Pastel Florals for Beginners : 15 Day Watercolor Challenge

1. Introduction: Hi everyone, Welcome to the piece of Florals, 15 Day at Challenge. So during the struggle, I was struggling to find inspiration and I actually stopped painting for quite awhile. I couldn't get any ideas and I wasn't happy with what I was painting. And randomly, one day I decided to pick some floral piece of Sheets. Sorry. I was immediately inspired. I was so excited by the colors that I started painting piece after keys. And that's what brought together this challenge. So the inspiration is pastel shades. We're going to learn how to mix these colors, how to place them in different color schemes, and then create some stunning artwork. In total, there are 15 projects that is spread across three weeks. So it is up to you to follow along as per your convenience. So there are five projects for the first week, five for the second, and five for the last week. If you want, you can paint along every day or get all of the projects and painted on one single day. The projects are about 15 to 20 min. Some of them go a little bit higher and some of them go a little bit lower. But they are very quick. They are simple and there's really usually FUN. You can either paint along with me or you can watch the intro video and then being the piece. Either ways, I would love to see your projects. So feel free to share them in the projects tab on Instagram using the hashtag paste till width, femvisionary can also tag me in it so I can have a look and give any comments or feedback and share it on my stories as well. I am so excited about this challenge. I think we're going to have a lot of PFK-1 exploring different colors. And I call wait to get started. 2. Materials List: Time to discuss our materials for the project. The first thing is the paper itself. We will need a Watercolor cold press paper, 300 GSM, or about one-twenty LPS in total. Because of 15 projects, we will need 15 a5 Sheets. You can have couple of more Practice Sheets for trying out the technique, as well as the color mixing. If you don't have a a5 sheet, you can take an A4 and divide it by two to get your a5. So for a four, you would need about seven or eight. That would then become your sorry, it would be eight. Math, isn't that great? So H sheets that went divided would give you 16. For our project. Along with that, we would need Watercolor paints. Be would need a basic Orange color. As you can see, if you have a pen or a tube, it doesn't matter. Either ways will need a crimson, White, Viridian Green. Cerulean, blue, I've mentioned crushing, but it's Cerulean, Yellow, opera, pink, and a Brown. Finally, a gold color. You can use either Watercolors, that's fine. And two types of precious. We need a Round brush that's a size four as well at certain Detailer brush, which is about a size 000. These two brushes will be convenient for us to paint our paint all of our projects. These are our mean materials. Along with that, we'll need a glass of water, some Tissues, Pencil, scale, eraser, couple of other items I'm sure you already have at home 3. Color Schemes and Mixing: Now that we have gone over the different materials, Let's dive into the color mixing and creating color schemes. So in total, you can see here, it's not as clear, but you will see it in an upcoming videos. We have three main color schemes that we're going to be working on. The first one has a mix of blues and greens and Orange. The next is a little bit more pasted. You have this bright yellow that changes the color scheme a bit more. And then finally, a pink one where there's shades of pink and a little bit of brown and gold. So we are going to play around with this. In each piece that we paint right on top, on the upper corner, you will see the color scheme that is going to be used in that piece. So you can accordingly and mix it and keep it ready for you to begin the project. So initially, I want to do every week to have one colors key. But I realize I was getting a bit boring. So I've mixed out the pieces. In the first piece, maybe we'll do the first color scheme. The second project might have the third, and so on. So just so you don't get confused, make sure to always check up the corner where the color scheme will be mentioned. Now, let's get started with Mixing out the right Sheets and playing around with color. Let's start by mixing our first color scheme. The first color in the color scheme is Orange, a basic Orange color. No edits. Just as it is. Creating this color guide at the beginning is going to be very useful as you paint along. The next color we are going to use is our crimson. Crimson is a little bit of a red tinge. And along with that red, we're going to add some orange and white. We don't want it to be this light. So let's go ahead and add more Crimson to deepen up color. And that becomes our second color. Moving on, taking a little Crimson, but a lot of white. So basically are already created mix, adding more white to it to make it even more pastel. We've got a pale pink color. Moving on to the next color, Let's take our Viridian Green and add a little bit of orange to this green mixed until you get this vintage shade. We can add a little Y2. It To make it a little bit more pastel. And that becomes our fourth color. The same mixture of Viridian Green and white and orange. And adding Cerulean blue. Adding more of the Cerulean blue, deepening up the color to get the teal blue that we are going to use for our painting. You might have to go back and forth with Mixing this, Adding a little bit of Viridian Green, little bit of the Cerulean blue, until you're happy with the color. Now, let's take a little bit of the Cerulean, blue and white. So a lot of white and little bit of the blue can take a little bit of the Viridian Green to make the shade more of a turquoise blue color. Give it that greenish sea green look. For the final color. I'll be labeling this as a pale blue, just so you don't get confused. This is the color scheme for our first first set. So I'm just going to write it down the mixes. So when I go along and I'm painting, in case I forget, I can always refer back to this. And this is a good card for you to keep with you through the challenge. It's now time for the second color scheme. I'm starting off with the Cerulean blue, just as it is for the first color. Let us now makes a little bit of this Cerulean blue with white to get a lighter blue shade. Finally, to this blue mix, Adding Viridian Green to give you the sea green color. For our third mix. The sea green is a mix of Cerulean blue, viridian green, and white. The proportions or something you will have to test and try a bit. Start with a small quantity and keep adding in the color to get the shape that we are looking for. The next color that we're going to use is a Yellow. Just as it is. For our pale orange, Let's mix a little bit of this. Yellow with Orange, give a pale yellow color, followed by white to make the color pastel. Finally, to end of the color scheme, Let's use orange, just as it is. Let's now move on to our final color combination bank. So for this, we are going to just play around with a beautiful color scheme. The first cut a form, this is going to be Oprah pink. We can also use a bright pink because Oprah pink isn't that easily available and sets. But I still absolutely love this color. The next color would be Orange, pink. So we're going to mix our Oprah pink with yellow to get a more warm shade. And this is gonna be kinda like a deep pink color. As you can see, it's beautiful. And that becomes our second color. Now, to this mix, let's add a lot of white to really pale it down. And that's going to become our pale pink. I'm going to add a little bit more of yellow just to make it more warm to give it that salmon color. So we generally in the pantone shades call it a salmon pink. I don't know why. I think anyways. So you can call it a pale pink as well, because I think this is we have another pink, which is why I didn't want to mix up the two. So this is gonna be our salmon pink. Don't worry if you don't have the exact names. The point is that you have the color. This is not a challenge about getting the names of the color, right. It's about getting the tone and the sheet and the actual codon. So for our pink, we're going to take out all prop Pink at a lot of white and get a beautiful mix. To complete the color scheme, we're going to have Brown coming in and then finally cooled. Now I understand that gold is not easily available in basic Watercolors sets. So if you have a gold acrylic paint, you can use that. Or you can go ahead and skip the gold and we don't have to add gold to the piece. I think it's beautiful, but an acrylic or gouache mix as well. We work well, just remember to use a different brush so your current brush does not get damaged when you're using another medium. These are our three different colors schemes. We'll be playing around with them as each project goes along. And you can try it out the mixes accordingly so you do not get confused. Some of the things that I've written are wrong. If you're trying to read it and you see Prussian blue. Whereas I said Cerulean blue. So do not get confused. I've written it in White specifically because of that 4. Practice Techniques: This is a really important section and I'm going to answer a lot of common questions that people ask about Florals. So first thing, let's just do couple of practice exercises, couple of tips. So whenever we're doing thin lines using a thinner Detailer brush, as mentioned in the materials, works really create. Try to keep your brush perpendicular to your sheet so you end up with thin lines. That's the best way to go about it. And you can see how create that turned out. The next is when we switched to doing petals, I always move to my bigger round brush and always do the petals in the form of a teardrop. The center, that is, although start that is touching the center of the flower is generally smaller and it becomes wider, forming a teardrop shape. If you can do this in a couple of strokes, it looks better. Switches practice that as well. The next thing is just going into couple of Flower sheets. These are the common ones that we'll be using. There'll be a couple of other ones, but they're all derived from here. You can see how I do a five petaled flower. So doing this center, and then you can see how I'm just doing a planning out the petals one at a time. Having those gaps in the middle looks really create. And so pay attention to that. And now we go into painting a flower for the center. Mostly I end up doing either a circle, but dotted lines or dashed lines. You will see me doing a textured center. So just keep that in mind. Something like what you can see I'm doing right now with the problem. Making sure it's slightly, slightly textured. When we go into painting the flower, just let this dry a bit. You can see I'm lifting up the pain. So if you end up putting too much paint in your center, the color is going to bleed through too quickly and probably join your petals. So just let it dry a bit so it's not as wet. And then you can go into painting out your petals. Next week, go into Adding the drops of paint that you will see me do. Most of the flowers. I do this by adding drops of water. You can see me doing this here on the palate to the paint. So when you move around, you're being too, you will see the brush really lose its shape because it's so full of water, then you can actually tapped on your brush and create bubbles of paint. If it's very light at more of the pigment to you water, that is going to just build up the color more. Let me switch the angle. You can see how it's bubbled up. In case you are in a dry country, very humid. Maybe it's very Wendy, these droplets my try very quickly. So love yourself either to work one flower at a time so it doesn't dry up. Another thing to do is make sure you add a lot of water to the mixture so your bubble is even more rounded right here. You can see it's not too much of water, but you can add more water to Jolie fill it up. That way you avoid ending up with dried spots. Another tip to remember is we're not adding too many spots. I've added just two rows. So even if these dry, they're still going to look create with the Flower. It's not going to join up painting. And that's super important. So if you add too many dots and they all dry up, you're going to end up with a very not create looking Flower. We want to make sure that just enough. So just one line. In some cases you'll see me use two lines, like the one you're seeing now, and that is more than enough. Use your Round brush and paint out your Flower The next thing to practice because before we dive into all our fair paintings is adding the lines of outlines for the flower. I'm using my thinner brush to add couple of dots and details around the center of the flower. And you can see how it's completely dry. Before I do this, this is very important because we don't want this color to flow around too much. Now using my orange are the deeper color. I'm gently doing an outline. Notice how my outline doesn't go all the way around. I have gaps in-between. You can see it here. There's a gap in-between. And that is what makes it look a lot nicer. So I'm naturally outlining it. I would say I'm just giving it a controller. And the inner lines are always in a curve. They're not straight lines. You can see that gently curved. Other thing to practice. And sometimes you can have these outlines going a little bit of a form, the petal in case your pets or did not turn out the right shape. You can just do your outline properly. Okay, So you see how amazing that plot looks. Similarly the next one just showing you again, just practice a couple of times because I want you to have beautiful 15 paintings. And that's really important to me. So just try it out. It's a FUN new technique. It's completely different from what is usually shown out there. I want you to enjoy this. In this case, you can see it's very flat, but when we add to three different colors, these flowers are going to look stunning. So just do a little bit more of trials. And there you go. So these are some of the techniques we'll be using, will be doing leaves, we will be doing different things. But I'm sure you guys can figure that out. These were the most important elements. And now that we have this, we can go ahead and start with our paintings. Oh sorry, splatter. So venue Adding a splatter, just hold your brush stiff and gently tap it with two fingers. You will see this plateau fall in. We want to make sure your brush is filled with pain so it's not dry. So we're adding water, adding paint and then splattering it. If it's dry, there's not gonna be any splatter. Just loaded up 5. Tips for the challenge: I touched it poem there's a bit before in the introduction, but basically this is a 15 project challenge. It really is up to you on how you want to actually work on it. If you want to do one piece or one project at D, you can do that for 15 days. Or if you want to take a little bit of gap during the weekend, you can go ahead and stretch it into a three-week project. You can also work on two projects at a time. So it really depends on your timeline and your flexibility to work with them and effect you will have 15th stunning different projects that really explore florals and various variety. I've really played around with the different Placement as well. So you create something new every time 6. Day 1 - Candy Florals: Welcome to day one of the 15 Day challenge. Since we have already gone through our color schemes. I hope you have your colors ready for this incredible piece. Before I begin, I also wanted to quickly go into how I personally come up with placements. And this is a FUN exercise that you can do when you're free, when you just want to start a new project. So I take a sheet of paper and I divide it into multiple rectangles, and each represents a different painting. I use big circles to represent the main element, which is the biggest Flower. And smaller circle to represent the smaller elements. Because of this, playing around with placements, I get a bunch of ideas very quickly. It also becomes my go-to reference whenever I'm planning a painting. Now when I go through this process theme, there may be some placements. I don't like. That way I can quickly remove them from my list and stuff. Painting out a beautiful piece and then seeing it just not come out, right? So this is a great free for you to ensure that your piece, your painting is going to look amazing at the end of it. So here you can see the first one. It's basically a copy of what is their right above our completed piece. The second one is just an idea. I'm playing around with adding some longer elements. You can see how I just let it flow. I am not going too much into the details of exactly how the flower looks. It's just a representation. Now that I have this rough idea, Let's begin with our painting. So I'm starting off with a rectangle paper. This is half of an A4 sheet. So basically it's an a5 sized paper. I'm starting with the first big flower, a little to the left. Sorry, a little to the right on the top corner. I am bad with my left and right. Just to be honest, I struggled with that. And it takes me awhile, so I might mix them up. So I'm starting off with the darkest color that I had in that color scheme, which is basically this dark green color. And using dots, I'm adding a center for the flowers. I like to do about 23 lines, so it really fills up that space. Now, taking my brush loaded with paint, I'm dropping in the light blue color. We've done this in our technique practice. If you have any questions, feel free to refer to that. Or if you have additional questions, please leave them in the discussion tab so I can answer them. Now. Along with the light blue, I'm adding the light pink as well. Which means that our flower is going to have this mix of blue and pink, which I think is absolutely stunning and it's going to create a beautiful effect. Now, washing out my brush completely, I'm taking a clean brush that has water and just pulling the paint from the center all the way through these drops of paint to create my petals. I'm not overworking on these pieces. If you notice, it's just a couple of brushstrokes. I'm now going back and forth. If you go through it back and forth, you're gonna end up with a mix of colors. And so the effect that I'm getting here where you can see the individual colors, pink and blue separate will not come through. So make sure you just try to drag them in a couple of strokes. While this is drying, let's move on to our smaller flowers. Some starting off with doing the center with a light pink. I'm just keeping enough of space between the centers so that it's the size of a, of two petals. So that's a good way to remember it. Whatever size your petal is, you're going to keep to battle space and then paint out another center. I'm really filling up that space. Now I can dive into adding some dots with dread or the crimson color. The reason I like doing this is in the next step when I use my clean water. I don't have just flat color. There's a beautiful watercolor effect that comes through where you can see the clear of the paper as well as that red or crimson color. So I think that looks really, really great. So I'm painting each petal one at a time. In some cases, as you'll notice, color is Depot, which is great, whereas in some, it's a lot more blended out, which is great. So we want to have those mix of shades showing through the flower because it really looks fantastic. Once it's done. Moving on to another flower on the right side. Following the exact same technique, I've made sure to keep it slightly closer to our first set of flowers so that I can overlap them. As I see my piece, I realized that there is a lot of gap between the flowers. I'm just adding one more flower that is going to be on top of already what has been painted. I'm making sure that the bottom previous flowers are dried out so that the colors don't blend out too much. And that'll be it still stays on top and is supposed. Before we move on to the O2, Adding smaller details, let's do our leaves. So I'm doing big bold leaves without green color. What I like to do, It's a really good tip, is to make sure that the leaves are clumped together. You have two of the leaves coming together or three of them. So it's always in sets. We're not doing individual leaves separated, all kinda connected to the same stem. You can see how that looks a lot better. Fills up the space and brings together the Painting. Looking at the Bs and then adding in the final pets, sorry, I keep mixing up petal and leave. But yeah, the final leaf. Let's add some splatters, gently tapping a brush with paint so you add these cute textures. I love adding circles. You can add stars. Always gives a little bit of interest to the painting. But wait up, we still aren't done. We're going to add a couple of more elements to brighten up the piece. So I've switched to my smaller brush, the thinner one. And I'm going into Adding red lines to my small Lars. And you can see how that automatically makes the flower pop. Once that is done, we also can use a thin brush and add some outlines to our Flower. What we're going to do is just keep them very light. I'm not doing the whole outline. Very important to notice that there are gaps between them. And that's what gives it a little bit more of a FUN look. Once you have that, you can do some thin lines along the petal as well. As we add in the final lines, Flower. We're also giving it a little bit more of just symmetricity. Now, I like to look around my piece and see if I need to add any more elements. In this case, I realized that I'd like to add couple of these outlined leaves. So not filling them up, but just adding thin lines to represent the center or the middle of the leaf. I think this kind of blends in with the entire thing. I love the final look. Congratulations on completing day one. Looking forward to seeing you on T, two 7. Day 2 - Playing with Placement : We are starting with day to day two. I am following the similar Placement planning that I hit done from yesterday. So I'm starting with three main flowers in the center, in the form of a triangle, followed by smaller flowers along the sides, as well as a line of blue belts. So this line is going to give it movement as well as a whimsical look. Overall, I like the Placement and let get started with our piece. The colors we're using are the colors from the color scheme. One would be used from yesterday. If you have all your materials ready. Let's dive right in. Let us begin by painting the center of the main flowers. Start off with a light pink circle, followed by dots are rounded to give it more of a texture. The size of the center is about one-and-a-half centimetre, about three-fourths of an inch. So now that we have that, I'm painting the center for all the three main flowers. The distance between each is about a petal and a half. I hope that makes it clear. So once we have the centers, we can then move into painting up petals. Going to start with the one right on top, adding dots of the dark green, ish Blue that we had. Just adding equidistant dots. We don't need too many. Just a simple line of dots is more than enough. Now using our brush that is filled with clean water, Let's pull the paint from the center all the way to form a nice rounded petals. One at a time. You can gently fix the edge of the curve by just going over it. Let us now move on to the second Flower. Starting off with clear water and pulling through the paint. Now, in case this layer falls on top of the previous Flower, I'm allowing that happen because we want all the flowers to overlap each other as much as possible. We want to avoid any spaces between them. The other thing to note is I'm following elongated tear drop shape for the petals. Now that this is done, let's add our petals for the final Flower. Overall, this forms a really nice base. Can see the shades of colors blending, mixing through, just giving it a fairly nice luck. Now we can go in And add some smaller flowers. For the smaller flowers, I'm going to actually take my Crimson. And I'm going to use that to do the centers. The center is fairly small, maybe half a centimeter or about half an inch. Let's use our light pink and blue together. The paint from the center to form our flowers. Making the petals for this more rounded. So it isn't as elongated as our main flower. The size of each petal goes up about 1 cm. So it's quite tiny. Now in case a blend into the main Flower, well and good. We want those colors to bleed through. If it overlaps on existing flowers. That's amazing. It's we usually want to get those looks where the color is kind of bleeding through and that happens when it's still wet. Now at this point, it's good to add in some Wolf met. And to do that we are going to use our ten brush to add in some lines for us to hang our blue belt on. In this case, they're naturally blue collar belts. So let's say bell flowers. I'm just making a very crazy curve. So it's not a perfect curve, it's more like a very rounded C-shape. And I've kept gaps between it to fill it up with our bell flowers. The butterfly is fairly easy, so we have a U shape and then just a line that goes through the edge. Do you see what I'm doing there? I hope it's clear. So it's a very, very simple flower. I like to add some of them coming from the middle of the stem. Not always hanging on the sides, just some of them coming to the central. Using crimson for this. You can see how it's really building up. Now as we go higher, we can make the size of these slightly smaller if possible. And as we go on top, we can add some buds, flowers that are ready to Blue. Now, instead of having the buds on both sides of, just kept them along one side. That is the auto section of the stem. And I love how this turned out. Let's repeat the same on the other side. Just follow along as I paint each Flower. Now that we've completed our main elements, Let's go into painting out our leaves. So let's use a set of leaves, just bold, big leaves along the edges. So I noticed with my please, the top half is looking really full compared to the bottom. So that's why I'm adding more leaves at the bottom just to balance out the piece Let us now mix a little bit more of the green. And then we can add so-called around the piece with the same green color. I've switched into my thinner brush because we are now getting ready for details. Taking the darkest color on my thin brush, I'm going to add outlines, broken outlines to the flowers. This is gonna give it a little bit more of structure because right now they are just kinda all over the place. So this is going to control it. Now I'm not adding these outlines to every better as you guys know, we can skip some of them. If the edge needs to be corrected. We can do that with this. Even if whitespaces as seen, it's fine. Once you've completed the two floors, the bottom, the one that is underneath, we just use thin lines. We're not going to try to outline it out because then again, it's going to ***** the look that we're going for. Just use thin lines for the center and then continue on adding broken outlines through the remaining of the Flower. We're almost done. I'm gonna use the dark color to add dots along the center of the flower. Finished the entire piece with some light pink splatters to give it a more fancy code. 8. Day 3 - Pink Florals: For D3, we are going to switch up our color scheme by going to use the third color scheme. Form our color mixing. It is more of the things inspired by Barbie. And you can see the piece super FUN, super colorful. And we're going to play around with how to balance out these colors. I'm using my a5 sheet. Please sing it horizontally. And I'm going to start by drawing out the vars for the flowers. So simply just divide your sheet by two and then you can take a couple of centimeters. I've taken, I think two centimeter, one-and-a-half centimeters on both sides, giving the vase a little bit of a height and then just drawing it out. So this is going to be a very simple rectangle. Vos, nothing too complicated. Once we have our rectangle ready, Let's draw out the curve. For the vars. It's going to be, I don't know how to describe the shape of it. But you can see it on the screen. Basically an inverted triangle. No actual triangle, but more curved. So once you have that, just areas out all the extra lines. So we have something really nice. And the boss is gonna be very symmetrical. So we're just making sure that is fine. Before we dive into our flowers. To begin, let's start with our stem. And I'm just basically doing a curved stem with a brunch. So we'll have one set of flowers on the left side and one set of flowers on the right. Once we have that, let's start by painting are smaller flowers. I'm just going to do the center of the flowers using maybe keeping it about a centimeter and Adding the dots. So overall it comes up to a centimeter, so not too big. The dots add textures, so I loved doing them. The next Flower, we're going to keep it assuming to petal sizes of petals are going to be quite small. Doing another dodge. So we're going to have a clump or cluster of flowers altogether. Using our deeper pink. Let's add some dots around the centers. We're gonna do these three flowers and then we're going to add more. I'm going to use clean water to then just paint out each petal, just dragging across the pigment through the entire petal. As we mentioned before, we don't want to overwork this suggests try to two quick long lines and then just correct the edge to get a nice curve. In case the petals overlap, that's fine. We wanted to kind of overlap as well to give it a little bit more of a closer look. Now that we are happy with this, Let's add some more crimson, red centers. On the top. We can add one maybe along the side, assuming that these are gonna be much smaller flowers I'm keeping them much closer to what has already been painted. Adding are dots. For the flowers. To put through the color. Gently using a damp brush. We can add in spots of the bright Barbie pink color as well. Once you're happy with this set of colors, again, notice we're not doing too many dots because that defeats the purpose, which is doing enough to pull through enough of color to give it that mix to just one set of dots. Looks really great. It also adds a little share of a brighter pink to our set of flowers. So it gives a little difference, right? And I'm sure you can see it all ready to. I need to explain it, but it's a nice shade that comes through. Once we have that. So we've got a nice set of flowers. We can just quickly finish off the side Flower. We're going to add more. What I'm trying to do is just work on to three floors at a time so I can see how they are working together. If I painted all of my flowers, it is possible that one side might have to merge or the other side might not have enough. Just to avoid that, I am just adding flowers. As I go along layer by layer, gently, dragging the paint, dragging the water to form each petal, one at a time. To finish off our look, let's add some buds. All I'm doing is painting one petal and that is going to form a bud. Using the bright pink. For this purpose. Generally like doing buds on top so that it looks like it's going to bloom and come together. And you can see, I'm very happy with the overall look. I think it's come together. Great. I was thinking if I need to add another flower, but I think overall, it looks, it's come out fine and it's just the perfect amount. I switched over to my thin brush and using the deep Pink going into Adding crunches. Now remember to see how I add the branches. We just not doing straight lines, gently curved and they form together a branch that then connects to the center stem. This surely brings together the piece. So kind of learning how to connect your flowers together, make them look better. Just to complete the look It is now time to add in some bold leaves. So I'm starting off with the bright opera pink set of leaves. These ones are dropping downward. As we add in some FUN leaves. Let's also add some leaves that are just outlines. So they give a little bit more of a artistic. No, actually, I don't know how to describe, but I think overall, it looks great. Adding those leaves that don't have a center, right? Just adding lines. I'm using my thin crunch, sorry, thin brush. To achieve this. It's a lot more easier to control as we move along, adding some bigger leaves. And then as that's done, we can move into our flowers. So I'm using dark Brown form the color scheme to add couple of dots for those smaller flowers. These dots are actually going to complete the look and bring it together. Because as we had done our water, blending, some of the colors may have mixed up. So this inner wages brings it all together. Let us now add in some bell flowers to add some height to the piece. Gonna be using Brown in a thin line all the way from top to bottom, keeping spaces so that it all connects. You can see I made a slight mistake when I did the line. I didn't aim it to the opening portion of the wires. Just keep that in mind when you're coding ahead. But I can quickly fix it by adding some long leaves with the brown. Time to add in the blue belts. So simple U-shape downward you and then a thin line to form the bell. I've got three of them connected to the center stem. As we move up, we can have some of the bells on top of the stem line and then go to the side. And so on. Just follow along. As I paint each Flower at a time. Once I completed this, I was wondering if I wanted to add another bell Flower on a set of bell flowers on the left side. But I think when I look at it, I liked the proportion. So give yourself the chance to decide if you want to add more. I think overall the piece looks very balanced. The way we went into painting a set of flowers at a time has really made sure that the piece is more aesthetically pleasing. Since that is completed, we can take our gold to paint out the vase. If you don't have gold, feel free to use any of the colors that we already have in our mix. Brown would be a good alternative. But I wanted to give a little bit of shine. I'm using cold to paint out the bus. It's gonna give slight change in color. That's going to really complement our piece. Use the gold to also add some dots to the center of the smaller flowers as well. And that is gonna give it a little bit more of a shine. We're almost done with our painting. We can now also add some splatters to it. To complete the look. For the splatters, we can use the darker pink, so it really uplifts the painting. Just gently tap your brush to get the color to splatter out. I like that cool touch. I would have alternative suggested adding splatters with a gold. I think that would also look really, really great. Really depends. I ended up going for the dark pink, but I don't think there's a wrong option here. Once that's platters done, we can then also add in some circles and other details for the painting. I like to look at the piece a couple of times. Step back, Common front. Just make sure that I'm happy with the overall finish. We're now done with D3 of how Florals Challenge 9. Day 4 - Adding Shimmers: Day four is amazing. We're going to use the same bright pink team and we're going to really play around with it and create something FUN. So I've done my boss is just a U shaped bars, very simple. And we're going to start right into the painting. So doing the center of the main big flowers, using bright opera pink for the same. I'm just doing dotted lines, dotted dashes, dots, sorry. Dots. For the center. Again to give it texture. I always loved this low competitors painting it as a circa. Again, Nora wrong. There's no mistakes per say. So you can do it however you like. But I love doing DOD, just adding that little bit of texture. Now using the drops, I'm going to start with the light pink color. I'm going to play around with at least two different sheets. As I explained in the technique. Guide. If you're, droplets are drying out, then tried to one flower at a time. Generally what helps it is by adding a lot of moisture, a lot of water to your brush. So making sure that mix is really filled in with water. And so you actually see a bubble, okay, the bigger the bubble, that means that it's not going to blend in so quickly, right? It's not going to absorb so quickly. Once that's done, let's take our brush with clear water and then just paint out each petal at a time. So I'm making the petals a little bit asymmetrical so they're not a perfect curved edge like our previous projects. So they are more rounded. In some cases, they even have a little bit of scallop going, a little bit of a wave. So whenever you have a lot of paint on your brush, just make sure to wash your brush and then continue on with the next battle. Slowly building up the Flower. Once we're happy with this, we can then move on. It is now time to add in some berries, some taking the deep up pink shade. You can see right on top, on the left side, we have the color scheme that we're using. So you can pick up colors from there. For the berries, I'm using the pigment. And then you can see right here I just use clear water and that color is just blending into it. Can have some smaller berries. To just balance out. Let us know and love the lower portion to dry. Meanwhile, we can work on our upper Florals. For that purpose, I'm starting off using my thin brush and I'm going to do a stem with it. Going to pick my stinky, fishy do the Brown. But I might actually just pick one of the deeper pinks. And just to a dashed line on both sides of The painting. Now, let us do our flowers. You can see how I'm doing this. Basically, I have a heart shape. One of my students called that and I thought that was a brilliant way to explain it. So a heart-shaped petal and then you have two thin lines along the site. And as you go higher and higher, we make that heart-shaped smaller to the point that it represents kind of teardrop. Smaller and smaller as you go Ohio. So that's a great way to kinda get that proportion. We can always add in more. I'm width if you feel like it is not actually working. So in this case I'm adding a little bit more, just making sure that the side lines are more formed into a better once we have that doing the other side. Now while I'm painting, I switch around my color, so it's not just the deep pink. I move into the Oprah pink as well. And that's why you have a dual shades of colors that is going on. Finally, let's add in our big pink bright leaves for our piece. And then we can move into just completing any other detailed. Just I'm just making it more Adding more depth to it. Sorry. I was trying to figure out what the word is. So we've got our light pink leaves on either side. It's now time to complete the inner details. So starting with our big flowers, Let's add some filaments. So I'm gonna use a deeper Brown. And this is using my thin brush, adding some rounded, oval. It's basically all those shapes around the center. Once that does done, we're going to use thin lines to connect them to the middle Now that we have completed this, Let's do the stem for the berries. And for that purpose, which is going to connect them using gentle curves together. You can see how I do this. Alright, gentle curves. Connecting it to the center stem. After we've completed this. We can then move on and do the details for the flowers. The flowers specifically. Now using the brown, Let's go ahead and connect. Those petals are basically smaller flowers to a center stem. By using the shapes. We can then add in some simple leaves. And that is just going to fill up the spaces. Just add simple smaller leaves. Generally I start from bigger on the bottom and as I move upward, I go smaller and smaller. Next, let's add in an Oprah pink to outline the leaves. And you can start with our main flower. Just gentle lines. And we have that at couple of more leaves around the piece. Like to step back for my piece a bit and just check if it needs more or I'm happy with it. These small lines I think adds a little bit of interest to the P. So people, if you're looking at a unit just kind of washed over your kinda curious to see more details, to see what's happening with the leaf. And it just looks great. Let's paint out the bus with pink. And we're almost done with our piece. After we finish off the bus, all we need to do is add our splatters and the smaller circles, and the piece is completed. So we're just getting there. I think adding gold for the circles is a nice touch. And once we're done, congratulations on completing day for. Tomorrow's gonna be a really FUN one. And I can't wait to share that with you. 10. Day 5 - Summer Florals: Let us now dive into the fifth painting and also the final painting for the week, depending on how you are pacing your Challenge. So we are using the color scheme. The second one, you can see right on top, there's the blue, the beautiful green, and then the Orange. This is actually one of my favorite pieces from the challenge. I also love this color combination and I've been painting with it on and off. And this challenge, I took it as an opportunity to actually bring together this piece. So let's start with painting out the Center for the focal flowers. I'm going to be using that greenish, beautiful blue color. I think it's also one of my favorite colors. Maybe that's why this color scheme is my favorite. Just doing this center with this beautiful greenish blue. And now we can add dots with our light blue. I'm not adding too many dots. Just a circle of them is more than enough. If you feel like some places you want the blue to show up more, we can add a second line, but I'm not really filling up the space with it because in case it dries, you're going to end up with more spots. The next, I'm going to take my blue and add couple of dots with that. So we have this beautiful sheets. So excited to paint this with my damp brush. I'm going to start pulling the paint from the center to build my petals. You can see I've done the petal in the shape of a heart almost. So it's got this M bump on top. So it's not a perfect curve. And I like how this is looking, how it's turning out. Now, let's start with our next flowers. This one, I am starting off with the orange color. For the center. It's the lighter orange shade, which is mixed in with white. So I'm going to use that to add my center. Just doing a simple circle because the flower is quite small. Now, the gap between the flowers, I'm keeping about a better length. I do know if this is a new way to measure distances, but I like it because it does make sense. Instead of saying two centimeter, three centimeter, I think measuring it based on what size your petal is going to be is a good way to go about it. So using my light blue, I am going to add in the dots. This is really dilutes out the paint, honestly, competitors using your paint as it is, like we would do in Loose florals. I've noticed that Adding the dots actually makes the colors really blend out and gives it a really nice look. So that's why I'm really enjoying this way of painting. My Florals also encase the dot, do dry up. They add a little bit of texture, which is why I said, Let's not add too many dots on this is just gonna do one flower at a time. Because if it's too many, then it's going to look like a mess. But if it's just one line and it dries up, it gives us underneath layer of filaments in the flower when you look at it. So it gives you those details which looks really great as well. So I'm adding in my leaves and you can see I'm making sure that they overlap each other. I'm just doing jolly nice rounded petals. Sorry. I said leaves Don't know what's happening. Today's then a very interesting day. But I am honestly enjoying everyone's paintings and it's just so great to share this with you guys. So just adding one petal at a time. I've done a couple of the flowers and now I'm going to go ahead and then add more. This was a good base for me to see how these are looking. And areas that are empty. I can go ahead and add more flowers, right? So this really, really built up the space and we really filling it up, Adding couple of more of these. And if you notice, I've actually done it in the shape of a curve. And it's very full. More flowers towards the big main Flower and lesser. As I moved upwards. We're doing a green center as well. For our third Flower. Going back to our Orange, I feel like it's still too wet. So I might wait a bit for it to dry so that the center really doesn't flow too much. Or we can just make sure we a little bit careful. Now I'm directly painting out my blue and you can see the difference. Don't know if you can notice that I feel like it's so obvious to directly painting it, to actually Adding the dots. We need directly painted, you end up with more flat looking flaws. Which yeah, it's a beautiful look. So going ahead and then just doing each petal at a time and finishing off this set of flowers. Taking our light orange, Let's add titles to this flower center. Just a simple curved line through. And just building it up. Stepping back from our painting, Let's just have a look at the full picture. I can see that you need to add in some stems. So let's take our light green and then just add in the stem connecting the flowers to it. You can see how I'm trying to gently add in the line. So it forms a nice have. Based on this, we can add in some leaves. When I added leaves obnoxious, Adding them randomly. I'm actually adding them in a way that it looks like it's connected to the stem. We can do some of our outline skeleton leaves. I think that's a great way to phrase it. Skeleton leaves because it's not actually painting inside. And you know exactly what I mean? Yes, I think I found the perfect word to describe it. I'm adding more and more leaves, filling up any of the empty spaces that I feel. Kinda just don't balance out the piece. Leaves on top anything that's coming to this side. I'll be adding couple of more skeleton leaves us well I'm really loving how this is coming together. It's just, it looks so pretty and that's skeleton leaves or create because you can also see that underneath, which is so interesting. Now I'm going to take the Orange and I'm going to just outline the centers of the blue flowers. Because now you can see they all mishmash. Adding that Orange is just going to make it a little bit more solid in a way. And finally, we tackle our first flower. The blue is dried up, which is Create. And now we can switch to add thin brush to do all the outlines. Now, in this case, I was thinking if I want to do the lighter blue or the darker blue for the outline. In the end, I ended up going with a darker blue. I think it just works really well. And you know how to do the outlines, you can just follow through, see what I'm doing. Adding thin outlines, Adding couple of lines in the middle. Notice I'm not doing the entire thing, just doing two on the sides and maybe one in the middle, if Needed. As you complete this, Let's do the blue in the middle portion of the flower as well. The next step we're going to splatter out up painting, just adding some nice textures, adding some circles. We are almost done. For the splatters. Let's use our light orange. I think it will work a lot nicer. I feel like the painting has a lot of Blue going on. The orange isn't enough. So these platters being Orange is gonna be really great to add in that color. Can also add those curves with that Orange. All of this using my thin brush. So I can actually do thin circles. As I mentioned, you can do stars are even mini flowers. There's just so much that you can do to give it that vesicle nature. And we are done. This is whole crazy. I love the colors. I'd love to hear what you think. You can drop in your review below. If you have any questions, There's always Discussion tab to ask me anything. Any questions, any doubts? Any comments? Yes 11. Day 6 - Pink-tastic: We are starting with this lovely piece. It is from our pink color scheme, the third one on the list I've had, it's right on top, so you can refer to it. Keep your color mixes ready before we begin so it's a faster process and you don't have to mix on the spot. Now I'm going to do the as for the piece, just making sure that it's equal distance from the edge of the page as I've done before just to make sure there's a little bit of cohesiveness. Yeah. Basically, so that it all just looks balanced, I decided to do a more of a rounded oval shape for the vase to complement our painting. Let us now begin with our painting. Just erase out any pencil marks before you begin, I'm starting off with the deeper red pink color. I'm going to be using it to paint the center for our flowers. Now, just follow along the placements of these so that it comes together when you complete the piece. After I have done this, I take bright pink, bright oprah pink, and add in dots along the center. In some areas, I'm adding two dots so that there'll be more color. In some I'm adding just one that way when we go into painting, it's going to give you a nice look. Adding the next set of dots using our light pink, it's your salmon pink color. Now I'm using my round brush and just pulling across the paint to form each. You can see how I'm making the petal happi. They have a little bit of a rounded shape. They're not perfect circles. There's a little bit of a bump and we wanted to do that. You'll also notice that in case I don't have space, sometimes I just the petal very small, it balances out and we end up with five different petals. The next flower as well. Following the same process for the next set of flowers, I wanted to add a cluster of flowers that come together. For that, we're going to do centers just keeping them close together. Maybe just a petal and a half gap. It's not too spaced out. You can see I've done the three of them together. For this, I'm using our light pink, making sure that it is filling up the space. The other thing to remember is you're keeping it close to our two main florals as well. It's clustered as well. We can now take our deep reddish pink and paint each petal at a time. This time around, the petal is going to be more rounded and you can see how it is overlapping with the other flowers. Don't worry if all the colors at this point are collapsing into each other because there's not much of a difference in the shade of pinks. If you feel like they look too similar, that's fine. Also, make sure that you go through the color mixing video so that you have different shades of pink. It is very tricky to paint something that is monotone, where it's just one color in different tones. And it takes a little bit of skill as well to make sure that the piece doesn't look boring right. Once that's done, we can use our red, reddish pink and add some petals or half flowers. Can see how I'm doing this. I'm adding some heart shapes as well as some rounded buds in the form of a curve. At this point, I would suggest you pause for a bit. Just see me complete the piece so you see where I'm going with the placement of these half flowers and buds. So it gives you an overall idea. And then you can follow along and recreate your own 0 as done previously. Let's add in some half flowers. You can see how I basically do a heart shape and add in one more petal. In some cases I'm just doing buds that are rounded. Let's do this for the top set of cluster flowers as well. Half flowers and buds that are formed in one direction, pay attention closely to our stems. I have switched to my thinner brush, loaded it up with the opera pink and then going to use it to do my stems. In the bottom one, you can see fairly simple, just connecting it to an assumed center stem. Just make sure that you have a nice mean line. You can see here. I'm just making sure that it connects each flower with a small curve and then going down so that it touches all the buds. This is why I wanted you to wait and see what I'm doing with the stem, so it gives you more idea of where to place the buds. The stem on top doing the same thing, so that the bus, the half flowers, everything can connect to it easily. Using our bank leads to the center of our cluster flowers. Since we have completed the cluster flowers, let's use our stem. Let's use our thinner brush to paint out the stem for the big flowers. We can also then add a stem for leaves. I'm going to look at my piece at this point and think about where I'd like to add the leaves. Would I like it to be more at the bottom? Would I like it to come more to the sides? And also deciding what kind of leaf I want, I finally decided I want long leaves. I think that connects and looks really nice. That's what I'm going to do. Since I've done the broken line for the stem, Let's switch to our bigger our. Take a little bit of that beautiful brown and paint out the leaves 0. Now that that is done, we can go ahead and add a couple of more leaves if we want to, in the middle of in the middle of the plant. We can then move on to painting the center for the main florals. Just make sure that everything is dry before you proceed with that, making that center a lot more and more obvious. We are happy with that overall look. I was initially thinking of doing thin lines for the main flowers, but I think without it, it looks really great. So we can leave it as it is. Let's finish off our vase for the flowers, add our splatters and circles 0 for the circles I like doing groups of two or three. Use either gold or brown and add it in sections closer to the plant. There you go. This is a completed painting for the day. 12. Day 7 - Potted Plant: Time to dive into this absolutely stunning piece. You can see the color scheme we are using right up. It's the second one on our list. So make sure you have your colors ready, prepared. Before we dive right in. I am enjoying mixing around the color schemes, so we're not tied to one. At the same time, we're exploring three different color schemes and playing with them. I think that's really working out. Am enjoying seeing you guys create your own variations. Yeah, it's been amazing. Anyways, starting off with this piece, we are doing our vase, following what we took as measurements from before, keeping that same space from the bottom, making sure our vase is the same height. And then playing around with the shape of the vase. In this case, we can keep it really simple, just keep it as a rectangle. Once we have that decided, we can now move on to painting. I'm picking up my light orange, the orange mixed with white. I'm going to do the center for my flowers, in this case just adding simple dots around in the form of a circle. The size of the circle is about a centimeter and a half, so maybe half an inch. I'm actually not making it too big. The distance is how big our petal is going to be, maybe slightly lesser than that. This gives us an idea of how big these main flowers are going to be. Now taking our light blue color, let's add some dots. Remember, there was a section that we had at the beginning called techniques. If you are seeing your drops dry out, make sure to look through that for the tips and tricks to avoid, um, these issues. Now just in few areas, you can see just at the bottom, I've added drops of the blue, the iulium blue. That way it's going to be some petals having the Patel blue, While some will have a mix of blues. Let's see how that turns out. I'm actually excited to bring it together for our petal just using clear water. Let's drag through the petal one at time, gently letting those bursts of paint into each petal. I've tried to do about, in this case, six petals, if there's not much space. Your sixth can be a very small petal. That's okay. Once we are done with this, let's move on to the other two flowers, 0. We are now done with the important part of our painting. We can now move on to doing our smaller flowers. There is a little bit of gap, so we're going to add small flowers in various sections for the small flower, for the middle of it, using the. Serum blue. Just doing a simple circle and then adding dots. Overall, it should come up to about 34 of an inch, about 2.2 centimetres. When you're happy with that, use light pale orange to do the petals. So go ahead and just add in rounded petals through each flower. We're now going to go into some berry elements. We can use our indico, I'm switching over to my thin brush. And then I'm just going to do some rounded oval shapes. You can see the way I'm clustering them. So they're either connected at the bottom, trying to make it more in the shape of a curve. It's not in a straight line. You can see in this case, I'm making sure that the berry is below the previous one. I could have painted it out, but I felt like the silhouette of this looked really interesting when you're happy with that or you feel like you're good. Let's add more. Here, I'm adding in another berry. This one is coming underneath an existing flower. Let's do the same thing on top, following the same steps, adding our oval in clusters, and then using thin lines to connect them, 0. Now time to add in our outlines for our major or big flowers. I'm using light blue to do the same, in case you did your base. And the light blue was very visible. It's fine if your outline isn't as visible in some places. It depends, but that's okay if it's not that visible. All we're doing with the outlines is trying to just control, give it a little bit more of texture 0. 0, 0. It is now time to add in our pistol green color for the leaves to start off with a big leaf at the bottom and then move upwards 0. As we complete this, let's add in some splatters with the green. Just gently tapping them on top. Time to use our bright yellow to paint out the As for the peace. Now this is a bonus where you can use your yellow to also add some stem lines to the main leaves. We are basically done with our P. This was just an add. I like it at the same time, I don't love it. If I could do the piece again, I may not have added it. But it does give a nice yellow shade to the leaves. Are you happy with your completed piece? I'm so thrilled, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow. 13. Day 8 - Watermelon Pink: Let's now dive into a pink themed flower set with a vase. So I've done a simple rounded vase. At the bottom. I haven't gone into the details of how to plan it out. I'm sure you guys already know that. So let's skip ahead to the painting. For the center, I am doing opera pink dot, and it's about, I would say, a centimeter and a half, so about three quarter inch in size. Once I have done two of them quite close to each other. So they are about a petal distance. So there is going to be overlapping that is going to happen here. I'm loading up my brush with our salon pink. And then I'm adding dots. Again, remember, we don't want too many dots just enough because even if these dry up, they are still going to look amazing. When you add too many dots, it may not look as great. Now, taking our light pale pink, just adding a couple of more along the same line. This way, we have a mix of these two beautiful colors. Let's use our pink and start building up our petals. For the petals, I'm going for a scallop edge, so it's not perfectly in a curve has a little bit of a pump. Make sure your brush has clear water so that you can really pull through the pins. Gently pulling through the paint one petal at a time. When we're done with the first one, let's move to the second following the same process, just pulling together the paint. If your brush fills up with one color, wash off the paint and start again with clear water. Now notice I'm also doing the petals that are overlapping, even though you can see that it's lost its form, that's fine. We still want to have it present. Following this, we can move into our smaller flowers. These are going to be absolutely adorable. We're again using our opera pink for the centers, a simple curve, slightly bigger. Again, this is going to be a centimeter. In our previous paintings, the center for the smaller flowers have generally been much smaller as well. So keep that in mind. Here, the center is about a centimeter, so it is fairly bigger. And the petals we do are accordingly going to be the same size. So they're going to be a centimeter for the petals as well. So I've done three on top and then one on either side. Taking in my reddish pink, building up the petal one at a time. Now, you could notice the shape. It is basically a tear drop shape, actually, not a tear drop. It would be more of a I'm trying to think of what we could call it. But basically, imagine you're painting out a circle and just the tip of the circle is touching the center of the flower, right? So your petal is in the form of a proper circle. Now that we have completed this, let's shift to our thin detailer brush to complete our flower details. I'm using the same reddish pink to just do the lines, and you can see how I do the edges for these petals. They have a nice curved scallop edge. And then thin lines. I'm adding much more than what I previously have done to build up that color and to give it more definition. Once you're happy with the overall look, let's use our darker brown color to paint around the center of the smaller flowers. We have just a couple of steps. We're going to do some leaves and then paint out our v and we're done. For the leaf, I'm going to play around with colors, not just keeping the same shade. We're going to mix it around to get a nice variation. We can play around with our pale pink, as well as as well as our salmon pink. Two of the lighter shades, we're going to use them to do our leaves. Initially, as you can see, I'm painting out the stem with my thin detailer brush using the brown. I like having leaves that fall down whenever I'm doing a vase because it gives it a nice look. Now, painting out my leaves one at a time. I Notice how I switch around my colors. So I take my bright pale pink. Okay, that makes sense. I take my pale pink and I do my petal. Then for the next when I feel like my brush is kind of losing color, I take the salmon pink. And so that's why I have the variation through my leaf set, right? So I keep switching around the colors back and forth to create a nice variation. We can also add some of our leaves with a lot more water to give it more of a transducent effect. I'm following a basic shape pattern where there are leaves on both the right and left side. So there's no up and down happening. It's a basic shape. Make sure that you point your petals away from the stem. It forms a nice shape. You're not doing it perpendicular to the stem. Notice that it is at maybe a 60 degree angle pointing away. I hope that makes a little bit of sense. But you can see what I'm painting and just notice the direction in which my leaves are moving. So now I've used a lot of water and adding a very transucent mix of leaves to fill up the spaces. We are almost done. I want to do the vase next. So initially, I decided to do the vase in brown color. But once I completed the piece, I felt like the brown was too much. So I added some gold details. I think the brown was a good idea just to lift up the painting. And once it tries, you can add some gold details, just give it a little bit of a shine. Whenever I do the, I actually switch to my thinner. That way, when I have elements, as you can see, like the leaf poking through, I can easily outline it and paint around it. With the bigger brush, I might find it a little bit difficult, so the thin one helps me control that. And then you can gently just paint through the vase. Finally, done with that. Let's now add some splatters with brown through the painting. Gently tapping your brush can see how beautiful that looks, surely makes the painting come together. If needed, you can add some circles around some of the areas to give it more of a whimsical. There you go, this is our completed painting for the day. 14. Day 9 - Yellow Blooms: We are finally at day nine of the challenge. We're more than halfway through it, so congratulations for really sticking to the challenge, and I hope you're learning so much. So we are using our second color scheme. Make sure you have your colors mixed up and ready. Remember in case your color dries out, you can just activate it again with clear water. You don't have to always, every single time a batch you can just a mixed color, simply activating it with water. For this one, I'm going to start with the center. As always, we are going to do a yellow, bright yellow center for the petals. We are going to do the pale orange as well as the yellow. Our focus for this piece is yellow color. Through the different color combinations, what I've done is picked out one color to be the focal point of the piece, and that's what you'd notice. In this case, we're going to try doing yellow as our focal, and then use the other colors to complement the piece. I have taken a little bit of the orange and more of the yellow for the spots, for the dots. I'm building up each petal at a time. Remember, if you are unsure on how to do your flowers, refer back to the technique section. If you have any questions, leave them in the discussion tab. I'm always happy to answer questions. Or you might have other people who are in the challenge who can answer it for you. This is going to be really great in terms of you also communicating with other artists who are learning along with you. Likewise, if you are present and you see someone's question that you know the answer to, please go ahead and do answer it. Yeah. Let's build that community. We've got our yellow orange flower. I think that looks absolutely stunning. I love how the colors have come together, with that yellow being such a strong focal point. It's such a happy color and it's perfect for this summer. Now that we have that, let's do another one, similar right on top to the left side. Following the same steps of adding dots with yellow and couple of them with the orange, and then building up each petal at a time 0, we can let this dry. Meanwhile, we can paint other flowers and other elements. And then we can come back to it and add some finishing touches. Now I want to add in a half flower. I'm adding yellow dots. I added the pale orange dots. Now I'll be adding yellow dots. You can see I'm just doing it in the form of a semi circle. In the next step, using clear water, I'm going to drag out these panes. And form two different petals. This automatically gives the impression of a flower that is sideways. That's why I call it a half flower. Technically, it's not a half flower, it's a side view of a flower. We can add in some buds to show a line of like a stem with different buds to show a growing plant. For the buds, I'm painting out a teardrop shape, just assuming that there's an imaginary line in the middle to connect them. I might add another one on the left because it's looking fairly empty. There you go. We've got this yellow with a branch of buds going through. Let's add some elements, smaller flowers using red as the center, followed by pale orange, red orange for the center, and then using pale orange for the petals. I like how this is going. Let's add a couple of buds of orange for that. I'm just going to add tear drop shapes. I'm doing two together just because I think it'll look really nice if you do a split branch effect. If you don't understand what's happening right now, I would suggest watching the entire video and then trying to paint it on your own instead of painting along with me. Sometimes it can be confusing because I know the direction my piece is going to go because I've done the placement planning of it before. But as someone who's following along, you may be unsure. You can simply pause your artwork, Just look at me, watch her, what I'm going to do next, and then do it yourself. That way. You also end up with a beautiful painting and your proportions turns out great, using my light blue. And I've switched to thinner detailer, adding some branches for leaves. The reason I did this is because I want to see a little bit of the blue coming through. Because right now the piece looks very yellow and orange. This pastel blue color is just going to lift up the piece a bit more, doing simple long leaves for the same. Now we move into the finishing details, our pieces so we can go in with our detail. Lets add some center for the flowers. Adding those detailed lines, remember we're just doing it in the shape that we had planned, which is a scallop edged look, adding more lines and completing the flowers. 0. Since we've done the mean ones for the side flowers, following along the same step of just doing an outline, very rough outline, and then adding some thin lines to give it an overall look. All of this using yellow so that the also brightens up more. I can now switch to my pale green and add in the stem. We're doing the stem so that it connects to our buds, quickly adding in some leaves as well. In between just smaller leaves, We don't want something too big, something cute and small that can balance out this branch for the butts. On the right side, as I mentioned, we're doing a branched effect. So you can see how I'm doing this, just splitting up the branch into two, So it goes in two different directions. Now instead of doing full leaves, let's just do some outline of leaves because we already have so much going on. You can see just the outline is so pretty. Gives it a really nice friendly look. Adding some of those ad the piece, we're basically at the final step where we just need to do the splatters. Add some dots and we're almost done for the splatters. Picking up blue and gently tapping your brush and using the same blue to add some circles. A quick tip, if you notice, this piece is very busy on the left side. To balance it out, you can add a small circle on the right bottom, and now you see how the piece looks a little bit more, u. 15. Day 10 - Coral Magic: We are now on our final painting of The Weak. It's based on our third color scheme, the pinks, starting with the vase. This is going to be a triangle shape, cut triangle shape, like a basic vase. You can follow along and see what I'm doing. Just planning it out so that it's equal distance from the edge as all my other paintings that have vases, just when I put it together, it's going to look a lot nicer than having them up and down. Or the vase shape alternating. It's just going to give a much more cohesive 0. Let us now begin with our flowers. For the flower, we're going to have two main flowers in the opera pink. For that, the center, we can use our orange pink. We're just going to make it less than 1 centimeter, quite small. The focus is going to be the petals themselves. To begin with that, just take Opera pink on your brush and add some dots. I'm actually doing them in pairs of two because the petals are going to be triangle shaped. For that placement is going to look nice using clear water. Let's drag our paint and form our triangle. A very crisp edge for the petal. There is no fixed number of petals that you need to paint out. How many ever you can fit in, that is a good enough number. Don't worry too much, just go ahead and with your pastel and Oprah pink mix, paint out each petal. Now that we have done this one, let's add another little bit to the bottom. On the right side, following the exact same steps 0, we can now move into some smaller flowers For this, I decided to actually use my gold for the center still. Now we've just been using it along the sides or just in small areas. So let's do a gold center. You can use gold colors in case you don't have gold water colors. You can use gold gah or gold acrylic paint. If you're using gold acrylic paint, make sure that you use a completely different so that it doesn't get ruined Doing these beautiful gold circles really like the shimmery touch, just having three of them just around the piece. I added in some thoughts with salmon. And now use clear water and add the petals one by one. Continue adding the petals for each of the flowers one by one. Just doing some simple rounded petals, just letting it blend into our main flow. This is just going to bring together our piece and just make it really subtle. Once you have that, we're going to add in some of the flowers to add some height to the piece. And then you can use the thin detail brush and add in the stem for the bell flower. For the stem, I decided to do lines on either side doing broken lines, like we did before when we paint out our bell flowers. We can have some of them going along the middle. Let' s now use our red orange to add our bell flowers similar to what we did before. So an inverted U shape and then just adding in a line to give it the bell look. This is fairly simple way of doing it. Obviously if you are planning to go into much detail, there's so many more elements that you can add in or add another shadow of a line. But in this case, looking at our piece, I wanted to keep it as simple and as interesting as possible. This is where we play around with the placement of the bell petal. It gives it a musical, very whimsical look. Rather than going into the details of the actual flower, you can see how I'm doing, some of them falling downwards, maybe some of them that are connected together and moving around. The end of the stem is always with buds. It gives it a completed look. Once we finish this set of stems, sorry, this set of pl, flaws. Let's do the other side. We are now at the finishing line of this piece. Use your reddish pink to do the center of the flowers. We can also go ahead and add in the lines for the first main flow using Oprah pink. Then we just have to do our leaves splatters pretty much done. So this is a fairly, I think, simple piece. And I also think that now that you've done so many pieces, you're going to find it easier compared to when we first started. I'm sure when you did your first flower, you had a little bit practice or it took you a little bit of time to see the placement or you weren't too happy with the overall look. But as pieces go along, you are going to find it easier and much more fun. And also, you kind of trust the process that it is going to turn out great. So even if the start of your flower looks kind of messy, doesn't look so great. Some dots going on when you complete the piece. Overall, it gives a beautiful look. Trust the process and just enjoy each step. The next five pieces that are coming along are going to be slightly more tougher. I'm going to add a lot more elements and spruce it up a bit. Now going back to our piece, I've added in long leaves with the brown. Just adding some along the side of the flower to balance out the color variation. I thought that looked really nice. It's not fully pink and there's a little bit of that brown going upwards. When you're happy with the overall look, just make sure you do those lines for the center flower, 0, 0, 0. We can now paint out the, the bars with the bright opera pink, opera pink dots through the piece. And let's use gold with our detailer brush to add some circles. This is now a completed piece like the shimmery gold and what it adds to a piece, I think it's the best thing to add in with watercolors just gives it a nice effect. 16. Day 11 - Summer Vibes: Let's now move on to week three or day 11 of our 15 day chal***ge. I can't believe we've gotten this far. And I love every piece this week or the next five pieces are going to be a lot more complex. So take your time. Slow down. Get a cup of tea or coffee or water. And just sit down with your art and relax into it, so you can see the color scheme we are using for this project. You know what to do, so go ahead, prepare your colors. We're starting off with our serum, with our teal blue for the center of the flowers. I'm getting them right on top at the middle. Now adding in some pale pink dots, we can add in also an orange set of dots. And the orange and pink are going to mix together to really subtle down our flower. Wash your brush completely and using a damp brush pulled through the paint to form simple rounded petals. These are tear drop shape where the point touching the center of the circle, center of the flower is smaller. And then it creates a rounded shape. Just go ahead and pull the paint. There's no fixed number of petals on these flowers, which is really great. So you can just keep going ahead until you fill up the space. Now that we have finished this flow, let's move on to the next. Going through adding the orange followed by the light, the pale pink, and using a damp brush to pull the paint. Now at the bottom of our two flowers, we're going to do another main flower. We have three flowers that are going to be main flowers. The last one is going to be different. It's going to be more of the pale pink color, starting with adding that pink dotted center in the form of a circle. Try to get it about 34 of an inch. About 2 centimeters. Load your brush up with pale pink paint and add in some dots. I actually decided to do the crimson dots, which anyways, when we use water, will become lighter in shade. But I wanted it to give a little change of color. It's not just one color. That subtle difference in shades of pink is going to be very interesting. We are gonna let the main flowers, meanwhile, let's go into some smaller elements. Starting off, we can do a set of three mini flowers for that. I'm starting with a crimson center. Just doing a basic circle and then adding our color for I am trying to figure out if I had added dots to it, but I don't think I did. Okay, little bit of a mix up when I did the voiceover. We can move into our teal blue and start with doing one petal at a time. Remember, in this case, in case the color flows through, because they are very contrasting colors, this beautiful crimson, red, and the blue. Make sure you lift up any excess color with a dry brush. Additionally, make sure that the center has dried a bit so that the color doesn't rush through as much. You can see as I took my time to paint out the petals, the center had dried up. So now I'm not having the problem of the red paint going all over. But in case that happens, just make sure to wash your brush and take a dry and just gently lift up that excess of color. Now moving on to some berries, using our teal blue. I'm just creating branches for the berries to be on, using rounded berry shapes and using my thin brush for this process. It's now time to add in some quick leaves. We're just going to have a few because there's already so much going on. So you can just do some gentle leaves with our blow. I really love that teal blue color, so I end up using it a lot and it's one of my favorite mixes. Now that our pieces have tried, sorry, our florals have tried, let's take our detail brush and then just detail out the flowers. You can see in this case, the spread of color just led to a lot of these fun cloud formations. The flower itself doesn't look as great, which is why these detailed lines are really going to complete them gently. Add in these lines throughout. For the bottom pink flower, we can use pink itself for the outline. Now you might be wondering, since we already have a base of pink, if the pink would be visible as an outline. And you can see in some places it is not visible. But that's great. We want it to be seen through only the areas that have a lot more translucency In a way, when you look at the piece, you don't see the entire pink outlined. It gives it a really nice look. I also, in this case, did not want to use a contrast or a brighter color because then it would take away from the pastel shade, keeping in line with that pale pink. This is the best way to go about outlining the flower. This is the part I was a bit confused. But anyway, taking my detail and crimson, I'm just adding dots around my flowers. The other reason I did this is because some of the, obviously crimson had spread through and it didn't look as great. Using these dots, I'm able to make it look a little bit more controlled as we complete our P. Let's look and see if there's any more elements we want to add. I felt like at the bottom, I would like to balance out the berries just because there is so much happening on the right side. So just adding a small set on the left. It's okay if it is on top, but I think it just completes the work. Now let's use our and using the vintage screen, I'm just adding some splatters and some circles to give it a whimsical look. And this is a completed piece for day 11. 17. Day 12 - Adding Small Florals: We're starting off with my favorite, my next favorite painting form our entire project chal***ge. It's so pretty. I love the colors and I can't get enough with how beautiful it is. Look up, that's the color scheme we're going for. Have it prepared, and let's dive right in. I'm starting off with doing the center for the flowers, just doing a big circle for the center. This is about an inch quite big. And around that I'm doing two lines of dots. It's going to be quite massive, which means that our petals are going to be the same size or smaller. And this is going to change the proportions of our piece. Doing one, this is going to be on the right side, on the top part, really filling in the teal color because I really want it to be visible. It is already a lighter shade when I paint it out. I don't want it to become even more lighter using my clear water damp, pulling the paint to form a rounded petal one at a time. When your brush is too filled with paint, make sure you wash it out and then start again. I am so excited by this flower. It is so beautiful. Color is my favorite. The Sea Green. Such a pretty color. Now we're going to repeat the same flower, slightly downwards. This is going to be the bottom flower and we're going to follow the same combination of a center being the blue, and going ahead with the sea green for the petals. Now, time to move into our other flower. This is going to be a big flower. We're doing the orange for the center and surrounding it, we're going to do our pale orange dots. We're going to add some yellow dots a bit further away so we can really pull through the color from there. Using a damp brush, Let's paint out some triangular petals. You can see how beautiful that looks, where you have the orange in the middle, the yellow at the bottom, that center reddish orange also being pulled into the flower, just giving it a beautiful mix of colors. We're now going to do some flowers. These are going to be a lot, so we're going to do many of them. They're going to be quite small in yellow color. So I'm doing a lot of the centers, You can see I've kept just an inch gap between them. Just really bringing them together. Most of them are towards the main flowers, right? You can just have one a little bit further away, but you want to cluster as much as possible towards the main flowers. We're going to let this dry for a bit just because I don't want the colors to really flood through. Yellow is already a very light color. The minute you use an orange, it's going to just flow everywhere. Let's let it dry, and then we can proceed to add in our petals with orange. The other thing is we're going to really combine everything, so just keep that in mind. Meanwhile, let's see if any of our other flowers have dried out, just because we're not waiting. I think our big flower has dried out. Let's do the lines for it. I'm taking my pail orange and adding some filaments. These are going to be quite so you really can see the details of it. Then we're also going to add in some outlines. Just finish up that center of the flower. Just really make it a lot more complete. Our yellow centers have tried a bit. Let's start off, I'm going to use my pale yellow. I'm actually using my smaller brush, my detail brush for this purpose. So I can just do small petals. If I use the bigger brush, it might lead to bigger petals. Let's use a small one and just add in petals one at a time. You can add some of the petals, leaving more of a gap between them, because that also will look good since they are. So we do want the white of the paper to show through. You can see the flower that I did. There was quite a lot of gap between the 23 petals. Just go on, complete the flower. Just adding your petals. It's okay if they overlap. It's okay if they don't be a is going to continue filling up all of them. Yeah, we are done with our major part which was the smaller flowers. Now let's add some orange just to outline the center yellows because they did go missing in the process using your thin detail for this. Now let's move on to adding some blue leaves to connect all these flowers. For the leaves, I'm doing a little bit of a curve and then I'm going to add in small leaves more towards the end of the stem using the pale blue color. I'm also going to just add in some of the other details, just see what I'm doing and then follow through, especially with this step. Because if you're just going to do it with me, you might miss some of the key points. Just watch what I'm doing and then you can always stop and follow along. The trick here is to do at least three of the pet of leaves at the same point, especially at the top of a stem. See how great that looks? Just gives it a really nice look. Then you can have leaves a long, the stem added some quick thin lines to give the effect of a leaf present, but that's not been completely painted out. Gives it a little bit of movement and makes it look very interesting. Go on, and then you can continue doing this throughout the piece. We are almost done with our peace. Let's add some splatters with yellow, add some circles, and this is a completed project. 18. Day 13 - Potted Sunshine: It's really interesting to see how we just have three more days left before the chal***ge ends for, I think third last piece, let's do a vase. The shape of the vase, if you saw in the initial picture, is basically two round bumps on top of each. I don't know how to describe it, but let's say two circular vase on top of each other. You can follow along again, as always, making sure I keep the same distance from the edge as I did with the previous paintings. And making sure it all comes together. Once I do the vase, we can start with our painting, keep the colors ready. As you can see on top, we are using the second color combination, if I'm not mistaken, with the beautiful sea green color. Let's begin with the center circles for the flowers. I'm using the bright orange, just doing a basic circle. And then continuing it with some dots to give it texture. Now let us add in dots of the pale orange and some of the yellow. I would say we can go more with the yellow. Just add a lot more of the yellow color around the flower. Now just pull through the paint so that we can form each petal at a time. This is going to be long and elongated petals, so about 2 " in ***gth. Just pull them. To create this, I like adding some quick lines so they give the illusion of a petal, but not having to paint it out. Once we've completed with this, let's do another flower of the same right on top. Just a bit to the left side, so it gives us enough of space to add other elements. I absolutely love how this flower has turned out. We can now go on to adding some smaller flowers on the left side, bottom, just doing a simple circle. And now we can let it dry for a bit. Let's move upward and add a set of smaller flowers. I'm going to add yellow for the center, Just adding a few of them to our main flowers. And then we can have one that's a little bit away. We're going to add some buds and other elements to bring together the piece. So now that we have done this, let's take a pastel orange and paint out some triangular petals for each of the centers. For the bottom corner. I'm trying not to touch the center, because if I do, the yellow is going to immediately spread. I'm being a little bit careful about that. Now that we have done our down flowers, let's move upward and do a cluster. The cluster is going to look absolutely fun. We are going to do just basic rounded flowers and paint out each for this, I'm using the bright orange just directly and going right into it. Continue on adding petal at a time. Just moving from one flower and we're almost done. We have one more flower and then we're going to add some butts. For the buds. Similar to what we have done before. I'm going to do them along a central line. Just adding, but after, but along the same line when we fill up the line. Let's add a couple of more to the right side just to fill up that space. While this is trying moving back to our first flower, use your thin detailer brush to add in the lines for each petal one at a time. Since you guys have already done this, there's really not much for me to explain here. It's seeing what I'm doing and following along. We've done a lot of different flowers like this, so it should be very easy for you to get through at this point. You can go ahead and also add in the orange for the center of the flower, just to deepen up the color a bit more. Now doing the circle, we now have to do our leaves and stems, connecting everything with the thin detailer brush. Let's use our bloom. Just add in the stem all we want. One, singular stem curves all the way through. And then we can add some branches that go along at some leaves, some quick line elements, and other details. Follow long. Let's add some leaves to the sides of the flower. We can play around with the colors. So instead of just using a, let's use blue and then green as well. And just paint them through. Just making the leaves a little bit more, just following through. They're going to be long girl leaves. And going ahead with that, we're almost done. We have otters and then we have our circles to give us our whimsical look. I also forgot the vase for the vase. Once I look to the piece, I realized I'd like to just go with a pale orange. Keep it simple so we can just paint out our vase with the pale orange itself. This is now our final artwork. 19. Day 14 - Soft Flowers: Time for our 14th day, our second last day. I actually like this piece as well. The colors are very pretty. I'm also beginning to notice that I like the pieces that are most subtle. This definitely is one of those, even though we're using our center a bright red for the flowers, we're going to use our pale pink color. And that's going to make our piece a lot more subtle. Want to quickly mention, if you've gotten this far with your chal***ge, congratulations, I'm so proud of you and I'm hoping that you also enjoy the process of just seeing your work evolve. Maybe not every piece turned out great, Maybe you didn't have to have the time to do it on some days and you had to maybe do two pieces on another day, but that's okay. The fact that you're putting yourself through this is amazing, and giving yourself the time to your art, giving yourself the time to learn something different is always such a benefit. When I got into art, I really saw my life change in the sense of prioritizing time for myself. Life can get really busy and it can take so much of time and it really takes a little of dedication to really put aside time for yourself. I have seen people in the past who made it an activity with their friends. They would paint with their friends, or they would paint with their children and make it part of a family activity. Either way, however you do it, I think painting is just such a great way to relieve stress. It's such a great way to let yourself be. Now that I've gone through that little talk, let's continue. I'm adding the flowers. We have a triangle petal shape that's going on, keeping a distance between them and just finishing it up. Now that I'm happy with the flowers, let's add some smaller flowers. We're going to do smaller clusters, two flowers at the bottom, three on the top. Then we can take in some orange paint and start painting it out. Now I wanted the center to be a little irregular, it's not a perfect circle, really like how that texture looks in the overall painting. Such a small detail, but seeing those white ****** come through really makes it look amazing. For the dots we're using our orange, We can just add multiple dots. Now let's pull through his paint with clear water and add in one petal at a time. I dipped my brush in a little bit of that crimson color. We get a switch in color. It's just not orange. We have that red as well in the flower, giving it multiple shades. Going to continue doing that in the next flower as well, following through adding red, then adding orange, and switching around the colors from the brush. Let's use our pull to the paint and continue with our flowers one at a time. Now it is great to also do puts. We have right on top, You're going to add two puts, that it's split on either side. We can do a couple of puts towards the middle and then some at the bottom. Let's add in another set of flowers. This is similar to one of the previous paintings we did before. If you can recall, it's the one that is elongated, doing those heart shaped flowers, and then just making them smaller and smaller as we move upwards. Now in retrospect, when I look at it, it looks like a tail. Overall, it looks nice, but when I look at it now, I can see how it does look like a tail. Unfortunately, that's how it is. Maybe I shouldn't have told you guys this, but I feel like sometimes you do need to look at your art. And even though an individual piece or element might look weird or odd or doesn't look great together as a whole, it's going to look phenomenal. We just look at the big picture. As artist, if you have any form of perfectionism, even if you don't, I feel like all of us have that little. When we're painting with watercolors, every element becomes our focus. It's only when we step back and look at the entire piece, you can appreciate how all the elements come together and work so well. This is something I learned as an artist and it has helped me as a person as well to just sometimes step back and look at my creation or my life or my problems. Today is going a bit philosophical. I'm sorry about that, but I guess I'm in that. Going back to our painting, we are doing our lines, we're just adding the outline for our main flower. We can also add in the red dots around our smaller flowers. Then we finally just have to add in our stems for the stem. Notice how I create the branch. They're gentle curves and I split them up to create, to create a whole set of flowers. Taking the opportunity to add in some green leaves. This is with the vintage Green adding in sets of three leaves to fill up the ******. A. To our long flower, let's use the teal blue and just adding the central stem line. Go ahead and add the leaves on either side, along with thin, curved lines to create some details to create some movement within the piece. It's now time for some bigger leaves using our teal blue. Let's add in leaves at the bottom. We can do one along the left side as well to balance out the piece. I might look around my painting and check if there are other sections. I'd like to add leaves, just areas that I feel are looking, just bringing together. See now you don't actually notice the tail like effect. This is the best part about stepping back, we can add in our circles. You can see initially I had this red mark that was on the paper. I'm going to make sure I also add in the circles on that mark to move it away from focus in case you do have marks on your paper. There are a couple of ways of handling them. This is a good way where you don't really put in the effort of actually clearing it out. You just make it part of the painting, gently tap and add some splatters to create our whimsical artwork. 20. Day 15 - Dark Romance: Now to finish off our 15 days, we're going to paint this stunning piece. I've actually gone a little bit more darker with this piece, so it's not really pastel and flowery and happy. By using different shades of colors and by using them in a different way, I've made sure to make the piece a little bit more. I'm trying to figure out what the word would be, but more like grunge, just basically making it more like a dark romance be rather than like super happy colorful. Going into that, we've done the center, you can see how I've just done dots with black, adding some dots with orange and the pink to our pale pink. And then using our clear water, dragging out our petals in the form of a triangle, one at a time. The ***gth of the petals is about 2.5 ". So it's fairly big. You can do 2 ". I think it's quite big, and this is going to be our focal central flower. I will never tire from seeing these colors bloom, just seeing the paint just flow through. It's so pretty, always love doing this. I think this technique is beautiful because of this as well. Because for you to do this normally would be much harder. When you add the dots, you guarantee the flow of colors. Let's now add two smaller flowers. These are going to be deeper in color. I'm using a center in orange for the flower. I'm going to paint it with red, using those crimson dots around one at a time, then using clear water, and painting out circular petals. Having gone through this piece, let's move on to smaller cluster flowers. These are going to be really cute, really small, about an inch and a half, and maybe lesser as we move upwards. I start off with doing a broken stem with a, with my thin detail brush using the vintage Green. Just doing a very broken line. I now know on top how the flowers are going to move and similarly at the bottom. Using a curved dashed line. How it's going to move following that leads to the center of the flowers using our pale pink. Once we're happy with the overall, let's move on and add our sea green flowers. Just adding in the curve one at a time. Now, in case the color is flowing through too much, just use a dry brush and lift up the paint a lot more. A little tip. As I move forward, I'm going to make the flowers smaller in size to also show the proportion of the stem we have, the smaller in size, and then the next final one is going to also be quite small. Let's also add in some half flowers. You can see how I did that. I basically added three petals together to give you effect of a half turned flower on either side, on the right and the left, adding a similar one on top, doing completing out that flower. And then we'll be adding some buds as well along the stem. I always add in buds at the end of the stem moving downwards. Let's switch to our detailer brush and complete this, Taking our green, our vintage green color. Let's complete the stem. Let's add some leaves as well and add other details. Just have a quick look on how I'm doing this. We don't want too much, but we're just trying to add some of them to really fill up the ****** and to give this beautiful look. Now using our crimson red, let's paint around the center of these flowers. Now that we finish this cluster, we can then move on to the one on top. You can quickly have a look at how I do this and then paint it yourself because it might be a bit harder for you to follow along and paint with me. Just have a look. And then continue. I'm doing the similar effect of full flowers and then some half flowers and buds to finish up the look. Let's now use our red around the center to give it more depth. We then are going to move to our green and add some cluster of leaves in between our flowers. While I'm doing this, lets also add in some quick lines from the center of the stem moving outward. You can see how I'm doing this here. It gives it more of a whimsical look and really just gives a lot more play into the piece. A lot of movement as well. We really like doing that. You can either do it upwards or downwards, but gently do it in the form of a, a C curve, just so it doesn't look like straight lines. That's not the effect we're going for. We're assuming that those are actually leaves that are not fully painted out. It gives you that illusion. Just go ahead and do the lines. It's now time to finish up our remaining flowers. I'm using the teal blue to add in the outlines for the red flowers. This is actually going to pull up the color more and make it even more deeper, which is what they're going for. For the biggest flow, we can just simply use orange and add in our lines. Finally, looking at the piece on the left side corner, you can see that there's a lot of empty space. It's time to add in some berries or silhouette of berries using a pale pink. We've done this before, so I'm not going to go into too much of detail but just paint out oval shapes and then connect them with a stem. Let's finish off the piece by adding some splatters and dots. And I love the whimsical playful look that this final piece has created. So happy with the entire set, I felt like the piece was missing a small element. I decided to add more to the center for the big flower. Now just have a quick look of how I'm doing it. This is with my detail brush. I'm doing clusters of dots, just keeping a little bit space between them. And these are going to form our filaments. Just doing this dashed spaced out groups of dots and then quickly connecting them with thin lines. I think also add volume to the center because before it looked quite empty. So now it looks a lot more fuller, which really balances out our piece. And now we are done with our last 15th piece. 21. Conclusion: I am so excited that we have completed all the 15 projects. I hope you had a lot of fun in trying out these different placements and playing around with these different color combinations. I would love to hear your reviews and testimonials. Please feel free to drop them on Skillshare. You can also share any questions, any doubts, any tips or tricks that you learned during the class that might help other people in the discussions tab. So that way they might also read and learn from it. There might be things that I have gone through but you found a different way of doing it. So please do share that. It's always nice to hear from students. If you have any questions, you can feel free to again, add it in the discussion tab or you can DM me on Instagram. My Instagram is Ben Visionary. Finally, I would love to see your projects. Even if you tried just one, I'd love to see you post about it. And for me to just, um, also see other people inspired by your work. If you finished all 15, obviously, I would love to see a picture with all 15. And you can share it in the Project tab or on Instagram under the hashtag Pastels with Visionary. I have it written here, so yes. Thank you so much for watching and I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. And if you do or would like more chal***ges like this, please again mention it in the discussion stab or you can send me a DM. Just so I know that this is something you're interested in and you enjoy. And I can plan something like this in the future. Thank you so much.