PAINT Whimsical Wild Watercolor Weeds with ME (PLUS TWO book reviews + FREE Sketch from our website)

come on lty are you going to go for a walk Li there we go hi everyone Diane here welcome to my channel hope everyone's well and ready to embark on the latest Adventure in painting um that said I have been suffering from painters block the last two days I think I outp painted myself um and so today I'm going to use for reference a book which um um I have just recently bought actually on Kindle having then discovered that if I look at it on my Kindle it's in black and white so that's not much use but I can see it in color on my iPad so that's okay this is Inc and wash florals by Camila damso bricks um and it's an interesting book because she approaches the subject which um is quite dear to my heart I do a lot of this kind of painting but my style is utterly different from hers so if you don't like my style why don't you go and take a look at her book I'm not quite sure what to do I've got some interesting floral things here um which I could paint for example this this is a leak seed head and it's absolutely amazing it reminds me of aliums these leaks they go to flower like this I suppose they are an aliam aren't they leaks um and then when they go to se SE they're like I mean look at the size of it that's my hand it's absolutely gigantic and I've also got here um we've got hydranges here because in France that's going to fall over now um in France hydrangeas are very very popular they are very hard to kill I know that because we dug one up about 10 times before it finally gave up the ghost um had to dig it up because it was going under the house anyway this one is drying beautifully and um is green and pink at the moment and that would that would be lovely if I could paint it but I'm not quite sure that I feel after to that today um lots of detail there and of course the older they get the more interesting so you know these are lovely things for Autumn aren't they and always interesting to look at what happens when things fade be like people they get much more interesting as they get older so that's that and here's another one this one is really pretty we' still got some blue and some brown that's a lovely combination of colors there um and I've also got a few other seed heads and things like that there's this one here um now let me think what's that that's fennel Tam in said um that's fennel seeds there so yeah that's that and this as well I think is is the same thing while it's still in flower I mean they're lovely aren't they makes you think about pressing flowers doesn't it you remember when we used to dry them when we were kids used to go and pick things out from nature bring them home you wouldn't press one of these but then I never saw one of those until I was much older we didn't have them where I lived in swanley um so I'm just putting those back in the water I'll probably try and dry some of those well actually I already have I brought some hydranges into the house and apparently you don't need to put them in glycerin hydranges because they just dry naturally eventually and they will last throughout the whole winter so what am I going to do that's a very good question I've got another good book here too actually um well I don't know if it's a good book or not I'm not entirely sure it is but it is a book and it's called making winter it was published in 2017 so it was before the pandemic so it does have a rather sort of um complacent kind of air about it which we don't have anymore and it's all about how to make the most of the bad weather when you live in the Western Hemisphere Northern north north northern hemisphere and in the west I would say um this picture attracted my attention though because um this looks like musley but it's not that's fat balls for the birds but I rather like the combination of colors and things in that picture although has to be said that the quality of printing these days is not what it used to be and uh so anyway I would sort of recommend this book I don't think Kay has reviewed this one yet on Art Book Nook but um there's quite a few pictures in here there's also a few ideas about drawing and so on and so forth and um there some pieces like this so it's quite nice this is quite nice that Bird's leg in the right place um yeah so I don't know I just don't know what to do really I mean this would be quite nice I was thinking actually maybe I'll do this because I was thinking about painting some glass bottles cuz I did a sketch the other day for the sketch tber thing of this little bottle we have quite a lot of these here which we found in the garden this one says on it tincture of iodine so it would have been Medicine of some sort probably for the animals that used to live here I expect and um it's quite fun to draw and then I've just turned to this page here um which has got all these twiy things in these bottles and things I've got that one too actually I think I've got one just like that oh well this one doesn't have any writing on it it just says pot but it's a very similar sort of Jar so I could collect together a few little jars like that and make an arrangement like that so I think that's what I'm going to do okay so I have got a little ceramic jar this is I think used to have a lid and it would have probably contained something um edible and then I've got a little Japanese tea cup like that and then I've got my glass um tincture of iodine bottle and then this one which I think is an ink bottle I think this was for ink it had a cork in the top it's very very old it's got lots of um cing in the glaze and uh it's definitely been used for ink um not quite sure where that came from and then I'm going to draw some um flowers coming out the top of these I'm not quite sure which way around to do it maybe I'll do it this way I was thinking the other way but I think I'll do it this way and I'm going to put those in an arrangement in front of me and then I'm going to draw them with a pen and uh see how that goes and then I'll color them in so right down the bottom here you're going to put the table so to speak and um so let's you know the the problem with um using cold press paper which is what I'm using at the moment is that it has a texture and the texture kind of makes it harder to get the fine liner to um to uh take on the paper I'm going to go right down there I probably should have used hot press so I'm going to go right down there like that with that one and then the next one is going to go up here and I'm not bothering too much about scale you know that is to say the relative size of these containers I'm just letting letting things happen um let's put that up a bit higher scale and perspective are not going to be terribly important i' I've given up on all of that so we just well I haven't completely good up and then this one behind I'm going to put that one [Music] overlapping it's got these grooves around the top there where something was screwed in lid okay so there we are we've got our four containers and then we're going to I think I'm going to switch to a slightly thicker P actually let's see what I can find 8 that's perhaps bigger and then let us just yeah that's a bit L I'm looking at this photo here which is a bit dark but uh I'll probably be able to get something out of it but I'm going to be working largely from imagination so I'm going to I'm using that and we'll put some shadow in behind and actually I think rather than use this photo I think I'll use what I've got here in front of me which is like I said the fennel so we'll just make it up as we go along really just sketching this in I always try to encourage people not to be afraid of drawing any more than I am cuz we all are we St we I'm an AR and I'm an AR and I'm an AR and I don't know I don't know I don't know this has got sort of kind of leaves coming out like that it's broken and we can put color on there and it's yellow it's quite a lot of heads so we put that aside and then um let's see what should we do next here let's have a catkin the catkins um normally come out in the spring so I suppose you could say we're looking towards the spring here even though winter hasn't even really arrived so we'll just draw these grayish ckins in which are coming out of a long straights then I'm going to paint those in in a nice soft gray soon and this part is going to be blue and that one is beige and this one is brown and in here I'm going to put I'm going to put some pansies we've still got Pan's flowering in the garden which is nice so pan he draw backwards sea under sea and then for the bottom of the flow we do a upside down part and then we do two petals like that and two Petals in the back we darken the center a little bit and put some lines coming out to show the shape of the petals and then we put stem going into the water and we could put a leaf out the back like that and we have these sort of Scoopy sort of leaves could put another one down there behind and now on this one we could do some catkins so we'll make the stem go up like this and then it's going to Branch out and we'll do that reasonably strong that is to say reasonably dark and then we'll do the catkins kind of fluffy like this and uh another one up here and over here okay so there we are now we've got a nice kind of arrangement there there's the table going along behind and the next thing I think what we can do now is to paint it and question is what colors are we going to use and what brush so let's go for a mediumsized or relatively small I think that's about a an eight yes that's an eight round brush and um we could start at the bottom and go up or we could start at the top and come down or we could do whatever we want to do this the flowers are yellow is so if I look at them again um I know the light's not very good in here today it's raining again as you can probably hear so I think what I'll do I need my I'm just going to put dabs of yellow on all of those flowers like that and then it's got quite green stems so we'll go for some of the I think this is um sap green light and they do have a sort of green Cent on the flowers so I'll just dab in a bit of that and then we'll paint the leaves and I'm not the petals no I'll get that right in a minute bear with me we'll paint the stems but we're not going to make any effort to keep to the lines we're just going to paint the lines in using the brush as a pencil kind of thing so just like that and and then I've got my um this is beige so we will use I'm going to use some shell pink for the pot which I think will look okay and do the whole thing in Shell pink like that and then maybe we'll pick up a little bit of um this is yellow ochre and we use that for the shadow on the inside okay and then the next one is ckins which are a sort of nice soft gray color and I've got ultramarine here that's ultramarine and we'll just mix a little bit of burnt sienna with that to give us a nice gray and then we'll pop in our catkins not catkins um willow yes willow there we are so that's done and then we want a bit more blue so we'll just pull out a bit more blue in there and cuz our little pot is blue and I'm not going to paint the whole of that because I don't want it to touch there I'm going to add a little bit more burnt sienna to the blue so that we can have some Shadow for the inside okay so Rel that like that with a a light area where it's reflecting and um so then the next one is the pansy and I always think pansies are nice when they're purple don't you so what we'll do with the pans is we'll wet the Le the petals I'm not the only person that says leaves when I mean petals I've noticed this okay and then I'm going to pick up some of this uh color and just very lightly put some around the edge have to be delicate with this delicate is not necessarily me so we'll do that and we'll do that on this one [Music] too and let it move towards the center and we could paint the whole of the one in the background the two in the background like that and then we want some yellow for the very center we just drop that in and let that move out as well which it will and I'm going to do two in the back here yellow because we have that combination too in our garden and then we need some leaves so we'll do some leaves we just paint these leaves and once I've painted them in the light green I'll just pick up some dark green to put a little bit of Shadow on there so just little bit of Darker green and I'll paint the stems and then that's done so now we have the bottle to do which is I think a sort of quinacridone gold color I hope you are noticing that every time I pick up a color I do mix it with water I don't go straight from the uh and I don't work straight from the tube or straight from the the pan this is a pallet I take some water I go into the pan and I paint okay so that's that one this is looking very nice quite happy with this and then now we've got the katkins and they are kind of greenish yellow so we'll mix up some greenish yellow like this and I might add a little bit of shell pink to that and then I'm going to paint those in and maybe a Teensy bit of quinacridone gold for the Shadow on those and then the stems the stick is brown so we'll go with uh Brenna and little bit of purple so we'll just paint over the stems the twiy bits and then this Dish Dish pot that's the problem you see that's the thing your language goes out the window when you're thinking about painting okay so now I want a sort of beige for that one so let's just go with that that's a mixture of BN Sienna and shell shell pink I think and so I think I need a little bit of blue to make the gray for the inside Shadow area like that and here and we'll let that dry and then just some what color should we do for the bottom theato I don't think it needs much does it maybe a little bit of a slightly different green perhaps just to sort of settle it down so there we are that's that then I'm quite happy with that the pansies have come out fine haven't they might want to actually just put little bit of blue in there to just give us some depth to that bars and this one too a little bit around here so here we are we have got our fennel our willow our pansies and our catkins so in remembrance of the spring and uh don't forget take a look at the uh book well as's a couple of them I'll put them in the links below because this was the inspiration I think you all agree I went a long way from where she was in that photo so that was just I think this is the thing you see you just you look at the photo and you think oh yeah I could do something like that that's just a photo but mine is obviously completely different needless to say and also I haven't got the actual book like I said I did just by on Kindle but incam wash florals by Camila damso bricks and take a look at K review of that if you're at all interested in purchasing it it might just be exactly what you're looking for I'm not going to say it's up my alley I don't paint like that but it is nevertheless always good to have hundreds if not thousands of books in your library so that you've always got something to turn to for inspiration and then you know what's really good actually final thought it's good if you don't like the way somebody else paints because you look at what they've done and you say I can do better than that so there we are let's put that in the mix shall we I'm going to let you go now it's pouring with rain it feels like winter already and yet it's only September the 8th and 2 weeks to my next birthday I don't want to know about that so I'll let you go and I shall speak to you soon bye for now everybody bye-bye [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]