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1. Daisies Introduction: Hi, and welcome to my studio. I'm Sara and today we're
going to be painting some very nice loose or
daisies kind of things. There we go. There's one,
and there's another one. The one I've added some
leaves and a bit more to it. That's what we're
going to be painting. We'll start off with just a
very light wash and then we will just start defining the petals and finish it
off with some leaves. It's a really nice
class to get to know your watercolor supplies and
relax and have some fun. We'll start off by printing the Outline of the
daisies onto some paper. We're going to be using 300 GSM or 140 pound A four paper. Just your regular sized
paper that's 8.5 by 11 ". Print it on straight
onto the paper, or you can print it onto a
piece of paper and transfer it over to cover that in one of the other classes in the lesson. I'm just going to be using
some very basic supplies. So very easy for you
to follow along with. I'm going to be using the mecha door discs of watercolors. So really beautiful colors
in that. There you go. Very easy, very basic supplies, and just two brushes, a
mop brush and a liner. You don't need anything
more than that, some water, and we
will get into it. So we will start off by a very
light wash and then we'll build up some layers
and you'll learn how to separate petals out so you can
get a bit more definition. And a bit of depth in
the middle so that we can bring the artwork
to life. Okay. I'm looking forward to
getting into it with you. The next lesson we'll show
you how to print the PDF and get that onto your paper.
I'd love for you to join me.
2. The PDF download and how to copy them: Okay. Before we get started, we want to get the PDF
printout, this one. Onto your piece of
watercolor paper. I'm using 300 DSM. You can either download it
and put it straight through your printer and
print it directly onto your paper. That's
what I've done here. You can see it's just nice and pale, so it's not too much. I've just put that into my Epson printer and printed
it nicely onto the paper. If you don't want to do
that with your printer, you can also just
print out the PDF. I'll show you on the back
and using some carbon paper, a regular sheet of carbon paper. You can trace over
it. There we go. The carbon paper on top
of your watercolor paper and trace over it just
with a pen or a pencil. Just trace over the
petals and the centers, and that will transfer it
onto your watercolor paper. Or if you don't have
any carbon paper, you can also do what
I've done here. This was a picture
of the sunflowers. So you can see I've
colored the back of it I used a six B pencil, something nice and soft. I've just colored it
over the back and then by putting that onto
my watercolor paper, just laying it on
fits exactly over the top and then
traced over the flour. Then it will transfer that onto the watercolor paper and it should come out
looking just like that. This is the daisies
that's a daisy printer, just on some regular
typewriter paper, color over the back of it and using something
nice and soft. I've got a six B pencil, color over the back of it. It's completely
color over each one and then put that
onto your paper, your watercolor paper,
and transfer it over by just outgoing over the outlines and that
will transfer it over. I'll do a quick
demo in a minute. Okay. This is my 300 GSM or 140 pound watercolor
paper that I've used the PDF printout
and I've printed it directly onto my paper
through my Epson printer. It gives you just a
nice faint outline. That's probably the easiest way, but if you don't want
to put your paper through your printer, then we can do it this way. This is the PDF. We've printed it out and I've got
my piece of paper. So you can use a piece
of carbon paper. To go over it like that, put my watercolor paper in, line it all up and go over
it in my outline here. Like this. Okay.
Let me show you. There you are. Just see it. There we are. I can just see it. Okay, so that's nice and easy. If you don't have a
piece of carbon paper, then the other option is to get your six B pencil and color
it in over the other side, on the back of it. A nice good layer. Pencil. There we go. Take your
time, just fill it all in, color it all over for
each daisy, as well, and then turn it over that
should transfer over as well. You might need to use a bit
more pressure on that one. Let's see how that's working. Circle, no petals. Oh, there you go.
You can see nicely. You can also do it that way. You can also use an
eraser to rub that out more so than you can
with the carbon paper. There you go. If you
wanted to do that. There's a couple of options. That's how to transfer the PDF onto your watercolor paper. A few different ways.
3. 1st light wash of the peach daisy: Okay. Let's paint some
daisies together. I've got my paints here
and my fresh water, two jars, one for
clean, one for washing. I've also got some toilet
paper just to mop up anything where I feel like
I've got too much water. I've got my brush, I've
got a paper towel just for mopping up some water
as well as I take it out. I also have my discs
that we painted before. I know exactly
where my disc color is in the disc and I've got them set how I
like to have them set with the same color up the top. The light color up the top and that's how I keep
them on my palette. I also have a palette here that I'll mix a few colors on as well just so that I can
mix more water together, a plate of any sort. Okay. We need to get started.
We need to wet down the first color that
we're going to be using. I'm thinking the red. We'll start with
a bit of the red. We'll do a red daisy first. We need to wet down
the red color, and we'll start from there. Get it activated with
some paint in it, water in the paint. There we are. I'm just going to put this onto my palette here in the
corner that I'm not using a bit of painting there and a little bit of water just to
make it flow a little bit. As more water. Right. All right. I'm just
going to start up here. All I'm going to do is
put a little bit of the paint in here and
start pulling it out. I'm not going to do every
petal beside each other. I'm just going to give it a
bit of space so we can do that and start pulling
out the color, rinse it off, fresh water, and just start pulling the paint out on each petal
that I've done. It's not very bright,
I might add more red. Try to pick up some more
red and put it in here. A little bit of water to
make it flow a bit better. The first layer is just a wash. We need to just keep in mind, it's just a wash and we're
just going to move around. Just by pulling it out,
it's some fresh water. Pulling it out in the petal shape by pulling
my brush that way, it's given me a beautiful
petal shape. It's very pale. I'm going to go back with some red and just drop that into here and pull it out
just a bit more and let it brighten it up
just a little bit. Pull it out. There we go. I think it still needs
a bit more color. I a bit more red. And each one. I think you will add a
bit of yellow as well. Let's activate that one. A bit more color. Try that. There we go. I like
that much better. Okay. There we are. I've got a lot of
water on there, before I start on my
next load of petals, I'm going to dry it
off with my dryer. Mine's just a little heat gun. I'm just going to dry that
off and then we'll come back and do some more petals
and finish it off. Okay, you don't need
to use the heat gun. You could use your
own hair dryer or even just take the time and let that dry off just a
little bit just so that the colors don't mix
together too much. But you'll get used to it as we work around the
other flowers. Okay. Mine's dry, and I'm just going to use that
last bit of paint I've got there and fill
in the other petals. He's going to be really pale, but I'm okay with that.
You've got a bit of color. As always, my challenge to you is paint outside the lines. Let it go a bit wild. I'll just drop a
little bit more color in some of these
from the center. You centers end up
quite a bit darker. But they are all just a
little bit different. While that's drying, I'm going
to go on to the next one.
4. 1st light wash of the purple daisy: Where's my purple. My
purples over here. Try a bit of purple. I already had some here,
so let's play with that. Ready. Purple's quie
a vibrant color. Let's just see how
we go with this. Actually just going to
use it straight off here and a little.in the center. Every second or third petal,
just to start off with, just so they don't get too mucky and messed up with running
into each other too much. There we go. Pull it up. Pulling it up. Just pulling it out. Just ever so gently teasing the pigment
out to make the petal. By dragging like
that, it gives you a nice petal shape
up the top as well. Really, you don't have
to do anything more than that. Let's go round again. We'll drop some more in between. Possibly a little darker this time with more pigment
that I've picked up. Say again, pulling it out. I'm liking that. We can drop a little bit
of blue in this blue, which is more like
an ultramarine blue. Just try dropping
a bit of that in the center of them and
see how we like that. Let it do its thing. A little bit where it's pulling and just pull it out just a little bit in the direction
that the petals are going. There we go. A little
bit. Oh, I like that. Okay. Next one.
5. 1st light wash of the lime daisy: I don't know. We could do it in that
nice limey green color. Let's do a green, this one. Okay. I like this. I'm going to
do it with some yellow and just see the colors
we can pick up. It's a lot of mixing, mixing on the paper. And this is good
paper, so it can take a fair bit of water as well. So we'll just play
around with it. I'm liking that. Okay, this is a bit darker. I'm just going to pull
that out as well. Okay, let's have
some fun with it. I'm going to wet my yellow
and just see what happens. Fair bit of water on there. Yeah, that's going
to be beautiful. Let's just drop it in
all the way around. Tease it out a little bit. Hasn't really done
what I wanted it to, but I'm going to go back into the grain. See what happens now. There we go. It's pretty. See how it dries. A little bit more
around the center. Just tease that
around a little bit. There we go. I think
it'll dry nicely.
6. 1st light wash of the blue daisy: The last one. Let's do a blue one
and pretty blue. Fair bit of pigment on the
tip this time and same again. Just dropping colors in. I'm using clean water
just to tease it out. Okay. Let's do the rest. I'm gonna drop some
purple into that and just see which how we like it. Mm. That's gonna be lovely. Yes. Okay. I'm going to dry that off, and then we'll come back
and do another layer.
7. Details of the peach daisy: Okay. It's all dry. I did mop up some
of this on here. It was pulling a little
bit too much for me and I did mop up. There was some little
bits I needed to mop up here as well while
I was drying it, any pooling that might happen, then just use your toilet
paper and mop it up. I'm liking how this is looking. I think I've got
really pretty petals here and I like the
edges, how it's dried. I don't think it's
going to need much, but we're going to
go back to this one. We need to give it a center and just a little bit more definition
for some of the petals. We're going to use
that with the darker red as dark as I can get it, just to give some of the
petals some definition and um find the edges
a little bit more. I've got my brush. I'm going to do the centers
black, I think as well. Let me see what I can do here. Now, I'm going into the
red with not much water, making sure I've got a
really sharp point on my brush and I'm just going
to find some of the edges of the petals that I like
that I want to find more of like this and not
really straight edges. Not an outline, just
a little bit of um just a bit of love
around it a little bit, and then we're
going to soften it off and back into the center. We've got hard and soft edges. Don't be afraid to
turn your page around. It feels better for you. I feel much better like this
and I'm just teasing it. Just teasing the soft edge. There we go. That all of
a sudden looks beautiful. Let's do another one. This is the time
consuming part and you do come further down on your brush to have
a bit more control, but your results are beautiful. Into the paint, a
really fine tip, and just pick up
some of the edge, doesn't have to be the whole
lot and soften it off. It doesn't even have to be
everyone. Let's just do that. Don't let it dry
too much because you won't be able to soften
it as much as you'd like. Just teasing it off
into the petal. I would be best to go one
petal at a time, I think. It's a bit warm here today, it's blending off
fairly quickly. There we go. I like that better already. I'll do a few more. Then you can either watch me do it or you can go
off on your own. This one I missed, so I'm just
going to do that and pull it up and here as well. It's just a matter of finding
the edges of the petals, finding the edges you want
to keep and letting it disappear in places as
well and just keep turning until you're happy with your
petals and how they look. Don't be afraid to move around and let these dry
and then come back. I might do a little bit on here. I'm going to jump around on
my petals just a little bit. Going to come up here,
separate those out. It's just about
separating between the petals and giving the petals just a little
bit more definition. Let me go. It's just given it a little
bit more cutter, take your time and
enjoy the process. Okay. And just keep turning and
picking up the colors. It's just about
softening in the edges. It's looking great.
I'm really loving it. I feel like I've got too
much water on my brush, so I'm just drying it off, picking up the water that's
already sitting there on my disk of paint there. And this technique can
be used for anything. You make the most
beautiful cards. A couple more, these two, and I think we're pretty close. I will pop the center in. And that one is
looking beautiful. But it is about taking your time and
enjoying the process. While I've got this
one down here, I'm going to pop some black in it's my black is
this one, this here. I'm just going to wet it down, activate it with some
water and be very careful. I'm only going to use the
tip and just do some dots. More round. Make it random. We don't
want them all the same. If it does touch the paint and bleed out and you don't
like what happens, then quickly mop it up. Mm. I like that. I'm happy with it.
I might let it dry and then see what we do. This might need a bit
of work in the center. I'm not going to touch it.
It's best to leave it. Right. I'm going to go on and
do the purple one.
8. Details of the purple flower: Remembering where
my purple disc is. And I did put some blue in here, but I think to finish it off, I'm going to pick up
more of the purple. There's really
interesting lines here. I'm going to work
with those. I'm going back into the purple
and same again. It's picking up where
you want to separate out the petals with not too much. I'm working slowly
around the flower. Let me go. At my petals look
like in this one, they need to be separated
down here as well. Maybe just a little bit
up the top, not much. Softening off so you've got
a hard and a soft edge. Okay. I'm using the dirty water. Don't be afraid to. It will
make things interesting, as well as just add a bit of color and
bit more depth as well. There's no wrong and right.
It's all about learning. One Yeah. Okay. I'm going to skip
ahead. You've got this. Keep going around. It's just about doing
the same process on each petal and
enjoying the process. Remember to breathe and we'll come back and
finish this one off. There we go. I have gone around, just seen another one
that I might play with. But I've gone around, done all my purple and I've
given it a dry off, also dried the center of the orange one here and I have a bit more
of a play with that. Pop the centers into here. We could do it with more purple. Um What else could we
do? We pop the brown. Let's play with the brown and see what we can get happening
with brown centers. So we can pick up just
a really rich brown. Louise, I'm not sure. We'll try. See what we can do. Just dots. Yeah, I
actually think I like it. I'm leaving some white,
I'm leaving some space. There's a little
bit of a highlight. Nothing more than that.
I'm going to try. I'm not sure, but it is trying. I'm going to try a bit
of yellow in there. No, I don't think it
works. Let me see. I might dry nicely, but I don't know.
Anyway, that's good. What I'm just going
to do with this, it's a bit too black
and too white, so I'm just going to try popping uh just some water on top and it's just going to soften it just a little bit. A little bit of dabbing. If
you don't like what it is, mop it back up again or
if it's getting away from you, mop it up. Yeah, perfect. That's given me some gray as well as
some white and some black. I'm liking that much more. I'll let that one dry. Then we'll go on to the green.
9. Details of the lime flower: Same again, picking up the edges and separating out the
petals. There you go. Let's work on this one now. Same process, drying
most of it off, getting some fairly
concentrated pigment here in the limey green. Making sure I've got too much water and
we'll try it and see. It's just about finding
the edge of the petals. It's all bled in together here. I'm just going to do
same as the purple, a bit more work in here to separate them out so that it's got a little
bit more interest. One at a time. A
little bit up here. Eating to dry my
brush a little bit more to not water out
too much of the pigment. Okay. We're just going to keep working around these
petals of the green one. Just picking up edges,
finding what you like, softening them off.
Moving around. I'm liking this because
you can still see some yellow in it where the
yellows come through. It's just making
for more interest. Anyway, you get the idea. I'm just picking up
where I'm saying things. I'm letting go of
things that don't say. I'll finish my off,
you can do your.
10. Details of the blue flower: I think you know where
we're going again. So we're going to work
on the purply blue one. I think I might pick up more purple to it because I really liked the effect that I've
got in the center here. I think I'll pick up
edges with purple. At the end of that one, I
did finish off the black in the green one. They're
looking really nice. I'm actually
thinking, I'll finish this off and then we might
come back and together, we might pop some leaves in and some stems and
bring it all together. You can just watch
along on this one. Think you know what we're doing. O.
11. Stems and leaves: Finished off my daisy,
still a little bit wet, but we can play with
that a bit later. I'm going to finish some
black on here now as well. Just soften that off as well. Then we're going to give it
some stems and a few leaves, we might just have
a bit of a play. I'm going back to my palette that I was mixing colors with. Got a really nice dark
green here that I've mixed with a few colors, that'll give me a
good way to start. Darker blue into it. There we go. That's
better color. Maybe you put out
a bit of yellow. There we are. I'm going
to work on some stems. Nothing fancy, just a line
to give it some stems. This one's easy. It's
going to go straight down. This one doesn't need much. I'm going to go this
way for this one. This one feels like
it's coming this way and this one can come
straight down here. There we go. Now some leaves. You can do your own
leaves however you like. Remember we learned push, drag, pull, or wiggle. I'm going to do
wiggly ones, push, wiggle, and pull it out. I'm
going to do the other side. Pull it out. I don't like
the color I've made. I'm going to drop
some yellow in. Make it a little bit
more interesting. Do some more. Yellow. There we are. Now, it really is just
playing to finish it off. We go and bring it up. We go and bring
it up to a point. Add some more colors, play a little bit,
drop some colors in. You can always
make some veins in your leaves us in the
back of your paintbrush, pop in some veins. There we go. I'm going to add
a bit of darkness to my stems because they
can't be just one color. I'm going to my brown and see what I can pick
up. Start down here. This makes a little
bit more interesting. All the way down. Now I'm going to drop some
green into where my brown is to make it more of a
green stem a brown one. You can do as many
leaves as you like. At colors, have a play. And see what you
can come up with. Leaves don't all
have to be dark, some can be pale. Down here. Okay. Maybe another leaf
in the middle here, but a bit lighter
in the background. Fell in here. There we go. I think I'm really liking it. Yeah. Little bit of mark, fill it in just a little
bit. There we are. The only other thing you
can do is to give it some splatters of some colors. I quite like the red here. I'm going to pick
up a bit of red, make sure it's really watery. You look at that as
well that color. A splatter is just a
tapping of my brush, a little bit of splatter and it just makes
it interesting. There we go. There's
my first one. I'm pretty happy with that a little bit of
dark on the black. I'm going put a little
black on here back in just a little bit
of black on my brush, make that, give it
some really dark bits, as well as the brown, but the
browns nice. There we go. This one's lost a little bit. Might do a little bit more work on this one when it's dry. I'm really happy with that.
There you go. First one done.
12. Completed Daisy Artwork : Okay, thanks for joining me. So there we are all finished. That's the daisies that
we've just painted. Beautiful colors. I'm so glad that you've
joined us and painted. I'd love to see what you do. So share it in the class would be great
for everyone else to see. There's plenty of other classes
all doing similar things, so this is a really good
way to loosen up and learn the very basics
of watercolor and painting my favorite
flowers. Thanks for joining. I
Sahra Raward, Professional Artist
