
Explore two painting techniques for colorful northern lights and galaxies, and learn color blending and adding stars and details to create vibrant celestial watercolor scenes.
Master watercolor techniques to depict northern lights and aurora scenes with layered washes, color blending, and starry skies, using acid-free paper, masking tape, and careful drying.
Paint northern lights skies with blues and crimson through diagonal color blending and light water washes, then add stars and pine trees, balancing layers after drying.
Learn to paint a blue northern lights aurora with watercolor washes, blending cerulean blue, cobalt blue, black, lemon yellow, and light green, then add stars and mountains for depth.
Learn to paint a green galaxy with watercolor by layering greens and blues, adding white stars, and painting diagonal pine trees toward the center after masking tape.
Learn to paint a blue galaxy watercolor by layering cobalt blues with black and sea green, using washes and color dropping, then add stars and bottom grasses for texture.
Apply masking tape to prepare the scene, build a brown galaxy with layered black and yellow washes, then add a mountain silhouette and stars.
Hello, I am Sanika and I will be guiding you from the beginning to paint some northern lights, aurora and galaxies. Go through all the lessons and don't forget to post a feedback. I strongly recommend you all to post your completed artworks too, so that I can have a look at them ! Also if you have any doubts, feel free to ask them, I will be happy to help you :)
In this class you will learn
Basics about material required
Some important tips to paint watercolour northern lights scapes
2 different types of northern lights paintings and 1 aurora painting
3 different types of watercolor galaxy paintings
Some tips before we start
Watch this class on a bigger screen to get the best out of the class
Use any kind of watercolor material available with you except the paper which should be acid free, 100% cotton, and of 300gsm
You do not need to attempt the complete class together, you can break it into smaller parts and attempt as and when you have time. Most of the lessons are having a run time of 15 minutes and can be taken anytime during the day. You can also do one painting per day or as per your time.
So, let's start painting together and don't forget to have fun !