Winter Inspired Holiday Cards for 28 Days

1. Introduction : As I also have the leaves of the tree falling days becoming shorter, Knights becoming longer, temperature dropping. I know winter has arrived. If you do, are smitten by nature, snow, bonds, hot cup of coffee, sledges, Christmas decoration, find trees, scheme, rope, and much more. As well as packing all of this in a Christmas card and sending our experiences to your loved, near and dear ones this Christmas and New Year. Then this class is for you. Hey guys, I am Pentagon and then artist instructor on mother and a Skillshare teacher from India. Many of you might already know me and to the people who are joining me for the first time, I go by the name watercolor illustration. Later on Instagram, most of my artwork said displayed over there. As we progress to the coldest few months of the year and the last season. I just talked to get a class for you all, which would help anyone sharing everything about your own experience through watercolors. As a beginner, it was so tough for me to paint humans. Sledges would, lanterns, snowballs, Norman houses, bonds. I restricted myself to only landscape part. I want to help you try subjects which are interesting as well as easy, just with a few tips and tricks. Any beginner, intermediate or advanced level artist can nail it. So we start from the basic watercolor supplies, breaking every subject into simple steps, sketching, lettering with watercolors, and adding final details. Lastly, because of the variety of topics which is included in this class, it would be around for 28 days with necessary bricks on Sunday. Come and join me. And let's explore the magical winter season with watercolors. 2. A few pointers: I would love to discuss a few pointers before we go ahead with this class. The fastest above the supplies, you do not need to use all the supplies that you see me using, whatever is available with you is good to go. So go ahead and use status available with you. The second is that you need to be really, really patient with this medium. Watercolors is rewarding. Only when you are patient. You do not think about the final outcome. You enjoy the process of painting toward us. Do not compare your work with others. Always start off with your first day and compare it with the last day where you are enjoying it. And I'm pretty sure you would be more than happy to have a look at it. Lastly, I have uploaded all the projects and the project section. They wise day one, day two, day three, day four. So go ahead and download the projects. That would be really on guidance for you to go through the entire process of watercolors for d1 to the final 28th day. Now, let's start with our materials required. 3. Materials Required: Let's discuss all the materials which we need for completing the painting. They are starting with watercolor, a 100 percent cotton Arches 300 shares some people. It is 140 LB and 15215 centimeter that the size which I would be using. Hence, I am going to cut this papal into two equal halves. Always keep the tissue handy. It's severe. Scale. A pencil. You have to use a few brushes. Before that, we will just keep append. Now this is a waterproof pen that I'm using from table castle. Along with it, two kinds of reasons. It's better to use a kneadable eraser, a compass for making circle, but you can use any other hacks to make the circles. I'm going to use or half an inch tape as well as a very thin tape of six MM. This would be for masking my trees. You can use to stay oral, some masking fluid orals. You can also go ahead with any other kind of masking tape that is available with you. I will be using some salt for my snow, hence, just keep it handy for few of your paintings. I will be using four different brushes. One is my size two, round up all our brush, then my size say silver black velvet brush, size six brush. And a size 0 has caught up liner brush. These are the brushes which I'm going to use for completing all my paintings. I am keeping our masking fluid eraser. Now this helps me to pick up any masking fluid. Masking fluid will only be used in one of the paintings since we are covering a lot of techniques. So this was a technique that I wanted to cover, hence using it. It is from Sennelier, keeping a spray bottle or whenever it is necessary to spray water, you can put likely do it and then it would become more wet. That is, the wetness of the paper will increase. We would be using two jars of water. This is an acrylic sheet on top of which I would be pasting my sheet and would paint over that. So these are the supplies that are required along with it. Let me take you through all the colors that I have. I have a lot of colors and pains, but we are not going to use all of them. There are selected film which I'm going to use. And before we start every painting, the list of paints would be given. So go ahead and check it out. They're mostly all of these are professional grade paints, starting with White Nights, Daniel Smith, Winsor, and Newton, Japan k. These are majorly the brands that I use. Do not worry about the supplies. Whatever is available with you is good to go Just a 100 percent cotton paper is really important for watercolor paintings. 4. Day 1 Cold Winter Night: Let us discuss all the colors which we need for completing this cold winter night. Halo blue, violet, white quash, burnt sienna, red, proud, and paint screen. I have genuinely kept the first one a bit on the easier side, as we progress slowly, you will understand how V would be progressing with each and every different subject and tips and tricks, as well as hex, which can be used for completing each and every painting. I do observe it on a bigger screen because bigger screen will help you to understand all the smaller details that you would like to add for this painting. Hit us. This is the first Christmas card painting. Nando v will be celebrating this holiday season with some snow. It has to be slow. If it is holiday season, we are going to make a night sky. We will use so very minimal colors. So for the night sky, it's only the trees that you need to paint a bit in detail. So go ahead and start down marking this tree. Not please again now nature. So go ahead and painted any way you want. For me. Nature is absolutely random and there is no best way to paint nature. You can go in any way you want. And then just add another tree on the left side. It would help you do add perspective to your painting. Now how do you see perspective? This is what often foreground tree. And I think both up foreground tree, It's just that the other one is a bit far off compared to the one that you do draw right now. That's the only difference. So while you are adding these two trees, one aspect of perspective is to scale. Now, what do you mean my scale? Scale means how big your objects should be. The foreground is the main tree that you see. Therefore, that should be the dollars. Dan. You can go ahead and painted any way you want. Whereas if you have another tree, that is they're pretty far away from the one that you did all the ad in your drawing. It needs to be a bit more smaller. And that's how we will set the perspective. Once you are done with this, then you have to add the scale for your mountains. How much you want to leave it for your sky, and how much you want to add for your mountains. The horizon line is majorly. You can see about 60 percent of the sky and 40 percent is ground, something like that that we have added orals. You can also keep it at 65, 35. I would leave that up to you. I have added just do three lines for the mountain area and then I'm going ahead for those. Mean. There are only two trees in the foreground and I would be masking that alien with a very thin masking tape. You can cut your own masking tape or washy tape, whatever is available with you. I'm practically using a washi tape. Washi tape is pretty easy to remove. And that's one of the reasons I do not want to take risk with my masking tape. I have seen many cases that the masking tape does not easily come off from the sheet and that really gives a very big problem. Then you are trying to work with watercolors and on top of your watercolor paper, where you will apply some colors. It would be really difficult situation. Hence, just try to use a washi tape if possible. And in case it is not possible, then you can blue awesome part here while you plan to remove your tape. That would be the idea and go slow about adding these. What she did. It's not like you have to do it really quick and easy. It takes a while to add these, and I'm also doing it slowly if you observe the right-hand side is more wider, whereas the left-hand side has more thinner. Which means that I need to shape it up. How big would the head off my scissors? That's absolutely fine. You know, there is a small problem when it comes to adding these washi tape. If you have long needle, see it is difficult to take all of this stuff. And I have these, this relevancy to see, That's it. That's one thing though. Rich kind. Then it's good if you do not have nails or if you have smaller Niels, it's easier to peel it off and even add it. Okay, I guess that song and I have full or be added it on the first tree. We will again add it on the next one. Once you add this, so I think then you can go ahead and start painting the background. The background will be in now two colors that is more of your blue and purple. We will be mixing these two colors and then adding it. Along with that, I will add some white for the sky. You will see how beautiful it turns out completely. There will be more of gradient as well as fabricated Bosch which you observe in this case, every painting which you would be doing, we'll come up with a new technique as well as you would understand so many different hacks and styles in which you can paint and launch new subject every day. So hang in there and just start adding all of it along with me. All the paintings of your time. This gives you the opportunity to practically understand how you can paint quickly, as well as in our real-time scenario, how much time you wouldn't need except the drying time, guys. I haven't included they're trying time. That would be too much of boring part. And you can, of course, try it with the driver. I do not prefer using the dryer even in the window season. So I do let it dry on its own. It takes a while. And I do understand sometimes we do not have so much of patients. But you can start off with another painting in the meanwhile. Give it some time for the first one to dry off and then add the second day. Most of these paintings are done in two layers. So which gives you the opportunity to not be worried much as we are not going to work a lot on layers, which is like working less on layers and working more on the subject. Understanding the subject and understanding the various landscapes, then your trees, Christmas season, the snowball. I have included their deal than us know, man, what not everything that you can think off is included in this particular class. And I've started off well with Taylor blue. Along with Taylor blue, I have even taken some amount of purple. Now, this is a great combination when I think about it initially, I was a bit skeptical about how it would work. But I did try both of these color on a piece of paper and then went ahead with it. It's a great way to always try your colors if you haven't taken my audio class on Paeony, which is seven days of your floral painting in seven different style. I would ask you to go through that. It has this thing included in it. We do try our colors on a rough piece of paper and then go about it. I usually paint all of these at least two times, which is one of the reasons that you do not observe me doing it each and every time whenever I am painting. Why I say this? I love to experimenter to once on my own and then only come up with a final painting. This is a practice that I have been observing for a lot of my time bang for, for a long, long time. I would say for most of my classes, for most of my paintings. This has been the practice. Along with it. Let's get back to our painting and I'm adding some colors in a few areas and water and few areas, I would let the water do its work. This has been the case. Every time the painting, I love to add water, I love to add pigments. That's one reason you can observe these magic of water happening. In most of the alias. Guys do understand that watercolor is magical. Watercolor has got its own power. You cannot control watercolors. It's not a medium, which can be, actually, it's less of a forgiving medium, I would say you cannot get back on your mistakes. Hence, you need to be very sharp. That's one of the reasons I was saying that I do paint twice. At least to understand how do I want to progress for a painting? There have been so many times that I've discarded the first one and gone with the second one later on. That's okay. I think I think the oil have a different way of tackling and handling as subjects as well as understanding how we want to go about working with our paintings, as well as working with a medium like this one. You might have a different way of working. So this is my particular day and it has really worked wonders for me till now. Go ahead and add some amount of your white. This white is practically very, very beautiful. I can't tell you how beautiful it is. It is a white gouache that I'm using, but you can also use titanium white. Titanium white is again an opaque medium and it would give us similar effect like what you observe right now. I am using mostly Winsor and Newton professional grade paints in case you are having a professional raping, that's the best orals you might have to work in layers. The color that you observe right now will not be the color that we would get once that paper dries off and you can see the difference right now. So whatever color you are adding, you need to know that it would be one or two shade lighter once it dries off. If you are using student rate means it would be at least two to three shapes that I told. That's one of the reasons I always say that try using artist grade paints. Go ahead and add some amount of your dog ground. How do you make this dark brown? Just add some amount of your burnt sienna on top of this blue and purple mixture that you had. And start adding small, small drops off, small, small lines here and there. We are adding foster foreground mountain, and then we would be working on the background mountain. What is important to note over here is that while you are, these are dark brown patches. They should be it should not cover the whole of the mountain. They should pay the light which is visible on the mountain. And believe me, it makes this mountain looks so much more interesting. The color of the sky is reflected on this node. And these are just the ridges and the small, small rocks that you usually observe on a mountain. Hence, so that's how we will go about it. I'm pretty sure you're going to love this one once you are done with the background and the foreground mountains. So it would be super amazing to see how the whole of the painting just comes to life. Why I say this? Because this is basically the scale. Now, I have earlier told you about the scale part scale is majorly to understand what is in the background and what does it look for crop along with it to scale also helps us to understand perspective. So usually we like to just draw when horizon line to understand that this is where my land or the sea is and above this would be the sky idea. That's how I think we are going to go about. It. Hits going to be simple, easy, interesting, just going a bit slow so that you can paint along with me and keep on adding these colors along with it. Just make sure that your wash, which you were doing is not very watery. You need to have a dreamy wash, which is majorly your pigments and less of water in it. Corals. This kind of dry brush technique will not be possible in case you have lot of water on your brush and just dab off the extra pins on a piece of tissue and then start off. After that, I need to tell you that I'm using my size two brush. This is a polar series which I'm using. And this really helps me to get this kind of an ethic pretty easily. So whichever brush that is available with you is good to go. But smallest size is really important. Do not go with mop brush and brush usually has a lot of water content entered. And that will not be the best choice for this painting. Go with any kind of synthetic brush or any kind of other brushes that is available with you. I did more or DACA values for the foreground commandments and for the background mountains, I'm adding the less of darker values. So more of lighter values over there. For my ground, I would act this kind of patches of brown. Why? There are rocks? There are small, small bushes that are usually seen. They have lost their leaves part, they are still there. Hence, we need to add these small, small details. I have a mini vd lA brush with me and I can use that branch for the wingless technique. Or else you can also use your simple size two brush and add these kind of smart, smart dry brush technique and lines over here. It is pretty interesting. Only this detailing part will take a lot of time. Practically. The painting is the background and the foreground tree. The tree will also take some good amount of time. Why I'm saying this? As this tree will be a bit more detail. And so many of you have always asked me how do I pay increase? So this would be one off my good tutorials where you can learn how you can muscular trees and how to campaign to your trees pretty easily. Trees are, again in nature, as I have told you earlier. So go any way you want to. There is no rule as such of pink drink trees. So you can use whatever is available and howsoever you want to paint it, go ahead and do it. Just paint your heart out. I always say this, enjoy the process. Do not think about the final outcome. There will be some exact matches, and there will not be some exact matches, which means Google be in a position to produce good outcomes. Sometimes and sometimes it might not be your day. That's it. So never get disheartened. And believe me, by the end of this class, once you finish this 28 days, you will be in a position to see how much you have improved as an artist. As we are going to cover a variety of subjects. It's not only going to be about trees, it's going to be landscape. It's going to be about your bonds, then your dear bird, snowman. Whatever you can think for the winter season. I have tried to include everything in this particular Christmas card series. We have to enjoy this tying all of our science and jovial and happy mode. This is the time to give to your near and dear ones. So these kind of gods or rails, these kind of holiday messages, try to paint it. It really gives a special message to all of them. I might sound pretty traditional to many of you, but believe me, on hand painted, God is so much of emotion that you can convey. It cannot be done with something that is bought. Of course, I do understand that there are times where you are not in any position to do anything and this is the only way out to that you have by something and gifted. That's absolutely fine. But if you can take out at least 30 minutes in a day, then I think you would be in a position to paint. It leads to a few out of these, which can be really helpful for anyone. And keep on adding these colors. Now what are the colors that I'm using for my tree? First is the burnt sienna and then is the red brown. Now what does the red brown that I'm using and usually adding some amount of carmine. Or you can also use crimson to burnt sienna. And some, when I came round, it has to be a darker value. Along with it. You have to keep in mind that it's not very watery. Over here. We have less water on the brush. The brush that I'm using, of course this has caught optimal brush. You have seen me using this brush in most of my classes and that degree, this is one of the best investments that I did there late for my brushes. Any of you who wants to buy this brush should go ahead and invest in it. Once you are more familiar with watercolors and do want to add good brushes to your kitty. This, I would say y. Of course there is lot of impact when you use quality supplies. Initially, when you are learning, it's not required as I always see. But once you are done with it, you really need these kind of supplies to just become better and better at this one. I am branching out my tree towards the top atria. It is the darker value that I'm using. I'm mixing my red brown with some amount of blue and using it for the darker value, you minimal supplies are minimal colors wherever possible. Yeah. I know every time it is not possible and we cannot do it. So that is perfectly fine. You do not need to do it at each and every point in time. But there are times where we can use less colors and whatever is available on our palate can be used in a better way. Why to leave any color unused starting your palate? It's expensive, right? All your art supplies are pretty expensive and we should use it to their full potential. Once this is done, this part of the tree, I would go to the other one and start adding more branches to it. Overall. I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out. You can add more branches to it if you want. Polo's leave it here. I would leave that decision up to you, but do not overwork. Now, overwork is so you should know exactly where to stop in case you just keep working, keep working, keep working. What usually happens is that you will overwork on a painting and it would not be the best thing that can happen. So do make sure that you're not all working on any of your paintings on the, hence, you get to understand the painting in a better way, as well as you give it the time and energy that is needed. And along with their Keep it Simple as well as easy. I have added a quick shadow as the moonlight that we will be painting, the shadow which you do observe on your snow area. There are some highlights of the moon that I want to add to my ground as well as to the area of my mountain. Again, I'm using my size 2 as CTO, bola brush to add saw highlights. It is very less. So do make sure that you are not adding a lot of it. Dry brush technique, you have already learned that. So using the same technique for adding all of these highlights. I'm going to paint the next tree now in few of the ideas you might have also, even foreign TO forestry, I did use the white of the people, which I did preserve initially while I mustered with the help of my washi tape. And you can also use any masking fluid or anything. Now you want to form masking the Sadia. This is a hack which I have been using pretty often, even in my bowl, right? C-d, his, I did use this hack for painting trees. It comes really handy as well as it looks so amazing. Extending the top area, fall off the tree, and adding some branches to it. Again. The whole idea is not to complicate this painting much. It's a landscape painting. And this is the first in the series. As you already know, there is a lot that is coming. We will be slowly adding more and more interesting aspects into the sun, 28-day CDs. It is not going to be only about landscape, as scientists tell you earlier, there could be a lot of subjects that we're going to cover better people, it's humans, your animals. So anything under the sun that you can think of is going to come and you're going to witness the magic of watercolor is in each one of these subjects. Okay? Keep adding more and more branches wherever necessary, but do not fill up the entire tree. As I do say, we are always going to go with the flow. And what happens is ending up the overworking on a subject that is not required. I would leave it up to this point and just had a few lines. So to make it more interesting, once you have added these lines, make sure that there are one or two small, small bushes and smile, smile of branches that even arise from the bottom. And even you need to add the shadow for the left side though, pre that you have some final details. And then it is done now, do make sure that your paper is completely dry before you peel off your deep. Anyway, I need to just meet the sum moon of bit more soft. So I think some white quash on the edges. Once I am honored the white quash, I need to add a few stars. You can use your Jelly Roll pen to add these stars, Orion's, you can also use the tip of your brush to add the stars. I would leave the decision up to you how you want to go about it. It's easier with the Gelly Roll pen to add the stars. I'm going with our blending brush and it's damp. So just using that damp brush to create this soft effect. I think by now you know that damp brush has got a lot of use, whether it be picking up the colors and in colors, making more softer edges, everything. Then I say I'm adding a few stairs. It means that only a few of them. Okay, So we are not flattering anything over here as there are trees than mountains, et cetera. So I do not want to risk anything right now. Hence, make sure that we're adding it up totally random. Again. His very important funding chalk. So keep that randomness always saw dead. Now, have a final look. 5. Day 2 Camping & Chasing Aurora: Let's discuss on the colors which you need for completing that painting. It is brightly lit green from Sennelier, Prussian blue, white goulash, yellow, orange, burnt sienna, red, proud. Payne's gray or neutral tent or sepia. Aurora Borealis are dancing lights in the sky is one item that the stead in each one of our bucket list time. Many of us have leeches, tar and some of us are still trying to get hold of when can go head and cheese. This beautiful or witness this beautiful phenomena? A Christmas and winter celebration without our rubbery and lessons and complete. What do you say? So let's start with the second day painting. And this is going to be some tank where you are staying and either been Norway or either it be Canada. Any place where you think that you can witness this beauty. Go head and she's her. So forster, what I've done is I have to start at the three small lines for my different mountains that I want to have. Does the foreground mountains as well as the background mountains. Once I've added those lines, I'm going ahead and starting with my paint for entertained. Initially I have added a slanting line and then half circle. So it's not exactly a half circle, it's basically a half oval. And once you have added this half over, you have to go ahead and start extending their tank. Now the 10 starts from the front and you can see towards the light, it is extended. Whenever you see an object like this that you want to paint in a two-dimensional way. You have to go by the rule of perspective. And that is when it is the woods you that would appeal more broader and while it goes away, it would become more smaller. Secondly, according to the rule of perspective, you have to end pretty soon. So you cannot keep extending it on the same size. Hence, when you add these, you have to make sure that it is only limited towards the ground level. It doesn't go beyond the ground level and it doesn't go on to your mountains. How do we do it? It's a very small paper. If you see I just extending a bit towards the right. While they extend from the bottom area of the tank, I have added two slanting lines initially. And then from the top, I'm just adding lines from the middle of this oval towards the blue points that I have already added. The standards are very, very simple dent that I have dr. to add. For this painting. This painting is pretty simple. It's just that I would say it is broken down into Vegas steps. That's one of the reasons you might find it a bit longer. But as you proceed or as you understand how to proceed with this painting, you will find it more and more interesting. Or aura is just a part of the painting. Whereas what we are concentrating on is to even add these tanked, how to add two dimension to your painting, as well as how to set the rule of I have something which is towards the front, all which is in the foreground, needs to be bigger in size and needs to be broader and larger. Where to something that is far away from your eyesight or it is towards the horizon that would appear more smaller. So this one aspect of perspective, if you get, keep in mind most of your paintings you can completely neglect. Throughout this painting, you can even understand a lot more about the vanishing point. So vanishing point is a single point on the papal where all the lines of your dent will converge to. That is to add this two-dimensional effect. Now, this vanishing point is a very, very important aspect of any urban sketching. We will set down their perspective into urban sketching. Do, as we progress in this whole class, do might be quite surprised that how come our urban sketching is about effect. But We'll be painting a house by which you will understand how you can set 2 perspective. And similarly, St. Louis, you can use all the learnings of that in your own painting. So let's just add these small, small lines which is holding your tank. Now the dent will have yellow light and site. So few of the parts you have to meet in the values and few of the parts were being darker values. Before we go ahead and add any colors to over 4 crowns, Let's just add colors to us, guy. That's one of the most, I would say, pots in this painting. And I really do not want to take away the beauty, or I do not want to take away the Aurora from you. Hence, that is the first thing which we would like to go ahead and paint. But do understand along with it. The main subject is not Aurora, it's just in the background. I'm using my bright yellow. And this is again from senior year. You can go ahead with any color status available on your palette. I have been pretty open about your color choices and you can use our hands. Go ahead and replace this green with yellow. And then I'm going ahead with my Prussian blue. The Prussian blue that I am, I think is one of the colors that are really love. And you can use this color very often for your oil rock. In view of the places we will have this darker value of crucial blue and few of the places you have to add a bit of Payne's gray so that everything blends together. That's how I love to add the greens onto my sky. You might have a different method altogether to either it and how you have or how you would like to paint the older. But do understand that the current sky that you also is not what we will have to not find grouping thing. Yeah, it might look a bit dicey that how come if this not working the way we want. And so everytime what you see or what do you also is not how complete being linked on South. That's an aspect which I want to tell you. There are times where I have added colors and I'm not happy with it. What I do usually is I go ahead and just add some water on GAAP offered. That helps me to this place called the color as this is a wet on wet and wet on wet, really gives us the opportunity to play with the colors a lot more than wet-on-dry. Where does I will not benign that? I do not like to work wet on dry. I have a complete class about birds and said old days where we work on wet, on dry techniques itself. You might feel the complete sky looks so patchy and it is not up to the mark. That is not how we will get our final outcome. Believe me guys, I am just adding some amount of blue and then green. For the bottom area of the sky, you will see the magic happening on its own. That's all I can say, that magic happens on its own for watercolors, you just need to add a few brush strokes. That's it. Rest. Everything happens. A 100 and so on. You now see how beautifully this guy's turning out for me. I would not play a lot with this guy ADL, why I would say this is a very small area which I am working with. Hence, I do not want to spoil it. So just adding a bit of a darker values of my Payne's gray to goods, the right top area and towards the left top area. And blending it with my Prussian blue. Let this dry off before you start with then next part of your painting. Okay, now's the time. You should know that there should not be much of a work which your door for the sky area. It's important. Why I see this. My paper is 300 years, a 100 percent cotton watercolor. I'll just speak well, that's one of the best paper which is available in the market. In case you do not have a heartbeat, blood type is close to this one. You might get some batch effects. That's one of the reasons I would ask you to stop parts. It might not be the best outcome that you can have. It's okay to have normal Skype, but it's not okay to have a fatty sky, right? That's how I always see my building. That's how I like to go public. And Luke clean the signs of your deep because we do not want any backgrounds. Now, many of you might not know what they mean by background in Parkland means that low water that's on the side we're carrying. Do your job. Think forward in dodo ADR which is still wet and create DO cladding. That's what we do not want. Okay, The next step is to take a look. Hello, I am going ahead with any yellow that is available with you. It can be chromium, it can be any other color. I start from the top area and while extending towards the bottom, I would add some amount of my orange and then my burnt sienna. You can either go with burnt sienna, you can go with red brown, whatever is available on your palate. If you do not have this column coordinates red brown, you will observe me using it in many of my other places. I wouldn't ask you to just mix a bit of carmine into your burnt sienna and you would get a color that is close to this one. I will now go ahead and add my burnt sienna from the bottom. If you observed, I will start adding the burnt sienna in a way that it blends automatically with the colors that I've already applied. Now since the color then I've applied this wet, it is easier for it to play. Now, in case your paper is dry, then you have to make sure to blended with a bit of water so that all the colors just blend well together. But if your paper is wet enough, then this is the best way to do it. I'm still using Arches paper as the shooting of this class was done now when it was still pretty hot in the non-dot side of India. But if you are in somewhere where it is cooled and humid, then you can go ahead with other kinds of people like Fabriano or hadn't milli. So these papers can also work well in those climate. I would say try to work on your paper and see how much time you get to work on it though when you apply water. That would really help you to go through this particular painting pretty quickly and easily while you have for the done this part of your tank, I will now go ahead and start adding the darker values. You only have the blue moderate. So if you had the blue, you can mix that blue vitriol burnt sienna, and get darker brown, kind of an color like this one. Even you have the beam splitter. You can make stopping screen with the darker brown color and get this kind of data which is absolutely fine. These are what I would always like to do. I would not like to add a lot of colors. I am a person who likes to go ahead with it. Don't monochrome or else going ahead with the colors that is minimum or required to the point for a painting. If you aren't a lot of colors, which is not even required for a painting, you will find yourself lost. And you would be more struggling with the gallows rather than concentrating on painting. So go ahead and add the darker values of this Payne's gray towards the bottom of your tank area. Once you are done with this small dent Alia, we have to work on our background. We haven't still touch dark background the Dow since the background is pretty simple compared to the tenant, tenders, more difficult part of this painting. And I always love to keep their difficulty towards the beginning. Why I say this? I have all the energy to work through it slowly, steadily. You can get all the energy and you will find this creative process more interesting, where we will even work with difficult subjects to goods the end drag them working. Towards the beginning part of this painting. I know you have already painted for the day one, and it was more about trees and how you being a dad. So each and every painting is different from each other, which really helps you to understand and get. An idea about how you have to deal with different subjects, even on Christmas or holiday cards. So none of us want to get bored. Painting seem subjects rate. There are so many times we keep on painting the same subjects. Do it is pretty interesting. According to me, I love to paint nature and I love to paint the same thing, one after another, one after another. But there have been times where we love to understand more within one single class. And that's the major idea of this class to add as many subjects as possible so that you gain all the knowledge by attending only one class. You do not need to go ahead and again, a lot of classes for gaming, all the knowledge. Okay, let's get back to the mountain painting now. Go ahead and use this mix that you have created with your Payne's gray. Or you can even take any dark brown mixture that you have, like your Van Dyke brown or any other brown bike, CPI, et cetera, that you can use for this painting. Go ahead and start adding to these darker patches for your mountain. I'm using my size two brush technique over here. You can also use the dry brush technique or just use any bigger brush to add this damp brush technique. There is a simple way of doing this. Just dab off all the extra toppings oral. So take more of pigments from your ballot and then start adding this dry brush technique for your mountain area. You have also done this in many of your other classes. Or if you are a beginner, you might not have done this right. Now. In that case, you have to dab up all the extra pins on God issue and then start adding the colors onto the mountain area variable you find. It is going to add more value and impact dead. I would be adding more of the darker values or I would draw and more of pigments. Hence, it is not completely dry brush technique. It is batches that we're going to add. Whereas most of the other areas, that is to say the snow pack will be with the dry brush technique. Once this mountain part has dried off, just add a bit of a lighter green color on the area of the mountain. It is a very, very light wash, which means that you have only 50 percent pigment or something like that. And restore this water. Water will do its magic. And that's the most important aspect of watercolors. I would say, adding a bit of blue here and dead, and then going ahead and move to other parts of the mountain. Once you are done with this bug, we have to move to this area a minute around the tank. Now there will be a reflection of the light on the snow and that you need to add. Once you have added the yellow, we'll go ahead and start adding a bit of blue. Or you can also go ahead with the green, that is the color of the sky for your ground AD. I think line now this painting looks way to do the point to the point in a way that it has taken care of most of the aspects that is required in a painting. It has a dent in the foreground. It has the mountains in the background and the skies also done splattering of the stars and the adding more darker values. So for some of the ideas of the tent is important, like this, smarts months, three straight lines, which we did add, that is holding the tank and that is basically any kind of fraud, et cetera, that you will use for this. I have tried to make it more realistic. But if you want, you can also avoid these stripes to add more realism, but in a way that it doesn't look like. It's absolutely realistic and it's not watercolors, watercolors, it's all about it's flow. Watercolors, It's about how to make it more and more interesting. Let it down slow, let your water do its job. So all of that you have to make sure is there as an element in your watercolor painting. I think I'm adding some amount of water right now to blend it wherever. You think that there's more than required to take off all the extra pins with the help of your damp brush. That's how I have done it even in many of my other painting, dry brush technique is helpful for the mountains. In the similar way, your RAM down brush technique is very helpful for lifting off your lungs. Now, lifting off is a technique that you will learn and you will understand. It is going to work wonders in your watercolor journey. Some more batches. So with your brush status, darker value, so for your mountains and then just leave it there. I think you can even leave it right now if you want or loads go ahead and unmute follows. So as I'm done, I would leave that decision up to you. It is just some the that I'm running. This part is majorly about detailing agriculture. We have reached a stage where we are only left with some of the details. And you have to understand that we are not going to overwork. Go on this painting. This painting has exactly turned out the way we want Bird. Hence we have to actually leave it there, I would say, okay, let your painting dry off and then use these marks from your pen. Now why I'm using, it is more easier for us to use a pen. Any black pen that is available with you. It should be waterproof. That's PEDOT. And I am also using or feeble gas. So black pen for this technique and adding some lines becomes more easier. I am a firm believer, even if you were to ignore, you can use any kind of hack that is available with you, whether it be using your compass, scale, anything slowly. As you progress in your journey, you do understand how to paint on your own, how to actually go freehand. So all of this doesn't come overnight. It takes a while for each one of us to understand that and work on it. Hence, I am always open to using any kind of acts that is possible. All of these paintings, as you progress, you will understand some men I'm using offend somebody, I'm using a compass somewhere, I'm using salt. There are many other ways in which I use all the kind of hacks possible for my painting. It might sound a bit weird for many people who are advanced level artists by this whole class is focused on beginners and intermediate artist. And frankly, when we are just starting out, we do not have that kind of brush control. It comes over time and you have to develop. So using these kinds of hacks becomes pretty simple and easy for any artist who has started off their journey. Okay, I'm adding more lines and these lines look so interesting to me now. Keep adding more and more lines possible wherever necessary, just add these wants more rods. And if you see how you can go over these marks to make it more broader wherever it is connecting to these rods. So do make sure that you do these small, small things and keep these in mind. You know, it really adds so much of value and depth to your painting. I cannot tell you how interesting your painting will look in that way. Okay, go head and just to see your painting now, do really wanted to work on it more. I think it's only the sky where we need to splatter the stars. So just add this flattering of stars. If you want, I will suggest you to cover your area and then go ahead with the splattering part. The covering of that then would really help you to not add this white goulash and up off your debt. Now, I am more used to these techniques, hence, it's easier for me. But if you are just starting out or even you are in the initial stages of your watercolor journey. Go ahead and use by Jelly Roll pen, that really helps to add the biggest stars. I just started some smallest stars with the help of my size two, brush for the biggest stars, I'm using my Gelly Roll pen. This during all penance, very, very handy and many other cases you will observe when we paint our bridges, when we being some other lines, etc. highlights everything can be covered, but I guess So this is it. Let's remove the paper at an angle and have a final look at our painting. I would meet you with the date three painting. So hanging dead. And I think you will have all the fun in this class. 6. Day 3 Red Christmas Barn: Let's just get to know the colors which we need for competing the painting. It's Prussian blue, white, washed red, maroon. It can be viral maroon or any maroon that is available with you as well as CPM. You can also use red brown if you do not have the Maryland, so I do leave it up to you. What are the colors that you want to use? And I have used all of these three colors. That is your red brown, perylene, maroon, as well as dread for completing this painting. Start with our day 3, and it's about painting a red barn. I'm going ahead and having a small line with the help of my scale and then making two slanting lines to show the bond. It's going to be a very simple process. Only that a bit of retailing is there. Hence, it's just taking a bit more time compared to the other projects. But believe me, this is one of my own favorite projects. And once you do it, you will even get a hang of how you can be the bands. How even small, small aspects of hiding any barn or adding any shade into your painting can make everything looks so beautiful. I'm going ahead and adding a few more lines that is extending it towards the bottom area. With the help of scale, I like to use scale in these cases. Why I say, as it helps any beginner to get more confident, withdrawing, though drawing does not require any kind of scale. And you can always go ahead and use of free hand to do it. But as bigness, I feel no, we need to gain all the confidence so that we don't feel that we are not making required amount of progress. That's really important to understand. We are here to make progress. And progress means that you can always go ahead and use your tools to whatever possible extent As you go ahead and proceed with your future paintings. Of course, Dr. don't get away from all these tools and just stopping with only on free hand. That would be a great practice. Not only for your drawing, but also how you go about for your painting. Keep adding a few lines to store inside area because all of this is made out of wood. It, which is colored though with the white paint. That's how it is done in hand. I would go ahead and make a window in the middle area of the left side of the bond has you see, and then it is decorated with Christmas and New Year teams. So we would even decorate that with Christmas and New Year. Let's make some lines now these will be visible so that you can see that this would add, again, I say this, that all these bonds are made out of food. We apply some color over it, either in blue, either it be red. That's how we go about it. Just add these lines. It will become easier when you go ahead and paint over it. Now, it's time to add the window. As I did tell you earlier, the process of watercolor is always very simple. Only the whole idea of adding more details at the initial stages, which is your sketching and even guard condition finalization of the drawing takes a lot of time. Now you might argue that they're wrapping text where we do not give so much of Diamond's initial stages and slowly build it up, of course. But as bigness when you are starting out with the painting, it's always important to do a sketching that really helps to add a frame work to your painting now Y or Z or framework. This framework gives a lot more confidence as a beginner or even as an intermediate level artist. And it gives you an idea of how you want to process this whole painting. Process and progress is really, really important to how you can connect both of these once you start adding these lines and the spring, but you just know that this is where I want to add the colors which are in head bonds. And this is where I want to show the snow. This is where I want to show their trees like I am right now. It becomes way more clear in terms of picture in mind. Some loose and simple lines to show the Treatise. Now you can even avoid the stage or we can come back to it later on and add these lines. You can make it directly with your brush. Again, as bigness, I say that we are taking one step closer to perfection. Hence, adding it becomes simple or makes our work more simple and the progress is nice. So go ahead and add some red. The red is really bright and nice. I am so happy to add this color. This red color brings so much of happiness to me. During this season of Christmas and New York, you add these colors and the painting automatically comes to life. You do not need to do much in this case. So as I say, the framework, if you see, I'm slowly adding and building up the framework, slowly adding these colors. So the first is red and other is your carmine, and the last one is your parallel maroon. Now pirate maroon is a very, very beautiful color which you can use in any of your paintings. I would even do a sledge painting where you will observe how beautifully this dark color makes the painting looks so much more dimensional. It adds so much more dimension. Not only in this ledge, there is one more Christmas decoration painting where we do a snowball on the amazing, I mean, how slowly, steadily you can build up dimensions into your painting. Everything had to be teaching you in this particular glass. Just wanting hanging there guys, there's so much that is there. You might feel overwhelmed at 1 in time. But if you keep progressing, I can tell you that this would be very, very rewarding. In a watercolor journey. I have tried to add as many different projects as possible, and none of these projects are similar. So I think that would be pretty happy with how you're fine MOOC. Good days of painting looks like last year I even did or journal. That is painting gang word, cancer therapy. So dark was another aspect which you can always look out for. And once this is done, just leave some parts in the middle of the ADR as your Christmas read, as well as the window which we will be painting. The Christmas red is placed on the window. Now I'm adding some amount of my darker values, iterate become mine or enthalpy parallel maroon. Guys. Again, this whole thing of adding colors doesn't matter much. Of course, it's good to have great colors, but believe me, if you do not even have these colors, you can still nil this painting. There is no rule. Oil, there is no way you will not get it. As it is a very, very simple painting. There is nothing or difficult that we are doing offered heard. It's just more details that we are adding and slowly building it up. Whole of this painting is realtime and your times makes it so much easier for you guys to follow. So follow along with me, paint along with me, and it cannot be a more rewarding process. I can guarantee on it, okay, adding some more of my blue into it. Now this blue, can we prove it in blue? This blue can be any blue that is available with you. There is no rule that you have to go by this blue. It's good to have a darker blue. Of course, that is more watery inconsistency. Always know that when you are adding the colors still consistency needs to be more watery and nice. Now this cell watery consistency will give you way more easier. Look in terms of the snow that unique I have added on the spot and another part of the mind and stuff. Yeah, I am pretty happy with how we keep adding the colors and how one simple aspect of any painting is done with it. And let's have a closer look at how we would be adding the background color. I would be using the same blue that you observe me asking for the band. But I think I would just add a darker value compared to what I did I had for my bond. So I'm just adding this color. I hope you can see it how I make my brush movements. Sometimes it has to watch the bottom, sometimes it does two words, the height, just adding the colors in a very, very simple and easy way. So do not think much while you also add the scholar is very, very simple process. Blending the colors, sang God, I didn't know more water. Water really does its job AD time. You do not need to think much while you add this water. What do we do the blending water, where do your adding colors water, they do everything possible for a watercolor painting. You know, that's the best part. Adding water in a very, very random and easy way is the best thing that you can do. You can splatter water. You can use water to your advantage. Every time. Whenever I see this, you might be thinking that why I say that what we can do all the job, but that's the truth. Actually, you are looking to all the job everyday. I'm I'm not using pigments. And if you keep using pigments, what happens is that your people or your paints, as well as you're drawing, everything looks so much overworked. We do not want to do that. And right now I've taken some CPI and when I've taken the CPR, you have observed that I did out of very, very darker value of the CPR. Then I again did wash my brush. I take only clean water that sunlight do. And this is the proof that every time you are lost and you think the people is not doing a great job or your beans are not doing a great job, whatever it is, just make your paintings bit more dull. Add more water. This really works well when you are doing any kind of a window painting, believe me, this is the trick that can be used at any point in time for a window pane think. So hopefully you will also get this and you will be happier. Do apply it. Okay, adding one darker shade. And I'm using my size two brush, but I was not very happy with how I was adding the line. So switch to my other brush status. Size six, SCADA optimal pressure. I have been using this brush for quite some long time. Every time you observe me painting, you have seen me using this brush. This and silver black velvet are one of my own favorite brushes and they really give me so much more happiness when I use it. A silver black velvet can hold a lot of water. That's one of the important aspects why I have been using it. Dot del now and every time whenever I need to use your brushes, silver black velvet is one of my go-to brushes. Some sharper lines for the inside part of the band. And I did already had lines while I was drawing. So it becomes so much more easier now to just warm my brush and adding it. Simply so many of you always tell me that my brush mitosis so easily cross the people. I do have a framework in my mind when I use my brush. And that's the best part about sketching more in detail. But do make sure that the sketch is light so that it doesn't show off from your people. Why I see this, your people as white and we do not want these colors to be transparent. And then your graphite mark showing up. That's one thing which you need to keep in mind though while you do a very detailed sketch, always it is the extra graphite Marx, would they have both your eraser? And I think most of you might be having or need abilities, not any liability. So use very lightly any normal eraser that is available with you. I think that can easily do the job of kneadable eraser working. Now I am adding a very, very light wash or loads just go over the colors that you have added. Nine dots would slowly moving to the water from the brush that you are riding on top of the paper. So I guess this looks pretty nice. Sign dog, beautiful. I would go ahead and just blend it. Again. Blending is an amazing aspect of watercolor. The more you blended, the better the outcome it is. But do make sure that you do not end up lending that. We do not even want that. But blaming really does a lot of good work when you are working on the skies, when you are working on water. So these bigger areas where you work, hence, those are the areas which you need to keep in mind. Okay, I guess that looks good. And going ahead and adding few more lines. Once I've added these lines, psi would keep adding some of my greens. Now, I am using my forest green are any kind of dark green that is available on your ballot for this read, as well as keeping some whitespaces because it is knowing rate. That's what we want to show this nowhere. Make some small, small dots. So with the green color that you have the sister dark shaped or bring in case you do not have a green of this kind to start on the top down matters. So Prussian blue or any other blue that is available. And then you will have a color which is more of a dark green, and you can use that for your red. I will also add some red dough in a few places along with it to make sure that you leave some white spaces because he did not know last night. And because of this, no, you will see that there is some settlement of snow on this trip. So that's how we go about it. It is taking a bit longer time, guys. You see there are so many details that we are adding onto this painting. Though the painting looks really simple, but there are details which we have to add. It is a step-by-step process. I always say this that do not do not get worried or do not think that you cannot do it seriously. You can always toward, That's why I'm here to help you out. Be confident while you approach a subject to not lose your patients at any point in time. And always, always think that watercolors is easy. You just need to partner with this medium. As you go ahead with your painting, make sure that you add these kind of black small, small areas, which I'm also adding this as basically for the window panes that you have. And I just wanted to have a darker color compared to the white that I could have had. But darker color really gives that feeling. This red becomes more prominent and it becomes more highlighted. Whereas there is a darker values in-between along with it do to see this sub-band getting so beautiful and slowly, steadily it becoming so much more lively as if I can't stay there and as if I can just be there. So amazing rate when you start painting it, you don't know where you will land and how you will land at it. But slowly, steadily as the work progresses and as you know that this is taking shape, you just feel so much happy. I always feel this. I am so happy when I enjoy the process. There have been so many times I can't tell you the next painting which you would be seeing. I will show you that I did painted two tanks. The first time. I did not get it because of one single mistake that I did. And it lead to mistakes one after another. So I had to practically abundant that painting and paint once more. There are so many times as teachers, as instructors we do being twice or thrice, one single subject. It just takes a lot out of you. But believe me, once you start doing or practicing one, not two times two, just know that this is how I'm going to approach this subject. This is what I can do and this is going to be the best that I can get out of it. Um, I might be sounding a bit more in terms of moderation, but that's how I have learned and whatever I have learned, I will be sharing all of it. So here I'm making some lines for the wooden panels that you have in the bonds. Once you have added these small, small lines, make sure that you extend it straight. If you are not very fine with adding these lines, first, try it on a rough piece of paper, see if you can make straight lines and then add it. Now this is again a very good rule that if you have. Something that you have added as a pencil map. It's great to go over it. Now, if you did not in the initial stage, then you can do it now and then go over it. So the transparency really helps at this point in time to have that extra bit which we need for completing the painting. Now I'm blending it in a few areas. Why I'm blending it? I do not want these heart disease completely, so blending will really help me to get away from those harder. Let us deal. So which you want. Now since this paper is to wet with my damp brush. So if I had these lines now, they will become a bit blurred. So that's a good way to add softer edges. So yeah, that's another way you can use it. And now I am using my white brush to add the highlights. Once I've added these highlights, I need to move on to the left side of the painting, which means that I have to go ahead and add some trees for the clown. Now, this is a pretty time taking. I would say work has, you need to add a lot of branches, trees, et cetera. So there is two option at this point, Pam, either you can just work a bit on your sky and leave or dead, or else you can go ahead and paint along with me for the trees. Now, the trees, we're not going to complicate a lot. But along with it, you have to keep in mind that you do not get overboard with the branches and just add a lot of it. Our main focus will remain has the bond, which is currently the red part that we did paint. So do make sure that you are understanding the aspect of only keeping it till the red button. Once this polyuria is dry, just go ahead and start adding these small, small lines as branches. I am always holding my brush pretty perpendicular. That's one of the reasons you can't see my lines right now, but I will change the angles and you would be in a position to see you. So do not worry. Just stop at any point in time where you think you are not getting it. And then slowly, steadily, you will understand how we can add it. So yes, that's how it goes and I am adding few more branches. Some of them will be criss-cross, some of them will be straight. Why I do these kind of changes? It is nature and nature's pretty random. I have been speaking about it that there is lot of randomness in nature and we need to show that always to our painting. If nature is not random at all, you will never be happy to see how your painting turns up. So these are the small, small things that you need to keep in mind while you paint. Okay. I guess I am pretty happy with how these small, small branches are adding up. The whole of the video is real-time. That's one of the reasons you do see small, small aspects also getting covered. And this is basically the time that I have taken to complete the whole of the painting. Yeah. If I would have attempted it the second time, maybe I could have taken a less. I'm incurring have actually saved a bit of time. I'm not really sure about it as it has lot of detail so which has been covered those, so seeming a lot of time wouldn't have been possible Fermi. Anyway, let's go ahead and keep adding more and more branches as we proceed in this painting. So always note that I pretty much proceed slowly in all of my paintings. I do not add a lot of speed door to my painting. It's also because I'd go slow whenever I am teaching, I would say going slow also gives a lot of confidence. You know, it's just so good to be a bit slow in these aspects when you are adding branches, when you are adding any kind of leaves, when you are adding trees or any kind of. Details to your paintings. So that's where I think of the whole detail part comes into play. And you might think that the details and not as important as we did all be the ban and non. But believe me, once you are done with the band these months, more details, we'll add so much more impact to your painting that I cannot stress more on it. Okay, So you keep painting this area and I will meet you soon when we have to paint them. Loose leaves of these branches. Practice. Now it's time to act these loose leaves while you aunties lose leaves, these are small, small dots that you aren't. Now, these small, small dots are nothing else than your CPR color or your paints gray color, whatever you want to add for this painting, I would leave that up to you. According to me, CPI is better. I have used the same color for the background and I would use for these months more loose leaves. Now, in the winter season we might not see a lot of leaves, but all the places does have lots of branches and sometimes one not to urine there you can see the leaves and it really gives that effect of having these falling leaves, darker leaves. So all of that is also there. I love to add these kind of small smart details to my painting. I am not going to go overboard with this. So a bit of it here and there, and then I would leave it. I'm close to completing this painting and that's the best part. When I'm close to completing your painting, I would not do a lot of additions to my painting. It's just a few details. Now you can see from a different angle, right? Initially when we were painting the branches loop might not be in a position to see everything but slowly steady. I do give different views of my painting. That really helps you to understand how it is coming together. Okay, I guess this is good to go. I'm pretty happy with it. Maybe one or two more dots here and there. And then, let's go ahead and let the paper dry off completely. Once this paper is dry it off completely, we would just remove the tape at an angle. Okay. I'm blending it a bit as I know that there's not a lot of leaves, so blending it would really help. At this point in time. I'm going ahead with my size 2 as caught up boiler brush. This brush is great for not only watercolors, but even for acrylics anguish. So in case you are ever thinking of purchasing some good brushes, this might be one of the brush that I can suggest you for your future painting. Okay, you see how I'm blending these leaves? I just went to overboard with all of these leaves. Here you can see it. I, I do do these kind of small, small things were going. There are hardly any leaves which you see during the winter season. It's only few of them here and there that you observe. And then when you go overboard like this, you have two blended with your vag ground. That's what I'm doing. So we all do mistakes. It's just how you cover it up. That's really, really important. I will show you, I have done so many mistakes in my past for my watercolor paintings some days I feel, I mean, I'm full of mistakes. But if I do not do these kind of mistakes, I can never understand what's the right way. So doing mistakes is good. And now I'm splattering some snow. I am using my white brush to splatter. There's no go ahead and add some snow wherever you think it is necessary. Once you have added this node, let it dry off the Hubble final look. This Bosch's really nice. It is basically or designer gouache from, from insulin Newton. There are many other gouache that you have in the market. It can be roost role, it can be gimmick wash, it can be any other goulash that is good to go White Nights. Then there are various brands that you see now in the market and you can go with acrylic wash, whatever you feel is good to go and whatever is available with you. That's the first and the foremost thing. Even titanium white is an opaque medium. So if you have titanium white rat, then Chinese white, you can do this kind of exercise. So yeah, I guess this is it and this is the maximum plateau that I doing. Again, do not go with the fluids. Latter, like stars as many as you want. It's a little bit of snow, so we need to only show that. Once done. Go ahead and remove the tape. As I did tell you, remove the teeth are at an angle. Do not try to go fast. Orals, you might rip off your paper. We do not want to repair paper. Hence go slow while you remove your tape. I will meet you in the next lesson where we will paint wet salt, some snow, and some glass. 7. Day 4 Snow Heart: Just go through the colors that you need for completing this painting. It's untrue a blue or pushing Lou, White cosh, good. Parallel maroon. And SPM. You can go ahead with the salt for this painting that we need background. It's simple table salt that we use at all. It's very exciting. We are on day four, and this time, I know that we need to make snow hot. So it's kind of good how we are progressing. We are touching upon very different subjects set each and every point in time and slowly building it up. It's not a very easy one. So modifying that all the paintings that you are doing is going to take some time. So don't get disheartened than the way and tried to hang in there. I always see it. This whole process is pretty rewarding, but you need to keep practicing it. Now what I'm doing is I'm trying to make a hand. How do I make a hand? Both of my hands and holding this snow hot. How you go about it? First make a middle line, and then on both the sides, make it equal how you measure it? I just measure it with my pencil. You can also use your scale to measure it. So I just see how much science it is on the left and then exactly how much size I need to add on the right and make us lumping line like that on the left as well as on the right. So it's kind of pretty good way to understand how you go about your painting. I structurally always break my subjects. That's been the way I work with my subjects. You can see that even more in my earlier class. That is your florals watercolor master florals class. And it would be quite happy. Don't know now, exactly. I'm showing the inside as well as the outside of my hands. If you see wherever my hand is joining, the inside part is smaller, whereas the outside part towards the left is bigger. That's what I want to even show on my paper. So I extend it on the left and then just go towards the left side, which is London. But the inside of it, as I am saying, is smaller. And That's how we go about it. Now is the time to meet the thumb. Now, how we make a Tom, it is going to be simply the person is wearing gloves. I were showing you without loves my hands. So you can wear gloves and check it yourself. It actually looks something like this. I tried it on my own and then only I am coming up with this one. So just go ahead, try it. The term is also pretty big. This is absolute cold winter months because of so much coal and chilly weather. You need to wear something like a gloves, which is a pretty warm enough right? Orals, how do you go in your cold weather or how do you actually during this extreme climate that was there in my mind while I was working on this gloves. And now I am extending it from the left and from the right. Okay, I need to tell you one thing. This is my second attempt with the current painting. Why do I say this is my second attempt? Kid did not go well and the fourth step damped. It took me two times to understand how I want to work with it. Right now the way I am actually drawing the heart and do not use it, I will show you how you need to add this drawing. It's just that how I experiment first and then if I do not like it, I go about changing their drawing. So I would say, you do not need to add this right away. Wait for sometime. You will see how I'm changing the shape and size of the heart has this doesn't look very good to me. So I will just shift the middle line. So I always extended on the left and on the right by shifting them with you, like, I would make a middle line, shifted a bit towards the left and then I add on the left and on the right, I just take an equal size on the left. As well as an equal size and the right. And then extend my heart from the middle towards the left as well as towards the right. It's kind of pretty good way, I would say. It looks very structural as well as there are chances of less mistakes in this case. I have been using this in many of my other urban sketching practice. And see this, That's where I exactly learned how to make things more structurally, how to go about it without even using a scale. So here in the whole hand, how we approximately take it, how we consider nothing requires any kind of a scale measurement. It's just your pencil, which you can use for this drawing. Once you are done with this drawing, makes sure that you take off all the extra graphite marks. Why I am so short that you need to take all the extra graphite max. You're working with a very transparent medium. In case you're working with something like wash. Our acrylics are oil paints. You do not need to do this or else the process of taking off the extra graphite, Max's important advice, the lines will show up and we do not want that to happen, correct? That's another aspect of painting which we do not want. Right now, everything is pretty dark, so I would go ahead and make my lines look a bit more curvy. So that's what I did there. And then I am picking up all the extra graphite marks which I have on the people. And you see how I'm just trying to get the perfect handle. I'm after perfection. Believe me, you do not need to be after this kind of a perfection. Just go head and painting your heart out as the most important aspect with watercolors, whatever and howsoever you are able to do it, do it that way. No problem at all. We now go ahead and start applying the permanent red, which is from the bran, the primer. And it is now called as art philosophy's. So you can take any debt that is available with you. There is no need to use the same red, which I'm using, and maroon color if possible. If you do not have this color, you can go ahead and use carmine or roads. If you have any other darker shade of red and pink. You can also use that for this painting. Slowly. Sadly, you will understand that always you do not need or the sheets that is given by the instructor. You can always make your own sheets. Then go ahead and apply it on your paper. I really believed that and I loved that approach myself. You will absolve me in many of my paintings, I go with limited palette. This is another one where you, we are usually using four different colors and that is your shop and draw a blue orals. You can also go head with Prussian blue. If you have problems in getting even Prussian blue, Go head with any other darker blue, indigo or else whatever is available on your palate, you stack along with their dam using CPO, which is a pretty dark color, brown shade. You can also go ahead with Van Dyke brown orals. If you have gone sienna and a bit of blue entered, you will get all dirty blue mixture, that blue and brown mixture, basically a brownish mixture. You can also use that instead of CPR. So these are the things which you can keep in mind while you do any of your watercolor painting. Use your color theory if possible, or color wheel if possible. That would be great in any of your paintings. Those would be my suggestions for you. Do not try to use many colors, so we always have the option of using a lot of colors. But that's not how we go about in any kind of painting. I would suggest that. And I hope that slowly, steadily as you progress in this class, you will understand it even better. Okay, go head and keeping the area with the red. I am right now not applying the maroon. It's just that I would love to add one whole layer of red and then only go over it with the maroon. Now, the bot. I'm using perylene maroon now for this painting, you can go ahead and use any dark shade as I did earlier. And even for darker shades, I can mix my CPI and do it. It would give me even more darker shades with that grant up. Go ahead and add some more maroon and few of the other areas where it is necessary and try making a few lines on a wet on wet. Why? Because these are knitted gloves. And the you will have some kind of Netflix which would show off. It is all pretty small painting and hence, I'm not trying to add a lot of details into it. But along with it, I need to make sure that I'm not missing out on the bills which are absolute requirement. Like you have to create some amount of dark and light shade. Now, that gradient would really help you to add lot of depth to this painting. Now depth is really important. Shadows are important, brightnesses important or darker sheets are important. So all of this really goes hand in hand. Now, if you observe the hardest in my hand, it is in the middle, which means that there will be sharp shadows that will be seen wherever you are. My Tom is I tried to add some darker value. And the middle of my hand, I again try to add some darker value. Go about it. Pretty Stoli, just follow as I am painting. This is not enough painting really. The only aspect which I learned from my first failure was I went with the background in the initial goal. So what happened is my people was not drying it since it's already winter, close to Winder, I would say in the another side of India. And because of that, the assault was not drying up and the water was there on the people, which led to many bleeds or the red. And the whole painting cannot come to live that way. Hence, when I attempted it the second time, it became pretty easy for me to know exactly where I did my mistakes and how I can fix it. So I went with the first part, which is painting the hand and bringing the gloves first. Then go about the painting the background. Drying of the background will take lot more time as we all are in the window season and it takes quite some time for the background to get dried off. Another thing that I want to tell you is if you are using Arches, 300 GSM, cold pressed paper, it will take even more time. As the paper is quite good. It is ticked. So water will stay on top of the paper as well as when you are sprinkling salt. It would stay on the people for a more longer time. That was the aspect which I wanted to discuss. If you are going about with disordered technique first, you might face that problem. Okay? Go towards the right of your hand. And then someone darker value. I have mixed my CPO with the maroon. Maroon which I had. And once I did and my CPR do it, I think I can get a darker shade that way. You can also use red brown for this. I leave that up to you. I did not want to use more colors. As I did say that I am good with fewer colors and few sheets. But as bigness, you might want to just explore all the colors that you can have. And it might be a bit difficult for you to exactly know how much pool of Gallo I should put myself. For this kind of painting. So all of this pixel bit of time for your understanding. So do not worry, keep at it. That's what I would say for you. There is no best way to go about in any painting. Initially, when I tried the first time I told you I did the background and then it did not turn out exactly the way I wanted. So it does take some time to understand how your watercolor is behaving which one you should do first, which one you should not do first? And what are the difficulties you are facing? There is a practically speaking from Whenever I know watercolors and it's being no few years. So I started in 2018 forth for us are completely gone on most into watercolors. Still, I do these kinds of mistakes. So mistakes are dead. You cannot say that I will not commit any mistakes in watercolor. And for, watercolor is not a very forgiving medium that you want no, As cannot get back to your painting with watercolors. So once you have applied the color on top of your paper, since lifting is a bit tough. And if you aren't even lifting it, that's fine. But you will not get the exact outcome that you want if you have already applied the colors where it is not necessary. So these are the aspects which I feel you should keep in mind and do not worry about happy accidents. Happy accidents will keep happening in this kind of medium. And slowly, steadily you will get to understand how you should go about any of your painting or even what you should avoid in any painting. So like my learning was not to paint the background first, whereas I always do it that way in case I'm even applying sorted, but in this case, it did not work that way. So it's okay. But there are different approaches that you will absolve me taking. Like, we do have a coffee mug that is kept on offense. Coming up. In the later projects. There, I would be working simultaneously and I would be painting the background first story steadily adding the colors to my foreground. Later on. I always loved to go like that. But every time that strategy doesn't work. So you have to keep exploring. With watercolors, keep changing their ideas with watercolors. I am mom, pretty happy to let you know all this. I love to always so people know what are my mistakes and how they can improve from my mistakes. Seriously, if I do not discuss as an instructor my own mistakes out and you'll get to understand what are the problems that we face. Go part, painting some darker areas. And right now my hand is completely dried off or you can say the paints on mossy dried off because of which I am doing the blending technique. Wherever you are not sure about adding the colors, go head and slowly added, or is let it dry completely and then blend your colors and add. Just a way I'm doing it absolutely fine. You can go with layers on this painting. You may not go even with those, you can do everything at one go. So the point of the whole of the painting is to enjoy whatever you enjoy doing it that way, I would say, I am more practically using vague ten brushes for this painting, except the few initial part where I had a flat wash and either use my size it silver black velvet brush to apply the column. I am using the 10 brush right now, it's more of details that we are adding. If we add adding a lot of details, what happens is if you are using the very tip brush, it becomes difficult for you to add those details can not. You might be having a great pressure control because of which it is easier for you. But as beginners when we are starting or even as intermediately villa in the intermediate level artists, you might not want to pay that risk. And that's how I go about in all my paintings. I do not like to take any risks for my paintings. So I try to keep it simple. I go with my tenor and smaller brushes. And the mood of the painting is so much Christmas rate. I love to lit a candle, keep it by my side, feel the winter, and then start painting it already got, whenever I think about it, it gives me chilly winter weather. I can just feel that it's knowing outside are as it's very, very hard to say, I can feel my hands feeling the cool weather. So it's really, it's all there in your imagination. You do not need to always go head and experience everything. There are times where I do experience like in 2019 initial part, we did go to I think we went to a few places in the Hill area where we could see a lot of snow. From that. I did take a video and you did see me in the inner shell introduction part. I love to play with snow. So that was one of the good phase of exploring know. And you can also try it. I know that many countries might not have, or might dot, experiences cold weathers. So just have a look at whatever other people are experiencing or have a look at photos, have a look at those Christmas movies. I always fall in love with those Christmas movies every year. I wait for those Christmas related movies and I just love to watch it move, but I paint. So all of these things are there with me. I can feel the winter, I can feel the Christmas. In the meanwhile, I have been painting the background and I've been talking a lot. Okay, So few of the areas I have left it as white and few of the ideas I have added the blue as well as the sepia, go head and use it the way you want now since there is no rule of adding the background, hence, I just left it up to you. The most satisfying part of this whole painting is the salt technique. And I am always happy to do with this. You should do on the ground. And whenever your hand is dried off, ten only paint your background. This is earnest request orals. There will be bleeds and we do want to avoid those bleeds. Go ahead and add as much salt you want on your paper. This is absolute table salt that I'm using from my home. And it will give such beautiful, nice looking texture. You see how my people is changing with that texture. How the top layer on the left side looks now, they are like the snow crystals aren't gone. I am getting more and more excited words. No. That's just dumb mix a bit of blue with the sepia color that we have and then blended this snow heart that you have is in your hand, which makes sure that it actually tells you that it needs to have some shadows in it. Anything that you play, some your hand and you are holding it will have a bit of shadows. So just add these and I think that would do the job. We're not going to absolutely complicated much. So just going about it in a way, simple and easy way, adding some blue, adding some CPR Carlo in few places. Cpr I have kept on MIMO. Whereas the blue that I have and using it to my advantage, I think I'm happy now. Once I'm happy, I will leave this to dry off and then remove the tape at an angle coming, God, this is so perfect. The salt effect has dumped so beautifully. Towards the top, towards the left. I am so excited to see the final outcome. The salt effect always changes. It's not there every time you get the same effect. So tried on a piece of paper first, the kind of paper that you are using, that spine. And a 100 percent cotton is of course good. You can try it and then do it on this painting. Because of so many subjects that we are covering in this class, it is a bit extended. Practically it is a mix of three classes. One is your winter, Christmas, and New Year tensor. I will meet you tomorrow again. 8. Day 5 Celebration: Let's discuss the color's. It is Antwerp blue or Prussian blue, white gouache paints gray went so blue, red, yellow, and cadmium orange. So we are on day 5 and I am so excited to share this project with you guys. It's one-off. My own favorite. Yeah, there are a lot of favorites that I have from this season. As I did experimental lot with different kinds of projects possible. And I hope as you progress on this journey, you will understand how slowly we are building up on no different kinds of subjects and everything that you might not have wanted to try. Or you might want it to dry. Either way, you will be challenged with those kind of projects. And it is more about sharing our experiences. Whether it be a cup of coffee, whether it be on Windows, sludge, anything and everything under the sun you can think of for the winter season has been covered. Over here. I start off by marking a horizon line and then going over it with my pencil marks where I just Show that there are a few buildings and some foliage in the background along with it. This is an evening time, which means that there will be lights and there will be a reflection on the water. Though the water area is not very broad or it is not huge, hence, you should not face any problem while you paint this. Even need whitewash or any white opaque watercolor for completing this painting. So make sure that you have something like that. Do not try to use Chinese white. Go ahead with titanium white. In case you do not have your white quash, that's absolutely fine to walk around with it. Or else you can also try with white poster colors. That's another good way to try out these things. Okay? I think I am great right now with how we are progressing. Because we have started off with the lightest value that is your cadmium orange. And once you've applied your cadmium orange, and this is a fantastic color from Sarah and Newton. Believed me guys, I haven't used to cadmium orange a lot. Initially during my career journey and slowly, steadily, I am falling in love with this color. This has so much to offer. I can't tell you more about it. Try using cadmium orange. You do not need to go ahead with the same brand that I'm using as I did tell you. But whenever you get an opportunity to try to get hold of any tube that's possible from Magellan, Mission Gold, or from any other brand of your choice. That's absolutely fine. I'm starting with my tailor blue, or you can go ahead with Vin. So blue, they both are pretty close in terms of the color that we have. And then I would go ahead with my Prussian blue. Now, Prussian blue is a color that you might like. You might not like, or you might have it available, you might not have it available. So if you have any wind, so blue, Taylor blue, whatever you have, I'm I think many of you even don't have those colors. You can go ahead with cobalt blue. If you do not have even cobalt blue, try with ultramarine. Now the problem with ultramarine is it has a bit of granulation and width sometimes really interferes with my painting. And it's not that every time you will get it, but sometimes we do get it. I tried to avoid nowadays are from marrying for my paintings. That's one of the reasons of avoiding it. Nothing as such, but you can always experiment. This is what I did experiment. I found that it's not great. I mean, when I start painting with it, I did not like it very much. But but that's, that's that's my take. You can always try for yourself and see what works best for you. So go ahead and apply some more darker Prussian blue towards the top area of the sky. And now we will make water, do all the magic. Yeah, you, you always know me. I love to add water. I love doing its own magic. And I will keep adding more and more water. It would flow. And I can tell you the colors that we will get. All my god, they will look super amazing. That's what you did even learn in your first postcard. And it's the same thing that we are going to apply in this one. Now the learning from this particular, I would say postcard is more about how to paint firecrackers. And that too in the sky. And how to paint reflection of your lights, how to add lights to your painting. These are something that I have learned over time and I do want you guys to get a hang of it. And CDC, they add so much more depth to your painting. They say so much on their own. You will slowly fall in love with painting, lights and then your beautiful sky. So all of these things out there, once you start doing it, you do get a handle of it. And you will understand how you can build upon these small, small aspects of watercolor or any other medium that you are using. Every medium comes with their own challenges. And believe me guys, I have started with the acrylics and it's a great medium. It's pretty easy people say, but initially and facing a lot of challenges. So you learn over time. So it's not that on the first day we know everything. Really, really do not worry while you do this exercise, you just need to have a good blend of this guy that we also had initially this time, I just wanted to have a better outcome. I would say at how do you get a better outcome with a better blend or with better flow of water, let water do its magic. As I always say, water has got its own flow, what has got its own way of showing the magical colors. And I love to add the colors in a way that water just does play that magical. And I would say that magnificent role, which we usually do not witness if we are not allowing the colors to move on their own, or if we are not adding much water to it, that these colors can really move on its own. You see I just added a bit of water in the middle area and I just see the colors have gone a bit lighter. And when this whole of the painting were dry up, you will understand this simple exercise that we did right now gives so much more life to your painting that I can't tell you. So I think I'm pretty good. I'm cleaning the edges now. Cleaning up the edges is very, very important way or basically in your edges there are chances of background or cauliflower effect which we do not want. So do cleaner edges always now see the middle part of the painting has a beautiful blue and the top area has got a crucial though. This can only happen when you allow the water to flow on its own. Okay, with the orange, that is my cadmium orange, I have mixed a bit of blue. You can say this is majorly my Prussian blue. It gives a bit of a greenish color, but that's absolutely fine. I don't think that would make a lot of difference. So I guess you can go ahead with this kind of a color and start hiding some of your orange in few of the ideas as I'm doing with the help of my size two brush. Once I have added this, I would go ahead with my whitewash and then add the small marks, not these marks usually give you the idea that there is light. And because of that light, you are getting the reflection and the water. So this is one of the most interesting aspects that you should keep in mind why you do watercolors. Now I am taking some of my Prussian blue and adding small, small, straight, straight lines. If you observe this, water is pretty small area, so you do not need to add a lot of colors. That is to say, if you keep adding a lot of lines, what would happen at the end is you have overwork the painting. So go head with three to four lines just to show the repulse. I have always loved painting water, reflection and reports. That's one of the reasons I to always do my research pretty much in detail and depth before we pay toward the water is one of the favorite subjects that I have. Light from the time I have started painting. It is one of the most difficult subjects I must say, as I feel very strongly, if you go wrong with water, then the whole painting doesn't come together. But over here, the water portion is really less. That's one of the benefits for you guys. In case you are unable to even paint in some of the ideas, leave it, there is no problem at all. Go ahead and start adding your whitewash to do top area. I am first marking the point exactly where I would work. Though fireworks. There is only one firework that I'm adding. You can also add multiple fireworks. It's just that high. Wanted to add only one. It's neon that the Valley, New York and many other occasion we do celebrate with fireworks. And fireworks look really amazing in this guy. Though they add lot of pollution. That's one of the reasons many of our governments, as well as individuals are taking steps to not indulge into it. Still, there is some amount of child memories when I look at these fireworks when it is 12 o'clock, 2000, 22. And you just feel the fireworks all around the city. The complete city starts blowing and it is New Year, we used to say happy new year during that time. Those are my memories from my childhood, my sister, my family, we use to gather and say that to anyone possible whosoever is at home. And I think these are something which I really cherish. I hope that you too can back all of this as one-off your experience and send it to your near and dear ones as postcards. This aspect of watercolor painting, I cannot tell you how much I connect personally with that. So when I start painting, there is something that I always try to relate to myself or something that I tried to relate to nature. This whole aspect of painting art really connects me not only to the world, not only to my own people, to each and every thing possible. It acts as a therapy for me in most of the case. Okay. While I acted in lines to this fireworks, it is only with whitewash that I am doing. You can take and add this with any kind of I'm Tim brush that you have. You can have a liner brush to do it. You can have a thin tip 0 size brush to do it. Do vary the sizes of these lines. Some of them should be small, some of them should be long, some of them should be broken. That is really important while you paint your fireworks, you cannot have seam lines are similar lines moving around and all of them absolutely straight. Well, that would not work. So keep that in mind. Along with mixing some of my yellow color with white gouache to add small and thinner lines as you observe me doing right. Now. Again, the strategies C, I will go ahead and break the lines at some point in time and forth you, I will vary the sizes and shapes. I do love to move my people in and around. Why I say this. If I'm not very comfortable, I just move my paper to make it more comfort and to get that comfort and ease while I paint. So you can also do these things, these as more tips and tricks, hats which each and every person should use to get the best out for yourself, I would say, and the train yourself are the best rate that really works for anyone. You can have a closer look at it right now. How I am adding the yellow? I'm not adding the yellow at each and every place. By this is I guess a bit of Jack that I've added with my orange and with whitewash to create this opaque water color that you see, it's more of wash out. I ignore the opaque. Watercolor doesn't work very well, as we have only worked more with transparency or quarter colors. When it comes to, you should say celebration. There are 23 ways of working it out. Either you get woke up with a drawing gum that is majorly your masking fluid. I am not very much a person who likes to use masking fluid. There is only one exercise which we will do where you will see me using the masking fluid altogether. Rest everything that we have done them now is without masking fluid. So when I'm going without masking fluid, I need something more opaque, which can actually hide the transparency or the darker values. Have on the paper right now because of watercolors. Hence, this all go shed and the techniques that you see me using. So that's how we go about it. And other aspects of painting with wash right now to create this fire boxes, you need even the blue wire. See the blue sometimes what happens is when the fire cracks are this firework happens, you will see that some of the lines will be lighter. Some of the lines would be absolutely white. Leighton type that would need more of white color. Whereas the others, you can always manage. Your blue, yellow symbol, red, green. You can add a new color of your choice. You know, there's no particular way you have to go about this painting. That's one good aspect of watercolors when it comes to pain date, I can do whatever I wanted to. Okay. I had some more lights and you will observe wherever. There is more of detailing, you need lot more time. And I really wanted to do the sky first because this one, I was a bit scared. And what happens after or more into the painting or you can say more extensive painting that you do. You will get tired after a while. And I do not want to want this at the last row 1. That's the reason I did try to just to manage it initially and then go here to with the lights of the reflexion, et cetera later on. You can also try to do it otherwise. But as per my whole experience that I have their date, I know this is one of the best ways to manage your firecrackers, fireworks in the sky. You might have. Of course, some other ways, some other hacks. This is one of the hacks that I use for this kind of painting. You will need some amount of your Payne's gray now to work on our background, you can use Payne's gray, you can use black, you can use CPR, you can use any kind of really dark shade. There is some natural color, also natural tint that you can use. Most of them, whatever is in the colors that are closer to agree and black or very dark or dark brown. So all of those can be used in this case, it's now the last part and it would not take you even 70 minutes, maximum 17th, and it's that you wouldn't need to complete the spark. There is not much of work that we are left with. Only foliage adds some buildings that we will be doing. Now. Foliage, yes. It does take some time as we're doing it on a small piece of paper, small piece of paper leaves us with less apart on these to work with. I would say. I think if it's a bigger people, what happens is quick strokes happens, whereas when it's a small paper, your strokes that you need to add, etc, also needs to be more smaller and our hands are more used to those bigger and loggers filtrate. And this is not very great way to work out, but it's a great way to start your journey. You are working with good people. That's what has always been my idea. Go for good paper. Once you are done with the good paper, you can go with any watercolor and any brushes of your choice. Every time. You do not need to use whatever I'm using, whatever is more affordable range, do that. I have been saying about this in many of my other projects. Too. Many of you might like, few of the projects and medial view might skip the other projects. So it's okay. Therefore, I like to always remind and each and every project that this, these are the best practices that I have been using and it's been really rewarding. So why not go ahead and use the same best practice that I have used and I have really been rewarded with that. Sharing everything that has helped me really works in a great way for anyone. Because it, everything comes with experience and you might be struggling initially with a lot of aspects of watercolor painting where I might be in a position to help you. Whereas when I'm starting out with any new medium and I really want to get any help. I would also get some help from someone who is more experienced and repeat as they have more knowledge than what I do. So yeah, these are some of the points that you can keep in mind while you work on your final project. I'm just adding a few lines to show the building well, right now with my Payne's gray, I will keep adding it and go towards the right and extended towards the right Before I start adding the lights. In this lesson. Let's make some more troubles and reflection and using the tip of my brush to add it, I have taken the same bom beans green mixed with some blue for this darker shade of ripples. You can do it right now. Auras, you can even do it once we are done with all of the painting. I prefer to idle repulsive layers that really helps me to understand how I want to shape up all of my project and how step-by-step it can work out better. Okay, blending it with my blending brush effect so that there are no hard edges. I do not like to keep her disease much, you know it very well. And picking up the colors, again with my blending brush, just that, I can get that beautiful color of soft defects. And you see even the close-up is so nice. I really like it that way. Keeping things simple, easy yet interesting. Okay, now mixed some of my orange or with the white quash. You can also use yellow folders, so that's also perfect. And start adding the lights. These are small, small lights that you have. Some of them will be bigger, some of them will be smaller. Do vary the size of the lights every time you do not have saved kind of light every read it. So that's another aspect of watercolor painting. You cannot have all the houses situated at one single place or else they will not be equally spaced too. And in bigger cities where you have a good number of people living, all the cities are not so plan from the initial days. Hence, you will have some amount of randomness again. So that randomness we need to show always to our painting. I'm adding some lights even on my burning. Then going ahead and adding some lights on this part of the watercolor painting. Then adding some whitewash. Whitewash is an amazing opaque medium that can be used by any person and it is so good. Once you start using it, you will fall in love with her. For any painting where you feel that you need some amount of capacity. I will use force some yellow lights and then on top of it, I would add some white lights. I do not always directly go ahead and add the white lights. Why? If you directly go and add the white lights were happens is it would not look more organic. And for making it look more organic and to the point, adding the yellow lights and then going ahead with the right lights, make more sense. You slowly, steadily, you will get a hang of it. If you're still not getting it fully. Do not worry. Hang in there as I tell you always, and just move ahead with me with one after another painting. Slowly steady. You will be so happy with the outcome of this painting. You will yourself say, this is one of the favorites. There we have. And you, you will completely get engrossed in watercolors. Watercolors as a medium that can make you feel so much good and so much. It is magnificent, I would say. It is magical. It has all aspects of therapy in itself. Then the colors bleed into each other when they move into each other. Different odd experience, I literally cannot explain. They use taught, applying your colors on paper. Seriously, That's what it is. You have to start applying your colors on your paper. You will get it. You will just know that this is it. This is how I want this to work. This is how it should work. So yes, that's it. Keep adding some more white gouache as you observe me adding right now on top of the lights. Once it is done, then let the paper dry off and add some more ripples wherever necessary. That's absolutely fine. Remove the tape at an angle. Always, always remove the tape at an angle. Do not do not. Just peel off the tape very, very quickly. It might rip off your paypal. At this point in time, we do not want that your paper gets rid of it or I do not want her to govern to a neuron. You have worked so hard throughout the whole of this painting, and it did come out so well. Why do you want to do it now? You will not won't do so severely that that's what you have to work it out. Again once more. The whole painting will not be what you wanted. Now, I have started removing the tape. You see how slowly I go about it? I have all the patients on this Orit to go very slow. It might be if this has happened to me, I know how difficult it is if your paper gets below in the process, we do not want that. I have one class where I did fix it, okay? Hence, you can see I have all kinds of experience, the bestest not to peel off your paper with your tape. Okay, Have the final look. I am very sure you are really, really proud of your progress. 9. Day 6 Christmas Sledge: Let us discuss the colors. It is perylene, maroon, white, quash paints gray, red brown, red, yellow, cadmium orange, burnt umber, crimson. You can also use Naples yellow. If you do not have yellow or else use yellow if you do not have me use yellow. I haven't actually given the name as Naples yellow because many of you might not have it. Hence, you can replace it with yellow. Hey guys, I am back. And this is our sixth project. I know it's an amazing journey than now because we have been trying out so many different subjects and so many different aspects of watercolor painting that you might be actually looking forward to. This one, a Christmas ledge that we are going to paint today. It's one of, again, my favorite projects. This particular class, as I have told you, has lot of my favorite projects as we have dried, do explore lot more than only landscapes are only just sticking to painting your Christmas decoration, or only just Christmas area we are covering this time window. You are Christmas as well as your new year, which means that you have more options, as well as a bunch of idiots to work through the front projects and understand how each and every project can work. If you see I have just dumb made of very initial line on the left side and then I'm extending it to the right, making our u curve. And then again going ahead and trying to just extended a bit towards the right, making a more curvy and then making a straight line and pulling it down. That's how we would be doing it. Wherever I take that you need some kind of change. It just a wee I right now changed a bit on my sledge. I would just go ahead. It is that Ada and then add it. It's interesting as we have very simple sludge and this Christmas team, that's one of the reasons I have used to dread viral and all these colors, but you can always go ahead and use wooden color if required. Overall, this whole painting is pretty good and amazing. Why I would say it's not a lot of complications that we are doing in this painting. Whereas the outcome that you have is simply amazing. So once you start doing it, you will understand that these are very simple, simple projects, but we always ignore, we do not want to paint these. We are like, Why should we paid all of this? We are not really happy with all these kinds of paintings and that's one of the reasons I always tell you that do try out new subjects. Do try out something which is just out of your comfort zone. I have this thing always in my mind. The magic only happens out of your comfort zone. If you are always stick into your comfort zone. If you're always only working in your comfort zone, the magic will never happen. You have to just go head work outside your comfort zone and see how things can get better from there. That's how I have always studied and that's how I have always challenge myself. It might be initially a bit difficult for any one, but slowly, steadily you will get so much used to it. Either you have to challenge yourself for the new medium in there. You have to challenge yourself with new paintings, with new subjects. Something or the other should always go on. That really helps an artist to develop themselves rather than just sticking to one single subject. While you draw the bottom part of this sludge, makes sure that you are adding small, small lines. They are basically the Stein which attaches it to the last part that is where you slide on. Yeah. I am pretty sure about that. You all have seen it and you all know it much better than I do. I have not seen sledge really in my real life, but I have seen it so many times and movies I've seen it so many times and it always had that thing. I wanted to be in that it was something that is different. It was something that I've always seen and it Made me so curious about finding out this aspect of being dean, how we can do these sledges, how we can do the Christmas decoration, how we can do all of this. And it is something that I immediately not used to it and it takes a while to get a hang of all of this. So just make this sludge. Once you have added the sludge in the background, you need to just one small horizon line. Okay, that Sledge is more, I would say real. And that's one of the reasons I have just tried to add one small lantern in front of it. The Christmas is here. Or even if you are going out on a snowy cold night, you need a lantern or you need some kind of light to see through. So that overall aspect of watercolor painting is to even show it more realistic. Realistic is not with the painting that you have to be realistic. Realistic is more with the way you present or you just show what is the subject and how you want to add realism toward in terms of adding more objects to it or adding something extra that just meet anyone feel like, okay, I want to just sit in that sludge and go around the city. So yes, that's how I see it always. Once this is done, as I've told you, we have to draw a horizon line. And the horizon line is what it is. And just have a closer look. And then we will start with our wet on wet technique. Wherever you have extra graphite months. So do make sure that you are removing it with your with your eraser. And once you have removed it with your result, then you need to go ahead and start adding the colors. So in the wet-on-wet technique, wet on wet for the background, whereas wet on dry for those sludge. Adrian, I was working on this line, done that. A few things that I did learn. I would be discussing all of that. But before we do that, let's just add more colors to the background. As I did tell you earlier, I would be using Naples yellow and your bond amber or your Nike brown ROC. You can even use sepia, whatever is very light in shade for you or whatever, you can handle it better. I take those colors or whatever is available with you. All of this can be used to afford this part of the painting. It's interesting, you will see how we will make available a bill giving our sun. And it is not the sunrise to sunset hit somewhere in-between where you get see the son. He's going to set after awhile, whereas the color of the sky has turned yellow. And it looks so simply amazing since it is snowing. Or you can say the weather is very cold. That's one of the reasons you can't see the sun pretty well. And there are so many interesting happenings that you see both the swan, you will clear out the space and then add dumb to Naples yellow. Once you have added the Naples yellow like this, keep some areas of white. Just like that. Why I say always use the white of the paper. Why do you want to use so goulash or any kind of white that is available. Now wherever I see that you have to use masking fluid, I prefer using white wash, but you can also use masking fluid in those cases. Hence, it's up to you how you want to utilize the whitespace off your painting. I'm going ahead and adding some more colors. I would not go over my line. Don't That's what I tried to just prevent over the whole of the sky is really pale looking and I'm not going to add a lot of colors in this one. As my foreground is pretty interesting, it has that beautiful red and Maroon colors. And I want my foreground to look even more interesting when I did that, one of the reasons I love my background to be enlightened values. This scholar will become even more pale when you just see boasted as dry it out right there. That's important aspect of watercolors. Whenever it dries, it becomes one sheet like DO or to shed light on. I would just move around my painting obit, it would help me to just let the colors flow from the top and from the bottom. That's how we go about it. And let's have now another look at how we can make a soft edge of this sun that is there in the sky. I just take a damp brush and remove the colors on my tissue. I repeat this process continuously. Wherever there is extra color like on my line, don't I would remove that and then add some yellow. Now yellow is very less on my brush. That's why it started going out of the blackboard. You have to make sure you just know these went to add and how much to add colors. That's really, really important at some amount of Windsor blue or yellow, blue or any other blue that is available on your palette along with it, some amount of your buffer. It's going to be really, really light DOM and simple looking back ground. So you do not need to worry much while you paint this background. It is snow, and snow is always in very, very light shade. You can use any other blue shade of your choice. You do not need to have only the shades that I am talking about. And make sure that whenever you are adding the lines, are whenever you are adding the colors, they are of very less intensity, which means that they are more watery. They have just 10, 15 percent of pigment or even less so. And the other part is mostly water. We do not want any kind of creamy consistency in this case. When you start making this legend, that's when I would ask you to make a creamy consistency. Creamy consistency would be more to do with more darker values. That is, we are applying dread than VIA going ahead and adding bromine moon. So you are having two to three different colors. So these colors look amazing, bright, and nice when you add on to any kind of watercolor painting. Another thing, it is Christmas, so we have to be in red plate. The Christmas is all about painting and read those beautiful winter season, the colors, everything just comes to life and that gets okay. Let's just go head and keep painting the sludge at. Somebody says I'm adding darker values as you have seen. And in some places I'm mining like the values of the rate. Now, I am not adding water in it a lot. As I did tell you, my background would be lighter in value and my foreground will be darker in value. As I wanted. Look more realistic, or I would say as I want people to pay more attention to the sledge rather than to find plank round. And in some more darker values of my perylene, maroon. And you can go ahead with red crown. If you do not have this perylene maroon or any other darker shade of gray color. It can be even crimson Garmin, whatever is available with you, I just need darker values and few of the places and other values can be in red. I mean, whatever red is a cadmium red or any other data is available, bright red. There are a lot of reds that are available in the market. So whatever is available or whatever you have with yourself, you will start for the spot. There are some areas which I add some of my darker values. So like Member own or you can even go with red brown if you do not have this maroon concern or any other color shades. There are a lot of ways in which you can practically walk around for your watercolors. I am adding some amount of my carmine into my red brown. And you see how beautiful the color has tone. It looks more reddish. I'm using it for the darker values of the sludge that you have towards the inside. But I want to distinguish it from the part that you have already painted using my size two, brush and adding these details. Once I've added the darker values, you will understand that we have to go ahead and paint the other parts of the sludge. An important aspect of watercolor painting. That we do is always to just use different values of one single color. Different values of one single color can play so much role in your watercolor painting. It can add depth, it can add, or it can even differentiate between his parts of a single object. There is so much that you can practically loan and watercolors. It amazes me at each and every point in time how we can continue doing so much in watercolors. Adding some of my darker value using my Payne's gray. Or you can use even your indigo. For this idea, it's better to use Payne's gray. Payne's gray has a bit of blue in it, but it doesn't show off when you are adding these lines. It is dark and take a creamy mix, show possible. Greenland make sure will actually give you the required the colors. I am leaving some spaces in white or the color of the background, and some spaces I am adding the Payne's gray color. Why I wanted to show the snow and will be some funds, et cetera, that I would be adding. So all of that put together, you can always go ahead and leave some white spaces, leaving whitespaces of the people, or even leaving the whitespaces of the snow is a very good idea to go about in your painting. Okay. I think we're just extending this ledge and now I will go from the top and let, it means they're using the tip of my brush to work on the complete parts of the painting. Why I'm using the tip of my brush. It really helps me to get those 10 nice lines. I have this brush from a SCADA optimal. I have been using this brush for quite some time. This is practically my go-to brush in most of my paintings. And then you have to go ahead and add more colors, am lines to this part of the background. Once you have added these lines, when you have, once you have added this Payne's gray color, then you can go ahead and start adding more depth to few parts of the painting wherever necessary. Like go ahead and just add more colors to your background. Hi, I'm adding the colors to your background is a great way to practically add more depth. You have to go with different shades of color. To do that. You will observe how we are creating or building up on the background too. Though this major aspect of watercolor painting in this one good, of course, remain the foreground. That's why we are taking most of our time to paint our foreground. It has a lot of detail and B, are concentrating a lot on our details so that we can continue working on the foregrounds in a better way. And the, it is the main focus of the painting. So extend it. I go very slowly while I paint lines, while I add the colors to tenor, or to the areas which are more delicate, or where I have to add more detail. I tried to take my watercolors pretty slowly. That's another aspect of watercolor painting. Whenever you are going ahead with your watercolor painting, makes sure that you go pretty slow with your watercolor paintings. It's important to go slow. If you are not going slow, it will become really difficult for you to express it. Hawaii, I say expressive. Because of the simple fact, wherever you are painting, can your watercolors, or whatever you are doing with your watercolors. It requires lot of concentration. It requires a lot of your work. So going slow really helps you to reduce that aspect in watercolors. I'm using my orange color. You can use your orange. I mean, any kind of orange that is available with you. And, and these kind of trees. Now, I would add more depth with some darker values of your read. Mostly we are working with yellow, red, these kinds of colors, even for the background area. This is basically your trees. I'm trying to leave the part of my lantern behind. I do not want to touch that area, just touching my brush and adding the colors, you would observe that I am not going ahead and doing a lot. In this case, all of this can be managed better if you are drum just masking these years of your life. All of your basic land on as well as the sludge that you have, and then paint your background, come back to it, start adding colors. So after removing the masking fluid, it just solves your problem pretty easily. Again, that's a choice that you make for yourself. If you want to paint the background first, come back slowly, steadily when you will become more experienced artist. I think that's when you will get the whole of all of that. Adding some damp brush, dry brush technique. And then using my thinnest brush, that is my size two brush, adding some lines for my crease. You can also use any other brush that is available with you like your size six optimal, I have more control, so I would go ahead with that brush. For thinner lines. This part is still wet. That's one of the reasons my columns are flowing. But I'm fine with that. Let the colors flow, let some of the trees become a bit blurred. Let some of the trees, so ADF remain more detailed. I love it that way. So I would again leave this part up to you. Do you want your background to become completely dry and then go over it? Or just walk around the way I am doing right now. This workaround will take awhile. You have to just understand it is damp, it should not be read. If it is stamp, you will get these effects. If it is wet, you will not exactly get the effects that you observed on the people right? Now. Going ahead with my liner brush to add more details to the trees. This is what it is. The background has more trees, it has more details. So you need to continue adding it. Liner brush gives more control to any individual. That's one of the reason I wanted to show you how you built it. Lines menu added with the liner brush, though, waterflow will not be a lot in this case. Hence, you can get that blurry as well as that nice effect that I was talking about. Make sure that you are adding these trees and the Gallo mix that I'm using for decreases pain script plus some amount of brown. You can also go ahead with any dark brown bike when I gave brown or CPL, whatever is available on your palate. These are just the options are these are practically the colors that I love to use for my painting. You might have your own favorites from your set of painting. You must be thinking that to how many branches am I going to add, right? But you need more branches just to show the background. And it is very important to concentrate on the smaller aspects of painting. You can leave it also, that's not a problem, but if you concentrate on the small details of the painting, your whole work actually goes to another level altogether. And you just know that this is how you should walk around on your painting. This is how your painting should look and this is how everything should get. I think those are the aspects that you have to also look into. I'm adding some darker values towards my left, but I will let the colors flow, in this case, adding some portal and then allowing the dark color of the brown to just float. I'm telling you this red brown mix that I usually meet with crimson and some burnt sienna orals. If you have red brown, if we are above with you, that looks very beautiful on any kind of painting tried to guys. It works even great when you are doing portraits. So this particular mix of color has a magic in reduction. Actually tell you that's the best way to explain. We are on to the last 45 minutes of the painting, which practically means that our painting has come to life. It's only the details that we are going to add. So make sure that right now. You are not just going ahead and overworking on your painting. If you overbook on your painting, what really happens is that the whole of the area will be worked out and even the backgrounds will be too much worked out. So make sure that there's not a lot of work that you are adding even to your background. Some of the areas, of course, you have to add the darker and lighter values as we have done. But some of the areas, we will just add the details talking. Now, let's work on the line. It's very simple. We have already added the, the graphite parts. Go ahead and paint a few parts of it. The top and the bottom and the middle will be, of course, in the yellow color as we have already added it. For this part. Once I land on is done, it might be a way small part of the painting. Part. We need to do it in a good way as it is showing the light. And trismus lanterns are so dear to me. They look so beautiful. I am so much into it that I can't tell you more about it. Hence, I love to always take you through this journey of Christmas New York and the winter. Everything falls together in this cases. And then keep adding some amount of colors wherever it is necessary. Once you have added the colors. So wherever it is necessary for the lactone part and some of the trees and branches as I'm doing again, this is just a bit of detail, guys. It is not that I'm extending it a lot or I'm overworking at this point in time, do make sure that you are not all working. We have to make some grasses and some lines for the background, as well as for our foreground pushes majorly. That's all. I think. I'm good to go ahead and start adductors. So grasses for my sludge, Adrian, I will show you exactly how it is getting worse. It is just moving it a bit towards the top and then extending it towards the right. Moving it a bit towards the top and then extending it towards the right. That's how I go about it for the snow area, I would even add some more of these grasses towards the right near the sledge. So these are the last two few parts of the painting. Do not, do not make it completely there, so it should not be all over doping thing. Do keep the white and the color of the snow intact. Tried to do that, and then only added a bit on the left and on the right towards the bottom part of the painting. You can currently have a look how I am adding it. Once I have added it, then I would go head and just remove the tape at an angle. Most of the parts of this painting is called B dried up. That studies and I would go ahead and added term on the right. That is so your painting area and few one, not two here and there. I guess. I'm happy with it. Now, let's remove the tape and have a final look at the painting. Just adding some white quash for the lantern light in the middle and then removing the tape. I always remove the tape very, very slowly as you have seen, the whole painting was your time so that you can actually see how much time it really means for a painting to be complete. I know most of the paintings this time are around the same timing, that is 25 to 30 minutes. These are mossy intermediate level, beginner to intermediate, I would say. Hence, the timing has changed and it is no more a 10 to 15 minutes painting anymore. I can't add so much of detail or icon practically work so much when it is already small and contact details painting, it really becomes tough in that case. So all these things I do keep in mind while I know that most of you are big noise and you might find it a bit difficult, but slowly, steadily. I know you all well adapted and you will have a fantastic time once we complete the sprinkling days. 10. Day 7 Snow Cracks: Let's make something different today and it would be about snow cracks first, discussing the colors. It's royal blue, whitewashed, Payne's gray, red, brown, burnt sienna, and Prussian blue. Prussian blue you can use if you do not have onto a blue. So these are domains, your colors. And let's start. As we all are celebrating this winter, I'm Christmas season together. So let's do this in a very, very simple way. I'm starting now with some amount of my and to a blue, or you can even go head with any other blue dot is available on your palette, like pushing blue, orange, you can even go ahead with the darker sheets like a non-tone blue and some other colors, lighter, indigo, I would say that DO NOT think about the colors that we weren't going to use. So there are a lot of coordinate of colors which can be used to right now. Go ahead and just mantle horizon line. First horizon line is about 25 percent of the papal. And I'm going to mark some mountains. This is going to be a very simple exercise. Only the factors we need to give it the time that is required to paint this one, as it is a bit tricky in terms of how we paint the eyes, how we paint the water, and how we show the depth of the water. If you see, I'm going based solely by adding some amount of water and just making this whole piece so more wet. You can use any size brush for your choice. I love to go ahead with my silver black velvet size six. So size a brush, whatever is available on your boundary is great. So just start from the bottom and move to goods to adopt the need to paint a gradient. And right now I am going ahead and adding that gradient. Towards the bottom we should have the DR values and towards the top they should have the lighter values. I would ask you to, and more of your indigo orals, Prussian blue into this column because I feel that the color is lighter than what we can have. Even you can go head but cobalt blue, surrealism blue, but both of these colors are way more lighter. So just rule head width or darker shade like this. You see how I have under dumb on depth now towards the bottom area, the paper is already wet. Now since the paper is wet, I would go ahead and add my darker values into the water. I have to make sure that my brush doesn't have a lot of water. It is majorly a kind of dreamy mixture. And if you can control the water, I, you can practically get these kind of marks because we do not want to bloom at this point in time there as we want these monks. And it is more of water that is 90 percent of what? Oh, sorry, less of water that is 90 percent of paints and the rest of it is water that is around 10%. You have to see that creamy and buttery feel of the paint you see. And then you can test it even on a people in case you wondered, you will see as we progress, I repeat testing many of my colleagues on my people before we go ahead and start painting with it, I would go ahead and switch my brush size to why I do switch my brush because at some point in time I feel that I mean, those models strokes and that is only possible with my smallest size brush back, I could leave it up to you how you want to go out there tans absolutely fine. Because every time you will have a different way of moving about on any kind of painting that you aren't doing. So just go about it as you want to apply, as you want to change the size of the brushes. I would leave that up to you. Right now. I'm building practically kind of depth you need for your show. Cracks of the ice. Now, every time when you are trying to paint, I stared has to be learned in depth that you have. Why? Because these cracks and do change, as well as if you see any frozen lake or any kind of frozen water body. Every time there is no one every time the temperature changes, this kind of cracks you get as well as the kind of or the number of cracks that you have will also change, which means that practically you Cannot always go ahead and bring the same kind of crags you would like to do. And they should not be on lot of cracks. There should be more, there should be less. So it should be a combination. We cannot keep, but actually painting on lot of cracks. And at some point in time, wherever you feel that you want to pick up the colors, use your size. Size. I mean, this is exactly about six MM of my flat brush that I'm using right now to pick up the colors gets from insulin Newton and it is a Winsor and Newton Cotman brush. Very, very handy and it is great to lift any of your colors wherever it is necessary. So keep lifting the colors. And then once you are done with the lifting of the colors, we would add on some water, white quash wherever necessary. Now white quash we, I would like to use it later on in the whole of this study as post-doc, the white gras status, very minimal or very less possibility of adding the depth. And we have to be very, very careful while we add any kind of depth to our painting. So let's go ahead and paint outward hilly area or the mountain area which you see. The mountain area. I would like to first word and I'm using my size six optimal brush to add the water on top of the mountains. Once I have added the Watteau, I would go ahead and add my burnt sienna on top of it. You can also use Naples yellow and burnt sienna orals. You can go ahead with any other brown color that is available with you like burnt umber or Tennessee and now whatever is available, I am not over here to tell you the exact colors that you should use. I would always say that the important aspect of watercolor is to loan and loan link only comes from your practice. And for your practice, whatever you think is best or whatever is available with you. As such, go ahead and use it. I have started adding some of the marks of burnt sienna for the area. So go with some darker values and few of the ideas and to make sure that you are leaving the white of the paper. Why we do leave the white of the paper? In case you do not leave this white of the paper. Sometimes it is possible that you may actually need to a bit of a problem as you have to add white quash to show the snow. So every time you might not have the white quash and using the white of the paper is always really, really nice. So we of utilizing whatever is available with you and sometimes even after using white wash. You cannot get the exact color that you want. So always using the resource status available with you, which is majorly your paper is the best thing to do. I'm adding slowly the bonds in essence, the paper is small as well as there is less space for my mountains, so it is a good idea to go slow at this point in time. Secondly, I want to tell you that in a few of the places I am trying to add some water so that it Start blurry and nice effect for my monuments. Whereas in few places I'm leaving it empty. Leaving an empty is also a great idea to go about in any kind of a painting. Okay, I think this looks so good. Now let's add some amount of blue to get that darker brown color. And I'm pretty happy with the color that I'm getting on my palette. Every time you do not need to have all the colors, you can always go ahead and prepare your own colors. Let's go ahead and add this darker, dirty mix of brown. Or you can say this is closer to the color like Van Dyke brown or any other dark shirt that you would love to add to your mountains. And if you see the rocks that I'm making is towards the right and slowly, steadily. That's how I would like to paint it. So it has a particular direction in which It has been in a position where it is like the wear and tear has been towards the right-hand side. And that's how I save or roles, even if the ridges and valleys which are there on the mountain is in a way that it shows off the white that we want to actually see it. Go ahead and try adding some darker values and few of the other areas stored. There might be a point that I would go ahead and use my white quash for few of the areas. But before using whitewash, you have to make sure that the area is completely dry off. If it isn't dry, then it is o real big problem as it might give you some amount of muddy mixes which I really don't want. And this is a place where we can actually, uh, white the muddy mixes all together. So keep adding this darker value as you observe me doing it and slowly, steadily build up your subjects. Each and every part of this painting is important. Why I would say we do not have a lot that we are doing in this painting. It's a distant mountain, then the cracks of ice, which we see. And then there is a sky, the sky that we would be paying LinkdIn be a clear sky even so I would leave it up to you how you want to paint it. I do like to give it a very light shade of blue. So I would go ahead with my royal blue that I have on my palette from Sennelier and then added though for the top area of the sky. Again, this is an option to leave this guy clear. Absolutely. So just go ahead with whatever you feel is good for you. Giving a bit of a color actually makes it more interesting. And I can say it gives nice edges to my painting. Another reason I love to add colors to most parts of my painting. Now since this is winter season and there will be lot of whites. So practically even in future, you will have very less opportunity to play with the colors. And whenever there is an opportunity, I love to grab it. That's how I see it. To soldiers to Blender the sky with some clear water. I always have two jars of water available with me. One is the fresh supply of water and another for washing my brushes. You'll know that we are done with the whole of the painting. It is practically not complete. Hence, each and every part that you add has to go hand in hand and it should look really, really organic. I have been seeing about this thing pretty often in many of my other classes too, that you're painting has to look very organic in nature, as if it is just nature and it has got its own problems. Which means that everything that you see will not be similar and there will not be any symmetry. We have to go about that in a way that you do not have any symmetry. And you get the colors of the sky. That is clear sky. Now, if you do not have a clear sky, if you have more clouds into it, accordingly, you have to change. The dorms are the values of this guy. And that's how we go about it. I would let you know more about it as we paint us know man, how to add more values to the sky, how to play with the colors, how to actually work on a vase, one sheet like this. To me, it is a smaller sheet, but I know many of your Lamarck like to waste paper. And you are just starting out with your journey of watercolors. That is where whole of this class is going to help you. We are going to paint where I do of subjects and variety of subjects gives you a choice to go ahead and experiment what you really want to paint and what you really want to add onto your kitty in terms of how the colors should work, how the techniques work for you, how you can walk around with the brushes or the minimal supplies that you have. Every time, I suggest you alternate colors as I do not want you to be spending initially on any of your painting supplies as you progress in your journey, go head an add-on to your supplies. Okay, let's paint the cracks. I have been painting the cracks for a while. I'm talking to you. Though, cracks that I'm painting is in a very, very simple way. As I'm going ahead with some darker values and few of the areas and some lighter values and the other areas I'm using my size two brush. Why I want to actually keep a control. And that's one of the reasons I love to use this size two brush so that I have a lot of control over my brush and I can add darker values wherever it is necessary and even. Larger brush strokes by just applying more pressure. And towards the bottom, I have a larger brush strokes while I go to what's the top. Of course, it becomes more and more tenor. You will see the eye status going away from you whenever you absorbed it will have a tunnel tracks. You cannot see very far off various whatever is closer to you, you will see it as more broader. Okay. I guess this is what I wanted to tell you in terms of how to paint your eyes cracks, keep adding it, but do make sure that you belong to add a lot of depth. If you see towards the bottom, I have four to five. And as I go towards the top data to go through all the videos which are more in white. I had bothered those cracks and now I'm going ahead and adding some light wash even on my mountains, basically towards the bottom of my mountains. Let's go ahead and add some more Guassian q of the places wherever necessary. And then once done, I would like to just check on my sky once more. I don't know why this has happened, but I see that there is a small cauliflower effect, which I get in the middle of the painting. And I really do not want it. So I would just go ahead and blend my colors once more with my brush. And I really wanted to just take this cauliflower effect out of this painting. I get these kinds of effects do happen on sometimes it is very much possible that if your people has lost at sizing or if your paper is not doing great in terms of it has become pooled and there is good amount of air that has gone into what? These small, small things. Looky public and so beat very short that you are not using an open people after a long time. Always use your people very quickly then avoid who have opened stock. Do not keep it open for a really long period of time. Even now when I make my own sketchbooks side to keep it wrapped in plastic sheet so that air can't get into it and I can use it for a longer period of time. So those are the things that I do for myself time and I would love you to even know whenever you see that there is a problem like this occurring. And they're smart tips and tricks can come really handy for you. Okay, I guess I'm good with this. And now let's go ahead and let our sky area dry off. In the meanwhile, we can add some more darker values for our regions as well as for our mountains. This is just more of detailing that I'm doing practically. I am done with most of the bots for my mountains, bit of detailing here and there. And then we have to work a bit more on our cracks. Why I say we have to work a bit more on our cracks. They look more artificial to me hands off. Now, I need to add more depth as well as I need to blend a bit of my white quash with my background. Those are the aspects that I would like to add onto my painting as I wanted to look more and more organic. So yeah, you see how I'm going ahead and blending it to my background. You can do this exercise. Has you do not want your brush to look like it is showing crags which you cannot associate to iterate. We have to look out for things which you can associate with, as well as which looks a bit more realistic. I'm not seeing with watercolors, I'm trying to get realism, but it should not even look artificial. That's what I would say, what the color has its flaws. And it cannot look exactly the way you can get an outcome in any kind of acrylics or oils colors. I'm just going ahead and adding some dry brush marks. You can also add these dry brush marks if the top area is the white shirt just a wee I am doing because the idea was more white than I needed it. And just adding a few more details. Now for my quash, there is some amount of good amount of work now that is left for the wash and just do my body. I'm here to guide you. Most of the painting is done. I outlined is completely done. It's only fine tuning of your painting which is left. Now is the time to blend your colors. How do you go ahead and blend the colors of your quash with water? Just take some water on your brush that is your size two is caught up trash and try and drinking it. Now since the washes or deep dry off, that is an added advantage to us. So it becomes really easy for us to just stop blended with our background, but do make sure that your brush doesn't have a lot of water. If you observe, I am kindness the cleaning my brush and then going ahead with a damp brush to blend it. Damp brush is very, very important for blaming. You will absorb most of my paintings where I'm using blending technique and that's majorly done in my watercolor florals masterclass. It is mostly a damp brush that we used to. We always pick up the colors on top of the tissue or just take off all the extra water on the tissue and then start painting it. So use the same technique and I feel that it's more of a fine tuning, as I have told you last three to four minutes of your painting is left and practically most of it, you have already done it. There is less. Then I would say, you now need to do for this part of the painting, It's only some amount of Dhaka values that I would love to add for this painting as I see the cracks of the eyes to not look very, very realistic, or I would say not exactly even realistic, like you can get in a watercolor. It looks more artificial and doesn't look more organic in nature. That's one of the reason I would love to add some more depth. Whenever you are going ahead and checking a photograph, you can understand that there has to be some darker value to show the depth of the water had few places are completely frozen. So many times it has happened to me that I just feel that this painting did not turn up exactly the way I wondered and I would go ahead and leave it there. But that's not the ideal case guys. Whenever you have this or get this kind of fulfilling, I would really ask you to again, look into it and just complete the painting. Because when you complete the painting, you get to understand, maybe this is not the best way to go about it, then you can have a better outcome. Initially when I just don't get it till the white Bosch, I was not very happy and I did step back, relax, came back to the painting and then started adding this darker value. Now this darker values, basically my Prussian blue or indigo, whichever is available with you, do not think that I can only use these colors if you have any more color like Mayan blue, blue, they are all darker shades of blue. Go head and use it. Add some more darker values in the cracks area which you see towards the bottom. You have to get distinctly that the bottom is more visible to us. Hence, the cracks that we see over there needs to have more depth and slowly, steadily. You have to add this step as you're painting is completely done. If we go ahead and write now tried to walk around with the cracks a lot, it wouldn't not give us a very good outcome. So go slow and going store would really help you to understand how you should paint each and oblique rack over here. I'm using my size two brush to paint around these cracks. You can go ahead and use any size brush status available with you. If you were working on a big old people, you can go ahead with your pixel size brush. I will receive this. The brush size will change according to the size of your paper. If you are working with a smaller size people, you will have smaller set of brushes as well as you need to be very, very vigilant when you were adding any kind of colors. Though using a smaller people helps us to actually save a lot on, on people. But it is a bit difficult to walk around with most of the time, as it is. In terms of giving the abutment east to west to paint, it becomes very minimal. Why I say this, you will have locked less opportunities to paint well on a smaller size paper, come back to bigger size people and there are a lot less chances to commit mistake. If you see that smaller cauliflower effect took me so much time to actually blend with my background. So those are the things which you need to keep in mind. The rest, it's perfectly fine. There is no problem. What size you use, what paper you use, everything is perfectly okay. Keep adding some water, darker values and few other areas towards the top. And it is very, very less space that I will be utilizing for desktop here. And then keep blending it with the background. If you see I'm right now only using water rather than using the premium mixture of my pins and that's it. I think this is quite what I wanted. I would let the paper dry off in a while. Why I do not want to walk even more on it. I think I have got their desired effect that I wanted. And this is a great way to paint your eyes. So leave it here. And 10. Finally, look at your painting before you remove the tape. Do have a final look because you should not change much once you are done with the painting. And I guess this is a term, do not overwork on your painting. That's very, very important. Even adding details, you need to know that you are not here to overwork on any of your painting. Blending is perfectly fine. At the end, whenever you actually absorbed me, I'm just blending my colors. I'm not picking up any colors. It's just a blending part which I feel I wonder do it in a better way. I did Let my people drive because of which the light did change. I was working on a natural light and yeah, it has it is evening already. Hence, you can see the change of the light. Remove the tape at an angle, and then you see this nice crisp edge which I get go head down user for gifting it or for your own holiday cards. You want to just make any kind of calendar out of it, use it for that purpose. Anything can be done. I hope to see you in the next lesson. 11. Day 8 Winter Cabin: Okay, so the colors are Naples yellow, Payne's gray, Prussian blue, crimson burnt amber, red brown burnt sienna, and Prussian blue or any other indigo color in case you want to keep it for yourself. So here we are. Today I'm going to explain you something about perspective. Now. This is Diego and I could have taken it more slowly in future projects. But I do feel that you guys are ready now to understand a bit more about perspective and architecture. Perspective can be confusing at first. But once you have a grasp of the basics that I would say, you are drawing and painting will look way more authentic. And they were really look like they are real and original. So there are three things that I want to tell you about. Perspective has simple rule for perspective is to trust what you've seen. If you establish your horizon line and vanishing point. That's what is the major important aspect. Those two things once done, you just know that majority of the work of this particular painting is completely done. Fosters you only need to connect the lines that you observe right now. Now this is a 2 perspective which we are working on. Now. Both the sides, the lines of the squared on the left as well as on the right, will converge to one single point, which is majorly your vanishing point. Now you can place your vanishing point either on your horizon or you might not even place it on your horizon. I have always absorbed it. That way you can decide what you want to go ahead with HIV, according to me, sometimes you can place it on your horizon. Sometimes you can place it come up the horizons. Sometimes you can place it below the horizon. You can even place it outside the people altogether. Vanishing point works like that. It would all converge to one single point. This is one of the very simple illustrations which we are doing. There is a line for the window num. This will also converge to one single point, that is the vanishing point. Window doors. The lines of these window, everything you will see, I'm placing 11 single line and both of these lines will meet at 1. That's how you work with perspective. This is one of the basics for urban sketching. Though I might not be right now covering everything about urban sketching. This is one of the projects which you can work on as urban sketching. But I can tell you one important aspect of urban sketching, which is majorly the perspective and the rule of architecture. The rule of architecture is decided by only two major aspects. That is your vanishing point and another is your horizon. Again, this is a 2 perspective, as I did tell you, the left side also converges to one single point. That right side also converges to one single point. You can also do single point perspective. Now, single-point perspective means the left side will converge to one single point, whereas the right side will remain as a squared and it will not converge. Whenever both of these lines are converging. It can converge on the paper. It can converge outside the paper. I would leave it up to you how you want to decide it, according to me by both the points are converging outside the paper. Okay. Along with it, I would just add a few fence. Now fence is very important. It is a cable-like structure which we have in this cold winter season. Because of this structure, I think I would love to stay somewhere like this, which has hills in the background. It is no. Then you have a small cavemen, a cozy night or cozy day over there. You are sipping coffee, you are sipping tea, whichever beverage you like. It's just amazing to even think about this kind of all whether according to me, you need to go head though with the background and the background do does have some mountains. So once you have the background with the mountains, pick off any extra graphite months which you have on people. Always, always do that if you do not take up all the extra graphite mass from the paper, it would be very difficult for you to work with watercolors. Now, watercolors is a medium which is not opaque. It is a transparent. Because of its transparency, these lines might show up. I'm using my kneadable eraser to take off the colors. And then I have taken some Payne's gray. You can even use Prussian blue or indigo for this spot and start applying it towards the top area. Once you have applied, it, just blended. With some water and take it towards the horizon line. That's how we go about painting these bots. So it's always pretty amazing to see how to blending happens. The better your blending is. I always say the better your painting would be. I have seen this pretty much often in most of my paintings. The better as my blending, the better as my outcome. It takes a while law to have a good blending with your round brush in case you are using a flat brush, It's better to go head and blend it with that with your flat brush. You can always see such a beautiful blending. You do not need to go ahead and do these kind of movements with your brush. Much over here, we have to go three to four times over the same place to get that kind of an effect. Okay. I think I did a small mistake. I did go over the roof and I would just start take off that extra Carlo with they have both my tissue. Once I have done this, I would go ahead and take my size two round brush to add two colors. Firstly, ethos, you can go ahead and use any of your darker values. For the mountains. It is the Prussian blue that I'm using right now for the mountains. And mixing it with a bit of your paints gray to get the darker color. Either you can make the background or you can go ahead and paint the fulcrum. For me. I always go ahead and paint the background first, let it dry, and then go ahead with my fulcrum. With every painting that I do there is so much which I learned. This painting that we are doing the, not actually think much while we did the perspective or while we were working on the simple points of rule, like a horizon line then now with the 2 perspective as well as vanishing point. Every day in my work on a project it from this particular series, you will learn something new. That's the aspect of watercolor painting. Whenever I do something like this, I make sure that you get the complete learning and take away something that is different from each of these projects. There are so many things that are there in a watercolor project or even that are there in watercolors. Not only the rules of perspective, it is more about what kind of techniques you can use, what kind of watercolors, what kind of wet on wet, wet on dry. There are many points where you will see that the paper is wet hands whenever I am applying the colors, it is giving me a soft edge for my mountain, as well as look. Now when you are applying the colors, they are darker in value. Once it is dry it off, it would become the more likely. So do apply the colors in a way that you just know after this date would turn to shade lighter or one shade lighter in case you are using any of your student grade paints, it might don't do shade dry dough. And if you're using parties grade paints, it would just be one shade lighter. I am still blending towards the right side. It is a bit of applying your colors and how you get that kind of a blending. Then nothing extra that I'm doing over here. It's just adding a bit of darker values and few of the ideas. Now I'm mixing my yellow ocher or Naples yellow, whatever is available with you. It's good to go. I love to use my yellow ocher and Naples yellow in this case, as it is building which is made up of stones. Hence, go ahead and just apply the scholar do apply to goods the left side and then blend it a width of bit of burnt umber. Or you can take any kind of burnt sienna for it. As you can't see my palette to Westside, Therefore, I'm making a point whenever I am applying the colors, I do mix it in front of you and then only go ahead and apply it. Not this color that we are applying right now on the paper. It has. Got a lot of water in it. Now having a lot of water is so very important. In this case, orals. If it is very creamy, what happens is the kahlo would make the building look more transparent, but there will be lot of pigments on the paper, and we do not want so much of pigment, not the pigment and water ratio is really important when you're working with watercolors. This should be really less what DO when you want to make darker values. And there should be a lot of water when you want to make lighter values. That's another aspect which I always look forward to whenever I'm doing any watercolor painting. This is a very simple flat brush that I'm using now, either you can keep this far, you might not also keep this. It's just that my blending brush had some blue in it. So I wanted to avoid it. Hence went ahead with this flat brush. I did not want the blue to come upon this yellow or to show up on the yellow. And I have tried it a lot of times to not show that up. But what happens is mostly whenever you have blue in your brush, it can mix up at your yellow ocher and give a bit of a darker value, which we really do not want for this painting. Usually for a building, one side is lighter in value and the other scientists to occur, usually the light falls. Takeaway hand some my Docker scientists to words the front. I would add some burnt sienna to it as well as some Van Dyke brown or some red brown, whichever you are more comfortable with. Orals, you can even use bond amber. These are the suggested colors. You can always experiment with your colors and add it. I like to usually add two different shades of colors while I am painting. Either it be the left side of the building or the right side of the building. That's very important. Changing the colors and mixing your colors really helps to add so much more value. And so much more. I would say depth into your painting. You will slowly realize that how your painting changes everything altogether. If you change the values of the colors and apply it on your paper. While I was adding colors, you did also me, Ethan picking up some of the colors from the top side. That's what I was saying about altering the values everywhere. I did apply my blend sienna, I did change some of the values for a few of the ideas by picking up the extra Kahlo or wherever necessary, picking up some of the colors from that particular place and rest of the area, you can always go ahead and add the darker values. Go ahead and just apply some colors for your door, that is towards the left, and then add some of your typical values for the Windows, which is two words to again, the left side of the painting, I'm going ahead with a simpler brushstroke that can help you to add this color. Go towards the top and even add some of your tongue brown color for the Windows. I have been all bass adding these colors in a single particular color, YC, this key, same right now, and then always go ahead and add the darker value like this with the tip of your brush. Do alter the colors each and every place possible. I can tell you that does add a lot more depth. And 5 you ask, well as the person who observes your painting things, you as a way more mature, dumb artist. Anything which looks absolutely one single color and black dot doesn't make a great watercolor painting. Whereas if you change the values in a few, alter the colors, it makes lot more addition or there is lot more maturity in your painting. Majority only cups with watercolor and with experience. If you absorbed right now I am adding some smart, smart dots with the darker values of brown or Payne's gray and then letting it flow. Now why do I say let it flow? My people was too wet and when I added the colors, it did make a plume rather than remaining hard edge. It was really soft. That's one of the aspects of watercolor. You can really play with what you want as a soft color and what you want as your different kind of hard edge, soft edge, wet on wet, wet on dry. These are really the playing aspects of watercolor and I have always done it in many of my paintings. And I can tell you we keep altering between different kinds of techniques and techniques. Really asked that amount of flavor to your painting. For my rule, find the mixed some amount of microbes in into my burnt sienna and stop that and get to watch the top area of the left side of the roof. Now once i delta roof, you will make with the darker value and another side with the lighter value. The left side, of course, would be with the lighter value as the light is falling on it. Whereas the right side or the back, which is towards the front, I'm facing you, will be with those darker values. That's how we go about it. I did apply some amount of my burnt sienna and then just wash my brush and started applying what? I did apply some crimson into it or mix some crimson into it. Who can also use red brown or any other color which is closer to red prompt that you have. You can always prepare your own colors. This is one of the example where I wanted to show how you can prepare your own colors and then apply it. Again, adding some amount of darker values. Two words though, top side of the roof. Once I added the color, I'm going ahead and then blaming it with only water. I do wash my brush pretty often. I'd take off all the extra colors on the tissue you have been on solving mean doing this for quite some time. I'm altering the value of the columns within the roof that I did paint right now, some of the places you would see is with the lighter value in some of the police would be with third taco value. Why we change or alter the alkalosis you are building is I mean will have some amount of red Enter. That's always the case with any kind of building that you observe. There will be some amount of wear and tear which will happen for any building and then not. You need to even add some of the colors in a way that few places are DACA and few places I like to because of that wear and tear, we are showing it like that going ahead and adding some darker values and few of the places to complete the small building that we did paint and now applying some water towards the left side, do make sure that you are adding the clean water. What usually happens in this case is I have the color and the brush I did use for my painting had some blue or some kind of yellow in it. That's one of the reasons while I'm applying even the clean water, the painting becomes a bit darker in value. I'm using the same paints gray or makes some amount of indigo or Prussian blue in it and then apply it. You'll see how beautifully it did blend with the background. I'm adding some dried trees. Now along with the branches. Dry trees and branches look very pretty. Once you are done with the whole part of the painting, you will observe it slowly. Okay, let's have some amount of darker values towards the top area. Some of the places still wet because of which the water is flowing. That's absolutely fine. Do not worry. It's more of Mr. its distance. You will see these trees. So some of them can of course become more flowy or you can say more soft in your approach. Now blend your Kahlo with the background. Now this blending really helps anyone to go ahead and painted in a bit away. Yc, my dry brush technique will start from here. If you're more about dry brush technique, it's about taking off all your extra colors on the tissue and then just applying your brush in. Dr. Mano. This helps in so many watercolor snow kind of paintings or even working with mountains, or working with any kind of other ideas for your buildings, et cetera. You will observe this more often in urban sketching. Over here, we are doing on new technique right now. Either you have acrylic brush like this, which has a sharp edge on the backside. Autos, you can take a palette knife and had these kind of lines. What it usually does is displacing the color from the particular place which you observe right now. Now displacing the color allows the white of the paper to show off easily. And rest of the area can remain as DACA value adding some branches. Now, these branches are pretty simple to add. The tip of the brush needs to be used for the branches. Once you are done Pinto branches, then go ahead and add some more branches towards the left side. This particular technique can be used in many of your other watercolor paintings. This is just a one-off where I'm using it. It is pretty oftenly or pretty easily used technique for many watercolor artist in many of the places. So it's another technique that you can load. I'm user to know any future projects that you'll do. I always saw move my paper or whenever it is needed. Why I do this? So it really helps me to add the colors in a better way. I would say, I'm mixing all the colors that is available on the palette. It might look pretty strange to you, but I love to use the colors that are available to me and get her darker value like this had the fence and even now blender lower side of the building. Why I like to blend it, it would look more organic in nature and it will not be like it is separately. They're present on the body of the painting. This is so important to know where to exactly blend your colors. If you can blend the colors wherever you're burning is ending or you cannot make it more organic. It really makes it tough for anyone as an artist to understand why does working that way. Blending again a bit. And you'll see I'm using the same color that is available from the fence and just add in the damn brush onto it. The damp brush really helps to blend it. Again, washing the brush and then blending it. I need to act offense once more. After this is done, it is easy to add the colors on the fence. And then these small, small lines, now, these lines really connects the offense hand. It is important to add these lines. Again, the major aspects of watercolor painting is to make it more organic in nature. And organic means that you have to add these lines to have to walk in a way that it just looks original. Photo, I would say because it's not a photograph, we know it, but it should actually appeal to the eyes of the spectator ion. I have been solving this as well as communicating this in many of my other projects to your OK. Now, basically you taste the last five minutes of the painting and there could be only detail, step big on hugging. I did add some amount of my brown color towards the right side. And again, I think some pre some in the bank account. It is a bit far away from the blue trees that we did until towards the left side. It is blue or you can sit game screen, whichever you want to see, or whichever you want to actually target in terms of the colors, some crucial blue, indigo or you want to use paint scree. Everything is good to go. Now I am taking some brown dark mix and adding these bushes data, some kind of dry trees or dry plants, which usually arises when it is cold winter season. Now the cold winter season, these try plants really gives that kind of look that it is snow. And those were really give that kind of an outcome of watercolors and make it look more real. Real, real. I would say we're not behind realism. But real means whatever you can usually observe in a winter season, that all will people trade in this. Class. I know I have been actually pushing you lot harder than many of the other classes. And this case, this one is majorly for anyone who wants to give what colors or try. And from beginners to intermediate level, each of the subject, each of the painting has so much that it would take a bird off difficulty, or it would be a bit difficult for any one in this topic. But believe me, once you are Intuit and once you start painting along with me, you will frankly fall in love with this journey. This journey is something that I really wanted when I would have been upping tar and hypo, searching for subjects that the challenge me that were something different from what everyone is painting are from, which I can learn. And usually these kinds of paintings are from books that you usually buy or data and many kind of painting. So you can usually do only through learning from various different artist or together. I tried to package everything possible from the bookie effects to your drum. Other kind of techniques like the palette knife or anything, which can seriously art so much more flavor him to any of your watercolor painting. Adding some more lines towards the top area of the roof. Once I have added these lines, make sure that you just had someone taco values rid of unnecessary and these darker values, so R, So, so beautiful if you observe, I would keep adding more and more colors or dark shades wherever city and then just add a bit more colors on my Windows as I tom tell you, podium, go head and now have a look at your painting. Step back, Lu understand, we do not want to overwork. Hence don't have a lot of lines or lot of additions. Kingdoms of your hard lines, et cetera. This is really important to understand that not adding a lot lines, a lot of your details really helps you to stick to your painting and really helps this painting come to life. I am so much into this painting. I just know that this painting is one of my own favorite where we did touch upon some aspects of urban sketching. Usually which no one would have thought altogether. If you're doing any winter postcards or any winter or greeting cards, right? I think of these aspects are small, small experiences which I would love to share with my near and dear ones. I hope you do feel the same. Let your paper dry off now. Have a final look at your painting and peel off your tape. Do not do not overwork guys on this painting did a lot of chances of over-working. That one of the reason I have been telling this do not overbook. If you overwork on this painting, it's a small piece of Paypal. It would not turn up. Great. So meet you in the next lesson now, tomorrow. 12. Day 9 The Cable Car: Let's discuss the colors. Payne's gray, Prussian blue, red, forest green, mint green, Winsor blue, burnt sienna, white quash. So these are the colors that we will need today. Let's relax. Okay, So after a day's of regular work, I invoke that you guys aren't a bad diode. So this project is going to be simple and it is going to help you relax. We will learn by increase in the process and how you can paint by increase with a flat brush as well as with a round brush. You can paint it with a round brush that has no need of applied pressure altogether. But since I wanted you guys to know a bit about the techniques, hence, I wanted to introduce it during this particular project itself. Let's make three basic lines. Potter cable car. It is a major type. You usually see in any kind of mountain area where you love to visit. There are many places in India which has it TOM. It starts from her to her. If you visit by any chance, just go ahead and check out the fascial. My experience for rope way as a child happened there and then of course, moved on. And I did visit many of the other places in the hemochorial as well as I'm talking. When you have this kind of an arrangement. Just I guess we will move on to just draw this role-play post. Once you have added your horizon line, or basically the place where you want to paint your us know. Then we will go ahead and just add or you can draw the ropy. It's a very, very simple process of drawing, but do make sure that the proportions are correct. First, when I just try drawing it, it did not work well, so I had to erase it and then hung can draw. It is not a very easy process. Each and every time when you are going ahead and drawing something we are drawing does take some time, and it is the basic skeleton for any kind of a painting. So give it the time that it needs. Everything that you see today is realtime, has all the videos that I have included in this lesson is real-time. So you are not going to face any kind of difficulty in terms of you cannot follow along or you cannot paint along. So all those things I have taken care of from the initial beginning itself. Now, if you see little Viz, very small and thin, we will go ahead and make it a bit broader. Use your eraser to the full extent possible. Never ever hesitate using your eraser. That is really, really important. Going ahead and working in a way that is simple to you. I am giving a closer look. For this one. You just mark a middle point and then just extended towards the left as well as towards the right. Once you have extended on both sides, just joined from the left and from the right. Make it a bit curvy as well as for the bottom area, we will do the same process. I hope this is simple for you. It is, it is a different subject altogether. I have tried to cover so many subjects in this class that sometimes I myself think, Okay, I think that we have gone too far somewhere or the other covering so many different subjects from the window, New York, as well as the Christmas season. I guess. This looks great right now. So I would go ahead and continue with my drawing process a bit more in detail. And then we will paint the sky. The sky is going to be simple, easy, blue, beautiful sky that we usually see. I'm using the mint green from the White Nights and it is a beautiful color. I have, I just tried it in this painting. And practically I just felt this is one of the most beautiful colors that I have seen. No. Do you need to actually matter the colors? No gays use any color that is available with you. Only blue is also fine. So go ahead, use your colors where whatever is available on your palate. Let's add some water for the wet on wet technique. Now, wet on wet is a very soft and beautiful technique than I have been using for the sky for many years now. Just apply the Quanto lethal area where you have to pay. We do not want the blue to get into this rupee. So leave that area and then start applying this mint green color on top of your people. It's a very, very light wash that I'm applying initially and then slowly I'm blending it to the darker values. If you observe this, pretty color, looks amazing once you apply it on the paper and then slowly you take it towards the bottom. Towards the top people have darker values. So just TO wheat, then slowly go ahead with any blue that is available. Now, dilute blue as well as when so blue both looks amazing. And this both one is from San Antonio, that does my table blue. Winsor blue is of course from Newton. Both of them are kind of similar. Hence, I'm not sure that whether you will be very happy to use either overt or if you have any one of them available. But you can go ahead with cobalt blue. One thing that you might have got from this painting is so we are not applying any flat wash. In this case. We are going ahead and adding the columns only in few years. And once we have added the colors, we're trying to just blend it with the bank round. You didn't see that? I caught some lines like from my flight, I went ahead and I did blend it with my round brush size. Do I love to add all the colors? So what Maya John brush? Because it really helps me to keep a control. Now going ahead with some pushing glue or you can even go head with some Payne's gray on indigo to add some darker values of the clouds as you observe me doing it right now. Branding a bit more violet, I go to the bottom. Once I'm done with this spot, I would go ahead and start adding more colors for my snow. But let your paper dry off before you go ahead and add colors for your snow organelles then might be some quality flower drip effect. Your water will move from one area to another. Take a very light wash of Payne's gray indigo or any other shot taco value that you have on your palette, and then start adding these colors though I'm doing right now. It is, again, are very easy and pretty. I would say it's not more and more easy. It's more about how you just had the colors, each and every place. We are not going to add the colors. I want to show the white of the paper for the snow. You can also keep white completely in case you are more inclined towards making this No, it in white of the paper. I'm even find with that, I love to add the colors as I know, the shade of this particular color will go lighter once the paper dries off. It's always better to go that way to add the colors and then get like the values. Once you get the lighter values or you will be way more happy with the painting. And slowly, steadily, you will understand that this painting is coming to life. It's just 10 minutes of the complete painting we have done so practically right now you cannot see what we are going to achieve the upcoming time, but with the Cloud hour, but this guy and with my snow being done, major part of it is covered. Now let's make some brown with green that you have. Now. This green is any green that you can think of like poorest screen and you will get a color. The way I did test on my palate itself. So go ahead and test on your palette or you can go ahead and test quandary or Paypal, whichever you are more comfortable with desktop and then start applying it. I did use the tip of my brush to add this straight line. Do not worry if you want not much comfortable adding this way, I would show you a very easy trick of adding your colors for the pine trees. Now, you just need to make this straight line. And then we will go ahead with our flat brush the way I'm showing it now. And then just extended towards the left hand, towards the right. It's the most simplest way, or it is part of the boost simple ways of working with watercolors. If you are having a flat brush. Now, flat brush really helps you do just extended towards the left hand, towards the right in our pretty easy and simple manner. Now I'm using my round brush to extend it a bit more on the left and on the right. It's pretty amazing the way I absolve the tree. Now taking the shape, I did use my flat brush as well as you can even use your round brush. Now both I would say both the brushes are blue, so do not think that I was working with my round brush right now, once I'm done with my flat brush, I wanted to add a few more drops off, darker green and seal few of the areas, or just add one or two smaller lines and one or two dots here and there. That's how I go about adding my pine trees. I hope you did like the way we add the colors to our increase with our flat brush. Because what happens is many of you have told me We are not very comfortable painting pine trees with our round brush. And we do not get a similar kind of a tree which you paint. So try it with a flat brush. You might get similar kind of an outcome. Hopefully, it does add some good amount of tips and tricks which can be used even in your future projects. Secondly, there are usually a bunch of pine trees which are there together at one place. So whenever you are going ahead and adding any kind of snow, makes sure that your pine trees have some snow or else the snow has settled down. It is just a full season, RL. So I can say the season is almost over and renters somewhere around February, March, the snows is still there on the ground, but yeah, the trees the snow from the trees have started melting. So anything you can actually showcase with pine trees, you can have white added onto it, which means that it is more of a window feeling that you will get. If you do not have the white, it would be more greens that you have. And it's just that there is no either in the initial, our ions, there is no In the last part. I think the trees are telling you are satisfied. And once we are done with the trees, I will meet you. Then when we have to just paint as well as the cavemen, right? Right now, the trees do not look very organic. That's one of the reason I would like to blend it a bit from the bottom area on top of the snow that we have already painted. So just a blending brush, go over it and add the colors so the way you observe right now, and it's pretty amazing. I can say. I love the way watercolors does its own magic. You do not need to do a lot in watercolors. Water will work on its own and you will get a beautiful final outcome. I'm going ahead with my liner brush and adding the lines for the rope. If I do touch upon a few of the areas where I think I could not apply the colors can a goal to pay. Now, this is a great test. If you are not great with your brush techniques like adding straight lines one after another, then it might be a bit tough for you. So this is a kind of a test for you if you can paint straight lines one after another. So do not worry. One thing is if you are not okay with it, use your pen and scale to add these lines so that you do not miss out on the main idea of the painting, which is to blend well, which is to add the pine trees, actors, no, greed, that environment or Quinto create that magic with your painting. We're ever stop or never, ever tried to just gloss yourself and not use any kind of tips and tricks which could have been used for any painting and that can give concrete outcome. So all of these, you can keep it in mind and use it whenever you need it, even in your future paintings, as these are just simple, simple hacks which anyone can use for having a great outcome. I always love to use paints, gray fat fan using plaque. I don't know. It's just a personal choice that I like, but you can always go ahead and use black, some red. Of course, the flavor of the season is read the window, the magic, everything works beautifully when there is some red in the whole class rate. I love to add the settlement of red in most of my paintings. The winter season cannot go without dread color. So I had you read wherever you one. For me, this book are really reminds me of the Christmas season. The people who are holiday scheme, who are going and having a look at the beautiful Alps are the beautiful Callie, kind of different Himalayan ranges in India. And even outside in the mountains, you are going there, Haldane, parking or just enjoying nature, whatever you want to enjoy, just share your experience. Sharing experience really helps people to get to understand you. Get to understand you more as a person that you want to share your own personal space, your own personal card process with all of them. That really makes anyone come close to you. Adding some of my light value of red to blend it and then make it like, as you see for the window area. Do I add some darker value of your Prussian blue are in the Gore pit scrape, whatever you have for the bottom area of this event, and then go ahead and add some black are somewhat darker value for the top area as well as for the window ADM, there would be a bit of white quash that I would go head and had for the doorway. It is more of highlights that I'm going to add. To be frank, I'm pretty happy with this painting has turned out. I am not going to do a lot of work on top of it. I'm keeping it simple, easy, interesting. Along with it, do make sure that you go ahead and add a bit of a black line, even for the window area or for the ADL. Once your window is over and only go over your window once you are done adding your colors for the red part of the window as well as it has dried off completely. We do not want any bleeds at this stage. As you are practically kneeling it, you just know that this painting has turned out really pretty. So why take a chance? Always let your people try off and then only come back? Yeah, You and the winter season it takes a while for the paper. Don't try pine or if you are living in the humid area, it would, again, take a lot of time to dry, give it the time. Half a cup of coffee houses, something else if you want, go ahead and work another painting your view on to start with two panel paintings. So that can also be one of the areas which you can look forward to, right? Once this part is done, go ahead and just add the white quash exactly the way I am doing right now. As we do, make sure that you are only sticking to the ADL, which is majorly your doorway of the gibbon or the doors of the cavemen. That's okay. Simple. I guess. It's pretty simple. Just that you need to know the structure and go with a thin brush to add these lines that soil, practically we are not complicating the subject. A dollar watercolors is all about simplification. You, whatever you observe, you do not need to add everything onto the paper. Whatever you think is necessary, only add that much. I think I should actually get a class of what you do see and what you should paint. So do not always go with whatever you see on the photograph to change it a bit or whatever you see whenever you are doing a kind of urban sketching, don't not completely deprecated. So those are the aspects you should keep in mind. Now removing the tape at an angle and have a final look at your painting, but do remove the day once your painting is completely dry. 13. Day 10 Into the Mountains: Let's discuss the colors. It is Payne's gray, Prussian blue, forest green composts blue make green or you can even have bright yellow, green, ultramarine. It can be French ultramarine, or any other ultramarine that you have. Put yourself burnt sienna and white quash. Okay, So we are on day 10. This is going to be a bit detailed but easy painting. So you do not need to worry much time here to guide you through the entire process. The whole video is realtime, which makes it way more easier for you to follow along with me. Let's talk by marking the horizon line. Horizon line is just not in the middle of the paper. It's about 55 percent as the sky and dressed, 45 percent as the water or in the 60, 40 ratio. You can also divide your paper. The people is quite small enough so you do not need to worry much how you are dividing it, but just make sure that it is not equal. I would go ahead and make some foreground mountains as well as some background. Martin's rest of the area will be Though, sky area. For this guy. Either you can start with ultramarine blue or you can even go head with cobalt blue. I would leave it up to you which color you would like to apply. Another color option that I always love to apply for my sky is my city, Liam blue. These are the three different colors which might be available on your ballot. You can select whichever you like and then applied for the sky. Towards the top, I'm applying a darker value while I go down, I'm applying a lighter value. Though, I would change the values and then see how my cloud don't sell out. There are a few lines that I applied from the right and on the left. And I take it towards the metal. It's quite well. I would say this is a kind of cloud which you do observe in many of the cases, yes, we might not always go head and just see the final outcome like that. But there are times when you just observe the clouds in the sky and you see something dramatic, yet not that dramatic, that you can absolve or just add so much to the sky that the other parts will not show up. One aspect of watercolor painting, as we do not complicate all the parts of the painting. There are some parts which we were complicated and there will be some parts which we will not complicate much. I am just taking some of my Prussian blue and then I would start adding my mountains. This, I'm not sure. You have already done it in any of the other models class, but I have mountains class are together. So if you want to have a look at it, there are a lot of techniques that I've covered only about mountains. Over there. I'm starting with my light values of Prussian blue and then adding it on the top area. You can leave it only with few ridges, et cetera, for the mountains or looks, you can go ahead and hand mortgages. That's also an option that you can explore. There is no rule as such how much you should add in terms of the color, in terms of the riches, in terms of darker and lighter values for the mountain. So you can always go ahead and explore what you think is the best for your particular work. Hello. I do love to blend the lower area of the background mountain with some darker values, whether it be Prussian blue or some Payne's gray, always keep some darker values handy with you. You can also use some of your CPR or burnt sienna. They can also give you the ductile vacuoles, which I am talking about. Sometimes what happens is we just are so much engrossed in upping thing that somewhere or the other, we're just going with the flow. And because of the flow that you are going through, you overwork. Okay. On few of the areas. It did happen with me in many of my other paintings. And sometimes it does happen till date. Why does it happen? I cannot tell you the exact reason or why it keeps on happening. There is no as such reason for it. But it does happen wherever. I think that I am not happy with it. I love to apply some white wash and neutralize it a bit. Then I think this is lesser than what I do expect. Like this mountain particularly I thought I would make lighter in value, but I just went with the flow and made it a bit darker. With there are times where we need to fix up paintings and slowly, steadily as you progress in your journey of watercolors, it's important for you to understand how to fix things up. There is no coming back and watercolors and I do understand it completely. But what you can do with watercolors is change it a bit or add a bit of opaque medium wherever necessary. Okay, blending the colors now a bit like we did earlier. Now if you observe, guess the mountain is pretty dark. We will change it a bit, so do not, do not worry. I am here for you. These kind of problems to happen. If possible, do not apply so much of color. I would guide you through the process of adding less colors in the current mountain. You can use it even for though one bed we paint. I mean, we did paint audio, the one on which we are here. But if you have already done it this way, no problem at all. We will use our white quash. It's like magical. I can say. It can help you fix Kanye thing possible. Use a blending brush and blend your foreground mountain submit. It also has a lot of snow. Hence, you will not blend it in all the areas, only a few areas, just touch it. It's like adage of goal. You know, you touch it and you just feel how beautiful it has turned out. Let's paint the leg. You see how quickly they are moving between the mountains sky and now we are already on the lake. There will be more detailing which we will be doing for tofu grounds as well as for the pine tree. So do not worry. There is a lot of detailing that is left along with it. We have to make sure that the shoulder ripples of the water area, everything is wet on dry, mostly. Whatever you observe, I have not applied waterfalls and then go on ahead with the darker values. Wet on dry is a very beautiful method to explore your smaller papers and how you can walk along with it. Seriously, I have a class on boats and silico days where we are only working with dry paper and we apply wet paint on top of it. Once we apply the wet paint, It's just dots showing the beauty altogether. Once you have applied the darker values, make sure that you add some of your ultramarine or your cobalt blue and add these kind of lines. I'm using the tip of my size 8 brush, which is from my silver black velvet series to add these colors, you can also go ahead with size six brush cost size four brush. I would also leave that up to you. I have been using size six brush pretty often from a SCADA optimal. So you can decide which brush you want to use, how you want to use. I'm using my main green from us. She monkey. This color is also bright yellow green, which you get in Sennelier. Now data various names which each and every company has for their pigments or for their particular colors that they are releasing. So you will get to understand how each and every color is not exactly different. And yet they have different names. So always go by the colors. Only buy them when you need it. Once. My bright yellow green is over from most semilunar, which I already had. I just thought to go ahead with this May green. Let's just add some more burnt sienna and few of the places. And since the paper is already wet because of the green, you can see the water no doing its work and go columns moving and grow each other. It is so amazing to watch this complete phenomena of the colors moving into each other. And as I did that, I was not very happy with foreground mountain time going ahead and adding some Guassian few of the areas wherever I feel that it is necessary. Make sure you're not adding a lot of Bush. Why? Because we will go ahead and add more paint some of our buying trees. On the left, you will add one small branch of binary, whereas on the right we would add more of buying trees. So whenever you are adding on the left the pine tree, what will happen is that this opaque medium, takeover. You are transparent medium. That's what we do not want. Hence, make sure that you are not adding a lot of quash for the painting part. Okay, just adding a little darker values to the right so that while the mountains can be seen separately, once you have added all the mountain separately. To just see and check how you are going to add your foreground trees. This time, I would only work with her darker value of green and add one straight line with the help of my size two, brush and just move ahead, add some of my thoughts towards the right and two goods the left. These are small, small lines which are basically the branches of the pine trees. Once I am happy with that, then I would go ahead and add though trees or the leaves of the trees. It's a very small pine tree that I have right now, as well as for the background, I'm not going to hide all larger trees. There will be a combination of smaller and larger trees. For the foreground. Trying to extend their toe with smart, smart dots on the left and on the right, there is no best way of painting pine trees. In the last one where we did paint the pine tree, it was more about the rupee. I did tell you the shortcut of using your flat brush, how you can go ahead and paint your pine trees. So those are the other space you can surely explore while you want to paint your pine trees. Adding few more lines for the pine trees, I like to add a line stamp then go head on top of it for the branches as well as for the leaf area. This gives me remote control of how I want to paint my trees and where exactly I would like to pink my trees. That helps me to get through the whole of the process pretty easily. Make sure that few of the trees hapless. You would say, branches as well as less leaves, whereas few of the trees will have more leaves and will be more branches and they look way more cleaner compared to the others. You have to meet. Nature I mentioned is absolutely random. I have been saying about this pretty often and many of my other classes for nature painting, you'll need to be more focused time. You need to have the outcome which is more random. Now at random really helps you to understand how you should put your work into action. That is to say, some of the ideas needs to be even in different values on green color. Wherever you think. For your pine trees, you'd want to add different color. Go ahead and use your main green and then use your forest green. Mostly I'm using my main green and forest freedom this case. Whereas you can also go ahead with 3D and, or glucose green, whatever is available within any shade of dark and light green is fine guys. The whole idea of the painting is to practice, is to send your loved and near dear ones one holiday card from your own experience. So these are the places where we want to validate always during the holiday season. That's where the whole painting is inspired from. An, every time whenever I paint one or the other painting is inspired from some of the other area. Wow, we are now adding details. He have high don't know how we clean. We did move between all the layers status, starting from your sky, starting thumb, your water, your trees, everything looks so organic and get we're moving fast. Yet. We are not adding a lot of details. We are going real-time. Everything from me looks so much in sync. I hope you can also feel it that can invite a painting goes in sync. You just feel so, so good. There are so many times where the painting doesn't really exactly you wanted to. And I know the pain you might have also gone through it in many of the other classes are in many of your paintings that we're doing in this particular class. It's one aspect of watercolor painting which I can tell you guys, practice. If you do not practice even for one or two days, off your hand? It's not the same. I have seen it in my experience and even width of instructor, you might not get the exact outcome that you wish to, or you could have guard if you learn on a daily practice routine. That's one of the aspects of this painting. I did try to different subjects which can inspire you to even pink table in this winter season, season paintings, I would say. So. It's another aspect of painting for whom's whoever, who wants to actually go ahead with this particular hobby, wants to give it a try. I would say do paint regularly that how huge, huge tip which someone gave me a longtime back and I would love to pass that onto you guys. Hit kids. The best method by which you can improve your watercolor painting. If you are going ahead and saying that my form is not improving or my watercolors is not improving. There are three things that you should keep in mind. One, you should practice daily. Second, you should know all the tips and tricks and techniques, which I think happens over time. And the third aspect is you should keep learning from many other masters. Now, why I say that you should keep learning, this is not the way offloading tense. They should be times where you should be learning. Cross. Like I, not all florals worsen by, I took about 1.5 years to teach myself how to paint florals. And then I came up with the glass about painting florals. It was amazing to see how you guys supported on that particular class. And how you guys did paint all the florals in a fantastic way. So all these aspects of watercolor painting is important. Whatever you even don't like or you even don't pay and you should give it a try. That's where the whole magic lies. I always say this. The magic begins or me, where you think you have stepped out of your own comfort zone. My comfort zone is painting landscapes, but in this particular series, you would hardly find much of landscapes. As I did not want you guys to only stick to landscape. You know, whenever I was starting my journey, there was no class or there was nothing that could guide me to actually work on something that I really wanted to explore. Like even painting some of the Christmas decoration, which is usually not seen much when people don't paint it. So all these areas I really wanted to explore. And that was one particular reason, the off this whole class. Okay, go ahead and just add some branches. I loved to go with my pencil sketch first and then over it with my with my darker values of paints. That's how I love it. Why? Again, it gives me more control and there are so many times I do ask you why it's only to tell you that you can only gain control once you start working on when you start exploring a few things which is unexplored, the mouth. It sounds some branches who watch that top area, as I did tell you. So basically you are enjoying this scenery under a tree and act the distance that the mountains which has no cap, they have snow on it. Many of you might be thinking, why did I go head and just had the mountain in the background? Believe me? It is only because I wanted to have this spring holiday and all kinds of whites together. Many of us do not get to see the snow every winter time. Also living in a place where I do not get to see the snow in the winter but gets pretty cold the northern side. So there are times where we go to hill station and I have practically seen this scenery When I was in one of the hill stations in another side of India. And it was so happy time for me. I just relate towards so much. I just connect to it so much. I don't know whether you guys have gone to these places in the hilly areas of northern India, arose in the Himalayas. Sometime then you go, you can practically see these pine trees and you can really absorb how beautifully the whole picture looks like. It's ideal experience. I must say, I every year take out sometime from my showed you where I do travel. And I see all of these beautiful scenic beauty. You, you cannot seriously get to live it with the photos you need to go there and see it. These are few aspects of life experience which all of us should do and must do. That way you can practically keep up with everything. And you can seriously get whatever you feel like or you can get that energy to do things in a better and nicer way. I yeah, I think holidays had the best part of my whole learn your why. I get so much more energy to work in a better way once I've taken or going on a holiday. And I feel so much more rejuvenated and happy after that. So a much needed break is very, very, very important. Once this part is done, go ahead and start adding some more white quash as you did on me adding one or two dots here and there. Then I'm adding some brown dots. Eight is just to show some stones, just to show some highlights. There is no important aspect that I want to cover this wave, but you can always see these things in nature and you can relate to it very well. Remove the tape at an angle and have a final look at the painting. I'm pretty sure about that. You would be very happy and excited to actually have a look at it and understand how beautiful it has stone not. Okay, I think that's it. And finally he, we are done. I'm so happy. Meet you tomorrow again now where we are going to paint something more exciting and something which is more Christmas, feel like. 14. Day 11 Trekking: Let's have a look at the colors. It has been scraped. And so blue, Naples, yellow, purple, ultramarine, burnt sienna, and orange. We are on our day 11. And today I want to share an experience of tracking with your place. During this holiday season, many of us go for trekking hand. I think this really suits as a beautiful holiday card. There are few people who have the mountain and they are on the top of the peak. We are observing them from a distance. And I will tell you how you can simply use a black pen to pin down small human beings. It's interesting night, once you are done with the smaller human beings today, I will give you a way better perspective into the scheme part of this holiday season. Yeah, we are going to paint you in human, who is king. I have touching on different, different subjects this time and hope you are enjoying it then now, it's not very easy class, and I'm must say that you all are doing amazing. You should pat your back and say that you guys have seriously need all the paintings. It is more from beginners to intermediate level with a lot of techniques included that anyone and everyone can pick up and use and their future projects. I'm going ahead with my sky ADR and applying some water on top of it. This is clean water that I am applying. Then I'm going with my Windsor blue and applying in a very, very simple manner. I'm going from the top and then towards the bottom, this is my size two brush. Once I start from the top, you see that I will approach the bottom where there would be hardly any pain status left. I need to add some of my Naples yellow while I go towards the bottom. Naples yellow is main. Surely though, yellow, which I am using for most of my window paintings. Now we do paintings are mostly feel and the sun is not that bright. So Naples yellow really solves us the best here load that you can apply and that you can use during the season. Let us just turn it up a PR and start applying someone Naples yellow. I would make some bit of brown and orange into my Naples yellow. Why I applied the next time? Why I say the clouds are a bit settled to Woodstock top or towards the peak of this mountain. And I really want to show that with some difference. And you see how beautiful this would look once you complete the painting. It is some and away a little bit of colors that we are applying towards the bottom of this tiny area. The middle bar, I would exceptionally keep white. You will see how I do pick up my colors with the help of my tissue. Tissue plays a really important role in this painting. Hence, you can use this technique again, how to pick up the water and how to create the whitespaces for the clouds in any of your future projects. This is a very, very good technique and which can be used by anyone to walk out anything possible. Used to show to pick up that gallows some, as I did tell you earlier. And once you are done with this part, we were Dog Go head width or Dakpo value, that is something like gum. You can say Bob color. And that purple color would be added on the lower side of the clouds to make it a bit more heavy. And to give it the fluffy kind of a look, which I always love when I have to see any kind of mountains. And usually these kind of clouds are seen when you are at the top of the mountain or there is a sunrise, sunset. Usually the sunrises are more beautiful in this case, and you get to see it. Once you have made this darker value makes, I take some purple and some amount of my Payne's green to it. Or else you can even get some amount of your orange and get a mixture like this fun, and then apply it on the paper. Your paper should be wet enough so that you can get the look. Orals just allow your people to become a bit more wet once you apply some water on top of it and then apply your colors. I do it that way because I just feel that my people was not wet enough and I did apply some amount of water. But this can be only done once your paper is completely dry or once your paper is semi dry, then applying the water might even have repetitions. Which means that you can just pick up the colors in the first layer or the water might move and give a cauliflower effects. So be very sure when you aren't doing this technique, we do not want to ruin anything as we have already created a beautiful sky area. And it looks seriously amazing with the way, with the yellow and the blue. So be sure while you are going ahead and applying the colors in this case, I'm going with some of my blue and adding the color to my mountain. It's kind of amazing to see how small changes its own column 8 basically reflects the color of the sky. There is blue in the sky, and I would love to our third color on my mountains as always. And I do like altering the color of the mountains. Why? Because there is light and shade and the lighten shade of course changes because of the riches, because of the way each and every mountain formation happens. So you can really observe it in any kind of a photograph or you have a live experience. Those things can be really absorbed and slowly, steadily, you can understand how we are altering the values of these colors to achieve a particular mountain. I'm going ahead and blending the colors right now. If you are seriously interested in only painting mountains, I have a majestic mountains class, which is one of the very good attempts to paint mountains. I can't get you. Hate is for everyone who wants to paint a mountain and who is in love with this holiday season. You can have at least four to five mountains that we did paint in that particular class. With some of our initial introduction sessions where you get to paint easier mountains and flows steadily, you move on to more difficult ones. Mountains and ridges are something that we often observe and then be absorbed. These ridges, it basically the brown patches that we had. You see, I still work on this guy because my style is not right hand. That is only because it is the winter season. When does is it allows my paper to be wet for a longer period of time. I did apply during the initial one to two minutes, and I really cared about the eighth, nine minutes to work on the paper rather than only 45 minutes during the hot summer season. So these are the aspects that we usually observe in watercolors. And you should keep in mind that whenever you are working during the cold winter season, you will see this. They get longer period of time as well as it will take your paper to become more dry Only if you allow more time for it or else drying is our task in this case. So do note these aspects of watercolor. Sea water control in watercolor is very, very important technique and I know it does come a lot with time. But seriously, when you are in love with watercolors, you can understand that very quickly. If you keep painting or if you keep practicing with watercolors. That's an aspect which I have learned in my own journey. And I would love to let you guys know about it. I'm using my Winsor blue right now to add this color. I'm ten. Hi, I'm just using some water to take it towards the bottom here. You see water has a very, very important role in watercolors. The water control aspect of water is very important, as I did highlight you earlier, I do not want to use pigments at each and every place. Some of the places I'm keeping and lighter value, some of the places I'm keeping and darker values. That's how I go about painting this mountain. It's simple, easy, interesting, as well as you can play so much with colors and water in this particular Mountain, but that would find it way more amazing. Guys. One thing that you should remember is do not worry with Kanye kind of mistakes that you come in. It's absolutely fine. If you do not commit mistakes, you will not be in a position to understand how to go about in your painting. I did apply some of my blue heat is basically a mix of my ultramarine as well as a bureau of the Winsor blue that I had on the palette. And then I'm just using my water to take it towards the bottom area. That's again a very, very simple aspect. I'm adding some more ultramarine towards the top area, as well as on the left side of the mountain. I'm practically not doing much over here while I am. I think two colors. So don't buy mountain area. It's a very, very simple aspect of painting with watercolors. I had a few drops here and there. It is necessary. Whatever do its job, and you just need to act the colors. It's one of the most interesting aspect of watercolors that is wet on wet. But we do not go wet on wet handle for school. He did too wet on dry. And then when we they're more satisfied with the colors and everything, we try not to do wet on wet technique. So practically everything is covered. It's wet on wet, wet on dry, whatever you want to try. This particular small project that we are doing, hazard coil. So now going ahead and adding the richest and some of the valleys, so cross strips drops, whatever you can think of for your mountain area. There are some rocks getting everything is there on a mountain, so we're just trying to add tack on the top side of the mountain area towards the left as well as towards the right. Just go ahead with the brush movement. I am not going to do anything exceptional. It is just some few dots here and dead. That's what I'm going to add. The right side of the mountain of cos. I'm going to make way more darker compared to the left side of the mountain. Again, that's the only thing which we are doing in domes off though edition. Or you can say in terms of the rocks at the rain, etc, whatever you want to add, that's that's it. Once you have added this part, then go to the right, as I did tell you and had more of the darker values, two words though, right bottom corner. And then when you go towards the top, make it a bit more lighter and do not had so much of Dhaka value. Now, this darker value that I'm adding can be of CPO. It can be of any other color which you have like it can be of Payne's gray, it can be opened Nike brand, it can be off any color practically, which is deeper and value. Even black is fine. Though I do not like the whole head with black in my paintings. But that's so great. If you want to try, go ahead and do it. Just tagging the last few cracks and few stones, rocks, so valleys, etc, whatever you want to say onto the mountain. And 10, we will move on to painting our smart small human beings. It's magnificent when I think about adding these small smile human beings to this mountain. And then I think about how much more value it adds to my painting. I am myself homies. These small things can change so much. The main thing that I cannot see, do you see highlighted more? I hope bar you have been enjoying the painting and even this project is one of the quickest that I can tell you. I did paint. I was not sure that we should include it or not. And then the whole aspect of tracking tasks come in the wild, they seize it. So I wanted to just bring the flavor and I wanted to add it for this particular glass, etc. Since it's more about holiday season, we might not be having a team every week, but wherever we are painting, we are painting mountains, we're painting valleys, ridges. We are painting Christmas. So much more. Okay, go ahead and add one small line initially and then make it convert product. Take it down. And you'll see two small lines that is majorly my legs towards the bottom media. And then I did add a small got for the head, simple. And now I'm adding a bit of a color for the hands area. It's really interesting, we are not doing much, just going ahead and adding a bit of color here at that. That's it. I am now going ahead and painting my second human. Hiding legs down. Once I have added the legs, I would go ahead and add the head. I know the focus might not be great, but you can see it now very well. How I did add it. Going ahead with my pen, this time to paint the human beings. This is very small, so you can always try and go ahead with your pen to make these humans, to add these legs, to add these small, small lines, et cetera. Let's go ahead and do it that way. This human being is street and moving straight. So I am adding the legs now. I usually keep a small gap between the two legs. It gives so much more realistic view for any human being. And just make it a bit more extended though try leg that we are painting. Or you can see here just tagging with the help of a pen, going ahead and adding one more human being. He is standing sideways. So you can see the body is in a way that you can see the side view there is a backpack on his back and is a stick in his hand. It gives so much more realistic view, as I did tell you earlier. Now I am adding the legs. Once I have added the legs, I would leave it there. I'm not going to complicated anymore. I do add these once your paper is completely dry, do not go over the wet paper and then try to do this. Let's have a closer look at it and then just remove the tape at an angle. Once we do remove the tape at an angle, we will get the view of the complete painting. And just know that this is something really beautiful, nice, which you can send it over to your friends, family, anyone whom you want to make them feel special, movie you want to send this cart to. I think that's it. For this particular session. I will meet you tomorrow and we will paint some Christmas decoration. That is the wet on wet and wet on dry technique, which we will be doing but we ready, you will have an amazing day. 15. Day 12 Christmas Wreath: Let's discuss all the colors that you need for completing the painting. It is red, blue, or blue, orange. You can even go for any kind of tailor. Blue data's available with you. Bright yellow, green, forest green, white quash or Jelly Roll pen, burnt sienna, and orange. In case you want to just mix some red and orange berries for this painting. How can our Christmas celebration be complete without a Christmas red, right? So let's do the red today. We are almost done with 11 days. And out of the 28 days, I felt that this is the time we should start with most of our Christmas celebration. And the first one that we're going to attempt and the sister read, I have just taken the interior of my tape. Madison masking game what I have, I would like to just give you an idea how I would be drawing my leaves. There are about three leaves that I would be driving. Along with that there will be some cherries or there will be some red berries that I want to add. That's how I would go about in the whole of this painting. First, add some leaves. Leaves are green and shade and I'm going ahead TO quit my bright yellow green. To add this, you can even go head with light green status available with you. Once you start adding this bright yellow green, or even on this particular green, you will find that it anyways, a great idea to add as much leaves as possible. So slowly, steadily we will develop on it. You know, when I started this painting, I really lifted after this first year. I was not happy how it turned out. And then I just took a break for a day. I came back the next day and start painting on top of it again. It turned out really pretty 17 finish the painting. So that is something even like Mindset. Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it just works. So always come back, take a break. I have said this pretty often in many of my other classes too, that you should always go ahead and take a break rather than not taking a break. Because not taking a break, we'll leave you with a lot of problems and it would really burn you out. I'm again adding some leaves. If you see over here, I'm just trying to paint the leaves in the white area. And automatically the colors are flowing into the other area that is still green. Start hiding these darker value leaves. Continuously added. Do make sure that the light green leaves are also seen. We do not want the layer of the light pink to go obey. Or you can say the bright yellow, green, main green in many different, different companies. This is called by different names. Hence, you will get those names and you will get to understand it. Go ahead and add these leaves in inner shape, which is a leaf kind of a shape. So you start from the top, which is more thinner. And while you go towards the bottom, you have to make it more ticker. For the leaves. Simple way. I'm using my size two brush. And this is a forest string that I'm using from Navier. You can go ahead and use any green that is available with you. There is no rule of using or particular green in this. I would say read, there are different kinds of greens and there are different kinds of red that you usually see during the Christmas season. So go with the flow. Flow is really important than watercolors. Do not think much, but make sure that you're not overdoing. And there are some white spaces that you are keeping right now in-between the threat as we have to add these berries. And I want to look like red, right? So at that time, Once you have to add the berries, made sure that you go ahead and add it in a way, simple way. Before that, let's just paint out door. Door is just a blue door handle. We are going ahead and adding some blue color. This is any do that is available with you win. So blue and blue, yellow, blue, whatever blue is available, cobalt blue in case I would not like to use are from marine. In this case, I would like to avoid ultramarine. So this particular blue door is practically like door doors you see in Europe. And for that, you can even use compost flu if you do not have these colors. I just painted the middle area and then strop down on my first team. Then I'm coming back. Now on the second day when I started painting the other parts of this beautiful red, I added some leaves. And it was very, very simple way that I kept adding the leaves. So just go ahead and add some leaves in a very simple manner towards the left hand, towards the right. Now, these leaves are Ramos smaller and they are a bit thinner. Again, just make a beautiful stem. And then the leaves in few of the areas you have to add these leaves. We are not going to go ahead and add that on each and every part of the read and the green parts needs to be seen. You will see how slowly I will develop it. And secondly is there should be some white. But as we need to ping the berries, the best part about this painting as you can watch it for, then attempted why it is more loose and you can easily painted if you can watch it and then try. There are places where I would be with more generic and I would tell you where exactly you can place your varies. But generate means that I am just going with the flow too. I am not thinking much about exactly how the whole painting will turn out as I did give up on this painting altogether. And it was just your try I wanted to see that if I can reach at any place where I can actually produce a painting which I really wanted to try out. And finally, when this painting got over, I was very happy with it. So just start doing included that. There is a mindset also, when you work on your painting, your mindset needs to be really correct. The day where you think that this is not going to work, it is not going to work today. You think that it might work. Guess you're painting does work. And you can produce so good watercolor outcome. So these are the small, small aspects of watercolor that I always loved to cover in my class. There is a lot to do even with how you think, how you lead your colors flow. How you actually make the painting work for you. Every day is not a great day. You do not make masterpieces and all other days. So just make sure that you are not stressing yourself out with that. There are times we do not produce a good painting and we just leave it there, come back the next day and try to do it again. I'm good with the number of the Dr. Lisa, did I act in this painting? So now going ahead and adding some berries, I like to keep a white of the various. Usually you see that dm, that is the apiece or import where it shines. And that's the part which I like to keep the white. I would go ahead and just paint a few berries here and there. I tried to keep some of them together. I don't like to add like 11 single, single berry at each and every place. So 23 intercluster, I go ahead and find it. Once I have added this two when three cluster of berries somewhere, then I would again go ahead and change the place where I want to add one more set of cluster of base. So together, you can just see how I go ahead and add it. I usually try to go over the white I have preserved in case I do not have the white that I did preserve, I would go ahead and add on top of the light green data's dead. And once you add this, bury your whole painting, we'll come to life. I really liked the whole of the painting once I either don't read into what is the flavor of the season. And once you had it, then you'll get to see how beautiful this whole trek looks at him. In fact, I must say that the whole read only comes together. When you add these vary. Some interests misread is something that we all love to pain during this season. How can our class be complete without a Christmas spirit? That is so much more coming up, building a snowman. Then I have already released the part where you can think of sludge by everything that I can relate to or during the Christmas season and I have experienced during the Christmas season, I have added it. Yeah. Many of you might say where at the stockings that we usually add. So yes, a few things I have tried to keep it more simple either not like to complicate the subject a lot. As there are many beginners who loved to take the class and for them it would have been even more difficult. So keeping everything in mind, I tried to focus on the subjects that easy. Yet they bring the flavor of the season completely to you. I hope that you too are enjoying this whole series as it has lot of winter and Christmas, so wipes in it. You can send these Christmas card to your loved ones. I'll feel like gloves painting where you are holding or small snow heart in your hand. That can act as all create Christmas card, I must say, going ahead and adding a few drops of green here and there. Once I've added the green, I need to add the shadows. Now, red will always have a shadow. And I would place my shadow towards the right. Or why I must say because the light is on the left side. Hence, I'm keeping my shadow towards the right side. Again, it's a very, very simple process. I would like you guys to observe it first and then go ahead and paint it on. You can also paint it from your memory. Or you can, again go ahead and just see two once more and painted. I would leave that up to you how you want to go ahead and do it. Now I am adding my slow and steady, I would say the shadows that you need to paint this, these are very, very important part. Why I wanted to highlight this. It gives you more of your, there is no coming back anymore. So be very sure while you are adding the shadows and keep one blending brush ready in case you want to blend it with this brush or need then go up quickly between the colors. Move quickly so that it's easier for you to blend it. I am just taking off on my extra colors and then going with a wet brush and blending it down on a wooden table or on the blue that I've already applied. Going ahead and even adding some bold colors towards the bottom 80, I'll break. And then I would again blended. Once I do blend this area, I would go ahead and go even blend the middle part of the solid. So let's just start adding some lines with darker values. I'm using my size 8 brush, which is from silver black velvet to actually add the same, this is very interesting. You can use any bigger brush which has a nice edge for these lines. Now I'm showing you how you can add lines with the help of your liner brush. Liner brush can move here and there. So that's the beauty of liner brush. You do not need to do anything. It would just do its own job. It would make the line it would make. And the kind of you, you should say the deck shows that you'd need to on up. This just happens. There's nothing much that we have to do. The only thing is that you might have to blend these colors a bit while you add it. And once the blending is done, then most of the aspects of this painting is complete. Start blending your colors, but they have PAF, your blending brush. Once you are done with this blending, you will observe that the whole of the painting is coming together very quickly. You will see that these small, small lease and the light green color is actually showing the shadows so well. And it shows the whole of the painting as Yes, so much more into life. And it gives us such a great outcome that anyone who is into water colors can understand it, that this green leaves, et cetera, which is placed on a wooden door, will give some kind of realistic view that as you have a shadow you have like you have varies, then you have the darker leaves. All of this put together makes it something that is really, really amazing. I hope that you guys are enjoying it the way exactly I am doing right now. All the whitespaces now, whichever I did leave for the berries, I'm just adding a bit of color. No need to think much my view add this green color. It is just as simple green color, light green color that I am adding, which is my bright yellow, green. You might have similar kinds of colors on your palette that you might call by a different name altogether. Absolutely fine. Go ahead with whatever you have on your palette and just work it out. Going ahead with my white quash column. Now this white quash color that I'm using is practically something that anyone at anytime can use it now this white quash can be used even as a bend. If you have any Jelly Roll pen that can work best, this is small, small highlight that you would love to add in any kind of red. I would even show you how you can add these small, small dots with the help of your pen. So do not worry, this is just two ways of adding it. One with the white quash and one with the white gel it open. Adding tools while lines, not these two small lines than I am adding right now on the watercolor background, is pretty easy to paint. Why? It's all being white few of the places, it's just a white gouache that makes it a bit more highlighted on top of the white goulash. I would go ahead and just add some brown on it. Sometimes I'm not happy with the outcome or I'm not happy with my shadows. What I go tendu, unthought time has just use a darker value and then just blend it with the help of my blending brush. So I'm using my size two brush plus to add these shadows on. Once I've added the shadows, I would go ahead with my blending brush to blend it. Either you can blend it with the a size two brush since the area is really small or else you can even go ahead with your size 8 brush to blend it. Whatever suits you hand, whichever way it suits you. I would leave that up to you. Going with my white quash and adding a few highlights on the wooden door. This is an old wooden door. Usually you will find these kind of doors and many countries, most European countries, or even in North America and many, many other places, do have these kind of blue would ignores. I, myself love this color. Blue a lot. That's one of the reasons I have news this scholar for explaining this wall up, this read. It just brings me that beauty of winter hand Christmas season. It gives me those vibes. That's one of the reasons I did this one in the blue column. Going ahead and adding a bit of darker value for the white quash string that I did. I'm now going over it with my brown color. Now. This brown is absolutely whatever you have available on your palette. I'm using my burnt sienna as I had burnt sienna, which was already present on my palette. So I went ahead with that to just add this column, which is majorly the brow. Once I've added the brown, I would again go ahead with some darker values to just make it a bit more from, I should say, it is right now not looking like a rope on, not looking like the string. So I have to go over it with black pen or you can even go over it with some black I think markers or anything that is available with you to make it more realistic and approach. Hi, In some small, small com dot dot with the white pen. This is my wife Jelly Roll pen, which I'm using to add these dots. Now these are small, small dots here and there. Again, some highlights tied to that. Initially I added with the white quash, I would even show you how to add it with the white Jelly Roll pen. So overall, I guess you just understand how this thing is taking shape. Now, once this oil painting takes shape, it's kind of pretty amazing to see how everything is coming together and how everything is working out for you guys. And seriously, I let this painting on one day back, I was like This painting is not going anywhere. I don't know whether I would be in a position to actually make it work and have a good outcome. I might have to do it once more. So many things were running in my mind. And when I came up the next day, I had just TO very empty mind and I was like, Whatever happens, let me just try it. Let me give it a fair trial. And that's what made this painting even more, I think, compared to what I thought initially it would turn out, it turned out even more prettier. It was just more small ideas that I kept adding on. Like these white dots, these highlights of y to some lines for the blue door. I'm not using any kind of masking fluid for painting this whole of the red, not masking any idea. Everything slowly and steadily this tape came together. And that's what even happens in watercolor. There are days where you will not get the best outcome and there are days where you will have an amazing outcome. So never tried to treat yourself hard. Always try to go easy on yourself. And we let fine. We will have something or the other that is better off and that would come as a better outcome. You do not need to worry. There will be some beautiful outcome that you will get in the long run. So go ahead now add some brown on the string. And now if you see they looked like strings or time of small, thin rope like structural. It was not like this when I started off. One aspect of this that you can do is I add a bit of shadow if you want. I just avoided it as I was not sure that I should add it or not, the place was really small and it is not showing off much. So overall I just left it. But you can add a shadow a bit towards the right for both the rope. So for both disappointment strings that you have, that would make it even more realistic as we've added the shadow for this red. Go ahead and just remove the tape at an angle. Once you remove the tape at an angle, it is even more quickly. Yeah, I am excited. I am completely excited to have 500 look at this painting. I just want to see it completed now. 16. Day 13 Christmas Decoration: Let's just have a look at the colors which we need for completing the painting. It is red, perylene, maroon, yellow, bright yellow, green, forest green, white gouache, burnt sienna, Payne's gray. It is an interesting concept. This time what we're going to explore it says normal, which we usually use for our Christmas decoration. And I'm using my compass to just go ahead and draw a circle. I'm placing the snowball a bit towards the left of my Paypal. Once I have added this snowball, I would like to go head with a bit of drawing on top of it. That is basically the hanging. And this is hanging on a Christmas tree. The background will be all wet on wet, whereas my foreground would be majorly on wet, on dry. So wet on dry in a way, I must say that I would be detailing the snowball more compared to the background. Though there would be some amount of Christmas tree that I would be showing even for my background. But it would not be very detailed. Msc, I need to add a string even to the top area, and this area is really small. You will see these degradation very often. Anywhere in our Christmas market. This has a lot of effects, as I must mention it as bouquet effect. It has wet on wet, wet on dry, and so much. That is a particularly covered. So I would expect you guys to have gone through a few of the initial projects and that will really help you to work on this one. It is not a very easy one though. It's not a tough one either. It's just that you need some patients to continue working on this project as it has backgrounds, it as foregrounds that has again MOOC effects. So altogether, it will take a while to complete it. I would be very happy if you would be in a position to paint along with me. That would be great in case you want to go here and observe first and then try your hands on it. Not a bad idea. Go ahead and do that. Just add a few lines. Those are basically the tree leaves that you usually have for the Christmas. Go head and add some water for the background. I am willing to go with a few colors for my bank run this. I'm not sure if you have done or not, but I love to apply a background colors as I did apply during my watercolor session of watercolor florals, where each and every painting that we did had a background. This background really works well in many of the paintings. So go here and apply some water, even core. Of course, it should be a sheen on the people. Once you have added the water, then you need to go ahead and add some colors. We will use some bright, vibrant colors for our painting. I do not want any doubt colors during the Christmas season. Though. I know the Winters is cold. They are Dao. They are not as vibrant and bright, but let's try to make the season a bit more vibrant and pride during the holidays. I love vibrancy in my paintings and I love to even added for you all in my projects. Does Foster, who had an add some yellow color I have taken online. And you can go for gamboge yellow and you can go for any yellow that is available on your planet. Apply this first always go hand with the lighter band who aren't unlike the value would be yellow. Then go ahead with your read and post that somebody. That's how I would go for about adding my colors. The background is already quick hands, whatever you do it's worth. We do not need to do much. Just move your paper here in there. That's it we have to do. And go with the top-right corner when you are applying the red. Once you've applied direct to the top-right corner, again to the bottom left corner, we would be applying the red. There will be some kind of a gap when we are applying the colors. It's not that everywhere we would go ahead and fly to apply all the colors. Now applying some red tent you to go to the left, the corner. I even left some whitespaces. Md, I do like to keep white spaces empty to what's my right to watch my live. I will add the college slowly. I'm a person who loves to understand how my painting is taking shape and slowly progressing with it. Always try to step back, relax and understand where you want to add the columns. Do you really need colors at each and every place? Why do we need to overload our painting? That's one aspect of watercolors, which I love to always say that do not, do not overlook on your painting wherever necessary. They're only add the pigments are also bad. More of water, add less of pigments. That would give you an amazing outcome. While I added the green, my first green now was the bright yellow green that we added. And post that. I am going ahead and adding my forest screen. Now this foreign string is from Sennelier. Many of you might have seen me using this in many of my other big things we did from the CVs. So go with any doctrine that is available and you panic. It can be hookers, green, it can be very different. It can be anything that is available. Okay. Go head with a thin brush. I would ask you to go with a retailer brush in case you do not have a thin brush which has a nice tip like this one that I'm using. So go with your detailer brush and start doing these kind of movements. Do make sure that you are doing it both ways from one single point. And then what happens is this would act as the tree leaves. That is your Christmas tree leaves. It's kind of pretty interesting what you can do in a wet on wet technique. But had this point, you need to understand that we do not have a lot of water on the paper, nor we have really less water on the paper. It's just the optimum water that we need. Wet enough, but not even drying up. So I'm few more leaves towards the top area. What is our role is very, very important aspect of this until we practice guys, he doesn't come to an extent. Of course, I can guide you through the process of adding water, how you can get the water control, how it is one of the most most important aspects of watercolor, as well as how much amount of paint should be there on your brush. I'm not using a very liquid or very watery mix. I'm using a very creamy mix right now so that the colors you not flow a lot. That's one important aspect of watercolors, which I always keep in mind while I'm doing these kinds of effects. You can observe me adding more depth into these parts of the window. Christmas tree. And it is, of course, at home we are doing this kind of decorations, et cetera. Just that I love to add a bit more depth. And that's why I'm using my liner brush. Now, since this is a very, very small painting that we do, hence liner brush and ten brushes are really important. Depending on the size of the paper. You can always change, go ahead and change the brush size. Go ahead and change for how you want to paint your particular subject. There are a lot of aspects of watercolor, which is dependent on the size of the paper. How big is your paper, how you are going ahead and painting. We'll put a lot of, lot of things is dependent on that. Go ahead and start adding some of your small lines as you are observing grain now. And once you have added these lines, I can tell you you need to start painting the middle alien. Now, this middle area can only be painted once your background is completely dry. We do not want to actually mix up a lot of colors. And we do not want that our foreground become wet or the colors flow from the background and the foreground. So all of this is not required. Hence, I would always ask you to let your backgrounds dry out completely and then only start with your foreground. I'm adding some water initially on my foreground, though. I did tell you that this would be a more of wet on dry method, but no, it's not a complete wet on dry method here we would be applying some of my red color. I have a beautiful perylene maroon with me. I would be even using that Braam perylene maroon as well as you can also go ahead and try out red brown in case you do not have this absolute perylene, maroon, crimson, or even you can go ahead with carmine. So these are the alternate options which you can use for your snow globe. Aspects of watercolor is V, will not be applying the colors at each and every place. Why? As there would be light which would be falling on the snow globe. And we want to show that like very well, a few continue and doing your colors onto each and every part of this non-block, then we cannot show of the shining part of the snow globe. Hence, do not apply everywhere and then go head with some darker values. Now, it can be brown in maroon, it can be any other color that I suggested to you or else you can even mix a bit of Payne's gray into your red and just check the colors that you want. This would be y naught to shade darker, darker colors that you need. That's it. I think someone darker values towards the idea of this. Nope, nope, just also of the movements guys, how am I doing this? Few of the areas as I did tell you where be shining because of the light. That's the only aspect which you need to keep in mind. Fight you paint this MOOC globe. Go with the smaller brush, that is size two brush which I'm using from the boiler series. You can go ahead with any brush that is available. This is one of the good brushes that I did purchase, I must say. So if in case you are planning to buy any brushes, this would be one of the interesting ones that you must try going ahead and adding, as well as blending a bit of colors so that it looks so way more organic. See size two brushes really small to blend the colors well. That's why it's always important to go ahead with a broader one that is around size 80, size 6, whatever is available with you? I am. And in some Monaco values to which the top and towards the bottom corner and just keep observing me. I am not going to write now, like guide you through the entire small, small steps. Of course, I'm here, I'm painting, but I would just let you guys use your brush and do all the magic. I'm picking up a bit of gallows and fuel the ADOS wherever I feel that it is just too much. I've applied term by to keep these whitespaces, as I did tell you earlier, whitespaces really has so much of depth to add to your snowball. I can't stress enough one that going ahead and adding a bit of your yellow onto the top area. And then I will add some Payne's gray. I use pins Gregory often in many of my brain thinks that's one of the colors that I've fallen and the growth in love with, you can always use black and replace the Payne's gray. Going ahead and adding a bit of yellow onto the top area. Once I've added the yellow, I would let it dry a bit. And then on the sides, I would go ahead and add two Payne's gray. Again, I'm using my thin brush to work on this painting. And the spot, you can go ahead with attentive brush or you can even go ahead with the mini detail brush, detailer brush to do mosquitoes. We do not want ourselves to go wrong. Here. This is something which is not breaking or making the painting. So still, you need to be really, really careful after such a beautiful outcome, we want to be more sure about how we progress. At each and every step of this painting. Go ahead and add a bit of darker values in a few of the areas as I did specify, and it's time to add some of our darker colors. You can even go here with the sepia color. If you do not have this Payne's gray, you can go ahead with black. What typical guises available just to always know that we are here to practice and make one person or at least two to three, we'll more special with one single guide. I always love to send my handmade gods. And this is one of the most beautiful cuts and one of the most most beautiful projects that we did paint from the Christmas series. Now we're going to go ahead and paint some bookie effects. Mooc effects is majorly one of their effects. Not we usually solve. When there is some light that you see on a special kind of photography that you cannot solve. So all these kind of lights usually show up like John Brown rings, which we see. I'm trying to replicate it with the watercolors case. It's not the best way I would say to paint. I think bouquet effect is seen when you do it with acrylics and part 2, we can of course give it a try so that it is something which is close up. I would go ahead and make a few colors. That is, some of them are a bit lighter in value or white, some of them are darker in value. I have added a bit of Payne's gray in one of them and then tried it. So all of these, you have to order the values of these round, round circles before you add it. This is very, very important when you do it. If you do not alter the color values of these, and then exactly you will not get the bouquet effect which you need. I even now changed the round size of these circles. Sometimes it is bigger, sometimes it has smaller. That's how I keep ordering it. Keep on adding these circles towards the right side of your paper. I love to add it only on the right side. I do not want to actually cluttered it towards the left side. So I keep it pretty much into the zone of the right-hand side. Once you have added about eight to ten of these circles, you can very well understand that there is bouquet effect which has started coming up. And hence, you can even see it. Usually these kind of lighting, usually these kind of photos so you can absorb during the Christmas season and it's the season off the whole year. So how can we miss it? We have to capture the decoration. There's one more part that I would be adding and heat is about painting the star. And this star, which we usually observe is there on a Christmas tree. Yeah, there is some, so much that we need to learn. This star would be a bit different compared to what we are doing right now. We are not going to add any MOOC effect or anything, but we would be most of it concentrating on how to add values, how to show the lightened shadow, quad or solid object like a star. All of that would be covered in that particular lesson. And hopefully you will enjoy that. Has, I haven't done any kind of work like that earlier. So we will go ahead with that. Now, I'm adding some of water, clean water. Okay, this is most important aspect of watercolor painting to clean water, IEP, one of your jars of clean water vapor nearby so that you can use it anytime you want. And then only walk around with your colors. I love to add only, only soft values of brown or even off green. Hence saw most of it. You will observe that I'm adding the brown on some clean water that we have. Okay. I would go ahead and add some more effects. Once this part is done completely, I think it is time for us to have a look at the final painting. Do we even need to add anything else? Or are we okay with what we have added? It's time to step back, relax, have a cup of coffee or have a hot beverage, and then come back and have a final look at your painting guys. Being very patient with your watercolor painting is very important. As I know, if you are patient with your painting, the outcome would be create. Watercolor really requires lot of patients. So when I see a lot of patients, when you are practically towards the end of the painting, as well as never lose hope. There are times where we always lose hope with a watercolor painting because it is not turning up exactly the way we want. But if you lose that whole, the whole of the painting will not come together. Believe me, there are so many times I have just left a painting in between high and I did come back to it the next day. I can tell you the whole of the painting came up so well, I think I explained it only yesterday in the date to a painting where we were doing a Christmas read how on the first day I lost the hope and on the second day I came back to the same painting and the whole painting came up so well with the wooden door, the textures and everything that we added. I always love to add texture of the wood and the background. And practically when you do that, you get to know how easy it is, as well as how much value it adds to your painting. How special you are painting becomes adding some more bookie effects to what's the bottom media. And then again, I would take it a bit slow from here as I could tell you, I feel though painting has come together. I do not want to actually complicated much. I'm removing the tape at an angle once my paper is dry and then I would look into it. Do I need to add anything else? Or if this is fine, I would go ahead with this much only. So you need to look into all these aspects. Sometimes what happens is even after completing the painting, there are a few touch ups that we do. Are there a few additions that we'd like to do? And sometimes we just don't want to do anything. It's just that this is it. This is perfectly fine. Why do we need to add anything else? We have to think in our mind that does this look fine? Do I need to add anything else? Okay, Does this need anything else altogether? I think there are a few more bulky effects that I would go ahead and add. Since this looks a bit more empty towards the right, most of it is, anyways, white, so you will not be repositioned to see a lot of TFX towards the right area. Hence, just adding one, not two more, That's it and let it dry. Once it is dry, have a final look at it. I can tell you you would be very happy with the outcome. This is one of my own favorite paintings from the whole series. Hopefully you to enjoy it completely. Lastly, hope you guys will be ready to go along with me on a skiing experience tomorrow. We are going to explore something new. We're going to explore something beautiful. We will be painting a human. So yes, I'm waiting for you to join me in this journey of watercolors, winter season inspired paintings. 17. Day 14 Skiing: Surely work with a limited palette for this particular painting. And it is read CPR Payne's gray, Prussian blue are onto a blue. These would be the columns that I would prefer you guys using. It is day 14 hosts. So this means we need to do something special as 50 percent of the painting is called the over and 50 percent we will be doing next. I would ask you guys to hold on. And gravy would be painting on human figure from the back so that there is no problem that you face as well as it would be tracking scene. We all have known so many people who go on holidays to many of the European areas where you can do skiing, where you see role-play, where you enjoy this time. I just start to add that flavor into our Christmas time. I have added one mountain. Once I've added the mountain towards the top, I would go ahead and add an on-demand and towards the bottom media. And towards the left side, I would add a small pathway on which the person who was king will move around. That's going to be the entire setup for our painting today. It's an easy one. You would really feel that we are going very simple with this painting. There is nothing exceptional that you guys are going to do. It's small human finger. I would start from the back and it is majorly the head that we need to add, then the body as well as the bottom area. That's the max, what we would be doing. It's as I have told you, it's from the back. So painting it would be easier for any person who was even a beginner. I did not want you guys to be thinking that why we are doing this, why it is so difficult for us. We have to try subjects which are different. Hence, we will try subjects that are different, but in a very easy way in z manner. That's always been my approach. Adding a backpack for the back area. And then we would move ahead and add our human figure. The human figure will have two legs and two hands as well as the head. You see a human figure from the back. It is majorly the genes, the sweatshirts, or you can say the big, big jacket said they would be wearing. Hence, even going a lot on the human figure will not be the case. We just see that it is proportional. Once it is proportional, That's the whole idea which we have. This particular drawing will take a bit more time compared to the painting. And if your drawing is good, anyways, you have outline that is ready for you. It becomes really easy to go about with the painting. I am using or darker, I would say graphite pencil. Now, you might think that why I'm using such a dark graphite pencil, I would take off all the extra marks with the help of my kneadable eraser. You can also use it this way or else you can use any light graphite pencil that doesn't show up once you are adding the transparent watercolors. Watercolors are really transparent because of which we need to be very sure how much we want to add in terms of the graphite marks and how much should be left. Just like that. I have been repeatedly saying that goes slow with your drawing as well. Last go slow with your painting. This is really important for watercolors. If you go slow with your drawing as well as your painting, you are surely going to nail it. There is no hearty that you should do when you are working with watercolors. Watercolors is pretty rewarding if you are going slow, as there is no way to come back. We will be using the white of the paper as we want to show the snow. Hence, you should be pretty aware of the colors as well as how much you should apply. What should be the intensity, as well as how much water you should add to your colors. This is one of the important aspects of watercolor. If you are working on something like a winter season where there is lot of snow. So I would even tell you that this is pretty much a limited palette exercise we are not going to use a lot. Begins three to four colors are enough to go ahead and paint this one. Hence, I think most of you will enjoy it has there are a few colors, but that is a lot to learn. Who's your kneadable eraser to remove all the extra graphite marks, as well as add some indigo color towards the top area of the painting. Which means that you have to go ahead and keep adding this color till you get the lightest value while you reach the bottom area. This is pretty amazing the way you actually add the colors. But only water you can really create magic. Watercolors is most magical, according to me, the reason is that there is so much less that you need to do with the pigments, you have to just play with water and water. Does all of that majestic work for your painting? Go ahead and keep adding the colors. Tell you are happy. I would ask you not to use a lot of colors. This is pretty much a dark value. You can use indigo, you can use Payne's gray. Those are both shapes which I really like while I paint this area. Keep blending the colors while you go towards the bottom. That is mainly the horizon line which you have. I'm going ahead and filling up all the whitespaces which we have. And once this whitespace is done, we need to just go head and let the paper dry off. Once the paper is completely dry, go ahead with our dark sepia color. I would ask you to use a CPR color that's one of my own favorite colors for the mountains. You can even go ahead with burnt sienna and make some dry brush strokes. What does dry brush strokes where you have very less water on your brush does the job of adding the darker values, but it even creates textures. You can try this on a rough piece of papal before you go ahead and finalize it on your painting. I will go ahead and add some more darker values towards the top area of the mountains, as well as me, these dry brush technique as I did tell you earlier, we need to add on for our mountain alien now since this is more of the whites that we would be working on. So let us CPR dry off a bit and then start applying your blue. You can go ahead with indigo or any other blew off your choice. I can even go head with untold blue, orange. So blue, which Apple is available on your palette? I'm not very fussy about. Columns that you will need to use. I always say this, that there are alternative colors. The main idea is to paint. The main idea is to understand how to go about painting this whole of the beautiful scenery which we can enjoy or which many of us have enjoyed, the rotate, as well as the Baptist experience and send it to any often near and dear ones. You can also go ahead with Prussian blue. That's another option for the blue color that I'm using right now. Add this color and then just apply it in few of the areas. I'm not going to add it in all the areas as it is, no. And snow is usually white and color. I would not like to touch all the areas with the blue color. Only a few ADS should be allowed. Where I get the shadows, where I see the rocks, where I see the troughs speaks everything where I see all of this that only I would like to just touch upon with my brush in some blue color. While pico, two words, top, bottom area. I'm keeping the whole of the painting really simple. You will absorb it once we completed. We are working more with water unless with colors. I think some clean water. And then I would be adding some blue for the foreground mountains. I can use EDL, this particular sepia color, or you can go ahead and even use Payne's gray or else even in Vigo, according to mean the sepia color of this petal, even for the foreground mountains, as we use that, even for our background mountains, keeping us symmetry would be good, but that doesn't mean you will have symmetry all throughout. As I do understand, nature is random and sometimes there is no symmetry in nature hands. So you can not all the sums of every kind of symmetry for your mountains. The initial or the foreground area where you observe there would be more of rocks as it is very close to you. Once anything is close to you, you will see more of rocks and less snow. Adding some dry brush technique as you want D or whatever blue color we did add for our foreground is completely dry. Now since this color is completely dry, we will go ahead and add these marks to make it a bit more texture. Now you can also go ahead and make it more textured or else you can just go ahead and leave it as you want two, according to me, going ahead and make it a bit more textured will add a lot more sense, as it is, no, and we would love to make the snow a bit more textured compared to what it was earlier register. Flat blue color is never the best way or the best option to walk around with the water colors. According to my understanding, the more textures you can add to your painting, since this is completely blew, the better you would be your outcome. Sp, they show that you are not overdoing any part of the painting that is exceptionally important, FQR overdoing any part of the painting. It would mean that you have practically added wing more colors than it is literally required. Go ahead and keep some white parts of the paper. White parts of the paper would really help you to actually show that this is one of the paintings where you have worked more with the snow and less with the colors. More with this no means working less with the colors That's always been the case. I have worked till date. The better you want to paint the snow, the more white unique to leave for your space where you are painting this node, right? So the white over here is a people, hence, you need to keep your paper more white. I'm going ahead and adding some red. You can even use Byron maroon or burnt sienna to add more texture to your backpack. That's how we will go about fainting, even the backpack for this particular human being that we will be showing. Start adding some darker value effect. Just mix some sepia with your thread. And I added on the backpack in few of the areas where you need the darker value of red. Show those lines with the help of size 2 is caught up brush. Usually there are only a few lines that I go ahead and add on this backpack to show that there are few darker values and few of the areas which will mark the backpack is completely filled. And the other part, so we'll remain in red. I like to do it that way and always remember the size that you observe for the brush is size two only because the paper is small. Now, if you are working on a bigger paper, you can always go ahead and use up bigger value brush. So that's up to you which size you want to use for your brush. And over here you can also go ahead and use much thinner brush for your painting. Again, that is up to you. I am using the simple glue that I have. This can be Prussian blue onto a blue, any blue that is available with you. Now blending it with some water to make it more like a trouser. At once, I've added this water. What I would go ahead with clearing out few of the ideas which I want and lighter value. And then I would use my thinnest brush to add few of the lines. It can be size two brush or it can be even thinner than that. Just to show the person is wearing or genes. And there are few dark lines on both the sides. Outlines look very nice. I'm with DACA values. It makes the body of the genes have a few pieces here and there. Those creases make it more realistic and it shows that the clot is not same minutes, not flat guys. Always remember we're not here to make flat colors or even lack. I would say it just just flat lines. That's what I don't like always. I just like to add some changes to my values. If it is blue, then change the value of blue if it is darker or lighter value anywhere just changed our value. Whatever color you're using, you can even use sepia. This is not the ultimate color that you need to use. So I like to keep it more organic. Most TB per wear blue or some darker value or even some other colors is perfectly fine. Go ahead whatever you want to use and use it in a way that you can order the value and make it more realistic. Painting their shoes now painting their shoes with a bit of darker red color. And just apply the color, that's it. And you need to think much while you add this color. Once you have added the color, we need to paint the hands. And the hands would be in any color of your choice. Again, I'm just mixing some red and some blue that I have on the palette. Adding it for making the hands. Or you could say for I had making the shirt or the particular color jacket that I am varying. You can't even imagine yourself there and just see whatever colors you like added. Red is the color of the season for our winters and we love to add that color. Into the painting. That's how I always watch my paintings Fed is my color and I love to add it. In most of my paintings. You will observe it coming up. Okay, going ahead and adding a few lines, even on the short if possible, I always love to show these creases. Small, simple, easy, interesting, small, small lines even on the boot, some wicked more detail. That's all. There is no particular way which I'm following to add these colors. Hence go as you like, would be my particular mantra for completing the painting and use a thin brush. Now, add some blue and CPR together, make the lines for the scheme. Rots that we have like this is, this is what which you usually carry on the hand so that you have this kind of balance as well as I think this is it that I would do. I do not want to add anything more for this particular painting. And I think I'm pretty happy with how the outcome is. Just a few more lines here and there, and then we are done. Let your paper dry off and have a final look in some more detail. So what they had popped darker values in few of the ADS can then leaving it passes. I think you do not even need to add these small, small lines. It's okay if you just want to leave it as such. I'm good with that. Even these models, more details actually help you to make it more realistic. Ages makes it a more closer to you in terms of, you can clearly see that this is what you may observe when you go on as King experienced, remove the tape at an angle and have a final look tomorrow, Sunday and we will be taking a break again tomorrow. I would go ahead and paint the lamp for mandate. Christmas lamps are always known for their beauty and who doesn't want to paint a Christmas time. But I am so much in for painting this Crispin's lab, I'm excited to show you all. Navy would be practically doing this as one of the single Christmas lamps for the season. There is no other lamp that we will be painting, but believe me, you will have an amazing time painting this along with me. So I am excited and waiting for you on the second part of this journey this day 15. Now, let's start off with it very soon. 18. Day 15 Christmas Lamp: Again, we would be using a limited palette for complete Tiktok painting on it starts with yellow CPO of anti K brown, burnt sienna or red brown. These would be the colors. Keep a white quash handy with yourself. On day 15. And it is one of the most interesting paintings started. It is not only a Christmas lamp that we are going to paint, it is we more than that? We are going to show the snow. We are going to show most of it in yellow, how the reflection on SN2 happens as well as this can be one of the elements that you can always explore when you are going ahead and drawing some of your urban sketching on some of your planar sketching. The whole of the drawing as well as the painting is pretty interesting. Why? Because we are going to draw a rhombus. In this case, the rhombus is going to be tilted. I'm going to play set like this, straight. And on the left it is equal. On the right it is also equal. I'm going ahead and adding another line just below. And again, I would be drawing of framework for this particular lamp. Seriously, it was not easy for me at any point in time to just go ahead and draw a lamp. It takes a while to understand how you want to paint a lamp, how you want to draw a lamp, and whether a lamp can be actually exactly the same as, as we observe. There is not much of architecture that is involved in it. It's just that you need to know how much size you need to take on the left as well as on the right. If you observe, I will go ahead and just measure with my pencil how much higher loan to go ahead and hide. So by that way, it helps me to add is the symmetry. Now this is more symmetrical. Why I say this? Now lamps, et cetera, are all man-made and that's one of the reasonably have to follow symmetry in it. If anything, that is in nature, you may not apply this rule. But when it is man-made, usually there are the times where we have most of the symmetry. If we even plant trees, they are lines. So that gives us the opportunity to actually are lines actually had this whole of the, created this wall of the environment of winter along with our lab. In a way that we have a full symmetry added to it. I'm going ahead and adding two curvy lines on the left as well as on the right. Once I've added this curvy lines, I would go ahead and add one of the areas where I need the bulk post. I have added this bug. I would add few more curvy lines. You will see how quickly we actually add these lines and how quickly this whole painting will take shape. Though. You might think that the painting is taking a lot of time, but believe me, it is painted two times. So this is my second attempt. In the first attempt inches TO when close to 45 or 50 minutes. And I was like, no, that's not how I think I would like to paint it. So let's go ahead and give it another try and see if I can decrease the time. And practically speaking, it can be done in less time. Just that whenever you are drawing it to the drawing part is very important. If you have a good drawing, as I always say, you have a good skeleton, unappealing book ready for yourself, then it becomes really easy for anyone to just go over it and painted. Let's have a closer look at the drawing. I am going ahead and just standing the top part of this lamp area. Once the top part of the lamp is added, go ahead and just add a few more lines. Now, these lines are really important to show that there is small, I would say, a small pool from which this whole of the line turn. Is there. Or it's hanging from there, though, it is very close to the ground and the ground is also covered with snow. Hence, this becomes really simple and easy in the way that you have to just hold the snow. Majority of the idea of the pole is covered with the snow. Only a few parts would be seen and livre have some dry grasses as well as Dr. Branches in and around this whole of the lamp. Adding some more lines to show the support that the lamp is hanging well. And there is full support of the lamp, it will not fall. So these are small, small details that you always should go ahead and add for any painting. I am going ahead and making some drive branches, which usually arises in any snow area where you will see these dry plants, dry branches. That's only because there are no leaves and some snow has either settled on it or else it's just that the branches and the plant is the dried off. And once the winter season goes and spring comes, you will also that there would be so much of green stack we can actually see going ahead and adding some yellow. Yellow is one of my favorite colors, which I love to start with. So I am going ahead and adding a pretty dark pigmented color. Right now on the paper. It is a wet on dry method. I have many classes or I have many paintings where I do love to add wet on dry method. Wet on dry method is pretty much what I like to add when I want a lot of saturation. Now, saturation is easy with wet on dry method. Why I say this? A few do not want to go ahead with a lot of layers. If you can actually go ahead with two to three layers or you are living in an area which is way more dry, then go head with all wet on wet method. The ways, the way we are painting from the bottom, we are adding some amount of burnt sienna. And once we have added the burnt sienna along the line which we did add during our rowing session. I will go over it with a dark value of Van Dyke brown and add very, very dark color. I am not thinking much while I add this color, It's just that I have to add this color to make it more realistic as well as it should have a lot of depth. Finally, it's time to add some burnt sienna. Burnt sienna goes really well with the yellow. I love to add this one Sienna. It is having a bit of a red color in the background. I would say, I don't know. It's just an underlying color which I always absorb when I apply this burnt sienna, this particular been sienna, you can get from Magellan mission goal or else you can even use Winsor and Newton. They have been sienna, which is similar, though I love to use the one which is from Internet Newton professional grade. But you can also try out men shallow PwC is a bit different compared to what we see right now on the paper, as well as White Nights is also a bit different. So these are the colors that I've already used. That's why I can't tell you the difference. Going ahead and adding the Van Dyke gave ground towards the top area of this. People. While I add the Van Dyke brown, you do need to make sure that the whole of the paper is still wet. Why? While we blend the colors, it should not appeal that it's not at all organic in nature. That's an aspect which I always follow when I am going ahead and adding colors. And blending is the key. Always, always when naming is the key. If you can get a good blend, you will have a great outcome. I always like to add texture to my background now while I like to add texture to my Mac ground data times where we need to know that the texture will not work just the way I am adding the water now. But overall, I do understand that this droplet of water is not going to make my people anymore beautiful. That's one of the reasons I always like to understand where the painting can go well and where the painting is not going with both the aspects of watercolor is very, very important. These are small, small things that you should remember. But these small, small things really make and break your painting to a large extent. I'm not saying that you can't go back and watercolors to an extent you do understand that we can go back, but till what length is most important? Once your people is dried off, we would go ahead and start adding colors to our lantern. This is a very, very easy process of adding the colors. I'm going with my darkest value, that is the Nike brand. I have already added the background color for my London. It's only the darker value, et cetera, by which I need to add more depth. As well as it would basically show all the parts of the lambda in a better way. Bring their head. And now using my SCADA optimal brush, which has got a nice step while I had all this details, I'm very comfortable while using this brush. So you should also go ahead with a brush. You are come fertilize more than your comfort. It's important to add the details with a smaller brush as the paper is small. In case you are using a bigger paper to understand this painting better, then go ahead and use a bigger brush. As per the requirement of the papal as part of a precise the brushes, the size of the brushes, as well as the amount of colors that you use also changes. If you are using a smart paper, the pigment which you need for painting is lesser. Whereas if you are working on a bigger people, you will mean more pigments. These are small, small aspects of watercolor which you can always keep in mind while you paint. I'm adding some lighter value while I go to words the fall or while I add this on the boy. Whereas I go with the darker value while I am towards the top of my lantern. It is simple. But only thing that you need to keep in mind is that we are not going to actually somewhere or the other break the flow. Break the flow in a way I want to say is that we will keep adding the values. We will keep working towards getting unquote outcome. A good outcome is something that is important, has well, as we are so much sometimes carried away with painting that the overall consistency, the overall way in which we should paint it, and how organic it would look. All of that goes out of our mind. I will not deny that going with the flow is not a great idea. Always, always. It's a great idea to go with the flow, but to understand what you want to ping and where you want to focus like, yeah, my main focus would be on the lamp. Whereas there are times where we have to focus on two or three different subjects or together like the League or the trees and even the mountains. Everything put together will make this painting better. That's, that's the thing which I wanted to highlight. Where you want to add, what you want to add, and where all you need to focus. That would be the most important aspect. Sorry, darker line I have added for the snow and I will just blend it. There is a lot of snow that falls during the season. So adding it and making it more darker and few of this basis would be really important. Now here there is a small catch. Why I would say there's a small catch. Guess the small way in which this whole of the lantern is basically in small, I would say hold. Hole in a way that because of the no fuel, the ideas have just gone a bit up to ground level. The dry ice and few of the ideas is still on the lower side. So the lantern where you see is in a way that the outer areas of our big covered with the snow. Whereas with this lantern is standing, that particular part was rising from all lower part of the ground and that ground is now completely done or that grant is no more sin anymore because of the snow. I guess. You're getting what I'm trying to say. During those no season, you will see more of snow and less of grounds, but there would be few aliases, so where we will still have some amount of our grounds visible. And that's why I wanted to show ups and downs on the ground due to know which is the scene. Having a full look at the painting now and adding the darker values wherever necessary. Now this side though, which I did paint in the lighter value of brown or you can save on CNI is only because the light is falling on that site. Whereas the other side is darker in value as the lightest, not directly falling on that part. One of the area is always taco and one of the areas always liked or in your watercolor line tone or in your watercolor paintings. That's what you will always also from for your paintings. And hence, you can go ahead and add your colors in that particular way. I'm using my size two brush now just to fill up the spaces, just to fill up the areas. Then I would again switch over to my size 6 as God. Optimal brush, which has some very nice div, always, always, always adding some lighter values of burnt sienna. And then going ahead and adding some more darker values and few of the areas, I would alternate these values a lot. There is only majorly two colors that you see me using is my burnt sienna as well as my Brenda Kay Brown. Most of the painting is done with this along with the yellow. Again, this is a limited palette exercise and we are actually done so many limited palette exercise. Now, the last one that we did paint, which was all about skiing, was even a limited palette exercise. So yeah, continue doing these more and more often. Fuel of the ADSR, lighter in value. And I have added burnt sienna in those spaces. Once I've added the burnt sienna, I'm going ahead and adding some off my Van Dyke brown. Wherever I want to actually add some more burnt sienna, I would just switch over to the lighter value and then add it. It's pretty easy to go back to these colors. I'm not thinking much where I want to add a darker value, where I want to add the lighter value as we are detailing it now in the first part where we did go ahead and add the colors for our background as well as foreign test lamp area. I did think a bit while I'm adding the colors. Whereas when I am coming to the painting now, I need to just think where I want to add the taco and where I want to add the lighter values. Details are always longer and it's time consuming, so you will also fat. We still have about eight to nine minutes of the painting that is left. And this is all to do with the details that we aren't doing. Go slow at this point in time. There's no point to rush because whatever details you add right now will stay and eat is going to change a lot in your painting and it is going to actually add life to your painting. Most of the aspects of the painting that was the background, et cetera, is Stan. This is more to do with how you add the colors, how you actually add the depth to your painting. Depth is majorly or don't bring all your values. Yeah, so that's how we add depth. I guess. By now you already know it. It's just in few of the areas where I like to guide you through the process. I only add the process or I like to guide you through the process and few of the areas where I think it is necessary and rest. I know by now when you are on the 15th painting, you exactly know how you should do, what you should do, and how you can make or break this whole of the painting. You can now continue painting this lactone and just also what I'm doing there, I'm adding the lighter values where I'm adding the darker values near the light, it would be like a values, whereas when we go away from the light it would be darker values. That's what I would be using as well as that's the rule. What I have august followed. You can go head and painted that way. I don't mean to next where we have to start painting the background. Plants which are dried off. Let's add some drive branches now. Now since I am very comfortable with this brush that I did then you already, which is my SCADA optimal size six brush. Going ahead and adding the branches even with this is really easy for me. I need to just Nico few movements and you can get the tri branches, which I love to add. So go ahead and use any brush that you are more comfortable with adding these lines. I go in a very, very random manner. Now, whenever you are adding branches, whenever you are adding the trees, they are mostly in nature, and nature is very random. The way we did paint our lantern is exceptionally different than what we are going to go ahead and paint our drive branches. Now, this aspect of watercolors is very important. You need to know where you can add randomness and beg you should not add any kind of randomness. We are going ahead with one single painting where we do have these branches and they would be absolutely random parents whenever you are adding small lantern like this, it cannot be random. It has to be more symmetrical because it is man-made as I did there. You already always just move around your paper. Now, this aspect of watercolors, again, is really important. Making your survey comfortable with your people, make yourself a comfortable with the watercolors. Never be one Novus. Whenever you are a bit nervous, you can move around the paper to make yourself more comfortable. Add the brush movements in a way you want to. So all of this put together you can CDC changed a lot in your painting and how you go about adding the details. This small aspect of watercolor makes the painting look more organic and makes it look way more interesting. I will not say that it is easy. Of course, it is taut, while the easy aspects of watercolor, it takes a while to understand how you should move around your paper and how all of this will work together for you. Though I have included are 22 practice CDS. As I wanted to stress upon the importance of practicing every day, the day I do not practice. Then a state, it very difficult for me to actually get a good outcome or to even get 0 painting up to my expectation. Watercolors is something that rewards you more and more if you can practice it often. Now practicing means that you can either take a class, you can watch tutorials, but do try to work on it on paper directly. Now, working on people is really, really important compared to just going ahead and not working directly with your brushes and paints. Just observing or just watching anything will not help. Always put it to paper, paints, brushes, etc. That would really impact your painting to a large extent. And Seriously guys, this is one of the aspects of watercolors where you who feel really relaxed. You feel that you have achieved something great as well as it is a sense of achievement and satisfaction. I think the last year Duchess, then we're done. Let your paper dry off and then move the tape at an angle when it blows. That as a problem sometimes what happens is I'm not happy with the final outcome completely and I need a few touches here and there. I do even go ahead and it's okay to do it even after you've completed a painting. That's what I wanted to actually highlight. So go ahead and check it out now, you would be pretty happy with the outcome. And finally, this looks so interesting. And I'll meet you tomorrow where we will pay into us know man, and I think it is one of the must paintings for Christmas and winter season. Hence, let's just go ahead and paint it. Pay soon. 19. Day 16 Snowman: The colors are yellow, red, orange, pink script, Prussian blue, and some white quash. So here we are on day 16 and today we are going to paint a snowman. I'm starting with a horizon line. It's below the two apart. Or you can say it's not exactly in the middle, so please send a bit above or implicit of it below. That's up to you, but not exactly in the middle. That's what I always keep in mind. Well, I have to make a horizon line going ahead and adding small circle for those Nolan. And it is with a campus that I do it once I'm done with this first circle, I would go ahead and make the top circle again. I may go ahead with a compass to do it or else I can even go ahead with any kind of masking tape. I can use it to my advantage and just go ahead and had the head of the snowman. That's so cool, right? Every time whenever we are working with watercolors, I always show you so many hacks tricks as you do not need to use all those circles or you do not need to draw circles every time on your own. You can always take help from whatever is available with you. Now making a Mockler, it's a really simple way of adding a muffler. And as we were discussing, whatever is available that you use that for making a so-called who are making whatever you want to. Now, whenever you are making a snowman, it cannot be fooled. So it's just offering work that we did and we would go ahead and change the shape and size of it a bit more. So whenever you are going ahead, done 12 paint a snow man like this. Make sure that you don't have absolute so-called Spark dot SQL as well. The bottom area of this moment, why I say this as it is again, made by us and it doesn't have any kind of symmetry. So always go ahead and just add a lot of that is not symmetric and do your painting that you can actually hear a lot of background noise. So when the woods that sub certainly find it's morning time and you can hear a lot of goods, whereas stick. So just don't get distracted with it. Let's continue to paint this one. Let's first draw it, and then we will paint them, go over it with our watercolors. This whole sea season of window, you might have absorbed that we did use up and sell a lot more and slowly read it, add up colors, but the pre-work was always in pencil. I have stressed upon a lot how important it is to drawing or how important it is to get a skeleton, have drawing ready for you and then go over to your watercolors. This is so important, it gives so much more confidence if you are a beginner, if you are intermediate, has was advanced level artist. These are basically your, I would say this is your framework, this is your base for your future. Better paintings. I would love to even either Christmas tap, it's the season of Christmas and by not added Christmas staff, it's going to be a bit different than what we usually observe. So hopefully you will like this one. There is one thing that you should always understand. This whole process of painting will only simplify when you have our drawing ready with yourself, on which you can go ahead and always paint. That is one aspect of painting which I have been stressing upon. And I can tell you, this is this, and this is what is building block for your future better painting. Data so many times I just draw Tom male and go over it to understand where I need to add my dark values, where I need to add my light values. Everything put together. You have to start working with your pencil. You have to start working with your different kind of watercolors only when you have very good pencil sketch ready with you that you can use for any of your future paintings too. I have seen so many artists to make thumbnail sketches as well as go over those thumbnail sketches. So with your pencil and just see how it looks and then start adding the colors to their final painting. An important aspect of my classes. So whenever I'm taking any class, it's important to make sure that you are taking each and every point that I say stepwise, as well as we always discuss the best practices that I usually have seen many of my own master Teachers following. Or I have seen myself while doing during this whole journey or few years that I have in watercolors. I was also stuck in a nine to five job earlier. And watercolors really opened up so much in terms of, I should say, unfortunately Stan, I would say how to work, how to be patient, how to be motivated, how to actually even accept any kind of not so acceptable mistakes, which I do or else even accept that all days and not good, you will not get a good outcome. So these are my I would say I do experience all of this on a regular basis and that has made me a different person are together. Not only I do understand watercolors, but it has really helped me in my real life a lot more. I am way more patient and I do understand how to actually handle a lot of situations. It might look that watercolors, how can something be so, so useful as a tool? But seriously speaking, once you start working with it, you will understand how precious this particular tool is, how much it can offer you, how much it can reward you, how much you can actually understand. More good, two other colors. There is a whole world altogether that opens up for you whenever you are working with this medium. I know it and I have felt it over yours. I really want you guys to also try and understand it. One of the most beautiful mediums that you can think of, going ahead and adding some more colors. How do I add the colors to the top area post? It is going to be wet on wet. So if it is a wet on wet technique, you will need to go ahead and add some water. Then going with my lightest value, that is the yellow. Once I've added the yellow, I would add some amount of orange. Or you can even only used to dread, just mix a bit of orange and then that is adding your reading to your yellow. You will get this kind of an orange, mix it and then add it on your paper. That's up to you how you want to use your colors. I always say use less colors if there is a possibility. Now, I do could have done that, but since it is a very, very small papers, so I did not want to take a chance. And it should add just taught that it's easier since I have the yet this orange, yellow, or red, everything available with me. But there are times we don't have all these colors available, so you can always mix and match your color and then go over hand painted. Let's go ahead and add some Payne's gray and start adding some of my colors onto the sky area. Again, it's a very, very simple process, though we, I add the colors. I'm using my size two is caught. Paula brush, you can use this brush. This is very good goal for any kind of dry brush technique, as well as this is great for 12 columns. I have been using this brush for awhile, and this would be one of my most recommended brushes in case you are trying to actually buy any new brush or one to try out something that is good. This would be my suggestion pressures that you can show me, go ahead and try adding some small smart dots to my clouds. If you see I am not concerned much while I add these clouds, how I should go about it. I'm just picking up some colors and then just adding it onto my paper. If you'd like to Cloud. So the way we are painting, go ahead and try out my clouds cluster two clouds classes and around 1500 or 2000 students, so close to that have joined me already there. So you can also go ahead and try that out. I'm pretty sure about it. You will find out what the clucks. So just try to add colors to the clouds as you saw me doing it. Once you have added the colors, you can blend it in a few Alia, but do make sure that your painting is not dried up. If you're painting has dried up, then do not have any for the colors, let it dry off completely, had some more clean water, and then go over to anchor colors. This is a very important trick in case you are painting clouds. If you go over on top of your clouds when it is already dry, it might give a cauliflower effect. It is basically a semi dry kind of situation where we keep adding the colors, we keep experimenting. A 100 percent cotton paper is really important in clouds painting as it gives you a lot more opportunity to work on. It helps to keep the paper wet for a longer period of time. And that way you can actually still more time to work upon your subject. Now going ahead, I'm adding some Payne's Gray, our Prussian blue, which F0 is available with you. I'm using my Prussian blue, that is a better color for me to go ahead and hold on, hold on. Snow. I would leave it up to you, whatever you want to use for hiding on top of your snow. I'm adding the colors on the left and on the right. I'm trying to leave some spaces as white. Leave some spaces as white as possible, or else go ahead and paint the whole all the, that is not a suggested way of adding colors. Why I always say leave some white spaces. It's important since it has no, all the areas will not appear in color like blue. But yes, we need to even add colors to show that there is no, hence, the optimum use of color and water is what we want along with it. The combination of how much water and pigment you should use. Always, always take a very watery mix while you are adding the blue. We do not need to go ahead and use a lot of pigments. That's really, really important. So mixing up a bit of Payne's gray and Prussian blue, every time that I go ahead and add the Prussian blue, I just feel that it's not enough. Hence, mixing these colors would be a great idea. Always, always go ahead and start adding the darker values force. Then you just need to extend it with your blending brush and add some water to make it more vibrant as well as it just helps the color to move around. Now, what is magical when watercolors, you can always feel how easy it is if you have used water for any of your paintings. Water majorly does all the work. You do not need to do any kind of work forward in watercolors. It's just that add water and you will understand how beautifully the complete painting capstone note. Okay, having some more blue colors and fewer failures. And once you have added the two color, we would go ahead and paint the snowman. Now the point is, how do we go ahead and think the snowman, the debt, the background first and then we're going to subject, many of you might think tactile painting the subject first is easier and then going with the background is backed up. But according to different, I would say painting, this particular approach also changes for me. I would love to approach the main subject later on compared to what I would usually do for my other paintings. They're having so many times, like we did the Christmas read, Where we did apply the colors, do our breadth-first, then went ahead with our band crowd. There are times where we do that and there are times where we do this one. Hence, each and every painting is different. Each and every painting needs to be treated differently. I usually do a very simple movement. While I had the colors, I go ahead and add some darker value towards the top area of the snowman. And once I've added the darker value, I would just blend it with my backdrop. And it is just going ahead with some of my darker values and then blending it. Skit is pretty simple. The way we do this, complete painting, as well as we need to make sure that to what's the sides when we go there, it has to be some darker values that we had can make the outer layer look more realistic. Overall, this is one of the paintings where I really fall in love with how the complete painting is shaping up. And how even simple, simple, small, small aspects can look really amazing in watercolors. Like snow man is a very simple subject which all of us, usually me, go during our winter season when love making snowman, but do everything that you would be painting snowman where you often know, we usually don't see that happening. Hence, I think this is one of the good approaches of how we go about painting the snowman. Accordingly. Let's just go ahead and add some of our darker values. Even on the top area. I'm using my size two brush for whole of this painting. I do not want to take a chance, hence, going with darker color as well as going with some of your blue slowly and adding it to the background makes it more interesting. Every time, whenever I'm adding the blue, I just make sure that the paper is still try and I'm trying the color on my rough people that you see in my hand. I always always try though, colors on your rough paper. Sometimes I do not show it to you and I forget it. This time I made sure that I do show that. I always, always try the colors on a rough paper and then only I go ahead and highlight on the painting. This is a really important aspect of watercolors, as I always say. So do not forget to do this part simple. And let's try this painting together. Do it in a way that you just make it look more organic. There are one or two areas which are darker in the snow and better one or two areas which are lighter in the snow. That's it, I guess so we need to work on and then let's go ahead and just add some more colors on the top of my face. I see that Bart has dried off and it would be a bit more tough to blend it. What happens is if you have a 100 percent cotton paper, you can lift up the colors easily or even blended in a way that the complete area gets blended with the new color that you add so that we are a 100 percent cotton paper is great. Try to get that kind of a paper for yourself. You do not need to own arches. You can go for caddy paper, you can go for any other handmade people. You can even go for Fabriano paper, whatever is good to go with you. Use that, use that for your own painting. I always say this, that there is no need to go for very expensive papers. I love to use arches paper because status, my own favorite and I use both sides of my people most often. You would have seen one of my sketch book series where we use both sides of the paper. If not, then I would seriously love to include something where you can actually use both sides of the paper and how useful it is to paint on both the sides. I would go ahead and use some yellow for the MODFLOW. Now this is a beautiful yellow which I'm using mix a bit of orange and then no stock applying it. It's a very, very light wash, that high ADH drive. Now, once I've added this light wash, I would go ahead and then num pots one more layer to it. So this is just the first layer. I'm keeping some of the areas white and some of the Hadean as orange. I think that this looks so pretty much has the first kid. We will be adding the second layer going forward. Okay, let's just paint the cap now. Cap is going to be interesting aspect again. Now this cap is something that you always get very simply in the market. And I love to add a farm, my Christmas snowman. Yeah, this snowman is very interesting that we have to add the flavor of Christmas. And for adding the flavor of Christmas, I think the red color is so important. I'm using some orange for even the muffler and then blending it a bit. Not all the area I've covered with the orange, only a few bots time adding the orange. And then you can have a look at it. How much complete this whole painting looks. We are left with about nine to ten minutes now, and practically most of the painting is done. It is going to be only the details now that we would be adding majority of the area we have convert in terms of the colors that we need to do, needed as well as we have used. So I guess some, I am happy with how it is turning up, adding some there and then blending it. You will see most of the video where I did paint and where I am painting is mostly about how I use water. Water is a very, very important aspect of watercolor. And better you can use your water to your advantage. I know I have been repeatedly saying this. The more you can actually add water, the vector you can use, the Veda would leave it out. Many of you might skip projects and would like to only go head and try out a few of these. So I just talked to hack it. Everytime. I am painting a project. I know many of you might be even following along with me and painting all the projects along with me. And so it's absolutely fine. Whichever back on your following, most of the projects are of similar level. This is not a very easy class altogether, I would say it's not very simple. The projects are close to weakness and intermediate level. Thickness can of course have a lot of advantage from this particular series. You have a lot of techniques that I've covered. You have lot of ways in which you draw. You will have lot of ways in which we go ahead and paint. Everything that you need to know about watercolors is mostly covered and the CDS. So anyone who is interested can take the class, but to make sure that you are not comparing your outcome with my outcome, that's very, very important. We all are in different phases or for watercolor journey. And the journey should not be compared. This is so important. Sometimes we get so demotivated seeing that, okay, the other person on the instructor is painting very well compared to what we are getting as an outcome pack. There will be times where you will get a better outcome compared to even me. I have seen many projects off my students who have fantastic.com and it is exactly the way I had been. There are even better than me. So it's only about the days or it's only about the journey that you are in too. Sometimes you have just started off. So it would take you a while to understand what to Carlos and how you can use it to your advantage. And if you want more experienced, it would be easier for you to follow along. There are different, different subjects that we have covered, as I have told you earlier, you would surely have fun too. Remember to just enjoy the process, guys. It's not about the outcome, it's not about the God that you are sending it to your lab. And they would really like the most important aspect which you have taken is taking the pain of painting something and then sending it over to them, sending it over to them from your hot, they would feel it that you have actually remembered them throughout. And you seriously feel that they are, they're close to you. You seriously think they are so important in your life that you did paid something and send it over to them. Overall, this is something that I really like. Even for myself, I always love to make hand painted gods and then send it over to anyone for inviting them, are for even saving a tank. You, everything that we have should look interesting. Then that's smart. The whole of the idea is all about. Let's go ahead and add some more colors to our snowman I have been painting along, so just follow whatever I'm painting and listen to me if you weren't do because I love to just tell you about the practices and about the things that has really helped me in my journey. And it's important, I guess I love to even listen to people who have their own journey of watercolors. All of us have a different journey and all of us have gone through different phases. So heavy dime, Whenever I think about someone who might really like and admire as a teacher, I always loved even the central their journey, love to listen to what they have found interesting, what has have them. Those are the things that I always like to implement even in my own work. Thanks for the muffler or the father scoffed that you have recto dose. No man, just go ahead and add some darker values so that it doesn't look flat and it looks more interesting. There are a few not stack you have added, and hence, you need to show them in a better way. The nose is always great. I love the red nose. You can also put a carrot for the nodes, so that would be an orange. I would leave it up to you for this particular painting. I love to add the red nose. Now going on to the background area, background area is mostly with darker value. That is my paint scree, adding some trees, some dots, That's it. And then some lines going towards the right. Again, I would be working with in the same way. So just adding a bit of line and then some straight, straight, small, small lines for the trees. That's the movement of the brush, which I will do. Then have a final look at my painting in case anything that I feel has been left out or any detail that I feel I want to add. I would go ahead and added let the paper dry off and then peel off the tape at an angle. Peeling of the day bed and angle is always a tough task. But do make sure that your paper is completely dry off before you peel off the tape. Again, I must say that paling of the tape can be done easy. You can blow off some air on your corners in case you are using masking tape. I have shifted myself from masking tape to washi tape. Washi tape are more easy to remove compared to masking tape. So if you have the possibility of changing your masking tape, washi tapes, that would build great idea. Going ahead and adding some darker values and few of the areas. As I did tell you, I would love to add don't someone details in few ah's. Okay. Hi, we are done. Let's have a look at the painting. I think we are good diver, meet you tomorrow again nom, in the next lesson now where shall we wouldn't know something more amazing. 20. Day 17 Bridge: Let's discuss the colors that ClO plan C. And now when so blue, red, brown, orange, Payne's gray, violet, Van Dyke, brown and yellow. Do keep all Jelly Roll pen handy, spar, adding the highlights. Day 17 and we are going to paint a bridge. I know I did actually challenge you a lot through this told set of painting. And you guys have been keeping along with me and I'm so happy to see that so many of you are painting just like a probe. There is. Once you take this class, you will understand that it is easy to work like a pro in watercolor artist if you can actually keep a few things in mind and have all the patients in the world of work with watercolors. Okay, let's go ahead and just make a rough outline for our pitch. Once we do a rough outline for our bridge, we need to even add a few trees. What the background area, as well as me need to even the mark some area where there would be a bit of water that is flowing. And because the bridge is always on top of either a water body or it basically connects to land areas from one to another. That's how we're going to add it, as well as there will be some trees in the background, some trees in the foreground. We will be also using a lot of salt technique over here. So just be around and I can tell you you will enjoy it like anything. It's an amazing, amazing journey. And then it's so much to learn in this whole journey for watercolors that sometimes I'm myself Stan, with the learning style and you are going to have this particular series. Overall. This is going to be simple and easy one. It has, again, a few elements of urban sketching, like the bridge that you observe has one part, which is basically the drawing part. You see how you draw bridge. You can easily draw bridge like this, as well as food for any of your future projects whenever you are doing an urban sketching or whenever you are doing any kind of other sketches. Now going ahead and adding some fence. I think adding fences always a great idea. Usually you do find these kind of fence when you are somewhere in Europe or somewhere in us. And you see some land which has these kind of fence. Fence is basically a demarcation of the line that a particular person usually own son during the winter season. It's and not in a great shape. Why I say this is lot of Beringia which happens as there is no et cetera. Hence, I think we have to wait till the spring season to get the final, beautiful. I think the offense that usually is there and this is more of the wear and tear that you see when it's went up. Okay. I guess I am very happy with the sketch. Let's just lies 12 branches more. And then start with our painting. I would go ahead with my permanent yellow deep. Now, I just wanted to show you a small use of A-flat brush. Though we have been using our size eight round brush for all our paintings. But it is very easy if you have a flat brush to apply water. I just want to show it so that you guys understand that flat brush can have a lot of use and it can actually give a lot of beautiful and quick, easy outcome in case you are using it. Let's go ahead and spread our colors. It is in a very, very simple manner. I'm adding my orange. On top of the orange. I would use some burnt sienna as well as red brown. These are the colors that I always like to use for my painting and it is majorly forming the background of my painting. You might think how come more afford them. But believe me, it's not autumn, it's the evening time and the sun is already setting. And I'm getting some pale colors. I would add a good amount of salt. Hence, I did apply my background a bit darker value of the same colors. As well as you need to keep in mind that once you are going to let this paper dry off, you will get colors which are way more lighter than what you observed right now. Now I think the deepest value, which is my Van Dyke brown orange. You can even go ahead with a bit of CPM mix, a bit of burnt sienna, and then go over these areas. If you observe, I am not going quickly over these areas. This area is really small and I could have gone really quick in terms of my painting. But I think always my time to understand where I want to apply these colors, how I wanted to apply these colors. I'm, I'm never in a rush. Guys. That's one thing with watercolors do not been a rush. And believe me, I would be giving you more easier projects now. I know many of you might be struggling in a few of them. And the whole idea of this painting was not to make you struggled, but to help you explore as many ideas as possible. There would be a few landscapes which I would be even including. So you will get to see that there's way more easier projects to go head and join it wherever you think that it's possible for you. So those are the aspects that you can always go ahead, understand, join, and then create the beauty, how everything goes. When you do, let me know that if you are enjoying the class, do put a review. That would be really helpful for me to understand your feedback and where I should improve. Splat, drink some water on the top area. But majorly, while you are adding the colors for the bottom media where you want to show this. No, I call really light with my colors. I'm adding some blue. You can go ahead with Taylor blue, you can go with cobalt blue, you can go with ultramarine blue. You can go ahead with any blue that is available on your palette. And then I'm going with some amount of my purple. And then I'm allowing my water to move on their top area. Some more blue for the bottom and some more violet or purple. Now, this was really dark. When I applied it. I was like, okay, let's just take off some of the darker values that I've added, but that's absolutely fine. You can sometimes apply darker values and then move would put some water or with some fresh. These are the aspects which we always keep on exploring. So never worry much fires you are working with watercolors. I know there is only less space to get back. But still, if you have that in back of your mind that I might not work this out. This might be a bit difficult for me. This is not a great medium. I haven't tried out. So get out of all those questions. I'm here to guide you. And I can tell you that whenever you are trying these kinds of paintings, you can nail it only. You need a mindset to work it out. Go ahead and apply some colors. Now, this is my Payne's gray which I am applying for the river area, can go ahead with any darker values. That is up to you, whichever you want to apply. And now adding some more lines to make it more darker. Now these lines that you go ahead and add actually makes the water look better. So it gives that ripple effect of the water. And I'm pretty happy with the way this painting is shaping up your practical. You can't see much right now. We're just 1 third of the time that is done and CC nothing has taken shape, but at least the background what I have right now and my hand looks to me. And that's what each and every step should be motivating for you whenever you are doing watercolors. As I always say that, no need to. Always, always. Okay, an important question, render you aren't the splatters of water if you want to create snow like effect. Now you can either use sort for this nor like the effect. Quarrels. You can even use water. Now when your paper is semi dry. Now what do you mean by semi dry? When you do not have a lot of humidity on the people where you have applied the colors. And it is having no flow as such, but it is still wet. At that time. If you apply some of your water on top of it, a splatter, some of your water, you will get this effect and some colors to my fancy few you. I go really easy on. However I want to paint it. Sometimes I'm just applying some colors and just blending it orals. I'm going ahead and adding some more lines just to make it look more like a fence. It's simple, but I do understand anyone who's starting out with watercolors might find difficult. And I'm really here or if you have any kind of questions do posted in the discussion section, I would be more than happy to tell you what ALL to do or wherever I can help. I would like to guide you. Use some table salt and just splatter it or sprinkle it on top of though. Sky ETL or the background area where you have to pay into your trees. See how beautiful this No, his right now. And the background has done so pretty, not this effect. You can only absorb once your paper is completely dry. This is so important that you need your paper to completely dry off to see this type of an effect. Hence, do not, do not try to actually apply colors. If your paper is not dry enough, it would not give you good effect. And then only you can start adding colors for your next layer, going with the second layer for the trees. Why? Because the flow state of course needed some sort techniques and there are a few areas which you can always complete. The first theorem, there will be areas which you cannot keep adding these small, simple and quick branches. So no, not worry while you go ahead and add these branches, it's going to be simple, easy, interesting as well as use the tip of your brush far these branches or else you can also go ahead with some thinner brush, which would be easy for you to handle. I would always say go with the brush, which is more comforting. Orals, you have more hand-on it. You just know that I can easily use the tip of this brush. It gives you or even new to that part, I would ask you to do some cash movements, do these kind of brush movements with a few brushes that you have available with you and on a rough paper. And then you can go ahead and apply directly on your painting from more experienced people. You just know that these are the brushes that I love to use and you can use it to your advantage. Going ahead and just adding some of the areas where I would love to paint more and more brown. And I loved this column. It is mics off my burnt umber or else you can even take your burnt sienna or else you can also use your red brown. So these are the three options that you have and mix some amount of Cape Town or CPR along with that and then get a color which is something similar to this one. I have always given you a lot of options where you can even use brown. We, like many of us do not have all these browns that is available now, many of you have been asking me, what is the red brown? You can always mix some amount of crimson into your burnt sienna and get a brown that is similar to this one. Along with it just add a bit of CPI and end it would give you a bit of darker value. This color is very easy to make and it gives a very, very nice effect. It can be even used a lot in portraits. I have seen many people using it and the portrayed turns out really pretty that with going ahead and adding a few more branches here and there. Once you have added a few branches here and there, you will understand that the painting is taking shape. We have to even applied just in the backside of our bridge. So it is going to take awhile. You can continue painting and I would meet you whenever we have to start painting our bridge AD. Hi. Hi, everyone. Using my orange over here, it is my cadmium orange. Orange. You can also go ahead with your permanent yellow deep. I would leave it up to you whichever color you want to use. Once you have added the color, I'm going ahead with our darker value. It can be burnt sienna or it can be the mix that you have already created on the right side of your color palette. I'm using a bit of brown from there, then just blending it with orange color that I've applied. This is a base small piece of paper. Hands do not need to worry while you paint this bridge. For a larger sized paper, yeah, you might have to ortho the values of bit more before you apply the colors. Adding some amount of my bond, CNR read Brown, et cetera, in few of the areas so that the bridge looks worn out and there is always some amount of wear and tear whenever you are going ahead and painting any kind or any element of urban sketching. It has cows or it has a bridge. Every time everything is not maintained. It is being used over yours. And whenever something is used to rehearse, you can understand that it would not remain the same, the colors will be different and few of the areas. That's why we keep applying the colors in different shades and keep altering the values as you observe me doing it. Okay, going ahead and applying some Naples yellow in some of the area. Once I am done, we will start applying some of the colors on the background. While I didn't mention about the background first, let's just work a bit more towards the bottom area. We need to add some of these small, small tribe plants that we usually observe whenever there is a season of window and this is something that I always love to paint. This gives so much more originality to your painting. You do these things. So always, always near any kind of Windows season or whenever there is winter season, any place where you go where you witness no, you will see this coming. Hence, I like to include it in kids, so way more originality to your painting as well as it looks like it is something which you always, always like to work with. Now going ahead and adding someone new or don't alias towards the left. Now this area which is on my left is we from me. So whenever something is coming from me, it would be smaller, whereas whenever something is closer to me, it would be darker. I would use my liner brush. In this case, my liner brush comes really handy when I need to make these kind of thinner lines. And you can also use these kind of brushes. Whenever you think that it is necessary to use some darker values. I'm going ahead and adding some darker values for the inside of the bridge. Area. Inside of the bridge area is majorly the area where you want to show that there is no. And some of the ALU, of this bridge would be seen that you can see from, from below and from wherever you are standing, you can observe it. For the land beyond the rich people not believing it empty, we will add some amount of blue, any kind of blew. It could be a bit of Doty blue, so Payne's gray looks better. I meant orals given you can use some Prussian blue. Making it look more organic is our whole aim for this class. And I just wanted to show you in each and every lesson how every different work or every different subject can actually make it to your Christmas card. How you can paint these and send the Togo. They all look amazing. They're all hand painted. The bridge usually connects two different landmasses. That's how I connect to my people. That's how I love to send something like this. Even though my love near and dear ones, you might be thinking, why did I even paint the lamp? So lamp is something which spreads light and I really want this Christmas to actually shower light upon us. I didn't some loose lines and this is a very simple way that I do. Some small straight lines and then some horizontal and vertical lines. That's it. We are not going to complicated anymore. And I feel you are pretty much close to being done only for five minutes last, which is left. And here we are not going to complicate anything. As I tell you all. I'm using just the tip of my brush to add as much detail as possible. But always know that if you overbook on a painting, it will not look pretty. In case you stop working, had the correct time. The painting is more importing compared to if you keep working on a painting, it might not be the best outcome. Adding a bit more lines for the background where I like to add a few trees. Now dry trees, of course, is usually seen in winter season. And that's what DO we always like to add? Adding one or two lines here and there. This is simple. I feel that it is simple. Of course, the painting is not completely simple. It will take you awhile. But once you actually just go through it and check it out, I think you will name it. Most of you are pretty much, you guys know at least what is watercolors we all have used in our childhood days. Watercolors is one of the most common medium that is available, and it is one of the most rewarding mediums, according to me. It's just that sometimes we do not get a hang of it and it becomes difficult for us to hang them there and keep our patients. That's what I have to say about what occurs. That's what I have experienced about watercolors. I feel the water body was really not having the exact colors that I wanted. Hence, I did apply some more color and now blending it. While it goes a bit away, you will find it, but more DACA compared to, well, it is near to you. Why I say this? It goes into a one single line at that point in time. And once it is a one single line that you see, of course, it would be a bit more taco. And while it is near to us, it would be Whitman lighter. I would even add some water boats with the help of my white Jelly Roll pen. I would be using my white Jelly Roll pen to my advantage wherever I feel that it is necessary for adding some mines or for adding some ripples. Those aspects of watercolor can be usually handled though with any Jelly Roll pen. This is, this is what I have observed in my experience or with my experience, I can say that some highlights that Luanda and just observe me how I'm moving my pen. Ben, of uses, of course, many more easier compared to brush shoes. For brush shoes, you need to train your muscles. You need to understand your brush better. But for Penny does easier. So my request would be to just follow along and all the lines as I am doing. Small, small white lines onto the water. And someone lines for how we're dry plants as well as smart model. Try different kind of, I think it's basically the highlights that I like to add more than anything. It is some of the snow carpet. You can say plants that you also are. Sometimes there are a few highlights that you usually see in a far away distance. Those are the small, small things that I mining. This is just the finishing bond that we are doing. Once this is done, we need to see that our whole painting has dried up completely. Once our whole painting dries up, then we would go ahead and remove the tape at an angle. I have genuinely tried in this particular lesson to add one of the elements of urban sketching and to add to three aspects that is possible from my end. I hope you are enjoying this class. I would be coming up tomorrow with all way more easier. Watercolor lesson. And 3 four is your lessons would be there. And some of them would be a bit more tough to when I say tough, it is just that on the look or when you just have a first look at it, it might look tough. But when you have or when you start painting along with me, it would no more be a tough one. It will really become Kinsey. Just that, follow along and just paint along with me. Try to bring in a habit of painting. And believe me, you just don't know add-on. Magic always lies outside your comfort zone. And if your landscapes as your comfort zone, then you have to step out a bit and try out something like Copan sketching or something a bit different than that, like florals. So wherever you find that this is your comfort zone, try stepping out of it and I can tell you, you can do wonders. Okay, Let's have a final look. 21. Day 18 Sunset: The colors are burnt umber, burnt sienna and ultramarine, deep red, brown, orange paints gray or para, brilliant pink, Winsor blue, Naples, yellow, red. Though you do not need all these scholars or Prize and must CAN this particular painting, as well as red and orange. In case you do not have upper, I'll go ahead and use your car. Mine. It might not be the same vibrant outcome which you'll get with opera, but still, you will be in a position to get something similar. They think, Well, I mean, in next term, 10 days, we will be done with all of her journey and buy this month and you will have 28 holiday cards ready with you. So are you guys excited to paint this one? Imc receive very excited. Let's go ahead and just draw a box. I would like to give you a strong idea about how you can practically draw houses. Now, this is two-point perspective. So both of these lines that you absorbed right now, we'll meet at one single point and that can be your vanishing point. I will denote a horizon line. I have not. Right now, I didn't anything of that sort. It's just that I wanted to mark the middle of this square that I did draw allele. And then I would go ahead and draw one of my windows. Now this window is facing me and it is bigger in size compared to the other window, which would be towards the right. And that would be smaller. Hiding two slanting lines towards the top area. One on the left slant and another on the right slant. Once I have added these slanted lines, I would go ahead and add one most lumping light on the right side. Now, that again has to go according to the rule of perspective, which is 2 perspective. And they all will meet to one single point, which is my invisible point. I know many of you might not have much rough idea since you are bigness about invisible point and that's absolutely fine. Just try to go ahead and follow simple instructions that I have added over here for drawing the house. It is in the middle of the paper that I'm adding. And once I've added the house, I would go ahead and add some snow for the background. We would be going ahead and adding some crease, once in loose and once in some of our dry wash styles. So that's absolutely okay. Wet on wet, wet on dry. So both of those styles are well-known among you, amongst all of you now, and you guys just can nail it at any point in time. A bit of guidance sign noise. You can do practically very, very well. You all are kneeling, all the paintings. And when I see the projects in my projects session, I'm so happy and excited to kind go through the next few projects. This is again, one of my own personal favorites, as it has fade vibrant and beautiful colors that one, how I love to paint my scenic beauty landscapes. You have seen many of my other classes where is majorly about Vibram paintings. And this, I did not initially thing that I would be including what story steadily. I just did fall in love with the whole of the painting. And somewhere or the other, it did feel a bit unfair in case I'm not sharing something which is so beautiful. The sky, the gibbon where you can stay and feel the window. I think something like this can surely actually add up your watercolor card as fine off the face. Special ones whenever you are gifting to your near and dear ones. I'm adding some Naples, yellow. Naples yellow is one of the yellow which I really like while I add to my painting, you can even go ahead with yellow ocher. Yellow ocher is another color that I absolutely love when I just go ahead and add it on my paper. So yellow ocher can be another colors truly blended with your opera. Now, opera is something that all of you might not have. Now the vibrancy of the painting comes from few of the colors and one of them is Oprah in this case. Then I'm going ahead and adding some red and orange towards the top. Once I've added these colors, I would go with some of my ultramarine deep. Now, ultramarine is not a very good color that I would ask you to use always this ultramarine deep is from Art Philosophy. And I have been using this color for awhile. It's something that I really like on my own. That's one of the reason I wanted you guys to experiment with this color and see for yourself, if you really don't like it, go ahead with something like Taylor Blue, Winsor blue. That can also work. But in my experience, this one now practically gave me the color output that I really wanted to experiment with. So try it out. I guess you will also like it. This blue mine also become a bit dark when you are blending it with your opera. Whereas if you are not blending it with your operand, then this blue will be absolute blue and you will see, you see fall in love with the color. I practically kept some of the space empty as I wanted this blue to show off well. And in case you are not leaving that white space, then you might get adapt to a value. That's also fine. You do not need to think much while you're under Carlos. This is one aspect of watercolors which I have learned. Never. Be scared to experiment. In case you do not experiment. Anyways, you're not going to get the result. If you are experimenting, one aspect of, I would say one good aspect of watercolor experimentation is that you will get an outcome that would be according to your liking. The paper is wet. You have already applied the colors. Now it's time to add the trees. While you go ahead and add the trees, do make sure you are using some ten liner brush. You might not be very convinced. Strike now to add this with the liner brush, you might not feel that you have all the control which you can get through thinner brushes. But believe me, the brushes that I have, unlike reservoir of water and I did not want to take a chance with all of them. So I think this was one of the good options that I could explore. Hence side did go head with those thin liner brush for this painting. Going ahead and adding some of the colors towards the bottom right corner of the painting where you have the house. And then I would add some of the larger trees. Now while I add the larger trees for STI, need to make sure that I am not getting overboard with it. I'm not going to add a lot of trees. I'm going to only add a few, which would practically make this painting look more elegant as well as it could be sued into our eyes. Right now, whatever you see is practically getting all that soothing then wet effect, which we always love to add to our painting. Once this is done, I would go head with one of our wet on dry method two. So this is just first part of the painting where we are going ahead and adding first year on to our tree area. Just follow the movement of my trees and how I'm adding the trees. Some of the areas seems to be really wet, so I'm just going ahead and removing a bit of water or else my colors will flow so much that I would not be in a position to manage the flow at all. That sometimes the way I like to control wherever I like to pick up the extra colors from the paper. Then go ahead and add the next set of colors for it. I think I am good. The way it is working on, say the sky area and the background trees have come out well. But we have to go really step-by-step and we have to be very cautious of what we add now to our painting. Since the first buyer has come out where we have to keep painting it in a way that we get a good outcome. Even on the other parts. Like even if you are working on the snow, it shouldn't be a good outcome. Even if you are working on the house, it should be a good outcome. Stay with me, hanging there. I can tell you. You will name this one. Just follow a bit of my instructions. That's that's it. This is a simple painting, believe me, guys, it's just that you might have to actually follow along and following along would be, let your paper dry off now. Now let the whole of the paper dries off before you add any water to your snow, Adrian, I would be using two colors for my snow area. One is my Taylor blue mixed with some of my drum AND, and the other one would be bit of orange mixed with my brilliant pink. Now Berlin pink is the color from Magellan Mission Gold. I have been using this column, orals, what you can do, you can go ahead with any white, which is a bit opaque and blended with that. I think that would give you a colored which is closer to the one which I have a black. Switching my brush to of course, a size two brush. You just see that I am using that brush. And then slowly I would go ahead and add this column. I'm mixing two colors practically. Then I've got this color orange. You can even go head with jello blue. I will not stop you from using any color. It's just that I like to mix two colors and then go ahead with it. There is not much of pigment. It's more of a watery mixture. Though I have picked up very less offered on the ballot if you observe, and then I'm going ahead and adding it. This is a wet-on-wet technique. Wet on wet technique will give you a great outcome. I am always so excited to work on wet on wet, wet on wet is what baby beautiful technique which anyone and everyone can learn and fall in love with. You have to understand that right now we need some optimum amount of water on the paper. If we have a lot of water, the colors are going to flow. Optimal amount of water is the right kind of humidity where you have just applied one layer of water and there is a clear Xin. Water should not be like there are puddles on the papal. If you have paddles on the papal, then the whole of this painting might go for a DOS. We have to look into that aspect while we paint us don't. Once us know it's done, we know that the upper part where we did paint our trees is already dried out. I will use two brushes. 17 is C, one would be my blending brush, and another would be my normal brush. That is the liner brush with which I have added the trees. Adding some more trees. Since you have used your blending brush and few of the areas ordered damp blending brush, some of the area will become wet and some of the atria will stay a bit dry. Just exactly the way I wanted. One thing that I always highlight in each of my painting is how should be the approach of the painting? For me, the approach of this painting is bit different than what I have always done in my earlier paintings. This is actually the second attempt. The first attempt was pretty pathetic and practically I had to just discarded. I would use the backside of the paper for painting something else. When you will see the conclusion, you will understand how many paintings I did reject during this whole of these 28 days. I sometimes paying two or three projects all together and sometimes one of the project doesn't come out well, and then I don't give up. I still go ahead and paint by second project because sometimes it's just not how you had to approach to painting. Your approach was wrong. That's the reason the whole of the painting did not come out. Well. Sometimes I'm so much confident that this painting can work out exactly the way I want, that. I just go ahead and experiment with it even more. These small, small aspects that I always like to tell you. Before hand as there will be times where you will just think that this is not how I love to complete my painting, but please, please go ahead and complete your painting. There are times where I just don't like this guy at all. That's when I discard the painting altogether. If I like the sky, then I would love to go ahead and paint. If you see the Christmas read, it's a great example of what you can practically do on the secondly, sometimes just leave your painting on the first day. It's not your day. Hence, you are not getting a good outcome. When you come back on the second day, you will be in a position to nail it. It's always nice to see your dream, your house or the Kievan where you live. So adding one, and I'm going ahead with some of my darker brown value for this one. Using my size six as Cauda optimal brush and extending it on the right as well as on the left. I would add Fe, minimal amount of leaves on this tree. You can decide for yourself, if you'd like to add more, you can. But again, CDC tell you with way less leaves, this whole tree gives so much. There's so much beauty that gets added because of lesser leaves. Sometimes less is good. So try to go for lesser number of leaves on this tree. It's winter. And there are trees which do not have a lot of leaves on them because of the winter season and showing that will not be a bad idea. Hi. Time to add some dry branches here and then you can go with your liner brush orals. You can even go ahead with your ten tip brush. Just the way I am right now. Going with my brown color. Once I have added this with my brown color, I would go ahead. Even with my Payne's gray. I like to add both of these colors together. Sometimes I work with my Payne's gray and sometimes I'm working with my light brown or burnt sienna orals, red brown color. These are very common colors that I use for most of my paintings. And you can, of course some to watch to find lockdown. I'm using my fingers to pay him. Yeah. Some days are like when I have to pick up some colors, when I do just dab rid of it. I use my fingers to paint. Practically, it's one of the best ways that you can go ahead and paint. I have seen it in my own experience and CDC. You can also feel heard once you start experimenting it on your own, using my liner brush. Now, just to add some of our darker values in Payne's gray, I would even go ahead towards the left side and then again added these kind of branches and these kinds of plants you can always, always observe whenever you are going ahead and doing or staying in places where it's winter. And there are reflections, the sky reflections will always be seen on the snow. Snow doesn't have a color of its own orators. White, you can say, because it is white, it would reflect the colors that you have on the sky. Going with some of my bond amber or yellow ocher color, along with a bit of burnt sienna in it. Once I've added this color, I would go ahead and add my red as well as some of my orange. Now the red and orange that I'm adding is very pretty color. Many of you have asked me, where does the select from this red is basically from Art Philosophy. And you can also use cadmium red. Cadmium red is a very beautiful color from Winsor and Newton. Try that color. I'm pretty sure about it. You will get this beautiful red which you need. Going ahead and adding some of the red towards the lower half of the house, I am taking a closer look at the house now. If you observe, we are closely watching it and painting over it. I'm not showing my palette anymore As I just wanted you guys to concentrate. And I would practically tell you, what are the colors that I'm using. Mixing some of my red again and then adding it towards the left, I'm adding the darker values. And what's the right side of the house? I would add. That's usually how you can absorb the light and shadows for any house or for any of your object on which light is falling. It's time to untutored top of the house. I would go ahead with the same blue. Mix up the little blue. Those are the two colors that you can use. Just go with a very, very light wash of it. I've seen are very close up view of what we're painting. The whole painting is so small. And sometimes when I give you a closer view and myself like, okay, this looks really big. Is the house really big? That Vk where no, it is really, really small. And now blending it to quit some water and one side to blend it with some water. I would extend the same kind of a blue towards the left and then add some brown to word store right side. It's kind of interesting why I would say I am just adding fame less color and working more with water. That has always been my idea to work with colors in less quantity and pigments and lesser quantity and more of water. And work more with water. Since it is watercolors, water can do magic to your painting. And that's what makes it most interesting. Once you have added the stucco values to your house, go ahead and switch your brush. Either you can use a size two brush exactly the way I am doing, but the tip of the brush, I'm not sure if you would like to use it. Switching to what an art brush would, of course give you a better outcome. You can have more control and swell as you would in a position to paint or just add those thinner lines which is needed. Adding some of my paint scree can then blending it with water, adding some of my veins gray on the left, but also of the window, and then blending it with water. That's how I would go about painting this, but switching my brush now. And then I named few lines on this left side of the house. These are basically the wooden planks that is usually used for any kind of bonds or for any kind of Cubans. And you will often see that the colors are a bit different. Why has there is lot of wear and tear which happens over the seasons. That's one of the reason I like to add a bit of these lines here and there. That said, I guess I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I would go head with some white quash and add the window panes. It looks pretty flat ASU absorbed right now my window and I'm do not want it to look so flat. That's one of the reasons for going ahead with my liner brush and then adding some lines exactly the way you solve right now. It's a very simple way of finding just that you need to have a bit more control on your brush. Again, going to the left of the window and then adding the white quash. Once you have added this white quash, you just know that you're painting has practically completed. Are it just looks that it's done. Hence, go ahead and add some lines, even do what survived site. Again, this painting is something that is very close to my heart as it does simple, easy, interesting. And it has so much that we have experimented with wet on wet, wet on dry techniques. Then some of our trees, et cetera, everything put together. It's really, really nice outcome that I can solve on the paper. I hope you can get the same outcome and then remove the tape at an angle, but only remove the tape once your paper is completely dry and have a final look at your painting, I think you will also fall in love with it. Let's paint some more snow. This winter season. 22. Day 19 Misty Winter: It is only one color that we will be using from Bangkok, and it is does kylo. You can choose the color which you want to go ahead. Good for painting this misty pines as it is a monochrome painting. Okay, let's paint misty pine forest. Without a misty pine forest, winters are never over. And with the lake and reflection, it just adds onto it. We are going to start by marking your horizon line. You can also tape down. You will observe how I do it later on in the process. And I will be using only one single color, which is yellow does from Dan Gong. Now you can choose your color of your own. I really like this color and wanted to experiment a bit with it as it has dual tone on it. And you can see that there will be two colors that would come up one side, start applying it on the paper. Okay. I've started applying the water, but once I apply the water towards the top, hey, I do understand I have to even mass the area for the lake below. That's up to you if you want to do it. If you do not want to do it, I usually like to mask it for bigness. It's just a bit easier this way. You are more like an intermediate or an advanced level artist. Then of course, this is not a step back. You need you exactly know where you want to paint your trees, where you want to add to repulse, where you want to paint the lake. So everything you have in your mind that way. Now, going ahead and just mixing the color a bit more. This is the dusky a load that I did tell you. It actually shows more of darker green kind of an effect, but when it turns or when water falls onto it and then you will see the magic happening. Yeah, it's some very magical color. I must say. It has two tones in it. One is Harpo, green and a model of the yellow. That's why I've really loved the color when I started using it. This is the first time, of course I'm using it, but I have heard total views of the scholar and it is the perfect one for our monochrome forest. You can, of course, go head with anything that is available with you. You can choose your colors. This is just me who wanted experiment with this color. There is nothing extra that we will do if you were even going ahead and experimenting with this particular shade. So I would leave that up to you if you want to experimental how you want to experiment and all, that should not be a problem, okay, going ahead and adding some more colors and few areas and then you observe how I add some water. Let your colors don't surround. This would be my request to you. All. Let your colors dogs around if your colors dance around you to understand that this painting is something that is great and it did turn out according to your requirement. I always say this to everyone who's learning or wants to learn watercolors is what it will do its major job plane do not need to actually work a lot. In this case, going ahead and using my liner brush. Since this is a small paper and we would be working wet on wet for our bank ground pines as it is Misty and you can see how my colors are flowing. It is becoming a bloom. What you can usually do in these cases, go ahead and just take off the extra color on a tissue exactly the way you will absolve me doing it and then start extending it to puts the left hand towards the right. That's the best method in which you can walk around your watercolors for your pines, which are Misty. And you can see that from going ahead with my lighter values first, lighter values for your pine trees would be taking off all the extra colors. Your background is already wet. We're going wet on wet. Once this area dries off, you will get a color that is weight lighter than what you observe right now. I'm going with a very, very easy movement, extending on the left, extending on the right, and in the middle I'm just drawing a line. You see that this is way more technical than what I did try to add. So just dumb, move to the right, move to the left hand, do these kind of movements. It's a great exercise even for your muscle memory. You can use it in any of your other final projects. I would know the size and the shape of the trees. This is really important when you are working with watercolors. In case you do not know the shape and size of the trees, it would look even. Just never even, it is absolutely asymmetric and there is no way you can have seen kind of height for the trees in case it is not man-made. Most of these trees you can find in the areas where it is. For me, there is lot of missed or else you can just see it. Before the snow happens. These experience I had during my one of the trips that I had to land stand in India, that's a small hill station. You can check it out. It's a beautiful place in case any of you happen to be here in India. It's must visit one. There are only few hurdles and knew would really find peace and beauty together at the same place. Okay, going ahead and adding some more trees as I did tell you earlier. And in some smaller trees, because we do have a combination of trees, some would be smallest, sum would be larger. I think I would like to add one small mountain towards the right. Now, there are times where I would take some impromptu decision because of which there is a possibility that I might have to forgo Whatever I did think earlier as my paper is still wet. And by mountains has to be done in a wet on wet technique. So these kind of impromptu decisions you usually make when sometimes you are working with watercolors and you just feel that this is not enough. And I want something more in this painting. What exactly you want more in this painting is this mountain that I did. That yeah, it might look pretty ought to many of you that I usually decide so many things. Polio than I go ahead and paint. Then why an impromptu decision? There are a lot of times when we take a lot of impromptu decision watercolors, which usually you do not see. And it's just an attempt to show you that yes, there are times we will take some impromptu decisions and there will be some kind of difficulty that you might also face as there would be darker or lighter values. The trees were all done. Why did we go over it and then paint our mountains? So all of these questions to come across. But believe me, this impromptu, make your painting look even better. So just extend a bit more on the left and on the right. Once you have extended on the left and on the right, you will find that your painting looks so really pretty and the binds of courses places wet. So I can go over it again once more and add the pines. That should not be a problem for any of you. Just that I'm working with my liner brush. This paper is really small, so working with a size one or a liner brushes better off in this case. I have used my masking tape now. The masking tape which I am using is basically a wash. You can go ahead with washi tape. It's easy to remove an even when your paper is wet, it doesn't give you any kind of ripping off your paper. Whereas if you're going with your masking tape, there are times where your paper might get ripped off. That's one of the reason whenever you think you want to apply colors on your paypal or you want to work with still, then try to use any kind of washi tape or as a good paper dry off and then start off at the reflection of the lake. That's absolutely fine. This is how we would go ahead and tackle. Different different elements, a, including the ones like whether we should use washi tape, whether we should use masking tape, whatever we should use that string important to understand. Okay, let's apply some darker values of green. Now, the darker value of green that I'm applying is basically some small, small lines. Now, these multiple lines that you see HIV would like to highlight a bit for adding my repulse, as well as it would show the movement of the lake. Once you see the movement of the lake, you will be amazed to observe that it looks so much realistic. I have left some white spaces where while I was applying the water. Now this is specifically, you will see in some of the photos that these kind of fights spaces are debt. And I just wanted to highlight on this one that in this way, it, it gives you way more freedom to work with the whites, as well as what the darker values. And it makes it look way more realistic. The paper is wet hands, I can go ahead and apply some darker values. There would be a reflection of the finds that we painted earlier. So if you are also one of the person who is in love with the pines, then yeah. I guess you should go ahead and apply some of your colors now. It gives your paper is not wet. I would ask you to leave it here. Let your paper dry off, then come back and add the spines. It might take a while for the layers part or for the learning part to dry off and then come back. But I can tell you you would be very happy that way. Okay. I guess I am good to go with this one. Now, let's progress a bit more to understand how we want to paint any further ripples in the water or any further reflection. Though this is very easy exercise. It's just that we are working with the reflection, we are working with the moody effects of the pines on the forest. I usually don't like to paint lot of Moody pine forests, a lot of misty pine forest. I like to go with more vibrant colors. But somehow there was a photo which was there in my mind and I really wanted to add it for this Christmas season. I think that you will also like it once you start experimenting with this one. It's really pretty painting. As first of all, the color is really pretty. It has dirt on an ENT and usually I don't see these kinds of colors. So always though there is a brand called as Daniel spent where you get these kind of colors to a lot of extent. So I think that you might find the few colors like, I think lunar lose their than Moon glue, glue is there. These are the colors which have dual tone in that as I do on these sheets. And I have these shades with myself. So I know these are the colors that have that have dual don't So go ahead with those colors, orange as well, with one single color that is available with you. There is no rule as such that you have to work with only these colors are only those colors. Go ahead and start adding some more colors to the foreground. Pine trees. Still the paper is wet, you will not get a very good outcome, I must say, but that's absolutely fine. And even if you are getting a bit blurry effect, that's okay. We can always go over it once more. Required. It's a great way to practice trees. It's a great way to practice any time of painting. I always say whenever you are not well-versed with your brush movement, just go with any kind of a simple painting and you will feel way more confident. This painting again helps you to be more and more confident as an artist. How you go about painting these kind of small, small aspects and watercolor. How you paint lakes, how you paint reflection, how you paint everything possible in watercolors. I am pretty happy and adding some more, one or two more lines here and there as my paper is still wet, so adding lines is not a problem. You would not give me the hard edges. I will only get those soft and nice colors in my painting. Okay, now let's just see how we can pick up some colors. Notice a very easy process. Take a damp brush and start picking up the callous exactly the way I'm doing. Every time. Whenever you are picking up the color and go ahead and clean the brush, or else just the way you solve right now, the color will come over the area which you have already lifted. So it's important to always, always clean your brushes before you go ahead. Again now picking up the colors. Now, the paper is dry and on the left side, so I'm going ahead and adding my tree. There would be more depth that I want to create now for adding depth, for adding more of trees, it needs to be one, inductor value one and lighter value. Lighter value trees we have already added, whereas taco value trees one or two I would like to add before I complete this painting that looks more organic in nature. That's how I usually absorbed my paintings and I think that's how even though audience usually likes it. Okay, go ahead and complete this and start making these small, small lines as this small piece of land, which six stemming from the left towards the right. Again, it is in the foreground, which means it is closer to us. Things which are closer to us, we'll look more ductile, as well as the values will be darker. In this case, many of you might not know what is value. So for a bigness, I would like to just tell you that values are basically the colors that we use. This is a monochrome painting. I have used a lighter values for a background, for the misty area. Whereas for my foreground, I'm using darker value, which means more pigmented colors, more creamy colors that I'm using. Whereas for the background, I was going ahead and using more often lighter values. That is, more of water and less of pigments. I would like to add even a bit more depth for one or two trees status dead and the background, as we will have, some of the trees which look darker even when there is a mystifying, the will look a bit darker. Go ahead and add a bit of colors. I think that should be good in this case. And you will get exactly, I mean, the whole of the painting will turn out exactly the way you want it by the way. And you're not guide you through the birds. It's very simple. When you are painting the words, you're registering the body and then extend to the left and to the right. I have just added four or five birds towards the top right corner, I have one of the classes, which is word sensor rotates. It is out of the monthly Martin class. We will be returning back to one monkey MyTime class pretty soon. In case you do want to learn birds and solute is I think that should be the class as well as, let's just pick up some more colors and few of the areas where I think that the stillness, sorry. It's just that the reflections also have reports and I just wanted to clear up some of it. Okay. I did allow my paper to dry off and now I'm just removing the tape at an angle. It is pretty easy bark don't believe me, whenever we see the deep field, it is so satisfying. But when I do it, it's not at all satisfied guy, it is crazy. So that's how the whole of this thing appears. Now on this last part that we need to just peel off and see how the painting has turned up. I'm pretty sure about it. It might look easy, simple, but it's a great exercise for weakness. It's a great exercise for any kind of a Christmas contact you want to send over to your near and dear ones. Let's meet up next with the 28th day. It's so close now we are about to finish in next one week or a bit more. Yeah, eight more bindings to go and that's it. This whole journey will come to an end. 23. Day 20 Hot cup of coffee: Let's discuss the color palette, burnt sienna and ultramarine deep brown paints, gray, blue, yellow, green. When that Kay Brown, a 100. Okay guys. Today we are going to share our experience with our family members. It is the contact you can send to your near and dear ones who was in love with a cup of cappuccino. Coffee or Chai. Chai is t and it is usually a common drink in India. So let's do this. I love to enjoy my hot cup of coffee or tea. My, my balcony. And this particular painting is currently having just three lines. Yeah, I hope, uh, you might be thinking, what is she up to? Okay. I'm trying to paint a fence. And before I paint a fence, I need to of course, mark the areas which I have to add for my wooden fence lines. Yeah. And on top of it there is an area where you can keep the cup. This is usually a very common aspect that you can observe in any winter cabin. Or if you are staying in a winter season or you're staying in a hotel where there is lot of snow, we usually find houses made out of goods and common phenomena that can be experienced. I hope you will enjoy this painting. It's one of my own favorite paintings. I have practically included paintings in this series, which are my own favorite. It might look a bit odd to many of you by this particular series is a bit advanced and how I have selected these paintings, it's all from the experience that I like to have R, which I had during my earlier days or I usually have during this winter and Christmas season. I love to include it in the CDs. Hopefully you will enjoy it. And believe me guys, this is going to be o different experience altogether, the experience of what you are sharing with your loved and your ones. And it is only by the means of painting. I hope you will enjoy it. Let's do it this time. It is going to be simple sketch, keeps catching it as I am going along with it. Everything will meet to one single point. And it is basically your vanishing point, which is on the left of the papal. This vanishing point means that everything will converge to one single point outside the paper, which is also called as the invisible point. Many people called as invisible bind, many people call as vanishing point. Many people have different names of calling it. But usually in the rule of perspective it is known as vanishing point. I have made a small straight line and trying to add the cup. Now, very, very simple process. I do go over it once or twice. C, no one is an export at Sketch. We're all trying, and that's what I wanted to tell you. Even experienced artists, even your instructors, do take awhile. This was the painting which I tried in the first row and it came out well. So you might feel that, okay, she is drawing it twice. She is erasing it lot more than other paintings. Most of the paintings which I have included in the CDS has mean painted twice. I don't know why, but it's happened so that most of these paintings I was not satisfied with in the first scope. But I knew that I couldn't nail it in the second go. Hence, I wanted to do it that way. Let's start with this mug. It's a very simple MC has I have told you. And then we start with the background. Background would be the top area. We will be using very few colors. Again, it would be only for the depth, et cetera, very even need the colors. Mostly it is snow and how much color can you add into snow? The yellow. And if this is a sunset, but it is not a sunset, hence we would be using colors like blue, as well as one more row can be a bit of violet. Those are the only colors that I think that I would go ahead with. Yes, Well, my background, I am adding one or two small trees. Again. We need to add a small area on top of which there is some tree and you can see some bushes. We're not going to paint any sky in this case, it's only going to be three bushes that so once you are okay with the sketch and you feel that you want to start going over it for your watercolor painting. Always remove the extra graphite Max. I have been pretty clear about this thing Always. I would, again like to iterate. We would go ahead and remove the extra glorified months. All these lines, crooked lines that you observe right now will serve as your snow. Hence, some just follow along. It's going to be a simple process. As always, I like to mix a bit of brown in my yellow green. It would give a color which is similar to this one. Practically you can use any color of your choice, since I wanted something a bit more darker on my end. Hence, I went ahead with this. You can mix and that's a good, a good path. You get what you can try. Try and Hooker's green and a bit of brown, you would get a very nice deep column. This is more of a yellow, green, and brown. That's the reason you get a color like the swap. But you can surely try the other one. You will fall in love with it. And other thing that you can do is just mix quinacridone, gold, and a bit of green in it. That also will give a color that is something to this one and close to the one that you absorbed me applying it right now. The color that I have for the background is a bit darker than what I do expect hands going ahead with a spray bottle and spring, so mortal, you can do it if you are feeling that the humanity of the people has gone down. You can do this exercise are rows. You can also do this kind of Phoenix says whenever you want to maintain and the kind of humidity on your paper that is Major Reno say that you want your colors to flow, so just add a bit of water. You will see the colors flowing on their own. Rather than using your brush and adding the water on your paper where you cannot work a lot on the movements. So that way also you can work this out, okay, adding a layout of the tree in the background, as well as on the right. Also, I would go ahead and add this layout for the tree. And this is the darker value that you observe me, I'm in right now, again, on the left as well as on the right, I would go head and heart this background. Once I've added this background, just go with something chip sort and then use it for your snow like effects and the background area. Once you've added these effects and the background area, then use some of your brown. Now, Brown. I am always be happy with the bond santa that I have. So I would use the same burnt sienna for this painting. Along with it. I would go ahead and use some red brown. You can keep red brown. And when I came around with you, do not have a brown, go with a bit of carmine. And that timeline would really help you to actually add dark red to your brown color, which you need for this painting, okay? And start adding the burnt sienna, as I did tell you earlier, I am just going with my size 8 brush to add these colors. You can go with any brush of your choice. Now since the size of the brushes major you decided by the sheet of paper. And then the sheet of paper. You usually mean that the kind of people which you are using, which is the size status, the sizes 15 centimeter. And it is a really small size stat I go ahead with. You can use any bigger size brush if you are going with a larger shape of people. So I would leave that up to you for the decision, what you want to use in terms of the brushes and on which brush you have more control. There are so many brushes which we have for ourselves, but only with a few brush weeping. And one of the reasons of that is we have medial control with a few brushes compared to other brushes which we do not use often. It's absolutely fine to have an inventory or to hold an inventory but not use it so often, no requirement of brushes may be different for different kind of medium. For goulash, I have a different set of brushes that I use. For watercolors. I have a different set of brushes. I'm going with the flat wash right now. It is majorly the MSN on that I'm using slowly, steadily. We'll see how I order the values of burnt sienna as well as add more colors to give it a better shape and beauty. Okay, once I have identified bonds, Santa, I would go ahead with our darker value. What do you mean by a darker value column? It is majorly though, when Nike Brown, which you absorb right now on my palette, this is mixed with a bit of red prompt. That's absolutely okay. The talent that you have available on your palette is good to go. You can even mix a bit of black widow been sienna and use it. You can also mix a bit of indigo with your burnt sienna and use it. You can also mix a bit of paint screen with your bonds in and use it. I would leave that decision up to you. How you want to mix your colors, what colors you want to use. Every time you do not need to own up all the tubes or Nepal the dollars and still have a good outcome. That's how we go about it. So I think I know you have a better idea of how I work. After so many different paintings that we did. Every time I do not use similar kinds of colors or a p-type, I might use a lot of colors from one set. And sometimes I do not use many colors. I worked with a limited palette. How each and every time whenever you see my kind of work, I tried to mix and match a lot of things. Why I say this? You need to know color theory. You need to use your colors that you have available with yourself. You should get to understand everything that is there in watercolors and which is only possible when you work with monochrome, with glow, something like a limited palette as well as you work with a lot of columns together every day, each and every value, each and every color, you can understand it better that way. One more thing that I wanted to highlight is going up, but I'm working right now on my paper. You observe me using the darker value of the Nike brand. But this taco value of Nike Brown is only giving you soft colors. Now, how it is giving you these soft edges, because whenever I'm applying it on a wet surface, it would give me these soft edges and lines which look really, really pretty. I'm using my size two, Caught our brush to actually add those colors. And then I'm going ahead to the top area where I have all the added these lines for my trees. Mixing two colors. One is my burnt sienna and some amount of my band I gave round, as well as some water. Water will always, always does its work. Watercolors means a lot of water that I usually use for my paintings. I can tell you water can do wonders in each and every painting. In a few one. To see the magic of watercolors, you need to use less pigments and more water. You can really understand how beautifully you are painting, turns out. Okay. Adding a few lines, as I have told you earlier now, these are on wet, on wet and then I will be finishing this off. Once I'm done with the fence, I would go ahead and add some more darker values to the left side of my paper where I want to show a tree. It would be absolutely and lose some colors, which is majorly my green. And this green I've already told you hire how I did Dumb make it. So it's absolutely fine to use mix-and-match colors. You'll do not need to use the exact color, which I am actually showing it right now. That's fine. As we are trying to learn a new technique or else we aligned to learn what the colors are. New hobby or generating something that's just absolutely new to us. We have to go by whatever is available with us every time everything will not be available. So we have to be aware of those aspects too. And then go ahead with it going with the flow now. And as I did there, I would add a bit of color over here to make it more loose. You see different angle right now. It's okay. Every time I like to give you how this whole painting is turning up in different ways. That's absolutely fine. And you observe how loose it is. I'm not defining much in terms of lines, et cetera. Just going ahead and adding simple strokes, small, small lines. That's it. I would do the same thing on the right side of my painting. It is again, the pine tree, which I want to show that would be absolutely lose. I know by now you are so much aware of how I paint them, how I like to work around you. This one completely. But still I want to guide you through the process. Before you complete this painting. I would like to just show you how exactly I worked through each and every painting. As each of these binding has something new that I am exploring or I'm showing it to you. Hence, going with something new means a bit of guidance. So a bit of guidance is always good. And now adding some loose leaves, as I did tell you earlier, once I have added these newsletters, I would go ahead and start adding some colors for my background's know, et cetera, as data's the bottom which is still completely empty. And I would like to define it a bit more. Let's start adding some of the kind of father. And I like to add to that column as this is the season of Christmas and window, it needs to be celebrated with the red color. You can go ahead with your from Winsor red or else you can go ahead with any data's available with you. I would be using some amount of burnt sienna and some darker values, right? Your red-brown. Two. On the left side. You can even use perylene maroon or read some, any other dark value of red like Carmine to make it look a bit taco. I like to iron the lightened shadow. Now the lightest from the right, the shadow would be on the left. That's how I go about it. And it's simply wherever you think that you did go overboard with the painting or rules, it is not correct. Using a tissue to take off the extra Carlos. That's all. Keep adding the colors. I'm using my size two brush to add the colors. Right now. Keep up solving it. We will soon have a closer look to understand how you can even add the shadows. How you have to add the colors on the cup Hand, Luke. Now, I mean colors on the cup handle in an easy way is very important. If you do not understand how to add colors on your cup handle, it could be tough for you to understand how to actually work with the smaller area or with the areas which are really small and a bit complicated, handsome. Just take any thin brush that is available and that should do the job. Okay? Adding some darker values and few of the areas. Then going ahead and adding some colors on the lid and on the top of the cup. I would like to keep it a bit lighter and then go with a bit of a darker value for the top area of the mug. So that we can go and add the colors. Add any bind door at any place wherever it is. Nice city. As I've told you earlier, Let's add some color to the Hangul of the mock. Once you have added the color to the Hamlet a month, you can really observe that we will go with a darker shade in just some of the area. And some of the area would be of the lighter value. That's what it is. Just to have a closer look at how I am painting it dander leaving some spaces, spore highlights as well as adding some darker values and few of the places. Every time. You do not need to add colors to show that. Okay, this is the month, this is the handle. Some places you were to leave and Dukkha value some places you could leave enlightened upon you. And that's how I go about it. That's how I like to work. You can use to combination of colors. One would be the payload blue, add some amount of your ultramarine in it, and some amount of your either black or Payne's gray, whatever is available orals, you can even use indigo for making this mix of color. I added on some of the Alia, which is majorly your snow. This noise really, really important to show, as I would say, all the aliens nor cannot be white. There is some reflection of this guy. Then there is some reflection in itself which you see on the snow. So it's important to add some colors in view of data is wherever you think you have added darker values. Of course, you can go head with some water and make it a bit more lighter. Those are aspects of watercolor is very much acceptable and that looks even create when you add colors. I am now going with just water in some media and in some area I'm going with my colors. It's time to actually pick up the colors. Now, I have added a lot of pigment. I feel very, very it was not evenness series of picking up with the help of a damp brush. I like to add some of my book and then add it. I like to add this purple in most of my snow area. This is a very beautiful color and I've been using it very often. You can also see how beautifully it just shows the snow, how beautifully you can see how to paint, what to paint, et cetera. Okay. Going ahead and just taking a break now or yeah. It's very important guys to take a break. So think loudly. Go over any painting while you think that you have to add more colors, anything of this sort, you need to just wait, relax, and then go for it. Using some might wish to add few of the highlights as well as I would use my brush to show the snow innovator with one or two dots here and there on the fences. Really important. So it is basically the snow which did fall. And I want to show that no, pretty easily for my watercolor pots. And hence I am just adding small, small dots and a few of the areas. It's not the complex, but you need to know that you cannot go with it or else it would be just too much striking the correct balance between how much you want to add, even in terms of wash for your painting is really important. Blending some of the blue color in the top area. And if you want, you can even remove a bit Oral School in some of the area and make our add a bit of colors like pilot, that though is so good, right? You how, how do you see I really like it. For this painting particularly. Okay, now it's time to add a bit of loose know for my fence. You can surely have a closer look and understand how I am doing it. I always like to give a closer look for you all. I'm using append. Now this band really helps me to add a bit of ink. You might have, many of you might have seen that we use ink and wash. Though. I do not use it most of my paintings, but for a few of the areas I do like to use it to demand in a better way. Adding a bit of darker value here. And of course, having a closer look again, blended, blended, blended. I do not want to have any hard edges. That's why I like to blend with a damp brush. I keep two brushes always handy. So you can also keep it that way and then do it. And now I think we are good to go. Let's add a bit of a darker yellow in the fence with basically the copy of the fence is resting on a few of the pillars of the, he's so good. So opposite of darker value. Once you have a 100, the darker value, I think it's good to just lead to a conclusion. A conclusion in a way we want to just finish off the painting. We have to know that I do not want to add any more detail. Wherever I, if I, if even I am adding a leader, it's just a touch of cold. I always say this, It's a touch of goal. It's like gold. Gold is expensive metal, hence, we do not Always keep using it or keep bang it. It takes a while for anyone to buy gold or a demon takes a while to just add these kind of colors. You just need to know the best blend. You cannot just go overboard. So note that and add a bit of darker values to show the snow on the fence in a better way. It's just a touch of good case of bird of highlight with your brush. It is your size two. Brush. And then blended plenty, plenty. Blending is great. Blending is a great exercise in watercolors. Blending, I think, was my fourth step. Then I started watercolors. So I like to add it in most of my paintings. I think I'm pretty much done. And I would let my people dry off. Once this paper dry off, then I would like to just be loved. My tape, the tape that I'm using is washi tape. Many of you have been asking me how I am procuring these tapes. It is available in the local market over here in India. You might get it through Amazon or through any other website of your choice. I'm not sure where exactly you can get it, but I think most of the places this local availability in cases not there. I don't know it yet exactly. You can, of course, use masking tape. Masking tape Burgess need so what color paper? A 100 percent cotton oral. So in few of the places it might peel off. That's one of the things that I have understood. And I do not want to go with that particular cancer. Let that be only wash it there for now. Huike adding some highlights and let's peel off the tape. I think I'm just, I'm just going overboard with this painting are understood. Taken away with the spinning. And I'm so happy after showing what I exactly experience in my real life. I want to show it to you guys. That's what I would see you tomorrow. Again. There we will be painting a star for the decoration, which we usually observe on a Christmas tree. That has a lot to learn. And I hope you are enjoying this session. I have tried to add a lot of variety of subjects. So hopefully everything that we are working on makes lot of sense to you. Okay guys. Now it's done. Let's Be ready. Have a look and enjoy it. Enjoy the process. This has been fantastic journey till down. I hope you are enjoying it. And I would keep adding more projects. It's close to being done. This is the 20th project until eight more days to go. That's it. The last painting, of course, has to be a Christmas tree. So let's read for that. 24. Day 21 Blood Moon: Let's discuss the colors. It's tailored turquoise, green, burnt sienna, Prussian blue, yellow, indigo, and read. While we are on the 21st day, I did realize that we did not paint a lot of stuff and loom, and that's one of my favorite colors to work on in any case, or in any class which I am giving. So let's start with the omics of our indigo and push and group. Once we go towards the bottom, we will do a gradient wash where my water media would be lighter. And the top area where I'm applying the colors would be tackled. Gould width, all very simple, wash. Now blending is pretty easy when you are using a flat brush. As I have told you even earlier, with the round brush, it takes a while. You can use good amount of water to blend it better. This is of course, a simple process. I did mask my area or LEO where I want to go ahead and paint my moon. The moon would be on blood moon. Yeah. Something, something really interesting. Great. Once you start painting it, you will really fall in love with it. I was not sure initially when I started off that remain painting Pines. We are painting our sky and then there is no snow still. How can it give me a feel of winter? So then I just thought that why not? You usually see binds in the window season. And it is a goal tree window where we can see a clear sky. It is not snowing, might be part. There are aspects of Vento which you can feel completely in this one. I think this is one of the best cards which you can give to your near and dear ones. And one of my favorite paintings, most of my paintings in this particular class is my favorite. I have experienced so much in and around it and tried to add everything on a piece of paper and even give the same feeling to you guys. Hopefully you are enjoying that and I'm not hurting my paper. Do you think people really gives an edge? You do not need to do much. In this case, blending will happen on its own. Water will flow, and you will get exactly the colors that you want for your painting. Simple, easy, interesting, and very, very beautiful painting that you can get out of it. Okay, I guess I am good to go with it. And let's just keep adding the colors as per row what you are observing over here. Once you have added the colors, I would ask you to just leave it and let the water do all its work. Work of pigment is pretty less in this case. I just need to have a good amount of pigments while I'm applying colors towards the top area. While I'm going towards the bottom area, I CDC do not need so much of pigment. And that's what makes this painting really interesting. I liked the way it is shaping up. Now, there is so much that you can do in this painting. I have, as I have told you, I did mass this area. And the area which I've masters for my moon, it is according to my currency coin that I have. I did take masking tape, which is about one inch, and then went ahead and cut it out as a so-called and it masters AD. It's a, it's a very interesting, easy as well as the trick kind of process which you can do. Okay? And now I'm going ahead to paint the background mountains which has small, small binds on it. There is not a lot of ADR that is visible. I want to keep this glue which is there towards the bottom, or you can say the white that is there on the bottom area, pretty much the same. Hence, I will not apply though water or Kahlo, each and every place. I would just blend it with my blending brush. I'm using my size six brush. This has got a nice tip. You have absorbed me using this in many of my other classes and even in this class. So blending now with my silver black velvet size eight, brush. Blending is most important, as well as easiest process in watercolors. It can give life to your painting. And practically here, the only aspect is that you need to allow your paper to dry with every layer. Once of Ostia was dry, then only we could apply our second layer. Once our second layer is dry, we can only apply our third layer. So every time we are going ahead with one on the other layer for our painting. That's the aspect which I wanted to show you. Rest. I do not see that there is a challenging thing in this. Only one or two parts would be to paint the pines, not painting finances. Again, a real simple process. We do not need to do much. In this case. This is a simple painting and we have to just go ahead and add here and there some other, other Pines of our size. And the size needs to be ordered off. Size means the sizing needs to change. It is random and random things will not have same size. Right now, Let your paper dry off, and then we will come to the next layer. Drawing a straight line with your brush, my peer challenge for many of you, but believe me over your it's not very difficult process. Go ahead and try it in case you can't get it, that's fine. Just yet the tip of your drum three straight compared to the bottom. Anyways, the bottom part will go away. Once we start adding the colors, I would be using two basic colors, which is my Taylor blue, as well as my Prussian blue for painting this one. And in few places I would just add or drop off or a bit of indigo to make it more darker. That's it. Let's start altering the values at some place. I'm adding on my darker value of Prussian blue. And then I added my data. Once I have a basically my Taylor Green, sorry, I'm using my yellow green and I'm using my blue. Let us Prussian blue. So yes, that's how I keep adding it. You see how random I'm going while I am moving towards the bottom area. The size of the trees, of course, needs to be absolutely random. Sum will be smaller, sum will be larger. And believe me, it's a very, very random way in which I am just adding these lines. There is no particular way or I do not need to actually approach the subject of very, very difficult manner. Just make sure that you have four brush movement. This is exact. Extending it towards the left hand, towards the right. There is no mantra in getting the perfect brushstrokes. Leave some of the area on the top of the fines less, I would say with less leaves compared to the bottom part. That looks really organic. Some of the pines will have less release and some of them will have more glyphs in it. That's, that's how you keep extending and that's how you keep adding on to what you want to paint. So I am even adding more lines and I'm adding more leaves. I would go ahead and add more and more binds in this particular series. I am just loving the way the colors are moving. Some places are darker and some places are lighter. That's what actually makes the whole of the painting look really, really organic. As we have to alter the values. It's always good in case you can work with one color. For me, this particular painting comes to life than I worked with to various different colors. We have used only three colors. One is our indigo. Then we're pushing loop, as well as our word tailored green for all these spines and for all the background. Whereas when we are going ahead and adding the moon, it would be more of your yellow burnt sienna Android. Mostly you will observe that I use less colors in many of our paintings that so one of the reasons I think you can get a better outcome, you have more control. You can understand our painting better. That's how we go about it. Okay. Go ahead and keep adding some more darker values of your indigo. And then just add some lines. When you are adding the lines, make sure that now you are making one of the pines which is taller as we paint, some of them which are shorter. So making one taller, we'll add lot more value. Guys, when you add depth to your painting, you have to order the values. Some of these fines may if you're closer to you and some of the pines may appear a bit farther away from you. Though we are making the foregrounds still, I would say you should go ahead and alter the values to a large extent. If you order the values, you can see this The understand how beautifully the whole of the painting will turn off and increase together in a bunch. So I did about four or five lines together and then just hiding a bit of strokes in those exact manner. It becomes easier this way to fill up the space where you know that you are not going to add gum larger or longer binds, that's how you should go about it. Few other places you have to fill up on that gaps and few of the places you can not go slow, as well as add more depth, make more fines. I think that's so good, right? I feel the painting is taking shape pretty well. Let's just complete the left side. Once I do and the left side, then we would move on to our blood moon. And it is just by removing the masking tape, which we did at earlier. We will add the blood moon. Once we add the blood moon, you will see this painting has come to life, completing. Along with it, we need to add the stars DO yesterday, I did promise you that we would paint the start today from the Christmas decoration. But this painting just took me over and somehow I just thought that you should go through this process of painting Pines and you will see nice day, enjoy it. That's what has always been in my mind what you guys seriously enjoy, what you love to see, what you would be easy, what would be easier for you to follow? And I do not want to bombard you with all tough subjects each and every day. We should go work even on easier subjects. Sometimes it's very difficult to work on easier subjects if you only work on tau are difficult subjects. Okay, guys, I guess I have made a bit of a mistake and there is some white on my fines. I am just picking that over with the help of my tissue and then going with my liner brush for the stars. And few of the places there will be more stars than in view of the places there would be less stars. That's how we go about it. One, so we have aggregate these stars. You can observe that the glue of the painting is taking shape yard this painting was glowing when I ended it, you will see the glow which has come from the bottom, as well as the low which you see from your moon. Everything put together makes so much sense. The whole of the painting will look so much organic that way. Okay. It's time to remove the tape now, and I do not want to get overboard with the painting starts to make sure that we are not adding a lots and lots of stars for our top area. And this needs to be done only when your paper is completely dry. Always know any ways it has to be dry since we are working in layers. It will take a while for you only time taking aspect of this painting is drying time. For each of the layers, rest everything I think is good. You can easily get what I'm trying to paint. You can follow along pretty easily. And then just add a bit of colors towards the top area. Once you have added the colors towards the top area of your moon, fever move even to the bottom area. Again. I did rotate my I mean, I did rotate my boat on which I am thinking, as well as the Pull off. This painting is rotated right now. It's okay. Then you are sure that you want to go ahead and paint towards the right because my bottom part of the pines was still wet and I did not want to touch it. So I just thought that it would be great if I can just rotate my paper and paid. Okay, going ahead with some red and buoyancy. And now this is a pretty color and I have also gone ahead with some of my yellow or LEO extending it towards the bottom area, slowly adding some water and quickly extending it. Simple. Again, I have been emphasizing that the process is simple, so do not, do not think it's so difficult aspect. Painting with watercolors is very easy. You have to just accept of few accidents that would happen in the process. You will be the most rewarded person that big, I would say. Okay, adding some more red and then picking up wherever I feel that it is necessary to pick up the colors. And then I would blend it a bit while I go towards the bottom. Now why I say towards the bottom as I have rotated my Paypal, otherwise I would have started applying the colors from the left for the moon and then ended on the right. That's how you see it. Again, I'm rotating my paper and now you can actually observe how the complete moon has turned out. You can see this DC that this painting is glowing now once we did paint our blood moon. So there are times where you will observe that a painting has come to life only after a particular subject is added to that pink. So, yeah, Interesting, Great, as well as it's such a beautiful learning that we are having right now with the painting that we aren't doing. Once we have added this, I would like to go along. And just yet I'll just leave it to dry. I am pretty happy. I do not want to touch it a lot more. Let it dry and then we will remove the tape at an angle and have a final look at the painting. It's clean and to stand up goddamn meet you tomorrow where people being some of the northern lights. Along with it. You will observe that how I act the glowing part to a particular painting with some yellow, yellow, yellow and Northern Lights. How do I do it? I would show it to you tomorrow. 25. Day 22 Northern Lights: Let's discuss the colors which we need for completing the painting. It's Horizon Blue, burnt sienna, Prussian blue, yellow, indigo, white quash in case you do not happen, Nicole, you can also use Payne's Grey. Do keep a Jelly Roll pen and a black pen handy. You can either use a masking tape or masking fluid for masking few of the ideas and the painting. Okay, So this one is going to be about London lights. Lights is one of the very important concepts which I always like to paint. And many of you even like to paint. What we will be doing in the current painting is plus taping down your paper, then marking the area where we will have our horizon line has well as so we have to just to draw one of those small elements for our painting. And that is a small tower. And this is basically not called tower. You can say this is one of the lighthouse start you'll actually see in the Northern Hemisphere, once you see this kind of a light house, you will understand how beautifully the whole sky looks with the halo of the lighthouse. I found up there on basically a photograph. And then I was so eager to paint it out. So it was one of the necessity to include it. And knowing that class, I hope you are enjoying this winter class. And let's just make one single line from the middle and extended from the right as well as from the left. That's what we're going to do for this painting. And then just make a smaller tip for the top area where you usually see the light coming up from the lighthouse. Once that is stamped, we just mosque on this idea. Now you can do the masking either with the masking fluid orange, you can even do the masking with any kind of thing. I would leave that up to you how you want to do for me. I will be using my masking fluid. See there are various ways in which you can mask a particular area and there is no one single way you should be using it. According to me, your masking tape is good enough. It can be used in many ways. You should utilize it as much as possible. Do not go for any new kind off one technique or any new kind of masking fluid till you wanted, until you really, really need it for row somewhat the under painting which you have seen or which you want to do. I always use a synthetic brush for applying my masking fluid. You can use any brush that is available but you, but it's good to always go head with a synthetic brush. You can easily remove the masking fluid from it. And that is one single tip. For each one of you who uses masking fluid, just apply some of your brush cleaner or the brush soap on top of your brush and then go ahead and pick up some of you must include. Once you have picked up the mask, include, start applying it and then wash your brush. I think this small trick helps you to keep that intact for a longer period of time. And I have been using this particular brush with this signal kind of a tip for at least more than two years I have been using the same brush you have seen me using this brush for row, we'll redo logo in any of the other paintings to hence, this way you can increase the longevity of the brush as well as our user TO, for your future paintings. It's time to apply some clean water for the sky area. Once you start applying the clean water, made sure that your brush doesn't have any kind of cold column and neck though the colors but be in glue and if there's even any color on your brush, it will not HOT much students, I feel that it's great to not have any color on your brush and applying one fresh coat of water only when you're masking fluid is dry. And if you are using any of your masking deep, then this is not a problem. But if you are using a masking fluid, do make sure that your masking fluid is completely dry. Before that, do not apply any kind of color on your paper. Okay, Now going with my horizon blue. So this is the new column which I have brought from Magellan Mission Gold, in case you do not find compost blue anywhere, I think they have changed it to horizon blue. The colors have almost similar kind of. Pigment ratio except 0, one of the pigments, so which is deferring or which is changed compared to the audio compost blue, this is a better color. This has got prettier shade and that's what I liked about this particular horizon look. Hence, you can also try out this color and I'm pretty sure about or you will fall in love with it. Okay, now there is no one single way of painting northern lights. I always say this go with the flow. Northern Lights is one of the aspects in water column which I really like to paint as it is a goal, go as you like, kind of a system. You may be thinking, I might be crazy when I see these kind of things and believe me, that is not it is. Okay. Now it's time to just start applying your darker value, which is main Jody or Prussian blue. And I think that brings me to just picking up the Prussian blue on my brush and applying it in few of the places. Once I do apply my Prussian blue, I understand that. I am making locked off, not on lights for the smaller piece of paper, which might not be the best way to go about it. Hence, I would just apply some water and mix it so that it looks even better. That's why I say, go as you like water, where do its work? You do not need to worry. There will be so much that you can understand once you start applying the colors on your paper, you will be yourselves down to exactly know how much magic water can add to your painting. Whenever I'm applying my colors and the fonts draw on Google for like 10, not accordingly, I increase the value or I decrease the value depending on how I mean I DO part this particular painting. Okay, I have switched up brush and now it is my size two brush. Going ahead and applying some more off my dark blue values on top of this guy. Once I've applied that, I need to go with my view. Now, this is the compost blue, which I was telling you NTU of this basis, I would increase the level of compost blue just to give it a better outcome. Let your colors flow and that's the idea. How do we make our colors flow? It's a very simple process. Just act somewhat DO on your pigments will move around. We just want a pigments to be moving around, which can actually help you to make the painting look more organic. For the next three to four minutes, we will be doing the same exercise and I will meet you after that. Once we have to actually let our paper dry and then go ahead and just pick up all the masking fluid from our people. Ask, start painting up or crowns. The Lighthouse, which we did decide at which we did mosque from the initial part. Okay. Therefore, you need to add the colors either you can go ahead with any DACA values like your indigo or Payne's gray or else you can also experiment and see whatever works best for you. Some people even use black, but I'm not very good. I would say advocate for using black as I'm not very sure that how the colors will blend. So it's always great to use those same kind of colors from the blue family itself. If you are working on something which has blue in it. Hi. Today. We'll have a look at the painting. You can really also how beautifully the colors are looking, how he have blended all the colors, starting from Prussian blue then your blue, your Payne's gray, you can also add for the darker values. I have not had to lead told you each and everything that is required in this painting, you can always experiment. You can experiment with your colors if you do not have your Payne's gray go head with indigo. That's another aspect which can be added in your painting, which I think will be equally beautiful that we are done right now. Once this painting It's trying, you will observe that the lever that you did has done one shade lighter, that which is absolutely good. That is no problem in it. You can always go ahead and just check that whatever color you need should be one shade lighter, and hence you can apply your colors. I wanted the same colors. I wanted the white of the paper. If you see on the right-hand side, you can observe some white of the paper, which can be seen with applying the styles. It's a simple process, platter it and you will get this stars. Once you have added the stars, you need to even add one or two smallest stars which can be added with the Gelly Roll pen. All larger stars, which can be also added with the Gelly Roll pen. Simple process, easy, interesting, as well as it has its own beauty. So the most at an angle as you absorb means Stoli doing it to actually unmask the areas which we did Moscow Leo, and just have the white of the paper. I'm removing all the extra masking fluid that I did apply. Now you can leave this part of applying the masking fluid as I did tell you earlier, and use some of your normal I would say about deep for doing this process. That's absolutely fine. Go ahead and see now the painting looks just did white back ground. It is nice, but wherever I need to paint them, it doesn't look go well. So, yes, it takes a while to understand what we need to apply, how we need to apply. I'm just fixing a bit of blue here and there. Once I've fixed this blue, I would go ahead and start applying some of my yellow. Now the yellow that I would be applying would be in two to three shades. Before I go ahead and apply the yellow, Let's just apply bit of blue here and there to fix everything that is possible. Like my right-hand side of the building did not look organic, so I wanted to make it more organic. I added some blue so that the colors look goods absolutely like the background. Apply a bit of blue and some burnt sienna. Burnt sienna is absolutely most pretty color that I can ever use for this kind of painting. Leaves some spaces and white and then I think that is what we need for us know, kind of ground. So I guess do not touch it much. We do not want to actually use the colors FV there and let go of the people going blind, some of the dark blue on the corners. Once we have added the dark blue on the corners, go ahead and start applying thick yellow on top off. The ADR, which is the lighthouse. This yellow that I'm applying is from Sennelier eight, is that in in yellow? You can go ahead with any yellow that is available with you, whether it be gamboge yellow or any other yellow that looks good to you. For a building, you can always alter the colors, the colors, which you also actually can give you a better outcome, as it does from urban sketching or a piece of building will be worn out. There will be a lot of more guaranteed that happens every year, every time that you also will not be those same kind of outcome in terms of the painting that is being done there as water which falls on it. There is no, there is wind. Everything actually doesn't keep your painting intact. Hence, alteration of the colors can be a great idea. Go ahead and just apply your water. Is any area where you think it is a bit more DACA, use your damp brush for doing it. Once this is done, go ahead and pick up a darker value of your proud. How do you pick up a darker value of your brown mix, some of your indigo or your Payne's gray along with your brown that you have. And then just make one small, you can say door like structure. Once you have applied this dough like structure, then the painting will look more again. Yeah, every time you add something or the other, the painting starts looking more organic, hadn't got swat. It becomes the means were part of the painting and that's what makes it more real. That's, I think, an important part of your whole journey of being a watercolor artist, it might not be absolutely real-time, real which we really want. Whereas what I would ask you is there should be some kind of similarity or some kind of organic outcome which you usually absorbing a photon that you can paint a painting applying some brown and the taupe. And once I've applied this been seen, I would just add a bit of Doppler value to make those sides submit one taco as well as applied to what's the bottom. Once I've applied it, go ahead and keep some of the portion as white because that's where the light is usually coming out from. And I would like to keep black pen handy in this case, once I have completed the painting, I would go ahead and just add some of the black cup. Marx, as you observe me doing right now, the painting is still not dry, so it might be a bit difficult for me to do it, whereas once it is completely dry, it becomes way more easier for me to complete that. Applying a small mountain for the background. Once I've applied this mountain, you can really observe that there is something which is far and it can be seen as a small mountain. It is really, really small, just so single and small line like structure that you see in the background. Everything that time doing right now, as small as the paper is small. And I wanted to allow those sky to be more broader in this case and then only go head with my lighter. Or you can say Go head with smaller aspects in this painting. Hi. I am just adding some black pen marks over here. I do not have much to explain. And by now you guys are so much stream to work around with any of the paintings. I'm so much more confident on you guys that you can actually nail it if you have gone through all the 21 days. So it should not be any kind of difficulty for you. This might be just a cake walk for each one of you going ahead and just adding a bit of lines you are. And that that's all I would say as well as if I'm doing some kind of touch up CRM there, that is also just that. I want to add a bit of detail for this part of the ground atrium. Once I've added this part of the ground, that there will be one octal more stars, which I would like to add. Once these stars are done, I think my whole of the painting has come to life. I would let it dry completely and then remove the tape at an angle. Hi. Let us remove the tape and men have a final look at the painting. I'm pretty sure about it that you will fall in love with it once you actually see the clean edges. And then you can practically painted. Again if you want Arles painted and different colors, if you want experiment guys, experimenting is very important. But always note that do not go ahead with the first painting and experimented that I always say not to do. As I know that the first painting is more for the practice. Once you are good to go with it, experiment with different colors, experiment with different kinds of shades, different kind of buildings that you want to add. You can really see how pretty the outcome usually is and how much value you can add to any of your painting if you follow two or three simple quick tips, trick need sign dumb. I can say as few of these small, small things that I have usually followed in my watercolor journey. It can practically actually give you so much more confident sand. It can nail any kind of painting which you are working on. 26. Day 23 Perfect Winter Evening: Okay, So the four colors which we need for completing the painting, as it would be a limited palette exercise. It has been sienna, purple, yellow, orange mostly we will be using purple, yellow, orange and less of burnt sienna in it. Okay, they 23, wow, it's just five days more to go and then we are done. Now that the hood of the series, I hope you are enjoying it as I've told you earlier. As well as I would like to highlight a few things in this particular painting. I love this guy completely. You will also fall in love with this guy. Only one aspect of watercolors that you need to keep in mind is let it flow. If you can allow your colors are water to flow. This would be an amazing painting. Let's go head and mask out this area. I am using my one-inch tape for masking out this area. Once I've masked out the area, I would go ahead and start applying some water on the sky area. After I've applied the water on the sky area, I would start with the lightest value. That is my yellow, then some of my orange and violet. Or else you can even go head with any kind of bright purple, et cetera. There is available on your ballot along with it to do keep some burnt sienna. It's an amazing color when you start applying it for the tree area. Let's go ahead and apply some orange. Now, I'm using my size six brush. It has got a very nice stiff, as I have told you always. So just blended with the yellow color. I have kept some of the part as white. That's absolutely fine. Go ahead with the white. Glue keeps some partners. Why that really comes out? Well, when it's a sunset, kind of a painting, I'm applying some of my bright violet right now. You can use any valid that is available with you. You do not need to go ahead with the same colors that you see me using. I have been very particular about this point that you can use any colors available. Do not go head and try to purchase. I always suggest any alternate colors that can be used. This time, the orange and the yellow is your chromium orange as well as your from chromium yellow. These are two colors from Winsor and Newton. I am completely in love with it. You can see the brightness that it has, as well as go ahead and blend some of the area, I mean, the orange part with your puppet. Once everything is applied, go ahead and blend it a bit more. As you observe me. The blending should be good. If you're blending is good, you will get a good outcome. Okay? I am pretty much happy with this guy that I have. I will not overwork on this much. Only I would let the colors move here and there. Let it dance. Once you have applied the colors, we would go ahead and start applying some more yellow in few of the areas. It's just that high, would like to touch it in few of the areas where I think it has become more dark. As well as one important aspect of watercolor is to let your watercolors flow. And the waters flow. Or the what? Of course, water has to flow. But let everything flow, let it just move around, let it dance around. That is so very, very important aspect of watercolors. We cannot keep watercolors to ourselves. It has to walk on its own. It has to actually go head and give an outcome which looks so amazing on the paper. And it can only look amazing when you are not trying to control it, when you want trying to just go as you like kind of situation now, just be along with it, worked along with it. Make it work for yourself. Okay. You can absorb my paper. I am going ahead and adding some of my bone CNOT towards the water media. You can also use orange and make a few lines like this. Now we're going to go ahead and start with our first sketch. Now the sketch part is basically though. Particular bond that we need to go ahead and paint. Now if you have to actually paint a pond, it has to be in the same colors which you are Skies, which means exact reflection of this guy falls on the water. Water doesn't have any color of its own. Sometimes what happens is, even if your water is having a Kahlo because of some algae deposited or something else, then your sky doesn't get reflected in those cases. But over here it's calm, simple wattle on top of which we will have reflection from the sky. And therefore, we would start applying the Bhopal over here. Once we start applying the bubble, you can understand how beautifully the colors will blend with each other. These blending really doesn't need much of work, but what it needs is very light and easy brush movement. Why I say lighten easy brush movement. Your paper should be wet enough and you should quickly apply the colors. The swiftness of applying the colors will actually give you the final outcome, which will make this painting look way more realistic as well as it could make it look more. I would say, captivating for any particular person who's having a look at your painting or even any spectator that would like to have a look at your painting. I'm going ahead and applying some darker values towards the nose as well as towards the bottom. Once I've applied the darker values, I would go ahead and start blending the top area. Now the blending would be with a brush and it is basically my noun, brush size 8, which I'm using over here. Round brush size eight is a great brush from my CDs that I have. That is my silver black velvet. The silver black velvet series is amazing. It can hold a lot of water. It's like gallons of water which you can store in it. The colors look great together and everything put together will make this painting looks way more interesting. So just go ahead and keep applying the colors as you observe vaping thing. There's no ADI, I would go ahead and apply some dry brush technique. That dry brush technique is just going with your size two brush and adding some colors here and there. That's it. Make a few lines again, this is the diluted color of your purple as well as bone C and not that I'm applying right now on the people. Once I have applied the scholar, I would go ahead and make some bushes in the background. Just follow the rash movement. You should have just dot optimum amount of water or you can just make it a bit more damp and then only apply it if you are using any mop brush or you are using any kind of a bigger brush than size 2. This is a synthetic brush and it is from the boiler CDs which I am having. I have always told you about it, even in the other RAM particular projects that we have painted it. But I wanted to highlight over here, this is very good for making any kind of dry brush that you would like to make. Go ahead and apply some darker values here on that. Once you have applied the darker values for your bushes, you will understand how this wet on wet technique works well. Now my bushes or wherever I have to paying a bushes, that is my sky idea is already wet. Once it is already where just go ahead with a mix of your burnt sienna as well as Bhopal in a few areas and dropping the colors. This is a simple dropping of colors. That's all we are not going to complicated much. Go ahead and apply it either with any particular brush that you have with yourself. Orals. New can use any thin brush that is size to size three, maximum that is available with you for applying these. I did pick up some of the water with my damp brush as there was a lot of water which was there on the background or there was a lot of water, I would say that was there for the bushes spot. Once you have applied the or drop in the colors, then go ahead and just start making your top area or he's just start making your lines for your trees. Now the ADL which you have to paint for the tree is. Great. Why would say it is great? Because you have to practically paint very less number of. Only important aspect in the tree is you should know how you have to make the brush movement. Now your hand should be stable enough. And for myself, I usually turn my paper. It is not easy to always draw straight. Hence, the on your paper wherever you feel it is necessary. I'm going ahead and just adding one or two branches here and there. It is dry. Absolutely. There is no leaves on these pine trees. Let's add a small line for me. When I add lines, I use my liner brush. Liner brush is very good for these cases. And in case you're more comfortable with any other 10 brush, go ahead with that to add these lines and then paint along with that for the branches. I'm using the same brush for painting the line as well as for the branches. If you see I use it mostly either 90 degree angle to meet these straight lines. I usually rotate my paper wherever I think it doesn't necessary. There would be more of details that I would be adding for these trees. So just hang in there, guys, this is a moment where we have to be more patient. Most of our painting is done it so few trees here and there. And then our painting is absolutely complete. There would be some reflections which we will make in the lake, as well as some darker values that we would be hiding. Rest. I can tell you most of the painting looks so much organic and nice that once you complete it, you will understand how beautifully you're painting has turned out. Are done with the background trees. We will go ahead and start painting our foreground trees. Foreground trees, of course, would beam bay more detail and we have to go slow in this process. This is one aspect of what a color that I want to always tell you. Going snow would really help you to get the required outcome as well as it is very, very rewarding. In every case, wherever you see these trees or these kind of branches, the meek calm, your painting. Look so good that I can't CDC tell you how beautiful. A mix. All of it come together. We have a landscape, it has got a nice background sky, it has got a leak, it has got no. It has some buying trees which are empty, which doesn't have any kind of leaves. Overall, it is coming together. So what do I mean? With coming together? A landscape usually contains like sky, then some mountains or any kind of line as well as water. So these are the major three aspects of a landscape. If you have done any kind of class on landscape exceptionally, you can understand how beautifully all of this comes and, or how beautifully all of this turns out if you put it together well, so that's the thing and I think this even being seen, it looks really, really good that way. I would be adding one or two more or some branches, some I would move around my people whenever I feel it is necessary, there has to be some reflection in the water or the trees that you see near the point. So, yeah, we have to add that reflection to very, very difficult aspect in watercolors. Only thing is that you need to be sure that you have to add these reflection or is it might be a miss. For me. Everything comes together only when you can see the reflection of the sky and the water, the reflection of the trees, Virginia, buying the water. So everything put together must have a look which is organic, which is amazing, which it is something that you can really, really appreciate. Going ahead and adding one or two more lines. For my idea. Once we have added these lines for the tree area, you can go ahead and add reflection into the water. Water is something that is calm and nice so you have to even make or add the depth in the water. How do you add the depth right now, it looks absolutely flat. It's only the reflection of the sky that's coming into the water, that's flowing into the water. There is no depth that you can see off the line. So you need to add some of the darker values here. And then how do you add these darker value? You can only add these stock of value. So when your paper is wet, why I say when your paper is wet as I love to only add these reflection as well as blend your colors along with your leak. And it is only possible when you have these kind of lines appearing on the lake. These lines can only be visible if you did wet your paper once more. Now, the idea is completely dry hands, you have to wet it and then apply your liner brush to add these kind of lines. I did rotate my paper as I was not very comfortable painting the lines that we can solve went ahead and I'm trying to paint it this way. It's absolutely fine. You can always rotate penalty of papal whatsoever. You want to just go ahead and paint as you like. That's one aspect of watercolors, which I have learned to not everything that why you were painting it this way, why you are painting in that way? It's absolutely okay, whatever and howsoever you are comfortable, you should go ahead and paint it. Okay. I like to apply these darker values. Then. Just wash my brush, make it damp, can blend it with the background. That's how I go ahead and do it. You can see me just taking off all the extra water on the tissue and then adding these ADS. As you observe me adding it right now. Okay. I guess this is something that I really like and it's almost done. I am so happy with the final outcome of this painting that I can't see. You see, tell you how beautifully it has come out. This is exactly what I wanted. And it did turn out the way I wanted it to. Let's just let the painting dry off and then remove the tape at an angle and have a final look at your painting. I am seriously that in love with this painting, I think you will also fall in love. But the painting, once you want to give it to anyone or make gods out of it, whatever you want to do it. Go ahead and just do that. We are done. I will meet you tomorrow again with our next lesson. 27. Day 24 A Star: Let's discuss the colors which we need for completing the painting. It's burnt sienna, red, brown, yellow for Nike prom, bright yellow, green, sap green. When I take green and white quash. Let's just start its time, man. Last few days I left, Let's do some Christmas decoration. Today is the day FADH star, and the last would be our Christmas tree. I have so much plan for you guys that each and every day should be more and more exciting as we progress from here. Go ahead and just make these curvy lines. As you observe mean doing over here. Once you have already done this curvy lines, you have to go over it too on the sides and just do your start by sketching the left to right as well as few lines here and there. You will observe how I do it. But first important aspect is to just go ahead and draw the spot. How do you draw this part? There are few stars. Oh sorry. I mean, there is only one thing. Good start, but the lines that you apply on the left would be smaller and the lines that you apply on the right would be larger. You are observing the star from the right. And that's one of the reasons you see the star is having more of, I would say, the lights as well as it has a bigger surface on the right side. That's how I go about it when I paint it from wherever you observe, you would be seeing at larger compared to the place from where you are not absorbing it as well as it is not in direct I would say it is not directly facing you. That's that's how we all should do it. You can go ahead and just add just a bit here and there for making the star. Once you have adjusted here and they're a bit, then I would tell you how to exactly go about painting. And painting would be really, really interesting. For this one, we would be adding lot of light effects and how we act or darker than your lighter values. As well as we would work on a wet on wet technique where you have to go ahead and paint the background and wet-on-wet. As well as you can observe how I will work with the star. Once I'm done with the background. This is something which you, you guys might have already done in the masterclass of florals. The kind of approach is same, but of course we are working on different subjects in this case. Hence, I do understand that you all might not be in a great position to directly understand what we're actually working on, but slowly, steadily as it takes shape, you can see the SLI understand as well as you will appreciate the fact that this is completely out of the blue. Very, very different painting compared to what we have done till date. So let's jump on to the painting, but I don't think I wanted to explain a lot over here. There is a small ribbon on the top as well as there is a smaller top area for the star. That's all. I did only add that much to my painting. Going ahead and adding some water flood the background area one side do on the water then only I will add my paints on top of it. Do apply a clear sheen of water and there should not be much of adults in your water. So that the colors to blend easily as well as you get that nice, beautiful outcome, which we are really looking forward to, my brush does have a bit of blue in it. And I do understand that sometimes this kind of an aspect may spoil the painting to an extent. But since we are also working on all the parts of the painting, so it might not be a very, very difficult part to just ignore this and move ahead. Okay. Let's start with the lightest value of green. And it is my bright yellow green which I am applying on this sides of my people. I would go in and around my stars with the light or with the bright yellow green. Once I've applied it in few of the places I would go ahead with my darker value of green. You can take any kind of an olive green or sap green for this painting. As well as I would be adding some amount of darker value of green. Maybe hookers green are very deep into it as well as some blue so that I can get exactly the thalamus which I'm looking forward to. You might be feeling that, okay, this is not exactly how you might have thought the pink thing is starting now, but do keep it on me. This is going to be a very pretty painting. It's just that you have to hang in there and work along with me. I started applying either a sap green or holocrine, whichever works well for you. Go ahead and add it. Once you have added this color, then I would DO just go and add the darker values towards my right as well as towards my left. That's how we go about it. It is in and around the star. I would be adding it. And you can see the water is making it flow. So there is nothing much exceptionally different which we are doing along with it. The flow of the colors is great. It looks amazing. All of that put together. Let's switch to align your brush and start adding our leaves. This is going to be an interesting one. As we would be working on wet, on wet. I am adding just a few brush strokes. And that's called using the darkest value of the green. I have already told you that there would be some mics off your green, which is majorly your olive green or yellow sap green and on with viridian or any other color that is darker value, which is Van Dyke brown eyes. I mean, either you can add a rid of when I get down to make it more tobacco orders. You can also go ahead with Van Dyke green. So these are the colors which can be used to see when you add brown into your green, you will get a collar which is darker in value for the green. Two. Hence, these can be one of the experiments that you can do, even when you add dark brown along with your viridian, it gives a beautiful, nice dark shade of green color. So these aspects, soft watercolor, you can keep in mind while you paint with watercolors. Let's add some more darker value of green. You see how I am adding my leaves of the pine trees. And this is basically not a pine tree, but yeah, you can always decorate your Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is usually a pine tree or you might buy something that is closer to, closer look into pine tree. Hence, so we start adding all our decoration on top of it. And it takes look, it takes a while to get this kind of look with all the ornaments, with all the beautiful small, small gift, gifting items and decorating items that we add on top of it. It just becomes so much more celebrating situation. It becomes like one off situation where you start enjoying, you feel the Christmas, you feel the season, everything put together. It's just so beautiful as well as incase. You can share this experience, whatever you are feeling on a piece of paper with your near and dear ones. I think that's one of the most most amazing aspects and that's one of the most beautiful. As well as some magical part of your journey. I, according to me, whenever I can practically shared all these small experiences with my luck near and dear ones. It makes me so happy that I do feel how much I have missed them as well as how much I really want to be close to them. Those are small aspects of watercolors and those are the small aspects of being emotionally. Yeah, emotion flows during this pandemic CIO for the last almost two years. So it's been so difficult for each one of us to meet on your NDA or ones. Now the borders are open than many of us are traveling to meet people, but still, I think the field still remain Sam, there are many of us who would like to avoid it in the current situation. Let the situation become more and more better and then only start with the travels. So yes, this is one thing which I feel can actually make any painting or anything looks so much more beautiful as well as it gives so much more life. Simple aspects that you need to keep in mind is just share your experience and your near months. That's it. They just store one to be close to you. This is one of those models just shows that all of us can do. And wherever you are missing someone, go ahead and tell them that's major important aspect. Again, picking up some darker value of green and few of the areas where I need to paint my ribbon, I would go ahead with some my own, That is my parallel maroon and some red to paint over it. Before I go ahead with that, I would just add date some red brown and the darker middle part for the ADM. Now the pine leaves will have this darker value. I mean, need to just check that whenever you are adding any colors it is for a reason you have to see that it is correctly done. And that's how I always see my painting. I usually paint from a photo or sometimes I go ahead and paint from some of your time experiences of mine just the way we are doing swan. Hence, all of this put together should make sense. And all of this put together, this should actually convey something which is closer to your experience or which is something that really resonates in and around you. Okay. I'm applying some clean water and then on top of it I would go ahead with their darker value of the green, either it be Van Dyke green or some other green that is available. And this was the same green which I applied for the background of the pines going to a word to get those darker leaves as I think that colors that I already applied looks a bit pale and faded, which ideally do not want that for going ahead with this second myth. Let's add some more lines here. And then once we have added these lines for my pine trees, I would go ahead and start adding colors to my star. Now this is a great exercise. So why I would say it has wet on wet, wet on dry. How you add layers to your painting. Everything is being copied over your Azuela's. We wouldn't be working with the light. Walking with the light effect is a great, or you can say it's a very, very important aspect, whether it be your watercolors, whether it be any kind of material that you are working with. Acrylics or any other medium. There is no way you can avoid light and how the movement of the light would be or how the colors have to flow. Hence, I think you will enjoy this exercise as well as it can help you with any of your future projects. Go ahead and apply some water on top of the star. Do make sure that your background is dry enough. Once it is dry, then only stock but this spot orders. So what do I get into the star? Am I adding some more colors here and there? Once I have added the colors, that is majoring in mind, yellow then some of my brown, you will see how I would even leave some of my white doll in the places where there is some light. So these are small, small things which you need to keep in mind and how you paint around it is a major challenge. I have a beautiful burnt sienna color with me and I'm going ahead and adding some of the colors on the sides of the star, you will slowly see how wide their flop. This star with the light effect, the lightest just in the middle. And it has shining. These kinds of stars you can usually see everywhere, whenever you have to paint any kind of, I would say decoration for your Christmas. And there are usually this kind of stars that you usually find. And that's absolutely fine. Go ahead and start adding some more brown values. As such, once you have added the brown bag, you we would go head with some more darker value of brown, whether it be red brown or whether it be Van Dyke brown, those would be the colors start to, uh, we will keep adding to this painting, adding some more darker value that is majorly my band, I came down in the ADR. So wherever it is necessary, you will see that I would add it or not in the Hall of the star ADR, but in few of the places wherever it is necessary, this is a wet-on-wet technique and hence of costs. The whole painting will only come to life. When you work wet on wet, your star needs to be read for a longer period of time, which means that you need to walk around with a 100 percent cotton paper. So go ahead and do only use a 100 percent cotton paper orals. These kinds of effects might be data difficult for anyone to achieve. When I approach the middle part of the painting, I usually go head and start adding a bit of lighter values and then only add some more darker values. It's a technique that I have been always following. It's great to come back to lighter values rather than going over the lighter values with darker colors and then you do not have any budgetary to come back. Those are the aspects that you need to always keep in mind while you paint. So many of you might be wondering, this is a very dark brown color which I'm applying. Why we have started applying the color right now. But believe me, these are those sites which we need to cover. And usually the reflection happens in a way that you get these lines. The words TO like, mostly though DACA values would be on the right, the lighter values would be on the left. The light is majorly a bit on the left concentrated on. Hence, you can see my more darker values are concentrated towards the right. So values is a very, very important concept in watercolors. Whether you are working with watercolors or any other medium. Better you can understand your values, the better you can understand how to go about painting these small, small aspect in watercolors, you will seriously ghetto hanging off of it and you can apply all the learnings in any of your future painting, whether it be 12 columns over there would be any other medium. So this light effect will remain same across so different mediums. And that's where this whole painting come to life. Only when you add these light affects simple star. Everyone is painting. What are we doing different? How are our painting on what we observe when a light falls on a star? How do we walk around? And that's the major challenge and how we deal with that lens. It's what I'm here for. Last eight to nine minutes and I'm painting is practically how you get this start to life. And it is majorly about detailing. How do you go about detailing it, the small, small aspects. If you see I'm working with my size two brush. Majorly, I have worked with my size two brush for a lot of details that I've added. And you can always use a damp brush to remove any extra colors wherever you think it isn't necessary. Going with my white gouache and adding it in few of the ideas of the star. Once I've added this white goulash, it would give that reflection which you usually absorbed in a star once light falls on top of it. Adding some more white quash and few of the areas wherever I feel it as necessary and then blending it with my blending brush. This is basically our damp brush which has something what do I not have taken off? The extra water on top of the tissue and then only have started applying it. Okay, let's paint the ribbon now. Go ahead and use any kind of red that is available with you. Along with the red, you can also put some viral maroon or as well as your red brown for the GOP. Good ideas that would look really amazing once you complete the painting. So adding some darker values. And once I have added the darker values, you will observe how this whole painting is going to like small, small aspects of watercolor. But I can tell you these small things, but you can really make all the difference to your paintings. So go ahead and do that. I'm pretty happy right now with how this star has. Don't know there are one or two more in details that I will add addressed. I think most of it is complete. 29. Day 26 Swing: Let's discuss all the colors which you need for completing though painting it is indigo, Prussian blue, Naples, yellow, or any other yellow, orange or red, whatever is available with you. Burnt sienna, red, brown, white quash. These would be the basic colors that we are going to use. You can go ahead with any other colors around the shade in case these colors are not available with you. For the exact red brown, I have asked you to add some amount of grandson into your pond sienna, and then get a color which is closer to the red plan, which I am going to use for this painting. We're going to paint a swing. And the swing is from the countryside. You can usually see these kind of swings to whenever there is. So country scientists a tree. There will be fewer children who wanted to make a swing. And this is Robert diet. And they just make go swing out of it. Whether you see it on a small child who is on it or any other brothers, sisters, future rent together. They would go round by round on that swing and take the chance. These all things small, small aspects I have experienced during my childhood days. I still do experience at whenever I traveled to places which has a lot of snow, as well as it is more of countryside like nanny towels and shim law, which is not so commercial. So you have to go a bit away from the exact commercial spot to the country part. And you can literally experience all these small, small aspects. They are so happy in smaller things of life that someday you will always like to see that okay, How aversion can be so, so happy even just sitting on a swing. Yeah, guys. Happiness is everywhere. And you can also be happy by experiencing it, by painting it. There are so many times I always like to paint whatever I see. And the main reason is if I see what I paint, it just helps me to relive those moments. It just helps me to capture those moments in my own way. Okay, let's add the swing. And then once we have added the swing, we have to add a background house. Why background house? Because usually you can observe a country house and then a nearby it. The children were made these kind of swings, et cetera. So a country house will make it more realistic and it would look way more organic in nature in terms of what we can usually paint in a kind of country house like this. As well as there has to be a tree, there will be some small bushes urine there. They might be dried by now because of the winter season. You can also paint any kind of other trees like pine trees. Whatever you want to add on. Yeah, you can always add on, but do make sure that your approach should be minimal. Your approach should be always focused. Why I am discussing more about approached, complicating things is very easy, whereas keeping it simple, being focused on what you want to paint. And she's taking off all the extras from the background and the foreground is what? That no one usually does. And I would like to stress on those aspects of painting that can really make and break your painting. And that's what I think is something that we all need to learn. I have learned over years of experience and I just wondered, teach that do not, do not complicate your subjects. Anyhow, just try to keep her as simple as possible. They simplicity really helps you to make things even more possible and make things possible in a way which you really like. So do go head and I think that would be a great way to start your holidays. Once you start your holiday, see painting season. I think you will also fall in love with all the Christmas cards or else in case you're not painting anytime, do give this one or try. I think once you start painting it once in your Christmas season, you will automatically fall in love. And then you would start reading it again and again. Okay, I have taken a mix of blue, that is my bushing glue. I asked to start adding some water. This is not a cleaning mixture its own way. The liquid. Show which means lots and lots of water is there. I just wanted to show this no. Hence I did go head and lower planned lot of water. Okay. Now going ahead with my yellow ocher, orange, you can also go ahead with your Naples yellow. I'm fine with whatever color you want to use. Colors have never been the main problem, or it has never been a stop for your watercolor journey. I always see this. Try out anything that you have available on your ballot. You practically do not need to own all the colors and all the sheets which I always use because something which is near toward can always work. Okay. I guess we will keep extending it by the time I have come down, you can already observe that the snow area has changed and it is dry now, so there is no problem. The blue will not flow into the Great. And that's one of the best ideas to work around with. Let your paper dry off if you want to only go ahead with this color. And in case you want to add some further colors like orange or yellow as I do, you can also continue doing it. I'm taking some amount of my orange in this. It can be even your permanent yellow deep. And that's another color which I have always used and it's one of the beautiful colors do experience adding some amount of Hermitian into Word and then just starting a few sheets here and there. I am not going to complicate as I always say, it's just a bit of colors here and there because they look good on paper. And I really wanted to. And these colors to my sky, keep it a bit pale, or I would say do keep it not too vibrant. There are times of Windows season where the colors, I like to add a more vibrant whereas there are times of the winter season where I try to keep it more pale as it is more realistic. Usually you don't see a lot of darker values during the winter season as your hair or the colors are really, really be for the winter. And so much more that you need to see or you need to watch out for when this kind of season comes. You have to be so much more vigilant about what colors you use, as there are only a few colors which we usually observe. And there are so many colors like the spring and then like the some words. So yes, we are working with pretty much unlimited valid most of the time. You just mix some colors like indigo and then make this background. You can also use Payne's gray. You can use some glue, you can some of your bright violet. These are the colors that can be always used for the pink. Okay, taking some darker value, some more creamy mixture and adding onto wet. Once I have added this green mixture, we would go ahead and start working on the next steps. Wet on wet is one of the methods which I always like this metadata really like because of one reason, the beauty that you see what the wet on wet like, I'm applying my bond seeing right now on the tree here. I might not have told you earlier on, I might not have shown you all these concepts earlier, but believe me, slowly steady as we build on these concepts, you will understand that all of this is so pretty and beautiful when it is wet on wet, I'm not saying that wet on dry is not a great method. Of course we don't rise a great method. If you are working on smaller people, it works the best. Or else you have to go over and layers wet on dry is a great way to go ahead with. Fundamental. Really lies in red on red. I feel it so strongly. Nothing against anyone. There are so many others who like to work with on try like I am right now working wet on dry for the roof area. So yes, there are times where we walk wet on dry, but I don't read remains my own favorite. But a rule failure. I have used the same blue which I did use eulggayo for the bushes. Yeah, guys are trying to use the same colors which you are using for your snow, which you're using for your pushes that scene Gallo can even work for your other parts of the painting. Try to keep it the less messy, which means limited palette is a great way to go head. And I'm using some of my brown right now. This brown is practically in my Go to color and it is some amount of red crown which I had on my burnt sienna, and then some amount of my Prussian blue or any other blue that is available on the palette. It can be even in the, can. You see how the value of the house changes? On the right side? That's what makes the whole painting look so good, as well as so much more organic wherever I feel that I can add some darker values. I would go ahead and add those darker values. Do not feel wild while you are painting. Why every place you will not be in a position to add only lighter values. There would be places where you have to add the darker values too. So, yeah, Do not fear watercolors. One aspect of watercolor is not to fear it. You have to partner with this medium in case you are partnering with this medium. I can tell you this is one of the medium which is going to reward you like NAD. Okay, going ahead and just adding some amount of my light brown. Now this light brown is pretty amazing when you watch it, how I applied. It is the same color that I had and I'm just adding some water on top of it and some yellow ocher. So a bit of yellow ocher you can add on and then you can get a color which you observe. And that is what is important. Using less colors, as I have told you earlier, I'm working with the same kind of columns that you have. So many of you have asked me the red brown that I usually use. So against this red brown, you can add some amount of your car mine to your burnt sienna and check in gives you a not getting the exact mix. Just try even a birth Prussian blue and too wet and then see if you can get something which is close up. So there are many ways of doing it, but this is one of the ways which I have fallen going ahead and just adding some lines with the help of my skill. Yeah, this stool scale comes to rescue and many of the places and you can practically makes so many different, different textures with this still scale. High heaven going ahead and just using my brush over it, you can see that it looks like a wood. And I wanted to show those wooden panels for my hat. And this practically helped me. I mean, it's a very, very simple thing that you every most of us own. And still we do not know how to use it to our advantage that one of the things which I would like you to know, use any sharp object like this to add these kind of lines. Some of you even like to use other things like backoff your brush. If you have an acrylic brush that can also give your lines like this. So go ahead and do that. Okay. I guess I'm pretty much happy with how this has turned out. The house looks pretty much like what I wanted. Now adding one more layer to my tree. Now, I didn't want more layer to my tree practically helps me to make it more realistic. Now, realism is not something that I'm looking forward to, but something closer to what I would like to actually get as an outcome for this painting is with the help of this wet-on-dry. Yeah. So I don't do magic lies and wet on wet, but we have to use wet on dry in many of the places where it isn't necessarily see I'm using size, it's black velvet brush for most of the painting. I'm using the tip of this brush to my advantage so that I can get the best outcome. This is something which I always want to tell you. Do not keep switching brushes, keep minimal brushes. And anyone, any others that you even see, you know, online or you take classes from orals, any instructor whom you like, they will have their own fuel vapor pressures, which they usually use for their paintings. Whether it be quash, whether it be watercolors, whether it be acrylics. So all what they are using for the painting is something that we should learn from them. Only a few brushes will practically solve the whole purpose of your painting. So try to even reduce the number of pressures or else you might be confused most of the time. Which one do I switch to? Which one do I use as a beginner? So these are small, small aspects of watercolors or even any other medium that you're working with which you can follow. Okay. And in some more darker values and some of the areas I have kept intact, which I did add in my Faustus guys do know that whenever you are adding our first, it's for a reason. We are adding that layer. We have to make sure that some of the places of those things is also visible as we are building one by one. And this building is practically only possible when a, then you can see all the layers that you have added slowly, steadily. Now there are many artists to work with 78 years of 45 layers of watercolor as they like to go, like this value initially. And that is more of water and water and slowly, steadily building on it. So you can also experiment what you like to walk around with, then get the best outcome. Okay? Adding some brown that is my darker values for the roof CALEA, once I have added this dark brown for the roof area and outlined the outer part of the radii. You can practically also how the whole painting is slowly adding up. Once I am adding up these small, small areas into my painting, it just makes the painting look way more organic. I have been saying this and repeating and that you would need to take care of the small, small details in your painting. Why? It just makes it look as if and you are very, very close to realism. And everything that we are drawing is not realistic or it's not realism that we are focusing on. But let's be very close to what we observe. Like if you are painting would unhide, it would have some kind of wooden panels. And we should add those wood panels so that this looks more organic. That's what I think I want to communicate. And I have been communicating the same in many of my older videos too. And every time I treat the same because many of you do not want to go through all the projects and would only go through a few of them. Our maybe few of the glands which you really like, you were repainting them along with me. Hence, so many of you who might be listening to me again and again might get more than that. Why is the instructor of reading it the same point again and again, but that's the reason every time I like to tell you the best practices, I like to tell you what I have observed in my journey and war has really, really helped me in my journey. I'm using my liner brush to add dance months long lines for the branches of the tree that you can absolve in terms of the trees that as dead in the background. And slowly, steadily you have dual actually branch adopt more and more. As you keep branching. Your three do make sure that you are not just making it absolutely like so we knew that didn't you can't practically get anything out of retinal various. That's not the idea, but branching it is one of the ways to show that it is a dry season. And because of the dry season, there are no These, hence we are only having some dry branches. Okay. Adding some bushes that so many of you asked me that why do i and these dry trees and bushes in the background. Usually whenever you go to our travel to any place which is in the window season, you can practically see these kind of small, small bushes and these small small trees. And this practically helps me to get to a point where I can tell you that is something that really helps me to relate to the window seats. And whenever something that helps you to relate to the winter season, you should have in your painting. Let's have a closer look at how we want to pin to swing the lightest from the right, because of the light which is coming from the right, you can absorb the tree, which I want to paint on the left also has the light on the right hand saw and you are adding the darker values. It has to be the widths, the left, whereas towards the right you would be adding some lighter values. Okay? I guess the salts whole of our problem now, I have made some of my blue to the brown that I already had on the palette. And then I am adding it for the darker values, going with the outline on the right. And then I would take off all the extra colors and then blend it with my background of the tire. Okay. I guess this looks really nice now. And just filling up the space for mine heart, which I did not fill earlier. And you can see closely how small, small things can practically changed so much. Oh, painting. Yeah. I guess that's what I wanted to highlight over here, that whenever you are working on a smaller place, do it. Whenever you think your painting is white, ready? Because we do not want to spoil that dumb adding the colors here and there. So I did set my background first and then I went ahead and worked on the spot going with my black pen. Now, I've used in any black pen or you can practically use any black pen. I have used my favorite gasoline. Then you can go ahead with any pen of your choice, black pen. And then I add these lines to your painting. This is practically the rope. You can just add a bit of white collar or white quash on the sides of this rope that would make it look more organic. So, yeah, these small things I like to add for my painting, if the bearing young and adding some dry brush stroke. This is something which you can even avoid if you want to. I just felt that the white was too much for the low ground, hence the bottom area. So just blended it toward some water. And what my brush strokes, once I have, I am done with this part. I will now go slow. There are three to four minutes which are left for this painting to get over. And I would not like to now go quickly as we are done with most of the parts, except a few small, small bushes and try bushes which we will be painting. That I think is something which I would add on dressed everything. I am done with adding some of my white Guassian few of the ideas whenever I feel you can add it to address. This is just for the highlights. Do not think much. Value-add all of this. Yeah, don't go overboard. Dense. This is one thing which I have seen most of us have a tenancy going overboard with what we want to do. With white gouache highlights everything we just keep adding, keep adding, keep adding that smart we will not do for watercolors. Yes, we are not going to do that. Again. I am reading you're not going to do that. If you go on doing, are you? If you go on adding the colors, it is not the best way to work around. It would practically give you bad effects. And you will end up with a very dark piece or something that is not what you would have liked. Going ahead with a thin brush and adding the bushes or the dry leaves and try plants which you observe on the left as well as on the right. So keep adding it and I would meet you when we have to remove the deep. This is a plant which will go in any direction, so do not think much about their direction and keep piling small, small lines. This is with the red brown or else you can even Dick Van Dyke brown, whatever is available with you for painting this one. Let us remove the tape at an angle and have a final look at the painting. I'm very sure that you will fall in love with a painting like this one. It is simple, easy, and so pretty once you finish it off, it is something that is really, really close to me and I really like working with colors like this. Hopefully you will also fall in love with something of this kind and do post you are paintings in the project gallery. I'm waiting for each one of them. Once you start adding your paintings to your project gallery, I would like to give my valuable feedback so that wherever there is a scope of bit of improvement, I think I can add on a very down, down forward. Okay, I think this is the crisp, nice wide edges which I have got. And meet you tomorrow. We are going to make a word and then a Christmas tree for the finale. 28 day. 30. Day 27 Small Bird: Let's just discuss all the colors which we need for painting. The small bird, it's Payne's gray or black when Nike Green, permanent yellow, deep burnt sienna, red brown, white quash, CPR or any other when I gave brown, gate 27 needs to be something special. That's one of the reason I want to add a border style. None the bird will be very simple and easy exercise which we will be doing. I would be actually adding or drawing one circle on the top area of one side I have, I'm going to circle. I will go ahead with another so-called old somewhat on this, quite similar to this moment which we did paint. And it's a bit on the front-end away because many of you might not have picked tempted anything like a bird. And it might be difficult to understand the exact shape and size, but believe me guys, just go ahead with your guard. Fake. Everything doesn't need to be perfect. We are doing it as an exercise and this is for the first time you are painting it. It's no wing and you can see these kind of births and the snow. I'm extending and hiding on top curve layer of mine graphite Mark. Why? As I want her to look precise. And this is a very, very simple one. Towards the right when you observe I'm going with a bit of a slant in words because I want to actually add the beak of the bird while I go towards the left, what you observed, you can see that the head is going or tilted down. Now, the head is tilted towards the right, whereas left-hand side, you can observe that I am adding again AS fall point inwards. Once I've added that point inwards, it can thoroughly look like it's one of the heads of the word. Once you have added the head, you have to go ahead and add the body. Body is again face simple exercise. But before I add the body, I want to try though. I, for the book, I'm trying to understand where exactly I would like to add the eye. Now, you can step back, relax while I'm enjoying this. Once I have done this, you can go head and cry or tried to draw one-off it on your own, on the first who gets it might not are not perfect. It doesn't never turned out perfect for anyone. That's absolutely fine. But do give this painting or try as this, as one of my own favorites. I have added mostly favorite of my paintings in the series. Seriously, when you go ahead and try it out, you'll get understand on your own. But the whole of the CDS is something absolutely different than absolute pick, which you might not have only are discovered. And many of my other classes, it has boards, it has Christmas tree, it has so many Christmas theme snow like paintings, which all of you might like to paint whenever, if it's Christmas time. And you want to go ahead and give it to your near and dear ones. Keep extending your realm. Mock softer. The pencil on the left has blood on the right. Warnock, this egg size particle. While as you all are drawing this bone for the first time, make sure that you're not going very fast with the process. We're not here to quick enough to process, whereas we are here to enjoy the process. Always note that, never think that this is going to take a lot of time and how am I going to work it out? It's a clamp. Just keep that in mind. Whatever would be the outcome, I will be happy to enjoy it. Try to think from the perspective of learning something new. I know that this might be a bit difficult for many of you as big nurse. But every time you need to experiment with watercolors, you need to understand the watercolors, how it works, etc. So it might take a while for you to get a hang of it until you try out different subjects. In watercolors, you can never practically say that you know everything about what occurs even after so many years of my work in watercolors. I'm still everytime surprised with how it works and how I get different kind of outcome with watercolors. So this is something that I have really understood in the way that it takes a while for each one of us to understand this medium, to get a hang of this medium, as well as to get desired results. It's not a very easy process. It would take one. But when you really understand it, it is going to be really rewarding for each one of you. And anyways, we're just left with one more day tomorrow, dressed all the DSR done. And I'm pretty sure about it that you are also falling in love with the season. So many of us do enjoy this season and we want to paint so many different things in watercolors. That's one of the reason this particular board that said, it came to my mind then yeah, I want to draw it. I want to give it a try and when to understand it better. There are so many things that we do not try and just give up purchase somewhere. I do not like to do that and I would love to actually try everything possible under the sun. That's always the motive, that's always how I go about it. That's always how I understand any medium better. Whether it be any medium that you are walking around with, it takes a while to get a handle for time, believe me or not, you will not get it on the first tool. You have to hanging around. There will be times where you will be lost. There will be times you would be like, Why am I even do it? Why am I going ahead and doing it? There will be times, once you are done with the whole of the painting and you're liked outcome you would bear, you will be yourself so much more surprised that how did you create it? Yeah, that's the feeling. And I really want you guys to enjoy it. Okay. I guess I am thoroughly done with this. I have been repeatedly saying a few things in watercolors, and that's one of the reasons I have included in every lesson. So many of you do not want to try all these lessons and that's absolutely fine. You want to only try out a few of them. And the people who are listening to me again and again would think that, that why am I saying this so many times? But it's for everyone's benefit. And that's why it might be that you just listen to me again and again on the same points. Okay. Going ahead and adding some amount of water on the book. This is for the head as well as some of the area towards the body. Now you can use your silver black velvet brush to do this. It's my size eight silver black velvet brush which I'm using going ahead with some of my orange. And then someone's sienna to add on top of it. I am going to hand width more of a limited palette in this exercise though there are about four to five colors. But still, I am not trying to add a lot of colors which would make it look really, really difficult for each one of you. Or the notion would be that, Okay, so many colors, so much more liquid correctly. But when you are doing a limited palette exercise, you clearly get a hang of everything, as well as you know how to use your colors to your own benefit. So this is something that I would advise each one off whenever you are working with any new medium, Try limited palette exercise 8 would help you to actually avoid any kind of muddy colors. Firstly, and secondly, you can understand the values of the colors. Thirdly, the outcome would be way more better as you are not creating any money affects you would understand blending, mixing, and so many other things which you seriously can't get when you're working with a lot of colors as bigness. I'm going ahead with some of my CPR or Van Dyke brown color, whatever you have available with you and then some amount of indigo, Payne's gray for the darker values. These are similar colors. You can even create it with the burnt sienna, just add a bit of indigo in it, then you will get a color which is similar to this one. In this you do not have Payne's gray. You can also go head with any of the other colors like Pimlico or indigo direct blue bar, you can always go ahead with neutral gray or you can go ahead with any new Croton that is available with you. You can even go ahead with ivory black. Now, these are the colors of different names. So from one single brand or from different brands now, I am just understanding tick, ivory black, I think is one of the colors from Sudan, Newton. Whereas neutral tendons, one of the colors again from Winsor and Newton. So these are few of the colors that I do remember are now understand that these are the shades from a particular brand, but do not go by the name of the brand, whatever colors you like, just select them and try to walk around with it. I think some brown for a few of these ADS and I'm pulling with simple brushstrokes using my size six has caught on Russia. It has quite a nice tip. Sometimes I'm using some amount of my ground and sometimes I'm going ahead and adding in simplest strokes with water. I use water or a lot of my advantage. And that's how we go about in watercolor painting. I think a bit of burnt sienna. You can see the colors to change because the first two aloha lot more of sepia and add drive now I'm adding a bit more burnt sienna slowly. I would I add more and more water, some of the areas so would be completely in water itself that I would go ahead and pink. It's time to add some bolder brush marks. So why I say more boiled down as we are going towards some middle part of the body ammeters with Doppler values that I am. I mean, keep it simple, keep it only restricted to few parts. Do not try to add it everywhere on the book. That road practically spoil the whole putti. We do not really want that to happen, hence, keeping it simple, easy. And when you go towards the bottom, Alia, try to add a third of your books. It's been quite amazing to watch that only simple brushstroke Santa grid of colors can create so much of magic on paper. And I really want you pray stool, so witness it. Most of the colors on the paper and apply them. Now it is more about fine-tuning. It's more apartheid. Columns on the background. It's about adding the high of the board, then the beak of the bird. Most of it is done. So why you see most of it is done as we have applied the major follows on the body and VM on going to touch on lock in and around the body. Yes, we are going to paint, but I do not want to go ahead, keep working on the body and scarlet antenna, guys. One simple rule of water phalluses less is always more. So if you are going with less Fellows, if you are not working a lot on GAAP off the books, are on any subject with colors. I think you're going to gain a lot more in terms of the outcome wildlife goal on the boards. I I wouldn't make it a bit more darker and then they're rounder. But this is pretty much optional. I like to put it that way ends the board. I would be black and then it would be good to add a bit of a lighter black. Or you can see CPI values right now on the word, a big idea. I'm blaming it where they have both my blending brush every time I blind colors, I do make sure that I'm blending with my blending brush. I would leave a white space empty in the books. I, you will see this kind of space always there whenever you are painting birds and then adding a small white dog, He that you can leave this white dot y and you add the color onto the boat side orders. You can even add it with the white quash. I would leave that option on to you using my size two brush to add all of this. This has gone to a vein nice tip and it can walk through on the smaller ideas. That's one of the reasons. Or finding new table reviewer. Yeah, I know that this is one of the books that you might like to paint, and they're always. Options are, I would say there are always opportunities that you can get to paint buds. Taste, tried to be more dynamic and try to work through different kinds of concepts whenever possible. Every time I tried to include something new in H of my glass. And the one of the reasons offered this for you guys to try it out, not to I0 is very, very important compared to if you get through it finally or you don't get to it, that's absolutely okay. But do try the concepts. It helps you to actually build on a lot whenever you say about the subject or whenever you see about any kind of different techniques that you'll want to work on each and every painting, which we do as a learning. And the learning is what you can apply to your future projects. I think a bit off your Payne's gray or your dark sepia color. And it is two words, the back side of the world, don't make bad. I'm going ahead and adding nine, blending it with the band count data or leaping that. Now, blending is always very, very importantly, do not want done anything just out of the box over here. Yeah, blending with the background survey important text size. So whenever you are actually going ahead with any kind of I would say any any any kind of subjects where you need to do keep the background into town. You do not want anything to look out of the box completely. That's Tennessee, something that you can look forward to. Okay. You can add a bit of your burnt sienna and some amount of your Clemson, I think a lot of your Clemson oils, you can also use a red brown if you have four legs of the birds and that's very important. A while you go ahead and paint that. I am just adding a very light value on the right and I will go ahead and add some darker values on the left. That's absolutely fine. You can always go ahead with darker values later. That's not a problem. Liner brushes important though, so that you can add some of your darker values wherever it doesn't necessarily. And now I'm going ahead and even lighting the scene on the right, make up the board. Just blending it a bit. Wherever I feel. Dizziness city. Once I have that color, It's important to them. Pick up wherever you think you feel that it isn't necessarily just that we did for the left side of my leg of the bird and then just making it a bit more good-looking, I would say, yeah, it's, it's nothing much. It suggests details Sudan there. And that's very important for boards or touch, very important for animals which you bring. These details are not difficult to paint. It's just that you have to keep touching urine. And it said so slow process compared to what we usually do in watercolors. Apply some water and the background and then go head and done some lines for your job. Branches. And these branches are basically some of the dry branches that you usually absorbed in the winter season. I like to go wet on wet and this case, so why it gives me or bloody effect? And I really enjoy painting them blurry effect compared to the dry brush technique in this case. Now during the winter season, everything is so for me, it's missed. So these bloody effect looks really Britain in dark area or in those times I would say. Just blending it a bit with the background where important I feel like it's necessary. You can of course, go ahead and apply this kind of diagram colors and blend it down here and there. And on top of it, we can also go ahead and apply some snow. We will be using my brush to apply the snow. So do not worry much. It's a cute little small boat. And I hope you guys will also enjoy painting this along with me. I know it's been a bit longer process to make the what we could have wrapped up quickly but medicine, No. I'm thinking of things in watercolor them solely to feel that every time I do see this in each of my classes, that it takes away, you have to partner with the medium. This is a beautiful medium. Once you fall in love with this medium, you pretty much cannot take your eyes off, but you will find miracles happening with these kinds of colors or with this medium. Just that you need to have some patients with watercolors. If you have patients, I can tell you you will be rewarded like anything. I'm going ahead and apply some green branches. Yeah, it's the darker green that I'm going ahead and applying. You can choose even though CPR or neutral content for adding this, That's absolutely fine. I just tried to add a bit of green into my painting. That's one of the reasons I went ahead and put this column. Once I am done with this burn, I would go head and a bit of yellow in the background medium. And again, no, it's wet on wet technique where I would go ahead and hide some of my branches for the background. Once I have added that color, then only I would go ahead and add this branch. Just go absolutely random. You applying this color and it's a very, very light. Wash them a blind lots of water and very, very little amount of color. You always should keep this in mind that you must have lesser columns compared to your water for the background. Now, if you have more water for the background, you would be rewarded and more as we want to focus on the subject. And we do not want unpack ground to become very dark. And then we would be struggling how to actually dig off all the extra paint skies in watercolors. So there's very little scope to come back compared to any other medium. I find Guassian morning warning in that case. As well as you might find acrylics more rewarding in that case in other mediums. Whereas our watercolors, once you go ahead and apply it, I don't think there's much space which is left to come back Always. Hence, it's important to understand how much and what you should apply while you drink. And you need to keep on judging. You need to always step back. Relax, understand where you want to apply the colors more. Do you really want to keep working on it or do you want to stop? Like glass 34 minutes left? I need to right now. Think that why go ahead and stop painting or do I keep working on it for some more time? The Salzman small aspects of watercolors is very important. Working towards our final review touches of this one. I'm pretty much happy and satisfied. Frankly, I do not want to work upon that term anymore. So working upon it. And later on that's one of the reasons I'm saying that this is it. Applying one darker shade of green now for the CEO. And then I think we can go ahead and just apply some snow end for the shut-off variable you think you want to, again, just retouch it a bit. Who would call a light value? I do not want you guys to spoil it at this point in time. So be very, very Yvette while you are working for the last few minutes of the painting, It's time to add some finishing touches to your bird. It has come out really well for me, I must say it's my first attempt to teach birds in this class. And I would love to see what your feedback is and how you liked it, how the project's turn out. I've tried the most easiest way of painting of bird this time, but slowly, steadily as we progress, there would be more classes which would be focused on birds. How are we paying them, et cetera. Going ahead and just adding some white wash and few of the areas these splatters to show this norm, as well as retouching on few areas where I think that it isn't necessary. Most of these areas where you think the board is with limited palette. So I must say that you will have colors like a bit of yellow, then you're in yellow ocher, or you can go ahead with any of the bond, amber, these kind of sheets along with it, you need some darker values like the Nike Green or for the green area, or else you can even go with any other darker green as well as some CPM or any other dark brown like Van Dyke brown. So these are the medial colors that you can always look up to for your painting and incase, you don't have these darker values of brown, just add a bit of black in it. You can also keep pain screen handy for yourself. That really helps. And I have also use Payne's gray in case you want darn dark values. So sometimes I like to mix my paints spray with the brown to get that darker shade that I really want removing the day barren manga. And tomorrow I will go ahead and meet you with the final painting and batters the Christmas tree, which we will paint together. 31. Day 28 Merry Christmas: The colors that we will be using for today's painting is Payne's gray or black. When Nike agree, when Sarah Lawrence EMEA, yellow, burnt sienna, bright yellow, green and white quash, along with the Duke, eat any kind of red or maroon handy with you. On location of Merry Christmas, It's time to paint a Christmas tree. I think this is one of the most and most beautiful and important, as well as I would say, the most precious painting that I am going to keep even in my future time says this was a painting which I started trying. Then at 1 in time, I just taught to just leave it as it was not turning the way I wanted it and slowly, steadily, the whole thing changed. I am foster for placing my tree on the left side. I have made a small line in the middle. And then I'm going towards my side, quartering the size of the circles. These are basically the illustration of all winter Christmas tree, where you will have these kind of small smart decorations being done on the Christmas tree. And how beautifully each one of them will add so much of light into this painting icon show you right now. But D along with me, just stay with me and you will feel the whole beauty has come to life. On the occasion of Christmas. I would love to actually tell you how we go about painting this one. Along with it. I must tell you that we will keep some amount of masking fluid in case you do not have masking fluid, do not worry. You can always go ahead and add white wash or any of the white opaque watercolor. Why I'm using masking fluid as I wanted to show you how to use even masking fluid for your winter illustration. There is no best way of going about your painting, how you should do it. Then a lot of techniques that are covered in this class and you can always go head and check them out. Right now, I am just adding a few of these small, small areas in and around back red zone. Or you can say in an around the decoration which is with the red ball snowballs, usually we do. And the lighting that you have oh my God, everything put together look so, so amazing. This white spot that right now I am adding with the help of my pencil. The monks led am adding will be covered with the masking fluid. You can surely go ahead and use the masking fluid, as I have told you earlier, orals even go head with white bush. Now masking fluid helps me to save this whitespace vey easily compared to if I'm not using any kind of a masking fluid. And are there aspects of watercolor and masking, etc, these kind of things, or these fillers important. You should try the masking fluid on new Paypal where you are going to make your final painting. Now, if you haven't tried masking fluid on your people and you go ahead with it. And it's not a 100 percent cotton paper. It happens that usually the people rips off and we do not want this in this case. So always, always makes sure that you try the masking fluid on the paper which you are going to use. I'm always some very, very offer using Arches 300 GSM paper as I use both sides of the paper musty. Sometimes if there is any kind of mistake which I commit on one side of the paper, I will use the other side of the paper for covering up my mistakes. That's how I go about it. I'm even covering some of my circles in case you want. That's always great to go head. See what happens is if you're not saving these spaces, while in future, it becomes very difficult to walk on it. Wait quickly. We will have washes and that's one of the reason I have asked you to use this masking fluid. There is no way we can actually see these spaces. Don't. Massing fluid might not be on very good option for many of you and many of you might not be using it. But still, I must say that this is one of the great ways to preserve the white of your paper. In case you have applied one layer. Even to preserve that layer, you can add the masking fluid and go ahead with the second and the third layer. I have done that in many of my other paintings to UPN use masking fluid to your advantage at any point in time. I'm going ahead with my yellow now the yellow is seemingly a yellow which I'm using along with it. I have had it some amount of my Naples yellow. I like to go ahead with these two year load Naples yellow is a bit of bacon color compared to decennalia yellow. So I would leave it up to you how you want to work it out. But it's a very, very simple process. I am doing wet on wet more of the lighter values first and then we would go head with a bit of darker values. I would add a bit of Winsor orange arrows. You can also go ahead with cadmium orange. These are the colors that I usually use for my orange. And then just don't kill people are a bit the way I am doing right now, and then remove anything extra to observe. Once I've added the goddess for the background, I would go head wet. My foregrounds, foregrounds means mainly the Christmas tree that I'm going to pink. We will even add some bulky effect and this Bach doll. Before we go ahead with all of that, let's just start adding some colors on the Christmas tree. I'm going ahead with my meaning detailer brush. Now this detailer brush, which I have many of you might be also having any kind of size one, size 0 brush. Use that brush to your advantage to add the colors. This is the bright yellow green which you get from Sennelier oral. So me green that you have from Shimon kick. The color is named in different kind of, I would say by every brand, the name of the color changes. So I would leave it up to you which brand you want to go ahead with and what color you want to go ahead with. In case you're not getting this green, just try to add a bit of green with yellow, lemon yellow, and it would give you a color which is closer to this one. And in case you get a color that is closer to this one, then only apply. How do you test your colors? Always keep of paper handy by yourself and check your colors there. Once you have all the tried to follow on that rough paper, then only go head and added Lady of paper dry. Now, once the people has dried, just to add a bit of burnt sienna into your green or else go ahead with Wen Di Qin king. Now there is no hard and fast rule of what green you must use. I always see whatever is available on your palette. Go ahead with that. You can mix viridian plus some amount of burnt sienna to get a darker value of green. And that's a very, very beautiful color of your green, which you can always apply on your painting thing, my size to a scatter brush to apply this color. Of course, it's a smaller brush compared to any other bigger brush which you can of course use for applying the colors. Again, there is no rule of using any kind of Alcala for your painting. I would say I'll leave this up to you completely. Which brush you wonder use, but do make sure that you get some small, small dots effects on the sides. If you see wherever I'm extending on the sides, I'm trying to add more like a Christmas tree, small, small lines, small, small dots so that they look way more organic. And it is a painting which looks more similar to what we want to achieve and what we want to get. As a Christmas painting. I've added some more darker value. And this darker value is because of the bonds CNL, which I have added into my green. I keep altering the colors of my green. The base color, of course, remains the light value which we have added. While I extend the colors, I tried to go head with two what we differentiate. So bring that really helps me to make it more look like an original organic Christmas tree. Of course. I always say there's no best way to say that this is what it is. This looks so similar to how we paint the Christmas tree. There's no best way, but this is one of the ways in which you can always go ahead and think. And that's what is most importantly, keep learning new ways. We keep exploring watercolors, we keep exploring new things. And that's how we understand this. Watercolor as a medium better, I think that's the whole idea of full of this painting, of whole lot this class. And I hope that you have got the indent very clear through all the paintings that we have done to date. I know you might not have been able to follow me all along. I also took some time to release all of the class as there were a lot of things going on. And you might be thinking that, okay, we could have done it together. But believe me, it's always good to take breaks, come back, and then paint because you can get the adequate amount of rest which you want. You can go ahead and paint whenever you want. It's only half an hour. It's sizes that you have. Maximum you need those 15, 20, or an happen on time in the morning along with your coffee or before you go off to sleep, you want to relax your mind, just go head and try to paint there and think you would be very, very happy with the outcome. And going ahead with my size eight silver black velvet brush and just adding these sum, small, small bookie effects. Now, bookie effects you might have also see me adding in many of my other paintings. Earlier, we did our Christmas snowball red color where we did add this leukemia effect. Now you can go ahead and add it with any other medium. But according to me, it's always great to stick to wash or any other opaque white watercolor like Tanium white, which you have in watercolor, Chinese vipers, not opaque in nature. Hence, it would give you a transparent column. We want more of opacity and I am altering the size of these small, small dots that I'm adding. That really helps to show that some of them are darker, some of them are lighter. And slowly, steadily, you will get that book effective way. Well, I think some smaller dots as you observe me going ahead through these small paintings that I do. I always love to add these bouquet effect or different kinds of effects for my painting. I even have a monsoon class where you can follow how you can actually paint rain drops. So each and every class has something different in itself. And you can keep learning those watercolors in a better way. Overall, I have around 30 glasses and 30 glosses. I've got a lot of content in it. So, yeah, go ahead and follow any class of your choice. There are smaller projects, Sarah, larger projects. So whichever you want to follow along, go ahead and try it out. Yeah. That that I think is all that I wanted to say. While you practice your watercolors, I'm going to slow in this process. That's very important. Do not fly to go fast in this process. Now YC, this watercolor, is a medium which is mostly warning when you try to partner with that factory with it doesn't mean that you have to go Vali slow or you cannot walk up, walk on it when you are free. But you have to allow your layers to dry out. So you can quickly dry out your layers with the help of your hot air effect. But the hacker sometimes actually put the color of bit more pale in value once you get the final outcome and you apply the water, it becomes lighter in value. Usually when you let it dry on its own, the colors might stay the same, mostly when you are using artists rainwater colors. So there are these kind of changes do happen. So you have to keep in mind that whenever you are trying to fast-forward the process, you have to do it intelligently so that nothing changes much. Over in your painting. This MOOC effects is taking a lot of time, so yeah, hanging there, I think to be well, keep adding the bokeh effect for a longer-term compared to what I might have thought that could have come out pretty quickly. But it's absolutely fine. So follow along. There's a music and let's do it. Hello. Okay. Splattering some snow now. And it is only by the hair of my spot size two brush that I'm adding small, small droplets of snow. Some of them, I would add it with the help of my brush itself. You can also use your white Jelly Roll pen to hide these kinds of dots, which I will show you as we go along. Secondly, what I wanted to tell you is that once you are done with this part, to lead this part dry off completely. Once this dries off, then only we will touch the tree. We have to remove the masking fluid. And I usually use a masking eraser to remove this masking fluid. You can also use any other ways of removing it. Sometimes we also pick it up with our hands and try to just remove it easily with our fingers. That's also fine. So do do whatever method suits you and just take it off like that. Okay. I have removed the masking fluid from the white areas which ended Fizz opened up off my masking fluid. And now I am, I think some amount of my themes great. Now this is for the snow Ada to look more relevant. I'm just dotting it and then I wouldn't blend it the background. So once I'm done with this part, then I would start painting my small, small red, red snowballs. That's the highlight of whole of the painting. The whole of the painting will come together when we start adding the Seriously guys, when I was at this point in time, I sometimes talk that up again. This whole painting is not coming out. Well. I might just give it up over your then there was an inner voice which don't mean there. Okay. Do not give it up right now. I think it's too early to give it up, So wait for a while, just try to paint it. Try to finish it off and then see if you do not like it. Let it be. You can always try once more. And there was that hap, solute delight to watch how this whole of the painting dawned on one side had these red, red balls and how this holds no, and the tree, everything looks so much more real, how they all put together made so much sense. I must tell you this was one of my favorite and the best experiences that I had while painting or Christmas tree. This was the first time that I yeah, I'm actually adding a Christmas tree to my winter class. And I think this is the whole experience which puts everything together. And I must say that watercolors is forgiving only when you just try and try to walk along with it. I have worked along with it. There are so many names I feel and there's so many times have succeeded and the success stays like amazing. Yeah, I must say wherever you get a good outcome, you are so, so happy about it. You want to share it, you want to cherish it, you want to just feel the moment. I think watercolors is more about the energy that you see here, the energy that you, Let's back. It helps you flow. You should flow along watercolors. You should let your energy flow eat, let you do what you want to. There are so many times I have told this that you have to enjoy whatever medium you walk around with. Try it, try to partner with them. I'm telling you it's one of the fuel for mediums that I have ever come across. Till date, I have been working for more than 34 years with this medium and must say that every time I pick up a brush and paint, it looks so much new. I just feel what more can I create today? With this? How much more I would be surprised with this medium. How much more beauty can I add with this medium? I must tell you this is one of my favorite mediums and it has become one of my favorite mediums too. I have tried wash, I have tried acrylics. It is first of all, easy to use. You just need a few colors, you need a few brushes and some people to come along with it. Yeah. When you're doing watercolors, a 100 percent cotton paper is really important, but you can always go ahead with handmade papers which are winning more cheaper compared to what I use. So anytime anything that you want to paint is easy to access. And secondly, the medium itself, you just need water. Water can be easily washed off forming surface. That's another aspect why I like watercolors. Domestic recreate is way less compared to any other medium that I use, whether it be even wash. Wash is a water-based medium, but it is bringing more tickle opaque when you are working with it, you need to be way more cautious, though it is way more forgiving compared to water colors. But both are absolutely different experiences, absolutely different for each one of them. And I really liked the flow and the energy of watercolors compared to what I usually absorbed in any other medium. That's the whole idea of using watercolors to so much extent. And most of my classes are focused on watercolors. I must say. I think that I am so much into it that I can live, breathe, worked in anything I can do with watercolors. It's so much fun. I always enjoy the process. You have to enjoy the process, you have to live with the process. You do not need to think about the outcome every time we are doing a small, small thing like adding even a darker value to these small snowballs that we have already painted. I feel so much more energetic that red gives me the aspect of the season. It is like the season has arrived. You need to enjoy winters. And how do you do it? You do it by painting, you do it by making good food. You cannot step outside many times because of this node. It says this at some point in time. And other times you even enjoying the snow back quite sometime we are indoors and we want to enjoy the fun that we can have indoors. I love to spend some time with my family, everything put together. It's just an amazing season two. Be around. I think. I just wanted to share all of it with you guys. And this is one of the paintings that were I'm sharing so much with you. Okay. Adding some darker values now in few of the areas as I've told you earlier. And then some green dots here and there. I'm not going to make it more difficult for you. I am towards the end of this painting, 345 minutes of this painting is left. It was quick, only applying the masking fluid takes a bit time once the masking fluid is dry and then only you have to apply your colors. Orals, your brush will go for a DOS. Masking fluid is not a great thing to work with if you are not very used to it. So always use synthetic brushes when you are applying your masking fluid. And in case you want to preserve your synthetic brushes for a longer period of time, apply some amount of salt that you use for the brush shot on this synthetic brush and then only apply your masking fluid. I'm adding a bit of white or wherever I think it is necessary again, it is white wash. And I'm adding small smart dots with that. Once I had these dots, I guess it's just everything that comes to life, mostly the white of the year we have preserved. So it does not much of a problem, but still wherever you think it is necessary, it is necessary. Just go ahead and do not think much while you add it. We will lead this part dry once it is Jan and apply some whitewash and fuel the snow area. And once this area is completely done, then he would go head and just let the whole of the painting dry off. Now, letting your painting dry offers a very, very important mass spec, letting your layers dry out is very, very important. If you do not let your area dry off and you start painting or worried, then the whole of the painting might go for a toss. So you should be very, very aware of these small, small aspects of watercolors. And I must tell you it was a great experience working through this entire class. If you would like anything above this class, please do leave me feedback. It's very important for any teacher. I can improve upon that even in my future classes. Go head and try to paint whatever you feel like in the soul of the CDs. I always say you do not need to start with your day one. Your day one can be any day that you like in this whole of this series. I think that I have tried to actually keep most of the paintings to words being not to an intermediate level as well as the advanced level. So I'm mixed most of it together so that all of you can learn wherever stage you are in your carrier of watercolors and wherever stage you think that you are in. So try and you will be very, very happy. But the final outcome I'm, I'm truly sure about it. Secondly, I must tell you that always, always remove the dei Verbum manga, Do not, do not remove the tape. Fun, just like that. It might rip off your paper. Ve very aware offered tried to use washi tapes. Washi tapes actually keeps your paper the more intact and compared to the normal copy entertain that being used. They are better off. Or drum papers like arches are Fabriano. I have seen that they are quite cool well along with this, but for others tried to use washi tape. Okay, Let's have a final look at the painting and I can see those key or beautiful edges and I'm so happy with this. And lastly, have an amazing Christmas and New Year. I hope that you enjoy whole of the season and I will come back next year with another class where you all thank you guys. Welcome.