Watercolor Tukan - step by step

1. Intro: Hi, my name is Anna and I'm a watercolor artist, graphic designer, and web designer. I specialize in teaching watercolor techniques and I love helping others explore their creativity through painting. In this class, I will guide you step by step through the process of painting a vibrant watercolor token. This class is designed for both beginners and those who already have some watercolor experience. If you're just starting, don't worry, I will break everything down into simple steps so you can follow along with ease. If you've painted before, this is a great opportunity to refine your layering techniques, experiment with textures, and bring more depth to your watercolor paintings. We'll begin with first watercolor layers, working from light to dark, gradually adding details and vibrancy to our painting. Along the way, I will share useful tips on color blending, brush control, and how to create beautiful textures that make your artwork pop. By the end of this class, you will have your own colorful token painting and you will feel more confident in using watercolor techniques that you can apply to future projects. I truly believe that anyone can learn to paint with practice and the right guidance. My goal with this class is to make the process fun, approachable and rewarding. I can wait to see what you create, grab your watercolor supplies and let's get started. 2. Materials: Hi. In this quick video, I will discuss the materials which we will use during this course. First, paper. I will use watercolor paper from paper concept. Their paper is of a good quality, and I will use paper with 25% of cotton. But if you had 100% of cotton paper, you can use it I will use A four size. The second important thing is paints and I will use my color palette. It's not all these colors are from white knight. I have some shades which come from Roman Schmall Aquarius paints. I have my favorite colors in here. You can use whatever colors and whatever brand you have in your house. You don't have to use the same colors as me. You can pick similar tones which you have. If you have granulation colors, especially green and blue, green and blue hues, you can use it during this course because I will use granulating, two granulating shades turquoise and green. Here I have granulating palette from white knight and my favorite color from this palette is aquamarine mist and you can use it in the background and Tiga mist as a green shade. So if you have some granulating shades, you can also use it. Of course, we will use mixing palette to mix our colors. I have here white quash, white quash we will also use to add details at the end to our work and brushes. I have a selection of my brushes in here, so we will use some very thick and small number brushes and bigger brushes to paint bigger areas. So as usual, you also will need water and towel. This is mostly it. Let's get painting. 3. Background: Okay. So our first thing which we will paint will be background layer. And to do that, we will use wet on wet technique and simply three colors. So as you can see, I have my sketch transferred to watercolor paper and right now we will mix some colors for our background. We will mix colors in 50 50. I call it 50%. We have 50% of water and 50% of color. The first color will be Turquoise. I will use I will use granulating colors for this. If you have some granulating colors, you can also use it. But if you don't have it, if you don't have any granulating colors, it's also fine to use regular ones. Perhaps you can use some salt to make some textures on the background. This is my first color. It's turquoise. The second color, I will make some more this turquoise because I usually run out of it very quickly, so I need to have it quite a lot. The second color will be medium green and I usually take autumn green from Aquarius, Roman Schmal it's also granulating one and it's very beautiful. I like it. I just love this color, so it's one of my favorite. I will mix it in the second. We don't need much the green colors. The most we need is blue, wish tone. The green is the second. I also have a second green color and it's like golden green it calls its name is quinacrado gold green. Very hard for me to say. We start with water. I will pick a bigger brush because it runs. It can take more water. On it and we will paint step by step because my paper is not 100% cotton. That's why I will paint it step by step. As you can see, I have placed here some leaves. That's why the colors which will go in here in the background will also be green. I will which my brush, this one holds a lot of water, and I will pick some turquoise and I will place my turquoise. Did you see how it flows? It flows beautifully. And here where this is dry, I will place some water and make it flow. We can even paint the whole the hole or space, which is left in here and put some blue in here similar. So I will add some water to my paper, make it flow more. I will take my autumn green We don't paint the branch, so we left the branch white for a moment. Let's clean my brush, add some water, make this green flow. Pick lighter yellow and lighter yellow. I will add in here. I will add some water in here because I don't want this area to dry. That's why I will add some water. But still, we need to finish that thing. Make it flow more. Okay. In here, I will add some blue. So stroke wise. Once again, Clean my brush, add some water, and in here, I will add some green. I picked the lighter one, and I will add some autumn green to it. And also, remember to paint this area, this small area, and I will paint it with turquoise. Don't leave it white. Okay. And around that branch, I will use green. So first, water. Add some green. It doesn't matter which one you pick. One of these two greens. Okay. Look how this granulates this blue. It's really it creates very beautiful effect. And once again, I place some water around that leaf. And in that area, I will place more green than blue. One, it can be very subtle. I don't have to be a lot of the screen, very dark green. It can be very delicate. The last thing well turquoise, so ugly water to make it flow. Take some turquoise. And the same here. Okay, and water to make it flow. While this is still wet, I can pick my turquoise once again and pop it somewhere to create this interesting effect. And right now, we need to leave it to dry completely before we move on to the next stage. 4. Branch: Okay. My background is dry now. Look how beautiful textures this blue color has made up. Right now, we will paint the branch. To do that, we need two brown colors, one medium value and one dark. The first color will be red char this is my first color and I will mix it in the 50 50 ratio. This is my red ara color. I call it medium brown, but it's a brown with a tint of red and the second color is dark brown. That brown or I have brown from Roman smell and it calls October 2023 and it's more reddish brown. Then it's more with purple inside, and this one is more with red tone. I will choose this one because it suits better with my red char I will mix it this is our first layer for the branch, so we shouldn't be worry much about how it will turn out. Let's start from left to right because I'm afraid that I will go with my hand and smudge the color. That's why I will switch at the beginning for the smaller brush and place water in here. And first, I will pick my lighter tone and add it at the top of the branch. And here, right here right now, I'm cleaning my brush, make it dry on paper tab and I will switch to the darker tone. And I will add this darker value at the bottom of the branch. In that way, these two mix with each other. If you see that the top brown is too light, simply take it once again and add it to the branch. Okay, this area will leave to dry and we move on to the next part. I will put some water take the light brown, put it in here and make it flow. Flow to the branch. Take the darker one. You can even add more dark tone in here under the leg because we have some shadow in that area and live that way. And let's move on to the last part of the branch. My light value. Let it flow. Let it flow once again and pick darker tone. Okay. I see that I have too much water in here, so I will dry my brush and pick this water on my brush and I will dry it on a paper tab and I will take the darker color and put it in here because we have some shadow in this area. And once again, I will take my lighter tone. And at the top of the branch. This area is already almost dry and as you can see, it's not as dark as it seems at the beginning. So we can leave it that way, leave it to dry. 5. Beak: At this stage, we will move on to the beak and the first layer on the beak and the first layer around the eye. So to do that, we need to mix some colors. So the first color color will be cadmium orange. So this is my cadmium orange and I'm mixing it to be quite thick. I'm mixing it with 50% water. I call it 50, 50%, it's like 50% of water and 50% of paint. So it's not very watery, it's not very translucent and it's quite thick. This is our first color. The three colors will mix in the same ratio. The second color will be rose. It's a light shade of red. I call it candy red. This is our second color, and the third color will be naples yellow. See these colors look great together in trio, so we will start with them. I will pick smaller brush. This area is quite small, I need smaller brush, and we will start from the lightest color of this tree. I will start from apples yellow and I will lay the first layer from that color. After that, I clean my brush, make it dry on a paper towel, and take the cadmium orange color and add it to the left side and around the eye. Because this area is a bit darker. Let it flow and we will add some red to it. But at this very moment is too dry. We need to wait a minute to make it less watery and then we will add more red or we can do the trick. The trick is that I will take this rose color straight from the pan because it's not that watery on my brush and I will add it to the edge oh the left edge and around the eye. It will flow, but not that much as it would if the paint will have more water in itself. Let's move on to the beak. We start once again from the lightest color, and we will start from the top part of the beak. I will place my cadmium koples yellow color, add some water to it to make it flow more because I want this the transformation between colors to be more slightly. So I will add more water. Let's pick our cadmium orange right now and add it from the end of the beak to the half of the beak. We don't place it to the beginning and at the bottom. We want the top part to be the lightest and we also will remove some color from it. This part is a bit darker. You if you paint here just like I did, don't matter, don't bother. Don't be worried because we will paint it later with the darker color so it doesn't matter. Right now, I'm cleaning my brush, make it dry on a paper towel, and I will lift some color from the top of the beak. I will switch to a little bigger brush because I will take four. I had two and I switch to four. And I will lift some color from that part of the beak to make it lighter. I will switch once again to the number two, pick my rose color and once again, add it to the bottom of the beak we can add it even more because as you know, the watercolor paints get lighter when they dry, so I know that this will be lighter. I want this down part to be even darker than This is right now, so I will pick my rose color straight from the pan and I will add perhaps we need to wait a little bit to make it less watery and right now we move on to the lower part, but be careful because the top part is very wet so we don't want it to to flow to the bottom of the pig, we can leave some part white, but it's not necessary. If you don't do it, don't worry because still this is the first layer. We will place another layer on top of that. I paint with the lightest colors on apple, yellow, then switch to the cadmium orange, add a bit of cadmium orange to it. Just like before, clean my brush, make it dry, and pick some rose color. I want it to be more thick, so I add paint to my mixture, and I will because when it's thick, it don't flow as much. And here I will add this red color to the lower part of the beak. As you can see, the top part it has less water because it dried a little, so I'll add more red to the edge of the to the edge of the top part of the beak. We need to leave it to dry. See you in the next step where we will paint the rest of the body, the rest of the head, so we will move on to this part and this part. 6. Head: At this stage, we will paint mostly we will paint the rest of the head of our bird. The bird is not dry yet. The first element is safe to paint is this area below the eye. So we need some colors for this area. First one is cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, and we have that color. I will only add more water to it because I needed to be more translucent and more transparent. This is first color, even more water. The second color is gray and I have this pigeon gray color. I call it pigeon gray because it looks like pigeons gray, but it's misty morning. Color is very beautiful and it's granulating one. I will create beautiful effect on our work. This color also needs to be mixed with a lot of water and it should be very light, very translucent. If you don't have this color, you can still use paints gray mixed with a lot of water to create a very light shade of gray. This my beak and the area around the eye is almost dry and let's clean up. Let's change the water because we need some we will paint wet on wet, so we need clean water for the stage. The first thing, I will pick my number for brush and it's round brush. So it's easier for me to paint. I will simply place water area which we will paint at the moment. So I will cover the whole area with the water. I will pick my gray color first and I will add it here around under the eye and under the beak. And make it flow. I will do the same with my camium orange. I will pick my orange and add it here and let it flow. I want this color to be very light and it will be very light when it's dry still I want to create this orange effect in that area. I need to wait a second and place my second a touch of gray in here. I'll switch to the smaller brush because with the smaller brush, I will take less paint with water and paint from my mixing palette because I don't want this darker color to flow as much as it did the slighter one. While I'm talking, I'm also waiting for this area to dry a little if it's not as water as it was at the beginning, I'll add some more gray in here because I want this area near the eye and near the big to be darker, not the darkest because it's not very dark, but I want to have this transition between the darkest gray to the lightest and to the orange, and I will do it that way. So we will leave it to dry. I wanted to say that we will mix the pains gray color, but we don't have to mix it because we need to have very thick color. The trick is that I usually have my palette sprayed with water, so my color is quite thick in here. So I only mix it with the water with the drop of the water which was sprayed in here, and I have very thick pains gray color. So I will take it from there. And perhaps I will switch to the smaller brush because this one is too big. I know that this is also t, and this is two, but I feel that this tree is smaller than the number three from Neptune. Once again, I will pick my paints gray straight from the straight from the pen. And I will paint this area. I have my cat's hair on the brush. I will paint and we can paint and this area, the top and the bottom as a one for a moment. We'll paint our eye. So this white spot we will leave the iris of the bird and around that. Okay, this looks even nicer when it has painted eye. So let's move on to the head and still with the paints gray on our brush. But there is one trick. When you paint the right side of the bird, try to imitate with the simple strokes, try to imitate the feathers on the head. So let's paint it this way here and the rest you can paint almost as a whole. Sometimes I just pick water and add it in here and don't worry if you leave some white areas in here, it even looks nicer if you leave some white because it looks like the light is reflecting on the feathers. But remember that these areas shouldn't be very big. They should they should be rather small. And we will paint it till this end with the very light strokes, simulate the feathers here. Perhaps we will add some water. Okay. It looks quite nice. I see that my gray flow to this black. So I know I see that it's almost dry now, so I can change that, make some corrections, and we will leave it to dry. And in the next stage, we will move on to the body of the 7. Body part 1: Okay, so right now, we will paint the feathers of our toucan. So to do that, we need to mix four colors. One is a turquoise color. I will use the same color which I did to paint the background. And we mix it in 50, 50% ratio, not very much with water and not very thick. This is our first color. The second is once again, our green, this was a gold green. This was autumn green. Once again is this autumn color. I call it mixed value green. I will need to add some pigment to my mixture. This is our second color. Like I said before, I like this color because it's granulating one. I will create beautiful effects on our work. The third color will be cobalt cobalt blue. This is my cobalt color. I need to I need to have more of this color, so I will add water and more paint. Cobalt blue is our third color, and the last one is cobalt blue mixed with faint gray. Then we will create this very beautiful dark shade of blue. This color looks like denim color, dark denim color. So I love it. It's one of my favorite mixtures, but I need to make it. More Okay, so we have our colors ready. Let's change our water because we will paint wet and wet the first layer and our water is dark, so we need to change it. Let's start from layering the water. The rest of the head almost is already dry so it won't flow and Let's put some water in here. Remember, this is our first layer, so we don't have to worry about the shape of the wings and the feathers. This is the first layer and it can be very Organic. When I have everything wet now, I will start from the turquoise, the first color. It's just like my base color. I will put it in here. When I see that it doesn't flow, so I think it's not wet enough in here. I will add more water. To make the flow easier. Now, let's pick some green and place it at this area. You can even add it somewhere like spots dots in here. Next, I will clean my brush, make it dry on paper towel and I will pick my cobalt color, and as you can see, the down part of the swings is darker and the left part is darker. We will add some required color. But remember, this is not the darkest one. I will add my color in here on wings, make them flow. Oh Okay. And right now, we will pick the darkest color and perhaps I will switch to smaller brush because it will be easier for me to add this dark color in the areas where I want. So I will pick my darkest color and I will add it on the left side of the wings and also at the bottom of the wings. And in here. Well, it looks quite dark. It's my first toucan. The second one was very light, and the first one turned out quite dark. That's why I added some details with the crayons later, and we will see how our toucan will look when it dries because it looks very dark right now because the watercolor is still wet. When it dries, it gets lighter. We will decide if it gets too dark, then we will try to make it lighter with details made with crayon and guash. But it depends. It depends how it looks when it's dry. So at that stage, we can still add some green details like in here and we will leave it to dry. At the next stage, we will move on to this area and detail and to do that, we need the wing to be dry because we don't want this color to downward, see you in the next step. 8. Body part 2: We will move on right now to the rest of the bird, and I forgot to add some details on the head. Perhaps let's start with the head. And to do that, we will need only pain scray. I will spray my water into the pan, take a very small brush. Mix it because we need a thick paint. Let's try on a scrap paper how thick it is. Because I want to add some details on the head and they will be just simulation of the feathers, we need to add just these tiny marks. Let's add these details in here. On this dark area. It will be visible. I know that background is very dark, but still it will be visible just as the delicate marks, and it's enough for us. And we can simulate feathers like this. We can go to the slighter background. We also need paints gray. I will mix it on my palette. But I will take a bigger brush to do that. I need this paint to be in 50 50 ratio, 50% of water and 50% of paint. See on a scrap paper how this looks. Perhaps more paint to this. The second color will be rose just like on a beak. I simply add water to it and add some paint, Rose. Once again in 50 50 ratio, we have rose color. If you don't have rose color, you can choose whatever red you have on your palette. The third color will be once again our gray. I call it pigeon gray, and I love it. It's misty morning from Roman Schmal from Aquarius. We have these three colors, and we're ready to paint. But before painting, let's change our water. Okay, let's start with the water. I simply add some water in the area. This area is not big, so I will switch to smaller brush. I'll take two from Princeton. And at the beginning, I will use as a first color, I will use this grayish one. And simply let it flow on this area. I I needed to be very light at the bottom. So if I see that it's dark out there, I try to pick the paint with my clean brush. And while this is still wet, I'll take pens gray and I will add it up here. I want to achieve the effect that the darkest tones are at the top and under the wing because we have some shadow in there. But the rest is gray. And I clean my brush, once again, pick my grayish color and paint the fit. I will call it fit because I don't know how this calls, even in polish. And we leave it to dry. And let's move on to the rest of detail now. And once again, let's start with the water. The darkest shade should be below the wing because we have shadow in there. So once again, we start with the grayish color. I just add it and let it flow. Switch to my smaller brush. This time, I will pick my rose color, and I will add it to the tail because we have some red tones in here. My main inspiration for this Work was work generated in mid journey and on my mid journey file, the toucan had a lot of reddish tones in detail. That's why I don't know if it really has, if real toucan has these reddish tones, but I like the effect which mid journey achieved. I try to paint the same way. That's why we had this reddish tone. Right now I'm switching to once again to pens gray and like I said before, we have some shadow here. And some darkish tones also on the tail. But I'm painting only with the tip of my brush right now to create this effect. Okay, let's leave it to dry. My feet is almost dry. This part is still wet. I wanted to add some details just like I did here, but this part is still wet, so we can't do it right now because everything will flow. We need to wait til it dries, but the feet is already dry and we can add some details onto our feet. I will pick my gray once again. Perhaps I will add more paint to my mixture to make it more thick. M so just like you see, I have thick paint and look how this color is granulating. It's very beautiful. I just love it. It's one of my favorite. That's why. If you paint with me, you will see it often, just like autumn green shade. You have to try it really. But I will pick my gray and I paint some details on my feet. Line the fingers. I will call it fingers because I don't know how this single elements on birds fit cold. And I will make some marks in here just to indicate the skin, the skin fracture. With the same color, we add this factor in texture in here and also we will simulate some lighter feathers on itself in this lighter area. We need to switch to pens gray now and we need our pins gray to be fixed so I will pick it straight from the pan. Let's test on a piece of paper if I can paint a single thin line, so I can. I see that the density of the paint is enough, and I will add some details in here simulating our feathers, just like we did on the head. Add some details. Details are very important in our work. Okay. Let's stop there. This is our first layer. We have the whole body of the toucan. In the next video, we will do the details. The details on the beak will start from the beak. Once again, we will move to the body and we will finish our work with more details. See you in the next video. 9. Beak details: Let's paint the second layer on a beak and around the eye. To do that, we once again need to mix our two colors. Orange and rose or it could be even darker red than rose, it could be like zarine crimson. A. If you have Azarin, you can use it this time. Let's mix our colors and we need these colors to be thick. And I will use colors which I used before. So rose once again rose, but I will add a bit of isarin to this mixture to make it darker. And I will use cadmium orange. Okay. We have our colors. I will pick a smaller brush. I will start from the beak because I'm right handed. And if I start, start from this area, at first, I I can smudge it. I will start from the beak. I will use only the red colors. Let's start from our Alizarin and place it on the beak like that. We want the end of the beak to make the end of the beak darker. I will put my colors this way. And let's clean up our brush. And with the wet brush, let's smudge it smudge the edges. Make them lighter. We need this layer to dry a little, so we will move on to the bottom part of our beak. And once again, we do the same add this darker value at the top of the beak. With the wet brush, smudge it a little, smudge the edges. They shouldn't be as visible as it were. And we do similar process in here around the eye. I will add red in here and around the eye. In here, and we will smudg it. The places where you can do this, but because not everywhere, you can blend the edges. Something like that, and our top of the beak is almost dry now, so we will add more details. We will add these lines on the beak. With the tip of my brush, I will make these lines and I will make them in different sizes. One is higher, one is very little oh so varied sizes. And perhaps I will add some more value in here because I want the end of the beak to be very red. Desdh the darkest reddish color. I will add it once again and I will do similar thing below in the bottom of my beak. I will add once again Aline. And once again blended. Okay. 10. Leaves: Let's add some details to the branch right now. We will use the same colors like before. So my light brown was red ochre and dark brown was October 2023 from Aquarius. I will add just water to my palette to this color, and let's check these colors on scrap paper. I think I need more paint in my mixture so I will add more paint. I want my colors to be thicker, the less transparent, I have my cuts hair everywhere. I need them to be more solid. The second one, the lighter brown, it was red. This is my second color. Okay. And with the smaller brush, I will start with the lighter color, and let's add some details to our branch. Remember, they shouldn't be very straight line. They should be jaggy, shard, curved jaggy lines. Oh. Okay. I will clean my brush and switch to the darker color. And with the darker, I will outline the bottom. But with the not solid line, I just like I just paint dotted line. And also, within the branch, I will leave marks. Once again, just these jaggy lines. Okay. And let's paint our leaves at that stage. So once again, I will mix these two colors which I have used in background. So it was autumn green. And the second one was quadricon gold green. So I will mix these two on my palette, and I will make them in 50 50 ratio. O. If you don't have these two colors, you can mix one medium green. Autumn green is my favorite one. This is autumn green. I have similar color from other firm and it's called fern color. So fern is very similar to autumn green, but autumn green is granulating one, and the second one is quadriconGreen, gold. Okay. So we have our colors done. Like if I have something which I want to paint loose, I usually take my mop from Roman Schmall because it holds a lot of water and a lot of paint. So let's start from this medium green. And with the very loose strokes, you can paint leaf here. Just like you see, you can leave some unpainted areas in here because the background is green in this place, so we can do that to make more interest. I have only one leaf sketched in here, but there is a place to make a second one. I will take my other green, so this green gold, and I will paint with the green gold, and I don't mind if these two colors bleed to each other. And at my first work, I have also painted leaves in here and I want to do it the same way. So I have left some green space in here. I will start from the lighter color and Don't worry if the shape of the leaf is not exactly what you want because we will add some details later, and it won't be as much visible. Perhaps I will switch to my medium cream and I want them to bleed this time, so I'll paint it this way. Okay, let's leave it to Dra. 11. Last watercolor layer: This time, we will paint some details. We will paint details on leaves and on a bird on a bird, but without the guash for a moment. So first paint we need to prepare is our middle green. So in my case, it was autumn green. So it was here on my palette. I just add some water to it. If you want, you can add more shadow in here, so I'll place a little bit of that color in here, clean my brush and with the wet brush, blend it with the rest. Remember, you can play with your work. You can do whatever you want because it is your work. You can try new things. For example, like that, and we can do similar stuff in here because I don't like this white area and I will make that leaf darker in here. Okay, so we leave green at the moment, and we will move on to our bird once again. And we need our two dark colors from here. So one was cobalt blue, and the second one was cobalt blue mixed with paints gray. So we need these two colors back. I think I have them here. So I just add some water. So this is my fallow blue. I love that color. And this is my fallow blue. This was my cobalt blue, sorry, and this is my cobalt blue mixed with pink gray. I just need to add more water because it is too dark. So it looks like this. And this color I need more. That's why I will add water, and I will add color from the palette once again because I see right now that it's not enough for me because I think it will end while painting and I don't want that. It don't have to be very dark so you can mix it in 50 50 ratio. Let's go back to our work. Just like before, I will take a smaller brush. We'll pick my lighter tone from these two, so it is cobbled blue first and I will add details just like we did with the green. We will paint some details. Outline the wing, the right wing. We will start outlining our wings. Let's pick the darker hue, so the cupboard mixed with paints gray and do similar stuff at the beginning, some marks, but with this darker, we don't go to the inside of the bird to the inside of our wing. We only create that spots where is dark and we outline our wings. Once again, We create the shape of our wings. It looks better now. Don't you agree with these old details, it looks much better. Perhaps I will add some dark details in here. Okay. And with this dark tone, we once again, add some details to the tail. So we will define its shape You can vary the line. Sometimes it can be very thin and sometimes it can be thicker. It adds very interesting detail to your work. I will add more suggestions of the feathers in here. We'll add more details in here. Well, I will paint this bird slightly different than the first one and it doesn't matter. It's just like I said, treat your work as a test and experimentation sometimes and see what you like better. Well, I do it in a different way and this one in different way, while I will have two works of the same bird, I will see which effect, which effects, which techniques I like better. Sometimes you can treat it as an experiment. Okay, we need to leave it to dry and in the next video, we will move on to guash. 12. Gwash: The last thing, the white quash details with the white quash. I have my washing here, so I'll simply add water to it, or I have dirty brush. I need to clean it more. I'll simply add the water to it and move my brush so that it dilutes the paint and make it tick on my brush. On a scrap paper, you can test if you can paint a fin line with your brush. I see that I can't I will mix some more to have more hick paint. If you don't have the white wash, you can simply use gel pen or something like that or Posca pen, white posca is also fine. I will check once again. And with our white on a brush, we will create some light on our work. If you painted this area, I have left it white. But if you painted this area, you can paint it with white gash and make it visible again. For example, I will add some it's too thick, so I will leave it. But if you don't have this line, just paint it. The same. If you painted your eye, I don't have the second light. Wow, a simple detail and it looks much better. If you painted this white dots on iris, you can paint them right now around here, we will add some white areas. We will add some white feathers, simulation of white feathers in feathers in here. With a simple short strokes, it could be lines, it could be dots. We will make the simulation of feathers. The same on the head, we will add the simulation of the light shining on some feathers on the head. And perhaps in here, it could be simple dots if it's hard for you to make this very short and thin line, it could be just dots. I also creates interest. We make similar lines like we did before, but with white this time, this way the bird will pop, pop more. Let's add some. Here, we have very dark area, and I want to make it a bit lighter. That's why I add some thin lines in here simulating that I have feathers, different feathers in here. We will add some white marks in here. And on our on our tail. And we can add some details also on a tail. This time, I see that my leaves here are too dark, so I want to add some details here to distinguish one leaf from another. Remember that this is your work. You can do whatever you want. You can stop at this stage. You don't have to add this white quash on leaves, if you don't like it, if you don't like the effect. But for me, this area went too dark. That's why I will add some. Well, this looks a bit strange. That's why I will add just a few lines in here and there. Okay. So we are done now. So the last thing which we need to do is to sign our work and remove the masking tape. Wow, it looks. It's beautiful. I like the effect. After removing the masking tape, I created a very beautiful work which you can frame or gift someone. It's different from this one, just like you see, but each work is different and it's okay that it's different, and it's okay that you paint for the second or third time with different paints, different colors, or different techniques. So I hope you like it and see you in the wrap up video. 13. Final: Congratulations on finishing the class. I hope you enjoyed painting this vibrant token with me and that you feel more confident using watercolors. We covered a lot in this class, starting with the sketch the layering colors, adding details, and experimenting with textures. I really hope these techniques will help you in the future watercolor projects. Now, I'd love to see what you've created. If you share your paintings in the project section, I will make sure to take a look and I always enjoy seeing how each student adds their own unique touch to the painting. Don't be afraid to experiment with colors and techniques. Every piece is special and there is no right or wrong way to express your creativity. If you enjoy this class, I'd really appreciate it if you could leave a review. Your feedback is incredibly valuable. It helps me improve and create even better classes for you in the future. Plus, it helps other students decide if this class is right for them. If you're interested in learning more watercolor techniques, be sure to follow me here on skill share, so you will be notified when I release new classes. I also share tips behind the scenes, insights and additional tutorials on my social media. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find me on Instagram. Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope this is just the beginning of your watercolor journey and I can't wait to see what else you create. Happy painting.