Watercolor Flowers in Pots | Easy & Relaxing Painting Tutorial, by Nasim art on YouTube. 8 min 44 s.
- Video length
- 8 min 44 s
- Time to do it
- 45 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 9
What you need
Steps
Tape your paper to a board so it stays flat while it dries. Squeeze a small amount of each color onto your palette and fill a jar with clean water.
Wet the top half of the paper with clean water. Load a size 12 round brush with ultramarine and yellow ochre and lay them side by side so they blend on their own.
Drop in a little carmine red and purple while the wash is still wet. Tilt the board gently to move the color, then leave it to dry fully.
Load a size 6 round brush with sepia and paint the pot as a simple rounded shape. Add a darker line down one side to suggest shadow.
Mix olive green and Hooker's green and paint a few loose stems rising from the pot. Keep the lines thin and slightly curved.
Use the size 6 brush to paint flower heads as simple circles or petal clusters. Vary the size and leave gaps between them.
Switch to the 0/5 round brush and add smaller flowers and buds in carmine red and purple. Let some overlap the background wash.
Load the liner brush 000 with sepia and add thin stems, leaf veins and a few small dots around the pot for texture.
Flick clean water and a little paint from the brush to make splatters. Let everything dry completely, then peel off the tape.
Tips and common mistakes
Keep the background wash wetter than the flowers so the two areas stay distinct.
Leave white paper showing between petals instead of painting every shape solid.
Test splatters on scrap paper first so you control the size of the drops.
Let each layer dry before adding more paint to avoid muddy colors.
Questions
Do I need rough watercolor paper?
Rough paper helps loose washes and splatters look soft, but any 300 gsm watercolor paper will work. Cold press is a good middle option.
How do I stop the flowers from bleeding into the background?
Wait until the background wash is completely dry before painting the pot and flowers. Touch the paper with the back of your hand to check.
Can I use fewer colors?
Yes. Three or four colors are enough. Pick one warm, one cool and one green, then mix them for variety.
This guide was drafted from the video's details and general task knowledge. It has not been checked against the full video. Check the video and relevant product instructions before following a procedure. Report a correction.
