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1. Introduction: Are you a calligraphy
enthusiast looking to elevate your art with a
fresh and playful touch? Do you love the idea of
painting spring flowers? But feel intimidated by watercolor or other
traditional mediums? Then this challenge is for you. Hello, and welcome
to Brush Pen blooms a five day challenge to painting loose spring florals
with calligraphy. My name is Marika Ramos
from seven brush chokes, and I'm so excited to be your
instructor for this class. In this course, we'll explore the exciting world of
brush pen floral painting. A versatile and beginner
friendly technique that allows you to create stunning floral designs using just your trusty brush
pens and some paper. Why is painting florals with brush pens perfect
for beginners? Well, for one thing, it's a fun and accessible
medium that allows you to be creative without
feeling intimidated by more complex
painting techniques. Plus, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can create
stunning floral designs. That will add a new dimension
to your calligraphy work. But why not just paint flowers with real
watercolor paints? Will it get the same result as painting loose florals
with brush pens? The answer is yes, my friend. Over the next five days, we'll embark on fun
and rewarding journey, daily painting with
our brush bands. Practicing our skills with different types of spring
flowers and foliage, and adding a calligraphic
touch to each piece. By the end of the challenge, you'll have created
five unique works of art that you can be proud
of and share with others. What can you expect to learn? In this class, we'll cover the basics of brush and floral
painting and materials, then move on to the projects, where we'll learn how
to paint daffodils, tulips, cherry blossoms,
hydangs and roses. You'll learn techniques
for creating depth, dimension, and texture
in your flowers. And how to add beautiful
brush calligraphy codes to your finished pieces. This class won't cover the
basics of brush calligraphy as we want to focus on creating
daily floral projects. If you're new to calligraphy, check out my brush lettering digital workbooks first to build a solid foundation
of your skill and learn everything about
how to do calligraphy. However, I provide a
traceable worksheets for the calligraphy
codes that we will incorporate into each floral
projects of this class. Whether you're an intermediate or unexperienced
calligraphy artist looking for a new challenge, this class is designed to help
you unlock your creativity and enjoy the process of making something
beautiful every day. I'm so excited to share this
painting technique with you and help you take your calligraphy projects
to the next level. Get your brush pens
ready, grab some paper, and let's dive into the colorful world
of brush pen blooms. I can't wait to see
what you'll create.
2. Types of Brushpens: In this module, we'll discuss the materials needed
for this class. I'll explain the
different types of brush pens and paper that
you can use in brush pen, floral painting, and other
supplies you'll need. Let's start with the different
types of brush pens. The most important feature of the brush pen you want to use to paint florals is that it
should be water based. If you're unsure if your
brush pen is water based, you can check the
barrel or packaging, or simply test your brush pens. I'll show you how to test your
brush pens to see if they will work with the techniques that we will do in this class. Let's take the
tombodual brush pens. As an example, I have two types
of tombo brush pens here. One is alcohol based and
the other is water based. Most of the brush pens have
this tag in the barrel. You can easily check if your brush pen will work with the techniques
that we will do. As you can see,
this type of tombo, this is the tomboABTp. You can see that there is
the label alcohol based. Then the other one,
which is the Tombo ABT, you will see that it
says water based. This one is what we need
for this class because the ink in this brush pen
can be activated with water. Like with the alcohol based, it cannot be blended with water. Most of the alcohol
based markers, the ink will be easily
absorbed in the paper. What are some of the water based brush pens that I love to use? My most favorite brush marker that I love to use
for brush pen, floral painting, is the
in brush marker Pro. This is the juiciest of the brush pens that
I've ever tested. It really works well
as water color. It has so many colors
to choose from. The tip is durable enough. You can use this directly
on the watercolor paper. Even if the watercolor paper
has some texture on it, it doesn't easily free. You can see here it says it can be used for calligraphy graphic
design illustration. This is water based and
the tip is medium sized and flexible enough to do some brush markings
for the florals. Of course, if you don't have
carine brush marker pro, there are other
water based markers that we can still use
for floral painting. My second favorite is
of the dual brush pens, or the Tombo ABT. This comes with different sets. I have the galaxy set of colors, but there are other sets, like the basic colors,
floral colors. There are so many
colors to choose from. Again, with tumbo
dual brush pens. Of course, if
you're on a budget, I highly recommend that
you try cola. Super tips. This works well also
for the brush pen, floral painting that we're
going to do in this class. It's also easily
activated with water. The tip is like a cone. It's also easy to control if you need to create some brush
markings for your florals. It doesn't also easily fray, affordable, and cheaper compared to the other brush
pens that I mentioned. You will not be afraid to use
them on watercolor paper, even if you use them
in watercolor paper, they don't easily fray. Also, there are a lot of other water
based brush markers that is available in the market. This is just the top three
of the brush markers that I usually use especially for
brush pen, floral painting. If you don't have
the exact materials, don't worry because
I'll show you later how to activate your
brush pen with water. Just to check if the brush
pen that you will work with, the techniques that we
will do in this class. Okay, in the next module, we're going to talk
about choosing the right paper.
I'll see you there.
3. Choosing the Right Paper: Now let's talk about
the paper testing. How your brush pen will react to the paper that you'll
use is an important step to make sure that you
achieve the best result of painting loose
florals with brush pens. I have here a set of copy paper, velum board, and two types
of watercolor paper. I'm going to activate the carine brush markers to each type of paper
that you will see, which is the best paper
For this technique. I'll start with the copy paper, which is 100 GSM. Normally, I'd use copy paper
for practicing calligraphy because this brand of copy paper is smooth and high
quality when you use irregular copy paper
for brush pen florals, or when you use your brush
pens as water color. In regular copy paper like this, even if it's 100 GSM, look what will happen. I'm just going to
create some strokes. I'm going to paint
a simple rose. Then I'll activate the
brush markings with water. This is a paint
brush that is damp. You see the pigment
is not activated. All it did was like a bleeding
of ink in this paper. It will be frustrating
to do brush pen florals or any types of
watercolor painting with your brush pen if you're
using regular copy paper, even if it's already 100 GSM. The techniques that
we will learn in this class won't
work for copy paper. Now let's try this velum board, which is 220 GSM. I'm going to do the
same brush markings and then try to activate
it again with water to see if this
is going to work. So again, the same result
as our copy paper. It is not activated with, to work as water color. Now I'm going to try this
Canson watercolor paper. This Canson watercolor
paper has a rough texture. This is the rough texture at the back is a smooth texture. This is 200 GSM. Okay, then activating
again with water. There you will notice
that the pigment from my paint brush was
activated with water. And it works now as water color. You see there is
a big difference with the type of paper
that you will use. In this technique, I used the rough side of
Canson watercolor paper. The beauty of Karen brush
marker is that even if I only have two small
brush markings, it managed to give me a
lot of pigment that I was able to make a form
of a rose here. Okay. Now let's try to
paint at the back, which is the smooth side of
the Canson watercolor paper. Let's see how the brush pen will react in this side of
Canson watercolor paper. Again, the pigment is easily activated with water and still
can work as water color. If you feel like you
don't want to ruin your brush pens with the
rough textured paper, I suggest that you find a watercolor paper that has
a smooth side like Canson. But personally, I prefer to
use watercolor paper with texture because it just
my painting texture. This is the difference. This is the rough texture side of cans is the smooth
texture side of cans. But not the my favorite
watercolor paper to use for brush pen florals is the
Fabriano watercolor paper. This one is cold pressed and it is 200 GSM. Okay. Since it's watercolor paper, the pigment from my paint brush is easily activated
with water so that it can work as water color there. This Fabriano watercolor paper, it doesn't have a smooth side. Both side of it is
rough or has a texture. But so far, I didn't encounter any problem using my brush
markers with this paper. I highly recommend using
watercolor paper to ensure that you achieve the best
result of painting loose florals with
your brush pens. Again, this is my favorite, The Fabriano watercolor paper, it's thick enough to absorb the ink and water
to paint flowers. You can also use Canson
watercolor paper or any other watercolor paper
available in your location. But wait, Wouldn't that ruin my precious brush pens if
I use watercolor paper? Well, the answer is yes. But it will be okay if you
only use the brush pens to make a few strokes and markings
on the watercolor paper. Based on my experience, carine brush markers are the best tool for this
technique since their tip is durable and won't fray easily even if you use them
on rough textured paper. As long as you're not practicing the drills and letters of calligraphy on the
watercolor paper or any rough textured paper, brush pen should be fine. But if you worry that
using your brush pens directly on the watercolor
paper will damage it, I have a solution for you. We'll talk about that later. Okay. Don't worry.
4. Other materials needed: Okay, going back to the materials you
need for this class. We will also need a paintbrush. Any paint brush will do but a round paintbrush that is size 46.8 is preferable to
make loose brush strokes. Some of my paint brushes are the Princeton Heritage series. These are size 5.8
the tip is round. You can also use water
brush if you have one. As long as the tip
is also round, I suggest that you get a
medium size water brush. Lastly, you need jar of water, tissue paper or a towel, a pencil and an eraser.
5. How to Activate Brushpen Ink with Water: I won't be able to know what brush pen you're going
to use for this class. The best way to know if
your marker will work for painting is to test and
activate them with water. You can check your brush
pen if it is water based. Because some brush pens don't have the label water
base in the barrel. Like this, cool super tips. You need your jar of water
and your paint brush. In this exercise, of course, your water based brush marker, you can just draw a line. Then dip your paint brush
on the jar of water, but you don't need much
water on the paint brush. Make sure to tap or remove
the excess water gay. Then just touch it with
your wet paint brush. When it is activated, then your brush marker
is good for this class. So this is the ink from
Cryola. Super tips. Okay, now I'll show you tumbo all brush pen, although you're already
sure that this is water based because there is
the label at the barrel, just draw a line. If you have some frayed
or damaged brush pens already and you know that
they are water based, don't throw them
away because you can certainly use them for painting. Okay, you can see the ink of the tumbo dual brush pen gives me a very vibrant water color. When you're able to do this with the brush marker
that you're using, then it's good for this. This one is the Tombo Pt. Then next we have Carine. We already know this, Rene is really juicy, really perfect for
this technique. And when you're painting
with your paint brush, you don't need to really use them a lot on
the watercolor paper, so you don't need to worry if
you're going to free them. Okay. So this is N now let me
grab my right brush pen. I forgot to show that
to you earlier. Okay. So this is a brush
pen from right tech. Okay. I'm not sure if
this is water based, but let's just test it again. I'll draw a line here. If the ink will spread
as water color, then it's water based. Oh, yes. This is
also water base. I'm, I tried this
one right pecker is a good pen also. They are new to the market. I think they just
started a few years ago. This is not
sponsored, but, yeah, if you're looking for an
affordable brush pen, definitely recommended,
right? Peck. Okay, of course, I am
going to show you also, if you are using an
alcohol based marker, how would it react to
the watercolor paper? Okay, I have here my tumbo
ABT pro alcohol based. I just drew a line and dip my paint brush
on the jar of water. Then there you go. It cannot be activated
with water no matter how I go back and forth
to this in No, it's not going to work. Okay. Yes, not working. Look for a brush pen
that can work like this. Okay. What about for those
of you who are not willing to use their
precious brush pens? I understand brush markers
can be expensive and we don't want to just ruin them by constantly using them
on rough texture paper, because in calligraphy
it is recommended that we practice on smooth
quality paper, right? It's the same brush pens that
you use for calligraphy, that same brush pen
you can also use for brush pen, loose
floral painting. What you can do is get a zip lock bug or any
blending palette. I have here a blending
palette from Tumbo. Then you can transfer the ink of your water based brush marker here or on the zip lock bag. Just be resourceful,
you don't need to buy this the same
palette that I have. Then simply in from
your brush pen, then you can activate that with water and it can
work as watercolor. Amazing, right? It
just works so well. I hope that you find this lesson helpful and enjoy testing
your brush markers. Find a zip bag or
blending palette, whatever works for
you, just do it. Okay, in the next lesson, we're going to talk about the brush pen
painting techniques.
6. Brushpen Painting Techniques: This lesson will cover some of the basic brush pen
techniques that you can practice before moving on to painting beautiful
spring flowers. This is the time to get your brush pens and
your paint brush. I'm using Princeton
Heritage size five. Your jar of water
and a tissue paper. Yeah, let's do this
exercises together. You can follow along or
watch first the video. It's up to you how
you learn best. It doesn't matter. Okay, just enjoy the process. The first exercise is just do some dots with
your brush marker. No need to complicate this. Just do some dots and then load your paint
brush with water. Again, not to web, just dump, Then just do some light
strokes with your paint brush. Okay. That's it. That's the first exercise. You didn't expect that,
right? That's easy. The second markings
that we're going to use is the V shape. This V shape is very helpful
to paint five petal flower. Again, you can use any
color that you like. Just grab this brush
pen to draw a V shape, then wet your paint brush, then just spread the ink, then make it rounder
on the other side. This is how you paint petal with the V markings
of your brush pen. Okay, let's do that again, I'm going to use a
different color, this time, V shape. It doesn't matter if you
have thin or thick strokes. Forget about the
rules of calligraphy. Just using brush pens
for watercolor painting. Then from this V shape, drag the color and then create around shape
on the other side. This one looks like
a tear drop shape. Okay, Then we can combine these two brush markings to make a simple
five petal flower. Let's do that. With this, it's not necessary
to spread that. I just want you to
have a simple exercise of activating the ink from
your brush pen with water. You have your dot there, and then I'll get another color draw letter V. Okay, let's make a simple
four petal flower then your paint brush. Just let them blend. Don't be afraid if the
colors are blending, that's totally fine,
and that would make That would give you a
natural look of water color. I'm just dragging the
ink from this V shape, then making a round
shape on the side, and then pulling other
colors to form the petal. Okay, you have a four
petal flower already. Okay, Let's practice C
shape markings for petals. You can use the
shape markings for roses and other flowers
that we are going to paint. In this earlier I've
already shown you. Just draw stroke and
then another stroke. Then you can activate
this with water. The way that I did this shape, let me grab my blending palette here and activate
this with water. Actually, I'm going to add more pigment so
you can see more. Okay, you hold your paint brush at this level for the C shape. You can start with the
tip of your paint brush. Tip of your paint brush
that's going to be thin, then you're going to exert pressure then slowly so that it will go back to again, light pressure, heavy pressure. Then again you will
see that your paint, the bristle of your paint
brush is going wider, The belly of the paint brush and then live release you. Practice this exercise. Heavy pressure, drag the
belly of your paint brush. Slowly release C shape, practice other sides thick, then the thick, thin. You can also start here with thick and then thin. Notice the belly
of my paint brush. This one is thin, then I apply heavy pressure. You see, release the pressure. The shapes will be helpful
later with our roses. So other sizes of shapes, you can start with shape, then overlap another shape here. Do this exercise
repeatedly and practice on different direction so
that you'll be more familiarized with
the brush jokes. It doesn't necessarily need
to have this thin line there and then thick
and then thin. You will notice some of my strokes doesn't
start with thin stroke. That's okay if you can manage to have that
thin stroke better, but if not totally fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I'll show you later that with the brush
marking technique, you can paint rose simple
and quick process. So these are the exercises
for the shaped petal. Strike this again
with their brush pen. Roses are just C shapes or C strokes
overlapping each other. I'll follow this curve shape. Don't be frustrated if your
strokes are not beautiful. These are just exercises to help you be familiarize
with the brush strokes. Okay, this is not
yet the project. Just practice some
loose brush strokes. You can also flick that for
los feel of your petal. Okay, next is how to paint
leaves with your brush pen.
7. Brushpen Leaves: Next is how to paint leaves. With your brush pen, you can get any green color. We can start by a thin stroke and then put heavy pressure
to create thick, then slowly leaves, you will
go back to that thin stroke, then we'll do the same on the
other side, thick and thin. That's one thing to
paint the leaves, or draw the leaves
with your brush pen. You can add a stem. Then let's start by thick, thin, thin, thick, thin. Notice that I am leaving a white space at the
center of the live. That is because this might mean the vein or the
light in this live. That's just making an illusion to make this painting
more interesting. But you don't, if you
want to cover that up or you don't want to leave white space,
that's also good. It's also fine. This
is how it looks like. But to me, I really
love the look of my leaves when it has a little
white space at the center, that is the leaves. You can also make bigger
leaves again, thin, thick, left the brush pen thin,
heavy pressure. Then they're going to
meet with a thin stroke. Okay, I just drew this stem. Let's make a bigger leaf. Heavy pressure release,
heavy pressure, and then slowly release. If you don't like to draw
leaves with a paint brush, of course you can get
your palette transfer in, then we're going to
activate that with water. Then remember the
C shaped exercise we did earlier for our rose? You can use that to
paint some leaves again. You have the thick, thin, then thick, and
then they'll meet there. This is your leaf using
your paint brush. And you can also create a thin stroke, heavy pressure release. A thin, heavy pressure release. Thin, heavy pressure release, thin, drag the belly
of your paint brush. Then there you go, You have your branch of leaves. Okay? Do these exercises
as much as you need to. Don't forget that it
doesn't have to be perfect. On the first try, my leaves and my strokes
didn't look like this. When I first started learning
how to paint flowers, It's totally fine if
it's not perfect, It doesn't look good
on your first try. Okay, keep on practicing and just enjoy the
process later. When we are actually painting
flowers for our projects, you're going to learn more
brush pen techniques and other brush markings for the type of flower that we're going to use for a
certain project. But for now, practice
them yourself. Because by practicing
these techniques, you'll be well on your way to creating beautiful
brush pen artwork, including stunning
spring florals. Now if you are ready, let's do our brush Spring
Florals challenge.
8. Brushpen Daffodils: Okay, let's get it on with
our daffodil floral project. The code that we are going
to use for this project is, no matter how hard the past is, you can always begin
again by Buddha. The design of our floral
project is we're going to paint our daffodils at the
bottom part of this paper, the cote is located at the top. Let's paint first our flower. This is again Fabriano
watercolor paper and 200 GSM. I just cut it into
half because the size is 9.5 by 129 by 12. Yeah, somewhere around
that measurement. Okay. Starting with my brown color, I'm going to random dots. Start by drawing random dots. Grab your orange and just make thin strokes around
your brown color. Pick the yellow color, then add six V shapes. Again, the tip of the petal of the daffodil
is quite pointed. It's not round. Okay, just make your
petal a little bit pointed by the way we are painting
loose flowers here, just capturing the idea of the daffodil flower and
putting it into our painting, and we're not aiming for a
realistic kind of painting. Okay, so that's one
daffodil already. I'll draw another one in this side again. If your orange is blending
with your yellow, just let them be, let
them blend together. It doesn't matter if your petals are not the same or equal sizes. It's also okay if not all your petals
are of the same sizes. And one more on this side. Random dots, random,
thin strokes. Oops, it's raining
while I'm recording, so if you're hearing
the rain, I'm so sorry. I hope that it's not
too distracting. If then, just mute me for a second while we're
painting these daffodil flowers. So this is a full
bloom, open daffodil. Now we're going to
add stem and leaves, And the leaves of a daffodil
is quite long and narrow. I'm going to add
thin stroke here. Then another one here. You see, because this
petal is still wet, the green just blended
with that part. But I'm not bothered,
it's totally fine. It will give me a
beautiful effect if that happens to
you, don't be so. Okay, We're going to
draw the leaves using the same brush pen and make sure that it
is narrow and long. If this area is still wet, please don't put your
hand there, okay? You might smudge the ink and you don't want that because you're going to run your painting. Okay. And then going to have draw a long live there. And I think this
is already good. I am not fond of overdoing
my artworks. Simple. The better. If you have a yellow color, then we can add
more details. To. The way that I add details
to my painting is that I just draw strokes. Maybe on this side. Just there, yeah. Just adding random
yellow details to add depth and more
interest to my afful deal. Then here, sometimes
I use pressure, sometimes I just
use thin strokes, but I don't overcomplicate this thing. Okay, that's it. This is our daffodil
floral project. On the next session,
we're going to add o calligraphy here, but make sure that this
painting is already dry, okay?
9. Day 1: Daffodils Floral Field: Okay, let's get it on with
our daffodil floral project. The code that we are going
to use for this project is, no matter how hard the past is, you can always begin
again by Buddha. The design of our floral
project is we're going to paint our daffodils at the
bottom part of this paper, the cote is located at the top. Let's paint first our flower. This is again Fabriano
watercolor paper and 200 GSM. I just cut it into
half because the size is 9.5 by 129 by 12. Yeah, somewhere around
that measurement. Okay. Starting with my brown color, I'm going to random dots. Start by drawing random dots. Grab your orange and just make thin strokes around
your brown color. Pick the yellow color, then add six V shapes. Again, the tip of the petal of the daffodil
is quite pointed. It's not round. Okay, just make your
petal a little bit pointed by the way we are painting
loose flowers here, just capturing the idea of the daffodil flower and
putting it into our painting, and we're not aiming for a
realistic kind of painting. Okay, so that's one
daffodil already. I'll draw another one in this side again. If your orange is blending
with your yellow, just let them be, let
them blend together. It doesn't matter if your petals are not the same or equal sizes. It's also okay if not all your petals
are of the same sizes. And one more on this side. Random dots, random,
thin strokes. Oops, it's raining
while I'm recording, so if you're hearing
the rain, I'm so sorry. I hope that it's not
too distracting. If then, just mute me for a second while we're
painting these daffodil flowers. So this is a full
bloom, open daffodil. Now we're going to
add stem and leaves, And the leaves of a daffodil
is quite long and narrow. I'm going to add
thin stroke here. Then another one here. You see, because this
petal is still wet, the green just blended
with that part. But I'm not bothered,
it's totally fine. It will give me a
beautiful effect if that happens to
you, don't be so. Okay, We're going to
draw the leaves using the same brush pen and make sure that it
is narrow and long. If this area is still wet, please don't put your
hand there, okay? You might smudge the ink and you don't want that because you're going to run your painting. Okay. And then going to have draw a long live there. And I think this
is already good. I am not fond of overdoing
my artworks. Simple. The better. If you have a yellow color, then we can add
more details. To. The way that I add details
to my painting is that I just draw strokes. Maybe on this side. Just there, yeah. Just adding random
yellow details to add depth and more
interest to my afful deal. Then here, sometimes
I use pressure, sometimes I just
use thin strokes, but I don't overcomplicate this thing. Okay, that's it. This is our daffodil
floral project. On the next session,
we're going to add o calligraphy here, but make sure that this
painting is already dry, okay?
10. Day 1: Calligraphy Quote: Now for the calligraphy
part of this project, I'm using a ruler and a
pencil to draw guidelines. Because it's really important to have a guidelines when
you're doing calligraphy. If you're not yet
comfortable with the composition or layout
of your caligraphy, you can totally do that on
a separate sheet of paper. But for me, I'm going
to just draft my layout directly here using my pencil. Throughout this project,
we are going to this, we're going to use the
bounce lettering style. If you need to learn how to do the
bounce lettering style, you can check my
workbook simplified bounce lettering
to know more about the tips and techniques
that I share there on how to do
bounce lettering. Okay, I don't follow a certain rule when I'm
drawing my guidelines. I just follow my ruler size. Yeah. Depends on you
on how big you want your calligraphy size to be. But for me, I'm using
small tape brush pen, because big brush
pen won't fit in this size of paper that I used. Then for our code, I'll just draft it
with my pencil. Okay, so this is my
rough sketch of my coat, but it can change once
I put ink into it. And of course, the thin and
thick strokes of calligraphy. But for now, this
layout is already good. I'm going to grab my needed and slightly era
of the pencil markings. To match this, I'm going to use an orange color
from pental field. Touch in calligraphy,
thick down. I'll just trace the sketch
that I did earlier. Maybe just some
of my wordings at the left side just to give
my thick strokes space. Don't forget the
author of the code. I'll just draw an
extra line here. Make sure I don't mess this up because I have the tendency to write in a slanted way if
I don't have my guidelines. And then I'll just wait for
this to fully dry and I'll be back and this is our day one project.
11. Brushpen Tulips: Day two of our challenge. Today we'll be painting tulips, which symbolize perfect
love and elegance. You'll learn how to create the simple shape of a tulip and how to use color splatters to add interest to our project. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a stunning
tulip pattern background to add to your
calligraphy projects. You can grab any
color that you like. For our tulips practice, I'm going to show you the basic brush strokes that you can use to paint a simple
and easy tulip flower. I'm still using my
Ren brush marker pro, and this is in scion color 27. To paint a two p
all we need to do, I'm going to paint beside the daffodil to demonstrate to you the shape of the to lip. First of all, we're going to draw an inverted obloor oval. Never mind the thin
and thick stroke. It doesn't matter
if you don't have stroke variations
like I have in here. I am just used to exerting
or applying heavy pressure whenever my pen is going down because of
doing calligraphy. But really it doesn't matter if you have thin up or thick down. Okay, then once you
have this shape, we're also going to draw thin
up stroke on both sides. You have the three brush
markings on your paper, then you're going to
wet your paint brush. I'm still using my Princeton
heritage size five. This is a round paint brush. I'm just going to wet
this paint brush. Tap the excess water
so that it won't be, it won't create a puddle
of water on my paper. Then I'll just spread this ink to make this the
center petal of my tulips. Since my paint
brush is still wet, I just use the water
to drag the color of the two brush and create petal out of
it the same here. I'm just curving and
following the brush. As you can see, I am
leaving white space here because this indicates the
separation of the petals. If you feel like there is a big gap between
the two petals, which I feel like there
is on this painting, what I'm going to do is just drug colors inside to make the space smaller. This is one way
to paint a tulip. I'll use another
color to show you another way to paint a
tulip with your brush pen. That is to simply create
two strokes like this, then wet your paint brush and simply drag the color
to create the petal. Okay, so that's it, that's for a war lip petals. Then you can grab a green color. This is olive green to 81. Then from the bottom
of this flower, I'll just draw my stem and it's okay if the green bleeds to
the pink, it's totally fine. That adds a beautiful
effect to your painting. We'll add long lives. Okay. Then we can add thin
stroke at the center. This is the exercise
that you can practice to paint a simple and quick to lips
with your brush band.
12. Day 2: Calligraphy Quote: Our day two class projects, we are going to write first
the code in calligraphy. Then we are going to paint
tulip florals around it to act like a floral
pattern background. And then we'll add
some splutters. Since this is going to be
a tulip floral pattern, I am choosing three
colors for my tulips. I have here pink, which is the service 376. I have bluish color, which is again the ion seven, and an orange red 051. But you can choose any color that you
like for this project. I also have two shades of green. Just to add more interest
and variation to my leaves, I have here olive green
281 and apple 210. You can check the free
caliigraphy template for the code pattern
of this project. You can follow that or you
can create your own layout, Whatever works best for you. That's totally fine to do. I have again my ruler and
I'll just draw my guidelines. Most of the time I am just eyeballing the
center of my paper. But if you are a very
detailed person, then I suggest that you measure your paper and then find
the center of your paper. But for me, since most
of my projects are loose and I don't usually
for 100% perfection, as long as I achieve my goal
and my idea into paper, then that's fine with me. I'm not going to find the
center of this paper. But if you want to then do so. I'll just draw my guidelines following the size of my ruler. I am just following the size. You can use a light pad
if you want to trace the calligraphy template that
is included in this course. Or you can manually
add your coat. Like what I'm doing, A drawing guidelines and
I'll sketch the coat. Okay. I'll add another
line at the bottom. Okay. So this is my guideline. Now I'll draft the
code with my pencil. Pencil is my best
friend when it comes to anything like flourishing
planning code. Whatever project I need to do, I always have to use pencil. Again, the style that I'm
using is bounds calligraphy. Okay, so this is my rough
sketch of the coat, and of course the author, don't forget that at the bottom. Okay. As you can see, it's not perfectly centered. The flower can be adjusted
a little bit to the left. All that I do when I already
in it with a brush band, but for now it's okay with me and I'm going to erase it
with my needable eraser. Again, I'll be using
small brush pen for this. Since two lip pattern
background is tricolor, I'm going to use red. Again, I'm using
small brush pen. This is the pental fed touch
brush pen for my coat. And I'm going to ink this and adjust my letters and
strokes accordingly. Okay, so this is the code. And I just realized that red is just perfect
for the code. Since we have the
word love in here, you can use any brush pen. If you don't feel like using a small tip brush
pen, that's okay. Use a bigger brush pen and
a bigger size of paper. Of course, don't squeeze
this long hold into this size of paper
because we still need some room for tulips. Okay, in the next video, we're going to fill the
spaces with our tulips.
13. Day 2: Tulips Floral Pattern: Now it's time to
paint our tulips. I know what you're thinking. You're afraid that if you
paint flowers around this, you might ruin your calligraphy. I've been there. I
totally understand that. But you need to do this project, not because it is a requirement, but it will help you
to conquer your fear of adding other details
to your calligraphy. As I do this, more combining
calligraphy and florals, sometimes I do flowers first and then I'll
add calligraphy. There were times that
it seems like I ruined the floral project like a wreath when I added
the calligraphy quote. But that's part of learning. We can never discover our
style if we won't explore. Okay, today I challenge you to just go with the flow and
let's enjoy the process. Me too, I'm not sure how this is going to turn
out, but let's see. I'll pick up first
my blue color, which is the scion I'm
going to paint here. Maybe just small tulips
here, if it helps you. You can also grab a pencil and then just
draw some circles. Light circles where you want your flowers to be
placed or located. Maybe here. I'll draw
stem, another one here, and then we'll just
draw some leaves. Okay, let's do this. Okay. Again, to paint the tulip. We'll start with this shape, and then another
rushes on the side. Then you wet your paint brush. But not too, you don't
want to create a puddle of water on your paper. Then simply drag the colors to make it the petal
of your tulips. Okay, one flower done, and I'll add the
stem right away so that I can have a
smooth blending of ink and of course the leaves. Then I'll add another here. Just tiny brush strokes from your brush pen can
turn this into a flower. Then I'll add here, maybe I can make this big. Because the space
here is bigger, we can try another variation
of tulips instead of rod. I can make this pointed. You see explore. Even if I am doing this already on the final project and not
on another scratch paper, whatever the result, so be it. I can just repeat this if
I don't like the result. And I like it. The beauty of loose
floral painting is it gives you
freedom to just make doodles without worrying too much about the details
of water painting. It's a flower, it's two lips. Then maybe I'll add another
stem here and draw. Let's take another
blue color for that. Then I wet my paint brush. I like this one. See if I am not focusing
too much on the details. The outcome becomes O. And then I'll grab the
lighter color green just to draw smaller leaves, just totally random and to make this balance, because we have light
green at the top, I'll also add at the bottom. So I am just making thin
stroke and then exert heavy pressure and I am
leaving white space at the, in between these two stroke
lives to add more interest. I think this is already good, but I'll live here. And another here, maybe there. Now, you know, I am so random
in creating my art works. I'll just look at it from
afar and see if there is an empty space that draws my eyes on
that certain space. For example, at the top and at the bottom, this feels empty. So I added more leaves. This looks nice and
balance already. So I'll just let this
dry and I'll erase the pencil markings that I did before we add the splatter. Okay. I'll erase now the
remaining pencil markings. All right. Now for
the splatter part, you can grab your blending
palette or your silo bug, whatever that is
available to you. You can transfer some in and we'll just activate
this with water, but don't blend them
altogether. Okay? And I'll go get some blue
color on my paint brush. And then just like this, I and rinse my paint brush
and get another color. This time I'm
getting the orange. Then tap again, the last one is the pink. Okay, so yeah,
imperfect platters just add additional effect and loser style to our project.
14. Brushpen Cherry Blossom: Welcome to day three of our brush band Floral
Spring Challenge. Today we'll be painting
cherry blossoms which symbolize renewal and the
fleeting nature of life. You'll learn how to create delicate pink petals and how to paint an easy cherry
blossom wreath. Since we are painting
cherry blossoms, I pick two pink colors
that are different shades. The first one is a pale pink 220 and the other is a
darker pink service 375. If you don't have
these exact colors or you don't have two
different shades of pink, you can use even
just one shade of pink to paint our
cherry blossom. This is a super simple, I love simple floral
painting with brush fence. I have here my lighter pink. Then we'll just draw
V shapes like so. Then I'm going to
wet my paint brush. Then just drag these colors
to paint the petals. The shape of this petal is
it's a bit round at the top, but you don't need to make this perfect to make
this interesting. I use a darker pink shade with my wet paint brush. Just drag it to form the petal. I'm not worrying too much
about the shape of this. And then one here, basically we are painting
five petal flower. We are using the technique to paint the five petal flower, to paint our cherry blossoms. Just quick and
simple brush strokes of your paint brush will
do, That's already good. Now we'll add the
brunch I have here, my brown color, which
is sandstone 174. Then I'll just connect that with a brunch by just drawing
lines here and there. You can combine it
with thick stroke, thin stroke, and
some wiggly strokes to make it look like a brunch. We can add green for the leaves. This is curry 297. I choose a muted
green color for this. It looks like brown also. Okay, so that's our
cherry blossom. Now, in the next video, we are going to draw
a cherry blossom. Th
15. Day 3: Cherry Blossom Wreath: Since we are painting a
cherry blossom wreath, we need to use a compass. Or if you don't have a compass, any circular object that you
can trace for your wreath. I also located the
center of my paper, but it's not too, it's
not perfectly centered. But that's totally fine with me. Depending on how big you
want your wreath to be, just make sure that it fits on the paper size that
you are using. This is the size that I like for my wreath because it still has space at
the side of my paper. Okay, now I'll just
draw the circle. Okay, now it's time to fill this circle with a
cherry blossoms. The process is simple. We are going to paint
five petal flower here, a series of five
metal flower here. And then we'll repeat
the pattern that we did here four times
on this side, side, side, and on this side. Okay. Let's start. If your pencil markings
is a bit dark, you can use your needed as
to just lighten it a bit, but make sure that
you can still follow your circular shape so that your wreath won't
be all over the place. It's not visible in the camera, But I still have my circle here. You can see I'm going to
paint five petal flower here. We can also vary the sizes of our five petal flower to make
it look more interesting. Again, it doesn't
matter if it's if your five petal flower
or not perfectly spaced together, that's okay. And make your petals loser by just dragging
your paint brush. You can see I'm just
doodling my petals here. I'm not worried. If it's not perfect, then I'll add another
one on this side. This time it's the darker pink. Okay. Now I'll add the branch, and I'm following the
circular shape of my pencil. Actually, you can use the same brown color
to make the leaves. You don't have to get another
green color for that, like what I did here. Okay, then I'll repeat this pattern or maybe change it a little
bit on this side. Since I ended with a
darker color pink, I'm using again, a pale pink. I'll add another darker pink. Still drawing V shapes to
form my five petal flower. But when I activate this
pigment with water, using my paint brush, I'm really making
the petals perfect. The loser it is the better. Sometimes you can use just
for V shapes, doesn't matter. Okay. And then grab my brown, then connect them. Okay. And now I'll finish
these two sides. Random movie shapes, loose brush strokes. Sometimes you can make them like they're overlapping
with each other. The petals won't always
be complete here. This petal is a little bit
shorter than the others because that's hidden
by this flower. Then I'll grab my brown color and one on this side. You can rotate your
paper if you need to that you won't
much the ink if this part is still web or you can grab a tissue
paper also to cover this. Since I don't have a
tissue paper and I have an extra paper here,
I'll just use this. See, I am not overthinking
with my brush strokes. I feel like this one is
a little closer to this. That's why I have
a big space here. But that's okay. We can add just random, close that with another
branch on that area. Okay. So yeah, even if
it's not a perfect circle, this is totally fine with me. It looks more organic. I took my app to 10. This is light green because I don't like the color of curry. Then I'll add some leaves, but I won't fill this
whole width with leaves. I'll just add on some awkward spaces to
fill those empty spaces. Where is it, the silly killer? Okay, so this is our
cherry blossom wreath. And we can add details
to our flowers. Just add dots at the center. If you're already satisfied with your cherry blossom wreath, let's go and add our
calligraphy coat.
16. Day 3: Calligraphy Quote: Okay, so now let's add
our calligraphy code. Don't forget to use a guideline to make sure that your calligraphy
strokes are consistent. Okay, now I have my guidelines inside my
cherry blossom wreath. Now it's time to add our code. Remember, you can trace the calligraphy code on the template provided
on this class. I'm using a pink color to match the theme of our
cherry blossom wreath. I'll just trace the
calligraphy code. Okay, and again, wait for the pencil markings to
dry and you're finished.
17. Brushpen Hydrangea: It's day four of our challenge. And today we'll be
painting hydronjas which symbolize gratitude
and heartfelt emotion. You learn how to create
the unique shape of a Hydronja by using the
techniques of painting. A five petal flower
also cover how to use the blending method to create a beautiful
gradient colors. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a gorgeous
hydra watercolor border to partner your
calligraphy with. Instead of practicing on a separate piece of
watercolor paper, we are going to paint directly
on our project paper. Because painting hydronga
consists of only painting with the
five petal flower. And we've already practiced that earlier when we painted
our cherry blossom with the same techniques that we are going to use
when we paint the hydranga. Since the form of a
hydronga is circular and we are going to paint a
border for our project. I have here a circular object. It's not too big. Just
enough for my hydra flower to fit on my paper. This is my paper. We are going to paint hydroga on this side and then
it's going to be a border. We'll paint on the
bottom left side of my paper and draw a circle here. You can grab any circular or circular object
that you have at home. Then I'll just fill this
circle with five petal flower. I'll be using two colors, one light blue and
one dark blue. The shades are Arctic blue
264 and Egyptian blue 35. I'll just fill this circle with five petal flower constantly alternating between
these two colors. So I'll start from the
center with my V shapes, and then I'll add some
V shapes randomly, some will be cut
off by the circle. Then I'll go ahead
and activate this with water and turn
them into petals. Then I'll rinse my brush
and do this lighter blues. So it's okay if the petals
overlap from one another. Don't worry, they can
touch each other. The goal is to fill this
circle with five petal flower. And if there are
still some spaces, continue filling it
with some strokes to make this fuller. This time you don't have to worry that it should be a
complete five petal flower. It should be just random strokes to fill in the empty spaces. Here I am, spreading
the ink from this random shapes
and filling it, the spaces with this ink. Okay. And then let this dry first and then we'll
add another layer. All right, once this
is already dry, make sure that it's dry. Before we add the second layer, you can just grab your
darker blue and draw random V shapes to
make this fluffier. So what we did is just
add a new layer of five petal flowers to flower. This is so easy, right? It's so relaxing to just
put some brush pen ink on the watercolor
paper and then just activate it with water and then it can magically turn into a. If you feel like you're having a creative block or you just don't know do with
your brush pens, then definitely try
painting with them. Okay, so I think this
is already good. This is our hydranga. Now we're adding a border here.
18. Day 4: Hydrangea Floral Border: I have here two
sets of green apple 210 grass 253 and
sky blue six to one. What we're going
to do next is to draw like our ribbon
coming out here. And the same on this side. You can start with thin, then you can exert
heavy pressure. And then thin, we'll
do the same here. I'll just rotate my paper. Okay, so you now have a border. And then we can add leaves here. Can add Ig leaves. And let's repeat
that on this side. Draw a thin stroke,
exert heavy pressure. And then you seeing
another shade of blue, we can add smaller leaves. Okay, so our Hydrogo floral
border project is now complete and now we're going to add our code to this area.
19. Day 4: Calligraphy Quote: Okay. You know the drill. We need to draw
guidelines first. Since this green
leaf is not yet dry, I have smudged it, but this is okay. It's part of the process. Maybe I can just paint
more leaves to this later. So that's why it's
really important to use a tissue paper or any paper to cover the things to
cover this part, because I am really
impatient, this happens. But if you're a patient, then let the painting
be fully dry first, before you add your
calligraphy code. I'll just continue with my code. Writing the code here. I ran out of guidelines, so I'll just draw some more. So this is how I do my
artworks raw and unfiltered. Now, going to erase
pencil markings, and I'm going to use blue color from pentel, fed, touch pen. Actually, I can still
adjust it here. I can still one line above so that it won't
be crowded on this area. Okay, let's do this. Since I feel like there is so much face here at the bottom, I would like to add
some leaves here, like what we did here. I rotate the paper and just add my big leaves there. It looks more balanced now.
20. Brushpen Roses: Welcome to the final day of our brush pen floral challenge. Today we'll be
painting roses which symbolize love,
beauty, and passion. You'll learn how to
paint roses with a simple strokes
from your brush pen. And how to use water to
create soft, delicate petals. By the end of the
class, you'll add your coat to the rose geometric. For this class, you can choose
any color of the brush pan that you like for your
roses and for your leaves. This class, we will
need an extra pen. I have here a gel pen from a, But if you don't
have a gold gel pen, any regular pen will do to create the border
of your wreath. To start with, I'm going to draw three circles to locate
the ross of my wreath. Then I have here my leaves. Then for the geometric read, it's not really
necessary that you draw a perfect
square or hexagon. Because we are doing florals
and modern art work, we're just going to
eyeball border for this. But later we are going to use ruler to make sure that
our lines are straight. I just want to have that
I know where I am going. This is my square or rectangle. Later we're going to draw
some other irregular shapes here for our geometric with I
think this is good for now. It's just a rap sketch
of the geometric. We'll work on this later. Now let's paint the roses. I have a purple theme in mind. I have chosen purple
colors for this project. I have red eight
violet blue 688, and pale violet 247. I'll start with the setter
to create the rose. All we need to start
with is to create or draw brush
markings of C shape. Let's erase first some of the pencil markings
if it's too dark, so that it won't show up when we already paint with
our brush pens. Okay, this will do now. We are going to start
with the or just draw C shape that
overlaps each other. I'm going to zoom in a
little bit so that you can see much better. Then with this,
we're going to add bigger C shapes,
still overlapping. Make sure that this
brush markings are pigmented enough because
the brush markings are the only brush markings
that you need to create your whole and then
wet your paint brush. Now for that center, we are not going
to activate that. All that we're going
to activate is the three petals that we
did. Just follow the curve. Then from this pigment, you can grab again another
pigment from that center. And then continue
to create petals. Larger petals. You can also wiggle your paint brush to create
variation of your roses. As you move farther
away from the center, the petals are being lighter. Don't worry if it's not a perfect circle for me, this is already good. Now let's jump into
the next rose. I choose another color for the second rose that I'm
going to add on the side. This one, it's going to be a little bit smaller shapes, another three shapes. I'll go over it to make sure
that I have enough pigment. Then we your paint brush. Let's activate this with water. You see I'm following the
curve of the C stroke. Add another one here. You can deal your paint brush to add interest to your petals. And then I think I'll just use same color on
the other side. Make sure that you don't
touch this if it's still wet with your hand
so that it won't smudge. Remember, we are creating
loose florals, lose roses. Don't worry if it's not a
perfect shape of a rose. The important thing is that
you leave white spaces in between the petals so that
it won't become a blob. Okay, so you now
have three roses. In the next video, we're
going to add leaves and complete this geometric,
I'll see there.
21. Day 5: Rose Wreath: Now let's add leaves
to the roses. I'm going to grab my
blending palette. And A green, I'm going
to use olive B447, transfer some pigment here. Actually, I would like to try blending it with
a lighter green. This one is olive green 281. Let's just see what will happen. I like this shade of green. This combination. If you don't like the green color that
comes with your brush pen set, feel free to combine
and blend some colors. Now we are going to start
with bigger leaves. I'm going to just
to here and here. I'm still using the
same paint brush. I'm going to draw a stem
and a bigger leave, another one here and here. We'll do the same on this side. And of course, we are going to add leaves in
between these roses to remember what we practiced
in the previous lessons. To create your leaves just the
belly of your paint brush. To create thicker
strokes for the stem, you can start with thin up stroke the belly and then do the same on
the opposite side. You can leave white space
between the two stroke leaf. Or you can fill it
in like what I did here. It depends on you. Then I'll continue to fill this with more leaves here. I'm going to add triangular leaves here as well. The symmetry of your painting doesn't really need
to be perfect. As long as you think
that the leaves are already doing its job to
fill in the empty spaces, then that's already good. Wait for a few minutes
to let the leaves dry and then we'll add another
layer to create variation. And to add more interest
to this painting, choose another shade of green, a lighter green
or a darker green compared to the shade
of green that you use. For the first set of
leaves that we painted, I am choosing apple 210. Then we'll add small leaves or filer leaves to add more
interest to the painting, so you can draw it on top of the first leaves
that you fainted. Let's add here. I'm going to add another
one here. Smaller leaves. Hey, this is already
good for me, but if you feel like there are other empty spaces that
your painting has, feel free to add more leaves. Okay, now that it is fully dry, grab your gold pen, or any regular pen
that you have, a ruler and let's complete
the geometric Th, so be careful not to paint over the leaves or any part
of your painting. Sometimes your gold ink can sit on the edge of your ruler. All you have to do is grab a tissue paper and
then wipe the edge. Okay, so you don't go all
the way to the leaves. Okay. So skip those paintings. Okay. So I have my first frame, Now I'm going to
add another frame. Okay, So now we have two layers. If you feel like adding
more, you can do so. If you please plan first with a pencil or you can just
be bold and brave enough, like me to just go with it. Let me just fix some of
the shape here so that it won't look like
it's broken there. I hope that you like
your geometric wreath. And let's jump into the next
video to write our code.
22. Day 5: Calligraphy Quote: Okay, so I grab
another ruler because my first ruler has some
gold inks on the edge. And I don't want to
smile to this artwork. So I'm just going to
draw my guidelines. And then I'll draft the coat. And then of course, we'll need to erase some of the
pencil markings. And I'll use purple color
to match the theme of this. At so this part right here, I need to cut the word
because it won't fit in. So I'll just continue
it on the next line. Now I'll wait for this to
fully dry and then I'll erase the pencil
markings and we're finished with a challenge.
Congratulations.
23. Final Thoughts: Congratulations my
lovely student. You made it to the end of the
brush Pen blooms challenge. I hope you had as much
fun as I did painting these beautiful spring flowers with our trusty brush pens. But the journey
doesn't end here. I encourage you to keep practicing and exploring
your own style. Even beyond this challenge, don't let the lack
of materials or experience hold you back from
pursuing your creativity. Before we part ways, I want to ask you a favor. I would love to see your
completed projects. Please applaud them in the comment section
of each lesson. Or share them on Instagram. And tag me at seven
brush strokes. Wait to see what you've created and share it
with our community. Lastly, I would be grateful if you could
leave a review of this class and let me know what your
favorite project was. Your feedback will help
me improve and create more content that can help
more art enthusiasts like you. Thank you for joining
me in this challenge and I hope to see you
in my future classes. Keep painting, keep practicing, and keep blooming, bye.