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1. Introduction: Hello, I'm Fio. a watercolour artist and teacher. I am very excited to
bring a class to you all about painting mushrooms
using watercolors. And why mushrooms,
well, they are my favorite being of
nature for painting. Actually, I don't
know why I didn't create a mushroom
painting class before. I sell my mushrooms designs on
products like calendars. Mugs. And I also use Mushrooms as part of the composition of
most of my paintings. Painting mushrooms
are such a fun way to explore different
textures and colors. This is a beginner
friendly class. So even if you never paint
with watercolors before, you're gonna be able
to follow along just fine and create an awesome
mushroom illustration. and If you're already
a watercolor Pro, you will get my best tips for creating detailed
illustrations. I am going to walk you through my entire process from
the beginning to the end, showing you how I gather inspiration, what are the main
things to consider when sketching my mushrooms
before painting some watercolor
techniques and much more. At the end of this class, your project will be used
these techniques to create your very own
mushroom illustration that you can share on the
student's project gallery. As a bonus, we are
going to create a composition using
mushrooms ready to hang on your wall. Feel free to
share this one as well. Remember that you can inspire others. if you're interested
in more about my work, my next Skillshare classes launches, receiving some tips. Well, you just need to click the follow button
here on Skillshare, I plan to share even
more this year, including Skillshare
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me on Instagram, @fio.artjournal to get more updates and behind
the scenes of my classes. I am very excited to dive into the mushroom world with you guys. So let's get creative.
2. Supplies: The supplies that
you will need for today's class are pretty simple. You will need watercolor, paper. Watercolors in pans or tubes, or even liquid watercolors
colors are your choose. But I would like to
mention that you don't need to have a wide
variety of colors. Even with just the
primary colors, you are all fine for
today's class. Brushes for watercolor. This is important as
they are made to get a good amount of water because their
bristles are quite soft. I recommend you to
have round brushes, at least two sizes. One number four or six, then number one or 0.0. for details. Of course, you will need water. I like to use two jars of water. One to keep it clean
for active my colors, and the other for
cleaning my brushes. When I change colors. Paper towel or
a towel, like mine that has many years with me, as you
can notice, pencil, eraser. If you are able to have
this soft eraser, better. And, I also for this class, will use a white pen. This one is a Posca one. Also masking fluid. As we're going to
use masking fluid, we will need also brushes for manipulate the
masking fluid. And they don't have to be your
fancy watercolor brushes. They have to be
very old brushes. You don't mind to damage. Also, you will need a palette. Of course, we sketch before
painting with watercolors. So I'm gonna use this block, that is a toned paper color. You can use this or
you can also use, you don't need a sketchbook. You can use just
Sheets, is up to you. Anything that works for
you for sketching is good, is just the sketching. Our project would be the
watercolor painting. Alright, so now that you have all your
watercolor supplies, Let's gather some inspiration.
3. Gathering Inspiration: Inspiration doesn't exist. No, I'm just kidding. But like Pablo Picasso said, Inspiration exists, but it
has to find you working. So let's score,
instead of weight and desperation come to
us, not our door. Let's go though side and try
to find some inspiration. As the topic of this class is all about painting mushrooms. Let's go to find some
fungi inspiration. We have different options here. We can go for a walk after Raman day and see what we
can find under the trees. Usually mushrooms. Are there ready forecasts? When I go out for a walk, I always made sure I think reference photos I can
use for my Outlook. So do it. But please
don't get Mother Earth. Another option. And this one is one
of my favorites, is going to your
local library and borrow a book related
to our class stock. I love the name ready, and I search first on the library website what
other books I want to borrow. I usually get more than just
one book, as you can see. So let's go and find the mushroom
references you want to use for today's class.
I will do the same. You can find more information about nationals in the books, like in here, parts of
the typical mushroom. In the next lesson, we want to explore watercolors
techniques that we have as when painting
mushrooms. So see you then.
4. Watercolour Techniques: Let's activate our watercolors. If you have a set of
watercolors in bands, just simply add some water. I like to use this spray. And if you have
watercolor tubes, just take a bit of
painting on your palette. Not much because
watercolors are completely different from other mediums
like acrylics or oils. We actually paint with water
and just a bit of pigment. So with your wet brush, add water on your palette
and mix it with your paint. You will know that it is ready. It's not too thick. You can see a drop
on your brush, but not necessarily dripping. For activate other color, just clean your brush
using water and a towel. For these exercises, I suggest you to have two colors
ready at least. So let's start with
wet on dry technique. For this, I'm using my round
brush, question number six. So I paint a circle
with one color. Then clean your brush and make another circle just with water. And after that at paint, you will see how different
is when your paper is wet. Now, make another circle, just like the first one, but instead of let it dry, clean your brush and
take the other column and added when you're
sick old is still wet. Repeat and play with this
technique using two colors. Now, try different shapes. For the next exercise, we're going to add
the second color only on one side of your shape. Clean your brush and tried
to mix the two colors. Repeat this exercise. Now try a smaller brush
and add some fine lines. Check the difference on how much paint you get
with a tiny brush. Repeat this as well. I use this when I want to add
little details like veins. When the previous
color is still wet, it gives us a unique result. Now, paint a darker shape and then clean your
brush and dry it. With your clean and dry brush. Take some paint on your paper. You will see that the dry brush absorbs the paint on your paper, giving it some life. I'm exaggerating
here, but I want you to show what I mean
with this technique. I use this a lot
of my paintings. Last but not least, let's practice brush control. So tragic, different brush sizes and make thick and
fine lines with them. Long and short lines as well. Get used to your brushes and check what you can
get with them. In the next lesson,
we're going to start sketching our mushrooms.
See you then.
5. Sketching Mushrooms: Let's start sketching
our mushrooms. Start using just a pencil and don't add much details here. Observe your mushroom reference and draw only the outlines. Now, we will identify the
values that our mushroom has. For this, use your black ink, pen and paint the darkest values that you see on your reference. Then with a white pen at the bright parts
of your mushroom. This step is important
as it will be easy to choose our colors and
paint beautiful mushrooms. For sketching with
black and white pens, I like to use toned paper as
provides all the meat dance, the ones that you will get
with watercolor later. Absurd the details of each mushroom and
identify if they should. We paint with black
or white paint. Don't stress about the colors. Just choose between
black and white. Sketch your mushrooms and see you in the next lesson
to start painting them.
6. Watercolour and White pen Mushrooms: Let's paint our first mushrooms. Start with the outline drawing of your mushroom reference. Don't put pressure on the pencil as the word color
paper is delegated. Don't add details on this draw. As we're going to
add all the details with watercolor and
the white paint. Making your colors at least two. So you can play with the values as we did in
our sketches before. Use the wet on wet technique that we
practiced before as well. Also, use your brush to
make different strokes for different results at
the light and shadow. When you think it is required. Change your brush to
add a tiny details. And when the watercolor
is completely dry, you can add the white details
with the Posca paint. For the next mushroom. That process is similar. Observe your reference and start drawing the outline
of your mushrooms, then activate your watercolors
and start painting. In this case, we use many layers to get the
result that I want because I need to
show that they are many mushrooms once over others. So to emphasize this
volume by going to work with the many
layers of painting. As we did with the
previous mushroom. We're going to add details
with the finest brush. And then when the watercolor is at the desk with a Posca pen. In the next lesson, we're going to paint
three different mushrooms using only watercolor.
See you there.
7. Only Watercolour Mushrooms: Using only water color for painting requires to
work more on the values. So it is important to check regularly our sketches
and photo references. Prepare as many
colors and values that you'd need for achieve
the result that you want. In this mushroom,
we're going to add short dashes as a
texture on the stamp, same as we did on our
sketch, but this time, with your finest
brush and watercolor, use a darker color than the background to
see this texture. On the darker areas make your color more intense
with less water. For this mushroom, we're
going to take some pigment to create a brighter area on
the cap of the mushroom. For this, we're gonna use our dry brush as we did in
our watercolor exercises. And for the details, use the famous brash. But remember to always wait until the
previous layer is dy. Otherwise, you will get a wet
on wet technique or salt. And we don't want that. Now. For the veil mushroom, we will use white watercolor. You can also use wash
here if you want. And if you have wash. The key here is work on
layers as we did before. Be patient and
enjoy the process. We are almost done with our mushrooms at timing. Why the details with Bay
thick white painting. In the next lesson, we're going to start painting our last mushroom.
See you there.
8. Watercolour and Masking Fluid Mushroom: Okay, Now it's time to
paint our last mushroom. This is the most
popular mushroom and the first thing we have to do as we did before
for the previous ones, is observe the
values that it has. How many colors we
need to prepare. Maybe we can use a color that
we are really used before. Remember to observe
also your sketch as it is easier to
identify value slider. For this mushroom, we
will use masking fluid. So I can take advantage
of this lesson for showing you how to
work with this material. First, shake it well, and remember to use your
old or cheap brushes here, not the one that you use
before for painting. Very careful at a bit of
masking fluid on your palette. Here, I added too much. We're going to use only
a bit of this material. So this amount actually
is not necessarily always close your bottle and start painting the white
dots of your mushroom. Just the same as if
you were painting with color close to the
bottom of that gap. Make more dots and even smaller ones while the
masking fluid is drying. Let's observe one more time some photo references here you can see that texture that this stem has and also the
different values. On our reference mushroom. It doesn't have this texture, but we can add it. Remember, it is
just a reference. So make the colors for your
stem and start painting it. Be careful with AI area
closer to the masking fluid. At shadows and light. When the masking fluid
is completely dry, we can start painting
our mushroom cap. With your finance brush. Add some texture on the stem. If you think it is necessary. You can also add a second
layer on your mushroom. When you finish leather,
whatever color dry, and add shadows on each
side of the mushroom cap. Don't remove the
masking fluid jet. Makes sure the last details that you just add our try to
remove the masking fluid. I usually use this part of the mechanical
pencil to remove it. Very careful and
one-by-one, dot by dot. Remove all the masking fluid and then delete any pencil
marks that you have. Voila, you'll have your
pretty mushroom already. See you in the next lesson
where we're going to start working on
our composition.
9. Bonus: Sketching Mushrooms Composition: Remember everything we
have seen in class? In this case, as it is not only a mushroom
illustration but a composition, I like to add more elements. So I, I smell some leaves. I'm also a mom to give it
an extra magical spell. Sketch the values you want
on your final painting. Use the black and
white technique I showed you in the
sketching lesson. In the next lesson, we're
going to start painting our mushroom composition.
See you there.
10. Bonus: Painting Mushrooms Composition: Okay, So let's start
painting our composition. For this, I decide to use a completely different
color because I wanted something more magical
rather than realistic. I think that we can explore more options choosing
and no realistic color. So use all the
techniques that we have practiced in this
class alone, the lessons at many layers to add shadows and don't forget to
always check your sketch. So when you feel a bit
lost with the values, you can find the answer
on your previous sketch. For the white dots, I use Watch this time, not masking fluid
as we did before. I'm doing this to show
you that you can get similar results using
different materials. See you in the next lesson.
11. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for
taking my class today. Remember everything we have
split up into this class. From getting inspiration, observing values when
you're sketching. That help us with transferring our sketch to the
watercolor illustration. We've painted mushrooms
using white details, only watercolor, and also
we use masking fluid. We also created a
final composition. So don't forget to upload different projects to the
project students gallery. Feel free to come and below
in the class discussion, if you have any comments or questions related to
painting measures, you can follow me on Instagram, feel about our journey. And if you speak Spanish, you can follow my
YouTube channel. Also, don't forget to follow
me here on Skillshare, clicking the Follow button. See you guys next time. Bye.
Fio Ortecho, Artist and Illustrator
