PAINTING TUTORIAL Acrylic Rose Techniques | Katie Jobling Art

Hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me today for another tutorial. So today we're going to do a rose painting and lots and lots of you have requested this. So last time we did this peony which is behind me. I'm going to put a link to that in the video somewhere now so if you've not seen that already you can also check that out. To follow along with the tutorial you will need to upload the picture which we're going to be using as a reference. So if you just look in the description box below you'll be able to find the link to the image. Open this up in a different screen and so you can keep looking back at it while we're doing the painting. All the different art materials I'm going to use I'm going to pop in the description box below so if you're not sure on what colour it is or where you can buy that from pop in the description box below and you can see a full list of everything I've used today. Thanks so much everybody and I really hope you enjoy the tutorial. Okay so first of all we're just going to map out a flower. Get a bit of your pink and we're just going to draw that in. The benefit of doing this is that if you just focus on one area at a time and sort of move through the painting sometimes you can get to the end of it and realise you've not left yourself enough room on the canvas. So this is why I just like to block in slightly just to give my brain an idea of where things are going to go. And it just sets you up nicely for the rest of the painting. Sometimes I think that roses, if you draw a circle at the top like we have here draw it out into a sort of bell shape and then it's got wings. It looks like a kind of a jar with wings I always think. So now that we've just sketched that out very very roughly we can start to fill in the areas. First of all we're going to fill in this bottom area. So get a bit of pink and a bit of the dark green and just mix them together. So we're just going to add that in at the bottom here. Don't be too worried about shapes and things like that because we're going to focus on that a bit later. We're just getting in the base colours. So add a bit of white to that and a bit more pink. You get this really strong bright colour. And then just fill in that top circle a bit more with that. And then if you add a little more white we can start to bring that down into the body of the rose. Right that's great. So what we're going to be doing with the pinks and greens we're going to be using the opposite colour to bring down the tone. So pink and green are opposites. So we're going to get some pink like we have already and now we're going to add some of this middle green which is the opposite colour. And as we blend it can you see it makes more of a grey colour. So this is a great alternative to just adding black to a colour because it makes it much more dynamic and it brings the painting to life a lot more. If you add black to a painting it tends to just dampen it and make it look a bit sad really. So if we do that it makes this gorgeous grey colour and we can just start to fill in that bottom of the rose again and if we bring it up to the side a little bit. Make sure you keep looking at your reference photo and then back at your painting just to make sure that it sort of matches it you know. Be able to spot the difference. Okay so then we're going to add a bit more of the green to this colour. Oh I've added quite a lot there. And we're going to move into this petal down here now. So then add a bit of white to that. And then fill in this upper section of the petal. Okay and then we want to add white again. And bring that up here. And then add a bit more pink and a bit more white. And then we just want to bring that petal here. As I say don't worry too much at this stage. We're really just blocking colours in to give our brain little indications of where things are going to go. Okay now we're going to move on to this section down here. So if we grab that same colour and just start filling in this section. The reason why I kind of haphazardly put paint on the canvas is because I like a lot of layers. So rather than carefully do this process there's no point mixing perfect colours and perfect shapes and then just painting over it again to get that sort of texture of the canvas. So this is why at this point I just lay down the basic colours and shapes. Okay the formation of the rose is starting to come together a little bit. So give your brush a really good wash. And I might even change my water. Okay so next we're going to start adding the background. Now in the image you can see it's quite dark and I think that's going to be a really nice mixture with the bright white on the petals. So I'm going to recreate that colour now using this really dark green that I just need to get a bit more of. I'm going to grab some of this dark green here and a little bit of the Payne's Grey. And I'm just going to start blocking in that shape. So as we're making the shape of the rose here we kind of need to keep referring back to the reference image to see where these outlines go. And sometimes this is the point where a lot of people give up and think they can't do it because it looks like a child's drawing. But the key is just to keep going and keep working on it. Don't worry about things like the stalk for now. I can pop that in in a bit. Try to only add a bit of water if you really, really need it for the movement on the canvas as well. Because you're going to get more texture the less water you use. Okay, I'm just going to do my sides. And then give your brush a really, really good wash. And it's at this point where we just have to ignore what we can see at the minute because it doesn't look good. But we're going to carry on and it's going to look brilliant. I'm telling you now. You've just got to trust me. Okay, so next we're going to add in some more layers. So we're going to grab some pink straight out of the tube and we're going to pop in those really, really bright pinks that we can see on the reference photo. It's basically this whole circular shape but then it also comes down here a bit as well. So now we're going to start adding in a few more of the petals. So if we grab some more pink and just add it to this white section that we had before. And there's a petal coming out here that you can see. So we just want to carry this pink section over to there and then that kind of comes down there. And we've got one that comes up here. And this is where it starts to turn into a rose at this point. You can sort of see it happening. Just keep adding these different petals. Try not to think of them as petals as well. Try and think of them as lines and shapes that you can see. Because as soon as we think about it being a petal we add our own idea of what a petal is onto this image when that might not be what the actual image is telling us. So I think I'm now going to switch to a smaller brush because this one is a little bit big for this. It doesn't really matter which brush you use. It's up to your personal preference. I'm going to use a bit of a softer one this time. I think now we need to start adding a few more of the white bits. So I'm going to focus on these outer petals a bit more now. So we want to get some of our white and our middle green and we want to add just a bit of pink here just to tone down that green colour. We need a lot more white. Until you get the right colour that you're looking for. I think that's about right. So I'm just going to start pasting it in here. Don't worry if yours is starting to look slightly different. That's the good thing about art is that it doesn't matter. And if it doesn't work out the way you want, just call it abstract. Okay, so that's sort of taking shape. I'm just going to make that colour again because it was quite a good colour for the petals. In fact, I'm going to make that same colour but just slightly duller and I'm going to use it for this petal down here. Okay, so I'm going to add a bit more pink to that. A bit more white. I'm going to add that in here now. I'm also going to start pasting in the colour from this one which is a very, very similar colour. Another good thing is when you've got a certain colour on your palette when you finish doing the bit you want to do it's good to look for other areas of that painting that have that colour in. So I'm just going to do that now. What that does is it stops wasting paint which is obviously good because it's expensive. But also you find that by the time you've done that with every colour you've made by the end of the painting you've got so many more different colours in it so it really looks more professional. I'm just using it to blend in parts of pink where I can see a bit more of a pinky colour. Okay, I think that's enough. Now I give the brush a wash. I'm going to add in the stork down here. I'm going to start off with some of this dark, dark green and just figure out where I want it first. I want it to come down here. Then take some Payne's Grey and you can see on the stork down one side of it is pretty black so we're just going to drag that down that side and then wash your brush. Then get some of your bright green and then just paste that down the other side. We'll go back into that later but I'm just going to use my brush to go down once just to blend those colours together a bit. I'm also going to pop in that leaf so I'm going to get some of my middle green and just pop that in there. As you can see it's got a bit of white around the edge so I'm just going to get a bit of white and just pop that there. There's a dark area here that I've not popped in so I'm going to get some of the dark green some of the dark pink, bright pink should I say mix it until it's more green than pink and then I'm just going to pop that in there and then I'm going to blend it out because it's a shadow. I think I need to let mine sit and dry for a bit now. Next I'm going to use this colour that we had before so it's a mixture of pink, middle green and white. It's quite a whitish colour but it's just an off-white just a little bit and I'm just going to start putting in some of the lighter areas that we can see so I'm going to go around the petal like we did with the peony and then we're going to drag that in. This is a great technique to use for a lot of flowers because a lot of petals have this effect. Sometimes it's the other way dark to light or light to dark but this makes it look really smooth and soft. So I'm going to get that same colour and I'm going to go around these edges. So I'm going to get some just pure white because I can see that this is the brightest bit here. I'm just going to blend that in and I'm just going to get that off-white colour again and just bring this petal round here and I'm just going to drag that down a bit. Not all the way but just a little bit down here like we can see. To blend I just scuff all my brush very lightly and wash it out very well. Next I can see a bit of a bright area that I'm not really keen on. It's putting me off a little bit so I'm going to get some pink, dark green and mix until you get a dark grey colour and add a teeny bit of white and then I'm just going to drag it up a bit. Other places I can see this colour while we've got it here is it's quite significantly in this area and put it in down there and then again I'm just going to go over this bit again and then this colour kind of comes up to there which I'm just going to blend out. It's also slightly down here but only a tiny bit just to build the shape and I can see it on the tip of this petal just like that. Now I think we need to start focusing on the centre of the rose so again I'm going to get some of the pink straight out the tube and I'm going to put it in even more on the places that I can really see it visibly because now we've got a bit more shape to the rose it's easier to see where certain colours are and then if you want to blend it out just wash your brush because it's quite a strong colour and then use your brush to blend once it's clean. So now what we're going to do is we're going to get some pink and a bit of white just so it's lighter than this so we can start building the centre of the rose. So I'm going to pop this petal in again because it's kind of got lost along with the laser paint and I just keep looking at my reference photo and just basically light spot the difference and don't worry if you go a bit wrong or just make a few of your own petals because that's fine no one's going to know. I kind of get so far and then I kind of just start making them up because I get so lost. I'm also going to get that colour that we've just been using and I'm just going to bring it down to the body a bit and blend it in and any areas that we can see in the painting. It may have been that we've already put it in that area but it's just got blended out with the different layers so we can just keep popping that back in. And then give your brush a wash. So I'm going to get some white and just add it to this greyish pink colour we've got here and I'm just going to pop in this petal right at the top because it's quite translucent and I'm just going to outline some of the petals that we've just done and ever, ever so slightly, not much just drag those down a very small bit. If you can't bother to wash your brush and you want to blend it in you can also use your finger. You should really wear gloves if you're going to do that lots though. I'm going to make sort of a light green colour so I'm going to get some of my middle green and add it to a bit of pink and white and I'm going to use that for this section down here because I don't feel like I've concentrated on that quite enough yet. I'm just going to go around the edges slightly and then drag it in and also anywhere else I can see those colours. I really love the contrast of the pink and green together it just looks so pretty. I'm just going to add a bit more green to that and then look at the image again and just pop in some of those values where I can see them on the petals down here because there's definitely a green tinge to a lot of the ends of the petals. Wash your brush out. Now I'm going to switch to an even smaller brush which I'm going to be using for detail. This is quite a good one. This is ProArt ProLine Plus Series 007 and it's size 4. I'm going to be getting a lighter pink so this one that we've recently been using. I'm just going to go over some of these petal lines very, very thin because the thinner our lines are the more realistic it's going to look because petals are extremely thin, aren't they? I'm just going to use the brush that I used before but I have washed and I'm just going to bring some of these lines down just only a few and then I'm going to go back in with it again. Wash your brush out. Now I'm going to grab some of that pink straight out of the tube and we're going to add in even more so some of these bright pink sections. Especially we're looking at under petals as well things that we may have missed before and you can see that when you bring the contrast together so the whites next to the pinks that really bright contrast that's when it really starts to come together and really works as a painting. Next what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab some of this middle green straight from the tube and I'm just going to pop in some of those really green bits you can see. It doesn't matter if you don't get it exact because I'm not but just try and get it as much as you can. My arm is really starting to ache. That's alright, we don't want to add too much. I'm just going to focus on the stalk again so I'm going to get my bigger brush and get some of the Payne's Grey and just again pop that line down there. Get some of the middle green and pop it down there. Bring it down together like that and it just blends those colours together a bit better. Like so. Then we're going to get some of the bright green straight from the tube and we're just going to add a small amount down the side just to make it pop a little bit. I feel like this bit's a bit too dark so I'm going to... I'm going to make a new one because it's all dry now so I'll get a bit of pink, a bit of the middle green and mix them together. A bit of white. I just felt like it was a bit too dark that it was taking over the painting a bit. I might even add a bit more pink into it because it's maybe a bit too grey. A really good way to see what it looks like as a whole as well is to take a photo of it on your phone because then it turns it into a photograph again and then you can even hold it up next to your picture. One thing I've noticed is that this petal when I do that, that petal looks way too big so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop in some more background and just shorten it slightly. So I'm going to get my dark green Payne's Grey and I'm just going to go over this again just cutting some of it out because I feel like the proportion it maybe just took over just that a little bit too much. And that's okay, you're allowed to change your painting just because you've already put it in you can change it still. I think I'm going to do that even more. And while we're there I'm just going to add in a bit more of the background all around the flower so I'm going to get the same I'm going to get Payne's Grey and green and pop in more of the background. You can make the background into whatever you want it to be just for the purpose of this video I'm not going to spend very long on it because you know it doesn't matter too much because we're focusing on the rose today. But I understand if you guys want to take a little bit longer time wise on that and really bring that background to life as well. Okay and while we're there I'm just going to grab some of that darker green and I'm just going to add in the side to that petal there. I'm going to take another photo to see if that looks better which I think it does. I'm just going to make little tweaks now just to try and improve on the shape of the rose. Okay and lastly what I'm going to do which is my favourite bit of all time which brings it to life even more is adding pure white to the painting. Now the secret to this part is adding as little as possible. Okay because in real life things aren't bright white when you look at it. So first of all we're going to choose where these brightest bits are and to do that look at your reference photo and squint. Squint quite heavily. Okay then get some titanium white just lay it up on your brush just a tiny bit like this. Squint heavily at your painting. And then we can start popping it in. So I can see a very white bit is here. So we're just going to again very very small. Just going to get some of the pink and the dark green and just build in the shadow of this petal slightly more. There's always one bit of the painting that I struggle on. Okay and then get some of your middle green pink and a bit of white. I've made that before. And then I'm just going to pop in these overlaps of the petal the bits that we missed out because well I end up painting over it you might not have to do that. And last but not least get some of your dark green and a lot of the paint is grey and we're just going to go over these a little bit just bring them to life a bit. Because at the end of the day it's a shadow and we need to blend it in slightly. Okay and I think we are done. Hi everyone so I just want to thank you so so much for painting this rose with me. 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