One Stroke Painting: Rose and Full Leaf

1. Introduction for the Rose and Full Leaf: Hi there friends. My name is Sue elder Eddie. And welcome to my second Skillshare class. One stroke, rows and boldly. Let me give you a little background on myself. I am a one stroke certified instructor and I've taught this method for many years. I've taught at many locations. So provide classes have been taught at Michaels and Hobby Lobby stores in California. First, I will show you the supplies I use to be successful in one stroke painting. Then I'll show you the steps on how to paint a one stroke, rows and Felipe. In this beginner class, learn in small bits at a time. So there's no need to feel overwhelmed. It's not hard to do. It just takes a little bit of practice. And today's class, you'll learn the steps on how to blend acrylic paint onto a brush. Create a shell stroke. Build a rose and full leaf. And how to base coat and seal your finished pot. When you sign up for the class. I will provide handouts for you to follow along with. You can also place wax paper over the top of your handout so you can trace paint your strokes. I'll see you in the next lesson. 2. Project Introduction: The project for this class will be how to paint a rose and full leaf onto a pot. And a step-by-step method. You will learn how to base coat paint with decorative colors. Paint a checkerboard, vines, rosebuds, and leaves. And you'll learn how to paint this beautiful rose as a full leaf. And after you're finished, you will seal your pot. So let's get started on learning how to paint this beautiful rose and leave. And don't forget to click on the Follow button up on the top of your screen so you can be notified when I publish a new class. If you aren't a Skillshare member, you can use the link I provided for a free trial of Skillshare for 30 days. Or you can access this class. And so let's move on to the next lesson. 3. Supplies: You can download the supply list in the class resources section. The acrylic folk arc acrylic paints are thick and creamy. Floating medium is something you want to make sure that you do get this. This really helps this painting style. Brushes. You can get either the three brush set or the value pack, ten brush set. You can purchase these through Amazon or your local craft store. Greeting card blank so you can get these or you could use a piece of card stock that you fold-over. It's up to you. You can also buy sediment stamps that have saints like Happy Birthday. Thinking of you get well that you can stamp onto your card. I use a micron, 0.02 fine tip marker. Use any type of paper glue that's not too thin. See you in the next lesson. 4. Trace Paint with Wax Paper: Okay, This is a little short lesson on using wax paper to trace paint your strokes. I'll be using wax paper that you can easily find at your grocery store. So you can also date, date your piece of wax paper and then save them so you could see your progress as you go along. So I'm going to go ahead and load my brush with the paint. And Brad go from one corner to the other corner, press down back and forth. And you want to get this loaded two-thirds of the way up. You also want to see a beautiful gradient here. And you can't see it right now. But I had a box here that was an inch and a quarter by an inch. It looks something like this. And I just want to stay right here when I'm loading my paint by go-to far, what I'm doing is I'm taking the paint off. So just stay right here. Loading your, your brush, dip lightly into your floating media. And let's just try this. So we're going, excuse me. We're going to place our wax paper over this shell stroke here. And this is a handout that I provide in the downloaded section of the resource section. So I place the wax paper over the top of that with the white side facing out. I'm going to start at this corner, this corner here, and end here. And then I'm going to think about that bottom point there. So what I'm gonna be doing is I'm going to press down wiggle, wiggle. Always truly my brush as I go. So let me show you. So you press and you wiggle, like if you are scrubbing, crass wiggle, press wiggle, slow down, stop and stand up. And then there you could see the stroke. So we'll try a second one. Reload your brush with fresh paint. I really don't need more floating medium because I can feel this is pretty slick right now. So again, you're gonna see this is the feral, this here. So watch the feral as I paint this stroke and see how I'm twirling it in my fingers. Don't provide this death grip on it because then you're not gonna be able to twirl. So I'm gonna be right here, starting with the white on top. I push and I wiggle, push, push, wiggle, slow down, stop, stand up. And that's how you use these handouts here. Let me show you quickly how different it looks using a size ten. So this was the 12th and you could see it right here says size 12. This one is a size ten. You could see the difference in size. So the reason I'm showing you this, if you have a different size brush, this isn't going to be the same size. So I'm going to load this brush up with paint two-thirds the way up. Look for that beautiful gradient. A little bit more. Cheese, usually about three times at touch, the floating medium. Now let me place this over here. We'll do the same exact thing. It is to see how it comes out a little bit smaller. So just be aware of that. If you were to use the three-quarter flat, which is oh, it's roughly this size here. That stroke is going to be much bigger. So there you go. Use your downloaded handouts with tracing paper to help you learn how to do this. 5. Shell Stroke Pattern: Okay, let's get started. What we're working on right now is the shell stroke. And you can find that in your downloaded handouts. This is the stroke that we're going to learn how to paint. We're going to start here and we're going to press down wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, and stop and stand up. So we'll start that one first. I've already loaded my palette with paint here. And it's the usual paint that I use, the berry wine, the white thicket, sunflower, and then some floating medium. I've already dampen my brush and taken off the water. Now I'm going to load my brush corner to corner. Press down. As you load. Add some more corner to corner. And I'll do this three times. You're trying to push paint up into your brush. And remember to stay in this area right here. Don't go any further than you can't see it right now, but I had a box that I drew on my plate here that's one and a quarter inch by 1 ". And I'm just going to stay here to build the paint up into the brush. I'm not going to go longer and I'm not going to come over here and start over again. So Let's do it one more time. And then add a touch, just a light touch of the floating medium and blend it out. Anytime you add anything to your brush, you're going to blend it out. You want it to look nice here and here. So remember, we're going for that shell pattern. We're going to put the white up towards the top and the very wind towards the bottom. I'm going to start here and I'm going to press down. And I'm going to pivot. This is coming down. This is going to come down to this area here. So I push in the center, I want it to build up a little bit higher, slow down and stand up. And that's your shell pattern. I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. Outer Ring: So the next step that we're going to do, we're going to create this outer ring. And it's 1234567 petals around this. And it's gonna be a little larger than the size of a quarter. Because in this section, you're going to add the rose bud and then another layer of petals. So let me show you how to do that. Three fresh air brush, add fresh paint. There we go. Now, just for this purpose, I'm going to draw around here. I remember about six to seven petals around. So starting with the white towards the outside, we're going to press Stop our next one. And when we start to lose our white, you can see how pretty it was here. Here I'm starting to lose it. You want to go ahead and refresh your brush again. Come back out here. And number three. Number four, fresh pink. Overlap a little bit. Five. It's starting to get to see this right here. That means it's getting dry. I need to refresh with paint and floating medium. Attach a floating medium. Let me do that one over again. Let's see what I just did there. Backwards. White is on the outside. And I still made fresh white. Come this way. There it is. So now that's our first outer ring. 7. Inner Ring, Rosebud and Comma Strokes: Okay, now we'll do, we'll do this part here. This rose bud is going to come in right here. That's our next step. So fresh paint, fresh, fresh paint, little bit of floating medium. Let's put this rose bud right here. So browse bed up and over, fresh paint. And over again, there's restricted. And then here I'm going to go about halfway in a little bit over half. Now I do the next stroke. And we cover that whole. You could see my berry wine is looking dry. That's an indication. You need more paint, more paint and some floating medium. Res stroke this better. Okay? So now we're not gonna do the comma strokes yet. And when I call the common strokes out, it's these here that are gonna be flanking around the roads. But so what we're gonna be doing is our next the inner ring. The inner ring is here. So we've done the outer ring, we've done the rows, but now we're gonna do another layer of petals. And here I've got 1234, maybe five. So let's see what we do here. Fresh paint, blend it out. Let's start here. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. And you notice that this right here, that one is not moving. So I'm pivoting each time. I bump it out. Other side. Start here. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Stop. Fresh paint. Little bit of floating medium. Overlap it. 1234. Look at that, how pretty that is. Let's try the next one. So I'll be creating four of them here. There it is. And I see something I don't like here. This became really transparent. I need a little bit more paint. So I'm just gonna go over that. There it is. Then I'm going to clean up the rose bud. Clean up the rose bud. Look at that. Now, I'll create the comma strokes. The comma strokes are gonna be here, one on this side, another one, then another one, another one, and another one for a total of five. So let's go for that fresh paint, specially the white because that's what you need to see. So you're gonna start on the right side of the bud. You're going to press down and jazz the widest touching. You're going to scoop over. Now we're on the left side, press down curve and just the white is touching. And that one disappeared on us. Let's try it again. Little bit better. Fresh paint. Slowly, media. There it is. Look at that. One here. And one more down here. There it is. That's how you create a rose. 8. Full Leaf: In our next lesson here, we're going to be creating the full leaf. And I will usually place the full leaf right underneath the rows here. So this is what we're going to learn to create. So in the handouts, I have this full leaf downloadable handout. You can place a piece of wax paper over the top of it to help you create the strokes. Now, I still have the berry wine in my brush and I'm not going to clean out my brush. What I'm gonna do is I'm just going to pull it off because I want to keep that in my brush so that when I start to create the stroke, you'll see that pink come through. On the pink side. I'm going to add my green and then add the white. And move something. Here. It's not good at dripped here. Let me get this out of here. Okay. So blend your paintbrush back-and-forth. Grab some more paint, loaded, loading it up into your paint, brush. Grab some yellow, softens it out. Add a touch of floating medium. And there it is. So just like we have this written out here, I'm going to place a y here. The y is going to, this is the center. And this is gonna be one part of the leaf, and then the other part is this way. So let's go for that. Okay, green is on the outside. So I'm going to start at this angle. Press down and bump, press down, bump. Notice that my brush is pivoting here. And then I stand up fresh paint. I'm gonna come over to the other side. And I'm going to press Down, Bob, press down. And now what I want to make sure is that I'm closing up that gap in the center as I'm pivoting. And then I slowly stand up and meet that other leaf, the other side of the leaf. Then just with the green side, I'm going to come in and bring the stem. And that's how you create your full leaf. Let's do it again. Press that paint down. Press your brush down hard into your paint as you're blending. Okay, Little bit of floating medium, a little bit of what? White and yellow on this side. Okay, so let's do this again. There's the why. Green is on the outside. Press down, bump, press down. Just keep pressing down. Come into the center and then stand up to a point. Come to the other side. Make sure that your white side is touching the center there. So we start to bump out, bump, bump, twirl, slow down and stand up. I like the way this came out and I can tell you it's because I didn't blend my brush well. Let me try this one more time with really blend my brush. Press down, press down, press down. Let's see. The Y. Better, better, better. Look at that. You know what? I still see it on this side. This first one was blended a lot better than these two. I try it one more time. Let's go for it. What? I'm going to take some of this paint off and start again. Sometimes you have to do that better. I could already feel it on my brush. Feels nicer. Doesn't feel. It. Starts to glob up a little bit on the sides here. And sometimes you got to be careful that you don't pick up. Too much. Does get blended. Let's see. A little bit of floating mediums. Betcha, this one's going to be good. I can feel it already. Okay. Ready? Yes. I could feel it in the brush when I was blending it. That's much prettier. I like that. I think maybe I had a little bit too much of the berry wind still in here. That's really pretty. 9. Basecoating the Pot: Use an inexpensive three-quarter inch flat paintbrush. You can buy these and value packs. And don't, don't use your good three-quarter inch one stroke brush, use one of these inexpensive ones. So what I'm going to show you here is how to base coat your pot. So I'll add some paint and I'll start to paint my pot. What we're doing here is we're just giving it a base coat. Because I'm still going to go over this with a decorative color. But I want to provide a base for my decorative color. This pottery has just vary. It just soaks up the paint. You might not have a nice finish with your decorative paint. If you don't do this. Sometimes if it's if the weather's hot, it's very dry, pure in an air conditioned room. Your paint might need just a little bit of water on the brush. I'm just dipping lightly into the water here and then I'm adding it to blend it. There it is. Look at how smooth that goes on. It's a lot easier than before. So I'm going to just keep base coating this until I've got a nice base coded pot. Like I said, I usually have to do this and two coats. So let's come back in the next lesson. I'll show you the decorative color that I'm going to use. 10. Painting with Decorative Paint: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I'm base coating with decorative colors. So I'm gonna be using this pink, which is crafts smarts, pink, bliss. And I bought this one at Michaels. And it's a multiservice premium setting, acrylic paint. You don't have to get this. You can use whatever brand or color that you want. And the green, I'm going to be using Anita's all-purpose acrylic craft paint. And this is called artichoke heart green. And I bought this one at Hobby Lobby. So what I'm thinking I'm gonna do here is I'm going to add the pink on the rim here. And I'm just going to paint it. Probably have to do double coat. And what I notice here with this craft paint as opposed to the folk art paint, is that it's a lot thinner. It's not as thick as the folk art, so it goes on a little bit easier. So I'm just going to paint the rim of this all the way around. Then I'll stand it up and do the top back-and-forth. Okay, so I'm almost there. All right, so there's the first code and I'll wait until that strife. I tried to go over it right now. I'll be pulling paint off. You know what, I might just leave that rim light. Or one of my favorite things to do is to do a checkerboard. What I'll do is I'll just get my flat brush and a checkerboard all the way around. I just think it's so cute. You could do that or he could just leave a plane. But this doesn't take any effort and it gives it a little bit more pizzazz. We go. I tried to leave like a width of the brush apart. There we go. Paint. Just keep adding it. Go around the rim, need more paint. One more. And we're done. So wash out that brush. Then I'm going to wash out my pink brush, the pink in it. And I'm going to start the green. Yeah, this is going to need two coats for sure. Lot thinner lot thinner paint. It's okay if it looks a little splotchy like this, you're going to go back over it the second time after it dries. You're going to just cover the whole the whole pot. While the lower part of the pot, not the rim. We've done that and pink. And you're going to just continue all the way around. Wait until it dries, and then you'll go back for your second coat. I'm almost there. But I'm out of paint. Grab a little bit more nice, even strokes. And you can see right here it's still wet. And I went over it and it's I'm pulling paint off. So you just got to let it dry. So we'll just let it dry. And then we'll apply our second coat to both the pink band and the green pot. And then we'll be back. 11. Paint the Rim with Vines, Rosebuds and Leaves: So now that we've finished painting with our decorative colors, we're going to add a line along the pink rim of the pot. So I'm going to be blending both the thicket, the white touch of yellow. Just keep adding it. Push down hard. Stay in this area and don't go any further. Now we're building it up. Little bit of floating medium. So with the lighter color leading, I'm gonna be just painting with the chisel edge here. Up and down, back and forth. Kind of add a little bit of pressure so you get that pretty look there. And then coming around right there. Now, it gets more fresh paint. And I'm going to add another one and kind of have them intertwine. Just makes it look a little bit more interesting than just one of them. And what I'm going to put in-between are some one stroke leaves and some rose buds. Okay. We go now, we've met it back at the start. When they get more fresh paint. Little bit of yellow, little bit of floating medium. And I'm going to add someone stroke leaves. I want to make sure that I leave enough room to add some rows, but it's there. Okay, so let's see, let's add one right here. There. Let's see, I think I can add a couple more little stem so they don't look like they're just floating there. Maybe one, maybe two more. Okay. Maybe one. Alright, so now I'm going to clean up my brush so that I can add the burgundy wine and the white to start painting these rosebuds. And did my previous class on the beginner rose bud and one stroke leaf. I showed how to paint these. It's a short class. You can look it up and just take it quickly so you know how to do this. But I'm going to add the rose bud here. Free stroke because I can see through it. I might have to go over it again. After it dries. Put one right here. One right here. One right here. Here. Should be that should be enough. Clean up my brush. Again, take that paint out. I'm going to add I'm going to add the green again so that I can finish up these little rose buds. And let's see, green, white and some yellow, some sunflower touch of floating medium. More green. Okay, so can it be here? A hug that bud. Then I'm going to press down here. Here. Just adding these calyx around the rose bed. And then little bud there. Add another one. Step, pretty fresh green. Like it was fading away. Okay. One on this side. Little one stroke leaf. Press down. And we have one more to go. One more. So at an angle, one stroke leaf, press down. You could go out another one strictly. It's kinda bear. There it is. There's our rim of our pot. And next we'll be painting one full rows here, a full leaf and some rose buds, and we'll do it on each side. 12. Time to Paint the Roses and Full Leaf on the Pot: Okay, fresh burgundy wine and white. Keep adding it and blending it. When that paint up into your brush, touch a floating medium and we're ready to go. So first shell, second shell, feeling kinda dry. Every membrane you want to leave that opening in the center size of a core. It's dry. You can see my ragged edges there. So let me make sure that I've blended this out with a little bit of floating medium. We go. Now we're going to add our rose bud. Very dry. Really has different painting on, on pottery as opposed to paper. Are four petals. 1234. Clean up your O's bad. Fresh white. Comma stroke. Comma stroke on the other side. 34. And your last one. So there's our rows. Now we're gonna do, we're gonna add those couple of rosebuds, one on this side. And I'll add two over here. And I'm going to remove this paint, rinse it off because I don't want to muddy migraine. I don't want my green to turn olive. I want it to stay bright. So fresh green and white. Blend. Fresh green and white. Nice little bit of yellow. To soften that green. Touch a floating medium. And we'll start with our full leaf. Stand up. Come to this side. Come back and meet in the middle. Slowed down, stand up and add your stem. Now we're going to add the calyx around our rose bud. Rest, come down and come down. Right at the base of your bag. Down. Stroke way. My paint is dry. Remember you always have to just keep adjusting. Okay, now we're going to add our one stroke leaves calleds to add here. On stroke, please. Press down and come down. But it occurred if I had paint. Can always raise stroke. So what we can do is we can turn this over and add another one, right in this area. The first side. On those blank areas there, you can even add some one stroke leaves. Just add a little bind to the other side. There you go. Finish that up. 13. Add Polka Dots and Seal Your Pot: One thing I like to add to my pods besides my signature and checkerboard polka dots. So he's in the end of a very small brush. I'm just going to add some little white polka dots all over my pod here. Just randomly. Get that. Just looks cute. There it is. Right there. Not enough paint. There it is. Okay. Now that our pot is completely dry, I'm going to seal this. And what I use to seal my pots is an all-purpose sealer. And I get this one from Hobby Lobby and it's Master's Touch all-purpose sealer. And it says on here that it's suitable for canvas, paper, cardboard, and terracotta, tin and metal. So once I know that everything is dry, I'll go ahead and seal this. So I'll just use this. Tuna can. Just add some to my can hear. And then I'll use my inexpensive three-quarter flap, damping it with some water. Blot out that water. I just want a soft brush. I just want it to be soft. That's the only reason I put water in it. Make sure the water is out. Then. All you're gonna do is culture pot. Just brush it on that. And this one doesn't say if it's Matt or or if it's a red satin. But just as long as you protect your, your pot with this, you can always buy the kind that are high gloss, satin or matte. So it'll be a surprise to me. What this one comes out looking like. And you just just coat it and it's waterproof after it's dry. So that's kind of important when you're using this to plant a plant in it and you're going to be watering it. You don't want it to mess up your painting. So just coat the entire surface of your pot. We go skip turning it. Sure to do your RAM. Even out any strokes that you might see from the varnish. Just continue to face culture entire pot. And when it's dry, you might want to give it a second coat just to make sure that this gets protected. There we go. So now just make sure I'll just put a tiny bit on my brush to do the top. Go. All the way around. Protected. With that. You're done. Nice. Makes sure that you brush the wash this brush out with cool water and soap. You want to get all that varnish out of there. You don't want to ruin this brush even though it's an inexpensive brush, it's still a good brush. So clean out your brushes. 14. 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. 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 sitting down, back and forth. Rinse again into the water. See, 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 drives 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. Nachos 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. 15. Conclusion and Final Thoughts: I'm glad you made it to the conclusion of the class. This is such a fun flower to learn to paint. You can paint it on any surface. You just change the size of the brush or type of paint. For paper wood, walls, you can use acrylic paint. And if you want to paint on glass, you will use the folk art enamels. Please look forward to one stroke. Last painting class in the future. To be notified of any new classes, please click on the Follow button at the top of the screen. So thank you so much for enrolling in my class. Please comment, leave a review or ask questions in the discussion area. Also, please post your projects in the project section of the class. I would love to see what you've created. You can also follow me on Instagram at psu.83, 11 to see some of my other creations. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and be safe and take care.