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Fresh and Modern Watercolors: Paint a Stunning Fruit and Floral Arrangement

teacher avatar Garima Srivastava, Artist and Illustrator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:09

    • 2.

      Your Project and Resources

      0:42

    • 3.

      Art Supplies

      3:05

    • 4.

      Painting Part 1: Watermelon

      5:14

    • 5.

      Painting Part 2: Flowers

      4:37

    • 6.

      Painting Part 3: Fillers

      6:49

    • 7.

      Painting Part 4: Leaves and the Bee

      8:29

    • 8.

      Closing

      0:27

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About This Class

Craving a creative escape? Dive into the world of watercolor painting with this quick and easy class. Learn to paintĀ a stunningĀ fruit and floral arrangement featuring juicy watermelon slices in a few simple steps. This short class is perfect for busy people who want to relax and create.Ā 

The class lessons include:Ā 

  • Art Supplies: discover the simple art supplies used to bring this composition to lifeĀ 
  • Painting: paint juicy watermelon slices, delicate flowers and filler elements in 4 short real-time lessons.Ā 

You will receive helpful resources including a sketch and color mixing chart to guide your creative process.

Although best suited for intermediate level artists, even if you are a Ā watercolor beginner lookingĀ to explore new subjects or an experienced artist just wanting to create a captivating piece, you will enjoy this refreshing class.

As the project for the class you can paint along or create something similar with fruit and flowers of your own choice.Ā 

The goal of this short and concise class is to get you to paint a beautiful composition in a relaxing manner, letting you experience theĀ Ā joy of painting botanical elements like fruits and flowers with watercolors.

For more detailed lessons on fruits and flowers do check out some of Garima's previous classes where she teaches beginner friendly ways of painting various botanical elements.Ā 

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Garima Srivastava

Artist and Illustrator

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Hello, I'm Garima.

I'm an artist and illustrator based in The Netherlands. I reconnected with my creative self a decade ago to escape the loneliness of being new in a foreign land. My artworks speak the language of joyful brush strokes and vibrant colors.

On a usual day you will find me in my home studio painting flowers, teapots, houses and cute, curly little people. I live with my husband and our sweet little daughter in a quiet village close to Amsterdam. I paint every day and share my art journey on my Instagram account (Garimasrivastava_art) through my daily posts and videos. I am often told that I make art look achievable,simple and yet beautiful.

I find inspiration from the world around me and love letting ... See full profile

Level: Intermediate

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1. Introduction: Love painting botanicals. Apart from flowers, I also enjoy painting fruits and vegetables. Since its summer, I've chosen to paint a simple fruit and flower composition with some watermelon slices. Hi! My name is Garima Srivastava. I'm an artist, illustrator, top teacher here on Skillshare and the author of "Watercolor in Ten Minute's a Day". With this intermediate level friendly bite size class, we're going to approach watercolor illustration in a step by step manner while painting simultaneously over various parts of the painting to optimize our time. In the next lessons, I'll show you the resources that I've shared for this class, along with the art supplies that I'll be using today. We will then move on to the class project, where we will be painting this beautiful composition with real time lessons that you can follow at your own pace. If you would like to explore more watercolor botanical subjects, then do check out some of my more detailed previous classes. Let's not keep you waiting too long. Grab your watercolor art supplies and join me for this short and refreshing class. 2. Your Project and Resources: You project for this class is to either paint along with me or create a similar fruit and floral composition of your own choice. I would love to see your projects here on Skillshare, so please do make sure to upload them under Projects and Resources tab. Simply click some pictures of your progress and your finish project, and you can upload them here. I provided a sketch here that you can use as a drawing reference for this composition. I usually create a very light drawing before I start painting, but feel free to take your own time to create the drawing before you start painting. I've also shared the color mixing chart and finished painting photographs for your painting reference. Now let's have a look at the art supplies I'll be using today. 3. Art Supplies: Let's have a look at the art supplies I'm using today, but please remember you do not need these exact art supplies or even these exact colors. Try to find something similar from your own art supplies and the colors that you usually use. For paper, I'm using Fabriano's hot press watercolor paper, 300 GSM in weight. I prefer painting on smooth watercolor paper, but if you like painting on cold press paper, feel free to do that for this project. This paper is eight by ten in size and bound on only one of the edges here. I've used a little piece of scotch tape to attach the rest of the paper to the cardboard here. You can also paint on a loose sheet. Simply attach it to the cardboard with some masking tape. We won't be using too much water, so you don't need to tape down all the edges. For colors, I've squeezed out my favorite watercolor tubes into this ceramic color palette. I've got my yellows, pinks, reds, a bit of orange and burnt umber for my brown here. I've got some of my blues, I'm ready to use violet, some ready to use green and some neutrals like Sepia, Payne's gray, and some ready to use Lamp Black and also a little bit of white here. I'll be mixing my colors in this ceramic plate. I'll announce what colors I'm using for my mixes. Here are the names and swatches of the colors that I'll be using today, along with some of the color mixes that we'll be creating. Please remember, you do not need these exact colors. Try to find something close and similar to these from your own color palette. For brushes, I mix my color using an old natural hair brush. For painting, I'll mostly be using my No.4 round Princeton velvet touch brush. It has a nice point. To paint the watermelon slices, you can also use a flat brush like this flat No.8. I've also got a couple of smaller brushes like No.0 round, No.2 round and 000 round brushes. To create my sketches, I'll be using my 2B pencil, and to erase the pencil marks, just a kneading eraser. I've got some kitchen paper towel here to soak up excess moisture, a paper just to test some colors, and two jars of clear water. I'll quickly create some rough guidelines on my watercolor paper for this sketch that I'm showing you here for your reference. Now, let's get started with the painting. 4. Painting Part 1: Watermelon: For watermelon, I'm going to start with some Winsor Red. You can use any orangish red that you have. I will also keep my Transparent Orange ready. And also my Permanent Alizarin Crimson ready for some deeper red. Now, using my No.4 round brush, and some Winsor Red, in medium consistency, equal amount of water and color. I'm going to start with the top add the Winsor Red, bring it down a bit. As I'm coming down, I'm going to change into Transparent Orange. Rinse my brush, pat it slightly dry and simply drag this Transparent Orange down. Rinsing my brush, patting it again, slightly, and simply drag this color with a damp brush. Going to tilt my paper a little bit upwards. I want the bottom edge to be really soft reddish orange. Just rinsing my brush, patting it slightly dry, and running this wet brush at the bottom edge. While the top is still wet, I'll pick my Permanent Alizarin Crimson and drop it up on top of this triangular shape. Keeping the page tilted like this ensures that this darker red doesn't flow down. I'm just letting these three colors intermingle wet on wet. We have deeper red upon top. Winsor red in the middle and slightly orangish red at the bottom. Let's do the same for the second one. Starting with Winsor Red changing into Transparent Orange. Using a damp brush. Let's add a bit more red. I've kept my paper a bit tilted. Our bottom edge is quite soft. While it is still, let's add some deeper red on the top. 5. Painting Part 2: Flowers: While these are drying, let's paint the flowers. For that, I'll start with some Cadmium-free Yellow. So dots in the center. I'm picking some Quinacridone Magenta. I'll add just a touch of Cadmium-free Yellow to it. A deep yellow. This is the color. Add just a bit more yellow. Now with my No.4 round brush, starting from center, with multiple brush strokes. I'll paint five or six petals. Pretty generic flower. For now, leave it like this. We'll add some texture marks on it a bit later. Let's paint the second up on top here. Starting with Cadmium-free Yellow. Pure color, not too water in my brush. Then No.4 round brush, starting from center, moving outwards and letting go. If you have a bigger brush, you'll be able to paint these petals in lesser brush strokes. Just a generic five petal flour for now. Going to take some Sap Green. With that, let's add the rind to the watermelon slices here. Being a bit careful with this one as the flower is in the front. Now I'll take some Sap Green. Add just a touch of Indigo to it. With this deeper color, I'm going to add the stripe marks. So just using the tip of the brush and moving it side to side, 6. Painting Part 3: Fillers: Now I'll pick some Transparent Orange. Add with that, I'll just paint a few filler flowers on the side here. Some one petaled or a few two or three petal flowers. One petal, and then just using the tip of the brush on this side two side petals. And I'll pick my Cadmium-free Yellow again. This time, with the medium consistency mix and my No.2 round brush, I'm going to create these fine lines on the flowers. These marks on the petals. For some of these marks, I'm using the initial pink color as well. At some places, a some yellow. This green is bleeding here. Rinse my brush, pat it slightly dry, and just pick this green out. Using a bit of kitchen paper, just pick the excess moisture so that it can stop bleeding. We can fix that later. Simply alternating between the pink and the yellow to create the fine lines. A bit of texture on these flowers. Now let's mix the greens that we need, starting with some Sap Green. I'll add some Sepia to it. For the leaves, I will start with Sap Green. Add some Burnt Umber to it. Using the Sap Green and Sepia mix, I'm going to add the stocks to all of these flowers. Using my No.2 brush. I want to add a few berries up on top here. So for that, I'll pick some. And add a few round berries and a few with just water, and then letting it touch one of my earlier painted berries, so that the color bleeds into them. I'll pick Permanent Alizarin Crimson for a few deeper color berries. So just interchanging my reds. Berries are nice elements to add to your composition. 7. Painting Part 4: Leaves and the Bee: Now let's add some leaves. I've got my Sap Green and Burnt Umber mix. Starting at the base, T, give it a bit of wiggle, and then lift, and then come back. Let's see it one more time here. give it a bit of wiggle and let go. If you want to thicken the leaf, come back. . For the berries and these flowers, I want to add some teal color leaves. For that, I've got a turquoise here. This is Pthalo Turquoise. To that, I'll add just a touch of green. With this teal color, I'll paint a few leaves. Just adding these steel colored leaves in between my composition. Now we are very close to finishing our project. Let's add a few finishing touches. Using some Sap Green and Sepia mix I'm going to create some veins on these. Using just the tip of the brush for this. Now, using that same sap green and Sepia mix, I'm going to add a few darker dots to the flowers. I'm getting tempted to paint the bee I had planned initially. For that, let's pick some Cadmium-free Yellow, number two round brush. Let's just add it here. The small mark, rinse my brush, patted it dry. And just extending it a little bit into an oval shape. Now I'm going to pick some Lamp Black. You can also pick CPR. Touching the brush against the paper to remove excess moisture. We don't want the black to completely bleed. With that, add a little head, quite concentrated black color. Dropping it also on the yellow at a few places. Adding a few little legs. Tiny antenna. Then with my number two round brush, I'll pick just a touch of Cobalt Blue. You can also use any kind of gray that you have. With that, I'll paint wings. Now, before we forget, let's add the seeds to our watermelon slices. I'm going to pick my ready to use Lamp Black. You can use any darker neutral that you have, and with my number two round brush, or if you have smaller brush, you can also use that. Just paint a few spots on the watermelon slices for the seeds. With my triple zero brush, I'm going to pick Burnt Umber and mix it with the Cobalt Blue to create a gray color. With that, I'll add a few marks on the wings of the bee here. With this, our little summer floral fruit composition is ready. 8. Closing: So happy that you've reached the end of this class. I would love to see your project, so please make sure to upload them here on Skillshare. And if you're sharing them on Instagram, you can tag me. If you enjoyed my class, you can follow me here on Skillshare to get updates about my future classes. I hope you enjoyed this short and sweet class. If you're interested in detailed classes, do check out my other classes here on Skillshare. Thank you so much for watching until next time. Stay creative.