Painting spring flowers with gouache

1. Intro: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this class. My name is Sarah and a water cooler and gosh artist living in the French countryside. Today I'm going to show you our to paint spring flowers. Whisk Wish. The beginning offspring is always a fascinating time off here. Nature is slowly awakening from its slumber and exciting toe. Observe new flowers blooming outside and finally system corals after winter. In this class, we are going to pin together a different flowers from start to finish. Using just a few close, we show you our depends floors and is using simple brushstrokes, and we will experiments with spending on black paper. This class is for you if you are a beginner, because we are going to pens florals, using simple shapes and vibrant Carlos. Each video is in real time, so you will be able to vent along and observes the entire process. Goulash is an amazing my John that allows you to bend oh, pack layers but also play with a picture off the pains, and it's really great to bend furrows. So let's get started 2. Supplies: first, I'm going to show you what supplies you will need for this class. You will need to different kind of paper the white one. This is some watercolor paper, and you will also need some black sheets. This one is less sick than watercolor paper. It's 160. Grandpa scram ITER, and it works well with wash. I already cut some smaller sheets because we're going to pants. Many farmers off course you will need a job, water, some wash pains, a musings in Switzer and Newton pants because I wearied of its you will need of shoe Karos , some green, some yellow, some blue, some red, some brown and, of course, some whites. You will need a paret to mixture, cools a few rush ease off via sizes. I have a medium one and two small ones and a rag, all some paper toe, and that's It's 3. Dandelion: first his first flower. We're going to pants it and alien. I'm going to use some. You know, this is rights warm. You We are going to use off course some whites and some green. I'm going to start with a medium rush and I will add bits of my wife to my yellow and I Week starts by bending a flower. I'm going to pence some straight lines, starting in the middle and going to the outside coop just one year. Then I will grab some more such rated yellow. So without white and I will do is a sensing. But on the outsides, not so much on the inside of the floor. If you brush is a big try, it's totally okay because it creates a really lovely picture. Lexus. I'm going to clean my brush, dry it to bits, and this time I will use some whites, and I'm going to add some nights on my slower. So this time I'm adding some paints, mostly at the center in the center of my floor, were on just a bit comes outside. I'm going to pence a second floor. Also, I will do exactly the same saying one more time. First I'm going toe. Use some yellow with a bit of white and starting in the middle on venting some straight lines. Take your time. You don't need to pen something that is too perfect. Just add some lines as you go along. I'm adding, um, it's more of this failure. No, I'm cleaning my brush and I would use some of saturated Zillow, almost pure, and I would bend sickened mayor. So this time I'm venting my lines on the outside of the flora with some dry picture, and I will also add a bit of that zero two words. The center I'm green took in my brush again, glued it with some whites, two cats and night to my flower. Since my Jell O is not dry, the white is blending a bit, and that's totally what I want like this. This time I'm going to spend the leaf, so I have one. Here you can see is the shape I was a thief. I'm going toe. Add some whites to my green. It's great if the green is a bit pale because it will. Still, I would better on the black paper first. I am going two pence because you're dying. Maybe I don't go one, then physical one. And I'm going to pence first leaf. So first I'm venting the top legacies and then I'm creating the return. Lt's just one more. Yeah, on a smaller one, just underneath. And that's It's non going to feel. Is it anti relief? Just legs. It's I'm going to grab a green that she is a bit more saturated and I will agit just even there to add some contrasts. No weapons but second leave. So I'm going to do exactly the sensing. I'm starting with a train. Go with two tous. I'm going to feed it and I will add some more. Two. Creates the shape of my life. Next he's and then I'm connecting my leaf. Does this them? It's great if you can bends belief that overlaps exist Them. I will add a bit more green to of the leaf. Must be adds it up and I'm going to pants the last one on the right side. So first I'm creating my training girl with tow Tous accessible term. Um, I'm going toe bent the rest of the city. This was time I will add four of these triangles like this, and I'm connecting my leave to this 10. No, I will feel my leaf with some green you can use, like green. Oh, Doctor one. It's great if all your leaves and not exactly the same, just like that's. And to finish this number, I don I will add a bit more yellow on the center of the floor. So I'm starting with my first flower, and I'm just edging if you more lines. And I wouldn't toe exactly sensing Oh, the 2nd 1 So I see that I did. And so what? Yeah, so I'm going to remove it, and then we let my floor dry. 4. Buttercup: next floor were going to plant is a better group, so I will use some NATO again. But this time I want to use you. Lose. It is colder, so I'm going toe ad a bit off this primary low to my palettes. I'm going to make seats. Where is my produce? You? I'm still using the brush that is not too big. And then we'll also add some lights. Who's issue? Some starting by paintings of flow again and that we fence a little It exists, and I'm going to feel it with my yellow. And there's a one owns the rights I this, uh, long Enzo media. Let's spent another flora here, so I'm starting my venting two different metals and then I'm adding one in the middle. No, I'm going to pence another one, but a small of one under this. So again I'm starting who is? It's a two, but those And then I'm adding one in the middle that we've been to news of flour but in a different direction, starting with my two toes. And this time I will add to enzyme inter. I'm using some you do again depends on another floor over here and the managing Peto ends in dull. Let's spend another one on the left side. So again, I'm starting by renting one little of them. I know the one in this time I will too into center. Alexis, I'm sending my brush and I need toe Add a bit more white to my minutes and I'm going toe ad a bit of whites spends a media off my flower toe. Add some light so I will not add this white on every flower. Maybe I'm little more handsome in their here and now I'm going to pence system. So I will add a bit of whites to my green. Because remember that squash is going to dry. Dhaka and I was switched to use the final rush. I'm going to use this one. So is my queen. I'm going to penzance them so the floors are going to be connected. That's a better. And that's clinic. This one here on this one. Oh, there one. Yeah, So you can see that I'm painting some curvy lines, forces them and I'm going to add more flour and I'm going to bend the stem first So that say we add one here. Maybe one over there on here. I need to load my brush again with some green here. And since I have my green on my brush, we've been first a few leaves. So I'm going to stop by venting line. Then it was a one and then those who are just a line that is finer at the beginning. And that's the end. Let's add fear. So again, I'm just venting is a relief By adding more and more sweet lines, I repent relief over here. So I'm saying I'm starting with one line. And, uh, Mendoza one and those one she was exits obits, more. These rooms there, the flowers. You can see this is exactly the same process. I'm going to clean my brush and I will use some, you know, again. And this time I'm going to ban some forms that are not open. Its when here and when Here. And a small one over there. I see going toe obits, more leaves. So I will use my green again. And now it depends. Maybe go one at the bottom because I think there is not enough interests. So again, I'm creating Zarif, but just iding some find brushstrokes, and I will also add some stem again. No, I see that Miss from the top Serie creates smaller floor here again, I'm just spending to Peter's one of the rights and one on the left, and then I'm adding one in the middle, and that's it falls about Tucker. 5. Grape hyacinth: through this time, we're going to pants a grab highest since. And this former is really relief in two pence. So I would need some purple. So I'm going to make seats with some dark blue and some red and, of course, with bits of white. So that's a cool Austin notes on the black paper. So a bit off dark blue and a bit of red, and you can see that this is a really duck violates some going toe ad, a lot of rights. So this is my purple, maybe a bit more blue. So I'm just going toe bent some nuts. Starting at the top and I'm creating is the shape off my floor. By adding more and more adults, I'm going to pence another one just beside it. So with the tip of my brush, Um, just venting a few dots to create the shape of my flower, I will add more and more floors. Two watts is about, um, is this time I will pants a bigger one, just like that's take your time to add more and more flowers. Yeah, and there's this time I'm going to pence a smaller one and one over here again. I'm just venting some guts to create the shape of my floor before writing anything else I'm going to pent is this then? So how we use my small brush again and some green with a bit of whites. I'm starting by just creating a line and I will connect. Oh, my flowers. You shouldn't need to rotate your paper. Feel free really bends in whatever direction the cool is that you feel at ease. I need to penzance them for this one's. Yeah, so, no, I will take my bigger brush again And I will add more blue to my radio debts because I want to create a darker shed and there will add more dots to this first. But this time must be at the bottom. So I'm going to do this on every flower. But I won't add as much blue everywhere. Sometimes I would just add if shoots and sometimes I will add Waymo. She's if shoe dots on this for work here and I'm going took in my brush really carefully because this time I want to use some whites so my worship needs to be really clean. I'm going to Penn some dots again. But this time just a few. That's it. Nuts Hold. Your Fouras will be the same. So try toe, add just a few dots on some of them exists finally deep. I will bend if she leaves. So using my major brush and some gwil I'm just venting some simple rules. I tried to pence 001 smaller and sinner and I'm going toe them everywhere so you can see that depend my leaf. I'm starting by using only the tip of my brush. And then I'm pressing a bit more. And to finish Nicolas, I repent a scenery one No. Yeah, Runnings Greats, If you leaves overlap sometimes Now, if you use some different shades of green, you will add some contrasts. My goal is not to spend some perfect flowers, but toe from in the process. I want more fear and we have them 6. Snowdrop: next we're going to bend is a snowdrop. I have one in my garden so we can use it as inspiration and off course. I'm going to need some whites. I would use MSM brush again and I'm going to starts by planting the flower. So again I'm starting by planting one. Pittle this and I will add another one just beside its Let's spent another one over a year or smaller one again. I'm starting by bending one little and then another. And I'm going toe ad served one because I want all my flowers to be different. I'm going to add a bit more white On my 1st 1 legacies, I would add some more flowers. So one here, a bigger one on any other pittle, right? I was there. I need to add a bit more water to my pen because my brush is too dry. No, except no. I'm going to pence the bed, So just one small but Lexus and I will add another good here and and as a flow up Oh, is that I'm inventing and those up? It'll Alexis. Now I'm killing my brush and I would you some green do tid with a bit of whites toe of the light of shed. And I'm starting by adding just a bit of green and the top of my floor. So I'm doing this for each work. And if you're white is not dry yet, it will blended it and it will be beautiful. Now I'm going to take my smaller brush and we some green again. I'm going to penzance them. I'm starting. Adds a bottom. Um, I'm venting my stim. Then there was one, um, and one No, I'm going toe fence, but the ones that are on the left side. So this time I'm starting and sit up. Let's spent well here. I'm going to pence if shoot eaves I'm starting with the tip of my brush is an impressing a bit under. And I'm doing a scene, a stroke at the end in those of one so you can see that my green is a bit transparent, but it's great because I will be able tow Add a doctor green just after try to pen some leaves that go a bit on the lives and the Beatles rights because we want them to be all difference. I would events a similar one. One more Here, there. No, I would use a green. That is a bit Dr Anna with add if you moan Is this time is great if you brush is a bit dry because it will add some picture. And if you look at the floor, you can see that there there is a small leaf at the top. So I'm going to addicts. When here on fear One more on this floor And this one I think it's missing something here. So I'm going to add another flyover this time I'm going to pent the stem first. So here, with if I'm cleaning my brush And then we'd use my midge, um one again with some whites inventing my floor he sees and the capital just I decided. And I just going toe add a bit more right on this one toe hurt some nights, a bit more white Here I limit my rights on this one. And finally I will add a few more leaves. But this time with more, right, just Oh, sure. Oh, to finish, I'm using some do operate again because my first leaves are bits to duck. And that six for this no drop 7. Crocus: next let's spend the crocus selling to use some purple again. I need toe a bit more water on my pet, and I will also add some more weight this purple as a bit more worried than earlier. Again I will start my painting some petals. So I'm starting very a scene line at the bottom and then I'm venting to Gove line that meets ends it up and I'm feeling it. Let's spends another one on the left. So again my line a thinner at the bottom and then pence ing and those er curved I and I'm seeing my father. Oh, event. Then there was a better here. Try to leave some white space again. I'm feeling my shape and I would add another one again. I'm leaving just a tiny bits of white space and with pence, another one beside it. But this one, we did not be as open. I'm starting by the old line and I'm feeling it a second just here. But this one, he's smaller than the one with vented here and just one last one here. Just nine months. I will use my final brush and some green again to bend first is the stem. So I'm going to work with my paper. I'm starting at the bottom off my flower, and I'm venting a curry line for the stem. I wouldn't do the sensing here, and that's it's no, I would add some leaves with my fine brush again. I'm starting. That's it up. Um, venting. Really? And the other one here, here. I need to work that my paper, maybe more. That would change the direction off my beef. Texas thinking in tow. Add more water and I would add one more here. Liberals there kinda kidding my brush again. And I would add a bit of whites. Just That's the bottom officer petals this I'm going to do is the same thing. My first. You can see that I'm just venting some lines. I will also add a bit of whites cleanser leaves, same movement as earlier, except that I won't add white everywhere and to finish, I need some arrange. So I'm gonna grab in pizza of my red year and mix it with my, um, I'm just betting tough orange. I think I have to do something for my a little higher and that's it's for the crackers 8. Hyacinth: way we're going to bend the essence. So we need some future sung going to earth a bit of red with some white and I'm going to add a bit of water and exam together. I need to add more rights because that pink is a bit hoping for me. Remembers that quashes going toe dry docker So your color needs toe appear big lights I will also need a bit of brown So close this one I will use my midem brush again I'm going to start with my pinch and I'm going to spend a bunch off small flowers like this. So obits one family that's a beginning Don't try to pen something to perfect again because you are going toe Add fuel years on this one I will try to add my tiny floor hours in that ship Some big your floors has a bitta. Thanks, sis. Uneven We go one here and those around over there. No, I will add more whites to my pink and I'm going to do the same. Same again. The goal is that all these farmers over up So they need to be really close from each other again. I'm adding some more flowers. So I'm trying to follow that shape here. I'm venting some bigger florals. That's a bottom and keep edging more in law of them. I'm still using my light pink. Okay, a bit more. That's a bit. Um now I'm going to use my doctor. Pinks was a Sam as Badia and I will do this. I'm saying again. Okay. Just NEC. Is that so? I'm adding some more flowers where there is too much rights. And then we stop for no. This time I will use a bigger brush on the week Dick, my green. And the goal is to pent some big foot's lives. Some studying with the sin line as it up. And then I've been saying something a bit wider. Thanks. I would spend one on top of my flavors. One on that side? No, I want to add some whites. Just a bit of whites toe at some lights. My lives. Um, with my bone, I wouldn't bent suburb. I will add a bit of weights because it's a two doctor. Me. So I'm starting Just where there are the bottom of the leave and then Vince ing a second. You can see that my brown is bleeding on the green. I really, really love that from trying to pence. A bit exists and I would use my Dr Braun and I did on Lee. That's a bottom because I want to add a shadow. Yeah, and no, I will add a bit more rights where there is a bit also in tow. Add some why it's on my bed. It's I would use my midge, um, brush again and I'm doing exactly as I did earlier. I'm venting some very small flowers here and there, and since my Bentz is not really dry, it's planting a bit. Who is the pink? Okay, a bit more answer. But, um, more here, a bit more so at the top. And to finish I will add a bit more that green on my leaves. I think I need to other. So some going to my parents this time I won't add any right on just choosing so green straight from the tube and I will eat pump it, remember? And I think, where then 9. Daisy: So the next hour I'm going to plant is it Daisy? I will use some black paper again because of far is whites and it will stand out better. So I need to add a bit more white. Oh my God! It's And I will use a small brush. And starting with my white, I would bend Zip it. Oh, so just some straight lines. And this time I'm leaving and overall shape in the middle and I will bend it later I repent another floor here. I need to add some water. My white. So just some straight. The nights I would spent another one here it's exactly is the same process. No, I'm kidding. My brush and I will use some pink. So just a bit of pink. No event. Most fit. Oh my white on all my flowers. Some think on this one too. No, I'm going to pent this them to let my petals dry your deeds. So I'm using my fine brush and some green. I will What? That's my paper. Because it would be easier. I'm starting with this one. Some painting You dine do the same thing for this one. And so this one. I will also add a few more flowers. So this time I'm going to pence the stem first. So let's say one over here when Yeah, and one last this over there. I would use some white again and I'm going to Penza petals on the street flowers. So this one will be a bad So not open yet. So I'm just venting some small and shots because this one will be afraid worse with this time I would Bense. Nice go. And this one will be about two. So am I. Didn't just a tiny bit of weights. I'm cleaning my brush and I will add some pink. Is this for? And Isis Now I will use my major brush and some green again. I will add some whites to my green because I wanted to be more opaque. So less water and more whites. And first I will connect my bird to my stem. So just again if she lies and I will do the same thing. How does this one? No, I will bend Zubov's. So this time their lives have a round shape events on Lee. Oh, yeah, A bit more green toe mix. One me over there. I need to work that my paper. Because who's wise? I'm not at ease enough. Bend the curve shape. So I'm feeling is inside off mighty. No event. Another one on this side. So I'm starting by sin line and then inventing CEO Fine Nisus one body. Oh, yeah, And let's sit one more was there. Okay, that's it. Feel No, let's add some you know we'll never flora. So first I'm cleaning. My brush is in every grab some, you know, a bit of Zillow and I repent the center, so I'm just venting some dots close to one another two creates the center of my fruit. She's infinity. I want to add a few more white petals so that the standard better So with my fun brush in some whites, No events. If you more petals and pence sings, he's it's oh, no bids just here and that's it. 10. Forget-me-not: So the last floor I want to show you is a forget minute. This time I will need some blue. This is a Turco's group. So I'm adding a bit of it on my pets. And I also need toe add some weight again. I really use my major brush and I'm going to start edging some whites on my loop exists and I would spend some very small flowers and I'm going to bend a lot off them because forget me nots is a Fuhrer composed of many flowers. So I'm trying again not to pen something to perfect. I'm managing a small store over here. One more for their I already was a paler blue again and them keep adding sensor was some over here of shoe more Exhibit on two. Sure here she more so adds it up again. No, I will use my friend rush with some green to pence's them. So I'm starting my drooling a vein and then I reconnect. This is then let's do the same over here. So when nine fulsome in stem and then I'm going to connect my flowers disease, I will do the same for this one. And I'm connecting my flowers Does a mince them? Um so, energy, I do the same over here. Peace, Some smaller lines for the over the flower. And now I will add if you bird saw it, See when? Yeah, with other. So after some of flowers, like this one or so over here, I will use my brew again And with, uh, a small bird here. Yeah, I'm so here. And if there will? Yeah. So on this one, Uh, here and they're so one over there. We'll let this dry your bits and bent If you ma leaves this time with my big brush and some green, I will spend some small leaves. Exists. That's 30 Gary over there. We also pence bigger leaf on the right side. Um, some smaller worms. I'm painting my leaves a bit randomly. The goal is just to add them here in there. So a bit more that could be used to add some contrasts and sign. I did. I will bans the center off my flower with my fine brush and some you and there We just spent the guts to your one in them in their off my flower. Take your time in ads E steps on. Oh, your flowers. Okay. Yeah. I need to look at my paper again. Just a simple dips. If your room is not dry yet, it won't show as much. But it's okay. One more. Here, Here and that. Seats closer. Forget me nuts. 11. Project time: and that's it for this class. I hope you know femur confidence to spend spring flowers with wash. If you have any question at all, feel free to ask them in the discussion board, and I will do my best to answer them. 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