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Easy Watercolor Flower Painting
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Easy Watercolor Flower Painting

Learn How to Paint 6 Beautiful Flower Arrangements Easily! Bonus Workshop Included: Paint Sunflowers and Venice!
Created byWatercolour Mentor
Last updated 6/2023
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to sketch simple flowers shapes in pencil, and how to use watercolor to imply light, shade, and mood with a variety of colors
  • How to paint petals, stems, and shadows on flowers
  • Materials - what paints, paper, brushes, and pens you will need
  • Understanding light sources and how to paint realistic shadows
  • How to sketch easily by simplifying a subject into basic shapes, using a combination of loose and accurate drawing styles
  • Hands-on lessons on essential watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry
  • How to paint backgrounds and use contrast combined with striking color combinations

Course content

2 sections • 13 lectures • 6h 57m total length

  • Introduction1:04

    Learn easy watercolor flower painting with six step-by-step demonstrations that cover color, form, tone, and real-time drawing narration, sketches, and tracing templates for beginners.

  • Materials Required7:08

    Explore essential watercolor florals materials, including flat brushes, round brushes, cat’s tongue and fan brushes for petals and edges, plus a three artist-grade primary palette on 100% cotton cold-press paper.

  • Flower Painting Techniques10:40

    Explore using round, flat, and cat's tongue brushes to paint leaves, petals, and stems in watercolor, and practice negative painting, light-dark layering, and color balance.

  • Paint Sunflowers29:07

    Learn to compose and paint sunflowers in loose watercolor, exploring petals, leaves, and greens, with layered color mixing, negative painting, and light-to-dark contrasts.

  • Mixed Flowers31:23
  • Paint Tulips24:20

    Learn to paint tulips in a cup of water using loose, abstract shapes, build stems and leaves in greens, and apply negative painting for clean edges.

  • Flower Arrangement33:34
  • Flowers and Vase - Part 129:28

    Learn to paint loose watercolor flowers in a vase with a light background, using multiple colors, overlapping petals, and soft shadows for a natural look.

  • Flowers and Vase - Part 25:49

    Apply brown and neutral tones to hint at wood planks, then lift off with water to soften edges and background, keeping the painting from overworking the flowers.

  • Large Flowers in Vase - Part 126:34

    Paint a lush flower scene in a large vase on a portrait page, using a varied light and dark background and wet paint blending while keeping petals and stems loose.

  • Large Flowers in Vase - Part 213:41

    Finish a watercolor vase scene by adding selective details, enhancing contrast with a dry brush, and highlighting petals with yellow and purple accents.

  • Course Project0:55

    Draw and paint your own flower arrangement using freehand sketching to plan, then finish with watercolor steps from class demonstrations and share progress in projects and resources section.

Requirements

  • No previous experience in painting or drawing required. Please view the 'Materials Required' lecture for information on art supplies.

Description

Welcome to Easy Watercolor Flower Painting!

Loose painting is a fun way to create fresh and spontaneous works. It allows you to learn the basics of color, form, and tone in watercolor painting. In this course, you'll learn how to sketch and paint 6 beautiful flower arrangements in an easy and fresh manner.

Bonus Workshop Included: Paint Sunflowers and Venice!

This course is aimed towards beginners with 6 demonstrations which I'll help guide you through step-by-step. There are scans, drawing, and tracing templates included as well for each demonstration to help you transfer your drawing over quickly and easily. You can follow along with my real-time drawing and narration videos for all of these demonstrations.

In this course, I explain every technique I use while I'm painting, such as using watercolor to paint petals on a flower. I'll also discuss color choices, and the strength and specific mix of pigment I am using. If you have a pencil, some watercolor paints, and paper, then you're ready to go.

In this course, I will cover basics such as:

  • how to sketch simple flower shapes in pencil, and how to use watercolor to imply light, shade, and mood with a variety of colors.

  • How to paint petals, stems, and shadows on flowers

  • Materials - what paints, paper, brushes, and pens you will need.

  • Understanding light sources and how to paint realistic shadows.

  • How to sketch easily by simplifying a subject into basic shapes, using a combination of loose and accurate drawing styles.

  • Hands-on lessons on essential watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry.

  • How to paint backgrounds and use contrast combined with striking color combinations.

So join me in this course - let's create some paintings that you can be proud of!

Project Description

Assignment:

Your course project is to draw and paint your own flower arrangement! This can be a scene featured in one of the course demonstration videos or based on one of your own photographs or scenes you have observed outside.

You can also refer to the scanned drawing/painting templates attached under the 'Materials Required' lecture which will allow you to trace the drawings if you choose to do so. I recommend drawing each arrangement free-hand. Drawing is an important step in improving your painting skills. This provides you with an opportunity to compose and plan your painting. Once you've finished the drawing, use the watercolor steps and processes included in the course demonstrations to complete your painting.

Materials:

Use any pencil, watercolor paper, paints, and available brushes. I recommend:

  • Mechanical pencil (0.5mm)

  • 100% cotton watercolor paper or sketchbook

  • Watercolor Paints: Hansa Yellow, Permanent/Perennial Red, Ultramarine Blue

  • Watercolour Brushes - mop brush and a variety of round and flat brushes.

Getting Started:

Review the course demonstrations first. There are 6 different flower scenes that you can draw and paint from. You can also download the tracing templates to transfer over your drawing.

Looking to sketch and paint another flower arrangement? Research some free reference photo websites, pick one of your own reference photos, or simply find an outdoor location where you can sit and paint. Using the steps and processes included in this course, create your own unique painting.

Sharing Your Work:

Share your final illustration and progress shots with the course by uploading them to the Q&A and discussions section on Udemy. If you have any questions or need more tips, please let me know. I'm happy to help.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner students in watercolor
  • Students learning watercolor painting
  • Students looking to loosen up their painting style
  • Students learning flower and floral painting
  • Students learning how to paint

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