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1. Sunflower 2 - Introduction: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another art tutorial. For today's lesson, we are going to be painting
sunflower number two. I'm going to start
by making sure I have my palette ready
with all the colors, my two water containers, a paper towel or a cloth, something to dry off your brush, and then I am going to
tape down my sketch. So for this sketch, let's see if you get
the painting kit for me that comes
with the color. And just adding those final
touch ups, final details. But we did it. We
are at the end here.
2. Let's Get Set Up: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another art tutorial. For today's lesson, we are going to be painting
sunflower number two. I'm going to start
by making sure I have my palette ready
with all the colors, my two water containers, a paper towel or a cloth, something to dry off your brush, and then I am going to
tape down my sketch. For this sketch, I usually let's see if you get
the painting kit from me that comes
with the colors, the brushes and the
sketch already done. That sketch has been printed out using my printer
onto watercolor paper, and the lines are going
to be a bit fainter because if it was when the
computer is printing it out, then when you activate
it with water, the ink would spread. I do like a lighter printo so that when you're
painting with it, it doesn't interfere
with the colors at all. To get this darker
outline like I have Here, what I do is after
I print it out, I will go over it in a waterproof like
Inc or marker deal. The ones that I like to use, Windsor and Newton make
some and I usually get it in a Maybe like a 0.5 liner, sometimes 0.8, or a one if
you want a thicker line. Those are some different
sizes you can use. There's also other companies. There's a company called
Sakura or something. There's another brand I use, but I don't know what
they're called take. Um, or urcche
something like that, but they're in Japanese. I don't remember from my
Japanese lessons all years ago. Exactly what it says.
But they do wants to. But if you just look around for waterproof or just look
on Amazon waterproof, Ink or pen or mark or whatever, then you can just
outline your drawing. Then you're going to want
to wait for it to dry. I usually wait a whole day. I'll print out I'll
have the sketch ready and then I'll go
over a I'll go over the lines to make them
darker and I will literally just leave it
alone until the next day. Then when I come back to paint
on it, it's totally fine. The marker doesn't bleed
through or anything. So, in case you want
this kind of effect, my cat just jumped up here. C, go down. Okay. Okay. So let's say, yes, I've got my paper tape
down and now I'm putting some clean water all over the
page to do the background. Let's talk about
the colors today. We have yellow, orange, brown, green, and black. So I just put
general colors there because I want everyone to you know when you're
going to the store, just to use whatever
colors look get to you or when you're at
home and you're like, here's the colors I have
on hand, you can pick out. If you already have
something that's similar, that should work too. But I have also gotten requests where people want
to know specific brands. If that is you and you like to know exactly what is being used, here is that information. So from the Grumbacher Academy, we have Alizarin orange, and then we have some
colors from D vinci. We have Acylide yellow, FGL, then we have
Quinacridone burn orange. We have Denise's green
and then ivory black. If you are not sure
what brands to get, well, the ones that I
mentioned, they're very good, especially if you're
not ready to you know, necessarily purchase
more expensive colors or you just want to see which
ones you like and all that. But if you would like I
guess specialty brands, I make a line of
watercolor paints under my brand stint and mine
they're honey based. They have tons of pigment
because I like to use get as much colors as
I can out of them. So,
3. Background Part 1: Also available if you
like a more specialty, a little like boutique shop
brand, that kind of thing. Of course, use whatever
brand you like. We are going in here
with this ivory block, and I am carefully going around the petals as
carefully as I can with this. Using the size eight brush. I mentioned in the supply
sheet or supply list PDF that I have for
everyone to print out, or just look at from your
computer that we have the size number two
and eight brushes. That is usually the default
size that I will use for this size of paper
because these are eight by ten eight by ten paper. If the paper size is
pretty consistent, then I think there's certain brushes that work well with it. Now, if you find as
you're going that these brushes are a
bit too small or too big for you or if you
want finer details, then you would use smaller
brushes if you want you know, bigger blend to your looks, then you would get bigger,
use bigger brushes. So feel free to, you know, if you came here from
the painting kits, the painting kits usually
have this kind of sizing. They might vary a bit
than the two and eight, but they're usually
around that kind of sizing since that's just
the one I use most often. But if you are getting
your own brushes, feel free to get that size or if you want to experiment with some smaller
or larger ones too. It is good as well.
You'll see I switch between the smaller and the larger brush as I
go around the petals. I like to go around the petals with
the smaller brush in case because there
were some parts. You'll see when I
was in there where the brush went over the petal
a bit and so I was like, Okay, let me switch from my larger brush to
my smaller brush. I am going around these
petals and as I do, I'm pushing the colors I guess, away from the petals because I eventually want them
to blend in with the background and I'll probably switch to
my larger brush and blend it out so
you can't really tell where that color was. Um, so that's usually my preferred way to
block in colors. For the rest of the supplies, I also have I mentioned the palettes
using any kind of palette. The one I have right here, I got this one from EC
and it's really nice. It has a resin top and I think
it's cork on the bottom, and it has these
little grooves and speckles it's really cute. But I mean, there's lots of different kind of
palettes out there. I've also done quite
well with a paper plate. Or even if you have
a ceramic dish, that's even better because
on some kind of materials, the watercolors, you can
see on this palette. You put the color down, and
then you can spread it out and you can see all the color you see what you're
getting here. So materials, for example,
like the plastic. The color tends to beat
up and concentrate, and so it's not until you go to paint
with it that you're like, that's the color orange
that is actually on there because it looked
red when it was all together and concentrated. Some materials are better, ceramics This one resin coating, this one has done well
let me see what else. I think glass, maybe. Don't quote me on that because
I am actually not sure. Now I'm thinking
about if that's what I like using acrylic because it is able to be scraped off easily when
we're done or whatever. But certainly, actually,
there's another enamel. I've had success with enamel. You might see in some
other videos I have, I use this butcher tray, just like this white
tray with this
4. Background Part 2: Oh, it has a dark blue
trim on the outside and it works really well for
spreading out colors too. I guess enamel could
work very well too. Definitely a big proponent
for using whatever you have. But of course, if you'd like to have a easier time
with the colors, there's definitely some that
work better than others. Also, it's fun to collect
them and have all kinds. There was a moon one. I think I have this
crescent moon. It was a ceramic palette. And that one is really fun to use at times
two or let me see, **** Blick, I've gotten some flower wells,
flower palettes. Now I've done the first
layer of the background, and I did wait for it to dry. For me, about 20 minutes for you could be
longer or shorter. After that did dry, I wanted to go in with that same black so I could
get a darker coating. Oh. Okay. So just finishing up here with that second layer of
that ivory black, and there are some
spots that I want to add a bit more color to
because you can see as it starts to dry and kind and blend out how some
spots can be lighter or I'd like to just add maybe a thicker concentration in some areas that are
lighter than others. I think we are getting ready
to start on our petals here. I did wait for the second background
layer to dry before I did this
because I do not want this yellow and black
mixing together. I'm going to go in with my
first layer of the yellow. And I had talked about this a little
bit in the last video, but I like to do I guess at three step approach is then
using a lighter yellow, a mid yellow tone, and then a darker yellow
or orangish tone. So I will continue to do that here as I layer up this petal
and add some dimension. But for now as
we're starting out, we're just going to make
sure that we cover all of these petals in this nice
yellow color as the base.
5. Painting The Petals: Ah. Now that our petals are all colored in. We can get started
with our stem, and I'm going in with this
lovely, beautiful green. We'll do a similar
thing where we have this lighter tone and
then we go over it again and some other greens
to add to make it flat looking like it's
actually a drawing on a paper and more like
it's coming out at you, that it's a real stem a real
flower and all of that, give it some dimension here. I think there's still a bit of green that is going on
behind these petals. I'm going to go ahead
and fill in two. My petals be probably by now. But I'm just I
guess I be patient. I'm like, Let me just
go in with this screen. But it should be
mostly because I did start with that top
layer and it took a while. So yeah, be sure that
your petals are at least fully dry would be ideal just so that green doesn't mix in with the petals. But this will be a nice
little plant or budding look of where the petals
are coming out of. M. So now that I've got this orange on my
6. Adding Orange To The Center: I'm going to go in and this
inner part of the sunflower. We'll get that all painted here. Okay. When I'm going
around the flower, I'm paying attention to
where the darker tones are and where the
lighter tones are and just making sure to add
a bit more color on the outer edges where I see a bit more color and then
lightening up with this yellow. Since this orange is wet, it'll have a really nice wet
on wet transition and have it well blended and a bit
of a gradient going on. And so now I have
left that to dry, and now we have this beautiful purple that we're going in with the center. And the purple will add a really nice tone because we
see these yellows oranges, and now we'll see this
purple in the center. So it's very eye. It
looks really nice. With this green, I'm going to go over the left side of the stem, and I do still want a bit of
that lighter green to peek out on the right side because that'll be our highlight color. Then in the parts where the green part is
behind the petals. I'll paint those over and since it's like
that darker shade, it'll look like it's more being pushed back behind the petals. Oh. And so while that green is still a bit wet, I'm going to go in and drop a bit more of that
green by the stem. Making sure to make sure that that lighter green
can still a bit.
7. Adding Dimension: But I did want it just
to be a little more blended a little darker there. Now, I've waited for
it to dry again, and you can see that even though we painted
over that stem, how it dried a bit lighter. That happens a lot with
watercolors you go in and it looks so dark and then you
wait a bit and it lightens up. So behind the petals, I'm going to add that
yellow to some of them, and this is to push those
petals back a little bit. So we have some lighter ones out front, darker ones behind. And then I'll go in with that yellow and go around
some of the petals, making sure to leave at least one side of
it, that lighter color. The ones that are in front half of them will have that
other layer of yellow, whereas the ones
behind will be fly covered in that other
layer of yellow. Since that ones a
little bit behind. I'll add some more yellow there. This is really coming together. Look at how these puddles
are forming and they're feeling coming out more into
the real world and all that. This is the fun part to add all these layers
of colors to it. I'm just adding yellows as I see or touching up
some areas as I go. So feel free to do that too
and add some here or there, based on what looks good to you. Now that I've got a bit
of black on my brush, I'm going to do
these short lines, and they're going to look like they're going into the middle. So as you're making
those strokes, have point towards the
middle going all around, and that will give it
a nice effect there. And then I'll get
this lighter orange. And I've mixed up
some of that orange we have with some yellow just to make a bit of a lighter tone, and then I'll go over in the petal where you see
those outlines, and then I'll do that color over all those
existing lines there.
8. Finishing Up: This is the lines for the
inner part of the petal. I'm just doing it on
the inner part and not necessarily
the outer edges of the petal because we did go over those in black
and that's fine, but just wanted to add a bit more to the middle
of all these petals. That's what helps
with the movement to show how the petals are
bending and shaping. Then I'll add a bit of touching up to some of the
petals that are behind. I did want them to just have a little bit
of a darker tone. Y. Okay. And then at the part, where the petals are actually coming out from that inner side, I'll put a little
bit of yellow there just to give it a bit more color when those two parts meet. Uh, Now we're going to use our brown color or if you have the quinacridone burnt
orange, that's that color. And at this point, my water is basically
that same brown, so I was fine with just using
that water to add to it. I sometimes do it if that water still matches what I four. For this inner part, I'm doing these little strokes, and we want it to look like there's a bunch of seeds here. I have little shapes going on. I'm putting down my brush, lifting it up quickly to do these quick little lines going
all kinds of directions. We have some straight ones, some sideway ones, some circle
one, some have circles, just like all the organic shapes that might be made
on the sunflower. Now this makes me want to
eat some flower seeds. They're so good. I just adding those final
touch up, final details. But we did it. We
are at the end here.
Sredna Kunowski, Owner of the Sredna Art brand
