Sketching Plants with Mixed Media Art Supplies

1. Intro: Hello, my name is T0 and welcome to this and mixed media art costs. I'm an artist and graphic designer who enjoy sketching out on location are used digital tools as well as traditional twos. But I prefer to use traditional tools to create art because it's just more fun. In this course, I'm going to talk about my inspiration. I'm gonna give you a quick guide to the tools and supplies you can use to create mixed media art. I will talk about the characteristics of each tool, the pros and cons. And finally, we will create this art project to get there using some of the tools and supplies mentioned in this course. And after you have completed the cause, can I invite you to write a review for this course so that you can help other students know whether this course is any good. Alright, let's jump into the first lesson. Let me talk about my inspiration. 2. My source of inspiration: In this lesson, I'm going to tell you where I get my inspiration. I collect many art books and a final lot of inspiration from books. I also enjoy urban sketching, which is sketching outdoors on location with my friends. I really like to see how my friends create art and the tools and supplies that a use. And I also use social media to discover artists and discover more art. So this is how I find all these different sources of inspiration. Let me show you some of the books that I have. I really enjoy. I love sketchbooks because I find it very inspiring and fascinating. Artists can create absolutely beautiful and detailed artworks using the loose lines that were created with pen and ink, pencil and quick splashes of colors. And I have reviewed countless sketch books over the years which you can find on my blog. So let's talk about one of the earliest books that got me really inspired to create art and illustrated life by Danny Gregory. This book was published in 2008 and it's popular enough, be reprinted several times so you can still get this book today. And artists and author is Danny Gregory, who has authored and Illustrator many similar sketch books as well. So I highly recommend you check out the books from Danny Gregory. There is actually a sequel to this book called An Illustrated journey, which focus and features travel log sketchbooks. So let's take a look and see what's inside. I find his book to be very inspiring because it features the sketch books from artists around the world. And all these artists, they have different styles. These are the sketches from Danny Gregory. These are pen, ink and watercolor sketches. These are just ink sketches from my tires. Are Dawson. He creates a lot of cartoons using his fountain pens. These are comics. There is also a lot of mixed media art. So from this book, you can see the different types of tools and supplies used by other artists to create your art. Styles are also very different. So you can try to mimic some of the styles you see here and learn from as many artists as you can to develop your own style. There is also a lot to read this book so you can find out where this artist get their inspiration from. This. This book is quite thick, so it's really worth the money. It's just packed with lots of inspiration. So beautiful sketches. I also collect many sketchbooks from artists as well. This one is from in my Serrano. This is a view from top to bottom. I like her mixed media art sketches because they are very expressive. The way she sketches, the way she uses colors are dry and wet media is very fun, very exciting. And where she composes have page, the way she lays out a page is also very dynamic. So it really brings you into the scene. When you are looking at his sketches. Sketches are so lively. And she likes to use very bold colors, very striking colors. And you can really feel the energy behind sketches. This is a very lovely sketch book. Next, we have whole arm euro from Sasaki in my Serrano As to ascii art board from Spain. So they are Spanish artists. And so ascii likes to use mixed media tools as well to create odd. So for this sketch you can see we have black lines and red lines. So this is something you can try as well. Drawing with just line odd but mixing different colors. This is a pen ink and watercolor sketch with a very limited color palette. We have grays, blue, red, and yellow. Sketches are very loose as well. This is a more detailed sketch with watercolor and dry media. I can say this our pencil lines or maybe call it pencil lines. And there's ink as well. His sketches are also very lively, very energetic, and very expressive. I like that he has written notes and captions talking about the people he has met in this museum and the stories behind some of the extra bits. This is a very lovely sketch book as well with very beautiful art. That stretches to the h of the pitch. So it feels very massive when you're looking at these sketches. And this book is dare to sketch a guide to draw it on the goal by Felix shine burger. This is actually an instructional art book with a lot of tips on sketching, on using pen and ink and watercolor and on journaling. And in this book are very sketchy, beautiful artworks. So these are just some of the books that I flipped through very often to find inspiration, to get inspired again and again. This is a very lovely book as well. I have many books relating to urban sketching because I really enjoy sketching out on location. So this book is the will of urban sketching, publishing in 2022. Authors and author is definitely power in his book, our sketches from Urban Skechers from around the world. So again, you get to see a lot of beautiful sketches in different styles. The types of media that they use, the stories behind a Sketchers, and also the artist's profile for the artists. So if you'd like the artworks that you see here, you can check out more art from this artist's. This book is birth thick and is just packed with inspiration, art, and stories. So this is a book I can recommend very easily as well. I have not finished reading this book yet, even though I bought this a few weeks ago, because I want to enjoy this book first slowly. And the cost that you are about to start on was actually inspired by a sketch in this book. Let me show you which sketch. So it's this sketch to inspire me to create this mixed media art costs. There are so many different ways and styles to drawing plans. So creating mixed media art is really about experimenting, mixing and matching different media to create a fine difference, Dallas, that may or may not work. That's just part of the fun. The earliest sketch was created with dry media. This sketch was created with ink and markers. So the look and feel is very different. This book is actually a sequel to an earlier book called The Art of urban sketching, which is a boom that you should also check out if you can, because it's a great book. I find inspiration not only from art books and social media art pages, but also from sketching on location. I like to explore new neighborhoods. I enjoy sketching outdoors with my friends. The more and more sites you are exposed to, the more ideas you can get. It's easy to be inspired by the beautiful art works of other artists. But sometimes you can inspire yourself as well. Because sometimes you don't really know the type of art you can create until you have created that odd, I highly recommend you archive your artist so that you can refer to them in the future. Because it's very inspiring and motivating to see all the artworks you have created over the years. And you can get this sense of achievement. You won't be able to get if you kinda see the volume of wool you have created. In the next lesson, we will look at the tools and supplies that you can use to create a mixed media art. 3. Guide to mixed media art supplies: In this lesson, I want to give you a quick intro to some of the tools and supplies we can use to create a mixed media art. Don't worry, you don't have to buy everything because we are not using everything. For this course. I have already separated the 2s and supplies into different categories. And here at the top left we have dry media such as color pencils, crayons, graphite pencils, mechanical pencils. Here we have wet media such as watercolor wash, which is the opaque version of watercolor. And we have a watercolor brush. Here we have inks from pens, from markers, and here we have paper in the form of sketchbooks. My general advice when it comes to buying art supplies is to choose based on the effect that you want to create. Because each medium, we will have its own pros and cons. When you're buying art supplies, it would be great to go with supplies that mentioned the word pigment. Pigments are physical particles that make up the color. Generally speaking, pigments are more light fast, which is to say the colors will not that easily when exposed to light for long periods of time. When you see a pen or colored pencil and there is no information regarding the pigment that is used. I highly recommend you do more research online to find out what's used to make the color e.g. with this alcohol marker, the color that you see here is made with diabetes inks, and these colors can fade when exposed to light for long periods of time. So alcohol markers such as this are not suitable for creating display. Odd, you can use markers in sketch books. It's fine because mocker art in sketchbooks are not exposed to light when the schedule is closed. The supplies you see here are all made with pigments, but they come in different forms such as dry media, paint and inks. The reason there are different forms is due to the binder that is used to bind pigments to gather. And now let's take a quick look at the pros and cons for each medium. By way, if you want to learn more about each medium, I highly recommend you check out my other course on sketch booking with mixed media supplies where I dedicate one video for each medium. So let's start with colored pencils. Colored pencils are fun to use and are relatively affordable. The good brands that I recommend are Karen, Dutch, Faber, Castile, and went. Box set of 12 pencils is good for beginners. So color pencils are quite versatile way it is our scribble, Mark Smith by my daughter. So they can be used for drawing, for making marks, as well as for shading, for covering large areas. And you can mix colors very easily as well just by adding more colors. Let me add more yellow here to mean Is leaves more interesting. This is the dry effect, the texture effect you can create with colored pencils. Colored pencils work great with watercolor and colored pencils can be water-soluble on non-water soluble. If you are working with watercolor, I recommend you get non water-soluble colored pencils because e.g. if this drawing was drawn with water-soluble pencil and you apply watercolor on top of it, the lines would dissolve. So what we want to do is to retain the line so we use colored pencils that are not water soluble. Crayons for me, or just a thicker versions of colored pencils. And because they are thicker, the lines that you draw with them are going to be thicker as well. The advantage here is you can, again create dry or texture effects. And because they are thicker, you can cover more areas more quickly and easily. With this drawing, you can see it's actually not possible to tell which areas were drawn with colored pencils and which were drawn with crayon. So in this case, it doesn't make sense to buy colored pencils and crayons to CAD. They're creating mixed media art is really about experimenting, mixing and matching to find out which media will work the best sum media will work better with other mediator. Between colored pencils and crayons. If you can only buy one, I would recommend getting colored pencils because you can draw details more easily with colored pencils. Crayons just like colored pencils, can also be water soluble. Now let's take a look at watercolor. Watercolor is an incredibly versatile medium. There is no limit to the number of colors you can mix with watercolor. For beginners, I recommend you get a box set of 12 colors. Don't get too many colors because it can be quite overwhelming to learn color mixing when you have too many colors, this is a half pen and this is a full pen and they contain solid watercolor. I have added some water ready. That's why they look glossy. When you run out of paint in the future, you can read pens and very easily with watercolor tubes. The advantage of watercolor is they have limitless color mixing potential. They are great for covering large areas and they are incredibly expressive. So here e.g. if I want to paint the port, I can do so very easily. I can mix different colors easily to Creek traditions such as this. So coloring the pot with color pencils or crayon is going to take a longer time, but with watercolor, I can do so very easily. And what a color is great for creating solid shapes like this. To mix the screen, I actually use yellow and blue. So I don't need that many colors when it comes to using watercolor. Watercolor effects are not something you can create with non-water base media. So these are really fun to use. They can be quite challenging to use, but they are very fun to use. Watercolor works really well with colored pencils. So earlier I use rate colored pencils to draw the pot, use watercolor to paint over the colored pencils, to paint the leaves. Now, I'm using colored pencils to add more details. You can add details with watercolor as well, but the effect will be slightly different. One huge advantage of watercolor is watercolor is mostly transparent, and this allows you to show off line OD really well, e.g. this is a pen ink and watercolor sketch drawn with waterproof black ink and paint with watercolor on top of the black ink. And you can see the line art is clearly shown through the water color. Earlier on, I mentioned gouache as an opaque version of watercolor. So the advantage of using gouache is you get the opacity, you get the covering strength for this artwork, you can see the yellow on top of the darker green behind. This darker green overlaps the red leaves behind. This is possible with quash, but not possible with transparent watercolor. If you have transparent yellow is just going to blend with the darker green behind. This were painted with gouache as well. For this fish, I had read on top of yellow. For this I had yellow on top of red. Wash is great for blocking out the colors that are beneath. There are actually opaque versions of watercolor, such as cadmium yellow and cadmium red. Let's move on to colored inks. Colored inks can be found in color ink pens, ink bottles and markers. I prefer to use colored ink pens because they are more convenient. And this ink pens can come with different types of pen tips, e.g. this one here is a felt tip and this is a roller ball. Felt tips can wear out. And when you use felt-tip pens on rough paper services, you can wear out really fast. Metal pen tips are more durable, and the pen tips can come in different sizes. Depending on the tape you use, the ink flow may vary. This ink pen that I have here is called the one line painter. And to get the ink out, sometimes I have to press the nib to get the ink to flow. I like the vibrant colors. The downside here is sometimes it can create ink blot, so sometimes the ink splatter onto the page. And depending on whether you are looking for effects like this, this can be welcome or this can be a nasty surprise. As with other media, you can mix and match ink, colored pencils or other media as well. This will work great with watercolor too. Here are some examples of line drawn with the colored ink pens, and these are accidental blobs. I have them here as well. Regardless of the tool you're using, always test your tool first before you use them to make actual art. Because when you're drawing, you don't really want a surprises like this unless you want surprises like this. Markers can also use inks, and these markers use alcohol inks which are quick drying, as mentioned earlier, these are diabetes in so the colors may fade when exposed to light long enough. Our paint markers, which are opaque or transparent mappers, this paint markers use pigments so the colors are less likely to fit. The main advantage of using markers is they are extremely convenient. The downside is color mixing potential is quite limited. So if you need a sudden color, chances are you have to buy that color. And if you want more colors, you have to buy more colors. And macros are not cheap. For me. I have a limited number of paint markers. When you start to add more colors, that's when you will spend a lot of money. So just be aware of that. The paint markers that I recommend are from unique postcard and Marlowe toe. This is the model TO one for all acrylic paint, marker monitor, one for all is refillable. This or not. You can buy the markers with different tip sizes. The paint are made with pigments and they are all pig waterproof when dry. I usually use markers to add details on top of my art for drawing, I use a fountain pen with waterproof ink. The brand of the pen is actually not important. I like to use fountain pens because the ink is refillable and because I apply watercolor on top of the ink, I have to make sure the ink is waterproof. When you are buying things for use in fountain pens, make sure the ink portals specifically mentioned, the ink is safe for use in fountain pen. Listed on the site. Here are some of the waterproof drying inks that are safe for use in fountain pens. For paper supplies, I recommend you go with watercolor paper, so you can either get sketchbooks or watercolor pads. There are actually pay per created and marketed for mixed media art. However, those paper may not be treated to handle watercolor. Using actual watercolor paper may still be the safer choice if you want the textures like this, and granulation like this, get cold press, watercolor paper. If you're into drawing details, creating line art, using colored pencils, you may want to go with hot press, smooth, surface watercolor paper to create basic mixed media art, I recommend you get a box of watercolor with 12 colors, a box of color pencils with 12 colors of watercolor, sketchbook, graphite pencil, and a pen with waterproof ink, and this does not need to be a fountain pen. In the next lesson, we'll draw. 4. Main project (part 1/2): Welcome back. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I created this mixed media sketch using this reference photo that you can download from the video description below, or from the link that I have provided which links to the original source of this photo. And here's a list of all the tools and supplies I have used for this sketch. It's very fun to experiment with different styles once in a while. So for this sketch, I'm going to lay down the pencil lines for the curb. Maybe I'll draw this with later. Okay. So for the potted plants, I am going to draw them with a big soft colored ink pens, watercolor, and ink. So let's start with one color. So for this, put a plan, I'm going to draw the outline with pencil. This is a mechanical pencil. Some of the leaves are overlapping. This product plans. So I'm going to leave some whitespace here. I'm going to draw the rim here. I am not going to follow exactly what I'm looking at. I'm not going to follow exactly the reference photo. Sorry, I'm not going to follow the reference photo Exactly. Next, let's have a potted plant on the side. So in the photo you will see this protoplanets white. So I'm going to leave a white space here. And I'm going to paint the pot the pot plant here. I'm not sure what color painting this is. This looks like Van **** brown. I may be wrong. So let me get the shape right. I may want to add some red to this to make the pot a bit warmer. The color be more reddish so that it's not just this boring brown color that you see. And I can see there are some plants here, so maybe I will paint them later. I'll wait for this to dry first. Does this look big enough? I think it looks alright. It looks big enough. Next, let's draw some other plans. So maybe I can have this ink pen for the white part here. So this is brown and brown ink pen. Hopes my perspective seems to be a bit off. And not just that, it seems like the ink from this ink pen ink pen has soaked over. No, it did not. So Alice, this paper is thick enough. You will probably want to try drawing something like this with thick watercolor paper, 300 years analytical paper. This is the white part. And I can switch to a different color for are the ports. This is another part. Maybe I can switch to read as well. Maybe I can switch to red colored pencils. So there is a brown. Put the plunge here on. This case, I'm drawing with red. Maybe another one with this. I'm going to have this overlap, sorry, have this behind this plot that is in front. I'm also going to leave some whitespace for the leaves. Maybe I can draw the leaves, draw an outline of the leaf with colored pencil first. Yeah. We have a black pot, so maybe black ink instead of black colored pencils. We have a black part here. This one is just behind. And again, there are some overlapping leaves. Is actually not easy to just switch between the ink and color pencil. It's quite tedious. That switch to another color. For the other potted plant, those here. And it's put, the plan seems to have a tray beneath. So I want to draw it that we have another potted plant here. So for this one it's behind this. And for the trade that's beneath, I want to draw that with ink just to switch things around. Just to switch things around. And there is a door behind. So for a dorm, I can draw it with ink. Or there are actually some steps behind. A stack is behind. So should I grow it with pencil or with ink? Maybe I can draw with. But I want to draw some transverse just to make sure that I will remember to leave some space. Leave the white space for the plants later on. So this is the doorway to the staircase. This is entry to the stack. And we have some steps. The first one is like this, second one is like this. And like this. Okay. For the next plant onyx plot, I'm going to paint. Again. I'm going to use this color. I think this is permanent brown. It looks like permanent brown, PBR 25 mixed with some ultramarine Florida Bullock. It does not look dark enough right now, so let me just add more paint to it. While you're drawing the product plan. Really spend the time to observe like make sure you get the curves right. Okay, let's have this at an angle. The other plant that a pot that is B side is red. So maybe I can use this color ink pen or this is non-written. This is actually wrong. Let me switch to another color. Orange. Oh, there is actually a blue pot. And we all the colors that you see here are mixed n my chest, I'm not following their photo exactly. I'm going to draw the plants with the long leaves behind with ink and plants in front with the yellow leaves with watercolor. So that's my plan and let's see how it's going to turn out. So let me try and follow the shapes as closely as I can, make sure I get the overlapping shapes right. Maybe later I will draw the plans. If ink pens. Oops, I think I made a mistake there. This is very fun. The nice thing about this exercise is it's not easy to draw this from memory or from your imagination. So when you're drawing this, you are really relying on your observation skills. We have some potted plants behind with small leaves. So far that I will paint maybe with watercolor instead of growing debt with ink. What I wanted to do with this sketch really is to play around with mixed media. So take your time to draw the way the plans or the leaves turn. Those are really, that's a really good practice for drawing. Because they will always turn in a way that you don't expect them to turn. And when they turn, incident waves the leaves to actually flip over. So you can see the underside of the leaves or the top site of the leaves. Hey, so far I think so good. So far, so good. As difficult to see the details here. So I'll just draw the details that I can see later on. This area is probably going to be just painted with one big shape of very dark green. If I want to draw the cat, noise per helps to time to block in the shape of the cat. The cat actually overlaps. The curb. Mice are very stylistic. Cat. Maybe I'll draw this with. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't draw this with kink. Let's see how it looks. I think that's the kill. The white legs, the front legs, the front feet, the triangular years. Eyes, nose, mouth. Looks kinda weird. Maybe we'll look at watercolor is added next. I'm going to use a lot of water to paint the curb, NO soda ground. The cat is on. So for this I'm going to use ultramarine and burnt sienna, like a lot of ultramarine and burnt sienna. And maybe some yellow hansa yellow because the curve seems to be, that seems to be some yellow. And I need to use a lot of pink. Okay, That's some test it out. Make sure not to paint over the cat. I'm going to leave the wall just white. I'm going to have more green here. Now I'm going to paint the leaves here. And this stage I have to say that I am, I don't know what I'm doing, which is quite scary. So let's paint the background here. So this is mixed with phthalo, blue and yellow. If you want your leaves to be more green, or just add more, sorry, more yellow, just add more hansa yellow. I'm not painting within the shapes exactly. I'm just having fun painting, splashing, paint around for the leaves that are almost bright, white. I'm just going to leave them as they are. Maybe paint them with a lighter shade of green later on. My paper, as you can see, it starting to buckle because there's too much water. This is quite fun. Let's have some leaves here as well. So the leaves here, we're not drawing with ink. Instead, I'm just playing with the shapes are painted with watercolor. If you want to make you all leaves darker, you can use more philo blue or ultramarine. There are some yellows stocks here. Those are difficult to paint. And because because my camera is in front of me, I'm actually sitting behind my camera. Okay, That's peanut shapes for the leaves. And we have more blue leaves behind here. Make sure the watercolor brush you're using has a sharp tip. So this will allow you to paint leaves with the sharp tips more easily. See all these leaves with the sharp tip. The details look alright from afar. But if you actually look closely, it's actually quite difficult to differentiate different plants from each other, from one another. I really want to capture the sharp points of the leaves. I mean, add more yellow to make this more. Hello. The steps are actually much darker. So I have a dilemma now, should I pin this here we are much darker and then paint the leaves will wash. Maybe I should, maybe I shouldn't. So let me just stop right now. For this plan here, let me move to discipline on the left side. This is what I have so far. Let me continue here. Okay. I'm really not sure what I'm doing. But I know this part here has to be black, right? Darker. So for that I'm going to use my phthalo blue with some Hansa yellow, we have some red. So once you add red to blue and yellow mix, it's going to be much darker. So now you can see two tones, our values, the mid green and this darker green. So this darker green will create, help you create more contrast for the leaves. I mean, need to paint. This area are much higher with the darker green. Have the leaves come out at different angles. Have them, have the leaves crisscross. Basically tried to create interesting shapes with the leaves. Okay, um, let's see what we have so far. I think it looks alright, so far. You know what, maybe I can draw some leaves with colored pencils as well. 5. Main project (part 2/2): So I'm going to have some branches and yellow leaves or brown leaves or with tone with colored pencils. This will help create this mixed media style will help create interests. So we have textured media or gains, those flat coloring, watercolor. And we have solid shapes against line art. So this creates a variety. Yeah, I definitely need some brighter or darker leaves as well to create contrast. Oops, that's too much. They loo blue. And I can put in some green behind a colored pencils here to create to make it look more different. To give it a mix of watercolor and colored pencil, wet and dry media. And maybe I can even use the green ink marker ink pen, the green ink pen to add a few leaves here. Okay, be some dots or texture. This is what we have so far. Mixed sound pin this area here much darker. So I'm going to use ultramarine with some Hansa yellow and some red to make it darker. Let's see what happens when a pin this, okay, it's dark. It's dark. So as mentioned earlier, later on, I will be painting the leaves on top with gouache or opaque paint, all with Posca marker. Depending on what colors I have. I'm also going to use this color to paint the curve. Hopes I actually painted over the cat. I know what, I'm just gonna leave it as it is. Just leave it as mystic. Not be too stressed out by the mystic. Next time you want to draw the tweaks here with pencil. Pencil, and then use either pencil or the ink pens. Let me try and use pencils. Pencils. And pencils are much cheaper compared to independence. And also ink pens. The ink can run out quite quickly, so colored pencils, or it's going to be more affordable. Okay? This pen is not, sorry, this pencil is not opaque enough to go over the leaves here. I'm going to mix things up by using yellow as well. That was how many yellow. How? Sorry. He was brown for the branches. What are stocks here? When drawing the stocks? You will notice from the reference photo the lines are very random, very expressive. So that's how nature is. It's very random. Okay? I may want to use green here. Maybe here. Doesn't look that great. You can use this to add some variety at this stage or this part is dry. So now I may want to paint the potted plants. So I'm going to have a mix of white and grow and read potted plants. So this one here is supposed to be brown. Let's try and mix them. Brown. Let's see what this color is. This I'm actually not sure what this color is. Raw sienna, Queen go. Yeah. Maybe this some red to it or burnt sienna. So this looks like this. Maybe more queen goal is added. Yeah, maybe I should've had more quinacridone gold for the plant here. Let me just, sorry, this is actually a white pot. That I did not draw it here. So I decide now I can actually pin, grow that with the orange pen. Next, maybe we have another port here. This one is black part. What I'm trying to do here is to have different shapes as well as different values like white agains lack, sorry, lighter values against darker values and lighter values against meet values are, and just switch things around. Okay, next, let's have two. Let's make this rate instead. Let's make the pot reinstate the one behind me. While these two parts will be drawn with red sorry. Rate colored pencil young correct. Hopes. Once I paint over the colored pencil lines, the lines are lost time. Let me try and get a ship back. We have an orange part here. If you want your lines to show through, just choose, make sure that the pen you uses transparent. I'm actually just picking random paint from my watercolor box for the sketch. And some of those random colors are actually, pay me the most that. Why is it called the soil? We need to make this soil dark. And maybe I can use orange for the cat. So this is new gamboge on the cat. Maybe I can add some raw sienna. Okay, I think this looks alright. Let's try not to mess up the, oops. Let's try not to mess up the cat. It's okay to paint the cat with just, you can wash so that the cat with the vibrant colors will stand out against a neutral background. And next, I'm going to paint the opaque colors on top of the darker areas and also on top of the stairs. And I have created color, our co-op break here. So it says that it's crayon gouache. So I suppose this is going to be opaque. I hope it's opaque. So I'm going to mix the color here. This watercolor set is actually used by my daughter. Okay, it's actually not easy to dissolve. Now, why do I add green, blue, and yellow? After using tube wash, I realized that it's easier to use pen gosh, it's just more convenient. Okay, this is, this looks fine here. But for the yellow, know, the yellow is an art that will pick. The background here is very dark, but the color is not open enough, so you don't really see the contrast. So why may actually have to use the tube paint? So I switch over to using to wash. So let's hope this is enough. Let's paint a few leaves here. Okay, This is opaque enough. Let's mix some greens. But it's not 100% opaque. Okay, this looks alright. This looks alright. What I want to do here really is to create the overlapping look. Because when you have overlapping elements, you're going to have foreground background. There are other paints that are more pig. Or you can add more white, titanium white to make the paint more. Pick. The mean, just paint over it is let me have yellow on top of the darker green. Or if you want to make the paint more opaque, you can paint over it a few times. Just have fun painting. Painting is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find ways to make your painting look good. I'm going to use this opaque paint to paint this area. Perhaps. There is actually a very big piece of leaf here, which I'm not sure I'm going to draw that. Let me just paint with the wash. Let me just continue with phosphorus. I am not very good with gouache here as well. Okay. So if you don't see anything, it's because the paint is not picking up. So let me maybe just switch over to Posca marker and see if the paint markers can make any difference. Okay. The paint markers work well, but paint markers, I say you wouldn't get the gradation with pain markers that you can with watercolor. Because we've watercolor, you can create traditions, but we've pinned mockery is justice, single color. But Alice, it's opaque. So that's great. Okay, this actually looks good. Make sure the paint is dry before you use this. Otherwise you are going to dirty or mocker me a buck or two teeth. So this actually looks kinda like colored pencils. Hopes my mockers dirty. You may also want to use staining colors for the leaves behind so that the colors will stay in the page and we're not lived when you use markers on top. If you use colors that are non staining, when you paint over with the opaque marker. You may actually move the paint beneath even though the pain is already dry up in the air for so that's one thing you should take note a half. Okay. It looks alright. It looks all right to me. Let's switch over to this green. This green does not look right. Let's switch over to another green. This olive green color. Hopes too much ink spilled out. This green doesn't look right to me as well. It's a very dirty olive green. So maybe let's switch over to yellow. No, we don't have the contrast there, so let's switch over to color pencils. We need a darker colored pencil. Yeah, this looks alright. It's not the color that one though. Let me see what other colors I have. I think I'm out of colors. There is another green here. This looks like a sap green. My table is very messy right now. This looks I'm not sure how this looks right now. I'm just scribbling things on. I'm actually just scribbling things. Yeah, doesn't look good. Let's switch over to the white Posca marker. So the leaves here have that white outline. Yeah, so I'm using the Posca marker to draw those white home lines. And you can use the Posca markers to add highlights as well. Maybe some highlights, gains the story. Maybe some highlights and kings the steps here. Okay. Next, let's paint the leaves here with a yellow and blue. I can also use the brush to add blinds. Okay, So this country is almost done. I just need some more yellow on top of this pod here. More yellow enhanced lines for some of the pot plants. Okay. Okay. So I guess this is the complete That's how some texture on the curb, this grid on the curb to create some perspective. Okay. I didn't actually quite like how the leaves turn out. Mostly because my pen is not opaque enough. Let's use wash. Hopes too much paint. You know what? Maybe I should just stop right here because I feel like I don't know what else I should add to this. So let me just stop right here. I can make certain parts a bit darker though, just to create extra contrast. So if you feel like the, everything is off meat value would definitely add some black or darker values to your sketch. This will help create contrast very quickly. This is the complete that sketch. I think it looks fine. I suddenly had a lot of fun painting this. So let me just write the date here. Alright, so I hope you will try drawing plans yourself and try to mix and match different styles. Lie. Have line art, again, solid colors have light values, again, mid-value, have meat value against darker values. Have light against dark, half, dark against light. Just mix it around and play and also play with the color contrast as well. This is very fun. 6. Goodbye: We have come to the end of the course. I hope you enjoyed the mixed media art creation process. I hope you liked that mixed media art sketch that you have created. So as mentioned many times, creating mixed media art is all about experimenting, mixing and matching different tools and supplies, discovery in different styles. Going forward, I hope you can continue to create mixed media art. Experiment with different tools and supplies, find your own style, develop your own style, and get inspired by other artists. Right before you go, I hope you can write a review for this cost to help other students discover this. Cos, thanks for following along. I hope I can see you in my other courses. Bye.