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1. Welcome Back: The most beautiful
season of the year, the man sensor here in India. With trains, they
bring blurry windows, green blankets to
the neighborhoods, and some breathtaking views. One of the things that
I always wished to paint is a city scene in drain. Naturally, I want to share
the process with you all. Hi, I'm Sagrada, watercolor
artist and teacher. I'm here teaching on Skillshare
for the past four years, I have 34 classes on
Skillshare so far. I love to teach limited
palette, watercolor landscapes. You can also follow me on YouTube and Instagram to
keep up with my work. Today, I'm back with a new class where we're gonna beat painting, a watercolor ethnicities in. The class project is completed
in three major steps. Painting the sky,
painting the foreground, and reflections, and
painting the car. We will start by practicing all three of these steps separately
in technique section. If you are a beginner or if you are painting the citizen
for the first time, I advise you to not miss out
practicing the techniques. We will then proceed with
the main class project, starting with painting the sky, painting the foreground,
and reflection, and painting the car. This class is perfect for intermediate level
artists who have an idea about wet-on-wet
and wet-on-dry techniques. And if you are a beginner, there is no harm in
trying something new. So join me and let's paint
this wonderful class project. I'll be guiding you step-by-step
without further delay. Let's jump into next video where we will discuss
a little bit more about the class and class project. I'm
gonna see you there.
2. Class Overview : Let's talk a little bit
about the class project. Just looking at it,
you can say it is divided into three major steps. One is painting the sky, and next comes the
foreground and reflection. And finally, we move on
to painting the car. And of course there'll be final details like painting
the polls and vote. Before we start with
the class project, we will discuss
these three steps separately in
techniques section. The first video in
the technique section is all about the sky, right, from learning about the colors and painting this soft
skies and clouds, everything is discussed here. The skies and the clouds are painted in wet on wet technique. In the second video of
techniques section, we will discuss about
the reflections, both from the trees
and from the car. These reflections are also painted in wet on wet technique. And the third video is all
about painting the car. This video has both techniques, wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry. Practicing all these steps, we can finally move on to painting the main class project. If you are an intermediate
level artist and are familiar with wet-on-wet
and wet-on-dry technique. These steps and the main
class project should be easy. If you are a beginner, these techniques
section will help you immensely in learning the most important
watercolor techniques, wet on wet and wet on dry. So please do not
skip those sections. And I'm sure you can paint the main class
project very easily. That is all about the class
and the class project. In the next video, we will discuss all the
art materials that we're going to be needing and
then the color palette. So I'm gonna see you there.
3. Art Supplies & Color Palette : Before anything else,
we have to talk about the materials that
we're going to need. First things first, let's
talk about the paper. Have painted this
on 100% cotton, 300 GSM Arches paper. I buy these papers in
roles and I cut them up into the sizes that I
need using a ruler. And the main reason to use
are just 100% cotton render, GSM or any other 100% cotton is that they stay wet
for a long time. That is what we need when we are going for
wet-on-wet technique. So you will have a lot of time to work with
your landscape. If you don't have arches, It's okay you can
use any other brand, but makes sure it is under Present Gordon and
re-enter GSM paper. And I have used this
acrylic acrylic board to stick my paper to
using a masking tape. You can buy these on
any online store. Coming to the
brushes, I have used a total of five brushes
for this class. And two of them are from
silver black velvet. And the rest three
are from Da Vinci. All these brushes, so
a different purpose. This one right here, the
da Vinci flat brush, it is for washes. And these two are rigger
brushes to paint small details. And the foreground,
trees and the clouds, the sky are all. With this silver black
velvet round brushes have used a ceramic
color palette. You can use any of the
palate that you have. Last jar for the water and
then masking tape tissues. These are very important. The colors, I have used these
paints from two brands and earlier and white
knight class project has a different color palette made up of beautiful colors. Let's check it out, shall we? Let's find out the colors first. And this is French vermilion
from the brand Sennelier. I have it here on my palette. The next is alizarin crimson
from the brand Sennelier. I have it right
here on my palette. And the last is quin rose
from the brand White Knight. And I have it right
here on my palette. I have kinda separate. I
have separated the pinks and reds on one side of the palette and the rest on the other. Let's see what those are. The first one is pines gray. It's from White Nights
and I have it over there. This is indigo, my favorite color from the
brand White Knight. And this is Dax in purple, the most beautiful color. It's from Sennelier
and I have it here. Let's watch these colors
out and see how they are. Let's start with
French vermilion. You can use any red
color that you have. And this is alizarin crimson. If you don't have it, you can mix red and purple. Very light, very lightly. I mean, a lot of red and
a very little purple. You will get the shade. This is quin rose. If
you don't have it, you can use any pink
shade that you have. This is dogs in bubble. If you don't have
this, you can use any purple or violet
shade that you have. I'm sure the next two shades, indigo and binds gray, is very common and
we all have those. Next comes the most
interesting part of this class
project to get that Sunset Beach are pinkish
color from these color mixes. So I'm going to show
you the right mix now. I've taken a mix of
Queen Rose, French, vermilion, and Alizarin crimson. And I have used a very light shade of
whatever the color that I got to get that light
pinkish or peach color for the class project. And this is the color
that I'm talking about. You can check it out here
in the class project. Our, there isn't
another color mix that we're gonna be using, that is a mix of purple and indigo to paint
the sky and clouds. There we go. We got the color palette for
the class project. I hope you guys have all
these colors and if not, I have already provided
the alternatives. So in the next video we're going to see the techniques that we're gonna be needing to paint the class project. So
I'm gonna see you there.
4. Techniques - Sky Practice : Let's begin the technique
section with Skype practice. Particular class project. The sky is very moody and I
have only used two colors. But to get these colors, I have mixed a lot
of differentiate. So for that reason, have decided to make a
sky practice as well. But you can see this whole
sky is done on wet-on-wet. So I thought it'd
be a nice technique to show you guys as well. I will begin by
mixing the color. So I have taken Alizarin,
crimson, Queen, Rose, and French Chameleon.
It's a red color. So I have mixed stays at these are not equal
proportions, I think. Have mixed them till I
got the right shade. So use a lot of water
and less pigment. You'll get the
light. Peach color. Have used a shared only a few times in my
previous class projects. So I'm always nervous about this particular
peach color shade. Thank God, I have got right
for this class project. And I've taken a
little bit of indigo because I'm running
out on my palette. We will need the Indigo and purple bags in purple
mix to paint the clouds. Started to paint
the clouds and sky, but now I'm wetting the
paper with clean water. I'm using my Da
Vinci wash brush. Begin with peach shade. So I'm going to be painting
it very lightly. Of course. I'm painting this light
color in stripes. You can also see there is a white empty space in
the middle as well. So we will add one
more layer here because I want a pink
color to highlight. So now I'm gonna be taking my dogs in
purple and indigo mix. And I'm going to get
started on painting the sky and clouds
with the same color. First step is to get
the shared right. It should be, it should not
be looking like purple, and it shouldn't be
looking like indigo. It should be a perfect mix. And start very lightly and then slowly build up the
layers of the clouds. A small brush comes
in handy when you're painting
clouds of T-shape. In this class
project, the clouds are not huge or anything. They're just very
straight lines. You will see we're going
to paint them now. I'm mixing dioxazine, purple, and indigo, and I'm mixing it, it a bit darker. I'm using my silver black velvet number six
brush the smaller one. The clouds are very subtle. In this class project, you have to just paint a horizontal line like
you're seeing here. And do not go with a very
detailed straight line. Just wiggle your brush a little bit and you'll get
the cloud shape, just like I'm doing right here. The top part in the
class project is darker, so we're going to just
practice the same right here. And clearly see peach color and the violet indigo mix is
not mixed up properly. So I'm taking a
damp brush and I'm just blending all those
two colors together. And you can see those colors
are blending so perfectly. And this is because
we are painting wet-on-wet and we are
using a cotton paper. It is very easier for me to mix and to blend all of
the colors together. So I would suggest
100% cotton paper. And also I would say this to use use wet-on-wet technique
to paint Saturday clouds. When you're painting the clouds
in this horizontal lines, do not overdo it. It is very, very important
that the background color, the pink and peach color
that we have here. So it's important for that color to be a highlight here
and not the dark color. So make sure you're not
painting completely over it. I'm taking my own advice and I'm going to
leave it at this. I'm not going to overdo it. You can see it's very similar
to our class project. So practice this video before you move on to
the class project. To get the wet-on-wet technique and to paint
the sky perfectly. The next video we're going to practice the second step
that is reflection. So I'm gonna see you there
5. Techniques - Reflections Practice : Let's practice the reflections. Now. I've said before, the class project is divided
into three major steps. The sky, the foreground and
reflection, and the car. So we have covered the sky. And foreground is all
about painting the trees. So I thought it'd be easier and we can manage it
without practicing. But I thought for reflections, we might need a bit of practice. So here we are. I'm gonna get started by wetting the
paper with clean water. Are only using two
colors for reflections. One is pines gray, and red. Smaller brush, I'm gonna just
border the foreground area. So from there we can paint
the reflections easily. I've just painted
to border areas, just like in the class
project. As you can see. Let's paint the reflections. And remember, the entire
paper here is wet, and this is
wet-on-wet technique. I have taken my silver
black velvet number 14, the bigger brush, and I'm
not using any extra paint. I'm just dragging the paint that is at the foreground
in straight lines. You can see the process. It is very, very easy. You have to leave a
little bit of space between two vertical lines. For some adjustments. Let's remove all the
extra water from our brush using a tissue
and with a damp brush, you can blend Hen manipulate the paint in whatever
the way we want. And I'm just dragging
a few lines. I'm adjusting the
reflections here as well. While the paper is still wet, I'm gonna be taking my silver
black velvet number six, brush the smaller one. And I'm going to add the reflections of the
car light as well. It's from the class project. Modelling a reflection vertical
line using pine screen, the murder, and we're set. Now, let's do some
adjustments according to the class project that we
are using as a reference. The paper here is not soaking wet and it's
not dry either. It's damp. And all the manipulation
of the pains that is being done is
because the paper is damp. If it is wet, the
color will just spread everywhere and you
won't see the shapes. And if it is dry, you cannot blend the
colors properly. So it is important
that you practice and you will have the knowledge of when to paint
and when to stop. So yeah, that is it
for reflection spot. I'm going to see you
guys in the next video where we're going to
practice the car. The most favorite part for me personally in this
class. I'm gonna see you there.
6. Techniques - Car Practice : Let's begin the practice of
the final step, the car. So I'm going to get started
by sketching the car first. You have to do is remember where the
light and shadows are, even in the sketch and
in the painting as well. I'm going to guide you
step-by-step here. So I will fast dry very
simple sketch of the car, painting the
backside of the car. And there are few things to keep in mind while
we're painting it. So the first thing is
draw a line on my right, the small one and
the one on the top. And you're not supposed
to paint these two lines. You're not supposed to
be adding any paint in this these lines. And that's where the
light falls and that's where you differentiate the
car from the surroundings. You will understand this concept only after we finished
the painting. So for now, draw these lines. So I'm going to get
started with pines gray. And I'm going to first
paint the back window. So I'm only going to be using
two shades of pines gray, one is darker and
one is lighter. Here I'm using the darker. I'm going to leave
a little bit of space between the window
and the body of the car. And I'm going to
paint a light shade of pints gray for the body. Shade at the bottom. We using French
vermilion, the red color. And I'm going to be painting
the lights with it. All for now. For the ties, I'm going to be adding a darker
shade of pines gray. The most important part
here is adding the shadow. If you add the shadow, the structure becomes 3D and
it looks very realistic. Now I'm going to be adding
some color around it. And then you will understand those spaces that
we have left as a highlight from the line that we have drawn before. Leave a little bit
of space between the paint that we are
painting now and the car. Both on my right
side and on the top. You don't have to paint
anything on my left. Since the light only false on two sides of the object because
it is a sunset time. Just see how realistic the car is going
to be turning out. Now. Just by falling
to highlight, we're going to be
painting a realistic car. And this is exactly how I have painted car in the
class project. And I'm going to
remove the tape. And that is all for
the practice session. In the next video, we're gonna get started on painting the main class project, and we're gonna get
started with the sky. So I hope you guys are already looking forward to paint the
class project with you all. So I'm gonna see you
guys in the next video.
7. Class Project - Sketch : Now that we have practiced
all of the techniques, it's time to start with
the main class project, and it begins with sketching. Sketching is very
simple and easy. There is just a
car and the road. So first of all, we will directly paint. We have already practiced the car sketch and
car paintings, so this should be easy. Discard structure is quite small compared to the
one we have practiced. But everything is similar, including this highlight
areas as well. You just have to
reduce the size. It's going to draw
these few lines which are going to separate
the trees and the road. If you see this final
picture, you'll get the idea. Those same lines I'm going to be drawing on my right as well. You see those divider
lines on the road, right? So I'm going to
draw those as well. In the middle of the road. Catches fairly simple. But I'm gonna be
adding the picture of the sketch in class
resources below. You can sketch your project from seeing the picture as well. This is it, this is the sketch. In the next video, we're
going to be painting the sky. So see you there.
8. Class Project - Sky: Let's get real now. The main class project
starts from here. So as usual, the first
step is to wet the paper. And I'm using my
DaVinci flat brush. I used to use the silver
brush, the hockey brush, but this one seemed very soft when I was
doing my practices. This is a synthetic brush
and I absolutely love it. If you have this,
please go there. If you don't have, you can use any hockey brush or any round brush if you
have to wet the paper. And remember to keep
the tissues ready. We are painting the sky and we have to wet on day the sky area. Do not wet the paper. Where does the car and those two border lines
that you're seeing there. So it's very important. I have already told
you guys how to get that pinkish orange color. So I'm going to just
mix up Alizarin, crimson, quin rose,
and French Chameleon. These three colors in a
very, very light shade. To get that pink sky. Let's begin. Start with
very light strokes. And most of the pink stays
in the middle of the sky. Top and bottom will be
covered in violet color. So we only have to paint this pink color in the
middle of the paper. Loved those white gaps
in-between those pink strokes. So if you can leave
those as well. But I think it will get covered because the paper is wet on wet. Now, I have taken a purple dioxazine purple
mixed with indigo. And I'm painting very lightly. Slowly we can build
up the color. So I've taken this side, tang, smaller brush,
the round one. So this is very
comfortable with, for me to paint
these small clouds. I have taken the purple
and indigo mixture and then continue to
paint with that color. Just to observe my brushstrokes, how I'm painting these clouds. It's too much water
on the paper. So to remove that, I have removed all
the excess water from the brush and
with a damp brush, I'm removing all
extra water from the paper away the
backflow of the water. Whenever you can please
remove the excess water that is collected around
digest using a tissue paper. Now, I have taken
dioxazine purple mixed with indigo and have gotten
this intense blue color. I'm going to paint the
top of the paper first. And I'm using the
same smaller brush. Now I'm taking a damp brush that is removing the excess
water from the brush. And I'm going to blend those hard edges of the
blue with the pink below. We just have to create
a few brushstrokes. The water will take
care of the blending. And that's the beauty
of watercolor. I'll let start painting the bottom part of the sky
with the same intense color. But first I'm going to
remove the excess water. Just again with the same mix of dogs in bubble and indigo. I'm going to get started on
painting the bottom part, observed the brushstrokes again, all I'm doing is painting
these straight lines. Since the paper is damp, the colors are getting blended
with each other perfectly. Paper has started to dry, so I have to work faster. Gonna get started on painting
these smaller clouds. As you can see, all I'm
doing right now is painting these straight lines with dogs and popular and indigo mix. And of course these are
not straight lines. You can see a subtle
flower shapes. It. Now I am using a silver black
velvet number six brush. Using a smaller brush to
paint these smaller clouds is really helpful for you in order to get
the shapes right. Almost done. At this point. We have been
painting the sky for at least six to 7 min now. So it is important
for the paper to be wet for that amount of time. So make sure you're using 100%
cotton and 300 GSM paper. And a percent cotton. Paper usually stays wet
for a long, long time. So it gives you time to paint whatever the landscapes
that you want to paint, what are the effects
you want to create? Think I'm going to add one more layer of data
clouds here at the bottom. And we're done in
the next video, we're going to be
painting the foreground, which is to be
painted wet on dry. So you have to keep this, this one for drawing. Only paint the foreground
in the next video, once this sky is completely dry. I'm gonna see you guys
in the next video.
9. Class Project - Foreground & Reflections : We have successfully completed
the first step, this guy. Now we are starting with
foreground and reflections. Make sure the sky is completely dried up
before starting this. Taken my Da Vinci rigger brush and pines gray to
paint the foreground. Trees. For the whole of this
foreground and the trees, we are only using one
color that is pines gray. It'll be only trees and
one small building, a shape that we are
going to be painting. So get ready. You have to have a lot of
patients to get to this video because this is
the only one that is at least 15 min long. And we're only going to
be painting the trees. In one of my experiments
of this rainy city scene. I have painted only pine trees and I did not like, like it. So I have decided to paint
different types of trees. I've studied a couple
of pictures of Juarez and absorbed the shapes
of all the trees. And I sort of
combine all types of trees and update shapes here. So this might be a
bit tricky for you. To just follow my brushstrokes. If you are comfortable in
painting the pine trees, you can go ahead. But if you want to try
some new types of trees, as you can see, I'm only
making up the shapes here. This is actually fun. If you want to try this, you can paint with me as well. See that pencil sketch
we have drawn before. The border between
foreground on the road. Do not add any pine tree
or the border at later, we have to paint the
reflection for that. The paint has to be wet. So if you add pines gray
right now at the border, the paint will dry up and you can't paint the reflections. So keep a little bit
of space between the pencil sketch and the trees. The building. And
it's not elaborate. Just a building
with three windows. And I'm not painting
anything in those windows. There'll be left alone without
adding any pines gray. It indicates there is a light Now the three that
I'm painting now, he is my favorite. And it actually brings
out the whole cityscape. So this is gonna be
a very large tree. This actually became
my favorite after I have completed the painting. Because while I'm
painting this right now, I have actually no
idea what I'm doing. I'm just painting the
right shape of the tree. Let's say it's
very important for us artists to
observe the nature, to observe the shapes of things. Even if you don't
have a reference, even if you have no idea
what you're painting. If you observe the nature
and if you get the idea of what and how things
should look like, you can paint
anything on your own. This is my only first
successful attempt at painting without reference. So I think I know a little bit what I'm
saying right here. Please observe
everything around you, especially the
light and shadows. Wherever the light walls
where the shadow is. It is all very
important because you can't always rely
on the pictures. Sometimes you don't
like the color, you don't like the placement. Imagine if you can create
anything on your own. So that's what I'm
doing right here. I have created this
entire foreground, entire shape of the
trees on my own. Now, let's move on to my left and start painting
the trees over there. It's the same thing that we
have done on the other side. So I'm going to keep quiet
for a few minutes now. And I want you guys to observe the brushstrokes very clearly. The shapes of all
of these trees are done only by the brushstrokes. So yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop talking now Now covered up that distance
we have created between the border line and the
trees with pines gray. I have taken my silver
black velvet number 14, brush the bigger one. And I will wet the paper. The road area with clean water. You guys know what
to do because we have practiced the
reflections part. You just have to
drag the pines grade down in straight lines and
that creates the reflections. Have to leave the car alone. We are not painting that. That is the only difference from the practice session and
for the main class project, but we can manage it. I've quickly changed my brush. I've taken my silver black
velvet number six brush. The smaller one, it gives
more detail, the reflections. I'm going to just go through
the reflections again. We're at it. Let's also paint the reflections of
the car light as well, using French vermilion,
the red color. Not forget to paint the car
shadow using Payne's gray. Let's do a few adjustments
using the smaller brush. Draw those lines
straighter and some paint. To create those divider
lines using a damp brush. It is all bar for
ground and reflections. I hope you guys enjoyed the process because
I have injured a lot painting these trees and
deflections as well. So I'm going to keep
this word drying. And I'm gonna see you
guys in the next video where we're going to paint
the car. See you there?
10. Class Project - Car: The foreground and
reflections are dried up. Let's paint the car. Aside from the red
for the light, there are only two colors. To paint this car.
I'm in two shapes. One is tap pines gray, the other is a very
light Payne's gray. That means we have
to use a lot of water and very less pigment. You can see those
two shades here. We have already practiced a car in one of our
practice sessions, so the process is same. We will begin by leaving a
little bit of space empty. It is a highlight.
And we will start with the Payne's gray. And this is back, back window. Here, the body of the car. You have to leave
a little bit of space between the top
and the below part. It is a highlight as well. This should be painted in a
very light pines gray color. Do not use the darker shade. It looks a bit
darker, so I'm gonna remove a little bit
of paint and make it lighter using a damp
brush that it is. Now, let's paint the light using a French
vermilion red color. Let's paint the bottom
of the car now. This is darker, Payne's gray. I'm going to paint
the wheels as well. Using darker Payne's gray. I paint a red color to
these lights here as well. That is it. I think the car here in the main class project is much easier than
in the practice. So yeah, that is it. In the next video, we're
going to be painting the final details. So I'm
going to see you there
11. Class Project - Final Details : Alright, we have arrived at the final details.
Let's get started. I am taking my rigger brush and I started to sense this is not good
with straight lines. So the brush is
not moving at all. So I will change
the silver black velvet number six,
round brush later. So you might want to
take that now itself. I'm going to use pints gray. I'm going to paint the poles. And then we're going to paint
a few wires to those poles. And later a few birds. And I see I have changed. Does it look backwards?
Let number six here. I think I don t need
to explain here how to paint these poles because
the process is very simple. You just have to draw a straight line and a few
straight lines over this. And they go, you'll have faint one here and here, and a tiny one here. For now, I'm going to
paint, if necessary. I'm going to paint a
poll if necessary later. And now I have taken
the rigger brush. Rigger brush are
really good to paint. Very thin lines. I'm going to use this
brush to paint the y's. I'm going to paint a final
poll over here on my left. With trigger. I'm going
to continue painting these wires. Final step. We're going to paint the bird. Few of them in the air and a few of them on the
poles, on the wires. I always overdo the details. I have painted a
lot of words here. I'm going to stop now. And that is all
for today's class. I hope you enjoyed painting this very beautiful rainy
city escaped with me. I especially loud
painting the sky and of course, those
spontaneous trees. The next video we're going
to talk a little bit more about the class project and how the techniques we have
learned here will help you in your future watercolor
experiments. So I'm going to see you there. Thank you so much for
joining me so far.
12. Wrapping Up !: Congrats on completing the
class projects successfully. And I'm sure we have learned a lot about painting
the city scenes, especially the rainy ones. And with that, we have also
learned a few more things like painting a car and
painting the sky wet-on-wet, and painting the reflections. Learning the
techniques separately, we'll help you paint your
own city scenes in future. I've done a few experiments
with this same technique, and I have come up
with a couple of different city scenes
like this one right here. It has a major sunset
scene going on here. One right here. This one is a little
bit on a larger paper. And I have very
moody scene here. So experiment with
different colors and with different teams. I have also included a few reference pictures
in the class resources. Resources below. You can
check it out if you want. If you have completed
the class project. From this class, please upload it in the
project section below, and I can give my feedback. I will see you in my next class. Thank you so much
for joining me.