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1. Welcome to Class!: Winter is a magical season. It's a special time when we witness wonders,
otherwise impossible. It's a downwind nature still. But there are also
these rare moments when skies are bursting
with brilliant colors. They swirl and flow
into each other, creating a staunch in
contrast with the snow. And what better medium to depict these wonderful side of
watercolors. Hello friends. My name is Elina, and today
I invite you to embrace the beauty of winter and paint magical winter
skies with me. I've been painting
with watercolors for the last four years. I quickly fell in love with the medium and
constantly looking for new and fun techniques
to try and to teach to my students
here at Skillshare. My goal is to help you go past the initial frustration this
million can bring at first, and to feel the
beauty and joy that firewall when you
get the hang of it. I love to paint landscapes
with gorgeous guys. And recently I found
out that they got amazing new world with snow
and mountains and fields. Maybe winter scenarios with watercolors is a tricky subject. We need to recreate this fragile delicacy
of nature and to emphasize our centerpieces while keeping the most of
our paper white. This class will help you
with this complex task. We'll start by going through my favorite colors and color
mixes first now and skies. These are what make go into
the landscape convincing and have a big impact on the overall
feeling of the painting. We'll explore color combination and techniques in our
exercise session, where we'll paint
three different skies, day, sunset, and night sky. Finally, we'll dive deeper
into the subject by painting a growing mountain city
under the Northern lights. If you're just starting
with watercolors, I suggest that you
have a look at my first-class
watercolor secrets, techniques for adding
magic to your paintings. Otherwise, I invite you to make yourself a cup
of hot chocolate and join me on this
noble adventure. In the next video,
I'll tell you more about the class and
the final project.
2. Class + Project Overview: We'll start the
class by reviewing some of my favorite colors and color combinations for
painting winter sceneries. These are crucial for each landscape painting but when it comes to
winter landscape, it is extremely important
to get your colors right in order for the painting to
look balanced and convincing. I will show you how you can mix your own indigo, cobalt green, and Payne's gray in case you don't have these colors
in your palette. Next, we'll practice using those colors in our
exercise session. There we'll paint different
winter sceneries: day, sunset, and night sky. I will show you
my techniques for keeping a part of
the paper white, painting snow and mountains, and of course,
gorgeous winter skies. For the final project
in this class, we are going to paint a
beautiful winter scenery with Northern Lights. You can paint along with
me or watch the videos first and then try
at your own pace. I will paint on a big piece of paper about the size of A3, but you can choose a
smaller one if you are not used to paint
in a larger format. In this case, just pick a size that will feel
comfortable for you. We'll start with a pencil sketch that is simple and easy to make. Then, we'll paint our objects separately which will
give you enough time and opportunity to work
on your own pace and take breaks while
the paper is drying. The techniques that
we'll use don't require any special skills or precision which will allow you to let go and
enjoy the process. At the same time,
they are fun and enjoyable and once
you get used to them, you will approach
any winter landscape with much more confidence. The painting is beautiful
in framework and you can even use it as a
gift to your loved ones. By finishing the final project, you will get the
opportunity to practice and solidify everything that
you've learned in the class. Once you complete your project, don't forget to upload it in the project section
of the class. I check and comment on
all my students' works. In the next video, I'll
tell you more about the materials that you're
going to need in the class.
3. Materials: In this video, I will
tell you more about the materials that you'll need in order to complete the class. It is not necessary to have
exactly the same materials. First is paper. The paper that I'm using
is Saunders Waterford, it's 100 percent
cotton paper, 300 GSM. It has very nice texture. I suggest that you use
100 percent cotton paper, at least for the
final project because otherwise some of the
techniques might not work well. Also, the paper that I'm
using is high white, means that it has pure white
color compared to some of the watercolor
papers that had more like excel color or ivory. It's better to have
high white paper because we're going
to paint snow, and we want to leave some of our paper white to
the pink to snow. For the color swatches, I will use these
Fabriano Artistico. It has this cream color
that we've talked about. You can see the difference. I will tape my paper to this
board with the paper tape. It's a regular paper tape, I buy it from hardware stores. I will use my ruler, an eraser, mechanical
pencil for the sketch. Then for colors, we're
going to use these colors. They are by different brands, and we'll have a separate
video for the colors, so we'll discuss
the colors then. I will also use my palette
by Art Philosophy. Don't worry if you don't
have some of the colors, I will explain how you can
mix them in the next video. As for the brushes,
I will use as usually my big hake
brush to water the paper and this smaller one that I use to blend
out the colors. For painting, I will use
my silver black velvet, size 8 and size 12. If you're painting on a
smaller piece of paper, you will probably
need smaller brushes, and you can use just whatever brushes you'll feel
comfortable with. I will also use this flat brush. It is synthetic and narrowly use it only for
one of the techniques, so don't worry if
you don't have one, you can use your round
brushes for that. For white details, I will
use these bleed-proof white, which you can use just
regular white brush. I will use this ceramic
palette to mix the colors, two jars of water, one for rinsing my brush and
the other has to stay clean. Cotton towel and paper
towel as usually, a small spray bottle
filled with water. I will use that to activate my paints and for one
of the exercises, I'm going to use
this masking fluid. You don't need to have it. You can just watch the exercises and then decide if you
want to get one or not. It's just one of
the ways to keep our paper white and I
want to show this option. In the next video,
we'll talk more about the colors that you're
going to use in this class and the
mixes that they usually make when painting winter
sceneries. See you there.
4. Color + Mixes: [MUSIC] In this video, I will tell you more about the colors that I'm going to be using in this class and
also for the final project. I will also show you how
you can make some of them, and also my favorite
mixes for snow, skies, and winter mountains. I will use my tubes and pens. Basically for the colors that I will need the
bigger quantity, I will use my tubes, and when I need just a
small amount of paint, I will use my pens. Let's start. The first color that we're
going to use is Viridian Hue. You may have it in your
palette as emerald green. It is called green
or blue-green. Next is Indigo. Most of you are familiar
with this color. It is very nice
color and a lot of artists love to paint
monochromatic pieces with it. It's very dark and deep blue. I will just place the tubes
next to the swatches. Next is this Cobalt green. I find is the perfect
color for northern lights. It's by Mijello.
We'll swatch it now. It is very pretty color. I really love it. I will
show you how you can mix it, so don't worry if
you don't have it. Next is Violet by White Nights. It's my favorite violet. It is very deep, dark, and rich. If you don't have violet, you can mix blue and pink
or blue and cold red. Next is Payne's gray, this one is by Jackson's. It's another beautiful
color that is very widely used and it's perfect
for monochromatic pieces. I will show you how you
can mix that one too. Next, I will show
you how you can mix your own cobalt blue
if you don't have it, so for that, we'll
need some white paint. I will take some and
plate here on my palette. Next, I will add to
that the viridian hue. If you don't have
a viridian hue, you can mix any cold
green that you have, or you can mix blue and green
and see what color you get. Let's swatch the color. Now I will add cobalt
blue to the mix and we'll get this
more bluish color, it's also perfect
for northern lights. This is what cobalt
blue looks like. Don't worry if you
don't have it, you can mix ultramarine instead. Next, I will show
you how you can mix Payne's gray if
you don't have it. I will mix indigo and
black here on my palette. I'm adding more water
to see the color because when it is concentrated, it's mainly black, and I'm adding more black
because it's quite blue. Let's see. It's still quite blue so I will
add a little bit of crimson to that and this
will make it more purplish. That's more like it. You can try and mix your own Payne's
gray if you don't have it. Next, I will use Prussian blue. I will mix it here, with black and I will
try to make indigo. I'm adding black. If you
don't have Prussian blue, you can use whatever dull blue
you have on your palette, am adding more black. Let's see what we have. The next color that I'm going to use in the final project is permanent brown by
Art Philosophy, it's really nice brown
color very rich and deep. Don't worry if you
don't have it, you can mix your own warm brown. I will try to copy the shade by mixing burnt umber and some red. Now, this is not quite right. Let's add some more red. That is more like it. You can mix whichever brown
you have in your palette, just add some red to it. Next is my favorite
shade for snow. I'm just adding a lot
water to the cobalt blue and I get this nice color
for shadows in the snow. Next, I'm adding
to that some opera rose or some other pink
color that you have, and again, with a lot of water, we'll get this nice shade
for coloring the snow. The final color mix
that I want to show is cobalt blue and burnt umber. You mix that, then you add
a lot of water and you get this bluish, grayish color. You can use that when
painting snow or mountains. Also for some of the details, I'm going to use the colors directly here from my palette. I'm going to use lemon yellow, permanent yellow deep, permanent yellow
orange, opera rose. You'll just use whatever
you have in your palette. It's not necessary to have
exactly the same sheets. Again, don't worry if you
don't have some of the colors, just use whatever
you have available. In the next video,
we'll start with our exercise session when we'll practice on
winter sceneries.
5. Exercise I - Day Sky: [MUSIC] Let's start
with the exercises. I'm going to paint all three
on this big piece of paper. But if you want, you
can use smaller pieces, you can paint all
the three exercises or you can paint just
the ones that you like or you can just watch the videos and practice
everything in the final project. It's completely up to you. Let's start with the first one, I'm going to make
a simple sketch. These are going to
be our mountains, I will paint the sky first
by leaving the mountain dry. This is one of the ways that you can keep a part of
your paper, white. I'm carefully going around the
mountain with clean water. For this kind, this one I'm
going to use cobalt blue, this is going to be a day sky. I add water to the cobalt
blue and I will add a little bit of burnt umber
just to mute it down. I'm just making some horizontal
strokes with this color, I will use white gaps
which will be the clouds. For the bottom part of the sky, I will just drag the color
down with the damp brush. Usually, the top
of the sky should be darker and brighter
because this is the part that is closer to us and
the bottom part of the sky far away so we see the
color, less saturated. That's it for the sky, now I will leave it to dry and we'll paint the
mountain separately. Now the sky is dry and we're going to
paint the mountains. I will just add some details to the sketch just to make
it more interesting. I will add more cobalt blue to the mix that I have
here on my palette, I will add some more waters, and now I will
paint the shadow of the mountains so they
are covered with snow. The sky is clear blue so
our shadows are also blue. Usually, the snow reflects the color of the sky
so keep that in mind. I will just paint this portion of the mountain
with the color that I have. I'm just filling the shape. You don't need to make
the perfect wash here, we'll cover that with more
details so don't worry, I'm just taking my time
because I like this process. I added more water here so that my wash is
more interesting. I'm switching to size 8. I have some paints gray
here on my palette, and I'm taking the color
with very little water on my brush so this is the effect that I'm going to
use to paint the mountains, it's called dry brush. Basically, you take
very intense color, and maybe you will need
to dab your brush on a paper towel to take
out the excess moisture. Now with that, I will just make some marks with my brush. I'm just touching my
brush to the paper here and there so each
time I take the color, I dab my brush on a paper towel to take out the excess moisture. Now, I will continue with this part over here so there is no specific pattern, I'm just pressing my
brush here and there. I'm adding more color now, I'll continue with the
same technique over here. The longer you paint the
less paint you'll have on your brush and you'll get these smaller and smaller marks. Now I take my size 12, I'm adding more water to the cobalt blue mix
that I have here on my palette and I will go over some of the marks that I made. Because the paint is
not completely dry, I take some of the color
with my brush and it feels very pretty and creates this nice effect
in the mountains. Now I'm just going with
the water from my jar. Now I'm just blending
some of the edges. Now I'm just looking at my painting and I
add some dots here and there with paints gray just to make it
more interesting. You can do this on dry
paper or on wet paper, either way, the results
are going to be great. You can also try to
splatter some color. This is it, we are ready
with the first exercise, I will see you in the next video where we'll paint
our sunset sky.
6. Exercise II - Sunset Sky: [MUSIC] Now we'll paint our winter landscape
with sunsets sky. Again, I'm going to
make a simple sketch. This will be the mountains and hill will have a
road in this snow. These are just two lines
that meet in the distance. I'll start again by
wetting this sky first. I'm taking some lemon yellow. Then I'll just make some
diagonal lines in the sky. Next I will take
care of our deep, I will add that to the sky. I just placed this color
next to the yellow. Now, without even
washing my brush, I will take some opera
rose I'm adding that. Fi nally, some cobalt blue
for the corner over here. I'm adding some upper rose
to that and I get purple. I'm mixing it directly
on the paper. I'll just drag that color a bit. With the **** brush, I
will mix the colors now. I'm adding more opera rose. You cannot colors while
your paper is still wet. If your paper is
starting to dry, you better live
the sky as it is. Now with the **** brush, I will take some of the color, here because I lost some
of the lemon yellow, which creates a the
glow in the sky. Next, I want to
paint some clouds. I'll mixed opera rose
with cobalt blue. Again, this nice purple. I'm not using a
lot of water here. I'm dabbing my brush on a paper towel to take
the excess moisture. I'm just making some
sports with my brush. Now, I'm adding more
opera rose to the mix. Now, I will mix whatever I
have on my brush with orange. I'm adding some opera rose, and I'm getting
these busty orange for the clouds over here. I'm adding more
concentrated color, and now I will use my hairbrush to blend the colors better. I'm just pressing
very lightly and I held the colors to
blend on the paper. Again, your paper needs to be still wet but without
pulse of water. So with very light movements, I have the colors to mix. If you prefer more dramatic sky, you can leave the sky as it is. I just loved to have such
smooth blends in this case. I love to use this technique. Now, I won't wait
for this sky to dry. I will just add a
little bit of water here on the bottom
part of the painting. With the purple mix that
we used for the clouds, I will just cover the
mountain very carefully. Now, if you use a lot of water here in your sky is still wet, your color will
flow up to the sky, so be mindful of that. But if your sky is just
a little bit of wet, you will get this
nice soft edge. This is what I'm going for here. Don't worry if the color mixed with the color
of the sky will go over the mountains
again and will fix that. I'm trying to fix the edge
of the mountain here. It doesn't need to be perfect, because we will go over that
again with a darker color. Now my sky and the mountains are completely dry and I'm
taking some paints gray. Again with the
techniques that you use in the first exercise, I'm going to add some dark
spots here and there. I will make the
road more visible. Now, I will add to the
purple mix some cobalt blue. I added too much blue. I'm taking some opera rose to bring back
the purple shade. I will just add some more
shadows to those snow here, I'm using my size 12. I'm Smudging some
of the Paints gray and I get this
nice effect again. I'm washing my brush and
now with clean water, I drag the color down. Now, I'm adding more
opera rose to the mix because on the other
side I have this pink parts in the sky and I want to make this part of
the mountains more pinkish. I add this color to the
mountains on the left. This is how we fix the
edge of the mountains. Now, with just some
clean water alpine draw, I pick up some of the
color with my damp brush. You can even sprinkle some water here to make some
additional effects. I'm going back again
with Paints' gray, it's very concentrated so it's not spreading too
much on my paper. I'm just adding some tiny
details here and there, make some deeper shadows. I'm adding more
lines to the road. Again, this is just an exercise. It doesn't need to be perfect. Just practice these
techniques in order to feel more comfortable when we
start with our final project. I'm adding some coupled
both of the same mix over here and now we'll add
some lines to the rock. Now, I will add some
details which will make it more interesting with very
concentrated Paints gray, this is completely optional. Same on the other side. You can add a tiny house
or people if you like, but I will give
this very simple. This is it. We already
with our second exercise, I hope you had fun. I will see you in the
next video while we'll paint beautiful northern lights.
7. Exercise III - Night Sky: [MUSIC] Get ready for
our final exercise. For this one, I'm going to
be using masking fluid. If you don't have masking fluid, maybe you can just
watch the video and then decide if you want
to get one or not. The masking fluid is basically fluid that we apply to
the paper when it's still white or when we want to preserve some of the colors
that we already have. To apply the masking fluid, you need to use an old
brush, or in my case, I'm going to be using this
silicone tool that I have, because when it dries
on your brushes, it may ruin them. Here I have a mountain and I will go in to apply
the masking fluid, then I will cover
the entire mountain. I will speed this process up. Next, you need to leave
it to dry completely. Now that my masking
fluid is completely dry, I'm going to water the paper
and I will start adding colors without worrying that they may go onto my mountain. I will start with lemon yellow. Then some varian hue and I take this directly
from the pants. Next I'm adding some
more Burroughs. Finally, I will add some indigo. I will fill up the blank spaces that I have on my
paper with indigo. Since the paper is still wet, they blend very beautifully, but I still want to help
them blend even better. Now I will tilt the board. You'll see the colors
start to flow. I will take the excess water and color with my paper towel. Now I'm just tilting in
the opposite direction. This will help the colors
to blend very beautifully. The more you tilt your board, the more your colors will flow, so I tilt it in all
the directions, but each time I'm taking out the paint that is flowing
into my paper tip. If you see that some part of your paper is starting to dry, you can spray some water or you can add some water or some
paint with your brush. I'm tilting my board again. As long as your
paper is still wet, you can do this until you are
satisfied with the result. Just don't forget
that you need to take all the excess
water and paint, otherwise it will go
back to your painting. Now I will use my brush and I will help the colors
to blend even more. I will use these
vertical movements because I want to recreate the effect of the
Northern Lights. I'm just touching the paper
very lightly with my brush. I want to add a little
bit of Opera Rose here. I'm spraying some water
to keep the paper wet. I'm tilting again. I find therapeutic to just watch those colors flow on the paper. Again, with my brush, I'm just helping the colors
to blend even better. Now everything is dry and I'm going to remove
the masking fluid. I'm just peeling off this edge over here and I'm
starting to pull. You can remove the
rest with an eraser. Now I'm adding some
water to the mountain. Some Cobalt blue,
here and there. While it's still wet, I'm
adding again some Payne's gray. We use Payne's gray on the wet paper so the color
starts to flow beautifully. Again, I'm just touching
my brush here and there. I'm blending those colors. I'm adding more color
here, some dots. Now I will leave it to dry. Now I'm going to use
the dry brush effect on the dry paper. Just adding some brush marks here and there
with Payne's gray. Again, you can go with the damp brush and smudge
some of the marks. Don't forget to leave
some of the paper white. Now I will paint the stars. Taking some white, and I will splatter it. You can also use white or cover some of the white areas
on the mountains. You can do this on wet or
on dry, and this is it. We are ready with the exercises. In the next video, we'll
start with our final project.
8. Sketching: [MUSIC] We're ready to start
with our final project. Here I have my tray
with my jars of water, my towel, and my
brushes, and my pencil. Here's my eraser. I will also use these
paper towel occasionally, so I have it ready [MUSIC]. I will keep this
here on the side. Again, my paper is about
the size of a tree, and I will tape it down to
my board with a paper tape. So I'm putting the tape first on the top
and on the bottom, and then I put it on the left and on the right
of the paper and this makes it easier for me to peel it off once I'm
done with the painting. Now I'll start with
a simple sketch, so first I will draw
the horizon line. It is very low on the painting. Next, I will quickly
draw a mountain. I hold my pencil high, which makes it easier
for me to make more spontaneous and
irregular lines [MUSIC]. Here I also have some lines. I make darker the
parts of the painting that I already know they're
going to be in the shadow. This makes it easier for
me when I'm painting. This part is really dark too, and here it goes like that. Here also I have a darker part. Here Here we have something like an island, so I'll draw that too. I will use again my ruler
to make it more straight. You'll need to be
precise with this lines. Let's repeat the colors again. Here is my cobalt
green, my violet, my Payne's gray, my
gradient hue, my indigo. I will mix these here
on my ceramic palette. These are the colors that I'm going to use now for the sky. Now we'll prepare the
mixes before a hint. When I start to paint, it will be easier and faster. I suggest that you do the same. So I squeeze a little bit
of the paint on my palette, and then I will add
some water and we'll make a bit both of the
colors that I'll need. Now I will spray some water [MUSIC]. Now we'll mix the
color with my brush. If you use tubes like I do, you just squeeze a
little bit of paint on your palette and then add
just a little bit of water. If you don't have
a spray bottle, you can also use an
eyedropper or you can use a bigger brush to introduce
some water into the well, the idea is that
you have a lot of paint and just a
little bit of water, so the mix is very
intense and bright. We need those colors to
be intense and bright because we will have a lot
of water on the paper. If our colors are diluted
with a lot of water, then will have very transparent
colors and that is okay. But in this case I
want them to be very bright and pigmented [MUSIC]. I am ready with my mixes. If you don't have tubes of the colors that you want
to use for the project. Of course, you can use bands, but then you will need to
put an extra effort in order for your mixes
to be thick enough. My advice for that will be to spray your bands before
you start to work. This will activate
them and we'll make it more easier to pick
them up with your brush. As for brushes, I suggest
that you use an old brush, which you can use the
pickup some of the paint. It is better if the brush is really stiff one like this
one that I have over here, so it's really stiff and it
can pick the colors easily. In the next lesson,
we'll start to paint the sky for our painting.
9. Painting the Sky: We start with the sky
for our painting, so I'm taking my big brush, I'm taking some water, and I'll wet the whole
area of the sky. I will keep mountain
dry for now. Again, if you don't have
a big brush, it's okay, you can just use a smaller one, I'm just using this one because it's easier and faster for me. I'm putting my paper tape here so that the board is tilted this way because otherwise water and paint can flow into my mountain and I
don't want that, I want them to flow in
the opposite direction. Now, my sky is wet, and I take the mix that I have prepared over here
with cobalt green, and I just place the color
on my sky here and there. My brush wasn't clean, so this is why the color
here is a bit dirty, but I will wash it now, and I will pick up
some fresh color. [MUSIC] I will place the color here and
there on the wet paper. I carefully go
around the mountain. [MUSIC] Next, I will switch to violet. You can see how beautiful
it spreads on the paper, it is really dark
and beautiful color, very intense, it's why I like to use it
for such paintings, so I place it next to the cobalt green and
I take some more, I'll put a little bit here, and now I switch to indigo. Whenever I have water and
paint on my paper tape, I blot it immediately
with my paper towel. [MUSIC] I go back to the cobalt green, and now, I will cover
the rest of the sky. [MUSIC] I'll leave just a little
bit of white space here because I want this
part to be really bright because this is
where the light comes from. Now, I'll tilt my board, the colors start flow, I have my paper
towel ready to blot out any excess of
paint and water. [MUSIC] Then I switch directions. [MUSIC] Then I tilt it on
the other side. [MUSIC] You can see the direction
your colors are flowing, and you can tilt your board in the direction that you
wish your colors to flow. It is a good idea, at
least in the beginning, to tilt it in all the directions so that the colors mix well. [MUSIC] Here, I have a dry spot and I will use my spray to
moisten it again, otherwise, it will look
patchy when the paper is dry. [MUSIC] This is that effect
that I want to achieve, these vertical lines
because usually this is how the northern
lights look like. I'm blotting some more paint. [MUSIC] You can already see the nice blend that
we managed to achieve. [MUSIC] Now, I will take care
of this part over here. I wanted it to be light, but it's too light, and now I will spray
it with some water because it's already
dry, and now, I will try to make
the color to move so that this area is
nicely covered. [MUSIC] I will use
my brush also, so I will gently
guide the color, I'm not using much pressure here because I have
such nice planes, I will try to keep them. [MUSIC] I try to keep the edge of
the mountain clean. [MUSIC] Now, I will use gravity to do
the rest of the work. [MUSIC] I want the colors
to flow naturally. [MUSIC] This looks good. [MUSIC] Now, I will take
a little bit of indigo, and I'll mix it with a
cobalt green over here, [MUSIC] I'm adding some purple too. Now, I'll paint some clouds, just some random spots
with my brush, size 8. [MUSIC] Since my paper is still wet, they spread out beautifully
with a soft edge. [MUSIC] Now, we will use my hake brush
to blend them even better, so again, with very
light movements, I softly guide the color
and help it to blend. [MUSIC] I try not to touch the pool
of paint that I have on my paper just
above the clouds, I want to keep the brush dry. [MUSIC] Now, I will try to make that
pool disappear into the sky by tilting
my board again, so that mix flows into the sky. The paper is
starting to dry now, so the colors are not
spreading that much, so it's harder now to make that pool of paint to blend
seamlessly into the sky, but again, I'm tilting my
board in all the directions. [MUSIC] You see the nice
blends that we have over here. This is why I decided to use this technique for the
sky because that kind of small blends are very hard to achieve if you are
using just your brush. [MUSIC] I continue to try and guide the colors
by tilting my board, and now, with my
brush, I will try to fix some of the places
that I don't like. [MUSIC] It is important that when you decide
that you're done with your sky and you are
happy with your results, and your leave your
painting to dry, it is important that there
are no pools of water on your painting and no drops of water and paint
on your paper tape. The sky should have
this nice even sheen. [MUSIC] You can leave your
painting to dry at an angle, this will help the colors
to continue to flow in the direction in which
your board is tilted. Now, I'm happy with
how my sky looks like, and now I'll leave it to dry.
10. Shadows and Textures: [MUSIC] Now my sky
is completely dry. You can test yours by touching it with the
back of your hand. If it feels cold, then it means that you need to leave it to dry a bit more. Now I will continue
with the mountain. I take the indigo that is
left here on my palette. I add a little bit
of water to it, and I get this light
and transparent blue. I will use this color to paint the shadows
of the mountain. I try to make these random
spots with my brush. I have one over here, it goes down like that. It has this half-moon shape. A little bit over here. Some around the spots here. These don't need to be
precise or perfectly painted. These are just
random spots and we will cover most of them
either way, so don't worry. Now I'm adding more
water to the mix. Somehow it looks even lighter. I will continue to paint the
lighter shadows here below. Again, just random
movements with your brush. I have a little bit over here. I drag the color up. Since my brush is already dry, I get a dry brush effect, which is perfect
for the mountain. It creates this nice texture. More color here and there. I dry some of it
with my paper towel. I will pick some of
the color here also. It creates this nice
texture on the mountain. Now I will use the permanent
brown by Art Philosophy. I spray some water
to activate it. I will prepare this water
and mix here on my palette. I will add a little
bit of indigo to it, so I get this grayish,
brownish shade. I add more brown color. This is the color that I got. Now we'll cover with that
this part over here. I'm just filling the shape. Now I use concentrated permanent brown from the pen to
create some texture. I drop it here and there. So again, I make these
random movements. I try to make it look natural. I cover almost the entire spot with this color. I take some indigo
and drop it here and there to make the
color even darker. This makes a nice variety of colors and helps with the
realistic look of the painting. Even if you paint
some distant object, it's nice to have a nice
variety of hues and colors. I make this part really dark. I take out the extra
paint from my brush and I just help the colors
to blend here and there. I will add some water to this
mix that I have over here, is the mix that we
used for the clouds. I will just add some brown, a little bit more indigo. This is the color that I got. It's really dark grayish color. You can use also just Payne's
gray for the purpose. I will start with a dry brush technique on this part of the
mountain over here. There is no specific pattern. I just press my brush and
I get these random marks. What you need to be careful for is not to make it
too repetitive, and try to make it look
as natural as you can. I try to make small marks and bigger marks so that I have
a nice contrast and variety. Somewhere I leave
more whitespace. I'm adding some last touches. I just look at how my painting looks and I decide if I want to
make something else. I think I'm ready. I'm just adding
concentrated color here and there to
make it more dark. I'll leave this to dry now. In the next lesson, we will paint the rest of the mountain. See you there. [MUSIC]
11. Finishing the Mountain: Now we'll paint the rest of the mountain using the same techniques that
we used in the exercise. I'm just preparing
again a grayish mix, so I mix burnt
umber with indigo. If you look at the
photo reference, you can see that on the
left part of the mountain the shadows are more warm and on the right side
the shadows are more cold. When I paint the
mountain on the left I will add more permanent brown, and when I paint the shadows
on the right I will add more indigo to have a nice variety of
colors on the mountain. Now I start to paint the mountains using
the dry bar technique. I just look at the
photo reference and put some marks wherever I see that there are some
details on the mountain. I will cover this part with
green paint that I have here. I'm not following the photo
reference completely, I just look at it to
see how the mountain is looking and decide if I
want to follow that or not. Now I will continue
on this side. I start from the top
and then go down to the bottom so that I don't smudge so much
some of the paint. I use the same mix of paint. It's nice to have a
brush with a sharp tip like this one to paint
such tiny details. First I will paint
the bigger spots here on the mountain and then
I will add the little ones. Basically, I try to follow the overall shape
and the structure, but I won't follow the photo
reference 100 percent. Here below I have
these more darker part so I will use more
thick mix of paint. You can use directly
Payne's gray for this part. Don't make it completely black, but still it needs
to be really dark. I try to keep the part where
the water will be clean. Same on the other side but
here I add a little bit of permanent brown to
make it more warm. Here I have more darker spots. I start to drag this color up, and again I get this nice
texture of the dry brush. Again, here the waterline is
a bit below the waterline that is on the right
because here we have something like an island, so I'll bend that now. There is more brown in my mix. You'll see that my
brush is really dry. Whenever I feel that I don't have a lot of paint on my brush, I just go through some bigger portions of the
mountain to add more texture. Just remember not to color the entire mountain with
this dry brush effect. We still need to have some white spaces
where the snow is. I prepare some more of my mix. With more concentrated
paint I will go over this part
again here and there, dragging some of the color up. Again, my mix is permanent
brown and indigo. I'm just looking at my painting. Again, I'm trying
to assess where I need to add some more color. Now, I'm adding more brown and I continue here on the left side. Again, my brush is really dry here. I add more depth to these cracks over here by adding more color. More dry brushing here. You see how nicely our
mountain is coming together. It really looks like
a mountain now. Now, what I do is I take
some clean water with my brush and I'm going
over the mountain, so I smash of some of the color, I get more nice shadows. These really add some depth. Now, I will take a
little bit of orange. I will mix it with the brown. I give these colors something
between orange and brown, I mix it here on my palette. I'm adding a little bit of red. This is permanent red. I will continue to work
on this part over here. It has a really warm color
on the photo reference, so I'll start to
fill in the shape. It looks strange now, but if you look at
the photo reference, this is really how it looks. I'm adding some permanent brown here while the
color is still wet. Then some lines like that. Adding more brown here below. I'm adding more indigo to
this part here so it gets a little bit darker and it connects better with the
rest of the mountain. I'm just going over
with my brush. I help the color to spread. I'm going back to this
part over here with a mix that has more
indigo in it, than brown. Just dry brushing
here and there, adding some more spots,
some more texture. Once you start with this, it's really hard to stop. You see that that mix
that I'm using now is more dark and concentrated. You can even spatter
some colors. I will do this now, but
first I will cover my sky because I don't want some spots of paint to go into my sky. I take my mix with permanent brown and indigo and I will
just spatter some color. I get these really tiny dots and if I don't
like some of them, I can smudge it with my brush. Some more here with
a more brownish mix. I'm not taking much paint so the dots that I'm getting are really tiny. Some more here. Okay, and we're done. See you in the next video
where we will paint the water.
12. Painting the Water: [MUSIC] In this video, we'll paint the water. I'm watering the portion
where the water will be. I try not to touch the
edges of the mountain. This time I will place
my paper tape like that so the water doesn't
go into my mountain. Now I will just repeat the
colors that I have in my sky. On the left part I will have more cobalt green
and on the right, I will have more purple just on horizontal
lines with my brush. Now let's mix those colors. I'm going carefully here. Now I am taking more
concentrated cobalt green, and I will just paint
some stripes like that. Now with my head brush, I will blend this. Again if you don't
have a head brush just use your biggest
softest brush, but remember that
it needs to be dry. Now with Payne's gray, I will add some darker
spots here and there. Again, I will add these below the darker spots in my sky. Now again with
some Payne's gray, I will go over the line where the water in the mountain meet. I'm not going go over just the wet part or just the dry part, I'm going just between. Part of the paint goes on the mountain and part of the
paint goes in the water. This will connect them in
a natural looking way. When the water is dry, we'll fix the edge so this
is nice and straight. Don't worry about that. You can see that my
brush is very dry. I'm blending some of the color. More dark spots here. Again with my head brush, but this time with
vertical movements I will blend the color. Now I will splatter some clean water while
the paint is still wet. Now I will leave this to dry.
13. Details: [MUSIC] Okay, guys. We're on the final stage. First, let's fix the edge between the mountain
and the water. Again, I'm taking
some Payne's gray. [MUSIC] You can see
how thick it is. I'm using very little water, and this is my size 8
Silver Black Velvet, so I'm activating the paint. I take some very thick
consistency on my brush. Look how thick it is. Now I will use my ruler to help me make some
straight lines. If you want, you can
use also paper tape. You can place it
on your painting, and then fix the edge and then you can remove the paper tape, but I think this way it
will be easier for me. I'm just going over the edge, and I fixed the line. I drag some of the color up, very quickly with
some white movement. We are ready with this part. I'm wiping my ruler, and I will go on the other
side with the same mix. Dragging some of the color up. If you have a flat
brush, you can take it, and we'll try to smudge some of that color into the water. I'm just going over the paint, with a dry brush and I'm
dragging some of the color down. It creates this nice effect
of reflections in the water. I will just blend these a
bit with my hake brush. Now, I'm adding some
final touches to the mountain with
really dark paint; this is Payne's gray again. Now it's time to
paint the stars. I am just covering everything
except for the sky, and again, I will
use my white paint. I'm taking some
white, my size 8. I want it to be
very thick because I want to have tiny stars. If your consistency
is more watery, you will get bigger stars. But I don't want
to add too many, just some stars here and there, mostly on the top
part of the sky. I'm writing bigger
stars with my brush. Now, to the mix that
we used to paint the orange part of the mountain, I'm adding the white
paint from my brush, and I get this thick consistency of slightly orange color. I will just add some situ
lights, just tiny dots. As it is starting
to come together, I will add a little
bit of yellow to the same mix and I will
paint some yellow lights, if you want, you can leave your yellow lights,
just one color. They can be white, or yellow, or whichever
color you like. What I want to show that
there are many options. Now I will paint
some yellow lights. Finally, I will add
water to the same mix, and I will repeat the process. That is one glowing
city and it is finally time to remove
the paper tape. I'm sure you will agree
that this is the best part. I'm slowly peeling off the tape. I peel it off at an angle, very slowly, and this part, and yay guys. We are ready. Finally, with our final project. It looks so beautiful. I really love the
blend in the sky. I love the texture
of the mountain. I like how the water is looking. Congratulations if
you made it this far. I will see you in the next
video for our final words.
14. Wrapping Up the Class: Congratulations on
completing the class. I hope that you are happy
with your new work of art. Painting landscapes
are challenging but they are so beautiful; it's worth the extra effort. By tackling new
challenging subjects, we are stepping outside
of our comfort zone, and this way, we're gaining more confidence in our practice. Give yourself some credit
for doing this today. [MUSIC] Don't forget to upload your project in the
project section of the class. I'm super excited to
see what you'll create. If you post your
painting on Instagram, don't forget to tag
me @inkpapersquirrel, I'll be happy to share
your work in my stories. If you have any
questions for me, just post them in the
discussion section of the class and I will get back
to you as soon as I can. Until the next class,
guys. Happy painting.