Watercolor Negative Painting: Learn and Paint a Fairy Forest.

1. Introduction: Like to experiment with your art, learn new art techniques, and try always new art supplies. It's maybe you'd also like to know a way to paint illustration in an easy way. Just one art technique. If yes, then jump into my new class. Hi, my name is Anya. I'm an illustrator. I personally really love to experiment, to try new art techniques in my art and illustrations, I always try new ways. I never limit myself to just one medium or one technique, but I really loved to play, join various art techniques. One of my favorite topics often are imaginary fairies scenes, where I really connect with myself. That's why I'm really happy to welcome you in this class. Because in this class, we will join two things. We will learn new art technique, and we will use it in order to create an imaginary, fairly forest. There are three things that you will take from this class. The first one is that you will learn watercolor negative painting technique. So you will learn a new artistic skill. The second one is that you will apply it to create imaginary fairy forests, like for this class's project. But most of all, you can apply this technique for other projects, for your future projects, for any other topics. E.g. I. Apply watercolor negative painting to create those two flowers. This class is for illustrators. You don't have to be professional watercolors, but I recommended for those who already painted with watercolors. And now how to use it. In this class is project. We will paint imaginary, fairly forest with watercolor negative painting. We will use watercolors and some other mediums. So if you're inspired, I invite you to watch next two lessons where I will explain in details, which is this class's project and what art supplies we will use. I hope to see you there. Bye. 2. Class Project: Welcome in the second lesson where I will explain you what is this class's project? As a final project, we will paint imaginary fairy forest scene with negative watercolor painting. Why did I choose this topic for the class project? I really love to paint both trees and forests and also imaginary fairy scenes. And also because there is another class on my profile where I teach how to paint a similar scene with trees and watercolors and imaginary scene. And I thought it would be fun to paint similar topic, but with other art technique and with another approach. Here's what we're exactly doing this class. First of all, I will show you all the art supplies needed for the project. Then I will share with you two color theories. One which will be very useful for this class. Another which you can use are not hint. I will explain you specifically. Why is that? I will also share you tips to create a color palette with a really vibrant and clear colors. Bend. We will jump into exercise, a simple exercise that will show you what is negative painting. Then I will give you some tips on how to sketch for negative painting. Then we will paint from the first until the very last layer. And at the end, we will jump into painting all the details of our illustration. I will share with you a lot of tips and recommendations and I hope they will be very helpful for you. E.g. I. Will show you how to create really beautiful textures with watercolors. And within your project, I will share some tips about colors and color palette. And at the end, I will leave you with a bonus lesson with a kind of alternative negative painting. When you will finish your project, I invite you to post it in the projects gallery than I can give you feedback and also, you can share your art with others. It's really very inspiring to see what other artists create. And maybe it would be great to exchange our feedbacks, our impressions with each other. So grab your watercolors, your brushes. And if you're not sure which art supplies use, than jumping to the next lesson, where I will show you all the things that will be needed for this product. See you there. 3. Art Supplies: Welcome In this lesson where I will show you all the art supplies that I will use. My tip for you is to use the things that you already have at home. Maybe you have different brands of watercolors. Maybe you have different brushes. Maybe for the details, you would like to use other things, e.g. that I don't use the creative. If you have any questions, then come back to me and discussion panel and we can write about it. See with what ideas you came up. Alright, so I'll show you what I will use for this project. First of all, you'll need paper. I will use this unimodular watercolor paper. You can obviously use other brands that you have at home. Always probably already know it's recommended to use 300 gram paper or higher. If it's possible, it can be a little bit slower, but not too low for watercolors. And also it should be a stress-free have a, should be a cotton paper, 100 cotton paper or less. But it should have some cotton. And I will use cold pressed in, but it's the same. You can use hot press paper as well. Then we will use obviously watercolors. I have different brands here. It doesn't matter the brand, the water colors that you have. I will use this limited color palette. Those are eight colors with green, blue, blue, a little bit of violet, but I will explain you the color palette in the other lesson. As the brushes, I will basically use three or four sizes of brushes. The largest one you can use another round brush doesn't have to be flat to paint water for the first layer. Then for the bigger areas, I will use round brush, bigger size, this one is 12th. And for the area around the object and detail, I will use another small round brush. This one is number six. And as for the details, I will use, I will paint basically white colored details. So I will use the white and white ink. I use it in other classes on Skillshare. So we can jump in and see the specifics where I explained the different types of white mediums. So I will use this Dr Ph, Ph Martin's ink and the dip pen. You can use also acrylic pen like this one. Other time that you have a moon jelly roll as well. White pen or white colored pencil like this one or other brands. And you can use also other colors. Other types of depends, This one is 0 point, it's free. It's can be larger or smaller. And this one is Faber Castile, but obviously there are other brands out there. So yeah, but those are basically the ones that I will use. Some extra stuff that I will use, the spray water. You can if you have a little battle other type of spray, you will see when I apply it to create textures. And also for the bonus lesson, I will use masking fluid. There are different types. I will use this one in bottle. And it's not necessarily you can do the project without masking fluid as well. Other supplies that might be handy but are not necessarily, is the pencil and eraser. If you would like to make an initial sketch masking tape, I will use it, but it's not necessary. It's up to you. And also hairdryer to dry our layers in a faster way, but it's up to you can leave the layers to dry in the natural way. Let's jump into the next lesson. 4. Color Theory: Let's talk colors. Color theory can be really tricky and defining your color palettes can be challenging. In this class, I want to explain all the color theory because the topic is too huge. But I will give you a few tips and I will explain you to color theories that will be important for this, the project for this technique, but also can be helpful for you in your future work. Especially if you're struggling with combining colors. And maybe you're a beginner or don't know how colors behave. So I invite you to watch this class and you will see both to terrorists. And let's jump into the lesson. I will use those color wheels and probably you're familiar with them. I have two of them. This one is the classical one, but it's really small. So for this class, I will use this one. So it will be, this one is watercolor wheel, but it's basically the same. You can also use the normal one. Yeah, this one has the watercolor colors with paper textures and transparencies. So it's also better for the purpose of this class. I want to explain you all the color theory, the color wheel. But what is interesting for us, our color theories, I will explain to you two of them. There are many more color schemes and color theories. I wanted to show you two ways. One is to show you to not use it, and the second one is the one that I will use. And I will explain you. Why is that? So the first color scheme, because color theory is the theory of complimentary colors, which is written here with this arrow. The arrow shows you two colors which are complimentary. So in this case, orange is complimentary to blue. If you will move the arrow, it will show that thread is complimentary to green. And basically they together create very lovely contrast. E.g. if you put green with red, it is really vibrant and contrast tree. But the problem is with when you mix two complimentary colors, I will show you later what happens when you will mix those two colors and the second color scheme, the second color theory that I wanted. Explain you, and this is the one that I will use for this class's project, is the theory of analogous colors. Analogous colors are the ones that are next to each other on the color wheel. And it could be two colors, 34 maximum to five colors that are near to each other, e.g. here, the range is from yellow until blue, and it contains five colors, but you can as well use only three or two, e.g. or four. As you wish, you can use different analogous colors from green to violet, e.g. or from violet to orange. Those are warm colors from violet to yellow and so on, so on. Another thing that you probably know is the color temperature, e.g. here the temperature of the color is warm, those are warm colors. And cool colors are usually those ones from green, yellow, green, and blue. Blue, violet. Maybe it's more warm, but sometimes ClO is cool. But let's say greens and blues to simplify and warm colors are yellows, oranges, and reds. So for our class project, I will use analogous color scheme. And I will also explain you why is that? Because with this color scheme, I can be sure that I will achieve a vibrant and similar tones. While if I would mix e.g. orange with green's, probably I would get some muddy and not always. Nice surprises. To explain you better, why it's better not to mix those two colors together. I will swatch it for you. And as the first example, I will swatch blue and orange color. They are two complimentary colors, as you can see on the color wheel. I will swatch blue and orange color, and then I will mix them together. I will mix the colors directly on the paper. So first, I painted the orange color and while it's still wet, I will apply the blue color. So blue and orange gives us kind of muddy green. And yeah, it's not very vibrant as you can see. And that's why I wanted to show you the mixtures that are created with a complimentary color. The second example will be the blue green and orange red. As you can see in both cases, mixing complimentary colors gave those Maddie not very saturated, not very vibrant colors. Well, it all depends on the results that she wants to have. A few up into the colors like this, the saturated colors. And absolutely, you should probably try using the complimentary colors. I might example a want to show you how to create vibrant colors. Obviously it's up to you which effect you would like to achieve. So now I will jump into analogous colors to show you how to mix them together. In order to create vibrant and saturated mixtures. This example, I used the blue and the green blue colors I will use for our final project. And mixed together, they create, let's say the darker blue, a green color, darker, bluish turquoise stone, which I really, really love. In the second example, I will mix indigo and violet, dark, let's say gray color. Also those two colors I will use in the class project, in the final project. And those are dark colors and I will use them to create the last layers to paint night sky and the darkest trees in the background. So let's see how they will mix together. One is blue, indigo dark blue, and the other one is the blue violet, Let's say gray violet also. So here's how they mix together. Obviously, it, they will create a dark color, but still quite vibrant and not the saturated or muddy color that I would like to avoid for my project. I've ended my swatching. So here is the result. And let's do some recap. By the end of this lesson. I explained to you, I showed you two color theories. One is a complimentary color. So use it if you would like to have some muddy and the saturated colors, but don't use it. If you want to have vibrant colors. And analogous colors, use them if you want to achieve the vibrant watercolors. And maybe if you're struggling with color theory, using analogous colors could be useful for you, especially if you're a beginner. Then we were talking about the temperature of colors. And again, to avoid mixing complimentary colors and not to have a muddy colors, use, I would suggest you to use only warm or cool colors. Just at the end. Remember those color theories and the fact that I suggest you to use one and not to use another one, not nothing that you have to stick to. You can use other colors if you're familiar with them. Or you can experiment and do just what you feel best. So I hope this lesson was helpful for you. Remember if you have any questions or doubts you can write in the discussion panel, I will come back to you and see you in the next class, where we will choose our color palette. 5. Color Palette: In this lesson, I will show you which color scheme I will use. As I already told you, I will use the analogous color scheme. It means that I will use the color range 2-5 colors that are nearby on the color wheel. But be careful because if you will use five colors that are next to each other, you can use also warm colors that are new to the cool colors. It can create a little bit of confusion when you will mix them. This is what I explained to end the color theory about the complimentary colors. So if you are not sure which colors use, I will suggest to, to use or cool colors or just a warm colors. Another tip would be to limit your colors from analogous scheme. E.g. I. Will use just three blue greens, blues and blue violet colors. And I will swatch it for you. Here are my watercolors and you will see, I will have two or three colors per each color families. So those are blue greens. Then I will have blue and also blue violets. And the last two are dark blue. Let me swatch for you all the color colors that I have chosen for my color palette. As I said, I will start from blue greens, then I will swatch blues, then blue violets. And the last two will be the dark blues that I will use for the last layers. To paint a dark background and the night sky. I will write the names of each color underneath, and I will leave you the chart with names, with colors and their names in the class's project. So you will see all the colors that I used. You can obviously use your own color scheme, your own color palette. If you decide e.g. to use warm colors, go for it. Or if you want to follow my color scheme, you can also use another colors, e.g. I. Use a Shi'a blue, which is super granulating color. If you don't have it, then you obviously don't have to use the same colors. You can choose your own colors from blue, greens, e.g. also, the second color will be super granulating color. But e.g. you could use some turquoise color or other blue Greece. So I will speed up a little bit the swatching, and I will see you afterwards. So here I leave you the photo of the color palette that I will use. Here are the names of the specific brands that I used. And also let's recap two tips that could be helpful if you're struggling with colors. One is to limit yourself to use only cool colors, are only warm colors. And the second tip would be to limit your color palette. So I hope it was helpful for you. And let's jump into the next lesson where I will explain you what is the negative color painting? 6. What Is Negative Painting: Okay, so what is the negative painting? Here? I prepared a simple example of positive painting. You mean that you paint inside the shape and negative painting. And it means that you will paint outside the shape and leave the shape white, blank without color. But what happens if you want to add layers and create depth, e.g. so here's the simple exercise that I will show you in order to understand negative painting better. Okay, so let's paint a simple flower. E.g. I. Will draw simple shapes. First, petals. Let's say that I want the circle to be the brightest. So let's write down one. It will be the brightest color. Then those petals, I want to be a little bit darker. Then I want to draw petals that will be darker than number two. So it will be number three. Let's start. It is simpler than it seems high. We'll use again the violet color. Instead of leaving white. I will paint all the color, really, really bright and soft color. And I can show you, I will prepare my color here. And I want it to be bright. So I want to use a lot of color. Just to really clear. We can do rectangle to limit our paint into rectangle. Right? So the first layer, first wash is ready. Okay, So the first layer is already dry. It's very important that the layers should be dry before you will paint the second layer. So it's very important. It means that we will have to paint a round number one to create the second layer, the second color, I will use the same color, the same amount of color. And let's paint around the circle. Okay. Let's try it with a hairdryer. Okay, so here is the first color. Now I want to paint a round number two petals. You have to be quite quick with this. If you don't want borders of your color to dry. My tip that I always repeat in my watercolor classes is to keep your paint wet. Means to paint the borders of your puddle wet. You can see I have this trap of color. Then I tried to paint quickly. This way you will evolve a void to create the borders. Okay, So here are the petals with number two, a little bit darker. So let's jump into the last layer. Okay, we will paint the last layer, number three. It means we will paint the darkest petals. So I paint around number three, but also number two, because I want number two to be brighter. So I will just paint around every petal. Remember, be quick. Try to be quick. It's also a good exercise for precision. To try to paint in the quick way. With the precision. I'm not very precise. I prefer to be more expressive. And I'm not so much and to precision. But still it's a good exercise to do. Especially if you work with watercolors when you often have to be quick to have to paint before your color will dry. So as you can see, I'm not obsessed. Row size me. Never mind. For me. The important thing is to understand the concept of negative painting. Okay? So here it is. Maybe the difference between number two and number three. It's not so clear. But yeah, never mind. My exercise is finished. As you can see, maybe the difference between number two and number three is not so big, but still it's brighter. The brightest is number one. Then we have number two and number three. Okay, here it is. I invite you to do this exercise. It will help you to understand better than negative painting. And just remember about few tips that will make it easier. Paint on the dry layers only. Use lot of paint and keep it wet to avoid the borders of a dried colors and try to be possibly quick. I hope it was helpful for you. And let's jump into the next lesson where we will sketch our illustration. 7. Sketching: Hello, hello. I'm very excited to welcome you to this. 8. The First Layer: Hello, Welcome to our next lesson, where we will start our adventure and we will start painting. I'm really excited about it. So here you can see that I prepared my watercolors and the first thing that I really advise you to do is to wet your colors. This is the step that I skipped for a long time, but when I started to really wet to them before and wait a little bit, I saw the difference. The colors behave in a different way. They apply more easy and they really activated the watercolor nature. So yeah, that's what I would advise you to do. You can use a spray bottle or just apply water with your brush. Or the first layer, we will use the wet on wet technique. So I will wet the paper. I will apply the clean water with this large flat brush. You can use other big brush that you have. Apply a thin layer of clean water on the surface of your paper. And I do this because I think using the wet on wet technique will be easier for the first layer because it will be easier to cover the whole surface with a color. With wet on dry technique, it would be more difficult. As you can see, it's not too wet. You can also check on my class about basic of watercolors where I explain better this technique. The second reason use this technique is to create a lovely textures because we will apply different colors. Different, not only one color, but I will apply three colors randomly in order to create a really lovely textures. Especially because I will use the super granulating watercolors. And within this technique, wet on wet technique, it really gives great results. Once your paper is wet, I will prefer the colors for my first layer. I will use shy or Blue Glazier green, and cobalt blue. The colors that I swapped in the previous lesson, the blue-green, brighter colors, Let's say I will apply them on the wet paper randomly, e.g. here I swatch the first color. I create the planes of color, and I will apply them randomly. It means that I will paint with one color and then I will apply another color nearby. The different colors lands together and create really beautiful textures and effects. And wanted to give you some extra tip to create textures. If you will use granulating colors it already, we'll make beautiful, beautiful textures. Extra tip is to e.g. take a paper towel or cotton cloth and tap it into your still wet color. The color shouldn't be too wet and you should tap in a delicate way. Otherwise, you will create holds. If you're as big fan of textures as I am, then you should definitely give it a try. At the end of this lesson, let's recap of the steps. So first wet your paper with clean water, then apply your colors for the first layer in the random way with wet-on-wet technique. And my tips for you is to wet your watercolors previously and to create some lovely textures. Use a paper towel. I really hope you enjoyed this lesson. Let's jump into the next step, which is painting the second layer. 9. The Second Layer: Welcome In our lesson where we will paint the second layer. And we will do this with a wet on dry technique this time. That's because if we wet the surface, then the paint from the first layer would reactivate and we couldn't paint over it. So that's why the, the first layer must be really dry. And we will paint on it. And without wetting the surface before. I will use a very diluted color. I choose to use blue colors, darker than the previous layer. It's up to you if you will use flu or other colors. And also sometimes I will use just one color. And other times I will do us for the first layer when I will paint with more colors. So my tip for you would be to use a small brush for details. As you can see for the small space. For thin lines, I will use a smaller brush and then I will switch to a larger brush to finish, to paint the rest of the surface. I have another tip for you to create lovely textures. I will use the sprite water in the bottle with price so you can use it while the paint is still wet. Not too wet, but not too dry yet. And then, especially if you will use the granulating colors, the pigments will separate and create really, really nice effect. You can try this method with normal colors as well. Probably it will create dots, dotted texture. Just give it a try. I'm always a fan of experimenting and trying new methods. This one I usually use when I want to achieve textures and when I work with watercolors. Okay, That's it. So this is how we painted the second layer. You would use the wet on dry technique and you can paint with one or more colors. And my tips for you is wait until your first layer is fully dry and paint over trilayer to use a small brush to paint the area around the trees and then switch to a bigger brush to paint the rest of the layer. And then to create really love the textures. Used the water in the bottle with atomizer. I hope you really enjoy the process so far. So let's jump to the next lesson where we will finish the remaining layers. See you there. 10. The Remaining Layers: Hello, Hello. Welcome to our lesson where we will finish to paint all the layers here, I'm, will start to paint the third layer, but I decided to include all the layers in the same lesson. That's because I will use the same procedure to paint each of layers. So let's have a look on the steps that we will follow to paint every layer. So number one, remember that the previous layers should be tried. That's because if they will remain wet. And what happens is That's when you will paint the next layer. You can pick the paint that's underneath it if it's still wet. And then you will create the White House number to paint new layers with wet on dry technique. I think it's already clear. And you can use one or more colors for each layer that depends on you, on your vision. If you want, you can use just one color and if you like to add some sparkled and use a more colors, use a small brush for the area around the trees and the bigger brush to paint the rest of the layer, that's really handy. Give it a try. Then if you wish, you can create textures in-between. With spray water or paper towel, I will show you, it's again further on. And the last step that I will show you as well as to retrace the lines with pencils with pencil, sorry if needed. That's because as I already told you in the previous lessons, it can happen and probably it will happen. That's your pencil will disappear because it will be covered with layers of paint. So here we go. I'm painting. The third, I think, is still layer. As you can see with the small pencil, I traced the area around the trees and then I will integrate the remaining painting with a larger brush. Yeah, you should be quite quick. If you want your paint to dry, use a lot of paint and to try to keep it as wet as possible. Yeah, that's the tip that I already gave. You can see that in this moment, I decided to cover one of the trees. That's perfectly normal. In the meantime, you can change your mind. You can add some shapes or covers some of trees. The process of painting can be quite unpredictable. You can follow the traces of pencil that you already have or you can change your mind in-between. So in this case, you could just improvise and let yourself lead by the process and playing without blaming. The other thing that I wanted to share with you is that I use darker color as I go for a new layers. So for the next layer, I will use a darker blue. I think it's not necessary, but I find it as a helpful tip. And creating the desk and you're painting. Here, I'm starting to paint the first layer. And my other tip for you would be to prepare amount of paint ahead. So you won't run out of paint because as you can already see, you need a lot of color to cover all the spread. So here we go again with fixtures. As much texture as possible. I really love them. So if you love them too, then you can apply it whenever you wish. This time, I will use a paper towel again. And tapping. When while the paint is still wet. Here's the good moments to retrace the strokes because the next layer would cover them. If you feel that she wants to proceed with the sketch, then remember to retrace the pencil stroke while it's still not too late. Or you could just proceed improvising and painting. As you go without tracing, it's up to you. Yeah, another textures coming up. This time, I will pray a little bit of water. The tip here is that the paints shouldn't be too wet and it shouldn't be dry and ready. So you have to find the right wetness of the surface. It's a very delicate sometimes it can be seen better and sometimes not. But hopefully you can see the little dots. And exactly now when it's a try, It's can be seen better. I really love this kind of effect. So here's the sixth layer. We are already there. I just wanted to let you know that as I go, I use always the darker colors. So in this case, I will mix together my darker blue, e.g. Delft blue, sugars gray and indigo, also the Payne's gray. As I go. The last layer, my case, this is number seven, but she can do less. You can do more. There's no rule. So for the last layer, I will use freely the darkest colors. I will just make indigo Payne's gray to achieve dark night sky. Let's recap briefly the steps that we took. Use wet on dry technique and you can paint with one or more colors. And my advice is for you is to wait until all the previous layers are dry. Use a small and large brush and exchange them while you paint different areas. And to create textures, use both paper, towel and water and spray. And also remember to retrace the lines with pencils before they disappear and use darker colors as you go in order to create depth in your painting. I really hope you enjoyed all the process of layering. So let's jump into another lesson. My favorite part which is painting the details. 11. The Details: There are many ways to paint your details. This is the moment when you can create really nice stuff for me personally, it's very relaxing. So let's dive into my favorite part of painting. Here are the steps that we will follow in order to complete our painting. First of the ways to create details will be again negative painting. And this time we will use it inside the tree to paint the tree crown. Then we will paint watercolor details in many ways with many tools. We will paint the trunk and branches and leaves as well, and we will play with different kinds of shapes and strokes. Then we will use also the white ink to paint triangles, branches, and leaves as well. And we will also paint new elements, new trees. It's not necessary, but if you feel like to add some extra elements, then I will show you how I do it. And at the end, we will paint also the moon and the clouds on our night sky. Okay, Let's start our painting. Let's start with negative painting inside our plants. Here is the example of what I mean in my old illustration. Few of the trees I painted with negative painting technique. And I find it a really nice. So you can first draw the strokes with pencil or just go with the flow and painted without tracing. In my case, I already drawn the pencil strokes so you can follow me if it's easier for you. And I will paint the first layer. So it means that I will paint outside the pencil strokes. This is my free interpretation of tree crown. Feel free to draw your own Crown, your own shape of trunks, of branches. You can also use a photo as a reference or draw from your imagination. When the first layer is ready and dry, you can add new layers if you wish, you can leave it like this, but I will paint a new layer, creating some dimensions. And this time I won't use pencil. I will just paying directly on the first layer. Now I will simply paint trunks and branches and other details like leaves with watercolor. So prepare your paint the color that you wish. In this case, I will use the same color, green, blue color that I used for the previous tree. And I will trace my trunks and then branches. And my tip for you is to push your brush very lightly at the beginning, and then push harder in order to create really nice strokes from thin to Boulder once you fall out. My previous lessons, you already know that I'm a big fan of white ink, especially the one that I showed you in art supplies, a lesson. I loved to use it client to apply tiny details. I will use different tools to paint with white ink. I will use e.g. small brush, but I will also use a dip pen to create really thin and delicate lines are really tiny details. I'm using a small brush and I tried to be really, really delicate. And I push a little bit harder to create a thicker strokes. Often I will use white ink to friend leaves. I will alternate, sometimes I will use white inks and sometimes watercolor. It's up to you. Have fun and try to be as creative as possible. And play with the shapes and strokes. I will use some different tools that I didn't show you in the art supplies lesson. But that's because they are not necessary. You can use the brushes that you have. But in case you have some other types of brushes, you can play around, try different strokes in order to create a different ferry leaves. And in this case, I will paint tree needles, play around and just have fun experiment. I will continue with different tools and mediums, but it basically will be watercolors and white ink. I will just try to vectorize the shapes of trees and branches and leaves. So see you soon. I will paint some extra trees outside the trees that are already there. It's not necessary if you feel like adding some extra elements, some extra plants, maybe it doesn't have to be treat. It can be a plant, a flower, maybe. Leave. Then go for it. The final touch, I will paint moon and clouds or both. I will use the same white ink paint. I will also add light around it with a diluted ink. And inside I will paint moon with non diluted ink. As for the clouds, I want to explain here how I paint them because I already did this in my class entitled magical watercolor world. So feel free to watch the lesson that explains specifically how to paint clouds with white ink. And for now, I will just leave you with a speedup video. Alright, I think I done here. I will call it finished. It, it was quite long process here, It's all sped up. But in the real time, it can take awhile. Especially if you're like me and you like to add a lot of details and don't know really when to stop. Here. I'm tearing away the masking tape. It wasn't a successful In this case. I think I used the wrong type. As you can see, it ruins a little bit my paper. So be careful. My tip would be to test it before you will paint. So you will be sure it wants ruin it. But at the end, the damage wasn't big at all. And at the end, I am very, very happy of the final result of the night. Quiet. I don't know, calming, but also mysterious atmosphere that came through the colors and all the lesson. Let's try to sum up a little bit all the steps from this lesson. So first of all, you can use multiple ways to paint your details. You can be very creative and play with different tools and colors and strokes. You can use also negative painting inside the trees to create a tree crowns. You can also paint new elements in your illustration. And also you can paint the moon and the clouds. Or it could be also Sun because I didn't say it. But of course you can paint also a day seen. So it can be a son. Also, the other tip that I wanted to leave you with is to use different kinds of tools that you already have at home. If you don't have white ink, you can use other white mediums. Or you can also try to use colored pencils, which are really great for this kind of illustrations. I didn't feel free to do that. If you have other tools at home, just use them. Feel free to experiment. There's the last lesson, the bonus lesson, where I will leave you the last tip. So see you there. 12. The Bonus Layer: Hello, hello. Welcome to the final bonus lesson, which I call it negative painting with masking fluid. So here are two tools that I will use this silicon brush and masking fluid. I will use the one in the bottle. This one is from royal talents, but there are many brands, phenotypes. You can also use the one in marker in the pan. So you won't have to use the brush. The silicon brush, I advise to use silicon brush. If you have one at home. If you don't, you can use a normal brush, but I recommend you to use old brush because afterwards it afterwards the masking fluid will go away. So use just the old brush. Okay. So why is it negative painting? I will show you afterwards why I thought it could be a kind of negative painting. And here is how I apply masking fluid. Again, I'm using silicon brush. If you have a marker or let's say Penn with masking fluid, you can apply it directly from the masking fluids. Ben. If you're not familiar with this medium, it has like yogurt, liquid consistency. And when it's dry, it will become like a gum, rubber gum, jelly consistence, but you will see it later. I will show you once dry. Okay? And what is very important that your paint must be really, really dry before you apply masking fluid on it. I will show you why because my paint wasn't dry enough and some accident happened. But it's all for good because this way you will see what can happen when your paint is still humid. I'm not totally dry. Now. I'm applying masking fluid to draw branches and the trunk. And once when it's done, I'll show you how the masking fluid behaves when it's dry. So here's the masking fluid. When it's dry, it's a little bit darker than translucent and it has a rubbery texture. There can be different colors of masking fluid, but you can understand easily when it's dry, when you touch it with the liquid, NMR is like a rubber. So once when it's dry, you can paint over it. And it works like in this way that the paint underneath will remain as it is. Because then later on you will take off the masking fluids. Basically, it is to mask some areas. So that's why I've called it negative painting because at the end it's the same. But you use masking fluid instead of painting outside the shapes. For in this case, outside the branches. We will paint over it and mask branches with masking fluids. A very important thing that you have to keep in mind and that I really advise you is to remember to have your layers really, really dry before you will apply masking fluid. That's really very important. And I will show you why, because I didn't wait enough and then something happened. I will show you what. To avoid it. I really recommend to be sure. Maybe you could wait one night or one day before you will apply masking fluids. Okay. So here I take off. Masking fluid. You can do it directly with your finger, or you can use eraser. Sometimes it is also good thing to use cellophane, some plastic wrap. So here's the tree where I didn't wait enough. There's what happens. Some of the paper, as you can see, this white dots came off together with masking fluids. So in this case, it's ended quite well. I didn't ruin my tree, the illustration. But even the effect is not as I wanted. Also, maybe because I could use a little bit darker. The paint should be a little bit darker. Here you can see I turn it off a little bit of paper. That's what happens when the paint below is not dry enough. Yeah, I really recommend or can you see it? I will correct it the width wise. So to unify all the end to cover this error. But it wasn't meant to be avoided. Remember, before you apply masking fluid, your parents must be really, really dry. So as I said, I will use white paint and just simply paint over the mask branches. I felt a little bit sorry for this mistake, but at the end, it's good to show it to you so you know that in the future you can avoid it. And you see what can happen and also how to mask some of your errors. In this case, I'm painting over the whole mask area. I will show you another illustration. Illustration with masking fluids and all when swell. And the effect is really nice. So here it is. The bright branches or mask to our masking fluid. Yeah. Also you can see here also it's masking fluids so many ways you can apply it. Try it, and let me know if you have any doubts regarding this medium. Let's see together the steps from this lesson. If you use fluid masking fluid from the bottle, I do then remember to use Alt, or inexpensive brush that humans need anymore. Or the best thing is to use the silicon brush, which I recommend and then apply the masking fluid, wait until it's dry and then paint over it with watercolor. And when the watercolor is dry, then you can remove the masking fluid. Remember the lesson that I learned? Just be really sure that your paints, your illustration is really dry. And that's because we paint really a lot of layers. Even if you think that your illustration is dry, the paper underneath can remain still wet. So it would be best to leave it a couple of hours or even for a night to dry. I invite you to watch the last lesson, where we will summarize all the lessons of the project. And we will leave the last class that all the things that we did in this class. So see you there. 13. Final Thoughts: If you're watching this lesson than you probably finished your project. If yes, then I really, really wanted to thank you for joining me in this class. So I really wanted to congratulate you that you finished your project. I hope you had fun, and that too learned a lot. Let's summarize all the steps that we took in this class. First, we saw the art supplies that was necessarily for this class. Then I show two color theories. And understanding those two color theories, I showed you why it would be helpful, especially when it's up to color mixing. Then we apply it. One of the color theories to combine the color palette for the project. Next, we jumped into exercise of negative painting. Then we sketched our forests. We painted it from the beginning until the end, applying also details with many tools and techniques. Also, in the bonus lesson, we saw how to do the negative painting with masking fluid. I hope that in this class you learned new skills, new art technique, and that you can apply it also in the future projects. Because as I already told you, this technique can be applied in multiple things, multiple situations and objects. And most of all, as always, I hope you had fun and enjoy the process. Remember to post your projects in the project gallery. In this way, you will share your art with others. You can also comment and share your impressions or on other projects. I think it's really helpful for all of us and very inspiring for us to share our work with others. If you liked this class and if you would like to learn more, then please follow my profile on Skillshare because I will come up with new content, with new lessons. If you're into watercolors, you can check other of my classes, e.g. the watercolor basics technique where I explain how to use watercolors. Or another class where I use watercolors to create another imaginary scene. And also you can follow me on Instagram and on YouTube to see all my art where I share my illustrations and also some process. Thank you once again to joining my class and see you next time. Bye.