Watercolor Fall Postcards for Beginners

1. Welcome To the Class: I love ado. I mean, who doesn't like these beautiful maple leaves and maple trees? The pumpkins, the mushrooms, that entire fall. Vibe. So beautiful, Who doesn't like? But what? I have not seen a single maple tree for you in my entire nice. Hi. This is manishaa Shriivastava from India and maybe not found in the real-world. Maybe some species of people fall into bi-layers, but they're not the real ones. I wish to see a real maple tree Sunday because I have grown up watching them on TV or movies, but I've never seen it. But I didn't that I can still rank in the fall vibes into my life and in my home to my Art. I invite you to join me in this beautiful class. We will be painting all inspired paintings, watercolor. In this class, I will take you to tips and techniques of watercolor. Once which you can use to create the projects of this class for your future projects. If you've taken my previous classes, you know, I like to make are simple. And so my approach with this class is going to be the same. By the end of this guy, you are going to have at least one for all of the fall inspired be dk's. We agreed to meet in this class. But you can frame and hang on your wall, or you can even gift to your loved ones. Isn't that exciting? Right? So what are you reading for? Join me in the next lesson? 2. Class Project: For this class projects, each class project will take you around half an hour. Not more than that, because I don't want to make it a long painting process. I wanted to be small. And by the end of this gang, you are going to have a DEs, one of the fall inspired be ****'s we're going to, in this class. And I encourage you to make all of them. You are going to do that. Come on. Don't waste your time just watching the video. I mean, it's a class, right? You have to do the will also not. I am going to do the entire world. You are going to do that. You make brush and get working as a danger. It's the biggest takeaway for me to see my students projects and read their reviews and feedback because that's the only thing that tells me if I do it. I think I'm going drawing in some way so I can improve in my next class. That's my biggest takeaway. So I encourage you to beat along and make you write works like a picture of them and share them in the project gallery or on social media, of course, by tagging me. So I know you've done that. And I encourage you to give a constructive review for me, good or bad, whatever you like. But do that so I can know. And others can also know about this class 3. Materials We Need: Before we begin, let's have a look at the Materials we need for this beautiful class. The supplies are Basic. First come first. Watercolor. Please try to use a medium grade Watercolor Brand, any brand you can use, but just don't use very student grade watercolors. Make sure that the set you are using has all the fall colors. Then for the Brushes, you will need some big N small round brushes. For adding highlights. We will use some white jelly roll. Or you can use coach. For the sketching part. We will need some fine liner markers and then basic supplies like a pencil eraser. And of course, the watercolor paper. For the exact same effect. Try and use hundred percent cotton paper. I will be using cold pressed. And that the most important thing, water. We'll use clean jar of water and Rag of cloth. And as additional supply. Please keep a rough sketch book handy on which we will sketch and paint the fall elements. And that's all. These are all the supplies you will need for this class. So grab them all and meet me in the next lesson. See you? 4. Brush work and textures: Hi, let's learn some basic brush-work. I'm taking a loaded round brush. There is pigment and water in it. And I'm using the belly of the brush to drag the brush on the paper and I get this flatline. Now I've decreased the area that's touching the paper and I get a thinner line. And then I just use the tip of the brush to draw a line on the beeper. I get this this line. So it all depends on the paper dry pressing and lifting the brush while you draw a line on the paper. And you'll get this pattern. You can use the tip of your brush, like a pencil to draw different lines and goats. Get comfortable with the direction of your brush movement, can be either away from you or diverts you like so. And practice drawing lots and lots of different types of lines and copes with your brush. You can also just add the tip of your brush on people and see what marks you get. Different brushes will give you different types of marks. And you have to just understand your brush by practicing this. Now, let's see some textures. By using dry brushing. Dry brushing means when the brush has almost no water and it has fitment. We use that brush to create some dry brush texture. You can see properly. This technique is used to beamed grass and give texture painting instead, but water is almost zero. And see what should we get. Now let's learn to create another cool texture. For that. I will read the people with some color like that. And in this wet area, I will drop in some lotto little amount of water, not too much. Why I'm just touching my damp clean brush. And you see, we get these loans. These are called wet on wet blooms, and they are used to create good textures, watercolor paintings. Now, let's learn. One way of creating texture. Lateral. All you have to do is just load your brush with some pigment and water and tap you brush over the painting, all over the people to get these beautiful splatters. These are random and organic and they provide movement and texture to your painting. So these were some GUI brush-work and some textures. In the next lesson, we will learn some basic watercolor techniques. See you there. 5. Watercolor Basics: Welcome back. Now it's time to learn some basic watercolor techniques. I'm using this scrap paper. And let's start with wet on dry, as the name suggests, be used. Dry. Surface and wet brush. Here, my brush has water and pigment and I'm coloring this area which is dry, like so. And you see we get a flat wash. Here. I'm painting this mushroom using wet on dry technique like that. Now let's see what wet on wet looks like. For that, I will meet the people wet before I use pigment. So as the name suggest it, the vet's office and the wet brush like that. Now drop in some colors and watch them flow and blend naturally and organically. Like so. For this technique, we can either use water to wet the surface or even a different color to red the surface. And on top of it, we drop in another color. So vet brush on vet's office. And she was what we get. Now, let's create a gradient wash. For that. We will put some color on the people. As you see the pigment is concentrated. And then we drag the color using just a damp, clean brush. Now the brush doesn't have pigment, it only has water. And with the help of that, I'm dragging the color down. I'm not going all over the painted area. I'm just touching the edge and dragging the color down. Like so. And it gives us a smooth that radiation. The also use the gravity by tilting the paper to drag the color down. Like that. We get a gradient wash. Now, let's see what's layering. As the name suggests. It's the technique where we put different layers on people, different layers of color on paper. So here I painted very lightly and now I let it dry. And we see, we will see letting liter. Before that. Let us see another technique. Here. I'm painting the people with this vibrant red. I use wet-on-dry technique to color this part. And now using a damp, clean brush, I'm just lifting the color from the desired area. Like so to create this cool texture or affect, my brush is damp but not very soft. And it's clean There's no pigment. And every time I lived some pigment, I Bosch and dab my brush in order to keep it down painting. Now, the previous area has already dried. Let's see. Layering. On top of the light colored area. We put some darker color like that. And as you see, I'm leaving some gaps in between to create this effect. And applying color on already colored surface is what we call layering. So this is the second layer of color. You can see the layering technique in the mushroom also. I'm adding some shadow using wet on dry layering technique. Here. I'm creating these rains on the maple leaf. By the same technique. Wet on dry layering technique. Here's the third layer on this pumpkin like that. So as you see, via building the layers to create more dimension on this pumpkin. Now, let's practice all the techniques we learned on this beautiful Autumn Leaves. So he Vico, wet and dry. Don't bet. Now, let's lift some color to create the liens. So using a damp, clean, damp, clean flat brush to lift galas, that now I let it dry completely. Now let's use layering technique to draw some prominent veins on this leaf like that. So their views different watercolor techniques to create this beautiful Autumn elements. I hope you learned these techniques and I request you to give them a try and you can take a picture of your project and share it in the project gallery. In the next lesson, we will be making this beautiful paintings. See you there? 6. Sketching Fall Elements: Welcome back my friend. Now, take out your sketchbook. Any rough sketch book will do an take out some drawing supplies like pencils and fine liners. And let's get sketching some fall elements. Any element that comes to your mind when you think of fall is good to grow. You can follow along and draw waterfall, I am drawing here. Or you can just stress your memory a little and think of some beautiful fall elements and draw them. Remember, this is not a drawing lesson, this is not a drawing competition. Just let yourself free and enjoy the process of drawing some beautiful fall elements. Be it the mushrooms or goats, or a cup of hot chocolate, anything, anything can be drawn here. It's an exercise to just get you in the mode of drawing and painting some fall elements. That is it, that is no competition going on. Though. I'll be super happy and super-excited. If you share the picture of this beach, your sketch book page in the project gallery. So I know that you have followed me every step and that will be very rewarding for me as a detail. So let's get sketching. I mean, I'm already sketching. You can pause the video and follow along with me. But right now I'm sketching all the elements with pencil. And after I'm done, I will be outlining all these with fine liner markers. And I think then you'll be able to see the elements more clearly because the pencil marks must be not very clear. Must not be very clear. Something's gone wrong with my language today. So, yeah, Here we go. I'll stop talking and concentrate more on sketching some more. Fall Elements. Swallow me alone. And I have the enthalpy H. And now it's time to outline these elements that finite Amaka, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I have taken two sizes, number 0.3 and 0.5. Alternating between the two, you can simply use any final marker that you have. You can even use a normal sketch pen for this exercise. And their gums, the first element, mushroom. Now, after drawing it as a liner image, I'm also adding some box and some shadings here and there, just to give it more dimension and make it look more expressive. Just remember where you think the shadow is in these elements. That's where you have to add some broken lines to depict the shadow. I am not getting into the details of the hatching and all because this is not a sketching lesson. There are many beautiful classes on Skillshare about sketching. You can go and check them if you want to learn proper sketching. This is just for our reference. We are collecting some fall elements so that we can use them in our final projects. And that's why we're sketching. And also we are trying to practice drawing the fall elements, which are very simple, very easy, but of course, you don't have to give these shadings and these marks when you are finally going to draw for your projects because we are going to be using watercolors. And there we don't need these shadings. This is just Wolffian, just to make this page more dynamic and more artistic. And there we are done with this. Let's add some fillers here. And there's one choosing some random shapes like berries and some small leaves to fill up the gaps so that the entire page looks more assembled together. And You can also use this page as a coloring book page and color these elements whenever you are free or you don't know what you want to do. A great activity for leisure. To paint these Watercolor beaches or coloring book pages. Here, I'm just filling some random elements, tiny ones here and there, to get all of this together. And that is it. We are done sketching the elements. Now in the next lesson, I'm going to take it one step further and we're going to paint some beautiful fall elements that watercolors. Hope you liked this session and hope you can now feel the vibe, the fall vibes. And now you're in the mode of drawing and painting some beautiful fall group Postcards. I'll see you in the next lesson where we'll be using Watercolor to sketch out some fall elements. See you there. 7. Painting Fall Elements: Welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to be painting some fall elements, but first we need some sketch as a guide. Here. Very roughly, I'm drawing my shoe. In previous lessons, we have already practiced drawing and sketching the fall elements. So it's going to be easy just to blobby top and shorts stamp and have it a mushroom. Now, I'm taking the round brush and I have deacons saturated, red. Saturated means I have more pigment. Let's Water. And after I put some color on people, I washed my brush in clean border and adapted. And with that damp, clean brush, I completed the shape of the mushroom dark enough with a different color. For the stem. I am just filling the space of the stamp. They'd see one more time. I put some color. And then with clear water, I spread the color all over the top of my shoe, like so. And now I'm adding some shadows to give it more dimension because it's round shapes. So the roundness comes only when we add shadows and highlights. Otherwise it looks very flat and two-dimension. Now, adding the stem in our second mushroom. And there we go. We have it. Now, let's paint some pumpkin. Here. I am not drawing it first. I'm just going ahead and painting like that. I'm using the brush as, as drawing too, because I've got very little water in my brush, so it's almost working expensive. So as you saw, I first drew the outline brush. You can also draw with pencil first and then fill in the colors. Here, I'm adding some darker color to depict the shadows. And as you see, I have not covered the entire pumpkin fits the pigment. I had left some white gaps in between Tumaini so that it looks these white gaps should be called the white of the people worked, work as highlights in Watercolor. Back. And just trying to achieve rounded shape. And there's the stem. Habit. Darker color, the darker shadows. Now, I'm letting the people are ready with clear water. On top of that, I did do some big men. And you see the nice blending of colors. It will give soft looking mushrooms because right now I'm drawing mushrooms here. I'm just dropping in some colors here in there to give it more soft feel like that. Now I'm leaving it here. I will not draw the stem because it's to read. I will wait for it to dry. Otherwise, the colors will get mixed up and it will be in the painting. Now, CMV, I'm putting some pumpkin. I'm drawing some video and read pumpkin. I first meet the people vet and then I am putting fellows and dropping in some bumpkins yellow area. I had already need clean water. And there we go. And again, this time, I have left some highlights. I let the light of the people that I'm loosely painting these pumpkins and these metro. Adding some details. And daddy have it. Beautiful. Loose Watercolor pumpkin, effortlessly painted. Just like that. And now my shoe drops. Right here. I'm adding here I'm going veteran, try. Not previously. Adding the shadow, just dropping in some darker color. It's very easy invasion. Even just wondering on that. This is a very patriotic and PFK-1 activity. Now we are technically ready, but I just want to practice, meet foams that the brush without drawing this sketch. I just want to corn and beans some leaves. And I encourage you to follow along and paint some leaves without sketch. I'm using the tip of my brush. Shapes and connecting all of them at the center to form this beautiful fall Leaf. Begin also draw some single leaves like that, the typical regular Leaf. Then some berries. How about some very minor plates? Explain them also, just using the tip of the brush. There's very little water in my brush and see how I left the highlight in the buddies to depict the rounded shape. Now, I'm adding some wet-on-dry shadows in my first set of my shoes. The pumpkin has also dried and you can see the I do, I create it. It's dried. Fuddy-duddy, but some may like that effect. There are many artists who like these natural looms and these accidents. And I'm one of those I do want dislike that pumpkin either I like it in here and I'm adding some better on dry DTU again to this pumpkin to make it more dynamic. If you base, you can leave it debate, or if you want, you can follow along and add some details like I did. Now here I'm using a flat brush to draw the same thing, the mushroom and some pumpkin. Here, I leave some pigment on paper, wet, on dry, and then I soften it. A damped brush. And very easily and very effortlessly bit flat brush also achieve these sheets. So now I'm going to add the stem. It's all, they don't dry, so we do need to worry about the colors mixing into each other. As long as we have the correct amount of water in our Brushes that strawberry to happen. Now, let's paint the pumpkin also with the flat brush like that. Leaving some gaps between the segments of the pumpkin. So dropping in some shadows, using a darker color for the shadows back. In doubted his eyes. I'm not talking about the colors in particular because colors are not important here the edges practicing. You can use whatever color you have and what am I gonna human? You can even change these colors drastically and you can choose blue or gray for the pumpkins and that's absolutely fine and okay, care via be practicing the skill of painting and drawing go elements. And we're not worried about the color. So that's why I'm not talking about Watercolour, the names of the color that I'm using, because it's completely up to you what colors you choose, right? So here for the details, I, to my round brush again, because I couldn't do that with the flat brush. But it was a nice exercise, a nice practice to know the limitations of the brush and the limitations of myself as an artist. And here in the next lesson, I'm going to show how we can paint these painterly fall elements. So join me there. I'll see you 8. Painting Loose: Welcome back. So after practicing the basic watercolor techniques and drawing and painting the fall elements, now is the time to lose enough. I don't have any sketch, and I encourage you to follow along and paint some loose painterly fall elements with me. Here, I start with a creamy mix of yellow ocher and burnt sienna, very light mix. And with that, I draw this stamp. You can see how I did it. Once more like that. I'm trying to draw the cluster of stamps for the mushrooms. And on top of them, I will just make some rounded shapes, but I didn't shapes. And here we go. We have cluster of black vital mushrooms just like that. No sketch required. Just with a brush and paint. We get these cute mushrooms here. Like this only. We will go on painting some fall elements without any sketch. There is no judgment, there's no competition. What ever you paint, whatever I paint is beautiful. That's how we have to accept and be guide or assets. Alright, This painting is just for Fun, for practice. And to understand the colors, I understand the tools we are using. And to develop muscle memory so that we are able to confidently go. Mushrooms are done. Similarly, I will be painting the fall elements as well. As you see this one I'm painting here is pretty detailed, though. It's up to you whether you want to follow along like this, or you just want to warm up your own mushrooms using your own shades of colors and your own techniques that it needs to be practiced. In the previous lessons. Let's paint some more mushrooms. Here I'm using wet on wet. As you saw, I firstly some light, very light on paper for the stem and then I dropped in some shadows. And the same thing I'm going to do for the head of the mushroom sweat. And now I'm going to add some texture on my show because mushrooms come in variety of shapes and sheets. So you can experiment with the mushrooms however way you want. There. That's interesting. Now, let's try another one. Let's add some shadows. So now the stem, like that. If you've noticed I've not changed the brush. I'm using the same tiny brush of mine for all of these mushrooms. And it's working perfectly well for me so far. Adding some texture on this one. And when we're done with the mushrooms, let's make some foliage around them. Just like that. Some grass blades so that they don't look there hanging in the middle of the air. Similarly, just for practice, Let's practice some more filler elements for our final composition. The berries, the needles, the Leaves. Now I've taken my mop brush and the dad, I will attempt the pumpkin without the sketch. Here we go better and dry carefully leaving the highlight like so. Let this dry and let's try another one. Let that one dries. While we try another one. Another color. I love this color. This one. This one's going to be my favorite. So we've made so many pumpkin bodies. Once they all dry, we will add in details. Let's add some shadows on the first one. Because that's the most dried pumpkin. Right now. Be mindful of not overdoing anything because here we are going to keep them very loose and simple. Minimal details. Bold and confident strokes. That's we are going for. Let's add stems and leaves. As you notice, I'm not drawing proper Leaves are proper stems. I'm just giving an idea of giving an expression of the stem and leaf by It's simple and Loose. And I feel the people like this people, this page needs a little movement. So I'm glad during some color like so. Yeah. Now, I want to try of wet on wet pumpkin because I still feel I need some very loose pumpkin. I use a lot of water here. And I'm dropping in color, which is also very wet. And I just want to see what happens just for the practice sake. If you 12, you can follow along in making this with me or else you're good to go with practice. We have already finished. But I wanted to make one very, very, very, very loose pumpkin and see how it goes. These practices where we don't expect so much, we just go with the flu and try different things. They really set us free. They are very good for you as an artist for your personal growth. So I really recommend you should sometimes just shed your expectations and just, just Autumn me to school with the flu and see what happens. The previous pumpkin I made is very, very bad. And it's taking a lot of time to try. I can use a hairdryer and make it wait, but I instead part of painting another big pumpkin by the time the previous factorise. Engage your wallet alone. For that very wet pumpkin, you can use a hairdryer and make process fast. There's an interesting thing about the location where I stay. At the moment. I stay near the airport. And every now and then there's a there's an aircraft passing and I have to stop every time, every now and then while I'm recording my voice overs. Bombay is one of the busiest airport in the world. And I found this previous pumpkin pretty dry. In fact, more than dry eye, more than what I warranted. So here I'm wetting the area around it to make it more loose and get the effect I actually had in my mind about this one. And there we go. It's more or less. Yeah, You must be thinking, I told you not to have expectations and I am trying to achieve what I expected. Yeah, there there is. You can completely shaped by expectations. What I meant was not to be hard on yourself, okay, we expected something and we started the painting with that expectation. Maybe we did not achieve that, we achieve something else. The key is to embrace it, whatever you've created and try next time if you're not happy with that. But don't be hard on yourself and just keep going and keep on practicing. That is what I meant. Yeah, I'm pretty much done with this pumpkin, and I'm very happy with this one. I'm happy with all of them. I hope you also painted along with me, please share the pictures of your pumpkins and mushrooms in the project gallery. I'll be super happy to see them. Let's meet in the next lesson where we will start with our very first Postcards. See you there. 9. Mushroom Project: Finally, we have reached the very first project of this class. I have already drawn the sketch paper. You can find the picture of this sketch in the resource section and you can copy from there or else you can just pause the screen and copy it from here. I am. I'll take you through the color mixing. So I'm adding some scarlet lake and some Indian red. Basically award. And it will read, I'm mixing This vibrant red color for the mature and already had this gate within the sketch. I am just going painting this mushroom using the belly of my mop brush. Around brush you can stack, you can use, right? So it's more like coloring, coloring book pages that we have practiced a lot. We have factored all the techniques. We have got this join painting, these elements so many times, I don't paint you are going to be any problem. The Project whole idea of practicing so much was this, that the actual class Project should not seem difficult to you. By time you reach the Class Project section, you feel it's way too easy, right? Just make you comfortable with the project. Adhered. As you see, I am leaving some highlights using gouache. This postcard in a most moral for illustrative manner. And keeping it very tight. Sketch. And here I'm using some Grinnell don't for a stem. And here, as you see, I made a mistake. The colors are not now running into each other. But I used a damp, clean brush, afford lifting the colors like so. Now I will let this area dry completely before I bought on it. Because I don't want more accidents than corrected the mistake that the damped clean brush and now it's dried completely. So here I started working on my shoulders, but I'm walking around the mushrooms and adding these cute on Leaves and the foliage around the mushroom to give it a forest. The wild feel. Just touching the tip of my brush. I'm creating these tiny leafy patterns. Now. Putting them together with the lane. You're going to repeat these steps. Get in there to provide our postcard. As well as you provide these mushrooms more natural and wild. Right? So just some lines here and there to depict the buying needles and all those fall and then tree lands of foliage in there. And now I'm changing my green. The previous one was hookers green. This is sap green. And with the sap green, I'm adding some more foliage here and it, this will add some interests in the painting. When we use different shades of color that can be used, different values of color that adds dimension and interests to any BMP. They're done with the foliage. Now, get back to the mushrooms. Star of the painting. Here, I'm adding some shadows Using quinacridone and yellow mixed with some rhombus. Now adding some red berries that the same color be used for the top of the mushrooms. I'm trying to leave some highlights. Not completely making the blobs, berries trying to be a dot of light. But if you guys happen to color it completely and forget to leave the dot, you can add white highlights with Jelly Roll after the painting has dried completely. Don't worry about that. Now, I'm taking some lighter green. If you don't have this green, you can mix some yellow in your dark green and you will get a color similar to this. So I'm just dropping in this color, this lighter green color at the base of the mushrooms and the foliage. And with some clean water, I'll drag the color down so as to get a perfect gradient. Just like that. Dropping in some olive green or sap green for the shadows. Get the wet on wet blending. And now I'm softening the edges. A damp, clean brush and also dragging the color downwards. And daily habit. Now I'm deepening some red for splattering here and death to provide some movement and some texture to the painting. Also add some green for this plateau. And that's it. We have it. If you happen to get splatters at some places you don't want, you can just lift them up with a damp, clean brush. And here I'm using a jelly roll. Wait till easily to add gov dot on the mushroom. Overdo this step and be mindful of stopping. Now I feel like adding some more shadows just below the top of the mushroom, on top of the stems. They're adding some darker gills and daddy have to be done. But our very first class projects, please don't forget to share the picture of your class project in the project gallery. And I'll see you in the next lesson. Barely will paint this beautiful fall behind you there 10. Fall Table Project : Let's move on to the next project of this class. It's a fall Table Illustration and it's my absolute favorite. The sketch of same will be uploaded in the resource section. Check it out. So here I start with the yellow glow of the light. So very lightly with very less pigment in my brush, I'm going wet on, dry. And the same way, wherever I need the yellow glow, I'm painting all those areas including the pumpkin and the lantern. We will be using layering technique on top of this. Like so. Now let this dry. And now I'm taking very saturated orange and green on top of the pumpkin. But the thing to remember is that the pumpkin has dried. They're not going wet on wet yet. It's still wet on dry. As you notice, leaving some yellow layers. The first layer on the pumpkin. I'm not covering it completely with orange. And that's the idea, That's why we did the underpainting with yellow. So leave some gaps in between and finish coloring your bumpkins. Now with a damp, clean brush, I'm trying to avoid the hard edges. I'm rubbing the damped clean brush over the edges and smoothening them like so. Now let's move on to our next pumpkin. And once again, I'm taking a very saturated orange pigment in my brush. And I'm going over the grooves of the pumpkin. I'm leaving the ridges as it is. And with a damp, clean brush, I've washed the brush and soak did on a paper towel. I'm just pulling the color towards the richest. Here's another way of making realistic pumpkins. So I'm just pulling the colors, color from the groups towards the riches. Like so. Now let's move on to enforce pumpkin. I'm not happy with the highlights and shadows. So let's work on it and make it proper. So here I covered the harsh highlight which was created. And now I'm reading the surface because the pumpkin has dried and lifting some color from the highlight area where I want the highlight or the shine on the bumpkins. So I'm just lifting the color with a damp, clean brush from those areas like that. And now as you see, soft shine is created. And that's what I want. Cmv, we will work on the second pumpkin also. Creating a soft shine. Instead of this harsh, edgy, patchy look. Lifting technique comes in handy for this. Now, let's take some dark brown and with the tip of your brush using jagged lines to cover up the stem area. Don't go for an even blob of color for the stem. It won't look natural, it will look very sketchy. Now that the pumpkins are ready. Let's take some dark pines gray, and outline the lantern. I have not changed the brush yet. I'm using the same brush and I'm using the tip of my brush. There's very little amount of water in the brush and more of the pigment. With that, I'm using pen strokes to outline the land don't like. So as you notice, I'm willing the brush Very close to the bristles. And that way I'm controlling it completely. Now. I'm moving on to the body of the lantern and I'm leaving some people write to retain the highlights on the lamp. If you fail to do that, you can liter add the highlights with a jelly roll, but it's always better to leave the paper white for the highlights. Follow those same steps to complete the Landon. I'm just going over the outlines, the pencil outlines with the brush and the pigment. Now I'm decreasing the value of gray in my brush, so more water and less pigment. And with that, I'm making these lighter lines of the frame so that it looks like it's underneath the glass. We don't need dark lines for all these lines. But some which are on DHAP will be darker and the others which are on the back will be lighter. This will give you a perspective and adept and your painting will look more realistic. Now, you can go over the parts which look pale or light because watercolor dries lightly and you can darken those areas. Another good of gray. And I got a message. The message don't resembled the sparkly sound as if magic is happening. So I don't think I should remove it. So I just kept it because it came at the right moment where the magic of watercolor is taking place. Here in painting the glass with very light yellow. And I'm dropping in some orange mixed with yellow here. I'm there to create an even texture of the light, which is placed inside the lantern. Like so. Now at the base of the lantern, I'm trying to give the impression of a candle. So for that, I have taken yellow ocher mixed with a little bit of gray. And I'm building the base of the London with that. And now I'm taking bruising blue. You can also take ultramarine blue. And with that, I'm going to paint the coffee mug or hot chocolate mark whatever you imagine it to be. This is the highlight of this painting because that's a contrast color, dress of all the colors are in harmony because they are from the same side of the color wheel. And this color is a contrast color. So we have to use it sparingly. So I chose only one object in this color and that's this mug. And here again, I'm leaving some natural highlight in terms of the people, right? I'm not painting it completely. But in case you accidentally paint the highlight area, you can always add the highlight with a jelly roll. Right? So let's move on to the next object. I'm using dark reddish brown to make the stack of cookies. And the same color I'll be using for the to aid on top of the lantern. Again, using the tip of the brush, holding the brush very close. The brush blood vessels. Just to have better than joy. Little amount of water in my brush and more pigment in my brush. And I darken the brown even more by adding some gray to it. And with that, I'm making my dark chocolate. Now let's use a damp, clean brush to smooth the harsh edges. And I will go on top of the chocolate also be the damped clean brush to smooth and it up Now let's add in some fall Leaves. For that. I will use some yellow for the base layer. And on top of that, I will be adding some details with the darker colors. I have used yellow ocher mixed with some green to add more leaves. And you add some interests to the composition. Now some Hooker's green to add more interests to the competition. And this time I'm using these needles to give are leaving JOB. Now with saturated crimson. I am making the ribbons on the stack of cookies. Like so. Same color goes for the berries on top. Don't worry if you can't leave the highlights on the berries. You can always add them with data. Jelly Roll. Yes. So they're very watery pink color over the cookies and dropping in some brown here. And they're trying to give the illusion of cellophane plastic or a cling film. And then underlining the cookies, the base of cookies with brown. And that's it. We give an impression of the stack of cookies that you don't have to be hyper-realistic. And now let's add in some shadow for that I'm DJing light brown mix red, little bit of gray, making it almost population. I first made some shapes below the objects and then I'm going randomly over the table, like so. Now let's add some darker gray strokes here and there to add interests and add texture to the table. Now, with a wet mop brush, I'm wetting the area in the background. Nicely wetting the area, but not going over the painted objects. And I'm dropping in some blue sketchy the randomly here and there. For painting the background. You can leave it right also if you want, and you can use another color like a pub or a very light pink also, or even a very light yellow light. I liked this color, very light blue to be in harmony with our mug. And as we go down, I'm adding in some gray, very light, as you see. It's hardly visible. So I'm just dropping in that very light gray close to the table in the background. And on top it goes blue, ultramarine blue. Randomly dropping in some colors here in there, just making sure not to overdo this stage. There. I think it's done now. Let's work on the table. So dig in dark gray with very little water in my brush. And I'm just giving would texture to the table, making some random would marks here and there. And now extending the table. The bees off the bottom of the people that, remember we painted the shadow underneath the objects. It's all blending with the table now, let's dark in it. So first I made the area with clear water, then dropping in some darker gray in those areas where I need shadows. Now, let's add some details on the Leaves. Bit the darker brown, and let everything dry. Finally, let's add some details to our bumpkins. Now finally deals on the mug like that. And finally, jelly roll to the rescue. Add the highlights wherever you think you've missed it. I'm also giving the marshmallows, marshmallows in the hot chocolate. And I'm adding some highlights on the plastic film. That's back in the cookie. And never to forget the berries. And we're done with this Project. Hope you liked it. In the next lesson, we will be painting a large project, which is the fall Leaves. See you in the next lesson. 11. Fall Leaves Project: Finally, we reached the final project of this class. And unlike the other two projects, I have deep the people onto the table. And we're going in for a wet on wet voice. The sketch is already in place. I will have the sketch uploaded in the resource section for you. Here. I can address the US border with my mop brush all over the page and I read it nicely. Then with the yellow ocher, I'm giving it random voice dropping into hello here and there in streaks. I don't want it to be even. Now, let's drop in some darker value of the same yellow ocher hearing their legs. So the trick is to drop in this pigment around the Leaves and not on top of the Leaves. As EDs, the bottom third of the paper, I drop in some green mixed with yellow ocher in an uneven way. While the paint is still wet, Let's drop in some brown here and there. By the time the other part of the paper is dried, I'm taking a damped, clean brush and with that, I'm lifting the color using the tip of the brush and rotating it in circle. This way we create the bouquet effect using some water to lift the color. Now you can see it properly. And I'm just putting the, pressing the tip of my brush on paper and rotating it in a circle like so. I'm trying to lift the color, will see it better when I read stuff. Darker areas. If we find first layer to be very, very light, we can also add some darker hues around these light circles created like so Parting in some drown around some also lighter, so close. Now splattering some down here and there to add interests, make sure to splatter it only at the bottom part. If you happen to splatter on the lighted. So just lift the color damping brush. The base layer is ready. Now let it dry completely. And once it's dried, deep, highly saturated orange, red color in your brush and start painting the leaves. All maple tree. Now, wash the brush slightly. Paint the background Leaves. Competitively, watery consistency. Lighter value. This may be three. In the Painting. We keep the background lighter on the foreground, darker. Changing the color from red to orange to yellow and brown. Interests in the Painting. Keep solving the sketch on, just keep in the colors to different Leaves. Like so. Let's use some wet on wet blending for this leaf. On the leaf below it. As you see, I made though that layer and on top of it and dropping in some colors here and there along the edges to get a beautiful natural blend. And here comes another leaf. I'm going with a bright yellow for this one. And on double dot I will adding the darker color. Look at how beautiful the blend is and how natural the leaf looks. Like bys, let's make some more leaves at the same day. Now let's add some green underneath the leaves on DOF. Now let it dry. And once it's dried, I'm taking my tiniest brush and inking some dark brown in it. And with that, I'm making jagged lines for the branch or the twig of the maple tree. And my God, I'm attaching it with the Leaves. And also detailing the Leaves. Look colors of the leaf on top is pretty seated. So I'm going to darken it for that. I will force meet the Leaves with clear water and then I will add in the desired color. On there. It's all done for the final step, let's bladder some reds and browns and even gleans here and there. Make sure not to cover them. Dad painting with this bladder, spotting the and carefully just splatter some color here and there. We are finally done. It's time to remove the deep and see what you've created. Here is the masterpiece that is created by Hopi light, been doing this project as much as I did. I received the next lesson where we will sum up the entire course 12. Your Turn!: Finally, here's a recap to watch all we did in this beautiful class. We made these awesome Fall projects. We sketched some beautiful fall elements. And we also painted the fall elements two ways. One with the sketch and without the sketch, also, in a Loose be delivery. We also learn some basics of watercolor, add some brush-work. That was, I loved the process of creating these beautiful artworks. I hope you loved this nice as much as I did. Please leave your feedback, your review about this shadow in the project gallery or on social media. I would love to see that