Explore 10 Different Painting Styles + exciting bonus

1. Class Introduction: Ever fell forward with painting in one style. Or you're unable to find a unique style of yours because you feel stuck on how to explore new styles. And think out of the box. If you resonate with this, then this class is for you. Hi everyone. I'm with the such as an artist author, surface pattern designer, and creative lopuler. I'm so thrilled to be teaching this class, which is going to be fun and also very impactful. This class is going to enhance your creative choices and so many new ideas will start flowing. Ideally, this class is directed towards surface pattern designer because we need to have a lot of different styles to show a lot of variety in our portfolio. But this is also suitable for any artist, any medium, so that you can explore different styles in creative. So here's a quick overview of this class. We'll be choosing one flower shape and we will paint in ten different styles which will help you explore your creative. This class is also suited for fitness and also all levels of creative artists. Let's get started. It's going to be so much fun in this class and I cannot wait for you to explore so many different styles with me. 2. Materials used in the class : To get started, we'll have some basic materials like I have my watercolor sketch book over here, and I'm just choosing to do it in a sketch book so that I can have it for future references, but you can also do it in a piece of paper or anything. We'll be needing watercolors. I'm personally choosing to just stick with one medium to explore different styles, because that will allow me to see how much I can create with one medium. And then later on as an assignment, you can also try the same florals and different styles with different other mediums. Imagine the amount of creativity and styles that you'll be exploring. I would recommend to stick with just one medium. You can either pick wash, or watercolor, or mix anything, whatever you want. But I would prefer watercolors and I would recommend you watercolor so you can grab your favorite color palette from the watercolor. Mine is a mix of colors from art philosophy and different other brands. This is my watercolor palette that I'll be using. This is the mixing palette. It's a ceramic palette. You can have any regular mixing palette that would totally be fine. And you would need some water, of course, to paint because it's watercolor. And then you can have some brushes. Any watercolor brush should be fine. The materials are very simple and that's it. But feel free to add more materials you may require as we paint along. Are you excited? Let's get started with the first style. 3. Style 1 : SImple Lines : Let's get started with the first style. And I've just kept a reference over here for the flower so that we can just see how many different styles we can do of the same flower. First one is going to be abstract lines. You can pick your favorite color. I'm going to pick some nice bright orange. I'm going to mix it over here. And then I'm just going to just draw ready abstract lines like this. While I'm just drawing the abstract outline of the flower, I'm just moving my brush to create different variation in the brush. And I'm just going to draw lines like this which will connect the petal. And we'll come back to the center. Then in the center, I'm just going to fill in some color like this. This is going to be the first tile if you want, you can also add leaves over here. But I'm just going to paint flowers probably. In another lesson, altogether, we'll just explore different types of leaves going on to the next tile. 4. Style 2 : Loose Brush Stokes: The next style would be a mix of colors for which it would just be like different brush strokes come together to make a flower. I'm just going to make a brush mark like this. Then with another color, I'm picking some light pink color. Then I'm just going to paint like this. I'll repeat the same for all the petals. It's half pink and orange, dark orange like this. Basically, it's just painting the half petal like this and just leaving it while it is still wet. You can add in the next color. I'm just sticking with this bright red color at the moment because I want to see how it is. I'll be like, this will be the primary color that I'll be using for all petals. But you can choose to have different colors as we explore different styles. But I think just the similar colors. It would be like so amazing to see the amount of variation that you can create through just using limited colors. This is it. I'm just going to finish it by adding some pink, and I really love how this flower looks in the center. I think I'm just going to add a mix of both red and pink. Okay, so this is the second style. I know it's going a little bit quick, but this is how we are going to explore like different styles. I think I'll try my best to help you explore like at least seven to eight styles. So let's see how much we can do, right? I'm also going in the flow, so let's see how we can explore together. Moving on to the third style. 5. Style 3 : Paint outline and fill in: For the third style, what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw an outline of the flower, just like how we did in the first one, just creating these wavy petals. Now what I'm going to do is inside I'm going to fill in with some yellow color. Going with a slightly different color than this might just add a little bit of pink. To make it similar shade, just fill in the petals inside without touching the edges. It's like you have outlined the flower and then now you're filling the inside. While you're just exploring, make sure that you're having fun and not worrying about how it is turning out. Because this exercise is all about having fun and exploring different styles. Make sure that through every style that we explore that you're having fun. In the center, I'm just going to add a little bit of the orange color. Okay, there we go. This is the third style of the same flower. Let's move on to the fourth style. 6. Style 4 : Paint outline + lines : For the fourth style, I'm going to draw an outline. Again, just like how I did over here. I love wading with different brush strokes while I'm painting the outline of the flower. Next what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this pink color and dilute it a little bit more. This will be something similar to this, but I'm just going to combine this, the first style and the third style that we painted. It's basically bigger brush strokes like this in the center, but also as big enough to fill the petals like this. This is the fourth style in the center. I'm just going to put red color. I know this was very quick. You can see how different this style looks like. It is similar to this one, but also it has a little bit of different style. This is the fourth style. Let's move on to the next one. 7. Style 5 : Painting with two colours: Let's move on to the fifth style. The next style is going to be similar to the second one that we painted, but it's slightly going to be different because instead of using two colors, we're going to use different colors and also leave some gap in between. You'll just see how I'm exploding this style differently. Start with the red color first, or any color that is your primary color over here. Just draw an outline like this. Just one stroke. And then use different colors. I'm going to use pink. I'm just slightly going to bring it in like this without touching, without blending with the first color. I will add a little bit of yellow. You can see how this is different from this. It's very similar in style, but just using different colors and leaving some gaps intentionally in between is still looking very different than this one over here. You can continue the same with all the petals. You can also interchange. You can start with pink and bring red color in the center and yellow in the side, or however you want, you can put yellow in the center. It can be a mix of different colors. And you can also add another Colo. Just added a little bit of orange here. Just go with the flow and just enjoy. I hope you're having fun exploring different styles. And as a surface pattern design, I think being able to explore a lot of different styles is very essential so that you can create a lot of different things for different clients and a lot of collections, and a lot of variations in your portfolio. That's it. And in the center, I'm just going to add a little bit of pink color and a little bit of red too. Can you imagine? This is just one flower and we have already explored five different styles and it's amazing to see, right? Let's move on to the next one, which is a six style. Let's see, how differently can we do at this time? 8. Style 6 : Wavy Lines : For the sixth style. Now I'm going to vary with a different brush size. I'm going to use my silver brush number four, which is comparatively thinner than what I was using. This time we'll explore the first style that we painted over here, but it'll be slightly different. Let's see how much. Just by varying few brush strokes, it still makes a huge difference. I've just mixed a Gordos peach color. What I'm going to do is first what we did in the first style that we explode was we did an outline and then we filled in with different brush strokes. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to start with the center and I'll just start with the center over here. And then with thin brush strokes, I'm just going to create and give shape to the petal. And it's like, you know, without lifting a brush, you'll just create a couple of lines and we'll repeat the same. And one last pet lo here. If I bring these two together, you can see that it is very similar style, but still there is some difference between these two. This is a little bit defined and this is more flowing. And you can see these curves in between the petals and all that. It makes it different from the first style. I know we have just been matching different styles, but the next one that we are going to do is going to be very different. 9. Style 7 : Painting + dark outline border: So for this style, I'm just going to paint the flowered in just one color. I will just fill in completely using the same brush, because the brush that we used for the previous style. But if you want a bigger brush to fill in colors, you can use that. It's basically filling the flower with the same color. Next what you're going to do is pick a darker color. If you notice, like I generally don't use a lot of black in my work. I prefer to use some darker colors like dark purple or anything. But you can also feel free to use black color to outline. Next, what you're going to do is it's not like a cartoon style but something more like an abstract outlining of the flower. You'll just see what I mean to say. I'm just going to take some dark purple. I'm not going to have this paint very watery. It'll be a little bit of thick because if it's too watery and if you know the basics of water color, it will start bleeding into the petals, which is something that I don't want. I'm going to take a lot of concentrated paint if you want. You can also allow this to completely and then give an outline. But I'm just going to go ahead and give an outline now so that little color might just bleed in. And that would be okay with me. It's just like outlining the flower but not continuously, just in few places. You can also with the bushes, you can see how I'm giving pressure to dy with the brush strokes in the center, you can just paint these tiny little dots. This is a very bold style from what we have exploded so far. But I really like how beautiful it is. If you want to go another step further, this could be another style. But we are just going to explore in the same style. You can just draw these thin lines like this. You can also do it with a pen if you want, but I'm just doing it with the same brush. It can even be a little bit thinner, but it's okay right now. You can see this is like a very bold style over here, just ready with lines over here. And I love this. I love how this is very different than everything that we have painted so far. I love to hear what you think of this class so far. Please do let me know while we are still in process of exploring more styles. You can share it with me on my Instagram or you can just post Project of Yours in the group or in the discussion area. And I would absolutely love to see track and hear your thoughts on how you are enjoying it so far. Moving on to the next style. I think it's style number. I'm just counting it's style number eight. While we've already explored seven different styles of the same flower, and I think that itself is very amazing. Right. Okay, Let's move on to the next one. 10. Style 8 : Wet in Wet Technique: The eighth style is going to be more like a wet in wet technique, which is a basic watercolor technique. What I'm going to do is just wet the surface with just some water. I have purple color in my brush. I haven't washed it properly, but I think it's still okay. You can just have clear water and just draw the outline of the petal. I think having a little bit of purple, I think it's good because you'll be able to see how I'm just making the outline of the flower. Otherwise, it would be hard to capture the brush strokes that I'm doing, the water on camera. I think it's good in a way. Now, I'm just going to drop colors and see how it turns. I'm just dropping red from the center. I think I put the petals a little bit closer. You cannot see how each petals are different, but I think once it dries, you may be able to see, even if you are not able to see the petals, like how you can see it in the other flowers. I think you can pick this style from this flower of just abstract outlining and then put it away here and it'll look beautiful. I think I might try that because this doesn't look like a flower, but it could be an abstract flower. If you're looking for an abstract motif for your pattern, I think this would be great. I'm just going to bring in a little bit of pink. Okay, this looks very abstract. But as I said, once it's tried, I'm going to be adding this one over here while this dries, let's move on to the next style and see how different can we paint this flower. So this is going to be challenging because I don't know what I'm going to paint next. Let's, let's have a look. 11. Style 9 : Multi colour petals: For the ninth style, how about different colors? Explore with colors. This time, all of this we is exploded with brush strokes. Let's explore with colors this time, like every petal could be a different color. Let's see how that will look. I'm going to use the basic colors that I've used so far to mix a bright orange color. While you can explore with different brush strokes and all lighting, you can explore a lot of things with colors. Also, because colors can also redefine a style, you can see how this is looking different from everything in the center. I'm just going to add some blue color, a mix of the purple that we use. Just going to be very light. I think I like how this one has also turned out to be. Let's explore the last style, which is the tenth style. And this is going to be really challenging, but let's explore something different. 12. Style 10 : Painting + mark making : Okay, now for the last style that we'll be exploring, I'm going to do a mix of a couple of styles to start with. So I'm just going to give zigzag lines like this. Just bold zigzag lines for the petal. This wasn't supposed to be clips but accidentally closed it. It's okay, just I'm just in the flow, so I'm just going to fill it with some dots like this. This is an even more abstract type. What I'm going to do is to define the edges a little bit. I'm just going to take more darker color of this. I'm just going to soften the edges first. I just gave a very abstract rough edges and then I'm just softening the edges to have a darker color of the same color. You just need to have more of paint and less water. Oh, at the center, you can just drop in some darker colored dots like this. That's it. Isn't it interesting that we were able to explore ten different styles of just one single flower, right? In the next lesson, I'm just going to show how you can detail some of the flowers and make it look even more interesting. 13. Detailing the flowers: For the detailing, I'm going to use my postcard marker. You can use any regular Uniball white color pen. You can even use H if you want. So I'm just going to be using this postcard marker and I'm just going to be adding some details like this. I'll just keep it very minimal though for this. Just added some dots. I think I leave the center as it is because I like it how it is over here. Also, I'm just going to add some bigger dots like this. For this one, just a couple of dots. I think I will use the same detailing technique which I did over here for this one. For this one, I'll just add a couple of dots in the center. Same for this one. This one already has some white spaces, but I'm just going to define it a little bit more by adding some dots for this one. We missed it because it wasn't fully dried yet. Now that it's fully dried, I'm just going to go add some outlines just like this one over here for painting one flower. You can mix, match. A lot of styles like this one is a completely different stack, but I'm still using the style over here of adding a abstract outline to make it another style like which is very unique. I'm just going to start from the center. And for the center, I'm going to add some purple color paint. You can additionally also just add some thin lines. Like if you'd have seen a botanical line drawing, it would have these very thin lines. You can do it with a pen, but I'm just going to do it with the same brush. I'm just going to add very thin lines like this. You can also have another style by just taking a micron pen or any water resistant pen and sketch a flower outline like this. And then you can just fill in some paint that could also be another style. I think by doing this exercise, we'll expand your creativity and your perceptions about how differently you can paint different things and not just paint in one style. I think that's it for this one. I'm going to leave it as it is. 14. Final Thoughts : Let's take a look at all the different styles of flowers that we have created so far. Isn't that interesting to just take a look at different styles that we have been able to explore? I really hope this has given you a new fresh perspective and this has boosted your creativity in exploring different styles. I would absolutely love to know which one was your favorite style. I know I said that we'll be painting leaves also, but I think it would be better for me to give it as an assignment. And you can paint a bunch of leaves with the same styles that we explore in the class, or you can explore something different. Surprise me. I would absolutely love to see what you create. And along with the finished floral style, ten different floral styles, and also the leaves, and maybe something like this which is more like finished pattern kind of thing. So this exercise is going to open those to creativity for creating so many different styles of pattern. And to make your portfolio really, really interesting and very exciting for your clients to look at or your agents to look at. This is something similar to the sketching style that I did, but I've used different colors over here. And you can see how lovely this is as fun pattern which could go on a lot of things. That's it for this class. Thank you so much for joining. I'm so thrilled that you watch this class today and learn something from me. Do tag your final project with me on my Instagram. I'm under the name called The Subs. I'd love to see. Thank you. Bye.