Easy Valentine Hearts in Layered Technique

1. Welcome!: Friends. I'm Olga Kes, watercolor artist, and graphic designer. I'm an author of a book How to paint watercolor transparent flowers. For today's lesson, I prepared something in the same technique, but a little bit different. I invite you to paint today three different Valentine's hot in the transparent technique. That will give you a nice opportunity to try out this technique, to train your hand, try to mix colors, try to have some water control, and also as a result, get beautiful Valentine's card or cards which you can use as a presents for newborns, wedding gifts, and endless amounts of ideas. 2. Materials: Today's lesson, I will use hot press Arches paper, 100% cotton. You can also paint the same lesson on a smaller scale on postcards, on watercolor postcards, when you paint on one side and the other side is ready to send to someone. Painting hots, you can use any of your red violet paints. Of course, you can add some yellows oranges or if you will paint in blue color group, it can be a nice greeting card for a newborn, for example, no color limits for this lesson. 3. Heart 01: Firstly, let's draw hot shape, freehand, not necessarily to be symmetrical. It will be our first hot. I wash my brush. I will start with very diluted hazarin crimson, very diluted, you can see, I create my first layer, first initial layer in very transparent way. It's more water than paints in this layer. When you make a complex shape like hot, always start from the middle and then with the tip of the brush, you distribute paints towards the edges. Always try to create nice, even accurate shape. And when you work in small areas, make it with the tip of your brush. Now first layers, I try, we can create something inside the hots. One approach will be to divide the hot. An approach will be to divide the hot and arrange in a hots more or less according to the middle. I use the same very diluted mix as I did before. I gently distribute the mix and with my tip of the brush, I can correct the shape. Right now, I would like to paint just the middle, just let's paint a full hot, not half of the hot just full hot, slightly smaller than the previous shapes. Firstly, I outline the hot with very watery mix and that will give me enough time to prevent this outline from drying. Because once I created the shape, I just drag down into the shape of this watery mix. I can remove bottles, especially if you paint on hot press paper, hot press paper, a little bit more slippery than cold press and you need to be patient with this type of paper. It takes time to soak water into the fibers of the paper and to help it, we can remove excess water with the tip of the brush like we are doing now. Hot, a little bit smaller. But for this heart, I try to keep things relatively symmetrical and place all these important points of a heart into one line. Same approach, watery outline, then you bring diluted paints into the middle and with the tip of the brush, you correct shape and remove bottles. In principle, this is a very nice exercise four layering technique, especially if you board from painting flowers and looking for something new, something different, that can be a thing. Pencil marks started to disturb me, they take too much of attention. I just remove them with kneaded eraser like this, kneadable eraser. They are very soft and This already feels much better. Let's maybe add some final touch for this hot. Small little one cute hot in the middle. You can add a little bit more of boldness in this one to make it stand out a little bit. You can keep everything clear and transparent. 4. Heart 02: Let's take cadmium red. That's cadmium red. But of course, you can paint with any of your favourite paints and create another wash. Just wave red, very diluted red. For this lesson, you can create some textures. For this lesson, you can create some textures and some bleeds, they would be very welcome for today's painting, they will make your hearts more unique, more handmade, feeling something like this. For this heart, we will use a little bit different approach and we will fill it in with different shapes, so to say. I want to have my mix slightly more diluted like this. When you paint hots, you can think about painting flowers and use the same attitude. Just think about inner shapes of hearts as petals and that will help you to imagine nice arrangements. And I would like to make some shape on the side of the hot to make that, I create a C stroke around and connect it with the edge of the hot. Always try to remove puddles to remove puddles, use your dry brush as a sponge and write with a paper towel, like this. Now let's paint our red hot. I would like to create another asymmetrical shape. If you like pasteless, you can think about painting some pasteles shape. All shapes are overlapping. But because we dried our layers very nicely and this is cotton paper, 300 grams that allow you to create a lot of layers and paint over, like this. Let's add another nice detail on the opposite side as we did right here, we can add another nice bend area. If we were painting flowers, that can be a moment where petal bends and petal bends. But why not to make the same thing for flour for hearts. Red one is very creative one, let's place now hot shape on top of all layers. Something like this. Try to correct the edges with the tip of the brush, and remove bottles. What I would like to do now, you see here is some overlap of two shapes. I would like just to paint only the overlapping area and that will emphasize the idea of overlapping like this. I would like to add I would like to add more of these bent areas, small little details, for example, here. As we are painting abstract, there is no need to think will it work in real or not. Just think about many layers you arrange in the important thing that they play nicely with each other. I can see one more shape here. And on the top. I like this fun very much. To emphasize the contrast, I will paint some outlines, and with my damp clean brush, I will go around this line and soften the edge. And I try to distribute and on the other shape, first, I create bold outline with the tip of the brush, and then with clean damp brush, I go around and with small steps, I soften that outline. Let's do it again on the bottom. I add just one extra small layer to that pot. And the same at the other side, I would like to emphasize a little bit this bend wavy area, so I add one extra layer of my diluted red mix. 5. Heart 3: Now let's play around with the other one. I would make the middle with combos yellow or any yellow you like. Very transparent. Work from the middle towards the edges with the tip of the brush, you correct the shape, fill in all the gaps, and try to remove podles. If for example, you have a puddle in your wash, dry your brush with a paper towel and use your brush as a sponge to remove excess water. Like this. Now let's try. For this yellow hot, I suggest to try out layering of different colors. For example, for the next layer, I will use orange, orange paint, cadmium orange, and I will create some inner hot with orange. No need to be symmetrical, but that's all up to you how you organize hearts, what's your vision. I would like to show you a little bit different approaches. Remember that the inner layers, they also should be painted in very transparent diluted mix. Try to remove poodles and with the tip of the brush, you can create nice shape I will use a rainbow approach, so my third layer will be just read and I will please hot in a slightly different position. I use the same principle. Firstly, I create outline with very watery mix. You can see how much water I have right here and then I connect this outline with the inner wash while it is still wet. That approach very helpful when you paint without pencil marks. We just made pencil marks for the initial shape, but I think it's not necessary to draw all the inner lines. I will destroy a little bit the delicate feeling of the paints. We just use our watery mix as our drawing tool. Now let's try everything. I actually would like to create the other layer. Again, wave red, cadmium red. Let's think I like how it all ranges here and I also like this one. Let's maybe bring something asymmetrical here. For this hot, I would like to make a small intersection between layers overlapping. It will be even nicer. Let's add Let's add the second half. Now I would like to finish this one with something pink. Just very simple. We created some very different shape here. I just finish it with something pretty simple. And see how this middle heart connect all these layers. Of course, you can use this approach, these details and add them to this heart or that hot, or you can keep a layers into that hot here. Endless opportunities for you