Acrylic Painting Made Easy Serene Lily Pads and Water Lilies

1. Welcome to the new beautiful class: Come to a new and simple painting class that will teach you how to make this beautiful water lily artwork. This class is perfect for beginners because it focuses on letting go and painting freely and easily. You will build a lot of courage and understanding on how to paint freely and a lot more fast. You will be able to achieve clean colors, learn about perspective and composition in this class. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over 11 years. And five years ago, I've fallen in love with with over 20,000 students, both online and in person classes. I've developed this wonderful way of teaching. That focuses on having fun and making interesting projects while at the same time learning the basics and the fundamentals of painting. Even if you don't have any experience painting, you will be able to achieve an amazing result. In this class, you will have step by step encouragement and guidance to be able to flourish. So let's jump into the course. 2. Materials needed: Welcome. Today's course, will be all about how to do washes and paint a bit faster so that we kind of cheat at the painting stage. I'm going to show you how to build complexity without really thinking about it too much. We're going to do a beautiful lake with water lilies. It's going to be a beautiful experience, and you will need a canvas. This is 30 by 40 centimeters. You will need a big brush, a big flat brush, a medium flat brush, and a very small flat brush. You'll also need a mixing plate, some water, and of course, some acrylic. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint, titanium white. Azo yellow medium. You will probably use some other yellow, like lemon yellow, but it doesn't matter. This is just a yellow that has a bit more red. So burnt timber, also known as brown, and some car mean red. And for this course, you will need to trust a bit in your abilities to do a lot of things a bit more quickly. It's not as if we will be rushing, but instead, you will be using the big brush in order to create very fast things. You will also need some paper towels, quite a bit of them because you will be doing drawing with them. You will understand once we add some brown to the mixing plate. 3. Painting faster: For the first step, you will need some brown on the mixing plate, as well as some blue. And some yellow right above the blue. Okay. Once you've done that, grab a bit of water with a brush mine already has some green stuff in it, and add some brown to this to make a wash. You need to make it a bit thicker than usual. Add some blue to it. Once you do that, add a bit more brown just until it has a bit of consistency. It's not just water and paint. So if you put it on down, you can start to see it's a very dark black, and it's not opaque. And once you do that, you can start to just add this color most everywhere, especially in the middle. It needs to be in the middle right over here, quite thickly. And then on the edges just cleaning up the brush. Okay. It's very important that at this stage, you go a bit faster because we need to draw with the napkins. So that's basically what you're doing. Let's grab some blue and a bit of water to add it right over here as a line going towards the left side. A simple easy line. Let's add some yellow to this blue and place it right next over here. Let's add some more blue. And a touch of yellow. I know this seems fast, but it doesn't need to be that precise. Okay. Let's add a bit more yellow to the pile and go further with the painting. Okay. Be careful not to go into the blue. You can actually add more blue just to attach it and right on this corner over here, let's add some more blue. Let's take some more of this brilliant blue and add it at the top. Let's create a nicer green, just adding some yellow onto the pile, and going over here. On top of the blue right next to it actually. And over here. Let's create a brownish color with yellow. This will be a much warmer tone for the bottom over here, and at the top, let's take some water to spread that paint around faster. Water lubricates the paint. And it makes it run faster. Just go with some motions. You can go into the black now and start spreading it onto the middle side. And now let's take some of this green and add some more of this color nicely into the middle. Okay. Let's recreate that dark color this time a bit thicker and add it to the middle. In case you have some hairs, you can pick them up like this and add them to the side of the water container. Let's take some more blue and add it over here. And smooth everything down, barely touching the canvas. Let's make that yellow with some brown a bit more, just to add it into the lower side, maybe add it over here and over on this side. Notice how it starts to look much nicer. Let's go with some beautiful short lines like this, into the distance, and as you go further, you can start to create thicker lines. More of this yellow, just add a bit more yellow. A tiny bit to make some lines that are thicker right around here, and right around here. Let's take some blue and do the same thing over here and also over on this area. Okay. Let's also cover all of the sides of the canvas that are exposed. You don't need to let it dry. You're going to actually take some napkins in the next step, and you're going to start drying immediately. 4. Sketch with the napkin: So, let's take one napkin, make it very small. And start over here, take out just a line and then make it a bit of a circle. Let's make it bigger. These are the leaves of the water lilies, and let's make another one connected to this one. So notice how it is quite circular. And I'm changing the towel to make another one just over here like this. And then changing the towel again to pick up some more of that color. Oh two circles, and going further. Let's make another one, but smaller this time. So two big ones, and then another smaller one just here and another smaller one next to it because of this. Okay. Let's build some right over here, creating like a spot, a center of interest. These are just ovals, simple little ovals. That you are creating with the napkin. This is a very secret technique. Also, it's called the napkin frenzy because you are building this layers of paint. Let's make another one here. Okay. And as you go in the distance, you should make them a bit smaller. Just barely touching the canvas. Just one over here, so we balance it out, make it even smaller, just a small little pyramid, and start adding one over here. And another one just over here. Maybe this one we're going to make a bit bigger. Change the towel once again, make that small point just so you can uncover this color. You are basically taking the paint away to have a space for lighter colors, and you're also learning how to draw like a painter. Let's make another one that's bigger, right over here. And another one connecting it like this. Notice how I accidentally made another one here. Let's actually make it. And I'm noticing that this should be a bit bigger. Okay. Now, let's take a clean towel just because you're going to need to make a flower, which is very, very simple. Just make this into a tip and start from the middle right over here, and add one petal, and then another one going up and another one going up. Make another tip. Add another tip. Let's make it smaller and make this flower a bit bigger, just like this. Oh, no. I created some textures here, but that's fine. And of course, let's add the middle as well. Okay. And let's take some more of this napkin and erase some of the middle. That's one flower done. Let's make another one just over here, but a bit smaller this time. Right over here. Just like a cup and going a bit to the sides. It's a little bit of a cup and it has a side. Okay. Now, let's focus a bit more on the leaves on the lily pond. L right over here. Let's make another one. And maybe another one, just here going that way and smaller ones in the distance, very, very tiny ones, for that, you will need something like this to just be able to cut some lines. One, two, three, and going over here, Let's build one more flower in the distance, but first, you will need to make another lily just over on here and another one connecting the other ones like this. Let's erase some more of that. In case your whole painting is becoming too Dry. You can take some water and do it with the brush. Like this, you have a bit more control with the brush, circle it with some water, and then take the napkin and take that water away so that you uncover the canvas. Let's make this a bit longer. Okay. Perfect. Now, you don't need to let it dry. You're going to paint over it with some very intense greens, and let's focus a bit on the whole perspective. 5. First lily pads: This step, you will need the small brush, some blue. So yellow, making a beautiful green. This brush is a bit crooked. Notice how it's round. I'm noticing when I'm mixing the color, just add more yellow. This will be a very intense yellow. But it will mix a bit with the color on the background. Let's focus not on this one first. Let's focus on this one right over here. Focusing on that circle, making it nice and round. Now, at this point, you don't need to rush anymore. You've done the rushing part. Now you can take your time to make these very beautiful and round. If you would have painted over this, directly, it would have really messed up the color a lot, and you would have to wait for the paint to dry. Now you don't have to wait for the paint to dry because you can go like this. And let's take and now that you have some practice. Remember, these shapes are very flat at the top and very flat at the bottom. Let's make this round shape over here. Let's add a bit more color to the middle. Remember that these ellipses are not footballs, like American footballs. They are very round on the edge over here. They are not pointy. In fact, let's make it a bit more outside on the outside, so we cover some of that dark color. Now going and refining the edge, notice how here it has a wonderful corner just like a football. Let's take some more yellow, mix it in with this just so it's a bit different and actually round this a bit. Notice how the brush creates a bit of texture that is good. And then as you go and refine this wonderful patch of color, You can go inside a bit faster because this is just the first layer of paint. If you have some streaks like this, those are good. You can actually create them by pressing a bit harder on the brush. It creates a streak on the left and the right of the brush. And then the one in the middle, you can blend inside of the shape. It really makes the painting a bit more ty, and when they dry, they dry a bit flat. Let's make this one over here. Notice how there is a bit of space here. That's just because the napkin was added too close to the edge, and I went overboard a bit. So instead of fixing it, we can just add another one barely touching. And now you can also see what happens if you go into the blacks. So that's how it would have looked like if you would have straight up painted on the black. Let's make it a bit bigger. Just like that. But it's fine because it's a bit in the background. And a tip that you can do is clean up the brush. Pick up some of the color, clean up the brush again. Pick up some of the color. You're basically doing the same thing you did with the napkin, but this time with the brush. So let's take some more color, add it over. Still too black, but that's fine. We're going to let this dry at some point and add more color. L et's add more yellow and focus on the beautiful color and beautiful leaf over here. Lily pads. They are called lily pads. This one, you can brush a bit with your finger, just because it's very close to us. Let's make it a bit more round on the bottom, and focusing on this one. You can go a bit faster once you get the hang of it, just going and adding slowly to the edge, and then going lower. 6. Complexity of the lily pads: Adding some more yellow just to change up the color. This will be a very interesting color, so let's add it over here. Okay. Just as a tiny bit of highlight. And maybe over here, and let's make this one a bit more yellow. It has a bit of black, so it will basically become duller. D D sines yo, just focusing on that edge. It's very important for lily pads to have a very straight edge and a very crisp one. So you can go fast in the middle, but as you go to let's add some more blue, as you go to the edge, you need to be a bit slower and methodical with your circle, barely touching the black, and going down and slower, making it bigger. Notice how it's not round enough, needs to be a bit more round. And over here, we can go to the side to create that edge. Perfect. Now, on the other side, you can go this way with the brush, so you have more control to go on the side. Okay. Once you've done that, you can move to the next one, which is one over here. And let's focus on the edge. Notice how it's not round enough, so we're going to have to make it a bit bigger and more round. Picking up some of that black, so we need more color. Going to this one, doing the same. These are the same repeated shapes. But because we are grouping them together, they look a bit nicer. And because we are slowly changing the hue, let's now add some blue, and let's add it to the middle of this one. T a tiny bit, maybe in the background here because it has too much black. Okay? And to this one, we're just changing a bit to hue, and once we have a close enough hue to the other ones like these ones, you can start to add it and make a circle with it. Because it's a different hue, you can go around it to create a difference in between the lily pads. 7. Creating perspective: And as you go further, you need to add a bit of brown and a bit of yellow to this color to make it a bit darker. So you create a bit of depth. These smaller ones can be done very fast and loose. Just barely scratching the canvas and being very careful, just like this. Just a tiny bit. Let's group together two or three over here. Notice how the black ends up making the color a bit duller and darker, so you need to pick up some more color. Let's make another one over here. Maybe this one is a tiny bit bigger. Taking some yellow and mixing it in just to change the hue. Okay. And let's make this one a bit bigger, so it goes outside and opens up that composition. Making this one over here a bit bigger, of course, because it's closer to us. That's how things work with perspective, grabbing some yellow, some blue to remake that color. Some yellow and now making the edge, pressing a bit harder, just to give it more color. Okay. Don't worry about the whites. If you have a bit of white around here as fine. Let's make this one like this way. Just creates a bit of a depth. Notice how the black is getting into the green, so you need to pick up some more green. Notice how you can take advantage of the shape of the edge. Notice how this will almost create a square. This also happens over here. Let's actually accentuate it. So it's a different type of edge that you've created like a interplay. And this feels like it should have another one on top to the right, just to build a bit more verticality. Just over here. This can be a bit darker. It's fine. You can add another layer once everything is dry. Let's clean up the brush out of that black and make this one over on this side. And let's make another one over here. And over here, deliberately going into the black to pick up some of that black, and another one over here. And let's build some sm, smaller, smaller ones like here. And small These can be just dabs. T a smidge of paint. But keeping that circular motion. Let's make one that goes outside, and opening, opening. Let's add some more color to this one. Let's mix in that black a bit, and add right over here another one over the black that is almost dry, but it's still showing up. Okay. And now we need to let this paint dry completely so we can do some flowers, some beautiful flowers, some lilies. If you have a hair dryer, you can go over it with the hair dryer. It dries so much faster, and you can paint even even faster. It's almost dry completely, but it needs like 15 minutes to dry. 8. What you've learned so far: Focus on what you've learned before we paint a bit. And I kind of tricked you. But for a good reason, I kind of tricked you to paint the background very fast. You didn't really need to paint it that fast. You could have just waited for it to dry, but this is a very good way of getting in the habit of just doing a fast wash and painting a bit faster. This painting is about learning how to paint faster. And you've also learned how to do circles, these beautiful round shapes, these beautiful vals, and you've learned a bit of brush handling. By focusing on the edge. Pressing a bit harder. Let's take this vitamin water from here. Put it on another table, so I don't confuse it with the paint water. Even though if you drink paint water, it makes you stronger. I'm not going to try it. I've never drank paint water, even though it might seem so. So you've noticed that if you press harder on the brush, it makes this nice edge right next to it. 9. Turning on the lights: And in this next step, it will focus more on creating some color variety for the greens by adding a bit of red to the palette, right next to this blue, and a touch of white, just to bring forth that those beautiful greens and make them lighter. Be careful not to use all of the white. Just take a bit. Go over the green, take some yellow if you don't have it or it's dry. Take a tiny bit of blue and mix it in making this beautiful highlight color. And let's go over here and add it onto the edge. Take some water, clean the brush with some water, put it on the side of the cup just so you don't have a lot of water, and you can soften this edge and create some textures very beautifully. Let's do the same over here. L et's blend it in, take some more color. Add that edge, pressing a bit harder and taking more color to have that beautiful edge showing. Shifted a bit to the yellow, but that's fine. And you can also use the side of the brush like this to accentuate that yellow. Let's go a bit over this blue, to blend it a tiny bit. Once you've done that, you can add more white to this beautiful color, this beautiful yellow green, and focus a bit more on the edge. Just a tiny amount, and then over here to create more contrast. Take some more yellow, shifting the colors a bit to create more color variety. And let's make the same for this one right close to the edge. And on this edge as well. Oh, no. I need to make it a bit bigger now. See if you let it dry completely, you can paint over it. Take some water. Blend it a bit, making some textures as well as you go along. Be careful not to cover at all. And with the s watery yellow, you can start doing some edge work on these ones. On the ones that are further away. And really control that edge. Let's take some more paint. And for this one, well, actually this one because it's more of an interest, more of a focus, and creating some textures and over here, creating some textures and then brushing them, creating some textures here, brushing them as well. Let's take some more white, mix it in, and some yellow, and a touch of blue from here. Let's focus on this edge and over here on this side. On this edge as well, pressing harder to get that beautiful edge over top of it. Let's build up some textures on this one as well. And over here, making that edge, once again, taking some water, adding running the brush like this, take some water out of the brush so that you just have a little bit of a wash that you can put on top of these lily pads. Water lilies. Take some more paint, add it to the side. It still has some water. So it's a bit transparent, which is nice because you can create some textures. You can also put your finger down to create more abstract shapes. Let's focus on this edge right over here. There will be another lily pad, another lily flower on top. There is a bit of a hair here, I think. Now, I cannot take it out, especially with the gloves. So you have to be careful for beautiful hairs to pick them up when it's appropriate. And let's focus what more color on this edge right over here, and over here, blending it a bit, and then recreating this beautiful, nice Squareish shape, blending it into the shape. Okay. Let's make a beautiful orange green. Take a tiny bit of red. Make this orange. Add a smudge of blue to it. It might seem very, very orange, but it's fine. Let's add it over this to add more color variety. Don't worry if it's to orange. That's good. And on this one in the background, Let's add some yellow to it to make it a bit stronger and closer to the other colors. You're just building color variety, even though it doesn't look perfect. It will look perfect once you go back to the high light color. Let's add some distant ones, maybe making this one a bit longer. And let's go back to this color. Let's make it again with some blue and some green and some yellow actually, and some white to be able to replicate this color and go over it again. It still has some orange in it. So it's a bit more close to the orange. It's an intermediary color. Perfect and over here as well. Be careful not to cover all of the orange. Can always pick some pick some up and add it over top. Let's take some water and create some textures watery textures on top of them. This has the added benefit of creating some interesting shapes. Let's add some edge work and color to this one. In fact, let's take some green from here. And recreate it. Let's add a tiny bit of this yellow to the ones in the background, smudge it a bit ad a bit smudge, add another bit smudge, and to this one to make it a bit more circular. This one needs a bit of love as well. Let's make now deeper green. Just a touch of this green, making it a bit more towards the green, so you can add it over top. Be careful to keep some of the darkest areas still alive. Don't cover everything up. It's important, and let's go closer to this lily pad. Okay, and a bit of a touch here because it's too flat, and to this one as well, creating a nice edge. Let's actually press a bit harder, so it creates that edge, softening the middle, making a bit of a color shift over here. Clean up the brush. And now let's recreate. That's this whole step. You don't need to really let the paint dry. In the next step. You will be focusing on the blacks and making things a bit darker and some blue. 10. Reflections and negative painting: This next step, you will need the bigger brush, the bigger middle brush, and blue and brown and the touch more blue, and the touch more brown. You need to make it a bit watery, just a tiny bit watery, so it blends better on the canvas. Now, you'll need to focus on making some darker areas underneath the lily pads, just like that. And then continuing them and smudging the edges. There were some white spots over there. This is a very good time to focus on the edge work. Remember, underneath them, you need to be a bit more of a line to build a bit of a line just as a shadow. Notice how this was a bit yellow, and I went in and cleaned that circle. It's a bit too thick. So be careful not to go very fast and very thick. Perfect. Now going on this side and cleaning up the edge. And here you can go a bit darker and thicker, and as you go to the left, you can go a bit softer. Let's create this angle as well. And this softer edge, let's make it a bit more crisp. Maybe add a bit of a wiggle, Let's see which one needs a bit more refinement like this one. It's a bit too thick. Let's add, let's erase some of this. Doesn't have to be the exact color. Can basically just refine the edges as you go further and then blend some of it away. Notice how here I touched with the napkin. That's okay. We're going to keep some of them, clean up the brush with some paper towels, just swirl it into the water, and then squeeze the water and the paint out of the paint brush. Not too much. Needs a bit of love. Let's take some blue, add it to the middle. Let's take some water, making it a bit more fluid. And now let's focus on making a beautiful highlight on the water. It will be a bit transparent when it dries, so don't worry if it's too intense. Go into the blacks and picking some of that black, being careful not to touch the lily pads, taking some of that black so that you can really blend it a bit more. Like for instance, here, and touching it with the fingers. For instance, over here. And you can also go on the edge, just like that to create some beautiful colors. Let's add another beautiful reflection line over here. And if we are here, let's clean the brush, take some of this color. It still has some blue and create another lily pad bigger one just over here in the side of the canvas, just to balance out the composition. Make it a bit longer, take some more color, and some water. To make it run to make it like forrest Gump. And now, let's clean the brush and with some brown and some yellow, recreate that green. Let's add some blue to it and some more yellow, and a bit more blue, and now a bit more brown. Needs a bit more yellow just so we can make it a bit more visible. Let's add some water, so it's lubricated and transparent. Wonderful. Now, with this found color, you can go over these greener parts into the blues. They are not dry yet, so they will pick up some of that blue and create some wonderful reflections. Notice how I built this wonderful tower over here. You can extend it to the right and then build it over here as well. To the left actually. Extend it to the left. And continue it a little bit further just so it builds a little bit of a bridge. You can also smudge it a bit. Go with some lines right over here and smudging them, going from here, smudging them as well. These are softer edges of the water, adding another layer on top. Oh, no, I picked up the wrong color. Adding another layer on top just to create more color variety. Now, focusing on this beautiful edge over here, you can go around the lily pad. It has some black. Just don't worry about it, pick it up and do a little bit of a line. Smudge it a bit. And let's focus on this area. The further you go, smaller the lines become, the thinner they become. So try to make them thinner. In fact, you can pick up the small brush and clean it out of the brown, take some of this color and start making some lines, some beautiful, long green lines, can also go a bit thinner with the paint by adding some water. This will make them run faster, and also it will make them more transparent. Notice how soft and thin those lines are. I did a bit of a bigger one here, so let's break it down just a bit lower with some finer lines. And over here, coming from the side, smudge it, and let's add smaller one. Let's take some of that blue with some water and do the same on this side. And on this side. It has a bit of green into it, so it's a bit nicer. That's why I added it here as well. Creates this beautiful turquoise. And over here since there is a bit of blue. Of course, you can go around the shape of the lily pads just a bit on some of them, and then smudge it towards the left and a bit higher around this one, maybe and smudge it to the right, a bit more. And a tiny bit more making some lines. You erasing some of them even more, and then over on this side, just breaking a bit of that black under line and over here to make the line shorter and softer. Notice how you are creating softer and finer lines underneath the lily pad just by going like this, creating that shadow a bit thinner. And making some more lines over here because this lily pad is having a big shadow, casting a big shadow. Okay. And now let's go back to the green, mixing in with some of this black, just to change the color a bit and the hue. And over here, make some more lines. Clean up the brush on an area of the canvas. And in the next step, you will be making some lilies, some beautiful flowers. You need to let it dry a bit, maybe use a hair dryer to dry it faster, exactly what I'm going to do. 11. First pink flowers: Notice how there is a bit of water here. If you have that, just take it out. It's fine. And clean up the big brush, just so you have it ready for a later stage. In case we decide to make something with it. So it doesn't dry completely. Okay. Let's actually clean the big biggest brush as well, so it doesn't dry. Just swirling a bit, dabbing the water, and then squeezing out that paint. Perfect. I made a mess. Let's clean my gloves. Okay. And for this next step, you need very clean brush, a very clean brush, and find an area that's clean on the beautiful plate, the color mixing plate. Let's put it here and touch of red. A tiny bit of red, more white. Be careful not to pick up some of that brown or the blue or even the yellow. Just making this beautiful candy, very light pink. Now let's add it over on this side. Let's focus in on just the shape of the lily. Notice this is just a petal and another petal here. Let's actually put a finger down, the pinky finger down, so you have more control and add make a corner like that. And over on this side, making a beautiful corner as well, and on this side. These are very simple shapes. They are just the opposite of this, which is rounded. This is just like a football. Okay. And over here, let's fill it in. And let's build another one onto the side. Well, let's round it out at the bottom. Let's build another one just over here. Maybe it has a thing sticking out here, and it's a bit smaller. And right next to it, there is another one that is closed up only for two petals. Or three. Okay. Let's build up some more color. And let's make one over on this side. Let's decide here, here, here. Let's make it right over here, over the green, so it stands out a bit more. And another one here. Let's make another one over on this side. Next to this, this needs to be smaller. Notice how this is the biggest one. These two are medium sized and as they go further, they are smaller and smaller. Let's add another one just over here. This will be just a point of color. To balance it out. Let's add just a touch color here. 12. Vibrant colors and reflections: Perfect. Now let's make it a bit darker by adding some red and a touch of yellow, just to make it that rosy, beautiful color. Now, on the left side, we're going to add the shadows overtop this color. It will start blending with the pink that you've already laid down. Let's also add another one coming towards us. It's like a small triangle and one going up, and a bit of a shadow onto this side. Let's add another petal in the middle just over here and another one here. Simple little shapes. Okay. And for this one, just a touch and this one and another petal for this one. Perfect. Now, clean up the brush. Add some more white. It still has some pink, but you also need to take it and make a very, very light almost white color so that you can start to add some highlights onto the left side and some touching Okay. Let's make this a bit more big onto the left side, barely touching it, cleaning up the brush, taking some water, just a tiny bit of water, just to blend those things together a bit more. Just a tiny bit of touches to blend it. Okay. Let's take some yellow and some red, a tiny amount of red, mix it together over this pink, a bit more yellow, a bit more yellow to make this rosy pink intermediary color. Notice how it sticks out a bit. Let's add it to the left side and a bit to the right like this and in the middle. And over here, and let's make a beautiful splotch of paint over here. And let's add another lily with the color over here. Now, clean up the brush a bit and start doing some reflections. Take some water. So you have a transparent color, transparent pink. In case you have the blue still showing, and as you go down, soften it a bit longer, and then take a bit more color and add it to the middle, still watery and add more color and make the shape smaller. So it reflects. And over here as well, add a smudge with the finger. Add a smudge, and over here, it will be longer, just because it's a bit more in the distance. Let's make this one longer as well. Add a bit of water just so we can make it longer. It's too long. Let's erase some of it and add it back in just a bit. Let's take some more color and add it to the middle over here. Building those layers up a bit, smudging them, adding some more color. 13. Contrast and vibrancy: Let's clean up the brush, take some yellow, mix it with a touch of red, and let's add it in the middle of the flower, almost all of the flowers. They have this small, beautiful yellow middle. Let's add some white to this color. Just a touch of white, and add it onto the right side of the yellow you've just put down. Just a touch here or there, and maybe here. Let's also clean up the brush a bit. Just a tiny bit. Take just on the corner on the tip and add it into the middle of the of only this highlight. This reflection. Smudge it, then take some more pink, add it a it to dit the shape. Let's add more pink to this one just because we need to make it more visible. Just like that. Now let's just smudge some of those edges. And now for the crown jewel, let's take some of this blue, just a touch with some water and go over with a few lines. Creating the water ripples over top the reflection, so I builds up that illusion of being water. Let's add it and make it more intense over here and over here. Let's add a touch, just a bit of white to the pile, just a smite you can go lower just so it doesn't feel awkward because you have these intense lines over there. Okay. And for the last highlights of the lilies, you're going to make this color again. Add a touch of yellow to it, too much yellow. Add a touch of yellow to it and a bit more pink and take a bit of paint and start adding some beautiful highlights. Now that the water lilies are a bit more dry. They can take paint a bit more. Smudge it a bit. Be careful not to cover everything. And if you do, it's not a big deal because next step is going back to the pinks. This time a bit more intense. Just to add a few touches and create a bit more contrast and also vibrancy. To make that pink even more stand out. This is not only because you have added another layer and the color is more intense, but also because the color underneath is more intense as well. Let's add some more dabs over here and maybe on the left of the yellow to create a bit of a orange feel to it. Let's add some more of this here and maybe here, and also underneath this one. And the line over here. 14. Final details. Thank you: Perfect. Now, clean up the brush because you are going to make the shadows underneath the lily pads. Take some yellow, mix it with some blue, and some brown, a bit more yellow, and some red. Let's take a bit of red. It's too blue, so let's change it to over here. Let's take some red to make it more. Nice and muted, too much red, not really mixing colors properly now, but it's fine. Now, that is the right color. This is a navy beautiful color, and you need to go onto the left side of the lilies to create a shadow. Don't worry, it's going to be a bit darker as we go. This is just the first pas onto the side. It just places them. Now going a bit darker with some blue and some brown, making a bit of a black and mixing it in with the color, just so it blends better. And right next to the lily. Let's add it going even darker, right close to the middle. Can smudge it a bit, just a tiny bit and over here as well. Right next to this one, smudge it. And in case you have too much of a dark color. You can go ahead and add some yellow, just a touch of blue and some white and a bit more blue. To edit the wonderful highlight. This was an actual good step because you need to have some nice highlights very close to the edge of the shadow because it will intensify those shadows a bit more. Let's take some more yellow and a touch of blue and create this intensity around the shadow. Maybe make it smaller over here, and now take some white and add it over just to create that effect even more. Notice how it stands out. Don't go around it too, a tiny bit. Don't circle it. Let's create this edge. Now going over and doing over here the same exact thing. Okay. Now, it needs just a few touches and the painting is done. Needs a bit more color here, and let's make it darker black. Can you believe it? You are almost done? L et's make a darker black, and with this one, you're going to start to edit a bit of the shape of the lily. Wherever you see gray, just start cutting it out a bit, just so you can make it more visible, especially on this one. Over here, there is a soft edge. It shouldn't be there. And in case you have the color too different from the background. Try to add some of the color of the background, like, for instance, blue, will go nicely. Smudge it, and right in between, let's add some blue. It will really make it pop. And also some green. Let's add some green on the left. Green and pink are complimentary colors and on the right as well right in between here and doing the same over here, but a bit more intense because there is a bit more white. Let's take some black. Do it in the middle. Let's build another petal, just dividing these petals a bit, getting some more of that brown with the blue and smog it a bit. Going around it, making another petal here, slowly adding some crispness to the edges and some colors around it. Like for instance, over here, it's not so clear that those are two lily pads. Now they are clear. And take some water with that black and make some other lines, just going over the reflections and over the blue. These lines are very crucial, the black lines that you're doing now, because they add more depth and they make the reflections and the colors, actually, the colors of the water become a lot more intense because you can compare it with the black that you are putting now. The black lines. Let's add some shadow to this one. And create some crispy edges for this one, and clean up the brush and there you go. The course is over. You've learned how to create water in a very simple way. I think there is something that I should be fixing like here. Okay. That's just about it. You've learned how to do reflections in an easy way by doing transparency, smudging with the finger, and then adding more color in the middle of the shape. You've learned how to make a water lily with the shadow on the left side. And you've also learned how to make this painting in a few minutes in 30 or 35 minutes. And that's just about it for today, if you need to do something else onto the painting, you can really clean up the brush and add some more of this white and really add just a few more highlights if you want. Not too many. Don't go overboard. Don't overwork the painting. You can also do some lines, reflections like this, just a few of them. There you go. The painting is over. This was an exciting course, and if you are gracious enough, please leave a review in order for other people to know that you liked this course. Thank you for watching and see you in the next one.