Watercolor Painting: Paint a Realistic Garden Rose

1. Introduction: Welcome to my class on how to paint a realistic rose. We are going to be painting a garden rose today, one of my very favorite roses, they're so beautiful and we are going to be painting in a realistic style. So that means that we're gonna be using a lot of layers. Now, if you're a beginner, this class is totally fine for you. This class is for all levels. I am going to be going through step-by-step. However, if you've never picked up a paintbrush before and you're not really sure about what materials to use. I highly recommend checking out my beginner's guide to watercolor painting. I'll link it in the details of this class. Otherwise, this is the perfect class for any level i, o, by the way, I'm Nikki, I'm a watercolor artist, calligrapher and just basically mixed media artists. I love to dabble in all sorts of different mediums, but watercolor is definitely one of my favorites. And today I'm teaching you how to do the beautiful garden rose. 2. Class Project: For your class project, you are just painting along with me today. Feel free to change up the colors of the rows if you'd like. I am going to be using a pink rose today. We are going to be sketching it. But if you have trouble sketching or you just don't feel like drawing today. I also included in the class resources and a line drawing of the rose that you can just trace if you want to. We don't judge people for tracing here. Do whatever is best for you. Please post in the class projects after you finish your rows. Just take a simple photo of it and upload it. I love to see what you guys create. It means so much to me to see that. And it's also just really neat to see how a one rows can be interpreted differently among so many different artists. So please be sure to post, and I can't link to paint a realistic garden rose with you. 3. Supplies: Alright, let's talk about supplies. I wanted to give you guys an overview of what supplies I'm going to be using today. So the first thing is I'm using a watercolor block and I highly recommend this because we're gonna be doing a lot of layers today. So watercolor block works really well because it absorbs, there's all of this paper underneath and it absorbs the water for you. You don't have watercolor paper block, makes sure that you tape your paper down. Otherwise it's gonna be really warps. So if you don't have a block, tape your paper down. The other thing we're going to be using water. I like to use two cups of water. I really recommend you do so as well. One is for cool tones and one is for warm tones. That way our water does not get murky and our paints don't get murky. Also paper towel. I love to use a paper towel them, especially if I need to let off a little bit of paint. I use it every single time I paint, so I really recommend having that. And then a variety of brushes today. These are the brushes I'm going to be using. I have a size six and size for a size 23 over 0, but a size one would work just fine, or a size 0 would work as well. You need a small brush for details. And then you're going to want something. You don't need a 42, but definitely one of those. And then a six is just for the first layer that we're going to put down. Then I have my color palette and we're gonna be working with some blush pink tones today. But if you want to paint your rose a different color, feel free to use whatever color you'd like. And you're also going to need a pencil because we're going to be sketching. And I like to use a gummy eraser. But you can, you don't have to have a gum eraser, but this helps pull up any pencil marks that are a little bit too dark. Alright, let's get started with painting. 4. Let's Paint!: After a little bit further googling, I realized that this might actually be called a Dutch rose, garden rose the metros, I'm not quite sure, but it's super cute and it's the rows that we're going to be painting today. The first thing we need to do is start sketching out our rows. I'm going to start in the middle because the middle is pretty tight and you want to keep it pretty light. And I'm just going to make a circle because it'll help me to know the basic shapes. I start with a circle and then I'm starting with that outer pedal. It just kind of curves around. This petal is actually going to go all the way around up here. Lots of C curves. It's important to get this part right. Like I said in the beginning, if you struggle with sketching, feel free to trace it. I have the line drawing in the project or the project resources. So we have this guy out here and then we have another one. Obviously it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm already messing up. But try to get it as similar as possible. Then we have another one coming down here that we have this big petal. And then it curves in. Then we have this other petal folded in. I'm sorry, you guys, I'm not the best teacher for drawing. I'll teach you watercolor all day. But for drawing, I just go by basic shapes. And sometimes if you squint your eyes, that helps a little bit because it'll blur it and you can kinda see the general shape more. But I'm just following along all these petals that are layering the inside of this until we get to the middle where it's really, really tight. 21 more. And then the middle is just all these tiny little lines. It's like folded over itself. Remember to keep your pencil lines really light, minor, a little bit dark here, but I want you to be able to see what I'm drawing. Those are all those tiny, tiny petals inside of the garden rose. So I actually do think this is a garden rose. It just hasn't opened yet. That will save us a lot of extra layering. Okay? I have the basic shape of the inside of this petal. And then there's this one that's kind of starting to open out here. And make sure when the petal folds over on itself that you're getting that as well. Because you'll see it's going to create this really beautiful look when we start to watercolor paint it. Then I have one more petal out here. And I'm actually going to add in an extra petal. If you do add an extra petals or you're struggling a little bit, just make sure everything is curving into the middle. Bottle. Keep it looking realistic. I have the basic shape of the inside and now I'm going to do these outer petals that are opening up. We have one up top here, simple C-shape. Then we have an inner one that's not all the way on the outside coming in and it has a little bit of a jagged edge where that pedal has some texture. Then there's a second one that's coming down. Still has that like jagged edge. Make sure you keep this gap right here because that gap is going to be important when we start adding in all of our shading. Then there's also a gap here. Just lightly add that in, going back out here to our outside petal. Also, if you're having a hard time following me, but you do want to draw it yourself. Just pause this tutorial or this class. When I showed the rows and you'll be able to just draw it from there. This is a really outer one. We aren't going to put the water droplet on it. That's a class for another day. And last petal here. There we are going to make those extend just a little bit longer. Little jaggedy edge. Okay, so we have drawn our rows and just go in and make sure that everything is pretty clear where the petals are going. There's no instance of o. That pedal doesn't make any sense. I want to make sure everything makes sense. This is a little too dark. So what I'm gonna do is I have a gummy eraser and I just lightly tap and it pulls up the pencil mark. You don't want to scrub your paper a lot because you're going to start removing the texture of your paper. Texture in watercolor paper is very important because that allows us to get lots of layers and allows the paper to really soak up all that water. Alright, that's good enough. We're going to mix up our color. Now, the rows that I, that I used as the inspiration photo is really light pink. Kinda wanna make a fleshy tone pink. I'm grabbing some opera rose. And you guys can make any color that you want. But this is a class, so you might want to follow along with me. I have opera rose here. You can grab any pink that you have. And what I'm doing is I'm just making the base layer that we want to put down. This can be really watery. We can have a lot of water in it. I'm grabbing a little yellow ochre. Don't ask me how I know that this dark color on hair, but it I know it is a little bit of regular yellow, maybe a little more pink. And actually going to, I might grab my other palette later, but a little bit of red. And we are going to grab a lot of water on our brush now you don't want your brush totally dripping with water. This is why you don't do this on top of your artwork. You don't want a dripping with water, but you do want it to have a significant amount of water. And all we're doing is just painting this base layer. This will be our very lightest layer. We're not using really any, I guess wet on dry technique, but we're just painting along our pencil lines. Moving the water around. This is a really light wash. You don't want it to be really dark because like I said, this is going to be our lightest layer. I'm not even adding more paint, I'm just adding more water so that I can get this light layer down. Now these pencil lines are probably going to show up because they're showing through my lightest layer. Probably should have made them a little lighter, but That's okay. I want you guys to be able to see it. Alright? Something you can do here is if you look at your painting, if you want to pull up any color, I know I do this in all my classes, but just rinse off your brush, then lightly dry it off on your paper towel. And just press it down on your paper and you'll be able to pull up anywhere that you want to pull up color. I don't really need to pull up color here because it's really light. But I do want to add in a little bit of pops of color, so I know that the center is going to be a little darker. Now this paper is wet and so is my watercolor paint on my paintbrush. So it's going to bleed a bit when I tap it in. Make sure you're mindful of that. There's gonna be some shadows down here. And up here a little bit. Now I'm just going to let this dry. And we are, like I said in the beginning, or working with a lot of layers today, there's going to be a lot of instances of me stopping, waiting for this to dry and coming back to it. If you want to speed up the process at home, feel free to grab a hairdryer and you can you can dry your painting that way. But just make sure that you don't hold it too close to the paper because it can burn the paper or make it a warp in a weird way. I, sometimes, if I'm working on a block, I just go and put it in the sun. And then that helps it dry really fast. So we're going to let this dry and we're going to come back and paint our second layer. Alright, we're back to paint our second layer. And like I said, we're working in a lot of layers. So grab a cup of coffee, tea, wine, whatever you need. We're gonna be here for a little while, but it's fine. I'm mixing up a color that's slightly darker than the one that we have right now. And I am going to start putting in some of the darker values and the painting. When you're painting in a realistic style, It's all about the shadows and variation in saturation. That is what's going to drop people's eye in and make it seem realistic to them. If you haven't just one tone, it's going to look really flat and it's not going to look real. That's our job right now, is to add in more shadows and more variation in color, which is really going to draw someone's IN. I'm going to start in the middle. And I have that peachy tone color. As you can see in the center, it's a lot darker, so we're just going to fill that in. It's okay if it's just one tone right now, because we're going, because this is technically the lightest value that's inside of this area. And we're just going to go like that and leave that be. Now we're going to go around to our next area that maybe has a little bit of a darker shade. And I can see here that there is a shadow. So what I'm going to do is have some paint on my brush. Pretty saturated. I'm going to rinse my brush off and then just pull some water in there. And grabbing pigment again and doing the same thing. Wherever there's a shadow, making it a little bit darker. We don't want to just go right ahead and start painting this because it'll bleed. And that's something that's really important right now. Now that we're getting into more shadows and details. We don't want our painting to bleed, that we want to keep our layers separate. And that's how we're going to have to wait when it dries, wait for it to dry. Now I'm mixing up just a lighter pink color for these outside petals. I'm actually going to switch to my size two brush before is just a little too big right now. Mixing up a pink, something that you guys can do if you're afraid that you don't have enough paint mixed up or you might not be using the right shade is you can mix it up and have a little paper on the side where you kinda just test out your colors before you go ahead and put it on your painting. Does make a difference. If you're painting, colors are not right. Okay. I have a light wash here, but it's darker than what's already there. And I'm just going to paint along the edge of this petal. And now I'm going to, I've put in my color, I'm going to rinse off my brush to flick it off. I don't want too much water. And then just lightly blend. And there are some different shadows. There's actually more of a shadow right here. You can just add in little bits of color if it needs it. But this outside of the petal is going to be really, really light. We're going to keep it. The color that is, is we're just gonna go around and do that same thing. Almost a grayish tone. We can add that a little bit later. We are using more of a blush tone than the flower that was in the photo. Right now we're just working on accentuating some of these petals. This one is y and this one is wet, so we can't touch this. We can't touch this. We can work on this petal. As you can see from the photo, is a little bit darker than the outside petals out a little bit more pink. I'm just painting the outside. Then rinsing off my brush, getting just water and lightly blending it in. So what you should be seeing is the outside is going to be a little bit darker. Then the inside petals is gonna be a little lighter. And what pedal can we work with right now? We can work on this outside petal. So grabbing that same lighter pink, I'm just outlining against this other inside puddle. Going to rinse off my brush and then lightly blend. And this one, we can actually do this petal as well. This is all about lots and lots of layers. I use a lot of layers to get my stuff to look realistic. Some people paint in different styles, but this is how I like to paint. I find it to make my paintings really interesting to look at. Again, just rinsing off my brush. I have only water on my brush and I'm just lightly blending. Something else that you can do is just water on your brush going along the outside and coming down, down, down until you touch this. And what that's gonna do is just make it bleed and I like to just do it myself. But you can do it that way as well. Trying to think what we can touch here. We can go for this petal. Just outlining the bottom. The bottom of it would have the most color. And then adding in the light or the water. And we could work on some of these little petals. For these little yellow petals, it looks like there's a little more yellow in them. So I might add a little more yellow to my pink. And I have a small brush and I'm going to come in here, just do that same little outline. Rinse it off, and just add water. We have a lot of petals over here that are folding on top of each other. So just start painting them one-by-one. And the center is dry. Now, we can do the same thing here. Make that a little more pink because it is closer to the center. It's going to have more color. But we do want it to stay this little edge pretty light up here. Things are drying fast today. Summertime. Going to go back to that really light pink outline. Oh, oh, actually that is dry outline, that outer petals. Same thing. We're just trying to bring more color into our painting. Now this pole right here is folded over. It's really, really light in the picture. Now, the part that's folded over is going to be, have access to the sun more so it's going to be lighter. This inside is going to be darker. You can just paint in a darker tone here. Will, don't worry. We're going to come in and add more shadows later. Now since this is mostly dry, we can add a shadow under here because technically I'm just touching my paper to make sure it's dry before I paint, so I don't ruin anything. This there'll be a shadow here. Let me go back to my size two brush, grab that light, light pink and maybe a little darker. I'm just lightly painting around that jaggedy edge of the petal. Then coming in with just my water. We're definitely going to be adding some pretty dark shadows here, but not quite yet. We can paint this guy. I'm going to grab a smaller brush. It's throwing me off a little bit because I am painting in a different color than what the picture is. So it is helpful if you stick with the same color because, you know, we're like what's supposed to be, what color? We can paint this guy, I'm going between my size 0 and my size two brush. I'm just going to lightly outlined the bottom. Then rinsing off my brush and moving my paint around. If it seems too dark or too light, just lightly tap in more color. Since this is already wet, it'll just nicely bleed and blend. If you feel like it needs help, just kinda do a scrubbing motion. Another petal back here. And I think that is just about all that we can touch right now. We're going to let it dry and then we're going to come back. Now we're moving into a little like the next layer of shadows. I'm actually going to switch out. I need my other color palette, which is super messy, but I just love it. And I want to use this one because I am going to be using in or bringing in a little bit of gray tones a little bit. Because if we just do this all pink, we're not going to get the different variations and shade that we really want. What I have to do is re-mix that my paint over here. As you guys might have remembered, we haven't actually painted all of our petals yet because some of them are too wet. So we need to come back and add in some color to just kinda define some of these other petals. Since we didn't do that before. Painting in. We don't have to get too crazy because we're actually going to be using a darker shade to kinda show where they're at. This one has not been painted yet, so we're going to paint this one and adding a little more color over here. Okay. All right. So I think I want to add, this looks really flat to me. I'm going to add in just a little darker shade of that pink. Just rinsing off my brush and blending. There's also another puddle in here. Sometimes it gets hard to see. Like you want to make your pencil lines light, but then if they're too light, you can't really see what you're supposed to be painting. Add another shade up here. If you're having trouble seeing where shadows are in the picture, just squinting your eyes. It usually helps a ton. Now I want to start adding in. We talked about the darker shade that maybe has a little bit of gray in it. So you can add black if you want, but sometimes when you add black, it really meets your color down. I like to do is I grab the opposite of my color. Since we're working with kind of a fleshy pink, something that's going to mute it down is a blue, just a really light blue, which you can see in the bottom right hand corner. That is going to be art, little bit of a darker shade. I'm going to start off with my size two brush. And I'm going to add it right in here because this is a darker shadow. Just painting it in. And I want a shadow around here. So I'm outlining it. And then or anything else that brush and just adding in water to move it around because we want it to look soft. I'm gonna do the same thing over here. It's layer upon layer upon layer. And then finally, it's a masterpiece when we can't touch this petal and, but we can touch this one. Going to do the same thing. The outer petals have a little grayish tone to them. So that's why I'm adding this. As you notice, I do. If I have a lot of water on my brush, I just lightly tap it on my paper towel because you don't want the water to be dripping off and you want control over it so that you're able to outline this. And technically, I can see this petal is going to be darker than these two because it's underneath that. We'll work on that later, but that's something to remember. Smoothing it around. This petal needs the same treatment. Outlining, adding in color. We can't touch that pedal right now, but we can get in here. Just right here. Could use a little different color. Oops, these are touching. Should not have done that. And let's see. It's hard to remember. Sometimes it's good to work from one side to the other so you remember what's what and what's not. You can also touch your paper, but I don't recommend doing that a lot because sometimes you can get your oil, oils on your hands onto the paper and then that's not good for the paper. There's definitely a darker shadow in here. Okay. And make a shadow here where this is folding over because it's all folding over to the center. Lightly. Sometimes you don't need to come in there and blend. If it's a really tight space, it's not going to make sense to blend it because you want there to be some definition and not going to make just a line. So this is a shadow here. They're definitely be a shadow here. And this would have a shadow. You don't wanna get too crazy if you're using a dark, if it's black, the color, definitely don't get too crazy with Eric. It's going to look really funky. You want to use the darker colors sparingly. Most of the colors should come from the original colors are most of the variation so that pink tone. But then it's important to come in with a little bit different tone to get some of these other values. This is the nice part of the painting because most everything is drying quickly and were able to keep on working. When you first start and you put that first layer down, you really can't do that much for a little bit. But now we're in a good place where I'm just jumping all over the painting in different places that are dry out another. And then I'm just layering more shadows here. And you can go too far. I have done it many times. And you end up ruining a painting. You'll just have to experiment and get used to where your limit is. It's just like anything in life. You have to you just have to do it and then you'll, you'll know. Oh, I went too far on that. Then to add a darker shade in here because this is a really shaded area inside of this rose. Now we can add something over here, going back to my size two brush, as you can see, I changed up my brushes a lot. Lately. Just drawing a line makes sure there's water. You don't want this to be really thick paint that's really dry, or you're not gonna be able to blend it when you come in with the water. Something else you can do to add a little bit of interests here is grabbing that same shaded color or a slightly darker pink and making just a little line here where the petal would fold over and give a little shadow. After awhile of painting in this style, you guys will notice that you start to see the world like this. So if you're out on a garden, you'll say, oh, well if I put a shadow right here, are, that's where the shadow is on the flower. It's really, I mean, at least that happens to me. It's really funny. Now we can add this shadow. So remember I told you that this petal is gonna be a lot darker. Obviously, it's not going to be crazy dark, but it is going to be significantly darker than these other ones because it's underneath. And we need to show that because if we don't, it doesn't make sense, right? So grab a color that is the pinky tone to add a little more blue. Or if you're using block little more black, makes sure that you don't have too much water on your brush. And then just lightly. Oh, okay. That one's kind of dry. Lightly. Come in here and then grab your water. That's still not looking quite as dark enough for me. I think it's just sweat. No, that's not what I'm going to get. An even darker color. I think I might just add a touch of black. And just dab dotted in. And because this is all wet, it'll just bleed and blend. Sometimes you have to help it a little bit. We don't want any harsh lines, lines. That's why we use the scrubbing motion and lots of water. Maybe just a little bit more. Dot, dot, not a lot. I hope you guys share what you paint because I absolutely love seeing what you guys make. It's cool to see how different each person's style can be. I think the outside leaves for now are looking pretty good, but we really need to focus in on this center part because there's not a lot of definition and married. Now, it looks kind of like I don't know what's going on. I'm going to grab that a pinkish tone, little darker to put some shadows in here. This is an area that definitely can use a shadow. And it's not looking exactly like the painting right now. And that's okay because I like to use photos as a guideline and then explore on my own the thing that I'm looking for when I'm looking at a photo is where are the shadows at? What's the general shape of the flower? The petals fall. Most petals are falling in, and then we have these five petals on the outside that are falling open. These are just basic structure and guidelines for you. And that will be helpful when you just want to draw your own flower. But you have to follow the laws of nature, I like to say because It's not going to look realistic if your like one petal this way and the other ones this way and they keep alternating. That's just not how things work in nature. Nature is very repetitive. It has a pattern organized. So you want to see that in your painting, but you don't have to follow exactly what the picture looks like. Unless you want to. You can totally do that to darken this petal and maybe add a little more pink to it. It's just not standing out very much and we need it to stand out a little bit more. There we go. And that same color I'm going to bring over here for this puddle. Now I can see that my colors are getting funky because I'm not keeping with the same colors because I started adding in that purple. So just make sure your colors are staying on point C, minds a little bit muted. I don't want it to be muted, so I'm adding in a little more hot pink. Okay, that's better. There was a puddle here and that pedal would definitely be darker. We can start to put a little bit of details in the center. And as you can see from the photo, that center area is really dark. It's almost it's not black, but it still has pink undertones to it. So we want to make sure that we incorporate those pink undertones. I'm mixing a, I'm grabbing the same pink and some purple and a little bit of black to get that tone. Okay. And there's a significant amount of water in this, so I'm just going to be sure to lightly dab on my paper towel. And then I'm just making these teeny lines are almost like C curves. Because it's that center of the rose. That is really, really has just a ton of little tiny petals because it hasn't opened up yet. We are going to come in here and add various shades because right now it's looking very boring because we're only using one shade. Okay? That's good enough for right now. We'll come in and add some darker shades later. We really need to define some of these petals over here. And to do that, I'm going to grab a darker shade and just make lines. You don't want to grab the same shade every single time or that won't look real. So alternate between maybe a more peachy tone, more pink tone. But still in the same vein of the original color. This petal comes down here. Still keeping a little edge of the lightest color that we had on there. It's really cool because you can see the more dark colors you add, the more the outside looks white. And, but remember how pink it was when we first started. It's just an illusion to your eye, but that's how I teach painting white flowers, is that no flour is actually white. It's just an illusion that you're working up from a lighter shades. So you could paint it like a really light blue. But then as you add in darker shades, it's going to make it look white. For this puddle. I'm going to put just a couple of little lines. We're going to blend these and then just grabbing water. Just really blending this in. Yeah. I don't even want lines there. I thought I did, but I don't. Again, making this a little darker here. Meticulous work. And I am you guys can't see me but I'm squinting my eyes. It's kinda see where we need another shadow. Adding that here. Here we go. And this pedal could use just a little dark. And this is a separate petal from this one for grabbing that grayish, pinkish tone again. And then just putting a light shadow here. Grabbing our water, blending it around. You could even dab in a little bit more. Just lightly tapping and because it's wet, it's going to bleed really easily. Maybe you put another shadow down here or darken my shadow. But I don't think I want to add anything darker down here, or I am going to go a little too far. Add something maybe right here. And we're going to let this dry and then come back for another layering. We are getting pretty close to being done with this. I don't want to ruin it. I know I talked a little bit about how you can just keep adding and adding and adding. And I do think that you should experiment to see where your, I guess settling point is with your own artwork. But we are going to be almost done with this painting. I do. We do need to add in a couple more details though to give it just that little extra, judge. One of the details is in here. We have the same color for all of the shadows, but I want to add some just a little darker. We're going back to that same kind of Bhavesh almost tone, but add a little more black, maybe a little blue. And I don't want too much on my brush because I want to have control over it. And I'm just adding in. Some of these are gonna be darker shadows, not all of them. Otherwise, we're going to lose some of the interesting parts of this. That's kinda, the name of the game is the variation. I did this wrong. It should have been more like that. That's okay. That's okay. Alright. Gonna get more of a red color and just add some darker areas around the edges. And don't want to blend it too much. Sometimes you got to a point where you need harsher lines because of everything is blended, then it's not like it looks too blended. If that makes sense. I'm gonna come in with that darker color again and start to put in some more defining shadows around some of these petals. This one needs that. I'm heavily looking at my pain or my picture right now because I need to see where some of these shadows are. The reason I need to see them is because I'm having a hard time determining what pedal is what in here. Because I can't see my pencil lines, which it's good that I can see my pencil lines, but I'm also needing to look at the picture, which is just going to tap in a little bit of a darker shade in here. And maybe go back to that more pinkish tone. And I'm going to add, That's pretty dark. Let's see, maybe we can make it work. You can always rinse off your brush, dry it off, and pull some color up if it's too much. I'm okay with that. I think it looks good. But since I just did that darker than I want to add a darker shadow, shadow in the same color down here. I hope this tutorial is easy for you guys to follow. I know it's a lot of repetitive action, but it's how you end up painting how you want. Or painting in a realistic style. Sorry. Going to add another shadow over here. It's tons of layering. But personally, once I got this right and started to really like the way my art work looked. It was addicting. It's so addicting. I always think, Oh, I wonder if I could paint that or, Oh, what about that? And it's just amazing what we can do, what artists can do. It's really cool. If you're feeling frustrated right now. Everybody starts at the beginning. I was, I struggled a lot with this style of painting when I first started doing it. Over time. You'll get it. I promise you if you just stick with it, you will get it. So don't be hard on yourself. Let yourself be a beginner or wherever you're at. There's no pressure. Watercolor painting is fun and relaxing. It's, it's almost a form of meditation for me because I can really just let go and get into my painting and just be their focus. And just lightly scan your painting to see if you need to define any areas. For me, I can see that it's really hard to tell these puddles in here apart. So I'm just adding a light line here. And same thing up here. Find that a little bit more. Maybe add a little more pink over here. It looks to gray to me. And shadow never really worked in my mind. I'm going to add just along the top here where it would be the darkest shadow out a little bit of this same color that I had on the inside here. And this needs a shadow. That's what I'm missing. Okay. Sometimes stepping away from your painting and coming back to it is really helpful. There we go. It's like something doesn't look right. All about those shadows, baby. Sorry, that might have been loud. I kinda yelled that. Adding in. Now as you can see, I'm starting to not blend a ton because I do want to have some of those more. In your face, shadows that are a little bit darker, they stick out a little bit more. This is that that puddle that's folded over. Going to add a little bit more dark shadows in here. I really discovered my point of no return with a pet painting. I was doing a giveaway and of a pet painting and somebody or the person that one, I'm sorry. They had a cat and I was painting the cat. And I just kept going and going and going. And when I sent it to them, they're like, oh, like they weren't that excited. And I thought, Oh my gosh, I think I went too far and so I repainted the cat. And I remember I stopped before I stopped on the other painting. And I learned that lesson sometimes more because I definitely overdid it with that cat painting. And I was happy to learn that because I didn't really know that before. I guess I didn't think that you could put too much into your painting. But you definitely can. As I say that, I can see that I think I've reached that point. You could keep going forever with these kinds of paintings, in my opinion, and I definitely have before. But I don't want to go too far as like as I keep painting. But I do want to make sure that this puddle down here is looking like it's underneath this one. I'm adding in that shadow. You can always pull paint off if the paint is still wet. That is the thing about watercolor. And the point of no return is, if you like this, I can't change this. I can only add layers on top of it. That's the thing about watercolor painting. It's different from acrylic where you can just paint over it. So that's why you don't want to go too far in your painting. I actually do want to add in just where these little the puddle kinda has some texture on the edge. Just a light line. Maybe blend it a little bit. We don't want it to be too harsh. One more down here is our painting. Please let me know if you enjoyed this tutorial. I love to see what you guys paints. Please post your class project in the class project section. If you're on Instagram and you post your work, I'd love if you've tagged me so I can connect with you and just see your beautiful artwork on my Instagram is lavender and see. Thank you so much for watching this class. And if you can leave me a review, I would greatly appreciate it. Reviews helped my classes, these seen by more people. And it helps in sharing this class with other, other people who may really want to do it. So thanks again. I hope you have an amazing day.