Rose Watercolor Painting

How to paint a rose flower in watercolor

Hello everyone, In this quick tutorial you will learn how to paint a rose in watercolor.

If you understand how much color and water is required for each brush stroke, then watercolor painting is not a big deal for you.

I will try my best to give you all the required inputs.

If you have any previous experience in creating watercolor, then this tutorial will be easy to understand.

Anyway, I designed this tutorial for beginners also so please follow the steps as described below.

Quick Tips:

• Don’t use too much water in the early stage of the painting

• Please use a thick watercolor paper, atleast 300 GSM if you are a beginner

• Don’t use big size brushes

• A small amount of color is enough to paint this rose flower

• Always clean your brush when changing the color

If you don’t know how to draw a rose sketch then here is a quick tutorial for rose drawing – Click here

This Rose Painting tutorial is designed for beginners, so anyone can try this and enjoy the painting process.

Chat Paper: 300gsm Watercolor Paper.

Colors: Permanent Pink, Alizarin crimson, Hooker’s Green, Olive Green and Ivory Black.

Please follow the step by step guide – Rose Watercolor Painting.

Step 1: Rose outline sketch

Draw the rose outline sketch with a pencil first

Step 2: Base color painting

Start with a light coat of permanent pink and make sure to leave an edge gap to each petal while painting

Step 3: Paint Dark & light shades

Paint thick color like this in the depth area and the opposite side must be in a lighter shade

Step 4: Mixing the shades from lighter to dark tones

Use your wet brush to mix the dark shade to a lighter shade, try to paint the petal strokes like shown in the above image it will create the texture

Step 5: Base color painting for petals

Paint olive green a light coat for the leaf petal and also for the stem

Step 6: Petals mid-tone painting

Paint the hooker’s green as the second layer once the olive green color is dry. Try to mix with the olive green, it will create depth like that

Step 7: Petals dark tone painting

Mix a small amount of ivory black to the hooker’s green and paint the depth to leaf petal as shown in the above image

Step 8: Final dark tones to overall rose painting

Mix a small amount of black color to the alizarine crimson and paint the depth to the flower petals

Check this video tutorial for easy understanding – Rose Flower Painting

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