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Bottle Painting for Beginners: The Art of Painting on Glass

teacher avatar Michelle Clemen, The grass is greener where you water it

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:28

    • 2.

      Class Orientation

      2:51

    • 3.

      Supplies & Materials

      5:34

    • 4.

      Choosing Your Flower

      4:53

    • 5.

      Practice: Pressure Matters

      12:56

    • 6.

      Blossom Breakdown

      2:45

    • 7.

      Framing & Emphasizing the Label

      2:14

    • 8.

      Preparing the Bottle for Paint

      1:33

    • 9.

      Floral Composition

      5:33

    • 10.

      Palette Preparation

      1:01

    • 11.

      Perfecting Your Petals & Placement

      10:23

    • 12.

      Making it Opaque: Adding a Second Layer

      8:00

    • 13.

      Center of the Flower

      5:47

    • 14.

      Adding Stems

      2:08

    • 15.

      Adding Leaves

      4:37

    • 16.

      Adding Fillers

      10:39

    • 17.

      Sealing Your Work & Final Details

      3:42

    • 18.

      Continuing Your Bottle Painting Journey

      9:47

    • 19.

      Final Thoughts

      2:00

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About This Class

Welcome to Bottle Painting Class! In this class, we’ll dive into the world of bottle painting, a centuries-old art form that has evolved into a modern expression of beauty and personalization.

Bottle painting is all about decorating glass bottles with vibrant and intricate designs purely for their aesthetic appeal. Its roots trace back to 17th-century China, where the elite would commission highly skilled artisans to decorate their snuff bottles. These master craftsmen would employ tiny, bent paint brushes to create miniature masterpieces inside the glass, also known as “inner painting.”. Today, we focus on painting the exterior, infusing personality and creativity into everyday objects.

With years of experience, I've turned glass bottles into custom art for various occasions and events. Now, I'm looking forward to sharing my secrets and bottle painting tips with you!

This class is perfect for beginners, even those with painting experience will learn something new—composing florals on a cylindrical glass canvas. Here's what we'll cover:

  • The right materials and brushes for longevity
  • Guidance in choosing a reference photo and the best flowers to start with, 
  • How to use basic strokes to paint on a smooth surface
  • How to create the illusion of depth with the use of color play, shadows, and highlights, and 
  • Build a composition that is balanced and emphasizes the label

I’ve also prepared a class guidebook filled with tips, references, and guidelines to help keep you on track and a bonus lesson where I'll reveal how you can use your new bottle painting skills for thoughtful gifting and potentially creating a supplementary income stream. 

All you need for this class is your creativity and a glass bottle that you can find in your own home. Gather your acrylic paints and soft synthetic brushes, and we'll go through the process of turning a simple bottle into a work of art that reflects your unique style. With the right knowledge and techniques, bottle painting can be an absolute blast, and I'm excited to share that with you!

Anyone can gift a bottle of wine, but it doesn't guarantee you’ll be remembered. Gift a painted wine bottle, and you'll be creating a lasting impression for years to come. Come aboard and join me in this class on glass, where you'll unveil a world of limitless potential for your artistic talents.

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Michelle Clemen

The grass is greener where you water it

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Hi everyone!

My name is Michelle and I am a former nurse turned lettering artist, bottle painter, engraver, online educator, and dog mom to 2 ecstatic Australian Shepherds, living her creative dream in Hawaii.

I created Juniper Calligraphy in 2018 as a culmination of my passion for art and creativity. Since then, I have worked with high-end brands such as Tiffany and Co, Fendi, Bottega Veneta, Neiman Marcus, Duty Free Shop, and many more.

Throughout my years of experience, I have taught many students and I'm on a mission to support support and inspire creative souls. I am dedicated to my role as an instructor in the Fundamentals of Bottle Painting Courses, alongside co-instructor Telisa Roessein. I also co-host the Event Ready ... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Uncork your creativity. Join me as we transform regular bottles into stunning works of art. In our class on glass. Hi there, I'm Michelle, your friendly neighborhood artist. I am all about the live event artistry such as calligraphy and bottle painting tailored to high end brands. I've also had the privilege of creating two in depth online bottle painting courses. And I also host a podcast called Event Ready, where I'm on a mission to inspire and empower fellow artists to perform live art. My bottle painting journey began in 2018 when I had a special request to customize a champagne bottle, and I completely fell in love with the art form. This allows me to transform everyday items into personalized treasures. And it also adds a sense of magic to your gift giving game. Sure, anyone can gift a bottle of wine, but will your gestures stand out in their memory? Now imagine this, a beautifully painted and customized bottle that is a game changer. In this class, you'll create your own floral bottle masterpiece. We'll start with the ideal paints and brushes for your glass surfaces. And practice exercises with a simple method to achieve consistent coverage and results. Then we'll get into our main project, where you'll select a flower to paint on a wine bottle complete with stems, leaves, and fillers. Throughout the process, you'll learn how to create basic strokes to paint on a smooth surface, create the illusion of depth with the use of color, play shadows and highlights, and build a composition that is balanced and emphasizes the label. I've also prepared a class guidebook filled with tips, references, and guidelines to help keep you on track. And a bonus lesson where I'll reveal how you can use your new bottle painting skills for thoughtful gifting and potentially create a supplementary income source. Absolutely, everyone is welcome here. So if you're just starting out, I'll help you get comfy with loading paint onto your brush, various brush techniques and floral composition. For those of you who've got some painting experience, get ready for a new challenge. Composing florals on a cylindrical surface. And remember, painting isn't just about art, it's a form of self care too. So if you find yourself with a lazy weekend morning, why not pick up your brushes and let your creativity flow? I'm on a mission to empower and inspire fellow artists. I truly believe that by sharing the skills that have fueled my own creative journey, I can help you achieve your creative dreams as well. I can't wait to have you join us in our class on glass. It's going to be a blast. 2. Class Orientation: Hello feature bottle painting artists and welcome to our class on glass. I am absolutely thrilled to have you here. Before we get into the fun stuff, let's go over a few things to ensure that you make the most out of this class. Throughout our time together, my goal for you is to have fun and enjoy the process. There's absolutely no need to rush through the videos, so take your time and find joy in each moment. In your final project, you'll select a flower and paint on a wine bottle complete with stems, leaves, and fillers for a full balanced composition. Here are the steps that we'll go through together. Number one, selecting our flower. Flowers are imperfectly perfect, which makes it great for beginners. Number two, selecting our colors. You can expect to choose about five to seven different colors for this project. Number three, complete practice exercises. This will help us get familiarized with painting on a smooth and slick surface. Number four, paint your flowers on a wine bottle. A wine liquor or champagne bottles will work well. This gives us ample space for painting and it makes the perfect canvas bottle painting. It's all about decorating glass bottles with vibrant and intricate designs, purely for their aesthetic appeal. Its roots traced back to the 17th century China, where the elite would commission highly skilled artisans to decorate their snuff bottles. These master craftsmen would employ tiny bent paint brushes to create miniature masterpieces inside of the glass, also known as inner painting. Today we focus on painting the exterior, infusing personality and artistry into everyday objects. After you have painted your bottle, I highly encourage you to post two to three pictures of your final bottle artwork. In any painting, the magic lies in the interplay of shadows and highlights, creating the illusion of a three dimensional flower. In your final project, I'll be looking for depth through the use of correct colors and shapes to achieve this captivating effect and composition that is balanced and frames or emphasizes the label. Also, in the continuing your bottle journey lesson, you'll find a valuable workbook filled with instructions in some of our video resources. This workbook is meant to assist you in absorbing the information in an authentic way while working at your own pace. There is also practice sheets, materials, lists, guidelines, and much more. Please print it out for your convenient reference. Once again, thank you so much for choosing to learn with me, and I cannot wait to witness your artistic process. If at any point you wish to have feedback on your work, please feel free to post it in the project gallery. We're here to support and encourage each other along the way. As the legendary Bob Ross would say, there are no mistakes. Just happy accidents. So happy painting. See you in the next video where we talk all about supplies and materials. 3. Supplies & Materials: Now here are all of the supplies and materials we need to paint a flower on a glass bottle. First of all, this is the paint that I highly recommend using, and it's also the one that I use for all of my glass painting projects. It's folk art, multi surface acrylic paint. I actually did a ton of trial and error on different types of paint on glass surfaces. And I found this to be the best one because it's made with a polymer resin system, which means as soon as it touches a glass surface, it starts to dry and adhere very, very well. So you can tell that it's multi surface with this sticker. If not, sometimes they don't have a sticker, it's okay, just make sure it says it on the bottle. Okay. So I highly recommend getting a white and three different types of greens for the stem. So I have the classic green, lime green, citrus green, and wicker white. Now the other colors that you choose will depend on the flower, and we will get into that in a different video. Okay, so now I want to talk about the brushes. The brushes that you choose are so important because it will affect the way that your painting looks. The ones that I highly recommend using are brushes with a soft synthetic fiber. This will help glide the paint across the smooth surface. The ones that you'll see me using throughout the course are the FBP bottle painting brushes. This comes in a pack of six, this is the beginner set. You'll get two wide brushes, two larger brushes, they're both flat. You'll also get two smaller flat brushes and two round brushes. You'll see me using this throughout the class. If you have your own brushes, great, use that. But also just make sure that your brushes are in good condition and you'll want to do a bristle check. The first thing is you make sure that your bristles are aligned, are not frayed. You also want to make sure the bristles are intact. The test that I do is slightly pull on the bristles very lightly, just to make sure that none of the bristles are falling out. Because one of the most annoying things that can happen is that you get a bristle hair in your painting, and then you have to go and fish it out and you'll ruin your painting by doing so. Just make sure that your brushes are in good condition before using them. The next thing is your mixing surface. This can be anything. I have seen people use a paper plate. I'm just using a thin piece of cardboard paper here. This is something that we'll use just to mix our paint on. I also recommend getting the Deco art clear gloss varnish. This is what we'll use to seal our painting. When you do take a look at this brand, there are different ones like matt, high gloss. I recommend using the gloss because it comes out shiny and it mimics the glass surface. I'll be using this one here then to apply it. I have two different tools. If you have these cotton buds or Q tips, you can use that. However, I would caution you that the bristle, the fibers on this thing can come off when you're spreading the sealer on the surface. Again, you'll get fibers in your painting. If you have a separate designated brush you can use for it, go ahead and use that or you can buy these disposable brushes on Amazon. These are little makeup brushes, but I like it because it's disposable and also because this gloss varnish will ruin your brushes over time. Caution, do not use this varnish with your bottle painting brushes. You need a separate brush for it. I also have this cotton pad and alcohol, this is rubbing alcohol or isopropal alcohol. I use this to clean off the glass surface before we start painting. I also have my water container here. This is what I use to wash off my brushes. You can basically use anything. You can use a cup or whatever you have. It's just to wash the brushes. You'll also need some paper towels. This is a sheet protector we'll be using this to practice on. You just need a few of them. Wax pencil, this is the aqualable stabilo pencil in white. I use this to draft the flour on the glass surface, but it is optional, but I will show it to you, it makes it easier to see. Lastly, make sure you have a glass bottle, so it can be any type of wine. I really like using the dark bottles because the painting shows up really, really well. So it can be full or it can be empty. It doesn't matter, you just need a glass surface. Here's another look at all of the supplies you need for this class. It's also located in your course guide book. So I will see you in the next video where I guide you through choosing your flower. 4. Choosing Your Flower: Now that you have all of your supplies and materials, let's get into choosing your flower. In this video, I'll go over two different ways, along with guidelines to look for so that you can pick the perfect flower. This step is crucial in the painting process, but it's also very forgiving. Nature's imperfections are what make it beautifully unique. Making flowers a perfect design for beginners. Now here are some guidelines to look for when it comes to your first floral painting. Simplicity is key. Look for flowers with clear, well defined lines, a limited color palette, distinct shapes, and minimal folds. These characteristics will make the painting process smoother and more enjoyable. Think of flowers like the sunflower daisy, lavender, Hibiscus. All of these meet the criteria. Now a word of caution. While roses and peonies are undeniably beautiful, they come with intricate details, numerous creases, intricate shadows that can pose a challenge for those who are just starting out. As you gain confidence and expertise, you can certainly venture into those more complex floral designs. But for now, it's advisable to begin with simpler options to build upon your skills. As mentioned earlier, there's two ways to do this. We can take our own photo or we can choose from a royalty free website. So let's get into the first option, taking your own photo. So I'm going to take you with me to choose a flower in the garden. Okay, And here are my puppies. They came with me too. This is Charlotte, and this is Hammy over there. Hey, you so cute. Yes. A cute boy I know here, I found a yellow hibiscus in my garden, and I thought it was so beautiful. It's so perfect. This is actually Hawaii state flower, so this would be great for painting. You can see here that there are five petals. They're very well defined, and if you take a look at the colors, you see red in the center and then yellow on the outside. This is what we're looking for. We want to see those two color variations when we're choosing our photo. I'm showing you up top, over here. You can see I didn't want to take that picture because there's a harsh shadow on it, like this one here. We don't want it because the sun will, it'll mess with our results to paint. You want to take a photo that's nicely in the shade but still using natural light. Here I am taking some photos. While I'm still doing the video, I think this is a perfect one. You can see that nice pistile on the inside, and then five well defined flowers with minimal creases. This would have been a really, really good one, now that we've gone over how to take your photo. You can also choose option number two, which is choosing a flower from a royalty free website. In this case, I'll be using unsplash.com Okay. So I'm here on the website. I'm just going to search for flowers and I'm going to scroll down to see what we find. Okay, I can already see a flower that I would avoid. This pink one over here. There's way too many colors, shadows, folds, and cresus. But right below that, here's a daisy. This one would be a good one. It's front facing minimal colors. You see all the petals in there. There's a well defined center with all the pistiles and pollen. This one would be a good one. I'm going to scroll down. There's a sunflower. The sunflower is always a good choice because it is front facing and it's very big. You can see all the details in it. That one would be a good choice. I'm going to continue. I see it, Rose. Please avoid that. Okay. This one is really pretty. It looks like a anemone, but I just don't like how the picture is taken. It's very blurry, so I'm going to keep scrolling. All right. I see this one here. This is so pretty. This is a white anemone, minimal colors, front facing. I like it, but I do want to see it more in its natural state. I'm going to search for it. All right. I'm looking through the photos. Okay, I found this one here. This one is so pretty. You can see the well defined shapes. The petals are very nice. You can see where each one you can count how many they are. Even the center, it's very clear and this one would be a great one to choose. I highly recommend choosing a flower that you love or feel free to copy me and my design so that you can get familiarized with the process. Okay, I'll see you in the next video, Practice Pressure Matters. 5. Practice: Pressure Matters: Before we start painting on our glass bottle, let's do a little practice. This lesson includes six different parts. First, we're going to print out our guide sheet. Next, we're going to place the sheet in the sheet protector. Third, we're going to practice loading paint onto our brush with using the one and done technique. Then we're going to paint within the guidelines. And lastly, we're going to check the opacity. The whole idea of painting on a sheet protector is to really mimic the glass surface. Glass surfaces are non porous, which means that it doesn't absorb paint like a canvas or paper wood. We just want to get the feel of it as we paint a smooth, slick surface. Let's get started. Now that we have our guide sheet in the sheet protector, let's start getting some colors. Now when we practice or when we paint, you always want to choose two colors that are highly contrasting with each other. High contrast colors would be very two different colors. So like a orange and yellow, these would be great. Or we can even do like yellow and green. We have green there. And I'm also going to use the yellow, two very different colors. Now when we start to do this, we're going to use the one and done painting technique. This is so that we can create a nice base layer. The way that we do this is you're going to dip your brush into one color. I have the yellow at the bottom. Then at the top, I'm going to flip my brush over and dip it into the green. I have the two colors directly onto my brush. Now what I want to do is just blend it out on my surface so you can see like a nice gradient there. When I'm holding my brush, I make sure that it is resting on my middle finger. You can even use your ring finger, whichever one is more comfortable for you. But I'm resting it on my hand and holding it at a 45 degree angle. This is how we're going to glide it directly on the surface. We use it flat side down. We start off at the point area and then we're just going to glide our brush across the paper. Go very smooth slowly. Okay. And you can see there, there is a bit of a streakyiness in it, which is okay. We're just practicing. That might mean we have to load up more paint. What I am doing now is I'm just doing the whole process again. I'm dipping my brush into green, the other side into yellow. Blending it out again, and I'm going to try that again. Same thing, holding at 45 degree angle, pressing down and then just gliding across the surface. You can start to feel like it's very smooth. When you're gliding it, it has a weird sensation. You don't want to press too hard because if you press too hard, you can make it a little bit to see through. You can see there I am like squeezing down on the brush. It just becomes very light and you're not able to control it as well there. How much pressure you apply really does matter. I'm going to put the time laps on and I'm going to complete the rest of these lines. Remember to have steady hand pressure as you finish completing the rectangles accident. You can see here that I accidentally put the green. You can see there's green on the yellow part. If that happens, you just need to wipe it off. Clean off your brush. Start all over again because the colors are going to be messed up if you continue to do so. I have a clean brush now. I just completed this whole area. You can see that there is some that turned out to be a little see through, which is okay. Because right now we just use this to create a base layer. It's okay that there's some streaks in it. The next thing that I want to work on are these petals. My teardrop shape, yellow at the bottom. And remember to use your large flat brush. This is number five. I have the yellow at the bottom and then green at the top. And I'm going to blend it out on the surface. Let me just get more blending it out. You might even need to add a little bit more green or add more colors if you can see that the colors are not as thick when you start to blend it out. And then from here you're going to do the same motion, but you are going to curve it as you're going through. You're going to start off right down here at the bottom. Then slowly move your brush up. Pressing down as you get to the top and then curving it around, you're going to lift off very lightly. So you just created your first petal, you're going to continue doing that for all of them. Don't worry if some are more streaky than others. If it's your first time painting on a smooth surface, it's not going to look as perfect, but that's okay. Continue practicing. Okay. You can see here sometimes it looks a little bit too harsh. On this one here I have a very harsh line going from yellow to green. If that happens, you might need to blend out your paints a little bit more, okay? And then you can do that same thing again, pressing down, putting pressure. Pressure, pressure, and then lifting off very nicely. Okay, so now that you've got the hang of it, I'm going to turn it on eight times the speed to finish up these last two petals. I have just completed the first page. Let's move on to the second one. Okay, so this is our second worksheet. This is the leaves. Before you even continue, make sure that your brush still has the nice colors on both sides. If not, you can wipe off your brush, rinse it off, and start all over. You don't want the colors to be mixing too much because then you won't be able to see a nice gradient in them. So I'm going to start off fresh for this paper. I'm going to continue doing the process. I notice I need to add a little bit more colors over here running out. Okay, I'm just adding more, same thing, loading up with yellow. And then I got the green, blending it out on my surface. So you're going to start off with the pointy tip down, then as you're pulling it up, start to put pressure and then lift off very lightly. Okay. And that's okay. If it goes out of the lines, it's okay. These are just guidelines for you, so you get the shape. It doesn't have to be perfect. Then I'm going to do that again. Pressing down very lightly, pressure, pressure, pressure. And pull up very lightly, coming up very lightly, starting off with light pressure, more pressure as you get to the middle and lift off very lightly. Okay? The same thing where you see the thicker area right here. This is where you put pressure. Every thick area is pressure. Every thin area is where you lift off very nicely, very light pressure. I'm going to put this on time lapse to continue. You may need to pause this to work on your sheet or continue watching as I fill up the entire roll of leaves. This area might be a little bit more tricky because the wide area requires you to put more pressure on your brush to fill up the entire outline. The last sheet that we're going to work on is the stems. The stems are a little bit different. Instead of holding our brush at a 45 degree angle, we're going to hold it straight up and down at a 90 degree angle. Same thing, loading up our brush with paint. Be mindful where you put the two colors, blending it out. Then from here, you're going to hold it straight up and down. Straight up and down. And then you're going to pull the line down. I find it easier to pull down. You can even push upwards if you want, but pulling it to the body is just so much easier there. Your first line, you can see that I'm using my pinky for stabilization. This helps me take the pressure off of my hand. If not, you can easily rest your hand on the paper. But doing something like this hurts my wrist. I really just like resting my pinky there and pulling it down. You're going to find the way that is most comfortable for you. There really is no right or wrong way to do this. You just want to take the pressure off your hand somehow. I'm just following the lines you can see here, some of them end up wider than the others, that's fine. It really is about all the pressure that you're putting on your hand when it comes to making stems. Light pressure is best. Okay, I'm going to put this on. Time lapse as I finish completing. You can place this on pause as you finish completing your paper. After you're done with this, make sure you clean off your brush. Always keep your brushes very clean because this paint dries really quickly. If the paint dries within your brush, that is a nightmare to remove. Also, do not let your brush in the water, because if it sits in the water, you start to remove the glue that's in here, and the bristles may or may not fall out. And I always reshape them after I use it, because I want the bristles to continue to stay flat. I'm going to place this on the side. Now we're going to evaluate our work, looking at all of these here. The next step is to remove the sheet from the inside and we can take a look at the first one. We can see here that some of the areas are not as opaque as we want it to be. Like this one here, it's very streaky, it's very light. While this one up here looks very nice, it has a very nice gradient and color. Even the ones down over here, they look really good. You're just evaluating to see what needs work and what doesn't. Overall, this is just our base layer. We are going to put more colors on it. I like having a very smooth base layer because it really affects the way the paint goes on it afterwards, I try as much as possible to have it smooth just like this one here. Be careful, because the paint wasn't dry. I'm getting paint everywhere. Okay. This one here, you can see that the leaves. I love making leaves. These are my favorite. Nice. I'm going to zoom in so you guys can see it. The leaves, Very nice. I really like how this one came out. This is, we're going to be adding more colors to it, but you can see how it has a very nice gradient in them. You can see the two colors. You can tell by the end my brush was getting dirty because you can't really see a gradient in those here, but the shape is still really nice. Then the last one that we're going to evaluate is our stems. Now with the stems, you can see that I did two different things. You can see some where I made a very thin line, which is what I started off with. Then I started to play around with it. When I started adding more pressure. I remember I was talking about using your pinky to take the pressure off. I stopped using my pinky to take the pressure off and I went full pressure. And you can see that I got a very thick line. This can be good for some of the leaves that you create. It really just depends how much pressure you put on your brush. How do you want your leaves to look? If you want your stem to be very thin, that's fine. Or if you want it to be very thick, that's also fine. It's really up to you. And this is why pressure matters when it comes to painting. All right, so if you want to continue, feel free to do so. You can even make up your own designs. You can practice on these sheet protectors without the guide lines there. It's really up to you, and if you would like to have feedback on your work, please post it in the project gallery so we can see your progress. Okay, so I will see you in the next video where we talk about our blossom breakdown. 6. Blossom Breakdown: All right, let's break it down together. We're going to go through a blossom breakdown where we take a look at our flower and we see what shapes and colors we can find. This will make the process a whole lot smoother when we start to paint it. By now, you should have your flower. I want you to take a look at your flower as we go through this process. We're going to take a look at our flower right here. This flower has shapes in it and we're going to identify that. If we take a look closely, you can see the outer petals. Right now we have one in the back, they're all shaped like a tear drop. We have the second one, the third one, and the fourth one. Those will be painted first, then we're going to get into the inner petals. The inner petals are the ones that are closest to you, and there are 34.5 of them. With the inner petals, you also have the crown, which is that green thing in the middle. Then from there you have the pistils. Now that we have broken down all of the shapes in our flower, let's get onto the color. If we look closely, we can see different colors in our flower. The way that we create shadows and depth is through two different colors. We have to have a lighter color, also have a darker color, So that we can create those shadows. You really want to analyze it, and you can always see two colors in the petal. Sometimes it may be more noticeable than others, but the one that I chose from afar, the flower looks completely white. But when you take a closer look at it, you can see there are some grays in there. You can see grays in between the petals. There's a petal right here, and it's also gray. This is how you create the shadows. You also have white. There are white over here. This is where the sun is shining directly on it. From there, we take a look at the crown on the inside. It's as if the sun was coming from this top upper hand corner, the top right, the sun is shining directly down, that's why the top of this crown is light green and the bottom is dark green. This is where the sun isn't hitting. Now, from there, you take a look at the yellow pistiles and then there is orange pollen on the outside. Altogether, we need gray, yellow, light green, dark green, white and orange. We can even re use light green and the dark green for our stems and leaves. Now that we understand the blossom breakdown of shapes and colors, let's move on to the next video where we talk about framing it and emphasizing the label on the bottle. 7. Framing & Emphasizing the Label: When gifting a bottle of wine. Framing and emphasizing the label really makes your gift feel more sophisticated, more thoughtful with your added touch of personalization. Here are my two tricks for simple composition. We can see here that I have two examples. The first one would be around the label. This is where you make a bunch of tiny little flowers and you frame around the label. The second one would be the opposite corners. I have two tiny little bouquets, one in the top left corner and then one in the bottom right. You could even switch it up by putting in the top right and bottom left. Either one of them is fine as long as you remember to have them balanced. Here are some samples of work I have previously done. Although they are not wine bottles, they still follow the same composition techniques, the first one around the label. If you take a look at the Joe Malone box, your eyes immediately go to the Joe Malone right in the center, and then they start moving outwards, so you can see all of the different green foliage. The second bottle, same thing. Your eyes immediately look at that black label in the front. Then you look up top and you see Joe Malone. You see the scent of it, English pear and frasia. Then the last thing that your eyes look at is the flowers, even with the gelon bottle, all the way on the right. Same thing. You're taking a look at the label and then the flowers. When you receive this as a gift, it's very special, it's very personalized. Even with the opposite corners technique, it still works the same way. You're basically using your flowers as an accent piece to really accentuate the bottle. On the Mez bottle, you can see there's two different bouquets on the side. I even copied it and put it on the baby bottle, the chanel bottle, there's two bouquets hydrangus on the last one, the girlon bottle, you can see that I put orange flowers on both ends. Now it's your turn. In your guide book, you'll find a picture of two wine bottle drawings. You can use your flower as an example as you practice the two composition techniques. All right, I'll see you in the next video where we prep our bottle for painting. 8. Preparing the Bottle for Paint: Let's prepare this bottle for our paint now. We want the paint to get here as best as possible. We need to clean the surface. Our fingerprints leave a lot of oils on it. There may be dust and dirt, we need to take it off. Right now, I have my rubbing alcohol here and a cotton pad just to wipe down the surface. But before I do that, I want to remove the label just for aesthetic purposes. I have my razor blade here. If you use this, be very careful when doing so. And I'm going to speed up the video so you guys don't need to see me struggling now that I have the label off. There's some excess glue down there. I'm going to just remove it with the rubbing alcohol and you want to be careful of where you get the alcohol. Some labels are forgiving with a very thick paper on it, some are not. Just be mindful of where you are wiping it because sometimes it could really mark the label and you'll see stains on it. Then now that I got all of the sticky stuff off, I'm going to continue wiping down the whole bottle. Okay. So mainly our painting aerial will be on these two sides, but I'm just wiping down the whole bottle. All right, and that's it. I will see you in the next video when we start to talk about floral composition. 9. Floral Composition: For floral composition, it's really helpful to see the design layout in a drawing. First, we'll draw first on the ipad, and then we'll draw it directly onto the wine bottle with our wax pencil. Okay, So this is an extra step. I wanted to show you the drawing on a two D surface before we get to the bottle. As I'm going through this process, keep in mind balance in everything that we do. Not just balancing it on the bottle, but also balancing the bouquet. The first thing we do is we draw our main flower. The main flower is the white anemone. I'm going to do on the opposite corner technique, I have our main flower here. Then from here I do want to put some tiny filler flowers. The filler flowers that I'm going to choose are daisies. Okay? Then I'm putting three of them, because three is the magic number. When you do this, you want to make sure you have three flourishes. Three is the magic number. Three is said to be very beautiful to the eye. In design, we want to keep it to that. Going to have three little daisies around our main flower, and then I'm also going to put some lavender. Okay. Please keep in mind that this is just a drawing and it may look different when we start to paint. Okay, And then we're going to have some leaves over here, then maybe even some buds. This is the bud for the anemone. Anemone. Okay, so we're making some leaves down over here, and then we're going to make some of the buds. Okay, now that we see the drawing over here, let's draw it on the wine bottle. I have my Stabilo wax pencil. I'm going to use this to draft out our drawing. Some people prefer to cover the label and protect it. If that's the case, you can use Washi tape to protect it for my preference. I actually like painting a little on the label. I think it looks really pretty, so I'm not going to cover it. And you'll see that we start to paint some of the leaves, maybe some of the flower petals. They'll get the label. All right, now that I have this here, I'm going to just draft it out. This would be the center of the flower. This is the crown. And then we have the pistiles around it. And then we're going to have the five petals. So you can see already that this is going to be quite a big flower. Then we even have to leave some room for the petals in the back. Okay, this is just a drawing for our reference. Remember we make that tear drop shape when we draw the petals. Okay, so that's the first flower. And then I'm going to speed it up now, and I'm going to draw the second flower. I have both flowers here. I am also going to draw tiny little daisies coming up from the side. And then we're going to have one of the buds. And you can see here that this flower is just going to be anchored in there. My anchor is right on the corner. Okay. And then I'm just going to draw some leaves for it, and then I'll also have some lavender coming out. I'm going to do the same for the bottom, and I'll also speed it up because it will be the same thing. Let's do a little recap of everything we learned. You can use a wax pencil for drafting on a glass surface. Don't forget to include the details like the petals, pistils, stem leaves, and fillers. And if you do add more flowers, remember the magic number three. Anchoring your flowers to the label looks better than floating flowers. Just remember, this is just a draft, your design could vary once you start to paint. Now that we understand floral composition, let's move on to the next video, palette preparation. 10. Palette Preparation: Let's prepare our palette for painting. Now I'm pulling up a picture of my white anemone so that I can get the colors correct. The most colors I'll be using is white and black. I'm going to put the most, the other colors are just going to be a very small amount. Please keep in mind that this type of paint, acrylic paints, dry fairly quickly. So you don't want to put a lot because then you'll be wasting it. You can always add more if you need more at a different time. I'm just putting a small amount of every other color in order. I have the white, which is wicker white. I have black licorice. I also have yellow, which is the daffodil, yellow, orange, pure orange. I also have the yellow ochre, Classic green, lime green, and citrus green. Okay, so now that we have all of our paints ready, let's get into perfecting your petals and placement where we start to paint. 11. Perfecting Your Petals & Placement: So let's get our bottles out. Make sure you have all of your supplies here. I have my water container here. I also have all of my brushes. I also have a paper towel on the side just in case and we can get started on this. Let's see, we'll be painting this one first. Okay, so there are two layers on this flower. We need to do the back layer first. I'm going to be using the number three flat brush. This one is a great brush to create the petals. I think it is big enough to do the petals, Not too big. The five might be a bit too big, so I'm going to use the three. Okay. When you do this, remember the one and done technique now. Okay. When you do it, you want to grab a little bit of black. Black is for the inside and then white for the outside. I have the two colors on my brush right now, and I'm just going to blend it out on my surface. You can see right here that I might have a little bit too much black because I don't see enough white on it. In that case, I'm just going to pick up more white and blend it out. I might need to pick up even more white so that there's a good gradient. You can see white then gray than black. Okay. And then now I'm going to start painting on my bottle. So remember you're holding your brush at the 45 degree and you're going to just go through it. Very nice, like a little tear drop motion. Okay, starting off over here, I'm going to make the first petal. Starting off at the bottom and holding your brush at a 45 degree angle. You're going to start by pressing down the pointed tip and swipe it right through. There we go, I got the first petal down, so that's the first one I might even need to add more paint to it. So I'm just going to pick up more paint on both sides. I'm blending it out on my surface. I'm going to create the second pedal in the back. Let's see, It may also be easier if you're holding the bottle so you can manipulate it instead of turning your arm in a weird position to get it. It's easier if you're holding the bottle in one hand and then painting it with the other. But I'm not going to do that for demonstration purposes because I want you guys to be able to see this on the camera. I am just turning the bottle on the table. Okay. The next one is going to be placed right down over here. This is the second outer petal. And then I'm going to place the third one right down over here at the bottom. But I do need to pick up more paint, so I'm just grabbing more white. Also grabbing some black. Okay. And then you're going to see me. I flip the brush over. I can't flip the bottle, but I am going to flip my brush. I have the white facing towards me. Black facing towards the center of the flower. And now I'm just going to create the petal. Okay. Going down, Pressing down. Really just gliding it across the surface. Okay. Don't worry if it's a little messed up like this, a little bit streaky. We are going to go over it again. This is okay right now. We just have the three back petals going while we wait for this to dry. Let's go ahead and work on the flower right down over here. This is going to be a little bit tricky, you don't want to touch the table. And then I'm going to do this one a little faster because you guys got the hang of it already. I'm going to dip it again into black. Get it in the white. Blend it out on my surface. Maybe put a little bit more white. Then I'm going to do the three outer petals. I have one right over here. I'm going to need more white. Let's see, let's put the second one. Oh, I'm sorry. There was actually four back petals. Sorry, going back to this one, there was actually four. Let me just do another one. Right here. There we go. We have the outer petals, and then this one right over here. We're going to have to do four on them. So let me just pick up more paint. So I have 12, that's too much paint. It's a little bit globby. Then this one's going to be three. I flipped my brush over so that the black is facing towards the center of the flower and the white is facing towards me. I'm going to start right over here, press my brush down, putting a lot of pressure as I come up towards the top. And then really swooping it around. And then picking up very lightly. And then I'm going to do that again for the last outer petal on this. So pressing down, swooping around, and then pick up really lightly and it is messed up right there. Don't worry about that. We're going to cover it up later. Now what we want to do is just wait here for a moment and wait for this to air dry before we move on. All right. So now I'm assessing my painting. I can see that it is dry to touch. You're going to run your finger over very smoothly and you can see that nothing is on my finger. There are some areas you can see here. It looks like there's a little bit of a blob on it. If that happens, it does take a little longer to dry, but you really, really want to make sure that this is dry to touch before we continue. Because when we put our second layer on it, it could lift up the paint and basically ruin everything. So you really want to make sure that it's dry before moving on from here. So I'm going to get my paint brush and I want to start over fresh. Okay? I don't like it when my paint is like slightly dried out, so I'm just going to wash off my brush and get out the excess paint so that we can just start over new again. Okay. So I'm going to do the same process again where I'm going to have a little bit of black on one side and then white on the other. And then I'm going to blend it out on my surface. Okay, Be mindful where you have the white and the black. Sometimes I get it mixed up. Okay, so now I'm going to do a petal right over the top. All right. Let's see, Let me position it so I don't have to, like, strain my arm doing that. Okay. So I'm going to start off down over here by the crown. And I'm going to make a petal pressing and I'm coming up, okay, there is my first petal, and you can see it looks so nice that it's layered. It's almost like a three D look. It looks very cool. I'm also going to pick up more paint so that I can keep going. I probably could have done another one, but I noticed that my paint was running low, so I just added more to be safe. Then what I'm going to do is another petal from here. So I'm going to start pressing down and then lift off very nicely. Hey, there's my second petal. I'm going to pick up more paint. Do that again. Instead of manipulating my brush, I flipped it over so you can see the white at the top, black at the bottom. I'm just flipping it to where the black is at the bottom and white is facing towards me. Did I say that correct? Black at the top. White facing towards me. And then I'm going to create the third petal. You really have to think about pressure when you're doing this. You don't want to press too hard, because if you do, you start to pick up the paint at the bottom. Oops, see I accidentally made a mistake. I put the white into the black. When that happens, just wipe it off and start all over again. Just wiping off all the paint and cleaning off my brush again because it got messed up. I'm going to start all over. I'm dipping it half into black, the other half in the white. Then I'm going to blend it out on a new area just to start all refresh, I have the white at the top, black at the bottom. What I'm going to do is make the fourth petal. This one is a little bit too far from each other. I don't like that little gap right over there. But I'm just going to make this a very small petal. I have the black facing up, white facing towards me, and just going to make it a small petal here. Then my last petal will go right over here. You can see it's like a deformed flower, but nature it's okay. Let me just go ahead and finish up that last one, all right? I have the first flower done. I'm going to turn the bottle on the side so I can work on the second flower and I'll also put it on time maps because you guys are familiar with the process already. Now that we have completed the outer and inner petals, let's wait about five to 10 minutes before we come back and do another coat on top of it. I'll see you in the next video, making it opaque, adding a second layer. 12. Making it Opaque: Adding a Second Layer: Now It is pretty dry. It's dry to touch. I can touch it. Even the parts that I put a lot of paint on and kind of globbed it there, it dried up. Um, you can even dry it faster with a fan because we only put one layer. It dries within five to 10 minutes, maybe more like 5 minutes if you're using a fan. That's the really great thing about using acrylic. If at any point you don't like what you did, you can still remove it. It's still soft most of the times. I just keep going because we can always cover up our mistakes. Now the next thing that we do, we want to just really redefine this flower. You can see that in certain areas, it's a little bit like a little see through, that's fine and all because it makes the petals look really delicate. But I just want to make it a little bit more, um, just a little bit more opaque. And I also want to redefine each petal. What I have here is the flat zero brush. I'm going to use this to pick up more white and really just start adding more paint to it. The base that we created is so important because we have a very smooth base and now we can just start adding more layers to it. We can also see where the definition is. So we have the black in the center and then the white on the outside. To keep that gradient going, it really looks like a three D flower. Right now, I have just loaded up my paint brush with white paint and I'm putting it over the white areas to redefine it. I'm also making some of the petals a little bit more pointy and uneven at the top so it looks more natural. Anemone flowers don't have perfect edges. I want to make it a little textured. You can see right here, there's like a very harsh line going from the black to the white. We're going to blend that out. There's no harsh lines here. You want to have a very smooth transition? I'm going to do this for the rest of the petals. I'll also speed up the video just a little bit because it's the same process for all petals. Remember, as your painting, use a light dabbing movement. You can even do some short swipes, but make sure it's very light. Because if you're pressing too hard, you may pick up the paint that's already there and you don't want that to happen. Even though the first layer is dry to touch, it doesn't mean that it's completely cured yet. Please be very careful when we're doing this second layer over the top. Occasionally, you can take a second to look at the overall painting. Is there anything you want to change? Does it look well defined? Are we following balance? Is your color gradient still visible? You can see now I'm getting into the center of the flower and I'm losing that grayish gradient. It's still slightly there, but I'm covering it up because I covered it up. Now I need to add a little more black. Now, I'm adding some black to the background petals so that you can still see the shadow. You can really tell that there are four petals on the back side. I'll also add some black between each petal so that the petals become more defined. This is a very slow process, really. Go ahead and take your time with it. Don't feel like you need to rush through this. I am continuing to add color, reassess, add colors, change colors. You're always re evaluating. I think the top flower looks good now. I don't want to keep touching it. I want to take a break from it, maybe come back with fresh eyes. I'm going to work on the second flower, and I'm also putting this on the time lapse. I didn't really touch up the petals in the back too much. I wanted the main focus on the petals in the front. I'm just adding a little bit more paint to it. We are going to be putting the crown and the pistiles in there next. Before I even get there, I just want to add a little bit of black to it to make the lines, the veins in the, some of the flowers, a little bit of gray veins in them. I am mixing the white in the black to make a grayish color. And I'm putting a bit of water in it. The water thins down the paint so that I can create thin lines in the center of the flower. If the paint is too thick, the lines won't be as thin. You can see here that I'm just using very light feathering, brush movements. This creates the veins and also more definition in the center of the flower. I think the top flower looks good. I'm going to move on to the second flower at the bottom. I'm using the same process with a thinned out gray paint. I'm pulling from the center outwards. I will do that for all of the inner petals. You can see how it just creates some more depth and a little more details. Wonderful work at perfecting your petals and placement. Let's go over a little recap of everything that we went over in this lesson. First of all, you want to make sure you have all the petals. If your flower has five petals, make sure that your painting also has five petals. Then we look at balance. If you drew a line down the center of your flower, you want to check that the right and left sides look equal, then there's color. Two shades give it highlights and depth. This is how you take your flower from being two D, very flat, to three D with highlights and depth. Also variability. Nothing in nature is perfect. When you make your petals uneven, textured edges, simulating little tears or rips, that makes it look very natural. Now, some common mistakes that we run into would be misplaced petals. If you're not happy with it, it's okay if it's less than 10 minutes, you can still wipe it off with a white paper towel. If it's more than 10 minutes, you can wipe it off with alcohol and a cotton pad. This paint on glass is very forgiving. Another common mistake would be not enough contrast or depth. This is when the painting still looks very two D. Let's say I'm using the white anemone as my example. If my painting has too much white and not enough gray, it's going to look very flat. There's no shadows, there's no depth to it. I need to go ahead and make white on the outside with a little bit of gray on the inside to create those shadows. Turning it from a two D flower into a more three D looking type of flower. Those are just some of the little things we went over in this video. I will see you in the next one where we start to work on the center of the flower. 13. Center of the Flower: Now we're going to make the detail in the middle. We're going to start with the pistiles. I'm just going to get some yellow first. I have the yellow ochre, and just a little bit the daffodil. I'm just going to make little lines coming out from the middle. Just lightly dabbing it. There we go. And then I'm going to do the one on the other end. I have the two yellows, and then I'm going to start fanning it out, light dabs with your brush. Now that we have the base there, we can go ahead and start working on the center of the flower at the crown. What I'm going to do is put that down and then I'm going to grab my round zero brush. I want to add the dark green. Let's see, let's add both of them together. I have a little bit of dark green and a little bit of light green on my brush. And I'm just going to start dabbing it right in the middle, Really just making that nice crown. It doesn't have to be a perfect circle. You don't want it to be a perfect circle, you just want to dab it down. A nice dabbing motion, not too tight. Don't squeeze your brush. It's not a potato chip. Okay. I'm going to grab a little bit of the dark green, little bit of a light green, and just start dabbing it down in the middle. Keep dabbing it in a circular motion. It's not a perfect circle, can see that there. I'm just dabbing it very lightly. Then I might need to add just a little bit more here. You can see this flower looks really flat, center area. We got to create a shadow. I'm going to pick up a little bit of dark green and just put it right down at the bottom. Okay. And then I'm going to do the same thing on the other flower, getting some dark green and then just dabbing it down. I globbed on a lot over there. It's okay. I'm also going to pick up some of the light green and then put it on the opposite side to create the high light. Going back to the first one, getting the light green, and then dabbing it up at the top over here. All right, now I am done with the greens. I'm going to rinse off my brush. Then I'm also going to add orange to the ends. This is the last step for our flour. What I'm going to do is just dab a little bit of orange on the outer edges. This is for the pistilesky. I'm going to get a little bit more orange and then I'll do the other flour. I got my brush. I'm just dabbing it right the edge. Don't make it too concentrated because you could still see some space in between. Pick up a little bit more orange if you need to, and just keep dabbing it around. Okay, I really, really like where this is going. I'm also going to use a little bit of vivid orange. I want to create a highlight with this color. I need a very little, I'm going to add this one right on the top of I have vivid orange. And I will add it right on top. And I'm using my pinky to stabilize, adding vivid orange. Okay, I'm going to add vivid orange to the bottom. Pick up some orange, pink, stabilizing and doing little dots. Okay. I also noticed that I'm not showing as much yellow in there. So I'm just going to pick up a little bit of yellow, the daffodil yellow, and just define my lines just a little. I'm picking up more yellow, just defining the lines in there, adding more yellow to the center. I'm going to add more yellow up here. I know we're going back and forth. I like working on two so that one can dry while I work on the other. You're doing an amazing job. We have just completed the flower itself, so the placement petals and center of the flower. In the next video, we'll continue adding more to our design and I'll show you some possibilities for adding stems and buds. Okay, see you then. 14. Adding Stems: Cover flowers. Let's talk about adding some stems. In my case, my flower is really big and it's sitting right on top of the label. Technically, the stem would be behind the flower and you wouldn't be able to see it. However, if your flower is far from the label and you can see a gap in between, I would highly suggest adding a stem to anchor it, to make it stable onto the label. Here's an example. Right here, you can see that my flower has a little gap. I added a tiny green stem. This is so that it doesn't look like the flower is floating. I always feel like anchored flowers look the best because it almost looks like it's growing out from the label. For the rest of this lesson, I'll show you how to create little buds with stems Going into the label, you'll see me add two buds for the top and two at the bottom. Starting from the top, I'm going to make a line that just comes right out. This is going to be for our little bud. I'm going to just make a little circle here, one of the buds. Hey, it's so cute. And then I'll create the other one that's coming out on this side. Don't worry if it's not perfect, creating that round circle for the bud. Okay, You can see I have like two arms coming out over there. It's like me here. I'm also doing a stem with a bud at the bottom. It's a little covered because you can't see it. But it's still the same process where I'm adding two. You can see this one a little bit better. If you go over the flower, it is okay. It actually looks really nice when you start to overlap things, there is the second bud. Okay? So that's it for adding stems and buds. I'll see you in the next video, where we start to add our leaves. 15. Adding Leaves: Okay, let's continue with some leaves. I'm still using the same number three, brush with the same colors and I'm going to start by putting a stem that comes right from behind the first stem. This is kind of like anchoring it to the same area, so it looks like a bouquet with flowers just coming up from the center. And now I'm using like little dashing movements to create leaves coming off from that stem. And keep in mind, I'm also holding the brush at a 90 degree angle when I create these short swipes. I'm going to do that all across that stem. And I'm just adding more paint to it so I can create a little darker color. I want to see some variation in color, not just one color. That's why I added a little bit of black in it. Now I'm working on the second one, creating the stem first. And then I'm going to add more color to it. I'm adding black, a little bit of green, then some of that citrus green. Then I'm just going to start making the leaves coming off of this branch. Okay, I also want to make a little bit more, it looks a little bit bare in this area. Again, I'm going to come directly on this area, on the label, Coming down, pressing down. I'm using my brush. I push down and then pick up very nicely, so it's very light. Okay. And then you can even do the same thing up top. I'm using my pinky for stabilization. I'm going to press down putting pressure now and then picking up very light. Hey, I'm going to do that again before I'm going to add some more black. Adding black, adding green. Blending it out on my surface. All right, last one. Now I'm going to turn the bottle so that I can start working on the leaves. For the second flower, I'm going to pick up the same colors, green, black, and light green. As I'm doing this, I'm just gliding across the glass surface. You're not pressing too hard, you're putting pressure at the bottom. And as you lift up, make sure it's very light. I'm doing the second leaf. I can already see that my brush is running out of paint. I'm picking up, I'm going to pick up black, classic green and a little bit of light green. And do the same process all over again. Let the brush glide on the surface. There we go, very light, very smooth. And I'm also going to fill some in on the label. And don't forget to hold your brush at a 90 degree angle anchoring onto the label down there. All right? And then I'm just going to fix my little bud over here. Fix this one. All right. We are done with the leaves. Very nice leaves. I want to fix this one also. I just make it a little darker. I don't like that it's too bright, just adding some color to it. Let's see, I may want to add more leaves later. You can put as many leaves as you want. There you go. You can even make them come up from the top over here. I'm going to add another one. Remember three? I'm actually going to cover that with more flowers later, so it's okay. And then on this one over here, I'm going to add three. Let's see, 12 and then three. It's starting to look really, really good. So in the next video, we're going to add our fillers. I'll see you there. 16. Adding Fillers: Before we get into adding the fillers, I just want to take a moment to look at this, because when you see it, it is very, very balanced. Okay? So if we split it right down the middle of the flower, there's balanced leaves on both sides. Okay? Same with this one over here. Very balanced. This is what you're looking for. You don't want it to be too heavy on one side, so keep that in mind as you start to add your fillers to it. Now, one of the easiest fillers to add would be daisies and lavender. So for the lavender, I brought in some purple. Okay. This is oh, what do you know? It's called lavender. Okay. So I have lavender and then I'm also going to bring in some light lavender. Oh, getting messy over there. For the lavender, I wanted to bring it down. I really want to start encasing this design. So I'm going to have some lavender coming down over here on both sides. And then I'll make the three daisies come up over here. I have my little brush here. This is the round brush. I am going to make a little stem for it. So I want to make two lavenders. Really just coming out over here. Maybe I might make three. I have my lavender stems. I know it's really hard to see. We're going to redefine it later. I'm going to wash off those colors. Then what I'm going to do from here is just get some of that purple, the lavender, and then just start making it in a dabbing motion. Lavenders, Let's see, like triangular shaped, just coming down. Going to make a triangle, coming down, There's my first triangle. I'm going to make another one over here, triangle coming down. It's moving more towards the center, so you can see that it's like coming inwards. So I'm just going to make three because it's going to look good. There we go. We have three little sprigs of lavender. My light, so I'm actually globbing a lot of paint on here. My light source is coming in from the top part. So I want to add some of this light lavender to the right side, just on the right. This is creating a high light for it. Make sure you're using a little dabbing movement. And then from here I'm going to grab more green and some black in it. Mix the green and black together, maybe a little bit more green. And then just really redefine the stems. Maybe even make a leaf for it. It's coming out more black than anything, but it's okay. Okay. So those are my little lavender sprigs. I can't see the stems. I might even add like some green to it. There we go. You don't want it to look like a grape. Make sure that they're curving inwards. Okay. And then I'm going to do the same for this top area. I'm going to have three lavender coming up. I'm going to do it on this. Now I'm doing the other set of three lavenders. Following the same technique. I have it on four times, the speed time lapse. You can either watch the time lapse or pause to complete yours too. And then I am even going to add a little bit of white. Going back to the other one, adding just a little bit of white to it to brighten it up a little, We can see it up top. Now I want to add in some little daisies here and there. I think the daisies are just going to tie everything in together. Before I even move on, I'm going to put some lavender on this flower right over here. I'm going to speed up the video When I do so I'm going to have the lavender coming inwards. Perfect. Now that we have that going on, look how cute it is so far. Okay. And then the last thing is adding some little tiny daisies to it. So I'm still using the round brush. I really like this one to do the daisies. They're really cute, so I'm just going to use. Some of that yellow ochre to make the center of it. First I know where my placement is. I'm going to have one right over here. Just dabbing it on. Dabbing the yellow. I'm also going to do another one right over here. Then I'll do the last one right over here. Remember three I have, this is the center of the little daisy. Just dabbing it in there. Then I'm even going to put a little bit of like the daffodil yellow just to give it some definition. Wiping off my brush. Now I'm going to use white for the petals. I'm just going to press and just create little dabs. If you can press down and then pick up very lightly, so you're pressing and you're going to create a pointy tip press. Create a pointy tip press. Create a pointy tip. Then turn your bottle as you're working so you don't hurt your wrist. Okay? So there's a little daisy flower. Okay. I'm going to do the second one in the other camera so you can see it up close. Place my brush down and pick up so you create a wide base with a thin edge. And be mindful of where you place your hand because you don't want to place your hand into the paint. Some of your petals are going to look deformed. That is okay. Like that one. I do not like that at all. I'm going to try that again. Press down and pick up very lightly. Pressing down and pick up very lightly. Ooh, I like that one. That one's cute. Do it again. Press down, pick up. Oh, pressing down, press press pickup. Yours will definitely look different from mine because everybody has different hand placements and pressures. If yours is not looking like mine, do not worry at all. As long as you have the shapes and the colors, it's okay. This is your first time, maybe it's your first time painting. It's okay. It takes time. It takes time to develop the skills you need to find your pressures. I'm going to work on the daisies here, but I'm going to speed up the video because you guys already know the process. And then clean your brush before you start putting white. Okay, Then the last thing I'm going to do is just add stems to my daisy. Okay? And then with the stems, you can even add some leaves if you want to. Pressing down and picking up very lightly. Okay. Right now I'm using the citrus screen. Okay. So I added some leaves to that. I'm also going to add some leaves over here too, so this one has a very short edge. And then I'm going to use it on the other camera so you can see what I'm doing. Okay. I'm going to press down and then pick up very lightly, pressing down. And press down and pick up, oh, this one needs like a little bit of highlights. I'm just fixing the little stem over there. Okay. I'm putting some leaves over here. I am working upside down. So that's why it might be looking like that. This one is very balanced. I love this one down here. I might need to balance this one up top a little bit more. Okay? So what I'm going to do is just add more leaves to the up top area because I need it to be like a balance, it just looking very bare up there. So I'm just going to, I have the flat number three brush and I'm just going to add like a little bit more leaves. Okay. Oh, that's looking a bit too green. I mean, we want it to look green, but it's too much of a light green. For the rest of the video, I will put it on eight speed time laps. What I did was add an extra set of three lavenders to the top flower because it was very bare at the top. After this, I'm adding more white to all of the lavender. Just little dabs on the right side to create more of a high light. And then I'm going to pick up the light green and use this to brighten up the buds and add a little leaves to it just to make it more visible. It was a little dark, hard to see. And then I'll just do the final check. So we've been painting a lot, so what you want to do is stop working, let it dry, leave it alone overnight, and come back to it the following day with fresh eyes. So I'll see you in the next lesson, sealing your work and final details. 17. Sealing Your Work & Final Details: Today is a new day and I'm coming back to my work. I let it dry overnight. In this video, I'm going to go over the final details and how to seal your work looking at it. First of all, this is the top part. I can still see some of the pencil markings from the other day. This is the stabilo pencil. You can just get your Q tip and remove it just like that or you just use your finger. It's probably faster. I'll put it on time lapse while I remove the rest. It is dry to touch which means we can add our sealer to it. I have here the Deco art juror clear sealer. This is in a gloss varnish and the reason why we use this one is because when it dries, it turns clear and mimics the glossiness of the bottles. The way that we apply the sealer can be done with either a Q tip or with a designated brush. Now, with the Q tip, it's great if you have no other option, but if you take a look closely, the fibers will come out. Use it if I have nothing else, but I prefer not to use this. I have a designated makeup brush. This is actually a disposable brush. The fibers are really nice and I got like a pack of I think it was 100 for maybe a few dollar on Amazon. This works really great. I go ahead and just give it a good shake. I open it up, then from the cap you can get some of the sealer on your brush. You're just going to apply it directly on in a very thin coat. And let me zoom in so you can see it. Hey, so you're just applying it very lightly. Okay. I have it on time lapse while I complete the rest of this, I'm only applying the sealer to the painted areas. You do not need to paint on the bottle. This is just to hold the paint in place. I'm making sure that I cover every part of it. If you are painting and you see that there's some paint on your brush, I would stop and wait till it completely dries In a second, I'm going to stop the video because I do make a mistake. And you can see what that looks like. I lifted it up right here. Be careful when you're doing this. Keep using a light hand. Don't press down hard on your brush because I just made a mistake there. I put it on time laps to complete the rest of the bottle. When I'm done, I just checked to make sure that all areas were covered. I'll even do a dryness test with a thin coat of the sealer. You'll notice that it starts to dry within minutes and I would say within 24 hours it'll cure. As a word of caution, this sealer does not make it fully permanent. Like if you have a sharp object and you scratch it, it'll still come off. This sealer just holds it in place so that it can be put in a refrigerator or a wine cooler. You can put it in an ice bucket for a short while if it's a champagne bottle, But it doesn't make it completely permanent. Now that you've just created a beautiful bottle, let's put it on the side and let it dry. And I will see you in the next lesson, continuing your bottle painting journey. 18. Continuing Your Bottle Painting Journey: We've been through a lot together and you've made it this far. I hope that by now I'm seeing your beautiful work in the project gallery. In this video, I want to talk about all the things that you can do with your bottle. We'll break it up into three different steps. The first one, we'll talk about how to take photos and post it on social media. Second, we'll talk about how you can turn your bottle into a memorable gift. Lastly, we'll finish off by talking about how you can turn this into a potential side hussle. Let's get into it. Here are some key points when taking photos and sharing it on social media. First you have your painted bottle. You want to think about how to make it look the best. The first thing that you want to do is make sure that you have good lighting, natural light would be the best. You want to make sure that you have it near a large window, or you can even go outdoors on a cloudy day, get a very soft, even lighting. The second thing that you can do is choose a good background. This means having a clean and uncluttered area that really complements the artwork but doesn't distract from it. The third one is using the right camera settings. If you're using your smartphone to take these photos, you can even put on the grid lines. This helps with composition, so that you can have it perfectly centered off to the side. I always like using it because it just provides an extra level of assistance when taking the photos. Okay. Number four, the posting process. This is when you have your photo and you're getting it ready to post on social media. You can use different apps or editing software to adjust the exposure contrast, even color balance. I actually love using Light Room because it's free on your smartphone. But please remember, Don't overdo it. Try to keep the editing as natural as possible. Okay. Now number five, consistency. When you're starting to post pictures on social media, make sure that it's consistent with your style and aesthetic so that it looks cohesive throughout your social media or whatever platform you're using. This one really helps your bottle gain more visibility to a wider audience. You can use hashtags like bottle painting or you can use hash tag painted wine bottle. All of these things help to boost your photos to get noticed by more people. Then number seven, posting regularly. Consistency is always key when it comes to social media. You can even schedule your post ahead of time, or you can get yourself on a regular posting schedule with a calendar. All of these things help keep your audience engaged and interested in what you're doing. Lastly, number eight, this is where you share your progress. Believe it or not, people actually love seeing the behind the scenes, the BTS of the process, so don't be afraid to show it. Show how you're painting. Show a little glimpses into your creative process. This really adds authenticity to your content. Sure, it's great to see people posting beautifully painted bottles, but what happens behind it? How did you do this? People want to see those little things, not just a fully painted bottle. Both are great, but having more is really good. Okay, so turning your bottle into a memorable gift, add a personal touch and make it even more special for the recipient. Here are some steps to help you create memorable gifts. With your bottle painting, you always want to keep the receiver in mind. You want to choose the right bottle for them. This means if a person is really into wine, go with wine. If you can find out what their favorite brand is, or if they like red or white, that makes it really, really special. When you're gifting a wine bottle, you got to make it look pretty. Of course, handing it to them like this is nice, but you spent a lot of time on this. You want to make it look good, so you can consider putting it into a decorative box or even put it into a really nice wine bag. I mean, after your painting is dry, of course, you can even tie a ribbon on the top for extra points. Put a handwritten note with it or tie a tag to it that makes it extra special. Lastly, number four, timing matters. Is it their birthday or is it your anniversary? Is it a special occasion or gathering? This all makes it even more special when you gift it at the right time. Now that we've gone through taking photos of your work, posting it on social media, ideas for gifting, let's talk about how you can turn this into a potential side. Hustle. Full disclaimer. I am nowhere near a business coach and I'm not giving any financial advice or telling you how to make money on this. These are just my ideas and what has worked for me in the past. If you do decide this is something that you want to do as a side hustle, there are certain steps that you must take so that you can really evaluate if this is what you want to do. Prior to all of this, really ask yourself a few questions. Do you enjoy doing this? Is this something that you would do on your own free time? How long did you practice? Does this look good? All of those things are things that you need to ask yourself before you want to turn it into a business. Having a business is a huge commitment. With the proper evaluation, you can really make sure that this is something that you can be committed to. All right, once you have done a proper evaluation, the next step would be to identify your target audience and potential competitors. You really want to understand what type of bottle painting styles and themes are in demand. For example, or realtors. Brides are always looking for floral, very romantic designs to commemorate their wedding day. Or realtors are looking for personalized gifts to give their clients when they close on a new house. Those are just some examples of your potential audience. Okay, from there, the next step would be to create a business plan. This is where you outline your business goals, your target market, pricing strategies, marketing plan, and financial projections. You may also want to consider turning it into an LLC or a sole proprietorship to make it legal. Talking about legalities when you start to sell your bottles, it's not about selling the bottle itself. You are actually selling your artwork every time I paint on a alcohol bottle. I don't charge the client for the client brings the bottle to me and I charge for the artwork only. I think there may be legal issues if I was actually selling the bottle. As you go through the business process, you also want to think about building up your profile. This is things like making sure that you have a lot of bottles to showcase on your social media or online platform. This really shows that you can be versatile and to reach a broader audience. You also want to think about pricing strategies. There are different prices. If you paint the whole bottle versus just painting two flowers, there's going to be a price difference. Now we've come to my favorite part. I really love marketing because it lets people know what you're doing, what you're selling. Basic marketing strategies is it's not about you. It's about how you can create a need for them. For example, you would not say something like, you should buy my bottle because it's so beautiful. Instead, maybe you're marketing to a bride. You could say something like painted bottles, create a beautiful sake of your special day. That's it. To help with this, you can also use your social media platform. So like Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest. This is all ways that you can promote your artwork. You can make reels and talk about it, engage with your audience, and even use hashtags to reach more people. Those are just basic tips that have worked for me. Of course, everyone's journey will be different. No one is going to be the same, and that is completely okay. Maybe you might go in different steps or take a different directions. It's okay. There's no set business strategy, it's all different. Whatever you decide to choose, the main thing is just get started. One more thing. You can continue to keep this as a hobby just for you. There is no pressure to turn it into a business, to take photos of your work. There's no pressure to gift any of this, let this be for you. There's so many things that we do today just because social media tells us to, but it's also really fun to just keep a skill to yourself and have it as self care that is completely okay. All right, so now that we've gone through things that we can do to continue our bottle painting journey, I'll see you in the final video where I give my last thoughts and do a little recap of everything that we have done and learned. See you then. 19. Final Thoughts: This is our final video. Let's go over a few key takeaways. The first one is using the right paint. This will help you achieve vibrant and long lasting results. Number two, composition techniques, This will help to frame the label and really make it personal. Number three, keep in mind shadows and highlights. This is to prevent your painting from looking flat. Number four, having all the floral elements in your design. This includes the petals, stem, leaves, and even fillers for a complete look. Most importantly, keep with any skill bottle. Painting improves with time and practice. And remember, every artist has their own style and techniques that develops and matures over time. It's okay to make mistakes and have challenges along the way. This is all part of the learning process. Embrace the fact that it takes time and practice to truly understand and refine your skills with patience and persistence. You'll not only create beautiful works of art, but also develop a deep connection with the craft of bottle painting. I hope this inspires you to continue your bottle painting journey as the possibilities are endless, whether it's for gifting, personal hobby, or even a side hustle. Keep practicing and always be learning if you want to be friends. I'm also on Instagram at Juniper Calligraphy. I also host a podcast, have a Youtube channel, and a website, which will all be linked down below. If you decide to tag me on Instagram, don't forget to use the hashtag class on glass. Also, please post your work in the project gallery so we can all see it. Don't forget to follow me for more future classes. Leave a review. Tell me what you want to see or message me so we can be friends. All right, happy painting.