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Whispers of Fall - A Watercolor Journey Through Four Landscapes

teacher avatar Nishita Kashyap, Artist, Art Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:43

    • 2.

      Materials Required

      4:02

    • 3.

      Autumn Color Palette

      7:25

    • 4.

      Part 1 Basic Watercolor Techniques

      7:46

    • 5.

      Part 2 Project Examples

      14:07

    • 6.

      Project 1.1 The Last Fall

      6:59

    • 7.

      Project 1.2 The Last Fall

      11:00

    • 8.

      Project 2.1 Autumn Hillside Cabin

      9:50

    • 9.

      Project 2.2 Autumn Hillside Cabin

      9:39

    • 10.

      Project 3.1 Autumn RiverBend

      9:25

    • 11.

      Project 3.2 Autumn River Bend

      6:46

    • 12.

      Project 3.3 Autumn River Bend

      10:14

    • 13.

      Project 4.1 Forest In Fall

      8:52

    • 14.

      Project 4.2 Forest In Fall

      13:38

    • 15.

      Conclusion & Final Thoughts

      1:46

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About This Class

Step into the beauty of the season with your watercolors! This class, "Whispers of Fall," is a peaceful and engaging journey where we create four unique and stunning autumn landscapes. We'll leave the complexity behind and focus on creating beautiful scenes that capture the season's warm, cozy glow.

Whether you're new to painting or looking for a relaxing, seasonal project, you'll finish this class with four display-worthy paintings and boosted confidence in your watercolor skills.

In this Class, You Will Paint Four Beautiful Landscapes:

You will complete four distinct watercolor paintings, each one a different window into the fall season:

  1. Project 1: The Last Fall: Capturing the dramatic, fiery light of a late autumn sunset with striking tree silhouettes against a glowing sky.

  2. Project 2: Autumn Hillside Cabin: Combining the crisp white of a distant snowy peak with the intense, colorful foliage of the hillside, centered around a tiny, charming cabin.

  3. Project 3: Autumn River Bend: Learning to paint a quiet, curving riverbank. We'll focus on texture and atmosphere to create the feeling of a cool, misty morning where the trees meet the water.

  4. Project 4: Forest in Fall: A close-up focus on creating a dense, luminous forest canopy, learning how to layer color to make your leaves truly glow with light.

Essential Watercolor Skills You Will Master:

  • Autumn Color Swatching: We will create and swatch a beautiful autumn color palette to understand how the colors interact and plan our projects.

  • Wet-on-Wet Skies: Creating soft, seamless, and atmospheric backgrounds.

  • Creating Texture: Using techniques like dry brushing for tree trunks and rustic ground cover.

  • Layering Washes: Building rich depth and vibrant color without muddying your paints.

Grab your supplies, put on a cozy playlist, and let the whispers of fall guide your brush!

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Nishita Kashyap

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1. Introduction: The season of autumn is nature's grand masterpiece, a stunning, fleeting burst of color that reminds us to slow down. It's a time for warmth, reflection, and capturing the vibrant whisper of change. Hi, my name is Ishida. I'm an artist, an art educator from Mumbai, India. I've worked with many mediums, but currently on a beautiful journey with watercolors. You might know me as the artist behind Bombay Painting Club on social media. In this class whispers of fall, a watercolor journey through four landscapes. I'll be your guide as we translate the rich expressive beauty of fall onto paper. We learn essential techniques while painting four unique atmospheric autumn scenes together. This class is perfect for beginners just starting with watercolors and for experienced artists who want to focus on small scale landscape, compositions and vibrant color blending. We'll start by going over the materials and create a beautiful autumn color palette together. We'll go through some basic watercolor techniques and project examples before we dive into painting the four beautiful autumn projects. I can't wait to get started, and I'll see you in the next section. 2. Materials Required: Hello, and welcome, my friends. And in this section, I'll take you through all the materials that you'll need to complete this class. Firstly, let's look at the paper. Okay, so I'm using Ash's 300 GSM. That is 140 pounds, cold press paper. So basically, I have this entire sheet of paper, and I've cut them into several parts. And this sheet here, I've cut them into four equal parts to get this measurement. So this is roughly around 14 centimeters by 12.5 centimeters. Okay? So this is almost close to a square, okay? So you can either have your own measurements or you can use the measurements that I've just shared. Now let's look at the brushes. So here I have three fourth inch flat brush. This is from Princeton Heritage Series, which is perfect for backgrounds. Next, this is a mop brush from Brusto in size too. This holds a load of water, makes it perfect to cover larger areas. Okay. Now the next two brushes are from artifi. Okay? This is a small flat brush. I really like using these flat brushes, and the other one that I have is a small round brush in size two again. This is a Chinese calligraphy brush. It makes a nice thin stroke. Now, you can use any liner brush or any thin brush that you have for finer details. This one is one fourth inch flat brush. This is from the Neptune CDs from Princeton. Now I'll be using this brush only to sort out the colors to show you. But you can use any brush that you have. You don't need to have the same brushes. You can use whatever you have. Let us now look at the other materials that you will need. Okay? So this is an acrylic bow. You can use any flat surface that you have to tap down your paper. Okay. Next, you will need a mixing palette. For this class, I've removed all the colors in this palette, so I'll be using this palette. Okay, we'll talk about the colors in the next section. Next here, I have a small clip which I use to place it under the board. To keep my paper at an angle, you can use any small object that you have. You will also need a pencil. This is a mechanical pencil. You can use anything that you have. Now for the highlights, you can either use Guash. This is from Windsor Newton White Guash. Okay? Or you can simply use a pen, which I'll be using for this class. This is from UIBL Signo 0.7. Okay. Next, you will also need a spray bottle to moist your paints, okay? You will also need two jars of water. Use one jar for your initial brush rinse and second for your final rinse in clean water to ensure pure vibrant colors without mudding. Next, you will need a masking tape to tape down your paper, a paper towel or a napkin, whatever you have at home. Okay? Now all the materials that you need are also uploaded in the resources section for your reference. In the next section, I will take you through all the colors that you will need and create a beautiful autumn color palette. For now, you can have your papers ready, cut them into the sizes that I've shed earlier, or you can use whatever you have at home. Please feel free to paint in landscape mode or a portrait mode, anything that you like. Okay, I'm going to leave that open to you guys. So this is it for the materials, and I'll see you in the next section. 3. Autumn Color Palette: Hello. Welcome to the section where we'll be creating a beautiful autumn palette. I'll take you through all the colors that we need to complete this class. Okay, so the colors that I'll be using today are from various brands. This one is from Windsor and Newton. This is the Cotman series. These are Snela and then I have Albin and white Knights. Okay? So I have these white Knights tubes and I also have these white knights pants you can see on the left. The first three are full pants by white knights. And one more color that we'll be needing is ivory black. This is also from white Knights. As you can see, all the colors are there on my palette. Okay. I'll just quickly swatch them out and show you the colors that we'll be needing to complete all the four projects. Okay. So now, when you're working with watercolor pans or you have the colors out on your palette, you need to lightly spray some water onto your pants. Okay. And then you wait for about 30 seconds to a minute so that the water reactivates the pigments. This process releases more pigment, making your colors look more vibrant and saturated. Let me quickly show you the difference between a dry watercolor pan and a pre wet watercolor pan. Okay? So I'm just going to take one of the pans from this palette. Okay. Let me show you how the first coat will look. Just directly applying water to the dry paint. Okay? Okay, so that's the first coat. Now I'm going to lightly spray some water, and I'm going to let this sit for about 30 seconds, okay? Okay, so now the pain is ready. Let's try. Okay? Just loading my brush. Okay. And let's see what happens now. Can you see how vibrant and saturated the color is? Adding a little more water, and we'll try this out one more time. Okay? So there's a big difference between the first and the second and the third coat. So always remember to spray some water to reactivate the pigments before you start painting. Okay, so let me move this quickly, and let's focus on today's autumn color palette that you'll require to complete all the projects. So the very first color that I'll be swatching today is gamboge yellow. This is from Windsor Newton Cotman Series. Okay, you can see this is a highly pigmented yellow, one of my favorite yellows. Okay, so let me just show you the lighter value of this. I'm going to spread this off with water. Okay, so this is a super bright color. Now, in case if you do not have gamboge yellow, you can use yellow deep, cadmium yellow, Hansa yellow. Anything that is a bright, rich yellow that you have in your palette. Okay. Next, I'm going to swatch yellow occur from the brands earlier. Okay. In case you do not have yellow ochre, you can make small amounts of red and blue to your yellow, any yellow that you have. Okay, so that will give you a nice warm yellow. Okay, so the next color that we'll be swatching out is bright yellow green. This is also from the brands ener. Okay, so this color can also be achieved by mixing any light yellow that you have in a palette with green. Okay. Okay, so next we'll swatch out sap green from white knights. Okay? This is a beautiful color. I think most of the palettes have this color. So it shouldn't be a problem. You can use any dark green that you have with you. Okay. So the next color that we'll be swatching out is Bern Sienna. I love how bright this color is. This is from the brand Albin, Albin watercolors. Okay. I'm gonna wash the brush and show you the lighter tone of this color. Next, we'll swatch out orange. This is also from white Knights. Okay, it's a beautiful color. Okay. Next, this is Ruby from White Knights again. In case you do not have this exact color, you can use scarlet lake. You can use Crimson. Any red that you have in your palette is completely okay. Okay. Next, we'll swatch out blue from white Knights. This is my go to color to paint the sky. If you do not have this color, you can go for a thalo blue or a bar blue, any light blue that you have in your palette. Next, I'll be swatching Van **** brown. This is again from white knights. If you do not have Vandyk brown, you can use burned tamber as well. Or you can add a little bit of blue to burn sienna or a very small quantity of black to your burn sienna to get this color. Next, I'll be swatching out ivory black. This is, again, from White Knights. Okay, so basically, these are all the colors that you will need to complete today's class. Okay, so let me just quickly write down the names of the colors. Okay? So you do not need to have these exact same colors, use whatever you have come a little closer to the colors that we are using. Okay? So use whatever you have at home. With this, we're done with the color swatches and we have a beautiful autumn color palette with us. Okay, so keep your colors ready, and let's dive into the next section. I'll see you there. Bye bye. 4. Part 1 Basic Watercolor Techniques: Welcome, my friends in this section, I will take you through the basic watercolor techniques that you will need to complete your class. Okay, so we'll go through all the basic ones wet on wet, wet on dry, dry brush, and splatter. The first and the most common technique of watercolors is wet on wet. Wet on Wet is basically applying wet paint on wet surface. So that is why it is called wet on wet. Let me apply the color and show you you will see how the colors bleed, blend and create soft edges. Okay. Let me make a bigger one so you can see. This technique is excellent for soft washes, large background areas, skies, et cetera. Next and the most common technique is wet on dry. This is basically loading up your brush with wet paint and applying it to a dry surface. Okay? So this technique creates crisp, sharp lines. Okay, it is used for detailing and also for layering after your initial wash has dried. This technique produces more vibrant and opaque colors compared to your wet and wet. Okay? The next technique that we will look at is the dry brush technique. I will change the brush for this. I'll be using a mop brush so you understand this better. Okay? So I'm going to wet my brush and take a paper towel and remove all the excess water. Okay? Because this brush holds a load of water, so I need to do it a couple of times. I'm going to load the brush with the color. Okay, go to load it up nicely and dab it onto my palette a couple of times. You can also use a paper towel, okay? And I'm going to paint from the belly of my brush, okay? Can see it has to be flat. And that's how you get these beautiful dry brush strokes. Now, moving on to the next technique and the last one here is the splatter technique. Okay? So I'm going to change the brush. I'm going to take a thinner brush because we'll be creating smaller splatters. So depending on what kind of splatters you need, you will choose your brush accordingly, okay? So larger the brush, we'll create larger splatters. Okay? So I'll just cover the other area. I don't want splatters on the other section. So I've already loaded my brush with some paint, and I'm going to take another brush which is bigger and heavier, and I'm just going to tap on the brush gently. And this will create some beautiful splatters. Okay. You can also use your finger, okay, to gently tap it. Now I'm going to take some more water and paint and show this to you one more time, this time creating larger splatters. Okay. You can see, it depends on the paint on your brush, and you can control the size of your splatters accordingly. Okay. With this, we've covered these basic four techniques that you'll need for your projects. Next, we will cover water control. Okay? So I'm going to show you a small exercise for you to practice and understand the behavior of water to paint. Okay? So how much water is the right water on your paint? Let's figure this out with this exercise. Okay? Now, without removing the excess water, I'm going to apply this directly onto the paper. Okay? So let's make a small square here. Okay? You can see we've got a pool of water. Okay? Now, without adding more water, I'm going to continue making another square. And a third one here. Okay? Let me show this to you. You can see that on the first one, there is a pool of water. The second one looks more even, and the third one is a little bit dry. Okay? Now let's apply some color and see what happens. I'm going to take a darker color to show this to you. Now you can see when I'm applying this on the edges, the color does not disperse, because there's so much water that it will let the pigment just stay on the surface. In the second one, you can see that the color is dispersing, but I'm controlling the movement of the color, and this is what I'm looking for. Okay? Now the third one you'll see that this is almost very close to drying. Okay? So let me show this one more time. Okay? I'm going to show this with more water here. Okay? Again, a pool of water. Now in the second square, I'm going to load my brush, o, with water. But I'm not going to have a bead of water on the edges nor a pool of water. I'm going to apply a flat wash. Okay? Let's continue to apply. Okay. Until my brush goes dry. Okay? So this is the third one, and this is the fourth one, almost getting dry. Okay, here. Let me show this to you. Okay. So the first one, you can see there's a moment in water. The second one is quite okay. The third one is also pretty much close to a flat wash. Okay. Now let's apply a different color, and let's see what happens. Okay? You can see that the paint is not dispersing and it is just sitting on that pool of water. Okay? I'm going to just tab this quickly onto the paper towel and take some more paint and apply it on the edges here. Okay? You can see that there's a more controlled moment here. Okay. Let's see what happens on the third one. Okay? So this also works, okay? It's not going to disperse a lot of paint, and you can still control your paint. Okay? And the fourth one is almost dry. So anywhere between the second and the third works for us. Okay? In loose style paintings, we take a lot of water because it creates beautiful effects. But when painting a detail elements in a landscape, such as a foliage of a tree, you must actively control the amount of water mixed with your paint. And to keep the color precisely where you want it to avoid spreading and merging with the other sections. So with this, we've covered the basic techniques, and I hope you find this helpful and practice the water control exercise. In the next section, we will cover the project examples. I'll see you there. Bye bye. 5. Part 2 Project Examples: Welcome, everyone. In this section, I will take you through all the project examples that will help you paint the four autumn landscapes. In the first section, I will take you through the different kind of skies that we'll be painting in your projects today. Okay, so I'm going to apply an even coat of water with my three fourth inch flat brush. Okay. Now since I'm painting a smaller area, I will switch to a smaller brush. Okay. And I'm taking a very light value of the blue that we're going to be using. And I'm making these vertical strokes, ok? Okay. So now in that square section, you can see that I've only applied the color right on the top because in the bottom half we will have the other things. Now I will wet the paper similarly I'll show you two more of the other skies that we're going to be painting. Okay? And I'll make one here. Okay. The second sky is more like a flat wash. Okay, so it's a simple one. Just go left and right and apply that color. Okay, it'll be more darker on the top and lighter at the bottom. Okay. So I'm just going to blend the bottom part and just lighten the suck. Okay? The third and the fourth project will have this kind of sky where we are going to be painting from right to left. Just like this because on the other side, we're going to have the foolage. Now I'm going to go back in, wash the brush, remove all the excess water, and then I'm just going to blend that in. Now, the upper part of the sky is going to be more darker compared to the other area. Okay? So this is it for the sky. This is just to give you an idea. You can practice these small swatches before you dive into your projects. Okay. Now, next we're going to cover is the foolage of all the four projects. Okay? So again, I'm going to apply an even coat of water, switching to a smaller flat brush. Now I will start with the sky. I'll just show you how to paint the sky here. Okay? So here we have the same vertical strokes. Okay? So I think there's a pool of water, I'm just going to even that out. Okay. Okay. So the first color that we'll be using is gamboge yellow, and we'll apply the first layer here, we're going to leave some gap between the blue and the yellow. You can see there is some white space in between. And once you've applied your layer, you can now slowly pull that off at certain places. Okay. Similarly, we're going to apply a layer of orange. Okay, just above this. Some overlapping the yellow. And some at the bottom, on the white space. And third, you're going to apply red in a similar way. Okay. And right at the bottom, you're just going to darken this with burn sienna. Okay? This is just to give you an idea on how you're going to be painting the foliage. Okay? And now I've added some Van **** brown to give this more depth. Okay, washing the brush, going back to the bigger flat brush. Okay. Applying a quarter of water here and we'll paint the next foliage. Okay, so taking gamboge yellow and apply a layer of yellow, o in a similar way, how we painted the first one. Okay. Now after this, we will change the brush to a thinner one using a Chinese calligraphy brush, and I'm just going to create these strokes with this brush. Basically just creating these vertical lines. Moving on to the next layer. I have taken some red, and I'm going to apply this color in a similar way. Okay, can you see the difference between the first foilage and the second one? Just by changing the brush, I've created this effect. Okay? The first one is more flat and the second one is more streaky. Okay. Now we will move on to the third one. Once again, applying a coat of water, taking the smaller flat brush, this one from artifi and with yellow, I'm just going to apply on the left side, okay? Okay. And on the bottom. Okay. So we'll start painting from the left to the bottom. I'm going to take some yellow ochre, and I'm going to darken some of this part. Next with burn Sienna. Okay? Going to apply it here and there, making small dots. Okay? For a brighter value, I will add some red to this. Okay. Basically, you'll get an idea on how we're going to be painting this foliage. Okay. I'm just creating more depth on the left side, with more concentrated colors as compared to the right, okay? Now, moving on to the next one and the final one. Again, wetting my surface. As we're covering a smaller area, I will change the brush to a smaller one. Okay. And for this one, we'll be working in a descending order. That is going from big to small. Okay? So first, I've applied some yellow here. Okay. Now to create depth, I'm taking some yellow ocher. Okay. Next, burn sienna. It's the same way that we're going to be building up the trees. Okay. Go to wash the brush and I'm going to take some orange. Now, this one is going to be smaller as compared to the yellow since we are going to be painting in descending order, okay? After applying orange, I'm going to take some burnt sienna and give it some depth. Okay. Then going to apply a darker value of the orange to make it look more vibrant and saturated. We add red at certain places. Okay. I go to wash the brush and apply the next color. That is the bright yellow green. Okay. Now this is smaller than the red one also. Okay. And finally, we ladd the gamboge yellow. Okay? So you basically got an idea on how we'll be painting. I'm not adding more details, and at the end, we will add the same burn sienna and a layer of Vandyk brown to give depth. Okay, so you have got an idea on what you'll be painting on your final piece of paper. So I would like you to practice this before you dive into your class projects. Moving on to the next element, the mountains. Okay, so let me just sketch this quickly. Okay. A simple shape for the mountains. Switching to a smaller flat brush, and a lighter value of blue. Okay. Can you see how light it is. Now with the edge of my brush, I'm just going to create these tiny lines, covering some area, mosever leaving some white space in between, okay? This is going to be the first layer. To this, I'm going to add some black. Kd a lighter gray, in a similar way, going to apply it on the mountain. Okay? But this is going to be smaller strokes, some small dots and lines. Okay, adding some on the right side as well. You're at the bottom. Next, I'm adding the darker value of the black. Okay? Can you see this? What I'm doing with my brush, creating these tiny strokes. The same way, you're going to be applying a lighter value and a darker value. Okay, with this, I hope you have understood how we layer the mountains with a lighter blue, a lighter gray, and some dark value of the black. Okay? Now switching to a thinner brush and I'm loading the brush with burn sienna. We will make some branches and the trunk of the tree. Note the movement of my hand and how I'm breaking the lines. Okay. And I'm going to take one out from here. And maybe one from her. Okay? Basically, you have to make these alternate branches. Now with a darker brown, I'm going to darken the bottom part of the trunk. You can add some as well. Do practice this with a very thin brush, okay, your thinnest of all. Okay? Even if you do not have this Chinese calligraphy brush, you can use double zero or a triple zero, a line of brush, okay. And take a scrap piece of paper and practice these branches, okay? Note that the motion of my hand stops, okay, in between. So after I make one, I will change the motion of my hand, and I will break the lines in between. More practice will help you loosen up your hands. Okay, and you'll be able to make the browches freely. Next, I'll show you how to paint birds. These are very easy. Just make a. But instead of a normal, we're going to just pull one of the lines below the first line, okay? One here and one below. Now, understand the pressure of the brush. So the first one is made with the tip of the brush, but the second line is made with applying pressure on the bristles, okay? Okay. Easy to follow. Okay. The last thing I want to show you is a color pull. Okay. So basically, I'm just creating these strokes with my flat brush, horizontal strokes. I'm going to wash the brush, remove all the excess water. Okay. And I'm just going to pull that out, okay? Okay? This gives a perfect, streaky edge. Okay? This brush holds a lot of water, so I'll try and show this to you with the other flat brush. Okay? Okay, apply a darker color on the edge, and dab the excess water and then just pull the color out. Okay? Can you see the nice treaky effect that you get? Okay, let me show you your as well. Now with the damp brush, I'm just going to pull this color, creating a very soft gradient. One more thing that we'll be making in all the projects are the fallen autumn leaves, okay? So just make these randomly. I'm just wearing the pressure on my brush to create these strokes. Okay? Now with a darker color, at the edges, I'm going to drop this color to create some shadow. Okay. With this, we've completed all the project examples that will help you complete the class. So do practice this and once you're done, get your paints and your paper ready, and I'll see you in the first project. Bye bye. Okay. 6. Project 1.1 The Last Fall: Hello, and welcome to your First project. So for this painting, we'll only need to draw a horizon line. That's the only sketch that we require. Okay. Just going to quickly place the clip under the board. Take some water, and let's start by wetting the paper. Make sure to cover the entire surface, especially the corners, going down all the way to the line that we have drawn. That is the horizon line. Mm. Okay. You can see there's excess water in the corners, and I'm just going to even that out. We don't want too much of water, just a shiny core. Can you see that? In case you see there is a movement in water, you can just run your brush a couple of times and even it out. We'll start with the sky. And I'm just going to make vertical lines. We want the sky to be very light, so I'm not taking much color a little bit here and there, and that's it. Okay. Next with gamboge yellow. I'm going to do the same thing, can see making these vertical strokes. Oops splattered some yellow on the sky. I'm just going to rectify that quickly. So I'm taking a damp brush. I'll take a new brush, and it's damp. I'm just going to lift that color and cover it up with blue. Okay. I'm just going to talk in this area. Okay, now without washing my brush, I'm going to take some orange and continue making these same strokes. Again, there's a splatter. Okay, I'm not going to worry too much about it because it's going to get covered, and just going to continue making these strokes and have another layer of orange on top of yellow. Okay, and I'm just going to darken the orange at the bottom. It's nice bright orange. I love this orange from white knights. Okay, so the third layer is going to be of red. Keep painting all the way until the end. Now, at the bottom, I'm going to add some burn sienna as well. I'm going to take this up a little more. Next, I want to darken the bottom area. So I'm going to take a mix of Vandyck brown, burn sienna, and some red. Can I take more of that mix and duck in the bottom area. Yeah, so that's the red that I want. Nice and vibrant. Just making these streaks. Okay. And next, I'm going to add some burnt sienna. Okay. I'll just quickly load up my palette with van **** brown. And without any water on my brush, I'm going to take that color and apply it right at the bottom, making a thin stroke. And I'm going to spread that off a little bit. Just at the edges. Okay. Going to pull that up so we get a little depth. Next with a clean damp brush, I'm going to pull this color. There's not too much water, so you can see it's not going to pull the color so much, giving it a smooth edge. I'm going to load my brush with a bright yellow green, and I'm going to paint this entire section. Okay. I've not wet the bottom area, so you can see some dry strokes as well. It's a nice concentrated color that I've used. I'm just going to smoothen that out and I want some of the brown coming down. Okay. Now with the darker green. I'm just going to darken the area just below the horizon line. So I've taken a thick consistency of this green. And you can see, I'm just going to pull that off on top of the lighter green. With this, we've finished painting the background and the foreground. In the next section, we will add the trees and the other details. I'll see you there. 7. Project 1.2 The Last Fall: Hello, and welcome back. In this section, we will start adding the details. Okay? I'm gonna take a little bit of black, and I'm going to make these thin strokes to show some loose bushes. A little bit here as well. I'm going to take this flat brush. Okay. And I'm going to load it up with Burnsiena. Now we're going to make the trees. So I'm just going to make a straight line. Yeah. Going for the second one now. Pull that off from the top. You can have some moment in making the lines. It's completely okay, needs to look natural like trees. Okay, so now I'm just going to darken these up taking some vandyk brown and from the bottom, I'm going to darken the bottom of the tree. Okay. Adding some details by making some vertical lines and horizontal lines just with the edge of the brush. Just turn the brush once you're making vertical lines. It's okay. Just go slow and take your time. You can also use a thin brush. I'm just comfortable doing it with a flat brush. Okay. Next with a thinner brush, I'm adding black on the left side of the tree. Just going to darken that out. Okay. Now I'm going to make some branches, thin strokes with black. This brush is excellent for detailing to get thin lines. Just start from the bottle. Okay. I'm just going to darken this out, and then I'm going to make these branches. I'm going to add one at the bottom. Maybe one. I'm going to take a mix of burnt sienna and Van **** brown, and we're going to make the lighter branches on the top near the sky. So the branches on the top will appear to be lighter as compared to the ones at the bottom. Okay. Pull that out from you. It's really fun to make branches, isn't it? Sometimes we get too happy, and we just keep on adding more and more until we know until you reach to the moment that you have added way too many branches, and you have overdone that part, so you should know when and where to stop. So the best way is to just keep making these alternate strokes. Some big and some short lines. That's the easiest way to put it. Also, the branches are going to be thicker wherever it's connecting to the trunk. It's going to be thicker and darker at the connecting point. So I think I'm happy with the branches. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to take some orange and make these tiny strokes just to show some leaves. Okay. Just very randomly I'm making these strokes. Okay. And I'm going to do the same thing with red. Okay. Go to add some on top as well. So taking orange and adding some re. Just doing this up a little bit. Okay. Next with orange, I'm going to show some fallen leaves on the ground as well. Okay. First, I'm using orange. Wash the brush and take some red. Okay. I'm going to add some here as well, and maybe some on top. Okay. Just gonna take some black and mix it with the brown and make some birds. I like adding birds to all my landscapes. So Feel free to skip this step in case you don't like adding birds to your landscapes. Okay, almost done. I'm going to take a little bit of black and blue to get a nice grayish tone to make shadows for the fallen leaves on the ground. Okay? Just a straight, tiny line under your leaves. Just on few of them. Okay. Okay. And with this, we are done. It's time to peel the tape off. Absolutely love how this painting is looking. Love the bright colors of the trees. And the contrast in the ground makes the painting look even more appealing. I hope you've enjoyed painting along with me and more exciting projects in the next section, so I will see you there. Bye bye. 8. Project 2.1 Autumn Hillside Cabin: Welcome back to your next project. Let's start with a sketch. Some good, make a slope line. And on this, we're going to draw a simple house like a cottage. Just a simple sketch of the house. Okay. For your reference, the sketch is also uploaded in the project section. Okay. I'm just going to make a window here. Okay. You don't want too much of drawing, but I'm just going to straighten that out. And just above the midpoint of the paper, we're going to draw the mountains. Okay? Just two simple lines, one sloping down and one sloping upwards. Okay. And we're going to have these trees here. You don't need to draw this, but I'm just going to show this for your reference. Okay. That's about it with a sketch. Now we can start. By wetting the paper. So for this painting, we'll break down the background into three parts, the sky, the mountains, and the trees. So first, we will work on the sky and we will wet this entire section until the mountains. Okay. I'm going to load my brush with blue. So with a diluted blue, I'm going to make a nice soft sky. Okay, I'm just going to darken it from the top. So I'm just going to apply more color right on the top. And as we go down, I'm just going to blend that in. That's it. Next, I'm going to add a little bit of red to that blue. Okay? Just trying to make a good reddish violet, adding a little more of the red, and this is the color that I'm looking for. Okay. Now, the paper is still wet. So I'm going to apply this right at the top, basically on the line where we have drawn the mountain. Okay. Taking more of that color and just going to drop that in here. Okay? Now with a damp brush, I'm just going to lift up that color from here from the side, basically. Okay. Now with the blue, again, a very light blue, so it's going to be a lighter shade. Okay. And I'm just going to make these flat strokes and spread that off at certain areas. Just thin strokes, and then at some places, you're going to just spread that off. Now, you can do this with any thin round brush as well. But if you try this with a flat brush and you're painting with a tip, you get those nice straight lines. And you can also use the belly of the brush to spread that off just like what I'm doing here. Okay, so very light color, and we go to paint this entire mountain. At some places, note that I'm leaving the white as it is. That is why we are working with wet on dry technique here. Okay, so we're done with the first layer of the mountains. Now with my mop brush, I'm going to wet this area of the trees. Okay, so I'm just going to wet this entire section. Carefully apply water above the house. Okay. Okay. Now, while the papers still wet, I'm going to load my brush with yellow and going to make these vertical strokes. They're going to look like distant trees. You can see how bright this color is. Absolutely love gamboge yellow. Okay. Just continue making the strokes all the way through until the end. Okay. So we've got our first layer. Now I'm going to take some an **** brown, a darker brown. Okay, I'm just going to apply it at the bottom. Okay. Is above the roof as well. Okay. I'm going to change my brush to my Chinese calligraphy brush. You can take any thin brush that you have. An round brush would do. I'm going to make these small vertical strokes. We want the yellow trees to be seen as well. So this one is going to be shorter. Going to leave some gaps in between. Okay. Next with red, I'm going to make these thin lines. Okay. I'm going to be taller at the edges. Okay. Finally, we will add the deck brown. Okay? Continue making these same strokes. We've used four colors for the trees, the yellow, the orange, red, and now Vandyck brown. You can also use burned tumbo in case you do not have Vandyck brown. Okay. I'm going to take some more concentrated color of Vandyck brown and just going to apply at the edges. First, okay? Now to show some depth in the trees, I'm going to take black and apply it at the bottom and make it a little more darker, okay? Can also make these small lines right at the bottom. Okay? That's it. Happy with how the trees are looking. Next, we'll work on the cottage. So I'm going to take some black, change my brush to a flat brush, and I'm going to paint the roof. Okay. Now with a damp brush, I'm just going to pull that color. Okay? N a nice light gray. Okay. So I'm going to dilute this further and add a little bit more water. Okay. You can see that yellow has seeped in to the house. That's perfectly fine. We need a little bit of yellow. Okay? And we're going to paint the rest of the house. Just going to darken the edges here, just a little bit at the bottom, as well. Okay. So for now, we're good with the house. We'll come back once it's completely dry, and I'll see you in the next section. 9. Project 2.2 Autumn Hillside Cabin: Welcome back to part two of this project. Coming to the foreground now. We paint the green fields with bright yellow green. Okay. We're just going to cover that entire section with this color, okay? Love this bright green. In case you do not have this green, like I said, you can mix lemon yellow with any of the greens that you have. Okay? Just be careful around the edges of the house. Okay? Now with sap green, I'm going to paint over the lighter green. Okay. Just making these random strokes. Okay. Next, I'm going to apply a few strokes of Vandyk brown. Weigh randomly here and there. Okay, and spread that off. Okay, so that's it. Next, we add the details to the mountains. I'm going to take the flat brush again. Just dabbing the excess color on the paper towel. Just with the edge of the brush, take some more colour. Okay, so we'll add these tiny strokes. Okay. Only the tip of my brush is touching the paper to create these lines. Okay? So just continue making these tiny strokes of short lines, maybe lots at some places on the entire mountain. Okay. Leaving some gap in between. So I'm just adding these very randomly, okay. At certain places, I'm just going to add these tiny dots. Okay. And I'm going to have more of these towards this end. Could make some bigger ones now. Just trying to show tiny stones and rocks on the mountain. Okay, now with a darker value of the black. Okay, I'm just going to darken these at certain places. Please feel free to use any brush that you're comfortable with. I'm just going to continue doing this with a flat brush. In case you're more comfortable with a round brush or a liner brush, you can use that as well. Okay, so almost done. Adding some here as well. Just going to talk in some of these. So this is it. The mountains are ready. Now with the same black on my brush, I'm going to add details to the house. To this little cottage here. So working with a flat brush really helps once you want to achieve a straight line. So just by touching the tip of my brush to the paper, I'm able to create these straight lines. Okay, I'm going to do this on the other side of the roof, as well. Okay? Now I'm adding these tiny dots just by touching the brush. So Okay. Did the dark in this bit. Okay. Now with red, I'm just going to make one single stroke here and just going to track this. Okay? Now with a thinner brush, I'm going to take black and add that on the top of the window. Okay? In the top and on the side of the door. Okay? Okay, that's it. Okay. I'm gonna take some more black, and I'm going to darken the edge. Okay. Okay, on the side as well. Okay? Making these tiny lines on one end. Okay. And maybe some as well. Ye. Okay. So at the bottom. Okay. You want to add some dots here on the fields as well. Okay. Just very randomly. Okay. So that's it with the green fuse as well. Butter take some more of the black and finally make some birds. Okay? Okay. One yoke. Maybe one yk. And one yoke. Okay. Lastly, we go to add some branches. Okay. Maybe one yk. Adding one here on the right. This brush is really helpful in making thin strokes. You can also use liner brush for this section for making the branches. And in case you're not comfortable working with a brush, you can also use any black pen waterproof pen like a micron or a NIBll Okay. Now with red, I'm going to add some leaves. Okay. Just randomly making these strokes in this entire section of where we painted the trees. Okay. And not too many, so this is it. It's time to peel the tape off. I've done this so many times, but tape always makes me super happy and so excited to see those clean edges. It just adds more beauty to your painting, doesn't it? In case you like to have borders. Yeah. Okay, so with this, we have another beautiful autumn landscape with us. I hope you've enjoyed painting along with me. And I'll see you in the next project. Bye bye. 10. Project 3.1 Autumn RiverBend: Hello and welcome to your third project. Let's begin this painting by drawing a simple sketch. Below the center of the paper, we're going to draw on the horizon line, and from there on, we'll start working on the land area. Okay? A bigger bump and a smaller bump. Okay. I'm just going to pull this out a little bit. The sketch will be uploaded in the project section for your reference. Now we'll start making the land on the other side so we get a nice, exact shaped river in between the land. Okay? You can draw this shape anyhow you like. Me not copy this. And with this, we're done with a sketch. Let's start by wetting the paper. Okay. We don't want too much water, just an even coat of water on the paper. Just get a shiny coat. Okay. Next, I'm going to take some blue. And for this sky, we're going to paint from right to left, okay? I'm going to add a little bit of blue on the top. It is going to darken this bit. Okay? And as you come down, I'm not loading my brush with any more color. Just going to smoothen the so and we're done with the sky. Okay, so now the papers still wet and I'm going to take some gambogyello, and I'm going to apply it from the left side. Okay. Just keep making these tiny strokes, okay? Leave some gaps in between and continue to make these strokes until you reach the horizon line. Okay? I'm just going to cover this entire section. I'm gonna pull that out. And I'm gonna make some as well on the right side. Okay, so just showing some distant trees here. Okay. So now I'm going to take a little more concentrated color of gamboge yellow. Okay? And I'm going to just throw that in at certain places. Now with yellow ocher. I'm going to make these small dots. Maybe some as well. Okay. Okay, so almost done. Note that I don't have much water. I'm just taking the damp brush and making the dots with the damp brush only. Now without washing my brush, I'm going to take some orange. Okay, and I'm going to apply this here on the corners, especially. And as you go out, make these dots smaller. Okay. I'm going to take a little bit more of orange. I'm gonna apply it here at the bottom. Okay, and stretch it all the way until the end. Okay. And now I'm going to add some random dots here just to show some scattered leaves of the trees. Okay. Next, I'm going to take some red. Okay? Note that I've not washed my brush in between. And since I'm using a mop brush, this holds a lot of water, so the brush is damp enough for me to start painting with the next color. Okay? I'm just going to add these scattered dots. Okay, so note that I'm leaving some space in between these dots because I want the yellow beneath this color to be seen as well. Okay, I'm going to take some more color and just going to darken this bit. And we'll continue to paint until the end. Okay. Broader strokes at the end covering larger areas. Okay, so note that though I like layers for this painting from light to dark. And if you see all the colors, all the layers are visible, just makes the painting a little more appealing. Okay? Now I've taken some burnt sienna. I'm going to add the darkest towards the and on the left side. Okay, we'll make small strokes, small dots. Okay, take a little bit more of the color, and going to add it at the bottom here. Okay. Next, I'm taking Van **** brown. Again, the same way we painted burn sienna, darkest on the left side, and add small little dots here and there. Okay. Okay. And now I'm going to add some here at the bottom. Okay, again, the darkest towards the edges. Okay. Okay, so almost done with the trees. Okay, now I'm going to wash the brush and and I'm going to load the brush with blue, and we'll start painting the river. Okay? So here amusing wet on dry technique because it's a very small area. Okay? So I'm just going to first add a lighter blue. Okay, more of water, less of color. Okay. So now I'm going to take a little bit more of the blue, and I'm going to just drop this at the edges. Now with a damp brush, I'm just going to spread that off. Okay. Get nice. Different tones in the water. Okay? Same thing we're doing on the other side as well. This edge. And again, going to wash the brush, and with a damp brush, I'm just spreading wherever we've added the darker value of the blue. Okay. So this is what I was saying that whenever you add different values of one color, okay? Or you're building up your subject with multiple colors. It just adds a tremendous depth to the subject that you're painting instead of making your painting look flat, okay? Okay, so we're done with the river, as well, and go to wash the brush. In the next section, we'll start painting the yellow fields. See you all day. 11. Project 3.2 Autumn River Bend: Welcome back to the section. And let's start painting the yellow fields. I'm going to load the brush with Gambogello first. Okay, and I'm going to start painting the yellow fields. So I want to lighter color near the horizon line. That's why I'm painting with Gambogello. Okay. Now I'm going to take some yellow ochre. I'm just going to apply it to the rest of this entire white area that you can see. Go to paint all the way to the edges and I let some of that paint seep into the water to show some shadows and we continue to do the same thing on the other side as well. I'm going to drop some color here as well. Go to pull that out a little bit. Okay. Is a nice way to show reflections in the water. So do this only when your papers still wet. Okay? So it blends easily. Okay. Next, I'm changing my brush to a smaller brush. I'm going to take some burn Sienna and add it to the edges here, okay? Okay, I'm going to just spread that off a little bit. Okay? Okay. C take more of this and add some here as well. Okay, spreading that off, trying to blend that in. Okay. Now I'm going to take Van **** brown. Just trying to create depth. I'm going to create these little streaks in water, okay? Same thing on this side as well. I'm just going to blend that in. You saw I wash my brush, and with very little water, I've just blend that in. Okay. The same thing, creating some small strokes to show some streaks in water. Just trying to show some shadow here. And we continue to do the same thing on the other side first with burn sienna, the same process. Okay. Paint here on the edges. Now, with a damp brush, we'll spread this area. Always keep your paper towel, your napkin handy whenever you're working with a damp brush technique. Okay? You don't need a lot of water. You just need your bristles to be damp enough. Okay? Now I've taken some van **** brown. You can also use burnt tumbo. If you do not have burned tamber as well, you can add a little bit of black maybe to your burn sienna. You can also use blue to your burn sienna to get a darker shade of brown. Okay. I'm going to wash the brush and spread it off. Okay, next, I'm going to take a little bit more of the brown and start working on the shadow by creating some streaks. Same way as we did on the other side. I'm gonna pull some from here as well. Take some color, and you can see we've created so much depth towards the edges. Gonna buck in this part as well. Okay? I think we're done with this. In the next section, we'll add in the trees and the other foreground details. See you there. Okay. 12. Project 3.3 Autumn River Bend: Welcome back to this section. Let's start painting the trees and the other details. Okay, so next, I'm going to take some more of van **** brown, a darker value, okay. And going to make the trees and few branches. Okay? Would you add one here, two straight lines and then just add few branches. Okay. Just some scattered branches. Use a thin brush for this. We don't want very thick branches, okay? Okay. Take your time, do this slowly. A one here and one year as well. Okay, go and add some here in between the trees. Okay. And now we'll add few of the branches on the right side as well. Go to add one small one here. Okay. It's almost done with the brown. Next with black. I'm going to create some darker branches. Okay. Just add black at certain places, not everywhere. Okay? Okay. I'm just going to darken this. Okay, applying black on the left side of the tree. Sading some tiny branches at the bottom. Gonna pull this up a little bit. I'm gonna add one on the top. Okay. Continue to make some branches on the other side as well. Okay. Just some short ones here. Okay. Just some small tiny lines. I'm going to add one year towards the end. Okay. I'm just going to darken this horizon line, okay? Just showing depth towards the bottom. And we're going to do the same thing on the other side as well. Okay? Okay. Take some more of the black, and I'm going to add it here. Okay, adding some highlights with black on the land area. Same thing on the other side. Okay, now I'm gonna pull that off. Yeah. So finally washing the brush, and next, we will add some leaves with a mix of red and the brown on my palette, okay? And just randomly, I'm adding some tiny strokes, okay? So small dots here and there. Okay, good add some as well on the other side. I'm going to show some fallen leaves on the ground as well. Some dots and some lines. Okay? Same thing on the other side, just a little bit here, okay? Not too much. That's it. Next, we're going to add shadow with the Vandyck brown to the fallen leaves. Okay? So just below the leaves that we've painted, add a small line of brown, okay, just to show shadow. Not on all of them, just a few of them. Okay, now I've taken some van **** brown on my brush, and I'm going to show some scattered brass ein there just to add a little bit of texture to this area. Okay, I'm going to add this here as well. Just very randomly making some dots and lines. Next, I'm going to wash my brush, and I'm going to just tuck in these leaves here, and then add the shadow to the leaves on the side as well. Next with the mix of red and little bit of black here on my palate, I'm going to make small tiny birds. Okay. Go take a little bit of the darker brown and mix it with black. I just talk in this. They're super tiny, so you can also work with only black, so that's completely fine. Okay, so we're almost coming to an end. Finally, let's add some details. I'm going to take my NIBal white pen. You can also use white gosh or a thick consistency of white watercolors as well. Okay, so just near the branches. Only on some of them, I'm just adding these white lines, and here as well on the river. Okay. Just at the edges, just highlighting some areas. Okay, so that's it. And let's peel off the tape now. Okay, so with this, we've completed our third project, a beautiful autumn river bend. I hope you've enjoyed painting along with me. In the next section, we will finish the class with our fourth project. See you in the next section. Bye bye. 13. Project 4.1 Forest In Fall: Welcome to your fourth and the final project of painting autumn landscapes. Let's begin with a simple sketch again. So we'll start with Horizon dine. Okay, and I'm just going to draw some trees here. Okay, so I'm just going to draw the trunk for your reference. Even if you don't draw these, it's completely okay. Okay. Just going to add one here. So we're going to show there's a whole series of forest here. Okay, so let me just put the clip below the board, and we're good to go. Okay, I'm going to move this aside, and with my flat brush, I'm going to start by wetting the sky. Okay. Apply a good even coat of water. All the way to the horizon line. There should be no bead or water anywhere, so just run your brush a couple of times, especially in the corners. Next, we're going to take the blue and we'll start working on the sky. Again, I'm going to start from the right side. Just the way we have painted the sky in the previous projects. Okay. Wash your brush now and dab the excess water on your paper towel and smoothen this part. Okay? So we'll be painting the forest now. So the first color that we need is gamboge yellow. Okay. Go to take a little bit of water. Okay. And very randomly, I'm going to cover the first section with this color. Okay? Next, I taking some burn sienna, and I'm just going to randomly make some thoughts. Okay, on the edges, especially, and some tiny dots to show some scattered leaves of the trees. Now adding some darker value of the brown, so I've taken Van **** brown. Okay? Very randomly, I'm painting this. There is no right or wrong way to this. Okay? So just the three colors, the lighter yellow, burn sienna, and andyke brown. Next, I've taken some orange. And again, very randomly, I'm going to be painting this section. Okay. I'm going to take the darker value and dark in certain areas. Next, I've taken some van **** brown. And at some places, I'm going to drop this color. Okay. After this, I'm going to take some red and drop that color in. Just making some small dots. Okay, so we're done with this tree, as well. Next, I'm going to wash the brush and load my brush with bright yellow green. So I'm going to make this tree shorter, as compared to the previous one. Okay, dropping that color. Okay. I'm just going to pull that little bit off on the top. I'm using the same color, but it's a little more concentrated, so you can see a darker value of bright yellow green. Okay. See Next with Sam green, I'm going to drop that color in certain places and leaving some gaps in between. Okay. We want the lighter green to be seen as well. Okay? I'm just going to darken this bit with the same color. Okay. So done with a green tree as well. Next, I'm going to take gambos yellow. This one is going to be the shortest. Okay. Just going to pull that up a little bit more and almost done with this little yellow tree as well. Okay. Now I'm going to change the brush to thinner brush. And with yellow ocher, I'm just going to add in some details, going to drop in a good concentrated value of yellow ochre. Okay. Next, we're going to take Van **** brown and add in more details. Just making some notes and some random strokes on the tree. Okay. Same thing we're going to do with the next tree as well. Going to take a good mix of red and burn sienna, a little bit of vandak brown to get a darker red. Okay, you can see that. I'm working while the paper is still wet, so it blends easily. Okay. Just throwing in some dots here in there. To show some scattered leaves, adding red. Basically, with these three colors, you have to keep adding these details on top of your tree. Okay? Similarly, with a darker green. I still have a red in my brush. I just mixed it with the sap green, and I'm going to make these small strokes. Okay. I'm going to just pull that off a little bit here. With that green, I'm just going to overlap it over the yellow tree, the smaller one, and I'm just going to create these small tiny branches here on the side. Okay. I'm taking Vandyke brown and at the bottom, The paper's still wet. So that's why it's blending easily. Okay, now add it black to that mix. Okay. And with this, we're going to paint this entire section, the bottom of the trees, all the way till the end. So this is it. In the next section, we'll proceed with the foreground and complete the other details. I'll see you in the next section. Bye bye. 14. Project 4.2 Forest In Fall: Welcome to part two of Forest in fall. Since the trees are still wet, we'll start painting the and area connecting the forest. Okay? So just below the horizon line, I'm going to take yellow ocher and paint this entire section. Okay, I think I'll just change the brush to a flat brush. Okay. Continuing with the same color. Okay. You can see now I'm trying to pull that out. It gets thicker on the left side. I want to have that uneven edge. So that's why I'm just pulling the yellow ochre outside. Now with burn sienna, I'm going to add this on the edges with the tip of my brush. Okay? You can see making these small horizontal lines. Now, you just wash the brush and keep it aside. Now apply a coat of light yellow right on top here. Okay? And you can see I'm pulling some of that burn sienna just to create some soft edges. Next, we'll wash the brush and load the brush with blue. Okay. I'm going to apply it here at the bottom. I take some water and blend that in. We want that shadow to be seen, so I'm not going to go over the yellow much. This is it. Now, I change the brush to a flat brush. I'm loading the brush with Vandyk brown and I'm going to apply it here at the edges to add more depth. Again we're working horizontally, creating these lines. Okay, only at certain places. Going to talk in this bit and pull that out. Okay? And now I'm going to create some streaks in water is continuing with the same color that I had picked up earlier. That's why I'm getting these very light strokes. With this, we're done with the reflection in the water. Okay. Next, I'm going to take some yellow ocher and mix it with burnt sienna. Okay, we're going to start working on the trunk of the tree. I'm going to just make this line here these vertical lines. Okay? Okay, so we've got the first one here. Okay, good to have the second one here, maybe. Okay. And as you go down, you're going to broaden the trunk. I have a third one here. So I use a light color first just to have some markups. Now I'm going to darken this up, and I'm going to take a mix of anti brown burn sienna, a little bit of black, and I'm just going to darken the first trunk that we painted. Okay. I'm going to make one here, a small one here. Okay. Going to go over these trunks that we have painted. Okay? So you can see it just gets easier and maybe one you. I think I'll have a small one here and one here. So the green tree. Okay. Now I've removed the excess paint, and I'm just going to blend the black with the brown that we had painted earlier. Okay? I'm going to take some more of it and add some here, go to darken the bottom part. Okay. A little bit here as well. Same thing will apply to all the trees. You can see that I'm applying it only on the left side and then slowly blending it in. Okay. Pulling that out. All this I'm doing with Van **** brown. Okay. Okay. Taking more of the color and just continuing. Okay. Okay. Do it twice slowly. One branch at a time. Okay. You can also use your line of brush to get those fine strokes. I'm going to load the brush with more of the color. And I'll add branches on either side of the trunk. That's the easiest way to understand how you want to add the branches. Okay, so I'm going to add one here, a thicker one in the bottom. Okay. One on the other side. Moving on to the next tree. Okay, very randomly, I'm adding the branches. Okay. One here on the bottom. Okay. Next, we'll add some on the green tree. Okay, so just taking the same mix and continuing to make the branches. Okay. Going to darken that bit and make these branches. One on the right, and one on the left. Okay. Okay. Okay. Finally, we add branches to the smaller tree. Okay. Just go to branch one out. Yo. Go to add a small one here. Okay. Just go to take some black, and I'm going to darken some of the trays. In between the trees now, I'm adding these vertical lines. To add more depth than to show some distant bushes or trees, branches. So keep adding all the way until the end. Okay. Okay, I'm just going to pull that out a little bit from the bottom and go to darken this part. Okay. And I'm going to add these same vertical lines on the right side as well. Okay. I'm going to add random dots. Okay. In between the trees. Okay, next with Vandyck brown and a little bit of the yellow ochre. I'm going to create the shadow of the trees. Okay? All right. And I'm just going to add little detail to the edges here, taking some black. Okay, making some small dots and lines just to show some tiny stones here. I'm going to make some horizontal lines on the water as well to show some reflection, going back and adding a little more black in between the trees. Next, I'm going to take some gamboge yellow. And we're going to splatter some of this color onto the trees. Going to cover the sky. Don't want anything on that area. I'm going to splatter some of this color on the trees next, I'll be adding a splatter of red. Okay, same thing. Just use a brush or you can tap your finger. Okay, very small splatters that we need. The last thing that we're going to add is some highlights with a white pen. You can also use white quash. So only adding these highlights on the left side of the tree. Okay. And some to the branches. Okay? We'll add some branches here at the bottom. Okay. They add one on the top. Okay. D adding some details near the tree. Okay, so just taking a little bit of black and mixing it with the brown and the yellow on the palette. And I'm going to create small tiny birds here on the sky. Okay. Okay. I'm just going to take some black now and going to add some more dots here in darker ones here, adding some on the ground as well here. Just creating some dots. The bushes and on the ground. Okay. Going to add some on the top. This randomly adding these. And with this last bit, we're done with this painting as well. It's time to peel off the tape. Okay, so it's a beautiful contrast between the forest and the water. Absolutely love how the colorful foliage is defining the shape of the trees. And with this painting, we will wrap up a class. I hope you've enjoyed painting along with me. And thank you so much for joining me. I'll see you in the next section. Oh 15. Conclusion & Final Thoughts: We've made it. Thank you so much for joining me on this beautiful journey through the expressive colors of autumn in our class, whispers of fall. Over the past lessons, we've mastered the essential watercolor techniques needed for the four distinct projects. The last fall, the cozy scene of the autumn hillside cabin, the flowing waters of Autumn River Bend, and the dense foliage of forest in fall. You now have the skills and confidence to approach any expressive layered watercolor landscape. Remember this most important lesson, the magic of watercolor lies in embracing its nature. Don't worry if a wash didn't turn out perfectly. Embrace those happy accidents. Keep practicing the techniques and your confidence will grow with every brush stroke. Now for your class project, I encourage you to choose your favorite of the four scenes and complete your own unique version. Once you're done, please take a clear picture of your final artwork and upload it here in the project gallery. I truly look forward to seeing every one of your colorful autumnal creations and offering my personal feedback. Please follow me here on Skillshare for more classes and feel free to connect with me on social media at Bombay Painting Club. Happy painting. Until then, take care, and I'll see you in the next class. Bye bye. And