Learn to Paint LILY AND LADYBUG with Acrylic - Paint and Sip at Home - Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting lillian ladybug and i'm going to be sipping on a little white wine spritzer today and if you do enjoy this video i encourage you to like and subscribe and you can also check out my patreon page where you'll find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and prime 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'm going to be using i'll be using acrylic paint today the colors are titanium white burnt umber which i'll call brown this is violet purple green oxide deep yellow fire red mars black and cobalt blue and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like but that's what i'm going to be using for my tools today i have three paint brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number 12 round brush and i have a number two round brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and again you could certainly switch those up if you'd like if you're painting along with me you'll probably want a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and i do have a couple of additional resources for you that you can find down below in the video description what you're going to find there is you're going to find a link where you could purchase the same paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to the brushes and the palette and the paint and all that good stuff so that's there for you what also is there for you is a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today all right so what we're going to do for the first step is we're painting the background the entire canvas we're going to be using this large bristle brush and the colors that i'm going to be using are white brown blue and purple and how i'm going to be doing this is i'm going to be using these colors in an arbitrary fashion i'm going to kind of alternate the colors and i can have multiple colors on my brush at the same time i'm looking for and i'm applying it in a circular fashion for me i'm looking for this to be almost like a abstract type background with complementary colors to the actual flower itself so you could certainly envision your background to be the sky or a wall or abstract whatever you'd like it to be is totally fine with me this is your painting you can again take it into whatever kind of realm that you want if you want there to be some deep purples back there feel free to use more purple if you want it to be nice and dark to have that flowers really really pop out you can use the darker tones and less white what i'm going to be doing is i'm actually going to be doing two coats on this so this first coat is going to be really kind of scratchy looking and messy and not beautiful so to speak but by the time i get done my second layer on it it will have taken on a really nice soft almost out of focus kind of look to it you could certainly do a different brush stroke maybe you do yours in a crisscross mat manner or maybe you go left to right throughout the whole canvas whatever brushstroke you are feeling comfortable with using you can certainly use that just be consistent with that brush stroke throughout the entire canvas so if you start with circles you want to finish with circles and i don't know if you've noticed but i'm overlapping my color sections i'm really just kind of alternating picking up you know this time i just picked up brown with whatever were the remnants on my brush i'm not washing my brush so that way these colors just kind of meld together and they really work well together they're almost complementing one another as they're touching each other so feel free to again make it as vibrant as you want as dark as you want as blue as you want as purple as you want it's really totally up to you once i've got it pretty well set on here before i do my second layer what i'm going to do i see that i have a bunch of kind of naked spots so what i'm going to do with my brush is i'm going to be be while it's still drying i just take my brush and continue with that motion on top of the the previous areas that i did with a very light pressure so i'm not pushing really hard i'm just using the teeny tiny tip of my brush and what's happening is because i'm not using a lot of pressure i'm able to kind of control how i'm blending these with one another and i don't need a perfect blend at this point but what i am really looking for is complete coverage over the canvas so as i do this i'm i'm looking for some bald spots on my canvas and i'm just going to continue until i have the entire canvas covered and then we are going to be using the same brush for the next step so once you get the first layer of this background done you can wash and dry this large brush get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the second layer of the background so i'm going to be using the same colors that i used the first time i'm going to be using the same brush so the colors that i used for the first layer are white blue purple and brown and again my large bristle brush i do want to forewarn you before you actually attempt the second layer that you want to make sure your painting is dry first so you know you can either take an extra long break if you need to or you could blow on it or you could just take a blow dryer and just blow dry it so whatever you need to do make sure that it's dry because when you do back to back layering like this if that first layer is not dry you run the risk of pulling your paint right off of the canvas and you'll get these bald spots so if that does happen as you're going about it just let off on your pressure stop painting that one section let it dry and then go back on on top of it and you can do a second layer so my main goal for the second layer is just to make this softer looking so i'm going to be using the same colors the same brush stroke i probably am not going to be using as high of a quantity of paint on my brush as i go to apply it and when i'm applying it i'm not going to be pushing hard i'm really just going to be using the tip of my brush and just lightly doing a layer on top of it and you don't have to just put purple where you see purple in blue where you see blue you can certainly switch up the colors and have brown on top of purple or purple on top of blue you'll see as you go through this process that it's gonna be okay if you have a different color on top of the first color so i just loaded my brush with blue brown white just a little bit of each and you can certainly again bend and twist this color to whatever you want it to be but you're going to really see right off the bat this second layer is going to look so much softer than that first layer did so just know that you know whatever happened on that first layer is providing you with a beautiful base for this second softer layer on top of it and you might want yours lighter you might want it darker again i'm not using a ton of paint and i will go a little bit slower so i almost complete one area before i go on to the next area i might have areas go a little bit darker or a little bit lighter or a little bit more purple whatever kind of comes off of my brush i'm just going to go with because i think this is just going to be a beautiful nice soft abstract type background and you can really see the difference from one area to the next and again i just alternated my colors that time i just picked up some white and brown right now i'm gonna pick up maybe white and a little bit of purple and again as light or as dark as you want maybe a little bit of brown at this point just to kind of neutralize this upper corner a little bit and have fun with whatever color combination you want you might go about this and really start digging that brown and purple together and thinking that it just makes a beautiful combination so roll with it whatever is visually appealing to you we're not trying to get this to look like a photograph here we're just trying to give our beautiful lily that we're going to be painting later a nice background to complement it behind it so don't feel the pressure to make this look like anything specific just go for you know maybe you want it to look good in a specific room of your house so maybe you want it to be more on the bluer side you know whatever is is in your thought process will totally work for this and again you can see that i'm just kind of cruising along making sure i almost overlap back into that previous section to make sure that they talk well together and again if you're not having tremendous success with your your blending maybe you need a little bit more paint on your brush so that way it stays wet for a second longer some people do like to use a touch of water in their paint i don't necessarily recommend that unless you are comfortable with using water and the reason i tell you that is because we are doing we are working on a second layer and again that second layer is pretty the layer underneath it is so new and it's kind of fragile and this is water-based paint so if you start adding water to that canvas it can help to thin out your paint and provide some type of benefit when you're blending but with that layer underneath what you might find happen is you're just gonna you're gonna activate the the paint and it'll again just kind of pull right off of your canvas so if you have used a little bit of water or there's water on your brush and and that has happened to you again just kind of back off from that area and then you can just come back to it after it has dried but you can see mine's really nice and soft and pretty and subtle so i'm just i'm just rolling with this i'm digging these colors together the purple and the brown are really are really tickling my fancy i like i like how they are adding some warmth to it and when you put it on top of another color like i can see little peekaboo spots of the blue underneath it so just roll with it and i am almost done with this step so when you do get done with this stuff we are going to be using our let's see what we're going to use for the next step our medium brush so you can get this whole layer nice and done you can keep fiddling with it as much as you want make it as soft and as pretty as you want it to be and then we will switch brushes for the next step just getting this little last corner on here i'm digging this it's going to look beautiful with this big huge white lily in the middle of it all right so i'm going to put this brush away take out my medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the first layer of our stem and our leaves so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using green and brown paint and just think of this as like a base coat for for the stem and the leaves so again it's not going to look totally awesome after this step but i do want to again forewarn you just have your canvas dry before you go on to this step that way you don't run the risk of of pulling up any paint so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to load my brush with green and brown at the same time it doesn't matter if you have more of one or less of the other and then what i'm going to do this type of flower that that we're doing these stems are almost jointed they have these little almost like i don't want to call them knuckles but like little joint type areas where the where the flower part comes out of so that's how i'm going to make my my stem so i'm going to come on the bottom left and i'm going to come in maybe three or four inches and then i'm going to do a vertical line that's slightly tipped to the left hand side so maybe something like this and it's maybe about a quarter of an inch wide quarter of an inch to a half of an inch wide and then i'm going to do another one coming up towards the left hand side at a little bit more of an angle and maybe it has a little bit of a curve to it and it could be a little bit wider this one this this next the top part and i think what i'm going to do at the top is i'm going to make it into a little bit of a wider area that's where my flower bud or bulb is gonna is gonna come out of so that's gonna be that now i'm gonna put a couple of leaves on it so i'm gonna put maybe i hear one of my dogs is starting to act up so if if you start hearing a big you know barking kind of noise sorry about that it's a little dog but it makes some big big barking noises so right now i'm going to just make this leaf maybe this one's coming out the other side and again i'm just using green and brown on my brush right now and this one's just going to kind of come pointy down like that there they go but there must be a mailman or something coming down my driveway i'm gonna have a little leaf over on this side maybe it's leaning over the other edge of this particular stem so something like that then i'm gonna have a big huge one kind of coming out over in this direction maybe maybe this one comes way down into that corner kind of place maybe this one is a little bit more wiggly and and bendy and has a little bit more character to it then maybe i'll put a couple of small ones down at the bottom maybe i've got one i don't know somewhere in here and then maybe i've got a little one kind of creeping over in through that direction and then we're going to use the same brush for the next step so once you have your first layer of your leaves and your stem you can wash and dry the same brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the base coat for the petals on our flower i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm using are white brown and black and what i'm going to do first is i'm going to pre-mix myself a warm gray that's going to be the base color that i use for the petals so how i'm going to do that is i'm going to take some white add a little bit of brown actually quite a bit of brown and a touch of black i want it to be more on the warm side as this is going to just be the base coat for these really seemingly bright white petals so i don't want to turn it too cold by putting a cool gray which would be black and white so i'm turning mine more into like a creamy brownish gray and this will help us when it goes when we need to add dimension to the the petals so if you start with white white and just use white as your base coat some wise person once said i don't know if i read it or they told me i don't even know who it was it said you can't see the light without the dark so if you just started with white petals it's going to be very difficult to get dimension on them so i start with a darker base and then i add my highlights to it that way without darkness so how i'm going to do this is i'm first going to do what i'm going to call the front petal and everything else is going to be built off of that so this type of flower that we're doing it is a i think it's called a madonna lily madonna white lily i think is the correct name for it it's just this big huge vibrant white lily and i think it has six petals so i want one to be kind of flopping over i want to be able to see the inside of the flower and i also want you to see it's almost like a bell type shape as it's opening so i want you to see the bottom of it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go in seemingly the same direction as my stem is and i'm going to come maybe about two or so inches away from there and i'm going to make myself a little bit of a mark then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come directly below this mark and a little bit over to the right i'm going to stop maybe about an inch and a half away from the bottom of my canvas that's going to be the tip of this particular leaf that we're doing it's going to be really big it's going to be in through here and then what i want to do is i want to do the edge that's folding into the the inside of the flower so i'm going to take this and i'm going to almost just do a little like that and a little like that and now i want my petal to come over here and meet down in through here so really what i'm going to do is i'm just going to kind of go over to the left a little bit and then curve it and meet it somewhere over in this little point here and then on this side i'm going to do a little bit of a loop in through here maybe not a loop but kind of a a curved line like that and then bring this down in through here so this is in essence going to show that the petal is tipped over it's coming out of here and it's tipped over and we're going to add highlights and shadow that are going to make it look way more realistic than it looks right now but right now we're just kind of adding that base coat to it then what i'm going to do is i'm going to build everything off of this leaf so the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to build the leaf to the right of it so this leaf is going to come kind of out the this corner right in through here and i don't want to get my petals confused with one another so you'll see i probably am going to always leave a little bit of a space between them so i don't get lost within my petals so i'm bringing this over here oh let me tell you where to go so you're going to come kind of straight up from here maybe about three inches maybe a touch to the left a little bit that's going to be the point of it the edge of it so i'm going to bring this up something like this somewhere around there and then this is curved over like this so it needs to come back into the center of the flower so the inside of it doesn't need to go much farther than this i'm going to bring it over in through this direction maybe up a little bit and then just kind of come streaming down something like this and then i'm just going to color it in you don't need to color it in any tricky kind of brush strokes now that i've got these two on here i can put that little bell thing underneath so i'm going to start somewhere about here and this is going to be where that where the flower grows from so bring it right down to your stem and then it can kind of come out and meet somewhere in through here and again you you don't want to get yourself confused so just leave a teeny tiny bit of space in between those will will get rid of that space later but this is again just to kind of give you a road map and a guideline where you want all of these pieces of this beautiful flower so now what i'm going to do i have five more to go so i know everything needs to come out of the center so i think the next one i'm going to do is this one over on the left hand side and they all have to kind of look like they belong together so similar sizes so i'm going to have this the point to this one somewhere around here so up from here and over maybe about three or four inches from the edge of your canvas so somewhere about there and again it needs to come out of the center of the flower so the flower grows from right here so everything has to grow from out there so this one's going to kind of get lost let me just move that a little bit get lost within here a little bit so i'm going to i'm going to say this one starts maybe somewhere in through here and i'm going to just bring it up something like this and then over this is my goal i want to get to right here so maybe something like this and i love having movement in my petals so you can certainly you can see how i'm almost wiggling them as i go i think this one i'm going to have the edge of it coming over here maybe it's kind of a similar movement to the other side you can see i'm kind of going on the slower side just to make sure i've got the the movement that i want and again you can certainly adjust it once you've once you've got them on there and as we go through the painting process you may find yourself wanting to manipulate the shapes a little bit but again i'm going to leave myself a little bit of space just so i can i can understand which petal is which the next one i think i'm going to have way oh let's see where do i want the next one to go maybe maybe a little bit up in through this vicinity maybe almost to the i don't know some somewhere over here we're gonna go so maybe right about there and then this one again it has to grow from the center you know come out from from here so i'm gonna just kind of make myself a little bit of an area in through here bring it up and then down and maybe this is going to have a little bit of a rippled edge all right maybe i'll bring it to here i like how they just kind of end up growing as the as the paint brush decides to move so again something like this and it's a flower so they don't all the petals don't have to be exactly the same they don't because they might be moving different they might have grown you know they might be bent different a lot of these type of lilies that i see depending on the age of the the blossom some of these edges can really be curly along the the tips of them so if yours end up a little bit curlier and wigglier great just let it happen and then this one i think i'm going to have these top two they're going to be bent over a little bit so i think i'm going to have this one maybe come up to here and here and this one's gonna have maybe a little bit of a wiggle up at the top just to show that it's being curled over and then we'll have this one come down in through here and again it's got to come into the into the center so something like this that's a little too boxy up in that corner and i just keep reloading my brush with that with that made that warm gray that we've got so something like this and again here this is this is my nucleus so that's where it's where all my petals are coming from so just keep that in mind as you are painting these petals on that they all have to come out of that one that one central area and then i have one more to do and i think this one i'm going to have again kind of curled over up in through that vicinity so maybe i'll have one corner here and maybe one corner here and then i'm gonna ripple that edge so when i go to do my highlights and my shadows it'll it'll give it the illusion that it's kind of bumped out over the edge there or it's bending over the edge and then i've got this coming down in through here so these look pretty size appropriate i think so as you're kind of tidying up this step just make sure that you know they look like they belong on the same flower if one looks a little bit too large or too small you might want to adjust it accordingly and then we are going to be using let's see what are we going to use for the next step let's use our small brush for the next step so once you've got this first layer of your petals on here you can put the medium brush away in your watercolor or wherever you'd like and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the shadow for our stems our stem we only have one stem our stem and our leaves i'm going to use my small brush and the colors that i'm using are black brown and green and how i'm going to do this is my thought process is the shadow is going to be on the underside of my stem and my leaves and then for this one that doesn't have an underside i'm going to have a shadow maybe a little bit on the left and almost maybe in the center of it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a little bit of black and brown on my brush oh and i'm going to put a little shadow underneath this part too so i've got black and brown on my brush i'm going to in essence kind of outline this underside of the of the stem with black and brown and this is also going to we're going to kind of put the the knuckle my i'm sure proper terminology into place with just a little bit of brown and black and then if you need to you pick up the green and then just get it to blend in with the rest of that particular part of the stem so black and brown where you want the shadow and then you use a little bit of green to get it to blend into the neighboring area and you can be as dramatic or as subtle with your shadow as you want i think sometimes especially when you're when you're looking for more of a realistic look to it the higher contrast in your shadows and the highlights makes it look a little bit more realistic so don't be shy when it comes to adding these these shadows i'm actually making this one just a little bit a little bit darker and you can always continue to adjust them as you see fit and when it comes to nature nothing's perfect so if one shadow has some ripply marks on it and the other one is smooth it's okay that just means that maybe there's a a bump or something within your uh within that leaf or the stem or or whatnot so i'm just adding a little bit of my black and brown underneath this one maybe a touch more black let's go bold so a little bit in through there gonna add a little bit in through here and you know i'm consciously kind of thinking of where my where my leaves are and where the top of them are and the bottom of them and that's what's dictating where i'm putting these colors so i just added a little bit of green and brown just to get this to blend in just a little bit and when we go to do the highlight on the particular leaf or stem that's also going to help add to the illusion so i just have a dirty brush with a little bit of black and green and brown so i just adding that bit of darkness down the back and really i'm just i'm adding my shadow and then i'm trying to get it to look natural with the neighboring colors next to it so again black and brown are what i'm starting with maybe this one comes down here just a little bit of a shadow there black and brown maybe this one has a little bit over here because maybe it's being shadowed by the stem i think i'm going to put a little bit more black down here just to make sure definitely reads as a shadow that works for me and then maybe a little bit more back here on the back side of this particular stem leaving a little bit of a i don't know the knuckley area gosh i wish i knew what the right name of that was i think i might put a little shadow on this leaf over here too so i'm just using the remnants of the black and the brown over there from over there or maybe maybe a little bit more so maybe this leaf is kind of turned a bit over here and then we are going to use this same brush for the next step so once you have your shadows on your leaves and your stem you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for it get ready for the next step all right so what i'm gonna do for the next step is i am adding the shadow on my well i don't know what to call this so i'm gonna call it the bell area so it's the part where the where the flower starts i know that there's going to be lots of flower people who are going to who are going to know what that is but how i'm going to do this i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black brown and my original gray color that i've that i created so i'm putting a little bit of black and brown on my brush and i'm in essence going to underline the bottom side of this area with my brown and my black and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come up this left hand side underneath this petal a little bit and get this color to blend in with this main area so i've got the wet paint on there if i feel like my brush is a little overloaded just wipe it off on your paper towel and you pick up some of that original gray and you can get it to blend in with the main area so black and brown to start then you pick up a little bit of your original gray while they're still wet you just kind of blend them in together and then if it's not blending fully with your main area just keep picking up that original gray and keep going in that direction to the right and you'll eventually get it to blend in nice nicely with that original color and then i'm going to put a touch of shadow underneath these petals as well so just putting a little bit more black and brown on my brush and i'm gonna in essence kind of underline that little petal there and put a little bit down in through here now i don't necessarily want this shadow to travel as far as that one as far as this one down here so i'm actually washing my brush and wiping it on my paper towel i'm going to pick up some of that original gray and i'm going to blend it right here i don't necessarily want it to travel too too far so and if yours ends up traveling a little bit farther than you want just let it dry and then you can really manipulate it as as it's as you can put additional layers on it if you want to or as the painting process gets further on down the line and then we're gonna use this same yeah that looks good we're going to use the same brush for the next step so once you've got your shadow on your bell kind of area you can wash and dry this small or medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so i think i might have confused myself and probably you at the same time we're using our medium brush for the next step i i think i said small and medium so i don't know but i want to use the medium round brush for this next step that we're going on to what we're going to be doing is we're putting the shadow inside the center of the flower so similar to what we did in this bell area i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using black brown and my original gray and what i really just want to tell this story is that this area in through here is the darkest and it's the area that is coming you know out from this central area so i'm going to put a little bit of black and brown on my brush when i do this i'm really concentrating on it coming out and through here and then i will also be pulling a little bit of it up my petals so if you want you can certainly start telling the story of which petal is in front of which so i know that this one is in front of this one so i might put a little bit darker area right behind it so i'm going to first start by making sure that i have my darkest area exactly where i want it which is directly up from here so i've got my nice black and brown on my brush and i'm outlining kind of this petal and through here or the top of it something like that and then i'm going to start just gently pulling it up into these petals and if you feel like you have too much paint on your brush then what you'll want to do is you can wipe it on your paper towel i don't necessarily recommend picking up water or anything like that just wipe it on your paper towel and then pick up a little bit of brown and your original gray and that's going to help you to get this to blend in with the center and with those petals so i'm just gently pulling it up and if you feel like you go too dark you can certainly adjust it accordingly don't panic just let happen that that darkness in the middle is really what's going to make it pop and make it look nice and realistic so now that i'm i'm getting a little bit more comfortable with the quantity of paint that's on my brush which is not much at all i'm almost just kind of rubbing it into up into those particular petals so something like this i'm going to add just a touch more so i can make sure that it's nice and deep dark in through there pick up a little bit of my original gray and i know that my gray my original gray is lighter when it's wet than it is when it dries so i know when i start to touch it onto this that's dry it's going to look different but i know that it's going to dry the same so don't if you if you're not familiar with how that works don't don't be alarmed and just making sure that it's really nice and dark in that center area and that this shadowy area talks to or looks like it belongs to the area next to it so you don't really want firm firm shadow lines that don't really naturally connect to the thing that's next to them so i'm right now putting a little bit deeper shadow in through here so this one looks like it's maybe set back just a little bit and you can certainly just feel free to have fun playing with the intensity of the shadow that's looking pretty to me i'm picking up a little bit more of my original gray just to make sure again that this works well together and that everything looks like it belongs and is in order and that's looking pretty good to me so i think that's going to call it i don't need one on this one because this one is leaning over in this direction so that looks good to me i am going to be using my small brush for the next step and i really mean small brush so you can get that out and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our stem and our leaves by putting the highlights on them and any little modifications that you want as well so i'm going to be using my small brush the colors that i'm going to be using are white yellow green and i'm also going to use a little bit of red and if i need to i can go into the brown and the black as well so almost every color on my palette so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to first just start by making myself what i'm going to call a orangey rusty kind of color so i'm going to use a little bit of yellow a touch of red and a touch of brown and i'm going to be using this as a nice almost a more natural reddish kind of tone at the tips of these leaves because when i was looking at them in my in my my flower research it seems like a lot of them had almost brownish orangy tips to the leaves so that's what i'm going to do so i've made myself this little orange kind of mixture and then what i'm going to do with it i'm going to pick it up with a tiny bit of white and a tiny bit of yellow so i've got all three of those a little bit on my brush at the same time and i'm going to add this really bright little bit of a highlight on the on the tips of them and you can make this as intense or as subtle as you want it's totally up to you i'm going to do that for this little tip over here as well and it's really just a subtle almost adds a little bit more of again that natural color to it i so you can do it on the tips i'm also going to do it a little bit in this area in this knuckley kind of area so something in through here and then just pull it up into that particular leaf a little bit i am also going to put some at the base of my bell area up in through here and again you can see by just adding this little hint of it it really just brings it into a nice natural type of color profile so now i'm going to pick up a little bit of i don't wash my brush yellow and white and this is going to start telling the story of where all of my sunshine is kissing my my beautiful leaves in through here so it can really be super intense if you want you can have it on either edge of that that leaf that's going to make the leaf look like it's almost in a cup type formation so have fun with where where you put this particular highlight area you want to kind of make it look natural so you don't want it too sporadic but i'm thinking my my light is my light source is pretty high up in the sky so maybe some areas are being some areas of my leaves are being shadowed by the petals of the flower or by a cloud in the sky but i'm really trying to put some beautiful summertime atmospheric dimension onto my onto my leaves by adding all of this sunshine especially at the top so yellow and white i do pick up a little bit of green every now and again just to make sure that i don't turn it too too out of out of the the correct color palette i think i'm going to add a touch of yellow and white down this down this little edge in through here so you can really just kiss these little tiny spots along the edges just to make it look like the you know mother nature is making this plant come to life this flower come to life with all the sunshine i don't know what the proper vitamin vitamin c does that come from vitamin d i don't know whatever whatever vitamin comes from the sun is definitely helping to make this beautiful plant grow [Music] so really you know make sure that you can see that sunshine all on this leaf and then you can keep tweaking it as much as you want to uh but we are i'm going to be switching brushes to the medium brush for the next step so once you have all of your beautiful highlights on your leaves you can put this small brush away in your water cup take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're adding the color inside the center of the flower so these flowers come in a variety of different shades some of them can have a greenish hue some of them kind of have a yellow hue uh i'm and i'm sure there's other colors too but those were the two main colors that i saw so what i'm going to do is i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm using a tiny bit of my yellow paint and you could in this step if your canvas is nice and dry you could certainly water down your paint a little bit but yellow is going to tend to be really nice and see-through so or translucent so you're going to be able to see the colors underneath it and i don't want it all to be a hundred percent saturated with this color so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to put a little bit on in through here and then just almost rub it in the direction of where i feel that that flower petal is going and again you could have yours more intense if you wanted you could add a little bit of white to it to give different uh tones but the white is gonna make it less see-through so you might have a little bit harder of a time keeping that shadowing in through there but you could i guess add a little white before you started putting it on the on the canvas itself and that really is all i'm going to be doing for adding my color on the inside of the flower i'm going to be using my small brush for the next step so once you've done that you can get your small brush ready and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer on our ladybug so i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using red brown and black and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to do my shell with red and brown on my brush at the same time and the reason why i'm using brown is because i want my shell to have a kind of a shiny shimmery look to it and by using the brown with the red first it's going to give it a nice almost a deep a deeper darker red so when i do the hot when i do the second layer on it i'll use a vibrant red which will give it kind of like a shimmery type look so how i'm going to do this i'm going to have mine kind of crawling up my stem in through this area i'm going to have my body or my shell part is going to be just a little bit away from this leaf here and i'm going to keep it about a quarter of an inch or an eighth of an inch away from my stem itself and then i'm going to just kind of make myself a little bit of a diagonal line that is similar to my my stem itself and then i'm just going to make myself the top of an oval for the the top part of the shell and then i'm going to just color it in with my red and brown there's no fancy brush stroke here you just want to get a layer of paint on there and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of black this is going to be for the the head part so all i'm going to do here is i'm going to start a little bit up on the left side and i'm going to bring this down in through this area like this and then it comes down almost touches my my stem and then i just bring it back up like that i'm going to color that in with black paint and then i'm going to underline the bottom part of the shell with black paint and if you can if you have it a little bit thicker where it meets the head and a little bit thinner where it meets the back side of the ladybug that will make it look a little bit more natural and fun fact i don't think ladybugs are actually bugs i think they're beetles so they come in different colors too we're just going to do we're doing the traditional the traditional looking little ladybug here so here we go i am just kind of making a slender line and it doesn't even have to go all the way to the back to the back of the shell and that's all i'm going to do for the first step on my ladybug so once you have this on here let's see we are going to be using the medium brush for the next step so you can put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing the main petals in through here i'm going to be using my medium brush and my dominant color is going to be white but i will also be tapping into my original gray and if i need to i can certainly go into my brown or my black if i if i want to this depending on the thickness of your paint may be a multi-layer type step if your paint is thicker you might be able to get it on in one coat if your paint is thinner like mine is i use a student grade paint which is really nice and thin that allows me to do layers you may end up doing multiple layers so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be using white as my highlight color but it's also going to be telling the viewer where each petal bends so this one for instance the brightest part is going to be right in through here because that's going to be the part that's closest to the light source wherever that may be it's going to be high up in the sky i'm assuming so and it's the part of the petal that bumps out the most so this area is going to be the lightest in through this petal here my petal is kind of tipping over so this entire top area can be bright or and or if i want my petal to look like it dips in in the middle i can have the edges lighter so same thing with this one over here i probably will have because this one's tipped over too i'll have the top pretty light but if i want it to look like there's a dip in the middle i'll have it a little bit darker this one i'll probably have light here darker here maybe i'll have a little edge brighter over here so you'll see how i go through this it's pretty systematic in my head how i do it but you might end up finding a little bit different of a process so here i go i just loaded my brush with white paint and i'm going to put my lightest or my heaviest white paint where i want it the brightest so for this particular petal i'm going to have it in through here and if you are not comfortable with blending your paint yet if you're kind of new to this i do recommend maybe less is more on a step like this less paint on your brush gives you more control over how you can apply it so for me i'm pretty comfortable with with quantity of paint and stuff so i did use quite a bit but right now i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel because i want this paint to blend into these darker areas so i'm just kind of pulling the wet edges down in through here and i will be picking up a little bit of my original gray in a minute but i just want to kind of get my highlight area where i want it to be first so there's my highlight area i'm picking up a little bit of my original gray to get these to really work together these particular petals also have i don't know if it's called a a seam or a vein or something down the middle of them down the center of them so if you end up having them almost look kind of stripey that works because this particular flower has that type of look to it and again i'm just kind of moving and manipulating my lightest area as it's drying just to give myself this dimensional look to it and again you might need multiple layers you might get it all on one shot but you can really see how this is taking on some nice dimensional shape as this paint is getting spread around and it's starting to i'm giving it these directional kind of brush strokes and i'm hardly at times touching my canvas at all so that way i can just lightly manipulate the the paint so that one's pretty good for now i'm going to just kind of keep moving on to the next ones and i might come back to this one before i am finished with this step to do any little tweaks that i might need to so again i've got kind of a good amount of white paint on my brush to tell myself where i want the brightest area of that particular petal to go so for me i know that it's kind of tipping over the edge so i've got my brightest white in through there and then i can certainly load more paint up more white paint on my brush if i want to but i want this to kind of look like it's dipping in through here so i'm actually going to put a little bit of white and my original gray so that way it's kind of a tonal range in between my bright stuff and my dark stuff so you can certainly play with with that as well and then i'm just going to kind of pull a couple of these little streaks into the middle and then just make sure that it all blends as much as i want it to blend and again i'm pretty happy with this one at the moment i might come back to it on a on a second pass but i'm going to go ahead and start the next one with some white paint on my brush i think i want that edge to be pretty bright but i think i also want in through here to have a pretty bright area to it so just got some white paint on there making and you can have little dip little parts of the the petal that that dip in that might not be as bright as your brightest part that you want so again telling the or not telling but the intensity of these highlights really helps to give your petal shape it helps to tell the viewer where where it bends where the light source is i think i'm going to pick up some of my original gray just to get these to blend in with one another so you can see as soon as i pick up that original gray i don't wash my brush very often i'm a very lazy brush washer for those of you who have watched me before um i like my all of my colors to talk together and sometimes just not washing my brush really helps to to to do that so again i'm pretty happy with this right here i think i might just add a little bit more so the paint is a little smoother looking and even just adding a little curve in your brush stroke as you're as you're doing this will also help to tell the viewer you know maybe this is bumping out a little bit so any little bit of information that you can have your paint convey that's going to help to bring this into a more realistic look as opposed to a two-dimensional look but two-dimensional isn't isn't a bad thing to have when we're painting that can be quite fun too so this one here again i'm going to just start with some white paint on my brush i really want my lightest area to be in through here so this is going to be the part where my where my petal bumps out the most and i think this one i'm going to have a little edge to my petal over here that's gonna almost look like this this edge is the closest to us and maybe it's got a little ripple over there and getting the colors to to blend with each other that's going to make it look a lot more natural too so that's where you see i i kind of put that that bright spot where i want it and then i will blend it out into the neighboring areas and then in through this edge here maybe i'll pick up a little bit of my original gray without washing my brush so it's going to be my gray plus my white and all the while i am thinking of how this particular petal is bending so that's that's where my that's where my brush stroke is going to go to and i definitely want to make sure that it all talks to that center area as well i don't want anything to feel like it's disconnected so that's where if you need to you can go back into your original colors just to make sure that you've got whatever intensity that you want in that center so again can go on to my next one i think this one my brightest area i think i want this one in through here maybe it wherever i have this little bump up area that to me is telling me it should be should be pretty bright and through there so maybe this is going to have a couple of bright areas maybe this is going to be one of our focal leaves nice and close to us and we're going to feel like it's got tons of movement to it and you know maybe this one's in front of that one so i can put a little bit lighter of an area there picking up my original gray to make sure that i've got a nice blended area in through here and because i'm using more the gray down here it'll make it look almost like it's dipped in a little bit but you want to make sure that you have a nice good coverage that you don't see any of your background underneath your paint by the time this step is done so again you might find that you have to go back and do a second layer on it depending on what type of paint that you're using but just know that you want to have good coverage you can make these these petals seem really dimensional just by adding those light spots and the dark spots and making those paint strokes in the direction that the leaf or the petal is moving or going to so i'm going to move on to this one i think my light area is going to be in through here so we're going to add a bunch of white paint in through there and just kind of move it around make that my brightest area i do want this area to be bright too but i want it to maybe dip in a little bit in through here so i'm going to add a bunch of white up and through here as well and then maybe i'll put a little bit of my original gray in through here just so they can they can talk to each other but they still have a little bit of that tonal change to show that it dips in a little bit and again you know if you haven't done this type of process before it might take a couple of layers to get used to but the the main thing is you want it really the brightest where it's closest to the viewer and where the sunshine is hitting it the most so i'm just kind of finishing up this last little petal here i want this to you know look like it's bumping out over here and then maybe we see a little bit of uh of a crease or a bump out down here and i might quickly go and do a second layer on you know do a second pass but that's going to be you know kind of a personal decision on your part if you if you get through this this first pass and you're like oh they really look they look great i don't feel like i need to do a second pass and then you're good but just kind of think of that first layer that we did or the first step or two that we did on the painting where we did the background and when we put that second layer on it it just elevated the look of it so much more so if you feel like you're you're good by all means stop but if you do want it to kind of be brought into an even you know further realistic realm you might be you know it might behoove you to do a second layer on it even here like i can see that that's kind of chunky looking in through here so i would definitely come back and do a second pass on this one and i'm probably just going to do a quick second pass on all of them because that's that's the way that i roll so i just do my white again and then um pick up a little bit of my original gray just to make sure it looks nice and complete and i've got but you know it's saying everything that i want it to say so again have fun with this i'm going to just kind of keep tweaking this here and making sure i've got all of my edges and my bright spots to pop the way that i want them to and then let's see what are we gonna do for the next step oh we're gonna be doing a fun cute little step we're gonna uh use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful petals all nice and and finished in through here and you can see i'm just kind of plugging away doing the same thing on each one this with with a second pass to it uh once you've got this done you can put your medium brush away in your water cup yeah these ones are pretty good and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're adding our highlight on this little bell area so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using white and yellow and probably a little bit of brown and maybe my little my original gray so i'm going to start with a touch of a white on my brush and i'm going to have my highlight over in this area because i want it to look three-dimensional and this is going to be the area that's going to pop out the most so i'm going to add a little bit over here on the right hand side maybe bring this all the way up into here like the sun is shining in there somewhere i'm gonna pick up just a teeny bit of what uh yellow with my original gray i did not wash my brush and i'm going to get this to blend in a little bit and you again you can have this as intense as you want or as subtle as you want but definitely you want to have this area a little bit darker so it gives it that three-dimensional aspect to it and this area to be lighter and then i think i need a little bit of black on my brush just to make sure that i'm blending it in with that shadowy area so i just i felt like i brought it a little bit too bright so i had to go back into my original colors so i'm just making sure that i've got this nice and blended and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful highlight on your bell area you can wash and dry the small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the stems to these colorful things that come out the center i think they're called stamens but i'm probably wrong i'm sure somebody will will check me on that one but the the little long things that are coming out the center so the colors i'm going to be using are brown and white i'm going to use my small brush and i'm first going to do them with brown they don't need to come straight out in you know a very straight line they can have a little bit of a bend but they have to be coming out of the bell so when i do this you know i can have you know maybe one coming up like that i'm doing them in brown first and then what i'll do is i'm gonna do a little bit of a highlight or a second kind of color to them with white and they oops it's nice when the instructor says oops right you can have as many as you want i'm just going to have kind of an assortment they can overlap one another think of them you know like stems or branches on a tree they don't have to be perfect but again they you want them to make sure that they read as they're coming out of here and not like out of here so just be conscious of where you're kind of bringing them out from that center area i know for me it's been a little bit tricky when doing this painting i want to have them come out over here and that's not where they want they should be coming out of so i'm going to do something like that i think that's as many as i'm going to do now i'm not washing my brush i'm just picking up a touch of white and i'm going to do a little bit of a highlight on that stem part of these so something like this and this is just helping it to stand out i think these are actually mostly a really light color if you look at the actual flower itself so the brown is really just acting as kind of our accent or our shadow type color and then we're going to be once we've got this on here we will be using our our medium brush for the next step so once you've got this nice areas for these fun colorful stem little pollen pieces out the center you can put the small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we're using our medium brush we're going to put the colored part or the first layer of the colored part on those stems that you just did so the colored part on the pollen things the pollen stamen things so what i'm going to use is i'm going to use that rusty color that we made earlier if you don't have any left you can certainly just kind of blend it back together so it was red yellow and brown some kind of combination thereof and i'm going to use quite a bit of it and i these almost look like little lady slipper type shapes to me almost like little beans so i'm gonna just take this color and do it in different directions maybe about an inch to an inch and a half long the stem of them is not at the end it's kind of in the middle of it so they can go in different directions they can be you know standing up they can go to the side they can have a little bit of curve to them and again i think it kind of depends on what type of variety of lily it is but they do come in different colors some of them are almost like a maroon type color some of them are purpley these particular ones are very orangey kind of yellow color so you know if you want to incorporate a different color into yours feel free to do so i think that looks pretty good so we're going to be using our small brush oh if you don't get perfect coverage don't worry we have another layer to go but we're going to be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got this colored part on you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're gonna do for the next step is we're finishing our ladybug i'm gonna use my small brush the colors that i'm using are red yellow white and black yeah i don't think i think that's all the colors i'm going to use so i'm going to start with red and yellow on my brush and i'm doing my second coat for my actual shell part of the ladybug and because we have that dark color underneath you might not be able to detect this from the video but when you do it on your own you'll see how that dark layer underneath really helps to make this almost three-dimensional because you can get those pops of of darkness under there and it looks really pretty so now that i've got my layer of red on there what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a little bit of a highlight on the edge of the shell the bottom edge so i'm going to put i didn't wash my brush i'm just going to put a little bit of yellow and white on my brush and i'm going to come down to this bottom little edge wiped my brush off on my paper towel picked up a little bit more yellow because it was too too white for me and just kind of pull this towards the towards the back end it doesn't have to be a solid line just think of it as maybe the edge of the of the shell is being you know kissed by the sun that's you know the best way that i can the best way that i can put it and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a tiny bit of a highlight on the top edge of that shell so just a little bit of yellow and if you need to a little white but just a teeny tiny bit of a highlight up in through here again that's gonna add the illusion of it being round and i'm not using a lot of paint because i really want it to kind of dry quick but if yours doesn't dry quick enough for you that's okay you can you know you can wait but i i want to do my black marks in a minute so i i'm not using a ton of paint i'm going to wash and dry my little brush and i'm going to be adding my tiny little legs in antennas so teeny tiny bit of black paint if you have to you can water down your black paint a little bit to make it like an ink consistency and you can also take your brush and spin it on the side of your palette you just really want to make sure that you have a nice pointy brush to do this and i from my ladybag my ladybug research i think that they have six legs and two antennas so how i'm gonna do this is i'm just gonna kind of put maybe just one on this side of the of the stem the flower stem and then one on the other so there's one set here's another set and then maybe this set goes forward like this one there and one there and then the little antenna come out i think the bottom of the face somewhere in here so one two and i think you can put a little tiny ball on the end of the the antennas and and that would that would work and then while i have the black on my brush i'm going to go ahead and add a couple of polka dots on my on my little ladybug the black will overpower any any color that it's underneath except for white so if you have a lot of white it might turn a bit gray so that's why if it's if it's not dry the shell you can just wait a minute and if it is a little wet maybe that top ends up looking a little bit lighter which will really look great it'll make it have more of a three-dimensional look to it and have as many spots as you want all ladybugs come with different a different number of spots then i'm going to wash and dry my brush and put a little bit of white on my brush this is going to add whenever i'm doing bugs or beetles it always resembles like armor to me so we're gonna put the ladybugs armor on right now so they've got some kind of little let me just make sure my brush is pointy enough here that's good this little kind of white area up at the top and through here there's maybe a little stripe down there maybe a little bit on the head and you know it i don't know the exact perfect markings but you could certainly have fun with however you want to put your armor on your ladybug and then i'm going to put a tiny little shadow underneath it so i'm going to wash and dry that small brush and put a touch of black on my brush and if you're scared of the black just make sure that you're wiping it off on your paper towel i just really want there to look like there's a little bit of a shadow underneath it you might already your stem might already be dark under there but if it's not you can add a touch of a shadow and that'll make it look a little bit more realistic and then let's see what are we going to do next we are going to be switching back to our medium brush so once you've got your ladybug all nice and perfectly placed here and you've got a little bit of a shadow underneath it you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step okey doke so what we're gonna do for the next step is we're finishing the colored part of these things that come out the center of the flower the stemi things so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using yellow is going to be my dominant color and a little bit of white as well and i'm really just going to be adding polka dots but i don't want to take away from all the dark color that's in essence there to add dimension and to to bring this color into a more realistic realm so i'm just going to take my yellow and white and add a little bit in through there and i'm using pretty heavy thick paint right now and i'm not blending it in i just am adding these textural kind of polka dots and the white definitely is going to help to make it look more three-dimensional so feel free to just have fun with this particular step get them to pop right out of the canvas which i feel like mine are which makes me so happy when that happens so now that i've got this done almost i've got two more little ones to give and then we have one tiny little step left to go so once you've got these colored pieces all nice and painted in here you can take out your small brush yeah that looks great and get ready for the next step all right so this last step here is intended to make your petals just really pop out of your canvas it's a really subtle step i'm going to be using my small brush and what i'm going to be doing is in essence kind of adding a teeny tiny bit of a shadow underneath or around some of these petals and that's going to make it pop right out of the canvas so it might not even be something that most people can detect by looking at it but once you do it you'll see what i'm talking about so i'm going to add a touch of brown and a little bit of black and again with my small brush if you feel that that's too scary you can add a touch of water to it and that's going to help you to add it at your own pace uh in a in a slow type fashion so if you get nervous because it's black that will help so i'm just kind of going to go along the edge of some of my petals it doesn't even have to be along the entire edge you can do brown you can do black if you want something to pop out just put a teeny tiny little bit of this darker color right along the edge i suppose you could even use if you have a lot of purple in your background you could use you know your purple you could use your blue if you know any any color that is a little bit darker than that background is going to help make these stand right out of the canvas so i'm not going to do it too intense on them and if you feel like you've gone too far you can certainly come back make your petal grow a little bit with a little bit wider oven edge but this could also help to in between your your lead or your petals to make them look like they're separated a little bit if you need them to be i think i want to put a little bit around this edge in through here get this one to pop out just a little bit more and again if you feel like you've gone too far you can certainly come back with a little bit of white but i like the effect that this gives it's always something that is just a very subtle thing that helps to add that little that little punch or that little added added intensity to it and that's going to do it on that step for me and we have one final little step that's going to be with that small brush so once you've got these little outlines on and your petals are popping right off your canvas you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we are on to the final step this is the final step of any painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i think i'm gonna sign this one in the bottom left i'm using my small brush i'm using black paint i usually do my initials but you could certainly do your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like it's your painting your identifying mark and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoy the process i hope you painted yourself a really lovely lily and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 81min 34sec (4894 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020