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1. Welcome!: Welcome to the seven days Wild Flower
Watercolor Challenge. Hi. I'm chen Cal. I'm an artist, illustrator, and a Skillshare top teacher. My work has been used for books, wall arts, products,
and even tattoos. I have my own line of
watercolor brushes, which I call the ultimate
watercolor brush sets. Since I started my
watercolor journey, I have come a long way. Today, I have a strong
community of like minded watercolor
enthusiasts on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook,
and even Skillshare. I'm thrilled to take you
through this exciting journey of beautiful delicate wild
flowers and watercolors. Over the course of
the next seven days, we will be painting seven
beautiful wild flowers. By the end of this challenge, you will have created a print cohesive poster
showcasing a stunning artwork. First, we will break down
the process into easy to follow steps to practice
our drawing skills. Each day, we will focus
on a different flower. We will start with an introduction
to the Dave's flower, followed by a detailed step
by step painting tutorial. Finally, we will bring
all of this together. I will guide you through
the process of combining your seven wild flowers into
a cohesive stunning poster. We will discuss the
layout spacing, and the techniques for creating
harmony in your design. This challenge is
perfect for bigners, as well as intermediate artists. Whether you're here to
improve your technique, or you simply enjoy a
structured creative challenge, you're in the right
place. Let's get started. Grab your watercolors, find
a comfortable workspace, and let's get ready to dive into the world of watercolors
and wild flowers.
2. Class Orientation: Before we get into the
practice and painting, I wanted to walk you through the orientation
for the class. The class is divided into
different lessons which covers both the drawing practice
and then followed by each and every wild flower that we paint every day
for the seven days. The wild flowers will be
painted on the final poster, so we'll have one A
size paper that we use, which would be the
final poster for you to display or gift to
someone if you wish. You have two options. You can either paint
all the flowers on a poster and create
a poster in the end. Or if you wish, you can paint
these flowers separately on a sketchbook or smaller paper and not have a
poster in the end. That's perfectly fine.
That's up to you. You can even choose which
flower you want to paint. You don't have to go
through all seven. However, I do
encourage you to paint these flowers and challenge
yourself for all seven days. It is a great way to get into a routine and without the stress of having to
think what to paint, this will keep you
on track as well. If you're confident with
your drawing and if you want to go ahead and go directly
into the painting, you can skip the
drawing practice. But I recommend you to
watch that lesson if you want to learn the basic
shapes which makes a flower. I don't really draw them
in my final poster, but if that makes you
more comfortable, feel free to
practice the drawing and then draw them into
your final poster. We also have a lesson
in which we talk about the placement of the
flowers as well as the spacing and
how I decide where the flowers are placed
in the final poster. I recommend you watching
that before you get into painting your flowers
onto the final poster.
3. Materials: Before we get started
with the class, let's see the materials
that you will require. If you're going to
create the poster, then you will need 300
GSM watercolor paper, which is of size A four. A big paper will have the flowers painted very
nicely and spaced out. If you are not planning to create the poster and are
just painting the flowers, then you can even have a
sketchbook for watercolors. Make sure as I said, it is 300 GSM. Something slightly
lesser would be around 250 GSM should be okay as well if you
have a sketchbook. These flowers don't require
a lot of water work, and they don't have too
many layers as well, so you can go with a slightly lesser weight paper as well. Then for the artwork, we are using three brushes, Size two round brush. I have a size one round brush as well, which is a smaller one. And if you are into detailing and you want to
add some small details, then I would recommend a
really small detailing brush. I'm using a size 18 bus
zero detailing brush. All these three brushes
are from my brand, but you can find them if you have any other brand
shod work fine as well. For the paints, I am using
tube paints and I'll be using various
different colors. Most of the flowers in this
are pink, purple and blue. That's the color that
you might want to keep. I'm having the purple as
well as ultramarine blue, and for the pink, I
have permanent rose. Then for green, you can
have any green with you. I have the sap green and
olive green that I like to use quite often for my
foliage and leaves. You can use any
other green as well. Sometimes I mix
hookers green with some yellow ocher to create
a little dull green as well. So you can mix greens too. I keep a little bit
of black with me, and you won't
require it too much, just for a grayish color. If you can create gray with the colors that you have in your palette, that
should be fine. You don't really require
this. This is very optional. And for the yellow,
I have two yellows, which is yellow ocher and plain yellow, pale
yellow, sorry. So again, for the yellows, for the pica flower
that we paint you might need a lighter
yellow and a darker yellow, so you can choose any
yellow that you want. You can use pan colors as well. If you're using tubes,
you'll, of course, require a palette to mix
your colors as well. If you're using pans, then they come in their own
pan, so that should be fine. Then keep jar of water with you, and also paper towel
to dab your brush. And if you're
practicing the drawing, then you might want to keep like a notebook with you just
to practice the drawing. You don't want to use
your watercolor paper for that, the expensive paper. You can even practice your
drawing on a simple notebook.
4. Poster Composition: So this is the final poster, and this is what it looks like. Before we get into
creating the poster, I wanted to talk a
little bit about the thought process that goes behind the layout
of the flowers. So the first flower that I
painted was the corn flower. And since it's purple, I have kept it on this side. And the other flower that is
very similar is the thistle, which is also purplish flower
and similar shape as well. So my thought process was to keep them separate
as much as possible. So I've kept them diagonally
in different directions because they're similar looking
and almost similar color. Thirdly, the flower blue
bell is also purple, and I wanted to separate it
out from the corn flower. So we have separated
it with white flower, which is the cow
parsley in the middle. The clover is more
of a filler flower. You can put it anywhere
you like wherever you have space when you are filling
up your f size paper. The buttercup is
again, yellow flower, which I wanted to
separate between the thistle and
then snakes head, which is also purplesh, purplish pink color, which
is similar to thistle. So that is separated
by a buttercup. When you're creating the poster, you may want to draw
all your flowers or place them so that you know
the spacing between them. Or you can follow my lead
and paint them as I go in the same space that I
am painting in my paper. Another thing to keep in mind is if you want to frame this, don't put your flowers too much closer to the edge because
the frame will take up some of the space and
keep some space on top for heading if you are interested in writing
something on top. With that in mind about the
spacing and positioning, we can get started with
a drawing and painting.
5. Drawing Practice: Although wild flowers
does not require advanced drawing skills
to be able to paint them, it will be good to
practice them a little bit before you get into the
main poster painting. I will practice a few of the wild flowers which
might need some drawing. The first one is
the corn flower. The corn flower and thistle look very similar in
terms of the shape. And if you want to draw them, you can divide it into
smaller basic shapes. Basically, the body
of the cornflower would be something
like a circle, and I'm drawing it dark
so that you can see it, but you don't have
to draw it that dark when you actually
go into paint. On top, you can
add two s shapes, opposite sea shapes to create
the body of the c flower. The con flower will have petals
which come up like this, and so does the thistle. You don't really
have to draw them. We'll directly just go into painting them
when we get to it, and the stem comes
out from here. This is a simple drawing for
you to practice if you want to practice the way c
flower or thistle is drawn. Another direction that you can practice is in the
opposite direction. Suppose this is the body. You create two circles on
top and this is the stem. Then the petals
would come on top like this for the thistle
as well as the corn flower. Yeah. Like I said, it's
quite easy to draw. When you draw, do make sure
that the lines are light, and if it's too dark, you can erase them
before you go into painting because once
you put paint on it, you will not be able to get
rid of the pencil marks. Make sure you do that. This is how you do it for
the cornflower. The next one is the Blue Bell. Blue Bell, actually, eventually when we do make the poster, I'm not drawing them, but if
you do want to draw them, these are the simple
steps you can follow. The blue bells are
droopy like this, so you can make the stems first. How many ever you want them
to be, something like this. They will have small
bell shaped flowers. I'll draw some darker
so that you can see it. The bell shaped, you can
again divide it into smaller circle and
they will have a C shaped down and then
a triangle here. This is how you can divide
your bells for the blue bells. If I want to draw it, I would actually go ahead
and do something like this. You can even do a
semicircle like this, and then two C shapes here
and triangle in the middle. All about drawing is basically dividing it
into smaller chunks. Again, we can practice
like a semicircle, two C shapes, and
a triangle here. Just basic shapes and this will help you
create the drawing. Like I said, when we
do go into painting, we will not be really
drawing them so detail. But if that helps
you with painting, you can go ahead and draw. The next one is the buttercup, which I think we should practice a little bit before
we get into painting. Buttercup is a
five petal flower. You just have to
mark the center and the petals are something
like a hard shape, but not really hard,
something like this. You just have to make
similar five petals. Sorry, I was pressing it too
hard so that you can see it. I'll just grab another pencil. Yeah, make it like this
heart shaped heart shaped, and you need to have
five petals like this for for the buttercup. If you want to practice again, you can do that again,
mark the center, then make a hard shape and just join this
to make more petals. The next one is the snakes head, which will require you to draw. We also paint clo and cow
parsley in the poster. That doesn't really require
you to draw anything. They are very easy flowers. Let's practice the snakes head, which is the last one
for you to practice. For the snakes, again, they are droopy flowers, so you will have
to make the stem. That's what I prefer do usually. Once you have the stem, You can make a triangle for the middle petal and then
a longer triangle here. Eventually, you want
to curve it out a bit, and then you can have
another petal coming on the side like this,
something like this. If it allows you, if
your petals are narrow, you can have even one
more petal coming like this to show the
ones which are behind. This is how a snake
head is drawn. Again, during the
painting process, I actually just go
directly into painting, so it's all up to you. Let's practice one more time. We make a stem a triangle
here and a longer triangle, then a triangle thing here and make another petal,
another petal here. This is what a snake's head
drawing would look like. Like I said, the
other two flowers, the clover and the cow parsley don't really require
much drawing at all. So go ahead and practice these different flowers if you want to practice before
getting into the painting.
6. Day1: Cornflower: The first flower we're going
to paint is the cornflower, which has a lot of blues
and purples in it, so you can use those palette. I have cedin blue, I have co ball blue as well
as purple on my palette and the green for the
leaves, and the stem. We're going to keep
it loose style. You don't have to really draw, but if you want to have a
little bit of a definition of where the flower is going to
be placed in this poster, eventually, you can draw it. What I'm going to do is
just give a little bit of a definition of where the flower is going to
be and how it will look. I'm not really drawing
it, but I'm just roughly sketching
out the outline. I'm going to put
one flower here. I'm going to add one
flower here as well. So it's going to be like
two flower composition. So not very detail, and just a rough idea of where your flower
is going to go. I'm going to use size to
brush from my own brand, which is the chen Cal brush. It has a nice sharp tape. Let's start with dipping
your brush in the water and take the purple
on your brush. It shouldn't be too watery
and not too dry either. What I'm going to do is
just define the petals. In this case, the
strokes are very simple. I'm going to start with
placing my brush on the paper, then the belly, and then just pick it
up, something like this. S strokes, I would
call them like this. I'm not going back to
take more paint or wash my brush or
anything because I want this different tones of
the purple to come on its own to give some definition
and depth to this flower. Let's do that for the
second flower as well. Just simple s strokes. At this moment, I'm not
giving any details. I'm just filling
it up like this. Then I'm going to
take some blue now. You can take co ball blue, which goes well with the purple to add some more depth and definition to this flower. I'm going to make the same s
strokes to fill up some of the gaps and overlap it with the purple petals
that we made earlier. So I do that for
both the flowers. Here I'm going to just
drop darker blue. Here as well in the center of the flower it would
be darker shade. Next, I'm going to
take the green. Use a sap green, which is slightly like a yellowish
brownish tone to it. I don't have sap green, so I'm
going to mix my burn Ciena with my hookers green to
create that Sap green effect. For the body, what I do is I'm going to keep the light
coming from the right side. I'll keep the left side darker and I'm just going to drop
the green here like this. If you've seen my other lessons, you will know that I'm not a
very big fan of wet on wet. I do this and then I'm
going to just wipe my brush clean and
now brush is dramped, it doesn't have too much water. I'm going to pull this paint for the rest of the lighter
area of the body. I call this pulling
the paint method. It's slightly easier to
control than wet on wet. If you want to learn
more details of this, you can refer to
my other classes. I talk about it all the time. This is just the first layer. It might not look very clean, but that's perfectly fine. We're going to add more details to it later once it dries up. While it's wet, you can
just drop some darker shades on top near the petals. Now I'm going to just
make the stem as well. Again keeping it very loose. Let's do that for the flower
as well. Let's do it again. Again, light is coming
from this side, so I'm going to put
the dark color here, the sap green that I mixed, cleaning my brush and just pulling it to
the lighter areas. Use the green to create
the stem as well. C flower stems, C flower
leaves are very simple, so I'm just going to make
some simple leaves here, not too much definition. If you want to add one more, you can add it
somewhere here, maybe. See how you want to fill it up. There are no rules
to white flowers. There can be as
vile as you like. I'm going to let it dry and then you're going to add some
more details to this.
7. Day1: Cornflower Details: Now for the detailing,
you need a darker color. If you have black with you, you can use very
light just touch on the black with the purple to make a darker
shade of the purple. If you don't have black,
you can always mix this darker gray colors with other colors that
you have on your palette. Basically, I just want a
dark purple or grayish tinge to it to add some
details to the body. What I'm going to do is
create little triangles. If you don't have
a very sharp tip to your brush like I do, you can always use
a smaller brush to create these triangles. You can use a detailing
brush like this. Maybe I'll show you how this
looks for the next flower. For the first flower, I'll
just use the tip of my brush. What I'm going to do is you can start with a triangle like this, and then just build
it up like a pyramid, small triangles on
top of each other. Now, let's do it for
the second flower as well. It has dried up. At this time, I'm going to use my detailing brush
so you can use a smaller brush to
get this detail. Again, use a grayish
color to make these little
triangles. On top of. We'll keep the triangle
defined at the bottom of the flower as it goes on top, it will be slightly more We'll keep the triangles more detail at the
bottom of the flower, as it goes up, it will be
more merged with the flower. You don't have to
draw it at this area. We're going to drop
like a darker color. The same gray color
that you just made or if you already
have in your palette, pick it up with your brush, and drop it here to give it
a little bit more color. I'm just dropping it here and same with this
flower as well. You can see the contrast
very clearly now. We have a very light area here and very dark
area on the left, and that's exactly the effect
that we are going for. Now I'm going to just wipe my brush clean.
Absolutely clean. There's very little water. It's just damp, and I'm just spreading this to make it even. I'm removing all
the definitions, which is very defined. I wanted to nicely blend. I want all these
triangles to blend. I don't want them to stand out. Now, you're going to take
either your detailing brush or your tip of the brush. Again, take the same green
color on your brush, and you're going to make these little prickly details to give it a little
bit more detail. Towards the body, just make these little lines to give it a prickly detail on both sides. Wild flowers all have these
thorns and fuzzy edges. That's their way of
protecting themselves from being eaten, I guess. You want to add
those details to get this wild flower
even on the stems. I feel these little details
give a nice definition to your artwork without making
it too realistic or to lose. I like this middle ground where I've added some details,
but not too much. With this, your
cornflower is ready.
8. Day 2: Cow Parsley: For today's challenge, we're
going to draw cow parsley. Now, there's not a lot
of drawing to this, but I do want it
to be defined in the sense where it is
going to be placed. The flower will be
something like this. It has a center from which you have these little flower
edges coming out. It's like a firecracker. I'm going to make one of
this and then one here. Similarly, there is going to
be a edge like a center and then these lines coming out of it and the flowers
will be on top. Then I'm also going
to create a leaf. The leaf looks like a
fern, something like this. This will be my co partly. These are very delicate
looking white flowers. We don't want to use too
much color for this flower. What we're going
to do is just use a dirty water to
define the flowers. But before the flowers are made, we are going to make
the stems in this case. Again, grab green. If you have sap green, you can use sap green, or if you have olive green, you can use olive
green for this. Grab the green on your brush, and let's define the stem. For the flower first. Again, I'm just adding some
lines around it. Again, here, I'm going to
add some lines around it. Now clean your brush,
and take a dirty water, which you can have a grayish
color watery flower, and this is too dark. I'm going to just da
some water like this. It doesn't have any color to it. It's dirty water. You can have a
grayish tinge to it. You can add greenish
tinge to it, but it should be
very little paint. I'm just going to dab it all over to make these
tiny tiny flowers. I wanted to be a little bit more fuller than what it
is looking right now. I'm going to just add some
flowers more flowers. It has to be looking
nice and full. Easy flower to paint and while it's drying,
we can make the leaf. I'm going to take some green again and the leaf
looks like a fern. I did draw it here, but I'm going to draw it this way now. I'm just going to make
the center line to this leaf and then dab my brush. Again. Something like
this. Dab my brush. Die it again, make
it a little longer. Very loosely defined. Please. After drying, sometimes
you might find that the flowers have
become very light, so you can just add
some more details with a slightly darker colored water. It's almost water actually, it's barely any paint,
it's just dirty water. I'm just putting
some dots to get some definition or depth
once the flower has dried. So just dots in a circle. We'll give it a bit more depth. With this, we're
done with the copy.
9. Day 3: Bluebells: The next flower that we are going to paint is a blue bell. Again, we're not going
to draw too much detail, but I do want to see the
placement for the blue Bells, so I'm going to place
them somewhere here, and this is the ground. If the blue blls are like this, they are droopy flowers. And they look so beautiful
during the onset of spring. I went for a walk for a hike, and I saw these beautiful blue
bells all over the place. They fill up the entire field. The color that they usually
have is of purplish. Again, keep purple and
blue on your palette. I knew I'm going to
draw a blue well, so I place my flowers in
such a way that the blue and the purples are separated by the cow parsley
in the center. Keep that in mind when you're placing your flowers as
well on your poster. Now, again, let's start with
the purple on my brush. What I'll do is first
make the like I said, I'm always a fan of wet on
dry and not wet on wet. I'm going to keeping the light coming
from the right side, make a little bell shape, something like this,
just for the left side. Then clean your brush
completely and extend this bell shape with a wet
brush and very no paint. Basically, I'm just pulling
this paint on the other side. You have this bell shape
created with a darker edge on your left and make this little detail on the end and pull this paint
throughout the flower. They are very easy
flowers to paint. You don't really
need to draw them. I'm going to repeat this
again for another flower. Make a bell shape on the left. Then clean your brush
and on the right. And then just pull
the paint everywhere. And add this little detail. Like always, once it dries up, it'll look much better because we're going to add
more details to it. It has a droopy little thing, so it's going to go all over. And I'm just using the same
purple to define the stem. We're going to add
green on top of this. It has a greenish
purple color stem, especially towards the end
where the flowers are. Again, Let's do the
same thing. Bell shape. Clean the brush, pull
it on the other side. Just drop the darker color. We are going to make around
five of this on one stem. If you want to fill it
up, you can do that. Like this. I'm just going to fill it the whole
thing with some flowers. You want to make some
overlapping flowers as well. You don't have to keep
them all separate. Just a definition that
there is a flower behind, you can just make half of the bell and attach
it like that. That weight looks more full and you don't really
draw the whole thing. Again, half of the
bell, just behind this, to give a notion that
there is a flower behind it and attach
it to the stem. That weight fills it up
beautifully as well. You can do those halfs on
the other side as well. So you can make half a bell here and then attach it to make it look like
there's a flower behind. All right Let the flowers dry up and while
they're drying up, we're not adding too much
detail because we have already managed the light and shadows with the way
we are painting. I'm going to take the green
and make the stem now. Again, the stem has to be
super thin and delicate. Just use the tip of
your brush to extend the purple with the green to
make the rest of the stem. Let's do that here as well. Blue Bells have grass leaves. You can just flick your brush like this to
make grass like leaves. With a dry brush,
it's not too wet, it has dry paint on it. If you want to fill
it up like this. Blue Bells are very
easy to paint and they're such beautiful
beautiful flowers. If you really want to
add some details to it, it's just all up to you. You can leave it as it is. I am a detailing person, where I like to add a
little bit of definition. I'm going to since blue
Bells are very tiny, I'm going to take my
detailing brush this time, which is size 18 by zero. It's from my own
brand conch call, I'm going to add some
lines to these flowers. From the top, just pull it with this detailing brush to add these little lines
and definitions. Again, this is optional. I think it was
already looking very cute without the
details as well. But if you do want to add, you can and you don't have to do it for each and every flower, you can just define
some of them. Define these little
veins on some of them. We are done with the
beautiful blue bells.
10. Day 4: Clover: Okay. Now we're going to paint clover, and I was just looking at the placement to
balance this out again. I want to put a different
color flower here, maybe. So clovers are very
cute round flowers which grow on the grass and
they attract a lot of bees. So you can just define
them roughly like rounds. They're very delicate and small. Again, I'm going to
make three clovers this time because everything
is two is in twos, maybe I want to make
three this time. I'm going to add
another clover here. Clovers are pinkish
red in color. You can use pink. I'm going to use
pink for this one. And use a small brush. For this one, I'm going to use size one brush again
from my brand. This is the size one brush. Again, we are going to use a
stamping technique in this. There's not a lot of painting, the flower is very small. What we're going to do is
define these little rounds. Stamp your brush to make
these petal like definitions. I'm using small brush
for the stamping. Don't worry about the gaps. We're going to
manage that later. Let's do that for the
other flowers as well. Stamp stamp all around stamp. Let's do more stamping for
the third flower here. Feel free to move your brush. As you go on top, make sure those stamps are
slightly smaller. This this flower was
in a different angle, the stamps have gone
a little hay wire, I'm going to try and correct it. Let's see if we can
just pick up the paint. You'll see me correct as well. What I'm going to do is just pick up all the stamps which
are in the wrong direction. And redo this later, Let it dry. The first flower has dried up, and I'm going to
take a clean brush, which is not wet at all. It is damp. I've literally wiped it
many times on the sheet. It's damp and I'm just
filling in the gaps, but not blending it completely. Again, here as well with the damp brush,
clean damp brush. Just fill in the gap. Make sure that the
stamps were dried up, like in the second flower, they were not dried up, but we can always correct it later. While it is drying up, we can do the leaves. Clover has these drop leaves
here, something like that. Let the flower dry to add more definition later
while we do this. And extend this to the stem. Lovely. Let it dry and we can
add more stamps in details. Grabbing my size
one brush again. I'm taking the pink on my
brush and I'm going to add these stamps which has gone missing after the smudging. Very cute, delicate flowers. This one, I stamped incorrectly, so I'm just going to
go into the direction. I'm just adding
these petals thing. Very cute flower. That's it. That was
your clo flower with these cute buds or flowers, whatever you want to call them. Fun to paint, easy to paint, and we'll move on to our
next wild flower now.
11. Day 5: Thistle: The next flower we're going
to paint is a thistle. It's also called the nap
weed I think in some places, and it looks very similar
to the corn flower, but don't get confused. It is slightly different. For the thistle, I'm going
to use purple and pinks, and because I have
already a purpsh, similar looking flower here, I'm going to paint my thistle on this side with the
purples and pinks. For the thistle, you're going to start with the body first. Again, take your
green on your brush. Any green is fine, sap, green, olive green, any
darker shades of green. I'm going to draw the body
first, which is very, very similar to the cornflower
we painted earlier. Let's go with a pot a shape. I drew it with the brush basically and then
like I always do, I pull the paint to
the rest of the body. If you want to drop some darker
colors on the left side, you can do that at this point. If you want, you
can go ahead and make another thistle as well. I'm going to make one more here. Similar pot shaped, and clean your brush and spread the paint to
the rest of the body. And then light coming
from the right side. Now, grab your really,
really tiny brush. If you have a detailing brush, great, otherwise, the
tip of any brush, the tiniest brush that you have, and grab some pink
on your brush. Looks like a lot
of white flowers are pink and purple and blue. They're going to be
all over the place, but we're going
to try and manage the colors so that there is
a balance on this poster. With the brush, you
just have to make flicking gestures to create
the teeny tiny spikes, which are the petals for this leaf for this
flower with pink. First, I do with the pink, which is basically the
lighter shade of this petal. It makes it look like the
sun is falling on it. With the sunlight
it's cotton lighter, and the darker shade
will be purple. I'm going to take
purple and make the same thing and drop some
purple even at the center, it'll be darker
towards the center, and just flick it, drop it here and then flick
it with your brush. It has the prickly
prickly petals. L et's do that here as well. This flower is
looking a bit bold, so I'm going to make bigger
flakes to make bigger petals. In fact, I might use
my size one brush now to make slightly
more defined ones. It's a bit different
looking flower. It's not the same
as the corn flower. It has a small prickly body. It is slightly different. Now take your dark green on your brush and we'll start making the details for the body, something like this. It has basically
this prickly body. You're going to just make
this little details. With a small brush, you can even use your
size one brush or any small brush that you have all over the
body of this flower. L et's do that with the
second flower as well. You start with like this
and go all over the body. Basically, it's
just little flix, both the leaves, the petal
as well as the body. Is a little flix
with a small brush. Now I'm taking my size one brush and I'm going
to make the stem. Stem is something like this. It has these long leaves thing here at the base of the flower. Even that is prickly. Just add some prickly
details to it. Do the same for this one as
well. Some prickly detail. And it has big leaves as well, which is very similar to the one which was at
the base of the flower. You can do the same thing, use a bigger brush and add some prickly details to
this, something like that. It's very roughly
painted leaves. Again, add some prickly details. Looks like all the wild
flowers are prickly, and bright and colorful. There's a theme. And that's it. This is your
thistle or the nap feed. They look very similar.
12. Day 6: Buttercup: Today, we are going
to paint a buttercup, and we are almost close to finishing this beautiful
poster of wild flowers. For the buttercup,
you will need yellow. They are very, very delicate, beautiful flowers which
grow on the grass, and again, they
attract a lot of bees. I'm going to make the buttercup here somewhere in the center. For the buttercup, let's
start with the center. I'm going to use again
that flicking motion just to create the center so that we know where to have the
petals start from. Then I'm going to
take my brush with the yellow paint and make
a heart shape on top. No full heart, but
something like this. It's a heart shape and
then clean your brush and then spread the paint
like my usual style. It's called the pulling
the paint method. I mean, it's not called
pulling the paint. I call it pulling
the paint method. Again, let's do that
for another petal. It's a very simple five
flower, five petal flower. Heart shaped.
Better. Again, take more paint and painter. Third pet. If you wish you
can draw it a little roughly, you clean your brush
and just spread it. I'm going to make
another petal here, the fourth one,
and the fifth one, which goes somewhere here. I'm just drawing it out, and I'm going to use a clean
brush to pull the paint. This is buttercup.
Let's make it stem. Well, the flower is drying. Butter cups are actually
very, very tiny flowers, and they have these cute leaves, one stroke leaves
that you can add. I'm going to make only
one buttercup flour because everything is
in twos and threes, I'm going to keep this
just one to balance. Let it dry and then we're
going to add some details with a darker shade of yellow. We can even use yellow ochre
for adding these details. Now I'm going to take my size one brush and yellow
ochre this time. To add some details. I have yellow ochre
with me and I'm just defining the petals a bit more. Something like that. You can even add some dots for the more definition of
the center of the flower. Yellow flowers are
tricky to paint, I would say they're as tricky as white flowers because it's very difficult to show color
variation or tones in yellow. With the ochre, I'm just adding some definition to the petals. The center basically just
add these little lines. No too defined. If you wish you can add the same yellow
occur on the edge as well. That's your cute
buttercup wild flower, and now we are going to
head to our last day of this challenge where we
paint last wild flower.
13. Day 7: Snake's Head: The next flower that we
paint is the snake head. For that, it's a
droopy looking flower, and I'm going to use a very light pink to
define the flower, and then we're going to
add some details to it. The flower is drooping
with a straight, you can make a line like
this, something like that. For the top, then use this pink watery paint
to make the petal, which goes down from here. That's the first
petal. And then extend this and create your second petal right next to
it and the third one. Again, just create some
petals on the edge. Again, this is the first layer, so you don't have to worry
much about the details, just defining the flower. And then you can draw stem. Here, I'm going to make a few
more flowers to fill this up in a different direction. Again, take your watery pink. This time, I'm going to
fill this area because it's looking a little empty. You have to see in
your own poster, which area you want to fill up. Again, same method. Define the first petal, and then a second petal
next to it and third one. Again here. Define
roughly a petal. And then take your green
and make this stem. Now, let this dry before
we add more details to it. Now I'll take a size one brush and I'm going to mix some purple with my pink to get a dark purple pink to add
the details for this. That's what the main flower
actually looks like. It has a very dark purple color. The snake head looks like a little bit of a
snake skin thing. You don't have to again
define too much of it, but we'll try our best to add a little bit detail to
give that definition. What I'll do is just
you to make a mesh. I'm just going to make lines like a brick effect
is what we are going for. I'm going to make
some lines first, and then with the
same dark color, I'm filling up the
bricks alternately. Alternate bricks. And then
here, alternate bricks. This way. You get a little bit of effect
for the snake head. You can do that roughly
for the other petals also. But try not to be
too defined as well. We're going to blend this later to make it look a
little less defined. Again, make sure they're
just alternated. Don't paint all of
them in one line. If you want to use
slightly lighter color for the edges, you can do that. The petals on this side will have lighter
purple if you want. I'm going to do that for
the next one as well. Let it dry and then
we blend it out. While it's drying, you can add
some details to the stems, and it has leaves
are like grass, so you can even define
them very roughly. Okay. Now, the flower is dry, and I'm going to use
a damp brush just a little bit of smudging, I would say, blending, because it's a bit too defined. We don't want that. We
want it to be blended. But make sure that the
flower has dried up. Otherwise, this dark color will spread all
through the flower, and you're going to
miss the highlights that you created on
your first layer. A. It shouldn't look
too much like checks. I don't want it to look
like checks or bricks, but it should have
some definition to it. So I'm just blending it. This is your cute wildflower
poster almost ready.
14. Finishing Touches: All right. For the final step, I'm going to write the name of the flowers and a
heading to this poster. It's completely optional. It's up to you, so I'm going to just write the wild flowers. I'll just write
the topic of this. And then the name of
the flowers as well. This is the corn flower. The cow parsley. Global. The clover, Thistle the buttercup and the snake head. With this, you have
your wild flower poster ready, all made by you. You can put it in your kitchen
or your garden to give it a little beautiful touch
of your personal artwork.
15. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on finishing this seven days challenge
of wildflower watercolors. I hope you enjoyed the class, and you painted some
fun flowers and created a poster that you will
cherish for years to come. I'm very excited to see
what you have created. Even if you've not put all
the flowers into a poster, I'm excited to see
your practice as well. Do post it in the
class project gallery. If you have any questions, then use the
discussion stab below, and I'm happy to
answer them for you. If you like the class, then do leave a review. It really means a lot. Follow me on Skillshare and my social media to get
updates on my future classes. Until next time, happy painting.
Kanchan Kaul, Artist and Illustrator
