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Summary: When beginning to paint roses, the first step is to get a Maskoid that allows the whites to stay white. Paint a rose's dark center, and notice how the petals get lighter, with help from a watercolorist and teacher in this free video on painting roses with watercolor.
Sherie Tengbergen is a watercolorist whose life has been dedicated to art and creative applications. She has been painting and teaching art for more than 30 years, combining her unique...read more
"Hello I'm Sherie Tengbergen here at the Education Network in Palm Beach county, and we are here to learn about watercolor painting. In this clip I'm going to show you how to paint roses. The first thing I do is I get my bottle of liquid miskit. That is a maskoid or a actual material that keeps and it allows you to keep the whites white. And you will need that when you painting a rose. What I do is I put it in a small container, and then I draw down my rose using a very light pressure, and I put in the details of where I want a highlight to be. And I allow this to dry. This is like rubber cement is to an artist. And then what I am going to do is I am going to start painting the rose. Now a rose is a kind of flower that has a very dark center, and the petals tend to get lighter as they go out. So it is important that when you start the rose you paint from the middle and go out to the outer edges of the flower getting lighter and lighter as you proceed. So I am going to start with a round tipped brush, and I am going to load it with water, and I am going to pick up one of my favorite colors which is called permanent rose. And I am going to make a very dark version of permanent rose on my pallet so that I can paint the inside of the flower, and get that nice deep color that I want. So I'm going to start in the middle of my flower very gently putting down this dark, dark color of permanent rose. And each petal should be painted from the center outwards from dark to light. So I am going to take my brush, and I am going to start pulling the color out and away from the center of the flower. And make each leaf and each blossom get a little bit lighter as it goes out to the outside of the flower. So as you can see we have been painting the rest of the petals pretty much in the same way going from dark to light adding a little bit of yellow to them. I am adding some white highlights right now, and I want to quickly put some a stem and some leaves on here. I'm going to use Windsor green, a little bit of cadmium yellow, because I don't want just a real stark green here. And some yellow ocher to make my stem, and I'm going to go ahead and quickly just paint in very subtly the leaves and the stem here. And keeping one side just a little bit darker, and pulling the brush strokes around to make it look three dimensional. When I am done with this I will remove the liquid miskit it will just rub off. As you can see here I can rub it right with my fingers, and my painting will be finished. This is Sherie Tengbergen and thank you for watching."
eHow Article: How to Paint Roses
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