Winter Landscapes In Watercolor - A 12 Day Challenge

1. Welcome and Class Overview: When was the last time you challenged yourself? Hi. Welcome to this class Winter landscape paintings, a 12 day Watercolor challenge. My name is Rania. I'm a watercolor artist and educator living in UA. I've been painting for six years, and landscapes are one of my favorite subject to paint. You can find me on Instagram and YouTube where I share all my artwork and also some painting videos. In this 12 day watercolor challenge, we are going to paint 12 beautiful winter landscapes. Each painting will take about 30 to 40 minutes to complete. Each class project, we'll begin by analyzing the reference picture and making simple compositions. Next, I'll share with you the watercolor techniques that I often use in my paintings such as tonight laying, lifting and layering techniques and various other brushws. We'll begin our daily challenge with simple pictures like painting a terra sky landscape, a foggy monochrome painting. Then we'll also practice advanced landscape techniques like painting a glowing light and reflection, sunlight trees in Sno landscapes, aerial view of a snow covered village, serene winter sunsets and northern sky landscape. By end of the challenge, you'll build a consistent painting habit. Daily practice is one of the most effective ways to imbrove our painting skills. In this course, each class project is designed to introduce new techniques and helping you build confidence and noticeable progress in your work. This course will definitely push you out of your comfort zone, but that's where growth happens. You'll need basic understanding of what color techniques like wet and wet, wet and dry to make most of this class. Grab your paints and brushes. Let's get started. I'll see you in the next video. 2. Materials you'll need: Now let's talk about the materials we need for this class. In watercolor painting, using materials has a huge impact and brings a lot of difference in your artwork. Let me take you through the materials that I recommend using for painting landscapes. I always use and highly recommend 100% cotton watercolor paper in 300 GSM. This is fabriano artistico rough texture watercolor paper. I love this brand because of its ability to hold multiple layers of water and it's easy to work with muskin fluid and for scratching and lifting techniques. A colors will look very vibrant after dry. A watercolor block glued on all sides. We can easily remove the paper from the block after each painting. The size is 18 to 26 centimeters. You can use any format you prefer, such as loose sheets, spiral bound pads or sketchbooks. Now for the paints, I'm using colors from Rembrandt, Vanco, Shinhan, and Daniel Smith. We paint each artwork, I will show you the colors I choose and I will also guide you for color mixing techniques. But feel free to use the colors that you have and also I engreage you to choose just a couple of colors and you can also do color mixing to get a harmonious feel in your paintings. Now for the brushes, I'll start with these two hake brushes as most of the painting will begin with wet and wet layers, so it's easy to cover larger areas with hake brushes. Also I'll use these two flat brushes for re wetting the paper during the process and also for some lifting techniques. Then for the painting, mainly, I'll use this mob brush and also a size eight sable hair round brush, this by golden maple. I will also use a small size of the same brush for some dry techniques, maybe this size too. For adding details, I'll use this detailer and this calligraphy brush for thin lines. Also I'll use some other materials like muskin fluid and a paper knife for scratching and table salt, a hair dryer to speed up the process and some cotton cloth tissues for wiping and lifting, we need to water and a mixing palette. 3. Day 1 Class project - Cozy Hut In Mountains: Hi, everyone. Welcome to our winter landscape painting class. I hope you're ready for this watercolor challenge with all your materials and a fresh new mindset. So today, let's start with our first painting. As you can see in the reference, it's going to be a very simple nightscape with a starry sky and a house and some mountains in the background, and also a warm light coming through the window. So that's the picture we're going to paint today. So first I'll start with a simple sketch. We'll only sketch that house and some lines for the mountain in the background. Most of the landscape is going to be this starry sky and very little part here is going to be that snowy land part. So I'm going to fix that line for the land part, and it's going to be very low. We'll start from here. And also, let's make it a little wavy, not a straight line. And I'm going to make it a little higher to this side. Yeah, that's enough. And in the cinder, I'm going to fix that house. Yeah. First, starting with two lines vertically. Yeah. And then from here, I'm going to fix that Roof. Yeah. And also you can see some snow on the roof. So let's add a line for that snow. So yeah. Let's make it very narrow. Yeah, that's enough. And then I'm going to fix one square here for that window. Maybe I will fix this roof a little more thicker. You don't have to follow the reference exactly. You can make some changes with your own idea or creativity. Yeah, I will rub that line in the middle. That's enough. Now, let's start painting. I'll place this box, to get my paper in this position to get a nice flow of the colors. Yeah. Well, let's start with painting the sky. I'm going to wet the sky part. I'm not going to wet here because we need this part very lighter compared to the sky and the house. So yeah. Around the lines, I'm going carefully. I'll use this flat brush, and I'm going to start from here. I'll take some ultramarine, and I'm just filling that color around here. You can also go over the house like it's going to be very dark. Comp to the sky again, you can see in the reference. So yeah. Yeah. Let's make it a little more darker in the very Background. I'm trying to make some mountains as again see in the reference. Yeah. And this side also, you can make it very loosely since it's going to be in the very background. So let's make it blurry and not very visible. Yeah, and trying to make some mountain lines. I'm using a flat brush. I think this is size five by eight. This is wash brush by Princeton. Yeah, that's enough. Let's make it a little more darker here and there. Paper is started drying. I think I want to make it a little more smoother, so And as you can see in the reference, we'll also paint some trees around here in the background. I'm just wiping that color from the window. Sorry, the house, but that's okay. We'll paint it with very dark colors. Yeah. Now I'm going to fill the sky with very darker colors. So I'll take this big size wash brush, and before that, I want to wet the paper. Paper is almost dry now. Yeah. That's it. And I'm going to take some indigo and just filling that color. You can see very dark effect around this part in the sky. And you can also blend it around here a little carefully to make some cloudy noise effects. I'm just blending it. I'll take my small brush and I don't want any sharp edges or affix there. So I'm blending it with dam bridge. Yeah. Now, I think I will apply darker color since watercolor will dry very lighter, so you can go with multiple layers to make it darker. It's looking very bright here. I think I want to blend it. You can see some light effects here, maybe some clouds or some light reflections on the clouds. Yeah. It's very important to work a little faster and a little more confident breast strokes to get that smooth effect. You can see I'm not mixing this indigo with any water or anything. I'm just painting it directly to get that darkness. I'm going around the mountain lines carefully. I think I want to apply some more ultramarine for these mountains. So yeah. I will mix it with some indigo to get a little more harmonious effect of colors. Yeah. That's it. Now, I'll clean my brush. And I will blend that line to make it a little foggy and blurry in the background. I'm just lifting some colors here and there to make some mountains again. What colour is all about lifting and adding more colors, playing with a lot of layers. So you can make some very nice effects. And you can also use a tissue paper or a cotton cloth to wipe your brush in between lifting. I think I will add some blow effects here and there. So I'm going to use this small brush, and you can see in the reference. So foggy effects. Yeah. I'm trying to create some effects for the mountain. Th side also. Now let's move to paint this foreground snowy part. So again, I'm going to use my flat brush, and you can see in the reference. This part is a little darker around here and more lighter to this from this side. So I'm going to use this same ultramarine, and I'm going to fill that color here. Yeah, I think my ultramarine is mixed already with some indigo, but that's okay. And now I'm cleaning my brush, and I will spread it With some water and very little paint, I'm just spreading that color. Yeah. Now, I think I will wipe it from around here. I'm just blending that line a little bit to make it a little more softer. I'm adding some more colors like this ultramarine and Ithigo to the foreground. Yeah. To make it a little more sharper, I'm using my small flat brush. Yeah. And again, I'm lifting. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's leave it like that. Now I'm going to dry this layer, and then we'll paint more details in the sky and also we'll finish that house and window and also some trees around here. So first, I'm going to dry this layer. Okay, now I'm going to make some stars in the sky. There are many techniques to make these stars. You can use a toothbrush or something like that, and you can splatter, or you can paint it one by one individually, or also you can scratch some paint with a sharp to like some knife or blade or something like that. There are many ways or you can also end it with a jelly roll pen or a white pen. Here I'm going to make it with this knife, and I'll just make some spots like this. It's okay. You can even splatter it with white paint. That's also fine. But sometimes I like to do like this. I hope you can hear that sound of scratching. Now we're done with the sky. Okay, now let's paint this house. So for that, here I have some born timber, and I'm going to fill born timber to this house by leaving that window. And also, I'm using a small size mop brush. And you can also leave that snowy roof part. Now I'm cleaning my brush, and then I'm going to pull that colors to all other sides. As you can see in the reference, we need to make it a little more darker. So I'm going to add some indigo to this burn tumber and let's make it a little more darker. You can also notice some texture. Yeah. So I'm making some very tiny vertical lines with indigo. And also, I'm going to fix that line of the window in the center. Yeah. That's enough. Now I'm going to take some more bun temper and let's make it a little warmer around this window. Yeah. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's fix that line of the roof so you can see some shape for that roof on this side. Yeah. And for some shadows on the roof, I'm filling this part with this black you can follow the reference and try to create that effect. Yeah. Now I will fix that roof with white quash. Okay, I'll use this small size bridge and I'm going to take some white quash. Yeah, and I'm going to fix that snow on the roof. I'm making it very narrow around this part. And let's fix it from here also. Yeah. That's it. Now, you can also see one line like this in the reference. So I'm going to fix that, too, with some indigo and burn temper again. And I want to blend it downward a little bit. I will add some apa white to make it a little visible here. Spreading that apa white downward to make some texture, maybe Yeah. I think that's enough. Now, let's add some trees around here. So again, I'll take ultramarine and some indigo. Indigo and ultramarine. And I'm going to make some upward strokes like this. And you can also paint it into some pine trays here and there, but not in very detailed way. I'm trying to make these lines in different sizes. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's fill this window with some yellow colours. So I will take gamboge with a very clean brush, and also I'm using a detailer, and I'm going to apply this gamboge to one side of the window. Yeah, like that. And then I'll clean my brush and wipe it. And then with a damp brush, I'm just pulling that color to other side. So we'll get a nice, transparent glowing light effect. Maybe I will add some born tumber to that gambos Yeah. That's it. Now, same like that. I'm going to fix the other window. Yeah. Just pulling that color to the other side. Yeah. And then you can add some dry paint to make it a little more contrasting. I'm adding some bon tamber again. Wet on wet. Yeah. That's it. I think I will add some details to that pine trees in the background. So here I'm mixing white guash with this ultramarine mix. Let's make some highlights or some details or some snowy effects, maybe some lines on top of that trees with white colour. Yeah. I think I want to fix this line between this snow and house. Again, I'm taking some born tumber and I'm trying to make it straight. Yeah. It's enough. I think I will add some tiny details in the foreground. It's not in the reference, but yeah, I'll add some leaves or grass or some winry dry stems like that. And you can also make it in different sizes. Not too big again. Now we are done with the painting. Let's say the finished painting. Yeah, that's it. And that is a final look of her first painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this nice stay sky with a house and some mountains in the background. I hope you got some techniques, and, yeah, that's it. I like how it turned out, and, yeah, I hope it was simple and easy to follow. So a seeing the next painting. Bye. 4. Day 2 Class project - Foggy Landscape in Monochrome: I hope you're ready for the painting. Let's start with a quick sketch. As you can see in the reference, it's going to be a very simple, moldy window landscape. So we'll only use one color for the entire painting. There's some distant trees in the background, and a fence is coming towards the foreground. And yeah, that's it. So I'll fix the horizontal line first in the middle. I'm sketching it very lightly. And around here, I will do an outline for the tree. Yeah, that's it. And this fence is giving so much perspective to the entire picture. Make it bigger and thicker as it coming towards the foreground. And also, I'll do this details and here we'll paint some details like maybe some stones or grass, something like that. Around here, we don't want to make it very plain. Yeah. And maybe around here, I will paint some more small trees or something. And here, it's going to be a foggy moonlight, um, a little blurry kind of effect. Yeah. I think that's it. For this painting, I'm going to use this bled stone genuine by Daniel Smith. You can use any gray shade with a little granulation effect or also you can use plain gray shades like neutral tint or paint gray. That's also fine. But if you have granulating, grays, that would be better to paint this because with a little granulation effect here and there, we can create some depth to the painting. This oxide black bi vanco is also a nice gray shade with granulating effect. Maybe that's also an alternative. Or also, if you have a granulation medium like this, you can also mix one or two drops from this to your paint mix, and you will get a nice effect. That's also fine. Or you can also paint it with plain gray. Yeah, that's it. Let's start the painting. So before that, I will take my color to the palette. I'll show you the swatch. A very transparent gray shade. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Now, let's start the painting. I'm going to wet the whole paper. Yeah. That's it. Now I'm going to wipe it from around here so we can make it more brighter than the sky and the trees. Yeah. Since we are painting a snow landscape. Now, I'm using this brush. And first, I will fill the sky with a very light mix of this color. From here, we'll fix the moon light. So I'm going to make a circle there. Yeah, that's enough. Now, just filling the color. You have to take very thin mix of the graci you can mix it with a lot of water. I think I want to tilt my pepper a little bit. So paint will not stack here and there. We'll get more plain kind of effect. Yeah. I think I want to make it a little more darker around the moonlight, moon or sun, I don't know, but yeah. Yeah. So now what I'm going to do I'll take small brush and I will take very thick paint. Okay? And I'm going to recreate that tree shape here. Okay. Make it irregular and more natural asymmetrical. I think let's add some here, too, some very distant trees or like that. I think I want to make it a little more darker here and there, so I'll take more thicker paint and Yeah. I'm trying to make more contrasting. Look for the trees like more lights and shadows with more layers. A little more darker here and there. I think that's enough. Let's add some color around the foreground. So in the reference, it looks very plain in the foreground, but I think I want to make some darkness in the foreground. I'm just wetting the paper in the foreground. Yeah. And let's add some colors here and there. I'm just adding some more darker little darker colours. Um, around the fence, we are going to paint later. Yeah. Et's take some more color. Trying to make it more darker. Now I'm adding little thicker paint. I'm not mixing it with water, as you can see here. Adding more and more layers to make it a little darker in the foreground and making it more narrow as it going towards the horizontal line. Yeah. Now, I think I want to make it a little more detailed around the fence. So No. Yeah, I think that's enough. I made it a little more darker and more thicker in the foreground and some moment around the fence also, all wet and wet with the same color by using multiple layers. So, yeah, that's it. Now let's dry this layer, and then we'll paint the fins and some branches or trunk around a tree. And more details maybe. Okay, that's it. Now I think let's paint the fence. So I will take this brush. This is a calligraphy brush, maybe I think size two or it's not mentioned here. I think it's size two, so it's very pointy and let's take the same color with no water, and my brush is also very dry. So we'll paint the fence very dry on dry. Maybe you can mix very little water to make it a little loose, and you can also adjust the moist with a tissue paper. Yeah. And also, remember, you have to paint the fence very thicker and taller around the foreground and smaller and more thinner as it going invisible. Yeah, that's it. Now, we already added the pencil lines, so I'm going to follow that. And also, how you're placing it in the snow is also important. So don't overwork. You can just stop it there. Now I'm going to make it here. Don't make it straight. You can paint it like this. Yeah. Let's make it more thinner. And also, you can make it more near to near as it going around here and you can increase the gap around here. Yeah. Maybe for that, I will paint one here. Yeah. I think I want to make it more thicker. I want to lift it for this one. I think it looks more thicker. So I'm using my flat brush and just lifted out that colors with the dam brush. I want to make it a little more taller. That's it. Yeah, again, I don't want to overwork on it, so I'll stop it now. Yeah. So now let's do this line for the fence. It's going to be very, um, again, thin and sharp. So yeah, I will come from here. Maybe you can use a fine liner for this fence. That would be more easier maybe. Make it more thicker as it coming towards the foreground. Yeah. I think you can see that dry texture on these lines. Maybe that will give some detailed look or some interesting, um, look for the fence. Yeah. Now, let's paint some details on the tree. Just make them. Branches. That's it. We'll add some more here. Maybe I will add some details around here, like some garage or yeah, some stones like that. Whatever you are painting in the snow, you have to make this down edge more plain or sharp. Like, half of this, I think, whatever element you are painting like this fence or the stones, half of it is inside the snow. So yeah. That's enough. Maybe able to add some here. Now, I will paint some grass. Make it very sharp and thin. Some upward strokes and then add some leaves to that. Yeah. Let's make some more bigger laser grass in the foreground. I think we want to add some more darker spots around the tree. So I will take this very thick paint of this same shade. And you can already see some a little darker spots around the tree. So I want to make it again a little more darker. So painting dark on dark. And if you're feeling like it's too sharp, you can just blend it with a little damp brush. So I think I want to blend it around here. And yeah. Yeah. And around here also, I want to make a little more darker. I think I want to add some more little spots here and there around the tree with lighter colours. I'm trying to make it a little more detailed. Yeah. A now I think I want to fix this layer so I will dry it. I want to make some snowy effect on the fence, so I'll take this same shade with lots of water. Like I'm using very thin paint, and I'm going to make some lighter effect on that. Yeah. Using the same shade, but with, um, very thin consistency. Yeah, maybe now I will do from here also. So, yeah, that's our painting. I think you got some techniques for painting monochrome landscapes also in watercolor. Like in monochrome painting, you can use layering technique by using different color values and also maybe by using wet wet and wet and dry and like that, many techniques. So that's it. I hope you have enjoyed this session. So yeah, I think I loved it. I love the tree and this fence. It's like a simple painting. So, yeah. So let's move to the next painting. Yeah. 5. Day 3 Class project - Part 1 - Winter Twilight: Hello. Welcome back. So today, we'll paint a very simple winter landscape. As you can see in the reference, the sky is looking very dark, so we'll paint it in a little more lighter colors, and we'll paint some pine trees in the foreground and some snowy land. So that's it. So I'll fix the horizontal line. And from here, we'll paint some background trees. And it's going to be a little shorter around here. Yeah. And maybe in the foreground, also, we'll paint some trees. So I'm just adding this line only. Yeah, that's it. And from here also, maybe I'll paint some trees. We're not following the reference completely. Let's make it loose and more easier. Okay. Here, also, maybe I'll paint a tree. So yeah, that's it for this sketch. Now let's start painting. Again, as you can see in the reference, this is going to be with a very limited color palette. Maybe we'll use some indigo or paints gray or some other gray shades. So here I'm going to wet the whole paper. Yeah, that's it. Now I'll wipe it around here so we can keep this part more lighter compared to the dark sky. So, yeah. Yeah, that's it. I don't want the color spreading towards this part. Yeah. Now, I'll take a size seven sable brush. You can take a medium size round brush. As you can see in the reference, the sky is a little lighter towards the horizon line, and the part more near to the viewer is more darker. So let's start by adding some yellow ochre around the horizon line. So I'll take some yellow ochre, and I'm going to paint it directly. I'm not mixing it. In the palette. And with the same color, maybe I will just make some reflections in the snowy land. Not too much. Um, very lighter colors for the snowy part. Yeah. That's it. Now, I will take oxide black. This is a granulating, black shade by vanco or mbrant. So you can use any black shade, like any gray shade. Yeah. Maybe you can also mix your own black shades. Yeah. I'm just tilting my paper like this and filling the sky with this black color. And just spreading it with already painted yellow layer, um, carefully. Just move your brush horizontally, back and forth and make some very tiny narrow lines as it coming down. Yeah. Now, I hope you can see that transparent gray shade. I'm just making some more darker color in the upper corners. As you can see here, I'm just making some clouds. Yeah. I think I will mix it with some indigo to make it a little more darker in the very upper corners. So yeah, this is oxide black and indigo. Yeah. I hope you can see that very dark indigo kind of shade. Maybe you can mix any black or little darker color with some indigo, so you will get this shade. Yeah, I want to make it like a night sky. You can see how I'm moving my brash for the cloud kind of shapes. And trying to make it narrow as it coming to this mid part. Maybe I will lift some colors from here to make some light reflections. I think I will make some more very tiny clouds. I'll use this size to brush. And with this same mix of colors, maybe I will mix it with some ylocre again to make it a little more warmer. You can always adjust the moist with a tissue on your other hand and paper started drying. Let's paint some small clouds faster to create some depth Yeah. Let's make some very tiny, narrow lines or clouds. Yeah. Okay, let's leave it like that because paper started drying, and also we don't have to worry about this part because we'll paint some background trays there. So yeah, let's leave it like that. That's enough. So before it gets completely dry, let's paint some tree. So we'll get a little softer kind of look for the trees. So I'm going to use this same color. Indigo plus oxide black. So from here, I'll paint some bigger trees, and again with more water, like I need a little lighter shade of this gray. Maybe I'll mix a little more water. And yeah, that is a shade. And maybe we'll add some details later for the trees with more darker colors. Now I'll start with a very lighter color. Yeah, from here, we have already fixed the horizontal line like this. So from there, I'm fixing the tray. I'm just starting with some lines and then we'll shape this top part for some trees. Now, let's make it like some trees. Again, you can paint it very loosely. Don't paint each and every x casually. Um scratch your brush on your paper here and there, so it'll get more natural lose effect. And from here, I'm just um shaping it into some low pine trees. A sometimes it's very difficult to paint loosely. It's very tempting to paint more and more detail, especially when we paint into trees. Yeah. Let's make it in different um, heights. Maybe I'll make some little more taller trees to make it in different heights. You can see I'm using this detailer to make some tiny strokes here and there for the pine trees. Yeah, that's it. Okay, now let's paint some more very short trees. That is going to be in the very distance. So yeah. Let's paint it very short. It's going to be in the very distance. Maybe let's mix it with some yellow ochre again, so we'll get more warmer and lighter kind of effect. It's always like when we paint distant details, it should be very light and with minimal details and also more warmer colors. And as it coming towards the foreground or towards the viewer, we have to make it more darker, more detailed, and more cooler. So like that, we have to choose the colors for the painting. Yeah, I'm just making some very distant trees. That's it. Now, let's paint some more little more bigger trees. Is it coming to this spot. Now I'm going to paint some more taller trees. Maybe you can use a little more bigger brush for these trees. I think like that, you can paint more looser, bigger kind of effects. That's enough. Now, let's paint some more cooler kind of trees. So I'll take again this indigo and oxide black. And also, I'm going to start it from here. Yeah. Let's make it a little more near to us. And we had to make it a little more sharper and detailed around here, so we'll get that perspective. Yeah. Now let's work on the very foreground. So I'm going to take this same color deco and oxide black, and let's make it a little darker in the foreground. Mixing it with lots of water and Yeah, I'm just making it a little darker. Maybe some shadows. And also, we'll paint some more trees in the foreground, same like this, like, with more details. So I'm going to add some darker spots around here, maybe some shadows or some kind of depth or details. And from here too. I don't want to leave the snowy part very plain. I just want some moment or some shadows here and there. So we can always paint some very lighter colors here and there, especially wet on wet. So we'll get some nice effect for the snow. It's enough. And here I'm going to make some details. I don't want to leave it like that. Let's make some maybe some tiny leaves or branches or like that. So here I have mixed again. Paints gray and oxide black and some ocre. And I'll make it like So very dry, wintery details. Yeah. And from here, let's make some darker layer to these trees. You can also leave this spot like with some dry texture here and there and also with some wet on wet texture. So like that, we can create a kind of depth when we paint snowy landscapes. A 6. Day 3 Class project - Part 2 : Maybe, let's add some snow here and there for this tree. So here, I'll take some pack white. Yeah, let's paint it very dry. We're not mixing it with any water and some very tiny strokes here and there. Maybe let's add this trunk or You can also refer to the picture we're following and let's make some dry texture. And it's also important to not overwork. Like we had to paint it very tiny and sharp. And maybe if you're feeling like it's too bright, we can also just blend it with some water or, again, this gray shade. Yeah. And also, maybe I will paint some details from this snowy land, also. Yeah. I think I will blend it a little bit. Since the sky is very dark, we have to paint the snow also a little darker. I'm just blending it with some water, like with a damp brush. Not too much water. I will make some darker spots again to make it a little more detailed. I want to make some darker spots here and there. You can already see some little darker spots. So I'm just making it more darker. So it's dark on again, dark layer. That's how we can work on layers. Like, we'll get some very detailed look for the painting. And also, again, these layers also will, um, dry lighter. So yeah. That's it. And maybe I will add some, um, trunks to these trees from this snowy land. Yeah. Like that. You can make some tiny, tiny lines like this in the distance and more bigger ones. Yeah. I think that's it. Now, let's motor paint some trees from here also. So I'll take this more brush, and let's mix some very dark mix of these colors, oxide black and indigo. I'll paint some darker trees. We have already added some lines here for some foreground trees. So I'm going to start from here. Yeah. That's it. And you can also start some trees from the very foreground and some trays from this mid part. Yeah, that's it. And I'm going to shape it like some leaves or Same like this we did here. And let's make it some pine trees. You can make it very sharp for the top part. That's it. Now from here, I will paint some short trees. You can always make it, um, irregular and in different sizes. Yeah, and maybe I'll make a little more taller tree from here. Yeah. You can just move your brush very loosely. Don't follow any pattern or anything. You can just um paint it loosely. Yeah. And one more short tree. I think I'll paint one more here. Now, I hope you can see some very nice layers of trees with some very light trees in the background and some darker trees in the foreground. So yeah, like that, we can create depth in the landscape painting. And one last tree, which is very short. Oh Yeah. And let's make it a little sharper around here. Yeah. Maybe I think let's blend it a little bit around here. We don't want to keep it like that sharp. So I'm just cleaning my brush and just wipe it and make it very damp and blend it a little bit here. Yeah. Yeah, they like that. Again, I'm cleaning my brush and wiping it. Yeah, I'm making it a little more detail here and there. Yeah. I think I will take this flower brush and make it damp and Yeah. That's enough. And now I think I will make some lighter spots here and there to create some snowy effects. And again, I'm going to, um, mix this white quash with this same mix of colors. So we'll get a nice gray pastel shade. And with that, I'm going to make some spots. You can make some very tiny sports and also some little more thicker spots here and there. So we'll get that natural look. And maybe I'll paint some leaves or some dry branches or something like that from here. Yeah, like that. And let's paint for these trees, too. And again, like we did here, we'll blend it a little bit here and there to make it a little more softer. Okay. You can also see how I'm placing these white spots. Mm. Like I'm not painting it continuously. I'm just adding some leaves or something again on this darker layer painted with very thick mix of colours. Okay. Yeah. Blend it a little bit here and there. So yeah. I'm not blending it completely. Just make some soft effic here and there. If you're not comfortable doing this, you can also leave it like that. I think there are many techniques like to paint, um, snoy trees. You can use musking fluid or you can also use a lifting technique or like this, you can paint it with a pack white. Yeah. That's enough. And maybe I will paint some more details with the same brush. Let's make some tiny details here and there. Yeah. Yeah, and let's add some tiny grass or some windwy leaves or grass. Yeah, make it very tiny as it going towards the horizon line. Okay, to paint these foreground details, you have to always be careful how you're going to place in the snowy land. Here, you can see some very light sports and some dark spots also. So you can start this little details from the lighter spots. Like that, you'll get some nice to your painting. And I think I will make some wet or dry spots here and there. Yeah. Let's make it a little more detailed. Just making some wet on dry spots, and again, I'm blending it a little bit here and there. Yeah. So you have to be careful when you're painting this tiny details in the snow. Yeah. You can always use this already painted snowy effect or these darker and lighter spots, and you can place it according to that. So you'll get some nice effect. Yeah. Here, I'm painting some more effects in the snow below these already painted spots. A I'm just making some shadows or some lines like that. I think I want to make it a little more darker in the very foreground. Yeah. So I will take this gray shade and let's paint it. And I'm going to make it softer. Now, let's paint some stars or some snowfall maybe. So yeah, I'm going to, um, splatter it with some white quash. You can also mix it with some water. So yeah. So, yeah, that's it. And here's the final look of our painting. I hope you got the techniques to paint layers of trees with some snowy effect and a snowy land with some details like some lights and shadows and also a nice cloudy sky. And yeah, for me, it was a simple, um, snowy landscape, and I like this color palette, like, with some warm touch of colors and with more grayish and cool clouds and trees. I like that effect. And yeah, I like the trees also. So, yeah, that's all about this session. Let's move to the next painting. Yeah. 7. Day 4 Class project - Part 1 - Winter Mountains In Sunlight: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. So today for the painting, we are going to follow this beautiful sunny, snowy landscape, and you can see some very dark shadows and a bright glowing sunlight. And yeah, let's start with a very simple sketch. I'm going to fix that line between this mountain and the sky. So I'll start from Eat the middle, as you can see in the reference, and I'm going to draw that line. And yeah, from here, I'll fix the other side of the mountain. And from around here, I think this part is going to be a little higher. So from here, I'm going to do this line. Yeah, that's it. And maybe I will also fix that line, like, between the shadows and this highlight part. You can see in the reference there is so much sharp and soft shadows. So we'll try to recreate that. But still, we're not going to make it exactly the same. We'll just make it loose and yeah, more easier. Yeah. You can see some sharp edge um, of that highlight part of snow. And it's going to be very narrow here. Yeah, that's it. I think that's enough for sketching. And first, we'll start with painting the sky. We'll paint the sunlight. And once it completely dry, we'll paint shadows and this snowy part. And also, you can see some very dark stones or like that texture on this mountain. So maybe we'll make it dry on dry. And again, this is going to be with very limited color palette. We'll use only ultramarine for the sky. And then for the shadows in the snow, we'll use indigo and ultramarine. And for the dark details like stones and something like that, we'll use some dark brown shades. I'll start by wetting the sky part only very carefully. We have to wet it around these lines because this part is going to be very bright and we don't want to make it muddy. Yeah. Very carefully, I'm witting around the lines. I think now you can see the water on my paper. That's it. Let's start by painting that sunlight in the I think it's at middle. Okay, I'll take ultramarine. Not too thin paint. We have to mix it like maybe honey consistency. We don't want too watery paint. Yeah. And I'll make a circle here and maybe you can also adjust the moist. Yeah. Now, let's just paint around that. Remember to not spread colours beyond this mountain line. Yeah. And also, we can make these both corners a little more darker and we'll make it more lighter towards the sunlight. Oh, I'm just cleaning my brush and I'm just spreading that colors downward. You have to fill around the lines very carefully. Yeah. And I think I will make it a little more darker for these corners. So let's take some more thick paint, like ultramarine and just fill that for both corners. And, you know, my very first class on Skillshare is almost same like this class project, where I'm teaching a snowy mountain again with some very dark shadows and lights and egg loins and light like this. Again, I'm describing all the techniques in detail. So now I'm going to make some sun rays from this sunlight. So here I'm using a flat brush, and it's not too wet or too dry, it's perfectly damp. And also, I have a tissue paper here, and I'm going to lift colors to all directions. Yeah. After lifting each time, I'm just wiping it on this tissue, since we don't want to make it muddy, we just need very bright sunlight and sun rays. You have to use a flat brush. I think that's enough. It looks too sharp. So I want to make it a little more gloy. So I'm just blending that sharp circle. Yeah, I think that's perfect. And let's dry this layer, and then we'll move to paint mountain. Okay, now I'm going to paint this foreground part of this mountain or snow. So I will leave this part because as you can see in the reference, shadow on this part is very sharp, so we have to paint it wet on dry. So before that, I will paint this foreground snowy part wet on wet again. Just under this line, I'm not going here. I'll take this mob brush and I'm going to take some indigo. Yeah. You can adjust the moist. Yeah. And you can see a little bigger shadow here. So I'll leave a little gap here from this line to here, and I will paint it around here and make it narrow to this part. Yeah. It looks a little difficult, maybe to paint these snowy shadows, but I think it's actually easy compared to other subjects in watercolor. Yeah. That's enough. And what I'm going to do is this part is too bright or too white, so I will make a little darker in the very foreground. So I'm going to, um, take, again, indigo, and with lots of water, I will take very thin and light paint. Yeah. And now I'm cleaning my brush and I will spread that towards the side. Yeah. Yeah, we need to get a continuation of all this, right. So I'm blending together, but still I'm aware of the color like the darkness in the snow. Yeah, that's it. And maybe from here also, I'll make some very light indigo in the reference, you can see some texture or some very light shadows there. So I just adding some light colors. And here you can see a little sharper shadows, so I'll take more darker indigo and, yeah. You can just look at the reference and you can try recreating the shadow shapes. And also, you can lift the colors if you're not satisfied with anything. Since the paper is wet, you can lift it. Yeah, that's it. Maybe I will add a little more darker shadows from here to here. So you have to be very careful about the moist of your brush. I think I want to wipe it a little bit from here. Yeah. Let's make it a little more darker in the very foreground. Spreading that colours a little bit. Yeah. I want to make it a little more contrasting for this shadow, so I'll take a small brush, this size two brush, and let's add some more darker sports here and there. And I want to make it a little more softer. And maybe for here too. Yeah, I think that's it. Now, I'll move to this small space. So yeah, I'm just wetting. I need some water there, and then we'll again paint wet and wet strokes. So again, I'll take some very thick indigo. Yeah. Now we can see some dark spots there again in the reference. Okay, I want to blend that. With very lighter tone of this indigo, I'm just adding some colors around the edges. Yeah, I think I want to make some shadow here, too, to create that sharper edge for highlights again. I think I want to make some lines around here. Like, you can see some lines in the very foreground of the reference, like some movement in the snow. So I think I want to make it. It's a rigor, and I'm just maybe you can do it with some paint, but I'm not taking any paint. Painting it with only water. That's it. And later we'll add some dark lines there, maybe. So now let's to dry this layer and then we'll paint this mid part. Now, you can see in the reference this part of the mountain is very dark and very cold. So I'm going to mix some ultramarine and indigo. And again, not too thick. I'll mix it with some water, and I'm going to make that shade. I think that's too dark. I want to mix it with more indigo and water. Yeah. And you have to be careful around this line. Yeah. Yeah. 8. Day 4 Class project - Part 2 : I'm going to spread that colors towards this bat. I'm now taking extra pain with some water. I am spreading that colors. Okay, now you can see some very dark shadows again here, so I'm going to take a little ultramarine and more indigo. And You have to be very careful when you are going around this line because we are also defining this highlight part of this mountain. And here we can see some very narrow and dark shadows. I'm just making some darker spots here also. I think I don't want to overwork on it, but still, I'm trying to make it more natural. With more curves. Yeah. Now I want to make this already painted shadows like wet on wet, a little more darker. So I will take indigo and Altramarin again and just paint it. On these darker spots we already painted. And you can blend the edges with clean brush. Yeah. Again here to If you're using 100% cotton paper with some thickness, like maybe 300 GS, it's very easy to vet and, um, work on layers. Yeah. That's it. And maybe I will make it a little more darker here, too, with the same mix of indigo and some ultramarine. You can blend it. And also, you don't have to blend it completely. You can lay some sharp edge here and there. Yeah, I think I will make it a line very narrow here as a continuation of these shadows. Yeah, that's it. And maybe I will add one more line here. I think I will make a little more darker shadows here and there. Let's make some very sharp, tiny shadows. Yeah, you can just look at the reference and try to make almost similar shaves. You can also fix some highlights maybe with white gauche. I should be very dry if you're painting with white gauge for highlights. It looks like a little bit overworked here, but, yeah, let's leave it like that. Maybe I will fix it with some white lighter. Yeah. And I will work on this line. Let's make it a little more visible. Yeah, you can see some lines here. I have lifted some colours from there with a rigor brush. So I'm going to make some very tiny little darker lines just around that. And don't make it too dark or too thick. Yeah. I'm here, too. You know, again, we don't have to follow the same exact reference. We can make some changes. That's how we can make that unique artworks. Yeah, sit off. I think I want to make a little more darker here and there. Yeah, I think let's top it here and let's try this layer, and then we'll do some dry on dry texture. Now, I think I want to, um, add some more white lines, so I will take some a pack white. I want to fix some highlights. I'm not mixing it with any water. I just need very thick paint. I'm going to make it here. No, you can see some very sharp highlights. So here, too. You can see I'm using this paint from the tube directly. I didn't mix it with water. Because, you know, when we mix water with white gouache for these details, it will lose the brightness of this highlights. That's why I'm taking very thick paint. Yeah, that's it. And now I'm going to dry this layer again for this white gauche. Yeah. Now, you can see some very dark, stones or something on this mountain. So I will take this brush. This particular brush I use mainly for scratching, like dry texture. So here, I'll take setia sepia, or you can take any little dark brown. Maybe you can mix it with some indigo. Yeah. And you can see the paint is very thick. It almost like oil paint or yeah, that consistency. And I'm going to make some texture here. Just rub your brush there, to make some darker spots. Yeah. You can see in the reference, there is some thick and too dark spots. So I'm just adding that and then just rubbing my brush around that. Yeah. I think the details will give a lot of details, a lot of definition or effect to the painting. You had to paint it dry. Yeah. That's it. Now, I think I will add some here. But again, I'm making it very tiny. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I think I want to fix it a little bit here because there is some highlight of the very background mountains. You can see in the reference. So if we are adding that, we'll get a little more depth to the painting. I'll fix it again with some white quash, and I'm going to make this edge of this mountain. Yeah. And I'm going to add some tiny white lines there. Yeah, that's it. Now, it looks like some background mountains. Yeah. That's enough. So, yeah, that is a final result of our painting. Yeah, I like how we painted these shadows and these highlights, and also we fixed some more details with white gauche. Allo, it looks nice, and it was simple to paint. But still, we need to know some techniques to paint these dark shadows to get that contrast. So, yeah, we are done with our fourth painting in this series. I hope you are enjoying this challenge. If you have any doubts, please ask in the discussion box. I will replay. So, yeah, that's it for today. I'll see you with the new painting tomorrow. Bye. 9. Day 5 Class project - Part 1 - Glowing Lantern: And r. Hello. Welcome back to today's painting, and I hope you're enjoying this challenge. And if you have any doubts regarding any class or any painting or about the whole challenge, you can post in the discussion box. I will replay as soon as possible. And, yeah. So for today's painting, we'll use this reference picture. You can see a glowing light and with a winter nightscape in the background. And yeah, we have to paint the lights and shadows in the snow and a blurry background with a night sky with some trees. So let's see how to paint it. First, I will start with the sketching. So to get an idea about the composition, I'm going to fix the horizon line in the exact middle. Yeah. And from there, I'll fix one pathway. You can see in the reference. So yeah, this side will make it a little higher. That line between the snow and the trees, you can see in the reference. Yeah. And from there, I will fix one line for the pathway for this side. Yeah. That's it. And, yeah, it's going like this, maybe we can also make some changes to make it into nice composition. That's why sketching is very important in watercolor paintings. Any painting you're doing, you have to plan the sketching. What elements you are going to add or if you want to eliminate something, you can do that. And if you want to replace something, you can do that, also. Like that, we can create a nice composition. Yeah. I'll do one more line for that pathway from here. Yeah, that's it. And around here, I'll fix one more line for that street light. Yeah, that's enough. And I'll use my ruler. And let's add that street light. Okay, I'll start from here. Yeah. I don't like to use roller for straight lines, actually. I like to do it freehand. But yeah, sometimes this is more convenient to make very straight lines. Yeah. So I'll do one more line here. You can see that reflective part of this light post, and also the other side is with shadow. So yeah, we have to fix three lines for the post. And for this side, I'll make it a little more narrow. Yeah. That's it. And let's fix that details around here. You can also see some snow there on the post. Yeah. So I'll make it like small semicircle. And from here, we have to fix that the details of the light. So yeah, I'll start from here. Yeah. And also one more line. And also, there's some snow again. You can see. It's going to end like small curve there. That's it. And from there, let's fix that lantern or that light. It's also covered with a lot of snow. Now, let's fix that line. For the light, you can see two squares, almost a triangle shape, kind of square. I don't know how to. What is the word for that shape? Yeah. And I'll end it here like a very small square. And let's fix a small frame for that. H. That's it. That's enough. And also, here, we have to make it like some snise covered on this post also. So I'll make it like a little curves or something like that. Yeah. And also, there are some more details around here. Yeah. You can just sketch it very loosely. Yeah. And we'll also paint some trees in the background. I'm just outlining that too Yeah. And you can also see some tree trunks around here. So yeah, this snowy land is going invisible through these trees, so we have to paint it like that. Yeah, that's it. Now I will rub this horizontal line we added. Yeah. I'll make it into a pathway Okay, that's enough for the sketching. Now, let's start the painting. So first I'll start with the light. So for that, I'm going to wet the whole paper. Yeah. To get that moody winter nights cap ambience, we will use some cool blue shades. I'll use cobalt blue and lavender. With a mix of both these colours, we'll get a nice evening sky color. Now, I'll start with painting the light. First, we have to add some yellow colours around that light, you can see in the reference. We have to create that warmth around the light, and then all over the landscape, we have to make it more cool and more dark and winter kind of effect. So first, I will take gambogello and I'm going to make it just around the light. I just spreading that color around this post also. You can see some reflection on that post. Yeah. That's enough. Now, what I'll do is I want to make some reflections of this slide on the foreground snowy part, you can see in the reference. So first, I'll take John Brilliant, and I'll mix it with some gamboge to make it a little more yellowish. Yeah. A very creamy yelloish shade. That is the color I'll use for this foreground. I'm just feeling that color in the foreground. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Now paper is still wet. We have to paint the sky, and I'm going to take cobalt blue. Yeah. And I will mix it with some lavender. We have to paint it with a mix of both these colors to get that evening kind of sky effect, cobalt blue and lavender. Even you can also use cobalt blue itself. That's also fine. So I will add this colour to the sky. But I think it started drying. I want to spray some water. And let's go straightly to fix this color. I'm going around the light very carefully. Yeah. You can also see some shadows in this snowy part in the distance. So let's make it like that. Yeah. I'm just adding some shadows on top of the yellow colors. I think I want to fix the sky with a little more darker colors. Again, I'm mixing abal blue and lavender. With more dark colors in the corners, we'll get that glow and focus towards the light. Yeah, I'm just covering around that light with a little more lighter effics yeah. That's it. Now, you can see some lines around the foreground, like for this pathway. So we have to create that before the paper get dry. So I'll use this small size brush, and I'm going to take this color. And we have already added some pencil lines for the pathway. So I'm going to add some colors there for that shadow or that snowy effect. Yeah, I one more here. Yeah. Here also, we have added Yeah. And I think I will add some more texture to the snow. Paper is still wet and working wet on wet. Yeah. Let's add some more blue colours in the foreground. I'm making some snowy textures, maybe. Yeah. I use this brush mainly for scratching like this. Yeah. Wet on wet kind of scratching. Like that, we can create very natural snowy effects. Now I'm not following the reference. I'm just going with the flow. Yeah, I'm trying to make that more darker shadows here. Yeah. You can go very loosely. Since you are painting wet on wet, you can make some nice soft effects like this. Yeah. That's it. Okay, now I think we have to paint the trees. So I'll take some indigo, and we have to paint it with very dark colors. So I'll mix it with some sepia. I want to make my own black color 10. Day 5 Class project - Part 2 : To make my own black color with indigo and sepia. Even you can use plain black color. Yeah, and paper is still wet. I'm just painting that trees very loosely. This line is very important how you're placing the trees on the snow. Yeah. I'm painting with very thick consistency of paint. Let's make it into some trees. Let's paint it here also. I'm not touching that light post, painting around that carefully. Yeah. Now we have to paint it into some trees. So yeah, I'll mix it with this Kobal blue in the Go Sepia and Kobal blue. And let's paint some pine trees in the background. Some very big trees and some small trees. Short and fat trees also. Again, you have to paint it very loosely. You can just make some upward strokes like this. I think I will mix it with some more Kabat blue. With some kebal blue, I'm just spreading the dark colors upward. I think you can see a little more bigger tree here. I'm spreading that colors with Kobal blue, making into some tree. Yeah, let's mix this john brilliant with this tree. Yeah. Let's add some darkness also here and there. Let's paint some more foreground trees. Yeah. Now, I'm going to add some tree trunks or some details like that to make that depth. Yeah. We just have to add some lines like this. Make it in different sizes also. And some tiny dots here and there. So details like stones or something in the very background. We are creating a kind of illusion, maybe. I'm just making that shape of the trees a little more defined. Yeah. Maybe we'll also fix some more details for the tree dry on dry. Let's see how it goes. I'm trying to create some moody effect for these pine trees, but still I want to make it into some shape. Yeah. Let's add some more details around here also. I always end up with hobo king for the trees. So now let's stop it like this. I think I will add some more branches from this side. You can see in the reference. So I'm going to use my detailer, and I will mix a pack white with this bad blue and some indigo too. Yeah, we need to make it into a little grayish kind of shade, and I'm going to make some more trees, some snowy trees maybe yeah. Like that. Trying to make some very thin branches. Adding some lines from here also. And also, I'm just scratching that paint a little bit over these branches. Yeah. Trying to make some depth for the painting by working on multiple layers. Yeah. I'm trying to make some more windery bushes or trees. Yeah, that's it. Now I'll scratch some paint from here and there to make some effects. Yeah. I'm just making a little more brighter lines or details for that trace. If you're using 300 gm paper, you can always do scratching also. Yeah. That's enough. We don't want to over on it. So let's stop it here. Let's start to paint the light. So before that, I'm going to fix this layer. I want to dry. Yeah. Now, that's perfect. Let's start to paint the details for the light. First, I will start from this frame of this light. So for that, I want to use some warm brown shade. So here I'm going to take some locre and I'll start with this frame. First, we'll start with yellocre and then we'll paint maybe with more darker brown shades. Yeah. I'm just following that pencil lines. You already added. Yeah. That's it. Now let's take some burn tumber and I'm going to fix this line. Yeah. That's it. And then we have to fix this small square. Okay. To make it a little more glowy, maybe we'll add some yellow colours inside this squares, like for this light. But before that, let's fix this post. So for that, I will start with ambos yellow again to get that reflections on the post. Yeah. I'm just filling that color here. Yeah. That's it. Now I will take some burn umber. Yeah. Okay, I'll mix burn tumber with some indigo to make it a little more darker. I'm just trying to blend that both colors. Yeah. And from this upside pot also. Yeah, that's it. I'm just wiping that colors that is going outside of the post. Yeah, with my flat brush. And around here, we have to end it like some curves. Yeah. And let's add some darker colours for the other side of the post also. Burn tamber, and in the go. I think I will wipe it from here. Yeah. Wipe that colour from there to make it straight. I'm making that one side of the post more lighter with lifting. Yeah. Okay, now let's add that details. 11. Day 5 Class project - Part 3 : Tails. Yeah. From here also, we have to paint I'm making it into some snow covered effect. Maybe let's add some yellow lines on the post. Yeah, with some white gouache and Cambogello, I think I want to make it a little more darker for the other side of the post, burn dumber and indigo. Yeah. Now, let's add some snow for this part. So I have back white. I'm not mixing it with water. Painting it with very thick consistency. And for this part also, That's it. I think I want to make a little more bluish around the light. So I'll take very light mix of this bat blue. And, yeah. I'm just feeling that color around that light, like the snow on that light and blending that edges. It's adds some more blue then blend the edges. No, I think I'll add some shadows to that snow. So again, I'm using Kobal blue and just feeling that color. I'm just leaving some part like this for that reflections. Yeah. Now, I'll add some more blue inside that light. So here I'm using gamboge, and from this side, I will add some color. Yeah. And then clean your brush and blending the edges. Yeah. Seem like I'm doing from this side also. Maybe I'll add some burn tumber to make it a little more gloy. Yeah. Okay blending the edges. And I will fix some dark effects on the frame again. A And just making some lines around that light to make it a little more sharp and visible. Yeah. Now, let's finish some details here. You can see that black effects, concentrate on that and then make it into almost that shape. S. I'll fix the snow on that by adding some kobarblu again. Yeah. I'm painting Kobal blu to the background. Yeah. And then blend the edges. Yeah. Yeah. Just adding some dots or lines. Yeah. Let's add some shadows to this post also. Let's make some little sharper effects here and there. I think I will add some more effects in the pathway also. And then blending that hot edges some kind of shadows or some darker effects for the snow For snow, we'll start with wet on wet layers, and then we can add more details with wet on dry or dry on dry. I'm making that pathway a little more visible. You can look at your painting from a little distance so you'll know where you have to add more details or more shadows. Or you can also stop it like that without adding that much details. But, yeah, I love to do this. I enjoy adding more details and bringing a kind of that life to the painting. It's very satisfying for me. But if you are feeling like it's intimidating, you can stop it. Yeah. Yeah, that's enough for the snow. Now let's add some splatter here and there around the slide. You can see in the reference, like, maybe some snowfall or something. So I'll use Juan brilliant, and I'll mix it with a pack white. Okay, now for some more bigger dots, I will lift some colors. Like in a circular motion, I'm just lifting some colors and then we'll add some paint there. A Yeah. Now I will add some white there. So here I have a pack white. I will mix it with some John Billin. And then add one dot there and clean your brush and then spread that white a little bit. Yeah. That's enough. I feel like adding some grass or something here and there. Yeah, my favorite part in painting snowy landscapes. Yeah. So here I have a mix of born timber and indigo, and I'm using my detailer, adding very thin wines here and there. That's enough. So yeah, that is the final look for painting. Yeah, I like how we painted this reflections, light reflections on the snow and the shape of this pathway and the background trees. But I feel like we should keep that glow around the light a little more brighter. But we have to fix that glow wet on wet. But yeah, all over the painting looks nice, and I like that nocturnal feel of the painting. So, yeah, I hope you enjoyed painting this with me, and you got some techniques to paint snowy shadows and lights and paint sparkles like this. And yeah, also by scratching, we have added some nerves and lines here and there. That's also looking nice. So, yeah, that's it for today's painting. See you with a new painting tomorrow, till then by. 12. Day 6 Class project - Part 1 - Sunlit Pine Trees: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to today's painting. Today we are going to paint a beautiful landscape with some sunlight trees and some shadows and some snowy effects. So yeah, painting snowy landscapes with green trees and sunlight effects is one of my favorite. I like that color combination between white, snowy landscapes with green effects. So you can see in the reference that foreground part of the snowy land. I'm going to add one line for that. I'll start from exactly the half. And I'm going to end around here. Yeah. And I'll fix that horizon line. You can see here. And you can also see some background trees there. I'm just adding an outline for that. Yeah, till here. And then from here, I'm going to add that trees in the foreground. Yeah, I'm just adding some outline, very rough outline. And there is one more tree that is a little more near to us. I'll start from here. That trunk, you can see the trunk is very visible with the sunlight effect, and then I'm adding its foliage. Like a pine tree. Yeah, that's enough. And also, here, you can see some effects like maybe some snowy stones or some rock or some very small grass or some small windy effects. Tree effec, yeah. And from here, I will add the branches. I'm just adding a very loose rough outline. That's enough. And from here also, you can see some grass or some flower seeds like that. That's enough for sketching very loose and rough sketch. Yeah. Now we'll start the painting. You can see some sunlight effects around this part for this trees. So we'll start with some light warm colors for this part, and we'll add more darker green effects around here. Yeah. And also in the land part, you can notice some sunlight and shadows. And around here, in the background, also you can see some sunlight effects and some dark shadows. So that's it. Now, let's start the painting. As always, I will wet the hall paper. Again, I'm just more stunning the paper. I don't want any water puddles on my paper. Yeah. That's it. Now I'll start painting the sky and some first layers for the trees. First, I will start with some Juan brilliant. Yeah. For some sunlight effect in the sky, I'll just add this joan brilliant here and there, for some warm effects in the sky. Yeah. Now I'll clean my brush, and I'm going to take some kebar blue. I'll mix it with this Jan brilliant to make it a little more dusky. And I will add that color here. A Yeah, I'll add here also. Paper is wet. I'm working wet on wet. I'm trying to make some a little cloudy effects here and there. Yeah. That's enough. Now, I'll move to paint this foreground snowy part. So again, I'm going to take some this Juan brilliant and you can see some sunlight effects there. I'm just adding this color for that sunlight effect. Yeah. Paper started drying, so I'm working a little faster. Yeah. Yeah, that's enough. And I'm going to use again this cobalblue. Maybe I'll mix it with some indigo. Yeah. And I think I will mix it with some water. Yeah. Very little color you need on your breast and then I'm just adding that to the foreground of the landscape. Yeah. Maybe we'll add more effects for this snowy part, um, wet on dry. Yeah. So now we are just adding some first layers. Yeah. And around here also, you can see some shadows. Yeah, that's it. Maybe I will add some more colors in the foreground, a little more darker color. Remember to keep your brush a little damp so you'll get this kind of effect. With too much water on your brush, you will not get this kind of wet on wet soft effects. So yeah, you have to work with a damp brush on almost damp paper, also. Yeah. That's it. Maybe lift some colors from here. I want to add some on brilliant again for that light effect. Yeah. That's enough. Now let's stop it like that. Let's start to paint. The first layers for trees. So I'm going to mix gambo yellow. Yeah. I want to make it a little greenish. So I'm going to use Oleive green. Yeah. I want to make it a little dark but still warm kind of green effect. So Oleive green and gambo I'm going to add that color for this trees. Paper is still wet. Yeah. For the edges, you can make it a little detailed and sharp. Yeah. That's it. Now I'll go here. I hope you can hear that sound of scratch. I'm not painting with the tip of my brist. I'm just scratching with the side of this bristles yeah. I'll just go like this for some sharp edges. Okay, I think I will wipe it from here. And let's add some more dots and leaves here and there. You can see my brush is very damp and I'm walking wet on wet with this damp brush. So we'll get that kind of controlled wet on wet effects. Yeah. Now I think I will add this color for this foreground tree by leaving a little gap here. Yeah. Let's make that tip a little more sharper. Okay, that's enough. Now I'm going to make this side of the trees. So I'll mix some indigo and this olive green. I need a very dark green mix. Yeah. And if you're noticing this side of the trees, you can zoom the roughness picture. Again, you can see some lights and shadows for that trees also. So I'm going to paint it like that. Yeah. Here, I'm going very carefully. Now, I'll mix it with this Olive green and gambos and then I'm adding some shadows also. Yeah. And then again, going with this dark green. You can make it like some trees by adding some upward strokes like this. H. Yeah, that's enough. Okay, I think I will make some more this indigo and olive green, and I will add some shadows again. I'm making some shadows here by, again, adding some darker colors. I think I want to add some more sunlight effect for this trace. So again, I'm going to take some gamboge. Paper is still wet so we can work on layers. Yeah, I'm just adding some gamboge. I'm not mixing it with water, adding it straightly from the palette. I think I will make it into some trees, again, maybe the stop part. Yeah. So more upward lines like this. Yeah, I think that's enough. And maybe I will scratch some paint from the trees for the tree trunk effect. So I'm going to use this small knife, and I want to scratch it while it's still wet. Yeah. It's very easy to scratch when the paint is still wet. You know. You know, I'll make some tiny lines like this for some depth or some kind of effects like that. Yeah. That's enough. Maybe I will add some more some kind of ef fix here and there. Yeah, I want to get it in this angle. Yeah. Now let's go for this trees again. For some dark colors. We have to add some shadows. So again, I'm going to mix some indigo and olive green. I'll mix more gamboge to this indigo and olive green mix so we can make it a little more warmer. Now we have to add some shadows to these trees. So I'm going to use this my scratching brush. Yeah. And I will add some effects here. 13. Day 6 Class project - Part 2 : Paper is dry and also I am working with a damp brush. I'm going to scratch it on the paper. Yeah, like that. I'm not painting with the tip of my brush. I'm just scratching with complete bristles to get that dry effects. Yeah. And maybe I'll add some more indigo for the shadows. H. No, I will add some here. Indi gain. So indigo. Here you can see, I'm leaving some gap for this highlight on the trees. Yeah. I'm just blending the edges here and there. Yeah. That's it. Maybe I'll add some more indigo around this spot. Like that, we can create some very nice sunlit trees. I hope you are following the technique by adding the first layer with some warm colors and then going for some very dark colors for the shadows. And then, again, we are doing it by scratching, so we'll get this nice effect of some tiny details or some leaves here and there. That's it. And later we'll also add some trunks or branches. Yeah, we'll go around here. Then if you want to blend the edges, you can do that, too. Yeah. You can also add some dots for the edges of this tree. So yeah, we'll get a nice shape. Yeah. That's enough. Now let's go for this side. Again, I'm going with this olive green and indigo mix. And I'm also leaving this tree. We will paint it later. Yeah. And also, I'm very careful about how I'm going with this line. Okay. Yeah, I hope you can see that effect of this dry technique. Yeah, now I leave some gap here for the highlight of the trees. Yeah. By adding shadows to one tree, we're also shaping the highlights for other tree. Yeah. The same time, we have to focus on both. Yeah. I'm adding some dots like this, and I will blend it get that soft effect. I'm adding some more shadows for some background trees. Yeah. Now, I'll go with this one. And yeah, we can make it a little irregular here. You can see some effects there. So I'm just adding some dots or some very fine details around here also. Yeah. Now I'll blend the edges again. Yeah. And some dots here and there to make that detailed kind of effect. Yeah. And here also, I want to make it a little softer. And here you can see some more that yellow effect. I'm again going to make it into some highlights. So by adding some more shadow effects, again, I'm using indigo and olive green mix. In the reference, also, you can see some effects there, some dark details. So yeah, I'll make it into some grass or something. Yeah. And I'm leaving some gap also. So dots here and there to make it a little more detailed. And let's add some more gamboge. Yeah. And then I'm going to blend the edges. Yeah. That's enough. Now I'll go with some more tiny details and maybe some sons or something like that. You can already see some pencil lines here, so I'm just following that. Yeah. Make it very tiny. Yeah. And then blending there just again. Maybe some gambos I hope you can see the shape of the bristles. I use this mainly for scratching. Yeah, to get a kind of dry and dry effect. I use this brush. You can see a little more bigger details around here in the reference. So I'm trying to create that. And also, I want to blend the edges a little bit. I don't want to leave it that sharper. And also, I'm going to add some tiny dots here and there. Around here also. And Okay, now I'll go with this tree. We have to add some shadows to this tree, and also we have to fix this trunk. So again, I'm going to use a little more darker colors for shadows on the tree, compared to these shadows. Yeah. So I'll mix indigo and olive green. And maybe I'll mix it with some sepia, more indigo and olive green, and very little sepia. And you can also notice the consistency of the paint. It's almost like oil paint or honey consistency. Yeah. So don't mix it with so much water. You can go with a little thicker consistency, and you can use a brush like this also. Yeah. Okay, you can see this trunk here. I'm going to start from the other side of that trunk. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just filling that color to one side of the tree. Yeah, now I think I want to blend the edges. Yeah, I'm cleaning my brush, and let's blend it here and there. And I think I'll mix it with this gamboch mix. And also, I want to leave some gap for this trunk again. Yeah. That sunlight hitting effect on the trunk. I'm just leaving some gap for that and then filling colors to all other sides. Yeah. Here I'm making it a little more detailed and yeah. That's it. Now, I think I will add this gamboge and olive green mix. Let's mix both these colors. I think I will add some more shadows here. I'm trying to make it into some pine tree foliage. In the reference, you can see some shape for the trees here. Okay. Now I'll clean my brush, and I want to blend these edges. Yeah. With that very little moist on my brush. Now, totally, we used three colors for this tree. We started with very lighter color and then we added some very dark shadows to this side. And then we are mixing both these light and dark colors with the mid ton of these two colors. Yeah. Now I'll fix this side. Maybe I will add some more darkness. I think I will fix it here a little more higher. And maybe adding some shadows, very tiny dots here and there. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's enough. Now I will add some colors for this side. I 14. Day 6 Class project - Part 3 : A Now, let's fix the tree trunk. But before that, I want to lift some colors from there. Maybe I'll lift some colours from here also for that continuation of the tree trunk. Yeah. I think that's enough. Now let's fix the tree trunk with some yellow ochre. I will take yellowcre and let's start from here. First we have to make a line like this. Yeah. And then I'm adding this color for this side. Yeah. And then I clean my brush and I'm going to pull that color to the other side. Yeah. Now, I think I will add some shadows to that trunk. So mixing some indigo to this yellow ochre. Just adding a very thin line there. Yeah. That's enough. Now I want to make some shadows for this tree trunk and this snowy part. So I'll take a very light mix of kebalblw and I'll make a line like this. You can see in the reference. And from there, I'm going to make a line a very narrow line. Yeah. Okay. Now I want to make some more shadows like this on this part. So I'll use this mob brush. Again, I'm going to take some koba blue, very light mix of kabalblue let's add some more sharper effects for the shadows. Yeah. And I will blend it here and there. Make some lines here also. Yeah. Yeah. And like this, we can create a kind of depth and dimensional look for this snowy land part. Yeah. And from here also. You can also add some tiny effects. Yeah, I'm making some very tiny effects also. And also, I'm blending some edges. Yeah. Okay, now I will add some shadows around here also. You can see in the reference. So again, I'm using bal blue, and we'll start from here. Yeah. That's it. And maybe I'll add some lines from here also. Yeah. That's enough. Now we can see the shadows and highlights very clearly. Yeah, that is the effect we were trying to create. Yeah. Okay, now I'll, again use this brush, and I want to add some effects here and there. So darker effects, adding some dots or some dry texture. It's not there in the reference, but I think I want to add some tiny effacs here and there. And maybe I will add some details here. Yeah. So I'm going to add some very fine lines. Yeah, you can paint it very thin and you can add some branches to different directions, also. Yeah. That's enough. Okay, now I'll add some flower seeds or some dry leaves here for the stems. So first I'll take gamboge for that highlights again. And let's add some very tiny dots. I'm not covering entirely. I'm just adding some dots here and there. Yeah. That's it. Now I will add this shadow color. We have mixed indigo and olive green. And let's add that color to the other side. Yeah. Now, I think I want to blend it a little bit. It looks too sharp. So I'm just blending that dots here and there. I think I will make it a little more darker to this part. Again, I'm using this shadow color, and I'm using my mob brush. Yeah, I think I am making it more darker. I didn't like that sharper effect for that. A I'm making it more darker for the very foreground part. Okay, now, I think I need a continuation of this bushes around here also. Yeah, so I will add some details there. It's not there in the reference again. But, yeah. Yeah, now we are almost done with the painting. I think let's add some more fine details with opaque white. Yeah. So you can see some snowy effects on the trees in the reference here and there. I'm going to add some very fine dots here. So tiny branches. Okay, I will add some more details on here also. Yeah. There are some branches here also in the reference. I want to add some lines for that. You can see I'm just using the very tip of my brush and I'm going loosely. You can start with some pressure, and then you can release it. Yeah. So you will get that natural kind of look for these branches. So, yeah, that is the final look of our painting. I hope you enjoyed the session. I hope you got the technique of painting sunlit trees and some fine details and branches like this. We started with the first layer. Like we added some warm colours for the sky and the snowy land pt, and then we added some shadows and some sky colors. And then we started painting this background trees with some shadows and lights again. We scratched some paint from here for the trunks, and then we added um, some colors for the sunlight trees. Like, we started with first layer, mixing gamboge with olive green, and then we added some shadows by mixing indigo. Yeah. And then we added some wet on dry effects for the shadows, again, some fine lines and dots here and there. And we also added some more details for the foreground. So yeah, all over, we have painted a more realistic kind of landscape. I hope you got the technique of painting sunlight effect in landscape paintings. So that's it for today's painting. So you with the new painting tomorrow? Till then by? 15. Day 7 Class project - Part 1 - Golden Winter Sunset Over River: He Hi, everyone. So I hope you're ready with your materials. So, let's start the painting. This is going to be a simple winter sunset. You can see some sunset clouds in the sky and reflections in the water. And there are some trees in the background and in the foreground, too. And also, we have to paint the snowy and with some shadows and sunlight reflections. So yeah, let's start with sketching. As always, I'm going to fix the horizontal line in the middle. Okay. And maybe from around here, I'm going to fix that line for the water like river or something. Don't make it like a straight line. So you'll get more natural look. And I think maybe from here, there's going to be some foreground, little more darker shadows, as you can see in the reference, and maybe from here, I will add some more trees. And here, I'll fix the bigger tree. And maybe this horizontal line I'm going to fix higher. Yeah. And maybe let's add some lines for some odd trace here and there. Let's try to make it more simple and Yeah. Maybe around here, I'll fix one more bigger tree. That's it. And we'll also paint this tree reflections around here. And for this tree here, maybe for this tree, I'll fix it here. Yeah. That's enough, and we'll paint the sunlight, a little more warmer, lighter, sky here. So we have to paint that reflections around here. First, let's start with the sky. So I'm going to wet the sky part only. I think I want to wipe it from here because we have to paint some snow here. So yeah. Yeah. Let's start with sunset colors first. I'm going to take some gambogillo and let's start from here. Try to make it like some narrow strokes. Okay. And like this, I'm going to paint some more yellow strokes. You have to notice the direction I'm adding that yellow strop Okay. Now I'm going to take some naples yellow red, and I will mix it with gambo yellow to make it a little peachy kind of shade. That's the color I'm going to use. Just here and there, I'm going to add that color also. Make sure your paper is not drying. I think I want to add a little more brighter yellow, so I'll take cadmium yellow. Yeah. To paint it around the light. That's enough. Make it a little more softer. You can just blend the colors with your brush. I want to add some more Napleslo around here. Yeah. Now I will paint some blue colours from the top part. So I'm going to take some cobalt blue. I'm trying to make it more lighter. And also, I'm painting it negatively. I'm not touching the clouds. We already painted, painting it around that and making that shape with the clouds. And also, I'm trying to make some little sharper shape here and there. And I'm also going over the yellow clouds here and there to make some shadows maybe. I think I want to fix it around here. So I'm going to take some more cobalt blue. Maybe I'll mix it with some maple salop to make it a little more grayish. And I think I want to paint some shadows to these clouds. Yeah, from here also, let's make it a little more darker clouds here and there. Bar blue and nipple yellow red. And I'm trying to add some more darker clouds. I'll take a smaller brush, and I'm also adding some tiny clouds. I need to make it a little more brighter these tiny clouds. So painting it with napleslo red again. Some narrow lines and little more detailed look. Trying to make it more warmer and lighter around the sunlight. I'm just going with the flow. I'm not following the reference completely. Yeah, I think that's enough for the sky. Let's dry this layer. Okay, that's it. Now, I think we are done with a beautiful sky. I like sunset sky with some clouds. So now let's move to paint the land part and also this sky reflections in the water. So I'm going to wet the whole land part again and we'll paint the snow and then we'll paint the reflections. So again, I'm going to wet it. And also, I'm not going here. I don't want to reactivate those colors we painted. So, yeah. I'm just wiping that water going upward. Yeah, I'm going to take some kobat blue again. As you know, snow is again water. It's also reflecting sky colors. So we just have to make it a little more harmonious by using almost same colors we used in the sky. So here, I'm again taking some cobalt blue. And as you can see in the reference, I'm just creating some shadows for the snowy part. You can just go slowly by adding some big strokes like this. So by leaving some gaps like this, so you'll get some reflections or highlights of the sunlight. And maybe from here also, you can see in the reference, it's like a little more darker shadows here for the sunlight. And maybe I think I want to make it a little warmer for this part on the snowy land for more reflections. A for more depth. Yeah. So I think I want to paint it very bright here. So I'll take the same naples yellow. Me me and some naples yellow. Yeah, that's it. Now let's fill again this with cobalt blue. You have to use very thin paint with lots of water. I'm adding some more cobalt blue here and there. Now I will paint some more darker spots for this snowy part. So I'm using this cobalt blue again. And also you have to paint it wet on wet. So if you're feeling like your paper is drying, you can dry the paper completely and then rewet it again. If you're using 100% cotton, that's okay. We can work on multiple layers by wetting and drying multiple times. And also here also, I'm making it a little darker. Like in the foreground, we have to make it darker and You can see some nice effect in the snowy land now by adding more layers. Like, you know, we don't want to make it very plain. We can just make some dimension or some movement in the snowy part to make it more natural. So that's what I'm trying. And this water part is going invisible through here. So I'm just adding some details around here. Okay. I think that's enough. We don't want to over 16. Day 7 Class project - Part 2 : Yeah, I'm trying to make it a little more visible around this part of the land. Maybe I think I want to add some more shadows to the snowy part. I will take some indigo, and I'm mixing it with some bar blue again, a little more darker blue shade. Yeah. I want to make more shadows. As you know, watercolor will dry very lighter, so we have to work on multiple layers to get that contrasting look. You can look at your painting from a little distance, so you will know where you want to add more shadows or more details or if you want to fix something, you can do that, too, by maybe lifting some paint or maybe by adding more layers, you can fix mistakes also. I think that's enough. Just blending it here and there. Paper started drying. We had to fix it faster. I'm using same colors like Kobal blue with some indigo. Yeah, that's enough. I'm not overworking on it. So now let's paint this water reflections. So before that, I will dry this layer. As you can see here, the sunlight is around here, so we have to make it bright here, you know, and also, then we'll paint this bigger tray that is overlapping the sunlight. So we'll make it lighter here and we'll paint it more darker from here to here. Yeah. So first, let's wet that part. Now, let's add some This gambo yellow. I'll paint it around here and around here, too. And now I'll take some Naples allow red, and let's make it a little um orangish or like that here and there. And I think I want to blend it around here. I will add some more details like some clouds. Yeah. Let's make it a little more warmer with more Camboc Yeah, that's enough. Now I'm going to take some cobalble and bending it from here. Just blending those colors. I think I want to make it a little more darker for the water part. So I'll take indigo and maybe some naples silo again. I want to make it a little grayish shade. And, yeah, let's add that color in two corners. You can see by adding this dark color here, we are also defining this outline for this land part. So we had to focus on both. And from here also, I will make it. Yeah. This water part is going through here, so I'm just adding some shadows there to Like some cloud reflections. I'm painting it. Yeah. Maybe I will blant it a little bit here and there. I just adding some darker spots like little gaps to make it more natural for the water part. Just adding some more darker sports here and there. Okay, that's it. Now, let's paint some tree reflections here before it gets dry. So yeah. From here and here, here, we'll paint that reflection. Paper it's still a little damp. So I will again take this indigo and some maple loo. It's like a cold gray shade. Don't make it very loose. You have to paint it with little thicker pins. So yeah, from here. Maybe you can place your paper upside down, so it'll be more easier to paint. I'll add more layers to that. And maybe let's add some yellow strokes here with the same mix of gamboch and naples silo. Mm. And I want to blend it a little bit. Yeah, that's enough. Now I'll paint from here also. Paper is started drying. And here is also one tree. I will add some yellow strokes like this here also. Maybe a little bit here. I think I want to make it like some moment in the water. Let's spread it like this. Some narrow lines horizontally. Now, I think we have to paint this land reflections in the water, as you can see in the reference. So now I'm mixing some kobal blue to this already mixed colors for the trees and water part, like with the indigo and Napleslo. Now I'm mixing a little bit kobalblue to this and also some opaque white. Yeah. And let's make it like some reflections for this land part. You can make it a little more white here and there. Let's make it more narrow. And here also. Here I'm painting it with more Wapa white. Yeah. Almost done. Maybe I will paint some details from here with the same colors like more indigo. I will paint some winery grass or some leaves that's overlapping this water part. And from here also, I'm painting it like some upward strokes and then some very tiny dots here and there to make it more detailed. Some tiny, tiny ones here and there and more bigger ones also. Yeah. Now, I think I want to paint the background trees, but I just want to fix it completely dry. So I'm going to dry this layer. And maybe I want to add some shadow around here. Now let's start painting these trees. So I'll take the same colours and I'll start with the straight line, and then I will paint the leaves. And I want to make it more lighter around here. So just clean your brush and take some yellow and. Now let's paint these leaves. You can paint it loosely, so you'll get more natural look for your pine trees. Just scratch it over your paper and then shape it. Now I want to make it with some yellow. Some darker spots around that yellow again. Also, you have to be careful how you're putting this tree on this land, but this shape is very important, especially when you're painting snowy trees. I think I want to add a little more darker layer for the tree. So I'll mix some indigo and paints gray and adding some wet tone with darker layer. I want to paint some trees around here also, and then we'll add more darker details. A I started with more thicker layers for the cener part and then adding some tiny strokes on both sides to make it more detailed or to give a shape. Now I'm adding more thicker paints here, more like darker paint. Let's add some yellow also to create some reflections on the tree. Okay, now let's add one more tree here. With the same technique. I'll start with the lighter layer. Yeah, now I'll add a little more thicker layer on that with indigo and paints gray mix. 17. Day 7 Class project - Part 3 : With indigo and paints gray mix. Yeah. And maybe let's add some more trees in the background. So I'll take this small brush this size to again, sable brush. And let's paint some background trees. So I'll start from here and then we'll make it more lighter towards the sunlight, and around here, too. Yeah. Just scratching some paint to make it like some distant trees. I think I want to make it more lighter. I'm mixing it with the yellow mixture we already made. I it's very important, like from where you are starting with trees. Some trees are in very distance and some are in between this part. I want to make some around here, too. I'm going to mix it with more yellow. That is gamboge yellow and little pink gray and in the go Yeah. And with a little more darker mixture, I want to paint some trees like this. Some smaller ones and some taller ones. Like I'm adding some dots also here and there. And let's add some here also. To grade that depth in your paintings, you have to be very patient. Like, we have to add so much fine details in the very distance. So yeah, with more gambo yellow and, again, a little indigo mixture, I'm adding again here also. When you paint details like this, you have to control the moist of your brush very carefully, so you can keep a tissue paper in this hand and you can wipe it in between the painting. Yeah. Like some tiny, tiny trees or details here and there. Yeah. Yeah. And from here also. You can see this brush tip is not very pointy. It's very dry. Yeah. So you'll get that dry texture easily. I use this brush, especially for scratching, some tiny details. And we had to paint a little bigger tree here. I'm making it more darker to this spot. And here, I'm going to paint it with little gamboge lomix. Yeah, then I'm going to add a little more darker layer for that. A I think we are almost done. Let's add some more trees here and there around this spot. If you're feeling like it's too dark, you can wipe it. I want to fix this tree again. So yeah. I want to add some more details here and there. Maybe I will add some more details with some white. You had to paint it with very thick consistency. Some details to the trees also like some sharp strokes here and there. I And, yeah, that's the final silo for painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. I love to paint a winder landscape with some warmth and glowing sun light like this. I love that colour combination of yellows and blue colours, and I love how it turned out. Yeah, thanks for joining today and see you with a new painting tomorrow. Bye. 18. Day 8 Class project - Part 1 - Winter Forest In Sunset Glow: Hello. Welcome back. And I hope you're enjoying this class so far here. So today, we'll paint this beautiful winter woodland with a nice and warm sunlight coming through the snowy trees, and there are a lot of shadows and some trees in the foreground and background also. So let's start with a simple sketch. Since it's a winter sunset, we'll use some soft and peachy kind of colors for the sunset and sunlight reflections. Yeah. So I'll start with that line for the snowy for ground, almost like a resin line. And I'll start from here. And also, let's make it a little wavy, not a straight line. Yeah. And around here, I'll fix the sunlight. You can see in the reference. And I'll fix some lines for some foreground trees. You can see one tree here and there are two trees in front of the sunlight. I will fix an outline for that tree trunks and we'll do more trees in the background. Yeah. Again, don't make it very straight line. You can make it like some free hand lines, little shaky and wavy lines. Yeah. And sunlight is going to be around here. So I will fix one tree from here. And as you can see in the picture, we'll paint the tree little more transparent and warm, just because it's very near to the sunlight and this tree is going away from the sunlight, so we'll make it more cool and a little more darker. Yeah. That's it. And from here, maybe I'll fix one more Yeah, that's it. And I think I will fix one more here. Me thinner. And maybe one here. Okay. And also, you can see some white space here in the reference picture as we can see the sky through these t foliage. So here, I'm going to do an outline for that. So we can keep that space more lighter. Yeah. Just very loose and rough lines. That's it. Okay, that's enough. Okay, now, for the sunlight, I will use gambojello and opera pink. I'll mix Opera pink with gambo yellow, so we'll get a nice beach shade for that winter sunset. I'll mix it. You can use any rose or pink shade that you have and you can mix it with warm yellow shade. That is a shade. So yeah. Now, let's start by wetting the whole paper. You don't need too much water on the paper. You can rub your brush back and forth multiple times to make it a nice thin layer of water. Now, I will use this size eight round brush, a sable brush. So first, I'm going to take some gambogello and I'll make a circle here for the sunlight. With the very tip of my brush, I'm going to make a circle. So now I have loaded my brush with gamboge and just making a circle here, wet on wet. Now I will spread that color a little bit around that circle. Remember to keep this sunlight very bright. So now I'm going to make some opera to this Campos, and I'll use that color just around the sunlight. I just really like that shade. That's it for the sunlight colors. Now I'm going to fill the sky with Kobal toilet and some indigo, I'll mix both. I need a very light shade of a bluish gray kind of shade. So here I'm mixing Kobal toilet. This is by Rembrandt and indigo. Yeah. That's it. We can use a violet shade, maybe. And I'm also mixing a lot of water to it. I need a very thin and light shade, and I'm going to just fill that color. And also, I'm not going here. We need this space more lighter compared to the sky and the trees. So yeah. I'm just trying to make it like a smooth transition of these colors since the paper is wet. But yeah, it started drying. We have to work faster. Yeah. And down very we'll cover this part with lots of tree and foliage with multiple layers. So yeah, as again, seeing the difference, we'll fix it later. That's it. Yeah. Hm. I think I will add this color a little bit here to make it like some depth or some distant mountain or something that in the very background. So here I will make it a little darker. Yeah. O and also I'm trying to blend it. I don't want any sharp, just the Okay. I think let's stop it. The paper started dry. Now, I think I will repeat the same colors for this snowy land since snow is again water, and it will definitely reflect the colors of the sky and the sunlight. So I'm going to again start with gambog just under the sunlight. And I will use some opera and gamboch again. Yeah. I just fill that color. All over the paper. Yeah. That's it. You can use a load of water and just spread it. I'm trying to blend those hard edges. Now, I'll repeat this color around in the very foreground. So here I am again mixing cobal toilet and some indigo, and I'm repeating that color in the foreground to make it a little darker, so we'll get that focus towards the sunlight. Some wet on wet narrow lines. Since I don't want to make it very plain, there's snowy part. So I'm trying to create some moment, maybe. Yeah, that's enough. Okay, now paper is still wet. I'm going to fix the first layers for this tree details. So like this foliage, as you can see in the reference, the foliage is very dark but still cool and grayish kind of look. So here I have indigo and cobalt twilet I'm not making it very thin. I just need a little thicker consistency of paint. Yeah, almost like a grayish shade. And I'm going to just fill that here. I'm using a size two sable brush. I don't want to fill it with a bigger brush, just because I need some texture like this here and there. We don't how to fill it very loosely. We can create some texture like this. So we can make some background tree effects, wet on wet. I'm trying to make it a little more darker here and there. And again, you don't have to make very sharp edge here. You can make it a little softer and not very visible. I think by doing like that, you will get some nice depth between the trees. I hope now you can see some effects like some lighter sports and some darker sports here and there. For that, effect, I used this um, small size brush. I don't want to fill it with a bigger brush. You can just, um, 19. Day 8 Class project - Part 2: Scrub it over your paper like this, so you will get some nice effect. Okay, I hope you remember we have added some lines here to make that sky part more brighter. So I'm going to paint it there very carefully, and also I have mixed. This indigo and cobalt violet mix with a little opera pink to make it a little more brighter and warmer as it's coming towards the sunlight. And you can also make it a little sharper. Paper started drying. So yeah, you can work for sharper details also. Yeah. Okay, I think I want to use some gambogin, maybe some opera pink also and very little indigo. Yeah. And make it more darker to the other side. With only darker affix, we will get that lighter spots more bright and glory. Making it more lighter, but still that darker colors here. Just some very tiny, darker spots here to make it like some depth. Yeah, I will switch to this detailer brush, and let's make some tiny and thin details here. Okay. Now, I'll fix some more darker spots here and there. People started drying, so let's do it faster. I need it wet on wet again. So here I'm mixing again, koba toilet and some indigo, and let's work on some other darker layers like some pine trees. Okay, later we'll add this foreground tree here. We have added one line for that. So here, I'm making some, um, details for that tree like little more darker and detail sharper kind of effects. Yeah. Like that, we can create some nice depth to the painting. Yeah. I will add some more darker spots here and there. I need more thicker paint of this mix Indigo and go Bal toilet. I'm just making some tiny details here and there. Yeah. I think let's leave it like that. Okay. Now I will fix this part. So first I'm going to revet here. I'm using this flat brush for revetting. This is size one wash brush by Brenston. Yeah. And let's paint same like this. So first, I'll start with opera and this gamboge. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. So now I'm going to make it a little more darker. You can see how I'm, uh, moving my brush for these strokes. Maybe I'll make some more cobalt twilight here and there to make it more cool. Some more thin lines here and there to make it detailed. It's very important to not overwork. I always end up with overworking. Yeah. Stop it like that. And again, I will fix this spot. And also in the reference, you can see it's a little more brighter and, um, lighter around here. So we're not making it that darker there. We'll just stop it here like this and we'll bland it a little bit downward. I'm trying to make it a little irregular, and I'm going to blend it. We don't want that sharp effect there. Yeah. I think I will fix some more darker spots from here. So we'll get that focus towards the sunlight. Making some darker spots also here under. You can also paint all these layers in your own idea. You don't have to follow all this I'm doing. I'm just going with the flow, lose effects, like, yeah. I'm making some yellow spots around the sunlight. Tiny lines or something. Yeah. I think that's it. Now, I think I want to make some more yellow spots in between this foliage. So I will take some a pack white. And yeah. I'm going to mix it with some gamboge and little opera to match this shade of the sunlight. Yeah. Now I will mix this apack white to this. And I do need to very thick consistency. Maybe I will make some more gamboge. My pastel shade of yellow or some peachy kind of shade. And you can already see some little spots here, here, like that. So I'm going to make it a little more sharper. Yeah. That's how we can fake watercolor effect. Yeah. But still, you have to paint it on dry paper. Paper it's dry now, and also I'm using very thick paint. You can make some tiny, tiny spots here and there. Yeah. You have to paint it very sharp and thick. Otherwise, we'll lose that transparent, wet on wet look of your layers we painted. Yeah. And if you're feeling like somewhere it's too sharp or too visible, just blend it down with very little water like with a damp brush, Yeah. That's it. Now, let's dry this layer completely, and then we'll paint this snowy land and more details to the trees, some branches and tree trunks, also. So, yeah. Okay, now, as you can see in the picture, the tree trunks are black in color, but still it's a little transparent, especially around the sunlight. So what I'm going to do is, I just need to lift some colors from the tree trunks. So I'll use this five by eight wash brush, and this is a flat brush, and I'll make it damp. I don't need too much water. Just dip it in water and just wipe it. Okay. And from here, we have 20. Day 8 Class project - Part 3: It. Okay. And from here, we have added one line for the trunk, and I'm going to lift that cover from the tree trunk. You can just scrub your brush in that space multiple times, so you'll get a nice light space there. And also, I'm spreading that colors downward here. Yeah. And later we'll add some darker paint to the trunks. But still, we need to make that light reflections to the trunk. That's why I'm lifting these colors now. Yeah. Just dip your brush in water and wipe it and just do it like this. And you can also lift it with a tissue like this. Yeah. And we have also added two trays here, so I'm going to make it here also. Do it very carefully. These trees are in the foreground, so don't worry about this foliage we painted. We can do it by overlapping that. I think you need some patients to do this. But if you're using 100% cotton paper, it will work because lifting is also an important technique in watercolor to get nice effects. I'm going with this trunk here. And here, I'm just breaking it a little bit. I'm not going straight like this. I'm also spreading that colors downward to get that continuation. Yeah. That's enough. Now, maybe I will lift some more very thin lines from here to make some depth You can see I'm breaking it again here and there. I'm not going straight. Okay, now the paper is completely dry and I'm going to fix the shadows for the tree trunks. So first, I'm going to wet this part. I don't want to make it very sharp lines for these shadows, so I will wet it. And after painting, the shadows, we paint more details to the tree trunks. So I'm going to use this flat brush, and with very little water, I'm going to just moist that. But I don't want to reactivate these colors. I'm just wetting it very careful. I'm not pressing it hardly. With very little water, I'm just going very gently. Yeah. That's it. Now, for the shadows, I will use ultramarine and maybe I will mix it with some indigo. And also don't make it very straight lines. You can paint it like wavy according to this snowy land we already added. So here I'm using a detailer. I need very thin lines, and then we'll make it thicker. So I'm going to use this detailer brush, and I have here ultramarine. And for this trunk, I'm going to start Yeah. And then make it more thicker. For this, I'm going to make it like this. Thinner, and then more thicker. Yeah. And for this also, here is one more tree. Yeah. Okay. And from here, I'll fix the bigger one. Now you can see some more thinner lines here. So I'm going to make it more thinner. I think we can add a few more lines for the tree trunks in the very background. We're making it more thinner and lighter in the color. And we have to fix from here too, I'm going to make it sidewise. And also, you can make it a little darker in the foreground. Not too dark. And I'm using only ultramarine. I didn't mix it with digo, any other color. Yeah. Maybe I will add some tiny details. Make it very thin and sharp. Okay, I'm going to add shadows to that. Yeah. From here also, now let's stop it there. Now we are done with the shadows and we'll paint these details to the tree trunks. So I'm going to take some burn tumber and I'll mix it with some indigo, almost like a van **** brown. You can even use Vandyke Brown also. Again, you have to paint it with thick consistency. I'm using this detailer and I'm starting with this trunk. And also sunlight is coming from this side, so we'll make the highlights here and more darker or more shadow to this spot. So I'm going to start from here, and then I will pull that colors to the other side. And also, you have to be careful about this spot. We have to paint it a little sharper since this trunk is going inside the snow or it is a little cover with this snow, so we have to paint it like that. So I'm going to make a curve like this. Yeah. And then going upward. And again, you can paint it irregular and little wavy. Don't make it very straight. You already lifted some colors from there. So you can follow that. And then I'm just pulling it to the other side so we can keep that transparency for the highlights. I'm just blending it. I want to get that soft effect for the highlights and shadows. Yeah. That's it. Now, I think I will take some indigo, and let's make some more darker spots for shadows, maybe like some texture to the trunk. We'll also paint some branches sidewise for these fork down trees. As you can see in the reference picture, we are following the trees or these tree trunks are very contrasting, um, in the picture. So we have to make it a little more darker compared to the background we are painting. To make it a little sharper and visible for this part, I will take this indigo again, and I'm going to fix it with very thin line. Yeah. So that trees will be more visible and more sharper. And also, I'm not going straight. I'm just breaking it a little bit here and there. Just some small lines. Let's make maybe a little more dry and detailed here. 21. Day 8 Class project - Part 4: That's enough for that tree, and I will go with these two trees, and then we'll go to these trunks more transparent. I'm going to repeat the same technique. A So, yeah, now I'm going for these two trunks. So I'll take more yellowcre and some gamboge also. Just around the sunlight, I will start with gamboge. Yeah. Also, the other side, I'm not painting to this side, and then I'm going with born temper from here also, I'm going with burn temper. And as it going upward, I will make some indigo. Yeah, maybe we can add some more indigo here. So we'll get that glow. Now I'm going to pull that colors to this side. Making that thin line for this edges Now I'll go with this one. So again, I'll start with Gamboge. And then I'm going with temper. And also remember to make it sharp and in a nice shape like this. And I will go with ultramarine. Sorry, indigo. And let's break it here and then let's do this for this lifted space. A. Here also. Mm. And I will spread that colors. I'll take some gamboge again. Yeah. I think I want to blend it a little bit from here. Like I'm lifting some colors from there because I need a little more reflections or transparent effect there. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Maybe I will fix some highlights here. Yeah. So I will take the gamboge and opera with opaq white. Don't make it too white. You have to use almost same like the sunset colors. Let's go with these two tree trunks. So again, I'm going to mix some bun temper and indigo. And Also, I will add some more trunks in the very background. So I'm going to use only this kobal toilet and some indigo. And I also want to make it very loose and thin with some water. For the thin lines, I'm going to use this calligraphy brush. I think it is almost size too, and it's very pointy, so we can make some very sharp and thin lines easily. So yeah, You can adjust the darkness. Make it very sharp and thin. Okay, let's make it some from here, so I will make it more transparent with very little colors like with more water. I'm trying to make it more thin and yeah, transparent. I'm going to make some branches. I'll start from the middle, as you can see here. I'm going to start from here and just make some downward lines. Yeah. And maybe I'll start from the very side. Yeah. Here also Yeah. Okay, let's make some little more brighter or lighter branches also, since it's a winery landscape and trees. So with this same brown mix, I'm also mixing it with some apa white and yeah, like that. Now let's finish it off with some white spots here and there for the sky. You can see the sky a little bit here and there through the foliage and trees. So I'm going to make some white spots there. So I will take this pack white. I'm not mixing it with anything. You can follow the reference, and I'm going to make some white spots here and there. You can already see some darker spots and lighter spots here and there. So I'm going to fix that lighter spots again. Yeah, like that. Make it very sharp and tiny. That is the final look of painting. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. And also, you learned some techniques to paint lights and shadows and glins and light with some snowy reflections and also beautiful foliage and tree effects. I think I liked it, and I like the glow, especially on this snoyand part and also this tree effects. Yeah. So that's it. Okay, see you in the next video. 22. Day 9 Class project - Part 1 - Sunlit Snow Covered Trees: Hello, everyone. Welcome to today's class project, and I hope you're ready for a new painting. This is the reference we are going to use today. As you can see, there are a lot of shadows and highlights. So yeah, it's not a very beginner friendly class project, so I hope you have that mindset to work on it. Yeah. So let's start with sketching. I'm going to fix the horizon line in the chart middle. And let's fix that house. From here, I will start the outline. Yeah. And it is covered with lots of snow. So let's make that outline for the snow. You can see some shadows here, so I'm giving a line for that. Yeah, that's it. And yeah, one more house is here in the background. So let's fix that too. We'll start with a triangle and then make the roof. And it's also covered with snow. And you can see a lot of winery, snowy trees in the background with some shadows and some highlights. So let's fix the outline for that. I'm going to fix that line for the trunk here is going to be the bigger, I mean, the taller tree. Yeah, and one more here. And I'm going to fix that line for that shape of the trees. Yeah. That's it. Let's add some more trees here, maybe. And here, also some distant trees or some bushes. And one more tree trunk is here. Okay, and it's going to be a lot of shadows in the foreground. So yeah, let's see how it goes. And also, we'll paint some grass or something in the foreground. That's it. Okay. Now, for the first layer, I'll start with that highlights for these trees and here also going to some sunlight reflections. So I'll start with that colors. Like, I'll use maybe some warm colors for that. And then we'll paint the sky and this shadow part. So yeah, let's start by wetting the whole paper. You just need a very thin layer of water on your paper. So you can rub your brush multiple times on your paper, so we'll not have any water puddles or too much water on the paper. I'm going to mix some juan brilliant. This is by Shinhan and add that color for the trees, wet on wet. And you can also see some very dark shadows in the trees. So yeah. You can paint with the tip of your brush, like for some tiny dots here and there around the trees. Yeah, now I will take some indigo to make that shadows on the tree. But also, I'm mixing it with a lot of water. I don't need that much dark color, and I think I will mix it with some u and brilliant discolor to make it a little more creamy and lighter in color. I'll mix it with some paints gray also. So we have a bluish kind of gray shade. Yeah, that's it. Now, paper is started drying, so I spray some water, and here I have lot my brush with this color. So I'm going to fill this color. We have to keep the roof of the houses white. So yeah, remember to not spread these colors downward. Yeah. I'm just creating some shadows to the trees. Since the light is coming from this side, I'm just making some shadows from this side also. Maybe I will fix some more details to the highlights of the tree. So let's make some tiny dots here and there. Okay. So I'm spreading it a little bit downward. Okay, that's it for the trees. We have painted some lights and shadows to the trees wet on wet. So now we'll straightly move to paint the sky. So we have to paint it with some dark colors from around here, and we'll make it a little lighter to this part. So from this corner, we'll paint it more darker. So here, I'm going to take some cobalt blue, and I'm going to start from here. I think it's too colorful. So maybe I will mute it down with some indigo. What is the color. We don't want that much vibrancy. Now, I'm painting the sky by leaving this space for the trees, almost like negative painting. So you have to be careful how you are placing this blue color around these trees, that is the shape of the trees. Also paper is almost dry. You can make some tiny dots around here. Like sky is so visible through the trees. Make it irregular, like some dots here and there. Also, you can create some dry texture there. So you'll get some tiny dots. Yeah. That's it. Now I'm going to make it light with some water. So here I'm mixing this already mixed blue colors with some water. And yeah. Let's just fill that color around here. Be careful when you're painting around trees. Okay. I'll make it more lighter with water. That's it. Yeah. I think I want to make it a little more darker around this corner, so I'll mix more indigo and Yeah, that's it. Okay, now I will take this small brush, detailer, and I'll make some more blue spots here and there around these trees so we'll get more shave to the tree. So, yeah, you can roughen the picture. We're following and just make some spots here and there. And it's also important to not overwork. You had to make it like some tiny dots. Yeah. I think I will make some bushes here. Yeah. Just in the distance, you can see some bushes. So I'm trying to create that and also adding some shadows. Yeah. So, yeah, that's it for the trees. And later we'll add this trunk and branches to the trees. So I hope you got the technique for painting white trees in winter landscapes. Like, we'll start with the lights and shadows to the tree, wet on wet. And then we'll cover the sky with blue colors by using maybe wet on dry technique to get these sharp edges. Or also you can use wet on wet technique again to paint the sky. So like that, we can create some white contrasting trees in winter Bass caps? Yeah. Now let's move to this foreground part. So first, I'm going to wet the foreground part. He also, you can see some very sharp lights and shadows. Around this house, it's going to be more lighter and it's a little more cooler and bluish in the foreground. So let's paint it like that. So, yeah, I'm going to paint the shadows 23. Day 9 Class project - Part 2: In the foreground. I think I will use the same blue colors we mixed. I have cobalt blue, and some indigo. So it's like a light sky blue kind of shade. So with that color, I'm going to fix the shadows. You had to move your brush a little faster like this. Instead of painting like this, you have to move it a little faster, so you will get that straight edge between the shadow and highlights. And also don't cover the spot there. You can again see some white spots here and there in the foreground. So yeah, you can intentionally leave some space like this. Yeah, that's it. And let's make some shadows around here. Yeah. I think this house roof is also under shadow. So let's cover that too. That's it. I'm trying to make that shape around here. Yeah. Now I will add some more dark color here, so I'll mix more indigo to this blue mix. And, yeah. You can also make some irregular shaves here and there. Yeah, that's it. And also, you can see around this part behind this house, there are some shadows and also it's dark compared to the roof of this house. So very tiny details that we almost miss to create in the painting. I think I want to make it a little more sharper for this shadow, so I'm going to lift some colors from there. Yeah. It looks too soft and blended, so I want some sharp edge there. Okay, now I'm going to dry this layer completely, and then we'll paint more details. Okay, now the paper is completely dry. I will paint details to the houses. So I'm going to take some burn temper and also elocre. I'm going to start with elocre for this house. You can use a detailer like this or a small size brush. Remember to keep the edges sharp and neat. I also like it's covered with some snow like this. We had to make some wavy lines, not straight, since it's covered with some snow. And now I will use some burn temper. Okay, I think I will mix it with some indigo to make it a little cool kind of shade. And I'm going to make some straight lines downward for that texture. I so I'm blending a little bit. Yeah. Now I think I will fix this little more darker line. I Yeah, that's it. Let's make it a little more thicker. Yeah. That's enough. And also, we have to paint some brown colors around here. So I'll start with this bond number in the go mix for this side. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll take some Ochre for that French tails. Also, you can see a small door there. Yeah. Yeah, I think I have to cover around here for some shadows, so I'll take this blue again. And also, I'm blending it. Okay. Now, I will move to this house. So it's very dark in color compared to this one. I'm going to take burn tamber and some indigo, almost like van **** brown. Yeah. And let's fix the details for this house, starting with that triangle. Yeah. And let's add some details around here. Um, Windlanscaps are almost like negative painting to get that white effects. We had to paint other details in negative technique. That's enough. And I think I will fix this roof with some white gauche. Meant to fix the roof. And again, I didn't mix it with water. We need very dry paint to fix these details. Yeah, here too. Let's add some shadows to the roof also with some very light blue mix. I'm creating some details there. And here I will leave some space for that highlights. Yeah. And just fill that space. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, perfect. Now, let's add some shadows here also. Yeah. That's it. I will also fix this line. Yeah. So let's add some shadows to this spot. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's add this dough. So I'm going to take some brown and yeah. Adding colours to one side and then pulling it to the other side with water. Yeah. That's enough. Now, I think I will fix some details to this wet on dry. Like these lines, I'm making it a little more sharper. Okay, now I think I will fix some details in the foreground, for the shadows. So again, I'm going to take this blow mix. And also, I'm using this size. I think it's size two, Caligraphy brush. I have some nice point. So I'm going to make some spots like this here and there. With light with very light colors. Yeah. Like that, we can make it a little more detailed. You can already see some sports here and there, like light sports and dark sports. So I think I want to make the space a little more darker so we get that focused towards this spot. So I'm going to add some more colors there. I will use this same mix of cobalt blue, and some indigo. It looks too light, so I want to make it a little more darker. So again, I'm using this flat brush, and, yeah. But When you're going around this highlight part, be careful. I'm also blending it. I think I will add some salt here. We need some salt texture, maybe yeah. I will wipe it a little bit from here. 24. Day 9 Class project - Part 3: Yeah. That's enough. Okay, now let's dry this layer and we'll move to paint the trees. Now the paper is dry and I'm going to paint the details for the tray, and I'll use this Caligrafy brush, and also I'm taking this indigo and born timber mix. Yeah. For this tree, I'm going to paint that trunk. So here, I'll start And also, don't go straight. You can break it like this. I think I will mix it with some join brilliant. And let's add some branches sidewise. Yeah. And for this tree, I want to start from here. Break it down here and there, especially in the shadows. Make it very thin and sharp. Yeah. I think that's enough. I will add some more branches or some details. And now I will add some white lines for these trunks to make it a little sny. So, yeah. Okay, now I will take this gray shade by mixing Joan Brilliant and indigo, which is a light gray shade. And I want to make some more very light and thin branches here and there. So, yeah. Yeah. So distinct tree details, are they? For adding this distant details, two things we have to be careful. Like color we are using should be very light, and also we had to paint it thin and sharp. Okay, now I think I want to work on this tree shadows. So I'm going to again use this gray shade and let's make it a little darker here and there. Sure. Okay, now I think I will add some details in the foreground. You can already see some white spots here, so I'm adding these lines from there. Make it very thin and sharp and straight. You can paint it in different sizes. Yeah. That's it. I think I will make it a little more contrasting by adding this blue again here and there. And blend it to the other side. Okay.'s it. Now, I think I will add some white gosh spots for these details. Some leaves or some snow. Yeah, that's it. I think we are almost done. I'm trying to make some more shadows here. Two. If you want to fix some spots here and there for some more highlights, you can do it with white quash. Okay, let's add some branches from here, as you can see in the reference. So yeah. I'm trying to make it very thin and sharp. And I think I will lift some colors from here. Instead of using white case, you can also make some white spots like this. Just grub your brush on your paper and create some light spots like this. That is the final result of our painting. Look at that beautiful glow on these trees. I hope you got the technique of painting sunlight passing through a landscape like this. By adding some shadows, we can create that light effect also. And also painting winter trees like this. So yeah, I feel like these edges are too sharp. I should fix some details wet and wet again. But still, yeah, it looks nice and gloy. I like that glowing effect. I also added this same yellow color around here. For a harmony between all these highlights. So yeah, and also we are almost ending this challenge. We just have to finish three or four, I think, three class projects. And yeah, I hope you're enjoying this challenge. You are learning some techniques to painting watercolor landscapes, especially winter landscapes, and I hope you will use some of these techniques for your future paintings also. So, yeah, if you have any doubts or anything you want to know, you can ask in the discussion box or you can contact me through my Instagram. That's it for today. See you with a new painting tomorrow. Bye. 25. Day 10 Class project - Part 1 - Snow Covered Village: Hello. Welcome back. Welcome back. I hope you're ready for today's painting. It's a very sunny day in my studio, and we are also painting a sunny landscape picture. Yeah, you can see the reference. We're going to paint a mountain valley with very bright sunlight and shadows. And you can also see a small village or some houses or kind of aerial view. So let's see how to paint it. We'll focus on creating that depth. You can see in the reference. There are some very tiny details, and we'll also try to paint it in a little more easier process. So yeah, I'll start with sketching. Foreground is going to be very plain. You can see in the reference. So like that, I'm going to fix that line for the foreground snowy part. And yeah, from here, yeah. From here, I'll start and making it like a wavy line, and I'm ending it here a little higher, almost half of this paper. Yeah. From there, you can see some trees, though I'm going like this for that details. And yeah, you can also see that shadow part, like this snowy land part through the trees. That's it. And from here, we'll fix that line for the mountain. Don't be too bothered about so much details. You can just go very loosely for the mountain lines also. There are some highlight part of this mountain also visible. Yeah. And you can also see some more mountains from here. That's enough. Now I'll sketch some houses here and there. And yeah, around here, it's going to be very tiny and very detailed. So we'll only sketch some houses that is visible in this reference. Yeah. Yeah, I'll fix one house here. Again, we have to make it very small and tiny. I'm starting with that roof. Yeah. And then french side, and then the other side also. Yeah, that's enough. Now, I'll add one house here, which is a little more near to us and comparatively bigger. Yeah. That's it. And let's add some more houses here and there. I'll make it like a line. Yeah, and then add some houses. You can make it into different directions, also. Yeah. And I add some roofs, maybe some houses in the background. Yeah. And around here, we have to fix some more houses. I'm just adding some lines like this for maybe some roof in the very background. You can also paint only some roofs. Let's see how it goes. Yeah. I feel like adding one more here. That's enough. That's enough for sketching. Now, let's start the painting. As you can see in the reference, we'll paint the sky and this foreground part more lighter and we'll paint this part more darker because this part is covered with a lot of very strong shadows. So yeah, by leaving some spaces here and there for these houses and its roof and yeah, maybe we'll also fix it with some white gauche later. So yeah, let's see how it goes. So first I'm going to wet this sky part only. Yeah. Very carefully, I'm going around this mountain line because as you can see in the reference, we have to paint that mountain lines by leaving some spaces to make that lights and shadows. Yeah, since it's snowy mountain, we have to paint that reflective part of the mountain, also now I'll take Cobalt blue. I'll just fill that color here. I'm starting from this side. We'll make it a little lighter here since the light is coming from this side. And I'll clean my brush and then let's spread that colors around these lines we don't want to make it very dark. Okay. But I think I want to make it a little more darker. So yeah, again, I'm using Kobal blue. This part we'll add some trees, so you don't have to worry about that, but from here we will add some mountains. You can see in the reference. Yeah Okay Yeah, that's enough for the sky, and now we'll dry this layer. Then we can paint the mountain details. Before painting these details for the mountain and houses, I want to fix this foreground part. You can see the foreground is very plain in the reference. So yeah, first, I will wet this part, til this line. Yeah. And I will use a mix of cobalt blue, and some indigo. And I'll start from here. Let's make it a little darker in the foreground. Yeah. Now I'll clean my brush and wiping it, and then just rub your brush here to spread that colors. Yeah. Now, let's add some more colors in the foreground. Mix in a baar blue and indigo. To make that, a little wavy effect on this foreground, I'm just adding some shadows and, you know, I always like to add some effects in the foreground in landscape painting. I don't like to leave it very plain. Yeah. You can also wipe it from here there for the highlights, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Let's leave it like that. I think I want to add some salt for this foreground part. Yeah. That's enough. I added here and here. Okay, now let's dry this layer also. Yeah. Yeah, that's enough. Now, let's start painting these mountains and houses. So I'll use this mob brush. And you can also see some highlight parts around here. Yeah. So we have to be very careful when you are painting around the mountain lines. We'll paint the shadows with ultramarine blue. Yeah. Okay. Now, you can see some highlight part around this mountain line in the reference. So we had to be very careful when we are painting the shadows. We have to paint it by leaving some space for this white part. And also, yeah, maybe we can also fix some part with white gauche later. At let's see how it goes. And we'll also paint these shadows around these houses by leaving this roof. You can see some light reflections on these house roofs also. So yeah, let's see how it goes. And also for painting these mountains, we'll use ultramarine to make it a little warm. Yeah. I'll mix it with some indigo. I want to mix it with some water also. We'll start with a very light shade. Yeah. And I'll start from here. I'm painting it very carefully around these lines. Yeah. Here, let's go down. And then blending these edges with more color and some water. Going around the houses very carefully. Yeah. And also, you don't have to fill it entirely with this blue, you can leave some white spots here and there. Yeah, like that, we can create some depth. I think I will mix some indigo for this part. Yeah. Yeah. Now I will spread that color to other sides. And from here, it started drying. But don't worry, you can go over that. By adding more layers. Yeah. Now you can see some light reflections around here, so I'm just going very light to here. Okay. Now I'll make my brush very damp and I just want to scratch it here. Yeah. To create a kind of depth. My brush and my paper is also very dry. Okay, now, I'll start from here. You can see some shadows around this part also. And we had to paint this mountain also. Yeah. We'll also paint some trees here. Yeah. Trusting the process is very important, especially in watercolor. Trying to make it more smoother. Yeah, that's it. Now, let's start painting some trees. Yeah. So for that, I will use a mix of indigo and paints gray. Yeah. And also, I'm using this size two brush, and you can see some trees here. You can just scratch it on your paper. Don't paint all trees separately. You can paint it very loosely. And then you can shape that tip of the tree a little more detailed. That's it. Now let's add some trees around here also. So yeah. To paint this kind of aerial per 26. Day 10 Class project - Part 2: This kind of aerial perspective, it's very important to paint the details very carefully. Yeah, let's go from here also. I will add one tree around this house. Yeah. Yeah, now let's add some trees here. When we paint these trees, you can also see that land part, that snowy land part through these trees. So we had to be very careful how we're placing these trees. Okay. First I'll start like a line. Yeah. And then I will fix that part. And I'm going down almost till here. And then very tiny upward lines for the distant trees maybe. And then I will add some more color here and there. Okay, now I'll take my detailer, and let's add some details here and there for this trace. I'm just making some upward strokes for that pine tree effect. Now I'll add some more trees here. You can also add some small lines here and there separately. Yeah. Let's add some more darkness here. H Yeah, I'm trying to make some layers of trees. Yeah. Now, I think I will add some more trees here. Yeah. Starting from here. Yeah. I just scratching it on my paper to get that natural effect. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. You can also add some tiny dots for some very small trees. Okay, now I'll add some around this house. Yeah. I think I will make it into some detailed trays. I'm just adding some more tiny, tiny lines. That's enough. Now, I think we have to add some trees around this part also. I'm just against scratching. And then let's make it like some pine tree effects in the distance. You can also go around the mountain to I'm just adding one tree just behind this house. I Okay, now that's enough. Let's start painting the details for the mountain. So I'll add some very light blue colours for this white part. Yeah, here I have kobal blue, and I'm mixing it with a lot of water. Yeah. And then you can follow the reference. You can see some blue lines there. Yeah. Here also. Yeah. And let's add some here. Some shadows in the very distance. Now, I'll add some darkness for this already painted mountains. So I'm mixing cobalt blue with some indigo. Yeah, you can see some texture the And let's add some here also. Okay, now, I'll fix up details for this white part with white gosh. You had to paint these details very dry on dry. Okay. I'm adding some more lines here. I'm also adding some darkness for these background mountains in between adding that white lines also. I'm again fixing that lines for the mountains. Yeah, I'm trying to fix that mistake. Like, I didn't like how we add this white paint around here, and I wanted to remove it. So I made it into a mountain again. Yeah, that's it. That's enough. Now, let's leave it like that. Maybe we'll add some lines again there. Okay. Okay, now I'll paint these houses, but before that, I think we have to add some shadows here for the trees. So again, I'll take some ultramarine and let's darken this already added blue lines. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just adding some shadows for that trace. That's enough. Now, let's start painting the houses. So I'll use sepia. Yeah. And I'm just filling that one side of the house by leaving this roof. Yeah. And, you know, we have to make the roof like snow covered roof. And I'll make it a little more darker to the other side. O. Now I think I'll add some blue colours for the roof. Very light blue, Kobal blue, and I'm adding some shadows. Yeah, that's enough. And I think I want to blend that edges. Yeah. Now, same like this, I will fix all other houses. I'll start with sepia. I think I will mix it with some locre and let's go with this house. Yeah. And then I'll take some yellowcre again. And then let's paint this other side front side of the house. And also, I will leave a small square here for that door. I forgot to add it here. But yeah, we'll fix it with a pack quite later. Let's add some darkness. Yeah. That's it. I'm shaping that roof by painting the tree again. Okay, I will add some white for that other side of the roof line. That's it. Now, let's fix the house also. 27. Day 10 Class project - Part 3: I'm fixing some details with Witch again. Like And also, I'm just adding some brown tiny dodge. Yeah. And then let's add some white gauge on that. Back white. Maybe like some very distant tree, sorry, very distant houses. Yeah. That's it. Now let's move to this side. And let's start from here. O. And I think I want to fix that roof by adding some blue colours to the background of that house. And then blending the edges. And a small door also. Yeah, I'm just making some part of this houses a little more darker by mixing sepia and ultramarine blue. Yeah. Okay, now I'll add some more details around the spot. We have to add some very fine details there, maybe some houses and some trees again. So yeah, I'll repeat the same process like we painted these houses, but I'll paint it in a little more smaller size. I'm going to paint with same colors, sepia and some yellow. Yeah. And we have already added some sketches for these houses. So I'm just filling that um, Yeah. And there is some more houses here and there. One side of the house, I'm painting with more warmer brown colors, and then the other side, I'm filling with some light grayish kind of mix. Yeah. So we'll get that lights and shadow effect. Yeah. Now I'll paint one more house, but a little more tiny one. Okay, now I want to add some more very tiny houses around here. So I'm not going to paint it like this completely. I'll just add some very tiny, dark dots or some lines here and there to make a kind of illusion. So yeah, like that, we can create that depth in the painting. Yeah. So here you can already see some white spots. I will just add some very tiny dots like this. Yeah. If you couldn't leave white spots like this here, you can also fix it with opaq white, and then you can paint it with some black color like this. So yeah, around here also, you can also paint some very tiny houses again. We need very good patients to paint such very tiny details. But you know the effort really worth it because the end result will be very different by adding this tiny, tiny details. Y Again, you can look at your painting from a little distance. So you'll know, if you want to add some more details, you can add that. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Maybe I will fix some more details with some white. Let's add that doors. I'm just making very tiny houses. And maybe I will also add some details to these trees, maybe some tree trunks or branches, some windy effects for the trees. Yeah. So very thin lines. Y. Yeah. Maybe I'll fix that trees. Yeah, I think we are almost done. I'm just fixing some more final details. Yeah, like this, you can add some more white spots here and there for that depth. If you couldn't leave it like this, we can also paint it with whiteqh. Yeah. Now I will add some white here also. Yeah. Now, I think I want to add some shadows around here. So again, I'll use some ultramarine and just adding some lines. Yeah, that's enough. Now, I think I want to add some more trees around here. Yeah. So again, I will use sepia and I will mix it with some indigo, maybe some very small trees. And around here also. You can also add some tiny bushes or some tiny dots here and there to make it a little more detailed. Yeah. I'm just adding some lines, some dots. I think I want to add some tree from here. Yeah. Maybe I will add some from here also. Yeah, I'm adding some more trees in the very distance also. Yeah, that's it. Okay, now I want to add this line, this foreground snow line a little more visible. So I'm going to make some very tiny dots there maybe some rocks or anything like that. Some tiny lines for some trees or something. So yeah, that is the final look of our painting. I hope you enjoyed this painting session, and you got some technique to paint some fine details without being too concerned about the details in a kind of low style, but still we can create that kind of depth. So maybe when you are painting an aerial landscape next time, you can use kind of the techniques, like you can just add some houses or elements here and there. And then as it going away from the viewer, you can make it more tiny and more abstract and more loose. So, yeah, I hope you got that confidence to paint some tiny details and to make depth in your painting. That's it for today and see you tomorrow with a new painting. Bye. 28. Day 11 Class project - Part 1 - Northern Sky Over a Cozy Hut: This is going to be a simple northern sky landscape. I'll divide the paper into two parts for the sky and land part. So I'll fix the horizon line lower. And also, I'm going to add a house around here. Yeah, first let's start with the roof of the house and It's going to be a snow covered roof. So yeah, yeah, that's it. And let's add other details of the house. I think I will fix the line for the foreground snow part like this. Yeah. And just adding outline for the pine trees. So taller ones and short trees also. Some are behind house. And let's add one door to the house. Yeah, that's enough. And some details around here. And also maybe one small tree around here. A blurry mountain in the background. Yeah, that's enough. And also here going to be like a pathway or some footprints in the snow Yeah, that's enough. So that is the sketch, and I hope you're ready for the painting. So let's start. Okay, so first, let's prepare the colors. For the Northern lights, I will take cobalt green. So, yeah, I'm not going to make the Northern sky very colorful. I'll make it a little muted way. So I have mixed cobalt green and permanent green. Cobalt green is by Shinhan, and this permanent green is by anco. So with a little bit of this permanent green and lots of cobalt green, almost like a pastel shade. That is the first color. And the next color is going to be ultramarine. Yeah, lots of ultramarine. I'm mixing it with water. Okay, now I have prepared the colors for the sky, so let's wet the sky part. I will use this hake bridge. We have to wet the sky by leaving this roof part of the house because it's going to be very light with the snow. So Even you can use a tissue paper to wipe out, um, the extra water that is flowing towards, um, the space you want lighter. Yeah, that's enough. Now, I will start with a lighter color for the Northern sky. Paint it around the house carefully. I'm just making it like some upward strokes. Yeah, let's mix some more cobalt green and permanent green. Yeah. Yeah, that's enough. Now, I'll start with the ultramarine. That is downward. Remember, your people have to be, um wet, um, to get this effect. Not too artery or, um, too dry. It should be damp. Okay, I think I need more dark colors in the upper corner. So I'll mix some indigo to this ultramarine mix. Yeah. And Just making some straight lines downward. Okay, I think I want to make it more blended or floy. So I'll use my spray bottle and let's just spray some water. Let's see how it works. Yeah, now you can see it's getting more blended and flo. That's what we need. I think I will add some more darker colours here and there to make this light part more, um, attractive or to create more contrast. Let's mix it again upward also. I think I want to make more darker colour. And I will use the spray bottle again to mix it. Northern lights are a little tricky, but it looks simple when we start the painting. But to get that correct blend of lighter and darker colors, it's a little tricky, so water control and the way we are applying the paint and the consistency of the paint, everything is matter. So yeah, I think that's okay. Now, I think it looks nice after drying this layer. Okay, let's start with painting the snow part. I will just wet this part for the snow. Okay, I think I want to wipe the colors from this roof part. Yeah. Yeah. That's enough. Let's start with some shadows to the snow. 29. Day 11 Class project - Part 2: O. Remember to make it very lighter with, I'm using this same mix of indigo and ultramarine for the shadows, and I'm also thinning it down with lots of water and making it a little more darker in the foreground. And let's blend that color all over that space. I think I want to add more aka color. I'm just adding some lines like this that is wet on wet with the same mix of um, ultramarine and indigo to make some dimensional depth or, like, that effect to the snowy part. I don't want to make it very plain. So yeah. That's nice. And maybe here also. Yeah. Adding some darker colors in this corner. Yeah, I think that's enough. And now let's add the background mountain with the same mix of blue colours that is indigo and ultramay. Okay, I will add the mountain. I did in this part, adding the layer of mountain with wet on dry. Yeah, I'm painting around the house carefully. Yeah. And also, I don't want this line of mountain that sharp. So I will blend it a little bit with clear water. Maybe you can skip this part, if you're okay with, um this sharp line of mountain. I'm just blending it with some clear water. I want to make it a little blurry. Yeah, and around here, too, I have to blend it. Yeah. Maybe I will add some darker colors to the mountain. Okay, now I'm going to add some pine trees with the same indigo, and also I will add some paint gray to make it a little more darker. Okay, I will swatch the mix. Yeah, that is the color, like, a little darker in the go. So, yeah. First, I will add a line like Mm. And then we can add the details. Make it sharper to the top part and Don't worry about this part. The mountain layer is still wet and also I'm painting, the trees on top of that before it's drying. So that's okay. Even you can paint these trees after drying the previous layers of, like, the mountain. I just want to make it like this. Um, like some wet on wet trees. Yeah, I think I want to fix this one a little more. Make your brush tip very sharp without that much water. So you can make that thin sharp stroks. I have a video on YouTube for painting snow capped pine trees. Maybe you can watch it. Yeah, I think I'm adding more darker color like wet on wet again to make shape to the wet and wet pine trees. And maybe we will add some white gauche or a pack white paint to make some snow in the tras Yeah. And also, I will add some trees around this part. Start with the vertical line and then add some sidewise around strokes in different sizes for the pine tree. Make it very sharp for the top part, and more softer acid coming to the down part. Maybe I will add some short trees around here. Paper started drying. Yeah, I'm using my small size detailer for these tiny strokes for the trees. Starting with the vertical line and then adding the sidewise strokes. Make it irregular, not symmetrical. Um, um, the leaves or the branches of the tree, try to make it very irregular to different directions in different sizes. We can make it like that. And maybe I will add and Yeah. And also, I'm going to add one tray around here that is behind the house. You can make some thicker strokes by bending the whole belly of your brush bristles. Like that, you'll get some cute round kind of shaves for this tree. Okay, so I'll take some opaque white, add some snow to the trees. Just here and there, add some strokes. And remember to not overwork also. And 30. Day 11 Class project - Part 3: Remember to not overwork also. I think I want to mute it a little bit with some indigo this white gas with this indigo mix. Yeah. Now, I'm going to just blend it this white gas here and there. I don't want to make it that sharper. Okay. I will show you again how I added this white gas, like opaque white to this dark pine tree because we want to make it more realistic. We are not just adding some strokes here and there, um, to make it white. So now it looks like more realistic like snowy pine tree. So here I have painted the first layer, same like this. So with very thick paint, like opaque white, don't use water. And if this is the trunk of the tree, you can paint the branches or the leaves to different directions like some like this and some like this. Like some are just leaning down and some are sidewise. And also, it should be on top part of the first layer like this. For this part, I'm painting the snow around here. And also, in the middle part, we can paint it anywhere, but in different directions. And as it going towards the top part, just make it very tiny. Yeah. Like you can paint it in different directions. Like that. Not only the snow part, whatever evergreen trees are your painting, you can paint the branches like this. So yeah. Now, let's add some more snowy effects to these trees. And it's also very important to not overwork. Sometimes we will just paint it completely, and we'll cover it with full of white. So that's also important to make it to paint it. Um without overworking. And maybe you can add some more darker paint here and there to make it more contrasting. If you're feeling like you're overworked, you can blend it down like I have done here. If you are feeling like the white quash is too bright, you can mute it down with some indigo. Yeah, I think let's add to this trees also, these small trees. Okay, that's enough now. Let's motor paint the foreground details. Maybe I'm going to add one tree around here. Just adding the first line for the trunk and some sidewise strokes. Y. Yeah, that's it. And now we have to add some details around the foreground. So I will revet this part Revetting it very carefully with very clear water and using a flat brush. And, um, do not press it hardly. You can revert it gently because we don't want to reactivate the previous layer. Um, yeah. Yeah. Remember to make it very soft. Like some pathway or some footprints, you can make it some blurry lines. For this, I'm using very light indigo. Now I'm going to add details to the house. So I'll take yellow ochre and and just filling that colour to one side of the house. And with mixing some indigo and cre, I will paint this part of the house just leaving very thin line in between those two colors. Yeah. Maybe I will make it a little more darker with some burn temper around here. This down part line of the house and, like, between the house and the snow is very important to get the perspective of the painting. Yeah. So let it get dry. In that time, let's paint the snow on the roof. So I'm just wetting it carefully without going outward. Yeah. And let's add some snow effector. I'm taking indigo again and add 31. Day 11 Class project - Part 4: And some shadows. Yeah, I think I need to add some more colors like some shadows. So, yeah, that's enough. And once it dry, we'll add more details to the house. So now I think I have to fix the footpath around here. And also, I'm going to add some darker dots for the food path here and there, because we added the first layer wet on wet, like, by vetting this part again, and then we add some very light indigo. Now it's dry and I'm adding some dark indigo, wet on dry. Yeah. Now, I think I have to add some shadows, like to this tree and some shadows to this house and some for the pine trees and maybe from this side, I'm going to re wet the paper again. I'm not touching the footprints we added. And maybe I want some shadows around here, so I'm betting the two and also this house. And I'm going to take some indigo and with some ultramarne with a mix of both and with lots of water. And I'm going to add some shadows. And for this house also. And this tree. You can see by just re wetting, I still have some hard edges for the shadows and also some soft edges. That's what I want. M Yeah, I think that's enough. Okay, now I think I have to add some stars in the sky. So I'll take this small brush and let's take some loose white cash. And first, let's test it here. Yeah, I don't want to big or thick stars. So yeah, that's it. Very tiny. So you can take some thick paint. You can adjust the consistency. Yeah. That's enough. Okay, now, I think I have to add these details to the house. So I'll take some burn tamper with some indigo. And I'm going to add the shadow to this roof part. And I think I will add some shadows around here, too, but with more with a little more lighter colors, I'm adding shadows around here. Then I'm adding more dark color blending that color. Now I think I will add the door just making a square or a little rectangle and then filling it with some lighter color. I'm trying to make the shadows this side a little more darker. Yeah, I think I will dry that layer. And let's add some details like some pattern or texture to the wall. With very dry paint, I'm adding some. And maybe this side or to And I'm going to make some lines like this. Paint it very faster like these lines. So you'll get more straight and loose lines. Yeah, I think I will add some white dots here and there for the snow. Yeah. Maybe I will add some white lines to make it a little more detailed or visible. Yeah, I think that's enough. And let's add some details around here with the same bone temper. I'm going to add that. And also just make it a little more thicker. Yeah. And let's add shadows to that. I think we are done with the painting. That is the final look. Um, I think we have painted it nicely with some light effect to the house and snow and also some nice and simple Northern sky. And with also some snow capped pine trees with white gosh. Yeah, that's it. So yeah, let's move to the next painting. 32. Day 12 Class project - Part 1 - Winter Cabin By The Lake: Hi, everyone. Welcome back. And today is going to be our final class project, and this is the reference picture we are going to use. You can see a house and some warm light and its reflections in the water. And also some winter pine trees in the background. And all over the picture is looking very moody and dark. And also the light is very warm. And yeah. So in this class project, we'll see how to paint a warm light with a cool and moody background. Let's start with a quick sketch. I'm going to fix the horizontal line first a little lower from halfway. So around here, I'll fix that line. Yeah. And you can see a small white part there, like for that snowy land part in between the trees and the water part. So I'm going to fix that line. Yeah, that's it. And from there almost in middle, I'm going to fix the house. I'll start with the triangle for the front side. Yeah. Then I'm going to fix the roof. Yeah. That's it. And I think I want to fix that line for that snow on the roof. Yeah. And around here, we'll fix that window, which is also light is coming through. So just adding a square there. That's it. And here, I'll fix one door. It's not there in the reference, but, yeah, I just want to add one door there. And here, I'll fix that height of the trees in the background. So we'll get an idea how long we can go for the trees. Yeah. And from here, let's add that reflections of this light on the house. So seem like this, I'm going to fix that mirror image of the house. We had to paint the light very bright, so maybe we'll use masking fluid and we'll fix that windows and lights and its reflections. And it's also a little blurry and wavy. So yeah, we'll paint it like that. Yeah, that's it for sketching. And now what I'm going to do is I will wet the whole paper and I will fix the first layer of colors for this warm lights around this house. And then we'll dry the paper completely. And then only I will apply muskin fluid. Yeah. Then once the muskin fluid dry, we'll paint the later layers. Like that, we can keep that glow in the painting. So yeah, I'm going to wet the whole paper as I always say, just a very shiny thin layer of water you need on the paper without any water bottles. Yeah, I'm going to start with naples yellow. Um, you can use any warm yellow that you have like gamboge or Indian yellow or even lemon yellow. Any yellow with a little warm touch, would be great. So I'm going to use just very tip of my brush, and it's also loaded with this naples yellow, and I'm going to fix that color here. Yeah. And also for the reflections. Yeah. And around that. Yeah. And also, I'm making some dots like this to make it a little wavy and more realistic reflections. Yeah. I think I want to make it like some lines. So yeah, I just using my dam brush and just moving it horizontally to make it more wavy. And also, I want to wipe it from here because as you can see in the reference, we have to keep it very white there for that snow. Okay, now, if you don't want to use masking fluid, you can start straightly painting like with all other colors. But I think I want to fix this layer with dryer, and then I will put muskin fluid there. So I can paint around that more easily. So I'm going to use my hair dryer. I think I want to lift some colors from the roof of the house since the roof is very white in color. So I'm using this flat brush, and I'm going to lift it around the roof. I think by using lifting, we can fix any mistakes in watercolor. Watercolor is also a forgiving medium. Yeah, that's it. Now I will use my masking fluid. I'll take some to this. Yeah. But I'm going to fix that window and its reflections. Yeah, around this square. I'm going to fill that with this masking fluid. Yeah. And for its reflections, also, I'm going to add masking fluid. Just two squares, but I'm also adding some more masking fluid here for that wavy effect. Now, let it dry and then we'll start painting. Okay, now masking fluid is completely dry. Let's start painting. I will start with the sky and these background trees, and then we'll paint these water reflections. So I'm going to wet this upper part only. I'm wetting it around this house and this line for land part very carefully. Yeah. Okay. That's enough. Okay, now I'll start with a very light shade of this indigo and thalo blue mix. So I'm just thinning it down with a lot of water. Yeah. We just need a very light shade for this upper corner effx in the reference. Yeah, that is the color. So I'm going to just fill that color here. You can come downward. That's okay because we'll paint more dark trees here. Yeah. We can use some water to make it very light in color, but still some little darker spots here and there to make it like some depth in the background. Yeah. That's it. Now I'm going to use some dark mix of the same color. I'm going to mix some more indigo and thalo blue. I think I want to mix it with more indigo. Yeah. And I'm going to start from here to make that trees. You can just start by filling this color very loosely and then we'll shape it into some trees. Yeah. Painting it around the house very carefully, even you can use a detailer or a small size brush for this. Yeah. Or you can also use the very tip of your brush. Yeah. And just filling that color here very loosely, we'll paint it to some trees later. Paper is still wet. Yeah, you can just spread that colors upward like this. I think we have to paint it a little more higher. Like you can see in the reference, the trees in the background are very tall. Yeah. That's it. Now, what I'm going to do is I don't want this sharp edge here, as you can see in the reference and part is going invisible through these trees around here, you can see that in the reference. So by doing like that, we can create some depth in the painting. So I'm going to make that line a little softer here. Yeah. You can use a dam brush. Like you can dip your brush in water and just wipe it on. A tissue paper. And you can rub it here like this. You had to make sure your brush is clean while doing this. Otherwise, we'll spread that color and we'll ruin this brightness of the snow. Yeah. We had to paint some effects for the trees before the paper dry. So I'm going to use this detailer brush, and with this same mix of colors that is tallow blue, and indigo, you can make it into some pine trays. And again, you don't know how to paint it very sharp or in very detailed way. You can go loose and abstract. You just have to keep this top part a little sharp. Then you can go loosely downward. Yeah. Paper started drying and my brush is also very dry. Yeah. Yeah, paper is still wet. You can see the color is spreading. I think I want to spray some water around here. It started drying. Yeah. I think we had to paint some more dark, very dark 33. Day 12 Class project - Part 2: Reference. It's very dark in color. And again, watercolor will dry lighter. So we had to paint it very dark, maybe. I think I will mix this blow mix with some sepia. So maybe we'll get some very dark effects. But I don't want to make any greenish effect. So let's make some more and they go yeah. I don't know if it's visible through the camera. It is a mix of tallow blue intego and sepia. So I'm going to add some more trees. I'm just going very loosely. Remember to not paint all these trees and branches separately, like in very detail, you can make it in some loose way, like by rubbing your brush like this on your paper, almost like scratching. Yeah, you can see some edges here. So I'm going to make it like some tree that is a little more near to us. Yeah. That's how we can create some layers and Yeah. That's it. I think let's fix it here also. Okay. I'll switch to one other brush. This is a size dom brush. Now I really like this color by mixing it with some sepia. So, yeah, it looked more darker and moody. So let's make some more sharp tips for this background trees. You can also paint it in different sizes. I mean, heights, some small trees. Yeah. Let's paint some more trees. Now I feel like I should add one chimney here, but still it's not in the reference we are following. Yeah. That's it. Let's fix some lines here, too. Yeah, I'm trying to make some detailed look for the background trees here and there. Yeah. Let's add some more trees here a little more darker. You just need some patience to make it like, not very flat or with some depth and dimension. Yeah. So you can paint it, like, with different color values and more layers, like maybe wet on wet layers and wet on dry layers also. Yeah, it's how we can create Okay. Yeah. Now, what is the next step is we have to create some snowy effects around these trees. So maybe we'll use lifting technique and also we'll use some opaque white or white gouache. So yeah, I think I want to make some little more lighter trees around here. So I'm using very light colour by mixing some water, and I'm going to make some Yeah. Maybe here. Yeah. Let's add some here, too. So to paint this effect, two things we have to be careful, we can use different color values. We can start with some lighter colors, and then we can go with darker colors. And also, one other thing is we had to paint these trees in different heights, like some taller trees and some short trees as it's coming near to us. So like that, we can make some depth in the painting. So here I'm again, sharpening some edges. And also, you can start by this wet on wet layers. And then you can go with maybe wet on dry effic and also dry on dry effec Yeah, that's it. Okay, now let's add some tree trunks from these trees around this snowy part. So I'm going to take this same mix of colors again, indigo sepia and somehow blue. And as you can see in the reference, you can also zoom it and you can create some For this tree, I'm going to fix the trunk from here. Yeah. And for this one, also. These are the three trees, more darker in color and more near to us. So, yeah. And also one from here. And now I'll paint some more trunks in the background, so I'll take a little more lighter shade of this color by mixing some water. And let's make some more branches here and there. Yeah. Just some very tiny and thin lines you can make. Yeah. And around here also, Yeah. That's it. Maybe let's add some more tiny details in this snowy part, like some snow covered rocks or some grass or something like that. So I'm going to make some tiny dots like that. Yeah, very tiny and very sharp and dry. Okay. Yeah. And I'm just blending it a little bit down. W. Now, what I'm going to do is, you can see in the reference this noise, again, visible around this house here on both sides. So I'm going to lift some colors from there so we can create that effect. So I'm going to use this flat brush. And also, I have one tissue paper, and let's lift some colors from there, like that. Again, clean your brush and lift it from here and there so you can create that depth. Yeah. That's it. From around here also, let's lift it. Like the snowy part is a little visible through the trees. That is the effect I'm trying to create here. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Now I think I have to fix some more tree trunks. Yeah. So I'm going to use this same mix of colors, and from here, I'll fix one trunk. And also, we'll make it more visible, maybe with some white quash or yeah. I'm also trying to make that foliage a little more sharper, here. It now I'll use a pack white to create some snow effects. So here I have a pack white, and I'm going to make some tiny thin white lines here and there. And also, we had to be very careful and we had to do without overworking. So maybe I will make it a little moody with some this mix of blue colors. We already used here. We don't want that much bright effects for the snow. Yeah. So I'm going to make some lines like this, some foliage again, like some snow on the foliage. Yeah. And I will fix that trunk so it'll be more visible. Yeah. And also, it's very important to not overwork now. Maybe we 34. Day 12 Class project - Part 3: And also, it's very important to not overwork now. Maybe we'll cover it endirely with this white paint. Yeah. And maybe for this tree also. First time fixing that trunk, you can see, I'm using very tiny thin lines or strokes. Yeah, that's it. I'll fix for this tree. For this effex, remember to use very dry paint. Don't mix it with water to paint. These effix. Yeah. And maybe I will add some more trunks here and there. I'm just adding some dots here for some effet. Okay, now that's enough, and I'm going to splatter some white gash to make some snowfall or something like that. And remember to not overwork. We just need some very tiny white dots here and there. That's enough. So now let's start painting the reflections. So I'm going to again revet that part completely. Don't worry about these yellow colors. That's okay. You can vet it completely. I will start with the colors for this house. So I'm going to use sepia and maybe I'll mix it with some inky go. Yeah. And I'm going to start from here for this part of the house. Yeah. And also, I will lift the colors from this roof of the house. Yeah. Now, let's fill that space with this color. And now I will use some ilocre and I'm going to fill that here. I'm just going around that window very careful. We need some lighter effects as it going towards the window. Yeah. And maybe I will mix it with some born temper here. Like that, we can create that glow of the house. Yeah, I think I want some more bon temper. Okay, now that's enough for the colors for the house reflections. Now, let's move to paint this foreground part. So I'm going to ret this foreground part again. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. And let's use this same mix of colors. So I'm going to take indigo and Talobl and some sepia. We had to make it very dark in the foreground. So yeah. You have to move a brush horizontally here, and then here we'll make it vertically for the reflections, creating that moment in the water like some wavy moments. Yeah. You can make it a little more darker. And I'm going here also very carefully mix some more indigo and alo blo and sepia. G here also carefully. Just covering around that house. And also, I'm not touching here. We have added that light reflections here. So I'm going around that very carefully. You can see I'm just leaving some gap there and I'm creating the dark effects around that. Yeah. And from here, I will paint it downward. Yeah. And also, we have to make that Um, snowy land part reflections, also. So you can make it like little wavy line here. Don't go like a very straight line. Yeah. Now you can move away brush like this to make it a little more smoother and paint around the roof of the house very carefully. Okay, now I'll switch my brush to this detailer. Yeah. And I'm going to make some tiny lines with this blue around that. I think I want to lift it around here for that snowy effect. I'll use a flat brush. Yeah. Let's add some more color around that. Okay. Okay, now, I don't want any hard or sharp edges here, so I'm going to blend it down a little bit for this roof and other details of the house. Now, I will add some more darker colors here to make that roof a little more visible. You can see this tree reflections we have to add here. So yeah, I'm going to just create some effects there. Just you can create some strokes downward. Yeah. Paper is still wet, so we can easily create that reflections. And for this tree also, We can make it a little more detailed here and there. Okay, now I'm going to add some details around here to divide this little part, like for some reflections and this land part. So you can see in the reference, there are some very tiny details, so I'm going to make it very dark with indigo and sepia, I can, let's make some dark spots here and there. I'm just adding some dots. I'm not going straight. From here also. Yeah. Now what I'm going to do is, I will spread that colors a little bit downward with Dam Bridge you can see in the reference the snow reflections are a little darker and moody compared to this land part. So I'm spreading that colors downward. Yeah, that's it. I think I want to make some details. Yeah. With very lighter colors, I'm adding some lines here and there. Yeah, around here also. I'm adding some more darker spots. Yeah. Maybe you can also fix some details with some white quash. I think I want to fix some here. Yeah. And I'm also blending it down a little bit because yeah, it's not that visible. 35. Day 12 Class project - Part 4: Yeah. That's it. Okay, now let's leave it like that. Okay, I think I want to fix some more details for the reflection. So I'm going to make some lines for the tree trunks with white wash and this sepia and indigo mix. And again, I'm making it very thin and tiny. Okay, now I want to fix some dark spots here and there to make the reflections a little more visible. So I will take the same mix of colors, sepia and indigo and thalo blue. And you can already see some darker spots here and there. And I'm going to make that darker spots a little more darker. So yeah, like that, we can make the reflections a little more visible. And if you're feeling like it's too sharp, you can also blend it. I'm blending it here and there. Here, these trees are very visible and more near to us, so let's make more dark reflections for that. Now, I think I want to make some here, too. Remember to take very dark thick mix of paint? Like, you know, I'm trying to create that little sharper effect for the reflections. But still water reflections are soft and more kind of blended. So yeah, I'm trying to make an effect like that. Let's add for this tree. I trying to create that tree shape. Let's create some more darkness here. I'm trying to create a mix of darker and still again, lighter spots for the reflections. Yeah. Now again, I'm going to add that in for the trunks. Okay, that's enough for the reflections. And now I'm going to fix this. So I'm going to take again this sepia. Yeah. And first let's fill this space, like the french side of the house. And also, remember to create a little irregular shape here, since the house is also covered with some snow here and there. So instead of painting it like with straight line, you can make it like this. Now I will clean my brush, and let's take some yellow och to paint the other side of the house. And I'm going to start from here. Again, you can create some sharp edges here for that snowy effect. Yeah, that's it. I'm not covering it end I just need a little lighter, brighter effects around the window. Yeah. Now I think I want to make it a little more darker to these two corners. So again, I will take sepia and some burn temper. And let's make it a little darker for both corners. And again, I'm using this retailer. Yeah. What's it? Yeah. Now I'm going to fix this roof with very light shade of blue. So I'm going to take some indigo and mixing with a lot of water. I just need a very light shade, and I will fill that color here, only the upside. Yeah, that's enough. Okay. And I will spread that color downward. Okay. And I want to make some sharp edge here. Yeah. Since this light is also reflecting on the roof snow part. So yeah, I'm trying to make that sharp. It's with this blue color. Yeah, that's it. And it will fix one line for this part of the roof. Yeah. It's enough. Maybe let's add some blue colours for this reflection also Okay. Now, I'll fix one door for this house. So I'm going to take a pack white and I'm mixing it with some yellowcre. Yeah. And let's add a very tiny square there. Oh, it's very bright. I want to mix more yellocre Yeah. Yeah. It's a Okay, now I think I want to make this house a little more wavy according to this water moment. So what I'm going to do is I will take some this same color that is sepia and indigo. And let's create some tiny horizontal lines for that wavy effect. So yeah, here also such very tiny lines. Now I'm going to mix this naples yellow with some white quash. This is not white quash. This opaquite Bm Brand. I'll show you this is the color I'm using. Yeah. And yeah, let's make some sparkles or some tiny spots here and there to make it wavy. I think I want to add some dark lines around that door. And I want to make some more moment in the water. So I'm going to use this flat brush, and I will just left some colors. Yeah. Use a dam brush and just rub it over your paper like this. Yeah. As you can see here, you can make it in different sizes. As you're coming towards the foreground, we can make it bigger and thicker. So tiny spots I'm creating here. O. Yeah, now that's perfect. Now, let's move to the final step. That is removing this masking fluid. So my fingertip is very dry and I'm going to just lift it off. Yeah. I think I want to add some lines around that window to make it a little more visible and contrasting. So again, I'm going to use the sepia. And as you can see in the reference, I'm going to make some lines there. And let's make some more details. I want to create that black line reflections here. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I think let's stop it here, and I hope you enjoyed this session and you got some techniques to paint some glowy lights and winter landscape with some reflections. And thank you so much for watching. Bye.