Watercolor Flower Workshop - Paint Easy Anenomes with Me!

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to this watercolor workshop. I will show you how I painted these anatomy flowers with a limited palette. My name is oral lesson Jack. I'm a self-taught artist and I've been painting with watercolors for over 20 years. I'm so glad you're here joining me today and I hope you have fun painting along with me. Throughout each step of the painting, I will demonstrate fundamental watercolor techniques, such as mixing brights, darks, and greens from a limited palette. Also painting wet into wet brush work and more to help you create your own beautiful colorful anatomy flowers. This is a beginner level course, but even if you are a little more experienced with watercolors, you may learn something new. So I hope you enjoy following along. I included a supplies list, but you can use whatever supplies you have on hand. Also included is an outline that you are welcome to print and trace. I also want to let you know that if you have any questions, please message me and I'll be happy to help. If you'd like to share your painting, please post it in the discussion. And you can also post it on Instagram to just tag me at, at, or a lesson Jack. So I will be sure to see it and complimented. Now gather your supplies and let's paint these anatomy flowers. 2. Part 1 - First Layer: Starting with Quinacridone, Rose and phthalo blue and very concentrated puddles without too much water. And I'm also adding opera pink mixed with phthalo blue. I'm going to start with the top flower by painting a watery doughnut around the center. Then I clean and white my brush to smooth out the hard edge in the middle. Using the watery pink again, I fill in the entire shape of the flower, leaving little bits of white paper showing. Now I'm adding dark purple around the edges of the petals, followed by quinacridone rose. This area is still very wet, so the colors will blend very softly. I'm adding concentrated purple at the bottom, since the flower in front of it will be lighter and it will contrast against this one. While I wait for that first flower to dry, I can paint anything that touches it or the paint will flow into that area. So let's get to the bottom. Pinning it the same way with the watery pink donut and smoothing it out with my damp brush. Then I fill in the entire shape with the watery pink, leaving a few little whitespaces. The flower is nice and wet now, so I add some purple, especially towards the top behind the central flower. Now I'm adding some quinacridone rose and then some darker violet again to let them mix. You will notice with watercolor that it dries a lot lighter than it looks when it's wet. So I am taking care to make the paint fairly concentrated and wiping some of the pigment away from the centers of the flowers while they're still wet. I want a little bit more whitespace for the next step. So I'll just use my tissue to blot and lift that wet paint. I have to wait for these two flowers to dry before I paint the center flower. So I will show you how I did that one in the next lesson. 3. Part 2 - Second Layer: The first two flowers are mostly dry, or most importantly, completely dry where they touched the center flower. So I will repeat the doughnut shape this time making it a little larger than wipe the inside line with my damp brush to blend the pigment and then fill in the flower with the watery pink. This one is going to be more brightened pink around the edges of the petals so that it really stands out from the other purple and enemies behind it. I had a ring of purple in the center and then use the tip of my brush to help it blend outwards towards the tips. Now for some detailing of the top flower, I use my rigger brush loaded with dark purple to paint some delicate veins from the center and some smaller ones on the very outer edges. And I do the same thing on the edges of the petals. I also make thicker lines that extend all the way from the edge where the valleys are to help them look more like they are separate petals. And I repeat the same thing on the bottom flower. The center flower is now dry and I just create a dark pink for those veins. And I repeat the same process. I will finish these flowers and really make them pop in the next lesson. 4. Part 3 - Finishing the Flowers: Now we can complete the flowers by adding their centers. I'm creating a really dark, nearly black mix using French ultramarine and pyro scarlet with just a touch of phthalo blue. I'm loading up my brush and painting right on the dry paper in the center of the top flower, leaving a highlight near the top. I'm adding these little dots around the center, just using the tip of my brush. I'm trying to make them look a little haphazard and disorganized, so they have more of an organic look. Then I switched my rigger brush and using that same dark color, make the connections from the center to the tiny little dots. And I just repeat this for each of the other flowers. The next and final lesson, I will show you how I painted the surrounding leaves and stems. 5. Part 4 - Painting the Leaves: I mixed a green using all cool primaries. And I'm going to start by painting in the jagged and enemy leaves around the top flower. Looking a little dark. So I add a bit more yellow to the mix. So I add it and let it mix with the other one on the dry paper. Make sure you paint carefully around that flower petal. I'm turning the paper so I don't smear that wet area. And I'm painting this leaf and the next several the same way, alternating shades of green within each. I'm painting the simple vine with more of a dark blue-green shade, just filling in the outline and leaving a few white areas. I add a little bit more yellowy green while it's still wet to brighten it up. Now the rest of these penciled in leaves are painted just like the ones before. But at the end I decided I need a little bit more to balance the composition. So I add a few more tiny leaves, and I will show you that at the end of this video. I decided I didn't like that gap on the lower-left side. So this is where I add those little leaves to balance the composition. I just use the light green value and just drew them on with my brush. Now one here at the top to tie in with the ones we painted down below on the other side. Then it's finished. This final painting looks more difficult than it really is. But if you take it slow step-by-step, you will end up with a beautiful and enemy painting. 6. Conclusion and Next Steps: Congratulations on finishing this watercolor workshop. I hope you enjoyed it and that you learned something new. If you give this a go, don't forget, you can post it in the course discussion or tag me on Instagram. Again, if you have any questions or feedback, message me or post in the discussion. If you enjoyed this course, I would also really appreciate it if you gave a review for me on Skillshare so that I can help reach new people who are wanting to learn more about watercolor painting. Thanks again for letting me be your teacher for this project. And I hope you join me in another course on Skillshare or through my website. Bye for now.