Rain Painting With Gouache

1. Introduction: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. With that said, welcome to today's painting session. Hi, this is Arbia Sultana, an artist and an art educator. I welcome you all to a brand new painting course of today's vibrant, rainy night painting scenery. So this course is going to be all about the vibrant night rain scene using gauge a medium that's perfect for rich, bold colors and atmospheric layers. Nighttime rain painting offers a beautiful contrast between dark shadows and glowing highlights. And today, we will bring that contrast to life using bright, saturated colors against a moody backdrop. This course is made for beginners and advanced artists. It includes all the supplies needed and also the techniques used before we start off with the actual painting course. This course is filled with loads of tips and tricks on painting this beautiful rainy shower painting. So grab your brushes, pour some tea or coffee, and let's get started with painting this dreamy, rainy night, and I'll see you in the class. And 2. Supplies And The Techniques: So let's begin with the materials required and the technique session. So the materials required for this class is gauche paints. Firstly, Gauche comes in various forms, tubes, pans, tubs, bottles, jars. So here I'm using water based gauche paint. So whichever gauche you have, you can go ahead and use it. And for the background, I'll be using an acrylic board. Along with that, I'll be using masking tape, white gelpin, a jar of water, along with that, three round shaped brushes. They are of various different sizes. One is the thinnest and the other two, you can go ahead and select based on your regular use. So here I'm using the watercolor paper. This is a 300 GSM watercolor paper. You can go ahead and use 160 plus GSM paper for the Gauge. Along with that, you need tissue and the mixing palette. Let's begin with the technique section. I'll show you how to use the Gauche consistency first, then the various types of blending and finally with how to paint rain shower. So let's begin with the technique session. First, before you start any painting, make sure that you thoroughly wet the gauge paint, especially the ones which come in tub form because they are dried, as you can see the cracks. So make sure you thoroughly wet it and then mix it and finally use it. So you're wetting the brush and then dipping the brush into the paint and starting off with the various consistencies. As you can see, this is the most darkest form. Since the tub was dry, I have used a wet brush. So if your gauche is creamy consistency, then you can go ahead and use directly. Secondly, I'm using one wind drop. I'm dipping the brush in water and slowly adding one wind drop two drops in it and mixing it in the mixing palette and then using it. You can see the difference in chain as you go. The creamy consistency is the best one, which is neither too opaque nor too watercolred, that is transparent. So here are the various consistencies of gauge, which you can use for different techniques. So here, I'll be using the most creamiest consistency for the background as well as to paint. So make sure that you figure out which is the creamiest consistency. I would say it is second and third that is creamy. So according to your tub form or according to your gauche and the climate in your area, it depends on the consistency. So make sure that you practice first, and then go ahead and use that consistency for the painting. So here, let's begin with painting a block. This is called a flat wash. Now, let's go ahead and add two colours and make a variegated wash that is adding two colors and blending them together. Here, the blending technique which I'm using is paint with paint. So make sure you look carefully how I'm doing it and go ahead and paint. So here are the two blocks, and I'm slowly adding the top color into the bottom color and then bottom color into the top colour. This procedure takes time. So keep on doing, but make sure you don't lift off the paper or tear the paper while doing it. Do it gently and smoothly if needed, add one drop or a quarter drop of water according to the consistency of the paint which you have on the palette. Look how beautifully it's transforming into one wash. Let's begin with the second one. So here, basically, I'm again adding two colors, and then I'll be lifting off the paint from the paper. So this is again to be done in a more gentle form. And here for all the painting and technique procedures, I'm using round tip brush of three different sizes. So make sure you select them properly while choosing to paint. One thick, one medium, and one thin stoke. And as you can see, I have just washed my brush thoroughly, and I'm just lifting the paint from the paper. Like I'm dragging it in one stroke. I'm not going back and forth. And every time I'm just dipping in water, I'm just dabbing it in the tissue and then lifting the paint off. You can see how beautifully it's creating space. So now let's begin with the third one. This is, again, a blending technique where you use two colors and in between the white color to blend them together. So the two blocks of colors are placed. Now using a clean brush, I'll go ahead and add white colour in between these two and lend each of it with white color and then together all the two colors with the help of white. You can see how I'm doing first and then go ahead and do it. As said before, first and white color and then blend yellow and white, then pink and white, and then from starting yellow, white, and then pink together. So now, let me just write down so that you can understand what is what. The first consistency of paint is without water, and that is highly opaque. The second one is with two drops of water, which I have blended in the mixing palette and used. The third one is again with some more drops of water. That is, again two to three drops. And the second and third is the ideal consistency, which is creamy and opaque, not too transparent. The fourth one is a little bit more water, which is going towards the transparency. The fourth and fifth is completely watercolor transparency. You can see how much water is used. So as we progress, I keep adding 22 drops of water and then use it on paper, so you can see the consistency which is going from thick to transparent. Gauche is basically an opaque watercolor medium, which has to be a bit darker but not too transparent. So coming to the lower part, the first block is only paint. The second one is blending with paints on paper. The third one is lifting off the paint from the paper. The fourth one is blending paints with white paint on the paper. That is blending two colors with white colour. And the two techniques here used is blending with paints on paper and blending paints with white colour on paper. Now, let's see how to paint the rain. The thin liner brush is a rigor brush or you can use a thin round tip brush as well for painting rain shower. So I'll just dip the thinnest brush into the paint. So basically, I'm loading the paint in the brush by rotating it so that every bristle of the brush holds the paint thoroughly. And as you can see, I'm holding it in a slant form and dragging it from bottom to top in a slant line. And you can see the bottom part is having the thicker form, and then the top part is like thin. So this is how you paint the rain shower or rain and you can use it in different colors as well. So if you want more thinner than this, then go ahead and use the gelpin or the white acrylic pen. Again, the tip should be the thinnest one. So this was all about the technique sessions which we have seen today in this video. So I hope you enjoyed it and learn something new. I'll see you in the class where you will learn how to paint the actual scenery from a night rain shower using the techniques which you have learned here now. I will see you in the class soon. 3. Background Painting: Let's begin by painting the background first. So here I'm using a round tip brush and going to paint round shape at the top third part of the paper with white colour at the center. And around which I'm going to add yellow colo as you can see, go slowly around the white color using the same round tip brush you can paint. If you're using a flattened brush, be careful and do it slowly. All right. So as we go and broad this yellow colo, we are going to shift to orange color later, okay? Mm So for the next color, I'm just using the yellow and orange mixture, which is palette mixed. I have mixed the colours in the palette. And now once I'm done with the yellow orange mixture, I'm going to shift with orange colour. Using the same brush, I'm going to paint whole of the background. So this orange color will be wider and also occupying much of the space in the paper. And for the top part, like, I'll add some colors, but most of it will be covered with the black. So I'm just going to be concentrating with the second and the third part of the paper for now. So once we are done with the orange, we'll be shifting with the brown color. And again, this brown color will be occupying much more space than the orange color. This brown color will be more of like coming down to the paper and it won't be like in a round shape. So once we are done adding the colors, let's go ahead and blend them all. As you can see, yellow, orange, and brown. All three are of different colors. So let's blend them together so that they look even. I'm going ahead and blending these with the water and also the paints. If you want, you can add white color and blend them, but those will give you a different shade of color. If you're very new to blending, then don't take the darker color into the lighter, use go from lighter to darker. Once we are done with the blending, we'll go ahead and add black colour paint onto the paper. As you can see, I'll be leaving some space in the bottom part at the center, and rest of it will be covered with the black. And I'm just adding black colour in a random motion. And you can see my brush strokes. They are not even. Basically the brush strokes is in round motion, and these round motions are not even as you can see. I'm just going down oval shape and a small round shape and then again, big round shape and then dragging, pulling down. As you can see, these brush strokes are just random for filling up the space. Once we are done with adding black color, I'll go ahead and mix some brown and black shade together and fill up the space in between the black color on the bottom part of the paper. You can see how one dark color impacts the lighter one. So always go ahead from a lighter to a darker. If you're blending it, don't go from darker to lighter, and you can see how I'm removing the excess color from a wet brush and don't do it forcefully. Be gentle and use water and paints for blending each color together. So this was it for the background part. I'll see you in the next part for the details of this painting. 4. Adding Details: Once we are done adding the colors, we'll move ahead and add some green leaves around the black color on the top part. So as you can see, I'm using a round tip brush and dabbing the leaves. So this color is basically emerald green mixed with some white color and also the wet part of the black color. So on this three mixture is giving that particular shade. Now, I'm just going ahead and making this white color at the center more prominent and adding here and there white color so that the paint which is faded away with the water is going to be natural and looking even. Now, again, with a smaller size roundup brush using a dabbing motion and same mixture of green color, I'm going ahead and adding the leaves. And you can see some of the leaves are coming out, and that's okay because we'll be adding more green leaves on top of it with different shades of green for making it dense. So you can see how I'm adding the leaves first and then go ahead and paint on your paper. Look at the brush strokes. It's easy dabbing and dragging and somewhere only dabbing. And you can use different sizes of roundup brush for different size of leaves. So we'll let this dry a little bit, and we'll go ahead and mix, the same shade with some white colour and make it like prominent green. And again, we'll go on top of the greens which we have added, but we'll make sure that we let the background see I mean, we are going ahead and adding the fresh shade on top of the green color, but letting the underlying green be shown as well. You can see I'm just adding here and there, the new shade, but also letting the previous shade be seen. So this is how we create the dense look of the painting. We'll go ahead and use the same shade of green for the lower black color part to make the dense bush same dabbing and dragging motion. Now, we'll shift to a more lighter green colour, that's actual shade of green and we'll go ahead at the center part as well with the same colour and add some leaves and go over the actual green color which we have added as well. Look how beautiful it's turning out to be. If you notice, white colour is not that prominent, so making it prominent by adding yellow colour around it and also white colour. Make sure you see me how I'm doing it first, and then you go ahead and paint it. Now I'll be shifting to a neon green and going ahead and adding that green at the corner, as well as on the inside part of the painting. Don't judge your painting in between. Make sure till the end you trust your process. So now let's go ahead and shift to a brush with red colour, yellow colour, and white colour for the bouquet effect, which we'll be adding the low third part of the paper near the bushes. Small, small round shapes. Make sure all the edges of the painting are covered, as well as I'm going ahead and adding some black on top part of the painting and just to make this give a bit more denser effect. After this, we'll see you in the final part of the painting that is rain shower. 5. Final Touches : Let's begin with the final part of the painting that is rain shower for. This, I'll be using a small thin, long brush. It's again, a roundup brush. It's called a rigor brush. The brush strokes from the rigor brush is very thin, as you can see. The alternative for this is a roundup brush, which is thin. And if you don't have that as well, you can go ahead and use a white gelpin which I'll show you how to use in this part of the painting at the end, and you can see how I'm drawing lines. You can just go ahead and add lines like this. This replicates the falling of the rain. Using the same brush and white paint, I'll go ahead and cover the whole painting with the falling of the rain. The rain showers are not completed yet, so I'll go ahead and show you how to use the white gelpin. So just like how you draw lines, go ahead and start adding lines, not complete line, like a broken line or small line, but a line. So go ahead and cover as much rain shower as possible onto the painting. This represents a heavy rainfall, as you can see. Once you're satisfied with the procedure, we'll go ahead and remove the masking tape. So for removing the masking tape, make sure that you go and remove it in a slant manner and in a 90 degree angle, as you can see. Apart from that, you have to make sure that the paint is covered at the edges and second thing that it is dried completely. So here is the final look of the painting. I hope you enjoyed the procedure. Make sure to share your reviews and your projects in the project session. I'll see you in the next painting class.