 Hey guys, I'm a little late getting started this morning. Sorry about that Adjusting the camera Hold on Okay, I just got distracted doing other stuff this morning, you know, it's one of those hey squirrel situations All right, let's see. Let's turn the sound off. I don't need to hear myself twice Okay Yeah, yeah, yeah, at least I'm only three minutes late. I Was actually working on a lifebook page and I got distracted. How is everybody today? Hello Lisa So today we're gonna work on some flowers that was next in your guys on your wishlist for Things that you want to Work on better late than ever. Yeah, thanks, Aaron. Yeah, I mean, you know, at least I remembered, right? I Do have anxiety disorder so me forgetting something is not like that's a new surprising thing those of you who don't know by the way Hey, everybody, how are you? So we're gonna work on some flowers this morning Get my watercolors wet because I haven't done that yet. At least my water is clean When I was cleaning and going through some stuff. Hey, how are you Jerry? I found these two little bookmarks in a pile of things that I did a while back And I think good morning. I think I Showed these on YouTube, I think but anyway, these are two examples of different ways to do flowers And I thought we would work on something like this today. I Really like doing these types of flowers. There are a lot of fun watercolor Wednesday. Yeah, so instead of starting off with A regular pencil and an eraser We're gonna put those aside We're gonna still do a sketch, but I'm gonna use a water-soluble pencil So you can use any kind of water-soluble pencil that you have. I actually even have some Crayola watercolor pencils, which actually these aren't bad Especially for something like doing an undersketch I actually really like the Crayola pencils. Good morning, Michelle So if you don't have a lot of money to spend on supplies think about just going over and Go to you know, your local big box retailer and look for the Crayola watercolor markers I think they came in a set of 12. I got mine at JoAnne's with a coupon But they're not bad My preference for brands is either Derwent or Prima watercolor pencils. I have Derwent watercolor and Derwent intents. I like them very much We're gonna paint flowers this morning. I did see that comment So the first thing we're gonna do is our undersketch now I always start with a color that's much lighter than what I intend to use in My flowers. I should probably go get my reading glasses Hold on Okay I'm not a young anymore, so I can't read the little print. Okay, so this is a Derwent intents. This is red violet This is a Crayola violet, but it's pretty dark So if you have the Crayola, I would say go with like a pink Something that's really light if you have like a Crayola watercolor marker or something like that something that's really light I think this is too dark I'm gonna do my my flowers in No, and we're not gonna use a reference photo. I know that's gonna drive some of you crazy So this is a Derwent intents red violet. You could go with a light pink. You could go with a light blue And I'm gonna start out by just putting some circles If we're using any kind of a reference this bookmark here that I this one So I'm gonna start out by putting some circles on My page in this pencil And that's representing my flower centers And I always put at least three I like odd numbers on it on a composition I think it's more interesting than even numbers I also almost never Put every anything smack in the middle and yeah, my paper is completely dry This is the same Watercolor paper we've been using this is the same pad of paper though. What is it 400 series? I keep having to look Yeah for Strathmore 400 series hundred and forty pound watercolor paper And I've got my Daniel Smith paints out next to me next to my arm And it's always interesting if you do you know do one think about doing one like going off the page This is just an under sketch So we've got our three circles and we're gonna come back and we're gonna start to put in a kind of a petal-y shape We're not gonna have it go all the way to meet the center leave a little bit of a gap Yeah, this is a water soluble pencil So when all is said and done you're not gonna have any pencil lines Remember that in nature things aren't even in perfect they are imperfect and Irregular and that makes them more interesting whether you're doing know who that is whether you're doing Trees or grass or flowers are and I guess we should start off the broadcast by warning that the trolls and the Weird people, you know if you just you're gonna get blocked right away So enough with the nasty messages and that wanting to see my Boobs or whatever We're here to watercolor. We're not here to do that. So okay, so you're gonna end up with something that looks like that And this is exactly how I did this No, I'll hold it up a little bit. There we go. Maybe maybe so we're gonna do another one Exactly go find somewhere else to be nasty. This is for art Okay, so now we're gonna do that this next one and what's gonna happen is our flowers are gonna end up overlapping But that's okay We want that and that's how I did this one We just have to decide how we're going whether this one is gonna be on top or this one is gonna be on top And which one's gonna be underneath and I think I want this one to be underneath So I'm gonna draw my petal going this way. Okay, I don't know what that means either and then we've got so we have One petal that's fully underneath the other flower and one petal that's going to be partially underneath and partially running off the page That makes for an interesting composition And if you make any mistakes with your pencil, remember, this is water soluble. So Doesn't matter. It's fine cool, I Don't think so Jerry. I think that you guys can block viewers for me too. All right So now I'm gonna draw this last one Now this one's partially going off the page. So I think that what I'm gonna do is plan out three petals. I Think that's gonna work for me. I have been posting I don't know. Maybe somebody else can tell you I've no I think you just hit on their name You just like tap on their name and a block comes up. I think to block them comes up But I'm not sure so maybe somebody else can answer that So I was gonna say I've been putting digital copies of some of these watercolor Wednesday Paintings up in my Etsy shop for those of you who would like to get a copy of it And maybe even you can use it as a reference photo You can download it They're inexpensive and it'll help keep me funded so I can keep doing the free lessons for you guys All right, so when all is said and done you're gonna end up with something that looks like that here we go Are you ready? All right, so I of course like really I like purple So we're gonna do these in purple because I really love the way these turned out I'm gonna start out with Let's see We're gonna go pale to lighter, right? So I actually think I'm going to start with a Really light. This is cobalt blue violet It which is really blue, but we're gonna add a lot of water to it We're gonna just use a little bit because we're working lighter to darker, right? And again the paper is still dry And see how the pencil is blending It's dissolving and mixing with the paint. I'm using a pretty big brush and a lot of water Lay some color on Spread it around a bit. We're not looking to really fill the whole Puddle in I'm gonna lift some up So we have some varying shades and tones There we go, and then we'll keep going and we're gonna do the whole flower that way No, you can use any color whatever color you decide if you decide you want your flowers mostly red Start out with a very light pink and work your way darker and as we go We're gonna talk about colors that you can use to define your flower shape and to use them to indicate lightness and brightness and shadow Think about using the unexpected in fact violet if you want to use violet for your flower. I Mean if you want to use another color for your flower violets a good shadow color That's what I meant to say I Honestly have had all my coffee this morning, but I just I don't feel like it. I feel it's one of those days where I feel like I'm Eating more coffee Maybe because I'm stressed out because my daughter's car broke down again She's got my car today. I hate I hate her Volkswagen bug. I swear to God It's always in the shop Now see how that you know depending on how much of the blue violet I have on there and how much it's mixing with the pencil I'm getting different colors different shades. We're okay with it This kind way of doing these messy flowers is all about happy accidents. Yeah, I know I hate I hate her car But you know what if you are in my group on Facebook, I am going to just use it as a Lesson in I can't talk and paint at the same time this morning a Lesson in you know how to work with a happy accident And you know, I have other things to do like catch up on lifebook and be here with you guys today I'm and maybe it's not such a bad thing that I'm carless today And I kind of I kind of told her that I said just take my car be easier than me driving you around Okay, so just work your way around the flower and don't worry about if you get you know a little bit of splattering here and there It just makes your painting more interesting and this is a practice anyway We're learning Course if it turns out well, and you really like it think about scanning your artwork and Take making a copy of it that you can use as collage paper in future works That you can print on bookmarks or note cards. Thank you for all the hearts Now that this appears dry a little bit and this one here, too. Oh Thank you Yeah, she said can you drop me off at school mom tomorrow? I don't have a car I said, you know, I have an appointment with some friends. I need to be at at about the same time You need to be at school. So why don't you just take my car? Just don't you know hit anything with it And hang it up. All right, so we're gonna work our way around and Take some time and just instead of just doing one whole flower and then doing the next whole flower Do the one color over all your flowers Because it gives this one these this one time to dry while you're working down here And then we can come in with the next color without having to resort to the heat gun Nope, yeah, no problem Carol, you know that I will post this on to YouTube We're using our Daniel Smith watercolors again this morning, which is one of my favorites. You all know that and I'm using the cobalt blue violet although on my color card I think I spelled it wrong Which would be no surprise Because my spelling is not the best Look at that. That's a little bit of pigment, but that's mostly the Watercolor pencil has that red in it. So now we're gonna go back up to the top one And now we're gonna start to go darker and I usually always work on my outside petals first Don't you love the way the pencil just starts to dissolve in the paint and it changes the color and it mixes and blends And I love that about this technique I always start with the petals first and get them the way that I want and then I work on the centers So we're gonna keep doing that and I am going to bring in Before we get too far I'm gonna bring in something to I'm gonna use this color. This is new Gamboge and we're gonna You know my palate is kind of messy I need to clean it Okay, so I'm gonna take it here and I'm mixing it with a bunch of water and I'm just splattering it on Today I'm doing this. I'm not wearing a white top like I was yesterday when I did this and got white. I got a CP a colored paint all over my white shirt Water-soluble same. Yeah, same as watercolor and so now I'm gonna just come in with some water And I'm gonna take some of these splatters and spread them out a little bit and This will make your painting, you know, look sun-kissed give it some life and some light And that's what you want Now because we have yellow and violet on here this yellowy orange color before you add any more You want to prevent this yellow Orangy color from mixing too much more with the violets. I'm gonna be adding on here because you'll just get brown So we're gonna have to break out the heat gun And basically I just dry it with a heat gun until it's not shiny anymore, which is why I tilt the paper You can blow on it or use a straw. Yeah You can use an old hairdryer to do this. I how I use my heat embossing tool It's pretty much the only thing I use this for oh congratulations Please Cheryl, it's okay Okay So now we have this and if you're uncomfortable with the painting process and you're uncomfortable with What you're doing then you look at this and go holy crap that looks like a giant mess Just trust your instincts and keep watercolors like any other paint keep adding your layers and your marks And it's gonna improve the more you do that What's the worst that could happen? So now I'm gonna come in with something that's a little bit more pink I Have this color called Rose of Ultramarine, which I just love which is a really red purple and I'm not gonna water it down too much a little bit and We're gonna start by going into our petals Yeah, we're gonna start by going into our petals You know around the parts of the petal that would be darker where the shadows would be lay your color in and then you can Just use water to Blend it with the other colors that are around it. Don't go too far with the color before you get back in with a water Because this is a color that will stain and then just A damp brush. I'm just blotting it off on my rag So that it's damp, but it's really it's just picking up some of the pigment and water and it's not laying anymore down It's lifting Okay We'll keep doing that all the way around So I don't always know but my general rule for painting with watercolor is that the darker the color is the more it's probably gonna stain and Your artist watercolors tend to stain more than your Inexpensive student grade or craft grade watercolors do The other thing you should be aware of is you know, there's nothing wrong with No, I didn't stamp first. I sketched it first with a watercolor pencil There's nothing wrong with starting with a set of inexpensive watercolor paints like Crayola if that's all you can afford Just be aware that if you really like the painting I advise that you scan it with your computer While it's fresh Because I know all those of you with kids also know, you know Your kids do little drawings and paintings for you when they're little by the time they're grown-ups those paintings are a lot less bright and Or are completely gray because all of those colors those colors have no lice light fastness to them So, you know with time and with age and exposure to the, you know air those colors turn gray or they just fade out completely so An artist grade watercolors don't do that But for just for practicing and playing there's nothing wrong with getting started with just, you know, Crayola guy That's all I had to begin with So I sketched out our shapes with a Watercolor pencil no sealer walled stop them from fading not with the index especially the kids like Crayola paints Unfortunately, so now you're starting to get Some really great tones now before I move to the next flower. I'm going to take some of the same color And I'm going to add it in a few places. I'm straight out of the half pan not mixed with any water or anything So it's really dark and I'm going to add it in a few places Around the edges outer edges of our petals And then I'm going to come in with my brush with just water on it. I blotted it off first so it's not too too wet and I'm going to add the water towards the center of the flower so the color will blend and bloom towards the middle of the flower If you post a comment and I miss it I'll try to let you know post it again loving. Yeah, I love I Have always loved the uncontrolled look of watercolor and I have not ever been a painter that Wants to control a lot where the color goes. I Love working with the splatters and the splotches and the uncontrolled, you know nature of watercolor I'm making it into something that's really pretty That's not for everybody, but that's definitely for me. Okay, so I'm going to just work my way around Yeah, the other thing with the artist watercolors the Especially the Daniel Smith's but also like the schmink and those kind of brands is that they really are very strongly pigmented So a little bit of them goes a really long way Whereas with some of the others You know to get the same bright vibrant colors. You have to use more paint I do have water to color sample kits in my Etsy shop As of a couple of days ago and you can get a selection of eight of my favorite colors and brands With a few pieces of watercolor paper and there's a 20% off coupon I Think it's GBA fall 20 You have to pay you have to buy ten dollars a minimum of ten dollars at the Etsy in my Etsy shop So now we're going back in like we did with the other one Yeah, and I tried to you know, I have lots of favorite colors, but I tried to pick eight colors that would complement not only complement whatever you guys already may have but That by themselves would be an interesting travel palette They're not exactly primary colors, but they would be interesting So I'm really wanting to add a little bit of this dark color right here. So we're gonna do that Now this purple is very warm because it's so red So when I start coming in with some other colors, I need to really do a cooler color I almost lost control of my paintbrush there for a second My arthritis has been acting up like crazy No color rules Just play an experiment that's the best way to learn about color rules and what you find that is gonna work for you And what isn't is to just play an experiment Of course you should if you want to get serious into painting you should probably learn something about color theory And you know if you were on my Monday with deco art last week Where we did color mixing, you know That's an exercise that should be done with acrylic paint and watercolor You should you know the best way to learn about what colors you like to mix and which ones you don't is to mix them The best way to learn about making mud is to make mud So Yeah, that's something you should all do see I waited a little too long there see we have this line here so I'm gonna go in and try to cover it Yeah, yeah, you know Cheryl. I got to give you some credit for all that canning I used to do all that canning and make my own pickles and Everything I missed the YouTube comment. Can you please post that again? I looked up and it was already fading Yeah, it's time-consuming doing canning at least make our own tomato sauce and can it not freeze it can it Now I still do some of that, but I just put it in the freezer And I don't make as much of it as I used to you know, it's just my husband and I know so I don't have any grandchildren At least not yet, so So there we go, that's already looking interesting, right? All right, so now we're gonna come in with a cooler color and I have quedocridone purple. Oh, yes I'm sorry. Yes, it is up on YouTube. See that's the that's the comment that I missed it is up on YouTube All of the I'm gonna mix some more of that blue violet into the quedocridone purple All of the periscope videos start out with the title says recorded live on periscope So look for the one that says Monday with deco art and it should say color blending or color mixing something like that So now we're gonna continue and we're gonna come up here because this one's dry You are welcome and basically if you missed the Monday with deco art video, I do recommend you watch it But basically what you should do is you should make a chart and blend all of your colors with all of your colors, so you brand blend like you are Say yellow. What is this fancy yellow medium with every single other color in your palette to see what happens? and Make yourself a chart so this is a much cooler color than the one we just put on and you don't necessarily need to put it everywhere But you want to put it in those places where the shadows would be more prominent and remember if our edges Lighter what Cheryl so I'm gonna Put this in oh It's not Lighter it it's about the same tone shade. It's just cool. It's a cooler color because it has less red in it than the other one It's more blue and this is the watered down version because I added I added a lot of water to it like I did initially with the Rose of ultra marine So I'm gonna take a little bit of this color and I'm gonna add it to my centers, which we've kind of ignored up until now Yes, so when I paint and this is Something I do with both watercolor and acrylic is I tend to think of my colors as warm colors and cool This will give this a minute to dry. So this is a good thing to talk about So when you look at your color chart, this is the color key that goes with this watercolor set if you look at it and you think of that less as a color and more as a temperature and You look at your chart which colors look hotter, which ones look cooler? So all of your yellows most of your reds They and some of your greens they look warmer than say the blues and of course the Browns and the sepia but also too when you're just talking even about reds like the Two reds here the qued aquedome red looks much warmer than the queen magenta, which has a little bit of blue in it The if you look at the greens, these are both green But the sap green looks much warmer than the cascade green. So think about your colors in the Respect of temperature and which ones will suggest warmth or Or coolness or darkness to the viewer of your painting That was really complicated probably more complicated than I tended to get this morning Okay, so now we are going to switch to a little or I'm gonna eat no I take that back I'm gonna use this brush to begin with I'm going to you're welcome I'm going to go in with Color moon glow. Let's go moon glow. I like moon glow We're gonna end up with Payne's grain here, too But I'm gonna take some moon glow and I'm gonna just mix it with the color that I already had here on the palette The purpley color and moon glow is a uniquely Daniel Smith color. It is a gray purple Hey, no problem. You know what these live watercolor Wednesdays are for questions. 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It's looking interesting. So now I think I want to actually bring in some Pains gray Do I want to bring in pains gray? I Think I'm you know, I'm really wanting to bring in some of this color It's really orange. I know it's like quiddox red on gold and I'm actually putting it between the flowers in the background I'm gonna add some water This is a really warm color WWW dot Gina be errands comm and I'll spell it for you because nobody gets my last name, right? G I N a B is in boy a H R E NS and if you google that name, I should come up a whole bunch of different places I've been on the internet for a long time. So I like that before we That's it before we do our pop We have we're gonna dry this because I don't mind if the pains gray mixes a little bit But I want to be able to control it. So I'm gonna dry this a little bit. You like it now wait till we wait for the next step So we're not gonna dry it completely. We're gonna but we're gonna dry it a bit. So it's not so wet It still has some wet spots, so I don't know if y'all can see that but it's still wet in a few places It's just not as wet as it was a minute ago So now we're gonna go into our pains gray, which is a dark blue gray and One of my favorite paint colors in both watercolor and acrylic and we're gonna start out by taking the very tip of our round brush And this is by the way a royal Round number 24. It's kind of a larger round brush But you can definitely do it with any round brush and I'm gonna barely touch the tip of the brush to the paper and I'm going to just take some lines and they're gonna wear it. It's wet. It's going to bleed and blend But it's not going to do that everywhere and that's what we want then I'm gonna come in with a little bit more pains gray right here in the center and I'm going to clean my brush off and I'm going to blend that towards the flower center like that That starts to make your flower really pop while that dries a bit. We'll do the next one. So again, we're gonna Pull these out Don't make them all the same length. You know, it's like when you're doing grass You want them to be different lengths some short some long So they look less like hair follicles pains gray is such a great color. I totally agree with that statement It just seems to make everything just pop and shine That probably it's a great neutral and when you're painting with bright colors You really need a neutral to offset those brights and just really make them look more interesting Now, of course, you could do some of this with pens or markers, but what's the fun in that? We're playing with watercolor paint Not that there's anything wrong with that and if you're doing a mixed media piece and you want to accent your flowers later After it's a dry with some gel pens or something. There's nothing wrong with that But try it first with the paint and see how far you can get so now we're going to do this one And every time I do these flowers, they come out a little bit differently But you see what I mean about this dark really making those brights pop You need to have something you need to have a good balance of your brights your darks and your really lights to make Your paintings really pop and come to life Don't just make them all, you know the same tone of color Make sure you add something really dark in there and maybe even something really light in there and that'll make it really pop so It does So now I'm going to take some of my paints gray While those centers are drying and I'm going to use it like I did on this to define some of the petal edges Now on this one here, we have this one petal that's underneath the flower this petal down here would be pretty dark So we're going to darken it up with the paints gray and then that makes the one on top of it really stand out There would be a shadow here because this one again is underneath the one on top of it now on the original little bookmark I did more outlining. I don't know if I'm going to do that this time But I you never I never know until the end and there's nothing you know wrong with turning your painting around and giving yourself a Different perspective. I almost stuck my paintbrush in the wrong color Oops Yeah, this has a softer look than the bookmark and I like that and just like with the rest of the paintings so far You want to work your way from darker to lighter. I Mean lighter to darker. Holy cow. See, I don't even know what I'm talking about Okay, and just keep working your way around your painting now remember to when you're painting with watercolor that you want to Try to if you want white in your painting then the best thing to do is try to leave things white You can go back with like Chinese white and add highlights, which I will probably do on this one before we're done But you can also just leave part of the paper white I never seem to manage to do that without using masking fluid Which masks off and protects part of the paper from the paint so and it doesn't seep underneath So now I'm just I'm dipping my paintbrush in the straight paint gray And I'm just darkening out my petals and then lifting if I get too much Now if you find that you want to lift more than the paintbrush is letting you do don't be afraid to get in there with your rag And then if you get rag marks you can always get back in there with the water and on your brush and move it around Masking fluids very cool. So after you do your sketch before you get in here with the paint you would want to Mask off any little parts that you want to try to save as white and then Before I finish my painting I remove the masking fluid and Then I decide if those white places are in the right place and that'll be enough. We'll work on that in an upcoming Episode we'll work on math masking fluid. So we have that it's looking it's looking good Okay, now I'm gonna now switch to a smaller brush I think we're done with the big brush at least for right now We may come in and I may do something a little extra on here other than I did on the original I'm going to grab a Princeton select this is a round number four. It's a much smaller brush And I'm going to we're gonna stick with the paint gray, but I want to dry this a little bit The original brush was a royal Watercolor brush. This is a round number 24 It's a fairly large brush and it's a fairly cheap brush. I think I got it at Tuesday morning in a set You're welcome. Yeah, you know your brushes don't have to be expensive They also don't have to be natural Bristol brushes. I actually prefer synthetic You can definitely you can live with the rag You can also you know instead of drying it quick like I'm doing you can You know put some salt in the flower centers and let it dry naturally and that'll give your painting some your flower center some texture For the most part time to come out pretty colorful and pretty dark But you definitely don't have to do that. You could do more pastel You still are gonna want to pop up something dark and or light and neutrals You're gonna want some neutrals even if you stay with the mostly lighter color palette. Hey, I prefer a larger brush for a lot of things But I have lots of brushes because I you know like paint colors I gotta stop going to the store when there's paintbrush sales My favorite brand are the Princeton select which are the blue handle brushes They're not a super expensive brush. I do have a couple of those though, but they're really expensive I have one Is it this one? No, not that one I have one that's really expensive Was like sixty five dollars for one paintbrush. Oh this one. Nope, not that one I don't know. It's in here somewhere Well here Raphael soft Aqua this brush this little brush is really expensive And it's a natural bristle brush and I love it for doing washes because that it is natural bristle bristle It holds a lot of water and you can go real far with it without redipping it in the water but the bristles also get very soft and floppy and the Synthetic bristles don't really do that. So I think that's why I like them better. I Like a stiffer brush Yeah, exactly large would help you get loose. So now that we have that mostly dry We're gonna go back in again to our flower and the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm and I'm going right into the panes gray straight I'm not watering it down or anything and I'm gonna just do I'm gonna tap my brush around the flower put little dots Then we're gonna rinse our brush off and I'm going to take some more of the panes gray and With this smaller brush I'm going to pull out some more lines and They'll be darker because this paint now is not watered down. I'm using it straight out of the pan Then I'm going to take some more of the paint and I'm going to go around the flower center And then I'm going to take some plain water and I'm going to blend There we go and look at how that makes that just totally pop. So let's do that to the other ones and When you do that now you have the edges dark the center is lighter So now it starts to look at least 2d if not 3d, right? So we'll do our dots and we're not I'm not changing colors I'm still using the panes gray Now you could you do some of these techniques to do Sunflowers Roses it did they don't even have to be a real flower It could be you know something made up out of your imagination and this probably won't be the last time we do flowers Because there is a million and one if not more ways to do flowers and I happen to like painting flowers Sunflowers are fun So I do recommend that if you are in my Facebook group Go into the document that Jerry Molini created one of the admins for Watercolor Wednesday, and she put suggestions They're basically their suggestions for an upcoming schedule So if there's something in particular you want to see go add it to the schedule and That's what we'll work on Yet you could totally do butterflies this way and I have done on an old Watercolor Wednesday I did a butterfly. There's a watercolor Wednesday playlist on YouTube So now I'm going in with the paints gray and the littler brush, and I'm just I'm defining some of those petals some more I'm really making them pop and stand out from one another and I'm painting this one. I'm pulling this one out by creating Space around it painting around it and pulling it out by painting the space behind it Which is another Technique and I've done whole flowers that way. Don't be afraid to turn your paper around to give you a different perspective You don't have to outline the whole paper like right here like what I did on the bookmark I just out put it on a little bit of it And I'm going to come in and blend that line just a little bit with some water. Oh, thank you That's actually a clock that we've actually fixed a few times because we are hesitant to Get rid of it when it's broken Because it was a wedding present from my in-laws and my father-in-law is no longer with us. So It's got some sentimental value. I've gotten used to it people come to spend the night and they're like, what is that dang noise? I'm like, oh, sorry, that's the clock So you don't have to blend all the lines You can just do blend some of them and you can add some little lines and dashes to the edges of your flowers to Help define them and then you can come in and you can Just blend some of them Leaving your brush marks Gives your painting some interest And I'm kind of making a wiggly ruffle the edge around some of my flower petals Where they're a little bit too straight and flat. It really makes them start to pop Exactly. So now those yellows and oranges look like sun hitting the flowers, right? And that's what we wanted So when you're doing this and you're adding the darker colors Don't add the darker colors into a spot. That's already got some of you know, that's already got light That's light on the petal without some thought Keep your darks darks and your lights lights At this point, you know, like right here is a dark side of the petal. So I'm gonna add it here But I'm not gonna add it right here because I want that to stay light and bright I don't know if any of that made sense It didn't my head I'm gonna show you in a minute how to we're gonna suggest some leaves on here I would love it if you guys share what you do from today's lesson in the Facebook group. I'd love to see it I know so would everybody else Okay, I'm glad it made sense to somebody Besides just me. I could just go to town here all day with the pains gray Can you tell? No, don't outline don't don't outline the whole thing just you know The areas of your petal that are already, you know darker because that's where the darker paint landed That's what you want to really define with the dark pains gray paint Try to avoid using black because it's not as interesting and try to avoid blending all the marks like right there You know, I added these marks I didn't I didn't blend them and I like that way that that's looking so I'm not going to blend them And I'm gonna leave it now. I'm gonna show you We're gonna go back to the bigger brush And we're gonna pick a green and I'm gonna start out with green gold Which is a very yellowy green here and I prefer I prefer yellowy greens. That's my preference if you make me choose one I Always go for sap green or yellowy green and I am going to Suggest some leaves. So I'm gonna pick some spots on here to lay down some green color You know like with anything else I prefer to do things in threes So we're gonna do that Then I'm going to Rinse my brush off and grab some water And I'm going to pull those out pull that green out I'm gonna also pull it in between The petals if it's appropriate And we're doing a suggestion of a petal leaf. We're not doing an actual leaf. So I want you to remember that Don't be afraid to come in here and you know make your green Uh Have some dark tones and some light tones by doing some lifting. Oh, we're gonna go in with a darker green So I've got cascade green, which is a very blue green This is cascade green That's almost like an evergreen christmas tree color And we're gonna lay that in And then we're gonna take some water And we're gonna push it around Okay, then we're gonna take some of our original color we started with Oh, maybe not. No, we're gonna go with solidite So you could go back with the cobalt blue violet, but I think I'm going to go with solidite, which is A sort of a pans gray type color. It's a lot bluer And it's right next to the cobalt blue violet And I'm gonna lay some of that in And then just like with everything else I'm gonna pull it out Push it around Don't be afraid to do this either. You get some fun splatters and marks And then you suggested some greenery there with your flowers The other thing that's fun to do is take some of one of your greens And really you could do this with any color and and Splatter some on and you know, I'm not too concerned if I get some in the wrong spot I'm gonna just lift it a little bit. Those dots will still be there, but they'll be less noticeable If you're really concerned about it, cover your flowers up first before you do that I'm wanting to go in here with a little bit of these. I do want to And this is the solidite color. This is the really dark solidite color some really dark splatters Something like that Oh my god, you know, we're like color key So something like that play with it and have fun and don't be afraid to make it splattery and messy and um Now we want to go this way There we go. So don't be afraid to make it splattery and messy and have fun with it. Thank you Do you guys have any questions? This is how I did this one um Basically the same colors too, I think Thank you And these definitely could be scanned and you could um, you know Use it as an element in a journal page Um, you could use it as a bookmark. You could use it as a greeting card cover Um, I am like I said scanning these and putting them as a digital download in my etsy shop. So But I encourage you guys to go out there and play and just you know, do you don't have to do something this big Do a bookmark. These little bookmarks are fun. Now this one I did using the same techniques Only instead of painting the flower the way that we did I painted around the flower around the outside Um to bring out the flower and I didn't paint the center of the flower until the end after I'd done this All this background work You definitely could take these flowers and you could um take a little bit of your chinese white I didn't do this in the original No, I just stuck my My brush was dirty and now my chinese white is dirty Let's clean it up a little bit So you definitely could take some of the chinese white and you could you know add it as a highlight You know bring bring in some highlights. You could also do this with a gel pen I like the idea of using the chinese white though Because when it dries it's it looks it looks more like paint And you all know somebody asked me recently, you know, when do you know when a painting is done? And I told him when I either varnish it or it goes to its forever home because otherwise i'm tempted to forever play with them Just the truth it's still soft. That's the thing I like about the sign chinese white. It's still soft um You could also use like um white gouache, which is a water soluble like watercolor paint, but it's more um opaque Then your watercolor is more transparent You're welcome. So play and have some fun and make some flowers. Don't forget to go into um The facebook group and upload update the document with other things that you guys like to see like somebody suggested sunflowers I don't know if you guys want to do roses Um other kind of flowers or whatever you would like to see butterflies or whatever and um add them to the schedule Every single wednesday as long as I am not out of town or something. We will be here and I will see you all later Have a great day And this will be up on youtube Within like 48 hours the name of the facebook group is a life of art and self expression And you can um also find information about me on jena b erins dot com So that is the way you spell my name if you google this name a whole bunch of stuff is going to come up Including my website and other things and the name of the group again is a life of art and self expression We have a document for watercolor wednesdays You can add your suggestions to the list with the next wednesday date and we will um be going by the list Going forward and every time that we do one of these I'll try to bring something new to the table like today We did the initial sketch with the water soluble pencils And um every week I'll try to bring something new like that to the table And I'd love to see what you guys make and if you have any questions you can tag me in the group Or you can um email me um from the website and uh we'll take it from there Have a great day everybody. Don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later