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1. Intro: Hello, hello and welcome to my watercolors flowers
class number 2. First of all, I'm
going to show you the beautiful reference photo
that inspired this class. This is by Aaron burden and
I found it on Unsplash. And in this class
we are trying to recreate a version of
this beautiful photo. We are turning this photo
into this kind of painting. And in doing so, we will learn lots of wet on wet technique and
painting in layers. My name is Lisa Hoffman
and I am Skillshare taught watercolor
artist as my day job. I work in IT, but in the evenings or turned
into a watercolor artist. I have done a few Skillshare
classes previously. On the screen you can
see a list of them. You can also find
me from Instagram. Here are some photos of
the paintings that we are creating in my other
Skillshare classes. So please do check
them out as well, if anything looks
interesting to you. Okay, but I think
that's enough about me and let's start painting.
2. Materials: It all starts with
good-quality watercolor paper. I'm using cold pressed to
100% cotton Arches paper. And I've caught 11
page into four pieces. So it's roughly about
ten by 15 centimeters. So it's like a postcard size. Then you will need a
mixing palette for mixing your colors than two
jars of clean water. Masking tape from
any hardware store, a pencil and an eraser. Then you will need
a few brushes. I'm using these three
by four inch flat brush for waking my background. And then I have different
sizes of round brushes, for example, Sikhs and size two. But you can use
whatever you have. Then let's take a look at
the colors. I'm using. Yellow ocher will try
marine blue, chromium, yellow hue deep, so that's
basically an orange. Then I have Payne's gray
and brilliant blue violet. I'm also using this
little spray bottle for wetting my colors. When I almost forgot
to mention that we are also using white gouache or white watercolor to add
some splashes at the very end. Okay, You're still a list
of all the materials. Go get your stuff and
let's start painting. And hey, don't worry, if you don't have
all the same colors, you can use whatever you have.
3. Sketching: Let's start by
attaching our paper firmly to some kind
of background, for example, table or
if you have a piece of cardboard like I do,
you can use that. Remember the press down, take a few times so
that it is attached properly so that there won't be any flaking of colors
underneath the tape. Although that quite often
happens at least for me, but it doesn't really matter. Either way. That's art. Okay, let's then
start sketching. We are drawing two flowers. So in a sense, this is a very simple sketch. But at least when I was
drawing this a few times, I noticed that it's
quite hard to get the PayPal in the right shape. At least it was hard for me. So try it a few times and I'm
sure you're gonna make it. I am first drawing the flower that is bigger
of the two of them. I'm starting with the
outer shape of the flower. And after that, I will
start adding the petals. I wasn't quite satisfied with the shape that the flower
hat on the right side, so I decided to erase that. But now I've started adding
the petals in the middle. There will be two pickups
in the middle and they form almost
like a heart shape. And then I'm adding two
smaller petals on the side. Like this. Taking a few
trials and errors for me, but I have my eraser nearby
and I'm not afraid to use it. It looks like I'm finally
happy with the first flower, so I will now start
drawing the second flower. It's slightly smaller
than the first one, and I will draw it here on the left side of
the first flower. And now it's done. So let's start painting
the background next.
4. Painting the background: Let's start painting
the background. Next. I have already added
some yellow ocher and also ultramarine blue
on my mixing palette. And I've added a generous
amount of water to them. Now I'm taking some orange
and also ultramarine. And I'm mixing a green color
with those two colors. I am actually mixing
two green colors. I'm using orange and
blue for both of them. But I'm adding more
water to one of those mixins and less
water to the other one. Now it's time to wet the paper. I'm using this flat
brush for wetting it with everything
except for the flowers. So everything else you can wet but don't touch
the flowers yet. Okay, that's done. And now I'm taking a size, maybe a size ten round
brush or size six. And I start painting
the background. I'm using yellow ocher, the one that had quite a
generous amount of water. And I'm creating a sky which has a white
spot in the middle. So that is the sun where
the lightest, strongest. I'm adding yellow
ocher all around it, but nothing in the middle. I think I'll add a bit more pigment to the yellow ocher that I
have diluted with water, water because it was
a bit too light. So I'm adding a
bit more pigment. And I added in the
upper corner and try to blend it to the pink that I have already
added to the paper. Next, take your
ultramarine blue and start adding it on the
left side of the paper. I try not to mix the blue and the yellow curve so that the
color won't turn greenish. I tried to keep them a bit
separated from each other. And next I will take more
pigment from the pan, and I will add it to the corner. And then I will blend
that color with the color that is
already on the paper. So I tried to make the corners a bit more intense. Colors. Then the color gets glider. The more we go to the
middle of the painting. Once the color is
blended enough, I will start creating
small sunrise. And I will do that by
cleaning the brush and then dabbing it dry
on a piece of paper. And then I will just
make brushstrokes like this from the center
towards the cheese. And remember to clean
your brush in between so that you won't get
your colors mixed. I will do the same here
on the blue color. Next, we'll add some
greenery on the background. Take the lighter, take
the green where you have added more water
and start dabbing, dabbing little
dots on the paper. These are alike a
bushes and grass and trees that are somewhere
far in the background. So we want the color
to be very light. Please note that your background should still be wet
when you are painting the background because otherwise the color won't spread nicely. Now I'm adding a
few tree trunks. On the background. I have a mixed a
bit of ultramarine blue with the yellow ocher, and I'm just painting a couple of tree trunks
on the back ground. Take next the more
intense green color, and start creating a
layer of background. Brush, bushes and trees that
are slightly closer to us. So that's why they are darker. Your background
should still be wet. So if it's not, then you
should not be doing this step. But if your background
has dried already, you can wait until
the entire paper is dry and then you
can very carefully re wet the whole
background and then continue doing this
background layers. Now I'm picking a
bit of Payne's gray and I will want to create a
more intense green color. I'm mixing Payne's gray with the green mixture
that I created. In the beginning. I'm
adding also more blue and orange because my
green started to run out. I'm adding a few dots of orange still on the
backprop course, I have added so
much green that now the orange is barely visible
from the back ground. So just a few dots here and
there on the right side. And I will blend it with a
clean dry brush like this. Now the background is ready. So let's wait for
this to dry entirely, and then let's start
painting the flowers.
5. Painting the flowers - part 1: Let's start painting
the flowers. Next. I'm taking some violet and I added just a hint of
ultramarine blue to that. And I have a quite intense
color and I'm adding it to the edges of one
petal like this pen. I'm cleaning my brush and I'm
wetting it just slightly. And with that damp brush, I am, I am spreading
the color like this. Then I will basically create rest of the petals
in a similar way. But I will still add a bit of maybe some Payne's gray
on the edge like this. I want to add a few more
darker spot on the paper. But after this, I will work on a next petal and make
sure that you pick some petal that is not next to the pedal
that you were just painting because we don't
want the colors to spread. So I'm here again
adding violet on the edges and then I'm spreading the color with a
clean, damp brush. Let's denote a bit
of Payne's gray to some places like this. The first petal
has already dried, so I will next start working on the pedal
that is next to it. And again, I'm adding violet on the edge like this and now
albedo on the bottom as well. And then I will start spreading the color once again with
a clean, damp brush. I want the top of these
petals to be very light because the
sunlight shining onto it. So I tried to make it
just so that there's just a hint of violet on
the top of this petal. Next I will add again
Payne's gray to the bottom, and I will blend it
with the violet. It's create rest of the
pathos in a same way. Okay, the first layer, of course, is now
done on the flowers. And the next little bit of orange color to the
flower stems like this. I just realized that I
haven't added any color on the petals that
are on the back, so I will just add a hint
of color to those as well. They need to be very light, so I am wiping off
the extra color. One more petal here on the left side of
the bigger flower. And after that, the first, first layer is done. Let's wait for everything
to try and then we can start painting the second
layer of the flowers.
6. Painting the flowers - part 2: Okay, now the first
layer should be dry. So let's start adding a second layer and
more intense colors. I have taken now, violet and there's
no water in it, so it's really intense
color and I'm adding it to the base of the
flower like this. And then I'm taking a
clean brush that is slightly damp and I'm spreading and blending the
color to the background. Then keep adding
more intense colors to the other pathos as well. And wherever you see that, it would be nice to have
more intense color. Next, I am taking Payne's
gray straight from the pan. And I am adding it to the base of the flower
and to the stem. So I'm getting
these almost green, green, very dark green color. When I add Payne's gray
on top of the orange that we added in
the previous step. Then I'm taking a beat of beautiful water or
actually I'm cleaning my brush and the
brush is now damp, so I am blending the
color to the background. And I'm leaving one
part of the stem untouched so that the orange
color is really visible. In that spot. Continue to add in more intense colors
to the other flower SVM. Then you can add Payne's
gray also to the stem of the other flower in a similar way that we
did the first stem. After that, I think
I want to add even more intense
colors do the flowers. So I'm mixing
violet with Payne's gray to get even
more darker violet. And I'm adding that to the board on pause or to
the base of the flower. And then I'm blending that
again to the previous layers. Okay, The flowers are
looking very nice now. So I think what's left is adding some details and
then also adding some grass on the front, ground off the paint.
7. Adding grass and details: Okay, we are getting
near to the end now. And now what's left to add some leaves and grass
on the front ground, as well as some final details. I have now mixed again some green color with
orange and blue. And I've added a
bit of water to it so that it's quite transparent. And I've started adding some leaves on the
floor of Kraut. So keep adding leaves and
crash any way you want. Next, we are doing the same, but with darker color. I'm using Payne's gray. You could make a bit of blue and orange to
the Payne's gray, but I'm using just Payne's gray. And I'm creating more more
leaves and more grass. Next I'll add a bit of
details to the flowers. I'm using Payne's gray
again and I'm just trying to make the
petals more visible. So I'm adding a bit
of Payne's gray on the edges of the petals. Then maybe a couple
of more dress. These are leaves over here
because it looked a bit. Beer. I think after that. I am taking white gouache. You can also use
white watercolor. And let's add a bit
of white details. Next. Lot of bit of white here on the
stems of the flowers. Only on the left
edge where I left a bit of orange
color to be visible. And then I will add a
few strokes of white to the sum of the
grasses like these. And then as a final step, I will add some splashes. Bought a piece of
paper on top of your flowers so
that the splashes want to go on top of your
flower and flush away. Then let's move the paper and do some splashes on the
other side as well. Beat marsh clashes
on the other side. And then I think I am
done to move the cape. And let's see how it turned out. Hey, thanks for everyone
for joining in. I hope you upload
your class project and leave me some comments
about this class. I hope to make better
classes. So look for that. I need your input and
comments and critique. But hey, thanks
for joining and I hope to see you again
in my next class.