One Stroke Painting: Beginner Rosebuds and Leaves in 6 Easy Strokes

1. One Stroke Painting: Beginner-Paint a Rosebud and Leaves in 6 Easy Strokes: How would you like to paint like this or like this? Hi, my name is Sue elder, Eddie 2. Project Intro: Paint Rosebuds and Leaves on a Greeting Card Front: In today's class, you will be applying the rose bud and leaves to a piece of card stock that will then be applied to a greeting card front. I chose this greeting card project as a beginner's piece because it's just a small bite and not something large, like painting onto a canvas. This is also a way to share your art by sending a special message to someone who doesn't love to receive a card in the mail. And it will be extra special being that it was made by you. I suggest buying the recommended brushes, paints, and floating medium to set yourself up for success. When I first started painting this style, I struggled because my paint wouldn't blend and glide over my paper surface. Come to find out I had overlooked the tiny detail to use bloating medium. This is definitely the secret sauce. I've painted many cards to send to my family and friends. And I'm always told that they saved my cards. Once you have the proper supplies and get ready to start, remember to take a deep breath and relax. Do this periodically and don't stress or strangle your brush. Relax and enjoy this experience. The first step you should take is to download the supply list and either purchase online or take with you to the craft store. Then download the handouts provided in the class resources section. These handouts describe exactly how to create the strokes. And you can also place a piece of wax paper over the top and trace paint, the strokes. This will help you know how hard you need to press down onto your brush to create the strokes. I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Supplies : Let's talk about supplies. The supply list is available as a download in the class resources section. Some items may be available at your craft store or on Amazon. And I have provided links for you. The folk art acrylic paint. This paint is thick and creamy and is perfect for this style of painting. The folk art floating medium is a clear gel which helps you glide along your surface. One stroke brushes, there's a three brush set, or you can purchase of ten brush value pack. There's blank cards and envelopes. And diversifying black ink for stamping. And then we have the stamp set with various sentiments and an acrylic block. And I use a fine tip marker, and I prefer the micron 0.02 in blank black blues, you can use any kind of glue that's not going to be too runny. You also need some white card stock, white printer paper to practice. Wax paper to place over your car. Your downloaded teaching guides to trace paint, your strokes, a water container, paper towels, and a Styrofoam plate. See you in the next lesson. 4. Loading and Blending Basics: Hi guys. This lesson is one of the most important lessons in one stroke painting. If you don't load and blend your brush properly, your strokes aren't going to be successful. I've loaded this non absorbent Styrofoam plate with Barry wine and white thicket sunflower. And here I have the floating medium. Floating medium is a clear gel that when you use it lightly, it helps your brush glide across your paper surface or any project you're working on. Here. I have these boundary boxes, one and a quarter inch tall and an inch wide. And I place this here so you can understand what I mean by staying within the boundary. I don't want you loading your paint over here and over here or going longer. Because when you're doing that, you're taking paint off of your brush instead of loading it. And your goal is to load this number 12 flat with paint two-thirds of the way up. So I'll show you how we're going to load our brush. First. We're going to dip it in water. Then we're going to remove all that water. We don't want water on our brush. We just wanted it so it's not stiff. So you're gonna dip one corner into the white, one corner into the berry wine. And then you're going to press down. You press hard. You want to see this brush open up. See how the bristles are opening up and pushing paint up into the brush. Let's grab some more corner and corner. Oops. Did you see what I was gonna do there? I would have done this incorrectly. So stop and think before you put your brush down. It's got to go this way. So we push that paint up into the, into the brush. Look at how pretty that is. That's a nice gradient. So now I'm going to grab a little bit more paint. And normally I'll do this three times. And there it is. See how far up I got that paint. Now, I'm going to lightly, lightly touch into that floating medium. You put too much floating medium. It's like pudding, too much water into your paint and it's just going to get messy. But just a little bit more. There it is. And that's how you load your brush. Let's see what it looks like. Oh yeah, that's really nice. The cap pretty that is. Okay. Sometimes you might not need to add more paint. You just need to flatten it so you get that nice chisel. And say you, by mistake, dip your white side into your berry wine and you're thinking, Oh, no, what am I going to do now? I got to wash it all out. No. Stop. And just pull off the paint with your paper towel and then go back to blending. There it is. You've saved yourself from that mistake. Nicer blend. See you in the next lesson. 5. Lets paint the rosebud: Welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to paint the rose bud. Download these two pages of teaching guides that I have for you in the class resources section. With a mix of white and Barry wine. We're going to paint these rosebuds. So I have these posts that I've drawn here on my piece of paper there, the, the width of my flat brush. So with my white side up, I'm going to start on the first post. Minute press down as I'm coming up and over. Slowing down, stop and stand up. Fresh white paint again on that first post. Press, come up and over like the letter N, stop and stand up. Fresh paint. First post, white side up, up and over. Stop and stand up. First post wide setup up and over, stop and stand up. Now I'm going to show you how to complete the bottom of this stroke. We start at the first post with fresh paint, white. Is it the top? Press down? And over to your friends, your second post. You can see how it got kind of ragged E there. I'm glad you saw that because that means that my brush is too dry. I don't have enough paint. I might need a tiny bit of floating medium because it's starting to drag. And let's fix that. So we come back over again and waste breaststroke that. See how easy it is to fix that. So let's get fresh paint. First. Post, white side up, press down and up like the letter. You do it again. First pose, press down and up. Like letter, you. Press down and up like the letter U. And in our next, after we learn how to paint the one stroke leave, I'll show you how we can finish this up. We'll be adding this calyx, the stem, and the leaves. So I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. One Stroke Leaf: Yay. Now it's time for my favorite, the one stroke leaf. Download the handouts from the class resources section. And in this handout, you can see how I talk about the face of a clock. And we're going to have our brush at 11 o'clock and at five o'clock. And then we're going to press down and end up at two o'clock. So let me show you how to create these leaves. I still have a little bit of this red, this berry wine and the white mix in here. Want to show you something. I'm going to pull off some of this paint, but not all of it. And I'm going to load my brush with the green and the white. And do you see how it's blending here? It's pulling out some of that Barry wind and your leaves end up having a bit of an olive looking color. So let me, let me just show you. Of course, we can start with the fresh clean brush and just do your green, white, and yellow mix. Here, I'm going to add a touch of the yellow bit more of the green, trying to adjust this. Also trying to make sure I have enough paint in my brush. Number two-thirds of the way up there it is nice and pretty. Add a little bit of a floating medium. Okay, now it's loaded. I'm gonna be at that angle, like I said, the 11 o'clock and five o'clock angle, this doesn't look like it's blended out, right? I see a big glob of white. What you see here, you're going to see here. So you wanna make sure that it doesn't look too messy. So you're going to press and you're going to turn it slightly and come up to a point. I'm going to add a little bit more floating medium. It looks kinda dry. Let's try that again. We're at that angle. 11 o'clock, five o'clock. Press turned slightly and come up to a point. I feel like this is still too dry. I'm in an air conditioned room and I think my paints are drying out. Let's try this again. Press turns slightly and come up to a point. Do you see how pretty that little blend is there being that I didn't clean out that Barry wine. Okay. We'll do one more. Turn slightly and come up to a point. Now, we're gonna go the other way. Because not all leaves face the same way. Okay, so now I'm gonna be at this angle and I'm going to turn slightly up to a point. There it is. We're gonna do we're gonna paint some leaves. Going up. Fresh paint. Still looks like it's a little blobby. Let's try that. Okay, so now I'm gonna be the bottom like this. Press and turns slightly and come up to a point. You see how I'm just rotating my brush? Rotate it as I'm pressing down, stop and come to a point. Let's come down now. So our leaf is going to be coming down to a point. I'm going to do. I'm going to show you how to do these shadow leaves. So I'm going to take that paint off. And then I'm just going to add a little bit of floating medium here. See how nice and soft these look. So pretty. That's how you do shadow leaves. So next, I'm going to show you how to create this trio of leaves. So we're going to load our brush again with some green, white and a little bit of yellow, little bit of floating media. And what we're gonna do here is with our green side, we're going to tilt back to where only the green is touching. Then I'm going to place my brush at an angle, press down and come to a point. Just like that. And that's how you create that trio of leaves. See you in the next lesson. 7. Calyx, Stem and Leaves: Okay, So I'm going to show you how to finish up this rose bed. We're going to be painting the calyx, which is this area here around the rose bud. So with fresh green, white, and yellow on your brush. I don't have enough green here. There we go. A little bit of floating medium. So I'm gonna be at this angle like this. And I'm going to push down and then hug around this bud and then tilt the brush back and just lightly paint this tip. So we'll do it on this one here. So I'm at this angle here. I'm going to press down, tilt back light and my pressure and come up to a point. We go. So now we're at this side. Same thing. Press tilt back, lighten your pressure. Only the green is touching. Load some fresh green on here, fresh white. And then here I'm going to flip it to where the green side is up. I'll be right here and paint this tiny little one stroke leaf. Flatten out my brush with more paint. Now here to create this little thing here, this little bud, you're going to press down. The green is right under the rose bud. You press down, lighten your pressure, and then just the green is touching. So let's do it on those other to grab a little bit of green, little bit of flooding medium. Press down in here, this angle you press lighten air pressure. And then just the green is touching the other side, press at an angle there, decrease the pressure, tilted back to where only the green is touching. And then make a little curve there. Fresh paint on here. Again, green side is up. Little small, one stroke leaf. Little bit more paint. Green side underneath the butt, press, lift and jazz the green is touching. Last one. You're at an angle, pressure, lighten your pressure. Just the green is touching. Your hugging that rose bud. Angle. Press releases the pressure. Just the green is touching. Fresh paint. Green side up, press like a one stroke leaf and come up to a point. Fresh paint. Green is under the bud. Pressed open up your brush a little bit, decrease your pressure. Only the green is touching. There's your rose buds. We can add a couple of leaves to this. Fresh paint. I'm going to add a leaf here. I have my green up on top. So I'm going to press, come up to a point. Press come up to a point. And then just the green part is any fresh paint. There's no more green there. Just the green is touching into your, into your leaf. Again. Press open up that brush a little bit. Needs some fresh paint. There it is. Fresh paint. Press open up and lift. Last one, last one. You go. That's how you paint a rose bud. I'll see you in the next lesson. 8. Painting the Card Front: Okay, Let's get ready to paint these rosebuds onto our piece of card stock. Or a piece of card stock is cut a little bit smaller than our card front. So just to look slightly smaller all the way around. So let's load our brush with paint. So again, dip it in water. Pull off that water and load your brush with your very wide mix and your white. And staying within that boundary box that I talked about earlier. You want to just stay here and not go any further. Because like I said, that takes paint off. You want to load your brush. So just keep adding about three times. Press that into your brush. And a touch of floating medium. There it is. Let's get painting this. So our rose buds are a little bit higher than the center. So we'll do our first one right here. Press down, and then come over to that for that second post. First post, press down. Come over to the second post stops, stand up. Reload your brush. One on this side, up and over. And then down and up. Reload. Over on this side. Press down and over, down and up. And there's your rosebuds. Let's pull off some of this paint. Load our brush with the green and white. So on the PRB, on the Barry wind side and your green green and white mix. I exaggerate when I put down when I put down into the paint. I don't try to go this way straight in because I can get it to go all the way across and I don't wanna do that. I want to make sure that I just get it on the corners. And then blend, grab a little bit of the yellow little bit of floating medium. And let's paint our calyx. So let's bring you back down here. And we commented angle, press down. Curve, come up just lightly touching with your green. Let the green side to the top. Tiny one stroke leaf. Adding more paint, come to this side and press hug the bud, releases the pressure. Just the green is touching. Fresh paint. Angle, press down, hug the bird, release the pressure, tilt back on your brush to only the green side is touching. Fresh paint. Green side is up. Small little one stroke leaf, they're fresh paint. Angle, pressure. Hug the bird, release the pressure, tilt back. Only the green is touching fresh paint. Angle, pressure. Hug the bird, release the pressure. Just the green is touching. Fresh paint. Add a little one stroke leaf right here. Reload. Okay, now we're gonna do this. The stem. So with the green touching, press release the pressure and come down. Press release the pressure and come down. Press release the pressure. Flatten out my brush with some fresh paint. Let's do one stroke. One on each side. There it is. The front of your the front of your card. See you in the next lesson. 9. Stamping a Sentiment, Inking a Frame, Signature 1: In this lesson, we're going to be stamping a sentiment onto the front of our piece of card stock. And then we're going to add this little whimsical frame around it and signing our card. So let me go ahead and get my ink. Let's move this aside. I'm using versa fine pigment ink and it's black. And I'm gonna get a little piece of scrap paper just to test it. I've got my sentiment here on a, on an acrylic block. And I'm going to lightly tap that onto the ink pad. Take it to the paper, press down evenly and lift. And there it is. So now I'm gonna do it onto my card front. Lightly tap onto the ink pad to see that it's straight. Press down and up a little bit, but it's still looks okay. Now I'm gonna go ahead and add this frame around here with my marker. And I'm using a micron, a micron 0.02. So I'm going to take a piece of scratch paper. So I don't get it on my surface. And I'm just going to draw this line. Doesn't have to be straight. It doesn't have to be even. Crossover. Turn it over. Do the same thing. I'll use my pinky here to kinda help me guide it. Over. To the next side. Flip it over one more time. Lips went off the piece of paper. There it is. Now I'm going to sign my name down here at the bottom. Valley girl. Now what we're gonna do in the next lesson is we'll attach it to the front of our card front. See you in the next lesson. 10. Attach Cardstock to Greeting Card Front: In this lesson, we're going to attach our piece of card stock to the front of our card front. I'll place it here so that lays flat. And I like to use a glue that not too runny, not too wet. Beacon makes the paper glue. There's also Tombow. Multi-legged glue. Scotch has a quick adhesive. And then you could also use this tacky glue. Just don't use too much. He is too much, it might buckle your paper. So just going to add a line, thin line of this glue on the back side. Flip it over, center it onto my card front. Press down. And wallah, there it is. Finished card. Now that you've finished painting your card front, you can paint some rosebuds to the front of your envelope to make a matching set. I hope you've enjoyed my class. If you have any comments or questions, please leave in the discussion section and share your project in the project section, I would really love to see your work. I'll see you in the next lesson. 11. Cleaning your Brushes: I talked to you here a little bit about cleaning your brush, wipe off your paint, then you have a little bit of dishwashing soap in the palm of your hand, and then just start to blend that soap up into it. Swish it around in your water. And can you see how that soap is just drawing that paint out? You can see that. Look at that. You don't want to leave any paint in this brush, you'll ruin it. And these are nice brushes. So I'm going to rinse again. Usually I do this at the sink, but this is easier for me to show you how to clean it. Let's try this again still. It's pulling off some of the berry wine in there. You see that? We thought that there are paint was cleaned out of that brush and it's not pressing down back and forth. Rinse again into the water. Does that look Queen? It looks clean. I don't know if it is. Let's see. No, we're still pulling out some of the very wide. Keep doing this until it's clean. What's important about these brushes is you want to keep that nice chisel. If you have paid that dries up into the feral here, the silver part, it's going to make your brush fat like that. And you don't, you can't get that nice. Chisel. Notches are so important when you go to do those leaves. I think I've got it. There you go. Nice clean brush. These will last you a long time. You take care of them. 12. Conclusion: This is the conclusion of my one stroke painting class on the rose bud and leaf. And we painted it onto a greeting card. Remember, you can do this. Anyone can just practice, practice, practice, and believe in yourself. Thank you, and I appreciate you being here. Be on the lookout for my other one stroke painting classes. Be safe and take care.