Whimsical Watercolor Background Using The Bokeh Effect

1. Intro and Welcome: Hello and welcome to this class. My name is Hayley, and in today's class, I'm guiding you through the process of creating the whimsical and beautiful effect of bouquet. I will explain to you what is the most important part. I will be guiding two on how to create your own beautiful, bulky effects. I do paintings and debates in a whimsical way and do have something beautiful to look at or to give some to someone. During the class, we are going to be learning different techniques that we can use to create the beautiful blocking effects. And you will be amazed on how easy, just time-consuming. But super pretty effect the bulky makes to Japan things. By the end of the class, you will be able to paint a beautiful background with a whimsical effects of bouquet. So I hope to add super excited to join this class and to start creating something beautiful and everything but it do as well to follow me yet on a skin check. So you don't miss any class. And taking consideration of leaving the attribute on that this class. So I can know how do you like it or do suggesting for next upcoming classes. I will see you in the next video. 2. Material Overview: Let's take a look. All the supplies that we are going to be using during the class. We have here, all the materials we need. This is an overview. The specifics I will be given to you during the class. We have a gain, water or pilots. We are going to be creating this in the next video. I have white paint. You can have a one market brushes, a mixed pen and paper, watercolor paper. I am using Canson. This is a very good quality watercolor paper. And I just took one page and I cut it in half. So I have two. Smallest size watercolor. You can use a small watercolor paper or whatever you have at hand. I always have a pencil. Other supplies that we may use for joining the class, like washy tapes, fine liner to trace or pieces on the watercolor paper. And always have in a day extra paper and anything Do we may need, and your coffee or tea on the side, I would say during the next video. 3. Preparing the Paper: The class, I will be using my watercolor paper, but I want to make it smaller. So I have here my whole size A5 watercolor paper. And they have a much cutting mat, so I don't damage the surface of my desk. And I have a ruler. I just cut in half. So my size will be about a tree size. Smaller one. You can use any, any size you want for your paint. I NGOs working in this because it's more easy to work and to explain the technique that we are going to be working during the class, I will round the edges of these two pieces. So I get a more cute looking for my paper. This is a paper cut to confine them in the supply stores or on the Internet and shop, online shop. They are very affordable. Or you can just use scissors if you don't have this. This is just aesthetics. Now that my pages are done, Let's proceed to prepare or paper to work on them. Just fixing them. This is a cardboard from the back of my watercolor paper. I just use them. I would show you this. This one is from my block of my watercolor paper. And I always keep them aside because I am using them to protect my paper and my surface. I have my clean towel. Now. I will use my technique to soften up the glue on my tape. My paper doesn't get damage like this. I will just tape the tape on the tower and then I will be dust it off. And now the glue on the tape is not that strong. So when I take my paper with it, when they fix it to my cardboard. And then when I take it off of my paper, we stay safe. No damage. And it will be really nice. You will see, I hope you're going to use this technique to soften off the glue on your paper tape as well. So do paper doesn't suffer any damage. I will do this with all the sides, Always keeping a rhythm or a direction. Say, I start with it on there and then the upper side, and then the sides. When I pull it off, it is easier for me. Now my paper is fixed and ready to be used and I will get no stains on my surface. Hybrid seed in the next video. 4. What is Bokeh and How To Create it: Before we start with our class, Let's talk about what is the bouquet if it is a common technique used in photography, where one of the elements of the image is intentionally bluer. It normally do see these pictures where the background of your picture is like Farsi and the lights are light blue color. This is the bucket effects. I will show you some images. You have a better idea. I then just typing this in search machine. So I will show you this example so you have a better idea, but you can just bright in the internet search machine the word bucket, and it will bring to you some different images. So you can have this idea. Look at this picture. The subject up the front and the back down. The lights are blurry and Fauci. And this is what we are going to be creating. This beautiful glass that I hope you do enjoy and had so much fun. In the class. We are going to be using mostly circles. But you can use any shape you like, like these hairs shapes. You can really use any shape you like. To do this. You just need to have the right tools or the patients to create those shapes. We are going to be starting EC and relax us in circles, the most common ones. How to create bouquets effects with watercolors, is what we are going to be learning during the class. I have here my paper, my paper, fix on my cardboard, and it's all done. So I have tapes and I am ready to start. I have the colors, the watercolors, and I have different tools that we can use to create the bulky effect. Seeing here coins, these are coins. We are now going to be by anything. We are using this to create beautiful effects. I have also a tape circle, stamp, a eraser from a pen or pencil. We are going to be using all these. And also I have this eraser to have a shape here. And we are going to be using this to create beautiful effects. You can see I have different sizes. And the most important thing is you can use anything. It just needs to be flat at the bottom. So when you stamp it on the paper, it stay flat. I will go over it with my tissue paper and I am creating a flat surface like a stamp. And thus the whole science behind this technique. Okay? We can also make the bulky effect using brushes and we're going to be learning data as well. I will explain you do truly during the class, don't worry about it. So I just pick up some kinds in different sizes and have your paper and ready. And here I have the brushes. Brushes in different sizes. I have my clean towel and paper to create these, and I will be showing, showing you how to do it in an easy and relaxed way. Don't worry about it. Okay, For this fierce example, just the practices. So you get a hang of what I am doing here. I have different colors and I will be painting this paper as a background using different colors. This is a multi-colored example that I want to show you. So you have a better idea. I have a flat brush. This brush contained or retains very much water. But if you don't have a flat brush, you can use a round brush is not a problem. So I released this because it is easier to explain to you in a easy way. I will just make my brush really wet and this brush retains the water, so I don t need to apply water on my paper. If your brushes doesn't contain too much water, just start by wetting the paper with clean water and then adding the colors. Again, starting with a light shade of blue. This is just for practice. This is a Prussian blue. You know, and I then making like that lighter, too dark. So we have the perfect amount of color that we need to create the effect. This very important that you mix the colored ones that do live some darker spaces on paper. I didn't just apply all my blues. And I will be adding other colors to make it more colorful and beautiful. I think a little bit more of water because we need the paper to be wet before we start creating beautiful effects. Now I am adding these bread and when it mixes with the blue violet, and this is what I want. I want a colorful background so you have a very beautiful experience creating this effect. I will start by showing you how to create the buckling effect using your brush. You see a number six. I didn't wet brush in the water and then painting circles, lifting the color with my brush, cleaning my brush onto my paper or onto my clean towel. And just start to see that the color FDR to lift from the paper. Now, let's try it with a bigger brush. This is a number ten. And I am doing the same, just painting circles, lifting the color up to start creating those light effects versus the whole point of the bokeh effect. This has light in urban gray background. Now, I will show you another technique using the coins would have started with this model one. I am prepping it with my paper and look at this. Look how easy the color lift up when I stamp the colored with this coin. What happened in the paper? I'm gonna just wetting my paper because it's getting dry super-fast. And you can do the sign if your purpose or to get thrive and just add water. Brush. Look at this, how the color lift up is fascinating and I'm loving this technique so very much. And it is the easiest one. I experimented with. This is why I am showing you during our class we are painting using only brushes to create the bucket effects. And then we are going to be creating another piece using Bitcoins to get a beautiful bulky effect donated to bake. All have in mind to create different sizes of circles. In this case, we are using the shape circles, so be mindful of that to have different sizes of circles. So do bulky effects turn out very natural and beautiful using different size of coins and circles that I have, and also different sizes of brushes to create those different sizes of bulky effect. Continuing, adding more and more and wetting my paper when I feel it is to try to continue applying or the safe lifting up the colors. The more darker spots do have into painting. The ECS will be for you to create this lifting up technique to create the lights effect wonderfully and beautifully. And I will see you in the next video. 5. The Magic of Bokeh Effect with Watercolors: Okay, now let's take a closer look. And I will be using my brush number six to smooth out those some of the bulky effect circles. So you can see how working with your brushes and stamps, if you have thin or with your coins, will help you to have a more soft and, and delegate Bucky effect. It is just a magical technique. And through, throughout the class, you will see that this technique is really, really fascinating. Also, addictive to create beautiful pieces. Allows your colors to mix up. Then the block effects, because as you saw in the reference picture in the video before, the book, effects are like this blurry lights on the background of our picture. Normally there is a subtour at the front and the block effect is on the back. As you saw in those reference picture. Very gentle when lifting of the colors. And you will see that your painting will be beautiful. I want to show you on the SAT how to do this technique using all the materials that I showed you at the beginning. And now, using this all day, Sirica and using my brush, normally people have those stencils that they have this circles or triangles and they use those to do the block effect. I don't have them. This is why I'm showing you how to do it with a circular object. Now, let's use the back of our pen or pencil. Mechanical pencil, to create smallest Bucky effects. Try to mix the pattern. Don't put older book effecting one side of the painting. Try to distribute them around your paper. This is a wax stamp. And then using these, just covering it with my paper. This is the eraser survey dataset and he has, this has like a square shape is very fascinating to mix or some shapes and look how this looks. Now I will let this completely dry around five or six hour and look how it is looking now. They live. Now that my painting is completely dry. I will use some touches of God to create some bulking. In gold effect. I will be just activating my gold color with water. Then I will paint some circles. To create contrast on my painting. You can use different sizes or you can choose to paint the circles in guards in the same size, but distribute in your whole painting for this path part of the glass that is just experimentation in to show you a preview and on how we are going to be working during the class. I will just paint the background. We are not going to be adding anything. We're going to do that in the class. And you will see how easy and fabulous this technique is. To remember to paint around the lines, have circle is, okay. And this makes the painting look more natural and beautiful. Paint as many as you want, and try to keep the shade really liked. Now I will add some splashes to make or painting pop. And this is very important. You can use a splashes into painting. I will let this dry and then I will peel off the paper tape and look at this beautiful bulky effect, because the white and the color red circle around or painting, it is a beautiful background. To write something. You can add a little painting over here. But for now we're just keeping it at this stage. And we are going to be starting our class. We are going to be creating two beautiful pieces, adding other elements to our beautiful bulky. But I will see you in the next video. 6. Creating the Bokeh Effect with Brushes: To create our beautiful bucket effect using two colors. In this exercise, we are going to be using a flat brush. This is a big flat brush. You can also use a round brush if you don't have a flat one. And again, using Prussian blue and compose blue, do two types of the same color. You can use any shape, pink, violet, yellow, orange, red, but you need to use two values of these colors. And we are going to be starting by wetting, very wet our brush and then picking up some of the pigment. And we are going to be a star by grazing or feeling or paper with color, but make sure that your brush is very wet. If not, then you can first make your paper wet with clean water and then start adding the pigment. This is the wet on wet on wet technique. But this brush contains or retains very much water. Does is why I am not wetting my paper before starting to add colors. We're looking here to add that get shades of the same color and lighter ones in as you can see on the paper, how I'm doing it. I just started with a very light and then I start, I started adding more and more pigment. And then here and then adding more pigment that color using mostly the Prussian blue, because this is my darkest value, depending on the shapes that you choose to make your background. In this case, then do we'll add our accordingly darker values and lighter values. And this is, this is the first step we need to take in consideration that our background and needs to be wet before we start, before we start creating or bokeh effect. And for this first technique, we are only using our brushes. We have different size of round brushes. And that thing, or the whole technique here is to lift up the colors in those places. Or our painting, we are going to be keeping in mind to create different size of pocket or these little circles. As you can see here. This process, It's very time-consuming. So make sure you work as quickly as you can. Because when you paper, I start to get dry, then it would be very difficult for you to make those lifting up the color. But we have always a solution. If your paper start to get a dry, then you just need to paint with clean water. The aria, where do you want to live? The color? So my paper is wet and I'm just tracing and lifting up those circles. This is the first time that I'm telling you to work as fast as they can. Because when our paper is dry, it will be very difficult and uncomfortable to pick up the color because our paper can get damaged. So work as quickly as you can, but not too quickly that you've damaged your paper. And remember, if the paper start to get too dry, then you can just wet your paper and paint. And as you can see, I'm also using my tissue paper to lift out, to lift up the colors. Yet I'm using a little bit of water because the lighter side of my painting is almost dry. You know. You don't have too much pigment in here. So the paper AC source that liquid very, very fast. But the word we have odd with water. And remember we are using in this part of the class only our brushes. So you can see. And then you can choose which technique that all the that I'm showing you during the class you want to use. But I do want to repeat them more as I was telling you before. And when I was explaining what the bokeh effect is, this photography effect. Do need to be conscious that you need to make as much Bokeh effects in different size. So you get this blurry DC effect, but nice. And remember to lift the color and then you make a round circle motion. So when the color is start to dry, thus, you don't get those hard lines. You will notice that with the brush is very, very time-consuming to paint or bookcase. But I want to show you how to use this technique because then you can mix different techniques to paint beautiful effects. Just take your time, but not too much. Remember, this is the first time you are working as fast as you can. So get comfortable with this. And this is the fierce practice. You will get the hang of it by doing so, I encourage you to start painting with me. So you get the feeling in your hands or endure eyes on how you want your book to look like. Remember you can use any, any shape I then using the circles because this is the most common one and the easiest one for a beginner class like this one. So we want to keep that end lighted. Some spaces on or painting. You can always go back with your brush on the OS that you are ready painting. I will say during the next pivot. 7. Two Color Bokeh Effect With Brushes Only: Let's continue with our lifting up the color and creating the effects as much as we can. It is a battery consuming process as I am telling you. So we are going to be very mindful about that. And taking the time to soft enough stuff, circles, using water and going and painting, empty painting. Some of the circles over K effect that we already have on our paper. We are using only brushes to create these effects. So you have an idea on how to work out your beautiful bokeh effect and, or tissue paper. You can chain to tissue paper if it gets to dampen with color. So don't hesitate. You don't need to use the same paper all the time. You can change it if it gets full of color. And this is the idea. And as you can see, the paper looks like this. Almost dry. And it is. So this is why I am wetting my brush and going back again to my painting and trying to create that effect. And you can see also that in the darkest pigment, the lifting up the color shows up more vividly. So don't hesitate to create more of them or to choose just one place of background to create your bouquet effect. I enter into keep the sizes very different. In looking. Now, I will start adding other sizes behind and around my address, the book effects that I already painted on my paper. The brush that I'm using for the most part of this creation is a number six. But remember as I was in my first class, that depending on the brand of your supplies, the sizes are different and the shades are different, e.g. on the watercolors. So don't get with me, I don't think it is a good idea to share the I share it, but I think it may confuse you when using e.g. number six in one brand. And the size is not the same as the one I am using here. So I didn't turn into just this side, you have refinance, but try to use a smaller medium-size brush to create your bucket. If you are working in this size of fake it. If you paper the speaker, then use a bigger brush. Or if you prepare is smaller than use a smaller brush. Just necessities to the materials and the supplies that you have. An way with the ones do are working with. This part of the process is just lifting up, collecting the circles as moving up the goal or even adding more water or more pigment. If I see it, needs it to be more cohesive and more even on my paper. So you need a good eye for this. And do need to like what you are seeing. Endure paper. The only thing I want to make you aware of is don't give up yet. I think you can see that this doesn't look like anything labelled K effects. But trust me, when we've finished this beautiful painting, you will see how beautiful this technique and this effect is. We just need to keep going and keep doing our job here, lifting this color from our paper and creating these beautiful shades and beautiful circles in different sizes. It's all we need to do. Just don't look at it. It is already done. Just look these as it is. But when it is finished, I put them so it would look really, really completely different and you will love it. And I think it may be a very, very addictive technique to use more and more painting because it's time-consuming now. But when you learn the technique and how easy it is, for sure you will use. The more paintings and you would combine it with another techniques that you already have in India, back of techniques and you will create a beautiful, beautiful pieces. I went to propose this idea that maybe you want to take part on is you can take pictures of your progress and then share it on the class project section for this class. Because at the end, when you're beautiful, painting is done, you will see the difference. And then you can have those a step-by-step process of creation. And you can share that with us. As I always do, I share with you a sample project on how you can share your class project in any of my classes. So it would be a good idea now to take a picture of process of how it looks. And then you can share it on your class project when you finalize your beautiful painting. And I went to see, hopefully do reactions on how beautiful these look like after you finish it. Because, believe me, when I start to paint this bokeh effect, I was unsure to check this class because I wasn't getting there. But I was just at the beginning. When I keep I keep doing it. I keep progressing on my painting, lifting up that color, and just trusting the process. And I committed to not resist the process. And when I finished my painting, oh my goodness, it was so beautiful and I was so excited that I wanted to share it with everyone and show look what, look what I did, how beautiful this is. And then I get, I got addicted to this technique and using it over and over and over and over for making cars, for friends, for my other paintings that I do. So beautiful. For sure. I'm thinking on doing some name tags for posting a bad thing. This will make a beautiful background for the names of the people that are coming to the parting. And I can wait to create them. Take a picture of the budget process because you will be very, very surprised on how just lifting these colors, you will have this beautiful effect in your creation. Use your brush to soften, ask those hard lines of dirt right corner and give this a more circular shape. When I was researching for this class, I learned that some Japanese artists starting to use it, this technique from photography. And this is how now we see it also in watercolor painting. But you can use any medium you can use wash, you can use acrylics, you can use pastel colors. You can use this technique in any shape or form. Even I saw one artist's painting these in a colored paper. And it looks so beautiful. I saw one using just black and white. Oh my goodness, this is looks like a picture or in black and white picture. So beautiful, really duped, can experiment and try different combination of colors or no colors. And it will make your creativity really up and allow yourself to experiment and try different techniques. And in the next part of the class, the class I will show you how easy it is to create beautiful buckets using some other elements, as we saw in the first video. But this time using it to create a real piece. For now we're keeping this. We are not giving up on our painting, just trying to lift up those colors there where we think we can adding more water using or tissue paper to create this effect of lights and shadows and have a beautiful painting. I then painting this horizontally, but then I will use this background, embed the form I will show you, of course. In the future devious one, we are advancing to the details and the final repeal of this beautiful painting. We are, in the next video we are going to be adding some details, but we need these to be completely perfectly dry. Even you can leave this overnight or a couple of hours, five, 6 h. And piping need to be, need to be really, really, really, really, really, really dry. So we can continue and transform this beautiful painting in the beauty that it is. And we, when, when we build off those types, oh my goodness, you will see the crispiness and the beautiful organized painting that we're doing. So try to make those final book Gay effects and then lead painting completely dry. And I will see you in the next video when my painting is perfect, the dry. 8. Two Colors Bokeh Effect - The Reveal: My painting was completely dry, but I'm not completely happy. Hang how it looks. I'm just touching some of the bulky and adding a little bit of water to see if I can move that color and lifting them up. And finalizing some smooth. Being asked us some of the other circles, I get completely happy with it. I want to reshape some of them. You can do the same if you're painting is not us to like, don't hesitate to do it. It is up to you. It is completely in order to make adjustments. So do paintings really looks like you want. I will continue doing this until I feel it is perfect. Three, beautiful. And I also saw that on my lighter color, I didn't paint too much of the book. So I then just trying to paying them with a little bit of pigment on my wet brush and then lifting up those color. But I went over do this because on this part of my painting, I will add a beautiful lettering. And at the end, and you will see how it looks now that my colors that I added before dry a little bit. So get on the paper. I'm just lifting them. Getting a little bit of more light on this part of my painting. Continue smoothing out those line of my gray color and lifting to get more light. I want to reshape here, taking a little bit of pigment, allowing it to sit on the paper, and then lifting them a couple of seconds later. So I think we're almost ready. I didn't just eyeballing. Those were good and reshaping the ones that are a little bit of reshape. I hope you had a judge in this process. You are painting with me in real time. This is no speed-up of the BPO. We are working here together. And this is a beautiful opportunity to create and to have fun together and learn from our mistakes. And see how we can improve or techniques, or how we can do it better. And this I get together to create something beautiful. So I am thinking that it is enough. For now. I will finish up these lines here that are a little bit hard. And then I will allow this to try again for a couple of hours before adding the final details and making their DTLs. Okay. Or painting is completely dry. It has been 5 h after I painted on this one. And look how it looks. Now. Very dry my paper and now we can add some gold effects. I really activate my goal colors. With my brush. I will add some just painting some circles here and there. To elevate or painting, the color doesn't need to be too dark. Try to keep the equal light effect. You don't need to lift these colors as well. Just paint with a very washing or watery gold pigment. To make. These little details are not beautiful painting. Try to make things different sizes. We'll see how it will look when it dries. I think, using different shades of color. So we can get the effect. You can paint as many as you want, but try to keep distance between them. So you don't overshadow the other bucket that we already work hard on getting on your paper. You can also use a splashes here. They make the picture pop up. And I may do that at the end when we add the lettering and so on. So just combining some techniques to make your painting more and more beautiful, I will allow this to track. And then I will come back to show you how I will proceed. To see I have for now my painting on a vertical position. I already trace and my lettering. So just to have a guideline and using a permanent marker to trace the what? The lettering. Thank you. I then tracing the word. Thank you. So you can use any type of Latin into one. And it will make a beautiful card for someone that you went to thank offered Thanksgiving as well. You can use these as you want. Or you can use another message here. Beautiful card. Now, I will fill up these letters so they look like hand-lettering or brush lengthening. So we get this beautiful effect of brush lettering. This learning style is called Fox calligraphy because you are just making up these hand-lettering effect. Or you can use a brush lettering if you can do hand lettering. I just wanted to just this permanent marker. So my letters are more fixed on the paper. Beautiful. You can use any message for this lengthening or you can paint something here if you prefer. But I think that for painting, you need to do that before. So do you use the masking tape or masking liquid to avoid the color going integer drawing. And then to be laid off. And then you can add color to your subject. But for this class, as a beginner, I wanted to show you just how to do the bokeh effect and add in some little details like this lettering. And not too complicated for you as a fierce time using this technique. I want to make your life easy. When do you let the jeweler, the bus, the basic of postcards and you can make it. Now, let's add some splashes with my white bleed proof paint using my old technique, using the bamboo stick and my flat brush, I will add some splashes. So my painting, I start to look beautiful. I am already loving it. I hope it do, are loving it as well. And lead us some blue splashes too and make it pop as well. That this is not to liquid because then it will mix with the background. Just a little bit. Don't overdo this because we want the effects to be the star of your paint. So now they're satisfying part of the class, peeling off the tape. And you can see how easy and how smooth or goals of paper without damaging it. And we have this crease lines here. Hopefully no color group went through any. Didn't have pretty, pretty, pretty. Let's take a look at old beautiful effects lettering. And I hope you love this as much as I love beneath. Look at those details, highlights and the lettering and the book TFX, using only our brushes. I will see you in the next video for a more beautiful bokeh effect. 9. Multicolor Bokeh Effect: Okay, time to make our multicolored bucket. I have my paper fixed, my colors, my brushes, my water, my tissue paper. We are going to start by applying foods or background. For this. I want to use the multicolored watercolors. So I want to create a beautiful background using this opera pink, red, yellow, and blue. And I want these colors to be buried pipeline. I then using this time. So you can see a round brush, not the flat brush that I use on the past. I'm using my round brush. So you can see that this works as well as the other one. I didn't wet my paper before. I am using a bigger brush. So it retains water. Then IN wetting my brush on water, clean water, and then painting with my colors. I want the colors to mix. So I don't know, making so much of a thing of cleaning my brush. I then just wetting in water, they picking up the next color. Only the yellow must be always clean because then it becomes maybe I am placing the colors here and there and trying to make them as vibrant as I can and still keeping my paper wet. All these colors mix well together. You can choose another violet, totally different palette and see how it works for you. The thing is to create a very colorful background. When we have or background. Then of course we are going to start, we're going to start to create or pokey effects using different tastes of blue and trying to create those dark spots. Adding more pigment here and there. To create a distributed fun and vibrant, colorful background. Do the same. And remember, you can take a picture and start collecting your pictures for your class project. That will be very fun. Then you can see the progress and the final piece coming to life. It is always a joy to see the progress when we are working on beautiful pieces. I think my background is ready. It is still wet. And I will start by picking up color with my coin. But up in this paper, as we did on the previous practices. And then weight by brush, I will smooth out some of these circles as they are not so perfectly round. And that is totally okay. And these are all on the same size. And of course we will try to keep different sizes for these bulky effects. Using my brush to pick up the color and then picking up color with my brush. Here, you can have a very close up of the process. Going gentle on my paper and making the circle bigger. This process is very important so you don't have those hard lines around your circle. Okay? Makes sure do circles are perfectly smooth out. But you can also left some of them, not the aspects that because when you see those background lies in the blurry, bulky effects, do start to see like double. And this is not perfection. We're not looking for perfection. We're just trying to smooth up those hard lines when they watercolors dry than makes or painting not too smooth. Starting to create bigger circles. So we started to create the bulky effects with the different sizes. When you pick up your color with the tissue paper than a smooth the lines with your brush and so on. This is a beautiful process, beautiful progress. And we're just keeping, doing this until we fill it is enough to start adding bulky effects in other places of our painting. Remember to try to broke the pattern that the brain's tried to make and place the bulky model distributed into paper. I will see you in the next video. 10. Multicolor Bokeh Adding the Details: In the first part, we work with just the brush and the paper. Now we are using the coin to make our beautiful circles around or background. Remember, if you paper or your colors are starting to dry up. Just go through with your brush and clean water to activate the colors. And if you think, dude, some places of your painting or your background color, then just add more colors before you start lifting of those color to create your book effect. Like here, I think this jello needs a little bit of color. I will be adding more color to it. In a second. My brushes super clean, and I will start smoothing these other circles. And my paper is dry here. It is easier to do it like that. You can pick up the color and creating different sizes. This is a very important part. So your painting and start to look more cohesive and bogey effects, start to pop up onto paper. Just see now that it looks like lights in the background. When we add some details to this painting, when it is completed, you will see the beautiful effect that just with some patients and some technique you can create in your paintings. We continue as smoothing circles with our brush. And going there, what we need, when we think we need to lift the colors up. Wonderful. Feel free to use a bigger brush or use other coins. I'm mixing the two techniques here. So you see how this part of the process take time. But when you finish your painting, look really nice. Smoothing out those hard lines. When my watercolor has dried. Then we have this little circles off or blocking effect. Go through all your circles and go with your brush and pick up those scholars. And continue doing this until you feel it is enough to then start applying or creating more wacky effects around our background. Colors. Try and do a little bit of water, the color start to move. And that's good to know. Then pick up the color with the tissue paper until you are satisfied. It may be a long process, but the results is worth it. Of course, you are always painting to clear out mine and to become relaxed. And to have at the end a beautiful, a beautiful creation. Then you can share with others. You can keep to yourself, as you prefer. It takes time, but you will love it when it is done. Correcting, correcting, correcting. This is a long process. I was telling you, don't give up, just keep doing it. And you will see how fascinating this technique. Some of those watercolors, we will not go fronted paper. You will not be able to pick the color up because the paper at 38. Major set of big problem out of that, just continue and try to just smooth those lines and maybe make contrast, creating other bulky effects around them like this. So the focus of the eyes of the people that are looking at the picture. Go stat, Where do you want? My painting here on the yellow is dry. I will add a lipid with more of pigment. So I can then create some effects over here as well. I want a cohesive painting. So it is important that you have darker spots on dude background. I will let this excerpt by further segments and then I will pick up some color using the coin for our model circular shape. I will see you in the next, be there. 11. Multicolor Bokeh - Final Touches: We are going to be continue smoothing those circles and adding other sizes of our bulky effects. So don't give up yet. And if your diet, just take a break, pause the video, look through the window, drinks water, and then come back and continue with your painting. Creating another big bulky effect here. Now that I have more pigment. And look how beautiful this mix, blend things are. That is why it is so important to have darker shades on your painting. You can create the light effect, digging up the color is a beautiful process. This pink is so vibrant. Soviet different. Okay, We are continuing doing this until we see our painting. Or background is done with all the places having their bulky effects that we want. And then bot, eyeballing and calculating new book effects. And so on. Look how beautiful these bubbles of bulky ad showing up. This looks also like the herbs they had to see in these pictures that is like an outer around persons or objects of light. And they are very magical and beautiful. Mystical. Creating some half effects here. For more drama on our painting. Eyeballing in to see where we can paint another bulky. They need to adjust direction. Eyes, digital painting, depending on how dark or how light you have, your painting palette and your painting. Then you need to decide where to put more bulky effects and so on. This is just a reference, just a guy. But you need to work on your own paper. So you have another results for sure, depending on the colors that you are using, the brands that you are using, even the paper, make a difference. And you will notice it. Once did you start working on your art piece? We are almost there. And depending on how big or how small your paper or the surface where you are working in is, then do we need to work longer or shorter? Is a matter of what you have on your desk. So you can not compare yourself with my work or with the work of other people because they are using other materials perhaps or other sizes. And thus is very individual. Work with what you have. And that is perfect. Now I will let this dry, and I will see you in the next video. 12. Multicolor Bokeh - The Reveal: Okay, my painting is completely dry and I have here a very small Burdash. I think this is a number to go with your smallest brush, your fine brush. And I will paint some flowers. And I will start by painting the stem using a dark brown. Creating this, using these two colors, blue, orange, and violet. In adding a little bit of black. So it gives me this dark color. So does trace out a line using your hand going from down to up and create, create song, sung of this line. Then we are going to be adding some lines above with the same shape. You see this becomes very dark orange, red, and blue. And then you have a brown, dark brown. This is our guidelines. So we can paint or little flowers here. The three of them are the same flower. A beautiful subject for our example here. We are going to do these lines on the three steps that we have here. And you can start to see that the block effects, even though the flowers are not ready now, you can leave it as it is, is you want like the winter a century that will make a beautiful winter card as well. Or when winter painting. But we're going to be painting a flower. Then just making this a little bit thick. Because then we are going to be painting some dots using or white paint in a little bit of watercolor to get a little bit more of the color to or flower. Now, my, my stems are dry and I have here my blue bleed, proof, white. This is a white paint. You can use gouache or acrylic for this part of the painting. And just start to add with your fine brush this little dots, creating the petals of these flowers. Flowers. And creating this beautiful effect that ready. Go through all the stems and create a dude. Dots are sub-patterns. So as you start to see mod structure under painting to keep a space on the dots. So we created these effects that we'd see through those spaces. Here. Tracing a line parallel to my stem to give this a little bit more of elevation on the paper. And doing this with the other one as well. The petals starting at the bottom and then going a little bit more loose. When it goes to the tips of the stems. You can paint any flowers you like. I just found this very easy to do and gives a beautiful effect on the background. With the blocking effects, you can see now how they are really showing up. You can also use a Posca paint, acrylic paint, and it will be easier for you to create these little dots. Use whatever you have at hand. It's very important that do work with what you have. Elaborating the stem. And now let's add some color to this. I'm just mixing these colors, red and blue. So I have a dark violet and I will just add some in this colors here and there. To make this pop up a little bit. Go through all the whites and see how it looks. You can use whatever other colors you want. I'm just using this to maintain a cohesiveness on the colors in the palette that I have here on my desk. Do the same with the other flower. They look like. Now that I see it the more I'm almost done. But let's call them flowers. Like dandelions. I was trying to painting, to painting it. Don't overdo this step just as add some dots into colors. And now we can splash or painting a little bit with the same watercolor that we have on our painting. And I entered into, I mix the pink overlapping with the blue. This is why the buyer lettuce is lighter, vibrant, just a little bit, not too much. Around the flowers. A little bit on the background. It is looking pretty, pretty, pretty nice. I really love how this looks. And I can't wait to show you this without the tapes. Now is the fun part. Removing the tapes. And how satisfied in this is to see those crease lines in order Bucky effect showing up through the flowers. Is it really a magical thing, this blocking effects. I hope you have enjoyed this as well. And I can't wait to see what you create, what color to choose, how you proceed to create your blocking effects. And please don't hesitate to let me know if you need some clarifications on ideas. Just left me a comment. Below this class I will see you in the next video. 13. Your Class Project: Congratulations, if you're seeing this video, if it is still completed the whole class. And for your class project, you guessed it does need to stay in the class project section for this class. Work in progress step-by-step and your materials, how do they actually looks like? And upload a picture of it and tell it with us and with me and I will love to give, to give you a beautiful comment that review in your painting if you have any question, don't hesitate. And that in the common section for this class, I will see you in the next video and I can't wait to see what you create. 14. Thank You for Completing the Class: Thank you so much for completing the class and congratulations for doing it. And I can wait to see what you create. And remember, you can always review this class. So I know how to felt about this class and what to learn. And if you have any suggestions, you can always write to me here at the comments. And if you upload your class project and we can interact to each other and give us a beautiful moments of connection. You can follow me here on Skillshare so you don't miss any update, any new class with conversations about creative moments together. If you have an Instagram account, you can also follow me on Instagram. And if you upload your work over there, then that me and I will love to see your creation and comments. Something beautiful. I am always looking forward to seeing you in my next class or in my past classes. Remember, you can review this class. You can create a conversation with me if you have any suggestion for a new class or any question that you need me to talk about, then just spread the mean here in the discussion below this class. I will love to connect with you. I wish you a very beautiful, creative moment. And I can't wait to see dude with the full bulky background effects endure paintings. Bye-bye.