How to paint loose Tulips in watercolor - Day 3

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. Today we are doing the tulip for day three of our 30 days of watercolor flowers. Now let me tell you, I struggled with this. After many failed attempts, I actually got my own watercolor book out and looked up tulips to remember how to paint them because I had a massive brain freeze when it came to tulips, but I remember now. And I think there's a good lesson in there somewhere that, you know, even when you're painting a watercolor tutorial, you still might not know what you're doing and you have to remind yourself and everything will turn out good. So back to the tutorial. With tulips, the petals are really layered, especially along the front. So we're going to do some strokes that have white space to give that illusion of those layered petals. So you see here, I do a big stroke, white space, two more strokes, leaving white space. And then along the top, we want to give that illusion that there are petals behind those front petals. But again, we need to keep the white space so that we can see the separation between the petals. So in this one, I did the white space on the side, on the right side to switch it up. And then I did the petals across the top. And what helps connect that is you do those petals and then you bring it down on the right side so that everything looks connected and like it's one connected flower, but that you see the dimension between the front petals and the back petals and the layered petals. Tulips don't have a lot of color variations, so I like to add a little bit of darker pigment of the same color that I'm using along the and kind of inside where the petals on the back of the flower would be going down into the flower. Again, this just adds interest and not something you have to do, but it helps the flower not look so flat. Tulips have long, smooth, pretty straight stems. If they do bend, you know, it's a very nice gradual curve. We've seen tulips that kind of are, you know, wilting or they start to fall. There's not a whole lot of variation in the stem, just a nice simple curve if you decide to curve it. Tulip leaves are all about pressure, so when you're doing the base or the tip of the leaf, you're going to be doing that light pressure. But tulip leaves are really long and mostly thick, so the majority of your stroke is going to be a lot of pressure put down on your bristles to create that big, thick leaf, just like that, and then bringing the pressure off to connect to the bottom. So I added a lot of leaves. I really liked the look of it kind of crowded in, which just reminds me of any time I've ever had tulips in my home. And then also I wanted to touch down onto the tulips with the green to create some nice bleeding, blooming moments, which in my opinion makes loose watercolor amazing. That's my favorite part about it, so I always look for some kind of a bleeding moment, but you don't have to. Now that we've practiced our tulips, I am adding them to my watercolor flower guide, and you can again do these in any color that you want. Add one, add two, add three. I just really want to make sure I get a lot of good variation in color, and I really like how the leaves are interacting with the different boxes. But thank you guys so much for being here today for day three tulips. I will see you tomorrow for day four. I hope you all have a fantastic day. Bye!