Day 26: #30×30 Direct Watercolor: A Rose Painting Tutorial

Someone had asked me about how to paint interesting backgrounds for these floral sketches – so! I thought I’d do a slightly longer video (10 min) showing a rose painting from beginning to end.

This sketch emphasizes Negative Painting and Broken Silhouettes, and shows the way I fuse shapes by laying rich strokes of color side by side <<< and the importance of working briskly enough. You have to keep the wet edge moving forward, until you close the shape you’re working on. Ideally, all your strokes will merge on the paper, and you won’t get any dry edges inside a shape.

I titled this video A Shape By Any Other Name – because – it’s not actually video on painting roses, so much as a demonstration that anything can be painted with colored silhouettes :)

These happen to be flowers, but every subject can be painted the same way.

Thanks for watching!

~m