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1. Introduction: Hello, am I creative
France and welcome. My name is Yana and I would
like to invite you to my class to paint some
lovely blue to grow flowers, which are so beautiful
that they look like tiny bits of heaven fallen
down into the grass. This class is special
because we are going to combine two media,
typical transparent, watercolor and gouache,
which is more opaque, can provide outstanding colors and nice highlights
to your painting. I absolutely love
working with both of these media and together they seem to create
the perfect team. If you are interested
in gouache, I have one more class
on this medium. It's called snow drops, gouache painting for beginners. Where we talk more about
gouache and its specifics. I'd be happy if you still die. But now let's see
what art supplies we need for these lovely
to carry flowers.
2. Materials: So today we are going to combine traditional watercolor
and gouache, which is technically
watercolor too. But it's much more
opaque and gives you possibilities to normal
watercolor wouldn't. I don't have very large
set of gouache paints, only ten tubes, but
it's perfectly enough. The colors can be mixed together and create
whatever color you miss. Or sometimes I mix
white gouache with our watercolor to get a pastel, opaque color I need. This is Royal talents brand. The pain seem to be
of decent quality. I don't have different
brands to compare, but the pains feel nice. The opacity is okay. They are not the
best you can get, but they are pretty
sufficient to my needs. The gouache paints
are going to be used for the flowers,
stems, and bats. Here is my watercolor sets. This is white knight set. We're going to use it for the
background of our artwork. Regarding the paper, this
is Arches hot press, hundred percent cotton paper. Usually I like using
cold press paper more. But this kind of paper is smooth and does not
have much texture. And therefore, I like it more
for painting with gouache. Textured watercolor paper is better for pure
watercolor paintings, especially those painted in loose style with not
too much details. Now this is my mixing palette. I will use it to mix
the gouache paints. It's pretty simple
plastic palette, but any old ceramic
plate would do. Regarding brushes,
I have several of them. For the background. I have this nice mop brushes, which are perfect for applying
a lot of water and paint. For the gouache painting
and the details. I have simple round
brush size six. And these two small brushes
for the tiniest things. You will also need
a jar of water, some paper towels to
clean your brushes. And I have here
also a masking tape to tape my paper down
to some firm surface. Like here I have a piece of cardboard from some old shelf.
3. Drawing Chicory Flowers: I have uploaded
several photos in the resources
section in case you need some reference of
particularly flowers. They are pretty simple, round blue flowers
composed of long, narrow petals growing
on a long stem. There are blooming flowers, flowers that are already gone, and also some small buds. Here. You can see that I painted something similar to what we are going to do today already in
my watercolor sketchbook. You can see these
nice blue flowers, too bad and feel withered flowers as well.
Here in the bottom. If you want, you can practice
drawing the flowers and stems before you actually
sketch them for the painting. I have my old sketch book here, and I'm just going to draw
several trickery flowers. Feel free to draw along. So what I do first
is drawing the stem. It does not have to be
perfectly straight. It can be a bit wavy. And then I suggest the
position of the flowers that grow from the stem
just very loosely. The oval shape means that the flower is viewed
from an angle. The round shape
means that we look directly into the
center of the flower. Then I draw the petals. They are quite narrow and a little bit ragged on
the outside edge. For the flower that
is on an angle. The petals the dark, so to say farther from us, appear longer than
those that are closer to us or that are
pointing on us. Now the bus are very
simple, small balls. There can also be a small
pointy leaf or two. That's it. Let's do a few more of them just to
get the grip of it. You can see that now, one of my flowers looks like a cone because we look
at it from the outside. And I also add one,
a withered flower. I want to draw one
more stem for flowers. This time there is a flower
right at the top of the stem. This flower is tilted towards
a bit like it's looking up. And to more round
flowers and few bats. And Ali. Now for the flower itself, besides the color and
shape of the petals, there is one more thing that makes it so nice and elegant. And that is the stamen. And we can find in
the center of it, these are the tiny
details that give the flower the extra crisp. You can see them also
in the painting here. There are dark blue
and white details in the flowers that add more
highlights and texture. I'm going to show you how I
redraw that she can flowers. You can draw along, or you can just create
your own composition.
4. Color Palette: Very good. Now we can talk about the colors that we are going
to use in today's class. You are of course,
free to choose your own color
palette if you want to give your painting
a different vibe. But I want mine to feel
autumn and warmer. So I chose warm colors
for the background. I will paint the background using traditional
watercolor paints, but you can use gouache
as well if you water it down enough to act like
normal watercolor. So to make it running
and transparent, I'm going to repeat
the color scheme from the painting here because
it really works for me. So let's see. First I have here a bit of very vibrant
and warm orange color. This one is called golden. In this set. You can see bits of it here and
there in the painting. And it gives us nice idea of warm light in the background. Next I have a grayish green. This one is called green earth. And it is a muted
green. Very subtle. If you don't have
this muted green, you can try to use any green you have and mix it with a
little bit of orange. That should do the trick.
Next color is CPR. It brings us the
earthy Maddie feeling. But it's still very
warm and nice, and it looks nice
next to the orange. And the last one is azure blue. This is not the same kind of blue as I'm going to
use for the flowers. The flowers blue will be cooler. But I chose this
blue because it's warmer than ultramarine blue that is used for the flowers. And I want the background
to feel very warm, like a nice sunny day
in Indian summer. And I want it to contrast with the icy blue of the trickery. Regarding the gouache part, I create the flowers part. I have here a few
gouache paints. I need to mix my own grain because I don't have
this yellowish, warm green in my set. And I'm going to use ultramarine
and yellow for that. I have only viridian green, and as you can see, it's way too cool
for what I need. So I'm not going to use it. I'm going to need
a little bit of burnt sienna for the
details in the bus mostly. And one very important
color is white, which I'm going to use
not only for highlights, but also to mix it
with ultramarine blue to get this nice light
color for the flowers. So let's see. I have a bit of ultramarine
and a bit of yellow. And I'm mixing them together to see if they can
give me the yellowish green I need for the stems
and leaves. So they can. Now this is the
dark blue that is going to be used for
the few details. And now I'm mixing the
ultramarine and white. And that will
provide us with this lovely pastel blue
for the petals. Here we have burnt sienna, which is very warm,
reddish brown. And let's not forget the white. Okay, This is very simple
color chart for our painting. You can see that I don't
use a lot of colors. Having small number of
different colors in your artwork will make
it look more harmonious. So keep that in mind.
5. Class Project part 1 - Watercolor Background: Okay, and I've talking, let's paint some
trickery flowers. But first let me take my paper down to a piece of cardboard to prevent backlink and create an elegant wide frame later. My paper is 21 by 21 cm. So it's square, which is
a format I really like. And now I have my pencil and I'm redrawing the stems and flowers, just like when I throw them
into my sketchbook before. But I'm not going
to draw the petals, only the circles and ovals indicating where
the flowers are. I'm drawing the flowers
and the bats SOL. And let's add also few leaves. Nice. I'm satisfied
with the sketch. So now we can move to
the watercolor part. I have a jar of clean
water and a big mop brush, which makes it easy to cover
the whole paper in water. I apply quite a lot of water. I want it to soak
into the paper and make the pigments run
nicely was applied. I think the paper is wet enough. So let's add some color. I'm starting with
the orange color. I'm still using the mop brush to apply the color
randomly and loosely. Now some green. There is no rule about how
to paint the background. It's very random. And as the paper is wet, the colors around on the paper and blend into one another. Let's add a bit of Azure. And now just continue according to how it
looks on your end. If you still have some
whitespaces at some color there, if you think you
have too little of green, add more green. You can tilt the paper to the side to make the
pigment around more. Remember that the
watercolor dry light. So you can add more
color here and there. You can see that
the green color I chose is very
granulating because the pigment particles cluster and it creates this
nice grainy texture. Now while the paper
is still quite wet, or at least sit down, I'm going to splatter a little
bit of orange over it. I load my brush with
orange color and then I beat it out of the brush using
another brush or a pencil. And I hope it will
give my painting the feeling of flickering
light in the background. And now it's time to add
the paper dry completely. So if you want to take
a break, you can do it. You can have a cup
of tea or coffee, or maybe use your hairdryer to speed up the drying process app. If you don't want
to wait that long. Once your paper is dry, you can draw several
vertical lines for the grasses that will help to set our checkers into the place. I use the same green as
far as the background. And I make very simple
long brush strokes. I lead the green concentrate more in the very
bottom of the paper. And then I let it dry again before working
on the checkout.
6. Class Project part 2 - Gouache Flowers: Now we can put our watercolor aside and grabbed
the gouache paints. The pencil sketch is
still quite visible, so we can follow it and paint some lovely
trickery flowers. I'm using regular round brush with the hair firm enough
to hold thicker paint. And I mix ultramarine
blue and white together. Now see that I don't mix the
paints all the way through. I don't want them to create
one homogeneous color, rather to be able to
pick also a bit of white or darker blue as I go. I paint the petals. You can say that sometimes I pick pure blue from the other mixing well to add more
contrast to the flower. Also having the pains not
mixed together perfectly creates nice texture as you move the brush across the paper. Because you can technically have two different colors on the
brush at the same time. Feel free to use more wide. Sometimes. There can be some light reflecting on the petals that makes
them look bright. Now when I paint round flower, the one that is looking directly
at me, I have one trick. I paint the 12:00 and
06:00 petals first, make sure they are
the same length. And only then I start
adding more petals and go all the way
around. This way. I don't need to worry
that along the way, I make the petals gradually
smaller or bigger, and the whole flower
will look funny. Instead, I have a
perfect circle. This flower is a
bit of an angle. So again, make the
further petals look longer and the closer
petals shorter. Always make sure you
have enough paint in your brush as you paint to
make the petals seamless. Also, if you feel
the paint is still thick and it's hard
to work with it. Feel free to use a bit of
clean water, but not too much. We don't want the paint to lower its opacity and vividness. Very well. Now I'm going to
work with the darker blue. So without any white in it. And I paint the closer petals
in some of the flowers. I need the color to be a bit different from the
rest of the flower, so that it's clear that
those are separate petals. Here. I'm going to try
that with a lighter blue. Nice. Our flowers
look very good. Now I'm going to paint
these flowers here. The petals shrunk into some
small blue piece of mass. Now we can clean our brush from the blue color and move on
to the stems and leaves. I'm using the same brush as for the flowers because it has this nice fine tip that
allows me to draw thin lines. If you feel you
need to switch to a smaller brush,
feel free to do it. So I mixed together
ultramarine blue and yellow, more or less 50, 50 to create
a nice yellowish green. You can experiment and try the color on a piece
of scrap paper to make sure it's what we're looking
for. I'm okay with it. So I draw the stem
and also the buds. For the bads, similar
as for the petals. I did not mix the
colors to to roughly. So when painting the bus, there is a little bit
of yellow visible, which is a nice detail. Now I grabbed my tiny brush
and pick up a little bit of burnt sienna and
add few tiny lines, little wrinkles that
are on the bugs. Well, it seems too bright. So I'm going to mix it with some leftover gray I
have in my palette. You can mix in a little bit
of green to mute it down, or blue if you want
it to turn green. Now, for the withered flower, the part that holds the flower
is already a bit too dry. So I'll use more of
the burnt sienna mix for the stems and bads. I'll use the green. And again, add some
texture to the bads using small brush and
dark burnt sienna mix. Now I painted the
leaf using the green. I'm mixed myself, but
it looks quite flat. So I'm going to add a
bit of blue on one side, which creates the
idea of shadow. Okay, let's repeat the process
again with another plant. Stems, the bads, and with
her flowers, dry parts.
7. Class Project part 3 - Details and Highlights: Okay, once you are done
with all the green parts, clean your tiny brush
and use a bit of white color to add
highlights and texture to the center
of the flowers. I'm just drawing small
white dots side-by-side. I make sure the white
is thick and opaque, so I don't use water at all. And while I still have
the white in the brush, I'm going to add more highlights also to the bats and stamps, but not too much,
just tiny bits. You don't want to color the
whole stems with white. Now I take my liner brush, which gives me really
thin and fine lines. And I'm adding a bit of
detail to the petals. It stands out nicely on
the light blue color of the petals and contrast with the white dots in the
center of the flowers. I am very happy how the
flowers turned out, but something will make
it even more beautiful. And that is a sprinkle of
white-collar over the painting. So again, I'm loading my
round brush with color. This time, white gouache with just enough water to make it liquid enough for sputtering. And now I use another brush
and beat the color out. And you can see this
lovely tiny white drops. These drops can be
a morning dew or light flickering or
nothing in particular, but it gives the painting very
nice finished and detail. And that's it. Let us now remove the tape and see
the elegant white frame. I'm really happy. I love
this painting. It is lovely. Guys. Let me know
how it went for you in case you
have any questions, feel free to ask.
I'm here for you.
8. Final Thoughts: So let's wrap it
up. In this class. We combined to media
traditional watercolor and gouache to create this
lovely painting with warm, pleasant background and cool blue trickery flowers
with white details. I would love to
see your projects, so please take a photo
and upload it in the project section for me and your classmates to see
and get inspired by. Also in case of any
questions or comments, use the discussion
section and also, please leave a review
and let me know what you liked about the class and
what could be improved. Thank you for being here with me today and I wish
you all the best. Stay safe, stay creative, and see you in my next classes.