Painting TINY Landscapes! Only 2 Inches!

Hey friends, welcome back to another video. My name is Emma Lefebvre and today we are going to be creating tiny landscape paintings So let's jump right in and start Okay, so today we're gonna be doing a fun little challenge of painting teeny tiny landscapes I have a grid of two inch squares that I just taped off with some painters table It's like masking tape, but really thin. I love the stuff. It was on Amazon. I'll see if I can link it But yeah, so I just did two inch squares and we are going to try to paint tiny landscapes Why are we doing this? Why why why? Honestly, I find painting small a lot less stressful than doing a large piece I find it's a great exercise to do one It's good for your hand to kind of you know, get into the habit of creating tiny details But also I feel like it's just you don't have to add as much detail When it's tiny if that makes sense, you know I mean if you were to blow it up into this big large piece if you do You know not as many elements and all that stuff it can look Bare, but the smaller it is you can kind of way kind of get away with doing less So and I'm all about doing less than quick and fast. So that's what we're doing today Also, this is gonna give us a good opportunity to come up with different You know ideas for landscapes, so I don't have any reference photos with me for this. So I'm just gonna be kind of Making it up as I go along. I don't really have too many ideas I'm gonna try and paint as many different skies as I can And just playing around and just try and make them as different as I can But we're gonna see how this goes. So I'm painting in my Etcher Lab cold-pressed watercolor sketchbook I have my Windsor Newton professional watercolors with me. I have my Emily fave craft emo brushes in a size 12 6 & 2 round Water paper towel, and then I have extra paper towel just to do some blotting if I want to do that, so Let's let's just jump in. Maybe we'll do even some seasonal stuff So I'm gonna start off with a size 6 So I feel like my size 12 is gonna be way too big and I'm gonna do a nice blue summer sky And for that, I'm just gonna use some Windsor blue I'm gonna do a light wash and I'm just going to Go across and I'm gonna take my time This is also another great way like you don't have to worry too much if you want to do wet on wet You don't have to worry about hurrying up too much because you're not focusing on this large area Where you're gonna be too nervous if it's gonna dry too fast, you know what I mean? So you can kind of take a bit more time with this I'm just gonna do a nice blue sky. I'm just gonna dab around some of these areas just so I can leave a little bit of white space and I'm gonna take my paper towel I'm just gonna create a little Thing so I can blot and lift for some clouds Okay Maybe make it a little bit thinner and just do Thin clouds along the bottom Okay Might even actually pull up some of that just with a clean damp brush Okay, and now I'm gonna create some grass. Let's just get some Sap green Just do should I do some hills I Don't know I feel like I'm just gonna start off I'm gonna start off slow here with just like a flat simple Landscape No hills or anything too crazy I'm actually gonna add some yellow Further away Actually recently recently when we were driving to my in-laws I Saw I'm gonna do some trees back here These fields of just yellow flowers, so I'm just gonna take some sap green here and just do some trees in the background And it's just this field of yellow it was so beautiful I Think I might do that Grab some more yellow some cadmium yellow He says grass has to be green it could be a field of yellow flowers Maybe we can be a bit more green Closer I'm gonna take my smaller brush. I'm gonna grab some more yellow Just gonna Do some dots like it's a field of yellow flowers Green Little bit of green for some contrast I'm also gonna get some brown for the trunks of those trees in the background Don't want to dark though Little bit of dark green underneath those trees Little bit shadow Trees that have leaves up here It's small but there's still a little bit of detail right green I Feel like the field needs a bit More I don't know depth or something It's like too yellow, I don't know I think that's pretty good though Simple And straight to the point okay, so there's our first one Okay, let's do a moody dark sky, maybe Kind of like my five-minute landscape one that I did Something dropped just kind of feeling like a nice moody sky here Make it lighter as we get to the horizon line She's in some pains gray try not to get it onto the other landscapes Or the other squares More color and just kind of have these dark clouds Coming in Dark wall of clouds Darker Shadows Looks a little messy, but that's okay Clean it up a bit Let's get some grass in there And do some pearly green Nice and dark Trees I'm gonna grab my smaller brush a bit more of that color And just do some evergreen trees in the background kind of and it's still wet in the sky so You're getting like this blurry kind of effect Like that something super simple and easy, okay, let's do let's do water. Let's do a lake I'm gonna do should I do sunset? Yeah, let's do a sunset Okay, so I'm gonna start off with yellow That's a lot of yellow Lighten it up a bit I'm going to Do a little circle For the Sun It's not going to be directly in the center Blend it out of it Okay, now that didn't work as well Dark let's get some pink We'll end it in to make some orange I Think that's too bright, okay And grab some blue up here for some clouds turn purple You Get more purpley If you ever see me wiping my brush on my paper towel a lot I'm just taking off some of the pigment like I have too much on my brush, so that's why I wipe it a lot Orange clouds that are down here I'm just trying to blend it all out a bit Like that, okay And then the water I'm gonna do Like an indigo like a dark color Because it's at sunset But I also want some of that yellow in the water, so I'm gonna wet it up make it a little lighter Looked up some of that color I'm gonna grab a bit of yellow Put some of that in the water It's kind of mirroring What's in the sky a bit of pink I Know it looks weird. I'm gonna add the blue again. I'm gonna take up some of this paint Right down the center That now I'm gonna take my Small brush and take my indigo again, maybe with a bit of pains gray I'm just gonna start doing some Waves Again it doesn't have to be too detailed because it's super tiny And as you get further back, they're gonna get smaller. I don't even have to see them to be honest Just a few waves up front like that That's pretty good. I like it. Okay. I'm going to wet up my paints just a bit more cuz they're all pretty dry Okay, let's do like a fall landscape now I feel Excited for fall. I'm gonna do kind of like a grayish sky. So just like a light pains gray up top Just to start Darker at the top and I'm slowly getting lighter I think I'm gonna do Some I'm gonna do this like orangey color For the bottom and then add some green I'm gonna see where this goes cuz I have no idea what I'm doing. I Want some of the orange to act like it's Fallen leaves So I'm gonna kind of It's a lot of water It's okay This one's more of an abstract one I'm trying to dry that up a bit Okay, I want that to dry. I feel like I could add like some clouds in here Just a little yeah, maybe not Okay, that that's looking pretty pretty beat We're gonna start over again By lifting up this color Watch this sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't that's when you just fix it Like this Okay, let's try that again. Okay, I'm gonna start off with the This guy It's too dark Okay, I'm gonna do the grass after But I'm gonna do some of the trees Now I'm just gonna lighten that up a bit, okay I'm gonna take some orange I'm just gonna start dropping it in Like this and some red And some yellow And also some green Get some sap green. Oh Too much water. No Another trouble with working with smaller painting sometimes it's just like that's too much Let me get a darker green Just kind of mixing it all together that And then we're gonna take some brown This one is not the greatest painting for this one. I'm going to do some Trunks Tree trunks And then some grass So, there we go, that's what I wanted to do and we will have some leaves Falling down. I'm gonna get darker as we go to the front That I'm gonna grab my smaller brush grab some orange Drop it where some of those orange trees are Get some red Yellow Try and do the line of water kind of stop there. Just blend it out a bit Orange Red Okay, I mean that one's not the greatest but that's fine, okay, let's move on let's move on let's do some Mountains I'm gonna start off with a blue sky Bit more bright blue at the top Just a nice clear blue day Actually take some of it up so we can do Mountains like that Okay We're gonna leave that and let that dry and then we'll do some hills and stuff. I say we do For our last one, let's do that like a Lavender field kind of that I did before So I'm gonna do like a pinkish sky. I think No, I'm gonna do yellow I'm doing another should have planned this out a bit better Blend that together move up into me a bit more purpley You Purple the gray I'm gonna do some clouds coming in And then we're gonna do some mountains In the background That And then our lavender field grab some Pinkish purple to start Yeah, that's okay Purple Okay, now let's do this one to like a yellowy green Hill back here Maybe we'll do a little some trees on the top Like that And then I want to do another hill in front of it, so I'm gonna let that dry quickly Okay, it's dry. I'm gonna do another hill. It's slightly darker Maybe a couple trees On this hill Let that dry and then lastly I'm just gonna do one hill kind of close up Like so That maybe a little bit of grass or something's Small brush And then we can do some like flowers or something And I'll grab a little bit of white So let's use my dr. Ph Martin's bleed proof white Flowers here, I think it needs to drive it to like that. It's dry add a little bit more Little bit of yellow to the centers not even like there is like a center Not detail Water on your brush Little yellow dots like that Like that I feel like the trees in the background background don't even look like trees There we go, okay, so there's our quick tiny little landscapes do I love them all no, I don't really like this one These two with the sunsets are pretty good. This one's kind of boring and these two are okay Not too bad, but there was like a fun little quick exercise to do and I actually enjoy painting small I Don't know why I felt like I had to do it so quick But you can definitely take your time with this and just enjoy it Yeah, it's a great way to kind of play around with different Types of landscapes skies and all that stuff and just you know, have fun. There you go Thank you guys so much for watching my video. 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