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Painting with Watercolor for Beginners

teacher avatar Monja Wessel, Artist, Graphic Designer and Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Painting with Watercolor for Beginners

      1:05

    • 2.

      Where you find the Material

      1:20

    • 3.

      Art Supplies you need for this Class

      9:26

    • 4.

      Why a Color Swatch is so important

      5:04

    • 5.

      Learn more about mixing Colors

      7:29

    • 6.

      Get familiar with your Brushes

      12:44

    • 7.

      Let's draw a Color Wheel

      13:01

    • 8.

      How to create an alternative Color Wheel

      10:43

    • 9.

      Painting Technique: Wet on Wet

      3:37

    • 10.

      Painting Technique: Wet on Dry

      2:22

    • 11.

      Painting Technique: Dry on Dry

      3:20

    • 12.

      Painting Technique: Glazing

      4:16

    • 13.

      Painting Technique: Wash

      3:11

    • 14.

      Painting Technique: Transparency

      2:59

    • 15.

      Your Project

      0:35

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About This Class

Have you ever wanted to learn Watercolor?

Then "Painting Watercolor for Beginners" is for you.

We start with all the basic things you need to know - from the art supplies you need to brush strokes. I show you step by step how to hold your brush, how to do different brush strokes and how to handle watercolor.

Once we have build your painting muscles we diver into a bit color theory. We draw a usual color wheel as well as an alternative color wheel so you know that you can use your colors in a complete different way as well.

But that's not all - once we have finished these exercises we jump right into the different techniques you need to know for any kind of watercolor paintings. You'll learn them all - from wet on wet to the glazing technique. That's how you can archive extraordinary results in your paintings - even as a watercolor beginner.

This class is full of lessons where you can follow along and not just watch. Whenever you need I've added material just like a color wheel or a color swatch as a PDF to download.

Once we have learned the basics you can jump into your first project. I'll add many more projects to the class every now and then and let you know about the new things to explore.

You'll learn:

  • ...which Art supplies I use for my watercolor paintings
  • ...how to mix vibrant color palettes
  • ...brush control techniques to archive the brush stroke you want
  • ... more about color theory
  • ...more about mixing colors
  • ...about the different painting techniques

Also, don't forget to download the color wheel and color swatches template from my website.

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Monja Wessel

Artist, Graphic Designer and Teacher

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1. Painting with Watercolor for Beginners: Painting with watercolor, it doesn't have to be hard. It can definitely be frustrating if you have no idea what material you need or how to use different watercolor techniques to archive a specific result. I totally understand that was me too. If we haven't met yet, my name is Maria. I'm an artist and graphic designer and a teacher, and I love to paint with watercolor. It doesn't even need to have a steep learning curve. Once you have built your muscles and know how to use the brushes, colors, and different techniques. You are kind of great results in your watercolor paintings. And that is what this class is for. Using watercolor brushes for different strokes. And we also learn more about color and mixing it. Besides that, you will also learn different techniques. You need to mask. All in all. This class is for painting, watercolor, for beginners. Once you have mastered, if you can dive into your watercolor journey, Join me now. 2. Where you find the Material: Welcome to the class. In the following lesson, you'll learn everything you need to know about the material you should have had me in this class. We also dive into cos URI, mixing colors and color wheels. You can download the templates from our website. Please follow the link in the project area and sign up to get x to the treasure cave. Then you'll find a color wheel to print out, as well as a color swatch. Both templates come really handy when you start exploring your watercolor paint box. Once you have signed up, you'll get a link and a password to an area on my website. You can download all the material you need, which is called the treasure cave. Don't vary. You can unsubscribe just after you have downloaded the material. But if you stay, you'll get an email. Whenever I have a new tutorial or other freebies added to the class. Know various though. If you don't want to sign up for the newsletter, please contact me and I'm happy to send you a link to the material. Of course, you can also create the sheets yourself and follow along in the class. But I bet you will enjoy staying in my newsletter. In any case, let's get started diving into painting with watercolor. 3. Art Supplies you need for this Class: Here is all the material we need for this class. Of course first and foremost, we need paper. This is really good student quality paper. It has real gram per square meter, a 140 LB, And it's kinda rough paper. So you can really see your colors coming up. It won't cost you an arm and a leg. And you can really try things out with this paper. Let me show you the paper. You can see it's kinda rough. When you add the colors there, you will really see what watercolor is all about and how it works and flows over your paper. I highly recommend to invest in a paper like this. It doesn't have to cost you that much, but you have to pick watercolor paper, which have good quality, at least good quality. So you know how watercolor really feels. Watercolor paper is necessary for that. Beside that, we of course need brushes. Brushes are pretty important. And I usually use these sizes. These are 4810, the wrong one. So as for 810, usually I use because this covers most of the paintings we create. But of course, if you have a whole set of watercolor brushes, it's much better because when you have larger paintings, you will need a brush like that to really cover the entire paper or just a tiny bit of pieces. So this is pretty good if you have a set of brushes. Of course, if you want to invest in really good brushes and you say, Okay, I just want to have high-quality brushes, so you just pick three of them and these are usually for 810. This is what you get along with pretty well. Yeah. Okay. So brushes are pretty important. Make sure you don't buy brushes our children use. For watercolor. At school. You invest in really watercolor brushes. Because here the hair is much better and you won't lose the hair on your paper, which really results in huge mess. So you spend a few dollars more on your brushes than having a huge mess. And it's not fun at all to have a really nice drawing or painting and pick out all the brush hairs all over your paper. So make sure you have good quality brushes. Then of course, you should have a pencil near here. I use five B, which is pretty smooth. Most people like more, Tooby or HB. I prefer to have a lot of graphic on my paper, but you might be a difference, so please feel free to pick whatever makes you happy. In any case you will need a rubber. This is one you can. It's a little bit like clay. So you can have, you can take off the graphic from your paper is for artists. I believe it's necessary. Maybe not as beginning, but I would invest in something exited. It just costs a dollar or two. So it's not a large investment. And then I also have an eyedropper that is perfect if you want to activate your colors. So you just take a little bit of water and put it on your pen here. Then you can draw your color much better because of course, it's extremely dry when you have it inside here. You really need evaded. It's completely different than the tubes would you would handle. So it's much better if you have something like that to activate your colors here. Of course, again, you don't have to mount. It's really handy. Let's talk about colors for a second. Here are my colors. They are in a sneaker box, but you will. But these are Winsor and Newton colors. I think these colors are, for me, they are the best. But it's completely up to you, whatever you pick. But please don't pick colors which are not student quality on which are not from very good brands which offer watercolor colors. But something like student quality, pupil quality, actually, you will regret it because then once you have your, you know, your colors, and then you have different colors. Once again, you will really regret that you haven't started with a good box of watercolors. This is enough. That's okay. You don't need anything else. You don't need 45 colors like I have here. 61, 12th are fine. This is all you will need. Later on you will get more colors. That's a great thing here because once you have used one color app, you can easily buy a little piece of color and put them here and your parents is pretty easy. Or if you want to expand to just put in here in the empty pounds, a little bit, a piece, a block of color. They cost just a few dollars. Later on, you might want to switch two tubes, which are artist quality. Of course, they are great. They are smooth colors and they are stronger and they are brighter. You will love them, but those colors are pretty much all you need right now. So stick with them, use them up and once you've done that, you're ready for whatever tube you choose. 11 is ready. You can pick a tube and add them to your books as well. Then I use usually some washi tape or something like that to glue my paper onto a workspace where I am. Why? Because here this paper has not glued around. So I take it off from my blog and put it on the place where I'm drawing and put these washy or washy tape. Also have washi tape here around. I can easily get it off again. And it's much better when you have a lot of water on your paper, it won't flow anywhere. You have it there. It can dry and then you can remove it easily. Yeah. That's why these washi tape or something like that is pretty handy as you should have it if you don't have a block which is glued area, have a paper towel next to you? A paper towel or a little towel? Actually, I use a towel because it can take a much more water which I really like. Because then you can have a tear next to you and just put your brush here, which is dirty and wet. And you can just get rid of whatever layer you wash it. You can reuse it. So for me it's pretty handy, but you can of course, also use paper towels just fine. What you also need is a pallet to mix your colors. I use what is in my box already here. But you might want to use a plate. You can just take it from your kitchen if you want to, or you can get them for a few dollars from the next artist shop where you have little areas where it can mix your colors totally up to you. But this will do the trick as well. Of course, have two jars of water. I have now something which is in my eyes, pretty handy here. You can just open it and you feel both with water. And then I have two jars here and just this little space. So I can easily go from one to the other end. What I also like is that I can put my brush here at least for a short time. If you put it too long and let it dry here, it might it might damage your glue here. Each brush is glued here. And when all the water flows in, it's not good for the brush. So you might take it out and put it on your towel to dry. That's all you need to start your watercolor journey. I hope you have everything handy and if so, Let's get started and start with some brush strokes and also with some color mixing. 4. Why a Color Swatch is so important: In this lesson, we're going to talk about a color chart. This pretty important, and you will see how important it is. I have already created one. So when you look at my contract here, and you look here, you see that this swatching is so necessary because when you look at the colors, they are much different than they are here when they are drunk. So look at this yellow, for example, is pretty dark here, but when you look at this one, it gets much brightest. Honey yellow, while this one is newly looking at Brown, something like that. This is much different. And when you are drawing or painting, you need to quickly come back and see which color to use. So this is why I've drawn it like this. So here is my lemon yellow, and here is the lemon yellow on the left, top-left. And we go on like that. Yeah, So here are all the colors which are here as well. And I have added to this class a color chart like this one and you can print it. I have watercolor paper, and then I can better see how it looks like when it's on my watercolor. So I print it out. I have put number I know my chart on analyte little box here. And this is because when you look at your color, let me get that out here. On each little pen. There is a number here. In this case, it is 346, and you will find these 346 here as well. And you can see that it's lemon yellow and 346. Hello, when you search on Winsor and Newtons website or wherever you want to buy your pants for. This color is exactly this one. You know, what you are drawing with? Exactly. So I put it back into my paint box here. And then we start swatching. We start usually with the eyedropper and I'm going to add some water here on my little pens. So just to show you it take some time, especially for 45 colors. But you might have six or 12, so it won't take that long. What you need to do is you need to really get your color activate it. And then we want to combine this with a little exercise. And this exercise means we're going to add the full car, the really strong color on top, and then we get brighter on the bottom. So let's start here on the top, full color. And then I'm going to add a little bit of water and pull it down. So when it dries, it will dry. Much lighter here on the butter. And I can match better, see how this color behaves. I haven't done it here. You can totally do it like this. But this gives even more information about your colors. So you might want to do it like that. And I also wrote a number here under it and the number of its color which told you the pen is 346. And so you might want to edit here. So you know exactly what color you are talking about. So I go on. Again. I grabbed my color. Really load your brush with lots of color. Start on the top. Put a little bit, you see just half of that. And then I wash out my brush loaded with water and pulled up. So pretty easy, straightforward. You don't see it right now, but you will see one more time. So I use this honey color here. This honey yellow meets honey was property has a different name, but I'm using that one now. Again, adding the color here on top, getting it down a little bit. Then adding water on my brush and take you down to the bottom. And you see already it gets much brighter. So we let it dry. Now you go on with all the colors in your pink box. And then you have a full color sheet like I have here. And it's pretty handy when you start drawing with it. So you can see exactly if this blue is this one. You most probably won't guess that it is this one because it looks much darker. So pretty easy, straightforward. You need this color chart, believe me. So once you're done with it, we keep going with some exercises. 5. Learn more about mixing Colors: In this lecture, we are going to explore our brushes, colors, and of course, colors with water. So what I'm doing now, I have a piece of paper, I cut it in half because that's enough. I will not put it here down on my background because there won't be so much water that is necessary. Before we start, I will begin with adding some water with my eyedropper here. This gets really wet and pick a color of your choice doesn't matter. It's just about activating the color and now adding whatever color you want to, your palette. While we need is we need pure color. So I'm really going here in getting water in my, in my pen. I need some pure color here. And adding that to my palette. Really strong color quite a bit because I wanted for some brushstrokes. And then I want some pen here with some water. So I'm, again, I'm adding pure color here. Then I'm going to add a little bit of water. So before we do that, I keep adding just pure color here so we can better compare the amount of water we added for each pen here. So I'm using the eyedropper because I don't want to dirty my water here. Okay. It should be enough. Number three. And now I'm adding a different amount of water to each of these pants here. Don't worry about messing here with the colors. It will get much more dirty than it is now. And that's okay. Because you want to draw here. You don't want to ever think, I'm pretty clean. I'm washing out my brush and make the water pretty blue. Now, I won't add water to the first, but I will to the second, one, brush loaded and maybe two. And now I'm adding five for this part here. So you really see the difference. This is all about building your muscles. So to do that, you have to do some exercise, just like you do at the gym. Because it's pretty important. If you don't try things out, you most probably don't know how they react. So I'm going to dry my brush now and loaded with the full car here. Just color without any water. What we do now is we are using the top of the brush. I put it down. Then I get wider here when I'm pressing it down and pulling it up again, do it again, loading the brush, then pressing it down, coming up again. And one more, pressing it down and getting up. So you see some really strong blue. And here is also a lot of pigment. So make sure you see the difference here. Lots of pigment here in my brushstroke, washing out my brush. Dry it a little bit. Then I'm using the second. And we do it again. Go with tip, press it down and come up with a tip, press it down. And Canada. And you see it's getting a lot more watery than it is here on the top. You will see it even much better if I use a tube of color, but that's what we have now. So we're using these pants and this is how they are. They are pretty good. But of course the tube color would be stronger. So again, the tip pressing down, coming up again. So see the difference. It makes some time until they get it dries. But you can see already tears much more pigment than here. Okay, we're trying number street cleaner brush once again. And then adding this color here. I really say there are three different colors because they are all a little bit different. Okay, so the tip of the brush pressing it down, getting up again, tip pressing down, coming up. Now you can see it pretty well. So here is watery and contrast. So this one and even to that one. So you see the difference. The more water you add, the more watery your stroke deaths. This secret thing. For the one other thing you want to draw, the more water you add, the less pigments you have on your paper. And therefore, the brighter the color gets. Your color has different shapes depending on how much of the pigment you add to your palette. Try it again, make more brush strokes. It can leave room to practice that. To get with your brush up and down. Or just use a tip and see how thin you can get. I'm using a brush size eight right now and see where I have my fingers here. They are right here above. Like I would have a pencil in my hand. So pretty easy to go over it. Now I use the second one and just stroke right up again. And the third one, just a tip. You can see the difference pretty well. Okay. That's exercise for now. Please go ahead and do it and let me know in the comments below, what you think about it and how you feel about how important it is for you to practice those brush strokes with your different colors. Another thing we need to do is wash out your brush. Do not put it here, but layer down so it can dry. 6. Get familiar with your Brushes: In this lesson, we're going to practice our three brushes. I told you that size ten, size eight, and size four would be great for a start. This is why we pick these brushes to practice. So for now, I pick the largest brush number ten. You can, of course, pig other brushes. It doesn't matter if you want to try out brush 1284. That's also great. It's just what you are going to use most, I believe these other brushes, I am using rows, so I start by activating a color. So let me do that with my eyedropper them with here. I'm going to start with a blue. Once again. Later on, the yellow, and maybe pick some red so they can all ready, get dry, wet. I'm going to start with a blue. I get it from my pan and put it here on the palette. It's really just for practice and so it's not a big deal. So whatever you pick here is fine. We start just with brushes, just to figure how this works. So I use the tip of the brush start and just slowly get larger. Let me do that again and again. And you'll see that it slowly gets lighter. And all these things are great to figure out. And you will just do that by trying it out. So it's absolutely necessary that you just use your brush and dry. What it can do for you. This is the tip of the brush. So how is it about when I use a whole the entire brush? I believe it's mixed with water. It's going to flow into each other, but basically, that's how it looks. So what happens if I load my brush again? If I just loaded once and then do strokes over and over again. How long can I do that before it gets really liked? Yeah, I think three strokes are okay. Then it gets really light. Yeah. And we can also let me get a bit more color. Practice once again to how it the front deeper, get high down. I don't see what happens now and how long I can use my brush until it gets lighter here. Of course here it's darker than here. But that's how it should be actually. So again, let me put some water in. Now, let me try some tips. He has just with the front of the brush and have really thin strokes. You see how long it takes until the brush needs to reload. It takes quite a bit. And that is because it's pretty thin, so it is not losing a lot of color here until it gets brighter, but it really is not a big of a difference here. Yeah. So this is all those things. These are all the things we can test here. Big, small, big. Yeah. So try it. Just get a feel for your brush. That's important. I know it looks ridiculous to do some strokes on your good watercolor paper. But you will thank me. Once we are into drawing plants, leaves, whatever, you will then realize how important this exercise is. You really built mosque holds here. That's important because we all need exercising to get to love our law schools. If we don't, We just don't know how to handle. I know that when I hold my brush here and I have not much control, you see, it's harder for me to get it really control. So that won't work. I really need to Presser do get it up again. Otherwise it doesn't work. Yeah, let's all let you figure when you use your brush like I'm doing right now. Okay. Next size. Let's do it with this brush here. Number eight, actually, I grab my yellow. The same thing. Let's see how different this brush is. I'm doing sense drugs, not reloading, just doing my strokes. How bright does it get? You see, it's quite different than the one on top. Although size is pretty much the same. It doesn't change a lot here. But that's also because how you handle the brush. So if I press it down, it's different. Of course. When I use the tip, when I reload the brush is of course different. I'll leave that this color is a bit stronger. It can be because of me using more water here, but it can also be because that's how it is. Okay. Let's make some strokes here. See how that works. You see much of a difference. Yes. Kinder, although this is sicker breast, It's still a center tip, so I can handle that better. So let's see if I can get it S and S above and nearly. But you see if you want sinner strokes from the beginning on from the tip, you might better use a ten than an eight. Strange, but that's how it is. Okay. Not much of a difference. You see they are less wide than this one, and obviously I have longer color on my brush. But let me try that again to really be sure about that and put it here so you can make it longer. You see here it's losing already and here it's not gets lighter, yes, but still is a stroke. Of course you don't have to do strokes all the time. You can also make dots or just make a circle. See how that works. You see it's, it's kinda hard to make a circle. With a little bit of practice. You can do that. You just start and go around and around in one day. At the time soon you see it's getting a circle. You better start small, then you get there. Okay? So you see what happens. It's a little bit darker on one of the edges. That is on the other. And in the middle, there is a little bit of color and losing when I get off the brush. Okay, number three. While we were using this color here, it might be that one I activate. It doesn't matter actually, whatever is activated. So let's pick that one now. Now you will see a huge difference. When I use this brush stroke and I'm doing my little strokes here. Again, I cannot get S and as I could with that one, it starts bigger already, even if I try really hard and be small, alkene works hard, but it works. And now we use a full brush. Sure, I can load that much of colors, so it's blue in color quickly. Let's all what we can figure here. And again, some of the smaller strokes which work really well. If you have to do just some strokes here, like fur or something like that, you're good to go with such a sin brush so you see you can even get it a little bit deeper. So, yeah, that's a good idea to use this brush for. While this one is definitely a brush you should use for leaves. And of course, the one we practice all the time starts in getting bigger stuff back to sin and so on. What happens here is I cannot stay that sin like hairdo here. So you see how wide it is here, it gets much center here and then white again. It's not like that here, which is pretty normal right? Now, try, let's try a circle. I really use a 90-degree round, round, round as long as I can and then fill the entire circle. See different as well. Here are the edges. Darker one, this darker one slider. Here it is pretty much the same everywhere because it's so sin. So I can just go round. But I leave the same amount of color everywhere. Again, good to know. When you have to draw circles. It's maybe a good idea to use such a thin brush depending on what you want, of course. But here's the effect you get with a thicker brush and here, so once you get with a thinner brush, if you see learned a lot with this lesson. Although I know it looks ridiculous Just to some strokes everywhere. But it's so super important to get to know your materials, not just about the brushes, it's also about the color, and it's also about the paper. Of course. That is what we are going to explore even deeper. 7. Let's draw a Color Wheel: In this lesson, we are going to take care for color wheel. You may or may not now, from school already that there are primary colors, secondary colors, and tax your calves. The thing is that each color that exists comes from the primary colors. We have three of them, so yellow, red, and blue. And this is what we're going to fill these primary fields with these three colors. And then from there, we're going to mix a secondary color and the tertiary colors as well. The main point is basically you can mix any color just from these three colors. It just, there are millions of colors do because you can always add a little bit more shape, brighter or darker, a little bit more of the color one or culture. So there are millions of different colors. So we try to just keep as close as possible to what we have. We are going to start with three colors with blue, yellow, and red, and take them directly from our paint box. I just use a little bit of water. I already added water to my color box, but it has dried again. Just take some of the colors here and get them into my palette. We start with pure yellow. So I'm going to fill this with yellow. You can download the PDF from the course and print this directly on your watercolor paper. So you have also these circle and can fill the colors. What looks really easy becomes a little bit harder when we start mixing the colors. The best thing to do is not just to watch, but to try because it's much different when you try it yourself. Then when you see me doing your color wheel here, that is yellow, out the brush and drying it a little bit because I'm going to need or color. I'm going to use the right and add that to the palette here. You will need it even more once we are mixing the other colors. You can always use your eyedropper. It makes it much easier to make you cause at least if you do it once. Okay, so here's right. And I put it in the secondary color field here. Don't have to get to the edge 100%. Just that you are getting an idea of how these different colors looks beside each other. To wash off my brush and use a dark blue. Turning a little bit the pellet. And I'm going to add blue here. Okay? Now filling search field. Okay, so now we need to make the secondary calls and they always consists of two primary colors which are next to them. So this secondary color is a same piece of yellow mixed with red. Here to my yellow, I would add the same amount of red. So we have a color. That comes close to what needs to make. So I just add a little bit of red and use it and half of the tone here. And you see it turns orange. A little bit of dirty orange, but okay, let's go here. When it dries, you will see it better. Maybe I had some blue on my brush. But you get the idea. It's a mix of yellow and red. Okay. From there. Just mixing it for later. Okay. Washing out my fresh. Go ahead. We have now secondary color here and this mix of blue and red. So I need to add a little bit of red to the blue and just drew a little part of the blue here. Needs to be even more, right? Okay. The point is, the pigment can always be a little bit different because of course we are working with water, so you cannot be 100% on that. But the main point is that you get the idea how this works and how to mix colors. Okay, you have a purple. Now, last secondary color is a mix of blue and yellow. I guess I'm opening a new field here. So let me grab a little bit yellow. And it's the same amount. Hello, I just put two brushes of yellow here. I've tried to be as precise as possible with a blue. Don't forget the blue is very strong, so this might be already enough. So what I can eyeball, I'd say it is enough. So I'm now filling this was my green colors, blue and yellow. That's green, of course. Okay, now we have all the secondary colors and now we need to attach and cows, these are a little bit more tricky because we need to mix one part of yellow with these orange. So here's my orange and I have to add a little bit of yellow. So I really make the brush clean and add a little bit of yellow here to my orange mix. It turned out, well, you see it's a little bit watery because I have to add some water to activate the colors. Okay. Now we need to use the orange and add a little bit of red. I don't add that much. Just a little bit. As I said, there are so many shades. I need to be careful. This pigment could even add a bit more careful before it gets really dark orange. Okay, so now we need some red together with the purple. So I have the purple here. Let my ride is here, so I get some red and pull it to the purple. And of course it gets a little bit brighter here I want to say bridge. It's just a little bit here. You can see there is a little bit more orange in this mix up with a lot of water, but it doesn't matter. You can always add a bit more or get some pigments or whatever. Main point is that there are different colors that you can create, whatever color you want from your primary colors. Okay, Now we use the purple here, which we had actually, I mixed it now. So I'm going to add a bit more blue to the red here to have the purple again. And then add a bit more blue to get a darker purple. Okay, so now we need the blue and the green. Slowly. Get another green till you see how careful I am with the colors. Because I know you don't have to use a lot of it to get different tones here. As I said, there are millions, so if you get a little bit different, It's fine already. Okay? And now we need the green together with the yellow. It gets a bit more yellow because the amount of yellow we add this getting higher. So here's more blue and here it gets more yellow. Basically, that's it. Our color wheel is ready. We might have this color should be a little bit different, but beside that, I believe it's a nice one. Okay. That's a color. We'll go ahead and please try it out. 8. How to create an alternative Color Wheel: Now let's create an alternative color wheel. The great thing about color wheels is that you can do it with any color you have in your paint box. So whatever we choose here, we can create a color wheel from that. I'm going to activate my colors by using the eyedropper here. Then let me pick something, maybe this honey yellow Sherry color here. Yeah, Let's see. The screen. We start as usual with the color here from my paint box and just put that one here in the petal. You see it's a really deep honey tone. Now a little bit more water. So I'm adding more color here. As we go. We start with a primary color here. Next step, next color. We have picked. So I'm turning my pellet around and grabbing blue. I think we said cherry, but I'm going to grab now the blue, so we have a bit more variation. Okay? The sequence we use the colors doesn't matter. Actually, we started the real color wheel with yellow, red, and blue. Well now we just add the colors as they come and makes them from there. You've drying my brush here. I'm adding the green. You can see it's a little bit of a yellow, green. Yeah, maybe that's how we can see it. It's definitely not a usual primary color, but it does matter for us. It's now the primary color for this color wheel. And we go from there. I think the color is still pretty dry. So I'm adding more water here and trying to get that into my pellet. Okay. So now as we did before, we're going to mix this yellow with this blue to have a secondary color. And now I try to add the same amount of blue. There is yellow. And of course we're getting a green to be careful because the blue is really strong. And you see it's a similar tone than the one we have picked here. Don't worry that much about it. Just happened. Yes, usually then we would move it somewhere here. But that's how we mix now and that's how we explore our cow, cows. Now, this is more color wheel for a landscape, redraw, whatever. So this is just, you just have to take the colors ethic. Okay? Now picking some yellow from this honey yellow we had, and I need to make that in half of the pen here, while the other half is for the blue. So we have this color here. So let me make sat here. Try to get the same amount. I can't promise it will happen. So it's pretty hard to more yellow. It brightens already a little bit. But I still get, can still use a bit more yellow. So we can really see the difference. Okay, that worked just fine. You see pretty much the difference here between these colors. And now we're adding to that green a bit more of the deep blue drying my brush because now I just add some from here and mix it with that color. Be careful that you don't get into the honey because this might make every single different. It's just fine. Okay, We go ahead with our green tones. Now we need to mix the blue with the green to have this secondary color. I'll see how many green tones we already have. This pretty much what I wanted to show you. There are a lot of green tones. Basically, maybe a few months or a few millions, but maybe a million different tones here. So we can basically mixed from there again. Here we need a bit more blue, and here we need a bit more of this green. So let's go over and keep adding some blue to half of it. Be careful again. And you see it's a little bit more blue than the left one. And here we need a little bit of the green. The books are two green tones. Actually. I'm grabbing that once again from my paint box and add that to this little part of the pen. Okay. It's another one. Maybe not what I expected because I would have said it more dark, but okay. That's how it turned out now because multiple PAL too much for my paint box here, but it's a good learning. So no worries about that. Okay, Now we need to use the one from the paint box with yellow. That's easy. I take a bit more from my palette here, because as you know, we need a bit more. Pull the texture colors. It's about three brushes with yellow. Okay? Once again, we start from bright to dark. So I'm going to add more of my honey yellow. Adding that to half of the pen. You see fit more into the yellow tone. Here, we add a bit more Greek. Okay, that worked just fine. And now we have an alternate color wheel. So this is how to explore your colors and see what you can do with just three of them. Even if they are not, your primary colors are the primary colors. And you see we have a rich variety of different tones here. This is how you go ahead when you want to create landscapes or something, you just start mixing your colors you want, you prefer. And that you see and go from there. Because I can imagine that this would be a really nice scenery with lots of graphs and the sun or whatever here. Maybe we add some for the sky, whatever. It might be too dark for a day sky, but this are perfect for that. Yeah, please go ahead, try to create an alternative color wheel. And then we move on to the next lesson. 9. Painting Technique: Wet on Wet : So now let me show you the wet on wet technique. It's pretty easy as the name says, you have a wet surface and what color on top? How you know, what are the surface. It's totally up to you. You can do it with color and then go in with another color. Or you just make the surface wet and then add some color on top. We will try both. So now let me start with a rectangle and make it wet a little bit. And now I go in. Well it color, of course, with wet color. As you can see, you can hardly control where the color flows. That's because it's wet on the bottom and wet on top. And now we do the same, but we're going to add color to the bottom. So let me create another rectangle. You see it's pretty watery. And to really show you the effect, I'm going to add some blue and just dip in. And you see what happens. You can hardly control where the color goes. When you do it like that and spreads out. That is how wet on wet works. And sometimes you want that because for example, if you want to draw clouds or everything in the sky or water, that's perfect to have something happening like that. So now let me show you a last way. Again. I wet the bottom surface. We're adding color. Could have a bit more water. Spread it out a little bit. Now, I use a second color and just draw in. So let's say I'm going to add T on top. You see what happens again. It goes down. And you can just watch what the color is doing. You cannot or you can hardly control it. But actually we don't want to. That is what's happens naturally. Yeah, that's wet on wet technique. I just used three different angles, but basically it's all the same. The surface is wet. We'll add some color on top and see what happens to the colors. 10. Painting Technique: Wet on Dry: In this lesson, we try the wet on dry technique. And this means the paper is dry and of course, your color is the wet part here. I do not add a lot of water to my brush, but a little bit as needed. I dip it into my color. And then we started by just adding the brush to the paper and moving it top to bottom. You can see what happens. Why here is a very strong color with lots of pigments. It slowly dries into a lighter version of blue. Here is already a little bit lost, so it's much lighter than with what we started here. We can go ahead and do that forever. You see there is still blue on my brush, but it slowly dries out. And now you get the typical watercolor effect where parts of your brush stroke are just white. And I can do it even further. And here you see much better. That's a typical watercolor where there is a lot of white between the strokes. This is what creates a nice effect. You can leverage this technique by adding some snow on the mountains. When your background is dry, your mountains are drawn. Then you add some snow on top of them and leverage this technique to make snow appear and just a little bit on the top of the mountains. There are many more users for this and that's a pretty interesting technique. The most straightforward one because you take directly paint from your paint box and put it on your paper? Yeah. Pretty much that's it. Try it out. Try different strokes, tried referred amount of color, and you can see how it slowly dries out. 11. Painting Technique: Dry on Dry: In this lesson, I showed you the dry on dry technique. Usually you do not even speak anything a word about this technique. But I think it's pretty important that, you know, you can draw dry on dry because usually watercolor means wet and wet. More wet techniques. So I will not use this big brush right now, this number ten. Usually I would go ahead and set a little landscape. So I have a nice background. Once it's dried and I have a dry break ground, I would use a very small brush. This here, number four or maybe number two. Then draw the details. This is really more like drawing. If you go ahead and use such as thin brush, because you just pick a little bit of color here. Of course you color has to be wet somehow. But then you just take a little bit on your brush and then you draw the details. And that is what we call the dry on dry technique. So let's pretend there is a little landscape behind. And I would go ahead and draw tree here. And you can already see what happens if I have less colors here. Usually I would use brown, but I want you to see it now. Well, I use black here. You see the brush is really dry. And I can add little details. Just as I want to. If I want to draw a tree here and go ahead and draw the trunks. And you see what happens. It looks nearly like I've drawn it with graph it or whatever, like a pencil or something. This is what you can pretend to do when you use a really dry brush here. And brushstrokes are much different than they are usually. Because, as I said, usually we use wet on wet when we speak about watercolor. But you can do it completely different. And then you have a completely different results. So have a deeper look here and you see how dry the brush is and how easy and fine I can draw with it if I want to. So now there is a chance to do that. And if you go ahead and draw something and maybe a lens cave and you draw, let's say stones because you brought a seascape, then this is a technique you go for. You, just wait until everything is dry, and then you go ahead and get out the little details and make them even more worse you to look at. Because then you can do that with a thin brush and make it look really realistic. 12. Painting Technique: Glazing: In this lesson, I showed you the glazing technique. It's pretty easy. You have to let colors or the background shine through and play around. You can add a little bit more color on top and you still have things shining through. You can occur for it by having a lot of water into your pen. So here is yellow and I had just a little bit of pigment here and then added a lot of water. I did the same with each of these colors. So let me show you what I mean. Just put some, you see that there's still a lot of pigment here because it chunks through. Now I just put my brush here and go over a sheet. Just adding enough pigments here to have the background shining through. I'm going to do that now with each of these colors. Later on we put some of the colors too wordy color here. And you can still see the background shining through. You see I can push the color from left to right because it really has to dry. We don't have a lot of pigments here. I was pretty careful with my blue. As you can see, an I and a lot of water, because blue is usually really strong. So you need to be careful when you want to glaze it and add just a little bit of pigments here and add a lot of water. So now we let everything dry. And once it is dry and go over with my brush here over these four strokes with the same color, you can see what is shining through. So now my paper is completely dry. And you can see that it's still striving through. And I'm going to put one more color layer on top. So let me use a yellow. Let's start with that again. And I go from top to bottom. And I'm adding a bit more, especially here. So you can see later a much better effect. Last but not least, blue tone at that as well. And you see, although it's blue, it still is less color. Pigments included, that it's still shine through. So you can see here that there is a little bit of blue on top, but the yellow is still shining through. You might want to add a bit more, of course, that's totally up to you, but the main point is that the colors are still shining through. And you can use this glazing technique for landscapes and many more occasions when you are drawing watercolor. 13. Painting Technique: Wash: In this lesson, I showed you the wash technique. This means that I have to add a lot of water to my paper as well as another color. To make it work, I use some washi tape to fix my paper here on the graph. But do yourself a favor and fix all four edges. It will be much easier for you. Once done to use a big brush. I use number ten here and fill your paper with some water. Once you're done, you use a color mix without any water or at least not more than it's on your brush. And add that to your paper. You can always see what happens. It gets lighter as much more as I go to the bottom. I'm going to do that again. Starting with your child. And I wash it down the button. So there are no edges coming up here. I always brush in the same direction from left to right. Foreign bag. I want it a bit darker on the top, so I go over it once again. I could even add a second color here to make it work better. Let the entire paper dry, and then it will work better as well. Well, I can also just go over it with a bit more color and start brushing down again. You see the really nice wash from the darker blue to a soft lighter blue to Intel, that even more. I could add some water here. Column the middle of the paper. Here. You see what happens and pushing the color around, at least as long as it's still wet. I'd say try it out and see what works for you and your colors, especially. You just need to get a feel for it. And maybe you also want to take some color off your sheet. So you see I go over it here on take some color off my paper. Okay. That's it. That's your wash. 14. Painting Technique: Transparency: In this lesson, I'll show you how to draw transparency. Of course, we have in our a paint box, we have some white. But usually you don't use white when you paint with watercolor. But you can use any color of your choice and draw a brush stroke. And you see what happens. I'm really loading my brush with color. And I'm placing it here on the left and rushing to the right. You see what happens. Of course, it has a lot of color here at the beginning and it gets less and less at the end. So now we want to strengthen the effect. And some water here from the middle on. You see what happens. It gets transparent. You can even take off somewhere. You have a pretty nice transparent effect here. As long as it is that you can take off some color, add more color just to your liking. But basically you see what happens. You start with lots of pigment on your brush to the right. It gets less and less. And even if you have a few, add some water here at the end, you get an even lighter. You see I can make it lighter here. Just as much as I want to. I can also set my brush again and draw from left to right to have it a bit more. Even. Basically, I wanted to get brighter here. So I add some water. If I have too much, I can even take some water. Okay, Let's try that again. Loading my brush with lots of water, dipping into my color. Then I start on the left and brush to the right and you see it gets lighter and lighter and lighter. You have a nice transparent effect already there, but we can increase it by adding more water here. We'll need that by the one for our project we do. So make sure you try out the transparency effect. How nice you can draw it here. And see that you can't take off water and color just to your liking. You have a nice brushstroke. 15. Your Project: Congratulations, you've Martha the class painting with watercolors for beginners. I hope you've learned a lot and figured all the different techniques. Over time. I'll add more projects so the class, but for now, you should start by creating a color wheel. Please feel free to decide if you want to draw a usual color wheel or explore new colors and draw alternative color wheels. In any case, I'd love to see what you come up with. Please post it here in the project area of the class and enjoy.