This is the easiest watercolor flower you’ll ever paint

Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. I took a little bit of a break but I am so happy to be back today and share with you this easy watercolor flower tutorial. Now we are going to use Arches 140 pound cold press watercolor paper, Winsor & Newton professional paints, and my favorite Polina Bright brush. You can check out the description below for a discount code for the perfect brushes. You guys, perfect. So you're going to want to start with a very highly concentrated color, not too watery, not too pigmented, just a really good medium consistency, and then you're going to place dots in a circle on your paper. Now they can be spread far apart, they can be really close, they can be big, they can be small, but you're just going to place the dots and then rinse your brush. After you rinse your brush you're going to use the water to pull the pigment from each dot out into a petal shape. Now your petal can be any shape that you want. For these particular type of flowers I'm doing kind of a triangular shape with a more rounded edge for the edge of the petals, and just keeping it really simple and really light. And that is it! It's the easiest watercolor flower you will ever paint. And so I'm going to go through and show you from this top view how I do it again, and really depending on the amount of pigment that each of your little dots has, the amount of water that you have on your brush, and whether or not you rinse your brush between every single dot, or if you just continue to take the pigment that has gathered on the brush to each new consecutive dot, that will determine how each of your flowers look. So you can see that this flower is a little bit lighter, and that's because my dots were a little bit more concentrated in pigment, so they dried harder line on the paper, and then I used more water, and so they just ended up being a lighter petal. And in this one I have a watery pigment for the dots, and so the pigment flows a little bit more out into the petals, and it makes a more concentrated petal. So there's benefits to both, it just depends on how you want your flower to look, but really you can do so many things to mix this up while still using this same technique. One of the reasons why this technique is so helpful is all about visualization. Sometimes when we're painting flowers, it's really hard to determine where are these petals going. If I start painting a petal, I might not evenly space them out, and so this really helps give you a guide of where all your petals are going to be, and how far apart they need to be spaced, so that it looks appealing to Now that we have our little grouping of flowers, we get to add the leaves. I'm keeping them super simple. I'm doing two different types of leaves. This first leaf is what I call the two-stroke method, where you use the tip of the brush, and then you push down on the body of the brush to create the shape of the leaf, and then come to the tip of your brush at the very end. And you do two strokes with kind of a little center in the middle to represent the vein of the leaf. I also did a couple of smaller leaves in this piece that I am just using the exact shape of the brush to create those leaves, so that makes it really easy to paint leaves, especially with this beautiful brush. Now we get to paint the centers of our flowers, and I'm using a bright lemon yellow so that it really pops and contrasts against this pink. You can add the yellow center before the flowers are totally dry to get a really nice bleeding effect as the yellow blends into the petals, but for this one I just waited until the flowers were totally dry to get that beautiful nice contrast between the yellow and the dark pink. And then once the yellow, the bright yellow, is dry I'm going through with a yellow ochre color and adding kind of a shadow and a dark accent just along one side, and this really helps bring everything together. It helps it pop, brings a lot of dimension, and finishes off the piece very nicely. And that is it! So let me know in the comments below what you think, because I am pretty sure this is the easiest flower I have ever painted, and I will see you all next time. Bye!