Vase of Tulips in Watercolors

1. Intro: Hello, and welcome. My name is Emily, and I'm an artist and instructor based in Madison, Wisconsin. In this class, we'll look at painting our flowers and stems using first, a wet on wet layer, and then a wet on dry layer. We'll also take a peek at how to paint glass using watercolors. You'll have access to a tracing template included in this tutorial, as well as some color reference photos and printout instructions that will teach this tutorial step by step. So grab your watercolor supplies, and let's get started. 2. Supplies: Alright, so we are going to start with this tutorial to paint this vase of tulips. You'll need your template printed on an eight by ten inch paper. You can either print it directly onto your watercolor paper. I'm using Arches cold pressed, 140 pound paper, or you can also trace it onto whatever watercolor paper you'll be using. You'll need your palette full of colors. We'll be using some nice reds, pinks, purples, and also, of course, a few different shades of green for the stems, and then a blue indigo color for our vase. And then you'll need some cups of water, a paper towel. And a few different sizes of brushes. My kind of go to brushes for painting finer details are going to be size four and size six round, black velvet limited brushes. But then I also have a quill brush. This is a larger capacity brush that I might use for some of my larger areas, including the vase and maybe the shadow of the vase, as well. You can also choose a smaller detail brush size zero or one for some of the stamen in the center of the flowers. Alright, let's get started. 3. First layer of flowers, Wet on Wet: Part 1: Alright, so I am going to start by making sure that I have a clean brush, and I'll be starting on one of my tulips. Now, I like to always start with a tulip that's not front and center. If I started with this tulip, your eye might be drawn here, and it might take me just a little bit to practice my tulips before I get good at them. So I'm going to start with a tulip in the background. I'll start with the smaller one. We're gonna start by wetting the whole area of our tulip. And as I'm wetting this tulip, I'm going to be thinking about what color I want this tulip to be. Now, you're more than welcome to choose the same colors as I'm using for this painting, or you can choose your own colors. I always like to tell students to have a few test strips handy so that they can test out some of their color combinations before they try them out on their final piece. Now, I am making sure that this whole section is nice and wet. I'm tilting my head to make sure that I see gloss that glossy shine, meaning that it's nice and wet over the whole tulip. And now I'm going to choose whichever color I'd like. I'm starting with quinocrato and magenta, so it's this really nice pinkish, reddish with a little purple hue. And now I'm taking a peek at my reference photo. I'm starting here up at the top of my tulip because I'm noticing that there's some white area of the tulip that doesn't have any sort of color. So it's kind of void of color at the base here. So I'm going to start at the top. And now, as I'm painting, I'm noticing that wherever I'm lifting my brush up, a little puddle of color is going to be left there. And so I'm thinking about this as I'm bringing the color down to the base of this flower. I actually don't want to bring it down and lift my brush up here because if I lift it up at the bottom, I'm going to get all that color settled at the bottom of my tulip, and I don't want it settled there. Now that I have this color nice and all over where I want it, I can do a few things as long as the paper's still wet. I can add take more color directly from my pan, and I can drop it in wherever I'm noticing that it's dark. So on these tips in the back and then maybe on the sides of this tulip and along the center fold, as well. Now, the second thing I can do if it's still wet is I can lift up any areas that got a little too dark. So I clean my brush, I dry it off. And now I'm just taking a look at my reference photo, and I'm noticing that there's a little highlight here on the tip of this pedal. So I'm going to lift up from there. And then I might also lift up from this pedal to the side. It seems like there's a light source coming from this right side. And so I want to kind of keep that nice and light. I might also try to lift up again from this base here if I got a little bit too too dark. And I'm noticing a little bit of a highlight on this tip, as well. Now, this is going to be more or less the steps that we're going to take to paint these tulips is we'll start with our wet on wet layer, and then we'll go back and we'll add our wet on dry after this first layer dries. Now, with our different tulip, we might want to start with a base color wet on wet instead of just water. And so I'll kind of show you what that would look like on this tulip right here. Now, I want to make sure that I'm not painting tulips that are immediately next door because this one needs to dry first. So I'm gonna skip and jump over to a different tulip here. And now, instead of, like I said, instead of painting with water first, I'm gonna mix my base layer of color. And then drop in some darker pigment. So when I mix this base layer of color, I do need to mix it with quite a bit of water because I don't want it to be all too dark. So let's see. What color would I like here? I think I want something a little bit more orangy. So I'm using a pyral scarlet. But I don't want to keep it just that color, so I'm gonna see what it would look like to add just a little bit of that quinocraton magenta. Just kind of tone down that orange a little bit. You know, I think I like that. We'll see how it looks on my paper. I can always take a scratch sheet of paper. Testing out, make sure it's not gonna be too dark. Now, remember I can always drop in more pigment once it's wet. So I'm really looking for this base layer to be a really nice light layer so that I can drop in more pigment. So I think I do like how that's looking. So now, like I said, instead of wetting the whole area first, we can just paint this whole section, all of my tulip petals using this light orange that we just mixed. Now, here, once again, my goal needs to be that this whole tulip stays wet long enough so that I can drop in some darker pigment and so that I can lift up any highlights. And so I want to make sure that I have enough liquid on my brush and on my paper. So if you notice, I can actually move this puddle around my paper. I do need it to be dark wet enough to do that. So I am going to go back to where I started. So I started over on this left side. I'm gonna go back and re wet that whole area. I just want to make sure I have a uniform wetness so that one section of my tulip doesn't dry faster than a different section. Now, I can take some pigment directly from my pan, and I'm going to take a pikas to where that darkest shadow of pigment is gonna go. So it looks like it's gonna be once again on this left side. Go try to add in a little bit of dark from here. I can also use this wet on wet layer to drop in any highlights with a different color as well. So say I wanted to see what it would look like to drop in some of this warm yellow, I can also take a little bit of this warm yellow and drop it in on top. Kind of help with that highlight there. Now, remember, same thing before it dries. I can clean my brush, dry it. And then I'm going to take a peek as to where some of these lighter highlights need to be. I can also use this dry brush to help with any of my shadows. If my shadows kind of got out of control or if the edges got a little too hard, I can also use this dry brush to help with those shadows. Alright, so we're gonna do this same step for this tulip here. And this one I'm deciding to wet with water first because same thing, I'm noticing that there's some white towards the base of this tulip. And so I want to try to keep that section white, meaning I'll use some clean water. 4. First layer of flowers, Wet on wet: Part 2: Alright, now for these two tulips here to the side, I do want to try to keep the softness of these two tulips. And so I'm gonna continue to use the wet on wet technique with just water first. I'll start. Now, at Nona, I'm noticing that these centers here are darker. They're not yellow, so I can actually go over the centers the stamen centers in the middle here because I can go over it with a darker color afterwards. So, I am going to I'll start with this light pink first. Now for this pink, I'm using an opera pink, but also mixing it with a little bit of that magenta. Once again, I'm going in on the edges first. And then along the bottom edge here, where these petals will wrap around the base, that's going to be where they're going to be darkest. A and now I can go in and I can add some more concentrated pigment directly from the pan here in certain sections where it's definitely a lot more intense of a pigment. So I'm noticing there's a lot more of this bright bubblegum pink in certain sections here, so I'll come on in with that pigment very concentrated on my paint brush. Remember that I can always lift some of this pigment. If it got too intense, I can always lift it. After I drop it in. And I'm going to clean my brush, wash it. And now for this stage, I'll lift any highlights or fix any of my shadows using a dry brush. So right here, I'm just trying to lift around the edges of these petals, especially along the bottom edge of these petals here, where I am noticing some highlights. And along this right side, I'm noticing some highlights there as well. You can also take your paper towel and lift some of those highlights as well. If you accidentally don't leave those highlights bright enough, that's okay, too. It's not gonna ruin your painting. It just will look a little bit nicer with more bright highlights there. Now, for this flower in the back, ideally you would wait to let this whole the two flowers on either side dry. And so I'm gonna let these two, particularly this pink one dry before I move on to this cream colored one. And so I'm gonna start looking at my my stems first. 5. First layer of Stems, Wet on wet: Part 1: Alright, so to paint my stems, I'll start by mixing my color. I'm gonna pull away some of this pink here. So I'll add some water to my plate, to my palette to one well. And then to this, I'm going to add some sap green. So I want to start, of course, with my lightest greens first. And then I do want to take a peek at which darker green I can drop in after I paint this first layer of light sap green. So here I do have a deep sap green already on my palette. So I'm going to just add a dot of water there just to start to soften up that color. Because I do want to drop in that dark green directly from the pan. I don't want to mix it with water because I want that dark green to stay where I put it. And so I can't have it too watered down. Alright, we'll test this out. And we'll start by painting, of course, one of the stems that's kind of in the background, so we'll take a peek at this one. So I'm going to paint that first layer of both stem and leaves. Now, here I'm still using my size six. However, if you had wanted to, you can always switch. Maybe I'll switch to a slightly smaller brush. Sometimes I forget to switch to my smaller brushes. Now here, when we get up to the edge of my vase, I do want to stop at the edge of my vase, skip down, leave that kind of rim here, and then I can continue the green down below. We're going to work on how to make that rim there look like it's look very natural and like it's bending light. But until we have all of these stems in the background, we are going to just focus on the stems. Now, I'm going back to the beginning of where I first started because I'm noticing it's starting to dry a little bit. So I'm kind of re wetting my area so that it's ready to drop in my darker green. So grab a little of this darker green, and I'm going to drop it in where I notice that there's some of these shadows. So I'm noticing that there's some shadows along this fold here and where this leaf connects to the vase. And then it seems like there's a little bit of a lightness here along the base there. But then again, there's a little bit of a shadow here. We skip a little shadow, and then we pull down. I'm gonna wet my brush, dry it, and once again, use that dry brush to then lift any highlights or any sections where it got a little bit too dark or where that dark green pigment, if it kind of got out of hand, we can then use that dry brush to adjust that dark pigment. Alright, that's looking pretty good. So I'm going to then skip this stem, and I'll do the next stem. I do want to make sure that this tool up here is dry. So I'm not gonna worry about this little section. I'm going to focus on the section below first. Now, remember that this first layer is just to get color down. So I'm not too worried about hard edges here. If you had wanted to, you can always do it one at a time where you do the stem, let it dry, and then the leaves next to it. That is also a possibility. Remember that we are skipping that rim here just for now. Uh, then it looks like this is kind of coming back over here a little bit. Might have forgotten the line there to draw. I'm noticing that it's already starting to dry, so I'm going to go back up, re wet this area here. I think in hindsight, I would have done section by section with this lip here, the natural dividing. So I would have done this first section, dropped in my color, and then the second section below dropped in my color. So if you are painting this at home, that might be something that you want to try. So it seems like we've got that darker leaf next to the stem. The stem is what's lightest. Now that I have some shadows in place. I'm gonna go back pull up just a little bit from that stem. We'll add a little color to this section of the stem. If any of your colors go over your tulips, sometimes I have to take my paper towel. Press down as hard as I can to kind of lift some of that up. So it's not covering my nice tulip. And then I think, actually, well, we'll do one more we'll do then the base here. And then we'll move on to this tulip in the background. So it looks like there's two stems here. A stem and a leaf here. Once again, we'll just go up to this edge. Now, for this section right here, you'll notice that there's two little rectangles here. We don't want to have any paint on top of those two rectangles. And then as our stems go further down, they're gonna get a little bit lighter here. Grab my dark green, try to add some dark green on that left side. If it is spreading way too much, that green was kind of spreading too much for my liking, it means you have too much water on your brush. And so I tap it on my paper towel to just release some of that liquid, and then I've got a chance to move that where I want it to go. And then, of course, this stem here, this one is kind of broken from the distortion of the glass. And so this is kind of where this one ends here, right at that water line. So we're gonna just leave that like that. 6. First layer of stems, wet on wet, part 2: And now I'm going to go back and work on my last tulip. My water, though, is a little mercury, so I'm going to switch it to my new water. Now, for this last one, we've got this kind of nice peachy color. And so I do want to mix that peachy color first. So I'm going to add some yellow. And then to that yellow, I want to add just a little touch of that orange, and you're gonna get a nice peachy color with mostly yellow. And like I said, a little touch of that orange that's leaning a little bit more red. Now, for this one, I'm going to do I think I'll do that watery background, and then I'll drop in my peach. And I can drop in the shadows. Since it's a peachy color and the highlights, I might drop in some yellow. And in the shadows, I'm gonna drop in a little more of that orange. So I'll start with my water. My other tulips here are all dry. Alright, so I'll start with this water down color, this water down peach. Now, because I'm adding watery color on top of water, it's not really gonna stay exactly where I put it. That's okay because I actually don't mind if this spreads a little bit. I just want to kind of get it down on my paper. And now I can drop in more of these orange colors that I used for this other flower over here. So I'm going to use that orange for kind of my shadow bits. Noticing there's a lot of liquid on my tulip. It's almost too much where it's not staining where I put it. This is what happens when you take water down color and add it on top of a water down section. You just have to kind of babysit it a little bit more because it's gonna move all over your paper. Alright, then we'll clean our brush off. We'll lift up where it got too dark. And if as you're lifting up, if it got too light, you can always drop in more pigment until you're happy with the color that you have. All right. We'll move on to finishing up the stems, and then we'll look at our second layer. Right, then there's a few different broken stems here at the base here. And so these are broken because of the way that the light is reflecting the stems. And so this is part of the illusion of this glass this glass vase here. And most of these stems here in the base are actually a little bit lighter in color. So we're going to be a little lighter handed on this dark green. But I do, of course, want still a little bit of a shadow. So add a little bit of a shadow, and now I'm going to use my dry brush to lift up where it got a little bit too dark too quickly. Alright, now we can move on to our second layer of color. 7. Second Layer on flowers, wet on dry details, part 1: Alright, so now we are ready for our second layer on our tulips. And so our second layer is going to be a wet on dry. So with our first layer, we wetted the section we wanted to paint, and then we dropped in color. This next layer, we will paint wet on dry paper. So we'll have harder edges. Instead of soft edges. So I'm going to start once again on this tulip in the background. So I'm mixing right now a medium opacity magenta. I might add in just a little bit of red as well, kind of lean it a little bit more red looking. And so I'll test that on my paper. I'm looking, like I said, for medium opacity, I don't want it too dark, but I also don't want it too light. I'm using my round size six brush, and I'm going to start with, um, I'm going to start with this petal on the left hand side. So I'm wanting to add some harder edges here. And so I'm going to paint from the top to the bottom. I'm going to try to keep some of these little highlights at the base. And so let's see here. We'll just add a few kind of lines here coming down from the center. And I'm going to try to keep this upper edge of my tol up also without that second layer. I'm going to do the same thing on this front petal. Gonna start on the edge here. Paint one whole swift edge. And now from here, I'm going to kind of soak up some I'm gonna make a little puddle down at the base here with that pigment. I might touch this edge here a little bit. And then from this puddle at the base, I'm going to try to pull a little bit of pigment upwards. Now, you can also use the base of your brush if you would like to also pull up some of these little veins towards the center. You have to do this while it's still wet. And then once you are done with that, I'm going to kind of um I'm going to fade this edge by washing my brush, tapping it so it's not soaking wet. And then using that damp brush to just blend out just this edge here. Then I'm also going to add just one single line down the center there. I don't like how that looks, so I'm gonna kind of blend that out a little bit with water. As you're doing this, you might notice that certain petals might work the way that you want them to. Others, maybe you need to kind of blend out the edges that didn't work very well for you. And then I think I'm going to grab a little bit of purple, actually. And along where this is the darkest. I'm gonna just come in with my purple and add a little bit of an extra shadow with my purple. Once again, I'll wash my brush, dry it. And blend out that edge. It. And then I'm going to add just some wet on dry details along these back petals. So there's definitely more of a shadow on these petals along the back side. And then this petal in the center, we're going to add a stripe line down two stripes down in the center, and then we'll blend it to each side, so we'll blend it out and blend it out. Alright, we'll move on to our orange petal. So I have the same orange that I had mixed earlier. I might add just a little bit more of that pyrrol orange Pyl scarlet, excuse me, with the quinocradon magenta. And now, same thing. I'm going to start on my petals that are in the background. I want these to be really nice hard edges up to where that front petal is. So I'm gonna start at that hard edge. If any of my color goes past this hard edge, that's when I'm using my paper towel to help dry it. No, I also want this petal here to be nice and dark. And I can always drop in a little bit more of that pigment directly from the pan. For this pedal, I'm going to start at the base and work my way up. Add a nice single line there. Now, for this center petal, I'm going to start at the base. Have some of that pool of color. And I'm going to start in the center line where I'm going to pull a line down and pull a line up. And I want this edge to be nice and thick. But the edge on this side, I don't need it to be that thick. From there, I'm gonna add a little bit more of that liquid in the base. And then I'm going to use the end of my paint brush, the base of my paintbrush to kind of draw some of these lines up. Then I'll do the same thing towards the top. I'm gonna add a little a little edge towards this top rim, turn my paint brush around, and then pull some lines down. It's gonna kind of give us some nice texture on this side of my tulip. Now, of course, any of these little sections in the way back are gonna be much darker. And, of course, I can always drop in a little of that purple, like I used in the other tulip. I can drop in that purple in these sections where it's really nice and dark. Maybe along one of the edges here, along the base, along the top. 8. Second Layer on flowers, wet on dry details, part 2: All right, we can move on to our other tulip. This one we had magenta, but we did mix a little of that pyal scarlet in, make it a little bit more reddish. This one I am also going to use some of that purple in the background for. Once again, starting on these petals in the back, using wet on dry. This is painting on dry paper. So here are my petals in the back. I haven't switched to my size four yet because sometimes I forget. So here's where I'm switching to my size four. Grab a little bit of that purple. Cause I do want this to be really nice and dark. And then I'll come back and I'll add a little shadow along the center. So with this one, I'm going to add just a hard edge along kind of this upper V here. I'm pressing using the edge of my brush, pressing, using the edge of my brush. And then now I'm going to come in and blend this edge down this center. So it's not too hard of an edge. Alright, we'll continue working on our second layers here. So I'm going to start on my pink flower. So I'm just mixing my second layer color just slightly darker than the first. Alright. And now, once again, I'm gonna start on my petals that are the darkest, according to my reference photo. I'm gonna take some liquid, dot it along the bottom. And then if I want to, I can add a few little lines using the butt end of my of my brush. And then I'll come back in and I'll drop in a little bit more opaque color at the bottom. I am going to skip petals here so that I don't accidentally blend them together. Now, if you're not liking how the end of this brush is going, you can always use the edge of your brush. So I'm making quick flick motions, moving upwards with my brush. Or, like I said, you can always use the end of your brush, quick motions upwards. And I think that one got a little bit too dark, so I'm gonna take my brush and take some of that away. And, of course, I'm not gonna forget adding a little bit of shadow on the top of some of these petals. Alright, now for the petals here in the background, I am going to do something similar to what I had done with the petals in the front. So I'll start with filling the base here with that extra that second layer. And then I am going to bring that darker color mostly up on some of these petals. Once again, I can always drop in a little bit darker of color towards the center. I can either use this quinacradon magenta or I can go back to that purple color that I was using for a lot of the other flowers. I can add that. I'm also remembering that I can kind of babysit some of these other petals as they're starting to dry, if I'm noticing that some of the edges are a little bit too dark, I can come back in, lift some of those dark edges. And actually, I just remembered I don't have to go around these stamen because they're darker in color anyways. It looks like this is an overlapping petal here, so this whole petal can be darker. And then for this last one. Looks like that's also kind of an overlapping, but instead, I'm going to take and add a little bit of texture. So I'm following the curves of the petal to add a little bit of that texture, and then I'm coming back in on the top since there's a little overlap here at the top of the petal. We'll add a little bit of color there as well. And I can't forget this little petal that I had left do the same thing, add a little bit of liquid to the base. One or two lines up, following the curve of that petal there and maybe just adding a little hint of that purple for a little bit of that shade color. A little bit of that shadow color. Alright, and now we can move on to our blush colored petal. So I still have a little bit of this blush color left, so I'm gonna re wet that. And now, I am going to use some of this orange also for some of the shadows, particularly for some of the petals that are overlapping. So I'm going to use that same technique with this orange. So wherever the darkest shadows are, I'm going to use this orange color, and then I'll use that lighter blush on some of the lighter shadows. I'll pull some texture up. And I'm just using a dry brush to soften this edge a little bit. And once again, I'll pull some shadows from the top here. Tulips tend to have these shadows along the base, a little bit of texture, and then a little shadow along the top, as well. So I'm going to use this darker color for this petal in the background, as well, and then I'll come through and use that other blush color for the rest. It's kind of following the curves of the petal, adding a little shadow from the top. Remembering that this shadow color is still really nice and transparent. It's very watery. And now, this shadowy color, this blush color. I'm going to use this one for the petal in the front. Add a little puddle along the base. We use the butt of my brush, pull up some texture, and then come back to the top and pull some shadows down. Do you think I'm gonna add a little bit more of a darker color in the center there. Now that it's wet, I'll help it expand. I'll move on to some of the other blush. H So here I'm just adding a little bit of that purple where I'm seeing some of the darkest shadows. Just give it a little bit more contrast. And I'm kind of babysitting those edges, lifting where I see that needs lifting. 9. Second Layer on stems, wet on dry details: Alright, now I'm going to take a peek back at my stems here and add just a few extra little details. Now, with the stems and leaves, my extra details, I am going to use a dark sap green or deep sap green here. And then I can drop in a little bit of my orange red color as well if I'm noticing some of the stems are a little bit more orange red. And here I just want to add a little detail to get these sections of the leaves to pop a little bit. So what am I looking for? I'm looking for where stems and leaves are overlapping. So here I have my stem here, and it's behind my leaf. And so I'm going to add a little shadow here, behind. And now, instead of blending it out, I'm gonna choose one edge, so this bottom edge whoops. Went over the line there. I'm gonna choose this bottom edge and paint one line of color coming along that bottom edge to meet that shadow. I don't mind that it's really intense and it's a hard edge. If you don't like that hard edge, you can clean your brush and take your brush, your damp brush and soften those edges a little bit. And then when we take a peek at some of our leaves, we're going to do the same thing. Where We are these hard edges? Where is it overlapping? So I notice that this little leaf is overlapping here, so I'm going to add a little bit of a hard edge shadow line. And then I'm noticing the same on this stem, so the stem is behind the leaf. I'm choosing the same side of the stem to add a little shadow to. So it's this left hand side, thinking that the light is coming from this right side. If it's not dark enough or deep enough of a green, while it's still wet, we can add in a little extra deep green directly from our pan. And it seems like this is nice and deep here in the center. So this stage, I'm not really trying to overthink all too much. I might not even look all too much at my reference photo. I'm kind of taking a peek at what makes sense logically here. So this leaf now is behind the stem instead of the stem being behind the leaf. So that's where it's gonna be a little bit more shadowed. Now, if you are noticing that some of these stems have a little bit of an orange tinge to them, you can also glaze over them. So I've got a little bit of this orangy reddish color. And I'm just adding that orange reddish color over the whole stem. So it's just a light wash over everything just to kind of give it a little hint of that red color. Some of these stems have a little bit of color in them. Others don't. If you like how that looks, you can continue adding a little bit of color to certain stems. You don't have to, though. This is, of course, called glazing. Continue on. So this lip here where we have the leaves coming through, we do want to add using that darker green, we're going to start and try our best to paint a little line here. We're just painting dark segments where these stems are coming through. So I'm trying to keep a little bit of that white paper shining through on both the top and the bottom. So there's almost, like, a little edge of white. Sometimes I'm touching that little edge of white, and that's okay. This one isn't as dark. This one isn't as dark, so I'm using a damp brush to lighten it up a little bit. So where that color is really dark, of course, that green is gonna be really dark. Alright. And then before I forget, I do want to add that dark stamen. So I'm gonna use a little bit of purple. Add that dark stem in there. Do 10. Painting the Glass Vase: Alright. And now I want to take a peek at my vase. So for my vase color, I am going to be using an indigo with a light blue. So I want to get I'm gonna kind of use a little cleaner of water here. I'm gonna mix my color first. So I'll clean up a section here, add some water to my plate. I'm going to start with my indigo, so I'm gonna grab a little bit of indigo color. That seems like too much. I want it really watered down so that we can have it as a really nice shadow color. And I'm going to have my lighter blue ready. This lighter blue I might use down towards the water area. But I'm going to use this darker indigo up towards the top of my vase first. And so I'll grab all that watery, pigment. And I'm going to start on this left side. So there's a dark rim here. There's kind of a line. On your paper. So we're going to have that dark come down pretty much the whole side of this vase. We can go over over our leaves there. And now we do see a little bit of a break. So there's a little bit of a white line. And then we need this little gray or this little triangle section here. We're going to add a little bit more water. This is gonna be a little water down. I'm gonna bring that all the way over that little lip there. We're gonna just try to keep these little windows here open from color, so we don't want that color. And then we're gonna bring it down also on this right side. Now, if you notice that it's a little darker in any sections, so I'm noticing it's a little darker at this lip where it kind of comes together, I can drop in a little bit of that indigo directly from my pan, and I can help it to kind of spread around a little bit. Now, these little sort of sections here, this is where this water is. So this little section here is going to be darker. It is a little lighter here, and then once again, it's a little darker. Wait, please. Soften up that edge just a little bit. This is much darker, and I'd drop in a little bit more of that pigment there. Now, as we move on to this side, it's kind of similar. We're just kind of under these little window sections here. It's also a little darker. Keeping kind of the same shape where we're starting to make the shape of this vase. And then I'm going to take just some water and blend it out here towards the center. Once again, on this side, I'm going to add a little more of that extra dark pigment. But then I'm gonna help it mix a little bit. And now, where you see this little circle here, this is going to all be a little bit darker. All right, a little darker of pigment there. So I did try to leave a little bit of white in between. But this whole line here, this whole edge where the water is is darker. There's this whole ridge here where it kind of comes and it swoops around. So And then with that darker pigment, we're also going to take a peek at this bottom circle. This bottom circle, at least, this dark rim at the bottom of the circle. This also is nice and dark. So we're going to add that really nice dark to that bottom circle and then we're going to kind of outline the bottom circle here. A with this darker pigment, we will paint this little section along the base. So I'm trying same thing. I'm trying to leave a little bit of that paper in between. So you're noticing I'm not going all the way up to that edge. I'm leaving a little rim of that paper. And then I'm painting this whole section here darker, leaving these little highlight circles open. And I'm gonna kind of use this circle here, this semi circle to just trace that darker as well. Whoops. Alright. Now that we've got our darker base, now along the bottom here where we've got the water, I'm going to add just a little hint of that lighter blue. So I have that lighter blue. I'm adding just a little bit of that lighter blue to my indigo. And now I'm going to add I'm gonna leave a little sliver of white here. And from this side, I'm just going to paint on top of these branch these the stems here at the bottom. I'm using the edge of my brush, and then I'm gonna bring it over to this side. And I'm gonna stop there. I might soak up some of that. Here, I can add it to that little center there. So we're just kind of trying to give the illusion that there's water there. You can also take some of this blue and add it to this little water shadow at the top here. C. And now we're just missing the rim along the top. So once again, we've got that indigo. We're gonna try to trace starting at the corner here, starting at the corner here, pulling in a little. There is a bit of a highlight here. And then along the back, we also want that dark rim here. That's just something. If you wanted to switch to a smaller brush, you definitely can switch to a smaller brush. Like I said, I probably I don't switch to smaller brushes enough. And then we're just gonna use our more transparent color to fill in in between, making sure that I'm not touching that darker rim there. I don't want to drag that color in. I'll take a peek if we need any. I just added a little bit more of that dark and to go just on the corner here where that where the vase kind of sucks in a little bit. It would be a little bit darker, and I can also take a peek at other sections where it would be darker. Sometimes the paper will soak in a little too much. So down here, we've got this base here is going to be a lot darker. So I might add a little bit extra to this base only to balance it out. So I've got that darkness along the top rim. I also want some of the darkness along the bottom here as well. 11. Cast Shadow and Final Details: Alright, and then when we take a peek at the final step, which would be this kind of cast shadow because our light is coming from this side, I'm going to take some clean water. I'm gonna go up to this edge. And I'm going to paint just along this bottom edge here with if I accidentally touch up to that, that's okay. And I'm going to take the same vase color here, dab some of that vase color into that water. And, of course, I can babysit it. So if I need to make this edge a little bit not as dark. I can babysit that. I can add a little bit of color. If I want to add a little bit of purple, or my favorite would be to add a little bit of the flower color as if it's reflecting. The light is reflecting and dragging some of that flower color, reflecting that flower color off of the base there. Now, some of these edges have kind of gotten hard edges. And so I can also, if you have a scrubber brush at home, you can take a simple scrubber brush or your regular brush if you don't have a scrubber brush and just soften up if any of those edges along your vase got a little too dark or a little too hard of an edge. Just be cautious while you use a scrubber brush so that you don't tear your paper. Some of these edges we do want to keep hard edges, others we might want to soften up.