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Palette play 3: Beautiful Simple Flowers in Watercolor - Absolute beginner

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Course Description3 1

      5:57

    • 2.

      Tulips

      6:11

    • 3.

      Three loose wet in wet flowers

      3:50

    • 4.

      Exotic Stylish Rose

      7:19

    • 5.

      Big stylized red rose

      8:20

    • 6.

      Orange flower

      7:59

    • 7.

      Colorful cloves

      5:26

    • 8.

      Loose wet in wet blossoms

      3:49

    • 9.

      Yellow flower

      9:37

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You have no or very limited prior knowledge and experience in watercolor and want to create eye catching simple floral watercolor paintings for yourself, to give as a gift or sell them, or you have some basic knowledge and want to exercise more to make a solid base for future? If do this is the right course for you.

This course is an independent course composed of several bite-sized videos. In which you will learn how to manage basic important techniques such as wet in wet, or splash while you are doing a very simple and beautiful stylized floral loose watercolor painting. Also it is part of a bigger seri for those who want enjoy their time by doing more of these beautiful paintings or to practice more.

Lessons are designed very carefully, they are short, and help you to paint fearlessly. Mainly each lesson is dedicated to one or two techniques and the color pallet is intentionally very limited.to make it easy to follow.

 and I have used a very limited brush numbers and I share the properties of the used brushes.

In the end you also have the final result scanned in a proper quality to compare your result with mine and it helps you to evaluate your progress..

Also I have framed the final result. You can have an idea of your framed painting this way. The frame color (passepartout) is very simple and in rhyme with the painting and you can chose similar cardboard color either.

Basically from start tot finish is covered in a very simple way ensuring that you will reach the same result I reached. I also have other courses you can choose based on your progress and experience to have more quality time.

Enjoy your quality time painting!

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Painting Yeganegi

Art is joyful!

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Hello,  everyone. This is Majid (pronounced similar to magic), a self-thought artist seeking the joy of art and painting. I've gained several national awards and been teaching art for almost two decades. 

You may start to build your skillset up benefitting my watercolor painting and drawing series and I hope enjoy the art while watching and do it yourself. I am inspired heavily by grandmasters such as Edward Seago, James Fletcher Watson, and other British masters. You may find me on Twitter.

Enjoy painting,

Majid

 

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1. Course Description3 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this wonderful course. The course is dedicated to felleral subjects because followers are beautiful and after each lesson, you will succeed in making a beautiful flower or feleral subject. The aim is also to ensure that you practice the very basic techniques of watercolor painting several times. Ich lesson is designed to be less than 10 minutes or just a few minutes so that you can easily accomplish each task. Basic techniques such as vet Ovet or vet invet or splashing techniques are repeated now and then for several times. That's make you and me sure that you have a solid understanding and experience of those techniques with no or less perior knowledge, you will succeed in doing those beautiful paintings. Also, if you have some prior knowledge and you want to know more about federal subjects, or you want to make a solid basin foundation for more advanced levels of particular painting, I strongly suggest you to take this course. This course is part of a series of very simple federal painting subjects and is designed to be a separate course, could be part of a year course for those who are interested in exercises. So I highly encourage you to accomplish each course separately. And if you are interested, also, I suggest you to take other courses. This is magic, and I've been busy doing painting, drawing, and also giving art courses for more than two decades. So I know what makes the students successful in their artistic career. This way, you would be that what you are going to learn is what you want. Each lesson is designed carefully. That you will learn something new or you will repeat a very basic technique. Once again, so that you and I will be sure that have the solid understanding of that technique. There's no need to care about techniques. We will repeat them several times and also I will highlight the most important tips several times during the course so that you will understand them very well. During past two decades, I've tried this techniques several times, so you can be sure that without any prior knowledge or less prior knowledge, you can do and succeed in these courses and in these subjects. After each lesson, you will have a very beautiful painting so that you can keep it frame it, put it on your table or you can gift it to a friend as a present from your heart. I hope you and I would have a very wonderful journey and quality time with each other. Let's get started. 2. Tulips: Now that we are familiar with different techniques, we're going to practice them more in action. For this lesson, I am trying to combine dry wet and wet vet with each other. I would say you would find it amazing. For this lesson, I've chosen a simple flower. We start from a pale cadmium orange that is between orange and red. I start from outer part of each ti petrol inwards towards the center. Basically, my color is as in as T, let me say, so it is not very ti, it's not very in. It's like a T. As you can see, I usually pay attention to outer part of each shape and then easily die the inner part or color the inner part. It is important to rhyme with the form basically because it conveys the form bedfm. For the second layer, that is ton wet or wet invet. I use slightly a thicker color. This time it must be like a coffee or creamy coffee so that it doesn't disperse too much. As you can see, once again, I rhyme with the form. Now I choose a slightly smaller barrage for the very delicate parts. I use a number two or number three usually for smaller parts. For this painting, I am using a number two round brush and darker. Almost creamy color is used for these delicate parts. It could be brown, it could be purple or black. All of them are in harmony with the previous colors. I use brown color here. Now it's time for the stem part. I use number one or number two run brush for this part. I mean, you have to choose the right brush. As you can see, once again, I try to rhyme with the forms and try not to mix colors with each other because if I do, they mix and they disperse into each other. Take it easy if they mix, it's okay. As you can see, I'm using a very dark green for the stems and try to do it in one sto, but it doesn't matter if you didn't do it, it's okay. Now it is time for the leaves. And as you can see, once again, I try to rhyme with the form that's important. This time, I'm using a thinner color with more water. It's important to prepare all of your colors in advance. It's important to prepare all your colors in advance for this lesson. We need three different colors, almost a t in orange color. A Ticker like coffee, red color, and also a creamy I mean, very creamy brown color. Also, we need two other green colors. One of them must be tick like green and dark. You can mix green with black or green with brown or with even red to make it dark. We try to keep it very. Don't mix extra water to it and too water to it, and the other one must be very pale and also green color for the leaves. Now it's time for some attractiveness. I use about my Tin cadmium red and also tin green color to splash some dots here and there. It's up to you. I have found it amazing. I found it more attractive and more fun. I do it usually, but it is up to you to do that or not. I think it's now finished. Everything is right perfect. You can try it in different forms in different colors. It's a matter of fun and creativity, so you can do it in your style. I hope you have enjoyed this wonderful painting and see you in the next last pm. 3. Three loose wet in wet flowers: We are going to practice different things in this lesson. For this beautiful painting, I'm going to use vt splashing, and also water aspirating technique. I prove the paper slightly with water a spray and then start from the red flower. Going to keep it really simple and benefit from economy in brush struck and it is really, really important. I start from yellow, pure yellow color and to follow the forms, I usually start from outer part inward or vice versa from the center of each petal toward the outer part of it to rhyme with the form. It is really important to rhyme with the forms. It makes it more believable because in fact, painting is an illusion of reality. For the second flower, I'm using a darker red color and for the third one. I'm going to add slightly some orange color to my red color, so I'm using a orangeish red color for the third one. For the leaves, also, I'm going to follow the same rules. I start from outer part, inward or from inner part, outward and keep it really simple. Try to have an economy in brush works and it's really important to get used to so I'm going to ask you to do this exercise for several times several times repeated several times. You can use a smaller brush for the stems or just use tip of your brush. Depends on how expert you are or how familar you are with your brush. Basically, we have done the majority of painting, and now it is time for splashing technique. Splashing is about, splashing some colors here and there, and I'm going to use the same colors I use for painting to do the splashing technique. I splash some orange dts here and there and some green dts here and there. It is almost finished. You can stop here or you can go further and spray some water on the painting. I'm spraying some pure water onto the painting. It will cause spreading colors will flow slightly and also you can benefit tilting your board, so that colors flow down, or you can also tilt it so that colors go toward the upper part of the upper part of the painting, and it makes a really beautiful effect. I hope you have enjoyed this painting. I ask you to repeat it for several times to get used to all the techniques that we shared here. 4. Exotic Stylish Rose: Hello, everyone. For today's painting. I'm going to paint a stylized, beautiful, simple watercolor painting. The colors are very simple two shades of red orangish red, like *** red, and also rose red. You can also call it purple or purplish red. K. And two shades of blue. One could be prose blue or cobalt blue or ultramarine blue, and the other one would be a turquoise, like a mixture of green and blue. So two shades of blue like a mixture of violet and blue, and the other one would be a mixture of green and blue. And the process is really, really simple. There's no special technique. And just, The only thing that I must insist on is that prepare your colors before starting your painting. For two days painting, I've used ecolin that are sort of ink colors. You can use the same or prepare your colors with any sort of watercolor like two watercolors or tablets or pills. And the rest is simply coloring. I try to keep some white areas between petals, but it's up to you. The only other thing that I have to mention is that it would be great if you try to keep your brush strokes in rhyme with the forms that you are going to paint them like forms of the petals or forms of the leaves. I try to keep some white areas here and there, but it is not very important. If you could save those areas, it would be great. If you are not able, so it will be great. The matter is jing your time, the only thing that matters is injuring your time. I try to keep my brush strokes in rhyme with the petals and with forms that I'm going to paint them. Basically here as you can see, I paint from the outer part of each shape towards the center, and try to keep some white areas here and there. Our flower is almost finished and now using a smaller brush size and a darker color purpsh red. I'm going to paint the inner layer of the petals. Just as you can see, I'm trying to keep it simple and use the less possible brush strokes for this painting. As you can see in the background, Bars are chirping. I welcome them but they're not here. The second layer of the petals is almost finished. Now it's time to add extra details to the stem and also to the leves. I change my brush, can wash your brush. I instantly changed my brush and using a number two round brush, I the stems, the colors are really simple, a mixture of red or megenta, with the previous blue color. As usual, I pay much more attention to outer part of each and every shape, including the leaves and also the inhal part of the flower. Also, I try to rhyme my brush strokes with the form so that could save my time, and you can trust me that if you have enough economy in brush struck, the results would be amazing. Okay, Now it's time to let the painting. I usually welcome the splash technique, but it is up to you. I believe that it will add some value to the pure white background. I hope you have enjoyed this wonderful painting and it's time to let dry and frame it. See you in the next video. Send 5. Big stylized red rose: Hello, hello, today's painting. And so is another stylized rose flower. In fact, two stylized flowers, and the color combination is really simple. I've technique. And you don't need to care too much about the technique because just following the steps, you would understand everything. And the color combination is basically two shades of red and two shades of green. I mean, a right red and a dark red and also a usual green like sap green or whatever green you have on your palette, and a darker green that would be a mixture of black and your green. As the flowers are too big, one of them is really huge. For today's painting, I am going to use a half inch flat brush, or you can use a white size like big size number 11 or number ten round brush to make it much easier. The only thing that you need to pay attention to it is that your brush size be in rhyme with the size of the shape that you are going to paint it or color it. The first layer would be really really simple and just just feeling the shapes would be more than enough. Just try to keep the layers yet wet so that the colors blend naturally and there wouldn't be any boundary or visible boundary. While this layer is silt, I would add extra de. Now it's time to rapidly paint the second floor. The only thing that you need to pay attention is that you have to pay attention to outer part of the shapes. I do it very quickly because of the experience. For you, it may take slightly more time, but it would be really simple. For the second flower, I use a smaller like number four flat brush. While the basic or the first layer is silvet, and using a smaller brush size like number four or number five flat brush. We can also use the round brush. I color some other petals so that it makes an illusion of forms or depth. Basically, I'm using the darker color or darker layer to add extra details to our flower. The only thing that you have to pay attention to it, as I already mentioned is that you have to rind your brush strokes with the underneath forms, and Here those forms are the petals. And that is really important like a key to have a believable painting. Sometimes I use slightly, slightly brighter colors here and there to make variations, and this is only mixing extra pigments with your previous or prepared wash. That's it. We've done all we needed to do with the clovers. A. Now it's time to paint the leaves. I use number four flat brush and simply color the leaves. For the in part, I simply just feel the shape. For the details, you can choose a number two or number three round brush, or if you have gained enough experience, you can use the small size or medium size flat brush. It's all about you, your choice, and your experience. While I'm painting, they leaves, I choose darker or lighter green colors to make variations and make it more attractive. That's it for this painting. I hope you have enjoyed it. I believe that it's finished by the way. As I am doing, you can do the same and add background to your painting to paint this background. You need a tinge of red or green or just a tinge of black, and the rest would be water. And as usual, I enjoy splashing colors. So I dip my brush into the wash that I've prepared and splash those colors onto my paper. Just remove the tapes and let it dry and just frame it. I believe that you have enjoyed as much as I enjoyed from this painting. See you in the next video. 6. Orange flower: Today's painting also is really simple and amazing. The palette is the limited. We are going to use just a few colors. You can also finish it using only two colors. I mean just yellow and red, and that's all. Or you can also add green to your palette. Basically, we're going to use technique and also a splashing technique. We usually use the same techniques over and over. The colors are simple like normal yellow, normal red, and if you are interested, you can also use green. I start from the outer part of the shapes. Towards the center. I already colored the inner part of the flaver, and it is totally lid and to save the time. When I paint just a portion of the falver, and it is still. I use a smaller brush and pick some red color and mix the colors. On the paper. It is called wet in wet and as the colors are not too watery, the result is almost controlled and the red color will not spread that much. If you use colored inks, and then they are called also ecolin. If you use echin or watery wash or watery color. Then when you use vet in technique, the colors mix with each other and spread into each other. But if you are going to use less watery colors or like colors, even if you use the vetting technique, the colors won't spread that much into each other. For this painting, I am using a normal not too much battery, not too much dry color. For the base layer. I mean for the yellow layer, and then using a smaller brush, I add some red color to the outer part of each petal. They mix, but not that much. For the meddle part, also I'm going to use the same techniques and same process. I add base yellow layer and for the first half, and for the second half. I'm going to use red color. They will mix naturally. I mean, when you are using the same brush over brush over the base layer, they will mix naturally. As you see, I'm going to use a smaller brush for the inner part. It is number two bruh, number two round brush. And with a slightly darker, less watery red color, I am going to add some extra fine details to the center of the flower. In my opinion, it is almost finished. You can splash some drops here and there, or you can leave it as it was. This is my taste. I think that adding some points here and there will add to your paintings visual interest, and it's at Yes. I think that in this stage, it is finished. But you can also spray some water on the drops that we already splashed here and there, or you can leave it as it was. I think this is finished, but it's a matter of taste. You can add a stem and also leaves to this flower. You can add leaves with the same red color, same yellow color, or as I am gen, you can use green color. It makes it like natural colors and nature colors. But if you use brown orange or red, it would be more abstract. But because the colors are adjacent, Also, it would be also interesting. It's a matter of taste. You can repeat the same painting for several times with different combination of colors. It is all about experiencing and learning from each experience. I usually welcome the incidents and water color is all about incidents. Sometimes you control the incidents, sometimes you yell and let's see what happens. I'm going to paint and add leaves and the base layer is dried off. You can do the drawing, or if you feel you're confident enough, you can do it while it is still wet. It's up to you, I am going to paint the leaves very stylish and very simple and using a number two round brush, that is good for adding details. I am going to add the stems and also the leaves. As the base layer is slightly and has some dampness. The color the green color will mix slightly to the bin layer, and the borders of the leaves are slightly blared and I like this effect. If you dry off your brush and then using that bruh. Touch the paper while the colors are yet watery and we t, you can pick the colors from the paper. I'm going to use this technique, and I think that our painting is finished. Now it's time to let it dry off and frame it. I hope you have enjoyed this painting as well. 7. Colorful cloves: For today's painting, I'm going to use only one color, but with different thickness. As you know, when the colors are prepared and pre mixed with water, we call them wash, so we are going to use two different of the same red color. One of them has more water. The other one has less water. There's less water and th. And the technique is wet in wet, and you will see that when we are using a ticker color on the wet paper, the dispersion is limited and just the borders are somehow blurred. So I pre the paper with a large brush. And simply start coloring. The only tip that I have to share here is prevent rubbing the paper because the texture of the paper will change, and you will feel like there are some spots here and there, and the texture of the paper will define the quality of the final result. Prevent other rubbing. Slightly the paper. And then add some colors to the lower part of the painting and once again, mix this layer with a large brush size or just slightly tilt your board so that the colors mix with the background. Now it's time to add the details. I use a small number two or number two run rush usually for the details. The only thing that I have to share here is that your brush strucks must rhyme with the form of the petals and the flowers or stems. It's very important and crucial. Keep it simple, but try to rhyme the brush strucks with the form of the petals. So basically, we're trying to test or do different tests on the technique so that you can master it because it is really, really intuitive, and the result is amazing. You will find it very beautiful technique for almost any painting. At least for the feral subjects, it's really beautiful. As you can see, while our paper is slightly going to be dried, while the colors that I'm using is slightly thicker. The dispersion is much less, and the only thing that would be blurry is the outer part of the shapes, and nothing else. You can call it somehow controlled way of vettim technique. H I usually welcome the splash technique. Here is no exception. I try to keep it simple as much as possible. It is called also economy of brush stroke. A painting is finished, so it's time to let it dry and the frame it. I hope you have enjoyed this wonderful p. See you on the next lesson. 8. Loose wet in wet blossoms: Hello everyone. Today's painting also is another beautiful loose in watercolor painting. I've chosen a very simple yet attractive subject, and the color combination is also really simple including only two colors, pure red and pure black. Also we try splashing on surface. We try to understand the the wash is very watery or creamy. What would be the result or difference. To a start, I use a big brush to damp the paper. Now it's time to splash a few drops of red color here and there, and then we simply can tilt or just blow on the paper or tilt the paper so that the colors mix to each other and also mix with the water. Now we have a background. You can add more splashes here and there, and now it's time to start coloring the blossoms slowly and also using a thicker red paint. As the color is thicker and has less water, the disperse is less compared to the previous layer. And now it is time to add a tinge of black to the previous layer so that they blend to each other and so it's time to paint the stroke. Now, as my palette is slightly tilted, the colors will move very slowly towards the basically because of the gravity. Now it's time to add more extra details. I use a finer number two number. You can use a number two or number three or even number one run brush for small details like stems, and I use pure black. This is the result after drawing and I would say that this is really, really beautiful. As you can see, the result is unpredictable and very intuitive. Yet the drawing is visible and this defines the shapes. This combination of very detailed drawing and also very loose painting is really, really amazing and attractive. I hope you have enjoyed this wonderful painting as I did. 9. Yellow flower: D. Hello, everyone. This is another day and we're going to do another beautiful painting. For today's painting, I've a really beautiful and simple yellow flower, sort of stylized, and the techniques are very simple including on p and also we on. They're really simple and you don't need to care about techniques. As I usually repeat the techniques in each and every lesson. You can also simply just follow the steps and don't care about the techniques. The coloring is really simple, including yellow, orange, red, and a mixture of green and blue that makes a darker green. Let's get started. For two day's lesson, I'm going to use a small round number two or number three brush. And the coloring is really really simple. I start from the middle or center of the flower, and the color is basically orange and when I paint the center of the flower and when it is yet and still, I add some darker parts using a darker red color. As the First layer is still we t, they blend naturally. You can put it dry, or as I do, you can start other part of the flower so that the center first flower gets completely dry. So I continue painting and coloring the inner part of the other flower that could be considered as a blossom. As my brush is small, I can paint the details carefully. Also when it is s, I add some darker colors to emphasize on the center of this flower. Now the first flower is completely dry and I am able to continue painting. I load some yellow wash. And as you know, wash in fact, is the colors that are pre mixed. Ah. When I say wash, I mean pre mixed or prepared color. I load some yellow wash. It must be like coffee or milk. It mustn't be too much water or too in or too thick, it must be like coffee or tea, something in between. As usual, I pay much more attention to the outer part of each and every shape, but the inner parts is easier. You can use also a bigger brush size like I've used number four, round brush, you can choose number four, number five or number six round brush. For details, I use a smaller brush, my number two brush, and add while the first layer of the color, I mean the yellow layer is still. I add the details using a darker color. Here, I'm using a orangish red color, and I just add a tinge of that darker color to the almost center of each petal. They mix naturally because the first layer is still wet. Also this is called wet in wet. Simply t in vet is technic. Keep continue coloring. And while the first layer is still wet, you can add the darker brownish or reddish orangish color to the first layer. And they naturally blend to each other because the first layer is still wet. Now it's time to color the other blossom or the other flower. And I would say that it's wise to keep the first flower to be dried completely if you think that you have not enough confidence to control. Now it's time to let the whole flowers be completely dry and then start painting the leaves. And so we can do that by putting it aside for a few minutes or using a hair dryer. As usual, I use a round brush. Here I am using a number four round brush, and as usual, I pay more attention to outer part of the leaves shape. And the inner part is simply just coloring or feeling the shape. Also with the same brush, or you can also choose a smaller size brush. I draw the stem and add more details to the second flower. Using the same mixture, that is a mixture of green and blue. You can choose a usual green and add some darker blue like purse blue or ultramarine to make this dark bluish green. I paint the second leaf. As usual, I pay much more attention to outer part of the forms. For the inner parts, I just try to feel the shape. This is my way and I suggest you to do the coloring in the same way. Our painting is almost finished. But I personally am interested in splashing and splashing is really simple. Splash technique is fairly simple. You just need to dip your brush into the ash that is prepared and just sp the colors on your paper by hitting the bruh on your hand or some other brushes that it for this painting. I would say that this is almost finished. I hope you have enjoyed this beautiful painting. Now it is time to frame it and, congratulation.