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Watercolor For Absolute Beginners: Paint Your First Landscape In One Hour

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome To Your First Landscape Painting

      1:07

    • 2.

      Materials&Supplies

      2:01

    • 3.

      Basic Wash Practice In Watercolors

      7:16

    • 4.

      Brush And Water Control In Watercolors

      3:39

    • 5.

      Step01 : Paint the Sky (Wet on Wet)

      2:19

    • 6.

      Step02 : Distant Mountains (First Layer)

      1:44

    • 7.

      Step03 : Far Midground Hills

      4:41

    • 8.

      Step04 : Closer Midground Hills

      2:52

    • 9.

      Step05 : Foreground Silhouette

      5:45

    • 10.

      Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : FirstWash

      4:02

    • 11.

      Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : SecondWash

      3:55

    • 12.

      Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : FinalDetails

      2:35

    • 13.

      Paint With Me Again

      0:48

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About This Class

Watercolor can feel intimidating at first—the water spreads, the colors flow, and it often feels hard to control. But with the right guidance, watercolor becomes one of the most relaxing and rewarding mediums to work with.

In this absolutely beginner-friendly class, I’ll guide you step by step through the essentials of watercolor painting and help you complete your very first landscape in under one hour. We’ll start from the very basic materials, brush handling, and water control and build up to simple washes and layering techniques that create soft skies, misty mountains, and peaceful scenery.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Choose and use basic watercolor supplies with confidence

  • Control water and paint to create soft and clean washes

  • Understand the difference between wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry

  • Create smooth gradients for skies and backgrounds

  • Build depth using simple light, medium, and dark layers

  • Paint an entire beginner-friendly landscape from start to finish

We’ll bring everything together in a guided, real-time paint-along where you’ll create a calm misty mountain landscape (with an optional bonus chapter of the sunset version). Each lesson is slow, clear, and designed especially for absolute beginners.

I’ll walk you through every step so you never feel lost. Whether you’ve never touched watercolor before or you’ve tried it and felt frustrated, this class will give you a strong, encouraging start and help you experience the joy of finishing your very first watercolor painting.

Let’s paint your first landscape together. 🎨

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Dinesh Subramanian

I love painting!!

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Dinesh is a Toronto-based artist and an observant watercolorist who has taught himself the art form. His watercolor pieces capture the essence of his worldly adventures. As a kid, he loved drawing, and that passion stayed. Through vibrant colors and intricate details, his artwork transports viewers into his own world. After settling in Toronto, he found inspiration in the city's rich culture and diverse inhabitants.

Dinesh pushes the boundaries of watercolors to create his unique style, earning recognition in juried exhibitions and among collectors. One of his artworks will be displayed in Toronto's City Hall art gallery, earning a place in the esteemed Toronto Collections. He firmly believes that beauty can be found anywhere, whether it's in ... See full profile

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1. Welcome To Your First Landscape Painting: Eon, my name is Dinesh, a watercolor artist and instructor. Happen, by the way, if you always wanted to paint with watercoloor but didn't know where to start, this class is just made for you and it's a perfect way to begin your first watercolor painting of the year. You don't need to be good at drawing or word fancy materials. By end of this 1 hour class, you will complete your first watercolur landscape, a peaceful misty mountain scene. I will guide you through the basic supplies, brush and water control, a few simple techniques like soft gradients and layering. Then we'll pay together step by step, no stress, no pressure, and no perfection required. 20-46, Skillshare Only supports teacher, we have at least 50 followers. Even if you have made only this one on the video, I would really appreciate if you could follow me before taking the class. Creating tutorials like this takes a lot of time and energy. Your support helps me to continue giving back to the community and improving your Watcle journey. So grab your brushes and let's jump in. You're about to paint your very first watcal landscape. 2. Materials&Supplies: Before we jump onto the tutorium, let's talk about the materials. Here's what you will need. The first one is a brushes, which is really important, and I'll be using fewer brushes, and the one brush I'll be using for this tutorial is a round brush. So I'm using a round brush, which is 12. It's called long round. You could use any other round brushes if you want. So the next one comes the waterclo paper. So I'm using Boong Waterclo paper and make sure it is 300 GSM. And this is really important because it would give really nice blending and it also gives a really nice transition. And I'm also using cold press. You could use any surface, but make sure that it's 300 GSM. And next thing is watercolur paints. And since it's a beginner friendly course, I don't want you guys to spend a lot of money if you can go and get this Vincent Newton pocket watercolor paints. And it has fewer palettes. It has only three palettes and fewer colors. And this is more than enough for this tutorial. And the next one is a jar to put some water for us. And we'll put some water and we'll use this for mixing our paints in our palettes. And the next one is a rag. So the rag I usually use to wipe off the paint from my brush. And you will see once we start painting, I'm going to use this. So the next one is paper towels or any kind of tissue paper works as well. And these are the materials we need for this course. Apart from these, you can also use a pencil to sketch our drawings. If you're using a student gray paint or any other watercolor paints, that's perfectly fine, too. The key is to learn how watercolor behaves and not the brand. And now let's how to control water and brush, and it is the foundation for everything we'll paint in this course. And let's move on to the next one. 3. Basic Wash Practice In Watercolors: Before painting our full landscape, let's practice three kind of washes. We will use these washes to create your first landscape. So the first one is called flat wash. So I'm going to load my brush with water like this and I'm going to take some colors from here. And I'm just going to start from the top, and I'm going to bring all the way at the bottom and make sure you have a little bit of water in your palette like this. So you can easily bring it down like this. And you can see that I'm also holding a brush in a way that it's flat. So I was able to create a lot of areas when I'm bringing this down. And this is called a flat wash. And there's also another way of doing flat wash, and you can try this too. So I'm going to take a little bit of water and a little bit of paint and you can use the brush folding this way, and you can also bring it down as well. And you can see that we are able to create two flat washes with different kind of folding the brush. And you can also use both in consection like this. So since I have painted this already, so I can also bring it down like this as well. And you can see that we can create the flat wash. So the next one we're going to is called gradient wash. So what we'll be doing is we'll be starting dark at the top, then add water as we move down. This is perfect for creating depth and skies and other things in watercolors. And if you want a detailed tutorio, you can go and check out this tutorial how to do blending and washes in my Skillshare class, it goes really deep, and it also shows how you can use these washes to create beautiful paintings in watercolor. Now let's jump on to the gradient wash. So I'm going to use the same color so we don't get confused. And you can see that I'm going to go a little bit take more pigment this time. And I'll just bring it down like this. I'm using side of my brush, it's a little bit darker. So now I want a little bit lighter. So now we learn from the previous chapter that if you want lighter colors, you can put some more water here and you can slowly bring it down. And if you want even lighter, so I'm going to put more water, and I'm just going to bring it down like this. And you can also lift as well. It's just going to go back and just blend it like this. And you can see that now we can create this really nice gradient wash from dark, and we slowly added water and added water, and we kept on bringing it down. And you can see that it gives illusion of sky already. So I'm going to do it again. So I'm going to take some more pigment and less water because I want it darker at the top. And this is called values. If you want more pigment, you go a darker pigment, less water, more pigment in your brush, and you can see that how dark it looks, and I'm going to put some more water here. I'm just going to bring it tear, and I'm going to take some more water, and I'll put it here, and I'll just rub it slowly like this. And now you can see that we kind of created three variations of dark, a mid tone and a lighter. And now you can also use a lifting technique as we learn. So if you want a lighter tone, you can just use your your tissue paper, and you can see that I made it a little bit lighter. And this is a flat wash, and this is a gradient wash. So now let's go to a color wash. So the color wash is nothing but we're going to take two colors, and we're going to blend the colors into each other. So I'll show you. So we'll be using combination a flat wash, as well as a gradient wash. I'll just move a little bit here so you guys can see it. So I'll use the same blue what I have here. I'm just going to bring it down. You can also use two ways to do this. You can bring down this, or you can use your brush like this, too. But the only thing you have to keep in mind is after some pigments should be depositing at the bottom. And this is where I can able to mix two colors. So I'm going to do this red. And wherever it ends, I'm just going to keep rubbing it like that. I'm just going to show it again. I'm just going to, and I'm just going to do this wherever it stops. And now let's introduce a different color. And what I will do is I'll go this Persian blue, which is a little bit of a darker blue, and I'll just mix it from here. And now you can see that we cannot create a really nice car wash. So you can see this, there is a sudden rustion happening because once we paint flat, the water the color doesn't flow through. Whereas if I paint in a 45 degree, the colors flow, and it will have a nicer transition. So I'm going to show an example, but it's up to orders per friend to paint it flat or paint it in a 45 degree. So I'll show you. So I'm going to start with the same blue, and I'm just going to put the cour here and I'm just going to bring it down. And you can see that when I do this way, and you can see that the color kind of depositing at the bottom, the kind of gravity kind of brings everything down. So now, I'm going to clean my brush. Now let's put the same color and you can see that it mixed by itself. I don't have to do anything. And you can see that there is no start on transition. It just mix by itself. I'll just still bring it here. I'm going to clean my brush, and I'll just take the Persian blue again and I'll just blend it like that. And you can see the transition which is really nice from this one. So you can see the difference between painting it flat and painting in a 45 degree. And you play with it and do this exercise and pick something which works for you. And there's not one way to paint. There's a lot of different ways to do it. And you can see that this is a waterclour magic. It looks better when it let it move on its own. Next, let's apply these ideas into our first complete painting. 4. Brush And Water Control In Watercolors: Secret to watercolur is learning how much water is too much and how much is just right. Let's try three key techniques in this exercise. So the first one is wet on wet. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to wet the paper like this with clean water, and you can see it here. And you can also take excess water just by using the brush like this. And you can see that I wet the paper now, and I'm just going to put a color there. And you can see that I would spread softly. That's great for sky and fog. If I bring it all the way down like this, I'm going to take some more. I'm just going to put some here, I'm just going to bring it up. And you can see how nicely it created a gradient, and it also looks like a sky already. So now let's do wet on dry. So I'm going to clean my brush, and this is where I was talking about using a rack. So I'm going to clean my brush, so there's no water. So I'm going to do it here. So now paint on a dry paper, and you can see that it's really dry. So I'm going to take the exact paint, and I'm just going to make a stroke like this. And the edges are crisp and defined. Perfect for details like trees or buildings or anything like that. So for example, if I want to make a tree like this, and you can see that it gives a lot of variety of textures for us. And I can also make a house and buildings And this is wet on dry. So now I'm going to show another technique which is really easy and which we'll be using quite a lot when we're doing this exercise. So I'm going to rinse my brush. So it's the same thing. This time, I'm going to mix something in a palette. I'm going to take some paint and mix it here like that. And what I'll do is I'll simply bring it down. Take some more I'll just bring it down. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a tissue paper like this, and I'm just going to load of it. And what I will do is, I'll just gently use my tissue paper to create this texture. And I'm also wearing my rotating my tissue paper here and there to create a texture. And you can see that now we use something called lifting. So this way, we can able to create something that creates a natural eyelids for the clouds. So now we can also use the conjection of wet on wet as well as this. So if I go here and if I paint here, it also spreads, and it also give another variation for us. And if I keep on doing this, and I'm using dry brush strokes now, and you can see that it kind of created this cloud texture. Remember, watercolour has a mind of its own. That's why it's fun part. And don't fight to control the water or the brush. Once you learn the three techniques, you'll be able to do multiple paintings in watercolors. 5. Step01 : Paint the Sky (Wet on Wet): Let's create your first painting a softy, misty mountain landscape. So the first one we going to is paint the sky. So we're going to use the concept we learned wet on wet. So what we'll do is, as I said, the wet on wet, take a clean water. And I'm just going to put some clean water here, and you can see, I'm going to wear it with the paper. I'm just doing the top A. I'm not going all the way. Now we can see that we wet the paper. Now what we're going to do is load the brush with this blue. This is cobalblue, by the way. And what we're going to do is we're just going to put it like this. If you want a little bit darker sky, you can also just go and paint on it again. And I don't want to have this just blue there. So I'm going to clean my brush again. I'm going to take my rag. I'm just going to clean my brush with the rag because I want to use a different color, I'm going to take this red, maybe a little bit of this yellow. I want to take it. I'm just going to mix it like this. And you have to be really subtle and faster. I want to take more red because I don't there you go. Now you can see that we kind of blended two colors in the sky. I'm also using side of my flat of my brush to blend it really nicely. And now you can see that we kind of create this really nice sky. And make sure to don't overwork it. Let the water do the blending. Don't go and touch it. So I don't like the sharper edge at the bottom, so I'm going to take a clean water. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to rub it at the bottom like this. So we are not getting a sharper edge at the bottom. And now it's wet. If you put something on it, it's just going to bleed and do everything else. And you can see that there is a shine on the paper, and you have to fade, then we can mix a different color, then we can start painting. So I'm going to wait for a bit and let it get dry, then we can add the next layer. 6. Step02 : Distant Mountains (First Layer): You can see that there's a little bio wetness there. The shine is gone, so we can start adding our next layer. So I'm going to take this blue again. And you can also make it gray with using a little bit of gray in it. This a littra brown there and blue. So what I'm going to do is and you can see that as soon as we put it, it kind of blends and give this thing here. So what I'll do is I'll just do the exact same thing. So I'm going to clean my brush now. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take clean water. I'll just bring this down like this. Then you can also go again and make the shape of the mount a little bit better. I just bring it down. Now we can see that we add a distance mountain. This is our first layer and make sure that you paint a soft line across horizon. So this kind of looks like edges slightly blurred, and that's why we add the water. I'm just going to wait because if you apply something else, this is going to bleed too. So I'm going to let it dry, then we can add the next layer. 7. Step03 : Far Midground Hills: Now we can see that it's dried quite a bit. So I'm going to go to the next step. So let's add some midground hills. So I'm going to use this libra bron to make it gray, and that's what I'm doing. And I'll just go to here. And you can see that it kind of gives a libra a darker thing. And this one I'm going to show a different technique for you guys. And I want to make sure this mountain not exactly looks the same as this one. So I want to create some character to it. So I'll do the same thing here. Maybe it goes like that. And I'll just do this. And you can see that we kind of create it like another mountain, which is kind of a little bit darker than our foreground. So if you want, you can also mix a little bit of a darker pigment, and you can also put it at the top of the mountain. So this kind of gives, there's a fog underneath it. As I promised, I said that I'm going to show a trick. So this is where we can use the lifting. So I want to create a frog underneath this mountain. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a tissue paper. I'm just going to slightly dab it to create this really nice foggy texture. Don't overdo it and just let it as it is. So minus, well, I have another one. What I'll do is I'll add another one like this year. And I'll connect this mountain with this one. And what you could do is if you want a darker pigment, the same thing. I think I went a little bit darker, so I'll put more water. And I'll just do this like that. And I'll clean my brush, and I'll slowly wipe off like that. You can see that now we can separate this mountain with this mountain. It also gives us really nice foggy things at the bottom. For the next mountain, what I'm going to do is we're going to use a different technique. I'm showing each way of doing different things. So this one, it's the same thing what we did for the sky, it's a wet on wet. What I'll do is I'll wet the paper. I'll wet the paper first here like that. Now we're going to do the same thing here and we're going to put another mountain coming from this side. And since we wet the paper, and you can see that kind of create this really nice foggy thing what we did on the other side. And I'll do the other mountaineer as well. I'll just bring it all the way down like this. And we'll put some darker value at the top. I'm going to take some more Now I'll use my sd of my brush to create this, and I'll bring it all the way like this. And the same thing here as well, there's another mountain, which is kind of sitting at the top. There you go. And now we can see that we kind of create another froggy thing just by wetting the paper at the bottom of the thing. And I'm just going to leave this white bits because it looks like a fog. Again, when you do this exercise, you don't have to be doing exactly what I'm doing. Come up with your own way of doing as well, and you know what? Let's add one more mountain here. And I'll just let it do this. So it kind of looks like a foggy mountain at the bottom. And there you go. So now you can decide what kind of technique you want to use to use the next one. So one thing in art or drawing or painting, things are far looks lighter. As things come closer to us, it gets darker and darker. So this one, I'm going to let it wait for a bit. And you can also do another thing is soften this edge by using a clean water like this. And you can see that that's what exactly we did there as well. So I'm just doing it. And now I'm going to let it dry. Then we'll add the midground mountain, then we'll add the foreground mountain. 8. Step04 : Closer Midground Hills: So you can see that I let it dry. So now I'm going to add the midground mountains. So for this one, I'm going to show a different technique. And I'm going to go a little bit by mistake, I use Persian blue, but it's fine. So we have a different variation. That's good. So what I will do is, I'm going to have a darker mountain like this. And I will just add the tip of the mountain. I won't add anything else. And I'll just put the line like this. And I also want something kind of like this. I'm going to define it a little bit more here. So now you can see that it's already coming in the front. So now I'm going to clean my brush and clean my rag, so there's no paint there. So now I take clean water, and I'll just bring this down like this. And I'll do the same thing. And you shouldn't wait long or else you'll get this really hard edges in the mountain. I'll just combine it like that. And now you can see that I kinda created this. Let's say you want the mountain to be more stronger. So what we can do is we can do the same thing. You will take some more pigment. Since it's wet, so I can just make some strokes like this, like what we did for the sky. So we have some pigment there as well. So now what I'm going to do is I don't want this odd edge at the bottom, so I'm just going to clean water. I'm just going to rub it off like that. And if you want more Persian blue, this is I'm just showing how to make it even darker. Since it's wet, it's going to create these really nice details. And you can play with it. It is really fun. And wherever it's wet, you can play with wet on wet. And this kind of looks like trees. And I just want to show the transition between this and this and you can do all those things like this, and you can see it here. And there you go. So now I'm going to let it dry. Then we'll add a couple more foreground elements, and I think that painting your first painting is done. 9. Step05 : Foreground Silhouette: This is dried quite a bit. So now I'm going to put all the foreground elements. So I'm going to take Persian blue and this koba blue and this libra brown, so to make it gray. And I'll just start from here. I'm just going to make a stroke really fast on my side of my brush and make some shape like this. So it kind of looks like there's kind of trees at the top of this mountain. And this is what I'm showing is the dry brushing and what we learn in the first chapter. And you can see that just by using wet on wet and wet on dry, we are able to create multiple things at the same time. I'm going to do the same thing here as well. And I'll use that dry brush for you guys to show. And it kind of goes like this. And you can see that I left this white bits here and there, and I'll show in a second what I'm going to do. It's the same thing what we did there as well. So that's what I'm going to do. And I'll just connect it like this. Mm. You have to do it a little bit faster, and don't worry about the strokes being exactly what I'm doing. It can be different too. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this blue, put some more water. I'm going to rub it off like this. And what will happen is if you go close to the foreground trees, it will also blend in two, but it's fine. And it gives a really nice transition too. I'll do the same thing here. I'm just bringing it down, using my side of my brush. I'm painting faster because we put a dry paint. And I'll do the same thing here as well. And you can see that I'm just bringing that down, just taking away the white parts. And same thing here as well. Using my side of my brush and just bringing it down. You can see that since our paper is wet, and this gives a really nice transition. So now everything is wet. So what I can do is I can do the same things what we did before. Now we can do some things like we can go on the top of these mountains. And since it's wet, it's going to give this really nice softer trees and whatever you call it. And I'll do the same thing here as well. And it's going to give this really nice transition for us. I'm also going to show some lifting technique for you guys, and I'll show the lifting technique for here. So I'll just bring this here. And you can see that I'm not following any reference. I'm just going as I wanted. And I'm going to show the lifting here on this forgram and I will do the same thing here. Take this darker pot and put it here. There you go. And now we can do the lifting part. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this tissue paper. And I'm just going to keep on rotating it. And you can see that it kind of gives this foggy detail for us. It's the same thing for us, and I do the same thing here as well. And here as well. Now you can see that we created depth from all the way from the background to the foreground. So we kind utilize the techniques of wet on wet wet on dry, and we kind create this really nice misty mountain. And when you do it, make sure to let it go. Don't try to control the watercolor painting and layer it slowly, use different techniques to do different mountains. The beauty of watercolor is suggestion. You don't have to paint every mountain and every tree in the mountains. You just have to let it go and let the watercolor does what it does. So I completely dry it, then that's it. Now you have finished your first watercolor landscape. 10. Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : FirstWash: If you enjoy the misty mountains and your first landscape painting, try this short bonus project, a Sunset lake. And I'm going to go a little bit faster on this project, but I'll just give a commentary what my thought process, and I'm going to show what are the techniques we used and learn from the previous chapters. And I'll try to go as slow as possible so that you can learn as well, and you can try too. And if you try, this will be your second watercolor painting. So as we learn in the first chapter, I was talking about the wet on wet. So that's what I'm going to do. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to wet the paper like this when I clean my brush. And making sure that I have a little bit of a little bit of water there. So what I'm going to do is the last time we start at the top, this time I'll start at the bottom. And I want this to be a really nice sunset. So what I'll do is I'll take a lot of pigment. I want a darker orange at the bottom. So I'm just kind of doing that. I'll just go it. You can see that I'm using side of my brush to cover a larger area instead of painting like this. I'll go a little bit darker at the bottom, as well. And I'll take some more pigment, and I'll do this as well. But as it comes down here, and I'll just wait here like that. And you can see that I covered the top part at the bottom part. So now I'm going to clean my brush with a rag, as you can see. And I'm going to take this blue and make sure it's a little bit lighter than our orange. So I'm going to put some more water. And I'm just going to since we wet the paper already at the top, I'm just going to do this. And I'll use my side of my brush to blend it really nicely. And you can see that we kind of create this really nice gradient. And I will do the same thing here at the bottom. I'll use my side of my brush. And what I'll do is I'll hold my paper, and I'll go a little bit darker at the bottom. And I'll just blend it with our things. And I'll use my side of my brush to blend really nicely like that, and that's it. And you can see that we kind of create this really nice transition from top to bottom. One thing in watercolor is we can't leave some eyelids. So what I'm going to do is we're going to use, we guessed it. We're going to use lifting technique to create a sun for us. So what I'll do is I'll create the sun, not exactly in the middle. I'll just do it here. So it's not exactly in the center. I'm just pressing it and dabbing it. That's it. I'm not doing anything else. So what I'll do is I'll take it, and I'll just put something here. Okay. And comes all the way down like that. And what we can do, we can also do a couple more things like that next to the horizon, and you can also make some streaks wherever that happens as well. And there you go. So now you can see that we cannot create a dark orange with wood down width, and we cannot create the same thing at the bottom as well. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw it, then we can add the details on top of it. And that's the exact same thing we did on the misty mountains on the foreground. So we're going to do the exact same thing for this. 11. Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : SecondWash: Now you can see that I dried quite a bit. So now the colors also got a little bit lighter. That's fine. So now I'm going to add some kind of trees at the back. So I'm going to use a brown. You can use any kind of brown you want in your palette, and I'll use this Persian blue. But make sure that when you do this, make sure it doesn't have a lot of water in your palette because we want this to be darker. I'll put some orange too. Put some orange, some brown, and there you go. So now what I'm going to do is where we left the eyelds from? So I'm going to do some marks. Kind of think of you doing Os. Maybe we can establish a line. This is ours on line. So make some Os like this, like a small semicircle or like a mushroom. And making sure that it's bigger here. And as it comes to closer to our sun, it's getting smaller and smaller. It's kind of like a ramp we are trying to do. And I'll I'll do the same thing here. The ramp gets bigger, and again, make some os like that. So it kind of looks like a tree for us. And you can see that I'm only using one brush and a smaller stroke, and that's it. And if you get some eyelids, some white bits here and there and leave it as it is, and making sure I'm putting a straight line like that. And again, I'm going to put the straight line here. And there's one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use the lift technique again, since the light is heating here, so you'd have to really fast. And that's it. So that the light is heating, the sun is heating here. So it's kind of like a little bit lighter at the top, at the bottom. Maybe I'll just make a couple more dots here and there and make some Os. So it's not looking like a mirror. So now you can see that we can edit it. So since it's water, it's going to what's going to happen is, it's going to reflect exactly. And I'm going to do the same Os. It's kind of like you're mirroring the exact same thing from here. And I'll skip it here and I'll leave some lines here. And I'll take my tissue paper. What I'll do is. I'd have to really fast, and there you go. So now we kind of create that light there. So now we can blindly go and mirror our trees at the bottom, like this. And think that you are mirroring the exact same thing at the bottom. And even if you're wrong, it doesn't look right, it's fine. But onely thing you have to make sure that it's a darker. It's the same value as this one. And you can see that I'm kind of mirroring that. I kind of have a bigger peak. And what I'll do is I'll take a tissue paper and really fast. And there you go. So now we kind of mirror it. It kind of looks like it mirrored there. And it's easy step, right? So what we did the wash and we mix something really dark and we kind of created this for us. 12. Bonus Chapter (Sunset) : FinalDetails: Now we kind of created the sunset with a reflection. So we can add some more reflections and you can leave the painting as it is. But I'm going to show one more technique where you can add ripples in the foreground. And it's really easy to do. So I'm going to clean my brush, make sure there's no paint in my brush. I want clean water. So what I'll do is I'm going to make some lines like this. It's wet on wet. I don't know where the line goes, but I'm going to have a bigger lines in the foreground, and as it goes to the midground, I'll have smaller lines. So now it's wet. So I'll take this blues. Not that much water. You can see how thick it is. And I'll just do this. And make sure it's smaller here. I'll take some more darker pigment and I'll just because I want a darker pigment in the foreground, and as it goes in the midground, it gets lighter. But now you can see that we kind of create this really nice sunset scene using the principles of wet on wet, wet on dry. And there's one more thing we can do. And again, this is optional. So we could take the same blue and we can just put it at the top, like this. And I don't want to waste that blue there, so I just did that. And there you go. This step is an excess strap. You can avoid it, but you can see that if you show this painting, it's already looking good. And there's also one more thing you can add as well, is adding some birds and make sure I'll use the same thing. And I'll add, like, a couple of birds. That's it. And now you can see that we can create a really nice sunset with the techniques we learn. And make sure if you try to post on the class section and project section, I would love to see what you guys can come up with. And until then, if you have any questions or anything, post in the classroom chat, and I'm happy to help you guys. 13. Paint With Me Again: Congrats. You did it. You have just completed your very first watercolor landscape. Now take a moment to look at what you have created. Even if it's not perfect, you learn the most important watercolor lesson to let go, relax, and paint with flow. I would love to see what you have made. Share your painting in the class project section. When you're ready for the next step, check out my other classes in Skillshare, especially how to do value studies and how to do washes and how to do blending. This will help you how to paint light, shadow, and depth, taking your watercolor skills to next level. Thank you again so much for painting with me. And remember, it's not about perfection, it's about expression. And I'll see you in my next class.