Painting a Beginning Rose with Acrylics

Hi everyone, welcome to the channel. I get a lot of comments from you asking for some basic roses. Now I do those quite a bit and I especially do it in my online introduction courses, my beginning courses. So to help you out what I'm going to do is pull one of the lessons. This is a beginning basic rose from our S105 online course on jansonartonline.com. I use a six color set. I'm going to use basically a sheer technique and what I call a 2-2-1 painting of the rose. So you can maybe see it a little bit different than some of the other roses that you do. I do a lot of different kinds of them. So to say do a basic rose is sometimes kind of different because I use different types of techniques. But this will help you out. Don't forget to click like right down there. Click like and we'll do some more of these for you coming up real soon. Enjoy the video. Hi everyone, welcome back to the Janson Art Studio. We're going to continue some of the studies that we're showing here in Paint It Simply. Like I said in so many things there are a lot of ways in which I advance Paint It Simply. I use a lot of different techniques and in this particular class we're showing you a few of those techniques that I want you to concentrate on before you move into some more advanced lessons. Now what I want to do is I want to show you how to paint just a simple rose. Let's just go through some of the stuff, some of the techniques that I've shown you, some of the color mixing that I've shown you, and let's just apply some of those techniques right here. Let's paint a simple white rose and if we have time we'll paint another rose after that. All right, so here's my board. My board I prepped with some medium white with just a little bit of gray so just add a little black and white to it here. Make sure you have your value scale out next to you here and you can see my background is right up here between a 7 and an 8. It's right up in here. It's not down here where it's real dark. It's right between a 7 and an 8. As a matter of fact, once you print over these value scales and stuff, I mean print these, you can fold them over like this to hold that right next to it so you can see that a lot clearer. You can see it's right between those two right in there as far as value. Now I use that value scale all the time. I use that value scale to help me paint up and down. Remember I try to find no more than two jumps at a time and I can use all kinds of techniques, halftone techniques, my finger, my sheer technique to create those medium values. So let's go in here and take a white rose. White is really kind of a great color. I have my colors out here, my six color set, my naphthol red light, my Hansa yellow, phthalo blue, black, and red violet. I put the red violet way over here because this is my cool color. I like to separate it from my warm color. This is the warmest color. This is the coolest color. Like I showed in some of the other videos, this is how we control temperature in the painting. So I can use, I can make any kind of gray. Gray can come from a number of different things. I like to sometimes just take all of my colors, mixing them together, and make a gray. If it looks a little bit to the red side, you can add a tiny bit more yellow, tiny tiny bit of the blue in there, and you can see that grays that right back out again here too. So the opposite of of the reddish color on the color wheel is a green. So I just add, I make a green from a yellow and a blue, and that will gray out just a little bit more. And so if it looks too green, I add a little bit of my red to that. And if I added just too much of that, then I go just a touch more to my blue and to my yellow, and that makes beautiful gray. See how that just gets beautiful gray colors in there. That makes, that'll make a nice beautiful rose. Let's add just a bit of water to that. So I have a little cap of water out here. I also, in a lot of the other techniques we show you working with extender, and I'm not going to work with that today, but use an extender. I also show techniques with Mr. Bottles and all kinds of stuff. So you have some of those things out there. Make sure you have yourself a couple of paper towels out here also to help wipe off any excess paint after some palette mixing. Now let's go in there to a rose. A rose is just a circle. So here I have a color that's very close, a little bit darker. Remember acrylics dry about one value darker. So it's a little darker than my background there, just like that. And I can start that out, that circle. That's a basic rose. Now what I do is I have that extender. Let's just use water. What I do is I divide this up into its three main circles. So it will have here the center of the rose, which would be one circle, the bottom of the bowl here, right in this area here, which would be another circle. So you have one circle, two circles, three circles, which the third circle lets you paint your reaching petals here. So anytime that I start to think shadows, I start to think cool. So I slide over to my cooler colors here. And I like the red violet. It's really cool. But I don't want to go any more than two values down when I first apply this color. If you're using extender and stuff later on, yes you can. But so if I'm up here right about a seven, a six or seven, I want to get right down here towards a five maybe, right in here. And that's a good color here to start out with. And I'll put this cooler red color here, not too dark, here onto the back of this. Now sometimes I'll just take my finger here and immediately sheer that out, just like that, to create that little bit of a shadow there, or softness, or the medium value. Or you can put a halftone like I showed you in the halftone lessons. Here's the bottom of the bowl. This is the bottom of the bowl right here. Boom. That shadowing goes in right there. Now if I want to soften it, I can sheer it. I can use that sheer technique. I can come up and I can just mix in some of that base color of that rose and create a halftone there and soften that out as well just by going like that. And we're both sheering that both to create that softness. Let's put a little bit of that up here to soften that back edge right like that. So if I want more contrast to the rose, I can now go darker. So this is the basic shadowing concept of the rose that I use. The three circles. I divided it up into its three circles. I sometimes like to go a little darker. Red Violet is down here about a two or three as it gets down in that value. So now that I have my five here, I can go all the way down towards that Red Violet and push that on. Let's push a little bit darker. A little deeper dark. And I just curve the brush up and let it let it stop up there. Don't go all the way. You can push to create the sheer to create those intermediate values in there that gives you a little darker color, a little more contrast. Let's keep that right down in here into the deeper, darker part of our shadow. And one of the things that you have to establish visually for you here is where is my light source? So I'm going to bring the light in from this direction right up here and down to this direction here. And so my light's going to be here, which means my cooler colors will be down here onto the cooler shadow side. The warmer colors up here up onto the warmer light side. Okay, now many times what I do is in the Mastering Rose series and stuff is I say you take some of this color. Let's thin it out with some water and let's just lightly just wash over the edge of this rose right here and create a complete light side and shadow side to the rose. Now if you want to soften that slightly, pinch wipe your brush. You can even rinse your brush out some of that color out of your brush. Go back, pick up your light color of your rose here and just pull some of that through here just like that. And that will help you soften that so you can get intermediate light tones right there like that back through. But I like this movement. See how everything I'm moving here is in the round. That's very important for your rose is keeping that movement there into the round. All right, so here is my base of this. I want to start peddling my rose. So I'm going to go a little bit lighter. So I'm up here about a six or seven or so, six mostly. I want to go up here towards an eight or so. I got a little bit too much color right there into my brush. I'm just going to take some of that back out. Let's just keep that right in here. Let's push this in towards an eight. One of the things I do first and I keep it kind of off to the side. I don't side load it, but I just push the color heavy up onto one little edge and that's the edge I turn up. So the color is all the way across, but you can see it's quite heavy onto one side. And I'll use that side and I'll draw the front edge of the first little C stroke of the rose. Now in the drawing of the rose, you realize these are medium size. These are small little petals in here. The big ones are out here. Now sometimes I immediately go in and just sheer that just like that, just to soften that edge and that effect. And sometimes it burbles out a little bit and you let that happen. That becomes more naturalistic to your rose. Maybe I take a little bit of color, maybe even drop it down in value just a little bit and put just a little movement or small little C's to the other side there, just like that. Lots of ways to do it. I could paint this down a little bit and put in a half tone. There's a lot of different ways to do it to make your rose look really pretty. I'm going to build this up a little bit more, drop this down. So I definitely have a light side to my rose. Then I'm just going to push it just around those edges there just to create that little bit of softness there. So I put that color on and just push it, just push it. Press pretty good and push it. Or you could come in like this and drop down towards a medium tone and push that in there like that. That's right between your base and this one right here. That would be called a half tone and put that on and do that as well. Let's take some of that little half tone so it's not quite as light as our front. You can see it right here, not quite as light. Let's just come in here like this and push a little bit of light into smaller little strokes here into the rose just to create some movement. Then maybe we can touch into a little bit of that light and make a few little smaller, smaller. The key word there is smaller little touches. Just kind of touch the edges of them there to soften some of that out. How much you do, how much you leave to a stroke in there like that, that's up to you. That's your statement of your rose. I always vary them so I don't have a specific technique for paint seven little petals into the center there. I don't do that. I'm always, always working a bit. Sometimes if I feel I've played too much, I'll come back and pick up a little bit of my dark and go right back through that too to keep that dark movement in there. You can go back and forth. Try not to play too much but you can go back and forth to create some of that little movement. That's kind of pretty there. Get some different colors going in there. That's kind of pretty. While you're playing with that, you can take some of that and push that up here. Now this is my cool side. This is my warm side. Maybe I want to take my red here a little bit warmer to the warm side. So I'll add just a little bit and let's just warm that side with a little red. This is how you would really paint a pink rose. You want that temperature to slide from warm down in here to the cool. Anyway, let's keep going here. Let's take a little bit more light color here. I can leave a bit of that red in there. This is where I love the brush modeling here. I'm going to go up in value just a bit more. Up towards an eight, towards a nine because I already have that one there. That's where I can do a larger petal here and set that little bit lighter color. It could go just a touch lighter. I'm painting with a lot of paint here. See, I'm painting with a lot of paint. Let's push that in there. That gives a nice little second petal there. Let's just push that a little bit here to create that. I don't always push in the bowl of the round, but sometimes I do. I like to push in the round shape of the bowl. I'm going to go back down just a bit here and just add a little bit of that down here, little curved strokes. Notice how they are a touch bigger than what they were just a few minutes ago. As I go down the rose, I make my strokes a little bigger and a little bigger. Sometimes I will add a smaller little stroke here or something like that to just break up some of that shape of the rose or come in like that to break that up a bit. I don't always like curved, curved, curved. I like to have some lines in there. Now, let's come out here back up towards that value eight or so, always having that chart right here with you so you don't get too white. That's the problem a lot of people get. I want this eight. See, I wanted an eight and that's right where I was. An eight, maybe lean a little bit towards the nine. Now, here's the bottom of the bowl. Here's where my stem would come in. Sometimes I tell students just to go ahead and put a stem in and then you have a target. You're just going to stroke in towards where that bowl is going to be, where that stem is going to come in there. Now I can have just a touch more water with that. When you get this granulation, this dry to your stroke, that means you're a little bit dry. Two or three strokes to make the petal there. Then just push it lightly like this while that's still a little bit damp and create that nice intermediate transition tone. Always push in the way that that petal is growing there. Let's add a bit more. Now, I'm going to go one way like this slightly curved. Notice how I'm turning in like this. That kind of turns the rose petal here. It goes this way, this way, this way. It's pulling in, pulling this way, pulling this way. That's what we call a transitional petal. Then I'll push in and out a bit. If you don't want to push in and out, go back and make that half tone. Pushing in and out works really well. Let's just take a little bit more of this. Now, as I come around, I want to follow that circle. Don't violate that circle. Kind of follow that circle. Let's push one right in there like that and push in and out. That creates that softness of it. Maybe a little bit smaller back here. Just a bit of one and push in and out like that. That just gives a little rose to the back there. Let's take just a little more water. Maybe cool this down. Drop its value down. Add a little bit of your red violet right over here. This cools down a bit. Sometimes I'll even, when I get real casual, you see me do painted simply casual flowers, I'll just pull out and let it really granulate out. Just push like that and push out here like that. Nice and casual. It's on the shadow side. The petals get lost and very wispy out over there. Now I have a bowl petal and I have a reaching petal and now I've got a petal in between. Now I have this petaling area here in between. What I'm going to do is lighten up again. I don't want it quite so cool so let's get a little warm in there. Sometimes I'll even put a little yellow in there just like that. I love some of those colors. We've got to go up towards our nines here now and up towards our 10. So up almost to white or tinted white here. Now this is where I can put a larger petal here. Sometimes I'll add another row of petals pulling in. There are stroke flowers that I do what I call two. So it would be like here one, two, and then two on here and then a chisel. That fills up a rose really nice. Sometimes I just fill up mostly with bowl petals. Here I'm going to come in. I'm going to add just one more row here of lighter petal here and push in and out like that. Let's add another row right here of a light petal. Push in and out with the direction you want that to go. Maybe just a little bit of that because it's heading to the shadow side. So I just push like that. So I'm pulling in always imagining where that stem would be and that's kind of where I'm just pulling in and I can put a lot of texture. Sometimes I paint with lots of texture, sometimes not very much. I can soften this with a half tone. I can come in here and push a half tone in there and soften that out. I can just push with my finger and keep that movement. I do both. But the thing is the shape. The petals are getting a little smaller. Here's your biggest petals. Those are your most adult. They're getting a little smaller as I'm coming back towards the bowl. Now I'll pick up just mostly white here and I'll just angle a petal in here like that. When I angle a petal in here like that I can push to the bowl or I can push to the bottom here. So if I push to the bottom almost rounding this down like that this becomes a little bit of a bowl petal here. All I'm looking for is the movement. I might pull down just a bit here like that so I get a nice pretty movement right there into that bowl here. Sometimes I'll point it up a little bit more so the rose gets a little different shape to it. There's a lot of different ways and so in all the exercises you'll see some different ways in which I set the roses. Here I just round like this. Just put a little bit in there like that and I just want to push it into the bowl. Just push that bowl shadow in like that and just catch the movement because I'm heading to the shadow side here. I don't want to show too much. Now if you need to reset a shadow or if you lost some of your shadow just take a little bit of your shadow color and lift up like that and re-establish it. Anytime you'll see me in many lessons and books and everything you'll see me say restate, re-establish, restate your shadow if you need to. Get your shadow back in there because that bowl shadow is so important to the shape of this rose here. It's so important and sometimes just leave the movement. Leave that little bowl movement. It looks like you can come in here and stroke out like that. It looks like little petals onto that side. It makes it pretty. Now let's wipe our brush. Let's go a little bit more white and maybe sometimes I will just come in here like this and chisel a petal in like that. Maybe this time I'll push the bowl up onto the top like that so that becomes more of a reaching type petal. A petal that goes to the outside there of that bowl. Pull that in like that. So the bowl, let's put a little bit of our pink bowl color in. We'll come around like that. You can push that around. Maybe round this one up right here a bit. Always looking for that roundness and there's a thousand ways you can petal this rose. So I'm just going to add just a little bit more here like that and push in and out. So if I am painting a reaching petal, a petal coming out of the bowl, I push in and out this way. If I'm painting a bowl petal, I round it and push it up and down that way. I lost just a bit of this one so I'll just restate the light onto that one again and let those just kind of come together there like that. Let that movement just kind of come together but you can still see a bit of that bowl right in there and that's the important part. Now sometimes with some roses, not all lessons, that's your basic rose. How I paint the basic rose. Do you do one, two, one, two, and then one or you know what that doesn't make a difference. That's your basic rose. You just fill up as many petals as you can. Now sometimes I come back I'll pick up some of my light color and I'll come in here and I'll add a little tip just a bit of light like that. Now you can soften that with the push. Sometimes that's a little difficult to do that so I'll go back here and this nice summer heat is drying this up a bit so I'll add just a bit of water to my original gray and just soften that just ever so much just a little bit right there. So sometimes I come back pick up just a little bit of light here and just touch a little bit of light and that makes a real pretty little rose right like that with little light little light highlights here a little more highlight to the light side and then leave that to the shadow side here and it makes it real pretty. When I want to do small things I just push into the paint just a bit like that just pick up a little bit of that light pull that in and that gives you a nice little set. Now that's basically how I paint a nice you know a nice casual rose and like I said you can you can make it more complex you can make it simpler you know you can make it real simple and when I get to buds and stuff like that and some of the other lessons you'll see me make it very simple. Here I take a little black and green that makes your base excuse me a black and yellow that makes your base olive green. I like to add a little warmth to that sometimes a little touch of the cool color here makes you almost like a nice burnt sienna real brownish kind of color that makes pretty colors here for for stems here like this and I might just stem up some of this and just push stems around I like to do that just use the chisel sometimes I'll come through with more little stems and stuff off of that real real chisel you can you know use your leaves you can change this right over to leaves how we do leaves we take a little yellow and a little black sometimes a little blue if I want more of those blue green leaves and stuff but the the the greens that you know real casual beautiful greens here are basically come from this olive green is what I use a lot in painting but I'll make a green like that we'll learn about your leaves your leaves are just an oval shape so I usually just pull down and then I widen out my oval pulling in I always like to leave a little space there of that background that's just part of the technique I like to do and then I just leave it like that then I just drag my finger through and lift off so I get a little light side and a little shadow side and it's a realism it shears that paint really nice it looks pretty good you know for a for a leaf like this you can put a lighter color or a little shadow color here I'll put a little bit of brown out for a little stem right there into that but that looks pretty good sometimes I'll thin the color out with a little water like this and and that will make them a little softer see how that's a little softer there and that'll make and I do different types of leaves like that and just pull down pull down and you can see I get a light side and a shadow side to that real easy now you can like I showed you negative painting and stuff you can come in here and negative paint around the back edge of this rose here maybe just pull out some of the color there like this just negative paint around follow you know draw the shape of a you know a more precise little petal there and that looks pretty nice as well you can use all different kinds of colors and that's the beautiful thing about painting like this very casual you know you can put a little pink and stuff into this let's thin this out a bit here not too much on my brush or wipe some off and just push some casual color back through here back like that and that just moves this is what I like to do I it's like enhances the movement of your background and and just light transparent like this so you're using the water to help some of your transparency give a little bit of movement there sometimes I'll pull a little bit of light right up there from the front of that but a lot of times you just you know we're just painting a simple little rose composition here this is your basic rose and so I'll rinse my brush off here and so you have when you look at your rose through here you have your three circles one two and three you have a light side and a shadow side to it it's just a basic part of building the rose like that how many times you petal you can put on just a bold petal and then just reaching petals I do that in some of the the painted simply the early books painting impression books painting impressions volume one and two and I show you some basic blossoms and basic roses and in those books I you know I'll pedal rose just once and you see strokes and pedal rose once or pedal twice there's a lot of different ways to do it and that's one of the things that we have here in painted simply one of my jobs is to give you the technical techniques the technical part of it using sheer using the half tones finding these techniques and then how you go about pedaling a rose is going to become part of your signature as an artist okay and so there's no just one way you want to kind of fill up this rose you fill up a lot of petals you make it look like a mom but that's how you paint a mom as well there's a lot of things that we'll do we'll head over after some of these lessons we head over into the exercises and I'll be showing you more advanced paintings and everything and we'll show you some different ways you'll see some fun ways to to pedal different roses we'll try some different colors and some different things as well but this is your basic basic rose here of course you can make it more basic you can make it really basic and just stop right where like I did like six minutes into the video and that road it's still a beautiful rose okay but we're going to show you all different kinds of ways to pedal that's what makes the rose different all right okay so that's your basic rose painted pure acrylic you look at it it looks like it's painted in oils doesn't it looks exactly like it's painted in oils and it's not it's painted with acrylic and it's painted just using the values using your value scale and controlling your colors that way all right okay let's go over and let's do some more