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Easy Watercolor Anemones Using Layering Technique

teacher avatar Joly Poa, Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:07

    • 2.

      Materials

      3:34

    • 3.

      Surikomi vs Toothbrush

      3:51

    • 4.

      How to Achieve Transparency

      3:53

    • 5.

      Layered Leaves Exercise

      2:58

    • 6.

      Painting an Anemone Part 1

      7:37

    • 7.

      Painting an Anemone Part 2

      6:38

    • 8.

      Class Project

      14:13

    • 9.

      Bonus Class Project

      9:10

    • 10.

      Final Thoughts

      1:40

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One of the things that I love about watercolor is being able to achieve that transparency. I love how we can paint strokes on top of each other and still be able to see the layers underneath. Today, we are going to learn how to paint watercolor anemones using the layering technique. 

To start the class, we will talk about the materials that you need and one of them is the Surikomi brush. Because it is difficult to find this brush, we are going to use an alternative brush that we can find in our homes which is a toothbrush! Interesting, right? 

Here are the topics that we will learn: 

  • How to paint marks using a toothbrush
  • How to achieve transparency
  • Do's and Don'ts of layering
  • How to paint layered leaves
  • Painting simple flower exercises using layering
  • Painting a half wreath

This class is suitable for beginners or for anybody who wants to try a different style for painting watercolor florals. 

At the end of the class, using all the skills that you learned, you will be able to accomplish painting a half wreath with an Anemone and layered leaves.

This will be a fun and easy class! :) Let's grab our brush and start painting! 

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Joly Poa

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Hi everyone!

My name is Joly and I am a watercolorist based in the Philippines. I discovered painting with watercolor back in 2013. I started out as newbie and learned to paint better through making mistakes and learning from other amazing artists. I just love how we can express ourselves through painting, creating wonderful watercolor florals using our artistic interpretation. It makes each painting really unique!

My instagram account (@jolypoa) serves as my art journal where I post my progress in the form of timelapse videos, real-time videos and photos of my paintings. My goal was also to be able to share what I have learned in watercolor. I hope to be able to do the same here on Skillshare! :)




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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Did you know that you can use a household item such as a toothbrush to create watercolor florals? Join me today as we learn how to paint watercolor anemones using the layering technique, and of course, with the help of a toothbrush. Hi. Welcome to my Skillshare class. My name is Joly, and I'm a watercolor artist based in the Philippines. I'm also known as jolypoa on Instagram. That's where I post all my paintings, my process videos, time-lapse videos, and anything about watercolor. Today, we are going to learn how to paint watercolor layered florals, and I'm super excited to share with you this class because this is suitable for beginners or for anybody who wants to try a different way of painting watercolor florals. In this class, we're going to talk about the materials that we need and one of them is the Surikomi brush. But instead of a Surikomi brush, we're going to use a toothbrush, which is a common item in our homes. I will teach you how to add texture to our florals using just a toothbrush. One of the things that I love about painting with watercolor is being able to achieve that transparency where you can paint several strokes on top of each other and still be able to see the layer underneath. That's what we're going to learn today. We will also learn about the do's and don'ts of layering petals and leaves. As an exercise, we will do simple florals like this that will serve as a mini project before your final project. After learning how to paint the layered petals with the anemone flower, I'm going to teach you how to add that 3D effect to the center of the flower using gouache. At the end of the class, you'll be able to paint a half-wreath like this. You can write the code in the center or write your initials and then put this in the frame and the [inaudible] in your home. I'm pretty sure that you're very excited to start painting. Let's grab our brush and move on to the next lesson. 2. Materials: [MUSIC] Let's talk about the materials that we need. For the brush, I'm using the silver brush black velvet. This is a round brush and size 6, but you can also use a size 8. This brush is a mix of natural squirrel hair and synthetic hair. If you prefer a synthetic brush, then I will recommend to you the Princeton Neptune brush. Even though it is synthetic, it still works like a natural squirrel hair brush. The next brush is optional. This is the Princeton Heritage brush and size 2. It's a round brush that we can use for details, but you can also use your size 6 brush to create the detail so that you don't need to use two brushes anymore. For the paints, I'm using the Shinhan PWC, it's a Korean artist grade watercolor paint and it comes in tubes, so you can just pour it into half pans like this. Then we need a white gouache. I'm using the Holbein artist gouache. This is in permanent white. But if you don't have gouache, you can also use poster paint. For your pencil, I'm just using an ordinary mechanical pencil. In this class, I'm going to use a ceramic palette as my mixing palette. If you cannot find special mixing palettes like this, then you can also opt to use ceramic plates or you can use plastic palettes. Then we need to prepare a jar of clean water. We also need tissue paper to dab the excess water in your brush. As an alternative to the Surikomi brush, we are going to use a toothbrush. I find that they make similar brush strokes by dabbing them on the paper. Since the Surikomi brush is a little difficult to find and not accessible to a lot of people, the toothbrush is a really good alternative. For the paper, I'm using Fabriano Artistico. This is 100 percent cotton paper and it's cold pressed. I also chose extra white because the colors pop up more on this type of paper. Like any other classes, my tip is to buy a large sheet of watercolor paper and just cut it into smaller pieces for practice. If you don't have this brand, I suggest to choose a watercolor paper that is 300 gsm. That's it. We're ready for the exercises. 3. Surikomi vs Toothbrush: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we are going to discuss how to use the Surikomi brush and the toothbrush in our paintings. Let's start with the Surikomi brush and I'm just going to dip the bristles in the water and we are just going to dampen it. I have some paint squeezed out on the ceramic palette and now we are going to grab some paint using our Surikomi brush. I'm going to show you what will happen if there is too much water in our brush. As you can see, having too much water in our brush will produce a puddle. Let me just zoom it in for you so that you can see it better. Now we need to avoid these puddles. In order to do that, we just need to grab our tissue paper and let's just dab the excess paint in our brush and let's test it out. That's better. Now we can see the texture from the brush. Let's just dab it on the paper. Now I'm just grabbing some more paint and then making sure that there's not a lot of water so that I can get a deeper shade of green. I am still using the shade sap green. As you can see, the color changes depending on how much water I added to the paint. Now I'm adding a little bit of indigo because it makes this look more interesting. You're doing this exercise because this will be the center of our anemone later. Let's move on to using a toothbrush. Now I'm just going to moisten the bristles of the toothbrush. Of course, you have to make sure that we don't have too much water in our brush. Right now I'm going to show you what will happen if there's too much water in our brush. As you can see now, there are puddles every time I dab it on the paper. In order to remove the excess paint in my brush, I just need to dab it in my tissue paper. Now let's grab more paint. As you can see, I didn't really add that much water in my paint anymore because the bristles are already wet. When you are about to dab the bristles, just use about one-third of the bristles, just along this portion of the brush, so that you can create those nice marks. Now let's just repeat it by dabbing just the tip of the brush. Now let's try to add some indigo. As you can see, I also did not really add a lot of water in my paint because I know that the bristles are quite wet already. If you compare the markings from the Surikomi brush and the toothbrush, they are not exactly the same, but they do look similar. That's why I think that it's a good alternative to use a toothbrush instead, since it's difficult to find a Surikomi brush. I hope that you enjoyed doing this activity with me and now let's move on to the next topic. 4. How to Achieve Transparency: [MUSIC] We can achieve transparency by adding more water to our paint. I have here my Shinhan PWC and this is the color turquoise. With a wet brush we are just going to grab some paint and I'm going to mix it on the ceramic palette. Let's just watch this on the paper. As you can see, it's quite opaque. That's because we have more paint and less water in our mixture. So now I'm going to introduce more water to our paint. Let's try to swatch it again. You can see that it's now a bit lighter because we added more water. Let's try to add more water to make it more transparent. I think we got the right mixture of paint and water. This is what we will use for the petals of our anemone later. Let's just zoom it in so that you can see it clearly. In this section, you're going to learn how to layer and I'm going to show you the Do's and Don'ts of layering. Right now, I want you to paint three circles. I am using the same shade that we use earlier, and we just want it to be quite transparent. So we're now onto our second circle. For the third circle, I am going to add a little bit of diluted sap green to my turquoise so that I can get that bluish green color. It looks almost like mint and if it gets a wonderful shade, and you will use this as well for the petals of our anemone later. Let's try to layer now and for experiment number 1, the base of our first circle is not yet gray and I am going to paint on top of it. You'll see that because the base is still wet, the second circle just blends in with the first circle that we painted. You can not clearly see the stroke underneath because they just merge with each other because they are both wet and this is something that we have to avoid. Experiment number 2. This circle right here is completely dry and I'm going to paint on top of it and as you can see, the layer underneath is still very clear. You can see it well. That is because the first layer underneath is completely dry. It doesn't move or merge with the layer on top. This is the ideal layering that we want to achieve. Experiment number 3, this circle right here is dry, and I'm going to add a second layer on top and this time I'm going to use a more pigmented paint. By using a more opaque mixture, we can't really see the layer underneath anymore. This is why it's important to get the right mixture of paint and water so that we can achieve that nice transparency. 5. Layered Leaves Exercise: [MUSIC] Layered leaves exercise. Let's start with indigo and sap green. I loaded my brush with indigo and a little bit of sap green and now we're painting leaves using two strokes. I prefer painting the darker leaves on the first layer and then just topping it off with some transparent leaves on the second layer, which we will do later. Here, I'm going to paint the second leaf and you're going to do two strokes, one at the bottom and another one on the top. Let's move on to the third leaf. We are also painting it in two strokes. Just remember that you can always go back and fix the shape of the leaf. We're now down to the last leaf for the first layer. It's interesting how we can actually use so many colors using sap green and indigo. As you can see, I have used different shades for the leaves and it makes it look more interesting and more pleasing to our eyes. I'm just going to let this dry and after a while, we can check before we add the second layer. With diluted sap green, I'm going to paint leaves in the gaps. Because the first layer is already dry, when you paint the second layer you will notice that you still see the hard edges of the first layer underneath and it did not merge with the second layer. It doesn't look blurred at all, and that's what we want to achieve for this exercise. Since I want to show you guys how to layer leaves, I'm going to paint in all the gaps here. But you can definitely just choose which gaps you want to paint on. Adding second layer leaves will make this look fuller. This exercise is helpful when we paint our final project later, which is a half wreath. [MUSIC] 6. Painting an Anemone Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's start painting the anemone. I have here my toothbrush, and I've just moisten it with water, and let's just grab some sap green. We want a more pigmented mixture, so now let's try to tap it on the paper. This will be the center of our anemone and I am just creating some texture by tapping the toothbrush on the paper. If you feel like the toothbrush is running out of paint, you can always refill and just grab more paint, and you can also tap it on the same spot. Then let's grab a little bit of indigo just to get that deep color. We want the center to be quite wet because we're going to pull that color when you paint the petals later. Now let's get our round brush and let's dip it in the sap green paint. We're going to put some dots right there. Our goal is to create a round shape center. It's difficult to create that just with a toothbrush so with the help of a round brush, you're just going to fill in those gaps on the side. We are done with the center. Let's now proceed to painting the petals. I have a very diluted turquoise color here, and I'm also still using my round brush. Make sure to grab a lot of paint in your brush. Using a pencil I am just going to put some marks around the center so that I know where the petals will go. Let's create a loop. I just want to pull that sap green as you can see right there, it's bleeding out towards the petal. Let's just grab some more paint so that we can fix the petal, we can add more strokes and make it a little bit bigger. Let's add another petal on the side. I just followed the marks that I made a while ago using pencil. You can always go back to the first petal you painted, as long as it is still wet, it will be easy to fix the shape of the petal. Let's pull some of the sap green again and let it mix with the turquoise petal. As you can see, I am going back and forth with the petals and just trying to fix this shape. This part right here seems to have dried up, which means that the sap green in the center won't bleed out into the petal when we paint it. In order to fix that, I am just going to grab my brush and get some sap green, and then we are going to paint some dots to re-hydrate that area. Now that the center is okay, we are going to add another petal over there. You can see that the sap green is bleeding into the petal that we just painted. However, it seems like the center has played out too much into the petal. To fix this, just grab a clean and semi dry brush and just let it absorb all the excess paint. We're now down to the last petal for the first layer of our anemone. Right here we have five petals. Just feel free to go back to the previous petals that you painted, if you want to fix the shape as long as it is still wet. The center feels lacking in color, so right now I'm just grabbing some indigo and I am just going to put some dots in the center. We want the center to be a little bit intense in color. While the petals are still wet, I'm just going to grab the toothbrush, and let's get some diluted sap green paint. We're going to add some freckles on the petal. I do that by tapping the brush on the petals. We're creating some feathers, dots. My tip right here is to make sure that the tooth brush isn't too wet because you don't want those freckles to blend in with the petal, we still want to see those impressions, those marks that we made using the toothbrush. We are done, let's just wait for this to dry. Let me just touch this to make sure that it's really dry because this part is crucial, and I want you to make sure that the first layer is dry before we add the second layer. With a very diluted turquoise paint, we are going to paint in between these two petals. As you can see, we have achieved that transparency and you can still see the petals underneath. So let's just continue painting in the gaps. I tried to load my brush with a lot of paint, this makes it easier to fix the petals that I'm going to paint. We can also change the colors of the petal. We can add some sap green to the turquoise, to make a bluish green paint. This anemone is starting to look fuller because we are adding the second layer of petals, and I'm quite excited for you guys to finish painting. You can always turn the paper so that it's easier for you to paint in a certain angle. Everything looks great and we are now down to the last petal. Let's wait for this layer to dry and then we can proceed to the Part 2 of painting an anemone flower. [MUSIC] 7. Painting an Anemone Part 2: [MUSIC] Welcome to part 2 of painting an anemone flower. Okay, so now that is already dry and I just got the toothbrush again and I have moisten it with water, and we are going to grab some sap green. If there's too much water in the tooth brush, just dab it in the tissue. We want a more pigmented sap green, that we will tap in the center like this. Let's add some markings right here. Just tap the bristles on the paper. Now I want to intensify the center, so I'm going to concentrate that tapping in the center of the anemone. At this point we're going to let this dry, and afterwards I'm going to show you how to add some gouache details. I have here my freshly squeezed hoping white gouache. So I'm just going to introduce a little bit of water in the gouache just to break it down and get the right consistency. At this point, you can actually use a round brush in size 2 to create the details in the center of the anemone. Right here I am just going to add a ring of that. Let's try to mix it up a bit. So I'm going to paint some dots a little bigger, some are smaller, and that will make this look more interesting. This white gouache pops up more if the background is quite dark, like what we did at the center of this anemone. Now you're done with the ring of dots. So I'm going to add more dots in the outer portion right there. Let's just gather those dots, and I'm going to just put it randomly. If you're having a hard time using a size 6 round brush to create those tiny dots, then you can definitely switch to a smaller brush. You can use a size 2 or a size 0 round brush. After adding those dots, I'm going to rinse my brush and then I'm going to let this dry. Now let's just grab some more sap green. I'm going to paint more dots because I want to intensify everything in the center. Then we can add a little bit of indigo in some areas. With those sap green dots still wet I'm going to grab some white gouache and you're going to paint more white dots. As you can see, I'm smudging some of the dots and letting it blend with the sap green, and that would create a beautiful 3D effect. Just trying to mix it up. Some of the white gouache dots, we will leave it as this. But some of them, you're going to smudge it with the sap green. For me, this is such a fun way to paint the center of the anemone flower. I just love going back and forth with the gouache and the sap green and sometimes the indigo. So the more details that I add, the more 3D the center looks. With a round brush I'm going to grab a pigmented sap green color, and we're going to paint a thin strokes right there. I did not add a lot of water in my paint because I want that intense sap green color. You can also try to add a little bit of indigo if you want. Okay, so everything's coming into place, and I'm just going to add a few more dots just to give it more detail. I just love how we can slowly build up the center of the anemone. It depends on you if you want it to be more detailed, you can of course, add more white gouache. That's it. Congratulations on painting your first anemone flower using the layering technique. 8. Class Project: Let's paint a half wreath for our class project. Let's start with the paper. I'm using the Fabriano Artistico 100 percent watercolor paper. This is called press paper. Then I have here my paints from ShinHan PWC and of course, I have my toothbrush. We're going to start by painting the anemone right here in the center and then we'll add some leaves on the left and right side of the flower. Let's start by wetting the bristles of the toothbrush and we are just going to moisten it a little bit and then let's grab some paint. I am using here the color sap green. We want our mixture to be on the more intense side, which means there should be more paint and less water. Then we can start by tapping it on the paper. Just a tip, you can use an old toothbrush for this painting. You don't need to get a new one for painting the center of the anemone. This looks good. I'm going to grab my round brush. This is a size 6 and let's get some sap green. Let's paint some dots to create a rounder center for our anemone. I'm just going to fill in the gaps. It's now time to put some markings so that we know where the petals will go. I have my very diluted turquoise color and we're going to start painting our petals. I am trying to pull the sap green in the center towards the petal. Let's create that nice bleeding, and because they are both wet, they will blend well together. When you're painting petals, you can think of painting the shape of a balloon. As I'm painting the petal, you can see that I'm also moving the color. You can see some of the sap green color on the edges of some petals, and I just love how it looks. I love the mixture of turquoise and sap green. I love the bluish green color because it looks so fresh in the eyes. We are now onto the last petal for the base of our anemone flower. Right now I'm just fixing the shape of the petals. While this base is still wet, we're going to add some freckles, and we're going to do that by grabbing our toothbrush and let's just grab some paint. Let me just show you what it looks like when you tap this on dry paper. Then now let's see what it looks like when tap it on wet paper. Petals are still wet and as you can see, the colors are dispersing, but it still has that shape and I'm going to name them as freckles or feather dots. Let's just wait for this to dry. Now it's already dry and I have prepared my turquoise mixture. This is diluted so that we can get a nice transparency. Let's start to paint our second layer of petals. We really have to be patient when we're about to paint the step. Let's make sure that the first layer is dry before we do this. You can see the edges of the petals underneath, which means that we did this correctly. Let's add one more petal over there. We're almost done. Just one more to go. Don't forget that you can always change the color for the anemones. It is, of course, up to your preference. For this project, I just decided to use turquoise and sap green because it looks very cool and very pleasant in our eyes. Let's just wait for this to dry. Let's grab our toothbrush and intensify the center of the anemone by grabbing some sap green. You can also add a bit of indigo to make the color deeper. It's now time to add the ring of small dots over there. What's nice about this method is that we can slowly build the center of the anemone. We can continue to tap our brush and add more texture and dots to the center of the anemone. It really depends on how thick you want this to be. Now let's wait for this to dry again. We can touch the paper to make sure that it's already dry. Now I am going to grab some white gouache. Let's add a bit of water to the gouache so that we can get the right consistency and then we can start painting the ring of white dots in the center right there. It's painted randomly and of course, you can change the size, some dots are smaller, some are bigger. After which we can now proceed to painting the dots on the outer ring. Adding white gouache really adds that extra texture to our anemone flower. This is a great way to intensify the look of an anemone flower. Because we added these small details, the painting doesn't look flat. With a round brush, I'm grabbing some sap green and adding some dots, I'm also smudging some of the gouache. You can go back and forth after painting the dots using the sap green. You can go back to using gouache and just start adding more white dots and try to smudge it again. Smudging just gives this 3D effect to the flower. Now, this is looking really good. [MUSIC] Let's go back to our sap green and I want a more intense color. Let's paint some thin lines over there. You're done with the flower. Let's now move on to painting the leaves. Right now I have here my paints. I have sap green and indigo. You're going to start painting some leaves. I'm going to attach them to the main flower. Try to mix the sap green with the indigo so that you can create a new color. Whenever I paint leaves, I love changing the shades of green because it just looks more interesting. We're going to paint some leaves later in those gaps. Let's paint the leaves as if it's coming from the back of the flower. I am not going to be on top of the petals. Let's not try to paint the left side of the half wreath. I'm painting this one leaf at a time. You can try to change the angle of the leaves and also change the colors. I am painting the leaves diagonally from each other like this. You're done with the left side, and let's just wait for this to dry. In the meantime, let's paint the right side of this half-wreath. To make it easier for you to paint the shape of the wreath, you can use a pencil and draw a line like this. This will serve as a guide for you as to where you will paint the leaves. Just make sure that you draw lightly using a pencil because once you paint over the line, you won't be able to erase the pencil mark anymore. We are almost done with the first layer. This is the last leaf for the first layer. After that, let's just wait for all the leaves to dry up. Now that everything is dry, we can start painting the second layer of petals. I'm going to start by mixing a little bit of sap green with indigo. Let's just paint in the gaps. By overlapping those leaves, we can make this half-wreath look fuller. Now you're ready to add leaves in this area. Just paint those leaves in the white caps. I'm going to stop right there. This will be the last leaf for this side of the half wreath. I'm now going to move to the right side of this half-wreath. You can change the direction of the leaves. It doesn't really have to follow a certain pattern. Another tip is to also vary the sizes of the leaves so that it looks more organic. It's now time to add some buds. I'm using the turquoise color again. I'm just going to paint some oval shapes all over the half-wreath. You can also change the color right here if you want to add some purple buds, that will look good as well. After adding those buds, you're going to add some stems that will connect it to the wreath. I usually add the stems while the buds are still wet because it looks good when the base of the bud mixes with the green color of the stem. I'm going to add one more layer of leaf over here. Let's just try to add some more finishing touches for this half-wreath. One of my tips for you is to add some stem sticking out. I usually do this by grabbing a deeper shade of green. I will just add some thin strokes that will look like stems. This very simple step gives your wreath more depth, and it also gives that very natural and organic look to it. You can add more buds in places that look like it has a big gap. We are done. I can't believe that we were able to finish this pretty half-wreath in just a few minutes. I'm very excited to see what you painted. [MUSIC] 9. Bonus Class Project: [MUSIC] In this video, I'm going to show you a bonus class project. I'm going to show you a demo of this beautiful painting. Aside from the half wreath, we can also paint this project. The first step is to paint the anemone flower in the center. Beside it, we are going to paint two small anemone flowers. To serve as a guide, I'm going to draw small circles and that will be the center of the anemone flowers on the sides. For this project, I'm going to use the surikomi brush but you can definitely use a toothbrush. For the center of the small anemones, I just mix indigo with violet to get that deeper color. Using the surikomi brush, I am just going to dab it to create a nice texture like this. Now let's draw some marks so that we know where the petals will go. For the color of the petals I just use violet and I added a little bit of indigo to create that more muted and more vintage look. I'm painting five petals for the base of this anemone flower. Now let's start with the small anemone flower on the left. I'm also using my surikomi brush to paint the center. Now we can start painting the petals. I'm also pulling the color from the center towards the petal to create that nice bleed. For the small anemones we are not going to put some petals anymore. After painting the first layer of the anemones, we're just going to let this dry. When the first layer is dry, we can start adding the second layer. Now we're doing this correctly because we can see the petals underneath the second layer. You can also change the color for the second layer petals. You can add a little bit of blue or a little bit of pink. Just have fun with decorating these layered florals. Let's just wait for this to dry again. Let's grab our surikomi brush and let's intensify the center by tapping the brush on the paper. Now I'm just adding a few more details. I'm using just the sides of the surikomi brush because I just want a few dots over there. Now let's grab our white gouache and let's paint a ring of white dots. The procedure is pretty much the same as the bigger anemone that we painted. Now I'm going to grab some indigo and I'm just going to smudge some of the white gouache. Let's try to zoom in and then we can now paint the thin lines. Again, you will just let this dry. We're done with our main flowers, now let's proceed to painting the leaves. Again, I have my sap green and indigo, and I'm going to use those two colors to paint the leaves. I am going to start by painting leaves in those white gaps. You can try to vary the size of the leaves and also the colors of the leaves. Again, we're just going to paint the leaves as if it's coming from behind the flowers. My plan is to add more leaves all over the flower and then I will add more leaves in the center. I'm leaving some white spaces in between the leaves so that I can try to layer it later and it will look fuller. When the first layer is dry, we can start adding the second layer. Now let's start to layer our leaves. The paper that I used here is quite small so try to find a bigger paper so that the painting isn't as crowded. Right now, there are still white gaps and I'm just going to fill it in with more leaves. Let's wait for this to dry and then we can start adding some veins. To give it more depth, I'm going to add some veins on the leaves. My tip is to choose the leaves that you will put the veins on. Try not to put veins on all the leaves because it will look too crowded. Try to alternate the leaves with veins and the leaves that are blank. Also don't use a dark green color for the veins because it might look too harsh on the painting. You can probably just choose around two shades darker than the color of the leaf that you are going to paint the veins on. We're almost done. Congratulations for making another class project. I hope that you enjoyed this just as much as painting the half wreath. I hope that you can post this in our project gallery. 10. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Congratulations on reaching the end of the class and I hope that you were able to learn something new today. As for my different guys, my Number 1 tip is to practice. I know you've heard this so many times in my previous classes, but it really does help to practice. Number 2 is to be patient, especially when it comes to layered florals. You really have to wait for the first layer to dry before you can add another layer to achieve that nice transparency. To make the process quicker, you can use a hairdryer or a heat gun so that you won't have to wait that long for the first layer to dry. You can also look for a reference photo for painting anemones and definitely, you can change the colors that we use. Then when it comes to layering florals, you can apply this technique to different flowers. Don't be afraid to experiment and also don't forget to, of course, inject your own style in your painting. I'm excited to see your class projects and don't forget to upload your projects in the gallery section of our class so that I can see your paintings. If you're going to upload it on Instagram, don't forget to use this hashtag so that I can view your work. If you're not yet following me on Skillshare, do follow me now, so that you'll be notified every time I upload a new class. That's it. Thank you so much for watching and see you in my next class.