Watercolour Lilies - Paint with me!

1. Watercolor Lilies - Paint with me!: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to my skin share classes today. We're gonna be painting this very special painting that I made a while back on its a lily. And I just really loved how it turned out. And I ended up discovering a lot of four color techniques while painting it myself. So I thought of making this class for you, Andrea Refugee, Creating that with that as a reference on and yeah, I'm sure you all the techniques required for painting in this style on I'm sure you all the supplies you need on Well, yeah. I mean, in jail times, you can get your supplies and we can be together. So, yes, I'm really excited to tell you all my tricks and tips and see you create this painting that I created. So I hope I see you in the class and let's start painting now. 2. Supplies you’ll need (and alternatives!): Hey, guys. So in this segment, off the class, I'm going to show you what supplies that I used and what supplies you can use the most showing you a few options because obviously it's OK if you don't have think vaccine ones. So I'm just showing you a few of my favorite things that all of them, any of them really work. I mean, you can use anything that you have, but I'm just showing you for my favorite on The 1st 1 is closed door by when you're neutered. I'm not sure how it's pronounced. Fits Rose Door Rose story. If you know, Please let me know. The other one is Rose Matter by Winsor and Newton. And then I have the road and I Jen Wine by Daniel Smith and the last one is Queen draws by Van Gogh. Then I'm showing you three off my favorite greens off all time and they're all by winter. Noodle is the green goal lift green on peril in green on I love thestreet. They work so well for botanicals on. I barely use any other screens. I mean, I have a lot more, but these three are the mean ones through a use for all my botanicals. So I really recommend these three greens, and I'm gonna be using only one brush foot, this entire bending. And it's a size six from Silver Brush Limited, and it is the Black Web Attridge. I will link it down as long as you have any John brush that has a nice fine point. You can use any round brush that I'm showing you a few options authorities at the Princeton Heritage and the sizes. But let the size depends on those high painting you want to make on making a size five. So a size six works well for that. But if you're making a large painting, the new lead a larger brush eso yet these are a few options that you can use now. The paper that I'm gonna be using is a handmade paper, and it's a Cordon Jack paper Eligon link down the particular brand off papers that I'm using, but feel free to use any cotton paper as long as it's gotten on. Even if you can't find 100% garden are just beginning to beamed and you don't want to invest in a cotton paper just try to have a paper that has some percentage of Gordon's even 50 years, 70% because if you were using just a cellulose paper than the blending is not as smooth on it. So just be aware that I just want to speak to a little bit about supplies, and I just I just don't want you to feel pressurised into having these artists create supplies. If you're just beginning to paint in what colors, it's not required it all. You can go ahead with any like student rate. What color Pants said that you know, has all the all the pans off colors. You don't even need to buy tubes. If you're just starting out on, I will link down below or a palette from injury Newton that I started painting with initially. And that worked really well for me for a lot of years, and it's still use it when I travel because it has all the colors and one eso you can check that out on. Even when it comes to brushes. Don't take so much stress about having the particular one that I'm using. You can use any John brush. Like I said, you're The one thing that I wanna tell you that you should invest in is a good for colored people on board. It'll just make a lot of difference to your work on the results that you get. So yes. Okay, enough about the supplies. Now, seriously, just do not stress about it. I've heard so many beginners message me on instagram and be like they don't have any supplies. Just use anything that you have. You don't even have to use being. You don't have to make a pink lily like I just go ahead and with the yellow and orange, whatever color that you have lying around. And God had stopped beating no. 3. The painting techniques and process :): Hey, guys. Okay, we have spoken about supplies, and now we're gonna actually paint on. This is gonna be a pretty short class. I don't have a lot of segments I'm gonna do beating in this video that you're gonna watch right now on. If you have her supplies with, you can paint with me because I'm going to painting in real time. I'm not fast forwarding yet. I am just you can see exactly what I'm doing and exactly the strokes I'm doing and how the paint is drying and how long it takes for it to dry and so on. So I'm gonna start with pistol. And that is the to be productive part off the flower, which has the stigma style, ovarian excels. And yeah, I don't know why I give you that information. Just a lot of biology class, but yeah, So I'm gonna make a complete pistol first, and I'm using the tip off my brush here. That's how I'm getting super signed strokes first when I've got a sketch it out that I'm gonna be on toast. Andi, complete that dire pistol and then we will jump on the door individual petals and equitable come them individually after this spot has completely dried up. So I just assumed you win a little bit so you can very closely see and follow along My strokes on that is really the best way to learn when you're learning how to move the brush on de control water and control the pain. And that's how I learned. I really focused on how, what artists were moving their brush. And that's why I have so we went. You could see what I'm doing now. I'm just letting that pot dry, and I'm assuring you that we're gonna be working on one pedal at one time on. You don't need patients for this kind of a painting because, um, it's not a loose tile making go tt flowers. So you don't need patients. I'm gonna start being in the petty in a more off drawing style from using the tip on making sure to avoid pistol. I'm gonna start making these gentle strokes on. Then I'm gonna use some water on spread it out So we get a light translucent first layer off our battle. So, as you see, I'm drawing out the entire battle because the tip allows me to draw it out like a pencil on . Um Now I'm going to add water and spread out the beans so it's nice and rushes inside. And that's how the better looks looks like it has light on it. So we do need to be a little careful not to touch the stool because otherwise the colors are gonna start blending together. So just waiting that on treating so painting all the negatives area that I see right now. Now I'm going in and picking up a bit more concentrated pain, just adding it along the edges off the petal and along the centre, because I want to create that vein. But we're going to define the rain lead Iran. But I symbolically, it's a depth in that area. So I'm just loosely are there. And this is while the first layer is still wet. We're doing wetting technique. Your now I'm gonna start being taken of the battle and I'm leaving a little bite spaces. You can see I wanted I don't want to bend it without the battery, because if I if I touch that one, that being does just gonna go in there and to stop or what I mean, did in that battles again. Here I am kind of drawing it out, and then I'm going to be spreading it out with a lot more water. And that's how like I said, it creates that, um, blow in the battle. Sorry, the weather that is shaky for, like, a few seconds. But I'm just trying to show you up close and personal what I'm doing So you could see that I'm using the tip to move the paint around and then lunges moving the water around. And I'm just trying to make it as moved as I can, And then I'm going to work on the third battle very similarly. So you can just watch me how I do that. So when you will make the first layer, so it's very important to use the right amount of water if you want to make it as smooth as possible. And that's very important, because that's what gives um, the petal Jill flower like field with it has to be very smooth, and the brothers should not be patchy. And that is why I recommend 1/4 Bieber for this style of pending and as you see other battles. You know, this fixed them like I did here. And as long as the being to still damp, it's gonna blend in very smoothly. So I'm doing the I'm making the fourth pedal now, and I'm going to be to bring something a little different in this one, so I'm sketching it out of the adding water. But I'll also be using a technique called lifting off paint, which is when you use a people tower to take off to lift off. Some damp the pain from your people. And that's what gives the illusion off light on on something. So you just watch me and that what I'll be doing, you don't always have to use a paper dollar. You can also lift off. The pain is in Good try brush, but I'm using a paper towel area here. I'm doing it. So as you saw that because my later was still down, it took off. It lifted off the paint base smoothly. Andi, it creates a lot of light where I took it ever. I lifted the pain. From now on this battle, I felt like there was more beans than required, and I felt like the first layers to dark and saturated, So I lifted off a little more paint than just one spot. Now we're going to take some saturated bend on, and all of our battles are still going to be a bit down, even though not completely red. And I'm adding more bean and the cost of damp and not very red. They're not gonna dispose toe the battle and make all if it's saturated, which is what would have happened if the bettors were completely red. But since they're damp, they're just gonna be like the being try added along the center of the flower just disposed right in that area. So that created a lot of depth. As you saw now, I felt like my answers are not strong enough in color. So I've mixed a bit of new Trident, or you can mix a bit of black with your pink Onda. Um, I'm just going over the enters and making them doc and more. Now let's load our brush with some clean and we're going to start making this done. I'm leaving the Ah, Bart by the bettors are, um I'm not adding the stem there, so it's like the stem is coming from behind. So and then I'm going to sketch it out in small part. So if if you're making a stem, try not to creator and dieting in one go. If you are just starting out with painting in watercolors, try to make make small strokes and joined them, like, you know, joining the dots. Basically, there are a lot of leaves and usually, but I'm just gonna I'm keeping this flower painting very minimal. So I'm gonna add one dining to leave their behind the metal honor left. Andi, I'm just, um I'm just drawing it out, just building it in and drawing it out. And I felt like the contrast is so high now, right now that I wanted to lift off some off the green. So I'm just rolling my paper towel in bed. I'm just using it to absorb some off the beaned so that I have a lighter leave. And now we're going to add the final details off the flower that I was really gonna make the flower pop and come alive on papers. So, um, the very important thing here is to let all of this drive completely so because we're not gonna be doing any Where did that technique here. So just make sure that your flour and your layers of dried absolutely before we jump onto the detailing. So take a darker and more saturated shade off the pink that you've chosen. Andi also keep it more concentrated. Don't have a lot of water on your brush because that makes it easier to control when adding detailing and also the final tip of the brush box. Better is we have less water on my brush on now. I'm just adding these tiny dots on the wings off the flour and how I make the dot is using a stippling motion. So I'm not gonna dock much now, Andi, I let you observe my hand movements and my strokes and how I'm adding the d dealing and that's going to give you an idea on how to control your brush and how to use thes kind of motions. Okay, so we're done now. Andi, I'm so happy that you joined me today in beating this beautiful flower on. I hope I get to see this in your hope. I get to see your painting in the last projects. I would love that. And please, um let me know what you'd like to learn next in the reviewer's. I also have a few more s and skill share classes on one of them is how to be into arose in different styles using live reference. So it teaches you how depend arose in our sorry the side view off the rose on the top, you or two rows. So definitely check that class out. If you're interested in learning how to paint more flour than botanicals I wish you all the best. Andi, Thank you for watching and see you soon By