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15-Day Watercolor Challenge: Paint Loose Florals Using Color Prompts

teacher avatar Joly Poa, Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:12

    • 2.

      Class Projects Overview

      4:55

    • 3.

      Materials

      7:47

    • 4.

      Watercolor Tips

      9:39

    • 5.

      Day 1

      7:54

    • 6.

      Day 2

      9:08

    • 7.

      Day 3

      10:32

    • 8.

      Day 4

      12:59

    • 9.

      Day 5

      7:52

    • 10.

      Day 6

      9:23

    • 11.

      Day 7

      15:33

    • 12.

      Day 8

      13:46

    • 13.

      Day 9

      12:12

    • 14.

      Day 10

      10:54

    • 15.

      Day 11

      10:54

    • 16.

      Day 12

      13:44

    • 17.

      Day 13

      12:20

    • 18.

      Day 14

      10:21

    • 19.

      Day 15 Part One

      13:34

    • 20.

      Day 15 Part Two

      8:12

    • 21.

      Final Thoughts

      1:11

    • 22.

      Bonus Video Mother's Day Bouquet

      14:12

    • 23.

      Bonus Video Blue Floral Wreath

      13:45

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Let's explore 15 different loose watercolor floral paintings using color prompts! 

When I was a watercolor newbie, I had encountered several challenges painting loose florals such as painting blobs of paint instead of florals. I was able to overcome this hurdle through daily practice. Here is an example of my past and present work to inspire you. If I can do it, then so can you! Let's check out the topics in this class below.

In this class, we will learn about the following:

  • Materials (Importance of paper)
  • Watercolor Tips
    • Wet on Wet Technique
    • Controlling Water in Your Brush
    • Fading Technique
    • Brush Stroke Drills
    • Floral Warm Up Exercises 
  • 15 Different Floral Projects

The goal of this class is to help you develop a habit of painting daily to improve the muscle memory in your hand. You will also learn to explore different colors that you don't use that much. This will help spark your creativity in painting something new. In each project, you will learn new techniques and floral compositions. 

At the end of the class, you will gain more confidence on painting that first stroke on a blank page. 

Check out all the projects in this photo collage. 

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ABOUT YOUR TEACHER

My name is Joly Poa. I'm a watercolor artist and online art educator based in the Philippines. I have been painting since 2013. I specialize in painting loose watercolor florals. What I love about using watercolor is how I can express my style through dancing with my brush. One of my passions in life is teaching and sharing what I have learned. I hope to inspire more people in their watercolor journey.

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My name is Joly and I am a watercolorist based in the Philippines. I discovered painting with watercolor back in 2013. I started out as newbie and learned to paint better through making mistakes and learning from other amazing artists. I just love how we can express ourselves through painting, creating wonderful watercolor florals using our artistic interpretation. It makes each painting really unique!

My instagram account (@jolypoa) serves as my art journal where I post my progress in the form of timelapse videos, real-time videos and photos of my paintings. My goal was also to be able to share what I have learned in watercolor. I hope to be able to do the same here on Skillshare! :)




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1. Introduction: [MUSIC]. If there's someone who would like to practice watercolor painting, but you don't know where to start and have little time to do so every day, then this class is for you. Hi, my name is Joly, and I'm a watercolor artist, and online art educator based in the Philippines. I have been painting since 2013, and I specialize in painting watercolor florals in a loose style. I have comprehensive classes on Skillshare that focus on loose watercolor florals. I love teaching and being able to break down watercolor painting into simple steps for beginners. Here are some examples of my past and present work. When I was a watercolor newbie, I had encountered several challenges such as painting blobs of paint instead of flowers. I was able to overcome this hurdle through daily practice. If I can do it then so can you. Sometimes things may seem vaunting, but developing a habit of painting something small daily goes a really long way. As I'm a working mom of a one-year old, I only have small pockets of time within the day for myself. I would use that time to paint on my sketch book for about 10-15 minutes everyday. In this class I would take you through 15 different projects, but don't worry the plan is to do just one project per day. Each day we will feature a distinct color prompt. We will also learn different watercolor techniques, such as fading to create soft strokes. We'll explore painting florals using the wet on wet technique. In each project you will learn different floral compositions. Goal of this exercise is to help you practice painting daily and explore florals in different colors. You might just discover a color combination that you had not previously planned to use, but apparently enjoy it. As you progress through the different modules in this class, you will see an improvement in your painting skills and gain confidence on making that first stroke on a blank page. This class is very close to my heart as it has been inspired by my personal mini-projects from my sketch books. Let's fill your sketch books with beautiful floral paintings in 15 days. We'll truly have an amazing time, so let's get started. See you. 2. Class Projects Overview: [MUSIC] This class is a daily challenge type, which means that I will be uploading one project per day when the class goes live. If you're joining after the 15th day ends, don't worry because you can still watch all the projects. We can do the challenge at your own pace. The prompts that we will use for this class are colors. We'll do some colors for two days and some for only a day. Now, let's check out all the paintings. I am so excited to show you all of them. For Day 1, we are going to do something green. In this project, we're going to paint something simple just to warm up. This is just a stock with some small green flowers and some fillers. We can finish this in less than 10 minutes. Let's move on to Day 2. The theme is red, yellow, and orange. We're going to paint some dancing puppies. For Day 3, we are going to paint a blue theme flower bouquet. This is a nice combination of soft flowers with some really dark leaves. For our Day 4, we are going to do something yellow. To make it look more interesting, I added a lemon in this floral bouquet, and I also added some soft blue fillers. Day 5 is going to be pink. It's my favorite color, and I think that this is also one of my favorite projects in this class. For Day 6, we're going to go back to green. This time, we're painting bigger flowers, and I also added a little bit of blue and greenish yellow. On Day 7, we are going to paint something purple. This is a beautiful and delicate floral composition, and we have the addition of muted yellow and some lavender. Let's move on to Day 8, where we will use the colors, soft blue and yellow. In this project, we're also going to paint some hydrangeas mixed with some roses, and we're also going to add some white details. On Day 9, we are going to paint using red. I've complimented that with some white flowers using the color, sepia. I also use that color for the leaves. On Day 10, we are going to paint a white flower. This version has a tinge of yellow and sepia color. Now, let's move on to Day 11, and we're going to go back to blue. In this project, we're going to use a wet-on-wet technique to create that beautiful texture on the blue petals. In this particular project, you can opt to paint only the blue flower in the center, but I will be including how to paint the flowers beside it. This is just to give you more options on your floral composition. On Day 12, we are going to paint this peach theme floral bouquet. I really love how soft this looks, and I will be showing you how to achieve this look. Now, let's move on to Day 13. We are going to go back to the color pink. We're going to paint some soft pink roses, but at the same time, we're going to add a pop of color. You can see some really pigmented paint florals as well. The color prompt on Day 14 is orange. We are going to paint a more expressive style of rose. In this project, we do have a background that looks very soft, and we are going to use the wet-on-wet technique. It does seem intimidating, but I assure you that this is a very doable project. We are down to the last project. This is a beautiful violet bouquet. Don't be intimidated by all the details on this bouquet. It does take a little bit longer to paint this. It's more than 15 minutes, but I'm going to guide you along. Also, I think that it's a nice way to wrap up this class with a more challenging project. I do suggest that you try all the projects because you will definitely learn something new in each one of them. Let's now head on to the next video where we will discuss the materials that we need. [MUSIC] 3. Materials: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the materials that we need for this class. I'm going to start with the paper. Throughout the class I will be using this brand called Baohong. These are two types of Baohong paper. One is a student grade and one is artist grade. This one that I'm holding is artist grade paper. This is 100 percent cotton paper. I'm just showing you here the texture of the paper. This is called pressed paper. It comes in a block form so you can see that the sides are glued except for this part where you can just slide a cutter or a palette knife to take out one sheet. Now let me show you the other paper. This is called the Baohong academy. This is student grade paper. I have to say that this is one of the best student grade papers that I have tried and it's also quite affordable. It also comes in a block form. The texture is also good and quite close to an artist grade paper. The size of the paper that we will be using is seven by ten inches for the projects. Just to show you the difference between these two papers, I'm going to show you two similar paintings. The one on the left is a Baohong artist grade paper. Then on the right is the Baohong Academy. You can see that the roses on the left side looks softer compared to the right side and I feel like it just blends more beautifully on the artist grade paper. But I still think that the student grade paper or the Baohong Academy is still really good enough to paint on. If you're on a budget, I do suggest getting the Baohong Academy, but later on I do recommend that you try an artist grade paper so that you can see the difference. As mentioned, most of the projects in this class came from my personal sketch books. I'm going to show you some sketchbooks that you can try out and hopefully you can fill it in with the projects from this class. Let's talk about Khadi journal. This is one of my favorite journals and you can see that the edges are decal. It is quite affordable or roughly around $6 for this book and then you can see right here the texture. It does give off that vintage rustic vibe when you paint on this paper because of the texture, so it's almost similar to a cold press paper. However, it takes practice to get used to this journal. You do need to use more water if you're going to paint on this paper. This is a good journal for some daily doodles, some daily practice without feeling the pressure or the guilt of using expensive paper. I highly recommend this if you are on a budget. Let us now move on to another sketchbook. This is called the Etchr Lab sketchbook. This sketchbook is more expensive compared Khadi journal. This is made from 100 percent cotton paper. It's artist grade paper. The thickness is 200 gsm. It's not really as thick compared to other papers, but I do find that it's sufficient for my daily paintings. They do have portrait style like what I'm holding and also a landscape sketch book. This size is A5, which is really perfect for some daily paintings. It's not too big, not too small. Now we are done with papers and next we're going to talk about brushes. I am going to use the sizes six and eight. The brand is called silver brush and it's from their black velvet series. This is a mixture of synthetic and squirrel hair. When painting loose florals, you want a brush that holds a lot of water, but it can still keep its point. You can see right here, that the belly is quite big, but you can see that it's also pointy and that's nice for painting some smaller details without trying to switch from one brush to another. If you can only get one brush, I would suggest using the size eight brush. This is a good all around brush. The size is also perfect for some medium-sized paintings. For the paint, I'm going to use Shinhan PWC. This is a Korean artist grade paint. This brand only comes in tubes, so I have to squeeze it out on a half pan because it's just more convenient for me to grab the paint on a half pan. Don't worry, the quality doesn't change if you put your paints in half pans like this. Other good brands that I can recommend would be Sennelier or Schmincke and also Winsor & Newton. For the list of colors that we will use in this class, I will include it in the project gallery section. Go ahead and check that out. This is also a good brand. This is called the Art Philosophy. I love using this set called Odyssey. It has really bold colors and I feel like they are unique colors and also good for florals. I like to set because the colors are already mixed for me and I use it a lot for my daily paintings. They also have several sets that you can choose from. Now let's move on to the mixing palette. This is a mixing palette that I always use, and it's only the lid of my watercolor palette called QoR. QoR is a different watercolor brand but I love their metal tin, so that's why I'm using it a lot. If you don't have a metal tin, you can also use an ordinary ceramic plate. I also have this resin palette that I ordered locally. This is also really pretty if you want to use it for flat lays. Now let's move on to the next one. It's a water jar. Use any water jar that you have, you can use glass jar. This one is a ceramic jar with a provision for putting the brush on top of it. Then next we need tissue paper to blot out the excess paint in our brush. Next, we need a mechanical pencil. This is just an ordinary pencil. We don't need to use anything special, just anything that you are comfortable using. Lastly, we need a white pen. This is the Posca Acrylic pen. I'm going to put the size here. I recently discovered this and I really love how opaque it is when you use it to add some white details on your painting. They also have bigger tips so you can check that out. If you don't have this, I can also use a gel pen. This is the Uni-ball Signo white pen. If you don't have the two of these, you can use white gouache instead or white poster paint. That's everything that we need. Let's move on to the next video where we will learn some watercolor tips. [MUSIC] 4. Watercolor Tips: [MUSIC] In this video, I will share some watercolor tips. We're going to focus mostly on wet-on-wet technique, which I think might be more challenging for beginners. I'm also going to just quickly show you the fading technique and some warm-up exercise for florals. If you would like to learn more in depth brushstroke skills, then I suggest checking out my other class, you can find a comprehensive guide on painting petals. Now let's start. Let's talk about controlling brush load on wet-on-wet technique. Later on we're going to do a project using this technique that's why I wanted to show it to you guys first. What we're going to do is, we're going to paint a petal using just clean water. I'm just going to grab some water, I'm using my size 8 round brush, and I'm also painting on 100 percent cotton paper. Let me just tilt my paper so you can see the sheen on the paper. You can paint even other shapes doesn't have to be a petal shape, just try to make it as even as possible. Now let's grab some color, this is Prussian blue and I'm going to add a lot of water in this mixture. I'm also going to soak my brush in that mixture. You can see that the belly is really wet, and when you drop it on the wet paper, it really spreads right away because you have a lot of mixture in your brush. Now we already know what it looks like if we load our brush with too much water. Let's try a more controlled mixture. Right here, I just painted another petal shape using clean water. After that, let's grab some more Prussian blue and this time the mixture will be more pigmented. There's less water and more paint. I'm also going to dab my brush on the tissue paper to absorb the excess moisture. Now let's paint on the wet paper and you can see the difference immediately. You do have more control on the wet paper. It doesn't spread as much compared to our first example. You can play around with a ratio of paint and water. If you want something more pigmented, just add some more paint in your brush. Also take note that we are using 100 percent cotton paper, it does look a little bit different if you're going to use student grade paper. Now let's just try it one more time. I'm using a flat brush and let's just paint a rectangle shape with just clean water. Let's try to paint some leaves right here. I just grabbed some sap green, I'm going to add more water and I'm going to do that on purpose so you can see what that looks like. The effect is that it looks too faded and it spreads too much. You can try it one more time and this time I'm going to add more paint and less water. I'm also going to dab my brush on the tissue paper to absorb the excess moisture. Now let's try it on the wet paper. You can immediately see that we can form a better shape just by adjusting the water and paint ratio and also by dabbing our brush in the tissue paper. You can try to play around and do this exercise so that you can better understand your brush and also your paper. This is a nice technique if you want to add some soft leaves in the background of your painting. This is a mixture of sap green and sepia. You can add a darker color. Something that I love about doing wet-on-wet technique is that the result is always unique. I'm going to show you an example of a painting that we will be doing later on. You will see these nice soft leaves. This was painted on a wet paper. If you want something more structured, I would suggest switching to a brush that is more dense or more stiff. Now let's move on to a different technique called the fading technique. Now, I have discussed this in previous classes, but we're going to do a refresher course here. What we need is a really thick mixture, we want a really pigmented color. I'm using permanent rose. Let's just paint a letter C stroke, then now I'm going to rinse my brush and just tap the excess water. We're going to lightly touch the edges and you can see that by doing this technique, we have faded the right side of the stroke, but the left side remains very sharp. Now let's do that one more time. Let's rinse our brush, dab the excess water, and just touch one side. We can see that the paint just goes into where the wet stroke is. Now let's try to paint a rose. I'm going to do a C stroke in the center and add some thin C curves all around it. Now let's grab a clean brush. This is just water and you're just going to fade the outer strokes, and by doing this, you can create some soft petals. Using this clean brush, we can just spread out the color and just create bigger size petals. Of course, don't forget the white spaces in between your strokes. There you go. We have our simple loose rose. Now let's move on to another brushstroke gel. Now, this is a stroke that we often use for roses. I have some paint in my brush and I'm just going to start at the tip of the brush and just slowly press it. But as I end this stroke, I'm going to just quickly drag the brush and lift it. You can do it from the bottom up, you can add more pressure to your stroke so that you can get a bigger petal. This is a good way to warm up before we start. To paint some looser strokes just hold your brush towards the end of the handle, just like what I'm doing here. Now try to paint some C strokes and you will immediately feel that the strokes are more expressive, I usually do it very quick so that I can get a nice organic stroke. Now let's just try to practice and paint a five petaled flower. If you have taken my previous classes, you already know how to do this, but if it's your first time, please continue watching. The trick to painting of nice five petaled flower is to vary your strokes, vary the pressure that you put on each stroke, and then combine all of them so that you can get something more organic. While the petals are still wet you can grab some more paint and just add some color on the petals. Now let's grab something dark for the center, this is just indigo and I'm adding it well. The base is still wet, you can see that the color is bleeding into the pink petals. Now let's do one last warm-up exercise. I'm using a size 8 round brush. Try to explore the different parts of the brush. You can paint using just the side of the brush. Just observe how I painted this petal. I'm just moving my brush back and forth, but I'm using the side of the brush. This is how you will be able to explore different shapes of the petals. Now let's grab yellow ocher for the center of this flower. That was a really quick flower, I'm sure that you can also do this as a warm-up exercise. Let's grab a more pigmented pink color so we can add some shadows on this flower. You can add it where the folds meet, usually that's a darker area. Of course, we should add a stem to this flower. We are done with our warm-up exercise, I think you are more than ready, I hope that you're excited to start our first day. Let us now move on to the next video where we will paint the first color prompt, which is green. 5. Day 1: [MUSIC] Welcome to day 1, and the color prompt today is green. Ask yourself, what does this remind you of when you think of green in terms of florals? It reminds me of foliage, leaves, just something fresh and minimalist. Now, let's start our project. This is going to be the easiest among all the projects that we have. This is like a warm-up exercise. We want to loosen that hand and just be able to paint more freely. For this project, we're going to paint this stalk with some small, four-petaled flowers and some fillers. I'm using the bow Academy, which is a student-grade paper. Now, let's grab some color. I have here some sap green. Just draw a thin line diagonally, and then let's grab some colors. This is sap green, and we have indigo and greenish-yellow. Now, let's start at the top. This is going to be our filler. It looks like a ball with some smaller petals. You just need to tap your brush to create those nice, small strokes that look like petals. Then you can also switch to a different color. You can start with a greenish-yellow, and just like what I did here, I grab a little bit of indigo and just added that color. Try to alternate the colors that you are using, so that it will give it more depth. Then also, while you're adding those tiny strokes, leave some spaces in between. Now, let's add one more over here. I'm using sap green with a little bit of greenish-yellow. Then while this is still wet, you can grab some indigo and drop that in so that the colors will just blend with each other. It will look really good once it dries up. The key to making some loose strokes is to hold your brush towards the end of the handle, just like what I'm doing here. It's now time to add some small flowers. For that, we are going to use cerulean blue. Make sure to dilute it with a lot of water. You can also add a little bit of sap green, so that they can get that bluish-green color. We can also use greenish-yellow for these tiny flowers. I'm just going to grab some greenish yellow and paint on top of that. Don't worry, it's not really going to be strict, it doesn't have to be really four petals. Sometimes, you can just paint three, you can paint five, that's okay. Then right here, I just grab a little bit of diluted indigo. I use this color if I want to paint a flower that is white. That's my tip for you, guys. While these flowers are still wet, just grab a thick mixture of sap green and add it in the center of the flowers. You have to make sure that the mixture is quite dry, so that it doesn't spread too much on the wet petals. Now, let's just keep on adding these tiny flowers. After which, we are going to add a stem to attach to the main branch. You can see that I actually left white spaces in between each flower. Don't worry about that. We are going to use that space for adding some fillers. We can grab some greenish yellow and add some balls of filler. It's the same filler that we use during the start of this painting. Just to give more contrast to this painting, add some indigo in some of the fillers. With a clean brush, you can also drag some of the colors, just like what I'm doing here. That will fade some of it away and make it look quite loose and soft. It's now time to add some leaves. Right here, I'm just mixing sap green and indigo until we get a nice, dark-green color. I'm going to add two leaves here. Just start at the tip, and then press your brush, drag it downwards, and then lift when you end the stroke. Now, let's do it again. Just start lightly, just the tip of your brush, and then slowly press. Just drag, and then lift again. You can always go back in to fix the shape of the leaves. Don't worry about that. Then with the sap green color, I'm just going to add some smaller leaves all over this stalk. Just trust your intuition when it comes to adding the leaves and the fillers. But if you're having a hard time, just look for some white spaces, and then that's where you add the leaves or the fillers. Looking at this from afar, we need to add some more flowers at the bottom. This is just diluted indigo. Then we can also add some more on the sides. While the flowers are still wet, I'm just going to add a dark center to give it more contrast. You can use sap green or indigo. Now, let's grab some greenish-yellow and add some more fillers. Just tap your brush to create these tiny strokes. If the main stalk is too thin, you can go back in and paint on top of it to make it a bit thicker. We're now just adding some finishing touches. You can see that I'm adding little bit of greenish-yellow fillers. I'm doing that to make it look more balanced because we want the color spread out all throughout this stalk. Now, we are done. Congratulations for finishing your first project. Don't forget to upload your project in the Project Gallery section of the class. [MUSIC] Let's move on to the next video where we will paint this red, yellow, and orange florals. 6. Day 2: [MUSIC] For Day 2, we're going to use red, orange, and yellow. Let's start. The prompt today reminds me of puppies, so I got this reference photo on Pinterest. We're going to do some puppies that look like they are dancing. We want just something simple and just capture the essence of the flower. The first color we're going to use permanent red, and then we can try to dip the tip of the brush onto another color, and I chose yellow-orange, it will just give a nice gradient effect to your strokes. You can use this side of the brush to create a broader stroke, just like what I'm doing here. Then some strokes can be just thin lines, which you'll see here. I'm just going to flip my brush. Now let's rinse our brush. I'm just going to put a side petal, it looks like an oval shape. Let's close it up. Let's paint one more petal on the right. You can also use a color vermilion if you don't want to use red. Now while this flower is still wet, I'm just going to grab a little bit of yellow-orange and just add it to some petals. We're adding these details so that the flower doesn't look too flat. Now let's add the center, I'm just going to grab some indigo and I want it to be quite concentrated, and also, I switch to a smaller brush; this is a size 6 so that I can be more precise. Now let's add a nice curvy stem. This is a sap green color. Let's move on to another flower. I'm going to dip my brush in the yellow-orange color and just dip the tip in another color called vermilion, and that's how we do the gradient effect, just like what you see here. You're going to paint a flower that is on its side, and so we're just going to paint some petals clustered here. While the petals are still wet, you can grab a darker color. This is vermilion or you can use red and just paint it between the petals just to separate the petals. It almost looks like you're adding shadows this way and it also looks very soft. Now let's grab some green color. This is sap green and just add another stem. Let's do one more flower that is on its side. I'm going to use the color vermilion, try to vary the pressure that you put on each brushstroke. You can see that I am trying to paint some bigger petals and some are only thin lines. You can also rinse your brush so that you can get a lighter color. You can grab permanent red and just drop it in between the petals just to separate them from each other. Just a tip, when you're painting a flower that is on its side, all the petals will point towards the base of the flower, and this will give you direction as to how you should paint the petals. You can also try to lift some colors using a clean brush, or you can try to extend some areas so that it will have a better shape. Do the adjustments while the flower is still wet so that you can get some nice soft edges. Let's just add a stem to this flower. We want the stem to be behind this red flower. Just to give it more contrast, I'm adding a very pigmented red color in-between the petals to give the illusion that the petals are separate from each other. Let's move on to another flower, I'm going to use yellow-orange. Now we're going to just paint the petals, just press your brush, and lift towards the end so that you get a pointy tip. Now let's rinse our brush and just grab a yellow color, this is permanent yellow light. Dip the tip in yellow-orange color, this is just to give a little bit of a gradient effect. So what we're doing is we're painting petals in a rainbow shape first, and then we're going to close it up right here at the bottom with an oval shape petal so that it will look like it's on its side. To give it more contrast, we're going to add vermilion or red-orange, you can also use just red and add it in-between the petals, just to give it a shadowy effect. It's not time to add the center, so I'm just going to use indigo. You can see that we are dabbing our brush on a tissue paper to absorb the excess moisture. We want this part to be really concentrated and we don't want it to be too wet. If your brush is too wet and the indigo color will just spread all over the place. I'm just grab some sap green, I'm going to add a tiny oval shape in the center. You can paint some tiny strokes around this sap green so that you can connect it to the main flower. Let's add a dancing stem by painting an S-curve. At this point, we can add some stems from the bottom up so that we have a guide on where the next flower will be. Now let's pick up a yellow color this time, just move your brush back and forth, it will feel like you're dancing with your brush. This is a good warm-up exercise to loosen your wrist so that you can move more freely. Now let's attach this flower to the stem, I'm going to grab some sap green, and just let it bleed into the yellow flower. Let's paint the last flower, this is just permanent yellow light, we're going to do three petals. So if you notice, we actually tried to vary the shapes of the flowers here. The flowers are facing in different angles, some of them are smaller, some are bigger, and we're also trying to vary the height of each flower, so they're not all on the same level. By doing this, it will make your bouquet look more pleasing in the eyes. Right now we're just adding some leaves in-between the flowers, so you can see that I've just rinsed my brush to create a lighter green color. Now I'm just grabbing this indigo and sap green mixture, so you can see that some leaves are darker, some are lighter. Also try to paint the leaves as if they're also dancing. So you can see that the leaves are facing in different directions, some are almost like an S shape. You can also add some stamps sticking out so that you can fill in those odd gaps. Try to look at your painting from afar. You also don't want to overdo this simple painting, so just remember that you want this bouquet to breathe, so you don't want to add too many leaves, and the tip that I always give is to take a photo of your painting and then look at it on your phone so that you can get a different perspective. Using a permanent red color, we're also going to add some small buds this is a good way to add colors to different areas of your painting. You can also use yellow-orange or permanent yellow light. This painting is already dry, right now I'm going to grab some indigo, let's bring back that dark center. Sometimes when the colors dry, it becomes too light, and you can just go back in and add some more color. So that's it for our Day 2, this was a very easy project, I hope that you enjoy doing this. Feel free to use other colors if [MUSIC] you're more comfortable with that. Don't forget to upload this in the project gallery section of the class. Let's now move on to the next video, where we will paint a blue theme floral painting on Day 3. 7. Day 3: The color prompt for Day 3 is blue. This project was inspired by one of my paintings in my sketchbook and I will be showing it to you in a while. These are just simple five-petaled flowers, but what makes it really look good are the dark leaves. The dark leaves really brings out the softness of the flowers. For the composition, we are going to paint four main flowers. You'll notice that I did not paint the flowers right beside each other, it's always the diagonal from each other so that it looks more interesting and more balanced. Now let's start painting. The first color that we need is indigo, and this is a nice dark blue color. We need to dilute this color, just add a lot of water. What you can do is you can also add a little bit of cerulean blue if you want it to be a little bit lighter. Now let's paint the flowers. We're going to do a five-petaled flower. We're not really that strict, you can do just three petals, you can do six, that's okay. You can see that I'm loading my brush with a lot of that paint because it's easier to paint some loose strokes when the brush is wet. We can go back in and fix the shape of the flower, extend some petals. Using a smaller brush let's grab the color raw umber and just put it in the middle. The base flower is still wet and you can see that that yellow color is bleeding into the blue petals. To add that final touch, let's grab some indigo. We want a really thick mixture for the center of this flower. Moving on to the second flower, let's paint the petals. You can see the pattern here that my first stroke is usually quite big and I'm really pressing my brush on the paper to create a broad stroke so we want a big petal and then I'm just going to paint some thin lines beside it. You can always go back into add some lines to fix the shape of the petal, it doesn't have to be always just one stroke. This looks good. Let's now add the raw umber in the center. Just let that color bleed into the blue petals and then let's add the indigo color in the middle. The mixture is too watery and you can see that the indigo really spread too much on the petals and we'll try to go back to that flower later on to fix that. Now let's move on to another flower and this one is a little bit smaller. You can also use just the tip of your brush to create some more wispy strokes and all the petals are pointing towards the center. Now let's grab the raw umber and add it. Just tap your brush and just let it bleed into the blue petals. Now let's add a thick mixture of indigo. Let's go back to their previous flower. With a clean brush, I'm just going to try and lift some of the colors over here. Let us go back in with a more pigmented indigo color. Now let's lift this color as well. It's bleeding too much into the petals, so we want to control that. This is the way to troubleshoot some mistakes on the flowers. I hope that this was useful for you, just as a guide. You can also put a small dot in the center of the flower just so that you know where to position the flower in the painting. I'm going to go back in with that very diluted indigo color and let's just paint some loose petals. I find that loose flowers in this style look better if the tips of the petals are pointy. You can also add some spaces in-between your strokes to separate the petals. But if you forgot to do that, don't worry, we can go back in and add a second layer to fix that. I will show it to you later. Now let's add the dark center and the mixture is just perfect, it's not spreading too much. We are done with the main flowers. Now let's move on to adding the stems and leaves. I got here indigo and permanent violet. I'm just going to mix these two colors and they really want a dark mixture. Let's set that aside. I'm going to grab some indigo and I will use that for the stem first. I will start from the bottom. Just use the tip of your brush to create these nice crooked strokes. You can paint little by little like what I'm doing here. It's almost like you're stopping every inch of stroke. This technique will give it a more organic fill instead of just one straight stem. Now let's move on to the leaves. You can use only indigo or the indigo and permanent violet mixture. If you want a loose style of leaves, you can pull the brush towards the end of the handle. You can see that I'm doing the demo over here. Just paint some nice quick strokes. You can get that nice expressive stems and also leaves. Another combination that you can do, a sepia and indigo. Sepia is a nice dark brown color and you can add that dark blue color from indigo. You can achieve that really dark leaf. Try to add leaves near the light-colored flowers to make it pop up even more. In order to create this really dark mixture of leaves, just add more paint and reduce the amount of water. You can also use black color and just add it to any blue color in your palette. Just to add some dimension you can also add some light-colored leaves. We can just try to rinse your brush and use the remaining color in your brush to paint these light-colored leaves. Now, this part looks a little empty, so we're going to extend it by adding a stem and some leaves. When you're adding the leaves, make sure that it's pointing in different directions and that the leaves are a little bit curved so that it looks more organic. You can also try to alternate the colors that you're using, so some can be just indigo, some can be a mixture of indigo and violet, or some can be a mixture of indigo and sepia. [MUSIC] We're going to continue adding some light-colored leaves. They actually will look like shadows, so I call them the shadow leaves, but that's just my personal term that I use. It's a nice way to add dimension to your painting. I move on to adding a second layer to our flowers. The flowers are already dry, so we can add some paint on top of it. This is just indigo and we added a lot of water so that it's translucent. Use the tip of the brush and just drag it to create the thin strokes. Just to give some variety in your strokes, you can also use the side of the brush. You can see here that it's a combination of thin and thick strokes. Let's move on to the second flower. Adding a second layer to the flowers will help you cover the mistakes on the first layer. You're adding the strokes on the second layer, just make sure that you can still see the color underneath. Now we don't see any yellow color anymore on these flowers, so I'm going to go back in and add some raw umber. This is the last flower. When you're painting the second layer, you can also go over the petal strokes from underneath. It looks like they are overlapping and that will also look good. Let's add some finishing touches. Let's grab some indigo, so you want a really dark mixture. I'm going to go back in and add some color back into the flowers. With watercolors, they do dry up pretty light, but don't worry, you can always go back in and fix that. Just check your painting. Some flowers may have lost that yellow detail in the center. Just go back in and paint them. We're almost done. I'm just going to show you one more technique. Just grab a clean brush and extend those strokes from the center going outward and you will see that the wet indigo that we added is flowing into the strokes that you just made. You'll immediately see that there's a loose effect going on here. What we're doing is we're just grabbing the color from the center and just letting it flow into the veins that we did. If some areas are too dark, just go back in and lift that color. Lifting means you're absorbing the color on the paper using a brush. Right now we are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. I hope that you enjoyed creating [MUSIC] this blue floral painting and I hope to see your projects soon. Now let's move on to the next video where we will paint a yellow painting on Day 4. [MUSIC] 8. Day 4: [MUSIC] Welcome to day 4. Today we are going to use color yellow for our painting. Today's project is something bright, happy, and fresh because that's the first impression of this color for me. Feel free to use this color in your own style, as with all the projects in this class. Now let's start. There are four main flowers in this painting, but they also add one lemon, just to make it look more interesting. The first color that we will use is permanent yellow deep. We're going to paint a rose. I'm using my size six round brush, and let's just paint a small comma that's the center of the rose. Then let's paint some thin strokes all around it. Then let's rinse our brush, and just paint some bigger C-shaped petals. For the outermost petals, we're going to use a very diluted sepia color. I'm adding this color because it will give that shadowy effect on the rose. Just make sure that you add a lot of water to this color so that you can get a nice, subtle brown color. The you can also go back in to add just a pop of color in some areas. Now let's go to the second rose. I'm using permanent yellow light. We are going to start with the center stroke. This is a comma stroke and just paint some thin lines around it. It's important to leave white spaces in-between the strokes so that it will not look like a blob of paint. Now let's rinse our brush and just paint some bigger petals. We're just using the color residue on the brush, so I did not add any more color in my brush. Let's rinse our brush again and grab that sepia color. You can see that we have a nice brown petal on the outer part of this rose. You want the subtle color because if it's too brown, then it will look like the rose has wielded. Just be careful about that. Now let's move on to the third flower. This time, we're going to paint a five-petaled flower, and I'm using the color greenish yellow. This is going to be a top facing flower. Add movement to your strokes by trying to sway your wrist. For the center, let's use sap green and just tap your brush on the wet petal. Now let's give this a punch of color. I want to add indigo in the center of the flower. Just make sure that the color is really concentrated, it is not too watery. Now let's proceed to painting this lemon, and I'm just going to paint the shape with some water. We're going to do with a wet-on-wet technique so that we can easily blend the colors. Let's drop in the permanent yellow light. Continue moving your brush until you get the right shape of the lemon. To add more dimension, we're going to use permanent yellow deep and add it on the sides of this lemon. You'll notice that we are also using a more pigmented color for the outline of this lemon. It's also easy to blend colors because we're using the wet-on-wet technique. Right here, I just added a little bit of sap green. Just go ahead and try to blend all the colors. Now let's move on to the fourth flower. We're going to paint a rose, and I'm using the color permanent yellow light. When you're okay with the center, just rinse your brush, and just tap the excess water, and fade away the outer strokes to create some soft petals. Then let's add some sepia for the outermost petals so that we can have that shadowy effect. You can also use diluted indigo or diluted violet. Just to complement the yellow color on this painting, we're going to add some fillers using the color cerulean blue. I added a lot of water to dilute this color because I don't want a strong blue color in this painting. We just want something subtle that will make the yellow flowers pop up even more. Right here, we're just painting some small five petaled flowers, then let's just grab some sap green. I do want the sap green to be quite dry and pigmented because we don't want it to spread too much on the wet flowers. Then let's add some small leaves near the fillers. To add some contrast, grab some indigo or any dark color that you have, and add it on the wet stems that we just painted. It is looking really good. Now let's add some more leaves. I'm using sap green. We're going to add the leaves in-between the main flowers. You can also add some stems sticking out. It usually looks a lot better when you add different shades of green to the leaves. You can add some indigo through your sap green, or you can also add some greenish yellow, like what I just added here. You can try to experiment while the leaves are still wet, you can try to drop in another color, and let them bleed into each other. I just made a mistake right here. I'm just going to try and blot it out using tissue paper. Now, it's gone. Now let's continue adding some more leaves. I'm using the sap green and also a mixture of sap green and indigo. You can just add some more stem sticking out. Now let's add the leaf over here to make this yellow flower pop up. When you're doing this, make sure to leave just a small space in-between the flower and the leaf that you are painting. To create an earthy green color, just add sepia to your sap, green or any green color that you have in your palette. It uses color to paint some elongated leaves and just try to sway your brush so you can get that nice expressive leaves. For this area in the lower right, we're going to dab our brush using cerulean blue. This will be some fillers. Then let's attach all the filters using a green stem. Now let's add some small flowers using the color permanent yellow deep. But if you don't have this color, just use yellow, orange. Lightly dab your brush on the paper so that you can get those nice petal-like strokes. Just have fun adding these small flowers. It's a good way to add some contrast as well. You can see that the flowers that we painted are soft and the fillers that I'm painting now are bolder in color. It looks just more pigmented. Let's add more variety. Now, I'm using greenish yellow. We're just going to add some simple three-petal flowers. You'll notice that we have some white spaces in-between the main flowers. Let's fix that by adding some green strokes in between the main flowers. These will look like stems or leaves behind the main flowers. Also don't be afraid to paint the leaves themselves near the main flowers, just like what I'm adding here. Doing this will make the painting or the bouquet look more natural. Now it's time to add the second layer. I'm using permanent yellow light with a little bit of burnt umber so that we can have a darker color. I'm just going to paint on top of the first layer. I'm almost just following the layer underneath. Just make sure that you paint lightly. Now let's rinse our brush and just fade away some of the strokes so that it will look softer. Moving on to the second flower, we're going to do the same and add a second layer. Now let's just rinse our brush and fade away the outer strokes. Just go all around the center. You can also get some more color if you want more contrast. Just add a more pigmented stroke onto the last rose. It's nice to really add the second layer because you can also cover up some mistakes. Also, if you forgot to leave some white spaces in between your strokes, this is the way to fix that. I just rinse my brush and now I'm just fading the outer strokes. Then you can grab some more color and add some C-strokes towards the bottom part of this rose. What we're doing is we're creating an illusion that there are more petals right here. Now let's go back into the five-petaled flower. I'm going to grab some indigo and just add some color in the center to make it look darker. Continue adding some leaves and just follow your intuition as to where to put it. Let's add something fun. We're going to do some splatters. This is just cerulean blue with a little bit of sap green. Just lightly tap your brush so that you can get some splatters. Also, don't forget to cover up the main flowers. You can use tissue paper just like what they did here. Now let's add some more on the upper right. Then right here I'm going to go back to the bottom part and add some small flowers. Draw it just using cerulean blue and sap green, and you can see that I added a lot of water to that mixture because I want it to be really light. To add more depth to this five-petaled flower, we're going to use some more sap green and just paint a second layer. We are done. I hope that this color will brighten up your day [MUSIC] Now, let's move on to the next video where we will paint something pink for day 5. [MUSIC] 9. Day 5: [MUSIC] I am excited for day five because we are going to use my favorite color, which is pink. We are going to paint this beautiful rose in a very loose style. I'm excited for you to learn something new today. Just a quick overview, we are going to paint the cup shape first. Then we're going to try to close it up at the top and add some petals below the cup. Then we'll proceed to painting the stem and the leaves. I'm using the bow whole artist-grade paper for this project. Now let's grab some brilliant pink and permanent rose. Brilliant pink is a nice pastel pink color. I like that it just looks so soft and beautiful for loose florals. You're going to mix these two colors. If you don't have the brilliant pink color, you can use permanent rose and dilute it with a lot of water. Hey, let's proceed to painting some petals that will form the cup shape of this flower. You want this first few strokes to be lighter in color. We're going to build this little by little. You can see that I'm adding just some short strokes. Now let's close off the top. I'm just going to paint some smaller C-shaped strokes. Everything just needs to be pointy so that it looks great. Now let's grab some pigmented permanent rose, and let's just drop that in the center and add just a few more short strokes. It looks like a C-shaped stroke. These will look like the folds in the center of a rose. Now let's grab a clean brush. This one just has water in it. We are going to fade away the strokes. We want it to look quite soft, but at the same time, one side is still sharp. It's looking really good. Now let's grab some more brilliant pink color and just going to extend the cup and add a few more petals. I'm using most the tip of the brush to create these nice wispy strokes. Now let's add some petals below the cup area. I'm going to grab some brilliant pink and just slowly press my brush and it's going to point towards this area. This will give you direction as how you should paint the petals. I also suggest leaving some bigger white spaces, just like what I did here because you can always go back in and just add a few more strokes to fill that gap. It's now time to add a little bit more contrast. I'm going to grab some crimson lake. We are just going to paint this on top of this first layer that's still a little bit damp. You can see that some of the strokes are feathering. It looks like it's bleeding. Through adding the darker areas where the petals are folding so this will look like a shadow. Now let's rinse our brush. We are going to paint the bottom petals. I'm just going to grab that color over there and just spread it. Just to give a subtle color on the outer bottom petals, we're going to grab some permanent violet, just going to add it towards the tips of the petal. We can also use indigo, so just make sure that you are going to dilute this in a lot of water. This looks too strong. I'm just going to rinse my brush and just leave that color. This flower is still wet so we can try and move some colors. I'm also going to be adding a little bit of indigo to some of the petals so you can see that it's a really translucent color. Just be careful when you're adding indigo. You don't want this to turn into a blue or violet flower. You just want the subtle color. Again, you can go back in and fix the shape of the flower. You can use just a tip of your brush to create some thin strokes. It is looking really good. Now let's add a stem. I have here, indigo and sap green. You can combine those two colors or you can use just sap green. You'll notice that very nice bleed over there. That's our goal here. We want it to bleed into each other so that it will look soft. Now let's just rinse our brush and I'm going extend the stem using water. I want it to be really loose. Now I'm going to grab some sap green, just going to add a little bit of color in that area. Then now let's rinse our brush again and we're going to paint the leaves. You'll notice that the color is coming from the stem itself. This is a nice technique if you want an expressive type of leaf, it looks really solve. We can drop in a different color, so you can add some indigo, some sap green, and just leave it as is. It will have a unique pattern when it dries. Now let's grab some indigo. We want this to be really pigmented. We're going to drop in a little bit of that color in different areas. This will give it a nice contrast. This is optional, but if you want to soften the edges of the leaves, you can grab a clean brush and just touch the edge of the leaves just like what I'm doing. You can also try it on the other side. If some of the petals have a hard edge, just grab a clean brush and try to rub off that edge and blot it out with a tissue paper. I'm going to go back in with a darker color. This is indigo. You can add that on the tips of the petals. Now we can add a second layer. I'm using a mixture of Hooker's green and crimson lake. We want just a more maroon color. We're going to add it where the petals meet or also in the folds of the petals. You'll notice that some areas are still wet, and that's okay to paint on. Now we're onto the finishing touches, you can grab a pink paint and just add a few more strokes just to fix some areas. At this point, you can take a photo of your painting and just look at it from your phone so that you can see it from a different perspective. This is a good practice so that you won't overdo your painting. The petals are still wet, so I'm going to grab some dark indigo and just drop in some more paint. I just want more contrast. If you want some more dramatic effect, you can add splatters of paint around this flower. It is definitely up to you how you want to spruce up this painting. Isn't great that we finish this in less than ten minutes? I'm excited to see your version of this project. [MUSIC] Let's now move on to the next video, where we will use the color green again as a prompt. We're going to paint these blue-green florals with some greenish-yellow fillers. 10. Day 6: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 6, and today we're going to go back to the color green. This time we're going to paint bigger flowers, and also I'm just going to quickly show you the inspiration behind this project. This project was inspired by one of the projects in my sketchbook that I painted back in 2020, so we're going to translate this from a landscape sketch book into a portrait painting. We are going to paint three main flowers, so that's what we are going to start with. Let's mix the colors cerulean blue and sap green. This color is going to be a blue-green color. We have to make sure that we're going to add a lot of water because we want the petals to be translucent. Just be patient when you're mixing these colors; sometimes it turns out too green or too blue, but it also depends on your preference. Right here I'm just going to put a small dot that will be the center of the flower, so we're doing that only as a guide. Use the side of the brush so that you can create a broad stroke. While that petal is still wet you can drop in a different color, so I just added some greenish yellow. Let's grab some more of that blue-green color. We're going to do five petals, so you can see that it's actually easier to move your brush around if the brush has a lot of paint in it. You also want the tips of the petals to be pointy. To achieve that you want to flick your brush when you end your stroke, it means that you quickly drag and lift your brush. Now let's grab some sap green, I'm going to drop it in the center of this flower. To add more contrast, let's drop in some indigo as well so that we can have a dark center. This is all happening while the base flower is still wet. Let's now move on to another flower. We're going to paint this diagonally across this first flower. You can definitely vary the colors on the petals. You can see the first petal I painted is more green, then the second petal has more blue. I find that it makes the floral painting look more interesting. Of course when you're painting these strokes don't forget to leave the spaces in-between your strokes, then we'll drop in a little bit more green. Then for the center let's use sap green again and some indigo to give that punch of color in the middle. When you're painting loose florals, you want to add contrast to give life to the soft petals. Let's move on to the third flower and you can see here that my mixture has more cerulean blue, so we're trying to play with the colors. Also, you can hold the brush in the middle of the handle to keep it pretty loose. You can see that I'm trying to sway my hand so I can create some nice expressive strokes. You can try to hold your brush lightly to achieve more expressive strokes. Now we want a really concentrated sap green color for the center, then we're going to drop in some indigo as well. Don't be afraid, just let the colors bleed into each other. The result will just surprise you in a good way. With the main flowers in place, it's now time to add the leaves. Let's grab some sap green and we're going to start with the leaves right here where there's a large white gap. You can also add some indigo to your brush so that you can have a dark green color. You can paint some stems first in-between the petals then just add some leaves. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter shade. Right here you can see that I'm trying to mix the shades of green that I have. You can see that some are lighter, some are darker. When you're painting a bouquet you don't really need to add all the leaves right away, just add a few bits here and there and then just look at it from afar so that you will not overdo it. You can try to add some stems first instead of leaves so that you can visualize what it looks like if that space is filled with a filler or a leaf. Let's just grab some permanent yellow light, I'm just going to tap my brush to create these fillers that will look like small flowers. I'm going to attach these fillers onto the stems that we added a while ago. You can see right away how it lights up this floral painting, and it just gives a more cheerful mood to this [MUSIC]. For some of the leaves you can also use just indigo. Try to add leaves near the main flowers to make the flowers pop up even more. Let's grab some greenish yellow. We're going to paint some small flowers. Adding these small flowers and the fillers, they are supposed to just complement the main flowers. The main flowers are already dry, now let's just go back in and bring back some color in the center. I'm using indigo. Just using the tip of your brush, lightly tap it on the paper. Let's add some more details on the petals. Let's grab a very diluted cerulean blue. If you don't have this color, you can also use just diluted sap green or diluted indigo. We want this to be really light and transparent, so you can see that I'm just adding some streaks on the petals. The center is still wet, and what we can do is we can grab that color and just let it move into the veins that we painted on the petals. Doing this will give it a more dramatic effect. We can also do that to all the other main flowers. If you ever make a mistake just get a clean brush, and just lift and absorb that extra paint. I did not add some white details here, but you can add some small white dots in the center of the main flowers. You can use gouache or any white paint. Just to add some more details on the leaves, we can also add some veins. Just use a darker color, so I used just sap green and indigo. Now let's just add a few more finishing touches, we can add some stem sticking out or add some more leaves. This is an easy exercise that you can also do in different colors. We are done in less than 10 minutes. I really love the colors that we used in this painting because it just feels so calm when you look at it. I [MUSIC] hope to see your projects soon, so now let's move onto the next video where we will learn a purple flower painting. 11. Day 7: [MUSIC] Welcome to day seven. Today we're going to paint a purple floral painting. I'm just going to quickly show you a reference photo that I use for this project. It's actually a wedding cake and it's of some very beautiful flowers that I wanted to translate into a painting. It looks dainty and delicate and I want that vibe on the painting as well. I just grabbed the main flowers from the reference photo and then we're going to add some small fillers to compliment it. Most people like to mix violets and purples from scratch, but you're going to go the easy route. Violets have more blue in it and purples have more red. What I did here was that I grabbed permanent violet and then we're going to add some permanent rose so that it will be more on the purple side. Then for that magic touch, we're going to add a little bit of burnt sienna just to warm up this color. You can see that this is a very beautiful color. We're going to do just three main flowers for this painting. Let's start with our first rose. I'm using a size eight round brush. I'm going to do this center first. This is a small comma stroke. Then let's paint some thin lines all around it. We do want the center to have a more pigmented color. Using another brush, let's just grab some water and I am going to fade the outer strokes. You don't really have to use two brushes. If you only have one brush, that's okay. You just have to be patient with rinsing your brush. Slowly building the petals, you can see I'm painting little by little. Some strokes can be broader, some are thinner. Now let's grab just a little bit more color and you're going to paint bigger size petals. I'm back with a size eight round brush. Let's rinse our brush again and fill away the strokes that we just did. This is a rose at this at an angle. You can see I'm building more petals towards the bottom of this rose. For the second rose, I'm just going to add a little bit more permanent rose to this mixture so that it looks a bit more on the pink side. You can see that I'm doing really quick strokes for the center. Now let's just rinse our brush. This is a rose that is about to bloom, so it has a cup shape. Now we're going to do that body. Grab a clean brush and just fade away some of the strokes to make it look soft. Now let's grab a little bit more color. You can see that I'm just adding some strokes even on the wet surface so that we can have that nice blurry effect. Just to make it look more interesting you can also add a little bit of color with burnt sienna. You can see that this color is a bit more on the brown side. If they are unpleasant areas for you, you can just grab a clean brush and just lift that color, so it's almost like erasing a color. Now let's add a darker center. I'm using permanent violet and permanent rose. We want a dark or more pigmented mixture. Add this color when the rose is still wet. Now let's move on to the third rose. I'm still using the same color, it's permanent rose and permanent violet. Now let's paint a tight center. You can see that I'm painting really thin lines and there are still spaces in between my strokes. Now let's just rinse our brush and just fade away the outer strokes. You can still see that I have some color left on my brush even after rinsing. We're just going to use that to create some bigger petals. All the petals are hugging towards the center. Then let's rinse our brush again and you'll notice that the color is now lighter because there's more water in my brush. Try to vary the stroke. Some can be broader or bigger, some can be just thin lines. Now we have all the three main flowers. Let's move on to painting the fillers. I'm going to paint a small yellow fillers and we are going to use just yellow ocher and sepia. The reason why I added some sepia is because I wanted this color to be a little bit more muted using a size six round brush. You can also use a smaller brush. We're painting smaller four or five petal flowers. It will look more interesting if you paint different number of petals in each flower. [MUSIC] Now let's grab some Hooker's green and also add a little bit of sepia. This will give us a nice rich and dark, earthy green color. Let's just attach some stems on the small flowers. We are adding the stems while the flowers are still wet, you can see those beautiful bleeds and it will make this painting look soft. You can also add some leaves in between the flowers. We're not going to add a lot of leaves yet because we don't want to overdo this area. We can always go back later on to add some more leaves. [MUSIC] In the upper right, we are also going to add some small muted flowers. The placement of the fillers are diagonally across each other. You can see that on the lower left we have muted yellow flowers and then on the upper right we also have one set. It makes it just look more balanced. Now let's just add some stems. [MUSIC] Let's move on to painting a small bud. I'm going to show you a beautiful process of painting this, you just need to scribble some small lines like what I did here and it needs to be very pigmented. Now let's grab a clean brush with just water, and I'm just going to pull away that color and you can see that the colors are moving towards where the water is and are forming the shape of a bulb. Now let's add some green color on the base so you can see that it's beautifully bleeding. That was very easy, you can try to practice that on your own. While this flower is still wet, you can also drop in just a bit more color to add more contrast. I have here permanent violet and permanent rose, but they added more pink to this mixture. Again, we're just going to scribble some lines and then just grab a clean brush and just drag that color. You can see how loose and how beautiful it looks like. It also looks quite expressive. But take note that this looks beautiful on 100 percent cotton paper. I find it difficult to do this technique on student grade paper. There's a space again right here where we can add a small bud. Just scribble away some thin lines. This is such a fun and easy technique. Just rinse your brush and tap the excess water in the brush. You don't want a lot of water in your brush or else you will have a big puddle on the paper. Let's just pull the color away and paint the shape of a bud. Well, this flower is still wet. Make sure that you add the stem so that you'll have a nice soft transition. You can also drop in some more paint in the middle of this floral bud to have that contrast. This is looking really good. Now let's add some more leaves. I'm just mixing up Hooker's green and sepia, so I want a really nice dark and rich color. I'm going to add some leaves in-between these two main flowers, after which I am going to rinse my brush so that we can introduce a lighter color. Now let's make this flower pop up even more. We're going to outline the sides and add a dark green leaf. In some areas you can just add some stems sticking out. Observe how this area looks more defined after adding some leaves. We're just going to go around this bouquet and keep adding leaves and stems. Now let's grab some lavender. I don't really use this color that much, but I realize that it's a great addition to my palette. Once we add this color, it will make this bouquet look even more delicate. Tap your brush onto the paper to create the small fillers. You can also rinse your brush to create a lighter color. Use this filler to your advantage; you can use it to extend some areas, or if there are small whitespaces that needs to be filled. Also vary the pressure in your brush so that you can get different sizes of the brushstroke. We're done with the fillers, now let's add just a couple more leaves. I'm going to add some over here. Then we're going to rinse our brush to create a lighter colored leaf. Looking at this from afar, we need to add one more bud over here. Just scribble some small strokes and then get the clean brush and just grab that color. Then for contrast, you can add darker color, right there are the tip. Then I'm just going to add some more greens at the base. Now let's add a second layer to our rows. I'm going to mix permanent violet, permanent rose, and burnt sienna. We want a really pigmented mixture. We're going to start in the middle of the rows, we're going to paint that comma stroke and then we're going to scribble some thin lines all around it. Now as you go further from the center, you can create bigger strokes. Then let's fade that away to make it softer. For this layer, we want something more translucent so that you won't overpower the first layer. Adding a second layer, is a good way to add volume to your rose because you're adding more layers of petals. Let's move on to the second rose, this is just permanent violet and permanent rose. You want a really thick mixture. Because this is at an angle, I'm going to just add a flap. Now let us try to fade that away so that it doesn't look too sharp. Just get the clean brush to do this job. Right here you can see that we now have more details on this rose compared to before. Moving on to the third rose. I'm using the same mixture. It's permanent violet and permanent rose. We're going to just follow the first few strokes in the center. You will see that I'm trying to vary the thickness of my strokes. Some are just lines and some are C shapes. Now let's grab a clean brush and fade away the strokes. Using just the color residue in my brush, I'm going to use that to paint some more petals. Now it looks even better with the second layer. Now let's grab some green color. Use any green in your palette, and just keep on adding leaves where you need to add them. Don't be afraid to layer on top of the main flowers. To make this look more loose, we want the sides to have varying heights. You can see that some buds are taller than the other. Some leaves are more extended or there are stems that are longer. You could also add some veins on some of the leaves. If you have a white gouache or a white pen, you can also use that to add even more details. Now I'm going to grab some more lavender. Let's just tap in a few more strokes on top of the existing layer, this will give it more depth. You don't need to add stems on all the petals strokes that you painted using the lavender color. You can see that I'm actually leaving a big gap in-between some of the strokes that I did. Now we are done. I hope that you discovered a new color in this project. The first week is done. Congratulations for finishing this project. Let's now move on to day 8, where we will learn how to paint soft blue and yellow florals. [MUSIC] 12. Day 8: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 8, and today we are going to use some soft blues and yellows, little bit of green as well. Here is the final project. We are going to start with the two main flowers that are diagonally across each other, and then you're going to paint two more main flowers. This is a more interesting bouquet because we added more texture, and just different shapes of flowers. Later on, we're also going to add some white details using a White Pen. Now let's start painting. I have here yellow ocher with sepia and I added a lot of water, you want this to be diluted. Then I have right here sepia, which we will also use in a while. Now let's start painting our first flower. We are going to establish a U-shaped first. I'm trying to paint the first petal here, and we'll add petals beside it. This is optional, but you can also add a little bit of green to your mixture. So now let's add one petal on the left. I'm going to attach the tip towards the base of this flower. Now let's grab a diluted sepia color, and then we're going to paint a petal right here at the top. You can see that I'm leaving a space right here so that you can add some more details later on. At this point, I know it doesn't look that good, but we can grab some more paint. I'm using sepia. Then let's just extend some of the petals. What we did was we established the main petals first and then we just extended it so that it will look better. Now let's grab some yellow ocher and add it in the center. The base flower is still wet, so you can see that the color yellow is just bleeding into the petals. You can also grab burnt sienna to add more contrast. Now let's move on to a different flower. We're going to paint some hydrangeas, and so I just want some four petal flowers. I'm using the color greenish yellow, but you can also add a little bit of indigo in your brush. I might think a lot of water in my indigo paint because I want it to be just a light color. Now we don't want a really strong color for these flowers. Just try to mix and match the colors. Sometimes I'm using greenish yellow, sometimes I mix it with indigo, you slightly tap your brush on the paper to create these petal-like strokes. Now let's grab some sap green, so we want the thick mixture, and then let's just add some dots in the middle of the flowers. We can just paint a few dots and then later on we can go back in and add some more petals if needed. So now we have two flowers here, let's add one more. This is going to be a rose. Let's paint a common stroke, some thin lines around it. I'm using a size six round brush. Now let's just paint a slightly bigger petal, and then let's rinse our brush and grab a very diluted indigo color. We are going to use this color to paint the outer petals. Apply more pressure through your brush when painting some C strokes so that you can get that nice broad stroke. Just continue adding the C shifts and until you have the desired size of the rose. You can also add a little bit more contrast. So just grab some paint that's more pigment then. This area right here looks really beautiful. I love the transition. While this flower is still wet, we are going to add some sap green in the center, and then let's grab some indigo. Now we want a really pigmented indigo paint. You don't want this color to spread all over the place. So just be careful when you're dropping in this color. I'm going to rotate the paper so that I can paint other better angle. We're going to do the last flower. So we're using a very diluted indigo color. I'm also using a size eight round brush. This flower is at an angle. So you can see that I painted an oval shape right here. It looks like the petal is folded. While the petals are still wet just continue fixing the shape. Now let's add some sap green. I'm going to drop it in the center of this flower. So we want a really thick mixture. To add a punch of color, let's add some indigo. This is looking really good. Now let's grab some greenish yellow. We're going to paint some single stroke petals. The number of petals will depend on how many petals you want. We're not going to be that strict about it. I'm only adding this flower so we can add a pop of color in that area. Now let's add some stems to attach it to the main bouquet. Let's start adding some leaves. I'm going to start right here in between the two main flowers, and then you can also make sap green and indigo. So we can have that nice dark green color. When you have some soft florals, it's always nice to add in some dark color leaves. Try to add some alternate leaves that are dark and light colored. [MUSIC] To make it look more interesting, you can grab a very diluted indigo color and use that to paint some leaves. I'm just going to continue and add some leaves near the main flowers, just to give more definition to the soft florals. Because we have a greenish yellow on the upper left side of this painting, we're going to match it with another set on the lower right. But this time I'm going to just tap my brush and just add some fillers. You can also start with some stems and then just attach some greenish yellow fillers. Just tap your brush lightly on the paper with a diluted indigo. I am just going to add some more leaves. The main flowers are already dry. Now let's grab some diluted greenish yellow. Let's paint some four or five petaled flowers on top of the first layer. You can also grab a little bit of that indigo, and this will make it look more interesting. Adding a second layer will give this flower more depth and more texture as well. Now let's just grab some more sap green, and I'm going to add some small dots in the center of the flowers. It's now time to add a second layer to that rose. I'm just using sap green and indigo, so we want a really dark mixture. I'm mixing the sap green and indigo color on this palette. You can see that I added a lot of water so that it's quite translucent, and now let's just paint some more C shapes. This technique will give the rose more volume. Let's also add a second layer to this flower. I'm just using the same sap green and indigo color. It is looking really good. Then for the center, we're also going to drop in some more color for contrast. Let's add some indigo. Now with a clean brush, we are going to pull away that color. We have a weird patch over here, so I'm just going to try to rub it off and also blot it with tissue paper. It still doesn't look good, so we are just going to wait for this to dry, and then let's add a second layer of leaves later on. Now let's grab some burnt umber, I'm going to paint some thin lines in the center of this flower. Let's add a separation to the petals. I'm using just yellow ocher with a little bit of burnt umber. You can also use sepia if you want. Let's add the strokes in-between the petals. Now let's just rinse our brush and fade away that stroke to make it look softer. You can also try to pull away some color from the center, going into the petals, just like what I'm doing here. Add some dots on the greenish yellow flowers. Just grab any green color on your palette and start adding some more leaves to make this bouquet fuller. Try to vary the shapes and the sizes of the leaves that you're painting. [MUSIC] To add more contrast, let's grab some indigo, so you want a thick mixture it and we're going to paint some fillers. I'm just going to tap my brush, and attach it to a stem. [MUSIC] You can also paint some smaller buds, and this is a good way to add more color to your floral painting without it being so overwhelming. [MUSIC] Now let's just add some more dots in this hydrangea flower, and I'm just using indigo so that it's darker. We can also add some veins on the leaves, just to add some texture. It's now time to add some more color on this leaf. I'm just going to cover up that mistake. I think we did well and you can't see the mistake anymore. [MUSIC] Don't forget to add some green bits in-between the main flowers. This will totally make a huge difference in the overall painting. You can already stop at this point, but if you have a White Pen or a White Gouache, you can continue watching and add some white details to your painting. I'm using the Posca acrylic Pen, so you can just add some small dots on the leaves and attach some stems. This will look great on places where it has a dark background. You need to look for leaves that are more pigmented. You can also add some veins or add some smaller fillers. You can also add some berries. For this part of the painting, it really depends on you on how much detailed work you want to include in your painting. All right. Now we are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. I hope that you enjoyed painting some soft florals. Now let us move on to the next video where we will learn how to paint some red florals. [MUSIC] 13. Day 9: Welcome to day nine and you're going to explore painting red florals, but with a twist so we're going to add the color sepia. For this composition we mix different sizes of flowers and also some are top facing, some are at an angle. I love this project because it's quite different from the other ones that we are going to do. This project has more of a vintage and moody vibe. Now let's start. Let's grab some permanent red and you're going to add some Hooker's green to it. The reason why I'm adding a little bit of green is to make this red look darker. You will immediately see how the color just shifts from a bright red to something more maroon. Now let's start our first rose. I'm going to paint the commas look for the center, and then let's paint some thin strokes all around it. As you go further away from the center, you can paint bigger petals. We want this rose to be really bold in color, and we will complement that with some muted white flowers later on. Let's rinse our brush and fade away some of the strokes.This color is really quite strong, I'm going to try to rinse my brush again. Try to connect the C shape strokes to one another. If you have some odd wide gaps just add a thin line and sometimes you don't even need to paint an entire pedal stroke. Now I'm going to add a little bit more Hooker's green to create a darker color. To paint the white rose flowers here I'm going to use sepia, and dilute it in a lot of water. I'll also add a little bit of that red color that we used for the rose. Doing this will create a more harmonious color relationships among the flowers that you are going to paint in your artwork. This rose is at an angle so I'm going to paint some strokes for the center until we achieve an oval shape, then we're going to paint the body of this rose. Now let's close up this flower just paint some more petals over there, and then we can also extend some areas just to fix the overall shape of this flower. Just the main shape of this is that it should have that letter U cup. Let's grab some more sepia and you want it to be really pigmented. We're going to add that in the center of this rose to add more contrast. You need to do this while the base flower is still wet. Let's now move on to another flower, you're also still going to paint a white flower using sepia. This also has just a little bit of that red color from the rose. Instead of painting five petals we're going to do just three petals, so that there's an illusion that the two other petals are hiding behind this rose. I'm holding the brush towards the end of the handle so I can create these nice expressive strokes. You can always go back in to adjust the size of the petals or add some thin strokes to make it look wispy. Now let's grab some more sepia and we're going to add it in the center of this flower, so we want this color to be quite pigmented. Now we have three main flowers let's add some more. I'm using permanent red and sepia. You can also use any brown color. My goal for mixing these colors is to create just a more muted red color. Let's do a small rose here that's about to bloom. I'm just going to paint the center, and now we're going to paint the flap. Add some more strokes to complete the body of this rose, and then we can rinse our brush and just fade away some areas. You can see that this is bleeding into this white flower. Next we can grab a more pigmented mixture and add it into center of this rose. Let's do a different style for the next rose. We're going to paint some quick C curves and fade that color away. Let me freeze this frame so you can take a better look at it. Try to add some white gaps in between your strokes. If you want a tighter center, you can just add a few more strokes to fill in the white gaps. When you're painting this style, start with the center and then the left stroke, right stroke, and a top stroke that will close this center. Now let's just rinse our brush and you're going to fade away the strokes. Doing this style will give us softer petals. Here is a mixture of permanent red and sepia, but I added a little bit more sepia so it's a bit more brown. You're going to paint one more rose over here. Let's start with a comma stroke, some thin lines around it. Now let's rinse our brush and fade away some of the other strokes. Use the color left in this brush to paint bigger size petals. You'll see here I just made a mistake, but that's okay we're going to just cover that up something else later on. Now with a more pigmented mixture of permanent red and sepia, you can drop in some more color just to give it more contrast. Let's now move on to painting leaves. I'm going to mix permanent red and sepia. You can play around with the ratio, you can make something that has more red or something that has more sepia. Just make sure that this is a really pigmented color because we want dark leaves, and then let's grab some Hooker's green. We can add some red to our Hooker's green. Now we are ready and I'm going to just add some stems and leaves. You can see that it's a really dark color. We almost cannot see the green color anymore, but at the same time there's still that tinge of red that's just very beautiful. I'm going to add some leaves in-between the main flowers. You can try to alternate the colors that you will use for the leaves, just so that it will look more interesting. You can add more sepia to your paint if you want it to be darker. For me this is the fun part when you're adding leaves you can try to play around sway your brush, and just let the leaves move. It's always nice if they are facing in different directions. You'll also notice that I use a lighter color here, and then I'm also going to grab a little bit more green just to add some of the leaves. Now looking at this from a far we can add some more white flowers. I'm still using the diluted sepia, but l also added a little bit of that red from the rose. Let's just add some smaller flowers. You can also grab just sepia if you want, and just dilute it in a lot of water. I'm going to add some white flowers all over this painting. You can vary the number of petals, some are just three petals some can even be just two petals. Don't forget to attach that to the main bouquet. I'm also going to use my sepia mixture. Adding the sepia color really made this painting look more and moody. I think that this project is a beautiful experience for us to try something new. Now let's just continue adding some more leaves. Try to take a photo of your painting and just look at it on your phone, and see it from a different perspective so that you won't overdo this project. If there are small white gaps you can just add some white flower fillers. Also if you feel like some leaves are too light, you can go back in and paint a second layer as well. Now let us move on to painting a second layer on the roses. I'm using permanent red and Hooker's green to create this dark red color for the center of the rose. We're going to do something a little bit different here. I'm going to grab some more permanent red and add it to the outer petals. This is because we want a really bold color and it's quite difficult to paint with red color. Sometimes it will dry up really light, so we want to add some more color for the second layer. For this rose we're going to make it a bit more softer compared to the first rose that we did. This time I'm going to rinse my brush and fade away the outer strokes. We still have a little bit of color in our brush, but it's not as strong compared to the first rose that we did. When I was adding the second layer I noticed that my paint was to red and it did not match the color of this rose. I continued painting thinking that I will be able to fix it, but it's just not working out so I just grabbed some tissue paper and I did try to blot out the color. There's still a little tinge of red, but that's okay we can just go back in and cover it up. I used permanent red and Hooker's green for this color, but you can also mix permanent red and sepia. Now let's move on to another rose and I'm just going to add some more details in the center and then we're going to rinse our brush and fade away that stroke. I wanted to bring in more color to this flower. What you can do is you can add a little bit of red to your brush just to bring back the color to this flower, because it looks a little light. For the last rose we are going to grab some sepia and add a dark center. Let's rinse our brush to fade away the outer strokes. Congratulations for finishing this project. I hope that you enjoyed trying something new today. Also I wanted you to know that if you ever made some mistake on your painting just don't give up. You can always go back in and cover up that mistake just like what we did here. Let's now move on to day 10 where you will learn to paint a white flower. 14. Day 10: Welcome to day 10 and today's color prompt is white. Painting white flowers using watercolor is very tricky because the paper is already white and also we don't really use a white watercolor paint on its own. But what we can do is we can add some colors to give an illusion that it's a white flower. We can use yellow, like what I did here, and also some dark browns. Sometimes I use indigo, just dilute it in a lot of water. You can also add in a violet color. There are simple ways to paint a flower and that's what we're going to learn today. We're going to start with painting the petals on the upper half of this flower, and then when we're done with that, we're going to fill in the bottom petals. We will use the leaves around this flower to give an illusion that this is a white flower by leaving some white spaces on the outline of this flower. Right now let's start painting. To start, let's prepare the colors on our palette. I have here, yellow, ocher and sepia. I'm going to mix those two colors and we're going to dilute it in a lot of water. You want to tone down the color of yellow ocher, you want it to be a little bit more brown. Let's set aside that color, and we're going to start with a yellow ocher. Just paint a few strokes. With a clean brush, just spread that color. We only added that small stroke in the beginning just as a guide. You're going to slowly build this petal. You can also grab some more paint just to add a little bit more color. Then you can grab some diluted sepia. You can see that it's a darker color here. We're going to stop right there and just add the bottom petal first. This is just diluted sepia. Now this looks too dark, so I'm just going to rinse my brush and just lift this extra color so that it's not too dark on the paper. You'll see that I'm trying to wiggle my brush to create these petals. We're going to move on to the petals on the left side, and you can try to extend that to have a better shape. Now let's paint the folds of this bottom petal. I'm just painting a letter U shape. Let's grab some burnt umber and add it to the center of this flower. This flower is still wet and you will see that the burnt umber color is spreading on the base flower. If you don't have burnt umber, you can use burnt sienna or any brown color that you have in your palette. Now, I just grabbed some more diluted sepia and I'm adding a few more strokes just to give more contrast and also some shadows. Try to remember that the shadows will be seen in between the petals, or if a petal is slightly folded, you will see a shadow. Now let's move on to painting the leaves. Now I'm going to mix Hooker's green and sepia. We can also prepare the other green colors. You can also mix Hooker's green and indigo. For the leaves, you want them to be dark because we're going to outline the size of this flower. To start, use the tip of your brush and try to create some jagged edges. Then you're going to fill in that space with a leaf shape. Let's do that one more time. I'm just using the tip of my brush to add an outline first. It is also best to leave a space in-between the leaf and the flower itself, so you want a wide space in there that will give it an illusion that the petal is longer. We can see right here, I really left a bit of a wide space there. It doesn't look like much right now, but at the end of the project, you will understand the importance of what we are doing now. To make it little more interesting, you can try to vary the green shades that you're using. Right here, I just grabbed some sap green. When we are trying to outline the sides of this white flower, try to visualize the shape of a petal in real life. You will see that it's not really perfectly curved, there are some ruffles or frills and so that's why we are also following that here. Now let's just add a stem. I'm also going to add one more stem that is going to run behind the back of this main flower. I am doing this to give a provision for a small bud. Let's just grab some yellow ocher mixed with sepia. I'm going to scribble some small strokes in the middle. Then let's just clean our brush and drag that color down. I'm just going to add a few more strokes until we get the shape of a bud. It almost looks like a balloon shape. Now we can grab some of that brown color in our palette. You can use burnt sienna, burnt umber. While this bud is still wet, we can add some more green color at the base and attach it to the stem, this will give it a more seamless transition. Then we can also add some smaller leaves beside it. Just to add some more contrast, let's drop in some sepia at the tip of this rose bud. Now let's continue adding some more leaves so there's a big space here. I'm using a different color now this is Hooker's green and indigo. Now that we have more leaves, you can see that this flower is really popping up some more compared to awhile ago. Another way to understand how to paint white flowers is to take a photo of a white flower, a real white flower, and then just turn the photo into black and white. That way you can see the tonal value, you will see which areas are lighter, which areas are darker. What we're doing here is just capturing the essence of a white flower, so we're going to be super shaky about a lot of things. We just want the impression that it is a white flower. Eventually as you paint some more, it will be easier for you to understand where to add the shadows. Now we can add some light colored leaves. I have here just indigo and I've diluted it in lot of water. You can see that the color is very light on the paper. Doing this will give your painting a softer look. Another tip when painting a white flower, you need a dark center. I'm just going to grab my burnt umber color and add another layer in the center so that it's going to look darker. To add more punch of color, let's grab some sepia and I'm going to drop it in the center. With a really diluted sepia color, we are going to now add a second layer to this flower. We are going to add some strokes on the flower just to separate the petals. Now I'm going to add some more strokes right here at the bottom to give an illusion that there are layers of petals. With a clean brush, we can also try to blur this area to create a beautiful transition from the center going outwards. Looking at this flower from afar, it looks a little pale so we're going to troubleshoot that. I'm going to grab some yellow ocher and you want a really diluted mixture. I'm going to paint on the top petal. You can immediately see the difference. There's a certain blue to this flower just because we added a little bit of color. Just to add some more texture on this painting, we are going to add some veins on the leaves. You can use a dark green color or just add sepia or indigo to any green color that you have in your palette. We only want a handful of leaves to have veins because it will look too crowded if we add details on all the leaves. It's now time to add some finishing details and you can see that I'm holding the brush towards the end of the handle and that's because I want my strokes to be more expressive. Now I'm going to add some more leaves, so I want that in an irregular shape. Lastly, we can go back in to add some more shadows. You can grab a very diluted sepia color and just add it to the folds of the petals to separate them from each other. If the strokes are too dark, you can just grab a clean brush and absorb that extra paint. You can also try to blur some strokes. I think we are done and that was a very quick painting. I hope that you enjoyed painting this white flower. Now let's move on to the next video, where we will paint blue florals using a wet-on-wet technique. 15. Day 11: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 11, and we are going to go back to the color blue for today. This is going to be a fun project because we're going to use the wet-on-wet technique, which I will show you in a while. For this project, we are going to start with that blue flower that looks like an anemone flower. For this project, you have the option to just paint the blue flower, but I will still show you how you could add some more flowers around it to fill in this paper. Let's start. For this project, I will be using the Bow artist grade paper. This technique works better on 100 percent cotton paper. Now let's just grab some clean water and we are going to paint some petals. It's a little difficult to see the water on the paper here, but I will try to tilt my paper so you can see the shape of the petal. Let's continue painting more petals. The plan is to do five petals. To make it easier to visualize, it will look like a star shape. You'll notice that I'm also leaving some spaces in-between my strokes. Really adding a lot of water, but at the same time I'm making sure that we have an even coat of water on the paper. Now, this looks good. Now let's grab some color. I'm using Prussian blue. Let's make something more pigmented. Now I'm going to drop in that color on the first petal. Let us try to add the colors on the outline of this petal first. Now we can also add a little bit more water for the second petal so that the color is lighter. Just drop in the colors. You don't really need to move it that much. Just let it do its magic on the paper. For some areas, we can grab a more pigmented color just like what I did here, and just drop it on the edges of the petals. Now let's move on to the first petal. You can see that the color is spreading. It's so beautiful. Just leave the white spaces in the petals. You'll need to fill in the entire petal with color. Leaving those white spaces will make this flower look like it's glowing. That's why it's important to make sure that your brush isn't loaded with too much paint because you don't want the paint to spread all over the place. While this base flower is still wet, let's grab some Prussian blue, but this time we need to make it more pigmented so there's less water and more paint. We're going to add more contrast. I'm going to add this color in between the petals. Now for the center of this flower let's grab some indigo color and you want this to be also pigmented so we want it really dark. I'm just going to add some small strokes. I will let it touch the petals so you can see that it's bleeding into the petals. Then you can just put a small oval shape in the center. We're done with this flower. Now let's grab a clean brush. This is just water in my brush. I'm going to paint the stem. You've seen just water. You can see that there's a blue tinge on the stamp because I just pulled away some of that color from the flower. Then we can drop in some Hooker's green. Then we can also drop in some indigo to add more contrast. Doing this technique will give it a more dramatic effect. Now let's rinse our brush again and let's grab some clean water. We're going to paint a leaf using just water again. You can see that the color from the stem is going into that leaf. Then let's grab some Hooker's green and a little bit of that indigo and just drop it on the leaf. This is a really fun way to paint leaves because you really don't know what to expect. Every time I do this technique, the flowers and the leaves will look different. At this point, if you are already happy with this flower, you can stop right there. But if you want to add some more flowers around it, just keep on watching. Now let's grab some yellow ocher. We want this mixture to be super light. It means that we need to add more water to our paint. Now we are going to add a flower right beside this blue elimony. I'm going to paint three petals, and one over petals so that it will look like this flower is on its side. Now let's grab some Hooker's green and I will just add a stem right there, just a tiny stem. Then just extend that all the way down. Now let's add some smaller flowers on the lower left of the blue elumen. I'm going to use a very diluted Prussian blue. Let's just paint some four-petaled flowers. It will just look like a filler flower. In this composition, we want the main flower, the blue elumen to be really bold in color. But we want the other flowers around it to be really soft and just light in color. This way we can try to highlight the main flower. Now let's grab some permanent violet. We also want to dilute this in a lot of water. I'm just going to drop it in those blue flowers just to make it look more interesting. Then let's grab some indigo. We are going to add a center to this flower, so you want the center to be really dark. Now let's grab some sap green so that we can add some stems. When you're adding these stems, try to paint it in a curved manner. It's not really just straight. This will make it look more interesting. Think of it like the flowers are dancing. Here next we can add some leaves and just drop in another color on that leaf. You can also add indigo if you want it to be darker. Let's repeat the process. Just paint a really light-colored leaf and just drop in some more color. That's the wet-on-wet technique. It's looking really good. Now let's move on to the upper left side of this painting and add some leaves. I'm using sap green. While the leaves are still wet, you can grab some indigo and just drop it in the leaves so that it will have a two-tone color. Now I'm going to add a stem from the bottom going up. It's going to go behind this main flower. We're going to paint these stems and then we're going to add some fillers. Let's just grab some turquoise. You can also use just diluted Prussian blue. That's also okay. Now just tap your brush to create some petal-like strokes. Also, try to vary the pressure that you put into each stroke so that you get a different shape each time. Now let's rinse our brush and just pull away some of that color. Try to fade it away so that it doesn't look too strong. [MUSIC] I take a photo of your painting and just observe it from your phone so that you can see if you need to add some more leaves. I just grabbed some Indigo. I'm going to drop it in the leaves. You'll see that it will look really beautiful when it bleeds on the wet leaves. Now we're just going to add some more finishing touches to fill in some white gaps. Sometimes I'll just paint some stems to just fill in an odd gap. You can also paint some light-colored leaves. Just to give more definition to this small blue flower, I'm going to add a darker leaf. I'm going to add some yellow ocher fillers just to add a certain glow to this painting. But of course, we don't want it to be too strong in color, so I made sure to dilute this color in a lot of water. I feel like this yellow ocher fillers will complement the main flowers on this painting. [MUSIC] Right here, I'm just adding some darker leaves near the soft flowers, just to give it more definition so that it doesn't look too faded. [MUSIC] Now we are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. You can definitely try this and other colors as well. Painting on wet-on-wet technique is really fun for me because I just like to explore different styles. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn how to paint some peach florals. [MUSIC] 16. Day 12: Welcome to Day 12, and the color prompt for today is peach. The peach color can be a little tricky to mix because sometimes it just turns out too orange. But I'm going to share a color recipe that I discovered, and I hope that it will work out for you well. This project is a mix of some roses and a peony and I also added some muted yellows and also some muted violets. We're using really soft colors for this project. For the paper, we are going to use the Blowhole art displayed paper. Now let's start mixing this peach color. I'm using permanent rose and yellow ocher. This is going to be a trial and error. Sometimes it will turn out too orange. Then you add a little bit of permanent rose. If it gets too pink, just add a little bit more yellow ocher. You can also add a bit more water so you can see the real color when you swatch it. You can grab a scrap paper and then just swatch that color and it's looking good, so we'll go ahead with the rose. I'm using a size 6 round brush and we're going to start with the comma stroke. Then we are going to paint some thin C strokes around it. Let's paint some medium-size petals. Then we can also raise our brush to fade away some of the strokes. Let me just rinse my brush again and I'm going to paint more petals. You can see that I'm using just the color residue on this brush. As you paint these petals, make sure that you are also leaving spaces in between the petals. It makes it easier to paint these loose soft petals if your brush is loaded with a lot of paint. Having a wet brush will make it easier for the bristles to find out, once you press it on the paper. We're done with the first flower. Now let's rotate our paper so that we can paint at a better angle. We're using the same color. It's purple rose and yellow ocher. Just scribble some lines and center of this rose. Now let's rinse our brush and build the body of this rose. Then this is a rose that is at an angle, so you do want that letter U shape so it looks like a cup. Now we can also grab a little bit more color and use that to paint some strokes. This will give it more contrast to the flower, and you can see that we are trying to build this flower a little by little. We're not committing to really broad strokes. I'm almost painting just lines. Try to adjust the shape of this flower while it's still wet. Let's add a little bit of shadow to this flower. I'm going to grab some permanent violet and dilute that in a lot of water. You can also add a little bit of that peach color. I'm going to add that to the outer petals. We just want a hint of violet in this peach flower. Just to add more contrast to the center, we can drop in a more pigmented peach color. I'm adding this part while the base flower is still wet, artist-grade paper will keep the painting wet a bit longer compared to a student-grade paper. Now let's add some fillers. I'm going to use yellow ocher and you're going to dilute it in a lot of water. We'll use this color to add some four-petal flowers. For the stem, let's just make sap green and sepia to get that earthy green color. You want the colors in this project to be more on the soft side and more natural. Because the yellow flowers are still wet, you can see those beautiful bleeds coming from the stem. Then you can add just some smaller size leaves using the same green color. I'm going to add a leaf over here in between the main flowers. You can see the beautiful transition in this area because the base flowers are still a little bit damp. Now let's grab some yellow ocher and just paint more fillers on the right side. I chose the color yellow ocher because I wanted a more muted yellow. If you don't have this color, you can just grab any yellow color in your palette and add a little bit of brown to tone down the yellow color. This is looking really good. Now let's move on to the third main flower. I'm using the same peach color. Then we're going to paint the base of this peony. Now we're going to add some top petals. Then on the right right, you're going to combine the top and the bottom petals just like so. Let's move on to the left side and we're going to do the same, just to connect the top and the bottom petals. Let's grab some raw amber. We're going to use this for the center of this peony. We want to paint some short strokes in the middle. We're adding this center while the base flower is still wet. You can see that some of that raw amber color is bleeding into the peach petals. Now let's grab some more peach color and you want this to be a little bit more pigmented. We're going to drop in some colors in between the petals. We want some areas to be darker because we don't want this flower to look flat. We can grab some permanent violet and add some peach to it. I'm going to add this color to the outer areas of the petals. Now let's grab some sap green and sepia. I'm going to mix a darker color. Then we can add some leaves all around the main flowers. We can grab some permanent violet and add that color to our green leaves. This turned out too violet. I'm going to grab some more green and just paint on top of it. We're about halfway there. Now let's grab permanent violet mix with some peach color. We're just going to play around with the ratio. You can add more peach or more violet. We're going to use this color to add some fillers. I'm going to add more four flowers. The reason why I mixed violet and the peach color is because I wanted to create a more muted color. Hold your brush towards the end of the handle to create those nice expressive strokes. Of course, don't forget to add stems that will attach those small flowers to the main bouquet. Because we added some violet flowers on the top portion of this painting, I'm going to match it with a few more on the lower right. Because we use some violet on the flowers, it's also nice to add that color to our greens, so I mix up green and permanent violet. Now we have some muted leaves. Try to vary the sizes of the leaves that you will add on the painting, so you can paint some smaller leaves, some elongated ones. Now we can grab a more pigmented yellow ocher color and you can just dab our brush onto some of the yellow flowers that we painted earlier. Now you can try to take a photo of your painting and look at it on your phone to give you a different perspective. Right now, I'm just going to add a few more finishing touches, and I'm using this yellow ocher to add some more fillers. You will see that this leaf over here, it doesn't really look that good. What we're going to do is we're going to cover it up by layering some leaves on top of it. Now don't be afraid to add some leaves that are overlapping the main flowers. It's time to layer the roses. I grabbed just a more pigmented peach color and we're going to paint on top of this rose. Make sure that the first layer is already dry before you add a second layer. Now let's just rinse our brush and fade away the outer stroke so we can create some soft petals. Then you can just grab a little bit of that violet color and drop it on the outer petals. I love the color combination of peach violet. They really go well together. For the second flower, we are going to rotate our paper again to paint at a better angle. Now let's just scribble some lines in the middle. Then let's just rinse our brush and add some more strokes on the body. For the outer petals, we're going to add that violet color. This flower needs a little bit more contrast, so let's grab some more paint and drop it in the center. Let's grab some burnt sienna, and we're going to try and layer the center of this peony. Going to add some darker strokes, after which we can add some small dots. With a diluted peach color, I'm just going to go back in and paint a second layer just to separate the petals. Right here we're just pulling away some of the colors from the center, going into the wet petals to create that soft effect. This is a mixture of sap green and permanent violet. You have that nice muted green color. Then we're just going to continue adding some stems and some leaves. For this part, it depends on what you have painted. But right now I'm just adding some layers of leaves to create more depth to my painting. You'll see that we are also trying to extend some stems and leaves because we don't want all of them to have the same length. Some stocks are taller, some are shorter. Now we are done with this soft and dainty floral painting. Mixing the peach color is slightly more challenging, but I know that you can do it. Don't forget to upload your project in the project gallery section of the class. Now let us move on to Day 13 where we will paint a pink bouquet. 17. Day 13: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 13, and today we're going to paint a pink floral bouquet. For this project, we're going to mix soft florals and something more pigmented. You can see the two dainty pink flowers in the middle. Around it I added another shade of pink, which is brighter, so it looks like there's a pop of color there. Now let's start. I'm going to grab some burnt sienna and this will be used in the center of the rose. I'm using a Size 6 round brush. I'm going to start with a comma stroke, and then we're just going to paint some thin C curves all around it. Let's zoom in a little so you can see it better. This is a unique flower that we're doing because it's going to look two-toned. We have a different color for the center and a different color for the outer petals. Now I have here burnt sienna and permanent rose. I'm mixing these two colors up just to tone down the pink color, and we're going to use this color to paint the outer petals. Now let's just rinse our brush. I'm going to fade away the strokes, so you're just going to go around this rose and just continue adding the petals, making sure that there are spaces in-between your strokes. Attach the petals to each other. Then we can grab a little bit more paint and add some more color on this rose. While this flower is still wet, you can try to fix some areas. You can adjust the size of the petals because it looks too light. I'm going to grab some more color, and we're going to try to paint some more C curves. To give this more depth, we are going to add a darker center. I'm going to grab some burnt sienna, and you want this to be really pigmented. Let's move on to the second rows and this is facing on its side. I'm using my Size 6 round brush and you can see that I'm just touching the paper using the tip of the brush. Let's rinse our brush and then let's grab a mixture of permanent rose and burnt sienna. We're going to add petals around the center until we create an oval-shaped. Now we can rinse our brush again and use that brush to paint the petals. Just going to blur out this area. Let's start with the flap of this rose and then slowly build the U-shape. You can see that the outline is a bit more pigment, so we're just going to rinse our brush and fade that away. Now let's grab a different pink color. This is called bright rose. You really wanted the pop of color in this painting. If you don't have bright rose, you can substitute it with opera rose or permanent rose. I'm going to rotate my paper now, so I can paint at a better angle. Now we're going to just paint a simple flower here. This is going to be a three petal flower, so you can see that I use a more pigmented color. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter colored petal, and then let's just play around. I'm going to add that little bit of burnt sienna to my pink color. Let's mix these two colors. Let's paint the last petal, and you can see that I'm also using this brush to add some quick tiny strokes just to fix some areas. Now with the burnt sienna color, we're going to add the center. Just scribble some short strokes, and you can also let it bleed into the paint petals. Let's mix bright rose and burnt sienna. But this time I want more burnt sienna because I want the flower to be a little bit more on the brown side, and we're also going to add a simple five-petaled flower that is on its side. Just try to sway your brush to create these nice expressive strokes. While this flower is still wet, we can add a stem. I'm using just sap green. On my palette, I have sap green and sap green with indigo. Let's start adding some leaves and we're going to start in-between these two flowers. We will just try to outline the side of this rose to give it more definition, and then you can add some stems sticking out. I made a mistake and added some splatters on the roses. I just quickly grabbed tissue paper and blotted out these small spatters. I find it better to just blot out these small droplets instead of trying to fade them with water. Now let's move on to adding some more leaves. When you're adding leaves, don't add too much right away because you won't have enough spaces for failures. Just try to add some stems first, and then we'll try to figure it out later on if we need to add some more leaves or some buds or fillers. For this area, let's add a small flower. I'm going to use bright rose. If you look at it from afar, this area needs a pop of color. Now let's rinse our brush and gets a new color. We're going to use greenish-yellow and we're going to paint some small buds. The greenish-yellow color really works well with pink florals. We can also paint some small flowers using this color, and of course, don't forget to add a stem that will attach it to the main bouquet. I'm adding this color near the bright pink florals. When you're painting a bouquet, don't forget to fill in these small gaps. It will make a huge difference even if you just put a small stem. Now, let's try to vary the shades of green here. I'm going to mix Hooker's green and sepia. You can also mix sap green and sepia or perhaps use any green color in your palette and just add a brown color to it to give an earthy green color. As mentioned in the other projects, it's always best to paint the flowers diagonally across each other and not beside each other because doing this will give it a certain flow to your painting instead of it being just a horizontal or a vertical line. Hold your brush towards the end of the handle to create these nice expressive leaves. Just try to sway your brush and create some beautiful brush markings. Every time you add a stem, even if it's just a stem, try to sway your hand so that you can get the curved stem and it will look more natural. [MUSIC] Now just grab a bright rose color and add some buds. This is a good way to add a pop of color in certain areas. Just continue adding some leaves. This is the perfect time to take a photo of your painting and look at it from your phone to give you a different perspective. You can paint some light-colored leaves as well. [MUSIC] We can also start layering the leaves and add a darker color. You can just add indigo to your green paint. This will give this painting more contrast. Now we're going to add some finishing touches. This is going to be the second layer of this rose. I used burnt sienna for the center, and then for the outer petals, I'm mixing burnt sienna and this pink color on my palette. You want this mixture to be diluted in a lot of water. You can see right now as I'm painting these strokes, it looks very translucent. Every stroke that you do here represents one petal. Now let's move on to the second flower. I'm using burnt sienna again for the center, and then let's mix burnt sienna with another pink color, just dilute it in a lot of water, and we're going to just fade away the outer strokes. [MUSIC] Some of the pink flowers dried up pretty light. We're going to go back in and add some more color. Now for the center of this flower, I'm going to grab burnt umber, and you're going to paint some thin lines and also some small dots. Now let's add some faders. I'm going to use sap green, and we're just going to put some small dots and attach a stem to it, and we want this color to be really pigmented. You can also use greenish-yellow. This is a good way to fill in those white gaps. It also adds some texture to your painting. Let's add some more finishing touches. We can add some veins on the leaves and you can darken some stems. Right now we are done. Congratulations for finishing another project. You can also add some white details using white gouache or a white pen, or maybe you want to add some gold details as well. [MUSIC] It's definitely up to your own style. Now, let's move on to the next video where we will learn a nice, expressive rose painting. 18. Day 14: Welcome to day 14, and today we are going to paint a beautiful orange rose. This project is a little bit different because we're going to do a wet-on-wet technique for the background. It looks complicated, but don't worry, it's actually very easy. I do suggest that you use our a 100 percent cotton paper for this project to achieve the best effect of the wet-on-wet technique. Now let's start. I'm going to mix yellow orange with a little bit of burnt sienna. I just wanted to tone down that orange color. That's why I added some burnt sienna. Let's start with a comma stroke in the center, and then you're just going to slowly build those tiny C strokes around it. You want this to be really thin. You also want this center to be really pigmented. Now let's rinse our brush and just tap the excess water. Then let's try to fade away the outer strokes. Add more pressure to your brush so that you can create a bigger sized petal. You can also grab a little bit of color from the palette to add some darker petals. Try to paint quickly. You can see that it has a flick. It's like a snap towards the end of the stroke. This will give you a pointy tip towards the end of the stroke. Let's rinse our brush and just fade away the strokes. You can also try to wiggle your brush just like what I did here. Wiggling the brush will give a nice curvy edge to the petal. Just don't forget to leave white spaces in-between your strokes. While this flower is still wet, you can go back in and just adjust the size of the petals and the entire shape of this rose. All right here comes the fun part. Get a clean brush. Then we're just going to spread some water on the paper. We're adding water all around these rows. We also want to just pull away some of the color from that rose. But if the colors are not moving, you can grab a little bit of paint from your palette and just spread it. Also try to make sure that you get an even coat of water on the paper. I'm going to pull away color from the outer petals. You can see that I am touching the outer petals and making it look faded. Again, if you can't pull away the color from the petals, so you can just grab some color on the palette and add it to the paper. While the paper is still damp, lets just grab some green color here. It's sap green and indigo and dab the excess paint in a tissue paper. Taking out the excess paint in the brush will make it easier for us to paint some details on our wet paper. If your brush is too wet and you won't be able to do some leaf shapes just like what we did here. If the brush is too wet then it will just spread all over the place just like what we discussed in the watercolor tip section of this class. Painting on the damp paper gives us this soft and blurry effect. Now let's switch to a different green color. I'm going to make sap green and sepia so that we can get a nice earthy green color. I want to paint on the left side of this rose. I'm going to add some leaves beside this rose just to give an edge to the rose. Now let's add a small bud. I'm going to use yellow, orange and just scribble some thin lines, and then we're going to create the body. This will look soft because the paper is still damp. You can add a darker color at the tip of this rose bud. Then don't forget add a stem. With a really light green color, we can add some leaves just so that it will look even more faded. Now let's just grab some more green. I'm painting some light green color. Also it looks faded because the paper is still wet. Now let's prepare the mixture for the second layer of this rose. I'm using burnt umber in yellow, orange but you can also use burnt sienna. Make sure that this rose is already dry when you add the second layer. Now we're going to paint some C curves. Now let's grab a clean brush and we are going to fade away the strokes. Let's go back in and add some more pigmented strokes. Then now I'm going to get another brush and fade that away. When fading you just want to touch one side of the stroke. You have to leave the other side as is so that it will retain its sharp edge. Don't worry, you can also grab a little bit of that orange color on your palette, and just extend some parts of this rose. This rose bud looks too faded, and we're going to go back in with some more details. I have your yellow, orange and burnt sienna. Just paint a C stroke and some lines around it. Let's fade that away and add the flap to this rose bud. We can grab a little bit more color. I'm just going to start with the outline of this rose bud. Now let's rinse our brush and just fade that away. While this flower is still wet, let's just grab a more pigmented color for the center. It's the same burnt sienna and yellow, orange mixture. This painting is already dry. We're going to add some more details. I'm using sap green and sepia and we're going to paint the stem. Now let's rinse our brush and just fade away one side of this stem. You can see I'm just doing that on the right side. To give a more dramatic effect, we're going to drop in some pigmented green color. You can also use indigo if you want. Now let's add some leaves. These leaves that we're going to paint right now are going to have a nice sharp edge. Then we can also add some leaves near this rose just to give a definition to the outline of the petals. Try to slightly wiggle your brush as you paint the outline so that you'll have a more natural curve. For this area, I just painted some green wavy lines and then I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away one side. We want more definitions for the petal right there. But we don't want to add more leaves because it will look too crowded. That's why I just painted some wavy lines using a green color and then we just faded away one side. You have a nice soft background and a nice soft flower, but we want it to pop up. What we can do is we can add some dark leaves around it. While these leaves are still wet and we're going to drop in a darker green color. You can see that it's giving more definition to that area. With the light green color in my brush, I'm just going to layer some leaves that will look like shadows. As I'm adding these leaves, the first layer is already dry. That's why you can see that the edges are sharp and crisp. Let's continue adding more leaves. You can see that I'm using a really faint color. It's a barely there color, but you know that there's a leaf right there. I used this technique if I don't want it to look too crowded, but at the same time I want a little bit of color in that area. If you look at this painting right now, you can see that it has more depth. The wet-on-wet technique that we did during the first part of this painting served as a background, and then the second layer that we did became the foreground. There's an illusion that some leaves are further away, some are nearer. You can also go back in to add some more details on the flowers. You can add a more pigmented color just to give more contrast. Of course, we can just fade it away if it looks too sharp. I'm going to add some more definition to this area. Let's add some more leaves. All right here we are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. This project just requires a little bit more patients because we have to wait for some layers to dry before we can paint on top of it. But I'm pretty sure that you did a good job. Now let us move on to the next video where we will paint a violet flower bouquet. 19. Day 15 Part One: Welcome to Day 15, and this is the last project. I hope that you'll enjoy this last painting that we are going to do today. We're going to split this project into two videos. The first part is just painting the base flowers and leaves, the second part is all about adding the details like adding the second layer of the flowers and adding some white pen details as well. It takes a bit more time to finish this because it's also a bigger bouquet and we're going to paint more flowers and we're also going to add more details. Let's paint the main roses first, and then we'll be adding those DC flowers beside it. Now let's start. Let's start with the colors, I'm using permanent violet, and then I also have a mixture of permanent violet with indigo. I'm going to grab permanent violet first, so we want a thick and pigmented mixture. This will be the center of the rose. Paint a comma stroke in the center, and then let's paint some thin C strokes all around it using the tip of our brush. Next, let's rinse our brush and just tap the excess water. Let's fade away the outer strokes using the same brush. I'm just going to paint more C curves. I'm using a size 6 round brush here because we're not going to paint a big rose. Now for the outer petals, I'm going to grab a little bit more permanent violet. You'll see it's a bit more pigmented. Then let's grab the permanent violet and indigo mixture. This one has a more blue tone to it. While the petals are still wet, I'm just going to go back in and fix the shape of this rose. Now let's move on to the second rose. I'm going to use permanent violet and indigo just so it won't look flat. I did not use permanent violet alone for the roses, I tried to add different colors to it so that it will be more interesting. It's easier to paint these tiny strokes if you're using a smaller brush. If you have a smaller brush, you can use that. Now let's just rinse our brush and fade away the outer strokes. Continue adding more petals and make sure that you leave spaces in-between your strokes. It's easier to paint on 100 percent cotton paper because the paint gets absorbed easily. Sometimes when you use a suited grid paper, your paint will just settle on top or it will not be absorbed right away. I'm just adding a little bit more color on the outer petals. Now we can also drop in a darker color in the center. This petal looks too dark, so let's grab a clean brush and just lift that color. You can also do that in the center of this rose. Let's move on to the third rose. You can see that this mixture has more indigo. I wanted this to be more on the blue side. We can still add a couple of more C strokes. Now we can rinse our brush and fade away the other petals. Use the remaining color in your brush to paint the other petals around the center. For a more in-depth tutorial on roses, you may check out my other class called the Ultimate Guide to Roses is also on Skillshare. We're done with the three main roses, now let's paint the DCs. I have here yellow ocher, paint some small dots until we form a round shape. Next with a really diluted indigo color, we're going to use that to paint the petals. Try not to touch the yellow parts so much because when they mix it becomes green, but we're going to keep this simple and maybe I'll just paint five petals here. If a petal looks too dark, just lift the color using a clean brush. Now to give this more depth, I'm going to grab some sepia and dab the excess moisture in a tissue paper. It looks too light, so I'm going to grab some more paint and dab the excess moisture. You want a really concentrated color for this part because we want to add contrast to this DC flower. Another way to paint DCs is to paint the petals first before you add the center. I have here just a very diluted indigo color. Now we're going to start painting five petals. [MUSIC] Now let's add a very concentrated yellow ocher for the center. You can see that it's bleeding into the petals. What we can do is we can grab a clean brush and dab the excess water in the brush, and then we can lift that color. We're trying to clean the petals, we don't want too much yellow on the petals. Now it looks good. I'm going to grab some sepia and just dab the excess moisture on the tissue paper. Using the tip of the brush, we are going to paint some small dots until we create a ring in the center. Now let's move on to the third DC. I'm still using the diluted indigo for the petals. Just make sure that you are adding a lot of water in your paint. We're going to use this very diluted indigo color to give an impression that this is a white flower. Now let's grab some yellow ocher again and add it to the center of the flower. While this flower is still wet, let's grab some sepia and add a ring of dots. We are dabbing the brush on the tissue paper because we don't want this color to spread all over the place. This is looking really good. Now let's add some fillers. Let's grab some lavender. I used to ignore this color before because I feel like it's too milky or a too pastel-like, but I realized that it's actually a beautiful color to add to bouquets as a filler. We're just adding some petal-like strokes. You can try to play around and just mix other colors with lavender. Try to vary the size of the petals that you're painting, and when you are done, you can add a stem to connect all of them together. Let's add one more filler. I'm using permanent violet, we can also add a little bit of lavender and mix it with that violet color. It looks good now we can add a stem using sap green and we can also add some leaves beside it. After adding a couple of leaves, I will stop right there and move on to another filler. When you see the shape, it still doesn't look that good, but it's okay because we are just trying to slowly build this bouquet. For more contrast, you can add indigo to your sap green, so that you can add some darker leaves, and then we can rinse our brush to create a lighter green color. When you are painting a bouquet, it's all about balance. You want to mix the light and dark colors so you can see that we're using some light-colored leaves, some are darker, also with the flowers, some are softer, some are bolder in color. I'm adding darker leaves near the DCs and I want to highlight them by adding contrast in that area. I just mix my sap green with some sepia to get that nice dark color. [MUSIC] Try to vary the pressure that you put on each leaf so that you can get a nice and unique shape. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to the bottom part of this bouquet, I'm going to add some leaves there. I added some sepia to my sap green so that I can get the dark color. You can also mix sap green and indigo. Near this rose, I'm just adding an outline, and then we're going to paint a darker leaf. Feel free to add some stem sticking out that will make this bouquet look more natural. It's now time to add the handle of this bouquet. I'm using sap green, and you're just going to paint some straight lines. Paint these strokes in different directions. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and just paint some strokes again. I'm also trying to pull some of the colors from the first few strokes that we did. This technique will give us a loose effect. You can see that there's a faded effect, and then you can also try to drop in a darker color, you can add indigo or a mix of sap green and indigo. Now that we have the handle of the bouquet painted, we can add some more leaves hanging. Try to experiment with different colors for the leaves, you can use just indigo, you can add violets to your greens. When you're adding a new color to your greens, make sure that this color is something that you have already used in the flowers or the fillers, and this is to create a good color harmony. Now let's paint using a lavender color. These are going to be fillers, so we can add them to areas where we need more violet or lavender. Let's add some flower buds that are really light in color. I actually mixed lavender with a little bit of green. You want just a little hint of color in there, painting these small details will really give a huge effect on the overall painting. [MUSIC] You just go all over this bouquet and look for areas where you need to add more leaves. You can take a photo of your painting now and look at it on your phone to see it from a different perspective. Don't forget to add some yellow-green strokes in between the flowers. This is to separate the flowers from each other. Adding this small detail will highlight each flower. [MUSIC] Just for the mixture of sap green and indigo, we can try to layer the handle of the bouquet, we can grab a clean brush, and just pull away some of the color. Now, let's move on to adding more details in the next video. [MUSIC] 20. Day 15 Part Two: [MUSIC] Welcome to part 2 of this project, and in this video we are going to add more details to our project. This rose is already dry and now we are going to add a second layer. I am mixing permanent violet and indigo for the second layer. Now let's starts at the center, and just add some tiny strokes around it. Let's rinse our brush and tap the excess water, and now we can start filling the outer petals. Just using whatever is left in our brush, we are going to use that to paint the bigger petals. We want these second layer petals to be translucent. Now let's move on to the second rose. I'm using the same mixture, it's permanent violet and indigo. We want the center to be quite dark. Now, let's rinse our brush. We are going to fill away the outer strokes. Now I'm holding my brush towards the end of the handle so that my strokes will be more loose. This is the third rose, I'm still using the same permanent violet and indigo mixture. When painting the second layer, it's better if you paint just a few petals first, just so we won't accidentally overwork the petals on the flower. You can play around with the ratio of permanent violet and indigo. You can see that in this flower I added a little bit more blue to it. We are done with the roses, now let's move on to the daisies and I have here sepia. Let's go back in and add some more color in the center of this flower. With a clean brush, we can pull away that color and let it move into the petals. My brush doesn't have any color in it, it's just water. You can see that we have a beautiful transition from the center going into the petals. Now let's move on to the second daisy, and if your brush has too much water in it, just blot it out on a tissue paper. Now let's start pulling away this color, and let it move into the petals. You also need to be careful when we're doing this technique. You need to make sure that you have just enough water in your brush or else you will have puddles on this flower. This flower needs a little bit more contrast, so let's grab some more sepia and blot out the excess paint. Let's do the same on the third daisy. Just going to drop in some sepia color, and then we're going to pull it away. [MUSIC] There's a white space right here, so I'm just going to add a little bit of green there. You can see that it made a huge difference. You can now see the shape of the petal. Let's now go around this bouquet and add some darker leaves. You can mix up green with indigo or sap green with sepia. You can also try to cover up some mistakes by layering it with some leaves. [MUSIC] This part right here doesn't look good, I'm just going to paint on top of it. You can just add some stems hanging out. You can also experiment by adding some violet leaves. [MUSIC] The handle of this bouquet is already dry, we can try to add some more details by painting some darker stems. Now let's grab this white pen, I'm using the Posca acrylic pen, and you're going to add detail. We can add some veins using this pen or add some fillers, paint some small dots or some berries. Adding these white details will level up this bouquet, and you will notice the difference later on when you see the entire bouquet. When you're adding these white details, don't add it on all the leaves because it will look too crowded. This will also look good on a darker background, so try to choose leaves that are darker in color. [MUSIC] I find that adding these small fillers of dots will make the bouquet look even more dainty. [MUSIC] You can also add some white lines on the lavender feathers. [MUSIC] This is optional, but you can also add some white dots on the daisies. [MUSIC] For the handle of this bouquet, let's add some detail. I'm going to just draw some round shapes that will look like pearls, and then you can put some smaller dots around these pearls. I guess when I painted this bouquet, it felt like a wedding bouquet, that's why I wanted to add some details on the handle. Try to vary the size of the dots, so you can see that I'm really pressing hard right here so that I can get a larger size. [MUSIC] The roses look too light, so I decided to add one more layer. It's the same permanent violet and indigo mixture. For the flowers to stand out, you do need to add a darker color in the center. The outer strokes are really translucent. Now let's move on to the other two roses. For the second rose, I'm going to leave it as is, and I won't fade that away anymore. But for this third rose, we are going to fade away the outer strokes. Now we are done, congratulations for finishing the entire class, and thank you for patiently painting each project. [MUSIC] I really wanted to prepare a more detailed project for the last day, because I think that after two weeks of painting, you have developed a muscle memory in your hand. This is a beautiful watercolor journey, now let's move on to the conclusion part of this class. [MUSIC] 21. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] We have reached the end of the class. It was a wonderful two-week journey with you. I hope that you enjoyed painting all the projects and that you have discovered using new colors that you can add to your watercolor palette. My advice for you guys is to really just enjoy the process of learning. Sometimes we can get frustrated when we make some failed paintings, but making mistakes is how we learn and how we improve. Every time you practice, you are one step closer to your goal. Keep up the good work. I encourage you to upload your projects in the project gallery section of this class so I can see your work. If you're going to upload it on Instagram, please don't forget to use this hashtag so that I can also see your work. Thank you again for joining this class and I hope to see your sketchbooks filled with beautiful artworks. I will see you in my next class. Bye. 22. Bonus Video Mother's Day Bouquet: In today's bonus video, we are going to paint a Mother's Day bouquet. But even if there's no occasion you can paint this beautiful bouquet as a gift. To start, we're going to paint the main flowers first. The flowers are facing in different angles. So you have rose that is top facing, another rule that's on its side. Then we have a flower that is facing at the back. After painting the main flowers, we're going to proceed with the leaves and the fillers. Let's start. Using a pencil, I'm just going to put some markings on the paper, and that is where the main flowers will be. Try to draw lightly because you don't want a lot of pencil markings on your painting. Let's start with the first color. I'm using permanent rose, and you a really pigmented mixture. I'm using a size 6 round brush and we're going to start with the center of the rows. Starting with the comma stroke in the center, and then you're going to paint some thin c strokes all around it. Just makes sure that you have some white spaces in between. You can try to vary the thickness of the strokes. Some can be thin, some can be thick. Now let's rinse our brush and tap the excess water. Let's fade the outer strokes. Let's add a couple more strokes. I'm just using the color in my brush and I'm constantly rinsing my brush so that I can get a lighter color. You can see that sometimes I'm just painting lines and then sometimes I am painting a broader stroke just like this. I'm doing this so that the flower will not look flat, so you want some variety in there. Because I'm using 100 percent cotton paper, the paper can easily absorb the water. But if you're using student grade paper, try to lessen the water in your brush so that it won't look patchy when it dries. Let's wait for that to dry. Let's move on to another flower. I'm just mixing here permanent rose and Burnt Sienna. This time we're going to paint a rose that is on its side and it's about to bloom. Then painted the same center stroke, the comma stroke, and now we're adding some thin lines. Now let's paint the flap over there. Then let's rinse our brush. You want to just fade away that stroke to make it look lighter. Then using the paint in my brush, I'm just trying to add more strokes to complete the shape of these rows. So we're going for the letter u shape over here. Now you can also add a little bit more color. I'm going to add it towards the edges. Then you can just use the tip of your brush to just fill in some smaller white gaps. Now we're done. Let's move on to the third flower. This is a flower that is facing at the back. We're going to paint the outline of the petals. Let's do three. Now let's rinse our brush. We are going to fade away those strokes because it looks too sharp and you want it to be quite soft and loose. When you are painting loose florals is all about adding water in the right way, and in the right amount. Now we can add some petals below that it will look like it's folded. I'm also making sure that I'm leaving a space right here where the petals meet. So when you are painting these petals try to dance with your brush, so it means that you want the strokes to be curved and not straight. Now we can add some more contrast. I'll just grab a more pigmented permanent Rose. I'm just dropping it in between the petals. Now we have the three main flowers. We're just going to grab some sap green and let's add the stem. You're adding the stems tried to make it a little bit curved so that it just looks more natural, and it will look like the flowers are dancing. We have a space right here on the lower left, and we're going to just fill it in with some smaller flowers. I'm using yellow ocher here. Let's do some four or three petal flowers. You can do it randomly. We're going to start with a light colored yellow paint. If you don't have yellow ocher, you can just use any yellow paint in your palette and just make sure it's a diluted in a lot of water. Now let's grab some sap green and add the small dots in the center of the flowers, and add some stems. Look at your painting from a far, and right now it feels like me to add a few more petals to make it look fuller. Now let's add some more contrast. I'm grabbing more pigmented yellow ocher. These flowers are still a little bit damp. They're not totally dry, just a little bit damp so that when you add the second layer, it blends in with each other. Now let's grab Greenish Yellow and you're going to paint an elongated bud. We can just add some more details later on when it dries up. But while it's still wet you can try to add a stem to it. I'm just going to add a few more stem sticking out beside it. Now let's add some leaves and then we change the sap green. What we can do is we can try to vary the green colors that we're going to use for this bouquet. You can do that by rinsing your brush so you can lighten the color. Or you can also add some brown sclera greens. Right here, I'm using just burnt umber and adding it to sap green, and that will give me a more earthy green color. I'm trying to add the leaves in-between the flowers. You can also add some stems sticking out. Now let's add some smaller fillers. I'm using ultramarine blue, so you can just tap your brush on the paper to create these petal strokes. Let's rinse our brush to fade away some of the strokes. I think we can add some more on the right side, so we're just trying to make it look more balanced. You can see I'm just trying to wiggle my brush to create these beautiful organic strokes. Just add a pop of color. We can add some smaller yellow flowers. I'm using just yellow ocher, but you can use any other yellow color in your palette. Now, we have to get some more sap green, and we're going to add some more stems towards the handle of this bouquet so it will look fuller. You can also add some indigo to your green paint if you want from darker stems. These bunch of yellow flowers are quite light in color and you want to emphasize these flowers. That's why we're adding some leaves all around this flower. It's now time to add some more fillers. I'm using a really diluted cerulean blue and indigo color. It's very important to add a lot of water to your mixture because when this dries up it will look like some white small flowers. You can actually just use indigo or if you don't have indigo, use another blue color and just add a lot of water. Maybe just tapping my brush onto the paper to create these small dots and then we're going to add some stems to attach to it. The main flowers are already dry, so now it's time to add a second layer. I'm using just permanent rose and crimson lake to really just try to paint some smaller details, some thin lines. Now I'm going to rinse our brush. It doesn't look pretty right now, but once you try to fade away those strokes it will look a lot better. For the outer area of these rows, you want your paint to be quite translucent because we want these rows to look really soft. We only want the center to have more details and to be more pigmented. You can just grab some more water to fade away some of the outer strokes. Let's move on to the second flower. I'm mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna. Again, you want to have a really pigmented mixture. I am further following just the strokes underneath and then now let's just fade it away. I'm going to rinse my brush and then we can try to fix the shape of this rose. You can also add a few more strokes. This is also a good way to bring back that color to the flower. This rose is still wet. I'm just going to add a little bit of green towards the base. Let's move on to this flower facing at the back. You want to paint some darker strokes in between the petals. What we're doing is we are separating the petals, but this looks too sharp. What we have to do is we have to rinse our brush and just fade away one side of that stroke to make it look softer. Moving on to the elongated bud, let's add some veins. I'm just using sap green. You don't want this color to be too dark. This is a good way to add more detail to your bouquet. Another tip for bouquets is to add some more contrast by adding some dark fillers. I'm using just indigo and I'm tapping my brush to create some darker fillers. This will make the flowers pop up even more. Now we're just adding a few more details. We're extending some leaves, adding some stems, and we're also filling in some white gaps in-between the flowers. Looking at this from afar, we will need just to add a few more fillers. We want the fillers to have different heights. Some are taller than the other. This will make it look more organic. You can also try to add some more stems on the handles of the bouquet. You can add some more water to make it look faded. You can actually stop right here, but if you want to add more detail you can grab a white pen or a white gouache. I'm using this POSCA acrylic pen, and I'm just adding some small details like some small flowers. We can add some white veins or add some white berries. Let's add this on the leaves. We need a background that is quite dark in color so that the white paint or white pen will show up. Adding this detail will give your bouquet more texture and just more depth as well. We're done with the white details, but I'm just going to add a few more fillers. I really want this to look like a spray of small flowers. Then we can add a second layer to the blue fillers. Just grab a more pigmented blue color and paint it on top of the first layer to give it more depth. These are the small details that you can add to your bouquet, but it will really make a big difference on the entire output of your project. That's it. Now we are done. Congratulations for finishing this bouquet. I hope that you enjoy this bonus project. You can definitely try to experiment with different colors as well. That's it. Bye. 23. Bonus Video Blue Floral Wreath: Welcome to a bonus video, and today we are going to paint a wreath. This was intended to be a father stay wreath. That's why I chose blue for the main color of this wreath. But even if you are not celebrating and acacia and you can still paint this wreath. To start the painting, Let's do the main flowers. I'm going to start with this blue rows. And then we'll move on to the greenish yellow five petaled flower. And then we'll add some more smaller flowers, fillers and leaves. Alright, now let's start. To make it easier for you. You can use a pencil and just draw some circles that will serve as your guide when you're painting the main flowers. The first color that we need is Prussian blue. You can use other colors in your palette. So I want a nice, bold and very pigmented mixture. I'm also using a size six round brush. Now let's pinpoint the center of the rows are going to paint a comma stroke all around it. I'm going to paint some thin C curves. So just make sure that we leave white spaces in between your strokes. Also try to vary the thickness of each stroke. Next, let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water, and then you are going to fade away the outer strokes. And at the same time we are painting bigger petals. So I still have too much color in my brush. I'm going to dip it in the water jar and rinse it. Okay, so I think that looks better. If you feel that it's still too dark, you can continue rinsing your brush so that you get a lighter color. We're just going to continue and build this flower, make it bigger. Just keep on adding C curves. Later on you're going to add the second layer just to give it more depth. Alright, This looks good. Let's move on to the smaller flowers I'm going to use the color blue is like a bluish violet in creamy color. So I'm just going to paint some four petaled flowers. If you don't have this color, don't worry, you can always substitute it with other colors in your palette. You can use cerulean blue or cobalt blue, just make sure that you dilute it in a lot of water so that the color will become softer. So now I just grab a little bit of violet and I'm just going to quickly add that to some of the petals while it's still wet. I'm using a more pigment where editor blue, That's why this flower looks darker. So another option if you don't have this color is just to add white gouache to any of your blue colors in your palette. That will give you a nice pastel blue color. You'll notice that I'm actually adding different number of petals for each flower just to give it more variety. Now while the flowers are still wet, Let's grab some sap green. And then we're just going to add a stem. So I'm just going to attach it to this rose. Let's now paint the second flower. I'm going to do a four petaled flower here. If you don't have greenish yellow, we can just simply mix yellow and green to achieve this color. So I decided to add a pop of color in this wreath. That's why I included greenish, yellow. Definitely, you can use a different color like violet or integral. Alright, all the battles are complete. Now let's add the center. I'm going to grab indigo. I'm just going to drop that in the center and just let it bleed into the petals. So we have the main flowers ready, but we need this to be more balanced. I'm going to bring that greenish-yellow to the other side. But instead of painting another flower, we're just going to paint some fillers. I'm going to grab a really pigmented greenish-yellow. And you're just going to paint some small dots just like this and add some stamps. You can also try to vary this by adding a different shade of green. This looks good. Now let's move on to preparing our green colors. I'm gonna be mixing sap green and burnt umber. This will give us a nice earthy green color. Next we can make sap green and indigo. If you want a dun color. This way, all the readings will be prepared on our palette and it will be easier to add the leaves. Okay, let's start adding the leaves. I'm going to start with the sap green and burnt umber color. Let's start with just a few leaves over here. And then using the tip of the brush, create some more lines. So this will look like just stem sticking out. They don't have to be connected to one another. Just think of it as a guide so that you know what the overall shape will be. Tried to also wiggle your brush and just paint some different brush markings. You can see I'm leaving some spaces in between the strokes. And that's where I can put some smaller flowers or fillers. We're not going to close this wreath. We're going to leave an opening just to make it look more interesting. Now that we have the rupture, we can add some leaves in-between the main flowers. I'm gonna be using sap green, but feel free to use a different color. Right here I'm going to add mixture of sap, green and indigo. Say I want this to be quite dark. Just to make these flowers pop up even more. I am alternately adding leaves and stems. We are not going to add a lot of details right here. We can just go back in later on. We just wanted to establish the main leaves first. To create a more wispy type of leaf, I am going to use my size six round brush. Usually the smaller brushes will help you create nice pointy leaves. I did go back in and add some darker leaves. Now I'm adding some really faint color leaf because we want to change the value. We want a mix of dark and light colored leaves. The leaves will also look a lot better if you try to change the angle or just change the direction of the leaves, you want to make it look like they are dancing on this wreath. Let's move on to a different color. I'm using John Brilliant. You can also add a little bit of that yellow ocher. This color has a creamy consistency. It has some white in it. It's almost like gouache. So I'm just adding some smaller flowers, some are just petals. We'll give it a really soft effect. So if you don't have this color, you can just use gouache and your yellow watercolor paint. If you don't have gouache, then you can just use any yellow color in your palette. You can add just a little bit of that brown color just to tone it down a little bit and add a lot of water to make it lighter. I'm just alternately adding these yellow flowers. You don't want it to be too overcrowded. Now, I'm just attaching it to the main wreath. While these flowers are still wet, you can see that there's some bleeding over there. Looking at this from afar, I think we need to add some more fillers. Going to be using greenish yellow. Let's just add some more of that filler. I'm just painting some small dots and some stems. So we want some more contrast. And to do that, I'm going to grab indigo. Then we want a nice thick mixture because you want it to be really dark. I'm just going to add it in between the fillers that we did. We just want to add more definition to some areas. Using the tip of the brush, you can try to just tap it on the paper to create these smaller strokes. That will also be a good filler. I think we can add a little bit more blue to the arms of this wreath. I'm still using words that are blue. I'm just adding a lot of water to thin it down. You can just paint some small petals in some white gaps. Okay, I think it looks more balanced now. Now let's move on to adding a second layer to our flowers. I'm using a darker Prussian blue color, so this is just more pigment. And then painting on top of the first layer. Okay, so now I'm just going to add some thin lines over there and then we're going to rinse our brush. Just tap the excess water, and then fade away the outer stroke. So it's still dark. I'm going to try to just rinse my brush a little bit more. Now let's just try to spread that color. We want the second layer to be translucent and then add some more petals. But at the same time you can still see the first layer. Right now I'm just trying to spread some of the colors to make it look better. Now let's grab some greenish yellow. This one is a bit more diluted. Let's add a second layer by adding some brush markings. This is also a good way to bring back that color to the flower. So we need to add more contrast. I just grabbed indigo again and we'll add it in the center of the flower. Now if you want, you can also add some indigo to the small flowers, but that is completely optional. Service time. Now for some finishing touches, I'm going to add some more leaves. I'm using just sap green and CPR. I don't want this nice Smokey green color. I'm also going to paint on top of some of the leaves to make sure that the first layer of leaves are already dry before you there with another set of leaves. Sometimes you have these small white gaps in between the flowers. You can just use a green color and just put some small markings. You can immediately see that this made the flowers pop up even more. It's a small detail that makes a huge difference. Okay, So we need a little bit more green over here. I'm just going to add a few more fillers. It's best to take a photo of your painting and look at it on your phone so that you can see it from a different perspective. It will also help you decide if you need to add some fillers or leaves in some areas. We are now done. You can add a code or just a Father's Day greeting in the center of this wreath. I hope that you enjoy this bonus video. You can definitely recreate this painting and a different color. You can also use white gouache to add some white details. So that's it. Thank you again for watching. I hope to see you in my next class. Bye.