Unwind with Loose Watercolor Landscape

1. Intro - Loose Watercolor Landscape: And remind yourselves and explore your painting skills with loose watercolor style. Load not to get overwhelmed with the string brushstrokes and constricting sketches. With this class, I love yourself to flow free, but when guided advisors, everyone I'm sending into been an artist and an art educator based in Bangalore, India. I love painting landscapes with various mediums like gouache, acrylics or watercolors. With watercolors are my favorite to paint with because of it's so unpredictable outcome. You can check out my Instagram page, watercolors, where I regularly share about my art journey. Welcome to my class on painting, landscapes with watercolors. So as the name suggest, lose landscapes, we will be painting with loose brush strokes without any sketching. So this is what we will be painting today. To paint loose, it's liberating and so much fun. You can work without any boundaries. Someone who doesn't really like sketching or drawing. I really enjoy playing with colors. I find it very helpful and relaxing to paint without sketching. If you have followed my previous classes, you would know, I draw very minimal sketches just to make you understand about the composition. I'll walk you through all the materials and the color is required for this class. You can go with any alternative supplies that you have. So without any further delay, let's get started with the class. I'm excited to see you inside the class. 2. Materials: Welcome back. I'm so glad you decided to join my class. So before we begin, I'll walk you through all the art supplies. This is the sketchbook that I'm going to use. No, paper is for 40 GSM, 100% cotton paper. You can go with anything that is so readily available with you. I would recommend you to use at least 300 GSM watercolor paper. So during the painting, I'll not be using any masking tape to keep the paper intact. I'm using these are paperclips. If you do not have these clips, you can just tape though, masking tape on the site. Next, we will talk about the colors. So I'll be using these watercolor pans. I have personally curated all these color in this box. You need not have all these seeds. I will be mentioning about the colors in the next chapter. Talking about brushes, I'll be using these four brushes. The first one is my brush size for Princeton brush. I'll be using this for the washes. Then it is size 12, round brush for larger brushstrokes, and size eight for medium brush strokes and size for fine detailing. The end of the painting. Then I'll be using a blow dryer to speed up the drying process. And jars of water, one for cleaning the dirty brushes and another one to take clean water for the washes. Just in case you're curious about the sketchbook. Then here you go. I got it done from a local bookbinding shop. No papers were provided by me. So these are handmade paper of 440 GSM or thickness and it is 100% cotton. So yeah, that is pretty much it. Let us move on to the painting process. 3. Colors & Thumbnail: Okay, Let's talk about the colors. You need not use the exact same shades. Any similar shade will also work. But this guy, I'll use two different blue colors. That is cellulitis blue and ultramarine blue. So I'll be using a combination of these two colors in lighter or mid-tone consistency. For the distinct elements, I'll be using Payne's gray. If you are taking TikTok alone, we will get this darker tone. And when we add a lot of water to it, it appears very grayish blue color. If you do not have Payne's gray, then you can mix the burnt umber and ultramarine blue or blue that will give you a similar shade. Then I would need one number for the foreground areas. Now for the darker colors in the painting, I'll be using sepia and black. You can use any darker color that's available with you. Also, I'll be using raw umber for the foreground area. So this is an optional color though. You can use it only if you have else you can make. So L0 with one Dumbo. Also for the warmer shade in the lower area of the sky. I'm going to use this Naples yellow. If you do not have this, then you can use diluted tone of cadmium or yellow ocher. There is no rule that you have to use. Only these colors go with whatever you have. Okay, so moving on, let us draw the thumbnail to understand though, painting better. Around the midground area, there will be this decision tree line slightly covered with Miss. Further away from that point, there will be a temple-like structure which will be covered with these trees. And it also appears bluish in color because of the atmospheric mist and vapour. Then there are some bare trees in domain ground area. What Stowe foreground. There will be grasses. So these grasses are brown in color because they depict door dried grasses. Closer to the viewpoint, there will be a giant tree. So we will keep the dream where with some branches. So yeah, that is pretty much it. Let us move on to the painting process. 4. Project - Part 1 : Alright, so let us get started with the painting. I'm using this sketch book and to keep the sides intact while painting. I'll be using these paperclips. You can even use masking tape if you want. Also, there will be no sketching involved in this process and we will be painting it loose and free. So grab your art supplies. I'm using a size two round brush. So let us mix the colors for the base layers. I'll be using blue plus ultramarine blue. Mixing these two colors to form neutral blue color. I'll be applying this color starting from the top. So here, this is a very watered down version of blue allies brush so that it is easier to cover the area. Use clean water to soften these hard edges. Next, I'm going to use the Naples yellow. This is a very lighter tone of yellow. You can even use cadmium yellow or yellow ocher. In diluted version. I left like this all the way till the bottom of the people. Slightly darker version of blue and apply some brush strokes and depicting the clouds are the darker variation in the sky. Switching to my size eight round brush. And I'm mixing Payne's gray in thicker consistency. Somewhere around the mid area. We already have this darker tone. So this is the distant treeline in the background. Next, we will use clean brush to soften the lower ends of the string tree line. This will also suggest a sense of Misty vibe in the painting. Glide the brush horizontally. And we will gradually move towards the foreground with the angular brush strokes. Next, we will take burnt umber and apply diagonal strokes Towards the foreground. At this point, you need to make sure that your paper is wet. If it has dried, then it will create hard edges. So be aware of that. So in the mid area, we want to achieve sense of misty atmosphere. So we will lift the colors using clean brush. Deep tissue paper handy so that you can wipe off all the paint off the brush. Apply some darker brown color in diagonal brush strokes. So I use sepia and Payne's gray to add some more darker strokes in the tree line. Now, the upper area, and we will splatter some paints on the foreground area. Load your brush with paint and splatter the paint onto the foreground part. This will act as though noise and the texture in the foreground area. So somewhere in the mid area, we have this sharp edges. I'm using the damp brush to soften these hard edges formed by the darker colors. Now apply some diagonal lines using Payne's gray. This will create a sense of depth in the ground. So we will allow the paint to dry. So here I'm using a blow dryer. 5. Project - Part 2: Okay, So the paper has dried. Now. Let us create some far away buildings which appears hazy due to the atmospheric mist. Now I'm taking this diluted mix of gray. You can take any darker color, but it should be diluted form. So let us begin this so far away building. This is mostly like a temple. So don't worry about the complex shapes. We will love introducing simple forms. Draw a triangular shape. And then at the lower part of this rectangular shape. And I'll add some more hours on either sides of the building. You can switch to finer brush for better precision. Since it is a distinct area. So you don't have to worry about the minute details. On the right side of this building, I'm adding another tower. Next we will be adding shadows on the building. So use a slightly darker tone. This makes it look more dimensional. You can use clean water to soften the heart edges. Next, I'm adding this concentrated tone. I add some tiny lines on the top, and those are just some intrinsic work. Now with the help of a tissue, I left some colors from the, the side. Alright, we will leave it and move on to paint the midground trees. I'm using this same here. I'll be painting the bare trees. So draw a mix of street and crooked lines. And I don't do bottom area. Just blend it using your fingertip. You can paint as many trees as you want. There's no fixed number as such. So he ordered the temple building is further away from the mid ground three-line area. I'm also adding some vertical lines. Just to create that sense of distance. I like to round my people to paint the branches comfortably. So, yeah, feel free to experiment and do anything that gives you better results. Adding some smaller vertical lines in the mid area to create a sense of distance. So now if you see you can feel that distance from the viewpoint rate. 6. Project - Part 3 and Conclusion: Okay, Let us move on to paint the line. Right now we have the base wash. So to avoid looking flat, we will add some texture. By some grasses. I'm going to add some grass blade. I don't read ground area. The grass blades will appear smaller. As we approach towards stuff all grown, it gets bigger. This is due to the perspective. So to paint these grasses, you can use any darker color. I'm mixing Payne's gray and CPR. You can also use black. Just dab your brush to create the impression of these grasses. Closer to the viewpoint, I'm going to add this taller grassy bush with its blades pointed in different directions. So here I'm adding some white flowers in the grasses. Now we will go back to these distant or ample structure and add some details to it. You can use any darker tone or outlines on right side because that's where we mark the shadows earlier. I had some smaller window shapes. I'm adding another layer of vertical lines to add a sense of definition in the distant treeline. Now, with the help of a fine liner brush, I'm adding these tiny branches and twigs. Moving on, we will paint the foreground tree. I'm baking mix of Payne's gray and CPR. Beamed article drunk. And then I add the branches. Next we will splatter though paints again, so cover the upper area. So we will splatter some brown color. Now I'm adding some free flying birds in the sky. I'm extending some branches and adding these tiny twigs. So you can paint as many branches you want. Next with my damp brush, I'm adding this extra using dry brush technique. Alright, so that is it. We are done with the painting. I hope you had fun learning session today and do share your class projects under the project gallery. I would love to see your works. Thank you for joining my class. I'll see you in my next class. Until then. Bye bye. 7. Bonus-I: This is a bonus painting session and we will be painting with loose painting style. Firstly, made the paper throughout the surface of the paper. We will be performing wet on wet on this white layer. So apply even coat of water. I'm using my mop brush to apply clean water and it makes it easier to cover the larger area. Okay, Let us mix the colors. I'm taking indigo to paint the sky. So it makes the color in midtone consistency. Apply the color mix starting from top and leave some spaces in-between, depicting the clear sky, somewhere in the middle of the cloudy sky. Apply the same mix almost till the lower half. So as you can see, I have left this white tiny spaces in-between for the whiter color in the sky. Next, I'm going to mix Payne's gray with indigo and a bit of sepia to create a darker hue. If you do not have Payne's gray and CPR, you can mix black or burnt umber with indigo. I'm applying this darker mix at random areas of the sky to depict the darker clouds. If you do not have any whitespaces left, then you can lift the color with a damp brush. Your end result need not be same as mine. You can have your own no flow of colors. Next, I'm taking a green color and mixing it with the width of the blue shades that I already have. I have this green. You can take any any green color and apply towards the horizon area just where the clouds have ended. So this part, I'm applying some green color for the district trees. Moving on, I'm using raw umber. You can either go with the yellow ocher, raw umber. I apply this alloy brown shade in the lower half region. This is for the dry it feels. Towards the viewpoint or the foreground area. We will apply a bit of a darker brown shade. No, or damp brush and create a pathway in the middle though fields. So you just have to lift the existing paint and create a pathway. Next I'm mixing a darker brown color. Any darker brown color will do. Just take this color and apply on those sites of those fields because this will have some shadowy area. I'll also apply this along the pathway. Also adding a bit of concentrated tone. So you need not go with the exact same colors. Any similar colors will also work fine. Nowadays, go darker green color. So you can mix some green and CPR or black and apply the darker shadows in the background area. Also applying the darker grass blades in the foreground area in honored to give some detailing work. All right. Let us now splatter some paint. I'm covering the upper half with a piece of paper and flattering the pains. It was darker brown or black color for the splatters. Now, really take darker green color and add some trees at the distant area. So you just have to dab some colors so that it suggests the three shapes. I'm Bob, the same colors in the foreground area. And also along the pathway. So adding darker color along the pathway will define its shape. Let us allow this layer to dry. Okay, In the paper has dried completely. Moving on, I'll be using my size two round brush. This is a fine tip. Brush. It any darker brown color and add smaller details along this pathway. Here, I'm adding these tiny dots and lines to suggest those shadows in the middle of the fields since it is away from the viewpoint. So we are only able to see these tiny little details. So do not spend much time on the retailing. Next, I'll take darker green color and apply along this horizon line and then try to define the shape for the decision trees. We have hard edges here. So in order to soften these, I'm applying clean water below this darker shade. Next with the same darker green color. I'll add some smaller plants in the middle of the fields, adding some more tiny vertical lines. Those are just some grassy texture in the field. Towards the foreground, we will add some larger grass blades. Next we will take or diluted payne's gray and apply it along the sides of new pathway. So this acts as the shadows of the grasses along the pathway. Now, let us flatter some darker paint onto the field. Any darker color, and all being some three shapes and though distant area. Now, let us spend some free flying birds in the sky. So I'm using concentrated Payne's gray for the birds. All died. So we are done with this painting. So there you go. This is how it looks. If you have painted along with me, then please do share this bonus project with me and projects Calvin, I would love to see it. 8. Bonus-II: Welcome to second bonus session of this class. Let us start the painting. I'll be starting the painting wet, wet on dry technique. So take any round brush and we'll take civilian blue color in lighter or diluted consistency and apply water around it. So this will be the sky in the painting. Apply water to blend the color with the background. Next, we'll take go indigo, blue for the darker clouds in the sky. Next, we'll mix raw umber plus indigo to achieve a darker brown color. With this darker brown, we will start applying it right below the sky. Add some highlights. We will leave some empty white areas. This is going to be the background distinct area. Now, a larger brush. Keep no paper in a tilted position. We're going to apply clean water and allow the paint to flow downwards. Keep holding the paper in a tilted position. Applied water all the way till the bottom. On this wet layer, I'm going to apply. So Julian low. So this is basically going to depict a lake in the background. There is distinct tree line in the foreground. We will have some trees later on. The blue we just added here is the reflection of the sky in the lake water. Welling on lettuce mix the colors for the partly submerged land. I'm mixing raw umber and crimson. Then we will use foil, it, burnt umber. So it's a mix of all different colors. You can use any similar shades that you already have. Adding some colors, neon, distinct area. Use clean and damp brush to blend the colors. So this part that I'm painting right now is no party, so most aligned in the water. Now we need to create some texture and some variation in this part. So let us splatter the paint. You can cover the upper part. If you're not so confident with Black Sea, this can happen. So please our diaper area. Now I'm adding some darker brown color. There are distinct area. So make sure that the paper is wet while you're performing this. Above the horizon, I'm dabbing the paint will depict the trees. Apply some horizontal strokes in the foreground. With the help of a fine liner. I'm adding these three trunks for the three years that we had already painted. Alright, so we will allow this layer to dry completely and then we'll come back and add the details. Okay, So there'll paper has dried. Now with the same fine liner brush. We will add some tiny lines depicting the branches and they're drunks in those distant area. So keep adding these vertical lines. You don't have to worry about creating perfect shapes. Just add lines that will be enough. Since we're painting the lake, we need to create some ripple effect and a sense of movement in the water. We will add some horizontal lines in this blank area. Next we will move on to paint the foreground, partly submerged land in the water. So this part is partly wet. And we will create these tiny lines depicting the tiny plants and some branches fallen in the water. Next, we will mix darker color by mixing Payne's gray and CPR. Or you can even take black. We will be painting trees in this area. So I'm going with my size two round brush. You can use any brush that you're comfortable with. Gently. Start with the trunk of the tree and then extend the branches from different direction. Paint as many trees you want. The bottom part should be thicker when compared to the upper part. Since this area is partly submerged in the water. So we will also have the reflection, right? So let's paint the reflection, leaving some tiny spaces in between. Now, the upper part and flattered O pins in the lower area. I'm adding some ripples in the water. This is nothing but some horizontal lines are at some zigzaggy lines. Those are just the movement in the water. You can even use blue color for the ripples. We will also add some grassy texture. I'll create a sense of busy-ness in the foreground. Since it is closer to the viewpoint. So it demands some attention, right? Going back to the trees, I'm adding some tiny branches and twigs. I'm applying some black color on the tree trunk so that it appears very strong and prominent. Now, let us add some free flying birds in the sky. Okay, so we're done with this painting. I hope you enjoyed these sessions with me. If you have painted alone, then please do share it under class project. I would love to see your works.