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1. Roses Introduction: Hey everyone, My name is L. And this class I'm going
to teach you how to paint loose painterly roses like these that have
depth and dimension. I'm using an eight by eight inch canvas and acrylic paint. I have golden fluid
acrylic paints, and I will list the
exact pink colors that I used in the About
section below the video. I'm also using a couple of
large flat paint brushes. I have pallet paper
for my palette, and water and paper
towels for cleanup. For your class project. I would love to see
your version of these loose painterly roses. You can take a picture of
your painting and upload it to the Projects
and Resources tab, which is located
below the video. And if you have any
questions about this class or any of
my other classes, you can post that to
the Discussions tab, which is also located
below the video. Alright, let's get started.
2. Create a Background: I'm going to start with
a nice dark background. I have a little
bit of turquoise. I have some burnt sienna. I'm going to use some
of my yellow bend ClO, I'm also going to add a
little bit of my cadmium red. I'm going to mix these colors. Just create a background and
it has a bit of a gradient. I want it to be a mix of
dark and medium values. A lot of this is going to have some leaves painted
on top of it. But if you get a nice
varied background, then you don't have to
paint quite as many leaves. You can let the complexity of the background work for
you in the painting. I'm using just a one-inch brush. Let everything be
nice and streaky. Leaving those brush mark showing yeah, intentionally
having lots of nice dark colors
and brushstrokes going in all
different directions. Make sure the whole canvas is covered and you don't have
any little bits of it popping through that
you need to worry about later on in the painting. I'm gonna leave leave
it just like this. Let it completely dry and then I'm going to build up my
first layer of flowers.
3. Shape the Roses: Going to build up my
flowers next with cadmium red medium,
some titanium white. I also have Alizarin crimson that I'm going to use just to darken some of the read and to help me
create some shadows. Alizarin crimson is kind of
this dark, purply color. I'm going to add a
little bit of red. In order to create
form on our flowers, we need some dark values. That's going to be this. We need some medium value, which I'll probably use
mostly the street cad red might add a little bit of yellow into it for some variety. Then I'll make some pink
for the lighter values. I just put down some dark mix, a little bit more dark. I know it's hard to see
on dark background, but we're going to build up medium and light values as well. For loose roses,
I'm not going to make perfect circles
and go around and more, going to create kind of jagged brushstrokes
and build up a flower. I'm putting some marks
just around the center. They're not all connected. They don't all
line up perfectly. That's going to give me
a more organic feel. These darker marks are
going to help draw your eye back and the lighter marks
are going to come forward. These will represent the
more shadowy areas and then the more pink areas will
be the highlighted areas. And that's how we create form. Just these simple little
sketchy lines to start. I'm going to add cadmium red with a touch of white
just to lighten the value a little bit more. I'm going to start
to put some loose, hold my brush back that I
get some nice organic marks. I'm going to put some of
these loose marks right next to the darker ones
that I created, plus add a few new ones. Put some right under the darks, which will be the center. The lighter values
next to the dark. It's going to help
that heart to reseed. Little bit more white in here. Some nice loose brushstrokes going around those darker marks. It's okay to twist and
turn your brush as you go. To get looser marks. You hold your brush
all the way down here. You're gonna be making really tight marks like
you were using a pencil. So pull your hand back and
just kinda let your brush. When it wants to make
some nice floppy marks. You can't make a mistake
because once this dries, you can just paint
right over it. If you make a mark
that you don't like, it's very easy to correct. Lift up your brush
every once in awhile so that everything
isn't connected. You don't want everything
to be connected. You can also make
some are like this. You don't have to
have everything. You shouldn't have
every brushstroke going all in the
exact same direction. We want variety. Want lights and darks, light and mediums, lights
darks and mediums. And we want a variety
of brushstrokes. I'm gonna keep
adding more weight and probably a little
bit of yellow. I'm starting to layer on top of these marks that
I have already made. Hopefully you can see the form starting
to take shape here. It needs a little
bit more dark paint, I think in the center
and in-between. That's all just part of
the layering process. I'll go back in with some
darker paint in a bit. Some light near the center. Trying to vary some marks here. I'm going to let these dry. Work on the leaves a little bit.
4. Add the Leaves: I'm going to put turquoise, same colors that I
used at the beginning. Turquoise, burnt sienna,
some yellow on my palette. I'm using the same dirty
brush is when I mix green. If I use just
turquoise and yellow, I'm gonna get a really super
vibrant neon type green. But if I have a little
bit of red on my brush, it will desaturate the green because red and green
are complimentary colors. Don't really want a neon color. Just yet. I might do some lighter,
brighter highlights. But for right now, less saturation can even add
in a little bit more red. This is nice and dark. I'm not going to draw
leaves like this. I'm going to use my brush to
make leaf fish type shapes. Nice and loose. You can leave the paint
a little bit streaky. And that'll just work
with the background. Will we already established
at the beginning? I'm just trying to
add some variety to the background with colors that are just
slightly different, maybe a little bit lighter. I will read these as leaves
without you actually drawing a leaf shape just
because it's next to these flowers and
because it's green. So you don't really
have to work that hard on your leaves. I'm putting some
kind of overlapping the flowers that everything looks like it's mixed together, that the leaves overlap
with the flowers. Otherwise the flowers are
gonna look like they're just sitting on top
of the greenery. We want everything to work
together on, mixed together. Just by putting a couple of leaves overlapping your flowers. You won't look like you
have floating flowers. There goes my pain. Gonna go with the less
is more for right now. Do you want to put some
darker areas right under the flowers to help
create a sense of depth. I'm taking some of my
burnt sienna and I'm mixing it in with the turquoise
to get a nice dark value. The darker values
create depth and the lighter values will
come forward as highlights. If you have some dark
areas around the flowers, it'll draw your eye back
in, it'll look dimensional. Make your flowers look
more dimensional. Your leaves too, if you
have a nice variety of dark and light thing. I'm going to leave
no pun intended. I'm going to leave the
greenery alone for right now. I liked the way that it looks. I know that I could
easily overdo it. I'm going to try to show a
little bit of restraint. Just want to make sure I
have some overlapping here. Now. I'm going to wait a good five or so minutes
and make sure that everything is dry
so that I can put another layer on
top of my flowers. I don't want to get any
of this green mixed in with the red or
it's going to make my flowers really muddy looking. If your flowers are a
little bit too round, you can use the green
to just cut right in and give your flowers a little bit more of
an organic shape. I'm pretty happy
with the greenery. I might not even
go over it again. Light spots. Then I'm going to let this dry. I'm gonna go wash this brush so it's nice and clean and I can add a little bit more red
and pink to my flowers.
5. Final Details: Alright, that's dry. I loved the looseness of
this painting so far. So I'm gonna do my best to not overwork it and leave the
brushstrokes really loose. But I don't want to stop here. I do think the roses need
a little bit more paint. I don't mind some of the background showing
through in the flowers, but I think there's a little bit too much showing through. I also want to darken
the shadow areas like this needs to
be darkened and I want to add some highlights. So I actually had
said that I was going to use a little bit of yellow. I'm gonna just put a
little bit on my palette. I'm not sure if I'm
going to use it or not. I'm going to start with dark. So I have the same
number 12 flat brush, have some Alizarin crimson here. Adding a little bit
of the cadmium red. I want to Alizarin crimson
is kinda dried up on me. Want to really
darken the center, which doesn't have
to be in the center. By the way, the
middle of the flower doesn't have to be in the
middle of the flower. Depending on which way
the flower's facing. Then I'll take a little bit of the dark paint and just go over stairs holding
my brush too tight, you got to loosen up its heat. My brushstrokes loose. I want to go over it. Those darker areas that I
had put in at the beginning. I don't want to overdo
it with those marks, but those are my shadow is I need those marks just as much
as I need the highlights. I need some shadow
over here on this one. Some nice shadows. That'll be good for
the darkest darks. I'm going to wipe some
excess paint off on my paper towel so that I can go in now with my cadmium red. And I'm going to start to add in small amounts of weight
like I did last time. I'm going to add a little
bit of yellow this time, just for a little bit, little bit more variety. Just get a different
shade of pink in here. I'm going to put some of this next to some of those
shadows that I just put down without completely
covering the shadow a little bit under the center. Kind of define that
center of the flower. Remember, you can vary
your brushstrokes. I'm going to add everything is, I really like my flowers, but they're too dark. So I'm adding a lot
more white now. I want to try to target
the highlighted areas. I'm trying to keep my brush
strokes nice and loose. If you do too many, you just take your red and go
right over it with the red. You can push that light
pink back a little bit. I'm going to stop very soon. Otherwise I'm going to lose the painterly feel
if I keep going over these bunch of times. But there are a couple of
spots that I just want to touch up with my red. Now that didn't really work
the way that I thought. I might have to touch that up. I thought this one was a
little too round looking, so I was trying to add some
jagged marks at the bottom, which I'll do with
the green paint. I think my flowers are done. As always. I'm going to list all
of the paint colors and all my supplies
below the video. If you have any
questions you can always ask and the discussions tab, which is located below
the video as well. Please, if you paint your own version of
these loose roses, I would love to see them. You can upload
your class project to the projects
and resources tab, which is located
below the video. The last thing I'm gonna do, wipe my brush a little bit. Mix some green. Just kinda touch this up. I want it to be jagged. I think I went a little too far. You can always go around and just clean up the edges
of your roses if you need to. Make sure you have some of your little leaf
marks overlapping, you don't have roses just
floating, floating in space. I'm going to put a couple of little tiny highlights in the greenery just
to brighten it up, because overall it is
a darker painting, but I like the moody feel. You could certainly
paint much later roses. I don't want to overdo it with the highlights because
I don't want to take away from the roses. I'm going to show
some restraint. Call this little
painting finished. After one little
spot of turquoise. Of course, I just
messed up my rose. I'm just going to
grab a clean brush. Just fix the top of
that rows right there. That's what I get for fussing. Upload little highlights. Everything looks better with a couple of little highlights. Finished. Thanks for watching.