15-day Watercolor Floral Exploration: Create Stunning Color Combinations

1. What is this class about?: [MUSIC] One of the ways to get comfortable with painting florals intuitively is to practice and to try out new color combinations. I have always been a believer that practice makes progress. Since we are in the progress stage, you also need to continuously learn and hone our calf. Last year, I did a 15 day watercolor challenge based on single color prompts and simpler floral paintings. It was a huge hit amongst students. This year, I'm in another exciting challenge as we paint flowers and learn how to create stunning color combinations. This class is suitable for students who have been painting for a while and would like to practice some more. But if you are a beginner, don't worry because I have designed this class in such a way that you can follow along as I paint. [MUSIC] Hi, my name is Jolly and I'm a watercolor artist, an online art educator based in the Philippines. I have been painting for about nine years already. My art revolves around painting loose watercolor florals. I love how I'm able to make a creative interpretation of nature and put it on paper. You can also see my work on products such as tote bags and coffee pouches. Here on Skillshare, my classes focus on breaking down difficult watercolor techniques into easy steps for beginners. Looking back when I was starting out in watercolor, I would choose a color combination before I start painting on the paper. I realized that by doing so, it gave me direction and how I will paint the flowers on that day and how it will flow on the paper. In this class, I will first share with you the materials that you need. You will learn basic floral elements to equip you in painting the projects, as well as different watercolor techniques that you can apply to different subjects. Selecting a color palette can set the overall tone in your painting. In this class, you will learn how the choose color combinations to create stunning floral arrangements, as well as how to draw inspiration from reference photos. Each day for two weeks, we will explore a new color combinations and different floral compositions such as bouquets, wreaths, and single stems. In each project, you will learn why the flowers are laid out in a certain way and how each color evokes in different emotion. The goal of this class is to help you hone your floral painting skills, improve the muscle memory in your hand, and to be more comfortable in trying out new colors. All right, I will see you in class. 2. Class Project Overview: [MUSIC] Welcome to the class projects overview. This is a multi-day challenge class, which means that once the class is live, I will be posting one project per day for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, all the projects will have been uploaded on the Skillshare site. You can choose to paint one project per day every day, or you can do it at your own pace. Now let's check out what we will paint in this class. On the first day we're going to use yellow and violet. Typically the first project in any of my classes is the easiest and simplest and that's because I want this to be a warm-up exercise for you. Next, we're going to use the colors dusty blue and green and we're going to paint single stems in this arrangement. I'm going to teach you how to achieve this muted blue color in this project. When I shared this photo of the flower on Instagram, so many people messaged me wanting to learn how to paint it. On day 3 we're going to use pink and yellow. I also want you to be able to explore different floral compositions in this class. For this project, we're going to paint a heart-shaped wreath. On day 4 we're going to explore a triadic color palette. These are colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. I'm going to explain it in a different video. We're going to use pink, yellow, and blue. On day 5 we're going to paint using muted pink and gray. I'm using potters pink, which is a color that a lot of students have been asking to include in this class. But don't worry, I'm also going to teach you how to mix a different blush pink, or muted pink color for this project. This is another single stem arrangement, we are going to use the color white. I know it can be quite difficult to achieve the white color so that is what I'm going to teach you in this project. On day 7, we are going to explore monochromatic floral arrangement. We're using only one color, which is indigo, to achieve this painting. To change the floral composition a little bit, we're going to paint a wreath for day 8 and we're going to use the colors magenta and white. I really love this composition. This is a mixture of white, dusty red, and plum. You can see the beautiful combination of really light colored flowers with some contrasts using the plum color. On day 10, we are going to explore a different combination. This is magenta with some browns. We don't have the usual greens for the leaves were using brown instead. On day 11 we are going to paint this beautiful pattern using magenta, blush pink, and grayish white. On day 12 we are going to use yellow, blue, and white. I love this bouquet, it has that summer feel. Just by using colors, were able to express certain emotions or experiences and even seasons. For day 13 we are going to paint using peach, blue, and yellow. The colors used in this bouquet just gives that spring vibe. For day 14, we're going to explore using violet, dusty rose, and plum. Now, this is a different combination that I don't normally use, but I'm really happy to be able to explore this color combination. These are my favorite for the last day, this is a combination of blush pink and indigo. I love how it gives a romantic feel. It's soft pink and navy blue combination gives a really striking floral arrangement. Now that we have seen all the projects, I hope that this will make you excited to paint everyday. Now, let's move on to the next video where we will learn about the materials that we need. [MUSIC] 3. Materials: So let's talk about the materials that you need. First we need brushes. I am using silver brush, black velvet, and it's in Size 6 and 8. These are my absolute favorite brushes. If you have been following me on Instagram, you can see that I use this all the time. I love these brushes because they are perfect for loose florals. You want a brush that can hold a lot of water and still keep its point. This is a brush that is made of squirrel hair with synthetic hair. I love how it's soft with a little bit of bounds so that you can create expressive strokes. Next we need paper. I am going to use BaoHong Artist' Grade Watercolor paper. This is 100 percent cotton paper and the thickness is 300 gsm. This is also called press paper. You can see that there is some texture on the paper which is also perfect for loose florals because it can absorb enough water. Now you might have heard of the term hot press paper. That is a different type of watercolor paper which is very smooth. You can use that for realistic botanicals. But for loose florals, I do suggest using cold press paper. You can also purchase large sheets of watercolor paper and just cut it on your own. This size is perfect for me. It's 7 by 10 inches. It's good for your daily paintings. Another brand of paper that I love is Saunders Waterford. It's cold press also, it's 300 gsm thickness. This is in high white, which means that the paper is really white. If you're on a budget, this is the best student grade paper that I have tried. It's also from BaoHong. This is the academy line or the student grade line. This is also 100 percent cotton paper and also called press. I actually enjoy painting on this paper as well. It also has just the right amount of texture for you to paint on when you want to create loose florals. Next, we need watercolor paint. I am using the brand Shinhan PWC. It comes in tubes like this. I just pour them into smaller half pans because it's more convenient for me to use paints in that way. If you paint larger paintings, you can definitely use the paint straight out of the tube. But since most of the time I paint small to medium-sized paintings, I prefer half paints. From my experience, this paint brand dries up really well on half paints. You can see that it's still glossy and moist. It's easy to pick up the paint or the pigment. But definitely you can use any brands of paint that you have at home. You don't need to buy a new set. What you want is to really just practice daily for this class. We also need a mixing palette. This is just the lid off my metal tin right here, is from the brand called Watercolors. I love the little wells in this palette, but definitely you can use just a ordinary ceramic plate or use any ceramic watercolor palette like this. Some people even use the resin watercolor palettes. Definitely just use whatever you have at home. Next we need gouache. I'm using the brand Holbein gouache in permanent white. We're going to use gouache to add some white details. Just look at this painting. You can see the small flowers there. We use white gouache to add that. You can see that it really gave more depth and just more character to the painting. You can also prepare tissue paper to blot out the excess water in your brush and also a cup of water. That's it. Let's now move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 4. Color Schemes: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about different color schemes. These are basic color combinations that will help create stunning floral arrangements. There are a lot of color schemes, but I'm going to discuss just the basic ones just to get you started with creating your own color palettes. I would really recommend to get a color wheel like this, but you can also find a lot of color wheels online. The first one is called monochromatic. We're going to use just one color or one hue. From one color you can create from light to dark just like in this color wheel. I'm going to show you an example of a painting that we're going to do. This is the monochromatic project that we will paint. I used only indigo in this painting. It's also is a good exercise to understand shadow and light when it comes to painting flowers. Let's move on to the next one, which is called a complementary color. Now these are colors that are on the opposite side of the wheel. You can see here, yellow and violet are on the opposite sides of the color wheel. This combination really creates stunning and a bold floral painting. On day 1 you're actually going to paint this complementary color. You can see how the yellow really pops up because it is combined with violet. You can definitely play around and try different color combinations. Let's move on to the next one, and it's called analogous colors. They are a three to four colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. You can see right here you can mix red, red-orange, and orange. You can also mix blues. You can do blue, blue-violet, and violet. Just let me show you one of my favorite books right now. It's called the Flower Color Theory. You can see a lot of examples of flower arrangements here, using color schemes to better give you an idea. This is an analogous floral arrangement. The colors are red, orange, peach, and purple. You can see that it's a beautiful color combination. This one is lilac, purple, plum, and mauve. You can definitely notice how visually appealing it is because they are all beside each other on the color wheel. The next color is accent color. This color is used for emphasis. You can see right here that you have some white flowers and some plum colored flowers. You can do some color blocking as well for the accent color. You can see this is a mix of light and dark, so there's nice contrast here. For our project, one of the examples would be this blush and navy blue color. I used this dark color to emphasize this beautiful and delicate soft pink color. We also have something called triadic colors. These are three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. Just imagine drawing a triangle on this color wheel and you'll get three colors. You use that for the triadic color palette. This is an example. Here you can see peach, blue, and gold. In this class, we are going to paint this simple floral arrangement using the triadic color palette. Using pink, yellow, and blue. The last color scheme with and want to discuss with you is something that I have come up with after painting for so long. That is using your intuition. The color schemes that I have discussed previously are just a guide for you. It's definitely a good way to explore color combinations that way. But at the same time, feel free to use your creative freedom to add colors that feels right for you. Since for me art is subjective, there is no right or wrong way to use colors. As for me, I'm just showing you some examples. I love mixing muted colors or light colored flowers with darker flowers and to fill in areas and make the bouquet look fluffy. I love adding gray-ish leaves. It just really complements the overall floral painting. This is something that I have learned after a lot of trial and error with painting flowers. Another way for me to learn more about color combination is to use seasons. For example, this painting feels like summer to me. You can ask yourself what objects remind me of summer or spring. From there, you can think of the colors that you can relate to that object. That's it. Let's now move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 5. Watercolor Techniques: [MUSIC] Let's talk about the watercolor techniques that we will be applying in our projects. Now, if you have been painting for a while, I think you can skip this part, but if you're a beginner or somebody who wants a refresher course, then please keep on watching. The first technique is called wet on dry. It just means that your brush is wet and the paper is dry. Let's try painting some simple leaves. Wet on dry is the easiest watercolor technique. If you want to add details, you use the wet on dry technique because this produces a crisp and sharp edges. You can see that the edges of the leaves look clean and really sharp. That's the effect of wet on dry again. Now the next technique is called wet on wet. Wet on wet means that your brush is wet and the paper is also wet. To demonstrate this, I'm just going to paint water on the paper. I did add a little bit of color just so that you can see it. You can apply this to painting landscapes, but sometimes we use it also for loose florals. You can see right here that the effect is quite soft. Once I lay down my strokes, it disperses in the wet paper. You can do this technique if you want the petals to have a soft effect. It however, does take time to practice or to master this technique, because you have to learn how to control the water, how to control the paint. With the wet on wet technique, sometimes the outcome is just not as predictable compared to doing wet on dry. Now let me show you another way how we can apply wet on wet to florals. Right here I'm just painting some petals and I wanted to be really wet. Next, while this flower is still wet, we're going to grab another color. I'm going to put it in the center and just let it bleed into the petals. It's very beautiful because the two colors just blend in with each other and it looks very seamless. The next technique is called fading. If you have been following me for a while, you will know that I use this technique a lot. Just grab a very pigmented mixture and paint some strokes like this. Next you can clean your brush and tap the excess water. We're going to fade away one side of this stroke, just lightly touch the edge of that stroke. You'll immediately see that you have a softer effect on the right side of the stroke. On the left side, it still remains to be sharp and clean. I do use this technique for painting the petals of roses. It's also a way to add some details to your flowers just like this. Let me paint some C-shape strokes. You can see it's very pigmented, but we are going to soften that with a clean brush. I'm just going to touch one side of that stroke. You can see that there's an illusion of additional petals on this rose. Before we start with the bleeding technique, let's go to adding gouache. I'm just going to paint some really dark leaves and we're going to wait for that to dry. Just to save time, I'm doing this in advance. You can paint on your paper as well. This needs to be really dark because you need contrast when you're adding gouache to your flowers or leaves. Now let's move on to bleeding. With bleeding, you need a really bold color. I'm going to use permanent rose and I'm going to paint a petal. After you've painted this really dark colored petal, you're going to rinse your brush and just tap the excess water. Next we're going to paint another petal on the side and we're going to lightly touch that colored petal, and you can see the colors bleeding into the clean water petal. That is called bleeding. Now, I can paint another dark petal on the side. What's beautiful about this technique is that it gives contrast to your flowers or leaves, and it makes your painting look more interesting and it looks like the flower is glowing. Next, let's talk about the technique lifting. We use lifting when you want to add highlights to our subject, or if you want to erase something. I'm going to show you how you lift the color of the paper. First, we're going to paint a simple flower, and this needs to be very pigmented. Now, I'm going to just rinse my brush, tap the excess water. I'm going to grab tissue paper as well and blot out the excess moisture, and I'm going to lift the color, you can see what happened just right there. Now, this is going to work if the petals are all still wet. It can still work on dry watercolor paintings, but it will be a little bit difficult to do that. The best time is that when the petals are still a little bit damp. You can see right here, I can even add veins using this technique. Next, let's go to layering. I'm just going to paint first just a very light colored flower. You can use a diluted indigo if you want. It has to be quite light so that you can see the layers later on. Now, when it comes to layering, you want the first layer to be dry already before you add another layer on top. Right here, I'm just painting the first layer and I'm going to leave it to dry. While waiting, let's check out the adding gouache technique. Now this leaf is already dry, we can now add some white gouache. I do add a little bit of water to thin down the gouache so that it's just easier to mix. But don't add too much water because it will make the gouache transparent. We want this to be really opaque. Right here, I'm just painting some small flowers. This is another way to add white flowers to your painting. I use this white gouache for painting fillers as well, or veins on the leaves. The trick is that the background needs to be really dark for the white gouache to pop up. Let's move back to layering. This flower is already dry, we can add a second layer. For the second layer, you want the color to be a shade or too darker than the base flower. I'm just mixing my colors. Let's just try to swatch it on the side so you can see that it's darker than the base color. For the second layer, you can add just veins or you can add petals. Right here, I'm just painting some thin veins on the flower and it will give it more depth and more character. I'm also leaving some spaces in between my strokes. I do want to still see the base flower, so I'm not really trying to cover the base color, we're just adding on top of it. These are the basic watercolor techniques that we need to learn. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn some basic floral shapes. [MUSIC] 6. How to Draw Inspiration from Reference Photos: [MUSIC] In this lesson let's talk about how to draw inspiration from reference photos. Number 1, you can ask yourself, what feeling is the photo showing? This floral arrangement gives a romantic feeling for me because of the colors used. Number 2, choose the main flowers. These are typically the biggest blooms in the floral arrangement, that's why they catch your attention. Number 3, add unique characteristics. I really love the petals of the blush pink flowers, and so I want to translate that into my florals by adding some expressive strokes. Number 4, you don't need to copy all the flowers. I really want to highlight just the blush pink flowers. You can see the photo that you have these more of roses. Instead of painting roses, I decided to simplify and just paint three or four-petal flowers only. Number 5, use your intuition. I know it's easier said than done, but the more you practice, the more you will understand how things work. If you're still having a hard time, don't worry because it is just a phase. When it comes to composition, I usually say that it's best to start in the middle if you're just a beginner. But if you want to be more creative, I would suggest placing the first flower in a different section of the paper other than the center. This will help you think out of the box on how you will arrange the flowers on the paper, and which colors to use. I hope that these tips were able to give you a better understanding of how the draw inspiration from reference photos. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn more about basic watercolor techniques. [MUSIC] 7. Watercolor Flowers: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to discuss how to paint different floral shapes. In this class, we are going to be painting roses, five-petaled flowers, also pumice. What we need to also learn is how to manipulate our brush to create really nice expressive brush strokes. That's what we're also going to learn in this part of the class. I included this lesson in the class because some of you might be beginners, but if you have been painting for a while, I think you can skip this part and go straight to the projects. Let's start. I'm going to be using a really diluted indigo color. You want a nice juicy brush. We're going to start painting five-petaled flowers. Just use the side of the brush. Try to press the brush onto the paper so that you can get a really broad stroke and then moving it up and down now you can use the tip of the brush to create some thin lines. To create a jagged edge petal, you can lay your brush flat on the paper and try to wiggle it. You can see that the pointed side of the brush is facing the outer part of the petal. You can see that there's a difference. You have a rounded tip petal here and one that has a jagged edge. Just by changing the way we use our brush, we're able to create a different petal. While this flower is still wet, let's grab some sap green or any green color. I'm going to add it in the center. This will add a beautiful contrast in the center of the flower. Right in the middle that's with a really dark indigo color. We'll let it blend in with the green part in the center. Let's move on to painting another five-petaled flower. It's just going to be a different style. Right here, I'm using Crimson Lake. You can use any other color. Make sure that you have a really concentrated mixture. This is a dark reddish-pink color. Now I have one petal here and I'm going to rinse my brush to just tap the excess water. Then we're going to touch the side of this petal and let that color bleed into the water. I think I can grab a little bit more color. Now let's paint one more petal right there. You can see I'm also trying to move my brush up and down. What we're doing here is we want to mix dark-colored petals with lighter ones just to make the flower look more interesting so that it doesn't look flat. For the last petal, I'm grabbing some water and just letting the colors bleed into this wet petal. Now you can grab some more color and drop it in some of the petals. This is just a simple technique, but it really makes a huge difference overall. If you feel like some petals need a little bit of highlight, you can do the lifting technique. I'm going to blot out the excess water in my brush and just absorb the paint on the petal. You can see just what happened there. It became lighter. I also use this technique for erasing areas that I don't like. Now, let's move on to one of my favorite flowers, which is a rose. You can use any color that you have in your palette. I'm just using this Crimson Lake as well. We start with a C stroke in the center. You see the tip of the brush create some thinner C strokes all around. It is like they're hugging the center. Make sure that you have some spaces in between your strokes. I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away the outer strokes while creating bigger size petals. You can see I'm really pressing my brush to create a broad stroke. Then sometimes you can use just the tip of your brush to create some lines to fill in some odd white gaps. Because I want this flower to be on its side or at an angle, we're going to add more petals towards the bottom part. If you want more depth, you can grab a bit of color and just add some C strokes while the flower is still wet, it will give a nice loose effect. You can see the center of the flower is in the upper third of this entire flower. That will give it an illusion that it is on its side. Now if you want a top-facing flower, then make sure that the center of the flower is really in the middle of the flower. Now let's move on to painting arrows, but that is on its side. I'm going to grab permanent yellow deep. You can use any color, of course. We're going to start with our comma stroke. Next, I'm going to paint some really thin lines. What we want is an oval shape for the center. Next, we're going to paint this flap and then the body of the flower. Right now we're like creating the outline of the flower. Now I'm going to fade it away to make it look soft. Let's get a clean brush and just fade away this line. You can see that now it looks very soft. While you are fading, the strokes are also trying to fix the shape of the flower to make it look nicer. If you want more color, go ahead and add some more color while this flower is still wet. Now, this needs more contrast. I'm going to grab some burnt sienna just add it in the center and just let the colors bleed into the petals. You can see that it looks really beautiful. Now you can just go ahead and add a stem just to better visualize this. I'm going to clean this up with a damp brush so that it doesn't look too harsh. You want these two colors to blend. Now, the next flower is called an English rose. I've taught this in a separate class. You can check that out. What we need is a really concentrated color. I'm using just a mixture of permanent rose in yellow. Right now I'm painting some S strokes. It looks like they are in a spiral. Now, let's rinse our brush, tap out the excess water, and I'm going to just fade away these strokes. We don't need to fade all the S strokes. You can leave some as is. From the S stroke you can see I'm dragging my brush and just creating a rounded tip. Continue adding these C-shaped strokes to create this round shape flower. I'll try to vary the strokes. Some are fat, some are thin. Some can be just lines. If some strokes are too bold or too heavy, you can go ahead and lift the color or try to fade it away. Now I'm going to grab a darker orange color and add it in the center while this flower is still wet. This will give it more contrast. But another way to add contrast to this flower is to add a second layer. Let me show you how to layer some of the flowers using the layering technique. For this light blue flower, I'm going to grab a diluted indigo color. Again, we want a shader too darker than the base color. Using the tip of my brush, I'm just going to create some veins. Adding a second layer prevents the flower from looking flat. Let's add a secondary to this rose. I'm using Crimson lake or use any dark pink color. We're going to paint some thin C strokes. Use the tip of your brush so that you can gently create these nice wispy strokes. Now with a clean brush, we can try to soften the edges of these strokes. You can see that we're doing the fading effect. One side is sharp, the other side looks off. Next, let's do a peony. If you have taken any of my classes before, you probably know how to paint this peony. Using a pencil I just marked a letter V right there, and that will be my guide on where the petals will be. I'm using brilliant pink with a little bit of this yellow ocher to create a nice pastel color. You can definitely use other colors. Permanent rose is a nice pink color for peonies. I'm going to start with one petal on the side and another one just across this petal. It looks like a letter V. Now I do want a little bit of space in between them. Next, we're going to paint the top petal. You are going to paint this a little bit bigger compared to the first two petals that we did. I'm also going to leave a space in the center because we were going to add some details there later. Now let's do the side petals. I'm just going to slightly wiggle my brush to create these strokes. Now we just want to follow the outline of the petals from the letter V. Don't worry, you can always go back to fix it or add some lines to make the shape look nicer. Next, let's do the petals at the bottom part. I'm going to do two petals and again, there's a space in between the petals. I do find it easier to paint peonies if the brush is really wet so I can maneuver the strokes and the shape of the petals. For some shadowing, you can use a darker pink. Just add it where the petals meet because that's where the shadow will be. Now for the center, grab permanent yellow deep, or use any yellow in your palette, it's okay. I'm going to put some tiny strokes in the center. You'll notice that it's bleeding into the petals. Now let's not worry about this. It doesn't look as nice right now, but we're going to add a second layer later on. I just added a little bit of burnt sienna because this needs more contrast. Just wait for this to dry and once it's already dry, you can add more details. I'm using the same brilliant pink and yellow ocher mixture. I'm going to paint some thin lines. This will help separate the petals. Just be gentle with adding these strokes because we don't want to cover the first layer entirely. We want to leave some of it behind. It should still peek through the flower. For the center, you can use burnt sienna or any brown color in your palette, you just want something darker. I'm going to add some thin lines and some small dots as well. We are done. Now we know the basic floral shapes let's now move on to painting leaves. [MUSIC] 8. Watercolor Leaves: [MUSIC] In this lesson, let's talk about painting simple leaves that you can use for your floral projects. Let me show you a simple leaf stroke. I'm using the color sap green to start with a thin stem and then slowly press your brush and then lift towards the end of the stroke. Now, don't forget to drag your brush so that you can get a nice leaf shape. Again, press, drag and then lift towards the end. You can also do a two-stroke leaf just like this if you want bigger leaves. It all depends on your preference. Next, we can add a little bit of brown to our greens. You can use burnt umber or any other brown color to give it a nice, earthy green color. Now, this is another technique where you can wiggle your brush to create a nice organic shape. This is also one of my favorite techniques to do. That was very quick. Next, we're going to try painting some elongated leaves. Just use the tip of your brush and just slightly press it and then drag and lift. You can also try to wiggle your brush to just add some movement to the leaves. I'm going to keep on adding until I fill in this leaf. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter shade, just like this. It's always nice to vary the value. It means that some leaves are darker, some leaves are lighter in color. Feel free to use different parts of the brush to create unique brush markings that will look like leaves. You can try to stamp your brush onto the paper. You can use just a tip. It doesn't really have to look like the usual leaves that we see in nature. You can, of course, do your own interpretation. Let's try another one. You can try painting it in a curve manner. Just try to experiment and sway your brush to create more movement. Usually adding these types of leaves as a filler to my bouquet. If you want a eucalyptus shape, you can also do this by pressing your brush onto the paper to make that elongated shape. One of my favorite leaf exercises is to hold the brush towards the end of the handle. I think it's one of the best ways to create expressive leaves. Because you're somewhat letting go of your brush and letting it do its thing on the paper. You can see those nice wispy leaves. You can add that as a filler as well. I definitely recommend trying out this technique to help you better understand how to work with your brush. Aside from leaves, you can also do this for painting petals of the flowers. Again, when you're painting leaves it's always nice to vary the colors. They use different shades of green to make it look more interesting. That's it. It's a pretty quick tutorial. Now let's move on to painting our projects. [MUSIC] 9. Day 1 Overview: [MUSIC] This is Day 1 and in this project, we are going to explore using two colors, which are yellow and violet. They are complementary colors. To give you a better idea, here is a reference book. You can see how stunning it looks to mix these two colors because they are on the opposite sides of the color wheel. Now let me show you some of the colors that we will use. I'll be using permanent yellow light, but definitely you can use any yellow in your color palette. Next, we're going to use permanent violet. This is a nice strong color. It has more blue in it. I'm going to show you another violet. This is called Mineral Violet. It has more pink in it. Then you just mix this color on the palette. You'll see right here, once I swatch it on the paper, you'll notice that it's different from permanent violet. Next, we're going to use a little bit of that lavender. You can use this lavender color to add some fillers. This is a good way to start before you paint your flowers, you can try this, swatch it on the paper first. Let's move on to the next video and start painting our project. [MUSIC] 10. Day 1 Project: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 1, and this is the project that we will be painting for today. So we're going to start with something simple. We're going to paint five-petal flowers. We're going to start with the two big yellow flowers then we'll work on the violet flowers. You can see that instead of painting all big five-petal flowers, I decided to add some smaller five-petal flowers in the upper left part of this painting. That's because it already looks too heavy on the bottom part, so I want the upper part of the painting to be lighter, which means that we need to change the size of the flowers. I think we're ready to paint. You can use a pencil to mark where the main flowers are going to be as a guide. Just makes sure that you slightly erase it so that you won't see pencil marks after you've painted on the paper. Let's start with the first flower. I'm using permanent yellow light and you're going to paint a five-petal flower. So just lay your brush flat onto the paper and move your brush up and down. Next, let's rinse our brush to lighten the color in our brush. I'm going to paint another petal right beside it. You can see I'm using the side of the brush to create these broad strokes. At the same time, I'm leaving some white spaces in between some of my strokes. Right here let's just paint an oval shape to make an illusion that this is a flower that is facing at an angle or on its side. To give it more contrast, I'm going to add a little bit of indigo, this is a nice dark blue color. Make sure that the flower is still wet when you're adding the center so that it will bleed into the petals. Let's now prepare the second flower. I'm just going to flip my paper just to make it easier for me to paint. This is a flower that will be diagonally across the first flower. Now I'm rinsing my brush to paint the second petal. You can see that there's almost no color in the second petal, and that's because I'm going to grab the color from the other petals. Leave the center open because we're going to add indigo as well. While the petals are still wet just grab an indigo color and just put it in the center. Now let's flip our paper again. I'm going to add some smaller five-petal flowers. Let's start with some dark petals, so it means that we're using more paint and less water. I'm also going to slightly touch that yellow petal and let the two colors bleed into each other. It looks very beautiful. Let's built this cluster of flowers, I'm just going to keep on adding these four-petal flowers. Now let's rinse our brush and I'm going to paint some petals again using just water. You can see that some of the paints are running through the clear petals and that will give it color. It will also make it look really loose and expressive. It's one of my favorite ways to paint simple flowers. Now let's add some stems. I'm going to mix up green with bright amber to create an earthy green color, and we're going to add it in between those tiny flowers. You can see that there are some white gaps. We're also adding the stems while the flowers are still wet so that it can blend in with the flowers. So now let's try to paint a big five-petal flower using permanent violet. You can see this is a nice, dark, and rich color. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter color. I'm going to paint one petal on the side and another one near the yellow flower. You can see the two petals blending in with each other. So this area looks too watery, I'm going to just absorb it using my brush. Now let's plot out our brush again in the tissue paper and absorb some of the excess water. It's now time to add some greens. I'm using sap green and a little bit of burnt umber, and I'm going to add a little bit of violet, and that will give us a smokey green color. So add the leaves in between the petals. You can also paint some thin stems first. I'm also trying to look for petals that are still wet, just like this area, so I can add a green leaf that can blend in with the petals and it will look really nice. Then we're also adding some stems in those white gaps in between the flowers. Now it's also best to use different shades of green. You can see right here, the green looks a bit lighter than the other leaves that I painted. I'm looking at this from afar and it looks like we need to stretch that upper left area. It means that we need to add some more petals or flowers. I'm still using mineral violet here, but I'm painting a really light color. You'll also notice that the petals are quite wet, and that's because I want to add a darker mineral violet on top of it and just let it bleed into the petals. This will give it a nice soft effect. Then you also add the stems, you'll get a beautiful bleeding. Let's extend this part right here by adding some more leaves. I'll add a little bit of violet again to create a smokey green color. Now you can also rinse your brush to create a lighter green color. You can see that I am mixing the greens here, some are darker, some are lighter. Now, to add some fillers, let's use lavender. I'm just going to quickly tap my brush onto the paper to create these small flower strokes. If you don't have lavender, don't worry, you can use here violet or any purple color and just add some white gouache or white watercolor paint. Feel free to use whatever you have in your palette. So we use fillers to fill in those white gaps in between the flowers or leaves. It's definitely okay if you don't want to follow the same flow of this painting and you want to create your own. Using the tip of your brush you're going to create some really thin leaves or expressive leaves. You can also add a little bit of yellow in this area to make it look more balanced. We also use fillers to scatter the colors throughout the painting. So in order to know if you need to add some more leaves or fillers so you can take a photo of your painting and look at it from afar. It's always nice to see your painting from a different perspective. If you want to add some more veins on the petals, you can also do that, but I'm going to leave some of the petals alone because I think it already looks great. I'm just going to soften this area and I think that we are done. Congratulations for finishing your first project. I hope that you enjoyed painting a new color combination today. [MUSIC] I will see you in the next video. 11. Day 2 Overview: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 2 of the class. Today we are going to use this as a reference. These are called, Scabiosa. It's a beautiful flower with a nice, pale blue color. They do come in different colors, but we're going to focus on this one. To achieve that dusty blue or pale blue color, I'm going to use Payne's gray. Make sure that you dilute that in a lot of water. This is very important because we only want a hint of blue in this flower. Next, I will grab this color called verditer blue I'm going to mix it to Payne's gray. Let's watch this. You can see this really beautiful, dusty blue color. Now, if you don't have verditer blue, you can work around the color Payne's gray instead. Just makes sure that you add lot of water. The color will be a little bit darker or more gray. You can also add a little bit of ultramarine blue to your first mixture. Feel free to use whatever color that you have. You can also add a little bit of gouache or any white paint to soften the blue color that you have in your pallet. That will also help you achieve this dusty blue color. Another color that we will be using is indigo. We're going to dilute it in a lot of water. We can use this for the second layer of the flowers, which you will try later on. I wanted to show you guys other color options for painting this blue flower. Now let's move on to our project. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 12. Day 2 Project: [MUSIC] For today's project, we are going to paint this dusty blue flower that was inspired by the flower called Scabiosa. We're going to paint single stocks and you can see that in this floral arrangement, we have flowers that are placed in different heights and that will make it look more visually appealing. Now let's start painting with the right bottom flower first. First, let's mix Paynes gray and verditer blue and make sure that you have a lot of water. You want this to be quite translucent. I'm going to start with putting a small dot as a guide that will be the center of the flower. Now we're going to paint four petals. I'm going to start right here and you can see that I'm pressing my brush onto the paper and we're doing that to get a nice broad stroke, then you can use the tip of your brush to create some thin lines. We're always coming back to the center dot that we placed. I'm not really letting the two petals touch each other, so we want a little bit of space in between them. You can also start to wiggle your brush to create that jagged edge. While the petals are still wet, we can add the center color. I'm going to use sap green. Just drop it in the center, let it bleed into the pale blue petals. Next we can add a stem, just drag your brush and paint it in a curve manner. Now diagonally across it, we can add one more flower. I'm going to put a small dot as a guide. This time I added a little bit more of verditer blue just to change the color a little bit and they're going to paint an open flower. This is going to be around five petals but feel free to of course change the number of petals depending on the composition that you want. When painting these simple five petaled flowers, it is important to add some white spaces in-between your strokes so that it doesn't look like a blob of paint on the paper. Also, you can see that some of the strokes here are lighter in color and some are darker and that will make it look more interesting. While the petals are still wet, you can add a darker color as well. It looks good. Now let's add some sap green, so while this flower is still wet, I'm going to add a stem. Let's do another one and this time I will add more Payne's gray. It's important to change the values in your florals, so some are lighter, some are darker. Also, my tip is to paint the flowers with a really wet brush just like this. It will be easier for you to create some nice expressive strokes because there is no resistance on the paper. Again, while the flower is still wet, you can grab a darker color like Payne's gray and add it on some of the petals to give it more contrast. Also, it will make it look softer. Now if you want to fix the shape of the petals, you can also wiggle your brush to create these jagged edges. I think it looks really pretty now and you can add some greens in the center. I'm using sap green again and we're just going to let it bleed into the petals. Another option is to use greenish-yellow. It's also a nice combination with this dusty blue flower. While the flower is still wet. We're going to add a stem, use the tip of your brush and just drag it to create this thin stem. You can also start adding these leaves. You can just drag your brush to create these elongated shapes. Just make sure that you lift your brush towards the end of the stroke to create these wispy leaves. Let's move on to the fourth and last flower. I'm adding more Payne's gray for this flower, so most people will say that it's best to paint odd numbered flowers for your composition. Well, that may be true most of the time, I think that sometimes you have to trust your intuition. In this composition, we're only doing four flowers, which is an even number but what we can do is we can add some small buds all around our composition and that will break this composition so that it doesn't look too symmetrical. I'm showing you this flower in close up so you can see it better. Again, it's best to leave some spaces in-between your strokes and move your brush up and down to create some nice expressive brush markings. Now let's add the green center. We're still using sap green and we're letting it bleed into the petals. We're also painting thin stem so that it will look delicate. Now feel free to add some elongated leaves in the white spaces in between the flowers. In this reference photo, you can see that there are some small buds and we are going to add that to our painting as well. When you're looking at reference photos, you don't need to copy all the details, just choose the ones that stand out the most. Paint some small thin stems just as a guide so that you know where the buds will be and now, I'm going to create some quick strokes. The entire shape of this bud should be over. Let's add another one right here. You can paint the center first and then create those tiny hands. For some contrast, I added a little bit of burnt umber to my sap green to create a darker color. You can add this color while this bud is still wet. Vary the pressure in your stroke to create some nice expressive leaves, you can start with a light pressure, heavy pressure, and then towards the end of the stroke, you end it up with light pressure so that you have a nice pointy tip. We have this odd whitespace on the left side and instead of painting another flower, I'm going to paint a small bud. When the flowers are already dry, you can add a center that is darker and we're going to mix sap green and indigo. We're doing this because we want more contrast. When you're painting loose florals and you want the loose effect, it's important to add contrast to make the colors pop. You can use a smaller brush to create these small dots. I'm using a size 6 round brush. It's now time to add a second layer to the petals. I'm going to mix Payne's gray and verditer blue again and we're going to do just a shade that too darker than the base petal. To make it more simple, you can also use just indigo or maybe Payne's gray, and I will make sure to dilute this in a lot of water so you get this translucent color. Using the tip of your brush, you can create these small strokes. I'm also varying the size and the length of each stroke so that it looks more natural. You can also grab the color from the center going through these veins that we're painting. We also want to see the base layer. We don't want to cover it up. Another reason why layering is good is because we can separate the petals. I'm going to grab a little bit of that color from the center and move it to the veins and it will give it a beautiful effect. Now if some of the strokes look too dark, you can always fade it a way to make it look softer. Just look at the center is going to flow right into the veins and I really like that, we're on to the last flower right here. I hope that you are enjoying as we paint, this is quite therapeutic to add a second layer and if you do make mistakes, it's okay. Don't worry about it because we all have to go through that phase. I can assure you that as you practice more, you will also get better. We are done with our second project for the class. Congratulations again for finishing this project. I hope that you learned a lot today. Let's now move on to the next video as we paint another project. [MUSIC] 13. Day 3 Overview: [MUSIC] On Day 3, we are going to paint this heart-shaped wreath. We are going to use the colors pastel yellow and pink. Now, I'm going to grab permanent rose. This is my favorite pink color. As you can see in this composition that we're only going to focus on one side right here where the flowers will be. The other parts of this wreath will be just leaves. Now to tone down this pink color, you can add a little bit of brown. I'm going to use burnt sienna. Just mix this color in your palette and then swatch it. You can see this mixture has more brown in it. If you want more pink then you add more permanent rose. You can also add more water to thin down the color and make it look lighter. Another color we will use is called jaune brilliant. This has a pastel yellow color, but I'm going to add a little bit of permanent yellow light just to give it a little bit more color. If you don't have jaune brilliant, you can use white gouache and just add a little bit of yellow to that. Or simply use any yellow color in your palette, don't be limited by the colors that I've introduced here. I really want you guys to make use of whatever paint set that you have. Right here I'm doing a demo of mixing white gouache and yellow watercolor paint. You can see that the colors look similar. You can add a little bit of permanent yellow deep and you'll see the colors transform. If you want a pastel color, you can definitely try out this tip. Here you can see that our color palette looks very dainty. It goes really well with a heart-shaped wreath that you can use for occasions. Now let's move on to painting the final project for Day 3. [MUSIC] 14. Day 3 Project: [MUSIC] To start our project, you need to use a pencil and draw a heart shape on your paper. Now the paper size that I'm using is seven inches by 10 inches. Next we're going to mix permanent rose with burnt sienna. I'm going to start with the first flower, this is going to be a top facing rose. I'm using a size six round brush so we're going to paint this on the lower left side of the heart and we're going to start with a comma stroke and then some thin strokes all around it. Make sure to leave some spaces in-between your strokes. I'm using just a tip of my brush to create these tiny strokes. Now let's just rinse our brush, I'm going to fade away the outer strokes. At the same time, I'm building some bigger C-shaped petals, so just use the tip of your brush to continue adding the C-shape strokes. Some can be just lines but what's important is we try to vary our strokes. Some are long stroke, some are short, some are fatter petals, some are just lines. Because this is a tough facing rose make sure that the center of the rose is really in the middle of the flower. Let's move on to the second flower, I'm going to make John Brilliant and permanent yellow light. Really want a nice creamy yellow color. Again, if you don't have John Brilliant, feel free to use white gouache and just add some yellow in it. Now let's start painting some simple flowers. I'm going to do some four and five petaled flowers. We want something simple and dainty and that's because we already have the main star of this painting, which is the heart shaped wreath so we don't want to add too many details. We just want to highlight the shape of the wreath and complement it with some dainty flowers, and I just added maybe 3-4 flowers. But you can definitely add some more of course, this also depends on the size of the wreath. Right here, I just grabbed some sap green, and I added some stems and tiny leaves. It's great to add these details while the flowers are still wet so you can see a little bit of bleeding there. For the center of the flower, I'm going to add burnt sienna and you just want to add some contrast through these small flowers. It's time to add some leaves, I'm going to make sap green and burnt umber so just mix any green and brown paint in your palette so that you can achieve this nice, earthy green color. I'm going to add some leave right here just to highlight the edge of this rose, I'm going to add stems right here so we want to get the shape of the heart so you can see this is where the pointy tip is. Now you can also rinse your brush to create a lighter green color when they added right here beside a dark colored leaf so it's all about alternating the leaves. Again, some are darker, some are lighter in color. Now let's move on to the right side of this wreath. Let's use a darker color, this is sap green and sepia so, you can see this beautiful rich green color. Now let's start painting some wavy lines that will be our stems. Next, let's paint leaves using just the tip of the brush. You can see that I'm just trying to press it lightly and making sure that I have leaf towards the end of the stroke so that I have that nice pointy tip. You'll notice right now that the leaves look a little sparse and that's okay. We can go back to that part later on, it's better that you paint less for now and then just add on later on. If you add too many details right now in this phase of the painting, it will be difficult to rearrange and of course you won't be able to erase what you painted on the paper. You can see that I'm trying to vary the shapes and sizes of the leaves and also the colors. I'm using, greenish, yellow now you can see it's a nice bright green, yellow color and as I'm adding these leaves, I'm also trying to form the shape of the heart. I'm using the pencil outline as a guide. Now let's do some elongated leaves right here. When you're painting on this side of the heart, make sure that we don't paint some chunky leaves and that's because you want to see the detail of the heart shape. You'll notice that I'm painting just stems in some areas and that's because I'm going to attach some leaves later on. Now let's add some more details in this part, you can also add some berries and even tiny flowers. Now when the leaves are already dry you can start layering the leaves and that will make it look fuller. You can also paint on top of existing leaves just to make it look darker like what I'm doing here. Contrast is very important when you're painting wreaths. Right here you can see I'm adding a dark shape leaf, and that will make the flower pop up. Now let's use greenish-yellow and I'm going to to add some green berries. This is one of the good fillers to add to your wreath because sometimes there's a small wide gap in your painting and it's odd to add one more flower so what I usually do is I add some berries and make it into a cluster and that will fill in that space. We're actually almost done. Right now I'm just going to add a second layer to this rose. I'm mixing permanent rose with burnt sienna so this is going to be a little bit darker than the first layer. I'm going to start with the same comma stroke and then C-strokes all around. Now I just have to be careful when adding these second layer of petals because you don't want it to be too crowded or too overwhelming. Now with a clean brush, I'm going to fade away the outer strokes to make it look softer. I think we can add some more strokes right there and then I'm going to use a clean brush and fade it away just like so. Another good thing about layering is that you're also bringing back that color because with watercolors sometimes it dries up too light so sometimes we need to add a second layer just to bring back some life to that flower. This is one of my favorite things to do, I love adding white gouache to my paintings. It just gives it more depth so right here I'm mixing my white gouache and you want it to be really thick and I can add some small dots like that and add a stem and that will look like a smaller filler. You can also add some veins or some tiny flowers. Now the background needs to be dark, like what they always say, so that the white gouache will pop up. It's also one of the reasons why I decided to paint some dark leaves on this wreath, because I know that I will layer it with white gouache. Just feel free to add whatever you need to add the white gouache details. It will of course be different for you It depends on how you painted the heart-shaped wreath. Just follow your intuition. The more you practice, the more that you will be comfortable with adding these small details. Congratulations for finishing your third project. Let's now move on to Day 4 as we start another color palette. [MUSIC] 15. Day 4 Overview: [MUSIC] On day 4, we are going to paint using triadic colors. This is an example of a floral arrangement using a triadic color palette. Here, in this arrangement, they use red, yellow, and blue. It looks visually appealing and it looks very balanced. Now, let me show you the colors that we will be using in this project. For the red, I'm going to use permanent rose instead. Then next, we're going to use permanent yellow light. Now you don't really need to follow the course that I'm going to use. Since this is a triadic color palette, just use any three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. For the blue, I am using cerulean blue. We're using just three colors for the main flowers. As you paint along, you can intuitively add more colors in your floral bouquet. Let's now move on to painting the main project. [MUSIC] 16. Day 4 Project: [MUSIC] Let's start our project. This is what you will paint today. Since you're going to use bold colors, I decided to paint simpler flowers for this project. So we're going to start with a five petaled flower and then we're going to add some tiny fillers all around it. I love how bright and cheerful this painting is, and I hope that you will enjoy our project for today. Let's start. We're going to start with permanent rose. I'm going to paint the first five petaled flower in the lower half of the paper. You can paint a small dot like what I did here, just as a guide, that will be the center of the flower. You can see that I really started with a very pigmented petal. Next, I just rinse my brush to create a lighter colored one. We do want to alternate this to make it look more visually pleasing. Now using the side of your brush, you can do a sweeping motion just like this. Move it back and forth. Now I'm just using water and just letting all the colors come from the petals beside it. You can grab a little bit more paint, and add it to some of the petals. For the center let's grab Crimson Lake, and I'm going to add it right here, give it more contrast. You can also use indigo. It's a nice color to use to add contrast for your loose florals. Now let's move on to the second flower. We're also going to do a five petaled flower, and this time I'm going to use a very diluted permanent rose color, and also switch to a slightly bigger brush. This is a size 8 round brush, just to add more variation to my strokes. It's always nice to switch brushes so that you can get more organic shapes. So now I'm just going to add a couple more petals. For the center, I'm going to use permanent yellow light. I just want this to be more cheerful, so that's why I decided to use a bright color for the center. Let's get burnt sienna or burnt umber. You can use any brown color in your palette. We're going to add this to the second flower, just to give it more contrast, just lightly put some small dots in the center. That was pretty quick. Right now onto the third flower, I'm going to use permanent yellow light, and you're going to put it right here, where it is diagonally across the light pink flower. When you're painting a bouquet it's best to paint flowers that are diagonally across each other, instead of it being side-by-side. Just move your brush back and forth. I'm going to do this pretty loose. You can see that my brush is really wet. It makes it easier to glide on the paper. Of course, don't forget to leave some spaces in between your petals, and then we're going to leave that center out because we're going to add a detail later on. While the flower is still wet let's add burnt sienna. I just want this color to bleed into the yellow petals. Let's leave it as is. Now, I'm going to mix permanent rose with a little bit of permanent violet. We're going to use this to paint another flower. We're going to press our brush onto the paper to create a petal stroke, just like so. Next I'm going to do it quickly. You can see that towards the end of my stroke, I'm also trying to lift my brush. That's why we have nice pointy tips. You can also try to rinse your brush to get a lighter color. Now let's grab some more of that permanent violet, and we're just going to paint the same strokes on top of the base flower. Just let the colors bleed into each other. It's really important to add some spaces in between your petals so that it will not end up looking like a blob of paint. Now let's add some stems. I'm using sap green, so we can add the stems in between the main flowers. People usually forget to add some greens in between the main flowers, but it really makes a huge difference to do so. It helps fill in those small white gaps, making your bouquet look fuller. Now let's grab cerulean blue. We're going to add some tiny flowers at the bottom part of this bouquet. Of course, you can use any blue in your palette, and I am just going to tap my brush onto the paper to create these petal-like strokes, so try to move your brush in different directions. You can see right here that I started with a really pigmented stroke, and after that we're going to rinse our brush. Now we can try to lightly touch the first few petals that we painted just to let the colors bleed. We can all connect them using sap green, we'll add some stems. You can also add some tiny leaves. This bouquet is looking really good. It looks very cheerful and happy. But I'm going with my intuition and I feel like it needs a little bit of contrast. I'm going to use permanent violet. I'm going to paint some tiny flowers on the right side. You can also add a little bit of pink into that violet. Next we're just going to attach some stems and add some tiny leaves. Because this part is already too heavy, I'm going to add some leaves that are very light in color. It means I'm going to add more water in my brush just like this. That will help soften this area. For this top right area, I'm going to add some small flowers as well, so that it's diagonally across the blue flower at the bottom left. I just tap a few petals on the paper. Now I'm going to grab some water and let it bleed. I really love doing this technique because it looks very loose and expressive, and now you can add some stems. Look at your painting from afar. It's now time to add those tiny details, our leaves. I just grabbed some sap green to add more stems and tiny leaves. Try to vary the shape and sizes. Now we're going to layer the top-left purple flower. I'm going to use permanent violet with a little bit of permanent rose. Just paint a few petals on top, and leave it as is. You don't want to overwork this. Now for the other flowers I'm going to grab sap green and just add a center. Just put some small dots, and that will give it a little bit of contrast. Now, if you want to bring back color to some of the flowers, you can go ahead and layer it with the same color. Right here I'm just using this permanent yellow light, I'm just painting over this flower. I'm also leaving some spaces in between my strokes. We are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. Let's now move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 17. Day 5 Overview: Welcome to day 5. Today we are going to use the colors pink and gray. For the pink, I am going to use color potters pink in this class because I have received a lot of requests from students that they want to use this color. It's a nice vintage, muted pink color. If you don't have this color, don't worry, I will give you another option later on. For the gray part, I am going to use Paynes gray. You can see right here I really diluted it in a lot of water. If you add less water, you will come up with this. It's a darker Paynes gray. In this project, we're also going to play around with values. If you don't have Paynes gray, feel free to use just black and dilute it in water. Another option for the pink, you can use brilliant pink, which is a pastel pink and add a little bit of brown. I'm using burnt umber. This will give it a nice vintage brownish-pink color that will be a little bit similar to Potter's pink, but of course, if you don't have all of these colors, just use any pink color in your palette. That will be fine. Another option is to add a little bit of gouache to your pink so that it will be lighter in color and it will look like a pastel pink color. You can also play around with colors, mix that pink with the Paynes gray and you'll come up with a nice muted color as well. This is going to be a really fun project using only two colors. Let's now move on to the next video. 18. Day 5 Project: For Day 5 we're going to paint this beautiful project. The main flowers are roses we're going to paint two main blooms and then one small rose bun. To start, we need a pencil. We're just going to draw an outline, just a simple guide for us to know where the main flowers will be right here, I'm just drawing a letter U-shape. We're going to start with the color Potters pink. We're going to start with the rose on the lower half of this paper. Using a Size 8 round brush, start with a comma stroke. Next we're going to paint some thin sea strokes all around it. Here's a more close up video. Make sure you have spaces in-between the strokes so that it doesn't look like a blob of paint. Now you can rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and slowly fade away the outer strokes. While painting bigger petals. Feel free to grab some more paint if it looks too light. We can start painting some more petals to build this flower. With this stroke is too dark. I'm just going to go back and pick up the excess paint. To achieve a very soft laura, you have to make the outer petals softer by adding more water to your brush. You can see that the outer part of this flower has a lighter color as well. We are concentrating more color towards the center part of this flower. I can also add some more strokes to define some of the petals. I'm just going to prepare my Payne's gray. You can see I have a dark mixture and now I have a lighter mixture by adding more water. Now let's grab the darker mixture. I'm going to add a stem. We're adding the stem while the flower is still wet so that you can have that bleeding effect towards the base of the flower. Just like this. You just drag your brush going down and you can create some a broken lines as well. Right beside the flower, you can paint some leaves. Again, I'm adding it while the flower is still wet. You can see that it's beautifully blending in with the petals. We can also try to vary the values. You can see that on one leaf is lighter in color and another one beside it is darker. This looks a little messy. Let's grab a clean brush and absorb the excess paint. You can see that now it looks a lot better and it's definitely okay to do this. You can of course, go back and change things. It doesn't need to be perfect the first time you try it. Now let's add another leaf. You can see I'm trying to create a shape for the edge of this petal by adding another leaf. You can definitely do your own floral composition for this painting. What works for me is, I add these thin stems. It serves as a guide for me to know like where the leaves are going to be, where the flower we'll be. Let's move on to the second flower. I am using potters pink again. This is really a fun way to just paint only using two colors. We started with a comma stroke. Next, I'm going to paint these thin C-shape strokes using the tip of the brush. You can make it thicker as you move farther away from the center. Now rinse your brush and try to fade away the outer strokes. We're also going to create bigger petals. I'm just going around this flower in one direction. You can see that leaving these whitespaces really make a big difference because it separates the petal. It's always best to leave more white-space because you can easily close that up by adding some more strokes. You can also try to wiggle your brush to create a jagged edge. This is a rose at this on its side, you can see that the middle part of this rose is a little bit higher than the center. Let's grab a little bit more paint. I'm going to just add some more strokes that will define more petals. We're doing this while the rows is still wet. You can see those soft strokes. That's because the rose is still wet. Now let's grab our Payne's gray and add a stem. Now we can start adding leaves. I usually add leaves near the main flowers. That's the easiest way to start. It's looking really good, but we have some whitespaces still. I'm going to add some more leaves. It's easier to add these leaves if it's a really wet brush, you can easily glide on the paper and create more expressive leaves. Now let's go by really dark Payne's gray mixture. I'm just going to tap my brush to create these nice small leaves. Now it doesn't have to look realistic. You can definitely try to have fun with this part because right now we're just going to add more leaves so you can try to wiggle your brush and phase of leaves in different directions. You can add some thin stems that will act as fillers as well. Let's pay the small rose bud. You start with a comma stroke and just a few thin stroke around it until we reach an oval shape. Let's do this up closer. You can see it now I have a clean brush just going to drag that color down, let it bleed into the wet area. At the same time, I'm trying to build the shape of the bud. Bruising just a few strokes. We're going to keep it simple. Now I'm going to just grab some Payne's gray and attach all of them to the main bouquet. I really love this combination because it has that romantic vibe as well. I love the muted colors. For some leaves, you can add some more color right here I just painted that leaf with a darker Payne's gray. What's great about this composition is that it's simple and it's visually appealing. What we did was we just painted the flowers diagonally across each other. Also, you can see that they are of different heights. That will make it look more interesting. I'm painting what they call me shadow leaves. These are leaves that are super light in color. I really diluted this in a lot of color. It's barely there, but at the same time, it really gives a different vibe to this bouquet. This is a way to fill in some whitespaces without overcrowding the paper. This is a good time to step back and look at your painting from afar or take a photo of your painting and look at it from your phone, to give me a fresh perspective so that you'll know if you need to add some more details. Let's add a second layer to give these flowers more depth. I'm using the same Potters pink, but this is more pigmented. I'm going to start with the center. Then now we're going to add just a few strokes. We have to be careful when layering using Potters pink because this is a granulating paint. We don't want to overwork this because it can look muddy. Let's now move on to the second flower and add some more details. Now I'm going to feed the strokes. It's best to actually use a clean water. But sometimes when you're painting, you're just in the moment and you don't want to get up to change the water anymore. It's completely fine. I'm just going to fade away the strokes because they look a little too sharp for me. I want it to look soft. We can also start layering some of the leaves just to make this look fuller. But of course this is optional. We are done with this project. I hope that you enjoyed what we painted today. Now let's move on to the next project [MUSIC]. 19. Day 6 Overview: [MUSIC] It's a free Day 6. We're going to paint white and green and I'm going to use this reference photo. This is a photo of butterfly random colors. It's just a really beautiful, roughly plural. It's not only white, you can see there's a bit of blush pink, a little bit of yellow. We're going to learn that in this project. But first let's mix the white color first. There are many ways to paint your white color. This is one of my go-to mixes. It's ultramarine blue plus burnt umber. Feel free to change the racial here. You can add the color mixes of two colors, or you can add more ultramarine blue so that you get a bluish white color. Make sure to add a lot of water because you want this to be really light. Another option is to add a little bit of yellow ocher for that yellowish white color. Now let's try to swatch them so you can see this color. This is a nice grayish white color. Next, let's add this one. It has a little bit of yellow. Now we can also add a little bit of greenish yellow. If you want a greenish white color for your flower, you can also do this. It will be easier to visualize how to use these colors once you start painting the flowers. But at least now you have an idea of how to mix these colors. Now let's what is the next video. [MUSIC] 20. Day 6 Project: [MUSIC] This is the project that we will be painting today. I'm excited because I love this for arrangement. I also loved the color. It looks very dainty and romantic. It also has that vintage feel because of that dirty white color that we used. We have three main flowers and then we're going to start with those three first, after which we are going to paint the leaves and those small buds. First, using your pencil you can put small dots on the paper. That will be our guide on where to paint the main flowers. You want them to be diagonally across each other. I'm using this reference photo just as a guide. We're not going to copy the entire composition. I am just going to grab the flowers that really caught up my attention. Now, let's start painting the first flower. I'm using ultramarine blue and burnt umber. This is the same color that we use in the project overview. Going to start with one petal first. You can see that I'm using a really wet brush because that will be easier for us to change the shape of the petal. Let's move on to the second petal. Just press your brush onto the paper and try to wiggle it to create a nice soft, expressive stroke. Try to change the white color that you're using. For some of the petals, I added a little bit of yellow ocher just to change things up so that it doesn't look too flat. This flower is slowly coming together. You can see I'm adding a little bit of tiny details. Orange the edges of the petals. While it's still wet, we can add some darker areas. Now, I'm going to add a permanent rose in the center. This is the trick to doing a multi-colored center. The base layer should still be wet. I'm adding a little bit of that pink just to make it disperse into the white petal. Now, let's grab burnt sienna or any brown color in your palette. I'm going to add a really concentrated stroke. You can see I'm doing a ring of dots in the center. Some of them are bleeding into the white petal. Now, that you've had a little punch in the center, we're going to add a dark color. I'm using indigo just for the small dot in the center. I'm going to bring back in some of that paint. I'm going to add it some more so that it's more visible. You can see right there, there's a blush pink color all around the center. Now, let's add a stem and some leaves. I'm going to mix sap green and burnt umber to create that earthy green color. If you wanted more brown, then you can just add more burnt umber. While the petals are still wet, we're going to add the stem. You can see that it's blending in with the petals. Using the tip of your brush, you can create some elongated leaves and just make them dance on the paper. Let's now move on to the second flower. This time I'm going to add more yellow to my mixture. Now, we can put a small dot in the center as a guide. I'm going to start with the top petal. You can see that I'm really pressing my brush onto the paper. Just use that side of the brush and wiggle your brush to create a broad stroke. You can see I'm doing that wiggle techniques so that you have a different shape. You can also move your brush back and forth. Just to make it look more interesting, I'm going to add a little bit of dark areas using the ultramarine and burnt umber color. This is a little bit on the gray side. That's what it looks like. I love how this gives more dimension to the flower. While the flower is still wet, let's add the center. I'm going to use the color raw umber, but you can use any brown color in your palette. It's completely fine. You can also use a little bit of yellow if you want it brighter. I really love how the color blend into the petal. It looks really, really good. Now, let's add the center. You can use any dark color in your palette. I just use a really dark green color. Now, I'm going to add a stem. It's always best to paint stems that are very thin so that it looks dainty. Let's now rinse our brush and grab a different color. I'm going to use greenish yellow. If you don't have this color, you can simply mix your green and yellow until you achieve a color that's similar to greenish-yellow. We're going to paint a small bud. You can also add a few leaves. Just use any green mixture in your palette. It's completely fine. I'm using greenish yellow with a little bit of the previous sap green and burnt umber mixture. Because we also really want this to look dainty, we're going to paint thin leaves. You can see I'm using just the tip of my brush to do that. For the last flower, this is going to be on this side. I'm using the same ultramarine blue and burnt umber color, is going to give me a nice grayish white color. You can also put a small dot as a guide. We're going to paint our four petals first, and we'll start with the first one. Next, let's do another one beside it. This is going to look like a butterfly. I feel like that's easier to visualize. Just try to move around and fix the petals. Then you can add a little bit of yellow to your mixture to change things up. Let's move to the right side. You can wiggle your brush to create a different shape. You can see now it looks like a butterfly. Now, you see that there's a gap in-between these two pairs of petals. We're going to paint a big petal there. Let's use this grayish white color. Make sure your brush is really wet and I'm going to try to wiggle my brush. You can see that we have a nice jagged edge. To add a blush pink color, I'm going to use permanent rose. We're going to add that while this flower is still wet. When you see our grayish white petals, you'll notice that it has a granulating effect. That's because ultramarine blue is a granulating paint, but I honestly love the effect. It also gives that nice vintage look and I just really love it and I'm happy to share this mixture with you. I just added raw umber for that yellow, orange part. Now, we're adding this dark color so you can use indigo or sepia. Next, I'm going to add the stem. From the top we're going to go down and just paint the really thin stem. Now, let's fill in this gap with some dainty leaves. You can see that the leaves are dancing and moving in different directions. We can also try to change the values. Again, it means that some leaves are darker, some are lighter in color. On the right side, let's paint another small bud. You can use greenish-yellow or any green color in your palette. I'm going to add a darker base to that. You can use burnt umber or you can use sepia for that base. Let's go back to this small bud. I'm going to paint the sepals. This is just a nice finishing touch. When you are painting single stems and putting them in a bunch like this, make sure that you're also trying to vary the angles of the flowers. You can see that some of the flowers here are front-facing, some are on the side, and of course, you also added some buds. Right now I'm just adding a few more leaves just to fill in those small gaps. I think we can add a second layer to the flowers to give it more depth. I'm using the same ultramarine blue and burnt umber mixture. You want this to be a little bit light and transparent as well. We don't want to cover the entire first layer. I'm just using the tip of my brush and just flicking my brush so I can create these nice expressive strokes. These are also going to look like the shadows, just like in the reference photo. It will also look like the petals have some folds in it. We want to vary our strokes. You can see some are just short strokes, some are long strokes. I'm also trying to fade away some areas that might look too sharp. We're now on to the last flower. Let me just tilt my paper so you can see it better. Just to bring back that contrast in these flowers, I'm going to add a sepia. You can use indigo or paint square or even just black paint. I just wanted to add a dark center. You can also use green if you want. I have here the raw umber. I'm going to add a ring of dots right here. Because the veins or the second layer that we painted on the petals are still wet, you can see that the raw umber color is flowing through those veins. I really, really love the effect. It just makes the entire flower look cool and just very pretty. I can also try to intentionally drag the center or the raw umber color into those veins and just let the colors flow into those wet veins. Let's just add a few more finishing touches in some areas, just look at your painting from a far. We are done. This is one of my favorite projects. I hope that you enjoyed painting this today. Now, let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 21. Day 7 Overview: [MUSIC] On Day 7, we're going to focus on monochrome florals. It just means that we're going to use one color, and now I'm going to use indigo, but you can use other colors as well. Now with just one color, we're going to create more. What we can do is we can just dilute it in water. You can see you have a really light blue color here. Now if we add a little more of that indigo, we'll get a darker color. This is a good exercise for you to understand the contrast and depth of our floral painting. You can see right here with just one color, which is Payne's gray, you can create so many more. Now it can be difficult to start painting monochrome florals because we're used to painting the leaves with green color, but here we're going to use just a single color. The trick is that we need to vary the shapes of the flowers. You also have to vary the leaves and add more fillers like berries. We're going to play around with values. You can see some are lighter, some are darker. Later on we are going to use the wet-on-wet technique to create this beautiful expressive flower. I think we can start, now let's move on to the next video where we will start painting our project. [MUSIC] 22. Day 7 Project: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 7. In today's project, we are going to use the wet on wet technique. I will be painting a five petaled flower first using only water. Now I'm using a Size 8 round brush because I really want to create nice big petals and just going to tilt my paper so you can see what I'm painting. Just make sure that you're leaving spaces in between your strokes. Just continue painting until you have five petals, and I'm just trying to re-wet some of the petals. For this technique, we do want the petals to be shiny instead of mat. You can see I'm trying to rewrite some of the petals and also trying to fix the shape. We're also going to leave the center blank. You can see there's a space right there. Now let's grab our color. I'm going to use indigo, but you can use other colors as well. I want a really pigmented mixture, but at the same time I want it to be quite watery. Now let's drop this onto the petals. Now, some pigments will spread faster on wet paper, but some will stay put and that's because some pigments have heavier particles. Also, sometimes it depends on the brand of paint that you are using. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and try to just move around the color. I'm still trying to paint on wet petals. You can see that the petals are very soft. That's because we painted on wet surface. Now you don't want to overdo this flower. You still want areas where you have not touch it with a brush because we want to leave it as white. Now you can also try to lift some colors if it's too dark. I'm going to grab some more indigo and add more contrast. So we want more contrast towards the center of this flower. Now, I know it looks like it's not finished. It doesn't have that polished look but that is completely fine. Just wait for it until it dries and you'll see how beautiful it will be. All right, now I'm going to grab the same color, indigo with a diluted in water and we're going to paint another flower. We are going to do this diagonally across the first flower. Let me just zoom in. Just feel free to sway your brush up and down to create nice expressive strokes. I'm also making sure that the petals are really wet because I want this to be really loose. Of course, don't forget the spaces in between the petals. While the base flower is still wet, you can grab a darker indigo mixture and just drop it onto the sides of the petals. If something doesn't feel right for you, you can go ahead and just grab your brush to lift it. Right here am trying to combine the two flowers by letting the two petals touch each other that they will blend in with each other. Now for the center let's grab a very pigmented indigo. I'm just going to add it right there. Because these flowers are still wet, we're going to work quickly. I'm going to grab some indigo again and paint some leaves. We're going to wiggle our brush to create an expressive leaf. You can see that it's really really dark. I'm adding this dark leaf because you can see that part of the petal is light in color and you want to combine light and dark in this painting. Here you can see we painted a light indigo leaf. Now let's change things up. I'm going to paint wet on dry, so this surface is dry. I'm going to use a really dark indigo mixture, I'm going to paint a small flower here. You see how beautiful that is in contrast to the first two flower. Now I'm going to paint another flower and right here, this is going to be lighter. Let the two flowers touch each other, and that will give a beautiful bleeding. You can also add some thin stems all around. Let's add another flower here. I'm just letting the flowers flow. You can see that there are all diagonally across each other. It looks very beautiful. Just to give this bouquet more variety, I'm going to add a rose. I'm going to flip this paper so that we can paint at a better angle. Now we're not going to add a lot of details to this rose, I want it to be really loose, so I'm going to start with the center, this is the comma stroke and just paint some C strokes all around it. Make sure that you have some spaces in-between. Then just lightly press your brush onto the paper to create a broader petal just like so. Now you can see that this rose is quite light in color, and that's because we're going to add a darker center and I just want the base to be really wet. You can see that as we add more color towards the center, it's also bleeding beautifully. It looks very soft. Let's just leave that first. Now I'm going to add a darker leaf beside it. It's important with monochrome floral paintings is that you add more texture. Now I'm going to add some berries. You can change the values. Some are darker, some are lighter. Because we're working quickly, this part of the flower is still wet. I'm going to add a dark leaf and it's going to look really, really beautiful with all the bleeding. Now we're using 100% cotton paper that's why the paints are wet for a longer period of time. But if you're using student grade paper, the flowers might be dry by now. I just wanted to let you know about that because I don't want you to be frustrated that it's difficult for you to do this technique. Now we can add a darker center for some of the flowers. It is still wet and you can see that the colors are still bleeding. Hey, let's check out that big flower that we painted when we grab a pigmented indigo color to the added in the center. We are begging back more color. Now, if you feel like your paper dries faster than usual, you might want to add these details a little bit earlier on in the painting process. I'm adding some darker areas towards the tips of the petals as well. All right, I'm just adding what I call my shadow leaves. These are really light-colored leaves that will fill in some white spaces, but it won't look overwhelming. Now sometimes you want to highlight some areas, so what you can do is you can live some of the colors. I'm going to show it to you now. Get a damp brush and lot of the excess moisture. Now that the brush absorb the excess paint on the paper. We look like we're cleaning some of the areas or whitening some of the areas to just add more highlight to the flowers. As I'm doing this, the flowers are still quite damp. It might be difficult for you to do this when the flowers are already dry. We are done. I hope to see your project in a different color as well. [MUSIC] Let's move on to day 8 as we paint a beautiful wreath. 23. Day 8 Overview: [MUSIC] On day 8, we are going to paint this laurel wreath. So this is a mix of bold and muted colors. You can see we use magenta and some white flowers. Now, for the flower, I am going to use permanent magenta with carmine. We are going to combine these two colors. But of course, feel free to use any pink color in your palette. Now let's watch this. You can see it's a beautiful bold color. You can make it more purple, but I think more magenta or if you wanted to warmer, you can add more carmine. Now let me show you the color if you use only magenta, and also if you use only carmine. You can see that carmine leans more on the red side while the magenta leans on the purple side. Now, let's move on to painting our white flowers. So the colors that I will use are sepia and yellow ocher. So it's very important to really dilute this in a lot of water. I'm just going to mix these two colors on my palette. So this color is going to look like a creamy yellow, white color. So it does look quite muted and I love combining this color with some bright florals. Now for your whites, you can also use indigo, just diluted with a lot of water, will give you a bluish-white color. Of course, you can also combine indigo with this yellowish-white color, will give you a nice greenish-white color. So here, the white that we can use in our paintings for the entire class. Now, let's move on to the next video where we will start painting our wreath. [MUSIC] 24. Day 8 Project: [MUSIC] Let's paint a wreath on the edge. We're going to focus the florals on one side of the wreath, while the right side are just fillers and leaves. Lets start with the main flower, which is the rose then after which we're going to add those four petaled flowers to fill in this wreath. You can start by drawing a circle using a pencil that will serve as your guide for the entire wreath shape. Now I'm just mixing permanent magenta and carmine. I'm mixing these two colors because the magenta looks too purple and I want to just bring in some warmth. Now I'm going to start with the rose. It's the main flower. We start with a comma stroke than some tiny C strokes all around it. Again, just make sure that you have some spaces in between your strokes. I'm using a size six round brush for painting the center of this rose. Let's rinse our brush. We're going to paint bigger C shapes. You can see I'm just going all around the center. The size looks good, I'm going to rinse my brush again and fade away the outer petals. I'm just trying to form some shapes by pressing our brush onto the paper and moving it in a C shape or in a C curve. To make this look soft, you want the other petals to be lighter in color. Now let's mix CPR with a little bit of yellow ocher and we're going to paint the white flowers. Now just make sure to dilute it in a lot of water. Next, let's grab the color indigo and I'm also going to dilute this in a lot of water. We can mix these two colors and add a little bit more blue to my mixture. It really depends on you if you want a bluish white or yellowish white color. Now let's start painting the four petaled flower. Just moving my brush back and forth and then making sure that the petals are really wet. While the flower is still wet, I'm going to add the center. I'm going to use yellow ocher, but you can use other yellows in your palette, or even brown. This looks too light. I'm going to go back in and add a burnt sienna and just put it in the center, let it bleed into the petals. We're going to alternate the colors on this wreath. I am going to grab carmine. You can use any pink color in your palette, but you want this to be really bold in color. I'm going to paint it just near this white flower. Now, the white flower is still wet and so I'm going to try and merge these two petals together. You can see right here, there's a beautiful blending. Now if it looks a little messy, you can go back in and absorb the excess paint. The flowers are also wet. I'm going to take this opportunity to add some leaves. I'm going to make sap green and sepia. We're going to add leaves over here let it blend in with the petals. Now, I'm going to rinse my brush to create a lighter green color, and I'm letting it touch the white petals. Again, when you're working on a wreath, make sure that you change the values of the leaves and the flowers. You can see I'm mixing here some darker greens and I combine it with the lighter green color. If you don't have sepia, don't worry, you can use any brown color you can even add a little bit of black to your greens. Now I'm using the same carmine color and we're going to add some more petals over here just to add more volume. I'm going to let this touch the other petals just so they can blend in all together. This is looking good. Now let's check it out from a different angle. Because these flowers are still wet, I'm going to grab some greens in my palette and add some leaves. Let's now move on to the bottom part of this wreath. I'm going to paint a yellowish white color flowers. I mix my indigo with little bit of yellow ocher and sepia. This looks too dark, we're just going to try and soften it. These are going to be smaller flowers. We need to really vary the shapes and the sizes of the flowers to make the wreath look more interesting. Now let's grab yellow ocher and add it in the center. We love adding yellow ocher because it's not a strong color. Next, we can add burnt sienna or any brown color in your palette. Then we can add some leaves and stems. I'm using a small brush that's size six and going to just add some tiny leaves. You can see I'm trying to sway my brush creating these tiny wispy leaves. You can try to change the color as well. You can see that some are darker green, some are lighter green. You can add a little bit of indigo as well to your greens. From here, from the bottom we're going up and I'm trying to build the right side of this wreath. So here's a more close up video. You can see I have different greens in my palette. Now this part is quite therapeutic. You can see that I'm slowly building this side with these expressive leaves. You start with a light pressure and then just press your brush and then slowly lift towards the end. Another tip for you is to hold your brush towards the end of the handle and that will help you achieve some losers strokes just like this. I really do encourage you to try out this technique because it will help improve the muscle memory in your hand, it will hone your painting skills. Now let's mix sap green with indigo. We just want a really rich and dark green color. Just going to add some more leaves and you can try to wiggle your brush as well and let the leaves dance. We're almost there. We're about to close this wreath, and if the wreath doesn't look like a circle or the shape is weird, you can always go back and fix it. Now you have here my carmine. You can use magenta or any pink color in your palette. We're going to paint some small buds. I'm going to fill in those gaps. We're also adding these small buds to distribute the pink or magenta color all throughout the wreath. At the same time, we can add these yellow ocher buds to tone down that pink color because that pink or magenta color is too strong. We're just going to continue and add more leaves. You can start layering your leaves as well. It's now time to add a second layer for this rose. You can use the same mixture, just makes sure that it's two shades darker. You want this to be quite dark. Next we're going to rinse our brush and we're going to fade away the strokes. As we are fading, we're also creating new petals for the second layer. Now let me grab burnt sienna and we're going to add it to the white flowers to give it more depth, more contrast. Also use black or indigo or any dark color in your palette. It looks good, but I feel like it needs more contrast, so instead of painting big flowers, I'm going to try and paint some smaller fillers that are really dark in color. You can use sap green with sepia or sap green with indigo, just any dark green color will do. You can see that I'm just tapping my brush onto the paper to create these small fillers. Another detail that you can add would be adding veins on the leaves. We can use a darker color to do this. You can even use white gouache if you want. I really wanted to include a wreath in the class because I feel like it's very useful especially if you do leathery. You can add a quote in the center or any greeting and you can give it as a gift. We are done let's now move on to day 9 as we paint another project. [MUSIC] 25. Day 9 Overview: On the nine, we are going to paint using maroon, white, and plum. To mix maroon, we can use carmine with hooker's green, this will tone down the red making it look deeper. Red and green are complimentary colors. That's why if you mix the two of them, you'll get a deeper color. You can use other reds in your palette. Next, we're going to mix the white. This is sepia with a little bit of yellow ocher. Just make sure that you add a lot of water. Then you're going to try and swatch this color. For this mixture, I'm going to lean more on the yellow side, so we're going to add a little bit more yellow ocher. Next, we can also mix ultramarine blue and burnt umber to create this grayish white color. Depending on your mixture, you can make it more blue by adding more ultramarine blue. Just make sure that we dilute in a lot of water to create a nice white shade. Now, for our greens, I really wanted it to be dark and earthy. We're using shadow green, but if we don't have shadow green, you can use sap green with sepia or maybe sap green with indigo. Next, we're going to mix the dark plum color. I'm going to use carmine with a little bit of indigo. We can also use Payne's gray. This is what it looks like. We're going to use this to add more contrast to our painting later on. I think you're ready, let's move on to painting the project. [MUSIC] 26. Day 9 Project: [MUSIC] For day 9, you're going to paint this project. I really love this composition because it's a little different from what I'm used to painting. You can see how beautifully the flowers just branches out from one another, and I also love how soft the flowers are. But at the same time we added some contrast. Anyway, I think we should start painting. We're going to start with carmine and Hooker's green. This is going to be the biggest flower. It's a rose and you want a really concentrated mixture for the center of the rose. Now, let's start with a comma stroke and some thin strokes around it, but you'll notice that I'm going to intentionally put a bigger gap. Right there you can see there's more white space compared to what we have painted in the previous projects. So now I'm going to rinse my brush and we're going to fade away the other strokes. You can see my brush has a lot of water, so we want this to be super loose. Now, I'm just going to build up the outer petals, make it look bigger. At this point, we are going to focus on painting big and fluffy petals. You can see why I'm going to just press my brush onto the paper and move it back and forth. So this is a rose that is on its side so you want more petals towards the bottom part. Then you can grab a more pigmented color and just drop it in this flower. So we are going to leave this as is, and while the flower is still wet, I'm going to make sap green and burnt umber, and then we are going to paint leaves near the petals. I'm working quickly because I want this to blend in with the wet petals. You can see right here, we're going to let it touch to the petal and you can just paint some thin strokes or thin stems. Now, let's grab the shadow green color. This is a dark green color and add it right here so you can see how beautiful the blending is. If we don't have shadow green, just add indigo or sepia to your green. Next, let's mix this yellowish white color. This is sepia and yellow ocher, just like what we practice. Then we're going to paint the five petaled flower below this rows. Again, I want to that petal touched the rows and that will make it look more seamless. I'll just continue building those petals and make sure that you have spaces in between them. You can get them a little bit more sepia or indigo for the other petals so that it doesn't look flat. You can see that you have different colors on the petals. Next, let's grab greenish yellow and we're going to add this in the center of that white flower. I think it's a really good color combination, so you have that muted white petal and then the center is a bright green color. To add more contrast, you can add indigo or a sepia, or if you have black, you can use black as well. Using shadow green, I'm going to add some leaves around this white flower. You can also add some stem sticking out. Try to vary the green colors. I'm going to add a yellowish green color right here. It's best at different shapes of leaves as well. Now, if you want this to look a little bit more moody, you can add Payne's gray. So I'm going to add a lot of water to that color and paint some really faint leaves. Right now we are building all the elements towards the bottom part of this painting and then later on we're going to go up and just build more flowers branching out. So because the flowers below are very soft and muted, we're going to add more contrast. I'm going to mix carmine with a bit of Payne's gray. You can also use indigo. So we want this to be a deep plum color. It almost looks like black, so we really want an intense color. I'm just going to tap my brush onto the paper to create petal-like strokes. These will look like small flowers. Let's just grab a green color and attach them to the main flower. You can also add some tiny leaves. Another technique you can do is to paint a light color leaf and then you're going to drop in a dark green color just like this. It will give a really beautiful effect. So you want this composition to have some movement. I'm going to go up in a curve manner. So it almost looks like a letter S-shape. We're going to add some deep red flowers and it's actually the same mixture of carmine and Hooker's green, but I'm just going to make the colors more intense and more pigment. So it all depends on the ratio of red and green. So right here, I added a little bit more green so you can see that colors are really deep. Now, let's add some more petals. For some strokes you can use just the tip of the brush, create some lines, and that will make it look more expressive. Now let's add one more petal, this time I'm going to use just water. I'm going to grab the color from the other strokes. Just leave it as is. I'm just going to add some greens, add a stem, and some tiny leaves again. We now have really intense colors for the top part, I think we can add some more muted white colors. I'm going to add more stems first. Something that I love doing is mixing my whites, so right here we have sepia and yellow ocher. I'm going to mix another set of whites. This is ultramarine blue and burnt amber. You don't need to use or mix both, you can use just one. It's just more fun for me to use two types of whites and combine them on the paper. Now let's start painting some tiny five petaled flowers. This looks really dainty. Now that you have extended that area, I'm going to add one more white flower. We're going to use ultramarine blue and burnt amber. Just paint three petals. It doesn't have to be just three petals, of course, it depends on the composition that you have painted. Feel free to use your own design. When you're doing this type of pattern or composition, what you need to do is to lay out the main flowers first. Then from there you can branch out to smaller flowers, fillers, and leaves. There's a lot of white spaces on this painting. We're just going to slowly fill it in. We can add some small white, yellowish flowers here so that it doesn't look too crowded. We want to paint the flowers a little bit apart from each other, there should still be space. Because we want a more vintage look through this floral painting, I'm adding more browns to my greens. This is sap green and sepia. Right now I'm adding these darker leaves. You can add these dark leaves near the light colored leaves just to add more contrast to that area. Now after stepping back from this painting, I feel like we need to add more contrast towards the bottom part. I'm just going to layer it with some plum colored flowers. We're going to keep it simple. You can see I'm actually painting on top of existing leaves and petals. Now you can see there's a better flow in this painting because you have some contrast in the upper part, and then you also have contrast in the lower part of this painting. You can add some shadow leaves in some areas. Just like this, the shadow leaves are really faint colored leaves and it will fill in space without it looking too overwhelming. We can now add a second layer to this flower, make sure that the base flower is already dry. I'm mixing the same mixture we use, it's carmine with hookers green so we just want this to be darker. I'm going to paint just a few strokes. Paint some letter C shapes all around. I also do the second layer to separate some petals. Let's rinse our brush. I'm going to fade away the strokes. You can also see that we're bringing back some color to this flower. If you feel like adding more highlights or just lighter areas, you can grab a damp brush and just lift that color. You can see that it's now a little bit wider. Add a darker center in these small flowers, just using the plum color, but you can use black or indigo or paint gray. I really just want you to use whatever is in your palette so that you don't need to buy new colors anymore. We're almost done. I'm just adding a few finishing touches. But I hope that you enjoy this different floral composition. Feel free to upload your work in the project gallery section of the class. I will see you tomorrow for day 10 as you paint a new project. [MUSIC] 27. Day 10 Overview: [MUSIC] We are now on Day 10. I hope that you are doing well. I'm just going to show you a reference photo. This is a really beautiful and unique color combination. We're going to mix magenta and brown. Let me start with the first color. We're just going to swatch the course that we're going to use in this project. First, we need permanent magenta. If you don't have this color, you can also use Crimson Lake and maybe add a little bit of violet. You can also add carmine to your permanent magenta to make it look a little bit brighter and happier. Next, we are going to swatch burnt umber. You can see that these are two dark and rich colors. Next, we can try and mix these two colors to see what will happen. I love how this turned out. You can see all the warm tones in it. You can also try to lighten this color, just add more water, is looking really good. Now let's move on to painting the actual project. [MUSIC] 28. Day 10 Project: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 10, and this is what we will be painting today. It's a mix of magenta and brown. We are going to paint really loose watercolor and then monies. We have three main flowers here. I'm going to start with the flower in the middle. Now let's start. Now we're going to mix our first color so this is permanent magenta. It is straight from the two but if we don't have this color, feel free to use any pink color and maybe just add a little bit of violet or blue. I have here really pigmented mixtures as you can see and we're going to paint the five-petaled flower. You can see that I'm leaving spaces in between. Now let's rinse our brush and we are going to paint one more petal right here. You can see that it's lighter compared to the other petals. Just try to vary the values in this flower. Of course, you can go back in to add more strokes and change the shape of the petals. Next, let's grab indigo. I'm going to add it in the center of this flower. Just use the tip of your brush and lightly tap it on the paper to create the small dots. I'm also doing this while the flower is still wet so that it will bleed into the petals. Now let's just rotate our paper. For the second flower, we're going to mix permanent magenta and carmine. We're going to paint another five-petal flower, but this time it's going to be more open. Let's start with one petal here you can try to wiggle your brush to create some jagged edges. Now let's rinse our brush and I'm going to paint one more petal that is lighter in color. I'm also intentionally making my brush really wet so that it's easy to glide on the paper and you can hold your brush towards the end of the handle so that it's easier to create expressive strokes. We can go back in to fix some of the petals. I'm going to lift some of the colors just to add some highlights. While the petals are still wet, we can try to play around and just drop in more pigmented paint. This will give it more depth. Now let's grab indigo. I'm also going to use this color to add the center. Just put a small circle there and then add some small dots. Again, it's best to do this while the flower is still wet so you have to work quickly. I'm going to go back to the first flower because I think we need to fix the shape and make it bigger. I painted the second flower too big and we're going to troubleshoot this. Now we need to extend the petals of the first flower just to make it look bigger. Let's move on to the third flower. This is the last main flower. I'm also making the same mixture of carmine and permanent magenta. This is a flower that is on its side. Now I'm just going to paint the main petals first. Next, let's rinse our brush and tap the excess water. I'm going to paint the petal right beside that. Just let the color bleed into the clear petal. Now let's add some more color. Let's grab indigo and I'm going to add that to the center just to give it more depth. We're going to put small dots. Again, you can see that the flower is still wet as we do this. Let's now paint the leaves. I'm going to mix permanent magenta and burnt umber. We want this to be really dark. I'm not going to add a lot of water. We can add a stem right here and add some leaves. If you want a deeper color, you can also add a little bit of indigo to your mixture. While this flower is still wet, I'm going to also add a leaf so that it will blend in with the petals. You can also rinse your brush to create the lighter color. To make it easier for you, you can add some thin stems first just like this, and later on, we're going to add some leaves to try to wiggle your brush to create a really expressive stroke. You can add more brown to your leaf color and again, just wiggle your brush and lift towards the end so that you have that nice pointy tip. We can play with texture by adding fillers so just tap your brush onto the paper to create a filler. These will look like small flowers. Next, rinse your brush and we're going to fade away some of the dots and again, you are playing with values. It means some areas are lighter, some are darker. Let's add one more filler here. Now you can add a little bit of indigo to your mixture so that it will be really dark. What we want is to add more contrast to this painting. In this area, I'm going to add more leaves, but I want it to be lighter. You can try to adjust this on your own if you have a dark leaf, then pair it with a lighter colored one. We're going to add some more fillers here. Just tap your brush. I'm using any color on this palette. It's always easier to paint the flowers or any floral composition if you have a limited color palette. You can just grab any color on your mixing palette. You can also try to do this. We have a really wet leaf and I'm going to add just a darker paint and again, see that it's beautifully blending on the leaf. It's not time to add a second layer. We're just going to check if this is already dry before we add the second layer. I'm going to use permanent magenta and this is about a shader, too darker than the base flower and we're going to add some veins. Just use the tip of your brush and try to wiggle your brush to create nice expressive veins. You can try to vary the length as well. Some can even be just dots and that's okay. Adding a second layer, we'll give this flower more depth. It will make it look more interesting. Let's move on to the second flower. Because I'm adding these small details, you can notice that I'm holding my brush near the bristles because it gives me more control. Now on to the last flower. As you're adding the veins just follow the curves of the petals so that it's easier for you to add these details. We're now going to add this magical paint called white gouache. I love adding white gouache to my florals lately because it just gives it more life. I'm going to add some small dots. For some reason, adding these small white gouache details makes the flowers pop up even more so I hope that you'll try it. If you don't have white gouache, you can use poster paint. Now to bring back the color at the center, you can grab indigo again and just paint on top of the first layer. You can see that now it has more contrast. We are done. I hope that you enjoyed painting this project today that you learned a lot. See you tomorrow as we start another project. [MUSIC] 29. Day 11 Overview: On Day 11, we are going to paint this beautiful painting using blush pink, magenta, and white. Now let's watch some colors. First we need brilliant pink, if you don't have brilliant pink, you can use any pink color in your palette, and maybe you can add a little bit of white gouache to make it look like a pastel color. To create a peachy pink or a blush pink color, you can add a little bit of yellow ocher to your brilliant pink. If you want this to lean more on the pink side, then you just add more pink. If you want it more peachy, just add more yellow ocher. Next we're going to swatch permanent magenta, this is a nice bold color. At the same time, we will also be using carmine and permanent rows in our project, but it's of course optional. You will be focusing more on using magenta, now let me show you how to make magenta look deeper. I'm going to add burnt umber to permanent magenta, and you'll see how rich this color is it's really beautiful. It looks like deep maroon or burgundy color, I love mixing a soft pinks with some really rich tones like magenta. Now, to make this look softer, we need to add a little bit of white to our color palette. I'm using the color indigo, and just diluting it in a lot of water, that's it. Now, [MUSIC] let's move on to painting the actual projects. 30. Day 11 Project: [MUSIC] On the 11, we are going to paint florals using blush magenta and white. Now, this is my reference photo. I was really drawn to the big fluffy peonies. I really wanted to translate that into my painting. Next, you can see the contrast between the blush pink and magenta roses, but I felt like with the limited space I have, I cannot paint the roses anymore, so I just painted some smaller flowers instead. Now to make this more balanced, I added some small white flowers in this painting just to tone down the contrast between the blush and the magenta color. Now, let's start. We are going to start at the bottom right of this flower and I'm going to use permanent yellow light. Let's start with the center of the peony. I need to paint really small strokes in a circular shape and just use the tip of your brush to create these small strokes. You can vary the length as well. Now, let's grab some more of that brilliant pink and add a little bit of yellow ocher. We also need permanent rose, but we're going to dilute it in a lot of water and just set it aside. Let's start painting the petals. I'm using the brilliant pink, yellow ocher mixture in order to mimic the petals of the peony that we saw in the reference photos. We're just going to drag our brush to create the elongated petal. Now, let's rinse our brush and I'm going to use water to paint the other petals. Just drag your brush and try to grab a little bit of that yellow in the middle. Just let those two colors blend in. You can also grab a little bit of the permanent rose. Try to vary the strokes. You can see that some strokes are small like this and some of them are elongated somewhere right here making a loop. We can try to vary the pressure in each stroke to create more expressive petals. Also, I think it really helps that your brush is wet so that you can easily glide onto the paper. Right here, you can see I'm using the permanent rose and just adding some colors at the tips of the petals. I'm doing this because I wanted a little bit of contrast to some areas of this flower. I think we can add a darker color. I'm using carmine now. As we're adding these details, the base flower is still wet. You can see how soft that looks. For the center, I'm going to use greenish-yellow and just put a small dot right there. Let's now mix our greens. I'm going to mix sap green and burnt umber. I'm going to paint a leaf near this petal and the base flowers are wet. You can see that it's beautifully blending in. I'm going to add some small stem sticking out. You can add some leaves as well. Try to take advantage of the wet flower so that the leaves will attach to the petal seamlessly. I think you can add some more contrast now. I am going to use permanent magenta. Let's just add a few petals right here. I'm going to do three petals, and we can let one of them touch the blush pink flower. That's a beautiful blending right there. Try to add these darker flowers that are going to be across the main flower just so that there's a better flow because if you add these small flowers right beside this blush pink flower, it will look awkward. We're just going to add some stems and you can add a little bit of magenta to that leaf. It's going to look pretty as well. It's a happy accident. Now let's vary the color of the greens. I'm going to mix some sap green and sepia now. It's going to be a little bit darker than the first mixture that we did. We're just going to extend this part. You can also notice that the peony is facing on its side, so it's a little bit tilted. I'm going to do another flower here, but this time it's going to face the other side. We're going to use the same color. This is permanent yellow light. Let's paint really small and short strokes and leave the center blank. We also want these strokes to be quite wet because you want it to bleed into the petals. I'm just going to mix more of these blush-pink color. This is brilliant pink with the yellow ocher. This time I'm going to add more yellow ocher. It's going to be a little bit more peachy. Just drag your brush and lift towards the end. You can do it from different directions. This is really fun way to practice your brush marking skills. Now you can add some water to soften some strokes. Now I find it easy to paint these petals when I'm doing the strokes quickly. Now let's just grab a little bit of this carmine with blush pink. You can see it's a little bit darker. You can rinse your brush and just drag your brush near the center, the yellow part. You can see that it's bleeding into the wet petals. Because this flower is on its side, you'll notice that the petals on the top part of the flower are actually longer compared to the petals below the flower. If you have a real flower at home, try to tilt the flower and you'll see that from a different perspective, some of the petals will be longer, some are shorter. Now I'm using my carmine color again and I'm using that to add some contrast. Now let's grab a green color on your palette and just add it in the center. You can use a greenish-yellow again. Now let's grab some green and paint some leaves. This flower is still wet. You can see the leaves blending in with the petals. I think we can add a little bit of contrast on the left side, so I'm going to add some dark green leaves. This is a mixture of sap green and sepia. You can use any green that you have in your palette as well. Now let's change the angle so you can see it from a different perspective. I'm going to do a top view. Let's grab some permanent magenta and just add a little bit of that burnt umber. This color combination will give you a deeper plum color. I'm going to add these flowers diagonally across the magenta flowers at the bottom. For this composition, we're actually doing the same pattern for the bottom part and the upper part of this painting. As you're doing this daily challenge class, my suggestion is to start painting at the different part of the paper. For example, my default would be to start at the center of the paper and just move on from there, but this time we started at the bottom and that gave us creative freedom to start filling in the paper from the bottom. That will give you a different perspective. Right now, I'm just adding some leaves and changing the values. You can see that some are darker, some are lighter. Let's now get some more of that plum color and start distributing more contrast to this painting. You can see I'm adding a small flower right there, right beside the blush pink flower. Now you can see there's an odd wide gap here and we cannot put any more dark colors because it's going to be too strong, so I've decided to add some white. To make it simpler for the class, we're just going to use indigo, but you have to dilute it in a lot of water. Let's just try to wiggle your brush to create these nice small petals that will look like flowers. Next, attach some stems. We're just adding a small filler. I think it's a nice touch to this painting because it tones down the overall feel of this project. If you feel like what you're painting is too strong when it comes to colors, you can always add some white flowers just to make it look softer. Some parts look a little messy, I'm just going to try and absorb that, just lift the color using a damp brush. It's now time to add more details. I'm using permanent yellow deep. Just add some more strokes in the center and give it more contrast. Going to also put some small dots right there. We can also layer the blush pink flowers. This is just the same mixture as the base flower. It's blush pink with yellow ocher. You can see I'm also lightly touching those small dots that we just painted, and it will beautifully blend in with the second layer. As you're adding these second layer petals, think of it as adding more petals to the flower, giving it more dimension. We are done. Congratulations for finishing this all-over pattern project. I hope that you enjoyed painting something different. [MUSIC] Now, let's move on to day 12 as we paint another project. See you. 31. Day 12 Overview : On the tower, we're going to paint this yellow and blue bouquet. So this is a summer feel to it. Now let's check out the colors that we will use. Lets swatch permanent yellow light. It is one of my favorite yellows but of course you can use other yellows as well. It is a little bright but if you want to tone it down, we can use another yellow. This color is called permanent yellow deep. I'll be using this more often in our project. Another way to use this is to mix it with the permanent yellow light so that you get a mid tone. Let me just show you right here. You can really see it on camera, but in person, the color is a bit lighter. Next, let's grab cobalt blue. This is the blue that we will use in the class but any blue in your palette is okay. Next, we're going to use turquoise. So you can see I'm squeezing out turquoise on the palette. That's because it's not in my usual fixed palette on the left. But I really love this color because it's a calming blue color. Next, we're going to use indigo and we're going to dilute it in a lot of water. We're going to use this for the daisy like flowers in our bouquet. We're painting it this way because we want to mimic the white petals of the flower. So that's it. Now let's move on to the next video as we start painting our project. [MUSIC] 32. Day 12 Project: [MUSIC] On Day 12, you're going to paint this bouquet using yellow and blue. This color combination really makes me happy. The yellow is a cheerful color, and then the blue is so calming. For some reason, this bouquet feels like summer to me. Now let's start. I'm going to use permanent yellow deep with a little bit of permanent yellow light, but you can, of course, use just one color. First, we're going to start with a rose. I'm going to start with a comma stroke and then some thin c strokes all around it. Use the tip of your brush to create these tiny strokes, and you want an oval shape. Once you have that center, we're going to do an outline of the shape of this rose, but that's about to bloom. I'm going to rinse my brush and we're going to fade away those strokes. As I'm feeling, I'm also adding more color to the body of the flower. For more contrast, let's use burnt sienna. I'm going to add a little bit of color in the center. Now let's paint another rose that is diagonally across this first flower that we painted. We're going to do the same technique. You need a comma stroke and then some tiny c strokes all around it. This is going to be a rose that is on its side. Now I'm just painting the outline. Next, rinse your brush and just fade away these strokes to make it look softer. I'm using 100 percent cotton paper that's why the strokes are easier to blend, but if you're using student grade paper, you might want to work fast because the paint will dry up pretty fast, so it might be difficult to fade away some strokes. Now I'm just going to bring back some more color on this rose. Next let's paint a DC-like flower. I'm using indigo and I diluted it in a lot of water. Now you want this color to look like white petals. We're just going to paint six elongated petals. For the center, let's add a permanent yellow deep, but you can use any yellow in your palette. Let's tap the color lightly onto the paper. I don't want it to spread too much to the wet petals, or else you will end up with a yellow flower. Now, let's grab sap green and let's add some stems. To make the yellow roses pop, we need something to complement it, I'm going to use blue. We're going to use the color cobalt blue, but you can definitely use other blues in your palate. We're going to paint some tiny petals. Now I want a lighter color, I'm using turquoise blue. If you want to use just one shade of blue, that's also okay. We're just going to just keep on adding more petals until it looks very fluffy. What we're doing is we're adding more volume. Make sure that you have some spaces in-between your petals, and also try to vary the pressure in each stroke so that you get nice expressive petals. I still have some blue in my brush, I'm going to mix it with a little bit of green and now you can see that we have transformed the color. It is looking good. Now let's grab sap green and connect all the petals. Let's add some stems and some tiny leaves. At the top of this flower stock, we are going to grab a more concentrated cobalt blue. Now we can add some tiny bud so you can see it's more concentrated. Now let's add a little bit of this burnt umber to our sap green to create an earthy green color. We're just going to fill in some white caps with some leaves. With a damp brush, I think we can try to fade away some of the leaves just to make it softer. Let me rinse my brush again. I'm going to fade away this flower. This is one way to soften your bouquet and try to fade away some of the flower petals. Now let's put a small DC over here. I'm still using the diluted indigo. Let's paint five petals. We're going to paint shorter petals at the bottom part just to give an illusion that it's behind some of the flowers. Next, let's add some yellow in the center. I'm going to paint just three petals here and give an illusion that it's facing at the back. Now let's just attach a stem. You can see that we have distributed this white flower in the bouquet in such a way that they form a triangle. Sometimes when it comes to composition, it also helps this technique. All right, so the blues are too light, right now I'm just going to add more contrast. Let's grab cobalt blue that is more concentrated. Next, I'm going to use my brush and just paint some more smaller flowers. You can grab another color from your palette here I'm using turquoise blue. You can see that I'm just mixing and matching the darker blue and the lighter blue. If some areas are quite messy, just try to lift that part, just like what I'm doing here and make sure that your blot out your brush in a tissue paper. We can paint a small rose bud at the top just to add more yellow to that area, so I don't want this to be a huge flower that's why we opted for a small rose bud. Now let's get a clean brush and we're going to just grab the color and pull it down. Next, let's form the shape of the rose bud and add the stem. You can see that the blending is just so beautiful. You can also add a few leaves beside it. For more contrast, you can grab burnt sienna or any brown color in your palette. All right, I think we can start adding a second layer. I'm using very diluted indigo and you're going to paint a second layer to this [inaudible]. We're going to paint varied strokes and we have to make sure that you can still see the first layer we're not trying to cover it up. Next we need burnt umber and I'm going to put ring of small dots. This will give it a really beautiful contrast. If we don't have burnt umber, just use any brown color in your palette and make it really concentrated. Next, I'm going to bring back that yellow color, so let's just add some more of the permanent yellow deep. Let's move on to the other DC's doing the same method of adding a second layer and also a ring of dots. When you're adding the yellow center back, make sure that your brush isn't too wet. Try to blot it out in a tissue paper first before you start painting on the paper. Right here, I'm still trying to smudge this area just to let them blend in together. For this part, just grab any green color in your palette I'm using sap green and add some more leaves and stem sticking out. Try to extend some areas using stems and that will make the flower bouquet look more expressive and loose. Now I'm adding a little bit of that burnt umber to my green to give an earthy green color so that it's not too bright. Now look at your PD from a far and then you'll notice that you might need to add some more flowers or feathers. Just trust your intuition. As I was reading this, I really felt like I needed to add a blue flower at the bottom part and also a yellow bud right here. It just feels more complete. Rely on your intuition also comes with practice. If it's still difficult for you to rely on your intuition, it's definitely fine. The more you practice, the more you will become comfortable with painting different compositions. Don't be afraid to overlap painting leaves on some of the main flowers. Doing this will give your bouquet more depth. If you'll notice you have more yellow towards the bottom part of this bouquet, that's why I decided to bring up one more yellow. We just painted a small rose bud and I'm adding some smaller buds all around this bouquet. Now I think we can add a second layer to the row, says I'm mixing permanent yellow deep with burnt sienna. Now you can also mix any yellow with a little bit of brown. You want this to be quite concentrated, so I'm just going to follow the first few strokes we did on the base petal. Now let's rinse our brush and tried to fade away the outer strokes. This is also a way to add more color to your flower. Let's move on to the second row. I'm also going to add more concentrated strokes towards the center of this rose. Next we can do an outline again and tried to fade away the inside of the petals. We're just adding some finishing touches, you can add more stems though it's the under part of this bouquet. Then you can extend some areas using stems, make some wavy lines and some tiny leaves. You can already stop at this if you're happy but if you want to add more contrast, just put a second layer to some of the blue flowers. I'm using a more concentrated cobalt blue. I think that adding a really rich and dark blue color besides a yellow flower makes the yellow flower pop up. Right here I'm also going to add a second layer because I want the DC to pop up. You can also add some veins and if you have white gouache, you can add some white details if you want. I know that this is a longer project, but I hope that you enjoyed what we painted today. I will see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 33. Day 13 Overview: [MUSIC] In today's painting, we're going to use peach and blue, which are complimentary colors. Now let's grab permanent rose and yellow ocher. I will like to try to mix the peach color here. If I want a subtle peach color, this is the combination that I use all the time. Now let's try to swatch it. It can be a little tricky to mix peach because sometimes it turns out too orange. Next, let's mix permanent rose and permanent yellow light. If you want a brighter peach color, you can use this color combination. Again, it really comes with practice and you need to try out different ratios to get that perfect peach color for you. Now let's grab our blue. I'm going to use cerulean blue, but of course, any blue will do. This looks a little light, you can grab some cerulean blue. You can see the color when it's a bit darker or more pigmented. This bouquet has a color combination for spring vibes, that's why I'm going to add greenish yellow. This is a color that for some reason reminds me of spring. Now let's try to swatch this color. If you don't have greenish yellow just mix your yellow and green. Next, let's add some soft yellows. I'm going to use permanent yellow light and mix it with a little bit of white gouache just to make it look more pastel like. You can also use John Brilliant if you want, but this is a DIY color that I usually use. It looks very pretty, now let's move on to the next video as we paint our project. [MUSIC] 34. Day 13 Project: [MUSIC] On the 13th, our color combination is peach and blue. This color combination is giving me some spring vibes. Peach and blue are complimentary colors that's why it looks tiny on the paper. Now let's start painting the project. Let's start with two main fluoresce, which are the English roses. Let's makes permanent rose with permanent yellow light, just like what we practiced in the overview, let start with one dot as the center, and I'm going to paint some S strokes all around it in a spiral form. You can see that we're trying to also vary the strokes. Some are thinner, some are fatter and you also want this to be quite concentrated. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and start fading the strokes. Keep in mind that you have to leave some strokes as is because if you fade away everything, then you won't have that much details in this flower. Now, we're all set with the center. I'm going to paint the letter C shapes all around it just to cover this flower. Let's add some more, and you can vary the colors as well. You can add more pink or more peach. Now let's grab a more pigmented color and add it in the center and just let it bleed into the petals. Let's start painting another flower that is diagonally across this first English rose. I have an entire class on English roses if you want to check it out. That will be taught in more detail if you want to learn more how to paint this flower. For this project we're just going to simplify it. Okay, now we're adding all the S strokes. These two flowers are front-facing and I'm going to add some more fluff to the outer part of this English roses. It means that we're going to add more C shapes. In order for this to look soft, we want the outer petals to be lighter in color, and then the middle part of this flower is the darkest color. Okay, now let's add the center. This is just a more pigmented permanent rose and permanent yellow light mixture. Now I'm going to add a little bit of permanent rose on the outer part, just to give it a two-toned color. Now let's grab celurian blue, I'm going to add it in between the two main flowers. Let's start painting some petals. This will be a little bit more concentrated. Now we can rinse our brush to fade away some strokes. Another tip is that you can add some white gouache to your cerulean blue, to get that nice pastel blue color. Adding white gouache is optional. You can just use any blue in your palate and dilute it in a lot of water to make it lighter. Some strokes you can just paint using water and just grab the color from the other petals. Next we're going to add a stem and attach it to all these petals. I'm using sap green, and you can see that we're adding the stem while the petals are still wet so that they can blend in beautifully. Alright, now let's go back in with some more blue flowers. Looking at this from a far, I think we can add some more blue fluoresce to make it look prettier. Just go ahead and extend this area. Hold your brush towards the end of the handle to keep it loose so that you can create some nice expressive strokes. Right now we can add some more leaves and also some small green buds. After painting the blue flowers diagonally across yet let's add some four petaled flowers using permanent yellow light with white gouache. This mixture will give you a really soft effect. Okay, Let's just add some more four petal flowers. Some can be just three petals. I'm going to just fill in this white space. You can leave some spaces in between the flowers. Now rinse your brush and paint some more petals. I'm going to try and blur out some of the petals there. After which we can now add up some stems. I am using greenish-yellow, but you can use sap green as well. Some greenish-yellow and pastel yellow looks really beautiful together. You'll see it here. It looks very dainty. I really love adding the stems while the flowers are still wet and you might have noticed that in the previous projects. It really gives us off effect to your floral bouquet. Now, in this area, let's add some green buds. I'm using greenish-yellow. Now that we have three pigmented buds, let's add a lighter color to balance this out and make it look more interesting. Towards the bottom part of this bouquet, we're going to add also some fillers and we're using a different shade of blue. This is ultramarine blue, but you can still use cerulean blue and it's okay. Just rinse your brush and paint some more petals using whatever color is left in your brush. You can see it looks like a bluish-gray color. It's now time to add some leaves. I'm going to put leaves near this flower just to give more definition to the edge of their English rose. Let's grab some more of that sap green and also add a little bit of burnt umber. This is how you shape the sides of this rose. You can see I'm putting some roughly edges and then now we're going to form it into a leaf. If it's too dark, you can always leave that area and just absorb the excess paint. Feel free to add some stems sticking out, maybe some smaller leaves to your floral arrangement. You'll notice that we have yellow florals at the bottom. Now we're going to bring it up and add some more of that right here and you can paint another set of four-petal flowers and just try to wiggle your brush to create different brush markings for the petals. Now I'm going to use greenish-yellow and I'll attach them to the main bouquet. I'll do this when the petals are still wet. Now grab your cerulean blue or any blue in your palette and add some more fillers. I'm trying to go around and add more of that blue. I'm trying to spread the color just to make it look more balanced. Now, to highlight some areas, you need to put something dark. We can put dark berries using dark green color. You can also add indigo, and that will make this area pop up. Just to give it more depth, I'm going to add a second layer to some of the petals here, just going to paint on top of it. It's also a way to bring back the color. It's now time to add a second layer to these English roses. Just paint some more S-strokes and then we're going to also paint some letters, C-strokes all around it. Try to limit your strokes because you don't want it to look too crowded. With a clean brush, I'm going to just fade away some of the strokes to make it look softer. We're going to do that for the letter C shape as well on the outer part of this flower. The color that I'm using is still permanent rose and permanent yellow light, it's the same peach mixture that we painted, but just a little bit more concentrated. Let's do another one and the second English rose. Again, start with some S-strokes. Some can be short, some can be longer. I'm going to change this up a bit so you can see some fading and trying to also paint the letter C shapes. Going to drag my brush and make a loop. These flowers are still wet, so I'm going to add some more contrast. I can grab this color and just add it in the center. You can use burnt sienna as well if you want a brown color. Another details you can add are veins on the leaves so you can use the same green mixture. Just makes sure that the leaves are already dry before you add more details on top. We're now onto the finishing touches. I'm just adding more stems in between the petals just to make it look sharper. In between these English roses, you can add a tiny leaf just to separate them. This is done. Congratulations for finishing up to Day 13. See you tomorrow on Day 14 as you paint a new project. [MUSIC] 35. Day 14 Overview: [MUSIC] Here's the second, the last day of our challenge. Today, we are going to paint using the colors violet, dusty, rose, and lavender. Now let's watch the colors that we will use. First, you need permanent violet. But of course, you can use any violet in your palette. Next, for that deep color, we're going to use permanent violet and burnt sienna. You can see how the color is transformed here. We get that nice deep plum color. Now for that warm, dusty rose color, we are going to mix carmine with burnt sienna. Let's watch this color. It's a little too brown for my liking. I think you can add some more carmine. I'm just going to make some more. Let's checkout this color. This looks a lot better. It has more pink in it. These colors remind me of fall. This is a color palette that you can also use in the future. Next, we need lavender. This is a color that will make your painting look softer because it's a pastel color. That's it. I will see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 36. Day 14 Project: This is the second to the last project and we're painting this beautiful floral bouquet. Now it's a different combination of violet, the zeros, and plum. Now you're going to start with a really big flower in the lower right part of this floral arrangement. Now let's start. First. We need a really pigmented permanent violet or use any violet in your palette. I'm going to put some small dots right there. Now you want this to be really wet and pigmented and you also want spaces in between the dots. Here comes the fun part, rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and you're going to drag that color out. We're going to pull it. Just look at that. It's going to just spread to the wet petals. We're going to paint five petals. I'm going to rinse my brush again and just drag the color from the middle going out. Use the tip of your brush to create some thin lines, to create some wispy strokes. Just do the same method of rinsing your brush first before you start with a new petal so that it's nice and clean again. Up goes, it is really beautiful and expressive. I love how the pigment just flows into the wet petals. You can go ahead and fix the shape of this flower or leave it as is. To give this more contrast, let's grab indigo. While this flower is still wet, we want to add that indigo in the center. You do have to work pretty quick especially if you're using student grade paper, which drys up quite fast compared to 100 percent cotton paper. It's now time to add the other flower. This is also an anemone, but it's on its side. I'm going to start with the flap. Just paint an oval-shape. I'm using permanent violet. Now you're going to attach some petals to it. I'm going to start at the side. I'm not going to let it touch the oval petal. I'm going to leave a space in the middle. Let's grab some more color so you want to vary the tones, the values of the petals. It means some are darker, some are lighter. Now let's grab permanent violet. This time I want it to be really pigmented. I'm going to add it in the center. Just make sure that your brush isn't too wet. Because if your brush is too wet then it will spread all over the place. For the second flower is the opposite of the first one. If you remember the first one, you started with the center and then we added some clear battles. But for the second flower that's on its side, we started with the petals first and then later on we added a dark center. There are many ways to paint this flower, and I just wanted you to be able to try different styles. Now, let's mix carmine and burnt sienna to create a dusty rose color. If you want this more on the pink side and just add more carmine. I'm going to swatch this. It has that brownish pink color. We want the really pigmented color because we're going to paint the center of the rose. You'll notice that it is diagonally across this anemone that is on its side. Let me just start with some really thin strokes and make sure that you have spaces in between. Now we are going to paint the outline. Let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and start feeding these strokes. This looks to brown I think we're going to add a little bit of that carmine. Let's just mix it right there. I'm going to add some more pink. Let's bring some more contrast. I'm going to add the darker color and add it in the flap and sides of this rose bud. We're going to add more petals later on. This is a rose that is about to bloom, so you have some petals hanging. We're going to make this part darker because that is where all the petals meet so it means that it's also darker and has more shadow. To give it a more dramatic effect, we're going to add some darker areas at the tips of the petals. You can add some violet to your mixture so that it will become deeper in color. I'm going to add some in the center as well. I love how this rose has some vintage effect because of the details that we added. I'm going to mix sap green and burnt sienna and add some samples and also a stem. Let's add some more contrast. This is just sap green and burnt umber, but it's more concentrated. Going to add it right here just to define the size of these petals. Try to vary the greens in your bouquet. Some are lighter, some are darker another tip is to use the color of the main flower and add that to the color green in your palette. I'm just going to mix these two colors and you'll get a nice smoky effect. You can try to have fun and make some wiggly leaves. While this is still wet, you can add a darker color and let it bleed into the leaves. Let's add some filters at the top I'm going to use lavender. It's going to tap my brush and use the tip of your brush to create these tiny strokes. Again, make sure that you have spaces in between your strokes. While it's still wet, you can grab some permanent violet and add it towards the bottom part of this lavender stock. Let's continue to do another set right here. I started at the top, going down. Now let's grab a violet color in the mixing palette. Just going to add that to give it more contrast. You can see that some of the strokes are just dots. Now let's make a really deep color. We're going to mix plum. I'm going to use permanent violet with burnt sienna. You can see it's a really beautiful and rich color. You can try to swatch it right here. I think we're good so we can start painting some simple flowers at the bottom. Let's make the medium-size flower I'm going to do four petals here. Let's add another one over here to fill in that whitespace. This looks too dark, so I'm just going to lift the color so that it doesn't look too heavy. Just grabbed your greenish, yellow or sap green and add some small dots in the center. It's now time to add some leaves. We are going to add some stem sticking out as well and then you can try to vary the greens in this bouquet. I'm going to mix green and violet again. You can see it right here. I love mixing these two colors. Just continue adding some smaller strokes and you can do some elongated leaves as well. Now we can distribute this lavender color. I'm going to add it towards this right side. I can add it at the bottom part as well. You can see that if you create a triangle outline, you can see that we put the lavender in three points of this bouquet. Now we only have one dusty rose color here, so I'm going to add some small flowers. That will give it a more balanced look. Let's add some of the bottom-right as well. When this rose is already dry you can add the second layer. This is the same mixture of carmine with burnt sienna and I just made it more concentrated. We're painting the same strokes. I'm going to do an outline right here. Next, rinse your brush and then we can try and fade away the strokes. This flower looks a little doll awhile ago. I really loved that. By adding a second layer, we can make it come alive again because it now has more color. To give it a more dramatic effect, we can add a little bit of violet in some areas. Now I have this white gouache and we're going to grab some paint. We want our brush to be coated in really thick gouache mixture. It will give this flower more depth and also more details in the center. Now we have permanent violet, so just grab a really pigmented color and add some more dots in the center to give more contrast. Now for the real part of this flower, I just decided to cover up the white gouache that we painted. I'm going to make it opaque just like this. Let's also add more definition to the second and then money, I'm going to just put some small dots. Next, let's grab our gouache again and then you can paint some tiny flowers right here. Make sure that the background is really dark. I'm painting on dark leaves. Feel free to vary this. Some can be small flowers. You can paint small white berries, or maybe add some white veins. Adding these white gouache details really gives more volume to the floral painting. It looks fuller. We're almost done. Congratulations for finishing up to this part of the class. Now let's move on to Day 15. Tomorrow we will be painting our last project for this class. [MUSIC] 37. Day 15 Overview: [MUSIC] On Day 15, we are going to paint this project, and the color combination is blush pink, indigo, and cream, or white. I'm excited for you to try this out, so let's swatch some colors. The first color that you will swatch is indigo. If you don't have indigo, you can use any blue in your palette and maybe add a little bit of black just to darken it. Next, let's make some brilliant pink and burnt umber. I'm mixing these two colors to create a more vintage blush pink color. Otherwise, you can use just a permanent rose and dilute it in water, if you don't have brilliant pink. You can see it's a really beautiful color, and you can rinse your brush to create a lighter color. Now for that creamy white color, you're going to mix yellow ocher and sepia. This is going to be our white. For this mixture, I'm going to add more yellow ocher, so it's going to turn out more yellowish. That's it. Now, let's move on to painting our last project in the next video. [MUSIC] 38. Day 15 Project: [MUSIC] This is the last project for the class, and you're going to paint this beautiful bouquet that has a romantic feel. The contrast of the soft pink floral here, and also a dark indigo rose. Now let's start painting the peony first. Let's start with a brilliant pink and burnt umber color combination. This is a beautiful soft pink color. I'm going to paint two petals. This is going to form a letter V. No, I am not going to let these two petals touch each other. Next, let's paint the top petals. Try to wiggle your brush and we're going to keep it light. Again, I'm not letting my petals touch each other. There's whitespace in-between. Now let's add a petal on the side. We're just following the shape of the letter V petal. Next, let's add the bottom petals. You can try to wiggle your brush to create a jagged edge. I'm going to paint just two petals that is on its side. Because we're doing it freehand, we're also constantly adjusting the shape and the size of the petals. You can see I'm adding some thin strokes. Next let's grab some more paint. I'm going to add more color to some of the petals. This flower is still wet at this moment. You want to concentrate the colors there right where the other petals meet. Next, grab yellow ocher and you're going to add the center. Just paint some thin strokes. You can definitely use any yellow color that you like. I decided to go with yellow ocher because it's a bit more tone down compared to my other yellows. To create a deeper, earthy green color, we're going to make sap green with sepia. Let's add some leaves there, this peony. This peony is still wet. You can see that the two colors are blending in, then you can add some stems as well. Let's leave this as is. Now we can move on to a flower diagonally across this peony. Let's grab indigo and you want a dark color for the center of the rose. You'll notice that the peony is facing on the left. Now we're going to paint a rose that is facing on the right. Start with a comma stroke and then paint some thin lines all around it. Make sure that you leave spaces in-between your strokes. Right there, I'm trying to vary the strokes, so I made some of them a little bit fatter. Now rinse your brush and fade away this part. Indigo is a really strong colors. You can see that I still have some color left on my brush even after trying to rinse it. But that's okay. Now we are going to widen this rose by adding bigger petals. For that white gap between these two flowers, we can paint a leaf. We have the two main flowers then. Now let's move on to painting some smaller flowers. I'm going to mix yellow ocher and sepia. This is going to balance out the strong contrast between the blush pink flower and the dark blue flower. Let's paint some white flowers right here. Let's just paint some five petaled flowers, and you can try to vary the strokes to make it look more expressive and organic. Now for the center, we can add sepia, just put it in the center of the flower, and just let it bleed. It will give it a nice contrast. To avoid it from spreading too much, we can grab a tissue paper and blot your brush, let it absorb the excess paint, and then you can try to add some more sepia. In the upper right part of this bouquet, we can put a small rose, but I'm just grabbing indigo. Scribble some small strokes, and then we can try to rinse our brush. Rinse your brush, tap the excess water. Then we're going to just pull away the color from the center going down. As I'm pulling the color, I'm also building the body of this rose bud. Here I put too much paint. I think we can try to leave it. Just grab a damp brush, let the brush absorb that excess paint. I think that looks better. Next, let's add a pink rose bud and I'm going to use the same brilliant pink and burnt umber mixture. Let's do the same method of scribbling some small lines. Again, rinse your brush, and now let's just grab the color from the center going down, we can start adding some small leaves. You can also mix indigo to your sap green color. You can see that this leaf has more blue in it. It's nice to vary the shades of green that we have in a bouquet. Now let's paint some dark leaves over here just to give more contrast to this bottom part of the floral arrangement. What I'm doing is I'm also continuously adding some stem sticking out because later on I'll be putting in some fillers. We still don't have a lot of blue at the bottom part of this painting, so that's why I'm going to add some small buds. I'm using the color indigo. At the same time, I'm also adding some blush pink rose buds. There's a small gap here, right here. We're just going to paint a small white flower. If you have a small gap, you can just add a small white flower as a filler. To give it more contrast, I'm going to use sepia and add it to the center of the small flowers. To bring back more color to this peony, I'm going to use the same mixture, I'm just painting on top of it. But at the same time you want to still see the first layer. Don't try to cover the entire flower. Next we're the center, let's grab yellow ocher. I'm going to paint some thin lines and some small dots. You can see that it's now more concentrated. You can also use burnt sienna to just give it more contrast. For the indigo flower, I'm going to grab a more concentrated indigo color. This can be a little tricky because it's a dark flower. I'm going to just paint a few strokes. Try not to add too many strokes because it will look too overcrowded and sometimes it might look muddy. Now clean your brush and tap the excess water. Now let's try to fade away the outer strokes. You can see that we're also bringing in back more color. You can use the color in your brush tool also paint some more petals. We can also add a second layer to this rose, but just to give it more definition. For this blush pink rose bud, we're going to add the second layer as well because it looks a little washed out. Now let's fill in some areas with some leaves. This is a light green color. Since this is the last project, I want to add more details to it we're going to use white gouache, make sure that you mix it well. We're going to paint some tiny flowers right here. You can see that this leaf looks a little odd and so I'm going to cover it up with white gouache. Aside from white gouache being aesthetic, it's also a way to cover up some mistakes. You can also put some small dots right here that will look like small flowers. Of course we can add some white veins on the leaves. We're done and this is the last project. Congratulations for finishing it. Let's now move on to the next video as I share my final thoughts with you. Don't forget to upload your projects in the project gallery section of the class. [MUSIC] 39. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] We have reached the end of the class. Thank you so much for watching. For our project, you can follow the color prompts that I will be using in this class. You can find this in the project resources section. Or you may choose to create your own color combinations list to paint florals everyday for two weeks. The goal is to explore and to get out of your comfort zone. We also help you think out of the box with limited colors. I hope to see your projects in the project gallery section of the class. Just take a photo of your painting and upload it there. Under the tab section of the class you will see Projects and Resources, click that and then click Create Project. I'd be happy to give a feedback and words of encouragement to you. You can also tag me on Instagram and use this hashtag so I can see your work. I believe that learning is a continuous journey and so it would mean a lot if you could leave a review of the class on how this class help you in your watercolor journey. That's it. I will see you in my next class. Bye. Happy painting.