Winter landscape: on the road

1. Welcome to the class!: Hello, hello and welcome to my class. We are painting a beautiful winter scene with a dramatic sky and lots of snow. My name is Lisa domain and I am Skillshare taught watercolor artist. I have a day job in IT, but in the evenings I spend my time painting with watercolors. I'm from Finland, so we have lots of snowing the winters and that's what inspires me during these winter months. I have made three other Skillshare classes about watercolors. You can find them all from my profile page. And I also have an Instagram account which you can see on the screen. Okay, but now let's get to today's class. Like I said, we are painting a winter scene from meter of nowhere in female. And I will walk you through all the steps. First, we start with a sketch, which is actually quite simple. Then we will paint the background layer, which basically consists of the dramatic sky. We would paint it in one layer so you don't need to wait for many layers to dry up. Then we will paint some details. We will add a house or a barn on the front, lampposts and then some finishing touches like shades and little bits of grass on the ground. Okay, are you ready? I'll meet you on the other side in the first lesson, where we will take out the supplies you will need. 2. Supplies: Let's now take a look at the supplies. The most important piece of supply is the watercolor paper. Make sure you choose proper paper that is 100% cotton preferably and heavy enough so that it can carry a lot of water and stays, stays width for a longer time. Then you will need two jars of water, clean water, which I don't have no. Then you will need paper towels, some kind of mixing palette for mixing your colors. Then you will need different sizes of brushes depending on the size of your paper. I'm using this one inch flat brush, wetting the paper. And then I will use property size 12, round brush for creating the cloud in the sky. And then I have these smaller brushes which I will probably use in making some details and other things like that. But if you are choosing a smaller paper size than A4, then you can use a smaller brushes as well here. So at least of the colors you will need, ultramarine, Prussian blue paints, gray, burnt umber, and black. You will also need a masking tape or attaching your paper. And I will show using this little spray bottle for wetting my paper. Then you will also need an eraser for making steel or at least all the supplies. 3. Making the sketch: Before making the sketch, let's attach our paper to the table or to a board. I'm actually using a paper block, so I don't necessarily need to take my paper because the block helps it to stay in shape, but I still want those white borders to my painting. So I'm adding these tapes to the paper anyway. Okay, the tape is done. So let's start sketching. I will measure roughly 1 third of the bottom of the paper and I will draw my horizon line here. Tested, straight line going across the paper. Next I will draw bar on the left front side like this. I think I will take my eraser and the way some of the lines, because the horizon line doesn't need to be visible here. Then we could sketch the road. It will curve right beside the barn. Unfortunately, you cannot see the the very bottom of my papers. No, but there's actually nothing interesting going on there anyway. I will just draw like this. Then let's add some distance. Then we will add some trees here in the very back, back off the sketch. Then we could add some lamp post. Will be around, I don't know, five to six centimeters height in my sketch. To another one further back. It should be smaller because it's further away from us. Let's add one more. Maybe I will just fix this a bit too big to one. But now let's add another one on the other side of the road. And that's away from us. So it should be the smallest of all the three. But now that I look at my sketch, I realized that the one on the right, both of the legs of the right arm bit too far. So I really just fixed dose. Next I will draw some lake to clients from one lab to another. Just like these. Okay, so now that I'm looking at my lamps, it feels like the first one is a bit too small. It's kind of out of proportion, so I will just erase it and draw a slightly taller lamp, slightly bigger lamp. I think it will look much better like that. I think that's starting to look a lot better. Now. We are done with our sketch. 4. Painting the clouds: Before we start painting, I will activate my colors by spraying them with a bit of water. Next, I will make some ultramarine and Prussian blue. I will make two things. One of them will have more water and the other one will have less water. So the other one is darker and the other one a slider. I will also add a little bit of paints gray to a doctor of weeks so I can make it even more dark. Let's take a look how the colors look. Here I have the darker value on the top, then the lighter value at the bottom. Next, I will take my flat brush and start within the paper. Let's only with the sky. Let's leave the barn and the ground on touched. It doesn't matter if you put water over the lamp posts. That's totally fine. I think that is wet enough canal. And now I will take my size 12 round brush and start applying the lighter shade of ultramarine blue to the sky. Painting a kind of a diagonal manner. From corners towards the center of the paper. Like this. Leave some white spots to the paper, so don't paint it entirely with the blue. But make sure to apply some blue to the bottom of the paper as web like this. The idea is that the color will be lighter towards the horizon. It should be darker at the upper corners. After we've applied the lighter shade, it's time to take the darker shade, ultramarine. And let's apply it in a similar manner. As you paint towards the horizon. Line should be thinner and finer, and only add a few lines of this darker color to watch the horizon. I think it's time to add a darker shade to describe. I will take paints gray. I will apply it straight to the top part of the sky. Remember, we want the color to be strongest in the top part and in the corners. So I will try to apply very thick quantities TMZ often paints create those areas. Also remember that while we do describe, we needed to be totally wet. So if you notice that your sky starting to dry up, then it's time to stop painting. The sky is dry, then the cloud won't form a nice puffy shape. And it might even your sky. Now we will take a smaller brush, will mix burnt umber with ultramarine and apply it to some places in the sky to make it even darker. Again, as we go towards the horizon line, I will start making finer lines. So they will look like telling me, I think my paper is almost starting to dry up, so I will let me wrap this up. I still want a beat, the darker tone. I will now mix paints grade with burnt umber and apply it to the top part of the sky. The sky is now ready. It's time to move on to the next part. Painting the road curves. Let's let our background dry completely. 5. Painting the road and distant trees: Now it's time to paint the road. I've made a mixture of paints gray and burnt. Umber, added a lot of water to it so that we get a light gray color. Painting, starting to painting from the edge of the road and deny smoothing the color with just two quarter. Make sure that the further away you get from the Buehler, the lighter the color. You can even leave some white patches. We want the texture of the road to be kind of rough, so it doesn't need to be a smooth color. Now making a slightly darker mix with the same colors I'm and I'm also applying that to the sides of the road. I'm also painting a few lines to the road to add some texture to it. Let's also use the same color for creating some sono or effect of snow. We will mostly lead Snow White on the paper. But we'll add some lines. These great color that it kind of creates the elongation and shadows and texture of the snow. That's enough snow at least for now. Now I will take up slightly smaller size brush. Let's start making the trees on the background. I'll use ultramarine blue. For that. I will create a kind of light mix, ultramarine and water. The color is ready, so let's start painting. Basically, test small lines and blocks and depth look like trees. So this is saying very obstruct away. You'll make into trees knocked much details or actually there's no details. Paint the trees needed. I will now add a bit of darker color to the ultramarine, so I'll pick the color that we used for the Cloud. I will make trees on the other side with this color. The idea is that these trees are slightly beaker and gawk or darker. So they will look like they are a bit closer to us than the trees on the other side. 6. Painting the barn and street lamps: It's time to paint the bar. Take some burnt umber, generous amount of water to it. We want to quite a light tone and then start painting the front side of the barn. Didn't take some burnt umber and add it straight from the pad. While the background is still wet. Let's add beautiful darker shade. In some places like these. Create an even darker shade by adding a bit of Payne's gray to burn birth. Let's add more darkness to the same spots that we just painted under the roof. And then on the right side of the bar back, this next deck is smaller sized brush, and let's try to add some details. Take burnt umber straight from the pan. At lines like these. These represent ruled paneling or the boards. Barb. Your background is probably dry at this point and that's okay. Some burnt umber also under the roof. Now that your background is dry. If it's not dry yet, then wait for awhile and then add it. Let's also add some texture to the wall. This you can do one strip. Paper is dry. So take very dry paint. You can tap your brush on the tissue like this. And after that, make a brush strokes with the dry brush like this. I used burnt umber straight from the pad to create these dry brush strokes. Next, let's start making the street lights. Take burnt umber and add some water to it. We want to take quite a light tone because we first paint the lab studies, throw them away from us. So that should be the lightest color. Then take a slightly darker tone of burnt umber and paint their sacred to them. Let's paint the first lamp and you can add some paints gray to burn on birth to get an even darker tone. Take the same dark color and paint the top of the same color. The same with the other two labs as well. Then take a slightly lighter tone and paint the electric wires with that expressed to do this part with a very small brush or a brush their teeth. You can get a slightly darker tone for the electric wire that is closest to you. I think the lamps need a bit of more dark color, so take burnt umber straight from the pan and add a small lie on one side of the post. Like this, creates a bit of shadow and makes it, I think it makes the lamps pop out a bit more. Next, let's mix some blue. The burnt umber. You can take the same blue mixture that you used for described. You can add Payne's gray. The idea is to create a kind of bluish gray that is slightly darker than degrade that we have used in the ground so far. And let's add a bit more shadows like these random lines to the same places that we have added shadows before. Let's also add some here next to the bar. Next, let's add some finishing touches and let's also finalized or bar. 7. Adding finishing touches: Let's find the last two barn. Take a quite thick consistency of burnt umber and mixing paints gray and paint the front of the barn with that dark color. Also add a bit of the dark color under the rules. We want to get into a bit more darker to create a shadow there. You can also add more dry brush strokes with this dark color on the side of the bar. If you want to, It's not necessary, but you can add it if you feel like there's more need for detailed sentence structure. Then take the same dark mixture of Payne's gray and burnt umber, create some dry brush strokes on the road. Like this. You can also add some darker color to the sides of the road. Let's thin at some grass with a smaller brush. There's some grass peeking from under the snow. Let's add some here on the corner of the barn like this. And maybe some also Indeed wrote off the map. Let's also add some tone of burnt umber here. We still have the roof to finish. Take a light gray tone that's made with Payne's gray and burnt umber and paint. The rule for like these, you wouldn't necessarily need to paint smooth wash, but you can instead leave a beautiful white spaces in between the strokes. Add a bit more bluish tone to some parts of the roof to create a more interesting look for it. Let your rule for dry. And once it's dry, Let's add some dry brush OK, to the roof. And you can use Payne's gray for this. We are almost done, but let's still add some a small details. So take a small brush and take really intense black paint into your brush. And let's add black details to some places where we could use a bit more darkness. At least I'm going to add a line once again here under the barn roof and also here on the other side. Then I will also add some color to the lamp posts. And I think I will also add some grasses the week, the black color and some adults and maybe a bit off the dry brush strokes here and there. At least auditor role. My French, we are done. Let's remove the masking tape and let's take a look at the gorgeous piece that we have created.