Expressive Floral Abstracts Mastering Painterly Acrylic Techniques

1. Welcome to another wonderful class : Me to a new floral painting class where you will be learning how to make this composition. Learning about brush handling and playing with cotton candy inspired colors makes this class wonderful and refreshing for someone who hasn't painted before. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over ten years. Six years ago, I've fallen in love with teaching. Both online and in person classes. Both with adults and children, I've developed a very interesting and fun way of teaching. That focuses first on having an engaging project and a great experience. And all of that while learning about composition, brush handling, color harmony, and everything that has to do with painting. Painting doesn't have to be hard. With the proper guidance and encouragement, you will be amazed at your own creation. Let's just jump into it. 2. Materials needed: One welcome to another abstract flower course. In this course, you will need a canvas. This one is 30 by 40 centimeters. You can also use different types of canvases. This design works on any kind of canvas, round canvases, square canvasses, big and small canvases. You will also need a big flat brush, a medium flat brush, and a tiny flat brush. You will need a place to mix colors, a plate. So paper towels, some water, and of course, acrylic paint. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint, titanium white. Azo yellow medium. You can also use lemon yellow. This is just lemon yellow with some red in it. This is carmine red, Burnt umber, also known as brown, and brilliant blue. That's all you need for this course. 3. Painterly blue: First step, you will need some blue on the mixing plate. So brown, and a bit more white. With the big flat brush and some water, let's mix a beautiful grayish blue. Mixing in some brown over the blue, and then taking some white. You are going to do a bit of a interesting painting way. You're going to paint in a very interesting way. After you mix the colors, you squeeze out the paint off the brush. The way you're going to paint this is gradually add and change the colors as you go. There is no science. You just have to cover the canvas. Don't worry. Just cover the canvas with however color you have in the brush. And then add a bit of blue over it to change the color and pick up some more color and start in another area. Notice how it's a bit more blue, just because you've added this blue into the color. After that, take some white, mix it in over the color, and start changing it once again, making this lighter bluer version. Clean up the brush, press it very hard on the canvas, so it cleans up so you can cover the canvas faster. And then let's add some brown over the color and some white. Brown and white. Maybe a touch of blue, just edit it by accident. And let's add this over on this side. You can also add it over the colors where you see some white, and it will beautifully mix on this canvas. You can also add a bit more blue. Once you've added the blue and your brush has enough color, you can go at the top and at the bottom, cleaning up the brush on the canvas. All you're doing right now is cleaning up the brush on the canvas. You can also add a bit of brush direction by going on. And doing top to bottom brush over, or even when you mix a new color in. You can go and add it like this. Just going down and up and down and up. You can also press and then go blend it in a bit onto the canvas. So it has a bit of direction going this way. Can go over the areas that have a bit of white still showing. Let's add a bit more brown and some white and continue onto the canvas. Every time you don't have any color in the brush, add a different color over top. Don't change it too much. Try to stick to the same color palette. So it's not very apparent, the difference. This is one of the biggest secrets in painting. It's called color diversity. It makes paintings look much more complex than they are at a very little cost for the painter. Add a bit of water, a bit of white, add a bit of white on top and start painting over. Notice how it's a bit more light than usual. That's fine. And you can take some water and brush it over the transitions. Once you've finished with that color, add more blue back in again. You can go at the top at the bottom, add some more brown, and some white. To find a new color. Maybe it's too light discolor, so let's mix in some blue back in again and changing it makes it beautiful. You can take some water to lubricate the paint and make it runny. Make it much more Mixable. You can add a bit of water to make the paint a bit more mixable on the canvas. Let's take some more white, mix it in with a bit of blue and start continuing the canvas so that you can cover it all. You can go as fast as you want or as slow as you want. Pick up some water and start to do a bit of a wash. You can also make it thicker by grabbing some more paint, changing the color to a bit of a blue, and continuing in this corner, adding some brown to it, and continuing to finish this corner onto the left side. We need some more white, and some blue. Maybe some brown as well, a bit more. There is no science behind whatever you are doing right now. It's just a broken color. That's how it's called. It's called a broken color, and it makes everything look much more complex. Our eyes see complexity in this way, Much more pro eminent. Look at me using fancy words. So try to cover everything, add more blue or brown or white. It doesn't really matter and continue to brush over. Now, it's time to look at the canvas and notice if we have some areas that are still showing through the color. Like, right over here, there is some white and over here over in this area. You can also take some water. It makes it much easier to get rid of those pesky little white speckles of the canvas. And going in over here. Okay. And to give a bit more direction, you can pick up some blue, add some water to it, a bit more generous with the water this time and start to add some up and down movements. Of this newly found bluish color. It's not very intense, and it's super easy to add it over, add a bit more water. Water is very important here because it blends it in much nicer onto the canvas. If you waited for it to dry, you would not be able to get this wonderful effect. You can also add some white. Don't forget about the water, and then go and brush over some areas. And if you find some of those white areas still visible, is focusing on covering them. Let's add some more of this white over here and over here, maybe. And that's all you need to do for this step, a beautiful, broken color. 4. Waterfall background: Last step, you've learned about broken colors. Now you're going to accentuate this broken color. You don't need to let it dry. In fact, it's a bit better if it's not dry. If you still find some areas that are uncovered, that there is bare canvas, like there was over here, and over here, you can cover them right now. Now, let's do something very interesting, which is move this towards a more interesting color and contrast. Let's add some white over this, and this time, no water is applied. Let's take some blue and make a lighter version of this color. Once you've taken it on your brush, you can go onto the sides. We're going to focus on making bigger shapes at the top and smaller shapes at the bottom. You can use the brush on its side to make smaller lines like this or on the flat edge, just like this to create bigger ones. Notice how it's a broken shape. And the fact is that whenever you are using broken shapes, they look better if you follow this rule. There is a bit of a rule here. You can break it if you want, if you are rebellious, and the rule goes like this. Big. This is a big one. This is a medium one, and this is a small one. Big, medium, small. That's how you create organic shapes. Big, small, medium. And then going from the outside, that's another beautiful rule, going from the outside of the Canvas and going down. You can go over it, once again, to create more textures. You can also dab with your brush to create a bit more texture and another smaller one next to it. Notice how much more interesting they look. Remember, you can make small shapes and small lines by going with the brush like this. If you picked up so much of the color from the canvas, you can remix it. This will create a new color. It doesn't have to be the same. Notice how it's a bit more light. This will create even more interesting colors. Let's now make a bigger shape over here. Notice how because the canvas is wet, you need to brush it over a few times. And the edges are not very sharp. The way you mitigate that, oh, fancy words. You can go and add the brush on its side like this and create some abstract, more defined outlines of the shape. Let's go over on this side and do the same. You pick up some color from the plate, and then you can go and add sharper edge. Notice how here, there isn't a sharper edge. We can create it. You can basically take some of this. You can also take a bit of water if you want to be Water actually makes it more blendable. But in this case, it will make a sharper edge, just because the color will be able to add here to the canvas a bit faster. It will be a bit transparent because it's more diluted. Notice how this edge over here is very, very straight. We want to change it a bit to make it more interesting. Let's go over here and add a different shape, big, medium, small. Add some more color and going down over here. Okay. You can go a bit faster if you want. Try to ruin the painting a bit by going a bit faster, and then you can edit the shapes, just going a bit slower. So you're making a bit of a chaos, a bit of play. Let's mix the color once again. And then you are going over it to calm that interesting shape that you've created, these icicles, and this is just to create a beautiful background. As we go down, we can add just a few more smaller, more transparent brush marks. You can also take some water and create these interesting icicles. Just brush it over and and make a big one, a smaller one, smaller ones, and even smaller ones. Try to not make them like all on the same length, all on the same position, try to change them, make one longer, some of them shorter, and to make them a bit more dynamic. Okay. And also focus on the areas that have bare canvas, like over here. Okay. And that's all you need to do for this step. Let's add a few more and going from the bottom and from the side just so we can complete this step. So until now, you've learned about broken colors, how to create a lot of diversity of color with just one analogous color. This gray was a bluish gray, and you've played with the same kind of colors in order to create a beautiful abstract, brushed and blurry background. And then you've added some contrast over top of it by making a lighter color in order to create this wonderful directional icicle inspired painting. This is just so you create contrast as well as color diversity. You've learned a bit about brush direction and about shapes. And also, you've understood the edges and how to create more intact edges, which will be a lot more important in future steps. 5. Adding vibrancy to the background: This next step, you will not need to let the painting dry. You don't even need to clean the brush. All you need is to take some blue, mix it over this color. Over here, mix it thoroughly, and you will do the same thing, but a bit more sparingly than with the white. You will just have to make some beautiful shapes. Now you are going towards more vibrancy and darker colors. So you are creating a bit more contrast because this blue is much more dark if you squeeze your eyes, If your blue doesn't look like this, because probably you have ultramarine blue, just add a bit of white into it and a touch of yellow, if just a smidge of yellow to make it more like this color. But it looks good even with the ultramarine blue. Just have it a bit more light because the ultramarine is quite a bit more dark. And let's create some of these icicles, some of this broken contrast the color. Let's take some water now and go over some areas. Notice how this area is way to square. Try to find places where you can where you feel like something is off. Like for instance, this. Let's add a shape over here. And like this is undefined, so let's cover it going from the top. Notice how this is big and now small. You can also break the idea and have a big and small, not big medium, small all the time, so it doesn't feel too repetitive. It's kind of hard to make big medium, small feel repetitive, but if you repeat the same brush mark, then it's going to be a bit more easy. So a good tip over here is to rotate the brush so that it makes a different brush mark. Going lower and creating smaller and more long shapes. Okay. Can also clean up the brush a bit if you want to create a more blurred kind of color and then go over it with some thicker color to create a more interesting idea and interesting brush marks. Okay. Notice out, there is a bit of a leftover middle of the canvas. If you don't have it, it's not a problem. I've left it there because that's where the flowers will be. But in case you did it, and you had some lines over here, I'm going to make some as well. They are not needed, but I'm going to make them just because maybe you didn't keep this because I didn't mention it. So I'm making them now, so it's there as well. If you didn't make them, you don't need to. Okay. And that's all for this step. In the next step, we're going to add a bit of red, just a touch of red and a touch of yellow to create some more variety in the color. 6. Variety of color: Okay. And for this step. Let's add some yellow. And then some red. It's important that you start with the red, just because red goes a bit better with the greens. It makes them less powerful. And purple is much closer. Well, the purple you're going to mix is a bit closer to the color on the canvas, because you have brown. Okay. Let's add a touch, a touch of red over top of this color. And start with this purplish color. Notice how the brush is not cleaned. That's because you want to shift towards another color gradually. Okay. Let's add some water, so it makes it even more transparent, so it doesn't go overboard with the colors. Notice how it is much more dark and try to find just a few spots here and there to create a big a medium shape, and a small one. So medium, small, and then big. And then continue. This time, if the color is too dark, you don't want to pick up more color. What you want to do is actually pick up some water so that it becomes more transparent. Notice how different it is. And this creates a more coherent painting. If you picked up too much water just like me, just take some color that you mixed and add some smaller ones and longer ones at the bottom, some smaller and, finer brush marks. Okay. Now let's add a bit more red. So we gradually go more purple. Let's start over here by making some beautiful icicles. Maybe this one is too complex. If it's too complex, take the color and go over it, and then you calm it down that way. Let's also add some textures. And a small one. So it integrates better. Maybe we connect them. We can also think of connecting shapes. Like, for instance, over here, we might feel the need to connect a bigger one, just going down. So it transitions from discolor to discolor, and then to this one. And maybe break this very straight line, going from outside the canvas, and of course, let's go on this side. You don't need to make a lot of these purple marks. Just a few are enough. Let's add some at the bottom. And some in the middle in case you have some of these colors in the middle. Okay. Perfect. And now, for the greens, you actually need to brush a bit the color out of the beautiful painting device and add some blue and some yellow to create a very turquoise green. In case it's not this light. You need to add a bit of white into it. In fact, let's add a tiny bit of white so that you can create this turquoise from ultramarine if you don't have the brilliant blue. Okay? Let's add it over here. And let's focus on the middle part, this time and the lower part with this color. So well, a bit outside of the middle. And at the bottom, can let them a bit. You can let the colors mix and merge a bit. It's not a big deal. So you're not very outside of the color range. You're still using analogous colors. So Colors will behave very, very nicely. Notice how some of the marks are continuing too much on this side. They are dragging and making a line. So we are going to move them to a side to create a bit more dynamic colors. And in the middle, taking some water and taking some more water to change the color and make it more transparent. Okay. With the water, you can also press a bit harder so that you pick up some of the colors that are still wet and mix them with this color. You're basically just getting rid of that color from the brush on some areas, maybe focus in a bit more on the lower part just because green things tend to be lower to the ground. Let's take some water and make this a bit more coherent. And this is the time where you can look around and notice if there are some areas like this one, which is too undefined, take some water and place it over it to make it a bit more blurry and a bit more integrated. Okay. And as you go, you will notice that this water really makes everything a bit more coherent. It blends them together. But don't go overboard with the blending. You want some broken colors. Perfect. And that's all you need for this step. You will need to let the painting completely dry because you're going to change color palette. You're going to go in with some more vibrant reds, yellows, and other beautiful colors. Before you do that, clean up the brush. You don't have to clean it thoroughly, just mix it at the bottom of the water, and then squeeze it out a few times. And you can let the painting dry. If you have a hair dryer, you can use the hair dryer to dry it faster, but you still have to wait four or 5 minutes so the water soaks in the canvas. Because if you get the hair dryer just now, this water will just spill everywhere. So let it dry almost the water, let it soak it in to the canvas, and then go with the hair dryer. 7. Let the flowers blossom: And for this step, you are going to need a big flat brush and some red, some yellow, and a touch of white. Pick up a tiny bit of red and a lot more yellow to create this wonderful orange color. It's a bit more towards the orange than it's needed. So let's add a bit more yellow to it. Once you've added the yellow, grab a tiny bit of water. To make it more pliable. And let's start making the same kind of icicles on the side, just a few, but these icicles are more like flower buds. You're starting to get familiar with the mark making of flowery structures. Once you are comfortable with this color and how it behaves, you can start to make a bigger, beautiful flower right on to an area that is not so busy with dark colors, like for instance, here, and this will be an ris. I think that's how it's called the flower. Notice how it's very much like a leaf. To make it more complex, you can add a bit more yellow and start to add some complexity onto the edge, making it more of a broken edge. So it's not so perfect. Once you've done that, you can move further to making another beautiful petal just onto the lower side. And this time it goes a bit more towards the right side. So would notice how it's going a bit more towards this side. I've picked up some more yellow onto the brush, and you can do the same just to create a bit more diversity of color. You can also add it to the first color, and then going a bit higher and creating another beautiful petal just over here. And then closing it just on an angle. You can blend a bit of colors if you want. Now let's create some more. Let's grab some more yellow and create some more colors, some more petals on top of these orange beautiful colors that you've created earlier, just to create a lot more color of diversity, and you can create new ones right next to the flower or onto the right or left, onto the lower side. Just creating here and there are some marks of this newly found yellow orange. Don't worry if the color is too transparent. We're going to add another layer on top. And you can add a few more textures. You can also just dab with the brush on its side or with the corner creating some nicer effects. And rotating the brush so you can create different types of marks so you don't repeat the same brush stroke a few times. The more you rotate the brush, the easier it is to create different types of flowery goodness. And once you've done that, you can add a bit of red to the orange, creating a more red orange. This is the same concept you used for the background. You're just changing it a bit. Let's add a bit more yellow. It was too red. And now you can add some colors, some flowers, some dabs of paint here and there. Starting to create some emerging little areas of flowers. Notice how they are packed together. If you don't have them packed together, you can pack them a bit more now. That's how flowers tend to be in the flower realm in nature. They tend to be a bit more compact. Just add a few dabs of paint, and you can have some runaways as well, just some flowers that are scattered in some other places. Once you do that, you can add more yellow this time. And mix it and add it over top. Some areas creating more colors. More diversity. You can also make some bigger ones if you want, as well as some small ones next to the colors. Now that the flower is dry or at a bit more sticky. We can add a second layer of paint. You can also add just yellow on top. And mix it a bit directly onto the Canvas. You can also take this opportunity to edit some of the edges if they are too transparent or inexact. They need to be a bit more crisp. Okay. I know it looks nothing like an iris or a flower, but it will look much better once you add more colors on top. And that's all you need for this step. 8. Gorgeous, pink and purple: This next step, you will need to clean the brush almost completely. Just squeeze the color out and the water. Take some water and squeeze the color once again. We have some orange on our fingers, but that's fine. And now you're going to go into the purples. Now, the purples, you need red and blue. This time, you're going to use a dark purple that is more towards the red. You've used one that is more towards the blue. This time is going to be one more towards the red. And we're going to focus in on making some lines. You can even take the small brush and do this with the small brush. It's a bit more easy. To make finer lines and dots. And if your brush is not flexible like mine, you can take some water and press it down until it has that flexibility back again, so you can add some of these beautiful lines and dots. And you can do the same over on this side. Lines, dots, rotate a brush, and you can even connect them to make a bigger shape. And over here, creating some more scattered ones. And let's create some more over here. Once you've created these beautiful lines, you can take some white, not a lot of white and a touch of red, and a small touch of blue. Let's put this brush down and create a beautiful rosy color. It's a purple, but it is a bit more white. You will notice it instantly. Once you add it, it will be very noticeable because you don't have this color yet. So it's way more beautiful. And especially where you've put these lines, you can add it. Don't worry, if they look like nothing yet, they are supposed to be flowers or stems or just beautiful colors. Make some bigger ones, take some more and make a smaller one. And as you go, you can take some more red and a touch of white, and a touch more red to slowly move towards a more pinkish hue. Mix it thoroughly. And then once you add it, it will look even more beautiful. Just creating some color diversity, small, big, even smaller. These colors will work very good on the purple, as well as on the areas where you've added these lines. So you've created a bit of chaos. And then once you add some more diversity, it calms it down and makes it more like a shape or a flower or whatever else. So small dots and lines, and once you break them down a bit, they start to create this wonderful, colorful array of shapes. And you can go over here and create more. And now let's add just red on top of it on top of the pinkish hue. So it's changed and different once again. It's the same concept. You are changing the hue of the color to create, as you did with the background of the whole entire painting. Let's go from the outside a bit and create some more of these beautiful lines. Now let's take some more white. Slowly inching the way you did with the background to other colors. I added some white. Let's add some red and some more white and create a lighter version of this color. That you can add here and there to create this these small areas of newly found beautiful color. Don't worry, if you have an area here where the difference in the contrast is way too big, and it's not so organic. You can take some more red and make the color the intermediary color once again. And once you do, the shape and the colors become more homogeneous. Funny words. And just touch it. Move your hand, the more you move your hand from place to place, the easier it is for your brain to not focus too much on what you are doing and create a bit more abstract shapes. Now, clean up the small brush, just a tiny bit. So you can pick up some of the yellow. And you can go over some areas to create a bit of diversity in hue as well. So you're going back to the yellows. You don't need to pick up so much paint. The small brush tends to pick up a bit more paint, and it makes it a bit more visible. Okay. And going in and creating some yellow dots, just to mix and match the colors, and you can also go over some areas. Now that the flower is a bit more dry. You can focus in a bit on it, but it's not yet completely dry. And that's all for this step. In the next step, we're going to make some bigger flowers, some bluish and purplish flowers. 9. Bigger flowers: Okay, for this next step, you're going to need to add some of this pink to the medium brush. We're going to actually create a bit more of this pink. This is red and white, and it has a small little touch of blue, a tiny bit, so it's not so intense. So we hold the intensity back a bit and bring it in later. Notice how it cut it. Let's add a bit more red and mix it together. Mix it thoroughly. It's a bit muted just because you want that vibrancy to go later on onto the canvas. Now, let's create one flower just touching over this one. And it's a sample iris. You can create it just by making a beautiful rounded diamond. And then you can add this interesting thing at the top, and then creating some more edges that are different, just creating some curves that go outside and in to change the shape and then accentuate the fact that it goes down. Now, let's make this a bit more intense by adding some more red into it. We've added some red just so you can see the difference, and let's create another one just over here. So you understand that these are two or two different petals, and you make that evident from the fact that you changed the color. Same thing. It's a square that has a bit of a rounded shape, and then going down this way. Perfect. Now going and cleaning up the brush to make a different type of color. Just taking some blue and white. Just a touch of that pink. Just a bit more. Okay. And we can make another beautiful petal right next to this one. And this one is going to be going this way. Right now, they feel very, very different. But once you go back to the pink or recreated and add it to the left side of the petal, just like that, and maybe on the left side of this one and take some water to blend in this newly found color, and on this one. Perfect. Can go with some lines. If you have a bit more color in the brush with some water, you can go a bit lower to add some of this pink, some places this newly found bluish pink. Now let's go back to the blue, mix in that pink over top. Let's take some more white and a touch of blue. Getting a lighter version of that blue to add it over top once again. And maybe we add it to this side where there is water, so it mixes very well. And we can clean up the brush in case you don't feel happy with the shape of the ris over here. You can add some more color to it and change the edge. And brush it over. Okay. Now, basically, what you did over here is exactly the same thing that you did over here, but on a bigger scale. So now you're going to need to add some more textures and some more colors that are more intense and more light or dark. In the next step, we're going to do exactly that to add some more diversity to the composition. 10. Turn on the lights: With a clean, small brush. Let's clean it a bit more thoroughly, and the painting is almost dry completely on these areas. We're going to take some white, mix it over the orange with some yellow, creating a beautiful yellow color that is a bit more towards the lighter side because it has some white. Once you've mixed it thoroughly, you can go ahead and make some beautiful highlights, maybe on this one. Just going and increasing that contrast on the right side so that it's more apparent that this is a different petal. Take a bit of water and mix it over so you can blend the colors together a bit more. Take some more color and go on the right side of this one, creating a beautiful petal over here. With this color, you can also add at the top over here. And maybe create a new petal onto this side. Close by to the purple flower. Grab some more yellow just to mix it and make it a bit more different where this petal meets this one. Can also add some more of this color at the top and Clean up the brush at the bottom of the water container, add some water onto the edges right over here. Just a tiny bit, and maybe over here, creating some transparencies. The flowers don't need to be perfectly opaque everywhere. Notice how it takes a lot more central stage once it has that lighter color. And now let's bring some of this lighter color onto the areas where you have yellow and orange just to integrate that color a bit more and make it more diverse everywhere. Let's make this orange over here. Maybe we can add some yellow just to make it less vibrant. And just a few touches changes decomposition even more. You can even make a bigger one if you want or stick to the small ones. It doesn't really matter that much. Once you've done that, you can clean up the small brush. And start to make a beautiful pink where you have an area that is dry. You make a different, beautiful pink. Know it seems like I'm picking up some blue from the bottom, but it's really not. Let's add some more white and some more red. It's completely dry underneath the color. So that's why I can mix it very well there. Now, let's go over on this side. Notice how this color is found, this lighter color is found on the right side, as you did with the other flower. Let's accentuate the fact that this petal goes over the blue one. Okay. And let's take some more of this color and slowly edit the shape of the flower. Let's mix it once again because it's not a lot of color, and we need a bit more. Let's squeeze that paint out of the brush so we can thoroughly mix the color. Now going into the middle of the flower of the petal, the middle petal. Don't worry about the left side of this colorful, beautiful shape. You are going to add some water later. Now, let's actually do that now. Let's clean up the brush thoroughly and add a touch of water right where it meets the other color. Okay. It looks like it's a bit lighter, but it's not. It's going to dry very transparent. Let's grab some white and find another area where we can mix some blue with this white. It still has a bit of pink into the brush. It doesn't really matter. And let's stick to the right side. It needs to be a bit lighter, just so it differentiates itself from the background even more. Just add it and control that shape. Right up to the beautiful edge. Clean up the brush, take some water after you've cleaned it and add it to the intersection. If your water is, like mine, a bit too dirty, you can add just a little bit and mix it or you can just change it and that will make it more beautiful. Perfect. Now, here comes the interesting part, cleaning up the brush, squeezing all the color, taking some of this orange. If you don't have it, you can create it by taking some red and some yellow. And let's make a stem, I don't know how it's called. Just a small little thing over here, and another one over here, and maybe another one just over here. Perfect. Now, if you have this color, you might as well just add some more red, yellowish color flowers, I mean. English, I cannot English at this moment. Okay. Adding some more as we go, maybe on the lower side as well. And in between here and here, And cleaning up the brush, just because I forgot to add this stem with the red, pinkish red. Let's add it over in here and over in here. These are very simple shapes. They are just beautiful lines, and then they become a bit shorter as you go lower. For the pink, it also needs a highlight. The yellow being more transparent, yellow colors are tend to be more transparent. So they blend a bit more into the background, as opposed to reds that they are more opaque, so they need a bit of a highlight at the top. Just so they become more diverse. Okay? And if you feel like you've messed it up a bit, what you can do is bring even more color diversity by just adding a bit of water just at the bottom of one. Notice how it creates You can basically erase the color, and then going back and adding some of that yellow once again. And then you can basically add the pink over once again. People don't understand that painting can be very as long as the paint is wet, you can scrape it off and add it again. So, that's exactly what we did here. And in case it's too transparent because the yellow flower is not completely dry, so you might have scraped a lot of paint by accident. You can just take a bit more color and add it over top, just creating more diversity and beautiful colors. Perfect. In the next step, which will be the last step, you are going to create some leaves, some greener colors, just to create more diversity and make the composition more beautiful. 11. Finishing touches, thank you!: For this next step, you don't need to let the painting dry. All you need is blue, some yellow. And after you've mixed this beautiful green, don't start with it. Let's add some of this pink in case you don't have it. Just mix it once again, just add a bit of yellow and red. Let's add a bit more blue. It's a darker color. You've achieved a darker green, so you have two greens, and this will be a beautiful start for your foliage. Take some water, so you can make them a bit more transparent, and you can add some stems and some dots. With this color. Don't go overboard. Don't overcomplicate the composition too much. This color is very good to cut out some of the purples in case you have too much of a big pile of purple. Like, for instance, here, we can cut it off. And you can do one of two things, either just add over this green this color, or you can add some yellow, mix it in and start diversifying that way. Who knew you are going to learn about economics, a diverse portfolio of stocks and bonds, just creating lines and edges and dots and lines, again, longer, shorter, can clean up the brush just so you pick up some of that beautiful green that you've created over here and start adding some more greens now that you have a place. Notice how it's quite watery. That's good because you can create finer lines and more transparent colors. So you can go even more vibrant in later brush marks. Okay. And let's go over here, creating this beautiful stem. You can go over the stem of the flower, and you can add some yellow to the color so that it's more intense and create this beautiful stem. Maybe it has a beautiful leaf over on this side. It's a very simple shape. It goes from the leaf. It has a little bit of a curve and then it's shooting out, and then goes back into the stem. You can repeat it, but smaller onto the left side. And then you can take more yellow, add it over top. So you can add a little bit of a highlight onto the right side of the stem just in a few areas. With this newly found color. You can add some highlights and some dots in some areas. Keeping that idea of big, medium, small in mind a little bit as well. Even though it's a bit smaller, like for instance, here, it's a big shape, a medium shape and a small shape. So you can do the same type of things, creating complexity and variety of color. And let's create some more colors and some more dots in the areas that are too calm. And over here and over here, just move around and find areas where you can put just a few dots and spaces. Going back to the darker color, if you don't have it, it's just a dark green that has a bit of red into it, just to add a little bit of a shadow onto the right side of this stem and maybe accentuate this beautiful leaf, as well as this one, making it a bit more opaque. Perfect. Now let's make some more stems, taking some more water and creating some longer stems, some more abstract ones, taking some yellow, mixing it over. Let's grab some blue. And now some white, creating this very potent and light green that is a bit more different than the one that was created by going lighter with the yellow. Now this color will be even more interesting. Notice how beautiful it is. Dots, lines, creating a bit of chaos and complexity. You can even add a highlight onto the leaf over here, and over onto the stem in some areas. Can also drag it with your finger to make it more blended. And let's add a few of these beautiful greens into the foliage and the other flower spaces. Let's create more lines. And I think let's create some bigger ones at the bottom, just to add a bit of complexity. Okay. And if you want, you can spend a bit more time and create some darker, bigger ones just over at the bottom to create even more of this idea that lower its just stems and flowers and plants and at the top, the flowers and the sky or whatever thing this is. And that's all for this course. You've played with the same concepts from the start, where you've played with the color diversity by making this blurry background, and then you played with more intense lighter colors and darker colors to create contrast and diversity of color as well. As contrast. And then you've played with the same concept by making smaller shapes and then making the colors more diverse towards the purples and the greens. And you've made the same exact thing on the big shapes. However, the big shapes are much more coherent because they have a little bit of a shadow side and a little bit of a highlight side, as well as some little flower stems or however they are called, as well as a bigger stem with leaves. So it's creating this distance where this flower becomes bigger, and these ones go into the background, and they are closer together. These are concepts that you can use from abstract paintings to figurative paintings to portraits to anything, big, medium, small, brush direction. You can use a darker color, a more transparent color, and then add highlights, add the opposite color to create a lot of contrast and a lot of color diversity. Then go into the greens, add some brush direction, making these stems and keeping everything abstract so that the mind completes the image. We don't give all of the detail to the viewer. We have to let them add the detail in their mind. And you've learned how to keep the colors clean by letting them dry in between layers when you changed from a blue to a yellow or keeping areas dry before you've added a different type of color when you changed in the color wheel from a blue to a pink, and you've played around with that. You've also understood how colors behave when they are wet, for instance, analogous colors like blue, light blue, and then purples, and then a bit more towards the turquoise green. These are called analogous colors, and they are friends because they play well together. They don't mix and match into different types of muddy or chalky colors. Thank you for watching. And if you are gracious enough, please leave a review so that other people know that this course is for them as well. See you in the next one.