Painting Loose Watercolor Flowers for Beginners

1. Intro Field of Flowers Loose Watercolor Techniques: Hi everyone, This is Jacqueline Dax and you're on my field of flowers lesson. I'm really excited about it because I'm gonna be teaching you how to get this beautiful look in your own art pieces. You know, they say that the mark of a true artist is when the art is not only unique, but encourages the viewer to stop and study the work. I think we have completely got that here. And I'm going to show you how to do it in this lesson with just three or four paint colors. Your paint brushes, and a little bit of an imagination. Get ready to paint some loose watercolor flowers in vivid colors. I cannot wait to jump in. 2. Materials: Field of Flowers Loose Watercolor Painting: Okay, let's go over a list of materials for this project. So I love to work with very few watercolors and just a couple of brushes for this project, I'm gonna be working with these three brushes, a size 12 round by a Skoda, a three-quarter inch flat, and a number four round by Princeton, that is from the Neptune series. I love these brushes. I recently got them, but I have so many. You can pretty much just choose whatever it is that you have and that you love. You don't have to get the ones that I have for paper. Let's just talk about paper for one brief second. First of all, if it's a 100% cotton, it's gonna be so much easier to work with. But I know a lot of you are doing sketchbooks and that's fine too. Really. You get used to whatever it is that you work with. But I highly recommend you try. This paper is by Canson, one of my favorites. It's called Heritage and it's a £140, 100% cotton. It's not too expensive. I think as far as really good quality watercolor paper, this is the rough, it also comes in fine. But for this project, I just thought, let's just go all out and do something really cool. One thing I would encourage you to do is while you're just getting started, work out of your sketchbook, or get some good-quality watercolor paper and cut it into four pieces per sheet that will really stretch it out. Use the front and the back. Because you should really get experienced with what the back is like on these really good quality watercolor papers. I have often used the back for swatches, but you can use them for projects to, there's gonna be a little bit different side from one side to the other, you'll notice. But as you go in your watercolor journey, there is lots to learn. And you could experience as much as you can during these moments and just savor it, enjoy it, bring it all in. So other things that you will need will be some napkins or a white towel, some water, fresh Clearwater always have at least two cups of it on hand and let's pick your colors. I always start with a lemon yellow or a Hansa, or even a sophie bison LEA, I love their yellows are amazing, but There's also Nickel AZO by Daniel Smith are so many yellows, pinks, or the reds. I usually go with quin rose. It always works out and I rarely have muddy results, as you can see on my swatches, quin rose mixes with hansa, also red violet is a good one to mix in fur color. And for blues, I'll either go with a civilian or this one which is cobalt blue. Another good option is ultra marine. So depending on what you have and what you absolutely love to use, Try your colors on a swatch sheet and then also try and mix them together like I'm doing here with a little bit of water and see what the results are gonna be. Because ultimately, when you start painting colors over other colors, you're definitely going to want to see what the outcome is before you get it on your actual sheet. Now this other color that I'm using is an orange and it's called Ozzie read by Daniel Smith. I love it for this project. It's a little bit out of most people's comfort zone because it can be tricky. It's an orange and of course you're going to get an orange if you mix the Quin Rose and the yellow. But I love this variation for our son because it kind of gives me a little more tone. And just I loved the quality of this Ozzie read by Daniel Smith. It's got some texture to it and I think that it's gonna be just perfect in the project. So that's one that's just a convenience color that you could use. You could just honestly skip the Azi read if you're uncomfortable with it and just do a yellow and a red. And then your blue and just three colors is all you need. Now you can tell that as the blue mixes with the pink or the reds, it's going to form a like a kind of purple which is perfect for florals. As it mixes more with the yellow, It's going to form different greens. And as I mix all the colors together, I'm looking right now for clarity. I want to make sure that the colors don't go to like a brown, that they go to nice, clean, crisp colors because when you start adding them to your sheet, you'd be surprised they're not gonna be this brilliant. Not unless you use very high concentrations. They're going to start muting out a little bit. And you want to make sure that you're really happy with the results. So I highly recommend you test your colors out on paper first and then you can see what they're actually going to dry like later. It just saves you so much guesswork and you're gonna be really excited with the results if you do that first. Alright, so that's what we need for this class. Remember, you don't have to buy everything that I have. This is maybe just upgraded things that you can think about in the future. You can use what you have. Just pick a yellow, a blue, and a red, and try them out first. This is my paint palette. Of course, it's always a mess, but these colors are always in my palette as well as a lot of other granulating colors and convenience colors, as well as the primaries. I think that it's, it's fun to have a lot of colors, but it can be confusing at first. So just stick with three and just do the basics in the beginning. 3. Painting Sunshine Field of Flowers Tutorial: Let's paint some sunshine. I love doing this part. I mean, I literally will keep doing these kinds of paintings just so I can paint the sunshine. So I always start with my basic yellow and that is up to you. You can use a warm yellow, a cool yellow, whatever yellow you tried in the materials area. And that worked out for you. I love Hansa. It's really a beautiful yellow. It's somewhere in-between, like a lemon and a little bit of a warmer yellow. But it doesn't have a lot of like, it's not like a quin gold, but listen, you could use Quin gold. You could use Nickel AZO by Daniel Smith. Anything you want. I'm just going to add a little bit of water I pre moistened to my palette already with water and this is dry. So I'm just going to start adding water and just adding paint. I want the paint to be as concentrated as possible. So I purposely didn't need to wet this paper for this because I want a little bit of a like modeled effect. And once I scrub the color into the paper, it's ultimately going to get plenty of water because this is a very thick juicy brush. Even if you're using a quill or whatever brush you're using, you can keep dipping it into water and gathering it and just blend out that color. I'm, I'm going kind of rough with it. I'm not worried about painting every single inch. If I leave some whitespace, that's awesome too. That's really nice. It's kind of like very stylized. If you find that your paper, depending on what you've got, if it's buckling a little bit like this one starting out bit, you can always spray the back with the water and that keeps it from buckling. Next, I'm going to take the Ozzy Ozzy red, and that's by Daniel Smith. Now, those of you who opted out of this, you can easily just go right on to the red or the Quin Rose, depending on what you're using, even opera rose. And go ahead and add the red now and blend that into the yellow in the area that you want the orange to be. So you would just put the red down here at the bottom over a yellow and you would easily get your own orange. But I'm using this Ozzie red and you can see why it's just so beautiful and it's warm. It kind of like when it blends into my Hansa, it just makes this almost like a quin gold, but it's got a little bit of texture. This is a granulating color as well by Daniel Smith. And Daniel Smith, colors have some really beautiful, beautiful results. They really do because they do have a little texture and they stay there light fast. I mean, this isn't a Daniel Smith add, but let me just say I'm very, very happy with my results. So what I'm doing is I'm dipping my brush into water. It's a nice kind of like mildly soppy brush. It's not like heavy wet but it's it does the job. You can see how it's streaking it out. And I'm just scrubbing it and mixing it together. Now at some point, if you do use too much water, it will bloom. And if you add more paint over it, it will start to bloom and separate. So this is where having a good sheet of 100% cotton paper and a £140 paper is really going to just be so, so good for you and make it so much easier if your papers buckling and you're getting really big areas that are pulling water. You can even wipe up some of that water and what the back of the paper to prevent the buckling. But what I'm doing here is I'm kinda working not wet on wet just yet. I'm working on dry. Wet on dry. And I'm keeping my paper from being sloppy because I don't want the backwash is yet I'm just want this. I just want to kind of like a mix, a blend of color, keeping the paper slightly wet and letting some of it dry, but keeping it kinda damp and just adding those beautiful colors and as concentrated as I can. The next one I'm putting in is quin rose. For those of you who didn't yet not use the orange, this is the application you would be doing. The bottom just to mix it all together. And you can mix this right on paper just by putting the yellow and then the quin rose over it. Now this I'm adding water and I'm getting more of a wash as they move up the painting. And I'm doing this purposely because I don't need it heavily concentrated everywhere. There's gonna be an area of which I do want more concentration. Now as I mix my Hansa yellow and my Quin Rose, that center area is starting to get very, very watery. And as a result, it's going to dilute the color and you see a little bit of a backwash starting. If you don't want the backwash, then you want to work a little more dry. If you Don't mind the backwash or maybe you want to work wet on wet to begin with, then that will help you control it just a bit more. But for this, I want this modeled effect because remember, we're going to be layering stuff on top of it. So it's not like it's just gonna be this. I want different textures in this work. If it's going to be loose, we don't want just a smooth, perfect Look. We want something that's really interesting. That's a signature of my work. It might not be yours and that's okay. You can do something that's a really, really great, beautiful like perfect wash. I just happen to really like loose choppy and things that you have to look at a little bit longer that you can't just take all in one look, right? And one glands. Now I'm going back and I'm adding a little more concentrated yellow. And if you notice, I left the top left corner a little bit lighter and it's still wet. The reason why is because that is where the sun is, so we don't need that to be the concentrated yellow. That actually can be more white, yellow, and light yellow. Now I'm dabbing in trying to create a little bit of a backwash and create a little more texture. This is where it's a little bit more, not really beginner's tip, right? This is a little more intermediate or advanced tip. And I'm now taking water on the brush and I'm just creating sunrise, right. So I start in the center of where would my son would be in the top corner. I let the water just kinda drip down and then I start to guide where I want it to go just by doing these little sunrise. Don't worry again about carrying color forward or it being Blache, it's going to be, things are gonna be layered on top of this. You're not going to see this. Now, we've got this situation where we've got our sunrise in. And I know it doesn't look like anything now, but it's going to look amazing when it starts to dry and come in. I remember just trust the process. If you are at this stage and you wanted to add more color, you could, you could still go in, just make sure that you take your cloth and you start to take some of that yellow off where you feel that you want it to be a little bit brighter if you want it to reflect a little brighter. If you even want a little more brightness through maybe in back of the flowers, you can even take some of that color out just using your rag and a little bit of water. If you really want to go crazy, you could even see what it looks like. If you spray it with a spray bottle, it'll kinda disperse it. And that would be really cool to, or you can even add a little salt. But don't go crazy with the salt because we'd have to paint over it. That would be really, really a lot, a lot of trouble, kinda hard to do. Alright, so we're almost at the end here of our painting or background. So you get the idea, right? It's brighter where the sun will you look into the sun and then the rays can cut through some of the other colors. So no matter what your sky looks like right now, no matter what colors you've got in front of you, you can take a wet brush and just bring it on through. And that is going to make a huge difference when you go to lay in the rest of the colors. So let's let it dry and we'll go on to the next and start painting our foreground. 4. Painting the Forground| Field of Flowers: Okay, Let's paint some foreground shadowy. Now, if you have dry paper and you didn't get to this before your paper dried, then you can always rewet your paper, add a little bit of color, and add the blue on top of it. If you see it's not mixing two green for some reason, then you can always mix it in your palette. But right now I'm working wet on wet, so I'm adding the cobalt blue and as I add it, it's mixing them with the Azi red and the yellow and making these beautiful shades of green because green, because yellow and blue make green. And this is where light color mixing is just your best friend. Because if you know what kind of colors you're gonna get before you start your project. It makes it so much more fun and easy because it's like predictable. Now, in the loose style, we don't care if, if some of the blades are a little more green, some of them are a little more yellow because it will reflect light. So I'm taking my round brush and I am pulling flat brushed a bunch of blue on the bottom. I mixed it in and while it's still wet is damp, you can see how they're running. I'm letting the paint just kinda move up and really, really quick strokes with the round brush. This is the thicker round brush. It's got a point, but you could use a liner brush. You could even do this with your flat. This is all entirely up to you and what you love. Now as I'm running my paintbrush over the reds, you can see how it's picking up some red. I'm not watering it down. I'm not washing my brush. I'm letting the red come back into the stroke. And that's how that's happening. You can always expensive experiment also with bringing some from the top down or even dipping your paint in, your brush in a little bit of red if you wanted, if you really like the way this looks. But I think the idea here is not to cover the entire background with thickness, although that could be your style. I like to let some of this stuff peeped through. I almost wish that some on the left had peaked through a little bit more because I really love how the right looks where some of the orange is really bright and peeping through. But of course it's going to, it's going to look brilliant and crazy, good at the end anyway, there's enough colors in this. Just kinda rotating around between the whites, the yellows, the oranges and the pinks, as well as the different shades of blues and greens, that it definitely keeps your eye moving. It wouldn't even matter if I didn't leave any of the whitespace. So as I mix in to the other colors, you can see I'm getting a lot of different variations. Sometimes I will dip my brush into a little bit of the quin, rose just to bring in some more of the browns, almost like a wheat. And sometimes I will dip it into more of just the water, wash my brush off, and let the color from the bottom carry up. Now in order to get rid of some of these little ends at the bottom, what I did was I actually took a little bit of the blue. I added a little more color to the bottom, and that's why it looks very dark compared to this during the process. So this is what I'm saying. It's like you got to trust the process, right? Because when you're going along in your painting, you realize that sometimes it can look like a big old mess and maybe not bright enough. Maybe it just looks like it's just not coming together. But you got to remember that as the layers dry, you can always go over it with more glazes and you can keep going. As you keep going, you're just building color on top of color. It don't be afraid that once it's dry, it's pretty solid. You can honestly go back in and add more color even do a whole nother painting over your underpainting. This is entirely part of your process that you will develop as you develop your own style. So don't be afraid of it. Try everything. Because unless you try, you're never going to learn what you can do and what you can't do, what works and what you like. And this is how we go in watercolor for sure. Alright, let's go start painting some flowers. I can't wait. Can you? It's gonna be so much fun. This is like my favorite, favorite part. Well, besides the sky, this is my favorite part. 5. Painting Flowers | Field of Flowers: It's time to paint flowers, one of my favorite parts. So literally I was thinking about doing a series of how to paint different kinds of flowers, where we just do an exercise of just messing around with different loose flowers. If you think that you want that, then let me know and I will certainly get that tutorial up next. But right here, as my painting is still wet, I'm actually taking a napkin and just drying off a little area, removing some color. And I'm able then to take some wet paint on the side of a smaller round brush. And I'm just dragging the side of the brush over the paper. Now the reason why I'm taking some color off and drawing the area is because if you know anything about color mixing and you put blue over yellow, It's going to make green and that's fine if you want green flowers. But I want more of the blue to show. And I also want to highlight the flowers individually just by having a little bit of non-color behind some of them. Now, in the areas that I just want the color to smear in with the background and maybe blur a little bit. I'm not drawing that area, but see when I remove the color, I get a little bit of light. And I also get the ability to have a little bit sharper edge on my flower. So my petals can kinda get a little bit sharper. So I'm just dragging and experimenting with different shapes going in the same direction for right now, just because that's the composition that I'm working with. But it depends if you took a picture of some flowers and they're going in different directions or that's your vision then by all means, paint them any way you want to. This is about your style, not about my style. I'm just showing you how to paint. You need to figure out just what is in your imagination and try to get that on paper. That is a great journey to be honest, it's fun. So what I did is I took a little bit of paint. So this is the blue, the cobalt blue. And I dipped it in a little bit of water. And now I'm just letting it be as diluted or as loose as it wants to be. And I'm just kinda dotting it through the paper. This is going to pose some background flowers as we keep layering them on here. I sometimes do this just to kind of get a range of different flowers. Some of them will be a little larger and more in the foreground. So those I'll be painting on dry or paper. And the ones that I want to fade into the back or just have that blurred look. Those ones are gonna be wet on wet and they will blend a little bit more. Now, because my paint is very concentrated, you can still see some of the area is actually getting a little more green and blue. But as it dries, I can always go back and add a little more blue to take away from the grain. And then you'll have kind of like a green shadowing, which looks really cool. But as you'll see in some areas that it's green and I'm just not crazy about that area. I'm just removing it just with a little paper towel. Oh, that's a good one. And I'm just dragging my brush in a circular as I turn it, as I roll it to get this kind of shape, a flower. This is why I think it'd be really fun to do a bunch of exercises of different brushes that make different kinds of petal looks. And we can just play with different colors and different petals styles and see what we come up with. I think that would be a really fun class to do. And I think I'm gonna have to record that one this summer. Again, just while my paper is still wet, I'm removing some color, drying it off a little bit to get a sharper edge and to get a little bit of a white highlight behind it so nicely that works. And I'm just kinda adding them in. Now remember if the flowers are going to overlap and if you need a picture, pinterest has a lot of great pictures on it. I'm actually going to include a picture file of all of the flowers that I have taken this spring and summer here in Canada, as they were blooming literally every day here, it looks like a different flower. A different picture can be taken. It's amazing. So I must have like 400 pictures of different really beautiful, brilliant flowers that I like to paint in the file. And that will be linked up in this program for you so that you can go and use any of my pictures and just kinda take a look at what I use for inspiration. I think it'd be fun. So that way you don't really have to find them. I'll probably end up adding in some photographs of some of the different designs I've come up with, as far as painting some flowers to one of the things that I did do in this is I went through and just for fun, I added a convenience color. This is just a turquoise. I didn't include this in the list of materials because honestly, you guys don't really need to add this color. I think it's better to keep it simple. I just wanted to play with it. And sometimes I will grab things out of my palette and just play with them. The turquoise looks pretty cool. I'm not sold on it. I'm not really sure that you'll love it. And that's again, why I didn't include it. But if you do love this color and you want to add a little bit of a turquoise shade. You can either mix one with your paints or you can get a convenience turquoise, and they're just cobalt turquoise. I think every single company pretty much makes them. This one I use is by Sri Lanka and I really do like it and I tend to grab for it. It's always in my palette. I'm just using it to reflect a little more light. But honestly you can mix because it's a turquoise. You could mix your yellow with your blue and eventually land on this color. It's somewhere in-between the blue and the green. So before you get to the green, you'll see that you'll, you'll get a variation of turquoise. That's pretty cool. So now I'm just kinda going in and doing more layering. This is just drawing some areas so that I get sharper flower petals and just rolling on that smaller brush. It's really cool. I mean, literally if you think about it, we've achieved this just by drawing some areas out and just rolling a brush, just put it in some water, put it in some paint and let it roll. And that's just kinda like these little v shapes to make these beautiful little flowers. I, more and more that I think about it. I really do want to do some fun exercises on different flowers because it'd be really cool. So some questions that you guys might have for this is one perhaps you're wondering what to do. If maybe if your paper dries too fast, that would be a reason why you would need some help. I would think if your paper dries too fast, then you'll want to use a little more water on your brush or you can always spray areas to keep it moist before it dries. If you like, just be a little careful with how much water you add because that's where it can get a little puddle depending on what your papers like. The level of miss that comes out of your spray bottle. 6. Painting Stems | Field of Flowers: We're nearing the end. Now we're going to paint the stems or kind of like the grass. So here's what we have so far. We've got this with some of our flowers in, and now we need to define the base of where that's going to be. Like. So some of the paint has dried and some of its different colors like very, very light, you need it a lot darker. So what I'm doing is I'm taking the blue mixed with yellow. And I made the green right on my palette. And I'm just kind of painting that in with really strong brushstrokes up. This is the flat brush that I'm actually using to do it. And it's kinda cool because it's already flat, right? So if it's depending on the size of paper that you're using, you want to use the according size on the brush. So if your stroke is too big, remember you are probably using a very small piece of paper or you just need to use a smaller brush. You could also do this with like anything, like a edge of a palette knife. You could do this with, you could paint a bunch of paint on there. And then while it's wet, you can literally scratch through some of your stems. I mean, there's so many things that you can do to add texture. Don't be afraid, you know, definitely don't be afraid. I'm just grabbing some of that green that I made. And from the blue and the yellow. And I'm just kinda striking it up and going over some of the flowers and making some small strokes and larger strokes until I get the fullness that I want. And I'm in some places being careful not to cover the white areas, those really like glowy areas of bright orange and yellow. I'm trying not to cover all of that because I really liked the way some of that's peeking through what I want you to look at as well as what you're seeing here is look at what happened when the flowers dried from the area that I remove the color. You see how I got that? Now that is without using any masking fluid, right? All we did was we dried a little bit of the paper and it removes some of the color while we're doing it. Now that happens on great watercolor paper. And that's the benefit of using a 100% watercolor paper. But there are some sketchbooks that you can do this on to. I would just keep the paper very thick, like £140, right? 300 GSM. Now I'm taking some of that green and I'm just full-on brushing it right onto the base to add more color because I had a lot of the pinks back in there and as it dried, it got really, really light. So I'm not only using my brush on its side, which unfortunately you can't see the way I had the video camera, but I'm also just painting more heavily at the base. Now the reason why is because you saw what it was like before and where we need to go now is we need to have more structure. If you are looking at the ground and it was thick grass or very thick flowers like this field. It wouldn't be really sparse. Very rarely are you going to see the soil unless there's like lack of foliage? We need it to be. And this is just a personal style. I like it when it's got a little less definition and more of a blur. But with that being said, if you notice, I've got some negative painting effects going on there. And that happened from doing the layers and letting some of it dry, as well as taking my brush and mixing the paint on there, then going back and adding some water and going through it. So you kinda just want to play with that effect and see what you get. Just don't worry about washing your brush out in-between all the time because sometimes you'll pick up some color on your brush that it just looks amazing and it kind of adds to it. It adds to the flavors of something like this. The final touch here is just me going through and on the areas that are dry above the flowers. I just went in and added a little more of the Queen Rose, a little more of the yellow, just kinda get some, I don't know some definition. Allow the light to kinda play on the flowers a little bit more and just, it's more stylized and it's just part of my personal style, but you're welcome to use it for sure. This is the orange are seeing is actually the yellow and the Quin Rose mixed. So that is not the red orange, this is the, the Azi red. This is the actual mix of what happens when I mix the Quinn. And the reason why I'm doing that here is because it's going over the Quinn mixed into the red. And I just felt like I didn't want to use the Azi read in this circumstance. I wanted to mix that new shade so that it would have a little more of a pop. And not just be like adding the same color over a similar color. But again, like when the beauty of using just three colors essentially, right, with the exception of that turquoise, which you could have mixed yourself. The beauty of that is you keep the cohesiveness of the painting. And I think as a beginner, you really probably are going to have the most hardest time figuring out what paints go together. And what happens is a lot of people will get a ton of paint and they'll get all confused using too many paint colors that were really ever meant to go together. Maybe they compliment or maybe they're on the opposite side of the color wheel. Maybe there's warms and cools and they're not playing off each other well, well if you're just using one yellow and one blue and one red, then you know, they're all going to work out really well. Another big tip that I usually do is if I am going to choose colors, I tried to choose them within the same family, meaning that they're all gonna be warms or they're all going to be cool shades. And that is just so that I don't get a lot of moneyness because you can get a lot of moneyness and your paints if you don't do that. Another tip for you is if you see a color not working with another color, but you still want to use it, then wait till the color underneath dries before you apply it, and you'll get a lot brighter version of that color, as well as depending on what you put over it. Some are more transparent than others. So just do it on a sheet of paper first and you'll see how that goes now, that stuff that's going to come to you guys over time. If you're a beginner, you are not expected to remember nor know this. The more you paint, the more you make mistakes, the more you'll remember not to do certain things and which colors work well together. I always think of some of the master painters that I see and I love to watch their videos. They will use the same colors pretty much. Very rarely are they ever going to do a pallet full of convenience colors. They just know it works. They know what shades are going for and they don't want that to get in the way of the composition and the outcome of the painting. They tend to use the same colors but variations of them. And you're always like, how did they get that right? Well, it's just years and years of literally painting the same way. And that's just where you're going to get you from where you are right now. So don't worry, trust the process. Remember, this was a big old mess before we got here and now we are pretty much finished. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I will come back and give you some final tips and thoughts as we go to our final section of this class. Thanks for taking this with me. I'm really excited that you did it and I can't wait to see your project. 7. Final Thoughts | Field of Flowers: Take a big deep breath because you just graduated from my class. That's awesome. I hope you guys will go and paint something wonderful. But before you do, I have some final thoughts on this project. One, if you are trying to follow along with the project and your paint is drying, you might want to watch it all the way through first and then go back and try it on a smaller sheet of paper. A lot of times when you're doing these projects, you are maybe tackling it on a very, very large sheet of paper. And that's why I mentioned before that I'll probably do another tutorial on just doing different, different styles of leaves and flowers because that will be a really fun thing for you to experiment with. I knew, I know when I was just starting, it was really difficult for me to figure out what kind of shapes I could actually do with my paints and my brushes. And that was where I got stuck. So maybe if I did a tutorial showing you how to use your brushes, that might really help you. Another thing is, remember that watercolor is tricky in only one really big regard, and that is the water drying. So if your surroundings are really cold or your surroundings are very breezy, it's going to dry a lot faster. Also, some paper dries faster than others. That's why I had said that one of the easiest ways to work wet on wet as to what both sides of the paper and then let the paper rest on a piece of glass or a non porous surface and that will keep it damped for longer periods of time. Then keep a spray bottle so that you can continually missed it as you think that it's drawing in areas too much. But again, if you're not working fast and you don't really know what you're doing. Smaller pieces of paper are better than larger pieces of paper. Even if your sketchbook, you can definitely do that. It's just hard to with the back of the paper, with the sketchbook, you gotta get a little bit crafty. So anyway, this really turned out great. I love the way this looks and just the brilliance of it. I hope you guys do too. I hope you get inspiration from what I taught you here and that you try a project of your own. I have so many different ones up on Instagram. If you want to go look or come on over to Jaclyn Jack's dot com if you want to see my finished gallery of all of the artwork that I do between florals and portraits and landscapes. I do a lot of amazing things with loose watercolors and I'm gonna be doing a lot more. So keep an eye out for my lessons. And I hope you guys will leave me a comment and some feedback and also tag me when you have done a project of your own. I can't wait to see it. Have a great day and happy watercolor ring. Remember you are on an amazing journey. Be patient with yourself and be forgiving. Have a great summer.