Painterly Spring Flowers in Watercolor

1. Introduction: Hi everyone. My name is Ina Frascos. I'm watercolor artist and illustrator. You may know me through my other classes. Or maybe, or maybe you took my 100 day watercolor challenge. Many of you did. And I'm so grateful to see you there in today's class. Because it's a spring, I want us to paint some painterly spring flowers very easy. You can use them as a warm up or you can use them in your sketchbook or on your social media. Let's keep it fun. Let's keep it easy. In next Vida, I'll share the supplies of museum. Let's get started. 2. Supplies: In this class, we'll be using not so many materials, just watercolor paint, paint palette. A big watercolor brush, number 12, synthetic brush, and a medium watercolor brush. Number four, synthetic brush. Water and paper, towel and paper. I'm using cold B 300 grams, 440 pounds, big piece of paper. 3. Colors: In this video, I wanted to share what colors I'll be using in this class. But if you don't have the colors, just find something you have in your palette as close as possible. Or just use a different color scheme for your paintings. We'll be using diamond yellow, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, magento rosa, yellowish green, classic green, teal, ultramarine, and violet. This is it this spring, so it's a lot of colors. Let's get started. 4. Class Project: So for the project of this class, I invite you to paint six spring flowers. And I painterly style. And you can paint them as separate paintings or you can paint them on one sheet of paper like I did. And I hope you'll have as much fun as I did filming this. 5. Painting a Snowdrop: The first flower we're painting for, spring flowers, is a snow drop. It's the most difficult one for today because we need a white color. To make a white color, we'll need to mix three primary colors, which is cadmium, cadmium, yellow, and ultra marine. They have to be in equal proportions to give us a perfect gray. I think we need a little more blue. This is our shade of gray which will help us create a white. We'll diluted lot of water. And I'll start painting our petals just a curve like this. Take some more water and just drag it up like this. Then we have to dry our brush and take away some paint, leaving just a little bit of hints of color like this. Now let's paint the second petal the same way. Make this and again, damping the brush in a paper towel. You probably can hear it. Now we have a third pattern which will just make little lines here like this. And we'll drive a brush in a paper towel and we'll drag a color a little bit up next. Let's say I'll take a smaller brush, it's number four. And mix are beautiful. Green green we'll be using. And cadmium orange actually it gave us a pretty muddy green salt at some lemon yellow. And s this is better. So to paint our middle, we'll just make one brush stroke here. Next chant. Like a little square right here. And since our brush, dry it in a paper towel and drag some of this color up, I think it needs a little bit of yellow. Just brighten it up. So let's take some cadium yellow and add a drop right in here. And again, I'm drying a brush a little bit up this. Let's add some yellow into our green mixture. Take a lot of water and water it down and then we'll be painting this sting. I think it needs a little more yellow things and then little hat. And then take a deep breath and make a big slow, like this nice snow drop has a little leaf here on top. For next lease, we'll take a big brush again, some classic green mix it to have a green. We already have a deep breath and we go up and a deep breath and we go up again like this. Let's faking and to a little. That's nice. Here's our snow drop in a per stop. If you want, you can take a small brush and just take a little bit of the gray we made at the beginning and add a few more lines to the petals, a little bit of texture. This, I'm not done cleaning because I want to painterly. I'm just small brush here. This is our snow drop in a painter. 6. Painting a Flowering Quince: Next painter. Spring flower I want to paint is flowering quince. It's a flowering bush, which really flowers very early in spring, sometimes even in the winter. In some regions we'll start with a branch itself. For that, I'm taking some Roya and mixing it with a little bit of perp. We've just brush number four F if you want, you can take a brush a little farther from the top of a brush and really just make a small branch here. Next for the petals is the fun part. Some cod, orange with a little bit of magenta. And we'll dilute it with a lot of water. To make a petal, just press the brush onto the paper and make a small circle like this one next to it. Like this. Macetually leave the middle wide because we'll be adding the stamens there. And one more petal. Now I want to make another flower next to it, which is a sideways. So I'll just press Compress into paper. And we'll move it and maybe a little P like this. Next. Let's take yellow and mix it with Rosiello and just add some dots here. Don't worry if they around a little bit into the pitch and some lines and dots here like this. Next, let's take our brown we mixed early. Just keep going with this with this branch. This, I feel like we need a little bit of red here. Next I want to make a little leaf. So to our yellow, we already have our stamens here. I'll add some greenish yellowish green. And we'll add a little, it's a little too bright, so let's add some rosa coming down a little like maybe one here. When it dried, you can add a little more defined bands of the petals or just leave it like this. This is our flowering queens in a painting style. 7. Painting a Bluebell: So next flower I want to paint is a blue bell. I'll be using the same brown we used for the queens. I just will dilute it with a lot of water for the stem. I wanted to go this way to fill the composition, The breath and goer line. My paints are in a way, so it's a little crooked, but it's okay here. We can have a little bulb to why not and some roots coming. It's a little thicker than I wanted but it's okay. Sulfur blue will be mixing our till wave purple and I will give you a beautiful purplish blue. Or you can use any blue you have in your pain. Pat with brush number four, I'll start just pressing the tip of the brush onto paper and leaving a mark for the petal. This one will be a closed floor. This next one can look the direction and open a little bit. We're making the swoop like this and you can make as many as you want. Of course, I always start with a Neddle pell, then I make the curly ones. The next one do I get? Let's make a middle one a little cold. You can notice they're like becoming bigger and bigger by the bottom. This is the smallest. Then they have a also like petals on the top and one here, I made a more purple or blue as I go to keep them different. So I think one more and then we can start painting some leaves and maybe one more here. I said one more and then one more next. Let's take some, we'll use the same green, but let's add some ultramarine blue ed to darken it up a little. And then add a little bit of green to the step. Just make sure to water it down. And then let's take a bigger brush for this and make a leaf and another stem here. Here. I'm not too happy with this leaf. Let's fix it a little bit. And this is our blue bell and a painter in style. 8. Painting a Forget Me Not: Next spring flowers I want to pin are, Forget me nots. We'll start with orange middle, just with a brush number four, I am making orange circles where I want the middle of flower to be. Let, let's say three flowers which are opened. Then I'm taking lemon yellow, mixing it with a little bit of orange and making a circle around myself. This is too wet. Even if it's faintly still still still. I don't want to mix the cars with much. I'm then to go around the orange like this next while that dries a little bit. Let's mix our blue. For blue, I want to use just ultramarine blue with a little bit of till to warm it up. And then we'll start painting while we are trying. Let's paint some, just like this petals, that basing petals just leave a little bit of space from the middle. And we have five petals. I hope I'm right, petals have, it's right there like this. A little chu be able. Not much we can do at this point about This is another petal. Another poll here. Oh, and the number one I want to pin is, let's pin the stems first, and then I'll decide where the next one soper stems. I'm using the same green used for other noles. This here, and here we fall have the next flow. And we'll go down like this. And we'll press and brush more into the paper, and we'll make a leaf. And we'll press and brush again like this. So depending on how much blue you still have left, let's make some more flowers which are sideways. And here we need a little cup like this. I can make another here. And this is our, forget me, not flower in the painter his stuff. 9. Painting a Forsythia: The next flowering branch is very easy, but still fun is for stia. I hope I pronounce it right. So we'll take Rosana for the branch with a little bit of purple, just like we did before, and welcome purple. Just overwhelmed all my rosa. Then we'll do the branch just we did with the queens. Just very freely, I think. Fun, Like this, like this. Let's leave some room here for one more flour. Okay, I think this is enough. Then next summer, add me on yellow with a little bit of orange we had on a plate. And then we'll start from the bottom of the floor this time. And we'll press a brush like this one. Petal 3.1 2.3 So easy and yet so pretty. You can turn the paper anyway you're comfortable like this. So this is our Peter Veria. 10. Painting a Camelia: Next flower is more complicated, but I still want us to do it because we already did so many and we practiced. The next one is Camelia. We'll start with the middle of the flower. We'll take some cadmium yellow. And we'll make some lines like these. A little bit of dots next to them. Next I want my came to the pin. Sl takes some magenta, we have a tiny drop of card orange and we have a meeting brush. I'll start making the petals. You press brush into the paper and you just lead the water. Really need to rounding petals pole. You can see I'm leaving white space. I don't mix the yellow. I think it looks interesting when there is a white space between petals, watercolor stops flowing freely. You just add a little more water. If it becomes too pale, just add a little more paint. And one more petal here, and next we need a very dark green. So I'll take a class of green and we'll just one diluted to other. I'll add, I live right here. May be another one here. At the last touch, I feel like we need a little brown in the middle. Medium, few darker dots here. This is our beautiful chameleon. 11. Thank you!: Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope you had a chance to paint me. If you like the class, please leave a review. And if you painted along, please apply the project to a project section of the class. If you're sharing your art organ, Instagram, take me a second. See, And I'll be happy to share if I have time. And I'll see you in the next class. Bye.