Loose & Playful Watercolour Florals: A Quick Beginner Bouquet

1. Introduction - How to paint a loose fun intuitive bouquet using tube watercolors in Pan : Hi, everyone. So today, I'm going to be taking inspiration from some of my old work, and I'll be using this painting here, a painting that I did way back in 2020, when I was still exploring, but I thought it was a really nice one to use as inspiration for today. So I'm going to be using this to get an idea of composition and colors. But I actually used liquid watercolor in this painting, and today we are going to be using just tubes. And this is my professional watercolor palette. But these are all the colors that I use on a regular basis. I am going to be using these colors today. 2. Lesson 1- What I will be using and preparing the page.: The brushes that I'm going to be using today are my sable round, my six round, and my dagger brush. So I'm just going to reactivate paints. I'm going to start off with a very light layer of clear water on my page. I'm not soaking it. It's just to soften the color when I put it on the page. 3. Lesson 2 - Blocking out the main floral shapes : Then I'm going to go in with some soft yellow. I'm going to start off with I'm actually going to use my Philbert brush because I'm finding it easier to get the shape of the petals. I'm going with some pinks here. And I'm just very quickly getting the outside of the flower shape. H. And I am getting the inside details. This is the inside of the flower. I'm not painting the entire flower. That's the important thing. And you can see how I'm mixing the colors on my palette. It's very light and loose and I've just gone in with this magenta and gone quite heavy on the pigment and I've just let that bleed out. Then I'm going to go in with some pink here and using the side of my filbert, just getting the basic shape and I'm going heavy again with the pigment and I'm just adding that middle to the flour. Keeping it really light and loose, not worrying too much about going wrong or making any harsh brushstrokes, just really being quite playful with the way that I make my marks. Now I'm going to go in quite dark again and I'm using this magenta and I'm going to use a little bit of this orange red. I'm going to do the same here. Then I'm going to go back in with some yellow on this side. 4. Lesson 3 - creating harmony through colour painting smaller buds: And a bit of yellow up here, I'll start there, I think, and notice how I'm trying to keep things balanced. I'm actually finding that I'm using the filt more than the round today. Sometimes I say I'm going to start off with a certain brush and then just intuitively I end up picking up a different one just because it feels better to use. I'm going to go in with this red orange just on the inside of that flower. If you accidentally make marks on the page, you can just lift them off Okay. I'm adding a little bit of that orange orange red. Then I'm going to go in with some dark genta just there just to define that bud. I'm going to go in with a bit of orange orangey yellow this time. I'm just filling up the shape. And getting a bit of definition in this flower. I feel like we need a bit of this pink on this side. So let's use a bit of this Okay. 5. Lesson 4 - Connecting the flowers with foliage, painting a variety of foliage : Now we're going to go in with my 12 round and just get stems in. And you can see that I've put little tiny bit of pressure when I'm doing the leads. I find using this dagger brush, you can get a bit more detail. I'm just going to bit of nice dry brushing there. I'm just making very loose marks to indicate the stem. The nice thing about this dagger brush is that you can do these really long straggly stems. They give a really nice sharp pointy edge to them. I'm just filling up the spaces now. This is meant to be a light hearted fun and quick painting for you to just get your daily painting in, I guess. It's nice to have these quick tutorials that you can do just to warm up sometimes. So just to get a bit of balance, I have done a bit of this yellow over here. I've added a little bit of orange and I've spread out that orange around the page and then I've got this magenta happening, and then I'm trying to get some balance here with the leaves. So go. Just as a final touch. I think I'm just going to go in with a very soft light color just on the inside here because I think that feels like a lot of white space there. A bit hint of color on this side as well. There you go. There's your very loose, playful net floor