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1. Introduction and supplies: Hi, Welcome to my class. My name is Ken. I'm a self-taught artists with over 20 years of
painting experience. I would like to show you how to paint this beautiful
layered cake today. I will also share any tips and tricks along my
watercolor art journey. For today's class, you will
need watercolor paper, watercolor paints,
mechanical pencil, a marker, round
watercolor brushes, a ruler, some paper towels, and a cup of water
to wash the brushes. I hope you enjoy this class as much as I love teaching it. If you're ready, we
can get started. I'll see you in class.
2. Step 1: Draw a layered cake: We will start out by
drawing the cake layers. After that, we will use
watercolors to paint it in. To draw the cake stand, we will use a
pencil and a ruler. It is optional. You can draw it
freehand as well. We will add two lines at the
bottom for the cake, Stan. We will also add a
guide in line with a pencil from top to
bottom of the page. This will prevent our
cake layers from Tilton. When we're drawing. We will erase this line. When we're done with the layers. We will trace the
cake stand with a marker to create
a thin rectangle. We will add small semi circles under the rectangle
to create a design. You're welcome to add any
kind of design that you like. For the base of the cake stand, we will draw two
parallel lines going down and close it with the oval. For the cake layers, we will draw four
rectangles going up. Each top layer is smaller
than the previous layer. You can use the guiding
line to help you keep the, the cake from Tilton. If you need more time to draw, please feel free
to pause the video at any time. To catch up. After we finish the layers, we will add a candle at the top. Start out by drawing two parallel lines
with a small curve. At a small line at
the top for the week. Then add a teardrop
shape on top. For small firework. We will draw a line and
create a small circle with top with dashes. We will color this in later. For the topmost layer, we'll add a heart shape. You can add any
shape that you like. For second layer, we will add a rainbow with some curvy lines. For the third layer, we will add small hearts. You can do dots or squares
or triangles if you prefer. When we're painting, we will
need to avoid these shapes. So if it is easier, you can make them a
little bit bigger. For the last layer, we will add some stars. Draw six small lines going across each
other to make a star. Once you're happy with all
the layers and each design, we are ready to color it in. If you need more time, you can pause the
video at any time and you can decorate
the cake further. Once you are ready to color, proceed to the next video.
3. Step 2: Paint a layered cake: I hope you enjoy designing
the cake layers. Now we are ready to color
it in with watercolors. For the top layer, I'm going to color it
in with yellow, green. I'm going to avoid the heart
area and go around it. So this is why round brushes are very helpful because
they have a sharp tip. You're welcome to color
any color you like. To start out by. We will leave
the heart blank for now. Around the heart. For the next layer, I'm going to color in the
extra spaces, light blue. I'm going to undo
them. Went though. We will come back
for the rainbow a little bit later by color in the rainbow in we're using the sharp edge of the tip to follow
along the lines of the rainbow so
that we're staying inside the lines as
much as possible. For the next layer, we're going to choose yellow. This is a little bit
difficult because in here you will have to avoid
the shapes that you drew in the first step. So if the shapes are
a little bit larger, this step is a bit easier. But because I have small hearts, I'm going to have to take a little bit more time
to go around them. Take your time with this step and add more paint as needed. I suggest not to
use too much water. Otherwise it will
flow into the shapes. For the last layer, I'm going to use purple because the shapes
are already in black marker. I'm going to go
over all of them. And they would still exactly
look the same as before. If you have too much water, you can tap off your
brush on a paper towel. Follow the lines to
get inside the line. Press down on the brush
so that you can get a perfect straight line. For the cake. Stan, I'm going to use red. And again here I'm following the line with the
tip of the brush. And I'm keeping it very clean so that all the
color is inside the line. Now I'm going to
switch my brushes. I want to use a smaller
brush because we're going to paint the
details for the candle. I'm mixing the two
yellows together. And I'm going to
add a little bit of orange, where the weakest. For the fireworks.
I'm just going to add a big yellow circle
in the middle. We're going to color in the
heart with some purple. Again, all these colors
and a little bit are your choice so you can pick
any colors that you like. Your cake may not look
exactly like mine cake, and it's absolutely fine. Pink color. Any color you like. We're gonna go ahead and
color in the rainbow. So I'm going to start
out with yellow. Again, we're not going to
follow all the colors of the rainbow because we only
have a few lines here. So I'll just add a
few random colors. I chose yellow and orange. Whenever I have too
much paint on my brush, I tap it off on the paper
towel a little bit. Before I go onto the
watercolor paper, I'm going to add in some pink. For the next color. Again, I'm just randomly chosen any colors that I like
to see all my cake. So you're welcome to do the same thing to you at some. For the last line, I'm going
to add in some purple. If you need more time, please feel free to
pause the video. Here. I made a little mistake
with the cakes tan. I put my hand on it
while it's still wet. So the paint went
onto the clean area. So to get rid of that, I use a clean brush, dipped in water multiple times and got the paint out
of that clean area, and then I colored it
back in with some red. This often happens in day
to day art practices. So I wanted to show
you how to fix it. Okay. So we're gonna and it's okay if something
like this happen. There's nothing wrong with having a little bit
mistakes here and there. There's no such thing
as a mistake in art. If you don't like
something you had, you can correct it. If you like it, you can keep
it there for the candle. I colored it in red and
I'm pretty much done. I hope you enjoy this.
4. Bonus Lesson 1: Preparing the palette: In my own art journey, I learned many tips and
tricks along the way. Today I want to share
with you one tip that I find helpful
when I'm painting. Watercolor palettes tend
to be dry and cracked, even dependent on where you keep them and the temperature
of the room. I use a spray bottle to spray some water on the
palette evenly. Before I start
using the palette. This allow all the
paints to be moist evenly and this
is just a missed. If you let it sit for a minute, it will be ready for use. If you do not do this tab, you may need to use
a brush a lot to get the paint wet and get
the paint on the brush. So I hope you found
this tip helpful. Thank you so much for
joining my class. I hope you share your projects
on the class project page. I will see you in
the next class. Thank you once
again for watching.
5. Bonus Lesson 2: Getting to know your palette: Today I want to share with you some tips regarding
watercolor palettes. As you know, when
you started out, you may start out with simple watercolor palettes like these. Then as you progress, you may go to more
student grade watercolors and then maybe move on to
professional-grade watercolors. And whenever you get a palate, it is good to be familiar
with the colors. So if you look at this
palette that I have here, you'll see that these
colors are pretty obvious. When you paint
these on the paper. You'll probably get
exactly what you see. Now, when you get to
these darker colors, it can be confusing. This one here looks very
much like a black color. This one also, this one. You're not sure exactly what color you're going to
get when you paint them. So it's easy to have
something like this where you draw some
rectangles or squares, whatever you want to do. But just sort of follow that palette and exactly paint
these colors on the paper. When you look at this, you'll see that, for example. So I have white here and then light gray and
then there's black. And this one actually, which looks a lot like black, it's actually a brownish color. And this one is
even lighter brown. So you can see whatever
you see on this palette is not exactly translating to
the same colors on the paper. So it is important
to create this kind of chart with any
palette that you get so that you can immediately know what kind of color it
will show up on your paper. So here I have another palette. The same thing. This palette here I
have multiple colors. So I went ahead and did a little chart and I even
wrote some names on it. Again, when you are painting, names aren't very important and you may forget those names. But it is important
to know what kind of colors they show up
to be on the paper. So when you're mixing colors, it'll be much easier to think through in the
process of painting. So I hope you find
this tip very helpful. And it doesn't matter what kind of watercolor palette
that you have. You can create this
kind of charts and you will really find these
helpful when you are painting. Alright, thanks so
much for watching.
Khin, Artist | Designer | Educator
