Winter Landscape Painting with Gouache

1. About the Class: Quash is a very versatile medium, offering beginners and EC path to crafting lively artworks in contrast to other mediums. Even if you're a beginner or even if you're using quash for the first time, with a little practice, you can manage to create a beautiful artwork. Hello everyone. My name is Anita Appeal, an artist digitly immersed in the world of quash and verticl. As an author and an art instructor with five years of experience, I'm excited to share my passion with you. Join me in the skillshare class where we will together try painting a winter landscape using just three colors. To me, painting winder is more like painting joy. And I'm thrilled to guide you in creating the magic of snow with your brushes. We'll begin the class by delving into materials followed by a comprehensive color study and mixing exercise to grasp tonal values. We will also try the essential techniques in advance. This will ensure the students will be well prepared to confidently tackle the class project. Once we're thorough with the techniques, we will start with our class project. It's a fantastic way to practice color mixing, blending them, layering and adding details. You will learn to paint things like snowy mountains and pine trees, which are skills that will come in handy for your future art projects. I believe painting is for everyone, no matter your skill level. If you have a passion and love for art, I'm here to guide you. So if you're up for some painting fun, join me in this class and I will see you there. 2. Class Project: Thank you so much for joining. I'm so glad to have you here. So here's the class project that we're going to try. We will only need three colors for this entire painting. It is based on a very limited color palette. First, we'll start by looking at some color mixing exercise. The major color you will need is turquoise blue. So if we don't have turquoise blue, the color study and the color mixing exercise, we'll tell you how you can create your own color with the colors you might have with you. Don't worry if you don't have turquoise blue, there is a way to create it. And I have explained that in the color mixing section. If you don't have turquoise blue, be sure to check it out. Okay, then we will try out some techniques, some essential techniques like painting the mountain, adding some trees in the background, and also how to grow the pine trees. We don't have a lot of elements in this painting. We have a snowy mountain in the background, then some random trees here, and also some pine trees. Then the rest of all blending colors and adding some texture. All right, so that's a quick overview of the class for you guys to understand what to expect from this class. If you're ready, join me in the next section and let's get started. 3. Materials you'll need: Let's start by looking at the materials you will need. Here's the painting that we're going to try. You can see it is composed in a square format. It's a 15 centimeter square. The same painting can be done in a landscape format or a portrait format. You can compose your painting however you want. I have done the same painting in a smaller format as well as a larger format. Let me show you, here's a smaller one. The techniques and the elements to use in the painting are the same. Now, here is another one. This one I have composed in a landscape format. You can come with any kind of composition you prefer. You can go for a squire, or a portrait or landscape. But keep in mind, if it's a bigger painting, you will require more time to furnish it. Unlike aticlar gouache doesn't spread or float. You literally have to paint every little corner. Just keep that in mind when you're choosing your paper size. Now let me show you the paper that I'm going to use for this painting. It's my all time fibrate Canson heritage aticular paper. Canson is a very famous brand and they have a lot of varieties of paper. This one is a hot pressed vaticular paper from the heritage series. It is 100% cotton. Just co, any good quality vaticular paper you have caught preferably a paper which is quite thick so that it can handle multiple layers of paint. Next I'm going to show you the colors I'm going to use for this painting. I'll be using only three colors, which is turquoise, blue, black, and white. I'm not really sure how many of you have turquoise blue with you. If you don't have it, that's not a problem. We won't be using turquoise blue acts. We'll mix that with black and white to create different kind of color mixtures. So the next section, I'm explaining how you can create those colors if you don't have turquoise blue with you. So be sure to check it out. If you don't have turquoise blue, okay, we will need turquoise blue, black, and white. Those are the only three colors I'll be using for this painting. You can see the color here. It's a mix of black and turquoise blue for the sky. I have used a lighter tune and for the lake. It's a much more taker tune. Okay, so it's going to be a mix of those three colors. The next thing you will need is obviously a mixing palette. This one is a really small ceramic palette, as we're not using a lot of colors for this painting, this size is good enough. Okay, just go with any mixing palette you have caught. It can be ceramic or plastic. The next thing I'm going to show is the brushes I'm going to use. I'll be using three brushes for this painting, a flat brush and two round brushes. The flat brush is size number eight. I'll be using this brush to apply paint onto the sky and onto the lake. You can choose your brush according to the size of your paper. If it's a smaller one, you can go with a medium sized flatbrush. If it's a bigger one, go with size number ten or 12. The next brushes I have here are two round brushes, size number six and size number two. The bigger brush is to apply paint onto larger areas, and the smaller one is to add some minute detailing. Okay. Those are the brushes I'll be using for this painting. The next thing you will need is a jar of water. Whenever it is getting dirty, we can just replace the water. One jar is enough. The next thing you will need is a masking tape or a washi tape. This one is a clear tape from the brand three M. I'll be fixing my paper directly onto my table. Using this tape, you can just use any tape that you normally use. Okay. The next thing you will need is a pencil and an eraser. There isn't a lot of sketching involved. We need to add the sketch of the mountain and those snow patches. For that, you will need a pencil now, but not the least. You will also need a paper towel. This is mainly to dab off the excess amount of water from your brush. Sometimes we'll have to play the dry paint, so you will need a paper towel or a cotton cloth. Okay, so that summarize all the materials you will need for this painting. Now, before we start with our painting, let's do a quick exercise on color mixing to understand the tonal values and how you can use them in your painting. 4. Color Study: All right, so we had a look at the materials you will need. Now, the major color we're going to use for this painting is turquoise blue. It's not a very common color. I'm not really sure if all the guasets has turquoise blue in it. We are going to use turquoise blue acets. It will be a mix of black and turquoise blue. For the sky, it's a lighter tone, it's the same mix. And for the lake, it's going to be much more. First, I'm going to squeeze out some turquoise blue, black and white onto my palette. Then I will show you the spatches of these colors. Then we can try creating that color with the colors we normally have with us. So that is turquoise blue. Now I'm going to take out some black. Then I will also need some white with turquoise, blue, and black. I Usko is from a brand called Royal Talents, and the white I'm going to use is from an Indian brand called Brestro. I allowed to walk with freshly squeezed paint, so usually I don't squeeze out a lot because guash paints dry up pretty quickly and it will dry on your palette. So how much over you try to activate it, it won't have that creamy consistency. So I'll just squeeze out the paint that is needed for that particular time. Then if I need more, I will squeeze out again. All right, so I have the colors ready here. First I'm going to swatch out turquoise blue. I will just swatch out acetus. Then I will make some black and white into it. Let's see how the color is going to turn out, that is turquoise blue. I will need to add some water. The paint is really dry. Okay, Now I'm going to swatch out again that is turquoise blue from royal talents. Now into the same color, I'm going to add some black and white. The color you see here is in its original consistency. I haven't added much water. I have just added a drop. Next, I'm going to add some white into the same color, and also a tiny bit of black. Okay. That's how the color is looking right now. If you add more black, the color will look more grayish. Honestly speaking, I'm not following any particular ratio. I have just added some black into turquoise blue. Along with that, I also use some white. That's a color I've got. The color can be a bit more bluish or it can be more grayish. That's totally fine. Just add some white and a bit of black with turquoise blue and see how the color is turning out. Now into the same mix, I'm adding more black and turquoise blue, reducing the amount of white. Okay, I'm just mixing some cherkoise blue with black. Let's see how that color is going to turn out. As I mentioned earlier, for the entire painting, we'll be using a similar color mix. For the sky, it's going to be a lighter tone for the lake, it's going to be much more taco tone. Okay. That's a color I have created. It's a mix up quiz. Blue and black and only a little white. Okay, here is a closer look. The first one is Terquise Blue. The second one is Terquise Blue, black and lots of white. And the last warns with less white. Okay, so those are the kind colors I have created. If you have Riquise Blue with you, try a quick color mixing exercise. That's a color I have used for the sky, then I have made it lighter along the horizon. For the mountain asphalt, it's the same color. It's a mix up. Toiquiz, blue and black. Then for the lake here I have used a medium tone towards the bottom. It's a Daco tune, it's a simple mix, just write out and see how that is turning out. Now let's try creating a similar color with the normal blues and greens we have with us. The color I have here with me is marine blue. I've to take out another blue. This one is Pressian blue, which is a much more common blue. Okay, just pick up any blue you have got. It could be Pressian blue, ultramarine blue, or any other blue. Okay, blue is the first color. Now along with that, the next color you will need is radian green. If you don't have radian green, just use sap green. The color will be a little different, but that's totally fine. Okay, I have blue and radian green here now. First I'm starting by picking a little of pressian blue. Then into that I will add some radian cream that is pressing blue. Now I'm picking some radian cream. I'm mixing those two colors together. In this mix, you will need more green and less blue. It's a beautiful color. See that? I get this color as much more beautiful than my actual turquoise blue. Maybe we can add a pinch of green. Okay, that's a turquoise blue I have created. Now I'm going to swatch it out. See that beautiful color, right? This one doesn't have any white in it. Now, into the same mix, I will add some white. And let's see how that is going to turn out. Wow. Such a beautiful color. Right now I will swatch out that if you don't have Tikis blue, there's nothing to worry. Just take out any blue and green half cord. Depending on the green and blue you're using, the color will be slightly different which is totally fine. Now into this, I'm going to add a tiny bit of black. Okay? That looks almost similar to the other color we created. Okay? It's a mix of Prussian blue, Viridian green, black, and some white. Here's a closer look. Here's the one we created earlier. These two are similar. Before you start with the painting, just take out the colors you have. If you don't have turquoise blue and try mixing them, it can be any blue, then add some viridian green. If you don't have radian green, go with sacre. As I said earlier, the color can be a bit different. But that is totally fine. Don't worry a lot about that. According to the color you need, you can modify the amount of black and white. Okay, I have expression blue here. You'll get a similar color. If you go with any other blue, you can use marine blue, ultramarine blue, or any other blue. Now into the same mix, I'm going to add some more white. I just wanted to show you the possibilities that can create for the same mix. If you add more white, obviously it will become lighter. And if you increase the amount of black and blue and green, it will become a much more beautiful, turquoise, blue. So here's a lighter tune of the same color. We'll be using a similar tonal value for the sky, for the mountain. It's going to be slightly darker than this. Okay. Try it out. Take out the blues and greens you have and try various mixing option. Go with the color which you like the most. As I mentioned earlier, it can be a little different. It doesn't need to be exactly the same. There is no guarantee. If I try creating the same color second time, it might not look the same. Those differences are okay. That is not going to affect your painting. All right? So try it out and prepare your color mix in advance so that you don't need to waste any time in between. 5. Essential Techniques: We had to look at the colors and how you can mix and create him. Next, I think it's a good idea to try out some techniques that you'll be more confident when you're trying out the painting. In this section, I'll be showing you how to paint the snowy mountains, then the trees in the background, and also the pine trees. The rest is quite easy, you can follow them as you paint. Okay, well, Strite out. I will start with the mountain. I have some leftover paint here from the color exercise Toli, I'm using the same color, it's a medium tone. We already have swathed out that color. It's a mix up turquoise, blue, black and white. It's something similar to this color here. You can either mix and create that color. This color is a mix of blue, radian, green, and white. We'll be using a lighter tone, this one here. Okay? If you have to require blue, you can use that directly or can mix and create your own color. It can be a bit more bluish or grayish, That's not a problem. Okay. I hope that is clear. This is the color I'm going to use. Okay. Now I'm going to add a very basic mountain. I'm directly going with the brush. I'm not going to add any sketch. It's a very basic mountain. Okay, so add in a very basic shape using that color you have created. Then fill up that entire shape. The base layer is a solid wash of this color. Just fill it up. The color is really important. It can be a bit more lighter, but don't make it too dark. Okay. Mix and create that color. And add a sketch of a mountain, then fill it up. Okay, that's my mountain. I have applied paint onto the entire shape. Now we're going to add some texture onto this. I'm going to clean my brush. I'm switching to white. Now to add the texture, I'm going to use a smaller brush. The brush I used earlier was size number six, but we need a smaller brush to add the texture. Honestly, these textures are very easy to add. It is just going to be some white texture. You can see them here. We'll have to go with a dry white paint and we can just add some texture onto the mountain to create an impression of snow on the mountain. It is very simple. The only major thing is you have to go with a paint. Take out a paper towel or a cotton cloth, and once you have taken the paint, you'll have to dab your brush on a paper towel multiple times just to be sure the paint is dry and there isn't much water in it. Okay. With my size number two on brush, I'm picking some white paint just a little. I'm not picking a lot now. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel and I'm making it really dry. There isn't any water on my brush. Now, with that paint, I'm adding some tri texture onto the mountain in a sloping way. It's a very simple trick to add snow onto the background mountain. All you have to do is just go with tri paint and randomly add some texture. Give it a try and you will know how easy it is, but it has a lot of impact on your painting. I'm going to add some snow onto the tip of the mountain, onto this bigger side from the tip. I'm adding them in a sloping way following the same profile of the mountain. If you want to add more, you could do that. Also at some places maybe you can go for a thicker paint. You can already see the difference those patterns made. Just go with dry paint and add some texture. You can add as much as you want. In this particular painting we're going to try, I'm considering the mountain to be in the background, it is far away, snowy texture doesn't need to be too prominent. You can just add a little here and there. You can decide on how much snow you want to add in your painting. If you want to add some more thick prominent snow, go with an opaque paint and add some more snow onto your mountain. Otherwise, you can just add some try patterns and make it look very subtle. Now, I'm adding a few here, again in a sloping way. It is a super dry paint. I haven't added any water using the tip of my brush. I'm just introducing those textures onto the surface of the mountain. Okay, that's how it has turned out. Maybe we can add some more. All right. That's it. That's a snowy mountain. Give it a try if you're a complete beginner, otherwise I think you can follow along. It is not really necessary to try it out. Okay, that's a snowy mountain. Next we are going to try these trees in the background. Now, these ones are really simple. It is just a matter of adding some lines close to each other. It's a technique that I normally use to paint pine trees in the background. Whether it's a watercolor painting or a guash painting, I use the same technique. Now to add those trees, I'm mixing some black, turquoise, blue. That's a color I'm going to use. Okay, so with that daco tone, I'm going to add some lines close to each other. It is literally some lines. The brush I'm using here is size number two. Go with any of your smaller brush and keep adding some lines close to each other. Okay? Right now there is some gap in between. We need to fill up all those gaps, add them close to each other. Some of the lines can be taller and some of them can be shorter for our painting as well. We'll use the same technique, but we will use different tunel values to make it look more natural. Okay, Right now, the color I used here is really dark. Now, with the same color, I'm going to add them along the mountain. Okay? Maybe we can try using different tonal values to see how it's going to look like. Just go with any of your smaller brush. It could be size number two or three. Just go with the brush which has got a pointed tip. Now keep adding some lines close to each other along the bottom. You can just simply fill it up right here. We don't have anything but for our painting, we'll have snow along the bottom. Okay. That's how it has turned out. You can go for a varying height to make it look more natural. You can see it towards the center. I have made them shorter. It's just a matter of adding some lines close to each other. Give it a try. If you're an absolute pigner, see if we hustle how easy it is. Now I'm going to pick a medium tone of the same color I use for the mountain. It is a mix of black, chirkoise blue and a little of white. Now with that color, I'm going to add few more trees here. I just want to show you how beautiful it will look. If you use different tonal values, it will add a realistic touch to your painting. We'll be using a similar technique here. We'll use two different tonal values when we're adding the trees. All right, we try the background elements, we try the background mountain and the trees in the background. Next we are going to try the foron element, which is the pine trees. We don't have a lot of fokrowd elements in this painting. The only major element is the pine trees. Then we have a snowy ground. Now, these trees are also quite simple. It isn't that complicated. I have tried my best to simplify them anyway. I'm starting by picking some black. I'm using the same brush. It is size number two. I'm starting by adding a straight line. That's the height of the tree. This one is quite tall for our painting. I will use a much more shorter tree. Anyways, that's a tree trunk. Now we're going to add the foliage with the tip of my brush. I'm going to add some random irregular lines onto either side on the tip. I'm not going to add a lot, leaving some cap in between. But as they come towards the bottom, I will make them more wider and thicker. See that? It's just a matter of adding some scribbly messy lines onto either side. They can be sloping down. Overall, your tree should have a conical or a triangular shape, which means on the tip it has to be thin, and towards the bottom it should be more wider. Overall, it should have a similar shape. Then following that shape, we are just adding that foliage onto either side. I hope I'm making sense. Okay. Now let's try that with our brush. You can see the lines I'm adding here, They are super messy. Just keep on adding them onto either side. At the end, you will have a beautiful pine tree. Give it a try on a scrap piece of paper. Once you get the hang of it, you will enjoy doing pine trees, it isn't that difficult, trust me. Give it a try three or four times, you don't need a good quality paper, just pick up a copy paper or an old notebook or any kind of paper and just try adding them. First, you have to start with the tree trunk, then onto either side, keep adding these messy scribbly lines. If you look at them closely, it looks quite messy and weird. But at the end, when you're done adding those lines until the bottom, you will have a beautiful pine tree right in front of you. Just get to try if you're an absolute winner. This one is a very easy method. You only have to get a hang of it. Once you are familiarized with that brush moment, it becomes really easy. Then you can add a pine tree in less than 10 seconds. These ones are quite short, it won't be this much detailed. The pine tree here is much more detailed than the one I have used for the painting. Less of the size. It is much more easier to add them because you don't need to add a lot of details. I'm hoping you guys were able to follow. Now, I'm going to add one more tree. Let's see how quickly I can add that. I'm starting with the tree trunk. This one is shorter than the previous one. Now onto either side, I'm just adding those scribbly messy lines. Okay. Just keep on adding them onto either side to make it look more natural. Maybe you can leave some cap in between. It doesn't need to be dense and thick throughout the entire tree. At some places there can be some cap. Okay. Now as I'm coming towards the bottom, I'm making it more denser and wider. Okay. Just use the same press and keep on adding more denser patterns and fill it up until you reach the bottom. All right, so that's my tree. You can see I finished my tree in 30 seconds or a bit more. Overall, it have a conical shape for our painting. We'll be adding snow onto these trees right here. The background color is white. Even if I add the snow, it won't show up. All right, so we have tried all the necessary techniques. We try the Snowy mountain, these trees in the background, and also these pine trees. We also tried a color mixing exercise, which means we have tried everything, and now it's time to paint a beautiful window landscape. 6. Winter Landscape - Part 1 : The Base Layer: All right. So here's the paper that I'm going to use for my painting. It's from a brand called Canson. It is the heritage series. Canson has a lot of varieties of paper. This is the one I particularly love for my guash paintings. It's a hot priced verticlar paper, which is 100% cotton. And here's the size of the paper I'm going worth. I'm going to compose the painting in a square format. All the sites are roughly 15 centimeters, so that's the size I'm going with now. I'm going to start by fixing my paper onto my table directly. You can fix it onto your table or onto a drawing board. I'm missing a clear tape here. You can go with any normal tape that I use. It can be a masking tape or a washi tape. Okay. So just fix your paper onto your drawing board or onto a table. Once you have applied the masking tape, run your fingers across the tape just to make sure there's no gaps in between. Okay. Now the third side, just go with any paper of your choice, preferably a thicker paper. You can go with a squire format, or a landscape or a portrait format. That's rotely up to you. You can compose your painting however you want, then fix your paper onto your board or onto a drawing table. Okay, Next we are going to add the sketch. It is not a complicated sketch. I'm starting by adding the horizon line almost to the center of the paper. Okay, so that's a horizon line. Now I'm going to add a very basic mountain. We can always modify the shape as we paint as quashes opaque. Even if you're not really happy with your sketch, that's not a problem. Just add a very basic mountain in the background. Okay. We'll be adding the pine trees towards the right side over here. I'm just showing you where we're going to add them. You don't need to add the sketch. We'll add a few pine trees over here. Okay. Next we need to add a snowy ground. I'm going to go for an irregular shape to make it look more natural. Okay? So, just to add an irregular line, you can add that how you want. On the left side we have the water. Then on the right we have the snowy ground. Just like I said earlier, we can change the shape as we paint for now, simply add a rough shape. Okay, so that's the right side. We'll be adding some tiny rocks and some texture onto this area when we are painting. Now I'm going to add an irregular line towards the bottommost area, Asphole. Let me tell you, you don't need to add the sketch in the exact same way you can modify the shape as you like. Maybe you can add some small patches of snow on the water, just like that. You can add few shapes here and there. All right, so the sketch is ready. Now, let's start preparing the colors. I have cleaned my palette now I'm going to start by squeezing out some turquoise blue. We had to look at the color mixing options. Just go with any color that you have. Even if you don't have turquoise blue, it's not a problem. We have tried different mixing options. Go with any one of them that is turquoise blue. Next I will need some black and a lot of white. We only need a bit of white. The color I'm going to prepare now is for the sky. It should have more blue, a bit of black, and a lot of white. Okay? Squeeze out only a lot of black. Okay, That is black. Now I will need a lot of white. We'll start with the medium tune, then as we come down, as we approach the horizon line, we're going to make the color lighter. So we will need a lot of white. Okay, the colors already we have turquoise, blue, black, and white. Now I'm going to use my size number eight flat brush to mix the color. I'll be using the same brush to paint the sky asphole, mixing white and a bit of turquoise blue. Then I'm adding a tiny amount of black into this mix. With the same brush, I'm picking some black. The color is more like a grayish blue or a bluish gray, whatever you want to call it. Now I'm going to swash out that color on a scrap piece of paper so we'll get an idea about how the color is looking like. Here's the color I've created by mixing, chiquise blue, white, and a bit of black. The color can be a bit more darker or lighter and can be a bit different from this according to the blue that you're using. Those things are totally fine, just go worth any kind of bluish gray. We'll be using a similar kind of mix for this entire painting. Multiple times Times we'll go for a ducker mix, we'll add more black into it, and sometimes we'll make it lighter by adding more white. Okay, here's the color I'm going to use for the sky mix and create your color according to the size of your paper. If it's a bigger paper, make enough of paint in advance that you won't run off of the paint. In between, if your paint is really dry, you can add a bit of water. Just one or two drops of water is all we need. Okay. Now applying that color on the top of the sky as I come down, I will make the color lighter by adding more white. I only need a medium tune on the top. The rest has to be lighter. I'm adding some white. And I'm mixing that with the blue for the sky. We're going to go with a simple gradient. There is no clouds or any complicated elements. It will just start with a medium tone, then we'll make it lighter as we come down. It seems like there's some black on my brush. So I'm cleaning my brush thoroughly. Then I'm going to pick up some clean paint. Okay. Now, I'm going to apply that again. Okay. This seems fine. Now, I will need to make it lighter as I'm approaching the horizon line. Whenever you feel your paint is really dry, you can add a drop of water. That's not a problem, but don't add a lot. One or two drops is all we need. Okay, That's a top part. It is looking really nice. I just love this color. Next we have to add more white and we have to make it lighter with the same brush. I'm peeing a lot of white and I'm adding that, I'm blending that with the blue. There's one thing you have to be careful about. You should only run your brush in a horizontal direction from left to right so that you get a clean blend mix. Different brush moments, you won't get a clean blend as we're not going to add any clouds or anything onto the sky. Getting a clean blend can make your painting look really beautiful. Run your brush only in one single direction. All right. I have applied the paint now. I'm going to clean my brush with a damp brush. I'm going to blend the colors. My brush is clean. It is just damp. It is not overly wet. Now I'm running my damp brush back and forth in a horizontal direction to get the best blend. This is how Des turned out. You can see we have medium tune on the top and we have a light to tune towards the bottom. You can make it even more lighter if you prefer that, but I think it looks good. For now, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm not going to go and I can. Okay, so we have painted the sky. The next thing I'm going to paint is the mountain. We'll just apply the base layer now, then we can add the details later. I'm going to keep this pressure side, I'm going to go with the roundh. You can go with any of your medium sized roundrush. The one I'm missing here is size number six. I'm going to use the same color that I used earlier as a mix of black, turquoise, blue and white. Okay, so that's the color I'm going with. I'll have to mix and create some more paint. All right. Now I'm going to apply that color on to the Tea Mountain. As I mentioned earlier, the color can be a bit different. It can be a bit more darker or lighter. That's not a problem. Okay, now let's apply that on to the Tea Mountain. First, you can define the shape of the mountain, then you can fill that in. For now, we just need a solid wash of this color. First, you can draw the outline of your mountain. Then fill that in. Later, we'll be adding some snowy texture using white paint. Now we only need a rough shape for the mountain. Okay. Mix and create a similar color. It can be a bit more darker or lighter, that's not a problem. Also, you can modify the shape of your mountain. Everything that I'm showing here, consider that as a reference or a guide and compose your painting however you like. Your mountain doesn't need to be like this. It can be much more bigger or smaller. Feel free to go with your guts and change the painting however you like. You can compose it in your own way. Okay, I have added the mountain. Now I'm thinking of modifying the shape a little. I'm picking the same paint. I won't be changing the shape a lot. I just wanted to make that line a bit more irregular to add the realistic touch to it. Okay, you guys can also do the same thing, pick up that leftover paint on your palette and modify the shape of your mountain if you want to. We have used the same color for the sky and the mountain. For the sky, the color was a bit more lighter than this. We have added more white in to it. For the mountain, we have used a slightly darker tone. We reduce the amount of white. That's only difference. Now, after this, we're going to paint the lake. Again. We are using the same color, but for the lake, we won't be adding a lot of white. We want the color to be a bit more darker than this. The mix will have more turquoise, blue and black than white. Okay, we have paint of the sky and the mountain. Next we are going to paint the lake. For that, I'm going to go back with my flat rush. You can also use around rush if that is what you prefer. Now, we'll start with the medium tone, then as we're coming down, we will add more black and we'll make the color darker. I have some turquoise blue here, but I don't think that will be enough. I will need to take out more white place and turquoise blue, as I mentioned earlier, it's going to be the same mix. It's a mix of turquoise blue, black, and white. But this time, instead of adding more white, we're going to reduce the amount of white. The color is going to be much more taco. Okay, mix some turquoise blue with black, then add a bit of white. We'll start with the medium tone, then as we're coming down, we'll make the color more taco by reducing the amount of white. I will also take some black so that I don't need to waste any time in between. All right. We have all the colors ready Now, I will just show you the color I have created here. It's a mix of turquoise, blue plaque and a tiny bit of white. That's a color that's a major color we're going to use for the lake. Then towards the bottom, we will make the color more darker by adding more plaque. Okay. Just mix the colors you have with you and try to create a similar color. Obviously, when you're mixing the color, it might be a bit different, which is totally fine. Okay. It can be a little more darker or lighter. It can also be a different share of blue even that is totally fine. Okay. Now I'm going to apply this color on to the lake. I'm starting with a medium tone. I have added some white. That's a color I'm going to go with. Okay. Now along the horizon, I'm going to apply this color. You can see that beautiful color. This is a mix of turquoise blue, a bit of black, and a bit of white. The major portion is turquoise blue. I have only added a tiny bit of black and white. Now you can follow that outline we have added there. You can fill in the color. Okay. It doesn't need to be like a perfect outline. The paint can go a little inside of the snowy ground. That's totally fine. We can fix it. When we paint the snowy ground, we'll be using an opaque layer of white. We can fix those things quite easily, so don't worry a lot about it, your paint, however you can. My paint is a bit dry. I'm going to add a drop of water. At any point when you feel your paint is really dry, you can add one or two drops of water. That's not a problem, But don't add a lot of water. Like you paint with water color. If you add a lot of water, your paint will lose its opacity. It won't have that matt valvity texture. It will look transparent. Don't add a lot of water. Only one or two drops is all we need. Okay, that's a medium tone. Now I'm going to make the color more ark, adding a drop of water again. I'm also adding some more black into the same mix. That's a color I'm going with adding that ten now I will had to blend that with the other color we have on the top. Then towards the bottom, I'm going to make the color even more taco by adding more and more black. Start with the medium tone of that blue green color, then as you come down, make the color more taco by adding more black. It's not a complicated step. The base layer is pretty simple. The sky was a gradient wash. Then for the mountain, we introduce a solid wash. There is no texture or any pattern. We'll add that later, but for now, it is just a solid wash. The major element in this painting is the color. As you all know, we are only using three colors for this entire painting to require blue, black, and white. Once you get an idea about how to mix sand, how to use that color, the rest you can manage, then I'm quite sure about that. Okay. Now I'm picking more black and I'm adding that to what's the bottom? We have a snowy crowd at the bottom. As I'm following that outline, I'm filling this area in a taco tone of the same color I used earlier. First, you can start with a medium tone, then you can keep on adding more black into the same mix and you can make it more taco. Okay. It looks like it is quite rough. It's not a good blend. What I'm going to do is I'm going to clean my brush with a term brush. I'm going to blend the colors. Maybe you can pick up bit more paint. Just blend it. It doesn't need to be perfect blend like we painted the sky. It can have some lines and some textures here and there. When you look at the background, you shouldn't be able to find different bands of paint. A medium tone at the top, then a daco tone at the bottom. It should look very natural. That's the only thing I'm concerned about. You can see here, there are quite a lot of lines in the background. I'm not at all worried about those things. They can stay. Okay, that's a layer. Now, I'm going to keep this pressure aside now. We're going to introduce some texture into the background. 7. Winter Landscape - Part 2 : Adding Snow: To add the texture into the background, it's good to go with a smaller sized round brush. I will show you with this brush, it is size number six. You can see the lines are quite thick here. That is not what we really need. We need the lines to be quite thin. Okay? I'm just going to keep this one aside and I'm switching to a smaller one. This one is size number two. It has got a really nice pointed tip. Now I'm picking a taco tone. I wouldn't be adding a lot of lines on the top. I'm going to focus on the bottom part. I'm picking that taco tone with my smaller brush and I'm just going to add some random lines, They don't have any particular length, or size, or thickness. I'm adding that towards the bottom where we have that taco tone in the background. You can either use black acetors or it can go the taco tone. Simply add some lines to create some texture. Be sure not to add them on the top. Add them only at the bottom part where you have a darker tone in the background. Okay, just keep adding some lines using your smaller brush. Then you can add a few underneath this land. Asphe can see here the amount of lines I have added. It isn't a lot, but I'm quite happy with that. Now I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to go with a lighter tone. I have some leftover paint here. I'm picking that now towards the top part. I'm missing that color. It is an opaque paint. I have added a few drops of water. Now I'm adding a few lines, just a few. They don't need to be too prominent. Go the paint which is watery, and add a few lines towards the top. Okay. You can see the amount of lines I'm adding. They are not a lot. I've only added a few lines that are using a lighter tone. I don't want the lines to be too prominent, but I want to create a subtle texture in the background. Okay, That's how it has turned out. You can barely see those lines along the horizon, but towards the bottom, they are quite prominent. Anyway, that part is done. Now the next task is to add the texture on the mountain. I'm cleaning my brush, We are going with white. We need some clean white. I think I have some paint on my palette, so I'm picking that with the same brush. It's a size number two rom brush. Go with any of your smaller brush now if you feel like there's a lot of paint on your brush, dab it on a paper towel. Before you start, we're going to apply some tri texture on the mountain. So don't pick a lot of paint, We only need a very little amount of paint on your brush. Okay, So I've taken some paint now. I'm going to add some dry texture. This paint I'm using here, don't have any amount of water as a dry paint. Just in case if you feel your paint is watery, dab it on a paper towel multiple times. Only if you feel like the paint is really dry. Go ahead and add these patterns. I'm adding them in a sloping manner to create an impression that the mountain is sloping. You can see the white textures I have here. They are not prominent. Go in a similar way. Don't pick a lot of paint. Take only a little amount of paint on your brush and keep adding these dry texture onto the mountain. We are considering this mountain to be really far, which means the snowy texture won't be that prominent, it will have a more subtle and a faded look. That is exactly the reason why I'm going with a very limited amount of paint now. I'm planning to add all the pine trees towards the right side, exactly over here. Which means even if you add those patterns on the mountain, it won't be really visible. Maybe this area, you can just leave it as it is. You can just add a few patterns here and there. That's all we need because we're going to add the pine trees exactly in front of this mountain. We'll have some taller pine trees which will cover up the mountain on this side, you don't need to add a lot of patterns, can focus on the remaining area. This is one of my favorite technique to add snow. You can see how easily we created an impression of snow in the background. You have to go with the dry paint. Don't go with that thick, creamy, opaque paint. Take on a little, see that I'm only taking a little of paint on my brush. With that paint, you can keep adding those. Try texture. As I mentioned earlier, if you feel your paint is watering, you can dab it on a paper towel just to be sure the paint is dry. Then you can keep on adding these lines. If you want to add more white pattern, you could do that, that's not a problem. You can see that I added some more white paint, a bit more thick and creamy paint in between, you can add those patches to make it look like more snowy. Okay. That's the right side. Similarly, we need to add dry patterns on to the Te Mountain. We have half of the mountain left. Let's keep on adding these patterns. It's a very easy technique if you have dry paint on your brush. It isn't a complicated technique. You will get a hang of it once you try it. Maybe in the first dry you feel like your paint is not dry. Then take out a paper towel, your brush on it. Then repeat the same exercise. At one point, you will clearly understand how dry your paint has to be. Okay, you don't need to add a lot of patterns, just add a few here and there. And you can see I'm adding them in a sloping manner, so go in a similar way and add some dry textures onto the mountain. Okay, so that's how it has turned out. Now in between, if needed, you can add some more patches, pick some more paint on your brush, and add a few extra lines to Okay, That's my snowy mountain. Now there's one more thing you can do. Maybe in between, you can add much more thick of snow. Pick up some more paint onto the tip of the mountain, adding some extra white paint. This is to make that snow more prominent. This step is totally optional. I just wanted to show you the varieties you can add onto your mountain. Just in case you want to add some more extra snow onto your mountain, you can add a few extra paint. Otherwise, just leave it the way it is. Okay. That's how it has turned out. I hope you guys were able to follow. We started off with a solid wash, then onto that we added some dry texture, that's a snowy mountain. Now for the next step, I'm going to pick some thick, creamy white paint with the same brush. This one is size number two. You can see that thick paint on my brush. Now, with that thick white paint, I'm going to add a snowy patch underneath the mountain. The mountain in the background is quite far from us, and that's why I used a lighter tone. Now, over here, this area is much more closer to us. I'm adding some thick white snow there. Okay. We're trying to show like there is a land there and it is covered in snow. Okay. So I'm starting with a low height. Now as I go towards the right side, I will make it a bit more higher. Maybe first we can add the outline, then we can fill that in white paint. Okay, along the bottom we need to add a straight line on the top. It can be an irregular line. It can be sloping towards the right or left. You can compose it however you want. And towards the bottom, it has to be a straight line and go the thick white paint. Don't add a lot of water, obviously, you can add a drop of water if you feel your paint is really dry. But not a lot. Okay. If you add a lot of water, it will look transparent and you will start disturbing the base layer. Also, if you add a lot of water, the paint won't look white. White like this. The color in the background will start showing up. Okay, that's our snow patch. Now towards the rightmost end, I'm not adding any paint. We'll be adding our pine trees onto this part. I'm just stopping it here. Okay. Now, I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going to add some pine trees far away. We already have the color on our palette. It's the same color, it's a mix of Chicoise blue and black. My brush is clean. Now, I'm picking that leftover paint, adding a few drops of water. It's a mix of black and chirquoise blue, the same color we have used here. Now for this tip, it is good to go with a smaller brush or a brush with a pointed tip. This one is size number two. It has got a pretty decent tip. Now I'm going to add some lines over here. It isn't a very detailed pine tree. Using the tip of my brush, I'm just adding some lines. Some of them are longer and some of them are shorter. I'm just adding them onto this corner. First, you can see they are very rough shapes. I'm not putting a lot of effort. See that using the tip of your brush, Keep adding some lines close to each other using that taker tune. Now along the bottom, I'm just filling that in an irregular manner. It shouldn't be a clean line. Just add some messy patterns and then fill it up. Okay, that's how it has turned out. You can clearly see that messy line at the bottom. On the top, we have those lines. Okay, let's keep adding similar trees. Maybe we can go with a lighter tone this time. That's a color I use for the leak. I have some leftover paint now using that color. I'm adding the remaining lines. The colors can be slightly different, that's not a problem. Start with a darker tone, then switch to a slightly lighter tone and keep adding those lines. You can clearly see the varying length I have used here go in a similar way. This will make your trees look more natural. Now I'm going to make some of them a bit more higher with the tip of my brush extending those lines. My paint was really dry. I've added a drop of water. Now I'm repeating the same exercise. I'm just extending those lines and I'm filling up the bottom. It's a very simple method to add pine trees in the background. It is just some lines, you can clearly see them here. I use the same technique For what color and age. Whenever I'm painting these trees in the background, I don't put a lot of effort. This is good enough. Next we'll have to add similar trees onto the other side as well. Otherwise that white patch will look very beard. Okay. So for that I'm using a lighter tone. Into that, I'm going to add some white again, don't worry a lot about the color. Just try to go with a similar tonal value. It can be a bit more bluish or grayish. That's not a problem. Also, according to the blue that you're using, the color can be a bit different. Just don't worry about those things. It just has to be nearly similar. Okay. That's a color I'm going to go with. Now, using that color, I'm going to add some shorter pine trees here in between. I have left a cap, I'm not adding them continuously. This is just to give it a realistic feel. The color I'm using right now is more Cherkoisy doesn't have a lot of black. It only has a little of black and then a lot of white. Okay. Now, I'm just adding those lines onto the top part of the snowy ground, just like we did earlier. Some of them can be longer and some of them can be shorter, and you can play with different trunal values at some places it can be darker, at some places, it can be lighter as well. Okay. They are super messy lines. I'm not putting a lot of effort here. You can see that clearly, these trees are in the background. This is all we need. We'll be adding another set of pine trees in the fue ground, which will have to be a lot more detailed just adding a few tiny trees here. Okay, that looks nice. If you want to add some more trees or if you want to make some of them longer, you could do that. Now I'm going to go with a Taco tune and I'm going to introduce some Taco tune along the bottom with the same brush. I'm going to introduce some tiny lines along the bottom part. Okay, On the top I'm going to retain that medium tone. And only towards the bottom, I'm introducing some Taco tune to get a finishing touch. Okay, I'm just adding a few random lines here and there. I'm not adding them continuously. Okay. That's how it has turned out. Now, we need to clear that bottom part with the same brush. I'm going to add an irregular line, just the same way how we painted the left side. I'm picking some more paint and I'm going to add an irregular line. Don't go for a straight, clean line. Add that in an irregular manner. Just add that as if your hand is shaping, add some messy, tiny patterns and fill up that bottom line. It can be some dots and some random shapes. It doesn't even need to be a line. Okay, That's how it has turned out. There are some gaps in between. I'm going to fill them up. You can see those wide dots in between. I'm just adding some more paint to fill up those gaps. Okay. You can see how messy those lines are, but at the end it is. Giving a beautiful field to painting. Now, we're going to introduce some texture onto the snow. I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going to dab that on a paper towel just to be sure it is not too watery, But there is still some leftover paint, a lighter tone. Now, with that, I'm just adding some teeny tiny dots and some random shapes onto the snowy part. You can see it's a very light tone. It's way, it's not an opaque paint. Some random dots and some shapes onto the snowy part. They don't need to be too prominent. We are trying to introduce those textos and shadows on the ground. Now, once you have added those lighter tone, switched to a darker tone, it can be the color we use for those pine trees. Now with that, again, add some tiny, tiny patterns, mostly onto the top part. It's just some dots and some random shapes which are small in size. Add them along the top part. See that? Just add some messy shapes to give it the more realistic feel. It was just a white band. It was looking quite weird, but now with all those patterns and those trees, it is really looking a lot more beautiful. I hope you guys are enjoying the process, okay. That's how it has turned out. You can see how beautiful it is looking. Now, just in case, if you feel those patterns are really prominent or if you have added enough, go back with some white paint, fill up some areas, okay? I just wanted to show you, there is a way to fix everything if you're unhappy with your result, okay, That is it. Now the next step is to paint those larger areas, but if you have the ground covered in snow, okay, so let's do that. 8. Winter Landscape - Part 3 : Adding The Elements: To paint the larger areas, it is obviously a good choice to go with a bigger brush from size number two. I'm switching to size number six. Okay. Now I'm going to pick up some clean white paint and I'm going to add that onto the entire ground. Say that I'm using a thick, creamy paint, I haven't added any water. Now, I'm going to fill up all these land in white color for now. Don't really worry about the shape or any details. Simply go with white paint and fill that entire area. Now just in case, if you have any leftover paint or spin showing up when you're applying white, that's totally fine. A lighter tone, that's not a problem at all. See over here, that is some paint. It looks like there was some leftover paint on my brush. Those things are totally fine. We can use them as shadows. See that if it's a darker tone, it's some black or any other color like that. Pick up more paint and smudged. If it's a lighter tone, that's totally fine, just leave it there. Now, onto this layer, we'll be adding some texture and some shadows using a lighter tone. That's why I told you, even if you have some lighter tones in between, that's totally fine. Okay, now I have some more area on the top. I'm picking more white paint. I need to fix this line here. I'm carefully following that outline and I'm adding the paint. You can modify the shape later. That's totally fine. See that I have extended that a little. Okay, for now, I think this is fine. Now, I'm going to introduce some texture onto this. Now to add the shadows I'm using the color which I use for the sky. I have some leftover paint here and there is some white paint on my brush. The color will be a little more lighter. See that? That's color I'm going to use to add the shadows. You can either use the same brush or if you want to switch to a smaller brush, you could do that. Now I'm going to add this paint along the bottom side. See that I'm just folding that bottom outline. I'm adding a line there. Then I will gradually smudge it. Go the similar tonal value, don't use a darker paint. The color can be different. We just have to go the lighter tone. It can be more bluish or grayish. That's not a problem. Pick some paint on your brush, not a lot. Just a little, add a line along the bottom. I'm not adding any on the top, I'm just folding that bottom outline. I'm simply adding some lines to show the shadows. They don't need to be clean and perfect. The only thing you have to be careful about is the tonal value. Simply add a line there. Now on the top you can see the color I'm using. It is very light. That is a major thing you have to keep in mind when you're adding these shadows. Now, at any point, if you feel those lines are very prominent and they are a darker tone, you can just clean your brush and go with a damp brush and smudge those lines. It isn't a problem. You can fix all those things. Now, I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel with very little paint. I'm just adding a few lines here and there, shorter lines, to create a texture in the background along the bottom, I have added a line, now I'm just adding some tiny lines and some textures in a very random way. You can add more texture if you feel like, but the major color has to be white. We are only introducing some textures and some shadows here and there. Okay, don't add a lot, don't go overboard. That's a base layer. We first added white, and now we have added some shadows and texture using a lighter tone. But this is not it. We have one more step for that. We'll have to go with a Taco tone, But before that I think we can paint the bottom part as well. We have one more section of snowy ground. Let's paint that, then we can add the final details. I'm going back with white and I'm adding that onto the bottom shape. Then gradually, we'll have to introduce those shadows and textures using a lighter tone. I will need more white paint. Okay, with the same brush, I'm picking more white paint and I'm adding that onto the bottom part. First, I'm adding the outline on the top. I need a nice, irregular line. Okay, now I'm going to fill it up, picking more paint, Adding that in, that's a first step. Now, just the same way how we did earlier, we need to introduce some shadows and some texture using a lighter tone. That's our next task. First I will add some more paint here. It looks like I disturb the base layer so that gray is showing up. So I'm just going to cover that up, then we can introduce the shadows. Okay, that looks fine for now. Next, with the same brush, I'm picking that lighter tone. If there's a lot of paint on your brush, tap it on a paper towel. Then add some light shadows and texture onto the base layer. See that. That's a tonal value you have to go with. Don't make it more darker. The color can be more on the bluish side than on the gray. I'm just adding few lines here and there. Then I will clean my brush. Then with the damp brush, I'm just going to smarche. That's why I told you earlier, even if there is some mistake or there's some taco tone in your background, that's not a problem at all. You can go the tamprush and smart it, even for the other side, you could do the same. The trick is having a ambush. It's a clean a brush and I'm smarching the paint using the tip. Okay. That's where we have reached now We need to introduce more tacotons and some tri patterns. I'm just going to keep this pressure aside and I'm switching to my smaller brush. This one is size number two I'm going with right now. If you look at the painting, it looks like there is something missing. That is where we're going to add using black. With my size number two brush, I'm picking some black paint first, I'm going to add some dark shadows underneath the bottom. Then I will gradually introduce some texture onto the surface. I'm starting by adding an irregular line using black paint. Go through any of your smaller brush when you're doing this exercise or any brush with a pointed tip. Now, this line doesn't need to be a continuous thick line. Break that in between and add that in an irregular way. Okay, we can see the line I have added now in a similar way, I'm adding a line onto all the other sections. Don't add that as a straight line. Make it irregular at some places. Also you can make it a bit more thicker at some places. Those variations will make it look a lot more realistic. Okay, so that's a top part in a similar way I'm adding for the second section right underneath that. I think over here we already have some shadows, but I will add a little more. Right now we're also defining the shape of that snowy ground. You can see I've added a tiny groove in between. You can even add those modifications to the shape. Okay, now similarly, I'm adding some shadow for this section. This one is a longer section. For some reason it looks like a crocodile to me. So I'm just going to break the shape. I'm adding some grooves in between to make it look more natural. The color we have in the background is a really darker tone. Even if you add those modifications using a black paint, it won't be that prominent. Okay, now we have one more section at the bottom. First I will add a few lines here. I'm also modifying the shape. You can see the way it has changed. Right now, it is looking a lot more defined with all those shadows. Earlier it was looking quite flat. Now we have a small section left here. I will fix that asphole. Then we have a bigger snowy ground at the bottom. Okay. I'm defining the shape by adding a shadow. Okay. That is it. Now we have a bigger section at the bottom. If you're happy with the shape and if you want to retain the same, you don't need to add much. But just in case you want to break that shape and add some groups in between like the way I'm adding it here, you can go with a black paint. Otherwise you can just leave it the way it is. Okay. Now I'm just modifying the shape here, so this one is looking pretty good. I don't need to alter the shape a lot. Next what I'm going to do is I will tap my persona paper towel multiple times and I'm going to go with the tri paint. Keep tapping your brush four or five times and make sure your paint is dry. Now let's add some teeny tiny patterns along the same line. Be sure to go the dry paint and make sure your brush has only a very little amount of paint. Don't go with the thick opaque paint. It's just some tiny dots and some random shapes. They're super tiny. I'm adding them towards the bottom, something similar to the one we did on the top. The major thing is dry paint. You have to be very careful about that. If you feel like your paint is still watery, tap it on a paper towel again before you repeat the step. Now, just add some tiny dots and shapes. Just random shapes. It doesn't need to have any particular length or size. We are trying to create some texture here, so they can be super random. Now let's add a few on the top, only a few. The major color has to be white. We are trying to show there is some random stones or rock on the surface. If it's not a dry paint, they will look very prominent. We don't need that. We want them to be super subtle. Now let's do the same towards the bottom. I think can already see the difference between the top and the bottom. The top is looking a lot more realistic. The bottom looks like there is something missing. We need to introduce those textures here as well. Your major focus has to be a bottom line. Follow that shape and add some patterns there first. Then you can add a few onto the surface. Add them in a very minimal way. And the size has to be really small. Don't add a lot, okay? There can be some tiny dots and some tiny shapes. And use the tip of your brush, it's good to go the smaller brush, so they will end up looking small. If it's a bigger brush, there are chances they might appear big. Okay. Now in a similar manner, I'm adding some texture at the bottom. You can see the way how I'm adding it using the tip of my brush and I'm just adding some random texture, they are not too prominent. I have amount of paint on my brush. All these patterns you can add however you like. If you want to add more patterns, you could do that. Or if you want to reduce the amount of pattern even lesser than mine, that is totally fine. Go with your intuition and add them in. You don't need to folder the same pattern or the same position. Okay, that's how it has turned out. Next I'm going to pick some water on my brush and I'm going to smug the patterns a little. Maybe you can pick a little gray on your brush. That is very little paint and a lot of water. And with that, I'm just adding a shadow mostly along the bottom. You can see the color. It is very light, it is not opaque. It's a watery paint. If you feel there is already enough shadows, you can skip this step. If you feel some patterns are prominent, you can go the tempers and smudge them a little. Okay. This time is for hall, those modifications. Now I'm picking some more water and I'm adding some shadow at the bottom as well. With that, we'll be done with this step. Now, the only thing remaining is adding the pine trees, so let me smutch that a little. Okay. Here's a closer look. And you can see all the shadows and patterns we have created. I think it turned out pretty high. I'm very happy with the way it is looking. Okay. Without wasting any more time. Let's start with the pine trees. We already have the space ready for the pine trees with my smaller brush. This one is size number two. I'm picking some black paint. You can either go with black or you can go that dark to have use for the lake. Okay. Pick your color and use a smaller brush. I'm planning to add four trees, three taller one, and a shorter 12 at select. You can compose your painting however you want and you can place them wherever you want to. First, I will add a straight line, depending on the height you want a co worth adding your line. I will add the first tree over here, that's a shorter tree. Next, I'm adding a taller tree. Now I'm going to add the foliage onto this with the same paint. I'm starting from the top and I'm adding some random lines onto either side. Just some messy scribbly lines. That's a tip. Now, as they come towards the bottom, I will make them more wider and more denser. It isn't that complicated. It's a very simple pine tree. I'm not putting a lot of effort here, I'm just adding some scribbly lines onto either side using the tip of my brush. But as you come towards the bottom, you have to make them more wider. You need to follow that overall shape. Okay, this one is quite far and the size is very little too. Now, just in case you want to skip to a different color, I mean, a Arko Green, the color we use for the lake, you could do that just to give you a tree a little more realistic feel or I can just continue with black. Okay. You can see the way how I'm adding those foliage. It is clearly some messy scribbly lines. Just keep on adding similar lines on either side of the tree trunk and fill it up until you reach the bottom. Overall, the tree should have a triangular shape. It should be thinner on the tip then it has to be wider towards the bottom. If you look at the tree here, it has an overall triangular shape, a longer triangle. Now, I'm going to fill them at the bottom. I'm hoping you are able to follow. It's a very simple tree. Once you get the hang of it, you can do it quite easily. Maybe you can try it on a scrap piece of paper. Then when you're confident enough, you can add them on your painting. Let me tell you just in case you're not really happy with your tree, that's totally fine. The next step, we're going to add some snow onto the tree. With that we can cover up all those mistakes or weird parts of the tree. Okay, for now, just continue adding them without any worry style. With the straight line, it can go with any height. It can be much more taller or shorter than into either side of that line. Keep adding some messy scribbly lines and fill up that entire thing. Okay. Towards the bottom. I'm not really putting any effort, I'm just filling it up. But the tip of the tree is much more visible than the bottom. The bottom part is really ten cent thick. It is not really visible, but the tip is clearly visible. Maybe you can put a little more effort on the tip when you're adding those patterns, but towards the bottom, we can simply fill that up. Okay, I have added two trees, a shorter one and a taller one. Now I'm going to add two more. I'm going to follow the same method. Now I'm starting by adding a line. This one is also going to be a taller tree first. You've seen the tip of your brush add a line. Now onto either side, we can start adding those scribbly lines on the tip. I'm not adding a lot and I'm leaving enough cap in between when I'm adding those messy lines. But towards the bottom I'm making it more dense and thicker. Okay. That's a tip of the tree. Now, as I mentioned earlier, overall it should have a triangular sheep or maybe like a cone or conical sheep. I hope I'm making sense. Okay, I'm just adding some foliage onto either side. If you closely look at it, they are very messy. But overall, it is having a nice sheep, maybe I can add a triangle and show you how it should look like. That's a long triangle or a con. Okay, I'm just going to fill it up now onto either side of that longer triangle. I'm adding some messy lines. I'm just spreading them out toward this side. I can just fill it up because it is touching the other tree, it won't be much visible now onto the other side. I'm adding those lines in similar pattern. Just like I said earlier, we're going to add some snow onto these trees. Even if the tree is not perfect, we can fix it later. As we add the snow, the only area you have to be careful is the top of the tree. You can see how quickly I fixed it. That's why I told you earlier. It isn't a complicated technique. Just try on a scrap piece of paper and gradually you'll get a hang of it. Pine trees are a beautiful element to add in your landscape paintings. Just give it a try. You just need to think about that overall shape. Then you can keep adding these messy lines onto either side. I'm very sure you will gradually get it right. There are many ways to paint a pine tree. I think this one is the easiest because it is just a matter of adding those lines onto either side. You can add that in a matter of 10 seconds. But if you're painting a bigger tree, obviously, we'll have to put a lot more effort. It has to be a lot more defined. You need to go foliage by foliage and you need to define the shape arrow. This one is quite small and far, this method is more than enough. Okay? Those are our pine trees. Now what I'm going to do is I will dab my brush on a paper towel and I'm going to add few more patterns right where the trees are standing. It is exactly the same method we did earlier. We haven't added much patterns here. Just to make it a realistic impression, I'm adding some rocky texture on the ground underneath the trees. Not a lot. Just a little. Okay. That part is also done. Now we're going to go with a much exciting task of adding the snow onto the trees. We'll have to clean up brush, we have to go back with white paint. Once I have the trees in place, adding the snow is a very easy task. I'm not planning to make the trees super snowy. I will only add a little snow here and there. With my smaller brush, I'm picking some white paint. Maybe you guys can give it a wash before you start with the snow. I've taken paint on my brush now onto some of the areas. I'm adding some tots and some shapes using white paint. It's an opaque paint. I haven't added much water. It's more like a snow spray. The leads are not really covered in the snow. See that in between, you can add some snow texture onto the tree. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not adding a lot. But if you're feeling like adding more snow onto the tree, you could do that. That's totally fine. You can fill that entire tree in snow and make it super snowy. For me, just for some reason I feel like I don't want to add a lot of snow. But then you can have a different opinion here. Just go with your cuts and adding as much snow as you want. It's just a matter of going with a white paint and adding that white patterns onto the tree. It can be more denser. If it's more denser, it will look like there's a lot of snow. Or you can just add a little like how I'm doing it here, you can see the way it is looking. I have just added some snowy patterns onto the foliage. I will add a little towards the top, then I will go the other two trees. Take out any of your smaller brush or a brush with the pointed tip, then go with an opaque white paint without any water. Just keep on adding some tots and some shapes onto the tree. When you're adding them, leave a gap in between. Don't add them too close to each other. See that? Very quick task. Once you have the trees in place, add in as many trees as you want. If you want to add one more, you can add that towards the left. Then go with the white paint and keep adding some patterns. See that it's a very quick task and it's a sole satisfying task as well. It's incredible, right? You're an artist and you're painting snow. You can actually paint any season and anything you want to. It's an incredible failing. Anyway, the pine trees are done. 9. Winter Landscape - Part 4 : Final Touches : Now we're going to add some snowy rocks onto the lake to give it a more realistic feel. But before that, if you want to modify any of the shapes you have added earlier, you could do that. This is not necessary. Take a look at your painting and just in case if we like modifying any corner or any of that snowy ground, you could do that. Okay. Once we're done with the step, we're going to add some snowy rocks onto the lake which are going to be much more smaller. Okay. So those things will add a realistic feel to painting. I'm done with this. I just wanted to modify this area. For some reason, I wasn't liking that shape. Okay. That's it. Now, with the same brush, I'm going to add some snowy rocks onto the lake. For that, I'm picking some clean white paint. I won't be adding a lot. I will just add a few here and there in different sizes. Okay? With any of your smaller brush or a medium size brush, pick some clean white paint and opaque paint. Don't add a lot of water. Okay? Now with that, I'm going to add some small shapes onto the lake. I'm adding the first one right over here. The bottom is a straight line. Then on the top, I'm adding a curvy shape. You can also turn that into an irregular shape. It doesn't need to be a rounded shape. Okay, Now I'm adding another one here. This one is an irregular shape and I'm making it a bit more bigger than the previous one to make it look more natural. That's second one, adding some more paint onto that. Okay. Now let's go with the next. You need to follow the same locations. You can add them wherever you want. You can add them towards the bottom or towards the left side. Okay. That's a third one. Now, adding another one here, a tiny one. Okay. Now I'm going to add a few towards the bottom. I think they can be a bit more bicker. Let's add one here. I'm going with an irregular shape. Pick a lot of paint on your brush. Don't add a lot of water. We need a thick, creamy paint. If it's watery, you will start disturbing the base layer. That paint will start to show up. Go then opaque paint and add in an irregular shape wherever you want to. Now, I'm going to add another one towards the left side. Maybe we can add that over here. Again, I'm going with an irregular shape this time it is a bit more bigger than the previous one. Okay. It's a very basic shape. I'm not putting a lot of effort here. I want to make it look more natural. I'm just adding a very organic shape. Now, the last one goes here. If you want to add more, you could do that. That's not a problem. I think I'm pretty happy with it. I'm just going to leave it as it is. Maybe we could add one here. Okay. That is it. But if you want to add more, it's totally fine. Take full charge of your painting and add in as much as you want. Okay. Is it That's how it has turned out. Now we need to add the shadow and all those rock texture onto the snow. Right now it is just a white patch. I'm going to clean my brush. I'm going with black. I'm picking some black with my size. Number two, rush. Go with any of your smaller brush or a push of the pointed tip, pick some black paint. Now we're going to add some black paint along the bottom line of those shapes we have added look like it is a rock and there's some snow covered on it. Add an irregular shape along the bottom. It could be a very random irregular shape and add a thickness. Similarly, I'm adding an irregular line along the bottom part of this snowy patch. It's a very simple step, there's nothing to worry. You can go with any of your smaller brush or a medium size brush, pick up some black paint, and add an irregular shape. It doesn't need to be a clean line. Just add some teeny tiny shapes and patterns. We're just trying to create that texture of the rock. Along the bottom, we are showing that thickness. Okay, now let's add some more thickness towards the bottom. I'm just adding a thicker line. Okay, now in a similar way, we need to add some texture for the other ones as well. These ones are quite small. I'm not going to add a lot using the tip of my brush, just adding some tiny textures along the bottom line. Just a little. Now we have one more here. Now take a look at your painting from a distance, if you feel like you need to add another snowy rock or if you need to add more texture. Feel free to do that. You are the creator. I'm just here giving you some instructions. Take charge of your painting and whatever you want to modify or whatever you want to include, do that. Okay. So that part is also done now with the brush. I'm going to add some texture along this line. Just a tiny line. I'm adding that in a broken way, you can see the thickness. It's a very delicate line. You don't need to put a lot of effort and it doesn't need to be prominent. Just add an irregular broken line. Okay. I'm going to add a similar line towards the left side as well. It's a very simple, irregular line, it has to be really thin. Okay, That is done. Now, there is one last task remaining. For that, I'm going to go back with white. I'm picking some dry paint on my brush. I'm not taking any opaque paint. I only have very little amount of paint on my brush. We need a dry paint. Dab it on a paper towel if you're not really sure it is dry. Now, with that dry paint, I'm just adding a few lines, irregular lines. See that they don't need to be too thick and add them in a broken way. It doesn't need to be a continuous line. We only need a few here and there. Don't add a lot. I have added two lines. Now I'm going to add another one. I'm only using the tip of my brush. That's a next one. Similarly adding another one there. Okay. They don't need to be too prominent and they don't need to be too thick. Add them in a very random way. We don't need a lot of lines, we only need a few. That's something you have to be careful about. Go to the pain that is dry and add a few lines onto the lake. You can add them wherever you want to. You don't need to follow the exact same locations. Now, I'm going to add one more here. Okay, that's it. That's our painting. I'm quite happy with the way it has turned out. It is not a complicated painting, but there are obviously a lot of steps involved. You need to go step by step and give a try. If you get to try it now, before I peel up the masking tape, I'm just going to pick some more paint. That bluish gray, I'm just making these trees a bit more denser. I feel like there's a lot of gap in between. I'm picking that leftover paint, I'm adding some more lines onto that same cluster in between. And making some of the trees more taller too. Just the same way when you look at your painting, you will have a lot more details or a lot more things to add. It could be some other snowy rock or maybe one more pine tree or something else. Just have a look at your painting from a distance. If you want to get a real feel of your painting, you will obviously have to look at your painting from a distance. Get up from your seat and have a step back, then take a look at your painting. If you want to add some more elements or details, just go ahead and add them in. If you're 100% happy with your painting, there is nothing else you have to do. You can just watch your painting and add all the beautiful artwork you have created. I'm nearly done fixing the trees. I will add a few here, then maybe onto this end also towards the left side. Okay, That is it, I'm going to call it in. Otherwise I will keep on adding some elements or I will keep on modifying things, pe off the masking tape. I think it's a good time to peel it off. When you're peeling off the masking tape, you have to be really careful, peel it off at an ankle. Don't rush. Do it very slowly and carefully. Otherwise you will rip off that paint along with it, gently peel it at an ankle. The tape I'm using here is a clear tape from the brand three M. It used to work wonderfully with my quash painting, so ever since I tried this one I haven't changed it. So whenever you find a good tape, stick with it. Anyways, here's a gorgeous winter landscape. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you get to try, do give it a try and let me know if you liked it. 10. Thank you: Thank you so much for joining. I hope you all enjoy painting this no landscape with me. If you get to try it out, do give a try. It's not a complex painting and I have explained all the techniques and all the steps in very detail. Yeah, if you're getting a chance to try it out, upload your painting into the project gallery and also leave a review if you enjoy this class. All right, thanks again for joining and happy painting.