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Acrylic Painting: Learn How to Paint Loose Red Roses for Beginners

teacher avatar Elle Byers, Artist and Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Roses Introduction

      0:59

    • 2.

      Create a Background

      2:30

    • 3.

      Shape the Roses

      6:54

    • 4.

      Add the Leaves

      5:44

    • 5.

      Final Details

      12:21

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About This Class

Learn how to paint loose red roses with acrylic paint on canvas! This is a step by step painting tutorial for beginner artists.

In this class, you’ll learn:
- how to create a painting using a limited color palette
- how to create form through the use of light and dark values
- how to slowly build up paint layers to create depth and dimension in your artwork.

All of the supplies and paint colors I used for this project are listed below. 

For your class project, I would love to see your version of a loose painterly roses! You can upload a photo of your painting by clicking on the "Projects & Resources" tab below the video.  Happy painting!

Here are the supplies I used:

8 x 8 inch canvas 
Flat paint brushes (1 inch and size 12)
palette paper
water & paper towels 
acrylic paint 

Paint colors:
Burnt Sienna
Titanium White
Hansa Yellow Medium
Phthalo Turquoise
Cadmium Red Medium Hue
Alizirin Crimson

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Elle Byers

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Hello, I'm Elle Byers. I'm an artist and a teacher.  My favorite medium is acrylic paint and my favorite subject is flowers!  Check out all of my Skillshare classes at the bottom of this page. 

If you want to see what I'm up to on a daily basis, you can follow me on Instagram.  My available paintings can be purchased on my website, www.ellebyers.com. 

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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.