Expressive Watercolor Birds: paint a Hummingbird without Pencil Sketch

1. Hummingbird Class Trailer: Would you like to switch from copying reference photos to creating your own art? In this class, I will show you how to workout with several reference photos, get inspired, and to create a beautiful dreamy hummingbird painting in your unique style. Taking this class will help you to simplify the subjects is which is essential when you are painting in loose style without any pencil sketch. Secondly, you will overcome the fear of white paper and we'll feel more confidence to enjoy the flow of watercolors. Lastly, you will develop your very own personal painting as something which is not limited by a pencil sketch gains its own personality. Hello, I'm Nina. I'm a Watercolor Artist painting in loose style, also known as nyusikart on Instagram. I started my watercolor journey back in 2015 and spent quite a time mastering my watercolor skills and searching for my style, so I have discovered the beauty of expression of loose style. I'm inspired by the beauty of nature, and you might know me from my expressive flowers classes. Now it's time to explore new subject and this is my second class where we paint expressive birds. If you're new to this channel, welcome. Press the Follow button on the top to to join me in this creative journey and to be the first to know when my new class is live. In this class I will show you in real-time all stages that are from the shape study till the final painting of this amazing hummingbird where I share with you my tips and tricks. If you are new to my technique, I would suggest first to watch my brief to add more watercolors where I show you in detail how to loosen up your style, and how by adding more water to your watercolors you can create magic. If you feel more confident or when you have some guidelines, I also have provided a template of hummingbird in the Class Resources section. I'm looking forward to seeing all your paintings on the Class Project page. I enjoy seeing them. Don't forget, I'm here to help you in case you got stuck or have any questions. Are you ready to develop your very own painting skills and to grade your unique painting? Grab your brushes, and let's get started. 2. Materials: [MUSIC] Let's prepare our materials. In this class I will use watercolor paper, that is 100 percent cotton paper A4 size, cold-pressed one. This one is from Etchr Perfect Sketchbook. Then we will need for sure brushes. Here I will show you the ones which I will use along the class, my ones. That is mainly round brushes, Black Velvet numbers 4, 6, and 8. Also, some striper this one is not necessarily at all, so just always two or three. These one will be enough. Also, I will use big brush, mop brush, mainly that is for making wet the paper. For the same purpose, I have also a water brush with clean water. This one is medium size, mainly also to make wet some areas or to make soft edge in some areas. Watercolor paints. The color so we will have a look in a separate lesson. Watercolor palette or just plain white plate. Ceramic plate would be fine. Water. I will use two jars. One for cleaning my brush and another one to rinse my brush so that to be sure that it would be clean. We will need some office paper or a sketchbook and pencil for our lesson where we are studying the shape of the bird. Paper towels for removing extra moisture and [inaudible]. So just prepare [LAUGHTER] your art materials and supplies. Let's start to paint our hummingbird [MUSIC]. 3. Simple Shapes Study: [MUSIC] Welcome to our hummingbird painting class. I have got really many requests for painting hummingbird. Here is this class, and let's enjoy painting these really beautiful, tiny, fast, and strong birds. Let's start with the most basic part of painting in this style. First is we need to study really well hour subject, and we will do it through simple shapes. In the class resources section you can find several references of hummingbirds, and you can choose any of them, and we can practice. I think that I really like this one, this position. I will show you how we analyze this position, and you would be able to apply it to the other ones. I will use my sketchbook and pencil, and that's how usually I work. I start out with first just the basic shapes. You can see that here it looks like this oval shape. You don't need to make it really precise, but making this several times your hand will remember the moment and it will find find exact shape. Then we can see that here it joins with another oval shape. Here it is, another oval shape. Another thing what usually you can do, you can take a pencil and to measure how many these oval shapes in this can fit into the next one. This is one, this is another one, and you can just measure. Here is one. You can see that in the body it's size of 2, like head oval, so that is more or less the size. That is our body and now we will have to polish it. First, let's observe the shape that here it goes really like straight, and then it starts to bend. That is important to build like this, the shapes, and to understand actually the shape because then once you will start with watercolor, you will see how to correct your shape and where to lead your brushstrokes. Please don't skip this [LAUGHTER] stage and paint. Another line is this one. Also you can see that here is one oval, that is another oval, and it's like joined by this triangular. Let's say this is the triangular which joins these two ovals more or less like this. Here is going to be the beak. Another curve here. Once it has joined this triangular, then starts here, the curve of the body. Where another moment so it will go more or less like this. Another thing that also, where it starts this curve starts also the wing, so these parts. You can see for example here, you may notice at this stage the mistake. I have bended it too early, so here I don't have enough length. In this case, I will have to check this this area. You know that what is missing because now now I know that here it was too early. Here is going to be my wing. Like this you can check your proportions by checking different connections between different parts of the body. For example, if we go over here, it's going to be first the head, then we have some part of body, and only then starts their wing like this. This means is that this wing goes here. I am following this line. For here, that is our proportions. They are a bit failing because this line is much longer. I think that I have done really, like you see, that this distance is too long, and in fact it's not so long. Here is where it starts like this, where the body starts to change. All this line is this triangular one. Now it looks much better [LAUGHTER]. Can you see it? That's why, don't be afraid to make some ugly shapes on your sketchbook because that is how you study the shape without any constructions or whatever, how you can find your mistakes. Because sometimes you are drawing or painting and you aren't happy with the result, but you're unsure what went wrong now, and how to find what exactly went wrong. That is the way that you start checking different parts of the body. Let's finish this area. Here it's more or less like this. Then there is line for the tail. It's really important for a painting in loose style to study really well the shape of your subject. It's better to get mistaken in these sketches while you're studying the shape than later once you will start to paint, then you will discover that no, something wrong with my shapes. Yeah, it's also possible. [LAUGHTER] But then you will know the ways to follow for how to correct your shapes if something is wrong. Then the next part is eye. You can see that it's quite big. Remember to leave the eye light. Here it has like this shape that it has some angles. This shape, and then bit by bit. Here you can see that under the eye there is some blue color, a bit darker, and then the beak. You can see that again, if we will measure, here is the head and the beak is a bit longer than the head. Here is going to be more or less. It's quite straight, and being really tiny I think that I will leave it just like this. For here we can also correct this shape, the head. Now, you may notice that also to correct the shape of the head, that it probably is not so big like my one , and like this. Here we have our sketch. For here it goes more and then it starts the wing. The shape of the wing is really beautiful. More or less, it's like this. Here is my wing. Then we can see that over here it's really dark hair, so also let's make it. Yeah, this has this line is not correct, but I do not use eraser so that don't spend so much time to go really correct with everything, because at the end my aim is to paint in watercolors. [LAUGHTER] Here we have our rough sketch. Just play and see the main thing. For example, this distance, this point. This point, more or less as they are that way. Another point, it could be a beak, eye, and where starts the wing. By the way, yeah, that is another point to check whether they correspond. Then the line between an eye and the beak. It could be also maybe like this line. You can see that it's quite straight and then it turns farther apart. The lower part is not so important, the only thing for sure, don't make really long so that it will look like a really tiny bird. Just play. That is the shape of the bird. You will see that once you will make mistakes here, you will find them, you will correct them. You will see that once you will start to paint without any pencil sketch on watercolor paper, it will be much easier because you will know already where you can fail. [MUSIC]. 4. Basic Techniques: In this lesson, we'll have a look quickly at which watercolor techniques we are going to use with our humming bird. Mainly is that it's the same one, so which we have used for choosing our colors. That is wet on wet technique when you are adding paint, wet surface. Then you introduce different shades, one color and into that color you introduce another color. Here what is important it depends on how much you would like the second color will bleed, so if you wanted to bleed it quite a lot, then you add it immediately after the first color or just wait till it won't be so shimmering this surface and then you can introduce a second color. Another thing because that depends how watery is you're paint so that if it's really watery, then you can get some blooms. Let's make it even. My one is still wet, so with that we still can play. But here it is and let's see how it would be if I will take really thick and concentrated color, so then that it won't spread really a lot. It depends which surface you would like to cover. Then you are using the second color, more diluted one or more concentrated one, so that you can see that this one, for example, it's like with water and still you can move. But this color, it doesn't really move, that you have placed, it has spread a bit and no more. For example, we can, the same really concentrated one, we can add here and it will stay there. That is one thing which we are going to use and second part, we will need also to make soft edge so that your watercolors won't look so hard. Also depends. In some areas, you need to leave them with defined edge. But somewhere, for example, this is hard edge so that you can see it's really a straight line. From this one just with water, when I'm touching with water, you can see that it starts to bleed. The paint moves in that direction where the water goes. Here is dry paper and it won't spread anymore, but you can invite it, invite your paint and then it will spread even more. Here it is. If you're adding too much water, for example, you have seen that I have touched just with a tip of my brush. Here I have the color. You need to move quite quickly in order to invite. You see in those areas where I have touched the water, it has got really soft and I invited the paint to flow. If you see that you have too much water, just with paper towel you remove. But for example, from this side, I add really a lot of water and you see that it was too much water and it stays. It's not like here that it moves in the direction of water. If it's too much water, then it stays. It doesn't move and you can see once you will start to create the way out for the water, it will move. But if not, it will start to create these kind of watercolor cauliflower, so like watercolor blooms. One more technique which we are going to use that is actually negative edge technique that we will have some area and then, for example, we will start to create the flower, the outer side of it and here leaving some areas. Again, introducing one color to another. That is going to be like, when we are going to paint flowers, so we will apply this technique of negative edge. Just play, It's really quick and basic. I assume that you won't find it really hard. Now let's move to the fun part. 5. Colors: [MUSIC] Let's choose the colors for our hummingbird, that is really exciting because I love these colors. I think that I will do something similar between this one in terms of colors because I like how bright these colors are. Probably this blue area, I will leave the way it is and here, I really like this area of really greenish and blueish tail. Let's choose our colors. I suggest you too take some watercolor. Paper maybe not so good as the one which you will use for the main class project and make it wet. [NOISE] Why? Because then once you are placing your colors, you will see how they blend one with another and which beautiful color combinations that you can get. I will start with some here. I see that there is some yellow. My one is going to be Hansa Yellow Light, I think. That is this color, and then it's beautiful green. For this green I may use, let's see, also this color, I can use this. This is green gold. I have here olive yellowish-green, but that I think it's not the color what I'm looking for. I have another green. This one is really beautiful green for these things. This green is called Jadeite Genuine. That is by Daniel Smith PrimaTek Syria. I think that I will go for this green. Then here this really beautiful turquoise color. For turquoise color, I will use color which is called ultramarine turquoise. It's a bit granulate and so it will give me also some beautiful textures. Then some blue. I will go for yellow blue in this area, so that it could be a mixture of yellow blue with ultramarine blue [NOISE]. It's up to you, the one which you have. I have another beautiful color that is cobalt turquoise. Here I can add [LAUGHTER] this color. Now, it's like a play with colors. Play them one next to each other and to see which ones work well and which ones not. Then for example, for this area is really beautiful. I will try this one is Quinacridone Gold. Let's see how it will work. This Quinacridone Gold, I will add a bit of this Jadeite Genuine, which is also really bright color and a bit more concentrated. It looks nice. Another color which [LAUGHTER] I have that is electric blue. I can add it because this one is a shimmering color. It's like this, but once it will get dry, it will give some shimmering effect. Here it is. Then some violet. I have color which is called rose of Ultramarine. This is beautiful like Quinacridone. I think it's Quinacridone Rose mixed with ultramarine. Here is the color that I will use it for this area. But I will paint this one. I will use some this shimmering color, electric blue, so here for the tail. Again, I will add some Reddit. Or it's possible also green gold. The colors, choose the ones which you have because everyone for sure will have different colors. I will show you the ones which I will use. But in your case, have a look at the reference photo and take the ones which you like. By the way here this one near the eye. This is beautiful, so color. We can use, for example, I think this Rose of Ultramarine mixed with ultramarine blue. Here, it may give quite beautiful this shade. Even we can add some phthalo blue. That could be nice. Or I have [LAUGHTER] one more color, it's because I really have many colors. [NOISE] This one could be really beautiful. This one is sleeping beauty turquoise color. You see this one really makes the [LAUGHTER] difference. This one is really beautiful color. For the wings, I will use this shade like purple one, and for this probably I will mix orange. Mine this one is Quinacridone burnt orange, or you can use a burnt sienna and to mix it with violet. Let's see what we will get. I think that here that is the color what I'm looking for. Let's see. [NOISE] That is where we going to be our wing. I would add a bit more of violet here in this color. That is going to be my color choice for this hummingbird. For black, I will use this mixture which I have, that is a mixture of Payne's gray mixed with violet. Payne's gray mixed with violet and you get this really beautiful, it's not black, but really dark color. That's what I usually use for. Here it is, this really dark color. Choose your colors and finally, let's start painting. [MUSIC] 6. Loose Watercolor Background: [MUSIC] I have in front of me my sketch scheme so that it will remind me steps to follow and also my reference photo. I suggest you too to have [LAUGHTER] your materials in front of you and probably first to watch the whole class then you will know already step by step and you will be able to paint along with me. I have a A4 size watercolor paper that is a 300 grams and 100 percent cotton paper called press. I will start the first day, I will add some background, I think that I will keep on my folks here. [LAUGHTER] I'm making a wet randomly, leaving some white areas. My composition that here is going to be some flowers really loose style and then hummingbird flying into that direction. That's why first let's make the background. For background just use those colors which you like. I will use my sworn brush because it gives us some unpredictability in brushstrokes and I really love it. I will start with opera pink for here are some nice standard colors, so far here. This could too strong but anyway, I think it's nice light it won't be so strong color. Next one is going to be quinacridone rose. That one I will dilute a bit. Take those colors which you love and play with them just placing here and there also making some splitters. That is the joy of painting [LAUGHTER] the only thing if there is something really important you have nearby just use paper towel to remove these splitters. The ones which you don't like also you just remove them with paper towel. I will add another pink color which I have that is the neat genuine. Just also several dots and I will add another a bit darker shades that is going to be like my rows of ultramarine more violet color that I like to create a shape that is more like you see that really loose and abstract. But the idea to transmit, in my case is that this folks here, I remember how they are, the colors and a bit more of a violet in some of them and that's what I'm trying to transmit when my painting really loose one. I will add some olive green. I really like this brush for brushstrokes that they're very unpredictable. Then you don't spend so much time making something very detailed, that part has got already dry. I will add a bit more water. Here we will add a bit more, I think here this way so that to bleed a bit. That is going to be gorgeous. Then I will add a bit darker green. In my case, that one is called apatite genuine in some areas. I think that some splitters of green here and there. This one's I have got them just on the flowers you can remove. Just with paper towel while it is still wet you can remove. Also if you want we can add some highlights while our flowers are wet. Just always clean brush you remove extra moisture and add some. But I think that I really like this because I really like the they are. For here I'm missing something darker so that to balance, this is really bright and this one I think that I will place just somewhere over here. This is rows of ultramarine a bit of normal violet that somehow to reflect that top part with this lower one. I'm missing some green area so I will use that shady which I will use later in the bird. I will use it also here in the background. Here we have our background. If you wish you can use some salt to create some textures. Just making wet and making bleeding. I think that looks nice. We can also add some splatters of yellow then I think it will make it more live. This is nickel AZO yellow like this and here I will add a bit more of olive green. I think like this now I'm happy with colors. Create that background to which you feel like. That is all you're feeling playing with colors, with water bleeding. With the background don't worry and don't overthink just play with colors. Now, let's move to our main here, that is our hummingbird [MUSIC] 7. Watercolor Hummingbird Body: [MUSIC]. While my background is getting dry, I also will place some salt to create some pattern. This one I leave the way it is. I really like how it is. Let's start with our hummingbird. I have in front of me the reference photo. It's quite important to keep it small because if you will have it really big, then you will tend here also to transmit that size really big. That's why I don't worry if you don't see really well how it's the shape of eye or whatever that keep it small. Then here also, you won't fail into adding too many details. We will start first with eye, then we will move this part of the head. We will add beak, and then we will keep on adding the body. I will take my smaller brush. This is number 4, and I will use also water brush. In considering that my bird is going to be somewhere, I think that it's going to be somewhere over here that I will place it this way. It's going to be here, an eye, the body, and here is going to be the wing. Let's prepare our color mixture that is going to be Payne's gray mixed with violet. Here I have some really dark shade. That is like, let's say black with violet shape or a violet shade. So here I have and you cannot see, but I have made wet this area and I will start to create the shape of an eye. I will start adding. That is a beauty how from just one tiny dots starts to appear as a bird. Here is my eye. At the moment I'm going to leave it t, and I will use more Payne's gray diluted. I will start to make Z area around eye, so is on some dots and said generally it has eye going into that direction. Don't worry because my eye has got really big. Later, we will correct it. That's why I don't worry about this part. But leave for wider areas. In my case is that it has bled and has disappeared at the highlight. I will remove some paint with a paper towel. I make like these really tiny and remove it with paper towel. For my colors, I will use this bird, this colors, because I really likes them, and the shape from another bird. Here it's really important to keep the shape of the head. First, I'm using that reference photo with the body which we have sketched. I'm making with water the shape of the head. First I'm making it with water. Then once I'm happy with the shape which I have got, then I will start to add the color. For here, the beak would be into that direction and then it goes this way. I will start adding those color, which we were talking, and that it's going to be cool shade of yellow. [inaudible] yellow light. This way. For here also, somewhere. Next one, you can add olive green or I have green gold, that is also beautiful color. Let's add some green. Play with your greens and check the ones which gives you beautiful shades. For here, I'm placing these beautiful green. This one is shaded genuine. Actually I don't use really a lot this color, but for painting hummingbirds it's just an amazing color. Really, really beautiful. Next one, let's add here some turquoise blue. Like this. This one is nice color and some Phthalo blue , a bit stronger. Over here. You can see that now I can correct the shape. Then I will add some darker color. That is going to be the mixture of Phthalo blue with ultramarine blue. For here, I just will add this color. Let's keep on painting the body. But do you remember this area where it was starting, that here it was like, this finishing the heads and there was some area of the back. Here it was really straight line. Again, also check this area between the head and doing this shape. It also will help you to paint correctly there to get correct shape of the wing and of the body as well. Here I have the wing and this one is really, really long and this is that with water. I'm correcting the shape. For here, then it starts to be like this just a bit and goes this direction. I hope that you can see how it's like this. You can see, that with water, I'm making the shape of the body. That for here and then goes here to the tail. Now let's place quickly the colors while everything is still wet. Here is going to be my cobalt turquoise. Here, it is. Some [inaudible] genuine for here. Then I will add also some ultramarine turquoise, like everything will take of from here, no. For here, a bit darker color. You can mix them with a bit of violet and [inaudible] so that this shade would be darker. I have taken this violet, which is also of ultramarine, I think it looks more beautiful. Here is a shape of body. Use those blues which you have, those ones which inspire you. [NOISE]. More blue. My electric blue, that this will give me some shimmering effects. Then I will place a bit of yellow here, and then a bit of green, radiate green. It gives really, really beautiful, this bright color. You can place also this yellow a bit over here so that also to create this really shiny color. My paper is still wet that's why I still can do this. Again, a bit more of this, which I did. Feather like dots, how I'm placing because you can see that actually the shape of feathers goes this way. Also with some Phthalo blue. I will add here this shape of feathers. Just I need those and change colors then my turquoise and in the lower part, that here is it really green. Then here it starts to be a really beautiful at tail. I'm making it wet for my tail. It's going to be here. This top area is really beautiful. This shade of blue. I will use this, my Sleeping Beauty. Let's see which shade it will give me. I think that I will use also my electric blue because it will give really beautiful shimmering effect. That is this color, like this. Somewhere over here a bit more. It looks beautiful this bird. The next part here, I will add some dark shade. I think that is going to be rows of ultramarine with some brown. In my case, this is piomatic genuine. Or it could be burnt sienna to make warm shade of brown with violet shade. Here I place this color. Here there is a shadow. Like this. My bird, probably it's a bit too long. I don't know. Let's see. Because here also I see some other shade, maybe blue, Phthalo blue mixed with some orange it will give green with orange then gray color. For here, some or it could be also some Payne's gray. You can place over there. But I will make it blue so that the movement and it won't be possible to see it so well, so, yeah, like this. With some other brushstrokes, this is going to be cobalt turquoise and like this, so that it's like flying, but you won't see it really properly is a bird. I have one color. I think that it will go really well with a tail that is a lunar blue. I think that's what I'm looking for. [MUSIC]. 8. Adding Wing, Eye and Beak to Hummingbird: [MUSIC] Perfect. Let's add the wing and then we will be back to our eye and beak. [LAUGHTER] Here I will place also some yellow in this area. You can see it and a bit of this jadeite or the [inaudible]. This colors, place in over there. Then I can see that here is really a dark shade. I will use that mixture of rows of ultramarine with it could be burnt sienna. Here I have this color and I will use it for this dark shade of violet. Here is a mixture of violet, always [inaudible] burnt orange, in order to get some beautiful shade of brown. Here I have some chocolate brown. That is my aim and here I'm checking already really, well my reference photo with the position of the bird, that it goes like this. This is really important now, because we will have to make really quick. [LAUGHTER] Very quick brushstrokes. Here I have my color like this and this one, it goes up. Just play with brushstrokes and then we will make lighter ones. I think that I will add more violet and more watery paint. Yeah, more watery paint. These ones, I will make them, these brushstrokes. They are really loose. Yeah, and here I think that to make it a bit darker, probably I will place it directly some violet in this area. Here is that, while it's still wet. Here is my wing and let's come back to our eye. That here I have really dark shade mixture of, Payne's gray with violet. This time it should be really concentrated paint. We don't want it, bleed so that it will keep really well the shape and I start making the shape of eye. Do you remember about highlights? Later we will add with white gouache, lighter area. That's why. Don't worry. Here is eye more or less, I see this shape. The only thing that I think that, I have placed it too close to the back of the back. Let's make these lines, leading lines. It's like dots. I'm placing more dots. Here, I will start the beak. You can see that in my case, this area, I have made it really white. You can correct. In case you have really good paper, you can correct this. Clean water and flood brush. Then you start lifting this color. I'm making it wet and start lifting it. [NOISE] But being blue, it is going to be quite complicated. But anyway, we will try to remove some parts. [NOISE] I'm removing some part of paint and then I will make another shape. That is how you can correct the shape once you aren't happy with your shape. Another thing we can do while it is still wet here, to add some lines. Just use a flat, synthetic brush lifting some color. Now, this part I will let it dry. Because this part I will let it dry so that it won't. Here I will correct also a bit. It would be like I will blend it. You can see like this. We're like, actually we're like sculpting the shapes now. Here is really important. Now, the beak. It's going to be. You can see that it's more goes on the top part of the eye. The beak is going to be more or less this way. [NOISE] It's really long, so I will make it like this. Like some interrupted. Here, I will leave it, so it could be some light falling. Here is my beak. If you aren't happy with the shape, you can remove it with brush. Just lifting the color. At this stage, you have already your bird and you can move already correcting the shapes. For example, the shape of head. We can correct, there's some dark areas. It will give the contrast, just like with dots, which remind us of the feathers. It will give them the contrast. Here, this. Then let's add, here we can blend a bit. This area, we will need some darker color, like yellow blue with ultramarine blue with a bit of violet, this kind of shades. Here, that is the important part. [LAUGHTER] We will start to correct. That I make with dots, area around the eye and now the line so that to correct the general line of body. I'm moving here there with my brush and then end the area. Here it goes really, straight. Then in the area of the wing, it will start to separate. The same color I'm adding to the wing, so that to join it a bit. Then it turns into there or there's feet. There is feet. Legs. This I will leave the way it is without blending. I will add more contrast with my jadeite yellow for here. That also it will be more like under their wing, that it would be darker. Like this, some areas you can blend away, this way. Then I will add more contrast to my tail. I will use electric blue with the Phthalo blue. Here in the lower area, like this. I will need to darken this area, so I will use violet, mixture of violet with my [inaudible] Or you can use some brown, any brown which you have and the violet. Here it also will blend. Here we have our hummingbird, we are missing to add some legs. That is going to be, I will use the same mixture, that is, I think violet mixed with burnt sienna. With this mixture, I'm just adding really slight, so that it will look like [LAUGHTER] the three legs. Yeah. Also if you aren't really happy, you can blend them away, then it would be lighter like this. This way. Actually we almost have our bird ready. We can. Let's wait again, till it will get dry, this area. What we will need to add, that is some several brush marks to create the illusion of the flowers. Here to make a darker shade of the body. At the moment, I will let it dry completely to my hummingbird. [MUSIC] 9. Adding Watercolor Fuchsia Flowers: [MUSIC] My hummingbird has got already dry, and now we can add several details to our fuchsia so that they won't be so abstract and to add some definition so that it would be clearly [LAUGHTER] that is fuchsia flowers. In the class resources section, you will be able to find the reference photo which will help you with shapes. I will use more or less different shades of pink and purple. I'm using my brush Number 8. Here I have some mixture of opera rose, rhodonite genuine, so different shades of pink. To get some beautiful shade of violet, you can mix it just with ultramarine blue and here we have some beautiful shade of violet. Use a negative edge to add several lines so that they will imitate the shape of the flower. Here, just always some simple brushstrokes. I'm checking all the time the shape, which I have it in front of me but I do not really keep it very realistic one because my aim actually is that. Our focus point will be on our hummingbird. Here this part of the flower I'm bending my brush in different directions so that to make different brushstrokes and generally so that the shape of my flower would look quite pleasing and natural. I'm mixing again, opera rose with ultramarine blue to get some violet and in some areas I add this violet. Also just check the photo reference or up to you because there are actually many different shades of fuchsias. Here I have. Add probably a bit more of quinacridone rose so that to get different shades of this color. This one is really beautiful color and here. Later out of this flower center there would be some petals so I will try to make this area a bit darker. Even can drop a bit of violet here in the center with a bit of, this is quinacridone rose and to add a bit of violet or use ultramarine blue to get darker shade. Add for here, so that in some areas it would be a bit darker, then it will be beautiful contrast. Let's add this outer petal. They're a bit different shades. We will have to mix quinacridone rose with a bit of red color or orange or yellow. In this case, I'm adding a bit of a pyrrol scarlet, and here I have the color which is quite gloss. I start to add the shape. Here I have my water brush to dilute it and in some areas to add stronger color. Usually it's closer here where it's connected the color is stronger and that can mix a bit more of this shade. That is a mixture of pink with red. Here it is. Then I can make even first with water, you can correct the shape. Here is more or less the shape and I just drop the color and from this side. Let's add here from the flower because these ones are really big. Actually, while it's still wet and I have here the color, I can take out this just with water to take out these petals. They have on the deep some light yellow color. Here we have and also I will add a bit of the same color which I have used here. Here I drop in several so then they would be connected. This color and this color and the flower will look more harmonious. Like first this one because is a bird, actually is more interested into these fuchsias and this one we will leave it a bit at the back, so it will be further from us. Let's make the skirt. [LAUGHTER] For me, this shape looks really like a skirt [LAUGHTER]. Beautiful one. Let's mix some pink color with ultramarine blue, that was quinacridone rose. Let's create the shape. A bit more of pink color, that is opera rose. I'm making it a bit bigger so that it will correspond a bit the size of the flower with the bird. [LAUGHTER] But actually the bird is quite tiny and like this. To the flower, let's add some darker shade of violet. For this I will mix quinacridone rose with ultramarine blue in more concentrated color. Here it is and in those areas here which are a bit darker, I will add and also some violet. [NOISE]. For here we have, again, pink mixed with some red , and the same. It will make interesting shapes. First I make it with water, and then I just add the color. Add from this side. Here are some they will blend one with another. More intense red color in some areas, I think that would be nice. For here, for example, and here I think also could be nice. Here we have second flower and I will need to do the same just to take out different, use water, different pistils. At the end, I will add this Hansa yellow light. In some areas, I'm using quinacridone gold. That they won't be almost invisible. That's why some of them, I make them visible. This flower, I will do it just with several brush strokes. The shape, this way, here, exists so that it would be really subtle. The same with water, I will take out their pistils. To some of them, I will add yellow, that is quinacridone gold. Add somewhere. Not all of them, just several. Color in some areas and here where it's a bit darker also we can introduce another color. Here we have our folks yes, at the moment they aren't really incorporated in our background, so that what we can do is to add several brushstrokes. I will make wet, this area around folks, yes. Especially these ones. In some places we will add more contrast. I will use olive green, add somewhere over here because they have also some probably a bit cool shade. I can add a bit of Tello blue. Yeah, to get this cooler shade of green. I will use that strong green granulating one which is called apatite genuine in some areas. I think it would be nice, somewhere to add the bird. I assume that for example, for here, I will add the bird, it could be nice. I will mix this the same color, that shade. That is quinacridone rose with a bit of a spiral scarlet. Here we see that it's more or less, this is in dense color. I think it should be more pink. In some areas, it's going to be like this. I see that my flower is really intense in color so I just can remove some. Don't be so strong, I just remove it with some water. Finishing up like this. Yes, seems really nice. We can add a bit stronger green in some areas it depends on your painting. Maybe you don't need to add any green already. Here's some leaves. I think like this, it looks really beautiful. In this area, we can add some splatters. I would add some of the same color so that to show at the back, there are some more of these bulbs. Here I have my splitters, if there are some splitters so which you are unhappy, you can remove it, but you need to act quite quickly. Let's solve this part of the painting which is really loose and abstract. I won't do anything, I will leave it the way it is because it's like feathers on our bird and our focus is the bird and [inaudible] Our painting is ready and thank you very much for painting with me. In the next lesson, I will show you how it's possible to fix something with watercolors, which you cannot remove well with water. [MUSIC] 10. Watercolor Problem Solving with a Magic Sponge: Hello, welcome back. This I would say like bonus lesson. I will show you how it's possible to correct to some level, certain level watercolors. Once you cannot remove it already with water. For this, there will be several conditions needed. First one is that you're painting because that area which you are going to correct, it should be completely dry. In my case, I'm talking about this area so that when I was correcting the shape, but because the blue color is quite staining one, it's really difficult to lift it. Let's try if we will manage to lift and to correct the shape by using some external tool. In this case, is that is this magic sponge which helps you to remove the paintings of your children from the walls. That is you need to look for this sponge. Then you can cut that area was that part which you need. Be careful because if you haven't used it when it's dry, you can break it easily so that's why be quite careful. We will need some water also before touching your painting, it's better to use on some separate piece of paper so that to see how it works and to dry. Again the conditions that this should be dry. Then you take this sponge because usually, it's quite resistant and hard. The ones you will place it in water, then it starts to be already, you can see quite soft. This part is still resisting. Let's see whether we will manage. Usually, I don't do this step, but sometimes you need to correct [LAUGHTER]. Let's see what we will manage to do. You can see that here it removes like it lifts as that color which is in that area. You can see that actually here and bit by bit, we're removing that line. Squeeze quite well water from your sponge. Here is my final painting after I have corrected that shape a bit. Generally, I usually don't do it because while correcting actually some watercolor marks as they are beautiful so that nothing is perfect. Our watercolors also aren't perfect, but they are alive because they transmit that flow of watercolors. Once you have manipulated this, also it depends on your papers that is really important as a quality of your paper. If this one is 100 percent cotton paper and it will survive this sponge. But in case if you are using a cellulose paper, what you can face is that it will start to get some small Bolsa of paper rolls. Then it tells us that, that quality of paper isn't really good and is not suitable for this trick. Once you have corrected and you are happy with your shape, I hope that you are happy without the usage of this sponge you will have to live it till to get completely dry. I'm looking forward to see your creations in the class project section [MUSIC] 11. Final Thoughts: Thank you for joining me in this class. I do hope that you have enjoyed the process and also you are happy with your results. If not, just try again, choose the reference image here which inspires you and paint is the way you feel, trying to apply the technique showed in this class. I encourage you to share your creations and possible difficulties which you have faced in the class project page and I will do my best to encourage you and support you in your art journey. I will be thankful if you could find several moments to leave a class review since this inspires me to create new classes and improve them. I'm super excited to see what you have created. If you're going to share your artwork on Instagram, please do not hesitate to tag me and to use this hashtag so that I won't miss your artwork. If you feel like, keep on exploring loose style of painting without pencil sketch. here on my channel, you will find a big collection of watercolor classes. Just [LAUGHTER] dive deeper and enjoy your watercolor practice. See you in my next class. Bye.