Stunning Watercolor Sunsets - A 7 Day Watercolor Challenge

1. Welcome to the Class : Sunsets provide a rich and diverse color palette. I think for the same reason, every artist love to paint sunsets. No matter which is their favorite medium, sunsets would be their favorite subject. Hi everyone. My name is Janina and I'm an artist and an art instructor, and also an author to the book Bold and Beautiful, Aticular Skies. For those familiar with my work, you will very well know my love for vibrant colors. Today, I'm here to invite you all to a seven day verticlar challenge, where we're going to try painting the most beautiful sunset skies. In this class, we'll uncover stunning color combinations and techniques tailor to vividly portray the beauty of sunsets on paper. It's a seven day Otic color challenge. And every project offers a chance to explore fresh techniques and experiment with unique color palette. We will start by building a solid groundwork in understanding art supplies. We will then transition into offers project. With each project, you will discover a technique section, thoughtfully crafted to familiarize you with the colors, methods, and the process in advance. In this section, we will also have a look at the color properties, how you can mix sun match colors for your sky. We will also talk about the very basic things like how to hold your brush and how to create various effects by cheers changing the amount of water on your brush. Completing this one week challenge will leave you with a compilation of seven striking sunsets and new found confidence to embark on your own sunset creations. If you're interested in giving these sunset skies a shot, join me along and let's try them together. 2. Class Overview: Before we start, I want to give you all a quick idea about what the class is all about and how it is organized. As the class title sees, we're going to paint seven stunning sunsets. Throughout this class, we all will delve into some techniques and a wide range of color palette to capture the beauty of sunsets on paper. With each painting, we'll explore a unique color palette and composition, providing an expansive understanding of color selection, blending different colors techniques, and the art of composing your artworks. You can see all these paintings are unique from one another. Not just the color palette, the mood, and the entire setting of every painting is different, which will make the entire journey a lot more exciting and interesting. Those are the paintings we're going to do in this class. There are seven sunsets. We have a simple pastel sunset. Then there is another simple winter sunset here. These are very unique color combinations and if you look at this painting, there is a beautiful lighthouse here, as well as a subtlety in the background. The sky is one of my absolute favorite. I just love the colors and the way the painting is composed. And here is another one, you can see the gorgeous sky and that beautiful grassy meadow. Every painting opens up a lot of opportunities for you all to learn new techniques centric. For every project, there is a technique section to give you a solid understanding of the methods and the process. In advance, we will talk about the color palette and the essential techniques, And incorporating them, we will try a quick version of the same painting. This way you can be a lot more confident throughout the NT process, as you already know the methods and the techniques that you have to use. You can see all the colors here. We will do a similar exercise for all the projects. If you're an absolute beginner, the section is going to be really helpful. You'll get a better idea about the colors, the tonal values, and the techniques, and how you can incorporate them in your painting. So yeah, there are some stunning sunsets awaiting you all, and I think it's a wonderful opportunity for you all to come out of your comfort zone and try some new techniques and color combinations. If you are ready to give it a try, join me the next section and let's together have a look at the materials. 3. Materials you'll need: Before we start with the exciting paintings, let's have a look at the materials you will need. I will start with the paper as usual, because according to me, it is the most important aspect of a watercolor painting. So this one here is from brand call arches. It's an artist grade articular paper, which means it is specifically made for waticular, it is 100% cotton. Artist grete papers are mostly 100% cotton and student grade will have a combination of cellulose and cotton. Try to go with the paper that is 100% cotton. Now the next thing is this paper is cool pressed, articular paper, which means it has a slight amount of texture. It is not flat and it is not overly textured. You can find hot pressed particular paper which doesn't have any texture. Then there is rough green paper, which is a bit more textured than coal priced. If you love working with textured paper, you can go for rough grain. To me, personally, I love using cold press for my aticular paintings. There's one more thing. This paper is 140 LB, which means the paper is quite thick enough to handle multiple layers of water or paint. Okay, now coming to the size, this one is an four size paper pad. For the paintings, I have chosen five size, which means I've just cut the paper into half. Here's one of the sunset that we're going to do. So you can see here, I have just cut the paper into half. That's the size I'm going with. You can go with any size that you prefer, but go in a similar proportion as I have composed all the paintings in a portrait manner. Okay, that's all about the verticlar paper. If you can try to go with the good quality artist great aticlor paper so that you can have a best experience in exploring verticls. Okay, now the next material I want to talk about is the Aticlors. I'll be using verticlar tubes from various brands. I'm not sticking to one brand because I have favorites from multiple brands. Over here you can see Seneliar, Megilomision, Shinhan, Rembrandt, and Art Philosophy. These are various vaticlar brands and they all are good. So you can just go with any aticlar brand you have got. It doesn't need to be any of these brands, It can be different. I will explain the colors in detail at the beginning of every painting. Okay, now to mix your colors, say will need a mixing palette. This one is a ceramic mixing palette. I'll just squeeze out the paint directly onto a palette and I will mix it here. You can go with plastic or ceramic, any part you've got. I personally love using ceramic because it is very easy to clean and it doesn't stain the palette. This one is with me for more than three years now and it is still perfect. Yeah, it is good to invest on one or two ceramic palettes. It will last life long anyways. Now let's go the next art material, which is the watercolor brushes. These are my absolute favorite brushes to use for watercolor. They all are from the brand silver brush. Now let me talk about each of them. The first one here is a 1 " flat brush. It is basically to apply water onto the background. For this, you can go with any of your wider flatbrsh, make sure it is clean before you apply water onto the background. Okay. So that's the first one. I have one more flat brush in this collection which is a half inch flat brush. This one here. I'll use this brush to apply paint onto the background, especially if it's a blend of two or more colors. Okay, now I have one more brush here which is the size number 12 round brush. You can either use a flat brush or a round brush to apply paint onto the background. Just go with the one that works best for you. It can be a half inch or a three by four inch flatbush. If it's a round brush, it could be eight, or ten or 12. Now I have three more round brushes here. The first one is size number eight round brush. I will be using this brush mainly to add some clouds onto the sky or maybe to apply paint onto a landscape or a medium sized area. Then I have two more brushes here, one is size number two and the other one is size number six for all the medium sized detailing albusing size number six brush. Now the last one here is size number two. This one is basically for the minute detailing. When dipped in paint, it has a very nice pointed tip which makes it best for all those fine lines. You can see that beautiful pointed tip for all the minute details and fine lines albusing this brush. Okay, so those are the brushes albusing. If you don't have the exact same size, that's totally fine. There is nothing to worry. Just go with something that is nearly similar. Now, the next thing I want to talk about is jars of water. As you can see here, I have two jars of water. Ones to resolve the paint from your brush, and the other one has to stay clean. We can use this water in case if you need to dilute some paint or if you need to apply some water onto the background. Okay. Make it habit to work with two jars of water. The next material is a masking tape. This one is a very normal masking tape. It's not an expensive pinto tape or cross tape. It works okay for me. So I've never felt the need to change it. You can go with any tape that you normally use, and I'll be fixing my paper directly onto the table. You can fix it onto your table or onto a drawing board. That's totally your choice. Now, the next two materials is a pencil and an eraser. There isn't a lot of sketching involved, it is just some horizon line and some rocks and mountains. So just go with a regular HB pencil and an eraser. Now, last but not the least, you will need a paper towel. We can use this to dab off the excess amount of water or paint from our brushes. Okay, so that summarize all the materials you will need for this class. Get them ready and join me in the next section. It's tamped to paint over first standing sunset. 4. DAY 1 - Sunset by the Meadow - Techniques: Hello dear friends. Welcome today, one of the seven day sunset series. I'm very excited, and here's the first painting that we're going to do. It's a gorgeous sky with a stunning green meadow. First we can take a look at the color palette. Then we can gradually try out the techniques. If you're an absolute beginner, you can give it a try. Otherwise you can just give it a watch for the sky. I will be using two colors, which is a blue and an orange as you could see here. Blue. You see here is Indico. This orange here is brilliant orange from Shinhan. It is very much similar to cadmium orange. Let me show you the swatches. First I'm going to take out some paint onto my palette. You can go with any brand. Just ignore the brand that I'm using here. Even the colors, they don't need to be exactly the same. Here's the color I'm going to use. Indico and brilliant orange. Indico is from Art philosophy, and orange is from Shinhan. It's a Korean brand. Now I'm going to take out some paint that is into, instead of Indico, you can also use Prussian blue or any other blue of your choice. The next color I will need is brilliant orange. Don't have brilliant orange. Just go with any kind of orange you have. Or you can use vermion or you can just make some yellow with vermin to create an orange color. Just go with colors that are available with you. Now, there's a trick here. I won't be using indico acetous, I'll be adding some white aticlor to it to turn that into a Patel blue. This one is completely optional. I know some people doesn't use white watercolor in their paintings, but then this is a very easy method to turn your colors into a Basel color. I really love it. There are so many pacel colors available in the market, and they all use white aticlor to create them. This is the same thing, we are just mixing and creating our own pacel colors. That's only difference here. I will swatch out indigo acetus by adding some water, and I will turn that into medium tune. That is Indico. This one is from art philosophy. Indio can be a bit different with different brands. I have another Indigo from Shinhan which is actually a bit more taker than this. Now I'm adding some white with the same color. Here is how it has turned out. It's a really beautiful Patel blue. Add some white with any blue that you're using. As I mentioned Eli, it doesn't need to be indico. You can go threshing blue, cobalt blue, or any blue. That's a difference. For the first one, I used water to make it lighter. The second one, I used white watercolor. If you'd like to work with transparent watercolor, maybe you can go the first option where you just use water to dilute your color. I'll show you one of the pastel watercolor I have. Here's lavender from shin hen. The pigment information clearly says there is some white pigment in it. And that's exactly what we have done here by adding some white waterclor into indigo. Okay, Just decide on whether you want to use white, just water. I have a huge collection of pastel watercolors. Here's one of the color I love the most, see that? It's a very beautiful pastel violet. Honestly, it is not really necessary to invest on pastel watercolors. You can create them easily by adding some white water color with any color you want to turn into a Basel color. Here is Basel Pink. This is another color which is so gorgeous. Anyway, that's a first color I'm going to use for the sky now. The second color is orange. This one is brilliant orange from shinhen. It's a very bright and bold orange. For this watch, I only used water. We'll be using a similar tonal value along the horizon to a trecento. We'll make it lighter by adding some white verticlor. Again, if you don't want to use white waticlor, you can just dilute it and make it lighter by adding water. Or if you want to give this technique a try, you're more than welcome. I'm very sure once you try it, you're going to love using pastel water colors. Okay, So those are the two colors I'll be using for the sky. We will go for a blend of blue and orange. Then to add the clouds, we will again be using in Tico. Okay, so those are the colors we'll use for the sky. If you want to try out a different color combination, that's totally fine. Just use the same techniques and go with any color choice of your preference for the cloud as well as for the mountain. In the background, we'll be seeing the same color in a slightly darker tone. You can see the mountain here. We'll increase the amount of blue and reduce the amount of white. Okay, Now coming to the meadow, the color you see on the top, it is actually a mix of green and orange. I mean sap, green and orange. Sapcreen is a very fresh and beautiful green. I don't want the colors to be too fresh as we're painting an evening scene. Typically the colors will be slightly dull compared to morning and a daylight sky. I will show you the color that I'm going to use. There is one more color you will need, which is neutral tint. Paints gray. They are both similar. Just go with either paint scray or neutral tint. Okay, I have green, orange, and neutral tint here. Now I'm going to create olive green. Maybe some of you may have it with you. In that case, you don't need to mix and create, you can use it directly. First, I will swatch out sap green. Then I will mix and create olive green. I'm very sure you all have Sac with you. It's a pretty common color which comes in almost all vertical sets. Okay, this one is from Shinhan. You can go with any brand for the meadow. We'll be using a combination of olive green sac crane and a Dako green. The color right here is sap green. Next I'm going to mix and Crete, olive green. I already have some orange on my palette. I'll just pick a little of that and mix with sap green. Let's see how that is going to turn out. This is the color I'm talking about. You can see that dull green along the horizon. Let's mix some green and orange together. I have an olive green from Bangkok. But for some reason I love the color which I mix and create. The other color is quite tall tenders. Okay, I'm mixing some orange with sap green. And you can see the color I have created. It's a slightly dull green, which is the kind of green we need for the meadow. Now, let me show you the Swatch. Okay. That's the color we have created. Depending on the amount of green and orange you're mixing, the color can be a bit different and that is totally fine. It's nature, the colors can vary. It doesn't need to be exactly the same. It's a very simple mix of sap, green and orange. And that's a green we have created. Okay, let's go the last color which is a darker green, That's a mix of neutral tent and sap green. We'll be using this color to add the deeper tones. As I said lo, it could be either pinscray or neutral tent. Just mix a little of green with that and you can see the color at the bottom. Also those trays for all of that, we'll be using a taco tone of cream by mixing some paints, gray with sap cream. Okay, that's the final color we'll need for this painting. Typically we need in Tico orange, sap green and neutral tent and also some white to create all the Basel colors. Now before I show you the demo of the sky, there is something you need to know about Nico and Orange. They are complimentary the color wheel which means if you mix them together, they will create a muddy brown for the sky. When you use them, you always have to make the color lito on the area where these two colors are meeting. Right here, I'm using a Patel tico, now I'm going to make it lito. Then towards the other end, I will introduce some orange. Over here, I'm using a really light orange. Have added some white. Okay. The color is not that muddy. The only reason is because we are using white water color along with it. See that when I'm mixing them, they're not create a muddy me. Now towards the other end, I will introduce some bright orange. Right at the center where you have orange. And intgo mating, we'll have to make the color lighter. In this case, I used white aticlor and have made orange and inticolighter. But if you're not using white aticlor, you will have to make the color lighter by diluting it. Okay. This is the color combination we're going to use for the sky. Maybe to get a better idea, I can show you the same color combination without adding white, you will clearly see the muddy color that is being created in between. I'm taking some Intigo, again without any white. That is the indico. It's a medium tone. Now, I'm making a bit lighter with some water. Next I'm picking some orange. You can see the color created. These two are complimentary colors. If you mix them in their actual intensities, they will create a muddy color. That is the reason we are making the color lighter towards the center where blue and orange is meeting. Okay, I hope you all got an idea now let's try out the sky. Before we go ahead, just make up your mind whether you want to go worth a white water color or just water to apply the paint. Albus on rush the soon as the size number eight rush. First I will start by applying a coat of water onto a small section. We're just going to try the color combination and how to add those clouds. If you're an absolute ******, take out a scrap piece of paper and try this out. If you already know how water color works on paper, and if you're a pro in creating clouds, you just need to give it a watch. You don't need to try it every time before you add water onto your paper. Just make sure your brush is clean. Now, let's start with that pastel plue. I'm adding that on the top. See that? That's the color I'm using. Now I'm going to make it lighter towards the center by picking a bit of white water color. Okay, now I'm again washing off the paint from my brush and I'm switching to pistol orange. Clean your brush before you pick orange. Now let's add that pistol orange onto the sky towards the bottomost area. I'm going to make it more brighter. I want to bring in a contrast in the sky. Okay, first let's blend these well with a clean brush. When you're working with complimentary colors, make a habit to clean your brush in between. Okay, now I'm picking a bright orange and I'm adding that along the horizon. The striking contrast is the beauty of the sky. Otherwise, it can be quite plain and boring. Okay, so we have a pastel blue on the top, then a lighter tone of orange and blue at the center, and a very bright orange at the bottom. That is our base layer. When we're painting on a bigger scale paper, it will be a little more easy to blend the color than this. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside, and I'm switching to a smaller brush to add the clouds. To add the clouds as I'm using indigo, the same pastel color, and I'm adding some random clouds onto the wet sky. See that when you're adding clouds, always make sure your paint is not too watery. If it's a lot watery, dab it on a paper towel before you're adding clouds onto the paper. If it's too watery, they can spread into the background in a very vigorous way, they won't have any shape. Okay. Now I have added some clouds on the top and a few at the bottom. I don't want to add a lot towards the orange part because the color can be a little muddy. You can add in as many clouds as you want and as little as you want, you have the total freedom to decide on that. Okay, right here, I think I have added enough. I don't want to add a lot for the background. We used pastel colors, which means we have added some white aticular water. For the same reason the clouds you're adding will have a better shape. They won't spread a lot. But if you're using Atclar in its transparent form, if you're only using water to make the color lighter, the result can be a bit different than this. Okay, that's how we're going to paint the sky here. Have used a lot more clouds. If you're adding more clouds, you just need to work quite fast and you need to add them all before your background tries. Okay. That's the only thing you have to keep in mind. Next we are going to try the meadow. We already tried creating the color. We'll be using olive green, sacrine, and also a daker green for the background. Okay, let's try it out. First we'll have to paint the background. And for that I'm using my size number eight brush. I will start with that olive green. Then in between, I will introduce some saccrine as well as a daker cream. Then onto that background, using a smaller brush, I will add some grassy pattern. Okay, I'm starting by applying a coat of water. I'm leaving a little gap in between so that I won't spoil my sky. Okay, just make your background even wet. Now, I'm switching to my Trish. It's a medium sized Ron Trish. I'm starting off with olive green. We already tried creating that color. It's a mix of orange and green. Our idea is to introduce different tonal values of green into the background to make it look more realistic. Looks like there is no green there. It's all orange. The color looks very muddy. I'm going to take out some more green onto my palette. If you want the color to be more dull, you can use burn cena instead of orange. That will result in a beautiful olive green. Anyway, I'm applying this color along the horizon, it looks like there's a lot of orange there. The color looks quite tall. Anyway, that's not a problem. Depending on the proportion of orange and green, your color can be a lot more muddy or more greenish. That is olive green. Now, I'm going to pick some clean sap cream, then I will drop that in between. Okay, we have some olive green on the top. Now I'm using some sap cream. Now towards the bottomst area, we want the green to be more darker. I'm mixing some sap green with neutltan. I will add that along the bottom part. Okay, that's our next task. The darker tones are really important to show that depth and shadows in our painting. Okay, just make some paint, sky or neutral tent with sap green and add that along the bottom. Okay, we have added all the greens onto the background. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside. I'm switching to a smaller brush. Using that smaller brush, I'm going to randomly add some lines onto the background. See that they're just some thick lines. I'm just dragging my brush and adding them on the wet background. We don't need a lot towards a horizon. Add in two or three towards the bottom. Very less towards a horizon. They can be of any length and they can be of any thickness. To make it more visible, use a darker tone. Okay, just add them while your background is still wet. Don't beat for a longer time. And use any of your medium size brush or a smaller size brush. Painting the background is the very first step. Now adding these lines is the second step. Now we're going to go with the third step. For that, you will need any of your smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip and go back with a darker tone of green. Now using this brush, we're going to add some grassy pattern again onto the wet background. Now there are a few things you have to keep in mind. The first thing is your pain shouldn't be too watery. Add them along the lines we have added here on the background, we have added a few lines using a taco tone. We need to add these grassy lines following those lines, go with the pain that is not too watery. And keep adding some rough lines onto the background while it is still wet. We don't want the lines to be too prominent. That is the reason why we're adding them on a wet background. Keep adding them along. That medium tones and taco tones we have added retain the lighter space. Retaining that lighter space in between is what makes your background look more realistic. That's a key. Don't get rid of them. Keep adding your grassy pattern onto the area where you have your medium tones and a cartoons. I think you can already feel the way it is turning out. It is starting to get a realistic touch. Keep preparing the same step until you're happy with the result. I'm not going to put a lot of effort. My idea is to just convey the technique and give you a solid understanding about the process. And the approach you need to follow can put a lot more effort and we can refine it better as we paint. Here's a technique over here, we need some olive green, then you can introduce some sap green onto the background. And after that, make it darker towards the bottom. Then again, using a darker tone, add a few lines onto the wet background. Finally, along that line, you have added introduce some grassy texture. These are just some random lines using a smaller brush. It doesn't have any proper shape or size or length. We are just adding them onto the wet background to create some texture and add a realistic touch. You can use a daco tone towards the bottom most area and then a medium the along the top. All right. That's a technique, as I mentioned earlier, retaining that lighter space in between is the key to get that realistic feel. Keep that in mind when you're about to paint. Here's a closer look of the meadow and you can see how beautiful it has turned out. I think it looks very realistic. Anyway, that's the meadow technique. These were the two major things I want to discuss. The rest is quite simple. Then we will just need to add a mountain using Tico, the same color we used here. We'll be adding that along the horizon. Then to make it look complete and also to define the horizon line, we'll be adding some small trees. Maybe we can try adding them quickly. I already thank you. I'm going to use the same Patel Intico I created earlier. It doesn't need to be too dark. Maybe you can use the same tunel value that is used for the clouds, okay? Now start by adding an outline, then you can just simply fill it. Go with a similar height, don't make it too huge. Now just fill it up. It is exactly the same color as the clouds. As we have a darker orange in the background, the color is appearing a bit darker. Okay. Now just fill it up. We need a straight line along the horizon. Okay, that's a mountain. Next I'm going to show you the trees. Let this dry. I'll show you that on a scrap piece of paper. The trees we're going to add on the painting is going to be super tiny, but maybe I can show you the same on a bigger scale so that you can have a better idea. Look at that. They are super tiny. That's the size we have to use for the painting. This will bring a sense of distance, Focus on the size when you're adding them onto your painting right now as we're just trying it out, maybe we can try that on a bigger scale. The color I'm using here is a darker green. It's a mix of sap, cream, and paint scray. That's a left side. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I will pick some sap cream and I will finish up the shape. Okay, That's how we're going to paint the trees. This one is quite big. That's the reason why I used two colors. If they're super tiny, you can just use a darker green. Or just paint Scraye on Nutriltent and finish off your trees when it's super tiny. Those tunal values soon be visible only if it's slightly bigger. You can use two different tonal values of green or even that is also not necessary. You can just go the darker green and add trees. Okay, so that's a horizon details I think we discussed about everything you need to know before you get started. And I really hope you guys were able to follow the techniques. If you want to try it out, give it a try. And join me the next section so that we can paint our first stunning sunset. 5. Sunset by the Meadow - Painting: All right, so I have a clean palette and have fixed my paper onto my table. We already had a look at essential techniques as well as the colors. The first color you will need is Tico. Then you will need some orange. You can go with any orange. The one I'm using here is brilliant orange. I'm going to squeeze out some white Waticulor as well, onto both of these colors. It doesn't need to be gas, we only need some white aticlar. Okay, I'm going to take out some white aticulor. I will add that here and here. Okay, Those are the two colors I will need for the sky, no matter which painting you're doing, If it's a veteran wet sky or a veteran wet background, always keep your colors ready before you start. This way you won't lose any time in between anyway. I'm going to start by adding the horizon line. I'm adding that a bit below the center of the paper. The top part is going to be the sky. The bottom is going to be a meadow. Okay? The only skit you need to add. Now, as we have the colors ready, we can start applying a coat of water onto the sky. Go with any of your wider brush Before you apply water, make sure it is clean. Now, this is the brush I'll be using to apply paint onto the background. Then using a smaller round brush, I'll be adding the clouds. Okay, technically these are the three brushes I'll be using to apply paint onto the sky. Now I'm starting by applying a coat of water using my 1 " wash brush. Let's apply a nice even coat. Keep running your brush multiple times so that we don't have any pools of water. It is even okay. I have applied water onto the entire sky. I'm running my brush again to make sure there's an even coat. Okay, now let's start applying paint onto this wet background. I'm starting with Tico. I'm mixing that with a bit of white. We need a medium tone of Tico. You can just water it down or you can add some white water color. As I'm doing here now. I'm applying that on the top of the sky. Okay, I'm picking more paint. It looks like there is some green color on my brush. Let me clean it again. I'm picking more paint. I'm adding that onto the background. You can see the blue is a bit different now, earlier my brush was slightly dirty. Okay, I have applied blue onto half of the sky. I'll just wipe off the water from the border. Okay. Now let's add some more blue. Now, I'm going to clean my brush and I'm picking some white and I'm going to make the color lighter. Just make sure your brush is clean. Then pick some white water color and add that right next to blue and make it lighter. If you're someone who don't use white verticlar at all, this might seem a bit we heard, but you can just water it down and make your color lighter. Now in a similar way, I'm adding some white with orange. And I'm adding that onto the remaining area right here, we're using a pastel orange. And I'm blending that with that pastel Tico. As we have added white verticlar, these colors wouldn't create a muddy mix. Now I'm going to clean my brush, and I'm going to pick some more fresh and bright orange. And I'm adding that along the horizon. See that I'm using a much more brighter tone of orange right now. And I'm adding that along the horizon. Okay, so we have a lighter blue on the top and a lighter orange at the center. Then towards the bottom, we have a really bright orange. We can make it a bit more brighter. We're trying to play with that contrast in the sky. Trust me, you'll be surprised to see the way the sky is going to turn out. Okay, now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm going to blend it. I have accidentally drop some water. I'm going to fix that next. Then I will add some clouds onto the background. I'm picking more orange and I'm just smudging it. Okay, so that's our base layer. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside. I'm switching to my round brush. This brush is size number six. I would recommend going with any of your medium size brush, not a bigger brush. Size number four or five or six is perfect. Now I'm going to go back with the intgo, the same intigo I created earlier which is a mix of white and Intico. Now using that, I'm going to add some beautiful clouds onto this wet background. We don't need the paint to be super watery, just dab it on a paper towel. We need a paint that is moderately wet. Now, I'll add some random clouds onto the sky. You can add them however you want. You can go for bigger clouds or smaller clouds can be in any shape, but the key is adding them while the background is still wet. Don't wait for a longer time. Keep adding them while the background is still wet. Otherwise, they won't spread into the background and they will look too prominent and rough to get a smooth and soft clouds. It is very important to add them while your background is still wet. You can see the way how I'm adding it doesn't have any particular shape or size. I'm just randomly adding them onto the wet background. Right now, I have added them on the top and also at the center where we have that lighter or 6. DAY 2 - Glowing Sunset - Techniques: Hello my dear friends. Welcome back and welcome today two. So here's the painting that we're going to try today. It's a beautiful color combination. We're going to play with some brown, orange, and yellow today. First, I will introduce you all to the colors, then we can have a look at the techniques. The Brown I'm going to use is permanent brown. If you don't have brown, you can use burn scena. This one is from art philosophy. Permanent brown is more like a reddish brown. And burn scena as more of a yellowish brown. That's a major difference. If you have brown, I would recommend going with that. But if you don't have it, that's truly fine. Just go with burn scena. Okay, that's the first color you will need. We'll be using that for the sky, the water, as well as for the mountain. One of the major color we will need is brown or burn sena. The next color is orange. If you don't have orange, you can use vermilion or can mix and create an orange by adding some yellow into Vermilion. Okay, that's our second color. Now there is one more color you will need which is yellow. We'll be using brown, orange, and yellow for the sky. It can be any yellow. The one I'm using is Indian yellow. You can go with Gamboo yellow, primary yellow, transparent yellow, or any yellow you have got. Okay, so those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. Now, along with these, I will also be adding a bit of white. You can see the color on the top. It's a pastel brown. I have added some white into brown. It's the same way how we made pastel blue in the previous painting. So that's the color you see on the top. Then we have orange and some yellow here and we have made it lighter, closer to the mountain. Okay. Those are the colors I'll be using for the sky. Now, I will take out some white asphalt. Then I can show you the swatches. It is just some white water color. It doesn't need to be white quash. Let me take out a little. Okay, have all the colors ready on my palette. First, I'll show you a medium tone of brown. Then I will add some white to it. And let's see how the color is turning out. I'm adding some water and I'm turning that into a medium tone. And here's the color. It's a beautiful brown. I love this particular color from art philosophy. Then I love brown from Shinhan Asphal. Okay, so that's a color. Now into the scene, I'm going to add some white. And let's see how that is going to turn out. Right now, I'm mixing some brown with white. All the colors are not available. In the paste version, you'll find pink, blue, violet, green, and a few other colors. But not brown. This color is very unique. And that's a one, see that it's a very opaque and creamy color. Maybe we can add some white and see how that is going to turn out. Depending on the amount of white you're adding, the color will be more lito and more creamier. The previous color was a bit tark. This one is similar to the one I'm using here. Okay, Now the second color you will need is orange. This one is a very beautiful orange. It is brilliant orange from shinhen. Cadmium orange is very much similar to this red orange. Okay, that's the second color. Now we have one more color which is yellow. This one is Indian yellow from shinhen. Again, you can go with any yellow you have got. Okay. That's a color palette we'll be using for the sky, for the Lee asphalt. We're going to use the same colors. But along with these you will also need one more color which is neutral tint or pain scray. We'll be using this to add the deeper tones as well as for the mountains. If you don't have pinsky or neutral tint, just go with black. Neutral tint or pain. Screy is a beautiful color if you don't have it. I would really recommend adding that to your collection. Because if you add black into your colors to make it darker, it will appear a bit dull. But with pinscray or neutral tint, that doesn't happen. And also it is a wonderful color to paint monochrome paintings. Okay. That summarize all the colors you will need for this painting. You will need some brown, orange, yellow, and neutral tint and also some white. Okay, now we can start with the techniques, just the same way how we tried for the previous one. I will show you how to paint the sky and also the lake. Then we can try the mountain as well as a reflection. It's a beautiful technique. You can use this in your future paintings as well. Give it a try, especially if you're a beginner or an intermediate artist. Okay, first I'm starting by adding a line, the horizon line, Then I will add a simple mountain. So that's my horizon line. Now I'm going to add a very basic mountain. Now here is where I'm imagining my sun to be. Over here, we will use lighter tones, and towards the top we will use more of medium tones. That's a plan, Let's try it out. Before you start, make sure you have the colors ready on your palette. Now I'm starting by applying a coat of water onto the sky. Using my 1 " flatbrush. We just need a shiny coat of water. Don't add a lot. I'm adding that only onto the sky. Okay, my sky is even wet. Now. I'm going to keep this aside to paint the base layer, I'm using my half inch flatbrh, a flat brush or a round brush, and I'm starting off with a pastel brown. It's a mix of brown and some white. I'm using a medium tone of that. You can go a medium tone or a lighter tone according to your preference. That's the color I'm going with. I'm adding that on the top of the sky. Okay, I'm adding some more. Then gradually I will switch to orange. That is pastel brown. Now let's clean the brush. Let's go with pastel orange. I already have some orange and white here. I'm mixing them together and I'm adding that pistol orange right next to brown. And I'm blending them after that, I'm picking some brighter orange. I'm adding that onto the left. I'm leaving the center part act that's where we have the sun. Now, let's clean this brush and let's switch to a round brush. Now with that clean brush, I'm picking some yellow. I'm not going to add any paint at the center, that's where we have the sun. If we can retain the lighter space and add yellow onto the remaining area, then you can just much it. This lighter area holds a lot of importance. That is what creates that glowy effect in our painting. Try to retain some lighter space here. Okay, so that's a background. Now onto this background, we're going to add some clouds while it is still dry. With the same brush, I'm picking some brown. Okay, It's a medium tone. Now, I'm just dabbing my brush on a paper towel just to make sure that the paint is not too watery and I'm adding the clouds. When you're adding clouds, you have to be very quick and consistent. You need to add them before your background dries. So we have some pastel colors in the background. For the same reason when you're adding clouds over there, they will look a little lighter. On the remaining area, they will appear a bit darker. We'll have a combination of different kind of tonal values and that's the beauty of the sky. Okay, now I'm going to add some more clouds while the background is still wet. You know what? Personally, I prefer using a paint which is not too watery. When I'm adding the clouds this way, I have a better control on the way they are spreading. If it's a very watery paint, they will spread a lot into the background and it will lose the shape. Now, there's one more thing I do. I used to go with a clean brush, a clean tap brush, and I will gently smudge the paint to give it a more smoother look. This will also prevent the paint from further spreading. Okay, that's how the sky has turned out. Now maybe we can add some more clouds on the top using a slightly darker tone. Make it a bit more dramatic. If you're already happy with your sky and if you feel it is starting to dry, just leave it as it is. At any point, if you feel your paper is starting to dry, that's your sign. Don't add any more cloud, just leave the way it is you might feel. I will add just one more, but then maybe that one stroke will ruin your sky. Anyways, that's how the sky has turned out. I still managed to retain some lighter space here. You can see that right above the mountain, we're going to use the same sky for our main painting asphalt. But we have a lot more space to play with. We can add some more clouds and we can do some fine tuning. I'm going to write a way you start with the leg first, I will start by applying a coat of water. The sky has almost dried. Gently apply a coat of water onto the entire bottom part. If your sky is still wet, leave a tiny gap in between. Okay, that is even wet. Now, to apply the paint, I'm switching back to my flat brush. I'm starting with yellow. Before you start picking your paint, make sure your brush is clean. Now, over here, I'm going to add some yellow. With my flat brush, I'm picking some yellow. It's a medium tone. I'm adding that right underneath the mountain. Just add that in a exact way. Next, with the same brush, I'm picking some orange. I'm adding that onto either side. From either side, I'm dragging my brush towards the center. Okay, we still have some yellow at the center. I'm adding orange onto either side. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some brown. And I'm adding that towards the bottom. Just roughly blend that with orange. Okay, so we have some yellow at the center, orange on either side, and some brown at the bottom. Now, with the same brush, I'm adding some lines on either side to add in some medium tones. Okay, now I'm going to keep this brush aside. I'm quickly switching to our arm brush. Clean round brush. Now comes the trick with that clean, damp brush. I'm going to lift off some paint from the center. Drag your brush down. Lift off some paint every time. Clean your brush before you go with the second round. Okay, we're just lifting some paint in a linear way. It's a vertical line. I know it looks. We heard pick some orange, a medium tone, and gently add some lines back and forth and see that. Beautiful, right? So we have easily created a reflection. Now I can add some more lines. When you're adding these lines, don't add them too close to each other. Try to lay some cap in between. Okay, that's a reflection now with the same fresh, I'm picking a taco tone of brown. I'm going to add some lines onto the background. This needs to be done while the background is still wet, so we don't have any time to waste. We need to add them right away. We still have that reflection in place. You can see how beautiful it is turning out. I'm adding some thick brown lines. The color is much more darker at the bottom. As I'm going towards a horizon, I'm making it a little lighter. Okay. That lighter tones you see in between is the beauty of this painting and that is what makes it glowing. Okay. Don't add a lot of lines when you're adding them. Don't forget to lay some cap in between. Take out a scrap piece of paper and try this technique. It's a beautiful technique which you can use in your future paintings as well, no matter which color you're using for your background. This technique works like magic. Try it out. Just take out a scrap piece of paper and do it on a small section. Okay, I'm adding some more lines. I'm adding the lines mostly at the bottom, and I'm leaving some cap in between. That's how we can achieve that chloe effect here. Lifting up the paint is the major feature here. That's why I'm asking you to try it out. This way you will have a better idea about your paper, you know, how long it is taking to try, and how fast you need to work to lift up the paint. That's the sky and the lake. Now we're going to try the mountain. You can see that glowing effect here. Then we have this reflection. These are the two things we have to try creating. This effect is also quite simple. Let me show you. We will use the same colors. We need some yellow, then a bit of orange, brown, as well as neutral tint, or paints gray on the top. Over here we will use some yellow. The idea is to use lighter tones where we have the sun and then around that we can use more of darker tones to create that contrast. All right, so have all the colors ready. Now I'm starting by cleaning my brush. Make sure it's cleaned. Before you start over here, we're going to use yellow. Let's start with the yellow. I'm picking a lighter tone and I'm adding that towards the topmost area of the mountain. Okay, maybe we can make it a bit lighter. I'm using a Ta brush and I'm smudging the paint to make it a bit lighter. Now with the same brush, I'm picking some orange. And I'm adding that right next to yellow. So just like we painted the sky, we need to read in some of the lighter tone around the top part of the mountain to create that glowy effect. Now, I'm adding orange around yellow and with a clean brush, I'm just mudging it. Okay. So that is yellow and orange. Now I'm cleaning my brush again, and I'm picking some more yellow. The other colors didn't blend well. I'm just mudging it again. Okay, that is yellow and orange. Now let's go with the next color or which is brown. It can be brown or burn sina. Now let's add that onto either side. Okay, right next to orange, Introduce some brown or burn sina. You can start by adding the sheep, then you can just fill it up. I'm using a darko tone of brown. Here go the similar tonal value, don't make it too light. Okay, now just fill that tir shape. Let's much that with orange. I'm picking some more orange to make it easier. Okay, maybe we can clean our brush then smug it because there's a lot of brown on my brush. I'm fixing the line. Aspholl, I need a straight horizon line, now I'm picking more brown. Adding that on the other side, basically, wherever you're indicating the sun, you need to use lighter tones. Then around that you can use more rough medium tones and taco tones. Okay. Now I'm going to fill this area. Then I need to smudge it with orange and yellow. It doesn't look very smooth. I'm picking more orange and I'm smudging it again. I will have to do the same thing with yellow. For some reason. It is extremely hot here today, and my paper is drying up quite quickly. I think I should have used a bit more watery paint. Anyway, that's how it has turned out, so we need some yellow on the top, then some orange around it. Towards either side, you can introduce more brown and neutral tint. Okay, So that's a mountain. You can keep smudging the paint as I did once you have applied it. Okay, Maybe we can add some more orange here. The only thing you have to keep in mind is to retain that lighter tones here. The rest, you can add the paint however you want. Now, there's one last thing I want to do, and for that I'm picking some neutral tint and I'm adding that onto either side. Okay, Onto the extreme sides we can introduce some taco tone. And towards the center where we have the sun way to retain the lighter tones. That's a truck. It isn't that complicated. Give it a try on a scrap piece of paper, especially if you're a beginner. Okay, That's how we are going to paint the mountain. The next thing we have to try is the reflection. But before that, I will just make this a straight line. It's not a straight line, it looks a bit wavy. I'm just fixing it. Then we can start adding the reflection. Okay, that is done. I think there is something about this color palette which makes it look so magical, especially the glow and the reflection. Anyways, let's quickly try the reflection that we can try this on a bigger scale. For the reflection as well, I'm going to use Brown and Teton. You don't need to wait for the mountain to dry Between the reflections and the mountain, we will leave a tiny cap. Okay, we can start with the reflection right away. I'll start with the medium tone of brown. We won't add any additional details towards the center. We're adding the reflection only on either side. Let's start with the medium tone of brown. See my size number six. Push here. Go with any of your smaller size brush or a medium size brush. Okay, I have taken some paint on my brush, now I'm going to add some lines on either side. I'm starting with the left. Be sure to go the medium tone. Now, simply keep on adding some lines in between, try to lay some cap. Okay, these are just some random lines, some of them are longer, some of them are shorter. There is no particular order. Now I'm picking a daco tone and I'm adding that onto the extreme side. Okay. Only onto this extreme side. It is not a new line. I'm just adding the taco tone onto this left side of the same lines I have added earlier. Additionally, I'm also adding some shorter lines. What's the bottom? Okay. Start with the medium tone of prown, add some lines, then onto the end, you can introduce some taco tone. Now in a similar way, I'm going to paint the reflection on the other side. It's again a simple truck. We are just playing with different tonal values to get that beautiful reflection. First, go back with your medium tone and simply add some lines. Adding them, try to leave a gap in between to make it look more realistic. The weight will look like the moment in the water. They are just some random lines. Okay, Right now, the color I used as a medium tone of brown. Now with the same brush, I'm going to pick some taco tone by adding a bit of neutral Tn to brown. With that, I'm adding some taco tone onto the right side, only onto the right. That is something you have to keep in mind. Towards the center, we have a medium tone. Towards the extreme sides, we have a taco tone. Now I'm adding a few more lines towards the bottom, just a few tiny lines. That's a reflection. We're going to use the same technique on our main painting, asphalt, but it's going to be in a bit more larger scale. We'll have a lot more space to play with. Yeah, if you're an absolute beginner, try out these techniques on a scrap piece of paper so that you have a better idea on how to approach your painting this way. You won't make any mistakes and you'll be a lot more confident throughout the process. We have tried all the techniques. Now it's time to give it a try. 7. DAY 2 - Glowing Sunset: All right, so I have all the colors ready on my palette. Now I'm going to start by adding a horizon line, which is a bit below the center of the paper. Okay, now we need to add a mountain. You can either go in a similar height or you can add it however you want. You can modify the shape of the mountain however you want. You can add that only onto one side. Now at the center, we'll be adding a sun. And it's reflection. And that's the interesting part about this painting. Now, before I start, I'm thinking to modify this side. I'm making that a bit more higher, otherwise it will look the same throughout. But if you want to make it symmetrical on either side, that is totally fine. Okay, so I'm just making this area higher. All right, so that's a sketch. Now let's begin. I have some permanent brown, orange and some yellow on my palette. Now, along with this, you will also need one color which is white. All right, so I have all the colors ready now on the top of the sky, I will introduce some brown, then to, at the center, some orange. And over here we'll add some yellow. Okay, so keep all the colors ready before you start. Once you have the colors ready, go with any of your clean, wider brush and start applying a coat of water onto the entire sky. Make it evenly wet around your brush multiple times so that there's no pools of water in between. Okay. Always make sure your brush is clean before you apply water onto the sky. I used to make this mistake. It's only when I drop water onto the sky. I realize it's a dirty brush. Just make sure your brush is clean before you start applying water onto the sky. All right. My sky is evenly wet now. Before I start applying the paint, I'm going to wipe off this excess amount of water along the border in case if there is a lot of water. Take a paper towel and wipe it off. Now let's start applying the paint. I'm picking my flat brush, it's a half inch flatbush and I'm creating a pastel version of brown. Just add some white water color with brown or burn sina or any other color that you're using, and apply that color on the top of the sky. Okay, we can add a bit more, almost half of the sky, you can apply this brown color. It's a pastel brown. If you don't want to use white, just go with a medium tone and apply that onto your paper. Okay, so that's the top part. Now with the same brush, I'm going to pick some orange. You don't need to clean it, just pick some orange and add some white. You're using a pastel orange. Now add that right where you stop your brown and blend them. This is the area where we are going to introduce some yellow. Keep that in mind. Next Tim, I'm going to pick a much more brighter version of orange. And I'm going to add that everywhere, except for the area where I'm going to add yellow. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm switching to a medium sized ton brush, this one size, number six now picking some yellow with that brush and I'm adding that over here. See that? Just add some yellow and keep pushing and pulling that into each other. Right above the mountain, we need some yellow exactly over here. Then the rest can be some orange and some brown. Okay, this is where we are going to introduce the sun. Over here, we need some yellow. See that over here, you need some yellow. Then around that you can add some orange. That's a background. Now, I'm just going to smudge it to give it a bit more smoother. Look, I'm picking some more yellow. I will just keep pushing and pulling the paint into each other. Retaining yellow right about the mountain has a lot of importance in this painting. Never get rid of that. No matter how much orange or brown you're introducing onto your painting, try to retain that yellow. Now, with the same sh, I'm going to pick some brown, a medium tone, that I'm going to add some clouds onto this wet background. We have tried the same in the technique section. You know how to approach it. You can discern how much clouds you want, whether you want to make it more dramatic or whether you want to add just a few clouds. That's totally up to you. The major thing here is you need to add them while the background is still wet. And also the pain that you're using to add the clouds should not be too watery. If it's too watery, dab it on a paper towel. Okay. Now let's keep on adding more clouds. I want to add a few towards the bottom. Massiple. I don't want to add a lot towards the top. I want to retain that pastel brown tone. I want to make it more dramatic towards a horizon line. That's what I have in my mind, but you don't need to follow the same track. You can add the clouds however you wish. Okay, this silos. Pretty good. Now I need to add a few. On the left, I'm picking more brown, I'm adding some clouds onto the left side. As we have used white in the background on the top. When you're adding them, the clouds will look really creamy and fluffy. Over the area where you have orange, it will look more bright and prominent. We will have different tonal values in your sky. That is exactly what makes your sky look more beautiful. Okay, I will add a few clouds where I have orange. See that you can clearly see the difference on the top. The color is more soft and subtle. Over here, the color is very much prominent. Okay. That's how it has turned out. Looks like my background is almost dried up. I wanted to add a few more, but then it is not a good idea because it might not spread and it will look quite rough. Anyway, I want to add some paint onto this corner. Maybe I will just turn that into a cloud. Otherwise it might look a bit weird. I'm just spreading that into the background. Maybe I will add one cloud. Okay, That's my sky. I think it turned out pretty nice. Every time I'm done with my sky, I do one thing which is cleaning my brush and then going with a damp brush and I will smutch the paint a bit just to give them a more softer look. It's a clean brush and I don't put a lot of pressure. I will run my brush around these clouds and I will smug it a little, very little without disturbing the actual shape. Anyways, that's how the sky has turned out. Now let's leave it for drying. All right? So the sky has dried completely and the colors are still looking very vibrant. You all know water color tends to fade a little when it dries up. So I always go for a brighter tone while I'm applying the paint. That even if it dries, it will be still vibrant in a way that's a sky. Now let's start painting the lake. I'm going to use the same colors which I use for the sky. And I'm starting by applying a coat of water. We don't need a lot of water. Just apply a nice shiny coat and make it evenly wet. Okay, that's a background. Now let's start applying the paint again. I'm going back with my half inch flat brush, right at the center. I'm going to introduce some yellow. Just add that in a random way. Okay, so that is a yellow. Now, with the same brush, I'm picking some orange from either side. I'm tracking my brush towards the center while retaining some of the yellow at the center. Now quickly I'm switching to brown and I'm adding that at the bottom. Okay. We have yellow, orange, and brown. Maybe we can make it a bit more. Tucker, that looks really nice. Now, just the same way how I did earlier, I'm going to track some lines from either side. I'm adding a few lines and that's it. That's our base layer. Now, I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going with the brush. A clean brush. It is just damp. Now, with that brush, I'm picking some paint from the center. From here, I'm just dragging my brush down. See that I'm lifting off some paint to create the glue at the center. Now I'm going to pick some orange, a medium tone. Let's simply add some lines onto the background. I think that white space is mostly con, I'm going to add that again. First I will clean my brush and I will tap that on a paper towel. Now I'm lifting off some paint. Maybe let's do it one more time. This looks fine. Now, I'm going to go back with orange. Let's make sure the paint is not too watery. I'm going to adapt that on a paper towel. Otherwise, the paint will spread a lot and I won't be able to retain any of that lighter space. Okay, so let's keep on adding some lines onto the background along the center to make it look more natural. Now I'm going to repeat the same step using some brown. I'm going to add brown mostly at the bottom. And the lines are going to be much more thicker. So go with the brighter tone of brown and just add some lines onto the bottom area, leaving some cap in between. See that? Adding them only towards the bottom and a little towards either side. I won't be adding any at the center. I'm going to retain that area. Actus, just add a few lines onto either side, then a few towards the bottom. The lines that you're adding on either side has to be much more thinner, lighter than the colors you're adding at the bottom. Towards the bottom, you can make them more thicker and darker. Okay, that is something you have to keep in mind over here, the lines can be more thicker and darker. Also, try your best to retain the lighter tone we have at the center. Don't get rid of that while you're adding your lines. Okay, I'm very happy with the way is turning out that clothes really beautiful. Now I'm going to clean my brush. And I'm picking a bit of orange, a medium tone, not too dark. And I'm adding a few lines towards the center just to bring in some texture in the background. Go with a pain that is not too watery. If it's watery, dab it on a paper towel and just add a few random lines towards the center where we have yellow. This is just to introduce some more texture onto the background. If you feel there is enough, you don't need to add more lines. Now, there's one more thing I want to do before I leave it for trying. Just make the lines at the bottom a bit more darker. For that, I'm squeezing out a bit of neutral tint. Now I'm mixing that with brown. It's a mix of neutral tint and brown. You can use pinscreen instead. Okay, now I'm just going to add some lines at the bottom. Only over here, I already have some brown lines here. I'm just overriding the same lines again to make it a bit more taco. Okay. And you can clearly see, I'm adding them only at the bottom. I'm leaving the top part actus. Okay, so that's a leak. I'm very much happy with it. It is really glowing now, we'll have to wait for this to dry before we add the final details. Welcome back to your friends. Now our next task is Painting the mountains, which is a very interesting task. We'll be using four colors to paint the mountain. We will use yellow, orange, brown, and neutral tent right over here. We will add some yellow. Then gradually we will use orange, brown, and neutral Ten, I think I will need some more brown. Okay, I have the colors ready on my palette. Now you can use any of your medium sized Rom brush. It could be six, or seven, or eight, but before you start painting, make sure it is clean. It is very important as you're going to start with yellow here. Now, with your clean brush, pick some yellow and add that along the top part of the mountain. Okay. That is a lighter tone of yellow. Next, I'm picking some orange. I'm adding that right next to yellow. So we have some yellow on the top. Then we have applied orange on the top of the mountain. We have some yellow around that. We have introduced some orange now with the same brush, I'm going to take out some brown. I'm adding that right next to orange. Okay. You can use brown or burn cena, which will be the color you have with you, and add that right next to orange. You can see at the center, I still have some yellow. I haven't touched that. I'm adding brown around orange towards the outer side. Okay, so that is yellow, orange, and brown. Now we can go with a much more taco tone onto either side and we can finish off the shape. It's a very simple trick actually. With a careful play of colors, you can create a beautiful glowing effect in your painting. Anyway, next Tim, I'm going to pick some taco tone. I'm picking some neutral tent. I already has some brown on my brush now, rating the yellow at the center. Towards either side. I'm introducing this daco tone. Okay, this contrast will make that glowing effect even more beautiful. You can see that beautiful effect we have caught here. So that's the right side. Similarly, I'm going to add some taco tone on the left side asphll. You can just introduce that daco tone and you can finish up the shape. Okay, so I'm done adding the paint, now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm picking some orange over here. The paint looks a little rough, so I'm just ching that I also need to make the horizon line straight. Right now it doesn't look straight. I'm just adding some orange and I'm trying to make it a straight line. Okay. That's how it has turned out. As I said earlier, it's a very simple trick. You just have to play with the colors to get that glowing effect. Right where you have the sun. You need to use lighter tones. It could be yellow or a lighter tone of orange. Then around that you need to introduce more of brown and taker tones to create that contrast. Okay, that's how it has turned out. I'm very much happy with it. Now we have one more task left, but before that, we'll have to wait for this to dry. I'm really loving the glowing effect here. You can see how beautiful this area has turned out. Anyway, our final task is to add the reflection. I'll be adding reflection on the right side and also on the left. Clean your brush. I'm using a medium sized tone brush here. I'm starting with a medium tone of brown. Go with the medium tone. It could be burn sena or brown. But use a medium tone which is not too dark and too light. Okay, I'm starting with the right side. I want you guys to give it a watch before you try it over this area. I'm adding some lines using a medium tone of brown, just some random lines. Some of them are longer, some of them are shorter. It doesn't have any proper shape or size. I'm just randomly adding them in. As you can see, I'm adding that only on the right end. Maybe we can add a few more lines. Okay, that's a few lines. You see brown, a medium tone. Now, the same brush, I'm picking a much more taco tone to the end. I'm introducing that. Okay? As you can see here, I'm adding the Daco value only towards end. I'm not adding any towards the inner side. Maybe we can make it a bit more taco, only on the outer side. I'm taking some more brown. Maybe we can add a little neutral tint to make it darker. This doesn't seem that dark. With the same brush, I'm going to pick some neutral tint and I will mix that with brown with that color as well. I will repeat the same step. Okay, I'm picking some neutral tint. Adding that on this extreme side. I'm not adding any on the inner side. Okay. Toward the center where we have the sun's reflection, We want to retain those lighter tones and white space. Don't add any darker tone over there. You can add a deeper value only onto this right side. Okay, now on the other side, Aspher, we're going to use the same technique to paint our reflection. Let's switch back to that medium tone of brown that we can add the first set of lines underneath the mountain. I'm just adding some random lines. Don't add them too close to each other, leave some tiny cap in between. Okay. So that's a first step. Now with the same ph, I'm picking a taco tone of brown. I'm adding that onto the left side. On the right, we added them over here. And now let's do the same on the left side. Go with the taco tone and add that on the extreme left side. Okay, now I'm going to make it a bit more darker by introducing some neutral tent again onto this extreme side. You can add a few more lines towards the bottom, maybe on the other side as well. On the side, it is not that dark. We started with a medium tone of brown and we added some lines using that, and then we added some Darcotones onto either side and also some lines. That's how it has turned out. I think it is pretty nice. That glow here is really beautiful. I just love that subtle reflection we have caught here. Maybe we can add a sun here and maybe some birds as well. I think that will add to the beauty of our painting. Let me first wash my brush. First I will add the birds. I'm switching back to a Dacoton of Brown. You can either use paint screen or neutral tend acts or can go the Darcoton of Brown. I'm going to add two or three birds, just a few simple ones. First, I'm adding here, that's my first bird. It's a simple shaped bird. I'm not adding any extra details. I'm making one wing thicker. Similarly, I'm adding another one. Now, another one on the top. Maybe one more towards the bottom, that can be here. Okay. So those are the birds. If you want to add more, you could do that. Maybe you can add another group on the top or maybe a few more in a scattered manner. Okay, next I'm going to clean my brush. My next step is to make the reflection more prominent, as well as adding a sun. For that, I'm picking some clean white Pq quite and I'm adding some lines. All right at the center. I don't want to make it too prominent. I'm just adding a few lines towards the bottom. That's where it is not really visible. And you can see the lines, they are quite thin. And I'm not adding a lot, I'm just adding a few. Okay, that's a reflection. I think it is pretty good. I don't want to add more now with the same paint, I'm introducing a sun here, right above the mountain. Only half of it is visible. You don't need a complete circle. Just a half circle is all you need. Right here is completely optional. If you're happy with your painting and if you don't want to add any more extra reflection or sun, you can just ignore this step. To me, I felt like my son was a bit misplaced. It wasn't really about reflection, that's why I added that again. Anyways, that's finished painting, now I'm going to peel off the masking tape, and here's the finished painting. I'm really, really happy with the color combination, the clue, and that reflection. I think it turned out pretty well. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you haven't tried it yet, be sure to try it. You're going to love that clue. And the reflection here. It's a very interesting technique. Oh, which isn't that difficult. It is just the play of colors. So just play around and let's see how that's going to turn out. So that's all for the day. Thank you so much for joining and happy painting. 8. DAY 3 - Dreamy Evening - Techniques: Hello dear friends. Welcome to day three. Here's the next painting we're going to try. It's a beautiful color combination. As you could see here, we have used violet, pink, orange, and yellow for the sky. First we will go for a blend of these colors. Then on to that we will add some cloud violet. A major part of the sky is going to be pink and violet. Only at the bottom we have some orange and yellow. That's the beauty of this painting. Now towards the bottom, you can see that meadow. We have tried a similar painting earlier, This one here. I'm going to use the same technique to paint this grassy area. The colors are a bit more darker here. That's only difference. It's the same technique. I think I have used much more patterns here. The grassy pattern is a lot more compared to the other one. Okay, so we have already tried that technique. I hope you guys are able to follow that technique. Now, coming to the lake for the base layer, we will use pink and violet. Then onto that we will add some lines using green. We have tried a similar technique here for these reflections. Actually, today's painting is a combination of day one and d two. Obviously, the color combination is different and we're adding the reflection here in a staggered manner. We don't have any mountain, we are not adding them onto either side. There's only a little difference. But we're going to adapt all the techniques we used for these two paintings into today's painting. Okay, I'm hoping you guys have tried this. Now let's have a look at the color palette. The very first color will need is violet. This one is violet from white nights. You can go with any violet or purple you have got. It can be from any brand. If you don't have any violet, you can mix and create one. Okay, That's the first color. The second color you will need is permanent rose. This one is nearly over. I need to get a new tube. It's a beautiful color. I love to use this in my sunsets. Now, the third color is orange. This one is brilliant orange from Shinhan. It is another color which I'm madly obsessed with. Okay, we have violet, rose, and orange. I missed to say this earlier. If you don't have rose, just go with crimson or any similar color. Okay. Now there's one more color you will need for the sky, which is yellow minus Indian yellow. You can go with any yellow ka, it can be Gamboo, yellow, primary yellow, or any yellow. Okay, those are the four colors we'll be using for the sky. Now let's swath them out. I'm starting with violet. This one is a very beautiful violet. It is highly pigmented. This one is from white knights. I had another one from Shinhan, which was another beautiful violet. You can see how gorgeous that color is. Next I'm going to go with permanent rose. Wow, so beautiful. Right. See that? It's again, a highly pigmented color. But as I said earlier, if you don't have rose, there is nothing to worry. You can go a crimson or car mine, we're going to add some white with it. We are not going to use the color assets. It doesn't really matter whether you're using car mine or crimson or any other color. When we add some white water color into it, they all look the same. Okay. I'm going to squeeze out some white. Now in case if you have a pastel color with you, I mean a pastel rose, you can use it directly. You don't need to mix and create a pastel color. Today's sky is going to be a combination of a pastel pink, violet, orange, and yellow. The only pastel color we're going to use is pastel pink. Such a beautiful color, right? It's a best color to paint flowers. If you are someone who love painting Florence, I think you should try with this color. Okay, that's a second color. Next I have here is orange. My favorite brilliant orange, again, a highly pigmented color. I think this color palette is just perfect for our vibrant sunset. How beautiful those colors are. Okay, now let's go to the last one which is the yellow. This one is Indian yellow from Shinhan. Except for violet, all the colors you see here is from Shinhan only violet is from white nights. All right? So those are the colors you will need for the sky. Violet, pastel, pink, orange, and yellow. Now on a small section, I'm going to show you how to paint the sky so that you'll be a little familiarized with the colors and the way they blend it is a wet on wet sky. The very first step is to apply coat of water onto your paper. For that, I'm using my 1 " wash brush. Pick some clean water and apply a code onto your paper. Okay. Before you apply water, always make sure your brush is clean. Also, before you start painting a sky, make sure you have all the colors ready on your palette. Those things, actually can save a lot of time. You can be very quick in picking the colors and dropping them onto your paper. Okay, my sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to keep this pressure aside and I'm going to pick my flat brush. This one is a half inch brush. You can go with a flat brush or a round brush. Now I'm starting with a pastel pink. I already have some white here and rows. I'm mixing them together. That's the color I'm going with. Maybe I will switch the palette here so that I can see all the colors that I'm mixing. All right, I already have some paint on my brush. I'm going to add that at the center. I'm not sure the color is a bit different. I think there is some leftover paint. Let me just wash it now. I'm going to pick some more paint and I'm going to add that towards the top. We have some space left on the top as well as at the bottom. Next, I'm going to switch to violet with the same brush. You don't need to wash it. You can pick violet and add that on the top. Okay, that is pink and violet. Now onto the bottomst area, I'm going to introduce some orange. Let's clean the brush clean properly. Dab it on a paper towel so that you can be sure there is no leftover paint. Now, I'm adding orange right over here and I'm blending that with pink. Now I'm adding some of that onto either side haspel leaving some gap at the center. And that's where I'm going to add yellow. Okay, let's add some yellow over here. For the main project, I won't be adding this much yellow. I would only be adding a little towards the bottom. See that along the horizon I have added only a little bit of yellow. Okay, now I'm going to clean my brush again. I think I can add some more orange here. I want the orange to be very bright and prominent. Maybe we can add a little pink asphalt. The pink can also be a bit more vibrant because when the background dries, the colors will look a little dull. It's a good idea to go with the Daco tune. I mean, a vibrant tune. I'm going to quickly blend that with violet so that we can start adding the clouds. Otherwise our background might dry. Now to add the clouds, I'm going with my medium sized Re brush. To me personally, I always prefer using a medium size brush when I'm adding the clouds. This one here is size number six. Okay. Now to add the clouds, I'm picking some violet, a medium tone, which is not too watery. Now let's start adding the clouds. You can add clouds however you want. You doesn't need to follow the same pattern, just add that onto that background however you like. The key is adding them while your background is still wet. And also using a pain which is not too watery. If it's too watery, it will spread a lot and it won't have any shape go the pain which is not super watery. Now, I'm going to add clouds mostly at the top where I have pain. Can violet? I won't be adding much towards the bottom or in and yellow. Because violet and orange and even violet and yellow, they are complimentary colors on the color wheel. So if you add clouds using violet on top of orange and yellow, it will end up looking muddy. That's the reason why I'm not adding any clouds towards the bottom. I think I have added enough of clouds. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm dabbing that on a paper towel and with a clean tamprush. I'm gently smudging the paint. It's more like a feather touch. I'm not disturbing the base layer. This is something I do once I have done adding the clouds. It's not a compulsory step. I always feel this way. The sky looks a little more softer. And also by doing this, I'm actually controlling the way the paint is spreading. Okay? That's how it has turned out. It's a really beautiful color compinion. If you're an absolute beginner, I want you guys to try it out on a scrap piece of paper so that when you paint your main painting, it's going to be a lot more easier now, just in case, if you want to add more clouds, if you feel your background is still wet, you could do that. You can make it a bit more dramatic. Technically, my idea where the sketchbook exercise is to make you all comfortable with the color combination. Also get an idea about how they blend into each other. And also the water control. You will get an idea about how fast you should be adding your clouds, how fast your paper drying. Okay. Those are the things you need to keep in mind. It is not really about the way I'm adding clouds. You can add them however you want. Now, the next thing you're going to try is the meadow. We have already tried. So I think I'll just show you the colors. Even we have had the color saspher, but not a problem. Let's try that again. The color I'm going to use for the background is olive green, which is actually a mix of sap green and orange. I already have some orange on my palette, so I'm going to take out some sap green. Now if you don't want to use olive green, that's totally fine. You can just go with Sap Green acts for your taco tunes. You can just add some paint screine to it. Okay, I've taken out some soap crine, now I'm going to mix that with a bit of orange. Before that, I think I will take out some neutral tint. Tasphole. Okay, for the meadow, we will use sap cream, olive green. Add some neutral tent to have the deeper tones. Neutral tin and pinscre are similar. Wherever I'm using neutral tent, you can use paintcray instead. This one is sap cream. It's again from Shinhan. Next, I'm going to make some sap cream with orange. Let's see how that is going to turn out. We'll pick a bit, you can do the same thing with burn seen asphalt. The color will be a bit more brownish. Okay. That is olive green according to the color you want, you can choose to add more orange or more green. Okay, I have seen floral artist using this color to add the leaves and all the foliage. If you're someone who love doing floral paintings for once, switch from green to this color and see how that's going to turn out. Okay, that is green and olive green. Now I'm going to add a bit of neutral tent into sap Green. First, swash out neutral tent, Acetis. This one is also from Shin Hen. Shin Han doesn't have paints gray. Instead they have neutral tent. That's why I don't have paints gray with me. I have paint scray from another brand. Okay, now I'm going to add some sap green into the same color. I'm going to create a Dacu green. We'll be using this color to add the deeper tones then for that trace in the background and also for the reflection. Okay, that's a Dako green, as I mentioned, Olio, you can just go with paint scray. If you don't have paint scray, just go with a bit of black or in Tico, you can mix that into your sap green to create a Dako tone. Okay, technically we have tried all the necessary techniques. We have tried the color caspo. Now the only thing that we can try is the reflections. We have tried similar reflection in our previous painting, but just to make you a bit more confident, maybe we can try it out right now. I'm going to show that on a plain paper, we don't have any background here, but when you have a background, it will have a different effect. Okay. So just keep that in mind. Now I'm starting with a medium tone of green. I'm using my size number six brush here. Go with any of your medium size brush or even a smaller brush, simply add some lines. I want you guys to give it a watch. Then maybe after that you can try it. I'm just adding some lines onto the paper using a medium tone of green. They are just some random lines, some of the, some of the mat. Next I'm picking a Daco tone. I'm adding that in between. Okay. Now, with the same color, I'm going to add few more lines. They are not perfect, you can just simply add some random lines. When you have a background color, it will look a lot more beautiful and realistic. Right now, I'm not really sure whether you're getting a feel of it, but it is just some random lines. You have to leave some gap in between when you're adding these lines. That's the only thing you have to keep in mind. I think I will show you the paintings so he will get a better idea. Here it is. We have a violet color in the background, and I have simply added some lines. Maybe you can add a few more lines if you feel like it. Some thicker lines in between using a taco tone. Okay. That's how we're going to paint the reflection. Honestly, when I started watercolor painting, I used to skip painting anything which has a lake or any water body in it because I was so scared of painting reflection. I have to admit, I'm still a bit scared, but not like earlier, but now I love to try it. I love to explore the methods in creating reflection. That's a big difference. If you're scared of painting reflections with you, don't worry. That's very normal. I have been there. But gradually you will get over it. Now, there's one more element here, which are the landscape far away. Maybe we can try that too. You have to begin with a yellowish grain to the same color. You can add a bit of a yellow. Then you can start with that color. Then gradually as we go to the extreme ends, we're going to make it darker. We try the same technique in our previous painting. The only differences we have used different colors there. We used more of brown, orange, and neutral tent. In this case, it's a green landscape, so we have to use more of green colors. Brown. Okay, start with a yellowish green, then go with sap. Green acts and towards the extreme end introduce some neutral tent or paint screen and finish up the shape. It's a very simple element, but it will make your painting look a lot more beautiful. We're going to add them where we have yellow in our sky. It will make it look like the sunlight is hitting onto these plants. That's how we're getting that glowing effect. Okay, So that was the last thing we have tried, all the essential techniques. The only thing I want you guys to try is the sky. Now anyway, I have a lot of green left on my palette. So I'm just going to add a green patch here. I just want to show you how the sky is getting enhanced. When we are adding green, I will add some taco tons Asphal. You can already see the difference it made. We're going to try the same technique for our main painting asphalt. You can see the yellow color and the green landscape. That contrast is very beautiful. If you're seriously looking forward to improve your water color skills, what you can do is just try out some skyes on a scrap piece of paper, maybe something similar to what you see on my sketchbook. This size is just perfect. It doesn't need to be a huge paper. Just try exploring different color combinations and try adding clouds. This way you will have a better understanding of how the colors work, how long your paper is staying wet, and how fast you should be working. So keep a small sketchbook or some scrap piece of paper and try out different kind of skies. This is definitely going to help you in your article again. Anyway, we had a look at the colors and the techniques. Now, without wasting any time, let's give it a try. 9. DAY 3 - Dreamy Evening: All right. So I have my paper ready here. I have fixed it onto my table and I have the colors ready. Asphal, we already had a look at the colors. I might need some more violet. The rest of the colors looks fine. We have yellow, rose, orange, and a bit of white. Okay, to paint the sky, we will need all these colors. So before you start, keep them ready on your palette. Next, I'm going to add a quick sketch. I will just add the horizon line, but it's a little below the center of the paper. A major portion of our painting is going to be the sky. Next, I'm going to add an irregular line to show the ground. Then we also have a small water body at the bottom. Okay? Just go for an irregular line. We can fix it as you paint. Okay. Now, just in case, if you want to modify a bit, you could do that. Or if you don't want to show the water body even, that is fine. You can just ignore adding that irregular line and you can turn your entire ground into a grassy meadow. Okay, that's a sketch. I'm hoping you all have your colors ready. It's going to be a wet on wet sky, which means you'll have to apply coat of water before you start using any of your white or flatbrush. The first color I'm going to start with is a Basel Pink. It can be a mix of any kind of rose or crimson with white. To apply that I'll using a flat brush. Now, when you're applying pink, try to leave some cap along the bottom. That's where we're going to introduce some yellow. When you're applying pink, try to leave a cap at the bottom. Now go with any of your wide or flat brush and apply an even coat of water onto the entire sky. When you're applying water, always make sure your brush is clean. You can just dab that on a paper towel just to be 100% shower. Okay, I have applied a nice one quarter of water onto the entire sky. Now I'm keeping this pressure aside and I'm picking my flat brush again, making sure it's clean. Now the very first thing I'm going to do is preparing a pastel pink. I already have some rose here and I'm mixing that with some white. See that it's a beautiful pastel pink. Now leaving some gap at the bottom, I'm going to apply that almost to three fourth of the paper from the bottom. I'm going to, at the top, you can mix white with crimson or quinacrodone rose or any pink and just apply that onto your wet paper. Okay? It doesn't need to be in a straight line. You can add that in an irregular way. Okay, keep adding more paint if you're not really happy with the color. If you add more white, the color will be more lighter. And if you want to bright pink, add very little amount of white. Now with the same brush, I'm going to pick some violet. You don't really need to wash off the paint. You can use the same brush. Add a few drops of water and turn your violet into a medium tone. And apply that on the top. It's a medium tone, it's not too light. You can see I'm adding violet onto the area we have left on the top. It's not in a proper shape or any proper pattern. I'm just adding that onto the remaining area. Now I'm going to clean my brush, and I'm switching to a round brush. Every time you pick a new brush, just make sure it is clean. The brush I'm going to use is size number six. You can use any of your medium size brush. It could be four, or five, or six. Okay, now I'm going to pick some violet. Right now, we have just applied pink and violet next to make it look more beautiful. We're going to add some clouds. You don't need to pick a lot of paint. Once you've taken the paint on your brush, just dab it on a paper towel. If your paint is too wet and if your brush has a lot of paint, they will start spreading in a very vigorous way and you won't be able to control it. Go for a paint that is not too watery, then keep adding the clouds onto the wet background. How do you want to It doesn't need to have any proper shape or any proper pattern. You can add them wherever you want, but make sure your paint is not too watery. Okay. I'm adding them more to the area where I have pink on the top. I have enough of violet. I'm not really worried about adding any clouds on the top. I want to focus on the bottom where I have the pink. Okay, I have added a few clouds at the bottom. Now I'm going to go for a Dako tone of violet. And I will add a few on the top as well. Otherwise, it will look quite plain and empty. So let's add a few on the top using a taco tone. Again, make sure your paint is not too watery. Just keep adding some random shapes while the background is still wet. That is the important thing here. You should not wait for a longer time. You need to add your clouds while your background is still wet. I'm just running my bridge back and forth in a random way and I'm adding these clouds. I'm really loving the weight is turning out. As you may have noticed, the shape of the clouds are well in control. Reason for that is I'm using a smaller brush. If you're using a bigger brush, the shapes will be much more bigger and by the time they spread into the background, it will become even more bigger. It's always good to go with a medium size brush so that you have a better control. All right, That is violet and pink. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside. Before that there is some water along the border. I will just wipe it off. Otherwise they will float back into the painting and might create some blades along the border. Okay, this part is done. I'm going to clean my brush and I'm switching to orange now. Let's add orange along the horizon. You can go with any orange. Now I'm adding orange on top of the pink, you can see have left some space along the horizon. I'm not adding any orange over there onto that space. I'm going to introduce some yellow. It's a very small gap, but be sure not to add orange over there. Okay? You can add a few lines onto the pink asphalt to make your sky look more interesting. We are adding orange to bring a contrast in our sky. This will turn our evening into a gorgeous one. Okay? So that is orange. Now I'm going to clean my brush, and I'm switching to yellow. Clean it properly. You can dab it on a paper towel just to be sure there is no orange left on your brush. Now, pick some yellow, it can be any yellow. You can go for primary yellow, cambo, yellow, Indian yellow, or any other yellow of your toys. Once you have taken paint on your brush, apply that along the horizon, right underneath the orange, This will create a glowy effect for your sky. See that? Just apply that along the horizon and that's a sky. I accidentally add a drop of water here before I leave it for drying. I'm going to try to fix that. I cleaned my brush and I'm picking some pink. It's the same color I used earlier. It's a mix of rose and white and I'm just smrching it. Okay. That's done. Luckily the background was still a bit wet, so I could fix it easily. Anyway, that's how the sky has turned out. I think it has come out really nice. That yellow and orange is adding a beautiful touch to the sky. I hope you guys like it too, Ty. Adding the yellow onto the sky was a last minute plan, but I think it was a good decision. It came out really beautiful. Even that orange, I think that tint of orange is making the sky look more vibrant. Now, when we add the horizon details as well as we paint the greenery, the sky is going to look even more beautiful. Meanwhile the sky dries. We can start with the lake. I'm starting with pink. It's the same way I created earlier. I'm mixing some white with permanent rose, and I'm going to apply that on the top. Then as I come towards the bottom, I will switch to violet. Right here I'm applying that beautiful pink. You can see how beautiful that color is. I just love using this color. I will add some more pink. Then for the rest of the area, I'm going to apply violet. That is pink. Now let's pick some violet. Let's add that on the remaining area at the bottom. Just apply these two colors onto the entire lake. However you want to then just blend it. Then gradually onto this bed background, we will start adding some lines to create a texture and that movement in the water. Otherwise, it will look quite plain. Okay, quickly apply the paint and blend. Now, before we start adding those texture on the water, we need to add some deeper tones underneath that patch of land right here. Then onto this corner, and also on the top, we're going to add some deeper tones to show the shadows and the deeper values. Maybe we can add a bit more. Okay, now let's go with our smaller brush. We can start adding those teeny tiny lines to create the texture and the movement in the water. Again, don't go for a watery paint. Go with a paint that is not a lot watery. Now, just keep on adding some teeny tiny lines on to the te, or lake. These lines doesn't need to have any particular length or shape or pattern, just keep on adding them to bring in a texture in the water towards the bottom. Maybe you can go for a daco ton of violet. Add on pink, you can use a medium tone. Just keep adding them at the end. We'll also add some more reflection on this using a darker tone. This is just a first round, a fine tuning will happen at the end. Okay, for now, just keep on adding some random lines and fill up that entire area. Don't go overboard. We still have to see those background colors on the top. Use a medium tone of violet and adding some thin lines at the bottom, you can go for a slightly dakotune, not too dark, just one tone darker than the color we used in the background. Otherwise they won't be visible. Okay, I think I can add some more deeper tune on the left side. The right side is looking nice in a similar way. I'm adding some deeper tone on the left side. Onto this leftmost area. I'm picking more paint and I'm adding some long lines from the left side towards the center because I want the Syria to be a bit more darker compared to the center. Okay, that looks fine. I think it is pretty decent. We can call it done for now. Then we can add the final details at the end. Okay, we painted the leak as well as the sky. Next we need to paint the greenery, but before that we'll have to make sure the background has tried completely. I think it's a good time to take a short break or to speed up the process. You can use a blow Ryo. All right, so the background has tried completely. Now we can start painting the greenery. For that, I will need some green. I'll sing sap green. And to add the deeper tones, I'll be using neutral tint, that sap green. I will also need some yellow and orange, which I already have on my palette. The next color I will need is neutral tint. If you don't have neutral tint, just go with paints. Gray. They are similar. Okay, I have the colors ready. Now. The green I'm going to use is a mix of orange and sap green. I don't want to use that fresh green painting, a sunset scene, so the colors won't be that fresh and vibrant. Okay, so let me show you the color that I'm going to use. I have some orange here. I'm picking some sap green and I'm going to mix that with orange. This color is more like a olive green. If you have olive green, you can use cactus or you can just mix and create your own olive green which is really easy. You just need to add some orange with sap green. That's a color I'm going to use. Okay? Now, depending on the proportion of orange and green you're adding, your color might look a little different. This is the color, I'm adding some water. Now we can see the color clearly. First, I will apply this on to almost half of the section. Then I'm going to add some sap cream in between. Just to bring in another tonal value of cream, Make sure to go the similar tonal value, don't make it too dark. Now I'm picking some sap cream. Now I'm going to add a few lines from either side, just some random lines. Okay, so just keep on adding them. Don't add any green at the center. At the center, we can retain that olive green. Now I'm going to fill up the rest of the area. See that we have two different tonal values of green here at the center. I retain that olive green. Then towards the bottom, I'm just adding that sap green acetus. Then I also added some lines on either side. Okay, that's a base layer. If you look at the way I have painted, I have deliberately left some olive green in between. You can see if you're on the top, Then in between as well, you can see some olive green. Now the same brush, I'm going to pick some neutral tint. And I'm mixing that with sap cream to create a darker cream. Using that as well, I'm going to add some darker tone onto the background. It is just some lines. I'm not adding any on the top now. In between, I'm just adding some lines. Again, I'm trying to retain that olive green right now. Our background is still wet, so you have to make use of the time and adding new pertoons, now I'm adding them along the bottom line of that patch of land. Add some tar paton here, then along the other sides. Okay. We have one more section at the bottom, Over there as well, I'm adding some paton. Okay. Right now there's a lot more varieties of green in the background. We have olive green, we have sap green, and we also have a daco tone. I'm really happy with the colors. We have got a beautiful range of greens. But I think we can add a few more lines using a daco tone. I'm adding them on the right now, A little on the left. See that? Just add a few lines while retaining some of your sap green and olive green. I think you can already feel the glow here. It is mostly because the olive green we used, It is very well going with the sky, you can see that color in between. All right, I'm nearly done adding the pertunes. Now we have one more step. We'll need to add some grassy pattern onto this background. All right? So I'm just keeping this one aside. I'm switching to a smaller brush. This one is size number two. Go with any brush that has got a pointed tip. Now we're going to go with a darker tone of cream. I'm mixing some neutral tint with sap cream. Using that color, I'm going to add some grassy pattern. Now there's one major thing you have to keep in mind. We're not going to add any on the lighter tone, we're adding them on the darker tone. Okay? Skip the areas where you have lighter tone and add them where you have applied your darker tone. Right now, I'm adding them along the bottom line. Gradually, I will add some more where I have added those lines. See that you can already feel the effect. Just keep these areas where you have olive green and just add them on the areas where you have applied to deepertunes. Trust me, if you follow that it is going to turn out really beautiful. Just keep adding your grassy line on to the area where you have your deepertunes and medium tunes. Skip the area where you have your olive green. Okay. Try to add them while your background is still wet so that they won't be too prominent. Also go with a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. You can see the lines are adding, They are not very perfect. The only thing is I'm using a smaller brush and the lines are not too tall, they are quite messy, they are not at all perfect. I'm just adding them along. The medium tunes and tacotones I have applied, that's the only thing I'm following. Okay. So yeah, I just go ahead use any of your smaller brush and go with a Tacotone of green. Add some lines on the wet background. Okay. Now I need to add a few along the bottomost area, asphalt over here. We had a look at the technique at the beginning, so I'm quite sure you guys know how to approach it. Okay. So let's quickly add them in before the background dries, okay? So this is how it has turned out. You can see how beautiful it is looking. Now I'm going to add a few more towards the top. I won't be adding any along the horizon but a little over here and they're going to be much more shorter. It looks like the background has almost dried, so I don't want to ruin it. I'll just add a few and I'll call it down. You can see here, I haven't added any. Along the horizon over there we have a clean, olive green color. And that is exactly what we need. Now maybe along the bottom line, we can add a few more lines using a tat. The bottoms area is where we have lots of shadows and depertoons. Just to enhance that, I'm using a much more taco tone. I'm adding a few more lines here this time of the color I'm using doesn't have a lot of green. It has more of neutral tent. Using paint screen reduce the amount of green and add more pain screen into the mix. Now let's add few lines along the bottomost area. Okay, only over here. I'm not going to add any towards the top. As I mentioned, Dolio, these lines doesn't need to be super perfect, just keep on adding them using any of your smaller brush. Don't make them too thick. That is one thing you have to keep in mind. For the same reason, try to go with any of your smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. If you look at the painting now, you can see those medium tones on the top. Then gradually, as we come towards the bottom, it is getting more taker and taker. And that is exactly what we need in our painting to enhance the glue along the horizon line. Okay, that part is done. I think I said this earlier, adding that yellow along the sky was a last minute decision, but it is going so well with the greenery. I can really feel the glow here. Anyways, our next task is to add the horizon details. I'm going with the same color and the same brush. I'm using a daco tone of green. It's a mix of neutral tint and sap green. You can either mix paint screen or a bit of indict, sap green and create a daco tone. Now first I'm going to add the detail on the left side. I will start by adding a line, then I will add some irregular shape on the top. Then I will simply fill that up. Okay, one major thing you have to keep in mind is the size. Don't make it too huge. Go with the similar height for your landscape. If you make it too huge, your painting will go out of proportion, okay? To bring in that sense of distance, it is very important to go with a similar size. Now I'm going to simply fill that up in a taco tone of green. So these are some trees or plants far away as you can see here. Right now I'm using a taco tone of green. But as I add these landscape towards the center, I will make the color lighter. Okay, this set is done now, leaving some gap in between. I'm going to add another set of plants. Just watch out before you add them. First I will add a line. I leave some gap in between. I'm adding a line. Okay. Now I'm mixing some yellow with that cream color I used earlier, and I'm making it more lighter. See that? Just add some yellow into the same color you used earlier. And just fill up that shape. See that? Now I'm picking more yellow and I'm going to add that on the right side to make that glue even more beautiful. Okay, go the similar height, don't make it too huge. As I said earlier, you can feel the distance in our painting. The reason is the size you're using. Here go, the similar size. Now I'm going to add another group of plants towards the center. I'm using the same color, the same yellowish green. Now I'm going to add a tiny shape next to this one. It's going to be super tiny. I don't want to make it to pick, I'm picking a little of green, adding that onto the shape. Okay, that's our next cluster. Now I'm going to add one more towards the right side. I'm starting with that greenish yellow I created earlier over here. I'm using this color. Then gradually as I go towards the right side, I will make it more darker. Now, I'm adding some green over here. I'm ting that lighter tone towards the right, I'm going to make it more greenish. Now let's go with a much more taco tone and finish up that shape. It's a very simple technique, but you can create a beautiful effect by using this technique. Start for the greenish yellow, then you can go for olive green, and towards the end, you can use a much more taco tone. I think you can really feel that some light heating on the plants. To me, I feel like that effect has come out really nice. I hope you guys are loving your painting too. Anyways, now I'm going to quickly finish up that shape. We need to add some paint at the bottom. Also, I need to clear the shape on the top that will be done with this section. Then the only thing left is adding the reflection deliberately left some gap at the center. But if you want to add another section of plants at the center, you could do that. That's not a problem. Okay, I'm nearly done fixing the sheep. I thought of adding some more lighter tone here and I'm just merging it to make it look clean. Okay. So that's effect we have got here. I'm really loving it. Sometimes adding a small element or bringing in another color can make a lot of difference in your painting. And that's exactly what happened here. We added some yellow in the sky, and also we incorporated that on the landscape to make it look like it is glowing. Okay. That's where we are right now. Our next task is to add the reflection. And for that I'm going to go with a green color. And I'm using my size number six round brush. I'm keeping the other one aside. We're going to add them on the pink area first. Then we can gradually add them onto the other area. Okay, I'm starting with that olive green color. It's the same way how we created earlier. It's a mix of sap creen and a bit of orange. Pick a little of orange and mix that with sap green. You can also use burn cena instead of orange. Even that will create a beautiful olive green. When you're painting sunsets, it's a great color to use. You can see that color here. It is always a better choice than sap greene. Anyways, let's start adding the reflection. First, prepare the mix of grain. Go with any of your medium size fresh. Now I'm going to start adding some lines onto this background, just some random lines. But while I'm adding them, I'm leaving some cap in between. We need to see that background color. Don't add them too close to each other. That's the only thing you have to keep in mind. Okay. Some of the lines can be a bit thicker and some of them can be thinner. This will make it look more natural. See that? Right now I'm using Oli green. Gradually I will pick a much more taco tone. Okay, let's keep adding some lines using olive green first. Just keep in mind to leave those cap in between. Now, I'm going to add a few onto the left side. See that? First focus on the area right underneath that land. Then we can gradually add a few towards to bottom. Now I think I can go with a bit more taco tone. I'm picking some sap green. Then I'm going to add a bit of neutral tint into that to turn that into a taco tone. Now let's add some more lines using a taco tone. It's the same technique. Try to leave that cap in between. Now we can see we have two different tonal values of green here. Okay, we try the same in the technique section. I'm guessing you guys are able to follow, It is not complicated. All you have to do is just add some lines. They can be a bit longer or thicker. We need a combination of different lines. That way it will look more natural. Now, I'm missing a taco tone. I'm adding some thicker lines here. See that? Let's add a few more. Don't be afraid, just go ahead and add them in. As I said earlier, just keep in mind to leave some cap in between when you're adding them. You can add as many as you want. I'm going to add more on the left side, I think onto the right. I won't make it too crowded. Okay, over here you can see some of them are a bit thicker and some of them are thinner. Go in a similar way, you can see the weight is turning out okay. Right now I have added them along the bottom part of the ground now in a random way, I'm going to add some tiny lines to make it look more natural. See that? I'm not adding a lot, just a few more. In a very random way. This will make it look like the water is moving and it will make it look more natural and realistic. Just add a few more like this, some broken lines. Again, they don't have any particular shape, or pattern or size. Just add some rough lines like this. Okay, That's how it has turned out. I'm pretty happy with it. Now I'm going to go back with that. Take what I would want to do is I want to fix this line. It is not looking straight, so I'm just going to fix it. I think not just this line, even the other lines are not straight. I'm just going to fix it. I'm missing a really taco tone of green and I'm adding a line along the bottom part now, on the next side over here. Okay. Right now, that is looking like a line. It doesn't look natural. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add some grassy line along the bottom to make that line disappear. Because right now you can clearly see a thick line along the bottom. It looks pretty weird. I'm going to switch to my smaller brush in the same way how I added grassy line earlier. I'm adding them from the bottom towards the top. Honestly, this is just to make that line disappear. Otherwise you can see a thick line along the bottom. The purpose of these grassy lines are just to cover that up. Okay. If you're already happy with your painting, if you don't feel like adding this line, that's totally fine. You can just watch what I'm doing here. Okay? Now, in case if you're adding these lines, they don't need to be a perfect line. You can just use this side of your brush and just drag them onto the top. You can just mudd the paint. It doesn't need to be grassy line. Okay. I think now it looks so much better. It looked a lot more define than earlier. Okay. So that is done. Okay. So this is how it is looking right now. You can see how beautiful it has turned out. I'm very happy with the entire painting. The sky looks really beautiful, especially the orange and yellow over here, and then the grassy meadow. The only thing I'm not really convinced is the reflection. I'm just thinking of adding some more lines on the water, especially onto the left side. So I'm just going to go back with my size number two brush and I'm picking a darko tone of green. This is optional only if you want to add few more lines, you could do that. Otherwise, just leave it as it is for me. For some reason I feel like I can add a few more lines here. Only on the side, I'm not going to touch the right side. Maybe you might not feel the need to add it. These kind of things can be very different from artist to artist. If you don't feel like adding them, go with your cuts. Don't add it. Anyways, I'm just adding some random lines here using a taco tone. As I said, Dolio, I'm adding them only on the left. I won't be adding any onto the right. It's a taco tone of green. And I'm using a smaller brush. I'm adding a combination of thick lines and thin lines. Okay? You can still see that violet color in the background, which is exactly what we need when you're painting on reflection. You should not cover that entire color. They need to go hand in hand. All right. So that's it. Now I'm pretty satisfied. As I said, I haven't added any lines on the right. I just focused on the left side. Okay. I think I should start adding lines. Otherwise, I might overdo and row in my painting. You can use the same technique to paint reflection. The background color can be different, but the same technique can go with any painting. All right, so that's our final painting. Now let's remove the masking tape and have a closer look at the painting. You might know this, but always wait for your painting to dry completely before you peel off your masking tape. And remove it at an ankle so that it won't rip off your paper. Okay, I'm carefully peeling the bottom part. Now we have one more side left. All right. So that's our painting. I just love it. When I get a clean border, it makes me feel some extra love towards my painting. Anyway, here's a closer look. I think everything came out really nice. The color combination, the grassy meadow, even the reflection. I think they all go very well together. I'm not sure if you try it along with me or if you had to try it. If you're red to try it, do give it a try. I'm very sure you're going to love it. 10. DAY 4 - Winter Evening - Techniques: Hello, dear friends. Welcome today, four. So, today we're going to try a simple winter sunset painting snow in Waterclor is something that is very interesting and very easy. Come to that for the sky. As you can see here, I have used a gray orange and a bit of red towards the bottom. That's a color combination. I'm going to go with the sky for the snowy ground as well. It's a lighted tone of gray. We'll just add some lines on a wet background to create that snowy ground. The white you see here is a paper white. Then to enhance it, we will add some dry textures and some rocks. Okay, that's how the ground is going to be. We have a tree here, that's a major feature of this painting. Anyway, now I will take you through the colors. Then we can tie up the sky, maybe we can try how to create that texture on the ground. I already have a Patel gray with me. This one is from Shinhan, but I won't be using this. I'll mix and create my own gray. You can see here the pigment number. It says PBK seven and P six. Pbk is a black pigment and P is a white pigment. Obviously, it's a combination of a black pigment and a white pigment. That is exactly how we're going to create all gray instead of black. I'll be using neutral tint. You can use paints gray. Instead, I'll mix these two colors together, neutral tint and titanium white. I'll create a gray which I like. It can be a bit darker or lighter according to the amount of white you're adding. Okay, first I'm going to squeeze out some paint. Neutral tent is very similar to paints gray. So don't worry. If you don't have neutral tent, just go with paints gray. And if you don't have both paints gray and neutral tent, you can go with black. Okay, now I'm going to take out some white Asphal. The next color we will need is orange. You all know my favorite orange. Yes, it is brilliant orange. The same color that I have been using for the other paintings. Let me take out a bit of that Asphal. If you don't have orange color, you can go with vermillion. On the top we have a pastel gray. Then over here we have a pastel orange. Vermillion will work, You can just add some white into that and turn that into a pastel orange. Or you can just mix and create orange by adding some yellow into vermillion. Okay, that is brilliant orange. Next we need be more colow, which is red. The one I'm going to use is piral red. Again from Shinhan. This is the one you can go with any red you have caught. It doesn't need to be piralred. We're going to add some lines onto the sky to make it really interesting. Just a bit of red. Okay, those are the colors we'll be using for the sky. We will need a pastel gray, pastel orange, and a bright red. Now, along with the sky, we will also need to add these landscape in the background. We'll be adding them while the background is still wet. Along with the colors you're using for the sky, You also need to have some brown or burn cena on your palette to add those trees and plants far away. We'll be using a taco to brown. This one is permanent brown. I'll be adding a bit of neutral tint to turn that into a taco brown. That color also ready on our palette before you start painting the sky. These are the colors. We have, neutral tint, then some white, then we have orange, and again some white, then red and brown. Now let's swatch out these colors. I will start with gray. As I mentioned earlier, you can either go with pink, gray, or neutral tent, or black if you don't have the other two colors. First I'm going to swatch out neutral tend, acts. This is the color, okay. Now into the same, I'm going to add in white. And I'm going to show you how the color is going to turn out. It's going to be a beautiful gray. I love this color. This color goes very well with pink, orange, and even a tint of light blue. You can try using this color with any other color. You prefer to create a soft and a subtle sky. Okay, next I'm going to show you orange for the sky. The major color is going to be a pastel gray. Then as you're approaching the horizon, we will go with a Patel orange, the color you see here. Then we will blend that with the grey. Okay? The color is going to be a very light orange right now. The color you see is just water. There is no white in it. You can either go with this way or can add some white in it. Next, I'm going to add some white and I will show you the color. You can just decide on which one you want to co with. On the left, what you see is just water. Just water and paint. The swatches on the right side is paint plus some white water color. Yeah, you have both options right in front of you. You can go with either one of it. You can either add some water or some white water color. Anyway, the next color you will need is red. This one is a very bright and bold red. It is called Pyl red. You can go with permanent red or cadmium red or any red Got. Okay, it's a beautiful color combination. We're adding red to create that contrast. Now just in case, if you don't want to add red, that's totally fine. You can go for a soft and a subtle sky. All right, that's a color combination. We're going to go for the sky to add the cloud, Asphll, albus gray. A little darker tone than the color we use for the sky. Otherwise it won't be visible. Here's the color combination. As I mentioned earlier, you can just have a look and decide on whether you want to add water or white water color. Now the next color you will need is brown. If you don't have brown, just go with burn sena. This one is permanent brown from art philosophy. This is one color I really love from art philosophy. I have never seen such a pretty brown see that. It has a beautiful red undertone and that's what I love about it. But if you don't have brown, there is nothing to worry. Just go with burn. Sena. All right. So those are the colors. Now I'm catch neutral tint again without adding much water in its original intensity. We'll using this color for the rocks as well as for the tree. For the tree we will use brown and neutral ton to have the per toons. Okay, so that's a color palette for the tree. If you want to go for a different color combination, you could do that instead of orange, maybe you can go for pink. Now before we start, I want to show you all a quick demo of the sky. This way you can be a lot more confident and well informed about the steps. The major portion of the sky is going to be gray. You can see the color here. Then we have a Patel orange and some right along the bottom. You can either go in a similar proportion or you want to increase the amount of orange. You could do that. Keep the colors ready before you start. It's a wet on wet sky. The very first step is to apply coat of water onto your paper. If you're a bigirl, I would really recommend trying this out. If you're familiar with water color and the weight works, you don't need to try it out. You can just give it a watch. I always keep some scrap pieces of paper with me whenever I'm trying a new color combination or whenever I'm not really sure of something, I always try it out before I go onto my main paper, because waicolor paper is quite expensive. Anyways, I have applied a coat of water. Now I'm switching to my flatbush. You can use a flatbrush or a round brush. This one is a half inch flatbrush. Go with a medium size brush. Now I'm starting off with gray. First, I'm making sure my brush is clean. There were some leftover paint. I'm picking a pastel gray. It's a mix of new 1210 and white water color. See that? That's the color I'm going with go. The similar tonal value will make it too dark or too light. Now let's apply that onto the sky. You can apply that almost to 34 of your sky. Just apply it if you want to make it more lighter, add some water or some white water color. Okay, that is gray. Now, I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going with pastel orange. It looks like there's still some leftover paint. I need to wash it again. Okay, let's pick some more paint now. I'm going to add that right next to gray, and I'm blending them. There's one thing you have to be careful about. Orange and gray are complimentary colors. If you mix them together, you will get a muddy brown. Always make sure to lighten your color when you're mixing orange with gray. Okay, now I'm using a much more brighter tone of orange and I'm adding that at the bottom. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm switching to a round rush, a medium sized round rush. I'm picking some red and I'm adding that at the bottom. Also, adding a few lines onto the sky to create a dramatic effect. You can go the brighter tone and add a few lines. Okay, that's it. Now I'm going to clean my brush. First, I will clean the area a bit. There are some rough lines there. Okay, It looks better. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some pastel gray. A little more darker tone than the color we use for the sky. If it's too watery, dab it on a paper towel. Now with that color, I'm going to add some clouds onto the sky. I don't want to make it overly dramatic, I'm just adding a few. That color looks a bit dark. You can see on the painting, the color is a bit more softer, isn't that prominent. So you can either go with a darker tune or a lighter tune. See that? Muddy brown. So that's what I was talking about. Let me clean it and pick some more paint. Yeah, before your sky dries, add in as many clouds as you want, Maybe you can skip adding those gray clouds and you can have a plain gray on the top, pastel orange and some bright orange and red towards the bottom. If you want to keep it that way, even that will be a wonderful sky. Now I'm adding a few clouds towards the bottom using a lighter tune. Next, I'm cleaning my brush, and I'm dabbing that on a paper towel and with a slightly wet brush. I'm just going to smug it very gently to give it a softer look. Okay. I'm not putting a lot of pressure. I don't want to disturb the base layer. Just to give it a softer look, I'm simply smudging it. Okay, that's a sky. But we are not done yet. There is one more thing we have to do before we leave it for trying for that. I'm picking some brown. We need to add those landscape details along the horizon, create a darker brown. Or we can use burn tuber along the bottom, along that horizon line. We're going to add some random shapes to create those plants and landscape far away. Start by adding a line, we need a blurry look for them. That's the reason why we're adding them on a wet background. Now in case if you don't want a blurry look, you can wait for your sky to dry and then add your landscape. Okay? Just go to the Dakota Brown and add some random shapes like this along the horizon at some places to make it a bit more realistic. You can make it higher at some places, you can make it shorter. Okay. That's how we're going to paint the sky and the landscape. I will just make the horizon line straight. Then with that, we'll be done with this exercise. Then the next thing I want to show is the dry brush technique, the snowy ground. We're going to work with a very minimum detail. The only thing we're going to add some tri brush techniques. Okay, that's what I'm going to show you next. All right, that's a sky. Once you're done painting the sky, the major part of the painting is done. Then the next thing you have to add is a tree and also some very minimal details on the ground. It's a very simple tree. First you need to add a thicker tree trunk. Then on to that, you can add in as many branches as you want using a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. Also, you can compose your painting however you want. If you want to add the tree towards the center or towards the right, that's totally fine. I have added that on the left. Anyway. The next thing I want to show is the tri brush pattern. You can see those dry texture on the ground. That's what I'm going to show you. Pick some darker tone of paints, gray or black or neutlcent on any of your smaller brush or a medium size brush. Now, take a paper towel and keep cleaning your brush. Dab it on a paper towel multiple times just to make sure there is no water content on your brush. The paint that you have on your brush is dry right now. That is exactly what we need. Okay. Now that brush, I'm going to add some patterns on my paper. See that those are the patterns we're going to add on the ground to make it look a little more realistic on a wet background. We will add some lines using paint, scray a lighter tone. Then once it has dried, we will add some tri patterns like this. Okay, You can pick some paint, then you show a paper towel and then keep adding these kind of patterns. All right, so that was the last thing I want to show you compared to the other sunsets we have done so far. This one is quite easy. The major part is the sky. We don't have a lot of elements in this painting. Okay, Now that we have tried all the techniques, let's give it a try. 11. DAY 4 - Winter Evening: Okay, have my paper and colors here. Let's start by adding the sketch first. I'm going to add a horizon line somewhere here. Okay, so that's a horizon line. Next, you can add a tree. This is not really necessary. You can add that as you paint, or you can just simply add a shape For now. I'm adding that here. I'm going with a nice curvy shape to make it look more realistic. For now, I'm just adding the tree trunk. The rest of the branches we can add as we paint. You can add that towards the center or towards the right. You can compose your painting however you want. For now, we just need a basic shape. Okay, that's my tree. That's the shape I'm going with. Maybe we can add one more branch here. All right, that's a sketch. As we're painting, we'll be adding some rocks on the ground. You don't need to add it right now. We can add them as we paint. We'll be adding them in a very random way, here and there. Okay, that's a sketch. Now we can start painting. I hope you all have the colors ready on your palette. If you don't have them ready, prepare them before you start. We will need some grey, some orange, and a bit of red. I'm not going to use yellow. Initially, I thought of using yellow Asper, but then I changed my mind. I wanted to go with gray, orange, and red. The only color I would need is a little of white. So I'm going to take out some white. I will need this to mix with orange to create a pastel orange. Okay, I have all the colors ready. Now. The first thing I'm going to do is apply a coat of water. For that, I have my 1 " flat brush here. So I'm dipping my brush in clean water and I'm applying that onto the entire sky. Okay. Apply that along the horizon and make your sky wet. Okay? Whenever we're painting a wet on wet sky, we only need a shiny coat of water. We don't need a lot. Always run your brush multiple times back and forth just to be sure the coat of water is even and there is no pools in between. Okay. My sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to keep this pressure aside. I'm going to switch to my flat brush. It doesn't need to be a perfect plan, so you can use your arm brush instead. It doesn't need to be a flat brush. Go with any of your medium size brush or a beacle size brush. I'm starting with gray and I'm applying that on the top. We already had a look at the colors. The color I'm using here is a pastel gray. It's a mix of paints, gray and white. You can either apply your paint this way or you can just use water to make your color lighter. Okay, now I'm going to clean my brush. I have applied gray almost to three fourth of my paper. Next, I'm going to go with a pastel orange. Mixing orange with some white and creating a pastel orange. And I'm adding that right next to gray, looks like there is a muddy brown. Because I mixed orange and gray. Now with a clean brush, I'm going to add some more paint and I'm going to blend them. I had mentioned this earlier, gray and orange. They are complimentary colors. If you mix them together, they will end up creating a muddy mix. Every time you have run your brush on top of orange and grey, it's good to clean it before you add your next layer. Okay, that is orange and gray. Now I'm going to clean my brush again, and I will pick a much more vibrant one of orange. And I will add that onto the entire area towards the bottom, you can go the pastel orange first. Then gradually you can make it more bolder. Okay, next, let's pick a much more brighter tone. Let's add that towards the bottom. We have a pastel gray on the top. The major area is a pistol gray. Then we have a pastel orange towards the bottom. Along the horizon, we have added a much more brighter tone of orange. Next, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some red, a very bright and intense tone of red. And I'm going to add that along the horizon. To me, I personally love adding that contrast in the sky. I feel that contrast make the sky more captivating. But if you don't want that, it's totally fine. You can just use a darker tone of orange. Now, I'm adding some more towards the right side. Okay. I have added all the colors. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside. I'm switching to a medium size brush, a clean ran brush, make sure your brush is clean. Now let's pick some pastel orange again, and I'm going to gently smudge the paint. Right now, we can see those lines. The red lines are quite strong. I'm smudging it to give it a softer look. That cut is done. Now we can start adding the gray clouds. To add the clouds, we need a gray that is a bit tarker than the background color into your pastel gray. Add some mono teltent or paints gray. Now with that color, let's keep adding the clouds. We need to be quite quick and consistent. We need to add them before the background dries and you can add in as many clouds as you want. I'm not going to add much towards orange part. I'm concentrating mostly on the top. Now. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel with that very little amount of paint. I'm going to add few clouds over here. I don't want to add a lot because when you mix gray and orange together, it will end up in a muddy color. I don't want to ruin my sky. I'll just add one or two using a lighter tone of gray. Okay? So go that Patel gray and add a few over here. Okay? So that's it. Now I'm going to add few more on the top using a taco tone. Luckily, the sky is still wet, very hot here. Anyway, let me quickly add the clouds. Otherwise it might end up drying. I'm not following any particular pattern or anything, I'm just adding some clouds towards the right side. For some reason, I always prefer adding clouds from the right and I go towards the left. I don't know why is that, but my hand automatically picks up that a path. Anyway, that's a sky. Next I'm going to add those landscape. I'm cleaning my brush and I'm going with a Daker brown. This one is brown. You can either go with brown or burn sena. I'm adding a little of neutroltan to turn that into a color which is similar to burnt Mper. Now, before this drives, I'm going to quickly add that landscape. First, I will start by adding a line which is my horizon line. Then I will add those patterns towards the top onto that bed sky. You can already see the way the paint is spreading into the sky, leaving a beautiful pattern in a similar way. Let's add a few more here. Wherever those patterns are missing, start by adding a line, which is your horizon line. Then towards the top, you can add a rough shape to indicate those plant entries. Next, I'm going to add a darker tone along the bottom. For that, I'm picking neutral sent. I'm adding a tacon along the bottom part just to give it some more depth. Okay, I'm going to leave the top Act is I really like that blurry effect we have created. Only along the bottom. I'm adding some paton now I'm thinking to make this area a bit higher to create a visual interest, I'm adding some more trace here or plants or whatever you want to call it. Just making it a bit more tallow and maybe towards this end as well. That's it, That's our sky and the landscape. I think it turned out pretty well. I really like the color combination. It's a very soft and a simple sky with a touch of contrast. Anyway, now we'll have to leave this for drying. After that we can start painting the snowy ground. All right, so the sky has dried. I think it turned out really beautiful. Now when you're starting to paint the snowy crowd, there is one thing you have to be really careful about. When you're adding water, Try to leave a tiny cap. Don't add any water onto the landscape, so be really careful when you're adding water onto the ground. Leave a cap along the top. Don't let your wet brush touch those landscape and the sky over here leave a tiny cap. Okay. Now, I feel I should have started with a snowy ground, then this wouldn't have happened, but you just have to be a bit careful. That's all. Okay. Now, to add the paint, I'm going to use my medium size brush. I have cleaned it, now I'm picking a medium tone of gray. You can either go with that pistol gray or you can just go for a medium or a lighter tone of paint. Scree or Neutltont. Okay. So I've taken paint on my brush, now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to randomly add some lines onto the wet background one here. Okay? So my background is wet. And onto that using a medium tone of gray, I'm adding a few lines. I'm adding them in an angular way. And also, if you feel your paint is really watery, you can dab it on a paper towel so that it won't spread a lot, okay, onto your wet background. Keep adding some lines. You have to leave that paper white. Don't add a lot of lines when you're painting a snowy ground. The major part has to be your paper white and that's how we create that snowy effect. Okay. I have added a few lines if needed, you can add a few more. I'm picking a much more Daco tone just to emphasize those lines and be sure not to go the really watery paint. If you're using a really watery paint, those lines will start spreading a lot and you will end up having no paper, white try to go the paint which is not too watery. If you feel it's watery, you can dab it on a paper towel. Okay. That's how it has turned out. Now what I'm going to do is I'm picking a bit more Daco tune and I'm adding a few more lines under the tree. Only over here, because right here we will have a lot of shadows and deeper tones. And just to create that, I'm adding some more tipa tone. Now, once you are done adding all the lines, you can dab a brush on a paper towel with a clean ambush. Just much the lines to give it a more softer look. Otherwise those lines will keep spreading. Again, this way you can actually proven the way they are spreading anyway. That's how it has turned out. I'm very happy with it. The same thing can be done with Indico, or Prussian blue, or ultramarine blue as well. If you're painting a daylight snowy scene right now, we're painting a sunset. That's why I have used gray for the background anyway. Now let's leave it for trying. All right, so that is dry. Next, we need to add those rocks on the ground as well as the tree. For that, I'm going to use a darker tone of brown. I already have the colors on my palette. I have brown as well as neutral tent here. Okay, just go with brown or burn sina and some pins gray or neutral tent or black to make your color a bit more darker. I'm starting with brown and I'm using my medium size press here. This one is size six. I'm picking a really dark tone of brown. Okay, now using that color, I'm going to add the shape of the tree. You can go with any shape you prefer and you can add that wherever you want. Okay. So right now I'm using brown and I'm adding the shape of the tree. Gradually I will switch to paint screen to add more deeper tones. Now at the bottom where you have the roots, you can just leave it actus, Just go for an irregular shape and I'll leave it. The tus, we're going to try to make it look like there is some snow there, so the snow has covered all the roots. Okay, So just leave it actus. You don't need to put a lot of effort. Next ti I'm picking some neutral tint and I'm adding that at the bottom. You can use paint scray or black if we don't have neutral or paint scray. Okay. Now I'm going to add that color towards the top asphalt. This one is just to create some texture and some deeper tone on the tree. Now let's add more branches with that Daco tone. I'm extending the tree, I'm adding that towards the right. On the left, I have a medium tone. Onto the right, I have a taco tone. Now I'm creating a Akon Brown. If you have burned number, you can use that directly. You don't need to create a Taco Brown. Now the only task we have here is to add as many branches as we can to make it look like a very interesting tree. So you can add your branches however you want. You really don't need to follow the way how I'm adding those branches. It's totally up to you. You can add them towards the right or towards the left, or just add as many branches as you can and make it really interesting. Okay, so let's go ahead and add those branches using a taco tone of brown. So that's how it has turned out. I have added some branches on the top. Now I'm adding one here. I'm extending that to at the top. Then on to that I will add some more branches. The key here is using a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. The brush I'm using here is size number six, but it has got a really nice pointed tip. This brush works just perfect for me. If you want to go for a smaller brush or a detailing brush, feel free to do that. I think the tree still looks quite empty. I will need to add more branches. That's what I'm going to do next. This particular task might take a little of time, but then the more branches you add, the more interesting your tree will look. Wherever you feel there is some empty space, go ahead and add in as many branches as you can. Trust me, this is going to make your painting look a lot more interesting even after you're done with your painting. Maybe if you feel like adding some more branches, you can come and add them in. Also, as I said earlier, go with any of your smaller brush or a bridge with the pointed tip and get those very delicate and tiny branches. Now with this brush, I'm going to add some dry patterns. I'm picking a paper towel and I'm going to dab my brush on a paper towel just to be sure the paint is dry. I'm just dabbing it now with that brush. I'm going to add some random patterns on the crown, mostly around the tree. So be sure the paint is dry. All you have to do is keep dabbing that on a paper towel and then go ahead and add in the dry patterns. We don't want to add a lot, we just need some here and there. We just need some very minimal patterns. Okay. So wherever you have added those lines in the background, maybe you can follow that pattern and add your try patterns over there and also some underneath the tree. Okay. I'm just adding them in a very random way. I'm not really looking at the pattern, the size, or anything with that dry paint. I'm simply adding some patterns. This is just to create some texture on the. Otherwise, it will look quite flat and empty. It wouldn't have that realistic touch to it. Even though these patterns are messy, they will add a realistic touch to over painting. Now, after we're done with this, we will also be adding some rocks in between with that, the snowy crown will look a lot more interesting. Okay. You can use a darktn of brown and also some paints gray. And adding some patterns here and there, I think I have added enough of patterns. You can see how beautiful it has turned out. Next I'm going to add some rocks. To add the rocks you can either use paint Scra or neutral tent act or can go for a Dakone of brown. Okay, I'm missing really K which is very much close to paint Screyor neutral tent. Now with that color I'm going to add some rocks on the ground. Again, there is no particular location or particular shape that I'm following. I'm just adding some small or medium sized rocks. That's the size I'm going with. They are not very pick, simply add some shapes on the ground. You can focus on the area where you have those tri patterns and go the different size and shape. Earlier I added a medium sized rock, now I'm adding a super tiny one. Just go with the varying size and different locations. Now I'm adding here, this one can be a medium sized rock. Okay. Along the bottom you can just go for an irrecular line. You don't need to put a lot of effort, just add them in. Okay, I have added three now. I'm going to add a few more in a very random way to the tree. I don't want to add a lot towards horizon, that area is quite far. I'm just focusing on the area which is closer to us, which is the area around the tree. The only thing you have to keep in mind is to play with different sizes and different locations. Don't add them at the same place. Add them in a scattered manner and make it as realistic as possible. Okay. All the rocks are in. Now with the same bridge, I'm going to add some more trip patterns. I have some paint on it. I'm dabbing that on a paper towel underneath these rocks. I'm adding some patterns mostly wherever there is no patterns over here, I have no patterns on the ground also over here. Then there is two rocks right next to that. The two underneath that as well. I'm adding some tri patterns. All right. That's a I think it turned out really nice. It was very minimal effort. We started off with some lines using paint screen, then we added some tri patterns and now we added some rocks. And that's it. I still feel the tree is pretty empty, so I'm going to add in some more branches. I'm using a smaller bridge this time. This one is size number two and I'm going to use neutral tendactous. Okay? So if you want to add more branches, you can add them in. Or if you're happy with the result, you don't need to anthem. I feel there is still a lot of empty spaces. The tree is not looking that tense. It is quite empty. I have added a lot of branches, but I think I can still add more. I'm adding one more here then There is so much of space on the left side over here, I'm adding some more there. The brush I'm using here is size number two. It's again, a beautiful brush, just like my size number six. These are the two brushes I love the most. They're very versatile. You can add those tiny details so easily with these brush. You can also use a lineup brush if you prefer that. For some reason I never get a hang of the lineup brush. I prefer using a smaller brush like this. The brush doesn't really matter here, we just need some branches onto all direction. You can just take a step back and have a look at your painting if you feel there are some caps or if you feel there is some branches that needs to be thickened like this one, I'm making it a bit more thicker. Okay. Those additions can be done right now. If needed, you can add more branches later, asphll. Once you're done with the painting, you can come back and add them in. That's not a problem, honestly. There's no limit here. If you can add more branches, that's going to make your painting a lot more interesting. Wanted to add more, but then at this point, I'm really bored of adding them. Maybe I will come back and add them in later. For now, I'm happy with this. All right, I'm done adding all the branches and I surely think it looks so much better now. Now, there is one last thing that I want to do for that. I'm going with some white, I need to add some white texture on the tree as well as on those rocks. I have some paint here. Just a tiny bit of paint is all we need. Once I've taken the brush, dab it on a paper towel. Now, with that dry white paint on your brush, we're going to add some white texture on the tree. See that? Just a little. That's all we need. We don't need a lot. Just go with the white paint. It doesn't need to be quash Once you have taken the paint ap it on a paper towel and just keep on adding some dry patterns onto the tree, We're trying to make it look like there is some snow on the tree. The same thing can be done on the rocks as well. The rocks are tiny. You can focus on the ones which are a bit more bigger in size. Now I'm adding some towards the bottom. The branches are very thin and delicate. There is no point in adding onto them, which means we can go with the rocks. I have taken some white paint onto these bigger ones. I'm adding some dry white texture. See that? Just a tiny per to solve, we need, we don't need to be too prominent. All right. That's a beautiful snowy sunset. I hope you all liked it. It's a simple painting compared to the other ones we have tried so far. We don't have a lot of elements and we don't have a lot of techniques involved in this painting. It was pretty simple and I hope you all enjoyed it. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. I'm going to carefully peel that at my ankle so that I won't rip off my paper. Okay. That's the painting for the day. It's a simple, yet a beautiful sunset. If you are yet to try, do give it a try and let me know if you liked it. Thank you so much for joining and I will see you soon with another beautiful sunset. 12. DAY 5 - Dramatic Sunset - Techniques: Hello to your friends. Welcome back. Welcome to D five. And here's the painting that we're going to try today. It's a really beautiful multicolored sky. There is yellow, pink in between. There is some orange. Then after pink, the rest of the sky is going to be a blue. Then on to that, we'll be adding some clouds using violet. Okay. So it's a very dramatic, yet a beautiful sky. I have added a lot of clouds. If you don't want to add this much, that's totally fine. We'll give it a try so you can decide on whether you want to add more clouds or very little. Also, there's a special pattern I have followed while adding the clouds, so you can see them. I have added them from the top towards the center. From each side, it is actually coming towards the center. We can try that in some time. Then we have some mountains far away, some brown mountains. Then there's a sea. A beautiful sea. We will be painting the sea and the sand together. We'll make the entire area bet. Then we'll start with blue. Then as we're coming towards the bottom, we will introduce some brown. Okay, now let's have a look at the colors then we can try the sky. I have taken out the colors already. The very first color, I'm going to show a Serulin blue. That's the blue you see here. If you don't have cerulean blue, you can go with any other blue you have got. It could be Prussian blue, Cabal blue, ultramarine blue, or any blue off your choice. Okay. So that's the color you see on the top. It's a beautiful blue. I love to use this color for daylight skies. The next color I have here is permanent rose. These two are from Shin hen. If you don't have permanent rose, you can go with crimson or car mine. This one is a bright rose. If you want to go for a more bright and dramatic sky, maybe you can go for Opera Rose as well. It's more like a neon pink, but I think it will make your sky look even more interesting. Okay, so that's the second color. Next color I have here is naples yellow. It's a pastel yellow. It is not really necessary to go for a Patel yellow. You can go with any of your normal yellow. I don't want the yellow to be too bright. That's the reason why I thought of going with a pastel yellow. Now in case if you want to go for a patel yellow, some white into any of the yellow you're using and create a similar color. Let me take out some yellow tubes and let me show you. I have here is Indian yellow and Maple yellow. If you look at maple yellow, you can see there's a yellow pigment and a white pigment. Obviously, there is some white in Maple yellow. In Indian yellow, it doesn't have any white. It's a pure yellow pigment. Just by adding some white water color into any of your yellow color, you can create a pastel yellow quite easily. It might not look exactly the same, but you still can create a pastel yellow. Okay. Those are the colors I'm going to use. For the background, I'll be going from bottom towards the top. So I'll start with the yellow, then pink, and then blue. Then onto that background, I will be adding some cloud using violet, especially to the area where we have blue. That's the next color violet. The one I'm going to use here is from white nights, we will use violet mostly towards the top where we have blue and towards the bottom where we have yellow, we will add some cloud using rose. Okay, that's the color combination I'm going with. If you want to, you can skip using yellow and maybe you can add orange instead, or you can just go with blue and pink, Then add some cloud using violet. Okay. So feel free to modify the color combination as you like. Now, I'm going to quickly show you how you can paint the sky. I have all the colors ready. I'm starting by applying a coat of water using my 1 " Flo brush. First, make sure it's clean before you add water onto your paper. If you're a beginner, I would recommend trying this out. If you're an intermediate artist as well, it's good to try. Because the sky that we're going to try today, it's a bit dramatic. It's not a simple sky. It would really help you in your class project if you can try this out. I'm not really able to understand where I have applied water. The paper still looks a bit dry. Maybe I will add some more. I think that area is entirely wet. Now, I'm going to switch to my flat brush. This one is a half inch flat brush. The first color I'm going to go with as Naples yellow. I think I'll switch the palette to the other side. Okay, so that is naples yellow. Now I'm applying that as the bottom. I'm starting from the bottom and I'm going towards the top. Just apply some yellow at the bottom. Now, with the same brush, I'm picking some rose and I'm adding that in right now. The color has an orangish touch as we haven't washed it. And that's totally fine. I deliberately added that to add a touch of orange in the sky. Now I'm going with a clean rose color, and I'm adding that in. Okay, now I'm cleaning my brush again. I'm going with blue. Now for the remaining area, I'm going to apply a medium turn of Erlian blue. As I mentioned li you can go with any blue of your choice. It doesn't need to be erlian blue. You can go with bright blue, prussing blue, cobalt blue, or any blue, even turquoise blue. Now we need to blend blue and rose. After that, we have to start adding the clouds before the background dries. Okay, that's a base layer. Now I'm going to keep this pressure side. To add the clouds, I'm going to use a medium sized bunch. This one size number six. You can go with six, or four or five. I'm paying a little of rose first. And I will add a few lines here, just some random lines. I don't want to add a lot. I will just add a few now with a clean brush, I'm just munching them to give it a softer look. Okay, that's all. I don't want to add a lot here. Next, I'm cleaning my brush again and I'm going to pick some violet, a medium tone. Once you've taken the paint, dap it on a paper towel and just make sure your paint is not too watery. Now I'm going to add some clouds onto the background using violet. First, I will add a bit towards the rose part. Then I will focus on the blue where I'm going to add more clouds. I'm adding the clouds in a particular way. Just have a look. I'm adding them from the sides. I'm going towards the center. It is not that difficult. Maybe you can just watch the way how I'm moving the brush. Then you can follow the same pattern from the sides. I'm adding them to at the center. Now I'm leaving a cap in between. I'm adding another set of clouds, again towards the center. Okay, now leaving gap again, adding another set from here toward the center. Now from the other side, from this corner toward the center. Again, for all these clouds you can see there's a blue cap in between. And that's the beauty of this painting. Okay, now I'm adding another one. I have left some cap, can clearly see that pattern I have created here. The clouds are converging towards the center. Okay, Start from the sides and add them towards the center. If you want to add more, you could do that only if your background is a little wet. If it's starting to dry, it's a good idea to leave it as it is. Okay. I have added enough clouds. Maybe I can make it a bit more brighter at some point, especially towards outer corners. Okay. That's how it has turned out. I think it is looking very beautiful. Okay. That's how we're going to paint the sky. You can give it a try if you want to. I think that cloud pattern is very interesting. You can try the same with any other color combination of your choice. You just have to add the clouds while your background is still wet. And also when you're taking your paint, dab it on a paper towel so that they won't spread a lot. Otherwise you won't get these caps in between if the paint is too watery. Okay. So that's a sky. We will recreate the same sky for our class project. Now let's have a look at the other colors you will need. The next color is cobalcreen. We'll be using this color for the sea, along with cerulian blue. Okay, I'm hoping you all have Cobalcreme. If you don't have it, you can go with Chercoise blue along the horizon. We will use seruliin blue, the color you see here, that is cerulian blue. And towards the bottom, we will introduce Cobalcream. Right after that, we will also introduce some burn sena. What is the color I'm going to use for the sand? Okay, so we'll make the entire background wet. Then we will start with cerrilian blue. Then we will switch to some cabal crane. Then towards the bottomost area, we will add some burn sena, a medium turn of burn scena. There is one more element in our painting, which is those brown mountains far away. Along with burn scena. To introduce the deeper tones, I will also be using some neutral tent. In neutral tint, you can use paint screen. And if you don't have paints, gray and neutral tint, you can go with black. Okay, I have all the colors ready on my palette. Now. First I'm going to sweat out Cobalcreene, we already have a spatch of cerlian blue here. There is no point in adding that again. Cobal green is one of my most favorite color. I just love this color. I use it for tropical beaches as well as Northern lights. Okay. That is cobalcreen, it is from Shinhan. It's a good color to add a new collection, especially if you allow painting beaches and northern lights. Now the next color I'm going to sweat out is burn Sena. This one is also from Shinhan. Okay, We'll be using a medium tone of burn scena for the background, for the sand, for the mountains. We will use a much more taco tone. Okay? It can be brown aspher. Both will work. Okay. So that's the next color. Now we have one more color here which is neutral ten. We'll be using this color mainly to add the deeper tones. We'll create a Daco brown by mixing some burn scena with neutral tend. If we have burned number, maybe you can use it directly. You don't need to mix and create a Daco brown. Okay, that summarize all the colors you will need. Along with these, you will also need some white verticlor to add the texture of the wave. We will start with Erlian blue, then we will use some cabal cream. Oh, here we will use a medium tone of brown or burn sina. Then once that has dried, we will add a wave. Then finally, we will paint these mountains. Maybe we can quickly try them anyway. I have some Burna neutrals in here. I'm starting by picking some burna. I'm using a medium tone and I'm going to add a shape using my brush itself. I'm not going to add a sketch, I'm just adding a very basic shape using burn sena. You can see the tonal value I'm using here. It's a very rough shape for our class project Asphal. We will go with a similar size. Okay, so that is the basic shape. Now with the same rish, I'm picking some neutral tent and I'm creating a taco brown by mixing them together. As I said earlier, if you have burn number, you can go with that. You don't need to mix and create a taco brown. Now, I'm just going to add some dots and some tiny shapes onto that background. It's a wet background, just drop that in. My intention is to add some texture here. Just drop in that wet paint onto the wet background. Looks like the background has dried already. Anyway, not a problem. I'll just clean my brush and I will dab that on a paper towel. It's a clean brush, slightly wet. Now, with that, I'm just merging those patterns. I have so many tricks. Luckily it's a very small shape and I can quickly fix it. Now I'm going to add some more deeper tone towards the bottom. It's just a matter of adding those deeper tones onto the wet background. They don't need to look perfect. The only as to add some texture, now I'm going to go back with that taco tone. I'm mixing some burned sena with neutral tent. And I'm going to add a shape onto a top of the mountain, more like a platform. This step is completely optional. It's a mountain far away, so you don't need to add a lot of details from the center. I'm adding an irregular line on the top. And I'm just filling that up. It is more like a platform. Or maybe you can say there is a flat surface on top of the mountain. To me, I feel like it gives a three dimensional field to the mountain. But if you're not really happy with it, there is no need to add it. You can just add some texture on your background and leave it as it is. I will show you the painting. So here's the mountain. It's the same technique I have used here. I have added that deeper tone on both the mountains, but the one at the center is a bit more detailed in a way that summarize all the colors you will need as well as the techniques you should know if you can try the sky, that's going to be really helpful when you do the class project. Now that we know the colors and the techniques, it's time to get a try. 13. DAY 5 - Dramatic Sunset: All right. I hope you guys have all the colors ready on your palette. Now, I'm going to start by adding the sketch first. As usual, I will add the horizon line. Okay, it's a bit below the center of the paper. Next, I'm going to add the shore line, A simple line for now. We can modify that later as we paint Next, we need to add a mountain far away. I'm adding that right at the center. Go the similar size. The shape can be different now. Another one towards the right. Okay, so that's a sketch. Now we're ready to start. Before you begin, keep all the colors ready on your palette. For the base layer, we will need yellow, rose, and blue. And then to add the cloud, we will need some violet. Keep all these colors ready on your palette. That is very important because we need to work quick and consistent. If you don't have the colors ready, you might lose a lot of time in between. Okay, so keep them ready. Now, I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the sky. Using my vage brush. It's clean. Before you apply water, make sure it's clean. That's something I always miss. You can dab it on a paper towel and check if it's clean, then apply a clean even coat of water onto the entire sky. Okay, we don't need pools of water, so keep running your brush multiple times to be sure the coat of water is even. Okay, So my sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to keep this brush aside and I'm switching to a flat brush to apply paint onto my background. You can use a flat brush or a round brush, but before that I'm going to wipe off the water along the border. Otherwise, it might float back and create some bleeds along the border. Okay. Now let's start applying paint. This is the brush I'm going to use. It's a half inch flat brush. I'm starting by picking some yellow. Make sure your brush is clean before you pick paint. Looks like there is some leftover paint on it. Now, I'm starting by picking some yellow. This one is naples yellow. You can either go with a pastel yellow or a normal yellow. Now, I'm going to add that along the horizon line, okay? Just apply a bit of yellow along the horizon. Go for a straight line, then you can keep applying paint towards the top. Just randomly add that in. It doesn't need to be a clean straight line. Okay, So that is the yellow. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some rose. Maybe we can add a bit more. Okay, now let's pick some rose with the same brush. The color is more like an orangish color. That's what I'm adding right now. Okay, now I'm going to clean my brush. Then I will pick some clean rose, some fresh and vibrant rose. I'm adding that onto the wet background. Right here we have some yellow and a bit of orange and some rose. Next I'm switching to blue, it's rule in blue. You can go with any blue, have cart go with a medium tone and start applying that from the top and come towards the bottom. Okay, the major portion of the sky is going to be blue. Now, as you're approaching pink, you can mix it and blend it together. Maybe you can add some more rose to give it a better blend. Okay, so that's a base layer. I'm thinking of adding some more rose into the background. Right now it is quite dull. So I'm cleaning my brush and I'm picking some more rose, a vibrant tone. And I'm adding that in. Okay, that's a background. We have added all the colors. Now I'm going to keep this pressure aside and I'm switching to my medium sized to brush to add the clouds, This one and size number six. Make sure it is clean before you start adding the clouds. First I'm picking some rose. Using that, I'm going to add some lines onto the sky. Mostly where I have yellow and orange and rose. I have added the lines. Now I'm cleaning my brush and I'm picking some more yellow. With that, I'm smudging the paint to give it a softer look. Now if needed, you can add some more lines using rose to make your sky look more dramatic and interesting. Okay, Just a few lines. Don't overdo it. Now it's time to go with Violet. I'm cleaning my brush and I'm going with violet, a medium tone. Now, when you're adding the clouds, you have to be really quick and consistent. I'm adding a few over here first. Then gradually I will go towards the top. Then I will add that towards a center. Just the same way how we try in the technique section. You can either just add some clouds like this, you can go for any pattern you like. You don't need to make it too dramatic, like the way how we try in the technique section, Maybe you can just add some lines like this and leave it the way it is. There is some blue missing here. I'm adding that back in. At this point the sky is quite pretty. If you want to leave it actus without adding a lot of clouds, that's totally fine. Anyway, now I'm going to go back with violet and I will add some more towards the top here. I don't want to add a lot, I'm just going to leave it as it is. Let's keep it quite simple at the bottom because we're going to add a lot more to what's the top. Every time when you're trying a new sky, you can add the clouds however you want. You already know the color combination and the approach. Just add that in your own way. That way you will have a lot more focus on your artwork. Okay, just don't follow the way I'm adding the clouds. Have that idea in your mind and add that in your own way. Okay, now from all the sides, I'm going to add the cloud towards the center. I'm leaving some gap in between while I'm adding the clouds. So we have some violet clouds and in between we have some blue, follow the same pattern. Okay, now I'm going to add that here. Now again from this corner, I'm adding them towards the center. Maybe we can go for one more layer. Right underneath this, over here, you can see the way, how the sky has turned out. It's a very interesting and dramatic sky. We have followed a pattern, and we have added clouds towards the center. By leaving some gap in between, you can try the same thing with any other color combination of your choice and see how that is going to turn out. The major thing you have to learn is adding the clouds while your background is still wet. So sometimes if you're trying to achieve a dramatic sky like this one, you'll have to work quite consistent and quite quick, otherwise your background will end up trying. Now, with a clean brush, I'm just smudging the paint. I think it is looking quite perfect. I don't need to smudge a lot. Okay, so that's a sky. I'm very, very happy with the way it has turned out, especially the color combination. It's a dramatic and a beautiful sky, and that pattern of clouds we have created here is very interesting. Now, let's leave it for drying. Okay, the sky has dried completely. I'm really happy with the colors and the pattern we have created here. I hope you guys are happy with your sky too. Anyway, next we are going to paint the beach, as well as the sand we already discussed about the colors. You will need some blue. It can be cerulean blue or any other blue. Then we will need some coval green over here towards the bottom. We're going to add some burna. Okay, keep all the colors ready on your palette. First, we'll apply God of Water. Then we'll apply all these colors together. The only color missing is a have some cerulean blue on my palette. Now the next two colors I will need is burn sina and coval green. Okay, I'm going to squeeze out some paint, then I can start applying that onto the background that is Cobalcreme. If you don't have cobalcreen, just go with turquoise blue. And if you don't want to turn that into pistol color, you know what to do, just add some white water color. You can also use brown instead of burn scena. Next, I will need some Neutlant or pintscreen to add the depot value. We're going to add some texture while the background is still wet. Okay, I have all the colors ready. You will need any kind of blue. Then you will need some Cobalcreurncina, or brown and Neuteltent, or paint Screy to add the depo tunes. Now first I'm starting by applying a coat of water. You see my 1 " wash, brush, clean even code. As I mentioned earlier, we're going to apply paint onto the entire background in one go. So you have to have all the colors ready on your palette. Okay. My background is evenly wet. Now I'm switching to my half inch flatbrsh. You can go with a medium sized ran brush or flatbush. I'm starting with cerulean blue. Okay. Just use the same blue you use for the sky and apply that along the horizon. Go with the medium tone and add a line. We only need some blue along the horizon. The rest is going to be copal green. Don't add a lot, just like how I'm doing it here. Just add a line. Okay, that's it. That is erlian blue. Let me just make it a straight line. As the background is wet, the colors will start spreading a little, which is totally fine. Don't worry about it. Okay. Just randomly add some blue along the horizon. Now I'm going to fill my brah, I'm going with copal green. I'm adding that right next to blue and I'm blending them. It's a beautiful color. You can see that here. It is the best color to paint seascapes and tropical beaches. Okay. I have applied cerulean blue and cabal green. Now I'm going to clean my brush for the remaining area, I'm going to make the color lighter. Okay. Let's clean the brush. Maybe we can add a bit more. Okay. Along that shore line, I'm making the color lighter. Okay. That part is done. Now, I'm going to clean my brush again and I'm going with burn scena. I'm using a medium tone and I'm applying that from the bottom and I'm going towards the top. Okay. As the background is wet, you won't be able to follow that line. Exactly. I mean the short line. What is totally fine, we'll be adding that in using white gao, white water color. It doesn't really matter if you don't have a perfect line there for no simply added colors. The next step is to atom texture. For that, I'm using a darko brown. I'm mixing some neutral tint with burn scena. I'm creating a color which is similar to burn temper. Now using a round brush, I'm just adding some tiny dots and some random shapes onto the background. Go the similar size, don't make huge patterns. Okay, simply drop that in. They will spread a little and they will create a beautiful texture and add the texture is mostly towards the bottomost corner. I don't want to add a lot towards a beach. Okay, just add few patterns and some random shapes here. That's it. I think we have added enough texture there. I don't want to overdo it. This needs to be done while your background is still wet, which means you have to be quite quick and add some random patterns before your background dries up. Okay, that's a bottom part. Right now, it might look a bit messy, but that's really fine. When it dries, it will leave a beautiful texture. They will look a lot more soft and subtle when the background writes up. Okay, now we have one more thing to do before we leave this for trying. I'm going to clean my, I'm going with ceruliin blue. We haven't added any texture on the sea. So that's our next task. I'm picking some cerulian blue. I'm adding a few lines. If it's too dark, you can add a bit of copal. Cream can go the softer color. Just add a few lines onto the background. Mostly towards the horizon line and antony the mountain, then a few towards the bottom. Okay. We are trying to introduce some texture here. It doesn't need to be too much. Just a few lines are all we need. Okay. That's how it has turned out. I think it is pretty decent. The colors are looking so beautiful. I have got enough texture on the sea as well as on the sand. Now, I'm going to leave it for trying. All right, now the only task left is to paint these mountains. We'll be using burn scena and paint screen. I hope you all have the colors ready. We try the same. In the technique section, we're going to apply burn scena or brown onto the entire shape. Then we will add some patterns using a taco shade. The brush I'm using here, a size number six, Go with any of your medium sized Bh. Now apply brown or burn scena onto the enter your shape. Okay, so that's a base layer, now we can start adding the deeper tones with the same press. I'm picking some neutral tent, mixing that with burn sina to create a taco brown. Now I'm going to drop that onto the surface of the mountain to create some texture. We have to do this while the background is. We also, if you feel your paint is super watery, you can tap that on a paper towel and go the paint which is okay. I'm going to add some random patterns onto the background to create some texture. This mount is really far, it is over the horizon. You don't need to put a lot of effort, just keep on dropping some random shapes and dots onto the surface and create some texture here. Okay. You can add a few along the bottom line, then some onto the surface asphalt. It is not too complicated task, all you have to do is just add some texture. Okay, that's how it has turned out. If you're happy with the texture, you can just leave it as it is. You don't need to add more now in case if you feel those patterns are a bit too much bo, paper towel. And just keep smudging them to give it a softer look. Okay, So that's a first mountain. Now in a similar way, I'm going to paint the other one. First I'm going with burn sina, adding that onto the entire shape. Then onto that I will randomly add some taco tones. Okay, so that's done CPC right. Now there's one more thing that I want to do for which I'm switching back to a taco tone. I'm going to add a Daco tone onto the top. First I'm going to add a shape on top of the mountain, then I'm going to fill that in a daco tone. I'm just trying to create a platform or there's a flat surface on top of the mountain. Okay. This one is completely optional. If you don't want to add that Daco tone on the top, you can just leave it. The weights see that? That's how it has turned out. For the other one, I'm not adding any extra patterns, I'm just going to leave it attus. Okay. So that's where we have reached now. The only task left is to add the shoreline here. For that, you will either need to have some white guash or white watercolor. I'm missing white water color. Even that will perfectly work. It doesn't need to be a white gash. Okay, so first I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. Now, gash is much more opaque than aticlor. If you have white guash with you, you can use that directly. That's not a problem. Okay, now this is the pressre, I'm going to use it's size number two. Now I'm adding a few drops of water. I don't want to dilute it so much. Just a few drops of water is all we need. Now, go with a thick paint. Now, this step is going to make a huge difference in your painting. Okay? Go with any of your smaller brush and go with white paint. It can be any white paint. The first step is to add a Waviar line here. Okay? Right where you have that brown and cabal green meeting right there. Add a waal line. It's just an irregular line. Once you have added that, you can make it a bit thicker. You can see the line I have added. I have only added the basic shape. Now I'm going to define it better by adding more paint. Okay, So I'm making it a little more thicker. Okay, so I have the line in place. Next I'm going to add some dry texture. So what I'm going to do is I will pick a paper towel. Then I'm going to my pressure on that now. I'm smudging the paint towards inner side to create some texture. Okay, so the bottom side has to be a sharp line and you can add all those textures into the sea. Okay, so just keep dragging your and create some texture right where you have that cobalcreen and burn scena on your background. Along with that, you can also add some random lines as well. This will make your painting look more realistic. Maybe first you can start with those try patterns. Okay, I have added all the dry texture. Now I'm going to add a few more drops into the same paint. With that slightly watery paint, I'm going to add some random lines. Okay? Use the tip of your brush and just keep adding some random lines. Don't use an opaque paint for this. Go with the paint which is slightly watery, Not a lot watery. If it's too watery, they won't be visible. Just add few drops of water and add some lines to create a more natural texture. You can see how beautiful it has turned out. I just love the colors and the way it is looking. Now there is one more thing we have to do, which is adding a shadow underneath the wave. But I think maybe we can add some lines underneath the mountain asphalt just to make it look like there are some crashing waves. Go with the same paint at very few lines over here. They have to be super thin and it can be in a broken way. It doesn't need to be a thick continuous line. The lines I'm adding here is super thin. See that go in a similar way trying to make it look like this area is quite far. The lines doesn't need to be too prominent and too opaque. Okay, so that is the waves. Now, just like I said earlier, there is one last task left. What's just adding a soft shadow underneath the wave? I have cleaned my brush and I'm going with brown. It has to be a really light tone. Add a few drops of water and also try to go with the smaller brush. Okay, minus size number two. Now I'm going to add a very thin line underneath the wave. It's a broken line. I'm not adding that in a continuous way. In between, I'm leaving some cap. Be very careful about the color you're using. Go with a lighter tone. Okay. And just add a very soft line. It shouldn't be too prominent. Okay. So that's a wave and the shadow. Now just in case if you want to add some more texture into the background, you could do that. Anyway, we have some paint here, pick that Dako brown and then taby bush on a paper towel. Okay, now simply add some try patterns onto the sandy area. This is completely optional. If you already have enough texture, you don't need to add more. Or maybe you can try adding a few here and there. Okay, they don't need to be too prominent. Go the paint and just add a few patterns here and there. All right. So that's it. That's our painting for the day. It's a beautiful sunset. I hope you all enjoyed painting this. Now it's time to peel off the masking tape. All right, so here's our super dreamy yet so dramatic sunset. I hope you all liked it. It's a beautiful color combination. Give it a try. If I get to try it, I'm very sure you're gonna love it. Okay. So that's all for the day. Thank you so much for joining. I will see you soon with the next sunset. 14. DAY 6 - Sunset by the Lake - Techniques: Hello, hello. Welcome back and welcome to day six. Half painting, gorgeous sunset. Here's the painting that we're going to try today. It's a simple, yet a beautiful sunset. It doesn't have a lot of details like the previous ones. We have a simple sky where I'm going to use three colors. You can see a blue here, then to at the center, and then orange. That's a color combination I'm going to use for the sky as well as for the lake. Then to make it a bit more interesting and captivating, I have added some clouds for the lake. We're going to use a mirror of the same colors. We'll start with orange, then rose, and then blue. Then again, we will add some lines to create the ripples and the movement in the water. Okay, it's a pretty simple painting. I will first show you the colors, then we can start with it right away. The blue that I'm going to use is Presi blue. This one is from art philosophy. You can go with any blue. You have card if you want to go for ultramarine blue or any other blue, even that is fine. Okay, this one is presiu blue. We'll be using a vibrant tune. You can see that here, almost half of the sky is blue. Okay, so that's the first color. Now I'm going to clean my brush. The second color I have here is permanent rose. This is the one that is from Shinhan. If you don't have permanent rose, you can go with crimson or carmine or any similar color. And this one is pretty bright compared to crimson. That's the only difference. But you can go with crimson as well. That's totally fine. That's a second color. Now, I'm going to use one more color for the sky is orange. It's the same orange I have been using, brilliant orange, which is similar to cadmium orange. That's my third color. We will start with blue, then we will go with rose and then orange. This is the orange I'm going to use. Okay. It's again from Shinhan. Just go with any orange and rose to have got it doesn't need to be the same colors. You can also go with a different color compinion if you prefer that instead of blue, you can go with violet. Okay. That's the colors I'm going to use for the sky. Now. We're going to use the same colors for the Lake Casal. We will start with orange, then rose, and then blue. The next two colors you will need is brown or burn scena. We're going to use that to add those rocks. The one I'm using here is permanent brown from art philosophy. If you don't have Brown, go with burn scena, that's totally fine. Along with Brown to add the depo tones, I will also be using some neutral tin. You can use paints gray or black instead. Okay, so that's the last color you will lead. It's a simple color palette and a symple sky. We have tried so many sky so far, they were quite complicated than this. Comparing to them. This one is going to be really easy for you guys. Okay, I don't think I need to show any techniques. It's a simple sky. You all know how to blend colors and add the clouds, and that's all you need to know. I think we are good to go without wasting any more time. Let's give it a try. 15. DAY 6 - Sunset by the Lake : Okay, so my paper and the colors are ready. I have Prussian blue, permanent rose, and some orange. So these are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. I will start with blue, then towards the center I will use some rose. Towards the horizon, it's going to be orange. Now I'm starting by adding a horizon line just in case. If you want to try the same painting with a different color combination, that is totally fine. Maybe instead of blue, you can go with violet. Okay, Anyway, that's a sketch. We just need to add a horizon line as we discussed already. We will start with pressure blue on the top, then some pink and some orange. Keep all the colors ready on your palette before you start. Now I'm going to start by applying a coat of water onto the entire sky using my 1 " flat brush. As I always say, before you start, make sure your brush is clean. We just need a shiny coat of water. Just keep running your brush multiple times and make sure the coat of water is even okay. My sky is evenly wet. Now I'm switching to my flat brush. This one is a half inch flat brush. Again, make sure your brush is clean before you start. Now I'm starting with pressure blue. I'm using a color that is pretty dark. Okay. Now I'm going to apply that on the top of the sky. That's a tonal value. I'm going with, you all know water color tends to fade. I want a bright and vibrant end result and that's why I'm using a taco tone. Okay, I think we can add some more. The pressure blue I'm using here is from art philosophy. You can go with any brand. I will just wipe off this water, otherwise it will just see back into the painting and we'll create some dirty bleeds along the border. Okay. Now I'm adding some more blue. Okay. That is press and blue. The second color I'm going to go with is permanent rose. You can see a major part of the sky is blue. Almost for the half I have used blue. Now I'm going to clean my brush. Let's go with Rose again. I'm picking a medium tone, it's not that light. I'm adding that right over here. Then I will blend that with blue. When you're blending colors, run your brush only in horizontal direction so that you get the best blend. Okay, just run your brush in a horizontal direction. Now I'm going to clean my brush again, and I'm picking some more rose. I'm adding that here. Okay, now cleaning again. I'm going with orange. I'm picking a bright tone again. I will add that over here. Now, as I'm coming towards the bottom, I want the color to be lighter. Wash out the paint with some clean water. Make it lighter towards a horizon. Okay, that's a base layer. Now we're going to add some clouds into this base layer as it is still wet. App layer colors as you like go for a clean blend. Now let's keep this pressure aside. We can go with a smaller or a medium sized drawn brush to add the clouds. The Brehm could use a size number six. Go with 64 or five, make sure it is clean. Now I'm picking some blue. I'm adding a little of rose with it to create a violet or something more like a purple. Okay, just mix rose or crimson with some Prussian blue and create a color that is more like a purple. Now with that color, I'm adding some clouds right where the rose and blue is meeting. Okay. Right at this juncture, I'm adding some clouds using that purple color. Okay. I wouldn't be adding any towards the top or towards the bottom. I just want a few towards the center. Okay. But in case if you want to add more clouds, you could do that, that's not a problem. You can add some at the bottom or towards the top, but be careful about the colors that you're using. If you're adding clouds towards the orange, you can use a darko turn off rose towards the top. You can use a much more darko purple. Okay, now I'm adding a few more here than. With that, I'm done with the sky. I don't want to make it too dramatic. I want a vibrant, yet a simple sky. Okay? Just be mindful about the colors over here, Towards the orange part, I'm using rose, actors see that. Now, towards the top or towards the center, you can use a color that is more like a purple. Okay. See that depending on the color you have in the background, you have to keep changing the color you're using for the clouds. Otherwise you will end up getting a muddy color in your sky. Okay, I think I can add some more clouds, especially on to the area where I have blue. Right now, the colors are very saturated, the clouds are not really visible. Maybe I can go with a much more taco tone and I can add some more clouds on the top. Just to make it a bit more interesting, just take a look and see if your background is still wet or if it is starting to dry. If it is starting to dry, it will be a great idea to leave it as it is. Don't add any more clouds. Okay, so I'm using a much more taco tone and I'm adding a few more clouds, Not a lot, just a few here and there. Okay, that's it. I think it has come out pretty nice. Maybe one more here and that's it. That's how the sky has turned out. I'm quite happy with it. It isn't that dramatic, but the colors are still very bright and beautiful. Now we'll have to wait for this to try, and then we can start with the lake, Okay? So the sky has tried completely and the colors are still very vipert and beautiful. Now we couldn't use the same colors for the lake asphalt. We're just going to use that in the opposite direction. Okay. So first I will start by aplyencta water. Then I will use my flat brush to apply the paint. Then to add the rippers and the lions on the water, I will use my medium sized front brush. Okay, so I'm starting by appliancto water. We just need a nice, tiny code. We don't need a lot of water. And try not to add any water into the sky. Be careful when you're applying water over here. Okay, so that's it. We have applied a nice shiny coat of water. Now I'm switching back to my flat brush, and I'm starting with orange. We're going to use the colors in the opposite direction. Go with the medium tone and apply that along the horizon. We need a straight line along the horizon. Okay, just apply orange. Now, gradually we are going to switch to rose and then to blue. It is exactly the mirror of the sky. Along the top, we need orange. Okay. I have made it a straight line now with the same brush, I'm going to pick some rose. And I'm adding that in. I'm blending that with orange. Okay. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to add some paint from either side toward the center. You just need to drag your brush from either side at the center. Okay. Now I'm going to apply some more rose. Then I will switch to blue, some fresh and vibrant rose. Now let's clean our brush. Let's go with Prussian Blue. Now, onto the remaining area, I'm going to add blue. I'm using a Taco tune. Okay, that's the base colors. We have orange, rose, and blue. Now I'm going to wipe off that excess amount of paint, and I'm trying to blend that a little. Okay, that looks fine. Now I'm keeping this pressure side and I'm switching to my iron rich to add those lines and ripples. Just like the clouds, we have to add these lines while the background is still wet. So we don't have a lot of time in our hands. We need to action right now. First I'm using rose and onto the upper half, I'm going to add the lines and those ripples using rose Actus. Looks like I need more paint. For the bottom half, I will use a mix of blue and rose, just the same way how I did earlier for the clouds. Okay, so I have taken some paint now let's add the lines. I'm using a medium tune and onto that wet background, using the tip of my brush. I'm simply adding some lines from either side. Okay, right where we have orange. I'm not going to add a lot of lines. I want to retain that orange color. Next, I'm picking some blue, and I'm mixing that with rose to create that purple color. With that bright color, I'm adding some lines towards the bottom. Okay. While adding these lines, you have to leave some cap in between. Don't add them too close to each other, They are too close to each other, they won't look like lines, it wouldn't look like water. Leaving that cap in between is really important. When you're adding these lines, the same principle has to be followed on the top and the bottom. No matter which color you're using or which color is in the background, you need to leave some cap. Okay, that's how it is looking right now. I think I need to take some more blue. The lines can be a bit more darker towards the bottom. I need a bit more pressing blue. Okay, now I'm going with a much more darker tone and I'm adding some more thicker lines. Only at the bottom. See that you can see the cap. I'm adding one more here, maybe. Let's go with purple. All right, so that's a background, you can see those lines and the weight has turned out the colors are really beautiful. Now let's leave this for drying so that we can add the final details. Okay, so that's right. To now we can add the rocks. I'll be adding them towards the bottom. Mostly I'll be adding them in a very random way in different sizes and shapes. Now, in case if you want to, you can start by adding a sketch. You can take out a pencil. You can just adding some shapes wherever you want to, if that helps. Okay. So that is one way of doing it. Otherwise, I can just go with your brush itself. It's not a complicated shape or anything. I'm not going to add any sketch. I'm using my brush directly. This is my size number six round brush and I'm starting with a daco tone of brown. I have some brown here. Using that daco tone, I'm simply adding some shapes. That's the first one. See that go in a similar size, you can make it a bit more bigger or a bit more smaller. That's totally fine. Okay, that's the size I'm going with. Now towards the bottom, I'm going to introduce some more daco tone. I'm picking some neutral tint. I'm adding that towards the bottom. Okay. It's a very simple shape and a very simple technique. On the top I'm using brown and towards the bottom I'm introducing some neutral tent, it could be paints gray asphal. Okay. Now in a similar manner, I'm going to introduce some more rocks here and there. Okay, so that's the second shape. I have added the shape using brown. The color we have used for the background is pretty dark, so you really cannot distinguish between brown and paints gray here. In that case, you can just go with a darko brown actus. You don't need to switch between two colors. Just try out if they are really distinguishable. It's good. You can use brown first. I mean, on the top you can use brown, and towards the bottom, you can introduce a daco tone. Otherwise, just use a darko tone of brown and add in the shades. Okay, for me here, the colors are not really visible. I cannot really tell if a dark brown or paints gray. I'm just using that daco tone acetus. Okay, so I'm going to quickly add some more shapes onto the water. I have one smaller one on the top. Now I'm making this one a bit more bigger and just giving it an interesting shape. Okay, now I'm going to add a few more so you don't really need to follow the same spot and the same shape. You can add that as you like. Just go with a taco toon of brown and add the shapes. If you look at the painting, you can see the varying sizes and shapes I have gone in with. This is something you have to keep in mind. Don't make them all look the same. Go for different sizes and shapes so that it will look more realistic and more beautiful ways. Now I'm going to continue adding these rocks. I think I will add a few more towards the left side. We have quite a few on the right and towards the center as we have added some smaller ones and some medium sizes. Now onto the left, I'm adding a bigger rock. Now, right about this one, I'm going to add another one, maybe in a similar size. Okay. The size and the shape is really important here in order to make your painting look more realistic. Okay? You can see the weighing size have used here. Add them in a similar way. Okay, So that's how it has turned out. I think I have added enough. Maybe we can add one more here. Just have a look at your painting. If you feel there's a lot of gap in between, you can add a few more in between. This is the last one I'm going to add. If you want to add more, that's totally fine. You can add some smaller ones in between or a bigger one to at the left. Okay. That's it. We have added all the rocks. Now we need to add a reflection under this. That's our next task. It is just some ransom lines I will show you. And for that I'm using a tact, one of neutral tent. Try to go the brush that has got a pointed tip. I'm using the same brush now with that I'm just adding some irregular lines underneath the rock. See that? I'm not going to add a lot, just a few underneath the rock. Now for this one, leave a tiny cap right underneath the rock. Then add your lines. They don't need to be perfect, just add them wherever you have these rocks. Okay, that's a third one. Now I'm adding over here, see that they don't have any particular shape or size. I'm just adding some random, irregular lines there now for this one. Okay. It's a pretty simple method. Just try once on a scrap piece of paper, then you can add them in. See that as I said earlier, they don't need to have any particular thickness or size or shape. Just add them underneath the rock. Some of the lines can be a little more longer and some of them can be shorter. Add them how you can. Okay. Now I have two more left and the last one here. Okay, That part is also done. We have the rocks as well as a reflection. But if you look at the painting, they lack a little. That is our next task. But before that, if you want to add some more lines using a Taco tune, if they're not really visible, you can add that in. Okay, that is done. Now I'm going to add the text. So I'm cleaning my brush to add the text, So I'm picking some orange. I'm using a medium tune. If it's too bright, you can add a little of brown to it to make it a little subtle. Okay, maybe we can add a tiny bit of brown with orange. Okay, that looks fine. Now with that paint, I'm just adding some dry texture on the rock, mostly on the top part. See that it's a very simple trick. There is no need to add any white or any other color into it. Just go worth orange. If it's too bright you can add a bit of brown or burn cena and make it a bit subtle, then adding some dry texture on the rocks. Okay, The same technique that we use to add snow on those black rocks. It's the same technique right here, we're using a different color. That's only difference, okay, onto the top. Add a few lines and some texture. It's a very simple and easy technique, but it will have a huge impact on your painting. You can see the difference here. The rocks on the left side looks very plain and boring, but the ones with those texture looks very interesting. They look a lot more realistic and it looks more three dimensional. Okay, just add some dry texture on the rock. If you feel they are too much, you can go with the wet brush and smudge it. Okay, now I have one more left onto that. I'm going to add some texture. It's a quick and easy technique. You can use this in your future paintings as well. Every time when you're painting rocks to give it some extra dimension, you can add some texture using orange or brown. Now in case if you want to soften those texture, go with a wet brush. And just much those patterns, just like I mentioned earlier. Okay? Only if you feel it is too much. Otherwise you can just leave it as it is. Okay. That's a trick. If you feel those patterns are too loud or too prominent or out of place, you can just go with a damp brush and smudge it to give it a more soft and a subtle look. Okay, that's it. That's our painting for the day. I hope you all liked it. For some reason, I feel like adding one more rock towards the right side over here. Let me try to add that in. I'm picking some brown and I'm going to add a basic shape. Okay, over here, the color we have is not that dark. We can play with different tonal values. Right now I'm using brown. Act is now on to that. I'm going to add some deeper tones using paints. Gray, just a little towards the bottom. Okay, Take a step back and have a look at your painting. If you feel you want to add one more rock or you want to add some tiny ones here and there, go ahead and add that in. It is totally fine. Okay. I think this one is a great addition. Yeah, if you want to add another one, go with your intuition and add that in. Okay. I'm just going to modify the shape a little with the same colors. If needed, you can add a mountain far away along the horizon. Even that will be a great addition for a change. I thought of leaving the horizon line clean and actus, but in case you want to add a mountain far away, that's totally fine. Okay. Now I'm going to add a tiny one next to that. I think this one is going to be never ending, I promise this is going to be the last one. Okay, That's my last rock. Now, I'm going to pick a little of orange to add those texture. I'm cleaning my brush and I'm picking some orange along the top. I'm adding some text just a little on the top and I'm smuching it. Okay. So that is done. Now, I'm going to add some more texture onto these ones here. Anyway, I have some orange paint on my brush. I'm just adding some more texture here. This one is completely optional. Take a look at your painting, and if you feel you need to add some more texture, you could do that. Otherwise, just leave it the way it is. Okay, Now I'm smudging it maybe a bit here as well. That's it, the rocks are done. Now I need to add the reflection. For that, I'm picking some neutral tint. Okay. Now, the same way how I did lo, I'm going to add some lines underneath these rocks. I have a small one, then I have a bigger cluster on the right side. It's just some random lines. Add them underneath the rock. See that? Just add some random wavy lines. They can be of different length. They don't need to be perfect. Okay? Some of the lines can be thicker and some of them can be thinner. When you start adding those lines, you will automatically get an idea how to proceed. Trust me, you will gradually figure out all those things. You will understand whether the lines are enough or you need to add. They have to be more thicker or thinner. You will figure out everything with time and practice. All right, so that's a painting for the day. I hope you all like it. The only thing I'm still wondering is whether I should add some words anyway, let's call it done. I'm going to peel out the masking tape if needed, I can add them later. All right, my lovely friends. Here's our gorgeous sunset for the day. Look at that. I really love those reflection and the rocks, and even the sky. It's a gorgeous color combination. You can try the same with a wild asphalt instead of blue and that will make a beautiful color combination. So give it a try if you get to try it and let me know if you liked it. 16. DAY 7 - Pastel Sunset - Techniques: Hello dear friends. Welcome back. Today we're going to try the last sunset from the series. And here's a painting that we're going to try today. It's a beautiful painting, I just love the color combination. Then we have a lighthouse here to make our painting even more captivating. It's a very soft and simple evening sky. We have a pitel orange, a pestel pink. Then to add the clouds, I'll be using some pastel violet. It's a pixel sky, but there is no problem If you don't have any piecel colors with you, I will show you how you can make your own colors. It's a combination of orange, pink, and violet. I have a collection of Pasel colors with me. Here's Basel pink and Lavender. It's a combination of white and red pigment. You can see the pigment numbers here. Pr20 9.6 for lavender asphalt. It's a combination of blue pigment, violet pigment and a white pigment. Yeah. You can turn any color into a Basel color by adding some white particular into it. It's a simple truck. You don't really need to buy all Basel colors available in the market. I'm using this color. It's a beautiful pink. I just love to use that color. For orange and violet, I'll be just adding some white into it. If you don't have any pistil pink, you can add some white into crimson, or carmine, or even red. Okay, Those are the three colors I'll be using for the sky. Brilliant pink, brilliant orange, and violet. Now I'm going to squeeze out the colors and I'll show you the swatches so that you have a better idea. This one is brilliant pink from Shinhan. Now I have brilliant orange. You can go with any orange or you can go with vermilion asphalt. We're just going to add some white with it. We just need a pistil orange. Okay. The next color I have here is violet. This one is from white nights. If you don't have a readily available violet, you can just make and create your own violet. It's not a problem. The colors can be a little different from this. We're painting a sky. Obviously. The colors can change and vary. That's not a problem. Okay, so I have the colors ready here. The next thing I need is some white watercolor. This one is nearly over. It is titanium white from Shinhan. You don't need qui, just white waterclors. All we need, I will take out a little onto the area where I have orange as well as onto the other section where I have violet. Okay, so these are the colors I'm going to use for the sky. Now I will swatch out the colors. I will start with pink. It is one of my most favorite color. I have so many Basel colors with me. But this is the only color I always go with. It is called brilliant pink. And it is from Shinhan. Most of the articular brands have Basel colors. Right now, it is very common. If you want to grab one or two colors, it's totally fine. But then it is not really necessary. You can just add White articular with any of the colors and turn that into a Basel color quite easily. Next, I'm going to show you how you can create Basel Orange. I have some white, articular and orange here. I'm mixing them together. Depending on the color you need, you can add more white or more orange. Okay. So that is basil orange. You can see how easily we created that. Yeah. In a similar way, you can create pastel blue or pastel red or pastel violet or any color you prefer. Okay, that's our second color. Now there's one more color we need, which is pastel violet. In the same method, I'm going to mix some violet with white water color that is Basel violet for the background. We're going to use Patel orange and pistol pink. Then to add the clouds, we will use some violet. Again, the color can be a bit different according to the amount of violet you're adding. That's not a problem. It can be a bit more darker or lighter. Anyway, those are the three colors I'm going to use for the sky. As a simple sky, we're not going to add a lot of clouds on the top, we will use orange. Then towards the bottom we're going to use pink. Then onto that we will add some clouds. Okay, So that's where the sky is going to be. We have a lighthouse here. When we're painting the sky, we will apply some masking deep onto it to preserve the paper white. You can also use masking fluid. Okay. Now the next set of colors you will need is yellow ochre, brown neuteltant. We're going to paint a summary sunset. These are the colors I'll be using. Yellow ochre, permanent Brown and Neutelton. You can either use brown or burn sina, that's not a problem. Instead of neutral tint, you can use paint screen for all the paintings. We used green and brighter colors for the crowd. Today, for a change, we can use some earthy tones. Okay? That is yellow ochre. Now you will need some brown or burn scena. Then to add the deeper tones, you will need neutral tint or paint scray. If you don't have neutral tint or paint scra, you can go with black. Okay, those are the colors you will need for the ground. It's only the colors that are different. The techniques are going to be the same. We have tried this technique to paint a grassy meadow. Earlier, we have used green instead of brown and yellow ochre. We'll apply some brown and yellow ochre onto the background. Then we will add some lines using a deeper tune. Then onto that, we're going to add some grassy patterns using a smaller brush. Okay, we have used the same technique for this painting. See that over here we have used a lighter green and sap green. Then onto that we have added some grassy pattern using a taker cream. Okay, the same technique, we're going to try using brown and yellow ochre instead of green. That's only difference. Now I'm going to swatch out the colors. The first color bel, near is yellow ochre. The yellow ochre I'm using here is from Shinhan. In case if you don't have yellow ochre, you can just add some brown or burn sina into any of the warm yellows, not lemon yellow. Go with any warm yellow and add a bit of brown or burn sina, then you can create a earthy yellow. Okay, so that's the first color. The next color I have here is permanent brown from art philosophy. As I said earlier, you can either go with burn sina or brown. Okay, that's a second color. Now there's one more color you will need with this neuteltint. I won't be using neutrtint acetous, I'll be using that to create a Dako brown. I'll mix some brown with neuteltan to create a Daco brown. Okay, that's a third color. Next, let's have a look at the color you will need for the C. The color you see here is a mix of violet and indigo. You can either use Indico acetous or you can just mix a bit of violet to it. This one is Indico from art philosophy. Go with any Indico you have got. I will first swatch out Indico as is the color. Indigo can be slightly different according to the brand you're using. Some indigos are more bluish like the one you see here, and some are more grayish. Okay, don't worry about those variations. Go with any color you have got. Next, I'm going to add a bit of violet with the same indico. I will show you how the color is turning out. I'm picking a bit of violet and I'm mixing that with Intco. Here's how the color has turned out. This color is a bit more warmer than Tico. You can either go with indico, acetus or you can create a similar color by adding some violet with Tico. Okay, so that is the next set of colors you will need. Now there's one more color you will need, which is crimson. For the lighthouse, we're going to use crimson and a lighter tone of paints, gray. It's a red and white lighthouse. For the red part, albusing crimson and for the white part, albusing really light tone of paints, gray. You can either go with crimson or carmine or even brown or any kind of radio like. Okay, so that's the next color you will need. First I will swatch out a light tone of paint, scray. You can see the color here. That's tunel value. We'll be going with. Add enough of water into paint. Scray on your tilton and turn that into a lighter tone. Okay, that's a first color. Now the next one is crimson. Crimson is a common color. I'm guessing you all have it. If you don't have crimson, you can use brown, or carmine, or even a red color. Okay. Those are the two colors I'll be using for the lighthouse to add some details. I'll also be using a taco tune of brown. All right, so that summarize all the colors you will need for today's painting. I think this is the first painting where I have used such a wide range of colors. For the other paintings we have done so far, it was limited color palette, but the techniques we're going to try are quite simple. It's a simple sky and for the ground asphalt, we have tried the same technique. So I'm guessing the process is going to be much more easier for you all. Anyway, let's give it a try and see how it is going to turn out. 17. DAY 7 - Pastel Sunset: So my paper is ready and I have a clean palette. Now, the very first step is to add the sketch. First I will add the horizon line, then right underneath that I'm going to add an irregular line. This one is to separate the land and the sea. Okay? Now, towards the right side, I'm going to add a lighthouse. You have to add two inclined line on either side. Okay. That's the size I'm going with. You can make it a bit more taller or wider. That's totally fine. Next I'm going to add a horizontal line on the top. And also we need to add that roof structure. Okay. Next, I'm adding a rectangular box, a thing. Now from there to vertical lines and a triangular roof on the top. Okay. That's a basic shape. Right now, it doesn't look three dimensional, but as we paint, as we apply light and shadow, it will look a lot more better. Also, I have bed three divisions. Okay, So the sketch is ready. Now onto this, I'm going to apply a masking tape. You can use a masking tape to hide it, or you can use masking flow. This one is a 1 " tape. I'm digging out a small piece, then I will stick it on top of the lighthouse. Okay. Now I'm going to trace the shape using a pencil. Only that inclined line. Just focus on the basic shape and trace out the outline. Now we're going to cut it and we're going to paste it back. That's how we're going to mask the lighthouse. You can either go with this method or you can just use masking fluid. We just want the lighthouse to be masked when we're painting. That's all you can go with, any method that you prefer. Now I'm taking a scissor, then we have to cut out that shape and we have to paste it back. When I'm painting, whenever the structure is very basic, when it are straight lines, like a deck or a lighthouse, like this, or a tree or something, I go with masking tape instead of masking fluid. If it's a complicated shape, obviously this way you cannot approach it. You'll obviously have to go with masking fluid. Like if it's a curvy shape or something else, you cannot cut out your masking tape. Okay, so that's a piece now I'm going to stick it back following the outline. All right. So that's in place now. I'm running my finger just to make sure there's no caps. Okay. The background is set. We have the sketch, and we have applied masking tape on the lighthouse to preserve that area when we are painting the sky. Next we have to take out the colors. I'm starting with brilliant pink. We already had a look at the colors. You can go with pastel colors or you can make some white with it and turn that into a pastel color. The first color is pink. The second one is violet. Violet, I'm musing here is not a pastel violet. I will add some white with it. The next one is orange. This one is brilliant orange. Go with any orange you have got, or you can also go with vermlion. Okay, let me take out some orange. Now the colors are ready. Now the next thing I want to squeeze out is white. I will add it next to violet and also orange. I want to turn these two colors into a pastel shade. Okay? So we have all the colors ready. Keep all the colors ready before you start, we need these three colors to paint the sky. Now I'm starting by applying a coat of water onto the entire sky using my 1 " wash brush before you start. Always make sure your brush is clean. Okay. Now I'm going to gently apply a coat of water onto the entire sky. We need an even coat of water if you feel like there's some pools of water in between. Run your brush multiple times back and forth until you have got an even coat of water. Okay, my sky is evenly wet. Now, I'm going to keep this pressure aside to apply the paint. I'm going to use my flat brush. You can use a flat brush or a round brush. It doesn't matter. We're just going to apply paint onto the background. Okay. Now I'm just making sure it is clean before I pick paint. Now, the first color I'm going to go with is orange. We need a pastel orange. So I'm mixing some white with it to turn that into pastel color. Okay, now I'm going to apply this color on the top of the sky, almost to a half of the sky. I'm going to apply this pastel orange. It's a beautiful orange. You can use this color to paint very soft, evening skies. Okay, now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to go with pink. This one is already a pastel color, so I don't need to add any white in it. I can use the color directly. Okay, now I'm just adding that next to orange. And I'm blending them beautiful colors, right? It is very soft and subtle. I will add some more paint towards the bottom, some fresh pink. And I'm going to add that until I touch the horizon line. The background layer is a blend of pastel orange and pastel pink. And I'm using a flat brush and I'm applying the paint onto the wet background. Okay. That's a base layer. Now onto this, we're going to introduce some violet. Otherwise, it will look quite plain and empty. It looks quite boring. Okay, with the same brush, I'm picking some violet, adding some white to turn that into a Patel violet. Now I'm going to add this color towards the bottom, along the horizon. I'm just dropping that onto the wet background and I'm adding some lines as well. Closer to the area where I have the lighthouse. Okay. I'm going to switch to a round rush to give it a softer look. I'll just apply violet in a very messy way. I'm just going to keep this aside. I'm going with my medium sized round rush again, making sure it is clean before I start now with a clean brush, I'm just pushing and pulling the color into each other to make it look softer. See that if needed, you can add some more lines in between with the same brush, you can pick some violet. And you can add a few more lines to make your sky look more interesting. But before that, I will just wash my brush and I will add some orange on the top corner here. Okay, that seems fine. Now I'm going to switch back to violet to add some more clouds onto the sky. With the same press, I'm picking some violet, then I'm dabbing that on a paper tuggle just to make sure the paint is not too watery. Now I'm going to add some random lines onto the sky to create some clouds. Okay? You can go for thicker or thinner. They can be of any shape. Just add them onto your sky while it is still wet. There's one thing you have to be careful about when you're adding cloud swing, violet. Focus on the area where you have pink. The sky is looking pretty decent right now. Maybe at this point you can stop it. Or if you want to add some clouds onto the area where you have orange, go with the color which is more pinkish. Don't go for that violet color. Now that pinkish color, add some clouds only if you want to. I think this isn't really necessary. The sky is looking very good otherwise. Okay, that's how it has turned out. Now I'm going to clean my brush. I'm dabbing that on a paper towel now with that clean brush, I'm just merging the paint very gently. When you're doing this, you have to go very light handed. Don't put a lot of pressure, just use the tip of your brush and smudge it a bit to give it a softer look, okay. That's a sky In case, if you want to add some more clouds, you could do that if the background is still wet. Otherwise, it's a good idea to stop it right there. I want to add a few more using a Taco tool to make our sky a bit more interesting, but this one is totally optional only if your sky is still wet. Go for it. I want to add some clouds around the lighthouse. This is the main reason why I applied a masking tape. Otherwise it's going to be really difficult to add these clouds if you have that lighthouse over there. Okay. So that's it, that's how the sky has turned out. I'm very much happy with the colors and the weight is looking. It's a very soft and a beautiful sky. Now let's take a short break and come back when the sky has tried completely. All right, so that is right. Next we're going to paint the ground. We're going to go for a more summary look for this painting. So I'm going to go with more like an earthy tones, yellow ochre, burn, sina, and Dako brown. Okay, so those are the kind of colors I'll be using for the ground. I think for this painting, more than green tones, brownish tunes will be more suitable. These are the colors I'm going to use. Yellow ochre Brown, Neutelton. Okay, I'm going to squeeze out some paint onto my palette. You will need yellow ochre brown or burn sena. Then you will need some Neutelton or paint Screy to add the deeper tunes. Okay, I have the colors ready. The first step is to apply a coat of water. We're going to use wet on wet technique here using my bigger armbrushI'm, applying a coat of water. This one is size number 12. Carefully follow the outline and then apply an even coat of water. Okay, so just add that onto the background and then we can start adding the colors. All right, so the background is evenly wet. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to use a smaller brush. Size number 12 is quite big for this area. This is the one I'm going with, it is size number eight. Okay, Now I'm starting with a yellow ochre. And I'm going to apply that onto the background. While I'm adding yellow ochre, I'm leaving some gap in between. And onto that gaps I'll introduce some brown. Okay. Just add yellow ochre onto the wet background. You can add it however you want on the top. I'm leaving a tiny cap over there. I will add some blue color to show that C in the background. Okay. I have applied yellow ochre along the top line. Now I'm just adding that in a random onto the background, leaving some cap in between. Okay, So that is yellow ochre. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some brown. And I'm going to add that in between these color with the same brush, I'm picking some brown. It can be brown or burn scena. Go with any color you have. Then again, randomly add that onto your wet background. You can see between we have some yellow ochre and there is some brown aspho. That's how you should be applying that don't go for separate layers. Start with yellow ochre, adding it, leave some gap in between. Then onto those gaps, introduce some brown. Okay, now towards the bottom, I'm going to add a much more deeper value. Again, I'm randomly dropping that in onto the background. Along with that, I'm also adding some lines, just some random lines, to create some texture in the background. Okay. That's how it has turned out. It is a bit messy. So I'm going to clean my brush with a dam brush. I'm going to smart it. Maybe on the top we can add some more paint, then we can smudge it after that. Okay. I'm gently smudging the paint to give it a softer look. I don't want those lines to be too rough and prominent. Okay. That's a background, I'm quite happy with it. I'm going to keep this pressure aside. I'm going to go with a much more smaller brush, this size number two. Now with this brush, I'm going to add some grassy pattern. We have tried the same technique earlier. For the first painting we did, the only difference is the colors we have used for that painting. We have used green color. Here it is more of brown and yellow ochre. That's the only difference. This is the painting I'm talking about here. We have used a lighter green and a darker green. Then we have added some grassy pattern at the same technique here. The only difference is the colors. Okay. Go with any of your smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip and keep adding some grassy lines while your background is still wet. I'm not adding a lot on the top, I'm just going to leave the seria act is just a few here and there to introduce some texture. Other than that I won't be adding much on this part. I will focus on the bottom. Okay. Go with any of your smaller brush and add them along the darker lines you have added in the background. So if you look at the background, you can see those brown lines, those thicker lines we have added along that line. Keep adding some tiny grassy pattern. Let me tell you, it doesn't need to be perfect. Just keep adding them while your background is still wet. This way they don't look too prominent. It will have a very soft and a subtle look and that's exactly what we need. Okay, so just keep on adding them with any of your smaller brush. I'm missing a taco tone of brown here and I'm focusing on the area where I have the taco tone in the background. And onto those areas, I'm just randomly adding some grassy lines. You can see they are very messy. They don't have any particular shape or thickness, or length. I'm just randomly adding them and filling up the spaces. Now I'm adding them on the side along that line I have in the background. Okay, now we can add a bit here. Our only intention here is to create some texture in the background. Keep on adding them until you're happy with the result. First, you have to paint your background. Start with yellow ochre, then introduce some brown lines in between. Then at some places, make the brown more darker. By going with a darker tone, you can either go with burned timber directly or can mix and create a darker brown by adding some paint scray or neuteltan into brown or burn scena. Then you need to introduce your grassy pattern while your background is still wet. So go on to all those areas where you have Daco Toons in your background and onto those areas, add these grassy pattern. And that's it. It's a very easy technique. Give it a try. You will get a very beautiful, summery grassy land. Okay. So that's how it has turned out. I'm very happy with it now, before we go with the next step, we'll have to wait for this to try. Okay. So that is right now, I think we can remove this masking tape. I'm hoping it worked anyway at see, cool. It worked. That's a lighthouse. We have preserved that area. There is no paint on it. There is a sharp corner here. I think we can fix it when we paint the lighthouse. Anyway, the next task is to paint the sea in the background. For that, I'm going to pick some into, I will mix indico with a little of violet. Then that's a color I'm going to use for the sea. First we'll apply even wash onto the entire sea. Then once that is right, we will introduce some texture. Okay. I think before that we can paint the lighthouse. I'm starting with the bit up, neutral tint. You can use neutral tint or paint scray go with the medium tone. Now I'm going to apply this onto the middle section. I'm starting with that medium tone on the right most side. Be careful to follow the outline. Now I'm picking some water. I'm making it lighter towards the left. Start with the medium tone, then using water, make it lighter towards the other end. Carefully follow the outline you have there. Cleaning my brush with water, I'm making the rest of the area light. Okay, We're trying to show the light is falling on the left side and we have all the shadows on the deeper values on the right. This one is not touching the sea. Meanwhile, the section dries. We can easily paint the sea. The idea is to show that this section is white in color. The section on the top and the bottom is red. We'll be using crimson for that. Okay, once you're done with this, we can go with the other two. Now, let that dry. In the meantime, we can paint the sea. I have already taken out some indico on my palette. I'm going to add a tiny bit of violet with inco. So let's pick some violet and some indico. Let's mix it together. You can use Indico directly. That is not a problem as we have used violet for the sky. I thought it would be nicer to go with the color which has a violet touch. That's why I'm mixing violet and Indico together, but that's not really necessary. You can either go with Indico, acetous or violet acts. Okay, now I'm going to apply that color onto the C. For now, don't worry about the texture or anything, just apply that color onto the entoC. We need a straight horizon line, that's the only thing you have to be careful about the rest, you can just fill it up. Okay, so that's a color, it's a mix of violet and indico. There's only a slight bit of violet. The major color is still blue. Okay, now I'm going to fill it up. The background layer is just a solid wash, so simply apply the paint. Once the background layer dries, we can create some waves and some texture in the sea. Okay, so for now, create that mix of indico and violet and apply that onto the entire sea. I have applied paint onto the entire area, but for some reason I feel like it is really light. So I'm just going to go for a medium tone, the same color. I'm going to apply that onto the entire area again. Because if you go for a lighter tone, when it dries, it will be even more lighter. I want a color which is more like a darker. Okay. So this color looks perfect. Now, I'm going to leave it for drying. Okay. Let us ride. And you can see the color. It's a bit darker than the color I used earlier. Next we're going to add some waves and some lines onto this background. For that, I'm going to go with a smaller brush. This one is size number two. The color I'm using here is indicac. Using my small brush, I'm going to add some random lines onto this background. The lines are super thin, that is something you have to be careful about. Some of them can be thicker in between. One or two can be thicker like this. The rest of it has to be very thin on those thicker lines. We'll be adding a white texture later to make it look like a wave. Okay, the maturity of the lines has to be really thin. Using a darker tone of tico in between, you can turn some of them to be a bit more thicker to make it look more like a wave. Maybe you can start by adding those thin lines onto the entire area. Then you can choose one or two and make them thicker. Okay. They are just some random lines and I'm adding them onto the background. It's a combination of long and short lines. It doesn't have any particular length or shape or thickness. Just add them in. It's a very small section, so you don't need to put a lot of effort. We're only trying to create some texture here. Okay, now I'm going to make one or two lines thicker. I think it's looking quite beautiful, the color and the texture. Everything has come out really nice. Now, let me add one more thicker line. I'm picking some more paint, then I'm adding a thicker line here. See that? That's it. That's how it has turned out. Maybe I can add one more thicker line towards the left side. Over here we have a few thicker lines and the rest is all thin lines. So that's how it has turned out. Now I'm going to call it down and I'm going to go with a lighthouse. We have already painted the section at the center. Now we have two more sections on the top and the bottom. To paint that I'm going to use. Some crimson will take out some paint. You can go the crimson or carmine, or even a darker tone of brown. Okay, Have taken out some paint. Now to apply the paint, I'm going to go with my medium size brush. This one is size number six. Now I'm picking a very bright tone of crimson and I'm going to apply that on the top section. Carefully follow the outline, This is really important here. Follow the outline and fill up that Ent section. Red and white is a classic combination to paint a lighthouse. I always enjoy painting this color compination. This red and white color compinationly stands out a lot no matter whether you're using a tale color compination for your background or some green or some vibrant color combination. No matter which color you're using for the background, the red and white color compinional stands out. And that is what I love about this color combination. Okay, this is crimson. I'm using a brighter tune and I'm applying that onto the entire section. Then gradually, I will introduce some darker tune on the right side. Show the shadows for now, just follow that outline and fill that entire section. Okay, have carefully applied paint onto that entire shape. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to pick some neutral tint. It can be neutral tint or paints gray. And I'm going to add that onto the right side. With the same brush, I'm picking some neutral tint and I'm going to add that onto the right side. Okay, I have applied some neutral tint onto the right side. Now I'm just blending that into the background bush on a paper towel and just smudge it. Okay, that's a top section. Now we're going to use the same technique to paint the bottom section as well. Start with crimson. Apply that onto the entire section. Then gradually introduce a neutral tint onto the right side to show the shadows on the bottom. You can see I have used an irregular line. Okay. It looks very natural. It will look like it is just standing right there and that grass is covering the bottom part. Okay. That's how it has turned out. You can see that gorgeous color combination. That lighthouse is really standing out. It looks like a three dimensional structure. Now, we need to add the roof structure and the remaining details onto the lighthouse. But I think before that we can go with some white paint and add the waves. For that, I'm using my size number two. I already have some white watercolor here. It doesn't need to be guard. Just go with white watercolor. Go with an opaque paint. Don't add a lot of water. Just a few drops is all we need. And go with any of your smaller brush. Now if you remember, we have added some thicker lines. Focus on those lines right about that line. Add a thin white line in an irregular shape. Okay? Don't add a straight line. Go with the way we irregular shape and add that right above the thicker lines we have added. Okay, That's the first wave. You can see how beautiful it has turned out, that darker line is looking like a shadow. Now, similar way. I'm going to add next wave, maybe we can make it a bit more thicker. Now there is one here. It's a very soft thin line. We don't want them to be too prominent. Add them in a similar way. Wherever you have that thicker line in the background about that, add an irregular line using white paint. I'm using white articular here. It doesn't need to be gah, but if you prefer using guash, that's totally fine. Okay. That's how it has turned out. It's a very small detail but I think it has lifted the entire more of the painting. Okay. That's Now the only thing remaining is the lighthouse. We need to add the final details. I'm just going to clean my brush. I just noticed a small error over here. You can see there is some paint. What I'm going to do is I'm picking some white color. I'm going to fix the shape. That shape is not really perfect. I'm just adding some white paint and I'm fixing the shape. Okay, that looks fine. Now, I'm going to go with the roof structure. For that, I'm using a Taco brown. You can use a Taco brown or paint scra acetus. Okay. I already have some paint here. I'm just mixing some brown and neutral tint together to create a darko brown. Now the first thing I'm going to do is to add a rectangular shape here. First I'm adding a line at the bottom, then I'm turning that into a rectangular shape. Okay, so that's a very first step. Next I'm going to add two vertical lines on either side with the same paint, one here. Now adding a horizontal line, maybe we can extend that a little. It's more like a edge shape. I have added that in. Now I'm filling up the center part with the same paint. Okay. Next I'm going to add another horizontal line on the top. Along with that I will add a triangular shape to show the roof structure. Okay. Now let's fill that Asp. This one is a very basic, very minimalist lighthouse. If you want to add more details, you could do that. Now, finally I'm going to add some vertical lines. I'm going to show the hand rails first I will add a line here. Then extend that into the structure. Similarly on the other side, Aspho. Next we can add some thin vertical lines on either side. All right. Now in a similar manner, I'm going to add some vertical lines towards the center Aspho onto that entire structure. These lines has to be really thin, so you can go with your detailing brush or a pen. Okay. That's it has turned out. The next thing we need to add is the opening. We need to add the opening onto the lighthouse. Go with the same paint and add a rectangular opening onto the first section. You can see the size. It's a very small rectangle. Now, in a similar manner. Let's add onto the white section. I cannot tell you how much I allow this painting. The color combination is really beautiful. The lighthouse, even though it is quite small, it is making the entire painting look more captivating. Now I'm adding a last opening Anthem. In a way, as it is falling in a line. Okay. That's a lighthouse. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out. That's a last painting of the sunset series. All right. Now it's time to peel out the masking tape. All right. My dear friend. So here's the finished painting. I think there's one thing that is missing. We could actually add a white outline for these openings where we have red color in the background. I think that is going to make it even more beautiful. Those openings will be a lot more prominent. Okay. So I'm going to go back with white color. I have some leftover paint here and I'm using my smaller brush, I'm going to add an outline around this opening, only on the top. And on the left side add a straight line, a vertical line, and a horizontal line on the top. And that's it. It's more like a inverted L shape. It's a very small addition, but I think it added a lot of dimension to those tours. Okay. So that's our last painting from the series. I hope you all enjoy it. If you're here to try, do go to try and let me know if you liked it. 18. Thank you for joining :): If you made it to the end. Thank you so much for joining. I hope you all enjoyed painting these gorgeous sunsets with me. There are a lot more color combinations and subjects that you can explore. Just take out one of the painting have done and try that in a different color combination. Let's see where that is taking you. Or you can look for some reference images from Pintrest or Splash and get inspired by them and try them in your own way. Thanks again for joining. It's time to wrap up the class, but don't consider this as an end. Consider it as a beginning. Take out a new sheet of paper, clean out your palette, and squeeze out some juicy hybrid colors. Put out those colors on a wet paper, and keep exploring and keep experimenting. And just keep your creative juices flowing until I see you with next class. Bye for now.