Learn to Paint Easy Daisies - Acrylic Flower Painting For Beginners

1. Introduction: Hey everyone, my name is Elise yet and I'm an artist here in San Jose, California. Welcome to my painting class where I will be showing you how to paint simple daisies for beginners. I'm going to walk you through the materials, will show you how to draw DZ is, and then we'll just take you through step-by-step on how to paint them. I will also be adding a class project which I cannot wait to see what you guys come up with. So let's dive right in and begin today's painting. 2. Materials : This is everything that I use for today's project. A bowl for water. I used a just a big flat brush for the background, but you can use anything that you have. For the daisies. I used only two brushes. This filbert brush and just a little pointy round brush. And then I use this flat brush to paint the stems of the daisies. I use A6 by eight RTC Canvas. I just didn't have an extra to show you a tissue. And these are all the paints that I have used. Two greens, yellow, white, and black. They have been listed below. 3. How To Draw Daisies : So in this lesson, I'm going to quickly walk you through how to draw simple daisies. This first one is your simple, basic one that will be facing straight forward. So a little circle or oval shape center but, and then small leaf-like teardrop shapes for the petals surrounding it. Some of them can overlap. You can also leave some gaps in the middle between each, each petal. And some can peek through a little bit in between two petals behind it. I will also leave you a reference pic of disease below in the class project section. So check that out for more inspiration. So for the second Daisy, I will be tilting and Psyche towards the left, which means your central bud will also be facing that direction and the pedals will follow the same way as when. Now let's have one daisy facing the right. Feel free to turn your paper that direction if that feels more comfortable to you and drying it out, like I'm doing right here. Remember not every pedal has to be the same size. Just keep it natural. This last daisy, I'm going to have it face upwards. Rather central bud will be popping out a bit more and some of the petals will be kind of hiding behind it on the other side. So the petals on this side will be much shorter since it should technically be hiding behind the central portion. And to draw, you will just make a you like shape with a squiggly line closing it off. Usually you will have some sort of green foliage covering the bud, which you will understand more once we paint. I'm just going to put in some basic leaves here. Just to complete the look. I hope these simple drawings helped you out and just in case you are completely new to painting disease and you just needed a little bit more help. Again, I have left the drying or not the drawing, but it reference picture of daisies down below in the description and also in the project tab. So make sure to check that out if you need more inspiration. 4. Painting the Background : Okay, So let's begin this painting with the background forest. Use any brush that you would like for this, I'm using a big flat brush to cover more ground faster. I'm going for a gray background here, so I'm using black, white, and some light olive green to give it a slight warmer tone. Here, I'm testing out the gray, but I wanted it to be much more litres, so I added more white to it. When I paint on canvas, I do like my side edges to be painted as well. I think it gives it a really nice finished look. So make sure to get that in. If you are using a Canvas. Once you've got a smooth even finish, we'll move on to the sketch phase. 5. Sketch Phase : I will only be using these two brushes for a painting, these daisies. So check out the materials section if you need more information on that. And using some green, white, and black to sketch out my daisies roughly before we begin. And this will guide us when we begin painting and will serve as a good starting point and base to begin from. If you need more detailed examples on how to draw this out, make sure to go over how to draw disease in the previous lesson that we went over already. I'm starting with a stem of each daisy and the overlay portion in the middle. Remember this is just for placement purposes, so do not get caught up on too many details. Sketch case is only meant to help you that the painting process and visualize the composition. Once you're happy with the placement of age, Daisy and the composition, Let's now sketch out some of the petals. You will find that once you get your sketch phase over with, all you need to do now is fill them up with paint, which we will go over in the next lesson. So most of these outlines will be covered with paint, but I do not mind some of these sketches peeking through. I believe it adds more layers and brush marks and tells more of a story and process of how this was painted. I think visually it looks more interesting to hello. My life. 6. Painting Process - Petals : So first step in painting these daisies is to fill them up with clean white. I'm using a filbert brush here, which is perfect for painting these because the arch shape that this brush comes with is exactly what we needed. So paint these petals. You can use the belly of the brush and the side of the brush to get different shapes as you can see me doing right here. Now, taking some yellow fill up that middle bud, using ethanol brush, pull out some of the yellow into the pedals. To get some more definition, I'm using some burnt sienna to add to the edge of the center while pulling that color into the petals as well. Here I'm just going over the petals, but some might again. All right, So now we're gonna go over these same exact steps for all these other flowers here. So begin with plain white and go over all these petals that you have. Gets off. Only two to three up like motion strokes like this. Hello. It can carry over. Yeah, I'm just giving a second according to vote on that. Right. 7. Painting Process - Flower Head : Now let's take that yellow and fill in that center. I felt like something was missing in the center composition here, so I wanted to add one more Daisy to fill that up. All right, so now that we're done with the Forest, since I can stop being, the first step was adding the white to each petals. The second step was adding the yellow in the center. Now we're going to get in the bond sienna and add that to the yellow. But as fun to build some more definition. Now I'm taking some burnt sienna and a little bit of black to add to the edges of each petal while blending it with some white. What this does is I have some more volume to each petal to make it more three-dimensional and set off that looking. So the key here is to add each layer are little by little and you slowly want to build up on those layers to blend out these tiny strokes, I'll take some white and pull my color out of it. So now what you are, I'm just going to be repeating the same exact steps to all the other diseases as well. I'm just bringing back some highlight that sum the bright yellow to the top of the bud. Adding some more definition with some burnt sienna to the edges again. And I'm just pulling it outside here. You'll also see me doing this with some gray to separate some of the petals to sometimes all you need is tiny little marks and strokes to give it some detail. 8. Painting Process - Stems & Leaves : Let's fill in the stems now with hookers green, you can use any kind of dark green that you have. I'm using a flat brush and holding it vertically to get a thin line by using the tip of the brush. But you can also use just any thin brush, like a 10 round brush will also work. So here I'm just going over the sketch phase that we kind of drew out at the very beginning of the stems. So I'm just using a darker color here instead. And just making it more prominent. Using a little bit of black and green, I'm adding some extra stems here and there to build on the background a tiny bed. Using some white and green, I am simply filling up the base of the buds. To give these buds a bit of a filling. I'm just adding extra stems as I paint along, I look at the overall composition. And if I feel like there's something missing, or if I feel the need to add something to fill up a space to balance everything, I just do it then based on how my painting tons out. So feel free to add your own composition to the background if you want to. So here I'm just adding in a mixture of both the veins with some white and a tiny, tiny smudge of black to add some highlights to the stems. Also quick note, if you also want to learn how to add more movement and be more expressive with your backgrounds. I have another class on how to can express a disease, which I will link below. So you can follow this class up with that to help you loosen up your skills more. All right, now let's add in some few. Basically, if I'm using both of those greens and some black and white to make a more muted olive green. And I'm just add in some simple leaf shapes randomly euro, add in as many as you want, and wherever you feel like it looks best. Adding in a few lighter green leaves here just for some more interest. Okay. 9. Final Touches : And now I'm deepening the central little bit with some grand been santa to make it seem more hollow. Just some final touches to a few petals that seem to be a little, a little bit translucent, glossy. I thought it would be fun to add a few tiny white dots and highlights too. Make this a bit more expressive. And it also gives an impression of movement and light. Adding some few light yellow highlights to top it off. And via dan. Be generous at times in the amount of paint you add when you build up the layers or when you give these last minute highlights. This can provide interest in visual texture and interesting brush marks. And this completes our daisies for today's class project. If you love daisies anymore projects on this, I would follow up this class. But another daisy painting paths that I have shown right here. This other class is a bit more expressive and loose than the one I demonstrated today. So if you want to take this one step further and loosen up your skills even more, I would highly suggest taking a look at this class. I have linked down below as well. Hope you enjoyed this class today and I cannot wait to see what you guys come up with. 10. Thoughts & Class Project : Thank you all so much for joining me and for completing your class. For your class project, I would love to see your version of these daisies. Just, uh, put them in the project tab below and feel free to leave me a review if you enjoy it as well. Most importantly, do not forget to follow me so that you do not miss out on any future classes. Once again, thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you next time. Bye guys.