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Whispers of the Monsoon : Paint a Moody Watercolor Landscape

teacher avatar Aishwarya Shetty, my__paint___story | Watercolour Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello Monsoon!

      1:32

    • 2.

      Art Supplies

      2:21

    • 3.

      Colour Palette

      1:58

    • 4.

      Let's create the Pencil Sketch

      9:33

    • 5.

      Wetting the Paper

      2:16

    • 6.

      Let's paint the background

      13:11

    • 7.

      Painting the Leaves

      8:20

    • 8.

      Painting the Branch

      4:35

    • 9.

      Adding the Final Details

      5:22

    • 10.

      Thank You!

      1:59

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There is something truly magical about the monsoon season. The dramatic rain-filled skies, the fresh scent of the earth after the first shower, the vibrant greens that come alive, and the gentle sound of raindrops creating ripples on still water. It's a season that reminds us to slow down, appreciate nature, and find beauty in the simplest moments.

Hello everyone, I'm Aishwarya an Engineer and a Watercolor Artist and welcome to this brand-new watercolor class!

In this class, you'll learn how to paint soft, moody skies, create glowing green foliage, add realistic rain effects, paint delicate water droplets on leaves, and bring the water surface to life with beautiful reflections and ripples. 

Whether you're a beginner looking to build confidence or an experienced artist wanting to paint a peaceful rainy scene, you can follow along with ease.

So gather your watercolor supplies, find a comfortable spot, and let's celebrate the beauty of the monsoon together.

I'm excited to paint with you, so without further ado, let's get started!

Art Supplies you'll need for this class are listed below:

  • 100% cotton Watercolour paper(300gsm, 140 lobes) - I am using Saunders Waterford you can go with any brand
  • Paint brushes( Wash brush or a flat brush, round brushes(size1, size 6, size 8 and size 12), detailing brush(size 0 or 1)
  • Watercolour Paints from Whitenights
  • Two jars of clean water
  • Pencil and eraser for adding the pencil sketch
  • Masking tape
  • Masking Fluid
  • White Gouache
  • Hard board to tape down the paper
  • Old cloth or tissue for wiping the excess water or paint

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Aishwarya Shetty

my__paint___story | Watercolour Artist

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Hello Everyone! I'm Aishwarya, a Software Engineer by profession and an artist from all my heart. Art makes me feel relaxed and it also makes me do a happy dance every single time I pick my paint brush. It keeps me going everyday and its like a natural therapy.

I'm originally from the state Karnataka in India but currently working in Bangalore. As a kid I used to have bad grades for my drawings but over the years I have totally fallen in love with art especially watercolors. It is such a wonderful medium in itself. Its been 3 years I have started taking art seriously on daily basis and I want to create a beautiful life for myself. Painting really helps me release all my stress.

I not only enjoy painting but also love to share my creations with the world and help ot... See full profile

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1. Hello Monsoon!: There's something truly magical about the monsoon season, the dramatic rain filled skies, the fresh scent of the Earth after the first show, the vibrant greens that come alive, and the gentle sound of raindrops creating ripples on still water. It's a season that reminds us to slow down, appreciate nature and find beauty in the simplest moments. Hello, everyone. I'm Aswaia an engineer and a watercolor artist, and welcome to this brand new watercolor class. In this class, you will learn how to paint soft, moody skies, create glowing green foliage, add realistic rain effects, paint delicate water droplets on the leaves, and bring the water surface to life with beautiful reflections and ripples. Whether you're a beginner looking to build confidence or an experienced artist wanting to paint a peaceful rainy scene, you can follow along with ease. So gather your art supplies, find a comfortable spot, and let's celebrate the beauty of Monsoon together. 2. Art Supplies: All right, so let us take a look at the art supplies that you will need. First is the paper. So I'm using the paper from the brand Saunders water food. It is a 300 GSM, 100 person cotton watercolor paper with a minimum thickness of 140 Bs, and it is a cold pressed watercolor paper. So you can just have a look at the texture of this paper. So you can go with any watercolor paper of your choice. Just make sure it is 300 GSM and 100% cotton watercolor paper that is going to give you the best results. Next, you're going to require a pencil and an eraser for making the pencil sketch. And let us take a look at the basic brushes that you will need. You will need a flat brush to wet the entire surface of the paper, and you'll need a couple of round brushes, size number 12, or ten, and size number eight, six, and a mini detailing brush. That's it. These are the basic brushes that you will need. All these brushes are from the brand silver black velvet, but you can go with any brushes of your choice. Next, you will need a white gelpin. If you don't have one, you can go with white guash. These are the colors that I'll be using for this particular class. I have a separate video on which colors you will need for this particular painting. Next, you'll need two jars of water. I just have one over here, but you will require two jars of clean water, one to wash away all the dirty paint, and other one is to pick up the fresh paint. All right. Next up, you will require masking fluid. This is to mask out the leaf and the branch area. But if you don't have one, you can directly go with the white gouache, and you can paint the leaves direct. You need a masking tape, and you'll also need some tissues and paper cloth to wipe off all the excess amount of water and the paint, and you'll also need packing board, a board like this to fix the paper. And, yeah. So these are pretty much the art supplies. So go get them ready, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 3. Colour Palette: All right. Let us take a look at the colors that you will need for this particular class. For painting the dramatic clouds, you will need bright blue and a mixture of basically you will need a mixture of bright blue and pains gray so that you get a nice bluish gray tone for creating those dramatic clouds. You can go with any blue. It could be serle and blue, it could be any other light blue. Just take slight amount of that blue and mix it with your pains gray and create this beautiful bluish gray shade for your clouds. Next for creating the lush green forest in the background, I'm going to be using this nice shade called sap green from white knights. So you can go with any green from your palette. It could be radiant hue. It could be dark green, or if you just have olive green or any light green shade, then mix it with little amounts of brown or sepia and create this nice cooler blue. I mean, nice, cooler green shade. And this is the olive green that I will be using to paint the background. So make sure you pick up different amounts of greens and mix it in your palette and then you can go ahead and paint it. Alright, now for creating the branch that you see, which is present in the foreground, you can go with any of your ndike brown or any dark brown. And to add the details and highlights, you can choose sepia. So this is the sepia shade that I have swatched out. So yeah, these are pretty much the basic colors, very minimal color palette, and I hope all these colors are present already in your palette. So just get them ready, prep your colors, and I'll see you soon in the next section. A 4. Let's create the Pencil Sketch: All right, so let us begin with the pencil sketch. So the pencil sketch is really simple. First, let us start by defining the horizon line. Basically, we want to separate the lake region from the sky region, and that is what we are doing here. And this need not be exactly half of the page, but, you know, just maintain that proportion one fourth, and the rest of it is the lake. So now we are going to draw a teeny tiny branch, not very tiny though. So we are just going to draw a branch that is going to be the focus of this particular painting, and the rest of the background is going to remain in the out of focus. Basically, it's going to be blurry. So the branch is going to be really simple. We're just going to define a branch with some leaves. So you can just wait for me to finish the complete pencil sketch, and later on, you can stop or pause the video, take a screenshot and create the pencil sketch for yourself. So there's nothing complicated or rocket science over here. It's that simple. So all you have to do is just follow along and just create the pencil sketch. So as we progress further, you will get an idea of what the painting is going to look like, right? So to avoid a lot of erasing, just do not attempt to the pencil sketch as of now. You can just wait for me to finish it, and then you can go ahead and create it. All right. So now this branch or the leaves that we are going to create, it need not be in the same manner as I am doing because nature is very unique and, you know, it has different elements. So it's up to you how you want to create this branch and create those leaves. All right. So there's no hard and fast rule to make it appear just as it is looking in my painting. All right, so I'm just going to quickly go ahead and finish the pencil sketch and you can follow along with me. All right, so this is how the branch and the leaves are looking as of now, and I'm quite happy with the pencil sketch. So now let's move on to adding some dew drops on these leaves. So since it's the monsoons, obviously, when it rains, you can see a lot of dew drops on the leaves, and we want to show that exact effect where the drops are falling from the edges or the tips of the leaves. And as they fall into the lake, they are creating the ripple effect in the water, and that is what we are trying to depict in today's painting. All right, do not be afraid of anything. Let us just push away all the fears and let us just focus on creating. As I always say in all the classes, just trust in the process and the end is going to be really beautiful. All right. You can see now the dew drops are really simple. You have to just create the shape of the dew drop. And it need not be exactly the shape of a drop. It can be circular in shape or slightly oval and pointed at the top. All right. So yeah, that is it. And for creating the dew drops as well, you can do it on all the leaves or some of the leaves, and it's just going to be very random. So be very random, keep it organic, and try to create that. Alright, so this is how it is looking. Now, let us go ahead and define the ripples that are going to appear in the lake. So you can do this or you can completely omit this step. I am doing this because later on when we start painting, I will have an exact layout or a blueprint so that, you know, I can just see these lines and directly go and apply my paint. I need not find or think where do I need to put my ripples. So a pencil sketch acts like a blueprint and it guides you throughout your painting. All right. So this is the very important step in your painting. So always get the pencil sketch right because once you have that layout set in, it makes your life much more easier. All right. So at this point, if you want to do any kind of changes, if you want to erase it and if you want to redefine your pencil sketch, all of that can be done in this particular stage. And once you have the pencil sketch right, you can just go and paint seamlessly. All right, so this is how the pencil sketch is looking as of now, and you can see the pencil sketch is completed now, so you can just pause the video, take a screenshot and paint it for yourself. And once the pencil sketch is ready, let us quickly dive into our painting, and I'm really excited to start the painting. 5. Wetting the Paper: All right, so you can see that I have masked out the branches and the leaves and also the dew drops because I wanted to paint it in the second layer once the background is completely dried. But if you do not have masking fluid, then what would you do? So wait for the background to dry, and then you can go ahead and paint the branches and the leaves over it. Okay, for that matter, your pencil sketch has to be visible through the background, and for painting the dew drops, you can go ahead and use opaque white guash. So this is one of the important tips for those of you who do not have masking fluid. All right. So for those of you who have masking fluid, you can just go ahead, mask out the regions and wait for it to dry completely before wetting the paper. All right. So now for wetting the paper, I'm using my larger sized flat brush from silver black velvet, but you can go with any other larger sized brush. It could be a mob brush, a round brush, or simply a flat brush. Okay? The main goal of this particular section is to wet the paper thoroughly so that the paper is nicely since we are going to work on the wet on wet, the entire painting is going to be wet on wet, so you can imagine the amount of wetness the paper should hold. Okay? So just make sure you're doing it multiple number of times. I know this is a super boring step, but this is an important foundational step. In the wet on wet watercolor paintings. I have been telling this in all my classes, and I'm going to repeat the same thing again because this is a very important step. Many of our times I see that people complain about the paper getting dried and all of that. So it also depends upon the kind of paper that you're using. Please go with 100 person cotton watercolor paper with a minimum thickness of 300 GSM. All right, so just go ahead, prep your paper, wet it nicely, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 6. Let's paint the background: All right. So now that our background is nicely wet, let us quickly dive into our painting. So first, I am taking some paints gray, and I'm mixing little amounts of blue, basically the bright blue. So I just want to create a nice bluish gray mixture for creating those magical monsoon clouds which are a little dramatic. So make sure you create the mix and you can just drop this onto your paper. So there's no particular shape. I'm just trying to create some nice fluffy clouds here and there and just going with a lighter tonal value in the beginning. And as I progress ahead, I'm just going to keep building the colors. All right. So this is what I like to do in all my paintings, start light, and then keep on building in layers. All right, so you can I have laid out some certain shapes in a random manner. Right now, it might be looking a little messier and weird. But like I say, always, just trust the process, and once the painting is going to dry completely, you'll be amazed with the results. All right. So yeah, I'm using my larger sized round brush. This is from silver black velvet again. This is size number 12. And if you're comfortable with size number ten, you can also go ahead and use that for painting the clouds. All right. So you can see this is how it is looking at the moment, and what I'm quickly going to do is I'm going to just dab the brush on the tissue paper, remove the excess amount of water, and I'm just going to smudge the paint onto the background so that if there are any hard edges, we want to avoid that. And while the paper is still wet, we want to make these adjustments because once the paper is going to dry you cannot touch it. You have to wait for the paper to dry completely, re wet the paper again, and then you have to again redo the entire process. So that is how it works. All right. So make sure you remember these steps. So now you can see slowly the painting is taking its shape. Now the clouds are looking a little bit defined. So why we went with a base shade is the base layer is going to appear like the shadow, and we're going to add darker shadow areas for the clouds using the darker tonal value. So this is how we have created the clouds. Now, let us quickly go ahead and start adding some background bushes, and this is also going to be on wet on wet. Remember that your entire paper is completely wet right now, and if you feel like the paper has started to dry, then do not worry or do not panic. Just take another brush and slightly start rewetting the paper. All right. So for painting the bushes or the branches in the background, I'm going with my sap green. This is from white knights, but you could go with any other green. Just make sure it's a nice leafy green. We want to give that monsoon effect onto the bushes. So you might have seen this greenery all over during the monsoons, so make sure you go with a nice bright leaf green. Alright, so this is how the background bushes are looking. Since it's in the background, it's going to be blurred and it's out of focus. We're not going to worry on the details of how long or short it is or, you know, we're just not worried about the leaves. We just want to show that there is something in the background, some greenery in the background. All right, so see. Now we are going to create more depth into the background. So I don't want to go with one flat color, so I'm going to go with a darker tonal value of this green. So how did I create the darker tonal value of this green? I took the same sabgreen added a little bit of paints gray to it, and then I created this particular dark shade of green. So do not always go with direct colors from the tube. Just try to mix two different colors and see what shade you get. That is how the painting looks more realistic and more natural. So now you can see the sky is ready with some fluffy dramatic clouds. The bushes are ready in the background. So far, really, it's going good, and I hope you're really enjoying the process along with me. Alright, so now, let us start painting the lake region. So if at all, your lake region has started to dry, please take a brush and re wet the entire surface without disturbing the horizon. So now you can see I'm using the paints gray, very light, very subtle tonal value. And I'm just dropping this onto the background, back and forth movement with the same round, larger sized brush. Alright, so now we are going to create the shadow, basically the shadow of the bushes and the clouds being depicted on the lake region. Not the shadow, but the reflection. And like I said, we are going to follow the guideline of the pencil sketch, and we're going to create those ripples. So for creating the ripples, make sure that your brush should not have too much of water. If your brush is having too much water, then first dab it onto a tissue, remove the excess amount of water, and then create these ripples. Because if you have too much water and paint on your brush, then you will not be able to control the flow of the paint. Okay? So it's going to spread very fast, and then it'll be very difficult to, you know, control uh, paint. So it's very important to know the right amount of water and paint on your brush. So just go with minimal water. There's already water on your paper, so you need not have a lot of water on your brush. So you can see now I'm able to completely take charge of how my ripples should look like. So it's not going to be always perfect, circular in nature. The ripples appear circular in nature, but, you know, it can be broken slightly in middle and it can have a different shape as well. So I'm just trying to be very organic and very realistic over here because it should not look like, you know, as though you have sketched something and you want to depict the same. We don't want that to happen. We just want to have some ripples in the water and make it look a little more realistic and natural. So far, I'm liking how the ripples have taken its shape. Now, while we were painting the ripples, it might so happen that your paper might start to dry again. So again, do not worry, take a dam brush and re wet the paper. Now we will create the reflection for the bushes. So I'm going to go ahead with the same green, the sap green that I used earlier, and you can see how I'm dropping this onto the lake region, and I'm trying to blend it with the gray, the paints gray that we added earlier. Adding reflections is one of the very satisfying things. I really love adding the reflections. You can see there's no much water on my brush, and that is the very reason why the paint is not flowing and I'm able to control the brush strokes. So go with very damp brush and very little paint, and then keep building. You can see there's no movement of water or paint flowing on my paper because there's no much water on the brush. The paper is nicely wet, it's evenly wet for that matter. Alright, so I loved how the reflections of the bushes are appearing on the lake, and I want to define it a little bit more because once the watercolor is going to dry, it's going to make your painting look very you know, it's going to make it look very lighter. So I don't want that to happen. So right now, the paper is wet, and that is why the painting is looking darker. But once it is going to dry, it's going to dry one shade lighter. So always keep this in mind and go with darker tonal value. So that's the reason I say start light and then keep building and, you know, just adjust the intensity of the paint. Alright, so this is how it is looking, so you can just follow along with me. All right, so this is how the ripples are looking. Now, we will just go ahead and paint some teeny, tiny ripples on either sides. So since it's already raining, this is a rainy scene and since it's already raining, we want to show those raindrops falling on the entire lake. And that's the reason we are adding these additional ripples on either side. So again, it's going to be same, just some circular shapes and don't make it too much darker. We just want to show that the dew drops of the rain are falling and it's kind of creating that ripple effect on the lake. Okay? So just keep it simple and just keep it natural. Do not do it all over the lake, just a few places here and there, and you're good to go. Alright, so I am at this point, if you ask me, I'm really enjoying the process. It really feels very refreshing, and I always love to paint nature and landscapes. And this has been my go to painting subject. And yeah, I hope you're enjoying the monsoons, and, you know, you're enjoying the process while painting. So sometimes it may get tedious and sometimes it may get overwhelming, so I highly encourage you to grab your favorite drink and just keep sipping on through it and just enjoy the process. It's all about enjoying the process and just let go of that pressure of getting things done right and let go of that pressure of making things look a certain way or feel a certain way. All right. So once you take this pressure off yourself, you will be in a big relief. And yeah, that's the secret to a joyful life. And yeah, so I always keep saying that. And yeah, let's just follow that in our life as well. So now, just take a teeny, tiny brush and try to lift off some paint and create these teeny tiny reflections onto the areas of the bushes where we have added the bushy reflection. So just some watery reflections, some patterns. So that, you know, your painting looks nice and realistic. So these teeny, tiny details just make your paintings stand out, and this is what we have to work on. Alright, I'm super happy with how the background has turned out, and I hope you are also happy with your painting so far. So let us allow the background to dry completely before we go ahead and paint the main branches and the leaves. All right, so I'll see you soon in the next section. 7. Painting the Leaves: All right. So now that the background has completely dried, let us start painting the leaves. Painting the leaves is really simple since I had already masked out my leaves and the branches, I have just removed that with the help of an masking eraser. But if you guys did not have masking fluid, you can just go over it and directly use the watercolor to paint your leaves. So it does not make any big difference, but I thought this would be easier. And so I chose this method, but you can go directly paint your leaves. So now, since we already have a blurry background, which is also in the shade green, so we want the leaves in the foreground to be nicely visible and dark. So let us just keep adding the colors. First, I am going to start with some olive green. And you can see that. I painted using the olive green, but the leaf is not visible because the bushes in the background are also lighter in shade. Now I picked up some sap green, and now you can see the leaf is really highlighted and it is looking really beautiful. So you can go with a darker shade of your green. Mix both the colors and then you can just paint with so painting leaves is very simple. Again, just go with organic shapes for your leaves, and they need not be arranged in a particular order. It can be just in a random organic way. All right. So there's nothing much to explain here. All you have to do is just pick up a nice shade of green, mix two shades of green, and just go ahead and paint the leaves. And for the branches, basically, it's a very thin branch. So I'll be going with my dark brown. It could be Dike brown or you can go with sepia to add in the highlights. So need not worry much about this because although it is in the foreground, we're not going to focus on painting the details like the veins of the leaf. No, we are not doing that in this particular class. So here it is just about showing the monsoon effect. The dew drops from the leaves are falling into the lake and they're creating that ripple kind of effect in the lake. All right. So we're just going to stick to that and just keep it simple for this particular class. All right, so you can just watch or if you're interested, you can just follow along with me. All right, so I have been really enjoying painting these leaves, and it has been quite of a relaxing experience. So I know sometimes it may get boring to paint the same subject over and over again, like painting leaves, wetting the paper. These monotonous small little things, they might bore you sometimes. And that's absolutely fine because we are not used to doing the same things again and again. We are constantly looking for a new thing, a different thing. We always want to try different things. But that's not bad. That's also good, but sometimes it's also important to, you know, just be grateful for what we have and just slow down and look at the things that we already have in our lives. So this is your sign, and this is your opportunity to take this moment, slow down, shut off all the other tabs from your mind, from your busy mind, and just take this time for yourself. Take this particular moment to, you know, paint and get immersed fully. Just don't think about anything else. Just be yourself, right. Just enjoy and live in the moment. That is what I want to tell through this particular painting. So yeah, these are the small things which, you know, we don't usually pay attention to. But when we start observing these small things, they make a huge world of a difference, and it really makes us feel good from the inside. So having said that, we have painted the leaves, I think there's last one left, so I'm quickly going to go ahead and paint that one. So I hope painting these leaves was not a big, huge task. It was as simple as that. And yeah, you can just take your own sweet time, switch on your favorite music, grab your favorite drink, and just paint these leaves. Okay? And if at all, you get bored, then just take a break and come back. There's no pressure to do everything in one go. Right. So let us allow this to dry and I'll see you soon in the next section. 8. Painting the Branch: All right. So now that we have painted the leaves, let us quickly go ahead and add the branch. So the branch is going to be really simple. You're going to pick any of your brown shade. It could be ndike brown, and once you have done that, we're going to go with a slightly deeper brown like sepia, and we're going to add another layer so that it's nicely visible, right. So it's going to be really simple. If you have already sketched out the branch, then you have to just go and paint over it. But if you have not used masking fluid again, you need to create a branch using the paint directly. All right. So there's nothing much more to explain over here. You have to just follow your pencil sketch and just finish painting the branch. All right. So you can just follow along with me. All right. So now I'm going to quickly go ahead with a deeper brown like sepia, and I'm just going to go over the branches again and just add highlights. Okay. So since the brown that I used earlier was a little bit lighter, I want to add some few more highlights using the darker shade that is sepia. Alright. So you can also see that on the branch, I'm just leaving some white gaps or white spaces. This is just to show that light is falling on the branch and it is reflecting. These teeny tiny details will make your painting look more realistic and natural. Rather than going and filling the entire branch with a plain brown, you try to create some details like add some whites, leave some white gaps, if at all, you have not left any white gap, that's completely fine. You can go with your white marker or with your white gouache and you can add these details or highlights later on. But do not forget to do this step because this step is what makes your painting look much more better. All right. So yeah, this is looking really beautiful and nice. Now that you can see, as I added this dark atonal value, that is the sepia, the branches are really highlighted and it's looking much more defined. Alright, so this is how the branch is looking, and I'm quite happy with the way it has turned out. Now, coming back to our leaves, I think it needs to be much more defined, and I'm going to go ahead and add another layer of sap green onto all of these leaves and make it slightly, much more darker and give it a nice depth all right. It's going to be the same process. I'm just going to do this for all the leaves. But if you already have darker leaves, then you can completely skip this particular step. I'll quickly go ahead and paint all the leaves in another layer of sap green, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 9. Adding the Final Details: All right, so we are on to the final step. Let us quickly go ahead and finish our painting by adding some awesome details. All right. So now to paint the dew drops, it's going to be really simple. I'm going to pick up some lighter shade of pains grey. When I say very light, you're going to start with very light tonal value with lots of water onto the paints gray, and you're going to fill only the top layer of the dew drop, and the bottom half is going to remain as it is, that is the paper white, or if you're using white gouache, then you can go ahead with that. But make sure the entire drop is not going to be covered with paints gray. You might have seen or closely observed dew drop. So it contains the shadow region and it contains the white water droplet. All right. That is what we want to exactly depict over here. But if you're confused on how to paint the dew drops, you can just search for rainy dew drops or rainy images on Pinterest, and you will be able to observe the drop closely, and then later you can come back and paint. Alright, so it's going to be really simple. There's nothing complicated. Just pick a little amount of Pains gray onto your brush, go with a very teeny, tiny round brush and just add the shadow using Pains gray. There's nothing to fear. It's really simple, and it will look like a drop once you finish painting. I know at beginning, you might feel like, Oh, my God, what is this? This might look a little bit weird. But once you have finished, it will start appearing like a drop. So now, right now, you can see it's looking so beautiful and it's already looking so natural and realistic. So in this manner, you're going to go ahead and paint all the dew drops. If you have done it on all the leaves, that's absolutely fine. Okay. The main drop is the one that is present inside the ripple, the center drop. That is what I'm talking about. So that is going to be a bit more highlighted, and you have to make that drop look more realistic and natural because that is what is going to create the ripple effect in your all right. So now I'm going to take my white water gel pen. Basically, this is a white gelpen and it's easily available on Amazon. You can just search for it. So I'm going to quickly go ahead over those dew drops, and I'm just going to highlight it. So using a pen becomes more convenient if you want to avoid the boring process of loading your brush with white guash, and all of that. But if you don't have this pen, then you can quickly grab your white watercolor or white gauche. But I suggest going with white gouache because this is more opaque and, you know, to make the dew drop look more defined, you can go with something opaque. All right. Just make sure you're not going to overdo this step already already if you're already satisfied with the dew drops, then please stop and you can just sit back and relax. All right, so this is how it is looking, and I'm completely in love with how those dew drops are simply looking so beautiful. All right. So now that we have added the dew drops, let us quickly go ahead and add some highlights onto the branches. So with the same white gelpin, I'm just going to go over the branches and just add some highlights. This is just to show the light is falling on the branch, right. And you can do this step again with the help of white gush, but make sure you're going with a size number zero brush because the highlights have to be very thin and they have to be very delicate. You're not going to draw thick bold lines because that's going to ruin the entire essence of the painting. All right. So now with the same white gelpin, I'm going to create the rain drops, that is the rain falling because this is a rainy scene, and we want to depict that it's already raining and the dew drops are falling onto the lake. Alright. So again, I'm going with thin delicate lines. These are not thick. You must have seen the rain drops. When it is raining, you must have seen how it looks, right? It's a bit slanted, and we're going to follow that direction. And again, if you're not having the white gelpin, you can go with white guash. But again, make sure the brush is going to be very important over here. The brush that you're using is going to be very important. Go with a very thin size number zero brush, or you can also go with a rigor brush, but be mindful of that. All right. So this was very convenient for me because the white gelpin really saved me, and I really enjoyed using the gelpin over here. But if you don't have this, you can go with white guash and a smaller size brush. Alright, so I think we have completed everything, and I just can't wait to reveal the final painting to you, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 10. Thank You!: Alright, so let us take a look at the final and the finished painting. So this is how it looks, and it is so gorgeous. I'm in love with my painting, and I hope you are also in love with your painting. Just take a look at that. Just look at the dramatic clouds, the lush green forest in the background. The calm, serene reflection on the lake. And the most amazing part of this painting is the ripple effect and the dew drops falling on the lake. Everything is so peaceful, so calming and so magical about this painting. Like, I just feel like staring at this painting, and I am feeling like I am present there, and it really feels so good and it brings me joy. And I hope your painting brings joy to you as well. So I would love to see your beautiful creations in the project section of this particular class. And if you're posting it on Instagram, then do tag me using my Instagram handle. And yeah, I would like to thank each one of you for making it till the end. Thank you for all the love and the support that you guys shower upon me each and every time I come up with a new class. And yes, I'm going to be coming up with a few more new classes in the future, exciting things coming your way, and I can't wait to share it with you guys. So keep creating. Stay happy, and I'll see you soon next time.