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Winter Snowy Cabin in the Woods - Using Watercolours

teacher avatar Aishwarya Shetty, my__paint___story | Watercolour Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello Winter!!!

      1:30

    • 2.

      Art supplies

      2:44

    • 3.

      Let's take a look at the colours

      2:29

    • 4.

      Pencil Sketch

      5:09

    • 5.

      Wetting The Paper

      2:05

    • 6.

      Painting Background Pines

      5:15

    • 7.

      Painting the Snowy ground

      6:17

    • 8.

      Painting the Foreground Trees

      4:18

    • 9.

      Adding the branches

      2:39

    • 10.

      Painting the Snowy Cabin

      11:15

    • 11.

      Adding Some Snow

      8:24

    • 12.

      Thank You "SNOW" Much

      1:53

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"Hello, and welcome back! and I’m so excited to invite you to join me in this winter adventure as we paint a cozy snowy cabin in the woods using watercolours.

Winter is such a magical time of year, and what better way to embrace the season than by capturing its beauty on paper?  
Whether you're a beginner or you've been painting for a while, this class is for you. I’ll guide you step by step through the process, from sketching the scene to adding the final details that will make your winter cabin come to life.

Together, we'll explore the unique qualities of watercolour – how to layer colours, create textures, and achieve that soft, tranquil feeling that snow brings.


I believe everyone has the potential to create something beautiful, and by the end of this class, you’ll not only have a stunning winter scene to be proud of but also some new watercolour techniques you can use in your future projects. 

This is the gorgeous painting that we will be creating in this class

So grab your paints, get comfortable, and let’s create something magical together this winter! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!"

Art Supplies you'll need:

  • 100% cotton Watercolour paper(300gsm, 140 lobes-Saunders Waterford)
  • Paint brushes( Flat brush, round brushes size 12, size 8 , size 6 , synthetic size 2 brush - Silver Black Velvet)
  • Watercolour Paints(Whitenights)
  • White gouache to add snow
  • Two jars of water
  • Pencil and eraser for adding the pencil sketch
  • Masking tape
  • Acrylic board or a wooden board to tape down the paper
  • Old cloth or tissue for wiping the excess water or paint

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Aishwarya Shetty

my__paint___story | Watercolour Artist

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Hello Everyone! I'm Aishwarya, a Software Engineer by profession and an artist from all my heart. Art makes me feel relaxed and it also makes me do a happy dance every single time I pick my paint brush. It keeps me going everyday and its like a natural therapy.

I'm originally from the state Karnataka in India but currently working in Bangalore. As a kid I used to have bad grades for my drawings but over the years I have totally fallen in love with art especially watercolors. It is such a wonderful medium in itself. Its been 3 years I have started taking art seriously on daily basis and I want to create a beautiful life for myself. Painting really helps me release all my stress.

I not only enjoy painting but also love to share my creations with the world and help ot... See full profile

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1. Hello Winter!!!: Winter is such a magical time of the year, and what better way to embrace the season by capturing its beauty on paper? Hello, everyone, and welcome back. I'm Suiia an engineer, a watercolor artist, and an art educator. I'm so excited to invite you to join me in this winter adventure as we paint a cozy, snowy cabin in the woods using watercolors. Whether you're a beginner or you have been painting for a while, this class is for you. I'll guide you step by step through the process, right from sketching the scene, painting the background, adding the foreground trees to adding the final details that will make your winter cabin come to life. Together, we'll explore the unique qualities of watercolor like the wet on wet technique, creating some textures and achieve that soft tranquil feeling that snow brings. I believe everyone has the potential to create something beautiful, and by the end of this class, you'll not only have a stunning winter scene to be proud of, but also some new watercolor techniques that you can use in your future projects. So go grab your paints, get comfortable, and let's create something magical together this winter. I can't wait to see what you come up with. 2. Art supplies: Alright, so let us take a look at the art supplies. First is the paper. I'm using the paper from the brand Saunders Water food. This is 100% cotton, 300 GSM watercolor paper. So it has got a very nice texture, and it is not heavily texted. This is a cold crest watercolor paper. So you can go with any watercolor paper of your choice. Just make sure it is 100% cotton and a minimum thickness of 140 LB. So this is the size of the paper that I'm going with, but you can choose to go with any size as you want to. Just make sure you're not going with a two smaller sized paper, right. So next is the colors. So for the detailed list of colors, I have done a separate video onto the next section where I'll be explaining all the colors that we have used, and I'm going to be using this palette, and it has all the colors from white knights. But as I said, you can choose any color that you have got. I mean, any brand of colors can be good to go with. Okay, so next up, we'll take a look at the brushes. So very basic minimum brushes. One is the flat wash brush. This is a silver hake brush from the silver black velvet. Then you'll need a larger sized round brush, and this is from Princeton. This is from their Neptune series. I absolutely love this to use to cover a large area surface of the paper. Next up, size number 12 round brush. This is again from the brand silver black velvet, and then you'll also need size number eight round brush. And then you'll also need size number six round brush. So these are the basic brushes that you will need. Also, you'll need a synthetic brush to add the snowy details or textures onto the trees. All right, so this is pretty much about the brushes. Next, obviously, you'll need a pencil and an eraser to add the pencil sketch. Next, you'll need a masking tape to tape down your paper, of course, go with a good quality masking tape and you'll need two jars of water. Make sure one jar has to always remain clean to pick up the fresh paint, and the other is to clean off all the dirty paint from your brush. All right, so then you'll need a cloth or a tissue like this to wipe off the excess amount of water or the paint. And finally, you'll need a board like this to tape down your paper. So this is pretty much for the art supplies. Go get them ready, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 3. Let's take a look at the colours: Okay, so let us take a look at the colors that you will need for this particular class. The first one that I'm going to swatch here is Prussian blue. So we're not going to directly use this color. We're going to blend this color with the paints gray, and we're going to create that background forest. All right, so this is the first color that you need. If you don't have Prussian blue, you can go with any other blue like ultramarine or some other dark blue. All right. Next up, I'm swatching here is the paints gray. You can see this is a beautiful shade and it's sort of darker in its tonal value. And that's the reason I'm going to mix Prussian blue and paints gray to create that blurry misty pine in the background. All right, so the next color that you would need for this particular class is when Dike brown, and this is basically for painting that cabin. All right. So you can go with ndike brown in case you do not have ndike brown, go with any other brown. I'm sure there are several different kinds of browns available in different palettes. So need not worry about it. Alright. And if you have a light brown, then you can add a little bit of paints gray to it and create a darker version of it. Next, you'll also need a little bit of burnt umber, right? So if you don't have burnt umber, that's absolutely fine. You can just go with normal brown, whatever you have got the light brown. Okay? So this is another beautiful shape. Alright, so the next color that I would be swatching up is you will need a set of yellows and oranges to create that light reflecting from the cabin. So first, I'm going to swatch cadmium yellow. So I'm sure this is another basic color. So yellow is always present in different palettes. Then you'll also need a little bit of cadmium orange. So we're going to mix yellow and orange together to create that light coming out from the cabin. All right. Okay, so lastly, you'll also need some white gouache. Of course, this is a winter snowy scene, so we need lots of white gouache to add the snow. Alright, so these are the colors that you will need. Get them ready quickly, and I can't wait to see you in the next section. 4. Pencil Sketch: All right, so let's start with the pencil sketch. The pencil sketch is really simple. We are going to sketch a teeny tiny cabin and a couple of trees in the background. So let us start with the cabin sketching. It is really simple. So first, I'm going to draw a triangular shape, and then we're going to create a parallelogram. And yeah, that's about it. That's the roof of the cabin. And now we are going to sketch the walls of the cabin. So this is the front wall, and this is another wall just behind the front wall. All right. So you can adjust the size of the cabin as per the size of your paper. So if you're going with a larger sized paper, then you can have a slightly bigger cabin. And if it is a smaller sized paper, then you can have a medium to smaller sized cabin. Make sure the cabin is not very big because we just want to show that there is a teeny tiny cabin far away in the woods. So that is the idea. Alright, so now we're going to add some trees, and the placement of the trees can be anywhere that you would like to. So there's no hard and fast rule that you have to follow the same placement as I am doing, so it's up to you. And don't go ahead and draw too many trees because that way you will be covering the entire background, which we do not want to. All right. Just go with minimal trees, and that's about it. So you can just wait for me to complete the pencil sketch. Then you can pause the video and then you can create the pencil sketch for yourself. All right, so now we'll create the shadows for the trees that we have added. This is the reason why I'm creating it now so that it'll be easy once you start painting. So you need not search where is my tree and where I have to add the shadow. So that is the reason we are also sketching the shadows of the tree. So this is the tree and the cabin, and we have added the shadows. Now we're going to create a pathway onto the cabin and that's also really simple. So towards the cabin, the pathway is really short and narrow. And as it goes away from the cabin, it's going to get wider, right? So it's just a simple pathway. So you can just wait for me to sketch it and then you can repeat it for yourself. All right. So I think we're almost done with the sketching. So now, the last thing left is to create or add some windows and doors onto the cabin. And yeah, so just add a teeny tiny window onto one side of the wall, and next on the front side, we're going to have a small door and a window. All right. So this is a simple pencil sketch. So you can just take your own time, create a pencil sketch for yourself, and I'll see you soon in the next section. I 5. Wetting The Paper: Oh, All right, so now let us start by wetting the papers. So as you can see, I always like to use my larger sized Haque brush, which is from silver black velvet. But you can choose to go with any flat brush or any larger sized round brush as well, okay? The idea or the goal here is to make sure that your paper is nicely wet before you dig into the final painting. Okay? So this way, it allows your paper to stay wet for a longer duration of time, and it gives you the room for painting for a more number of time. Like, it keeps your paper wet and nice. And since we're going to work mostly on the wet on wet technique, having a good wetted paper is very important. So wetting the paper necessarily does not mean just pouring the water and having large puddles of water. The water that you apply on the paper should be evenly distributed between all the regions of the paper. All right. So most probably during the process of wetting the paper, you can see most of the water gets collected in the center and some gets collected at the edges. So we're going to make sure we're going to push away all the excess water, wipe it off before we start painting the actual painting. Okay. So make sure take your own time, go ahead and wet your paper. Alright, so yes. All right. Seems like the paper is nicely wet, and now we can finally begin with our painting, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 6. Painting Background Pines: All right, guys. So now that our paper is thoroughly wet, we can start the painting. I'm so excited, and I hope so are you. All right. So now we're going to paint a misty pine forest in the background. So the colors that I'm going to use are paints gray, and I'm mixing this with a little bit of Prussian blue because I don't want entirely a darker kind of forest in the background. I want a mix of bluish and grayish kind of background. So it all depends upon you how you want to have your forest to upear, okay? So just don't go for a single shade, I would suggest, try to mix and match the colors and then go ahead with that. Make sure you're not touching the cabin. Just carefully go around the cabin and drop in your paints. At this point of time, I'm not worrying about how the color is spreading on the paper. I'm just allowing the colors to flow on the paper and create the magic because it's just in the background. It's not the foreground details. Whatever happens in the background is completely fine. We're not going to focus much onto the details. Randomly go ahead, free your hand muscles and just let the paint and the water create the magic, I would say. All right, so I'm just pulling and pushing the paint onto the paper. And for this purpose, I'm using my larger sized brush from Princeton. This is from their Neptune series. You can go ahead and choose any other larger round brush that you have got. So the perkse of using larger brushes, you can cover a larger surface area at a given point of time. All right. So this is how the background looks like. Now I'm going to pick up a slightly darker tonal value of the same mixture that is the paints gray and the blue mixture. I'm going to start creating some pine tree kind of shapes in the background. So it all depends upon you, whether you want to go with larger size brush or smaller sized brush. So right now with a larger size brush, I saw that the paint is spreading too fast. So I've switched to my smaller sized brush. I think this is the size number eight. This is from silver black velvet. So I'm not having too much water on my brush because I already have enough water on my paper. So this is how you can control the way your paint flows onto your paper, right? So please make sure you do not a loose mixture, you should have a milk kind of mixture of your paint. So you can see when I'm mixing the paint on the palette, there's barely any water. It's very, very less. All right. That is the reason I'm able to create these beautiful pines, and the paint is not spreading very fast on the paper. I'm having complete control of how I can manage these brush strokes. All right, so now it's barely going to be a repetitive process. Just enjoy this. Turn on your favorite music and just paint those background pines. So you can watch me how I'm doing this. And once I have finished painting, you can go ahead and paint your background pine forest. Alright, so just watch me and yeah. Uh All right, so I'm happy with the first layer of the background pine trees. So I'm going to go ahead and paint another layer of pine trees, not completely, but somewhere where we have a little bit of spaces left in the between. So I'm going to go ahead with a slightly darker tonal value this time, and I'm going to create some pine trees just like we did previously. But if you're already happy with the first layer, then you can stop right there. I'm really happy with how the background has turned out, and I'll see you soon in the next section. 7. Painting the Snowy ground: All right, so now it's time to create that snowy ground. So if your paper has slightly dried, then make sure you take a little bit of water and re wet the bottom region. So I'm going to quickly pick up my brush with some water, and I'm going to apply the water and re wet the paper to ensure that the paper is still wet. Alright, so just make sure you're not disturbing the background pines, slowly go ahead and wet the snowy ground area. All right. So now, what we're going to do is there are two things that we're going to create on the snowy ground. One is, you're going to create slightly softer shadows for the tree trunks that are going to be appearing on the foreground, which we will be painting in the upcoming sections, and the other one is you're going to create a snowy path which is going towards the cabin. Now you can see I have picked up some Prussian blue, and I'm just trying to add those colors onto either sides of the pathway just to depict the snow. So we're not going to leave the snow entirely white. If you might have seen some images on Pintrest or Google, you might have seen that dark blue reflecting on the snow. That's because of the snowy night because of the reflection of the sky and the shadows of the tree, which contribute to this blue shade onto the snowy ground. Now you can see with the same color, I'm trying to add those softer shadows onto the snowy ground. The reason why I'm doing this now is I don't want to have these shadows to be appearing very prominent. So those shadows should be faded, soft and appearing very mild. This is the reason we are painting it wet on wet. Right, so yeah. Now with the same color, I'm picking up a lighter version of this Prussian blue and I'm trying to create that snowy pathway. So you can see I'm just moving my brush in a very random way, and I'm just dropping the paint with the help of my tip of the brush. Now I'm picking up some paints gray, and I'm mixing that with the Prussian blue that is already added on the paper. So this way, I'm trying to create an organic snowy pathway towards the cabin. So it might seem a little bit confusing or it might be a little bit difficult in the beginning, but trust me, just wait and watch the process like how I'm painting it, and then you may pause the video and then continue doing it for yourself. Alright? So it's just easy just follow the pencil sketch and you're going to create a beautiful, snowy pathway. Alright, so yeah. All right. So now we're going to add some light onto the ground. This is the light which is coming out from the cabin. So for that, I'm going to pick up some Indian yellow. You can go with any yellow that you have got like cadmium yellow or even lemon yellow is fine. So we are going to add this light onto the ground. This is just to show the reflection of the light which is coming out from the cozy cabin. Okay. So yeah, depict all these things. So adding all these lights and this blue on the snow just makes the painting look more natural and more realistic. So if you would have left it flat, the painting would look really flat and you would not be able to bring out the real essence of the painting. It is these teeny, tiny details that make your painting look even more stunning. Even though your painting is very simple, there are no much elements, but it is these details that bring out the essence in your painting. So just keep these points in mind, and it'll surely help you in your future paintings when you're going to plan a different kind of painting. Alright, so you can see how I have added that yellow. And now I'm fixing the pathway a little bit because when the paper is slightly wet, the colors may seem to be a little bit darker, but when it dries, it's going to look one shade lighter. So go ahead and drop the same colors onto the pathway. But if your pathway is already looking nice, then there's no need to do this step. Okay? So I'm just blending in the colors and just making it a little lighter and not too prominent. All right, so I'm happy with the way the snowy ground has turned out, and everything is looking beautiful, the light reflecting on the ground, the snowy pathway, the shadow of the tree trunks. And yeah, so I'll see you soon in the next section. H. 8. Painting the Foreground Trees: All right. So now that the background has completely dried, it's finally time to add some foreground trees. So for the foreground trees, it's very simple and I love painting trees. It's one of the therapeutic processes, I can see. So start picking up your paints gray, and we're going to add some tree trunks. So starting on towards the leftmost end. So you can see how I'm adding the tree trunks. So from the top, it is going to be thin, and as I come down or closer, it's going to turn a little bit wider and and all the trees are not going to be of the same size or same shape. They are going to be of different heights. The placement of the trees is going to be different. This will give a good perspective to our painting. So always keep the rule of perspective while painting. All right, so this is going to be a repetitive process. Again, put on your favorite music, grab a cup of coffee, add a few trees, take some break, come back, and add again. All right, so yeah, I just love doing this. So now you can see the placement of the trees. I started on to the left. I went on towards the right. And now, again, I'm somewhere not exactly in the center, but somewhere towards the cabin. And now you can see the tree that I'm adding now, I'm making it a little thicker towards the bottom and also taller compared to the background trees. This way, this placement of the tree ensures that there are some trees which are far away and some trees which are closer to the viewer. Alright. Th was the rule of perspective that I was talking about. These are very minute things, but these things make a lot of difference, a very huge difference in your painting. All right. So yeah, you can just wait for me to complete adding the trees, and then you can go ahead and paint it for yourself. And also, one more thing, you need not place the trees in the exact same way that I'm showing here. Your painting might have turned a little different. You might have sketched your trees in a different manner. The placement of your trees also may change, and that's absolutely fine, right. So yeah. All right, so I'm happy with the way the trees have turned out. Basically everything, the placement, the thickness, the size, the shape, everything, and I'm thoroughly not going to go overboard with painting trees. Otherwise, I'm going to completely ruin it. And yes, so I'm completely happy. And I think now we are good to go and proceed with the next and the rest of the painting. I'll see you soon in the next section. 9. Adding the branches: All right. Now that we have our foreground trees being painted, we're going to add teeny tiny branches onto these foreground trees. It's a very simple process. Again, I'm going to pick up my paints gray and this time, I'm going to use my smaller sized brush size number six, or you can go with size number eight also because usually it has a pointed tip. I don't know where the other brushes, but the silver black velvet has got a nice pointed tip. So yes, it's up to you. You can go with any brush that you have got. So you can see I'm creating these delicate teeny tiny branches, and they do not have a specific position. I'm just randomly going ahead and placing these branches. So all you can do is if you're not confident in the first place, you can just try these brush strokes onto a scrap piece of paper, and then once you get the hang of it, you can just go ahead and add it to your main painting. All right. So you can just watch me as I paint, and then once I'm ready with mine, you can just pause the video and then paint it for yourself. All right, guys. So I hope you have added these teeny tiny branches onto all of the trees, and now it's really looking realistic. So I'll see you soon in the next section. 10. Painting the Snowy Cabin: Oh, All right, so now the background elements are completely ready and the foreground trees are also added. Now it's time to finally paint the snowy cabin. So starting with wetting the front portion of the cabin. So go with any smaller sized brush because the cabin is tiny, and we don't want to disturb the paint that is already there in the background. Alright? So I'm using my size number six round brush from silver black velvet, and I'm just gently going ahead and wetting the regions of the cabin. So for bin, obviously, we're going to go with Wendy c brown, or if you have any other kind of dark brown, you can just go ahead with that as well. And if you have a light brown, you can mix a little bit of paints gray and create your own dark brown shape. So you can see it's a nice, beautiful shade. It's from the brand white knights, but you can go with any brown that you have got. All right. Like I said, you can create a darker mix just by adding paints gray. So I have painted the roof, not the roof, the edge of the roof, using the Wundik brown. And now, with the same color, I'm just going to intensify it because we want to make it look like as though the shadow is falling there. So you might have seen those huts or small cabins. The roof the edges of the roof are a little bit darker compared to the middle portion of the cab and now for the center portion of the cabin, I'm going to go with Indian gold. And a mix of another brown that I have in my palette or you can go with burnt umber, as well. So that is another beautiful color that you can choose to go ahead and paint your cabin with. So just mix and match the color play around, like I always say, and you can just, you know, come up with something really new. So we want to have that woody effect to our snowy cabin. So that is what we are just creating here. And obviously, we're going to leave the doors and the windows as it is because we are going to go ahead and paint with yellow and orange light later on. So just go ahead and fill the entire portion of the front portion of the cabin quickly. And yeah, make sure you're leaving those gaps for the windows and the doors. Just don't fill it out. Otherwise, it's very difficult to lift off the paint later. All right, so yes. So I think I'm just going to go ahead and intensify the colors. So you can just watch me, and then you can paint it for yourself. All right. So now that we have painted the first layer of the cabin, it's time to add some horizontal lines onto the cabin. So you might have seen some images on Pinterest or Google where you can see the teeny tiny huts or the cabins have these vertical or horizontal lines. So that is what we are exactly trying to create here, and it might look a little bit lighter because the background is still wet. So I want you to go with a darker tonal value so that once it gets dry, these lines look a little bit prominent and make your cabin look even more realistic. All right. So yeah, this is how it's looking at the moment, and now it's time to paint the other side of the wall of the bin. So again, just go ahead and wet gently if the paper has dried. Otherwise, you can just directly go ahead and start painting. Again, I'm going to choose the windy cebown. First, I'm going to go with lighter tonal value, and then we're going to gradually build up and fill the entire wall except the window. You can just watch me how I'm doing this and later you can pause the video and paint it for yourself. All right. So now that we have painted the walls of the cabin, it's finally time to add the paint onto the windows, so you can go ahead with cadmium yellow or any other yellow that you have got. So fill it carefully because the background seems to be still wet, and if at all, some paint flows, just go around and lift off the paint carefully, right. So if you're not comfortable with using size number six brush, you can go with even a smaller size brush like size number two or any other brush. All right. Just get comfortable with whatever works for you. And now to intensify the light, to make it a little bit more glowing, we're going to go with cadmium orange, or you can go with any other bright orange that you have got and just add it to the central portion of the window and just blend it with the already added yellow previously. All right. So it's very easy. You can just watch me how I do this. And similarly, we're going to paint the doors and the windows on the other side of the cabin, as well. All right. So just have a look, and then you can paint it for yourself. All right, so now it's time to finally paint the snowy roof. So there's nothing much to paint. We're just going to add the shadow of the night sky reflecting onto the roof. So we're just going to go ahead and gently wet the snowy roof. And what we're going to do is, since this is a night scene, we're going to try to add the bluish tonal values onto the roof. Just to depict that, there is sky on top, the night sky, and the light of the sky is falling onto the roof, just as we did for our snowy ground. In a similar manner, we're going to do it for the roof. So generally go ahead and pick up a very light mixture of your Prussian blue and your paints gray and add it onto the edges of the roof and as you come to the center portion of the roof, we're just going to create a parallelogram kind of structure and just add this to depict that light of the sky is falling onto the roof. So you can just watch me how I do this, and then you can paint it for yourself. Uh So now you can see this is how the snowy cabin has turned out. If you feel like there is a dark paint, you can make use of white guash and just correct those spaces so that you preserve the whiteness of the snowy roof. All right, so I'll see you soon in the next section. Yes. 11. Adding Some Snow: Alright, it's finally time to add the snow, and this is one of my favorite things to do. So for adding the snow, I'm using my synthetic brush and white guash, of course. And yeah, so you can just go ahead and start adding this dry brush pattern onto the trees. Make sure you're not picking up too much paint. So I hope you're familiar with the dry brush technique. So all you have to do is take a little bit of amount of paint with very bare minimum water and then just dab off the excess paint onto a wet cloth or tissue. And you're just going to go ahead and add it onto the tree trunks. So we're going to add a little bit of snow onto the base of the trunk just to show that it is rooted properly into the ground. Otherwise, it's really going to look a little odd. So make sure you do this as well. So this is again going to be a repetitive process. We're just going to follow the same process and cover all the trees, the foreground trees with the snow. And one more important thing to note here is, I'm not adding the snow onto the entire tree trunk. It's only onto the left edge of the tree trunk. This is another rule of perspective just to show that the front portion of the tree is covered with the snow and the side and the back of the tree are az is. So you can already see how the painting is taking its shape. From where we started, now you can see how the painting is taking its shape like the trees, the cabin, the snowy ground. Everything is just adding the depth to our painting, and it's making our painting look even more realistic. So you can just wait, watch me how I do this, or you can just go ahead and paint along with me if that is what you're comfortable with. All right, so yes. All right. So now that you have covered the trees with the snow. Now what we're going to do is, since it's a heavy snowfall and it's a snowy winter scene, what we're going to do is we're going to add some snow onto these branches. Basically, we're going to try to depict that the snow that is falling has been getting collected onto these branches. So you can just add teeny tiny blobs of snow onto these branches. Again, this is going to be a repetitive process. So just go ahead and just add these snow blobs onto all the branches of the trees. Or if you choose to, you can just go ahead and do it for some of the trees. But since this is a snowy scene, I would like to do it on all the trees. All right. So yes, so you can just paint along with me. All right. So now that we have added the snow blobs onto these branches, now it's time to add a little bit of white guash onto the bottom of the tree trunks just to make them look like they're immersed into the snow. So I'm doing this. You can see the way I'm doing this. So you can create a triangular shape, pick up a lot of white guash, and just add it onto all the tree trunks, basically the base of the tree trunks. So now you can see the way it is looking. Earlier, it was just looking as though a tree is stuck there, but now you can really make out that the tree immersed into the ground. So these are the small details that I was talking about. All right, so everything is looking good, and I'm so happy at this stage. And finally, we have one thing to do onto the cabin windows, we're going to add those horizontal and vertical line. This is again, optional, but since I'm focusing on the detailed look of the cabin, I'm adding it. But it's up to you. If you want to add it, you can add it, else you can just leave it the way it is. Alright, so this was another detail. And now, finally, we're going to splatter some snow, and this is my favorite part. Again, I'm going to take white guash, but this time, we're going to make a runny mixture and create the snow falling, and we are going to do this by tapping method. Alright, so enjoy Alright, guys, this is how it has turned out, and I'm very happy at this stage. So the next step is to peel off the masking tape, and after peeling, I'll see you soon in the next section. 12. Thank You "SNOW" Much: Okay, so this is the final painting, and I'm truly happy with the way it has turned out. I mean, Look at it, guys. Isn't it gorgeous? I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported me throughout this journey. Whether you help me brainstorm ideas, give me feedback or simply encouraged me along the way. Your contributions mean the world to me. I couldn't have done this without your support, and I'm truly grateful for each and every one of you. I hope this class brings you as much joy as I had creating it. Thank you for being a part of my creative journey, and I can't wait to see your beautiful creations. Please post your projects in the class project section, and I would love to review them and give you a feedback. And if you're someone who would like to post the project on Instagram, then do tag me using my Instagram handle, my pain story. So that's about it. Enjoy your holidays, guys. Merry Christmas, have a happy and cozy winter season, have lots of cookies, hot chocolate, and whatnot. Just enjoy yourselves. And get creative and also take care of yourself. That's more important as we are wrapping the end of the year, have lots of smiles on your face, and I'm going to come next year with lots of ideas, lots of classes, and lots of love from you guys. Thank you so much. Stay happy. Stay creative.