From Frustration to Mastery: Painting Beautiful Roses in Watercolor

1. Introduction: When I started my Flores Watercolors your knees six years ago, I was captivated by the elegance of process and eagerly wanted to learn how to paint them. The delicate petals, vibrant colors, and the graceful strokes used to paint them were simply irresistible. However, despite countless attempts and dedicated practice, my Africa failed to capture the beauty of roses. And to be honest, it was an incredibly frustrating experience. Hello there, My name is Jenny Flores. I'm a Creative Coach and artist and a Skillshare top teacher from the Philippines. Over the past six years, I have had the privilege of teaching thousands of students, both in-person and online. My artistic works primarily revolve around botanical subjects, such as bouquets, reads, and various floral arrangements. Like many of you, I understand it. Frustration when it comes to trying to paint process in a loose painting style. More often than not, they end up looking like cabbages loves or something completely unidentifiable. I've been there too. That's the reason why I have developed Simple step-by-step techniques to help you learn how to paint those stunning roses you've always wanted. Plus, we'll be using vintage shades of color to add a romantic and visually pleasing to your paintings. This class we will explore six different demo compositions. Will begin with easy to follow artworks that gradually build your knowledge, boost your confidence, and enhance your patients when painting roses. After that, we'll dive into more intricate compositions that will teach you how to combine multiple flowers in a single Art. Finally, we'll tackle complex arrangements that include Roses of different shapes, sizes, and angles in a well-balanced Rose watercolor. Painting, roses in a loose style is truly challenging. At times, even frustrating. However, it is also undeniable that mastering this particular flower is truly rewarding. Once you've learned the techniques of painting roses, you'll find that painting other flowers become considerably easier. This class is designed to be beginner friendly. So whether you're a frustrated artist or someone who has never held a brush before, you're most welcome to join us in this artistic journey. What are you waiting for? Pick up your brush and let's get started. 2. Class Project Overview: Just like many of you, I know how frustrating it can be to paint roses in a loose style. They often ended up looking like cabbage gloves or something unrecognizable. Believe me, I've been there too. That's why I've created Simple Steps to help you learn how to paint those Beautiful Roses you've always wanted. On our first lesson, we will paint a simple rose flower from a Top View surrounded by a couple of leaves. We will focus on understanding the flower shape using the right strokes and achieving the right color consistency. Moving onto the second lesson, we will learn how to create Simple Composition and combine multiple flowers in one artwork. Get ready for the third lesson, because in here, we are going to uncover the secrets of creating a beautiful rose wreath. Here we will explore painting a Half Wreath. Discover how to Art fully mixed two different types of roses in a single frame. The fourth project is all about painting a Full Wreath. This is a lesson you don't want to miss because we, we'll dive into proper subject placement and learning how to achieve a balanced arrangement by adding fillers. For our fifth lesson, we will have a bit of a break and learn a simple way to paint arrows inside view. As we reached the sixth and final lesson, we will take on the challenge of painting a full bouquet of flowers. This is a benchmark difficult, but don't be afraid because by following along with me, you'll surely grass the different rows angles we've learned on the previous lessons. You have two options for taking the lessons. You can either watch one lesson free day or go at your own pace, whatever works for you, as long as you give your full attention to the topics that we will discuss. Once you have completed the lessons, you can upload your project in the project and resource section. This is where I can provide you some feedback and a place where you and your classmates can support each other. Please note that the Skillshare's review and project upload features are only available on the web, not on the app. I'm incredibly excited and passionate to share these topics with you. So let's dive in and get started. 3. Supplies: This section, I will walk you through the different supplies that we will be using for this class. Let's begin with colors. We will have six project for this class. So that means we will have a lot of colors to make all our projects lovely and pleasing to look at. Before I forget if you want to alter some of the color combinations for the paintings that we will do. It feel free to do so for this class, I will specifically use the following colors. Petersburg, ocher, hematite, thin, brown ocher, maroon, raw, umber, shadow, green, undersea green Catholic more to green earth and indigo. I will be using a couple of brushes from Silver Brush limited in different sizes for our projects. And while I'll be using different brushes in this class, you are not required to have them all to complete our project. Okay, So for the brushes, I'll use silver black velvet, round in size 246.8. For the paper, I will use the bowel Academy watercolor paper in different sizes. Painting using watercolor, it is important to have some tissue paper nearby, as well as a cup of water so you can clean your brush easily when changing colors. Last is a mixing palette. I use a ceramic palette because it's easier to clean. But a plastic palette we'll do. Now that you know the supplies that we will use. Let's go and start painting 4. Painting a Top View Rose: For our first lesson, we're going to study the basic structure of a rose and Top-View. We will learn to write strokes, the perfect watercolor ratio for each layer and the right timing and adding your next move. This is a very important part of the class, so I hope you'll take time to watch this one. By the end of this lesson, we will be painting this simple Rose artwork surrounded by a couple of leaves. I'm sure you're excited to paint, so let's begin. When painting a rose, you need a concentrated mixture of the color of your choice. I chose this color called cap with Martin from them scale. But let's run. This is the shaded I will use for the center of my Rose. I'm using a size two round brush for my core. And we're just going to create small C strokes. Will also combine a little bit of thin curvy lines to make sure there's a lot of detail in the center of a rose. As you notice, the strokes that we are creating are getting bigger as we go further away from the first stroke that we initially created. Continue creating until you've reached the desired size of your core or the center. Once you stop creating the core, get a clean wet brush and soften the edge of the last strokes that you have created. The next strokes we're going to use a less concentrated mixture of the same color. Less concentrated but still pigmented. Here I'm creating bigger C strokes and longer thin strokes, and I'm using a size six round brush for this one. I switched to a bigger brush because it's easier to create bigger petals with this one. Now, on my third brush, which is a size eight round brush, I'm going to create even bigger strokes. And this time I'm going to combine another stroke called N stroke. It's Lexi strokes, but a little bit more curvy. So basically what we're doing here is just a combination of C strokes and strokes and thin strokes. Before we proceed in adding the details, let's have a recap. First. First step in painting a rose is to create the core or the center of the rows. We're gonna do that way, creating small C strokes in combination of thin strokes using a small brush and a concentrated mixture of the color of your choice. The next part, we're going to create a medium-size strokes. And here we are using a less concentrated but still pigmented strokes. And here we're going to create C strokes, thin strokes, and end strokes. Our layers now dry. Now let's add the details to our rules. Freezing either concentrated mixture of your color. Then on the color up the petals, we're adding more concentrated mixture and we're going to add C strokes again like this. Using a clean, wet brush. We're going to soften the strokes that we have initially created to create that hombre effect. This will create a very soft look on the shadows that we have initially created. The finished off, let's add the leaves in painting the leaves just makes undersea green and a little bit of Van **** brown using a size eight round brush. I'm just going to drag my brush to create a leaf-like shape. One more leaf here, one more at the top. You can place your leaf anywhere you want, since this is just a practice. But later on I'm gonna teach you the perfect and safe spaces where you can please your leaves. As my final detail, I'm going to add thin strokes in my leaves. This is just an extra detail and totally not necessary. That's it. That's how we paint a Top View Rose. So you can re-watch this video if you want to practice more. But if you're already and you're ready to go, we can now start painting our first composition in the next video, I'll see you there. 5. Painting a Simple Composition: Now that we're done learning how to paint fruit in Top-View, it's time to learn how to combine a couple of these Roses in one composition. This lesson, I'm going to share with you some tips on where to place the next flower and where to add the leaves. Let's go and start the lesson. For this project, we will be using the same type of paper, which is 100% cotton, cold press, watercolor paper. We are also going to use the same brushes, which are round brushes and size it six into. To start the painting process, we need to plan the positioning of our flowers. I decided to add one rose in the upper left of my composition and another one in the center. And the last one will be at the lower right. Let's begin our first Rose. As we have studied, we are going to paint the center of the rules for is I'm using a size two round brush here. And for the color, I have the caplet mortem from White Nights navs guy, but I just created the combination of C strokes, thin and thin strokes to create the top petals effect on my flower. Then for the next layer, I use a lighter shade of the same color and I switch to a bigger brush, which is size six, and still creating C strokes here. And as you can see, the strokes that I'm creating are generally lighter compared to the ones that are used for the center of my Rose. I'm also including something rounded strokes in-between to create an effect that I have a few dark petals in-between. Now I switch to a bigger brush, which is size eight, to make it easier for me to create bigger petals. Same procedure will be done. Great see strokes and combine a little curvy and strokes in some areas. Now I'm back to the size two and this time I'll be adding depth to my rose by getting a more concentrated mixture of gap with more dome and adding some thin strokes in the color of my petals. Another reminder is to make sure to not overdo this part of painting so your Loose will still look soft and natural. If you're not yet sure if it's already the right time to add depth to your Rose. Here's the formula. Either the first layer is 100% dry already or it's a little cold. Any of the two, as long as it's not completely wet to avoid bleeding of the color. Alright, we are done with their first Rose. It's now time to move on to our second rose. In here. I am using the color raw umber. And let's start painting. We'll begin by doing the center of the rose again. So smalls the strokes, then slowly add pressure as you go further away from the center. I'm switching my size, my brush to size six, and let's create bigger strokes. What I personally love about Painting roses is that as you create them more often, you get to discover better ways to paint them wherever you learn today, I'm sure it won't stop here. That's just the beginning of your wonderful journey with roses. It's so much easier for me to paint roses or any round flowers when I turned my papers. So I think it is good if you'll try this technique as well. So I am adding more petals to make sure that this yellow Rose will be close to the pink one. This is one of the best ways to avoid awkward spacing. Because if there's a big space between your first Rose and the second rose, it will be hard for you to fill in that space. So make sure to just make the to rose too close together or add a lot of petals to your second row. So the two of them will connect. Time to add depth to or yellow ruse using a concentrated mixture of raw umber and my size two round brush. Let's add a few strokes to the color of my petals. You may also soften your strokes by brushing it with a wet, clean brush Add strokes with make sure to make it bigger. S your petals getting bigger as well. I'm done with the yellow rose and I'm going to let it dry for awhile. Now, going back to our first flower, I notice that the depth I created became lighter. We just By the way, normal with Watercolor acids, rice, I decided to create another layer of depth to my flower. I'm just doing the same method here. Concentrated of Catholic more tone than softening the strokes with a clean, wet brush. Let's start with after droves. I'll be you sync up with mortal again for you this, as you can see, there's a nice combination of colors. Light pink, raw umber, and then light pink again, this is one way of creating a well-balanced composition, especially when it comes to color combination. If you're not yet sure on how you can combine different colors when painting roses. You can refer to our last session, last project of this class, which is the class project number six, where I will be to how to choose the perfect color combination for Your Composition. I hope you're having a great time painting now. If you're feeling like you're Rose, doesn't look like a rose at the moment. It's okay. Don't feel discouraged over time. When you kept on doing the C strokes. You'll develop muscle memory and creating software strokes will be easier for you. Just keep painting and keep creating. I'm using size eight now. And as you notice, my car is too small and I will be correcting that. So if you also made a mistake like this, just wait, because L22, how to correct this mistake? Make sure to make your third rose too close to your first show so there won't be any awkward space. Alright, As you notice, again, the center of my Rose is too small. Now we're going to correct this by adding more darker strokes in the center. So it's as if we are re-creating the center of our Rose. Okay, So as you notice, I added a little bit more so that it will be balance on the size of my Rose. It's now time to add depth to the rest of the petals. So I'm using size eight round brush. Again. We are almost done with our main subject is a little bit more details for our last flower here. And now we are done and it's time to add the leaves. I use a very light mixture of undersea green from Daniel Smith. For the first few leaves that we will create, I decided to add the big light leaves on the important areas phrase. That is, those areas with to roses in-between and some of the outer part of the Composition. I use a lighter shade of color. So when I add the details later, they will still be visible. Let's add also here. And some smaller leaves in this areas. Using a mixture of shadow green and undersea green, I will add smaller leaves to create a little bit of bleeding on the leaves that we have initially created. If you're not familiar with the bleeding technique, you can do it by adding another stroke bedside and initial stroke that is still wet. I'm using size eight round brush here to create a combination of thin lines and small leaves. Yes, a size eight round brush, which is considered a big brush for Vague leaves, but I'm able to create small details like small leaves because the brush that I am using is a very nice pointed tip brush. So with less pressure, I can still get smaller brush and finer strokes. Let's finish our composition by adding more darker leaves to adapt to the overall painting. I hope you're painting is looking nice there because I am very proud and happy of what my painting looks like at the moment. Can add a lot of extra details here. So random lines. This is my favorite part when painting flowers, I feel like it adds a lot of dramatic effect and a Composition. And I also love using a team mixture, which is a very light mixture of color for this type of effects so that it won't overdo or it won't overshadow the main subject of the painting. And that is it for our Simple Composition. Let's go to the next topic, which is Painting, reads 6. Painting a Half Wreath: Reads are one of the best artwork that you can paint with roses. This round shape Garland, usually filled with flowers and foliage, as something that is so irresistible to paint using Watercolor. For the next two lessons, we will learn how to paint a well-balanced read composition. I'll guide you with a step-by-step process from planning, choosing colors, and of course, the actual painting. Let's start with the Half Wreath. For this project, we will start with our main subject, which is the Rose, followed by the general shape of the wreath, then the secondary subjects, which are the rose buds. And then we will finish it by adding the details. For our main subject, I'll use the color maroon from left Skype Elektra. And we will start with the center of the rows first. So I'll be creating the core using a concentrated mixture of my color. Then I'm going to switch my brush to a size six round brush to create a bigger petal. As usual, this is just a combination of C strokes, thin curved strokes and N strokes. Just play with these strokes, but be careful not to overdo it. And at the same time, be carefree. Be mindful of the source that you're creating. Make your strokes loose yet control the size of your flowers so that it won't look imbalance. I'm going to switch to a bigger brush this time. And it's going to be size eight. So I can create bigger petals. While my layer is still cold, meaning not too wet yet not too dry. I'll add a bit of depth to my rose by creating strokes in the color of my petals. Just a little. I don't want to overdo this as I'll add more details later on anyway. While waiting for my initial layer to dry, I'm now going to add the leaves. I just mix undersea green and Van **** brown. And here I'm just dragging my brush to create a leaf-like image. When creating a leave, I don't really do it in a clean way. I just dumped my brush or painted loosely, because in this style of painting, as long as you made something green, it will always be perceived as a leave. So you don't really need to define your stroke that much. Now it's time to make the general shape of our Wreath using a very, very light mixture of green. I'll paint some leaves and follow the pencil guide that I initially created. I'm going to leave some space for the rose buds, which we're going to paint after this. Now it's time to paint the rose buds using raw umber. I'm going to paint the rose bud here. This is very easy. Just paint the top part using a slanted thin stroke and then drag your brush to paint the buddy. I left a bit of whitespace to represent some Highlights. We're going to repeat it on this side this time. As you can see, we are done with the general shape of our wreath already. However, it looks flat and lifeless. And that's where the details will come in. For my first, the did I make some more concentrated mixture, green and brown to create the darker tone leaf. I made this to create an illusion that some leaves are at the back part, which is represented by the lightest shade of green. And some are in the middle, which is represented by these greens. And also somewhere in front, which I will paint on a darker shade of green later on. Just adding leaves on different areas. As you can see, there's a nice bleeding of green on my petal. This is a nice effect that you can also add the new recreation. I'm not literally painting over my initial layer. I just want some areas to be covered, but also I want some areas to be visible still Finishing off here. Now on my darkest shade of green and mix more green to create this shape. And same thing, I'm spreading this color all over my composition to create depth. Adding more greens here. Be carefree guys because the more you control your hand, the more it won't look natural. Okay, now let's add the details for a rose bud, I'm going to use a very concentrated mixture of raw umber and just add the details here. Simple, right? So I'm going to add another one on this rose bud. Very subtle detail because this is just a secondary subject. Now to our main event, the rose, I'm mixing a concentrated mixture of maroon and using a small brush, which is number two round brush, we're going to redefine our core forest. With that means is we're gonna create another set of core as if we're going to put it on top of the first one that initially, we initially created, because one we initially created is a bit lighter. Now, as you can see, Watercolor, when it dries up, it gets a little bit lighter. So it's very important to add another layer every time if you want to redefine something, adding C strokes here. So now I'm going to soften these strokes using a clean wet brush. As you can see, the heart edges are gone now. So continue adding details until you've added depth on all the areas. We're just painting one big rose here, so this one is very easy. Also guys do not overdo your depth added on some areas, but not on all areas. Because if you're Rose might look like a run-on colors. If you did a lot of depth. We aren't done. And we have a very beautiful rose here. I'm very excited to see what you have created. So please upload your project or the project and resource section so I can see it and then I can give feedback to thank you so much and I'll see you on our next topic. 7. Painting a Full Wreath: Okay, we're done with their half wreath. Now it's time to create a Full Wreath Composition similar to the half one, creating a full wreath requires proper planning, right? Color combination, and a good timing when it comes to layering. In this lesson, we will paint this beautiful Rose full wreath that you can use to add some quotes or message inside. Let's beginner lesson by knowing the colors that you will use. For our Full Wreath. I will use raw, umber, brown, ocher, green, earth and shadow green. For the brushes. I'll use the same round brushes in size to 6.8. And then for the paper, I'll use again the bow hang seven by 10 " cold press watercolor paper. As I've mentioned, into Half Wreath lecture, it is very important to create a guide when painting a Wreath to help us know where to place our elements. It sets or boundary. When painting. I used a small bowl as my guide and just lightly mark my paper with a pencil and create a full circle. After drawing my guide, I erase it a little with a kneaded eraser. The mark won't be very visible later when I paint over it. It's time to paint our first Rose, as you have seen in our Overview photo, I will be placing three roses in the lower part over wreath. And to do that, I will be painting the middle rose as the first flower on our 3D. It's easier to balance the distance of the elements when we start with the main subjects of decomposition. And when you have multiple subjects, just like what we are going to have in our Wreath. It is always good to choose to paint the one in the middle first. Let's add bigger strokes here. Remember to add pressure and the brush when creating bigger strokes. Be creating really big rose for this composition since we have limited space. So I'm going to close my rose here. Let's go and add some depth to our flower using a concentrated mixture of raw umber. I'll be adding a few strokes in-between my petals. Now softening the edge of each stroke by brushing it with a clean wet brush. And voila, we are done with their first flower. Let's start with the next one. And this time I'll use the color brown ocher from Magellan. This color is also similar to raw umber, but It's more on the golden brown shade rather than yellow tone. If you notice, I'm going further rusty color palette on this one. This is actually a safe color combination when painting a Composition. Get to colors similar to each other and play with them. Throw off some greens, and you have a well colored artwork. Adding some big petals. I place my second Rose close to my first one, so I won't need to make extra big battles. Remember, we have limited space here since we're painting a lot of Flowers. Time to add depth. As per usual, I'll be adding depth to my rose by getting a more concentrated mixture of brown ocher and adding some thin strokes and the color of some of the petals, softening the edge of the strokes using clean water. Then with R2 roses, two more to go. Let's start the core of a rose using our size two round brush. By the way, I'm using brown ocher again for this one. Just paint small C strokes. At this point a, notice that the strokes I made for the petals were too big. The jump from the core to the big battles was so fast that they're wearing any medium-size petals as a transition. But that's okay. Later on, I'll show you the way on how we can correct roses like this. Let's add depth to a rose. It's still wet. So let's go back to our free views roses first. Since our first two roses or dried-up already, I notice a slight feeding on the depth that I initially created. I will now re-establish that depth by adding concentrated mixture of colors on the color of my petals. I'm gonna do the same for my raw umber Rose. Now it's time to go back and fix our third Rose. Since it's completely dry, I will repaint the center of my rose with a concentrated mixture of brown ocher. Then to create an illusion of smaller petals, which I wasn't able to create since I quickly transition from tiny core two big petals. So what we're gonna do is we will add that in the middle of the petals instead of adding it in the color. This is an unusual process and some of you might be scared to do it, but you need to trust the process. I'll stop here for now and add darker layer wants this one dries up already. Now let's proceed in adding our first few leaves. I'm using a lighter mixture of green earth for the first layer of our leaves. And I'm just adding it in the essential areas, the spaces between the Roses and the end part of the petals. This is a safe space to add leaves, especially in 3D. It's time to create our last Rose. I'll be adding it here in the upper right side of the wreath. And I'm just starting it with the core as usual. I want this one to appear as if it's a little bit angles. I'll be placing more petals in one side of the Rose. I'll also be adding the depth and one-side only to really show the angle. Alright, we're done with our subjects. Let's add the big leaves here. And another one here. One more here. Okay, So more. Okay, Now we will connect the upper and the lower portion of a read using a size two round brush and allied mixture of green earth. Let's add some small leaves going down and up, making sure that the leaves will meet at some point. There is no need to let them meet in the middle, just anywhere as long as they meet. I also want you to do this as natural as possible. And thin curvy strokes make the leaves scurvy and not so straight, and make sure that they don't look too stiff. I'm gonna do the process again, but this time I am using more concentrated mixture, been this part of our project. I really want you to take control over your brush. Let your creative instincts tell you where to place the leaves and also be careful you and adding them. There is no right or wrong in this process. Just be careful not to overdo it and when in doubt, pause and check if your Composition still look balance. Our wreath looks almost done, but at the same time, to blend, it needs depth to make it look more attractive. So I'm adding leaves with a darker tone. And I'm going to use a mixture of shadow, green, and green earth for this. It's okay to add it over your initial leaves. Watercolor is a translucent medium, so even if you overlap your strokes, it will still be visible. Just adding a few finishing details here and some more here. Okay, F feel like we are almost done. I just need to go back to my subjects and we established the debt. Let's do it here first. This is completely dry already, so it's really nice to add details in this rose this time. Now, initially damage rose. Let's add that because it really needs a lot of that. As you can see, the look of this Rose really improve. So if you initially made a mistake with your stroke, just be patient. You can still work around that once the layer dries up already. View Details. And I'm just going to add a darker shade of green here to add contrast. Where else? We're done. So I hope you're wreath. Looks nice too. Please upload it in the project gallery so I can see it. See you in our next topic. 8. Painting a Side View Rose: We are done with a single Rose, Simple Composition, and right now it's time to have a break on Top-View roses and learn how to paint it from a different angle this time. In this lesson, we will learn how to paint a rose in a side-view. We will learn the right strokes, Perfect water in color ratio for each layer and the right timing on adding your next stroke. This lesson is just as important as the top you want. So make sure to carefully listen to the tips that I'll give you. For this lesson. I decided to use this beautiful shade of purple called hematite dent and Freddie Green, I use my favorite and they see green. To start, you need a size two round brush and a well pigmented mixture of color. Not too concentrated and not too light as well, then creates land strokes like this. It's a combination of thin and thick strokes with slight pressure. After that Kate, bigger strokes using size six round brush. I create about two strokes, one on each side. Now the most important part, the buddy, we are just shaping the body of a rose here. Very easy, but you need to make sure that the size that you create will be just right for the top part of the Roses you initially created. Don't make it too vague. Don't make it too small. So now on depth, just like the Top-View Rose, who you will add depth on the color. However, on this, we will also add depth on this part. This will create an illusion of the final battle or the last battle of your Side-View Rose. Now I'm just going to add a little bit more layers on here. And then let's add the leaves and the stem. Now just a basic leaf stroke like this. And one imperfect stroke for the stem. I'm passing to create an illusion of thorn. And adding a bit of dark stroke for this stem. As an extra need there. Going back to the main flower, I'm going to re-establish the depth of my rose because it's not that visible anymore. Adding some shadows here. And also here again, reestablishing everything. I love how my Rose turned out, and now that we know how to paint a rose in both top and side-view. Let's move on to our next lesson and paint a full Rose Bouquet 9. Painting a Bouquet Composition: Alright, we've come along way and we are about the finished this class already. In this lesson, we will paint a more complex composition. Here we will learn how to actually plan out a full Rose Bouquet painting. I'll share with you some tips on where to source inspiration, choosing the appropriate colors, and the signing of composition that will look appealing to the eye when planning a Bouquet Composition, there are tons of places you can get inspiration from. It can be from an actual arrangement, from a photo, or from different paintings that you'd like to combine and create your own version of. My favorite among those is of course, photos. I always look at Pinterest for inspiration. I love searching for bushy composition with different colors of roses in it. I also loved those with flourishing eats around it. It just makes the composition look more feminine when doing this, I don't really copy everything that I see from the photo and just take the general composition and add my own touch to it. I also use my own color palettes so that I can add my personal touch to my painting. For our project, we will be painting this beautiful composition and planning this and made sure to choose a beautiful color combination. And I did that by using, again, pinterest. I pick one color for it, which is blue. And then from there, I searched on the platform what colors are best paired with it. During my search, I found a lot of beautiful color combinations, but I made sure to pick what resonates my emotion during the time of painting. Alright, I'm sure you've been itching to paint our final project. So let's begin. I'll please, or first Rose here and I'll be using Petersburg or girl for this one. You see a size two round brush and just creating a combination of C strokes and thin lines to create dark petals effect on a flowers. Of course, this is the usual step that we have learned from our past lecture. So again, make sure to apply what we have learned because in this part of our lesson we are going to combine everything. The Top-View Rose, Side-View Rose correcting mistakes and everything. So I hope that in the past lecture, you were able to build your confidence in creating roses. Switch to size eight and make it easier for me to create bigger beta's. Same preceding year will be done. Create C strokes and combine a little curvy and strokes and some areas. I'm closing my rose here since it's enough already. Now I'm gonna go back to size to the stem. I'll be adding depth to my rose by getting a more concentrated mixture of Petersburg ocher. Adding some thin strokes in the color of my petals, like the usual. Make sure not to overdo this part. So you Rose will still look natural and soft. Also a gentle reminder to always make sure that your base layer is not overly wet before you add your depth. We're done with our first Rose. Now time to add the next one. Our second rules will be in color, brown ocher. I want this one to look a little bit angles. I'll be painting a core in a little bit closer area to my first rose to lessen the big battles that I need to create. Alpha goes on adding bigger petals in this area to make it look angled even more. Now let's add shadows. I'll be adding more shadows on the left side of the rows to create dimension to our flower. Asks you notice the shadows really added a beautiful effect on our flower. And it's not just through to this Rose, it's true to all the Roses that you will create. So make sure to practice adding beautiful shadows and learning when to stop because when you overdo it, It's also not that good. Okay. I'll just soften the rest of the shadow with a clean brush so the effect will look soft And we're done with the second Rose. Hope your roses are looking good out there. So let's now proceed with the third one. This time, I'm going to use blue. I'll be using color indigo for this Rose. And I'll start with a car adding thin strokes to make sure that the core is very detail. Now adding bigger petals using size six round brush, pressing LL to make my strokes a little bit more big. Let's add the biggest setup petals you seeing our size eight round brush. I'm going to finish my Rose and this size, I'm going to close it here. My Rose is still less. I'm going to wait for it to dry fruits. For now. Let's add a few leaves to maximize our weighting them. I'm going to add a one here. Of course, this is a safe place to add leaves because it's between two Roses. And then one more here. You guys don't need to copy everything that I'm doing here. Feel free to add your own creative Dutch, especially now that I'm sure you're more confident in painting your composition. Alright, I think the base of the blue rose is dry already. So let's go add some details and that I'm going to re-establish the core a little bit. Going to soften the, This folks that we have graded and adding some shadows. I really loved this colors so much. And it's really beautiful, especially when you're adding shadows. Just a few more strokes. And we're almost done with this one. Okay, Finally, we are done with their three Top-View roses for you. Let's fill in our composition by adding some leaves. In this part of our painting process, we're adding big leaves. Avoid adding smaller leaves as your base because it will just be covered when we paint more elements later on. Just going to add darker leaves. This time. This will give a nice contrast to our composition. It's now time to decide where to add our Side-View roses. I decided to draw a rough rough I decided to dry and rough sketch on some areas where I will put my Side-View roses. So in creating this, no need to add a lot of details. Just capture the general shape and size of the flower that you are going to paint and you're good to go. My second Side-View Rose will be here. Just set it up close to the first one. Please be mindful of the angle, makes sure it won't look stiff when you paint euro. So the last one will be in the opposite direction, which is in the lower-left part of my composition. Okay, I'm just going to erase the sketch a bit so it won't be very visible later when they've paint over it. Now that we know where the rest of the main subjects will be placed, I can now start filling in the blank spaces with a medium and large size leaves. Okay, I'll be placing another one here. Probably in this area. As you notice, I'm using different water and colors for my leaves, somewhere darker and somewhere like we do this. So we can create an effect and illusion that some leaves are at the back part of the Composition and some are in front. It's time to paint this side-view rose. So I'm going to start with the top part, which is done by using a small brush. And I'm going to add a medium-size battle between the top part and the whole buddy. I'm just going to create the body now and fill it in with some strokes. Just like what we have studied earlier. One cutie leaf here. And then I'm going to precede with my second side-view rose. This time I'm going to use brown ocher for this one to add a little bit of contrast in this area. Again, we'll start with a small detail at the top part. Then we are going to move on to a bigger bet. They'll effect using my size eight round brush. Also here in this part, and they use a lighter mix of brown ocher, comparing it to the upper portion which is more concentrated. I'm going to maximize the cold state of my first Rose. I'm going to add a bit of leaves here to create a bleeding effect. I love this effect on my painting because it slowly it, that blue and dreamy feel on my painting. So I always add a little bit of bleeding on some areas of my painting. I hope you're maximizing the state of your stroke as well and adding a little bit of bleeding every now and then. Now I'm adding depth to my rose. So I'm using a concentrated mixture of indigo here. And softening the edge is useful. We will not have hard edge strokes. Last battle effect. Okay, don't forget this part. Now on my brown rose, again, I'm using a concentrated mixture of brown ocher. I'm going to soften this one. And my last row name, last petal. I mean, I think that the last battle effect is the most important effect when you're painting a Side View Rose. Because without it, your Rose will look very dull and flat. So it is very important if the core is the most important part in Top-View Rose. Here inside View Rose, it's the last battle I'm just adding extra strokes here to soften and to create more effect and petals look on my Side-View Rose. Don't forget your third rows. So here I'm using Petersburg ocher. And just like what we did on the first to Side-View Rose roses, we will start on the top part using a concentrated mixture of Petersburg ocher. Then I switched to my size six and create bigger petals. And of course the body. I'm going to connect this Rose, the main Bouquet, am going to maximize the cold state and add a little bit of leading to this rose. It's so nice. I really love this color because it creates that soft white via on your painting and it's so dreamy and feminine. So I hope you get this color. And if you are using Daniel Smith watercolors, there's a counterpart of this color and line and it's called buff titanium. So the ones that I'm using right now is called Petersburg ocher, which is from that Skype Elektra. But if you're using Daniel Smith, go get the buff titanium color. Okay, So we're just literally going to fill in our Bouquet now and in this part and really want you to add your own personal touch on your composition. Let your creative juices flow and details and the areas where you think there's a lot of space and when in doubt, use T mixture or a very light mixture of the country that you're using. Because it's easier to Greg, it's easier to cover off when you're using light mixture. Or you can also sketch it first using a light, sketch a pencil, and then erase a little bit so that before you paint over it, It's not that visible anymore. Of course it's not my painting without this little twigs. So I'm adding little twigs. On some areas of my painting. I'm using a darker mixture of green, shadow green mixed with a little bit of green earth. I feel like my painting lacks depth, so I'll be adding darker leaves on some areas just to create depth. Now I'm going to add details on this Rose, especially the last petal effect. So I'm using how concentrated mixture of Petersburg ocher. Sometimes we really need to go back and forth to see if the details that you've added are already enough. Because when we add lighter details, there are chances that it gets even lighter when it dries up. But that's okay. I'll patients is also important in painting. So you have to really have a lot of patients when you decide to paint. So yeah, go back-and-forth and see if all the details are enough. If all the details look good. And before you put down your brush, step back and look at your composition. If it's balanced already. If it's not, then add more details. If you think it's already good, then stop. Don't overdo the process because sometimes you may ruin your painting at the end, part. Over time, you'll develop that sense of judgment on your painting and you will know when to stop, where to add details, when to add darker details, when to make it lighter, wanted to make it shorter, went to make it bigger. And you will develop that sense of intuition over time as you practice. So again, make sure to paint once in awhile, paint roses once in awhile because you will forget it if you don't. And again, congratulations for finishing the lessons. I have one more video for you and the final Thoughts section, and I hope you listen to it. Thank you so much and I'll see you there. 10. Final Thoughts: We made it. Thank you so much for joining me in a big round of applause for finishing all over six artwork lessons. I really hope you found this class helpful and learn a bunch of new things. And most importantly, I hope it reignited your love for roses. They deserve a second chance, don't they? Now here's the exciting part. I want you to keep practicing and apply all the techniques that you've learned today to your future artworks. Trust me, you'll see an amazing progress when you do. Please don't forget to take some photos of your paintings and upload them to the project section of our class. I can't wait to see what's upgraded. So let's show up those master thesis. If we had a great time in this class, which I hope you, this is, be super grateful if you could leave a positive review in the review section. Your feedback means the world to me as your teacher. Tell me what you love, what's your favorite lesson and any suggestions for making things even better. I value your opinion, so please leave a review. By the way, Let's take connect it and make sure to hit the follow button here on Skillshare. So you'll be the first to know about my upcoming classes and exciting giveaways. 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