Garden Roses on a Round Canvas Easy Acrylic Painting for Beginners

1. Welcome to a wonderful class: Welcome to a new and refreshing acrylic painting class. Today you will be creating this wonderful garden of roses on a round canvas. Don't worry. If you don't have a round canvas, this design works on a square or rectangular canvas, as well. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over ten years. Six years ago, I've fallen in love with teaching. And ever since then, I've done both online and in person classes with children and adults. Developed a very interesting way of teaching that focuses on making engaging and fun projects such as these, while at the same time, learning about key concepts in painting, such as composition, brush handling, color harmony, and many more. If you are ready to explore your creative side and have a lot of fun, let's jump into the class. 2. Materials needed: And welcome to another beautiful painting session. Today, we will paint some roses, a garden of roses, just around this area. And for this, you will need some materials. You will need a cup of water. You will need a mixing plate, and, of course, some paints. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint. This is titanium white. Brilliant blue. Carmine red. This is a red that works very well with yellows, and this is Azo yellow medium. In case you don't have azure yellow medium, use lemon yellow. This is just a yellow, a lemon yellow that has a bit of red into it. And of course, burnt umber, also known as brown. You will also need some brushes a big flat brush, a small flat brush, and a bit of a flat brush that is rounded. If you don't have this medium brush, you can also use just the two brushes or use a medium flat brush. This is just so we have an assortment of brushes. You'll also need a sponge. You can use a kitchen sponge or a painting sponge just like this one. Just be careful not to use a very huge sponge like this. Size does matter in this case. Small, nimble, and fast. And some paper towels. This design works on round canvases or square canvases. You will just have to add a bit more background to the corners. This is just a square canvas or a rectangular canvas with its corners cut out. So it's not difficult to adjust the composition if you don't have a round canvas. Okay. Optionally, you will need a hair dryer in order to dry the paint faster. It really helps speed up the painting process. And that's all you need for this course. Before we go into the course, you will need to understand some key concepts in regards to materials. This sponge is very good at making very soft and nice backgrounds, super, super fast and easy. You just go like this and you start to fill in all of the painting quite easily and fast. The big flat brush is used to make big, nice cuts and create interesting designs. The smaller one should be used just in 10% of the painting just to add a few details that make the painting more interesting. And the medium brush is just for having other brushes in order to change color palette or have a lighter color that you can already use in case the big brush is filled with a darker or lighter color. So you can change either hue or shadow and light. The beautiful napkins are used to clean up the brushes and also to clean up some of the paint off the canvas in case we do some mistakes, okay? And that's all you need to know about materials. 3. Light brown wash and sketch: Can use the beginning of the painting to get familiarized with the brushes and the sponge. To do that, we will need to add some brown to the mixing plate. Not a lot of brown, just a little bit of brown over here. And let's jump into the sponge. Get some water, just a tiny bit of water, and some paint, not a lot of paint, and start making the wash onto the canvas, using one side of the Sponge, you can start to move around. If you need more color, just add it. It's very easy to create this wonderful light brown wash. This is just because you will need to have a different color than the white that is on the canvas so that your mind doesn't get tricked into painting darker colors than you need to. Light colors will seem very light on this brown wash. I don't know why it has this texture, but it's fine. We're gonna it's probably because of the canvas. It's not a very expensive canvas. Just fill in the canvas with this color with the swash. And then you can squeeze some of the water out in case there is any, and then go ahead and take some of the water out of the canvas. You can go side to side in order to create a better texture onto the canvas, more homogeneous texture, not to be confused with homoclous. Okay, can start to see the beautiful textures and the beautiful speed that this sponge gives us, and it can be a very good tool to just paint and make very fast and loose gradients and washes. I don't think the small dots are an issue, so we're just going to start by taking the medium brush. In case you don't have the medium brush, just take the big brush so that it's easier to create to do faster sketches. We're going to start by doing the sketch. The sketch is very simple. We're going to have two roses right over here. Notice how the paint is darker. This is the middle of the rose. And then on the side, we're going to start to have cuts. Just geometric cuts just going like this, but notice how they are. This one is a bit curved. This one is like this. And we can use this corner to add a bit of a corner like this. Just creating more interesting shapes. Now here, you can go with a different kind of line, a C shaped line going this way and going back towards the end, connecting those lines like this. That's the first rows in case you want to make it bigger, which I will, just add a double line just going around. Perfect. Now, this is the first rose. The second rose will be next to it and in front of it. So we can start right over here over. Let's determine the beautiful center of the rose right here. And taking some of this paint because it's way too dark, let's take it from here and start adding it around the rose. We can add it and make some more interesting. Like, this is rounded this way. This is rounded this way, and it makes a beautiful corner right over here. We can even accentuate it and make it bigger. And we can go down with a line making another corner over here, make a round shape over here, go the opposite way and connect it. Can add more color to accentuate the middle of the rose. These are just the two roses, the sketch for the two roses, simple and easy. 4. Getting familiar with sketching: Let's go and create some more loose and easy roses right at the top, starting over here. This is a very simple shape. It's like a cup, just like this and add it to the outside. Let's make it a tiny bit bigger. It has a bit of an angle over here, a bit of an angle over here and a curve on this side. Now, this one is going to be the same but a bit more fanned out. And it's going to be very close, almost touching and actually touching this. So it's a cup. It's more like a bowl. It has this shape, two sides, and then on the top, going like this, covering it all. We can also add a bit of a circle at the bottom and make it more interesting by making this edge be a little bit more jagged, like make Jagger. Let's add some more brown and a touch of water with the corner of the brush. And this one is almost the same, but it has like a petal just going this way. So let's start it, but it is angled like this. So it's going to have two sides a beautiful circle at the bottom. And then it's going to have on the top, it's going to be a bit more different. It's going to have a round over here, a value over here and a round over here. Let's make this a bit taller. And now for the petal, just to make it different from this one, we're just going to add one petal just going this way. And then maybe let's add another one in the background here. Perfect. Now, these will be connected with some stems. We can indicate them, but you don't really need to indicate them. Let's make another beautiful rose this time on this side, but a bit more small. And it's behind this. So let's add the center. This center will be like American football going and making an American football over here. And then going with some edges. It's going to have an edge over here. It's like a cup. But we can see inside of the cup, and it has a bit of a petal going up. And then let's do the cup. So it's simple. Let's make another petal just going this way and another one going this way. These are very simple shapes. It's just a beautiful shape just like this, and this one is more of a triangular one and another one going this way. That's the rose over here, and of course, we can add another center on this side. This will be an angle like this, and it will have a center of the rose like this. Maybe let's make it a bit more far. This is a very good way to familiarize yourself with the marks that you can make with the brush. Like the big brush can make cuts. It can make C shapes. It can make big interesting shapes like this. It can also take some paint away. You can take it away by scraping it on the cup. Just take it away, add it to the cup. You can also use some napkins. Just make a small little ball and you can add some interesting highlights if you want. You don't need to. I just showed you what you can do with the sponges and the brush so you can understand some brush handling techniques, the secret brush handling techniques. Okay, and the step is over. For the next step, you're going to do a bit more sketching on this side, making two more roses and a few more over here. 5. Finishing the sketch: Okay. Continuing with the sketch of the roses onto the left side, let's take some brown. Let's accentuate the middle over here. And it's the same cup design just on an angle and then like this. And maybe this one has a petal over here and it closes like this. Okay, perfect. It's a very simple shape. It's just like almost an American football, but it is more rounded. Okay. And let's make another petal going behind and over here. You can accentuate by taking a little bit of a darker color. You can accentuate the edge of the cup. The edge of the cup, and let's make another petal over here. Okay. And now let's focus on this area. Let's make another football just going this way and making it like this. Let's add a petal right over here and another petal just over here and make the cup. The cup should be a bit bigger so that this petal is also a bit onto the side. Let's connect and make this a bit more round. It's not visible. The center of the rose is not that visible. So you can take some napkins. Rather than making it darker, you can take some napkins and erase some of this color, go back with the dark and add it like this. You can also break down the brush marks and make them more textured. Even though it's the same shape, you're just breaking it down so it has more of an interesting look. Maybe it's the middle of a rose. In fact, it is quite the middle of the rose. This is a very simple way to create complexity, even though you're basically making the same shape so instead of adding complexity, you are taking it away and putting it back the same way, but with a broken brush mark, a broken line. Instead of a flat wash. Now, that's right over here. And let's add a bit more of a petal just going behind. And another rose. Let's add it over here. And add a simple round and going down. This is just a very far away rows. It doesn't need to be very complex. We can add some complexity by taking the middle away, building some of that texture there, and then we can add the complexity by making some cuts. Just some cuts over here and over there. Just making a beautiful cut like this, one like this, and then following the middle. If you cannot see it, I'm going to make it a bit darker so you understand what was done. So it's a small little shape here, another line over here. Notice how the brush is open, but it doesn't really need to be. And then another one over here, and then continuing to add some of these shapes, going to the side, remaking that metal more interesting. Now on the side, let's focus on the edge, making it more weird. Instead of a round, it's a bit more weird. You can do that over here as well, creating this jagged line, this weird, interesting edge. And over here, let's take some water and make almost the same thing just going and creating some more interesting outlines. So notice how it's not a round shape anymore. This is all the shapes of the roses that you need. Maybe we can make another one over here very fast, making a round shape like this. That's all you need for a sketch. Okay. And those are all the sketches that you need for the roses. In the next step, we're going to start to add some darker and lighter colors. 6. Blocking in the dark: Now we're going to focus a bit more on the dark and light. You can take the middle brush or the big brush. It doesn't really matter. The light will come from the right hand side, so we need to add some darkness, some geometric darkness to the roses. You can start to make it as a patch like this, just to notice how the dark sides compare to the light sides. It's easier to just go down with some brush marks. And create some dark this way so you can group them around and understand what is the light? What is the dark in a more coherent manner. You can make it even darker if you want, but it's not really necessary only in parts that are not so evident. So this one has a dark part in the middle and on the lower side, this one the same. It's quite a repeating pattern. Let's make this circle a bit more like smaller. It's squished. I squished it like this. So we make it more different than this one. This will be straight looking at us. Now on this side, this one is going to have dark onto the left and bottom. Basically, all of them have dark in the middle, the left, and the bottom. I'm just covering it all up and I'm going with light up and down motions to create a more flat dark side. Notice how this is very round. We can change that up and add a darker side, just maybe adding just a small little corner you can start to work a bit more on the edges into the dark side. Welcome to the dark side. We have cookies. Okay. At the top, we don't need to do any of that because those are gonna be a different color, and basically they are just going to have the dark side. They're gonna be shadowy, a bit more light than these ones, they're going to have a lot less contrast. So that's why we don't need to put any shadow on them. Now, for this one, we're going to have to add into the middle and then the bottom, and then the side. Accentuating just a bit more of this petal, sticking out and this one over here. So we can have a beautiful rose. Now, this one is going to have a bit of a more tricky shadow. It's going to be lines and then a flat over here, and then just add some squiggles just to make the shape a bit more different. It's going to also have some shadow in the middle. You already have done that, but you can do it and accentuate it a bit more at the bottom. Perfect. Now, taking some more brown to do this one. This one is going to have like a round over here, and the shadow will be onto the bottom and a bit onto the middle. And maybe it's going to have a petal like this. You can also do some cuts. These will be very interesting to make. You're just going to add some cuts around the rose in the dark side. Just to make it more rosy and over here, making it darker and over here. Now, this one, the same way, cuts, overlapping almost like zig zags. And in this one, we can have just going around the shape to create a beautiful rose. And that's all that you need to do for the sketch of the roses. In the next step, you'll add the background and some foliage with the sponge, so we can create a very fast background. You don't need to let the painting dry. 7. Cerulean blue sky: Okay, now we need to find a way to clean up this brush by taking some napkins. It's always good to clean up the brush. And then for the plate, the cool trick you can do is take some water with the napkin and erase all the watery brown that you've added over here. For the background, we're going to use some blue, some white, and a touch of yellow. Let's make sure we have all the paint at the bottom of the thing. Don't put too much. You don't need this much blue. You will need more white than blue. It's gonna be a very light baby blue. The yellow is there just to mix up the paint. We're going to do the mixing with the brush, the big brush. And then afterwards, you're going to apply it with the sponge. Okay. Even though it has a bit of brown and the water is a bit browner, it doesn't really matter. It's actually indicated because this brown will cut out that color a tiny bit. Let's add gradually add some blue. That's a lot of blue. We need a very, very light colour, light blue color. Let's add some yellow. Just making this blue baby beautiful blue. Now, you're not going to use water. We've already added a bit of water, but in the sponge, it needs to be completely dry and it needs to have a clean side. You can also add the color with the brush like this onto the canvas. I'm not going to worry too much about these speckles of I don't know what it is, and taking some of this paint and adding it to the side. As you go towards the roses, you can go a bit inside of the rose, just a tiny bit inside of the rose. You might need to do two layers of this paint. Don't worry if you cannot match it perfectly. Add it. In case you don't have a sponge, a brush will work as well. Okay, so the speckles are gone almost entirely. So they go away. Oh, no. I've taken a bit of blue on the sponge. Let's add it there. It doesn't matter because we're gonna do two layers anyway. Just going around these roses and making the paint just overlapping the sketch, just a tiny bit. I've taken some blue. This is why the sponge is so good because even if you have some blue on it, you can notice how easy it is to blend it in the painting. If you don't want to make two layers of paint, you don't have to. You can have just one layer of paint. Let's go a bit lower. Maybe we have some light shining through the foliage. You can have one layer of paint, and it's fine. You can also take the brush, make the color once more, and have the second layer, add it with the brush. You've done the big part with the sponge, and now you can do the lighter parts with the brush just going around the roses. Let's make this petal once again. And focus a bit more on making a clear, nice transition and not having streaks like this. Gently go with the brush over so you pick up some of that color. Can do this with the brush. If you want to do only one layer, it's way more Easy. You've done the big part with the sponge. You have some blue already present on the canvas. Don't worry too much if you went to inside of the roses. It's fine. You're going to add some colors over it anyway. Let's continue a bit onto the lower right side. You can take some more white and add it to the lower side of the gradient. The sponge acted as a sponge, and it has taken away all the moisture. So now when you apply the second coat with the brush, it's way easier to just blend, and it already has cut all of the brown in the canvas, so you have a more coherent gradient and color. You can go a bit more blue on this side. Notice how it's not a very intense gradient. It has some variations, but not a lot. It's a very nice and clean gradient. If we can clean these speckles, these unknown entities, let's focus in on the right side. And at the bottom right over here to finish the wonderful color from the palette. We're just adding it. If you have streaks, try to brush a bit over so you don't have any because texture will be used in the end to add to the roses some beautiful textures. Okay? So it seems like we've done the whole background with just one layer if you use the sponge and the brush. Perfect. That's all you need to do for the background at least for now. And we're going to start to add some foliage. You don't need to let everything dry, and you actually need to have it wet. So let's go and add the foliage in an easy manner. 8. Painting cheat codes: Before we start on the foliage, notice how you've done almost 30, 40% in a gradient. That's a way to cheat at painting. You only have to focus on these parts to make the painting nice. And the foliage is going to be almost the same. It's going to have a dark green and just a few details, just a few leaves. And that's all you need to create. You're gonna have less than 50%. Like, 40% is just going to be the roses and the details, and almost 60 or more percent is going to be the background and the easy details that are not going to be hard to paint. Let's take the big brush, take a bit of water over this white. Let's take some blue. Some yellow to make a green and some brown. You might be asking yourself, why some brown? Well, we're going to need to make a dark green. So let's take more brown, more blue, so we can make it darker. Keep in mind that acrylics dry a bit darker. Okay, let's take some water, just a tiny bit of water and start adding this color. Maybe make it a bit brown, a bit more brown. It's way too blue, so the brown will cut that blue out. And focus in on adding this. You can also use the sponge if you want to go faster. It's actually better for beginners to use the sponge because it forces them to focus on getting everything wet and beautiful and not focus too much on the details and the covering of the whole canvas. Because the brush can leave like white areas like exposed canvas, especially if you don't use it this way. Let's add just a few touches. Let's leave a little bit of bird opening over here and another one over here, maybe make this one smaller. And as you go here, you can add another one, a bigger one and underneath, just focusing in on the beautiful layers. Just have a few holes here and there that are going to indicate the fact that this has a beautiful, nice interesting look and design. Let's focus in on making this dark color more apparent. You can also edit. Notice how here, we've edited the shape a bit to make it more interesting. This is called negative painting. It's where you go from the outside. It's just a fancy way of saying, I'm going from the outside of the shape inside. So you're editing the side. I'm taking some water just so I can make this color run a bit smoother. Not a lot of water because then it makes it transparent and we don't want transparent colors at this stage. Here, I'm going to leave and make imagine this is a cup and add the colors over on this side. That's a good color. Now, let's add some more brown to it, add some more yellow and a touch of blue to make a darker version, to make some interesting new designs, let's call it, not designs, but just focusing in and making a bit more color diversity. That's how it's called. Color diversity. We're adding some color diversity to the painting by making a darker version of this blue, this green and now we're going to make a lighter version just by adding yellow to the pile. And let's make some leaves. This is a good time to practice some leaf making techniques with a big brush, just adding some leaves. These will be in the background. So take your time and practice go slower. You can notice how easy it is to go slow. Notice that it has a beautiful edge and a corner. The brush has a corner that you can use to make some beautiful, interesting leaves. You can also make smaller ones. And bigger ones. You can also erase some of them if you want and go from the outside in. It's very important to add some leaves just coming outside. Okay. And that's all for this step. 9. Faded distant roses: Clean up the brush at the bottom of the water container, just cleaning it up, swirl it at the bottom, and then take not sponge, but napkin, clean it up, put some more water and squeeze the paint out of it. Now for the next step, you will need to focus on these three. If the paint is still wet, that's good. If it's not wet, then you are going to need to add some of that blue back again. It doesn't really need to be wet. It just needs some color to create some interesting edges. I've accidentally put some red onto my plate, onto my table. I'm going to wash it, take it away. And you can use the medium brush or the big brush. In my case, I'm going to use the medium brush. You can use the big one. Don't use the small one yet. We need to add some white, as well. Forgot about the white. So red, white, brown and blue. These are gonna be some beautiful purple, like, light, very light purple roses. And to do that, we're going to need a bit of red. Be careful red is very intense. And I've picked up some green, but that's fine. We can add more color. Add a bit more red. Add a bit of blue. Maybe that's too much blue. Let's add a bit of yellow. This is a good color. It's a darker blue than the background. It is a bit gray purposefully because it's red, yellow, and blue. So it's a dark gray, a darker gray. It will seem a bit more red once you put it. And now what you have to do is just imagine the sketch if you don't have it completely. This is just we're just remaking the sketch. So it's a cup that has a top that is bigger and then a valley, and then another top and fill it in with this color with this beautiful gray. And it has a petal onto the right side or not. It's just a corner, like this. Let's fan out this a bit more and make this a bit longer. You filled it in. Now you're going to change the color to be a bit more purple, just a tiny bit more purple. I've taken too much blue, but that's fine. We've made it purple. Let's take a tiny bit of yellow and a tiny bit of white, a bit more white. To make a gray. Now, this gray is a bit darker, and it needs to be a bit more just a tiny bit red. Don't make it very, very red. Okay? Needs to be a bit darker and a bit more red. Now, focus in on the petal on the side. Just the petal and the lower side, remember the light comes from here. But these are completely in shadow. The light is behind them, let's say. So we're just adding this newly found color to the roses. Now, the top rose is just going to be a cup. So it's going to have a little bit of an angle here, and then like this, you can fill it in with this color, very, very loose and fast. So the cup, and this is where the blue of the background comes in. Notice how if I go over the blue, I'm just picking up some of that blue up. You can also have the same effect by adding a bit of water and going on the edge with a bit of water. It creates the same effect. It softens the edge, just adding it on the edge. You can start to see how it softens that edge, even if the blue is not wet yet anymore. And now let's go onto this side. Remember this is also a cup that has a bit of a top over here and then going down. So I kind of like this corner, so let's accentuate it. We've added over here and connected to this rose, you can go inside of the rose a bit more as well. And that's all you need to create these roses. We're going to add a bit more color to them in the next step. 10. Faded pastel harmony: Or you change this color, this is a very useful color that you can add onto the roses. Like, for instance, on this rose behind, it's a very cool and nice shadow color. Just add it over here. And you can also add it on this side as a cut a triangle. Notice how it's a curved triangle. Let's take a bit of water just to make this go a bit more. You can also add it on this side as a cut and on the top right over here, right where it meets the shadow. I can also go a bit into the shadow. Don't worry if you picked up some of the brown. You might be saying, Why are you making gray roses? Well, they're not gray. They will be yellow orange. So right where it meets the shadow, just adding some of this color. You can also add it over here as cuts right where it meets the shadow. So adding it onto the bottom over here. Perfect. Once you've done that, you can add a touch of yellow to this color. Just a touch of yellow and some white, a bit more yellow. Now it's too yellow, so let's take a bit of red. And a bit more white. These will be kind of the highlights of the top roses. You don't need to touch it very much, add it over the purple and blend it in just at the top, maybe a bit on the side. And you can notice how the colors are mixing together, creating a interesting gray. Once you've done that, once the gray is created, you can add a bit more on top as a clean color. And add it to the rose right over here, but this time only on the right side because our color comes from the right side. Once you added the first layer, add another shape, another color just at the middle of the light side. Now, for this one, it's going to have just on this side and on this side some of this color. And then once you've added it, you can add another one more intense to the side over here. Now, that's absolutely perfect. For the shadows of these roses, you're going to use a more green shadow just because we have a lot of dark greens at the bottom. So they're going to reflect. Those shadows are going to reflect the green. These ones have just sky around them. Now, you can go and soften some of the edges. If they seem like they are too much like stickers, just grab a bit of water, just add it to the side of the cup and start to add just a few touches here and there to soften these edges a bit more to create a lighter transition in between the Notice how this one has some reflected light maybe from this rose. And you're softening that edge into the blue, so they don't seem like stickers. Notice how this edge is now softened in this one, as well. You are softening it by adding some transparent color right next to the edge or some water which will dilute this paint and make it more transparent on the edge. I know they don't look like roses, but once we put the foliage, it's going to look amazing. And that's all for this step. 11. Shadow of the roses: 's clean this medium brush at the bottom of the mixing water container. And now, if you have this green still available, that's good. But you can also recreate it by taking some yellow, some blue, and some brown and making a wonderful green that is a bit more brown than green. So it's a bit more muted. And then taking some white and mixing it in this will be the shadow color. Notice how it's a bit gray. This will be the shadow color of the main roses. I know it's green, but let's add a bit of red into it to make it even more gray and a bit of yellow. That's perfect. Notice how it's much more light. And let's add a bit more white to it. It's too dark, and it will dry even darker. And let's add it to the dark side. Remember, the dark side of the roses, it's on the bottom and sometimes on the left side. So let's add it over here. Not in the middle. The middles will be much more orange. Just on the sides, filling in and focusing a bit more on the edge. Notice how we're creating an interesting edge right into the green. Don't worry if you pick up some green, that's actually good. You can go a bit into the gray, and let's focus in on this one as well. Going to the side, creating a petal over here, another square petal over here, and just adding this and making the round around the center of the rows. And the connection can be a bit blurry if you want. Now, let's focus in on blurring some of the edges by taking a bit of water and scraping it onto the side of the brush onto the side of the cup. And let's make a bit of a transparent edge. Let's make this one pointy. Notice how it can show if you have a cleaner brush, if you swirl it at the bottom, and then go onto the side, you're just going to have water. And because of this green being this light light green, being interesting and light, you're going to pick up some of the green and soften some of the edges. Not all of them. I've gone a bit too far, but that's fine. Let's go over here and soften this edge and maybe this edge, as well. Over here, if the edge is too soft, it will create a more coherent edge. Like, for instance, here, it created a more coherent edge. Oh, let's take some more of that paint, the shadow paint and go over here with some cuts like this, make those petals a bit more visible. I picked up some water, but that's fine. This petal goes a bit further, and then here we can add the middle, the side of the cup. Let's not cover all of the gray purple. Now we can notice it how purple it is once we've added the greens. Now on this side, let's add a flat and going and adding it to the side. And we can also add it in the middle in this case because this shadow this rose is almost all shadow. And now very, very fast, let's cover this in shadow as well. We're going to have to focus on this and this one next. After the small little break because I need to drink some water, even though paint water makes you a better painter, I'm not gonna drink any paint water. I'm gonna go to the kitchen and drink some water. So tap, beautiful water. 12. Middle of the roses: Clean up the medium brush. And after it's clean, we can take some more of that paint, that green. If you don't have it, we can recreate it by adding blue, yellow, brown and white. If it's too green, we can add more brown, more yellow and a touch of red. Maybe that's too much. No, yeah. Just recreating that color, adding more white to it because it tends to dry darker, more white, a bit more yellow. It's a lot of paint in this brush. So let's squeeze it out and add this color. We can also add it to some areas of the roses, maybe over here because it's a bit of a different color. Let's add it to the bottom. If you don't have it, it's a bit more yellow and more it doesn't have a lot of brown. It's almost the same hue if you squint your eyes. It's a bit darker, just a tiny bit darker. Now, let's create the cup over here. Let's create the cup and the shadow part. We can go outside. It just a tiny bit. I'm noticing that it's way too green. So let's add some brown to it and add this color over top. It's fine. We can also create a darker. So you need to make it a bit more pale than you want it. You don't want extremely colorful nuances from the beginning. You need some muted colors first, especially in the shadows. I'm adding some of this color because it's a bit darker onto the lower side of the roses. And you can add it as well. Now, over here, just to make this a bit more apparent. And on this one, just adding it at the bottom, focusing a bit on the edge, creating another petal over here, maybe going behind it. I know it seems like we're making green roses, but they are not green. They're going to be orange. Speaking of orange, let's clean up the brush and create a beautiful orange for the middle of the roses. Now, this is not going to be a very intense orange just because it's the first layer of orange. So red over here, there is some color yellow. Be careful not to pick up some of that blue. Let's add more yellow. It's gonna be just I think, 70% yellow and some red, less than 30%. I think 10%, because red is very, very intense color, and it's less transparent. Now, this color, we can just add it as a shadow. This will be kind of the shadow of the roses and fill it in in the middle going around. You can also use that trick where you just go with broken edges. Or you can just fill it in. It doesn't really matter because this is the first layer of the beautiful middle of the roses. Now, here is going to have some of this orange into the shadow parts as well. This one is going to have a little bit less orange just because we want some variety in between the roses. Now, this one, we're going to make the middle just a bit smaller. Let's make it a bit smaller. Don't worry about this line because that's where some of the light will come. And this one over here, let's add it to the middle. Because you have a good sketch, now it's easy to add the colors. Notice how these colors are very, very different. Now we're going to work on the middle tones. Let's add just a tiny bit of this orange over here. Just a tiny bit. Not too much. And that's all for this step, you've added the shadows, you've added the middle orange colors. And in the next step, you're going to focus on the mid tones, and hopefully we're going to finish the mid tones. 13. Fancy midtones: Okay, now with the small brush, this is the first time we're using the small brush. Over this orange, you want to take the white and add some white to it. Not a lot of white. Add some water as well. This is what we call a mid tone. It's literally in the name. It's the middle between the dark side, the shadow side, and the light side. That's how you have to think about it. It's in the middle of the light and the dark. Now, you can imagine the light over here being some sort of, like, almost white. So add white. To the orange, maybe add a bit of yellow to make it a bit more interesting. Now, water, just to make it a bit more runny. And now you can go inside of the rose on the side over here. Notice that this is yellow. It's a bit more yellow. So now it integrates it works together with the greens as well, which is very nice. So it is very close to the green and very close to the orange. So it integrates nicely. You have a lot of water in the brush just so you can blend in some of these edges inside, just only on the inside over here. Like, notice how it's blended and going in between, almost picking up some of that beautiful orange color. Now, at the bottom, you can also do an intense yellow just going around the rose. You're basically making that interesting thing that you've done when you've broken the middle of the rose. But this time you're doing it with a mid tone. Okay. Don't cover everything. Just keep your brush marks more secure, very angular. It's more impactful that way. Notice how it creates a more interesting beautiful color. You can also go a bit inside if you want to create a middle of the rose just like that. And over here, the same exact idea, just going around and adding these broken edges into the green. You can also go a bit more into the green, adding some of these colors, going around the orange, taking some water, and adding another line at the top. Notice how it's so separate. So we need to create. If you have too much color, just take it off on the side of the Cup and soften those edges inside, keeping the crisp edges at the top and on the outside of the shapes. You can even recreate them and make them more coherent and more intense as you go along onto the edge, onto the outside of the rose, not outside because the outside is actually here. So like, it's over here. You can use this color to make the sketch once again so you have it if you want. It's not really necessary, but it's a beautiful way to add some of this color at the edge of the roses. Now going inside over here onto this rose and adding cuts, I picked up some red from somewhere. Let's add some more yellow and some more white. Oh, no. Too much red. Where is this red coming from? It's a sign. I'm telling you it's a sign. Let's add some white, some yellow, a bit more white. Now, this is a very intense yellow, so we have to be careful with it. Let's add some white some beautiful water to it. And let's actually go on the top first, clean up the brush a bit, take some water, and go inside now because it's more transparent, so it doesn't really notice how it's almost the same. And let's fill it in right over here just to clean up the brush. You can start to see how they look like roses now. 14. Soft midtones: Take a bit of a breather and realize what we've done. Like, notice how the outside of the middle tones are crisp, and the inside are not. They are softened with some water. Not a lot of water, put it on the side of the cup and soften those edges. But you have to notice also that these are very precise cuts. It doesn't really matter the cuts you are making, it's just going a bit on the outside. Notice how this one starts a bit inside and goes outside. It fans out that way. This one the same. This one can fan out this way or it can fan out that way. Doesn't really matter. It's the same over here, but on a smaller scale. These are smaller cuts. Geometric cuts. Roses are very geometrical. Now, on this one, you can do the same thing. Can add some of this color and go around the middle like this. And notice the first cut, starting inside, second cut. Notice how we've lost this outside. So let's add it, add it. You can also add a different type of thing, which is starting small with the edge and pressing down to make it bigger. Now notice how it created this interesting shape we can break it down a bit by sometimes softening the corner or we can just add another line going this way. So now it's different. We can go this way and you can start to already see the problems. We have hard edges on the outside, hard edges on the inside. The answer to that is take some water, scrape it on the edge, and start softening some of the edges. Now, on this rose, let's just soften only the top side edges. You can also go with some lines going towards the middle like this, towards this middle. And let's take some more color, go back and recreate some more of that texture on the top. So we softened and now we can add some more colors. Now you can go a bit further and make this one like this way. So it's different. I've taken a bit of red by accident. Don't worry. It just creates a bit more interesting colors. You can also add it over here because this is a transition area between the green and the light. Let's add more yellow and recreate this color. But this time, let's add a touch of blue just because we're going to work on this roses on these roses. Let's add some white and a touch of water to make it more transparent. It's a bit more green. You can start to see it. Not a lot, but because it's on this shadow side, it's going to look a lot more green. So going around with cuts like that, you can go a bit more inside over here. A bit more inside over here and start to soften just the inside because this is going to be a highlight that is going to break the middle, dark part, and color. Let's take some water and add some water to soften these edges. Okay, that's a simple brose. One cut, one cut, one cut, one cut over here, one cut over here, and another one here, and then taking some water and softening these edges. I'm noticing this is very round. So let's take more color and add some petals, some edges, some jagged lines. And we can also add some of this metal tone with water just on the end of this petal. Just over here, take some of that water, some of that paint, and let's finish it off by adding some of this wonderful interesting softening. Let's add some more color over here to make this middle tone complete. And in the next step, we're going to focus on this one and on this one with the middle tones. 15. Last of the middle tones: This next step, you'll need to continue with the middle tones on this rose and this rose. Now, this rose is going to have some mid tones, a cut over here, a bigger cut over here, another cut, another one, and some smaller ones. This one is going to have some smaller ones just going inside. So it's a different rose, different kind of rose. Just a few caligraphic things, just one like here, one that's square, one that's going this way, and one that's going this way. And now accentuating this one. And let's make One just going like this and one going like this and maybe color in some of this and make the edge a bit more interesting by going with a cut here, another one here. Now over on this side, this one is going to have some outside cuts softening it inside. Imagining the middle is here. Now we can go back. Oh, no, I picked up some of that red again. It's a red day. I've spilled some red over here. You cannot see it. And I've picked up twice the red on the ballet. I'm adding some water just so I can make some cuts going around this rose, maybe not that. I'm changing the angle a bit. If I make them parallel, they will look artificial. So I'm notice how if I go like this, it's going to be parallel to this one. So I'm going a bit more like this. Okay. And let's add some more textures in the middle, some caligraphic textures in the middle. Okay. Perfect. Now, we're going to start on the highlights in the next step. 16. Highlights go last: Step, we're going to focus on just two highlights, just adding some white, touch of yellow. No water. The water is not necessary for the highlights because the highlights need to be thick. We're not going to put it right where it is necessary to have it. We're going to put it because this is not the most intense highlight. We're going to put it somewhere to the side over here and notice how they are cuts again. But I'm going a bit slower, and it should be going a bit slower, as well. You can go over the area that is going to have the final highlight. The final highlight. And you can go around Notice how it's right in the transition where the middle tone meets the other colors. You can also go a bit inside and make a beautiful light line over here, and you can go and fill in those beautiful contours with this color. So this is the light side. This is the middle tone, and this is the dark side, very simple shape. Now going in and making this one as well. Cut. Beautiful cut. We need more color white, yellow. Thickness. Cut, another cut going this way, and the edge and now going down, we can imagine another petal here. These are very simple shapes. Go over here, and for the last oh, no, I picked up some of this green, but that's fine. We're just going to have to focus on some areas right over here. Notice how it's a bit more transparent because it doesn't have a lot of thickness. So we can add another petal over here, and going inside, making this one a bit more jagged. And then cut, cut, and let's make the last beautiful highlight on this rose over here. Perfect. We've added the first layer of highlights. 17. Softer highlights: And right now, we're going to need to add a bit more highlight to the middle pile. Remember to make it a bit thicker, add some yellow. Maybe this is very, very yellow, a very yellow highlight. It's very good that it's very yellow highlight because we're going to add it to this rose right over here. Notice how yellow it is. And we're going to add it over the top, going inside a bit. And making another cut over here, making this rose very beautiful and yellow. This is a perfect color to add an intermediary between the wonderful middle tones and the highlights. These are not the finished highlights, but this is a very good color to just add some wonderful lines just over on this side, and some dots. Don't make them all lines. Make them dots line, dot, creating these interesting middle tones, intermediary middle tones, just going around with another cut, going closer and closer and then a bigger cut over here. And a cool trick you can make. I've already taught you this trick, but now it's way more interesting because you are understanding it at a different level, a clean brush with a bit of water, just a tiny bit of water, and then softening. Softening this edge and this one, and maybe this one, you've picked up some color. So let's clean it just with a tiny bit of water just almost entirely gone, and you can start to see how much you can soften these edges. These are the inside edges. And it creates some of that reflected light. You can pick up as you gradually pick up some of this lighter color, you can go and add a different cut like over here. You can even accentuate it by going the opposite way, going with color on top of it. And then on this side, let's create some more. And we're going to need to focus in on this left rose just slowly creating that edge and going in. Notice how if I go like this, it doesn't create cuts. So let's add some more white to the color and add a cut, another cut, and another one over here. Remember, this rose only has some light over here and a bit more on the inside. Cut, cut, and another one. And we need to soften it by adding a tiny bit of yellow and going in between to soften these colors a bit more. Maybe add some yellow over here. Maybe it reflects this light from over here and yellow on the inside, cleaning up the brush just so we can soften those edges a bit more. On the inside of the rose. And in the next step, you're going to add some of this highlight. Well, let's actually add it now. Let's add another beautiful highlight. Notice how these are a bit more transparent, just because they are roses on the edge of the canvas. So they are a bit more subdued than the middle ones. Those are the center of interest, and these ones are the right side of the canvas, so they shouldn't take as much of the visual interest. We're just adding highlights. We're filling in the space for the highlights with cuts where is on the left. And over here, let's add a bit more white just to have a tiny bit more color. And let's add some highlight over here, maybe add a petal going this way and another petal going this way. And going inside, going with more cuts inside, taking some water, cleaning up the brush, and then softening just a bit. And there you go with this wonderful step. We're going to go into the next one, which will be adding even more vibrancy and some highlights over here. 18. The key to vibrancy: You've learned about highlights. You've learned about shadows. You've learned about middle tones, and you've also learned how to use the brushes to create cuts. Notice how simple everything is. It's specifically designed to make it feel easy. We're not focusing on how roses look. We're focusing on shapes that create roses. Cuts, light, dark, middle tones. And now let's take this small brush, take some water and add it to the highlight, just to add some highlights on this rose as well, with some cuts going inside, and maybe add some yellow and some more thickness, just to add some of these highlights onto the rose over here. Let's create a beautiful petal over here and another one here. This doesn't need to be very intense. We can also add some more yellow to it. Just to make it more interesting. Now notice how these calligraphic cuts are too intense. We can add some water and blend them a bit and then add some more white to this yellow to add some beautiful highlights. We can take this highlight and add it here also. Perfect. And maybe on this rose as well. And then creating some more edges and some more cuts for this one. It doesn't have to be too crazy. Let's clean up the brush. Now we're going to do something way more interesting, which is just taking some yellow, a touch of red, red and yellow. Let's find another area on the plate over here. And we've created this orange color. We need to take some water. And we're going to play with vibrancy in the middle tones. A lot of the middle tones need to be very, very vibrant. But wherever we see orange, we can create some of these these lines just going around and creating more vibrancy. They will dry very beautifully, and notice how you've done some highlights. Now you can go over the highlights a little bit with the color. Be careful not to take some of the highlights off and go in between the highlights, creating especially where there are middle tones to create some vibrancy, some orange vibrancy, not too much. Notice how it's just one cut over here, one cut over here, one cut over here, and maybe let's add one here. Now, over here, let's add some more vibrancy onto the dark side and the middle tones just going around, maybe add one here. And inside over here. Now, this one is going to have a bit more vibrancy on the outside. And as we go down, it's going to be a bit more dark. I picked up some of that white, but that's fine. We're just mixing it in and adding it over here. Keeping that middle clean, adding vibrancy, you can also add some yellow and do a yellow wash also over here and maybe over here. Notice how changing this beautiful hue changes the rose and adds more color variety. Okay, can also go over the middle tones. Notice how middle tones are very prone to having this color look amazing on it. Or you can go onto the highlight part, adding some vibrancy here and there. Now, these ones don't really need that much vibrancy. And we can add some right over here if we want to. Just add some of this vibrancy over on this side and maybe on this side as well. And maybe in the middle, just a tiny bit of vibrancy. Yellow, it's a bit more yellow, so let's add some of this over here just because we've made these cuts on the top, we can just blend them in a bit like that. 19. Organic foliage: Okay, now let's take the middle brush, clean it up a bit, just because it's dry and rusty like me. And let's take some of the green. We can make it by adding blue. I'm always remaking the colors, even though I have them on the palette just so you have an idea of how to make them. Taking yellow and blue, taking a bit of red too much. Bit of red. A bit more red and a bit more yellow. And we're going to make just a bit of white into it, mix a bit of white into it and a bit of yellow. We're basically making a light colour. Let's take a light green color. It's too green, so let's take more yellow, more red. And some water. And we're going to make some foliage. Now, this foliage needs to cut into some roses as well. So let's make a big, beautiful leaf over here. Notice how it's just a bit of a triangle, and I'm focusing on the edge, making it a bit more interesting. Okay, making another one going down. And, of course, we've made two big ones, so we need a small one. Same over here, big one. Small one. Don't worry, we can edit these later, and we're actually going to edit them. Now, remember that we need to go from the outside in as well on the canvas. So like this. You can also go close to the blue, and maybe over here, it just goes this way. Okay? Let's add one over going this way and a smaller one here. Perfect. Now, that's all you need to do with the big brush. Well, let's make another one. Just one more. Just going this way. Perfect. Okay, now taking the small brush, even though it has some yellow into it, let's mix it in and add some sticks sticks and stones. Sticks going over. Let's add another stick over here and going over the beautiful leaf. And you can also add some corners, some beautiful corners to these leaves. You can also make smaller leaves like this and add more sticks. And a leaf going this way and another one going this way. These are very simple marks. You are just adding the brush like this with the corner and then pop. And you've added another leaf and also add some sticks going this way, maybe a leaf over it, a smaller one next to it, and another one over here. Notice how the color is a bit more transparent. I'm taking some water. This is just so we've made some interesting foliage. And you can also change the color by adding some yellow into it or some brown. We're going to do both yellow and brown. So this is yellow first. And notice how this one is way more different. We can also put it on top of this, add a leaf over here. And let's add on one over on this side and make this more interesting. Going on the outside over here. And in the next step, you are going to focus on making some different colors and maybe going into the top side to make the roses. These roses have a stem and some leaves. This will be a good time to just also edit some of the edges of the roses. You're going to see it's going to be amazing. 20. Balancing colors: We're going to continue with some foliage, taking some water and some of this color, and starting right over on this rose, making now imagine this is the center of the rose. It's not over here. It's here. And we're going to have to make a leaf going this way and another one going this way. And then the stem, put a finger down, so you have a lot of interesting Control and going with another leaf going down, and then the stem, barely touching the canvas. Making a beautiful stem. Now, it's a bit too straight, but that's fine because we can add a leaf just over here going this way and another one over here, just so we can have This will dry differently because it has some more water. It will dry a bit more transparent, and we're going to add some more leaves afterwards that are not so intense. Same here, middle. A leaf going down. And then this one is going to go like this way. Let's make it a bit more interesting. Let's add a leaf here and another one right over here. This one is going to have the middle just over here. And now we're going to add some brown to this color. There's some brown and some blue to make a darker version of these colors, just so we can add it over the top, accentuating the middle and maybe some of the interesting petals. Well, not petals. Eaves. Let's clean up the brush and mix in just on the leaves, not on the edge of the just on the leaves and mix it in. Now, we're going to need to add a middle tone. So leaves that are a middle tone to between the leaf color and the background color. So the middle is just white, blue, and green. A bit more green. I know it looks quite blue, but it's going to be amazing to add some leaves of this color. Like, look at this. Look at how integrated it is on top of these wonderful colored different leaves. Let's add another one over here and maybe one just going out of this rose. And you can also add just a corner to this one, create an edge over here. Speaking of that negative painting, we've created this edge. Now, let's add some water to this color and create some more leaves around this area over here and going around these roses, you can add a lot of diversity by thinking of the corner. So if the corner of this leaf over here is going to go this way, you can add a lot of diversity by going with a leaf that goes this way with the corner. So you can have cute and interesting leaves. Let's focus in on making some more over on this side, some stems just going out. And adding a leaf over it and another one over here can also add a stick going up, a leaf and one on top. You can edge that and make them more interesting and make another small one. And that's all for the step. We're going to take a step back and then we're going to add some more foliage with this newly founded color around here. We're going to recreate it actually, and then go further with the painting, finishing it. 21. Greenery details: Okay, let's create some more foliage with this color. Let's add some green, some white, and some blue to recreate it. And we're gonna have to make some more leaves this is a very intense and light color. So we're going to need to make it a bit darker by adding some more green into it. Let's focus on these sides as well, creating some more interesting dark and light foliage areas. And another one just over here and maybe one that goes from here to here over this one. Let's add some yellow to this color and a bit of brown, creating a more earthy green. That's too much brown. Let's add some more yellow. Over this green, and we've created a beautiful earthy green. Take some water, add some blue, just so we can make it a bit more integrated. It's not too perfect right now. Okay. Let's add it over and create some more diversity of color so that the background just becomes this beautiful mess and it's not so homogeneous. You do that by focusing on the edges, right where it shows that it's a flat wash, a flat color. So if you focus on the edges and then go a bit in the middle, you can really hide the fact that this is a different color, that is a homogeneous color. Let's take a bigger brush just so we can add this a bit faster. Let's take some blue and some brown, mixing it over the brown, take some yellow over it to recreate this darker tone. We're just adding some of this blue. I wish I had more brown, but I'm going to take a bit of red and some yellow and trying to hide the fact that this darker color underneath is such a flat color and focusing on the areas that show a bit of canvas. Okay. Now, going back to some highlights for the leaves, let's take find some yellow and some blue and focusing on some areas that are close to these blues over here just to add a bit more a bit more of a touch of color. You can also go over here and add another leaf, just building a beautiful, dark and light contrast and maybe over on this side, making a leaf so you can better accentuate those leaves and make them more apparent. Let's make another one over here, just going out and another smaller one over here. And on this side, let's not forget about this side taking some water to make them a bit more transparent. Maybe they come from the outside and also over here from the outside. Maybe we have some stick just going this way and another leaf and another one on top. And let's add another one smaller leaf over here and maybe one just over here. Now, this is the Perfect time to just see if this is dry completely. It is. And we can add the final highlights, which is going to be an amazing step. This is the point that if you see something that it needs to be touched, like, for instance, let's make this shadow a bit more green. You can do things like that or soften this edge by adding more green at the edge, this one, as well. You can do those things or add more vibrancy by adding a wash of yellow or orange. But for now, the painting is almost done. So we need to put the highlights, and it's gonna be finished. 22. Thick color and texture Thank you: Okay. And for the lat step, you need to clean the beautiful small brush, you're going to use the small brush to add some very textured highlights onto the let's not, keep the wooden handle brushes into the water. We're going to have to clean it thoroughly, even though the water is a bit muddy. We are not going to use any water. We're going to have to use an area of the plate, which is clean or almost the same color we want to recreate to add some white and we're going to mix the white over here where we have yellow. We're going to add white over on this yellow. If you don't have the yellow, just add it. Mix it in thoroughly, and then pick up as if this brush is like a shovel, pick up some of that color, and we can start to add this beautiful highlight on the top of the rose over here. Notice how much more light it is. Perfect. And in the middle, creating one cut, one cut, another cut over here. And as it loses some of that color, you can go with cuts that are connective like this. Then pick up some more color like this and go and move to the next rows, adding a cut on the side, one on this petal. Notice how the paint is slowly diminishing in the brush, so we need to recreate it, take some white. Touch of yellow. It's a small little touch of yellow. And creating this thick line over here. And let's create some more over on this side. Notice how little these highlights are. They're not overpowering everything. They are just a few lines, a few dabs of color here and there, focusing on this one and maybe making this light color over here. Now, let's add a bit more yellow. And and we can add a few more cuts just going from these highlights onto the middle tones. Like, from here, it can go down. From here, it can go this way. And here, we can add some more textures at the top and maybe over here. And with the color, we can also add the highlights on this rose. But notice how this rose is way too circular. So we need to add some interesting shapes on the side and the line going down, we can soften a little bit and go inside, add a bit more yellow to the highlight, so we can add it into the middle, just focusing on the edge of the highlight. Perfect. Now clean up the brush, and we need to do a little bit of a trick to blend in these highlights. These highlights take some yellow with some water. The same trick you did with the beautiful middle tones and the shadows, we are creating some beautiful vibrancy, some wonderful vibrancy right close to the highlights and in between them just over like this. If you picked up some of that white, that's fine. You can go lower with it. Just creating some vibrancy with just water and yellow, just so we can add some separation in between the cuts. Like, notice this is just one big brown shape. We can add the cut over it, add the cut over it, and also create some more separation in between the shadow part and the highlights. Okay. And now it's time for some white. The final highlights with just white, which is just adding texture over top, only the highlights on the middle roses. Just adding a lot of texture just slowly adding this wonderful textured petal like highlight. Texture is very great for highlights and roses. It just makes it more interesting. So let's add some over here. Barely touching the canvas. You don't want to touch the canvas. You just want to lay down the wonderful paint. Notice how here I've touched it. But if I go and just place some of that color, it creates a ridge, which is very good for highlights and gives this interesting texture. Now, over here, just a few more And at this stage, if you want, you can do a lot more foliage or, for instance, create some yellow watery goodness with some red and touch more yellow to create an orange that will be very interesting to add some more vibrancy around the roses in the shadow parts. And create some more color variety. Like, for instance, over here, we can add some of this beautiful reflected light or pass through light. You're doing exactly the same as you did with the yellows, adding vibrancy around the roses and in the shadows, just adding vibrancy to those middle tones and adding more color variety. Notice how this orange is very intense right now, so you can add some yellow and with this watery goodness of a yellow, you can go and add some of this yellow water over top of the orange, and it will dry and look amazing. This is how you add more vibrancy to the colors. It's a very unknown trick and a secret technique for adding vibrancy. Most people don't use this way of painting with acrylics, just because they don't have any experience with watercolors, but acrylics can be turned into watercolors, and you can do beautiful washes to bring forth the vibrancy. I'm just going around in the middle tones and creating some more vibrancy where it's needed or just where it's not needed, as well. Let's add some highlights over on this side, as well, just to finish the painting. With a few cuts, just going this way, let's add some water so the cuts are more visible and some white and a touch of yellow to create a bit more texture. And over here and over on this side, making this petal a bit more interesting and this one as well. And that's all for this course. It's been a beautiful course, a very interesting one, focusing on shapes and colors and creating without thinking too much. That's the whole goal of painting. You shouldn't think of roses as being roses, but as abstract round shapes that all have a different texture and certain colors. That's one of the secrets of painting just seeing what the colors are and what you can do. Like, for instance, you can also go with your finger. That's another secret technique and add back some of that yellow on top. Mix those areas together. You've learned a lot and you've went through a lot of steps. So you can analyze what happened and what you've learned from each one of them in order to get some takeaways. Like, for instance, the shadow parts and the middle tones, the way you've transitioned in between them, and then how you've added a preliminary highlight and then added the highlight on top, how you've built texture on the highlights, how you've done a background very easily with the sponge and the brush. How you've learned to make foliage more interesting and diverse by changing the color, brush handling, beautiful cuts, and how you kept the original shadows still intact and focused on just the middle part of the painting, and you've kind of cheated on the other 60% of the painting by making it more blurry and not as detailed. And you can do and keep all of the things that you've learned from this course. You can apply to other courses or other paintings as well. These are principles that are applied to all of the paintings, just in a different type of way by just using different colors or different mediums. I'm just going to clean all of the surface and drink some beautiful tea. Thank you for watching and being part of this community. If you are gracious enough, please leave a review. It really helps others know that this course is for them as well. Thank you for watching and see you in the next one.