Acrylic Painting : Learn To Paint Realistic Lotus Flower

1. Intro: Lotus, a flower that struggles through mud to emerge, beautiful and whole. Just like the flowers, we too have the ability to rise from the mud, bloom out of the darkness, and radiate into the world. Hello friends. My name is Heni Senna and I am an acrylic artist. In this class, we learn how to paint this beautiful lotus painting. We'll also learn what all we will be needing, The canvases and the colors, waterll, color composition, and the brushes which we'll be needing for this painting. Then from blocking of the petals to the detailing. Each and every part we learn in detail. Looking forward to share my knowledge and skills with you guys. I hope you will love it. Happy learning. Thank you. 2. Material Required: Let's discuss about the materials which we will be needing to complete this beautiful, vibrant lotus painting. The first thing which we'll be needing is the canvas. This is the canvas which is 100% primed canvas, acid free still. I have done primed it twice with black esso. Since this is my white canvas, you can directly use black canvas if you have. Now this is the palette glass palette. These are the fluorescent colors which I'll be using from Company Bristo and from Winsor and Newton. Also let's discuss about the colors which we'll be needing. The first color is black, white, fluorescent red, fluorescent pink, fluorescent green, fluorescent yellow, lemon yellow, and opera rose. All these colors we'll be needing for painting. The beautiful lotus painting. This is the glass palette which I'm using here. You can use this palette then the tissue, of course, the water container which has two blocks. The two brushes, one is the rigger and one is the round brush of size eight, and this is of size two by zero. Both these brushes I will be using, just two brushes is more than enough for doing this painting. I hope you'll guys enjoy this beautiful Lotus painting in detail. Let's start with it. 3. Blocking White Coat: Welcome back. Let's start with our painting. This is the sketch which I have drawn. I will be providing the reference image also. And the colors which I'm using here is white. To just fill in the background of this whole sketch, I am using white color because it is opaque. And this is the round brush which I'll be using here, this is quite opaque color. When you apply this white color on this, it will become very vibrant and thick coat of white will appear on it. And when you will apply the pinkish color, be we are mostly using fluorescent colors. We'll be definitely using white and mix with that fluorescent colors. Because fluorescent colors are quite transparent colors. White will be required because white is quite opaque Here what I'm doing is I'm just first outlining it, and then I'm blocking the whole petal. Now this is the best time when you can, if you have done some sketching, which is not correct. Now, this is the best time where you can redo it and you can correct the mist and just fill in the colors. I'm just trying to fill in the colors now. Water is only on my brush. It's not on the color. That much water is required, just on your brush. Dip your brush in water properly, and then use that raw white color and just try to fill in the colors. Now, this first step is a very simple process. You don't have to do much techniques or anything, you just have to fill in the colors. You can also use flat brush for doing this, but use rigger brush or round brush for outlining the whole petal. Now you can see I'm just slowly filling out the white color on the petals. The first petal is almost done, same way I'll be doing the rest of the petals. Also, whenever you're doing any flower painting, whenever you're doing the blocking, first, first outline the thing, the sketch, and then try to fill in the colors. In that way, there will be less mistakes and your color will not go out of the boundary. This is the best way to do the filling of colors, especially when you're doing the flowers or any sharp area where you don't want your colors to go out. If by chance the colors come out of the lines, you can always remove those lines by using the background color. Like here we have use black color. If there is any mistake in the outlining of it, you can always cover that area with black color. In acrylics, we can always redo the colors. Now. So slowly I'm painting all the petals first I'm outlining it. I'm just putting in the colors. I put this video in. 4. Petal Blocking: Welcome back. Let's start with our next blocking, that is the fluorescent pink and white. On the topmost is the fluorescent pink and the bottom it's yellowish. First, let's apply fluorescent pink and white mix. Now why I'm mixing white with fluorescent is that you add white to any fluorescent colors. Because fluorescent colors are mostly transparent colors. When you add wide to it, the colors become little opaque. That's why I have added little white to this fluorescent color. The above part is mostly pink and the lower part is mostly yellowish. I will add fluorescent yellow over here. This is from the Brustro company. The below part will be fluorescent yellow and the above part will be fluorescent pink. You can see I'm using the same brush that is the round brush which I have used earlier in most of my painting. And this is of size eight, you can use according to your base size. The more bigger the bases, the size of the brush should increase depending upon the size of your size of your canvas. You have to decide your brush size. Here, the size of my canvas is eight inch. You can use any size canvas, whichever you want. You can use round square, whichever shape of canvas you like you can use. Now you can see in the lower part, I'm just adding the yellow color. And I mix little white to it to make it more opaque. I'm just adding this yellow to the lower part. Still you can see the color is not so opaque. Obviously, we'll apply one more coat to it to make it more opaque. Whenever you're applying second coat on any base, check that the first color has dried up completely. Then only apply the second coat on the painting. The lower part is more yellowish. I've added more yellow to it. Now, the second petal, I'm just outlining with yellow first. Then I'll start filling up the colors. Now here there's more of yellow and less of the pink color. I'm just first applying this yellow color with my same round brush. Here, we are just doing the blocking part. We are not putting any details first, all the blockings will be done. Then we'll start with the detailing. You can see I've done this yellow part and the above part, we'll do with the fluorescent pink color. It's a very simple and easy painting, but when it gets completed, it looks very beautiful and vibrant. Especially when you use black background behind even you can use deep green background also behind. Try to use very dark background to contrast this image of the lotus. I'm just trying to give you a little idea how you can paint your lotus painting. Now. Again, the upper part is little pinkish and as we go down, it becomes a little yellowish. Try to do it very slowly and avoid taking out the colors from the boundary. If it happens, then always you can just hide that mistake by using the base color. You can see simply, I'm just adding a fluorescent yellow at the bottom to make it more glowing. Just adding more yellow to the first petal, which we did because I can see a little blackish appearance which is coming from behind, even if we have applied white to it. Because it happens in many cases that you have to apply two to three of it when you are using the base as the black. Another thing you can do, you can just leave this area where you have drawn this sketch with white and color all the areas with black. That also you can do to avoid applying white color, just outlining first. And then I'm filling the colors as I've already said why I'm outlining it so that the colors remain within the boundary slowly. We have to do all the petals in a similar manner, because the lower part is yellowish, upper part is pinkish like that. We have to complete the petals, especially the above petals. On the above small petals, I'm just using that pinkish color. That's it. Water is just on my brush. I haven't used mixed water in these colors. So try to use 10% of water and 90% of colors in this. So take your own time. No need to do it in a hurry, take breaks, and do slowly and enjoy the process of this whole painting. Once we are done with the complete blocking of the petals, we'll start creating details. 5. Final Petal Blocking: Let's complete the other few petals which are left out. Just blocking this with pink and white mix, just a little bit of white and pink mix. And the first I'm just doing the outline, I'm then blocking in the color. The main purpose, the main thing when you're doing these types of painting is the neatness. The more neat and crisp the line is there, it adds beauty to the painting. The neatness adds beauty to these paintings, especially. Just take care of that in mind that the neatness is important in such type of painting. Slowly, slowly, we are moving towards the painting and blocking the petals. Above petals are almost done. The below part is left to the below part of the painting. It's mostly yellow and greenish color. We'll add fluorescent green to it first I'm just doing with yellow. Then we'll add fluorescent color also in this, the above part is pinkish and most of it is greenish in color, yellowish in color. Just adding this pink part first, the above petals almost turn. Now we will do the below petals. Let's add the pink color first on top of it. We will also be needing fluorescent green color as well. For doing the below petals and leaves here. This petal is straight diagonal lines, which I'm finishing it, then I'm adding yellow and white. Then again, I just take more of yellow and white mix. Then I'll fill in this color on the bottom part. Just applying and trying to blend this, that pink color. Just trying to fill in this fluorescent yellow. This fluorescent yellow is very bright color. It adds a real beauty to this painting. Actually, again, fluorescent on the top of the petal, to the lower part. We'll use a different color just using for the top part, You can see how slowly we are moving towards the full blocking of the colors. Now I've just taken this raw fluorescent pink and I just highlighting the areas, the boundaries. Actually, I'm highlighting it with pink now. Again, taking fluorescent directly color and adding to the below part just fluorescent without using any white. You can see how bright the color is. Now we will do the leaf part in which we'll be using the fluorescent green color. First, using this yellow color just outlining it. Then we'll use the fluorescent first to this. Choosing the right color plays a very important role doing some realistic painting. Now you can see I've just taken this fluorescent green color. If you don't have fluorescent green color, you can use normal green, permanent color also for painting this, Just applying the colors, this fluorescent green color and just trying to give a shade to it. You can see I've just used this raw color without any water in that color. Water is just on my brush. That's it. That much amount of water you have to use. Now again, I'm taking that raw green color with little mix of white. And just applying to the leaves which are below. I'll also try to give a little shade to it as well. First, I'm applying this permanent green. Not permanent green. It is fluorescent green just applying this color. All these below petals are mostly greenish in color. Just adding this color and taking a little yellow and green mix. Again, adding to the lower leaf, just taking a little bit of pinkish color and adding to it. You must have seen that when the petals grow in the early stage, they are little greenish, pinkish color. That's what I'm trying to create over here. First green bit of pinkish, I've added to this texture, we'll add more details to it on the leaves part also. Now again, taking this color, fluorescent green. Just taking a little more of green, this black also to do the lower stem, just mixing this black color to this green. And I'm just first outlining the stem part and then I will fill the colors this green. And very little amount of black. You have to add not too much black, there should be very little amount of black. Now, more black as we go towards the other side to give a more depth to it and try to blend both the colors. Now, blending in acrylics will only happen if both the colors are wet. Now just highlighting it with this yellow side to give more depth to the stem. The stem part is almost done. Now we will be doing the good detailing of the petals and the below green leaves as well, just highlighting a bit more. 6. Detailing Of Petals: Welcome back. Let's start with our detailing. These are the colors, fluorescent, red, frozen pink, yellow, white, black, and lemon yellow. So these are the colors which we'll be using. Apart from that, we'll be using green color as well. Let's first start with the upper petal detailing. First, I'm just taking this fluorescent red and black mix to make it a little like maroonish color. And I'm just outlining it first the petal with the same brush which I have used earlier. Now here I will add a little water to this color because I want to make a little fluid. Whenever you are trying to draw any lines or anything, try to make a color little fluid so that it can easily move. You cannot use thick colors in that, otherwise it will be difficult for you to create thin lines. You can see just with the tip of my brush, I'm trying to create the lines for outlining it. You have to use a brighter color here. I'm using fluorescent red. When I'm mixing it with black, it turns out to be a little maroonish color. The lower part, it is more dark. I'm adding more black to it. Once we are done with the outlining, we'll do more details, more lines. As we see in the petals, there are so many lines and veins which are coming out of the petal. Let's first use this fluorescent pink to create lines. Just creating lines and adding little red to this pink and trying to create more lines because the upper lines are more dark than the lower one, just like we do the shading part, just creating lines. Just a free flow of lines just with the tip of the brush. And make sure that the color is fluid, not thick. Otherwise, you will not be able to create thin lines. Use these round brushes which are having fine tip or rigger brush you can use to create these lines. Now if you know a little bit of shading, how we do the brush, shading or pencil shading, this is how we do in that. Also, just like that, we are using our brush to create some lines and shades of it. Just simple lines, curvy lines. The above lines are a little dark and as we go down, the lines are slightly light in color, just making it more dense on the top. Do it slowly. Take your own time when you are doing such type of detailings. No need to be in a hurry because whenever we are doing paintings are both, even single person has their own speed of doing the painting. If you're not able to follow with me, try to take your time, pause the video, and then do it. Now here I've just mixed white, lemon yellow and this fluorescent yellow together to create some nice yellowish color. Now you can see I'm just creating lines in between those pink lines, these yellow lines to add more contrast to this painting. Below, it's completely yellow. The lines, there are gaps in between these darker lines in that area. I will be applying these yellow colors. Light brush pressure, you have to put in, don't press your brush, just with the tip of the brush. You have to create these lines. Very light brush pressure. I am high just touching the brush, I'm not pressing it, just the above tip of the brush I'm using to create these textures. Slowly, slowly, we are moving towards more petals. We will be doing more details in this, the main petal. Now here I'm using my rigger brush for doing this. You can use of size two by zero, or three by zero depending upon your choice. Just taking white and yellow, fluorescent yellow, and trying to create more fine lines. Because with my round brush, the lines were coming a little thick. I want my lines to be more fine. I'm using her Er brush. Applying this white and fluorescent yellow and trying to create lines, make it a bit fluid. And then try to create some nice fine lines. You can see how these lines are coming up in between these pinkish lines. I've just made the colors very fluid. Then trying to create the lines, take your own time and do it very slowly, patiently, half breaks in between. And no need to be in a hurry to complete in one go, just adding a bit of green and pink mix to give a color to this painting. The lower part is a mix of green and pink, which gives a nice color to it. Especially the lower part. Just adding the lines with this color, you can see very thin lines. Are these? The more the lines are thin and very close to each other, the more it looks beautiful, actually. Now just adding red, white, pink, and again, trying to add the lines, the lines you can see already. The first petal is looking quite beautiful. Just adding more of these two colors, a little bit black to make it more dark. Very little amount of black you have to add because black is a very intense color. If you'll add too much, everything will turn into black. Just first outlining it, then we will fill the colors. Same textures will apply over here. Also the above will be more pinkish and lower will be more yellowish. Trying to add simple lines here you can see the lines which I'm moving are in the same shape as it is of the shape of the petals. Try to create the lines according to the shape of the petal. Now adding more pink to it, now taking just white and just adding more layers and more lines to these petals. All these takes a lot of time, because these are like a realistic painting. You have to, whenever you are starting such type of painting, make sure that it will take time. You cannot finish this in one go. It will at least take your two to 3 hours of your painting, of your time to complete this entire painting. Now, if you are doing such type of painting for the first time, then it can take more than two or 3 hours, depending upon the speed of yours. Every person has their own speed of painting. Depending upon their speed, the time will be consumed. So you can see I'm doing the darker colors and lighter colors. Then again, I felt like the lighter colors are missing and darker colors are missing. Then again, I'm outlining it. Similarly, you have to do for all the petals. Now, let's do the third petal First. I've outlined it. Then I will create some more shades, some more lines. Just a smaller petal can see, again, the same technique here also we'll use. Now you can see the lines are curvy depending upon the shape. 7. Detailing Of Petals Part two: Now let's add more details to the next petals. This is the same color we are using here. I'm just outlining it. Make sure that your color is not too thick, otherwise you'll not be able to create some nice lines. Color has to be fluid, but not too much fluid. It should be a little fluid. Here you can see I'm just using this rigger brush to create the lines instead of using that round brush. Because these rigger brush creates more thinner lines than using round brush. As the curviness of the lines depends upon the petal, how curved the petal is. Depending upon that, the lines should be curvy. Now, here now I'm adding the lighter color, that is white. You can see in the gaps which are in between those lines. I'm just adding white to it. Now let's add more white to this smaller petal. All these are repetitive methods. Sometimes what happens that we get bored. Okay, this is the same method. Let's do it, let's do it quickly. That time is the real thing. When the mistakes happen and the neatness of the painting disappears, Just take care of that and do it slowly without, in a hurry. Because painting is just a relaxing process. And you have to give time to this painting, especially when you are doing some realistic painting. Try to give a lot of time to it, to it in breaks, take breaks in between, and then it. No need to do it in one day, take breaks, and take a week to complete the paintings. No need to be in a hurry. Just outlining it more and more, giving the textures to these petals. Now just I'm outlining this with white first. Every petal has their own texture. Each and every petal has their own beauty and their own textures in it. Some are having white more pink. Now here I have added Opera Rose over here to add more pinkness to it. Now, Opera Rose is a different pink color. It's a pink color, but it is more like a rosy pink color. Here, I'm using Opera Rose also for giving more variety of pink to it. If you don't have any fluorescent colors, how you can paint this, not having any fluorescent colors, just use red and your pink color, normal pink color, and your lemon yellow and white, permanent green and black. That's it. Then you can create this fluorescent colors. Actually, they are more bright colors, that's why I'm using here. But if you don't have these colors, you can use that alternate colors. Also just outlining it again and repeating the same process, taking again white and giving more thick, thick, white outlines to it to add more texture to these petals. Once you're done with one petal, see how it looks, how you can beautify it, how you can add more layers and more outline to it. So, so when you will come to know, okay, here it is missing, and here you can add more lines and more petals to it. Now I'm just adding more of red and this pink color, and I'm trying to give a little more light color to this side. You can see there are so many different types of pink which we are using over here. Just keep doing slowly. They're just brakes of lines, are there? Which adds beauty to these petals. Now again, I'm using this opera rose white and a little bit of fluorescent pink mix to add more lines to the petal. Now the last petal of this side, first I'm highlighting the edge. And then I will start creating the lines, just adding a little red to it also. Now here I've used fluorescent red. And if you don't have fluorescent red, you can use any red, scarlet, red, crimson, whatever red you have, you can use that now a little bit of fluorescent yellow to give the outline to the billow part. Just taking care of the borders so that the lines are sharp and crisp. In all these paintings, the most important thing is the lines and the sharpness of this petal. It should be clear lines. 8. Detailing Of Petals Part three: Welcome back. Let's do the other petals, same palette we are using here. And same colors. Let's take white and a little bit of opera rose and mix it well. And start outlining the, this is a little light color. I'm just making it more bright color. Just adding more lines to the corner petal. Now here you can see the lines are the a curve as the petal lines shapes. Actually the lines depends upon the shape of the petal, how the shape of the petals. The lines also should move like that. I'm just adding white lines to it. Slowly, we are progressing towards the detailing of the petals. Now again, I'm adding a little more of this opera Rose white mix to this middle part and giving more pinkish highlights to this area. You can see the more lines and more fine lines you create in these petals, the more it adds beauty to the petals. Take your time and do it slowly. Do one petal at a time and check how it is looking. You need more lines or it is perfectly fine. All depends upon the patients level and the gradual process which makes the whole painting actually beautiful. Just mixing white, making a little fluid, and creating more fine lines. These rigger brushes are actually very nice and fine lines. Since the length of these brushes are long, it can hold a lot of paint on their brushes. This is the actual difference between the liner brush and this rigger brush. These are quite long brushes and they can hold quite a lot of paint when doing these line and detailing. Now I'm just taking raw fluorescent yellow and adding more yellowish to the bottom. You can see the yellowish part is below more yellow and in between a little light yellow and then again pink. Let's do the other petals, also the petals beside the middle petal. Let's start with that. Now, again, I'm taking this round brush and I will try to create the same technique which we have applied to the other petals. I will be using for this also now just making these lines more fine because I can see some lines coming there now creating petal lines. Now you can see it's a thick line. I'm not bothered about the thin lines to create this. I'm just creating the line to make a border of that pinkish line. Then we'll create some nice fine textures to these petals, like we did earlier to the other petals. Now, once the outline is done, now we are good to go with the detailings. Now first on the topmost part, the colors are a little bright. I'm just adding this fluorescent red pink to it to make the colors more bright. Just adding very little amount of black to make it move darker color, darker shade color. Just adding these shades on the top first. Now the water is just on my brush. That's it. Apart from that water, I haven't used that much. Amount of water is more than enough. Now, again, I'm using my rigger brush here. Taking Opera Rose and creating some fine lines. Now you can see the curved lines. Curves are according to the shape of the petal. The lines should always move according to the shape of the petal. In each and every flower painting, you have to take care of how the petals are shaped and how, depending upon the shape, you have to create these textures on the petals. Just adding the Opera Rose lines, now taking a little white mix and Opera rose, and then again adding more lines, brighter lines. Here I'm using completely thick colors, but water is there on my brush. If you are facing problem in creating these lines, thin lines, you can add a little water to it to make it a little fluid. And then create these lines the same process which we have done for the other petals. Just the shape is different. That's it. Otherwise, the whole process is same. You're highlighting first the pinkish part, then the whitish part, so that it gives a nice blend of both the light and the dark color. This is one type of actually blending, You can say where the light and the dark color starts blending together with each color, just adding more and more lines and layers to it. Suppose if you see there are more bright lines and you cannot see the dark lines, just add more dark lines on top of it to give more layers of the darker lines. Now below, again, I am taking this lemon yellow, fluorescent yellow mix and adding the details. These all are real time video. I haven't done fast forward video of it because I wanted you guys to see each and every step clearly so that you can do it by yourself without any mistake. That's why I haven't cut down the video in its proper real time video. I hope this will be helpful for you guys to paint the other flower paintings as well. I try to teach different different techniques. Like before that I did the cat painting in which there were like very much for details. Now this is like the flower painting, and there are lots of details are there in this as well. And there was also bird painting in which there are different details. Different different techniques are used in different paintings, whether it is a portrait or the flower portrait or anything. Flower painting or the landscape painting, I really love doing landscape painting also. After this class, maybe I'll start with the landscape painting slowly. We are just applying the layers of light and dark mix so that it gives a nice blend of the light and dark color. These are actually the center petals, which has to look quite bright. We have to add lots of layers to this petals. Now the smaller ones again. First I'm outlining it, and then I'll create small lines of this pinkish color. Then the white color. A few more upper petals are left, and then we'll start with the lower part. 9. Detailing Of Petals Part four: Let's begin with the other petals now, again taking white and just outlining this side and giving little texture to these small petals. Just adding more of pinkish and little reddish mix of color, little black to make it more dark. Let's adding from the top. Now, when you are doing this outline, this is the main thing you have to do it outline, then that painting will look very neat and beautiful. These all outlinings play a very important role when you are doing such type of painting. Try to do it very neat, make the color a little fluid. That line will come very clear and crisp fluid means it should not be thick, it should all be like a milky type of color. Just adding more lines to these petals, especially for any flowers, these detailings matters a lot how you put the shade and how you put the lines. In fact, even in the rose painting or any other paintings, all these lines, how it is going and how you're mixing it with the other colors, all these play a very important role. Now here you can see how my lines are moving. It's moving according to the shape of the petal. We almost done with the petals. Only few, two are left. And then we'll start with the bottom. One, same technique I'm using here also. First the pink and then the light whitish color. And then I'm trying to blend these two colors just with each other. Just taking these colors and just trying to make it more fluid. And I'm trying to blend both the colors. I hope you are enjoying doing this painting. I have tried to teach each and every step with you guys so that you can easily catch up with it. If you face any problem, you can always get in touch with me via discussion section. I'm ready to help you. Or you can DM me on my Instagram, that Ishi art Gallery, whatever. Each and every step, I do a lot of experiments when I'm doing my own paintings and looking for the details that how this painting slow, which color. So all these things first come in mind, and then I start with the paintings. Yes, the color which you're using also plays a very important role. Always use better colors and first choose the colors accordingly, test the colors, and then start with the painting. Now you can see I'm just first outlining it with white because there's a fold in this layer. Now I'm just adding a little bit of this yellow and up top it is pink. And I will try to blend both the colors. You can see I'm just trying to blend this yellow and pinkish color. Now I'm adding a little bit more of this red to give a little mix of black to it, to add a little more texture to this part, because I think this is quite light, so I'm just giving more darkness to this. Now, again, let's go back to this petal and add again more layers, lines, just few lines which are going downwards, then again white. And just trying to blend the colors with this little opera rose. And again adding a little more to the edges, then taking a little white. And then again outlining it with white. Taking a little more of red and just outlining that to give a little fold look to this petal. Just taking a little more of this lighter color, mixing both the colors and again adding these lines which are actually dividing this two petals. I'm completely making this portion a bit dark and adding a little more yellow to the end of the petal. Now let's take more of white and try to add the lines which divides the petal fold. These small small details are there just adding more lines to it? 10. Detailing Of Petals Part five: Let's start with the further detailing of the petals. I'm just rotating my canvas towards me so that I can paint this side easily. Because we have to paint it like vertically. Just taking round brush and fluorescent yellow and applying again a thick yellow and just mixing a little white also because you can see it's a bit transparent color below. I'm just adding more of this fluorescent and white mix in the center to the sides. I'll add green. My green has already dried up. I'll just add a little bit of green to my palette. And then we'll start just taking this fluorescent green. I'll try to apply both the sides. I mix little yellow to it. Also to make the green a little more vibrant. Just adding to the sides and trying to blend the colors. Also simultaneously just adding this green color, both the sides. When both the colors are wet, you can easily blend the colors. Currently, both the colors are wet. Just adding more of this green, a little bit of black, I have added to this to make it more dark, greenish shade, and a little bit of fluorescent red. This is something different color which comes up actually like color when the leaves are, whereas leaves are just tiny and start to mature. How it appears, I'm trying to create that shade, I don't know what that shade is called, but slight grayish, pinkish, greenish shade, something like that. Just a little details to this. Taking fluorescent pink and red and again adding the details first the outline, then just making it crisp and clear the outline. Now I'm taking my rigger brush because I don't want very thick lines. Again, I will try to add the lines, just adding a very thin line to it and creating these and trying to create the shades you can see to the sides of the petrol very thin lines. Whenever you are creating such thin lines, make sure that your color is fluid. Then only you will be able to create such thin lines. Very small details add beauty to the entire painting. These are very small details which I'm trying to add it so that it looks more realistic and beautiful. Now I'm just outlining it with black because there's a gap in between these two petals. I'm just trying to make it with black so that gap reflects. Whenever you are doing such type of painting, try to use the thinnest brush, either liner brush or rigger brush. Here I'm using the same rigger brush that we did earlier for the petal detailing. Now let's take green color and mix it with little black, little white to it, again, adding little lines in between. These are very small details which really adds a beauty to the petals actually. Now let's add more of yellow like in the above we did with pink and yellow. Here we are, doing with yellow and green color. Now let's rotate it again, just adding more lines to the upper part, which I've done pink. You can see already this has come up very beautiful. The upper part, a few below petals are left, which we'll be doing slowly. One by one, we are doing all the petals. Now let's mix again this color. And just trying to connect center petal, this line. And again, drawing the line from the petal, which is coming from the center to the downwards direction, adding little pink. And I'm just going down and making the outline of the petal first. Do it very slowly. Take your own time because these are very small details. 11. Detailing Leaves: Moving further, let's begin with the other petals detailing. Let's take again our round brush and mixing this, both red and pink color. A little bit of green is also there. Just adding more lines to the upper part of the petal. Just adding the lines so that the two colors reflect. Now again, taking a little green in it, just adding to the leaves, which is below. Just simple lines and same curvy lines as the shape of the petal. Now taking a white and fluorescent yellow, again adding lines to the lower part, because you can see there is a fold in the leaves. I'm just highlighting it that so that it becomes a little more prominent with fluorescent yellow. Just adding more lines below the leaf petal. Very small minute details just adds so much beauty and so much realism to the painting. As you can see, I'm just adding a little bit more of fluorescent over the lower part so that it becomes more vibrant from the lower side. You can already see it's looking so vibrant and magical when you use black as a background, whenever you are doing such type of painting, try to use dark background, then only that painting will look very vibrant. Dark background can be black, dark grayish color. Or you can use greenish color. That is the sap green color. Also you can use for creating vibrancy. Now let's add a little bit more outlined to the lower part. Just adding green to fluorescent yellow, just highlighting from below. Then taking white and just adding again the outline to it. Now let's take again this fluorescent green and just add to the bottom part of the first petal, which we did actually little greenish touch to it. So we can see just taking a little bit more white and then again adding further more vibrancy to this part, lower part actually. Now let's do the further detailing on this. Now taking this green and fluorescent yellow mix with my round brush, I'll just highlight the below line, one side only just highlighting it. I'm just showing that one side, there is more light than the other. I've just highlighted this area. Then I'll try to just blend the color, just make it a little thick. Now let's do the other leaves as well, which are left on the other side first. Let's do the upper one. For the upper one, we'll take white and this fluorescent green and yellow mix. And I adding first on the above part, that is the top part, just adding more of white to it because this is quite vibrant. The upper part, just adding it to it, then taking a little bit more of green, just adding green to it, and I'll try to blend both the colors. Now, just covering the bottom part also with the slight greenish color. Just taking yellow and lemon yellow and just adding more yellow on the top towards the end. Now taking fluorescent pink, black, and fluorescent red, just mixing the colors. Just taking my, again round brush, I'll try to create the line which divides these two. Let's take our rigger brush for doing this because it would be difficult for us to use this round brush instead of rigger brush. I'm just taking rigger brush and trying to create a fine line which divides the upper area and the below area just outlining it. Now adding little small diagonal lines below to give a more realistic to it. Just small small lines. Similarly on the upper side as well, Few lines on the bottom part. Just few, not too much, especially below. And just small lines just adding little textures to below. First with the pinkish color and now with this green and fluorescent yellow color. Just a few simple lines which we did on this side. Same we are doing on the other side. Now let's turn the image and let's do more detailing on this side. Just adding more lines, very close lines. I'm not creating big, big lines. Very small small lines which adds, uh, the veins and details to it. Very small, small lines now taking white, just make it a little fluid and then start adding it, just adding the highlight below. As you see, the painting is very simple, but the accuracy and the lines are very important in especially the boundaries which you are forming it. Take care of that when you are doing such type of painting. On the top of that red line, I'm trying to draw this white outline. If any colors like spills out, just try to cover it with your same background color that is black. Now let's add a few more lines, white lines and this fluorescent lines to the upper edge. I think two to three leaves are more left. Then we are done with this painting. Just a few more details and we are good to go in this. I've just added green and fluorescent pig to give more highlights to this petal. Now let's do the other petal also just adding the same color to this petal. And then taking this fluorescent green and mixing more fluorescent yellow to it, and adding again the lighter color. And I'm just blending the two colors. One is the darker color and other side is the lighter color. When you mix pink to this green, the color becomes something different, like pinkish green, you can see here which adds like the realistic look to the leaves and the petals. Now just adding a little bit more light highlight to the other side of the petal. Very minute details are left. Again, pink and green mix. Just adding the highlights to this lower petal. You can see I'm just filling up the colors with the same grayish, pinkish color. I'm just covering it with this color, the lower leaf part, which is there. And I'm trying to give shape also to it because here again, after doing the detailing, I'll just outline it also, I'm adding a little highlight of pink color to it as well, taking black in this mix and just adding more details to this part. Just adding a few more details to this part of the petal. 12. Final Detailing Of Leaves: Welcome back. So I've just taken a fresh palette of same colors, fluorescent colors, and black and white. Let's start with further detailings of the painting. Let's start with first white color. And I have used here, again, my rigger brush, just taking a little white and just outlining this area with white color as I want a little sharp lines, just adding little white lines to this petal area which is a little greenish color to the end. So again, this fluorescent pink green mix more of green and just mixing both the colors. And then we'll start with further the leaf detailing first, I'm doing the first below area and I'm just blocking it with this color. Why? I'm doing this with Rigger brush so that the colors don't come out the boundaries. You can use small size round brush also for this. Now again, fluorescent soliucent yellow, white mix with this grin. Other side I'm of the leaves and I'm trying to blend both the colors. You can only blend both the colors if both the colors are wet. Just keep that in mind when you are using specially acrylic medium. Acrylics actually dry very fast, so you have to take care of that in mind. If you will use too much amount of water in this, your colors will dry very fast. If you're directly using color and very small amount of water thick colors, the colors will not dry so fast that you have to take in mind that try to use more colors and less water. Similarly, I'm doing the other petal as well. One side, little pinkish green and other side, little fluorescent yellow green. And I'm just trying to blend both the colors now, again, adding more of green to it, outlining this other petal, and just creating some lines on this greenish side which has more greens to it. There's a small petal below. I'm just covering it with green. Just taking more of fluorescent pink and green mix again, you can see how brownish greenish shade it comes. Actually a different type of green is there. I'm not sure what it is called, just covering this upper area with this where the two leaves are joining. Especially the joining part, I'm just covering with that color and just trying to give a little shade to that part. And then the lower part, I'm just covering with this fluorescent green and yellow mix. So you can see how the blending is being done with just the rigger brush and using two colors. You can use a round brush also for this if you don't have this rigger brush or the liner brush is also fine if you are having it just outlining the outer area with the lighter green color. Every part of the petal outlining is very important, very neat outline. And try to use very pointed brush for outlining all these petals, especially the corner petals. Because the background is black. And if there will be any mistake or any lines which are moving apart, it will automatically reflect on your entire painting. Just making a little more outlines to the part which is joining the lower petal. Just making a little more dark. Now taking a little white color and just adding to the edges of the little fluorescent yellow also. These are the final details which I'm actually adding where I feel that it should be there. Just see your painting and see where it is lagging and just add a bit of color to it to make it more vibrant. Look, now again, I'm mixing pink and black to make it a little dark color, I'll just try to add more lines on the top because I want that upper area to be more darker than the lower one. Especially the upper tip petal, which should be more darker than the lower part of the petal. We are almost done with the painting. Just a few more outlining parts left and we almost done just the final detailings we are doing. And just more lines and more darker lines on the petals. I'm just adding. 13. Final Touch Up: So welcome back. This is our last part in which we are doing few details. Let's do some glazing over the middle petal here. I'm using the same color, that is the pink and greenish color, and I'm making it very fluid, transparent color with adding water. I'm just adding a little highlight in the center because the center is quite dark. And I'm just trying to add a little more glazing effect, the center part of the petal, adding more colors to the center. And make sure your color is not very thick. The color should be so thin that the below detailing should be reflected. This is the glazing technique which I'm using over here on the petals as you can see. To add more center highlight to the petal. To give more depth to the petal as you can say, just the center part, then adding a little more of this glazing effect. Now let's do further more detailing where this lines are required. We'll just add a few more lines. We are all good to go with the painting a little more glazing. I'm adding in the center to give more depth to this petal. Now, once this is done, we'll add a little more lines to the center, as well as to the sides to make it visible lines. Because when we add a little bit of glazing, some of the lines becomes light. I'm just adding a more highlight to the side line. Especially leaving the center one and giving more brightness to the side area of the petal. Just some nice thin lines. Now taking this fluorescent pink and just adding a few more lines and highlights to it. Just few more thin lines and with this light color also. Now, this is just the finishing touch which I am doing. If you are good to go with the painting, no need to do the same thing. If you feel that your painting is really good and it's fine, the lines are fine. No need to repeat it again, because I feel that a little bit more of lines should be there. So I'm doing it. When you see your painting, then only you will be able to depict the lines. Now I'm just outlining this with white color. When you're outlining this, just make sure that your color is very thin. Just adding a little bit of yellow to it and just outlining the whole area. Now this is the final outline which we'll be doing. Your outline has to be very thin and make sure that your color is really very fluid. Then only you'll be able to create those lines. Fluid means it should be a milky fluid, not too much fluid. That the color becomes transparent fluid in the sense that the color should move when you are drawing the outline. And it should be thin. It should be that thin, so just outlining the petals. So just enjoy the process of outlining slowly. I hope you guys have enjoyed painting this. If you are trying this painting, do share me your project works. I will love to see them. If you have any doubts, any questions regarding this painting and this project, you can ask me in the discussion section. Also, you can DM on Instagram. That is Hi Art Gallery. Free to answer all your questions. Also regarding this white framing, you can see in the cat portrait painting, I have shown how to frame the round canvas. You can see that, especially the framing part for protecting the paintings. Once you're done with this painting, leave the painting for at least a day. Then next day you can varnish it with any varnish, whichever you want to use, either satin gloss mat, whichever varnish you want, you can use it. And at least two to three at varnish. You should apply when you are varnishing your painting. Because this not only protects your painting, it helps in long run. Also, it helps to protect your painting from dusts and light everything. Try to varnish it when you are completed with this painting. In each and every class, I try to teach something new so that you can learn something new and different. Mostly my paintings are a little bit intermediate level. It's not a big level painting, these are all intermediate level, which requires a lot of patience. But I'll soon bring one painting that will be a landscape painting which will depict all the characters as well as from big level also. And the intermediate level also can paint those beautiful landscapes. Next painting will be mostly on the landscapes, Let's see and wait for it. In the coming year, I will be publishing that you can see. I'm just outlining it with white and black lower one, I have just outlined it with black. And the upper petals I have outlined with white outlines Should be a thin, as posible, make it fluid. Then only you will be able to outline it thin. We're almost done with this painting and just a few more outlines and we are complete. I hope you guys enjoyed doing this painting along with me as I did. Because if you have any doubts, any questions please do. Ask me at the outline is done. I'm just rotating my canvas so that I can outline the lower one also. So just taking a little black and outlining this black portion, Especially the lower outlines which are below. So just a few more. So do share your project works and your reviews because it makes me keep going. And motivated reviews are very important for me so that I can improve myself also. And this will be your project work for this painting, for this class especially, we are almost complete with this outlining part. I hope you guys have enjoyed doing this realistic lotus painting as I did, and hoping to see some beautiful projects from you guys soon. This is it. Thank you for giving your time and watching this. Do do share your project works. I'll be eagerly waiting to see all your projects. Thank you and have a good day.