Whispers Of Winter : 7 Acrylic Landscape Painting

1. Intro: Whispers Of Winter speaks in soft tones and gentle silence. It captures the calm almost secretive beauty of the season. When nature rests wrapped in pale light and cool color, the landscape feels still yet alive as if the trees, sky and the Earth are quietly sharing stories only Winter can tell. Painted in acrylics, this winter landscape captures the soft hush of the season where time seems slow down. Hello all. My name is Mohini Sinha, and I am an art educator, and most of you know me as Mohini Art Gallery from my Instagram account. So I mostly paint nature related landscapes, birds, animals. So this time also, we will be painting nature related beauty. So we will be learning seven different winter landscape. Oh. Starting from easy and ending towards the intermediate level. So we'll start with the materials, what materials we will be needing, then to the color mixing part, how we will mix and make a perfect color variations. Also, the blocking of the background, each and every details we will be learning in details, how to blend the colors, how to create textures, how to add more light to your painting, how to create the tree texture, everything, each and every details we will be going through in this series of seven winterscape painting. So let's begin with our first painting. I'm sure you are going to love it. 2. Materials Required: Welcome back. So let's discuss about the materials first. So first, we need the base. The base which I am using here is the canvas, which is five is two 7 ". So it is a canvas board which I have primed at least two, three times. You can use anything, canvas or an MDF board or paper, anything. But if you're using canvas, try to prime it. If you're using paper, priming is not required. This is the glass palette which I will use. Then let's talk about the colors, which I will be using. These are the brands which I will be using, Windsor and Newton, Golia, then Mont Marte, then Campbell, Liquitex. All these brands I will be using for Phoebe. These are the brands which I use mostly for acrylic painting. So there are different different brands. You can use any of them, whichever you have. Now let's talk about the brushes. First is the flat brush for background blocking. Then is the smaller size flat brush for even smaller blocking we need. Then comes the different sizes of round brush like two, four, eight. So different sizes of round brush we will be needing. Then comes the fan brush. This is a Bristol fan brush which I will use and the blender brush. So all these brushes we will be using for the upcoming paintings which we will be doing. Now, let's talk about the rigor brush. You can use rigger brush also or liner brush and the palette knife. Apart from that, pencil, eraser, scale, all these stationary items we will be king. And this is the masking tape which I will be using, then the cloth for cleaning the brushes, then the water container, at least two jars of container we will be kding. So these are the materials which we will be needing. So let's start with the first painting that is the birch painting, birch tree painting, and we'll follow with more difficult level afterwards. First, we'll start with the easier one, and then we will go onwards with the difficult one. 3. Birch Tree: Welcome back. Let's start with our first painting that is birch tree. This is a canvas which I'm using. It is completely primed. I have done priming two, three times on this canvas board, and it is of size five is to seven, as you can see over here. I have my palette, my glass palette which I will be using for all the colors. I will just divide it into half using my thin masking tape. So if you don't have masking tape, you can use the pencil and just draw a line. That is also fine. But when you put masking tape and when you paint it, a perfect line comes up. That's why it's good to use masking tape, especially on canvas. So you can see I have just taped the canvas with the masking tape and I've taped it in the center and I have attached the masking tape also on the tape so that my painting does not move. Now we'll start with the painting. So a little bit of drawing and or we can draw it directly by using the colors. No need to draw anything, we'll do directly. Let's discuss about the colors which we will be using over here. These are the colors as you can see, light blue, titanium white, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, and fluorescent pink. These are colors we will be using for our first painting. And also black color we will be needing. These all colors, which will be required for the complete painting. We'll go starting from easy and then we'll go on with harder and harder painting. So it's like that. I'm using my palette knife to mix the colors. You can use your brush also. The benefit of using palette knife is that the colors don't stick onto your uh, brushes because when you do with brushes, it hampers the brushes end all it sticks to it and your brush becomes hard after a certain period of time. So it's better to use palette instead of palette knife instead of the brushes to mix the colors. So you can see I mix fluorescent, blue, white, and a little bit of black to make it a purplish color, not totally purplish, but it should be a purplish gray color which I want my background to be and it should be a very light color. So I'm trying to make the color as light as possible because since this is the winter scene, so I don't want the colors to be very sharp and very harsh and it is a day scene. It's not a night scene, so that's why I want the colors to be a little pastel shade. I'm just mixing, again, the colors and making a little purplish gray color. Now you can see here it is more of a pink side. I will add a little more of blue into it and a little bit of black also, you can add just to mute the colors. It depends upon how you are mixing the colors. Everyone has different way of mixing it. Just check it on the paper whether the color has come right or not so that you'll get an idea that what color we are mixing. Let's see what color it is there. It is dark or it is light, it's better to check it on the paper. Taking my flat brush and I'm just checking the color. This is the color which has come up, it's a bit dark, I feel. I will make this color a little bit more lighter so that it becomes more light. I don't want it to be very dark color. Let's take the colors and mix a little bit more of white into this because the color has to be very light. You can see I've taken all the white and I'm just mixing a little bit amount of that mix of color, which I have made it earlier. Now you will see how the color is. It's very light. Can see the difference. This is the color which we want for the background. So just use this color for the background, and we will be needing two to three light pastel shade colors. One is this, then the orange also, which is the mix of white and orange color and also the yellowish color we will be needing. Let's start first with this color. I'm just blocking the upper part first. The colors are actually divided into three parts you will see over here. So I'm just adding the first color which we have mixed, the lighter one, the lighter pastel shade of grayish, purplish color. This is the image, as you can see, accordingly, we will go with the colors. After that, I will just add a little bit more of white below because when you mix the yellow and this color, it becomes a little muddy color which I don't want. That's why I've applied a little lighter color below so that when we will blend the color with this color, it should not come muddy. After that, we'll first start with the orange color that is mix of this fluorescent and a little bit of white also and a little bit of blue color in this just to make the below part a little bit more purplish, as you can say. Let's add first this color, and it's not purplish also. It is more of a pinkish. I've kept it pinkish color only. It's not perfectly the purplish color. So taking more of white and just adding more of white to it and a little bit of orange color in this. Since I'm just mixing these two colors together with a little bit of orange and white. Try to mix the colors properly so that a light pastel shade of orange will come up as you can see, so very light color which is there a little bit of this fluorescent pink just to make the color a little more bright and shiny. So when you add a little bit of fluorescent, the colors itself becomes more shiny. Taking yellow and more amount of this white and making again, a pastel yellow color. So these are colors we will be using for the background. When you are doing this painting, try to mix these colors beforehand because then you mix the colors, it will start drying off the first layer, so it's better to mix it beforehand before doing all these coloring part. So it's a fluorescent orange which I have used and I will be using the pastel orange which I have mixed. Just applying this again on above and trying to blend with the below fluorescent pink and orange mixed color. Then as I will go above, it will be more towards the yellowish side. Whenever you are taking the yellow color, now currently I'm taking I'm not washing off my brush, but when I'll move above, I'll start using a fresh brush and take yellow because when you will mix yellow with this orange, again, that color will turn into orange, which I want to be yellow itself, which should not turn into orange. I'm just trying to blend the colors and again, washing off my brush. Again, I will take this color the color which is in between. Now my above color has already dried, so I'm applying just one layer on the below part so that I can easily mix both the colors, taking a little bit of white and trying to blend both the colors together so that both the colors does not make any dy color. That's why I have taken here white color, as you can see. This is the first blocking. We will be doing second coat also. Whenever you are using any canvas, try to do at least two coats of it. Once the first coat has dried. Once this first coat will dry, I will again add the second coat. The colors which we have used over here is this light color. Then comes the pinkish orange color which is there with the background, very light, pinkish. You can see how fluorescent orange it has come up. This color, then comes the pastel orange, which we have mixed lots of white and less amount of cadmium orange. Then the last color which is there is the yellow color. Again, the pastel yellow mixing white in this. All these colors will be needed for doing the background part. I think it's clear the colors. Let's start with the further part. So let's start with the lower part. So lower part also similar colors we will be using as we have used on the background because it will reflect some light on the ground part also. So same color using cadmium orange and white mix. So starting from the center, I'll start with the edge of the brush, and I'll just move the brush in the to and fro direction. And it is like a V section. So like a V, I'm just creating the orange part, and rest of the part will be mostly towards the purplish, bluish side. And slowly, you'll see how we will mix those two colors by creating some layers of textures. So you can see I've just filled it with the pastel orange color. So now come the side. The sides, I'm just using the pink and white mix and just adding some colors to the sides as well, using my same flat brush and just adding this of fluorescent pink towards the side. Then I'll take the purplish grayish color which I have mixed earlier, a little bit more blue I'll add to that and just adding onto the side, this color. Currently, I'm not blending any color. I'm just putting the colors on through the sides. Later on, we will be blending this part. Similarly, I'll put the colors on the other sides as well. So try to take little little color, and water is only there on my brush. Rest directly, I'm using thick color and putting it to the sides. And later on with the damp brush, I'll try to blend the colors because all the colors are wet so you can easily blend the colors. Little little blending I am doing with this brush. Little blue color is there on my brush, but slowly we'll blend more of this. So we'll wait for this to dry, then we'll add the second layer to it. So the colors which we have used for the below part is the bluish, purplish color which is on the sides, then the pinkish color, that is the pink and white mix and also the orange and white mix. These all colors we will be using for the foreground. This is the pink and white mix. 4. Birch Tree Background Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further. So we will now do the second layer of blocking. Now my painting has completely dried. Just touch and see if your painting has dried or not. Then only apply second coat. Otherwise, if you will apply on wet painting, the colors will start coming up. So we'll do second coat on the background first. I'm just staying a little bit more of white over here so that I can properly blend the colors. Same colors, I will be using similar colors. It's just that little variations will be there because when you do second coat, sometimes the exact color does not come up, so it's better when you are doing the first coat, mix lots of colors so that the color doesn't finish in between because sometimes it is very difficult to create the same color which you have used for the background if you don't have practice. Little bit of variations will be there when you will apply second coats, but that is perfectly fine. We just need a pastel shade of color, very light color, as you can see. Now I'm just applying the second coat on this. Now, the second coat can be a little thin color. Again, my brush is wet. I haven't put any color water on my colors. So your color is like creamy color and water is only there on my brush. So same color I'm using and I'm just applying a second coat. So why we need to apply second coat is when you apply second coat, yourself will see the difference which makes the painting look more real, more neat and more smooth, especially the blendings and everything. So this is the time when you can correct the colors. If you feel that the color is very light, you can correct it. So this is the time when you can fix the color combinations as well. So you can see this orange is a little curvy, so that's what we want here. So this is the time when I can fix this curviness. So you can see at the sides, it is more curved than in the center. So it's more at height and the corners and a little bit more below in the center part. So that's what I'm trying to create over here. Now, I'm just taking yellow and trying to blend these colors together. Slowly, slowly, I'm just trying to blend the colors. Same color you have to use, same pastel colors and try to do it as smoothly as possible. Take thick colors, thick amount of colors, and try to blend the colors simultaneously. Now I'm just taking white a little bit, and with this white, I will try to blend this yellow and that grayish purplish shade. So once I have done the first second coat, again, we have to wait for the first code to dry. Now we will do the lower part. And again, the second code, you can see in the first code, there are lots of brush marks and the blending is also not proper. So in the second coat, we will focus more on the blending part. Now, you can see this part. It is like a U shape that we have to create with the orange color. So when your color is wet, you can easily blend the colors. But if any of the colors dry, just add that color and try to blend. So it depends upon the atmosphere also where you live. If you live in the cold area or very hot area, it depends upon that also. So currently, it's very cold over here, so my colors are not drying very fast, so that is a good sign for me. So I'm just mixing a little bit more of white and just adding this nice fluorescent orangy color in between. So one of the advantage of winters is that your acrylic colors will not dry very fast, and you can easily blend the colors. So just adding, again, the same colors to the sides, same light pinkish color. And you can see I'm just blending also a little bit. This pinkish with this Nice blending I'm trying to do over here. Now I will take the colors, that is the violet color mixing a little bit of pink, little bit of blue, and a little bit of white also you can mix if you feel that your color is dark and just applying it to the sides and also to the other side as well. After that, I will just wash off my brush, and then I will try to blend the colors with my damp brush. So just washing off my brush, removing excess of water and just moving the brush into and fro direction very lightly, and this is how you blend the colors. Now, this blending will only happen when your color is wet. If it is not wet, this blending will not happen. So you have to be careful that your color should be wet only then only the blending will take place. So this is how we do the blending of acrylics. If you want to learn more about blending, you can check out my class, which is there on scale share about the big nerve friendly class. It's completely big nu friendly, and you can try out that as well. So just after that, once it dries, we'll remove that center tape. But first, we will draw the line and then we will remove that center tape. So I'll just take my flat brush and the same color, which is the grayish, purplish shade. A little bit of blue and black also, I will mix just to make it a little darker color, and I'll make a straight line with my flat brush. Small size flat brush it is, and just trying to draw the line. And then once you have drawn the line, you can then remove the tape easily. Now I will slowly remove the tape. Now you can see where I put the tape, there are no colors. So here we will create some nice background distance trees where there are lots of trees, but in a very, like, a very blur, you can say. So with that color which we will use is similar to the purplish, grayish color. So that color we are going to use over here. So very light and grayish purplish color. So you can see I've just added a little bit more of black to it, and I'm just creating the B trees, very small, small textures first with my round brush, you can use any size round brush size two or size four, or even you can use your lineup brush for giving those textures. So you can see the point is above, and I'm just creating for the textures, and then I will fill the colors. So try to first create the textures above, and then you can just fill the colors out. So just adding a little bit more blue and black mix and just filling the colors. The center part is a little orange. So first, I'll start from the corners, and then we'll move towards the center part. Try to use the smaller size round brush over here. Don't use very bigger size round brush. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to paint this. Now, same color. That is the fluorescent orange color I'm using and I'm putting it in between where I will put the sun as well. So just applying it over here. You can see I haven't washed off my brush. I'm directly using that brush. So that little bit of grayish purplish shade also comes there. And again, taking that grayish color and applying to the rest of the area. So this is how we are slowly building up the shape. So now we will draw the center, which is the sun and just making it a little bit more of this orange over here because here is the thing where the sun lies will fall. So that's why this part is a little bit orange and a little bit curvy also, like a U shape. So slowly, slowly, we'll do the layering once I've just filled the color. And then the above is the sun, which is setting, just taking yellow and white mix, and just adding in the center, big circle. And just coloring it with the same cadmium yellow and white mix. So it's a bit light color, so we'll add more white to it to make it more vibrant. But first, try to make the circle and then we can add the white colour. So we have to move slowly, slowly towards the textures. Now I'm just adding white in between and making a circle just to make this sun more bright. Now my yellow is wet, so it will mix with this white to make it a little lighter color. But again, we will add once this base dries, since my base is wet, so it is blending it with the yellow color. Little bit of orange again, I'm adding once it has dried a little bit. H. 5. Birch Tree Foreground Details: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now we will do the foreground detailing first. So now the whole thing has dried now. Now with my fan brush, I'll start creating some textures. So first, without wetting my brush, it should be a dry brush or a damp brush. It should not be a wet brush. So just taking a little bit of fluorescent yellow. And the color should be a little more lighter than the color which you have used in the background. Just check the color if it is visible or not, and then you can just guess a little bit of light color than the color which you have used in the background. It should not be darker than the color which you have used for the background. Just with my fan brush and with the tip of the fan brush, you have to create these textures on the center part first. And then we'll go to the sides. So very light pressure and just the tip of the brush you have to use. Don't take too much color on your brush. Just taking a little bit of color. If you feel that there is a lot of color on your brush, just wash off your brush and then use your brush again. Because sometimes it happens when we mix the colors with the same brush, lots of colors stick on our brushes. So sometimes this happen and this texture does not comes up as expected. So just adding the same texture to all the sides and the corners of this whole thing, just adding a little bit of more pinkish towards the sides and more this light orange color to the center. So the color has to be lighter than the color which you have used as the base. So this is the texture which will come when you will apply it on the canvas. Whether you are using canvas, paper, anything you can use as the base, it is not only required that you have to use canvas only. But whenever you are using canvas, try to gesso it. And if you are using paper or anything, no gesso is required. You can directly use the paper. But used thick paper, don't use thin paper. So you can see the textures. I'm applying it all over this orange area. So the color has to be lighter than the background color which you have used. So now we will start with the sides of the sides area, which is a little darker. So this color has to be a little lighter than the color which we have used for the base. So I'm just mixing that color and making that light color. So let's mix it with the same brush or you can use a different brush for mixing and applying it to the sides, you can see the light color it is. So we'll apply to the sides also. And a little bit, we'll move towards inside also so that this color blends with the orange color as well. So slowly, slowly try to fill the textures, you can see, I'm just mixing some areas inside this orange part also, so that doesn't look the separate. It looks like this color is getting mixed with this orange part as well. So in all the areas, I will be applying this both the sides, I will be applying this texture. So just enjoy the process and do it very slowly and calmly. Don't try to press the brush with very gentle hand and with putting your brush at 90 degree, and you have to just use the tip of your brush to create this texture. So all these textures will be both the sides. Similarly, I will be creating on the other sides also. So one side is the other side, I'm trying to create it. Some of them I'm also taking inside this orange part also. So all these little bit of detailed painting takes time, but the more you give time to your painting, the more beautiful your painting will come up. So be patient, take breaks, and then start with the painting. Don't be in a hurry to complete this in one go. Just enjoy the process, each and every process of blocking of giving textures. Do it in breaks. Don't do it in a hurry. Now you can see I'm just adding a mix of little bit of orange and yellow and white just to make this area which is in the center a little bit more light and more vibrant. So it should be a light yellowish color, which I'm putting in the center, just to show that this rays of the sun is falling on this part. So the first was blocking, second was the layers which we have put. The second layer which we have put is this light color. Now we will add the third layer, which is the yellow color and more yellow and less of white in the center to make it more brighter. You can see I'm just adding to the sides of this lighter color just to make this part more brighter. Again, taking white and this yellow and putting it in the center, just to make it more bright and more shiny. So this is how we have to move and create all the textures over here. The more you will add these textures, the more beautiful it will look. Now I'm just adding a light bluish texture over here to the sides, just to give a little bit more snowy effect to this area just to the sides. Similarly to the other side, also, I will add This is how we make the whole area, which is the foreground area, and then we will move towards more detailing of this. As you can see, there are reflections also in this painting, so we'll be creating reflections as well. 6. Birch Tree Shadow Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the details of the shadow and also the shadow of the sun. So first, again, I'm taking this, same fan brush, mixing a little bit of white and the pink color and creating to the sides first and then we'll start with the shadow part. So this part was left. So just adding a little bit of the pinkish color towards the sides. See, similar color we are using over here what we used as the blocking, similar color, but the colors are a little bit lighter than the ones which we have used for the background base. So now we will be doing a little bit of details of the sun because you can see the sun is not very bright. So a little bit of yellow, I'm just adding in the center just to make it more brighter because this is more yellowish, the center part. So let's now begin with the one, which is the center circle and also the shadow which is falling on the background trees. So you can see my color has already dried up, so I'm just applying the second coat of it. So wait for the first coat to dry whenever you are doing the second coat, then that proper colors will reflect. So I'm just making it a little round and shape, the area which is near to the sun part. The more you will repeat this process, the more bright this area will look. So just adding a little more of yellow than pink and trying to make this area look more vibrant and more orange. Little bit of blending you can do with the side colors also, a little bit of blending so that it doesn't look like this is a separate thing. Just with my dam brush, I'm just trying to blend this color with the side part of this darker color. Now we will add a little bit of white also in the center because it is a little bit little dull, white. So just to make it more shiny, we will be adding a little white, also. Again, you can see I'm adding white just to make the colors look more vibrant. So slowly, slowly, we have to build up that color. The more we will overdo it, the more we will repeat. The more we will layer the colors, the more brightness we will get. So a little bit orange also I've mixed over here just to make it more brighter. This center area has to be very bright because the sun is very bright and very like orange. So that's why this center area has to be very bright in color. Also, we will just add more white and yellow to the sun part because it is very light in color, and a little bit of the shadow we will be adding below. You can see the shadow which is coming up. So those shadows also we will be adding. Just adding a little bit more to the textures to this part. These all are final touch up which I'm doing before creating the trees. So when I'll start creating the trees, we cannot do these. So that's why I'm doing this beforehand. Taking this light orange color and making the circle around this yellowish part. Here you can use your round brush or you can use your liner brush. It's totally up to you which brush you are comfortable with. Now the yellow color and a little bit of white. And I'm just trying to blend this yellow with white color just to make this area more brighter. Sometimes you have to add lots of white repeatedly. Once the first coat dries, then again, you have to add second coat to make it more brighter and brighter. Whenever you are adding white over here, try to use thick colour. Don't use any water or anything. Try to use thick colour and damp brush and try to make the circle. Then only that brightness will come up see again. I'm adding one more layer just to make this more brighter and more yellowish. Now, we'll also create the reflection which is there. This is the reflection of another tree. It's not of the same tree. Something is there where the reflection is falling. So that is the reflection of. So it's the same color, but in this color, we will be making it a little bit more darker just by adding black and blue just to make it a grayish, purplish shade, and we will be creating this nice reflection which is falling on this glowing part. So just making it like a triangle shape, or you can use your round brush and just use the tip of the brush, and as you go down, make the brush press some brush more and more. So it will create a nice shape of the tree. Like a triangle shape, as you can see. So three reflections I'm adding just over here. Just to make this landscape painting look more real and more vibrant. You can also skip this reflection part. It's totally up to you. But I feel that this reflection is adding beauty to this whole painting. So that's why I created this. Oh, this is the reflection part, and let's begin further. 7. Birch Tree Tree Details: Welcome back. So let's start with our tree details. So for the tree details, I will be using my rigor brush, same color, that grayish color of purplish color, dark grayish, purplish color. And I'm just first creating the tree line where we have to create these two trees. So use this color and first create a single line, and then you can make the lines thick. So this way, you will not make any mistakes and you can easily draw a single line. After that, just drawing how much thick you want the tree to be. These are mostly very thick trees, not very thick, but yes, it is like a straight tree with textures of white and brownish textures. So just trying to make it a nice fine line, and then I will just block in that area. So if you're facing difficulty in creating the trees directly with the color, you can use some chalk or something to draw the line, or you can use the white watercolor pencils to draw the lines. This is one of the technique which you can use for acrylics. So try not to use pencil for drawing because pencil you cannot rub after that. So just blocking this part with my round brush. So just blocking it nicely. If you feel that the color is getting a little mixed up with this background color, don't worry about that. When we add the textures, this will be gone. So just try to first fill in this whole tree line. Similarly, I will be filling up the other one as well. You can use any size round brush, but try to use a smaller size like two or four, not bigger than that to fill the color so that you have control on your brush because that is the most important thing when you are doing any detailed painting. Try to use smaller size brush so that you can control it. If you will follow each and every process which I have explained over here, you can easily paint this. Even a beginner can paint this painting if they follow each and every process of mine. So as you can see, I've just blocken this, and after that, we will start creating the details. But again, you have to wait for this background colour to dry a little bit so that when we do the detailing, this color should not mix up with the darker color. So now taking this orange color, mixing it with a little bit of black to make it a nice burn sienna color. So if you have burned sienna, you can use directly since I was having this orange leftover. So I've just mixed this orange with the black, and a nice dark brownish color will come up. So just drawing the tree line first, so you can see how crooked lines are these. So try not to draw with wavy lines. Try to draw crooked lines in between. Then only that tree lines and the tree branches look little real. So this is one of the easiest way whenever the branches are grown, the area where it joins is little thick, and as it goats outward, it becomes thin. So remember that in mind and try to create the tree lines slowly. And all these detailed textures makes your painting look different. If you will create how you are creating the tree lines, how you are creating the tree textures matters a lot. So try to do it very slowly and very carefully. Now, these tree lines also, you can draw it with your watercolor pencils or something, and then you can outline it. If you don't feel that confident that you can do it directly. It's totally up to you how you want to create it. Oh, creating a single outlining this area with the same color which I have used. Just outlining with a very thin line. Thin line means add a little bit of water and make your color thin and then draw the line. Don't use thick color when you are creating any lines or any branches. Try to use thin color. Now, I'll start creating some details which are there. Small, small details are there like random details on this whole tree line. So that's what I'm trying to create over here. So try to do it as slowly, very small, small textures on the side, some textures on the center. So we have to make the textures. So, let's first add the textures, and then we can do the highlighting of the lighter color. So just adding some textures on both the sides of the tree. So it's not like what I have created the texture, same textures you have to create, but similar to that, you can just add on your own. But again, the color should not be very thin over here. Whenever you are drawing any lines, the color has to be thin so that you have control on the thin lines. But when you're doing some texture part, you can make the color a little thick. Now, you can see there are lots of lines in this part. So I'm just trying to create in the lower part also. Slowly, slowly, I'm just trying to build the shape and the whole textures from bottom to up. This whole texture thing will add the beauty to this painting. So try to do it as slowly as possible. And with full patience, don't do it in a hurry. Otherwise, there are chances that you can spoil this tree part. So try to do it very slowly, very calmly, gently and take time to complete this. Whenever you are painting anything, full focus should be on your painting. You should not have any distractions here and there. Just focus on your painting. If you feel distracted, just take a break and then start again. So this texture part I have just completed, and now I will add some more tree branches, some thin branches all over. Little bit of grasses also we will add at the bottom part. So simple thin grasses also we will add, but let's first create some more thin branches. Again, thin branches means thin colors. So try to use thin colors. Thin color means add little water to your color and then add these thin branches. So we have almost done one tree, one more tree is left, and then we are done with this painting. So just a little bit more part is left and then we're almost done with this painting. So I hope you are enjoying this part, and so many paintings are there, which I will be sharing in this whole series, almost, so I'm sure you will love to make the winter series. And if you are trying it out, do tag me on my Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery. 8. Birch Tree Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the final details. So the final tree is left. So one tree we have done. Let's do another tree. So similar way, we have to do similar thing we have to do over here as well. Well, so same way how we have done the other tree. Same way I'm doing over here. First I creating the outline in the one side. I'm not creating outline both the side, just one side, just to make that area look more darker because it is away from the sun. So just making that part with a darker line. And then with the same technique, I will be creating the textures and the tree branches. So you can see I've just created the branches in one side. You can create in both the sides. It's just that I want this tree branch to be thick and first created. That's why I have left the other side of the branch of the first tree which we have done. So just making this a little thicker, the branch and trying to create some more thin lines. But yes, you can change the branch directions, the branch shapes. It's totally up to you how you want to create your own uh magical perch tree. So it's totally your choice. I felt like this, so I have created it like that. So it's totally up to you how you want to change the directions. So yes. Similarly, I will be adding some more branches to the other side of this tree. And then the textures also will be there, which I will be creating over here, like I created on the first tree, same textures, similar way. Just try to do it in a very slow process, slow space and take time to do this because all these paintings require a little bit of time. You cannot do it in a hurry. So take your time, take your free time and then try it out. I would suggest you to follow if you are a beginner, follow each and every process of this painting, and I'm sure you will get to this output. Even if you don't have the similar colors, try to take only the primary colors and mix the colors. If you don't have this porcent pink, use normal orange color and try to make it. If you don't have orange also, you can make with red and yellow color mix to create some orange color. So if you want to learn how the mixing of the colors is, there is a class in my section, so you can check it out and see how the color mixing part take place. There's a special class for Big Nu friendly. You can check it out for color mixing process as well. So I will share that link in my description so that you can check that out as well. So you can see I'm just adding the textures. And my tree is also not white. It's like a grayish and purplish shade. So I've kept it like that. So I don't want my tree to be completely white in color. So that's why it's like an off color grayish color, very light, grayish and purplish shade, it is. So just adding some more textures, both the sides. Using my same liner brush, you can use your size zero round brush for this, but try to use the smaller size brush. Don't use bigger size. So this is it. I will also create some reflections of this trees, which is in below. Now the reflection you can create with your flat brush also with your round brush also. I totally depends upon you how you want to create the reflection and with which brush you are comfortable with. But first, I will add a little bit more white to this because this color has dried up. Now I can add one more layer of white to this. So you can see I've added so many layers of white in this to make it a more brighter color. So this is how we get colors in acrylic. We have to layer the colors. So just the reflection part is left and we almost done with this painting, and a little bit of reflections I will add on the tree part also. So let's first create the reflection below of these two trees with my flat brush. So this is, I feel a little lighter color, so I'll just make it more dark, but just by adding white to this grayish mix, black to this grayish mix and just adding a nice ray which is falling below the shadow. And you can join the shadow as well if you want, because the shadow which is coming it is in a slanting line, which is a diagonal line. So you can join both of them. I feel like I'll join both of them and I'll create the shadow. So just taking a little bit more of this lighter color and I'm just joining this shadow, both the shadows together and just making it a nice shadow part below. So just filling the colors on above, also creating a nice sharp edge because the shadows are very sharp, so just creating a nice sharp edge over here, and this is the shadow of both the trees which are combined together. Now I will also create some light which is falling on the tree part one side. So with my yellowish and this orange color. But before that, you have to wait for this background to dry, the only we can add this. Let's add some more yellowish to this part just to make it more yellowish and more glowing. See, these are all final parts which you can skip also, which you can add also. So I really enjoy doing the last part of it, just adding some more details here and there. But it's okay if it's perfect for you, you can leave it like that. And if you are trying this painting, do tag me on my Instagram. That is Mohni Art Gallery. I will love to see the projects. And just adding some nice light, which is falling on one side of the tree. So taking my round brush, making the color very thin, you can see just adding water, and I'll start from the top. So I'm just adding now you can see my color is, I think, still a little bit wet. That's why this color is mixing. So I'll wait for this first to dry and then only we can add this. So you can dry it with the blower or you can directly use this. But you have to wait for the colors to dry. After that, we can create that part now. This has dried now again. We will repeat the same process. So I just dried it with my dryer so that we can do it quickly. So just adding again the same technique which I was doing earlier, now this time I'm using my small size flat brush, making the color thin and starting from the top, I will just make it straight to the town. Very thin color. Don't try to make it very thick because this is a light which is falling, and I want that glazing effect to come so that the below color is also reflected. Glazing effect is nothing that if you add any color, the lower part also should reflect that color. The upper part is also reflecting that color, and the lower part is also visible. So that is called as glazing. So I'll just add one more thin line on this side, just to make that area look more glowy with my rigor brush. Just adding a simple line of this just to make it more glowy because the sun is this side, so that's why I'm making the glowing part this side. These are small, small things which actually make your painting look more beautiful. You can add some birds also in this painting if you want. It's completely your choice. What do you want? You can add some birds. You can add some more grasses below yeah it's totally your choice, how you want to add the details. I feel it is done, but, yes, you can do your own creativity. And I would love to see your project work, and I'm sure you are going to like this, too, as I really enjoy doing this painting, and there are more to go. So this is done finally, and just a little bit of the one which the color got mix. So I'm just adding a little bit of over here. A little more lighter color of yellow, just to make it more glowing. So this is it. I hope you enjoyed this first class, and we'll see you in our next class. 9. Snowy Landscape: Hello, all. Welcome back. So let's start with our new painting. So let's first do a little rough drawing and then we'll start with the painting. So first, I'm just drawing the horizon line, which is a little bit on the lower side. So you can see it is a bit going down little curve lines I'm creating. Then on top of it are the background trees which are very hazy type. So that's also I'm just drawing a little rough sketch, and then we will directly do the coloring part. And a small hut which is there that also we will draw, and that's it. This much is the drawing part. So you can see I'm drawing above the horizon line which is there, and I'm just trying to create a little small hut which is there. Very simple and easy way of drawing it, very simple hut I have kept. I haven't made it very complicated. So very simple and easy drawing it is. So after this, we will just add some windows and doors, and then we are done with the drawing. So I want to keep it very small so that it looks like that it is at a far distance. So that's why I've kept it very small in size. Now let's discuss about the colors which we will be using. So there are two colors which is pains gray and white. So these two colors we will be using over here. If you don't have Pains gray, you can use Priscian blue and mix a little bit of black into that. That will turn out to be a little bit of pains gray color. Pains gray is actually grayish blue color, and a little bit of purplish also added to it. So you can use Priscian blue for that and a little bit of black you can mix. So I'm just mixing the color, and I want the background color to be very light. So let's check the color value, how it has come up because you can see it's mostly white in color. So this is the color which has come up when I mix very little amount of the Pains gray. I'm mixing a little bit more amount of Paine's gray, so this is the second color which I will be using. So like this, we have to make the variations of colors as we will be moving on the background as well as on the foreground. So let's start with the painting first, and then you will get to know what all colors are there. So back to my canvas. So just taking the colors, I will be using round brush. You can use round brush, also. You can use flat brush, also. You can use filbert brush also. Whichever brush is comfortable, you can use that. So we have to move the brush in the circular motion as you can see. So this side, it is a little bit lighter color. And as it goes towards the tree part, which is the main tree part, it will become a little darker. So like that background, I want the background to be from light to dark. So I'm moving the brush in circle so that it feels like there are lots of clouds which are there, which is a very gloomy look. You can the hazy look it is. So that's what I want to create over here. So that's why I'm just blending the colors, taking the lighter color and trying to blend with a darker color, as you can see over here. We will be doing second code, so don't worry about the first code if the blending is not proper. We will always do at least two codes on the background, then only the whole painting will be complete. So I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. If you have any doubts over here, any confusions, any color confusions, you can ask me in the discussion section. You can DME on my Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery, anything you can ask me anywhere. So, um, just the below part, which is the tree part, that is the backside tree part, which is very hazy type. So that color which I'm making here is a little darker color than the background. It should not be very dark. It should be a little darker than the background. So this is the color which has come up. So that color I will be using here for this background trees. So with my round rush, I'm just giving it a little shape, as you can see, and I'll just fill in the whole area over here. So take your time, do it slowly. No not to do it in a hurry. If you feel there is a confusion in between the colors, try first testing it on the paper and then do this. So you can see I'm just blocking it with my round brush. You can do it with your flat brush also. So with your flat brush, you can easily block in these colors in a little bit faster manner. So that's why I've switched to this flat brush, and I'm just blocking in the vertical directions. So no need to here blend the colors because we want textures to be there so that the textures are there, then only that background feel will come. So this is completely different painting which here I'm doing. First painting was very vibrant and very, like, warm colors. And this is slightly a bit of the gloomy color, as you can say, very, like different colors of winters are there actually. So I thought of using different different winter colors which are there actually when winter comes. So this is another winter color, which we see when there is lots of snowfall and everything is there. So just blocking the upper part. Once we are done with the blocking, we will also blocking the lower part as well. We can only do the above part second coat only when the first coat dries. So we have to wait for the first coat to dry or the upper part, then only we will be able to do the second coat. By the time that first part is drying, I will be doing the lower part with this light color. You can also use dryer for drying it out. If you are not able to dry the colors very fast in winter, you can always use the dryer. So I'm just blocking the lower part, and then we will do the second at of the background and the middle ground. So just enjoy the process of blocking. No, detailing, nothing here we are doing. We are just blocking the colors. That's it. And 10. Snowy Landscape Background Blocking: Welcome back. Let's start with the second at of the background, and a little bit more details we will also add. Let's start first again with the background with same color. Se whenever we mix any color second time, there are chances that little bit of variations will be there. So don't worry about that. Little bit variations are fine. So whenever you will mix, don't expect that the same color will appear. A little bit up and down, it will be there. So I'm just blocking here first second coat. Now my first coat has properly dried. So then only I'm applying this second coat. So whenever you do second coat, you will see there will be more nene more neatness in your background painting. So that's why second coat is a little bit necessary when you're using canvas. Just rotating my brush in a circular motion and trying to block in the above part. So once I'm done with the above part, now I will fix the part which is there you can see the line, which is the tree line, the back tree line. That also I will create some textures over there with my rigor brush. You can use your rigor brush or liner brush, whichever brush you have, try to make similar color which is there. And try to create some nice lines, some tree lines which are there in the backside of the tree, which is not visible because of the snow. It's very light in color. That's why I have kept this color very light, a little darker than the background color, as you can see over here. So just adding some tree line textures, that's it, and then we'll do another tree line which will be below this tree line. Do it slowly, take your time. And whenever you're doing these line parts, make your color a little thin. Then only you will be able to make all these lines, give your painting enough time, do it slowly, and try to make the textures at the background. Just enjoy each and every process. It's not like in one go, you have to complete this painting. I won't suggest that you do in one go. Take breaks and then do this painting, and then you will see the magic which will come the magic of doing the painting in breaks, actually. Because these paintings are not to be done on, like in one go. You can do in one go if you are doing it every day. But if you are trying it for the first time, take breaks and then try to do all these paintings. So I'm just putting some more ates below, and then I'll start with the second layer of the trees which will be there just below that line. So you can see I've just filled it with the same color and just applying the colors with my brush. Even if the color is not thick in the second coat, this will work. But in the first coat, your color has to be thick. It should not be very watery color. So water is only there on my brush. That's it. Rest are all colors. Now let's do the second layer of the tree line, which will be a little darker than the one which we have used for the base. So just taking a little bit more of white, and let's start with another tree line, which is there at the back side, darker than the color which you have used at the background. So just taking a little bit more of paints gray and just mixing it with a little darker color than the one which you have done in the background. Now, here you can also use gray color. If you have gray color and add a little bit of blue to this, that also you can do if you're painting this painting. That also will come up very well. So just adding similar textures and similar lines up and down and just over there. Since my color was thin, so my color has dried. So whenever you use thick color, that color takes a lot of time to dry. But when you use thin color, it will dry very fast when you are using acrylic. So second coat I haven't used very thick. That's why my color has dried and I can easily create these lines. So I'm just creating the upper textures and rest, I will just block in with my round brush or flat brush. So try to do these lines like some big, some small, different different sizes. The more you give time to your painting, the more it will come up beautifully. Like, I have experienced that. The more I give time to my painting, the more it comes wonders. Try to give time to your painting, do it slowly, and enjoy the process of creating all the lines and the textures and the colors, everything. Now I will just use my flatbush and I will just block in this below part. So you can see my color is little light, but it's just making it a little bit more darker and just trying to blocken this part. It's okay if your blend is not proper, it's fine because these are all tree lines, so we don't want the blend to be very proper. It's okay if there are brush lines a little bit, so it's perfectly fine. Sometimes we actually need brush lines also to just make your painting look more real. Like, I really enjoy doing these landscape paintings. And I have done almost six years. It's now I'm doing the landscape paintings, and I really enjoy each and every landscape painting I do apart from portrait, animal portrait, and bird portrait. So now I'm using this fan brush and white mix and just adding some textures of white and little grayish textures to this whole pathway. This whole path. Just use your dry brush and thick colors and try to create these textures like we did in our first painting if you have done it. So similar way we have to do it over here, just adding a bit of white and a little bit of gray is there in my background. So that's why that gray is also coming, so it's fine. Just add some textures all over this area, which is your foreground area. This brush actually adds magic to the snow effect. I really like this brush. This brush is from rosemary, and it is of size one, but it's a very, very nice brush. It gives a very nice, fine textures of not even snow, but also of mountains. Even I use this brush for the tree textures also. So it's a very nice brush. It's a bristol fan brush which I am using over here. Just adding all the textures all around. 11. Snowy Landscape Back Tree Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the B trees detailing. So my whole painting has tried now. Now I will start creating the back trees which are there. The third tree line which is there. So first tree line was very blurry, then the second one, then the third one. So the third tree line I'm just trying to draw. I've just taken black color on my side, as you can see, and a little bit of white also because lots of white is needed over here. So every time my white is getting finished. So just mixing black, paints gray, and a little bit of black and white, just to make the color a little darker. It should be a dark grayish color. So let's see what color it has come up, and then we can decide by drawing a line, we can see what color is that. So it's fine. It's not very dark and it's darker than the one, which is the base color a little bit black, we can more add just to make it a little bit more darker because I don't want it to be completely black tree. It should be like a dark grayish color. So you can see the baseline I have created a little below to the edge also something some of them are on the foreground, some of them are on the middle ground. So different different variations of trees. I'm just trying to draw over here. Some are having different different branches. So are like pine trees. So different pine trees are also there. So just I'm trying to give a little bit of mixture of different pine trees, as you can say. So first, I'm just drawing the lines where I want my trees to be here I'm just creating some nice pine tree textures with my rigor brush. So here, actually we will be doing a lot of pine trees. So I think winter and pine trees they go hand in hand. So wherever there is winter, there will be pine trees. So yes, I will be creating a lot of pine trees over here. So the more and more you will practice the pine trees, and I'm sure by the end of this whole class, you will learn how to do the pine trees very well of different forms. Also different types of trees and tree texture. Everything we will be learning over years. Now, see, this is a different type of pine tree has which has the leaves which are in the downward direction. So you can just create varieties of trees which are at the back. In fact, you can add your own trees also at the bag. It's not like what I'm doing. You can have to create the same trees. If you want just the pine trees to be there, you can just create the pine trees. That is also fine. If you don't want the pine trees, you want these other pine trees, which has a tall lines and tall tree trunks and the sub brranches and branches. That also you can do. So painting has no limit. You can change anything and anything you want, anything can come up here just by adding those details. So it's not like what you have seen the picture that only you have to draw. You can just add your own creativity over here. And whenever you are doing all these tree lines, try to make the color a little fluid and then try to draw the lines. Then you will get a nice fine lines. Try not to use very thick color. Otherwise, you will end up creating thick lines. So if you want very fine lines, try to make the color a little fluid. Then only those fine lines will come up. Once I have created all the trees, now I will put some snowy effect on them as well. Similar brush. Everything will be similar. Just after the creation of trees, we will be creating the snowy effect of all these background trees also. So before creating the bigger tree, let's first create the snow part and then we'll start. So just taking white and a little bit of this color and just creating some snowy texture. Now for creating snowy texture, don't make your color thin, use thick color and your damp brush. Then only that dry texture effect will come up. Those dry effect actually create a very nice snowy texture, especially on the backside of the trees. So I'm just making some lines and leaving some lines. Randomly, I'm just adding some white layers on these tree lines. So anything you can do. So it's not that in each and every tree, you have to put snow on each and every branches you have to put snow. You can leave some of them and you can add more on one and less on other. So, likewise, you can just change the snowy effect on the back trees because we don't want a perfect detailing on the back trees. We are mostly focused on the front trees and the small hut which is there. So these are all the background trees, so no need to give very too much details on these background trees. Little bit of snow here and there, you can just add it. Or you can just add one by one. It's totally up to you. I just wanted to create this a little simple, so I haven't added each and every details in the background trees. But when I do advanced painting or realistic, I take care of each and every tree, whether it is small or big, and I do the detailing, but I don't want this painting to be very complicated. So that's why I have not done so much of detailing in the background trees. I want this painting to be tried by each and everyone who really wants to learn acrylic in detail. So that's why I have created this class. So just adding the bigger tree now, the one which is in the side, just creating first the line. First, I will add the tree textures with black color, and then on top of that, I will start creating the snowy effect. So you can see I made the color a little fluid so that I can easily make the tree lines and the tree textures and everything. Creating straight line and now I'm starting to add the tree texture starting from the top and as we will go down, it will become bigger and bigger. So if you want to learn the tree perfectly, just watch my bigner level class, which is there, which is for Absolute bigners. You can easily learn how to create these tree textures. 12. Snowy Landscape Pine Tree Details: Welcome back. Let's start with the pine trees detailing and few other detailings also we will be doing here. So moving further more on this, adding some tree details first starting from the top. And as we will go down, we will start adding more and more textures. So textures are just random textures, which I am here, you can see, I'm just adding. Let me zoom in a little so that you can see it clearly. So first, make your color a little fluid and then start creating these random textures like the tree textures or the tree leaf textures and moving in the downward directions. As you can see, I'm just specking some some colors of this black and just trying to create these textures in the downward directions. And as I'm going down, I'm just increasing the size of these textures little bigger and bigger because I want it to be a little conical shape. Similarly, just repeat the process till you go to the down part. Add some thick textures. Don't add thin lines. Otherwise, when you will start adding snow, it will not look appropriate. So try to make thick textures of this, as you can see, I'm mostly making those thick textures. So try to make a little thick textures. So just enjoy the process of creating this beautiful pine tree, which is the main which is actually in front, which is near to the foreground and the house which is there, it is very far away from this tree. So it's like that. So the tree which is here, the pine tree and another one, which is the other side of the tree, those trees are actually very close to the foreground. That's why they are bigger in sizes. Rest of the trees are very far away and at a very far distant. That's why they are very small in size. So that's how I am trying to create this whole painting. So all these small things add actually the depth to your painting. So some is far, some is near. So this is actually adding a depth to your painting when you are creating all these things. So here, only one big pine tree I'm creating over here, but you can add two, also, one a little bit near to this house. Anything you can do. It's your painting, you can just make your own creative way. It's just that I am teaching you the technique how to do it. Arrangements you can do it in any way. So finally, we are almost done with this tree painting, and then we will focus on the hut and the road part which is there, which is coming along. We'll wait for this black to dry, then only we can add the snowy effect on this. So this is almost done. Now, let's start with another section of it. So the house which we will be painting over here, we will be using two colors. So one is the orange color that is cadmium orange and another color which is red color. So two colors we will be using over here for this painting. So this is vermilion red, which I'm using over here. You can use any red, whichever red you have, you can use it. So there are two colors which we will be using over here. So, mm two colors, as you can see, this is the orange and one is red. So this is the red, and the orange one is another one. Vermilion is similar to orange in texture, as you can say, but you can use any red. Whichever red you have, you can use it. Let's start with painting of the smaller size hut, use smaller size brush of size zero or one to paint that small size hut. So just mixing a little bit of this orange, black and this white to make it a brownish color. You can use directly brown color. But since I'm using the whole thing with this color, so this color, I'm just using the inside part. The inside part of the house is with this color. Rest of the doors and the windows I will be using different colors. So this is for just the whole house, which I will be painting with this color. So try to do it very slowly, very patiently because whenever we do a very small size painting, that takes a lot of time, actually. Whenever you will do these smaller size painting, it takes a lot of time. So take a half full patience and do it very slowly. So you can see I've just covered each and everything. I haven't left for the doors and the windows. Later on, once the color will dry, then on top of it, I will be creating those doors and windows. Oh. So just covering the whole house with this color. So this color is actually like a burned sienna color. You can say if you have burned sienna, you can directly use that color and you can just paint it. But I wanted to show how to mix and make that color. That's why I used this color. But yes, you can use burn sienna directly, taking a little bit of white and putting it on top of this hut, which is the area that is the rooftop area. I'm just covering it with the light grayish color. So try to paint all these smaller details with smaller size brush. Very minute details are these. So try to use smaller size brush only for painting this. So now let's do the part, which is the pathway which we have to create. So this pathway, first, we'll create the lines. So how it is moving like a S shape. So here I will use my fan brush and same color, which is little darker than the one which I've used in the background, mixing this color with white and just trying to create that shape of S with my fan brush. Again, your brush should be damp brush, I should not be wet. Then only you will be able to create these textures. Always use the tip of your brush for creating these textures, not the complete brush. So adding little white in between, as you can see, little bit of darker colors in the sides to just to create the pathway. Also little bit of black dark spots we will add just to create that there are some footsteps over there. That also we will create in this pathway. So just taking some darker color and just trying to create some nice, darker textures also to the sides and also to the center part, also, I will add some textures just to show that there are some footsteps which are there. 13. Snowy Landscape Second Trees Details: Welcome back. So let's start further with the second trees which are in the bunches. So I'm just taking orange and little bit of black mix just to make a dark brownish color, and using my round brush, I will create 34 trees which are there, the tree trunk and the branches. So if you're not comfortable drawing directly with colors, you can draw with your watercolor pencils or chalk pencils, and then you can easily draw the lines. Don't draw with pencil. Otherwise, you will not be able to rub that line when you are using canvas or any other paper as well. So try to draw with any chalk pencils or your watercolor pencils, you can draw with them. So I'm just trying to create more and more branches, some thick, some thin, different different sizes and some branches which are coming out. So two, four branches, I will try to trees I will try to create over here. So thick, some thin. So trees are not all of same sizes. They are of different different sizes. So you can just vary the sizes and the length of the trees and the branches and just the side trees which I'm creating without any leaves, just the branches I will make. Whenever you are making branches, use your rigor brush. And the point where the branches join, it should be thick and when it goes away, it should be thin. So like that, we am just making all the branches over here. So here it is actually very cold, so my hand is a little shaky here you can see. So it's very cold over here and very little sunlight has come up today, so very difficult to paint in this winter, but still I'm trying it over here. So just trying to add some more and more branches. So by looking at this painting only I'm feeling cold. So yeah, so it's a very beautiful painting. You can say it a monochrome painting also. It's just adding some beautiful branches here and there. And then we will add the reflections and the grasses. Everything we will add over here, not only just three lines. So slowly, slowly, we are coming towards the closer of this painting. It's just adding a little bit more darker lines and just more clear lines. So just taking some nice grayish color paints gray and white mix and adding some textures with my small size of a flat brush. And then I'll add some grasses on the top as well. Now, whenever you're adding grasses, make your colors thin, then only you will be able to make those thin lines. Don't use thick colors. So just some grasses in different directions. I'm trying to add it over here. So now let's add a little bit details over this hut also. Just adding more of white on top of it. Try to add thick colour of white this time when you are adding it on the top. Also the doors and the windows also we will add over here. So just adding some nice thick lines. Now taking orange and a little bit of white mix and creating the doors and the windows. Try to use these detail brush only for creating all these small, small details. So just trying to add the mix of orange and white. And why I've mixed white in this orange because if you will directly use the darker color like orange or red, that color will not reflect on this because already the background is very dark in color. So first, this color will dry, then on top of it, I will add the orange or red color. Also some more of these small textures, and then some reflections, also, I will be adding over here. So let's add some reflections below, some more reflections of these grasses, making a little lighter color but darker than the background. Just adding some lines here and there, just to give the reflections of these grasses. Also, I will add some reflections of this tree, this pine tree, which is the bigger pine tree which I've created. Those reflections, also, I will be adding it below. Now, this time I'm using my round brush, free hand lines are these. Just try to add it. So the reflection is done. Now we will start doing a little more of the detailing of the trees, which is already left out. So a little bit more of the lines and then it's done. 14. Snowy Landscape Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start with our final details. So let's add some snow on this pine tree, taking thick white color and using my round brush. Try not to mix any water in this, try to use quite thick colour. Then only that snowy textures will come up. Try not covering the entire black thing. Try to use the area which is above and leave a little bit of black area below so that tree also is visible. Otherwise, when you will cover this entire thing with this white, snowy part, that tree visibility will not be there. So leave a little bit of black also. That's why I have changed my brush to the rigor brush, and I'm just trying to create some nice thick textures on top of these textures, blacky textures. Just one by one slowly try to create all these textures. So you can see already this painting is looking very beautiful. Even the colors are very simple and just grayish, but still that effect and the snowy effect is adding the entire beauty to this painting. Like, I'm loving this painting, and I'm sure when you will try it out, you will also love this painting, too. So if you will follow each and every process of mine, I am sure that you'll be able to do this painting. And if you have any questions, any doubt, don't hesitate to ask me. If you are doing this project, you can share your project works, and do tag me on my Instagram if you're sharing on your social media. That is Mohini Art Gallery. Do tag me. I will love to re share on my story your beautiful project works. So just adding some textures, you can see I've added all these white textures on this pine tree. Now I will add a little bit more to this tree, which is the tree trunks and the tree branches. So try to take thick colour. Don't use any water, and then you will see the magic of this whole snow effect. So you can see already the snow is adding whole beauty to this painting. So snow itself add the whole changes everything when you add snow to it. So once you are done with this whole tree part, I think we are almost done, little bit few details are left here and there, this tree line and then the snowy textures which we will add by just using the splattered technique with uprushes. So nice white textures also I'm adding to these grasses. So a little little details which are left and rest, we almost done with this painting. A little more snow effect I'm adding to the below area of this house, just to keep that there are lots of snows around the house area. So all these very small details, but you can skip it. You can add it. It's totally your choice. But I feel that these all small details actually make your painting look beautiful. Now, you see, I'm just mixing this orange and red, and now I'm adding this color inside once my background color has dried. Now this color will pop up. If you have added it directly, that color would haven't popped out. But when you will add this after using this light color, this color will start popping out. So that's what I needed over here. That's why I have added first light color and then dark color. So a little bit of outlines also you can do or you can skip it up. It's totally your choice. You can leave the outlining and just keep it like this, or you can do the outlining. It's totally your choice, how you want to do your painting. Little bit outlines to the sides you can do. Otherwise, you can leave it like that. So you can see how beautiful that small little hut is looking. That is actually a center of attraction. Whenever you will see that painting, the focus will go onto that small hut. There's a bit top out above where that flake is coming. So I'm just adding one on the top, that chimney. And then I'll just add some smoke which is coming from there. Similar color I'm using, which I have used that brown color. Just a triangle shape I'm creating on the top. So just a little bit of the snow. So not snow smoke, we will add on the top. There's so much snow snow so every time the snow is coming, make your color a little fluid and then add this texture. Make sure that your background has dried, then only add this effect, very thin color and just little smoke which is coming out. After that, we will start adding a little bit more of the sprinkles which will fall on this, like the snow is falling that scene we have to create. So that also we will add over here. So just some final details. Taking my rigor brush and adding more grasses to this near pine area, which is here, just some thin lines here and there. This thing you can skip it also. You can add it also. It's totally your choice. In fact, small small grasses you can add everywhere if you want, but I felt like this is nice. So now we will add some snow which is sprinkling on the top of this painting. Now my painting has dried completely. I've taken fresh colour of this white and paint gray a little bit of paints gravel mix, not too much watery color. And I'll just try to sprinkle it on top of this painting using my flat brush. So you can see how watery my color is. So you have to make color fluid, then only that sprinkle will happen. Just spray it everywhere wherever you feel like. First, I'm using a little grayish color, then I will use completely white color to spray around. So this is actually the most satisfying process when you sprinkle lots of white colors on top of it. So it's actually add a lot of beauty to your painting. So it's a must, I think, whenever you are creating this snowy part. Now taking more of white, making it fluid, and just sprinkling it all over. So I can see how beautiful it is coming up. So just a little bit more of white you can take. I can add just a little bit more of white, and I will sprinkle more on the top of this background. So take enough of color on your brush, then only that sprinkle will happen and spray it everywhere. So this is the complete painting. I hope you enjoyed doing this and thank you so much, everyone for watching this, and we will meet in our next painting class. Hm 15. Quiet Glow: Welcome back. So let's start with our next painting. That is quite glow. Let's first do a little bit of drawing and then we'll start with the painting. So very rough sketch and most of the things we will be doing directly through painting and just a rough drawing. Again, this is a portrait shape canvas which I'm using. All my paintings are done in the portrait shape canvas. This is the center line, which I have just drawn it roughly, and then comes the path, which is the foreground, which is the snowy part. Here it will come and just a nice shape to it. Rest of the area is the water part. So something like that, we are going to do this painting. So this is actually the time when the sun starts setting, and it's very quiet and the birds have gone to their nest. So this is the time when the sun actually glows before sun setting. So this is the backside of the tree with the reflection which we will be drawing and rest we will directly do by the colors. So first, let's start with the background. So these are the colors which we will be using. So the first color is black, yellow, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, Azarin crimson, then gray, that is pains gray and white. So all these colors we will be using over here. So let's start first from the top. So for the top part, I will be taking first the color. So first, pains gray, just taking my palette and taking out some of the colors. First, we will mix the colors because we need a very light pastel shade color. We don't need very dark color. So I'll also take some amount of blue as well over here. So just removing excess of color from my palette with the help of brush, and then we will be taking some colors. So here we will be mixing different different colors. Here, you will see how to do the color mixing also. So I have just taken here pains gray, mixing this white into this pains gray. Pains gray is a bit grayish bluish color. It has a little violet touch to it also. So you can see here the color which it has formed. And if you don't have Pains gray, you can directly use Priscian blue and a little bit of black you can add to it. These are the two colors as you can see, very light color. One I'm taking it more towards the violety reddish side. That's what I'm mixing over here. One is the paints gray and white. So we'll also check the colors which we have made. So let's first take a little bit of blue also. That is the Windsor blue which I'm taking over here. You can take any blue. You can take cobalt blue also over here, or you can directly use Prussian blue. It's totally your choice. So here I've taken Windsor blue. So a little bit of blue, also, I'm adding to this paints gray just to make it more bluish side, like bluish grayish touch. Also a little bit of this towards the violety side. When you add blue and red, it turns into a little bit of violet shade. So that's what I'm trying to create over here, the colors. So let's check on the paper, so how the color has come up. So you can see this is a color which is like a grayish blue color. The second one is a little violety color with more white added to it. So these are the two colors which ham I will be using. So let's start with the first the painting of the background, and slowly, slowly, we will do the foreground as well. Just adding a little bit more white because I want a little bit more lighter color. So just making it more light by mixing it with my palette. Try to mix the colors with your palette. It will be helpful because your brush will not get damaged when you use directly the palette for mixing. Sometimes I use in the flow brushes because it is easy. Now we'll start with the blocking using my flat brush, starting from above, taking the first color first. That is the paints gray with a little bit more of the same color mix and a little bit of this Azarin to make it more purplish color, starting from the top part. Little bit of bluish. Also now it has become too much bluish. So again, I will add more white to it and just a little bit of pains gray. So you can see now I'm mixing it with my brush. Starting from the top, which is the darkish color, as you can see, the dark blue color and a little bit of paints gray. Again, I'm adding a little bit more blue and a little bit more of this Azarin and white and just blocking the above part first. And then as I will go down, I will be adding more of the more of the whitish color. So this is the color which is there, very dark color. And then as I will go down, the colors will become light, which we have mixed it earlier. So just blocking that and trying to blend with this dark color, as you can see. So do it slowly carefully. It's okay in first coat. The blending is not being proper. There are lots of brush marks that is completely okay. But try to first block in the colors. Rest of the blending we can do later as well. But if your color is well, you can do the blending, then try to do it. So just doing the blocking, I'm washing off my brush. Now, when you're using the warm colors, wash off your brush very nicely. Now I'm making the orange color which is there with cadmium yellow, and Azarin crimson and white. So you can see how this orange has come up little different orange. It's not properly that orange, which is the cadmium orange. So a little bit of blue also, I will mix to it just to make it a more different cachenut colors. I will add to the below part. Adding this color to the part which is below, leaving the area which is the back trees area that I'm just leaving it out and I'm trying to just blocking up taking this yellow color with a little white cadmium yellow, and just taking a little bit more of Azarin and just trying to blend it with this color. I haven't washed off my brush over here. It's okay if there are a pink or this cachet color there. And as I will go above, I will then wash off my brush if required, and then I will do the yellowish part. So slowly, slowly, I'm just moving above, and I'll just wash off my brush, and then I will do the above part. So just taking again, this yellow color and white color mix, if you will directly use that yellow color, there are chances that it will mix with this blue color and it will take your color to the muddy color, which we don't want. So that's why I have mixed here white in this so that the color doesn't turn out to be muddy. So this is the whole blocking of the background which we have done first coat. Second coat also we will be doing. So you can see over here there are brush marks, but it's fine. We will do the second coat, and then that will be gone. So let's do the below part with the same since it is a reflections, the colors will be almost similar. So just try to block in with the same colors. Since it is a reflection, so it will be opposite of the background. So first will be the warm color, and then as it goes down, it will be the cool colors. So this is a very beautiful painting. Once you've completed it, you will feel so happy the outcome has turned up. It's very beautiful and very carming painting, and I really loved doing this. If you have any doubts and color mixing or anything, you can always ask me, I am there for you. Now, just taking this bluish part, and then I will mix it with the warm colour. Again, I will wash off my brush, then only I will do that blending, using the colors, that is the yellow white mix, and just slightly I am trying to blend the colors which is in between. This is how we blend the colors when there is the complimentary colors actually. Let's now start with the other blocking, which is the foreground and the middle ground. 16. Quiet Glow Background Blocking: Welcome back. Let's start further. Let's proceed further with the blocking of the middle ground and foreground. Let's do first the foreground with the same lighter color a little bit more lighter than the one which is in the water part. Just blocking this area with my flat brush. Currently, we are just focusing on what all colors we need to block in. So we are blocking in, don't worry about the brush marks and anything. We will be doing second layer of coating. So in that time, we can fix the brush marks or any blending issue. So don't worry about that. So just blocking this area. Then comes the middle part, which is the background trees which are in a very foggy, manner. So just let's add that also. So actually the color is actually the violety color, so more violet grayish color, which we will be making by mixing all these primary and colors. So let's take first talazarin crimson, then the pains gray mix. You can also mix blue to get a nice purplish shade. So it is more towards the color, which is the reddish side. It is not more towards the bluish side. Then only you will get this type of color. So the same color and adding a little bit of black to make it a little bit more darker in shade. And I will just add this color onto the top part. So try to make it more towards the reddish side. And just with my round brush, first, I will try to give a little shape above just to show that there are some trees which are there on the top, and then we will block in with either flat brush or with same brush you can block in. It's totally your choice. You can use any number of round brush. Try to use two or four size brush, which has a nice pointed tip. Then only you'll get all these textures on the top. Textures also we can use later on by creating by using our filbert brush or with a rigor brush. So first, let's block in the entire thing. As I will go down, the colors will more fade. It will be more towards the whitish side because we have to show that there is a foggy effect there. So this is the center line, which is the horizon line of the background and the foreground. So just making fuzzy line. It's okay. The line is not proper. Don't worry because we have to make it actually foggy, so that line will be gone. Just to add that this is the whole area where there which is the middle ground of this portion, so that all I am just trying to block in. For filling the colors a little quickly, you can use your flat brush also. It's totally your choice which brush you want to use. So again, I'm telling you can use any brush, flat brush or round brush, whichever you feel like you can use it. Try to mix enough quantity of colors so that the color variations don't change because I know how to mix the color in what proportions. If you're not sure how much to mix, try to mix it in one go and keep it. If you are living in a very humid area, try to sprinkle some water on the top of the colors so that it remains wet for a longer period of time. Now I will start doing the lower part. Now I'm just making the color a little more whitish and just adding the center part, the line which is there and trying to blend with the upper color, which is the dark color. I don't want the lines to be very sharp, just making it a little blurry. And then we will move towards the lower part, which is the reflection of the above area. So just trying to blend this color with the top part. Now, I will just rotate my canvas to do the lower texture part, and then we will be filling the colors, same colors I'm using over here also. So similar colors and just filling it up nicely and just filling the area which is on the below part. So try to use same color which you are using. Even if you are not comfortable doing it below, just rotate your canvas and then fill the colors. That is also fine. You can rotate your canvas. Since I'm not doing here any texture parts, so I'm not rotating it over here. Once I will do the texture part, then I'll start rotating the canvases a little bit more. I'm just trying to blend this color with my lighter color just to make a foggy effect in between. So this is the whole blocking of the main canvas, and now we will start doing the details. Wait for the first coat to dry, then only we'll do the second coat. 17. Quiet Glow Second Layer Blocking: Welcome back. Let's start with the second layer of blocking. First layer has already tried completely. Now we will start with the second layer. Similar colors we will be using here also. We have to just block in the second coating of the background so that this background becomes more smooth and more neat. As you must have seen in my previous paintings, also, at least I do two layers of blocking so that your background becomes more smooth and more neat. So this time, you can change the color a little bit if you feel that it should be a little bit more dark. You can change it. If you feel it is more light, you can change that also. So this is the time which can change the color and fix the colors. So I'm just mixing the same color a little bit more darker it is and just trying to block in the above part a little bit more towards the violety side, you can say. And I'm just filling the upper part first. And as I will go down, I will start adding more white to it, the white which we have mixed earlier, and just blending the color with the above color. So this is how I will fill the whole background part. So whenever you are filling the background part, try to mix the color and blend the color when it is wet. Only when both the colors are wet, then only you will be able to blend the colors. Just remember that when you are trying to blend the colors. So you can see I've just taken more white and I'm just trying to blend these two colors, which is from light to dark. If you feel there's more light color, just add a little bit more darker color. So this is how you have to adjust the colors. Now the below part, which is the part near to the line, which is the middle line, it's more orangy. So I will just make it a little bit more blue and a little bit more white. I will also add and make it a little more not orange, you can say, it is a bit brownish and more orange. So just filling this part above with this color and then just one layer I will add and a thick layer so that I can blend with the lighter colors now. After that, I will take just yellow color and a more white color, a little bit of this crimson Azarin crimson, and I'll try to blend this color with this darker color first. First, I'm just doing the blending of this area. I haven't blended the above part, you can see. So after washing my brush, again, I will take this yellow and white mix, and then I'll start blending the colors which is on the top part. Slowly, slowly, I will start moving my brush on the top, and I will blend the colors. Since both the colors are wet, so you can easily blend the colors. But if any of the one dries, you have to again apply that color and then blend that color. Just remember that both the color has to be wet to blend it perfectly. Then only that blending will be perfect. Just adding a little bit more of this color, which is the darker color. This is actually the sunset time where there's lots of oranges there. So that's why I want that area to be more orangy and more like a reddish type. Here, also, I will add the similar colors which I have added above. So 1 second layer I have done for the background now I'm doing for the water part, which is the reflection of the background. Similar colors you have to use. Same colors, not much of the differences there. Just try to do it slowly and patiently when you're doing these colors because color mixing is not a very easy task. It takes time to learn also. So that's why I thought to show you how to mix the colors and make the colors so that you can get to know how to mix the colors when you don't have those colors. So sometimes it is better to use just your primary colors and then mix and make those colors. You don't need so many colors to make different different colors. Only primary colors will work for the whole landscape part. So if you are new to this acrylic painting, you can also watch my absolute bigner level acrylic painting class, which is there. So if you are not aware of or how to use the brush, how to use the colors, that is a very good class which I have made, especially for absolute bigners. You can check that out here. And just now, again, second layer which I'm adding to this foreground, which is the snowy part. So just making it a little lighter color and filling up again with this similar color which I have already done in the first one. So mostly I have used the similar colors only. Only the bluish color have changed a little bit. Rest of the colors are similar. Whenever you will do second code, little bit up and down the colors will be there. You cannot get the exact color which you have mixed if you don't have done a lot of practice of color mixing. So don't worry. If second color is little light, little dark, it's perfectly fine. But you have to do the two codes on above. It should be a little bit similar, not too much difference, but a little bit up and down is fine. So just mixing now this purplish grayish color, which is more towards the red side. So red portion should be more than the blue one. So you have to remember that when you are mixing this color. So I'm using my rigor brush over here to give some nice pointed shapes to look like there are some background trees which are there, just giving a shape to it on the above part, and then I will fill in the colors. So giving some nice tree textures on the top, just the shape vertical lines, here, some big, some small lines. So each and every winterscape painting will be different. So this is also different. But each and every painting, you will learn something new. In this we are learning about the water reflections, how we have to do it. So each and every painting, I have tried to show something different so that you get how to do the landscape painting. The selecting process of the picture is the most difficult part of this whole class because selecting the right picture that what you have to teach and how you have to teach is a very difficult part. So I have tried selecting some good pictures. So all of these paintings are of some real pictures which I have chosen. So let's do now the blocking of this. I've already given the textures on the top. Now I will use my smaller size flatush just to block in the lower part with a similar color. So if you're not sure about mixing the colors again and again, just try to mix the color in one go and then use it. Because sometimes it is very difficult to mix the colors again and again. So try to mix a lot of colors and then do the painting so that you will not have any issues in selecting the colors that this color is not good. This color is becoming different. So try to mix it in one go and then do it. So I'm just rotating my canvas and doing the lower side of this, which is the reflection of this tree part. So using the same brush, that is the rigor brush I'll create below also some textures. So same color I'm using here also. So you can see I've just created the textures similar to the above one. Now, once you have done the texture part, fill the dark color with the similar color. That is the dark color and then the lighter color in the center. Same color I'm using here. This is the darkest color, and just center also I will be using with a lighter color. Instead of taking any color, I'm just putting white in the center and just taking again that darker color and just trying to blend with this darker color. This is how we create the foggy effect very easy and just try to blend both the colors. So this is how it looks when you are done with this painting of the middle ground. Just try to block in this part so that it doesn't look like a sharp line in between. Just blocking in with some dark color. And again, here also, you have to make sure that both the colors are wet, then only that blocking will be done, blending will be done. Try blending both the parts. And do it very patiently, very easily this part because this part is actually the main part where the color fades. So try to blend it as much as possible. We can blend it with your damp brush also if you don't need any color, take your damp brush and try to blend the colors. Just we have to remove the sharp lines that is there by blending it. 18. Quiet Glow Foreground Details: Come back. So let's start with the foreground details now. So my paint has already dried up. Now, first, we will add the sun, which is in the center and a little refraction downward, and then we'll start creating some textures in the foreground part, which is the snow part. So first, I'm using my blender brush and just washing off my brush, removing excess of water, and just taking this lemon yellow color. You can see it's a quite color which is very thin color which I have taken. And I'll just create a center circle over here, you can use here round brush also if you don't have this blender brush. But if you have this blender brush, try using this brush. Make your colors very thin. Thin means you have to take a less color. I should and the brush is completely damp, it is not wet. Now I will start creating the center circle, which is there, just taking more of white as my white has finished up, titanium white. And with titanium white and lemon yellow, I will try to make a nice glowing sun in the center of this yellow part. So taking this lemon yellow and white mix. Very little amount of lemon yellow you should take when you are making this sun because more amount should be white and less amount should be yellow. Small circle of this over here and a little bit reflections down also, making it a nice circular shape and filling it with this color. A little reflections, just pillow. It's just small reflections I'm just creating with the same color. So you can see every time you don't have to do a lot of detailing in your water part. Just a little reflection of the sun makes your whole water part looks like real. Now, just taking this darker color which is over here, the dark grayish, purplish shade, which just taking this dark color can see and adding a little bit of the just adding a little bit more darker color and just adding some more textures onto the sides. So every time you don't need a round brush, you can use here a rigor brush also for creating the details because we need some more details in the sides. So it's better to take rigor brush rather than round brush because a rigor brush, you can handle the brush easily, and you can create some nice fine lines also. So first, I'm just outlining it and making some irregular shapes. I'm just shaking my hand literally so that the lines are not very smooth because we don't want very smooth line. So just mixing some more red and yellow, making it a little brownish color. When you mix red, yellow, and black, it turns out to be a little brownish color. So each and every color you should not need here, you can mix and make different different colors just by mixing the primary colors. This is how we learn the color mixing part. When we do some paintings like this, we just take your primary colors and the neutral colors that is black and white, and you can just try mixing the colors and make that color which is the color of that ground. So this is a little brownish color. So I'm adding here the textures to give a little shape to this whole area and give a little depth to that foreground. Try to do it very slowly and very carefully because this line has to be not very sharp, as you will see, a little bit of crooked here and there and giving some nice textures, some dots, different different shapes you can give just to show that there are some stones over there. So just giving a little bit of shapes here and there. Actually have to play with your brush and shake your brush and shake your hand so that that texture comes up. So just a nice texture, and you can see the magic happens when it gets created. It's already giving a little depth where I have created some thick lines, some thin patterns. So different different patterns try to create just to show that there are some stones, some pebbles here and there, which are here and there around. So just I'm adding some more textures here and there. Just some random textures you have to add some small, some big This actually adds more reality to your foreground and it looks more real. So a little bit of these shapes, as you can see. I'm just trying to add a little bit more blackish part to the below of this whole thing just to give a little reflection of this area, which is the land area. So slowly, slowly, you can see the shape is coming up. This is just the lines which I have been drawing textures we will do later on once we are done with all these small details. Similar details I will be adding on the top also a little bit. You can see already it is looking very beautiful and very, like, a snowy effect is coming. But we will also add some snowy textures over here to give a more real look to it using our filbert brush. It's a very nice and magical brush which has a nice round tip. Use the filbert brush, make the color a little darker than your base color using more blue and a little bit of this lazarin. And then create some nice textures over the top using your filbert brush. It will give a nice round shape which will look like there are some snow clutters which are there here and there, some snowy reflections it will create. So some nice textures here and there, just try to add it up. So first layer we did blocking. The second layer we are doing is creating some nice textures all over. So just adding here and there, leaving some space of the light part also. Each and every brush creates magic on its own. So try using different brushes. 19. Quiet Glow Trees Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start with the trees blocking and a little bit of the detailing of the foreground first. We'll do it. So first layer we have done, now we will do the second layer, which is with much lighter color just to balance the darker one and just taking same brush, like flat brush here I'm using. Now, you can use this with your flat brush also if you don't have that filbert brush. Just with the flat brush, I'm adding the details here and there. Using a damp flat brush without any water and just trying to add some textures here and there. Now, this will add a little more depth to your snowy part. Just adding some nice raw thick color using my completely dry brush, that is a damp brush and just capturing that colors that is this white and a little bit of grayish color and just applying here and there, leaving that darker portion and covering the other part. This is one of the easiest method of creating some nice snowy textures. Here in the black part, also, I'm adding some nice light snowy textures. So just here and there, try to add it up. And after that, we will start creating the tree line with our black color. So there are three to four trees which we will be drawing with just the branches without any leaves. So let's first draw make this area, which is the sun area a little bit more bright. My first coat has dried, so I'm just adding, again, the second coat just to make it more brighter. So the more and more layer of colors you will add, the more brighter this sun will look. So this is how we make the things more and more brighter, just adding a little bit more white below, and you can see how bright it is looking now when I have added the second coat. So maybe in the last coat also, we will try to add one more coat once this first coat dries. Now taking my same color, which is the brown color and adding some here and there, the textures of this grayish color. Which is the brownish color, actually. It's a very dark brown color which it has come up. You can say it is like a burn sienna type of color. So just if you are using burn sienna, you can use it directly burn sienna. And now we will add some tree lines which will be with the brush, adding here and there more little bit of the textures of this dark color just to show that there are some more pebbles or stones here and there. And then we'll start creating the tree line with black color. Make your color a little thin and first try to draw a line. And then, um, use the color. Try to draw first the single line where the trees will be, and then you can draw the thick lines. So using my same brush, that is the rigor brush. I'm trying to draw a nice straight line, which is a little slanting. Some are straight, some are slanting. So the first line I have made is with a little slanting, then a little straight. I have left a little gap because I have to thicken that line. That's why I have left a little gap. So at least three to four lines I will draw, and then I will make those lines a little thick. So once I know that these are the lines where the trees will be, now, I will just make the lines a little bit more thicker, adding one more line to it, and then I will fill the whole thing with black color. So I'm just first trying to draw the lines. Whenever you are drawing the lines, use thin color. When you are filling it, use thick color. So any lining part, anything, you have to do it with thin color. And any blocking or anything, you have to do it with thick colour. Any textures or anything, you have to do it with your damp brush and thick color. So these are the things which are mostly common in most of the paintings. So I'm just filling it with black and making the lines thick. Similarly, I will be doing for other three lines as well. If you're not comfortable directly creating the lines with black color, first create the lines with chalk pencils or something like that so that you can rub it and then draw it with your black color. So this is how we can draw it on a painted canvas. So try not to draw it with pencil. Try to draw it with chalk pencil or watercolor pencils, and then you can then use your black color to fill in the lines. So similarly, I'm doing the rest of the trees and blocking it with black color. So here I've just drawn three to four trees, but you can draw many. It's totally up to you how many trees you want to draw. You can experiment and draw a little bit more trees, like in bunches. But here I felt that that four trees are more than enough so that you can see the branches and sub brranches clearly. So that's why I didn't complicated this painting much by creating so many tree lines. Oh, also, whenever you are drawing anything, make sure that your background has completely dried. It should not be wet when you are drawing all these things. Every time whenever you are drawing on top of the paint, the first layer has to dry then only draw anything on top of that. So anything you are painting, first layer should be dried completely and then try to draw the next object. Like here tree is my object which I'm drawing over here. So my whole background has dried, then only I'm adding these tree lines. So for the last one and then we'll go with the branches. 20. Quiet Glow Trees Branches: Welcome back. So let's draw the tree lines, the last tree line, and then the tree branches. So moving onwards, just taking my black color and drawing the last line, which is a little thin tree tree line. I'm not making it very thick. You can see there are different different sizes. One is thick, one is thin, one is medium. So try to draw it like this because all the trees are not of same size. So just trying to draw it like that. So slowly, slowly, we are just moving towards the end of the painting, just the tree and tree lines and a little bit of reflections, and then we are done with this painting. But yes, the main part here is the branches. There are lots of branches in these trees, which we have to draw it and try to draw it as slowly as possible, starting with the first tree, and I'm using my same brush, that is the rigor brush which I will be using for drawing the tree lines and the tree branches. Make your color a little fluid so that you can easily move your brushes and brushes and try to create some nice crooked lines. It should not be a wavy lines. Try to make some crooked lines in a zigzag form. So that will look a little bit more real when you will start drawing the lines. So when I'm drawing the lines in the directions, it is a little difficult when you draw the lines in this direction. So one thing you can do is you can turn your canvas towards your side, and then you can draw the branches. So which I will be doing later bu first, I'm just outlining the branches which are there. Just focusing upon the branches here and there, some are down, some are up. So in different different directions, try to add the branches because this is the main part which will actually make your painting look more realistic. So try to draw it very slowly and very nicely. Whenever you are drawing the branches, the branches which are at the end, it is thin, and as it goes towards the edge, it becomes thick. So try to make those branches like that. So just making the shapes of the trees proper. Again, taking the same color, make your color fluid, and I'm just trying to rotate, making the lines and a little bit more sub branches. So there are sub branches and branches, and some are very thin, some are very thick. So depending upon the branches, I'm just trying to draw it. So just in any directions you can draw. Mostly in this direction, it is down, and in the other direction, it is a little bit up. So like that, I have drawn the branches. So some are thin and some are very thin. If you're wanting to draw a very thin line, make your color more fluid and then try to draw the lines. So this is the best way to draw the thin line. If you will use thick color, you will not be able to draw the lines. So I've just rotated my canvas and now I will draw the branches. Now, this is a little bit easy for me to draw because doing the side which is in the other side, it is a little bit difficult for me. So I've just turned down the canvas towards my side, and I'm just trying to draw these branches in the downward direction. So just enjoy the process and follow each and every step and try to draw the branches. It's not like that what I am drawing the branches, similar type, you have to draw. But yes, a little bit here and there can be done. The changes can be done, but I wanted to show you how to draw the branches so that when you are drawing the branches, it should not look like a wavy line. So never try to draw the branches like a wavy line. It should be a zigzag line. Then it looks a little bit more real. The point where it starts, it should be thick, and as it's going out, it should be thin. So like that, you have to draw each and every branches. Eaving the space in between the sun, I'm just trying to draw the branches here and there. So thin lines also, some thick lines. So try to draw some thin lines, some thick branches so that it will look a little bit more dense because we have to make this dense with lots, lots of branches. So first, I'm just doing the first one where the branches are coming out, starting from thick lines and ending towards the thin lines. So just drawing more and more branches here and there, and now I can just rotate it because other side drawing is much more easier than drawing towards this side. So this side, I'm almost done with the branches. Later on, I will add a little bit more of these sub branches. So take more of this color. If you are drawing thin lines, take thin color. If you're drawing thick lines, then take a little bit of milky color. So this is how you have to make your lines here and there. So try to make the lines, little bit lines which are coming out here in the center. So you can see, I'm just adding some edges in the areas just to show that there are some more branches which have started growing or some are broken. So like that, you can just add some textures like that. All these small, small things literally add beauty to your whole tree line. So try to do it very carefully, very slowly. Give time to your painting. Don't do it in a hurry and make small, small branches here and there, just to make it more dense, try to add more and more branches. If you are facing difficulty directly doing the branches, what you can do is you can just add some nice lines with your chalk pencils or something, and then you can draw these whole lines. If you're not comfortable directly drawing the lines. Just here and there, I'm just adding the lines. So you have to actually fill the entire thing with just random lines here and there just to look like there is a lot of dense lines which are criss crossing each other. I can see, I'm just adding here and there some nice thin lines also. The more and more branches and thin lines you will add, the more real your painting will look. So that's what here I am doing. So thick, some thin, some very thin in different different directions. Mostly they are in up up directions, which I'm drawing. Some are in downward directions also. So you can see how these branches are adding the depth to your painting. So these lines are actually these trees are actually giving life to your painting. So just adding the lines here and there, some more thin lines. Since this is a repetitive process, so do it very slowly, very calmly, take breaks and then do it. Don't do it in a hurry and take your time, make your color fluid, and then only add these branches. Don't use thick color to add these branches. Use thin colour. Thin color will create nice and very thin thin branches, especially for the thinner branches which are there. Some more thin lines. I'm just adding it here below. So we are almost done with the branches, and now we will do the little reflection of this tree, and then we are done with this painting. You can add more branches if you want. It's totally your choice. But I think it's done. I don't want to complicate more of this painting. Otherwise, it will look quite messy. So here, I'll give it a stop, and then I will just draw a little bit of the grasses and a little bit of the reflections in the water part, and then we are done with this painting. It's a little bit of the reflections which will be here in this below part. So just adding line and just coloring it with the black color. And I will not show all the trees, maybe one or two trees I will show as the reflection. 21. Quiet Glow Final Details: Welcome back to the final details. So just the reflection and a little bit of grasses are left, and we are done with this painting. So you can see how these tree branches are adding actual beauty to this painting. So more rocks here and there. I'm just adding a little bit of grasses. Also, I will add here and there, just to add a little bit more rear look to the water. Just adding some thin grasses with my rigor brush. Try to use a very thin color when you are doing these grasses, don't use thick color. Otherwise, you will end up creating very thick grasses. So make your color fluid and then create these very thin grasses. So on the edges, I'm just adding the grasses. You can also add near the trees. Anywhere you can add it's totally your choice, how you want to add your painting and how you want to arrange the grasses. Some of the grasses, reflections, I'm just adding below just to show that there are some reflections of the grasses, some above. So this is how you can just add some of the grasses at the edges. So I am really loving this whole outcome of this painting, and I'm sure you will also do love this painting. And if you are trying out to tag me on my Instagram, that is Moni Art Gallery. I will love to see your project works. So it's not an easy painting, I'll say, but yes, if you will follow each and every step of mine, you will be able to do it. So try it out and you will see how your painting is growing day by day. If you do all these seven paintings, and I'm sure you will learn a lot in the whole series of seven windowscape painting. So now the reflections which I'm adding, I will not add too much of these branches, just few of them, and then we are done with it. So you can see how just use your rigor brush everywhere wherever there are details and thin lines, try to use your rigor brush. Just here and there, I'm trying to add the branches. Not much branch I will add just because the whole tree is in backside and little bit of the branch details is visible. So just adding few of them, and that's it. And this is the whole painting. You can add some grasses on the snowy part also if you want, or you can just leave it like that. It's totally your choice, how you want to add the details. Little bit white, I will add in the center of the sun just to make it more white and more bright. So here also in between and below also, just to add more brightness and a little bit of yellowish textures with this camium yellow, thin cadmium yellow, I will add on both the side of this reflection, as well as on the top, also, I will add in a circle this nice yellowish color, and make sure that your black has dried. Otherwise, it will mix with your black, and it will turn the color into a dirty green color. So make sure that your black has dried and only use this cadmium thin yellow on top of it. So this is almost done, and I'm sure you will love doing this, and it's a very beautiful and very calming silent painting, which I have tried it for the first time for you guys. So I'm sure you will also be going to love this whole series of winter scape painting. Try it out and share your project works. So thank you so much for watching and see you in the next lesson. 22. Alpine Twilight: Welcome back. So let's start with a new painting that is alpine Twilight. Let's first do a little bit of drawing of the mountains and its reflections and then we'll start with the painting. So first, we will draw a little rough sketch, and then we'll start with the entire painting, starting from the background, then the foreground and then the middle ground. Let's first make a line, which is the center line a little below than the center, and just drawing a very rough line. Try not to do it with a very harsh pencil. Try to draw it very lightly so that there are no pencil marks there. And if you have chalk pencils and try to draw with that. So just drawing some mountains which are on the backside and there are some trees which are there that also we will draw. So this is the tree line which will be here. And above that, there will be the whole mountain range above. So just drawing it like that. So there are two trees, as you can see the parts which are there, and the above is the mountain range. So similarly, we will be drawing the reflection part as well. Same mountain shapes for the reflections also. So just drawing some nice mountain range above. Try to draw it with very light pencil. Now I will draw the lower part, similar to the upper part, like how I have drawn the upper part. So it's a very beautiful painting, very bright and very, uh sparkly painting. So lots of bright colors we will be using here since it is a nighttime before the night starts, that is the dawn. And just before the night become begins when there is the clouds are very dark. So this is a time when lots of stars are there. So like that type of painting, we are going to do this one. Where there are lots of stars and milky ways, everything. So just drawing a rough sketch, it should not be exact, but a little bit, try to make it exact, and that's it. And then we'll start with the painting. So let's first discuss about the colors which we will be using over this entire painting. So there are a few warm and cool colors. So let's start with the first color that is the Prussian blue, then black, cadmium yellow, alzarin crimson, and white. So these are colors we will be needing for the entire painting. So let's start with the first painting that is with the background using my flat brush. Try to use big size flat brush, and we'll start from the pillow part, and then we'll move above. So starting from below and moving above in a half circle manner. So I wet my brush grabbing this medium color that is the cadmium yellow and applying it just above the mountain. Using my flat brush. Here you can use your round brush if you're not comfortable doing with the part which is just above the mountains. Any brush you can use, it all depends upon how much comfortable you are with which brush. So I'm comfortable with this flat brush, so I'm using this flat brush, applying a nice thick layer of the cadmium yellow, and just filling it up slowly and moving it in the upward directions. So you can see, it's a very bright and beautiful painting, as you can see in the image, and I'm sure you will love it when you will paint this beautiful scenic nature. So there are so many colors of nature with just winters you can see. So now I'm making orange and just adding above. If you mix this Alzarin crimson and yellow, you'll get a nice bright orangy color. So you can see how nicely the orange has come up. And after that, I will blend this color with the lighter color. That is yellow. So whenever you are blending any color, always take the lighter color and then push it above. Don't push the bright color, that is the dark color towards the light color. Otherwise, everything will turn out to be orange. Now I'm taking this Aserin and this blue mix to make a little purplish color mixing little white also to this. So you can see this is a little purplish color. So just adding above this color. Taking a thick layer of this color and applying it above. So currently, I'm not blending the colors because when you will blend purple and orange, it will create a muddy color. So that we don't want. So what I will do is I will take a separate Alazarin crimson and white mix, and then I will try to blend these two colors. So this is how we blend the colors when there are two complimentary colors. So try not to blend directly, otherwise, you will end up creating a muddy color. So let's start further above. So now I have blended this part, so I'll move above, making it a little more towards the bluish side. And as I will go above, it will be more towards the black also. A little bit black, also, I will mix and making it a very dark blue color because I want this area to be a very dark color. So that's why I'm applying a very dark color of this blue. So you can see already this area, which is the orange area it's glowing. So it is a time when the sun has set and the darkness has started. So this is a time when it appears like this, especially when there is mountains just just below the mountains. You will see the reflections also with similar colors. So we will be using similar colors for creating the reflections now. Again, taking this pink color and just trying to blend this color a little bit more. You can do the blending in the second coat also. But if in first coat, it is done properly, then in second coat, it is a little bit easier for you to do the second coat. So just applying the first coat on this upper part, which is the background. Now we will do the below part that is the reflection of the mountains and the reflection of the background, which will be opposite to the background color. So just opposite colors. So we have started. We'll start first from yellow, and then we'll go down towards the darker color. So it's just the reflection, so it is a mirror image, so it will be opposite colors to the sky color, starting with lighter and ending with darker color. Similar colors I'm using here also. Try to take colors as colors as possible. Water should only be there on your brush. Not too much water is required. Water is only required just to move the colors and blend the colors. That's it. Apart from that, water is not required. We mostly use thick colors so that the consistency of the colors are maintained and they look bright and beautiful. So try not to make it like a watercolor. So just taking a pink color blending these two colors together. Same thing I'm doing what I did for my background. Same thing I am doing for the foreground. Do it slowly. Take your time because blending takes time if you don't have practice. So since I have practice, so I can do the blending easily, but if you don't have practice, so do it slowly, carefully. And if you are a bigner acrylic, you can try out my absolute bigner class of acrylic. So that also you can try it out first and then try this painting. Then you will find it easy to paint all these things. So just applying a darker color, and then I will just blend it with this purplish color. So you can see how bright this yellow and orange is looking. So it's like a very bright sunset which has happened, like a glowing light, you can say, that glow which has come up, so that glow we want over here, actually. So now we will wait for this to dry. Then we'll apply the second coat on this. You can see the brightness. It's already looking so bright and beautiful. Rotating again, my canvas, and this is how it is looking. So we will also apply the second coat once the first coat dries. 23. Alpine Twilight Background and Stars Addition: Welcome back. Let's start with the second layer of blocking. My first layer has completely dried. Now I will apply second layer first to the background, and then we'll do for the foreground. Make sure that your first layer is completely dry, then only apply the second coat. Otherwise, the colors will start sticking out and your background color will start coming out. So wait for it to dry, then only apply the second coat. Now in second coat, a similar color I'm using here, you can fix the colors if you feel that there is too much of this yellowish color, you can change it to a little bit of orange. So anything, whatever you feel like you can change it here. So first, I'm applying yellow then orange and just trying to blend these two colors, washing off again my brush, and then I'll take the colors, which is the white and pink color. And again, a little bit of this Prussian blue to make it a light purplish color. So just making the color a little light here you can see, I've just made a color a little more towards the reddish side. So reddish purplish, you can say. And then washing off my brush, removing excess of water, and just try to blend with your damp brush. Very with a very light and gentle hand. Try to blend the colors. So this is how you can blend the colors. So again, I will just move first above and taking again this darker color, which is the Prussian blue and black mix, and first, I will apply above one coat and just blending the colors and putting it in a half circle form. And as I will go down, I will take more blue, and again, I will cover this area, and I'll try to blend this color with this purple color. So this is how we have to do the blending or any color blocking. So this we have done in a half circle form. So like that, we have to do this blending. Moving the brush in half circles, taking my damp brush and just trying to blend the colors. Colors will only blend if your color is wet. If both the colors are wet, then only it will blend. Otherwise, it will not blend. So just keep in mind that whenever you are blending the colors, the colors will only blend if both the colors are wet. Just applying more of the starch, and after that, I will sprinkle some of the stars on the top, just using the same flat brush and also some stars to below also. But first, we will do the background of the below part also, then we will sprinkle the below stars. So let's first take white color. Wetting my brush, take liquid, white color. Don't take thick color. Otherwise, you will not be able to spray those sprinkles on top of it. You can use your flat brush. You can use your fan brush for spraying the sprinkling the above part with white. So just taking a nice white and little bit of purplish shade and making it a little wet. Just try to make it a little wet and then sprinkle it. Then whole sprinkle will come out very well. So taking my brush and just sprinkling it all over above the skies. So it will create very nice, small, small stars, as you can see over here. Actually, this type of sprinkle creates magic in the stars. It feels like there are real stars. So just sprinkle it all over on the lighter part, on the upper part, everywhere. And it's okay if some of the sprinkles are going in between here and there. That is perfectly fine. Don't worry about this. We will apply colors on the mountains. It will be gone. So don't worry about if it is coming on these mountain parts also. So you can see how beautiful this sky is looking. Now we will also do it on the lower part, but first we will do the blocking and the second layer blocking, and then we'll start with the sprinkling of the stars. But we'll not sprinkle too much too many stars on this reflection part. Little bit of stars we will show over here. So similar colors I'm using here also and just applying the same colors, just moving the brush in a half circle form and blocking it. You can see in this part, I have increased a little bit of orange part because I want to show it a bright yellow, orange color. That's why I have increased here the orange part. And just taking this light purplish shade color, which is more towards the bluish side and trying to blend this with the Prussian blue color. And as I will move above, it will be more Prussian blue and black mix. Since the reflection is very clear, so we don't have to make any, like, ripples or anything over here. So just applying the same colors and just sprinkle similar way like we did in the skies. Similar way, we will sprinkle it over here also. So just trying to blend the colors, making it more dark and more sharp and taking yellow and trying to blend again with this nice color, making it more orange. So just blending it, blending it till I feel satisfied that my blending has been done perfectly. So now the blending has been done. Now I will just add some more sprinkles over here like we did on the sky. Similar way, I will do for this part also, but not too many stars, only few we will add. Same technique and little bit of stars I will add here. So this is the whole background and foreground painting, and a little bit more stars I will add on the top. And now we will start doing the middle part which is there and the reflection part of the mountains. 24. Alpine Twilight Mountain Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start with the middle ground that is the mountain blocking. So here we will be using our round brush for blocking this entire thing. Let's start first using my rigor brush for creating the outlines, and then we'll start with the blocking. It will be easy for us to do the blocking of the mountains. Taking my rigor brush and making a color a little bit light, that is a mix of this Prussian blue and white mix. So you can see how light this color is. So there's much light color I have made. And then I will use this same color for creating the above the mountains which are above so whenever you use smaller size brush, it is easy to handle and you can, because this is the main part of the painting, so you have to make it very clear and crisp the lines and everything. So first, I'm just trying to make the lines, and then I'll start the blocking part. So you can see how I'm just trying to fill in the colors. First, making the lines. The lines are thick. It's not thin. It's fine because this is not the main line which we have to draw. It's just the reference line where we have to do the coloring and the blocking part. So the lines which I'm drawing over here. After that, I will do the blocking part, outlining these areas which are dividing this tree part, which is the tree range below and above are the mountains. Now you can see you can get the idea that above are the mountains and the rest of the areas are the tree lines. So just taking my round brush now and making the color a little lighter and trying to fill it up, try to make the color as light as possible. You can see it a little touch of purple is also there. It is not completely bluish in color. So try to add a little purplish touch also to it. Since I have taken my round brush, so it is easy for me to fill the colors fastly. Try to use a thick color. Don't mix any water in your color, and water should only be there on your brush. So blocking the above part, and then we will do the lower part, which is the tree line area. So let's do that as well. So you can see both the tree lines areas are a little bit darker. So first is a little bit more darker than the one which is the mountain. So you can see I'm just mixing the colors and making it a little dark bluish color, which has a black also in it and just adding some nice vertical lines to show that these are tree lines which are visible on the top, and then I'll start filling the same color inside. So this is how we create the tree lines when we are doing very far trees which are there, which are in a bunch. So like this we created, you can use any size round brush of size one or size two, but try to use a smaller size round brush, and then only that sharp lines will be created. Here you can also use your rigor brush for creating the above lines. But if you have round brush of smaller size, you can use the smaller size round brush also. Now you can see I've just made the lines and now I'm just filling it and first creating the above texture, and then I'm slowly filling the colors. So let me zoom in a little so that you can see it clearly how these lines are coming up. So you can see there are pointed lines which will show that there are some trees which are in the backside, and I'm just filling this with this dark bluish color. So you know how to make dark bluish, just mix little bit black and little bit white to make this type of color and little bit of Prussian blue. Now we will use the takest color for the lower horizon line tree line which is there, making black and just adding, again, the same textures like we did for the first tree line. So this is how we are going to create the entire tree lines over here, and similar manner, I will be doing for the lower part as well. So try drawing it slowly, create some big, some small lines so that to give a little variety of lines just to show that there are some bigger trees, some small trees. So just random, big, small sizes of the lines. And then I'll just block in this entire thing once I'm done with the textures above. All these smaller details takes time, so don't worry about that. Keep be patient and do it very slowly. It's not like you have to do it in one go. The entire painting, you can take breaks, and then you can complete this entire painting. So each and every painting is unique in their own way. So I have picked up such paintings that are a little bit different so that you can learn from them. You can learn the techniques. And when you are doing some other paintings, you will not face any difficulties because you will learn so many techniques over here. So this is the fourth painting which we are doing, and I'm just enjoying how the whole process of the entire painting. So just follow the process and just do it like that if you're not sure what to do. Each and every step is crisp and clear. If you don't know if you don't understand any color mixing part, you can always ask me. You can always DM on my Instagram. That is Moheni Art Gallery. So I'm always ready to help filling this middle ground part which is there, and then we will do the part which is below also. So you can see already this painting is looking so beautiful and so vibrant because I really loved the entire sky part. So we almost done with the upper part. The lower part is left. 25. Alpine Twilight Mountain Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the mountain details. So you can see my colors have dried. Now I will just add the details of the mountains with a little darker color that is the Prussian blue and a little bit of black mix and a little bit of white just to tone down a little bit. But it will be a dark color. It should not be a very light color. Otherwise, those details will not be visible. So taking my rigor brush and making a color little fluid, and I'll start creating some textures with my rigor brush, creating the lines and a little bit lines of the textures here and there. So were lots of textures, some were less textures. So like that, I will try to fill in the whole mountain part, leaving some white areas also. I will not cover each and every area with these textures. I'll just try to give a little shape to it. So let me zoom in a little bit so that you can see it more clearly. So you can see little vertical textures. I'm just applying in some diagonals, so to create the shape of the mountains because there is a mountain range which there are four to five mountains which are overlapping each other as you can see. So you can see I'm just adding some textures here and there, leaving the gaps of white also. That is the light color which is there. So these are the textures, and I'm also trying to give the shape of the mountains. So according to the shape, I am adding the textures as you can see. So very small, small lines are these and also adding the shapes. So this is how we do the outlining. We don't have to do it in particular, but by creating all these shapes, you will see the outlines on its own. So we'll not draw a outline of it. So you can see just creating shapes, and I'm trying to draw these outlines and everything. So make sure your color is not very thick, otherwise you will not be able to create these textures. Try to make a color a little fluid when you are drawing all these textures with your rigor brush. Use rigor brush or liner brush of size zero or two by zero to create all these type of textures. So as the mountain is, the slopes are there, similarly, the textures are also moving like that. So I'm just trying to create the textures also in a similar way, just like slanting lines. So this is how we add the textures in the mountains so that it looks like snowy also, and it looks like there are some trees or some black rocks which are there. So slowly, slowly, I'm just covering each and every mountain with a similar texture a little less textures to the side mountains because I want it to be more snowy. So you can see how beautiful it is looking when these textures are added. Now we will add a little bit of white textures also in between, just to add some snow effect. So you don't have to cover each and every white space. You can leave a little bit of these light bluish space and cover a little bit of areas with the white textures. So to it very slowly, take your time and try to add these textures. So we are almost done with the upper part of the mountains. Now we will add some trees and then we'll do the lower part. Little bit of white textures, I'm adding to this part also just to show that there are some snow in the tree line area as well. So this is completely optional. You can leave it and just some more tree lines we will add here in the sides, just to the sides and then we are done with the upper part of the middle ground. Just taking the black color and drawing some tree to the sides. So pine trees. 26. Alpine Twilight Reflection Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further. So first, we will add the background trees which are there, and then I'll start creating and blocking the reflection which is there, two to three trees I will add just to show that there are some trees which are big and tall and visible. So similar pine trees I will just add here and there, and rest of the trees, I will just keep it like pointed lines which are there. So no need to show all the trees, just the side trees we can show, and just small pine trees which are there. Similar pine trees like we did in our previous paintings as well. So similar pine trees I'm adding here also. And then we'll start with the blocking of the lower part with a similar color, a little bit more darker mountains because this is a reflection, so we'll not make it very sharp, but, yes, we will block in in the similar manner. First, I'm just taking the mountain color which was there and creating a line in between with my round brush and also adding area which is the land area, a small land area which is there where these trees are just a small land area. So this is a small area where there is a snow covered land is there. Try to use the light bluish color and fill the area here. And then after that, we will draw and create the textures. Now we will start blocking the lower reflection part, which is there. You can rotate your canvas towards your side so that it will be easy for you to paint. So I'm just rotating it, and I'll start first with the mountains and then the tree lines. So we'll first block in everything. Taking similar colors, I will start first with the black color which is there, which is the area. This is the mountain area. I'm just outlining it. I will not do it in a very crisp manner like I did in the upper part. It will be a reflection, so it will be like that, very hazy lines will be visible, so it will not be very clear the textures. So like that, I will try to paint the above part. So just adding the similar colors which we did in the upper part a little darker than the one which we have applied in the above part. So you can see just I'm applying it. And after that, the part which is the tree line, I'll just make it dark, just black. I will not make that bluish color. I'll just completely add the blackish color just to show that these all are looking like a black color. So taking my round brush and just creating the entire area, which is the tree line area and just covering it with this round brush. Same way we have to do like we did in the upper part. Try to take thick colors and cover this area so that in one go this blocking is done, you don't have to repeat the second code. If you will take thick colors, in one go, that whole part will be done. Covering the entire area with black. So if you will follow each and every process of mine, I'm sure you will be able to do this painting. So try to follow each and every step and do it very slowly, very patiently. Don't be in a hurry to paint it in one go the paintings because these paintings will take time and if you want to do it like neatly, so give time, you can take a week also to complete this painting. It's completely fine, but try to not do it in a hurry. When you do such type of paintings, it not only create the patient's level also because it develops actually the patient's level in you when you do these types of painting, especially the detailed one because it requires a lot of patience and a lot of time and dedications, everything and a lot of discipline as well to create such paintings. So all these, if you will do it regularly, you will develop all these habits like the patients and the discipline, everything. So try to do it very patiently. Take your time, take breaks, take tea breaks, and I'm sure you will love doing this. When I started painting, I also was not aware of what is the patient's level needed. So I used to get very distracted when the painting takes a lot of time and I used to do it in a hurry. But slowly, slowly, when I practiced it, when I did daily, then slowly, slowly, I came to know that yes, it not only develops your patient's level, but also the discipline. So try to do it slowly, carefully. So you can see the whole blackish line I have done. Now I will do the area which is the mountain area, the details. I will not do exactly the details which I have done above. Just some lines here and there, I will add just to show that there are some textures. Now here, you can see I'm not using the detailer brush, which is a rigor brush. I'm just using my round brush and trying to create the textures here and there. We don't want very clear textures, some thick lines here and there. You can just add just to create the texture which is there on the top. And then we'll add some lines of water so that it will look like these are the water reflections which are there and which are very hazy lines. They are not clear. So that's why I'm not creating any very clear lines you can see over here. So we're almost done with the reflections also. Now we will add some more details of the center line, which is the horizon line and some lines to the water part also. 27. Alpine Twilight Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the final details. So let's add some more details to the middle ground which is there, which is the part which is the snow part. So we'll add some more details over there. So taking my flat brush and just adding one more line over there with this flat brush. And same color I'm using here and giving little textures above just to show that there is a snow area which is there. And again, taking some pinkish color and a little bit of white, and just adding one more line below, just to add some more lighter details, some pinkish details over there. After that, using my brush, which is the rigor brush, I will start creating some more details over there, adding some shapes, which is this area that is the land area, some shapes, giving some shapes like we did in our previous painting, just a little shapes to it, just to show that there is snow which is there. Adding some snowy textures and the lines, I'm just extending a little bit down so that it will look like there are the trees which are there, also the lines which are there, the tree trunks, adding some snow with white color, just some snow below, just to show that there is a reflection which is being formed because of this land area. So very small details which will make your painting look more beautiful and more realistic. Just adding some more details, which is the reflection of this land area, just adding some reflections below, keeping the black line in the center. These are very small details which try to do it very carefully and very slowly. So you can see the reflection is being formed of this land area also, which is below. So this is how we all can create the reflections. Now I'm just adding one more layer of black because I feel that a little bit of areas are less, not very thick. So just adding a simple black color over there. And now we will add some lines to the water as well, some watery lines which are there. So using my rigor brush that I will create some lines. Just taking some thin color of white. Don't take thick color and try to create very thin lines using the tip of your brush. Try to create as thin as possible. Just to show the water effect of area which is here, also adds some on the top of this mountain part, which is the reflection of the mountain. So now you can see how this water is looking a little bit more realistic. So this is how we have to add waters on top of these mountains. And this is it. No no need to go down just above, we will add. That's it. And we will add some milky ways on the top, also. So just taking my Brush, which is the blender brush, I will add some textures, some very thin textures. So this is completely a damp brush, it is wet, but water is removed. And just taking this yellow and white mix, I'll try to add some nice textures like foggy textures on the top, just to create milky way. So first, doing with yellow color, do it with very light pressure. And if you don't have this blender brush, use your round brush and dry damp round brush and then create these textures. Don't use very thick colors. Otherwise, because you can see how transparent this color is, the transparency of the color you can see over here, you can see the back portion also, make your color very transparent and it's not thin. Remove extra colors and just try to rotate the brush in circles, the damp brush, and then you will be able to create these type of textures. If you are facing difficulties in creating this, you can leave this texture form and you can just leave the painting like this. Then also it will look very beautiful. This is the extra part which I have added over here, but it is completely your choice if you want to add it or not. Again, I'm adding white a little bit, just to make it more look like some effect and then a little bit more round textures. These are just like clouds, or you can see they are very small, small, tiny, tiny stars which are there. So just like that we have to create. So don't worry if you're not able to do this and if you don't want to do this, you can leave this part and you can leave the painting like this because like this also this painting is looking very beautiful. Adding some more round textures. Now, this time I'm adding it with my round brush, you can use your round brush also for creating such textures. Just adding some nice textures on this part. So if you're trying this painting, do tag me on my Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery. I will love to see your project work and reshare it. Taking some more white and just spraying it again on the top, I will cover this area which is the below area, and then I will sprinkle it because I don't want the sprinkle to fall on this area which we have done. So just covering that area and make sure that part has dried, then only cover it. Otherwise, everything will turn out to be a bad. So make sure that your painting is dry, then only sprinkle these white sprays on everywhere. The more and more stars you will create the more beautiful it will look because it is like a twilight where there are lots of stars there. So you can see this it is filled with stars. You can also create some shooting stars there. That also will look very nice. So again, with my fan brush, just adding some more textures of white. Take less less color when you are adding such details. Don't take too much colors. Otherwise, you will end up creating thick patches. So take very less color and then only create this milky way. So this is it. So this is a complete painting, and I hope you liked it as I did, and then we'll meet in our next painting. 28. Midnight Pines: Welcome back. Let's start with our first painting that is Midnight Pines. So let's talk about the colors first, which we will be using here. So the first color is Prussian blue with a mix of a little bit of white to it. Just to tone down the color a bit, we have used this white. So this is the first color. The second color is the mix of Prussian blue, a little more white, and this rose color. So mixing all these colors to make a nice purplish, bluish color. So you can see the second color, a bit lighter than the first one. Then the third one is pink and white mix. The rose, this is a nice rose color, which is a little towards the pinkish side. Instead of this rose color, if you don't have it, you can use Alzarin also crimson. Just mixed a little more of this cadmium yellow, and you can see a nice orange color which is formed. It's more towards the pinkish orange side. So now let's talk about the snow part which we will be using mixing this rose color, Prussian blue and more white because we want the snow color to be lighter, much lighter than the background color. So this will be the background of the snow part. So all these colors we will be using for the painting. So let's see how we have to blend the colors. So the first color is the darker color, which we will be using. So let's first mix that color and start Again, flat brush we will be using here also. So first color is the darker color which I've applied over here. Then comes the lighter color, which is a little lighter version of blue. So that I haven't shown over here, but it is a lighter version of blue, and just trying to blend this lighter color with the darker color. Then as I will go down a little bit of this rose color, I will try to add to this blue to make it a little purplish, and after applying, blend the colors and then move down, then comes the pink color. So wash off your brush nicely before taking pink. The pink is white mix, the same color rose color with a mix of white, and just applying it down and trying to mix the color with that bluish purplish color. Then comes the orange color. So you can see a little bit of blue has come up. So try to wash off your brush nicely before using any yellow color. Otherwise, yellow will turn into green when it reacts with blue. So this is how the blending will be done. So let's start with the main painting, which we will be doing it on the canvas. Simple same canvas I will be using here also. Same five is to seven inch canvas it is, and it is a canvas wood, which I have already primed, as you can see, it's a nice canvas board which I'm using here. So let's first do a rough sketch, and then we'll start with the painting. A little rough sketch of first with the foreground, where a little below from the horizon line, I have started. So either you can put it in the center or you can put it a little below. So just adding some nice lines, both the sides, just to add here the area, which will be the foreground part, and rest of the above area will be the where the trees will be. So this is the pathway, something like that, and then rest trees we will be adding directly by using the colors. So this much drawing is needed over here, not too much. So let's start with the painting first. So I've just taken out all the colors as you can see. These are the colors which we will be using white, Prussian blue, this rose color, cadmium yellow and black. So let's start first with the background. So for the background, first, I will mix the colors, and I will be using flat brush. Take bigger size flat brush because we have to do the blocking of the background. So let's start with the blocking of the background first. Try to use bigger size flat brush for blocking, and I've just wet my brush, and I will first pick the color, which is the Prussian blue. If you don't have Prussian blue, you can use any blue and just add black to it so that the colors become a little darker. So this is the image of my painting, which we will be doing, starting from the darker color. And as we go down, it turns out to be more pinkish and orangy color. So let's start first with the background. It's fine if in the first background, the colors are not smooth. Brush marks are there, that is completely fine. I'm just focusing about the blocking of the colors. That's it. Even if you are not doing the blending properly, that is perfectly fine. We'll do the blending the second goat. But if your color is wet, you can do the blending. You can see I haven't mixed any water in these colors. So use directly the color. Water should only be there on your brush. That's it. That much amount of water is only required when we are doing acrylic painting. So just trying to take more of this dark color and trying to blend with this lighter color. Sometimes with damp brush, also, you can just do the blending if it doesn't look proper. So just taking white, this rose color, and a little bit of this Prussian blue and mixing it to make a light color. So just enjoy the process of color mixing. Here, you will learn lots of color mixing things because I try to mix the colors and make so that you guys also learn the color mixing part. So you can see it comes out to be a little purplish color. So I'm just trying to first blocken it up. Then using this direct rose color and I'm applying it over here, you can add white also if we don't want very dark color. So just taking again white and this rose color. Then again, applying it on top of it and trying to blend the colors with the purplish color. That is the purplish blue color. After that, I will add a little bit of yellowish texture, yellowish color also in this, not too much yellow, a little bit of yellow to make it a nice orangy pinkish color and just applying it and filling the rest of the areas which are in the sides. So just trying to fill leaving the foreground, I'm just trying to fill the rest of the areas. It's okay if little bit colors go inside the line because when we will be coloring the foreground, this will be gone. So don't worry about that if little bit colors go inside this pathway also. So this is the first coat which we are doing. We will do second coat once the first coat dries. So the first upper part is done. Now we will do the lower part which is there. So for the lower part, we will be using a little bluish light color. As you can see, I'm adding more white to this color and a little bit more of blue. It should be more towards bluish. So just making it a little more towards the bluish side and just filling it with this color. It's completely fine if there are brush marks on this foreground because we will be adding details, so brush marks doesn't matter over here. Adding a little light color in the middle part and a little darker color to the sides. If you're facing difficulty directly doing the with flat brush, you can use round brush also for filling this foreground area. So just fill it nicely using thick colour and just adding this whole area with a nice bluish texture. So finally, a blocking is almost done just making this center part a little more light just by adding white so that it is properly visible. And this is done. After that, we'll start with the second coat, which is the second background coloring. So this is almost done. So we'll wait for this to dry. 29. Midnight Pines Second Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start with the second blocking. So first part has dried completely, as I can touch and it has completely dried. It should not be wet if you're using for the second coat. It should completely dry. Now we'll use the same colors for blending it again. But this time we will try to blend it as much as possible. So using the same colors, first, the Priscian blue makes a nice color and just adding on the top first. Now, this time, I haven't added any white to it. I'm directly using Prussian blue because I want a little darker color. So you can fix the colors also when you are using this. Now again, I'm making it the second color and just blending it with the darker color. Just push don't push it too much the lighter color that the entire dark color becomes light. Try to blend where the lines two lines meet. Then comes the third color, which is this mix of this rose and little bit of this purplish color. So just adding it on just below this blue color and trying to blend this with the blue color. So this is how you have to go on blending. Try to make sure that there are no proper lines visible. You have to just keep in mind that there are no sharp lines. A should be a blurry line, especially the two colors which are like, suppose here, I'm just adding this pink color, and I will just try to blend the colors with the upper color so that the lines are blurry. So this is how blending is done. Now I will take this yellow pink mix and a little bit of white to make it a nice pinkish orange color and just try to blend this with the pink color. So I've kept this orange color more so that when we will create the trees, this will not be visible too much. So that's why it has more parts and less part is blue. So as you can see the picture when we will create the trees, this color will be gone. So that's why I have created more this part. So the first part, we have done the blending. Now we will do the lower part, and first, we will spray here, sprinkle some stars on the top, and then we'll start with the lower part. So just take any brush, you can use your fan brush. You can use your flat brush, any brush, whichever brush you have you can use and just sprinkle some white and this nice light color on the top, make it watery and then sprinkle it. So sprinkling this color all over the upper part. You can use any brush. You can use this flat brush. You can use the fan brush for sprinkling these tiny stars, and it looks very beautiful. So you can see I'm spreading it all over the sky. Like we did in our previous painting, also, we have created so many stars in there. Similar manner here also, I'm just trying to do it. So let's start creating the upper milky way which is there with my round brush. I'm just mixing this rose and just pinkish color, very light pinkish color. And using my round brush, I'll just try to create some round circular textures. Now this is another way of creating the milky way. This also looks very beautiful. So just adding some nice round it's a very thin color. It's not very thick color. My brush is also damp, it is not completely wet. And I'm just moving in in circulars and creating this texture. Make sure that your background has dried again whenever you are creating this pattern. And after that, again, I will sprinkle some more stars on top of it, just to look more dense, adding some round circular textures. So this is how we create a milky way. This is another form that was another form of creating, which we did in our previous painting. So different different ways are there to create these textures. Now I'm using this blender brush and just making again some more circular shapes. Try to make it a little translucent color. Don't make it a very thick color. So just adding some more circular textures, and also I will add some more stars on top of it. Now I will use this fan brush, and again, white and this rose color mix and just adding some more textures into the same pattern as I have created the lines. So just creating some very now here textures, which I'm creating with fan brush, it's completely dry. It's completely dry brush. So directly grab the color and try to create these textures. Don't use any water over here when you are creating the textures. So now, again, I will add some more stars, taking some pinkish color and making it watery, and I'll just sprinkle these everywhere, mostly in the middle part and where there are milky ways, so I want to make it a little dense over here. So this is how you can create some nice, beautiful stars all over. This process is so satisfying that whenever you will create this pattern, these stars, your painting will look amazing. So in two paintings, I have created these stars, as you can see, and they are looking so beautiful now the sky, especially. And yes. So now we will start with the trees here. First, we will be creating the shapes of the trees with black color, and then we'll start with the detailing of the snow. So this is how we are going to do the tree parts. So the lower part, a little bit of the sparkles have come up, but don't worry about that. We will be doing the layers over here also. So all these things will be gone. That's why I have created the stars first and then we will create the trees and then the background. So let's first add the trees. So taking my rigor brush, starting from the center, as you can see, the center part has the smaller trees and the side parts have the bigger trees. It means the center part is very far and the side parts are little close. So likewise, we will be creating all these pine trees. So there are a number of pine trees we will create over here, so enjoy this process of creating the pine trees because once you practice so many pine trees, I'm sure you will be able to do pine trees like in such a easy manner because we are doing here so many pine trees. All requires practice. The more you will practice, the more neatness in the painting comes up. So first, you can see I'm just creating the lines and then we'll create the textures. The smaller lines in the center, and as I'm going towards the foreground towards my side, it is increasing. The size of the trees are increasing. So just creating first the lines. I haven't created any thick lines or anything. Am focusing about the lines where I will make all these trees. So just taking the rigor brush and try to create first the lines. Now, just the lower part of the pine tree, I'm adding the details. Now this is another form of creating the trees, adding the lower part first, and then we will do the upper part with our rigor brush. So this brush which I'm using over here is the round brush. So same techniques I will be using for the rest of the trees, the below half part you have to create with your round brush. Make your color a little fluid so that you can easily move the brushes. Don't use very thick color when you are creating such textures. Some of the trees will be overlapping, so don't worry about that. It's perfectly fine. We want some trees to be overlapping each other. So like this, we have to move and create all the trees. So I will just speed up a process a little bit so that a you can get it. So this is how we have to do the entire trees, whether it is big or small, the lower part. Just try to do it slowly and take your time to complete this entire tree part, the below part you have to do, leaving the above part because above part requires more detailing. So we will be using rigor brush for that for creating the details and some nice tree textures. And after that, we will do the upper part. So you can see already the background is looking so vibrant and beautiful. It's just the time when the midnight happens. So this is how we have to do the entire tree structure. It's full of trees, full of pine trees. So as you can see, just adding more of the lines. Now, this is the biggest tree, so I'm making a bigger lines. As you go down, the line size also increases. These are all slanting lines, as you can see, and just applying it and filling the colors. So just enjoy and fill the entire thing. The biggest tree is this one and the other side one. Rest all the trees are mostly smaller in size. So just filling it, and this is done. Now we will do the upper part of the tree, which is with the rigor brush. 30. Midnight Pines Adding Trees: Welcome back. Let's start with the trees detailing. So same rigor brush and make your color a little thin when you are adding details and starting from the corner trees, just taking a little bit more longer line and make your color a little fluid, then only the textures will be formed and adding the textures and going in the downward directions. So same technique I'm using like we did in the previous tree structure. So very simple and easy technique it is to draw the trees just with toads and textures. And as you go down the size of these leaves will increase. So this is how we have to make all these tree lines. So let me zoom in a little so that you can see it clearly. So you can see how I'm adding the textures, some dots and some random textures, and I'm increasing the lines in a slanting way, as you can see over here. So when we create these type of textures, the trees look more realistic. So just adding the textures and making the size a little bit more bigger as I am going down. So make sure that your color is fluid. Try not to use very thick color. Otherwise, you will not be able to create such textures. So you can see how beautiful that upper part is looking when you are creating the textures. And as I'm going down, I'm also increasing the size of the lines. That is the slanting lines which are there and filling the gaps in between as well so that it looks a little bit more dense. And a little bit more textures I'm adding below also where we have created these lines with the round brush just to make it more smooth and, like in uniform. Just adding some more lines and textures to the sides. So this is how we add the trees and the lines and the tree textures of the trees. I will just increase the length of the lower part a little bit more so that it looks more uniform. In the similar manner, we will be doing the rest of the trees also. So just adding some textures to the side parts so that it looks like a nice leafy texture. So a little bit more I'm adding to the sides. So this way, one tree is created. Similar way, we have to do the rest of the trees here. So you can see there is a lot of practice and a lot of repetition thing you have to do it over here. So try to do it very patiently and very calmly because when there is a repetition, we want to finish the things very fastly and we end up messing up the painting. So try to do it very slowly, take breaks if you feel that it is getting a little bit more u repetitive and then start doing it. Taking breaks is perfectly fine. You don't have to paint in one go. You can always take breaks in between whenever you feel like, never try to complete the painting in one go, especially these type of painting when you are doing. So when you do all these types of painting, a lot of patience and discipline is developed when you do these types of painting. Like, I have developed a lot, like I can feel it. So similar way, you can also do it, have patience and do it very slowly. Put some music on or something, and then you can just paint it as I'm doing it. Just don't think that you are a beginner and you're not able to do it. You can see the painting and it's very tough. Don't think like that. If you will follow each and every process of mine, I'm sure you will be able to do this type of painting. So just add these textures. And if you're still not able to do these trees, check out my class which is there, that is for Absolute bigners. Check out that class. There's a separate lesson where I have taught this type of tree textures. Three to four types of pine trees I have taught there, so you can try out that. So just adding the trees one by one and you can see how beautiful these are coming up. And when we will add snow, it will look like more beautiful after adding the snows. So just try to do it slowly, especially the smaller trees. You have to do it very slowly and very carefully because these trees are very small in sizes and try to do it as slowly and patiently as possible. And make sure that your color is not very thick. It should be a thin color. Otherwise, again, these textures will not come up, like, very fine. So try to use not very thin, but yes, milky color. So just adding, again, the trees. You can extend the lines if you want a little bit to make some big and some small sizes trees so that every size doesn't look like the same size. So you can extend the lines also. So this whole series is a complete set of winter painting. So I have tried to cover each and every part of the winter painting. You will see in the next two classes also when we'll do the next two paintings. So those are also quite different and you will see it. So just do it slowly and take your time, take your own time. It's not like what I have done with my speed, you have to do with your own speed. Everyone has their own way and own speed of doing it. So take your time. Since it is a video, you can pause it, you can rewind it, anything you can do it. So it's totally up to you how you watch the videos. Video is always there. You can pause it and then complete it and then start it again. So this is how you have to do the tree parts. So once we are done with the trees, we will be adding the snow part. You can see I'm adding small small trees in between also where I feel that there is a gap. I think in between these two trees also there is a gap. I can add one more over here. So one more tree I will be adding over here. But first, I will do the upper tree, which I'll not show full trees, only you can show half of it. And just small textures of this leaves, I'll just add. So just one more tree is left, that is the bigger one, and then we are done with the tree part. After that, once this black paint dries, then we will add the snow. Now, these acrylic colors dry very fast if you live in a humid or hot area. Even if it is winter or something, still the colors dry, I think, within three to 5 minutes, so you don't have to wait too much for the colors to be to dry. So it dries quite fastly. So yes. So by the time I will do all the trees, the other trees will be dried. So I don't have to wait much time over here. So the last tree which is left, which I will do it similar way, like I did the other trees also, just extending a little bit more taller, just starting from the above and ending towards the lower part. So same way I'm repeating the process and just adding the trees like I leaves like I did for the other trees. So I hope you are enjoying the series because each and every painting has uniqueness in them. So each and every painting adds so much beauty. You can see so much beauty in the nature, which is still there. And I'm just doing it through the painting, and I'm still enjoying it. And I'm just feeling like I am there. So, yes, so beautiful landscapes are these very magical. And this is it. So we're almost done with the tree part. Now we will do the snow part. 31. Midnight Pines Snow Details: Welcome back. Snow, let's start with the snow details on the trees. So I've taken a fresh colors and because all the colors were mixed up, so I've just taken a fresh color over here as you can see, all the colors which we were using previously same colors except the cadmium yellow because we don't need cadmium yellow now. So now let's start with the um mixing of colors for the snow and then we'll start with the painting. So I'm just taking this nice rose color, then this Prussian blue and white mix because you have to create snow, so the color should be very light. And so this is the color which will be there, and starting from the top, I'll start creating some textures, making it a little fluid, the color and starting from the top part of the tree, and we'll start creating the textures. So try to make it fluid and take very little colors when you are creating the textures because all these textures take lot of time. So starting from the Top part, add these textures on top part of the black portion. Don't completely fill the black portion. Otherwise, everything will look messed up. So try to use just on the top part, the colors, on the top part and leaving a little black below so that it will give a little depth to it and just adding some lines in the center to give there are some snows in the center part also and just adding some more textures. So like this, we have to create the textures. So try to do it as slowly as possible because all these steps take a lot of time and try not to fill the entire black portion. Just on top of it, you have to add these colors. And one side I have just added, and here also in the below part, I'm giving the little shape to it of the snowy texture as I'm going down, adding lines and creating some nice shapes of the leaves on this black portion. Adding some in the center, some at the sides. So like this, you have to fill this whole tree part. So just do it as slowly as possible. It's a little time consuming, but the results are very beautiful. So just try to cover the whole area above also slowly. Just cover the above part. Don't cover the entire black sections. There should be black visible. You don't have to cover the entire black section. Then only it will give a little edge and outline to the snowy part. Below part, you can add the details with this same color because already we have filled this with black, so you can add the textures of the leaves using this lighter color. When we use this type of technique, it actually adds the reality. The tree looks a little real when you will add these details. So in acrylic, every time whenever we do any painting, we try to add the darker color first and then the lighter colors on top of it when we do the layering part. So this is how we do the laying of the snow or anything wherever you want to keep the snow first, the darker color and then on top of it, the lighter color goes. So slowly, slowly, I'm just following the process and I'm trying to build the tree textures. So in the similar manner, you have to create the rest of the trees as well. So this is the biggest one which I have done first. And similarly, we will be doing the rest of the things. So again, it is a very time consuming process. Take your time and do it very slowly because this is the main thing which will add beauty to your tree part. So do it very slowly and very carefully. Don't fill the complete black portion, leave the black portion and just try to add these textures just on top of it. Just to show that there is a snow is falling on top. You can see how much color I'm picking up, very little color I'm picking up and the color is fluids. That's why it is not getting very thick textures. Try to use a little fluid color and create the shapes, and I'm sure you will be able to do it. Once we are done with this, then we'll go with the foreground part. Do it slowly and create the textures all over with a similar color. Now, one thing you have to keep in mind that whenever you are using the fluid colors, sometimes your brush becomes sticky after doing so much of trees, so many trees. So wash off your brush if you feel that your brush is not coming up where it is becoming sticky, then try to wash it off and then again, use the colors because these acrylic colors dry also on the brushes, sometimes when you're using it for a longer period of time. So try to wash it off often and then again, take a fresh color and then use it. Play some music and do this beautiful texture technique, and you will see the magic which will happen after you are done with this texture part. You can see almost I'm done with this texture part. For most of the trees, two more is left, and then we are done with the tree texture part. So do it slowly carefully one by one, taking one leaf at a time and try to create the textures. Same thing we have to do for the last tree as well, and then we are done with the trees and the background, and just the foreground will be left. So just the last tree is left and then we are done with it. So you can see how much color I have taken here when I'm doing this painting. Very less color you need when you do such type of details. You don't need too much of color. So whenever you are doing these type of details, don't take too much color and fill your brush with colors. Take little little color and create the textures and use rigor brush because Riga brush holds a lot of color when you are doing such type of textures. So do it slowly and patiently and we're almost done with the tree part. Just a few details are left. So just almost done, and now we will start with the foreground. 32. Midnight Pines Foreground Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the first, the more textures on the tree and then we'll do the foreground details. So I'm just taking white color, thick white color, and I'll try to add some more white on top of these light color. So a little bit of white textures, which will add more depth to the snow. So a little little white, I'm just adding here and there, not everywhere I'm putting it, little little here and there. I'm just trying to put it on these trees. So try to take thick color and add some textures Don't cover the entire thing of the light color just here and there. We need to add these white color just to add more depth to the snow part. Similar manner, I will be doing the other trees as well. So little textures here and there. So you can see I've not covered the entire things. Only here and there, I'm trying to add these white textures. So try to add these white textures, use your brush. Don't use very watery brush and just adding some textures using thick color of white. You can see the difference in the trees, the first tree which I have not done and the last tree which I have already done it adds a little more depth to that snow part. So small, small textures in these smaller trees also so once we are done with this, we are finally done with the tree part, and then we'll do the foreground part. So little small, small textures using your rigor brush. Always use your rigor brush for these type of textures, rigor or liner brush or size zero round brush. Try not to use bigger size brushes for creating the details. So here and there, just adding some white textures. Just adding some I'm literally shaking my hand so that it gives a nice texture details to this area. Sometimes the shaky hands creates a very beautiful textures of the snow. Slowly, slowly just moving it in the upward direction. So it's actually very cold here, and my hand is also freezing. So just adding some textures above and then we are almost done with it. After that, we will add the foreground part which is there in the below. So a little bit of foreground details we will be adding. So just taking this color and mixing blue colour and this rose color. And taking a little darker color than the one which I have created and adding some textures first in the sides of this path. This is actually a pathway which is being formed. I'm just trying to create some textures on both the sides of this pathway. Just taking some nice darker color than the base color, it should be. Just adding textures to the sides and similarly to the other side also. Just adding first this outline with white and then I will start adding these textures. Just adding the shape first, and then I will start creating the textures, the similar manner like I did the other one. Here also I'm adding some white lines, some shaky lines which are there. Not very smooth lines are these. So just have added both the sides and also I will add these textures. So taking again this brush, which is the smaller size flat brush and mixing black, blue and white and a little bit of this rose color and adding some textures in the center. In the center some textures, just some random textures with my brush. I'm using a dry brush, not a wet brush. So try using a dry brush without any water. Then only these textures will come up. Try not to use a very watery brush. It should be a dry brush for creating some nice dry textures. So once we are done with this middle part, then we'll add some details to the sides as well just to give a little more depth, and there are some shadows also. Just using my fan brush, mixing the color lighter color and adding some textures to the sides. Just to show some snowy effect and taking some more color. Try to use again here dry brush. Don't make it wet, completely dry brush and just adding some textures in between, making the color a little bit more lighter and adding some more textures in this part. The color should be lighter than your color which you have used for the background. It should not be very dark. Otherwise, that texture will not be visible. So you can see, I've taken first this pink and white, and then again, I'm adding this texture, giving a little pathway to this area, adding some more textures here and there in the center to give a more textary look to this path. So this is now taking the rigor brush and just mixing the colors, similar colors and just adding some lines to the sides. Just taking more of this black little bit because I want a little darker color. So just adding to the sides just to give a nice edge to this pathway. Now again, I will take this lighter color, and I'll just create again the lines to the outside because my outside line is not visible much, so I'm just outlining it again. Similarly, I will do the other side also, just make it a little more vibrant and more prominent the lines and just make it shaky. It should not be a very straight line. So try to make it as shaky as possible. Sometimes these effects make your painting look more realistic. So you can see the middle part is done. Now again, I'm taking this smaller size brush, which is the flat brush and covering the side parts with a lighter color. Just taking a nice thin color and just trying to blend with the other color. Sometimes you don't need the blend to be done with a even if your color is dry, you're using thin color. I will automatically blend with the background color. So try to use thin color over here, not thick color. You are actually doing the glazing thing over here. Glazing means the background is still visible and we are applying a thin layer on top of it. So it's like that. Just applying some more colors of this here and there, just to add a depth to this whole thing. So you can see already this area is looking quite beautiful. We'll add more details to it also. 33. Midnight Pines Final Details: Welcome back to the final details. Let's start now with further details of this foreground. Just mixing some nice snowy colors and adding some nice textures in between. Just make the color a little bit more darker than the one which you have used. Just adding some more layers on top of it, just to give more textures and more lines which are there in the snow part. So this is actually the pathway which has been created in the snow. It's like that. So just adding some textures here and there with my round brush. Take a smaller size round brush of size one or two to create these textures and just adding some nice edge to the sides. I have not drawn the edge to the other side because other side is not visible and the other side is visible. That's why I have added just one side, the edges. Just shake your hand and try to draw these lines, the shaky lines, not very smooth lines. After that, we will add some more details, some shadows and more details to the center part. Similar manner, like we added the darker textures, I'm adding some lighter textures, mixing this white and this rose color. A little bit of the textures, very small small textures I'm adding just to make it more vibrant and more clear. All these small, small details will add more beauty to your entire painting. So the center part is Adan will add some more shadows with my flat brush, just taking some nice dark color and just adding some shadow details over here. Taking some nice shadow textures using my flat brush, some lines for the trees which are there just to show the shadow part. So not too much details on these shadow el doul just a little bit and little bit of grasses also we'll add here and there, just to make more depth to this painting, just to make it more attractive. Now, this grass pad you can skip and you can leave it like this. And if you want to draw some grasses, please go ahead and draw some grasses, taking some thin colors. Just taking my black color and drawing some grasses here and there. So if you're trying out this painting to tag me on my Instagram, I will reshare your artwork on Mohini Art Gallery. So just some grasses here and there. I'm trying to add you can also add some stones, some rocks. It's totally your painting, how you want to decorate it, how you want to add these textures. It's totally up to you. You can also add some small, small stones here and there, just to show that there are some small stones as well. It's totally your choice, how you want to add the textures. You can completely leave the grasses and leave it like this. That is also perfectly fine. So the more since it is your painting, and I have given you techniques and you can create in your own way. So this is how it goes. So just adding some more lighter color to this where I have created these grasses, just some light colors. And here and there. So we are almost done with this painting, just a few more details, and we are good to go. Adding some more textures, mixing lighter textures to the center part, which is the road pathway which I've created with my fan brush just to make this edge more clear. So these are all parts which are done in the end and when you feel that something is missing, so this is a never ending task, as I said earlier also. So the more and more you will add details, the more you will feel, okay, this is missing, this is missing. So you have to keep it at some point, end that task, that, Okay, this is done. So finally, I'm almost done with this painting. And if you are liking this, please do try it out. I would love to see your project works because it is a very beautiful and very vibrant painting, and I really loved doing this entire painting, especially this entire painting series, which we are doing. So this is our painting, which is one of them. And it has come up really well. I'm really happy with the whole outcome that how it has come up. Just adding a little bit more lines, lighter lines to the edge to give a little more depth to it. Just adding some nice dark lines again to this depth part. So I hope you are enjoying this series of painting. So there is two more to go, and then we are done with this whole whispers of winter painting. So this is it, and I hope you enjoyed it. And a little bit of here and there, textures will always be there. So a little bit of textures I'm adding in the center to make it more white and more clear. Just some with my rigor brush, and this is it. So do share your project works. I will love to see them, and we'll meet in our next class, which is a different entirely different painting, and I'm sure you will love that, too, because I really liked that one, too. So see you in the next class. 34. Silent Blue Winter: Welcome back. Let's start with a new painting that is Silent Blue Winter. Let's first do a little bit of drawing and then we'll start with the painting. So taking my pencil and we'll start first with the drawing of the foreground, that how we will divide the background and foreground. So starting from the centers oppose, this is the center line a little above little below and then just a pathway. Just a nice pathway because this is a water part and the other part is the land part. So this area will be the whole land area, and the rest will be the water part. So a little above the center line, I have drawn this. So the whole thing will be the water area, and then the tree line, which will be above entire tree line, which we will be drawing directly. And there is one ice which is under the water which is there. So that also we will paint. So this is the ice which is inside the water. So that also we will paint with different technique. So again, this is the area where the mountains are with a reflection of the mountain. And above also we'll draw the mountains which are there. So mixture of small and bigger mountains. Simple shape I'm trying to create. One will be the bigger one and rest a little smaller than the bigger one. So this is how we have to draw the entire mountain series. And this is the entire painting here. The reflection, I have not shown the entire mountain, and this is the area where the tree line will be the whole pine tree line. A very simple and rough sketch you have to draw not more than that. And rest of the detailing we will be doing directly by using the colors. Correcting a little bit of shape, and this is thin. So these are the colors which we will be using here. So the first color is black, tallow blue, white, crimson red, and Prussian blue. So these are colors we will be using for this painting. Let's start from above. That is the background. So for the background, we will be needing two colors that is so the first will be Tallow blue, and a little bit of first, I will take this Prussian blue first, then black, mixing these two colors and making a little grayish blue color, then white and just mixing it nicely. So a nice light bluish color will be formed, and we'll start painting the above sky first and a little bit of Tallow blue also, I will add into this to make a different version of blue, as you can see. So just mixing this color with my palette, and then we'll first start with the background. So try to do it slowly, take your time, and you can see the color which is being formed here. So this is the color which we will be using for the sky. So let's start first with painting the sky with my flat brush. I have wet my brush and just have taken this mix of colors and starting from the top part. And as we will go down, the transition of the colors will be from dark to light. So we will add more and more white as we will move downwards. Simultaneously, we'll try to blend the colors also. So we will be doing two coats of it, but if in one code only your blending is being done perfectly. So in second coat, it'll be more perfect. So if your colors are blending, then it's good. And if you're not able to blend, then try to do it in the second coat. So now just grabbing that white color and applying it already blue is there on my brush, so I don't need extra blue, so that's why I have just taken white, and I'm just applying it above just above the mountain. You can use a smaller size flat brush also for doing this. Any size brush, depending upon the size of your paper or canvas, whatever you are using, try to use the brush. If you are using a very big size canvas, then of course, bigger brush is required. So brush depends upon the size of your base, what base you are using. So I've just done the above part. Now we'll start with the lower part also. So just adding more of this white here to the lower just where the mountain is touching the sky and just making it a little bit more lighter. So this is how we have to do the entire painting of the background, adding more of this blue and trying to blend with the lighter color. Sometimes you can also blend with your damp brush without any colors, and you can see how nicely it blends damp brush. You have to remove all the extra waters and then try to use it. So see how beautiful that blending has come up. So now we will do the foreground, which is there, which is the path. So just making it more lighter, the colors and adding a little bit of crimson to make it a little purplish color and a little more blue. And because this is a snow paths, that's why we need a very light color. So I'm just trying to make it very light and just apply it in the area where this is the pathway, the land area which touches the water. So this is the area. So this is how we have to just fill in the colors. So this is actually whole snow land area which is there. So slowly, slowly we'll come to the shapes also and how to currently, I'm just focusing about the blocking of the colors. So entire thing is now done, the foreground, the pathway and the sky. We'll do the rest in the next section, starting with the mountain and then this 35. Silent Blue Winter Water Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further with the water blocking. Using my same brush, I will just take first the thalo blue and just making it a little more darker and a little more because we have to do a little darker below, and as we go up, it should be a little light in color. So just mixing all the colors and making it a ice dark color and starting with the lower part, then we'll slowly move above. So I'm just a showing you what color is being formed. So this is a dark bluish color. So when you add hallow blue, the color changes a little bit to turns into a more bluish, like watery aqua bluish type. So just blocking the part, which is the corner part. And as I'm going above, I will blend this color with the lighter color. So just taking more of this hallow and black and making it a little more darker. Because this color has to be very dark at the bottom, and then as it goes above, it should be a little lighter because whenever we see something closely, it is a little dark and when we see it from very far, it is light in color. So this is how it goes. So let's take another brush, which is, um the smaller size flat brush I have taken, and I'm just blocking it with more white added to it, blocking this part, leaving the area which is the mountain area. I'm just trying to block in this and also trying to blend this dark color with the light color just by moving the brush in to and fro direction. Also leaving the one which is the snow which is underwater snow that also I will leave and I'll just block in the parts. So slowly, slowly just filling the entire color with this and just blocking in trying to blend the colors with dark color as well. So in first code, that perfect finish will not come up, so don't worry about that. We will be doing second code. Then only that proper finish of the color will come up. So don't worry. So now I'm just taking my round brush and adding more of this hallow blue and a little bit of black and just covering again the part which is near to the mountains just filling this up, making it more light in color. So the color should actually grow from dark to light. So that's what I want over in my waters also. So just covering the part which is the water part with this color from dark to light transition, starting from the corner of the canvas and moving it towards the mountain. So just making an outline of this mountain and I'm just covering the area with the lighter color. So this is how we have to do the blocking. Once the first coat dries, then we will add second coat to it. And this is the mountain part which is here, and this is the whole snow part, which is underground. So mixing thishow blue and white mix and just mixing it nicely, a little bit darker color and just covering the part which is below. Just first outlining it, and then I will just fill it the entire thing with the colors using the same round brush. It's a very beautiful painting, but, yes, it is a little time consuming painting, so you have to focus and do each and every step by step, these paintings because I have started with a little easy one, and as I am going forward and forward, it is becoming more at an intermediate level. So I will not tell that it is very easy painting. But yes, if you will try from the first painting to this painting, and I'm sure you will be able to do it because I have started like that from easy one to the tougher ones. So just adding more of this thalo blue and just covering this whole area, which is the snow area that is frozen, that is pillow. Adding some more darker version of this thalo blue. Just take thalo blue, don't mix any color, and this is how it will come rotating my brush in circles and trying to blend with the darker and lighter colors. So blending is always done in circles when it comes to round brush. This is how we have to do the blending. So now we will do the upper part, which is the mountain part. So for the mountains, again, first we will do this part, which is the tree part over here, just with black color. So just using black color, I will be covering the part, which is the tree line area, the entire tree line area. Now, here I have taken my rigor brush. First, I will make the textures on the top, and then I will fill it with black. Like we did in one of our previous paintings. Same thing we have to do it here, create some nice tree lines, and then you'll just fill it with black color. When you will use these rigor brushes, it will show nicely the edges and everything is coming out and it will look like there are very small trees which are at a very far distance. And so these textures are important when it comes to smaller trees part. After creating those textures, we can cover the entire area with a bigger size brush. So each and every painting is unique on its own. So if you're trying out, try from the first one, and I'm sure as you will go along, you will find it more and more easy. Created the shapes on the top, making the line, and after that, I will just block in this up with black color. After that, we'll start with the mountain details and then the reflections. Use thick color so that in one go, you can fill the entire thing. So be careful at the line, which is the horizon line and try to fill it up with thick, milky color, not very thin colour. Otherwise, this black will turn into grayish color. So cover it slowly. 36. Silent Blue Winter Mountain Blocking: Welcome back. Let's start further with blocking of the mountains. I have also taken here cadmium yellow. We will be using for the mountains. First, let's mix a lighter color of blue, the blue which I have used earlier for the sky, same blue I'm taking and I'm just mixing some more white to it, making it more lighter in color. And I will first block in the above part and then the below part. So taking a nice thick, milky color, and I'm just blocking the above mountains. So don't worry about any outlining till here. We'll just first block in the entire thing, and then we will be doing the details. So just blocking this up. Very light, bluish color. Use your round brush only for blocking this because it's a very small area and try not to use bigger size brush. Very slowly, slowly try to block in the mountains. You can see the color difference between the sky and this. The mountains are more lighter than the skies, try to make it like that. Filling the mountains one by one. Once we are done with this whole mountain, we'll also block in the blower part which is there. Then a complete blocking of the entire image will be done. After that, we'll start with the detailings. So you can see the blocking also takes a lot of time when you do such type of paintings. So each and every painting requires the first layer is the blocking. Then comes the detailing. Then comes the second detailing, then the final details. So like this, we move on with the painting. So the first thing is to decide the color, which color you are using. What base you are using, whether you are using canvas or whether you are using paper, first, you have to decide the base, then the colors, then how you have to draw the structure, either using grid method or you want a free hand drawing, so anything. So all these things should be decided prior when you are doing such kind of painting. Mostly in landscapes, I do a freehand drawing, but whenever I'm drawing any portrait or anything, I use grid method for drawing the whole thing. So just blocking the lower part also. So finally, our whole blocking thing is now done after doing this reflection part. Now we will start with the details of the mountains by using our rigor brush. So I will just check if this background has dried or not. If it has dried, you can apply the second layer onto it, and then you can go ahead with the detailing of the mountains. So just one more layer I'm adding of this same color. Now, this time is a time when you can either increase the darker portion and decrease the darker portion. So it depends on how you want the painting to be. So just I'm taking the colors, similar colors, and I'm just trying to blend the entire thing. So try to do at least two coats of blocking off the sky when you are doing the painting, especially on canvas or paper. Sometimes on canvas, you require three coatings if one coating is not proper. So all these things require time and patience. You have to see the image whether it is okay or not. If you feel that the blending has been perfect, then leave it. But if you feel that some brush marks are there, then try to do at least one more coat on the background. Don't do any painting in a hurry. All these paintings require a lot of patients, lots of patients, and it also develops patience and discipline. You will see when you will do all these paintings. So let's now do the detailings of the mountains. So for these detailings, we will be using a liner brush or a rigor brush for this using our rigor brush, making the color bluish only, but a little darker version of bluish. So I'm adding Prussian blue, a little bit of black to it, and also a little bit of tallow blue is there. So just making it a little quite dark colour, dark bluish color, and make your color a little thin. Don't make it very thick. When you will use thin color, then you can easily do the detailings with a very nice, fine details. So first, I will add the lines. Now here you can see how I will add the lines by creating the textures. I will not add the lines directly. I'm just creating the textures using the vertical line technique just to show that these are some trees which are there in the mountains. Let me zoom a little so that you can see it clearly. So you can see I'm just creating some small, small lines and textures. And these textures, which actually acts like the small trees which are there on the mountains. So very small small textures and try to make your color thin and then create these vertical lines. Don't take thick color. Otherwise, you will end up missing it. Now, one side, which has a light on the mountain, so I'm just making it a little brownish color. So first make the color a little orange and then add some black color to it to make it a brown color. Or you can directly use brown color on top of it. So it's totally your choice, how you want to do it. And just adding sides portion of it with this color just to show that there is some sunlight which is being reflected on that mountain and in that part. So again, just extending these dots and making the lines also and just making a very thin line with the same color. And again, I will create some more textures. But first, I will create the lines so that I can see where the mountains are. So these are the mountains which are there. So I just adding some lines so that I'm clear where all the mountains are. As you can see, both the colors are almost similar. That's why outlining here is important. 37. Silent Blue Winter Mountain Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the mountain details. Using my smaller size size zero round brush, I'm just taking the color which is this brownish color which I have made earlier. That is why mixing red, yellow, and black, just adding some textures on top of it. Just on one side, I will be adding these textures. Rest all the areas will be mostly bluish. This area, I will make it a little more towards the sunny area where the sun is being reflected. So that's why first time adding this with the brownish texture. And because of the sunlight, the trees which are there on the mountains is becoming like glowing red or brownish. So that's what I'm trying to show over here. So now the rest of the areas will be with same color, that is the dark bluish color. So just adding some more tree lines and tree textures all over. So let me zoom in a little so that you can see it clearly what textures I'm making over here. So same color, similar color I'm using, which I used in those tree lines and just adding some textures here and there, just to show that there are some darker pathways or some darker lines, some random textures I'm adding. So always take very little little color when you are doing this type of thing. And don't take very thick color, take thin color. And if you feel that there are lots of color on your brush, just remove the extra color and then use the your round brush or rigor brush for creating these textures. Try to do it very slowly and take time doing this because this is one thing which can mess up your paintings. So give a lot of time when you are doing all these details. So you can see I'm giving a nice triangle shapes also somewhere just to show that these are all areas which are filled with some trees or some rocks or something. So just adding the textures onto the other mountains as well. So you can see how I'm removing the colors. If I feel that there are so many colors, stick to my brush because sometimes when you mix the color with your brush, lots of colors get stuck to your brush, and sometimes this can damage your paintings. So try not to mix the colors with your brush, try to use directly any palette knife or use a separate brush for mixing the colors. So to the areas where the mountain starts, I'm adding, again, the vertical lines and then in some textures in the center. So this is how I am trying to do the entire structure of the mountain, the details. So you will see it will look so real and so beautiful when it is done. So just here and there, I'm adding dot and textures just to show that there are some rocks, trees, all these things. So after that, we will create the reflections below once we have done with the upper part. Now we will add one more layer to the mountains. So one layer is done. One layer was the blocking, second was the detailing, then again, more detailing to this. Now again, I'm switching to my rigor brush, and I'm just adding some white textures in between here and there just to show that there are some snow which are heavy snow which are there on the top and somewhere below as well. So this is how we do layering of textures. So one layer with dark then another layer with light, and another layer maybe a little bit of glazing. So like that, we do the textures on anything, whether it is mountain or houses or trees, anything. We do the textures in a similar way. So you can see just by adding a little bit of white, this area has become so glowing and white in color. So same thing I will be doing for the rest of the mountains here and there. I'm just adding some white thick textures. In this color, I'm not making it thin. I'm just using directly thick colour. So try to use thick colour, not thin colour. Otherwise, that color will become transparent. So you can see all these areas are completely filled with snow. So that's why directly I'm taking thick white snow and I'm directly applying it everywhere. So slowly, slowly, the structure is getting build up. And once this whole part is done, we will do the lower reflection part also. Try to do this part very slowly and patiently because all these textures, if you will do it in a very, like, quick manner, it might be chances that all of that get smudged up and mixed up. So try not to do it in, like, hurry, give this part, at least this part, the main part, which is the mountain part a lot of time. Now I'm just taking white and a little bit of this yellow that is cadmium yellow and applying on this area where I've kept the one, which is the highlighted area where the sun is hitting the sun. Sorry, the mountain. The sun is hitting the mountain. So this is how we have to show that the glowing mountain where the sun is hitting the mountain. That's why this area is yellow. Similarly, we will also be doing the reflection part. We'll create that area. So now just taking again this darker color and just adding some more textures. So we are almost done with the mountain detailings. Then we'll start with the next part of it. Just a little bit of then we'll start this tree line which we have made. We have not made the bigger trees. So the bigger trees also we will add over here. So you can see how beautiful this mountain is looking when we have added so many textures. So, likewise, you have to add the textures. Very small, small dots and lines, random dots and lines are these. That's it. So just adding more lines to this area, which is the area where all the tree lines, and we'll also create one or two big trees which are at the side. So just adding and extending it with a little more bluish color and extending the whole line which is there. After that, we'll add some more trees in one side, little bigger trees. 38. Silent Blue Winter Snow Details: Welcome back. So let's first start with the trees and then we'll create the snow details. So I'm using my same brush, that is the flat brush of smaller size and just making a nice color of this snow mixing a little bit of this violet touch to it. So just taking more of white, it should be a very light color with a violet touch to it. So mostly blue and crimson and White I have added. Just remove excess of color if you feel that because when we mix the colors with our brush, lots of colors get stick to it. Try to remove excess of colors and then again, block in this whole part, the second layer, and then we will add details. Just this pathway which is to the sides, which we are just blocking in one more time, and then I'll just add the textures. So you can use any brush over here, small size, flat brush or round brush because we don't need a very finishing touch over here, since it is a snow part, so we don't require a very finished painting to be done over here, some one more layer of blocking. And then we'll start creating the textures. And this is the area where the whole snow will be there. This is the reflection. Then there will be trees on the above part first. The bigger trees, I will just add two to three trees on the sides, same type of pime tree which we did in the previous paintings also. So just adding some lines, bigger lines, and then I will just add some pine trees. So we have done pine trees so many times in the painting. So now, if you have done the previous painting, so you know how to do these pine trees. I will not do it in a very detailed form, a few textures of leaves, and then we are done some small, some big trees. So just creating some nice tree textures with my rigor brush. So no need to create the entire pathway to the sides. I'm just adding all these tree structure. So always use your rigor brush when you are doing all these tree textures. So you can see how beautiful it is looking, starting from a bigger tree and ending towards the smaller ones. Also, I'm extending some lines below just to show that these lines are extended from the area which is the snow area which is below. So a little area of lines I'm just extending. We'll also add some snowy textures to this black area as well. So using my fan brush, just making the color more lighter than the base color, and just adding some nice textures of snow here and there, some vertical, some horizontal. Always use dry brush when you're creating these textures and thick colour of white. Try not to wet your brush, use completely dry brush, then only those textures will come up very perfectly. So just make your uh this brush in 90 degree angle, and just use the tip of your brush to create these textures. You will see magic happens when you create these textures, especially the dry brush texture. It's a very amazing way of creating some beautiful snow textures. So you can see I'm just filling this area with a lighter color of this and just filling it up the pathways so slowly, slowly just adding the lighter textures all over. So again, we will add some more textures below. Now we will use our rigor brush, the same liner brush, and use that darker bluish color and make it a little fluid, just making it a little more fluid, and I'll first outline it. With my rigor brush. So first, I will just do the outlining where the horizon line starts. So this is my horizon line, and above, there is snow. So try to use very thin color, then only that this thin line will come up. If you will use thick color, then thick line will come up. So try to use a little watery color, then only those thin lines will come up. So some textures, also, I'm adding some lines and giving shape to this path area. Also, I'm shaking my brush so that it doesn't become very, like, sharp lines. I should be like a crooked lines. So try to make it not very clean, smooth, circular lines. So slowly, slowly, I'm just building up the shape of this path, and you can see when you shake your hand, literally, you will see how these beautiful shapes are coming up. So try to shake your hand a little bit and then try this texture, this outlining. So we don't need a very perfect outline of this. Somewhere I'm adding the edges also. So this is the side pathway which is there. Some edges also I'm trying to add. So you can see already the shape is coming up of this whole snowy area which is there. Also adding some more lines below. S so now we will add some more snow since there's a layered snow over here, so we will be adding a layer snow technique here as well. So taking a lighter color of this blue and a little bit more of this crimson. And I'll just create the line. I don't want a very dark line. So I'm just creating a very light line just to show that there is a layer of snow which is there on this, making it a little more darker because we want this to be visible clearly. So just adding some black and making it more darker and just adding the same technique of structure as it is of the outside one. And this will show that there is a layer of snow which is there on top of it. Similarly, one more layer, layer by layer, this snow is there. So this is how we can create the layering of snow. After that, we'll add some more details to it. I've just created the lines, taking some nice white, thick color and mixing it with this red and a little bit of this blue and just adding some textures in between. Just adding some textures with the corner of my fan brush. Again, your brush should be dry, not wet when you're creating these textures. So try to use the side corner of this fan brush and create the nice and beautiful textures. Also adding some textures to the main ground. So very easy way of creating layered snow. So again, a little bit more lighter color on top. So you can see how beautiful this layered snow is looking. I really liked the effect. Also adding some thin color and just adding some thin bluish color and just making it once more with my round brush. When you add thin layer of this color, it looks like a glazing effect. So that's why I'm adding a very thin layer of this color. So again, a little bit of white and this color and just adding into the main area, which is the area which is touching the water. After that, we'll create the water details because water details are also left out and the mountain reflections. So all these things, little bit of snow above, thick color. Try to use thick color. So you can see how beautiful this whole above area is looking once it is almost done above part, we have to do the water part and a little bit of this snow part, giving a little highlight of bluish to this edge and also some white addition to it. Slowly, slowly, all these steps take time, but, again, a little bit more of why I'm adding. So the more and more you layer to the techniques, the more beautiful it looks. 39. Silent Blue Winter Water Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the water details. So first, we will draw the tree lines and then we'll draw the reflection of the mountains. So let's first draw some trees which are there on this ground. So some pine trees and some normal trees which I will be drawing on the part which is here. So some big pine trees. Now, this is you want you can draw it or you can leave it. But all these trees and lines add actually more realistic to your painting, so more reality to your painting. So that's why I'm adding a little bit more trees over here, some trees which are there on this ground part. So some random tree shapes. I'm just adding same pine trees, similar pine trees. Just here and there, I'm just taking out the leaves just to show that there are lots of pine trees which are all overlapped one on top of the other. Some more tree lines to the sides also, I will be adding. Make your color thin and fluid when you are trying to draw any tree lines or anything. Try not to use very thick color. Otherwise, everything will turn out to be very thick and very messy lines. So try only thin colours, not thick colours. So some more lines and some more tree stems and coming out here and there. You can also add some grasses here and there. So some more tree small small tree and tree branches. I'm just adding some small small grasses. So this is how you have to just add the whole tree lines. Also, I will add some snow on top of it. So just adding some snow over here. So even if you're adding snow and everything, try to use thick color. Very thick and milky color for the snowy part. Don't use thin color. Just adding few snow on top of the black lines and some on these smaller smaller tree lines. Small small thick snow. So you can see how beautiful this is looking when we have added trees and some snowy tree lines and everything and some stems which are covered with snow. So take thick white color and then only add these all snowy textures. So now let's add some water reflections on this mountain part. Already, we have drawn the upper mountains or reflection part is left. So we will add some reflections also. First, outlining this with black. The outer outline, which I'm doing is completely with black, just to show some depth to this whole land area, some thick lines. So just some thick lines which I'm adding over here. So you can see when we have added the thick lines, now the depth of this is looking. It is looking like there is a depth in this painting, there's a depth in this snow part also. So that's why sometimes we require to add two lines. One is with the light color and one is with the darker color. So now we will add some textures of the reflections using my flat brush, small size flat brush, mixing this color with white and similar color I will use, which I have used on the top. And I will just create some nice reflections. Just first taking my dry brush and pushing it down. Always use dry brush when you are creating these textures. So drybush technique and just pulling that color down. Using my tip of my brush, and don't take too much color on your brush when you are using this technique. Again, taking some more darker color and pushing it down just to show the blackish area which is there. So more lines, which I'm pushing it down here and there, just to show them the textures which are there on the top. This is how we create the snowy area. Now, this area is actually yellowish area, so I will make it more yellowish. So first, I will leave this area. And first here I'm making the horizontal lines just using the tip of my brush. This will create a nice shape of this whole mountain and also the tree lines because the reflection is not very smooth. It is always zig zag type line. So that's what I'm trying over here also. So more lines on this area. So very interesting technique to create the reflections. Because of this reflection, this painting is looking so real. So yes, do it slowly. Don't use very watery brush. Use a damp brush and create all these textures. So all these blackish textures also over to the sides. So here I will add the yellowish texture which is there because the above part, which is on the top is more yellowish. So I will add yellow color on top of that. So taking yellow and adding here the again, horizontal direction, some textures of yellow. I will also make a little tip more like a pointed mountain because it is looking like flat. So I will add some more lines here. Just taking some again, white color and a little lighter color and adding some more textures to the sides. So this is how we have to blend the colors and mix the colors by creating these lines and textures. So this is how I'm just trying to add the lines and the textures, lighter color. So just giving a little shape. So this is the area where this is the snow area, which is below the water that is also taking the same color. It is darker color and just creating, again, same textures like that. So this is how I'm just filling the color along with the textures, adding more blue and little bit of black and also blending this with the lighter color. Filling it up in a similar manner, moving the brush in horizontal direction. Now below, I will add a little bit more darker version of it. You can use bigger size brush also to fill up the below part because below part is a little darker and above as it goes over, it is more lighter. Just filling it up with the darker color. So try to use either a smaller size flat brush or round brush for filling it up. Don't use very big size brush. Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to handle it. Always use a smaller size brush which you can handle where you can handle the paints. So try to use a smaller size brush and a little bit more here white color, the lighter color, and some more darker colors below. So you can see how beautiful this water is looking once we have added. Now, with my damp brush, I'm just mixing and blending the colors slowly. So I don't have any colors in my brush. I'm just blending it with my damp brush. So this is how you can blend the colors before the color dries. So if the color dries, you will not be able to blend. 40. Silent Blue Winter Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start with the final part of this painting. So the underground snow which is there. So let's draw that first. A little bit of pointed, mountain I'm just trying to draw over here. So just extending that darker lines and also this yellow color which is here, just extending it and making it more pointed because one which is the bigger mountain is quite pointed. So just making a little pointed. And now I will just add more snow lines, which is nice, thin lines of white color here and there, just to add some snowy textures that the water is getting, like, dry or something. So just adding some nice thin lines of white just to show that these all are freezing and everything is getting like just some white lines. So now we will do the part which is here, the snow part which is frozen inside the water. So let's do the first, the outlining. Simple with blue color. I'm just trying to outline this. And there are some lines inside this snow which has a crack or something like a line which is there. So that also we'll draw. But first, I'll just block in once more this entire thing with the same color. So just giving a little texture type blocking, not very smooth blocking over here because I want some textures to be there brush textures to be there. So that's why I'm not doing very smooth blocking over here, adding some morehlow blue to the area which is there. So you can see now the textures. So it's not very smooth blocking. So this is how we create some textures inside this. After that, I will just draw some lines with the darker as well as with the lighter colors. Again, taking my rigor brush and just creating some more lines or we can use a round brush of size one or zero and just creating some nice highlight, very thin color, and just creating a nice highlight of blue to the area, which joins the water part, the darker area. Then comes the lines which are very thin lines which we will be drawing. So again, taking blue and black mix and making the color not very thick. It should be thin color and just drawing some lines the layers which are above layers are also below. So just I'm just trying to draw some layers over here. So you can see wherever there is water, water also if snow is above, water also freezes below. So it's like that. So some more lines of darker lines of this so just taking some more lighter color and just blocking this part. This part is actually the reflection of the above which is above snow the above pathway which is there. So just covering it with a little lighter color. So just adding some more lines, taking some white colour, thin white color and adding some lines over here also just to show the reflection of this snow. All these small, small details actually add the realism to the painting. So if you want to draw something realistic, give a little shadow and a little depth to it. Just adding some white textures here and there in this part. So since my thing is wet a little bit, so it is mixing and it is turning into a little bluish color. So now I will just take again my rigor brush and create some white lines over here just to show some cracks or something. So here I'm taking very thin lines. Try to draw as thin lines as possible in different different shapes. So straight, some slanting, so different at a different different angles. So this will show actually the cracks which are there inside the spotter part. So try to draw it very slowly and very thin lines. Try to draw as thin lines as possible. If you feel that the line is very dark because I think there are some of the lines which has become thick, and I will make the lines a little bit more thinner by just applying a layer of again, one more color to it, one more thin layer of blue colour to it. So this way, you can just make your white color a little more tuned down. So just adding some thin lines here and there. So thin lines to the edges also. So we can see not to this part because this part is a reflection of the one which is above. So the line should be till that part. So if you're trying out this painting, do tag me on my Instagram. That is Mohini Art Gallery. I will love to see your artworks. So try to do it as much as possible. I'm not telling you to do it exactly what I am doing because it is not a very easy painting. But yes, if you will follow each and every step of mine, I'm sure you will be able to do it. So try to just add few more details, and then we are done with this painting. So just a few more details are left, final details. So white textures, again, I'm adding on top just to make it more highlighted. This white area, which is the snowy area, some more white textures like a straight line like this, adding the textures to the snowy part. A little bit more snow to the areas where there is, just to make it more snowy, adding thick colors. Now again, taking this yellow color and mixing it with a little bit of white and making this more prominent. Just when you add white, the yellow color becomes more, prominent. So just adding it again. See, the more and more you layers the color, the more realistic your painting looks, especially in acrylics. So this is how it has come up. So I feel that this line is very thick and here also, I will just add a little layer of yellow, very thin color, and just a thin layer of yellow I will add over here, just a glazing effect, which will create a nice yellowish light on that and some more yellow and white over here below. So you can see, just making all these colors a little bit more lighter, taking a thin layer of either blue. If your color is wet, you can just add one layer of damp brush and it will be done. But if your color is not wet, then you have to apply one thin layer of blue, just making it a little bit more darker, this area. Adding a little shape to this. The last part is left and we are almost done. So you can see how beautiful it is looking. I really liked this painting a lot, especially the snow part. I really liked it the snow and the reflection part. So just taking blue colour, make it thin and just apply it on top of it. Just to make this white color a little more fainted, should not be very bright. So just adding a thin layer of blue. That's it. And so you can see this white has tone down. So this is how you can tone down the colors also. So this is one of the technique of lowering the colors, making this line a little bit more prominent the reflection of the above area. So, finally, this is done, and I'm sure you will love doing this painting, and you will really enjoy doing this painting. But try to do it with full patience and discipline. Don't do it in a hurry, take your time, take breaks, and then do it. Don't try to do it in one go. So take breaks and do it slowly and enjoy each and every process of small, small details. So now we will meet in our next class with a next beautiful painting that is more beautiful than this. And I'm sure you will love that too. So let's begin with our next painting. This is done. And thank you so much for watching it. 41. Golden Sunset: Welcome back. So let's start with a new painting that is golden sunset. So let's first draw a little sketch, and then we will do the painting. So a little bit more sketching is here. So since we have to draw the bridge and everything. So this is the path which is below, and then comes the above part where there is a bridge. You can use like half semicircle thing, or you can just draw it directly. It's totally up to you how you want to draw it, or you can use something like half to draw a half circle or something like that. You can use a compass also for drawing that half circle. Anything you can use any circular thing and just drawing a nice round circle below first, which is the underground area, which is below the bridge part. This is actually the part which is below the bridge and above is the bridge. So just drawing it with the circle so that it is uniform and clear. So you can use any circular thing to draw this. Try to use same size or a little bit of, like, a bangle size or something like that or a bracelet size you can use. And just drawing one more half circle like this of a tunnel. So it's a tunnel below and above is the bridge where the water is flowing. So a little bit of the stones and rocks which are below the bridge. So just drawing that I won't be drawing each and every details, just a rough sketch. And later on, while painting, we will draw each and everything. So just a rough sketch I'm drawing over here. So a little bit of Now, the above is the bridge which is moving like half circle. So above is the bridge part, below is the foreground, middle is the water part, and then comes the trees which will be above, which we will be directly drawing with our colors. So this is the sketch which we will be doing and little bit of the snow which will be there. So sketch the bridge which has two ways. So above way, also, I'm just drawing it. So this is the bridge part, rest, little bit of mountains, build up behind, and then comes the trees, which we will be drawing directly by using colors. And there is a little foreground area which is behind the bridge tunnel. Which is there. So that also I'm just drawing a sketch. So let's discuss about the colors which we will be using. So the first color which we will be using, these are the colors which we will be using. So let's discuss about the colors. So first, we'll start with the background, then middle, and then the foreground. So, likewise, we will go. So first, color, which is black, then white, AlzarinGrimson, cadmium yellow, then pains gray, windsor blue, and lemon yellow. So these are colors we will be needing. So let's start first with the upper part of the sky, which is the kind of purplish color. So you can directly use purple color or you can make it by mixing Azarin and blue color together and a little bit of white because I don't want a very dark violety color. I want a little subtle color, which is by mixing white, you can get it. So it's like the little bit more of red, more of white to get a nice lavender type color. This color we will be using for the top part of the sky which is there. So just moving the brush in circles. Now, this painting we will be doing just by moving the brush in circular motion, and totally we will cover the above part. And then as we will go down, it will be more towards the warm color. So like this with my round brush, take big size round brush and try to move the brush in circles and cover this entire above part. And as I'm going down, I'm making a color a little lighter. Especially to the other side, and I'm just moving it in circles. Now, the above part I have done with this color. Now we will proceed with the below part, which is a little bit of orangy color. And I will first mix this Azarin and white first and just try to blend this color with this purplish color. If your color has dried, again, apply it and try to blend this color with that light pinkish color. So just taking a little bit more of white and making this side a little light and just moving the brush in circles. And as I will go down, it will be more towards the orange side color. So first, I will just wash off my brush and then I'll mix some orange color with the Alizarin and this cadmium yellow mix, a little more orange color and a little bit of white to just tone down the color, as you can see in the picture, how it is. So just moving the brush in circles and trying to blend this color with the above color. I will not push this color more towards the white color because this color will react with this violet and it will turn into a little muddy color, so I'll not turn the color towards the whole vilet color. I'm just blending it. So you can see my above color has already dried up, so it's difficult to blend when your color dries up. So it's fine. You can leave it just like that in the first coat. In the second coat, we will do by layering it again. So just moving in circles and trying to cover the above part. And as we will go down, it will be more towards the yellowish side and, again, the orange side. So like that, we have to move our whole painting. So it's a very bright and beautiful painting, as you can see in the image. So I have tried to cover each and every part here so that you will get it, how to blend the colors, how to move the brush in circles, and how to make the nice, beautiful, uh clouds and everything. So just use your bigger size round brush for doing the sky. Don't use a smaller size brush for moving the brush in circles. So you can see, I'm just covering this whole entire thing with yellow color. So this is lemon yellow, which I am using here. Sorry, cadmium yellow, which I'm using here, not lemon yellow. So again, I'm taking this mix of this orange color, and again, I'll apply it above and just try to blending the color with this yellow color and a little bit above also. So this is the first coat which I have done. I'll wait for the first coat to dry. Then I will start doing the second coat. First, wait for the first coat to dry, then only apply a second coat on this color. Otherwise, the colors will start lifting up. Because when the acrylic dries, it becomes sticky and your colors will start lifting up if you apply again one more color. So I'm just applying here below a little bit more like a tomato color and just a little bit to the horizon line, which is there just to show that there is a sunset which is going on, and that area is completely orange. So after that, we will be just blending this color with this yellow color so that there are no sharp lines. So this is all we have to do it once more because you can see there are lots of brush marks and the color is also not very thick, so I'll apply second coat so that the blending becomes perfect. And then the bridge part, the below is the mountain part, which is there. The mountain part, again, is a similar color, but a lighter version of this violety color. So I'll just mix a little bit of white, and I'm applying it over the area which is just above the bridge. So just adding more white and with my same brush, I'll just apply it above Try to use only round brrush when you are blocking such things. You can use a smaller size round brush also if you want, but try to use roundush only for blocking all these things because they are very small, small things which are there. Now I am doing on a five is to seven inch canvas. You can use any canvases, any bigger size canvases you can use. But again, if you're using bigger size canvas, try to use a bigger size brush, especially for blocking the colors. Now I'm just taking this Windsor blue and mix of white and also a little bit of this paints gray I will be mixing. And just this color, which I will apply it on the below part, which is the foreground part where the snow part. So just covering this whole snow part with this color. If you don't have windsor blue, you can use Prussian blue and a little bit of black mix. You'll get the similar kind of color. Add the entire area with this similar color, making it a little bit more gray, adding gray and then white and just covering the entire thing with this same color. Don't worry about the brush marks over here because these are the snowy area where we will be adding textures. So all these brush marks will be gone when we will add the textures. So again, a little bit of snowy area is over the bridge also. So slowly, slowly, we will move on to the blocking of the details. So first, we have done the upper part, and then the lower part, middle part is still left. So we are just covering all the snowy area which is there. 42. Golden Sunset Background Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now let's start blocking the bridge which is there. You can see it's a very dark color. Now we will make that dark color by mixing all the colors. So let's make a nice brown color. If you have brown color or burn Sienna, you can use it directly, but if you don't have it, and we will learn how to mix that color and make that color. So first, we will make a nice yellow and orange color. And after that, we will add just a little bit of black to it to make a nice dark brown color and a little bit of white also you can add. So this is a little lighter color, which you can see over here, but I want a little darker colors. So I'll just add more black to it and a little bit of just check which color it is, and then we can just I think this color is a little light color. So I will just mix a the entire thing with this color. Just applying it all over, especially the area which is the bridge area. So make the color little milky so that you will easily be able to apply these colors. So I'm using my smaller size round brush for filling this up because this area is very small, and if you will take a bigger size brush, there are chances that colors might go out, which I don't want. So that's why I'm using a smaller size of round brush, and slowly, I'm just filling up this whole entire bridge. Try to paint it very carefully within the lines so that you don't have to do the things again and again and you don't have to correct the mistakes. So first outline the shapes and then try to fill the colors. Any color you can make just by mixing the primary colors. So this is you can see how we have made by just mixing the colors. So try to use the primary colors and mix the colors so that you will learn also how to do the color mixing part because color mixing is very important. We don't have each and every colors every time. We should know how to mix and make the colors. To know more about color mixing, you can check out my class, which is the class for complete bigness for acrylic. You can check out that class and you will see how to do the color mixing thing. Just making more colors, just making it a little darker and a little white. Whenever you're mixing the colors, try to mix the colors in one go because sometimes it happens that again and again, you will mix the colors, different type version of that shade will appear. So it's better to mix the colors in one go and then do the filling of the colors. So it takes time because you can see this side color is a little bit darker, but it's fine since it is a bridge. So I want this side color to be a little darker. So that's why I'm using that. But if you're mixing the colors, try to mix it in one go. Don't try to mix it again and again because colors may vary. Now I will just fill the above part, which is above part and the below part. Below part is a little bit darker. So first, I'm just using a dark color of brown and just applying first the lower tunnel part which is there and covering it up. And just doing it very slowly. I'm not disturbing the shape of it, trying to fill inside the shape only so that my colors should not go out. And whenever you have to draw any lines or something, try to use a little fluid color so that you don't do any mistakes and just outline it and then fill the colors. Then your colors will not go out. So this is how we should do when we are doing any painting so that our colors should not go outside the boundary line. So just filling it up with this nice, dark, brownish color, which has more black in it. After that, we will do the leg part also once we have done the bridge part. We are focusing here of just filling the colors. That's it. Just filling the colors and giving a nice dark color to it. Above also, I am just first outlining it, and then I will fill the colors. Whenever you do such type of paintings, don't do it in one go. Try to take breaks and then do all these types of paintings because these are all quite detailed paintings and try not to finish it in one go. You have your recordings available. You can watch it anytime. Watch it in bit by bit and do it bit by bit. Then you will see the result of your painting that will come out very well. So don't try to do it in one go, take breaks and then do it. Now we will do the lower part. You can see the part which is near to the tunnel is more like glowing and the part which is far, it is more dark. So first, we will make a nice pinkish color with a little bit of this violet added to it and just cover that part first. So slowly, slowly as we will move towards the foreground side, it will be more darker colors. So first, I'm just focusing on the filling of colors, the blocking of colors, and slowly, slowly, I'm just filling it up. Then I'm just taking this lemon Sorry, cadmium yellow, and just applying over this pink when you take I haven't washed off my brush, so already pink is there on my brush. So that's why that color is turning into a little bit of orange. So I'll just wash off my brush and mix a little bit of lemon yellow also to it to give a little more brightness because that rays will fall on this, so this will become more yellowish. So that's why I have added a little bit of lemon yellow also to this cadmium yellow. So just applying here a little bit more yellowish color, and the rest of the colors, we will be making it a little bit more darker. So for the darker colors, we will be using this Windsor blue and black mix, and we will cover the entire thing with this dark blue color. So if you're using Prussian blue or any other blue, try to add black into it and you will get this type of color. So we'll just fill this entire water area, which is the river area with this dark color first. Currently, we are not focusing about any details or anything. We are just focusing about how to block in the colors. So I'm just thinking about how we have to block in the colors, what colors we need to block in. So that's all we have to do in this part. Once this is done, we'll do the second code of blocking, and then we will start with the detailing. So you can see blocking is also very important when you start painting anything. Because this is the time when we decide which color to use where, and after that, slowly, slowly, we go on towards the detailing part. So if you follow each and every process of mine over here, I'm sure you will be able to do this painting. This painting is very beautiful. But yes, you have to give a full focus and concentration on this painting. Then only you will come to that result because these all paintings teaches you a lot of patience and a lot of discipline. And a little bit discipline goes here and there and your painting will be ruined. So yes. So try to do it very slowly, very patiently. So you can see we have done all the blocking here. Now we will start with the detailing. 43. Golden Sunset Sky and Snow Details: Welcome back. So let's start further. Now we will start again with the sky. Now my upper part has completely dried. Now I can apply the second coat on it using my brush, which is the Philbert brush, I'm just making the similar color which we have used earlier. That is the lavender color. So just making a nice lavender color. And again, I'll start from the top. You can use your round brush. I'm using your Filbert brush. You can use any round brush or Filbert brush of your choice. It's not like you have to just use round brush only. Filbert brush also has a round tip, so you can use Filbert brush also here. So just making the motion in circles and just filling the above part first. Try to use thick colors because thick colors don't dry very fast, and you will be able to blend the colors with the second colors because you'll get a time to blend the colors. If you will use thin colors, the colors will dry in seconds, and you will not be able to blend the colors. So just trying to first apply the first color, then we will apply the second color, which is the orange color, as you can see over here. But first, we'll make a little pinkish color, more pinkish towards the sky part. Which is the horizon line over here. So just making it a little bit more pinkish orange color, which is the horizon part of it and just trying to first make this more orange because this is the area where sunset will happen. So just again, adding this cadmium yellow and trying to blend with this nice orange color. So just washed off my brush and taking this lemon yellow and this cadmium yellow mix and trying to blend this color with this nice orange color. So again, taking lemon yellow and a little bit of this cadmium yellow mix and just trying to blend the colors. And as I'm moving above, I will make the color more orange. So just applying a little more orange color with a mix of white to it and just covering the above part also. So this is how we blend the colors. Again, try to use thick colors, don't use thin colors. Sometimes with damp brush, also, you can just blend the colors. No need to use the colors again and again. I'm just blending the colors with my damp brush. So just blending it nicely. And as I'm going above, I will take this pinkish color and I'll just try to blend it with this purplish color. Now, my purple color is not completely wet, but let's see if it can blend or not. Mixing it with this nice pinkish color and trying to blend it with this purplish color. Now, when I'm using this pink color, when it goes into this purple color, that is the lavender color, it will automatically blend because when it reacts with it, it will turn into more of a lavender color. So this is how we have to do the blending. Now we will add some skies and clouds also a little bit over the above area where we will be making clouds, but we have to wait for the colors to dry a little bit, and then we can make nice clouds with the lemon yellow color. So I'm using my flat brush over here and just taking a dry brush and just adding some nice thick colors over here where there is a straight clouds, these are these are not very detailed clouds, very straight form of clouds and try to use a very damp brush. Don't use wet brush and just add some thick colors of this lemon yellow onto the top. Which will create a very nice, beautiful clouds over here. So as you can see, try to use thick colors. And just try to smudge the colors here and there, just adding a little bit of white to make it more vibrant and more glowing, this yellow color. This lemon yellow gives a very nice thick vibrant color effect when you use it as a cloud, just taking more of white and just mixing it with lemon yellow. And again, adding some more clouds here and there. Very easy way of creating clouds just by using your dry brush. Don't wet your brush, use completely dry brush over here. So this way, we can easily add any clouds by using just the dry brush technique. Now I will just add the sun which is there, but we will first do more detailings of the foreground and then we'll start adding the sun because we have to wait for the part to dry. So let's add first the textures in this part, which is the foreground part. You don't have to do the filling again. You can directly add textures because when we add textures, automatically, this entire thing will be filled up. So just making a little lighter color. And just adding some textures with my fan brush. Again, when you're using fan brush, use dry brush and thick colors and just try to use the tip of your brush to create these textures. Try not to use wet brush. This all things should be done with a dry brush technique without adding any water to it. Just the colors and the tip of the brush with a very light pressure of brush onto it. And you will see very beautiful snowy effect on the ground will be created with very nice textures. So you can see slowly, slowly, I'm just adding some textures here and there. There is no pattern in here. You just have to fill the entire thing in different different directions. Similarly, I'm just adding it on the above part also. This is how we add textures to the snow area. Now we will add again, I'm taking my filbert brush and just making a little more darker color this time. You can see a little bit more darker color and adding textures here and there with my filbert brush. Now, when you're using filbert brush, try to use the smallest size brush of size one or two. And again, dry brush technique, don't wet your brush and use it little color and try to give textures like this. This will create a nice more effect, more layering effect to the snow. You can see it will look a little bit more real. So this is how we have to add with our filbert brush. Similarly, I will do for the above part also. So a little little textures, very little color, not too much. So once my sky rise, we'll create the sun. And let's first add some details to the snow part with my rigor brush using black color, making this color a little bit thin to create the nice and thin lines. So just using my rigor brush and creating some nice thin lines. So let's add some nice lines and some edges to this part, which is the part, which is the snow part. So see my color has become a little more fluid. So we can just avoid just by removing this color a little bit with my water because my color is wet, so you can easily remove the colors with just water. Later on, we'll fix this part. So let's remove extra water from my brush and directly use the color. Otherwise, again, your colors will spread if you use too much water in it. So you have to be careful when you're using such a liquid color. So again, I'm just removing all my water from my brush and again, making a little color a little more thick than watery. It should not be watery. It should be fluid, and just creating some nice edge of this whole snow area, which joins the water part also. A little bit of paints gray also I'm adding to it and just giving a little edge to this area by adding some random shapes. Just giving a little more edge and depth to this whole land area. Just some random shapes and textures here and there. This will look like there are some parts which are not covered with snow or some rocks are there. Similarly, I will add some textures on the other side also. All these things add a little depth to the painting. Just some outlines, and it's not a proper outline. It is like a zig zag outline and a little bit of lines. We will also add this side also. If you have seen my previous painting, I have added these types of textures in the previous painting also. So similarly, we have to do this also. 44. Golden Sunset Bridge Details: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now let's do some detailings of the bridge. So let's start with a little detailing using my rigor brush. Wherever we need details, we will be using rigor brush or liner brush. So let's start further with the bridge details, and then we'll do the mountains, backside trees. So taking again, black color, making it a little fluid. And first, we will do a little outlining of this whole bridge and little bit of details of the stone shaped details. So let's start with the first with the outlining. So a little bit outline was left in this river part. So I'm just outlining it first, and then we will outline the bridge. So just making a thick outline with black. Now we will start outlining this bridge part which is there. So take fluid color, take a thin color. Don't take thick color. Otherwise, you'll not be able to draw thin lines, and be very careful while drawing all these lines because all these lines should be very thin. Also, just outlining the part which is the half circle part. And then the base part, also, I'm just outlining it and giving a little texture also to this. Also, we will make some rock shape or stone shape which is there like horizontal and vertical lines which we will be drawing here. So outlining it. So first, I'm just making a nice oval shape with same black color, and then we will create the lines. And. Do it very carefully and slowly when you are doing it, make your color fluid, and then only draw all these details. If you have any mistakes, if you have done any mistakes while drawing the lines, you can always cover that mistakes by using the same background color. So in acrylic, there is an advantage that you can cover the mistakes by coloring with the same background color. Little bit more textures, I'm just adding to the sides and just creating some lines. Mm. So try to add the lines slowly. All these things take time, take your time and draw very slowly the lines. In the entire bridge, we will be drawing the lines, horizontal and vertical lines. So first, I'm just drawing first with the lines which are here. If you have excess color on your brush, remove it and then draw the lines. Try not to use too much color on your brush. It should be a thin color but not too much color should be there on your brush. So just drawing some nice vertical lines all over this whole half circle area. We will also be drawing some lines on the bridge part also. Again, taking some more black color and drawing some lines on the side of the snow area, which is there just to create some pathway which is there, just creating some lines and some textures. So these are very small, small details which we need to take care. And now we will be adding some more white textures to this snow part using my fan brush, which will be completely dry fan brush. Try to use a dry brush whenever there is any texture part. So completely dry brush and taking very little little white color into the side of my brush, and I will apply it all over this snow area. Try not to press your brush. Do it with very light pressure. This brush creates a wonderful texture effect when used perfectly. So try to use it when it is dry, not wet. Whenever we create any textures, try to make it with complete dry brush. Little bit of dark texture we will be applying onto this bridge area. So just taking black and applying the textures all over this bridge part. Oh So slowly, slowly, we are building the shape of this bridge, and we will be moving on towards the details also. So again, taking my fan brush and applying more of this area, which is the brownish color, which is a light brownish color which is there, applying with the same fan brush, some more textures, just some horizontal textures, just to give a little highlight and the rusty look to this bridge. So this is one of the technique of applying some textures to the bridge or to any area which is there just to make it look more realistic. Now, again, taking my rigor brush and creating some more details. But first, we'll add some more textures to this area, which is the snow area, adding some more lighter highlights to this area, which is the snow part. So the snow part is done, or we will start doing further. 45. Golden Sunset Sun Details: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now we will be adding some more cloud details and the sun, which is setting down and also the trees, a little bit of details we will add over there also. So let's first create some more clouds. You can see that clouds which we created earlier has been merged into this, so whole background. So I'm just adding more by just mixing white and lemon yellow and creating it with my rigor brush. It's a completely thick color. Don't use any water when you are creating such thick textures. Just take thick color and try to create some nice lines, thick lines and just spread it all over to one side, just to show that there is a few clouds which are there with glowing clouds. So very easy way to create with the rigor brush. Also using my round brush, I will just smudge this color a little bit, using my round brush. Again, this is also a completely damp brush, so I haven't added any water to it, adding some more cadmium yellow in between, just to blend the colors a little bit so that these lines does not look like a sharp lines. So now we'll just add a little bit of textures to this back area, which is the mountain area which is there. There we will add some more textures, taking again, my fan brush and taking some nice grayish color, adding some more textures over here, again, dry brush. Just add some textures very lightly, and then some more snowy textures with a light white color. So just to make it more look like that these are very small small trees which are there and there is snow which is covered over there. So just adding some more textures with white. Try to just use the tip of your brush, little bit of the purplish texture above, very small textures are these, just to look like that there are snowy areas which are behind. And then we will add some areas of like pine trees, which are very small pine trees over there, that also we will add. But first, let's add one very small tiny sun, which is setting down just a circle and some more colors and some more rays we will be adding just with a little bit of the orange color. First, I'm just making a circle with this orange color, and then I'll just spread the lighter color all over just to show that the rays are falling in all the direction. So you can see how small it is. So now I'm adding some rays with my round brush, not very big rays. I will add just small. And that's it. Just taking a little bit more of white and adding it in the center. So adding some more details of this orange color below, just to show that there are some orange rays which are falling below. So just adding that all these small details make your painting look more and more beautiful. So try to do it as slowly and patiently as possible. Don't do it in a hurry. Now I'm just making a little darker color and creating some back trees, just creating some lines in the backside, just to show that there are some trees which are behind, making it a little more like a darker violety color. And now we will start detailing of this bridge. First, I will add the snow part which is there on the top, and then we'll start doing the details. So just using my again, round brush and mixing it with this blue and white and a little bit of this Azarin to make it a little lighter or grayish, or lighter, like, snowy color. And I'll just fill the above part first just to give a shape of the snow. Just to add some snowy textures on top of which is the railing area of it. So I think this color is a little bit dark, so I'm just making it a little bit more light in color because I don't want the colors to be very dark. So just adding on top of it, this snowy area, just adding a little bit more of blue, and just adding the top area which is there. It should not be a very straight line, like a little bit of here and there, you can make the textures just to show that there's a thick snow which is on the railing. So first I'm creating with the little bluish color, which is the color of the snow and also I will add some snow on the other railing part also. Also, I'm giving a little shape of the snow which is falling a little bit. A little bit of falling off the snows. I'm just giving a little textures, and now I will also do for the other bridge as well. Also, I will be adding the snowy textures on the other railing which is there in a similar manner like we did for the first one. Now, this first at is done. Now we will do the second layer of it. First, we will add the details, and then only we'll start with the detailing. But you can see there is a back trees which are there, so we will add some more violety color which is there on the back side as well. First, let's add the back part, which is the tree part there. So first, I will add a little bit of shapes at the back side. Making a color a little more violety like dark violety color. And I'll just cover the back area. So just creating some shapes and then I'll just cover this part. First, I'm just outlining that bridge line which is there. After that, I will just cover the back area just giving some shape of the trees just randomly and then we'll start doing the part which is the bridge part. After creating the shape, I'm just covering it with the same color. Now we will add some details to this bridge snow area which is there. First, I will outline this entire area with black color and then a little bit of snow with a more lighter color. So first, just taking white and a little bit of bluish color. First, I will add a little bit of lighter color on top of it just to give a little more depth to this snow part. And then we will add the black outlines to this all snowy thing. So just taking a little bit more of white because my white is over. So in this painting, a lot of white is used over here because this is a snow painting, so obviously white will be used a lot. So first, I will just outline the snow area, which is below just by using a thin black color. Outlining gives a little depth to the snow part, actually, and it looks more real. You can see how it is looking like a thick snow which is there, so it gives a little depth to the snow part. Similarly, I will be outlining the above part also above bridge part also. Same way like we did the other bridge part. Similarly, we will be doing this, giving a little shape to it. 46. Golden Sunset Back Trees Details: Welcome back. So let's start further with the detailing. So now we will add a little bit of the outline to this bridge area, which is the lower area, the tunnel area, just giving some lines and shape to it, adding some brick lines which are there. So just taking a thin color of black and my rigor brush and first outlining the edge and then creating some brick line. So just adding some brick line details to it, creating some nice lines along the line of the curve and creating some horizontal lines just to show that there are bricks which are there. Now we will add some snow details to the top. First, we have added the dark color, then we have outlined with black, and now we will add a thick white color on top of this snow to give a little more snowy effect to it. So you can see small, small details if you add in layers, it adds more depth to your painting. So this is how we do the depth painting, especially the real painting which comes. So just adding a thick colour of white with my rigor brush to all this whole brigline area, which is there, the railing part, thick, snowy colors, leaving some spaces of this dark color also, just to give little variations of snow. So try to use thick colour. Don't mix any water in this and try to use thick texture of white to create some nice, beautiful, snowy effect. So this is our seventh painting. So it's not an easy painting, so try to do it with full patience. So we have started with a little easy painting, and as we have moved further, it has become more and more depth and detailed one. So I wanted to teach each and every technique which are there in landscape, especially the winter landscapes, where there are so many details of the snow. There are different different types of snows which are some freeze, some are snowfall, something different different types of snowy landscape we have seen, and this is one of them. So just have added a thick layer of white on top of it. Now we will create some details of the back trees which are there. First, we will add some textures with black, taking again, dry brush and creating some textures with black with this fan brush, and then we'll start creating the details, adding some snowy textures like we did earlier for this part. The other part, similarly, I'm doing it for this part also. Just use the side of your fan brush and create these details. Now we will add the tree lines which are very thin trees and some are pine trees which we will be drawing on the back side. Like in these paintings, we have drawn so many times pine trees, and now I'm sure you will be able to draw even a smaller size pine trees also. So whenever there is no pine trees, should always be there and some tree lines which has no leaves. So just taking some thin color of black and drawing some nice tree lines. So just enjoy the process and do it very slowly. Try to create as thin lines as possible. So different tree structures, some thin, some thick, some tall, some short. So like that, we have to create in a mixture. So then only it will look like a trees back side which are filled with trees. So whenever we do this type of painting, it teaches us a lot of patience and a lot of, like, we have to give a lot of focus to this. So it also develops like a focusing power to it. So we are, like, into that painting, and we are just we don't think much about anything else when we are doing such type of paintings. So it's like a meditation itself when you do such type of paintings. You don't think of here and there and you are just going with the flow of this painting. So you can see I'm just creating some pine trees also where I've created a little height. So there only I'm creating that pine tree. So just small size pine tree I'm creating and also I'll add some snowy effect to it also. So do all these details very carefully and very slowly because these are very small, small details, and this will make your painting look more beautiful and more real. You can see I'm just creating a path below just to show that there are some trees and the tree branches and the tree trunks which are there also. So just adding it there. And again, adding some more pine trees. So do it very slowly, very carefully. Use your liner brush or a rigger brush of size zero or two by zero to do all these small details. Don't use bigger size brush for all these small details. Whenever you are doing any such details, always use your rigor brush or liner brush and a thin color, not a thick color. Thin color doesn't mean it should be a watery color. The color consistency should not fall. It should not turn into gray, should be black only. So that much amount of water you need to make the color thin. Now I'm just making it a little more like a pinkish color because it is moving towards the sun, so I'm making it a little more light color. And just little little small trees and lines here and there. I'm trying to add. Very thin tree lines you can add, or you can leave it like this. It's your choice, how you want to do the entire tree line part. But try to do it with full patience. And here also, there is a tree line in the other side also, which we will be drawing. That is quite a big tree line, as you can see. The other side, it is smaller, and the one which is on the other side, it is a little bigger one. That means that tree is a little near and those trees are a little far away. Some more tree lines, very thin colour and thin lines don't use thick colour when you are drawing these lines. Try to use as thin colour as possible. All these are all backside trees which are there. So these are just the tree lines. There are no leaves, nothing, just the tree branches and tree stems I'm just drawing. After that, I will draw the bigger tree. So again, taking a nice black color and just taking a little bit of blue also and just outlining the top part of it of the snow which is there. Outlining should be as thin as possible. Don't use thick outlines. Similarly, I will outline the above part also. A little bit of white. I'm adding because when I was drawing the trees, a little bit of black has come up there. So just adding some more white. 47. Golden Sunset Bridge Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start further with the bridge details. So now I'm just taking my small size flat brush and just taking white and a little bit of black mix and just adding some textures into this area, which is the area of just adding some nice shape of square shapes over here, just adding some shapes. Just to give a little texture to this bridge part where there are some light colors also. So just adding these shapes randomly and adding little shapes to this area, which is the edge area of this part. So again, dry brush, take less color and then only try this dry texture. Try not to use wet brush when you are creating such details. Now taking a little darker color and adding some more textures with darker grayish color. There is white in it, so a little bit of textures here and there, with my flat brush of small size. So all these details will create a little more rustic look to this bridge. So that's why I'm adding these details randomly. And then on top of it, we will create some brick details which are there. Again, the detailing we will be doing with our rigor brush. So just taking the rigor brush and creating some nice brick details which are here. So first, adding the textures below, which is the pillar which is there, just taking some thin black color and trying to add the lines. Adding some horizontal lines, and then we'll add some vertical lines as well. Similarly on the other side also and then some horizontal lines. So here and there, I'm just adding some horizontal lines just to give the brick shape to this bridge. So you can see how beautiful and rustic it is looking that bridge, just by adding some textures to it. So this is how you can create some nice, realistic bridge textures and bridge details and just highlighting it with a little darker color of black just to show the depth of this tunnel that this area is more darker. So just adding a little bit of black here and there. So more textures to this snow part with this black color. Just to show that there are some areas which are not covered with snow and there are some rocks or some plants are there just like that. Some more grasses also we will add on this part because I feel that this is looking very empty. So just adding some more grasses here and there with my rigor brush. So just adding some more grasses here and there just to make this area look a little filled. So you can leave also or you can add some trees also over here. It's totally your painting, so you can do anything, any creativity on these landscapes. So just adding the grasses here and there and also I will add some snowy textures on the grasses also. Taking this nice color and giving a little adding some highlights or some shadow effect to this area, which is the grasses. So just shadow area, just a little bit. So you can see how that depth is created and how beautiful it is looking when you add the reflections and you add the shadow effect. And now we will add some more white textures just to show that there is more snow over there and also some snowy textures on the grasses also we will be adding. But whenever you are adding light textures, make sure that your paint has completely dried. Then only add the lighter textures. Now, there is a big tree which is there we will be adding, and it has a complete just tree structure is there. There's no leaves or nothing, the tree trunk and the tree branches. That's it. And some snow which is covering all these branches. So simply drawing a nice straight, thick line and drawing some branches, which is all moving towards the upward direction. So if you don't feel like drawing directly with black color, what you can do is draw it with chalk pencil or something and then do the coloring of it with black color because sometimes it happens, we feel a little scared by just drawing directly with black color. So it's completely fine. You can first draw with charcoal pencil or white charcoal pencil or white watercolor pencil, and then you can just draw the outline with black. So just drawing some nice lines, which is moving upward direction and some thin sub branches. And also, I will be adding some snowy textures also on these branches. Try not to create wavy lines, create some nice zigzag lines, not wavy lines. Some more thin branches we will add. Similarly, we will be doing on the other side also. Again, when you are drawing all these lines, make your color fluid and then only draw all these lines. Don't use thick color. Otherwise, you will end up creating very thick lines. So you can see already this painting is looking very beautiful. And when you add all these tree structures and everything, it looks more and more beautiful. So all these trees and back trees add more beauty to your painting. So this big tree is actually adding the whole beauty to this painting, as you can see. So just adding some more tree lines. And also on top of it, we will be adding snow, adding some more grasses over here, which is the area behind the tunnel. So just some grasses. Also some snowy textures on these trees and some small trees also very thin thin, snowy textures, not covering the entire part of that black color. Just little bit of textures, I'm adding thick color of white. Also on this bigger tree as well. Just some thick white color on top of black. Um so this tree is almost done, the water part is left and we are done with this whole painting, which is very vibrant, very beautiful. I really liked it. And I'm sure that you will love this painting when you will do this. So we almost done just a few details, and we are done with the above part, the water part is left. Little bit of snowy textures to these grasses. Always use thick colour when you're creating grass texture. So almost done with it. And now we will do the water part, which is left here. 48. Golden Sunset Final Details: Welcome back. Let's start with our final details. So this river part is left. So I'm just using my small size flat brush and taking the color that is blue and white mix and just adding some nice thin layers of the lines, some of the water, just thin lines with my flat brush. Just adding some lines here and there, just to create some water ripple texture with my light bluish color. Okay. So just taking again a little bit more of blue and adding some more lines. It's just adding here and there some similar lines. After that, I'll just use my rigor brush and create some more lines with my rigor brush, adding a little bit of black to it, especially the lines which are there on the side of the warm colors. So just adding some more lines of these water ripples which are there so these lines are not straight lines, just adding some nice watery textures, some nice thin textures which I am trying to add, just to merge this color with the warm color. Just adding some nice horizontal lines and textures. Just I'm trying to merge this color with the warm color. So whenever we create any water details, we actually merge the colors like this by creating textures. Every time we merging doesn't mean that you have to add colors and blend the colors. Sometimes with textures, also, you can just blend and blend the colors. So you can see I've just filled up this entire thing with these textures of blue. And then I will also add some textures of this warm color to the darker area. So just adding some thin textures. After that, I will take more of blue and a little bit more textures. Just small lines are these, not straight lines, some wavy lines. Now I will just mix a little bit of orange color, and I will add more textures towards this darker portion which is there, adding some white also because this yellow is a little bit transparent. When you add white, the colors become a little opaque. Now this is how I'm just trying to merge this lighter color with the darker color. So just adding some merging points here, this is the area where the sun rays are falling. So just making it a little more bright, just by adding first white, and then I will add a yellow also on top of it. Just adding some more lines. So try to use little little color when you are creating such details. Don't use very thick color and just adding some more textures of this lemon yellow here just to show that these sun rays are falling on this part, just to make it more bright. Also, a little bit more textures we will add to the darker area as well. Again, taking my flat brush and creating some more textures, just dabbing my brush and creating some more textures of water. Some more textures in this darker area. It's a little bit lighter colors. So you can see this way, if you will add the textures, you can easily create the water effect and you can see how we have blended the warm and the dark colors together just by adding the textures. This is how we have to do when we are doing the blending with especially during the warm and the dark colors. Just adding more depth to this area, which is the land area, just by adding some black lines. No. So we are almost done with this painting, few more details and we are done. And if you're trying it out, do tag me on my Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery. I will love to reshare your artwork. And I really loved doing all these series of painting that are seven paintings in this. So I'm sure you will also like it, too. Like, each and every details, I have tried to capture it and tried to explain it. And if you will follow each and every step of mine, I'm sure you will be able to do it. So white textures I'm adding, watery textures. Take very little little color when you are adding these textures, and you will be able to do it. So I hope you enjoyed this series and just follow each and every process and you will be able to do it. So this is the entire painting, little bit of more yellow I'm just adding. Here in there. Now, final detailing is a never ending task. You have to end it somewhere. So whenever you feel that you are done, so this is the entire painting, and do try it out, and I'm sure you will love this entire series, and you will learn a lot of detailed painting in this, especially with your acrylics. And thank you so much for all your support. And do check out all these tutorials and do share your artworks. Last final details. And thank you so much for watching. 49. AuroraLight: Welcome back. So let's start with Aurora Lights. So Winter painting is incomplete without these Aurora lights. So let's first do a little bit of sketching, and then we'll start with painting this beautiful Aurora lights. So let's start first with a little bit of sketching using our pencil. It's a very simple sketch where we have to just draw the mountains and a little bit of light patterns. That's it. A very simple sketch it is. So a little curvy lines below the center line. It is not exactly in the center, as you can see, because I want the maximum to be the sky and less to be the foreground. So a little bit of tree lines which is there and then the mountains, the whole mountain range, which will be above. So starting from the center mountain and as we'll go towards both the sides, it will be a smaller size mountains. A very simple sketch of these mountains, which is a mountain range. Also some light patterns which I will be drawing above. Simple light patterns. I'm just drawing with pencil so that when I will color it, I know where to put the colors. So this much is a drawing. Now we will focus on the colors which will be needed here. So let's discuss about the colors first. So lots of colors here. First color is the teal color, then fluorescent yellow, white, serium blue, then violet, Prussian blue and black. So all these colors we will be needing for this complete painting. Let's start first with the background. So first, I will do these lights which are there, and then I'll start filling it up with the darker color that is Trician blue and sum blue. Using my flat brush, I'll first take this color which is steel color with a mix of little bit of fluorescent yellow to it. Starting from the center we'll go towards the above, and as we are going towards the above, it is becoming a little thicker. You can see when you add fluorescent color, it becomes so bright. Now, if you don't have fluorescent color, you can use cadmium yellow also here. Currently, my focus is just on the blocking of colors. That's it. So first, I will block in all these light colors which are there, and then we'll start with the blending and all these things. Similarly, others, also, I will be filling it up with the same color. So currently, my focus is to draw the patterns which are there in the sky and then we'll start filling up with the darker colors. And M Now using this Prussian blue and starting to fill up the center part first. So slowly, I'm just moving the brush and filling this darker color and to the sides this serum blue. And slowly I'll start blending both the colors together. Now for blending, you can use round brush also. You can use blender brush also for blending the colors. You can use round brush, but you have to use a thick round brush and a damp brush. It should not be wet, it should be damp. Then only you'll be able to blend the colors. My teal color is a little bit wet so it can easily blend with this blue color. If it is not wet, your color, you have to reapply that color and then again, blend the colors. So this is how we blend. Both the color has to be wet when you blend the colors. Similarly, we'll be doing other parts also. I to use the side tip of your brush. Here you can use the round brush also. It's totally up to you which brush you want to use. You can use round brush, you can use Filbert brush, you can use flat brush. Whichever brush you are comfortable with, you can use. So taking again urium blue to the sides and blending the color with the teal color. I've just applied, but blending, I do with the blender brush. Similarly, I will be applying to the others also, other side also, and just applying another coat on the sides of this part. Both the sides. And taking a little bit of white mix and going down because down, it is a little bit lighter version of blue. It's a night scene, but because of these lights, the version of blue, which is near the mountain is a little lighter in color. So that's why I've used your serraeum blue. Similarly, I will be doing the other side also. Since this is a first coat of the background painting, it's fine if the colors are not blending because currently we are only focusing on the colors which will be needed for the background. So don't worry if it is not blending properly. If there are lots of brush marks, it is completely fine. When we will do the second coat, then we'll fix those issues. See with my round brush, I'm trying to fill this part with teal color and a mix of blue because this part is a little lighter in color, and there are mountains also which are there below. So try to use the round brush for filling this area. Early, we will be doing the other side also. Try to use thick colors. Tick colors will not dry very fast. You can see how much water I'm using. Water is only there on my brush. That's it. Similarly blocking the other side also. So our background blocking is almost done. Now we will do the foreground blocking and the mountain blocking. 50. Aurora Lights Background Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further with the background blocking. Still, the foreground is left and the mountains are left. So let's first block in the foreground. Now, the foreground which I will first make is with a light color that is mixing all these colors with a little bit of fluorescent yellow also and just applying it above. And as I will go down, it will be more towards the bluish side. So just making it a little bit of because of this light, it is glowing. That's why I made that color. And as we go down, we'll add more lighter color. That is mixing of this violet and the little bit of blue and making a little lighter color. And making it more violety and more bluish like lavender color. So I'm just covering it below, just making a snow color and just covering it below with my flat brush. Simply blocking the foreground. After that, we'll do the blocking of the mountains and the path which is the tree line with the black color. Simply coat, one layer of blocking we have done. Now we will start blocking the mountains and the area, which is the tree line area. So for the mountains, also, we will be needing a very light color that is a mix of serleem blue and white mix, and I'll just cover the above part with my round brush, and the whole mountain series we will cover with this color only. So slowly slowly, I'm just covering the entire mountain part. And then we'll start with the detailing. So whenever you do these types of painting, give a lot of time to it and do it very slowly, patiently and you will see very magical result out of it. If you will follow each and every step of mine, even if you don't know how to do acrylic painting, if you will follow each and every steps, you will be able to do it. Covering the entire part. Mostly the blocking is done just the part which is the tree line area which is there that we have to paint, that we will be doing with the brush that is the small size round brush. First, we will make the edges and then we'll color with black and a little bit of blue mix. So whenever you do such type of tree lines, first do the edges and then start with the blocking of the colors. For making these edges, you can also use your rigor brush that will give a very sharp edge line to it. So once I've created this, I'll just fill it the entire thing with black color. Finally, our blocking is done. Now we'll start with more of the detailing. First, we'll start with the sky and then we'll start with the other details. Before applying any coat, you have to wait for the first coat to dry then only we have to apply the second coat onto it. 51. Aurora Lights Sky Details: Come back. So let's start with the sky details. So my sky has perfectly dried out. Now we can apply the second coat on it. So before applying second goat, you have to wait for the first coat to dry. Similar colors we will be using here again. Again, we will be taking the teal color, fluorescent and a little bit of white also, and thick layer of color I will be applying onto the area, which is the lines which are the lights which are in the sky. So try to use thick color so that at the time of blending, the color will not dry very fast. So here I'm using my round brush for filling it up. You can use any brush of your choice. Now I'm taking my darker color, that is the Prussian blue and applying it in the center. And to the sides, I will apply this violety color, which is the violet color onto the sides, violet or you can say purple color, any color. And after that, I will do the blending of colors. Once I have applied the colors, then with my blender brush, I will try to blend the colors. So whenever you are blending the colors, make sure that the color is wet. Now taking my flat brush and giving a little shape of the light which is there, which is moving above as well as down. Now when you will do this, little bit of colors will go inside this darker color will go inside this lighter color. Don't worry about that. Just wash off your brush, take the color again, the same color and apply it on to it. When it is wet, you can easily overdo on top of it. This is one of the benefit when you're using acrylics. So when you use such type of paintings, you have to do a lot on a lot of laying. It's not just one and two layers, and we are done with it. The more layering you do, the more beautiful your painting looks. So to create a little realistic painting, you need to do a lot of laying. So here you can see I'm just using my blender brush and trying to blend the colors and also pushing the color little above, the lighter color. Now taking the same brush and again, applying this lighter color in the center and pushing it above a little bit so that it looks like it is blended in this darker color. Also, we'll apply the darker color below. So here you can see I'm using the same blender brush. You can use any brush for applying the colors. It is totally up to your choice, whether you want to use flat brush, round brush, blender brush, any brush, it's just that you know how to use it. Now, the lighter color, which is near the mountains by mixing the lighter blues and a little bit of teal to it. Now again, taking this lighter color and putting it in the center and pushing the color upward. Also, I'll push the color a little bit downward as well. Now again, when I'm pushing it downward, again, this color has come up. Again, I will apply that same color which is there just to remove that line. Slowly, slowly, we have to proceed like this one by one. One side we have done. Now we will do the other sides also, which are there in a similar manner. So again, applying the lighter color. Try to apply thick color. So again, when you apply thick colors, colors will not dry very fast, and you can easily blend the colors with your damp brush. Whenever you are blending any two colors, try not to use wet brush. Never. You should never use wet brush, otherwise, your color will start lifting up. So try to use damp brush and then slowly blend the colors with a very light pressure of your hand. So you can see slowly, slowly, I'm just moving to one block, then another block. So like this, we have to do the painting of the sky when we are using acrylics. So just trying to blend the colors more Now we will do the rest of the parts which are there. I'm taking a little bit more of teal because my teal has been over, you can see a lot of teal is used over here. Now let's move further. Again, I'm repeating the same process in the second block, first applying the darker color, then the lighter color and then simultaneously, I will blend the colors. Blending it first over here. You can see you can blend with your flat brush also. So it's not like only the blender brush works for blending. You can use any brush for blending the colors and do it with very light pressure. So trying to give it a little shape. A little bit more of darker lines. Similarly, we will be doing the other parts also. Slowly, slowly the shape is coming up, try to do it very patiently when you are doing such things because all these things requires a lot of patience. So every time you have to wash off your brush when you're using a darker color. So lighter color I'm just applying, that is the violet color which is there. So you can see this part is almost done. Now we will do the other side of it. Similarly, I'm just applying this nice thick color. And then we'll blend it with the darker color. So whenever you are blending the colors, never try to push the color towards the lighter color. Otherwise, everything will turn out to be blue. Try to blend where the two lines are intersecting. That's where you have to blend it. Don't try to push the color towards the lighter side. So this is the second coat which we are doing. After that, we'll do a few more coats to give a nice glowing look to it, as you can see in the picture. Blending it with a lighter color. Giving a little more shape to this light. Also with my blender brush, I'll just try to blend all the colors which are on the other side. So try to blend it very carefully. 52. Aurora Lights Stars And Mountains Detail: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now we'll start adding the stars on top of it. So let's add first these stars. By making a little liquid color we have to make. I have added a little blue to it, which was there on my palette. So just making a color which is thin, whitish, bluish color, and just spraying it all over above. This we have to do it before doing the details of the foreground and the middle ground. Otherwise, here also some sparkles will come up. First, do the upper part, and then again, we will add the lights which are there and then we will move further. But first, we have to wait for this whole sparkles to dry out, and then only we can add the details more. So a little bit of the shape we can give before doing the just adding a little bit of this again, fluorescent color and applying in the center because in the lights we don't need the sparkle, so we can apply that color. Taking a little more amount of white because we will be needing white more. When we add a little amount of white to the color, it becomes more bright and more vibrant. Just applying it with my blender brush and pushing the color above. Similarly, little bit downward. Now my base has dried, so that's why this color is not mixing up with the darker color. Just applying these nice layer of colors. Also, I will apply to the other lights as well. Use damp brush, don't use wet brush when you are doing such details. So whenever we do any type of details where there is water is not needed, we have to use a damp brush for creating all such textures. Again, with my fan brush, I'm using the same fan brush, a damp fan brush, taking the colors and applying the textures in the upward direction so that my colors become more and more thick and layered, applying some more layers in these areas as well. He. So it should not be a dry brush, but it should be a damp brush. Applying to the others lights also, I want to add one more light in between. I'll just add one more layer of this texture here, just pushing this slide above Larly I will add one more light textures in between. And also to the above part as well. Later on, I will make it a little more thicker, just I'm giving a little shape to it with my fan brush. You can see there are so many lights which are there, which are moving above in upward direction, actually. Currently, it is a thin color, but when we'll do the layering of colors, it will become nice, quite glowing light. Now let's do the detailing of this mountain first. With my rigor brush, similar way like we did in the previous paintings, the mountains here also we will be doing a similar way. Using my rigor brush, I'll create the details. Just making the color thin, mixing black and this blue color together, and making it thin and using my rigor brush, and we'll create some nice textures on these mountains. So if you have done my previous paintings, you must have got an idea that how to create these textures. We have used in lots and lots of paintings which we have done especially for the mountains. This is the technique where we use where we create textures one by one. So first I'm creating a outline of it, and then I will just add the textures with my rigor brush. The more and more you will practice such type of painting, the more clarity you will get that how to create the details. I have just shown some of the techniques which you can use in your own paintings while doing it. If you have done all these seven to eight paintings, I'm sure you will be able to do more and more by your own with such type of details. So similar details I'm adding over here. Now, these details are not totally black in color. It is a mix of black and Prussian blue. So some details on the side mountains also. So I'm outlining this. As I'm adding the details to it. So outlining also, you have to do with the similar color. A small textures here and there, you have to add just to show that there are some rocks where the snow is not there and where there are some small trees, just to show with these textures. Similarly, on the other side also, we will be adding Try to do it slowly, carefully one by one. So once we are done with the textures, we will do these front trees which are there, the small tree area where we have painted black and some bigger trees also will be there on this foreground part. The texture detailing we have done for the mountains, now we will add some highlights of this light which is falling on this mountain. But first, we have to wait for this background to dry. Just adding some lines for the trees. So big, some small trees of different sizes are there. Some are also on the ground. Some back trees of different sizes. 53. Aurora Lights Adding Details: Welcome back. Let's start adding more details to it. Now my sky has again dried. Now again, I'm applying a little more layer of lighter color. That is the fluorescent color which is there. Mixing this nice color, which is the tea and fluorescent yellow and just making it more brighter and brighter. Just taking again this fluorescent yellow and applying it in the center to make it more glowing because this fluorescent color adds color to your painting. The glowing effect comes from this. Just adding some more glowing effect to the other areas of the lights which are there. Using my fan brush. Now here also, fan brush should be a damp brush. It should not be a wet brush, applying the nice glowing color and repeating it. As we repeat and repeat the colors because mostly fluorescent colors are transparent in nature. You have to apply three to four layers to it to make it more brighter and brighter. Just adding more layers to this one also to make it more bright. This fan brush is used in so many things, as you can see for making textures, for creating this feathery effect to the sky. Many things you can use this fan brush. This fan brush is actually very important brush when you do such type of paintings. Just taking a mix of white and fluorescent and again, adding some more textures in the center part to make this area a little bit more flowing. Oh you can see so many layers you have to apply when you are doing such type of painting. The more the layers you will apply, the more beautiful it will look. So now we will do the details of the below part also for the grown part and for the trees and the mountains. This just adding some more glowing effect. Try to add more and more layers until unless you are satisfied. Always try to use your damp brush for putting the color in the upward direction. Now, again, taking a little bit of color and just applying it in the center part a little bit more yellow and pushing it downward. Again, applying a little bit in the center. Now you can see that glowing effect has started coming up when I'm adding more and more layers to it. Now let's take the fan brush and add some more glowing effect to the area which is the mountain area, which is here, a little bit of textures in the down part of the mountain, just to show that some lights are falling on the mountain. You can see how glowing it is looking when you have added these details. Just to show that these lights are falling on the mountains as well as on the ground part as well. Similar way I'm doing here also like I did in my previous painting some textures of this nice teal and yellowish color, then a little bit more of whitish color below and a little bit more purplish dark color below. All these textures just to create some nice effect of the snow a little bit of more light textures with white. A little bit onto the mountains and to this black area which is there. Everywhere where I'm using the textures, I'm using a dry brush. Try to use dryush or damp brush. Don't use wet brush by creating these textures. Now I'm just adding a little bit more whitish textures on these mountains just to show some snow area which is there. Now, once we are done with the mountain details, now we will start adding details to the tree lines which are there. Everywhere where detailing is there, you have to use your rigger brush, wherever you have to create fine details, you have to use a liquid color like here I'm using the black color, which is a little liquid form. If you will use dark color, you will not be able to create such textures. So try to use liquid color whenever you want to create details. So bigger trees, some small trees. Trees also we have done so many times in this winter scape painting. By this time, I'm sure you must have got an idea that how to create these textures. A So everywhere I'm just adding these trees, small, big size, different different sizes. So whenever you are starting this painting series, try to start from the first because the first one is the easiest and the last one is the toughest, it goes like that. As you will go one by one, you will feel that it is becoming more and more easy for you because I've started with easy one and then I'm ending up with a difficult one. Some more smaller trees. Now, trees actually are very important, especially the pine trees when you create winters. This actually adds beauty to your painting, the trees and the snow part. That is the real beauty of the winter. So very small small trees are these. Try to do the detailing very carefully and one by one. 54. Aurora Lights FinalDetails: Welcome back to the final details. Let's start first with the tree lines which we were doing. Let's complete that first. All these small small trees. Just adding the textures with my rigor brush, similar way like we did in our previous paintings like the pine tree series where we added all the pine trees, some big, some small. We have done so many pine trees, so now you can just close your eyes and you can do the pine trees by yourself. So here is the thing that the more and more you practice and the more and more you do such type of paintings, the more habitual and more muscular exercise you have. Especially when you hold the brushes. The more practice you do, the more you get it. It's just as that simple. Try to do more and more practice at least for 30 minutes every day, and you will see in next six months something magic will happen. You need consistency and practice. That's it. So little small small trees here and there, I'm just trying to create. Very small trees in size. Small doesn't mean that the trees are of smaller size. It means they are very far away. Just to give the depth of the painting, I'm adding these bunch of trees. You can add your trees in your own way, some in bunches in groups. I totally your painting, so you have to decide how you want to arrange your entire trees and everything. Little bit of areas where there are stones or some black pebbles or something are there and creating these textures with the same color. Also, I will be adding some grasses here and there. But first, I will just add a little bit of snow to these trees which are bigger trees. Tick colour of white and your damp brush and just try to add some snow. Now this is our last painting of this series, which is the Winter scape. I hope you enjoyed doing all these paintings I really enjoyed doing this and I was very happy with the results that came up very beautiful and very vibrant. I didn't thought of such beautiful paintings, but slowly slowly when I started, it started coming to my mind and the last painting, of course, is the Aurora Lights, which is the most beautiful painting of this winter series. Uh so just adding some details and a little bit of the shadow which will be there for the trees. Just adding some grayish, bluish color and just adding some shadow with my flatbush again, shadow makes your painting look more real, as you can see a little bit of snowy textures on the baseline of this middle area. Oh, so just final textures are left and some grasses also we will add to this ground part. Now to this painting, you can add one big tree also. It's totally your choice. Like I'm just giving you an idea that you can add one big tree, one big stone, one big rock, which is there, then there is a tree, which is a big pine tree which is there, which is filled with snow. Some grasses here and there. Again, thin color. When you are creating the grasses, try not to use thick color. You can see how thin the line is when you use thin color. Just adding some shadow of these grasses. Just adding some shadow effect. Also more glowing light on top, taking some more yellow and adding it to the center to make it more glowing. This is the last part of the layering which we are doing. You can see that we have done so many layers of this color to create a nice glowing effect of this light. Now you can see it is starting to glow up more and more. These fluorescent colors are actually very beautiful when it actually adds beauty to your painting, especially the northern lights which are there. Also, I will add some glazing effect on this top area of the sky just to add some more glazing effect of this yellow color which is there. Make sure that your complete painting is dry, it should not be wet. Make your color thin and just add some glazing effect on top of it. Glazing is nothing but a thin layer of color which is applied on top of any object, and your background color is also being reflected and your top color is also being reflected. You can see how thin color I'm using here. Thin color you have to use and very thin watery color to make it more like a glazing effect. You can see how the colors are changing a little bit when I'm adding this nice yellowish color just to add some glazing effect to it. Whenever you are doing this technique, make sure that your whole background is dry, should not be wet. Not even a single bit of thing should be wet. Again, taking my fan brush and adding some more highlights of yellow. Giving a final touch to my painting. I'm sure you will also love doing this. It's a very beautiful and very vibrant painting, which if you will do each and every step of mine, I'm sure you will be able to do it. If you're trying out all these projects, do tag me on my Instagram. That is Mohini Art Gallery. I will love to re share on my story. And this is our eighth painting of this series, which is the bonus painting. I hope you loved the surprise which came up. Adding some more highlights. As a little more darker color in between. I hope you enjoyed the whole series of winterscape where I have taught each and every part of it, I have tried to teach each and every part of it. Till then we'll meet in our next lesson. Try out these paintings and two tag me on my Instagram that is Mohini Art Gallery. Again, one last layer of yellow, and then we are done with it. Thank you so much everyone. We'll meet in our next class, which will come very soon.