Learn to Paint Watercolor Asiatic Lily

1. Asiatic Lilies Intro: Hi, My name's Jodi Hand, and today I'm going to teach you how to paint these Adriatic Lilies and watercolor lilies are my favorite flower. In fact, I knew my daughter Lily, after my favorite flower. I'll show you how to paint this finish composition of to Asia attic lilies with buds and leaves. And this is a great way to practice wet on wet technique as we learn how to paint the bicolor pedals of this flower. This will be our finished composition and will also practice the flowers beforehand, okay? 2. Asiatic Lilies Project Overview: I like to start off by going over the steps for today's class on the Adriatic lily watercolor piece, The first part of today's class I'll be going over all the supplies we will be using. We'll take a look at the brushes, paint and paper that will be using for today's class. We'll go over this reference photo, my sketching process and how to transfer your design over onto your practice page and on your final piece of watercolor paper. Using a light pad will practice doing the wet and wet technique on our flowers. After doing our practice blowers, we'll add them to our final painting, and then we will who leaves stems and buds and finish the project off with some lettering along the bottom. The final step of today's project will be adding some small details on the flowers and a little bit of a speckled background. 3. Asiatic Lilies Supplies Overview: Let's go over our supplies for today's class. I am using Princeton Velvet Touch Siri's brushes in sizes one, four and eight rounds. The papers I'll be using today are both 100% cotton for our practice sheet will be using a brand called Be Paper and that will be on size six by nine inch paper and are finished project paper. It will be arches, cold press ah 100% cotton paper in size nine by 12 The pain time using today are Majel omission Goldwater colors and the colors I have chosen are red brown Rose matter, lemon yellow, Hooker's green and cobalt blue. Number one thes All come from the set of 36 colors that are available in tubes, and I previously pour them in two pans. You'll notice on the left hand side there. I'm also using a ceramic plate for my mixing trade. Other supplies you'll need will be paper towels for drying your brushes and water jars or water bucket for washing your paintbrushes. Other supplies they used were a water soluble graphite pencil, or you could use watercolor pencils if you would like 4. Asiatic Lilies Transfer Sketch: So I did my initial sketch on Justin sketch pad paper to a lot of erasing, and I liked my final design. So I transferred it over to another sheet of paper on and fixed the spacing on the flowers a little bit. So I do have, um this link to pdf of the sketch linked. If you want to use mine, we're just going to trace over my sketch for the time being. He said to take me quite a while to sketch that I am going to be using a light pad to transfer my design over onto my watercolor paper, and I'm going to be using a, uh, water soluble graphite pencil. This one is from Faber Castell, Graphite Aqua Rehl. You could also use watercolor pencils like thes prisma. Color pencils would be good if you want to. Just do it in regular pencil on just trace very lightly. Concertante that as well. So I I'm just using an led light pad because most of the time I'm painting at night and I don't have a sunny window, but you can certainly just use the sunny window and tape this up, and you can see your design the old fashioned way the old fashioned light box. And I'm gonna be transferring part of my design onto my practice sheet, which I'm using. Be paper six by eight inches of 100% cotton. This is some early, inexpensive paper that you can use just for practicing or for small little pieces that you want to try things out on. And I'm just going to do the big flower here just to demonstrate my flower technique. Turn to break this up there. Okay. So initially when I was sketching this, I did start out with the steam in. So if you are going to sketch this from scratch, I would start out with the center of the flower and build from there, Gonna have steam in coming out of the middle, and then they have those little parts with the pollen on the top. All right. And then there are six puddles on each of these lilies and you can start out by just doing the three that will be full kind of an almond shaped. And I'm not going to do the bottom part of the pedal because it does go into the center where you don't see. Just do a light sketches is mostly just a guideline for when you're painting and kind of make some of the lines that go into the pedal and then we'll do the pedals. That kind of crossover, This one, I see a little bit of the backside of the pedal, man. Just continue on until you have all six pedals drunk, and then I'm going to add the leaf coming out the side. Okay. All right. So that's just for the practice part. Sure, if you can see that. Very well. Um, I just did one flower so that I could practice my wet and wet technique. All right, so before we do our practice painting, I'm gonna go ahead and transfer over my full sketch, and I'm just gonna speed this part up on the video. Um 5. Asiatic Lilies Practice Flower Stamen: So after we have our designs sketched out on our practice paper, we're going to work on the practicing the wet. And what technique in our flowers. This is the reference photo. I'm using its ah, genetically called heartstrings. And I have on the image link for you in the resource is under this video. All right, we're going to start out by doing the centers of the flower. This will be went on, Dr. Range my pants here quickly. All right. And I'm using a water bucket today. But you certainly could just use two jars, one to rinse your brush in and one to get clean water from. So with some clean water, I'm going to get a little bit of this. Red brown don't need very much. And I'm going to just pay in those small little ovals for the little stigmas or statement. I have to look up the flower parts. Yeah, and here's another one. Now would we go to do are finished piece at the end. We'll do both of the flowers the same time. But where this is just our practice flower, all right? And the long part of this demon coming up to meet. That is a very, very pale shade of pink. If you look at me reference photo that I've linked, this particular lily has a very pale pink stay. Men pulling water that rules matter down quite a bit to get a very pale pink. Yeah, being careful not to touch that wet brown. I'm just going to make little statement coming down to the meeting into the center of the flower. Okay, It's not at this point. We want to let this dry before we go in and add any more color. I don't want to have any bleeding going on in the center of my flower. And I don't want any of the yellow to bleed into that peak. I guess I forgot to mention I'm using my round four for this step. Sorry to do the voice over on this instead. And we're just going to allow that to dry. And if you'd like to speed up the drying, you certainly could use a heat tools such as this. Um, a lot of times, I'll do this if I don't have a lot of time to paint and sit around and wait. Or if I don't have a second piece I'm working on, we're going to quickly dry that that I don't have any bleeding 6. Asiatic Lilies practice flower petals: All right, now, using our larger brush the size eight, I'm going to work on the pedals. So this is where I'm going to start using a wet on wet technique. I am six pedals that I'm going to do, and I'm gonna start with these three full pedals and then go in and do the ones that are behind. So using some clean water, I'm going to just wet that entire pedal area. I need to dip a couple of times depending on how much water you have in your brush fuzz there. All right. And I'm going to get some of my lemon yellow. They don't want this to be too vibrant, so I'm going to add some water to that. Okay, We'll water down that yellow. And where I got that wet going into the center and just coming right up to that, we're not going to cover the entire paddle here. We want to believe, get a little more water, and then I'll take My bro was a little more concentrated, and I want to go from the tip of the pedal. I just wanna push that color into the yellow kind of come up along the edge because in my reference photo, the edges of the pedals are actually pink and avoid some excess water. I usually dab my brush onto my paper towel quite a bit just to pick up any extra water. When you have these puddles of water, like right here, it does tend Teoh Honda up and then it leaves that balloon look, which is really feathery edged. And I want this to be a nice, smooth transition. So I'm just gonna kind of blend that together until I get a siren look. So, as you can see, I have the dark pink fading into my yellow and then I have solid yellow here and I'm going , I'll move onto the next pedal wedding. That that's okay. If you still have a little bit of color on your brush. So a little better go around those steam in and then get some yellow, let that blend in again, making sure that I don't have any water really pulling up to avoid those blooms going into my rose. Just pushing that color into yellow. You actually want a little bit more, uh, get a little darker. I think you look nice. And if you don't get those a dark enough color that you like after it dries, you can always add a second layer on top. This was nice, but watercolor in the transparency as I like to start out light and then add on top if I want it darker. It's a lot harder to lift paint up than insurgents at another layer. Okay, that one looks pretty good, and I'm going to go here and do this third pedal waiting that starting with me yellow, going around the steam in returning to my rose. Now you can see how this is kind of giving a little bit of a feathery look, and that's why I'll dry my brush off and just kind of pushed that color around to smooth it out and blend those edges together. You'll see us. This dries that it it won't be quite a start. Okay, now, at this point, because this is still wet and we can see the very center of the flower. If you look in the reference photo, this had some pink right around the statement. So I'm going to do a wet and wet technique of just dotting the color in I'm just going to add tiny little dots of the color around the steaming and let that spread. And if you let that dry too much, you won't get that blend. And you want to add some water before you drop that color in. Okay, All right. And if you'd like, you could let this dry. Or if you're an impatient person like me, you can just go right up to the edge of the next pedals when you wet them to avoid any blending. But this isn't by any means, a super accurate botanical illustration, And it's a little bit of a loser style. So a little bit of bleeding is okay, At this point, I don't I don't mind the blending colors on that part. All right, so we're going back and forth between my yellow and my rose and just pushing that color and all right, so see here I actually had some bleeding because this was still wet on this side. And to fix that, I can just take my brush, dry it off, and I can just push that color away and then wipe it on my paper towel, and that will take that grade off of there, and I could blend that back up. So this is a great way to just practice this flower. See here. I also have a little bit of bleeding's. I'm gonna just smooth that out. All right, So this paddle I has a small bit. That's curved undersides. I'm going to just leave that till the end and then come back in with the very pale pink and out that it later, starting with me yellow. More of this road was here. Can you get a bit more water on this? Here, you will find that this be paper. It does perform slightly differently than the arches. So while it is another 100% cotton paper, the water does absorb in just a little bit of a different way. So you might end up with a little bit more pooling on this Be paper than you will with the arches. As that does. Absorb the water a little bit better. And if you have a lot of the artist paper and don't mind using the more expensive paper for your practice, you certainly could just go ahead and use that. All right, so this wet and wet part of the flower is finished. And at this point, you can just set this to the side and let it dry. Or by the time you finish working on your second flower of the end piece, it will probably be dry. And then we will come back in and add the details of the little speckles and defined the pedals a little bit more. I will want to add in this underside of this pedal, so I'm just very water down, but a pink underneath there. I just finish the underside of that pedal. Okay. Already here. I do. See, I have a little bit of where it was. A little too dry. Gonna blend out that edge there. 7. Asiatic Lilies Practice Flower Leaf & Details: Okay, so that was dry. And And I'm going to go ahead on my leaf off to the side and are finished. Piece will actually be doing a leave with a stem on some buds. I'm just gonna take a little bit of this hooker's green and go ahead on top part of the leave. More a darker color were concentrated for the top. A tiny bit of water, the lower side of belief. Okay, just to see if some time I'm gonna go ahead and destroy that. Okay, so now the finals don't know why that stopped and then have that fade into a little bit of the pink. Very, very pale. If you can't see your lines anymore, that's okay. We just wanted those as a guideline. Use your sketches or reference. I'm just gonna blend into some peeing care, Okay? And at this point, if you don't have very defined edges of your pedals, you can take a very water down edge, just kind of go along the edge of each of your pedals. Defined them very lightly, Okay? And we'll just add some veins to our leaf here. Okay. All right. And the final step for the details on this flower is to do the center, and what I did was I used a small amount of this red brown with a small amount of cobalt blue to make a blue gray color. And we're just going to do some random little dots coming up from the center of the flower . And they get little more sparse as you go up on the pedal. Maybe just a few coming up, and we'll just work each petal until each one being careful not to go on top of your steam in that we did in the beginning. 8. Asiatic Lilies - Class Project Step 1 Stamen: So we finished our practice sheet and we can use that as a reference. I also have my reference photo sitting here for my colors of my lily. And I have my designs sketched out on my arches cold press, watercolor paper. And I'm going to go ahead and start with the flowers. Were going to be doing thes statement in the center. First, it just says on our practice flower. So using my size four round brush gonna go ahead and do the small ovals at the top of the steam in gonna go ahead and do both flowers, right? And still using that sites for brash wouldn't do very water down very pale pink from the rose matter to do the statement. 9. Asiatic Lilies - Step 2 Flower petals: we can allow that to dry, and then we can begin on our pedals. All right. Using my size eight round brush, I'm going to do the wet and what technique for the pedals. And I'm going to go ahead and begin with these three pedals in the center that air full sized, getting water on my brush, wedding the pedal, starting with the lemon yellow in the middle and pushing that color up to the top of the pedal. I'm taking the rose matter and pushing and pulling that color until I have that nice and blended again Here I have some pooling of water. So I want to make sure that I move that water around and maybe soak up any excess and dad that on my paper towel to avoid any blooms, get a little more pink, get the tip there and just move on to each pedal. Continue in the same method, just going around those steam in that we painted in the first step. - Okay , so now I want to do this centre here, and I actually my pedal tear had dried a little bit because I had to address my camera equipment. So I'm just going to get this a little bit wet so that my center we'll blend a little better and to avoid any feather edge is understandable in that water up. Then I can drop a little bit of rows in the center. Okay? I can continue on with my other pedals, wedding them and then starting with yellow, moving up to the roast. And here's this pedal, just like in our practice where I have a small amount of the underside of the pill, the pedal showing. And I want to do that after, maybe I'll come back to that after I do this other flower. - Okay , so, no, I'm gonna let that dry and then I can work on this second flower. Okay, so this is just a small bit different then our practice lower because we're looking at the underside of the pedals here. And if you look in the reference photo, the bottom of the pedals is a pink, and then it has a dark vein coming up. So we'll add that in the details. After we do the wash across the pedals, it's gonna wet my pedals, and I'm going to do the ones that have the yellow first of the tops, which will be this part showing here in this part of the pedals is the underside of the pedal. So I'm going to just wait on that part, do this 1st 1 right here. And since this is actually the outside edge of the pedal, it's not going to have as much of the yellow from actually going to start with the pink and then just add a small amount of yellow along the edge because we're not seeing the inside edge of that pedal. Try my brush a tiny bit and just move that pink around here on my palette in time. Like I said, just gonna add a small amount of yellow along this edge here. Okay? I didn't do this. Backpedal. And this is one it's actually curving. A little bit of bleeding. That's okay. Uh, this one and actually curving over and we can't see the point of the pedal. This one is gonna be mostly yellow with a small amount of pink on the top. And that just going blend that a little bit. I wish that color up them in Duthie Kurt, part of this pedal that is coming down again. This is just showing the edge of the pedal, which is mostly pink. Just add the smallest amount of yellow peeking up here. - Quite a bit of leading here. I think my pedal was a bit too wet so I can drama brush off and wiped the excess on my paper towel to remove and lift some of that pigment that is bleeding into the other pedal. Okay, Now, just to avoid some of the bleeding here, I'm just gonna let this dry for just a little bit here. Well, I don't have too much bleeding there. You okay? I'm going. I could finish this part of the paddle. Um, this is gonna be a little bit darker pink, the underside of the pedal. And it does have a vein going to that will add in and the details after that was driving. I'm going toe wet, that area of this total and you a concentrated pink on that. And if you don't get this dark enough the first time, you can always go back and add another wash over the top. If you wanted a bit darker, like I said, it's a lot easier to add more on top with watercolor than it is to try to remove pigment. So always air on the side of a lighter washing the beginning, and you can always add more later. Just going to blend that out, make sure have a nice even wash. Let that dry before you do this next one and here we can go ahead and finish this last pedal, you know. 10. Asiatic Lilies - Step 3 Leave & Buds: Okay, so the next part after this we're just gonna let this dry when we're gonna work on the leaves and thes buds. So I'm using Hooker's Green. That which on this firstly, coming over here, I have the top of the league, which will be a bit darker. We'll go back. And what at the being details after that is dried here. This one of the top of this leaf and this one Go ahead and connect my stomach right now that it's dry enough that I could add my lighter green wash for the underside of the leaf. - Okay , Now, the buds were actually going to do the wet. And what again? If you look in the reference photo, they're very pale green, and some of the buds that arm or closer to blooming will actually have a pink shade on them . So it would be one of these. I'll make smaller one. I'll make green on this one. I'll add the pink into it. So I'll just go ahead and do wash across this and then we'll have those fine details. And after this is dried, so green, get that a nice light wash, just kind of Ah, long oval shape Do the next one do really pale green my brush and I'm gonna drop in some of this rose on the top Gonna go And while I'm doing that, I can go ahead and and my rose color on the bottom shade side of this pedal A swell. I could do that. Thank 11. Asiatic Lilies - Step 4 Flower veins and leaves details: Yes. We're gonna let those leaves and the buds dry while we do the details on her pedals and using a small amount of green like we did in our practice flower. We're going through these veins on the pedals coming up. Um, do very water down green. Coming up in ice agency, I can't really see my drawing very well anymore. So certainly look at your sketches or reference for where you will want your veins of your pedals. So they start out in a green color from the center on a fade into peak do very, very light wash. And I'm using my size four round for this. And at this point, if I want to go ahead and define my pedals a little bit like me, where you're serving to blend together in the centers, that would be a good point to do this. I just kind of defying on the edges of the pedals. I'll do my beans Here is well in a bit darker on this section of the pedals. That was the underside, and these leaves are looking pretty dry now so I could go ahead and add the meaning details on those as Well, - all right. So on these buds clean a curve around and come up at the top and and just to a darker spot up at the top, I'm just going to define the edges on this. A swell, a little bit wobbly there. 12. Asiatic Lilies - Step 5 Lettering: all right. I am gonna go ahead and let those meaning details dry, and I'm gonna go ahead and do my lettering here at the bottom. I'm gonna use my size for brush. And I didn't want this to be the same color of pink quite as the lilies. I wanted to be a little bit darker, So I'm gonna use just a tiny bit of the cobalt blue just to darken up my pink and more of Ah, a purple e shade. Just go ahead and blown that together and I'm gonna go over my lettering, the bottom. Like I said in my intro, The lettering. There's certainly lots and lots of videos available to learn brush lettering if you are interested in adding lettering to your painting and this is a completely optional part is what this is just something that I wanted to add so I could hang it in my daughter's room. - Just go back over a couple spots on this. I'm very happy with that. 13. Asiatic Lilies - Step 6 Final Details: hurry Now that everything is dry, we just have to add are finishing details and to do the center dots on our flowers We're going to mix together the red brown and a small amount of the cobalt blue again just to give me a grey blue color And I'm gonna use my size one round to do those centers. I mean, starting at the bottom center of the pedals We're gonna have more dots and then more sparse as you go up just in a random fashion and take care not to go over top of your statement from the very beginning because these dots would be behind the steam in and you only want to go up. About 1/3 of the way of the pedal is where they stop. Yeah, and on this final one want to dish? Do it on this inside cheer, and at this point, you want to go back and look over your painting and see if there's anything else that you need to just add some little finishing details like here. I see. I need to define this pedal just a little bit more. I'm just gonna add small, thin line of the permanent rose over the edge of these pedals here just to define that edge a little bit more. All right now there's a completely optional step, if you like a lot of people, just like a plain white background I personally wanted just add a little bit of detail. So I want to do some paint splatters, and I don't want to splatter on top of my pain so I can use, uh, a scrap. He's a paper to cover this with, and so I avoid splattering around on top of my flowers. So using my larger brush getting it very wet, I can take some of my leftover paint on my palette in my pink, my green and my yellow and just tap two ads bladders. I'm just using my finger to tap my brush and add some splatters and using my scrap piece of paper just to block the flowers so I don't splatter any paint on top of them. There's pink, and I'll go ahead and add a little bit of green splatters as well. I think this as just a nice little fun detail so the background isn't quite so white. Okay? And the more water on your brush, the bigger your splatters will be. We'll add a small amount of yellow as well. I'm just using the colors that I used in my painting. What's left on my palace. Texas Need a small enough? All right. There you have it. There is a finished a genetically watercolor painting. 14. Asiatic Lilies Thank You for taking class!: thanks for taking my class. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want to share your project with me I love to see it. You can tag me on Instagram, Mrs Hand painted and use my hashtag Mrs Hand painted as well I hope to see your finished project and thank you so much for taking my class.