Transcripts
1. Class Introduction: Hi, I'm ash, and welcome you to this class on landscape
painting with watercolors. Whether you're a beginner
to landscape painting or an artist who wants to
enhance painting skills. You are at the right place. In this step by
step master class, I will help you to master
landscape painting, which will in turn make
you a confident painter. This class is going to
be perfect for you, where I teach landscape
painting from scratch. So let's begin our
landscape painting journey, and I'm very excited to see
you in the upcoming lessons. Alright, seen in the next video.
2. Sketch: We'll come back to a new
video. In this video, let's go and sketch out the landscape that
you want to paint. Okay. So more than half of this part above will be the
sky. That's a good plan. And let's drop in some basic outline so
we get a reference. Also it's known as the Horizon. Okay? And I'm doing it very lightly because if you
change your mind later, you can just erase it and
there'll be no marks, okay? And over here, we'll
have some trees, just basic little ones. This is just a basic sketch, and when you go and paint,
this will come into life. This will come to life rather and something over here too. Just sort of varying the length, height of each tree
that are not the same no two trees are
of the same height. So that's another trick. To get the depth in your
landscape paintings. Okay, something like that, and something just a bit, cool. And now maybe here we'll
have in some grass, some shiny grass and we'll have the sun
glowing over there. And what if you
have a house here? Okay, just a basic one, not too complicated. Okay,
something like that. And be very careful.
Do it very lightly, very lightly and very gently. Something comes
off over here too, the roof part of it. This is going to add
in some depth as well. The perspective is
going to add the depth. Let's sort of sketch it right there and they
don't have to be perfect. That's the advantage.
Don't have to be perfect. That's okay if they're a bit not aligned with your
idea, that's okay. Okay, something like that, and we'll have a door as
usual as a house will have. Okay, so that's it. Sky, trees, house,
and some grass. Shining grass, I'll show you how to paint grass in
the later videos. Okay? But this is where you would go with the
landscape painting, the basic sketch. Alright? Yeah.
3. Materials: And we'll come back
to a new video. In this video, I'll
be showing you do different brushes
which I use. So first one is the fan brush. Okay? So this is
an worn fan brush, and it's not new. It's quite old, or you can
say it's quite used as well. If not old, it can
be quite used. So with this, we can achieve the textures of
trees, paint the sky. Of course, you can use a
better one for the sky. Yeah. So in these two, I feel the left one is better
for painting skies. Of course, it's ya brushes.
You can figure it out. And the next one is by the way, these two are fan brushes, and this is a rigger brush. I'll bring it closer
to the camera. Number two, rigger brush. Now with the rigger brush, you can paint foreground grass, and you can paint fences, the accent highlight to fences, not the first at
highlight for the fences. You can use a filbert brush, a very thin filbert
brush to paint that. But in this class, I've used this rigger brush, the number two rigger
brush to paint the fences and to get the accent highlight
of those fences. Okay. And this one, also
I've made use of this one that is
it's a round brush, but as you see from the side, it looks like a flat brush. It's not a flat brush. It's a round brush, you will pretty much use
this to paint foliage. Four brown elements works very similar to the rigor brush, as long as it is chiseled. Sometimes the worn
round brushes, you know, the bristles
are open like this. They're not flat, and you cannot use them for painting, you know, crisp detailings like accent
highlights or, you know, painting different
things like leaves, four brown leaves
where very specific about the shape of the
leaves, you can't use it. But of course, you can chisel
it by adding in some water. Added some water,
and you can also chisel this by adding
a little bit of paint, not water, more paint. Since this is in watercolors, you can add more paint to this and just let out on the palette, go and keep the position right and you can chill
it out pretty easily. Yeah, so these are
the brushes which you can use on any
landscape painting, and it's universal, okay? And I'm not saying follow
the same landscape. You can do bit tweaks here
and there and you can change. You can experiment with
the colors with brushes. But for this class, I've used these four
brushes mainly. And in the upcoming classes, I'll show you more
about the brush, the usage of each brush, how to use it, how
to go about it, how to go about and paint a landscape that
looks professional, and how to make it
look realistic. Okay. Thank you.
4. Sky Painting Using Watercolors: And we'll come back
to a new video. In this video, we'll be
seeing how to paint a sky. So it's an evening sky and we'll have some
sun action there. Okay? So let me just
dip my brush in water, and the brush I'm
using for the sky is the fanbush.
It's an old brush. That's okay. In fact, it's a bonus if you
have an old brush because the bristles will open, as you can see from the side. Just focus that. Yeah. Look, the bristles, if you
look at it from this angle, it doesn't look like
a fan brush at all. Okay? If you look at it like
this, it's a fan brush. You can make it out,
right. Okay. Now, I'll take in some white, and I will dip my
brush in water, just straight away, taking it
from water and some yellow, mostly white and yellow, looking for a very vibrant sky. And as I told you,
we'll have a sun. So just go ahead and mark where the sun is approximately don't
have to be perfect. And one more thing,
if you noticed, when I was planning
for this landscape, I used a pencil sketch. But for the sun, for the
sky and for the sun, I'm not use anything. Okay? This is just for the land, things which are there on land, like the house, trees, they live on land,
so you sketch them. But now the things on sky maybe, let's say you have a mountain,
then you can sketch. Okay. Before this one dries
out, let's go ahead and sort of place in some beautiful
little glow in the sky. And be careful some paints
mixed with the sketch. Okay? And I'm being
super loose here because we have to go and blend this and add
a decent amount of water, not too less, not too much. But yeah, decent water
decent amount of water. Okay. That's cool. Let's take in one more step. And let's sort of finish
off this yellow part sky. Yeah. And I've
added some white to limello and this is watercolors. So it'll be pretty effective. Okay. So it's okay if
you come into a bit of, if you come into the house
with a paint, that's okay. Little bit on the
house. That's okay. That's what we want
because everything should fit together,
as you can see here. Alright, now, I'll take some
yellow and some Orange. That's the mix of the
color as you can see, a soft orange color and I dip
the brush again in water. Let's come here to the top it's blendless You can pretty much use this in any of
your landscape paintings, translate this into any
landscape paintings and that'll help and it'll
work and it's very effective. Mark my words. It's
very effective. Okay, something like that,
and let's come over here too. We don't want to be we don't
want it to be too even. That's another trick.
Don't make it even, make it very spread and don't let it be concentrating
in one single place. This also act like clouds. This is also going
to act like clouds. Basic strokes, but
still effective to make it look realistic and
interesting, moreover, I'm sure when you want
to make your paintings look realistic and exciting, interesting, you can just say
you're on the right class. Something like that. I'll just reduce the size of the sun. Okay. Go in fork is this. Okay. And let's t some of the color and place it
right over here, too. It's sort of blending it soft blend, blending
with colors. And this is dry. This is 90% dry already. Got and placing in some paint to blend it with some water. At a brush in water.
Not too much. Of course, this is
a watercolor paper, and this is considerably thick. Okay. This is
considerably thick. So it can bear some amount of water. Okay,
something like that. Cool. So we're done with the sky, and let's go and paint in
the trees in the next video.
5. Tree Painting Technique in Watercolors: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video, I'll be
demonstrating how to paint trees, pine trees somewhere in the background, as well
as in the midground. If you look at this, it's
almost in the midground, okay? So a simple little tip
that I want to give you here is this is a
landscape painting, and it's a sunset or sunrise. Okay. So trees which are near to the sun will
be slightly warm. When I say warm, they'll be in orange or
brown or some red, or some yellowish tones. Look at that in that
tone approximately. So let's go and
paint that, okay? It's going to paint
that very nicely. Covering the sketch of s. You want that sketch to be seen, and it's going to be pretty
mistye as you have seen. Yeah, that's the way it is. There's so here and there.
Now, I'll take in some. Okay, let me just show
you on the same palette, I've taken in some limlow and
some black, not that dark. Don't transition into that
dark color as this soon. Okay? I'll take that color. And let's sort of come
here in between want them to be too too defined. And this is the same old brush. The thing is this is a new brush in a sense, the same brush. I'll replace it
with a new brush. But this is of the
same type, okay? So no change in the brush. So you just gonna
tap it and make them look very light. Okay? And you want them to look
realistic. Don't you? Okay, let's come in, let me play some of that. This one will have very little. Yeah, I like it. I hope
you're liking it, too. And let's sort of come
right in here and sort of increase the
height of some trees. Yeah, that's the way
it's going to work. Okay. That's great. Take in some more of it.
And a pro tip here is, if you have seen, I've not added water for this
detailing because I want it detailed and I don't
want it to be somewhat, you know, like smudged
smudged trees or like that. These are pine trees.
These are very crisp, and you need some detailing. The top, especially
if they're in the middle or in the foreground. So, yeah, that's the way it is. I'm pretty much using
the same color. Just wearing the shade, just wearing the color, mixture, the ratios for example, here, I added some more
orange approximately. Yeah, so that you can get some variations in the
landscape painting. And I want you to achieve it. So I'm all out to
explain it to you. And sort of you can
explain more of that. And in scrub, you lose
a lot of retailing. That's the reason you can
tap it and it'll help you. Okay, cool. I like that part. Okay, so let's move
on to the next video.
6. Evening Grass Painting in Watercolors: Hi, and we'll come
back to this video. In this video, let's go
out and see how to paint. Grass. Let's see how to paint a grass. After getting some limo, this is the same old brush shown when I was
painting the sky, just tapping it not too much. It's not that hard, but
it's very effective. I'm not added water. Again, if I'm adding
water, I'll let you know, but just for you to
be on the safer side. I'm telling you don't
add water for this. One more thing if you add water, it'll be good for
the time being, you can blend, you
can do all that. But one disadvantage of adding water is after
it's going to dry, it'll dry a shade lower. Like, for example, blacks
would look like gray almost. So you'll not get that effect
of black if you add water. Not only black, any
color for that matter. I'm just letting you know, okay? And something over here,
blending it. Yeah. That's what I wanted,
and I'll take in some black straightaway
some black. Let's come right in here and
drop in more of that color. Maybe if you want,
let's not do that now. If you want to go
and adding more of that darkness here, blend it. There's a bit.
Yeah. That's cool. And something over
here too just add in some contrast against
that light sky and these dark trees. And I'm liking it.
I like this method. This is the method I use in most of my landscape
paintings, okay? And here, too, just a tap it. Don't want to
scrub, don't blend. Okay, don't add water. Sort of, you know, tap it. That's it. Just go to tap it. And let's come over
here to before it's too late and it dries. Let's come over here
and start placing in the shadows and some mid tones, this will mix with
this and mid tone, the black will mix with yellow,
yellow, limelloO lemonlo. Sometimes you see that labeled
as lemonlo or limello. Both are almost the same. You don't have to
worry about it. Okay, so back here, I can afford to scrap because
this is not that detailed. Okay? Sort of scrubbing it to get the basic overall texture. Okay. Okay, just took a pause
and I took in some limo. Yeah, this works.
This totally works, and I'm happy with it. Okay? Just a bit over here
and there. That's it. So when yellow and
black mixed together, you get a beautiful
little green color. Okay? And if you add
yellow ochre and black, you'll get a natural
little colour. If you're going to
add some lime mellow or cadmium low with the black, then it will give you a slightly different
shade of green. That's okay. That's
still earthy green. You can use that for
painting grass, all that. Pretty straightforward
technique and very effective as well. Okay. Let's coming
into the black. I sort of play more of
that color or that paint, rather, whatever
you want to say. Okay, yeah. That's school painting, the grass is very
important in landscape, especially in
landscape like this. And you can pretty much translate these things into any of the landscape paintings. For example, the tree, the sky, the grass, the
house, all of that, you can pretty much, you know, translate that into any
plandscape paintings. Now I'll take in some
yellow and drop it in here. Don't tap too hard because we don't want
that black to come out. I'm using again, to
be more precise, I'm using the same fan brush. Let's do it in layers. That's a trick. Let's
do it in layers. You get a lot of depth. There are two ways or many
ways you can get depth. Some of the techniques which
I used to get the depth is through color that is
further towards the sun, and this is almost
in the foreground, and that's by color. You get depth by color and depth by shape and depth by layering. That's the way you would get it. Yeah, something
comes out like that. Yeah, I'm liking it.
That's pretty cool. Okay. Yeah. So let's go and paint the house
with a different brush.
7. Watercolors Evening House Painting: Hi, and welcome back
to a new video. In this video, I'll
be demonstrating how to paint a house. Okay. So I'll just zoom in. And move the paper this side. Okay. So on a new palette, have three colors black, white, and brown,
all are watercolors. So we'll take in some white. You would have gets
it right because white is the lightest
color almost, and this is near to the sun. Okay, let's go and make the
sun a bit more defined. If you want, you know, if you lost the shape of the sun or you want the sun to be, you know, very precise, then you can add this
sort of blending it. Yeah, that's cool. Okay. By the way, let's come back to
this and we'll take in some white and some brown. Okay. And if you want, you can definitely
take some limlo untake it from the leftovers. Okay? Mostly brown, as
you can see here. Okay. It's gonna be mostly
lowering thick paint. You can get rid of that paint and wooden places,
but I'll go directly. Okay, something
like t. Of course, you can go back and
have a clear cut out of the house by
adding in some grass. Okay. Is something colors, some of the bright
colors on the pad. And place it right over here. By the way, this
is a round brush, a medium sized round brush, not too big, not too small. I fi in right over
here. Cooling. Yeah, I like it. Let's g some
black and place it right over here and take off
paint from the bottom. Okay. And we want some white. Just some white and sort of come here and paint in the
roof of that house. Okay. It's some gray, and as it's gonna come down, we'll add in some more black. And I flatten the brush. Of course, if it's
a bigger painting, you can use a three quarter
inch brush or the fan brush, a new fan brush, okay? Because you want it to be, you know, flat at the
tip of the brush. Okay? That's the way we're
gonna paint the house and just wipe off my brush
for the sake of blending. And let's come right away here and sort of place in some blend. I'll take in some more of that colour and just
taste it right over there for sake of good blending.
Yeah, I like it. Just follow these steps, and
I'm sure you're gonna do it. There's a bit over there. Take offs paint off the brush. Okay, let's sort of come
right about in here. Add the blue on that
beautiful little roof. Okay. And you don't want this
to be over blended, okay? Because you want it to
look like a painting, and here we'll add in some
chimney and some Black. Just touch in some black. Okay? And, I like it. Okay. Again, take off the
excess paint off the brush, and let's sort of blend them together and
take in some more white. This is all about experimenting. Okay? Let's sort of
lend that there. Okay. Yeah. So that's the way
we paint the house. And let's take in a very bright
color in the same brush, and I'm not going to, you
know, add in some water. Now I've stopped
adding in water. We need it even darker, so I'll take some black. Yeah. Okay, so we've
painted everything. So we need to go
and paint the wall, the back wall of the house. So a beautiful little. Let me show you a beautiful little of brownish gray colour, grayish pn colour, whatever. Yeah. So will take that. Let's come right about here. Place that color. Yeah. If you want, you can add in some water
where you feel you don't want much detailings and you
can skip the process. Like, you can
fasten the process. You can quicken the
process by adding water, but not in detailings. Never in a detailing sp. Especially when I
get some texture or you want to get
depth. Don't add water. Okay, now, I just wipe
off the brush again, over a cloth normal cloth. I'm not using tissue papers
here and don't use it. Let's come over here and give it a beautiful
little blend. That will make it look realistic and interesting. This top. Now, as usual, we will take in some lighter tones of white
and yellow lime allow. Let's sit here. Maybe that's way too much. Gonna take optics paints this. Yeah, we'll look at that later. Just a bit over here and there, just to bit Td in some glue
on that house near the sun. Placement. We'll look
into that part later. Okay. We have a house. I'll take in some white, some white. That's
becoming black. Okay. So now I'll mix
up some peach colour, by using in some brown little
bit of flamlo and white. Let's come back over
here and fix this. I want this to be even brighter. So let's go fix that. Pretty much the same brush, the detail, not retail. This is the round brush. So please sing it right there. Look at that, you can also shape the house, the
door, all of that. So mixing it. This is the
palette, new palette. That's my palette for today. Blend of black should
kind of help it. Thick paint. Roughly over there. Just a bit, and we'll wipe off the brush once again
and blend this. Very soft blend. Okay. Don't want
this to me too much. Okay. And now I'll
go into some black, which is behind me. Well, let's sort of come here
and place in that color. Yeah, I like it. A little bit over here
at the top, as well. Just a bit to make it even. Yeah. So let me just zoom out. This is the way your
landscape's going to look like, and moreover, let's go ahead to next video
and add some fence, and I'm very excited
to show you. Okay.
8. Fence Painting - Watercolors: A, and we'll come
back to a new video. In this video, we'll
go ahead and paint some fence to this landscape. Okay. So for that, I've taken in some
black and some brown. Again, all are watercolors, and I'm using that
same round brush. So decide where
you want to fence. Let's say we want
one over here. Yeah. One over there. And I'll
show you the perspective. This is in the foreground. So make the tallest fence
first and keep that as a reference and make
other fins a bit smaller. Yeah. So this cannot
be the same size or more than this unless and until you have
a different plant. So let's sort of come right over here and place in
more of that color. Yeah. And I've taken some
black and brown, that's it. Yeah, something like that. And then just a bit
here and there. Look at that. That's gonna
lead you to the painting, to the house, to the sky, the trees, all of that. Okay. And let's flatten
the brush even more. Look at that. It looks chiseled. And let's sort of
place in some word. And they don't have
to be perfect. Yeah, they don't
have to be perfect. It's a bit here and there. We'll make it look even more realistic and more
professional, by the way. As it's going to go back,
it's going to get thinner, very thin and not that defined. Okay. And we'll wait for this dry for two or 3
minutes and it'll come back. Okay, so now we are back. And I've taken in
some peach color, beautiful little brownish color. So I've added some white. You ochre and just
a touch with brown. Okay. And this is a go brush. We can think of it as it's a bigger version of
the lineup brush. I hope you know what
a lineup brush is. Okay, let's come
right over here. The sun is there, so angles
are going to matter a lot. And this is not a
very bright color. Okay, here and there. I never go too bright in
the first coat itself. I save that for the later part of the
painting, of course, we have to go with
the highlights, but not so early the blend them. You give that soft feel. Yeah, I like that. The blend. You could make use of a blender
brush, but of course, acrylx as far as I've
painted till now. I've not used blender brush in acrylx because it's
going to dry very quick. Okay, something like that. Let's come over
here, too, and more. The main thing which I'm looking on this particular fence, the time I'm spending on this fence will not be
the same for all these. It'll be even less because
this is in the four prong. Yeah, and it has to be detailed. Just like that, and
we'll go ahead and add accent highlights to that. So let's take in some white and some loca and no water is
added, something like that. Look at that? It's that easy and it's effective
at the same time. Yeah. If you want
to try the brush, you can wipe off excess paint from the brush and you
can just, you know, sort of come back and blend it with color or with dry
brush tnding technique, which is a very
famous technique in acrylics and
watercolors as well. Okay. Let's come over
here and place a basic, basic little texture.
Don't want too much. Just a bit This has
to be even brighter compared to this
because it's closer to the sun. Hope that makes sense. Let's come on this one, this will get even
brighter, but less paint. And just going to go with the highlights in the
first code itself. We don't want to have too
much of detailing there. Okay, wipe off the brush. Sticking off the excess
paint off the brush or almost more paint
from the brush. Not only is, you can take off the entire paint
from the brush and come back and you sort of blend this. Don't add water. If you add water, the
plaque will get triggered. Okay? So the black
which we painted for the fence will get triggered and you will get darker color. So don't add water
in the detailing. That's a simple trick
which will work. The sun is there,
we have to change. This is a different
type of painting, which you can translate
to your landscapes. Yeah. And with that same brush, let's go over two years to build and place it
right over there. Yeah, sort of a soft blend, and this will have
almost nothing. And we need to add the
shadows to the fence as well. Don't forget that.
This will not be as, you know, will not
have that much contrast compared to these two. So let's take in
some more paint. Very thick paint of white
without cleaning the brush. I sort of painting right
over here and there. Okay. Maybe let's get in some black. Action and sort of textures
with help of black. Yeah. Blend it with dry
brush planning technique. Yeah. That looks quite decent. We need some more
contrast for that. So let's go ahead and
place in some brown, some warmer colors with black. Brown is a very good colour
to be used with black. Yeah. Look at that. So we'll go
ahead with some more black, and let's sort of, you know, place in some shadows. I think we can use
the fan brush. Okay. So I'm going to load
the brush like this. I need to add in some black,
and I'll be in a minute. So as you can see, this is the same brush which I
used before for the sky. Now we'll take in some black. That not too much. Just one side of the brush where it's flat. Figure it out where it's flat, and then you can, Okay, it's not there.
That's not the thing. The shadow is not going to be there because the sun is there. So the shadow will be over here. And you're a soft blend with the finger or with
another fan brush. Okay? This will be
slightly like this. There's sort of indications. That's it. Nothing
too complicated. Yeah. And follow the
angles angles of the sun, the direction the
light is coming from. Okay, something like that. Load in a lot of paint again
not a lot, just des paint. So we can blend that
easily pretty easily. Take off the excess
paint off the paper. Sort of Place it in
right over there. And something over
here too. Yeah. So now we will go
ahead and fix that. So for that, I'll take
in some fan brush. And an old fan brush
and some lamino. Okay. That's sort of
converted about in here and also placing more
of that color, yeah. It's sort of placing the basic little things which make the painting look good. Or you can even put the painting
look more professional. Look at that? Just a bit
over here and there. Yeah. And something comes
over here too. Okay, so now the last
thing we're going to do is ad in some birds in the sky. And you can hear me,
there are some birds chirping in the background. Okay. So let's come here and just sort of
place in some bird action. Yeah. Maybe another one. So these are the
final detailings to bring your paintings to life. Okay. Something like that. Just a bit here and there, kind of looks fine. Very thin stroke. Okay. And now, lastly, let's come over here
and add in some of the shadows so that they
get blended or not there. But it's here. Simple. Something over here too. Yeah, you can use the
round brush instead of the fan brush for
placing the shadows. Something like that. The last
thing what I'm going to do is go and add some max and Tylic with a much better color. Okay? Something here too. And I'm using the
rigor brush for this. Just to touch, yeah. Okay, so with this, I come
to the end of this class. I hope I've added some
value to your knowledge. And please leave your reviews as I want to take some
feedback from my students. So please leave
your reviews, okay? And this landscape painting. Don't just think of this
as a landscape painting. You can pretty much
play around with this, the tones, the shadows, the contrasts, the
brightness, all of that. You can get a
different painting. Maybe instead of the orange
sky, you can have a blue sky. Okay, then these things will
be less warmer and more, you know, it'll be even greener. So that's some of the things
which you can experience. But yeah, this painting is
good enough for you to, you know, show you how
to paint a landscape, the perspective,
and all of that. Okay. Again, please leave your reviews. Thanks
for watching.
Yash GM
