How to Paint Red Poppies - Loose Floral Style for Beginners - Step by Step Real Time Art Tutorial

Watch ad-free on Patreon:   / 79329   Diane Antone - Watercolour Artist - Making watercolour work for you! I am an experienced and qualified teacher and I want to share my skills with you so you can improve at watercolour painting. Each week I offer you a selection of step-by-step narrated video tutorials for you to watch and learn how to handle watercolours with confidence and skill. My loose free and spontaneous style is easy to learn and quickly brings satisfying results. So subscribe now and activate notifications with the bell so you don't miss a thing. Looking forward to seeing you here often! If you would like help with the drawing for this and many other paintings, you can download the sketch for free from dianeantone.com. Just log in to the site and you can put the sketch in your shopping. basket and check out for free and in just a few seconds you will have the sketch to trace from in your hand! If you visit my website at dianeantone.com and purchase a print you can use the discount code YOU15 to get a 15% reduction on your purchase. This is a loose poppy painting which demonstrates at least ten different techniques used by watercolour painters. 1. Wet in wet washes 2. Controlled bleeds 3. Calligraphic marks 4. Blotting out 5. Wet on dry 6. Veiling or layering 7. Spattering 8. Lifting out 9. Over painting 10. Lost and found edges I used Alizarin Crimson, Quinacridone Gold, Olive Green, Black and Cobalt Blue. I used a sheet of Arches 140lb NOT watercolour paper The brushes were a large squirrel mop, a large Isabey mop, a ½” flat brush and a No. 4 rigger. -- Diane Antone - Watercolour Artist - Making watercolour work for you! Buy original paintings and quality prints: Website: https://dianeantone.com - shop, portfolio and commissions eBay: https://ebay.co.uk/usr/watercolourjoy - inexpensive originals and prints Etsy: https://etsy.com/uk/shop/watercolourjoy - unique gifts and downloads Follow me on social media Facebook:   / dianeantonestudio   Instagram:   / dianeantonestudio   Join my "Learn to Paint Watercolour" Facebook group, a friendly and growing community of watercolour beginners and returners:   / learnwatercolourpainting   #dianeantonestudio #watercolortutorial #watercolorpainting --- If you are looking for suggestions as to what to purchase as a beginner, here are my recommendations. If you use these links I will receive a small commission from Amazon which will help to support my channel. PAINT Here is a link to a Winsor and Newton starters' paint box which would be ideal for a beginner. 12 colours: https://amzn.to/3a1IVko​ This is a link to a Winsor and Newton Artists' quality box, which is ideal for a serious student. 24 colours: https://amzn.to/3tHJTKI​ 12 colours: https://amzn.to/3rC0IVj​ TUBE PAINTS I always have a tube of White Designers Gouache on hand for lights and corrections https://amzn.to/2MZnqYK These colours are very useful and don't usually appear in the sets the manufacturers make: Naples Yellow https://amzn.to/2NhAxEy Quinacridone Gold https://amzn.to/3qb3FMs Permanent Rose https://amzn.to/3d27oYK Indigo https://amzn.to/2Zl1YAl Sepia https://amzn.to/3jHnHvG PAPER Winsor and Newton Watercolour paper pad 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. https://amzn.to/3cTf3Zu​ Canson MONTVAL watercolour paper block 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. Exceptional resiliance and easy to work with. https://amzn.to/2Z0iOnM​ BRUSHES Princeton do a good range of synthetic squirrel brushes. This is a size 10 round. https://amzn.to/3q6Y35F​ And Winsor and Newton Cotman brushes are also good. This is a size 10 round. https://amzn.to/36Xn8Zb​ I often use a rigger brush (called script liner in the US) and this is a link to the Cotman range of riggers, this is size 1. https://amzn.to/3a0nikC​ A size 3 would also be useful. https://amzn.to/3q4O14Z Staedtler Noris Karat Aquarell black watercolour pencils https://amzn.to/3d24Bie #dianeantonestudio #watercolor #art