Painting a spray of roses on a vine from a garden is a wonderful way to add color to any room and create a warm and inviting atmosphere. Roses are known for their beauty and elegance, and they can instantly uplift the mood of a space. Whether you want to decorate your living room, bedroom, or even a hallway, a painting of roses on a vine can transform the room into a cozy and comfortable retreat.
For the roses, you can choose any colors you like. Traditionally, red, pink, and white roses are popular choices but feel free to experiment with different shades and combinations.
Begin by painting the base color of each rose, and then add layers to create depth and dimension. You can use gentle brush strokes to mimic the softness of petals and add highlights and shadows to make the roses look more realistic. As for the vine, you can use greens and browns to create a natural look. By the end of this lesson, you will have the essential skills to develop beautiful rose paintings that you can be proud of.
Who This is For
Anyone who loves to paint
Anyone looking for a relaxing weekend in watercolor
Perfect for painting parties and activities with friends
Great for beginners to practice
Fun for experts who want to unwind
Anyone looking to dive into the wonderful world of watercolors!
What you will learn
Learn that no problem is too big to solve when several issues present themselves, why paper surfaces make a difference and maintain color harmony, and Recognize and manage the amount of water on the paper surface. Use negative and positive painting techniques to create areas you can see on the reference photo and those you must make up so the painting works.
Create intriguing backgrounds that do not compete with the main subjects to achieve depth for drama.
Curriculum
- 1. Wet-into-wet (5:21)
- 2. Negative painting (10:19)
- 3. Brushstrokes (11:27)
- 4. Develop the flower (11:44)
- 5. Shadows (10:09)
- 6. Touch the background (8:22)
- 7. Shift the color (3:22)
- 8 a. Mix your greens (1:26)
- 8 b. Add the background (10:38)
- 9. Add drama (10:25)
- 10. Glazing (9:31)
- 11. Details (3:14)
- 12. Finetuning (5:57)
- 13. Beyond the lesson (5:57)
What Students Say
"You have not only created a beautiful painting of lovely flowers using many shades of yellow, but maybe more importantly, it is the best use of technical painting methods that I have ever hoped to see. No explanation or detail has been left behind. It is truly an open window to your thought processes.
Each lesson is packed full of information, and evaluation how to expedite the methods, thoughts, and tools to create perfection.
For example, evaluation, filling gaps, use of shadows, layering, use of colors, making successful changes to an area, values, corrections, water-to-color mixes, and color-to-color mixes.
You have skillfully promoted ”Letting your imagination to successfully make changes that you the painter sees” (more than once)." Trish Kuncewicz
Your instructor
Birgit O'Connor
Master artist Birgit O’Connor is an internationally known award-winning artist, judge, juror and, author, known for her original paintings and inspirational teaching style. She is signature member of M-NWWS, M-CWA, M-LWS. Her memberships include Cambridge Who’s Who, Who's who in America and Who's who in American women.
Her books “Watercolor in Motion”, “Paint Watercolor Flowers” and “Watercolor Essentials” are top selling titles in her field, along with being included in over 60 national and international publications such as the New York Times, SF Gate, Watercolor Magazine, Dobry Zank, (Poland) "L'Art de l'Aquarelle (France).
