Painting a Loose Flower in Quinn Rose Watercolor
There is an art to painting loose flowers in watercolor.
This art has been the journey of thousands of artists over a span of decades. It is said that Claude Monet's famous flower paintings, The Nymphéas marks one of the first expressions of this style. Described by Monet as “his small contribution to France,” The Nymphéas are now very famous paintings. And for good reason: Monet painted a series of over 200 paintings!
Watercolor tips
This loose watercolor floral was created with just three paint colors and one watercolor brush. The art work was done on 100% cotton watercolor paper by Arches. I hope you’ll give this a try and remember to let yourself paint without stress or worry. These are great exercises to loosen up your style and Allow Watercolour to be therapeutic.
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Materials:
Princeton Dagger brush:
I have two sizes. I love it. Use it for a very loose flower and for washing a design lightly into my background to create these types of background. https://amzn.to/3IlUR00
Some quill brushes will do this as well like this one included in the Neptune brush set: (my favorite set) https://amzn.to/3NPd874
Watercolor Paint:
Quinacridone Rose https://amzn.to/3NPAREd
Imperial Purple: https://amzn.to/3RugVdd
Bright Red : https://amzn.to/3NQWRyy
Paper:
Arches: 9 x 12 : https://amzn.to/3OUna8g
How to paint this style:
To achieve this start with dry paper and a very loose brush. I used the Neptune dagger which is extremely floppy but when it is damp you can get the bristles to separate so it keeps the painting very loose and gives you these streaks.
🌸The Quinn Rose is sketched in the flower dry paper leaving as many sketchy streaks as possible.
🌸 and then took the Imperial purple added to the centre and drew up some lines with a few dots for the stamen of flower.
🌸 I cleaned my brush and got it really wet with water then loosely washed over certain parts of the flower to smear the paint into the background then let it dry
🌸 The final step was to use the red to accent certain parts of the flower very loosely re-creating the pattern and I use the imperial purple again to tighten up the centre of the flower and give the stamen some more detail.
🌸 It’s important to leave white space when you do this because it gives you that brightness and contrast to the colour.
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Tutorial videos are also coming for all my flower exercises.
Happy Painting.
