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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.