This free lesson will help give the young artist confidence in painting a beautiful flower.
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ART SUPPLY LIST
You can use any watercolor paint. I prefer my small Windsor Newton paint set; it has a nice selection of colors. I also use Grumbacher Paints in the tubes. You can easily find these at any craft store like Lobby Hobby or Michaels. (Look for coupons online.) You can collect lots of paintbrushes, but it is better at the start to keep it simple with a few small, medium, and medium-large brushes and a combination of flats as well as rounded paintbrushes. For these art lessons, I use Strathmore series 300 Watercolor paper. It is economical and available at Michaels and Hobby Lobby and online.
PRINTABLE LESSON NOTES
BEGINNING
Start by tracing the picture onto some 140 lb watercolor paper, this is the heavy paper that does not buckle when it gets wet. If you can't see through it try holding it against a window with the daylight coming through to trace it.
FIRST WASH
Use a medium-sized brush and mix the paint to be thin and watery for the pink of the flower, and give it an even wash.
With a watery mix of green paint in the leaves light green.
Dabble watery brown around the background, and while that is still wet dabble in green to blend randomly. We will darken and even muddy the background a little later.
LET IT DRY (A hairdryer helps).
SECOND WASH
Use a small brush.
Mix a watery violet and red together to get a darker red. (Don't use black at this time). With the watery color add shadows around the edges of the flower. Go around the part that is sticking out so it stands out from the darkness around it.
Mix some brown to the green and use the tip of the brush like you were drawing and draw in the shadows and lines on the leaves.
LET IT DRY
THIRD WASH
Mix more violet red and now a little black (VERY LITTLE) and draw in the darkest areas in the center of the flower and in the edges of the darkest part of the flower.
Mix brown, red, and green to make the darkest green and add to the darkest areas of the leaves.
Mix some brown and red and darken the background, use the brush to dribble or dab the paint so the background looks out of focus.
Dribble a little of the darkest green in the background so the two dark colors mix.
As a last step dribble a very little watery black into the background. The dark murky background should make the flower look like it is forward and the muddy colors of the background should make the flower look bright.
After it is dry add the yellow for the dots on the tip of the part that sticks out.
(c) Adron Dozat 9/19/15Start by tracing the picture onto some 140 lb watercolor paper, this is the heavy paper that does not buckle when it gets wet. If you can't see through it try holding it against a window with the daylight coming through to trace it.
FIRST WASH
Use a medium-sized brush and mix the paint to be thin and watery for the pink of the flower, and give it an even wash.
With a watery mix of green paint in the leaves light green.
Dabble watery brown around the background, and while that is still wet dabble in green to blend randomly. We will darken and even muddy the background a little later.
LET IT DRY (A hairdryer helps).
SECOND WASH
Use a small brush.
Mix a watery violet and red together to get a darker red. (Don't use black at this time). With the watery color add shadows around the edges of the flower. Go around the part that is sticking out so it stands out from the darkness around it.
Mix some brown to the green and use the tip of the brush like you were drawing and draw in the shadows and lines on the leaves.
LET IT DRY
THIRD WASH
Mix more violet red and now a little black (VERY LITTLE) and draw in the darkest areas in the center of the flower and in the edges of the darkest part of the flower.
Mix brown, red, and green to make the darkest green and add to the darkest areas of the leaves.
Mix some brown and red and darken the background, use the brush to dribble or dab the paint so the background looks out of focus.
Dribble a little of the darkest green in the background so the two dark colors mix.
As a last step dribble a very little watery black into the background. The dark murky background should make the flower look like it is forward and the muddy colors of the background should make the flower look bright.
After it is dry add the yellow for the dots on the tip of the part that sticks out.
