Try this UNIQUE AUTHENTIC way to paint Valentines ROSES (PLUS a gorgeous floral WATERCOLOR WARMUP)

[Music] hi everyone Diane here welcome to my studio today we're going to be painting in my Viva Sketchbook and I'm going to be using the viiva color sheets and a cataki water pen sorry water brush and we're going to be painting some roses the water brush is really good for painting roses because you can get a nice C shape so after we've done the Roses we'll do some abstract flowers okay so let's get started picking up some pigment on the brush and basically drawing lots of little concentric C- shapes where you come in with the brush press down hard and lift up and overlap them slightly leaving a little space between each layer of petals until you've built up something that looks something like a rose and now I've changed my I'm changing my color from a sort of peachy color to a pink and doing exactly the same thing and if you just watch what I'm doing you can see pressure goes down to make the broader parts and then you lift up again to to make the lighter part and you can if you want to to to give a shadow area just come back in with a little bit more pigment and drop it in to the to the petals so that it it darkens in certain parts of the petal I'm going to have a go doing a bud here I'm not very good at doing Buds and I'm just picking up a little bit of extra pigment there that I've put a little bit too much in the center of that Rose and I'm I'm doing a bud but um and if it doesn't work out you know you can always paint over the top of whatever it is that you've done but don't be too hasty to do that because you never know when it's dry it might look completely different now let's put another sort of dark peachy orangey one down here and this is this is just a warm up you know you can just do this kind of thing when you you don't know what to paint just paint some roses they're very forgiving they don't ask for a lot they're not complicated not like we are here's a nice red one that would be nice for Valentine's wouldn't it a nice bunch of roses and you can do some of them a little bit more from one side like this one rather than top down and uh I'm just looking for a slightly different color here I'm sorry you can't quite see the um the color sheets very easily there but I've I've picked up some nice bright yellow there as a contrast and we'll do the same thing again and another peachy colored one once you get into the flow of this you know it's it's not that difficult I don't I'm not happy with that bud so I'm going to paint over it and turn it into a flower into a rose full-blown Rose perhaps one that's going a little bit um past its prime so it's a little bit blurry and put another one here and when we've got enough we will start thinking about stems and leaves put one down here the key thing here is making sure you leave spaces between the petals that's what actually makes it look more like a rose if you can bring yourself to leaving spaces between the petals I've picked up some um sap green and I'm going to paint in some leaves and I'm going to keep them very simple plenty of water and one of the things with the water brush is if when you're using it you don't have to keep dipping obviously you don't have to keep dipping your brush into the water so you just press down a little bit and squeeze a little bit on the barrel of the brush if you haven't tried one of these brush pens yet um or water brush or whatever they want to be called water brush I suppose um give it a go they're not very expensive and they are quite fun they're actually uh different slightly different experience they're really good for traveling so you can uh don't need to carry water with you if you're you know sitting at the beach painting the waves and everything you can just whip out your water brush put another one over here and the this water brush is nice because it has a a nice brush on it and it's got nice point and so you're not really sacrificing any details or anything like that it actually does does the job of any other brush really quite remarkable was quite surprised when I tried this out and put nice little pink one over here nice and delicate maybe one more pink one up the top here to fill up that space and I think we're probably about done now with this [Music] one so we'll go to leaves just splash in a few leaves here and there I think so let's pick up a bit more sap green when you're using the um color sheets you tend not to bother too much about mixing paints you tend to use them more kind of neat from the from the sheets but uh there's some nice bright colors some nice colors in those sets if you want to give them a try they're not very expensive just go to viviva uh viva's website the um link is in the description below and you get an extra discount from us if you go there and order them that way they also have the little um cork palettes with the paints in uh all in one layer so you can see them all at once which is quite nice I like that system perhaps even better than the sheets but uh it's a matter of taste really so there we are page of roses I hope you enjoyed that and now we will carry Straight on from there and we'll construct ourselves a nice sheet of complete completely abstract blossoms and I'm going to use the bright colors the yellows the oranges and the Reds from the viviva sheets and just have a bit of fun here not worrying about making them look like anything specific this is the kind of design that when you've done it you might feel that you want to come in with um a Tombo pen or something like that fine liner of some sort or you know an ink pen of some sort and outline the flowers and leaves and give them a little bit more um punch but you don't have to do that by any means you can just enjoy the Pure Color of these paints they are a bit different from um ordinary watercolor I think they're made with a kind of dye rather than pigment so they're much cleaner and brighter I don't I can't say whether they would be 100% fade proof proof but you know so many of us these days um the way we keep our work is is by photographing it and putting it on the computer and computer images don't fade so we don't really need to worry too much about that as long as you know as long as you're not going to have be hanging your picture in the sunshine where it probably would fade no matter what it was especially if you live in a sunny climate uh no matter what paints you use they always say even people like wisor and new always say you know don't hang your painting in direct sunlight if you don't want it to fade and when you do this you can just use you know any colors anywhere you like it's just a way of relaxing it's just a way of finding you know a little bit of inner peace take your mind off all your troubles for a few minutes we need it don't we it's a very nice yellow yellow is one of those colors if it's too acidic and too sort of greenish um it can be a little bit uncomfortable but um this yellow is nice and warm it's a lovely beautiful shiny Sunny sunshiny daffodil yellow color so that's that's lovely to use it goes really well with the oranges and the Reds these colors also they don't fade very much uh when they dry you know how a lot of watercolors um when you put them on the paper they're lovely and bright while they're wet but then the minute they're dry they they kind of go dull and lose a bit of their intensity well these reval ones are quite nice they don't do that as much as um as some paints do I'm determined I'm going to cover the whole of this sheet of paper with these flowers so and just keeping on going but if you wanted to just paint a little spray like that put in the corner of a page I don't know if you're doing a junk journal or any kind of journaling you don't have to fill the whole page you can just put a few flowers in one corner and pop your uncle you know you've created something special and somebody had a good idea the other day I remember them saying I know it's oldfashioned to write letters but some people still do occasionally and you can put some flowers in the corner of the not paper that you're using it's a nice idea if you have anybody that can still read in your family and doesn't talk in acronyms and emojis by the time you've painted a page of uh flowers and leaves using the water brush you will have got to grips with its characteristics for sure and you'll have discovered what it can do and what it can't do and um you'll have decided then whether or not you're going to make it part of your um your equipment set not all water brushes are made equal there are some manufacturers who are making ones which are not that easy to fill and they're not that easy to use but this green one this kiraki one is actually surprisingly good yes and you unscrew it in order to fill it up with water you can unscrew the barrel take it apart and and then just immerse it in water squeeze the barrel and it will um sort of suck up the water and um and then Bob's your uncle again he's busier is Uncle Bob um yeah so that's and some people fill them up using a syringe or something but you don't need to do that that's too fiddly by far you just stick it in a bucket of water and squeeze it and it'll fill up of its own accord no problem just screw it back together again dry it off and off you go and while you're doing this you can think about anything else that you want to think about you can think about where you're going to go for your next holiday it's bit like being in the hairdresser you know how it is in the hairdressers when you sit down and they start cutting your hair and they go almost certainly this is in England anyway so have you had a holiday yet this year and you go no no I don't know if we're going to go away this year and off you go you know next thing you know you're telling them the story of your life it's always like that in the hairdresser that's why I don't go anymore too much life to tell a story of but um but yeah no you can sort of go down memory lane can't you while you're painting this and another thing you could do that also if you divide if you use a piece of paper that's not in a Sketchbook what wonderful uh bookmarks this would make or a card for somebody you know a beautiful page of lovely cheerful spring flowers we could do with a bit of spring some of our bulbs are coming up we've got a few um just poking their leaves above the ground there's a few snow drops there's going to be some daffodils they're coming up I'm hoping for crocuses and um a few other things we'll see tulips a bit later on they always come a bit later than the daffodils that is if we can keep the dogs and cats off of them and the builders we have indeed got the builders in at the moment and they are you know trampling all over everything but they've fixed the studio roof you'll be glad to hear that has been repaired and so next winter I won't have to sit here um gritting my teeth and crossing my fingers and holding on to my hat in fear of the roof blowing off in the next hurricane um we should be okay fingers crossed they've sprayed the house and the studio with something which can't help but be toxic it must be they say it isn't but I don't know um which just got rid of all the mold and it's looking much better shant be embarrassed to take photos of it now and yeah there's a lot more to be done it's amazing when you have build builders in how they eat into your day before you know where you are you've made 20 cups of coffee and you know that's the way it is now if you're doing a painting like this and you're going to cover a sheet with flowers like this don't forget to try and keep it consistent so that as you go across um from one side to the other you might sort of change the color a little bit but you want it to be more or less consistent so that it doesn't look like you forgot where you were going halfway over and um I think I'm managing that I'm sort of keeping an eye just glancing over to the left to make sure that I'm getting the ratio of red to Yellow more or less the same and um and putting in leaves in a fairly balanced way as well I'm not putting too much effort into the leaves and the stems they're just really just there for the contrasting color you could of course have um used Brown in of green for the leaves and you could have given your yourself a sort of autumnal tinge then if you um you could use a nice burnt sienna and that would also work or even go as far as a burnt umber um which is a nice dark brown or van Dy brown one of those colors I will put links in the description below for the materials that I've used and um so you'll be able to follow that through and pop over to our Amazon shop at amazon.com sshop Danton studio and there's also a.ca and. co.uk shop as well for Canada and England and um if you order anything from Amazon after having visited our shop or use one of our links then we get a a small but um very helpful little uh amount of commission from Amazon and if you buy something from the viviva website similarly we will benefit and I think you'll get 10% discount as well if you go over there so why not go and have a look and um yeah so we're just coming to the end now I'm just going over some of the flowers and giving them a little bit more um depth by adding some slightly darker yellow onto the yellow ones and popping a few more bits and pieces in and um yeah and as I said you could come in with a fine liner or or a Tombo pen or something like that and give this a whole completely different character by using it as a basis for Line work um but you definitely don't have to and if you feel like it's um what you wanted to achieve you've achieved with the brush then you know call it done and um move on to the next thing sometimes it's hard to know where to stop and you know I I'm fiddling around here just adding a a little bit here and a little bit there and you could go on forever until you've completely ruined it but uh chances are the best thing to do is to stop and pause and let it dry and come back and say it's done and then we can take a look at the roses that we did earlier and um now they're both all dry as well and I'm quite pleased with those actually they've got quite a nice vintage look to them so we can uh we can be happy with our after afternoon's work I think so I think it's time probably for a cup of tea and I'll let you go and um I will see you again soon so I'll say bye-bye for now and I'll leave you with a little um Montage of paintings which we've done recently that you can find in our back catalog and which you might like to have a go at so I'll say bye-bye for now and see you soon bye-bye everyone [Music] [Music] [Music]