How to paint roses with watercolor

Today I will show you how to easily paint roses with watercolors!
We all know that roses are colorful. Roses represent romance and beauty. On Valentine’s Day and Chinese Valentine’s Day, roses are the most common, and red roses are the typical ones.
To draw a rose, we must first choose the colors we use: what to use for the petals, what to use for the stems, and what to use for the leaves. Once you know these main colors, it will be easy to operate.

How to paint roses with watercolor

Let’s first analyze its color components:

Petals: light vermilion, orange, bright red,
Stems: grass green, dark green,
Leaves: light green, grass green, dark green,
Colors can be adjusted according to our painting preferences and habits. In a word, whatever you like is the best.
Now that we know the composition of these colors, we can draw line drawings

Line drawing

How to paint roses with watercolor
When drawing line drawings, focus on the front-to-back relationship between the petals.

How to paint roses with watercolor

The center of the rose is pinkish yellow, and the petals are painted with vermilion and water.

How to paint roses with watercolor

When the water is still wet, it is a dark red color

How to paint roses with watercolor

Start from the first piece and start painting the second piece. Use the center of the flower and the petals outwards to paint slowly and carefully. Don’t be too hasty.

How to paint roses with watercolor

The edge of the petals is a big problem for many people. They are afraid that the color will be darker than the center of the flower and affect the overall beauty. If it is too light, it will not be able to express the three-dimensional sense of the picture.

That’s it for the flower part, everyone is practicing more!

How to paint roses with watercolor

Blade

Use yellow-green to draw the base of the calyx, slightly darker on both sides and lighter in the middle.

How to paint roses with watercolor

Use light grass green to draw slow leaves, and add dark green to the edges of the leaves to increase the overall picture.

How to paint roses with watercolor

Use the same technique to color the other leaves, and the same technique to color the stems.

How to paint roses with watercolor

Follow the above operations and a beautiful rose will be completed.

How to paint roses with watercolor

A beautiful rose is completed. Dear friends, have you finished painting it?
In painting, there are no fixed painting steps, and there are no shortcuts. Only by observing diligently, appreciating the teacher’s good works, and practicing more can we achieve what we want to be ourselves. Only through our own efforts, accumulation of experience, and mastery of painting skills can we achieve the point where practice makes perfect, skill makes wonderful, and we can draw wonderful pictures ~ If you insist on painting every day, there will be many surprises waiting for you ~
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