How to Paint Tiny Florals in Watercolor (World Watercolor Month Day 10)

Hey friends welcome to day 10 of our 31 days of watercolor practice for World Watercolor Month. Today we're going to be continuing our brush stroke practice by creating some really cute tiny flowers. So let's jump in and get started. Okay friends today we are on day 10 of our watercolor practice. I am once again working in my Artex watercolor journal. It's 100% cotton cold pressed. I have my Mei Liang palette here and a size 6 round brush. So yesterday we worked on our brush strokes to create leaves and today we're continuing that to create tiny flowers. So we're going to be working with tinier strokes today, not as long and as dragged out as the leaves, but really using the same kind of formula. So today I just want to kind of fill this page with like a floral pattern of really easy brush strokes. I want you to pick any color that makes you happy. We're going to start with our first flower. I'm going to take this like purpley color and I want you to imagine actually you know what we're going to do. Now you know yes I want you to I'm going to maybe mix it with blue. I love a blue and a purple. I want you to imagine like a little bit of a center here or you can just kind of draw like a little circle if that helps and we're going to create some petals going around by using that brush stroke but we're going to be making it smaller. So again I am using my smaller brush my size 6 and you're doing that light pressure so you have a nice tip light heavy light to create these petal shapes and all you're going to do for our first flower is go around in a circle. Now you can create any shapes you want or any color you want for this flower but we're trying to make it tiny. It's kind of like a sunflower shape and what I want you to imagine when you're doing this flower is all the petals are pointing right back to the center here. You don't want them a little bit off. Now I'm going to let that dry and then we're going to do another round of petals. So see I have those kind of funny marks that we were talking about yesterday of how it like pools in one area and dries quicker. You can kind of just skim over it and just move the pigment a little bit. I'm going to let that dry a bit like that and then we'll go over that in a pink and a yellowy color. For this flower I'm going to create five little dots. One, two, three, four, five like this. Then I'm going to rinse off my brush so I don't have much pigment on there and all I'm going to do is I'm going to again use that brush stroke I'm going to curve it a little bit more and lift a bit more abruptly so we don't have that point to create this more loose kind of style petal. So touching that with our the tip of our brush I'm going to press down and then lift up so it's more rounded. I'm going to do it again so it's a thicker petal. I'm going to rinse off my brush so we're getting also a really nice light petal a little bit more of a rounded petal like that and I'm kind of like curving it and just filling in the middle. You can even just draw it out if it's easier for you. If you're having trouble getting in that stroke that light pressure heavy pressure stroke you can just draw it with the tip of your brush and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to take that color again oops it mixed weirdly here and I'm just going to touch where we put those dots like that and kind of watch it explode and that's another fun shape. Okay I'm still waiting for this one to dry. Okay another fun flower that you can do I'm going to take this cobalt blue color I'm actually no I'm going to take a green first I'm going to start with a stem over here really thin stem and we're going to add stems to all of these flowers in a little bit but I'm going to start with a stem on this one and I'm going to take this kind of bluish purpley color and this time instead of doing like a full stroke I'm just going to tap the top the tip of my brush to get these tiny little petals like this and it's kind of like lavender or delphiniums you can just tap all the way down if you want you know what let's do some like lavender I'm just tapping the tip of my brush to get these little strokes and look how beautiful that is let's do another one that's like right beside it okay you can kind of go right through the second one here nice thin stem get our color and I'm just gonna tap like this kind of like in a v formation but you don't want it to be v's going all the way down like this where they're like even you want maybe two or three a little bit more asymmetry so they look a little bit more accurate to like a real flower it's not completely symmetrical there we go okay so there's another little flower let's do I think this one's dry I'm going to take that purple color and I'm going to create more of these petals going in between those first petals and we get kind of like this layered look see that and again you can kind of move the the paint like so like that okay now if you want to add some stems to these little flowers you can remember if there is a wet paint I'm shaky today if there's a wet um like petal already and you touch it with a wet stem it's probably going to bleed into that that's okay it's not a it's not a big deal but just be aware if you want to wait for it to completely dry you can do that and then you can do kind of like a little leaf again like we practiced yesterday maybe this one I'll just do like a little leaf kind of coming out the side maybe this one doesn't have a stem I'm going to do another little stem kind of coming out this way but then like a leaf at the end like that okay so there are three little flowers let's do one with like thicker petals so I'm going to grab like an orange color maybe mix it with this red and I'm going to imagine a center here like this okay or not imagine I just drew it and I'm going to use kind of like the side of my brush a little bit and I'm just going to do so again I'm pressing and dragging and lift and I'm just going to make it a little bit thicker there's one petal I'm going to connect them I'm going to do another one on this side two petals three petals like this and then the one underneath I want this to look like it's kind of tilted I'm just going to do like this u-shape underneath and it's going to be kind of like a poppy and I'm just going to fill it in like that then I'm going to I know it looks a little weird right now but it will look better once we do a little bit more detail I'm going to grab my green I'm going to do a little stem I'm going to do like a little jagged leaf so like our light pressure heavy pressure light pressure and I'm going to go over the same thing kind of making it spiky like this I'm going to do another one again that v formation right coming off the stem you're just lifting and dragging that compound stroke everything is based off that compound stroke and we're going to let that one dry for a minute okay let's do another one let's do like a yellow flower this one maybe we'll do two I'm going to do a little circle there for our guide and a circle here now I'm going to do similar to this but I'm going to make it a little bit thicker so I'm just pressing a little bit more and I'm bringing these petals right back to the center it's the same stroke that we did our leaves just going all the way around they're a little bit thicker this one I'm going to give a different perspective to give like more tilted perspective all you have to do is put longer leaves on or longer pet leaves petals on one side so I'm going to put longer petals over here and then when I get around to this side I make them a little bit shorter and that gives a bit of a tilted perspective okay I'm going to grab my green and I'm going to do a stem and a stem you can even do like little bits of green maybe this is like a sunflower kind of behind it like that and then your leaves okay then we're going to wait for these to dry I'm just going to do some leaves we're going to wait for these to dry and we're going to come back and just do our final little details on these tiny little flowers to finish these off all you're going to do is add your tiny little details you can add your centers if you want to add a little bit more detail to some of the petals maybe take a darker value of that color or a slightly darker like this one I'm using a little bit of yellow ochre for some of these petals and I'm just adding some lines to separate some of the the petals on the flower but you can add centers you can add kind of textured lines just be creative with this and what you're focusing on are the brush strokes that we've learned but also how much water and how much paint you're using you really don't want to use a lot of water with this because we're working so small you want to use the least amount of water that you can tap your brush on your paper towel if you feel like you're uh you have too much here I'm just going to kind of add some little lines for this flower and I'm just going to go across so it looks like this one's kind of folded like that but you really don't need a lot of water for these so now with the tip of your brush work on those fine tiny details and then you'll be done all right and there we go there is my cute little pattern of really simple tiny flowers I filled in some areas with greenery just like some of the leaves that we did over here just to make it a little bit fuller but have fun take your time and enjoy the process thank 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