Here are the floral sketches I painted in the class.

The life of a poppy flower - warm ups. I try to simplify the value structure to achieve a loose painting.

The round pincushion flower has lots of loose flowing watercolor and then just a few painted details on top with a smaller brush - the base is in the drawing.

The orange tiger lily felt more challenging to paint, I tried to keep it a bit brighter than the actual color of the flower, and used the dark orange sparingly.

For the rose I placed a very generous first wash all over the flower (except for the center which has a bright yellow dot) and then brought out the petals by closely looking at the light and dark areas - again value plays a big role here.

The iris has interesting complementary colors, so it's important to keep those two colors apart during the painting process (or let them mingle if you don't mind). I kept the big areas rather simple to bring more attention to the delicate dots and veins.

For the extra lesson, I chose a scene with a water lily, which is interesting to me because the flower here is lighter than the background - a new challenge to paint. Again, I tried to really simplify the shapes and wanted to paint the leaves and petals which rather big, loose brush strokes.

 

I hope you enjoyed the demonstrations and maybe painting along to them!