Floral Composition that you should know

1. Intro to Floral Composition: Hi, guys. I'm Esther Peck, Altar of a right to floral watercolor. In today's lesson, I'm teaching you step by step floral composition. This is a class for everyone, whether you're new in painting or someone who has been painting for some time. Often we have no problem with pitting country. But when it comes to floral composition, our brain can go blank. So what? ISS floral composition? It is the term to describe the arrangement off the visual elements in a painting on at work . Yeah, I would get you with the seven elements of floral composition with several examples. And this class will be extra funds. As I'm giving you some botanical elements. Attack Pdf to try out different for composition. All you need to do is the printer copy and cut out the elements and tried a different composition. As I have taught you, we've practice floral composition will comes and do Show me your paintings. I really would love to see them 2. Why Floral Composition: part of this class. I'm going to teach flora composition. This is a topic that many of you have been asking often. When I teach a class a workshop, students told me this struggle so much with from a composition. Sometimes he stared blankly at the paper for several minutes just to get started. We felt pieces. Well, this don't have to happen if you learn about the seven elements off lower composition. And I'm glad to teach you today. Well, learning the pain could composition. We have to solve this problem, saving a time and people and jumping into painting this confidence, a good composition were tracking viewer to look at your painting. And don't be only attention. 3. Fun with Botanical Elements: well in this lesson I will teach you how to compose a floor painting with poor technical elements that I have prepared for you in PDS. Firstly, we have much flowers and I have prepared to and I have a psych flower. Next I have to 10 flowers. My prime relieves my second a release Over here This can be shared the leaves some share do leaves. Ben, I have my feel of flowers. So much flowers Site flowers, sunflowers prime Release Second the release shed Elise, sailor flowers. And with this elements, I'm going to form a floral composition In this fund class, we're going to compose a basic flora painting with this botanical elements that we have possible I'm going to start beef my lunch flowers. I have one to I have to lunch flowers now and I'm going to enter site flat was here toe at interests Notice that there are three flowers as I have intentionally kid toe outnumbers the rule off. What's is one off the seven elements in the floral composition that I would like to talk a little more later. Right now I'm going to bring in complementary colors next on adding in the primary leafs. And they're complementary colors red and green about complementary colors. And this is called contrast also, one off the seven elements that we would learn later. And I'm policing them in between the two lunch flowers. So whenever you have your father was pain, you were starting your big leaves here, over here in between. So this one too. So I have from relieves in between my much flowers. So three sets of so any most off my workshops. I also talk about having greens off biologists in different greens. Can you see that this is a doctor green? And this is like the green. And this definitely give more depths and interest to your painting. So but the lighter green is shows that it is further away. I mean, in some you Yeah, I just add some more suddenly bird away. And now I'm going to get into turn flowers here here. Que 2 10 flowers and Pakistan flowers. You can see a fellow. Yeah, I'm quite sure you can see the floor now And this applies to the Ruoff space. Get motion. I'm really creating some space. You looking at that? You will see that we still need something else and I like toe in my shadow leaves here. So there's a better flow to this painting. Finally, I like to add in the filler flowers she I think over here can at Eton in the flowers So we have a good balance here. This is the Rick a touch of Rick and another touch over it here and they're very rare. Balance with the flu. Let me go through with you the elements that I have here the seven elements for the floral composition. Firstly, we talk about Focal point which is thes the tree flowers and why tree we are applying to the through a lots and were you saw him the floor a reef kind of going throwing down this week and this gift motion at a symptom with the space here still a price to the rule of space. And I talk about Karlis complementary colors that give contrasts on a sore different shits beliefs are different sheets. He just at a lot of interest with this contrast, a different Kayapo sheets different angles or so is called contrast different angles off the flowers eso at lots of interest again and uh, my balance, my flowers over here so that when this is heavy, I have some drop flowers down. So it's kind of balance and we've been beats complimentary leads, prime release and Phillies Having them joining up gives unity to the whole floor painting. Last but not least. And we talk about Ruoff hurts. I have this great smack into nine equal greets. And you can see that at this point, way into set it is where the focal point is. Yeah, you can see that it's this way. This is where the focal point is and this is called a rule of cuts. We're taught more in depth in our little lessons. 4. Let's Focus First: In our previous lesson, we talk about the seven elements for a successful floor painting composition. Let's that this focal point firstly are painting is to have a focal point. That's how isil lead us to the most important thing. Awful good point in a pin T we don't get the view is really lost and quickly lose interest in a painting. So let's look at this painting. And when you look at this bookie, tell me what catches your eyes? I hope you see what I see the details of this lunch English rose I would draw your attention to west of Cape. I mean, I spy some Clinton when I pinned this. This is the most to part off the painting and this is the focal point. When you look at this English Rose, you would then see the surrounding the Barry's, the Leafs, the prime release on the filler leaves and everything come together. So we're talking about focal point. But this painting, namely test you put next few paintings. Okay, we just your focal point. I'm quite sure we can see this. That our focal point this time it's actually all these flowers and the minute I look at this painting, my eyes zoom into these flowers and even for these, the very attractive colors Let my eyes look at all these flowers right again for this focal point tree flowers which is very similar to what I showed you earlier, all in my flora arrangement. In my previous lesson, let me show you some of these other reefs that I've done. The Christmas reef and my four Kozma on each floor a refis, the whole lease here. So it's definitely here. Here I have my cotton ball flowers. So is here and again for this one. This is whole secular one. I have my holies again and definitely here the Christmas, but is my focal point. So in other four breweries, you know, which is the focal point is very distinctive. And I have peace all this on my oh paintings and to tell you the through when I'm painting all these, I didn't really think so hard about my seven elements. I just kind of it just kind of come automatically and I just pin and it just come out. Three flowers and a focal point here. So if that's one element that you need to remember is about focal point. You must know what you want your viewers to look it. This is every some painting. And when I start with this floor Ary I wanted to show my pew knees, so I have to puny Zia. And I balanced them before this. Yeah, the small up Younis at the other end. So this is still my focal point. So remember, Focal Point is one off the men elements that you need to learn. We have six more elements. 5. Create Balance: The next element that we talk about is called balance. A balance painting that's not need to be symmetrical. In this painting, I use different sizes of elements the balance, the secular REITs. I have a deport and a teacup the way Okay, way heavier to sit on the bottom off the reef. And these are the smaller elements. And they're pretty related because it's like a tea party. And I have tea cups. I have a teapot. I left. My car is a flower. I'm trying to say that I'm having a tea party in a garden. And so I have these macaroons and flowers and mine filler flowers and paler leaves surround this wish. So this is a very well balanced design, and I use a touch off like ruin the center to bring the whole painting united them together , even without this is fine. Yeah, So this is just a classic example. What? We talk about balance. Even if I don't have the steeple. Just imagine if a heavy or around it was still looked very balance. But with this wing down here, yeah, I maker, I kind of create a very interesting tea party 6. Be United: The next element that I want to talk about is unity. My unity remanded a refueling connected. So there are eyes Can flu from a focal point to the secondary elements. It also means choosing complementary floors in this case is the pureness to ensure that the re or design cohesive when put together. Earlier on in this teapot and two cup design, I talk about complementary elements which are this the macron's, the flowers, the Berries and I got them together to form this tea party. Even for these painting, I have different, kind off flowers. They are still under the rose. This is the English rules and these are just loses and some puny this year and having them group together with similar colors, the painting looks pretty united and very pleasing and appealing to look it and for this reef to I have similar Kyle. Open flowers balance and form in unity. I have the leaves. Do you like them together? So unity is another element that you might have to remember in this painting, which I also talk about in my cherry blossom class. I have the Preach one to join up the whole painting and so you wouldn't look that car. The cherry blossom is hanging in the air. Yeah, even for these the same And the branches. So unity is pretty important too. 7. Contrast is not just about Colours : the four elements that we like to talk about This contrasts contrast come in terms of sizes , colors, angers and ships of elements. And this at a lot of interest to your painting in colors. We talk about complementary colors. So you see, in this color wheel we have great and green, red and green are complementary. So you see that any flowers arrangement red and green when go wrong, because our roses always come with the reefs. So in this con trusting, this is so but a being even for here. My contrast is about the size is I have a lunch flower and I had these rose that is turning to us one site. So I have different angles, and so and wonder is facing the front in this painting, we're talking about colors. We're talking about the sizes with camera angles and also the shape even for these two, your C. I have two roses that's pointing looking at me and one is theater site site, and one is so you're pointing another way. So again, for this painting, we talk about the different sizes, the Carless, the angles and the shape in this painting. Yeah, you'll see that I have the friendship again. My fly was are not all phasing me one is facing me. And then this one is pointing that site and one is coming this way. And eso I have different size again. Different colors the ship again for this reef. You see that? This, uh, there's lots of flowers here, but yet having this contrasting the colors are not very contrasting, but with a lot of different size. Er's you see the flowers, it looks messy and yet it looks united with the contrasts. You see that I have some feel of flowers here, and my flowers are all different anger. And it's with this different shapes and sizes that make the whole glory looks very interesting. And I have one more sample. This is also about complementary colors. In my color wheel, you can see I have violet, brick, violet and green. So with this complementary colors, the contrast is there awful. I important So but you miss out one. I think it's still okay, but it was definitely a lot of value to your painting 8. Appealing Odds: It's good to be back. And now we are at the fief room. Karhu off. What's a painting? Usually looks more appealing when there's an art number off subjects. It is interesting to know that we are more attractive toe uneven composition. Look at this painting. They're Fife roses there. If I were to remove one, I said this, I don't know. It just looked like is not complete. And perhaps that's what I had a site Flubber. Here. Let's see more examples, and it's very interesting to know that when I'm painting all these flowers somehow I just at an extra flour. I didn't really have this rule off what's in mine, but it just come to me that one extra flowers looks better. So in this composition I have to lunch on one small pureness. There's lots of examples. Interesting recall these more. What's and for this is so I have 123 and the rest are feel of flowers. The puny is that I've done quite recently, these two, and when you're looking at all this may be your thing off. Some off the elements that we have learned, though I have the rule. What's off three flowers. You can see that they are also at different angles. We may come back to this painting again similarly, for this three pureness but different angles which applied to our contrast rule. Once again we have this three again. If I had to, I think it's just not balance. So I have one more and in this painting I have three again. Interestingly, if you just cover up one, it kind of looks so interesting, right? And by looking at this again, you thing off my other elements that I have spoken to with you and this I have three mean flowers. This one. I can really consider us number four because it's very freed it and is turning one site. So this is still applied to my Ruoff. What's I have a lot of examples, So usually I pain in threes really fine and really one already seven. So it's usually tree flowers. So again, there's three here, and I embarrassed them with the Berries for this one, and you should their sets off three again when I have three of three sets offer from relieves and a tree sets off for second. The release and tree sets of their recent losses. So they're pretty, very balanced and very safe. In this composition, they receive back to a very safe composition again. So you see that I always pain with these composition tree flowers. Three primary leaves. Three second The release. In this case, I have black. Only two Scylla. Puny butts. Yeah, and as I say, very rarely. I have one for how would so for this one I have a puny a very lunch purely here. And I balance them with smaller flower, small up your knees and some distance. One shadow. So it's still look balance. And this is still my focal point. Yeah. And also I mentioned. Okay, look at this. This this base has done a very, very long ago when I was planning to paint my pure knees. Yeah, so it's really called a circular flow reef. And yet I start beef the center, and I have one bottom and to balance. So I have three, and then you have your mean Do you see it over here? And then I just at some Berries. So it's still applied to rule pots. OK, lastly, I'm going to show you this. Look at this painting, which I have done. Yeah, I think several years ago, maybe three years ago on. And maybe I put it this way. Am I looking at this? There's only two flowers. And I was learning at that speech. I was I was learning how to pin the flowers, and I wasn't really kind of thinking much about the composition. So this piece, I kind of like this piece, But I just know that something is missing. So what Today, when I was teaching about Ruoff, What's I look at it again? And I think Look what happened. If I add in a touch flower, let me see. Russia Position? Yes, you by position it here and earlier on we have the usual. I have my Justin want to make it too heavy. If I have this Prem release year. Okay, I'm going to make it a lot stronger. My painting, the tree flowers and okay, I'm not gonna make it to complicate, because it really doesn't have to be too complicated. I just at you some ball secondary release. And even without the Phelan flowers, I think I'm quite then with ease. Three flowers. And if I want toe in Mr Stewart Heavy and think it's still baby. I think we are done with just having three flowers and on some more lease. Yeah, yeah. You see what I mean? Right, But learning about your composition really have you to pin a lot better, so I hope you'll come back for two more elements. 9. Space or no Space: in this lesson way we're going to talk about Ruoff space. Look at this painting. I have space over here and living space in just painting creates a sense of motion. And I like that This flowers are hanging this way instead of showing a full hatch off roses . So you could imagine that this is just portion off a garden instead of this. That is full. I just portion not a certain portion off the flowers to pain like this. So I'm pretty happy with these because I was experimenting with a lot off site flowers and finally I come up with something like this and even this some flowers that is just hanging down. And I was actually referring to a garden of roses, but I just kind of picked up this portion to pain. So even this Yeah, the rule of space applied his e this way. You can feel that this is part off the roses. This hanging from a a tree? Yeah. So we have space here is they're appealing to look at another seven or so. Yeah, I have space around for my least at work. Yeah, any kind of give you the feeling that the pureness are actually growing. Yeah, from different angles. I'm not sure you can feel it. Yeah. So there's another sample. Also instead, off pending everything food instill for yeah, at all. You know, I have a little bit of space here in still fully packet three flying drawing. I create this illusion that that is portion off fruit garden. Yeah. So this a nada kind of example is having it in full. Which means my this rule off spaces that I have them fill up totally. Yeah. And, uh, the impacts that you look at it. It's a full pingtan like this. And I have this rose garden sometimes basis in between you. Yeah, that's still you could see that a food garden flowers are growing. And for this one, Yeah, I kind off used illustrator to in the flowers, not giving much species. Yeah, So this also applied to my roof space, but I kind off leaving out the space to create a fool Rose garden with strawberries. Yes. So I hope you to learn about this to rule space 10. The Winning Rule: Finally, we come to the last element Call rule of tits. And I usually pain my paintings in a full or a Fife. So I kind offer divide my this tracing paper into nine equal segments and the equal so and you're too vertical lies and to horizontal lines. So I have this and same for this. And so okay, this rule often school this week. I'm just giving this simple again using these just the e five size and the intersection off . You see this point and this point into, say, it's where the focal point is? Just mind for cut flowers somewhere here. Okay. All right. So this is called Dwarfed Its where your folk appointees again. I have talked about this in mind, Jerry Brothel purse, But have some of you haven't really seen it? Oh, heaven watched the class. But again, you see, when this industry is either this being the focal or these air So where these other in the same way set. So it kind of attract us to peace and full a bigger one. You looked at my focal point in the section issue here, and this, like cherry blossom, is the focal point. I can't give you a lot more samples. Very interesting to take note that you see over here thinks is where sometimes it's not like so accurately must be as second, But roughly it is somewhere one took area. This is where my focal point is. So over here again I have this area of focus for hours. Over here, my pure knees. This one this stick unions here is where the folk appointees there Loss of seven birth. It's trying to pick up more to show you. Yeah, again this lunch one and a good. Even when you're looking at all these impulse you remember the six other elements I talk about, uh, tree and a tree to more here. Five. I find flowers, you see So we talk about the rules of arts and applied to hear again the Ruoff that's and the folks up I again over here you can see at least a few points. Let's test you. Can you remember all the or the elements? He says The elements off often it's here rule us Ruoff space. Where there's a movement, you see the movement and contrasts the colors, complementary colors and I used the branch to link them up without the leaves were low fruiting. So I have a unity in this painting. Yeah, and let me see if there's anything I myself basically, I think this is This is what I've been talking about, right? So, in looking at a painting, we have to remember a few points. And besides the lunch for our I have a few smaller flowers to balance the pity. Yeah, Again, Let's look at this. Some are not there. Obvious some off the painting. Yeah. Okay. This slightly bigger. So you will see that this is where the wolf that's apply. Where my foot girls Over here. Some of them are very obvious. You will see you look at it, you know? So I have it here and here. The two. Yeah. So you off instead of printing everywhere or tight. I have I showed the movement again. Yeah, and must be one of the small piece that I did. Although they are quite scepter. Yeah, but it's still a very appealing piece. Look at because they look at because I think I have all the elements. They had less check complementary colors for the contrast. Let's check. Arrange? Yeah, I had this, uh, orangey go is a bit of the blue green. Yeah, over here. Some of the points over here undress and my focus. Yeah, Over here. This is my focus. So bifocal pine through Ruoff is here and unity I have my leaves to join them up together. Contrast we talk about really rule of space I have the space So you see that? Uh, yeah, the fueler leaves are falling and it can give you the movement. Yeah, I'm not sure. Can you feel it? And yeah, we talk about Ruoff. That's already. And Ruoff, lots less Car off flowers? Yes, five flowers. So whichever painting you look that you just pick any painting that you have done before and you try out using this seven elements that talk you and see if you can improve on them . 11. Do we pass the test?: So we have finished all the seven elements to form a floral painting. And, uh, I'm just going to great, like any contains that. I heard that I talked about earlier on and see if I have all the seven elements in one painting, because earlier on, I was talking about one painting focus on just one element. But right now we're talking about if all the seven elements are here. Okay, let's look at this month. Element one is focus. So I'm not sure you can see what my focus are definitely is like this. And this year, zoom in. So this is the focal and, uh, actually applies to the rule off. It's also because where this intersect, missus, my focal and bread is in the side. It's my focus. So I have two elements done on, and they're pretty balanced because I have two big and one small flowers to balance it. And with the prime relieves and the second release the balance this painting. Okay, so we talk about I have three elements and, of course, unity because they're all Puritans and their united as a painting by the Leafs. And yeah, we talk about contrasts So in this painting we have complementary colors. We talk about complementary colors. Red and green are complementary. You see, I have an orangey and a little bit off turquoise. I have orangey or so against the green. So I have five off mine elements here, ready and well off space. In this case, it's not really applicable because I have my painting mainly in the center. I don't really have too much off the space. Yeah, So rafters we talk about ready and Ruoff lots. Of course. We have three flowers. So out off the seven elements. I have six elements in this painting. Yeah, So this painting past the floral composition, I pass it. Yeah. Okay, so that's another one that I want. Toe pick up toe. Just check on. Okay. Again. A focal in this painting, it looks like all the tree flowers up here is my phone cooks. Yeah. Here. Here. Yeah. So they just can't live together. So focus and I have okay, lesson for course. And I have ruled parts, which is three flowers in two, and I'm using a lot of like or that very bright colors, and they're all kind of complementary again. I have a ray arrange, you see, or this complementary, complementary and okay, mostly. And, uh, yeah. So all the colors of their complementary. And so I had the contrasts and different angles. Or so you know. Yeah. Different colors. Yeah. And off course with the pure knees, Altria pureness. And they're all linked together by my lips. Yes, by my lease. And in this case, I have the Ruoff space over here. Yeah, to show that this flowers are too. That's a kind of a Mothman here. Yeah. So, uh, Ruoff does weak operating. So, uh, this painting, I think I have seven up off seven elements or here. So again, I think he's spending past my floral composition. I just think one more. Yeah. We can go on and on. And so Yeah, let's check of you. Okay. Last battery for four. Car. So struggle where you see this. Three flowers catch my eye straight away when I put you here, and Okay, these are open takes, so it's quite a good get even when I have this great things that I wasn't really thinking so much off the for a composition by just kind off. Oh, happen. You know when you pain freely sometimes. Yeah. Right. So again, over here rule after threw off arts Ruoff space You feel that this beef stock size moving the right? Yes, a Ruoff space Destry History rules you will remember quite well. And again our contrast of colors, complementary colors. I use a different kind off lease. You see some lunch leaves, um, longer lease contrast. And it makes this painting very interesting. And again, I have them united. You know, I have the leaves in between your instead of like, falling it here. I had them all kind of pinter in between the flowers and I have the Barry's to kind of Habito connect together. So I have the unity. I have the balance and after focus again, I have seven up off, seven off the elements in my spending. So again, I passed the stairs, so I would like you to, actually. Oh, look at your painting. I mean, both can think that you have done sometimes It may not really have that elements, but sometimes it does. Look, they're pleasing to the eyes were appealing. Like this one. I, uh I don't really have the space you know, full batter I still like Is Clinton. Yeah, because, uh, I wanted to show a full guidance, but there are times when I wanted to show just Oh, some flowers hanging in this way. Yeah. So becomes the ball with what you're doing your composition. And right now, I hope that toe you finish this class B for better knowledge off how you campaign a floor painting so that when you have a blank paper like this, you know how to stop. So remember, I have given you this elements attach, and you can actually print them out. And you cut it up. You try to place them, play with them Sometimes you may want to Oh, let's say basis a full peace. Yeah, just try. I mean, we can't always have a different beast. So sometimes I please it this week. Okay, Let it drop this way. And not every time. It's going to be the same. Not everything. Okay, let me see. Maybe I decided to have my this flower here and some filler flowers. Drop this Me and some shadow lis. Shadow lives just here. Just here. So again for this painting it's a small off but a cup of you? Yeah, Small vertical. I have actually one sec and, uh, even we don't. This is possible at anyone you see. You hear you can on some and have peace. It's kind of quite four thing. I'm quite happy with Freemen. Flowers on a site flour And having believed this way, yeah. So have fun creating your flora reef composition. Using my elements have to play with them That probably can help you flower painting. So do show me your composition. I hope to see your pity.