Painting the Elizabeth Rose using Acrylic Alla Prima Technique

Hi everyone, welcome back to the channel. I have to do a commission painting I've very kind of a special little commission painting here And I thought it'd be kind of fun for you to see how again, you know I've done it a couple times on the channel here, but see how I approach one of those Okay, so let's get right into it. This is a little 8 by 10. They wanted a small 8 by 10 and It's with this rose. They went through my website and they picked up this rose I painted this rose long time. Of course, this was I painted it a long time ago boy almost nine years ago I did a warm cool study on a Queen Elizabeth's rose I called it the Elizabeth's rose and it has special meaning for them and I told them that you know We do an 8 by 10. We'll have to do it a little more simplistic So they like the little flowers into the back and all that kind of stuff so I'm gonna I'm gonna do that, but I'm gonna put a little more depth into the rose this time because I Can do things more than I did eight years ago with my roses and I Can't put quite as many petals into a smaller rose like this It's just it'll just be a little bit a little a little bit confined Let's put it that way But I'm gonna put in some lost and found edges and of course they they want anything that I couldn't create along this line will Be good for them, but I do an 8 by 10 It's easy for them to find a frame and so let's go so I have my base coat right here This is just yellow by yellow oxide black and white and here for my painting palette. This is my standard thing I'm gonna do it all the Prima today, so we can put it in all the Prima playlist So I have out here first. This is the Daravans open medium, which gives me a longer working time I won't really need it today, but it It does give enough working time for me. Just in case. I also have a little container out here of the This is the extender medium Which is works like they like the it's not exactly the same as the open medium and open medium has binder and glue But this will slow down the drying time and it keeps the paint a little bit thinner now I'm I like to paint lost edges I like thin thick and there's some really in-depth lessons in the all the Prima playlist on the channel for you to learn the difference Between extender and open medium so you can watch some of those to see how you do it For my this is my standard standard palette here. This is a Hansa yellow The Darula the yellow here yellow oxide burnt sienna naphthol red light pine green phthalo blue This is my red violet quinacridone violet and white. Okay, I'm gonna use my fusion brushes one of my favorite number eight I believe it's a number eight the paint caked up on it a long time ago But and this is a six so yeah, this is about an eight This is about an eight or so six and an eight for doing some of the small stuff three-quarter inch Fusion here for doing the larger stuff into the background and I'm gonna start there. I'm gonna take some extender down here And I'm you know I look what I do when I when I'm gonna take inspiration stuff or whenever I do anything and I want to put all this Gray in here. I'm gonna key off it to my main colors, which is my reds and my greens here, which makes beautiful grays so I'll key off of those two first and So we'll make a red and a green here Sometimes I'll cool it with a little bit of violet here and then that's gonna help me make a beautiful gray that I can put out over my board here and I'll add some extender to this because I'm gonna do a Wet on wet here, you know, so I'm gonna push some of this color right into this other background color, which I like And we'll do it a little more contemporary. They love my contemporary flowers that I do today so I will do that for them and We'll push some of this color around I'll add some other colors and stuff to it right now I'll keep it kind of thin kind of modeled here like this coming through leave some areas Just a little bit different. I like to Then go in and set the rose now. I Always believe and it is true It is far easier to cool warm than it is to warm a cool And so I'm gonna start out kind of warm a warm ish kind of red here and I'll put in the shape of the rose Now I'm not gonna go into a copy mode. So I'm gonna do this one as I do today This other one was nine years ago so and You know, I do things a little bit differently, but Probably don't want to go quite that big but I want to get these lost edges in here and I will do a lot of Negative painting here also as we get into it. So light on this one I want comes in this way. So the cool side of the rose would be down here So I'll take some of my quinacridone now I don't want the quinacridone and I'm still using extender. So I keep this initial color phase thin The quinacridone is very very bright, so I don't want it quite so bright So I'm going to add a little bit of green to it here, which will tone it down Great attempt just takes just a little can also add just a touch of the background So I don't want it quite so bright So now what I do is I create a warm and a cool side of the rose here to it and you can see that and that's what this main study was on this as a rose that really kind of appealed to the Customer here is the warm and cool. So we'll make sure that we deposit that So I have that now I can take these and I can also push in we'll push in a little lost rose back there They liked the the lost roses and stuff that I put in So we'll add some of these back here for lost roses, but it's got to be about one big main rose These are all things that you find out from the customer and stuff as you as you're working through You know, there's you learn after a certain amount of times. What is it? You like about it? what is it you don't like about it, you know, and You know Ken and you've got to get yourself some artistic freedom to it and stuff and this person just loves all that I do So I'm not really concerned about that too much But now this rose turns towards us and I'm gonna put in some contrast some nice cooler contrast into the center I'm going to take and this is where I'm gonna start adding my open medium. I'm gonna want a bit more Maybe just a touch of red in here, but slightly on the cooler side right into the center This will be the focal point of the rose So I'm gonna get this quite dark and I'm gonna the rose moves around in a circle, right? So I'm gonna set the the mark the center of the rose and then I'm just gonna start tapping around here into a circle Here working some of this out here So I start to give some of the movement that I want this rose to have the next thing that I always tell you guys What's the most important thing of this thing the bowl, right? We got to get that bowl in so I've got to define where that bowl is and I'll make it just a bit warmer Then what I do into that center maybe on this side I'll add more quinacridone make sure I add a little bit of that open medium that stays wet here and Push that in and around I'll try not to paint too much with my finger, but today's for you But I just got to every once in a while. I just have to do that. I just love it now I'll take this off. Let's soften it off and Let's just put in a little idea With the softer center see out when you're out here in these outside ones. It really only takes the Color the center color and the bowl to start making it look like a rose you see It's all it takes Just a little bit of that. Okay Now I'm gonna start Drawing some of the petals and then we're gonna paint with a lot of half tones and stuff out here So I'm gonna start lightening up here just a bit. I want to make some nice light Warm, so maybe some naphthol red light there a little bit of yellow oxide I love the yellow oxide for really casting a night a nice warm color Here we want it slightly more to the red there we go Add a little bit of your open medium a little bit of light Let's come over here And one of the things I like to establish first is my outside reaching petals here how far are these gonna go out? here, you know just tap along the edge, and I'm gonna pull in and Right along that edge, you know, I don't want that light to come in quite that far So what I'll do since I'm painting all prima here so I'm just gonna take some of this dark and just walk it out towards that light and Leave a little bit of that light coming in and I can work back and forth. I can pull back in a bit I like streaks. I like color variations I can come back with the petal edging technique that you've seen me do and other things I can do more Things to it, you know later on but I'm gonna edge Basically this brush and this is kind of a big brush to do it But I'm just setting the petals first and then I'll go to a smaller brush and manipulate some smaller colors But let's just pull in a petal here I like that okay, and One of the things so I that I like to do with my roses when I paint them like this is I like to set The outside around here, so I'll come out this way. I'm gonna cool down. Let's go to our quinacridone over here. Let's Take a little white a little bit of our medium. Let's get a slightly lighter but cooler color over here You can see where that cool color is Here a little bit of warmth here just a bit up there in the front. We'll do more here later in just a few minutes We'll draw some more but this just kind of sets the area of my rose Here and I'll draw a little bit that's a little warm for that side, so let's get up here I like the lightness of it just not the warmth of it. So let's go cool it back down just a bit here So I'll put that out. So what I'm basically doing here is I'm setting the outside parameters here of my rose what's gonna be there on the outside of the rose and then I'll come in and Let's we can use a little warm a little light and I can cut across here And I can set the inside of the rose here with the inside petals now normally I do this with a slightly smaller brush But I'm a big advocate of you know sergeant who always says paint with as large a brush as possible so if I feel I can comfortably get in there with the bigger brush, I'll do it and Let's go in and I'll be using a lot of this the petal edging technique That's what I used in these days back here, and I used that edge and I draw that rose around I want to keep my eye on where that bowl is right in here and as I build some of these colors around here I want to constantly keep my eye on where that bowl is here so I'll come back here and We'll push in this other petal right out here like this We'll take a little bit of that bowl color And just pull right out to it to set where that petal is gonna go And and I'll come back in and draw more edges and more things. I want to every once in a while. Maybe restate Here don't forget to add your open medium here restate a little red violet little quinacridone a little bit of this red Here some beautiful deep colors on this side of the rose. This is It's gonna make this pinky rose look really pretty Here, and I used my finger there didn't I? Yeah, that's just my habit. I love painting with my finger So I got that nice warm and cool in there just like that that works really well here Let's set that brush down You can just poke a little extender in it mix it up like that and just set it down over there on the side it Won't hurt it at all Let's go into it my my six here smaller six And let's work that so I can draw some some additional petals here. I'll go slightly cool I'm gonna come right down through here in the cool side So go slightly cool, and let's just draw some of these cool petals in down here Pulling in towards where that bowl would be Right like that, and I can push in and out to set that that pedal a bit Pick up that little edge. That's your drawing edge right there, right? That's what it makes you really quickly and efficiently draw a petal around and I've just kind of bring it around Fit that bowl. I'll pinch wipe that brush some of the color off Let's grab some red Maybe even a touch of this orange and let's just set that little half tone right along the side there and that it just Incorporates that little pedal and I can come back here and clean up that little edge There that works You know today I can paint these roses so much faster than what I originally did you know back Eight nine years ago when I painted that one And I can do so much of so much more with my flowers today, and I did with that one but We'll just keep building here now I want to put in the impression of the bottom of the rose which is a nice The bottom of the bowl of the rose here nice warm color right here And we'll let the cool color come out onto what I call the reaching pedals here make sure you Feed that and let's get a little warm. I love dar you like and You know years ago I wasn't a big fan of dar you died like I am now and this would just make a beautiful look at that beautiful tone Right in there see nice warm tone of it adds just a tremendous coloring Right in there in the center of this Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth's rose Beautiful pinky kind of rose, but gets these orange undertones and everything. It's just a beautiful rose So I'm gonna take some of that nice warmth with that and see I love that the warmth of the orangy kind of tones the pinks and I'm watch right in here and Don't forget to always watch and I'm adding I'm always feeding I call feed your paint some of that open medium there, so it doesn't dry out on you And let's just restate that That center knob of the rose will take just an edge of this Will come up and around And put another little bowl pedal right there now I can shoot in a little shadow a little warm little cool Just just use your small brush and just run it right up there against that edge And bring those together again just a bit and it puts in just a nice Little transitional color on the other rose what I did a lot was a short little taps like this So the rose took on a lot of mottled color see the modeling of the color so instead of always pulling I started to do a lot of tapping with the color and Short what I call short stroking the color which creates a lot of mottled interest here And so you can do that and you see it just adds more movement to your roses Which is kind of pretty let's take an edge So come up here and pick up that edge real heavy little edge, and let's draw another row of Pedals right down like that will come in like it's gonna join right into the the bowl there like that okay Now what I'll do is I'll just back out to a little this cool little discolor if it starts to get too sticky add a little extender and see how That just loosens it all up Sometimes if I have a real thick paint I'll want to come in with a little looser paint to do something like this Because the little looser paint does not have as much power as the thicker paint. I just put on and so When you're going to put in there the thicker paint wins thicker paint will always win To against the thinner paint so if I want that thicker paint. I want to be careful not to eliminate it I'll make sure the shadows I put on or thinner now You'll hear that a lot in and where did I get that got it from landscapes there was an old landscape philosophy that shadows going thin highlights going thick and Because the shadows can really have a lot of power when they're up against a light And I started using that even in painting the flower so if I put on a petal with a light Then I thin the paint out and go back in and soften it out with the shadow, but the shadow paint is thinner So it has less power does that make sense Yeah, and it works that way it works very nice that way let's just take a little bit of this cool Because we can right up against the edges put in some for contrast And I'll just put some right in there like that And I'm just looking for some nice beautiful color interest here around the rose is what I want We'll take this Let's get a little warmer pink. Let me restate some warmer pink right in here Which is natural red light and light and then this will be my cooler pinks over here Which is my? Quinacridone to red violets and lights and you can see that the warms and the cools here, okay, so I Can come in here and tap a little bit of the cool a little bit thinner Move a little bit of that cool color there, and then go right into my warmer pink colors Let's go put the front of the bowl on we'll want some warmth So I'm just gonna slide over here to work I won't even clean my brush so that my warm cools just a little bit and I'll go back and forth But I find doing that Keeps the keeps the colors model. They're moving through the rose So that it doesn't look stiff if you just have stiff petals of warm and cool. That's not as pretty So let's go up here, and let's make a big forward bowl pedal pulling down this way nice warm color right here We'll put just a little more red To the cool color right along the bottom there pull up just a bit There that sets that pedal in see now we can come back and define that pedal a little bit more draw it in Here with a little bit of light. Let's get a little more paint there Dave. So it looks like you know what you're doing Here a little more paint thicker in the lights thinner in the shadows It's a good rule to remember here let's Come in and close these off a little bit more with another little tap here another little pedal maybe a Another little pedal that comes across there like that down in that way As this start adding pedals And you can just use a small brush like this with that little edging technique if it gets too light just poke this slide over Towards your cools right like that drop a little bit cooler in there and get a slightly different look to it I'm gonna pull this one down just a bit here So I'll spread that light out slightly pull it down That looks pretty good. Maybe and so I use the edge You know I came up with this pedal edging technique when after I read one of sergeants ten principles of all of Prima Was he use your brush like a pencil and I was just like okay. Well, I draw the pedal edge Why can't I draw I mean I would would draw with a pencil the edge of the pedal Why can't I do it with the brush in color and that's what I did Now I'm coming over here to the cool side And I'm gonna drop that in now that might be a bit light for the cooler side of the rose So let's just come in and soften that down just a bit Here that works and movement I can just add movement in here that I can turn into all kinds of other pedals here same So let's go in We'll pick up this light here Thick white I like that because I can edge into it and really use it to draw stuff Put a little cooler color in over here some thick white Let's use this this to draw in a few pedals right like that pull those pedals in a bit Create some of that movement that nice pedal movement interest in And usually when I'm doing a commission like this and this one is in it is a memorial commission It's in so I really like to get a lot of interest in beautiful things I really like I enjoy painting them because I think as I'm painting like this I think about my customer and how much they're gonna and hopefully enjoy the painting for years and years and years to come and that just Makes me just put a little bit more into it each time, and I just it's what I'd love to do And when I know I'm really well I see that I see their face and they're just like I'm talking with them and I imagine them You know opening up the package when it arrives and it's a beautiful rose and or you know beautiful Western or something like that and I imagine that and You know it just causes me to put that extra a little bit into it So there is a certain amount of satisfaction that comes from painting commissions and stuff a lot of fun So I'll keep this and like I said I can tap around to make it look like Other little pedals and stuff like that around see But I've just come through and I build it and I build it and let's put in a side pedal right here dropping that down Right in there, okay Little bit more light slightly warm. We'll let it go right back to the cool again. Let's add a bit of the light Back here just a bit to break that away, but I can see now I'm gonna send this is getting a little sticky, so I'm gonna add some extender to it here And I'm gonna come out here And I'm gonna I'm gonna light up and warm up this side of the rose just a bit more Here, so I'm gonna grab a little more light Sometimes I'd add more yellow, but I think I like this color. I just want it lighter So add that a few little marks of movement there like that makes a pretty little pedal Here anytime I need to reset my brush I just pinch wipe it like that and I can pick up that edge and that just gives me a nice edge here in which to draw from to build up a pedal or something like that and Draw from draw a little more interest into the pedal here a little bit more interest here Don't use your finger Dave But we will Pull down slightly like this on this side and see now why am I pulling down this way my bowl is rounding around this way I don't want to pull this way because that will pinch my rose down to a V You see so I want to pull this down like this So it keeps the it keeps the roundness to the bowl does that make sense, okay? and Since we got a nice pedal row see you can just real quickly You know add another little pedal right out there like that that looks kind of neat Okay and It's pretty little rose. There's lots of them lots of different Types of them out there. You know they're pretty we have one that has a big folded front here, which I Think that's probably why she chose this one because it is a pretty pedal, so I'm gonna pull out Here the pedals folding over Here, and I'm gonna change the direction and build the pedal down this way Right up there into the front so it's pulling out that way. It's a big front building pedal here And I can put more turned ones out into here. I think and I just might drop one in there like that Let's reset that shadow right in there on that side just a bit so you see that touch more I'm gonna leave some of those streaks in like that They're going in that way and stuff and they add so much to the to the rose itself. Let's restate I'm gonna thin this just a bit because it's a little sticky that nice bottom Warmer bit of the rose back there at the bottom of the bowl, okay, and then we'll add some cooler colors here Right up to the bottom of that bowl there and pull out one more time like that And then we'll build the big bigger front pedals here Okay, so I'll put in the bigger front pedals Right up here like this. We'll drop one around Pull into there right in towards that bowl Get that nice pedal there Let's and I might want to make some of these a nice that nice translucent Color into these here, so I'm just gonna push in a little color to see where those pedals will go And I'm gonna flip over Here, let's grab and I'm gonna clean that red out I'm gonna go back to my eight or ten here and use a little pine green And a little bit of our burnt sienna some of these colors will thin it with some extender here Let's just drop Some of this green right into the pinks and stuff here. This will give the nice translucent edge That I like to paint Transparent translucent edges. I like to paint those Let's put a little bit of contrast right up here into a beautiful Leaf or so we'll put one up there and see that just drops that contrast up there now I'll probably make that a little softer up there because I want that contrast right down here So I had a little white which softens it against this background And we'll push that color in there We'll drop this one in right out here Push in a little bit of color nice little bit of the greens there may be a Touch of the greens right out here between these two and see if I draw any kind of leaf or anything here It'll push that other rose a little bit further back That's that idea of the rose and I can take that green and I'll do this a lot You know, I'll take that green with some of this softer pink. That's back here And push in and that makes a softer little idea of a rose But or something right back there see pushes it to the back Just keeps it soft There just something right there to the back. Hey And I like that. I think it works really well I'm gonna take some of the light will leave a bit of the green in there with some of this Pinky kind of color here and we'll we're gonna push this green Right into the edge of that rose to get that transparent look That is pretty popular in a lot of things that I do So just drag that and I'll find the motion that I want this this Pedal to have and I'm just gonna pull out like that and I can tap more Light or warm, you know to like I can tap some of that light right around here Small short strokes like this to give some more movement interest to that pedal right there like that And I want a warmer pink Here to come in here to the Inside this one right in here and just drop right into that bowl there So I'm going to drop that one in there And you know a lot of times like when I originally painted this one you know years ago, I you know looked up to Queen Elizabeth Rose the Elizabeth Rose and Found some that I liked and started to emulate them and of course today I painted so many of them I don't always need one To look at and what I suggest to you if you're if you're going out and you're looking at them Find a pretty one stare at it for a long time. Then go paint it Don't always put it up in front of you for reference you can have it there for reference, but you'll go into a copy mode really easy and That copy mode will start frustration copy mode starts frustration Okay, you get frustrated when you're trying to copy my roses to get the same type of feeling or something to a rose That's a perfectly natural thing guys but You have to you you want to make it yours And so you listen to the technique of the pedal edging the warmer side the cool side Making shadows thin making the edging and the warms heavier light You know thicker colors and you listen to some of that stuff And you take that in as the artist and then you let some of it become yours. Okay, and That's when the rose starts to really get pretty because it is not a copy. You're out of the copy mode So I'm just going through I just go through something like this and I just start to add Let's put in a lighter front Warm over here to my warm side. Not my cool side. Let's put in a lighter front warm right in here big front light pedal that controls that side of the rose here now We'll cool it down just a bit We'll thin it down because the cool is going to go into a shadow and I'll pump right up against the edge of that and I'll just pull in like this and Set that pedal right in like that Maybe a bit more warm. Maybe I took out a little bit too much. So we'll put in just a touch more warm This gets a nice movement there I'm gonna thin this one out just a bit And just a bit of warm to this side So I'm just kind of this is what I call in a lot of my classes This is what I call the weaving of the pedals. I'm weaving pedals in and out here to make this rose and It So, you know There's some that I go this way and that way and I call it weaving like basket weaving weaving the pedals in here Till I get the look that I like Let's pull this out a little more heavy right in here since we got that light there and Then we'll cool up right in here and pull out lift off Pull a little bit lift off so that gets a nice motion to that Pedal in there so I can add anything I can use the pedal edging just a tiniest bit of paint here And just you know, put that little spark right back up into the edge draw that little edge Wherever I want put that little bit of spark Leave some of that edging there and you get a pretty little flower now We'll take some of this green it down gray it down So it's not quite so so heavy. We'll put a softer Little lost pedal rose back there softer little rose idea of a rose here into the back maybe just a pedal to sometimes I'll Put a accent little pedal right up there and Grab a little bit of shadow Push that around but that greens very important so that this maintains some of the color, but it's not exactly the same Now we'll take some more of that green Add some of our medium here to it. Let's go with a yellow green here and Let's set up a more powerful leaf. We'll go right up over the edge here like that Right into this one right up to the front here. We'll go with a little bit more here and We'll set a little pine green a little bit of violet Red violet or quinacridone violet makes a nice cool. Whatever one you want to use. We'll set the cooler green in cooler side Cooler green in cooler side you can even create a little bit of a vein line if you want there here like that and And I sometimes I'll add just a little bit of movement to that leaf to build a leaf a little bit more especially on this side And I'll take some of this maybe a little bit of that burnt. Sienna And we'll drop that Idea of that stem down break it with the olive primer just a bit here It's kind of pretty let's thin out Leave this kind of grayed out thin it out Slightly lighter here grayed out And let's put a few softer leaves down over here Right over there like that okay and Draw a little bit of a stem out here Maybe a little movement Right up there like that Sometimes I'll put I'll thin out with extender here now and get really thin little thin transparent leaves back out to this side a Few of them around in other parts of the rose here to carry some of those colors there. It's kind of nice Here let's put just a bit right up in here around that Carry some of that green in between there And I'll blur these together If I'm not sure really what I want to do is with the the light pink or the red something I blur that together and it works really well Just and he let the viewer see whatever they want to see what is on top Let's put a soft Little leaf shape right out over here, so I got a variation of my leaf shape now I can since my rose right here is so light and so pink I can get some lighter greens in there, too So let's go with the lighter yellow green here Maybe even a tiny bit of the Hansa there Let's go with the lighter yellow green and pull some of that out onto the light side here Just a bit of that Let's be perfect Just a bit I Find it if I want it to be beautiful. I don't make it perfect. It really is true. Let's put just a bit Get it more casual Let's put a bit of that over here Build that light side and shadow side of the leaf there we can take edge like this with your brush and make a just over into the shadow side just a bit just make a little bit of a Vein line right there, and you can always negative paint it back up with some shadow any kind of shadow sometimes I'll even take this more of a burnt sienna and paint it back up to that and Define that edge just a bit there like that And yeah, that works Let's thin that out here there like that and a little bit more over here and Back Few more little shadows a little bit more movements now sometimes with these You know I used to do really soft, but I think I will do just a bit more We're gonna take a little light pink sometimes. I'll use the blues that I really like here But maybe let's just see What a little bit of this color through here looks like this light little pink coming through the rose here carrying through Yeah cares to that background that warmth and stuff I like that to manipulate that background and have a little bit of like color come through light like that And it just adds some additional movement and stuff to the background and everything Here soften that out just a bit now in looking at it. I Probably want just a little more contrast right up in here. It looks a you know a little bit more shadowing So I'm gonna go back To my crinacled on I'm gonna I'm gonna try to keep it a little thinner, so I'm at first mixing a little bit of the The Open medium, but then I'm gonna thin it down with a little bit of extender and maybe gray That's just a bit, so it's not quite so bright let's come back in here and just Reintroduce a few more shadows To this side to the cooler side here Deeper pink shadows there That's gonna increase the contrast just a bit more of the rose and keep it from looking quite not quite so flat Here, so I'll reintroduce the shadow side first Here a few more of those beautiful colors. Let's let's take some more warmth some of that nice dar you lied bit of our Extender and Go into some light here making a half to a medium tone here. That's kind of warm here, but it's more of a medium tone and We'll drop a bit of that warmth right in there, and that's gonna be pretty so I'll Take the two and make a tone right in between the two there And I can read so what I'm doing is just building the pedals up here a little more can read in a little light and just Soften that edge there, and it looks like a prettier Working for that rose. Let's pull a bit of that right out tear like that And a bit of that cool right into that as well pulling out So it's just right now. I'm just going through and it's just you know looking at restating some of my shadows I can use the shadows to to assist the rose, but it's giving the rose more roundness and more contrast Which is what I want it to have just a bit more. I want it to really kind of pop off the surface here Because it's all gonna be about this big rose here And it's Elizabeth Rose Push just a bit more of that light right up there Maybe just a touch more so I'm increasing the lights and darks and looking at it And that's the thing you know you're an acrylic artist and acrylics dry a little bit darker So sometimes we got to go back and you know and Touch through things again We can use our value scale which I've covered up now Completely here we can use our value scale to help us with that And I put that on there for you to help see some of the values that I'm painting with but they do try down Let's just take a bit of that Kind of had a touch of that so that's kind of a nice pretty little rose right there I want to make a softer little maybe a little greenish transparent kind of transition over here. I Think it would be pretty prettier right in here. They have a little bit of that green Transition Translucency here right in there, so I'll drop that in maybe a bit more of a light edge There we go, that's kind of pretty so it gives that little bit of translucency there To that edge and On the other one that I painted had more of a pointed petal sitting out here I don't I think I'm gonna leave this one a little bit more round. I don't think the Customer will mind here that could be a bit cooler There's a bit rounder of a rose here Fits the shape of this board better Here like that There we go, let's put that is kind of a pretty nice little nice cool color. Let's just drop a bit of that right in there Right like that. That's kind of pretty so that makes a nice Pretty little rose. I think and I can drop in One of the things I start to look at is if I got a lot of this petal edging right in there Which I do have see that I tend to add that Or used to a lot way back when but and I do do it now I tend to go make a green lighter green Yellow green so some hot sauce and light and I tend to edge though the petals the leaves like that as well In a few areas and why do I do that because it makes the leaf go with the rose better They don't look see this soft leaf is okay, but if I have this it's okay, but if I have a couple of leaves That just have the same kind of edging on the light side of the their their Leaf as you see in the rose itself you get a better harmony. They don't look disjointed They look like they're achieving that or you're using the same technique in other words I always you know when I was a young rose painter And we're going back a long ways When I was a young rose painter I usually painted my leaves with one technique my roses with another technique And I'd look at the thing and they just look disjointed so I try to come back to make sure that That you don't want the leaves to have the same power contrast as the rose but you want them to have some of the same looks to the technique so they get a better harmony and Harmony is so important in all your paintings. I paint for harmony. I'm a harmony artist and You know that's very important light comes to this side, so let's just put a little bit of an edge there but it gets that same kind of look that at edging technique that those petals of the rose are catching and It really does help it quite a bit here so we'll Drop in just a few little I just like that little sparks of interest there little edges Here boom just like that maybe just a bit more and then I Like that slight pink going through there, then I think everything is looking good on this particular painting and it's I'll go in and give it a really nice finish. I'm gonna do Some varnish many videos here how to get really nice Varnish finishes and stuff with acrylics. I'm gonna do that. That's coming to the channel here in just a day or two and So I want to show you that and We have also to tell you about those who are watching this on our Jansen art the David Jansen channel We have a second channel that we did start up And we hadn't used it for a while we're gonna go back to using it because now that you I've got so many requests for landscapes and Westerns and you know seascapes and birds and wolves and all this kind of stuff and I still want to keep up with going with a lot of the Flowers and roses and I want to go back to some beginning lessons of the roses we're gonna activate back our other channels called paint it simply and it's you just put in painted simply you'll find it and You'll see some playlists there, but I'm just starting up so give me a little bit and they'll have all kinds of roses I also do rosemaling over there one of my favorite styles to paint the old folk art styles of Rosemaling and so you can see some of that over there So we're gonna have a lot of beginning lessons and some different various techniques and stuff So we're gonna be operating here two channels and we would really appreciate it If you can help our channel out by going over there and subscribing to the painted simply channel That would help us a lot. Okay, so if you enjoy the roses and stuff you can go over there and just like this channel but I'll be They'll be featuring slightly different things. Does that make sense? So that yeah, so I can expand this channel into doing some more things With some of the other that you you're all requesting and the painted simply we're gonna do that we're gonna paint things more simply, but You'll still have a nice elegant look to it. So, please go over there paint simply and Paint it simply channel and subscribe. You would do us a big favor if you enjoy now Okay, don't forget to hit like and share and comment that helps the channel a lot I'm going to I've already painted the base coat at the back of this and then I'm gonna put a nice Provence and a nice dedication to it You know for it and I'll set it up and I'll look at it and I'll look at it here another couple hours decide if It needs just a little bit more Sometimes I do but see I want that I to come in here This is all about the rose For her and I want your eye to come in right there and I feel it does a pretty good job on that Sometimes I would you know introduce another color or blue and stuff Or you know put some of the group a little bit more of the green into the rose and I but I think that's enough It's got a nice beautiful warm cool. It's got a nice look to it. I think that's enough for them. Okay Thanks for joining me on this. Don't forget to go over and scribe to paint it simply do us a big favor Okay, and I'll see you guys on the next one coming up and that varnish one. It's gonna be it's gonna surprise you It's gonna surprise you. I'll see you guys there. Thanks a lot. I'll see you