Supplies for Painting a Rose With Watercolors

Series Summary

Artists use many different mediums to paint flowers, including oil, acrylic and watercolor. Painting with watercolors is a great way to express the soft yet vibrant beauty of a rose. Watercolor is a medium of painting first used extensively by German painter Albrecht Durer in the 15th century and continued by such painters as Hans Bol, Paul Cezanne and Wassily Kandinsky. Artists find the soft and wistful nature of watercolor a perfect medium for nature painting and have used it as such for over 500 years. Learn how to paint a rose with watercolors in this free video series of watercolor lessons featuring watercolor artist and teacher Cody Davis. Cody will demonstrate how to draw roses for watercolor paintings, how to paint a rosebud with watercolors, how to paint a rose stem with watercolors, how to paint rose leaves with watercolors, how to watercolor backgrounds and how to paint details with watercolors.

Video Transcript

"Now were going to do a single rose bud, stems and leaves, as well as the background. So what we'll need paint wise is cobalt blue, permanent red and a lemon yellow. All of these will be tube type paints, that's what I recommend. We'll also need water to paint with and you'll need a paper towel. I recommend one folded up into three parts. You'll need a spray bottle to spray your colors if they are indeed dry unless you?re getting them straight out of the tube before they dry. You'll need a pallet, you can use a Styrofoam plate for that or you can get a traveling storage pallet like this. You'll need brushes, like a round water color brush. This one's synthetic. This is a number ten and you can use anywhere from a six or a twelve or even bigger up to a fourteen. For the background, not required, but certainly helpful and faster is your one inch synthetic brush."