Transcripts
1. Introduction: In this class, we'll
be learning to paint colorful
flowers in detail. And the interesting
thing is to see how does beautiful transparent
petals can be achieved in such detail with drawing the intricate two
wheels of the flowers and making them look very
gorgeous and beautiful. You can learn these
techniques and try out your own various
floral designs with different colors as you like after you complete the class
and mastered the techniques. Here you can see the beautiful different
designs with different colors. So we learn one painting each
day for the next six days. And you can go on expanding more and creating more
with such techniques. So we'll start the
class by understanding all the materials that will
require for the class. After that, we'll
learn how to paint various designs with
different techniques. And I'll also show you the beautiful trick of creating the transparent
nurse and the flowers. As well as of creating these beautiful
intricate designs and details on the flowers which will enhance your
paintings more. So don't forget to
upload your work and leave a feedback once
you take the class. And also make sure
to follow me on Skillshare for regular
updates about the class, upcoming lessons, and
giveaways for you. Without wasting any more time. Let's move on to our
lessons and start learning.
2. Material Required: So for this class we'll be needing mainly watercolor paper. You can use any artist grade
watercolor papers which are a 100% cotton and
preferably 300 GSM thick. I'm using a size that is 25
centimeter by ten centimeter. You can use any similar
size or else you can use any sheets or any
sketchbooks that you have. But make sure that
they are nice. A 100% cotton and 300 GSM, because in this
class we'll be using a lot of water while painting. So that will really
help you all. Definitely we need watercolors. Even if you don't
have so many shades, even if you have the 634
shares, that's fine. You can use either tubes or pans or anything
that you have. Then we'll also need
brushes to paint to it. So I am going to be using
two of these brushes. You can use any medium-size
brush and a small size brush. Only two brushes will
be enough for this. They are round brushes. You will need one
smaller one for detailing and a medium-sized
one for painting. After that, we need to water
bottles or water cups with nice clean water
so that we can use clean water to add any of beams and also to
clean your brush. Then you'll obviously
need a tissue paper. It will come handy,
keep it always handy to just pick
up extra color from your painting or
anything that you need. So just deeper tissue paper
handy while painting. Then another
important thing that we need for this
class is a toothpick. You can use any other
pointed object. If you don't have to pick any campus or safety
pin, anything will do. And yeah, that's it. So this is all that we require. And let's get started
with the class.
3. Day 01 : Red Flowers: In case you're using
watercolor pans. Firstly, we use start
by just two colors. So drop a few drops of photo. I'll be using the sheets
off red for this flower, so I wet my crimson red sheets. Then we start with the
painting directly. So use a lot of water. You can also remove
some of the paint on your palette and
then start painting. You can see I'm using
a very light color. I'm adding a lot of water
to my watercolor paint. You can see how
transparent the color is. So in this class
we want to achieve various transparent paper towels and sheets for the flower. So that's why I'm using a
very, very lighter tone. You can clearly see I have added a lot of water to my color and I'm taking only
a little amount of Palo at the tip of my brush. And the color which I am taking, I am mainly with the color
at the edges of the petal. I'm in the inside, I'm just spreading
it with water. So for this particular class, you will definitely need a good-quality watercolor
paper because that will help you call your water nicely and the people will not
tear or get damaged. So we need the central portion as transparent and
light as we can have. And at the edges, I'll add a limited
amount of color to highlight the edges nicely. So again, make sure that you are adding very
little amount of color. We don't want it to look like a border for the
petals on the inside looking different than what the edges actually
look as a whole. So that's why we'll
also spread the color from the edges nicely inside, but don't make the batter
too dark while doing this. So be very careful. These Flores might seem very easy when you
look at it at first. But you need to have a little amount of patients
while you are doing this. And here comes my
favorite March. So with the toothpick, that is our little secret and a beautiful technique
for this class. We'll start adding the winds. Apply. Moderate pressure. Not too much. I'm just me. These lines, lines. You can see the watercolor
has started doing its magic. It's beautifully just
letting the darker colors shield seep into the grooves that we have just made
with are too big. I'm that will give you
a very nice effect of the beautiful intricate
thin veins of the petals. You can add a little
more color at the edges after doing this so that it sits nicely Lewin's and gives
a beautiful sheet. I hope this technique
will really help you create some
beautiful flowers. I remember this and you can also make your own flash
with this technique. So slowly we move on
to the second vector, or the first pattern has considerably dry it up before we start with
the second one. So we want to make sure that tax happens because we don't want the colors to be spreading into each other or bleeding
into each other. So that's why just take
this process very slowly. Be patient with your
painting and have some fun. This is a very relaxing and slake a class which
needs a little bit of pain. Because you'll need to paint each and every petal separately. Unlike when we do
our loose florals, we just go on painting
randomly and you don't care much about each stroke button, this one, you need
to be a bit careful about each and every stroke
that you're painting. You also need to be
very careful about the amount of color and the
vibrancy that you're using. You also need to be in control
with the use of water. In case you feel that you
have used too much of water, then you can just star papi or a dry brush on it and lift
up some of the water. Whereas just use your
tissue paper for that. And again, we are using
the same technique. We are just starting the winds. The winds. Remember that you are not adding
it very randomly. You are, again, very careful about the kind
of strokes that you're making with the
toothpick as well because the colors are
going to go inside it. I'm the entire floral pattern or the entire Florida is going
to look how it looks, depending upon these smaller
details that you add. So again, go very slow with it. You can see I'm starting
with such a light tone of the pillow and I'm almost going with entirely water
and just literally thing. My crimson red in it. So I get a very lighter
factory to begin work. And that is very important
in this class because you need to start with the
lightest that you can. Once you want adding
colors to it. It doesn't go on getting
very dark and weird, so you can control
your color very well. So this class will
also teach you very good getting a very good
control on your watercolors, on the water that you use. I'm on the fellow that you use, the saturation of it. So I'm sure help you a lot as watercolor artists
to get a hold onto your hello and water and the
brushstrokes and everything. This class is
definitely going to be a very great help for that. So you can see I'm just going slowly one-by-one
with the petals. And you can see the second vector which
is there behind this. I am always happening
on the earlier one. So this is what we
are going to do. I'm just going to add. So let's see. You can
again see that there is any particular
order for this. Even just experiment and try and do the one with Sue
suits you the best. In the earlier ones, I first did the
entire petal with the darker and lighter shades
and then made the groups. This time I'm showing
you how to just give a lighter wash
for the group. And after that, you can go on adding the darker
color later on. So you can just use any
technique that you want. You can see the second one petal that I'm adding right
now at the left, I am again, just overlapping it on the central
petal which I had drawn. So that's how we get a very beautiful effect on the
painting will not look 2D. It will look nice and
3D because we are Just careful about these kinds of details and
we're adding those. Because the petals
are transparent, you will naturally see the
petals going behind as well. So that's what I'm trying to do. And you can see I am
deliberately keeping or darker part at the bottom and the central part,
I'm keeping it light. So why is this so because
the petals folding. So that is what we want to show and it's likely there
is a color difference, if you can notice in the
audio petal, which I did. So right now I am just
showing you how to start with a lighter ones and then we add a few more
details with them. Red, adding red to it. So I just go on
adding darker shades to all the petals now so
that I can add details. Also. I did this because I also wanted the
other petals to dry a little bit before we start
adding the details so that the color but doesn't bleed too much into the entire petal. So that's why I just finished
with the wash layers of the other petals first
and then I am now starting with the
teachers a little bit. You can either use two shades of red for this or simply one shade of red with changing the intensity, anything is fine. So you can see how I am. I didn't very thinner
lines at the edges. You can use the thinnest
brush that you have for this. And the areas where the
pectoralis four link that will be slightly darker than what the other
remaining parts are. That's what I am
trying to do OVO and we'll go on adding
all these details. My nucleus, all the petals. Wherever necessary. If you feel that the color
is looking like one single line or
one single strokes and it's looking disconnected
from the painting, then you can always
just wet your brush and just simply try to blend in the stroke with
the other parts of the petals to get a nice
effect of the entire thing. So wherever the
petal is folding, that's what I am
doing dark currently. So the lower petals
are folding more. So I slightly darken those
areas, slightly the edges. So just carefully observe
how I'm detailing the parts. I'm just keep on doing
a body along with me. So now we're done with
the darkening five dates, some slightly darker
shade of red. So you can either add a
little amount of black. New York limb syndrome
who get this Lahey model. And then with dark,
darker shade, we'll start adding a
few more details like some shadows on
certain parts with the darker maroon is
shear which we have made. So again, use the thinnest
brush that you have for this. I make sure that your
strokes that as thin as possible to get this effect. Also. Just go very slow, go with thinner strokes. And don't just stop or
did the entire flat only on certain areas to just give it a nice realistic
effect of the shadows. And then with the
maroon colored cells, we will add a
little darker area, the central bottom
part of the flower. And we'll add the ending for the floss through which came up. So we'll make a bulb-like
sheep at the edge. I'm painting it directly
with the maroon is shield or the Mao colors here. And we'll also add some details at the
central portion of the flower with
the same shade. So just forwards
smaller curve lines going in the central part. And then we'll add small dots, the ends of these lines. And after that, let's make a nice stem for this
flower. Don't make it too. After adding the stem, I'll also be adding
a few leaves. I feel so again, for the leaves, I'll be using the same
color shields itself because I want to keep the flowers in
similar color shifts. I'll start again with the
crimson red is shared only. With that. Let's make a
slightly heart-shaped leaves. Again. Remember, start
with a lighter shade, add a lot of water to it. So you can see I'm using a lighter tone of the
crimson color, again. Adding a lot of water to it, we'll help you get
nice transparency. I'm then I'll again use
my favorite technique. I'm making these
kind of shape on the need to get a beautiful
effect of the wind. So right now, you might not
be able to see clearly, but I'll just add a little
amount of color to the edges of this are darker shade and you will be able
to see it clearly. So let's just take some
crimson red again. I added slightly
at the background and let it moves with the
central portion of the leaf. I am doing this when my
water colors are still wet. Okay. So even the markings
with the toothpicks which we are supposed to be done
when the colors are still wet. And then we'll just folded
this thread and against, spread it nicely
with water inside. Now you can see the shape that we have got
with the markets. It's looking so beautiful. So let's add a few
more leaves like this, maybe 23 here and there. And again, we'll just add the stems to it
connecting the flower. We'll be using the
same techniques again. So just carefully keep
observing how I'm making those and keep on
making it along with me. So for connecting these leaves, I am again using the same shear which we had made for the
earlier of large stem. And this time I'll make glands even more thinner than
the stem of the flower. And I just connect those
lines to the central line. So make sure to
make the lines very thin so it will
look more elegant. I'm just make it nicely
smooth and flowy. So I just complete
all the lines. You can also add a
little more darker parts to the leaves as well. Wherever necessary. Now, the entirely only
at certain parts you can just add it to give
a nice shadow to it. We're done with the leaves. I feel that I can do it. Just make it look
nice and complete. Scientist. I make
sure to go with a very thin strokes for this
using the same color again, use a thinner brush,
I made these. You can also just turn your paper however you
feel comfortable with. So you'll get nice
clean strokes. So just feel free
to turn your paper and just meet these strokes
as beautiful as possible. So I just started
to three of these. I feel like it looks
more complete. Now with these smaller
elements added. You can also add a few
details here on the floor. If you feel that the
flower is light, if you feel that your flowers
already done too dark, then please don't do this step. Just keep it completely. I'm just highlighting
a certain area because I afraid that it's
comparatively lighter. One says it's
straight up, so yeah. Yeah. And with this, we are
done with the painting. I hope you enjoyed it. See you in the next lesson.
4. Day 02 : Blue Flowers: So for this painting again, I'm using the same paper which
we have discussed about. And we'll be using blue color
sheets for this painting. So let's start by just working
the colors a bit before we start with the
paintings so that it's easier for us to
pick up the paint. As we require. I just make my water bottle and add a few drops of
water onto the blues. Now again, as we did
for the oil painting, we'll be starting with
a lighter shade force. Again for the border, you can use a slide. Good, one. Bye for the central part, just predict nicely
with the water. You can also sketch this
class or if you wish to, before starting
with the painting. But right now I'm
not getting it. So let's just start
with the petal. And I'm just going to add a little amount of
color at the edges. The central part, as we know, is going to remain
light and transparent. So I'm using this type
blue color for this. And you can see I have
added color to the edge, but I feel that it's too much. So I'll just use my wet brush, spread it slightly to get a
nice dark color like this. So you know what to do. Just clean your brush. If you have a lot of
water inside and just one picking up the
water or the color. I dispatch your brush on the tissue paper and just one lifting certain
amount of color or water. If you'll feel that
it's too much. And if it's okay, then you need to do that. So we are done with the layer. I start adding the wings first. So for this particular flying, you can see I am going to
go by adding one when in the central part and many more sticking onto the earlier when from the edges like this. So that's how we're going to do the entire petal off the flour. Going to look very nice and
educate once we completed. They will be able
to see more once the color starts getting
into the groups. Slightly, take it down. But you can see I'm lifting
my hand up halfway. So I'm not going completely
towards the center with this. Yeah. So let's add a
little more color to this so that it's clearly
visible to you all. I'm using the same
light blue color again and adding a little
amount of that to the edges. Meet the wins nicely prominent. I'm still keeping it satin. Not letting the color
overpower the existing, but trying to keep a transplant
in the central part, adding a little
color on the edges. And I'll also use
my white brush. I'm just smoothing
it around so that it doesn't look like a
very typical Bordeaux, but it looks like a nice
part of the entire petal. So you can see how I'm just smoothing it out in
the central part. So it looks nice and natural. So you can warn, adding little later amount of
color one at a time. Don't add too much in one time, otherwise you will not
be able to undo it. So just add alerted, alerted amount of color. I'm keep the entire painting wet using the wet-on-wet techniques. Just spreading it
little by little. I don't make it to keep it
transparent as you know. Then just stop once you are like fine with the
entire look of the petal. Stop adding more color to it. Aggravated amount of color
in the central part. Like this. Moving the stroke slightly upwards
from the center. You can also add a little
amount of cobalt blue in the central bottom portion
to give it a nice shade. You can see it's getting a beautiful texture
because of this. I feel that the colors
looking to mine, so I just lift up a little
amount of color from you. Yeah. So you can just quickly doing these smaller
changes as you. Then we'll start with
the second week. We'll be drawing two petals
on either side of this. One which we have
dressed painter. So again, using the
similar technique. So just keep observing
carefully and follow how I am doing it and
keep painting along with me. One slab, yet, yet to add a
little more detail onto it, but it's still awake. So what we do is we start
with second flower, just looking in
another direction. So we again draw being similar things or the
second Florida as well. We are yet to detail
the first one, but we are waiting for
the petals to dry up completely before we start
adding the details onto it. For the second floor, I'd be doing it in a very
similar manner, just facing the opposite
direction and also making the size slightly
smaller than the first one. But again, I'll be using the same techniques
and the same colors. So just observe and
come along with me. Now that we're done with
the second flower as well, I just add one or two
birders besides the flowers. One or maybe another
one at the top. Again, using the blue
color at the side and going with a
light blue color for the remaining portion. So let's add two such bytes. One here, I wanted the job. So now we're done with
the basic versus well, so again, I'll start adding more petals,
letting the flower. So I'm doing this
one's my entire flower has dried up completely. I am again going with
the same technique, but we're doing a lettering
technique over year, so we are repeating the same technique
which we did earlier, but only once the Florida is completely dried
up so that we get a nice layer of another
petal on the flat like this. So we lead on to more petals on this flower and the layer
some on the other as well. My lettering, just remember too, lift up the color like this
from the center portion of the flower to gain back its transparency
so that the petal, which is there behind
is also visible. You can also just dab your
tissue paper like this. Pick up some color, orange, just pick up the
color with the brush. Anything will work. Again. I am just highlighting the borders and the central
portion. I'm lifting it up. I'm merging the
boulders nicely with my wife brush onto the
flowers central portion. Just keep lifting the excess
color with your brush like this so that the transparency is retained and the
petals which are there behind are nicely visible. Highlighting the
edges a little bit. I'm also highlighting
the edges of the petals a little
bit like this. Don't make the strokes
to keep it thin. And we'll also add another button with
the same technique. So not doing anything different, going with the same technique
that we did for this petal. Just observe and keep
painting along with me. We'll also add a few like this maybe to the flower,
which is their bill. So in this God, I know it's
not a literal amount of cobalt blue in the central
portion right here. You can see I'm doing this one. Your petals are still wet. So it's slightly going
and merging nicely. This will give a nice effect. So I'm just highlighting
the central portion of it will again follow the similar techniques
for the second flower. So let's start with layering two petals in the
central portion spores. Then we'll either Tucker cobalt
blue in the central part. I don't like this shape. I think I can add to move behind to make the
shape look nice. Just starting a lighter
shade of blue here behind. And I used to highlight the edge off it a little bit with
the goodbyes do color. Yeah, I think it looks
much better now. So again, we are almost done with the second
floor as well. So let's start detailing
the other things. Here when the flyers
are still awake, I am just adding a
limited amount of ultramarine blue color in the center portions
of the flask. You can see I'm just adding a few dots like
this with my brush, this tapping the
brush with smaller, smaller dots with my
ultramarine blue color to get a very nice detail
at the central portion, which will eventually just quickly highlight
the entire flower. So just add a few dots. The central portion like this
with the ultramarine blue. Then we move on to adding details for the bugs
that we have drawn. So again, with the
ultramarine blue or blue, just highlight the bugs a little bit in the
way that I'm doing. Use a thinner brush for this. And I add a few lines to this, like this to just give
it a nice tea doing. You can also add the stems of
these with the same color. So use the ultramarine
blue color or the potion do color
which they will live. I am using the quotient
rule for this. Small details to the birds. Also add the stems. I think we'll also
add a few leaves with the same darker blues just below the flowers
and the buttons. Looks more nice. Ndk. I think it's done. I'm happy with this reserved. I hope you enjoyed this one to see you in the next lesson.
5. Day 03 : Yellow Flowers: So let's start with
the new lesson. For this, we'll be using
the yellow color now. So I'll just write my pillows
forced with clean water. You can either use your
chrome yellow color or your deep yellow
color. Anything will do. I'm starting with my
yellow shade here. And this carefully
observed vector, I'm dropping the color force. So I drop the color
at the topmost edge. And then with the help of water, I'm just spreading the
color nicely below. So take color whenever you
need it and just try to make the edges darker and the rest of the parts to spread the
color with clean water. In this similar way
will do all the petals. So I am, you can see again, starting with a darker
color with the edges. And for the rest of the part, we just spread it nicely with water to get
a lighter shade. Again, this is a different
design of the flower. So you can notice I'm trying
to cover different shapes of flowers so that you'll
get the hang of different designs and how do
you use your colors in them? And you can see I'm dropping some darker
pigment at the edges. After that, I have taken
some orange color and with orange color and slightly dropping it at the
bottom portion, as you can see here. And after doing that, I've cleaned my brush nicely and I'm just spreading
the color about with my wet brush so that it just looks like nicely
matched with the entire flock. And it looks like one nice whole part with a
beautiful color gradient. So you can see how I mixed it and moisture
than the yellow. Now I'm just taking
some deep yellow color. Using that for the edges. And don't keep the edges
very sharp like this. Just take some water, orange juice, clean your brush
and with your wet brush. Just like the edges so that
the color looks nicely, you know, nicely blended
in with the entire flower. That's precisely
what I'll be doing. I'm cleaning my water,
brush with water. And I just tried the
remaining yellow and I'll also add a little bit
of orange, weren't there? Just add a little more color
towards more vibrancy to it. So you can see, just make sure that the amount you are
adding this very less and just take a wet brush
and spread it nicely. Then I'll be using my secret
technique of the toothpick. I start making some
lines following on from the upper side to the lower central
portion like this. And you can see once you
start making the lines, the color is this going and
settling into the groove and giving you a beautiful and intricate ways
for the flowers. So that's what we are going
to do for the entire flower. Just go slowly. Your lines. Don't overlap them to match, but keep them free flowing. Yeah. We have completed with the
lines, the entire flower, if you feel like your color
is low at some parts, you can just again,
go ahead with your brush and some color. Give a certain darker shade, add some edges if you want. You can also add some oranges off if you want
add certain parts. Whereas if you feel
the yellow is less, you can go with the yellow. So just try to add more details to your
flowers with the colors. If you feel like
it's perfectly fine, then don't go on adding
too much of detail. Just still you should
be aware where to stop. So even that doesn't voted. I'll just add a little
amount of detail and I'll do that with
my yellow ocher color. You can either use a
lighter brown sheet or the yellow ocher
shade for this. You can see, I'm
just going on with the smallest size brush at the edges and slightly
defining the edges nicely. Some little strokes
in the central part as well with the
yellow ocher color. Again, going on to the edges, I'm not making a clean
border to the flower. You can notice I'm just adding little about our detail
only at certain edges. And I'm not like bordering the flower because that
will look really weird. So we want to keep it natural. I'm just taking some more
ground color shared. And with that, I again add a little amount of
shadows to certain areas. Again, remember we are not
bordering the entire flower. Only a little amount of
shadow to certain areas. Just little amount of strokes to certain places will be enough. Don't go overboard with
these brown strokes. Otherwise you will
end up just making a bold over the entire flower which will not look realistic. So just keep it limited at
certain parts like this. Keep the line broken as
well in between like this, making it some
shadows like this. And then with the
dark brown color will just add this little detail at the bottom of the flower. So you can just go with
very small strokes and just slightly darker than the bottom
portion of the flower. That's it. Then we'll start with another flower with
a similar techniques and the similar shades. So again, I'm going
with my yellow color. As we know, we are starting from the edges and in
the central part, we'll just take some water
or just with your wet brush, go on spreading it nicely
throughout the flower. And then you can again
go on just to Jelani it out by adding more and more yellow color
pigment at the edges. And after that, we'll also add an orange color like we
did for the first flower. And then we do our
beautiful technique, whether to pick by making
some lines onto it, to mark the wheels, so the
details of the flower. And with that, we'll go
on detailing out the firm more and more and we'll
finish it completion. So just carefully keep
observing and painting along. I'll be painting these flowers
like this will be one. And I'll be painting
one more bigger flower, which is sideways. So I'll just explain
you this one. And for the other one, you can follow these
same techniques. So just carefully
observe and listen. You can see I am
making the toothpick marks again one petal at a time. And all of these lines are converging at the bottom
portion of the flower. And you can see again
the alert is going on settling into the grooves to
detail out the flower moon. So again, we'll add a little
more bright color to this. So again, adding yellow to
certain parts of the edge. I'll also add a little amount
of orange at certain parts. You can just want
spreading it nicely. That it's more just beautifully. After that, like we did
for the earlier of law. I'll be adding a
little amount of burnt sienna brown color to the edges to mark certain shadows and
each allow the family. So don't make it seem like
or physically marked edges. Just let them blend in luxury. When Jojo color is still wet, it will slightly
Wagner into the flour, which will give it a nice
natural color effect. And that is what we
want to achieve. So slightly be quicker
when you are doing this and don't deal very
high pigmented color, use a little watery shares so that you can merge it
easily with the flow. And wherever necessary,
just darken these lines at certain parts to mock more shadows and give the
flower more depth on to it. For the bottom as well, I'll be adding a
little darker shade as we did for the poliovirus. Scylla. We're done with
two of the flowers and I am going to do one more. So this one will be
slightly larger in size and I'll be painting it
facing the right-hand side. Now I'm not going to repeat
myself for this flower. I think you all will
be able to achieve it beautifully with the techniques that we learned for
the audio to flowers. Just remember to go
slowly with your colors. Don't use very high
pigmented color in the beginning itself. Start with lighter
shades and go on mixing water to it and
blending it nicely. Wherever necessary. Go on adding darker color
pigment and one merging with no link on detailing out your flower with darker shades to achieve certain
desired effects. So I'll be using the same
sheers and the same technique. So just keep observing
carefully and falling me, drawing along with me
accordingly to what I'm doing. This is the yellow
ocher that I added. For the remaining half, we can add a lighter
yellow sheet. So I'll just take my yellow. I'll just add this for
the remaining half. And we'll blend mode the
colors nicely into each other. As we paint the spectrum. Will be doing the same thing for the second petal as well. Just make a bottom portion
of it and continuity nicely. Then the edge of
your paper to make a very nice thin stem for
your, for your board. So again, going with the yellow, just blending both of these
nicely into each other. And then I'll make
the bottom portion. Again. I am just drawing the same yellow ocher
color which is there. And with that, I'll
make a nice thin line. You can use the thinnest
brush that you have for this. We'll just add the stems
to all the flowers and about status there
and connect it together. The bottom of the paper. When doing this, make sure to use as thin strokes as possible. Because you don't
want the end of your strokes to just over by your entire painting suddenly. So row with steady, slow hands and just one
meeting these thinner strokes, you can use the thinnest
brush for this. And if you're not used to doing these kind of strokes,
then don't worry. Even I don't get it sometimes
and it's totally fine. So if you wish to practice more, you can just practice
different types of straight lines that go with
your smaller brush and using any paint that you have on any rough paper that will
actually help you get a nice control on
your brush and it will help you make
your strokes cleanup. So let me just continue
these tennis stems for the flowers and also make sure to keep them slightly
coffee and natural. Don't make them too
rigid or too much of a straight line
because that will definitely not look natural. So make them very free flowing and nice and
natural as much as you can. You can also draw them with
a pencil first if you're not sure about just painting it directly, that's totally fine. Even I draw them lightly
with the pencil at times. And I should not be a problem, but just make sure that if
you're drawing it with pencil, draw them very light
because sometimes your pencil marks can be
visible with your watercolors. So you don't want your pencil marks to be visible once you are done
with your paintings. So just make the lines very light or else
by mistake also, if you need them
darker at first, then just view it
either over it and lighten them up so that we're
not completely visible. So I'm continuing this line
of the border from behind my floss and we're left with
just one more connections. So for this one again, I just had a nice thin
line and then just connected to the existing
stem here, like this. So by adding the stem, we're almost done
with this painting. And hope you enjoyed this
different kind of Lars, some bright yellow color. So see you again in
the next lesson. Dupain, this, try
it out and post it onto the project section so
that I can have a look at it.
6. Day 04 : Purple Flowers: So we're here again
with another lesson. This time, I'll be
using slightly shades of purple and pink
to make my flowers. And again, the technique
which we're going to use for this particular class is going to be different than
the earlier lessons. So I'm starting with my purple
color here on my brush. You can see I am using a very
light shade off the popup. I'm mixing a lot of water
with the purple color. And we are doing this since
the technique we'll be using is just lifting
out the color. So you can see after painting, I am just using my wet brush. I'm just picking up the color
like this from the paper. I'm tapping it on the
tissue paper to just take off the excess
color from the brush. Keep cleaning your
brush in-between, and keep repeating the
same process till you get a nice darker line at the edge
of the petal of the flood. The central part of the
petal has turned out completely light and shade
and completely transparent. So this is another
technique which you can use to meet these
transparent flowers. So let me repeat
the process with another petal and show it to
you how it will turn out. So you can see the
amount of excess of water that I'm using for
this painting. Particularly. Again, I am just painting the entire petal very light
with my purple color shade. You can add a little more color to the edges if you feel like, but be very careful, don't add too much
of color pigment. And just lightly add
alerted if you wish to, and then makes sure to
add a lot of what you do. And after that, you'll need
to be a little quicker. You'll need to quickly just take away all the central portion, the ILO from the central
portion, from your bike. As quick as you can just use your white trash and go on
lifting the color like this. Do it one or two times. Then again, clean your
brush with water. Then again go on
lifting the color. You can use more wet water in the central part of you want. And then again, go on lifting it up with
your brush like this. So you can see again, we have achieved a nice lighter shade in
the central part. And you can see a nice
defined line for the edge. If you feel that you don't
see a prominent line, you can just forward. Go again with a little
color at the edge. I let it more nicely
with the central part. And again, just
repeat the process by lifting up the color from the central
part like this so it matches nicely into each other. So you can see we'll be going on doing the same process again for remaining
of our petals. So just keep carefully
observing how I'm doing it and do it
accordingly along with me. Now for this particular flower, I'll stop here because
I'll be adding two more layers later on that
will be overlapping these. But for that, we need the two petals which we have already done to be
completely dry. So that's why I don't want to waste my time waiting for
it to dry completely. That's why I'm
just starting with another petal forum,
another flower. So eventually when
we weren't doing it, meanwhile, the earlier
battles will dry out. You can see I started with the edge with darker
color at the edge. I'm spreading it with water
in the central portion. I now am just again, lifting up the colors from here like we did for
the earlier flour. So the upper floor, we'll keep it at four
petals on this one, Let's see, maybe I'll
make it five buttons. So just follow the
similar process and go on adding petals to it. We'll first add the
baseline vitals and the overlapping petals. We'll add them later after this layer has
completely dried up. So just observing
and painting alone. But you're painting has
completely right up. If it hasn't, then just wait
for it to dry up completely. What is you can also use
your blow dryer to dry out and then start with
adding these layers. Now when you want adding
this layer again, I am again using the
same techniques, the same color and
the same process. So I have started with
the edge color and then I'm lifting the color from the
central portion like this. And we'll also add another
petal in the similar way. The petal which is
overlapping the earlier one, the part which is overlapping, the audio button that will be
slightly darker naturally, and the other will
remain lighter. Just carefully observe this. I am doing it again, starting with a darker shade at the border than just filling
the entire thing up. And quickly. I am just using my white brush. And I'm just going on
lifting the color like this, popping it on my tissue
paper constantly. Also keep cleaning
your brush in-between. And then just go over
again till you get a nice transparent look
for your entire flower. And see you can immediately
now start seeing the overlapping part
of it is slightly darker and the remaining
one which is transparent. So we will again be doing the similar process
for our pink flower, which we have done below. I'll also add a little bit off my purple color shield to this flower in the
bottom central portion. So you can see just for, with very thin small strokes. And I'm just adding
only wherever necessary to just add more
highlight to the flower. And just observe
where I'm adding it and how thin the
lines are needed to be. I'm just being that accordingly. So I'm just adding
a little color. The same bubble sheet at the bottom portion of
this flower like this. Now that we're done
adding the detail, we'll again just use a similar
process for Domo flowers. So I'll just add one more flower here with the same or per share. And I will be again using
the same layering process, but this flower, as well as
for the upper pink flower. So just keep observing
how I'm doing it and do it accordingly
along with me also, this technique is
slightly difficult. If you don't get written
first go don't worry. Also, if you are not getting
the transparent effect. It even after doing
the technique right, then the problem might be with the colors
that you're using, because this will only
be happening rightly if you are using either artist or professional
grade watercolor. So you will need to take that. Also. It might be
difficult if you're not using at least 4280 or
300 GSM watercolor paper, which is 100% cotton. It will be difficult to
achieve this technique. So in that case, just get the right suppliers
and try it once again, then you'll be able to
achieve this beautifully. So I'll just be repeating
the similar technique here. So just observe what I'm
doing and do it accordingly. You need to be careful
while doing it, Definitely So just to observe carefully
while I'm layering, just watch it slowly. Pause the video if you want, and then keep on
painting simultaneously. Also one thing to
remember, I repeat again, you will need to check if your earlier layer
has completely dried before you go on adding
the upper layer to it. So make sure your
earlier layers are dry and only then IDEO
later layers for this. I'm just complete all your
connections to the flyers. If necessary, just
feel free to turn your people however
you want to get a nice comfortable position for a beautiful free-flowing
continuous stroke. So you can just turn
your paper around, grab a comfortable position, and just make your stroke with that size brush so it will be easier for you
to get a nice thin stroke. And eventually with practice, you will get better with these
strokes. So don't worry. So we'll start with
the leaves now. Just add a little bit of
leaves here and there. I'm using the same
purple color shade lightly with the first wash. I'm just going to keep
the leaf very simple. I'm just going to go
with a light wash first. And I'll just add
a little more of the darker color at the stem and the edge part of the
leaf and let it moves with the earlier color
when it's still wet. That's all that I'm going
to do for the leaf. Not very much of deep technique. Yeah. I just add a
few lines like this. My toothpick. Just add some intricate details
and enhance it. So we'll be using the same
technique for all the leaves. And just keep observing how, which color I'm using, how I'm doing it and do it
accordingly along with me. So with this, we're almost done without being
done by computers. Add a little bit of
detail to the flowers. For that, I'll be using my
darker violet color again. And I'll just add this
central line and a few of the details in the
central portion of the flower to just
highlighted more. So just observer
Hawaii, I'm doing it. I'm just adding a straight line, then some cross lines going up. And I like dots at the
ends of those lines. Start the central detail. So we'll do this for
all three flowers. We are done with yet
another painting, this time using a little
different technique. Hope you enjoyed doing Good to see you in the next lesson. Don't forget to upload your work and leave
a feedback to me.
7. Day 05 : Green Flowers : So we are starting
with a new lesson. This time. We are not doing
exactly a floral designs, so we are doing a
nice leaf design. So I'm starting with my
leaf green color for that, I'll be using olive green color, a darker green shade, and O cobalt blue or light
blue sheet for this. So again, as we did for
the earlier paintings, I am starting with the
bent at the edges. And then in the central part I just go on spreading
it with water. So I posted the leaf
green and then I'm doing my darker green or
the bush and green shade. And in the central
part you can see I'm just dropping some water
with my wet brush, just reading the
colors like this. You can just lift them some of the excess water or
the pain that is there in the central
part and tap it on your tissue paper. In this way. As we did for the
earlier lesson. If you feel that you need to add some more color
to the edges, just go ahead and drop some
more color at the edges. And then just finally legged more with the
central portion. If you feel like there
is too much color, pigment or too much
water in certain areas. Just take your brush and this one lifting the
color or the water. I'm just adding some more
of the darker greens. You could add the
edge. With this. We are done with the
basic leaf structure. So I'll just speak my truth. And with that I'll start adding the veins and
detailing it out more. So starting with the central
line and then going with slightly curvy diagonal
lines like this which are meeting at the central
portion with my toothpick. I'm just marking the groups. You can use any other point, the object that you have
if you don't have to pick, Not a problem like this, I have to mark that and you can see the colors going and
settling in the grooves. And just the wins, everything nicely colored,
dark and highlighted. So if you'll feel to add more color or just
pick up some of the color, just go ahead and do that. And after that, we'll
start with the next leaf. So we're just maintaining
the shape of the leaf. We are keeping it similar
for all the leaves. And we'll go on scattering
different types of leaves throughout the paper. Then we'll just connect
them with an i stem. So for the leaves, I'll be mean using any two
of these three colors, which is the leaf green, the darker green color. And I can also use
a light blue or a cobalt blue to
some of the leaves. So just keep on observing
and painting along with me, the technique that we
are going to be using is going to be the same
for all the leaves. Will start with the painting. We'll just add the two
pig highlight to it. And then if you wish to add some more color or
something more, you can just go
ahead and do that or else you can just start
with the next peak. So that's the
procedure that we're going to follow for
all the leaves. So just keep observing and
then doing along with me. I'll also use the same color
and adds some nice things your leg to add on two little more detail,
this entire painting. So I'll add 34 of these to certain parts
of this entire thing. Just to observe wherever I am, I like that and you can
just do it accordingly. Remember to use only
the tip of your flower, tip of your brush for this because we can get a nice
thin line with that. So just keep your
brush nice AND, and street and touch that up and make the painting to
get a nice thin line. Be very slow winemaking the curves because your
brush tends to bind YOU. This COVID, unlike when you do it with a pencil or sketch
pen, that will not happen. But if you are doing
it with a brush, the brush with paint
and you will get a thicker stroke there when
you go to cough this thing. Remember to go slow, just touch the tip
of your brush to get a very thin
stroke like this. So I'm just going to
touch certain parts, adding few here and one here. I think that's it. With this, we are almost
done with this painting. Hope you enjoyed doing it. This was slightly different
one than the earlier ones. So I really hope you liked it. Don't forget to upload your work and see you again in the
next and the last lesson.
8. Day 06 : Orange Flowers : Okay, so let's start
with our last painting, and this is one of my favorites, so I hope you enjoy
painting it with me. So in this one we'll be using
mainly the oranges shapes. I'm just dropping a few
drops of water in my orange and I am starting with this
vertical stroke right here. And you can see again, I am using a very
watery color, yellow. Let's start with another petal, just mocking the
edge color first. And then I list one, spreading it with water. So just take some
water and read it. And like this, you can
see it's very light. So you can again go on lifting the central portion of the color with your
brush like this. So just slowly go over
your painted surface with your wet brush and just lift up some of the color
like this from here. Okay, I am going with nice vertical strokes and
lifting up the color like this. After that, I again add a little amount of color
and just sharpen the edge. So I'm just adding a
little bit of color here. Just observe the places
in which I'm adding those strokes and do it
accordingly along with me. You can keep on lifting
up the color if you feel that you have
added excess color to it or else you can just add a little color
wherever necessary. So I am just making these
watercolors strokes like this. Just merge it nicely
with the central part. So don't let it look like a very rigid strokes
like them most nicely. But your central
portion of the flower. And after that, use
your toothpick, our secret tool, and just go on making some nice lines
and groups. With that. You will immediately
see that the color is going in these
grooves and you are getting beautiful
veins for the flower. So you can notice I'm making
a central one big stroke. And after that, I'm
just connecting it with some smaller strokes in
the background. Here. I have just to meet
the folded portion of the petal like this
with my toothpick. You can also add a little
amount of color to that portion just to darken it slightly because that person is in
the front like this. So I think now it's much
more clearly visible. Yeah, and then you can go on adding new colors,
strokes like this. So we'll be reading out both the flowers in
the similar ways. Will go on doing the petals
part by part will wait for some parts to try before we start painting with others. And we'll go on
adding the toothpick mocks for the front side
portion of the flowers. Just deter them out more
and highlight them. So you can see I'm going
with the edges clean lines. First. I'm just spreading it with the water in the inside portion. The portion size or the
N in the front have a slightly darker
color pigment tan, which are there at the backside of the rare side of the flower. So just remember that in mind and with that you
will be good to go. So just keep observing
me and let's paint both flowers together with
this beautiful orange color. I'm just quantity
telling it nicely. Just observe carefully and then wondering it accordingly
along with me. Okay, so now I'm slightly take a little amount
of red color. That is the vermillion
tried to color. You can also mix it with the orange color
if you want first. And then I start
detailing with that. Just go with little detail with our smaller,
thinner strokes. So this don't overdo it. Just observe where I am giving those details strokes and just do it accordingly along with me. You can see I am only
giving a tax owed and part. So just be very subtle
whether it be very careful, we don't want them to look like, you know, prominent borders. So just carefully, we'll
be ending this darkening the central portion like
this with my orange and I'll just go and spread it out
with letters, strokes. I'll give you a
better view of this. Yeah, so you can see this
is what we want to achieve. So not too much just in
the central portion, I add a little darker shade. Go ahead with the strokes. You can get a better
view in this flower. Just going with little
amount of red and letting it flow upwards like this. So just recognize me. Just equal out your flower
little bit. And that's it. So we'll just observe where IMD telling it out and
slowly, slowly warm. And in these smaller
strokes, don't overdo this. Don't be overwhelmed by the color and just
don't go on doing it, adding more and more, just
keep your color very limited. We don't want to darken
the entire flower, we just want to highlight
it a little bit. So that's what we're doing here. And then I'll also add some smaller leaves
at the base of this flower with the same color. So you can see how I'm doing it. They are very thin and small. So just having a nice
the pad, the end. So that's what you
are going to do. Or don't go on increasing the size of the leaf even
if the ship is not right, don't worry where it is going to be looking beautiful
with your natural shape. Just remember to
get a nice step. Maybe a bulge at the center. And again, your thing thinner
as it reaches the end. So just with that in mind, make the leaves don't worry
too much about this shape. Make sure that the
sizes smaller. Add a few strokes here and
there, like this simply. And then we can move ahead
and start doing the stem. For this, I'm using a
slightly burnt sienna color. So you can use any
color that you like. I'm using a bonds
in a brown color. You can use any shade of red or brownish to go with
the color scheme. And remember to meet
the stem lines curvy on flowy with one
single stroke, clean. I also remember to make
it as thin as possible. Use the smallest brush
that you have to get a nice thin stem and just
go with a nice clean flow. If you want to use a pencil and sketch out the stem lines
before doing this directly. You can do that as well. But remember to keep them
very light because you don't want them to be visible once
your painting and Stan, let's just doughnut here
and I think I'll just let the steam at the central portion of the earliest stem like this. So again, you can see
I'm making them thinner, so just make the stem thinner. Like this. Yeah. So
after this is done, we'll go ahead and wait for it to dry up
completely forced. And after that, Stan, we'd start with the leaves. So for painting the leaves, I'll leave just using my
plane of a million red color. I use a lot of water for that. And I'll just be in the shape of the leaves with a watery red. Also mean the stems for that. And just go on adding
more leaves like this, connecting them with the stem. You can see how much
amount of water I'm using. So remember to use lots of, lots of water to fathers
because That's what is going to give your
leaves nice transparency. It will look more
pretty when you go over it with a toothpick
to make the wings. So yeah, just
connect them nicely. Let's connect the third one is when centrally. Here. I'm just adding a little
color to the stem, darkening it a bit, and letting it more. Now, let's take the toothpick
and start eating it out. So for that I'm drawing
the central when. And then I'm connecting it from small curvy lines like
this to the center. So you will be able to
see it more clearly when the color goes
and settles onto it. So you can see here. So central part and then
connected like this. Simply, very easy. Okay? Yeah, so these are simple set of
leaves that we did. We can also add
two or three here below with the same process. So just remember to keep
your paint very watery. And then just
connected to the stem. Add one more here. I think we'll just make do here. I feel you don't
have good space for three and it will look much
more better like this. Just make do here. And you can just do delete out in the similar way where the two back with the central vein and other lines
connecting to it. Forward the leaves
will be doing the same again with this toothpick. And then we are here with a nice set of leaves
for our flask. So now I can just add a little, I think a little more elements
or details here and there. For those details,
I will just use the same brown color shear, which we used for the stem. And with that, I'll make a
nice thin line like this. And I just connected
to the central stem. I'll just find one or
two here and there. And then we'll be done
with this painting. You will remember to
make this very nice with clean curves are also
remember to make it thinner. So you can just turn
your paper if you wish, according to your
convenience so that it gets done nicely. I'm also highlighting the
stems of these leaves a bit. I think I'll also add a little amount of
detail here as well. Let's just darken this first. And then we'll add though, like little CoV-2
egg here as well. The bottom, so that space looks
even unlikely, filled up. Again with the same color. Just go slowly with your cough. Make a nice point at the end. And that's it. So let's just add another
smaller one here. With a nice point. I think we are done
with this painting. You can just add a
little bit darker part at the central
portion of the flower if you wish to add
more detail to it. So just slight amount of V inside the central portion of the flags for both the flowers. I'm just adding a few
strokes are going about to just detail
it out a little more. Yeah, I'm with this, we are done with this last
painting of the class. I really hope you
enjoyed the class. Don't forget to leave your feedbacks and
upload your work. Watch the last lesson to see
all the paintings together.
Sanika - Arty Vibes, Artist & Art Teacher
