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Watercolor Techniques & Textures - Learn Wet on Wet Techniques, Backgrounds, and Mark Making

teacher avatar Kerrie Sanders, Artist, Teacher, Creator.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      About This Class

      2:59

    • 2.

      Supplies and Color Swatching

      6:33

    • 3.

      Using Salt and Water

      10:33

    • 4.

      Wet on Wet

      7:19

    • 5.

      Lifting Highlights and Petal Strokes

      11:10

    • 6.

      Vines and Flowers

      6:08

    • 7.

      Final Highlights with Gouache

      1:46

    • 8.

      Class Project

      0:51

    • 9.

      Thanks and Congratulations!

      1:16

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About This Class

Over the years I’ve heard many times from students that watercolor is beautiful, but too intimidating because of lack of control.  Watercolor does have a life of its own, but the secret is to understand and anticipate its actions.  This class will teach you some modern watercolor techniques that will build your knowledge and confidence in working with watercolor for illustration or any artwork. 

This class takes you through the steps of utilizing salt and water to create interesting backgrounds for your art.   You will learn important paint strokes with a variety of brushes,  and fun bold (or not so bold) wet on wet blending techniques.  

Kerrie offers a unique style of teaching this class with a complete hands on approach throughout each video.  You will learn by taking action immediately.  Having both a sketchbook and a watercolor sheet ready, you will learn a technique and then immediately implement that in your final art piece.  This approach builds your final art work step by step ensuring you have a finished masterpiece by the end of the class.

While teaching, Kerrie demonstrates, explains, and offers clear close up videos to assist in the learning process.   These newly absorbed skills can transfer to your future projects and elevate your art abilities and confidence.

WHAT YOU’LL GET OUT OF THIS CLASS

This class teaches watercolor techniques while creating something beautiful that you will be proud to display.  Your self confidence will be boosted when you see what you can accomplish and carry forward into future projects.

Here are some highlights of what you’ll learn:

  • Utilizing salt and water to create interesting backgrounds
  • Blending through wet on wet techniques
  • Lifting highlights in multiple ways
  • Variety of paint strokes for leaves, flower petals and vines

WHAT LEVEL OF CREATIVE IS THIS CLASS FOR?

Everyone.  The videos are close up, clear and concise, along with Kerrie’s verbal explanations and written tips.  Even those who have never painted will have a great experience and success with this project.  The pattern and color photos are provided on this page.

After completing this course, you’ll be familiar with some foundational watercolor techniques, and will be able to confidently apply those skills to future projects along your art path.

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Kerrie Sanders

Artist, Teacher, Creator.

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Hi, I'm Kerrie.

I remember at age 5 standing in front of an easel, picking up a paint brush, and I don't think I ever set it down. I have a passion for building others skills and confidence in art.

I've published pattern kits, a painting book, and I've taught workshops, classes, and many students over the years. I'm self taught but have traveled the world learning from talented teachers.

I teach my classes in real time which let's you be in control of your learning pace. You can speed up, slow down, stop and start the videos as needed to make sure you have the best experience possible.

I'd be tickled to be part of your self-discovery in the art world. Join me and let's have some relaxed fun learning together.

Kerrie

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1. About This Class: Hi everyone. My name is Carrie Sanders and I'm an artist, a teacher at a creative here in St. George, Utah. I'm just outside of beautiful science National Park. And I feel so fortunate to live here because I'm so inspired by nature. And today we're going to do this wonderful botanical piece. But the beauty of it is we're going to learn modern watercolor techniques as we go along. What I have found as I've taught students over the years, is they have a fear of watercolor. They feel like they don't have control. Much like they have control in acrylics. Whales. And I understand that because I love all of those PDFs as well. So I wanted to design this class to help people understand that once you learn basic techniques and practice those, It's not that you gained control over watercolor per se, but you learn how to anticipate what squint to do. You've learned how to understand how it interacts with the water and the paint and the paper. And so in that regard, you do gain control of watercolor is an amazing medium. It's my favorite media. I can grab and go, and I can go to urban sketching in this city, or I can take it with me on a hike. I can take it with me on vacation to capture a scene forever in my mind, there are so many things you can do with watercolor and I want to help you gain that love for it. Today, we're going to learn in a unique style. What I've found is students learn best by doing and not necessarily by just listening and observing and then going to do so. I want you to do as we go along today. So in other words, what we're going to do is let's say that we're doing a wet on wet technique here. We'll do this practice in a sketchbook. And then immediately I'm going to come over to our art piece and do that portion of our art piece that's wet on wet. And then we'll come over here and we'll practice more same we're doing binds or pedal stroke. And then we'll come over to our art piece and we'll add in the blinds or the pedal stroke. And so we'll go back and forth so that your hands-on throughout the entire lesson. By the end, you're going to end up with a really beautiful botanical piece using modern watercolor techniques. So you're gaining knowledge along the way and having fun. I hope that you will join me with this. I've had the pleasure of having pattern packets and a painting book published and send across the nation and many, many people over the years. I hope that you will join me and let me have the pleasure of sharing this information with you and lighting a spark and a love for watercolor. If this sounds like something you would enjoy and grab your supplies. And let's head back to my studio and get started together. 2. Supplies and Color Swatching: Hi everyone. Before we get started with any project, the first thing you wanna do is take a moment to color swatch your pallet because you want to see how it interacts with the water, the color values that you can get from each of your colors that you've chosen. You also want to see how it interacts with the paper that you have selected. I'm using 140 pound paper for the project today, I always choose 140 pound or better. But some papers have different coatings on them, or they've been created more rough or more smooth depending on the finish. I'm either hot press or cold press. And so you'll want to see how that interacts. I just usually take a, just a scrap of paper, but it's the same type that I'll be using for my project so that I can see how that works. So before we get started, let me show you the brushes that I've chosen for the project today. I'll just be using a variety of rounds from pretty largest as a 12 and a couple of mediums. And you'll definitely want a nice spine scripting brush. This is a number one. Then you'll need a nice pencil to do a little bit of sketching. Not much sketching, but just a little indication here. I always use a black wing. This is a palomino is my very favorite type of pencil that I always use. And today we'll be doing some awesome techniques. We'll be learning some different ways to do backgrounds and put some texture into your pieces. And so we'll be using some table salt. You certainly do not need this much salt, but I just always keep a little dish in my painting studio and so you'll need some just regular table salt is fine. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. And then of course, my favorite tool always is my handy-dandy tissue. We will be using this a lot today. So grab some tissue and then of course, some clean water and a shop towel handy in case you have a little bigger spill or something that you need. So let's talk about paints for just a moment. We'll be using yellow ocher, quinacridone, gold, Naples, yellow, buff, terre verte day. And we'll be using forest green, quinacridone, violet, Potter pink, and violet cobalt. And this is Winsor violet, cerulean blue, and the yellow blue. And of course, I always say you can switch out for whatever you have handy. We want you to be really comfortable with the supplies that you have. I don't want you to feel like you have to go out and buy something. So let's start with our yellow ocher and start with a full strength. Dip in your water. So you have a clean brush with just water on it. Pull that down so you can see the lightest value that you can bring that to. Then you can see how it's interacting with your paper as well. So let's pull some quinacridone, gold. I love this color. It's transparent, but it really packs a punch. And when you put a glaze of this color on top of something else, it just makes it pop if you're doing sunflowers or I use it on cliffs and rocks. It is beautiful. Okay. This one is Naples yellow. I can tell you that I use this color in probably 99% of every project I do has this color in it. It is so versatile, It's a great base color, is a great mixing color. And it's wonderful. Same with this color is buff. And same thing. I use this in probably 99% of my projects. And same thing, It's great for mixing with other colors, is great for basing rock, stones, walls, and so many things. Plants. Alright, we are going to go over to terre verte. This is a nice translucent color and it's kind of a blue green. So I live in the South. I do lots of blue-green plants and I love this color. And this one is forest green. This is going to have a little more punch to it. But it's a deeper greens, so it's not that blue-green, it's warmer. And so we'll be using this one as well. Let's pull it down with some water. Beautiful. This one, I don't use a lot. It's gonna be really fun to use this today. This quinacridone violet, you can see, is very strong. This is a great bow color. And let's pick up some water and bring that down. It's beautiful. And same with this potters pink. This is a great beau ** color. It's kind of a brownish pink and translucent. And we're gonna do some really delicate flowers with this today. Well, it's gonna be really pretty and pull that down. Okay. Our next one is violet, cobalt. Love this color. It's not too pink, not too in your face. Pink. Oops, I forgot to pick up water. Let's bring that down. There you go. Now, it doesn't have to be Windsor violet. But just make sure it's a deep rich violet. There's not all Violets are created the same. Some go really pink and I want you to have a nice rich violet that stays in that purple tone. There we go. Civilian blue. I can tell you I use this in 99% of my paintings, whether it's for sky, water, plants, shadows, all kinds of things. It's a great mixing color. Our last one today, fellow blue. This is a very strong color. And again, I use it for sky and water, putting deep shadows in beautiful. So here we go. Here's our palette today. Use what you have at home, but go ahead and gather your supplies, and I'll see you in the next video and we will get started. 3. Using Salt and Water: Okay guys, let's start with our first technique which is putting salt on wet paint. And what that does is pulls the pigment off wherever the salt is. So I'm going to use, well, let's do a little snow scene. Because I do this a lot for winter scenes and Christmas cards, loved the hand pink Christmas cards. I'm going to use some of this indigo blue but dark for my liking. So I'm going to add some civilian like that. Okay? So when you're using salt, you need to have a nice wet piece for it to drop into it. You don't want it so wet that you have cauliflower. Just a nice moist background for it to have enough to absorb that paint and water. Darkening it a little bit at the top. That's what I like in my sky. I'm gonna do a little snow scene. Demonstrates for you. Awesome. I'm going to leave that. And then we'll just pick up a little bit of table salt. It doesn't take much, just the tiniest pinch and you're just going to lightly sprinkle it. Not very much. I'll bring this up to the camera in just a moment. With this, you have to let it dry on its own. It takes a little bit of time. You have to be patient. Sometimes I'll do this and leave it overnight and just let it do its thing overnight. You can't speed up the process with a hairdryer. I'm going to bring this up to the camera a little bit and you can see where it's already starting to absorb some of the paint wherever that salt lands, it's going to absorb that paint and the water. And that's where you end up with a light background and they did. Okay. So while that is drying, I'm going to set the cell to sign, flip the board and we're gonna do a little bow, whole floral piece, which will be fun. And let's go ahead and start by just throwing some brown out here. I'm just going to throw some engineer abstract the background. You'll have to worry about brushstrokes. There's enough water in there, then it's going to smear out. Okay. Now, with this, we are going to flip water on there just like you do when your splattering with paint. But before we can do that, it needs to dry just a little bit. So we'll let that sit. It's something that you have to just practice enough times that you understand how the waterworks with the paper. If you do it too soon, you're just going to end up with little cauliflower ears and it won't have the look that you're hoping for. And if you do it too late, then it's not going to lift off the paint. So practice, practice, which is true with just about everything. I'm just checking out the sheen on the paper. Okay. We're almost there. So it's not super shiny anymore. It's between a shine and a matte finish. We don't want it to Matt, we don't want it to DO. That means the water will not lift off. So let's pick up some clean water. I'm using a number four, so a smaller brush than what I use to apply the paint. And we'll just start splattering. I'm going to stop and wait for a minute with water. It grows. We're putting wet onto wet, so it's going to flow out. I'm going to bring this up with a camera. You can see it's already working, it's already lifting off that pigment. You're getting all these spots. And it just leaves a nice texture looking background is going to bring some real interest to your piece. We're going to paint flowers on top of it. And so they'll fade into the background and it'll give it some depth and some interests. And I use both of these methods. A lot for landscapes. You can use it for rocks and cliffs. And sand and beaches. But I also use it for abstract things like this, where we put flowers on top of it and snow scenes that we're going to do here. And so this is very versatile. It's super great to know these things in practice. These things just do a little vignettes like this. And practice, and practice and practice until you're comfortable with what the water and the salt does and how it interacts with the paint and your paper. So let's go ahead and let this dry. Both of these have to dry completely and naturally on their own, you cannot use the hairdryer. So I'll see you in just a moment after those have dried through the magic of video. Everything is completely dry. We can take, I'm gonna bring this closer to the camera. We can take a closer look at how things went. This is the side that we used, table salt and you can see you get a very fine granular look where it has lifted off the pigment. And this is the side where we splattered with water. And that water spreads as it continues to dry and pull off the pigments. So you can see how you get a little bit bigger depending on how big splatters you put on, you get bigger areas of white. It just depends on the look that you want. If you are going for a winter scene, something snowing and refined, or a really fine sandy beach, something like that. I would go with the salt. If you're doing something more broad like cliffs and mountains or something further away, something like the water splatter is great. We're gonna do a little vignette with both of them. You can try that out and see what you like. And so let me set that up and I'll be right back. Welcome to follow along with me. If you're going to do a little snow scene, then I've just pulled out some white gouache and I'm going to use a script liner as well. And let's just have some snow trailing down. There. We have a really fast vignette. Just a quick little snow scene. You could use this for Christmas card, or I've done these for, well, pieces are gifts. But anyway, you see the beautiful depth that this gives you when you splatter the snow on top with your gouache. And you've got that texture behind it so it makes it look deep. And so when you put some of these trees that are a little more faded out and then some stronger ones in the front. You've got a beautiful piece. What did that take us like 3 min. It's such a great technique. Alright, let's flip the board and let's do our vignette on the other side. Okay, before I start this, I'm just gonna do a vine with some leaves. And I wanted to review with you this pedal stroke that I'm gonna be using so that you can use this on any leaves in our final piece. All I'm using is a medium round. This is number four round and you'll notice that take it and I twirl it between my two fingers that as I lift and that brings my brush to a fine tip. The brush will do the work for you guys if you just learn to trust it. And so as you touch, I'm planting my finger down to steady my hand and I'm just going to lightly touch. So I get a fine tip and then press and then bring it up to a tip again. And that could be a pedal on a daisy or some type of flower, or it could be a leaf on a vine. And so for this piece is going to be a leaf on a vine. Let's do it again. And you can do with them curved, Of course. So there's all different ways that you can use this stroke is really valuable. And when I first started painting, I just did pages of strokes just over and over and over again, just in different colors, having fun with it. And with all my different size brushes. All of these brushes will do that, not just this brushed. And so you need to become comfortable with that so that you can utilize that to your advantage. Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and speed up the camera and take a look and follow along with me. Now, because of the background, you can keep something very simple like this, or you could still add more to it. For our final piece today, we will be adding quite a bit, but we're going to stop here for this one because we were really just learning and focusing on how we can enhance the background by doing different textures. Let's go ahead and get ready for our next steps. I'll see you in the next video and we'll get started on our final piece together. 4. Wet on Wet: Alright, the next technique we're going to learn is a wet on wet technique. And it's great for blending. And we're going to do it in kind of a fun way today. So I'm going to pick up some paint and work that into my brush. I would say about 50% water if 50% paint ratio. Let's just do a circle. I just wrote out my sketchbook here because we're just going to practice for a minute. Breaks down your brush real goods so you don't contaminate. The next color that we've picked up. I'm going to pick up some yellow ocher. Now. I'm just going to touch this now you can see already how that water just just blends. And you have to just take a deep breath and trust that it's going to work out okay? And try not to control it. Now, you can have a little bit of control. If you wanted to. By tilting your paper, I can force it to go down or I can force it to come back and have the pink go into the yellow. So you do have a little bit of control, but not a lot. And it's really fun and it looks beautiful on certain things. Let's do a different color. So why don't we pick up some Naples yellow. Now I'm wanting to throw in a little bit of cerulean blue. Make sure it has about a 50, 50 min. And then we're going to touch that. And away it goes. Just start to go. With this method, wet on wet. You just have to be patient. You can't rush the process. So this is another thing that you have to just practice that so that you kind of know what to anticipate and it will help you visualize things down the road. So let's do just the opposite. Now let's pick up more civilian blue, 50, 50 mix. Clean our brush real goods so we don't contaminate. And what's pick up some yellow. It's great to always play with it here, much like doing our swatches that we did before we started painting. Because then you'll know what blends that you like before you start your piece. Let's do just the opposite here as well. Let's start with yellow ocher. Let's pick up some about Violet. Actually, we're going to pick up some of the Queen violet. That's powerful. Look at that. Very fun. Now if you want something that's a little more subtle, blue on blue, That's what I'm going to do. Now. My brush, I'm going to pick up some phthalo blue and tap that in. If any of you who took my Christmas ornament in class, you saw me use this combination. And I did this technique as well. Beautiful on Christmas ornaments. Alright, so go ahead and play with that until you have the color combination that you would like. And then we are going to come over to our design. This will be our final piece here. And as we learn techniques here and play with it, we're then going to use that technique on our final piece. And when we're finished learning, we will end up with a finished piece here as well. So go ahead and play with that for just a moment and bring your final piece over and we'll add that to our piece. Okay, let's use the wet on wet technique that we learned here and apply it to our piece here to get this started, won't take it a certain step. We'll only do these items here that we practiced here and then we'll stop and learn something new. And I'm going to go ahead and use this lighter pink. Okay? Now we're gonna do the same technique for this flower. We're going to start with our yellow ocher. When you do a wet on wet paint will only flow where it's already wet. So if we avoid that center than we aren't going to have a problem with it going into the center. And I'm just going to a little bit off with a dryer brush center. Good. Now let's pick up some of that peak. That is so pretty. Hey, now I'm going out your brush really well. Let's finish out the flower. Let's let that dry. 5. Lifting Highlights and Petal Strokes: Another technique that is used very frequently in highlighting is lifting off. It's where you put some paint on and you lift off the center in order to pull a highlight. And we're going to be doing that with some of the flowers that we're doing today. So let's just practice. Got the Sketchpad back out. I've got about a 50, 50 ratio on some blue here. And let's just practice on a circle again. Let's say that that is a pedal. So we've got a pedal and it's coming down to a vine, so to speak. And you paint that on and then gently tap it off and it leaves a shadow of what it was. And then you can come back and touch the bottom, deepen where a stem would be. So it gives the illusion. Let's your eye fill in anything that's missing. And there's various ways to lift off in doing highlights. So let's just practice this a little bit. And then also you can lift it off using your brush. If you have a large area, see how you can just lift that off or if you want it to be. A lot of times I'll do it. If I want it to look curved or something and not flat, then I can use my brush and follow the contour of whatever it is I'm painting. So you can see that there's different methods to it. But lifting off is a great way to do highlighting in all different ways on your painting. So we are going to use this today. And you can also use it in, I'm doing some flowers. Let me show you a different flower that you can use this for the petals. You want to make sure that you have clean tissue when you do this because you don't want anything transferring to your other petals. But let's say that you are doing a really delicate flower. And so usually you would use a variety of colors for those petals. Let's just start. Maybe over here. Whenever you need to dip into the water to clean your brush. So that would be the first layer. I'm just going to try and stick with the palette that I have. So I would use a soft pink, one more layer with the flu. Then this would be the stem coming down. You get the idea. So you can build on that using different colors or all one color and just make each layer darker or lighter. And they can be quite beautiful. Let's go to our piece and we're going to do some flowers. Okay, guys, we are going to add this vine of beautiful little blue flowers. I don't have names for any of these because I just made them up. So let's pick up some of our blues really in blue. Go back to that 5050 ratio. So pretty watered down. I'm eating it using a medium size around, I think it's probably an eight. And I'm just going to take some of that water out. Lay this in. Actually lay a couple in. Before you lift off on these. A secret to sketching these in is to just start with a little circle and then just make a little pointy tip on them. Then we will connect the vine a little bit later. Don't want to get ahead of ourselves. So look how beautiful that is. Alright, now while it's still wet, we're going to use that wet on wet technique, but we're just going to pick up some of that civilian blue that we just laid in and just put a teeny bit where it will connect with the vine. And that just gives a little impression of a shadow or some Vine or whatever your mind puts in when you look at it. I'm going to speed up the video here and finish placing those in. Alright, How did you do? I went ahead and filled the center of that flowering so it can be drying. And we should have all of our little flowers here down the middle going and our pieces starting to come together. This is great. Alright, Let's learn another technique. And this is using that same pedal stroke that we have been using. And we're just going to do a flower bud. And let me just draw it for you real fast. So if this is your stem and you've got a little bit there. So it would be as if you were doing part of a flower like that. And we're going to use the same pedal stroke that we did before. Let me do it dark so you can see it. And you're just going to touch, press, lift. Press lift. And you notice I'm curving the pedal. The center ones pretty much going to come straight down and then we're going to curve the other direction. Okay, let's practice it using a couple of different colors so that you're comfortable. Let's pick up our yellow. I think I'm actually going to do it in Naples yellow. Now. It is still wet. You can take a little bit of color if you want, and drop it in towards the bottom. Ten, let it start to seep upwards. And keep in mind, let me just throw this in here so you catch the visual. We are going to be doing a little stem here, right? So or maybe you don't want blue when you want a little bit of pink instead, you could, you know, Pink would have worked too. So you can play with that. Or maybe you would like gold. I'm just putting it on top of the blue, but I'm just showing you different ideas. This is why it's great to practice, figure out what you want on your final piece. And that's what we will do. Now, let's say that you have a stem that is just some buds. So you're going to have some leaves. And you'll just have a little bud or even something that's partially budding. It's gonna be the same stroke. So let me do it dark. So you're just going to touch and lift, touch and left. I'll look it looks like a heart. And then we'll come in with the green. We do the other side with a different color. And let's just do the yellow. So let's say it's just a bud that hasn't even started to open yet. And we're gonna do a bunch of these two and just fill that in quite easily. Alright? And if you want, you can lift off the tips and leave it darker on the bottom. Or you can lift off the tip like we did and come back in with the gold and touch while it's still wet, little wet on wet and let that seep upwards. There's all different kinds of things that you can do. Sky's the Limit, play with this and decide what you'd like. And we're going to come over to our piece and add a couple of flower buds in. Okay, I've just done a little indicator here on where my flower is going to go. I'm going to use this Naples yellow and row in my petals. This will just be a half flower. So literally just the bud portion. Beautiful. Now I am going to take a little bit of this goal. Not going to go and touch just the bottom left that work its way up a little bit. Alright. This branch, I'm just going to do an extension. Not there, not very big. And I'm going to do It's more circles. Now, do these have to be perfect circles? No, this is just the beginning of our bouquet. And so trust me, when I say it's not going to matter. Just lifting off for some shear minus k. Let's let that dry. While we have our Naples yellow out. I've added a new stem. And I'm just going to add some more pods that are similar to this blue. 6. Vines and Flowers: At this point, it's time for us to put in some of our vines because it's going to be not only a guide for us, for our future flowers, but also you want to have some that look in the distance as well as some in the foreground. And so that's why we have two different colored greens, some one strong and when light. And so you're going to use your scripting brush. And I'm just going to give a quick example here. Then I'm going to fast-forward the camera, but I have found you have a better result if you just go for it. Just go for it without hesitation. If you go really slow, you'll end up being shaky. So I'm gonna go ahead and fast-forward the camera. Just take note that I'll be using both the light and the dark green in different areas and have fun with it. Just do what you wanna do. Alright, that was fun. How did you do guys? I hope it went well for you. It doesn't matter if it's thicker and thinner. And you notice that I just came right on top of whatever was in the path because we're going to fill in with leaves and more flowers. And you want that dynamic. You don't want everything to be exactly this fine line. This is art. Art is not perfect and it needs to be interesting. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and just add another stem to that stem. I'm going to just throw in some little bugs. I'm going to come back now and add these little leaves around them. Alright, I want to take this same green and I'm just going to add some filler leaves in the background. So this is the terre verte. Really quiet see-through fade into the background. Okay, I've added a stem here and we're going to use that lifting off method along with wet on wet to add some little flowers. I'm going to actually do these in hotter pink. I just love this color, this brownish pink, that's really translucent. But we are going to add some of the darker too. Attach the stem. So we're going to do a larger side to more of a point. And then kind of a smaller, it's like almost like a lobster claw. So put that on. And then let's pull it off and then pick up some of this darker touch the bottom. Mine was to dry. Let's add some water. There we go and let that work its way up. Okay. I'm going to fast forward and put some of those buds down that stem. When that's dry, we'll come and put some leaves around those and maybe they can look tucked in nicely. I've added a stem here that I'm going to put some buds on and some stems here. At this point, I'll probably just fast forward the camera and you can follow along with the way that I start filling in. All of this is going to be using the techniques that we've learned today. And then I will slow it down when we start to do some more detail work, this flower needs to be finished up. And there's a few things that we need to talk about with our final highlights. We're almost finished, guys. I think I'm going to add some more detail here and a few more leaves to fill in here and there. And then we'll stop the fast forward or chat for a minute. 7. Final Highlights with Gouache: I hope you've had fun playing with yours and filling in and trying all these new techniques that we've used and learn today. We're on our final step, which is just adding some fun highlights. We're going to be using our white gouache and number one scripter. Of course, you could use a gel pen or something like that. But today's lesson is all about learning new techniques with a paintbrush and using salts and all those kinds of things. And so we want to stick to that plan and use our brush today. So I'm going to be adding some highlights and some fun things just to make it a little more fun. So I'm gonna go ahead and fast-forward the film and you can follow along with me there. Well guys, I think this one is a wrap and you know what that means? It's time for us to sign our name. Always be proud of your work. Always sign your name and claim it. It's a beautiful piece of art. It's unique to you. And I'm so proud of you for learning all these new techniques and throwing them into one piece of art. Thank you so much for joining me on this project, and I'll see you in the next video to wrap up. 8. Class Project: Your class project is to complete one botanical piece by utilizing the modern watercolor techniques I showed you by phone or video step-by-step and completing your piece. If you wouldn't mind just snapping a pig and sharing your finished piece with us. That would be so awesome. We would love to see what you've finished and it would allow us to communicate together there. You can just look for the big green button that says Create Project. And that will allow you to upload a picture real fast. And that would be great. Also if you wouldn't mind taking just a moment and leaving a review for me, I would so appreciate that it helps me learn. I can improve, and it also helps my ratings with the Skillshare folks. Thanks again for taking this class and I will see you in the final video. And we'll wrap up there. 9. Thanks and Congratulations!: Well, congratulations on finishing your class and ending up with a beautiful art piece. I hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot of great modern watercolor techniques that you can put in your toolbox. If you feel like this was beneficial to you and you know, someone else that would benefit from it or that would enjoy this class. You can just click on the Share button and both you and your friend will benefit financially from Skillshare, which is pretty cool. Also, if you could take just a moment and snap a picture of your artwork and upload it in our gallery by looking for the Create Project button. I would love to be able to see your work and it allows us to communicate there together. And everyone can see what the other person has done, which is always fun as the students. Additionally, if you would like to see what's going on here at clumped Cottage studio. You can find me at Kerry centers aren't dot com. You can also see part of my portfolio there. And just take a look at beautiful St. George, Utah. And we'd love to have you join us here in studio at some point. Well, that's all for now, guys. I hope you'll take a look at some of my other classes in Skillshare. And I'll see you in the next class.