Gouache for Beginners: Level up Your Skills with Magic Rose Gardens

1. Class Introduction: Hello, everyone. I am Chan Tibi an artist from Vietnam. I started my journey with watercolor, but lately, I have fallen in love with wash, especially for painting vintage style floals. And welcome to my new class. Watch for beginners, ve up your skills with magic rose gardens. Roses are a favorite for many artists, but they can be challenging to paint. Don't worry. I will guide you step by step from practice drills for stems, leaves and petals to creating a magical rose garden as our final class for jack. This class is a little bit more challenging than my daisies and forget me nots glasses. So if you are completely new to wash, you may want to check those out first. Now, let's get started and bring some blooming roses to your sketchbook. 2. Materials and Color Pallete: In this first lesson, we go over the materials and color palette I will use for our today class. Just keep in mind, you don't need to have the exactly similar art supplies as I use. Feel free to use whatever is the most convenient and available to you. In this very first lesson, let's talk about the tons and materials you may need to use in this class. Keep in mind, these are just suggestions, you don't have to use exactly similar art supplies as I do. In order to wash, we wash pin, we need some paper. We need some brushes, a missing palette, and the container and small piece of cloth. Let's go into everything in detail. For for today class, I will use a small piece of watercolor paper. This is a six size which is ten multiplied 15 centimeters, and this is about student grad, 100% cotton, water colour paper. But for this class, you don't have to use 100% cotton water colour paper because we will only use the layering technique. We don't use on wet technique for this class. For practicing some techniques, I will use this gray paper. The reason I use this gray paper is because for final project, we will paint the flowers on the duck pick ground, so I will use the gray paper so that we don't have to to put the first layer of dark color to practice some techniques. But it is okay if you don't have a gray paper, use a normal white paper and you paint some kind of color background first before practicing the techniques to paint the leaves and the flowers. Next for the washban it is Himi 36 colors, Whpan I purchased this very cheap in Vietnam. It's only around more than $10, it may be more expensive if you are living in a country which is far from China. But this is just a student grade, washban and you can use any other brands you have at home, it is the most convenient for you to purchase for today's proche we don't need to use 36 colors, we only use. The first one for the sky, I will use a little bit of light a little bit of violet. And a lot of white a lot of white color. So, in order to paint with wash, we use a lot of white color. So make sure to have a separate tip or pep or white wash pain. And for the make the flour, I use black paint. I will mix it with this kind of green, it is green blackish green. But if you don't have this brush green, just use any dark green color in your bobs. I will also use this blackish blackish green to paint the first layer of bleaf I mix it with lemon to paint another layer of bleaf and for flower, In just red color. It is orient red, but you just need to use any vibrant red colors in your paint pops and that's good enough. That's all the colors we may need to use for today's class. For brush for today class, I use this.This is zero size rail brush to paint the leaves, to paint the flowers. I mean, use this small lila brush to paint, you see the the stem and some some leaves in the center of the flowers. And I also use this fiebre brush to paint the sky and and the background. Honestly, I think I think I use another brushes, another brush. I mean, use the flat brush flat brush to paint the sky here, so we need probably three to four brushes because you can use the fiber brush to paint the sky, but I think the flat brush is easier to paint the sky here. So we need water container, maybe we need to one to clean the dirty brush, want to clean the clean brush. But for me personally, I only use one container of water and I will change the water when I find it to be dirty. And I will also use a small piece of cloth. So after after cleaning your brush with water container, we can tap it on this small piece of cloth and it will be cleaner. And that's all the materials we may need to use in today's class. And in the next lesson, we teach you some techniques to paint the flowers and the leaves. 3. Practice Painting Rose Stems and Leaves: Next, we practice some leaf and petal drills to prepare for our final project. If you find it difficult, keep practicing and after several days, you will be confident enough to tackle the project with ease. In this lesson, let's practice to paint some lease, rose flowers, and as you can see, I am using a gray color paper because I don't want to spend time on painting the background before painting the flowers later because you see the flowers here have some white color. So if we paint it on white paper, it will be difficult to see. That's why I use this gray paper. But if you don't have gray paper, you can try with white color and we need to put the wash first. And if you are not very familiar with the layering techniques, you may want to check out my very first glass here on skill share blooming with materials, techniques, and Daisy del because painting daisies is a little bit easier than painting the rose flowers. If this glass is a little bit difficult for you. Just try our Daisy, forget me not glass. First, in order to paint the leafs, pain we will paint the stem first. This la brush to paint the stem. I'll be easy to paint thin lines using lila brush instead of brow brush because you see the This section, I don't know how to con it, but it is thinner, so it is easier for us to paint the thin line. We put some water here to have a creamy consistency and we paint the stem. My hand is wet, but it's not a big problem. And so some stemus then I will use this round brush. I will use this round bus to paint the leaf. Ose leaves often often have some kind of cluster 3-4 leaves together. So you don't try to make the leaps perfect, one stop, one or two stop shop, and that's good enough. So if you look at my paper right now, the leafs here look a little bit weird. But when we paint a, a lot of them together, we have a feeling a garden and the leaves here don't have to be perfect. One thing to keep in mind is for this painting, not on the leaves, we can see the stem, so you need also to practice the leave when we don't see the stem. I just make someter blase together. We imagine there's some stem here, but we don't have to paint it. It's maybe three or it's maybe five leaves cluster. This is on the techniques we need to use to paint the stems and leaves of this rose garden, and that is probably the end of this lesson. See you in the next lesson. I mean teach you the techniques to paint the rose flowers. 4. Practice Painting Rose Flowers: In this lesson, let's practice to paint rose flowers and keep in my bending rose flowers is a little bit more difficult than painting daisies, or forget me not because you see it is more seedy for daisies forget me not it's tout flowers. Again, if you find this glass is a little bit difficult for you chi my other glass on painting daisies or forget me not flower. I will teach you how to paint the rose when we see it, how to say 90 degree and also the rose when we see from I think it's a 70 degree, something like that, some bad and some small bat. Actually, for that kind of bass only one dot. So in order to paint this kind of rose, we need to paint in one, two, three, one, two, three, four layers. You start with the first layer. For the first layer, we will we will mix, we will mix white and red. So if you see this color, you mix the ratio to have the color that you like, but it is the color we will see we've easy to see on the flower. I put my right hand onto the paper. So now, it is a little bit dirty, but no problem because as I mentioned before, imperfections make the painting looks perfect. So first, let's paint the flowers up front 90 degrees. So If you find it is a little bit tepy we will paint this kind of show one, two, three, four. If you have participated some classes on painting rose flowers on using watercolor, we will use this kind of stop. Next we will paint the rose with around 70 degree three quarter degree. If you find it is a little bit too difficult to visualize, which is the shop. Then for Z title, but it is just one dot. And for this tile, it is guided up. The shop here is like this. This is the first layer. Now we need to wait for the paint to dry before painting the second layer on top of this so the first layer is already dry, if it's not really dry, but for the second layer, we don't have to wait for too long because the second layer is very simple. It's very simple. We just need to put a small.in order to I add more red into only I will add more red into this color to this color to covid shade of red. I think this is better. The second layer, it just put a small.in the center of the flower. You can use Sevastop to make it. For the bus, I will just make it darker. You can make your stop so that it look like the same shop, the rose, but it's not important because you will put another layer on it anyway. You can use it to fill the gap. The second layer, basically, we we put the nappies value of the red color onto the center of the flour. Now we need to wait for the paint to dry again before painting the third layer. We need four layers in total to paint rolls. I have just used my hat dryer to accenuate the drying process. Now let's pin the third layer. For third layer, we a lighter shade of red. In order to do that, I will pick up some wine here. Pick up the right from here. That is even lighter shade of I will start with this small layer brush first B in the central flower, you can only use actually to paint this painting, I only use I only use this brush but too easy, we will use even smaller brush to paint centre flower first and then use bigger brush to paint out layer. We just repeat the previous process, but we leave some gap. Let's try to bend this big br to I feel that there are some missing here, so I add another leaf here. For this wolf, this boat, we don't have to use anything. I think it is beautiful enough for the small but the rose flower. For this In boot or maybe you can put another here another petal here if you like. That is the third layer of the rose flowers. Now, we need to wait for everything to dry again before adding the little highlight on top of everything. Now, let's bend the final the rolls. So for the final layer, we identify the light sauce, so we imagine we have some here. And you can use poor white or you put just a little bit, stretch a little bit red here to go with even lighter shade a red. Imagine if we have a sun here, this part of the flour will be lighter. I a highlight here. And that's on the techniques to paint the rows, flowers. I look a little bit complicated, but it is really simple. But when we paint when we paint the final painting, we may need to have some adjustment about the shade and the highlight depends on the composition. So we may need more than four layers. For example, up to four layers, you feel that we need to add some an extra petal here, we may add a some flowers, if you want to paint a colorful rose garden, we may add a little bit, in yellow for some flowers. But first, you need to practice the essential technique first and that's all the techniques we need before moving to the final project of today's class. This is the end of this session and I will see you in the next class where we practice to paint this lovely rose garden. Oh 5. Final Project: Compotision and Sketch: Thanks for sticking with me so far. Now, let's pin this magical rose garden together and bring your vision to life. Let's start to paint our final glass project. My method is before painting anything, I will create a light sketch on the paper we use for the final project. Different artists have different methods. Some people prefer to create a sketch on another piece of paper so that they can look at this on painting the final painting. So the drawback of creating the sketch on this final project paper is because wash is not transparent. When we put the first layer onto this, it will cover everything. But for the painting, I don't need to follow the sketch. Exactly. I just want to have the the initial sketch to visualize the B self is okay. If later I cannot see it, but you can alternate. You can change the method. If you find that it is easy joy on another piece of paper is more convenient for you. I don't want to make the bending too perfect. That's why I in COVID eight kind of imperfect model. But it is okay. It is 100% okay and a lot of artists do that and the painting still look gaseous. It's just you add some masking tape onto the four edges of the painting. I think we need to put our signature on the bottom of the painting so I will make it is the gap here is larger. I'm not really satisfied with the position of this. So I want it is exactly you see, we have the wound up so I want to have a thorn flower in this area. I will mark this that you may want to try to identify some flour here. Another, we use the wounds a third. I want to put a cluster flower here so three, three, three on this session. That's enough for visualize the whole painting. Now As I mentioned again, if you find that it will be difficult to remember the placement of each flowers, you can draw it on another sheet of paper. That's for this lesson, started from the next lesson, we will put some colors onto the paper. 6. Final Project: Painting the Background: So let's paint. So in order to paint the sky, I mix, I mix a little bit. Actually, first, I need to take a lot, a lot of white here into this and add a little bit of black, a little bit of purple to create this purple gray We need more purple. It is very difficult to make the exact shade color as I painted before. So just go with some kind of purple shade, gray color. I've been painting the sky. I will try to cover the pencil by this color. The pain here is a little bit too liquid now, so the sky here is not smooth, but normally the sky is not that smooth, so I trying to add more pain to this because I don't want the pain to be too transparent. H. You see, we see some stop here on the on the paper, but it is okay, as I mentioned, that is a just a hand painting and we don't need to make it perfect. Next, we mix the blackish green and the black hair to paint the background of the flower and the leaf. M What I like from gash and I collect is because even if the pain is dry, we can still mix. Need to put a little bit of water there and we can use this pen again. So try to cover the pencil. It is okay if you don't cover the pencil bottle because we can erase it later. Because we've been paint a lot of layer onto this background, so don't try to make a thick layer of paint over here. I am on purple mixing the black paint into the sky because I to create the transition between two area. So now let's create some kind of edge. We have the illusion of the leaves here. First actually, if I put the pen here, it will bleed into the sky, so I will leave that session later. One Okay. So we leave this session later. Just make sure to keep the paint on the palette to make the similar color. So here we paint the leaf using black colour. So as I mentioned, I don't want to paint into this session. Uh, because I don't want to COVID on effect here. Now we need to wait for this leg grow to dry completely before coming back to paint some leaves in black here and also another layer of lives. Actually, this time, I want to wait for it to dry completely, so the paper will not cold. So this is in the morning and I will go for lunch and when we come back, we will paint we continue to finish our final glass budget. Hello, everyone. So I just come back from lunch. Let's continue to paint our porte. As I mentioned, we use the wound up third here, so I paint some stems and lips here. So the pain now is already dry, so I put some more water there. I don't want the stem here is to bow that's why I try with other area first. I will paint the black leaf Black leaf over here. It looked a little bit awkward for now, but don't worry because we have different layer lips. And now and that's on for the black leaves here. So we can start to paint another layer here, but I want to wait a little bit for this part is dry completely before painting another layer on it because you can try to paint around and come back this area later, but it will be easier if we wait for this layer to dry before continuing. And, 7. Final Project: Painting the Leaves: The guy turned out to be a little bit dark in my bless is going to win. So I just turn on some of my lights I am not really fan of artificial lights, but in this sky, I don't know every time I want to make some videos or some tutorials. My neighbors just become very noisy and the sky is become locker. I think I need to depend on the artificial lights so that I can make videos and tutorials in glasses in on condition. Now I will use this green.This is the blackish green I I already told you in the very first lesson about the materials, but if you don't have this green on this palette, for example, if you are using Hb insect, you can try this green. Th is permanent green deep. Just some tied up. Deep green on your color palette on your paint bobs. Now I will put first, I want to create some stem first, you then zip this line of brass. I will start here. Because this layer will become invisible in the next layer, so we don't have to charge to be perfect here. You can paint on the leaves without the stem, but the stem will make our work to be easier. That's enough for the second layer. One thing you need to keep in mind is we don't charge both the leaves everywhere, leave some area in a completely row to create depth for the painting. One mistake I often have painting with wash is I create very thin and transparent layer of paint. This is a habit I got from painting with watercolor. So remember, if you got used to painting with watercolor, when you paint with wash, you need a different mindset. In watercolor, everything is transparent. Everything is gentle. But for wash, we need to have a bow and confidence shop. I think now I don't need to create most them, but I mean put some random leaves on the edge of the painting on the bottle of the painting. There are some leaves, I use a very thin layer gas, so now I revisit and add more paint into it. I think that's enough for the second layers. I don't want to overdo this because on top of this, we still need two other layers for leaves. Want to go with some area which is just T because it will create more depth and dimensions for our painting. Let's pin the next layer and I will add more. I will take more black green and put it here. The reason I don't want to use it because if you remember from last night I accidentally add a drop of black onto it. And for this layer, I don't want to use any black on my pending I will mix the two color together with yellow green, we will make this color become brighter. Actually, if you look at the painting here, the shaded color will be different because for this painting, I mix it with not with lemon yellow, but with earth yellow. I think the shade of colour here is still a little bit dark. So I think I want to add more lemon yellow onto it. So I still feel the shade here is a little bit. I don't like the shade here with a little bit, I think I will need to take a small palette to alter the colors a little bit. I don't really like this shade of colour for the next layer of the leaf I will add I will take yellow cha and So black head green here. Sorry because I didn't mention yellow ochre off yellow. For Him, it is called off yellow, but for other brands such as Huber I think it's yellow ochre. I prefer this shade for my second layer of the pending. If you look at my hand, it is lty now after I take out a lot of paints from the paint pops. I install the video here to clean my hands and wait for it to try before I continue our lesson. Luckily, the sky is bright now so I can use the natural light again. For the second layer, I will use this this color and it is olive green. I add a little bit of white, just a little bit of white, so the color will be a little bit brighter. I want to make the distinction between this layer and the previous layer. First, again, we need to create a stem because my hand is still a little bit wet so I don't use a perfect stop for the stem because you see this is a garden and we don't always see the stem. It's still a little bit dark, so I turn on the line again. Let me turn on the line for my room is because I thought that the sky is already brighter but it is not so I think that's enough for values. I mean just be it without the stem. Again, we don't have to make the perfect leaves here because there's no perfect leaves in a row garden. Just one t, one stop and it is when we have a leaf Make sure to a relatively thick. And it's okay for the leap to be overlap. And try to make the leaves here is not uniform, so I try to create different brussre on the breast. So some leaves are big and some are small You can even charge with different brushes if they don't get to COVID to create different pressure, different stop just using one we still have another layer of lips after finish minding the flower so don't have to So now I just want to quiz and leaves without the stem. We visual there's a stem here. I think I will add another stem here. I think that's enough for the second layer place now again, we need to wait for it to try and then we come back and paint the flowers on top of this. 8. Final Project: Painting the Flowers: Uh Let's come back with a project. Now we will paint flowers and after finishing on the flowers, we come back to add another layer of leaves. Similar to the practice lesson, even in this middle or red, we use darkis value, lattice value, and the mist of value and the middle value to paint the first layer, the flower. So this is this color. I will change the composition a little bit compared to the painting I did previously. I use the run first. I will paint a cluster of flower here first. Because this cluster of flour is essential, I will make the flower a little bit biicker than other I will make four flower here in total. And another glter flower here. That one have four, one only have three for other cluster, generally, we only have one or two flower put together. Don't worry. The flower is in the middle of nowhere without any storm on it because we will come back to paint another layer of blue. And some small books over here and there. So we need to practice a little bit to have a feeling where to put the flower. So o is the I think row is most most favorite flower to paint, but from my experience, it is also one of the most difficult flower to paint. So don't worry if the first bending is not as you exted. I think that's enough. Now I put some and I want it is kind of the root of the rochi I don't want to put a lot of flowers at the bottom of the painting. It is okay if you paint more flowers than needed because in the final layer when you put the leaves on top of this, you can cover any flowers if you don't like it. But I think that's enough for the first layer of the flowers. Let's wait for it to dry before coming back to paint the second layer. Now, let's come back to paint the second layer rose and luckily the sky is bright now, it's sunny now, so I don't need to use the artificial layer anymore. So similar to the pic session, we will use the dark t here to paint the center of the flower. You can just add a dot chart cool Illusion browse, but actually, it doesn't matter. A dot is okay because we add another layer on this. But I do feel a little bit more comfortable when I ask the I think I need to up my my glasses because normally I don't need it, but now you're painting very small details, so I want to see it's very clear. Hi Penny, don't remember what is the direction of this I want to make the paint a little bit thicker because I want to make sure that everything in the background in the cover. Now, wait for this layer to dry again, and then we come back with another layer of the flowers. Now, let's bend the third layer of the rose. For this, I mimic. It is too dry now, so I will add more wie in here. Pick up some pain here. Let me look at the patie. So for convenience for my convenience, you see in the practice session, I use two brushes, but this time, I will only this one brushes because I don't want to change the brushes too often. So I will use the tip of the brush to paint the central and if you find this difficult, use a smaller brush to paint the central. You see the pain here is a little bit too thin, but don't worry. We can come back and out more and make the pain thicker. We can paint around first because I do think that we need a thicker paint for for the heat of the flower. Because this row is only in the shadow. So I mean I mean just darker shade a brow to paint it. We will come back and add glolaa. I think I forgot to paint the center of that flower in the last row. I want to paint brush one brush, but now I see it is a little bit difficult. I pick up my small brush here, my Buss because for the central floral I don't want it to be So there's some blest where I do find that the pain is too thin, I will go another row to add more pain onto it. Now, not yet. Now we will wait for the rose here to dry again before coming back to make the final adjustments for the flowers. The painting is just dry and let's come back and now we need to do the final adjustment. The final adjustment, first we being the highlight, we mean create an even lighter shade a bright color almost white. I assume the light direction is in this direction. For example, for this for the roll under we we don't need to put the highlight. For this step, basically we add highlight where we think the role is more bright color. I will show you this brush to to look whether any rolls, it needs some more ck value. I think This flower on more dark color. And that's it. This one. That's it. Lets more. Less is more now we need for the pan to dry. I think a little bit here. I want to feel some some gap in the flowers, so make sure. So now we wait for the flowers to dry before pending the final layers of leaves. Oh 9. Final Project: Final Details: Welcome back, and now we need to create the final layer of the leaves and maybe the final layer of this painting. In order to do this, I I will add more I mean add more lemon yellow, and wine into this mixture. So try to not remix the green instead using the green you have already painted before so that the color we have the subtle change in the value I want to try this sheet. Oh, sorry. My hair is wet. So I want to my I want to dry my hand as well. But let me see. I will echo this area first. You see the painting cover the part of the flower buts not problem. It is on purpose. I think I forgot to paint to add more vibrant color onto this. So I do feel that I need the color to be brighter, so I will add more yellow and more white here. B color I put here, I still feel that it is a little bit dark. That is already the final noblp I want to make sure it is brighter than than on the color we use before. You can paint over the lip, we paint before. Hip now, we think that we need to add more bright colour onto it. I want to make the leaf here very deeply small. So I try to only use the You can different rust if you want that. Having paint over that leaf to so I don't want the painting to be too coral. I think I will stop adding for now and I just come back because this is the final layer so I want to make this layer really stand out, there are some place where I feel the pain is too transparent. I will come back and pain the second layer over it. I don't want some here to be flowed in the air. I put some more leaves around it. I believe that's it. We finished painting our rose garden together. Let's se our piece. See you in the final class in the final lesson so that I will tell you a little bit more about how to upload your project and how to ask questions if you have any. 10. Thank You and Goodbye: And we reached the end of today's class. Roses as one of my favorite flowers, and I believe mastering them is a lifelong journey. I hope you enjoy the class. If you have any questions, feel free to start a conversation in the discussion session. And please don't forget to upload your pose. I promise to comment on each one. Good luck, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in another class.