Textured Floral Painting 101

1. Introduction: Hello, students. My name is Joe Velasco. I'm a professional artist. And say professional artists because I have done so many shows, one shows exhibitions. I do workshops right now. At the moment, I'm doing it every weekend here in my Pujo here in Sydney. That's the reason for this film where I'm going to show you how to do textured floors. This one here? Yeah. This is what I'm going to teach on this workshop. And it, once it's all done, it's going to look professional. As long as you follow, I try to follow intently what I say or what I do. You follow it me. In the end, once you finish this workshop, you have a professional looking painting ready for your signature of varnishing and also for framing. Yeah, so that's what you're expecting on this workshop. 2. Technique: As I have mentioned earlier, what we're painting today is textured roses. In particular roses, because we can paint any flowers, but you know, it might be too confusing. So I'll start with roses. I'm a very, very experimental artist, like I experiment all the time in my approach. So sometimes I make mistakes, sometimes I do happy accidents. And from those happy accidents, I learn a lot. And this is what I keep and I develop on that technique. And this is why this trick that I'm teaching you pull. I'll say it. My trade secret that I'm sharing to you that I learned over the years. Text, I mix everything myself like except the paint of course, but the texturing paste. I do it myself. And I'll teach you how to mix that during our course. Yeah, Yeah, that's my approach. Experimental approach and carefree. You don't even have time to think, Just keep on drawing your painting. That's the style we're doing today. 3. Required Materials: We talk about materials that you need. Of course, you need a canvas, stretched canvas, prime canvas. And this one, I just bought it from store, ready, made. Any art will say you, this is 500 millimeters by 400 millimeters. But any size, of course, depends on how fortable you're working on your first lesson. Next is I'm using palette knives on this one number three and number number one, mind you, this shape it to a very sharp edge, you can see, but you don't have to do that. I do it because I need it purposely for myself. Okay, this is what I buy for mixing palette, for my color palette. This is what I buy just by from any hardware and front brush. You need that Yeah, share later on for splattering my palette color palette, I just use a loose canvas. I cut it to the size about an aforize. Because the purpose of this is this one, you can strip off the past later on, then you can wash it and reuse it. You can reuse, you don't have to keep on buying a new palette. Yeah, we go to my colors. We use acrylic paint for this session. Acrylic, you choose any color that you want acrylic paint to suit the color of flowers that you're doing. Now, as I've mentioned before, I'm a very experimental artist. I don't throw away my old acrylic tubes or acrylic containers. What I do is I fill it up with fluid acrylic and then cut the bottom. And then I use it for making some shapes. For example, the stems. Yeah, I'll show you later on as we paint, I'll draw this. It's a short cut syringe and needles I use that as well. I'll tell you where I'm going to use it on some small twigs later on. Again, this is a short cut approach of pale water. Acrylic paint tends to dry very quick. And once it is dry, then you have a hard time taking it out from the brass or from the palette. Very hard, because when it hardens it's hard like a stone. We don't do so much sketching, so we just draw shapes with a chop. These are ordinary chop. Okay, The main ingredient for this painting is our texturing paste. Yeah, that's why it's called textured acrylic. Now I buy this from the shop, it's called molding paste. But sometimes it becomes very expensive, especially when I finish one jar in one painting, so it becomes very expensive. So I devise a way to mix it. Now to mix it, all you need is glue. I buy this from your local hardware. Acrylic paint. Yeah, any brand. As long as yeah, it's a reasonable brand. Powder, plaster price. You know, that plaster price, you buy it again from any hardware or alternately, for it to be smelling better, I use Johnson's Baby powder, So I mix them in such a way that it's a thick consistency. If I show you that's the thickness, I'm looking for very thick. To make it thick, let's keep on adding more of this, but make sure that you have enough of that glue. The glue is for it to stick into the canvas and the crylic is for it to be pliable so you can work on it easier, pliable. And I guess when you finish you can roll it and it won't park because it's more flexible or pliable. Okay, that's the materials and we can start painting. 4. Drawing The Flower Outline: We start painting on the hands, I'll be using chalk instead of pencil because it will dissolve with the water they're using on the critic pencil. It will stay there and it might show later on when the painting is done and you still see pencil marks or pencil sketches that you might find irritable later on. This one it will dissolve in water. What I'll do, the round shapes, anywhere in the canvas, anywhere without even looking Three shapes, 123 in the middle. Three shapes. And it represents the rose painting. So it can be anywhere. As long as try to leave the edges clean, you don't go through the edges or else it'll become too dispersed. You want to compact in the middle because you can always add on those edges. But at the moment we concentrate in this location here of the canvas. Yeah, that's the rose. I'm looking at the rose, for example, from the top. It's not something that you're holding here, but I'm looking from the top. Or a rose on the table, maybe you're looking from the top. So I'm just going to do the leaves there, leaves everywhere, like the twigs for the leaves, you know, something like that. So you don't really have to draw every single petal, just throw the shape and draw the twig. So that's my initial sketch. Okay, now you're ready to draw the twigs. 5. Painting The Twigs: The first thing that we draw is the twigs. The twigs that I've just drawn. Again, as I mentioned a while ago, I'm very experimental. I don't throw away my finished acrylic containers, instead I keep it. For this purpose, what I do is fill it up with fluid acrylic by using injection. Yeah, I inject fluid acrylic to it to the colors that I want, then I use it for drawing the twigs. This is very unconventional way, as you can see. Unconventional way of painting flowers, all based from my experiments in the past. That's one color of the twig, another color, lighter green, maybe. Imagine nature. Just have them around the rose from the inside and not going through the circle of the road. Okay, There another container here. Just keep on adding twigs, different colors. A Ti that's out. Yeah, I use as well, injections syringe. You can use it, fill it up with the p, the color that you want. You can use it. Okay. Now you this is very conversion to do this one, this one or this one. This one. Then use your normal brush, long brush, and just do your twigs. So use your normal brush, that's okay. You go make your twigs by using brush. This is the process of a quick process of painting the twigs in just a few strokes. I'm done with the twigs. You don't have to paint it like individually. Okay, so that's your twigs. 6. Painting The Leaves: I'm done with the twigs. Let's do the leaves. Okay, I'll be using number three pallet knife. Okay, And here comes now my mixing palette and texturing paste. Get that much? Yeah, that much. Put it in my plastic pallet here. So mind you, anything that you use once you finish using it on water, because this will become hard very, very quick on water. It's okay, you can clean it afterwards. Done with the texturing paste. Now I have to put some pastes. I'll just put a little that much to she is that you can think of? To do the leaves. Yeah, I'm putting dark green, light green. You can even mix your green with blue and yellow, purple and orange, whatever. I'm just using pre mixed acrylic paints, doesn't matter. Maybe I'll throw in a bit of this color here, what they call this Merlo chance for a change of color. And orange, maybe any color as low as you give it a hint of a green. Those are my shades for my green. Now texturing paste, Pick any, just mix like so make it thick. Don't be shy with the texturing. Paste. Put as much as you can, put other color to make it interesting. Maybe yellow, mixing it much, texturing paste there. Okay, and then to scoop it, always use the back part of your knife, never the front. Then to scoop it, scoop it towards, this is important to you have accumulation of paint here, texture paint. Now to apply it, mind you, every leaf is one stroke on one stroke. To apply it first down to one stroke, I have one leaf, yeah. Maybe put the shade of color there to make it interesting. Again, that's the shape I made. Keep on doing that. Following you have to follow the direction of your twigs or else it's everywhere. You should follow the grace of your twigs like so be orange, make it brownish a bit. Same place, it indiscriminately along the twigs. Just to fill up that space, there can be a big twig, small twig, whatever inside here. Okay, I'll add some more texturing Paste. As I'm very generous with my texturing paste. You can see, just be generous. Don't be shy and I have to cover that all the time. It doesn't harden up on me. Yeah, texturing paste again, plenty. And dark green, maybe black. There's a dark leaf. I'm doing more texturing paste. Just keep on adding leaves everywhere and with different colors. Maybe white. Make it lighter, scoop it, and apply smaller leaves. You can say, I can apply it this way or that way or that way or this way. Yeah. If you keep on doing it, you'll know that anyway is correct way as long as you do it right. Yeah, that's okay. I'm done with the Bs. Finish with the lives. I have to finish palette. Dip it in water, it won't harden up. 7. Applying Different Background Options: Okay, we go to the next stage, which is doing the background. You can see here, I have a background. Yeah, very loose and I call it flattering. Splattering with a fun brush. That's the fun brush, I'm talking about loss of water. Yeah. What colors you want on the background. Now, before doing so, you have to choose what colors you want for your roses. These are the main things I'm using for my background. Plus I'll add white and black, whatever Or some accents. Yeah. And to do that, I saw it. The roof. This is my style of doing it, but you can choose any background you do. But then it's a different approach altogether already. Because you have to start with the background before the lives, But here the lives is intact, touching the lives. I'm just sprouting over it some water. And I slowly grabbed that paint there. Okay, so that's my mixture. And I'm going to start, see the direction of my font is not like that, it should be vertical, that's like so platter everywhere. Mainly on the middle part, not on the outside, mainly on the middle part. I'm placing white, a clinic. This white is you just buy it from any hardware. It's called the wall paint. I use semigloss or eye gloss wall paint, that's already the normal consistency. Again, I spluttered it somewhere here just to loosen up on the first splutter color that I've done. It blends naturally. So those are the two colors I'm using. I'm done with this rose color. I'm going to use purple on my next one. Maybe, I think maybe place it on the top there. This purple. Okay. We are doing background colors, and it's all done by spluttering, no brushing. Okay? Just let it flow in your canvas. As long as your canvas is very flat, then it will just stay in the middle. Don't il your canvas or else it will flow to the edge now. And I use white again on the edges here just to soften it. Okay. Very well. So now I'm going to use blue paint. Start in the middle, I'll be worrying you, covering your lips. So now next is the white paint, right? You're going to throw some pig over there. And a bit of purple here. Maybe Just a hint of purple. All right? I'm done with spluttering as you can see. Like it's almost a complete painting ready with all the flowers. You have the background, you have the leaves. What's missing is the flowers now, it's very wet. Since you're doing it on your own time, I suggest you leave it until it dries. Maybe you have to leave it overnight. Even for this video, I have to wipe it dry where I need to pay, just to expedite my process. But again, don't touch this now on your own home, on your own time, because this is a very nice outcome. Now, I'm going to remember where the circles are, where my flowers will be. I'm going to wipe it dry or not really dry but just dub, dub it like so with the tissue. Amusing tissues you can see because this is very soft and very, very absorbant uptright hand towers but they're no good even they're no good. So this is the best solve and very absorbent. Wipe away the excess paint where your initial circles are for your rose placement. 8. Painting The Flowers: We are painting roses here. I just cut the rose for my garden because I think it's important that we have to see how we're looking at the rose. In my experience, it's better if we look at it sideways as we present it on the canvas. Sideways like. So make a line or an axis for the rose, the center of the rose in parallel. In line with the stem. My stem is going this way. That's my first line here. This way. Second line for the second rose. I call my axis for the rose. Yeah. Or the center line of the ros. Then since I'm looking from this end here, my petals, they are very small and then becomes bigger as I see it from the front here. A small petal, small. So I have the core and then go bigger here. I call it solar system ellipse shape, it is the core. And then go farther away from the core, like the solar system. Mercury, Venus, pars, Earth and so on. Yeah, that's the way I present my rose, the circles. It's good if you do it. You have a guide to make your rose. Okay. Right now what I'll do this is magenta here or the rose, I'll go against it. So I'll put my magenta rose here, so that's the first rose. I'll do main color, the rose color. And then on the core, normally on the core it's darker. So I'll put like a darker color. I'll just kind of mix it later on. Purple. On the dark part, it's a bit muddy. So I tried to get away from black, dark red, white. I'll place orange, nice colored petals and yellow. So there are my colors on my palette. Again, I'll grab my palette knife, the small pallet knife this time. Number one, my texturing paste. Remember, I dip my texturing paste here. It's always, catch your clothes, wipe it, texturing, paste. Don't be shy. Okay, put it in the corner there. Water. And I'm going to start on the court. Okay. That's the color, main color that I'm using. I'm going to put red and I'm going to put blue or ultramarine blue to make it dark. See darker bits there now should be thick. This is important. Your direction. Start on the core, say that's the sun. Start on the sun. In your direction, goes around the sun. Like so, Yeah. Following the shape of the ellipses that you just first drone, I'll go around like that. Then I'm going to add pure colors to make it stand out. Pure colors to make it more vibrant and stand out, maybe red. Okay, so be blue in the middle there on the shadows. That's my initial core application, so I have still plenty of paint here. I don't waste it. I ply it around here in the shape, discriminately because I'm working wet on the weight, so it doesn't matter. This painting is semi impressionism. It's free painting, right? I'm just going to disturb the leaves there. See what happened there? Yeah, now this is contaminated palette, so I'm going to grab another palette. Going to make lighter shades of the color. Pat. I want to introduce other colors to it. I will make it that color which is, becomes light purplish pink. Then again, the way scoop it from the back only I'm using number three, palette knife. I start with the direction of my solar system that I was talking about, where ago I follow that direction and I'm almost half done with the rose. But what I'll do, I'll pull a bit of the black one or the dark ones here. Bring it out so it's not so sudden, just bring it out following the same directions like so. Okay. Now I want to add another color here, a bit of yellow, white. It's peachy color. Yeah, more white maybe. And I'd like to apply it from this one because it looks good there. Okay. Remember this. Towards yourself? Towards yourself. Yeah. You apply it away from you now, I can't disturb the green now, I'm going there, but I won't go inside. I just stay where the greens are. All right. So one finished. Okay. I'll do it during the same process I have done here but only different colors. On this one, I bed blue rose. Okay. I'm, I'm doing the final flower. I'll be painting it with purplish. Maybe you're thinking, what color roses will I paint? You know? And here it's helpful that use references, look at nature, look at the flowers in the other gardens, or your garden, or even look at photos. It's not bad to look at photos as your reference. As long as you don't copy them. Use them as reference for colors and shapes and things like that because there's lots of colors. Flowers has millions of colors. Shapes, lots of shapes. Yeah. Be guided. Okay. Use references. Even great artists, they use references. Don't think it's only in your mind. No, use other references. Please listen to what I'm saying because it might not be relevant to you. I think it's good that you follow it because once you follow what I'm saying, you can go wrong, especially during the shape of your petals. You follow the solar system that I'm talking about. You can go wrong. 9. Painting Finishes: Okay. Yes. Almost finished. I'm just going to add some buds, small buds to complete the picture. Like So one stroke, blue color? Like a stroke? Stroke? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Some little buds case. All of these are just one stroke. Right. Then since I have the buds, they should have accompanying lives with them. Correct. Letter I would say just to show you syringe needles. I use it as well for my smaller twigs. You can put on any color on your syringe. Bright green is good, but guess using a grayish green. This one here, your thing around. Okay, last finishing touches. Just put darks on some parts has an accent. Give it a bit of a contrast, wit. 10. Outro: That has been our flu workshop for today. I hope that you learn from it and you can start your flat workshop Painting journey from this. Yeah, as I've said a while ago, you can use any call that you want. Just have to have reference for your guide. And mind you, this is done by one of the workshop participants. Yeah. If she can do it in 3 hours, I'm sure you can do it as well. Yeah, So good now to your painting. And we hope to do more of this and see you in the next future.