Demystifying English Roses: 10 Watercolor Floral Designs to Spark Your Creativity

1. About the Class: [MUSIC] Who wouldn't be in love with a dainty, beautiful and frilly English rose. Well, I personally love it so much that I included it in my own wedding bouquet. Initially, I stayed away from painting this flower because there were so many layers of petals. The sheer amount of details that had needed attention was so overwhelming and I just did not know where to start. After overcoming this personal hurdle, I started practicing and developing ways on how to paint a new flower without being overwhelmed. This is what I will be teaching in class, along with a step-by-step guide to demystify English roses in watercolor. You don't need to be an expert to join this class. If you're a beginner with little experience or a seasoned artist who wants to try something new, then you're very much welcome to join the class. [MUSIC] Hi, my name is Joly and I'm a watercolor artist and online art educator based in the Philippines. I'm also known as Jolypoa on Instagram. I work with different art brands such Etchr Lab, Art Philosophy, Cricut, and most recently as a Silver Brush educator. I have been painting since 2013 and I specialize in painting loose watercolor florals. Teaching has been my passion, and I always challenge myself to break down paintings into simple steps for beginners. Over the years, I have taught thousands of students all over the world through in-person workshops, art event demos, and Skillshare classes. [MUSIC] In this class, I will start by guiding you in choosing the materials needed. Next, you will learn a step-by-step method on how to approach painting a new flower. Warm-up exercises are very important in holding the muscle memory in your hand. That's why I have included brushstroke drills, such as painting the S-stroke and C-stroke along with watercolor techniques such as fading. These skills will equip you in painting many different flowers. We will start painting the English rose by breaking down the parts of the flower into four easy steps. As I strive to make my class beginner friendly, I will also tackle common problems encountered by most beginners and also how to prevent it. After learning all the techniques, we will proceed to painting 10 different projects from easy to intermediate level. We will explore different floral compositions such as floral wreath, gold floral border, bouquets, crescent floral arrangement, single stem rose, and florals in a vase. By the end of the class, you will have developed confidence in trying out a new flower to paint. Of course, master painting English roses in a new style. Now if this is something you're interested in, then I will see you in class. 2. Class Project Overview: Welcome to the class overview. English roses, also known as David Austin roses, are a hybrid of gold garden rose and modern rose. There are different kinds of English roses, but we're going to focus on the main features alone. They're coped with freely double blossoms. Double blossoms means that the flower has extra pedal. It's a flower within the flower. I know it sounds crazy and it sounds overwhelming, but don't worry, I'm here to help you out. The best part about painting with watercolor in a loose style is that you don't need to pay all the details you just need to capture the main highlights of the flower. For the class project, you can choose among the 10 projects that I have provided. You can follow what I'll be painting or you can create your own composition. I have prepared the projects in such a way that both beginners with little to no experience and students with more experience in watercolor can both enjoy the class. I have easy projects and they have intermediate ones. To give you an idea of what we were created this class. Here are the projects. The project number one is easiest project. We're just going to paint two sets of patterns. You can see we have an English rose with two pie petal flowers beside it. This project is also useful as you can give it as a gift, you can write just a name in the center or a quote. You can also just paint one side so that you have more whitespace to write on. Project number two is this beautiful wreath with a gold border, this is one of my favorites. You will also learn how to paint this white English rose. You can do so many variations with this project so that you can call it your own. Project number three is the single stem English rose. In this project, we'll be focusing on one main English rose and we'll be adding stems and leaves. You will also learn how to do this faded background. I can say that it's a very doable project, even if it looks difficult. Our project number four, we're going to paint this crescent floral arrangement. For this arrangement, we have one main flower with just English rose. Then around it we'll be adding some bipedal flowers and smaller roses. For project number five, we're going to paint this all pink bouquet. Just to add more variation we're also going to pay the signature rose that I have been teaching. Don't worry, I will be including a tutorial in the class as well. For project number six, we're going for a summer and cheerful vibe. we're going to paint some English roses and add some bright yellow five petaled flowers. You will also learn how to paint the white mixture for the white flowers. For project number six, we're going to paint a muted floral arrangement. This is one of my favorites as well. You'll learn how to mix colors to create this beautiful shade. For project number eight, we're going to paint a fall inspired floral arrangement, So you're going to use more of earth tone colors to achieve this fall vibe. Also, the autumn season is coming, so this is a perfect project to paint. This is also one of my favorites. This is the second to the last project. We're going to paint English roses in a vase. It's a fun project. You can change the shape and color of the vase according to what you like. The flowers in this painting has more details you will learn how to do that. Last but not least, you're going to paint a whimsical flora bouquet. In this project, you'll also learn how to use a white acrylic pen to add extra details in your painting. I'm also going to teach you guys how to paint this beautiful blue ribbon that's soft and loose. Those are the 10 projects. Now let's move on to the next video where you will learn a step-by-step method on how to paint a new flower. 3. Tips to Paint a New Flower: In this part of the class, I will be sharing tips on how to approach painting a new flower without being overwhelmed. But this is going to be a step-by-step methods. Left, part. Number 1, observe the shape of the flower that you are going to paint. I have here the book called the Flower Color Guide, and you will use this as a reference. Now let's flip through different features to see different types of flowers. This is a lily. This lily has about five petals and I would consider it as a star shape. Knowing the shape of the flower will guide you in painting the flower. Will get as checkout another lily that has color so that it's easier for you to see. Now let me just quickly draw an outline, so that is the shape of the flower that we will follow if you're going to paint this lily. When you're trying to figure out the shape, remove all the details in the center. So when you look at the flower, you only want to look at the outline of the flower. So different flowers have different shapes. Some are around, some would have this heart-shaped just like this thorium. I would suggest getting some photos online, from Pixabay or Unsplash, save them in your phone. You can draw the outline digitally, so that you can get more acquainted with different shapes of flowers. Now let's go to Number 2, which is to pick the highlight detail of the flower. Choosing the highlight of the flower is also choosing the identity of the flower. So you are probably wondering how do you choose the highlight of the flower. So this highlight detail is usually what reminds you that most of the flower, It's something that stands out when you look at it. So take a look, for example, this is the Dobrina DC. For me, something that stands out would be the center of this flower and also those nice layered petals. I also want to highlight those curvy details of the petals. Now these are daffodils for me, the highlight would be the trumpet shape of this daffodil. Now let's go to another flower and also try to observe on your own the highlight of that flower. So you can pause and look at the left page is an Icelandic poppy. Ask yourself, which characteristics stands out the most. For me, it would be the center and those nice big freely petals. It's also quite the same for me when it comes to these anemones you can easily spot the dark center. If you'll flip through this book, you'll see different flowers, with different identities. So did number three so high that the chosen identity and keep the other details loose. So the English roses here have so many layers of petals. It can be quite overwhelming when you look at it. What stands out the most is the center of this English rules. So that is what I'm going to highlight. This is one of the projects as we will be painting. You can see that I added more details in the center, because that is what I want to highlight in this flower. You can also see that I added more contrast and more layering in the center. But for the other petals, I just kept it loose. You can also see in the other flowers here, for example, this rose. There are more details in the center, but I just kept the outer petals lose, with less details. It also helps to add more contrast in the center by adding a darker color, just like in these five petaled flowers. Now let's move on to tip Number 4. Choose your favorite color to paint a new flower. Painting a new flower can be quite overwhelming, because a lot of things are new to you. It's best to paint with a color that you are the most comfortable with. For me, it would be pink or this permanent rose color. It is what I call my safe color. Because this pink color is my safe color, I don't feel stressed at all whenever am painting a new flower using this shade. Tip Number 5 is quite similar to tip number four. So we need to choose a watercolor technique that is familiar to us. Choosing a familiar watercolor technique, will help lessen the frustration when you're painting and new flower. Again, you want it to be stress-free, so it's best to use something that you already know. I personally suggest using a wet on dry because that would be the easiest way to paint a new flower. You can just paint the main shape and then later on add some details. If you are just starting out as a beginner, it might be trickier to use a wet on wet technique, because a lot of things are unpredictable with a wet on wet technique, it might be more difficult to control the shape and how the paint flows. But with practice, you can definitely try out this technique. So tip Number 6, is to choose a simple composition when you're just starting out. So an easy composition will be to paint a single stem flower. So you will only focus on one flower on your page. If you want it to be a little bit more challenging, then you can paint two flower's facing in different angles. It may be tempting to do everything at once and paint entire bouquet, but I really suggest you try painting something simpler in the beginning. Another composition to try is a wreath or a border. This is one of the projects that we will paint in this class. Just paint flowers that are diagonally across each other. Then you can combine them through a single line just like what they did here, I added some gold details. Here are some other ideas for compositions. For me, painting a wreath is really very fulfilling, because after you have painted this shape, you can already give it as a gift or you can add some codes in the center. When painting a reef, you just need to figure out if you want an oblong or a round shape, and then just plot in the main flowers first, after that, you will add the fillers and the leaves. Another idea for simple compositions when you're painting new flowers, is to paint some patterns. This is a good way for you to practice those flowers, because you will be painting them repeatedly, on a piece of paper. At the same time, you can digitally edit this pattern, and turn it into maybe pillows or give rappers. The possibilities are just endless. Tip Number 7, is to practice a lot. So practicing is really important, when you want to master any subject. Success doesn't happen overnight. You do need to put in the effort and the time. Practicing also helps own the muscle memory in your hand. You can see that I have a lot of paintings here. So what you can do is you can combine the new flower with some older flowers that you have learned in the past. Also, you can practice with different color combinations. So that's it for the tips. Now let's move on to the next video where we will learn about the materials that you need for this class. 4. Materials: Before we start painting, let's talk about the materials that we need. I'm going to start with the brushes. These are my favorite and my go-to round brushes. They are called silver brush, black velvet brush. I'm using size six and eight. For beginners, I really suggest getting these two brushes for painting loose florals, you want a brush that follows your flow. You want it to be quite soft with a little bit of bounce. You want a brush that can hold a lot of water and still keep its point. Even after dipping my brush in the water, you can see that it's still pointy. What I love about this brush is how flexible it is. You can paint big, broad strokes at the same time, you can paint really thin and hairline strokes. Let's go to the paper. I'm going to use Baohong artist grade paper. This is 300gsm and it's cold press. It's also 100 percent cotton paper. This paper is in a block form, which means that all the sides are glued except for one part where you can use a palette knife to slide off one sheet after you have painted. Using a block pad like this will help prevent your paper from mopping once you paint on it. It helps the paper stay flat because of the glue on the sides. You can see some texture right here, that's one of the characteristics of a cold press paper. This is perfect for loose florals, but if you're painting some realistic flowers, I would suggest getting a hot press paper which is smoother. I'm going to quickly show you another type of Baohong paper. This is the academy, and it's their student grade line. This is cheaper than the artist grade paper, but in my opinion, it's also really good enough for painting. It comes in a block form and to be honest, this paper is one of the best student grade papers that I have tried and it's something that I would recommend to my students. You can also see the texture right here. That's because it's also cold press paper. I did notice that this paper has less texture compared to the artist grade paper, but it's not really that big of a problem. One of the things that I have noticed though, in this paper is that there seems to be more areas that have harder edges. The painting on the artist grade paper seems to have more depth. I hope that this comparison will manage your expectations. Now if you don't want to use blocks, you can also buy large sheets of watercolor paper. This is from the brand Arches and it's only 185gsm. You can see that by how I can easily bend the paper. Now this is 300gsm. You can see it's thicker. This 185gsm paper is still good enough to paint on, but I would suggest taping down the sides while you paint so that the paper will not buckle and become wrinkly. What's good about painting on a large sheet of watercolor paper is that you can cut it into smaller pieces. That way it won't be overwhelming to paint and it might be more economical in the long run. If you want to practice and see your progress in a sketchbook, I would suggest using this one it's called the Etchr Lab sketchbook. They have hot press and cold press and also it comes in different formats. You have a portrait, there's also landscape. The paper is also 100 percent cotton. The more affordable journal is the Khadi journal. I use this a lot for my daily doodles. This is not 100 percent cotton paper, but I still love the texture of this paper which makes my paintings look more vintage. Because it's not too pricey, I don't feel bad when I paint on a lot of pages. The only downside is that you can't really do all the techniques here. It has its limitations. I hope these mini-reviews will help you out in choosing the paper that you want to use for the projects in this class. Now let's head onto the watercolor paints, I'm using the brand Shinhan Pwc, is a Korean artist grade paint. They only come in tube, so I have to pour them into half pans just like this. Two paints in half pans have the same quality. If you're painting a large scale paintings, I would suggest using two paints. But if you're painting small to medium paintings, half pans are okay. In this class, feel free to use any of your paints. You don't need to buy what I'm using in this class. Before the start of each project, I will be providing the colors that you need. Next, we need a mixing palette. I'm using the lid of my watercolor tin. The watercolor tin is from the brand core, but I'm using different paints inside. You can use ceramic palettes, or sometimes I use glycerin pallets, which are quite popular nowadays. Another option is to use normal plates at home. Or you can even use plastic palettes. To add highlights to our paintings, I'm going to use white gouache. This is from the brand Holbein and I'm using the shade permanent white. But any brand will do and you can also use poster paint. We will also be using this Posca acrylic pen, it's a very handy tool when you want to add some white details with precision. It looks like this on the inside. Now let's go to the gold paint. I have here from the Etchr Lab brand. They have metallic paints. This is their golden set, so you have different shades of gold. You don't really need to use this set, you can of course look for other gold metallic paints. But something that I like from this brand is that their gold doesn't rub off. When I paint on the paper and I try to rub it with my finger, you can see there are no sparkles or glitters. It means it's a good metallic paint. Next, we need a jar of water and you also need tissue paper for blotting the excess water in the brush. That's it for the materials. Now let's move on to the next video. That's it for the materials that we need. Now let's move on to the next video where we will be painting some brushstroke gels. 5. Brush Stroke Drills: [MUSIC] In today's lesson, you're going to learn how to paint some brushstroke exercises that will help you how to paint an English rose and also other flowers as well. To start, let's get a size 6 round brush and also any color of paint that you want to use. I'm going to use permanent rose. I'm just going to draw the direction of the brushstroke so that it's easier for you to understand. We're going to start with an S-curve. It's going downward. Hold your brush at a 45-degree angle, and then just slowly move your brush in an S-shape. Start with a light pressure and then slowly move downwards. As you move downwards, you need to add more pressure. You can see that there's a thick and thin part in this stroke. Let's try to do it again, so start with a light pressure. This will produce a thin stroke, and then towards the middle, press it some more towards the end. Slowly lift your brush to create that nice pointy tip. You can see that I'm holding the brush near the bristles because I want to have more control for this stroke. Now let's try a different direction. It's always nice to try strokes in different directions so that you will be more comfortable when you're painting the petals. Right here, I'm starting from the lower left and then I'm just going to move in a curved manner, going to the upper right. We always want to start with a light pressure, and then towards the middle, you add more pressure to your brush to get a thicker stroke. Towards the end, you want to lift your brush lightly so that you have that pointy tip. This will produce a nice organic stroke that doesn't look flat. Let's try one more direction. This one is going to the lower right. These are strokes that you'll use for painting the center of the English rose. But you can also apply these techniques to other flowers as well. I'm going to do it a few more times in a slower version so that it will be easier for you to follow. Next, we're going to do some C-curves or C-shapes, which you might have encountered in my previous classes, because I always do this stroke when I'm painting arrows. It almost looks like a crescent moon. Don't worry about it. You don't need to paint them all in the similar shapes. You can try to vary the strokes. Some are smaller, some are bigger. This is also just an exercise to loosen up the muscles in your hand. Let's do some more C-shaped, but this time from the bottom going up. Right here, I'm going to start with a light pressure and just slowly press my brush to create that thick middle portion. Then towards the end, just slowly lift your brush to get that nice pointy tip. You can see that I'm also dragging my brush towards the end of the stroke. Then we can also do some C-shapes from the left going to the right. They look like they're lying down. It's also very therapeutic to do these brushstroke curves. I honestly suggest investing some time to do these strokes. Next up we're going to do the fading technique. This is a technique that I have taught in my previous classes as well, but I'm still going to show you how to do it just in case it's your first time to take up my classes. First, you need a very pigmented stroke. I'm just going to do some S-shapes. This looks a little light, so I'm just going to paint on top of it and add some more color. Let's add maybe two more. Then after that, we're going to rinse our brush and tap the excess water in the brush. Now we are going to lightly touch one side of this stroke. You can see that it is becoming blurry or faded, while the left side still has that sharp edge. This is good to use if you want your strokes to look softer. You can also try to go back and forth. Just be careful because you don't want to overdo this. If you overdo the fading technique, it will look too muddy and quite dirty. Let's do it one more time. Just paint a very pigmented stroke, rinse your brush, and then just lightly touch the edge of the other side of the stroke. You can see that it's becoming faded while the other side is still very sharp. These are the essential strokes for painting the English rose. Let's now go to the next video where we will learn how to paint leaves and other smaller flowers. [MUSIC] 6. Flowers and Fillers Exercise: So aside from the English rose, we're also going to learn how to paint different flowers that we will add as fillers or as complimentary flowers for the projects. We're also going to learn how to paint leaves and fillers. So let's start. The first flower is this rose that is on this side. I'm using my size 6 round brush and we are going to start with a very pigmented color. I'm using permanent rose, but you can use other colors as well. I'm going to start with a comma stroke. This is going to be the center of the rose. Then we're just going to paint some thin C-strokes all around it as if it's hugging the center. Now, let's rinse our brush and just tap the excess water. We are going to fade away the outer strokes. At the same time, we are going to create some bigger size petals. As much as possible, try to put some white spaces in-between your strokes. This will just give an illusion that the petals are separate from each other. I'm going to grab just a little bit more color and add it to some of the petals, but this is just completely optional. Because we want this to look like it's on the side, you can see that I added more volume towards the bottom half of this flower. Let's wait for this to dry before we add the second layer. I'm going to move on to this rose bud that's about to bloom. Again, we have our comma stroke in the center and then some thin C-strokes all around it until we form this oval shape. Next, I'm just going to quickly sketch the shape of this rose using just my paintbrush. Then rinse your brush and fade away those strokes. You can see that it now looks softer. We can just move around and try to fix the shape of this rose while it's still wet. We can also try to bring back a little bit more color to this rose. This first rose is already dry. We're going to add the second layer. I just have here, permanent rose. You can add a little bit of violet or Hooker's green. What we want is just a darker shade to give this rose more depth. Then painted the comma stroke again and then some thin C-curves all around it. Make sure that you have some spaces in between. Now, let's rinse our brush and fade away the outer strokes. We can add some more petals right here. To make it easier for me to visualize, I always like to think that each stroke is one petal. We have a little bit of problem here. There is too much paint, so I just try to lift the color. It just means that I'm letting the brush absorb the paint on the paper and I'm using the tissue to dab the excess paint in my brush. That's also what you can do to troubleshoot some problems in the flowers that you're painting. This rose part is also dry already, so now we can add a second layer as well. I'm painting the center of this rose again and also the outline of this rose bud. We're just trying to fade away, so that it doesn't look too bold or too sharp. Let's move on to another flower. This is just a simple five petal flower. I'm just using this permanent yellow light and we're going to paint five petals. Just move your brush around up and down. Then you can rinse your brush to create a lighter yellow color. Now, just leave the center blank, don't paint anything on the center yet. Now, let's grab some sap green and dab our brush in a tissue paper to absorb the excess paint. Now we can add this sap green in the center. It looks like a ring of dots. Then you can add some indigo right there in the middle, just to give it more depth and contrast. Let's do another five-petal flower, but this time in a different approach. I have here permanent rose and burnt sienna and I'm just going to put some small dots in the center. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and using the water in my brush, I'm going to fade away or pull that color from the center going outward. You can also add a little bit more color if needed. The idea behind this is that, you're going to grab some color from the center and you're going to move it around until you form a petal shape. This is a quick and easy way to paint flowers for beginners. While the base petal is still wet, we're going to grab some burnt sienna and I'm going to drop that in the center and just let it bleed in a little bit. If you want a really strong center, I would suggest using indigo or maybe violet or sepia. This is an example of a flower that I did using this method and we're going to do that for our [inaudible] soon. Next, let's move on to a DC like flower. I'm mixing ultramarine blue and burnt umber, this is how I'm able to create a gray color. If you want this color to be more bluish, then you just add more ultramarine blue. I'm just going to paint some petals using this color. Leave some spaces in between the petals just to separate them. Let's paint one more flower. Now you can use some indigo. I'm just showing you different ways to achieve a white flower look. One of the easier ways is to actually just use diluted indigo. It's still a nice color. For the center, I'm going to use yellow ocher. You can also use permanent yellow deep or just any yellow in your palette. We're just going to dab that center until we form a small circle. Now for the second flower because it's on its side, I'm just going to paint a dome shape. It's not going to be circle like the first one that we did. Now let's just try to absorb this extra paint that bled into the petals. Just to add more contrast, I'm going to grab just indigo or you can use sepia as well and just dab your brush in the tissue paper to absorb the extra paint. Now we're going to add some small dots all around the center. You'll immediately notice a huge difference. Now, it has more depth, it has more character to it. This part bled again, I'm just going to quickly absorb it and erase it on the flower. You can use your tissue paper as well to dab this extra paint. These are just some quick tips for you guys, so that you can apply it to your future paintings in case you encounter a problem just like this. For the next flower, we're going to use permanent yellow deep. I'm just trying to wiggle my brush to create these organic strokes. You can see that it looks like the wings of a butterfly. I'm just going to do some more over here. Now, let's grab burnt sienna. You can also use burnt umber. I'm just going to put it in the middle of these petals. Let me show you what it looks like if you use burnt umber. You can see that there's more depth when you add burnt umber because it has a darker color. Now let's just connect all of these petals into a stem. The next one is going to be a filler. You can use raw umber or any brownish orange color that you have. I'm using this color because we are going to use it for our fall theme project. Just dab your brush on to the paper and you'll be able to create these petal-like strokes. I'm just leaving some spaces in between them. I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away some of the petals. It will make this filler look softer. Now, to make it look more interesting, I'm going to grab some permanent violet, mix it with the burnt umber and now you'll see just a muted violet. We're going to use that and add some more petals. I really wanted to add some muted colors to this filler just to give it more of a fall vibe. You can paint as much petals as you want. Now let's just connect them all using a stem. The next filler looks like Queen Anne's lace, but we're just going to change the color a little bit. I'm using greenish yellow. I'm going to put some dots. This is a very easy filler to add to bouquets. You can also do this in different colors. You would want to use a lighter color for the first layer and then the second layer will be darker. Right here, I'm just adding some indigo and you can immediately see the difference. Now, it has more depth. Let's now move on to the leaves. Right here, I'm just mixing my greens. This is burnt sienna and sap green. Next, let's prepare burnt umber and sap green. You don't really need to use the specific colors that I'm using. Just use any brown color in your palette and add that to your green paint. Lastly, we have here indigo and sap green. I'm going to be using sap green and burnt umber. Let's start with a very thin stalk, this is the center and then now I'm going to add some leaves. This is my go-to leaves. It's very simple and easy. You can do it in one stroke or in two strokes. You start with a very light pressure and then slowly press your brush until the belly becomes really wide. Then towards the end of the stroke, you are just going to lift it so that you can have that pointy tip. Next, let's do our last structure, leaf. This is going to be more organic. I just have here sap green and burnt umber again. You just paint a very thin stem. Then you can see that I'm trying to wiggle my brush to create those jagged edges. This is a fun way to introduce new shapes to your floral bouquet. You can also try to raise your brush to paint a lighter value. Just to add more depth, I'm going to go back in and add a darker stem. You can just drop in that color in the center, then you can add some more leaves and some stem sticking out. Let's move on to another leaf. This is sap green and indigo mixture. Let's start with a thin center again. For this part, we're going to paint some elongated leaves. Just drag your brush a little bit longer to create these beautiful leaves. Towards the end, remember that you need to lift your brush to create that pointy tip. Try to vary the colors of the greens here. You can do a mix of an earthy green color or a dark green, and then add some light green color that will make it look more interesting. Lastly, for the leaves, we can also do some freehand strokes. Just allow yourself to explore different strokes. Try to play around with the brush just like what I'm doing. I'm painting some strokes using different directions and also I'm applying different pressure in each stroke. By doing this, I'm able to achieve some organic shapes and I can also create different textures. We're almost done here. Right now, we are going to go back to the other flowers that we painted. You want to add a second layer to give it more depth. You can grab the same color, but make sure that it's a little bit more pigmented and just paint some more strokes on top of it. You do not need to cover the entire base. You should be able to still see some parts of the first layer. For the second five petal flower, I'm just going to mix up some burnt sienna and permanent rose. I'm going to thin it down. We're going to use this color to paint the veins on the petals. Just use the tip of the brush to create these nice thin lines. Now, for the white flowers, you can also add some layering. Just use the same color, make it just one shade darker and just paint some strokes on top of the base petals. This is the end of the lesson. Now, let's move on to the next video where we will learn how to paint an English rose step-by-step. 7. Step-by-Step English Rose: In this lesson, we're going to learn how to paint an English rules step-by-step. If you try to Google an English rose or also known as a David Austin rose, you'll find these images. I've just googled this and I'm showing you some photos. You can see that these flowers are quite daunting to paint because it has so many details. It almost feels like you don't know where to start. But don't worry because I'm here to help you and I will be breaking down the parts of the flower so that it's easier to digest and easy to paint for beginners. Let me give you a brief recap of how we will approach painting these flowers step-by-step. Number 1 is to paint the S-strokes for the center. Next, we're going to fade the S-strokes to make it look softer. Number 3, we're going to extend the S-strokes and we're going to paint some C-strokes all around the center to create this round shape. For step Number 4 we need to wait for the flower to dry and then we're going to add a second layer to give it more depth. That's it. Now let's start painting. To start, I'm going to mix permanent rose and burnt sienna, but you can also use just one color so that it's not too complicated for you. I'm using a size six round brush and you can try to swatch the color so we want a really pigmented color for this part. Now let's paint some S-strokes. I'm going to put a small dot in the center of the flower just as a guide for me. Every time I paint an S-stroke, it always leads back to this small dot. We're just trying to space out these S-strokes. You don't want it to be too close to one another. I'm also trying to vary the shapes and sizes of the S-strokes. You can see that the overall shape is a round shape. Now, let's try to paint this one more time. Again, I'm just going to start with a small dot, that will be a guide for me and then now we can start painting some more S-strokes. These S-strokes will be the ruffles in the center, just like what you saw in the photo. It now time to fade away these strokes to make it look softer. I'm going to rinse my brush and tap the excess water. You can lightly touch one side of each stroke to make it look blurry or faded. At the same time, you can add some more strokes using the color in your brush. Now I'm going to add the C-shapes or C-strokes. You can see that I'm trying to extend the S-strokes until it forms this C-shape. We're going to continue adding some C-strokes until we get that nice fluffy petals. Of course, try to add some spaces in between your strokes. As you go towards the outer part of the flower, you can try to press your brush some more on the paper so that you can get that nice broad stroke. Just let the bristles fan out so that you can get some nice juicy big petals. This is optional. If you want to add a shadow look you can just dilute indigo and just add it on the outer parts of this flower. Make sure that the mixture is really diluted. You want it quite translucent. You can also use violet if you want. Now that this flower is already dry, let's go to step Number 4, which is to add a second layer. Right here I'm mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna. You just want a darker shade because you want to add more depth so you want it to be darker in color. We can try to swatch it. You can see that it's darker than the base flower. Let's follow some of the S-strokes in the base of the flower. Try to do it lightly and you want really thin S-strokes. You don't want it to look too overwhelming or crowded so my suggestion is just to add a few strokes. It's better to add less now so that you can adjust later on. Now outside the center, you can paint some really tiny C-strokes, like what I'm doing here. This will give it some more definition. You can see there's a ring over here, and that's what we're trying to mimic. The strokes look a bit too sharp, so now we're going to fade it. Just rinse your brush and tap the excess water. You can go ahead and fade away some of the strokes in the center. Now I'm going to go ahead and fade away the C-strokes in the ring area. For the outer petals, you want it to be quite translucent and soft. Our main focus is the center that's why we're adding more details in the center. I'm going to go ahead and fade away some more to make it look even softer. It looks like we need to add some more details. I'm just mixing up this nice dark red color. You're going to add some more details in the center just to give it that punch of color, that contrast that we need. Sometimes we do need to add a second layer if you want more details in the center. Now onto some finishing touches, we can try to fade away some of the strokes or add some more petals. This is the time for you to adjust the shape of the flower. Now let's move on to a rose that is on its side and it's about to bloom. To make it easier, I just painted a small oval shape and this will be the center of the flower. I have here just a yellow, orange color. You can use any color that you have in your palate and we're going to do something like this. As a guide, I also put a small dot in the center of this flower. Now let's start painting some S-shapes. It can be quite challenging because the space is quite small. Now I'm going to just fade away some of the strokes. Next we're going to extend the S-shapes and are going to form this ring using C-strokes. It's now time to move on to the body. I'm just painting a rough sketch of the body of this rose. You can see I did just the outline and now I'm going to just fade away the inside to create that soft look. You can also go back in with some more yellow, orange and add some color on the ring of this flower. Now let's try a different style of adding a second layer. This time the flower is still wet and we're going to grab some burnt sienna. I'm going to add it in the center. You can see that it's going to bleed into the base flower. Then you can also add some burnt sienna in this ring. We are just going to focus on the center and then make the body look quite soft. So we're done. Let's do one last recap on painting an English rose. Again, you'll need to start with the center using some S-strokes and you want this to be really pigmented. Step number 2, after you paint the S-strokes for the center, you're going to rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and fade away some of the S-strokes to make it look softer. After you fade away the stroke, Step three is to add some C-shapes. You can see that I'm pulling away the arms of the S-shape and making this letter C-shape. It looks like a dome. The reason why I'm pulling from the S-shape going out is because you want the center to still be attached to the main flower. If you just paint the strokes and then paint some C-strokes all around it, then it will look detached. That's why we want to pull the arms or the S-strokes going out. Towards the outer part of this flower you want to paint broader strokes or bigger petals. Next we can grab some indigo. You want it to be read diluted and just add it towards the outer part of this flower to give that shadow effect. Make sure that the mixture is really translucent or else you will get a blue ring around the flower, which doesn't look good. As I'm adding this indigo color, I'm also trying to blend it in with the pink petals. Step four, again, we're going to add a second layer. Let's wait for this to dry before we add a second layer. I'm going to paint the same S-shapes but this time we're going to add less S-shapes because we don't want it to look too crowded. Just use the tip of your brush to create these tiny strokes. You can also do some C-shapes as well. Some of the strokes are actually just lines and that's okay. I'm going to add some C-shapes in this area which I call the ring. Now rinse your brush, tap the excess water and now we're going to fade away some of the strokes so that it doesn't look too harsh or too sharp. Now with a very translucent color in your brush, try to paint some more petals around this flower, and that will give it a fluffy look. If you want a really dark center, then you need to add a third layer. You can add a darker color, you can add some sepia or indigo to your mixture just to make it look darker. This part looks too thick so I'm just going to try and lift that color. Don't worry about it if you made a mistake, there's always a way to fix it. Now let's continue fading these strokes and adding some more petals to give it a nice fluffy look. Then you can stop once you're happy with the shape of the flower. We're done. Now let's move on to the next video where we will talk about some common mistakes that you might encounter and how to solve them as well. 8. Common Mistakes and How to Prevent Them: I thought of adding this section in the class because it might be helpful to you. We're going to discuss some common mistakes that you might encounter and also how to fix it. Number 1 is painting thick S-strokes. The S-strokes are going to be used for the center of the English rose. You might encounter painting the S-strokes too thick, or you might have S-strokes with a rounded tip just like this. The rounded tip happens when you abruptly lift your brush before you end your stroke. This is the correct way to do it. You start lightly and just slowly press your brush and towards the end, you're going to lift your brush. Make sure that you're dragging it so that you can get a nice pointy tip. You can also see that the S-stroke has a thin and thick part. It's not just one thickness all throughout the stroke. Right here, you can immediately see the difference between these two strokes. Let me do it one more time. Here just slightly press your brush and drag, then lift. You might be curious about what will happen if you paint thick strokes. I'm going to try and do it so you can see what it looks like and so that you can prevent it from happening. It will look like this. The flower will look a little chunky, and it will also look heavy because we have heavy strokes as well. Now, let's try it with some dainty S-strokes. You want it to be quite thin, and you just want to build up just small S-strokes. Then, of course, we're going to try and fade it away, and then next we're going to add some C-strokes all around it. I would definitely suggest starting with thin S-strokes, as you can see right here. The next problem that you might encounter is a detached center and also too much space between the C-strokes. Let's start painting the S-strokes in the middle. We have done it correctly and also we're trying to fill it right now. It also looks good, but when it comes to adding the C-strokes to give it a round shape, it becomes detached. We're supposed to connect that center S-stroke to the C-strokes, and I'm going to show you that later on. Notice how there's a gap between the center and the outer strokes and also the C-shapes have too much space in between them. It means that there's too much white space. The C-strokes look chunky and they don't look soft at all, so we want the loose florals to be quite soft. Now, let's try to fix this. We are going to start with our center again, and I've already faded this so that it will not look detached from the outer petals. You want to extend the S-strokes just like what I'm doing here. It's like you're extending the arms, and you're creating the C-strokes that's connected to the center. Then right now I'm just going to add some more C-strokes to give this flower more volume. You can see I'm also trying to add it lightly. We also want to attach one stroke towards another petal. You want the tip of the petal to touch another petal. You can see on the left side, there's a space in-between the C-strokes. Let's try to prevent that. It's looking really soft, so this is the correct way to do it. Now, if you want to add a little bit more contrast, you can add in a darker pink right here in the center. Another problem you might encounter for Number 3, it might be too crowded in the center, it means that you've added too many S-strokes. It means that you won't have enough space to fade away the strokes, and you might end up with a blob of paint in the center. You can see right here that the center looks too busy. Number 4, you might paint the center too much, so I'm going to try to paint some S-strokes right here. Right here, we have just the right amount of S-strokes in the center, but you might not notice that you have too much water in your brush and you end up fading away all the S-strokes, and you'll end up with a really blurry center with no details. When this happens, it might turn up like a blob of paint. You can always go back though for a second layer if you want to fix this. You'll end up losing too much white space. Now, let's try it one more time. Try to paint some S-strokes and limit the number of strokes that you're going to paint. You don't need to add a lot because you can always go back and add some more if it feels lacking. Also, try to vary the shapes and sizes of the S-strokes. We have the correct spacing between the strokes. Now to avoid too much fading, you want to just tap your brush in a tissue paper before you start fading. This way, you can absorb the excess water in the tissue paper before you put your brush onto the paper. There are brushes that release a large amount of water quickly. I've personally experienced this from using synthetic brushes, but with this black velvet brush doesn't meet the width squirrel and synthetic here, I notice that it can release water properly and it's not abrupt compared to other student-grade brushes. If you're using a student grade brush, don't worry, you can always just tap your brush in a tissue paper just to absorb the excess water. My suggestion is still to make use of whatever art materials that you have right now. This flower looks good, we have enough spacing in between the strokes, and it's not faded too much. This is the last one for Number 5 is adding the wrong color for the second layer. I have this English rose doodle from before, and I thought of adding a second layer and showing you guys what will happen if you add a really dark color. We're going to do that on the left side. If you make the wrong color choice for the second layer, it won't look that good, so I'm going to intentionally get a dark color. This is sepia with a little bit of yellow ocher, and I'm going to do the same S-strokes and maybe some C-curves. Adding the wrong color will have the tendency for the flower to look too harsh, it will look a little odd. Perhaps you can slightly troubleshoot it by fading, but I still honestly suggest to use the correct color. You want just a shade or too darker than the base color of the flower, but this one on the left looks too dark. Let's now try the correct color for the right side. I'm using just yellow ocher with a little bit of sepia, so it's just a different proportion of paint and water. You can see that we have a darker second layer, but it doesn't look too harsh or too sharp. If you want a darker center, then you can just put a darker color in the center of this rose, you don't need to really put a dark color all throughout the flower. You can start fading some of the strokes, you can also add a little bit of yellow ocher or raw umber. You'll immediately see the difference between the left and the right side. The left side looks too dark. Well, if you're going for a certain theme, maybe it will work out, but if you want some soft florals, you just want to add a second layer with a color choice that's maybe one or two shades darker than the base layer. I'm just going to put an X mark right here and a checkmark on the right side. This is what it looks like from a far. I hope that these simple tips will help you out in painting an English rose, these are tips that you can also apply to painting other flowers. I think you guys are ready to start painting your first project, let's go to the next video. 9. Project 1: Double Corner Rose: Before we start, here are the colors that we need for the project. Permanent rose, burnt sienna, indigo, greenish-yellow, sap green, and burnt umber. Let's start with our first project, which I'm calling a double-corner border rose. So I just made that up because it's just easier to remember it that way. It means that we have two sets of floral patterns on both ends. But if you don't want to do two sets of floral patterns here, you can definitely just paint one corner and that's completely fine. You can just paint this part right here, for example. That way, you'll have more space on the upper left side. If you want to add some quotes or other words, it's going to be a good idea to give it to somebody. Now, if you want it to look a little bit artsy, you can write a word diagonally right here. I think you're excited to start. Let's paint. To start, let's mix permanent rose and burnt sienna. This is going to look like a brownish-pink color. I love adding browns to my pinks because it just mutes the color and it looks delicate. Of course, don't forget to swatch it on the paper first before you start painting. Whenever you visualize a composition, you can draw some circles that will represent the main flowers. That will be a very useful guide when you start painting. Now I'm just painting some S-strokes. This will be the center of the English rose. Now we are going to slowly fade it away. Then we can try to put some C-shapes all around. Just don't forget to extend those arms of the S-strokes. So you want them to be attached to the petals surrounding the center. Now we're going to add some bigger petals. We have here, just diluted indigo. I'm going to paint the shadows, so you can see that it's a very diluted color. You don't want a dark color surrounding the outer part of this flower. You want it to be quite delicate. That's why it's supposed to be very light in color. Sometimes, I also add a little bit of that pink color into the indigo just to blend it out. Next, let's grab some greenish-yellow. If you don't have this color, don't worry, you can simply use any yellow color in your palette. We are going to paint a simple five-petaled flower. Well, you don't really need to paint all five petals. It can be just four. You can just imagine that the other petal is right behind this English rose. Now, while the five-petaled flower is still wet, let's grab some sap green and add it in the center and just let it bleed a little bit into the petals so that it will look soft. Then right here in the middle, I'm just grabbing this dark indigo color, so that will give it a punch of color in the middle and it will give it more contrast. Let's do another one on the side. For the first project, I really made sure that it's going to be quick and easy so that you can start painting on your own. Painting floral borders are super fun to do because you can just create a pattern and just follow it. You can also customize the colors that you will be using. We're done with the first set of flowers and we're going to leave it to dry. We're going to go back to it at the second layer. For now, I'm going to the flowers on the upper left side. Again, we're going to start with these tiny S-strokes that we practiced. I'm going to try to blur or fade away the strokes to make it look softer. Next, let's try to extend those arms to create those C-shapes. It looks like a loop. So we're going to try to make it look like a ring. I'm going to add some more petals. Now let's grab some indigo and add it on the sides of this rose. I love adding this shadow because it makes the flower look airy or light. That's too much indigo and that's what it will look like if you add too much indigo, it looks very blue. I'm just going to try and leave that color using my brush. We're trying to absorb the excess paint. All right. Now, it's gone. Now, I'm going to add a little bit of that pink color in the indigo area. You can see I'm trying to blend those two colors. Now, don't worry about how this flower looks like right now. We can always go back to add a second layer and give it more depth. We're done with English rose. Now I'm adding the five-petaled flower, I'm still using greenish yellow. Try to move your brush in different directions so that you can get some nice organic strokes and also you can try to slightly wiggle your brush to create some jagged edges. Now we can grab some sap green. Then in the center, I'm going to add indigo so that we have a nice dark center. I'm going to do the same technique on the other side. The center color really bled into the petals. Now I'm just going to try and fix it. We're going to absorb the excess paint. So this is just a damp brush and we want it to absorb the excess sap green and indigo. Is now time to add some leaves. I'm just going to make sap green and burnt umber. But you can use any brown color in your palette and just add that to your green color. I'm going to add the leaves near the main flowers. You can add it in between the flowers. If you want a darker green color, you can make sap green and indigo. In some areas, you can just paint some stems sticking out. You don't really need to paint leaves right away because we can always go back and add some more detail. Of course, try to vary the green shades that you have, so you want the darker green, you want the lighter green. That will make it look more interesting. To make the English rose pop up even more, we want to frame the sides. So it means that you're going to paint leaves all around it so that the flower will pop up. Now, to give it more texture, you want to add fillers with different shapes. Now I'm going to add some berries, I'm missing greenish yellow. You can also add other colors that will complement the color of the main flowers. So for example, you can use a blue or violet. Because we are going for a delicate looking painting, we want the colors to be quite muted or light. We don't want it to be super bold. Now I'm going to add some more leaves on the upper left side of this painting. You can see I'm trying to frame the sides of this English rose and the yellow five petaled flowers. You can add the leaves in-between the main flowers, or you can just add some stem sticking out. So when you're adding leaves like this, you want it to have a jagged edge near the petals of the English rose. When you're adding the stem sticking out, it's best to paint it in a curved motion. You want it to be quite wavy so that it looks more organic and it's less stiff. So you want some movement in your painting. Now let's grab some greenish yellow and add some small berries. So the flowers are already dry, it's now time to add a second layer. I am just using this same permanent rose and burnt sienna mixture, but I made it just more pigmented. I added some S-strokes and some C-strokes as well. You can see that I'm adding really thin strokes so that it doesn't look too overwhelming. Now I'm trying to fade it away. Fading is important to keep the flower look soft even when you add some details to it. I'm going to add some diluted indigo towards the sides of this English rose. It will just give it a different dimension. Now I'm going to move on to the upper left side of this painting. Again, I'm going to start with some thin S-strokes. We're going to try and fade it away and I'm also going to add some C-strokes because this flower doesn't have a lot of details, so we have to add that to the second layer. For the outer areas, I'm just going to add some diluted indigo. Now I decided to add some more color and this area, but the base was still wet and so it looks a little messy. We're going to go back to that area and clean it up. I'm going to show you how to do that. So for now, I am just going to add a second layer to the five petaled flowers. I'm using the same greenish yellow color but it's just a shade darker, just so that it will show up. Let's move on to the other five petaled flowers. You can see that this one doesn't have a lot of details. That's why it's important to add a second layer to give it more depth. Let's go back to that English rose. I'm going to just rinse my brush and just dab the excess moisture in my brush and we're going to try and leave that color. You can see that I'm also dabbing my brush to remove the color in my brush and prevent it from spreading. So this time I added burnt umber in my permanent rose so that I can have this nice dark color. This is optional, I'm adding a second layer now just to give it a more contrast. So you can try to skip this part if you're already happy with the second layer. So you can see those stains, C-strokes that I did. Now, I'm going to just quickly fade it away. Now, for some finishing touches, you can add some veins on the leaves. Those tiny details will make a big difference. Just make sure that you don't add details on all the leaves, you want some leaves to be blank, some leaves will have veins. If you put veins on all the leaves, it will look too crowded and it will look too busy. So this flower is already dry, that's why I can now add some more details. If you want to add details you really have to make sure that the flower is already dry or else it will just look quite messy, just like what happened in this flower. So I am just trying to fade away some of the strokes right now. I'm also using a tissue paper to blot out that excess paint because you don't want to introduce more paint in some areas. Every time you fade a stroke, make sure that your brush is clean. I'm just going to add some tiny details. You can take a photo of your painting so that you can see it from a different perspective. That way, you'll be able to know if you need to add some more leaves or fillers in your painting. So now we are done. Congratulations for finishing your first project. I hope that you enjoyed painting this floral piece. Let's now move on to the next video. 10. Project 2: Gold Border Wreath: Here are the colors that we will use in the class: Yellow ocher, sepia, burnt umber, sap green, indigo, and a gold paint from the brand edger. You can also use an acrylic pen. Or if you don't have gold paint, don't worry, you can substitute it with just any other color in your palette. The gold paint is just going to be used for the border of this wreath. Okay, let's start. I'm so excited for the second project because it's just so beautiful and easy to make. I really loved the gold accents together with a muted florals. Let's start painting. We need to pinpoint first the main flower. I'm going to put that on the upper left part of this paper, and then on the other end you're going to add some smaller five-petaled flowers. Because I want to paint a white English rose. I'm going to use this yellow ocher with some sepia. Another color that you can use for the white flower is indigo. You can dilute it in a lot of water. But I really want a little bit of yellow in this white flower. Now let's also grab just sepia alone. I'm going to mix it right here and dilute it in a lot of water. We're also going to use this color. Just put a small dot, that will be our guide, that's the center of the flower. Now I'm going to add some S curves or S strokes and just make sure to vary the length and the thickness of each stroke. I'm going to rinse my brush and just tap the excess water. Now we can try to fade away the strokes to make it look softer. The center looks good. I'm going to extend the S strokes and paint some C strokes so that we can create a ring around the center. I'm using a Size 6 round brush. You can see that I am just lightly adding those C curves. You want this flower to look really delicate, especially because we're trying to achieve a white flower, so we can't really put in too much color. We can add some shadows. I'm going to use a very diluted color of indigo. I'm going to try and add this. This will also help us achieve that white flower look. You can see that I added a lot of water to indigo to dilute it so that the color will look translucent. I will just continue to try and build up the petals so you can stop when you feel like the size is already good enough. You can also add a little bit of that yellow ocher and sepia mixture, add it to the Indigo petals. While we're waiting for the white flower to dry, let's move on to the smaller five-petal flowers I have here, just indigo. I'm going to grab a really pigmented mixture. I'm going to put some small dots right here. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water, and now I'm going to pull away that color from the center going outward. As I do this, I'm also trying to shape out some petals so that this will look like a five-petal or four-petal flower. You can go ahead and fix the shape while it's still wet. Now for the center, let's grab some indigo, and you want this to be really thick. I'm going to dab in a tissue paper to absorb the excess moisture. Now we're going to add it in the center of this flower. You can also just simply dilute the indigo color and use this really light mixture to paint the five-petal flowers. Use the technique that you are more comfortable with. I'm just showing you different approaches to painting this flower. For some areas, I'm just going to paint three petals for some areas you can just paint two. You can also notice that I'm adding fuller flowers near this mean English rose. As you go further away from the English rose, we're painting less petals. Where the flowers are all still wet, you can grab some indigo and add it to the center of the flowers to give it more depth. Now let's grab some sap green, and I'm just going to attach all the smaller flowers to each other, and also to the English rose. You can also add just a little bit of leaves here and there, and this will just help us visualize this wreath better. Now let's move on to the right side of this English rose. I'm going to do the same. I'm going to paint these four-petal flowers using this nice and dusty blue color. We're almost done. We don't even need to add a lot of the smaller flowers right away. You can just establish maybe 3 to 4 flowers. Then, later on, you can add some more if you think you need more flowers. Again now I'm going to add some stems sticking out and also stems that will attach to the main flower. Instead of painting the same pattern on the other side of this paper, I'm just going to grab some of those blue flowers. That way the wreath will not look too heavy or overcrowded with details. In this case, I would have to say that less is more. I'm going to paint this five-petal flower first, and then we are going to add some more flowers right beside it. You don't need to paint four petals for all the flowers, you can paint two or three only. While the flowers are all still wet, we're going to add the dark center. I'm just using indigo. Now to fill in those white spaces I'm going to be using sap green, and I will just add some smaller leaves and the stem sticking out. This English rose is already dry. We're going to just grab this darker color so it's yellow ocher and sepia. I'm going to paint the same S strokes. Making sure that I have some spaces in between my strokes. Now we can try and just fade away some of the strokes, again to make it look softer. Let's grab some more of that color and just add some C strokes. Every time you add a C stroke it will represent one petal. When you paint more C strokes, it will look like the flower is really fluffy with lots of layers. I have here a very diluted indigo. I'm just going to add it on the side of this flower just to give it more depth and more character. This flower looks a little light, so I'm just going to add this third layer. I'm using burnt umber. We'll start at the center, add some S-curves, and making sure that I'm painting really thin lines. Now we can add some tiny C strokes all around, and we can try and also rinse our brush to fade away some of the strokes. It's now time for my favorite part of the project and it's adding this gold accent. I'm using the paint from Etruria lab and the shade is royal gold, but any gold in this palette will still look nice. Just make sure that we really grab those pigment. We want this gold accent to be really opaque. Now, let's just paint our rectangular border wreath. I am doing this freehand so I don't really expect it to be straight and that's completely fine. I think that it's imperfectly perfect. If you want it to be really straight, I also suggest that you use a flat brush instead so that it will be more steady when you paint lines. Another option is to use an acrylic pen instead and then use a ruler. If you don't have a gold paint, don't worry, you can use other colors, just to make sure that it's not too dark. A good color to use would be a sage green for the border. The paint in my brush is a little dry. I'm just going to add some more paint and water. You can do this little by little. You don't really need to paint just one single line, you can do it in small parts. At the same time you can also try to fix the shape to make it look even more straight. Now let's move on to adding some finishing touches. I'm just going to make sap green and sepia to get this nice, dark, earthy green color. You can try to extend this part by adding some leaves that are intertwined. You can paint on top of that gold border. That's also completely fine. Now let's add some leaves over here to try and frame the shape of this English rose. Try taking a photo of your painting now and check if you need to add some leaves in some areas just to fix the overall shape. I'm going to add just a few more stems sticking out, and I think we're done. I hope that you enjoyed this easy project and I look forward to seeing what you can create. Don't forget to upload your project in the project gallery section of the class. Now let's move on to the next project. 11. Project 3: Single Stem Rose: [MUSIC] Here are the colors that we will use: permanent rose, permanent yellow light, burnt sienna, indigo, sap green, sepia, and permanent violet. In this project, we are going to build a single-stem English rose, and we're going to add a blurry and moody background. I found this beautiful reference photo on Pinterest, so you can also search for this. We don't really need to copy the reference photo, but it can serve as an inspiration for our painting. Now, let's start. I'm going to mix permanent rose and permanent yellow light to create these beautiful orange color. You can definitely just use any yellow orange color in your palette if you don't want to mix it anymore. Swash the color to see if it's good for you. As a guide, I'm going to put a small dot right here and then we are going to paint some S strokes all around it. We're always going back to that dot in the middle. The S strokes look a little light, so I'm going to grab a little bit of that permanent rose and just add it to my mixture. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water, and start fading. Just remember that you don't need to fade all the S strokes, we still want some of those details. Just extend those S strokes until you create a C stroke. Now we're aiming for a round shape for this flower. Again, we're dragging the S strokes out because you want it to be attached to the outer petals. Let's just continue to build those petals. On the other part of this flower, I'm going to grab some permanent violet and mix that up with a yellow orange, and now you have a muted color. Make sure that you dilute this in a lot of water. You want it to be translucent or else the flower will become muddy. We don't want a dark ring around this flower. We want it to really look very subtle. We can get a little bit of that yellow orange and just drop that in some of the petals that will give it more color. There's an ugly patch right here and we're going to try and absorb that using my brush. Just lift the color while it's still wet. While waiting for this flower to dry, let's move on to the stem. I'm mixing just sap green with sepia, it will give me that dark, earthy green color. Let's add a stem little by little. Just use the tip of your brush and now you can create some crooked marks. You can see that we're not trying to achieve a straight line because it will look stiff. We want it to be a little curved. Using a clean brush, I try to fade away one side of this stem, but you don't really need to follow this step. It might make your stem look too fat. If you're okay with the size of the stem that you have painted, you can just leave it as is. What you can do is to just drop some dark areas onto the wet stems. Now, I'm adding some leaves and we're going to do it in an expressive manner. You can see that I'm trying to wiggle my brush to create these unique shapes. This is the same technique that we learned in the exercises that we did. Again, just try to wiggle your brush. If you have some dry brush markings, that's completely fine. It will make your painting look even more expressive. Now, let's add some stems behind this flower. You're going to paint some crooked lines going all the way up. You can see those stems sticking out. We're going to attach some buds and leaves later on. Now, let's try to frame this side of the rose. You can see that I'm painting some leaves near the petals, and then I'm just going to add some more stems behind this rose. You can add a small bud right here, just grab a really pigmented yellow orange color and put some small marks just like this. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade it away. We don't really need to add a lot of details on this rose bud, it will look like faded later on. Then we'll do one more on the right side. You can see I'm just really painting some tiny strokes and then you can just grab a clean brush and fade it away. That way you can achieve a more expressive look. Now while the rose bud is still wet, I'm just going to add some sap green. When you're adding some rose buds or other stokes in a bouquet, make sure that you add them in different heights. You can see that the rose buds are at different heights. On the left side, it's higher compared to the right rose bud. Because if they are on the same level, the painting will look too stiff, so you really want some movement in your painting. Now right here, I'm just trying to frame this side of the rose. You can see that I just keep on adding some leaves. At the top, we're going to paint a really faint color, a really light green color. Then I'm going to grab a dark green color and I'll drop some color over there. Let it bleed into the wet leaf. Then you can add different types of leaves. Try to vary the shape and sizes. It's now time to add the second layer. This rose is already dry, so I have here just the same permanent rose and yellow orange mixture. You can add a little bit of burnt sienna if you want. Using the tip of your brush, try to paint some really thin S strokes. At the same time, we can add some C strokes right here, just really tiny and thin ones. Next we need to rinse our brush, tap the excess water, and slowly fade away some of the strokes. Just be patient and try to fade the strokes one by one. Using the color in my brush, I can also paint some bigger size petal on the outer part of this rose. [MUSIC] This area at the top looks too stiff. We can try to fade it away and let our brush absorb the excess paint. [MUSIC] Now for the outer petals, I'm going to grab a little bit of permanent violet and you can mix it with your yellow orange. I'm going to add it on the outer petals so that we have a nice shadow. [MUSIC] It seems like we need a third layer. You can just use the same permanent rose and permanent yellow light together with some burnt sienna. Just adjust the proportion, you can make it look darker. Again, I'm trying to lift some areas because it looks too harsh or too dark. There's a big white gap over here in this area. I'm going to add a rose bud just to fill in that area and just give it some life. Again, I started with a really pigmented center. Now I'm going to try and pull away the color and let it bleed into the body of this rose bud. Now if you want a punch of color in that rose bud, you can just grab a darker brown color or even just red. For this part, I'm going to use my flat brush. I just have here only clean water and I'm going to try and fade away some of the details that we painted. This is a good technique to add some blurry background. You have some fadings. We can see that I tried to paint over the leaves and then the green color bled into the background. We are not going to touch the main flower, only the sides. I'm going to grab a little bit of orange and just add that to that area just to give it some orangey color on the upper left side. I'm adding some color near the rose buds so it looks like they are fading into the background. You want to just lightly do this because you still want the details such as the leaves and the stems, you don't want to blur out everything. If you don't have a flat brush, a round brush will also work out well. Don't worry about it. Now to give it just a subtle contrast, we can add a little bit of permanent violet. Make sure that it's diluted. You don't want huge chunks of violet in your painting. Now, let's grab a little bit of that burnt sienna. I'm going to add it on the rose buds. The rose buds are still wet. You can see that it will just bleed into the petals. That's okay. You can also use red if you want. This area looks like we need to add more layers of petals. I'm just going to paint some more C strokes using this yellow orange color. Again, you want it to be subtle. That's why the color should be quite translucent. Mix sap green and indigo to create this dark green color. I'm going to emphasize the stem and then I'm also going to try and frame the shape of this rose. You can see I'm adding some color right around this flower. This is a technique to make the flower pop up even more. It looks like we need to add a third layer just to give it a punch of color, but you can already stop right here. I'm mixing violet and orange. We want it to be quite dark, but this time we have to be really careful because we don't want it to look too sharp. Just add a few lines using this dark color. We are done. Congratulations for finishing another project. Let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 12. Project 4: Crescent Floral Arrangement: Here are the colors that we will use. Permanent rose, burnt sienna, raw umber, permanent violet, sap green, sepia, Jaune brilliant, yellow ocher, and crimson lake. In today's project, we are going to paint a crescent floral arrangement. The shape is a crescent moon. Right here, we're going to start with some circles that will serve as a guide for us that will be the flowers. We want to vary the size of the flowers. Of course, the placement of the flowers depends on you. Feel free to change it according to your own style. This part, I will be mixing permanent rose, and burnt sienna. We want this brownish pink color. I want it to be really pigmented. Let's put a small dot right here as a guide, this will be the center of the flower. Then I will be adding some S strokes. Try to put some spaces in between the S strokes. With a clean brush, we are going to fade away these strokes. If you accidentally faded all the strokes, you can go back in with a brush that has a very pigmented color, you can add just some tiny lines just like what I did. Let's drag the arms of the S strokes until we create that loop. It will look like some C strokes all around it. This will give it some shape for the flower. We want it to look round. If there's too much water in your brush, just use a tissue paper, dab your brush to absorb that excess moisture. We're just going to add some more petals with a very light pink color. Let's move on to another flower. I'm going to be using raw umber. We're going to paint our signature rose. I have a different course on these roses alone. You can check that out, it's the best guide to watercolor roses class. We're going to start with a comma stroke, and then some thin lines all around it. We're just rinsing our brush and then we're going to fade away the outer strokes. We're going to add some more C strokes. If you want a shadow look around this rose, you can grab permanent violet, and mix it with the raw umber. Right here, you will have a muted color. If you don't have raw umber, you can simply use any yellow-orange color, and maybe add just a tiny bit of brown just to tone down the color. We're going to paint some more flowers. I'm using Jaune brilliant 1. It's a color that I recently have been using a lot, and I'm going to add a little bit of yellow ocher, just to add in more yellow to that mixture. If you don't have this color, you can use white gouache, and just mix it with a little bit of yellow watercolor paint. If you don't have gouache, you can simply use any yellow paint in your palette. We're just going to add some simple five-petaled flowers. Make sure that there are spaces in between the petals. Let's add another one right here in the lower left side of the English rose. While the yellow flowers are still wet, we're going to grab a dark color. This is sepia, you can use indigo or any brown color. I'm going to add it in the center to give it that contrast. You can see that the flower came alive when we added the center. This color is spreading too much. I'm going to grab a clean brush and just quickly absorb the color on the paper. Right here, you can see a letter U, that's the shape of the flower. We're going to paint a rose on its side, and it's about to bloom. For this flower, we're going to use something more pigmented, it's crimson lake. It's a reddish pink color, but don't worry if you don't have this color, you can use just your permanent rose, you can add a little bit of red to that. I'm going to add those tiny thin C strokes right there. We're going to form an oval shape, after which we can add this flap right here. Then I'm going to rinse my brush, tap the excess water, and we're going to try to fade away these strokes at the same time, I'm trying to form the overall shape of this rose. We're trying to follow that letter U-shape, so it looks like a bulb. You can also see that I'm leaving some spaces in between my strokes. I'm not trying to fill in the entire rosebud. I think I'm going to grab a little bit of red and add it in the center, and sides just for that punch of color. But as you can see, the rose is still wet, so the colors are just bleeding into the petals. When I grab a clean brush and try to fix that, we can absorb the excess paint. You can do this while the flower is still wet, and it's so easy to fix some mistakes. Let's make sap green, and burnt umber to create that earthy green color. I'm going to add a stem right here, attach it to the rose while it's still wet. You can see that it's bleeding right here. Then we can add some more stem sticking out. I'm going to add this in between the flowers. Let's add some fillers. I'm going to be adding some berries. I'm using permanent violet, change the value. Some are darker, some are lighter. You can also mix violet with permanent rose to give it a different shade. Let's mix up some greens again, this is sap green and burnt umber, or just use any green and brown color in your palette to achieve a natural green color. We're going to add the leaves in between the flowers. I know it's quite daunting to add leaves to your bouquet because sometimes you don't know where to put it, but for me, the easiest way is to add it in between the main flowers. Then from there, you'll be able to easily visualize where you will put the remaining leaves. It's also best to change the color of the leaves. Again, some are darker, some are lighter. You can make sap green, and indigo to get a darker green color. Just try to play around with the colors, and shapes as well. You might also want to add some leaves near the pale colored flowers. Right here, we have some really light yellow flowers. Once you add leaves beside it, it immediately pops up. I'm trying to frame the sides of this rose. You can see that I just painted this jagged edge, and then we're going to try to form a leaf. Let's paint some more fillers, I'm just mixing a raw umber, and permanent rose. But you can also use any yellow, orange color in your palette, that's completely fine. Just paint some petals like strokes, it will look like small buds. Adding fillers is a great way to put more colors in your bouquet, without having the need to paint a main flower. At the bottom, I think we can add one more small flower. I'm just mixing permanent rose, burnt sienna, and violet. We want this mauve pink color. Let's start with some small dots in the center, and then rinse your brush, dab the excess water, and just slowly paint the petals, just grab the color from the center. But you can also get some more color in your palette. We need some more contrast, I'm going to add a darker color in the center. Now if you don't want to mix that color, you can definitely use just pink, it's okay. Right here, I'm just mixing some more greens. I really want this arrangement to have that muted color and dainty feel, that's why you are using colors that are more natural. Now, this green is sap green with burnt umber, which is a brown color. You can also add a little bit of indigo if you want some darker green colors. Because this is a crescent shape, the center is going to be the fattest or the thickest, and towards the tips of this arrangement, is going to be thinner. To fill in those tips, we can just paint some thin leaves just like what I'm doing here, and that will help us maintain the shape of the crescent moon. This part right here doesn't look good because there's no separation between the leaves. We're just going to cover it up, add a second layer. I'm going to add some smaller leaves, and right now, it looks a lot better. It's now time to add a second layer, I'm mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna, so you want this to be a thick mixture. Now, we are going to add S-strokes. Just rinse your brush, and then let's try to fade this away, so that it will look soft. You can grab some more color, I'm going to add a little bit more of that permanent rose, and I'm going to paint some really thin C-strokes just to give this flower some more petals. Then we're going to rinse our brush, and fade away these strokes. Now, for this rose, I'm just going to grab some raw umber, and I'm going to do a second layer as well, just to give it more depth. Again, paint some really thin C-strokes, and then just fade it away. To make it look softer, you can add a little bit of that violet, and add it on the outer part of this flower. Let's go to this rose part, I'm grabbing just [inaudible] . We're going to try to just add some more color to this flower. You can see that I added some C-strokes in the center, and then I'm going to try to fade it away and add an outline as well, just to give it more shape. That looks a little too dark, I'm going to go back and fade it away. Just try to lift the color, and dab it on the tissue paper. Same goes for these yellow flowers, you can add a second layer using Jaune Brilliant, is the same color that we use for the base. You can add a little bit of yellow ocher if you want it more yellow, or just dark gray in color. We have this permanent violet in my palette, mix it with some of that brownish pink color, now we have that muted color. You can use it to add some more smaller buds. We want this color to be really light and diluted. Now another color you can use is diluted indigo, you can also use that. Right now, you can take a photo of your painting and check if we need to add some more leaves. Right here, I'm just adding some finishing touches, I'm layering some leaves, adding some more contrast in some areas. You can paint some thin stem sticking out, or smaller leaves. I'm going to add some orange color at the bottom just to complement the flowers that we painted in the upper half of this painting. This layer at the bottom needs a little bit of contrast, you can add just burnt umber or burnt sienna. I think we are done. I hope that you enjoyed painting a different floral arrangement. Now, let's move on to the next video. 13. Project 5: Pink Floral Arrangement: [MUSIC] Here are the colors that we will use, permanent rose, burnt sienna, carmine, permanent violet, indigo, greenish yellow, sap green, and burnt umber. In this project we're going to paint an all pink floral bouquet. We're going to start with two main flowers and then we're going to add some smaller flowers beside it and some leaves and feathers. Let's keep this simple. I'm going to use just permanent rose. We want a pigmented mixture. Let's put a small dot in the middle of the flower. Now let's paint some S-strokes, make sure that it's thin and there's spacing in-between your strokes. Rinse your brush, tap the excess water, and start fading the strokes. Make sure that you still leave some details of the S-strokes. Now we're going to slowly pull away the arms of the S-strokes so that we can create some letter C shapes. This will form a ring around the center. I'm going to try and paint this slowly so that you can follow along. [MUSIC] Once we have the outer petals, we can now add a shadow. This is optional. I'm using permanent violet. I'm going to add it right here while the petals are still wet. But it looks too violet here, so let's turn it down. I'm going to grab some indigo, make sure that you dilute it in a lot of water. I think this looks a lot better. I think I'm just going to add a few S-strokes right here just to add some more contrast. I'm using just permanent rose. Now I'm going to leave that to dry. Let's move on to the signature rose. I have here permanent rose and burnt sienna. I'm going to start with a small comma stroke. Then all around it we're going to add some really thin C-strokes. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away the outer petals. Then from here we can try to add some more C-strokes to build the shape of this rose. This rose is at an angle, so to make that illusion I'm going to add more C-strokes here in the bottom part of this rose that when you look at this rose you will know that it's tilted. Now let's add some shadow. I'm using indigo with a little bit of permanent violet. You want the shadow to be really diluted in a lot of water so that it will look subtle on the flower. Now we have two main flowers, we are now going to add some smaller flowers. Right here I have carmine. It's a beautiful pink color. We're going to paint a rose bud that's about to bloom. Let's now zoom in so you can see it better. I'm adding just really thin lines. Now we can add a flap right here and also the outline of this rose bud. After this we're going to rinse our brush, tap the excess water, then you can start fading the inside to give it more color and also to make it look softer. I decided to use a different color for this flower just to vary the shades in this bouquet. You can also use crimson lake or if you have just red, it's also okay. While it's still wet, you can start fixing the overall shape of this flower. Now let's add a more pigmented carmine in the center and in the sides of this rose. Let's quickly grab some sap green and I'm going to add a stem, and let's attach this to the main flowers. For the next flower let's mix brilliant pink with permanent rose. If you don't have brilliant pink, just use permanent rose. We're going to paint an English rose that's about to bloom. Let's just add a few S-strokes and then we're going to fade it the way. We have to be careful because we only have a small space to work with. Then you're going to paint this oval shape after which we can try to paint the outline of this English rose, then you can start to fade it away. While we're trying to fade it, we can also try to fix the overall shape of this flower. I'm putting back in some color into the flower and after that, you can add a sap green and attach it to the main flowers. I'm going to grab carmine and add it in the center of this flower. We want it to be really pigmented. At the same time we have to make sure that the brush isn't too wet because you don't want this color to spread all over the place. It's starting to look good. Now let's add this greenish yellow flower. I love adding greenish yellow because it makes the painting pop up. You can start painting some petal shapes. You can group them into twos or threes, or some of them can be alone. Now while the petals are still wet, just grab a green color. I'm using sap green and attach them all to the main bouquet. It looks like we can still fill in this space with some more petals. I'm going to grab some more greenish yellow. All right, it's looking really good. Now let's grab some sap green and start adding some leaves. I'm starting in between the flowers. It's definitely okay if you want to paint some stems sticking out first. Right here, you can also try to frame the shape of this English rose. I'm just mixing sap green and burnt umber to create that nice earthy green color. Try to vary the shades of the greens that you're adding. Some are lighter, some are darker. This technique can make your painting look more interesting. If you want a darker green, you can mix indigo with sap green just like what I did here. You can see it's a dark color. Then you can also rinse your brush. Now you have a lighter green color. To free in the size of this English rose, you can just paint some jagged edges, just like what I'm doing here. Then just form a leaf right beside it. This will look better if you paint a really dark leaf beside it. Now let's move to the top. I'm doing the jagged edge again. Then when I add the leaf over there, you can try to fix the shape later on. Now just to add some pink over here, we're going to add a small rose bud. I have here just permanent rose, paint some really thin strokes in the center. You want it to be really pigmented. Now I'm going to rinse my brush and just drag that color down. I'm going to paint a rose bud shape. While this rose bud is still wet, you can drop in some more color and just let it bleed into the wet petals. Doing this technique will give it a more expressive floral look. There's a wide gap over here, so I think we can add some leaves instead of adding some flowers. We don't want this to be overly crowded. I'm just rinsing my brush to create a lighter green color. We have the greenish yellow filler in the lower right. I'm going to bring that up and add it to the upper left side. It looks like they're diagonally across each other. Just have fun and add different brush markings for the leaves so that you'll have a more organic shape. Try to use different sides of the brush so that you can have a unique shape. While the leaves are still wet, you can grab indigo and add it on the base of this leaf. I'm going to continue and add some more leaves. You can try to tap your brush to create these tiny leaves. When you're painting bouquet, it's important to really include a variety of foliage that will make the bouquet look more natural and it will look fluffy with all those small leaves. This is already dry. It's now time to add a second layer. I'm just using a more pigmented permanent rose. Let's just paint some more S strokes. I'm going to add some C strokes around the center. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water, and slowly fade it away. I think we need to add some more C strokes all around this flower just to make it look fluffier. If you want to add more shadow, you can grab a little bit of indigo, make sure that it's very diluted. I'm going to try and lift that color on the paper. It's too dark. I think we need some more contrast. I'm going to add a third layer. This is of course optional. We can mix permanent rose with a little bit of burnt sienna and some indigo. You really want a darker pink color. This is almost dry. I'm going to add some more S strokes. You have to be careful when adding a third layer. Just make sure that you lightly add those strokes. It's better to add very thin strokes so that you will not overdo it. Layering can be tricky because once you add a lot of layers, sometimes it will look muddy. The less is more principle applies to this part. Now, I'm just trying to fade away some areas and just fixing the shape of this flower. Let's move on to the other rows. We're going to use permanent growth and burnt sienna. I'm starting with the center. Now we're adding some really thin lines all around it. Let's rinse our brush and just fade away the strokes. Now you can grab just a tiny bit of color in there and add some C strokes below. You want this to look fluffier on the bottom part. Because we're making an illusion that this flower is on its side. It means that you can see more of the bottom part of this flower. You can add a little bit of violet to your paint so that you can get this nice dark color. Now we're painting some veins on the leaves. Don't paint the veins on all the leaves. You have to leave some of them blank. If you paint veins in all of them, it will look too crowded. You will have too many details. Try to fill in those white gaps with green color. It will help separate the flowers and also it will make the flowers pop up even more. I think we are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. You can also do this in another color. Now let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 14. Project 6: Orange and Yellow Floral Bouquet: Here are the colors that we will use. Permanent rose, permanent yellow light, permanent violet, vermilion, sap green, indigo, burnt umber, burnt sienna, and ultramarine blue. Let's start. For today's project, you are going to paint a summer theme bouquet. I'm going to be mixing some orange English roses and some yellow florals to give it a cheerful vibe. Also, we're going to learn how to paint white flowers. First, we're going to start with the main flowers, which are the English roses. Then we're going to be adding some five-petal flowers and other fillers. To start, let's mix permanent rose and permanent yellow light. So I'm going to mix an orange color. But if you don't want to mix this color, you can simply use any orange color in your palette. Let's just swash this. I think we can add a little bit more of that permanent yellow light. I think this looks better. Let's swash it again. We'll start with the first English rose. I'm going to put a small dot as a guide in the center of the flower, and then we're going to paint the S strokes. We're always going back to that small dot, that's the center of the flower. Make sure that you add some spaces in between the S strokes. Now, I'm going to rinse my brush, and we can start fading away the strokes to make it look softer. It might be difficult to do this technique in the beginning, but don't pray, just keep on practicing. Eventually, it will become an instinct to know where to add some strokes and how to fade them. Now, we're going to just extend the S strokes. We're going to paint this ring. To add some shadow, I'm going to grab some permanent violet. You can mix that with your orange color so that you'll get a muted color. You can use that as a shadow. Now, let's just keep on adding some C strokes until we are satisfied with the shape and the size of this flower. I think I'm going to add just a darker center right now. It's still a bit wet. You can see that the colors are bleeding into the petals. Let me just fix that and absorb the excess paint. We can go back to that flower later on. For this next English rose, it's going to be on its side. It's about to bloom, so I just drew a small oval shape. Now, let's put a small dot in the center, that will serve as a guide. I'm going to paint some S strokes just make sure that you draw the oval lightly because once you paint on top of a pencil outline, you cannot erase it anymore. So let's just fade away some of the strokes. You can flip your paper around so that you can paint at a better angle. I'm going to add just a darker S stroke right here, and then we can form that ring. I'm adding some really tiny C strokes. Right here, we can start forming the shape of this flower, use a really light color first. Then you can start fading away. You can also grab a little bit more color if needed. To make the color a little bit more intense, I'm grabbing vermilion. This is a nice rich reddish-orange color. I'm going to add it in the center and in the ring area. Now, if the color is too harsh, you can always lift the color and erase it. Let's wait for those flowers to dry. I'm going to move on to a five-petal flower. We're going to use permanent yellow light. Try to sway your brush back and forth to create some nice organic shapes. You can use this side of your brush to create a broad stroke. You can see, I'm combining my strokes. Some are broad strokes, some are actually just lines by using the tip of the brush. While this yellow flower is still wet, I'm going to grab some burnt sienna, and we're going to add it to the center of this flower. Make sure that you control the amount of paint in your brush. You don't want the color to spread all over the place. We can also grab burnt umber just for that darker center. It will give it a punch of color. It will give it more contrast. Instead of adding one more flower diagonally across this yellow flower, we're going to move it just towards the right over here. Just to break up this pattern, you can put a small marking over here just as a guide for you. For this part, I'm just going to add my imaginary flower. Just dab your brush onto the paper, and you'll see that you'll get those nice small petals. This is just a fun way to add another flower. It can be a combination or some other flower. Then you can grab a little bit of orange in your palette and dab that in some areas. You can see that some are lighter, some are darker. Now, we can get some more of that yellow paint. Then we're going to add some more petals below. I'm just trying to form the shape of this flower. If some areas are too dark, you can always try and lift the color to erase it. Now, let's get some sap green. I'm just going to add a stem and attach it to the main flower. Now, we can also add a little bit of green brush markings on this flower. You'll also notice that I left some white spaces, and that will be a good way to separate the petals. Let's now move on to painting some white flowers. I am going to mix a gray color. This is a mixture of ultramarine blue and burnt umber, you can see how the color change right away. It really depends on you. If you want it more blue, you add more ultramarine blue. If you want it more brown, then you add more burnt umber. Let's paint some fillers. I'm just going to paint some petals right here. You can play around, mix that green with a gray color and add it to the petals. I think we can add some more petals right here just to fill in that space. The reason why we're adding some white flowers is because we want it to complement the bold colors. We have some really bold yellow and orange flowers. Now we want to mix that with something more muted. Now let's just grab some sap green and just put some stems onto those white flowers. You can also add some leaves. I'm going to paint a daisy-like flower, so we're going to use the same gray mixture, going to paint just a few petals right here. Let's try to zoom in so you can see it better. You can use the tip of your brush to create some lines. I think we can add one more on the upper right side. I'm going to paint maybe just three petals. You can do a daisy that is on its side. For the center, we're going to add permanent yellow light. You can also use yellow ocher, or if you want orange, that's also okay. Just be careful when adding this because you don't want the yellow paint to spread through the gray petals or else it will look like a yellow flower. You can also start adding some stem sticking out that will fill in some of the white spaces. Let's prepare some greens for the leaves. I'm using just sap green and burnt umber. You can see that nice, earthy green color. Next, we can mix up green and indigo. This will look a really nice, dark, and rich green color. Using the sap green, indigo mixture, you can add a small leaf over here. We can see that we're also trying to shape the outer part of this English rose. Then you can add some stems sticking out in between the flowers. Another tip is to add some leaves in between the flowers that will help it separate from each other. Of course, add variety when it comes to leaves. Some are darker, some are lighter. You can also change the sizes of the leaves. Now let's add some more flowers. These are flowers that we have practice. Paint some petals by trying to wiggle your brush so they will look like the wings of the butterfly to right here. I'm just adding it near the stems that we painted. We can add some more on the right side. This is a great way to add some color in your bouquet. Don't worry, it doesn't have to look perfect, you just want it to be quite loose. While they're still wet, we're going to grab some burnt sienna, I'm going to add it in the center, just let it bleed into the yellow petals. Now, to make it look more balanced, I'm also going to add the same flowers on the lower left side of this bouquet. Adding these small yellow flowers will make the bouquet look even more dainty. We can start filling in some spaces. I'm using sap green with burnt umber, just going to add some more leaves and stems. Right here I added more burnt umber, you can see the difference in the color of the leaves. It looks really great when you see different shades of green in a bouquet. Let's start framing the sides of this English rose. Add some green color in between the flowers just to separate them. I have here the same gray color. I'm going to add some more petals and you can also start layering. This looks good. Now let's add some details on the daisies. I have here just a very pigmented indigo color. I'm going to add some small dots over here. This detail will really make a huge difference in the overall look of this flower. You can see that it has more depth now. We can also do the second layer of the English rose. I have here just burnt sienna with a little bit of that orange color that we used earlier. You really just want to use maybe 1-2 shades darker than the base layer. Right here I'm just painting some S-strokes, and just be careful, you don't want to overdo this, it's best to paint with really thin lines. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and start fading. As I'm adding the second layer, you can still see parts of the base flower and that's very important. Don't cover the entire first base of this flower because it will look flat. You want to still see the first layer. We need to add a little bit more definition towards the ring part of this flower. I'm going to add a darker color. I'm going to use the same color and we're going to add a second layer on this English rose. Again, I'm just painting some S-curves. You can grab some vermilion as well if you want. Now I'm going to start fading it away to make it look softer. Going to try and spread that color. For the yellow flower, let's just grab the same permanent yellow light. I just want it to be a little bit more pigmented and then we can paint some brush markings. Now if you want a punch of color in the middle, you can grab burnt umber and just add it in the center. We can also add some smaller leaves and also some veins that will give it more texture to this bouquet. For this part, I'm mixing just yellow and a little bit of that orange. I'm going to add it towards the base of this flower. You want the top portion to be lighter and the bottom part should be a little bit darker. If some strokes are too dark, then you can always go back and just fade it away. All right, we are done. Congratulations for finishing another project. I hope that you can post it in the gallery section of the class so that we can all see it. Let's now move on to the next video and start a new project. 15. Project 7: Dainty Pink Florals Base: [MUSIC] Here are the colors that we will use: permanent rose, burnt sienna, brilliant pink, greenish yellow, permanent violet, permanent yellow light, yellow ocher, burnt umbre, jaune brilliant 1, sap green, and indigo. Now let's start. This project is a little bit more elaborate, but don't worry, you can definitely paint this beautiful dainty floral bouquet. It will just take time because we're going to paint three main flowers for this project. Now, let's start. We're going to start with three main flowers. I'm going to start at the bottom and work our way up, and then we're going to be adding some other fillers and leaves. We need to grab three colors for the first flower, we're going to use permanent rose, burnt sienna, and permanent violet. We are going to mix these three colors in order to create a muted mauve pink color. So grab a little bit of that violet and make sure to add just a tiny bit in the mixture. We're you seeing violet just to tone down this color and make it more muted. Now let's start, I'm going to put a small dot in the center of this flower, and then let's paint some S strokes. Make sure you have enough spacing in-between your strokes, and then try to vary the strokes. You can see that some are just lines or dots. I'm going to rinse my brush, tap the excess water. We can start fading our strokes to make it look softer. At the same time, feel free to add some more petals if needed. Now that we have established the center, we can start grabbing the sides or the ends of the S strokes, and I'm going to paint some C strokes to create that ring shape. We want to create a lot of ruffles in the center, a lot of folds. I'm just going to fix this area and fade it away to make it look softer. We can grab a little bit more color for the outer petals. Right here I think we can add some more color in the center while it's still wet. Let's now go to the second flower. I'm going to mix brilliant pink and burnt sienna. I'm using this pastel pink color because I really want a very soft pink English rose. But if you don't have this color, feel free to use permanent rose or you can add a little bit of white gouache to your permanent rose to make it look more milky and more like a pastel color. Let's start right here, we're adding it diagonally across the first English rose, plus painting some really thin S strokes, and now we're going to rinse our brush and just start fading. You can see that it's a really beautiful soft pink color. Because the color is already soft enough, we did not really blur out or fade away the S strokes that much. Now I'm going to extend the S strokes and paint some C strokes to create a structure for this flower. Let's lay here some more petals. I'm just grabbing a tiny bit of color from my palette and then right here in the center, you can put just a tiny bit more color to give it more contrast. But we can go back to that for the second layer. Let's now move on to the third English rose. I'm using brilliant pink and then mixing it with burnt sienna and a tiny bit of burnt umbre. You can see it's just a little bit darker than the previous English rose. Let's start with this small dot and then let's paint some S strokes. You'll notice that the color has a more peachy tone to it because we added more brown. Now, let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and start fading. I'm fading it more carefully because the color is already too light so I don't want to blur out all the details. Let's continue to add some more C strokes, make sure you have spaces in between, and if some of the strokes are too dark in color, you can always blend it out. For this flower, I'm going to add a shadow, I will be adding a little bit of that permanent violet, mix it with the base color, then you will see that you have this beautiful shade. The three main flowers are done then we're going to add some other fillers. I'm using permanent yellow light and you're going to paint a three-petal flower here. It looks like this flower is peaking from the side. Now, let's move on to other fillers. I'm using here greenish yellow. Now, let's add some small buds, try to paint this in different sizes. After this, we're going to grab some sap green, any green color will do, and we're going to add a stem and attach it to the main bouquet. Now with a clean brush, I'm going to try and just add some more petals by grabbing the color from the existing buds on the flower. I think that this effect looks really beautiful, it makes this area look like it's glowing. For the next color, I'm going to use, jaune brilliant 1 plus yellow ocher. This will look like a milky yellow color. If you don't have the colors that I use, just simply grab white gouache and add some yellow watercolor paint to it. I'm just going to dab my brush onto the paper to create these petal-like strokes. So they look quite expressive, and I'm going to grab just a green paint and attach them all to the stem. To make this look more balanced, I think we can add one more yellow flower in the upper rightmost side of this bouquet. So this will look like a flower on its side. You can see I'm doing some really elongated C strokes. We're going to add more petals right here towards the bottom part of the flower, that will give it an illusion that this flower is on its side. Just to add some more depth, I'm mixing sepia with this jaune brilliant mixture, and then we're just going to paint some lines. This will also help separate the petals. The base petal is still wet that's why you can see that the strokes that I'm doing are very soft. If you paint on a dry base then you'll have a sharper edge stroke. Now, let's add a center to this stroke. I'm just using burnt sienna, just paint a dome shape and then I'm going to put some small dots all around it. That looks good. Now, let's mix up some greens. I'm going to make sap green and burnt umbre to create that earthy green color. So we can add some stem sticking out or you can put some green color in-between the main flowers. This area doesn't have some definition to it, I'm going to add some green color and you can see that it immediately separated the two flowers. Right here I'm going to frame the sides of this English rose. You can try to wiggle your brush to create a jagged edge, and then you can attach this leaf over here. Now we can extend the height of this bouquet by adding some stem sticking out. I'm going to try and paint some expressive leaves, just try to wiggle your brush and lift towards the end. Now I'm mixing sap green with a little bit of indigo to create a dark green color. You can try to vary the shades of the greens in your bouquet. Looking at this painting, I think we can scatter more of that greenish-yellow filler. So I'm going to add it right here in the right area of this bouquet and just press your brush onto the paper to create these petal-like strokes. I have some leftover pale pink color that we mixed earlier, I'm going to add that to my bouquet. We're adding these small flowers because we want the pink color to stand out in this bouquet. So just scatter them in the bouquet, doesn't have to look perfect. Definitely trust your instinct when you're adding these small fillers. You did a good job painting the base of this project, now let's move on to the next video to add some more details. 16. Project 7: Dainty Pink Florals Second Layer: [MUSIC] Welcome to Part 2 of this project. We're going to add some layering on the English roses. I'm going to mix permanent rose, burnt sienna, and permanent violet. This is the same mixture that we use for the base of this English rose. I just want just a shade or two darker. Now let's add some strokes. Just make sure that you leave some spaces in between the strokes. [MUSIC] Now you can also start adding some really thin C strokes around the ring area. Let's rinse our brush and just fade away the strokes. [MUSIC] I made a mistake right here. You can see that the stroke is too thick and too dark as well. Let's go back with a clean brush and just absorb that extra paint. Now it's gone. Now for the second English rose, I'm using permanent rose with burnt sienna, but as you can see, the color is a little off. So I'm adding a little bit of this burnt umber to make it look darker. At first it looks a little strong and the color also doesn't look like it matches the flower, but just wait until we are able to fade away this color. This will turn out more on the peach side than pink. Here comes the magic, we're going to fade away the strokes. Now it's slowly blending in with the base layer. If you want to add more depth, you can grab a little bit more color and just paint those C strokes. This looks too dark as well, so I'm going to try and fade it. Let's grab some more of that paint mixture and add it in the center to give it more depth. You do want to concentrate the darkest part in the middle or in the center of this English rose. We're now onto the third English rose. I'm using brilliant pink with burnt sienna. You can see that the color is quite subtle, and you just really want this to be very soft. We can slowly fade away some of the strokes and I'm going to add more detail in the outer part of this English rose. We can add some more C strokes. To give the center more depth, I'm going to just grab some paint in my palette. This is probably just permanent rose with burnt sienna. You can also grab a little bit of that violet to just add more depth and contrast. To add more shadow, I'm just going to grab some more of that violet color and add it towards the outer petals. Now we are going to add some details in this yellow flower. I just grab some sap green and you're going to paint some thin lines. Now let's grab some greenish yellow, and I'm going to add some small dots right there. You can also grab indigo and add some more lines just to give this flower more depth. We can add some more leaves. I'm using sap green with indigo. There's a small white gap over here that we can try to fill in so that this flower will pop up even more. Right now I'm trying to spot some small line gaps where we can put some leaves and just make this bouquet more polished. We can add a really light green color over here. You can see how that really made this English rose pop up. Just a few simple strokes will make a huge difference, so I'm adding some darker area over here. For that flower in the upper right area, I'm using just jaune brilliant with yellow ocher. You can also add a second layer, paint some C strokes that will serve as petals, and the more that you layer the fluffier it looks. I think we need a punch of color on these flowers. I'm going to add a darker third layer. This is a mixture of permanent rose, burnt sienna, and permanent violet. It's again the same mixture we used for the base of this flower. I'm trying to concentrate on the center and also some thin lines around it. For this flower, the center is usually the darkest. But we also have to be careful because you don't want this entire flower to look really dark. We don't want to change the color anymore. I think that we have achieved a really muted pink color. We just want to enhance it lightly. Now let's lift this color, it looks too dark. Now let's go to the third rose. I think we can add some more strokes to make a center look more intense. This part is optional, we're going to add some splatters. You can use brilliant pink with burnt sienna. It's just a very delicate color, and just tap your brush, add some of those colors in your palette, and just with a very clean brush, we are going to just fade away some of the splatters to smudge it. Now let me grab some more color. I prefer adding splatters of pink color. Try to use the colors that are already in your palette. This is also a good way to use the paints that had dried in your palate. I love this muted pink floral bouquet with some splatters. It looks quite expressive. I hope that you enjoyed painting this project. Let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 17. Project 8: Fall English Rose Bouquet: Here are the colors that we will use. Raw umber, burnt sienna, burnt umber, permanent red, permanent rose, sap green, and permanent violet. Let's start. In this project we are going to paint a full inspired bouquet. Our main flower is English rose and then we'll be combining it with signature roses and four petaled flowers. You can draw some circles on your paper to have a guide on where to put the flowers. When you're painting a bouquet try to vary the shapes and sizes of the flowers. Now, let's start. I'm going to use raw umber. If you don't have this color you can simply use burnt sienna. As usual we're going to put a small dot in the center of the flower and then you're going to add some S strokes. Now let's start fading away the S strokes. You can see that I did not add a lot of S strokes and that's okay you can always add some more later on. Right now I'm just trying to extend the arms of the S strokes. Then you're adding the C strokes so that you can form the circle and feel free to grab some more paint in your palette to add more petals. Let's just keep building this up. It's easier to add some really light and soft petals when the brush is wet. Let's move on to rows that is on its side. I'm going to mix permanent red with burnt sienna because we're doing a fall inspired bouquet. We need to add some browns to our pink or red. I added some more of that burnt umber to my mixture so that it looks more brown. At the same time you can still see the red in my mixture. Just put the small dot as a guide and we're going to start with a comma stroke, and using the tip of the brush I'm just painting some really thin strokes all around it. Rinse your brush, tap the excess water and slowly fade away the outer petals. Now, I'll grab some more paint. I want this part to be quite dark and I'm going to paint the outline of this rose. Now let's rinse our brush again and tap the excess water. Start fading the inside of these rows so that you can make it look softer. At the top I'm just adding a few more lines just to fix the shape of these rose. I will be adding some more color on these rose while it's still wet. But some areas look a little messy right now. Just use a clean brush and slowly pick up the excess paint. Or you can try to move it around. Now let's just add the stem. I will be mixing sap green and burnt umber to create these earthy green color. Now you have two main flowers. We're going to do the third one. I'm mixing permanent rose with burnt sienna, and I'm going to add it right here but it's easier for me to just flip my paper. You can also do this so that you can paint at a better angle. We have the right color. I'm just going to quickly swatch it. Now let's paint a different version of the signature rows. They started with a comma stroke and some thin C strokes, but they also added some thick ones just like what you saw here. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and slowly fade away this area. At the same time, I am creating bigger petals. For a beautiful shadow effect, I'm going to grab a little bit of that permanent violet. You can add with some orange in your palette. I'm just going to add some C strokes as well, so we need to add a little bit more of that violet. That looks better. Because this rose is at an angle I'm also adding more petals in the bottom part of this flower. Now let's rotate our paper again. For the middle of the third flower I'm going to grab some burnt sienna. I'm adding this center while the flower is still wet so it will bleed into the petals. Now let's add some fillers. I am using raw umber. You want this part to be quite pigmented and just slightly tap your brush on the paper to create these beautiful brush markings. Now let's rinse our brush and fade away some of the petals here. Now just to give it some more shadow, I am mixing permanent violet with raw umber. Add some petals using this color, try to vary your strokes. Some are bigger, some are smaller. Then right here I have sap green and indigo. We're going to use this color to add some stems and some leaves. Also try to add the stem while the base petals are still wet. Let's add some four petaled flowers. I am going to use burnt sienna, permanent violet, and permanent rose. You want this mixture to be quite pigmented, I'm going to put some small dots right here. With a clean brush, you can try and pull away the color and start painting the petals. Let's do one more set right here. You can add just four dots and rinse your brush, then just try to pull away that color. You can grab a little bit of raw umber. Let's do this again, just put some small dots and with a clean brush, just pull away that color. Then to make it look more interesting, you can grab some burnt sienna or raw umber and add it to the petals. Just to add more depth, we can add burnt sienna, use a very thick mixture and add it to the center of the flowers. Now let's get some green and just attach these flowers to the main bouquet. This star bouquet is slowly coming together. Now let's add some more flowers, I'm using permanent violet mixed with a little bit of burnt sienna to mute it. Now let's paint a four petaled flower that's bigger. Try to sway your brush in different directions to create some unique brush markings. While this flower is still wet, I added a few strokes of burnt sienna, so you can see that beautiful two tone color. Now we need a dark center, I'm using burnt umber. You can see that beautiful contrast over there, it looks very pretty. I have here my green mixture. It's sap green with burnt umber, but definitely you can mix your own earthy green color. Just use any green and brown color in your palette. Mix those two colors, just change the proportions. Just for variety, added a few eucalyptus stocks at the bottom part. I'm trying to frame the sides of this English rose so that it will pop up. The same goes for this flower. We need to really add some leaves around it, and it's also important to add some dark and light colored leaves. I'm just going to rinse my brush, and you can see that the color is now lighter. You can also add some stem sticking out. Now if you want a large bouquet, it's all about adding layers and layers of leaves, and also trying to change the shapes of the leaves. Really want to add some texture so you can tap your brush to create some different brush markings. I have this leftover paint right here, it's a mixture of permanent violet and burnt sienna. We're going to use this to add some fillers. I do want to scatter this color all over this bouquet. Just tap your brush onto the paper and you'll be able to create a petal like stroke. It's now time to add the second layer. I'm mixing raw umber and burnt umber, I want a dark mixture, it's probably just one or two shades darker than the base, and now I'm adding some S strokes. You can add some really thin C strokes, just like what I'm doing here. Now let's rinse our brush, tap the excess water and start fading. Don't forget that you have to leave some strokes untouched. It means that some strokes are going to be quite sharp because we need those details for this flower to come alive. Now let's move on to the rose that is on its side. I have here permanent red with some burnt umber for that brownish red color. I'm going to start with the center. Now let's rinse our brush, we're going to try and fade away the strokes. Let me try to zoom it in so you can see it better. I'm going to just spread this color just to bring back the color in this flower. Now let's rinse our brush again, I'm going to just fix this area. The English rose already looks good, but I think we can add another layer, I'm using burnt umber. Add it, in the center, you can put a small dot and just some really thin lines. We want to focus on the center because that's going to be the darkest part. I'm going to just try and fade away some of the strokes. Next you can grab some more color and paint some C strokes for the outer petals. You can also add some veins in some of the leaves. You don't need to add veins on all the leaves. You can leave some of them blank. We don't want it to look too crowded, that's why we're trying to limit the details. Another way to elevate the four or five petaled flower in your bouquet, use a really light color. You want this color to match the color of the flower. It can be maybe just one shade darker. I'm going to paint some thin lines on the petals. It might not look much right now, but it will definitely contribute to the overall bouquet. Just a few more lines and we are done. Now this was a really fun project. I love all the tiny details in this bouquet. Now let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 18. Project 9: Flowers in a Vase: Here are the colors that we need. Permanent rose, brilliant pink, permanent violet, burnt sienna, turquoise, indigo, sap green, juane brilliant 1, yellow ocher and white gouache. Let's start. In today's project we are going to paint English roses in a round vase. We are going to focus on two flowers for this project. I'm going to just draw some circles that will serve as a guide. I want the colors to be soft. I am going to use permanent rose, I'm going to mix it right here. Next I will be grabbing brilliant pink. This is a nice pastel pink color, and then I'm going to mix these two colors to create that perfect pink. If you don't have brilliant pink, don't worry, you can just use permanent rose. I'm using my size six round brush and I will be starting with a small dot, and next I will be adding the thin S strokes. Now let's grab a clean brush and fade away some of the strokes. Feel free to grab some more paint in your palette to add more color to this flower. Right now I'm extending the arms of the estriol so that I can create this ring. Now I'm adding just some C strokes and I'm just trying to fill in this area. Now rinse your brush, tap the excess water and start fading the strokes, so that it will become softer. For a little bit of shadow effect, I'm going to grab permanent violet, you can mix that up with a pink color that you use for the flower. If it is not muted enough, you can grab indigo just to tone down the color, now I'm just going to add it in the outer petals of this English rose. When you're adding this shadow, make sure that the color is quite translucent, you don't want a dark color around the English rose, you want it to look very subtle. This area looks a little heavy, I'm going to try and lift that color out. Let's leave that flower to dry and you can go back to the second layer in a while. I'm going to mix permanent rose and burnt sienna for the second English rose. Again, I'm going to put a small dot in the center as a guide, and then now we're going to paint some S strokes, they will all lead into the small dot that we painted. Now let's start fading away these strokes, just rinse your brush, tap the excess water. Always tap the excess water because you don't want a really wet brush when you're fading away a stroke. Now we can add some C strokes to create a structure for this flower. You want it to be round shape. We'll be adding some shadow here is the same permanent violet with indigo mixture. I'm going to add it in the outer area of this English rose. Now this is looking good. We can go back to it later on when it's already dry. Now for the vase, you can try and draw a circle right here that will be the shape of the vase. You can definitely change the shape depending on what you want, so we're going to do wet on wet technique. I'm going to paint with just clean water and fill in that circle. I'm filling in some small white gaps that I might have missed, so I will try to tilt my paper so you can see the sheen on that vase, so that's the only wet area. I really want this vase to be bright and happy. I'm going to use the color turquoise, and now because the paper is still wet, you can see that our strokes look very soft on the paper. You can see that I will be leaving some spaces in between my strokes. We still want to leave some white areas untouch. Let's grab some more of that turquoise and concentrate on the outline of this vase. Now, you can try to play around, add different blues in this vase. I can grab a little bit of that cerulean blue, you can also use cobalt blue just so that you have two shades of blues in your vase. [MUSIC] Now let's grab some indigo, I'm going to add it right here towards the bottom part of the vase because that's where the shadow will be. These flowers are already dry, now let's add a second layer to give it more depth. You can start adding some S strokes, make sure that you can still see the first layer. Just make sure to lightly add the S strokes, you don't want them to be too crowded. I think we're done here. Now let's start to fade away the strokes to make it look softer. Now, I will be doing it slowly so you can easily follow along as I paint. Now let's add some shadows, I will be using indigo. You can see that's too dark and I just tried to fade away to make it look lighter. I think we can add a third layer to make this flower stand out even more. I'm mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna, and let's just lightly add some more S strokes. Make sure that you use the tip of your brush so that the stroke will be thin. Now we can start fading some of the strokes. Remember that you don't need to fade all the strokes. We still want to see some details in the center. Moving on to the second flower, I'm mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna. But this time I just added more burnt sienna so that it's more brown. Now let's add some more of those S-strokes in the center. Next, we're just going to fade away to soften this flower. You can see the difference now in the two English roses. The first rose looks more pinkish. The rose that through painting now has more of the burnt sienna color. We can add a little bit of shadow. I'm just getting some indigo with a little bit of violet, and you want this to be really translucent. Now let's prepare some greens. I'm going to make sap green and indigo to create a dark green color. I'm just going to add some stem sticking out over here, and in the upper left side, we can add some fillers. Just draw a stem right here, and then attach some arms to it. This is one way to add height to your floral arrangement. Now let's add some more fillers. For me these small filters look like Queen Anne's lace, it's a type of flower. Now let's try to frame the edges of this English rose. I'm just adding some jagged edges like this, and then you can add some leaves or some stem sticking out, make sure that the base is already dry when you are doing this technique. Using just sap green and a little bit of indigo, you can add some small dots right here. It will look like small flowers. Now let's change up the color. I'm going to use greenish-yellow. Try to always add different shades of green to your bouquet. Now let's grab this color, Jaune brilliant add a little bit of yellow ocher. Using this color, I'm going to paint some smaller flowers. Just tap your brush to create those petal-like strokes. I'm also leaving some spaces in between my strokes. For this part, I'm going to just dab my brush to create these tiny leaves. It doesn't have to look perfect just have fun doing this. We're just trying to slowly build up this vase, I'm adding some leaves here and there. Is always best to start with a few leaves and then just adjust later on. I think we can add one more filler over here. I'm just going to paint some arms. To give more definition to this flower, I'm going to put some leaves over here. Now, put some small dots using indigo or sap green, so you can see that polar right there. I will try to blot it out with tissue paper. Now it looks better. I'm going to start and just keep on adding these dark small dots. The flowers are looking good, but I think we can add some more layering. I'm using just permanent rose with burnt sienna. Add a little bit of that indigo, or you can use violet. As you're happy with the color we can start adding some more S-strokes. We'll start right here in the middle and paint some strokes around it. Now for the second rose, I'm going to be using the same mixture, but this time I will add more burnt sienna because I want it to be more brown. Now we're going to lightly fade away some of the strokes. Now you can use a reference photo for this part so that it's easier for you to know which dark areas you should add. We want to paint the shadows in between the ruffles or the pedals. Now we're going to add some white gouache to the fillers. But you're going to put some small dots right here and it will make a huge difference. Now you can also just use an acrylic white pen or any gel pen that's white it will also work out fine. I'm going to use this indigo right here and mix it with gouache. You can see it's a nice bluish, creamy paint. You can use it to paint some smaller flowers, or you can add some more of those Queen Anne's lace fillers. I really love the colors that we use for the fillers. Mix your white gouache with a dark blue color or maybe a gray color and you can start adding some smaller flowers just like this. It will look like they are just in the background. Now you might be thinking that it is too light. Maybe people can't see it anymore. But trust me, it will look really good. This is one way to fill in those odd white gaps. There's a wide gap over here. I'm just going to put a small leaf just to frame this area, and then I'm going to slowly fade away to make it look softer. We're now on to the finishing touches. I'm going to add a dark green color over here just to separate these two flowers. It will also help make the flower pop up even more. We're almost done. Congratulations for finishing another project. This has more layers than usual, but that's okay. Can see that it looks more beautiful with all those layers. Now let's move on to the last project. [MUSIC] 19. Project 10: Blue Floral Bouquet First Layer: Here's the list of colors that we will use. Yellow ocher, sepia, permanent rose, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, burnt umber, greenish-yellow, sap green, indigo, Prussian blue, verditer blue, and we'll also use white gouache or a white marker. This is the last project in the class. We are going to paint this beautiful and whimsical flower bouquet with a nice big blue ribbon. You can draw a circle in the center and that's where we will paint the English rose. Now, we're going to paint a white flower, so I'm going to mix up yellow ocher and a little bit of the sepia. Next, let's grab a little bit of indigo, make sure that it's really diluted. Now let's start painting. I'm going to put a small dot in the middle and paint some S-strokes. I'm using the mixture yellow ocher and sepia. Now what you can do is you can also just mix any yellow color in your palette and add just a little bit of brown and a little bit of black. I'm just painting some very tiny strokes and now I'm trying to fade away some of them. Then we can slowly extend the arms of the S-strokes so that you can create this ring or this round shape. Now we're going to use this deluded indigo that we prepared earlier, just going to add some C-strokes. You can see that it's a really light color, because we diluted it in a lot of water. At the same time, we can use this yellow ocher CPM mixture and they're just going to keep on adding some C-strokes until we get the right size. The right size depends on how big your paper is. We're using this 7 by 10 inches paper. Now let's move on to another flower. I'm going to be mixing burnt sienna and permanent rose. Let's paint a rose bud that's about to bloom. I'm going to start with as comma stroke. Then let's add some really thin lines all around it and now you can start building the outline of this rose. Then rinse your brush, tap the excess water. We're going to start fading away the strokes to make it look soft. Now I'm going to go back in and add a more pigmented stroke, add some lines just to fix the shape of this flower. To add more contrast, we want a darker center. I'm using permanent rose and burnt sienna. Just add more paint and less water. Let's now move on to the third flower. I'm using a very diluted permanent rose. We're going to pay the five petaled flower. Just make sure that you have spaces in between the petals and just try to move your brush around. Dance with your brush to create a more expressive stroke, so we're going to grab some sap green and add it in the center while this base is still wet. If you don't want to draw some lines, sometimes, you can use your brush to visualize where you will be putting some of the flowers. I think we're going to add some fillers over there. Let's grab some Prussian blue. Now we're going to add some petal-like strokes and this looks a little light. I will be grabbing a little bit of indigo just to tone down the color. Now let's just paint on that area again. I'm trying to vary the petals strokes, some are smaller, some are bigger. You can also try to wiggle your brush so that you get different shapes. Paint the petals in different directions and change the value of each petal. Some are darker, some are lighter. Now, with the sap green, we're going to add a stem and we're going to add this while the petals are still wet, you can see that the two colors are bleeding into each other. Looking at this from afar, I think we need to add some more petals towards the bottom part. You can try to extend this area. You can also grab more Prussian blue. We want a more pigmented mixture. This filler looks a little flat, so we need to add darker Prussian blue and you're going to add in different spots. Now we can fill the top with some more petals. Now let's mix our paint for our white flowers and mixing ultramarine blue and burnt umber. You can try to change the ratio depending on how blue or how gray you want it and make sure that you add a lot of water. You want this to be diluted and really light in color. I'm just going to add a few five petal flowers right here just to fill in this white gap. Now for the center, let's grab a really dark indigo color. I'm going to add it in the center. You can see it we're slowly adding flowers all around the main English rose. Now, I just grabbed some sap green and I'm adding these small leaf right here just to frame the side of the English rose. Now let's add height to the bouquet by adding these thin stems. We're adding some wispy leaves. So I am going to use sap green and burnt umber for that earthy green color. I want these leaves to be dancing and facing in different directions. We're going to rinse my brush to create a lighter color. Painting this is a good way to practice your brush stroke drills. Try to flick your brush in different directions. You'll get these nice wispy strokes. For a more dusty blue color, I'm using verditer blue. Now if we don't have this color, don't worry, you can just use any blue in your palette and add a little bit of indigo or black just to tone down the color. You can also add a little bit of white gouache so that it will look more creamy. I'm also going to add some five petal flowers right here just to fill in this space. Now let's grab some earthy green color and attach some stems. Now let's add a spray of green fillers and I'm using greenish-yellow. Let's do a tapping motion, you can see I'm tapping my brush onto the paper and I'm going to erase my brush and just keep on tapping. You'll be able to create these beautiful brush markings that will look like small leaves or fillers. Make sure that you have spaces in-between your strokes so that it will look loose. We don't want them to look too crowded. We have a little bit of an accident here. I'm just going to blot it out with tissue paper. Now, for the bottom part, we can try to frame this area, I'm just going to add some more leaves. With a really light green color we're going to add some stems in the handle of this bouquet. You want this to be really light because we're going to add a ribbon later on. We're only adding this because we want a guide and it will help us visualize this bouquet better. I'm going to keep on adding some leaves that are hanging. You can try to add some long stems sticking out and then try to vary the green, so you can add indigo, you can add burnt umber and try to sway your brush so that. Every time you paint a leaf, it will look different; you'll have a more organic shape. You can see right here I'm just using the tip of my brush and just quickly dragging my brush to create these nice wispy stems. Let's go to the exciting part. I'm using my pencil. I'm going to draw a square right here. For the arms of the ribbon, I'm just going to draw some lines first like this, and then we can try to cover it. Now let's draw the legs. Make sure that you draw lightly because once you paint on top of this drawing, you won't be able to erase it anymore. Let's prepare the color. I will be using Prussian blue right here and mix it with a little bit of indigo just to tone down the color. Now we don't need this to be very pigmented. Because we'll be adding a darker color later on. We're going to just quickly paint some small thin strokes, just like what I'm doing here. We are not going to fill in the entire bow, you can see I'm leaving some white spaces. Then now I'm just going to quickly absorb some areas, because I don't want it to be too dark. Now let's paint the center. Again, we're going to leave some spaces. I'm trying to put a separation between the center and the arms of the bow. Now let's go to the left side, I'm just going to add some lines, and then I'm going to rinse my brush and fade away some of the strokes. I'm making sure that there are some white-spaces left behind. We're going to do the base first, and right now, I will be grabbing more of the Prussian blue, I want it to be really pigmented and just drop it right there. This part of the ribbon will have the most number of folds. It means that there will be more shadow that's why we're adding more darker colors in this area. What we just did is the wet-on-wet technique and I decided to use this technique because I want the colors to really blend in with each other. You can also try to fix the shape of this ribbon, while it is still wet. Now I will keep on adding some darker areas. You can grab indigo if you want it to be really dark. You can add some dark pigments on the outline. With a clean brush, I'm going to paint the tail. I'm just going to grab some color from the ribbon itself and just let it flow into the tail of the ribbon. We need a little bit more contrast. I'm going to grab indigo and add it right here. If some areas are too dark, you can always go ahead and lift that area to absorb the excess paint. We're almost done with the first layer. Let's move on to the next video where we will be adding more details to this bouquet. 20. Project 10: Blue Floral Bouquet Finishing Touches: [MUSIC] Welcome to Part 2 of this project where we will be adding more details. Now, this English rose is already dry. We're going to add a second layer and mixing yellow ocher and sepia. We want this to be a darker color. I'm adding some really thin strokes. Make sure you have spaces in-between your strokes and then we can try to fade it away. Now add some small C strokes all around just to give the sides more definition. You can also get a little bit of indigo for the outer petals. It looks a little dark, so I'm just going to blot it out with my tissue paper. I think this looks better now that we've blotted out the extra color. Now with a very diluted permanent rose, you can also add some strokes on top of this flower. Making sure that you can still see the first layer. For the center just grab sap green and add it right there. Put some small dots that will give it more contrast. We just want a dark center for this rose spot. I'm just mixing permanent rose and burnt sienna. I'm not going to put a lot of details here anymore. You can add some more fillers. This is just permanent yellow light with a greenish yellow, or you can use greenish-yellow alone. I like adding a little bit of color to my bouquet using a yellowish green color. You can try to just tap your brush onto the paper to create different brush markings. This is a way to scatter some colors all over this bouquet. Of course don't forget to add stems to attach it to the main bouquet. For this blue filler, I'm just going to grab any blue color left on my palette and use that to add the second layer. You can see it looks fluffier now because we added a second layer. Now we're going to add some stems right here just to complete this look. I'm using sap green. This looks a little dark. We're going to try and blot out this stem. I can get a dark green color and start adding some small strokes all around this English rose just to frame this English rose. We want just more definition on the sides. It will make this flower pop up. Once this flower is already dry, I'm going to add some layering on this bottom part of the flower. I have here, yellow ocher and sepia. We want it to be diluted. Let's add some C strokes just to give more definition to the outer petals. For the center, we can add more details so that there's just more contrast. These are really thin lines, but don't worry, we're going to fade it away to make this look softer. I'm going to add some more finishing touches. You can take a photo of your painting to see if you need to add more leaves in some areas so you can extend the stems to add height. You can fill in some white gaps or add some veins. I'm going to add some more stems right here. I want a darker stem. We're going to use this Posca acrylic pen and add some white details to just make this bouquet look more alive. You can add some stamps or add fillers, like put some small dots and add a stem to it. You can add some white berries. It's best to add the white details on a dark background, such as a dark leaf. Now if you want to add some highlights to the ribbon, you can use that using this acrylic pen. This is definitely one of my favorite tools. You can also use white gouache if you don't have this pen. Now, for this pink flower, let's add a ring of dots. [MUSIC] Let's add some more leaves. I'm also going to layer the blue flowers on the left side so you can add some more petals. [MUSIC] We are done. Congratulations for finishing the last project. I hope that you enjoyed painting this beautiful and whimsical floral bouquet. Now let's move on to the final thoughts of this class [MUSIC]. 21. Final Thoughts: This is the end of the class. Thank you so much for watching. I hope that you'll feel more confident, and inspired to paint a new flower. It's always fun to explore new subjects. Remember that practice is key in mastering any subject. Work at your own pace, and choose simpler compensations when you are just starting out. As you become more comfortable, you will find yourself painting more intricate designs in no time. I hope to see your projects in the project gallery section of the class. Now let me show you how to upload a project. You are most likely going to be in the lessons tab, just simply move to the left until you see the projects, and resources this tab on that, and then tap on "Create Project" to upload a photo of your painting. Once you tap on that, you can see project title, project description, and then you'll see image. You click on that to upload your painting. At the same time in the resources section, you can download the photos of the projects that you can use as a reference photo. I will also be including real photos of English roses that might be helpful to you. If you'll post it on Instagram don't forget to use this hashtag so I can see your work. I believe that learning is a continuous journey. I would love to get your feedback about how this class help you in your art journey. You may give a review of the class, and share what you love about it or what can be improved. If you want to learn more about watercolor florals, I invite you to watch my other classes. I highly recommend these three popular classes. The Ultimate Guide to painting loose watercolor roses if you want the longer challenge, I do recommend the 15-day watercolor challenge, where you'll pay different loose florals every day using color prompt. A recent class that I also recommend is a seven-day watercolor challenge where you will paint beautiful spring florals. That's it. Thank you again for watching, and I will see you in my next class. Bye.