Transcripts
1. Intro : Thank you for joining
it and welcome to another Skillshare class. This class is great for beginners working with some
watercolor painting here, I will show you how to create these big, beautiful florals. We're going to practice
the wet on wet technique. And I kept this very easy. So you're going to
learn how to create this entire painting
only using three colors. And I will give some tips
throughout it as well. In this class, we
will also explore layering and how to watch the blooms and with different
bleeding and how to control some of the water so you're not using too
much or too little. Let's jump right in
and get started.
2. Watercolor Floral painting PT 1: Thank you for joining in
and for today's tutorial, we're gonna be working
on some big florals. I have a size 12
round brush there. That one happens to be from
the Princeton Neptune series. And I did pull out a
size eight as well, but I didn't end up using it. So if you have anything, I would say from a good ten or 12 would be a little bit
better than the eight. We're going to use the
smaller brush for the leaves. I have my size ten there. That brand is from a
Jerry's art Obama. That is the creative
mark, the mimic Kolinsky. These are all synthetic
synthetic hairs. So just to start off, whatever size you have there, either your tenure 12. I'm using the 12th. So I'm just going to use the water and make some
strokes here for the petals. We're only using
three colors today. So this painting is
going to be super easy. I'm using my opera rose. That nice bright pink
in my shrink, a horrid, I'm sat there and I'm just going to use the wet
on wet technique here. We're just going to drop in
some of that color there. And then you can use the tip of your brush to push it around. If you were having
a really hard time seeing the water itself
just on the paper, you can just tinted with the
color that you're using. So that's a nice
tip right there. But again, just dropping in practicing this
wet on wet technique. And then I'm just going to blend the strokes here up and down so it's not
too spotty looking. I'm going to lift
that top flower, dry up a little bit. And then we're going to move
down towards the middle, but at a diagonal here. And I'm going to make the same
flower down here as well. As you're painting your flowers, even with just the water, makes sure to leave some
whites of the paper. They're going to be reserved
for the highlights later. Next step we're
going to be using some of this golden yellow, Nice deeper yellow here. And then I'm going
to start off with the middle to the top of
the flower with the yellow. And then I'm going
to put the pink on the bottom of the flower. With this one, we're going to be using the two
different colors. But with the top here, I'm mainly using the water
and then I just hinted at it a little bit so you can see
what it is I'm doing here. And then just like
we practiced before, we're going to go back
in and place more of the color and let it bloom out. And that's what creates the fun texture in different
designs and everything. It makes it look really nice. Another reason why I chose
these two particular colors is because you'll see
when they blend together, they create a really
pretty shade of orange. And right in the middle of here, I am using just the yellow and I'm going to create
a really big rows. But I'm going to
make these petals really loose and fluffy. Just feathering out
with the water. And then we're gonna
do one layer first. And then later on we
will go back in with a second layer to deepen
up some shadow areas. For the last big floral
down here in the corner. This flower, we're going to
use the opera and the yellow. So this is gonna be a
combination here down bottom. To balance out the
one on the top. We're going to start off
with the pink first and then drop in the
little bits of yellow.
3. Watercolor Floral Painting PT 2: Next up my flowers are
still a tiny bit wet, so I am going to start
with some of the leaves. I'm using my size
ten brush here, and it does have a little
bit more of a point on it as opposed to my other big
fluffy brush that I was using. I'm just using the olive green mixed with a tiny bit of the same yellow that
we were using before. So this will be your
lighter shade of green and then the regular just
straight olive will be used for the shadows
in our second layer. Right here. I just wanted to show
some examples right here. This is a previous painting that I did and I
really liked it, so I decided to
create the class. But you can always feel free to practice on a scrap
sheet as well. So we're gonna get
right into it. And I always start off
with a little skinny line. And then you can press
down and release. And you're gonna look around and just fill in where
you see a lot of negative space so that everything flows
together really nice. And sometimes it does
look really nice if some of your green bleeds
in through the flowers. Just be careful
it's not too much. Again, you want to play
around with your strokes. You want some small
leaves, some are bigger. You have a nice wide variety. Then sometimes late,
just like right there, I give my brush a little
wiggle and create some nice flowy leaves that have a little bit
more of like the, it's a little bit
more texture but some of like a little wrinkly look. And then some of the, there's just so many different
shapes of leaves. It's nice to
experiment with them. Now that the first layer
of leaves are done, we're going to let them
dry up a little bit and I'm going to
go back in and add a second layer to some of these florals that look
a little bit too light. And it's gonna give them some more depth and
dimension here. So I'm in the centers. I'm just using some
gentle strokes here and then I will feather it out a little bit with
some of the water. So we're just focusing
on the middle. When you're first layer of
your leaves is completely dry, then we're good to go in
with just the olive for some of the deeper shadow areas. And then this will just
create that nice 3D look. Some of the darker leaves here. It makes everything
look nice and layered. But they definitely
have to be dry in order to do this or too much
will bleed together.
4. Closing : That is it for today's tutorial. I hope that you did enjoy it. And this brought some
practice for you, for your watercolor
floral painting. And hopefully it will give you some courage to paint
really big florals. If you're somebody who's
used to maybe painting smaller or in a
journal all the time. It's really nice to go
outside your comfort zone and explore with just using
more water or bright colors, doing things a little
bit bigger, indifferent. So hopefully this
helped you with that. And you can feel free to
check out my other classes. And I'll see you next time.
Suzanne Kurilla, Art with Suzanne
