Decorative Painting: Flower Cluster

I want to make sure that I put some

blending gel on my brush

as I'm adding the colors.

I'm going to start with the Turner's

Yellow and the Poetry Green.

You can see my brush I have one color on

one side and one on the other. I'm just

going to approach the paper and just do a

random slip slap with the paint.

I'm going to go back into my other colors

where I had the Turner's Yellow I will

dip into the Vintage Orange, and where I

had the green I will dip into the Autumn

Leaves. I'm not cleaning my brush in

between. I'm just dipping and just

randomly slapping. I'm also going back in

occasionally and dipping into the blending

gel just so that I make sure the palette

stays moist underneath,

until I get ready to do the

petals with the Rose White. I want a

little bit more green over in this corner.

Okay, I'm finished with this brush, this

was a 1 inch flat Plaid one stroke brush.

Now I'm going to be using a Filbert brush,

this is the 1/2 inch Plaid one stroke

Filbert. I'm going to moisten it a little

bit and then dry it on a paper towel some.

Now, first, I'm dipping it into the

blending gel, then I'm dipping it directly

into my Rose White. So, it is fully loaded

here with just the Rose White, but as you

can see, as I go to make my petals, it

will pull in the colors from underneath.

I'm starting flat and pulling up to chisel

as I come to the middle of the flower.

Flat, pull to chisel. You can make either

4 or 5 petal flowers. This looks a little

open, I may add another petal. I'm going

to overlap my flowers. Pull down. You can

come from outside the circle of paint, it

doesn't matter, it's better not to seem

too boxed in. Pull, turn, and lift. Pull,

turn, lift to chisel. Pull, turn, lift to

chisel. We're coming into another flower

here. I'm overlapping the last flower that

I did. There. I think I like these better

with 5 petals, they seem a little fuller.

These are not particular flowers, these

are fantasy flowers, just for decoration.

They don't have to be identified as any

particular flower. But you can see how the

white stands out, but it's also picking up

the color that's still damp on the page

underneath. Okay, also as you turn it

tends to leave a little bit of an edge

which looks like a natural turn of the

flower petal. Pull, turn, lift. Pull, turn

lift. Pull, turn, lift. That one's looking

a little bit too symmetrical, so I'm going

to come off on the side here and add

another couple petals here. Okay, this

part I have not done yet, I wanna pull in

some of this orange and yellow tone. Pull,

turn, lift. Pull, turn, lift. We may not

quite finish all of this section here but

you can get the idea of how I'm pulling

these flowers in. Pull, turn. You can also

pull and turn this way, whatever is more

comfortable to you. If you're left-handed,

right-handed, find the direction it feels

more comfortable to you to pull, and you

can see the flowers are starting to come

together here. I still have a little bit

more here, I would like to cover up a

little bit more of the color, and you'll

notice when you load your brush, you're

going to have paint on each side, as

you're pulling in, you're really only

using paint from one side of the brush,

just turn it, use up the paint on the

other side. You can see our flowers are

getting a little full. Now for the centers

very simple you can either use a 1/4 inch

dauber, you could use a q-tip, you can use

the handle of your brush. I'm not sure

exactly right now where my daubers are, I

know I bought some recently but I couldn't

tell you where they are. Okay, what I'm

going to do is look for a brush that has a

flat end, sort of a roundish flat end, dip

that end into my green paint, and simply

daub on. Oh boy, Willow's helping me here.

Okay, dip, tap. Dip, tap. You may need to

tap a little bit more, you can go back and

do it again. I usually dip the brush each

time I'm going to put a center on a flower

it just freshens it up and that way you

don't come up with just a half a circle.

This paints a little thick, it's kind of

old. You can try different colors, try an

orange one if you think that would look

better. It all depends-- that was a little

bit thick there-- on how you want the

centers to look. I think after all I like

the green better. Dip, tap. That one's a C

it's leaving a little bit of a hole in the

middle, so dip, tap again. Dip, tap again.

And those are my flowers. Okay, that's it

for this lesson, we'll try again for

another part of the border, I'm going to

turn this off and film a little bit of a

cluster that I did on the wall, and also

let you see a painting that I did with

similar style flowers in more pastel

shades.