that nature
because in the nature they're turning their cells usually
this earning to the sun. So then they're
in one direction. But some are like off and stuff. So here now and
they're all watching us in the same, same direction. Now I'm using this
dark dark green. This green bar here. Or it's some amount of color here. Stood out So we can add up a bit space that we take
a bit extra space from, from that, from the
empty set that we don't always do the lines exactly
to the edge to speak. You have it. Either white, white, white vapor do it or
we have this background here. So it's like a bit see drove
when she started cool, it gives cool effect that we can even do some
extra, extra things here. Why not? Now? Yeah. Okay. One drink cow would say to
you is that if you use, for example, some new color, then it will be good to
use it, at least here, and at least here at
imbalances that painting over, you lose all over if you
want to use a little bit. Produce like here,
here or here. Here. Is balancing, is if you
have only one new color, one here, and you don't
use it anywhere else. The painting will look
a bit not imbalanced. So try to use one color. Like for example,
if I use this pink, then I use it somewhere here, and I use it somewhere
here, then it's okay. But now I'm using all
the colors around here so they will just blend
in. So that's fine. Okay, so now I can work
with thoughts are so tiny, but some of them
get extra attention with this pencil here. Where's my purple wireless? So I will do feel
these are short. That's me add some yellow here. So just try different colors
and just started to use a bit unexpected colors that will surprise you that they actually really
well together. Now, this ground also, I need to check
what I have here. I'm going to use this
trend. Let me start. Yeah. So Hurst values the bar. Try to imitate some bevels here is just not very visible alone. I've been trying to find one because it's storing
some more more look there. But not too much
because we're going to use water also.
How it will turn. Okay. So the main point here now was to make the petals
look more popping up out. And then this green parts
of the flower, we like. Keeping her background. That's main attraction
is the petals. Now I will take my watercolor brush and I'm adding some of
the water here. Favorite watercolor pencils. So we'll do a bit like,
like vibrant, vibrant, look like Inca in feeling like here. That doesn't blend too much. The bring in my trustworthy
napkin, though. Get rid of too much water there. Now it still makes this big urn and it's like
opening up from here. Okay? I've looked through
this green bar. I'm using some of the from here, some fancy lemon shadow here. Now, here's something that happened in reared. Circuit. Covers up a bit. A bit here. Okay. I'm not fan of that
blue line with my water brush because I
know what will happen. Everything will start to slide. All these blue goes
into yellow and then we don't have yellow
anymore like at all. So I'm not going to touch. I just leave them as
they are. They are okay. 1 s that she sees bubble but that's fine bubbles
with the water. So we have to leave it to
dry a bit more now that before we we can
use dry and sales. This is also watercolor one, but I'm not going to use
it as watercolor one. I just regular painted If
I do women, I'm sure yet, so let's keep it for dry. And then we come
back and do that. Final that Chez. See you soon
7. Finishing Touches: Hello, we're back here, are almost finished
with your skill. Last last Touches
to IRB, anything? Okay. I'm having here some metallic
Fan stuff like that. I've put a bit slow here for
extra spark and the sale. And it's growing really
nicely and doesn't. Pencils are, I think
very, very good. The US because they
give up its shine and friends like feeling. They are painting. I'm gonna use a beat. This brownish here. On this little tiny bit. Here. Here. This feels a bit still like tiny bit fragile
displays the contents too much because if I if I touch too much then
it can maybe hold here. Sure. I'm not going this now. So some strokes here and there. I'll give extra Dutch
there, painting. And if you're like fancies, also, then feel free to
exact same painting. I would be really happy. I wouldn't be at all upset
if you do exactly the same. But even if you do
exactly the same, it will just turn on
slightly different. So every, every version ART
is still different even if they want to do exact same
thing as the other version. So feel free to use it as as your straight
blade or for this. But as, as you don't
think how you do it. And while you just
do it, the dots, then I'm 100% sure
it will turn out still very different than you
have your own unique style. So, so, so I'll put a
bit metallic hero shot. So really visible. And Let's try with this
cold and some bevels here. Call them bevels. Sphere in the period
L for us to remember. So bevels when polled and actually also granite and histones are shining
sometimes like, like some bolder upper. In real-world is Sosa. Similar case. I'm going to use now this theme. Pencils open. And so, so basically it's like a micro and silver which
does archival ink. There is they have
specific names are this actually doesn't stay on this one because
this is stronger one. Some going to try to use
this one on top of it. Even this one this
is the strongest, looks like, doesn't take
anything on the porch. This a bit, can go. Alright. I use this, mentor me and make something tiny,
tiny mean Touches. Mint the Dutch. Some paper meant that. All right. So the
painting already, or is it no. I will add also the mark drop it to the center to pick stocks. Yeah, this was missing. Wasn't ready. Center birth gets a bit. Okay, Let's call it ready now. So this painting, ready? And I really hope you
enjoyed all the process. You feel happy about it. You feel more energized. You seem them feel calm
and satisfied that your painting came out
exactly the way it. And thank you for
painting with me. We're gonna take
one last meeting. My final, final words. So let's see you there.
8. Final words: Hello. We're here for my final words. What I want you to keep in
mind that when you start painting on phi of freight
though, thank risks. Choose the bold colors. Have some crazy ideas
when it all on paper. And if for some gates you
don't like the result, you fan, you can try again. You can do new painting. And then you would
your new ideas there. And you have this knowledge
from the previous painting. So they had up. So basically every time
you do new main thing, you have the previous
knowledge and you add up this knowledge
to your new painting, which makes you super
professional in the end. So I'm not getting like all about testing,
drawing new things. Try to even use
some things which maybe are not exactly meant
for mixing with watercolors, for example, you can add to wash the watercolor like
as if anything, finishing Touches some
dots here and there. You'll find at given like
I have some first sample, some paints which are
used for textiles. And it works as a, as a Alcatel acrylic. But I can even use
year if I wanted to sum some stripes urine there because let's not limit
ourselves too much. Exact category are. Now I use watercolors
and then nothing else. So let's use pencils, let's use, let's use acrylics. Let's use been says
use. All, all such. Vince, you have at home and you just try and list yourself. How would they
worked out for you? And while you do it, you find your own style. You will find what
you liked the most. Boudreau and I encourage you to see around
them and nature. The feel and the wife
of different colors, different lens you can see. Like having a wolf in the nature is really good
for getting inspiration. So try to get some like
walk if you can outside, if the weather conditions
are suitable for it. And I'm sure you'll
find some new brands or some new phloem which
you never noticed before. So with that, I just wanted to say thank
you for taking my class. And we see senior sewn
into my other classes. And what they care. And have FUN with
your painting on for your class project in
that project gallery. Because I'm super excited to see them and I will
comment and give you, give the dams up for
you on this journey. So buy from me now
and see you soon.
Nora PS, Creative soul | Pattern addict
