Autumn Watercolor: Paint Fall Florals and Foliage with Gold Accents

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] There's something mesmerizing about adding gold water color accents to form floral paintings that makes the colors pop. It's an elegant combination that I am excited to share with you. Join me today as we explore a new color palette, and apply it to floral elements that we are already familiar with. It is a good exercise to help you get out of an art block, or that time when you just feel stuck. This class is suitable for beginners or experienced artists who want to try and use that [MUSIC]. Hi, my name is Joly, and I'm your watercolor artist and online art educator based in the Philippines. I have been painting for nine years, and I've worked with different famous art prints. My art revolves around painting loose watercolor florals. I love how I'm able to make a creative interpretation of nature, and put it on paper. A quick fun fact about me is that I am a floral painter. The extra space gives me so much freedom to move my hand and create expressive strokes. Here on Skillshare, my classes focus on breaking down difficult watercolor techniques, and making them into easy steps for beginners. In this class, I will first share with you the materials that you need. Next, you will learn how to transform your favorite colors into warm autumn colors, and use that as a guide to create your own floral color palette. If you are a beginner, don't worry as you will learn all the individual flora elements to equip you in painting the final projects. The different projects will have unique floral compositions where you will learn how to incorporate gold accents in creative ways. At the end of the class, you'll be able to create these beautiful paintings. [MUSIC] All the techniques in this class can help you achieve painting other flowers too. Thanksgiving day is coming up, I'm pretty sure these paintings will be great gifts to loved ones. I see this easily customizable like the one that got wreath. That's it. I will see you in class. [MUSIC] 2. Class Overview: Hi, there. This is going to be a short class. If you have taken my classes on Skillshare before, then you would probably be familiar with the floral and leaf elements in this class. But I assure you that painting these familiar elements with the new color palette and an added gold twist will certainly spark your creativity. Let's check out the projects. The first project is going to be very easy to paint, it's a five-petal floral bouquet so we're going to use fall colors. In this project, you will learn how to spread the colors in a bouquet so that it looks more balanced. You're also going to paint the gold accents in different ways, such as veins, berries, [inaudible]. This is definitely one of my favorites. Next, let's move on to this open wreath. This is a foliage wreath. You can see that we use different leaves in different colors. Right here in the middle, I just added a letter in gold, and then we added some gold dots all around the wreath. You can customize this painting by changing the letter in the middle. I think it's a great gift to loved ones for Thanksgiving Day. I think the clean border in this project really looks so beautiful and elegant, so you will learn how to use masking tape for this project to create that clean border. You can also write something in the middle of this painting. This is another idea on how you could incorporate gold accents in your wreath. You can see that we painted the foliage only on the half of this wreath, which saves you time. The other half is just a gold border, which also makes it very elegant. Another idea is to use five-petal flowers for this project. Let's move on to the last project. Of course, my class is incomplete without a loose floral bouquet. So here it is. I really love the vintage look of this painting. These are flowers that we're already familiar with, but we use fall colors, and we added some gold accents all around. So we added some gold leaves, berries, and veins. That's it for the projects, they all look very exciting to paint with a fresh color palette. I'm pretty sure that this class will spark your creativity. Now, let's move onto the next video so that you'll learn more about the materials that you need. [MUSIC] 3. Materials: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the materials that we need. So the first one is a brush. We're going to use the black velvet round brush in size six and eight. I really love using this brush because it can hold a lot of water and still keep its point. This is very important when you're painting loose florals. You want a brush that will follow your flow and you want it to be quite soft with a little bit of balance. This brush has a mix of squirrel and synthetic hair. If I can only choose one, I would choose size eight for you as a beginner. Next, we are going to use our watercolor paint. I'm using the brand ShinHan PWC, it's a Korean artist-grade paint. This brand comes in tubes only and I would usually pour it into smaller half pans just like this. The quality is still the same even after you have board the paints into the half pans? I just usually pour them into these pans so that it's more convenient to use. But if you like painting large-scale paintings, I would suggest using the paints straight from the tube. But of course, you can definitely use any brand that you have on hand. You don't need to get this specific brand. I just want you to enjoy painting our projects today. The next thing that we need is our gold paint. I'm using the Etchr Lab Pearlescent Watercolor. These are metallic paints and they have different shades of gold in this set, which I really love. Aside from golds, you also have bronze colors. I'm going to show you some swatches over here. I personally love using royal gold or pure gold, but you can definitely use any gold paint that you have at home. You can use any other brand with a gold paint. You can also use acrylic paint, gouache paint, or poster paint, and I also think calligraphy ink that is gold in color is also suitable for this project. So let's move on to the paper. I am using the BAOHONG Artist's Grade paper. This is 100 percent cotton paper and I'm also using cold press paper. Cold press paper is suitable for loose florals because you have texture on the paper. Now this paper is in a block form. It means that all the sides are glued except for this part where you can slide off a sheet using a palette knife. From this angle, you can actually see some of the texture on the paper, so we do want that because you want this paper to absorb the paint that we are going to use. Now you might see this other paper. It's also BAOHONG but it's student grade. This is the BAOHONG Academy Watercolor paper pad. This is different from the BAOHONG Artist Grade paper, as you can see in the cover. If you are a beginner, you can try the BAOHONG Academy. I would say that it's one of the best within grade papers that I have tried. For all the projects, we are going to use a 7 by 10-inch paper. BAOHONG Academy or the Student Grade paper has less tooth or less texture on the paper. I'm going to show you the difference between these two papers. On the right, I'm using the Artist Grade paper. You can see that definitely there is more texture on the paper and the paints are spreading just more beautifully. On the left side, this is the Student Grade paper, it's also really good, but you can see more sharp edges. But given the price, it is forgivable and I think that the painting will still look very beautiful. Next, we need a mixing palette. So this is just the lid of my watercolor tin. I'm using this QoR watercolor brand, but the paints inside that I'm using is ShinHan PWC. I really just love the tin. I love the little wells in this palette. You can also use ceramic plates at home or plastic pallets. More recently, it's becoming popular to use these beautiful resin pallets. But ultimately, just use whatever you have at home. Next, we need tissue to blot out the excess water in our brushes, and then, of course, we need a water jar, any jar will do. We also need masking tape. I'm using regular masking tape from the stationary or office supply section. The width that I am using is 2 inches but you can definitely use a different size. Let me show you a project where we will be using this masking tape. You can see that very beautiful clean line. That's because we use masking tape. I'm really excited for you to try out this project. That's it for our materials. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn how to mix colors for our full palette. [MUSIC] 4. Color Mixing: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we are going to swatch some colors, and mix them up so that we can create our fall palate. Don't worry this is just going to be very easy and all the colors are quite common in most pallets. The trick with doing a fall palette is simply to add brown colors in your usual palette. For example, right here, I'm using permanent red and I'm just going to add some browns. We have here burnt umber, I'm going to mix a permanent red and burnt umber. Now let's see what will happen if we mix these two colors. I'm going to swatch it so you can see the color. Now it has this brownish-red color. I added more brown in the first swatch. Right here, I'm adding more red and you can see the difference between these two swatches. Now I'm going to show you how to mix permanent red and burnt sienna. Burnt sienna, it's a beautiful bright brown color. Now let's mix permanent red and burnt sienna and for this mixture, I'm adding more burnt sienna. You can also see a brownish-red color, but it's brighter compared to the first swatch we did with burnt umber. Now let's try adding more red and this is the color. It looks almost like a brick red color. Now let's try out vermilion. It's a nice red-orange color. I love using this for my fall palette because it makes my paintings look brighter. Let's mix that with burnt sienna. Because vermilion is a little bit brighter, there are times when I want to tone it down, and that's why I add burnt sienna. For this swatch, there's more burnt sienna. You can see that it's on the more brown side, but you can also add more vermilion instead, and let's see the color. It looks a little similar here, but in person, it is brighter because there's more orange in it. The next color that I love using for my fall palette is Crimson Lake. This looks like a maroon color, but it just has more pink in it. I also love toning down this color with some browns. Now let's mix Crimson Lake and burnt umber. For this mixture, I'm going to add more burnt umber. This looks like a muted Crimson Lake. Now let's do another swatch, but this time let's add more Crimson Lake. I want this to be more reddish. You can definitely use this color for adding bold florals. Now, if you don't want your florals to be too dark, you can use burnt sienna, which is a brighter brown color. Let's mix Crimson Lake and burnt sienna, but this time our mixture will have more burnt sienna. You can see it's more brown. I'm going to do another mix. This time we have more Crimson Lake and I'm showing you just different proportions so that you'll have an idea of which colors you might want to use for your fall palette. An interesting color to use for your fall palette is violet. I really love adding violet and mixing it with orange to mute it down. You can use any orange color in your palette just to mute down this violet color. I think I'm going to add a little bit more violet to this mixture. Let's try to swatch it. It almost looks like a brownish-violet color. That's also perfect for fall for those leaves that are about the turn brown. If you want a deeper color mix, violet with brain sienna, and you'll get this beautiful shade. It went by really fast. Now we're on to our greens. I'm going to be using sap green for our projects. Let me just swatch all the greens here. If you don't have sap green, you can also use hookers green. Again, the trick is just to add browns to your greens, just to tone it down and make it look more rustic. For the first one, let's use burnt sienna and mix these two colors. I'm going to add more burnt sienna in the first mixture. It's a beautiful color. You can see that there's more brown in it. Next, let's add more sap green. This one has a more natural green color. Next, let's make sap green and burnt umber. For the first mixture, I'm adding more burnt umber, and you can see that the color is deeper compared to the color on top where we added burnt sienna. This time, I'm going to add more sap green to the mixture, and let's see what will happen. You can see that there is more brown undertones using the burnt umber with sap green and burnt sienna, you can see that the colors are happier. If you want a really more intense color, I would suggest mixing green with sepia, it's also one of my favorite colors to add if I want a muted or a vintage look. Now let's add more sepia in this mixture. Just from this mixture, you can see that it's really dark in color. If you want to add more contrast to your bouquets, so you can add leaves using sap green and sepia. Of course, you can always tone it down by adding more water. Now let's mix sap green and sepia again, but this time I'm going to add more sap green so you can see more of the green color. What's nice about swatching and mixing these colors almost side-by-side, is that you can see the progression. We added different browns from burnt sienna. You can see it's the lightest color than the sepia, which is the darkest one so if you want really dark and rich green leaves, you might want to add sepia to your greens. I really hope that this will help you choose the colors that you want to add to your fall palette. I'm also going to show you another mixture. This is the last one, is Crimson Lake with yellow ocher. This is one way to add a muted, almost a pastel color, but still, it fits in the fall palette. Right here, I added a little bit more yellow ocher because I want it to look a little bit peachy. Right here I added more Crimson Lake. You can see it's more pink. Now if you want this to look softer when it comes to applying it to florals, what you can do is just to add a lot of water in your mixture. Now let's try to swatch this. You can see that the color is lighter. It's the same mixture but we just added more water. Now let's try out the other color. I'm adding more water. Again, you can see it became lighter just because we added more water. We're done mixing our colors. You can definitely see how we were able to tone down our usual colors just by adding some browns and oranges. You can also use permanent rose. Just add some brown to tone it down. Right here you have an instant fall palette, and you can just choose colors that you want to use for your florals or foliage. I hope that you enjoyed this simple color-mixing lesson and now let's proceed to the next video. [MUSIC] 5. Autumn Foliage: [MUSIC] In this lesson we're going to paint some autumn foliage. We're going to paint our usual leaves, but we are going to use our fall colors. We want to paint some simple leaves, and so let's start. First, let's paint the usual leaves that we do. We're going to paint our thin stem, now from the tip, we're going to slowly press our brush, and then lift towards the end. We can do it the other way around starting from the outer part going in, or we can do a double-stroke leaf just like this. Now let's turn this into a fall theme leaf. Now let's grab burnt umber, we're going to paint a thin stem with some small hand sticking out. Next, let's grab some yellows and oranges in our palette, I'm using vermilion. We can just paint a leaf over there, and then next I'm going to use permanent red. We can add yellow-orange, or if you have yellow ocher or raw umber. Right here I'm going to use burnt umber because it's already on my palette. To add more contrast, I'm going to add more red at the top. It's all about mixing and matching the colors. Don't be afraid to experiment, we're just having fun and these are just some exercises for you to try. Let's move on to another leaf, this looks like a fig leaf. I'm using yellow ocher. Here we're going to paint some loops just like this, and then paint one more, then another one at the top. We're going to do the same on the other side of this leaf. You don't need to fill in the inside of this leaf right away. You can do the outline first and just slowly fill it in. Wait, I think we can add some more loops at the bottom part just to make the overall shape look nicer. While this is still wet, it's the best time to fix the overall shape. You can also add some raw umber or maybe burnt sienna in some areas of the petals just to make it look a little bit more realistic, and more interesting. I'm using raw umber here. Let's just wait for this leaf to dry and let's move on to painting a simple filler. I'm using red here and you're going to use the tip of the brush and create some tapping motion. You'll be able to create these beautiful organic strokes that will look like small flowers. This is a good filler to add, if you want more contrast in your bouquet, or add a pop of color in different areas of your wreath. For the next leaf, we're going to do a star-shaped leaf, so it's a cluster of leaves. I'm going to paint five leaves here. Again, you really just want to have fun and explore different shapes using fall colors. I'm going to be adding some permanent red just to give it a more lively look. On the other side, let's use yellow, orange. Next, you can add vermilion or you can also use burnt sienna. You can even add yellow. I'm going to go back and just fix the shape of the leaves. As long as it's still wet it's going to be easy to do that. Now let's move on to painting some green leaves, but we're going to add some browns to our colors. I have here sap green and burnt umber. Let's try to paint some more expressive leaves. You can see I'm trying to wiggle my brush and have that jagged edge. You can experiment by adding different browns to your greens, and by trying to just wiggle your brush to create those nice organic shapes. If the leaves are too dark for you, you can always lift the color, so just grab a clean brush and just absorb all the excess paint. You can do this while the leaves are still wet. Another option you can do is while the leaves are still wet, you can drop in different browns in it, you can add some burnt umber, burnt sienna, and you can see the beautiful blending on the leaves. Another great filler you can add to your florals are berries. Right here I'm just using permanent red, but if you want it to have a more fall vibe, you can add some browns to your reds. You can also use burnt sienna for the berries or yellow-orange. Let me just rinse my brush to create a lighter-colored berry. You do want to change the values here, you'll want some darker-colored berries mixed with some lighter ones just so it won't look flat. Let's move on to the last leaf. We're going to do a multi-colored leaf. I'm just going to load my brush with green, this is sap green. Next, I will dip it in this yellow-orange color, and next in this burnt sienna. Now let's try to paint a leaf so you can see you have different colors in one stroke. The trick is to dip your brush in a base color, choose a light color for the base color, then dip the tip of your brush in darker colors. You can definitely do different color combinations here, you can add some violets too. Now because this leaf is already dry I'm going to add some veins, I'm using burnt umber. You can also use red or other browns for the veins. We're done with our simple fall foliage, I hope that you learned many tips in this lesson. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn how to paint fall florals. [MUSIC] 6. Fall Florals: [MUSIC] In this lesson, you're going to paint fall florals. We're going to start with familiar florals that we have been doing in the past. I'm going to start with a five-petal flower, just like this. This simple five-petal flower bouquet will be our first project in this class. Let's grab raw umber, but you can use any other color in your palette. I'm using a size 8 round brush. We want to really press our brush onto the paper to create that broad stroke, after which you can use the tip of the brush to create some thin lines, and to fix the shape of the petal. Now, I'm going to rinse my brush, tap the excess water, and start painting another petal. When you're painting five-petal flowers, it's all about trying to change the angle of the brush to create different organic strokes. You want to really fully utilize all the parts of the brush. As always, leave white spaces within the petal. We don't want the petals to look too heavy, you want some movement. Now, let's leave the center open, I did not paint anything on it yet, but we are going to add a dark brown center in a while. We're using burnt umber, I'm going to slightly tap my brush onto the paper to create these small dots, I want it to bleed into the petals, and we also want a really dark center, you can see right here. We're going to add some gold details, and the only way for that gold detail to pop up is to have a dark background. We want a dark center for the flowers. In the meantime, let's move on to a new flower while waiting for the first one to dry. I'm mixing Crimson Lake with yellow ocher. We want a muted, peachy, pink color. Make sure that you dilute this mixture in a lot of water. Now, let's try to swatch it. I think the shade looks good. There are many ways to paint peonies, this is just a simple interpretation. We're going to start with two petals at the bottom of this peony. The left petal here is bigger than the right one. Once we have these two petals, I'm going to establish the petal at the top. It's pointing upwards, and you can see I'm leaving some space in between the petals. Now, let's move on to this petal on the right side. If the shape looks a little odd right now, don't worry about it, we can definitely go back in to fix it or to extend some areas. When you're fixing the shape of the petal, try to use just the tip of your brush to create some thin strokes instead of one big broad stroke so that it doesn't feel overwhelming. When you're painting this flower, you want a letter U at the bottom of this flower, so it looks like a cup. What I love about painting this peony is that it always looks different every time you paint it, and that's because we're doing some organic brushstrokes, and of course, every stroke is different. You don't really need to count all the petals, sometimes you have to improvise. What do you want to focus on is to get the overall shape correctly. Let's try to fix this area. I'm going to use a clean brush and try to absorb that excess paint. If we don't clean this up, it will look bad when it dries. While the petals are still wet, you can drop in some darker colors. I usually add this in between the petals or where the petals meet because that's where the shadow will be and that's where the darkest part of the flower will be. We're good. This is exactly the same flower that we will paint for our project. Let's move on to another flower that you are familiar with if you've been following my Skillshare classes for a while. We're going to paint a rose, but this time I'm going to paint it in the fall colors. I mixed Crimson Lake, and burnt umber to create this beautiful dark red color. I started with a comma stroke and some thin lines or thin C strokes all around it, and you can see I have some spaces in between my strokes. Now, let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and just fade away the sides of the outer strokes. I'm also painting some bigger C-shaped petals as we're moving towards the outer part of the flower. Just to brighten up the color here, I'm going to add a little bit of burnt sienna so you can see the color right here. I'm just going to grab some more, and I'm going to really paint some broad strokes. Now, this rose is going to be a little bit chunkier than the roses that we have tried before. You can see we have big broad petals. I'm just going to clean up the sides and some petals. Now, if it looks a little messy right now, it's completely fine because we're going to add a second layer just to give it more depth. You can see that I'm also using the tip of my brush to create some thin lines to close off some weird gaps. Now, while waiting for this to dry, let's try to paint a simple rose bud. I'm using the same mixture of Crimson Lake and burnt umber. We want this to be really concentrated. Just scribble some small C-strokes in the middle. Next, rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and now we're going to try to pull that color down. You can go back in, and try to fix the shape of this rose bud. You want it to look like a shape of a bulb. Just use the tip of your brush to create some thin lines. You can extend some areas to fix the shape. The overall concept here is you want a really concentrated center, and then you want the petals to be light and airy. In case I just added a small stem right there. Let's go back to our rose. I have here the same Crimson Lake and burnt umber mixture, but just darker. I'm going to paint on top of the comma stroke, and then now we're going to paint some thin C strokes all around the flower. Don't be afraid, it doesn't look that good right now, but it will after we fade away the strokes. Rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and start fading the strokes to make it look softer. Aside from making it look soft, it's also a way for us to create more depth for this flower. We can see that the petals for the second layer is translucent, you can still see the colors underneath. For this part, you do need to leave some spaces in between your strokes. In some instances, you can grab some more color from your palette to add it to some areas of the rose. For more in-depth tutorial on roses, you can check out my class on Skillshare; I have a class that's all about roses. Right now, I'm just adding a few more details. You can see I'm using the tip of my brush to create these thin lines. You can also drop off some darker paints in the petals just to give it more contrast. Now, if you feel like you've made a mistake and it looks too dark, you can always go back in and lift the colors. This looks good. I'm going to go back to the first flower we painted. Let's grab some gold paint. We want a really thick mixture, and we're going to add that to the center of the five-petal flower. All the florals that we have painted in this lesson will be used for our projects. Just think of it as a warm-up exercise, so don't feel too much pressure when you're painting these flowers. You can immediately see the gold dots in the middle, and that's because we added a dark center on purpose. We're done learning all the fall elements. Now, it's time to create a project using all of these flowers and foliage. Now, let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 7. Project 1: Fall Floral Bouquet: [MUSIC] For our first project, we are going to paint this simple but beautiful floral bouquet that is composed of five petal flowers in fall colors. Let's start. Before we begin, I'm just going to prepare some colors that we will be using. Let's get some raw umber, yellow ocher, and burnt sienna. When painting a bouquet, it's usually easier for me to start if I put the first flower almost right at the center of the page. You can start with a small dot right there as a guide. I'm going to start with the first petal. Just use the side of your brush and press it against the paper to create a broad stroke. To make the petals look wispy and just to add more movement, you can paint some thin strokes using the tip of the brush, and you can also dip your brush in the water jar just to lighten the color. At the same time, you can also grab some colors from your palette and add it to the flower so that it will become a multi-colored flower. Next for the center, we need a dark burnt umber color, so we want this to be super concentrated like what we practice. The reason for that is we want the gold details to pop up and we need a dark background. Now let's grab burnt sienna. I'm just going to paint a flower diagonally across the first one that we did. You can try to paint the strokes in different directions to achieve more organic strokes. Remember that it doesn't have to look perfect, you want it to be just lose. While the base petal is still wet, I'm going to grab burnt umber again and add it to the center. You can also use CPI if you want a darker color or you can even use black. When you're painting a bouquet, try to vary the sizes of the flowers, some are smaller, some are bigger. Right here I'm painting a smaller five petaled flower. Even if they are the same type or same style, it will give variety to your bouquet once you vary the sizes of the elements. The color that I use there was raw umber, but you can use other colors in your palette. Right here I have burnt sienna with a little bit of red. You can also use Crimson Lake and burnt sienna. We want something that looks like a brick red color. Depending on how much space you have, some times you can really paint five petals. If you only have a small space, three or four petals is okay. Now, for the center let's grab burnt umber and just add it to this wet flower so that it will bleed into the petals. We have a yellow flower on the lower left part of this painting. I want to balance that and add some smaller yellow flowers in the upper right so that they are almost diagonally across each other. Now let's start mixing our greens. I have here sap green with burnt umber. Now let's just attach some thin stems from the flower going down. Just so that it doesn't look too stiff, you'll notice that I'm painting the stems in a curved manner, so it's not really straight. Again, that's because you want to add some movement to our bouquet. Now let's keep adding some flowers. I'm going to make sprint sienna with a little bit of vermilion. We can definitely play around with the fall colors. You can add some yellow, orange flower, or red flowers. You can also change the center of the flowers. You can use burnt sienna or red or Crimson Lake. Now, I'm just going to add another stem. You can see that the stem is going towards the back of some flowers. Now let's grab yellow ocher. I'm going to paint a flower that is on its side, so let's paint three petals and then the last petal will be an oval shape. Then once we're done, we're going to add burnt sienna again in the center of this flower. Sometimes we have some small odd gaps and that's where we will put our leaves. You can put some stem sticking out as well. If you want this to have more of a warm autumn vibes feel, I would suggest adding more brown to your greens. This is a mixture that has more burnt umber, and you can also use burnt sienna and paint some leaves. When I was starting to learn how to paint a fall seem florals, it was weird to me to paint leaves that are not green. But I quickly realized that it makes a big difference when you use leaves that are orange or red in color. It will immediately give a warmer vibe and it will give an impression that this is an autumn floral bouquet. As usual, when you're painting a bouquet, you want to vary the values of your leaves. It means that you want some leaves to be darker, some are lighter so that it doesn't look too flat. You want some depth to your painting. Right here I just grabbed a permanent red and I'm going to paint a red leaf over there. You can add some deeper browns or reds near the yellow flowers. I have here the same mixture of burnt umber and sap green. We are going to add some fillers. I'm just going to do a tapping motion to create this filler. This is a great way to add texture to your bouquet, so you can see those beautiful organic strokes. You can add different colors as well and then don't forget to add stem and attach it to the main bouquet. Now, I'm looking at my painting from a far, this space right here where I can put the fillers. I do want to make it more balanced and scatter these fillers all around the bouquet. Our painting needs some darker flowers, I'm going to mix Crimson Lake and burnt sienna. I'm going to add just a three petal flower right here, so you can immediately see the contrast and the right side of this painting. Now let's add some burnt umber and add a stem. Look for some small gaps where you can paint leaves. You can paint these shadow leaves or these light colored leaves, and you can also add some darker leaves. This is a mix of burnt umber and sap green again, and I'm adding it near the yellow flowers. Sometimes when you're painting some colors will dry up lighter than what you expected. You can always go back in and add more color, just make sure that the base flower is already dry. Right here I'm just grabbing burnt sienna, but you can also use burnt umber. Just adding some color in the center. It's now time to add our gold details. I'm using the royal gold shade in this palette. Any gold shade will do whatever you have, you can use it. You can see right here I'm making sure that I have a thick mixture because I want it to be really opaque. Right here I'm just painting some thin veins on the petals. Next, let's go to this yellow flower, I'm going to add some small gold dots. We can try to alternate the details that we put on the flowers so that it's not too overcrowded. Some flowers have gold dots, some will have just veins. You don't really need to add gold details on all the flowers, we just want this gold paint to complement the fall colors. We don't want it to overpower the full bouquet. You can also add some gold berries. I'm putting it on top of the dark leaves because I want it to pop up. Another idea is to add veins on the leaves. If you want a subtle gold color, you can also paint it on the white part of the paper. We're almost done, we're adding some finishing touches. You can take a photo of your painting and look at it on your phone so that you can see your painting from a different perspective. That will definitely help you out whether you need to add some more details or just leave it as is. We are done, don't forget to upload your project in the project gallery section after class. Now let's move on to a new project. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 8. Project 2: Fall Monogram Wreath: [MUSIC] In today's lesson, we are going to paint an open wreath with lettering in the middle. What we need is we need to draw a circle. Use any pencil that you have. I'm just trying to freehand it, but you can use any round object. Then right here I'm going to overlap the lines. That looks good. I'm going to just prepare my paints. I have here vermilion, burnt sienna, there is burnt umber, I have olive green and then permanent red with a burnt umber. We are going to paint a lot of leaves and it's better to prepare the colors in advance. Just use all the four colors that we learned in the color mixing portion of this class. Now, we're going to paint it little by little. I'm going to paint just a short stem using burnt umber. Now let's grab this permanent red with burnt umber mixture. I'm going to paint just a simple leaf over here. Now let's paint just a small stem sticking out and you're going to attach a leaf right there. I'm going to use olive green. You can see that I added the second leaf up diagonally across the first one. It's also best to paint the leaves that's facing in different directions. That's because again, you want movement in our wreath, we don't want it to look too stiff. Now, for the fourth leaf, I'm going to grab this color and dip the tip in this olive green paint. This is a good way to experiment with strokes and color combinations. Now let's just try to extend this some more. I'm going to paint some broken lines so we don't really have the paint one straight line. This is just a guide for us so that we know where the leaves are going to go. Now let's grab raw umber, I'm going to paint one more on the right side. To make it look more interesting, I'm going to grab violet and mix a little bit of that with orange. You can see that muted color. While the leaves are still wet, you can add burnt umber in the base of the leaves that's attached to the stem. That will also give your wreath more contrast. As we go near the top of the wreath, we're going to paint smaller leaves. This looks good. Let's now move on to the other side of the wreath. You can see that the leaves that we painted on the right side looks a little sparse but that's okay because we're going to layer it. I'm just waiting for it to dry. In the meantime, let's go to the left side. Let's start with a raw umber leaf. You can definitely start with any color that you have in your palette. Sometimes it helps to have a pattern. Sometimes you can start with yellow then orange then red. Then brown. Then green. Now that the leaves are still wet, we're going to grab some burnt umber and just add it towards the base. You can see the beautiful blending of the colors. Let's add some more broken lines. Now I'm going to grab yellow ocher and just paint some leaves. It's nice to add some yellow to our full leaf just to make it look more cheerful. Now let's grab a little bit of violet and add just a tiny bit of orange to tone it down. It just gives more character to our wreath. You can see that we're trying to balance the colors here. There are brighter colors like the reds and oranges but at the same time, we're adding some browns and violets. Now if you want to add some texture, what you can do is to paint just a light-colored leaf just like this, and then drop in some browns and let it bleed into each other. If you think about it, a fall leaf usually has different colors in them. What we're doing now is we're filling in those white gaps. We're layering the leaves. When you are layering make sure that the first layer is already dry before you add a new layer. You can see that you're overlapping on some of the leaves. When it comes to choosing the colors for the second layer, just make sure that you alternate them. Let's move on to the left side. Just use all the colors that you have in your mixing palette. Grab any color there. We're not going to be strict about which color to use, on which part. You can just follow your instinct. If you see a light-colored leaf, you might want to put a darker color beside it. Also, you might want to vary the size of the leaves. Some are smaller, some are bigger. I made a mistake here. It looks too intense, too dark. Let's just grab a clean brush and just try to absorb the excess paint. I think that looks better. Now, just to add some texture, we can add some fillers. I'm going to use permanent yellow light. You can use other colors as well. Just tap your brush to create these smaller dots. To me, they look like golden rods. To add more contrast to this wreath, I'm going to use permanent violet and mix it with vermilion. Now we're going to paint clusters of small buds and we're going to paint it in different sections of the wreath. Just try to scatter these small buds all over this wreath. It is looking really good. Now we can add some veins on some of the leaves. You can use orange or burnt sienna or maybe some other brown color. My tip for you is when you're adding veins, don't add veins on all the leaves because again, we don't want it to be too crowded. Right here, I'm going to add just veins on some of the leaves and keep the other leaves just as is. You can grab burnt umber and extend this part. You can add some twigs sticky out and that will help give more texture. You can see I'm trying to just wiggle my brush to create these imperfect lines. It's now time to add a letter in the middle. I am using just an ordinary pencil. You can try to just freehand this part. I'm going to draw a letter A because that is the first letter of my son's name. Now, I want the lines to be quite thin because I want it to look more elegant but of course it depends on if you, if you want chunkier letter. I have here just my gold paint. This is the royal gold shade in the extra lab metallic paint set. We're just going to fill in the drawing that I did and as funny as it sounds, it really helps if I hold my breath while I paint some straight lines. I'm going to go over some areas and just fix it. You can definitely do your own handwriting here so that it looks more personnel. At the last minute, I really feel like adding some more blink to this fall wreath. I'm going to add some small dots everywhere. I'm going to stop right here so that I won't overdo this painting, I think it looks really good. It has a minimalist feel. I hope that you enjoyed painting this project and don't forget to upload it in the project gallery section of the class. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 9. Project 3: Fall Foliage Border: [MUSIC] Let's paint the fall foliage border. For this project, we are going to use a masking tape. I'm just using a regular masking tape from the office supplies section. This tape is two inches wide. You can also use washi tape. I'm just going to lay it flat on the paper and I'll make sure to really press the edges. This is to ensure that you have a clean edge at that the watercolor paint will not seep through the tape. This is an easy project. It just takes a while to finish because we are going to layer some leaves. Right now I am just sketching some leaves that will serve as a guide. Now we only need to sketch the main leaves. Draw lightly because once you paint on top of the pencil marks, you won't be able to erase it anymore. We're going to start with painting a cluster of five leaves. This is the same set of leaves that we painted in the exercises. Now let's grab some colors that we will need. I have vermilion, yellow-orange, yellow-ocher, and lastly permanent red. Let's grab vermilion first. I'm going to start with a thin stem. Then let's just press our brush and lift towards the end so that you get that pointy tip of the leaf. I'm going to go back in with some more color because it looks a little pale. For the second leaf, I'm going to grab yellow-orange and at the tip of the brush, I'm going to dip it in the red paint. This is a good way to create a two-toned leaf. You don't need to follow the colors that I'm using. You can definitely choose your own palette. You have here a little bit of burnt sienna and then mix it with vermilion. Let's move on to the other side. I am just grabbing here permanent red. I really want a bolder color for this leaf. For the last leaf, we can just use vermilion again. On the other side, I'm going to use yellow-orange. While this leaf is still wet, I'm going to drop in some reds and burnt sienna just so that I will have a beautiful blending of colors. Then you can also use just burnt sienna alone for the other leaf. Next, I'm going to grab a bold red color. Don't be afraid to experiment with the colors here. Just feel free to change it. You can even add some violet. The masking tape is really useful for this project to get that clean line. Don't be afraid to paint on top of the tape because the paint will not seep through the tape. We can also add just drops of burnt sienna or burnt umber and some of the leaves just to add some contrast. Let's move on to other leaves. Am painting a fig leaf. We're going to use yellow ocher. Let's just paint some loops. This looks a little small. Am going to extend the loops to make it look bigger. Now while this is still wet, let's grab some raw umber and drop it in different areas of the leaf. Let's paint another fig leaf that's diagonally across this first leaf that we painted. Am just going to rotate my paper. Sometimes it's better to rotate your paper so that you can paint at a better angle. I'm using the same yellow ocher mixtures. We're going to paint some loops again and try to fill in the center. Make sure that you paint near the masking tape so that you don't have some more white spots later on. I'm doing this freehand. That's why there are a lot of adjustments. You can definitely try to sketch it beforehand right here and trying to really fill in the colors that are near the tape. Now let's drop in some raw umber. This will give it more depth. I'm going to rotate the paper again. Now let's prepare all our greens. I'm going to make sap green and burnt umber. This is just more convenient to do so that you can grab the paint as needed. Next, we're going to mix sap, green and burnt sienna. You can do several mixes with different ratios of the paint. Now let's start painting some leaves, going to start with some thin stems. I think I want something more brown, so I'm going to add more burnt umber and my mixture. Next, let's grab some yellow-orange. We need that base color. Then dip the tip of my brush in that green paint. Now you can see different colors in that leaf. You can also grab vermilion and mix it with a little bit of that green paint. Let's just start to fill in this side. I'm going to be using yellow-orange with some green. We just want to establish the first layer of leaves right now. If you want to add some more contrast, you can add some dark green leaves. Just add sepia to your green color. Now let's try to add some dark leaves on the lower right. Just to make it more fun, I'm going to dip this brush in that vermilion color. You can see the color in that leaf. I loved the blending of the two colors. We can grab some yellow-orange and add it right here. I am really just trying to fill in those white gaps near the masking tape. It's best to vary the sizes and shapes of the leaves. Right here I'm just painting some smaller leaves using vermilion. You can also try to add some different brush markings. You can sway your brush. Flick your brush. Just have fun with it. If you're not satisfied with the leaves that you are painting right now, it's okay because we can always go back with the second layer and fix some areas. Right now, I'm just grabbing violet and mixing it with an orange color in your palette. You can mix it with vermilion. It creates this shadowy look, which I really love. Just to add some contrast, I'm going to grab this dark green color and just paint on top of this leaf. This is already dry, we can start adding some veins. I'm using burnt sienna. I love adding veins because it just gives more texture to our foliage. Now for this fig leaf, you can use burnt umber or any dark brown color. In order to achieve the thin veins, try to use just the tip of the brush. It means that you have to put just a light pressure on your brush. I have some leftover paint from the mixture of violet and orange. I'm going to use that to add the veins. It's slowly coming together. I'm just mixing permanent red and burnt umber to create this maroon color and you're going to use this for our berries. This color looks good. You can also use just plain red or burnt sienna. Let's start some layering. I'm going to paint on top of this fig leaf. Again, make sure that the first layer is already dry before you add another layer on top of it. We are also going to add some berries that is diagonally across the first set of berries that we painted. Adding these small fillers is a great way to add a pop of color in certain areas of your painting. It also gives your painting more contrast and more volume. It is now time to add some gold details. I'm using the color royal gold in this palette. If don't have a gold watercolor paint, you can use gouache or even acrylic. Now let's check this green leaf over here. It's already dry, that's why I'm going to layer a gold leaf on top of it. Now, don't be afraid to paint on top of some of the fall leaves. We can also add some fillers using this gold paints. I'm just tapping my brush right here. You can add a stem, attach it to the main border. I think we can paint one leaf over here. I'm going to make it more translucent. You can also add some gold veins that will look really good. These parts and add space to fill in. I'm just going to use some fillers. It's now time to look at your painting from afar to check whether you need to add some more fillers or leaves. I'm just going to add some finishing touches and then making sure to just add more paint near the masking tape so that we have a nice clean line. Now let's add some more green to this leaf just to add more contrast in that area. Then you can also try to add some veins and some of the leaves. When you're painting this type of border, you do want to layer a lot so that it looks very lush. It might be difficult to imagine what it looks like, because there is a masking tape right there. But trust me, it is all about layering. You can add some more red leaves over here. Just add a pop of color here and there. There's a white space over here. I'm going to paint just a small leaf. Again, we do want to fill in those small gaps near the masking tape. I think we are done. Now it's time to take out the masking tape. Make sure that the painting is already dry before you peel the tape. When you're trying to peel the tape, you want it to be as close to the surface as possible. Don't peel it at a 90 degree angle, because you might risk ripping off the paper. Right here, I'm doing it slowly and it's so satisfying to see that clean line. There you go. You have a beautiful fall border here. You can write a greeting in the middle or any code. I think this is a good gift for thanksgiving as well. I'm just going to try to fix some areas because I want a clean straight line. I think that we're good. Congratulations for finishing this project. I hope that you had fun doing this. Now let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 10. Project 4: Autumn Gold Ring Wreath: [MUSIC] Let's start a new project. For this wreath half is going to be for the fall foliage, and then the other half is going to be a gold ring, so we're going to use a round object. This is just a tape that I'm using. You can trace it all around so that you have a nice circle. I'm also trying to draw lightly because I don't want a lot of pencil marks in my paintings. Next, let's draw our main elements. I have here a cluster of five petals, and then I'm going to draw a fig leaf. These are leaves that we have learned in our exercises. It's really important to pinpoint the main elements in a wreath so that you won't get lost. Now we won't really draw all the details anymore, we're just going to keep on adding and trust our intuition. Let's start mixing. I'm going to mix permanent red and burnt umber, so we want that dark red color. You can definitely use a different font color. I'm going to put a small dot right here as a guide and then let's just gently press our brush onto the paper and create this petal-like shape. Let's rinse our brush to create a lighter shade. You can see that this is a lighter color, now I'm going to add one more leaf over there. Next, let's grab a different color. I'm going to use a permanent red only for this leaf. We can try to play around with the strokes, it can make it look more expressive. Add some jagged edges just like this or you can also do some clean lines. Now let's grab vermilion again, you can use other colors. You can also use yellow orange to make it look brighter. We have completed all five petals, let's move on to another leaf. This is the fig leaf, I'm using yellow ocher. To make it easier to paint for me, I'm going to just rotate my paper. You can also do this. You can also paint a curved line so that your leaf will have some movement, it's not going to be stiff and straight. I'm starting with some loops and I'm going to add some more on the other side. If the leaf looks a little funny right now, it's okay. We can always go back and fix the shape. I'm going to just slowly fill in those white gaps. Now let's grab some raw umber. I'm going to drop it in some areas of this dish so that it will have more dimension. I think we can extend this part a little bit just to make it look fuller. This looks good, now let's move on to the other side. I'm going to grab yellow orange. Now for this part, I'm going to add some smaller leaves. You can see that the first two leaves that we painted were quite chunky, now we want to vary the sizes of our leaves in the wreath so that it will look more interesting. I'm going to just alternate the colors, so I started with yellow orange and now with vermilion and then I'm going to add some red. You can also rinse your brush to create a lighter color. Now let's try to have some fun. I'm going to grab sap green and then I'm going to dip my brush in yellow orange, then we're going to try to paint a leaf. You can see it will have different colors in it. Dip your brush in one main color and then dip the tip of the brush in another color, so right here I just use yellow orange. You can use yellow ocher or you can also use red while the petals are still wet, you can drop in different colors. This is also a good way of showing that a green leaf is now turning into an autumn color. I'm mixing permanent violet with a little bit of orange. This is a color that I love adding to my wreaths because it looks like a shadow leaf. It's also a leaf that will complement all these bright orange and red colors. In this wreath, you can see that I'm adding it near the yellows and the oranges. It's time to add some contrast using fillers. I'm using permanent red, and I'm just going to paint some small buds. These small buds are great great way to add a pop of color in your floral wreath. This is also very useful if you need to fill in some odd wide gaps in between the flowers or leaves. Just tap your brush onto the paper to create different unique brush markings. I think we need a little bit of green in this area, so I'm also trying to spread out the colors all around the wreath because you want it to look more balanced. Now let's grab burnt umber, and we're going to use this color to add some twigs sticking out. You also love how this brown color bleeds into some of the leaves while the leaves are still wet. Next, we can add some veins on this fig leaf. You can see that the strokes are feathering and that's because the leaf is still a little bit damp, but for this wreath it's okay since we have a lot of elements you cannot really notice this mistake. We're going to add our gold ring. After we add this gold ring we're going to go back and add some more leaves to this wreath. What we did is we just laid out the foundation of this wreath, so we just painted all the bulky elements and then we'll go back in with those smaller details. Now if you have a flat brush, you can also use that. A flat brush will give you more control when you're painting these types of lines, but because most of you probably have just round brushes I decided to use a round brush for this project. If the line isn't that straight, don't worry. You can always go back in and fix the shape. I'm just going to go back in and fix some areas. Now let's start adding some gold accents to this wreath. I'm going to paint some berries. Try to choose the leaves that are really dark so that the gold colors will pop up. Now we can also add some veins. Aside from veins, you can start layering some leaves using this gold paint. Now that we're done adding the gold accents, let's go back in and add some more details. I'm using this dark red color to add some veins. You can go to the other green leaves, and add some veins as well. These small details will make a huge impact in the overall look of this wreath. Let's add some dark leaves just to give this wreath more contrast. It's a mixture of sap green and burnt umber, so I'm just going to add it near the colors that are quite light. You want the violence of darker leaves and light colored leaves. Don't be afraid to layer your leaves. You can paint on top of the first set of leaves that we painted. Another tip is to paint on top of that ring of gold. It looks like the leaves are climbing onto the gold ring that we painted, so we want the foliage to connect to the gold ring we don't want it to look separate from each other. Now we're going to add some finishing touches. You can grab this dark red color and just add some fillers, so we want a little bit more red in those areas. That's why I'm adding these fillers. I think we need a punch of color. I'm going to mix permanent violet with a little bit of orange. You want this to be really dark and concentrated, we're going to add some really dark berries. You can also use black if you don't want to mix anything anymore, you can also use indigo for these berries. I'm going to add a few more berries near the main elements. You can also take a photo of your painting so that you'll know which areas need more contrast. We are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. Now let's move on to our last project where we are going to paint a loose floral bouquet. [MUSIC] 11. Projoect 5: Rustic Fall Florals: [MUSIC] For the last project, we are going to paint rustic fall florals. To start, we're going to draw two circles. They are diagonally across each other. Let's start with the rows first. I'm going to mix crimson lake and burnt umber. I love mixing these two colors because it gives me that nice vintage look. Now let's wash the color first before we use it. You can see it has more of that brown. If you want this color to be brighter, you can use burnt sienna instead. We need a very pigmented stroke for the center of the rose. I'm going to start with a comma stroke. Next we're going to paint some thin C strokes all around it. It's like hugging the center. This looks good. I'm going to rinse my brush and then tap the excess water. Now we can start filling the outer strokes. As I tried to fade outer strokes, I'm painting bigger C strokes. You can see that the petals are bigger now. We can also add a little bit more paint. I just grab more crimson lake and I dilute it in a lot of water. I'm going to add some more petals using that pink paint. You can see that we have really nice and big and juicy petals surrounding the center of this rose. I'm also leaving some spaces in between the petals. If you want a little bit more depth, you can grab some of that pigmented color and paint some C strokes while this flower is still wet. Let's wait for that rose to dry. Now let's move on to another flower. We're going to paint the peony. This is a mixture of crimson lake and yellow ocher. What you want to achieve is a nice muted peach color. Now if you want this to be brighter instead of yellow ocher, you can use permanent yellow light. I'm just watching the color here. You see right here we have a cup shape. That will be our guide for this peony. We're going to paint one petal first that is at an angle, then right beside it we are going to paint the smaller petal. I'm not letting these two petals touch each other. There's a space between them. Now let's move on to the top part of this peony, I'm going to close it off with one big petal. This is a simplified peony that we're painting. You'll also notice that we are building the petals. It's not just one big stroke. The top and bottom part of each petal is pointy. It has that jagged edge as well. Let me just paint a smaller petal right here just to close off this part and then as we go along, we can extend some areas. What we're doing now is we're building the general shape of this peony, but as we go along, we can, of course, adjust some areas. You can see this top part looks a little short, so I extended it. What I love about this simplified peony is that it relies on our brushstrokes. Every time you paint this, it looks different and unique. You can see right here I'm just using the tip of the brush to create some thinner strokes. They extend some areas. We're finished with the two main flowers. I'm going to move on to the leaves. We need to mix sap green and burnt umber to create that earthy green color. For this mixture, I really added more burnt umber. You can see that the colors here are more brown. I realized that if you want to create a fall vibe, you do need to add more brown to your leaves. We also added some light-colored leaves. I just added more water.. A lot of beginners have a hard time adding leaves. My suggestion is to add it in-between the main flowers. It's also good to vary the colors of your leaves, so you want different shades of green. I'm going to make sap green and sepia. You can try to drag you the tip of your brush to create these nice rustic stems. Paint those stems first and then you can attach some leaves to it. You can see I'm trying to wiggle my brush to create a more expressive stroke. Let's continue adding some leaves in the bottom part. You can add some stem sticking out too. We're going to paint all around this rose to shape the form of the rose. So when you have a pale rose like this, a light-colored one, you do want to add dark leaves all around it to make it pop. While the leaves are still wet, you can drop in a darker color like sepia, just to give it more contrast. To make it more fun, I'm just using permanent violet and then mix it with some greens in my palette. We're going to use that. You can also mix violet with any orange color in your palette. Let's paint a small bud right here. I'm using the same crimson lake and burnt umber in my palette. Let's paint some small c strokes like this, and then rinse your brush. Now you want to pull away those colors. Just press your brush onto the paper. Keep on adding some smaller strokes until you build the shape of a rose bud. Then if you want more contrast in the center, just drop in some more paint while it's still wet. Then now let's attach it to the main bouquet. To get the more rustic vibe you can scribble some stem sticking out. Here we're going to add some brown leaves. I'm using just a diluted burnt umber. You can use diluted burnt sienna as well. Again, it's very important to vary the colors of the leaves in your bouquet. Now we need to add some berries to just add some contrast and a pop of color in some areas. Now, I'm mixing crimson lake and burnt sienna because I don't want it to be too dark. I'm adding berries on this right side of the bouquet. Just paint some circles and then attach stems to it. Diagonally across this cluster of berries, we're also going to add some over here at the bottom left. We also want to add some movement and then we're adding berries that's why I'm adding it in different areas of the bouquet. If you have some odd white gaps, you can use any brown or green color in your palette and you scribble some wiggly lines that will look like stem sticking out. This rose is already dry. We can start adding a second layer. I'm mixing crimson lake with burnt umber. Let's paint on top of that comma stroke to make it look darker, then I'm going to add some small thin C strokes all around. You don't want to overdo this. We're going to add just a few strokes and we also want spaces in-between our strokes. It looks a little odd right now, but just rinse your brush and fade away these strokes. We want to soften them and let it blend in with the first layer. I think I want a little bit more pink so I'm grabbing a little bit of crimson lake. You can see that it's very diluted. Now let's add a big stroke right here to add that pink color. You want just a hint of pink. The center needs more contrast so we can drop in a little bit more color. This looks good. Let's now move on to adding this gold accent. I'm using royal gold from this palette. You can use any gold color that you have in your collection. I'm going to start adding some veins on the leaves. You can see that the leaves are really dark and so the gold really pops up. You can add some berries, you can add some other fillers. When you're adding gold, you have to also limit yourself so that you won't overdo it. Just add some details in some of the leaves, you have to alternate it. You can also layer leaves, paint smaller gold leaves just like this. In some areas I'm going to paint a translucent gold leaf just to fill in some odd white gaps. Adding these gold details is also a good way to cover up some mistakes. We're done with the gold, we can go back in to add some more details. I'm adding some dark veins on some of the leaves. This is optional, but I think we need to add more contrast in our rose, so I'm adding a third layer. Sometimes this happens when the watercolor dries up lighter than what we want. We can always go back in and add another layer to give it more depth. The strokes looks a little chunky right now, I'm going to try and absorb those colors just to soften them. Then you can paint some more C strokes in the outer petals. Now for this peony, you can also paint a second layer if you want to bring back the color. I'm using the same crimson lake and yellow ocher mixture in my palette. I'm just painting on top of the petals. You can see the big difference now it has more life in it because we added more color. You can separate these two flowers by adding some green small lines in-between that will look like stems or leaves. This looks too dark, so let's rinse our brush and just fade it away. I think it looks better and it doesn't look too dark anymore. We're done with our last project. I hope that you enjoyed painting this and troubleshooting some mistakes. I look forward to see your projects in the project gallery section of the class. [MUSIC] 12. Final Thoughts: We have reached the end of the class. Thank you so much for watching. For our project, you can choose among the projects that they have demonstrated in the class or you can create your own floral composition. Look for reference photos of all elements such as leaves to help you and create the fall color palette. You can use any gold paint that you have, such as watercolor, acrylic, gouache, or even a gold pen. The goal is for us to explore and combine four colors with gold accents. I hope to see your projects in the project gallery section of the class. Just take a photo and upload it there. Now let me show you how to upload a project. You're most likely going to be in the lessons tab. Just simply move to the left until you see the Projects and Resources. Just tap on that and then tap on Create Project to upload a photo of your painting. Once you tap on that, you can see project title, project description, and then you'll see image. You click on that to upload your painting. At the same time in the projects and resources section, you can see the resources area over here. That's where you can see the photos of the projects, which I will be uploading so that you can download the photo, save it in your phone, and use that as a reference when you're painting the project. I'd be happy to give feedback and words of encouragement to you. You can also tag me on Instagram, just use this hashtag so I can see your work. I believe that learning is a continuous journey. I would love to hear your feedback about how this class helped you in your art journey. You may give a class review after watching the class. Also, don't forget to follow me here on Skillshare so that you'll be notified every time I have a new class or new announcements. If you want to learn how to paint more florals, I invite you to watch my other classes. If you want more autumn florals, you can check out my class from last year. If you want a daily challenge, I suggest the 15-day watercolor challenge. All the projects are about 15 minutes or less. Creating one painting a day will help hone the muscle memory in your hand. I also invite you to try out the English rose class. It looks quite daunting to paint this flower, but you can do that in four easy steps. That's it. I hope to see you in my next class. Bye. [MUSIC]