7 Day Creative Habit Challenge : Paint Watercolor Wildflowers

1. Introduction: Have you lost touch with creativity? Or perhaps you haven't painted in a long while. And so the thought of picking up that brush or an empty blank sheet of paper is pretty intimidating or maybe are going through a creative func. Well, they've all been there at some point or the other. But the good news is, in this class, I will help you reignite your passion for creativity. And we will build our Creative Habit slowly, but steadily, one day at a time. For the next seven days, they can migrate a friends. My name is manushree. I'm your instructor, artist and author. I primarily work with watercolours and wash, and I'm so excited to have you join me in this incredible journey. Now this class is perfect for beginners, intermediate or advanced artists are actually anyone who's going through a creative block for that matter. I've carefully selected seven simple wildflowers, which we will be painting across the seven days. So think of it like one Flower per day. And I've also kept the supplies to an absolute minimums. So think of basic colors, just two or three basic brushes. Because at the core of it, this class is about developing our Creative Habit. So there's less emphasis on the supplies, but more on showing up every single day to our creative space. Having said that, each floral lesson is filmed in a step-by-step format which is easy to follow should you choose to paints the same flavor? However, you can also choose to paint your own Flowers. Feel free that way. And it has filmed under 20 min. So the whole idea is that you're able to create that tastes Flower within 20 min because I know that life can be full. Another thing to note is the lessons are done with watercolours. However, the techniques that I share can be applied across different mediums. So feel free to make your bag with and work with your favorite media. And most importantly, to remember that At the end of the day, it's about showing up at your creative space, enjoying the process, having FUN, and building a sustainable creative practice by investing little time each day, will nacho our creative spirit and unlock its limitless potential or Creative Habit is essential in any artistic group. And it does wonders for our mental well-being as well, because it allows us to be present in the moment and find joy in the process. So without further ado, let's dive in, grab your supplies, and let's get started with our seven Day Creative Habit Challenge. I hope to see you in the class 2. Class & Project Overview: Welcome to our seven Day Creative challenge. Today we embark on a journey that celebrates power of consistency and the freedom of creative expression. Let's explore some of the key elements which will make this Challenge truly special. First and foremost, I would like to emphasize on the power of consistency. So starting from today and over the course of next seven days, we will dedicate ourselves to Creating. Now, there might be times when your mind would come up with excuses and it could look like, I do not have enough time or I do not feel like creating. But I would encourage you to really push past that feeling and out at least under 15 min to create the prompt for that day. Because it is true, consistent practice that we unlock our creative potential and witnessed remarkable growth. The next point that I want to discuss is about the supplies. So do not worry about the exact supplies because for this challenge, the emphasis is not on the supplies, but it is on developing a Creative Habit. Feel free to choose watercolors, colored pencils, or even digital tools. Whatever truly gets you excited to paint every single day, to create every single day rhabdo? So embracing unique interpretation of the lessons and make them your own to help us stay on track and motivate it, I recommend finding an accountability partner. By sharing your progress and experiences with a fellow creator, you can inspire and encourage one another throughout the challenge. And that will make the king throughout the challenge much more easier and enjoyable. Additionally, I encourage you to join our vibrant social media community. Share your creations Thoughts on challenges using our designated hashtag by engaging with others and witnessing their journey, we strengthen our commitment and sense of belonging. The project resources section, you will find two things. First is the link to a Pinterest board for all the inspiration pictures that I will be showing you and utilizing in this class. And second is the prompt list. This list will have Flowers for every single day that I have designated. And you can utilize it to explore your own inspiration pictures, and prepare yourself well in advance for that days Challenge. Each day, a new lesson will be dropped at 06:00 P.M. IST, providing a consistent schedule for everyone to follow. Take this opportunity to carve out a dedicated time slot for your creative exploration and ensure you're ready to embrace the day's lesson. Now I do understand that because of the time zone differences, the lessons may come out early in the morning or evening or in the afternoon, but that's okay. You can always take the lesson at your own designated time, which you choose for yourself as your creative practice time. Once you have completed your artwork, I encourage you to share it here on Skillshare project section and also on social media to make sure to tag me because it is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your unique interpretation of each flower and also to celebrate your creative growth. In addition to that, I would be happy to provide my inputs on your artworks should you require them. So make sure to post them here, as well as in social media and do tag me at the whimsical, creative. And in the end, if you have any questions, queries, or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. You can contact me via e-mail to whimsical creative@gmail.com. And I'm here to support you throughout your seven Day Creative Challenge one, and that's about it. I am super-excited and I hope you are too. Let's get started. I'll see you in the next video. 3. Materials and Supplies: Welcome to the seven Day Creative Habit Challenge my dear friends. And before we dive into our Challenge, let's quickly discuss supplies. Now, I have mentioned this in the introduction and I would like to reiterate it that you do not essentially need to complete this entire challenge with watercolours. Instead, feel free to pick the medium of your choice. Because all the techniques are all the flowers that we are painting, you can easily recreate them with any other medium as well. Now that sudden done, Let's have a quick look at what all I be using. So I'll be using watercolor tubes by Winsor and Newton. These are their professional watercolor tubes. I'm not going to share the exact pigments are the colors simply because I do not want us to put lot of emphasis on that. Instead, even for myself and I was painting every flavor for the entirety of seven days, I actually mixed and matched a lot of my pigments. So someday you may find me Painting With permanent rose or cadmium red deep or even Alizarin crimson. What I do want you to do is when you see me using red, just pick any red from your color palette that you already have. And you'll be able to follow the lesson with that itself. Now, you need some watercolor paints. You can use either Watercolor tubes or you can even use pan sets like these. There are Watercolor bands and there's this nice convenient mixing area. These are great because this is very portable and also it comes with an inbuilt mixing palette. However, if you're not using these, then you'll need some mixing palettes. So I will be using ceramic mixing pallets. You can use a metal or any other sort of mixing palette that you have, that's going to work absolutely fine. As for our brushes, I've tried to keep this also very simple. So for the majority of the class, you'll find me using these two brushes. They are both round brushes from Princeton and their size number four and size numbers that you can actually use any round brush that you have, just ensure that it comes to a nice point and it is take at the bottom just so that it can hold nice amount of water for watercolor paintings. And additional supply is pencil. So if you feel you want to have some sort of guideline when you're painting or trying to find out where to place your flower heads, then this is going to be very helpful. You can just mark where the stem goals and with the flower heads would go. And this will help you have some sort of a guide to jump off of when you're trying to paint. Next thing that we have is our Watercolor paper. I'll be using this particular 100% cotton, 300 GSM watercolor paper. However, feel free to use any of the cotton paper that you have. Just ensure that it's at least 300 GSM. If you're not using a cotton paper, you can get away with using a cellulose paper. But to ensure that that is also 300 GSM, because if the paper is not that thick enough, it's not going to take water valid. Then we also need something to dab off extra paint or to lift off some colors. So you'll need a sponge like this. This is a very nice reusable sponge instead of having paper towels. But this end, a couple of paper towels would come in handy when we're painting of lovers. I think this is about it. Am I missing something? Oh yes. You do need a jar full of Florida because obviously to rinse our brushes or do bring water to our beans. So that is also one thing that you need. Apart from it. I think you should just prepare a beverage of your choice every day to go along with your creative practice. Just bring a smile and I'll take it from there. And I cannot wait to see you on day one of our challenge 4. Day 1 : Cardinal Flower: Hi and welcome to our first day of the seven Day Creative Habit Challenge. So as you know, for the one, we'll be painting these beautiful garden flowers. Garden Flowers symbolize love and romance, and they are native to North America. The reason why I chose Cardinal Flower was because, of course, this entire Challenge is a symbol of how much you and me we both love creativity and watercolors. So I just felt that this was the perfect Flower to get started with. The color scheme for this would be pretty simple. We're looking at reds and greens. So I'll show you a couple of pictures of the Cardinal Flower in case you've never seen one before. So here are some of the pictures I have from my Pinterest board. I'm also going to be sharing a link to the Pinterest board, which will contain all these inspiration pictures that we utilize or look at throughout our seven day challenge. Just a word of caution with any sort of pictures. Basically, even if these pictures could be, some of them could be royalty free, some of them not so much. So two things you should consider. First is if you're just going to use it for your sketchbook purpose, then it's absolutely fine. You can just replicate the image. Meaning the basic stems, stems structure, the Flowers structure, everything you can replicate without any issue. However, if this is something you'll be posting online than I would suggest that you make some creative tweaks. If you see that the sudden stem is going in this direction. And if you like, how the flowers are clustered on it, instead of doing it like this, exactly like how it's in the image, you can give it a nice curve, or you can increase the length. Or you can just add couple of leaves. Just try to make it a little different from what is their only reference image. There are two good things about it. First, you're not replicating the image as is, so that would prevent you from running into any copyright issues. And the second is, when you are choosing to do something a little differently, you are actually exercising your creativity to imagine something which you cannot see right now. But it's there in your mind and you can choose to execute it. Alright, so that is said and done. Now, let us have a look at this gorgeous flower. I just want to take a couple of minutes. I'm to really tell you a little about the basic structure of the flower. Now this is a long stemmed Flower. What I mean by that is that usually the stems a pretty long and the flowers are clustered around that stem. So let me see. Yeah. So this is a long slender stem and the Flowers would be coming out of it. Now you'll see that these petals are very wispy and Sweet. So they are quite easy to paint also because this is going to give us a lot of creative liberty when we will be looking at Painting them. Now let us have a look at this image and you can see very distinctly how the petals are. So we'll be utilizing two methods, will be using one stroke with a round brush and the stamping method. To create these patterns for our colors, I have actually picked reds and greens. So you can just pick any red and green that you have on hand. I have already taken out my colors and I've prepared them. Just add a little bit of water so that there is a nice pool of each color. And I've also used to green. So this is sort of like a lemon yellow that I'm using. This is a beautiful crimson, cadmium red, and this is a regular sap green. I be adding little bit of this yellow to the green if I would want to make it a little lighter or brighter rather. Alright, so, yeah, that's about it. Let's get started with painting our Flower. The first thing that we are going to do is let's just rinse our brush in water. Take out the excess. Now, I'm going to get started with a lighter green color. So you can achieve that by actually adding more water to your pigment. Or you can also choose to add tiny bit of white watercolor. And that will also give you a gorgeous PESTEL, short sort of green color. Now I'm gonna go ahead and map out to stem. The reason why I'm choosing to go first with the stem is because the stem would act as an anchor for my flavor. Now, I do tend to have my reference image next to me whenever I am painting a new flavor because this is a flower that I've painted couple of times. I'm not gonna be using a reference image for this one. However, if this is your first time painting a Cardinal Flower, I would highly recommend that you have a reference picture right next to you. So just adding the stem and I'm leaving little bit of dashes here in there because some Flowers would come straight at us from the stem. So this is the space that I've left out for them. I'm just going to add tiny bit of leaf at the very top. And then some leaves at the bottom. And I'm gonna use my one stroke to create the leaf. And the way I do it is I just take the tip of my brush and I drag it. And as I'm dragging it, I'm adding little bit of pressure. And then as I'm ready to come up, I again release the pressure and vapor come back to a point. If you want to create a two stroke leaf that's gonna be a little thicker. You can start again with the tip of your brush. As you are going down. Just press down and then gently come up. That's how it's going to look. I'm not gonna be putting lot of emphasis into brushstrokes and such. The reason for that is that this, the intent of this class is to build a Creative Habit. And so I'm going to be focusing on showing you how you can spend ten to 15 min and actually paint a flavor. If you're interested in learning all these strokes, I would highly recommend you check out my previous Skillshare classes. They cover all of this information in lot of depth and detail. Once this is done, I'm now going to be rinsing my brush. Again. I'm, by the way, I'm using a size four brush. This is a size four round Princeton brush. Now we'll be using the rate. Again, I'm going to be starting with a lighter value of red. Which means in this red, I'm adding more water and a hint of fight. Then I'm gonna start painting the flowers. If I feel that it is still a little dark, I'm going to add more water to it. So I'm just following the shape of these flavors and painting them. So they sort of come out like this. So basically you has something of this sort, a line that comes out a pet loop. And then you have them sort of creating a fan of sorts coming out like that. Be sure to vary the length of the patterns that will give an illusion of perspective. So there are three petals which are always together. So I'm trying to maintain that. And they come out sort of like from a right angled petal. You sort of see these three petals should get the, we are doing that as well. So for the same red now I'm going to mix the darker value, which means it has more pigment, less water. But since I feel that it's a little thick, so I'm going to add little bit of water. And now let's paint with this darker value. There are two options. You can either adding this darker color to the already existing petals or you can create new petals and have them painted with this kind of darker value. I'm gonna do it both ways because I want to give it a layered effect. So I want to demonstrate that there are certain petals which are kind of in the background, and then certain ones which are right on the top, very close to the viewer. Again, varying my strokes and making petals thicken. Think. We have a visitor Sometimes if I feel I have too much paint to pigment in my brush, I just go ahead transit and dab the excess on my tissue. That's also a great way to vary the value without having to add any additional water onto a palette. Then on top, in some of the Flowers, I have seen this gorgeous bud. So I'm going to add a couple of buds on top. I'm thinking of adding probably three buds, or maybe I'll stick with just two. Let's see. I think I like how to look. So I'm gonna leave it like that. Okay, now that I've lover is done, I'm just going to add some finishing touches to our stem. The stem is right now extremely light, and now's the time to add in some shadows. I'm going to start with adding little bit of detail with a darker value of the screen. And I'm going to be concentrating my shadows towards the areas which have more cluster of flowers. Also going to add a little bit of this too tiny stems from which the flowers are coming out. And do that as well. Right? This looks good to me. You can choose to add some leaves. Now, in our reference picture, they want lees like this, but this is where creative freedom really comes into the picture. Being an artist, you are allowed to modify your creation according to how you best like it. So I think adding these tiny leaves would make it really pretty. You don't have to add them. This is just my personal preference. I'm going to do that. And feel free to skip this or do something entirely different. Something that you feel would look good. You can just add that. You'll notice that the colors are looking really gorgeous. And part of the reason why that is, is because we've used a complimentary color scheme. Complimentary color scheme is a pair of colors which are just opposite to each other on the colors. If you'd like to learn more about color schemes and colors and gentle. I have a book called contemporary Kaltura, which goes in depth and detail in a very easy conversational language. And step-by-step projects to show you how much you can achieve with colors, with just a couple of colors which are already in your existing palette. So the thing about complimentary color scheme is that it's a combination of two colors. And the reason why it's called a complimentary color scheme is because both the colors will compliment each other, meaning they bring out the best in the other color. And that's why it's just such a beautiful combination. I'm going to call my piece done. Before we close off our day one, I wanted to share a Fun fact. Cardinal Flowers are actually magnets for hummingbirds, their absolute favorites for hummingbirds and pollinators like butterflies and moths. Because of their beautiful tube-like structure and the bright red color. I just found it very interesting. So I thought I'd share it. Alright, you have taken the first step of the journey, which is actually the most challenging part that is of showing up. And from here on, it's gonna get easier. I promise you. I hope to see you again tomorrow with our day to Flower. Dylan, goodbye, Take care and happy creating 5. Day 2 : Black eyed Susan Flowers: Hello everyone. Welcome to day two of our Challenge. And I'm so happy that you have chosen to show up today. And let's get started. Remember that you have a good momentum going on. So make sure to keep showing up and being consistent. Because as you know, it's gonna be a snowball. The more you do it, the more easier it'll be to take out time for creativity. And also it will deepen your understanding of whichever material or medium you're painting these flowers with for today's flavor, I have chosen for us to paint the Black eyed Susan. Now, Black eyed Susan are buying Neil Bland, meaning the other first to grow after a natural calamity or disaster. And that is why they also represent encouragement in the Flower language. So here are some of the pictures of the Black eyed Susan. And you can see that it's a pretty straightforward Flower. It has got a beautiful deep brown center. And then we have these gorgeous whimsical patterns coming out of it. Here's another picture. You'll also notice that even this Flower has a very long slender stem. Some of the tops look much like a cone, which has blonde top. Here are some of more such Flowers. So what I'm observing is that the colors vary a lot from deep, the yellows, too bright, lemony yellow. So that is also something I'm going to be mindful of and we'll paint them. Here they are with echinacea flower or cornflower, which is also going to be a Flower that will be painting. So my initial idea for these Flowers was to just paint them by themselves. But then I came across this image. Once again, you can find all the reference images pinned on my Pinterest board. Use them wisely as per our discussion, the last lesson. And I'm going to be sharing the link to the Pinterest board in the resources section of Skillshare. You can access that through skill show desktop version. So initially my plan for this was to paint them with just all by themselves, like how I have shown the final piece initially. But when I came across this picture, I really loved how there is this pops of purples. So we're gonna be adding that in a very interesting ways. Let's get started with painting these flowers. Let me put this aside. I have my colors laid out. I have a warmer yellow here, and then cooler yellow. This is the cooler yellow, this is the warmer yellow. I have little bit of poeple here and a hint of red here. So you'll see that I'll add that to our popup and we'll get to that at a little stage. And then I'm going to be utilizing the same green we used yesterday. So let me put this aside as well and let's get started without flavor for these flowers, you have two ways to go about it. The first is we can again just Begin with the stems and then place our flower heads accordingly. Or the second way is the first paint the flower head, more precisely the centers. And then we add the petals and finally the stems. So for this one, Let's do it the other way round. Let's put the center's first and then the petals and then the stem. So for the centers, what I'm gonna be doing is I'm going to be using a brown. Of course, as you saw, the centers are gorgeous brown color. For that, I'm going to be mixing this popup with the yellow. And if this is news to you that when you mix two complimentary colors, again, we have yellow and purple. These are two complimentary colors. And whenever you mix two complimentary colors, you're going to get a darker brown black sheet. So that is what I'm going to be doing. I'm gonna be creating a brown. The reason why I'm not using any other brown by choosing to mix this one is because the lesson number of colors be used more cohesive, are Painting would look. So I want everything to be tied in enhance I'm using the same colors which I'll be using for flower petals and adding pops of color. You'll see what we'll do with the Bobo later to mix our brown for the centers. And obviously, if mixing colors and knowing more about colors or something you're interested in, be sure to check out my book. It's filled with pages and pages with knowledge about colors, color mixing, and whatnot. Alright, so let's get started with the centers. I'm first gonna be using a lighter value of the brown that we have mixed. So I'm gonna be adding more water to this and dabbing the extra paint pigment onto my paper towel so that I have a lighter value. And then we'll get started with placing our centers. So some of the centers you saw, the resembles sort of like a cone. So I'm going to map out that shape first, and then I'm going to fill it. I'm using a Loose hand. I'm not too particular about which areas are getting filled and mature naught because That's fine. We'll keep it pretty loose and simple. So depending on how you want to place your flowers, I'm just randomly placing these centers and I'm going to be changing their orientation. So you can see that this is gonna be a flavor which is almost like if you were to look top-down at the Flower, then this is all the center would look. This is if you were to look at it from side view. So just bearing that in mind. And now I'm going to add little bit of the darker value of the same brown to some of the areas. So my light source is coming from this direction. So I'm going to be placing my shadows towards this. And for this one, I know for sure that my battles will be there and it's slightly downturned. So I'm gonna be concentrating most of my shadows here. Apart from that, where else do I want? I want a smaller flavor on dark. So I'm just going to keep it very small. The center. I like to have my Flowers in numbers of ADH. Either I can stop right now at the count of three, or I can go forward and act two more. I'm gonna go ahead two more and bring the total count to five, black Susan Flowers. And then where do we put one? I'm gonna put one here. And it's gonna be almost covered with the petals just barely visible. Okay, So now that is done and I'm happy with it. I'm going to move on to the petals. I'm just going to add a little bit of shadows more. And we're going to be adding some details once I centers are dry. So don't worry too much if you feel that it looks a little flat, will take care of that later. Now let's get started with our yellows. So for our petals, It's simply going to be stroke based. Okay? What I mean by that is I'm just creating a lighter and darker value just so that we have a little dimension. So adding more water and adding little bit of fight with one stroke method. If what you're gonna do is you're going to touch and just press down, drag and lift up and not going to bring it to a point. If you have the reference picture close to you, you'll notice that not all petals have pointy tapering ends. Some of them have rounded edges. Some go Now, bring that out. I'm just going to vary the color ever so slightly and will also vary the size of our petals. You can also choose to add some darker color right at the very base of these patterns. You will observe that they are quite darker towards the piece. So I'm being mindful of that as well. Now let's move on to our next flower with just this one. For this, my idea was that it will have the petals coming out like so from behind the center. And the center is gonna be very hidden. Some gonna add petals like this. Okay? And then we have, are pretty straightforward one, which is this one. But for this also, I'm going to vary the size of my petals. Some of them will be bigger and then the, those will be smaller. But generally the petals of Black eyed Susan a very long. So make sure to have them towards the longest side. Again, it's helpful if you have the reference image next to you so that you can accurately see how the battles bend. What does the shape of the petal, and how best you can paint it. Gonna be using a darker color right at the base of this If you, he'll tiny news. That's my cat in the background. I think he woke up from his nap and he's needing some attention. Once we're done with our day to Flowers, I'm going to be offering him lots of Godel's. Now some petals had this distinct shape, meaning it had almost like a rounded 90 degree angle. If you look at the reference pictures, you'll find that it's there. And so the same, basically the repetition of the strokes. That is, I take the tip of my brush, press down and then just come up in-between. We're not waiting to come to a point for this one. And additionally, I'm going to be adding tiny amounts of brown just so that we can make little bit of darker backwards. I'm just adding that as well. Towards the very edges. I'm going to add this darker color. Okay? And then for this flower, this particular one, I wanted to leave it with just a couple of petals. I'm not going to finish it. I don't know. I just really liked the unfinished reference image Flower that I saw. It should be there on the Pinterest board. If it's not there, then I'm going to try and find it and add it so that you can also see did not have all the petals, okay, it just had a little bit of petals like this and I found it really interesting. Okay, so our flowers are pretty much done. Now I'm going to use the green to create our stems. For the green, I'm going to be mixing the same yellow. We used. Just adding little bit of that to make sure that everything's nice and cohesive. And let's give them nice, gorgeous stems. For this tiny one, I'm going to create a stem like this. Boom, look at this nice bleep that has happened. I absolutely love it. I'm going to leave it because this battle was already wet and I brought in vet green paint. So here we have a tiny wet-on-wet happening. Very lovely. Okay. This is about it. Again, feel free to paint the stems, the Flowers just the way you like. You do not have to follow the way I'm painting it. And we'll give it one stroke leaves, some lighter, some darker. So again, these are four leaves and I like odds. It's always better. So I'm going to add one more here. Now for our final details, we can just go ahead and add some details to our centers. So I'm gonna be focusing my details towards the very base of where the shadows are supposed to be. You can see him doing that. I'm going to also take a clean brush and just going to use water to buff out the edges of this so it isn't as harsh. Just a little bit. I personally don't like carcinogens, but if you like them, then by all means try that. It's interesting. Look for sure. Same for here. I'm just adding the darker shadow and you'll see that the centers instantly little bit more here. So like we discussed in the last class, it, whenever you combine two complimentary colors, they are just going to bring out the best in each other. So bearing that in mind, I'm going to be adding tiny dots of poeple to this. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just blacker the book, the amount of water that you have on your brush, would the main, how big or small the splatters will be. While you're doing that, just makes sure that you cover the other Painting if you have it on the page. So let me get a piece of paper and cover this one. If you have more water in your brush, you're gonna get bigger splatters. If you have less water, you're going to get smaller splatters. But in a sense, you do want to have a nice flowy consistency of pigment to water ratio in your brush, hits the fan part, you take the left forefinger, Vice-versa. If you're left-handed and then you just stop your brush onto your forefinger. And that's going to create these nice splatters of poeple. I feel that it is still a little dark. So I'm going to add more water and dab off the excess paint. And now whatever is left, I'm going to create splatters with that. Oh, this is nice. And if you don't wanna do the splatter method, there is one more thing that you can do. You can take a small brush. This is a size zero brush and just dip it in the paint and just make tiny dots near the yellow flower, just like irregular dogs near the yellow flowers. You can also create lighter colored dots. This makes for a very FUN look, and that's it. We are done with our day to Painting as well. Congratulations for completing day two. I hope you're posting your journey and process somewhere, either on your Instagram account as opposed, or if you feel comfortable, Do share it in the stories to tag me, I would love to see your journey as value. That's about it. I will see you tomorrow. What are the three of Creative Habit Challenge? Thank you so much, Take care, and until then, happy Creating 6. Day 3 : Cardamine Pratensis Flowers: Hello and welcome everybody. I'm so happy and excited for day three of our challenge. I'm extremely proud of you for showing up for our day three because we are almost midway into our challenge, right? So let's get into today's Flower. Let's see which Flower via Painting today, Today's Flower is called Cardamine Pratensis. I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly. Here's the beautiful flavor. You can have a look. It is so delicate and has these beautiful distinct four petals. For each floret. It's just such a beautiful flower. And you see this gorgeous yellow green centers just making this pink and purple pump. It's just so beautiful. Look at the buds also, they're so tiny and delicate. This flower is also known as cuckoo flavor. And it's a small mustard plant which has pink flower, pink bubble Flowers. And the reason why it is named as Google flavor is because it usually Flowers during spring, and that is about the time cuckoo birds starts to sing. It is native to Europe and Western issue. So yeah, these are some of the Fun facts about it. And here's the Flower. Let's get started with painting it. So again, let's begin with the colors. I have the bubbles from yesterday and I have read from the day before. So I'm going to be utilizing that to create soft purples and pinks, basically pastel pinks and pastoral purpose for our Flower. Again, the green, we can use the similar sort of green. So let's get started. One difference today I'm doing is we're using this kind of brush. This is a, this is angled brush. And I'm going to show you how easy it is to create this particular flower petals with this brush. And this is also going to be a great way to see what sort of potential every brush holds in terms of providing us with different kinds of strokes. So I thought this is gonna be a great idea. But don't worry if you don't have this brush because I'm going to be showing you how to create the very same petals with just a regular round brush as well. Alright, so I'm going to be mixing my bubble. And we want to have very light values. I'm going to add generous amount of water. And same for my pinkish purple. Again, I'm going to be adding a generous amount of water to it. And in addition to that, you can also choose to add a little bit of white watercolor. And that's gonna give you this beautiful pastel more. Let's start with placing our stems and creating ankles for Flower to go in. I'm going to do it in a dashed fashion so that we leave behind areas for our Flowers as well, the ones which are towards the center. And then I'm also going to be adding these tiny flicks for the flowers, which are going to be towards the sides. Now for this also, most of the flowers are situated towards the top part of the stem. So let's quickly add couple more stems. And for this, because it's going to be a longer one, I'm going to Jolie mark down the tiny stems which will hold our Flowers. These are two stems. Let us go and create just 21 more. I'm not too worried to connect them per say. Because all these things we can manage later, we can move into creating the centers. Because the centers were this gorgeous green gold color by Winsor and Newton. And I'm going to take out a tiny amount of it. Look at the teeth marks on the cap of it. Am I the only one? I hope I'm not the only one. But yeah. When push comes to shove, you got to open them with TR deep. Okay, So I'm gonna mark tiny centers. This is gonna be random, okay? I'm not thinking too much. I'm just adding these tiny centers for our Flowers. And these are not the final centers. Meaning this doesn't define the actual number of flowers I'll be painting. I'm just starting with something. Once that's done, I'm going to start painting the four petals, the four distinct petals of our flowers, varying the value to make sure that we have sort of like a pinkish purple battle going on and then some lighter petals as well. Even more lighter than what we have here. I wanted to make it something like peeping from behind this flower. So I'm going to place the center right here. So what I'm doing is I'm just touching my brush onto the paper and I'm wiggling it in shape of this petal. You can also choose to do it with multiple strokes. That's also going to look good and violet is wet. You can go ahead with this green gold and just add a touch of it. And that's going to do the wet-on-wet magic here. Now, I'm going to be looking at some of the more pinker shade becquerels. Again, this one, the idea is it's peeking from behind this flavor. So that's why I'm just showing two petals. Let's make some center ones. The ones which are right at the center of our stem. For the third petal, I'm just going to make it lighter and more purple. So I'm gonna make some very lighter ones here. You can see I'm going to dip it into the PINKO value. And we have FUN here. So again, I'm gonna just add in this green gold color. You can see the kind of different look you get. If you leave couple of spaces between the petals, that it makes it look more structured. Whereas if you don't leave white or negative spaces between the petals, it just looks like a very close together flavor head. Both are absolutely beautiful and it totally depends on the kind of look you want to achieve with your flower heads. So go ahead and make a choice on the basis of that. I'm not going to stick to the actual flower, which has full petal rule. Instead, I'm going to bend it a bit. And for some flowers, I'm just going to give them three petals. So it's very important that you take these sort of liberties while you're painting. Now that I've shown you how to paint this flower with a round brush. Let me put this aside and I'm going to show you how to paint it, then angled brush, you want to pick an angle. So I'm keeping my brush at a 45-degree angle. And I'm just going to pressing it down, dragging it and lifting up and my petals done. I'm going to repeat that again. And this time I can choose to go in this sort of direction as well. And in this direction. So you see, this makes me have more organic strokes. I really like how this looks. I'm gonna do couple of more. So again, I'm painting it with one sweep of the stroke. You can also position it in such a V and then just drag it into the direction of the petal. And now I'm going to dab some of the paint and create lighter petaled flowers to depict that they are in the background. And that'll give our Painting much more depth. Here are some, I'm going to create some more here. And be sure to give them these gorgeous centers. Going to add the center. And now I'm going to make some mature more purple. So, but again, dabbing the excess onto my paper towel. And then going ahead with Painting that. For this one, I'm just going to give it two petals only. So with this brush, you'll actually need little bit of practice to master it. But it's just look at the kinds of strokes you're getting there. So organic, so very similar to the actual flower. And if you'd like to learn more about different kinds of brushstrokes that are possible with different brushes. I covered that as well into my book. Actually, everything that I absolutely enjoy doing and I feel would add value to a beginner or an intermediate artist. I've added that in my book. And you'll find that we truly explore the potential of around full board and flat brush, give it a goal. And I'm sure you would love the information I have shared in the book I'm not sure if you can hear, but my elder god has also woken up and not very mindful of what sort of stroke I'm creating because this is a very loose style of painting. And the emphasis is on getting the ascendance of the flower, right? That we're doing with the actual placement of the florets, the stems, and general shape of the petals and the colors. So you can just truly have FUN with the button stokes actually. And above all, always remember when you're trying to build a new habit, it's best to keep it as simple as you can and as enjoyable as possible. That's the shortcut way to make sure that you will stick to the challenge and come back to it every single day. But if you make it more complex than there are chances that you wouldn't want to show up for the entirety of the challenge. Okay, this looks pretty good to me. Now I'm gonna go with sometimes values because I feel the scan Use little bit of definition. I'm going to actually add these darker values, either directly onto the existing patterns. So some of them like so. And I might choose to create some new ones. So we'll see how that goes. Okay, time to switch to the round brush. I'm gonna show you with that as well. This looks really good to me. I'm gonna leave it at that and I'm going to start adding some definition to our greens. This is actually where we will pay attention to whether our stems and florets are joined or not. So prior to this we left gaps. Now we'll fill those gaps to make sure that it looks connected. And then doesn't look like our Flowers are just hanging in there without any stem and place. And some of them have this beautiful yellow structure from which the Flower comes out. So I'm gonna give some of them, dad. And finally, I'm going to be finishing it up with some beautiful leaves. I'm not sure if they look anything like this Flowers leaves. But I just want to have Fine At this point and add leaves. That spark joy to me. If you want to add leaves which look exactly like how this Flowers leaves are, you are more than welcome to use the reference pictures and paint accordingly. All right, so this looks pretty good to me. I'm very happy with how our D3 Flower has turned out. Congratulations on finishing up the tree. And with this, I take you leave, I'll see you tomorrow for our day four of the Creative Habit Challenge. Dylan, happy Creating 7. Day 4 : Hepatica Americana Flower - I: Hello everyone. Welcome to day four of our seven Day Creative Habit Challenge. And once again, I'm so proud of you for choosing to show up consistently. And as you know, I hope you're able to see that now it's much easier to take out time for our creative practice. And also that it doesn't feel as overwhelming as the one. That is the thing about habits. The more we repeat a certain activity, the more easier it becomes and we can start looking forward to it. So I hope you are experiencing all the good things. And we are midway in our Challenge, almost midway just three days more after this one. And we'll be done with our seven Day Creative Challenge. Alright, without further ado, let's get started and have a look at the Flower we have picked for today. So today's flavor is Hepatica Americana. It's herbaceous flowering plant, and you'll see that it can have anywhere 5-6 to even 12 petals. Look at this one here. The reason why I chose this was I really loved the centers. It's almost like tiny sun inside the flower. The way these beautiful stamens come around, outer for green center. Now this flavor can be found in multiple colors, like white, pink, blue, and purple. Today we'll be painting it in a beautiful turquoise blue hue. Here are some more pictures. This is the one which has a really good look at the center. And you can see that how these statements really emerged out this gorgeous green center. Here's another view. And this is how it looks when it's found in a cluster. So beautiful. Here is the blue that will be attempting today. In our lesson. We're gonna be painting something like this or something like this. In addition to that, I do have couple of more images where we can see how the petals oriented, for instance, look at this one here. This is so beautiful, so we can only see a partial view of these three petals. And then we can see a really good look at the other three. And because its envelope in the Flower like that, we can really focus on the centers. And this is the kind of leaves they have. The leaves are really huge in comparison to the flavors. But as always, you do not have to make the exact same leaves as things. Feel free to paint the leaves that you like Creating, okay? So you can find all these images in our Pinterest board as always. And as you know, the link to that Pinterest board is provided in the project resources section. If you visit the skill shares website version. Okay, So let's get started with painting our Flower. I have some blues mixed in here. This is the turkey's blue that I was talking about. And this is a mix of ultramarine and a little bit of Turkey's blue as well. For white, because the whites of the centers are really white, we will be using wash. So here I have some wash. I am just adding little water to it to make sure that it is nice and wet by the time we need it for this flower as well, I'm gonna be using round brushes. And let's get started. The first thing that you would want to do is map out the stem. I'm just going to mix little bit of green from our previous day's color palette. If you have existing green on your palette from last three days, feel free to use that. And taking a size zero brush, I'm going to be mapping out some stems. At this point. It's good to have your reference image right next to you. That way you can really see how you want to cluster the levels. I think I'm gonna go ahead and create a nice bunch of these. So accordingly, I am placing my stems, right? So unhappy with this directional stems, you can choose whichever direction you want for the stems. Now let's get started with painting the flower centers. Centers are really important here. And the reason why I'm gonna do them first is Because they're going to help me define the orientation of each flower head. For the center, I'm gonna be using this mix of green gold with little bit of white. And I want to keep it towards the yellow side because that's going to make the blue box. I'm sure by now. You have a good idea of how much I love mixing and tweaking colors to really bring out the best in every illustration. And if it is something that you're interested in, doo, doo, doo, have a look at my okay. So I'm going to first create these three centers and then we'll see how it goes. Now I'm going to be mixing this blue arrow keys will be varying value for our petals. So I'm gonna go with five petals, six Battle of seven petals. I'm not really going to be painting or 12th petal one. The reason for that is I feel it will be to busy for my liking. But if you like really full flower heads, do paint the petal version, it's gonna look very beautiful. I'm being careful not to touch too much of the center, but I am going to allow some petals to touch the center as well so that we can get this gorgeous, wet-on-wet. For this one, I'm going to attempt that beautiful envelope shape. So I'm placing two petals on the sides. And now we have to create the petals at the back. Feel free to dab off the extra paint onto your paper towel. Get this looks good. So I'm using my reference picture and really shaping the flower petals to mimic these Flowers. And you can see that I'm using to stroke, sometimes multiple strokes to achieve that. Now let's go ahead and create some more Center. For these ones. I'm gonna make them lean a little more towards the ultramarine. And I'm also going to keep the values pretty dark for these. If you feel that the blue has done too much into the yellow green center, you can always take a clean brush and just dab off the extra color. And it's good to go. Making some more centers. And couple more here. And for these ones, I'm gonna be keeping them very light. Some mixing tiny bit of white. Occasionally, I'm gonna give off to the lighter flower heads 8. Day 4 : Hepatica Americana Flower - II: If you feel that the centers have too much yellow and red plus green, then just add little bit of green to them. If they're vet, it's better advice we can always do. Let andre, like I'm doing here. So some of the centers have tried, but I'm just going to add a little bit of green on those dry centers. Okay? I'm gonna stop here. And now I'm just going to add some more darker details. Because when we will be using white for our centers, I want them to pop. And for that, I'm seeing that my petals need to be a little more darker. For some petals, I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of wet on dry. Okay. Now we wait for these to dry before going ahead with our white gouache to add those center details while they are drying, I'm going to prepare our gouache. With gouache, you want to have a pretty thick consistency. It should feel like souffle on your brush. So it should have that nice, uh, whipped cream consistency. Then you pull it in your brush. If you make it too watery, you will not get it to pop. Now, some of the layers are dry, so I'm just gonna get started. This looks pretty dry to me. I'm just going to start with the tip of my brush and I'm creating those kinds of rays of sun stamens coming around and do each. I'm just going to give a tiny little dot. And finally doing that makes sure that you vary the length of these statements. Some of them will be longer, some of them would be short-term. Once again, I'm going to start from the petal and then just flick my brush ever so lightly touching it. And it doesn't even have to look like a circle the top of the statements. You can just dab it ever so gently. Just take the tip of your brush and touch the paper and just flick it down and lift up. That's the stroke that we are doing. For these teams. And if you feel that the white is looking to flat, you can always add a hint of yellow to it. And just go back to those centers and add that little bit of tiny dots and it's going to instantly make it pop. So you can see that unlike the petals, It's not going to show as much. So the darker your petals are, at least keep some of the petals dark in each florid so that the details on the stamens really pop. Now let's add some leaves. So for the leaves, I'm mixing tiny bit of the blue that we used for the flowers, just so that it would all look very cohesive and let's paint the leaves. I said that the leaves are really large. So you can either paint them how they look or you can just choose to add your own spin to it. And remember to have fun while creating this starts the main purpose of these exercises that you learn to have fun while taking out time to be creative so that it's easier to sustain this creative habit. I'm really taking creative liberty and I'm adding leaves. Just as I feel like adding, not confirming to how they actually look. Alright, we are done with these flavors. One more additional detail. If you feel like adding these wet-on-wet vein details for our leaves and see how cool it is because it just instantly diffusers. For some, the ones which have dried, it's going to look like crisp. But for the others which are yet to dry for those leaves, it's going to look, hey, nice and diffused. Okay, I'm calling it done. This is it for our D4 flower. And I'll see you in the next lesson, which is going to be D5. Dylan, happy creating 9. Day 5 : Sweet Violets - I: Hello and welcome to our day five of seven Day Creative challenge. I hope you are enjoying the challenge and also make sure to celebrate the fact that you have been consecutively showing up for daily creative practice. Okay, let's quickly dive into today's Flowers. For today we are Painting violet flowers. Now, wildflowers are not only beautiful to look at, but they also attract all sorts of pollinators from butterflies, bees to hummingbirds. They also tend to symbolize honesty, protection, dream, and healing. Okay, so let's have a quick look at our Flower reference images. Here is Aldo Flower looks and you can see that it has these beautiful tones of pink and purple and gold, just white centers, and the leaves are quite huge. This is how they grow when in a cluster. And this is also a top-down view. Another interesting thing that I observed towards the way the leaves beautifully call into the shape onto the basic structure of the flavor. You can see that the Flower has five packets. What makes it special is to have the petals are quite thick, and then we have slightly tunnel petals. And then there is the center petal which has a little bit of detailing going on. The shape is also very important. If you look at it, you will see that it's almost like a butterfly shape. So we have these two petals coming out like this. And then the other two slimmer ones come out like that. And then we have to center petal here. Here are some more examples. And you can see that again, it's a very FUN Flower to paint because you can really get creative with the petals the way they don't. And it's just a thing of beauty in my humble opinion. Some of them also have this sort of like orange center. And if you want, you can add that. I'm going to see, I may add this gorgeous or uncentered a couple of them. And for some vigorous, just paint them normally for our color palette. I'm going to be choosing this mortgage purple, pink color and not going with the traditional more violet color. I don't know this, this was just so beautiful and I felt that the scholar would add variety to our seven Day Creative challenge as well. Alright, this is another cluster. And as always, you can find all these pictures pinned on Pinterest board. The link to which you can find in the project resources section of the Skillshare's website version. Cool, let's get started. Let me put this aside. Now. I have this mauve color mixed here. So basically I've taken a permanent rose color and I've mixed a little bit of blue into it. And this is what I ended up with. I also took this color and you may remember this color palette from our yesterday's lesson. And I went ahead and added it to this ultramarine blue section. And that gave me sort of like this nice purple color. I'm gonna be using both. And let's see how it turns out. For this flower, I'm actually not going to be painting the stems first. I want to paint the flower heads first. And I'll be using two brushes simultaneously. So one of them is gonna be loaded with this mauve color here. And then the other has this popup. And then I will keep one brush which has mostly water and a hint of the small. Okay, I'm going to start with this lighter value. And let's see. I'm being mindful of the petal shape that we observed. And I'm adding this darker color right at the bottom edge of the petal. So two petals come out like this, sort of like wings of a butterfly. And then we'll have ten up petals coming out like so. And another one coming out like this. Then we'll have our center battle which overlaps. And for that, I'm going to be using a little bit of purple color. And with my lighter valued brush, I'm just going to blend it. So this is my first flavor. Continue painting them. Oops. Be mindful of which brush holds, which color? Like I just accidentally dipped my brush into the small. So just be a little careful when you're using multiple brushes with different colors of washers. So now I'm gonna again start working on the petal. And for this one, I'm gonna get really creative and make it sort of like the one we saw which was twirling. And I'm gonna do this. Then we can use a lighter petal color. And then I'm going to paint smaller petals. I'm gonna leave it at that. Now I'm going to dip this purple one slightly into the morph. And you'll see in a moment why. Because it's gonna give this pink at the top. And that is something I want. That'll make this dual tone back, right? And then again, we will paint these patterns. And finally we have our central battle as well, which I'm going to give a little bit of this violet to distinguish it from the other two. Let's do this again. Feel free to vary the shape as well. You do not have to paint exactly like how the reference picture looks. Unless you wanted to create realistic botanical version of this flower. In that case, feel free to paint it exactly like how it looks. But if you're painting it in a freestyle way like I am, just have to creative liberty canal. That has become a tradition actually in our lessons. 10. Day 5 : Sweet Violets - II: I'm also gonna be varying the size of farm binded Flowers. So we're going to have them in all sorts of different sizes and not just in one size. Now I'm gonna do the larger petals, lighter value. And I'll do the smaller petals with the darker value, Creating some which are coming from behind the other Flowers. So we get to see just a little bit of the petals and not all the flower petals, just couple of petals would be visible. I think at this point, I'm pretty happy with how it is looking. So I'm gonna stop here and we'll take it forward with adding stems. And finally, we'll go ahead and add some details. Let me add a very tiny one up top. I think it's can look very pretty. I'm going to leave it at that up painting leaves the stem. So I'm gonna change the brushes. And I'm going to use sap green color. So you will see it's very peculiar stem shape that you get to observe at Violets. They have this sort of stem through which the flower heads come out. I'm just going to mimic that. Just mapping from bare the stem would be coming out of the flower head and following further. It's good to have the reference picture handy so that you know how best to approach the stem. Now I'm going to give them their characteristic large speed like leaves. They have this beautiful speed structure to them. And let's see if I can do justice to that. While taking creative liberty. That is, feel this one went a little too wild. Let's see. This is much better. I'm actually going to add an overlapping leaf here. I'm trying to make it like there are multiple leaves. I think this looks much better. So once all the petals are dry, I'm gonna go ahead and create that vein like structure for this center petals. So for that I'm just flicking my brush and creating this. And this is going to truly bring out. Then finally flavor aspect. And that's about it. I'm just going to add one final detail. And that's gonna be these orange centers just to make them pop even more. And for that, I've mixed a little bit of white gouache with my orange Watercolor. And that's gonna give me sort of like an opaque effect. So it's not gonna be completely opaque. But it'll show up, especially on the darker petals. Right? I'm pretty pleased with how this has turned out. If you want, you can also add some details onto the leaves, but that's totally up to you. You can choose to add couple of things or you can just let them be as S. So that is all for our today's flavor. I cannot wait to see you tomorrow for our day six. And happy creating 11. Day 6 : Cone Flowers - I: Hello and welcome back the day six of our seven Day Creative Habit Challenge class. So today is really special because not only is it our second last day, and I'm so excited and so happy that you have continually shown up for each day of this challenge. There's one more left that is tomorrow. And the flower that we have baked for today is going Flower, or more specifically, it is called echinacea. It's hard beiges flowering plant, which is found mostly in Eastern and Central North America. They symbolize healing. And it is said that if you leave out the seed heads after the bloom has wilted, that they attract songbirds like gold finches. How cool is that, right? Okay, let's have a quick look at the reference pictures will be using for this flower. Here are some of the pictures that we will be using. This is how they usually look. Now, couple of things I want you to visually observe is the overall structure, especially these Cone like structures. The specific reason why they are named as Cone Flowers is because of these centers. And I also want you to observe the color variations. And I'll also show you a couple of varieties which are very new and interesting. So let's quickly go through them. So this is the first picture. I observe, a very beautiful, nice stems and gorgeous leaves and a fixture of petals. Then we have this coloring and I absolutely love it, the beautiful orange peach. And then beings named near to the centers is just such a joy to even look at. And this is specifically wanted us to look at because there's a shows that some of them have so many more petals than they are other versions which have lesser number of petals. So if you'd like your Flowers to be a little fuller, you can go for this kind of look and just look at this, I mean, this tiny detail. I'm not sure if it is the Flower which is yet to bloom, or if it is the one, I think it is the Flower which is yet to bloom this up bugs of these flowers. Anyway, let me know. If you happen to know at what stage these are, are these parts of these flowers, or this is after the wilted, I have a strong feeling. This is how they're buds look. These are some of the interesting, but it is this almost looks like a pom, pom and the petals are coming out. So yeah, you take your pick. All these reference pictures will be available on our Skillshare class Pinterest board. The link to which, as always, can be found in the project resources section of Skillshare's website version. Alright, let's get started with painting this flavor. Okay, so I have mixed my paints and I have a green hair, brown, sort of like you can get this brown by just mixing your green and pink. This is my deep pink, this is my orange, and this is the yellow I have. So let's first start painting the centers with this very diluted brown. I'm going to take off the excess color onto my paper down. And let us start mapping the Kuhn like centers. So it will be great if you have the reference picture that you've baked right next to you. I observed that the centers have usually two shapes. One was this cone shape where the top was sort of blunt and then the other was the cone shape where the dot pad and the other was how actual rounded bone looks like. I'm gonna create both the variance and leaving some white spaces in between. Earning the best color. While it is still wet, just to do some wet on wet is when Then I'm gonna make a small, tiny one here. And let's see where we can add one more. I'm going to add those tiny bubble-like structures right here. One of them, not gonna give it that round center. Instead, I'm just leaving a space for it just by marking that. Just weird and bad. Wilco. Next up is our flower petals. Now you'll remember that I was Rowley smitten by this gorgeous orange, peach pink petals, which we saw in one of our reference pictures. So I'm just going to be Painting that. For that, I'm mixing little bit of yellow, orange and the pink that I'm using. And let's start working on our stem. Again. You want to have a very light value. And the stems are pretty straightforward. You just need to take the tip of your brush, press it down, lift up. Just like our one stroke leaves. It's very similar to that. And what I'm gonna do is one line, it is the wet. I'm going to add little bit of this thing at the very base. The part that is near the center. This coloring actually reminds me a lot of zinnias to they also have this beautiful the Will Shade coloring and then this just so beautiful. I'm also varying the value. I'm dipping my brush into the water puddle and then back into the paint or onto my paper towel, depending on whether I want to take out some color or I want some more color. And making some wispy petals also, whichever very thin. And of course some larger ones do. Having those tiny hints of ink just next to the center. This one, I'm gonna give it very tiny petals because I wanted to look like I need Flavel, which has just started blooming and adding this theme. Now I'm gonna go back with this brown that we mixed with our green and red. I'm going to add some more shadows into the center. We're not adding details, but shadows right now. Details at the very last step. Because then most of our most of our Flowers would be dry. And I'll have a good idea so as to where should I put which details? Taking off the extra on-demand paper down. Some shadows. So again, for the center shadows, they will be mostly clustered towards the base from where the stems are coming out. So I'm focusing more on that area. 12. Day 6 : Cone Flowers - II: If you feel that it's leaving hard edges, it may because the paint has dried. Then you can always take, go down, brush and soften the edges. I'm going to reinforce and do a little bit of that on wet for the shadows with the darker color right at the center as it's about to dry. Now I'm gonna go ahead and pain are. But we were talking about some mixing this yellow with my green because I did observe that the buds had this very beautiful flower, almost fluorescent green coming out of them as petals. So I'm gonna mimic that before this. Let's walk on the center of the bud for a second because that was relatively darker. So I'm going to take a lighter value of this brown. And finally it is wet. I'm going to add this green. Looks that's going to do, is it's going to make the green a little bit more muted. And della, and that's what we want for our center. Okay. Now that it is wet, I'm going to start leasing are fluorescent bedtools. Just like that. It didn't have too many petals, so I'm going to be very sparse without headless. Here I'm mixing my green with little bit of white goulash and adding some. I mentioned. Okay, I'm pretty happy with it now and start with the stems. So I hope you remember or you can refer to our reference pictures that echinacea have these beautiful slender stem actually now that I think of it, the Flowers, all of, mostly all of the flowers that I have eight. They have very beautiful long slender stems. May graceful, I find them. I'm just trying to map out where to place stems for WIC flavor. Just mapping stem for this one. You will observe that not making my stems very straight or stiff. Instead, I always give them slight curves. I feel that just makes it look more natural. Okay. Alright, Now it is time to add the final details. Now once the flower petals are dry, you can always go back and add in some color. If you feel that some areas I'm, have become too lighter for your liking. Or if you want to give that layered petals look, then also you can choose to glaze. So what leasing is, actually, it's a technique in watercolor where once the first layer is dry, you come with a different color and then you layer it on top of the existing color. I shared about glazing and lifting in my book. Because these are very useful techniques to know. Especially when you're painting flowers which have lot of layers to them. So you see how instantly this looks more layered and more clustered. Without losing this light and shadow effect the deck, basically that we can achieve with layering. I'm going to add a little bit of layering effect, this one as well. I'm gonna give it a one rogue petal here. Just because I could see that this area was empty and I wanted the flower to look like it's just having FUN. Okay, So I'm gonna leave it at that. And now we can begin adding our leaves. Syphilis again, we have to keep it very simple. There isn't much. As you would remember. It had nice slender leaves. So just adding that. Okay, Now for the last step, which is adding the details to our own Flowers Centers. For that, I'm taking sepia, that is dark brown color. Whatever leftover green I have, I'm going to mix it with that. And using very tiny brush. This is a size zero brush. I'm going to add tiny speckles. Do suggest those gorgeous, fuzzy. I didn't know what we call them. Following the direction of the center and adding these tiny details to our center. Just tapping my brush onto the paper to add this fuzzy little detail. If I feel that I want a little bit of shadow, I'm just going to what, some dots and just dab it with my finger to just soften the edges a bit smooth even for these tiny details, I'm actually following the shadows that we had established before when vivo Painting or centers. Alright, we're done with our Cone Flowers. And I think it turned out really nice. I would love to see your version. And it just makes me so joyful whenever I see you folks sharing your progress across our Challenge. And it's just amazing. Be shot to share it in the Project section on Skillshare. I'd love to have a look, cheer you on, and I'd make amends to it. Okay. So I'll see you tomorrow then. Happy Creating 13. Day 7 : Dogwoodrose Flowers: Hello everyone. Congratulations. You have finally made it. Today's seven, and I am so happy, so proud of you. You definitely need to celebrate after today's lesson, I hope you'll give yourself a small treat. It could be a cookie or a specialty that you brew for yourself. Or you can treat yourself to some Art supplies if you feel that you'll be continuing with this challenge, I for one, highly recommend that you do continue it and make it into a 14 day or 21 day challenge, that, that would be amazing. And I also hope that you're able to finally see the benefits of sticking up with this activity for seven days in a row and you're spending quality time with yourself being creative and not feeling as old as you felt on day one without further ado, let's get started. So for our day seven, I have baked Dogwoodrose. Another interesting fact I found about these flavors is they can self pollinate, meaning they do not need pollinators and they can create their own seeds. That is such a cool thing, right? So let us have a look at our Flower to understand the shape and structure better. You will observe that these flowers have very nice petals. They're almost like hard shapes. And this would allow us to really be creative because there isn't a specific shape. From some angles. It does look like a heart-shaped, but look at this one, it's just a irregular, rounded petals. So this will allow us lot of freedom to paint the petals as we see fit. I want you to observe these tiny buds. I think they would make such a cool detail when we paint these flowers and the leaves are very similar to how a standard rose flowers leaves are. And here's one more with pink also observed this tiny stem. Alright, so this is it for our reference pictures. You can find the reference pictures on our Pinterest board for the class. The link of which you can find in the Skillshare's website version in project resources section. Okay, so let's get started and paints are Flower. So since this is our last day, I want it to be a little special. So far we've been painting flowers which have the slender stem going on situation, right? But this one, I wanted us to lightly touch upon the composition aspect of Painting Flowers. And so we'll be creating a cluster of these dog would Flowers. Let's start with getting up paints ready? I'm just going to be diluting some paint to create lighter pink value. And I'm going to be loading one brush with this yellow for the centers. So I'm gonna be first mapping out the centers. And because it's going to look like a cluster of flowers, I really want to focus on different directions in which we'll be painting or orienting our Flowers Raton, this is going to be one direction than I want. Nice and up peeking through the petals. So this is gonna be the second direction than I want of front centered one. And then again, I would want to have one that's going in the downward direction. And we can have one more, which can be coming from behind of this one that can look a little smaller in comparison to this. Once I have mapped my centers, I'm gonna get started while the colour is where to map out my battles for these flowers. So this is pretty easy. One, I'm going to be using two strokes to paint this petal. And since it's just gonna be facing right towards us, there isn't much to be done in terms of the petal orientation. So taking this lighter pink color, I'm adding the pattern. And while I have done that, I will go ahead and drop in some darker pink color, taking some extra or onto my paper towel, I'm going to be adding it towards the center. Like so. And continuing with our veterans, this one, I wanted it to face towards this direction, which means but we will be barely visible because it is queued in perspective. But we do get to see the petals which are behind this center. These petals would also be a little darker because they are right behind our center. So I'm just being generous with adding this darker pink color. This one. I said I wanted to come from behind of this, but pretty much still the head on orientation is what I'm going for. So I'm gonna hide some petals or toxin petals behind this flower. And this will be very dark because it is behind this. And then adding some darker pink color. I think about reds are types. They're a little tutorials. When they dry, they shift a lot. Meaning when you lay them down and do a little wet on wet, they look much darker. But once they have tried, the become much lighter. So if you see that happening, feel free to add some more color to your patterns. And finally we have this one. So keeping it very simple. Okay, I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out, and now we can go ahead and focus on the leaves, Wildflowers dry. So I'm gonna take some green and mix it and create a nice paint mix. Add a little bit yellow. And of course, I've added a little bit of this. Think that we have used to paint a flower petals. And let's start painting these leaves. So the leaves are pretty straightforward. They are to stroke, please. Do bear in mind to alter the values. I really like how this is coming together. So if you want to dip your toes with composing Flowers than my book does have couple of projects where we compose full bouquet, bunch of different flowers. And I think that will be very helpful if that's something even alone or experiment with. I'm going to add dying stems to our cluster. But since we are going for, as of these flowers were in a shrub, I'm not gonna be actually making the stems, but I'm actually trying to insinuate that we are looking at the shrub, Dogwoodrose shrub from top or right head-on. So we don't get to see the stems really. We get to see the leaves and flowers. Mostly. Let us add some more leaves here. And Neander, the flavor, I'm just adding delicate leaves. I'm not overwhelming it with these larger ones. Instead just giving it a tiny little leaves coming out from behind. Like so to standing a little bit of yellow to this one because I feel it doesn't have it. It was looking very flat. Kim. This looks pretty good to me. I think we can move on to our next step, which is adding some details to our centers. For our center, again, I'm going to be mixing little bit of brown with a yellow with which we've been to the center. And we're going to add some details to it. This is a raw sienna. And with this, I'm gonna do the same thing. Let's create our statements. I'm just gonna go a little shorter. I'm not creating very long stems with this color Okay, This looks good to me. Now the only thing that is left as just adding some details for our green. So let us take some darker green color. And I'm just gonna add some tiny shadows. And a little bit of this spiky things at the edges. If you don't want harsh edges, you can always dab it with teen paper towel. And I'm going to add these details only for some leaves, not all of them. That is all. I have just added a tiny bit of details for our leaves. You can choose to add that or not do it. That's totally up to you. I really wanted to do that. So I have added some more leaves, tiny, delicate ones. So this is it. I hope you enjoyed this challenge and I hope you learned a lot of tips, tricks and techniques and you will keep this creative practice going forward. Thank you so much for joining me in on this challenge. And many, many congratulations for successfully completing it. Do check out my book if you would like to learn more about colors, color theory, color mixing, color schemes, and even compositions. I share. I go so much in depth on all these topics that you would love to learn and expand your toolkit even further. Alright, I'm gonna be sharing different ideas and what you can do with the paintings have been creating for the last seven days and how you can take it forward. So I'll see you in the next bonus lesson. Till then, happy Creating. And Once again, many, many, many congratulations for sticking through it. Don't forget to treat yourself. You deserve it by 14. Final Thoughts: Congratulations my dear creative friends on completing this transformative journey. I hope you've enjoyed exploring wildflowers and developing the Creative Habit which is going to stay with you. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you who chose to be part of this journey because it's been such an honor to witness your growth and beautiful work that you've created across the seven days. As we conclude this class, I wanted to give you a couple of strategies which will help you maintain the momentum and keep your creative habit sustainable. Firstly, the most important thing I hope by now you understand that it is essential to set aside some time to for our creativity. So make sure to carve out your routine in such a way that there is space for your creative practice. It could be the first thing when you wake up or when you're going to bet, or perhaps during lunchtime because consistency is key here. Next, now that you have completed the seven Day Creative Challenge, it's time to take it a step forward with a 21 Day Creative Challenge. And I know it might sound a little challenging in the beginning, but you can have FUN. You can create your own prompt list with all the subjects that are of interest to you and you would like to explore throughout the duration of the challenge. Next, another effective strategy is to find an accountability partner or to join a creative community. Because when you have people or someone with whom you share your passion for Art and creativity, their support and encouragement would ensure that you stick to your Habit. And lastly, remember that creative blocks and setbacks are a natural part of the journey and so do not lose heart. Instead, embrace them. If you skip one day, That's okay. Life happens, right? But makes sure to pick it up the next day and makeup for the day that you have skipped, continue experimenting with your techniques and subject as you go forward with your creative habit. This Creative Habit that we have developed is actually a lifelong journey. So it's always a great idea to have a small sketchbook handy because you'll find yourself inspired by different things when you go out and about. And just a quick sketch or a quick little doodle of anything that you've seen. The sketchbook also counts as a part of creative practice that we do for that day. Thank you once again for joining me and allowing me to be a part of your beautiful journey. If you liked this class, please do leave me a review because your thoughts and inputs helps me improve my father offerings and also encourages me to create valuable content and classes that will help you in your creative journey. Furthermore, you can find lots of my other classes on Skillshare and I promise you they will help you enhance your artistic skills. And you can also find me on Instagram at the whim skill creative, and on YouTube as well, where I share small tutorials, sneak peeks, and behind the scenes of the projects that I'm working on. Alright, take care. I'll see you in my next class. Happy Creating my dear friends.