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Watercolor Flowers Easy Video Tutorial
Simple flowers are so much fun to paint and relaxing. I love painting these over and over again and find them super satisfying to paint. Not just spring, any day is the perfect time for this Watercolor Flowers Easy Tutorial!
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Supplies used:
Here are the supplies I have used in the video below:
- Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors, 36-Color Set
- Princeton Artist Brush Neptune, Brushes for Watercolor Series Size 6
- Canson XL Series Watercolor Paper 140 Pound, 9 x 12 Inch, 30 Sheets
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In this Rainbow floral watercolor example I used the Camel Artist’s Watercolor cakes, watch the video here
Hi I’m Smitha! I live in Minnesota with my husband and two daughters. You’ll always find me painting florals in my sketchbook. And I love the sheer joy of making something with just my hands! But my bigger love is capturing it all on camera Read more.
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Dreamy Watercolor Flowers
I’ve been down with bad flu and haven’t been able to blog for the past week. But now I have recovered and continue the spring blog post series, where I go through techniques and themes that have been important in my artistic development. This week the topic is watercolors, flowers, and expressing dreaminess.
Flower is a popular subject in art and I also like painting flowers very much. I don’t use models, I paint abstract shapes that look like flowers.
What Makes a Flower Dreamy?
In 2019, I painted a lot of flower-themed watercolors and then I thought about what flowers are all about for me.
The species of flower is not important to me. I often paint flowers that have no real equivalent. For me, the interesting thing about flowers is their relationship with light.
Without light, there are no flowers. The light continues the flower and makes it bigger and more beautiful.
When you paint light, dreamy watercolor flowers grow into the picture as if by themselves.
In ProCreate, it’s easy to zoom in and out, pick colors, and change brushes. Apple Pencil is also surprisingly pleasant to work with.
In real watercolors, splashing water more fun, but maintaining lightness is more challenging, especially when you only use the whiteness of the paper.
Then you start with light layers and gradually add color. It’s surprising how much you can fix and fine-tune the details when working this way.
Dreamy Flowers by the Water
Another important element is water. That’s why flowers and watercolors go well together. Light, water, and flowers are a refreshing combination. I try to bring the element of water into the picture in one way or another.
I used to paint a lot of vases, but nowadays flowers grow more freely near water.
I think that when a plant blooms, it dreams – just like we do when we make art!
Floral Fantasies – Paint Dreamy Watercolor Flowers!
For all flower lovers, I have a flower painting course Floral Fantasies, from which the watercolor part can also be purchased separately.
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2 thoughts on “ Dreamy Watercolor Flowers ”
Tammie Lee says:
your paintings are so beautiful.
i feel as though i am looking at not only flowers but the spirit of flowers.
lively and heart altering.
Päivi says:
Thanks so much, Tammie! Bringing up the spirit is what I want to achieve so I am glad if that’s the impression that you got!
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