Relax and Unwind with Watercolor : A 15 Day Art Challenge

1. Welcome to the Class: [MUSIC] If you are an artist, you know the pressure you put on yourself to create an impressive piece of art. The pressure that social media put on you is a whole different story. But the truth is, you don't need to create a masterpiece every day. It will not help you but rather leads to frustration and burnout. Sometimes just getting out your paints and creating something very simple without worrying about the details is enough. That's exactly what I want you to do with me over the next 15 days. Hi, everyone. My name is Zanina Anavil. I'm an artist, an art instructor and a skill [inaudible] teacher. I'm someone who loved to work with vibrant color combinations and intricate details. But on the other hand, whenever I want to relax and switch off, I choose to work with simple color combinations and very minimum details. Just as the space is clean, soft and minimalist, you will feel light and relaxed when working on such a piece of art. Here I'm inviting you-all to have 15 day water color challenge. This challenge is not for the perfectionist but for anyone who had a frustrating relationship with watercolor before or if you want to enjoy your time with watercolors without worrying too much about the details or putting too much of yourself into the process. We will start by going over the materials. You will need an ETL for the anterior challenge. Then we will have a quick color study which will give you an idea about the color palette that's been designed for this challenge. We will also try our hands on the very basic watercolor techniques. This is going to be really helpful if you're a complete beginner. From then on, we are ready to dive into relaxing time with watercolor. The best part is that you only have to spend 15-20 minutes a day. At the end of this challenge, you will have a beautiful setup for clean, minimal watercolor landscapes, which you're going to cherish forever. Not for the complex techniques you learned or for the sensitivity but for the relaxing and calming experience you had. If you're ready relaxing time with watercolors chime in right away and I'll see you in the class. 2. Class Overview: [MUSIC] First and foremost, this watercolor challenge is not for the perfectionist, but for anyone who wants to spend a relaxing time with watercolors without worrying too much about the details. This class is designed in a daily challenge format, which means starting from today, for the next 15 days, we will together paint a simple a beautiful watercolor landscape. None of the paintings we do in this challenge are complex. For each of them, we will only use basic techniques and very minimum details. Right now what you see here is some of the paintings that we'll be doing in this challenge. As you can see here, they are very simple, they don't have a lot of details, but they are absolutely beautiful and that's why this challenge is perfect for beginners, and all those who were previously frustrated with watercolor because they did not achieve a satisfactory result. This is one of the painting and you can see how clean, simple, and beautiful it is. Similarly, all the other paintings we are doing in this challenge are easy to achieve, for example, this one here. The sky is a simple blend of two colors, then we have some landscape at the bottom and some mountains along the horizon line. When I tried this paint at first, I was honestly very much surprised, this is not my kind of colors. They are a little moody and dull, but I absolutely loved the way this has turned out. I think this is the most simplest and beautiful painting I had ever done in less than 15 minutes. That's a collection you are going to create with me in this 15-day watercolor challenge. I don't want to kill your enthusiasm by showing all the paintings, you can see them as we progress. We are not only creating some moody paintings, but also some bright and bold paintings as well, but the key is we are working with minimum details. This way, the anterior process becomes very calming and relaxing, and you can paint them along with me without worrying a lot about getting the details right. I hope you all got a rough idea about the kind of paintings that we're going to do in this challenge. Now let me give you an idea about the anterior class, how it is organized. The students who joins my classes are mostly beginners, so I always make it a point to walk you through all the materials you will need. Starting from paper to pencil, I will explain about each and every material you will need in detail. From this section, you will get a clarity on the materials you will need to use and also what to purchase in the future when you're expanding your collection, because art supplies is a huge area and every other day you will see a new art supply brand popping up and you will see plenty of brands and options available. This might be overwhelming and also hard to resist. Don't listen to your heart, but your brain and buy only what is needed. Coming back to the class, from material filled right away, go to the color palette. I will introduce you to the colors I'll be using throughout this challenge. I'll be provide you alternate color options if you don't have the same color that I'm using, and we'll also be trying out some color mixing options, now from right there, we will go to a technique section. You only need to know the basic techniques like wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting a gradient and blending the colors. We will go over the only essential techniques that is needed for this class. If these techniques look familiar to you, you can skip this section on techniques and go to the predicts right away. But if you're a complete beginner, I would recommend giving it a try especially the last two sections, where you will learn to blend three colors as well as adding the clouds. Once you are familiar with the techniques, we will set off on 15 days of watercolor painting, which is just perfect for taking a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Every painting start with a quick intro to the colors you will need for that particular project, then we will get into the process of creating a simple yet a gorgeous watercolor landscape. This calming and relaxing journey will continue for 15 days, [MUSIC] and at the end of the challenge, you will have a collection of the most simple, yet the most beautiful painting you have ever done. 3. Materials you'll need: [MUSIC] Let's start by looking at the materials you will need to follow this entire class. I will start with the watercolor paper. According to me the most important aspect about a watercolor painting is not really the paint, it is the paper because even if you have the most expensive watercolor brand, if you don't have the right right of paper you won't be able to get a satisfying result. If you're serious about your watercolor hobby or if you want to take your hobby into the next level, it is really, really important to work on a great quality artist-grade watercolor paper, otherwise you wouldn't be able to enter the process and you will end up hating watercolors. This is the paper I'm going to use for this entire class. It is from a brand called Arches, and it is specifically made for watercolors. You can see it is 100% cotton and the paper is 140 lb thick which means the paper is quite thick enough to handle multiple layers of water and is also cold-pressed. When you go for a student-grade watercolor paper, it might not be 100% cotton. That is where all the difference comes. Working on a good-quality artist-grade watercolor paper which is 100% cotton and a minimum of 140 lb thick and that is cold pressed will make a huge difference in your watercolor painting. I have cut my artist sheet into multiple pieces and the size I'm going with is 12 by 15. This paper has a very light texture, you can see that here, and that makes it perfect for landscape paintings. If you go for a rough paper, it will have more texture and if you're going for a hard press paper, it will have less texture. That's all about the watercolor paper, now coming to the watercolor paint. I'll be using watercolor tubes from different brand. You can see here I have a wide collection of watercolor from various brands. These are all artist grade watercolor brands. I have how paint from Van Gogh, then I have from Shin Han, then Rembrandt, Mijello Mission, and I have many more brands in my collection. It doesn't really matter which brand of paint that you're going with, you can go with any brand that will work with you. Now, just in case we don't have an artist grade watercolor paint, that is totally okay. Just start out with a student grade paint, and later as you progress, you can switch to artist grade watercolor paint. Now to mix and prepare your paint, you will need a palette. I'll be using the ceramic palette throughout this class. You can go with a plastic one or a ceramic palette, which will be the one you have with you. That's the next thing you will need. Then coming to the watercolor brushes, I'll be using five different brushes throughout this class. All the brushes have different purpose. The first one is this one-inch wash brush. Whenever we are using wet on wet technique to apply coat of water onto the background, I'll be using this brush. You can use any of your wider brush, it just has to be clean when you apply water onto the background. The next brush you will need is a medium-size flat brush. This one's a half-inch flat brush from the brand Silver Brush. You can go with any of your medium-size flat brush. We'll be using this brush mainly to apply paint onto the sky. Now comes the round brushes. I'll be using three different size round brushes. The sizes you see here are size number 8, size number 6, and size number 2. The bigger one is to apply paint onto a larger area, then size number 6 and 2 is to apply medium and smaller sized details. That's all about the watercolor brushes. Again, the brand of the brush doesn't really matter. Just go with any brand that you you have got and choose the brushes that are nearly the same size. Next you will need two jars of clean water. One is for rinsing off the paint from your brush and other one is for painting purpose. The next material you will need is a masking tape. This one is a very normal half-inch masking tape I got from a stationary store. You can use a masking tape or a washi tape or any of the normal tape that you normally use. Next, you will need a pencil and an eraser. There is no complex sketches, but for some of the painting, we will need to add a sketch of a mountain, the horizon line, very basic lines. For that, you will need a pencil and if you make any mistake to erase that you will need an eraser. Now last but not the least, you will need a paper towel or a cotton cloth to dab off the excess amount of paint from your brush. That summarize everything you will need to follow this class. Get them ready and join me the next section. [MUSIC] 4. Color Palette: [MUSIC] In this section I'm going to explain about the colors you will need for this 15-day watercolor challenge. It is absolutely okay not to have the exact same colors that I'm going to use. You can go with any color that is nearly similar. The brand also doesn't matter. You can use any brand that you have got with you and also it can be watercolor tubes or watercolor pans. Let's start. I think I I first introduce you to the colors that I'm going to use for the sky because sky is the major element of all the paintings here. The rest is just some green landscape or some mountains. One of the color you will see me using quite a lot, acetylene blue. You can see this painting here. That beautiful blue you just saw, acetylene blue, is one of my most favorite color to use for the skies. This color is just perfect for a bright and a clear blue sky. That's the first color. If you don't have acetylene blue you can use cobalt blue, Prussian blue, ultramarine blue, or any other blue of your choice. Now the next color you will need is Indigo. You can see this painting here for the sky as well as for the sea, I'll be using indigo. Again, if you don't have indigo, just go with Prussian blue or any other darker blue. This is acetylene blue I'm using. It is from ShinHan, and my indigo is from Serie 1. I really love indigo from Serie 1. It is more of a bluish indigo. I had an indigo from ShinHan, which is more of a grayish indigo. I always go for this one over that. I'll be using this color for mountain classical, just a medium tone. That's our second color. The next color you will need is violet. This pen is from White Nights. If you don't have violet you can mix and create your own violet. I'm using violet for quite a lot of paintings. That's our next color. I'll be using violet in different tone and values. For another painting I'll use that in a very lighter tone. Then for one other painting I'll use that in a brighter tone. That's one of the interesting colors that we'll use to create gorgeous skies. The next two colors you will need this opera rose and permanent rose. Opera pink is a bright pink, which is more like a neon pink. I'll be using opera pink for this painting. You can see that card just being there. Then permanent rose is more like a lighter version of crimson. The one I was swatching out right now is permanent rose. You can see it's a beautiful rose, not as dark as crimson. But if you don't have permanent rose, there is nothing to worry just go with crimson or any other rose color. The next color I have here is opera rose, which is not a common color. If you don't have this one there is nothing to worry. You can just use crimson or any other rose you have got. I'll be using this color for only one painting. Now the next set of colors I have here is red, orange and a yellowish orange. All of them are from the brand ShinHan. This one spiral red. If you don't have spiral red just go with any red you've got. The next one is brilliant orange. It's a bright and beautiful orange. Instead you can use vermilion. This one is permanent yellow orange. Like the name says, it's a yellowish orange, which is easy to create. If you don't have that color there's nothing to worry. I will start with spiral red, which is a very bold and beautiful red. You might have permanent red, quinacridone red or any other red. You can use any of them. They all will work perfect. [NOISE] The next one is brilliant orange. You might have cadmium orange or any similar color. This one is a little more brighter and bolder than vermilion. You can see that from the color itself. It is quite bright and bold. But if you don't have brilliant orange you can use vermilion or any other orange. We won't be using this color and this consistency you'll be watering it down and will be making it a lighter tone. Vermilion will work perfect. Now the next color I have here is permanent yellow orange. Again, as I said earlier, it's a yellowish orange. If you don't have this color, just add a little vermilion or any of the orange into yellow, and this color can be easily created. Next color is yellow ocher. This one is from ShinHan, and that is yellow ocher. Next you will need brown or burnt sienna. Actually I'll be using both of these colors. Mostly you will see me using permanent brown. I love to use brown for the mountains. The one you see here is permanent brown. For this painting here to create the right tone and value of sand, I have those burnt sienna. Here you can either use brown or burnt sienna. I mostly prefer using brown over burnt sienna because that one is more reddish and I feel that colors more vibrant. Burnt sienna is more like a yellowish brown, and for some reason I don't like using this color. Other done for some details. That's burnt sienna. Now, I will show you permanent brown. This one is from ShinHan. My permanent brown as from Art Philosophy. This one is a beautiful color. I think the color is very similar to my dress. That's the color. I just love this color. It is very beautiful and I love to use it for mountains. I had a brown from ShinHan, which was my absolute favorite, but this one is nearly over, I need to buy a new tube. It's a beautiful color to add in your collection. If you want to give it a try, just try your hands-on it. Coming to the next color, Payne's gray, which is the color I'll be using to add the deeper tones as well as some details. If you don't have Payne's gray just go with black or any other similar color. If you have neutral tint, that also will work perfect. Payne's gray is also beautiful color to add a new collection, especially if you like painting monochrome, and it's also wonderful color to add the details. That's my next color. This one is from a brand called Rembrandt. [NOISE] That was Payne's gray. Now coming to the next set of colors, those are the greens. These are the two greens I'll be using this challenge, saccharine and leaf green. Saccharine is a common color, leaf green is not that common, leaf cream as more like a tender and a fresh green. It's a very light green. You can easily create that by adding a little of saccharine into lemon yellow. That is leaf green. The next one I have here a saccharine. I'm guessing you all have saccharine. It is again, a very important color that we'll be using in this challenge. We'll be turning that into all the green, a lighter green a darker green. We'll be turning that into different versions of green. I actually missed one color earlier, which is royal blue. It's a bright and beautiful blue. Quite different from acetylene blue. It's a little similar to ultramarine blue. For one of the painting I'll be using this color for the sky. If you don't have royal blue just use Prussian blue or ultramarine blue or any other blue you have got. Now there's one last color you will need along with all of these colors over just white. That can be either white gouache or white watercolor. We'll be using white to add some details onto some of the painting. This is the one I'm going to use. It's titanium white, it's a watercolor from ShinHan. I said earlier it can be the white gouache or white watercolor. This is one of the painting where we will use white to add those waves. That's one example. In a similar way for some of the painting, we'll be using white to add some highlights or some textures. That summarize all the colors you will need for this challenge. Now, there are some colors that we will mix and create. That's what I'm going to show you next. Maybe you might have those colors with you already asked it to me tubes. In that case you can use them directly. You don't need to mix and create them. For this beach painting here you can see that green values for the mountain. It's more like an olive green. Similarly for the sky, the color I have used as purple, and again, for this pedicure, this is another olive green. The similar way that are some colors that I'm going to mix and create. This color is a mix of sap green and a bit of orange. Along the horizon line, I have this side color, and towards the bottom I have this model of sap green and Payne's gray. I have some sap green here. I will mix that with a little of brown first. Then I will choose the color. It's more like olive green, if you have olive green already you can use that directly. You don't need to mix and create it. See that. It's a mix of sap green and burnt sienna. Now, it is the same color if you add a little orange, the color will look slightly different. In the sap green, I'm adding a bit of orange. This one is permanent yellow orange, and that's a color I have got. See that? It's a different olive green, very different from the first one. In a similar way the amount of brown or orange that you choose to add in your sap green, the olive green that you're creating will look slightly different, but that's okay. It is not going to affect your painting. That's one of the color we'll be using for quite a few paintings. [NOISE] Now the next one is purple. To create purple I'm going to mix a little of permanent rose in to violet. If you shouldn't mix and create two violet if you don't have a white watercolor too, this is quite easy. When you're mixing your color, you just need to add more crimson or more rose into your mix than blue. That's only difference. Here I have violet and permanent rose. I'm just going to mix a little of permanent rose into violet to create a beautiful purple. I already have those colors here. I'm picking some permanent rose and mixing that with violet. That's the purple I'm going to use. It's a beautiful color at the system itself, permanent rose and violet. Now coming to the next color, it's a brown. Maybe I should call it a motivational brown. You can see the color high is for the sky. That's the one I'm talking about. It is a mix of Payne's gray and permanent brown, and then the color is more like burnt umber. If you have burnt umber you can use it directly, or you can mix and create your own color. I'm taking some brown and mixing that with Payne's green, and this is the color. That's the last collect from the collection. We tried all the colors you will need for this 15-day watercolor challenge. At the end of this section you will find all the necessary information about the pigment number and the brand of the color that I'm using. If you want to buy any of these colors or if you want to know more about them, just have a look at it. Anyways, here's a closer look of the colors. As I mentioned at the beginning, it is not really necessary to have the exact same color and exact same brand that I'm using. Go with the colors which are in your list and not the ones I'm using if you want to get a similar result, or I can try a new color combination as well, which is also totally up to you. [MUSIC] Grab your colors and join me in the next section. Let's quickly try out some techniques before we start. [MUSIC] 5. Essential Techniques : [MUSIC] All of the painting that we're going to do throughout this class are very simple. They are not at all complex and they don't have a lot of details in them, but if you're an absolute beginner, there are a few keywords that you will need to understand, especially what is wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, what is a flat wash, what is blending. That is exactly what we're going to try in this section. I have divided my paper into six equal divisions. Now let's try only those essential techniques which is needed for this class. I will start with a flat wash. The sections I have here are quite small, so mostly I'll be going with wet-on-dry technique, which means I wouldn't be applying coat of water, but for our main paintings, we'll be applying coat of water using this one-inch wash brush because they are a bit more bigger than this. For now, we're not applying water as the sections are quite small. I'm just keeping this brush aside and I'm starting off with violet. I'm using my half-inch flat brush. I have taken enough of paint. Now I'm going to simply apply that color onto this entire section. See that? The color is quite bright and I'm simply filling up that entire square in this color. This is exactly what a flat wash or a solid wash means. It's just a solid color and we're filling that section. See that? Depending on the size of the paper that you're using, you can choose to go with wet-on-dry or wet-on-wet. If it's a bigger scale paper to make your background wet for a longer time, you will have to apply coat of water. For now as I said, the section is quite small, so you can quickly apply paint onto that entire section before it dries off. Right here, I'm using a flat brush and I'm actually running my brush from left to right in a horizontal way to get the perfect blend, but the same can be done using a round brush as well. It doesn't need to be a flat brush, but a bigger brush works better so that you can cover up a larger area in a shorter time. That's the first technique. This one is called a flat wash or a solid wash. here in this painting, you can see I have this flat wash for the top part of the sky and at the bottom, we have a cloud. On the top, I had used a flat wash and also for the field as well, I started out with a flat wash then onto that, I added some medium tones using some green. Those are some applications of flat wash or solid wash. The rest you will see as we deep dive into the class. That's the first technique. Now for the second one, I'm going with the gradient wash, which means I'll start off with a medium tone and as I'm coming down, I will make the color lighter. For this one, I'm using cerulean blue. These are just some techniques that you can either choose to watch or if you're an absolute beginner, you can try it along with me. For this one as well, I'm using wet-on-dry technique, I haven't applied a coat of water. I have applied a medium tone of cerulean blue, almost one to half of that section. Now I'm cleaning my brush and using a clean brush, I'm making the rest of the area lighter. I'm just running my brush from left to right in a horizontal direction. This way, I will get a perfect blend. Now I'm just cleaning it again and with some clean water, I'm making the rest of the area lighter. See that? This is a common technique that we use to paint skies, especially when you want to paint a very soft and a simple gradient sky, it can be of any color. That's our second technique. For this technique, it is best to use a flat brush so that you'll be able to achieve a smooth and a clean gradient. Once you're happy with the gradient, don't go over multiple times, just call it down when you get that clean blend. That's the second technique. For these two, we have used only one single color. For this, we made the color lighter as we came down and for the first one, it was a solid wash. Now for the next, I'm going to try blending two colors. For the first half, I will use one color and for the bottom half, I will use another color, then I will blend them together. For this, I'm planning to go with red and orange. Again, wet-on-dry technique. First, I'm picking some red and applying that onto the top part of the section. I will apply this almost in half of the section and for the rest, I will use orange. This is another common technique that everyone use to paint the sky, especially if you want to go for a colorful sky. We can use two or more colors. That is red. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to switch to my second color. Now I'm picking some orange and I'm adding that towards the bottom, then I will go towards the top. That's a beautiful color. This one is called brilliant orange, it is from ShinHan. Now I'm about to re-stread. I'm picking some more paint and I'm running my brush in a horizontal way from left to right, and I'm blending the colors. See. That's a perfect blend. We were able to blend these colors quite easily because they are very safe colors. Red and orange makes a perfect blend. They are almost similar colors, but you won't get a clean blend when you work with all colors. That is what we're going to try next. I'm cleaning my brush. For example, if you see this painting here, you can see I have used a light violet on the top and a light yellow towards the bottom. These two colors are complimentary colors on the color wheel, which means if you blend these two colors together, you will get a muddy paint. I'll just quickly show that. I'm taking a scrap piece of paper and I will pick some violet. That is violet. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I will pick some orange. See that? The moment these two colors got mixed, I got a muddy brown there. It is not as beautiful as red and orange. See that? It doesn't look that great for a sky, especially when you create a muddy color in between where these two colors are meeting. In that case, when you are using complimentary colors for your sky, here's another example. On the top, I have violet and towards the bottom, I have yellow. Where these two colors are meeting, I have made the color lighter so that I don't get a muddy color like the previous one. That is what we're going to try next. For this, I will apply coat of water. We can try wet-on-wet technique. I have applied an even coat of water onto that entire section. Now I'm switching back to my flat brush and I'm picking a bit of violet. I will apply that onto the top of my sky. It's a medium tone. Now as I'm coming towards the center, I'll wash my brush and I will make it lighter. Clean your brush, now make it lighter. Again, I'm running my brush from left to right in a horizontal way to get the best blend. On the top, we have a medium tone, towards the center, we have a lighter tone. Some some paint missing on the top. I would just add that back. Then, I will make it lighter again. Then we can go with the second color. That part is done. They have got a beautiful gradient. Now let's clean the brush and go to the second color. Clean it thoroughly and dab it on a paper towel just to be sure there's no pain stains on it. Now pick a second color, it can be either yellow or orange. These two are complementary colors. Now clean my brush, again, and with a clean brush, I'm just making this area lighter. Where are these two colors are meeting. I'm not allowing these two colors to meet in their strongest form. If I use a brighter orange and a brighter violet, and if I blend them together, I will get a muddy color in between. This way, when you make the color lighter, it won't be a muddy mix and you can create a gorgeous blend. Maybe we can drop in a bit more brighter orange only at the bottom. That is our fourth section. We try two different blendings. For the first one, we tried two colors in their strongest form, red and orange and for the second one, as the complementary colors, we made it lighter where those two colors were meeting. Now we have two more sections left for the next one, I'm trying to blend three colors together. First, we tried a single-color gradient, then we try blending two colors in two different ways. Now it's time to level up and try blending three colors. I'm just taking out all the colors onto my palette. I'm planning to go with violet, rose, and orange. I will start with violet, then rows, and then orange towards the bottom. I have the colors ready. Now for the assessment, I think I can go with the wet-on-wet technique, which means I need to start by applying water onto this division. When I'm applying water, we just need a shiny code. Don't add a lot of water. We don't want pools of water. Just a shiny coat is all we need. That surface is evenly wet. Now I'm starting off with violet. I will pick a medium tone and I will apply that on the top part. Now cleaning my brush and I'm picking some rose. Adding that right next to violet and I'm gently blending them. This one is permanent rose from Shinhan. I have applied my second color and I'm trying to make it a clean blend by running my brush from left to right and in a horizontal way. Now clean my brush. Now towards the bottom, I'm picking some orange, adding that in, and blending that with rose. It's a beautiful color combination which can be used for dreamy evenings. If your background is still wet, you can modify the colors. You can make it more intense. There is a little paint missing on the top. I'm just adding some more violet onto this corner to make it a perfect blend. That is our fifth section. I think it came out really beautiful and we'll be trying to similar color combination for one of our painting. We started off with violet, then rose in the middle, and orange towards the bottom. It's a clean blend of three colors. Now for the last one, I'm planning to go with two colors, I will blend two colors. Then onto that wet background, we'll try adding some clouds. I'm starting off with violet. I have more violet left on my palette. I'm starting with that. I'm using a medium tone and I'm applying the wet paint directly onto the dry paper. I haven't added a coat of water. Now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm picking some rose. Now adding that onto the remaining area. First I will blend rose and violet. [NOISE] Now for the remaining area, I will make the color lighter. All of these exercises can be done with any color of your choice. It doesn't need to be the same colors. You can try exploring different color combination and you can choose the ones that is your favorite. When you try multiple color combination you will also get an understanding about different color combination. The ones that works well and the ones that doesn't work. Anyways, this one has turned out pretty well. Now to add the clouds, I'm going to switch to a round brush. This one is a size from the six-round brush. It looks like the paint I have used this quite watery. I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel and I'm going to continue adding the clouds. See that, you can keep adding them. How you want to. It can be of any shape and any size. If you want your sky to be really dramatic, you can add more clouds using a darker tone and a medium tone. The only thing you need to keep in mind is to add the clouds while the background is still wet. Otherwise, they won't spread and they will look to prominent. You need to add in your clouds right away you have painted your background. My background is still wet and I'm able to add those clouds quite easily and also the pain that they're using to add the clouds shouldn't be too watery. If it's too watery, they will spread very fast and you wouldn't be able to get a cloudy shape. When you're adding a first cloud, if you feel like the paint is spreading too fast, just dab your brush on a paper towel add more the excess amount of water, and then go ahead and add the remaining clouds. I've taken some more paint and I'm going to add few more clouds onto this right top corner. I think have added quite a lot of clouds. But I think it has come out pretty nice, not too dramatic and not to subtle. Anyways, this is all the different washes we tried. Now before we wrap up this section, let me quickly show you some of the paintings where we're going to try some clouds. Here's one. I have used a similar color combination. It is violet, pink, and orange. Then onto that, I have added some clouds using violet. To add the clouds I used a medium tone, so that is not too dramatic. Now here's another one that had used very little clouds. It's a soft and the simple blend of two colors, something similar to this. Then onto that, I have added some clouds using a really light tone of Payne's gray. See that, this one has very little clouds. Started with a really light tone of Payne's gray. Which means by knowing a simple technique, you can create gorgeous sky, just by changing the color combinations. I will show you one more painting. This one is a little modified version of this blue gradient sky. I started out with a gradient. Then towards the bottom, I simply added some blue lines towards that light apart and I have created a gorgeous sky by tweaking that technique too little. Only by knowing these watercolor washes and these little techniques, we can create plenty of wonderful skies, we'll be trying to set skies in this class. The rest is all yours to explore. Anyway, now I'm going to split up the masking tape. [MUSIC] These are the different watercolor washes we tried. If you're absolutely new to watercolor, I would suggest you give it a try, if you cannot try them all, just try the last two sections. Blending three colors and also adding the clouds and that will make you really confident when you're trying the class projects. 6. DAY 1 - Calm Evening: [MUSIC] Our first project is a very calm and peaceful evening. You can see the painting here, it's simply a gorgeous one. First I will start by introducing you to the colors. I have a scrap piece of paper here. As you can see from here, I'll be using two colors for the sky. On the top you can see I'll use a very light tone of violet and towards the bottom, it's a light yellowish orange. Those are the two colors you will need for the sky. I have them ready here. These are the two colors. I have violet and permanent yellow orange. This one is from White Nights and other one is from Shinhan. You can use any other color of your choice if you don't want to go for this color combination. We'll need a little of violet as well as yellowish orange or yellow. I will quickly swatch all the colors so you have a better idea. This one is violet. We just need a teeny bit of violet as the color we're using is quite light. That's the first color. Now just in case if you don't have violet with you, you can mix and create your own violet. That's not a problem. Now the second color is permanent yellow orange. This one is a yellowish orange. Again, if you don't have this color, you can just add a little of [inaudible] into any of the yellow you have got and you can create a similar color quite easily. That's our second color. These are the two colors we'll be using for the sky. [NOISE] Now you can see these small mountains in the background. For that, we will need indigo. For the background mountain, I'll be using a lighter tone of indigo and for the one in the foreground, it's going to a slightly darker tone. That's the third color you will need. The indigo I'm using here is from Sennelier. You can use indigo from any other brand or you can mix a little of Payne's gray into any of the blue you have got to create a similar color. That's the third color. [NOISE] Now the next color you will need is green. You can see that middle. For that, you will need sap green as well as Payne's gray to add the deeper tones. Sap green is a very common color so I'm guessing you all have it. The one I'm using here is from Shinhan. It's a beautiful green. I just love this color. Now along with sap green, there is one more color you will need. You can see that lighter tone here, that yellowish green. I have created that color by mixing a little of permanent yellow orange and sap green. It's a mixture of those two colors. I will show you the color. See that? It's more like a olive green, you just need to add a little of yellowish orange or orange into green to create a similar color. That's the color I'm going to use on the top. Towards the bottom, I'll be using some sap green as well as some Payne's gray to add the deeper tones. Those are the colors you will need for our first painting. I didn't have any space to show Payne's gray, but this is the one I'm using. It's from the brand Rembrandt. It's a pretty simple painting with a very simple color palette. Now it's time to give it a try. [MUSIC] I have everything ready here. I have taped down my paper too. You can either tape down your paper onto a drawing board or onto your table. Now I'm starting by adding a horizon line a little below the center of the people. Just add a straight line and that's it. Your pencil sketch is ready. We already spoke about the colors that I'm going to use for the sky. I'll be using violet as well as permanent yellow orange. Now, I'm going to squeeze out these two colors onto my palette. As I mentioned earlier, we just need a lighter tone, which means we'll only need a little pigment and a lot of water so don't squeeze out a lot of paint if you are working with freshly squeezed paint. We just need a little of violet and a little of yellowish orange or orange, or any other color of your choice. I have the colors ready. Now for the sky, I'm going to use wet on wet technique, which means we need to apply a coat of water [NOISE] and for that, I'm using my one-inch wash brush. Pick some clean water and apply that onto your sky evenly. Don't add a lot of water, we just need a shiny coat. Keep running your brush multiple times just to be sure the coat of water is even and also be sure your brush is clean. There shouldn't be any paints tints on it as we're going to use really light tones for the sky. Gently apply an even coat of water onto the entire sky. Now to apply the paint onto the sky, I'm using my half-inch flat brush. This one is from Silver Black Velvet brush. Now using this brush, I'm creating a lighter tone of violet, picking some water, adding that into the paint to create a lighter tone. Now, I'm going to apply that onto the sky. See the color? It is quite light. That's the tone of violet I'm going with. I want a really light tone for the sky. Now apply this almost three-fourths of your sky. It is just a flat wash so keep applying your paint in a horizontal way so that we have a clean and smooth blend. Once you reach in your three-fourths of your sky, try to make the color lighter. See that? I'm just running my brush in a horizontal way. I'm not mixing any other brush movement. This way I have a clean blend for the sky. Now, I'm cleaning my brush and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. Now using a clean brush I'm just blending the remaining area to make it lighter. It looks like there are some uneven patches on the sky. I'm just adding some more paint to make it even. There's a little paint missing on the top as well. That's done. [NOISE] Now cleaning again, dabbing my brush and now I'm switching to my second color, which is permanent yellow orange. Again, go with a lighter tone. Don't make it too bold. Now I'm applying that along the horizon line and as I go towards the top, I'm making the color lighter. See that? That's the sky. Now just in case you want to make it a clean blend, you can clean your brush and run your brush in a horizontal way to make it a better blend. If have already got a clean blend, don't run your brush again. Because when you run your brush multiple times, instead of making it better, it might ruin your sky. That's how it has turned out. I'm very much happy with the blend. I'm really happy with the colors as well. It is exactly the way how I wanted it to be. Now using a clean paper towel, I'm just wiping off that excess amount of paint from the masking tape. Because what happens is when you just leave it as it is, those paint will flow back into your painting and will create some bleed along that border. To avoid that, I'm just wiping off the paint from the boarder. That's our gorgeous sky, now we can leave this for drying [MUSIC]. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. You can see how beautiful those colors are looking. They're very peaceful and calm. For the next step, you will need some indigo. We'll be adding a mountain here. We'll add maybe one at the center or just in the background, then once that dries we'll add another one for the crown using a much more darker tone. I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. This is the one I'm going to use, it's from Sennelier. You can use any other indigo you have got and if you don't have indigo there's nothing worry. You can just mix a little of Payne's Gray into any of the blue you have got and create some of the color. As I have that yellowish color in the background, the indigo that I'm going to apply will turn into slightly greenish which is absolutely okay. You will see that in some time. To add the mountain, I'm using my size number 6 round brush. First, I'm adding some water and I'm turning indigo [NOISE] into a lighter tone. That's a color I'm going to use for the first mountain, but it is in the background. Create a lighter tone of indigo and use any of your smaller brush and add the first mountain. You can go with any kind of shape. I'm adding that at the center and this is the shape I'm going with [NOISE]. I think my paint is quite dark so I'm picking some water and I'm making it lighter. See that? You can see the color I have used here it is looking a little greenish. This is just because I have that yellowish orange in the background, but that's absolutely okay. There is nothing to worry here. Adding a mountain and once you're done, you leave it for drying. [MUSIC] That is right. We can add our second layer of mountain which is going to be in the foreground. I'm planning to add this on either side leaving some gap at the center and for this I'm using a little more darker tone of indigo and I'm going to add the mountain on either side. Again, you can go with any kind of shape that you prefer, but go with a low line mountain. Don't make it too huge. We are trying to make it look like these mountains are quite far away so be really careful about the size you are going with. Carefully add a mountain on either side using a slightly darker tone of indigo. Don't make it too dark, it just needs to be a little more darker than the color we used earlier for the background layer so that we can get their different tonal values. I'm adding a similar mountain on the left side and that will be done with this layer and then we'll have to wait for this to dry. After that we'll be painting our middle and with that we'll be done with the whole painting. That's a mountain. We can leave this for trying. [MUSIC] That has dried completely and this is how it is looking right now. The only task left is to paint the middle. For that, you will need some sap green and some Payne's gray and also we need to create that olive green color by mixing a little of permanent yellow orange with sap green. First I will take out sap green as well as Payne's gray. I have that yellowish orange already on my palette. I have the colors ready. To apply the paint, you can use any of your medium-sized round brush. The one I'm using here is a size number 8 round brush, so first I'm going to create that olive green color. I'm picking some orange and mixing that with green. You can see that the color is just a little green. It is just a mix of [inaudible] yellow orange and sap green. Depending on the amount of orange you're adding into your green the color will look slightly different, but that's okay. It is not going to make a huge difference in your painting. That's the color I'm going to use. I'm going to fill this color almost till half of my middle. You can see the color here. Carefully fill that onto your middle. The color is pretty thick, I'm not adding a lot of water. I have applied paint along the horizon line. I can easily fill out the rest, so I'm just adding more paint. You can see I have added paint almost till half of my middle. For the remaining area, I'm going to pick some sap green and I'm just blending those two colors. So keep blending your color. For the remaining area at the bottom, that little area left I'm going to introduce some Payne's gray to add some deeper tone, so I'm picking some Payne's gray. I'm mixing that with sap green to create a darker green and I'm using that at the bottom. See that? We have that olive green on the top then we have some fresh sap green at the center and then darker green at the bottom. That's a base layer. We can start with that orangy-ish green then some sap green, and towards the bottom you can use a darker green. To give it some texture using the same color, I'm going to add some lines while it is still wet. Just add some random line on the middle. I'm picking that darker green again and I'm simply adding a few lines. See that? Don't add a lot, we need all those different kind of tonal values of green at the background. Just add a few. I'm trying to read in that lighter green on the top left corner., so I'm not going to add any lines over there. I'm just concentrating on the right side. That's it. If you want to add in more lines or if you want to add in more darker tones at the bottom, you could do that while the background is still wet. But if it is starting to dry, just leave it as it is. Don't add any more lines because we need them a little soft and subtle. We don't want them to be too prominent. If your background is starting to dry, they won't spread into the background and the lines will be too prominent. Gouache, we don't need. Anyways, I'm just planning to continue this mountain. I feel like there is something missing at the center. If it happened with your result there is no need to add that mountain, but for me for some reason I feel like connecting that mountain. I'm just cleaning my brush and I'm going to keep this one aside. I will switch back to indigo to continue that mountain. This step is not at all necessary. I just felt like it might look a bit more nice if I continue that mountain but I might regret later, so just go with your intuition. [MUSIC] If you want to connect it, just connect that mountain. Otherwise, just call it done, pull off your masking tape, and enjoy your painting. This is how it has turned out, I think it is looking quite okay. I'm doing the painting. Now, it's time to beat the masking tape. Wow, I'm in love with this painting. To be honest, this is one of the ECF standard card painting I have ever done. You can see there is no much detail, but it is looking so gorgeous. I hope you all enjoyed this calm and peaceful evening. Thank you so much for joining. [MUSIC] 7. DAY 2 - At the Beach: [MUSIC] Hello my lovely friends. I hope you all are doing great. This is what we are painting today. It's a very calm and simple beach, but it is absolutely beautiful too. Anyway, I'll take you through the colors you will need, then we can quickly start the painting. I have a piece of paper here. Now as you can see here for the sky, I have used a gradient wash as a simple sky. There is no second layer or anything. We're just going to start with a medium tone, then we're going to make the color lighter as we're approaching the horizon line. This is the color I'm going to use. It is indigo from Sennelier. You can see that gradient wash. For the beach as well, I'll be using the same color. That's our first color. If you don't have indigo, you can use Prussian blue or any other blue you have got, or if you have Payne's gray, you can add a little of that into any of the blue you have got. Then you can easily create indigo shade. That's the color I'm going to use for the sky as well as for the beach. [NOISE] The next color you will need is burnt sienna, that is the color I'll be using for the sand. We just need a medium tone of burnt sienna for the sand. Then we'll also be mixing that with sap green to create that olive green color, which you can see here that I had used for the mountain. We'll come to that in some time. First I will spread out burnt sienna. Whenever there is a mountain or any other element, I always choose to use brown instead of burnt sienna. For some reason, I love brown more than burnt sienna. Maybe because it is more vibrant, or maybe it is more bright. But to paint a beach and more of earthy tones, the perfect color is burnt sienna. That's our second color. Now, the next one is sap green. We won't be using sap green as it is, we'll be adding a little of burnt sienna into it to create an olive green color. That's sap green. I want the colors to be a bit muted. I don't want them to be too bright. I already have a little paint here that's a mix of burnt sienna and sap green. If you have olive green color with you already, you can use that directly or you can easily mix and create your own olive green this way by adding either brown or burnt sienna in the sap green. It's a beautiful color and it goes really with this color combination we have used. Now, the last color you will need is Payne's gray, which is the color we'll be using to add the darker details. We'll just add a little of Payne's gray only for the mountain. We're not going to use it anywhere else. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. Indigo or any other blue of your choice, then burnt sienna, sap green, and some Payne's gray or black. Now, along with this, there is one more color you will need, which is obviously white, it can be the white gouache or white watercolor. I'll be just using a little of white watercolor. You can see those ways I have added here. For that, I'll be using some white. That summarized the color palette for today's painting. Now let's give it a try. For this one, the major element is that mountain, and that's the only sketch you will need to add. First I will start by adding a horizon line, which is a little bit at the center of the paper. Now, I'm going to add the rocks or the mountains or whatever you want to call it somewhere over here. You can see the way how I started the line. It's a little above the horizon line. Now I'm bringing that down. Go with a very natural and irregular shape and also watch out the size; don't make it too huge and don't make it too small as well. Go with the similar size. That's a basic shape. Now, along with that, I'm adding another smaller mountain which is far away. This one is along the horizon line. That's the sketch. Now I'm going to add a line, which is a short line. We're done with the sketch. I hope it was simple. Just in case if you want to modify the shape of your rock, you could do that. Maybe you can go for a little more simpler shape or any other different kind of a shape. That's that. Now we can start preparing the paint and we can start painting. As I mentioned earlier, this is the color I'm going to use for the sky. We are going for a simple gradient wash. I'm just squeezing out some paint. I guess that would be enough for the sky as well as the beach. Now using my one inch flat brush, I'm going to apply a coat of water onto the entire sky. We're using wet-on-wet technique here. Apply a coat of water onto the entire sky. Don't add a lot. We just need a shiny coat. My sky is evenly wet. You don't need to leave out the mountain, you can apply water on top of it. That's okay. My sky is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint onto the sky, I'm using a half-inch flat brush. This is the one I'm using. Now I'm picking a medium tone of indigo. Only at the top of the sky we'll be using a medium tone. Then as you're approaching the horizon line, we will make it lighter. Just run your brush back and forth in a horizontal direction to get a clean blend. We can see the color. It's a medium tone. Now as I'm coming down, I'm not picking any more paint, I'm just making use of the paint on the brush and I'm coming down until I feel like the color is getting lighter. Now, I'm going to clean my brush, and using that damp brush and making the color lighter again. See that? On the top you can see we have a medium tone. Towards the bottom, we have made the color lighter. If you're happy with the blend, don't go over again and again. Because with watercolor, when you run your brush multiple times, it won't give it a better result. Rather, it will disturb your background layer and you might end up spoiling your clean blend. Once you're happy with the result, this color's done and leave it for drying. After the sky, it's a very simple gradient wash. You can use any blue of your choice for this sky, start with a medium tone, then make it lighter as you're approaching horizon line. Now, let it dry. [MUSIC] That's our sky. The colors are looking much more softer than earlier when it dried. Now we can start painting the beach. For that as well, I'll be using indigo, maybe a color similar to the one I used on the top of the sky. To paint the beach, I'm using my round brush. Now I'm picking a medium tone of indigo. Now I'm applying that onto the entire sea. It just needs to be a medium tone, don't make it too dark and too light as well. We already have an outline there. Simply fill that up with a medium tone of indigo or any other blue that you're using. Maybe we can make it a bit lighter. It seems a bit dark. Now with that wet brush, I'm making it lighter. Just fill it up, there is no need to put a lot of effort here. It doesn't need to be a clean blend or a gradient wash or anything. Simply apply a medium tone of indigo onto the entire sea. That's it. Now we'll have to wait for this also to dry. After that we can start painting the sand. [MUSIC] That has dried. Now we can start painting the sand for which I'm going to use a medium tone of burnt sienna. Right now, our painting looks quite flat and lifeless, but when we paint the sand part, it will start to get better. I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. I will need a little more because I'll be using this for the rocks as well. The paint is ready. Now to paint the beach, I'm picking my size number eight round brush, and I'm creating a medium tone of burnt sienna here. Now let's apply that onto the entire sand. See the color? It's not too light and it's not too dark as well. We've got similar tonal value. Now apply that onto the entire sand. You can follow the shoreline and simply fill that area. This one is again, a solid wash. There is no need to put a lot of effort, as I said earlier. Create a medium tone of burnt sienna and simply fill that entire sand and the tonal value I have created. We have a shoreline here. Follow that and apply the paint. See that, simple. Now, there is one more thing we need to do before this dries. For that as well, I'm using the same brush, but this time I'm going to pick a slightly darker tone. I'm picking a little more darker tone of brown. See that? Now I'm just dropping that onto that background. Start by adding some small random patterns closer to the rocks. We don't need a lot, just a little. Then maybe towards the bottom as well, you can add a few, but don't make it too busy. That is how much I have added. Now, I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel. Now with a slightly dry brush, I'm just spreading those color into the background to give it a bit more smoother feel. I don't want them to be too prominent and rough. Maybe we can add a few more. That's it. Now, let the background dry. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] You can see how beautiful it is looking already with those soft textures on the sand, they are not too prominent, but they have added a little realistic touch to the beach. Anyway, now let's start painting the rock for which I'm going to squeeze out some sap green. I already have some burnt sienna there. As I mentioned at the beginning, I'll be mixing burnt sienna and sap green together to create earthy green, more like olive green. I'm picking some sap green and I'm picking some burnt sienna as well. Mixing them together. It's a beautiful color. It just changes the entire mood of the painting. We tried a similar color in the previous painting as well. This is the color I'm going to use. It's a very earthy green. Now, I'm going to apply that onto the entire rock. You can modify the mix if you want more of a greenish tone, you can add more sap green, into the burnt sienna. Similarly, if you want the color to be more brownish, reduce the amount of sap green, and increase the amount of burnt sienna. Once you have decided on your color, simply fill that on the entire rock, following the outline you have added there. Also, you can modify the shape if needed. If you feel like you have made it really small, or if you feel it is really short, you can increase the height or you can spread it out a bit more. Those things are totally your choice. Now relax and slowly fill up that entire shape in the color I have created. [MUSIC] Alright, so that's a base layer. Now onto those, we need to add some texture and some patterns to make it look more realistic. For that, we need to darker green. To create a darker green, I'm going to mix a little of Payne's gray with sap green. I'm going to squeeze out a bit of paint onto my palette. Now, I'm using my smaller-sized brush, this one is size Number 6. To create a darker green, you can either use sap green with Payne's gray or that olive green with Payne's gray. We just need a darker tone here. You can create that however, you want to know I'm starting by adding a shape on the top. See that, how to separate the top and the bottom, it has two sections. Once you have added that shape, I'm going to add some lines on the bottom side. Honestly, this has to be done while the background is still wet, but my background has started to dry. It is not completely wet. But no mind. Just keep adding those lines. See that? Just add a little towards the bottom as well as towards the top and some darker tones along the bottom line as well. All you need to do is just add some random lines using a darker tone on the rock to create some texture. That's it. Now, I'm going to pick another brush. I have my size Number 8 round brush here. Now I'm picking a little of olive green, just a little and I'm simply smudging the pattern type applied here. This needs to be done only if you feel like they're looking too prominent. If happy with the result, you don't need to do that. I'm doing this mainly because my background has dried. It is not wet and I feel those patterns are a bit too prominent. Anyway, that's how it has turned out. Now, I'm going to switch back to my smaller brush and to add the final random details, I'm picking some Payne's green, and I'm just adding some darker tones along the top. I already have enough patterns, so I'm not planning to add more, just a little here and there to give it some more texture. That's it. I'm really happy with this area. How will you paint this rock, it is going to look really beautiful. Just apply that olive green for the background. Then start adding some random lines and some random shapes using a darker tone to create some texture. Don't forget to leave that shape on the top. That's the top flat surface of the rock that you can sit or stand to enjoy the beach. Towards the bottom, it's the sloping part, which is the height. That's the first step. Now we have a small mountain in the background along the horizon line. I'm using the same olive green and I'm filling this up. Maybe we can use a slightly lighter tone than earlier to create a sense of depth. Now fill in that shape, be really careful, we need a straight line along the horizon. As I said earlier, if you want to modify the shape, that's totally your choice. If you want to extend that a little more towards the center, you could do that. Also if you want to add another one towards the right side, that is also totally possible. That is our mountain in the background. I'm really happy with the way it is turning out. Now onto this, I'm going to add some darker texture. The same way how we did earlier. I'm picking my other brush. I haven't washed this, so that is some paint left on it. I'm just adding some teeny tiny patterns on that background. For this one, I'm not going to put a lot of effort. This one is far away, so just some teeny-tiny patterns is all you need. That's how it has turned out right now. Now before I add the waves, there's one last thing I want to do, a small task which is completely optional. I just wanted to add some teeny tiny stones next to the bigger rock. I just felt like it will add a little more texture if we add some teeny tiny stones over here, they're super tiny. You can see the size. You can add three or four of them. To be honest, I'm really happy with this painting, especially the simplicity of this painting and yet it is so beautiful. You know when you start working with very limited colors and very limited techniques, you will start to enjoy the process a lot more. When there is a lot of techniques and a lot of complex details involved, you will forget that joy of creating. You will be more concentrated on getting the details right and that's the main reason why I created this particular challenge. Because I know there are a lot of people who had a frustrating relationship with watercolor before, mainly because they forgot the joy in the process. They forgot to enjoy the process, and they put their whole focus and concentration in learning every techniques, totally ignoring the joy of creating. To be honest, watercolor is a joy to work with, and it can also be very frustrating at times, especially when you have to rush and add all the details before the background dries. That rushed part of [inaudible] technique can be a bit frustrating at times. Sometimes your soul needs some relaxing watercolor projects like this. Anyway, our next task is to add the waves for which I'm going to squeeze out a bit of white watercolor. We need some opaque white, so don't add a lot of water. It can be the white watercolor or white gouache. Now to add the waves, I'm going to use my smaller-sized brush, this one here is size Number 6. Now, don't add a lot of water. That is something you have to be careful about being at a thick and opaque paint. Now, using that I'm going to add the first wave which is closer to the horizon line. See that? At some places make it thicker and at some places make it thinner. This will add a little of a realistic feeling to your painting. Towards the right, I have made it a bit thicker. At the center, I made it thinner. Now again towards the left, I made it a little more thicker. See that. That's our first wave. Now if you're someone who use watercolor cakes or watercolor pans for your painting. By any chance, if you have doable white watercolor or white gouache, I would recommend using that because you won't get the same consistency and the same opacity when you're using your watercolor pans or watercolor cakes, it is a little difficult to achieve the same effect using watercolor pans. But if you don't have a watercolor tube or gouache tube, that's totally okay. Just use your watercolor pans. But keep in mind, the result might be a little different. Please don't get upset for that factor. It is not you. It is just the paint. Right now I have added the wave using my white paint. I simply follow the outline and I have added that. Maybe at some places, we can make it a little more thicker and more prominent. See that? Just at some places, I'm making it more thicker. Now the next step is to spread the paint into the sea. Using the same brush, I'm not picking any new paint, I have some leftover paint. With that, I'm just pushing that into the sea to create some foaming water texture. See that? You can keep adding it until you feel like you've got the texture. But don't add a lot. We need to see that blue color in the background as well so don't go overboard and fill it up. That part is done. Now, I'm planning to add one more wave, far away. When I looked at the painting, I feel like there's a lot of space left on the side so I added a small wave there, and that's it. Now before we wrap up, there's one last thing to do, for which I'll need a teeny bit of brown or burnt sienna. I don't have any paint left there. I used it to create that olive green. If you have burnt umber, you can use that directly or you can mix a little of burnt sienna with Payne's gray to create this color. It's not a medium tone, it's not a darker tone. It's really light on our burnt umber. Now using that color, I'm going to add a shadow for the wave, which is just a super thin line along the bottom side of the wave. See that. It's a very small task, but it will add a three-dimensional sphere to the wave. That's it. We're done with our painting for the day. Now, it's time to beat up the masking tape, an adorable, gorgeous beach. [MUSIC] You can see it's an absolutely simple painting with the right amount of details. I think it's a perfect one too. If you liked it, you know what to do, give it a try and upload them in the project gallery. I would love to see it. Thank you so much for joining, and I hope you all had a happy time. 8. DAY 3 - Sunset Road: [MUSIC] Our next project is a simple and moody evening. Honestly, I'm not someone who love to work with mute colors, but this one was an exception. I absolutely love the way it has turned out. First, I will take you through the colors you will need. I'll start with the color for the sky. You can see it's a dull brown. This one is more like burnt umber, but I've just added a little of permanent brown with Payne's gray to create that color. If you have burnt umber, you can use that as it is. I'm using the same color for the mountain as well. First I will mix and create that color. I don't have enough paint there, so I'll squeeze out some brown as well as Payne's gray, and I will show you how to mix that. I have taken out some permanent brown onto my palette. Now I'm adding a little of Payne's gray to it , just a little. It has to be more brownish, than grayish so don't add a lot of Payne's gray and that's a color. See that it's a gorgeous brown, a moody brown. That's a color we'll be using for the sky. Now, the second color that I'm going to use is permanent yellow, orange. You can see that yellowish orange at the middle. I'm just cleaning my brush and I'll show you the second color. This is the one permanent yellow orange from Shanghai. Just like the name says, it's a yellowish orange. If you don't have this color, there is nothing to worry. You can just add a little of orange to any of the yellow and create a similar color. That's a second color. I'll be using this color towards the bottom part of the sky. Now there's one more color that you will need, which is red. To make the sky a bit more interesting, I'll be adding some pyrrole red towards the bottom. You can see that color here, just a little. If you don't have pyrrole red, you can use vermilion. The sky is going to be a blend of three colors; a muddy brown, permanent yellow, orange, and some red. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. Now for the landscape, I'll be using sap green and also some olive green color with just a mix of orange and sap green. You can see that towards the bottom over here and also over here. That's a mix of sap green and permanent yellow, orange. Finally, for the road, I'll be using Payne's gray. That's our last color. We'll be applying a lighter gray onto the entire road. Then to create that texture and that feel of a road, we'll be adding some deeper tones. Those are the colors you will need for this painting. It's not a pleasant and a vibrant color palette. They are quite moody and dull, but I think it has its own beauty. Grab all the colors and get ready to start painting. I'm starting by adding a sketch. We need to add the horizon line, then the road and also the mountain. Now I'm adding a beautiful curvy road, so that's a shape I'm going with. It is narrow towards the horizon line and wider towards the bottom. See that? Adding a similar road, give it a beautiful curve like this. We can see it is wider towards the bottom. So that's a road, now we can start adding the mountain. Towards the left side, I'm making it a little low-lying mountain. As I'm approaching the right side, I will make it higher. You can go to any shape that you prefer, it doesn't need to be exactly like this. That's a mountain. Now, along the horizon line, we'll need to add some landscape. You really don't need to add a sketch right now, we can fill that up when we are painting. We will be adding some teeny tiny landscape along the horizon line using a darker tone of green, something like this. That isn't really necessary, we can fix it when we are painting. That's a sketch, I will just erase this and we can start painting. First, I'm going to take out the colors for the sky to create that muddy brown. I'm going to mix a little of permanent brown and Payne's gray. Squeezing out of the top permanent brown as well as the Payne's gray. If you have burned umber you can use that as it is, or you can mix and create your own muddy brown , that's a first color. Along with that, you will also need some permanent yellow, orange or yellowish orange, any color that you prefer. Then you will also need some red. The one I'm using is pyrrole red. You can use permanent red or any other red you have got. I have the colors ready. Now for the sky, I'm going to go with a bit on wet technique, which means I'll be applying cold water using my one-inch wash brush. I'm putting some clean water and applying an even coat of water onto the entire your sky. You don't need a lot of water, we just need a shiny coat. My sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to start applying the paint onto the sky before the background layer dries. To apply the paint, I'm using my flat brush and I'm mixing a little of brown with Payne's gray. That's the color I'm using for the sky. It's not really a common color that everyone use for the sky. But to create a moody and a quiet evening, I think this color is just perfect. See that, so I'm applying that color onto the top part of my sky. Now as I'm coming towards the bottom, I'm making it lighter. I'm not picking any new paint. I used a medium tone. Now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm making the rest of the area lighter. Basically we start with a gradient wash. You can see on the top I have a medium tone and towards the bottom, I have made it lighter. Now with a clean brush I'm picking some yellowish orange and I'm adding that towards the bottom. It's again a medium tone that I'm using here, it's not a bright color. Now using the same brush, I'm going to pick some red and I will apply that towards the bottom closer to the mountain. Now, gently blend that with the yellowish orange, and that's our sky. For the sky, we used the blending technique. We used three colors; a muddy brown, a yellowish orange as well as some red towards the bottom. That's our sky. Now we can leave it for drying [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely and this is how the colors have turned out. They are looking very soft and subtle, I'm really happy with it. Now, the next step is to paint a mountain. As I said earlier, I'm going to use that muddy brown for the mountain again. I only have a little paint left on my palette so I'll just make use of that. For this, I'm using my medium-sized strong brush, and I'm picking that muddy brown. It's the same tonal value that I'm using. It's not a darker tone. We're trying to make it look like this mountain is in the background, so don't use a darker tone, go with the medium tone or a lighter tone. The shape of the mountain that you added earlier might not be really visible. Go with an approximate shape and add that in. On the right side, I have made it a bit higher and towards the left, I'm making it lower, see that. Now fill in your mountain. When you're painting the mountain, try to read in some of the red color on the sky. We haven't added a lot, but that color is what makes the sky more beautiful. Rating some of the red color, wherever you're making your mountain lower, this can be retained. On the other side we have no choice, we will have to cover up that red. That's a mountain. Now we'll need to leave this for drying before we go to the next step. [MUSIC] We have painted the sky as well as the mountains. I'm really happy with the colors, especially the red color here. Now the next step is to paint the road. For that, I will need some Payne's gray. I will start with a medium tone. Then after that, I'll be applying some darker tones to create some texture. I'm squeezing out some Payne's gray onto my palette. Now using a medium-sized tone brush, I'm going to apply paint onto the entire road adding some water into your paint, and turn that into a medium tone. Don't make it too dark, and don't make it too light as well. But that's the color I'm going with. Go to similar toner value, now apply that following the outline of your road. Just fill it up. Try to retain that curly shape for the road. That is what makes your painting look more beautiful. Because we don't have a lot of elements and we don't have a lot of details, so just try and get a curly shape for your road, which has to be narrow towards the horizon line and wider towards the bottom. That's the basic shape of the road. Now onto this wet background, before it dries I'm going to drop in some darker tones to create some texture otherwise it will look quite plain so I'm picking up a little darker tone. The same color is a darker tone of Payne's gray, and I'm randomly adding some deeper tones onto that wet background. See that? In a similar way. Just keep adding some lines, especially towards the bottom. Don't add any towards the horizon line. You need to retain that lighter tone closer to the horizon line. Then we have that narrow curl, within the lighter tone, and only towards the bottom drop in some darker tones. Just drag that in and create some random deeper tones on that wet background. When this dries, it will leave a beautiful texture. Let's leave it for drying. [MUSIC] This is the texture we have got and I think it looks pretty nice, especially the bottom part where we have the deeper tones. Now the final task is to add the landscape. We have two sections here, a smaller section on the top and a wider one at the bottom. We need to paint these two sections following the curve. For that, I'm going to squeeze out some sap green. I already have some orange on my palette. I'll be using that as well to create a moody green. We are painting an evening scene so I don't want to use a lot of bright and bold colors. Some painters just love yellowish orange. Then I'm adding that with sap green to create a dull olive-green color. Now I'm going to apply this color I created along the bottom part of the landscape. Towards the bottom, I'm using this color. Towards the top, I will use a darker tone. I have just added a little. Now I'm picking some Payne's gray, mixing that with sap green to create a darker green, and for the rest of the area, I'm going to use that darker tone. Towards this corner, I'm using the darker shade. You can see here towards further the end, I used a darker tone and towards the area which is closer to us, I used a lighter tone. Now I'm going to fill that top part in this color, and I will blend it. You don't need to put a lot of effort here, start with that lighter tone, add that towards the bottom, then towards the corner, and also towards the top, switch to a darker tone, and just add that in. Now along the top part, I'm going to add a small landscape shape. See that? It's a very random shape. I just want to make it look like there are some plants, or some trees over here. Now, I'm just pushing that into the background, and I'm just merging it. Seem all right. Now to make it a bit more interesting, what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick that darker tone again, and at some places, I will make this landscape a bit more higher. It's not a big detail, but that high differences will make it more realistic and beautiful. At the center, I made it a bit more taller. Similarly, if you want to make this corner more taller, you could do that. I'm adding some more landscape here using that darker tone just to create interest. That's the top section. Now, in a similar way, we need to paint the bottom part as well. It's a very simple step and the beauty is in those colors we have used here. I think that green is going very well with the color of the sky and the mountain. Anyway, before I go with the other section, I will just add some teeny-tiny patterns onto this corner as well. I'm just adding some teeny-tiny shapes using the tip of my brush. It doesn't need to have any particular size or shape. These are quite far away so there's no need to put a lot of effort. When you keep adding those teeny-tiny patterns close to each other, it will automatically feel like a landscape or bushes or trees. Now in a similar way, I'm filling up this corner. I'm using that darker tone. Now I'm filling the shape of the road. We need that beautiful curl that needs to be retained. Be a little careful when you're adding the shape. The rest is just filling it up. Only when you are adding that shape when you're defining the shape of the road, be a little careful. That's a darker tone. Now using the same brush I'm picking that olive green I created. You don't need to wash your brush in between, you can directly pick the paint. Anyways, we will be matching and blending the colors so it doesn't need to be cleaned. You can pick the paint with the same brush without washing. I have added paint towards that outer line. I didn't follow a clean line. I wanted to make it look more natural. I have gone with an irregular shape just to give it the feel that there are some grass or some other plants over there. Now, I'm filling that area. You can see on the top there the areas closer to the mountain. I used a darker tone. Now towards the bottom, as it is much more closer to us, I'm using a medium tone of green. When you don't have a lot of elements or a lot of details in your painting, these little things can add a lot of value. With a sensible play of colors and tonal values, we can add a lot of depth and dimension to the painting. Now I'm picking some Payne's gray and I'm adding that onto the bottom right corner. You can see that darker green. I already have that green in my background and also some on my brush. I didn't have to create darker green. When I picked the Payne's gray, it automatically turned into darker green. Technically, it has to be a darker green. We can see the color here and you can see that beautiful transition. We have a lighter green on the top, then a medium green, and a darker green towards the corner, as well as onto the top. That's it, my dear friends, we are done with our painting. Honestly, I'm really happy with the color palette I use for this painting. When I started, I wasn't really sure whether it will turn out great or it is just going to be another trial. But, yeah, I feel it turned out pretty well and it's a beautiful evening. I really want to go on a walk on that road to see that moody and pretty sky. Anyway, so this is wrap-up time, so let's peel up the masking tape. Peel the masking tape only when the background has dried completely otherwise you might rip off your paper. Give it enough time to dry and always peel it at an angle. Be very gentle, don't rush. [MUSIC] That's our painting. I hope you all enjoyed it. It's a simple yet a beautiful sunset. Maybe to make it a little more interesting, you can add some birds flying off to their nests. It's a color palette that I would have never tried. I think this challenge is giving me opportunities to explore new colors, which I never tried before or I wasn't really sure whether I will be able to pull it off. It's a fun and exciting challenge for me also. Thanks a lot for joining. I hope you all had a relaxing time. [MUSIC] 9. DAY 4 - Fresh Air: [MUSIC] Next we're going to paint a simple bright blue sky and a paddy field. You can see those beautiful colors I have used too, they look really fresh and vibrant as the really simple painting get a beautiful one. Anyway, I will take you through the colors you will need before we start. As you could see here, I have used a blue color for the sky. Then we have a cloud at the bottom, the white you see there, it's a paper white. We'll be adding some shadow here, other than that, the cloud is your paper white. This is color I'm going to use for the sky, it is certainly in blue from ShinHan. It's a beautiful color to use for the sky. I just love this color. [NOISE] Every time I'm painting a day sky, this is the first color I reach out for and I think you can see that from the condition of my tube itself. That it's a very pretty blue. If you don't have cerulean blue, you can use any other blue for the sky. We just need a medium tone, it could be cobalt blue, Persian blue, Taylor blue, or any other blue, [NOISE] so that was color. The second color is Payne's gray. We just need a lighter tone to add the shadow of the clouds. This one is from Rembrandt and also I'll be using that to add the deeper tones along the horizon line. I'll just take out a bit of Payne's gray. For the shadow of the clouds, I'll be using a really light tone, you can see that here so that is Payne's gray. If you don't have Payne's gray, there's nothing to worry, go with a really light on black to add the clouds, so that's our second color. [NOISE] The next set of colors you will need are greens, you can see those two different tonal values of green at the bottom. The lighter one leaf green. This is again one of my most favorite color from ShinHan. Again, this one also had used quite a lot. This one is leaf green from ShinHan if you don't have leaf green, it is absolutely fine, you can create a similar color by adding a little of sap green into lemon yellow. We just need a light green. Then the next green you see here is a sap green, I'll be using that to add the medium tones. [NOISE] The beauty of this painting is those fresh colors I have used here, so try your best to go with similar colors. I hope you all have sap green, so that's just a matter of creating that leaf green, if you don't have it, you can either add some lemon yellow or any other kind of yellow into sap green to create a similar color. Those are four colors you will need for this painting. Now for the mountain, I'll be using a mix of cerulean blue, and Payne's gray. This one is more or less like indigo, if you have indigo, you can use it as it is. As I already had some Payne's gray and cerulean blue on my palette, it was very easy to create this color. I don't want to take out indigo for that purpose. If you want to use indigo, you can use indigo as it is or you can just mix a little of Payne's gray with any of the blue that you use for the sky to create indigo kind of color so those are the colors you'll need for today's painting. As I said earlier, if you have indigo, you can use that as it is or you can mix and create this color by adding a little of cerulean blue into Payne's gray. Now it's time to give it a try, so I have my paper ready here. First I will start by adding horizon line, which can be a little bit the center of the paper, just add a straight line. Now when you're painting, we'll be adding a mountain above the horizon line but you don't need to add right now, so it's going to be somewhere over here. There is no need to add the sketch, we can add that in your painting. Now, I'm going to squeeze out the colors onto my palette. We already spoke about the colors and as I mentioned, for the sky, I'll be using cerulean blue, you can use any other blue we have got. I'm going to squeeze out a bit of cerulean blue onto my palette. The next color you will need is Payne's gray, which is to add the shadow of the clouds, this is the one I'm going to use and it's from the brand Rembrandt. I will squeeze out that as well. The colors are ready for the sky. Now for the sky, I'm going to use wet on wet technique, which means we need to apply an even coat of water onto the entire sky, and for that, I'm using my one-inch wash brush and picking some clean water and applying that onto the sky. I'm running my brush multiple times just to be sure the coat of water's even. I just need a shiny coat, I don't want pools of water, so this sky's evenly wet. Now we can start applying the paint. For that, I'm using a medium-size round brush, this one is size Number eight round brush. [NOISE] I'm just making sure it is clean add a picking a medium tone of cerulean blue. That's the color I'm going to use. Now for the sky, I'm planning to add one huge cloud somewhere at the bottom. We're just going to leave that white space at the bottom, there we have the cloud and we're going to add the paint onto the entire top part. First, add an outline of the cloud. I'm just going with a random shape like this. I started from the left and it's going to be a little higher on the right, that's just a rough shape. Now, I'm filling up the remaining area on the top using that medium tone of cerulean blue. Just fill it up as a solid wash, there is nothing to worry here, just fill it up. That's the first step, this one is a very simple cloudy sky, even if you haven't painted clouds before, I think this one can be done quite easily. That's the first step. I have applied blue onto that top part, living a shape of the cloud. Now, I'm going to wash the paint from my brush, [NOISE] clean your brush thoroughly, and try to switch to a lighter tone of Payne's gray. Use really light tone, don't pick a lot of paint. Now using this color, I'm going to add some shadows. If you feel your paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel, that seems a bit too dark, so I'm adding some more water, so that's a color we should be using. Now simply add some random shapes at the bottom, so just add that in. Now, dab it between a paper towel and smudge it to make it look a little more softer. Now if you want to add more, you could do that, otherwise, using a clean brush, you can just match it into the background just run a damp brush on top of those patterns to give it a more softer feel. I'm quite happy with the sky, but I think maybe I can drop in a bit more gray, especially onto the right side where we have this bigger cluster. I'm dropping in a bit more gray, my background is still wet. The shadows are not too prominent, so I'm not going to smudge it but there's one last thing that I'm going to do. For that, I'm cleaning my brush, I'm dabbing it on a paper towel. Right now my brush is clean, it doesn't have any paint on it. Now using that brush, I'm just picking some paint along the shape of the cloud just to give them more prominent look. See that my brush is absolutely clean, now I'm just picking some paint to give that cloud a better shape. Earlier the paint was floating down and I didn't had a proper shape for the cloud, now they're looking a lot better. Now there are some paint missing on this corner, I'm just fixing that, and that's it, that's our beautiful, cloudy sky. It's an easy one. Right now, you might not be able to get the real feel of that blue cloudy sky but when we paint the full cloud and we paint those green paddy field, you will see that beautiful contrast and this will look even more beautiful. Now let's take a quick break and leave this for drying. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Oh my God, look at that. You can see how beautiful this guy has turned out and the colors are dry. It is looking a lot more softer than earlier. The only thing I'm not really happy with is this Kano, that I have that bleed, but don't mind. I'm happy with the result. I'm just going to ignore that. Now, the next step is to paint a mountain right above the horizon line, which is below the cloud. I'm going to add that somewhere over here. It's not a huge one. It's going to be in the background, so we'll use a lighter tone. I have some payne's gray and cerulean blue here, so I'm just going to mix them together. This is an easy way to create a color which is similar to indigo. If you have indigo, you can use that color as it is. By mixing cerulean blue and payne's gray, you will get a color which is very similar to indigo. That's what I have created here. Now, I'm adding some water because I need a lighter tone. The mountains in the background, so don't use a darker value. I want to show you the color I have created. See that, it is very much similar to indigo. That's a color I'm going to use for the mountain, but it has to be a little more lighter than this. I'm picking some water, adding that with the color I have created here. Now, let's add in the mountain. Start by defining the shape of the mountain. You see that color, that's what I'm using. Now, fill that mountain. Maybe it can be a little lighter than this. I think this is a bit darker. If you're just starting out with your mountain, make it a little more lighter than this. Now fill it up and add a straight line at the bottom. There are two things you need to be careful about, one is the tonal value. It shouldn't be too dark and it shouldn't be too light as well. If it's too light, you won't get that contrast with the sky. Go with the color which is similar to this or a bit lighter. The second thing is the size of the mountain. Go with a similar height, don't make it too huge. Those are the two things you have to be careful about. Now [MUSIC] let's leave this for drying. That has dried completely. Next we can start painting the paddy field. For that I'm starting now with leaf green. It's a very fresh and tender green. First I will apply an even wash of this color onto the anterior field. Then onto that, introduce some texture and some details. I will add some sap green. Now, just in case if you don't have leaf green, there' s nothing to worry. You can just add a teeny bit of sap green into lemon yellow and you can create a similar color. There is nothing to worry if you don't have leaf green. Now, I'm going to pick my medium-sized round brush. I'm just going to apply a flat wash of this leaf green onto the anterior paddy field. Many brands have similar green, but the name might be different, but that doesn't matter. Just check the color you have got and if it's a lighter green, just use that as it is. Or you can create a similar green by adding a little of sap green into lemon yellow. They have tried the same in the color palette section, so if you have any doubt, you can refer back to that. I'm going to apply an even wash of leaf green onto the anterior paddy field quickly. [MUSIC] That is done. Now I'm going to quickly pick some sap green and I'm going to add that along the bottom part, right about masking tape and I'm blending that into the leaf green. You see that? Go with the medium tone and apply that along the bottom part and make it a smooth blend. Now with the same color, I'm going to add a line, an inclined line. You see that? Our background is still wet, so this way when you apply the paint, it will have a softer and a smoother field. You can see the difference those medium tones made, it is looking a lot realistic right now than earlier. Now, in a similar way, if you want to make it more prominent, you can add some more paint. But you have to do this before the background dries, otherwise, they won't have a softer and a smoother field. If you want to, you can add in some more paint along the bottom or along that inclined line. Now, the same paint, I'm adding few more lines closer to the horizon line. See that, they're much more thinner, not as thick as the previous one. It's a very simple step, but to get the right result, you have to apply the lines before the background dries. Be really quick if you feel like your background is drying. I'm in love with those colors, the fresh blue and the fresh green. It is already looking really beautiful, but there is one more task left. We need to add some more details around the horizon line to make it look complete, but that can be done only while the background has completely dried. [MUSIC] Now it's time to go to the last step, this one has dried completely. For that, I'm choosing my smallest sized round brush. This one is size number 6 hand brush. Now, we're going to add some details along the horizon line using a darker tone of green. To create the darker tone, I'm mixing a little payne's gray with sap green. You can either make some payne's gray or some indigo, we just need a darker tone. Create a darker tone using a smaller size brush, add some teeny tiny details along the horizon line. For this one as well, you should be very careful about the size that you're adding. Don't make it too huge. These are the trees and plants that are far away. In order to get that sense of distance and depth in your painting, it is very important to go with the smaller size. First you can add in a line, then you can add some random shapes on the top. It doesn't need to have any particular shape or anything. Just simply add some teeny tiny shapes using the tip of your brush. You see that. You can see how gorgeous that area is looking when we added those details. In a similar way, we need to add details along the horizon line. At some places maybe you can make it a little higher and at some places you can make it lower. This way it will have a more realistic feel. Quickly add that in. This is the step, but this will be done with our painting. Maybe you can add the horizon line first, just using that darker green, adding a line. Then right above that you can add in those teeny-tiny shapes. You can see here I'm adding the horizon line. Now, write about this, I'm going to add the landscape. I hope the idea is clear, it is pretty simple. You can go with any kind of shape that you prefer, but don't make it too huge, that's the only thing you need to keep in mind. Also go with a darker tone of green. Using any of your smallest size brush or a brush with a blunter tip. Keep adding those tiny random shapes on the top and finish your horizon line. [MUSIC] That is done. Now, using the same brush and the same paint, I'm going to add some more details below the horizon line. We have added these medium tones along the paddy field. Right about that, I'm adding some teeny tiny shapes and I'm just extending this towards the right side. This is just to make our painting a little more interesting. If you don't want to add those, that's totally okay. You can just add those details along the horizon line and call it done. I'm adding a few more. You can see the size, they are really small. When you are adding this, you should have a tiny gap between the horizon line and also these patterns. If there is no gap, don't add it. See that? I have a tiny gap in between. That is the beauty of those details. If you cannot achieve that gap, don't add it. I'm really happy with the way this painting has turned out, especially the colors. The colors are looking really fresh. Even the sky, it was a very simple cloudy sky. I hope you-all enjoyed painting this simple bright blue sky and the paddy field. Now I'm going to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here's our painting. I can't tell you how much I love those colors. They are looking so fresh and vibrant. Thank you so much for joining. If you need to try this, do give it a try and I'm very sure you're going to love it. [MUSIC] 10. DAY 5 - By the Seaside: [MUSIC] Today we're trying another simple beach landscape. Let's have a look at the colors first. As you can see here for the sky, I have these two colors, a blue on the top, and an orange at the bottom. The blue is royal blue, and orange is brilliant orange. We need a medium to lighter tone of watercolors. Then to add the shadows, I'll be using a little of Payne's gray. I will also be using Payne's gray to add the details at the bottom. The darker tone you see here. Along with Payne's gray, you will also need some sap green to finish up the landscape. Those are the colors you will need. Now other swatch out one by one. I will start with royal blue. It's a bright and beautiful blue, especially if you use that and its strongest form without adding a lot of water. Right here, I'm going with a medium tone to a lighter tone, you can see the color on the painting. In this case, you can use any other blue of your choice. It can be Prussian blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, or any other blue. We just need a medium to lighter tone of blue for the sky. That can be any blue, don't worry, if you don't have royal blue That's a color if you start in its strongest form without adding a lot of water. But as you can see here for the painting, we're not using that strong color. It's a really lighter tone that we're using. As I mentioned, it doesn't really matter which blue you are using. The second color you will need is orange. Again, a really lighter tone. You can use a lighter tone of [inaudible] or any other kind of orange. Those are the two colors we'll be using for the sky. This is for the background layer. Now, along with this, we'll also be adding few clouds, which you can see on the right side of the sky. It's really light tone of Payne's gray. For all the skies we did so far, we only did a gradient wash or a blending technique. Today, we are going to add a little of clouds onto it to make it a ledger interesting. It's not a complicated step. I will guide you through, so don't worry about it. Those are the three colors we'll be using for the sky. Now come sap green, which is the color I'll be using for the landscape at the bottom. We'll be turning back into olive green by mixing some orange. Now the color you see for the sea here, is actually a mix of sap green and royal blue. You'll get a beautiful turquoise color when mixing sap green and any blue. See that, that's a color I'll be using for the sea. If you want to use turquoise blue as it is, you could do that or you can just mix any blue that I'm using for the sky with a little of sap green to create a similar color. The idea is, using very limited colors, not squeezing out a lot of colors on your palette, and confusing yourself. For this painting here, we are only using four colors technically, but we'll be mixing sap green and royal blue to create that beautiful blue you see at the bottom, and we'll also be mixing some sap green with orange to create that pretty olive green. Take out any blue, any orange, it can be lena or scarlet or any other orange, then some Payne's gray and also some sap green. Those are the only four colors you will need. Now let's give it a try. I have my paper and a clean palette. I have all the colors ready, the brushes and two jars of clean water. Now, I'm going to start by adding this case, which is just some simple lines. First, we need to add a horizon line, then we need to add those small mountains. Then we need to show that landscape at the bottom, which is just an irregular line. That's my horizon line. Now I'm going to add irregular line. By adding this line, we are going to separate the sea as well as the landscape. The area you see in-between the horizon line, and the line we added right now it's a sea Now we need to add some small mountains along the horizon line, which is not really necessary. You can add them when we're painting. But if you want to add them, you can go ahead and add them in. We want to give a feel that these mountains are really far, so go the similar size if you're adding the sketch. That's a sketch. Now I'm going to squeeze out the colors. For the sky, I will need two colors for the base layer, which can be any blue and any orange. We just need a medium to lighter tone of those two colors. First, I'm going to squeeze out some royal blue. Now I will squeeze out some brilliant orange. Again, it can be any blue and any orange, because the colors that I'm using here are not really common. It doesn't comes in the basic watercolor sets. The old beginner artist me. If I hear these color names, I might panic and I might not even attempt that painting, hearing those fancy names for the colors. That's something I wanted to make you clear. You can use any orange and any blue, we are just using a medium tone. It doesn't really matter which blue and orange you're using. their reason is going to be almost the same. Now the next color you will need is Payne's gray. Different brands have different names for their colors, for example, Brilliant oranges, cadmium oranges, and some other brands. Anyway, let's start our journey. To apply a coat of water onto the sky, I'm using a one-inch wash brush. You're trying a simple wet on wet sky. Pick some water with any of your clean brush and apply that evenly onto the entire sky, add that along the horizon line. Just make it even by running your brush multiple times. My sky is evenly wet. Now we can start applying the paint. The base layer is a blend of blue and orange, a lighter tone, and to apply that colors, I'm using my flat brush. First, I'm picking a medium tone of blue. It's not too dark and too too light as well. Start with a medium tone, then as you're reaching the center of the paper, I mean center of the sky, you can make it lighter. You see the color? It is quite similar to Prussian blue. I will apply a bit more paint, then I will make it lighter. Whenever you're painting a clean blend, always try to run your brush in horizontal direction. Don't mix up different brush moments. This might leave some brush marks in your sky, and you won't be able to get that clean, beautiful blend. Now I'm cleaning my brush. Using some clean water, I'm making the rest of the area lighter. Just gently run your brush back and forth in a horizontal direction. That's the first color. Now I'm cleaning my brush again, just to be sure there's no blue paint on it. Now I'm picking a lighter tone of orange. I'm adding that along the horizon line. We just need a lighter tone. See the color? That's tonal value I'm going with. Know where these two colors are meeting. Try to make it a clean blend. That's a base layer. Now I'm going to keep this brush aside. I'm switching to a smaller round brush. Just make sure that's clean. I think this one had some yellow paint on it. Now I'm picking a lighter tone of Payne's gray, or really lighter tone. The tonal values something has to be really careful about. We just need a lighter tone and shouldn't be too watery as well. Once you have taken the paint, you can dab it on a paper towel to be sure it is not too watery. You can keep adding some small clouds. See that? Keep adding them until you're happy with the result. I'm not planning to add a lot. I don't want to make the sky look too dramatic, so I'm just adding a few lines towards the right side using a lighter tone of Payne's gray. If use a darker tone, they'll be too prominent, and the sky will start to look a bit dramatic. Depending on the sky you want, you can choose to go to a darker tone, or a lighter tone like this. I want a soft and simple sky, that's why I'm using a lighter tone. That's my sky. I'm pretty happy with it. It looks really soft and simple, just the way how I wanted it to be. Now let's leave it for drying. [MUSIC] The sky looks even more simple and soft right now when the colors dried. Anyway, our next step is to paint the sea. For what I wanted turquoise kind of a color, and to [inaudible] color, I'm going to mix sap green with royal blue. You can make sap green with any of the blue that you use for the sky. It doesn't need to be royal blue, Persian blue, or any other blue. By mixing sap green with any blue, you will create a beautiful greenish blue. That is exactly what we're going to do right now. Just don't worry if your blue is different from mine. [NOISE] Now I'm picking a little of blue, and let love sap green as well, and I'm mixing them together. I'm adding some more blue because the color is really greenish. That looks nice. Let's factor out this color on a scrap piece of paper so you will have a better idea. Here is the color that I created. Such a beautiful color. Now to the same mix, if you add more blue, the color will look slightly different. See that? This one has more blue in it. Now we need a lighter tone of this. This one looks a bit brighter. I'm adding two drops of water. Let's add that color onto the entire scene. Add it along the horizon line, and simply fill up that entire area in a solid wash. Maybe we can make it a bit more lighter. Now I'm just filling that entire area. This color is a mix of sap green and royal blue. As I mentioned earlier, you can mix any blue with sap green to create a similar shade. Now fill it up and leave for drying. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] That has dried. Now our next step is to add in some texture onto the sea. Right now, it looks quite flat and plane. I'm using the same color that I created earlier and I'm adding some teeny tiny lines onto the entire sea. They are not too bold and they're not too prominent as well. See that? Add a thin line using a medium tone of the color we used earlier. Now simply add them in and fill up the entire scene. This one is a very simple task, but might be a bit time-consuming. If you want to take a break in-between, feel free to do that. You can see the way how I'm adding them, but it's nothing to worry here. You simply need to keep on adding that short thin lines. See that? Keep adding them. This is just a created texture, otherwise the sea will look quite blank and lifeless. Keep adding them until you feel like [MUSIC] it has got a texture. Now closer to the horizon line, I'm adding a few more using a slightly darker tone, not too dark. It is, again a medium tone, you can see the color. That's the tonal value you should be using because we're going to add a mountain along the horizon line right about these areas. When we add those lines using a slightly brighter tone, it will look like the reflection, so we don't need to go ahead and add the reflection later. Just add few more lines and with that, we are done. That is done. Now using the same color, I'm going to add the mountains, which is far away. We don't need a darker tone. Maybe you can add in a little of blue or we can use the same color as it is. Now let's add in the mountains. I'm planning to add one at the center and two longer mountains on either side. You can add them how you want to, but the only thing you need to keep in mind is the size and the tonal value. Don't make it too huge, go with a similar size, and also a similar tonal value. That's the one on the left side. Now, I'm going to add another one at the center, a smaller one. After this, I will add one more towards right side. [MUSIC] Let's do it [MUSIC] That is done. Now the only task left is to paint the landscape at the bottom for which I'm going to use the olive green color towards the bottom. Then onto the top, I will use Payne's Gray. I already have some orange on my palette and some sap green as well. If you don't want to use olive green, you can use sap green as it is, but for me, I thought it's nice to bring in that muted green to the painting rather than using a bright green. You see my size number 8 round brush. I'm mixing orange and green together to create olive green. You can see it's a more earthy green. Now using that green, I'm going to fill up the bottom part. Then as I go towards the top, I will use some sap green, as well as Payne's Gray to introduce some darker tones. It's a beautiful earthy green, depending on the amount of orange that you're adding, the color will look slightly different, but that's totally okay. Now towards the top, I'm going to introduce some sap green, just to give it some freshness. For this step, you can use a medium brush or a bigger brush so that I can apply the paint onto a larger area quite quickly. When you use a smaller brush, you will have to run your brush multiple times and that might leave some brush marks. Anyways, now I'm going to introduce the darker tone. I'm picking some sap green mixing that with Payne's Gray and I'm adding that towards the the top. Just add some teeny tiny shapes on the top and fill up the remaining area. We only have a little area left. Keep adding some tiny patterns like this using the tip of your brush and fill it up and blend that with the green. See that? Now in a similar way, we need to finish this entire line. The color that I'm using right now as a mix of Payne's Gray and sap green. I just created a darker green and I'm adding that onto this area we have on the top. The first step is to add those different tonal values of green onto the background. Now you can pick up some olive green that you created earlier. What we need to do is, we need to simply keep on pushing and pulling the paint into each other to create some texture here. See that? Just drag your brush from top to bottom and add in some random patterns. While the background is too wet, don't wait for a lot of time. This doesn't need to look super clean and evenly planted. You can keep adding your paint onto that wet background before it dries so that it won't be too prominent. It will just spread into the background leaving some soft mark. Keep adding your paint and create some random patterns like this. Now I'm adding some grassy lines from the bottom towards the top. My background is still wet, so this won't be too prominent. Keep adding those long curvy lines using that medium tone until you feel like you have got a grassy texture. Mine is starting to dry, so I'm just going to call it done. Now in-between in case if your background is starting to dry, you can just apply a little more olive green towards the bottom and just one more layer of paint to make the background wet. Then you can keep adding those darker tones again. If your background is starting to dry, there is nothing to worry. You can apply another layer and repeat the same step. We're actually done with our painting, but there is one last thing I would like to do. I feel like those mountains we added earlier, they are looking really dull. Into the same color, I'm adding some blue blue and I'm going to add another layer on top of it to make it a little more prominent. This one is really optional. If your mountains are looking quite prominent already, you can just skip the step. For me, I felt like it is good to add another layer. Everyone's perception is different. You might not feel that way, you might be happy with the result already. In that case, don't touch it, just call it down and fill up the [inaudible] and enjoy your painting. For me, for some reason, I felt it can be a bit more brighter. I might be wrong, maybe you like lighter colors or maybe you already used a brighter color like this. Just look at your painting and decide accordingly. That's it. Here is our painting for day 5. There are some color combinations and some subjects which gives you a feel that you have just come back from a vacation. I think this painting is such a kind. By looking at the painting, I can really feel that fresh air and the calming sound waves. I really enjoyed painting this, I hope you all did too. Here is our painting, a relaxing day by the beach. Look at that, such a beautiful color palette. [MUSIC] I really like the sky, especially the colors we have used and also that olive green color we created. That also turned out pretty nice. Anyway, that's a beautiful color combination and a beautiful painting too. I hope you all liked it and I hope you all had a relaxing time. 11. DAY 6 - Rocky Mountains: [MUSIC] Our next project is a simple summer sky and gorgeous rocky mountains. I really like the color palette for this one, especially that blue sky against those rocky mountain. Anyway, before we start, let me show you the colors I'm going to use. For the sky, I'm going to use cerulean blue. I'm very sure some of you might have guessed it already. It's a beautiful blue. I'll be starting with a medium tone at the top, then towards the bottom, I'll be just adding some lines. We just need a blue. It can be any blue we have got. It could be Prussian blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, or any other blue. That's the color we'll be using for the sky. The next set of colors you will need is the brown and oranges, which you can see from the painting itself. For the crown part, I'll be using yellow ocher mostly, for the base layer. I hope you-all have yellow ocher. If you don't have yellow ocher, you can just add a little of brown or brown sienna into any of the yellow, and you can create a slightly earthy yellow. That is second color. Then you will need a little of orange. I'll be using orange as the base layer for the mountains, then a little for the ground as well. This one I'm using here is brilliant orange. You can use any orange you have got. I was too lazy to squeeze out more paint. That's the color. If you don't have orange, you can use vermilion. [NOISE] Now next two colors you will need is brown, as well as Payne's gray. I'll be using brown for the medium tones. If you don't have brown, go with brown sienna. Finally, we have Payne's gray, which is a color I'll be using to add the deeper tones, and finally tilts. If you don't have Payne's gray, you know the color to use, you can use black. That's summarized the colors you will need for this quick and easy summer day painting. This is a yellow ocher I'm using, it's is from Shanghai. Now, I think the rest of the colors, you know already. This one is brilliant orange. Again, from Shanghai, then I have brown from Art Philosophy, this one is permanent brown. Finally, Payne's gray from Rembrandt. Those are the colors. As I said earlier, you can go with any other blue for the sky. Then instead of brilliant orange, you can use vermilion or any other orange. Then again instead of brown, you can use brown sienna. Quickly go get your colors ready and let's start. First of all, start by adding the sketch. I already have my paper. I'm adding the horizon line a little below the center of the paper. The majority of the painting is going to be the sky and we have a little crown, and then two rocky mountains towards right side. On the left side, I have left some space and I'm adding them towards the right. But if you prefer adding them on the left, that is totally your choice. Those things doesn't really matter. Now I'm adding another one closer to the side. You can modify the shape if you want to. That's the shape I'm going with. I'm happy with this one, but I think I can make the other one a little taller. If you're not really happy with the shape of your mountains, you can tweak them and we are painting. For now, just add in a basic shape. We just want to indicate the locations. The sketch is ready. Now we'll be adding some deeper tones along these lines, and we're painting. Over here, we'll be using more of yellow ocher. That's the sketch. Now for the sky, I'm going to use cerulean blue, as I mentioned earlier. If you have been watching my classes, you will know my love for cerulean blue. But if you don't have cerulean blue, that is totally okay. You can use any other blue you have got. We just need a letter. I have to garner the paint. Now we're going to go for a baton wet sky, which means you will have to wet your paper. For that, I'm picking my wash brush. I'm applying a clean cooler water onto the anterior sky. You don't need to leave the mountain. You can apply your water on top of that as well. Pick any of your clean brush and dip your brushes on clean water and apply an even colder water onto the anterior sky. We don't want pools of water, we just need a shiny coat. Let me brush multiple times just to be sure there is no pools of water. My sky is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to use a round brush. I'm using my size Number 8 brush. You can use any of your bigger sized brush or a medium-size brush. Size Number 8 or size Number 10 is perfect. Now I'm picking a medium tone of cerulean blue. It's a beautiful blue to use for the skies, especially those summer day skies. Now, I'm going to apply that on the top of my sky. See that, such a beautiful color. Now I'm applying this medium tone only on the top. As I'm coming down, I'm cleaning my brush and I'm making it lighter using some clean water. Now, while I'm making the color lighter, along with that, I'm also adding some lines on the sky just to give it an interesting look. If you want to pick some paint, you could do that as well. Pick a little of paint, add in some brighter lines to that. You can see how interesting the sky is starting to look. Now I'm adding some more lines at the bottom closer to the mountain. This is just a modification of the gradient technique. I started with a medium tone, then I made the color lighter. As I'm coming down using the same paint, I added some lines on the sky just to give it an interesting feel. Now towards this corner, I'm adding some blue. That's it. That's our sky. That's the basic idea. Start with a medium tone, then make your color lighter as you're coming down. Along with that, you can add some line also using that lighter tone of blue to make your sky look more interesting. Now, in case if you add any paint onto the mountain, that is totally okay. Mostly, we'll be using medium tones and darker tones for the mountain. Even if you add any paint, it won't show up. There is nothing to worry about that. Now, I'm just pushing and pulling the color and I'm adding few more lines on this side. It's a simple technique and you can create a beautiful sky using this technique. The technique that we used here is actually the gradient wash. But along with making the color lighter, we simply added some lines onto the sky just to give it an interesting feel. You can see how gorgeous this area has turned out. I'm really liking the sky and the color is also really beautiful. The beauty of the sky is those white spaces in-between. If you're happy with the sky, never go over again. Just leave it for drying. What you have is the result. Give it a try. Maybe you can try it on a scrap piece of paper if you're not confident. If you're not getting it right, there's nothing to worry. Just go for a simple gradient wash and that will also be equally beautiful. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely and I cannot tell you how much I like this color. It actually turned out much beautiful than I expected. Anyway, our next task is to paint the ground, and after that we can paint the mountains. First, I'm going to squeeze out the colors. I will need some orange. The orange I'm using is brilliant orange. You can use vomelian instead. We'll be using this color mostly for the mountain. For the ground, I'll be using a little just to add some texture. Then you will need yellow ocher, which is going to be the major color that we're going to use for the ground. Along with the yellow ocher and orange, you will also need some brown or brown sienna, and a little of Payne's gray to add the medium tones as well as the texture. I already have brown and Payne's gray on my palette. Keep your colors ready. Now the first step is to apply a flat wash of yellow ocher onto the entire area. Just apply that onto that entire ground. You can use any of your medium-size brush or a bigger size brush. Apply that as an even layer. Now onto this wet layer, I'm going to introduce some texture by adding some brown and some orange. First, apply a flat wash of yellow ocher onto the anterior ground. Then you can switch to brown ceaner or brown. Pick a little of that, go with a medium tone and simply apply that towards the bottom of the ground. It doesn't need to be perfect, it doesn't need to be a clean blend. Just keep adding those texture. Now let's keep adding more and more textures to make it look more interesting. I'm picking a slightly darker tone and I'm adding some more random patterns towards the right side. The left side, I'm leaving as it is. I want some lighter tones on the left side. Now, I'm just matching that into the background. This type doesn't have a rule or any particular order. You can keep adding those textures as if you like. Add my sienna brown towards the bottom. I feel like making this area more darker and [inaudible]. Now, using the same brush, I'm just merging them into the background. All I want is the same textures. Otherwise, it won't look like round. Now picking some orange, and in a similar way, I'm adding some patterns onto the ground. The only thing you need to be careful here is to add those patterns while your background is still wet. Otherwise they will look to prominent. We don't want them to be prominent. That's why we're adding them on a wet background. Now, I'm going to introduce a little of darker tint as well. I'm picking a little of Payne's gray. Mixing that with brown, and I'm adding few deeper tones towards this bottom corner. If you're already happy with the result, you can just leave it as it is. You don't need to add in more texture. I just felt like adding some deeper tones onto this corner. Just a little only on this right corner. That's it. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to clean my brush, and I'm going to dab that on a paper towel. It's a clean damp brush. Now I'm smudging all those patterns that have applied here. Just keep running your damp brush on top of those patterns. Don't put a lot of pressure. Be very gentle. This will smoothen out all those patterns. See that? Keep repeating the same steps until you're happy with your background. When you're done, leave the background for drying. [MUSIC]. [MUSIC] The ground has dried. Next, I'm going to paint the mountains forward jump starting with orange. As I mentioned at the beginning, if you don't have any orange, you can use Vermoline. Now, apply a medium tone of that onto the anterior mountain. You can follow the shape we have added there and also if you want to modify the shape, you could do that right now. Go for an interesting shape and fill that anterior shape and orange, a medium tone. Don't make it too dark and don't make it too light as well. Go with a similar tonal value and fill it up. Now onto this wet background, I'm going to apply some textures for Bhuj am using some brown, if you have brown, you can use brown or you can use burnt sienna. I'm going to take out some more paint. Now let's quickly add in some medium tone so while at the back on the silhouette, pick a medium tone on your brush and just keep adding some random lines and some patterns, from the top towards the bottom, just drag your brush and add in some rough patterns like this. Similarly, you can add them from the bottom and go towards the top. Don't fill up that entire orange. We need to see that orange color also in between. We'll just add some brown texture from the top and also from the bottom. Now in a similar way, I'm going to paint the other one. This is just the base layer. We'll be adding more deeper tones onto that. I'm picking some orange again and I'm filling the other mountain and orange. Go to medium tone and follow the shape you have added [MUSIC] and fill it up. Now I'm picking some brown, a medium tone, and I'm just adding some lines onto the surface from the top and also from the bottom. See that? Just keep adding some lines from the bottom to the top and from the top towards the bottom and you can see how beautiful it is looking already. I think we can add a little more on this font using a slightly darker tone. The background is still wet, so I'm just making yourself the time and I'm adding few more patterns. We're just trying to create some texture here, and for the same reason, there is no need to put a lot of effort. Just keep adding those medium tones onto the wet background and just leave it for trying. There is no need to blend it or ****** it. Just leave it as it is. [MUSIC] Let it dry. [MUSIC] The background has dried completely. It already looks quite nice, but to make it extra beautiful, we're going to add in some texture. For that, we will need a darker tone of brown and I'm using my size number 6 round brush here. I'm mixing some brown with Payne's gray to create a darker tone. Using that color, I'm going to add some lines. These ones are going to be much more prominent because the background has dried right now. Earlier the background was completely wet when we add those patterns. Now if you look at the shape of a mountain, you can see these little drops. Onto those areas, I'm adding a deeper tone. Choose any of your medium-size brush or a smallest size brush and pick a darker tone of brown on your brush and add some lines onto those oranges. Similarly, onto the next one, asphalt, I'm going to add some deeper tones. From this part. I'm adding a darker line towards the bottom and also towards the other side as well so just add some irregular lines from the top towards the bottom. Now we can add another one here. Just defining the shape of the mountain by adding those deeper tones. Now you can see they're looking very prominent. There's a trick to make them look more soft and septum. Once you have added your deeper tones, we will take out another brush. This one is my size number 8 round brush and I'm picking a little of orange. Very little, and on that paint and smudging those patterns, see that they are looking much more soft and subdued right now. Just gently submerge it into the background. That's how we're going to be the mountain. It's a very simple step. First, you need to add those darker tones along those ridges and that caps and pick up another brush, and smudge those patterns. Now in a similar way, I'm going to add some deeper tones onto the other mountain as well. You can add in as many deeper tones as you want. But try to read in that orange color we have in between. Don't fill up that entire background. We need to see some lighter tones and medium tones and darker tones. This all those different tonal values which will make your model look more realistic and more beautiful. Try to retain a lot of orange color in between. Now, let's add some deeper tones onto other mountain. Onto all those ridges, I'm adding the deeper tones. It is just some lines that I'm adding from the top towards the bottom. It doesn't need to be a perfectly shaped line. It can be a little thicker at some places and thinner at some places. Just type them in a very random way so I'm adding another thick line here and maybe another one. See that? That's how I have added the deeper tones. Now using a damp brush, I'm just matching it. I'm not putting a lot of pressure and gently smashing them to give it a little smarter feel. This practice doesn't have any pain. It is just lightly turned. This magic task is not really necessary only if you want to give it a more smoother look, you could do that. Otherwise, you can just leave it as it is. Now in a similar way, I'm adding few deeper tones towards the bottom. I'm not adding a lot. I just need some patterns at the bottom. See that? Those are our mountains. I think they're looking quite nice. If you feel like there's a need to add more darker tones, you could do that. Otherwise, I think we're in a good shape. We don't need to add any more patterns. Everything actually come down to your perception. Take a look at your painting and if you feel like you need to add more patterns, you could do that. Otherwise, you can just call it done. You don't need to add more details just because I'm doing it. Now there's one last thing I want to do, which is adding some try patterns on the ground. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to remove the excess amount of water. I want a dry paint. I'm just adding some little patterns here and there in a very random way. We're just trying to create some more texture on the ground so we don't need a lot, just add in few here and there, and also be sure to use a dry paint. You can simply dab your brush on a paper towel and you can easily turn your brush into a dry brush and let that dry brush keep adding some type patterns and that's it. We are done with our painting. The most interesting part of this painting is those mountains. You can see how beautiful they have turned out. Those deeper tones we added really made it a friend's. It made the mountain really prominent and realistic and the blue sky is really looking good against those brown mountains. Honestly, I feel this one has turned out really beautiful. I really liked this part of the sky where we had those white lines in between. I think the simply a clear sky, which you can use in your future paintings too. Anyway, now it's time to peel off the masking tape and [MUSIC] have a look at the [inaudible] painting and here is it. I'm very much happy with the way it just turned out. I hope you guys enjoyed it too. If you haven't tried it yet, do give it a try and I'm very sure you're going to allow the simple summary painting. [MUSIC] 12. DAY 7 - Lighthouse: Our next project is a simple lighthouse by the seaside. It's a simple, clean, and a very relaxing painting. There is no complicated techniques, and there isn't a lot of details. Still, it's a gorgeous painting. That's what I think. Anyway, let me take you through the colors you will need. For the sky as well as for the sea, I'm using the same color, which is indigo. [NOISE] I do want a pleasant blue for the sky, that's the reason why I'm using indigo. But you can use cobalt blue or Prussian blue or any other blue of your choice if you want a more brighter result. That's the first color, indigo. The one I'm using is from Sennelier. [NOISE] Now the next color you will need is brown. You can either use brown or burnt sienna. First, we'll be applying a solid wash of brown onto your rocks. Then onto that to create some texture, I will be applying some Payne's gray. Obviously, Payne's gray is our next color. [NOISE] If you don't have Payne's gray, just use black. We're just trying to add some deeper tones and some textures. That is Payne's gray from Rembrandt. Now, we need one color. I have this red color for the lighthouse, which is pyrrole red. This is the one. The entire painting is a little dull and simple, so I thought of introducing a striking color onto that lighthouse. You can either use any kind of red or crimson or vermilion. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. As I said earlier, you can go for any other blue of your choice for the sky. It doesn't need to be indigo. Then you will need brown or burnt sienna, then black or Payne's gray, and some sort of red or crimson or orange. You will just need four colors for today's painting. Now it's time to give it a try. For today's painting, we need to add a pencil sketch. It's a simple one. There is nothing complicated here. First, we need to start by adding horizon line, which is a straight line a little below the center of the paper. Now we need to add the rocks. On the right side, I'm making it a bit higher and towards the left, I'm making it lower. The space you see in-between is a sea. Now the next thing we need to add is a lighthouse, which I'm planning to add on the right side. For now, you just need to add that simple shape of the rock. We can add the deeper tones and textures while we are painting. For now, simply add a shape like this. Now, we can add the lighthouse. I'm adding an inclined line towards either side. Now adding another straight line on the top. That's the basic shape of the lighthouse. Now on the top, I'm adding that roof structure, which is a triangular shape. Now, we can add some divisions onto this. I'm adding five divisions. Depending on the length, you can add five or six divisions. We'll be using red and white alternately. That's a basic sketch. Now we can add those openings onto the alternate ones. The ones where I have added the door, I'm planning to go for white, and for the other ones, I think I will use red. That's the sketch. I have all the colors ready here. Now I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the entire sky. [NOISE] Using my one-inch wash brush, apply a clean coat of water. Whichever be the color that you're using for the sky whether it's cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, Prussian blue, or any other blue just keep it ready before you apply water onto the sky. You can add water on top of the lighthouse. You don't need to leave it. I have applied a clean even coat of water onto the entire sky. Now to apply the paint, I'm using my size number 8 round brush. Go for any of your medium too because I have a round brush. It can be size number 8 or 6 or 10. I don't have enough paint. I need to squeeze out some more indigo onto my palette. Now, I'm starting off with a medium tone, and I will apply that on the top of my sky. As I'm coming down, I will make it lighter. This sky is very much similar to the one we tried in the previous painting. For their [inaudible], we use the same technique. We started out with a medium tone. Now, I'm adding some lines onto the wet background using a lighter tone. Towards the bottom, try to go with a similar tonal value. Don't make it too dark. Just start with a medium tone. Then onto the rest of the area, simply add some lines using a lighter tone. That's our sky. [MUSIC] Now, we can leave this for drying. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely and this is how it has turned out. I'm very much happy with it. It's a simple technique, but because of those white spaces in between, the sky will have a very beautiful effect. Anyway, next, our task is to paint the sea for which again, I'm starting off with indigo. First, I will apply a medium tone of indigo onto the entire sea, and then with the horizon line, try to draw a straight line. We're not going to add any mountain or any other details over here, so try to go for a straight line. Now following the outline of the rock, fill up indigo onto the entire sea. That's a first step. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry before we add the next details. But meanwhile, we can paint the lighthouse, the base layer, for which again, I'm using indigo. I already have some indigo on my brush. But we don't need a medium tone, we need a lighter tone. If it's a medium tone, pick some water and make it lighter, and add that along the left side of the lighthouse. First, add in a line. See that? Now clean your brush and make it lighter towards the right side. [NOISE] Just make it lighter towards the right. For the lighthouse, we are trying to use a classic color combination red and white. That's the reason why I told you to make the sky lighter over this area. Otherwise, you won't be able to create that white color effect for the lighthouse. That's it. Now we can leave this for drying. [MUSIC] That is dried. Now, we're going to add the details onto the lighthouse as the last one to the sea. I will start with the sea. For that, I'm picking a medium tone of indigo. Using that color, I'm going to simply add some lines onto the entire sea. We tried the same technique in one of our previous painting. Simply add some tiny lines onto the entire sea to create some texture. There are two things you need to keep in mind; one is the tonal value. Don't use a darker tone to add these lines. Go for a medium tone, which is slightly darker than the color you have used for the background. The second thing is the thickness of these lines. Make them as thin and delicate as possible. Don't make it too bold. You can use a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip so that you will get those thin and delicate lines. Now quickly fill up that entire area. [MUSIC] So that is done, you can see we have got some texture there. Now let that dry. Meanwhile we can start adding the remaining details onto the lighthouse. For that, you will need some red or crimson or vermilion, any color of your choice. This is the one I'm going to use, it is partial red. We don't need a lot, we just need a tiny bit. So squeeze out some paint onto your palette. So pick the color you want to use, and which will be the color that you'll see? Go with that intense shade, don't add a lot of water. We want the lightest to be really bright and prominent, and also make sure the base layer has dried. Now onto the alternate sections, we're going to add red. So the first one is white, the second one is red. Follow that outline and add in the paint. Maybe you can use the smaller size brush for this so that it can carefully apply the paint. The shape is really important. So I've simply applied red onto that section. Now using the same brush, I'm going to pick some brown. And I'm going to add that towards the left side, see that? So start with red or crimson or vermilion, then onto the left, add in some deeper tones. Right now I'm using brown. Again, onto the same side, I'm adding some Payne's gray as well, it's mix of brown and Payne's gray. It's more like a darker tone. So simply I have a darker tone onto the left side. Now using the same brush, I'm going to add a deeper tone first. So I'm adding that towards the left side of the next section. Once I'm done adding the deeper tone, I will wash my brush and I will switch to the right, then I will fill up the remaining area. So you can either go with this method or you can first add red first, then you can add in your deeper tones. I went in the other way because I had that leftover paint on my brush. So the basic idea is having some deeper tones on the left side, you can follow any method that you like. So the deeper tone that I have used here is a darker tone of brown. I have mixed a little of Payne's gray and brown to create a darker tone. I can mix Payne's gray directly with your red, whether it's crimson or vermilion, you can just create a deeper tone and add that onto the left side. So that's our lighthouse. Next, I'm going to start painting the rocks for which I'm going to use my medium-sized round brush. Use a medium-size brush or a bigger size brush, don't use a smaller brush. Now pick a medium tone of brown or burnt sienna. This is the one I'm using, it is permanent brown from Art Philosophy. Now create a medium tone of brown or burnt sienna, which will be the color you have with you, and fill up that medium tone onto the entire bottom section. So we have created an outline there. For that outline and adding a medium tone of brown or burnt sienna and fill up that entire area. It's just a solid wash. So simply fill that up. If you're using a bigger brush or a medium-size brush, you'll be able to apply paint onto that entire area quite quickly. If you see a smaller brush, it might take a bit of time and by the time you have finished adding the paint, the area you started first might have dried. That's the main reason why it's a great idea to use a bigger brush to apply paint onto the background. Anyway, that's our background. Now using the same brush, I'm creating a darker tone of brown. I'll make some Payne's gray with brown. Using that, I'm going to drop in some deeper tone onto this wet background. I think I might need to take some more brown. If you're using burnt sienna, just mix a little of Payne's gray with burnt sienna and create a darker tone. Or you can use burnt umber directly. But just to create a little interesting feature, I divided that rock into two sections. Now I'm adding deeper tones on the top section, then we have a lighthouse. This doesn't need to have any particular shape or any particular size. Just keep on dropping that wet paint onto the wet background before the backroom dries. Now I'm adding few onto the bottom. This is a very easy technique, you just need to keep on dropping that deeper tone before the background dries. That's the only thing we need to keep in mind. So keep adding that however you want to. When you adding those deeper tones, try to leave some gaps in between. Now I'm adding some at the bottom. You can see how carelessly I'm adding that. You don't need to put a lot of effort here. Just simply adding new deeper tone. We're only trying to create some texture here. We just need to see some brown and some deeper tone and all those different tonal values. That's only thing. So try not to cover up the anterior area, leave some gap in-between so that we have different tonal values. Now I'm adding a little onto that area where we have a lighthouse and maybe I can drop in some onto this corner as well. That's it. So this one doesn't have any particular rule or any particular order or any particular shape. You can just drop in those deeper tone onto the wet background until you're happy with the result. I think I can already see those textures here. I'm happy with the results, but I think I can add some more deeper tones towards the bottom. But my background has started to dry, it is not wet. So I think I will just stop this task, and if we have got enough textures, this is how it is looking right now. Next, we're going to smudge these patterns. I've cleaned my brush and I'm picking a medium tone of brown again. Now I'm dabbing that on a paper towel. So it is just slightly done and using that brush and smudging the paint, I'm just pushing and pulling the paint into each other to give those textures a little more smoother look. Keep smudging those paint and the simple trick will make those textures really beautiful. So no matter how we have applied paint, once you smudge it, it will have a lovely effect. See that? Now I'm taking a little darker tone of brown, just a little and I want to add that deeper tone onto this section here, where we're separating the top and the bottom. Just a little, it is just some dry patterns. It is only to differentiate there are two sections. You don't need to add a lot of darker tone, just add a little by you're separating them. So that's the rock, now there's only one task left, for which I'm taking my smaller size brush. Now we need to add the final details of the lighthouse. We need to add the roof structure for which you will need a smaller size brush or a brush with a pointed tip. Pick some Payne's gray or a darker tone of brown. First I'm going to add the roof structure, which is just a triangular shape. We already have a sketch there so simply take a darker tone of brown or Payne's gray on any of your smaller brush and fill that small triangle. Fill that up. Now we need to add two vertical lines on either side. Now a horizontal line and another one at the bottom. Now we can fill this area and some smaller vertical lines. These are the handrails. Now I'm adding another horizontal line. Now some vertical lines on the top and I'm adding some thickness on either side. Finally, we need to add the openings, one, two, and the last one. So that's our lighthouse. It's a pretty simple lighthouse. I haven't added a lot of details. So that's all painting for the day. I'm really happy with the rocks and the lighthouse. I think the color combination is really looking nice, especially the color of the sea and the rock and that simple lighthouse and the process was absolutely simple too. I hope you all enjoyed it. [MUSIC] Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. Here is our painting for the day. I absolutely loved it, especially the texture of the rock. It's simple trick, you just need to smudge the paint and create those curly textures. Even the lighthouse, it's a classical accomplishing. I hope you all liked it, and I hope you all had a relaxing time. 13. DAY 8 - Calm Sea: [MUSIC] Hello dear friends. Welcome to day 8. Today's painting is a soft, simple, and a beautiful beach. Let's start by looking at the colors you will need. For the sky, I will be using two colors. Major part of the sky is going to be indigo and towards horizon line I will use one love rose. With the indigo, I'm going to use this from Sennelier. If you don't have indigo, you can use Prussian blue. Then this is the rose I'm using. It is permanent rose from Shannon. Those are the first two colors you will need indigo and permanent rose. You can go with Prussian blue and permanent Rose or any other color combination of your choice. I don't want a very bright and pleasant color for the sky, that's the reason why I'm using indigo so that's our first color. Once again, color, as I mentioned, is permanent rose. I only have a little color on my palette. Will just need a little. We'll be adding that only towards the horizon line that are very light tone. Those are the two colors you will need for the sky. The next two colors you will need is burnt sienna and payne's gray. I'll be using a mix of these two colors for the sand so that one is burnt sienna. Then you will need payne's gray. The burnt sienna I'm using here is from [inaudible] The final color is payne's gray. You can see those rocky mountains for the base color, I'll be using a medium tone. Then to add some details and texture, I'll be using a darker tone. As I said earlier, I'll be using a mix of burnt sienna and payne's gray for the sand. It is just a mix of these two colors, I have a little here. Let me show you so that's a color. Just add a little of burnt sienna or brown into payne's gray and create a moody brown. Or you can use burnt umber as it is. This color is very much similar to burnt umber so that our final color as you're painting a beach to add the waves and the texture on the sea, we will need some white. It can be white watercolor or white gouache. I'm using white watercolor. If you have gouache, you can use that because it is more opaque. Those are the colors you will need. If you don't have permanent rose, you can use crimson or any other rose. If you don't have integral, you can use Prussian blue. Now, I'm going to start by adding the sketch. First ever need to add the horizon line. After you add the horizon line, we need to add a wave. This is to separate the sea and the sand. Simply add a wavy line we can modify the shape later. For now, simply add a line like this. Now we need to add those huge rocks far away. Go with a medium to smaller size, don't make it too big. That's the first one. Now I'm adding another one. You can add as many as you want and try to cover different shapes for them. This will make your painting look more interesting. I'm adding another one towards the right side and that's it. I'm going to take out the colors onto my palette. I will need indigo as well as permanent rose for the sky. If you don't have permanent Rose that has nothing to worry, just go with crimson. I have the colors ready. For the sky, I'm going to use water mark technique, which means you need to apply a clean coat of water onto the entire sky. For that, I'm picking my one-inch wash brush and I'm dipping my brush in clean water and I'm applying an even coat of water onto the entire sky. As I always say, we just need to shiny coat of water, don't add a lot of water. You can just run your brush in all directions so that the coat of water is even. I have a plateau, shiny coat of water onto the entire sky. You don't need to leave out those mountains, you can apply water on that. To apply the paint, I'm going to use my half-inch flat brush and I'm creating a medium tone of indigo by adding some water. We need a medium tone. Don't make it too light and too dark so just a few drops of water and turn indigo or Prussian blue into medium tone. Let's start applying this color onto the sky. On the top, I'm going to apply a medium tone. I'm just running my brush back and forth in a horizontal direction to get a clean blend. If you have a flat brush, I would recommend using a flat brush. This way you can get a clean blend. Compare it to a round brush it is much easier to create a blend with a flat brush. But if you don't have a flat brush, that's okay, just use a bigger sized round brush. I have applied paint onto the top part of the sky. You can see I have used a medium tone. Now as I'm coming down, I'm making the color lighter. I'm not picking any more paint. To make the color lighter. I'm cleaning my brush and with some clean water I'm making the color lighter as I'm approaching towards horizon line. See that? Start with a medium tone and make the color lighter as you're approaching the horizon line. Now, we need to switch to our second color. For that, I'm using a round brush I'm just making sure that it's clean and I'm picking a little of permanent Rose. Again, a medium tone. Now let's apply that along the horizon line. As you can see here, I'm not leaving the mountain. I'm applying paint on top of it. That's totally okay. I just applied a little arrows along the horizon line. Now with a clean brush and making it lighter. Also blending that with the blue, see that. On the top and the bottom, we have a medium tone. On the top we have a medium tone of indigo. Along the bottom we have a medium tone of rose. We made the colors lighter where these two colors are blending. That's our sky, it's a very simple yet a beautiful sky. Now we can leave this for drying. [MUSIC] This guy has dried completely. I think it's a beautiful color combination. I'm not 100% happy with the plant, but never mind. Let's go the next task, which is painting the sea. For the sea as well, I'm using indigo. If using Prussian blue go the medium tone, and apply that along the horizon line, then as you're coming down, you can make it a little lighter. You can see the color I'm using, the tonal value is very much similar to the one I use for the sky. That's a medium tone of indigo. Now I'm going to clean my brush and get some clean water and making the rest lighter, see that. Towards the horizon line, we need a medium tone and towards the bottom, we have to make it lighter. I think we can bring the paint down until the masking tape. We don't need to leave some cab so using some water I'm just spreading it out. Now in case if you want to, you can add in some more paint along the horizon line, just to give it some more texture. I'm picking a medium tone again, and I'm adding two lines only along the horizon line, just to give it some more texture. I'm not adding anywhere else. Now I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and I'm smudging those lines into the background and that's it. That's our beach. Now let that dry. [MUSIC] That has dried completely. Next, we need to paint these rocks, and also we need to paint the sand as well. I think first we can start with the rock, then we can come down and paint the rest. Now to paint rocks, I'm going to use Payne's gray. Anyway I will keep the colors ready. I will squeeze out some burnt sienna and Payne's gray onto my palette so that's burnt sienna. Now we need a little of Payne's gray as well. The colors are ready. Now to paint the rocks, I'm going to use the smaller size brush. This one is my size six round brush and I'm adding two drops of water to create a medium tone of Payne's gray. If you don't have Payne's gray, just go with black and create a medium tone by adding a few drops of water and simply apply that onto the rocks we have added to get the shape right it is good to use the smallest size brush. If using a bigger size brush to be really careful when you're adding the paint. Because the size of these rocks are quite small. Simply fill that in a medium tone of Payne's gray. Just a solid wash. We can add the texture later. You can see the tonal value I'm using here. It's a medium tone, it's not that light. Now, let's fill up the other rocks, as well, in a similar tone and value. [MUSIC] That task is done, I have applied a medium tone of Payne's gray onto all the rocks. If you want to modify the shape, you can do that right now. Next, we're going to apply some waves and some lines onto the sea to create some texture. For that we're going to use indigo, so clean your brush and switch back to indigo. We have to use a color that is slightly darker than the color we have used otherwise, it won't be visible. Now, I'm going to simply add some delicate lines. It shouldn't be too thick because this one is really far from us, so the color should be a medium tone and the line should be really thin as well. Close to the rock, simply add few lines. Those rocks might be still wet, so be careful when you're adding the lines. I'm not adding a lot of lines, I'm just adding few closer to the rock. Next, using the same color I'm going to add some waves. This one can be a bit thick compared to the other lines. Simply adding few waves on the beach. I'm adding a second one. Now, I will add few more random wavy lines like this. You can see if they're a little thick and I'm using a medium tone. I will add one or two lines at the bottom as well. That's it. For now, this is all you need to do, later, we'll be adding some white texture onto this to complete the waves. Now the next task is to paint the sand. To paint the sand, I'm mixing some burnt sienna with Payne's gray. This one is very much similar to burnt umber. If you have burnt umber, you can use that directly or just mix a little of burnt sienna with Payne's gray to create a muddy brown. Let me spatter the color for you so that you have a better idea. This is the color. It's a mix of burnt sienna and Payne's gray. Depending on the amount of burnt sienna or Payne's gray you add, the color will be slightly different, but that's okay. Now let's apply that onto the sand. First, you need to add that wave, and in a beautiful curvy line. Now the remaining area at the bottom you can fill up in this color. This line will separate your sea and the sand. You can modify the line as you wish. Now let's fill up the rest. [MUSIC] I have added paint onto that intersection. Now, onto those wet background, we need to add in some texture for which I'm going to pick some Payne's gray. This needs to be done before the background dries up, so you will have to be a little quick. All you need to do is pick up some Payne's gray, now randomly adding your lines and some random shapes onto the background so that's it. Now what I'm going to do is, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel, and with that damp brush, I'm just merging those patterns I have added. Just to get a smoother look, I don't want them to be too prominent. See that. We have got some beautiful texture here. Simply drop in some Payne's gray or black onto the wet background. You can just add some random shapes and lines and once you have added them, smudge it with a damp brush, and that's the result we have got some beautiful texture. Now, let this dry and after that, we can add the final details. [MUSIC] So that has dried completely. Next, we're going to add the texture on the rock. Right now we have only added a base layer, to make it look more interesting, we need to add some texture. For that, I'm using a smaller size brush and I'm using a dry paint. I have some Payne's gray here. I have taken that on my brush and I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to remove the excess amount of water. I need a dry paint. Now using that dry paint, I'm just adding some texture on these rocks. The color I'm using here is the darker tone, and it's a dry paint. That's something you have to be careful about, it doesn't have any water, it is just dry paint. Once you have taken the paint on your brush, you can dab your brush on a paper towel multiple times to make sure the paint doesn't have any water. Then simply add some texture onto the rock. This is just some dry texture, it doesn't need to have any particular shape or size. You can simply fill up the anterior surface of the rock. The only thing you have to be careful here is not to add them outside the outline so be careful when you're adding them. Carefully, follow the outline of the rock and add them inside. I have one more left, onto that one as well, I'm just adding some dry texture. This technique is called dry brush technique. It is one of my most favorite technique. You can create gorgeous textures using this simple trick. I use it quite a lot for mountains. You can already see those gorgeous textures we have got. It really looks like rock. That part is done. Next, we have one more task left, which is adding the waves. We had tried the painting earlier, which is similar to this one. Here we have used a different color for the sand and for the mountains as well we used a different color. Now we're going to add the waves, which is very much similar to this, so you already know the technique. For that, I'm going to use white watercolor. You can either use white watercolor or white gouache. Now let's take out some paint onto our palette. For this one as well, we need dry paint, don't add a lot of water. We need an opaque white color. If you're using gouache or watercolor, go to slightly dry paint. Don't add a lot of water. If you add a lot of water, it won't look opaque and it wouldn't look like waves. Now you've seen this paint, I'm going to add a wave right above the blue line that I have added earlier. Just watch out carefully. Using that dry paint, I'm adding a wavy line. It's a broken line. It doesn't need to be a continuous line. At some places, it can be a little thick, and at some places, it can be thin. This will make it look more natural. I'm just adding that on the other end, see that. Over here I'm making it a bit thicker. Now I'm breaking it. Just above that line you added earlier using indigo, simply add a white line again. What happens here is when you add the white wave above the blue line, the blue area will look like the shadow. It's a very simple trick to create a beautiful wave. Now, let's add few closer to the rock. I'm using a dry paint here. My paint is not too watery. When you use a dry paint, it will have a natural texture and it will look like a real wave. Now, I'm adding on the wave above the indigo line I have added. Again, it's a broken line. As I said earlier, at some places it can be thin and at some places you can add a thickness. Also, it doesn't need to be a perfect continuous line, you can break the line in between. In a similar way, let's add the remaining lines as well. I have two more lines at the bottom, one towards the right and another one towards the left. Those are the waves far away. Now we need to add one more towards the bottom line and that is what will define our painting. For that, you need a opaque paint. Again, don't add a lot of water go with a really opaque white color and along this line, add a thick white line. This one has to be really prominent. Pick enough of paint on your brush and add a thick white line, add a beautiful curvy line. If you feel like the colors aren't opaque enough, you can add one more line on top of it and make it really opaque and prominent. That's my wave. There's one more thing we need to do for which I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to make the paint really dry. Using that dry paint, I'm adding some texture towards the upper side of the wave. The bottom line has to be clean towards the bottom, onto the blue background just add some white texture. This is again, the dry brush technique. We are trying to create that foamy water texture here. Just add some white dry brush patterns and finish off your painting. That's our painting for the day. It's a common beautiful beach. Now let's remove the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here's some painting. We can see how beautiful that turned out. It's a very simple painting, but very little detailed yet it has turned out really pretty. I hope you all had a relaxing time painting with me. Thank you so much for joining. 14. DAY 9 - Sunset Beach: [MUSIC] Our next project is a beautiful sunset at the beach. Just like the other paintings we have done so far, this one is also quite simple. This one also doesn't involve any complicated techniques, and we'll start by looking at the colors you will need. I will start with the sky. For the sky, I will be using three colors. As you could see here, on the top you can see a purple. This was a mix of violet and Permanent Rose. You can create this color in that way, or we can mix some crimson and Prussian blue or any other blue. But remember to add more crimson in your mix so that you will get a purple shade, otherwise it will look more like a violet. So that's a color I'll be using. As I mentioned, it is just to mix of Permanent Rose and violet. These are the two colors I'll be using. Permanent rose is from Shanahan, and violet is from White Nights. Just mix these two colors together, or any similar colors that you have got. The color might be slightly different according to the mix that you're using. If you're adding more crimson or more violet or more blue, the color might be slightly different, but that's okay. Now the second color you will need is orange. This one is brilliant orange. This is the one, that's again from the branch in hand. If you don't have brilliant orange go with any other orange or vermilion. On the top, I'll be using purple, then towards the center, I'll be using Permanent Rose. Along the horizon line, I will be using orange. Those are the colors I'll be using for the sky. The next color you will need is brown or burnt sienna. I'll be using permanent brown from Art Philosophy. Along with that, we will also need Paynes gray or black to add the deeper tones. You can see the colors from the painting itself. For those huge rocks, I'll be using brown and Payne's gray. Brown is not a common color. Most of you might have browns in other [inaudible] but no brown. That's totally okay, I just go with burnt sienna. This one is more reddish, and burnt sienna is more yellowish, that's only difference. Obviously the color will look slightly different because the pigments are different, but then it is not going to affect your painting. So those are the colors you will need for today's painting. As I mentioned, we'll be using three colors for the sky, purple, Permanent Rose, and orange. If you don't have Permanent Rose, go with crimson. Then you will also need brown or burnt sienna, and Payne's gray. That's it. Now let's start. So I'm going to start by adding the sketch, which is a very simple sketch. First, we need to add the horizon line to separate the sky and the sea. I'm adding a horizon line slightly below the center of the paper. Now let's add those huge rocks. I'm going to add one on the right side. It's a huge rock, you can either go with the same size and same shape, or you can add that how will you want to. I'm just adding some lines. We'll be adding our deeper tones when we're painting in a similar way. Now I'm going to add the bottom line, and after that, I need to add a wavy line as well. This is to separate the sea, and the sand. That's my rock. Now I'm going to add the wavy line. For this painting, most of the area we're going to show is the sand, not the sea, so just add a wavy line. You can see the majority of the area is going to be the sand. We only have a little area on the top. So that's our sketch. We can modify the shape later. You don't need to put a lot of effort right now. That's the sketch, now I'm going to start preparing the colors. The first color we will need is purple, which is a mix of violet and Permanent Rose. I'm going to mix and create that color. So we'll start with purple, then towards the center, we will be using some Permanent Rose, which can be crimson or any other rose. Towards the horizon line, I'll be using orange, which can be vermilion or scarlet or any other orange you have got. I have taken out violet, and Permanent Rose. Now, I will need some orange as well. So the colors are ready. Now, I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the entire sky using my one-inch wash brush. You don't need to leave out the mountain. Just apply an even coat, and you have to make sure your brush is clean. I have applied a shiny coat of water onto the anterior sky. Now let's start applying the paint right away onto the wet background. For that, I'm using my half-inch flat brush. First. I need to create a purple for that, and picking some rose. Now picking some violet, and mixing them together. Maybe we can add some more rose to make it a brighter purple. Now, let's start applying that color we made on the top of the sky. You can see how gorgeous that color is. It's a brighter tone. Now, I'm going to clean my brush, and I'm picking the second color, which is Permanent Rose. I only have a lovely color left here. I think that would be enough. That's our second color. Now clean your brush again, and pick your final color, which is orange. I want the color to be really bright at the bottom along the horizon line. So I'm starting from there, and I'm going to add a top blending that with the rose. I will pick some more rose, and I will apply that at the center, and I'm making it a clean blend. I'm running my brush in a horizontal way from left to right, and that's it. That's our sky. Now, I'm going to clean my brush. Before I wrap this up, there is one more thing that I want to do for which I'm picking a little of a brighter orange, and I'm adding a little along the horizon line, only the horizon line. When you add some brighter tone along the horizon line, it will make your sky look extra pretty. That's the reason why I have added that. So that's the sky, before I leave this for trying. I'm just wiping off this paint from the border. Otherwise, this might sip back into the painting and might create some dirty bleed along the bottom. So that's the sky. Now I'm going to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] That's the sky. I accidentally dropped a little of water. Never mind, I think I can add another mountain here, and I can cover that up. Anyways, let's go to the next task, which is painting the sea. To paint the base layer, I'll be using orange and rose. So I'm starting with orange, it's a medium tone. First I'm applying that onto the entire sea. You can see the tonal value, it's not too bright. It's a light to medium tone. Now I'm making it lighter, along the bottom line. See that? Now in case if you don't have a proper shape right now, that's totally okay. We can fix that when we're painting the sand. So first apply a lighter or a medium tone of orange onto the entire sea. Now pick some rose, and simply add some wavy lines onto the sea to create some texture. See that? It's again a medium tone. It's not too bright. Now, let's simply add few more lines. You can see how I'm adding those lines. They are very simple wavy lines. For now, this is all we need. Later, we'll be adding more details using a smaller size brush. At the moment, this is all we need. So let's leave it for drying. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] So that's done too. [MUSIC] Next task was to paint the sand, for which you will need either brown or bonsina. And some paint scree to add the deeper tones. Along with these two colors, we will also need a bit of orange. So if you don't have any orange left on your palate, take out a little of that as well. The major color is going to be brown and paint scree. We just need a little of orange. So don't take out a lot. So I have the colors ready. Now let's start applying the paint. Now I'm starting with a brownish orange. So first I'm picking some brown, mixing that with a little of orange. See that? It's not brown and it's not orange. It's something in-between. I think it'll be better if I use my round brush. So I'm switching to my round brush. So that's the color I have created. Now, I'm going to apply that at the bottom. First, I will define that wavy line. So the top part is the sea and the bottom is a sand. You can see that brownish orange. So applying this color only onto the left. Towards the right, I'm going to make it more darker. So I have defined the shape of the wave. Now, I'm going to pick a much more darker tone of brown. And we'll apply that on the right side. You don't need to wash all the paint from your brush. Just pick a darker tone of brown or bonsina using the same brush and fill up the remaining area on the right side. While you apply the paint, try to give a beautiful shape for the wave. See that? Already it is looking pretty defined. So it's just a matter of adding that wavy line when you add the paint. Now, again, I'm picking a darker tone and I'm simply adding some random lines and dots onto the wet background to create some texture. See that? I'm not adding a lot of patterns. I just want a little towards the darker side. So I'm leaving the orange part as it is. Now, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. And after that, I'm going to smash these patterns. So my brush is just done, it doesn't have a lot of paint. And I'm dragging my brush and I'm smudging those patterns. And that's it, that's our sand. It's a pretty simple step and you can see those collages textures we have created. If you want to add more deeper tones or textures, you could do that right now, if your background is still wet. Otherwise, if we're happy with the result, just leave it for drying. [MUSIC] So this is how it has turned out. I'm pretty happy with it. Now the next task was to paint the rocks. I have a huge one on the right side. Then I need to add another one on the left to hide the head water drop. To apply the paint I'm using my medium-sized strong trish. This one is size number eight, and I'm starting off with a medium tone. Now let's talk about applying that onto the entire rock. You can see the color that is quite bright. It's not too light. First carefully apply that paint along the outline. If you don't have brown just go with bonsina. So first let's apply a solid wash of brown or bonsina onto the entire rock. Now we need to quickly apply the deeper tones while the background is still wet for which I'm going to use some paint scree. I will simply add some random lines onto the entire surface. I'm just starting some incline line. I will add few from the top to the bottom, and also from the bottom towards the top. You can see I'm simply dragging my brush and I'm creating some deeper tones on the surface of the rock. See that? You can see how pretty it is looking already. It is just a matter of adding some inclined line using a deeper tone, on that red background to create some texture. And this is how it has turned out. You can see how gorgeous it is. You can use this technique every time you're painting a mountain or a rock, it is just a matter of adding those deeper tones while the background is still wet. Now, using paint scree, I'm just adding some tiny rocks as well. See that? So simply add some tiny rocks and stones on the water. Just to make our painting a little more interesting. Don't add a lot, we just need a few. These are very small elements, but they will add a lot of beauty to our painting. You can add them wherever you want to. Now let's paint the other rock. I'm cleaning my brush and I'm switching to brown. Right now I have a darker tone, but I want to switch to brown. If you don't want to add this, it's totally okay. I had dropped some water on the sky and to hide that, I'm adding on the rock here. I had no plan to add this all here, but I messed up the sky. So this one is just to hide my mistake. So that's a basic shape. Now, I'm picking some paint scree. And I'm adding some lines onto the surface of the rock to bring in some texture. Otherwise it will look quite flat and lifeless. So these deeper tones have a lot of impact on our painting. See that? How easily we painted a beautiful rock. Now it's just how we did earlier. We can add some tiny stones or rocks as well on the sea to make our painting more interesting. See that? They are super tiny, go with a similar size. It just being less than 15 minutes since we started, and you can see how beautiful our painting has turned out already. Sometimes it is not about adding a lot of details and working with complex techniques. It is just about picking the right colors and playing with minimum amount of details. And this painting is such a great example for that. Anyways, this is how our painting has turned out. I'm quite impressed with it. Now there's one last thing we have to do for which I'm switching to my smallest size brush. First I will go with some permanent rose. And I'm going to simply add some more wavy lines on the sea. I feel like there are some texture lacking. That's the reason why I'm adding some more lines again. Using some permanent rose, I'm just trying to be adding some wavy lines using a smaller brush. These lines are quite thin. They're not too bold and prominent. So my intention is to bring in some more texture without making them too prominent. That's the reason why I'm using a smaller size brush. And I'm just randomly adding some wavy curvy lines. I'm not really putting a lot of attention here. I'm just adding them. We don't need to add a lot of lines. If you feel like you're happy with the result, you can just stop it there. And also, if you feel like you already have enough of texture, you can totally skip the step. I was actually about to wrap up then I looked at the painting, I felt like there is some texture lacking. That's the reason why I decided to add this. It is basically some dry texture and some thin lines. Now I'm switching to purple. I will add few more lines, just a few. Then I think I will call it done. I'm adding them closer to the rocks. You don't need to put a lot of attention. It is just that they have to be really thin, don't make them too prominent. So simply add some wavy lines and some curvy lines and maybe some dry texture as well. And that's it. That's our painting for the day. I hope you all liked it. Now, I'm going to peel off the masking tape and I will show you a closer look of the painting. It's a very quick and easy painting. [MUSIC] And I think it has turned out really beautiful. Here's our several painting. I absolutely love the color combination, and those rocks, there was no complicated techniques and too much detail. Thank you so much for joining and I hope you all had a relaxing time painting with me. [MUSIC] 15. DAY 10 - Bold Evening: [MUSIC] Our next project is a bright and beautiful sunset with a lush green meadow. I love this painting for the bold and beautiful colors I have used here. Yet, it is so simple. You don't have any complex details there. Anyway, let me take you through the colors you will need for this gorgeous painting. For the sky, I will be using three colors, as you can see here. On the top we have violet, then we have a pink, a bright pink. Then towards the bottom we have orange. The violet I'm going to use is this one from White Nights. Then I have Opera pair from Sennelier. This is a bright pink you see at the meadow. Then we have brilliant orange along the horizon line. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the base layer. I will start with violet. This one is from White Nights, as I mentioned earlier. It is called violet. It's a beautiful color. That's the one. You can use any violet you have got or you can mix and create your own violet. Now, the second color is opera. It's a bright neon pink, which is not a common color. It doesn't come from the normal watercolor sets. If you don't have this color, just go with any rose or crimson. The next one is brilliant orange. Again, it's a bright orange. If you don't have any orange, just go with vermilion. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the base layer. Then I'll be adding some clouds using violet on top of the base layer. The next two colors you will need is Payne's gray and sap green. You can use sap green or Viridian green. If you don't have Payne's gray, you can use black. Those are the next two colors you will need. I'll be using a really bright one of sap green to create that contrast. You can see the color. While I'm painting, I won't be adding a lot of water. That is sap green. It is from Shinhan. Now, the last color you will need is Payne's gray. This is to add the deeper tones for the meadow as well as to add those details along the horizon line. Those are the colors you will need as a simple color palette. If you want to leave out one color from the sky, if you want to leave out orange, you could do that or you can go with just pink and orange or just violet and rose. Feel free to go with the colors you like. Now, let's give it a try. I will start by adding a line, which is my horizon line, just to separate the sky and the ground. I'm adding that a little below the center of the paper. It is not at the center, slightly below that. That's my sky and that's my ground. Now, let's start preparing the paint. If you don't have a violet, there's nothing to worry. You can just mix and create your own violet by adding some Prussian blue and crimson together. Now you will need opera pink or any kind of rose, then you will also need some orange or vermilion. I have the colors ready for the sky. I I I will take the other two colors as well, and I will keep them ready. You will need some sap green as well as some Payne's gray. All the colors are ready. Now, we can start by applying coat of water onto the entire sky. I have my one inch flat brush here. I'm deeping that in clean water. I'm applying that onto the entire sky. We just need a shiny coat of water. We don't need a lot. Do run your brush multiple times back and forth just to be sure that coat of water is even. My sky is evenly wet. Now, we can start applying the paint. Now, to apply the paint, I'm going to use my half-inch flat brush. Let's start with violet. I'm going to use a medium tone. It shouldn't be too dark and it shouldn't be too light as well. Now, let's apply that on the top of the sky. You can see the tonal value. It's a medium tone. Start by applying that on the top of the sky. Now, let's clean our brush and go with the second color. I'm picking opera rose. You can see that bright pink. Now, let's apply that at the center and blend that with the violet. Now, again, I'm cleaning my brush. Let's go to the third color, which is orange, and apply that on the rest of the area and blend that with rose. We have used three colors for the sky. We have used medium tones of all the colors. Now, along the bottom, I'm going to introduce a slightly brighter tone of orange. Just dropping a brighter tone of orange along the horizon line. Blend that again. That's our base layer. Now, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to introduce some clouds onto this wet background. I'm keeping this brush aside and I'm picking my round brush. You can use any of your medium-sized brush. This one is Size Number 6. Now, again, I'm picking a medium tone. It shouldn't be too watery. If you feel like it's too watery, just dab your brush on a paper towel. Otherwise, when you add those clouds, they will spread in a very vigorous way and you won't be able to control the way they're spreading. See that? That's the right consistency. It is not spreading too much. Now, you can add new clouds however you want to. If you want to make it too dramatic, you can add a lot or if you want a very soft and a septal sky, you can just add a few. When you drop in your paint onto the sky, you will understand the way to spreading. If you feel like it is spreading a lot, dab your brush again on paper towel and keep adding the clouds. At one point you will understand which is the right consistency. Especially, if you're a beginner with watercolor, adding clouds can be a little difficult task, but you will automatically pick that in practice. If you don't get it right in the first try, there is nothing to worry. Just keep it under the cool. Slowly but surely you will get there. I'm going to add few more clouds before the background dries then I'm going to call it done. My background is nearly starting to dry. That's it. I think that has turned out pretty nice. I'm really happy with the color combination as well as the clouds. Now, I'm going to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. I'm really happy with it. Now, let's start painting the meadow. First, I'm going to apply an even layer of sap green onto the entire background. Then we can start introducing the deeper tones. I'm using my Size Number 8 round brush here, and then picking a brighter tone of sap green. You can see the color, it isn't that light. I want a bright green for the meadow. Just apply a flat wash or a solid wash onto the entire background. If you want to use Viridian green instead of sap green, that is also totally okay. Just apply a solid wash off Viridian green or sap green. Then while the background is still wet, we can introduce a deeper tones. You can use a medium brush or a bigger brush and apply green onto the entire background. That's how it has turned out. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick a darker tone by mixing some Payne's gray into sap green. We just need a darker tone. You can either add some Payne's gray or some indigo into sap green or Viridian green and create a darker shade. For this to pass well, I'm using the same brown brush. First, I will add that at the bottom. At the bottom I want a darker tone, and on the top I want a medium tone. Let's keep adding that deeper tone at the bottom. Along with that, I'm also adding some lines on the background. I think I can make it a bit more darker. That looks nice. First, add that deeper tone at the bottom. Then with the same brush, gently add some lines on the background. I'm just dragging my brush from right to left and I'm leaving this area as it is. You can see I haven't added any lines over there. On the left side, I want to read in some of the lighter tones. I want the right to be more darker. Now, if you're background is still wet, you can make those lines more prominent by making it more darker. Using a slightly darker tone, I'm making those lines a bit more prominent. See that? I'm simply running my brush again. Now, they're looking more prominent. This is a very easy technique to bring in some texture and some life to your meadow. Earlier, it was just a flat wash and it was looking lifeless. Now, you can see how easily you brought in some life to it. The only thing is you need to add these lines while your background on this to read. Otherwise, they won't spread and they will look too prominent. Right now they look quite soft and septum, that's what we want. Just make sure to add these lines while your background is still wet. That's the only thing you need to be careful about. Now, I'm going to leave this for drying. [MUSIC] That has dried completely and colors are looking really fresh and vibrant. Now, we have only task left and for that, I'm using my smallest size brush. I'm picking a darker tone of green, a much more darker tone. I'm adding more Payne's gray this time. Right now we're going to add some details far away. We're just going to add some landscape along the horizon line. This is what will define the horizon line. It is nothing complicated. We're simply adding some random shapes along the horizon line. We're just trying to show the trees and the plants far away. Go the similar size, don't make it too huge. Also you can see the color I'm using. It is very much dark. I don't think you can see any green shade in that. It is super dark. I think it is very much similar to Payne's gray. Anyway, I'm just using this color and I'm going to add the landscape. Towards the right side to make it a little interesting, I made it a bit higher and also I have left some gap in between. You can either run your landscape continuously without breaking that in-between or you can break them and add different groups, like what I've done here. Those things are totally up to you, You can add them however you want to, but try to go with varying heights. Don't make it the same throughout. This will make your painting look more interesting. Now, in a similar way, I'm going to add another group on the left side. Again, I'm picking that darker tone of green. Using the tip of my brush, I'm simply adding a random shape. Just keep pressing the tip of your brush and keep adding some random patterns. These are really far off, so you don't need to put a lot of effort here. Just add a random sheet. [MUSIC] That's it. We are done with our painting for the day. You can see how gorgeous it has turned out. The best part is that, it took us less than 15 minutes to finish the entire painting, if you leave out the drying time. Isn't that wonderful? I'm very much happy with the entire look and fill of the painting. I hope you all enjoyed it too. Now, I'm going to peel up the masking tape. Here it is. We can see how beautiful the colors are looking. They are quite bright and prominent compared to the other paintings we have done so far. If you want to make your painting look more interesting, you can add some branches, just some sell-out on the top, and also maybe some birds. I just like the painting the way way is so I'm just keeping it simple. That's all for the day. I hope you all had a lovely time painting this gorgeous sunset. Thanks a lot for joining and happy painting. [MUSIC] 16. DAY 11 - Mountains & Meadows: [MUSIC] Our next painting is a gorgeous green landscape, you You see that lush green meadow and those beautiful mountains. We have only tried one green landscape earlier, so this one is going to be a little refreshing one. Anyway, I will start with the colors you will need for this painting. The first color is cerulean blue, which is the color I'm going to use for the sky. You all know my love for this color. It's a gorgeous blue to use for the skies. Obviously, if you don't have cerulean blue, you can go with any other blue of your choice. It can be cobalt blue, Prussian blue, or ultramarine blue, or any other blue, and will be just going with the gradient wash. Now coming to the mountain, I'll be using some indigo. Indigo is beautiful, moody blue, which you can use for skies, cityscapes, and even for mountains, and also I love to use it for monochrome painting. So that's our next color. Now, coming to the next, you can see that we'll have green here. It's again, a mix of sap green and burnt sienna, like we tried earlier. I'll be just mixing these two colors to get that olive green. We try the same color in many of our other paintings. So I'm very sure you guys are quite confident with this. That's a third color. Now, we also need some leaf green or any lighter green. On the top of the meadow, I'll be using this color. If you don't have any kind of light green, that's totally okay. You can just start to love sap green into lemon yellow and create a similar color. So that's my fourth color. Finally, you will need two more colors with the sap green and Payne's gray. You can see that sap here at the bottom. Along with that, to add the deeper tones, you will also need Payne's gray. I only have a little space left on my paper, so I will dispatch our Payne's gray. These are the colors you will need for today's painting. We will need any kind of blue for the sky. Then we will need indigo for the mountain. Then we will need an olive green, which is a mix of sap green and burnt sienna. Then we will need a light green, sap green, and Payne's gray to add the deeper tones. That's it. That's a color palette for today's painting. Now it's time to give it a try. I've all the colors ready on my palette. So I'm starting out with a pencil sketch. We need to add a line for the meadow. It's going to be a sloping line. I'm planning to make it higher on the left and a sloping down towards the right. Just a gentle slope. Now we need to add the mountains. We have one mountain in the background, a snowy mountain. Then we have another green mountain in the foreground. So we need to add two mountains. First, I'm adding the mountain in the foreground. Now, I'm going to add the other mountain. This is going to be right behind the green mountain. For this, I'm going with an interesting shape. We can see those different wrenches. Got the similar shape with lots of curves and wrenches. We'll be adding snow onto all these pockets. So it's going to be really interesting. That's the sketch, now we can start applying the paint. I'm starting with the sky and it's going to be wet on wet sky, which means you'll have to apply cold water. Using my one-inch wash brush, I'm applying a clean cold water onto the entire sky. I'm not leaving out the mountain. You can apply water till that middle line. Just applying even cold have water onto the entire sky. Now we can start applying the paint. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to cerulean blue. To apply the paint, I'm using my half-inch flat brush. It's a simple gradient wash, so I'm starting with a medium tone. Apply that on the top of the sky. I'm running my brush in a horizontal manner from left to right. I want a smooth, even gradient. Start with a medium tone, and as you're reaching almost the center, make it lighter. I'm just dabbing my brush on a paper towel and just using that leftover paint and the water in the background and making it lighter. See that, it's a very simple sky. We always see a gradient sky like this in our daily lives. It's a very simple sky that you can use any other paintings as well. I think the beauty of the sky is that blue I used here. As I said earlier, it's a beautiful blue that you can use in your DS cards. Anyway, that's my sky, I'm just making the color even at the top. There was some pain missing in there. That's the sky. Now, let's do this for drying. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely. Next, we're going to paint the mountain, the one in the background. For that, I'm using a medium tone of indigo. If you don't have indigo, you can just add a little of Payne's gray into any of the blue and you can turn your blue into moody blue. So just don't worry, if you don't have indigo, just add some Payne's gray into Prussian blue or any other blue that you are using. Now, let's begin. I'm starting with a medium tone. Looks like there are some leftover paint on my brush. I'm just cleaning it. I'm picking some blue again. The indigo I'm using here is from Sennelier. It's a bluish indigo. Now I'm just following that outline I have added there. I'm simply filling that in a medium tone of indigo. You can see the tonal value, it is not too light. The reason is that I'll be adding some white highlights onto the mountain to show the snow. If there's a really light tone for the background, the snow we're adding won't be visible. That's the reason why I'm using a medium tone. See that? So go the similar tonal value and fill up the entire mountain following the outline. That's a base layer. Now to add some texture, we can drop in some Payne's gray towards the bottom. This is completely optional. If you don't want to add it, you can just leave it as it is. That will also give you a beautiful mountain. But just to give it some texture, I'm picking a medium tone of Payne's gray. Maybe a much more lighter, not a medium tone. I'm adding that onto the mountain. I'm just adding some swoopy lines to give it some texture using a really light tone of Payne's gray. The background is still wet, so they will spread nicely into the background, giving some texture. That's the background. As I said earlier, this one is completely optional. You can just add a medium tone off indigo onto the entire mountain. Or you can just add some lines with Payne's gray to give it some texture. [MUSIC] Anyway, now let's leave this for drying. The base layer has dried. Next, I'm going to paint the meadow. After that we can paint the mountain. Because for this we'll be using much more darker values compared to the meadow. So we can start with the meadow. For the meadow, I'm going to use some leaf green at the top. We need lighter green. You can use any of your lighter green or you can mix and create your own. Then towards the bottom, we'll be adding some sap green and also a bit of Payne's gray to add the deeper tones. Keep the colors ready and take out any of your medium-sized round brush. Let's start with the leaf green. We have added a sloping line on the top. Following that line, I'm adding this leaf green. As I mentioned earlier, on the top, I want a lighter green, and towards the bottom, I want the green to be more darker. Let's add a lighter green on the top. Now as you're coming down, we can switch to sap green and add that on the remaining area. I'm picking a medium tone of sap green and I'm adding that on the remaining area and I'm blending that with the leaf green. See that? Right now we have two different tonal values of green. We want to make it a bit more darker towards the bottom. For that, I'm creating a darker green by mixing some Payne's gray with sap green. Let's add that at the bottom. We need to make the bottom area darker. Along with that, we'll also need to add some lines onto this wet background. If we don't add any lines or any texture onto the meadow, it will look quite flat. First, let's add some darker tone at the bottom. With the same color, let's track some lines, some inclined line. This is just to give it some texture. Otherwise, it will look flat and lifeless. Adding this line is a simple trick to give your meadow a life and energy. Onto that wet background, keep adding some lines. Don't get rid of that lighter tone and medium tone. We want to see them in between. So when you're adding the lines, try to leave some gap in-between. Yeah, that's it. That's our lush green meadow. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry, and after that, we can paint the green mountains. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] That is right too. Our next task is to paint this mountain. For this one we're going to use an olive green color. If you have olive green with you you can use it directly or we can just mix a little of burnt sienna with sap green to create a beautiful olive green. I already have a little of paint, but that would be enough. I have burnt sienna and sap green ready there. Now using my medium-size round brush, I'm going to apply the paint. Just a mix of these two colors, just take out some burnt sienna, mix that with sap green and just check out the color that you're getting. Depending on the ratio of sap green and burnt sienna, the color might be slightly different. I will dispatch all the color that I made. This is the color. This one has more burnt sienna on it. Now into the same color, if I add more sap green, the color will be a little different. I'm just adding some sap green into the same color. Now, let's see the color. See that? This one is more like olive green. We just need an earthly green for the mountain you can just add any color that you prefer. It can be more brownish or more greenish that is totally your choice. Now, I'm going to paint the mountain. I'm planning to add that greenish color at some places and at some places I will use that brownish color. This way I will have different tonal values of green and brown and it will make my mountain look more natural and realistic. See that? Right now I'm using a brownish green and I'm just adding that onto the mountain. There is no particular order or role here, just simply keep switching from one color to another and add that onto your mountain. You can see the tonal value. It isn't that light, it's a medium tone. Now I'm adding that along the bottom line. I only have a little space left on the right side, with that I'll be done with the base layer. Now onto this while the background is still wet, we need to add in some texture and some deeper tones. First, fill in your mountain. I have applied paint onto the entire mountain. Now let's create a deeper tone of green by mixing a little of Payne's gray. Now using that color let's add in some deeper tones and some textures onto the mountain. I will need some more paint. Now, let's quickly add some deeper tone before the background dries. I'm picking a little of Payne's gray, mixing that with green to create a darker tone. Now, I'm going to gently drop in that onto the wet background. I'm just adding some thick and thin lines onto the wet background from the top towards the bottom, and also from the bottom towards the top. As the background is still wet, the color you're adding will gently spread into the background leaving a beautiful texture. We don't need to be too prominent and they don't need to have any particular shape or size. Simply dropping that deeper tone onto the wet background. Be quick, we need to add this before the background dries. Now, I'm going to drop in some deeper tone from the bottom and I'll gently drag my brush towards the top. See that? Looks like my background has started to dry. It is not wet and the color is not really spreading. I think I should just stop what I'm doing right now otherwise it will look too prominent. Before I leave it for drying, I think I can smudge those patterns. I'm dabbing brush on a paper towel and I'm smudging those patterns because I feel they are too prominent as my background dry up. I'm simply smudging it to make it a little softer. That looks quite okay for now. Anyway, let's leave that for drying. Meanwhile, we can add our details on the snowy mountain. To add the snow, obviously you will need some white watercolor or white gouache. I'm also using my smaller size brush to add the snow. This is the brush I'm using, it has a very nice pointer tip and I already have some white watercolor here. I'm just using plain white watercolor. Gouache and watercolor both works so you can just go with any of that. We just need a little so take out that paint onto your palette. Now we need a thick paint, so don't add a lot of water. We want that white to be really prominent. Once you have taken the paint on your brush, dab it on a paper towel to make your paint dry. We don't need a watery paint, we need a dry paint. Now let's start adding those dry patterns onto the mountain in an inclined way. See that? Right now we have dry paint on our brush. We will end up getting some beautiful dry patterns on the mountain because we have dry paint on our brush. Keep adding them in a sloppy way along all those ridges. We don't need a lot, I'm just adding few on the top. I won't be adding any towards the bottom. The only thing here is you should not be adding a lot of water into your paint. If you add a lot of water, your paint will become loose and it will lose its opacity. Go to opaque and dry paint, and keep adding those dry patterns onto the mountain until you feel you're happy with the result. I can already feel the snow here. I hope you guys are happy with your painting too. Maybe you can take a step back and have a look at your painting. Sometimes it's good to take a break from what you're doing and take a look at your painting from a different angle. You can get up from you seat and take a step back and just watch your painting from a distance to understand whether you are getting that perspective and the details right. It is just for you to get an idea about how your painting is coming together. At times it is really important to take a break and have a look at your painting without just rushing through the process. I'm very much happy with the snow effect we have got here. I think I have added enough maybe I can add few more lines towards the bottom just to give it a continuation. I think that looks pretty nice. Here's how our painting has turned out. Next I'm going to add some more texture onto the green mountain. Let's clean our brush. For that as well, I'm going with some dry patterns, but this time the color is not white. I'm going to use a darker tone of green. I'm mixing a little of sap green with Payne's gray to create a darker tone and to make it dry I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel. Now using that dry paint, I'm going to add some texture onto the green mountain. This is also in a similar way I'm just adding some dry patterns from the top towards the bottom, and also from the bottom towards the top. Go with a darker tone of green and dab your brush on a paper towel or a cotton cloth to make your paint dry. Then simply add some dry patterns onto the mountain to give it some extra texture. You don't need to add a lot of patterns and make your mountain busy. I couldn't really add a lot of texture earlier because my background dried up. That's why I'm actually adding. If I had added enough patterns earlier, I might have skip this step so have enough patterns, feel free to skip this. Or as I said earlier, take a step back and have a look at your painting and just decide for yourself whether you need to add more texture or you have enough. I'm going to add a little more towards the top onto this area and with that I'm going to color down. [MUSIC] Here we are, you can see how beautiful it has turned already. Now there is one last thing I want to do, which is adding some small pine trees. This is just to define the horizon line. I'm using smaller size brush and a darker tone of green. I'm starting by adding a line, a straight line. Now onto either side of the line, I'm adding some irregular lines. See that? That's my pine tree. It's a very simple one. These are far away, you don't need to put a lot of effort. Simply start by adding a straight line. Then onto either side, just add some random lines and that's your tree. If you don't want to add pine trees that is totally okay you can skip this step. But they're not difficult at all, you can paint them. I'll just take out a scrap piece of paper and I will show the same tree on a bigger scale so that it is much more easy for you to understand. Choose any of your smaller size brush or a brush with a pointer tip and start by adding a line. Now onto that line, I'm adding some small irregular lines onto either side. I'm just dragging my brush towards either side. You can see those lines are really messy. It doesn't have any particular size or shape. Let's try again. Add a line. Now onto either side simply keep on adding some irregular lines. See that? Overall when you look at the tree it should have a triangular shape, so that should be the overall shape of your tree. A long pointy triangle. Just give it a try, it isn't that difficult. I want you guys to try it if you have never painted pine trees. These ones are quite far so we don't need to put a lot of effort. You just need to add a straight line then onto either side, simply keep on adding some irregular tiny lines and finish up the tree. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that the overall shape has to be a pointed triangle, a long pointed triangle. At the first try it might look a little difficult but it is really easy, so don't give up just give it a try. It is not a fine perfect line it is just messy lines that we're adding onto either side. Once you start adding them you will see your pine tree. I have added 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of them. I think I will add few more towards the left side and with that we'll be done with our painting. Over here we have a darker tone in the background, so the trees are not that visible. Even then I'm just adding it. You can see how easily I added them. Give it a try and once you add three or four of them you will get the hang of it. As I said, it is just some messy lines there is nothing much complicated here. See that? They are really messy lines but overall they look like a pine tree and that is exactly what we need. That's it, we're done with the whole painting for the day. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here is our gorgeous mountains and the metal. I hope you all enjoyed the process and had a relaxing time painting with me. Thank you so much for joining. [MUSIC] 17. DAY 12 - Evening by the Lake: [MUSIC] Our painting for today is this timing evening by the lake. I absolutely love everything about this painting. I cannot wait to paint this beautiful evening with you all. Anyway, let's start by looking at the colors you will need. For the sky, I will be using three colors. On the top you can see that is violet, then towards the bottom I have orange, then onto that to add some clouds, I will also be using some red. So those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. Violet is from White Nights which is the color I've been using for all the other paintings. Then orange is from ShinHan. Then this is the red, it's called pyrrole red. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. If you have violet you can use it as it is or you can mix and create your own violet or purple. This one is a gorgeous violet from White Nights. Now the second color is brilliant orange. Again, a beautiful color. It's a bold and bright orange. If you don't have orange, just add a little of yellow into vermilion and create a bright orange. The next color is pyrrole red, if you don't have pyrrole red, you can use scarlett or vermilion or any other kind of red or maybe crimson as well. So that is pyrrole red from ShinHan again. For the base layer, we'll be using violet and orange, and then onto that, we'll be adding some clouds using red. Now the next color you will need is brown or burnt sienna to paint the ground. The one I'm spreading out right now is brown from Art Philosophy. [NOISE] If you don't have brown, just go with burnt sienna and finally, you will need Payne's gray or black to add the final details and also to add those deeper tones. That's the nice colors you will need for today's painting. I think it's a beautiful color palette, especially for a sunset but if you want to go for a different color combination or if you want to modify the color palette that's totally your choice feel free to do that. Now before we start, I want to quickly show you how to paint the palm trees as well because that's one of the major element for today's painting and if you're a complete beginner, this might be a little tricky. I have a scrap piece of paper here. I had painted some sky some time back. Anyways, let's try out the palm tree. First, you need to start with the tree trunk. It can be a little irregular to make your tree look more natural. I will add one more line. Adding the tree trunk is very easy. The only tricky part would be the palm trees. Anyway, let's try them out. First I'm going to add a small thickness on the top. See that? It's like small so clashy. Add that toward the top of your tree trunk. Now, to all of these tree trunks, I'm going to add some curvy lines which are going to be those guidelines for the palm leaves. See that? So simply add some curvy lines. It can be five or six or seven of them depending on the space you have on your palm tree. That's the first one. Now for this one, I'm just adding few towards the top. I'm not adding any palm leaves hanging down for that. Now for this, let's add some leaves hanging down. When you're painting a palm tree, go with different kind of lines for all of the trees. This will make it look more natural. Those are the basic lines. Now let's start filling them up. Just keep adding some lines towards the bottom and fill it up. You don't need to fill up the anterior line try to leave some gap in between to make it look more natural. See that? It doesn't need to look perfect simply keep on filling that. I'm adding them only towards the outer end. I'm not making it too dense and thick. I'm just leaving some space at the center. Want to get the hang of it, painting a palm tree is really simple, especially the ones like this which are into detailed. Now if you feel like there are some gaps in between, you can fill that up and make your tree look more beautiful. That's the first tree, I think that looks pretty decent. Now I'm going to paint the second one. For this, we only have some palm leaves towards the top. It's a baby tree. There is no much palm leaves on it. I think I like this tree even though it doesn't have a lot of palm leaves. That's my second tree. Now we have one more left. I would recommend trying out the trees before you start with your painting. We can just try one or two on a scrap piece of paper just to be a little more confident and if you're not getting it right, there is nothing to worry. Just keep adding those palm trees on your painting and add those tiny mountains along the horizon line. There is nothing to worry. If you can give it a try. That will really help when you're painting your class project otherwise there is nothing to worry, just ignore it. The process should not frustrate you. It should give you happiness. Just paint it the way you will feel happy throughout the process. If you're ready, let's give it a try. [MUSIC] Let's start by adding the sketch. First, you need to add the horizon line, which is a little below the center of the paper so the top part is going to be the sky obviously. Then over here we need to add another line an irregular line. This one is to separate the water body and the ground. What you see in between is the water body and what you see at the bottom is the ground. That's a sketch. It's a very simple one, you just need to define your sky, the lake, as well as the ground. The coconut palms we can add when we are painting, they're going to be somewhere over here. Maybe you can add a line or what isn't really necessary. That is our sketch now we can start by painting the sky. We already had a look at the colors so for the sky I'll be using violet. This is the color I'll be using on the top. Then towards the bottom, I'll be using some orange. Then to add the clouds, I'll be using a little of red. Those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. If you want to modify the colors, that's totally up to you. You can go to a different color combination and if you don't have Pyrrole red just use Scarlette or Vermilion. Also if you don't have orange, you can just try to lift off yellow into vermilion and create an orangish color. I have taken out some violet. Now I will need some red as well as some orange. This one is brilliant orange, just like the name says it is a very bright and bold orange. I love this color. I love to use that color in my senses, guys. I have the colors ready. Now, I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the anterior sky. This is my one-inch wash brush and dipping that in clean water and applying an even coat of water onto the entire sky. Every time you make your background wet, just be sure your brush is clean. It shouldn't have any stains of paint from the previous painting. You can see that shiny coat of water. Now let's start applying the paint. I'm starting off with violet using my half-inch flat brush and picking a medium tone of violet. I'm going to apply that on the top part of my sky. You can see the color, it is quite bright. It isn't that light. Now as I'm coming down, I'm going to make the color lighter. Only on the top, I will have a bolder color then as I'm coming down towards the bottom, I'm going to make the color lighter. [NOISE] I'm cleaning my brush. Now with a clean brush, I'm going to make the rest of the area lighter. Just run your brush from left to right in a horizontal direction so that you have a clean beautiful blend. Now, I'm picking orange. Again, I'm starting out with a medium tone. Now I'm applying that medium tone of orange along the horizon line. As I go towards the top, I will make the color lighter. Violet and orange are complimentary colors on the color wheel which means if you mix them together, you will end up getting a multi-color that's the reason why we're making a color lighter then we're blending them. When you mix these two colors in their strongest form, they will end up creating a muddy green so to avoid that, let's make it lighter when we're mixing those two colors. I'm just making the bottom a bit more brighter. Now let's blend that again. That's the base layer. Now after this, I'm going to add in some clouds to make it a bit more interesting. I'm going to keep this brush aside and I'm going to take a round brush. Any of a medium-sized round brush. I'm going to use a size Number 6 round brush. It can be size Number 6 or 8 or 4, any of your medium or a smaller size brush. If you feel like the paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel, and keep adding some lines towards the bottom part of the sky using a bright red. I wanted to create a beautiful contrast at the bottom that's why I'm adding those lines here. See that? Just add some lines before the background dries. I think it's a beautiful color combination and I'm already loving the sky. Now if you want to make your sky more dramatic or if you want to add in more clouds, you could do that. I think I will add some more, but first, I will make the line clean, that horizon line. I'm picking some more paint and I'm adding that along the horizon line to make it a straight line because I'm not planning to add any other details along the horizon line. I want to make it clean and plain. I'm happy with this sky, but I feel like adding some more clouds. This one is completely optional. We can totally skip this. I'm just adding few more clouds where the violet and orange is meeting on either side. See that? But the color I'm using right now, it's a medium tone it is not as bright as earlier. I think that looks nice. I don't want to ruin it. That's it, that's my sky. If you're planning to add more clouds, do it before the background dries. That's the only thing you need to keep in mind. Now, let's leave this for drying. [MUSIC] The sky has dried completely, now the next step is to paint the lake. For which I'm using my medium-sized round brush and I'm starting up with a medium tone of violet. Start the medium tone and apply that along the horizon line. Try to go for a straight line as we're not going to add any other details on the horizon line. Be careful and apply the paint as a straight line. Now for the rest of the area, I'm going to make it lighter. I'm picking some water, and I'm making the rest lighter. We already have an irregular line at the bottom. Just follow that and fill it up. That's a base layer. I think right now we cannot really see any darker tones. Before I leave this for trying, I'm going to pick a slightly darker tone of violet and I'm going to add that right along the horizon line. Just add a little up deeper tone and smudge that into the background. I'm dabbing a portion of paper towel. That's slightly dry brush. I'm smudging the paint into the background to give it a softer look. That's a base layer. [MUSIC] Now we can leave this for trying. The base layer has dried. Now we're going to add some details onto the lake to give it some texture. Right now, it doesn't look like a water body, it doesn't have any texture. That's our next task. Pick any of your smaller brush or a medium-size brush, and use a medium-tone violet. Now, we're going to simply add some teeny-tiny lines onto the lake. We have done the same step in few for other paintings as well. It is just some simple lines. Keep adding them onto the entire lake. We are trying to add some texture onto the lake which represents the moment in the water. There are some thin short lines, don't make it too bold. If the lines are thick, they will become too prominent. We don't want that. We want some soft lines. Keep adding some teeny-tiny lines using our brush with a pointed tip. [MUSIC] Now quickly fill up that entire area. That's done. Here's how it has turned out. I'm pretty happy with the way it is progressing. Next task is to paint the crown for which I'm going to use some brown. Along with that, I will also be using some orange as well as Payne's gray to add the deeper tones. I already have some orange left on my palette. That is brown from Art Philosophy. Now I need some Payne's gray to add the deeper tones mostly at the bottom. If you don't have brown, just go with burnt sienna. If you don't have Payne's gray, just go with black and if you don't have any orange, just use a little warming. Keep those colors ready. Now pick any of your medium-sized brush. This one is size number eight. I'm starting off with a bit of orange and I'm adding that along the top line. Simply apply that. We just need some orange tone on the top part of the ground. Towards the bottom, we'll be introducing brown and Payne's gray. Apply that on the top. Just follow the line and add that tone. That is orange. Now using the same brush, I'm going to pick some brown. A little bit brighter tone. I'm going to add that onto remaining area. Leave a little of orange on the top. In a similar way, leave a little of orange on the top and apply brown onto the remaining area. Towards the bottommost you can go to much more darker tone. You can see those different tonal values clearly here. On the top, we have a little of orange. Then right next to that, we have a brownish tone and towards the bottom we have much more darker tone. Now, I'm going to smoothen the background a bit. For that I'm picking a little of orange and I'm adding that right where I applied earlier. I think this area is looking a little rough right now. I'm just matching the paint into each other to give it a smelter look. You can see how we have got a glowing effect over there. That's why we retain some of the orange and apply darker tones towards the bottom. Now, we need to make it a bit more darker towards the bottom. For that, I'm adding a little of Payne's gray with brown. Just to pinch off Payne's gray, add that into brown or burnt sienna. Now, drop that onto the bottommost area. See that? Rating the orange part and apply some darker tones onto either side as well as at the bottom, you can see those beautiful tonal values of orange and brown we have got here. You just need to add those medium tones and deeper tones before the background rise and that will leave a beautiful effect there. That's the background. [MUSIC] Now we can leave this for drying. Our next task is to add the palm trees. I'm starting now with the pencil line. I'm just locating them. I'm going to add one hear then another one right next to that. You can add them either onto the left or towards the right. That's totally your choice. You can add them at any height. This one is a bit taller than the other one. I'm just adding the reference line. Now to paint the palm tree, I'm using a darker tone of brown and towards the bottom, I'm using a darker tone. Towards the top, I will use Payne's gray acidus. So use any of your smallest brush or a brush with a pointed tip to get the best results. Start with a darker tone of brown. Add that towards the bottom part of the tree trunk, we have already added a basic shape. Just follow that line and adding the paint. Right now you can see I'm using a darker tone of brown and I'm adding that only till half of the tree trunk, I'm leaving the rest acidus. Towards the top, as I said earlier, I'll be using Payne's Gray. That's a fullscreen. [MUSIC] In a similar way, I'm going to bring the next one as well. So that was dark brown. Now I'm going to pick paints, gray acidus. Using that color I'm going to paint the remaining portion of the tree trunk so we have like one section left on the top. I'm adding that using paints gray try to go with an interesting shape for your palm tree. Just don't go for a straight line. It can be a little cogwheel so that's a tree trunk. Now, let's start adding the palm leaves. We only tried how to paint the palm trees or even we tried the color palette. It's going to be the exact same way. I'm starting by adding that thickness over here. It is those coconuts and that it doesn't need to be too detailed just add a thickness and it'll glow so cliched maybe do the same for the other one as well. Now, I'm going to start adding those curvy lines. I'm planning to add five or six of them. Let's start with this one. You can add them how you want to. See that, that's my first curvy line. I'm adding second one just start from one side and keep adding those curvy lines until you finish that anterior circle. So I've add a tree. I'm going to add another one here. Now I think I can add one on the top maybe there is some space left here for now, I'm only adding that many leaves maybe we can fill up the rest later. Now onto this I'm going to add some teeny-tiny lines close to each other, see that, keep adding them on either side or on one side. They can have some space in between. It doesn't need to look perfect. I've not painting a perfect and healthy tree with all those wind and all that I don't think the trees will look perfect it can be a little messy. Maybe you don't need to fill up the anterior line you can leave some gap in between. You can see the way how I'm adding those lines. It is just a matter of adding some thin pointy lines onto that curvy line. When you're painting the palm tree you will slowly understand what needs to be done more. You can add in another palm leaf or you can fill in some caps. So here I feel like I can add in some more lines and that's what I'm doing right now and maybe add a little more thickness over here. The top part, I'm just adding some teeny-tiny lines onto either side to make it a little drop fan natural. So that's my first palm tree. In a similar way, I'm going to fill up the other one as well. This brush has a really nice pointed tip and it is really helping me to paint that palm leaves in case if you have a pointed brush I would recommend using that. It will help you in getting thin and delicate lines which will make your palm tree really beautiful. Now, I'm going to quickly paint the second one. [MUSIC] So happy into the tree. Now, I'm just going around and making some areas more thicker. I'm filling in those gaps as I said earlier, once you have painted the tree, when you look at it, you will slowly understand what needs to be done. Now I'm thinking of adding one more tree which I had no plans. I'm just adding that here maybe a smaller tree. That's a tree trunk. Now I'm going to add the palm leaves. This one is completely optional if you only want to trace. Just ignore this. Partial and add one or two more that's totally your choice too. Now I'm adding those palm leaves onto all those curvy lines.[MUSIC] So this is how it has turned out I'm pretty happy with it but I feel like that is some gap left in here I'm just adding one more palm leaf to fill in the space. Only I thought it might make it too congested when I add the second palm tree but I think there is enough space for one more anway that is done. Now this tree trunk can be a little more thicker. It looks too thin I'm just making that a bit more thicker and that we are done with our painting. I'm really happy with the entire painting especially the sky. I think that color combination is really nice. I feel like adding some small mountains along the horizon line. This one is completely optional I have some taco tones on the lake here. I think it's nice to add a small mountain right about that deeper tones. I'm using a darker tone of brown and I'm adding some low mountains right about that. I'm only adding that what's right side. The other side, I have a lighter tone so I'm not going to disturb that let that be acidus so only on the right side I'm adding one or two mountains about these darker tones actually. That is also done now it's time to peel off the masking tape and have a look at double cord this evening. [MUSIC] Here's our painting for the day. I cannot tell you how much I love the sky. The color combination has turned out really great and loving those red streaks on the sky and also the palm trees. That's all painting for the day I hope you all had a lovely time painting this gorgeous evening. Thank you so much for joining and happy painting. 18. DAY 13 - Soft Evening: [MUSIC] Hello dear friends. Welcome to Day 13. Our project for the day is a soft and a simple landscape. I will start with the color palette. For the sky, as you could see here, I have used a peach color, which is a mix of permanent rose and orange. If you don't have these two colors, you can just mix some crimson with vermilion and create a similar color. I already have a bit of paint left on my palette. I'm taking some permanent rose, mixing that with brilliant orange. That's a color I'm going to use for the sky. We'll be going for a simple gradient wash. If you want to go for a different color, may be you can go with orange or purple, that's totally your choice. Now the second color you will need is violet. We have two layer of mountain here. For the first layer, I'll be using purple, which is a mix of violet and a little of rose. This is the one. Let me show you the colors. These are the two colors I'll be using, violet and permanent rose. If you're mixing and creating violet, you just add more rose or more crimson into the mix to create a purple. These are the colors I'll be using for the mountain. The next set of colors you will need is the greens. Let's start with the lighter green. I will be using three different tonal values of greens for this painting. You see here the lighter green, that is leaf green. This is the one, it's from ShinHan. Then secondly, you will need sap green, which is a common color. I guess you all have it. If you don't have [inaudible] green, there's nothing to worry. You can just add a little of [inaudible] into lemon yellow and you can create a similar color. The next one is Payne's gray, which is the color I'll be using to add the deeper tones, and also the tree. That summarize the color palette for today's painting. That peach color we created is a gorgeous color, which you can use as a pixel color for the sky. It is just a mix of rose and orange, and we'll be using a really light tone. Now let's give it a try. I have taped on my paper, and I'm starting with the pencil sketch. For the sketch, we need to add a grassy middle as well as two set of mountains. This is the middle. You can either go with a sloping line or you can go for a straight line. Now I'm adding two sets of mountain. You can go with any kind of shape that you prefer, it doesn't need to be the same. That our sketch, it's a pretty simple sketch. Now, let's start preparing the colors. As I said earlier, I'm going to make some permanent rose with brilliant orange to create a peach color. I had tried this color combination, so I have some leftover paint. I'm starting by applying a coat of water onto the entire sky. You can apply water until the line of the middle. You don't need to leave out the mountains. Apply an even coat of water. We are going for wet on wet technique, but you can go for wet on dry as well. To apply the paint, I'm using my flat brush. This one is a half inch flat brush. Now, I'm picking some orange as well as rose and mixing them together. I want a medium tone, I don't want the color to be too bright. Depending on the amount of orange and pink that you're adding in your mix, your color might be slightly different. This is the color I'm using. I have used equal parts of orange and rose. If you want the color to be more orangeish, you can add more orange. So that's the color I'm using. It's a gorgeous peach color. On the top, I'm making the color more brighter. It's not too bright, it's just a medium tone. As I'm coming down I'm making it lighter, I'm not picking any more paint. I'm just using the leftover paint on my brush. Maybe we can just make the top part a bit more brighter. Because when the background dries, the color will tend to fade a little. Let's not take a chance. Let's make the color a bit more brighter, only on the top. Towards the bottom, I want to retain that lighter tone. Just keep running your brush back and forth in a horizontal direction to get the perfect blend. Also use a flat brush. If you don't have a flat brush and if you're using a round brush to apply paint onto the background, I would suggest going with a bigger brush. With a bigger brush, obviously, you can apply paint onto a larger area quite quickly. This won't leave any brush mark when the background dries. That's the sky, now, let's leave it for drying. [MUSIC] That's a beautiful color and a beautiful blend. Anyways, let's go the next task which is painting the mountain. I'm starting with the one in the background, for which I'm going to use a purple. To create purple, I'm mixing a little of permanent rose with violet. I only have a little bit of permanent rose leftover here. That's all we need. See that? That's a color I'm going to use for the first mountain. Now, I'm going to apply that along the outline I have added here. It's not a complicated color if you are mixing and creating your own violet, just add more crimson into the mix and make it a medium tone. Now using clean water, I'm going to make the rest lighter. That is our first mountain. If you want to modify the shape of your mountain, you can do that right now, and if you're done, just leave it for drying. [MUSIC] That has dried too. Next I'm going to make the middle, and after that, I will go with the second mountain. For the middle, as I said earlier, you will need three different tonal values of green. I'll be using leaf green, sap green, and to add a deeper tones, I'll also be using some Payne's gray. Keep the colors ready on your palette. Also use a bigger size brush or a medium-sized round brush to apply the paint. I'm starting with the leaf green. This one is just a light green. You can either create a lighter green like this or you can just use lemon yellow as it is. Go with any color that you prefer and apply that onto the top part of the middle. You can either go for a gradual slope like this or you can go for a straight line. That is leaf green, now I'm picking some sap green and I'm adding that at the bottom. I'm also adding some lines on top of leaf green, leaving some gaps in between, see that? While applying the paint, just leave a little of leaf green in between, and then you can fill up the rest in sap green. You can see that in-between color we have here. That's what we need, we don't need a lot of leaf green between, just a little on the top. Now let's fill up the rest in sap green. We need to make it even more darker. First let's start with sap green. Now gradually we can introduce a darker green, which is a mix of Payne's gray and sap green. I'm just adding some Payne's gray into sap green to create a darker green, and I'm adding that at the bottom. We just need a lighter green on the top. The rest is all medium tone and darker tone. Keep adding that darker tone at the bottom. Now comes the fun part. Once you have added that darker tone at the bottom, with the same brush, keep adding some lines on the meadow. See that? Just some lines on either side. Don't add any lines at the center where we have that lighter green. At this stage, it might look a bit messy, which is totally okay. If your background is starting to dry, just be a little quick and add in the lines. That's the background. Now, I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to pick some leaf green again. Pick a paint which is not too watery. If you feel like the paint is watery, dab it on a paper towel. With that brush, keep smudging the paint to make it look smoother. Right now you can see those lines at the trough. This simple step will make everything so soft and smooth. Don't put a lot of pressure. Just run your brush back and forth until they have a softer feel. You can already see how beautiful it has turned out, just because we retain some of the lighter tone. For the rest we used medium tone and darker tone. Now, if you want to add some more deeper tones, you could do that right now, as the background is still slightly wet. I'm just going to make use of the time. I'm picking a darker tone and I'm adding fewer lines over here. This is completely optional if you're already happy with your result and your background is starting to dry, just leave it as it is. Don't add any more deeper tones. I just felt like I can add a few more, especially onto this side. That's a grassy meadow. I'm really happy with the colors and the plant. Now, let's leave it for drying. [MUSIC] That has dried and you can see how beautiful the colors are looking. Now the next task was to paint the second mountain for which I'm using violet as it is, I'm using a medium tone. Don't go for a darker tone. It has to be a medium tone. That looks a bit bright. I think I will need to add some more water. It can be a medium tone of purple or violet. You can use any of these colors. Now, apply paint along the outline and fill it up. Be sure to go with a medium tone. Don't make it too dark. We are trying to make it look like this. [inaudible] are quite far. If you use a darker tone, you wouldn't be able to bring in that sense of distance in your painting. Fill it up and leave it for drying. [MUSIC] That is dry too. Now we need to add the final details. We need to add some landscape far away along this line. Also we need to add a tree, a small tree far away, which I'm planning to add on the right. You can add that either on the left or right. That's totally your choice. Now I'm picking some Payne's gray using my Size 6 round brush. Go with any of your smallest size brush or a brush with a pointed tip, and add the tree trunk. This tree is far away, so go with a similar size, don't make it too huge. Now add a simple tree trunk. That's a tree trunk. Now, let's add the foliage. For that as well, I'm using the same brush and the same paint. If your paint is too watery, dab it on a paper towel, and just keep adding some teeny tiny patterns about the tree trunk. For the tree cover, you can go for any shape that you prefer. You can either spread it out and make it a big tree. Or you can go for a smaller tree. That's totally your choice. Using a darker tone, keep adding some teeny-tiny pattern until you feel like you have got a tree kind of shape. This one is quite far. There is no need to put a lot of effort. You don't need to play with different tonal values or anything. Just use Payne's gray as it is or a darker tone of green. Using the tip of your brush, keep adding some teeny tiny pattern to show the foliage. I'm thinking to add a bit more leaves on the top so that I can cover that mountain. That's my tree. Now using the same brush, I'm going to add some shadow on the ground. Right where the tree is standing, we need to add some shadow. We can use a dry paint, so dab your brush on a paper towel. Just simply add some lines on the ground right underneath the tree. See that? We don't need a lot of pattern, just add some lines. That's it. That's a tree and the shadow on the ground. Now there's one last thing we need to do, which is adding some landscape far away. For that as well, I'm using the same color and using the same brush. You can either go with Payne's gray as it is or you can go for a darker tone of green. Simply add some teeny-tiny patterns along that line of meadow to show there are some plants and trees far away. This one also shouldn't be too big. Go with a similar size to get the sense of distance in your painting. You can add the landscape as a continuous line or you can break that in-between leaving some gap. See that? You can add them however you want to. The only thing to keep in mind is the size. Don't make it too opaque. Go ahead and fill it up, and that's the last task. With this we'll be done with our painting. [MUSIC] Right behind the tree, go for a much more smaller size, otherwise it will look too busy and the tree won't be prominent. You can see the size here. Go to similar size when you're adding the landscape behind the tree. That's it. With that, we're done with our painting for the day. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. [MUSIC] Here is our soft and simple painting for the day. I hope you all liked it. I absolutely love the color of the sky. It's a gorgeous color that you can create quite easily. Thank you so much for joining and try it out if you haven't tried it yet. [MUSIC] 19. DAY 14 - Green Lake: Our next project is a gorgeous mountain and a green lake. It is one of my most favorite painting from the collection so far. Anyway, let's have a look at the colors you will need. First, I will start with the color for the sky which is cerulean blue. You can use any other blue you have got, we just need a lighter tone. It can be Prussian blue or cobalt blue, or it can be turquoise blue as well. That's the color I'm using. That's going to settle in been from [inaudible]. This one is nearly over. It's high time I need to get a new tube of cerulean blue. Anyway, our next color is indigo. I will be using indigo for the mountain. On the top of the mountain, you can see dull blue, that is indigo. Then towards the bottom, I'll also be using some sap green. That is indigo. This one is from cerulean. The next color, you will need a sap green. Towards the bottom of the mountain, you can see some greenish color there, that is a sap green. I will also be using sap green to add the reflection. That's our third color. The next one we need is Payne's gray. I won't be using Payne's gray as it is, I will be mixing that with green to create a darker green. That's a color I'll be using for that tree is far away. Now comes the most interesting color for this painting, which is cobalt green. This one is more of a pixel color, it's a bluish green, and that's the one I'll be using for the lake. This one is not a common color. If you're a beginner, you might not have it but that's okay. If you have turquoise blue, add some white watercolor into your turquoise blue to create a similar color. If you don't have turquoise blue, the next thing you can do is just add some Prussian blue or any other blue with sap green, and add a little of white into that. Try mixing those colors and see how it is looking. As you're mixing and creating cobalt green, the color might be slightly different, but that's not going to affect your paintings. Don't worry about it. Start with the colors you have with you, and slowly upgrade your collection as you progress with your watercolor journey. Let's begin. I have my paper ready here. I'm starting by adding a mountain. This one is a tall mountain. There's a nice pointy tip. Then towards either side, it is sloping down. You can add small ridges in between to look more interesting. That's the sketch. We can modify the shape later when we are painting. We'll be adding more deeper tones along these lines. We'll be adding some here then a little here, and also here. If you want to add some lines like this, you can do that right now. That's really not necessary, we can add them when we're painting. But if you want to add some reference line, you could do that as well. Now I'm adding the horizon line. A little below that, I'm adding another line and I'm connecting that back into the mountain, so it's just a landscape area. To get started, this is what we need. When we are painting, we'll be adding reflection over here and also underneath this line. We're good to go. Now, let's start painting. As I mentioned at the beginning, the color I'm going to use for the sky is cerulean blue. I'm going to squeeze out a bit onto my palette. We'll begin with a very simple gradient sky, and we don't need a lot of color. That is cerulean blue. I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the anterior sky. For that, I'm picking my one inch wash brush. Dip your brush in some clean water, and apply an even coat of water onto the entire sky. You don't need to leave out the mountain, you can apply water on that too. My background is evenly wet, now let's start applying the paint. I'm using a size number eight round brush, and I'm taking a medium tone of cerulean blue. I'll be applying this medium tone only on the top, and as I'm coming down, I will simply apply some lines. You can either go with a gradient wash, or you can simply apply some lines to make your sky a bit more interesting. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel. I'm just adding some lines onto that wet background. We have some whiter space in between, and that is the beauty of the sky. I'm picking some more paint, and I'm adding that brighter blue on the top. I'm adding some lines as well. I just have some whiter space in between. But if you want to go for a simple gradient wash, you can totally do that. That is my sky. I'm pretty happy with the way it has turned out. It is a simple sky, there is nothing much complicated here. I started out with a medium tone where I simply added some lines onto that wet background. That's the sky. Let's leave it for drying. The sky has dried completely, now we can start painting the mountain. For the mountain, as I said earlier, I'm going to use indigo on the top, and towards the bottom, I'll be adding some sap green. Keep the colors ready. First, let me take out some indigo onto my palette. This one is from Sennelier. It's one of my favorite indigo. We need some sap green as well. For the base layer, we need these two colors: indigo and sap green. I'm going to pick my medium sized round brush again, and I'm going to pick a medium tone of indigo. It shouldn't be too light and it shouldn't be too dark as well, so go with a medium tone. We're going to apply this medium tone on the top part of the mountain. Carefully follow that outline you have added, and fill up almost three foot of the mountain in a medium tone of indigo. There's nothing complicated here. Simply fill it up. That is indigo. Now, let's switch to sap green. I'm not washing my brush, I'm picking sap green with the same brush, maybe we can add a bit of indigo as well. Let's fill up the rest in sap green. Mix up of a little of sap green and indigo, and just merge that into the background. Push your brush towards the top, let it blend in its own way; there is no need to put a lot of effort here. Push your brush towards the top, and fill up the rest in that cream color. For this section, that section at the bottom, I'm just using that green tone. I'm not adding any blue there. That's a base layer. Before this dries, we need to add in some more deeper tones onto this just to give it some texture. For that, I'm picking a bit of indigo. It can be a little darker tone but not too dark. I'm adding that deeper tone along all these lines. Onto all those looping area, add in some deeper tone. The background is still wet, so they will nicely spread into the background, leaving a beautiful texture. Keep adding that sloping line to introduce some texture. Don't add lot, just add a few here and there to bring in some texture onto your mountain. Now, I'm adding a bit over here to separate that foreground and background. This is actually the base layer, and we'll be adding more texture when the background dries. My background is starting to dry, so I'm just going to leave the way it is. I'm not going to add any more deeper tones, but I need to smudge this area. It looks really rough. Using seen sap green, I'm merging that into the background. Maybe I will add some more green over here. It looks a bit weird. While this background is not looking that perfect, that is totally fine. As I said earlier, we'll be adding more texture, and we'll also be adding some landscape on either side using a darker tone. We'll be covering all that out. That's our base layer. Now, we'll have to wait for this to dry. That has dried perfectly. Now let's start painting the lake for which you will need some cobalt green. This one is a pixel color, and that is what brings the beauty of this painting. If you don't have a similar color, as I said earlier, just add a bit of white into turquoise blue. If you don't have turquoise blue, just mix some green with any of the blue that you have got and also a little of white. Now we can start. Using my medium-sized brush, I'm picking some cobalt green. I'm not adding a lot of water, I want a thick color. See that? It's a beautiful color to add in your collection. Now pick enough of paint on your bigger-sized brush or a medium-sized brush and fill up that entire lake in this beautiful cobalt green. Just apply a solid wash, then slowly we can start applying more medium tones and some reflection onto this. The first step is just to apply a solid wash of this color. You can see how beautiful that color is. It's a perfect color to paint tropical beaches and freshwater lakes. I absolutely love this color. I also use it for northern lights, so it's a great color to add in your collection if you want to try it. That's a base layer. Now onto this while it's still wet, I'm going to drop in some green. With the same brush, I'm picking some sap green and I'm just adding that right underneath this mountain. First I'm adding that on the left side. Now, in a similar way, I will add a little on the right as well, right over here. You just need to add that on the wet background. On the left end and on the right end, you can bring it a bit lower. I'm picking a bit more green. I'm just making this line straight. Now we need to make the reflection a bit more prominent. For that, we need to introduce a bit more brighter tone, and to create that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick a little of cerulean blue and I'm going to mix that with sap green. This will create a beautiful bluish green. Just the same way how we did earlier, we can add some reflection right underneath the mountain. I'm focusing on either end; I'm not adding a lot towards the center. We'll just add some lines on the left end and also on the right end. You can see how beautiful that reflection is turning out. Now, in case if you want to add in more reflection, you want to introduce more green and more bluish green, you could do that right now while your background is still wet, so make use of the time. If you want to make your reflection more prominent or more interesting, this is the time. If your background dries up and if you add more lines, it will stay too prominent. I will just add one or two lines and I will show you a trick. I have added few lines right now which is looking quite weird. they haven't really blended into the background. If this happens, there is a trick. Clean your brush and pick more cobalt green and just apply another layer on top of the base layer and smudge the paint into each other to give it a more softer and smoother feel. It's an easy trick to fix your background quite easily. You can just apply another layer and push and pull your paint into each other. This trick will easily fix those rough lines and make your background instantly very smooth and soft. See that? In case if you feel your background needs a little fix, you know what to do. Anyways, this is how it has turned out; that little green freshwater lake. Now we can leave this for drying, or maybe we don't need to leave it for drying. In the meantime, we can start adding the remaining texture onto the mountain. Let's do that. For that, I'm picking my smaller-sized brush and I'm picking some more indigo. This time I'm using a much more deeper tone. What I'm going to do is I will tap my brush on a paper towel. Just tap it on a paper towel two or three times just to get rid of that water content from the brush. With some dry paint, let's add some texture onto the same area where we added those deeper tones earlier. Go with the dry paint and just add some dry texture onto the mountain, right about those medium tones. When you add the texture, your mountain instantly gets a more polished and a more finished feel. Earlier it was looking quite dull, so when you add these deeper tones using that dry paint, it will look instantly beautiful. If you want to add more deeper tones you can use Payne's gray as well. Right now I'm using a bit of Payne's gray to make that color much more deeper onto those pockets. Just look at your painting and understand what needs to be done more. If you feel you're happy with the result and if you feel like you have got enough texture, you don't need to continue adding the same texture just because I'm doing it. Those decisions should come from you. Sometimes I used to overwork and I used to ruin my painting, and I used to think I should have stopped a bit earlier, so sometimes you should not listen to your teacher and you should just listen to your guts and your intuitions. Anyways, that's the mountain. Now let's add the remaining details. For that, we need a deeper green, so I'm mixing some Payne's gray with sap green. That is Payne's gray. Now let's pick some sap green and create a darker green. Using color, I'm going to add a line of trees. I'm planning to make the trees higher towards the right end and the left end. I'm starting from here. It is just a random shape; I'm adding some teeny-tiny lines close to each other. They're literally some lines; you can't see them. Using the tip of my brush, I'm simply adding some lines close to each other. Some of them are a bit taller and some of them are a bit shorter. This will automatically add up beauty in your painting. It will look more natural and realistic. Once you have added the lines, just fill up the bottom and add a straight line in there. Towards this side I'm making them shorter. See that? I want the trees to be taller towards either end then shorter towards the center. That's a right side. In a similar way, we need to add trees on the left side as well. This one is a very simple technique to add trees far away. There's no need to put a lot of effort when you add that lines close to each other, and when you have that little grooves on the top, it will automatically look like trees far away. That's the right side. Now, in a similar way, I'm going to add trees on the left side as well. On the left end, I will make them taller, and as I'm going towards the center, I will make it shorter. Let's do this. That's the trees far away. You can see how beautiful our paint has turned out. Now before we wrap this up, there's one last thing we need to do, which is adding some more lines of reflection. For that, I'm just using a medium tone of that darker green we created. Maybe we can add a pinch of green into the same color. Now using that color, I'm just going to add some lines onto the lake right underneath the landscape; just some some simple line. Don't add a lot, just a few, and don't add them too close to each other. Place some gap in-between when you're adding them. See that? The color I'm using here is a mix of a little of Payne's gray and more of sap green. Using that color, simply add some lines on either side. That's it. That's our reflection. Now you can see it looks more complete. Earlier it was looking like there was something missing. With that, we're done with our painting. But if you want to add some snow onto the mountain, you could do that. You can take out some white watercolor of gouache and add snow; something similar to the one we have done here. Just go with the dry white paint and add some snow onto your mountain to make it a bit more interesting. I'm not going to add that, but if you want to add it that is totally okay. Just take out some white paint and add some snow onto your mountain. Now I'm going to peel off the masking tape. Here's the finished painting. I think we tried few easy techniques like painting the mountains, adding those reflection, and painting those trees in the background. Those things can be used in your future paintings as well. That's the painting for today. Thank you so much for joining and I hope you all had a lovely time. 20. DAY 15 - Pastel Lake: Hello dear friends, welcome back. We are wrapping up this unwind with watercolor series with a very simple mountain sky. As usual, I will start with the colors you will need for today's painting. For this sky, I will be using two colors, which is violet and permanent rose. If you don't have permanent rose, just go with crimson or any other similar color. Those are the two colors you will need for the sky. For those small mountains in the background as well, I'm using violet. I will dispatch all these two colors. The violet I'm using here is from White Nights. It's a beautiful violet. It is highly pigmented. Do you see that? That's a color. But for this particular painting, I'll be using a really light tone. It's more like a medium tone. That's hopeless color. The next one is permanent rose. This one is crimson hand. It's again a bright rose. It's not a very common color. But you might have crimson. If you don't have any rose, that's totally okay. Just called crimson. Or if you want a bright it yourself, you can also use opera pink if you have that with you. Those are the two colors we'll be using for the sky, as well as the mountain. Now coming to the next two colors we will need, which is brown and Payne's gray. If you don't have brown, go with poinciana and if you don't have Payne's gray, go with black. This is the brown I'm using. It is from art philosophy. The base color is going to be brown. Then onto that, we'll be adding some deeper tones using Payne's gray. That is brown. At the beautiful color, I loved using colorful mountains. Now the last color we will need is Payne's gray or black to add the deeper tones. The Payne's gray I'm using here is from Rembrandt. Those are the colors you will need. Now finally to add this teeny tiny moon here, you can either use white watercolor or white gouache. I'll be using white watercolor, but that is completely optional. If you don't want to add the moon, you can totally skip that. Those are the colors you will need for today's painting. Now it's time to give it a try. First and foremost, we need to add a pencil sketch or we need to add a mountain in the foreground, the huge mountain. This is going to be quite high. You can go with any shape that you prefer. It doesn't need to be exactly the same. We'll be adding lots of textures and deeper tones onto the mountain in a very random way when we are painting. For now, you just need to add our basic shape, go with an interesting shape as this is our major element. Next, I'm going to add the mountains far away which is somewhere over here. First I will add a line. Now we need to add small patches of land as well as some tiny mountain. These ones are really far away. You have to go with a similar size, don't make it too big. If needed, you can modify the shape when you're painting. That spaces in between is the water body. Now I'm going to add the mountain. You can see the size I'm going with. Try to go with the similar size, otherwise, your paint will go out of proportion. That was the sketch. Now we can start painting. First, I'll take out the colors needed for the sky, which is violet and permanent rose. We are going with a very simple variegated wash of these two colors. Now, in case you want to go with a different color combination, maybe blue and violet, or maybe purple and violet, or purple and rose. That's totally up to you. Just go with any color combination of HIS. Have the colors ready. Now, I'm going to start by applying coat of water onto the entire sky. You don't need to leave out the mountain, you can apply water on top of that. This is my washing white brush and dipping that in clean water. I'm applying a gel to go to water or to the entire sky. Whenever you are applying water onto your background, just be sure not to add a lot. They shouldn't be pot water, we just need a shiny coat and run your brush multiple times just to be sure the coat water is even. Also, my background is evenly wet. Now to apply paint onto the sky, I'm going to pick my half-inch flat brush. I'm keeping this one aside and this is the brush I'm using to paint the sky as a half-inch brush. I'm just making sure it's clean, and I'm starting out by picking some violet. Almost half of the sky will be using violet then we'll switch to pink. You can go with a medium tone and apply that until half of your sky. You can see the color I'm using. It is not too dark and it is not too light as well. I'm just running my brush in a back-and-forth manner from left to right. That is violet. Now, I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to switch to my second color. That looks even. Now let's wash the paint and go with the second color. In my case, it is permanent rose. If you're using the same color combination, you can either use rose or crimson. Or you can go with violet or have a different color. I'm going with a medium tone and I'm applying that right where I stopped violet and I'm blending them. You see that. Now let's pick more paint and add that towards the bottom. We can apply the same color onto the lake as well. You see that. Just bring it down. If you want to make the color more brighter, you can add another layer. Otherwise, we are done with the background. I'm just continuing the paint to the top so that I haven't even blend. That's my sky. Now, let's clean the brush and leave it for drying. This is how the sky has turned out. It's a perfect blend I would say. I'm really happy with the color. What we have here is the water body. Now around that we have some land and some mountains and we are going to paint that next, for which I'm using violet. I will just apply an even washer violet onto that land and mountain. I'm using a medium tone which is the color I used for the sky on the top. Now, let's simply flip that land and mountain. As I said earlier, if you want to change the shape of your mountain, you can do that right now because the color we're using for the mountain is a bit brighter than the color we have in the background. That pencil sketch won't show up. That's a mountain. Now I'm adding those patches of land. You see that. Here I have another patch. Maybe I will add a tiny patch on the right side as well to make the shape more interesting. Just a tiny bit on the right. Maybe I will add one more piece over here. Go the similar tonal value, don't make it too dark, and don't make it too light as well. It has to be visible, but it shouldn't be too prominent. I hope I'm making sense. Anyway, that's our background mountain. Now we can leave this for drying. Now when this layer dries, we can paint the foreground mountain, which is going to be more of a darker tone. I will just show you the shape I'm going with. The sketch is not really visible. You see that. Now we have that space leftover in-between in pink color, that is the lake. Now, maybe we can go with the tapering shape over here. We can modify the shape however you want to. As we can see, a much more Taco toner Bell for the mountain in the foreground. If you want to cover up a little up your wallet mountains, that can be easily done. Now, let's leave this for drying. That has dried too. Now our final task was to paint the mountain, for which I'm going to use brown from Art Philosophy. As we discussed earlier, if you don't have brown, just go with burnt sienna. Take out some paint and let's apply a medium tone of brown on to the anterior background. I already have some Payne's gray over there, but I might need a bit more. Let me keep that already. This is the one I'm using. Payne's gray isn't a common color. The easiest alternate you might have is black, so just go with that. To apply the paint, I'm using a medium-sized round brush. This one is twice number eight, and I'm starting out with a medium tone of brown. It's a beautiful color. I just love this color. Now let's apply that paint onto the anterior mountain. The very first step is to apply an even washing brown or poinciana onto the anterior mountain, following the outline you have added. Simply fill that up. Then once we have applied paint onto the anterior mountain, we'll be adding some deeper towards ends up textures using Payne's gray. First, let's fill this out. That's a base layer. Now onto those, we can start adding some deeper tones, but it is still bad. First, let us create a deeper tone of brown by mixing some Payne's gray, wet brown. Now let's quickly start adding the deeper tones before the background dries up. First I'm adding the deeper tones onto this area. Because I think it is starting to dry, so I'm quickly adding some on the top. I'm just dragging my brush towards the bottom in a sloping manner. Similarly, I'm adding some lines on the other one. All I'm doing is I'm just adding some thick lines in a sloping manner, either from the top to bottom or from the bottom towards the top. We can already see those beautiful textures we have got here. Similarly, wherever you want, you can add in similar lines. They can be thick and thin, but try to go the sloping manner, which will indicate the mountain slopping. I'm adding more deeper tones towards the bottom. You see that. As the background is still wet, they will spread into the background in a very beautiful way and there is no need to put a lot of effort in blending them. Just keep it the way it is. Let it be very natural. That's how it has turned out. To add the deeper tones, right now we used a darker tone of brown. Now, in case you want to make your mountain look more interesting or more dramatic, you can add some more textures using Payne's gray or black. Let me show you how we can add them. I'll just add few textures here and there. But this step is completely optional. If you feel like your mountain is looking pretty good, and you have a curtain of architectures, there is no need to add more. You can just leave it the way it is. I'm just adding some random patterns here and there using Payne's gray. Now we can add a little behind this line. This will roughly separate the mountain into two sections so that I would just turn out, I'm pretty happy with that. Now before we wrap it up, there is one little thing we can do, which is nothing, but adding a teeny-tiny percent more using white watercolor or white gouache. To add the moon, I'm using a brush with a pointed tip, this one a size number two. We can also use a white gel pen for the strip. I'm just picking some paint directly from the tube. I don't want to squeeze out any pain. I just need a teeny bit. Now, let me add a chrysanthemum. I'm going to add that towards the right side. You can either go to the right or the left. It is super tiny. I would recommend to go with the similar size. It's good to have one or two detailing brush or a smallest, especially new collection. They will be really helpful at cases where you need to add some tiny details like a moon or maybe some fine lines, but those pointed tip can get ruined easily if you don't care for it properly. That's something you have to be careful about. Every time you have painted something, wash it thoroughly and keep it clean. That's our teeny-tiny moon and the time. We're done with our painting for the day. Now, let's pill up the masking tape. Here is our last painting from the series is a small, simple, and beautiful evening. We can see those textures on the mountain. It is just a matter of adding those deeper tones while the background is spread and you will end up getting a beautiful texture. That's all for the day. Thank you so much for joining and I hope you all have a lovely time. 21. Thank you for joining :): Thank you so much for joining. I hope you all had a relaxing and calming time with watercolors. All the paintings have we tried in this class, we're using a very simple color palette and they don't have a lot of details. If you enjoyed this class, you could try similar paintings just by changing the color of the sky and going for a different subject for you for crowned. Learning new techniques and improving your skill is really important, but it is equally important to enjoy the process rather than worrying about the result. At times, take out the time to work on some simple and relaxing watercolor landscapes. This will make you fall in love with watercolor over again, and it will also make your bond much more stronger. Thanks again for joining and happy painting. Bye.