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Hi,
I'm Robin and today I'm going to demonstrate the techniques
and color mixes used to paint the lovely Yellow Roses.
You'll need to refer to your leaflet to
complete the painting. You may wish to practice the
techniques and the color mixes on the extra piece of watercolor
paper included in your kit. You can also just
dive right in and start painting. Then you can use
the extra piece of paper to paint another painting
to give as a gift. Yellow Roses is a watercolor painting.
That means you can easily blend the paint colors together,
and add depth to your painting by adding more
layers of paint to an area. Keep in mind
that watercolor paints are reactivated when wet.
This means you can mix your colors in the palette,
let them dry out, then come back later and use them
by just adding water and rubbing gently with a paintbrush.
Mixing the colors can be a lot
of fun. Remember, every painting
will be different and you can adjust the colors to your tastes if desired.
The first color you'll mix is the reddish
yellow for step 3. This color is
used to add shading to the rose petals. I can see
that the painting uses a lot of this color, so I'll
mix a lot. You can see the amount
I pulled down of yellow is about equal to the size
of my bristles on the size 6 brush.
I'll use
the same brush to pull down a very small amount of
Venetian red.
It's always a good idea to add very small amounts of the
dark colors to start.
I'll mix the colors together and
see. I think I've got a little bit too
much red in here, but let me try it out and see.
I'm going to get some of the excess paint off my brush.
My color is way too orangey, so I need to
clean my brush and get some of that paint off of there and add some more
yellow. So, I should not have pulled down
quite so much red. I'm going to put it beside my
other color so I can just mix a little bit of that in
instead of having to mix all of that to the right color
and then I'll see
if this color is better.
That looks much better. Now I'm going to pull down some more
of this yellow, because, remember, I need to mix quite a bit of this.
So, I'm going to go ahead and get a nice bunch of this mixed.
And if I need to later I can add a little more yellow
to the rest of that excess that was too dark
upon the top of my palette.
This mix needs to be diluted to achieve a pale, transparent color.
So, dip a brush in clean water and add it to your palette,
and go ahead and mix it in; it's better to err
on the side of getting it too diluted and too watery,
because you can always add additional layers
to deepen your color.
And that is a very nice, light color I can see when I
test it on my paper, so I think I'm ready to go.
Just keep playing around with it until it's the way you want
it, using your extra piece of watercolor paper until
you think you have the right level of dilution.
Dilute the pure colors used for many steps in
this painting by mixing them with water in the same way.
You'll use a purplish red mix for the center of
the open rose in steps 10 and 11. The swatch in the leaflet
is a little too blue; you'll probably want to mix
a more reddish color. I can see that the color is
more red than blue, so I'll pull a little Venetian
red down to my mixing palette
and then
add a smaller amount of cobalt blue.
I'll mix them together
and test
to see how it looks.
I think
I need to add just a touch more blue
to my mix.
Mix it together;
make sure it's all mixed on my
brush and then I'll test it,
and I think that
looks pretty good.
I probably mixed more than I need to, to just
paint that little bit in the center of that
flower, but that's OK. I did start with
the small amount and so I did not mix too much
paint and I'll have plenty. I won't run out of paint.
This painting uses a couple of different green mixes.
I'll demonstrate the mix used to paint the leaves in step
19 to 21. You'll create a different mix
for the buds, stems and thorns in step 22.
I'll make quite a bit of this mix since there
are a lot of leaves. Though this is a dark
color and will probably use a quite of bit of blue,
I'll start with a small amount and keep adding until I get
get the color I want.
And it looks like
I've got a pretty good color here.
Be sure to mix it good so you can get
a good idea of what the color is going to look like
and test it on your scrap paper.
Now, I'm not demonstrating how to mix
each and every color, but I hope that by showing
you how I've mixed these, you'll have enough confidence
to mix all the colors you need for this painting.
Now let's talk about the techniques you'll use.
You can use the extra piece of watercolor paper
in your kit to practice any step, get the feel of the
brush required, or to see how your color will look.
It's very helpful to do this, especially when you're first
learning to paint and getting comfortable with the brushes and techniques.
After a few paintings, you'll find you
need to do this less and less. Drawing the paint
means using the tip of the bristles to pull the paint along
the paper. This is used in step 2 to paint a rose petal.
First, I'll wet the petal
using my size 6 round brush
with clear water.
Be sure to just wet the areas that you want to paint
at this time.
Then I'll drop in
diluted lemon yellow paint close to the center of
the petal and draw it towards the edge;
this will make the
color darker toward the center and lighter.
In step 3, we'll drop in
paint wet-on-wet on the part of the petal closest
to the center and allow the color to bleed together.
Just lightly tap the tip of the brush to the
paper in a short dotting motion;
the color will spread into the first color, which is still wet,
for a unique blend of new colors.
For more control, use only small amounts of paint at
a time. Use a cotton swab, rag or
paper towel to dab away any excess paint.
You'll paint one petal at a time
and allow each to dry before painting the next petal.
You can use a hair dryer on a low setting to help speed
the drying process. Hold it about 12 inches
away from the painting and point
straight down to prevent paint from running.
You don't want the paint to run
like you might see it do a little here; instead, point straight
down and carefully dry it.
You'll use a lot of water for this painting.
If your painting starts buckling, loosen the
tape and gently pull
to stretch
and then re-apply the tape,
and repeat this on all the sides. You can repeat
as often as needed to keep your painting flat.
You lift out highlights by pressing
a clean, damp brush or paper towel into an area
of wet paint to absorb some of
the paint off the paper. When you remove some paint, that
area is lighter, creating highlights. This is
done in step 8 of your painting. You can repeat this
process until you achieve the desired look.
After lifting out the highlight, you'll use the tip
of your brush to draw the paint from the edges
to form stamens.
And my paint is dried a bit,
so I'm just going to put a little bit of paint on it
to draw out
that color for stamens.
Steps 10 and 11
guide you through painting the stamens.
Roll your brush in the paint to keep a fine point.
Draw a fine line around the center
using just the tip of your brush and then draw paint
out from the line to form the darker stamens.
Add dots to the ends of the stamens
by just barely touching the tip of your
brush to the paper. You don't have to make sure that
dots are at the ends of the stamens; just dot them around
and it will look great.
Once your stamens are dry, you'll glaze
over the center with a mix of cadmium yellow and Venetian
red. A glaze is a thin, transparent
layer of very diluted color brushed over an area
that is already painted. Use a light touch with your
brush. Watercolor paints are
transparent, so often look less vibrant when dry.
If you would like to deepen the color in an area, just
paint another layer of the same color in the same way you added
the first layer. If the first layer is dried,
go over the place where the wet and dry areas meet
with a clean, damp brush to prevent hard lines.
To avoid overworking your picture, add one
layer at a time and allow it to dry before adding another
layer. As you paint, think about where the light
is coming from. For this painting, it's coming from above,
so petals, leaves and stems that are below another object
will be in shadow and should be shaded
darker.
You can add additional layers of color to darken
areas as desired.
And, again, since the other color has already dried,
I'll use a clean, damp brush
to soften the edges between
the wet paint that I just added and the
dry paint that was there before.
Thanks for painting with me today.
I hope this video helps you enjoy creating your
beautiful Yellow Roses painting. Frame it and
display it proudly in your home. See you next time.
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