One Stroke Painting Flower/ Surrealist Floral Painting

1. Introduction : Hello, everyone. This is Fatima Afrin. I'm a self tart artist. I'm an official one stroke instructor of Dona Dewberry who created this technique. I exhibited my artworks, more than ten group exhibitions happened in Malaysia and also in Australia. I also participated in live art challenges like 30 minutes art challenge and won the competition. In today's course, I'm going to show you how to paint this beautiful flower using some of the tip centric In the first video, you will learn what are all the materials required to do this painting. You will learn to do some of the basic strokes needed to do our final project. You will learn how gonna compose our final project. You will learn everything step by step from which direction the light source coming from and which direction we will get the shadow and how where gonna play our flower and everything and how to choose colors to give the light source heating effect and how to choose colors for the shadow effect, everything one by one. And how to choose the background color for the flower and also which color will be good to give the light source heating effect and which color will be good to use in the shadow heatting portion. So everything is te best step. I'm going to show you and tell you all the things while I paint. After blocking the background, you will learn to do the detailing for the petals. You will learn that to add leaves and you need to add the stems to make your artwork looks more attractive and how to add colors for the leaves to enhance the leaves, everything, everything in detail. If you follow the instructions I shared in this course, you can definitely create your own project in your own style. I'm super excited to see you in the next video. 2. Materials Required : Hello, everyone. Welcome back. So in this video, I'm going to show you what are all the materials required to do this beautiful painting. First of all, we need a surface to paint. So today, I'm going to paint on an e three size Canvas sheet. You can paint on Canvas sheet or canvas stretchy canvas or paper, any paper for practicing purpose. This is 100% cotton. We need a palette to load our paint. You can use anything as palette. The palette should be very smooth so that you can load your brash as we go to use one stroke technique. And the brash use or. This is 1 " brash. This is one of my favorite old brash. I use this brash to block the background. This will make the progress faster and easier. And this is another old brush. This is one half inch flat brush. I'm going to use this to block the background for the flower. If you measure it using your finger, up to this line is 1 ", so this will be one half inch. The size of the brush depends on the brand, you know, so you can use your finger to measure it. And the third brush. Again, this is one of my old round brush. I just crop the top so that I can get something like this. This is one of my favorite brush to give a texture in my painting and also for dabbing technique. And this is the fourth brash we're going to use to add detail for the petals. And again, this is one half inch measure it using your finger. And this is from art pack. You can use any brush from any brand, and again, the last but not least, this is a filbert brash. I'm going to use this brash to give the shadow effect for the petals. So these are all the brushes we're going to use. And now, for practicing the basic strokes, I'm going to use this A four size black paper. You can use any paper. Now, the colors I'm going to use are from liquitex basics and also from reefs. These two are my favorite brand to paint. And here are the colors we're going to use. This is burnt umber from liquitex basics, and this is yellow oxide from the same brand, liquitex basic. And this is *** yellow medium hue. You can use Cardium yellow medium yellow, any yellow shade you have. And this is Quinocron Magenta, which I'm going to use to add the petals in the shadow side and Prussian blue hue and the last one is titanium white to highlight the petals and all. These are all the colors I'm going to use to paint our final project, and you need a paper towel or a rough cloth to remove the excess water from the brash, and again, water jar we need to wash a brash. I'm super excited to see you in the next video. 3. Basic Petal Strokes: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. So in this lesson, you're going to learn to paint all the basic strokes needed to create our final project. I'm going to use this flat bh, half inch flat brash to do all the strokes here. First, wash a brash and drain the excess water from the brush. And I'm going to use titanium white alone for the first stroke you're gonna learn now. Usually in one stroke painting, we used to load more than one color in a single brush and we create the stroke right. But for this one, I'm going to load only one color on only one side of the bristles, okay? Load your brush by going back and forth, just like the same way we do when we load it with more than one color. I'm going to start from here. Use your pinkies support. You can hold your brush a bit slopey. I'm going to start from here. Give minimum pressure and make it a bit curvy and it. One more time, I'm going to start from here. Just give medium pressure or minimum pressure and make it a bit curvy and lean it towards the and that's how we will get the thinner stroke. One more time, I'm going to start from here. Just give minimum pressure, make it a bit curvy and it towards the center. To get the thinner stroke, you can lift this part of the bristol. Now for the opposite direction, the same way. Use a pink case support. Okay. I'm going to start from here. Give minimum pressure, make it a bit curvy and lean it in the opposite direction, okay? One more time, the same stroke. Use pin case support. Just give minimum pressure, make it a bit curvy and lean it. Now, I'm going to combine these two to create one pedal. Now I'm going to combine these two. I'm going to start from here. Just use your pink as support, give medium pressure or minimum pressure. It depends on the size of the petal Uga paint. Starting from here, why should be on top. Make it a bit curvy, it towards the center part of the flower. Here your center part of the flower will be. Now I'm going to add the second stroke here to create the complete pedal. I'm going to start from here, you see your pinks support, give medium pressure or minimum pressure, and again, drag it towards the center. Okay, now we got this, I'm going to repeat the same again. I repeat it over here, start from here. Just give minimum pressure and go as the center, and in opposite direction. Keep loading your brush. Start from here. Just give minimum pressure and rags center. Here, we will have a center part of our flower. You have to practice this kind of stroke from all the direction. So we can start from this side now. I'm going to start from here. Start from here. Spin case support, give medium pressure or minimum pressure and lean it towards the center. Now I'm going to start from here, the same way, you have to lean it towards the center. And from downwards, I'm going to start from here, just the same way. If you couldn't do this, you can turn the paper for your comfort. And you can fill the same kind of stroke to create the pedal. Just give minimum pressure to get the thinnest stroke. Medium pressure to get the broadest stroke. It all depends on what size you need, okay? Now I'm going to do single stroke petal. So give medium pressure and drag it towards the opposite side. If you start from the right side, then you have to move your brash and lean it towards the left. And if you start from the, you have to lean it towards the right, and the white shod be on the top so that you can see the stroke, Practice this kind of stroke from all the direction to get to know the better brush control and to do the stroke easily when you do the final project. These are all the basic strokes you need to know to do our final project, the petal 4. Basic Leaf Strokes: These are all the basic strokes you need to know to do our final project, the petals of the flowers. Now, let's learn how to do the leaves, okay? Here I take quinocrdon Magenta, and I already have the lighter shade that is white. If you wish you can load your palette with Prussian blue hue and any yellow shade. As it is just for the practicing purpose, I'm simply using some random dark color and light color. Loading my brush with one third with light color and two third with dark color. That light color is titanium white, and two third the dark color is quinocrdon Magenta. You have to load your brush well by going back and forth. And make sure you load your brush until the half of the bristol or more than half. Now for the leaf, mark like an ra mark facing sideway or downwards or mark like a v and add the center mark like two times the size of the bristols. You can wiggle your brush any number of time and you have to lean it. You have to minimize the pressure when you reach the top so that you can get the thinner stroke and hold your brush a little bit slopey. You can use your pinky for support to get the better brush control and keep loading your brush so that you can get the easy flow when you do the stroke. I'm going to repeat the same again. Do it along with me. Practice these kind of basic strokes well so that you will find it easier when you do the final project. Okay. And mark like an Aramark, use your pinky as a support, hold your brush, little slope, give medium pressure, wiggle your brush any number of time and lean it towards the top. Now, in the next stroke, let's do the opposite side of the leaf, the same way, mark like an arrow mark. And for the first stroke, first side of the leaf, I use titanium white on top, and now for the other side, I'm going to use titanium white inside and quin crud magenta outside. Just wiggle your brash, lean it to a z and I'm going to repeat the same stroke again. If you join my previous courses, you will definitely learn to know how to do these leave strokes. But if you're new to this course if you're new to join any of my course, then just absorb how I'm doing these strokes and follow the instructions I'm giving here. Okay. Now, I'm going to share the tips to create the style of leaf. For the second side of the leaf. Just repeat the same way, wiggle your brush, any number of time when you finish it, just twist your bristles a bit and then lean it so that you will get something like this. Let me repeat it again. Just twist and lean, okay? I'm going to repeat the same stroke again. Just start with a thin line, regular brush any number of time when you finish it, just twist and lean. Okay. This will give you the impression of the leaf is a bit bend or rolled kind of effect. Now, I'm going to show you how to paint the complete leaf, the same way. I'm going to wiggle my brush and lean it towards the top. When you do the second side, you have to put white inside and dark color outside. Wiggle it. When you finish it, just twist your brash and lean it. So that's how you will get this kind of leaf in a very easy way. In the beginning, it might be difficult for you. But after you get to do a lot of practice, you can easily do that. Now I'm going to repeat the same leaf, do it along with me. So whenever you give maximum pressure, you will get the broader leaf, and when you give minimum pressure, you will get the thinner leave. So, the size of the leaf depends on how much pressure you are giving and how you hold your brush. That is also matters, okay? Now I'm going to try to do the same leaf, but in opposite direction. So you can mark like an arrow mark in opposite direction, and you can wiggle your brush any number of time, lean it towards the top. To get the thinner stroke, you have to minimize the pressure. And for the opposite side, wiggle any number of time, twist and lean. So that's how we get this kind of leave. One more time, just wiggle, lean it towards the top, change the color inside out, wiggle any number of time, twist and lean. Load your brush whenever you need to get the easy flow in your brush and the stroke. Okay. Now I'm going to do another leaf in different direction. First, we created the leaf facing towards and then towards the left now towards the top, okay? Wiggle any number of time, lean it towards the top, change the color inside out, and wiggle any number of time when you reach the finishing point, twist ten lean. One more time, the same leaf, you can mark like an ar mark or you can just start. Just wiggle, lean it towards the top and 5. Basic Stem Strokes and Centre Details Of The Flower: Lane. One more time, the same leaf. You can mark like an arrow mark or you can just start. Just wiggle, lean it towards the top and change the color inside out when you reach the finishing line, twist ten lane. Let's do the basic stem stroke for that I'm going to use yellow oxide and burnt umber. Using the same brush. I haven't washed my brush. I'm just going to load my brush directly with these two new colors. Now, I'm going to load my brush, burn tumber on the side of quinocron magenta and yellow oxide on the side of titanium white and load it by going back and forth. Now, mark like a slanting line, a bit slopey, and then you can draw the stem. If you mark the landing line slightly tilted, you will get thinner stroke. If the slanting line is very well tilted, then you will get the broadest stroke, and also it depends on how much pressure you are giving. You have to practice this kind of stroke well before you do the final project. When you make this stroke a bit curvy, you will get thinner stroke, and if you make it straight, you'll get the broadest stroke. So you have to practice well to get to know which kind of stroke you need in your painting. If you use your flat brash straight, you can get the thinner stroke and give very less pressure to get very thin stroke, okay? You can use this thinner stroke to create the branches in your painting. When you practice this, don't rash, don't give up keep practicing, keep creating until you get satisfied and get the confiden to create the final project. If you didn't practice these kind of basic strokes well and you jumped into creating final project, it won't work easily. So practice them well. Now I'm going to use my old round rash, which I cropped the top. So to create details to the center part of our flower in our final project, for that, I'm going to use llxide and burnt tumberad one side with llxide other side with burn tumber and dab onia palette so that you can load your brush well. And then make it like a bit kind of down open curve, dab your brash and create the kind of down open curve. Put yellow oxide on top and burner at the bottom because yellow oxide will give you a kind of light source highlighted and burnt will play the role as shadow. And dab it like a kind of up open curve. So now we're going to create a complete circle or oval, okay? So you have to dab it like a down open curve, and then up open curve. When you connect them both, you will get a kind of oval shape. So now I'm going to do that in the center of previously practiced stroke to show you how it will look on flower. Dab it like a down open curve and then connect it like dab it like an up open curve. Now we got this right. So the yellow occur gives yellow yellow oxide, gives us the hight associating portion, highlighted portion, and the burnt umber side will give you the illusion of shadow effects. These are all the basic strokes you need to know before you start doing our final project. I hope you guys learn this well, and I'm super excited to start our final project. 6. Composition Of The Painting : Welcome back, guys. In this video, I'm going to show you how we're going to compose our final project. If you observe this painting, you will get to know two different things. That is one side, we get the light source and the other side, we get the shadow the shadow petals, okay? So in this one, we get the light source coming from top left, and so the shadow is on the opposite side. And to give the light source heatting effect, I used yellow oxide and titanium white over there, and for the bottom petals to show the shadow effect. I used quinocrdon magenta and titanium white. And for the center portion, I used yellow oxide for the highlighted part and burnt umber to give the depth to give the shadow effect. For the background, I use different shades of colors. So in the next video, I'll show you what are all the colors we use for the background. And also, before that, we will learn to do the basic strokes to create this final project. I'm super excited to see you in the next video. 7. Basic Sketching To Paint The Final Project: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to this lesson. So in this lesson, you're gonna learn about how we're gonna compose our flower and how we're gonna block the background with different sheets of colors to show the light and shadow effect. We all know the light and shadow plays the important role in every painting. So in this painting, I'm going to have the light coming from top left, and so the shadow will be directly opposite to this. So it will be at the right bottom. So in between the light and shadow, I'm gonna add the flower. That's our main subject today we gona paint. Firstly, I mark roughly a kind of oval shape. These are the outer skirt of our dahlia. And we need to point out where our center part is. Here, we will have all our petals around the center part, everything towards the center, okay? Every petal to connect the center part of our flower. The direction of the flower. I mean, the direction of the petals, as well as the size of the petal also matters. The top petals will be lengthier comparing to the petals in the front. That is in the bottom. Let's add some stems and leaves here and there to give some idea when we paint our flower leaves and stem. Now we completed the basic sketch of our painting. In the next video, let's start blocking the background with different shades of colors to show the light and shadow effect. 8. Painting The Background With Light And Shadow Colours: For the background, I'm going to use titanium white, that would be closer to our flower so that we can blend the colors easily. Few drops of titanium white. The next color I'm going to use is light olive green, along with that, I'm going to use medium yellow. You can use medium yellow ium yellow, any yellow shade you have. You can even use yellow occur to give the to enhance the light effect, if you wish. So to block the background, I'm going to use my big brush to use that you have to wash it and drain the excess water by dabbing it on a paper towel or a rough cloth. Now, the light source is coming from top left towards a flower, and so I'm going to add the vertical stroke to create the background effect. Don't give so much pressure, just give mild pressure and don't blend the colors too much as we need to see different shades of colors, some hint of light yellow as we mix yellow and white, and we already have light green shades, so we will get different shades of colors in a vertical stroke. Like I told you, don't give so much pressure. Just give mild pressure so that we can see the brush strokes. Yeah, sorry. And now, the other colors I'm going to use to give the shadow effect or some of burnt umber, Prussian blue hue. And they both are Priscian blue here. So I'm going to add the shadow colors. Blue is a cool color. Obviously, we will use blue for the shadow effect and early tone that is burned tuber. You can use burn timber or burn Siana I can use any color, and I added a few drops of them, and to give the hint of green, I added olive green light olive green. The same way, I'm going to use the vertical strokes using the same pressure I haven't washed. And like I told you, don't give maximum pressure, just give mild pressure and move a brash vertical movement that will give us the brash stroke. Just enjoy the progress. Your progress may not look exactly like mine, but it's okay. Every painting is unique. Even if I try to redo my painting or imitate my own painting, I cannot get exactly the same way. That is the uniqueness in every art piece. We almost got a beautiful background. Now, I'm going to add a little bit of titanium white and yellow to get a little more yellowish on the top left as I mixed the burnt the shadow color towards the top left. I ga repeat the same technique. Just the vertical, give mild pressure. Here I got, we completed the beautiful background that gives a beautiful blurry kind of effect. I just love this. I hope you guys do. In the next video, let's see how to paint the flower. Okay, I'm super excited, and I hope you guys do. So welcome back, guys. In this video. We're going to learn to paint a beautiful flower for that, I'm going to use loxide to give the light hitting portion, and for this shadow effect, I'm going to use Magenta, quinocdon Magenta. Along with yellow oxide, I'm going to use little touch of titanium white to make it a little more brighter. So I'm going to add few drops of titanium white on the top left. That's where the light source is hitting. And I'm going to use yellow oxide to give the warm effect in our flower and to give the shadow effect that I'm going to use quinoc magenta To add the details for the petals, I'm going to use this half inch flat brush. But to block the background, I'm going to use my old brush. That's where we will get beautiful effect because we cannot use the detail brush for blocking the background. It may damage the Bristols. So here I'm going to use my old brash, wash it drain the excess water. And your strokes should be towards the center part. It's like a kind of the petals. The background for the background layer for the petals. I'm going to just start from the top and pulling it towards the center part of a flower. That's how we will get the balanced petals. Okay. After adding the background for the lysos hitting portion, I'm going to add the shadow side petals, background for the shadow side petals, a bit curvy towards the center put, y? Using the same brush, I'm going to add some flower bed here and there. One more flower bed here. One last flower bed in the left side. Now I'm going to use the same brush to give the shadow effect for the petals which are in the light source hitting portion. So for this one, your strokes should move from the center towards the top. The same angle you added those base layer for your petals. Again, don't give so much pressure. Just give mild pressure, and you have to move your brush very loose. 9. Painting The First Layer Of Petals: For your petals. Again, don't give so much pressure. Just give mild pressure, and you have to move your brush very loose. Don't hold hold it very stiff. Just loose movement. Let's add details using my half inch flat brush. I'm going to use titanium white alone. So I'm going to load titanium white on my palette, and I'm going to touch only one side of the bristol with titanium white and load it by going back and forth. Again, you have to load it well. Now we're going to add details, I mean, detailed Peters, which we learned in our previous lesson. So we're going to use the same technique to create the Petter. I hope you guys practiced those basic strokes well so that it will be easy for you to do this final project. So the white should be on top and I'm adding the free stroke just like we did in our previous session. Okay, as the background layer is still wet, we will get the yellow shade in our brash, even though we didn't load it with that color. We simply touched white alone in our brash. As the base layer is still wet, we get the blending of yellow shade along with that titanium white. We're going to repeat the same stroke again and again for every petal. So it's really repetitive and it will be good to paint this flower to practice the stroke. If you kept painting this kind of flower, you will I mean, you will use to do these kind of strokes very easily. For the second layer of petals, I'm adding a petal in between two petals in the background. That's how I'm adding another layer of petals. Now you can see, I haven't touched quinocrton magenta in my palette, but still I get that color as the base layer is still wet. Firstly, I added petals for the light source hitting portion, and then I come towards the shadow portion. So we're going to repeat the same kind of stroke again and again for the whole flower for all the petals. If you observe carefully, you will get to know the petals in the light source hitting portion is a bit thin and lengthier comparing to the petals in the shadow portion as the shadow portion petals are in the front. They are towards, so they look a bit broader and also a bit shorter. We have to paint all the petals. They are drawing towards the center part to get the balanced petals. 10. Painting The Rest Of The Petals: Now I'm going to paint another layer of petals the same way, and you can add a petal in between two petals in the background. One struck technique is one of the easiest way to paint flowers, and it's one of the satisfying technique. Even you don't paint. Just watching someone painting is also very suiting and satisfying. Keep loading your brash whenever need. And if you feel your brush is dry, you can touch a little bit of water if needed. I feel like the color goes towards the shadow side. I mean, shadow color towards the light heating portion, so I'm going to wash my breach. And again, I'm going to load it with titanium white alone and going to repeat adding the petals in the lysos heating portion in our flower. When the petals coming towards the center portion, the size of the petals will get smaller and smaller comparing to the petals in the outer skirt of our flower, either you paint a rose or pony or dahlia Chrysanthem whatever the flower is. The outer skirt of the petals outer skirt of the flower. The petals will be broader and big comparing to the petals closer to the center part of the flower. Now you can feel the light shadow with the help of the colors be used. After adding the details for the petals in our big flower. I'm going to add details for the flower bed behind our main subject. To add some blurry effect behind the flower, I'm adding some small petal kind of strokes using the same titanium white. When you observe the flowers in the sun, you can feel this blurry effect at the place we have the light source heating. Now I completed adding details to the flower. Now I'm going to add details for the part of this flower using my old 11. Adding Details To The Centre Part Of The Flower And Adding Stems: When you observe the flowers in the sun, you can feel this blurry effect at the place we have the light source heating. Now I completed adding details to the flower. Now I'm going to add details for the center part of this flower using my old brush. This is actually a round brush. I cropped the tip, and so I got this kind of dear foot brush, you know. Now I'm going to use burnt umber and yellow oxide to add details for the center part of the flower. Lad one half with elxide and another half with burnt umber and dab it on your palette so that you can load your breash well. Now keep yellow oxide in the top and burn tumber at the bottom to give the shadow effect. Dabo brash, like a kind of down open curve, ll oxide on top and burnt up at the bottom. Again, complete it like adding the up open curve. It's a kind of oval shape, you have to Dabo brash and create the oval shape. Ell oxide should be on the top and burn tumber should be at the bottom so that it will give you depth. Using my flat brash, I'm going to add the stems and leaves. The same color I'm going to use yellow oxide and burnt umber load your brash well by going back and forth and then add the stem. The size of the stem depends on how much pressure you're and in what angle you're holding your brash. Connect all the flower beds using this stem. You can always redo on top of that if you're not satisfied with the result. Add some more stems to make the artwork looks realistic. Add some stems here and there, strokes, medium strokes, curvy. Like I told you give minimum pressure to get the strokes. Now I'm going to add some leaves close to the flower using the same colors, oxide and burnt umber and the same. The one thing I keep telling my students is practice the basic strokes, practice the basic strokes. If you practice the basic strokes, then only you can create the final project very easily. Otherwise, you will feel some hardship. It will look very difficult for you. But if you practice the basic strokes, you'll find it easier and satisfying and you'll love to do that. I. You can add any number of leaves and make sure you add the leaves in different sizes and also different shades of green, okay? That way, it will look more attractive. If you add the leaves in same size and same color combinations, it won't look magical, you know. So try to add leaves in different sizes as well as different shape, if possible, and also different shades of green. 12. Adding Leaves With Different Shades Of Greens: For the last leaf, I added a little touch of titanium white along with yellow oxide. That way, it will look more enhanced, you know? So that's how you can change some interest in your painting. So by using Prussian blue hue and medium yellow, Camium yellow or medium yellow, I'm going to try different shades of green in my leaves. And a little touch of titanium white on the side of yellow to enhance to give the glow in the leaf. When you touch titanium white, that will give you some brightness in your leaf. Keep loading your breast so that you will get the smooth stroke. To give different green for my leaves, I'm going to touch burn timber on the side of Prussian blue hue, and I'm going to add the leaves. So that's how you can create different shades of greens in your leaf. Now, to give the blurry effect in my leaf, I'm going to just rub it from top to bottom inside way kind of that's how the light source is coming towards so flower right. So the same way, I'm going to just wipe off some paint to give the blurry effect. You can even touch a little bit of water or wet cloth, and then you can drag your finger on the wet paint to give the blurry effect in your flower, in your leaves, anything. We almost completed the painting. I'm just going to add few more tiny leaves. You can add some impression of leaves. Instead of painting the exact leaves, you can just add some impression of leaves to make our artwork looks more attractive. And also some stems here and there. Now I'm going to add some highlights for the center part of the flower using yellow oxide and titanium white. I'm going to use my brash. Lord, both the colors on the same side of the brash. And now daba brash, like a kind of down open curve and up open curve, just like we did before, a kind of oval shape. Don't add too much white, very little touch one ly. Now I'm going to use my fiilber brash to add some shadow effect in my painting under the petals. I touch burnt tber and Prussian blue hue, very little touch of them. Move a brush from bottom and give very mild pressure and touch Little color only, little paint only. Now, I touch Brucie io. 13. Final Touch/ Peeling The Masking Tape : Move a brush from bottom and give very mild pressure and touch little color only, little paint only. Now, I touch Brucian blue hue. Now, finally, I completed the painting. Now it's time to peel the masking tape to get the white barder. This is the beautiful moment when you complete a painting. Okay. Don't give up if your painting doesn't look like mine because like I told you before, if I try to imitate my own painting, it doesn't look alike. So every painting is unique and it differs from person to person according to their style of how they hold their, how much pressure they are giving, how much paint they take in their brash. Everything matters in which direction they are moving their brush. So everything matters, all comes by practice. So don't give up, keep practicing. When it comes to one stroke technique, the first thing is you have to practice the basic strokes. Then only you will get to know how to handle your brush for different types of strokes, you know, and you will find it easier when you try doing the final project. So don't give up, keep practicing, keep creating using the technique I shared in this course. You can create different types of flower by having different reference pictures you have, you know. Don't forget to share your project with me so that I can give you the feedback and I will be more than happy to see you work, okay? 14. Final Recap: Congratulations, guys. Finally, you reached this place, which means you completed all the lessons. I hope you enjoyed that, and I hope you guys learned a lot from this course about how to choose materials to do this painting, how to choose colors to show the light and shadow effects for the background, and also for the flower we painted today. And you have learned how to do all the basic strokes for the flowers, for the leaves, for the stems, and how to give the folded effect in your leaves everything in detail and also step by step. Using the techniques I shared in this course. You can use different reference picture, and you can use the same color combination for the light, for the shadow for both background and the flower, and you can choose different flower, like instead of dahlia, you can use chrysanthemum, daisy, or even you can use sunflower, you know? So just try to do your own style, using tips and tricks I shared with you in this course. If your painting doesn't look exactly like mine, never mind about that because if I try to imitate my own painting, my painting will never look alike because every painting is unique. So create your own kind of painting. And Jo forget to share your class project in Skillshare class project. I'm more than happy to give your feedback and super excited to see all your works. Happy painting and enjoy the progress.