Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hi, I'm ash, and I welcome you to this class on
landscape painting. In this class, you will
learn brush strokes, color compositions used to
achieve realistic effect, and not only that, you
will also learn how to bring out depth with the help of textures
in your painting. You can pretty much translate
these techniques used in this class to create your own landscape paintings
with professional look. I am very excited
to teach you in the upcoming watercolor
landscape painting lessons. Thank you for being
till the end, and I'll see you
in my next video.
2. Materials: Back. In this video, we're talking about
the brushes and the paints that I'm going to
use to paint this landscape. So the first brush
I'm going to use is the modified flat brush. This was a flat brush when I
purchased this and by usage, we've got warno and
I've cut the tip of the bristles of this brush
in such a way it's random. This is very much applicable to the textures on rocks or leaves. The next one is
the warnotFanbush. Just one brush is enough, but I would still
recommend you to have at least two brushes of fan
brush for this tutorial. I've painted this
entire landscape with these two brushes. As far as painting is
concerned, we need paint. I've used watercolors
in this lesson. I use watercolor white. White is maybe used
in this lesson for making the color light. And also a used chrome green for earthy green leaves and to make it look
realistic and popping. Also made use of cobalt
blue for the water, little bit of mixed
with white, of course, and some black and brown
to get a realistic effect. So have these colors
which I'm showing you now handy so that you can
go and paint this. And also a used lime
miellow or lemon mellow. Both are the same. And I've used another shade of yellow
that is yellow ochre. I've used these two
shades of color and got the realistic ft. One more thing for the rocks for
underpainting the rocks, I've applied some black
and on that I've gone with some burnt Siana yeah,
you get those sparks. Of course, I've made
some yellow cre and burnt sienna and got
those rocks pink. Last one that I've used in this lesson is the black color. The backbone of this painting. This brings in a
lot of contrast, interest, and a lot
of texture as well. Okay? So to summarize, I've used all of
these colors which you're seeing on your screen along with these two brushes. Okay? Okay, I'll see you
next video. Thank you.
3. Blocking in for Background Trees: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video, we'll
go ahead and paint in some background elements of
this landscape painting. For that, I have some
limelGreen white. These are in watercolors and
this is a watercolor paper. I'll take my fan brush.
Let me just show you. Let's dig in some
limel patch of green, light little touch of green. Maybe some white should
help it to be even bright. Okay. That's the amount of
paint what we have got. Let's not go in the dead
center or in the middle. Let's go somewhere over here. Let's play some beautiful
glow of this landscape. Okay? Just a bit continue that. And as we go towards the top, you might observe that
the strokes become thin. Here it is very big. Look at that from
here till here. But when you go towards the
top, it's just that much. And you can play around
with this pretty much. It's pretty easy. Okay. I'll take in
some green this time, a lot of green with
that lime low mix. Let's come in here and sort
of places some that color. These represent the
midground trees. So they're bit in shade, so they won't be as bright
as this yellow part. Yeah, and something
over here too. Okay. You can see here.
Here's a bit of black. So mixing it. Look at that, that gives you
earthy green color. It's not totally black
because the bright color of yellow lime or lemon lolow
that light here a green. So we're going to
create some depth. Yeah. With this, even with the help of colors you
can create some depth. Yeah. That's what I
wanted to show you. Now going to some black itself. Slightly dark on this. So there is no sky in this painting as you'd
be knowing that. Okay. And in the meanwhile, he's taken some flat color and add in some
textures, know itself. This is not too late to
add in some textures. Neither it's too early
to add in some textures. This will make the
painting pop as well as make the
painting more realistic. He's strapping it
slightly. Look at that. We got that unevenness of the foliage
leaves and all that. Cool. And let's sort of take a lighter shade
of that same color. I did not mix it, but
got it on my palette. Let's sort of place
a thread over here. This time, it's going
to be even less. Oh, yeah. That's what
we were looking for. Okay? Just a bit over here, too. Just a bit, a bit not much. I like that effect of
glow against that. Mitnish green color. It looks simply beautiful. Let me add some water and
let me show my palate. Okay? So this is some water and I'll take
everything together. Hot in some wine, that's okay. Sort tap it. With a fan brush, you can do many things
as you're seeing now. This go experiment with
different brushes, let's say, on an AFO sheet
and you'll get a hold on it. Okay. That there some why, some muted colors because we don't want everything
to be the same. Of course, we don't want
two things to be same, especially when
we're going to paint the landscape paintings. I'll even some spots like that. Look at that that for more depth carrying
a realistic effect. Look at that. Is that easy. Yeah. Okay, so now I've got
the elements placed in. So in the next video,
let's go in and see how to paint a waterfall
flowing over here.
4. Blocking in for Rocks: Hi, and welcome back. In this video, we'll
be looking at how to paint small waterfalls here. Really straightforward
technique. Take in some blue
because water is blue and we will just play around with some
shades and shadows so that'll help and some brown. Yeah, a lot of brown,
decent amount of brown, and some black. Yeah, I like that color.
Dark chocolate color. Simple little thing, just gone with the painting
by adding some dark. Of course, you have to
remember the sheep, where it's going to take
a curve, and all of that. Let me just the
same color. Okay. And it's going to
flow a bit there and we're going to have
even bigger waterfall. Of course, the stones, but you can vary the
amount of water. Something like that. This
is just an understanding. So you can do it like that Okay. Later on, you can go ahead
and plan that, of course. With this technique,
you can later on go ahead and plan that. In the meanwhile, go and add some shadows and textures
here real quick. Okay. Yeah, I like that. Help of brown black, blue, all those shadow colors. So this is one of the
techniques which you can adopt for painting
realistic landscapes, especially in watercolors. In watercolors, you might see some paintings which
are not that detailed. It's much easier because it's
going to dry very quick. Okay, similar that.
Let's have another. Textures, basically,
not shadows exactly. There's some textures to reshape the painting and
feel of painting. Okay? A little bit over there. Okay. We need a surface for
this water to just grow, you know, to come down. So brush brushing water again. Go some same color. I go to the same old paint, pretty much the same
technique as you can see. Of course, the tables
getting dirty, that's okay. We'll clean it up. Yeah, something about that. Let's tick in lots
of paint. No watert. Relying on the water that
I took previous time. Basically we're just going to go ahead and paint in the block of plaque and some brown and blue cobalt
blue mixed with that. Yeah. Something like that should help, we'll have some rocks as well, which are going to define
the shape of this waterfall. Yeah. Next video, we'll go ahead and see how to paint rocks, sculpt in the rocks to shape
the waterfall. Thank you.
5. Painting Rocks: Hi, and welcome
back to this video. In this video, I'll wish
you how to paint rocks, sculpting the rocks and
get the waterfall going. On my palette, I have some
brown and yellow ochre and I have some black
previous black, which I mixed with water a little water so
you can see here. We'll take some yellow
ochre and some brown, don't go brighter
colors now itself, and you'll know why by
the end of this video. Okay, so mix it nicely and this is the modified flat brush. The brush which you saw before, which I introduced you to. Okay. Let's come back over here. This is almost dry and
you can paint that. Let's sort of come
over here. Okay. Is going to come
right about in here. And let's have a
rock over here, too. That's, that balances
the painting. Of course, you can vary this. There's no one rule for this. Okay, something like that. Okay. Yeah, we can limit that. And let's come over here to here the water flu come over here and here it'll
get slightly bigger. It's looking like brown.
It is brown actually and yellow ochre is
just some flavor. Something like
that and something comes off right about in two. Yeah, the shape of the
rocks and it'll help. So it's blended. So it gets blended
into that black color, and that's okay. That's
what we want to have. Okay. Then again, I'm going to take in some colour and you
can have layers. I'm having two layers as of now. Let's go ahead and add O here. So rocks? Oh, yeah.
That look beautiful. So this black background, we'll take the advantage
and we will go ahead and paint a rock here, which in itself will
look realistic, very artistic and
very beautiful. On a sub rock, don't
have single rock here. I want to make it
look like natural, not only with the paint, but also with the
shapes the blending, the shadows, we have to
make them look realistic. Of course, there are
many other approaches through which you
can paint this, but this is a very relatable, easy approach to paint a landscape which is
realistic, almost realistic. Please leave your reviews. If you have found this useful. Let me know your feedback
basically about your thoughts, online teaching or on this art approach to
paint landscapes, and I'll be more than
happy to look into it. Okay. This is something
like that. Just a bit. I leave some spots there. I look very realistic
and very mind soothing. So yeah, there we go. So you've got the rocks pleased, yeah, it looks beautiful. And we'll go with the
highlights on those rocks. You don't have to
wait for all this. You can allow it to dry and later on, come
back, take your time. Lime low is different, yellowcre is different and
cadmium low is different. Okay. So take off all the
paint and take some of these colors and's some more
yellocre for the flavor. Yeah. So we can do with this. Just a bit. Let's come over here
to the foreground. That seems to be trying. Yeah. Look at that. Prison highlights. It's going to look a
bit rough. That's okay. Rocks are rough, so
you can play around with that in just a bit. Let's just blend
in the bottom of each stroke to be even
precise. This is a stroke. Turn the brush, see where you have a lot of
bristles and blend it. But still, you're
going to retain the brightness.
That's the trick. That's the speciality
of this approach. Beginners can easily understand this and can relate
and achieve this. Now I'll take in thick paint. Show you here. Tapping
it also creates some texture of fine
details on the rocks. Okay? Of course, you can
make smaller brushes like rigger brush or let's
say the liner brush. You can get that, but
I will still go ahead and tell you that you can use the modified
flat brush for this. Just go modify any flat brush
of this size approximately. And you can go ahead
and get these textures. A little bit on this one. Every rock will not have the
same amount of light if you observed in any
reference landscapes or reference picture rather. Yeah. I like it. Since this is watercolor, it's drying out a bit quick. Yeah. Look at that? Were you have some
gaps where you can fill in the
highlights, simple. Yeah. Something bot like that I
just bit over here too, don't want too much of that because it will take
away the contrast. Do not get too carried
away with this. Especially with this
phage of painting. Let me just brush. Let's come right about
here in place in some shadows and blend this because we don't
have much dark there. Of course, we'll come back and repaint the detailing
and the highlights. Something about like that.
Here in the est bit. Down take the
modified flat brush. Show you how I'm mixing. Some white roca some brown going directly into that white. Okay? Let's come here. You see the light there. That is what going to matter
for the shape of these rocks or I would say the visibility of these rocks and highlights, especially here. It's
going to matter a lot. So be very careful
with that and paint this some amount of paint.
Is being used here. Just a bit on the very tip and very lightly blending it because I want a lot of textures on these foreground rocks. Compared to those,
these two should have more detailings for drying in
depth and they make sense. Let's come over here. Blend it away, create
sub rocks inside the rock, something like that. This is a rock, another rock, another shade, I'm going to
leave it just the way it is. Yeah. Something like that. Okay. Just a bit. I'm using a dry brush
blending technique, and this is more applicable
to acrylics and watercolors. Dry brush blending is very good technique as
well. Again, it depends. I'm playing with a dry paint
or the layer underneath, which is almost dry. Here, we're going to
plant these highlights. This is smaller
compared to these. Another thing when I
say the light is here, this should be brighter
than these because they're near to the light.
Hope that makes sense. It's okay. Let's go like that. We need to add in
a lot of depth. We can have a paper
tongue or let's say a rag or a cloth at least wipe
off excess paint, blended. You should not have much
detailing as usual. When something, this is not
going to be equally bright. So part of it's
going to be dark. You might take this painting as a reference and go
ahead and try your own, play around with the rocks, play around with the
shape of the rocks, replace these trees with
some other trees, let's say, another type of trees or some bushes and you will be
able to achieve it, I'm sure. This NewYqu just a
bit of practice. That's it. Yeah, I like it. Something over here
too. Very lightly because we don't want
much attraction there. We want the focus of the
viewer to be on the painting. That's the reason I took this. This not in the middle
of that center, another trick to make it look
appealing and realistic. Look at that. It's
that easy. Yeah. Of course you can
take some paint from there and place it in. I'm going to add in
some brown there. Yeah. In this video, we saw how to paint rocks, the detailed rocks. Next video, we'll go and
see how paint a waterfall.
6. Painting Waterfalls: Hi, and we'll come
back to a new video. In this video, we'll go
ahead and paint the water. So I've taken in some
bar blue and some white on that very
old fan brush. Pre just show him my palette. We get a new screener.
Okay? So we'll take in some blue
and some white. Very little. We want that
to be a bit dirty, as well. And it's not gonna be
too much, just a bit. Yeah. Let's go over it lightly. The lighter you,
the better we look the painting. Over here
too, look at that. I've not added water and I've
not thinned down the paint, and I'm applying very minimal pressure when I'm painting this. Look at that. I'll
simply like it. Let me know your
feedback as well. Okay, something like
that. Look at that? Not everywhere. And don't go
with a direct white color. Go with white mix
with blue and sort create this effect of shadows. And when we go ahead and
add in the highlights, this will look mesmerizing. Let's come all the way, not there, of course. This shape this brush
is a bit worn off, and I'll take it
to my advantage. Look at that just like
that. Turn the brush, sort of bring in some more fair. Okay, and something
over here too. Oh, yeah, I like it. On the pressure to just
blend it then there itself. You'll learn that by practice. Of course, you can
create some splash in some water when it's falling down and
create some mist. You can use a clean fan
brrush or a new fan Brush. But you more textures and detailing with
worn out fan brrush. Of course, not this
much worn out. Just a bit and it will help you to become a
professional artist. Okay. I hope you are liking it, and that's the way
we paint that. Let's take in some white
straight into some white. Of course, a little
bit blue mixed. Okay? Okay, this march white is not a qui take off
the excess paint. Let's come over here so that
we get rid of some paint, and we can work
with the detailing on the top. And over here. Just. Okay. The light is
there like source. That is known as light source. I'm leaving it to the
texture of this paper. It blend it a bit.
It's a soft up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, something like that.
Let's com right away here. Sort of blend it
in and let's bring out some highlights
of this water. A little bit over here a
little bit over here too. A little bit blood at
the top and the bottom. Is the middle will
be a bit tight. And we might just go ahead and add in some more
highlight to these rocks. At this point, they're
completely dry. The rocks are completely dry, so it's a good time to just go ahead and
place in some rocks. Here's some highlights
on those rocks. Let's sort of place
it in over here too. Very minimal. Less is more. Just remember in this technique, less is more and just bit here
to apply minimal pressure. Not that detailed
compared to these, but of course, we'll
have light brightest. Will you taking
some of that color? Oh, yeah. I like it. Create some mist,
some curiosity. Look at that Woro fan brush
is very helpful indeed. Just play the bottom of these each waterfall to give
it a realistic effect. Next video, we'll
go ahead and apply the accent highlights for
these rocks. Thank you.
7. Painting Highlights on Rocks: Hi, welcome back to a new video. In this video at how to add highlights to these
blocks accent highlights. For that, I've taken the
same color, some white, just a touch of ochre and just blue and some
brown, touch of brown. That's all. Next. There's some more here
and small the brush, you have more control. A bigger the brush, you
can't use a big brush for this because this
is of small size, and you won't be getting
that much of details. Anyway, let's come right over here and place in
more red color. Yeah. And it's going to be the same highlight
level, reach rock. Just a blend. Yeah. Sort of blended with the finger or
with another brush. Okay, something like that.
There's a bit over here too. There's a bit for furrown rocks, I'm not going to add too much of light because that's going
to be the brightest part. Okay. Let's add a
minimum highlight. For that, I've taken in
my modified flat brush. Look at the thin coat
of hats and highlight. That is what we want at
this point in time on these rocks and
something over here too. Bit, not much, less is more. Sort of blend it away? Yeah, we can live with that. So it looks realistic. And we'll take in some black. It's sort of lead in these well. This will make it even more
realistic and consistent. Again, I'm using
drivers blending, not much of paint used, taking some more of that color and create the depth.
Natural depth. Let's take in some more plaque. Let's place it out
of there. You that? That easy going to
manipulate with the shape of the brush. In the middle. Just sort of dulling it down
a little bit over here too. A bit over there
and just bit there. Scalp in the rocks with shadows. Okay. So next video, we'll go to see how to add some grass and some
foreground eating. Thank you.
8. Defining Foliage and Painting Trees in Background: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video,
actually, how to add foreground retail eggs and
some grass. Very simple. I've taken the old fan brush, the same fan brush which I
used in previous videos. Okay. And on the palette I have some green and lemon
low or lime low. Okay. Let's take some
beautiful lemon yellow and some sap rem. It's earthy green, actually. I mixed with the yellow
it becomes even better. It's coming here and tap it in. Just a bit. Of course, we can't scrub this
because we want to shape. So this going to create
a little effect. Look at that. Sort
of tapping it. I'm going to include this in the highlights of the
trees as well, a bonus point. Is a bit. Look at
that, as in curiosity. Just a bit here and there. Okay. Do brush full of paint. That's a bit. Yeah. Let's come here on this side, we need more green that. Let's sort of pre green, just a bit. Okay. This is not that detailed, but of course you
can use a line of brush or a rigger
brush for this. Just going to tap it simple. Okay. Just put on this tree as well just to make it make the landscape painting
look even more realistic. I'm just using some green. I'm not using different colours. Okay? You glad it's that easy, just go to tap it
looks very realistic. In the meanwhile,
string some black. This is going to be the final
stroke of this painting. Mix all these together and
take in a lot of paint. Let's over here. So please sit in there. We
want the contra. We cannot simply compromise
on the contrast. That is what's going
to make your painting pop and look realistic
and convincing. Okay, something like that. Look at that looks realistic. And we have some
shadows as well. Same thing in this
one to just a bit. You look at that. Instantly
we get that contrast. Of course, don't
go and scrub it. Not there, but don't
scrub it there. We're looking for a
lot of textures. Okay? So we'll have more contrast. Just a bit. And
something over here too, just a bit and contrast. You're not going
to lose anything. Take in a lot of paint
and I'm not added water. Because if you add water, there is no use because
this is water based paints. Watercolors are water
based paints and they absorb this sheet will absorb the water. You'll
get that faded look. Let's come over here. Not with some water, just some black. Limel and green. Let's come in sort of building
that depth in contrast. This looks like a
very dense forest. Let me just show you like this. Okay? This looks very dense. If you want to add
some more detailings, keep this brush down. Taking some tone color black or some samprem melo on the
modified flat brush. I'm very excited to do this. Let's come over here
and place in some tag. Just a bit of some curiosity, a bit pre action. You can add some water as well. Sometimes. Sometimes.
Let's come over here. And here we'll hand
some more that. That's going to push it back and you'll have depth
automatically one of the approaches to achieve This means we should dip brush water and go back
and get this crisp details. Look at that when you add
water, you got it very crisp. I can add in some water
because that's generic. I'm not going to paint
anything on that, that can be a bit loose. One more here behind that bush, one more we're here to
add in some interest. Of course, you have to
add in some interest in landscape paintings. Yeah. So this we come to the
end of this lesson. I hope you've enjoyed it,
and hope you've liked it, and I hope I've added some
value to your knowledge. Please give your ratings and
let me know your feedback on the areas where I
have to improve or the areas which were good. Practice a lot of these
landscape paintings on your own, create your own
scene, and you can just execute them without
any reference or sketch. Thank you so much for
watching. Thank you.
Yash GM
