Turning Watercolour BLOBS Into an EASY and Beautiful Bouquet!

Hey everyone, I want to play and teach you how to paint this because I'm making this for all you nanas. All your nanas. We are going to make something for nanas. So hey everyone, welcome back to another video. My name is Emily Fave. I have my son Miles who is homesick today but I thought he could just, you know, hang out with us and introduce today's video. So today we are on to painting another Mother's Day card idea. I love doing these. I'm going to be away for Mother's Day. I'm going to be on my retreat in Greece but I'm really hoping that a special someone may have something planned for mummy for Mother's Day. Do you have anything planned? Yeah. Are you going to make me something for Mother's Day? Yeah. Is mummy a good mummy? I'll make something for grandma and you. Oh thank you so much. For daddy and Noah. Okay. Okay. For just everyone in the family? Yeah. Okay. So let's jump in and get started. Okay friends, we are on to our last Mother's Day card idea. I want to make this one quick and easy and it doesn't have to be a Mother's Day card idea. We're going to do a little banner and then some florals kind of jumping out of it but you could always write happy birthday, best wishes, my condolences, anything and we're just going to do some flowers that are very very beginner friendly and easy. So the first thing we're going to do is you're going to grab your card or your paper. I am using this Ohuhu cotton top watercolor pad. I'm using the hot pressed again because I really really like the way it performed. This was the cold press, this was the hot press. This is beautiful as well but because I want to do a banner and a little bit of writing it will be easier on the hot pressed I believe but I mean use whatever one you like, whatever paper you have. I like using actual watercolor paper for my cards and then just buying envelopes that you can stick them in when you're done. So I'm going to be using that. You're going to need a pencil and eraser and some brushes and some watercolors and let's begin. Okay so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to do a little kind of curve here like so. This is going to be part of the banner and I just like going back and forth over it just to get the shape I want. Then I'm going to do another line that is parallel to this. This is our banner okay and then actually I'm going to make it smaller because I think I'm just going to write mom on it or you can write whatever you like and then we're just going to round off the corners kind of, not too round, a little bit just so they're not super super straight like that. So it has a little bit of a curve there, same curve there like that. Then you're going to go in the middle of the banner. You're going to do a little line here and a little line here. You're going to come back a little bit further and do like in here and do another line and in here and do another line like that and all you're going to do is connect this corner to this with the little curve like that curve and then you're just going to come up like so. This is our banner all right then on the ends you're just going to do kind of like an m shape in and out two triangles and there is our banner and you can write mom whatever you'd like. Now all we're going to do is we are going to just erase it a little bit just so it's not so dark and we're going to start painting some flowers just blobs. We're going to make it super easy like it's kind of bursting out of the card or out of the banner and for this I just want you to do whatever flowers speak to you. Okay so I'm going to start with my size 6 round brush. I love a good pink so I'm going to grab my permanent rose and I'm just going to start off by doing like a big kind of fluffy round-ish peony shape so it's like really loose kind of circle. I might have some petals that are falling down like this but I'm just coloring the whole thing in. Okay then I'm going to do a little bit of yellow into my mixture and I'm going to do another one kind of like a more of a blobby shape like just a jagged circle like that right next to it. Then I'm going to grab I don't know whatever colors you like a purple I have this like lavender color and I'm going to do kind of like just some petals coming to back to this circle. What flower is it? I don't know. Okay we're making it super simple and easy like so. Okay then maybe there's a cluster of like little yellow flowers somewhere we could do like a kind of going like little blobs going upwards like this and then make them smaller maybe some kind of going this way too. I'm just doing blobs actual blobs. Then I'm going to grab more pink I think and I'm going to do little flowers over here so loose kind of messy looking but we're going to refine it it's going to look great. I'm going to do another orange one kind of down here maybe I'll have this one like more like I don't know a tulip shape and then another one smaller like that. I do want to have some greenery kind of coming out so I'm going to grab my green and we're just going to draw stems maybe some leaves coming from the base of some of these flowers coming right there and then underneath the banner so I'm just going to start drawing a lot of stems and leaves coming out from underneath. Okay and then I'm going to fill up some of this area with some more leaves just using like this tapping motion with my brush with the tip of it so I do a little curved line and I tap tap like drag it and pull up you can do some smaller ones you can change up the greens I'm going to do a little bit of greenery kind of going through this and some more over here just filling it in and like I said you can change up the green I'm going to add a little bit more blue to my green I'm going to have some more really loose leaves coming out the sides and then just fill it in wherever you feel looks a little bare you can fill it in with like little buds little leaves anything okay and maybe some darker green stems here too like that okay then while we're waiting for that to dry I'm just going to go over our banner in a really light wash of like indigo so it's kind of like it's white but not completely or you can do it any color you'd like I'm just going to do a really light wash of indigo here and then the same back here we are going to shade the back of the ribbon once it's dry but just go over with whatever color you like to start okay and then you're going to let everything completely actually before we do that hold on we need a little yellow for this center and then for these centers okay now we're going to let everything completely dry okay now that it's dry you can do this next part with watercolor or you could even go in with colored pencils and all we're going to do is sharpen up and like separate some petals so I'm going to start with my pink flower here I'm just going to grab some more of my permanent rose and I'm just going to use the tip and I'm going to kind of do a little squiggly inside like this and then I'm going to just kind of darken some petals on the outside just adding some darkness like that we're just like separating some of the petals leaving some of that white space it's not white space because it's like a light pink but really we're just placing in kind of like shadows again it's not supposed to be realistic so don't worry about it too much okay then I'm going to grab some orange this one I'm going to do some little curves right in the center and I'm just going to kind of go around kind of like a spiral but not too much maybe make it a little bit thicker towards the edge with the darker bits I'm just doing like these wavy kind of curved lines like that I might even go right in the center with like a lime green maybe it's like a ranunculus or something like that our blue one here I'm going to take that lavender color and I'm just going to add some shadow kind of right at the base where the yellow is you could go kind of like around the edges if you want but again just making it really loose like that you want to fix this part just a bit there we go like that our yellow flowers here just adding a little bit of pink to it so it's a bit darker and I'm just going to add some darkness to some of them just so it's not like one really light flat yellow I did leave some white spaces for the centers I haven't decided what color I'm going to do the centers yet maybe orange but I'm going to let it dry first so I'm just adding extra blobs kind of on top just so there's a little bit more to them than being like one dimensional this tulip kind of thing here I'm just going to do a little kind of cut down the center and then just shade just so it looks like they're tulips like that these ones here again I'm just going to kind of darken right by the center I might even take my dark pink and just darken this a little bit more you don't want to do too much like that I'm going to do the same thing to the leaves just adding a bit more color just to the base of the leaves like this just kind of a little dab right at the base of them like that you can always go over and just add a little bit more definition to some of these stems up to you I'm going to go in to the center of these flowers I think with just like a darker pink just some dots like that and then the center of this one I'm just going to do a little bit of yellow dots so it has a little bit more texture in the center I'm going to grab a bit of brown and add it to the base here like that and that's pretty much done for the flowers you can always add more if you want now the banner right here behind where it curves you got to take a little bit more of our indigo and we're going to darken that fold that little triangle so it looks like there's a bit of a fold I'm going to darken over here just a little bit too behind like really really light wash of your indigo just a little bit more so this part of the the ribbon or the banner is just a little bit darker like that I feel like I want to add a little bit more to the banner up here too just a little bit of shading so like the lightest wash of indigo and then just kind of wash off your brush and dry it like oops like so we're going to let it all dry and while we're doing that I'm just going to take a really my size 2 round brush and some pink I always love doing a hand-drawn border I just feel like it kind of ties it all together so I'm just taking some pink watercolor and I'm going to go around the edge and there we go and there's our card so I might write grandma on here or nana so my kids can give this to one of their grandparents but that is about it again you can always change the color of the banner if it doesn't stand out enough for you but just be really loose and have fun hope you guys enjoyed it thank you all so much for watching I really hope you enjoyed it and I hope you loved these card ideas let me know in the comments below what you thought don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on all my other platforms for tons more content have a wonderful day I'll see you guys next time can you say bye bye bye thanks bud