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1. Simple Watercolor Approaches for Beginners : Hello everyone. Welcome to the watercolor for
the beginner's class. This is song and I'm an
artist and designer. As you can see, I want to briefly introduce
myself this day. I'm working on abstract
watercolors and simple steel life
so that I can work on different colors
and play around. But my original
background is sculpture. I used to work on
sculpture a lot. I've made a lot
of mutal work and performance art in many
different countries. With all my art experiences, I've been teaching art and design in many different places. Now I'm delivering the
art class here online. I want to introduce my
class very briefly. I will walk you through from
the very beginners contents such as how to use brush
and how to fix your paper, into how to make your
gradation and how to apply the basic techniques to your beautiful watercolor work. And I will deliver not just theoretical,
basic techniques, but also we will work on some
exercises so that you can think about how to apply the basic skill into
watercolor work. I know a lot of
people are afraid of color bleeding because
they are impatient. But honestly, I'm the most
impatient person in the world. But after years of practice, I figure what is the best way
to improve your watercolor. I will let you know everything no one has ever let you know. If it appeals you, I want you to see you the next
class. Thank you, season.
2. What is the best brush? What is my color?: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Watercolor for
beginner's class. This is our first class. I want to introduce the watercolor brushes
and how to use the color. If you look at the
watercolor brush, you will notice that they
have very fluffy belly because they have to observe
and contain the water. They also have very delicate
and sophisticated tip. Someone might ask,
how do I know this is a good brush or not?
Tip is the tip. If your tip has lay, doesn't have any specific
direction or shape, that's not a good
watercolor brush. But if your watercolor brush has a very sophisticated
and delicate tip and that's the good one. And brush has the hair part and the middle metal part
and wooden part. That's where we grab the brush. And this metal part, the hairs and the wooden part. That means inside
of this matter, there is a glue connecting
all the brush parts. After using your water, after cleaning your brushes
or using your watercolor, you have to let them lay down on the flat surface like a
table or paper tower. Otherwise, the glue inside
of this metal part will be ruined and your
watercolor brushes hair start to fall apart. Now I want to introduce how
to use our watercolor paper. Whenever I start to
working on my watercolor, I'm always using this masking
tape to hold my paper. This is not just
hold your paper, but also prevents your
paper from crumpling. Additionally, if you need to fill your whole
paper with color, it'll help you to make very
crisp and clean edges. Now let's talk about the color. I want to make this whole chart, but I'm not going to do
that everything right now. But I want to just
show you how to make the basic primary color
and secondary color. Primary color is
yellow, red, and blue. With these three colors, you can make any colors. Let's put our three
primary colors. Once you are done with making
a three primary color, we are going to create
like secondary color. The secondary color can be made by mixing with a
two primary color. By mixing the yellow and red, you can make one secondary color by mixing the red and blue, you can make another
secondary color. It applies to the yellow
and blue as well. We are not going to
make tertiary color, but I want to show
you something. The complimentary color is the colors that are
located in opposite side. It can be the orange and
blue or green and red. One interesting thing is by
mixing two different colors, you can the beautiful
brown color scheme. You can use the brown colors on trees or human hair like that. Let's mix this brown
and this green. Then you can make the
beautiful olive green. Let's mix this brown
with this yellow. Then another beautiful
oak color like this. I want to play around
the all the colors so that you can find your
own color palette and favor colors. Let's talk about the
value in water color. There are two ways to make
the different values. First one is mixing
with the water. This is very traditional
way and you can make a transparent
and pure water color. Second one is mixing with white. If you're mixing with
the white color, you can make more
opaque and past to. But I want you to try
both of them so that you can find what is your preference and what do you really like. I'm going to just test
the primary color again. I'm going to mix another
amount of water. You can see they are
getting lighter. This is another tip. This is a very
small masking tape. It will have all the object you're drawing
aligned each other. This time, I want to
try to use white color. I'm printing the yellow. White color. Let's see how much they are
different. I don't know. You can see this
through the camera, but I can see how
they are different. This is more opaque and very past deli you might
like this color. Let's organize our palette. I don't keep, watch them. I just use my paper towel
and just wipe them. I want to start color, keep making another value. If this video is too fast, just pause your video. Just take your time and try to catch up each step so
that you don't get lost. Now I'm going to
just stop talking and I will just create
the different values Again, I will mix
with a white color. This is a very pinkish color. I like this pink color when you're working
with your color. You might feel like this
is like a color therapy. This is one of the reasons
why I love watercolor, especially when I'm working
with different colors, mixing colors, and keep figuring out the
different color palette. So I want you to practice
on this enough as well. I'm going to start with blue. And personally, blue
is my favorite color, so I'm always so excited
to working in blue. So I keep mixing the water with the blue so that I can
make different values. Also, if you want to make more
steps showing more values, of course you can do that. If you want to spend more time
to practice color values, try to do another colors and try to mix with
black color as well. Then you can see
different values which is getting darker. Personally, I like to use
the water when I'm making a different values
because I think this is the water colors characteristic the other paint cannot create. Also, if you're using the water, you can keep at the colors after the previous color dries
mixing in the water. Let you be able to
create multiple layers. This time I'm going to mix
the blue with a white color. Let's see what kind of light
blue scheme we can make. If you are looking for opaque and pastel tone water color, you might have heard the
brand name hole bin. This is more pastel and opaque. This is good for your
illustration drawing and modern start drawing Some
brand has more vibrant color. I encourage you to research
before buying new more color. Once you're used to mixing
with different colors, different amounts of water, then you will be way
more comfortable to use watercolor and you start to see yourself enjoying
the watercolor. I don't know you can see
clearly but left side is more transparent and your
right hand side is more opaque and pastor tone. After you're done
with your drawings, you can just take the tapes out because this is wash tape. There's no way to ruin your paper now,
everything's are aligned. So this is our first lesson
and I want you to take your own time to figure out the different a color
and different values. And after having
enough practice. Let's see you in my
next class, Bye.
3. The beauty of Watercolor: Gradation: Hello everyone, Welcome back. In this lesson, I will
demonstrate the way to make gradation and a simple project you can create with
the gradation skill. First, I want to show you the simplest way of
creating the gradation, just one of your favorite color. And make a little rectangle
like this with lots of water. Make another rectangle
underneath, spacing out a bit. Then I will just connect them. Then the water
will work for you, please don't touch too much and just let them do their job. Let's try another color as well so that we
can practice more and more until we get the confidence I'm
using the color blue. But you can try another
color that you like also. One tip is that when you're
working on the water color, always you have to use
a bright color force. And same as that,
you have to connect them from the bright side
into the darker side. Otherwise, everything would get darker tone than a gradation. I'm trying another
color again and this is going to be the
final practice for me. But if you think you need more practice to stop the video, just keep trying another
color or another shapes. Once you feel
confident to do this, try two different
color gradations and different direction as well. Because I did the
vertical gradation above, I'm creating the
horizontal gradation now, but technique is still same. I added the red orange color, now I'm adding a yellow color. I made a little gap
as we did above. And I will just
connect them from the yellow side into
the red orange color. Again, I'm trying to
do different color. Right now I'm at in a green
color, which is dark green. I will let the light
green, yellow, I made a little gap
between them and I will just connect them so that
they can do their job. I will try another fun thing. I'm creating a circle shape
with a different colors. This is quite a fun
exercise to do. Mix with any color
you want to see. I'm choosing the colors that you can see clearly
through the camera. But absolutely you can do the similar color
or paste color. This is all up to you. As long as you are
having a fun at that, that's all it matters. I'm telling you that the watercolor is
all about the use of amount of water so
that you can make the proper water bleeding
on your painting. The more you practice
this exercise, the more you can
enjoy the watercolor. Next I want to show you another basic terminology in
watercolor and what it is. The first one I want
to show you is wet. Into wet, I'm putting
a very watery yellow. The point is you have to work
on it when it's still wet. I will add a very wet color to this wet yellow background. This is why this is called
a wet in wet technique. You can see they are
blending each other very quickly and you
cannot control them. This is one of the beauties
of the watercolor. As they dry more, the color blend each other and spread into each other's more. The next one is dry into wet. As it sounds, I'm creating
the wet background. Now with a very dry color, I will make some lines. Dry color means I'm using very
little water on the paint. Now, you can control
your stroke a bit, but still there is
a paint bleeding. I made two dry
background colors so I can show you wetting
to dry and dry to dry. I want to show you the
wetting to dry first. Now I'm using a
very wet color on the dried background and now you have pretty
much control in your brush trying
to dry as well. You can make everything
as you intended. It is good for when
you're drawing the trees in your
beautiful background or Some details, like you're
drawing the human shape or a flock of birds or something like that
in detail drawings. Now just try random drawing, just whatever you want and just mix it
with a lot of water or just use a dry color or different colors
or different shapes. Or you can make a carved line or a straight line
just up to you, try to practice more
and see how it goes. Let's apply these skills to
a beautiful birds painting. When I'm making specific object, having a certain shape, I always make a guide line. First, I'm using the HB pencil, which is the lightest, so that I can cover
this pencil line where I'm using a water color. I will just make a simple
shape for this exercise. I'm starting with
a brown palette, but you can choose
any color you want. I keep adding gradations with a different brown so that
it has a more depth. For the puffy valley, I will use yellow first so that it looks more
bright and puffy. I will add some orange. The tip is you have
to keep adding the colors when the previous
color is still wet. There won't be any struct, so now I'm making a bird chick. I'm using a red orange color so that it looks like a blush. By using a watery color, I will let them
blend very actively. I will add some green
and I will let them connect as we did on
our previous exercise, just scrub where
their boundaries are. Now I will let them dry, and in the meantime
I will create another bird having a different shape
and different color. If you're pointing
their paks up, they will look like they
are looking up the sky. If you want to make different shape or different position, you can simply search
the bird shape on the Internet and
you can change it. I'm starting with a light
paint and adding a bit of pitch for the gradation. I'm adding a watery pink around so that it
doesn't dry too fast. Now I'm using a brown color
for her wings and tails. If you're moving
your brush too slow, if you don't have enough
water on your brush, it will dry really quickly. And it will not blend
each other really well. Keep checking the humidity on
your paper and your brush. And keep adding different color, having a different value so that you can give more
on your drawings. I'm adding a blue palette
on her lower belly, because blue goes really
well with a light pink and pitch by using
a bit of water. I'm connecting them
for gradation. I'm creating another
layer for the tail so it doesn't look too
light and mix with the blue on her belly
so that it looks way more natural as if it
has a shadow underneath. Once you're drawing
dries enough, you can add their
beaks and legs. If you're not comfortable
with using thin brush, you can use blagging
pegamantlliner for legs and eyes. Now I'm adding
another bird's legs. But if you made your bird
with a different position, you can think about
different angles or different positions
over your bird's legs. Also, I'm creating a
little bird's eye. I simply fight it. I'm adding a little leaves and flowers so that I can
add some story here which makes it fun and cute
based on your preference. You can add different
things as well, such as ribons or a little candies or any
other little things. You can absolutely at text. And I would say gradation
skill is really simple, but looks really
nice and decent. You can use this skill
to create the card for your friend's birthday and use this gradation skill
for your home decor. This is all we learned today
and I hope you enjoy it then let's wrap it up and see
you in the next class. Bye.
4. Create everything with brush strokes: Welcome back everyone.
In today's class, we will need different sizes of brushes so that
we can try all of our brushes we have and paper towels to soak the water from the
brushes if needed. First, we'll test
a big round brush with a different angles. Try to use the tip and belly and try different amount
of waters and colors. With a thinner brush, I will test the same ways
of brushes truck. Also, I'm varying
the pressures to give so that I can make
the different lines. This is the finest brush. It seems that there is a
limitation to make a big stroke. But still, it's really good for when you're making
a detailed line. If you have any other brushes, I encourage you to
try all of them. Even you can try the flat brush or a different shape of brushes. Again, there are lots of
different ways of making the different types of
lines. Just be creative. Getting used to your brushes and how to treat them gives you more opportunity to create the delicate and
high quality works. You can try even
different colors or different shapes
you want to draw. Like you can make a
square or you can make a rectangle or
circle or triangle. Just you can do
anything you want. I'm playing around right
now with making of different geometric shapes or different pressure
with a rough lines, with a small amount of water. This time, I will show you
how to make the leaves. You can draw the leave with one stroke by
starting with a tip, giving more pressure
to your brush. And again, finish with your tip. If this is not easy to try, draw the leaves outline
and make the stroke. Thinking to fill this
shape with your brush. Again, belly tip, tip. Belly tip. Just by varying the different
pressure on your brush, you can make different weights. Again, tip tip. Till now I'm showing you how to make
the leaves branch. If you mess it up a bit, of course you can touch up after and just randomly
make your leaves. Then you can see your
leaves branch is coming. Now I'm making the
stem with a line. I'm making another leaf
branch for practice. I'm drawing the leaves
here and there. Once you try the right side
and try left side again, and right and left, I will make the line for the stem and connect all of
the leaves into the stem. For the stem, you might want
to use the thinner brush. If you're more comfortable to work in a thinner
brush, please to do so. Also, you can add more
leaves after making a stem. I will finish this one as well. If you make the end
of the lives where they are attached to the
stem a darker color, it will look more realistic. Now let's create II card
by using this skill. Again, I'm using
the big round brush with lots of amount of water. Since this is going
to be the background, try to make different
types of lips so that it looks more
fun and dynamic. Also, feel free to try different colors and
different shapes. There are not any
specific rules for this. Eventually it's going
to get more faded. Once it dries, you can feel more free to draw
any different shapes. Honestly, organic
shape doesn't have a specific rule or
form to follow. You can just use different line stroke and
different length. You can make any
leaves beautifully. Now let them just
dry before trying the next layer after
it dries fully, I'm creating another layers. These leaves are going
to have a smaller. Darker value than previous
background leaves. Blues always might go to color because this
is my favorite. But you can make
them all different colors or different
color scheme. Don't get stuck with
what I'm using. Now I'm drawing
the leaves branch, what it practiced
on the left side, on this layer, I'm
trying to find more detail because this layer
is going to be more shown. Also, if you're using various
colors on this drawing, it'll be fine with a
similar shapes of leaves. If you're playing around with a similar color scheme like me, you might need more
dynamic shapes or composition so it
doesn't look boring. Now I'm changing the composition and the direction
the leaves are. I'm using the long line straw. It looks different leaves. I keep using the different blue but having a similar value. Every lives has a
different color, but still the overall
look has a cohesive mood. Also, think about
different composition and different geometric shapes. You can feel the empty spaces. I made some leaves upside down. Use one or two leaves separately, floating
around everywhere. And a little dots. It looks
more complete and full. If you want to add
some text or sentence, you can leave the space
and add them later, just as we did in
the last lesson. Now you can take off
the masking tapes, and you can see they have even spacings in the corners because
of these masking tapes. Now I'm creating
another brush stroke, scrubbing a little bit
of paper back and forth. It's like two leaves overlapped. Then you can make a
simple flower petals. Now I'm overlapping the
round brackets so that I can make a rose kind when
it is still wet. You can add different
colors or value so they can have more depth
and beautiful colors. I'm making smaller brackets
and getting bigger. Or you can make the rose kind by overlapping the
circle shapes, by using thin and short brush. I will mix tiny, cute flowers and tall flowers on the left top side give a
better composition bouquet. When you're drawing
a flower bouquet, think about the composition
and overall look. If there is a big object, there needs to be a
smaller object as well. If there is a short format, there also needs
to be a tall one. Because I'm drawing
the bouquet right now, I keep checking the big
silhouette, which is outlines. Whenever you have time, invest your time
on searching for images you want to draw
and observe the format. It will train your eyes. Eventually, you can just draw by yourself without looking
at any reference picture. I keep adding different kinds, different shapes and sizes of flowers having
different colors, just as the real bouquet does
with the flower drawings. You can explore all different ear brushes or the same brush, but using different
ways of using. Now I'm drawing the
stems that will connect all the flowers
we drew and it will give more ideas where to add more flowers or leaves to
complete this drawing. Once it dries, you can add some detail lines with your
brush tip or thin brush. Also, in filling in where it is empty with different
types of brush stroke, there are lots of things
you can draw as it is. I hope you enjoy this session and I will be back
with a project video. See you soon, bye.
5. Create Your Masterpiece; Landscape: Hello everyone. In this video is our project video
with a technique that we've learn in
my previous lessons. First, fix your paper for sure. If you have any spray bottle, spray the water throughout
the whole paper. This time I will use
this flat bigger brush. But if you don't have this kind, you can use any
round bigger brush. I will start with the
bright yellow color so that I can make
a beautiful sunset. The next one is bright orange. And don't forget to start with a bright color to a dark color. Keep adding slightly
different colors when they are still wet, so that they can
be blended well. This is the reason I sprayed the water
in the first place. If you think you need a bold
color, feel free to do so. Since this is sunset, it can be very fiery. Also, don't forget
that it will be a bit faded when it dries fully. I keep adding the new color and different layers so that it looks like a more
sunset scenery. To create realistic
and beautiful colors, I always search the reference
picture on Pinterest. I recommend you to use the Pinterest for
reference as well. If you find the nicer sunset
having a different colors, you can use those colors
instead of following my colors. Once your sunset is fully dried, we are going to jump into
the lake expression again. We are going to spray
the water first so that your color can be blended
each other really well. I'm going to add some
pinkish color for the sky. Reflection on the water. Just enjoy the
different brushes, straws As we practiced before, adding some red or yellow or
a different orange color, you can mix with
more water or not. Please enjoy this
lake expression because I'm working
on very wet paper. I can see they are
blended very naturally. Now also I'm adding
a bit of gray, which I mix black
with the water. And this will be the
mountain reflection on the water that we are going
to work on the background. Now once you find your
sky fully dries at the farthest layer
of mountain and it will be the farthest
mountain in your drawing. When I'm drawing the mountain, first I define the shape, which means the outline, and then I feel the color
inside of that outlines. If you're not sure how
to draw the shape, you can search the
reference photos so that you can figure
out how to draw, or you can practice on
the paper with your pen. Once you figure out how to draw, you can draw on this drawing. Also, if you feel
too much pressure, you can make just two
different layers. Again, we are going to work on the lake and this is the
mountain reflection on the lake. Use the light stroke and a
little bit thicker stroke. Just keep changing the
value and line weight. I keep changing the
store color with a different line weight because water wave never has the
same shape and angle. Let's add another layer
for the mountain, but this time a bit darker gray. That means you need
to add less water to the black color than the gray
you use on the first layer. As you can see here, I'm defining the outline first and filling in
the inside of it. This will be the final
layer on the mountain. I will make this left mountain coming into
the front of bit. I'm using the darker color than the previous layer because we made these three
different layers for the mountain with
a different values. Now you can see
their differences. The farthest one has a very faded value and the
middle one has a mid value. The closest one which I'm drawing is the darkest
so that it looks closer. So this is how you can make
a sense of in your drawing. Again, if you're confused about how to make the
shape of mountain, you can follow the way I made. Or you can also search the image and make
different shape. Now I want to make some
detail with our small brush. This is a little boat and this is a water wave from the boat. If you practice the
line weight enough, it'll be easy to create them. Now with a small brush, again, I will make
a fog of birds. It's like writing
the number three. Also, think about the
composition and their size. A bold and bigger shapes
and some are very small, having a thin lines with a small brush
and white color. I will add a little line over here so that it looks
like the boat is moving. So finally, take the
masking tape out, then you will see your edge
are very clean and neat. There you go. So by using a gradation and
wetting to wet skills, we made a sky and
watercolor background and we made the water, wave and mountain layers using different brush strokes and
wet into dry techniques. Color mixing and
color composition are the basic assets
in any painting. I en you to keep practicing to create
your own color palette. If you're satisfied
with your drawing, please share your drawing on
the plast project board so that I can see how you're
doing and what you've learned. Thank you and see
you soon again. Bye.
6. Summary of Watercolor: Hello everyone. If you're
watching this, you did it. I really am proud of you. I really want to say thank
you for all your cooperation and I really appreciate all your effort you've
been putting on your work. So this is the closing video
for saying thank you to you. And I want to walk you
through what you've learned so far and
what you watch it. So we have learned from
choosing the right brush, the way to use
watercolor, paper, color exploration, and how
to start creating gradation, which is the basic
technique in watercolor. With those basic skill, we drew beautiful birds and different abstract practice
using different colors. There were also some
more techniques which are made by controlling
the amount of water. Also by using different
line techniques and how to use your
different brushes. We could make
abstract paintings, or beautiful botanical drawings with all those techniques. We finally made our final
project, watercolor drawing. I hope you enjoy all
my lessons with me, and I encourage you
to post your drawing on the project gallery
and write a review towards my lesson so
that I can see how you've worked and what to
improve for the next project. Again, thank you for
attending all my classes. For the next time, I will deliver the next
step of Watercolor. If you want to improve more, I want you to see
you next class. All right. Thank you and
have a great day. Bye.
Saeun Song, Toronto based Artist & Educator
