How To Paint Flowers in Watercolor

Sometimes watercolor painting outdoors is not always an attractive option.  For some of us, it is more convenient and enjoyable to take photographs of our favorite scenes or objects and paint them in the studio.  In the following watercolor painting video, Artist Debi Watson shares her techniques for doing just that.

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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step By Doris Joa

About Doris Joa

My name is Doris Joa and I am an artist from Germany.

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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step – Part 2

I have started with the painting.

Here is a photo of the drawing. As you can see, the detail is not very good. I am sorry.

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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step – Part 3

I have worked a bit more on this rose painting. I darkened the leaves more around the buds. I did this with using sap green, alizarin crimoson and phthalo blue. I mixed the colours on my palette. I also added some of the rose colour on the leaves, as I described this Part V. Then I removed the masking fluid of the first rose, because I do not like to leave the masking fluid on the painting too long. I am fearful that if I leave the masking fluid on the paper too long, I will not be able to remove it, so I simply removed it.

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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step – Part 4

I worked on the leaves more. I added more depth to them with a mix of alizarin crimson, phthalo blue and sap green. I also added more colour here and there to the roses. I also began painting some of the stems. Here I have started with an underlayer of indian yellow and then I added a wash of sap green and then I added alizarin crimson. I still have to paint some leaves, then I can finally with the stamens and adding the background. I love how this painting looks so far – hopefully you are liking it as well.

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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step – Part 5

I have done the next step. Although I have not worked on all stamens yet, I did more work on the background. I was too curious to see how it would look.

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