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Watercolor Waterfall Painting: Learn to Paint Forest Waterfall Landscape

teacher avatar Shiba Basan, Art influencer and Content Creator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:56

    • 2.

      Materials Used

      2:31

    • 3.

      Basic Sketch

      4:28

    • 4.

      Painting The First Layer

      5:27

    • 5.

      Painting The Rocks

      7:17

    • 6.

      Painting The Flowing Water

      4:58

    • 7.

      Painting The Background Leaves

      6:21

    • 8.

      Adding Final Details

      5:56

    • 9.

      Final Thoughts

      0:40

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Watercolor Waterfall Painting Tutorial: Learn how to create a stunning forest waterfall landscape with this step-by-step watercolour painting tutorial. Perfect for beginners and advanced artists alike! Watch and learn as I guide you through the process of painting a tranquil forest waterfall scene with watercolors.

Enhance Your Artistic Skills with Watercolor Waterfall Painting,  A Journey Through Nature. Embark on a creative journey inspired by the beauty of nature as you learn to paint a mesmerizing forest waterfall. Through this informative tutorial, you'll explore different techniques of watercolor painting, from washes and glazes to creating depth and adding intricate details. Expand your artistic skills and let your imagination flow with each stroke of your brush! 

Perfect for anyone looking to improve their painting skills. This Easy Watercolor Waterfall Painting is a Step-by-Step Watercolor Tutorial that is a walkthrough of the process of painting a serene forest waterfall with watercolors. Grab your paints and brushes and join in on the fun!                                                                         

Today, I’m going to show you my process of Drawing and Painting a Beautiful Waterfall Stream Landscape with a forest through a step-by-step guide. 

This class is for beginners, intermediate and advanced artists, hope you will enjoy this class.

Art supplies I use:-

  • Fabriano Artstico Traditional White Watercolour Paper Cold Pressed 300 GSM A5 Size
  • BRUSTRO Artists Natural Hair MOP Brush Set ( Brush No. 0, 2, 4)
  • Synthetic Round Brush No. 4 and 8
  • Windsor and Newton Cotman Watercolors (12 Shades basic) and 10 ml Cobalt Turquoise
  • Masking tape (1/2 inch)
  • Tubs of water
  • Hair Dryer
  • Cotton Cloth to Clean Brush

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Shiba Basan

Art influencer and Content Creator

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Hello, I'm Shiba basan, an Art lover, Art influencer, and Youtube Content creator from India. I'm also the creator and Illustrator behind Draw ith Shiba, Paint with Shiba, and Art and Sketch Youtube channels where I make Watercolor, acrylic and soft pastel, oil pastel, and pencil drawings. I live in Kolkata (India) with my Mom and brother and I must say it's a beautiful place with a rich cultural heritage.
I had worked with many mediums, but a special place goes to watercolors because we cannot control them and their results are unpredictable. They have always kept me excited, and Every time I try, I get a new experience.
My passion for paintings and drawings has always kept me energetic and helped me in trying out new things with more confidence. On the other side, when I am free... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hi friends, Thanks for joining the class. My name is Shiba. I'm an Artist instructor and a Utuber. In today's painting class, I will paint a beautiful water for landscape painting using watercolors. I love to do watercolor paintings. Mostly the old rural areas, landscapes, seascapes, birds and animals, and much more. I try to keep my paintings more vibrant and full of rich colors, which you will find today in my watercolor painting class. I'm very excited to share all those steps that help me in making this beautiful painting and walking you through my materials so that you can even try and follow along without wasting time. Let's get started. 2. Materials Used: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. In this part, I will discuss the materials I use for my watercolor paintings, starting with the paper. The paper which I'm using is Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper, 300 GSM, cold pressed. I'm using a cold press paper because it creates beautiful bouquet effects in your painting. And it does not dry out soon and gives us more time to work on the paintings. This comes in cut out sheets of various sizes, but here I'm using an A five size. The colors which I'm using is from Winsor and Newton Cotman, student grade watercolors. This color is very good for anyone who wants to start their beautiful art journey. The names of the colors on my palette is displayed on the screen. As you can see, I have replaced the white color with cobalt turquoise from white nights. As I don't use white in my painting, for the brushes, I'm using three mob brushes of size 02 and 4.2 synthetic round brushes, number 4.8 These three mob brushes are sufficient to make a painting of an A five size. If you don't have a similar brush, you can use any brush you have. It's just that you must be comfortable while doing the painting. These two synthetic brushes are good to add details. You can use any round brush you have. Just see that the tapes should be sharp so that you can add details for drawing the sketch. I'm using a mechanical pencil with 0.7 lead. If you don't have a mechanical pencil, you can use normal HB pencil as well. This is a needed eraser that I will use to erase my sketch when required. I'm also using a half inch masking tape to tape down my paper at the time of painting, so that my paper doesn't get buckled when applying water. This is a jar of water if you want, you can use two jars of water, one to clean the brush and the other one as a mixing medium hair dryer to dry my painting when required. I'm also using a cotton cloth to wipe any extra color pigments from the brush while doing the painting. Friends, these are all the materials that I will be using for my painting class. Quickly grab and join me and I see in the next part. 3. Basic Sketch: Hello everyone. Welcome back. In today's painting video, we're going to paint beautiful waterfall painting using water colors. Let's start. The first thing we will do is apply masking tape. You can use any masking tape you have, or you can use washy tape as well. Let's supply the masking tape on all the four corners. The use of this masking tape is to keep the paper straight as we apply layers of water. Basically, this masking tape will avoid buckling of paper once it becomes wet. Applying masking tape is the first thing that I do whenever I start my painting. The paper which I'm using is from Fibriano Artistico watercolor paper, 300 GSM, cold pressed. Once we are done applying the masking tape, we will start with the sketching. For sketching, I'm using a mechanical pencil with lead 0.7 You can use simple pencil as well. You don't have to have the mechanical pencil for this painting. Now let's start with the sketch. I'm starting my painting by drawing the rocks first. This place is for the flowing water. Now let's draw the rocks on the right side. This rocks are a little bigger than the others. Try to keep the shape natural by making them a little irregular in shape the way I'm doing, we are done with the first one. Let's draw some rocks on the left side. While painting these rocks, try to place them behind so that the first rock looks bigger. And in the front, while painting these rocks, we will try to keep them a little round in shape from the top. Also, we will put some cracks and cuts the way we see on the rocks in the real world, you can see. Now I'm adding some pencil lines on the top to mark the areas of highlights and also for the scars that we see on the stones and rocks. This is the area from where we will be showing the flowing water. Now let's add some rocks here on the top. This is the small rock and this is the portion from where the water will be coming. Now the water is flowing here and creating small water waves. Let's draw some lines to indicate the water waves. I will also draw some reflections, which I will do in the latter part. You must have seen some small stones and rocks near the waterfall the same way. Let's draw some here as well. Try to keep the shape a little irregular so that our painting looks more natural. This is the place where I will add a tree. For drawing the trees, just draw the outline, defining the basic shape that you have an idea regarding the shape of the tree. Just outline the tree and the rest of the part we will see when we will be applying the paints. This is our tree. This area consists of trees which is at the back, and this is the flowing water which is moving down, forming the waves. Our sketch is complete, nothing more is required. Let's move on to a next part, where we will be making the sketch light and start painting. 4. Painting The First Layer: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Let's start with the painting. The first thing we will do before we start painting is to make the sketch light using a needed eraser. This will keep the painting fresh by removing any extra lead that can come and make the paints dark while painting. I'm starting my painting by using brush number four, which is a mob brush. Let's paint the upper portion first, which consists of mainly the trees. Let's supply water to wet the paper before we apply the paints. Now wet the paper well, by adding two to three layers of water, you can see I'm applying the water only on the upper portion, leaving all the stones and the rocks behind. Once you're done, we will start painting. We will apply lighter colors to this portion. For this, I'm using the mixture of cadmium yellow mixed with lemon yellow and a little bit of sap green. You can see that the overall mixture looks yellow, as I've added a very little amount of sap green. Now I've added some more cadmium yellow. Let's add some more sap green. Now let's increase the amount of sap green. The trees which are on the left, I want them to look a little darker. For this, I'm increasing the amount of sab green basically in this portion. Let's complete painting the background by painting the unpainted wet areas. This is the first layer of the background and we have completed painting it none. Let's paint the flowing water of the water fall. For this, we will apply the water only in this portion. We'll wet this area the same way we did for the background. Two to three layers of water is sufficient. Before we start our painting, let's start the paint. The first color I'm using is cobal turquoise from white nights. I'm changing my brush to brush number zero. Now to paint the water, I need a little bit of Viridian green. And we'll add this to cobal turquoise from white nights. Then we will apply it to the paper, the water we have already applied. The only thing we have to do is to place the colors correctly in the required areas. Let's supply the light mixture of Viridian green mixed with cobal turquoise. As you can see, now I'm adding some Viridian green to add some contrast to the flowing water. Let's supply the paint horizontally to give an effect of ripples and water waves. You can see I'm making it more dark by increasing the amount of viridian green. Now we will add a little touch of yellow. Let's add some lemon yellow to the water, and blend it with the layers of ferritin green. Now it's time to add some touches of lemon yellow to show the reflections. You can see how beautiful the water is looking. The same thing you have to do at some of the portions. We will also pick the colors using a dam brush. To add the reflections, let's pick some more color using a dam brush. Also, make sure that every time you pick the color, you have to make your brush dry. Let's give some highlights here as well. For this, I'm using the same damp brush. We're done with the first layer of the background and the flowing water. Now we will start with the painting of the rocks, but before that, let's make the painting dry and remove any extra water from the paper. There was a little bit of water which I picked up using brush. Now let's make the painting dry. Here I'm using a hair dryer to dry my painting. Friends, we're done with this part, Let's move onto our next part. We will be painting the rocks and stones, and I see you there. 5. Painting The Rocks: Hello everyone, Welcome back. In this part, we will pain the rocks. First, we will apply water to wet the area the area where we have applied. The water has now become damp. Whatever the color we will apply, it will easily get blended. Let's apply the colors for the lighter areas. We will apply brown directly. As you can see, you can see while applying the paint, I am using my brush diagonoly. Now let's add some Viridian green to make the paint dark. We will apply this mixture only to the dark areas. You can see I've covered the remaining portion of the rock using mixture of burn Siena mixed with Viridian green. Let's add some touch of burn sienna, which is the brown. You have noticed that the paper was still wet after application of burn sienna. That was the good time to add some dark tones using mixture of burn sienna mixed with viridian green. For the dark shadow areas, we will use mixture of burn sienna mixed with ultramarine blue. Let's quickly mix this mixture. Now I'm adding some small brush strokes with dark mixture of burn sienna mixed with ultramarine blue. We will also apply this paint at the base of the rock. Now let's supply this mixture of Burn Siena mixed with ultramarine blue at the base of the rock. I hope you understood how I've created the rock using only two paints. The first rock is done, we have completed the first layer. Now let's paint the other rocks here. I'm using the same technique before painting the rock. We will wet the rocks first using water. Once you're done, we will again mix the same colors. Let's supply burn Siena, which is the brown directly to the lighter areas. You can see I've left some of the portion unpainted to show highlights on the rocks. I'm also adding little touches of crimson red to make the rock look little red in color. This will add some redness to the rocks. And also in real world, every rock has a different shape and color. Bringing the same thing to your painting will add beauty to it the way we did for the earlier rocks. Now let's add some more dark areas using mixture of Burn Siena mixed with ultramarine blue. I'm adding some rock stars using the same mixture. Let's add some more lines to draw these cars and the cracks. Now we have done with the rocks, now let's spin the remaining ones. Let's supply the water. It's time to add a wash of burn sienna for the lighter areas at this place, I'm adding a touch of blue to show this portion is in the shade with less of the sunlight. For this, I'm adding a touch of ultramarine blue and we will keep it fresh by blending it with the blow layer. You can see how I've added the blue and blended it only at the edges so that the freshness of the blue remains intact. Now let's add some shadows. For this, I'm using the mixture of burn sienna, which is the brown. And mixing it with ultramarine blue. I'm applying this color only in the shadow areas. I'm also taking a little bit of crimson red to add some touches of red. Now let's add some cracks using the same mixture. Now this is a dark mixture, and adding these few dots here and there will bring change to the overall beauty of the painting. Now let's add some dark strokes of burn sienna mixed with ultramarine blue. And also between the rocks. We have completed painting these rocks. Now let's draw the small rock for this. First we will apply the water. Now I'm adding a touch of burn sienna for the lighter areas. Just for the understanding purpose you can see in this area, I have left some of the areas white to show the highlights and reflections of the sun. Also, in this potion, I have not applied the pain. This portion will also remain. As for the shadows, I'm using ultramarine blue mixed with burn Siena, which is the brown. We have completed painting this rock as well. Now it's time to paint these smaller stones and rocks on the right side. Let's supply water. Once it is done, we will apply burn Siena again. Let's paint the other one. Time to add some shadows. Let's use the mixture of burn Siena mixed with ultramarine blue. You can see how beautifully we have painted all the rocks and stones. In the next part, we will add some more shadows and contrasts to the flowing water. Let's move on to our next part and learn how we can do that. 6. Painting The Flowing Water: Hello everyone, Welcome back. In this part, we will add details by increasing the contrast of the flowing water. But before we apply paints, let's quickly clean the palette. Now let's take some cobal turquoise and add a little bit of ultramarine blue. Now I will apply the blue on the shadow areas of the water. You can paint them vertical the way I am painting. Let's add a little bit of more details. We have completed this portion using the mixture of ultramarine blue mixed with cobal turquoise. Now let's add some shadows using the mixture of cobal turquoise mixed with ultramarine blue. You can see that this layer is quite light as I'm using more of the water. Let's add a few more lines to paint the waves using blue color. You can see I've applied very dilute layer of paint. Let's increase the contrast by using the mixture of ultramarine blue mixed with Viridian green. We will continue from the same portion we left as the paint. There is still live. This will also help in adding some soft blends. You can see I'm painting some horizontal strokes and connecting them with one another while applying the paint. Try to keep this layer dilute with each breast stroke. Our painting is coming live. As you can see, we are done with this. Now let's add some more Viridian green. The brush which I'm using is a more brush number zero. Now let's make some mixture of Viridian green mixed with ultramarine blue. I'm applying this paint below the stones to paint the shadows. And then we will continue this horizontal line to paint the flowing water waves. While painting these horizontal lines, you don't have to paint them too straight. Just draw them freehand so that the painting looks more natural. I hope you're understanding how I'm drawing them and at the same time blending it with each other. If you want, you can add more water ripples by painting the lines in circular shapes. Also for the paints, I'm using Viridian green mixed with ultramarine blue to paint the water waves on the layers of lemon yellow. I'm using the mixture of brown so that the shadows look warmer in color. Let's take some burn sienna and mix it with the lemon yellow. We will apply the paint the same way we did for the earlier waves to blend them. Well, I'm taking the help of water. As you can see, let's make some more mixture of lemon yellow mixed with burn Siena, which is the brown. Now let's blend them using water. For this, I'm using the same brush. This is a mob brush number zero. Now let's add a few more water waves using the brown mixture Friends, We're done with this part. Let's move on to our next part, where we will be painting the background tree leaves. I see you there. 7. Painting The Background Leaves: Hello everyone, Welcome back. In this part we will draw the tree leaves in the background. I'm starting my painting with a mob brush, number two. This is a mob brush from rust row brand. Before we start, let's quickly add sap green to our palette. Now let's add some ultramarine blue to sap green to make the mixture a little dark in color. Once you are ready with the mixture, we will start our painting from the top. You can see I'm holding my brush loose and my paint is 50% dilute. Now let's supply the paint. The way we draw the leaves of the trees, I'm leaving some of the gaps to give an effect of tree leaves. Now let's add some dark color leaves. For this, I'm taking more of the ultramarine blue. At the same time, we will blend this color so that the transition between them looks even. You can see that the paint in this area is still active as we have left some of the paint there so that it does not. Once we have completed our painting on the top right side, we will again revisit this area and start our painting. Let's mix the mixture of sap green and ultramarine blue for the leaves. At some of the portion, I'm just dabbing the brush to create effect of leaves the same way you can do here. I'm using a negative painting technique. You can see I'm leaving some of the portions unpainted to draw the leaves which are at the front. Let's quickly draw some more leaves using the same mixture of sap green mixed with ultramarine blue. If you want to draw some smaller shaped leaves, are better to change the brush to a smaller round one. But if you want to draw them loose, then you can do this with the same brush as I'm using. Let's paint some more leaves and interconnect them. Time to add some dark color leaves. For this, I'm increasing the density by taking more paint and adding less water. Now I'm adding some smaller leaves and blocking the area above the rock. You can see that the paint is looking a little bit towards blue. As the amount of ultramarine blue is more, let's fill the background so that our subject at the front pops out. Here, I'm using the same paint, but as we move down, we will increase the amount of blue. Now I am applying ultramarine blue directly, but the color is dilute in nature. We have completed blocking the background using paints. Time to add some finer details. For this, I'm using the tip of the brush. You can see I'm adding some smaller leaves. Using the tip of the brush, you can see that the area which is unpainted looks more appealing and close to us. This is a very good example of negative painting. Now it's time to add depth to the background leaves, but before that, let's complete painting of the leaves at the front. Now this yellow leaves still needs some depth. Let's add some shadows. For this, I'm using a round brush, number eight, which is a synthetic brush. Now let's mix the paint. I'm taking sab green and mixing a little bit of cadmium yellow to it. Now this mixture is moved towards yellow with less of sab green in it, making the overall mixture a little light in color. Also, the sun rays are coming from the top left side. Therefore, we will paint the shadows opposite to it. Let's paint some more shadows using the same paints. It's time to add a few more shadows on the top right side and at the corners. Now let's blend them using water. For this, I'm using the tip of the brush. This is all about this part. Let's move on to a next part where we will be adding our final details, and I see you there. 8. Adding Final Details: Hello everyone, Welcome back. In this part, we will add final details to our rocks and our trees. While painting this rock, my camera got stopped. This part didn't got recorded. I'm very sorry for this. Let me explain what I did. First, we will apply water to wet the rocks again. Then we will apply mixture of burn Siena mixed with ultramarine blue. The dark black tone, which I have applied is the mixture of burn Siena mixed with ultramarine blue and a little bit of intense blue. Let's apply this dark tone to paint the cracks and the scars on the stones and rocks. Here I'm using a mob brush number zero. Now let's add some more cracks for this. The mixture I'm using is burn siena mixed with ultramarine blue and intense blue. But the color and the saturation is quite thick. Let's add some dark color here to paint the dark color leaves. For this, let's add some blue. But before that, let's clean the palette. My palette is clean now. Before we apply paint, let's dry our painting using a hair dryer. I see my paper is dry now let's supply some dark paint here. Let's take some ultramarine blue first, and then we will add a little bit of sap green to it. Now I'm adding a little bit of intense blue, which is also known as Stl blue. We'll add a little bit of more sap green. Let's some dark color leaves to show that some of the leaves are in the shadow. You can see I'm using the tip of the brush to paint these leaves. I'm adding a brush stroke and then interconnecting with others. Let's add a few more dark color leaves. These dark color leaves are also adding depth and dimension in the painting. Actually, this area had a plain wash of green. By adding a dark tone, it generated interest in this area. You can see that this area is looking quite dark as the placement of leaves are very close to each other, which helps in creating further depth. Now let's supply a few more leaves. You can see this portion is quite dark. Now we need to balance this portion by adding some dark tone to the flowing water. For this, I'm using a round brush. Number eight. The color which I'm using is a mixture of sap green mixed with ultramarine blue. Let's paint the water waves. It's time to add a few more touches of green to the flowing water, then our painting would look complete. Now I'm applying some dilute brush trooks of sap green mixed with ultramarine blue. For adding the shadows to the blue rocks, I'm using the same color. Let's add a few brush strokes in this area as well. As we are adding these, you can see that the painting is looking more appealing to the eyes. Let's add some brush strokes here, but these are quite light as I'm using a very dilute mixture of sap green mixed with ultramarine blue. If we have almost completed our painting, let's add some few more touches before we finalize our painting. Once you're done applying these brush strokes, we will make this painting using a hair dryer. We have completed painting the water waves. Now let's make the painting dry using a hair dryer. I see this portion still needs some dark tune. Let's make it dark. But before applying the paint, let's make it wet first using water for this. The paint I'm taking is ultramarine blue and some burn Siena, which is the brown. Once you're happy with the color tone, we will apply it below the rocks and add some shadows. You can see after adding the shadow, the rocks are looking more appealing to the eyes. Friends, we have completed a painting, let's move on to a next part, where we will be removing the masking tape and revealing our painting. I see you there. 9. Final Thoughts: Hello everyone. Welcome back. Let's remove the masking tape and reveal our painting. While removing the painting, try to pull the masking tape outward so that it does not tear the paper. Friends, I hope you've enjoyed the painting class. If you have any doubt and queries, feel free to ask me in the discussion tab given below, I would be happy to answer those. Also, don't forget to share your paintings in the project section and I see you in the next class. Till then, take care and stay blest.