Watercolor Fruits and Florals Wreaths for Beginners

1. About the Class: Today's watercolor class, we're going to learn how to paint fruits and floral wreaths. [MUSIC] Hi, my name is Joly, and I'm a watercolor artist based in the Philippines. I'm also known as Jolypoa on Instagram, and that's where I post my floral paintings and also my process videos. I am currently pregnant and over the past few weeks, I have been painting the fruit size of my baby just to document his growth. I love painting florals and I thought of combining these two elements into a wreath, just like this. But obviously, you don't need to be pregnant to enjoy and learn from this class. Doing this personal project really fueled my creativity. This is an experience that I would like to share with all of you. In this class, we will talk about the materials that we need. Aside from watercolor, we will also learn about using white gouache and how it adds another dimension to our floral wreath. I will also be giving you tips on how to form a wreath and also where to put the fruits and the florals in such a way that they will complement each other. Before we dive into the class projects, we will learn how to paint eight different types of fruits individually, and also more than eight floral elements that we will also be using in the floral wreath. Everything is filled in realtime, so you'll be sure that you can follow along as I paint. This class is suitable for beginners or for seasoned artists who want to try something new and who want to fuel their creativity. After learning how to paint fruits and florals. At the end of the class, you'll be able to create five different class projects. You'll be able to learn how to paint a lemon wreath, avocado wreath, a peach wreath, berry wreath, and a mango wreath. This was once a personal project that is now a class, and it really inspired me to create something new and just get out of my comfort zone. I hope that you'll enjoyed this class. Let's get started. 2. Tips Before You Start: [MUSIC] Let's talk about some tips before you start painting. You can download the class project photos as a reference. I have uploaded them in the resources section. Here are some examples and I will upload them individually so you can download the photos that you want to use. Let's go to tip Number 1. Make a rough sketch using circles to represent the main elements. Here's an example. Before you start painting, draw a round shape first as the main base of the floral wreath and then draw some circles that will represent the fruits. Next, you can try to draw some circles representing the flowers. I suggest that you try to create main elements in different sizes to make it look more interesting; so some flowers will be bigger, some will be smaller. The spaces between the main elements will be the leaves and the fillers. Another tip for you is to make a pattern when creating a wreath. This will make it easier for you to conceptualize a wreath. Here is an example for you. I started out the pattern with the lemon, the rose, and then the hydrangea flower. I just repeated the same pattern in the lower half of the wreath. I suggest trying out making a pattern if you are just starting out with watercolor. Tip Number 3, I'm going to show you different examples of how I placed my fruits in the floral wreath. In this wreath, I put the three pears in a triangle position. This gives it a balanced look to the wreath. But to make it look more interesting, I decided to make one pear a sliced looking pear, and then the other two are whole pears. In this wreath, the three peaches are placed beside each other and they are on the left side of the wreath. When you look at this wreath, your eyes will focus on the left side where the peaches are. You can also change the placement of the peaches; it can be three on the top, or three on the right, or maybe three on the bottom. Another example is to put the fruits diagonally across each other just like in this wreath. You can try to vary the shape of the fruit. Some can be sliced, some can be hole or you can also try to paint some fruits that are ripe, some are not yet ripe. Tip Number 4 is to choose the color combination that you want for your wreath. One tip is to determine the color combination depending on the color of the fruit that you have chosen. In this wreath, the lemon is a bright yellow color and then I added some muted roses just to give a balance to that very bright yellow color so it's not too overwhelming. I then added the yellow-green hydrangea because the yellow-green color is close to the yellow color in the color wheel. Analogous colors are colors that sit beside each other in the color wheel. In this example, the avocado is green, and so I added different shades of blue flowers beside it. Because they are analogous colors, they look really good together in a wreath. Another way to choose colors for your wreath is to choose complimentary colors. These are colors that sit across each other. As you can see, yellow sits across violet. In this wreath, the mangoes are yellow and I decided to add some violet flowers and also some fillers. I also added some orange flowers that look good together with the yellow mangoes because these two colors sit near each other in the color wheel. So those are my tips. I'm pretty sure that you can do all the class projects. Now let's move on to the next video. [MUSIC] 3. Materials: [MUSIC] Let's discuss the materials that we need for this class. First, let's talk about the paper. I'm using Saunders Waterford High White and cold pressed. This is 300 GSM, that is the thickness of the paper. It's also 100% cotton paper and this is in a block form, which means that all sides are glued. Only one part right here is not glued so that's how we will take out one sheet and I'm going to demonstrate it to you guys so that you can see how to use this watercolor block. One of the reasons why a lot of artists prefer using a watercolor block is because it prevents your painting from warping or buckling while you are painting. But of course, there's a downside. This is more expensive than a loose sheet. To start, I would suggest that you buy a large sheet of watercolor paper, and then just cut it into smaller pieces for practice. If you don't have 100% cotton paper, just use any watercolor paper. It would be best if you could find a thick 300 GSM watercolor paper so that it doesn't buckle as much. That's how you take out one sheet from the watercolor block. Let's move on to the watercolor paints, and for the paint, sometimes it comes in tubes, sometimes in half pans. This is a Korean brand called Shinhan PWC. It's an artist grade watercolor paint. I prefer pouring them into half pans like this. Artist grade paints are more pigmented and it flows better compared to student grade paints. But of course, don't worry, you can use student grade paints for this class as well. One of my go-to brushes is the silver brush black velvet, Size 6 and 8 round brush. When choosing a brush, look for a brush that can hold a lot of water, but at the same time, it can still maintain its pointy tip, which is very important when you're painting some florals. Next is a kneaded eraser. Of course, you can use your regular eraser. I just find it easier to use this and also it's cleaner to erase the pencil markings. Then we also need a pencil for sketching our wreath ends of the fruits and florals as well. Next, we need some clean water and you can use any jar that you have. We also need some tissue paper to blot out the excess moisture in the air when we're painting. We also need a mixing palette. This is just the lid of my paint palette. You can use a ceramic palette or even just an ordinary ceramic plate that you use for dinnerware. Lastly, we need white gouache, I'm using the brand Holbein. You can use a different brand as well. Or if you don't have gouache, you can use poster paint, or you can also use a white gel pen. [MUSIC] That's everything that we need, we can now proceed to painting. [MUSIC]see 4. How to Use White Gouache: Now let's talk about gouache. What is gouache? I would say that gouache is something in-between watercolor and acrylic. It comes out in a creamy form like this. I'm going to squeeze out a little. With gouache, you can paint some opaque strokes. You can add some water just to dilute it a little bit. Once the gouache is dry, you can also re-wet it, unlike acrylic once an acrylic paint dries, you cannot re-wet it anymore. Let's dip our brush in the water jar and tap the excess water out. I'm just going to mix this gouache on my palette, we want a creamy consistency. For me, it's supposed to coat the bristles in my brush. It honestly takes practice to get the correct ratio of water and gouache paint. Let me show you what it looks like when we achieve the right consistency. I'm just going to paint a simple leaf. As you can see, that leaf is really opaque. The paper that I'm using here is a black watercolor paper by Stonehenge, Aqua. You can also use different colored paper. Some people like using hot-press paper for their gouache artwork. The hot-pressed paper will have a smoother texture compared to cold-press paper. With gouache, you usually have a very clean edge when you're painting some florals or leaves. Right here, I'm just showing you some examples of fillers that you can add to your wreath. I love adding gouache to my watercolor paintings, that's because it gives more depth to the floral wreath. We can paint some four-petal flowers, some berries, some fillers with small dots like this. Something that I learned from painting with white gouache is that it dries easily compared to watercolor. My tip is just to squeeze a small amount of white gouache paint. You don't need to mix an entire batch if you are just painting some white details in your wreath. A sign that you have a good consistency of white gouache is that you're able to paint seamlessly and you don't have dry parts. Now let me show you what it looks like if there's too much water in your gouache mixture. Right here, I'm just adding more water to the gouache paint, and then let's just try to paint another leaf. As you can see, this mixture is quite runny. When we try to paint it you'll still see the black watercolor paper underneath, and it doesn't look even all throughout the leaf. You'll see some patchy areas, and that means that our consistency is not correct. It looks really different compared to the first few florals that we painted. I just squeeze a small amount of white gouache again. I'm going to show you that you can try to layer gouache as well. You can try to paint on top of the previous paintings that you did. Sometimes I do this if I feel like the gouache did not set properly or if it was too transparent. You can just go over the first layer and you can also try to fix the shape of some petals or leaves. That was just a very quick introduction to gouache. This is such a fun medium to try, I hope that you will also enjoy adding some white gouache details in your florals leaves. 5. How to Paint a Lemon: [MUSIC] Let's start with a lemon. A lemon has an oval shape and it has pointy tips on two ends. I'm just going to grab some water and this is a Size 6 brush. Let's start filling in this lemon shape with water. We are going to do a wet-on-wet technique. Now I'm going to grab my permanent yellow light and just going to mix that onto my palette. Then let's just drop it in the lemon. Let's just slowly fill it in. I'm outlining this lemon. Then I'm going to rinse my brush and diffuse some of the yellow parts in the center. Now let's just blend that in and then let's grab some permanent yellow deep. I'm just going to drop that in at the bottom. This will look like the shadow of the lemon. If you don't have permanent yellow deep, you can also use yellow orange. The reason why I wanted to do a wet-on-wet technique is so that it's easy to blend two colors in the lemon, so we have permanent yellow light and yellow deep. I'm just going to grab some greenish yellow or if you don't have this color, you can use sap green, just add a little bit more yellow. You can also skip this part if you want to, if you want a really ripe lemon. Right now I think I want to add just a little bit of green just so that it shows that it's not yet fully ripped. This is optional. I'm just going to grab some burnt umber and then I'm going to blot out the excess paint in my brush, and I'm just going to put more shadow into this lemon. Then let's rinse our brush and I'm going to blot out the excess water. I'm going to diffuse that burnt umber that I just painted. As you can see, I just painted just a line. Just wanted to put more emphasis on the outline of the lemon. That will look like a nice shadow. We're done with the whole lemon. Now let's move on to the lemon slice. You can draw a circle before painting or you can freehand the shape of the slice. Let's start with the color permanent yellow light. I'm just going to mix that up onto my palette. Then let's paint the outline of this lemon slice. I made this mixture a bit thick, just bolder in color. I'm not so strict about the shape. It shouldn't be a perfect round slice. Then let's just paint a dot in the center, just so I know the center of this lemon slice. This will serve as our guide when we are painting these small wedges. They look like small triangles. Let's paint the outline first and then I'm going to create some thin strokes inside. I'm also leaving some white spaces. Don't worry about the white gaps. We're going to fix that later. Let's just paint another wedge right beside it. Again, I'm drawing the outline and then let's just paint some random thin strokes inside, leaving some white spaces. You also want to change the value of this yellow. You want some of the wedges to be lighter. I just dip my brush into my water jar and took out the excess water in my brush. As you can see, now I'm painting with a lighter yellow color. Let's just do that all around until we fill in this lemon slice. I'd like to keep the wedges quite wet because I would like to add some more color after we finish this. Onto the last wedge. As you can see, it looks really pretty if we have different values in this lemon slice. Some are lighter, some are a bit darker. Now let's grab some permanent yellow deep or you can use yellow-orange as well. Then while the wedges are still wet, I'm going to drop that color in. This will make this lemon slice look more interesting and there's more contrast. Let's drop that into some more areas. You can also add some of those yellow-orange color on the outline of this lemon slice. Now let's drop in some greenish yellow or you can use sap green onto the outline of this lemon slice. Of course, this is optional. I'm only adding this just to make it look more interesting and show that some parts are still not as ripe. I feel like we need to add more contrast. I'm just going to add some more color. I feel like it just makes it look, this lemon slice, more juicy. Just keep in mind that every fruit will, of course, look a little different and they're not all perfectly shaped. Don't worry too much about it. Right now I'm just fixing some areas and then we're done. Let's move on to the next fruit. [MUSIC] 6. How to Paint a Mango: [MUSIC] Let's move on to painting a mango. I know that mangoes will look different in different places, but what I'm going to paint today are mangoes that we have here in the Philippines. I'm going to start with a letter s and then on the right side, just draw a letter c. Then you'll be able to create the shape of a mango. I just use a regular pencil. Then right now, I'm just grabbing some clean water. Let's just fill in this mango. I love using the wet on wet technique so that the colors will blend seamlessly. Then let's get some permanent yellow light. I'm going to drop in this color and just let it flow in the wet surface. I'm going to rinse my brush and just tap off the excess water. Then let's just blend this part over here. You can also try to fix the shape of this mango. Now, you can leave this as is so that it will look like a ripe mango, but today I'm going to add a little bit of green. This is sap green. I'm just going to drop this into this yellow mango just to make it look like some parts are still unripe. Let's get our tissue and just blot out the excess paint in our brush. Then I will just slowly fix that green area and fade it and move it a little. The reason why I want to blot my brush first before working on that green area is because I don't want to introduce more water into this mango and disrupt any of the paint. Let's grab some burnt umber. I'm just going to put a stem. But before we paint, I'm just going to blot out the excess paint in my brush so that it doesn't spread too much on this wet mango, because this mango is still a little bit wet. Now we are done. [MUSIC] 7. How to Paint an Avocado: [MUSIC] Let's paint some avocados. You can try to sketch the shape of the avocado first. It's quite narrow at the top, and then as you go towards the bottom it becomes wider. Let's grab some greenish yellow. If you don't have this color, you can just mix your yellow and sap green. Just add a lot of water so that it will be diluted. Now, let's paint the inside of this avocado. I'm just going to fill in this avocado with a greenish yellow mixture and I'm not going to paint on the seed part. As you can see, there's like an oval shape in the middle. This is a sliced avocado, you can see what is inside. You can also paint the base with just clean water first and then add the greenish yellow color. Now, let's grab some sap green, mix this color in the pallet and then let's paint the outline of the avocado. I'm going to test it out first, as you can see, there's a bloom and it means that there's too much paint in my brush. I just had to use my tissue paper and blot out the excess. Now, it doesn't spread as much. I have more control. I'm going to continue outlining this avocado and then we will clean the sides up. We are done with this. Then now let's grab our jar and I'm going to rinse my brush and dab the excess water and I'm just going to slowly fade the edges. As you can see it's starting to look cleaner and I blotted out the excess moisture from my brush so that I can have more control in fixing the sap green area. That was easy. Well, now we're going to wait for this to dry before we add the seed part. But while waiting for that, I'm going to work on the avocado that looks whole. I'm going to start by painting the inside of the avocado with just water. While the base is still wet, we're going to grab some Hooker's green and I'm going to drop it in the avocado. We're not going to paint the entire thing with Hooker's green because the base is wet. As you can see, the colors look soft, and then you can grab some sap green and paint some areas with sap green. I'm adding different shades of green just to make it look more interesting so that it doesn't look flat. You can try to combine the two colors in some areas. You can also fix the shape while it's still wet. Let's add a bit more definition to this avocado. I'm just going to grab some Hooker's green again. I'm going to dip my brush into the paint and just slowly make a stroke on the outline of the avocado. It doesn't look enough, so I'm going to add a bit more Hooker's green. This is more concentrated as you can see, if this will look like the shadow of the avocado. You can try to start off dab your brush and create a texture. This is optional again. This is just burnt umber. I'm going to put a little bit of it towards the bottom of the avocado, just to add some texture, just some color as well. I'm letting it blend with the green color underneath. I'm also dabbing my brush just leaving some small dots that will fade away and it will look great when it dries. Now, that we're done with this whole avocado, I'm going to go back to the half sliced avocado, and I'm going to paint the center or the seed with just clean water. I'm going to add some burnt umber in the center and I will just let it flow within the seed area, the oval shape. If you feel like there's too much water in your brush, just feel free to blot it out using your tissue paper. To add some shadow to this seed I'm going to grab some sepia and you're going to drop it in on the lower left, bottom. This will look like a shadow of the seed. Let's rinse our brush, take out the color, and then just blot out the excess water and then let's try to lift the color and create a highlight on the upper right. When you're lifting that area, it means that you're taking out some of the color. Because we did this technique, it looks a lot better, it looks a little 3D and I guess we're done. It was that easy. We can now move on to painting some peaches. [MUSIC] 8. How to Paint a Peach: [MUSIC] Let's paint some peaches. I'm going to do a sliced beach and a whole peach. To start, you can sketch a fat heart shape, or we can do this freehand. Let me start by rinsing my brush. I will grab some permanent yellow deep and I will add more water to this mixture. I will start with painting an oval shape. Let me just try to fix this shape. Then let's grab some more paint, and I'm going to paint a C stroke right beside that oval and I'm leaving a white space. Then towards here at the tip, we can fix it and make that pointy. Let's go around the shape and just try to fix it and because this first layer is still wet, it's easy to fix the shape, we can grab some permanent rose. I'm just going to dilute it, and then let's just drop in some color. We might add some more later. I'm building the color of this peach and I want to intensify the color so I'm going to add some yellow-orange. You can also mix the yellow-orange and permanent rose and just drop that in. It looks like we need to intensify this some more so I'm going to mix the yellow-orange and permanent rose again and this time I'm going to make it a bit darker or bolder. I'm trying to concentrate the color towards the middle of this peach. Now, let's add some permanent rose and I'm going to just drop that on the outline, but it's spreading too much so I just plotted out the excess paint in my tissue paper. Grab some more permanent rose, and I'm going to mix it again with the yellow-orange. This is building the color of this peach. Let's add this color in the middle. Again, if it's spreading too much, just plot out your brush so that you'll have more control when spreading the color. I'm trying to add more concentrated color in the middle just to make it look like the shadow. Let's intensify this some more, so I'm going to mix another round of permanent rose and yellow-orange, and drop it in the middle of the peach. To complete this look I'm going to grab some burnt umber and just put a stem on this peach. Let's move on to painting the sliced peach. Right here, I just drew another heart shape. It looks like a fat heart, but right now, let's just fill it in with some water. I added some color to my brush, but you can start with just clean water. My brush has a little bit of a yellow-orange color and as you can see, I am avoiding the center again. We will be putting some details in the center later. Now let's grab a bold yellow deep color or if you don't have this, just use yellow-orange. Just let it further out into the wet surface, and again, we are avoiding the center. Now, let's dab our brush into a tissue paper so that we can lift off some of the colors and create a highlight and then let's grab some permanent rose. I'm going to drop that on the outline of this sliced peach, and if you feel like it's spreading too much, just blot your brush on the tissue paper. For the center, let's grab some crimson lake and I want it to be a bold color. Let's dab our brush in the center of this peach. I'm just painting some fuzzy strokes and stamping my brush and still leaving some white spaces. Then, let's try to add some of those crimson lake towards the edges, so that it will bleed into the yellow-orange color. We're done with the center and right now I'm just trying to fix some of those crimson lake that's faded into the yellow-orange part. Then you can also add a little bit of color on the outline of this peach. If you don't have crimson lake, permanent rose is okay, just make it really dark so that it looks good as the center of this sliced peach. I decided to go back to the whole peach and added some more permanent rose just to intensify some of the areas and just give it a bit more contrast. We are done. [MUSIC] 9. How to Paint a Banana: Let's paint a banana. What we need to do is we need to draw two see curves that are parallel to each other. You can just try to close off the tips. Then let's do a wet on wet technique. I'm just going to paint the inside with just clean water. Then let's grab some permanent yellow light and let's drop that in. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value and be able to paint a lighter shade of yellow. After the permanent yellow light, we are going to grab some sap green. I'm just going to put it right here at the top. This is the stem part and I want to dab my brush right now and just try to blend in that sap green. Try to blur it out and also mix it with the permanent yellow light. We're dabbing our brush and blotting out the excess paint in our brush so that we can easily control the paint on the paper. I'm just going to intensify this yellow a little bit and just grab some more paint. Just create some strokes just to add some texture. Now let's grab some sepia, I'm going to mix it on my palate. It's a little concentrated. I want to put that at the bottom part of the banana and then you can add a little bit on the stem. You can blot out your brush if you feel like the color is too strong. This is looking more like a banana and I have here in my brush some burnt amber. As you can see, I'm trying to paint some streaks, some imperfections on the banana. We often see this when it's about to be fully ripe. Sometimes you will see some dark spots, some imperfections and you can just try to blot out your brush if you don't want it to be too strong. If you don't want to be too dark. But if you want to intensify some areas, you can use sepia. It's a darker brown color. If you want to add some more details, right now I actually added some details while the banana is still wet. As you can see, the strokes look a little faded and for me it looks a bit more natural. I'm just going to grab some sap green and just add a few more just some green strokes. Again, the banana is still wet. With a damp brush, you can try to move around some of the colors. Just make sure that your brush is not too wet. You can grab some burnt amber and add a few more brown streaks. Just a few more finishing touches and we are almost done. [MUSIC] 10. How to Paint a Pear: [MUSIC] Now let's paint a pair. The pair has a similar shape to the avocado except that the top part has a more curve. As you can see, I drew the outline first, just so I have a guide. To start, I'm going to use yellow ocher and I will dilute it in a lot of water, and then let's just paint on the inside of this outline. Let's start painting the slice pair. Let's start creating the outline, I'm grabbing some greenish yellow and I'm going to dab my brush into my tissue paper just to blot out the excess paint, and I'm going to start outlining, you can also grab a little bit of sap green, just mix it up so that it looks interesting. The outer part of a pair, it may have different colors depending on how ripe it is, so you can play around with that, you can add a little bit of orange if you want. I'm going to rinse my brush and plot out the excess water, and then let's try to clean those edges, and I'm going to lightly touch my brush into those parts that have bloomed and I'm doing this so that I have a clean edge. We're done with that and now let's grab some burnt umber. I'm just going to dab the excess paint again and let's try to put the small stem at the top. We're going to add more details later, so for now, I'm going to let this dry and then let's move on to the pair on the right, which is a whole pair. Let me start by wetting the inside of this outline, I'm just using clean water. You're going to do a wet and wet technique again. Let's grab some greenish yellow and drop that in, and I will just slowly spread it. If we don't have greenish-yellow, you can just mix your yellow and sap green. We can also rinse our brush and just paint with a lighter value. It's time to add another color, and this time it's sap green, and I will just slowly blend it with the greenish yellow that we painted and both colors are wet, so it's going to blend seamlessly. Let's add a bit more contrast, so I just got some sap green again, and this time the color is boulder. I'm going to put it around the bottom just to create a shadow. Now let's grab some burnt umber or if you have any brown that you have in your palate and you're going to paint it at the bottom of this pair just to give it more contrast and more shadow. It also makes the fruit look earthy and look more natural. You can also try to add some freckles. I call them freckles, just put some dots on a wet surface, and then let's add a stem. It would be nice if you had a real fruit in front of you as your reference as what I said, you can add different colors it depends on the ripeness of the fruit, so right here just added a little bit of yellow, orange. Let's go back to the slice pair, and it's already dry. I just grabbed some really diluted yellow ocher and we're going to paint a thin line, a vertical line in the middle. Let's move on to painting the seeds. I'm just going to grab some sepia and they want it to be really bold in color. Then you can just put two dots first, that will be my guide. After painting the two dots, you can slowly paint some two oval shapes that will look like seeds. That's it and we are done [MUSIC] 11. How to Paint an Apple: [MUSIC] Let's paint an apple. You can also draw the outline of the apple first, so we need two C shapes. The top part is broader than the bottom part. The first step that we need to do is to wet the inside of the outline. So I'm just using clean water. The first color that we need is permanent red, and I'm just going to grab some color and mix it on my palette. Now let's drop it in and just slowly move our brush. Then following the outline, let's do the left part first. On the right side, I'm going to leave some parts a bit light. I'm going to rinse my brush and I will blot out the excess water. Then let's just move some of the color. As you can see, there's a part there that's still a bit white. I'm doing this because I want a highlight on this apple. Next up, let's grab Crimson Lake and we want a more concentrated mixture. Then we're going to paint this on the left side that will look like the shadow. I want one side to be a little bit darker or more concentrated. Now let's grab some burnt umber. I'm going to mix a more concentrated mixture. Then just dab the excess in my tissue paper. Then let's just paint a tiny stem. We are done. Let's now move on to the sliced apple. To start, I will grab some yellow ocher and I will mix it in my palette and I'll add a lot of water. We want this to really be diluted just so we can get the color of the flesh of the apple. I'm going to fill in the inside of the outline. You can also paint the base with just clean water first and then add the yellow ocher mixture. It depends on your preference. It's now time to paint the outline and I will just grab some permanent red. We want this mixture is to be thick and concentrated. Let's try to paint a small stroke. If it's spreading too much, just dab your brush in the tissue paper. Then you'll see that you'll be able to control the paint in your brush better. Just continue dabbing your brush if you feel like there's too much paint in your brush. Let's go all around the outline of the apple. Now let's rinse our brush and blot out the excess water. Now it's time to clean the edges. This is like sweeping my brush into that edge. I can just clean it and make it smooth and let it blend out. Now let's grab some burnt umber and I'm just going to paint the small stem. After painting the stem, let's wait for this sliced apple to dry and then we'll add some more details. This is already dry and I'm going to grab some sepia and we'll paint some oval seeds. Now, I need to make some yellow ocher, just a very diluted mixture. I'm going to paint a vertical line in the middle of this sliced apple. With a damp brush, I'm just going to slowly fade some areas in this spot because the burnt amber from the stem, it's spreading too much. I think I'd like to clean it a little bit. We are done. [MUSIC] 12. How to Paint a Papaya: Let's paint a papaya slice. From what I've seen, papayas have different shapes, so don't worry too much about it looking so perfect. I've sketched a shape that is a bit similar to an avocado. You can also change it. Then in the middle, I'm just going to quickly draw an oval that will be where we will paint the seeds later. So right now, I'm just going to paint some clean water, and we're going to do some wet and wet technique on the flesh of the papaya. Let's start with the color permanent yellow light and drop that in. We're going to slowly build this color. I'm going to add another color later. Now let's grab some yellow, orange, I'm just going to drop that in. We can blend that with the permanent yellow light. As you can see, I'm trying to avoid the center, keeping the center white because we're going to paint some seeds later. Next, let's grab some vermilion. If you don't have this color, you can just mix your own. You can probably create this by mixing red and yellow. Just add a bit more red into the mixture. I'm concentrating more towards the center of the papaya flesh. There's no time to create an outline for this papaya. I just grab some sap green. I'm just going to outline this. It's spreading a bit too much. I'm just going to dab my brush into my tissue then I slowly move around the edges of the papaya. Now let's grab some sepia and I want this to be concentrated. Let's paint the seeds. I'm going to paint some small circles, just some swirly strokes. It would be nice to slightly touch the yellow orange part. As you can see, the sepia is blending with the yellow orange part. We can also try to rinse our brush to create a lighter value, just to make it look more interesting. As you can see, some of the seeds are lighter in color. Beside it, you can add a darker or more pigmented sepia color. I'm also making sure that there are white spaces in between the seeds so that it won't look like a big blob of dark brown color. Alright, so, it seems like I need to add more sap green for the outline. Let me just fix that. Okay, So we're almost done, and this is one of the fun fruits that are easy to paint. It would probably look so good if you could make a pattern out of this fruit. [MUSIC] 13. Flower Elements Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's start with painting single floral elements for our wreath. With my size 6 brush, I'm going to grab some greenish yellow and mix it on my palette. If you don't have greenish yellow, you can just mix your yellow and sap green. I added more water to dilute this color. This flower that we will paint resembles something like a hydrangea, and this is a loose and easy style. Before we start, let's paint some strokes. I'm going to paint a C stroke, so I'm going to start with the tip of the brush and then slowly press it and move it in a curved manner. You can also try to paint the C curve from left to right and right to left. Another stroke that you can do is to just press your brush onto the paper to create a petal-like shape. To start with this flower, I'm going to create some random C strokes. I'm creating this C stroke with different angles. You can try to also stamp your brush to create a petal-like shape. Let's start with the center of the flower and I'm moving around the center until we create a round shape. One more thing to note is that we need to leave some white space in between those strokes. As you can see, we're not really that strict when it comes to painting those strokes. It doesn't have to look perfect. Then you can also dip your brush in the water jar to create a lighter shade of greenish yellow. You can try to sway your brush. In some strokes, you can use the full belly of the brush. Just press it against the paper to create a different shape. I usually don't worry too much about the first layer because I'm going to add another layer. Let's just wait for this to dry. Once it is dry, we can start adding the second layer. And I have here some sap green. For the second layer. I'm going to paint the same strokes. I'm going to paint some C strokes. I'm leaving some of the greenish yellow strokes underneath visible so you can still see it. If you feel like the color is too dark, you can rinse your brush to create a lighter shade of sap green. Just try to move around this round shape. This flower looks better if the edges of this round shape has some pointy tips that look like petals pointing out. In some areas, you can actually just use the tip of your brush to create a tiny stroke. Sometimes it looks like just a small dot or a small line, and that makes such a big difference. We're done with the second layer, so let's just wait for it to dry. Once it is dry, let's start with the third layer. I have here, some indigo. I'm just going to mix it on my palette and we can mix the sap green and indigo. I'm doing this to create a deeper shade of sap green. For the third layer, I'm not going to paint a lot of these strokes because the third layer will be the shadow of this flower. It will be the shadow in-between the petals. As you can see, this flower looks a lot better because we added more contrast to it. You can also do this in a different color if you would like. In some areas, I actually diluted my brush in my water jar and started painting this bluish-green color. For the edges of the flower, you can try painting a lighter color so that it looks better and it looks very light on the edge and looks soft. We're almost done with this impressionistic style of hydrangea. It can also look like a different flower, so I guess it depends on how you view it. Now let's move on to a different flower. Now, this is what everybody looks forward to. It's a white rose, but we're going to paint using a blue color. I have here some really thick indigo color. This is going to be the center of this rose. I'm going to start with a teardrop shape, but both ends are going to be pointy. It looks like an elongated diamond shape. Then right around that center, we're going to paint some thin C strokes using the tip of our brush. Then I want to rinse my brush, tap the excess water and just use the excess color in my brush to create more C strokes, and this time I'm going to paint some bigger C strokes. I'm almost using the full belly of the brush and pressing it against the paper. Some strokes can be just a line and that's okay. Just make sure that there are wide spaces in between. When you go further out, you want the petals to be slightly bigger. Let's zoom in a bit. Right here, I just dipped my brush in the water jar and I still have some color left on my brush. I'm slowly building the petals, and I'm going around the rose. If you want a lighter or happier shade of blue, you can grab some cerulean blue and add a lot of water, then mix that up with a little bit of indigo. As you can see, the color is slightly different. The color is not as moody compared to pure indigo. If we don't have indigo, you can probably use cerulean blue. I'm just going to continue painting more C strokes and I'm preventing this rose from becoming just a round shape. You want some ruffles on the edges to make it look more natural. After this, we are going to wait for it to dry because I'm going to add another second layer. What I'm doing here is I'm just fading some of the darker areas in the center and slightly diffusing it outwards just so that there's a gradient look. Now let's wait for this to dry. Once it is dry, we can add the second layer. I'm mixing some indigo again. This time, you want a lighter shade. It's not as dark as the center. I'm going to create some C strokes. Some of them look like lines. I'm going to fade this by rinsing my brush and just using that water to fade one edge or one side of that stroke. As you can see, one side of the stroke looks soft and then the other side has a harsh or sharp edge. I'm adding some more petals. The second layer of petals will look more detailed and this will give a lift to the rose and it will make it look prettier. When I'm adding the second layer, I'm making sure that there's distance in between the petals. One thing you can do is to alternate the petals so that you're not going to have difficulty adding them. In some areas, I want to add more contrast so I got a darker shade of indigo and I started painting some strokes. If some strokes look a bit harsh, just grab a damp brush and just slowly fade some of those strokes. When you're doing this style of rose, make sure that there are wide spaces in between the petals. It takes a lot of practice when you're doing this style. Don't worry about it if you can't do it the first time. Just try to practice again and again. I'm just moving around the rose and just adding some more strokes. You can also do this in a different color. We're done. It's pretty quick but the result is really good. Just remember that when you're painting flowers, it might not look the same every time you paint it, but that's okay. That is what makes your painting unique. Now let's move on to a different flower. [MUSIC] 14. Flower Elements Part 2: [MUSIC] Alright, so in this video, we're going to paint a DC like flower and I'm going to start with a concentrated mixture of yellow ocher. If you don't have yellow ocher, just use any yellow paint that you have in your palate and I'm going to dab my brush and create a round shape. This will be the center of the DC, it doesn't have to be perfectly round and then let's mix up some cerulean blue. I added a lot of water and diluted it because I want the petals to be really light and this will give the impression that this is a white petal. Just drag your brush and you can see that some of the yellow ocher is being pulled away and it's mixed with the cerulean blue. Try to create some small strokes and build up that petal so sometimes I actually just use the tip of my brush to create some curved strokes and then I add more curved strokes until it looks like a petal and I'm also trying to leave some white spaces in-between some of those strokes. You can always go back to the previous petals that you painted if you want to fix the shape or make it bigger. What I'm doing here is that I am making the ends of the petal look wispy so as you can see, they're quite pointy. Now let's grab some sepia and I'm going to grab a lot of those and mix it on my palette and I'll make sure that it's a very concentrated mixture. Then let's grab our tissue and blot out the excess moisture, I'm going to dab it on the yellow ocher area, so we're going to paint like a ring of dots and as you can see, you are able to control how it spreads because we plotted out the excess moisture before painting. Now let's rinse our brush and I'm going to dab the excess moisture and then let's just clean the center and I'm doing this so that we have a clean center and you can also try to put back some color so we can grab some more yellow ocher and paint on the center, just add a pop of color and then let's rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture in the tissue. We can try pull out some of those sepia thoughts that we painted. As you can see, it gives more definition to the petals just move your brush outwards and it looks a lot better now. Then now let's grab a very diluted indigo color so try to do this trick when the petals are already dry so I'm just going to create some wispy strokes using just the tip of my brush and that will give this flower some shadow in the petals so we're almost done with adding some details and you can clearly see that it looks better with those tiny strokes that we did. Another optional thing that we can do is to add an indigo paint, so I'm just going to grab some indigo. If you want more contrast in this flower, you can add a very concentrated indigo and I'm going to put some dots again, just right where we put the sepia dots so I just wanted to show you guys what it looks like if we had a darker ring around the yellow ocher and then you can rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture. Again, you can try to start pulling out some of those indigo color. This gives more definition to the petals and you'll see the separation of the petals. Just make sure that your brush isn't too wet. Because if it's too wet, it will be messy to pull out the colors outwards so you want to constantly dab your brush in your tissue paper. Now let's be a side view DC I just have here some yellow ocher again and you're going to paint the center first so this will look like a dome. Now let's grab some cerulean blue and I'm going to add a lot of water and dilute it. You can also mix it with a little bit of indigo if you want and then let's paint some petals that are facing downwards so again, you can blot out your brush into your tissue paper if there's too much moisture. Because this is a side view they see we're just going to paint fewer petals and we're going to paint around three petals. Let's grab a little bit more of the yellow ocher, just going to quickly fix the center of the Stacey. Now let's grab some sepia and I just tapped excess moisture on my brush and we're going to paint some small dots and then lets just rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture. I'm going to pull some of those sepia color and just create more definition for the petals. Now, you can also grab a little bit of the diluted indigo mixture and just add some more details. Add some thin and wispy lines. To complete this look, I am grabbing some sap green and let's just paint some stem. I'm going to start with the side view DC as you can see, I skipped some of the petals from the main flower so that the stem looks like it's behind the main flower, so now we're done. [MUSIC] 15. Flower Elements Part 3 : [MUSIC] Now let's try to paint some simple five petal flowers. To start, I'm going to just prepare two colors. I have here permanent yellow light, and I'm also going to grab some yellow orange. Let's go back to the permanent yellow light and I'm going to start with one petal first. Just slowly press your brush against the paper and then lift it towards the end so that you get a pointy tip. Let's paint another one. I'm going to put a little bit of yellow orange in my brush just to change up the color. Sometimes you can just paint some lines, that's okay. I'm slowly building the petal. Let's just rinse our brush to create a lighter value. As you can see, I'm holding my brush in the middle of the handle just to keep it loose. On to the last petal, I'm just going to close that up and creating some wispy strokes, some pointy strokes. Now let's grab some permanent red and I'm just going to paint some thin strokes in-between the petals. Doing this will give us more contrast and it will look more interesting. I'm going to rinse my brush and rub the excess moisture. Let's slowly fix some of those parts. I'm going to smudge those red strokes. Let's start painting the center. I'm going to prepare some burnt umber, and this is a thick mixture. Let's just dab it in the center of this flower, and I will be using just the tip of my brush, and we're stippling our brush and creating these strokes. Let's wait for this to dry and I'm going to add some details later. But while we're waiting for that flower to dry, let's paint another one. I'm grabbing some yellow orange and just creating some wispy strokes. I'm trying to sway my brush and just use a full belly of the brush to create a nice and beautiful petals stroke. You can also try to rinse your brush in the water jar to create a lighter value so that your flower won't look too flat because sometimes if it's just one single color, it will look flat. I'm also making sure that there are white spaces in between some of those strokes, and also towards the middle of this flower I'm keeping it open because I'm going to add some details in awhile. Now, this is a staple flower in my paintings. I love painting this flower because it looks different every time I paint it. Right now I'm using some permanent red and just painting some small strokes in the middle. I'm partially letting it blend with the yellow orange from the petals. Let's rinse our brush and grab another color. I'm going to grab some indigo, and this will be a thick mixture. You can damp our brush to take off the excess moisture, and I'm going to just put a dot in the center. The red areas seems to be spreading a bit much, so I'm just going to rinse my brush, take out the excess moisture, and just absorb and fix that excess red paint. Let's wait for this to dry, and once it is dry, we're going to add more details. I have here some permanent red and we're just going to paint some thin strokes. You can start with a light pressure and then just slowly press your brush to create a fatter stroke and then lift it again. This is one of the ways to add some more character to the flowers that you're painting. Let's do this for all the petals, and it doesn't have to be just one straight line. You can make it a little bit curved and some can be like a broken line. Now that we are done with the base, let's make some gouache. This is white gouache from the brand Holbein. I'm going to add just a little bit of water and mix this into a creamy mixture. We want this to have a creamy consistency because we want the gouache to be quite opaque, and then I'm going to put some small white dots in the middle of this flower. As you can see, it's slowly transforming. I'm going to move on to the second flower. I'm just checking if it's already dry. We're just going to paint some thin strokes all around the center, and doing this just gives it a leaf and gives this flower more depth. Let's move on to the next flower. This is another idea for you guys to try. This is just a four petal flower. I'm using ultramarine blue. I'd like to create a very concentrated mixture and it's almost quite opaque when we're painting this. Just use the full belly of the brush and just press it against the paper, and then let's create another one on the right. For this flower, you don't need a lot of white spaces in between your strokes. I'm keeping the center open because I'm going to put a detail in there in awhile. Now let's grab some greenish yellow. I'm just going to dab a little bit of dot in the center. Now I'm going to wait for this to dry and then let's add more details. I'm just checking if this is already dry because we're going to add some gouache details. I'm going to grab some white gouache and let's just paint some thin curved strokes just like this. Some lines can be broken, that's okay. By doing this, it will look fuller. One of the things that I'm doing in this class is that I am showing you guys how to layer the florals, so instead of just painting a plane petal, we are going to add a second layer with either a different color, or with gouache, and that's it. We're done. [MUSIC] 16. Flower Elements Part 4: [MUSIC] This is the last part of the floral elements video. Let's paint a flower that resembles a variety of Italia flower. I have here some permanent yellow light and we're just going to paint some sample strokes. Using the tip of my brush I'm going to paint some C strokes. They look a little bit elongated and I just drag my brush to create that stroke. We can start with the center. I'm going to paint some downward strokes and some C strokes beside it. Now we're done with the top part. I'm going to add a few more at the bottom. I'm keeping the strokes in the center quite small and just swaying my brush. We can also rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Just going around the center of this flower. I'm just adding more and more C strokes. I'm also making sure that there are spaces in between them. Then for the outer petals, you can rinse your brush to create an even lighter value. Just make it look softer. Now let's just wait for this flower to dry and we're going to layer it with a different color and while waiting for that to dry, let's move on to another flower. I'm going to grab some permanent violet and add some water to it. Before we start with this flower, let's paint some sample strokes. I'm going to stamp my brush and just press it on the paper. As you can see, we've created this leaf shape or it looks like a petal as well. I'm going to do that a few more times. Just keep on adding these petal or leaf like strokes. I'm also changing the value of this permanent violet by adding more water into my brush. Some shapes maybe a bit darker, some are lighter in color. Usually when I start painting flowers or loose flowers, I start with a simple brushstroke. I do that again and again until I get to form a flower-like shape. You can also try to move around your papers so that you can get the best angle for painting this stroke. Don't be afraid to experiment. Just keep on adding these shapes as you can see I'm gliding my brush to create these strokes. We can also grab a more concentrated, permanent violet and just intensify some of these petals. This imaginary flower, it doesn't look much right now because this is just the first layer. Later on, I will show you what it looks like when we have put on the second layer. This is also a good flower to add to your wreath because it makes the wreath look fuller. While waiting for this flower to dry, I'm going to go back to the first flower that we painted and I'm going to grab some yellow orange and just mix that up in my palette. Let's layer this flower, I'm going to paint the same C strokes. This will give more depth to your flower. You can also rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Just try to sway your brush and don't be afraid to create these unique brush marks. I'm keeping the edges of this flower pretty loose. You can try to extend that stroke and make it a little bit longer like this. It's now time to wait for this to dry. While I'm waiting for the orange flower to dry, let's go back to the violet flower. I'm grabbing some permanent violet. This is a more concentrated mixture compared to the first layer that we did. Now let's start to layer this up. I'm painting a small c stroke in each of the small petals. But I'm only painting about half of each petal as you can see. By doing this, we're creating a shadow, the darker part is the shadow. Just continue adding these small strokes. As you can see, because we added the shadow, this flower has more depth now. On its own, it doesn't look much, but if you add it to your wreath, just like this photo, it looks really great. You're going to paint this wreath later. Let's go back to the orange flower. I'm going to grab some permanent red. This is the last stage for that orange flower. I'm just going to mix that permanent red on my palette. I want this to be a little thick. We're just going to paint some smaller c strokes in the middle. Just add some contrast. Let's take a close up shot so you can see it better. Just keeping it pretty loose and just creating some nice and light stroke. You can also rinse your brush to create a lighter value. For this part, I'm not really going to add a lot of the permanent red because I just want to add some pops of color. I'm also being careful not to overdo it. Be careful as well. Just stop from time to time to observe how it looks. We are done. [MUSIC] 17. Leaves Exercises: [MUSIC] I start painting some leaves, and right here I have some sap green and I'm going to paint a line across this page, just a very thin line. I'm going to grab some more sap green and I'm just going to paint some thin leaves. I'm just dragging the tip of my brush across the page and I'm painting this an S stroke. Then we can add CPR to sap green to create an earthy color. You can try to mix up the different shades of green to make this leaf more interesting and you can also try to rinse your brush, just dab the excess water out and then you'd be able to create a lighter value, just like that. Just feel free to move your brush in different angles. Sometimes you can try to wiggle your brush so that the leaves look more natural. Now if you want a darker shade of green, just makes up your sap green and indigo. This is one of my favorite color combinations because I just love how dark and rich this green color is. In some cases I'm going to paint over the first few leaves that I painted in a way I'm layering this leaf. That was a pretty quick leaf shape and now let's move on to a new one. I have here some sap green and let's just paint a simple leaf. I'm going to start with a small stem and going to slowly press my brush and slightly curve the bristles, and I'm going to do this in two strokes. After painting the two strokes, you can fix the tip so that it's pointy. Let's try another one. Let's paint a slightly longer line this time and I'm going to paint a two stroke leaf. Just slowly press your brush and leave it towards the end. Let's paint another one. Just use the belly of the brush to create that leafy stroke. In some cases you can also do a one stroke leaf. What I love about painting leaves is that they look better when they are in perfectly shaped. Like it looks more natural, don't worry too much about it being so perfect in shape. I do love to wiggle my brush a little bit so that they can get some ruffled edges in some areas. We're going to leave this as is because I'm going to add some details in a while, we're going to layer these leaves. Another idea is to paint some rounded shape leaves. I have here some sap green, indigo and let's just paint a loop and slowly fill in the shape. I think I would say that this resembles a balloon and this is another type of leaf that you can add to your wreath just to add more variety. Now let's paint a filler. These will look like buds. I'm going to paint an oval shape with two pointy tips on two ends. Then let's just put a stem, then let's paint some more and later on when this is dry, we're going to add some details. I would say that this is like an imaginary filler for our wreath and you can try to experiment with different shapes for the fillers. That's something fun for me to do whenever I paint wreaths. Let's move on to another leaf and this time I'm just going to drag my brush across the page, create just a thin line and add some branches. Then let's grab our water jar, rinse our brush, and tap out the excess water. I'm just going to stipple my brush, just create these loose strokes. You can try to grab a darker shade of green and stipple that again on the brush, just tap your brush. I use just the tip of my brush to create these unique strokes. This leaf will look good if you change the different shades of green. As you can see some leaves here are a bit lighter, some are darker and I'm just keeping it pretty loose and also I'm making sure that there are white spaces in between. That was pretty quick again and just have fun with your brush and use different sides of the brush when you're creating leaves and fillers to create expressive strokes. Right here I'm just painting a simple eucalyptus. I just drew some stems and added some oval shapes. I also made sure that I would change the value of the green color that I'm using just to make it look more interesting and then you can add a little bit of indigo to add some darker shade of leaves. I'm going to rinse my brush and dab the excess moisture and just paint some oval shape as you can see, just let that dark color bleed into the lighter color or the lighter oval shape. Let's paint another filler. I'm just going to draw a line across the page and add some tiny branches. Then let's grab some permanent yellow light. I'm going to again dab my brush. It looks like the previous filler that we did. I'm just going to stamp my brush using the tip of my brush. I can also add a little bit of green so this filter will look like it has small flowers. Feel free to use a different color. I usually add this filler if I want to add pops of color in my wreath, and if I don't want to paint a full flower. This is a good idea for you guys. This is already dry and like what I said earlier, we're going to layer this. I'm going to grab some sap green and mix it with indigo because you want a darker color for the veins that start with the usual vein and I'm going to paint a thin stroke in the middle of the leaf and add some tiny hands on the side. Instead of a dark color you can also use white gouache to paint some veins. Huggies over the other leaves I'm going to just paint some random strokes and this will make it look so pretty when you are painting a wreath. It will add more depth to the leaves. This is a bit different from the first vein that we did. I'm mixing it up some of my strokes here are a bit thinner, some are thicker. Then let's move on to using white gouache. I'm going to demonstrate how it looks like when you're painting some veins using white gouache. Let's do that for the other leaves as well. I'm using just the tip of my brush to create some thin veins. Now let's move on to these buds. I'm going to grab some sap green and you're going to paint some details. Just using the tip of my brush I'm going to slowly paint some veins and then following the shape of this spot, I'm slowly curving those lines. We're done. I painted another set of leaves because the previous one was too dark and you can't see the veins that I painted. I have here some sap green and indigo, and you're going to paint some random strokes so that you can start with a light pressure and then slowly press your brush to create a fatter stroke and then just lift your brush again towards the end. As you can see, it really makes a big difference in this leaf. You can also try to experiment [MUSIC] with different shades of green. With that it will be able to practice more of these when you're painting your class projects later. [MUSIC] 18. Lemon Wreath Part 1: Welcome to the first class project. So let's paint some lemon and florals wreath. The first thing that we need is a round shape. So just grab any round object and trace the shape. Or you can also do this freehand. Then let's decide where the lemons will be. So in this wreath, I have decided to put two lemons on the left and two lemons on the right. So the yellow circles are the lemons. It looks like this and we're going to create a pattern of lemon hydrangea, rows, lemon hydrangea, and rows. This is an easy way to paint a wreath. So just pinpoint a pattern that you would like to follow. Right now, I'm just going to grab my kneaded eraser and just take out some of the pencil sketches. Do remember that whenever you paint on top of the pencil sketch, you won't be able to erase it anymore. So I suggest you erase those darker pencil sketches before you start painting. I'm going to start with painting the inside of the lemon. This is just clean water. So we're going to do a wet-on-wet technique. I'm going to grab some permanent yellow light. Let's just drop that in. So let's just slowly fill in the shape. Then let's try to add a bit of shadow. I'm using this yellow-orange color. Or you can also use the permanent yellow deep. I'm adding it toward the bottom of this lemon. Then let's grab a little bit of sap green. We then drop that in. This will show that some parts are still not as ripe. Of course, adding that green part is just optional. You can try to paint just with the permanent yellow light. So I'm going to move on to the second lemon, and I'm going to paint this with just clean water. But I'm going to leave a white space in between these two lemons. You'll see that in a while once I put in some color. So again, I'm using permanent yellow light. So just right there, I'm going to leave a white space. I left out a white space there so that when you look into this wreath, you'll see that these are two separate fruits. So let's now grab a bit more permanent yellow light. I'm just going to intensify this lemon and we can try to slowly fix the shape as well. Then we can add some yellow-orange around the bottom area and also a little bit of sap green. So now let's move on to the lemon on the right. I'm just going to do the same thing. We are going to wet the inside of the outline. Here's a close-up video for you. So let's just slowly fill in this shape. While it's still wet, you can try to fix the shape as well. You don't really need to follow the pencil sketch. Again, let's add a bit of shadow. I'm going to put some yellow-orange around the bottom part. I'm just dotting this color, and it's going to just blend in with the permanent yellow light because this is a wet-on-wet technique. So it's easier to blend two colors. Let's move on to the other lemon. I'm going to wet the inside again. This time, I'd like to add a bit more green to this lemon just to give it a different look. So when you are incorporating fruit into your floral wreath, try to add the fruit in different stages so some can be very ripe, some are still a bit green, and in some cases, you can also add a slice fruit so that it looks more interesting. So I want to drop in a little bit of the sap green again, just to intensify that color. So now you're done with the fruits and they're already dry. Let's now grab some indigo. I want a thick mixture because we are going to paint the center of the rose. So I'm just going to mix it in my palette. Then let's try to put a small dot as a guide. I will just slowly press my brush so that I can create the center of the rose, and then I'm going to attach some small C curves. So that looks good. Now I'm going to grab my water jar and rinse my brush, tap out the excess water. Then let's try to paint some bigger C-shaped strokes. As you can see the color is now lighter because we rinsed our brush. So make sure that you have white spaces in between those petals. I'm just going to go around the center of the rose. Let's try to zoom in a bit so you can see it better. So let's continue painting the bigger strokes. So I'm just slowly sweeping my brush and using the full belly to create that C stroke. So in some areas, I'm not going to paint a full petal. Some strokes can be just a line and that's okay. What we have to make sure is that we have some white spaces in between those petals. You can also hold your brush in the middle of the handle. This might help you paint looser strokes. If there's too much water in your brush, don't forget that you can always dab your brush in the tissue paper. Right here I'm just going to fade away some of the darker areas. While we defer this rose to dry, I'm going to paint a hydrangea right beside it. Let's just grab some greenish yellow. We'll add a lot of water and dilute that color. Let's just paint some small strokes. They look like smaller C strokes. I usually do this very quick. Try to paint the C strokes in different directions. Don't be afraid to move your brush and change the angle. In some areas you can paint over the lemon. That's okay. I'm going to stop here because the shape already looks good for me. But while waiting for this to dry, let's paint another hydrangea just diagonally across it. This is usually what I do to save time. When I'm waiting for one flower to dry, I'm going to move on to the next. Let's just paint the same method for this hydrangea. I'm going to stop when I'm able to create a ball shape. As you can see here, I'm changing the angle of my brush. It's like I'm dancing with my brush. Some strokes don't necessarily need to look like C shape strokes and that's okay. Painting a C stroke is just a guide for you. You can, of course, just try to dab your brush in some areas. Now I'm going to wait for this to dry. While I'm waiting, I'm going to paint another flower. Let's paint another rose that is diagonally across the first rose that we painted. I'm still using indigo and this is a thick mixture. I started with the center and then now I'm going to rinse my brush. Just tap out the excess water. Now we can start painting bigger, C shape strokes. You can try to paint the strokes quickly. That way you can create a more wispy stroke, a more natural looking petal. Sometimes when you paint a petal slowly, it might look a little heavy because you're dragging it too much. I do suggest speeding it quickly and also you can use just about the tip of your brush to create some smaller strokes. Also feel free to add some diluted cerulean blue to your indigo mixture. Now there's a white gap between the lemon and the rose, and that's okay. We can try to fix that by adding some more leaves later. It's now time to layer some of the flowers in this wreath. I'm going to start with the hydrangea. I just have here some sap green. I'm going to paint on top of the first layer. I'm just going to do the same strokes that we did on the first layer. But, of course, I'm making sure that we can still see the first layer and that there are still white spaces in-between the strokes that I'm doing. Try to keep the outer area pretty loose. You can also rinse your brush to create a lighter value. Let's just troubleshoot. I feel like this needs a bit more color, so I'm going to grab some greenish yellow. This is a thicker consistency. I'm just going to add a few more strokes. Just feel free to add any color that you want because this is your wreath and you're creating your own painting. You can always decide on which colors you want to use. Now I'm moving on to the other hydrangea. I'm just going to add more definition by adding a second layer. I've also decided to add some more greenish yellow in the second layer, just a more concentrated greenish yellow color. [MUSIC] These two hydrangeas are still wet, so I guess we can start working on the roses. Let's add a second layer. Let's grab some indigo, and I think I'd like to deepen the center of this rose. I'm going to grab a concentrated mixture of indigo. We'll just paint on top of the first layer. As you can see, it's now deeper, it has more contrast. Then I'm going to rinse my brush, take out the excess paint, and then you can start adding a second layer of petals. Now let's paint some C strokes. These are almost like thin lines. Now let's rinse our brush and take out the excess water and just slowly fade away those strokes that we just did. The effect is that we are creating petals, but it looks soft because we are feeding one side of the stroke. Every time I add a petal, I'm making sure that there are white spaces in between or else it might look like a blob of paint. We're done with the first rose, and let's now move on to the second one below. I'm going to grab a thick mixture of indigo, and again, I'm going to deepen the center. Then we're going to rinse our brush and just slowly create some C strokes. The color in my brush is darker than the color that we used for the base. Now, don't worry if the color is too harsh. You can always rinse your brush and just fade away those strokes. By doing this technique, you are creating some soft petals that look very pretty. We're also adding more depth using this technique. We can add a few more strokes just to add some more petals. Then let's go to Part 2 of this video. [MUSIC] 19. Lemon Wreath Part 2 : [MUSIC] Now we're done painting the layers of the rose and right now I'm just going to add more layer to this hydrangea. I have here some indigo and sap green. Mixing these two colors will create a nice dark green color and for this part, I'm just going to paint some small c strokes. We just want this to look like a shadow, and I'm putting it in between some of the petals. You can just use the tip your brush and create some small brush markings. The let's go to the other hydrangea. I usually try to paint this stroke in some patchy areas like this. Just to separate some of the petals, because sometimes they might look like blobs of paint, and there's no separation between the petals. Then you can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. For some of the strokes, I'm going to blur it out. I'm just going to rinse my brush, dab the excess moisture, and just fade away some of the darker strokes that we made. I'm doing this technique so that it doesn't look too harsh. I usually try to keep the edges of this flower quite soft. Now we're done with the main elements of this floral wreath and I'm just going to start painting some leaves. I'm just mixing sap green and Prussian blue. I'm using a size eight round brush just so I can paint some bigger leaves and it makes my work faster because I'm able to paint larger size leaves. But of course you can use a size 6 round brush that's okay as well. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. Then let's grab some more sap green. This one is just pure sap green and you're going to close this gap in-between the rose and the lemon. I'm going to paint some leaves right there. It would be nice to change the value of the green colors. Some can be lighter, some can be darker and sometimes I also try to paint some thin strokes that look like stems. Now let's add a leaf just right at the bottom of this rose. I'm shaping the edge of this rose. That's one of the tips that I can give to you if you're painting a white rose, try to add some leaves or fillers right beside it just so it will pop up some more. Let's try to work on that rose later. But for now I'm going to grab some sap green and just paint some leaves in between these two lemons. Now don't worry if you try to overlap this leaf on top of the lemon, that's okay. Now let's grab some Prussian blue and add it to our sap green, and I'm just going to paint some more leaves. As you can see I usually paint one or two stroke leaves and keep it pretty simple. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Then we're going to add some more leaves. You will immediately see that when you paint leaves or flowers around this white rose, the edges of the rose will be more defined. I'm just going around this wreath and adding leaves in between the main florals or the main elements. In some cases, I just paint some thin strokes that will look like stem and those stems will have either some berries or other fillers that will look like small flowers. I also add some lines like this as a guide for me. Sometimes I don't want to paint a leaf right away because I'm not sure if it's going to look good. So what I do is I just paint a line first that will look like a stem so that if in case I don't want to put a leaf, then I'll just leave it as a stem or add some other filler. It would also be nice to add some dark contrast between the main elements and the leaves. Some of the leaves I made them intentionally darker. As you can see, it's a nice contrast between the lemon and the darker shade of leaves. Then just try to change the direction of the leaves. It doesn't have to always point outwards. You can sway the leaves so that it will look more natural. Right here I'm just using greenish yellow to add some more leaves. I love adding this color to my wreath. If you don't have the greenish yellow color in your palate, don't worry you can just mix your yellow and sap green and that should be a good alternative. I'm just going around and just adding some small stems. This really helps me when it comes to planning for what to add to this wreath. Now I have some sap green. This is still little sap green and let's just add a filler. I'm just dabbing my brush, stippling my brush to create these small marks. Then just to add some shadow, I've mixed up some indigo and sap green. I'm going to add that to this filler. Let's add some more dots on the stems that we painted. Now let's rinse our brush to create a lighter value. As you can see, it's not as dark as the other fillers that we painted. This is the top view. Because blue and yellow are complimentary colors I tried to add some more blue elements besides the lemon. I believe that this makes it more pleasing to the eyes. Now I grabbed some more greenish yellow and I'm dabbing in some more filler. I try to stipple your brush to create these small dots and try to vary it, some dots or smaller, some are bigger. Then you can also grab a darker color, which is indigo. I'm letting them blend together. Let's go over to the other stamps that we painted and try to add some more fillers. I loved that this gives this wreath more contrast. You can also grab some cerulean blue and add a lot of water. Let's use this color to also dab some fillers. As you can see, it's a nice, refreshing color that can be added to the three. Try to experiment with different blues in your palette. I'm going to add some stem. Then let's grab some more sap green. I'm going to add some more details. I'm adding some stems in between the leaves. I'm going to add some leaf on the top row. Try to observe how it suddenly had an edge. We're not really done with the leaves yet, but I'm going to leave it as is because I want to add some gouache details now. Then after adding the gouache details, we are going to check this wreath again as to where we can put some more leaves. I just squeezed a small amount of gouache and I'm mixing it to get the right consistency. You can try to add some details now. Here I'm adding some small berries. We can also add some four petaled flower. I love adding the gouache details where there's a colored background. You can really see the gouache. To make it really look interesting. I try to add the gouache details where you can overlap it on a main element. So right here, I'm overlapping it on the lemon and also on the leaves and hydrangea. By doing this, you're giving more depth to the floral wreath. When you look at this wreath, you will know that, oh, some flowers are on top of the main elements and some flowers are behind the elements, or some leaves are behind, some of the lemons. This is an interesting way to add more detail to our wreath. Right here I'm adding a five petaled flower. The color behind it, this dark green, you can clearly see that it just pops up. I think that adding white gouache details to your paintings, it's a good way also to hide some mistakes that you did. Not only does it hide the mistake, it also makes your painting look more beautiful. This is a top view video. As you can see, the painting looks fuller now because we added some white gouache details. It's such a simple trick, but it just makes your painting 100 times better. Let us add some more berries over there. As you can see, I'm trying to paint on top of the leaves that we painted. That's why the leaves are quite opaque and dark. Then in some areas, you can also paint on top of the gouache details that we just did. If you want to make it wider, you need to layer it. [MUSIC] Now let's add a dark center to some of the flowers. I'm just using indigo and just going to put a dot in the center. Now we're done with the gouache details and right now that I'm doing is I'm just checking out some areas, maybe some small gaps that need some leaves. I'm just going to put some small stems in between. I can also try to add some fillers. Also in some areas we can try to layer the leaves just so it will make the wreath look fuller. Now let's grab some sap green and going to add some leaves near the hydrangea. What you can do right now is to actually take a photo of your painting. Then from that photo try to observe if there are areas that might have a small gap. Just looking at the photo just gives you a different perspective because you've been painting for too long on this wreath. Sometimes we can't really see the small details anymore because we got used to the same image and the same perspective. Right now I'm just going to add some dark green stems. When you are forming a wreath, try to also think about the color combination first. What they did was that I just revolved around the lemon. The lemon is yellow. I want to add some more blues into my wreath and a little bit of green. That just makes it a harmonious wreath. We are done. Congratulations on your first class project. I hope that you enjoyed painting this wreath. Let's move on to the next one. [MUSIC] 20. Peach Wreath Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's paint peach and florals wreaths. So the first thing that we need is to draw a round shape. So just use any round object that you have and then just trace it. Then we need to pinpoint where we want the main peaches to be so I've decided to put it on the left side. I'm now erasing some of the pencil sketches. Like what I said before, once you paint on top of a pencil sketch you won't be able to erase it anymore. So if there are unnecessary pencil sketches, just erase it before you start painting. Let's start with the first peach and I'm going to add some water. Just so you can see it, I added a little bit of color to my brush and let's just paint an oval shape and then right beside it, I'm going to just paint a letter C stroke. But make sure that you are leaving a white space in between those two shapes. You'll see this division in a while when we have dropped in some paint. The first color that I'll be using is yellow-orange. So let's just drop that in and fill in this oval shape. Then I'm going to move on to the C stroke that we did. Then as you can see, there's a white line right there. Now, let's grab some permanent rose and just drop in that color. We're going to try to blend that in a while. So if you want to blend it, just rinse your brush and dab it in the tissue paper to get out the excess moisture. Then I got a bit more permanent rose. Let's also grab some yellow-orange and I'm just trying to intensify the color. That's the beauty of the wet on wet technique. You can add another layer of color while it's still wet and it will just blend in. Let's move on to the second peach. This time, the peach is going to be a sliced peach so we will see more details inside. I'm just going to paint some water again and I won't be touching the centers, so I left it dry. Then, now let's grab some yellow-orange. I'm going to drop that in and spread it. As you can see, I'm trying to avoid the center. The shape looks similar to a heart shape, but it's just a bit fatter on the side. Now let's grab some permanent rose and I'm going to blot out the excess paint. We are going to paint the outline of this peach. Because we are able to blot out the excess paint in our brush, it doesn't spread like crazy, so we're able to actually control the paint. Let's now clean some of the edges. I'm just going to rinse my brush and blot out the excess water in my brush and then now we can start sweeping those edges and letting them blend together with the yellow-orange part. Now let's grab some crimson lake and I'm just going to dab it in the center. As you can see, I'm using just almost the tip of my brush, but I'm also leaving some white spaces in between the strokes and just let it blend with the yellow-orange flesh of the peach. Now let's move on to the third and last peach. Let's do the same methods. So I'm just painting an oval shape and I've added a little bit of yellow-orange in my brush but you can also paint this with just clean water first and then let's paint a C stroke right beside it. Using a kneaded eraser I'm just going to clean some of the pencil sketches that I don't need anymore. So now let's go back into our peach and you can try to fix the shape while it is still wet. Now I'm making one end pointy. So now let's try to add some permanent rose and I love that it's blending in with the yellow-orange without it looking too harsh because we're doing the wet on wet technique. Then let's add some more color. I'm just grabbing some yellow-orange and you can also mix yellow-orange and the permanent rose. So right here I'm just going to continuously fix the shape and making this a little bit bigger. Let's add some permanent rose and add it in the middle near the white line. I'm doing this to just create a bit of a shadow. [MUSIC] So now that we are done with the three fruits, I'm going to add some flowers. Let's start by mixing permanent violet with permanent rose. I'm just going to soften up this color and add a lot of water. Now let's start painting some petals. I know it won't make much sense right now but this is going to be layered once it is dry. So I'm just going to add it randomly and still, I will leave some white spaces in between those petals. In some of your strokes, feel free to add a little bit more of the permanent rose just to add a little variety to this flower. [MUSIC] So while waiting for this to dry, I'm going to move on to another flower. So let's just makes permanent violet and ultramarine blue. Let's start painting some petal-like shapes, and I'm going to add a bunch of them. I'm also going to make sure that the formation of this flower is a little bit curve so that it's following the shape of the wreath. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value and you can also try to vary the size so some can be smaller petals, some can be bigger. [MUSIC] Let's wait for this to dry, and then let's move on to the next video for Part 2. [MUSIC] 21. Peach Wreath Part 2 : [MUSIC] Let's continue painting this wreath, and I have here a mixture of permanent violet and permanent rows. This is a more concentrated consistency compared to the florals that we painted a while ago. I'm painting a four-petal flower, so just try to keep it loose and just use the full belly of the brush to create an expressive stroke. Now let's rinse our brush and let's grab some indigo. I'm going to drop this in the center of the flower just to give it more depth. Let's move on to a different flower. I'm going to grab some vermilion, and you can also use a red-orange color. Let's just paint a four-petal flower. Let's add another flower, I'm going to grab some yellow-orange, and it's the same thing, I'm going to add another four-petaled flower, and let's just keep it pretty loose. After painting the petals, we're going to add a darker center. I'm just going to grab some red color and just drop that in and let it bleed into the yellow-orange petals. Don't worry too much about the shape of these flowers because we are going to add a lot of leaves, and it's very easy to cover up some mistakes. It's now time to layer the flowers that we painted earlier, and I'm just mixing permanent violet and permanent rose. This is a more concentrated mixture. Let's just paint some C strokes. I'm painting just about half of each petal. You can see that there's a lighter area and a darker area. Let's just continue filling them in, and it just gives this flower more depth. Now it looks a lot better compared to just the first layer. When you're layering flowers, makes sure that the first layer is already dry before you add a second layer. This is to ensure that you get a nice crisp second layer. Right now, I just mix permanent violet and ultramarine blue, again, just more concentrated mixture, so I can add more shadow to this flower. You can also add few more petals just to fix the shape. This is another idea for you. You can grab some sap green and just mix that up on your palette and add it in between the petals so that it will look like small buds. What I'm doing is, I'm just adding it in the white gaps and just connecting it with the buds. I think it looks better this way. It's now time to add some more leaves. I'm just going to grab some indigo and I also have some sap green on my palette. Now I'm going to add a leaf right beside that orange flower. Let's add one more, and then we can rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Doing this gives it a beautiful contrast. Then you can also add some small stems beside it, and also some darker leaves. Use the tip of your brush to create those expressive markings that I'm doing, and try to paint quick lines or quick strokes. Look at that area, it just looks so beautiful and so natural. I'm going to start working at the top and add some leaves over there. I'm using a size 8 round brush, and it helps me create the bigger petals. To make it look more interesting, I'm adding Prussian blue, and painting that as a leaf. We can also add that to our sap green. This is one of the fun parts of painting a wreath. Try to mix any color to your green and you'll discover new colors that will look great. I'm just painting more lines that look like stem, and I'm going to add some more details on that later. But for now, adding some stems will help me, it will be my guide for this wreath. Now let's grab some ultramarine blue. I'm going to add some buds on those stems that we painted earlier. Let's rinse our brush to create a lighter value, and that will make this flower look more interesting. Just dab your brush, I'm just stamping my brush to create a unique brush stroke. Then right here I just use greenish-yellow to add some more leaves and add a little bit of indigo. Let's go around this wreath and look for more gaps that we can paint on. I think we can grab some more sap green. It's just paint some leaves in between the peach and the flower. I'm going to let you see the final result of this painting, just to give you some inspiration. So as you can see, it looks like a full wreath and it looks so far from what we're painting right now, but we're going to get there, we just need to be patient in layering the leaves and the fillers and also the flowers. Don't be afraid to paint leaves on top of the peaches, and just continuously add some of those stem sticking out. Now I'm going to grab some more sap green and you can see there's a gap right there, and you're just going to paint some stems. Then let's add some leaves. Let's slowly work through this wreath. I'm just adding leaves one-by-one. Right there, there's another spot. So I'm just going to add some stem. Then right here at the bottom, we can add some leaves. We can also start layering some leaves once the first layer is already dry. This mixture has sap green and indigo, so we have a dark green color and it gives this wreath just more depth. I also like adding some dark leaves for the wreath because I know that I will be layering it with some white gouache. The white gouache will pop up more if the background is dark. Then you can try to add a filler, just stipple your brush and stamp the tip of your brush onto the paper. Then you can also rinse your brush to create a lighter value. This is a very quick and easy way to fill in some of the gaps in your wreath. Now let's grab some greenish yellow and I'm going to paint some green berries, and this will look good on this wreath. Try to add fillers that have different shapes because that will make your wreath look more interesting. The stems that we painted earlier were very useful because it's now our guide, and you can just attach some berries onto the stems that we painted. Now let's move on to Part 3 of this class project. 22. Peach Wreath Part 3: [MUSIC] This is now the last part of our class project. I'm just going to grab some yellow orange and let's just paint some small fillers. I'm stippling my brush and creating all of these brush markings. By doing this, I'm able to add pops of color all throughout the wreath. You can also add some little bit of red color just to make it look more interesting. I'm going to rinse my brush and get a new color. Let's use permanent violet. Let's create the same fillers and you can use the tip of your brush. Just dab it on the paper and create these expressive strokes. As you can see, I'm adding these fillers on the stamps that we had painted previously. Feel free to use any green color that you have in your palette. This is just a mixture of sap green with a little bit of indigo and this is a leftover paint from a while ago. I'm going to add some more stem sticking out using the side of the belly, I am just going to paint some eucalyptus-like leaves and I'm just going to also dab some strokes and create some expressive markings. Some of them may look like leaves, some of them look like fillers and trying to go around the wreath. In this area it needs a little bit of pop of color. I'm adding some red orange fillers. Looking at the street and there's still a gap over there. Let's try to fill that in with some fillers. I'm going to grab some permanent violet and dilute it with some water and we're going to use my brush to create some petal like strokes. Everything is coming together now, I just got some sap green and indigo. Just wanted to create a darker shade of green. I'm going to start layering some leaves. I'm going to add some leaves on top of the first layer of leaves that we did. Now let's make some permanent violet and indigo, and we're going to add some details over here. We are going to add some more contrast just to give it more depth. This is going to be the third layer. Let's add a third layer as well into this flower. We just have to be patient with layering, and I know that when we first painted this in the exercises, we didn't add a third layer. But right here you'll see that it makes such a big difference when you start layering the flowers. It looks fuller and just looks prettier. Here comes the fun part. Let's mix up some white gouache and I've also changed the angle of the camera so you can see it better. Let's paint some thin lines or thin veins on this violet flower. Now let's paint on top of this leaf. I'm just going to dot my brush and then I'm going to bunch them up together using the stem so they look like a spray of small white flowers. Then you can also add some veins into this other leaf. Now let's move on towards the bottom part of the wreath. I'm going to paint some small white buds and again I use the leaf as a background. These were the parts that we painted gouache on just so you can see it. This is the top view. There are still some parts where I feel like we need to add more leaves, but I'm not going to do that yet. I don't want to overdo this wreath. I'm going to continue with painting some details using white gouache. What I'm doing now is that I'm looking for areas where I can use it as a background for the white gouache. because we want to see the gouache. I'm looking for colors that are a bit darker. We have some leaves over there that have a dark value, and then we can add some veins, we can also add some berries. If you are confused as to where to put the white gouache, perhaps a tip that I could give to you is to just alternate. If you have three leaves, then maybe you can just put white gouache into one of those leaves and the other leaves will be just as is with no details. Then you can also add some white gouache on this purple flower. I'm going to add some C strokes on this purple flower and impeding it near the darker strokes. Also tried to hold the brush almost towards the end of the handle just to keep your strokes pretty loose. This method actually reminds me of adding some snow details on the flowers. Now let's go back to some of the leaves. I'm adding some details and I'm just dabbing my brush. We're done with the gouache details, and right now I'm just going to grab some sap green. Let's continue to add some leaves. I feel like the right portion of the wreath looks a little thin compared to the left side. I'm just going to add some stems. I'm using the stems as a guide so that I can see if I should add more leaves or not. Whenever I add some fillers, I always think of the colors that will complement the main element. For the peaches, they look good if you put them together with a violet flower or violet filler. Right now I'm just grabbing some yellow orange and just adding some pops of color all throughout the wreath. Doing this style of fillers, it actually makes your wreath look a bit loose and try to extend the fillers a little bit so that it doesn't look too clumpy. I'm going to keep adding some more leaves and I can also add some green berries. As you can see now, the right portion of the wreath is already thicker because we added some more details. And you can also add some greenish yellow just to add some pop of color. Has changed up the color a little bit. I just grabbed some diluted cerulean blue and added some fillers. I also just dab my brush to create these beautiful brush markings. You can also use greenish yellow to add some fillers and then just paint some stems. Let's grab some permanent red and just add some tiny strokes in the center of this flower and that gives it more depth. Then I'm going to grab some indigo and just add some details on that flower. For some of the fillers, we can try to layer it as well. I just added a little bit of red on that yellow orange filler. That's also one way to layer your wreath. Now let's add some veins on some of the leaves with no gouache details. This is just sap green with indigo. Just choose any dark green color. If there's a wide gap in-between the peaches, you can also add just a tiny bit of green in between, just so that it looks like there are leaves behind it. Let me grab some diluted permanent rose and I'm just going to deepen the color on the shadow of this peach. Then you can just try to fade it out if it looks too harsh and this is just clean water. I'm using it to fade away the permanent rose that he painted. [MUSIC] After so many layers, we are finally done. 23. Avocado Wreath Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's paint an avocado and florals wreath. The first thing that we need to do is we need to draw a circle using pencil and then we need to determine where the avocados will be. I'm going to put two on the left and one on the right. I'm using a 9 by 12 inches size of paper. Now, let's get some clean water and I'm just going to paint on the inside of the outline of this avocado. I drew an oval shape in the middle of the avocado and that's going to be where the seed will be. I won't paint on that oval shape. For the flesh of the avocado, I have here some greenish yellow, which I just diluted in a lot of water so that it's not too dark and I'm just going to fill in the shape of the avocado. Next we need sap green, so I'm just going to grab some sap green and mix it on my palette. Then we are going to paint the outline of this avocado. It's still a bit wet and you'll see that you'll have some blooms over there and if it's too much, just dab your brush in the tissue paper. Let's just go around the shape and you can grab some more sap green. Now, let's rinse our brush and add the excess moisture, I'm just going to clean the edges of the sap green and I'm just going to sweep my brush and make a clean edge. Just blend out that sap green color. Looking at this avocado from afar, it looks we need to add some more color, so I'm just adding some more sap green on the outline of this avocado. Then let's just rinse our brush and the excess moisture and just sweep that sap green again and let it blend with the greenish yellow part. Now let's go to the other avocado. This is a whole avocado and I'm just going to paint the inside with some water. I'm also going to leave a white space in between these two avocados so right now you won't really see it but in awhile when I put some color, you'll see the white space. I just grab some sap green and let's just slowly move around that color and you'll see the white space right there and then just going to slowly paint around that part. I'm just leaving that small space so that you can see that these are two separate avocados. We can also slowly fix the shape, fix the size of the avocado and then now I'm going to grab some Hooker's green and just mix it on my palette. Now let's just paint it near the white space. This will look like a shadow. I'm going to rinse my brush, the excess moisture and just slowly try to fade away that area. I'm just trying to blend in those two colors. Now if you want, you can add some burnt umber and just add it again near the white space, just to give it an earthy feel and to intensify that shadow. Sometimes I like dabbing the tip of the brush with burnt umber just to give it some texture and it just makes the avocado look more natural. Here I'm working on the other avocado on the right. This is a sliced avocado as well and we're just painting some clean water. I'm avoiding the oval shape in the middle because that's where the seed will be. I'm using the same color that we used a while ago, this is just greenish yellow and I'm just dropping it in. Now I'm going to outline this avocado. I'm going to grab some sap green and the mixture is a little bit thick. If you feel like there's too much paint, just blot out the excess using your tissue paper. Let's rinse our brush and just blot out the excess water and then let's clean those edges, let them blend in with the greenish yellow part. Now let's add some flowers. I'm just going to grab some ultramarine blue plus some permanent violet and let's just mix them up on the palette and then let's grab a lot of water. I'm just going to dilute this color and you want a bluish violet color. I'm going to paint a flower that looks like a hydrangea, but the painting method is just different from what we practiced. Now let's just paint some four petal flowers and I'm just slowly pressing my brush against the paper and just create these small flowers. In some areas, I'm not going to paint the full four petal flower, sometimes I'm just going to paint two petals so that it looks like the other petals are behind the other flowers. Painting the flower is quite close to each other, but I'm still maintaining that small white space in between. Let's just continue adding until we are able to create a bowl shape. Once you paint a few four petal flowers, it's okay to just add some single or double petals on the outer part of this hydrangea. Then let's grab some indigo. I'm just going to drop it in the center of the four petal flower. For the two petal flowers, just put the dot where the petals meet and doing this just gives this more depth. Now let's rinse our brush and grab some more blue violet color and I'm just adding some filler petals. These are just single petals and it will make this hydrangea look fuller. Then we can also add some green stem in-between those flowers just to make it look more interesting and just to close some gaps if some gaps are too wide. Now let's move on to the next video for Part 2 of this class project. [MUSIC] 24. Avocado Wreath Part 2: Now we're done with the hydrangea, I'm going to add some more flowers to this wreath. Let's grab some ultramarine blue and we want a thick mixture. We're going to paint three flowers there. I'm just going to start with some simple five petaled flowers. Don't worry, it doesn't have to look so perfect because we are just going to layer this with some gouache later. If you have some mistakes, we can easily cover that up. I'm also leaving a space in the center. There's a white space in the center where all the five petals are pointing. Then let's paint another set of petals just right below. I'm keeping the petals quite pointy on the ends, just so that it looks a bit more natural. Now we're onto the last flower. Then let's just grab some sap green and we are going to just put a dot in the center. Now we're done. Looking at this wreath, I think I can add one more blue flower over there. The hydrangea has more faint color, so I want to add some flowers beside it that are bolder in colors or that there is just contrast and it looks better when you look at the wreath. Now let's move onto a top view so you can see it better. I'm going to grab some cerulean blue and we are just going to paint some buds. The way I'm forming this is that it's a bit curved so that it follows the shape of the wreath. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. I'm just pressing my brush to create a petal-like stroke. Sometimes I'm just painting a line right beside it. Now we can connect all of those buds. I just grabbed some sap green, and I'm just adding some stem. You can also add some stem sticking out and some thin leaves as well. We need one more flower over there. I'm seeing a small droplet on the right. I'm just going to grab my tissue and just blot it out. Then let's grab some Prussian blue. Let's paint a rose I'm going to start with the center. Then let's attach some small and thin C strokes right around that center. Then I'm going to rinse my brush. Then let's start painting some bigger C strokes. Let's make sure that there are white spaces in between. That came out a little too dark, so I'm just going to rinse my brush and just fade out that area. Just continue painting some C strokes. Towards the other part of this rose, I'm fully pressing the belly of the brush to create a bigger or a wider stroke. We can rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Let's just build the petals little by little. Some strokes can be just lines, it doesn't have to be a wide C stroke. Again, don't worry too much about the shape of this rose for now because this is just the first layer, and we can still fix this rose with the second layer. Now let's change the angle. I'm already done with the rose and as you can see, there's a white gap over there. Let's grab some greenish-yellow. I'm going to paint some small buds just trying to stipple my brush and I'm varying the strokes. You can also try to vary by adding some pressure to your bristles when you paint it on the paper. Then you can grab some sap green and just add a stem, just attach it to the buds. I'm also creating some expressive marks using the tip of my brush and I'm doing this quickly so that it looks more expressive. Now we can add some leaves. Then we can rinse our brush to paint a lighter value and add some more leaves. I'm adding it near the greenish-yellow buds, I'm also adding some more stems. Now we have one more gap left, so I'm just going to mix some indigo and sap green. I'm going to fill in this gap with some two stroke leaves. Just sway your brush and make these leaves look like they're dancing so that it doesn't look too stiff. Then you can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. My trick is just to mix my sap green with any other color on my palate. That's how I'm able to experiment and see what works or what doesn't work. It looks really pretty when you try to change the value. You can see here that you have darker shades of green, then you have the lighter ones. It just has this beautiful contrast. Don't worry, you can also paint on top of the avocado. Now I'm going to add some more leaves in this tiny gap. I can also try to paint some small stems sticking out and then just add some more leaves again. Don't forget that you should also try to put some stems in between these small flowers because it will make it look fuller. Just go around this wreath and look for gaps where you can insert some leaves. You can grab sap green and Prussian blue, and then let's just paint it right beside the avocado. I'm keeping the leaves there pretty dark. As you can see, there's a beautiful contrast between the avocado and the dark leaves. Let's paint a stem over there. I'm just going to stamp my brush and slowly drag it to create these small leaves. Try to vary the shape of the leaves so that it looks interesting. Now let's try to put a shape on the edges of this rose. I'm just going to paint some leaves. Now you can see the edge better. Over on this side, let's put some small flowers. I'm using cerulean blue, so this will look like small buds and then let's add sap green, just add a stem. The blue color really compliments the green avocados, that's why I'm adding them beside each other. Now let's add some stem sticking out. Let's mix a dark green color. Again, this is just sap green and indigo. As you can see, I'm adding it there because it's a good contrast to the hydrangea which looks a little light. Let's grab some greenish-yellow. I'm going to paint some dotted fillers. So I'm just going to staple my brush onto the stem. Then let's move around the wreath and look for some other stems. I'm just going to start stippling again, create some small dots that will look like small flowers. You can also use permanent yellow light for these small flowers because it also compliments the blue flowers that we painted. We're almost done with this section. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to Part 3 of this class project. 25. Avocado Wreath Part 3: [MUSIC] We're now on to Part 3 of this class project and I have indigo and sap green in my brush. This is a dark green color and I'm just going to layer some of those leaves. Let's continue to layer the leaves so that this wreath looks fuller. In some cases, I'm just going to paint some small stem sticking out. I'm also trying to balance the dark leaves all throughout the wreath. As you can see, I'm just moving around the wreath. Now let's grab some pure indigo. I'm just going to paint some buds. These are dark colored buds, and I place them near the avocado, just to give it more contrast. Just make sure that your fingers are free of watercolor paint. As you can see, there's a small smudge on the right side of this wreath. I did not notice that there was green paint on my pinky finger. Now it has a small smudge. Now let's continue adding some dark green leaves and placing it beside the main elements that are light-colored. Try to vary the shape of the leaves, some can be long and slender, some can be some fat leaves, or you can even add some rounded tip leaves. The avocado is now dry and we can proceed to painting the seeds. I just wet the oval shape. Now I just grabbed some burnt umber and we're going to spread it and just paint the shape of the seed. Now let's rinse our brush and grab a new color, this time let's grab some sepia. This is a really dark brown color. I'm going to use this as a shadow for the seed. I'm going to dab my brush in the tissue paper just to get out the excess paint. I'm adding the sepia towards the lower left bottom of the seed. Because we're working on wet technique, it's easier to blend these two colors seamlessly. Now let's add a highlight. I'm going to dab my clean brush in a tissue paper and just lift that pain. Lifting that paint will they reveal the white paper underneath and we're done. Now let's move on to the other avocado. Same technique. I'm going to wet the oval shape of the seed. Then let's grab some burnt umber. I'm just going to drop it in and just spread it. Let's just grab some more burnt umber. Then rinse our brush and grab some sepia. Again, let's put some shadow to the seed. I'm adding it to the lower left bottom and we're just going to try to blend it out. Then rinse your brush and dab the excess moisture. Then you can just lift off that paint to create a highlight. It's now time to add some layering on these rules. Let's just make some Prussian blue that's more concentrated. We're going to paint the center to give it more depth. Then add some thin C curves just around it, and then let's rinse our brush and just fade away some of those strokes. We can also start painting some C strokes using the paint in a brush. Those strokes are a little concentrated. I'm just going to try to fade away one side of that stroke to keep it soft. Then just move around the rules and just keep on adding some small strokes. I also kept some of the original white spaces in the first layer. I'm looking at the avocado and it seems like we need to define it some more, so I just grabbed some sap green that's more concentrated. I'm going to start outlining this avocado just to make it pop up. With a clean brush, I'm just going to fade away the stroke and just make it soft and let it blend with the inside of the avocado. Let's do that on the other avocado as well. When you're painting every stride you always observe the elements that you painted. It's always nice to go back and add more details. Now let's grab some sap green. This one is a diluted sap green and going to stipulate on the whole avocado. We're doing this to add some texture to it, just to add some pores on the avocado. The reason why we're using diluted sap green is because we don't want this to look too harsh when it dries. You just want a subtle look. Here comes the fun part again, we're going to add some gouache details. I'm going to start painting some veins on this blue flower. Just use the tip of your brush to add some thin strokes. You can also try to paint two parallel lines and then just add some branches sticking out from the sides that will look like veins. Let's change the camera angle and do a close up shot so you can see it better. As you can see, the blue flowers doesn't look perfect, so now that we're adding some gouache we're able to cover the mistakes that we did. Again, you can try to paint two parallel lines and add some branches sticking out on the sides, and you can try to make your strokes a little bit curved. Then we can put a dot in the center of this flower. [MUSIC] These are the flowers that we painted on. Now let's add some more details. I'm going to paint some small white flowers on this avocado. Then let's add some small bites near these bunch of leaves. I usually try to add some gouache details on areas with a bunch of leaves. You will notice that after painting some white gouache, that area looks a lot better. Then we can add some berries as well. Adding one berry per leaf so you can still see the leaf in the background. Now I'm going to start adding some white veins on some of the leaves. You can add some five petaled flowers. I think this is coming to life as you'll notice that the leaf is looking even fuller now because we added some gouache details. I'm going to add some dotted fillers over there, and you can also try to look for some more imperfections if they are patchy areas, try to just paint some fillers using white gouache and cover up that mistake. If some of the gouache fillers faded once it dried, just go back in and paint another layer just to make it more opaque. Now we're done with the gouache details. I'm just going to grab this dark green color and start adding some random veins. This will make the leaves look more interesting compared to the usual veins that we are painting. I'm trying to vary the thickness of the veins, some are thin, some are thick. Now let's go around the wreath and start adding some more leaves on areas with some gaps. Now might be the time to take a photo of your wreath and then look at it from a different perspective so you can see if there are areas that needs some improvement. Like what I had explained in the previous class projects, sometimes when you're working too much on a painting, you won't notice the areas where you need to add some more leaves or fillers because your eyes have been used to the image of the painting, so you need a different perspective. A trick that I do is I take a photo of my painting and just look at it on my phone. Now let's grab some greenish yellow and add some pops of color. You can also try to mix sap green with just yellow. [MUSIC] I'm going to grab some permanent yellow light and just add some fillers. I'm adding them all over this wreath. Congratulations on finishing your class project. 26. Pear Wreath Part 1 : [MUSIC] Let's paint pear and florals wreath. The first thing that we need to do is we need to draw a round shape, and then we need to determine where the pears will be. I'm going to put three pears in this wreath, and in-between them, we are going to paint some florals. Now let's grab some water, and I'm just going to do a wet-on-wet technique. Let's just paint the inside of this pear with some clean water. Next, we need to prepare permanent yellow light, and let's just drop that in and blend it out, and then let's grab some sap green, and I'm going to drop it in the lower bottom half of this pear. I'm going to try to blend it out, and then I guess you can grab some more sap green just to intensify the color. I'm just going to slowly spread it. It's easy to spread because we're doing the wet-on-wet technique, and the two colors can blend seamlessly. I'm going to rinse my brush and get a little bit of yellow orange. I just want to put that towards the upper half of this pear. Let's just move around the paint and just blend them. At this point, you can also try to fix the shape of the pear. I'm going to intensify the yellow orange some more. I'm just going to drop in some more color and just try to blend it out. Let's grab some burnt umber. I'm just going to add a little bit of shadow towards the bottom part of this pear, and I wanted to give that greasy feel. Just looks more natural, and I'm also trying to just stipple my brush and just give that extra texture to this pear. I'm going to mix my sap green with a little bit of the burnt umber, and let's just try to add some freckles on this pear. Then I'm just letting it bloom a little bit. My brush isn't too wet. We don't want a very wet brush or else it will spread all over the place. You want to be able to control those freckles. Right now I'm just adding a stem using just burnt umber, and then you can just clean that up using a damp brush and blood it on a tissue paper. Now we're done. Now let's move on to another pear, and this time we're going to paint a sliced pear. This is the pear on the right side. I'm just going to wet it with just clean water and then I'm going to drop in a very diluted yellow ocher color. It's now time to put an outline to this pear, so I'm just going to grab some sap green and dab the excess paint on a tissue paper. As you can see, we're able to control our paint because the brush isn't too wet. If the brush is too wet, then the paint will just spread all over the place because the inside of this pear is still wet. Just for variety, I'm going to add a greenish yellow on the outline. Part of it is sap green, part of it is greenish yellow. I'm doing this because I'm imagining that a pear would have different colors on the outside. When you slice it, you will see the outline of the pear. It will have different colors as well on the outline, and you can also add a little bit of yellow orange if you want. Just have fun with adding different colors for the outline. Don't worry, we're going to clean up that edge. Just rinse your brush and dab the excess moisture in tissue paper, and then now I'm just sweeping my brush on this outline and just blending the colors together. If you feed it the colors too much, don't worry, you can go back in and just add some more color and try to intensify it some more. Now let's grab some burnt umber. I'm just going to put a stem on that pear and I'm just going to wait for it to dry before we add some more details. Now, I'm going to skip the other pear for now because I'm going to paint a rose beside it, and it's going to overlap on the fruit, and you'll see why later on. Let's start painting the rose. I'm grabbing some indigo, and this is a very concentrated mixture. You can try to put a thought first before you paint the center just so you have a guide. Now I'm just adding some small C strokes around the center, and I'm attaching it to the center. Then let's rinse our brush to dilute that color. Then I'm just going to paint some more C strokes. As you can see, the color is now lighter. Make sure that you're leaving white spaces, let's just try to zoom it in so you can see it better. You can also try to add some cerulean blue to the indigo. This is optional. I'm going to rinse my brush and just fade away that stroke. Right here, I'm sweeping the brush from left to right. You can also try to rotate the paper so that it's easier to paint some angles, and then I'm just going to continue diluting the paint so I can get a lighter color. In some cases, I'm using just the tip of my brush just to close some small gaps. This is easier to paint if you're painting it quickly instead of just dragging your brush slowly. Like they always say, we're not really that particular about the first layer because we're adding a second layer, and we can just cover up some mistakes. I'm just trying to fade away the parts near the center just so that we have a gradient look. Now that we're done with the rose, we can proceed with the pear right beside it. You can see the pencil sketch that I did, and you'll see that the rose overlapped the pear. You can't see part of the pear anymore. But I'm going to leave a white space right there in-between these two elements, and you'll see it better when we have color on the pear. Earlier we started with permanent yellow light for the first pear, but right now I'm going to start with some yellow orange. We're just going to have fun and try to experiment. I'm adding some permanent yellow light and let's just spread that. Then let's grab some sap green. I'm just going to paint that towards the bottom half of this pear. As you can see, there's a wide space in between the pear and the rose. Let's grab a more concentrated sap green and add it at the bottom just to add more shadow. I'm just going to try to blend all of these colors up and I'm also going to try to fix the shape. Now it's the best time to fix the shape of the pear while it's still wet. Now let's rinse our brush and let's grab some burnt umber. I'm going to drop it at the bottom of this pear to add a shadow and just let it bloom. Let's grab some sap green and dab the excess paint in a tissue paper. Then I'm going to put some dots on this pear, and you can also make sap green with burnt umber. I'm just going to spread it all over the pear. This will give it a more natural look. Now let's grab somewhere in burnt umber, and I'm just going to add a stem. The sliced pear is already dry. I'm going to grab some yellow ocher, and let's mix a very diluted yellow ocher, and just put a vertical line in the middle of this sliced pear. That looks good, and then let's add some seeds. I'm using sepia. This is a dark brown color, and you want a really concentrated mixture. Just paint two ovals. Everything's looking really good. [MUSIC] Now let's move on to Part 2 of this class project. Just click the next video. 27. Pear Wreath Part 2: Now we're done with the three pears and the rose. I'm going to paint a flower over there. Let's just grab some permanent yellow light, I'm going to paint a five-petaled flower. Just press your brush and just slowly drag and lift to create an expressive stroke. Sometimes you can just paint a line using the tip of your brush. Now let's grab some yellow orange, and I'm just going to add it to the tip of my brush and as I paint this stroke, you'll see that it has become too toned. You can also do that trick and then you can also rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Then let's grab some yellow orange. Try to use different parts of the brush to create a petal and you'll discover that you'll be able to create different types of brush strokes. I'm going to show you the photo of the final painting just so will you understand what we're painting. Just rinse your brush and now let's grab some permanent red and mix it on our palette. I'm just going to add it on the edges of the petals and we're doing this to just add some more definition to this petal and make it look more interesting. Now let's try to fade away some of those strokes and let it blend with the other colors. It's looking good and then can proceed to adding some details in the center. Let's rinse our brush and get some burnt umber. I'm just going to taut my brush in the center. Just stamp the tip of your brush so you can create some small dots. Now we're good. Let's move on to a different flower. Let's paint a daisy-like flower. I'm going to start with some yellow ocher. This is a thick mixture and let's just paint a round shape with some fuzzy edges. Now let's add some petals, and I'm going to grab some cerulean blue and add a lot of water. We can also mix in a little bit of indigo. Just make sure that this mixture is really diluted. Just try to drag your brush onto the paper to create these small strokes. I'm also pulling away some of those yellow ocher. As well you'll see that some of the petals will have a greenish color. That's because the cerulean blue and yellow ocher mixed together. I'm using cerulean blue with little bit of indigo just to mimic a white petal. You can also just use plain cerulean blue or plain indigo if you don't have the two colors, and that's okay. Now let's add some sepia and I'm going to dab this brush in the tissue paper, and then let's just add a ring of dots. As you can see, I'm able to control this paint because we blotted out the excess paint in our brush and then let's just rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture. I'm just going to pull away some of those colors and dragging the sepia color outward. I'm doing this to add more shadow to this flower. If it's not dark enough, you can grab some indigo and just put it on top of the sepia color that you painted. Then let's rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture. I'm just going to pull away the colors again and just drag that color outwards. As you can see, the petals are now more defined. Let's go back to this flower in awhile. I'm going to add one more flower on the left side and this is facing side view. This is just yellow ocher again, and I'm going to rinse my brush and grab some very diluted cerulean blue. Just drag your brush and create those thin petals. You can also go over the pear. Since we changed the angle of this flower we are only painting full petals on half of the flower. Let's add some more definition to the center. I'm grabbing some sepia and just dotting it on the edge of that yellow ocher oval shape. I'm just going to dab my brush and clean the edges. Then you can grab some indigo and just darken that outline. Let's rinse our brush, dab the excess water, and just pull away some of those dark colors. If some areas look muddy you can just try to lift some of those paint. Now let's paint a smaller daisy, and it's also facing sideways. We just use yellow ocher again for the center. Then now I'm grabbing some diluted cerulean blue and let's paint some petals that are facing downwards. You can add a little bit more of that yellow ocher just to fix the shape. Instead of using sepia, I'm going to go directly to indigo and just dab it over there, create a dark outline. Then let's rinse our brush, dab the excess water. Again, we're just going to pull away that color and move it towards the petals. I use the tip of my brush to do this. Now we're done with the main elements so it's already time to add some leaves. I have here some sap green in my brush. You can make sap green with a little bit of indigo to create a dark green color. Now let's put that near this rose. You can also make sepia and sap green to create that earthy and dark green color as well. I think it compliments this leaf very much. Now we're adding some darker shades of green near this pear because it just makes this fruit pop up some more. Now I'm grabbing some sap green and I'm adding it beside the leaves that has an earthy color. You can also try to rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Let's play around. I have some cerulean blue left in my palette and I'm just going to add it to my sap green so that we can have another shade of green. There's a white space in between this orange flower and the pear fruit. Let's just grab some sap green and add some leaves and then I also mix sap green with indigo now to create a darker green. Don't be afraid to change the angle of the leaves. Now let's grab one of my most used colors. This is greenish-yellow and it just creates this pop of color in any leaf. If you don't have this just mix your yellow and some sap green. Let's make some Prussian blue and sap green. I'm going to paint some leaves. As you can see, I painted stems first before I painted the leaves. I think that painting stems first before you paint the full leaf it helps you prevent making any mistakes. Use the tip of your brush to create some expressive stems. Now I'm going to rinse my brush to create a lighter value. To create an earthy green color just mix sap green with any brown color. Sometimes I like mixing sap green with burnt sienna as well. If you want a deeper shade, mix sap green and sepia. To create a more harmonious color, usually what I do is I grab the colors of the main elements and then that's the color that I mix to my sap green to change the colors of the green leaves in my leaf. If you'll notice, I use indigo for the rose and I use also sepia for the daisies, and I mix these colors with my sap green. Now I'm going to paint some slender leaves right beside this pear. Just try to mix the colors of the leaves here. Some of the leaves here are a combination of sap green and sepia. Some are sap green and Prussian blue. I'm also adding some stem sticking out. Let's try to close this white gap. I just grab some sap green with indigo again. Now let's paint some round shape leaves and this is a mixture of sap green with a little bit of Prussian blue. I'm also rinsing my brush to create a lighter value. Now let's grab some sap green and paint a thin line and then add some branches. On those branches I'm going to create some small leaves and I'm going to just stamp my brush to create the small brush markings. I'm going to add some greenish yellow and stamp my brush and then let's grab a different shade of green. This one is a mix of Prussian blue and sap green. Just try to vary the colors that you will use for this leaf. This is a fun leaf to paint because it's so easy. You'll just need to stipple your brush on the paper. I saw another white gap so I'm going to just paint some leaves over there and then we can also paint some green berries. You can use any green color that you want. I'm going to [MUSIC] keep adding and layering some leaves. Then now let's move on to part 3 of this class project. [MUSIC] 28. Pear Wreath Part 3: [MUSIC] We are now onto the last part of this class project. As you can see, some parts are still a little sparse, and we still need to add some more leaves. My default color for adding leaves is sap green. Let's just add some more in some of the white gaps. I usually look at the main elements such as this orange flower, and I would always add some leaves just around this main element. Let's get a dark green color. This is just a mixture of sap green and indigo. We can add some stems and just fill in some of the smaller gaps. We can also start layering some of the leaves, so I'm going to do that on the left side of this wreath. Layering just means that you're just painting on top of the previous leaves that you painted. Now let's mix up an earthy green color, so I'm mixing sap green and sepia. I'm just going to add some of those leaves near some areas that have a lighter color of leaves. I'm mixing the dark and light-colored leaves. Now we can add some berries, and I just use indigo here. You can use any dark blue color that you have. Now we can add some veins on our leaves. I'm just mixing up some sap green and indigo, which is a darker color, and then now we're going to add some random strokes. You can add some lines in this round-tip leaf. Look for light-colored leaves, and that's where you put the veins. It just gives the wreath more depth if you try to layer your leaves. Let's change the camera angle and try to observe the left side and the right side of the wreath. The left side looks fuller because we added some layering, we added some vein details. The right side looks a bit plane because it still doesn't have some veins on the leaves. In the previous class projects, we actually added the white gouache first before adding the veins, but in this case I added the veins first before I will add the white gouache details. Don't worry, it's really just a matter of preference. Both styles will end up with a good painting. Let's try to layer the leaves some more. As you can see, I'm also trying to extend some of the leaves so that it doesn't look too clumpy and so that it looks quite loose on the edges. Now let's add some berries so you can change the color of the berries, you can make it green, you can make it blue. It depends on what you want to add. I'm adding the berries to add contrast as you can see, the daisy flowers, they're light in color, so I have decided to add some dark berries to give it contrast, and it will make the daisies pop up. Now let's mix up a very diluted indigo color. I'm going to just paint some lines on the petals of this daisy and these lines will look like their shadows or the folds of the petal. Now let's grab a sepia color or you can also grab indigo, that's okay. I'm just going to intensify the center of this flower again because it faded when it dried. Let's start layering this rose. I'm going to grab a very concentrated indigo color. For the center, I'm going to follow what we painted in the first layer and just pile up some darker paint. Then you can add just a few thin C strokes and then we're going to rinse our brush, and we can start feeding. As you can see, even if I rinse my brush there still color in my brush. I'm going to paint some more of those C strokes. They're not too thick. Try to paint swiftly and hold your brush towards the middle of the handle to keep your hand quite loose and make sure that you're leaving some white spaces in between those strokes. You can also try to blot your brush in the tissue paper so that you won't get a puddle on your strokes. Then if some areas are too dark, just tried to fade it away with a damp brush. All right, so we're just going to have fun with this part. This is optional. I just added just a few dots of red and also yellow-orange color in the center of this rose. I added colors that they also use in the other main elements of this wreath. This is to ensure that we have color harmony within this wreath. We're done with the rose and then I'm going to grab some permanent red and add some more details on the orange flower. The orange flower is already dry so every time I add a stroke, it will look quite sharp. Looking at the daisy and it seems like we need to add some more details to define the petals. So I'm just grabbing a darker indigo mixture and I'm painting some strokes in between the petals. Then you can try to fade it away using a damp brush or you can leave it as is. This wreath is all about layering and adding more details. Let's just intensify this pair. I'm going to grab some diluted sap green and just paint the outline again, just so it will pop up some more in this wreath. We're done with the details and it's now time to add some white gouache, so I just squeezed a small amount and now I'm just trying to melt it away using just a little bit of water because you still want this gouache to be opaque. I'm going to start with some five-petaled flowers. Then I'm just lightly dabbing my brush to create some petal-like strokes and I'm adding a white stem as well. Then we can add some white veins on the leaves. You can also add some single strokes on each leaf. I'm adding white gouache details on areas that look a little flat. I'm trying to spread out the five-petaled flowers, I'm trying to add it all over the wreath with some spacing. When you're painting the class project, don't feel the pressure that you need to follow what I'm doing. Just always remember that this is your wreath and it will always look different from what I do because you all have unique ways of painting. Feel free to add some gouache details on places where it feels right for you. Just try to hold the painting from afar and observe it, and see if some areas need a pop of color. Right here, I just added some white berries and it looks great on that area. Now I found a big fat leaf over here at the bottom and I'm going to add some dotted filler. Let's go back to that orange flower and add some white gouache details. I'm just going to put some small dots in the center. Now this is optional. I decided to add some white gouache details in the center of this daisy, and I'm adding it near that dark color. You will immediately see the big change in this wreath because of the white gouache details that we added. Now we're done with the gouache and I'm just going to grab some green colors and slowly add some more leaves. I'm actually just mixing any color on my palette and I'm adding it to my green. And of course, you can add some stem sticking out, and that will make it look more natural. The small finishing touches, sometimes it really creates a big change in the overall look of this wreath. If you plan to put writing or a code in the center of this wreath, maybe you might want to adjust the leaves that are facing the center. But in this last project, I don't intend to add some codes in the middle, so I'm okay with the center looking so lush. It's okay to stop once in a while and just look at your wreath and see if you need to add some more details. Right now, I'm just going to grab some greenish-yellow and I'm going to add some fillers. I feel like this needs a pop of color in some areas. This is a great way to do that. You can also use permanent yellow light. All right and you're done. [MUSIC] 29. Mango Wreath Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's paint mango and floral wreath. The first step is that we need to draw a circle. Just use any round object and trace the shape. Then we need to pinpoint where the mangoes will go. I have three mangoes that I will put in this wreath, and then we'll paint some flowers in-between the mangoes. I have uploaded the photo of this final painting in the Resources section of this class, and you can download it. Let's do a wet-on-wet technique. I'm going to just brush on some water on the inside of this mango. This is just clean water. Then let's grab some permanent yellow light. I know that mangoes have different varieties, and this mango is similar to what we have here in the Philippines. Just feel free to change the color and also the shape depending on the mangoes that you are used to seeing. Now I'm going to add some sap green just to give it the look that it's not fully ripe. Now let's add some yellow orange towards the bottom of this mango just to give it some shadow. With a clean brush, I'm just going to blend all the colors together. We can grab a little bit more of that yellow orange and just dab it at the bottom of this mango. Before I start painting on the second mango, I'm just going to slightly erase the pencil sketch using a kneaded eraser, because once I paint on that pencil sketch, I won't be able to erase it anymore. We need to lighten the pencil sketch before we paint on it. I already brushed this area with some clean water and now I'm adding some sap green. Then towards the bottom, I'm going to add some permanent yellow light and just mix those two colors. I suggest that when you're painting a fruit wreath, try to add fruits in different stages of ripeness. For example, this mango, when it's not yet ripe, it's green. You can paint some green mangoes and then mix up with some yellow and ripe mangoes. Now let's add some yellow orange as a shadow. Just drop in that color. We can rinse our brush and dab the excess water and then just try to fade away that area. Then you can also intensify the greenish area. I'm just going to mix permanent yellow light and sap green and just dab it on the paper. Let's move on to the third mango. I'm just going to paint it again with some clean water. It would be best if you can have a real fruit in front of you as your reference. You can turn the fruit and just change the angle so that it will look interesting in your fruit crease. I just added some sap green and now I'm mixing up some yellow light. Lets try to blend those two colors and then let's add a shadow. Again I'm going to grab yellow orange. Let's rinse our brush and dab the excess moisture so we can try to blend these colors seamlessly. Let's start painting some flowers. I'm going to start by mixing permanent violet and permanent rose. We got the right color, I'm going to paint some four petaled flowers, and these will look like a hydrangea. You can try to vary the value. Some can be a bit darker. I can grab a little bit of permanent violet to add some intensity to this flower and then we can rinse our brush to create a lighter shade. Not all the flowers need to be four petals, you can try to paint some single petals or double petals, that's okay. I'm actually growing this flower just by adding some single petals all around the edges. Now let's grab some permanent violet. As you can see, I'm varying the colors and then we can rinse our brush and just add a very light color. I'm almost just pulling some color from the dark, permanent violet color. [MUSIC] Now let's grab some yellow orange and we are going to paint a five-petaled flower right below this mango. I'm just going to keep it pretty loose and not so strict about the shape. Don't worry about it because we're going to layer this and also going to add some more leaves and fillers. You can rinse your brush to create a lighter value. You can also try to move your paper so that it's easier to paint some angles of the petals. Now let's grab some permanent red. I'm going to put that in the center of this five-petaled flower, and this is what will bring all the petals together. Now let's grab some indigo and put a dot in the center. While waiting for this orange flower to dry, I'm going to start with another flower. Let's grab some permanent yellow light. I'm going to paint a dahlia. I just put a small dot over there just as a guide, and from that dot, try to add some elongated C strokes. As you can see, I'm trying to sway my brush left and right or right to left. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. I like to keep the ends of this stroke pointy. Let's keep adding some petals until we are able to form a round shape. While waiting for this to dry, we're going to move on to the hydrangea and add some layers. I'm going to mix up some permanent violet with a little bit of ultramarine blue. Let's add the second layer. This looks too dark and I'm just going to rinse my brush to create a lighter value. Let's just keep on adding some petals, but make sure that you can still see the color underneath. Now I'm going to add a bit more of the ultramarine blue just to intensify this mixture and I'm going to keep adding some single petals. Just to vary the color, I'm just going to mix permanent rose and permanent violet, and we're going to use that color and paint some more petals. You can dip your brush in the water jar just to lighten the value and just keep adding some strokes. I usually add the lighter strokes towards the outer part of this flower. Now let's mix up some ultramarine blue and permanent violet again. I'm just going to intensify some areas by dabbing my brush and creating some more concentrated areas, just fewer brushstrokes, and we're done with this flower. Let's now move on to Part 2 of this class project. 30. Mango Wreath Part 2: [MUSIC] Moving on to Part 2 of this class project let's go back to this dahlia. I'm going to grab some yellow orange and you're going to layer this flower. I'm dragging my brush and creating some curved strokes. Let's wait for this to dry and in the meantime, I am going to go back to the other orange flower. Let's grab some permanent red. I'm going to add some veins on this flower, makes sure that it's already dry before we do this technique. So the mixture of this red paint is quite concentrated because I want to create some opaque lines and just use the tip of your brush to create these veins. I usually start my brush stroke with a light pressure and I will slowly apply more pressure towards the center and then as I lift my brush, I'm going to apply light pressure again. This dahlia is already dry. Let's go back in and add the third layer. This is still permanent red in my brush and this time adding fewer strokes compared to the first two layers. As I'm adding this third layer, I'm making sure that you can still see the first and second layer petals. Let's add a rose over here. I'm going to grab some sap green, it's not the usual color that we use for roses, but it's okay to experiment and I'm going to paint the center first. Then let's add some thin strokes around it. I'm going to rinse my brush and grab some greenish yellow. I'm just going to dilute this color and then let's try to add some C strokes around the center. I'm still leaving some white spaces. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. Just to give this flower more depth, I'm going to grab some indigo, a thick mixture, and then we're going to drop it in the center of this rose. With a damp brush we can try to fix that indigo paint and fade that away. We're done with all the main elements, and I'm going to add some leaves over there. Let's prepare some sap green. I have sap green on my palette, and also have sap green and indigo and I have mixed them ahead of time. I'm going to paint some two stroke leaves. I'm using my size 8 round brush just so that I can work faster because I can paint bigger leaves. Let's rinse our brush to create a lighter value. Just try to mix up dark and light colored leaves. Try to observe and it looks more beautiful now because it doesn't look flat. We have different colors of green leaves. I'm going to keep on adding some leaves and I'm going to show you the final painting. As you can see that area where the leaves are, I'm going to put a lot of white gouache flowers, so it's going to be covered up in the end, but we want it to be quite dark so that the gouache will be seen. You can also add some greenish yellow leaves just to give it a pop of color. [MUSIC] In this part, I did not notice that my camera stopped recording, but I just added some leaves on the left side and I've closed a wide gap in-between the two mangoes over there. I've also added some berries on the right side over there and I just use some sap green color and also permanent violet. I added the violet berries to complement the yellow mango and also the orange flower. Now let's mix sap green and sepia to create an earthy green color and let's paint some more leaves. You can also add some stem sticking out and also a eucalyptus stalk. Just paint some oval shapes on top of the stamps that you painted. You can also try to rinse your brush to create a lighter value. Now let's paint some long and slender leaves. I'm just going to use the tip of my brush to create a stroke. It's a thin stroke and you can make it a little curve. I still have the sap green and sepia color combination in my brush and I'm going to just make some long and slender leaves. Just drag my brush across the page and also try to make it a little curve. Looks like an S shape. Also rinse your brush to create a lighter value, so you can make some dark and light colored leaves again. For me this is one of the most relaxing leaves to paint, and it's also very easy to paint. You can opt to start painting from the center going outwards or in some cases, I paint from the outside going to the center of this stock and try to vary the direction of the leaves so that it looks more natural. Let's grab some greenish yellow. I'm going to paint some buds in that white gap. Just to change it up a bit, I'm going to grab some sap green and add it to my greenish yellow color and then let's paint another bud. We've covered up that big chunk of white gap and now there are small gaps in-between. I'm just going to paint some thin strokes that will look like stems. Now let's grab some sap green and you're going to start adding some more leaves, and we're are going to fill in this floral wreath. Let's look for species in between the main elements and that's where I'm going to add the leaves. Right here, I'm just dragging my brush to create that pointy tip and then also rinse my brush to create a lighter value. Now I just grabbed some really thick permanent violet and I'm going to add some dark berries. [MUSIC] I'm going to add more leaves beside this orange flower just to make it pop up some more and then let's grab some sap green and there's still a space in between this green rose and mango. Just try to move around this wreath and paint some stems sticking out and just have fun with it. This wreath is looking good and it looks fuller. Now let's move on to the Part 3 of this class project. [MUSIC] 31. Mango Wreath Part 3 : [MUSIC] We are now in the last part of this class project. Here I'm just mixing my white gouache with a little bit of water until I get that creamy consistency. Let's start painting some small flowers in that area. Some flowers can be five petals, some can be four. I'm going to start filling in this area with just a lot of small flowers. [MUSIC] We can also start adding some veins onto some of those leaves. Let me grab some more white gouache, and I'm going to add some small strokes all around the center of this orange flower and just put a small dot in the center. Let's add some veins over there. I'm just looking at the other leaves and checking out which ones I can put some details on. This dark leaf looks pretty good. Let's paint some dotted fillers and I'm just going to change the angle of the camera so you can see it better. The small dots will look like small flowers. In case I'm going to add one more detail over there and then let's rinse our brush. I will try to grab some dark green color. It's a mixture of indigo and sap green. Now we can add some veins on some of the leaves. It's nice to mix up the way we add the veins to the leaves. Some of the veins are made of watercolor strokes, some are painted with white gouache. In some areas, we can add some extra leaves as well. I'm going to grab some greenish yellow and add some fillers over there and just give it a pop of color. Let's rinse our brush and grab some yellow orange and just mix it on our palette. This time I'm going to create some yellow orange fillers. This is the same stippling motion for these fillers. I would suggest using the colors that you use for the main elements just so you can create a more harmonious wreath. Also, it's easier to decide on the colors that you will use. Let's grab some more sap green and just add some more leaves. This looks a little light. I'm going to add a bit of indigo and just paint on top of that leaf. Now we can also start adding some veins on these buds and then painting some curved lines. In some areas, you can just dab your brush to create some expressive strokes or you can add some stem sticking out just to close some white gaps. I'm just going to grab some more yellow orange and add some fillers. I'm trying to balance the way I add some fillers and they want it to be spread out all throughout the wreath. Now let's add some leaves near this hydrangea, just to define the edges of this flower. It's okay to stop from time to time and just observe the areas where you need to add some more fillers or leaves. Take your time in building this wreath so that it looks really lush. Here I just added some indigo on the long and slender leaves just to define it some more. You can add some veins in some of those leaves. As you can see, I'm just moving around this wreath and looking for leaves to improve. Let's add some layer to this rose. I just grabbed some greenish yellow and diluted it with water. Now I'm just adding some C strokes all around this rose just to give it more definition. Now we can add some berries, and I'm using ultramarine blue, but you can also permanent violet. This is just to give some contrast to that area. I want to intensify the color of the mangoes because they look a little pale. I'm just going to wet this mango again with just clean water and then grab some yellow orange and also some permanent yellow light. I'm trying to paint another layer just to make them pop up some more. Just a tip when you're painting fruits, always remember that the colors you choose should make this fruit look delicious. I'm going to go back to this hydrangea and this is optional, but I'd like to deepen this flower by adding some darker petals using permanent violet. [MUSIC] Now I'm just going to grab some indigo and just put back that color in the center of this flower because it looks faded. We are done with the last class project. I hope that you enjoyed creating this with me. 32. Final Thoughts 1080p: [MUSIC] This wraps up my class. Thank you so much for watching. I hope that you learned a lot today. I look forward to your class projects and just to summarize the project, remember that the first thing is that you'll need to draw a round shape, as a guide for your wreath. Then you have to choose the fruit that you want to paint, and then based on the fruit, you can try to determine the colors that will complement the color of the fruit. Then just try to plot it on the round shape that you just did. You can use a pencil to sketch just so that you have a guide. That will make it easier for you to know where to put the other elements of the wreath and then start painting the main elements of the floral wreath. In between those floral elements, add some fillers, some leaves, and just to give it a finishing touch, add some gouache florals or fillers, that will give your floral wreath another dimension. Don't forget to upload your class project in the project gallery section of the class. Also, if you're going to post it on Instagram, use this hashtag so that I can see your work. That's it, I will see you in my next class. Bye [MUSIC].