10-minute Watercolour Cards | Tulips in a vase

[Music] hi everyone and welcome along today we're going to paint a lovely floral design that creates a great greetings card perfect for any occasion so grab your paints and let's get started so yes we're going to do a quick card design which is just a really sort of fail-safe method so i'm doing two um lines just angling out and then a bit of a slightly curved bottom slightly curved top and then we're going to turn this into a jug of tulip so all we need to do is do that and then give ourselves a little handle on the side and we're going to paint in our tulips first and i've got some nice permanent rose up here and some opera rose because i love the brightness of cheerfulness of operation a good greetings card is just nice and sort of cheerful isn't it so we've got a size six brush and you all love the tulip tutorial so i thought why not turn it into something even more useful so i'm just going to squish the brush down and then finish off the second side and look we've got ourselves a tulip and i love just a little bit of cadmium red in there as well and so because the tulips flower shape is the most sort of focal part of this we're going to pop that in first before anything else so this combination of these two pinks it's rather lovely and we'll have one just sort of squishing in down here now don't worry too much about the shape being too perfect at this point because i have a nifty trick to make a really beautiful finish on these tulips okay and then i'm gonna have one well let's have one in in the middle here we just want that sort of rough egg shape a little bit of unpainted space is always great and then i have one so just drooping out the side here so for me for this card the beauty is you can just use watercolor paper and fold it in half and that creates a really nice card ready made for you there we go and i think that even though that looks a bit random i think that's going to be a really nice composition for us because now i'm going to take my size 4 brush and i've got sap green down here and whilst everything is still wet we're just going to paint in because this is the beauty of it i don't know how many of you have been rushing to go out to an event or a party or a birthday and you're like oh my god i haven't got a card well if you've got a few minutes then you have got a card so what i'm gonna do is just very carefully paint in a few stems just like that and now with my larger brush again we're going to put in some lovely tulip leaves and we aren't worrying about any kind of bleed or blend we don't mind in fact we encourage it just as long as you don't linger too long with your brush because those bleeds are just on the right side and then we can just use a slightly smaller brush to get a little bit more detail in there but we're now going to leave those and we're going to turn our attentions to the jug itself so i love this cobalt blue because it reminds me of cornish wear down in cornwall in the uk is a very sort of iconic blue and white or blue and sort of cream-colored stripe on ceramics and in fact i'm going to use my slightly smaller brush just for a little bit more control but i'm going to angle the brush down and i'm just going to paint in stripes like that and how rough they can be is absolutely fine because the beauty of watercolor is often in its roughness and then a few little extra stripes on there now we're just going to let that dry for a minute and i promise you're still going to make your party with 10 minutes to go we just need to let it dry just a fraction and then we'll do a little finish so we've just given it a minute to dry we've still got some slightly wet bits but that's absolutely fine what i'm going to do now is just take this tutorial to the next level for tulips because we can do something pretty cool so i'm just mixing up a more concentrated version of the pinky red tones we've been using and what i'm going to do is i'm going to create a bit of depth in the middle of the tulip by just doing that and it gives you all of a sudden the sense that there is a sort of inside to that tulip so let me do it again here so just by squishing in a little bit of color suddenly we've got a lovely deeper darker tulip center but you can do it the opposite way and what i mean by that is by coming up the outside and look we've got a sort of lighter center and a darker outside which is very cool so i'm just gonna do this on some of them and all of a sudden your tulips have gone from being lovely and loose but various of abstract to being really fantastic and a little bit more detailed and then the last thing we'll do is i'm just going to get a little bit of french ultramarine we're going to use it just to create the tiniest bit of shadow down the side of our jug and to be honest just wetting the brush and picking up some of that color of the cobalt blue deep will do the trick too there you have a really lovely all occasions quick greetings card so if i just move my paints away you'll see my bit of watercolor paper so i used a piece that was um 28 centimeters long so i've got 14 centimeters here which means i can just fold it down the middle and there is my lovely greetings card but if you've got an envelope you need in mind then just measure the size of the envelope and make your folded size just a little bit smaller than that and there is your super quick greetings card thanks so much for watching and i hope your cards bring a smile to everyone's face i want to say a massive thank you to my patrons for their support because that support enables me to keep creating these videos that everyone can enjoy and if you enjoyed it then hit the like button and comment below to let me know how you're getting on and of course if you subscribe then you'll never miss another video okay until next time bye

Channel: de Winton Paper Co.

Views: 2,296

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: o02GvgTlHBU

Length: 8min 45sec (525 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021