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Sky Illustration and Postage Stamps: Introduction to Watercolor Painting Techniques

teacher avatar Inga Yoon, Digital illustrator and teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:41

    • 2.

      About Class Project

      1:10

    • 3.

      Let’s Start

      4:51

    • 4.

      Watercolor Practices

      14:44

    • 5.

      Purpose, Sketch and References

      6:28

    • 6.

      Composition and Finishing Sketch

      4:25

    • 7.

      Painting Process: Wet on wet

      8:12

    • 8.

      Painting Process: Dry on wet

      2:25

    • 9.

      Painting Process: Wet on dry

      2:45

    • 10.

      Adding Final Details

      5:00

    • 11.

      Removing Tape and Frame

      4:19

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About This Class

Welcome to my class and let’s dive into watercolor art and paint all together beautiful sky illustrations on real postage stamps!

In this class I will start by telling you how get ready for painting process. Then we will talk about composition, inspiration and sketches. This part takes an important role in our today's class. Before we jump into painting process, we will have tiny practices with traditional watercolor medium, where we will experiment with different styles. And finally - we will start adding colors, shades and highlights to our postage stamps! I will show you how to paint sky in a fast and simple way and also how to add more and more details - so we will make our painting process more advanced.

By the end of my class you will be able to create sky illustration using different watercolor techniques and rules of composition in a fun and simple way.

During the course I will slowly move you throughout my workflow, explaining every step of traditional watercolor painting techniques.

You will learn:

  • more inspiration,
  • about rules of composition,
  • how to use different watercolor painting techniques,
  • how to paint sky illustrations,
  • and how to add volume and color variation to your art.
  • how to create postage stamp art, using different watercolor styles.

What you will need:

I will use real watercolor paints with watercolor paper.

You also can use Procreate or some other drawing pads or just regular paper and paints.

This class is great for beginners, also can be useful for intermediate and advanced levels - for those, who is interested in watercolor art and sky illustrations.

And one more thing that I want to mention: your opinion and your feedback are very important to me.  So feel free to tell me what you think about the class in discussion or review sections. I will be glad to reply to you.

My dear art fellows, I can’t wait to start this class and definitely I can’t wait to see what you upload to project section.

So let’s not wait, grab your watercolor paints, iPad with Apple Pencil and let’s paint together.

Find me here:

https://instagram.com/artist_ingayoon

https://www.youtube.com/c/BooStudio

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BooStudioArts

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Inga Yoon

Digital illustrator and teacher

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Hello, guys!

I am Inga Yoon, artist, digital illustrator and tutor.

Throughout these years I took part in different exhibitions, TV shows on local Ukrainian channels, organized workshops, you name it. I am major is gouache and oil painting, but I am obsessed with watercolor and like to share all the knowledge that I have about the art.

I have been painting for more than 15 years and last 5 years I devoted to digital watercolor and Procreate.

Hop along for the ride.

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Level: Beginner

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1. Introduction: Hi, guys. I'm Inga freelance illustrator. Welcome back to my class. I have been painting for 15 years, and I'm obsessed with procreate, magical themes, and Q stuff. In my classes, I constantly share the knowledge that I have about the Procrit, about how to create beautiful watercolor illustrations traditionally and digitally. And today's class will be special. We will paint watercolor illustration with real watercolor medium, and our today's theme will be postage stamps. And welcome back to my class. And let's dive into watercolor art and create all together stamps united with one topic, and the topic is sky. And in the end of my class, you will learn more about traditional watercolor medium about composition, how to sketch in a fast way, how to create illustration without sketch, and how to enhance your art by using different painting techniques and how to add volume and color variations to your art. Most importantly, you will learn how to create beautiful sky illustrations on postage stamp with authentic water coolor paints. I will show you my whole process from the start till finish. And during my class, we're going to go through the next step. First of all, we will talk about composition and where we will find the aim of our painting process. Then we will practice and learn a few painting techniques. Our next step will be creating sketches. After that, we will add first layer of paints to beautiful sky, and finally, we'll start adding colors, shades and highlights. I will show you how to create watercolor art from the simple shapes and how to add more and more details. So we will make our painting process a little bit more advanced. This class is great for beginners, also can be interesting and useful for anyone who is interested in traditional watercolor art and sky illustrations. And one more thing that I want to mention, guys, your opinion and your feedback are very important to me. So if you have any questions, suggestions or recommendations, you can leave them in discussion or about section, and I will be glad to reply to you. My dear art fellows, I can't wait to start this class, and definitely I can't wait to see what you upload to project section. So let's not wait, grab your paper and pens, and let's start our painting process together. 2. About Class Project: Your class project will be next. You can follow my steps and create lovely sky illustrations, the same that I created or think about your own composition and your own theme that you like that will bring joy to you and then paint it using the tip that I gave you today. You don't need to have actual postage stamps in order to complete the project. Simple watercolor paper will be enough, or you can even paint digitally, for example, in Procreate. I will use Schminki paints for this class, but you don't need to have them. Use the paint that you have, or you can even use tablet or procreate. Again, just grab regular paper and paints. In today's class, I will paint different sky illustrations on real postage stamps. I will show you how to create watercolor art from the simple shames and how to add more and more details. So we will make our painting process a little bit more advanced. Once again, you can choose completely different topic and draw your own illustrations. The most important, all the illustrations should be united with some specific topic. Try experiment and enjoy painting process together. 3. Let’s Start: Hello, my lovely Skillshare community. Before we start our painting process, and before we jump into daily practices, let's just talk about the brushes and paints and materials that we have today. Again, you don't need to have exactly the same ones. Just similar would be enough. So I'm gonna for the daily practices, I'm going to use just regular paper. It's thick 200 milligrams, it's called, something like that. So pretty thick. Water colour paper like these. I think it's ensen if I'm not mistaken. So I'm gonna use it, and then I'm gonna use tape. To separate some parts, one from another, probably we'll separate it into six different blocks. So that is the first thing that we're going to do, and we're going to use it for our daily practices that you can follow, and you can do every day. Okay, cool. And again, I will use this paper for the practices where we will explore different painting techniques. And for our actual final project, I'm going to use postage stamps. Let me show you them. This is a paper. That's also watercolor paper, but it's shaped as a postage stem. And also, it creates like a set of them very lovely. And you can see then you can just actually remove it from the shell. So just wait a little bit. When we finish, I'll show you how to get rid of the frame like this one. And it's pretty simple, obviously. So I'm going to use those postage stemps. But again, you don't need to have the exact paper. You can just use regular paper, just separate parts of it with the tape or if you want just cut paper into six or four pieces and then just paint it. On it. So we're going to use this paper a little bit later for our final project when we talk about the composition, about our materials and our main idea. So I will just put it away for a while. And, guys, about the brushes, I have natural brushes. Mostly it's squirrel hair. Can we say squirrel hair? And I used watercolor paper and two brushes for calligraphy Chinese brushes. I will use them to add some tiny details. And this is pol Rubens and brilliant rays. Okay, what I want to tell you is that I will not take too thick or too big brushes because, again, we're gonna have a small rectangles where we're going to draw all squares, so we don't need really big brushes. Also, I have color palette here. I have the brushes. I have paints. Smink paints here. Din din tin in. And I will tell you the numbers of every color that I will use during the class. Stan for you. You might just see the color, the name of the color and then use your own colors. And also I take small paper. You don't really sit here on this one, where I will mop my brush if I don't need too much water. So let's use tape and separate our paper into six rectanles. First, I want to pin paper through the wooden board. Okay. Duck Duck, let's just put away. Try to have the same distance for the frame. Ls. So what I'm doing for our daily practice is same you can do when you create our final project. We're gonna pin the paper, and then we need to separate it into four to six smaller rectangles or squares depending on the style that you're gonna use. And formula. Okay, anything, I think I will separate it into six parts. I need to be careful. I'm very clumsy, so I will put away water 'cause I know what might happen. Approximate size like this. What I want to tell you is that before we start painting, and I will tell you that many, many times, we need to ask ourselves like we're gonna have two questions. First is, what are you going to draw with which purpose? What do you want to tell people? And the second one is which medium, in what way you go to deliver this message to people. And here we can talk about the composition. We can talk about the medium, everything that can help people to be related to your art and to understand the message. 4. Watercolor Practices : Okay. So it's time to practice. Let's polish our art skills before we jump into painting process. And today, I'm going to show you a few painting techniques that really can ease your life and painting process. And maybe in the end of my class, we will define for you the most attractive painting techniques that you might like. And you will see unexpected results that we will have in the end of this part of the class. Okay. So about the practices, we have in watercolor, we have a few ways of painting. And the most common you already know about loose watercolor style that I like so much. And you might check my previous class. It was about painting loose watercolor flowers. And what I prefer to use the technique is wet on wet. It's perfect for loose watercolor style. So what I wet is when we have wet paper, and then we use wet brush, we dip it into some specific color, and then we start paint. So let me show you. And here also, I will show you the way how we can mix colors. So this is wet paper, and now I'm going to use color. Let me think which one. I think it will be French Ultram, which is 493. And I'm going to put some color on the paper. So I put some of the color, and I like to mix this color. This is wet on wet when we have wet paint and we had wet paper. Let's just make sure that everything is wet. And then we're gonna have burned amber, which is 668. And I really like to mix them together. Also, you can use sepia brown, which is 663. It's a little bit darker. Don't forget about burn sienna 661. I think burn sienna will work perfectly here. So here you will see the way how they gonna mix together. I will add more burned sienna color. Then we're going to have we have wet paper, and then we need to get rid of the water on the brush. So let me think which color I will use. I will use permanent carmine, which is three, five, three. It's really hard to get it. But still, because you have wet paper. Again, when you use the brush, when you need to dip it into the color, make sure you don't have any water on the brush. And let's do the same and add another color. What do you think about indigaclor? 485. I like this color combination, too. Also, excessive water, take a color and try to mix some of them. Now let's wait until the color dries a little bit. And then they're gonna have let's do. So add some water to our brush, but we won't add any color, any water here. Perlin green, seven, eight, four. Just paint some kind of indica color. I'm gonna mix it together. Indiga color here. Let's wait. Then clean the brush. And what about taking franchaltamarin, same that we did before, which is 493 So, and then they're gonna have dry dry and dry technique. We don't have any water on our brush. Same French ultramarine and burn Sienna colors. What do you think about it? So it's really hard to get some of the color, wash it, squeeze the water. I still have a little bit of water on my color. My pull brush. Here. This is dry and dry technique. Okay. Still we are waiting until the colors dry. Let's try to show you the gradient. And in this case, we need to add some water on the surface on the paper, and then we're going to grab, let me think which brush brush. Let's go to Prussian green prussian green. No brush. Prussian green. And little by little, we're going to add some pigment. Then we're going to go again and we will layer mock pigment on the top of the paper. And then little by little, we will go down. But remember, because we're going to show the gradient, we're going to have the biggest amount of color on the top of the paper. And when we go down, we're going to have little and little color. Also, what else you can do, you can mix together with another color on the top, again, make it darker. My suggestion, I like to use indiga color because it goes well with almost every color. So I put it on a top and then it becomes darker. Little by little, let's just put away some of the excessive water. So you might reach some interesting effects put here. If you add some splashes of water, you will see it later. Yo. If you want some beautiful effect, if you want to reach some beautiful unexpected blooms, my suggestion to you salt. Let me show you how to do it. So steal our gradient, so I will layer the color. Again, on the top, I will place our indica color. And because the surface of paper is a little bit wavy, it's really hard to get some specific, like, very solid result. What we can do is just to lexis. Just tilt it a little bit. Put it back. Ding ding ding ding, ding. Mm hmm. Fine. Let it do. Okay, like I said, salt. Let's take our magical salt. Yeah. Hard to get. I didn't use it for a long time. So and I just, like, put it randomly on a paper. And then we need to wait a little bit. And look at beautiful blooms. We can have some of the blooms here, too, because this part is still wet because it was get wet technique, so it takes some time to dry. Okay. So let's wait and we have the last piece of our paper. So you can use any salt. It can be like regular salt, or you have, like, special salt or you have the sea salt that you can use if you want to add those lovely blooms. The last thing is at my suggestion, I like to add some water, but I will not take too much water. And here I will use permanent carmine three, five, three. We see already spilled some of the parts. Tinting. Wow, I like the results. That's actually what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to mix colors together. So what I want to do is I'll add the color here, like, from the top left part. And from the bottom right, I'm going to add indiga color, same what we had here, but I also want to make some changes. I want to do some splatters, like that. By tapping the brush, you can add some lovely splatters. If you want, just add them here too. And see the way how they're going to, like, blend one another. It has very beautiful and unexpected results. But also don't add too much water. Otherwise, it will be like a mess and you will need to spend a lot of time waiting until the color dries. But again, you see every new splash of water will bring you, like, very, very beautiful results. You can go to your previous colors. And also, for example, go here. This is a technique that we're going to use for one of them postage stamps where we're going to draw a night sky, and we will need to show beautiful stars, and the best way is actually add just pure water. So what I was trying to say, if I want to use to make better blending, I just need to use water and just go on the edge line between two colors and just dip water along the line. Then we're going to take permanent carmine and add splatter from this side. Let's just wait until the color dries. Ding. So now let's wait until everything dries, and we're gonna look at the results. And we can get rid of the tape. First, probably, let's just remove salt. Wherever. Be careful. Oh, just put it here separately. I like. You see, like, the salted effect that we have? It's super super cool. T ding ding. I was to look at the salty line. That's it we have here? Ding ding ding ding ding. Okay. So finally, it's time. Let's remove start from the middle. And as you see, I gave name to every part of our painting in order not to forget what did we do? And then we're gonna go through every part and we will talk a little bit. And I think now we can try to be careful. I try on wet. Okay, it's fine. I was too fast. I'll just try it again. Try on wet. Okay. Especially, be careful of the parts where paper is still wet. We have salt here. Finally. So we can look carefully at every piece of art. Let me just put it and then talk about every painting. So, guys, depending on the style that you like, depending on your preferences, or maybe on aims that you want to achieve, you can try different ways of painting. And I really like those blooms that we have from mixing colors. And you see because some parts, like, of the paper were a little bit wet, and you see they have very, very sharp line. And also look at the way how colors blend in each other because it was wet on wet painting technique. We have very soft blooms and soft diffusion. So this is mixing colors, the way how we mix two colors together, and then we had some splatter that we put on top of opposite color. And like I said, the blending effect is amazon. And also here we have the line. Line is less saturated, so you actually can see where we put water because we dilute intensity of color. Gradient. So as you might see, on the top of our art, we have darker color. And when we go to the bottom, the color became more and more diluted, too. And as you see, we have lovely blooms that we received from the salt. You actually can still see some parts the sidery edge lines. I like it so much. So we're going to use this technique for painting night sky. Now let's talk about our four basic way of painting when we talk about watercolor. First of all, it's wet on wet techniques. This one, the one that I like so much. And actually, this is the same what we were using during the mixing color process. And because in some parts, I put a little bit of salt. We can see some of the blooms here. They give pretty beautiful natural watercolor look unexpected way. So, wet on wet technique, we mix two colors together, or it can be just like one color, and it gives you very soft lines, very soft and harmonious look. It's very beautiful when you paint landscapes and if you need to draw some background, and if you want to create this cozy watercolor, warm feeling, so this is a perfect way wet on wet technique. Dry and wet technique, you also see we have better exaggerated lines, edge lines when we mix two colors together, and you see in some ways one color overlap another one. And because it's not wet on wet technique because the color was taken always a dry brush, you might see that colors don't blend in each other. They overlap. Oh, it's also lovely and beautiful when you talk about landscapes. Also, when you need to draw some kind of objects, this technique is great, wet on dry. Same. Also good for landscapes. What I can tell. Wet on dry technique when we take wet brush, and we paint on dry paper. Here you have very distinctive border lines, like when we put some color and then on the edge of the color, you see those darker lines. This is very distinctive if you talk about wet on dry technique. Also, we have lovely bloom and also lovely line when we added some paint on a sky area. Some beautiful for landscapes, too. Also, I like to use this style when we talk about portraits, painting people or sketching, like urban sketching is also very good way of painting. Dry and dry, I rarely use it because it's hard to get some color out of the pen of the paint pen. So it's lovely if you want to create some particular mood, and this way of painting can be pretty abstract and strong if you want to deliver some of the specific messages. So here are the practices that we made today. So my suggestion if you want to enhance your painting style, if you are still in a search, what way of painting suits you more, you can make this practice as your daily practice. You can go outside, for example, go to the seaside if you live next to the sea or go to the forest or just go outside and sit on the bench and look at people around and try to sketch, try to paint, and at the same time, try to mix different colors together and try to apply different painting techniques. And you might see, like when you do this practice like every day or every other day, after two weeks or a month, you definitely will find your style. And second, you will spend less time on painting process, and you will just enjoy your painting process. So that was the first part of our today's class. And now let's jump into our final project, and let's create postage stamps. 5. Purpose, Sketch and References : We finally move to the very important class, how to create sketch. What about reference pictures and how to create unique art? That's very important questions. So let's talk about it now. Please follow my steps carefully, and if something is not clear, I'm always ready to help you in discussion section. Okay, as I said, we're going to use those lovely postage stamps. I'm thinking from which side I should paint it probably like this. Also, I'm going to use a tape because I want to keep those edge lines, so I need to separate it. But I won't take too much. Here. So, like I said earlier, you don't need to have postage stamps in order to complete this art. Just use regular paper and create this rectangle frame. A like that. And you might see that the size of postage stems is a little bit different. So the lower ones, two, they are bigger comparing to the postage stems that we have in first row. So Okay. Don t d. Here we're going to have salt. We have color palette. We have all colors. Now we can move them closer because we don't have that big paper anymore, so it can be here. Yeah. L. I just realized that I was painting everything with just one brush. Okay, so what I'm gonna do now is I have the same brush, and I will add different kinds of shades. And here you can see the reference picture. Before we start painting, like I said earlier, we need to understand what is the purpose of our art. So you might create series of postage stamps and you might create your own topic. Again, you don't need to follow exactly what I'm doing during my today's class. I just like to paint sky in watercolor style, and I think thanks to different techniques, it's just very interesting to show different variations that we can see when we look at the sky. And also, I'm going to use different colors to portray this guy. So that was my choice. But maybe you obsessed with flowers, so you can definitely draw some flowers. Or maybe you want to paint some kids illustration. So you can paint lovely toys as a series of postage stamps and present them to someone you like. So whatever you want, or maybe like iwhere and you can paint those Japanese characters in a way you like. So again, feel free to show yourself. You are not limited by just one topic. Our today's aim is to experiment with different ways of painting and try to express ourselves and also learn how to create series of postage stamps. And for me, sky is nature is freedom, is unity with the universe, if you might say, so it's just feeling alive. The same thoughts. I want to show the people who will look at me I think the best way how to do it is to use some soft techniques like wet and wet, dry and wet by showing people who am I? I think I also can show them the beauty through my eyes, through my art, and I can show them that sky can be so beautiful and it can create amazing feelings. Okay, so now I think we are ready to jump into sketching process. So let's sketch briefly. You can use pencil. Try to use HB pencil and you can use also eraser, but be careful. Don't wrap too much because in this case, we can damage the paper. And then when we add the color, there might be some small, you know, dots that might not create very aesthetic feeling. So just try to paint gently, try to schematically show the lines but don't be too detailed. And also when you wrap the paper, also try to do it gently. Or if you don't want to paint too many details, just also grab some thin brush, and I took in diga color to show the lines schematically. So our first art will be like a total endless skies. So you can look at reference picture and you can try to draw the same. But my suggestion, we might get some inspiration from our reference pictures. We don't need to draw the exact objects on exact specific places. We can just get some main idea. It really can give us some room for the creativity. It can give us some space to express ourselves and our style. So this is very, very it's milky way. So I schematically showed milky way. It's barely seen, and that's what I actually needed to achieve. So this is my first postage stamp. Second one, I'm going to draw some palm trees. And here I'm going to mix a few pictures together. So I'm going to draw I think for palm trees, I also need to have a little bit bigger size for the postage stamp. So that's why I'm going to emphasize like the darkest clouds. And I like that we can show, like, a contrast thanks to the color, thanks to the day, the time of the day. That's very lovely. So here I show schematically as a cloud, and then I can go to another reference picture and just simply draw palm trees. Under the palm trees where I find my love Cush schematically. I won't draw all of them. Don't forget about coconuts. And the biggest one. 7. Painting Process: Wet on wet : Now we are ready to jump into painting process. Use the brushes that you have. Anybody coolor medium will be fine or native procreate brushes or your own brushes if you want to paint digitally. Let's not wait, and I will show you everything right now. Okay, finally, you can change the brush, and I will use a zero brush, small one. And like I said, we're going to use and painting technique. So I just added some amount of water. Here you can see our reference picture. So let's start adding colors little by little. Our main color will be indiga color, and I'm going to apply it from the edges because inside, like I said, we're going to have milky way in a circular shape. Ding ding ding, lot of water and some splatters. I think dark blue, which is four A two will be a very suitable color if you want to mix it together. You also can use some of the purple shades. In this case, use ultramarine violet, which is 495. That's so interesting that like, I don't really use too much of the color palette. Try to add more water splatters. So what else I'm going to use? You see in the middle, you're gonna have a little bit of yellow shades. I'm going to use yellow or which is 655. Just a tiny bit. You don't want to make green colour, right? And probably also you can think about pink color. And as a pink color, I'm going to use Potter's pink 370. Think it can be a very good combination. So let's add a little bit more of the Idea color because now the color looks very, very dark, but we always need to remember when watercolor dries, the feeling will be a little bit pale. And I like that watercolor always gives you very unexpected results. I like it. Water's pink. Because with such type of illustration, I don't really want to add extra layers. In parts where you go to place our salt, we will have stars. Perfect. So now let's move to the next part, and I think we can draw palm trees. Okay, so now let's paint palm trees. And here, like I said, I will use a wet on wet painting technique. I apply water, and then I will use dark blue color which is four, eight, two. I'll just put it here. And remember, we mixed a few reference pictures together here. So we're going to have blue and pink colors together. By the way, in this type of painting, I will actually apply two different painting techniques. So I'm going to use wet on wet painting technique and dry on wet painting technique too. Now, pink color for the pink, I'm going to use permanent carmine three, five, three. Try to use color palette because it's really very dense. It likes its color so much. Don't worry about boundaries. Like I said, we will apply dry on wet paint. C. But we also going to need some of the white spots. So you can use tiny bit. And what about purple? Same, use ultramarine violet 493495 and mankinse violet 474. Smit too much. It's hard to show everything indeed hills because of the size of the painting. Okay, let's wait until everything dries, and then we're going to add palm trees. So let's come back a little bit later. I think we can go to the lavender field. I just had tear Swift lavender haze in my head. So I think we can draw it all together because the colors are very similar. So here we can add a little bit of water but just a little bit. In my suggestion, don't forget to change the water after every painting. So that's what I'm gonna do now. Now, let's add little by little colors. Magenta, three, five, two mixed together with permanent camins. Now some manganese violet. The one that we just used. Like I said, it's very common. Now let's me mix together permanent carmine and manganese color. Yeah, so the color blends perfectly. Then manganese violet to the sides likes. And in a center, we're going to have ultramarine violet Here, I won't do a lot of changes because I think already the composition is so nice. In the middle, I will use burn Siena. And mix manganese violet, the ultramarine violet. Also, I'm gonna mix it together with peril and green. My suggestion change the brush. Probably we can use the brush for calligraphy. Try to add less pigment now on a brush. So try to use dry on wet paint. If you add too much water, just dip your tissue with the water drops. So we need to have very clear horizon line. But because the paper is too wet, we are not able to do it now. Potters pink, I mixed together with burnt sienna. 8. Painting Process: Dry on wet : Now, let's come back to our palm tree, dry on wet painting technique. We're also going to create some kind of contrast. See, because paper is still wet, it blends nicely, but also the color spreads a little bit. So be careful here. Paraln green. Try to show schematically the direction of palm leaves, but later, you're gonna add more colors. Because like I said, paper is still super wet. Hm. Okay, then leaves until the paper dries completely. And then let's just draw. I really like the blending here. But like I said, we really need to show the horizon line. Mm hmm. I like the spreading of the color. I would like to rate some of the colors little by little. Okay, let's wait. And then we're going to add tiny details. Wow, look at this first postage stem that we have is very beautiful. I like the blooms. Done with the second and third postage stems, later, it's not the total end. Later, we're gonna add tiny details. And now let's jump into our last painting. 9. Painting Process: Wet on dry: Let's use wet on dry painting technique here. So I will use Altramarin French. Because when we apply color on dry surface, we have more control on a color. Now, let's add a little bit of water and spread some of the. Mmm. Beautiful. Then we will apply mountain blue 48, zero, four water. Same technique. Probably Amon all blues. Ultramarin violet, and indiga colors are my favorite. Damn. And Ammon greens probably parlin green, then olive green, yellowish, perlin green to add some color to the mound. See, I have a dry effect. Some areas. And then I'm going to use Tantra Rosa and Tantra violet, which are 982 and 983. I think they will be great for adding some shades to our mountain. Look at this. Very, very beautiful. And then olive green, yellowish, five, two, five. This is fine. And here we are going CV blind dry on dry paint. Less water. Likes it. Probably a little bit in diga color, just a tiny bit. To show shade from the leg. Shade, shade, shade. Likes it? So, I think that was the fastest painting technique that we had Our first postage stamp is ready, too. What we're gonna do is jump into tiny details, part. 10. Adding Final Details: It's almost the end of a class. Now it's time for our final steps where we will add shades and a little bit of texture to our art. And then just in a few seconds, our postage stamps will be ready. Just wait a little bit. Yeah, we're going to add tiny details to those two illustrations, probably a tiny bit to the last one. Now let's grab the smallest brush. This one. A wet and dry painting technique. I'm going to use parallel and green color. You can mix together parallel and green with indica color. Separate a little bit. The lavender fields. And parallel and green color. I can show some flowers here. And my suggestion in watercolor is really hard to layer white color. So here you might use quash. So quash colour. Just put tiny bid or now a color palette. Same brush. Bigger brush a little bit tiny better. L. So you can use semi transparent white colour and show some of the clouds. If you want, add some water drops. And also, you can mix it together with some pinky shade. Now, let's come back to our puntries. Remember, we're going to create some contrast. So now we are using dry on dry painting technique to show the details. Coconut. Like said. Now let's go with the brown color. Some of the brown shades. Maybe ochre or sienna. Poterspink I think might go very well, and tundra violet. And if you want a tiny bid of permanent carmine to the background, but be careful. Try not to touch our palm trees. I like this loose watercolor effect, very, very beautiful. And I also like this dry effect and looks away how colours bleed one in another. So now let's remove our final touch. Let's remove salt. Be careful. Indenting here. And now I think we can add I already likes the blooms, but probably we can add a little bit more stars. We're gonna have many white dots somewhere here. If you want, you can just, like, use a little bit more water and add some splatter. And you can do same with dark color. Just be careful. Also go to indica color and add more splatters. Wise indica some dark spots. Same you can do here. Probably I want to darken the edges a little bit. 11. Removing Tape and Frame: Try to be super careful. Git. Because in some areas, paint is still wet, so I need to try to be careful. Like sis. Next step was Sistin. Yuk. Here Mm hmm. At the beautiful. Then let's go. This is. Here. Ting. Wow. Look, I have some salt here that I'm gonna throw away. Water no salt. Mm, so beautiful. And now let's remove our postage stamps from the frame. Like it. Thing. Wow. The most satisfying feeling. First postage stamp. Let's just put it here. Second one. Such loose watercolor collection. Hi. Hi, not easy. We need to be super careful. Let's look at every postage dam little by little. So, you see, by combining different painting techniques, we can achieve very unexpected and beautiful results. Looks away, how colour plants here, all the overlay of the colors that we have in this part. It's very. And like I said, when you use wet on wet painting technique, and the feeling that we have in the end is so warm and so harmonious. So you see very soft lines. I also like this wet on dry and dry on dry painting. So this is the end for today's class. I hope you enjoyed out today's painting process. You learned something new and you got some creative ideas. I will be glad to see all your paintings in project section. Good luck. This is the end for our days class, and I hope you enjoyed our painting process. And now you know a lot about traditional wood color medium. And now you know a lot about composition too, how to sketch in a fast way and how to paint sky in different ways and how to add volume and color variations to your art. And most importantly, you learn how to create watercolor postage stamps with authentic watercolor paints. You did a big job. Congratulations. Guys, I will be happy to see all your artworks in project and resources section, and I will be happy to give my own opinion about your artworks. And I would really appreciate your feedback about my class too. You always can leave a review in review section or about section. Let's see each other in next class, and next time we will paint cute watercolor character in Procreate. Finally, see you.