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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.