The Ultimate Guide to Painting Loose Watercolor Roses: Floral Bouquet, Wreath, and Floral Border

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Here it is, the most requested topic, a masterclass on loose watercolor roses. When I was a watercolor newbe, one of the top flowers that I had wanted to paint was a rose. One of the most popular and symbolic flowers, a rose is challenging yet satisfying flower to paint. Through this class, you will learn that upon overcoming a few basic hurdles, you'll be painting roses like a pro in no time. Here are some of my paintings from when I was just starting out together with my recent paintings, that will be included in this class as a project. Hi, my name is Joly and I'm also known as Jolypoa on Instagram. I'm a full-time watercolor artists, an online art educator and also a new mom. Here are the things that you will learn in this class. First is the importance of choosing art materials and how it affects your painting. Over the years, I have explored painting, watercolor rose in different ways and in this class we are going to learn how to paint all of them in a very approachable way [MUSIC] You'll also tackle how to paint roses and different perspectives. Developing muscle memory in your hand is very important and I will be teaching you different brushstroke drills. You're going to look into how the different parts of the brush can produce different strokes. On top of that, I will show you several effective ways on how to hold a brush for better stroke movement. Aside from those mentioned, this class will address these questions. Why are my petals to arched? How do I add white spaces? Why are my stroke's too stiff? Why does the center of the rose look off? And how do I translate reference photos into painting? You're going to dive into all of these so that at the end of the class, you will be able to create the following eight projects. All lessons are taught in a step-by-step manner, and it will be shown in real time so that it will be easy for you to follow along. That's it, I hope that you will enjoy the class. 2. Tips Before You Start : [MUSIC] First of all, thank you for taking this class, and deciding to spend your free time learning with me. I wanted to give some tips and ways of encouragement before you start. Number 1, remember that you are trying this class for the first time, and you're learning things that you have never try before. If you're loose florals don't turn out the way that you want them to be, please don't quit, just continue painting until you find your own groove. It takes time to get used to a new way to paint leaves, and petals or flowers. The second thing is focus on one thing at a time. In this lesson, I encourage you to focus first on holding your brushstrokes and also learning about the form of the flower, before you start worrying about color mixing and other things. It can get quite frustrating and overwhelming if you try to learn everything all at once. Another advice is to paint on a small piece of paper first so that you won't feel that much pressure when you're painting, either we need to paint really big, that you can start by painting some single roses, and just add some leaves around it, that way it will make you feel that you have completed the painting in a short amount of time. Embrace your own style. Whatever I'm teaching here, it's only a guide for you to jump start your painting journey. The way you paint might be different from mine and that's completely okay. Just learn to love your own brushstrokes. Last tip is to have fun and enjoy the process of creating and just paint whatever makes you happy. That's it, let's now jump into the next video. [MUSIC] 3. Materials: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the materials. The first thing that we need is paper. This is the brand Saunders Waterford, and I'm using cold press paper. This is 300 GSM in thickness, and this is also high white meat. It means that it's really white because there's another color called traditional white and that's a bit yellowish. This is a block style of paper. You will see that the sides are glued. You only have one space right here that isn't glued and you will need a palette knife or in this case I have a leaf blade. I'm just going to insert that in there to take out one sheet and that's how you do it. With a block style of paper like this, you paint on the paper first and then you let it dry before you take out one sheet. The reason why it's glued on all the sides is because it prevents the paper from warping as you paint, especially if you paint with a lot of water. The way to use this, again is to paint on the paper, let it dry, and then that's the time that you can take out that sheet of painting. Paper blocks like these are quite expensive and what you can do is to buy one large sheet and cut it into smaller pieces just like this. One large sheet is about 22 by 30 inches. I usually cut mine into nine pieces. One sheet is about seven by 10 inches. It's just the right size for painting a simpler project. Let's talk about cold press versus hot press. I'm using cold press paper and this type of paper has some texture and you'll see it right here. It's really good for loose florals. It absorbs the water really well but with hot press paper it has a smoother texture. Hot press paper is good for realistic botanicals. If you try to paint loose florals on it, it will not look that good because the paint will just settle on top of the paper. But I guess it depends on you because some people like using hot press paper for their loose florals, because it gives a different look to their painting. But as for me, I prefer using cold press paper. Now let's talk about another brand. This is the prima watercolor pad, or also known as art philosophy. This is not 100 percent cotton paper, but I use this for my practice paintings. It works well for daily paintings and for loose florals. But I guess not for landscapes because it's difficult to leave some paint. But again, for a loose florals, it works fine for practicing. I also like that there's a texture to it, like cold press paper. The two sides of this block is also glued so it keeps the paper from warping as you paint. Let's now go to brushes. I'm going to use two sizes here. This is a size six and size eight from the brand silver brush and the series is from their black velvet line. I guess these are my favorite brushes because it can hold a lot of water and at the same time it can keep a fine point. This is a mix of synthetic and squirrel hair. I love how it follows the flow of my brushstrokes, which is really important when painting loose florals. Let me just show you the difference in terms of size for these two brushes. I'm using size six here. If you don't have a budget to buy these brands, it's okay, you can use any brush that you have. Just make sure that it keeps a fine point because that's very important and that it can hold enough water for you to paint loose florals. This brush is a mix of synthetic and squirrel hair, which is really good for painting loose florals. When you're letting your brushes dry, you can just lay them flat like this. Don't put them upright when it's still wet because you might ruin the bristles. Next up we need a jar of water. Just have a cute coaster right here. That was custom made. When you're painting, try to set the mood and make sure that you're happy with your workspace. That's why I'd usually add some pretty things like these coasters and also some nice brushes. Then we also need some tissue paper to blot out the excess paint in our brush. Just use any paper towel that you have. Then the next one would be paint and I'm using the brand Shinhan PWC. These are Korean artist grade paints and they come in tubes like this, but I usually just pour it into smaller half pans, just like what I have here on my palette. Artist grade paints will really give more vibrance and colors that show up better. But if you have student grid line, that's okay. You can definitely work with that for now. Here are the colors that we will be using. I'm using permanent yellow light, permanent yellow, orange. We're also going to use for Vermilion. It's not a color that they often use. This is permanent rose, my favorite pink color, and then we'll have Crimson lake. One of my favorites, greenish yellow and also sap green. We're going to be using these greens for some leaves and also hookers green in another color that I have been using recently, yellow ocher and a nice brown color, burnt sienna, then we have burnt umber. Also CPI, which is a nice dark brown color. Another favorite of mine, indigo then we have Prussian blue and also cerulean blue. Then we have ultramarine and also permanent violet. These are just colors that I am going to use in this class. But of course, please use the colors that you have in your palette. Make the most of what you have in your palate don't buy the colors that I have here right away. I just want you to practice first using the materials that you have. Then we need a mixing palette. This is just the lid of my thin and I'm using this core metal tin. Lot of you have been asking about this. The brand of this metal tin is core, so they have watercolor line as well but the paint inside, I just change it to Shinhan PWC. I do love this mixing palette because there are many provisions for mixing your paints. Now if you don't have this type of palette, you can definitely use any ceramic palette that you have or even plastic pallets. This is an example of a ceramic mixing palette. You can also use plates, that's also okay. Use whatever you have and don't feel the pressure to buy anything new. Then next up I'm going to be showing you one of my favorite paint brands. This is the art philosophy Odyssey set. This is one of my favorite sets in their collection. I love the selection of colors here and I use this to paint some really bold florals. The nice thing about buying these paint sets is that it's curated for you. You don't have to think about mixing and matching some colors. This is one of the palettes that I would recommend to you guys. That's all that we need. I will see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 4. Student vs Artist Grade Paper: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the difference between student grade and artist grade paper. First of all, I want you to know that it's okay to use student grade paper. Artist grade paper can be quite expensive but their soles are really just more beautiful in my opinion. The purpose of this video is to show you the difference between these two types of paper and how you can manage your expectations when it comes to painting on student grade paper. For the student grade paper, we are going to use Canson XL, and for the artist grade paper we're going to use Saunders Waterford. Let's talk about the texture first. Upon looking at these two papers you'll notice that this Canson XL is smoother compared to the one at the bottom, which is Saunders Waterford. The smoother the paper the more difficult it is to paint some loose florals and get those nice bleeds, but let's check it out in a while as we paint on these two papers. I'm going to use machine hand PWC permanent rose. We're to paint one stroke on the Canson XL first, and you'll see that the paint settles on top of the paper and it puddles a bit more compared to the Saunders Waterford. Let me just tilt the paper so you can see that shine and you'll notice that the Canson XL has some hard edges as well. Now let's paint a simple five petaled flower, and just going to paint something really dark and then we're going to rinse our brush and paint a lighter shade. There are some bleeding happening over there. But let's compare this to the Saunders Waterford. I'm trying to do the similar amount of paint and similar strokes for these flowers so we can see the difference. You'll just immediately see the difference when it comes to painting the strokes and also right now. I just rinsed my brush, so we now have a lighter color for the petals. The way it bleeds is more subtle. It looks better, it doesn't look patchy at all. One of the downsides of using student grade paper is that it dries faster. You can see it here compared to this artist grade paper or the 100% cotton paper. This is one of the frustrations of beginners because it's difficult to add some good bleeds to loose florals, and a lot of people end up with patchy flowers. If you have experienced this please don't blame yourself, don't get frustrated. It's really is just the paper and there's just nothing wrong with you. Let's look at this again. You'll see that the weird patch over here that did not dry well, but you can actually try to avoid that. Just try to control the water in your brush. You'll notice that the paint will spread more evenly on 100% cotton paper compared to the student grade paper. You also have some more obvious hard edges over here compared to the artist grade paper. But that's something that you can avoid by, again, controlling the water in your brush. However, if you're a beginner it might make you frustrated because you're not yet used to controlling the water in your brush. That's why I wanted to create a comparison video so that you can manage your expectations if you are using a student grade paper. Now let's try painting some leaves. I'm going to paint on the artist grade paper first and just try to observe how the paint just spreads more evenly. Then now we're going to paint on Canson XL. Right here actually it looks good, but if you're not so careful you might have some puddles. If you've been painting for a while this is something that you can avoid, but if you're just starting out it can be another source of frustration if you see some puddles right there. You'll see that on the artist grade paper, I'm going to add some paint, but it's spreading more evenly. But if I add it on the Canson XL, you'll see that the paint is not spreading evenly and it's creating some puddles. In some parts even look already dry. If you are going to invest in art materials, I do suggest investing in good paper first. That should be your priority because it really makes a big difference if you use artist grade paper compared to student grade paper, and you can see it just right here, how it looks better on artist grade paper. If you have encountered some puddles you can go back in just like what I'm doing and just spreading the color. But of course it won't look that nice anymore, but at least we can still save our painting. It will look a little obvious that we painted again another layer, but I guess that's okay if you are just practicing. Again, if you are using Canson XL you can definitely just practice so that you can know how much water you need to use when you're painting on this paper. It's not a problem if this is just the paper that you can use right now. That's it for this video. I hope that it was helpful for you to see the difference between these two types of papers. [MUSIC] 5. Tips on Using Reference Photo: [MUSIC] In this video, you are going to learn how to paint from a reference photo. These are things to consider, things that you need to ask yourself when you look at the reference photo so that you can better translate it into a painting. The first one is look for a flower that stands out the most for you. This is our reference photo that I found on Pinterest. When you look at the photo, you have to ask yourself, so which flowers stand out the most for you or which flowers speak to you the most. It's usually the biggest flower in a floral arrangement, but of course, it really depends on the person because we all see things from a different perspective, so what stands out for me might not be the flower that stands out for you. For me, it would be these three flowers. Now let me show you a painting that I did using this reference photo. I started with the three main flowers and then I just filled up the painting with some fillers and just some smaller flowers. You don't really have to copy all the details, just add what is most interesting to you. The second thing that you can look for is a nice color combination. You can really find so many beautiful reference photos on Pinterest, and I saw this one on Pinterest as well. It's a blue and yellow color combination, and you can find different floral arrangements in this color combination. When you're painting, what you can do is you can actually grab different photos and combine all the good elements in each photo and add it to your painting. I'm just going to quickly show you some examples of paintings in my sketchbook. This is a blue and yellow color combination. I just used this reference photo and translated it into this painting, and don't forget to add your own twist to your paintings. When looking at the reference photo, you can also crop a certain area of the photo or look for nice details. For example, you have this floral arrangement, so you don't need to paint all the flowers. What you can do is you can just crop a certain portion. You can split this photo and just paint that area. By doing this, it gives you a different perspective on how to paint this floral bouquet. Now let me show you another photo. I usually like looking at floral arrangements with some fillers sticking out just like this. Try to look for the nice details and add it to your painting. You can see the movement in the outer area of this floral bouquet, you can see some leaves draping and some leaves bending. You can follow the flow of the fillers. Try to assess the reference photo and ask yourself, what is the vibe that this reference photo gives? This is quite tricky because we all see things differently like what I said. This is an example of a reference photo that I use, and for me, this translates to me as something romantic. I just love the muted and vintage colors and I translated it into this painting. I used some of the colors that I saw in this photo and just painted some flowers. I wanted this painting to have that romantic feel to it. I guess it's easier to grab the colors first that are interesting to you and then that's how you start with the composition. Now, for my last step, this is my secret. Look for cake for those with floral designs. Most of these cakes have sugar flowers, some have fresh flowers, but what I love about looking at these pictures is how natural the flowers just falls on the cake and how it just looks so organic in my opinion. I'm showing you some more photos. The color combinations in these types of photos are usually on point and just really good for painting some loose florals. Here is another example of a reference photo that I used, and this is the painting. I started with the center flower, that's the main flower, the biggest flower in this arrangement and I also used roughly the same color. I also grabbed some of that dark pink color and added it to this bouquet and then I just added some fillers to make this painting look more complete. I also tried to follow the composition a little bit. That's it for this video. I hope that this will make it easier for you to paint using reference photos. [MUSIC] 6. Controlling Your Brush: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to talk about how to control your brush. Let's start with how do you hold a brush? I've discussed this in previous classes, but I'm going to show it again. We hold it like a pen. Just make sure that it's comfortable for you. I guess it's different for every person. I usually hold it just right here. If you do want to paint some more detailed strokes, hold the brush near the bristles just like this, so that you can gain more control over your strokes. Right here here just painting some lines. It's just easier to create more precise strokes. If you want to loosen your strokes, you can hold it in the middle. For example, let's just paint some nice expressive strokes. You can see that I'm just swaying my wrist. It feels comfortable and I can add more movement to my strokes. Now if you want it to be really loose, you can hold it towards the end of the handle just like this. When you're doing this, you're just letting go of the strokes. You're going with the flow of every stroke that you make. It's nice, it's like dancing with your brush. Grab a scrap paper and just start painting some strokes. Try holding the brush in different areas so that you can discover which one works the best for you. You can also try to change the angle of the brush. Just release all your worries so that you can paint more confidently. For demonstration purposes, let's try out painting a five petal flower by holding the brush near the bristles. Let's see what will happen. I'm not going to change the way I hold the brush here. I want you to observe how the brush moves. You'll see how tight it feels. There's not a lot of movement because we're holding the brush with more grip. You can still paint something nice, but it's just not that easy to paint loose florals. I also want you guys to try this out so that you can understand what it feels like. Now, let's try holding the brush towards the middle. Let's paint another five petal flower. You'll see that there's more movement. The strokes feel looser and it's easier to paint in this manner. I also want you guys to try this out. Next, let's try holding the brush towards the end of the handle. Let's paint another five petal flower. Now this looks even looser than the previous one. I'm able to create more expressive strokes. There's also this feeling of letting go of your stroke and just following the flow, just like what I mentioned. This is something that comes with practice as well. I think it's important to try this exercise because it will help you understand how to hold your brush and how to create different strokes. This will help you prevent from being frustrated, that you can paint some nice loose petals. Maybe you can improve it by the way you hold and how you control your brush. Since this is a rose class, we're going to paint some roses. I'm using Canson XL for the paper, so this might not turn out that good. But I just wanted to show you the strokes when you paint a rose by holding the brush towards the bristles. We are starting out pretty good because the center of the rose is really tight and you need some details. But once we go out to the outer petals, you will see that it feels heavy. The strokes look a bit more defined. It's not as loose as we want. The petals won't look as soft. For this rose, I did not change the way that I was holding the brush. Now let's try painting another one. This time going to start with holding the brush near the bristles for the center of the rose because we're going to paint some details and we need control. But for the outer petals, I'm going to hold the brush in the middle part. This way, I can just have a looser stroke, looser petals, and I can move freely. I can create more expressive strokes. Now let's hold the brush towards the end of the handle. This feels even nicer. Now this is just a guide for you. Of course, you should still follow what works for you and what feels more comfortable for you. I hope that you can also do this exercise so that you can see the difference between holding the brush in the middle or near the bristles and towards the end of the handle. [MUSIC] That's it for this video. Let's move on to the next one. 7. Brush Stroke Drills: In this lesson, we are going to learn about the different parts of the brush and how we can use it to create different brush strokes that we can use in order to paint some loose florals, some leaves, and some fillers as well. Now, let's start. I drew the shape of the brush right here. What I did was I just shaded the part of the bristles that we will be using for each exercise. Let's start with the very tip of the brush. If you have taken my previous classes, you would have seen this exercise as well. I'm just going to lightly touch the brush onto the paper using the very tip, so I can create these very thin lines. Just use a light pressure to paint those thin lines. Let's move on to the next exercise. Right here I'm going to press my brush a little bit more. I'm going to add more pressure so we can create thicker lines. What if we used the entire brush? Let's see what will happen. I'm going to really press down my brush to create a broad stroke. As you can see, we got a really thick line. If you're a beginner, don't be afraid to put more pressure. You won't ruin the brush. Now, I'm going to use this side of my brush. In a 45-degree angle, I'm going to use the side of the brush to create another thick stroke. This is a really fun exercise to get to know your brush. It will also help you discover how to apply these strokes onto painting leaves or flowers. For the next stroke, try to hold your brush at a 45-degree angle. We are going to paint some C strokes. Start with the tip of the brush and just slowly press it in a curved motion. I'm almost just using the side of my brush, and this is a popular brushstroke that we use for painting petals. Now, let's try holding our brush in a 90-degree angle. Then let's paint a C stroke again, and you'll see that the shape will look different. What I'm showing you here is that every stroke that you do will look different depending on how you hold your brush, and that is something very important to discover and practice. Now, this is also a stroke that I sometimes do for some flowers. Let's now try a different stroke, and this one is important when it comes to painting a rose. Using the tip of my brush, I'm going to create these small wiggly strokes. Start with a light pressure and just slowly press your brush and then lift it. Now, let's apply this to painting a rose. I'm going to start with that center right there, and then from that main center, we are going to add some wiggly strokes. I'm going to connect one stroke to another, and I'm doing it slowly here, so you can see it clearly. You can see that we have different shapes, different lengths, and different thickness as well. Doing this will give you a more organic or a looser rose, and it doesn't look stiff at all because there's movement in each stroke and it doesn't look uniform. What I want you to do is to practice the strokes in different directions so that you'll be more comfortable with the stroke. Just observe how the tip of this brush moves. I'm using just mostly the tip of my brush and just lightly pressing it so I can get a different shape. This technique will help create the muscle memory in your hand. Now, let's move on to a different stroke. I'm using a size 8 round brush. What we're going to do in this exercise is we're going to use a big brush, and then we're going to paint small strokes. We're going to force our hand to paint some small strokes. We're going to paint some wiggly strokes again. I'm going to start with light pressure and just slowly press that brush, just using the tip of the brush. Now let's try and apply this on the painting. Let's try to paint some leaves using that technique. As you can see, I'm just using the very tip of my brush and just painting these wiggly strokes from different directions so that I can have a variety of strokes. Don't be afraid to experiment and just use your brush to create different organic strokes. You can use different colors so that it looks more fun. To be honest, this is also a very relaxing exercise because it will just paint some cute wiggly strokes and it will look like a beautiful artwork. Afterwards, you have a really nice set of leaves. Try to change the angle of the brush that you're holding. Right here, I'm going to use a 45-degree angle, and then let's see what will happen if you use a 90-degree angle and just experiment and have fun. These are just mini-exercises. Don't feel the pressure for it to look perfect. The goal of these exercises is to help you become more comfortable with painting different strokes and also be more comfortable with your brush. Let's add a few more leaves, and then we are done. [MUSIC] Now, let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 8. Common Problems in Loose Roses: [MUSIC] Let's talk about some common problems and painting loose roses. Number 1 is accidentally painting blobs of paint and not leaving enough whitespaces. Let's do a demonstration. This is a common problem for beginners. Usually, you start with a good center just like this. But as you paint the outer petals, you painted a little too close to each other and you're not leaving whitespaces. This will make it look like a blob of paint instead of a rose. We need the whitespaces to separate the petals. But don't worry if you suddenly end up with something like this because we can try to troubleshoot it and we can add a second layer to make it work. I'm going to grab a more pigmented color. This is permanent rose, and you're going to add a second layer. I'm going to paint the center stroke and then add some small thin lines all around it, and you can see that it's a really dark color. Then now let's add the medium-sized petals. Going to rinse my brush and then add some strokes. Fade away some of the outer strokes as well. Then you're going to continuously add some more petals. Just make sure to leave some spaces in between your petals. Now it looks a bit better with some layering that we did. Then I'm using Canson XL. That's why I got some patches. But if you're using 100% cotton paper, this will look even better. This is one way to solve this problem. The second problem for beginners is that the petals are two-arched or two-curved. Let me show you what it looks like. Let's do a demo. I'm going to start with the center. Usually, the center looks good. But once you get to the medium-sized petals, it becomes two-curved just like what I'm doing here. The reason why you end up with these petals is because you're holding the brush in a wrong way. You're holding the brush a little too upright or a little close to 90 degrees, that's why you end up with these types of strokes. They won't look as good, but you can definitely fix that just by changing the angle of the brush or the way that you hold your brush. Let's do a demo of this arch petal. Usually, it ends up like this because you're holding the brush upright. Now let's try to change the angle of the brush. This is about 45 degrees, and you'll see a big difference. Just slowly press your brush, then you'll get a nice movement. Now you can see here the big difference just by changing the angle of the brush. Another mistake that I often see is a detached center of the rows. Let's do a demo. Let's paint the center of the rows. We have a nice center right here. But when you paint the outer petals, you'll leave a big space right here. This just adds some more petals and then I'll show you how you can fix this problem. If you have experienced some of the problems that I have mentioned here, please don't feel bad about it. We all learn from making mistakes. That's okay. I personally have experienced all of this myself and have learned how to fix these problems. I'm just going to add some strokes in the whitespace and just connect it to the medium-sized petals. No. Now it looks a lot better and that's how you fix it. Let's go to the last one. A lot of people have encountered painting with heavy strokes and also leaving a lot of whitespaces. Let's do a demo. This was how I started painting rose before. Let's just grab some paint and I'm going to paint some C strokes. Let's start with the center. But as I paint the outer petals, you'll see that the strokes are quite heavy and there's no expressive movement in each stroke. That's why it looks quite heavy and you will see that I am heavily dragging the brush. This makes the rose look heavy as well and it looks very stiff, and also there are too many whitespaces in between those petals. I think this is a good exercise if you want to start painting some roses. There is nothing wrong with painting in this manner if you are just starting out. I also think that it looks good as a pattern. But in this class, you're going to focus on painting loose watercolor roses. We want the strokes to have movement. But if you press the brush in this way, you'll end up with a stiff stroke. You want to slowly press the brush from the tip of the brush. I'm going to show you right here. Just slowly press and drag and then lift towards the end. This way you get a pointy tip and you get more movement in one stroke. Now let's try to paint a loose rose. I'm going to start with the center. I'm going to paint some thin lines. These are going to overlap against each other. You want to connect these strokes. You want the strokes to have some pointy tips. Once you spend more time painting, it almost doesn't matter if you hold the brush near the bristles in the middle or towards the end of the handle because you can just easily maneuver your strokes. That is called the muscle memory in your hand. That's why it's very important to practice. Just hold the brush in the most comfortable manner for you. If you have a lot of whitespaces in your roses, you can just try and paint a line in those gaps. You'll learn more about this in the upcoming videos. That's it. I hope that this video gave you more confidence in painting roses and that you are not alone if you are painting with difficulty. This class is meant to help you face those difficulties and problems and be able to solve it so that you can paint better roses. [MUSIC] 9. Watercolor Rose Version 1: [MUSIC] In this video, we're going to learn how to be a simple watercolor rose. I discovered this technique when I was just starting out in watercolor and I'm really excited to share this technique with you. Using a Size 6 round brush we are going to grab some paint. This is permanent rose and you want a thick mixture. Let's start by painting some strokes and we're going to break down the parts of a rose. For the center of the rose, I'm just going to scribble some thin C strokes. I'm using just the tip of my brush and just creating some curve strokes. We want the strokes to be overlapping and I'm also leaving white spaces in between. Let's do another one and this time it's a close-up shot. He can paint it in different directions and I'm also doing it quickly so that I can get some wispy strokes. As you can see, the two centers that we did doesn't look alike and that's okay. Now let's move on to painting the outer petals, hugging the center. I'm just going to grab some more paint. You can definitely use another color, it doesn't have to be permanent rose. Let's paint a bigger petal, am going to just slowly press my brush. I am putting in more pressure as you can see, the strokes are a bit bigger compared to the ones that we did before. You're just practicing the strokes. Imagine that you have a center right there and this is a nice exercise for you. You can also try to paint this on just a student grid paper so that you won't raise your nice papers. Now let's move on to the bigger size petals, and just going to dip my brush in the water jar and take out the excess water. Now let's paint bigger petals. This time around, I'm going to really press my brush against the paper. You will see that the bristles are going to fade out and just try to paint this stroke in different directions. As much as possible I try to make sure that my strokes will end with pointy tips. Just continue building up these bigger size petals, and it does look stiff right now because we are practicing and painting slow but once you get used to it, you'll definitely be able to paint more organic strokes. After painting on this paper, I realized that some areas doesn't look good, and that's because this paper might have expired. I know a lot of you are not familiar that papers can expire. Some might lose the sizing, so you can see those weird patches where you store your paper make sure that you have silica gel in the drawers to absorb the moisture. After learning all the parts of this rose, we are going to combine all of them, and let's paint an entire rose. I have a thick mixture of permanent rose. I'm going to scribble some thin strokes as the center of this rose. It's nice to add a lot of thin strokes for the center of this rose so that it don't look like you have those tiny petals in the center. Once you are done with the center, you're going to add some medium-sized petals like this. Make sure to attach these medium-sized petals to the center strokes, so that it doesn't look like you have a center and it's detached from the outer petals. If you have some tiny white gaps, just paint a line just to close it. It doesn't have to be medium-size petals, you can, of course, mix up the size of the petals that you paint. For the outermost petals, I just dip my brush in the water jar just to rinse out the color as I wanted a softer pink, and then now I'm just going to add some bigger strokes. It's easier to paint these strokes if the brush is quite wet. Every time you paint a stroke, make sure to connect it to another petal. You don't want some really big white gaps because that won't look so good. Just try and sway your brush so that you can get some more expressive strokes. You can see that weird patchy area that's a sign of an expired paper but since we're just practicing, that's okay. In some cases, you can use just the tip of your brush to close off some gap. If you don't know, if you should add some more petals, what you can do is to step back and look at it from afar, or take a photo and then look at a photo so you can see things from a different perspective. While the petals are still wet, you can definitely still fix the shape of this rose. Just add some small strokes to fix some areas and that's okay. We are done I hope that you enjoyed painting your first rose. 10. Watercolor Rose Version 2: Let's go to the Version two. This is the watercolor rose that I paint most of the time. Let's start with a Size 8 round brush and I'm going to grab some permanent rose. I'm going to break down the parts of the rose again. The first part is the center, I'm going to paint these comma strokes. These strokes also look like a crescent moon. I'm just using the tip of my brush and just slowly pressing it against the paper and quickly creating these curved strokes. That is the center. Let's now move on to the petals surrounding this center, I'm going to paint some thin sea strokes. I'm going to vary the thickness, some are going to be thin, some are going to be thick. Right here I'm going to imagine that I have a center and I'm painting some strokes around it. If you have a weird angle, petals just like this, what you can do is to extend it. I'm just going to put a line and just break that apart. Cover it with some more strokes so that I can fix the shape. At least now it looks a lot better. Try to practice this part a lot because it will definitely help you in painting a beautiful center. Let's do another one. Is easier if you paint quickly rather than slowly. As a guide, you can try to paint in between the two petals just like this. But then you would have a weird white gap. What you can do is just to add some lines just like this. You can immediately close that gap. As you can see, I'm really just using the tip of my brush and just slightly bending it. I'm going to dip my brush in the water jar just to rinse off a little bit of that color. Now we're going to move on to painting these outermost petals. We want the brush to be quite wet so that it's easier to paint these large strokes. These are just C strokes and I'm really pressing my brush. Also painting very quick to get that wispy strokes. This is a good exercise to understand how to paint your rose. When you see some gaps that are odd, just paint some thin lines, just like what I'm doing here. It will immediately make the rose look better. You can also try and spread the outer petals just to create some ruffles if you want so that you can have a nice organic looking rose. It's easier to do this technique if you're painting on 100% cotton paper because the paint stays wet for a longer time compared to painting on a student-grade paper. But of course, feel free to use a student-grade paper for these exercises. After learning all of these strokes, now let's move on to painting the entire rose. I'm just going to grab some permanent rose and I want the mixture to be pretty thick and really pigmented. Let's start with the center. I'm going to paint that comma stroke. Then we're going to paint some small thin strokes all around it. These will look like the folds in the center of the rose. It's now time to paint the bigger size petals. I just dip my brush in the water jar just to get that lighter pink color and going to attach some bigger size petals. You can see that the bristles are really fanning out because I'm really pressing my brush against the paper. Let's add a big petal over here. I'm going to paint it quite slow so you can see it. Use the tip of your brush and add some lines. Just combine those bigger size petals with some lines. I'm just painting some strokes on top of the previous strokes that I did and that's okay. You can see that in some parts, you can notice the weird patches again from this expired paper. Just to give you an idea of the difference between an expired paper and a good paper, I'm going to show you what a good paper looks like. You can see how the paint spreads nicely over here compared to the one on the expired paper. Just be careful in storing your watercolor papers. Let's paint this rose one more time and this time, let's paint it on good paper. I'm still using my Size 8 round brush. I'm going to start with the center. This is going to be the most pigmented part. Then let's add some thin lines. It's really important to make sure that the center of the rose looks good and quite detailed like this. For the outer petals, I just dip my brush in the water jar to take out the excess pigment. Then now you're going to paint some bigger size petals. Just glide your brush onto the paper so that you can get a broad stroke. You can press it like this, and then just paint it in a curved motion. You can do it quickly. Because we painted a lot of small details in the center of the rose, we don't really have to worry much about the outer petals. At this point, the roses won't look like a blob of pain. We're almost done and I'm just adding some more strokes. You can add some lights again. Just leave some white spaces just to separate those petals. If you want, you can grab some more color and just drop it in the center so that it will bleed out and it will look really loose. Let's paint another one. This time I'm going to create a bigger center. With a Size eight round brush, I'm going to start with the center. This is the comma stroke. Then let's add some more lines around it. I'm going to vary the shape of the strokes. Varying the shape or the thickness of the strokes will make the center look nicer and more organic. For the outer petals, I'm going to rinse my brush, and then let's paint the bigger size petals. When you're painting a rose, remember that you are hugging the center. Maybe that's an easier way to understand how you will be attaching those big C strokes. Let's keep adding some more C strokes. I'm also going to paint some lines in some odd areas just to close off some white gaps. At this point, you can try and fix the shape of the rose while the petals are still wet. This is one of my favorite ways to paint a rose because it's just so flexible and every time I paint a rose using this technique, it looks different and it just always surprises me. Now let's paint another one. It's really important to practice so that you can create the muscle memory in your hand. For me, it's also fun to paint a lot of roses because it just always looks different every time I paint one. Right here I'm painting the medium-size strokes and I'm combining it with some thin lines. Now I'm adding the bigger size petals. I'm going to attach from one end to another. You can see the bristles are fanning out. If you want a faded look, just continuously rinse your brush so you can create a lighter pink color. Then you can go back in and just fix the shape of the outer petals. Just to give you a heads-up, we're painting a lot of roses like this because we are going to paint the next type of rose, which is the layered rose. For the layered rose, we need a base rose and you'll be using these ones that we have just painted. I suggest painting a lot of roses before you go to the next video. 11. Layered Rose: In this lesson, we are going to learn how to layer a rose by adding a second layer on top of a base rose. One technique is to use the same color, but we want it more pigmented. I'm using permanent rose, but it's just more pigmented, and you can swatch it like this. More pigmented means more paint and less water. I'm going to go in and just paint on top of the first layer that we did. You'll immediately see the depth that this gives to this rose. We started with these thin strokes in the center and then I'm adding some medium-size petals. Some strokes look a little too bold. I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away those strokes. You can see that it's now softer. Now I'm just grabbing some color from that area. I'm going to use that to paint some more strokes for the second layer, just like so. Make sure that you can still see some parts of the first layer. By grabbing some more water, we can try to fix the shape of this rose. I'm going to extend some parts just to make the shape look better. You can immediately see that this row has more character and more depth because we added a second layer. Now let's move on to another technique. This time around to add the second layer, we're going to mix permanent rose with a complimentary color. I'm going to add some green to get a deeper shade. It does take a lot of practice to add a second layer to the roses. But just don't be afraid and be confident in your strokes. Another tip is to add sepia to your paint. This is just permanent rose. I'm going to add a little bit of sepia. It's a dark brown color. I'm going to mix it together and then now I have a maroon color. Adding a second layer depends on how deep you want the rows to look like. Now, another technique used to add some indigo to your pink paint. Then you can swatch it again. Now, let's start to paint. I'm going to go for permanent rose and hookers green to create the second layer. Then it's just swash up a little bit of that color. I'm going to add the second layer and just paint on top of the first layer. You can still see the first layer underneath. I just paint some wispy strokes. The lines look very harsh right now. I'm going to rinse my brush and fade away some of the strokes. Try to blur out the strokes on the outer part of this rows. Using the color in that area, I'm just going to spread it all around, add some C strokes, giving the illusion that they are folds of petals in that area. [MUSIC] Now you're almost done. I'm just fixing the shape. Because they have limited space here the arrows will look quite awkward because it just doesn't have space to expand anymore. But I hope that you have enjoyed adding second layer to your roses. That it. Let's move on to the next video. 12. Freestyle Rose: [MUSIC] For Version 4, we're going to do a freestyle rose and in this lesson we need two brushes. I have a size 6 and a size 8 round brush. We are going to load just paint on the size 8 round brush. Then on the size 6 round brush, we are going to load it with just clean water. This rose is quite similar to the Version 2 on my size 8 round brush. I'm going to load it with some paint, I'm using permanent rose and on size 6 brown brush I'm going to load it with just clean water. Let's paint some comma strokes. This is the center of the rose that we will be painting today. It's similar to the Version 2 that we did. Now let's try a fading technique. I'm going to just paint one stroke, and then I'm going to grab some water. I'm going to lightly touch the edge of the stroke and just let it bleed into the clean water. As you can see, one side is already faded, and you are going to use this technique to create a really loose and beautiful rose. Let's start painting our rose. I'm going to paint the center using a comma stroke, and then let's just add some more thin c strokes around it. You're going to use a pigmented color for the center. Now let's grab some clean water and just spread that color. This brush doesn't have any color at all. It's just water. You will see how beautifully the colors just blend into that water, and it looks so soft. That is the trick to creating some loose and flowy petals. Now let's continue to add some more pigmented strokes and then I'm going to fade it again. Now, let's spread that color. I'm going to add some more petals. You can see that I'm adding more water in my brush just to create some loose petals. I'm also leaving some white spaces in between my petals so that it won't look like a blob of paint. Then you can add some darker color. As you can see, I'm dropping it some paint and just letting it bleed into that base. In this rose, so you're just going to repeat the technique of painting a very pigmented stroke and then just fading it away. It looks a little messy right now, but don't worry it will look better in a while. I'm going to drop in some paint over it there just to create more detail. You can see that the base color is still wet and that's why when we drop in that pigment, it doesn't look too bold. It still has that soft effect. If you want more control over your strokes on wet paint, just dab the excess paint in a tissue paper and you will see that the strokes doesn't spread too much. It's more concentrated on the line that you did. We did that in under four minutes so that was very quick, and now let's add some leaves. I'm going to make sap green and indigo or you can go for just sap green alone. You can see that the roof is still wet. You'll notice how soft that looks. I'm adding leaves all around this rose. Just remember that this is just an exercise. Don't feel the pressure to make it look perfect. You're just having fun and just experimenting. We can change the value of the leaves. Some are lighter in color, some are darker. Now let's drop in some indigo and you'll see how beautiful that spreads. Then we can add some pink buds. Just use permanent rose as well. To make it even looser, try to use your brush and hold it towards the end of the handle. Then we can kick in some more color in the center just add a little bit more permanent rose just to give it more depth. Remember that when you're painting something like this, it's very loose. Make sure that the center of the flower has a deep color. It has to have a really dark contrast. We're almost done with this rose. You can definitely play around and add some more fillers. Now let's try to paint another freestyle rose. For the center, I'm going to paint the comma stroke again, and then we are going to add more details in the center. I'm going to add more thin lines around that comma stroke. As you may have noticed, I'm doing it very quickly so that I can get some wispy strokes. We're all good with the size of the center. Now I'm going to grab some water and just move around that paint. I'm using that brush to create some more petals. You'll notice that I'm holding the brush towards the end of the handle so I can create some really nice and expressive strokes. I'm also moving back and forth and some of my strokes are just lines. You can also try to wiggle your brush like this so that you can create some bigger petals. Don't forget to leave some white spaces. Because the rose is still wet, we can try to fix the shape and just add more volume to some of the petals. While this base rose is still wet, I'm going to grab some more permanent rose and I'm going to drop it in the center, and let that bleed outwards. Then you will see that the center of this rose is very pigmented while the outer petals looks very soft. It's now time to add some leaves. I've just mixed up some sap green and indigo, and you're just going to add it all around the rose just to make it pop. Every time we have a soft looking petal or a light colored petal, try to add some dark leaves around it just to highlight it, to make it pop otherwise your eyes won't see that. It's a petal, it's part of the rose that you're painting. Now we can add some rose buds and you can just play around with the strokes. [MUSIC] While the leaves are still wet, we can drop in some indigo just to give it more depth, more contrast. This technique also gives that dramatic look to the loose floral. You can definitely fix some areas. Just use your clean brush and dab the excess moisture. Then you can try to absorb some of the paint on the leaves. Now we are done. I hope that you enjoyed painting this freestyle rose with me. [MUSIC] 13. Angled Roses: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we're going to learn how to paint flowers in different perspectives. To make it easier for you to understand, I'm just going to draw some circles here. When you're painting a flower, you have to determine first where is the center of the flower. If your painting top facing flower, the center will be here in the middle but if the rose is at an angle, the center will of course move. For example, I'm going to put the dot right here. It's about one-third of the length of this circle. Just to make it easier for you to visualize it, I'm just going to roughly paint petals all around the center. As I'm drawing the petals, you'll immediately see that this is a top-facing rose. Now, let's just draw some petals for this angle rose. You will see that we actually have an oval shape right here. Towards the bottom part of this rose, we are going to paint bigger petals. Now let's just draw a stem and leaf so you can visualize it better. You can see the difference between these two roses. I'm just going to show you a painting so you can visualize it better. In this painting, you will see that this rose is a top facing rose, the center is in the middle, while the other one, you will see that it's an angled rose. The other rose or the petals are concentrated in this oval and then we have some bigger petals underneath. Now let's try to draw a rosebud. I'm going to start with an oval and then we're going to create a cone right there. Then I will draw a small dot that will serve as a guide for me, just so I know where the center is. Now let's check out this painting. This is a good example of a bud that is about to bloom. Let's try to just draw some petals over here. I'm going to concentrate on adding the petals in this oval. Then I'm going to draw a fold right here that will look like overlapping petals. When you're painting angled roses it's easier to break it down into big shapes. Just like what I did here. If you want to paint some small buds, just visualize it as an oval shape. We're done with the drawing part and now let's get started with paint. To start just draw a circle. If we were to paint a top face a rose, the center will be right here in the middle but since we want an angle rose, I'm just going to move the center over to the side. Let's grab our size eight round brush and I'm going to use my permanent rose color. You can use a different color of course. I'm going to start with the center with a comma stroke. Then let's just add some more small thin C strokes just all around the center. Each stroke that we paint right here represents a petal. Now let's rinse our brush and just tap out the excess paint. I'm going to paint a bigger size petal. Let's start filling up this oval shape. At this point, we're going to add more petals. At the bottom part of this rose, if there are some gaps, you can just use the tip of your brush and just paint some lines just to close that gap. Now we will see that you have more volume in this area. We are done and I'm going to show you a top-facing rose. By moving the center of the rose, we're able to change the perspective of the rose that we are painting. Now let's move on to painting a rosebud that's about to bloom. I have here some carmine but you can also use permanent rose. I'm going to start with the center. This is another comma stroke and then we're going to add some thin lines all around it. Make sure to leave some whitespace. It's really important to also use a very pointy brush so that you can create these nice wispy strokes. Continue to add some strokes until you get that oval shape. I'm going to rinse my brush and tap the excess water. Let's paint a small flap over here. Now let's use a side angle stroke and just press our brush downwards. That's how we will create the body of this rosebud. Then let's move to the side and just close up this bud. I'm going to go around and just fix the shape of this rosebud. Don't pressure yourself. You don't need to paint this in one go. You can definitely go back and just add some more strokes and fix the shape. We can also add a bit more color in the center to give it more contrast. Also right here in this flap. Then you can grab some sap green. Let's add a stem to this rosebud. Try to add the stem when the rosebud is still wet so that the two colors, the pink and the green, will blend seamlessly because both are still wet. To create expressive small rosebuds, just paint some small wiggly lines like this and then rinse your brush. You're going to pull that color going downwards. You'll see that the paint will move. Only the top part of this rosebud will be more pigmented. Then you can also add some more details if you want. Just add some more lines that will look like the ruffles of the rosebud. If you think it looks a bit chunky at the top, try to rinse your brush and dab the excess moisture. You're going to move around that paint. Now it looks a lot better. That's how you troubleshoot. Now we're done with this lesson. [MUSIC] 14. Leaves: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to learn how to paint different leaves and also different problems that a lot of beginners encounter when they paint leaves. Let's start with a size 8 round brush. I'm just going to grab a green color. It's just sap green. You can use any color that you want. I'm going to show you the usual leaves that I paint. Let's start with the stem, and then let's start with the leaf shape. You just slowly press your brush and drag it and then lift towards the end so that you can get that pointy tip. Then let's do it one more time. We're able to do this smooth technique because we have just the right amount of paint and water in our brush. Now, what if we had less water in our brush? What will it look like? Let me show you. I'm just going to intentionally blot out the excess water or paint in my brush and then let's try to create a leaf shape, if we can do that. You will see that we end up with a dry brush technique. You have a lot of white spaces. Also notice that the brush doesn't fan out so much because it's just not moist enough. This is what happens when you have less water in your brush. But it's also a nice technique if you want to add some texture to your flower painting. Now let's check out what happens if we have more water in our brush. What if it's a juicy brush, what will happen to the leaf? You'll see that we have a small puddle right there because there's just too much liquid in this brush. It's all just flowing out. Now let's try to paint and see what happens. Right there, you'll see that you'll have a small puddle as well when you end that stroke. This won't look good when it dries up. But don't worry, if you make this mistake, we can try to fix it. Just rinse your brush in the water jar and then blot out the excess liquid in your brush. You're going to use this brush to absorb that excess water or paint. Now you'll see that you don't have a puddle anymore and it's just a simple solution. Something that I have noticed when I was teaching in-person workshops was that a lot of beginners were really afraid to dig into that half pen or to their paints and they won't try to get a lot of paint into their brush and so they end up with a really light-colored flower or leaves. This is okay if you are intentionally trying to paint some light-colored leaves. But I just wanted to share it here that if you're a beginner, don't be afraid to grab some more color. With a wet brush, just move back and forth to grab some pigment then you can mix it on the palette, just like so. Then let's try to paint a leaf. Now you see that there definitely is a big improvement in the color. Now you can see the sap green color because we use more paint. Now let's talk about strokes. I'm going to show you how to paint a short leaf. Just using the same technique of simply starting with the tip of the brush and pressing it. But this time, you'll see that I will try to drag it quite early on so that I won't have an elongated leaf. You'll see what I mean when we try the longer leaf. Now I'm going to start with a tape and then just press and then drag it some more and you will see that we'll end up with a longer length leaf. Now you see that you have a shorter and fatter leaf on the left and an elongated one on the right. Let's talk about how to paint a rounded tip leaf. I just have sap green in my brush. I'm going to start with the tip and press my brush and then just release it. Let's try it again. Just start at the tip of the brush and press it and then lift. When you see some puddles, just try to move it around or you can try to let your brush absorb it, just like what we did in the previous exercise. Now let's try to paint a simple leaf. It's nice to create different varieties of leaves when you're adding it to your floral bouquet. Just play around with different strokes as well. You can also try and fix the shape of the leaves to make even more rounded. Let's paint some thin and long leaves. In this technique, we are going to just use the tip of our brush to create some nice elongated leaves. As you can see, I'm just trying to glide my brush onto the paper and I'm just using the tip of the brush and just lightly pressing it so that I can get a different shape. Another way to go about it is to create a curved line. I'm just using the tip of my brush and just painting it in an S stroke. There you go. Moving on to painting some dancing leaves. Let's start with the stem. Then I'm going to create some expressive leaves. As you can see, I'm just slowly pressing my brush and trying to wiggle it as I press it down. That's why I call this the dancing leaves. Because as the brush is touching the paper, we're trying to wiggle the brush and just let it move on the paper so you can create some really nice expressive leaves. Let's paint a eucalyptus. This is a simple one. I'm going to start with the stem. I'm using sap green and sepia for the color of this eucalyptus. Just try to stamp your brush and change the direction of the leaves. You can also vary the pressure that you put in your brush so that you can get different shapes. You can see some are a bit bigger, some are smaller and that is just to make it look more organic and more natural. Just to add more depth, I'm going to add some light-colored leaves. I'm going to rinse my brush and just drag some of that color, pull it away so that I can create some extra leaves. I think that it looks a lot better with this technique. One way to give an extra character to your leaves is to change the value in a single stem. Let's paint the stem first. I'm just using a very pigmented sap green. Let's paint one leaf first, and then I'm going to rinse my brush. Then let's tap the excess paint. Then let's paint another leaf and you'll see the difference. One is darker, one is a bit lighter. You can also try to introduce different colors to your greens, like a burnt umber and then you can lighten it again, just like what I'm doing. This is also a good exercise to understand about values. By doing this, the leaves won't look flat anymore and it just looks more interesting to me. Now let's paint a different style. Let's paint the center stem and add some arms. After painting the arms, I'm going to paint the leaves by just tapping my brush. You can change up the direction. It could be from the outside going into the stem, or from the stem going outward. You can also vary the shape. This is something you can experiment with. It's a nice filler as well for your bouquets. You can also introduce different green colors and it'll definitely look so good. Another way to improve your leaves is to add some veins. I have here just a mixture of sap green and sepia. We just want a darker color. When adding veins, make sure that the base leaf is already dry. To make it more expressive, it doesn't all have to be in the same length. Some can be shorter, some are longer and you can change the direction as well. Another technique is to scratch some veins. If you're going to do this on a wet leaf, we have to make sure that the leaves are still wet when you're going to do this technique. I'm just using the tip of the hand of this brush. I'm going to scratch some veins and put a bit more pressure so that I can get that nice, fine line. You can also use a palette knife or maybe an old credit card will also do. This technique also gives more character to your painting. Now you're done with the leaves. I hope that you learned a lot today so that you can improve your leaves and add this to your future paintings. 15. Corner Flower Part 1 : [MUSIC] In this video, you will learn how to create this beautiful corner flower border. I'm showing you the final output first because I want you to be excited about what you can paint today. But before we start, I'm going to first show you a glimpse of the process video just so you can prepare yourself before we start. We are going to start with two main roses that we are going to paint diagonally across each other. After which we are going to paint those two rosebuds. Then after painting the main flowers, we are going to add some leaves and fillers. When the roses are already dry, we're going to add a second layer to give this flower more depth. Lastly, I'm going to add some finishing touches so if there are any mistakes, we can try to cover it up with some leaves. Now let's start painting. I am using a seven by 10 inches paper. What I'm going to do is I'm going to draw two circles first. This will represent the two main flowers and then I'm also going to draw the rosebuds and then glue them lightly with a pencil. This is our imaginary boundary. I just wanted to paint on one corner of the paper so I have an imaginary line up to this part. We're not really so strict about this, of course, we can add more leaves if needed. But it's good to have a set of boundaries so that you know where to paint. Now let's start painting and I'm going to grab some permanent rose. I'm using a size eight round brush. You just want a really thick mixture because this is going to be the center of the rose. This is a top facing rose so it means that the center of this rose is going to be in the middle. I'm going to paint a comma stroke. Then let's add some thin c strokes all around it. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter color. I'm going to paint the bigger petals. Let's move all around the center. I'm going to keep adding some petals. Then you should try to add it in-between where the two petals meet. At this point I didn't really add any color to my brush it's just the excess color from the center that we painted. It's now the time to just fix the shape while the petals are still wet. You can try to extend some of the petals or maybe add some lines to close up some gaps. If you feel like you need some more color, just feel free to grab some more paint. Let's not worry about this base rose because we are going to add another layer. If you have some mistakes, we can quickly cover that up later. We're done with the first rose and let's now move on to the second rose. I'm going to mix up permanent rose and crimson. Let's start at the center again of this rose. This is another top facing rose, so we're going to look for the middle. Then let's paint that comma stroke and then let's add some thin C strokes around it. Try to hold your brush near the bristles so that you can have more control. Also vary the pressure in your brush as you paint on the paper so that you can get some nice expressive strokes. Once we're all set with the center, I'm going to rinse my brush and just paint the bigger petals, just slowly painting some C strokes. I'm going to do it slowly so you can try and observe. That's how you can close up a gap. Then I'm going to add some more petals. As you can see, I'm changing the direction of my strokes as well. Sometimes I just paint a line. If I don't know what to paint in a small white gap, usually I just paint a line. Just makes sure that every time you paint a stroke, that both ends of that stroke is pointy so that it will look nicer. Let's paint this rose that's about to bloom. I'm going to mix permanent rose and crimson. We want a thick mixture again because this is for the center of the rose. You will see that I drew an oval right here. We're going to start in that area for it. Let's zoom in so you can see it better. I'm going to start with a small comma stroke and then let's just add some thin and wispy lines. Just using the tip of my brush. I'm going to go all around. At the same time, I'm going to maintain an oval shape. These are the strokes that we practiced in the drills. Then I'm going to rinse my brush and tap out the excess paint. You'll see right there that it's a lighter color. Let's continue to build up this center and then after adding all the strokes. Let's paint the fold of this rosebud. I usually start with just a line first. We need to rinse my brush and tap the excess water. Now let's drag our brush downwards. Right now I'm painting the body of this rose. I'm going to go to the other side and close up the body. Let's just paint a few more strokes. It's almost like drawing the shape of the rose. But instead of drawing, you're painting with a paintbrush. Then you can go back in to fix the shape. We can try to extend some parts and make this rose a little bigger. To give this more depth, I'm going to grab some more pigmented and paint and let's drop it in the fold of this rose and also on the sides. Now you need to make sure that your brush isn't too wet so that you can control this pigment. If you accidentally painted on the wrong area, just add some water. Then you can try to just scrub it a little using your brush and then blend it out with tissue. I hope that was a useful tip just in case it happens to you. We are done with most of the main flowers. Now I'm going to rotate my paper because I want to add a small bud in this gap. Let's grab some permanent rose and you want a thick making sure I'm just going to scribble some lines. This is an easy way to create rosebuds. When you're done with that part, let's rinse our brush. Then I'm going to just pull away some of the color and drag down my brush. You will see how the paint just beautifully moves. It looks loose and expressive. You can go back in to fix the shape of this rosebud and make sure that you have some white spaces as well. There you go. We have a smaller rosebud. At this point what you can do is to also add a darker pink color. You can add some crimson and just add it in the center while the roast is still wet. All right, so after painting all the flowers, I'm going to move on to painting the leaves. Let's prepare some of the colors that we need. I have here some sap green. Then I'm going to make another puddle of sap green. But this time I'm going to add some indigo to create a deeper color. Now let's rinse my brush again, then grab some sap green. I'm going to add a stem over here. Let's try painting some leaves in between the main flowers just to close that gap. To use just sap green. But you can also grab a deeper color of green and just add it in that leaf just to give it more depth. Really want to change up the green colors that we have here so that this painting will not look flat. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to part two of this project. 16. Corner Flower Part 2 : [MUSIC] Let's move on to part 2 of this project. I'm going to switch to a size 6 round brush. I'm going to grab some sap green and mix it with sepia just to get an earthy green color. Now let's add some leaves over here. I'm trying to add some leaves in-between the main flower and a rose bud. Then I'm going to rinse my brush to create the lighter color. Then you can add some stems sticking out. That's a good way to fill in some small white spaces, try to put some small stems, and then later on we can add some leaves or some fillers to attach to that stem. I'm going to go back in with my size 8 round brush and let's add some indigo to my sap green. Add some leaves on the upper left of this painting. I'm just going to extend this all the way to the corner. When you're painting floral painting, it's always nice to change the brush. You can go from a big size to a small size so that you can get a variety of leaves. I think I'd like to fill up this space with some more leaves and I'm going to rinse my brush and grab some fresh sap green color. Then let's just add some more leaves, I'm just starting it with some stems sticking out. Another tip for you is to mix all your greens before you start painting the leaves, so you can create puddles of different mixtures. Some are sap green with indigo, some with sepia, some with violet. You can try to play around. Let's grab some greenish yellow and let's paint some small leaves. I'm going to use my size 6 round brush. [MUSIC] Let's give this some variety and add some elongated leaves. Now let's stop and observe where we can add more leaves. I'm thinking over here. Because this is a pale flower, we want to add some dark green leaves around it. Let's give this a shape. I want you to observe the magic that will happen here. I'm going to paint a letter W stroke. Then we're going to fill that in to paint a leaf and you'll immediately see that the rose just popped up because we've given it an edge and you can see clearly until where the petal is. Then we can move around and paint some more leaves around it. [MUSIC] Now let's add some more leaves in that corner just to close up that space. Then let's just go back to that area in a while. I'm constantly looking at different areas where there are white species. We can add some leaf over here just to give that rose some edge. The more you paint, the more your instincts will become better when it comes to adding leaves and fillers. Don't worry about it, if you're a beginner, you will definitely learn that along the way. Let's add some fillers. I'm going to mix some yellow ocher on my palette. I'm going to dab my brush and make it look like a flower and I'll add some more definition by adding a stem. I chose this color, yellow ocher, because it's softer compared to the usual permanent yellow or lemon yellow. You can add some greenish yellow buds as well all around this painting. It's one of the colors that makes a floral painting look fresh and just vibrant without looking so striking or it doesn't hurt in the eyes when you look at it. You also might have some leaves that have already dried just like this. We can paint on top of it. You can paint a leaf or, in this case, I just painted some stems. Then I'll decide later on if I want to add some more leaves. Then you can add some pink buds. I'm adding some pink buds all around this painting just to distribute that color because I want it to be all around the painting so that there's balance. Now let's add some shadowy leaves, and we'll do this by mixing up some ultramarine and adding a lot of water. You can also add a little bit of green to that. But what we want is a really translucent leaf. These leaves will look like they're floating and it's like they are in the background. It's a really good way to add some volume as well to your painting, and I think that it gives a different dimension to a floral piece. [MUSIC] Now let's try to layer some leaves over here. I'm going to paint some expressive leaves and just really do this quickly so I can get some organic shapes. The center roses are already dry, so it's now time to layer them to give them more depth. I'm going to grab some permanent rose and add a little bit of Hooker's green. As you can see in this clip, I'm adding the green little by little because I don't want to be overwhelmed, I don't want to over mix that and get a really dark color. Using a size 8 round brush, I'm just going to add another layer. Then with a size 6 round brush, I'm going to grab some clean water and then let's fade away the outer strokes. From there whatever color that's left in my paintbrush, I'm going to use that to add some more petals around the outer area of this rose. For the outer area, we do want a translucent stroke so that you can still see the color underneath. You'll see how subtle it looks because we painted some really light colored strokes. Let's move on to the other rose and let's do a close up shots so you can see it better. I'm almost tracing the strokes on the first layer and just making it more pigmented using this technique. Then with my size 6 round brush, I'm going to fade away the outer petals, and then just using the tip of my brush, I can also paint some lines. Again, we don't want a lot of color in our brush, we want it to be really light just like this. Just quickly paint some C strokes all around it. I personally like holding my brush towards the end of the handle so that I can get some more expressive strokes. Also try to leave some spaces in between the strokes. It's now time to add some finishing touches and you'll see we have an ugly patch right there. I'm going to show you how you can face that. What we can do is to add some leaves and we can try to cover that mistake. Also, don't be afraid to paint on top of a flower because it will give it even more dimension and more depth. In this area, I'm just going to add some stems sticking out and that will separate the roses. Now, this is also the time to add some layered leaves. I'm just going to paint on top of the first few leaves that we painted. Make sure that they are already dry before you add another layer. Just scribble some lines and that will make it just look more organic and it looks like there is a flow. Now we are done. [MUSIC] I hope that this project will be useful because you can write your favorite quote, a Bible verse in that white space in the lower left. If you want to add some more layers to the roses to give it more depth, you can also do that. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 17. Orange Rose Bouquet: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to learn how to paint an orange rose bouquet. As usual, I'm showing you the process video first so that you have an idea of which flower goes first. I started with the main flower in the center and then and I added some angled roses. Repeating the flowers. I then proceeded with adding some leaves. You will see that the center flower just popped up because we added some leaves around it which I'm going to add some more layers. Let's see when I add some finishing touches. Here is the finished product, the project that we will be painting today. Right here I just drew some circles that will represent the main flowers. I just sketch this lightly using a pencil. Let's now mix the colors that we need. I'm going to mix permanent yellow deep plus permanent rose. We want an orange, pinkish color but you can also just use yellow-orange if you want. Using my size 8 round brush, I'm going to start at the center of the main flower. As you can see, I painted a comma stroke, and then around it I'm going to paint some thin C-strokes. We're just building the center and when we are okay with the size, I'm going to use my size 6 round brush and it's just filled up with clean water and I'm going to fade away the strokes. I'm also using this brush to create more petals and this brush is going to paint the translucent petals. As you can see, I'm really pressing my brush to create a broad petal. Then let's add some more over here. I'm just trying to add little by little. Don't forget to leave some white spaces in-between your strokes. [MUSIC] Now we're done with the main rules. Let's move on to the angled roses. With my size 8 round brush I'm going to paint the center first. I'm using the same color, permanent yellow deep and permanent rose. We want the center to be quite bold and very pigmented, I'm going to add more strokes until this because an oval-shaped. Now with my size 6 round brush, I just have clean water in this brush, going to drag that color down and then we're close off the body of this angled rose. The color of the body just comes from the center. As you can see we just pulled away some of the colors and we can also try to fix the shape. When you're painting a loose floral, don't worry, you don't need to paint it in one go. You can always go back and fix the shape, and that's definitely okay. We're able to really move around some of the strokes because the rose is still wet and also we're using 100 percent cotton paper. Now let's move on to the other rose. This is also an angled rose, and I'm just using the same technique. I'm painting a coma stroke and adding some thin C-strokes around it. I'm making sure that all the strokes are connected to each other and that there are white spaces in-between. Now let's add the body of this angled rose, I just have here my size 6 round brush with clean water. I'm just grabbing the color from the center. I'm going around and trying to extend some parts and just fixing the overall shape. I'm going to grab some more paint. I'm going to add some details and the base rose is still wet and you'll see that it looks really soft. Now let's add a stem, I'm going to grab some sap green, so we want the rose to still be wet when we add the stem so that it will blend in together. So we added this a little bit late and the rose is already dry, but I'm going to show you how you can fix it. I'm just going to grab some water and fade away that area and you'll immediately see that it became softer and the stem just blended in with the base of the rose. I hope that this step will help you in painting your project. Now let's change the angle of our camera. I'm going to now add some leaves. Let's prepare the color. This is hooker screen with indigo, so I want a really deep color. I'm using a size 8 round brush. You're going to add some leaves all around this rose to give it a shape because right now you will see that it looks really light and soft, but the edges are not as defined. So we're going to give that definition to the edges using leaves. You can also add some sap green. Now let's add it to the side. What we're doing now is we're changing the values, we're adding a darker-green and lighter-green just to give it more variety. At first it might not look good because it just looks incomplete, but don't worry later on when we add some more leaves and fillers, it will look better. Let's add one more on the left side. This is just a really nice dark-green color. We can add some ruffles and we do fix the edges of the rose. When I'm doing this, I'm not painting just a very straight or a curved line, I'm just trying to wiggle my brush and you'll see that it's an even. We can also add some stem sticking out. Then I'm going to grab some sap green and you're going to add a different shape leaf. Let's paint some elongated leaves, I'm just dragging my brush and also changing the pressure in my brush. Then right here I just want a really light-colored leaf. Just using my Size 6 round brush, and now we can try to wiggle some more stem sticking out. I am just trying to look for some white gaps where I can put some more fillers and leaves. Now let's grab some ultramarine, this is a nice blue color. Let's just dab our brush onto the paper. I'm using my brush and holding it at the end of the handle and you'll see it in that video. At the top of that blue filler, I'm going to grab some greenish-yellow and just dab some more fillers. I'm going to also add some stems connecting to the blue fillers going into the stem. The leaves underneath are already dry, that's why I'm adding some layering now. Now let's add one more big petal, I'm using my Size 8 round brush, and then just add some stem sticking out in different directions. We're going to balance this out, I'm going to add some ultramarine-colored fillers. On the left side, I'm Going to dab my brush to create these small flowers, and then let's add some stems. Now, with the Size 6 round brush, I'm going to add some smaller leaves. I'm just really changing the variety of the leaves here. You want some small ones, some elongated ones, there're also big petals. Also, I'm trying to change up the brush that I'm using so I can get a different stroke. Let's now add the body of this bouquet. This is where you hold the bouquet. I'm going to just paint some stems first. I started with a dark stroke and then with the other brush that's just clean water, I'm going to paint some more strokes and let that pigment just flow into the water. I'm also changing the colors that we're going to use for this base. Just paint some lines in different directions. I'm going to cover this area with leaves as well, I just have sap green here using my Size 6 round brush, and you will see that I have put a definition to the edge of this rose. Let's add some more leaves. I'm just mixing up sap green and sepia. Just look at your project from afar and then try to observe if there are areas that need to be filled with some leaves or fillers. Remember that you can take a short break when you're painting. I'm also adding some stem sticking out. This bouquet needs more fluff, I'm going to add some greenish-yellow fillers. I'm just stamping my brush painting these small strokes. The color greenish yellow is a really good color if you want to add some fillers that will brighten up the painting that you're doing. Some of the leaves are already dry, you can start layering them as well. Just add some smaller leaves or you can even use gouache if you want. You can add some berries or add some veins using white gouache or you can also use a darker green color for the veins. Layering is very important because it gives your painting more depth and it just makes the painting really look more beautiful and more detailed. Painting from afar, I feel like I need to add some more blue flowers right here, just to give this painting a balance. I Just wanted three areas with some blue color. I'm going to add some quick expressive strokes, and just observe how I hold the brush and how I paint these strokes. Try to hold your brush towards the end of the handle so that it will feel lighter and you'll be able to create some different shapes. Then, of course, don't be afraid to have fun and just to experiment and add some strokes that you don't normally add to your painting. Is now time to add some layers. I'm going to mix up some permanent rose, permanent yellow deep, and you want a more pigmented mixture. I want to tone this down a bit by adding some burnt sienna, just a brown color. Make sure that the roses are already dry before you add the second layer. Let's add a comma stroke and then just going to paint some more thin C strokes around it. I'm going to grab the other brush and grab some water, and we're going to fade this stroke so that it will look softer. We want some really translucent strokes for the second layer. Make sure that you have lots of water in your paint mixture. I'm going to just slowly add some C strokes as you can see right here. Then adding the second layer just gives you an illusion that there are more petals in this rose. Now let's move on to adding some layers to the other roses. I'm just going to grab my Size 6 round brush and grab a pigmented color. We're going to add some details in the center first, and then going to use just water and blur it out. I'm just going to spread that color and I'm going to add some more details. Let's move on to the other rose. I'm going to add some more details in the center. Then you're also going to fade it away. As you can see, I added a flap. I think that we are done. Just a tip for you guys, if you're painting a bouquet, try to put the flowers in different heights. Also try to change the angle of the flowers, some more top facing, some are angled. That's it. I hope that you enjoyed painting this bouquet in less than 15 minutes. [MUSIC] I will see you in the next project. 18. Single Rose Stem: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to learn how to paint a single stem rose. But before we start, I'm going to show you a glimpse of the process video just to help you prepare what you expect from this lesson. [MUSIC] You're going to learn how to paint a rose at an angle and this is going to be a freestyle version. You'll see right here I'm just painting the stem and adding some expressive leaves. [MUSIC] Then you're going to add some layering to give this more depth. This is a 10-minute project. I hope that you will enjoy this lesson. I'm using a seven by 10 inches paper and then we are going to use this reference photo that I found on Pinterest. When you're looking for reference photos online, aside from looking for real flowers, you can also try to search for artificial ones just like this. What I like about this rose is that it has that vintage look. It has this brownish pink color. I'm just going to grab some permanent rose and I'm going to add some Hooker's Green. I'm adding it little by little just so I can easily adjust the color and then we'll add some burnt sienna. This is a really nice brown color, so I'm adding brown to this pink color because I want to have that vintage vibe. I'm using my size 6 round brush. We are going to swatch this first. It's always nice to have a scrap paper that you can use to swatch the colors that you've mixed. Now let's start. This is a freestyle rose, I'm going to use two brushes. I'm going to use size 6 to hold some paint and this is going to be the main brush. You can paint the small dot first just to serve as a guide and then we'll paint the comma stroke. After painting the comma stroke, you can see I'm painting some really small and thin lines all around this comma stroke. With my size 8 round brush, I'm going to fade away the outer strokes. You will see that it will become softer. Using whatever color that's left on this brush, I'm just going to try and move it around and just paint some more petals. As you can see, I painted the cup of this rose. This is just going to be a guide for me. Then we're going to paint some more pigmented strokes and you're going to blur it out again. Let's make it this part more defined. In a paint the more pigmented stroke, then we're going to blur it out. As you can see that's the part that we're going to paint right now. When you're painting something like this, it's easier to break it down into shapes. While everything is still wet on the paper, I'm just going to extend some parts of the petals. Then we're going to close off the top part and add some more lines and then I feel like we need to add a little bit more pink to our paint. I'm just going to mix that and add some more color on this rose. It's now time to add some petals underneath that cup. I'm going to adjust the color again. I'm going to add little bit of Hooker's Green again to my paint. Then we're just going to adjust the shape of this rose again. I'm painting some C strokes at the top of this rose, I'm doing it quickly. I'm also trying to change the value if you have noticed, some areas are lighter, some are darker. It's now time to add some more shadows to these flowers. I'm going to mix up a more pigmented color. It's the same permanent rose, Hooker's Green and burnt sienna mixture. I just want it to be more pigmented. Then you're just going to drop in some color. If you'll notice, this rose is still wet and we want it to be that way because we want a soft effect. Then I'm going to try to adjust the shape of this petal. We'll see that there are ruffles along the edges of the petals. I'm going to try and wiggle my brush to mimic that shape. If you overdid it, you can get a clean damp brush just like this and lift the color or let the brush absorb it. The good thing about using a 100% cotton paper is that the paints will be wet for a longer period of time and you will definitely see that in this painting. As I add some more strokes, you'll see that the strokes will still look really soft because the base rose is still wet. Now let's add the stem. I'm going to mix up my sap green. Let's add some sepia to get that earthy brown green color. I'm going to add the stem right here and you're going to slowly build up the stem. I'm using the tip of my brush and just trying to create a wobbly line. I'm doing this because I wanted it to look quite expressive and organic. Then now let's add some leaves, I'm using my size 8 round brush. Let's just press a brush and then cause this really nice dry brush technique. This happens if you don't have enough paint in your brush, if your brush is a little dry. Then let's add some more leaves. I'm just following what I see in this reference photo, but I don't need to really copy all the details. Then you can rinse your brush to create the lighter color just like what you see here. Whenever you're painting from a reference photo, just follow what feels right for you. You don't really need to add all the details. You'll see here that it just looks so beautiful that there's a lighter green color, there's a darker color and just, it looks very pleasing to the eyes. Now I'm going to grab some Hooker's Green and add some sepia. Let's change up the color of the leaves again, just to make it look more interesting. Then we'll scribble some lines. Then let's add the leaves, so we just water in this brush. I'm going to paint another leaf and I'm going to pull away some of that color from the dark green and this let it flow into the clear leaf. I think that they just look so beautiful. I will also go back in and make the stem a little bit thicker. It's now time to layer this rose. I'm just going to grab some permanent rose, add some Hooker's Green to create that maroon color. Then we're going to paint on top of the first layer. Grab another brush with clean water and then you're going to fade away some of the strokes just so that it doesn't look too harsh and you want it to look really soft. I'm going to layer some more petals using a more diluted mixture of paint. Right here you'll see that I'm going to separate some areas by painting a stroke and it will look like there are more petals. [MUSIC] I'm going to go back in and add some more finishing touches. Make sure that the strokes are a bit translucent and that the color isn't really too dark, so that it doesn't look too harsh. Always remember that you want it to look soft. Maybe we can add some thorns and then we are done. I hope that you enjoyed painting this beautiful Vintage Rose. See you in the next video. [MUSIC] 19. Expressive Florals Part 1: Let's paint some expressive flora. Before we start, I'm going to give you an overview of the project so that you can have an idea before we start. We're going to paint some loose and expressive roses. You're going to start with the three roses. Then we're going to add a five petaled flower. We're going to make it expressive with a lot of different brushstrokes. You're also going to add some fillers and then some leaves. Right here we're going to add one more rose that's at an angle. Then I'm going to fill up some of the spaces with some more leaves and also some fillers. Of course we are going to add some layers, through the flowers so that it will have more depth. In this project we're going to add a darker center compared to the previous projects that we did. Then I'm going to add some veins on the leaves and add some finishing touches. Now let's start. To start, let's just draw some circles that will be our guide. That's where we will paint the roses. I'm going to grab some carmine and we want the really thick mixture. I'm using my size 6 round brush for the paint and a size 8 round brush to use for fading. I'm going to start with the center and then we're going to add some thin lines all around it. Then we can grab our clean brush and just fade away the outer strokes. As you can see, I'm holding my brush towards the end of the handle because I want it to be really loose. You can also observe how I hold my brush. Then we're going to move around this color. We can also add a little bit more carmine in our brush if needed. I'm just going to really use this brush and press it against the paper to create a bigger stroke. You can use the side of the brush as well. We can fix the shape. Just move around the paint. But right now, I'm not going to be so worried about these flowers because we're going to add a second layer. If there are any mistakes, that's okay, we can fix that later on. I'm going to grab some more carmine. This is a thick mixture and I'm going to paint the second rose. Let's zoom in a little bit closer so that you can see the strokes clearly. I'm just varying the strokes. You can see that some are thinner, some are fatter, some are shorter, some are a bit longer. With a size 8 round brush, we are going to fade away some of the strokes. This is just clean water in my brush. Now let's grab some permanent violet and you want to dilute this with a lot of water. We're going to paint really broad petals. What's nice about this technique is that it will look like you have shadowy petals. It looks really good. We're going to add a little bit of carmine to this violet just to add more pink color. We will leave this as is, and then we'll go back to that later. Right now let's paint another rose, though I'm going to grab some permanent violet. We want the really thick mixture for the center of the rose. This rose is facing the lower left of this paper. What you can do is you can rotate the paper so that it's easier for you to paint. I'm going to scribble some small strokes in the center and then let's get our size 8 round brush. I'm going to fade away the outer strokes. This is just a brush with clean water. Just look at the tip of this brush. I'm just slowly painting some small strokes. Some of them are just lines. That's how you build a rose. You'll also notice that the outer petals are quite translucent. There's barely any color in there. Now let's paint an expressive five petaled flower. And I have here a mixture of crimson lake. Let's tap our brush and we're going to paint one petal first. Then let's rinse our brush and paint one more petal. You'll see that beautiful bleed over there. Then let's go back in to fix this petal. Let's use the side of our brush, press it on the side and then lift towards the end of the stroke so that you'll have a pointy tip. This is also a way for you to create some expressive strokes. Try to vary the pressure in your stroke. Let's warm up this color. I'm going to add some burnt sienna to the crimson lake and then just going to paint another stroke. In order to paint and expressive petal, try to press your brush against the paper and then lift towards the end and you'll see here that I'm also using the tip of the brush to create some thin lines. Start with a heavy pressure stroke and then end with a lighter pressure stroke so that you can add some movements into your petals. Let's give this flower a dark center. I'm just mixing indigo and permanent violet and dropping it in the center and letting it bleed into the pink petals. We have a small accident over here. I'm just going to blot it out with tissue paper and now it's gone. Now this part is optional. I'm going to lift some of the colors on the petals because I want some petals to be lighter, some are darker or more pigmented. We have established the main flowers and now we're going to add some fillers. These will look like a bunch of small buds, I'm going to mix carmine and permanent violet. You can try painting these small buds. They are going to be across each other instead of beside each other so that it doesn't look too even. Now let's all connect them together using a green stem and I'm using sap green here. You're going to extend this filler. I'm going to add some permanent yellow light and mix it with little bit of green. We're going to add some more buds. These two colors are complimentary colors. That's why they look good together. They bring out the best in each other. I guess that's something that you can think of when we say complimentary colors. Now let's add some dark leaves. This is a mix of indigo and sap green. We want dark colored leaves beside a light colored flower to make the flower stand out. We can also add hookers green, it's also a nice color. You can just add it to any green color in your palette. The strategy here is to add some leaves in between the main flowers first. Looking at this from a far, we need one more flower right here at the bottom and I just grab some crimson lake again. You can see here that I'm just scribbling some small thin wiggly lines, and that will be the center of the flower. Then we're going to grab a big brush and grab some water. It just faded away. What's important is that we have a center that is more defined. Then for the outer petals, we can just try and fade it away and paint a big petal. Now let's move on to part 2 of this project. [MUSIC] 20. Expressive Florals Part 2 : [MUSIC] I hope that you are excited to finish this project. You are halfway done. So now let's add some more leaves. I'm using Hookers green, and right now, I'm just adding some more leaves in between the flowers. We're also going to add some stem sticking out. It looks incomplete right now but trust me, this will help you as you paint. Let's grab some permanent yellow light and add a little bit of green. I'm just going to dab my brush to create some fillers. This will look like small flowers. Then now let's grab some diluted cerulean blue. At the bottom right, I'm going to add some fillers. You can see I'm just dabbing my brush and holding it at the end of the handle so it can get some loose strokes and expressive ones. Then let's grab some more green and add some leaves. You're going to create some different colored leaves aside from green. I'm going to add some permanent violet to my green paint. You'll see that we have a beautiful muted violet color. It just gives more character to this bouquet. My tip for adding a different color to your green paint, use the color that you use for the main flowers. So for example, I used a permanent violet for the rose on the lower left of this painting, that's why I decided to add some violet to my green just because it will look more cohesive. I think that adding some different colored leaves will give more character to your painting. I'm going to grab some Hookers green and add some more leaves all around the flowers just to give more definition to the shape of the roses. [MUSIC] So right here we are going to paint some smaller leaves, and I'm just stamping my brush. You can use a smaller-sized brush if you want to paint some small leaves. So I'm going to add one more violet leaf over here. You can play around and add it where it feels right for you. So we can start layering this filler. I just grabbed some permanent violet and then we're going to add a second layer. I just dabbed my brush onto the paper. It's now time to add a second layer to the roses, so I just make some carmine with Hookers green. So we're going to mix these complimentary colors together so that we can have a darker color, and then I'm going to paint on top of this rose. Just scribble some lines. With my other brush, I'm going to grab some water and fade away the outer strokes. I'm using a size 8 round brush to fade away the strokes. [MUSIC] Of course, we can go back in to add some more details in the center. If there's too much color, just lift the color using a clean brush. So I'm going to paint one stroke over here and with my other brush, I'm going to fade it away. So you can see the difference right now. This technique will give the roses more depth. Now let's move on to the other rose that's front-facing. So as usual, I'm going to just paint some strokes in the center and we're also leaving some spaces in between. Now I'm going to fade away those strokes. You can add some layers to your roses by painting a stroke just like what I did and then fading it away. This is how we will slowly build the pathos in this rose. For this angled rose, I'm just going to add some scribbles in the center but I'm not going to fade it. For this violet flower, I'm going to mix indigo and permanent violet so I can get a really dark color for the center. The strokes look a little too bold. We're going to go in with a clean brush and just fade it away. Then using my brush, painting sideways. Now we're just going to fix some of the strokes. Right here I'm using the same color. I'm going to add it to the other pink roses. You'll see how big of a difference it makes when you add a really dark center. Now we're going to add a violet flower at the top just to make it more balanced because you have some violet flowers at the bottom, so we want some at the top as well. [MUSIC] We can also layer this five-petaled flower. I just have here carmine and a little bit of permanent violet. Let's add some veins on the petals. So I'm just using the tip of the brush and just painting some thin strokes. Now if some of the strokes look a little too harsh, we can use a clean brush and just fade it away. I'm just going to mix Hookers green and indigo, and you can go back in to paint some veins. When we're painting veins on the leaves, don't paint veins on all the leaves. You want some leaves to be just blank and some with more details just to make it look more interesting so that it won't look so crowded. Don't be afraid to add some small leaves in between the main flowers. You'll see that you'll be able to separate the flowers by doing this. So we have a patchy area over here, I'm going to grab a clean brush and just fade away that part. So we can try and clean the other roses as well. Now, this area still needs more definition, so we're going to grab a diluted Carmine color. I'm going to paint some strokes that will look like petals. We want the strokes to be quite translucent. We are now adding some finishing touches. So this is the time to just stop and look at your painting from afar so that you can check out which areas needs to be extended or which areas need to be layered. You can add some violet-green leaves just like what I'm adding here. You could also go in and add some pinkish-green leaves, that would also look good. Congratulations for finishing this project. I hope that you have enjoyed discovering different brush strokes that you can use for your own painting in the future. That's it. I will see you in the next video. [MUSIC] 21. Rose Watercolor Wreath Part 1 : [MUSIC] Let's paint a rose watercolor wreath projects. I'm going to give you a short overview of how I painted this wreath. I started with the main flowers and then I added some rose buds and you'll see a reference photo later when we start painting. We are trying to make these rosebuds as loose and as organic looking as possible. Now we're going to add some leaves. We started with the main flowers first, then now we're going to add some leaves and we are going to vary the shapes and then we'll add some fillers as well. You'll see here that the fillers will really make a big difference to this wreath and now I'm going to add some more finishing touches, some veins on the leaves, and then we're going to add some layers on the roses. Lastly, let's step back and just add some finishing touches. That is it and now let's start painting. This is a reference photo that we will be using for this painting and I saw this on Pinterest. I'm not so sure if it's really a rose or maybe it's a different rose. But when you're looking for reference photo, you don't really need to look for the flower that you want to paint. Sometimes you can look for a certain composition that you want and in this case, I was drawn to the composition of this wreath. That's why I decided to use it as my reference photo. We can start by drawing a circle using a pencil. Then let's draw two small circles to represent the main flowers. From there, I will be adding the leaves and the buds, and the fillers. To start, let's mix our color. I'm going to mix permanent rose. I'm going to add a touch of permanent yellow light because I don't want it to be too pink. I want it a little bit peachy pink. I'm going to be using my size eight round brush and we do want a thick mixture, a more pigmented mixture because we're going to start with the center of the rose. We're going to paint a comma stroke and then we're going to add some thin wiggly lines around it. I have too much paint mixture in this brush. I'm going to dab it in a tissue paper so that I'll get just the right amount. Just try to add these small strokes in different directions, and make sure that is always pointy and don't worry, I'm going to show you a close-up view for the second rose. For this one, I just wanted you to see it from afar so that you can see how I hold the brush. Avoid the size six round brush, this is just loaded with water going to fade away the outer strokes and you'll see that it's becoming softer. Now I just grab a little bit of permanent rose and diluted it with a lot of water. I am using this color for the outer petals and I just added a lot of water. I want the paint to be really translucent. I'm painting really broad strokes and just pressing my brush so I can get a nice big petal. At the same time, I do want some white spaces in between those petals. If you made any mistakes in the first layer, don't worry, we're going to add a second layer and you can hide that mistake. I'm just fixing the shape and then now let's move on to the other rows. As you can see, we have some weird patches over here. But I'm not going to worry because I can try to cover it up with a second layer and you'll see that later on. Now for the second row so I'm going to mix permanent rose and burnt sienna and then let's start at the center just a comma stroke and just some thin wispy strokes all around it. Then now we are going to fade away the outer petals, and I'm going to paint some medium-sized strokes and you can also add some small lines just to close up some gaps. You can use the side of the brush and just glide it in a curved motion just like what I'm doing here and now while the petals are still wet, we are going to try and just fix the shape. Now that we have the main roses, we're going to add the small buds I have here, just Permanent Rose and I want the stick mixture for the top of this rosebud, I'm going to scribble some lines and with another brush that has clean water, I'm going to just drag that color down. We're going to do it a few more times so that you can see it better. Now I'm going to use just a tip of my brush to create some small strokes and then I'm going to just drag the color. Try not to be really strict about this being so perfect. You want it to look really loose and the trick is really to add the very concentrated color at the top and then just fade it away towards the bottom. You can also add some stems using sap green. For the next part, I'm just going to change it up a bit. Instead of just one concentrated color I want the entire bud to be just one color. We're going to use permanent rose and we're going to paint an oval shape, and I'm going to add a stem. It just looks more interesting if you have a different variety of buds. Some are lighter, some are darker. I'm going to move on to the buds below. Let's grab some permanent rose again and I'm going to use that for these buds. Just scribble some small lines like this and with a clean brush, I'm going to drag down that color. You can also go back into fix it, and I'm going to add some more color at the top of this, but that's okay. Let's change up the color a bit. I'm going to mix permanent rose and yellow ocher to get this peachy shade that's not too bright. Let's grab some of that color and also paint some buds using that, and then we can drop in some more color. I can add some permanent rose and then we'll add a stem. We're going to be using sap green. Let's paint one more rosebud, again, I'm going to scribble some small lines and this color is very pigmented and we'll use our clean brush to drag down that color. I'm looking at this composition and I think we can add some more rose buds and add one more over here. [MUSIC] This is the overall look for the flowers of this wreath and let's check out the reference photo. It definitely has more rose buds, but because I'm working with a limited space, I'm going to have to trim it down. I'm going to add some more buds over here and this is from the mixture of permanent rose and yellow ocher. We want that brownish, pink color. It's like a muted peach color. [MUSIC] We're going to add some more buds and I'm just going to paint some random strokes and then with a clean brush, I'm going to fade away that stroke so that I can get the loose rosebud. I'm usually just trying to maintain a certain shape, like an oval shape. You don't really have to be strict about it. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just want the general shape of a rosebud and you can definitely experiment with the strokes that you put in it. Now let's move on to part 2 of this project and let's check out the next video. 22. Rose Watercolor Wreath Part 2 : [MUSIC] Welcome to Part 2 of this project. Now we're going to add some leaves. Before we start, we are going to mix the colors that we need. I'm using sap green and indigo. I'm mixing the colors that I'll be using for the leaves and this is a good way to prepare when you're painting. You can also make sap green and sepia to get that dark, earthy green color. If you don't want it to be too deep, then you can just add burnt sienna instead, just a different brown color, and then we're also going to mix up Prussian blue and sap green. Just try to play around and you can add different colors to your green and see how it goes. Now let's start. I'm using my size eight round brush and I'm going to add some leaves in between the main flowers and I want a dark color. Adding some leaves in between the two main flowers will separate these two flowers. It will give you more definition on the edges of the flower because this is a very light-colored flower. I decided to add one more mixture, this is sap green and burnt umber. This is also a nice combination. You get that earthy green color that's not too dark. You're going to vary the shapes and the colors of the leaves in this wreath. I'm going to add some stem sticking out. This is sap green and indigo. I'm going to add the leaf over here just in between the rosebuds and the main rose. What I'm trying to do is I'm adding more leaves near the main roses. I'm going to start from the center of this wreath, which is the main flowers and then I'm going to go outwards, going into the tips of this wreath. Then you will see a nice edge over here. It just gave a definition to the edge of this rose. It made the rose pop up because there's a dark color beside it. Then now with a size 6 round brush, we can scribble some smaller shape leaves. I'm going to drag my brush to create an elongated leaf and this color is a mixture of sap green and sepia. As you can see, I'm trying to change the colors that I use in different areas. You can also take a look at our reference photo and just check if there are leaves that you can use and apply to this wreath and also check if there are colors that we need to add. Then again, when you're looking at the reference photo, you don't need to paint all the details. Just look for the ones that will stand out the most and I just made it a dark leaf over there and beside it, I'm going to paint a lighter colored leaf. I'm going to take out this palette to let you see how beautiful this wreath is turning out and even just like this, it's already nice. But of course, we want to add some more details. Let's grab the sap green and sepia mixture. I'm using my size 6 round brush and I'm painting some thin leaves. Let's start with some really dark-colored leaves and I'm going to rinse my brush and paint another one. You'll see that it's lighter and we can try to paint the leaves in different directions. You'll see that I'm holding a brush at the end of the handle and that's my way of painting some loose and expressive leaves and we'll extend this part by adding some stem sticking out and then later on, I'm going to add some fillers or some small flowers just to fill up the space. I just made a small smudge right there. We're going to erase it. Let's just add some clean water and then rub it a little bit and then with tissue paper, I'm going to blot it out and now it's gone. Let's move on to the other side of this wreath. I'm going to use the sap green and Prussian blue mixture. Let's just extend this part and add some leaves. I'm using my size 6 round brush and you can change the size of the brush that you're using so that you can create different shapes and just to also introduce a different feel when you're painting. It's nice to change brushes. Let's switch through sap green and sepia. Just going to add some more stem sticking out and I'm going to put some buds later on. As you can see, I'm switching from one color to another. You can also do that. Just prepare the green mixtures in your palette. I'm making sure that the leaves are also pointy and that they are a little bit bended so that it will look more natural and we can add some eucalyptus over here. I'm just going to dab my brush and just paint really quick strokes. Now let's grab some greenish yellow, I'm going to paint a filler over here. I'm just going to use the tip of the brush and paint some small dots until I'm able to form a small circle. [MUSIC] Again, let's add one more over here at the top right portion. I'm just going to dab my brush just using the tip so I can get some nice points and then after which we are going to grab a darker color. You can get indigo or maybe sepia and just drop it in at the bottom part of this filler so that you can have a contrast color. This gives the filler more depth. Then let's add one more over here. I'm just trying to scatter this filler all over this wreath and if you've noticed, this wreath is an open type of wreath, so it doesn't close to this part. You'll see that it's open. Now let's add some buds. This is just a mixture of yellow ocher and permanent rose. It's a really beautiful combination, I added a lot of water as well to keep it light. It has that nice, soft, and vintage feel and I really like this combination. You can also add a little bit of permanent rose in some parts just to give it more contrast and I'm adding these small buds or small flowers all around this wreath. I'm just dabbing my brush. Try to also vary the size so you can see that some are really small dots, some are a little bit bigger and that will make it look more interesting in a wreath. I'm looking at this wreath and this part needs more color, more greenish, yellow so I'm going to add one more filler because I want it to be more balanced. It doesn't have to be of equal distance. We just want some colors in some areas. At this point, we can also start layering some leaves. Just make sure that when you layer some leaves, the first layer is already dry before you put on another leaf on top of it. Right here, we're going to add one more leaf to give definition to that part of the rose. I'm going to add some stem sticking out as well. Just adding these small stem sticking out, we'll make this wreath look more organic and it will look looser. Now let's grab some sap green and indigo. I'm going to paint some veins and we're going to paint some thin veins, not on all the leaves. We're just going to choose some leaves that will have more details and it will look more interesting and not too chunky because of all the leaves will have a lot of veins, then it will look too detailed. We still want this wreath to look very loose. Then let's add the variety of leaves. I'm just painting some smaller size leaf over there. Then add some stem sticking out as well to make sure that the leaves are facing in different directions so that it looks nicer. If you have a white gel pen, you can also use that to add some veins and add some berries. I have here really diluted indigo, I'm going to add some small dots and this will look like small flowers. This almost looks like a shadow and we want it to be just light-colored and this is a way to make the wreath look more lush without adding too much color. Then over here I'm just going to extend the wreath a little bit. Try to stop and take a photo of your painting and then observe if you need to extend some parts or fix the shape of some areas. You can also try to extend some of the leaves, just like what I did here so that not all the leaves will have the same length. It's now time to layer. I have here some permanent rose and burnt sienna so we're going to add a comma stroke at the center, and you'll see I'm going to add some thinner strokes all around it, and then with a clean brush, we're going to feed the outer strokes. I'm going to add some really translucent color and I'm just going to add it over here. You'll see that when we add the second layer, this rose will have more depth. I'm also leaving some spaces in between. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to the other rose, I'm going to do the same, this paint on top of the first layer. Then we'll add some small scribbles around it, and then it faded again. This is size 6 round brush and you can use a different size if you want, just use a brush that you are comfortable with. I'm going all around this rose, just adding some C shape strokes. The center needs a little bit more color. I'm going to grab a mixture of permanent rose and burnt sienna. I want it to be more pigmented and you're going to drop it in the center. The center is still wet and I'm just going to let it bleed. So we really want a dark center. We want the contrast when we're painting loose florals. We're in the last part where we are going to add some finishing touches and also fix the shape. I think I might extend the top part a little bit more. We're going to add some more stem sticking out and then I'm going to add some small flowers. Let's just dab our brush. We are done. This is a really beautiful wreath. I hope that you enjoyed painting this project. [MUSIC] 23. Orange and Blue Florals Part 1 : [MUSIC] Let's paint some orange and blue florals. Before we start, I'll show you the process video. We're going to start with the main rose. This is a front-facing rose then on the upper left, we're going to add an angled rose. This is a beautiful angled rose. We're also going to flip our page so that we can paint one rose at the bottom. You're going to add some blue fillers. They look like small flowers. I'm going to add some yellow fillers as well. In this project, we are going to learn how important it is to add fillers to our floral painting and how we can use the fillers to give life to the main flowers. We're also going to layer the roses then lastly we're going to step back and look at our painting and just add some finishing touches. Let's start. At the end of this lesson, you will be able to paint something like this. I call it the bursting poke because of the spray of fillers that we have here. We added a lot of fillers that just give so much life to this painting. This is so pleasing to the eyes because we use complementary colors. If you want to change the colors that we will use in this project you may do so, just make sure that they are complimentary colors or colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. Let's draw some circles on our paper, this is a seven by 10 inches paper. This looks like a letter C formation. Let's start mixing our paint. I'm going to mix yellow, orange, and vermilion, so we want a red-orange color. I'm adding the vermillion little by little because I want to get the right color. You don't need to rush when you're mixing colors. I'm using a size 6 round brush and we're going to start with this first rose that is front-facing. I'm going to start at the center with a comma stroke, and then let's add some curved strokes. Try to vary the shape and the length of the strokes that you're going to do. Instead of feeding the other strokes, I'm going to rinse my brush and create a lighter color in my brush and then let's add some medium size petals. Now we're going to move all around this rose. I'm going to rinse my brush a little bit more and just extend some of the petals. This is another way to paint a rose and just paint some C strokes. I'm just going to drag my brush until I get to the other side and connect it to the next petal. I'm going to rinse my brush again and I'm going to make some of the petals bigger and just extend some of them so that I can have a better shape of the rose. I just have water in my brush and I want a really faded look. I'm going to just add some more strokes. Let's now move on to the other rose and I'm just going to add some more vermilion on this mixture. I want it to be red-orange, I want it to be really pigmented. I just drew an oval right here and that's where we are going to paint the angled rose. We will start with the center and add some thin strokes all around it until I reach a point that the shape looks oval and I'm going to stop. Then let's rinse our brush and soften some of the edges. We're going to extend this part a little bit more and I'm still using the brush with just clean water. You can grab a little bit of color and just go back in and fix the shape of this rose. Then let's go to the body of the angled rose and with a little bit of color in our brush, I'm going to paint the flap just like this and then we're going to close it up on the other side. Then with a clean brush, I'm going to fade away this part so that we can create the body just like so, and then you'll see that I'm doing it little by little. I do suggest trying it that way if you're just starting out so that it's not so overwhelming. We can drop in some more color in these areas where there will be shadow. We just want to drop in a more pigmented color and we're doing this while the base rose is still wet. We're going to flip our paper because we need one more rose at the bottom. We're going to just flip our paper so that it's easier to paint the bottom flower. Now I'm going to mix permanent yellow, orange, and vermilion again for the third rose. As usual, we're going to start with the center and add some thin lines around it. Just makes sure that the center is very pigmented. Using my size 8 round brush, I'm going to grab some clean water and fade away the outer strokes. Just lightly hold your brush towards the end of the handle and just let it do its magic and just dance with your brush and create these small expressive strokes. You can press your brush like this and you'll see how I'm holding the brush. I'm going to close off this rose and just add some lines here and there. Now we're done with the main flowers, we're going to add the fillers now and I have here some cerulean blue which I have diluted in a lot of water. Before we start, let's watch this color and you'll see how just transparent it is because we added a lot of water. Over here, we're going to paint a spray of small buds. I'm going to just dab my brush and also try to wiggle it a little bit so that we can get different shapes. Let's not forget to change the values. Some will be lighter blue colors, some will be more pigmented. Now let's add some stems, and this is just sap green but we don't want a diluted sap green color, so you want it to be a little thick and you can grab your tissue paper to blot out the excess moisture, just like what I did here. I'm going to add the stems now. We don't want a really wet brush because we don't want to add any more water to the parts that we painted. If you painted the stems with really watery sap green, then it will end up mixing with the blue color that we painted. We want the stems to be quite sharp and defined. Of course, we can go back in to add some more buds. In this area, we are going to add clusters of small flowers. I'm using the same cerulean blue color. You will see that I'm changing the pressure in my stroke. Sometimes I'm trying to wiggle my brush to create a different shape, sometimes am just stamping the brush. You can also use just the tip of the brush or the whole body, so try to change it up a bit. Now let's add some stems, but my brush is a bit wet so I'm going to blot it out, and then we're going to add some more stems. We can go back in and add some stems sticking out just to fix the entire shape of this filler. Now let's add some leaves. I'm going to grab some sap green again and that's my ultimate color for leaves. Just paint leaves in between the flowers. You can also change the value by rinsing your brush, dipping it in the water jar and tapping out the excess paint. Then we can add some stems sticking out. The strategy here is to add either fillers or leaves in between the main flowers. Now let's add some more buds. I'm going to be using permanent yellow light. I just wanted to brighten up this painting. After painting these yellow fillers, we can add some stems. I'm using the sap green. Then we can add some stems sticky out again, and also some small leaves. Just feel free to do it your own way. [MUSIC] We're more than halfway done, lets now go to part 2 of this project. 24. Orange and Blue Florals Part 2 : [MUSIC] Let's start painting again and move on to part 2 of this project. I have here some cerulean blue, it's just diluted cerulean blue. We're going to add some more fillers. We're going to add some small blue bands. Now let's grab another color. This is ultramarine blue and it's just a diluted color. I'm going to add some small dots. Just use the tip of the brush and stipple your brush onto the paper. Now let's add some stems, and I am just using sap green and indigo, so we want a dark color and you want it to be quite pigmented as well. Let's now grab some greenish yellow, we're going to paint some green berries. Berries are also a good type of filler that you can add to your painting because you can change the colors. Adding berries is a good way to add fillers to your paintings because you can easily change the colors and this is also a way for you to add some contrast to your painting. Right here we can actually use a dark blue color, but adding some greenish yellow berries will make the painting look happier. I guess it depends on the mood that you want your florals to have. Now we're at the bottom and adding some leaves and stem sticking out. You can see that I'm just swaying my brush and just creating some expressive strokes with diluted ultramarine blue color, we're going to add some more fillers, we're going to stipple my brush and just add some small dots that will look like small flowers. Let's blot out the excess water in our brush and grab some green color. We want to add some stamps right now and we want the stems to be a little dry because we want really defined edges. What I'm doing here is I'm adding fillers that are quite loose and watery, but the stems are quite dry and more defined. In that way you can add some texture to our painting because some are more structured, some are looser. Now I'm going to add some leaves that will define the edges of this rose. You do want to use a dark green leaf. I just mixed sap green and indigo here. When you're also painting some stem sticking out makes sure that you're adding it in different lengths. Some are shorter, some are longer. As I'm looking at the painting, I don't have a yellow filler on the lower leaf, so I want to balance it. I'm going to add some small yellow buds. We have one more white gap over here, we're just going to paint a light-colored leaf. We want it to be lighter than the one on the left. Using a dark green color, we're going to add some elongated leaves. What I'm doing here is I'm adding different textures of leaves, different shapes. That's something that you can apply to your own painting. Let's grab some cerulean blue. This is a little bit more pigmented than the others, so we're going to stipple our brush and just add some small dots, and just add some stems to connect it to the mean bouquet. [MUSIC] Let's grab some sap green, I'm going to just give more definition to some of the stems that have faded. If you want to extend a certain part of the bouquet just add some leaves and just adjust the height of the leaves. For example right here I just want to stretch out this part. Then you can see here that we have an ugly patch. You're going to cover up that mistake by painting some stamps on top of it and also some small leaves, that's how you fix a small mistake. Let's start to layer some of the fillers. I'm just going to use some cerulean blue and paint on top of the first layer, make sure that it's already dry before you add a second layer, I'm just going to dab my brush, doing this will give more depth to your painting. It will look like some of the fillers are in the foreground, some are in the background. Then with some sap green you can go back in and add some stems [MUSIC] so that you can separate some of the strokes that you did. [MUSIC] Now is the time to step back again and take a photo of your painting and look at your painting on your phone so that you can get a different perspective and check if there are areas where you might need to add some more leaves or fillers. Don't feel the pressure to copy all the fillers or all the leaves that I painted here. It will ultimately be depending on how you want to style your own painting. I just really want you to have fun. Of course, these projects are just a guide for you so that you can learn to practice. We can start layering some areas just to give it more depth. Now we're going to start layering and I'm going to mix permanent yellow orange and add some burnt sienna just to give it some brown color. You want this to be more pigmented because we're adding the second layer, just going to paint on top of the first layer that we did. Now we have a small puddle over there because there's too much water in our brush. We can blot it out with just tissue paper. Now let's start painting again. Let me use my size 6 round brush for this part. Then let's get some clean water. I'm just going to rinse my brush. Now we're going to fade away some of the strokes to give it a softer look. You can see that there's still color in my brush, but I'm not going to cover the entire first layer, so we want to still see the first layer. Now let's go through this angled rose. I'm going to start at the center again and just paint some more strokes. Let's paint part of the flap. Then when I rinse my brush and just fade this part away. [MUSIC] Then let's go to the third rose. But this time we're going to rotate the paper again because we want to get the right angle. Then we're going to add some more layers to give this more definition. We just made a mistake over there. We're just going to grab my brush, I'm going to fade it away. This is just a clean brush. Now I'm going to just add some more layers. We want a really translucent color in our brush. Now I'm going to add a little bit of burnt umber to my yellow orange mixture. I'm just going to add some more contrast in the center of the roses. If you do this while the roses are still wet, then it will just lead out into the other petals and it will look nice. But if you are going to do this on a dry rose then you might need to fade away the outer stroke so that you don't get those harsh edge lines. [MUSIC] Now we are done. You can see that these roses look like they're sitting on a bed of fillers, is just so pretty. I hope you enjoyed painting this with me. See you in the next video. 25. Blue Floral Part 1: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to paint a blue floral number as usual. I'm going to show you an overview of the project before we start. We're going to paint a Number 9, and we're going to start with two main flowers. These are cited roses. I'm now painting the second one. I just flip the paper so that it's easier for me to paint. Then we're going to start with painting the loop of the Number 9. You can see that I'm painting some buds and some five petaled flowers. I'm adding some berries and more five petaled flowers until I complete the entire loop. Let's move on to the other side of the Number 9, just adding some more leaves. Of course we're going to add some layering just to give this more depth. I'm also adding some tender to the five petaled flowers just to make it look deeper. Lastly, we are going to look at it from afar and just add some finishing touches, some leaves, and just some stem sticking out. We're going to fill in those small gaps and that's it. Let's now start painting. This is a very special project. When my son turned nine months old, I painted this floral number. He's a baby boy, so I painted it in blue as opposed to my usual pink colors. Before we start, we need to draw the numbers so that we have a guide. I just use a regular pencil and then we're going to draw some circles for the main flowers. This is a project that you can customize. You can use any number that you want. Let's prepare some colors. I'm going to be mixing up some Prussian blue on my palette and you can use any blue color in your palate. That's okay. Now I'm going to grab a little bit of indigo because I might be using it later. It's just more convenient to have the colors in my palette. For this mixture, we want a really concentrated color. Let's try to swatch the color first. It's always handy to have a swatch card or just a scrap paper using my size six round brush. Then you're going to paint the center of this rose. I'm going to paint some small lines all around it. You'll notice that I'm holding the brush near the bristles because I'm painting some details and I want more control over my brush. I'm going to grab some water. I'm using my size eight round brush and we are going to fade away those outer petals. I didn't really add any color in my brush. I'm just using whatever color there is on this paper. I'm moving it around, painting some light strokes. I'm also making sure to leave some white spaces. Then if you feel like there's not enough color in your brush, just grab some more on your palette. Now let's paint some broad strokes. You can see that I'm holding the brush in the middle so that I can have more expressive stroke. This is going to be a side grows. It means that I will have more petals towards the bottom part. Just try not to overthink when you're painting roses, you can definitely go back in to fix the shape and add some more petals to fix it. Now we can grab some indigo and add it in the center just to give it more depth. This rose is still wet so the indigo will bleed out and it will look really pretty. Let's go to the second rose and what I'm going to do is I'm going to flip the paper just like so. Because it will be easier for me to paint this angled rose this way. I suggest that you also try to do this when you're painting roses that are upside down. Let me just fix this rose while it's still wet. My brush is damp, but it's not too wet. I'm not really adding any more water on this rose. I'm just moving the colors. I start painting the second rose. I'm using Prussian blue. I'm going to start again with the center and add some thin strokes all around it. We can also add a little bit of ultramarine blue just to make the color a bit more vibrant. Now let's rinse our brush and just fade away those petals. I'm going to paint some medium-size petals. I'm using my size six round brush and I'm going to paint some strokes. You can see that some strokes are just tiny and some are a bit bigger. You can vary the strokes so that it looks better. Let's build up some of the petals. I usually start with some small strokes and then I just keep adding until it becomes bigger so that I can control the shape. I'm not so worried about adding white spaces at this point because I know that I'm going to add a second layer. I can definitely fix that and I'm going to show you that later. Let's grab some diluted indigo. I'm going to paint a five petaled flower, but instead of five petals, we're going to do just three. Just so that it looks like the other two petals are hiding behind the rose. Again, you can drop in some more color in the center. You can use indigo or Prussian blue. I did that while the base petals were still wet because we want them to blend together. I'm going to grab some sap green and we're going to add some leaves while this flower is still wet. We want some parts of this to blend together so that it looks nice and doesn't look too stiff. Then we can add some stems sticking out so that later on you can add some fillers or maybe some more leaves. Now we're going to add one more rose over here, and we're going to grab some ultramarine and add it to our Prussian blue. You can definitely use a different blue color if you want. Now you're going to paint a rose bud. I'm going to paint the center first and just paint some more strokes all around it until I achieve an oval shape. Just like that. Then I'm going to rinse my brush and just paint that flap so that I can create the body of this rosebud. I'm adding some more strokes because I want it to look like a cup or like a U-shape then we're going to close off the top portion. We're done with the rosebud. I'm going to grab some indigo and just add it to the ultramarine blue. We're going to paint some more five petaled flowers. The trick here is to vary the colors, that's Number 1. Number 2 is to vary the shapes. Then Number 3 would be to vary the values. It means that some are darker, some are a bit lighter, and that will make your painting look interesting. I'm assuming that you're going to paint a different number that is more special to you. When you're going to paint your own number, just try to vary the flowers that you're going to add and also vary the shapes, sizes. Now I'm just adding some more leaves and some stem sticking out. It's also nice when you try to add some bleeds into your florals just like this. We're now going to add some fillers. What we need to do is to add some thin stems. Just like this. It's like a cluster of many flowers. I'm going to grab some ultramarine blue and add a little bit of violet because I want this to be like a bluish violet flower. I'm just going to lightly dab my brush, just using the tip of the brush to create some tiny marks. Try to vary the values, again, some are darker, some are lighter. [MUSIC] Now let's add three small flowers, just like in this painting. The colors that we will use are ultramarine blue and Prussian blue. I'm just going to mix these two colors. You can use a different color again and you're going to paint three small, five petaled flowers. It doesn't have to look perfect. We're going to add the center and later on. Just as a guide, when you're adding a cluster of small flowers, you can go by odd numbers. For example I'm painting three flowers here. Doesn't always work that way. Sometimes just two flowers will be okay. It actually really just depends on what you're painting and just remember to follow your gut. When you practice some more, it will be easier to know how many flowers to add. I'm going to grab some sap green and add it in the center of the flowers. I'm just going to add some more stems. I'm using sap green, you can also add a little bit of leaves here and there. Just try to fill in those small white gaps. Now I'm going to grab some greenish yellow and we're going to add some berries and this is a great way to add some color to your painting. Use the fillers to your advantage. If you need to add a pop of color, you don't need to paint an entire flower. Just add some fillers and that will be good enough. You can also add a deeper shade. You can add some indigo to your greens. You can get some darker berries, then just add some more leaves. Now we're done with Part 1. Let's now go to Part 2 of this project. 26. Blue Floral Part 2: [MUSIC] Let's finish this project. We are now in Part 2, and I have here just sap green and indigo. We are going to paint leaves in-between these two main flowers. You want these leaves to be quite dark because we want the flowers to stand out. Then let's rinse our brush, and we are going to paint another five petal flower over here. I'm going to be using ultramarine blue. Then let's fill in this gap. We're going to add some more leaves. Just going to close this loop. You can see this white space over here. We're going to paint some stem sticking out because we're going to paint some fillers. Now let's grab some cerulean blue, and you want to dilute this in a lot of water. We want a really light color. I'm going to randomly dab my brush to create some strokes that will look like small flowers. You can also add different shades of blue. You can add a little bit of ultramarine blue, or you can even add a little bit of green. This will give it more depth. Now let's grab some sap green. I'm going to add some stems. We're just going to connect those small flowers so that they won't look like they are floating. Let's fill in some of the white gaps with some leaves. It's nice to have different mixtures of greens in your palette so that it's just more convenient to just pick up a color and paint some leaves. Now let's paint some leaves over here, and they also use sap green and indigo to get a dark green color. Then you can see this white gap over here. I'm just going to scribble some lines that will look like stems just to fill in this small gap. Let's then move on to the bottom part of this number. I'm going to paint more leaves. You can see that we are working on one area at a time. We want to really vary the strokes that we're doing here, and you can make it more expressive by bending those leaves. I want a touch of blue right here, and we're going to just paint some small five petal flowers. This is just a mix of ultramarine blue and permanent violet. You can see that I'm almost just stamping my brush so that I can get a stroke that will look like a petal. Then let's fill it in with some more leaves and stem sticking out. At this point, you don't really need to add all the details yet. We do want just major shape of this number, that's why I'm usually just adding some stems first, and then later on, I will decide if I will add some berries, some small flower fillers, or some leaves. [MUSIC] Now let's add some layers. I'm going to grab some Prussian blue, and we want it to be very pigmented. Then let's paint the center first. But the brush is too wet, so I'm just going to dab the excess paint in a tissue paper. Then let's try to paint. If the brush doesn't feel right., try to fix it right away because it will affect the way you paint. I just rinse my brush and going to fade away those outer strokes. I'm just going to move around and paint some bigger petals. I will make sure that I have some spaces in between the petals. [MUSIC] Now let's flip our papers, so we can add some details on the second rose. We want a dark center again and then going to paint some thin sea strokes all around it, and then let's rinse our brush and just fade away those outer strokes and going to paint some more petals. You can see that the second layer is translucent. I made a mistake here and painted a really dark stroke. I'm going to rinse my brush and just paint on top of it again. I just tried to lift some of the color, and now it looks a lot better. Let's flip our paper again, and I am going to grab some indigo. We're going to add some details on the five petaled flowers, so I'm just going to add some small dots in the center. You can instantly see the effect and how it gives this flower more depth. [MUSIC] Let's add a second layer to this row spot. We're going to start with the center, but there's a puddle there. It means there's too much paint in my brush. I'm just going to damp it in a tissue paper. Then we're going to scribble some small sea strokes right here, and finally we're going to paint this flap. I just rinse my brush to just fade away some of the strokes. Let's add some more details in the five petal flowers. I have my clean brush, and I'm going to extend that center. I just drag the color from the center going outward. This technique will help you separate those petals. Just make sure that your brush is damp, but not too wet. We don't want to introduce any more water to this flower. We're now down to some finishing touches. We're going to cover up some mistakes. Right here you can see a patch, and I'm going to add some leaves on top of it. You want this green leaves to be a little dark so that we can cover the patchy area underneath. [MUSIC] Now we're going to add some leaves and more stem sticking out. When I'm adding leaves, I usually look for spaces in-between flowers. That's how I start adding leaves. Also try to make sure that the leaves are a bit curved and not straight so that it will look more natural. I have given this advice before. What you can do is to take a photo of your painting right now, and then look at it from your phone so that you can get a different perspective. Because if you have been looking at it for a while, you won't really see those small gaps, and that's because your eyes have gotten used to looking at this painting. I just added a few more layered leaves, and adding a second layer of leaves will give your painting more depth, it will look more lush. It just gives the painting more volume. Right now, I'm just adding some small blue buds all around this painting. That's a great way to add a pop of color in some areas. You can do a dark blue bud so that you can give more contrast in some areas. [MUSIC] We're almost done and just adding a few more leaves to fix the shape of this number. Sometimes just adding a few leaves makes a big difference in the entire painting. When you are doing your own floral number, I suggest that you start with the main flowers first, and then from there on, you can add a few more smaller flowers and leaves and also fillers. That's it. We are done. Congratulations for finishing this project. [MUSIC] 27. Pink Rose Bouquet Part 1 : [MUSIC] Let's paint a pink floral arrangement. I'm showing you the process video first. Before we start, we're going to paint the main rose which is a front-facing rose. Then I'm going to add an angled rose like this. Then we're going to add two rose buds. One that is more pigmented and one that is lighter. We're going to start with the main flowers first, and then we're going to add some leaves. I did a smaller rose bud. We're also going to add some leaves that are not green in color. I added a little bit of pink to the green. You'll see later on how it just gives a beautiful effect in this arrangement. Then we'll add some fillers. We're also going to layer some of the leaves. For the roses we are going to add a second layer to give it more depth and lastly we're going to step back and check if we need to add some more finishing touches. Let's start. The first part of this project is all about painting the flowers first. I have here this seven by 10 inches paper. I just drew some circles that will serve as a guide for me as to where I'm going to paint the main flowers. Then I'm using a size six round brush and I'm going to grab some permanent rose. We want it to be really pigmented because you're going to paint the center of the rose. I started with a comma stroke and then I'm adding some small details, some small C strokes. We're doing just really quick short strokes. Then with a size eight round brush, I'm going to fade away the outer strokes just to create a softer look. Let's pull some of that color out and I'm going to use that as well to paint some medium-size petals. We can grab a little bit more paint, then start adding some more petals. Just make sure that you're also leaving some white spaces. Now we're moving on to the larger petals. I'm just going to extend some parts. I'm going to pull away some of that color from the center going outwards. This is just to blend everything better. Let's move on to the other rose. This is a rose that is facing a little bit sideways, but you can still see the centers. We're going to build the center and create an oval shape. Now I'm just adding some more thin strokes all around the comma stroke that I painted. Then with a size eight round brush, this just has clean water I'm going to fade away the outer strokes. Just move your brush all around and then continuously add some petals. We can also try to fix the shape a little bit. Then I'm just going to grab a little bit more color. It's just permanent rose and then I'm going to just slowly build the bigger petals. Right now it looks a little odd, but we can go back in to fix the shape so I'm going to add some more strokes on the left side. We're going to close up this rose. If you have seen what I did there I actually just painted some lines. That will represent a petal. Since this is a rose at an angle, you will see that the bottom part right here is a bit taller compared to the top part, because we can see more of the bottom part. Let's make this more challenging. I usually paint the flowers beside each other. But this time we're going to extend it and add a space just so we can try and see how we can fill up that gap. Let's see what to add. We will add some leaves or some fillers or whatever that needs to be done so that this will be a nice painting. I'm using a size six round brush. I'm going to paint a rose bud. I have here a very pigmented mixture. I've decided to use a really, really thick mixture and you can see it right here. It's almost opaque because I want just more contrast in this painting. Then later on we're going to add arrows, but that is lighter in color and just more transparent. When you're painting a floral arrangement, try to think of ways how you can change things up just to make it look more interesting. Also that's the way that you can learn. You need to get out of your comfort zone. Now let's add one more flower. I want it to be lighter. I'm still using my favorite color, it's permanent rose, but we want to add more water so that we can dilute that color. As usual we're going to start with a comma stroke and add some thin lines all around it. Let's paint this until we can get that oval shape. Then let's paint the body. I'm just going to press my brush until I create a nice shape that will look like a rose bud. Just go back and forth until I am satisfied with the way it looks. You're actually halfway done because you've already painted the main flowers. Then now let's move on to Part 2 of this video where we will paint some leaves, fillers and other finishing touches. Let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 28. Pink Rose Bouquet Part 2 : [MUSIC] I hope that you have taken a short break, let's now finish this project. I'm going to start by painting some leaves. This is sap green and indigo. What we want is to add some green leaves in-between the main flowers. I started with a really dark color and I'm using my Size 6 round brush as I paint this, and then we're going to switch up to a Size 8. This is a sap green color. I just decided to add a lighter color. You want to change the values. You can see that the first leaf that I painted was dark, then I added a lighter color. We're going to add some leaves in-between the main flowers. First, I'm going to add some more over here. I started with a dark color and then I just rinsed my brush so that I can paint a lighter one, then you can add one more. If you want a safe number of leaves I would say that you can paint three leaves, just like what I did in the upper right part of this painting. Now let's move on to this spot. [MUSIC] I've decided to add a small rose bud, so we're going to paint just some tiny strokes using a very pigmented color. With a clean brush, I'm just going to drag that color and this will give a beautiful soft effect, then we can add a stem. I'm going to fix some areas. After it, I'm going to show you a really cool technique and we're going to add this pink color to any green color that you have on your palette and this will give you a really nice reddish green color. It's almost like a muted color. You can add a little bit more pink if you want it to be a bit more prominent. That's a tip for you. You can use the color of the main flowers and add it to the greens. For example here, we use permanent rose for the main flowers and we added it to our green color so that we can get that beautiful effect. Right now I'm going to put a shape to this rose. You want this rose to stand out that's why we're adding some dark green leaves all around it to give it more definition. We can also play around and paint a lighter green color. I just actually rinsed my brush and then proceeded with painting this leaf and you can change it up again, add another dark colored leaf, and make sure that you are creating some ruffles along the edges of this rose so that it looks even more natural. Now let's add some fillers. I'm going to grab some greenish yellow and I'm going to dab my brush and create some different shapes that will look like small leaves or maybe even small flowers and we'll add some stems. All of this will always connect to the main flowers. To add more contrast to this light colored flower, I'm going to paint another bud over here, and you want it to be quite opaque, so I'm using permanent rose, and you can see that it's a really thick mixture. What you can do is you can just scribble some lines at the top of this rose bud and then paint the body with a broad stroke. Now we can add some leaves. I just added some pink to this green color and it's a nice touch to this painting. Now we can grab some sepia and add it to our sap green. We're going to paint some dark colored leaves. Adding sepia to your sap green color will give you a deep earthy green color. Just let your brush dance and paint the leaves in different directions, change the pressure, just have fun. [MUSIC] Let's make a really diluted indigo. We're going to paint some fillers over here just to complement the pink colors. I'm just going to dab my brush to create these small strokes and you're almost like stippling your brush onto the paper and I'm just barely touching the paper. You can also add a little bit of cerulean blue if you want it to be a little brighter. Then let's just grab any green color that you have on your palette and add some stems. We don't want to load our brush with a lot of paint. Otherwise, it will just spread all over the place. Let's check if the leaves are already dry, and if it is, then you can add a second layer. You will see how it immediately gives a beautiful lush effect to this part and we have managed to cover up this big gap using just leaves. You can also add some pinkish green leaves, just like what I'm painting here. I'm looking at it from afar and this part looks flat and you want to extend that part. This is one way to change the shape of the entire floral arrangement. You can add some stem sticking out, make it a little bit longer and then attach some leaves, and make sure that the leaves are facing in different directions so that it doesn't look too stiff. You'll see that there's a really big improvement because we added those leaves at the bottom. It's now time to add some second layer to the roses. I have here just permanent rose and just a very pigmented mixture. I'm using Size 6 and I'm painting just on top of that first layer. I'm not really painting so many strokes because I don't want it to look too overwhelming. Then now we're going to fade away the strokes so that it will look softer. Towards the bottom part of this rose we don't want to add so many strokes because we want it to look like it's one big petal. Let's move on to the front-facing rose. I'm going to add some permanent rose again and add some thin strokes all around the center, and with a clean brush we're going to fade it away. Don't forget to leave spaces in-between your strokes. [MUSIC] Let's grab some greenish yellow and paint a second layer on this filler. I'm just dabbing my brush and then let's paint some smaller leaves. Try to stop and look at your painting, again, from afar and observe where you can add some more fillers to make everything look more balanced. As you practice more and more, you will be able to eventually develop your own style and you'll be more comfortable adding leaves and fillers to your floral painting. It will become very natural. This rose needs a little bit more layering, but I don't want it to be too dark so I'm going to adjust the color in my brush and then we're going to paint that small flap over there and I'm going to fade it away. Let's mix our pink and green color again and add it one more over here. I'm just going to fix the shape. It's a little too dark, so I'm going to grab my clean brush and going to absorb all the excess paint. Now let's add some stems sticking out right beside that leaf. You're almost done. I'm just going to add some finishing touches. I'm going to add some layers of leaves. Adding these layers will give your painting more depth and just looks a lot better. It doesn't look flat at all. Then we can go back in and fix the shape of the rose by adding some green strokes. I'm going to put a shape to this rose by extending this green paint and you'll see that we have more ruffles along the edges of this rose. Because we have this bluish filler on the upper right, I'm just going to balance it out and add another set on the lower left, just so that it looks diagonal. Now we are done with this painting. I hope that you also enjoyed painting this project with me. Congratulations for finishing this project. See you in the next one. [MUSIC] 29. More Tips and Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Now that you are done with this class, I'd like to give some tips and advice on how you can move forward after learning all the techniques in this class. Let's do a comparison photo. I want you to grab a photo of a rose painting that you did when you were just starting out, or a painting that you did before you took this class. Then I want you to put it side-by-side with a recent painting that you created after learning the techniques from this class. After putting them side-by-side, just look at how much you have improved. It might not be much from your perspective, but just try to observe how much more confident your brushstrokes are now compared to before. That's definitely a big improvement that you should be proud of. Another is to advice is to practice. Every time you practice, you're one step closer to your goal. Try to practice about 5-10 minutes every day, even if it's just a small doodle, it doesn't have to be an elaborate painting. This will just help you become more disciplined and also you will be able to develop the muscle memory in your hand. Another tip is to start using a sketchbook so that you can monitor your progress. I'm sharing two sketch books that I love. The first one is called the etchr lab sketchbook. It's a 100% cotton paper sketchbook. I love this sketchbook because it can hold a lot of water, and you can do so many techniques because the paper is 100% cotton paper is our discrete, I guess the only downside would be, it might be a little expensive for some people, but for me it's really worth it to try out the sketchbook. Another sketchbook that I can recommend is the khadi journal. It's a recycled cotton rags paper and the texture is a bit rough, but it gives this rustic look to your painting, which I really love. The thing about it is that it's affordable, and you get a lot of pages in a sketch book that you can paint on. It's a good sketch book for daily doodles and you won't feel guilty because it's not that expensive. The only downside that I can think of is that you can't do all the watercolor techniques on this paper. It has its limitations. But for watercolor florals, it's definitely really good, and I highly recommend this sketch book. I will be putting all the details in the projects and resources section. I hope that you enjoyed this class because I really enjoy teaching all the nitty-gritty details about rose watercolor florals. I hope that you can try out all their projects because you can learn so much from each project and you'll learn different techniques. If you are able to create a project, please do post it in the project gallery of this class so that we can all see your artwork. If you're going to post it on Instagram, please use the hashtag, so that I can see it. That's it. Thank you so much again for taking this class, I will see you in the next one. Bye. [MUSIC] 30. Bonus Video Valentines Day Project 1: [MUSIC] In this bonus video, we are going to paint a Valentine's theme painting. We're going to create this heart shape with some roses on it. It's going to be a simple and easy to make project, so let's get started. [MUSIC] To start, we need to draw a heart shape. I only use a regular pencil, and make sure that you use sketch lightly. Now let's grab some clean water, and you are going to spread it all over the heart shape. You can use any brush to do this. Let me just tilt my paper so you can see the sheen on the paper. In this project, we're going to do the base using wet-on-wet technique, so it means that we are going to wet the paper, and then I'm going to drop in some paint later on. Now let's just finish filling in this heart with some clean water. Now we are done. You can see the sheen on the heart shape. Now let's drop in some paint. I'm going to mix Permanent Rose and burnt sienna so that I can achieve that peachy pink color. But I don't want it to be too bright, that's why I used burnt sienna. You want it to look a little bit muted, just not too bright. Let's now start adding the color. We're not going to be so strict about this part. I actually wanted it to look imperfect, so I do want some blooms, I want some patches, just so that it will look a little bit more rustic, and then you can try to mix up some more paint. Just the same Permanent Rose and burnt sienna. You can mix more pigmented color, and add it to some areas in this heart shape. If it looks a little messy, that's okay. We do want it to look more rustic, and you can just try to drop in paints all over the heart, just like what I'm doing now, and it's just fun to experiment and see what will happen with this dries up. I'm not going to add a lot of color over here because we are going to paint some roses. If you want to add some more splatters, you can just grab some water, and then just splash it on this painting. You can see that there are droplets on the heart shape that will give it a cool effect later on. This is already dry. You can see that it dried up a little bit lighter. We don't want a heavy-colored base because we're going to add some details later on. You can see some imperfections on the heart, but that will look good together with the roses that we aren't going to paint. Let's now mix the colors that we need. We're going to use Permanent Rose, and we can add just a little bit of burnt sienna just to tone it down. Let's start with the first rules, which is top facing. We're going to start with the center, and then we're going to paint some thin lines all around it. As you go further away from the center, the petals become a little bit bigger. Now let's rinse our brush and fill away some of the strokes. I'm also painting some bakers ice petals. Now, let's just grab a little bit of Permanent Rose. Just add some more pink to this rose. This is a small piece of painting, so I'm just using my size six round brush. Right now we are painting some more C-shape strokes. Don't forget to leave some white spaces in-between your strokes. While this rose is still wet, let's just grab our Permanent Rose, and drop it in the center. You can see that it's bleeding, and I did add a more pigmented color so that we can create some more contrast. Now let's move on to the second rose. This is going to be a rose that is facing on its side. I'm using Permanent Rose, and you can see that I'm trying to form an oval shape. Let's rinse our brush, and just fade away some of the strokes so that we can make it look softer. Now we're adding some strokes to create the body, and it looks like a cup. You can see the U-shape at the bottom. With a clean brush, let me just fade away this part so that it will look softer. While we are waiting for the flowers to dry, let's move on to painting some leaves. This is just sap green and sepia. You can see that I'm adding it in-between the roses, and it's also bleeding into the pink color because the roses are still wet. You can also rinse your brush so that you can create some lighter green color. Now I'm going to move on to the bottom part. We're going to add some leaves around this rose, and we can also add some stems sticking out. Hold your brush towards the end of the handle so that you can create some nice expressive leaves, and just let go of your hand, and just follow the flow of the brushstrokes. Right here I'm adding an outline to this rose so that you can see where the petals will end. Usually add some dark colored leaves on light colored flowers, just to make it pop up even more. Now, let's just add some more leaves. I'm going to extend that part, and you can vary the colors in your brush. You can add the more pigmented green, or you can rinse your brush to create a lighter green color. Then at the bottom, are going to add some eucalyptus, so just paint some oval shapes and put a stem that is going to connect all of these oval shapes. Now, let's grab some indigo and mix it with our sap green. You can use that to create some more eucalyptus. We are painting beyond the heart shape as you can see here, and that will make it look more organic. Now let's add some soft buds, and I'm using yellow ocher. Just dilute it in a lot of water so that you can get that nice, soft and muted yellow color. After painting the buds, you can attach some stems onto it, and just let those two colors bleed into each other. Just to add some more contrast, we are going to add some buds using Permanent Rose, and you can see that I'm using a more pigmented color. We're done with the buds, and now let's just keep adding some more leaves to make this look fuller. You can also play around with the color of the leaves. You can add the color of the flower onto your greens, and you can see right here that it has a pinkish-green color, and that will make it look really interesting. Now let's move on to adding a second layer to our roses. For the color of the second layer, we are going to mix Permanent Rose and Hooker's Green. We want a deeper shade of Permanent Rose, that's why I added some green. Then now we're going to layer this rose, make sure that the rose is already dry before you add a second layer. Right here I'm almost just following the strokes underneath, and then we're going to grab our brush, and just fade away the outer strokes. Using the same brush, I'm just going to paint some more bigger size petals all around it, you just make sure that you are going to leave spaces in-between your strokes. Now, let's move on to the other rose. I'm just using the same color, and we are going to paint some strokes, and another flap over here. This will give the illusion that it's a rose that is about to bloom. Now I'm just feeding away that stroke to make it look softer. You can also add some more color on the edges, for the outline of this rose. It's looking really good, and it's now time to add some more details. I am just using my brush with some sap green and sepia color. What I'm doing is I'm just extending some areas, adding some leaves here and there. I'm also adding some stems sticking out. You can see that I'm creating these thin lines that are wavy. Again, we want to extend the leaves so that it looks more organic. Try to also vary the shape of the leaves so that it will look more interesting. This already looks good, and you can stop right here if you want to. But if you want to add some extra details, well, just keep on watching. I'm using here my POSCA acrylic pen. You can also use a different white pen. I also use Uni-ball Signo pen. You can also use whitewash, or if you have poster paint that will also work out. Right here, I am just adding some small fillers. You can just put some small dots and add a stem to it, and that will look like a filler. In some areas, you can add some white veins on the leaves. You can also add some white berries. Just play around and add details all over this painting. You can see that it looks fuller when we add some white details. I feel like it also gives a different dimension to your painting. That's why I like adding these white details, whether it's using a white pen, or a white Gouache. In this part, just feel free to add as much details as you want. You can also write something in the center of this heart shape. That's why we made it really light, so that they can write something in the middle. [MUSIC] We are done. I'm pretty sure that the person who will receive this gift from you, will appreciate your effort. See you in my next class. Bye. [MUSIC] 31. Bonus Video Valentines Day Project 2: Hello everyone, welcome to another bonus video. Today we are going to paint a different version of a Valentine's Day theme painting. Let's start. The first thing that we need to do is we need to draw a heart shape using a pencil. You can use any regular pencil. This will be our outline and our guide as well, so that we can get that nice heart shape. If you have masking fluid, you can put masking fluid on the outline of the heart so that you can get a clean edge. But for today's project, we are not going to use masking fluid because not everyone has masking fluid at home, and I want this project to be something that's easy to do. Let's paint our first rose. I'm going to use permanent rose. We're just going to apply what we learned in class. Right now I painted the center with a bold color, and then we'll try to fade away the outer strokes, using a clean brush. I'm just using a size 6 brush. Just try to create a bigger petals all around. You can see that I'm missing more water in my brush so that I can get that nice light colored petals. You can see that I am trying not to paint beyond the outline, so just carefully avoid painting over the pencil outline so that we can get a nice heart shape. Now, let's grab some sap green, and I'm just going to add some leaves beside this rose. We want to add this while rose is still wet so that the two colors can bleed into each other and it will look very soft and very beautiful. Again, just be careful when you're painting the floral elements on this project. You don't want to paint beyond the line. If you're using masking fluid, then you won't have any problem with that because you can paint on top of the masking fluid. Now, I'm using yellow ocher, a very diluted color. I'm just going to paint three petals right here. Then while the base flower is still wet, just grab a more pigmented yellow ocher and drop it in the center of this flower. Now, let's grab sap green and indigo. Just mix those two colors. Then I'm going to paint it beside this yellow flower and also near the outline so that we can start shaping this heart. Now, let's move on to another rose. This is a mixture of permanent rose and burnt sienna. I'm adding a little bit of brown color to my pink just to tone it down. You can see that we already painted the thin C strokes around the center. We can now move on to some bigger petals. Then you can also rinse your brush so that you can get a lighter color. This is the tricky part right here. You don't really need to paint C strokes in this area. You can just dab your brush so that you can fill in that area and just define that line. Let's make some eucalyptus. I'm using sap green and sepia. We can paint some oval shapes just like what I'm doing and just attach them with a stem. Try to vary the color. Some are darker, some are lighter. You can also add some small stamps like this so that you can define the outline of the heart. Now, let's add some more flowers. I'm using yellow ocher. Right here. I'm just going to paint three petals. While this flower is still wet, just grab some more yellow ocher and drop it in the center so that you can create a contrast. Now, we can add some leaves beside it, and I'm adding the leaves while the flowers are still wet. At this point, you can use any green color that you have in your palette. You don't have to follow what I'm using. Right here, I'm using sap green and sepia. Then we can also add some leaves, just like what I'm adding here, again to define the outline of the heart. You can also try to add just water in your brush so that you can get a lighter value. Let's give that a white space and proceed to painting another rose. I'm using permanent rose again. Now, let's just rinse our brush and fade away the outer strokes. We want this to look softer, that's why I'm adding more water in my brush and just moving those petals. If you want a little bit of definition, you can add some more color in your brush and paint some more C-shapes strokes. Now, let's grab a more pigmented permanent rose and drop it in the center. This flower is still wet as I'm doing this, you can see that the paint is just bleeding from the center going outward. While this flower is still wet, I'm going to grab some green color and just paint it beside this flower. This green color has sepia so that we can get that earthy green color. Now, I'm going to add a few more leaves over here, just to give more definition to the tip of the heart. Now, let's go back to that rose with a clean brush. I'm just going to leave some of the colors because the colors look like it's spread too much. This is something that you can do to fix some of the flowers in case you have encountered the same problem. Right now I'm using yellow ocher again and adding a three petal flower, and then it will add a more pigmented yellow ocher in the center and just let it bleed into the petals. Now, let's grab permanent rose and paint one more flower over here just to seal this heart shape. What I did was that I just painted some tiny strokes in the center, and we're going to create a small bud that is about to bloom. Now, let's just rinse our brush. This is just clean water in my brush. Just paint a stroke over there. You can see that the color is moving towards where the water is. Now, we are going to form a letter U-shape. Now let's attach this rose to the heart shape. I'm just going to add just a tiny stem and then add some leaves. Now let's add some eucalyptus. What I'm doing is I'm using the same elements and I'm just adding it all over this painting. Now you can see the heart shape, but we're going to refine that some more later. Now I'm going to grab some lavender color and you're going to use this to add some fillers, just dab your brush onto the paper. Then in order to create movement, you can try to sway your brush a little bit as you paint these tiny fillers. It's also important to change the value. It means that some strokes will be lighter in color, some are darker. If you don't have lavender, just use any violet color that you have in your palette or if you have a soft blue color, just make sure that you add a lot of water so that you can make it really light. Then we can go back in to add some more leaves. Now let's add some leaves on the edges of this rose. Doing this makes this rose pop up even more. Now let's just add some more leaves in some areas and you can try layering the leaves. Just look out for any leaves that are already dry. Then you add the second layer and you can also add some stems sticking out just to make it look even more loose. Another approach to painting this project is to paint all the main flowers first and then add some fillers and some leaves. Just to give it more contrast, I'm going to add some darker colored leaves. This is just sap green and indigo. [MUSIC] I'm going to give more definition to this rose by adding a leaf. Well, this leaf is still wet you can go back and add a darker green color. You can see that it's beautifully bleeding into the base color. Using permanent rose, we're just going to add some more smaller flowers, some petals. These types of fillers are very useful if you want to infuse more color on your reece or on your floral bouquet. I'm just going to add it all around this painting and because this is a Valentine's Day theme painting, I wanted it to be a bit more on the pink side. That's why I decided to use permanent rose for this filler too. I guess it depends on the mood of your painting. If you want it to be a bit more on the vintage colors side, then of course you'll be using a different color for that. Just don't forget to add stems on those petals. If you're having a hard time where to add the small fillers, just take a photo first of your painting and look at it from afar so that you will see it from a different perspective. Now it's time to add the second layer. I'm using just permanent rose with a little bit of green just to get that maroon color and I'm just going to follow the first few strokes of the base painting. Then now you're going to eraser brush and fade away the other strokes. Using the color in my brush, I'm going to just paint some bigger sized C shaped petals. You can see that I'm still leaving spaces in-between my strokes. You can immediately see that it has more depth now and we can move on to a another rose. I'm trying to paint some fantasy strokes for the center and then now we're just going to fade away the outer petals. If you want to add more depth to this rose, you can wait for it to dry and add one more layer. But I think this already looks good because I want it to look soft as well since this is Valentine's Day theme painting. It's also easier to do a second layer if you're using 100 percent cotton paper, because the color spreads better on good paper. But of course, just try to work with whatever paper you have right now. For this rules, I'm just using a more pigmented mixture of permanent rose and burnt sienna. You can use any brown color that you have as well. Again, we're just trying to be more careful when we are near the outline of this heart. Now, let's grab a more pigmented yellow ocher color. You can also use raw umber. Now we're going to add a second layer. Just paint some nice wispy strokes from the center going outward. Adding a second layer really makes such a big difference. I do recommend that you try this out. [MUSIC] If some strokes look too sharp, then you can just get your clean brush and fade away some of the strokes to make it look softer. You can see right here there's just a small smudge. We can try to hide that by adding some more lavender petals. [MUSIC] You can see all throughout this outline, there are white gaps that needs to be filled. I'm just going to use any green color I have on my palette. You can see that I'm painting these tiny strokes just to give more definition to the outline. I don't want to paint more leaves or flowers, just paint some small strokes. We're almost done and right now just look at your painting and if there are whitespaces, you can fit it in with leaves. The rows on the lower left side of this painting needs a little bit more definition so we're just going to go back in and add some more petals. You can see right here that the strokes are a little bit too sharp. What we can do is we can rinse our brush so that there's just clean water in our brush. Then you can try to fade away one side. Then you can see that it will soften. You can see that the rose right here looks better and I hope that you enjoyed this painting. Don't forget to write a special message in the center of this painting. Thank you again for watching and I will see you in my next class. Bye. [MUSIC]