From Picture To Painting: Paint Wedding Bouquets in Watercolor

1. Introduction: Bouquets are more than just floral arrangements. They're a symbol of love, happiness, and beauty. They are also perfect subjects for watercolor painting as they allow you to express your creativity and preserve a memory of a special moment. Hi. I'm Jenny Flores. I'm a creative coach, an artist, and a Skillshare talk teacher from the Philippines. I've been painting for about eight years now, and I love exploring different styles and techniques. My favorite subjects are botanicals, especially bouquets, reads, and floral arrangements. Since 2017, I've taught thousands of students both in person and online, and I enjoy seeing their progress and creativity. I believe that anyone can learn how to paint, and I am here to help you along the way. I have over 76,000 followers on Instagram as date of publishing, and this is where I share my painting process and progress. I am excited because I am sure that all of you has the potential to create awesome and inspiring art, and I am here to guide you in unlocking your creativity and experiencing the beauty of life true art. In this class, you will learn how to paint floral bouquets in watercolor from picture to painting. You will learn how to choose the right supplies for your project. I will show you the best watercolor paper, paints and brushes to use for your paintings. We'll also learn how to select the reference photos for your painting. I will teach you how to find, crop, and edit your photos to make them suitable for painting. We'll also identify the focal points and main subjects of your bouquet. I will help you analyze the composition, shape and color of your bouquet and decide what to emphasize and what to simplify on your painting. We'll also learn how to understand the importance of color palette and how to prepare it. I'll demonstrate how to mix and match colors to create a harmonious and realistic palette for your bouquet. Of course, we will learn how to paint. Beautiful bouquets. I will guide you step by step through the process of painting them from sketching to adding details, and finishing touches. This class is suitable for beginners and anyone who wants to preserve a memory in a very unique way. So what are you waiting for? Pick up your brush, and let's get started. 2. Supplies: Whether you're painting your own bouquet or you're doing it as a commission project, using a quality supply is a must, especially on paintings that you want to preserve for a very long period of time. We only have three essential supplies when creating a painting project. The paper, the paint and the brush. Let's begin with paper. While, you can use any paper that's currently available with you at the moment, using a high quality, 100% cotton watercolor paper will really help you get a high quality result that you definitely want. I love using this paper from Bauhgs 100% cotton cold press watercolor paper and 300 GSM. This is a cheaper yet quality alternative to other brands like arches and fabriano. If you're just new and would just want to practice and explore, you can check out the less expensive alternatives like the Fabriano 25% cotton, Canson Montval and more. Next is brushes. Brushes plays a very important role in your painting journey. A right brush can make your painting process so much easy, especially if you're painting in a loose style. If you'd like to know more about brushes, I have separate class here on Skillshare that focuses on brushes. But today, I'll share with you the brushes that I'll use for this class. First, are round brushes. I'll be using my silver black velvet round brushes in size two, four, six and eight. I use this for most of my paintings because it has a nice pointy tip, big belly, and soft bristles. That is just perfect for my style. Another must have for me is a filbert brush. I use filbert brushes for round tipped flowers, like anemones, camo Mls, and more. Later, you'll see more of this brush in action. So I'll specifically use the silver crystal pointed oval brush in size 3/4, and the silver silk 88 oval crescent brush in size 3/8. Last is my detail brush. This brush is what I use for small details like center of the flower, small dots, and all. I will use my silver ultra mini design a round brush in size for. I hope you guys are not feeling overwhelmed at the moment. So these supplies are just what they use. Of course, if you are just starting, you can definitely explore the medium first and use whatever supplies that you have with you. The next big thing that we need are the paints. For this class, I'll specifically use the following colors, Potters Pink, lunar red rock, shell pink, Mocha, Petersburg Ochre, perylene violet, under sea green, shadow green, green Earth, van **** brown, Titanium gray, royal blue, and titanium white. I always use professional grade water colors in shops because they contain more pigment, which is really good in preserving the color and quality of your work even after years. In painting using any medium, it's important to have some tissue paper nearby as well as a couple 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 will do. Again, don't feel pressured with the supplies. Explore the medium first and invest in quality materials when you're ready. Let's go to our next topic. 3. Preparing Your Reference Image and Colors: I'm sure you guys are very excited to paint. But before we start dipping our brushes into our water colors, let's go through the three simple steps you should remember when painting a bouquet. First is together as many photos of the bouquet as you can. Having more than one high quality image of the bouquet will help you have the options, which angle you should prioritize. Let's admit it. Some photos just don't give justice to the beauty of the actual bouquet. So having options is essential for creating an accurate, well balanced and meaningful painting. It helps you make informed decisions about the color, composition, and details, resulting in a more successful and visually appealing artwork. Second step is to identify the main subjects or main flowers. When you already have chosen your furred reference image with your fiverd angle, you now have to identify which flowers should be the most visible ones in your painting. Of course, not every flower can be the star of the show. Usually, these are flowers at the center of the composition. Take this bouquet as an example. In this bouquet, we will focus on these flowers because we want the viewer's eye to move just around here. Plus, the colors in this area are just more vibrant than the others. So this is just perfect. Next step is identifying the color palette. Before we begin painting, we have to prepare our color palette first. Colors play a very important role in this kind of painting. It doesn't matter if you weren't able to copy every detail of the bouquet as long as the colors are nearly the same as the ones on the photo. You'll be able to capture the essence and beauty of your bouquet easily when you do this. But of course, if you're painting the bouquet just for reference or just for yourself, you're absolutely free to alter the color of the whole bouquet. As long as the colors that you will choose compliments each other. This is also a good way to add your personal touch to your painting. Okay, I think we are more than ready. So let's start painting. 4. Bridal Bouquet Part 1: Before we dive into painting, let's quickly talk about focal points. It's crucial for our painting to have focal points also known as subject because it guides our eyes to the most important part of our painting. Without it, viewers might get lost, confuse, or worse, lose interest. The focal point should be the standout flowers to ones that immediately catch someone's attention when they see your painting. Let's take a reference image as an example. I'll choose these flowers. Those flowers marked with red as our focal point because they really grabbed my attention. And obviously, they also grabbed the attention of those who sees this photo. Okay. So this two, this one on the side and that one and the upper part of our composition, even though they are not in the center of the photo, they are big eye catching, so I'll add more detail to them as well. I'll add them to my main subject. So focal points or subjects are what your art is all about. The other elements will be less detailed, especially that we are just painting in a loose style. They are there to create contrast and keep things visually interesting, guiding eye towards the main focus of the painting, which again, are the subjects. If you're struggling to find the main subject of your painting, remember that it's usually the ones in the middle, or if not, they are typically the biggest, boldest and most attractive flowers in the bouquet. I guess we are more than ready to paint our bouquet now. So what I'm going to do first is mix a concentrated mixture of my first color, which is potters pink. This will be used for the center of my roses. So I'm going to paint one of the roses in the center first, this one, and I'm going to use a small brush, which is a small size two round brush, and I'm going to paint the center of my rose. I am creating small C strokes here. And as I go out of the first stroke that I've created, I'm making it bigger and bigger. Now that the center is complete already, what I'm going to do is get a clean wet brush, and I'm going to soften the edge of the last strokes that I've created. This will create a very nice soft effect on the center of my rose, which will also prepare my rose for the next few petals. So now I am using a size for round brush and I'm creating bigger petals for my roses. By the way, guys, I'm still using the same color, which is potters pink, and I'm just creating bigger C strokes while adding a little bit of ten strokes on my roses. If you are still unfamiliar on how roses are painted, I have classes here on Skillshare that focuses on painting roses that will really help you. You can check out about me page of this class to check on what classes you can attend to. Now, we are done with the first rose. Now it's time to add the second rose, which is just below the first one. It's nice if you have a copy of our reference image so that you have a guide on where to place or next subjects. Still doing the same procedure here, I painted the center of the rose. This time, I used a peach color, which is mocha. And again, I'm softening the edge of the last strokes that I've created for the center of my rose, and now I'm going to create bigger C strokes to add bigger petals for my rose. One of the important things that you should remember when painting a bouquet is that all the subjects, especially if they are closer to each other on the reference photo has to be close when you're painting it. You have to make sure that there's no awkward space between the flowers because it's hard to fill in those awkward spaces with leaves. So make sure that the two flowers that we're painting at the moment, which is the pink rose and the peat rose are very close to each other, so you don't have to add leaves in between them. Now it's time to add our third rose, which is on the upper part of our painting. So I am going to add the center again and this time, I will be using waters pink. If you notice, I'm not yet adding the details on my first two roses, and that is because we are going to let those layers dry up first before we add the details. So for now, we are laying up all the base layers for our painting, and then later on, we're going to go back when they are ready to be painted on. Again, I'm putting this rose very close to my first one so that there won't be any awkward space. Also, if you don't have the same exact color that I am using at the moment, that's totally fine, feel free to use whatever you have, and then you can also mix some colors as long as they complement each other. Good job on painting our three subjects, which are roses. Now it's time to paint over these roses to add some details. Make sure that your rose is already dry. The baser is already dry before doing this step, because if not, you're just going to create a big blob. So I'm using a concentrated mixture of put mortum for the center of my rose, my first rose here. Again, I'm still using the small brush, which is size four round brush, and I switched up to size six. So it will be easier for me to soften the edge of the depth that I am creating. Make sure not to overdo this step because adding a lot of depth on your rose will make it look awkward, and also it will just depict the purpose of the depth. Instead of creating rose, you might end up creating noncus. So make sure to be careful when adding depth to your roses. I'm going to extend the edge of my roses so it will look bigger compared to the other roses that I've created. I Now, I'm going to add death for my peach roses. So I'm using mocha for this one, very concentrated mixture of mocha. In now reference image, you'll notice that this rose is actually a little bit covered by the first rose. But since our first rose is a little bit light, I'm going to cover this instead with a leaf. T you notice I'm not adding depth on the upper portion of this rose so that I will have enough space to add my leaves later on. Adding more depth in this area. Time to add the leaves. I'll be adding a leaf here, and also a few darker leaves beside my first rose, using shadow green. The first one that I added is actually using under sea green by Daniel Smith. So the next ones, I'll be using shadow green mixed with a little bit of undersea green. Again, feel free to mix your own shade of green. You're not required to use the same color as I am using, but make sure that the colors will complement each other. As you notice, I just dab my brush, and it's already a leaf. You don't really need to elaborate your stroke when creating a leaf. As long as it's green, the audience will always see that stroke as a leaf. Now, time to add death on my third rose. I'm using pot Mortom for the center of this rose. This adding C strokes as usual. And of course, I'm softening the edge of the strokes that I'm creating using another brush. I'm going to extend the rose just to make the shape even better. Time to add the leaves while the last few petals of my rose is still wet. This will create a nice bleeding effect on my rose. Time to add our side view rose. We are looking at a reference photo at the moment. And as you notice, this is in the same shade as one of our roses that we painted earlier. So I'm using MCA here, and I am painting the center of my rose using a six round brush. But I'm just painting this one as a guide, later on, I will add a more detailed center for this rose. I'm going to define the body of the rose. Make sure you have enough space for the body. We're painting over it using a very light mixture of MCA. Later on, we will add more depth to this rose. But for now, this is the general shape of our side view rose. While my base is still cold, meaning not too wet and not too dry, I'm adding a little bit of depth on some areas using a small size to round brush. I'm adding the first layer of depth on this base because this will create a softened look for my rose and for the depth of my rose. But later on, we will add more depth. When the base layer is completely dry. So as you can see now, the rose is looking like a rose already. I'm going to add more softened depth on these areas. If you accidentally consume all your highlights with depth, you can lift the color up using a clean brush or a clean tissue. Now I mix my pot mortum with mocha and adding a more darker shade of pink on this rot. This will create a and will define our ros even more. While waiting for my side view rose to dry up, I will add leaves that will connect my side view rose to my first few roses. I am using a mixture of shadow green mixed with a little bit of undersea green. And then I will also use lighter shades of this same mixture on some of the leaves to create different variation of leaves. This will give our painting an effect as if there are some leaves at the back part and there are some leaves in front. We'll add a few more here. No need to fill all the spaces. Later on, we can add more leaves as we progress on our painting. Our side view rose is finally dry, so it's time to add more depth. I am using the same shape that I mixed earlier, Mocha with a little bit of pot mortum and I am adding more defined depth on this rose. Please don't overdo this step because as you notice, the rose is already looking like a side view rose. You don't really need to define all the details because we're painting in loose style. There are a few dark dahlias in our reference image, and I am painting it using Perin Moon. I'm painting the base layer first. And as you notice, I'm not really defining the base of this flower anymore because this is not part of our main subject. They are just added details on our bouquet. We have finished our main flowers earlier, which are roses. So now we don't have to exactly define all the details of this flower anymore. I'm going to add a few darker details so that it will blend while the base layer is still wet, but later on, we will add more details. Again, even though I'm adding more details on this flower later, it's not going to be as defined as osis, because again, this is not part of our main subject. While waiting for a base layer to dry up. What we're going to do now is paint the upper left portion of arboqu. As you notice, there's a small rose and a small dallia flower, I think, on a reference image. So what I'm going to do now is just add stem. And using a very light mixture of pink, I will be adding the rose. Again, this is not going to be as defined as our first three roses because this is just extra detail on arboqu. We're just completing the general look of arbuqu but we don't have to define this area anymore. I'm going to add the flower here as well. Using peridin violet also. I'm going to add depth to our Dalia. This time, I will be using my small filbert brush, which is an oval crescent brush, and I'm just going to dab a little bit of darker shade of perdin maroon on some areas. This will create an illusion of depth on my Dalia, and I'm also going to do the same on the one below my sides. But we're going to leave the one at the upper left because we don't have to define that area anymore. Our leaves look flat again, so it's time to bring them out. I'm adding a darker shade of green, and I'm adding it on top of the first leaves that we initially created. Using my detail brush. We're now going to focus on the lower left side of our bouquet. I added an extended stem, as you can see here, and I am mixing different shades of green, so I'm adding a little bit of sepia on my initial green mixture and also be using green Earth under sea green and shatter green. Feel free to be creative on this part and also use two different shapes of brush. You can use your round brush like this one. And you can also add a few leaves using your fillber brush, create different shapes, use different shades and use different intensity of colors so you can create a nice variation of leaves on this part. Be careful, but also be careful. Don't overdo this one. We're going to finish the left side of our bouquet now. So what I'm going to do next is add the leaves here on this part. You'll notice that there are a few rounded shape leaves here that looks like eucalyptus. So I'm using my oval crescent brush to create that effect. I am adding also the small dark violet flower here. But again, I'm not adding details to this flower anymore. I'm slowly moving to the right side of our bouquet, but this center is covered with a lot of leaves, so we have to put on the leaves here first. I am adding a lot of different shades of green here to create depth and highlight for our leaves. Hope your bouquet is looking great, and I hope you're enjoying our process. This is quite a long painting session, but I'm sure that once this is done, you'll be proud of your work. So let's move over to the small rose on top. I added a stroke, which will serve as the stem of the rose. And using a very light mixture of pink, I will be adding the body of the side bros. Again, you don't have to define this one anymore because this is not part of our main subject. 5. Bridal Bouquet Part 2: We are now on the right side of a bouquet, and it may not be very obvious, but there's one more rose on the right side, which is close to one of the roses that we initially painted earlier. So we're going to paint that one. But again, this is not part of our main subject, so we don't have to define this rose that much. So I'm going to paint a small rose here using a very light mixture of potters pink. And I'm also adding a lot of leaves because as you notice on a reference image, there's a big chunk of leaves on this area. Now, next is another maroon flower on top of the rose that I just painted. It is not very obvious what type of flower is this, but I'm just going to create it as if it's a small anemone in red color. So I use a mixture of lunar red rock or pat moortum and a little bit of sepia. And I added also sepia on the center of this flower as its core. Again, we will not define this flower anymore. Time to move to our anemones. These are secondary subjects, which means they are going to be defined but not as defined as our main subject. I am using a big filbert brush to paint the base layer of our anemones, and I am using Petersburg cre for the color. There's another one on top, which is a little bit smaller than the first one, so I'm going to paint it over here. Just dragging my brush to create a very nice stroke. And I think this is good for the base already. So what we're going to do is let it dry first before we add another layer. So while waiting, we will be adding a few leaves to create bleeding effect between our leaves and our anmony. Adding a few darker leaves here to add dimension. Now, I added a few titanium grade to my Petersburg cer, and I'm adding depth to my base layer of anemone. It's not yet fully dry. I will be adding sepia at the center of my anemone so that the color will slightly bleed to the petals. If we go back to a reference image, you'll notice that this area is full of leaves, and there's two small dahlia flowers or dark violet flowers on this area. So we're going to prepare that flower by adding the stem. And now I'm going to focus on adding leaves here. So again, just like how we did it on the left side, we're going to use different shades and shapes of leaves for this part. So feel free to express your creativity here, use different sizes of brush, use filbert brush, use round brush, and also combine different shades of green. Add a few sepia, use different tonal values of the shades that you're using so that there will be different look for your leaves. I personally love adding leaves. So I add a lot of leaves even on those areas that don't really have leaves on my reference image because you'll notice that when you add a lot of greens or especially leaves on your painting, it will be more. It will look pier, it will more bushy, and it just creates a nice effect on your painting. So yes, add a lot of leaves. Time to go back to the purple flowers that we prepared earlier. So what I'm going to do now is paint the petals. I'm using oval crescent brush and perliin violet. So again, we're not going to define this flower anymore. But it's also nice if you'll add a little bit of depth by mixing dark shade of Berlin maroon on some area. I'm adding leaves. Also, you'll notice that there's a few leaves on some areas of this flower, so behind it, there's a leaf. And on the stem, there's some leaves also. So make sure that you add those details as well. Adding more strokes. We're almost done, guys. So I hope you're still there watching this class. Okay, we're going to add a few greens here. And then we're going to add the leaves behind this flower. So I'm using my size eight round brush. I'm just adding it here and there. Love the greens. Super love it. Okay, let's go back to our anemone. So remember, we let it dry first, and now that it's dry, we're going to add the center of anemone. There are some few dots and lines that we should add on the center to mimic the actual look of an anemone. And I'm using Sepia for this one. So we're going to do the same on the smaller anemone. Using a mixture Petersburg Ochre and titanium gray. I'm just going to add some lines like this. This will create a shadow effect between the petals of our anemone. This is optional. This is just a style that I want to add on my painting. So if you don't want to add this one, that's totally fine. I'm going to go back here and just add a few on this flower. Just a few, not so much that it will attract a lot of viewers and audience. Just a few so that it will not flat. Okay. If you take a look at the reference image, just one more main subject. That is the white rose on top part of our bouquet, and we're going to paint it now using Petersburg cher. This is a big rose, so we're going to have to extend it up until here. I'm just going to add a few leaves here so that there will be bleeding effect on my white rose while I'm waiting for it to dry up. Okay. Another one here. I think we can now add the details for our rose. So I'm going to use a concentrated mixture of Petersburg cher and I'm going to add depth on this white rose. Adding more depth, and I'm going to soften it using a clean brush. It's just amazing how depth can add a lot of soul to yours. I love adding depth, and I hope you do also. Time to add the last rose, hopefully. The last rose on this bouquet. We are going to use MCA for this one. This is a side view rose, but it's not as defined as the one that we painted earlier. So I just painted the core, and then now I'm softening it to create the body. To complete the look of our bouquet, we need to add the stems. I'm using different shades of green to add our stem, and I'm just dragging my brush like this. And guys, I'm using different shades of green because it creates an ion that there are some stems at the back part and some are in front. I also add a little bit of brown because flowers have brown stems. Aside from stems, it's also nice if we will add the ribbons on our bouquets. I'm using potters pink and my oval crescent brush, and I'm just tracking it here to create a very soft look of our ribbon. Add depth to your ribbon by using a concentrated mixture of the same color that we use. Now, I was just going to add a few finishing touch to cover some empty spaces and add more depth to some areas, and we're done. So it depends if your painting looks empty on one side, you may add more leaves on that area, but if you think that your painting looks good already, I think you can put your brushes down. And we are done. Congratulations for finishing your first. I'm very excited to see your work. So please upload it on the project and resource section of our class. I'll see you on our next topic. 6. Anemone Bouquet: In this part of our class, we are going to paint this beautiful white bouquet comprising of anemones, ranunculus, and some pretty fillers. This beautiful bouquet is based on this photograph by floral designer, Trill Floral Onstagm. And before we start painting, I just want to share a brief lecture on how you should choose your reference image for your painting. First and foremost, make sure to gather as many reference image photos as you can. Having more than one reference image is better, so you can choose which one has the best angle for your bouquet. Take our project as an example. I was able to get three photos of the same bouquet that we are going to paint. This first photo is beautiful. Most of the flowers were facing forward. However, the general shape of the bouquet in this photo is a bit odd. The fillers were also heavily focused on the left side as compared to the right side. This second image, on the other hand is more balanced. The details are well scattered and the focal point is more highlighted. This third photo that we have here is an example of how you can still paint a bouquet, even if not all the details were captured. Look how the image was cropped in a way that the main focal point, which is the anemone, is highlighted and how it was supported beautifully by the fillers and secondary flowers like gnoculus and sweet peas. As you paint more in your cave journey, you'll get used to looking for the best angle to paint or better. Learn how to shoot your own reference image, because by doing so, you'll be able to customize the images to precisely what you are looking for. For today, we're going to use this image as a reference, and I know you're excited, so let's start painting. Just like our usual practice, we will start our project by painting our main subjects. If we take a look at the reference image, we will see two beautiful anemones in the center of our bouquet. As we paint, we will ensure that these two flowers will ultimately capture the attention of our viewers, so we have to make them big, defined, and bold compared to the other flowers that we will paint. I am using my silver crystal filbert brush and size 3/4 here. And for the color, I use the Daniel Smith Titanium gray. I did some flat strokes using a light mixture of my color, and as you notice, I didn't make it too dark yet as this is our first layer. Later on, we will add more details as we move forward. Adding a little bit of pink here, using potters pink to mimic the blushing effect on a reference image. I only painted a portion of the anemone as I will create another flower on top of it. We will attempt to give an overlapping effect. So while waiting for the first layer to try, I will add a few leaves around this base first. For the color, I used undersea green and mix it with a little bit of shadow green. Adding some more flowers in some areas just to make it look more full. Now, we will paint the second anemone. I will be using the same brush and the same stroke. But this time though, I will be using Petersburg cher for a more creamy white look. I'll also make this few petals a little bit angle just as the ones on the reference image. Going back here to complete the missing petals. Painting bouquet really takes a lot of time and patience. You have to go back and forth on some areas to carefully capture the details of your painting while ensuring that you don't overdo some parts. The base of our flowers are done, so now we are going to paint some more leaves since our bouquet is really filled with different leaves in between flowers. I'm using different shades of green on our leaves to give a nice effect on our bouquet. Using a darker tone of great titanium, I'm adding shadows on the petals of my anemone. Be careful not to fill the whole petals with dark tone. Just a few petals enough to be considered as shadows. Time to add the center of the anemone. I'm using sepia here and just my round brush. Notice that I'm leaving a bit of white space on some areas as highlight. Back to my second anemone, and adding a darker tone of Petersburg ker as shadow. This is just optional, but I also decided to add a bit of concentrated white paints to elaborate some highlights. Now, I'll be adding some more details on the center of my anemone. I love using this brush called silver ultra mini round brush in size four. This is a very pointed tip brush which helped me create very small clean lines. I'm going to add the center of my second anemone, just the same as the first one. Then I'll be adding some leaves and fillers. Just play around with different shades of green here. Adding some more greens. This time, I want to create some broken steam for the small blue fillers that I will be adding later. Let's go and add the blue flowers. These are just fillers, so they don't have to be very defined. But as you can see, they're so cute, and they added a lot of beauty on our composition. Now, I'm twisting my paper so I can properly add my next flower, which is a ranunculus. I am using a size eight black velvet brush with this one, and I am just creating lots of c strokes. This is just similar to creating roses, but the C strokes here are thinner and actually, it has more c strokes than a rose. Let's add one here. I am adding leaves now here while it's still wet, so the color will bleed a little. Just aside, no, I've been using the same paper for more than four years now. And because of that, I know how this paper behaves. I already know if it's too wet, too cold, dry, and so on. So my advice to you guys, if you're just starting is to stick to the same set of supplies if those supplies work for you already. You'll be able to focus more on developing your style or learning more about the craft when you already know how your paper behaves wet water. So now I added another anemone on the lower side. And then I also added some leaves here. I can finally see one side of our bouquet slowly being shaped. So I hope yours is looking like a bouquet as well. Adding more leaves and filler on this side. This is just similar to the other side. We are just going to imitate the flow of the filler space on a reference image. Now I've turned my paper, and I will be adding some shadow on the n. I am adding shadow in one side only since we wanted to create an angled effect on this flower. Now, we're going to do the same process with our other anemone. We're gonna add some shadows, and we're going to add it on one side also. Now, I'm also going to add some greens at the center of the noncus because that's actually how a ranunculus looks like in real life. Now I'm going to go back to my main subject. I'll be adding more whites to the petals to emphasize the highlights. Now, let's do the sweet peas on the side. For me, sweet peas are one of the hardest flowers to paint in a loose style. They look so delicate with very few details, so it's so hard to imitate the shape and fs by just using shadows. I also added the stems, so the greens will bleed a little. What I love about painting bouquets is that they usually have the same set of flowers. So you get to practice the same botanical element over and over again while being able to build a composition at the same time. Time to add the center of the tiny anemone here. Now, I'm going to add the lines and dots. I love adding this part so much because it really gives life to the flower. I'll be adding a mixture of gray and white on this area just to give a little bit of that. Adding a bit of details. Now, let's turn our paper to its original position and let's start working on the upper portion of our bouquet. So here's the anemone and also be adding some sweet piece. And won't give much details for this area anymore since they are not part of our main subject. But as per usual, I'm going to add the center of our anemone. Let's work on supporting details of our bouquet. This one is a small ranunculus on the upper right portion of our bouquet. I'm painting it in a very light shade, so it won't overpower our main subject. Let's go add the stem. There's a bunch of sweet piece in this area, too, so let's work on that as well. Let's turn our paper and work on the lower left side of our bouquet. This time, we will focus on the noncalus hanging on this side. As you can see on a reference image, it's stem is covered with leaves, so let's add those as well. We will wait for this to dry and then add more details later on. While waiting, let's work on this part. Since this is an upper portion of ok, all the elements on this area are just supporting details. So basically, we already have the shape of our bouquet. I hope yours is looking gorgeous as well by this time. And now it's time to complete the details even more. I will continue to add some more shadows on our Of course, we should not forget the green death in the center. Okay, time to complete the look of our bouquet. We will add the blue ribbon like what we did on our previous project, we will use a lighter shade of blue firs and then add more concentrated mixture on one side as shadow. We are basically done. I'm just going to add a few finishing touch. If yours is good already, no need to add this step. And finally, we are done. That was a long painting session, but I hope you were able to follow along, and you're able to paint your bouquet beautifully. Here's a small version of this painting. I painted this one last year, and I loved it so much. It's a simpler version of what we did today, and this is just a proof that you can use a reference image and capture just the details that you like. Hope you had fun, and I hope to see your project on our project section. See you on our bonus project. 7. Bonus Bouquet: Okay. I'm so happy that you guys are able to paint two beautiful bouquets already. I'm so excited to see your work. However, for those who still want to practice, there are painting skills, especially those who want to exercise their hands and paint more complex flowers like roses. I added this bonus bouquet lesson, and I encourage you to paint this beautiful bouquet with me. This one is another beautiful composition made of different roses. Some are in front view, some are inside view, and a few rosebuds and lots of leaves as fillers. I can't wait to see your work, so let's begin. Let's start by painting a rose in this area. As usual, we're going to create small C strokes, and then we're going to change to a bigger brush to create bigger C strokes. For this one, I am using lunar red rock or capa mortum as you can notice, that I use a darker shade of the color in the center of my rose and then switch to a lighter shade as I go out of the center. Now I'm adding darker shade again to create depth and I switch to a smaller brush once more. Let's blend it a little. Now let's paint our second rose. This one is going to be inside view. I'm using Petersburg ocher and a small round brush. So I started with the top part of the rose, and now I'm blending it over, and I'm going to switch to a bigger brush to create the body of our rose. While my rose is in cold state, meaning not too wet and not too dry, I'm going to add some depth. So using a darker shade of Petersburg ocher, I'm going to add some shadow on some areas of my rose. Our first rose is already dry, and I think that this is the perfect time to add depth to this rose since the initial depth that we added is already light. I'm going to add another rose in peach color, so I'm going to start by adding the small sea strokes for the center of my rose. Switching to a bigger one here. I'm putting my rose close to the other roses so that there won't be any awkward space in between these flowers. Make sure you do the same so that you won't need to add leaves in between our three roses. Let's wait for that one to dry off for now. Let's add another cream rose. So I use again my Petersburg ocher for this one. Time to add the shadows. Okay. I'm going to add it on some parts to create some top metal effect. Going back to put and let's add another rows on this side. Again, remember to put your rows close to each other so that there won't be any awkward space in between them. As usual, we're going to add some shadows. Let's add small peach roses in this area. I'm going to add tree. So it's like our usual rose, but we're just going to make it smaller. One more here. And let's add another one here. My base layers are drying up already, so I'm going to re establish the shadow on this rows. Same procedure, we are going to use darker shade of the color that we used and just redo the shadows of our rows here. Let's create two small rose bud in this area. I'm going to use the same peach color that we used earlier. This is so easy. All you need is a bigger brush and just create down strokes like creating a leaf. You don't need to create a lot of details for this one, because this is just a filler. I'm going to add another one here. This time, it's in color Petersburg Oak. I guess it would be nice if we'll add lunar red rock rose buds in this area also. So I'm going to add just one. So now let's go back to our small roses and add some shadows in them. Again, these are just fillers, so you don't need to really add a lot of details on the small roses. Let's go add some base leaves. So I'm going to use a very light mixture of green earth for this one so that there would be background leaves representing those leaves that are in the back part of our composition. So now I switch to a darker shade of green, and I'm adding stem for this rose bud. I am using darker shape because these are leaves that are in front of our bouquet. Now it's time to add some more leaves. I am just going to add it in different areas to spread the greens on our bouquet. So leaves are simple, but they add a lot of beauty on our composition. So make sure to add those leaves around your bouquets and fill those empty spaces. When you add leaves, it doesn't have to be perfect. They don't really need to look like perfect leaves because as long as it's green, the audience or the viewers of your artwork will always perceive it as a leaf. I would also suggest that you mix different shades of green. You can add a hint of sepia or Vande brown to your green so that there would be different shades and variations. I'm going to add a bit of shadow on my rose bud. So I used a darker shade of Petersburg ocher here and just adding shadows just to create and define our rose bud here. I'll also do the same for peach roses. You don't need to make this perfect because these are just small flowers. The focus of your audience will always be drawn to the center or those big roses. So no need to overdo this part. Our bouquet is looking good, and it's almost done, so it's time to fill those empty spaces even more and add some more fillers like leaves and stems. To make it an official bouquet, we are going to add the ribbon in this part. So I'm just using green mixed with a bit of Petersburg ocher and I'm just going to add a little bit of torquer shade later on to create a shadow. Oh. It's a little bit try already, so I'm going to add the shadow now. It's okay to touch your paper to check if it's try already because it's better to touch it than to ruin your composition. Now I'm going to add the stems of my flower. I'm going to use different shades of green for this one to represent different stems in different positions. Some of the stems are in the back part. So are in front. So it's nice to use different shades of green to represent those. I also added a tape so that there would be a clean line at the bottom part of our composition. But if you weren't able to add tape on your painting, it's okay, especially if you have big paper, don't need to copy exactly what I'm doing here. I also want you to express your own creativity and explore different techniques while painting our composition. We are almost done, so I'm just going to add a few more touches. But if yours is looking good already, you can now put your brushes down. So if you want to add more fillers, that's also okay. But again, if you're done, no need to add extra details. I just added a few fillers and some leaves at the bottom part of my composition, and I'm finally done. I hope to see your work on the project and resource section, so I hope you can upload it there. And also, if you like this class, I hope you can leave a review. There's one more video on this class, and I hope you can watch it also. So I can guide you and how you can leave a review and how you can upload your final projects. Thank you, LC on the next video. 8. Final Thoughts: Finally, we are done with the class. Thank you so much for joining me and well done for finishing the lessons. I hope you learned and enjoyed it as much as I did, and I hope you discovered how to transform your bouquet photos into beautiful paintings. Just a reminder if you think your work doesn't look the same as mine, or you feel like you still need to redo your project, that's totally fine. It took me years of practice and a lot of mistakes to be where I am today, and you are so much ahead of me when I started, so don't give up. Keep on trying and keep on painting. No matter what, I'm very excited to see the projects that you have created. So please take some photos of your paintings and upload them into the project section of our class. I would love to give some personal feedback on your work. If you find this class helpful, I hope you can leave a review in the review section. 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