Drawing a tulip with watercolors. Painting is easy: delicate tulips using the right-hemisphere drawing method. How to draw tulips step by step easily with gouache
This spring I invite you to draw delicate tulip flowers together, using elements of an interesting right-hemisphere drawing method. This very simple and inspiring method is designed for complete beginners from scratch, those who think they can’t draw at all, or simply haven’t tried their hand at painting yet, or even for children, but can also inspire experienced artists. Therefore we invite everyone try it!
In half an hour to an hour of a pleasant art therapy session with color, we can end up with an oil, acrylic or gouache painting of any size, which we can hang for ourselves as a reminder of spring, or give as a gift to someone (March 8th holiday is coming soon!), and also paint a decorative plate or some object in this way.
But the most important thing in such an activity is not to evaluate the result, but simply to enjoy the process, be in the creative flow and enjoy it. Then such creativity will harmonize our state and inspire, reveal the creative side and heal the soul.
Therefore, we will start by creating a mood for ourselves, put on some pleasant relaxing music, drop our favorite oil into the aroma lamp, and watch how the tulips bloom in the spring in Holland :)
yes, yes, there are so many of them!
Well, now let's move on to painting!
Open the paints (in this technique you can paint with oil, acrylic or just gouache, choose to your taste).
Specifically, in this master class, these photos are ordinary gouache. Choose a brush that is thick, flat, and bristly.
And we begin to leave stains of paint on the paper or canvas. Here I use thick watercolor paper; it works well on paper with a canvas texture. If you paint with oil or acrylic, it is convenient to take a ready-made primed canvas on cardboard. Be sure to place paper or oilcloth, which you don’t mind painting, under our base!
One color, then another, a third. This is what you need to do here quickly and without hesitation, let the hand choose the colors itself, it is the hand, not the head. It’s not at all necessary to make just such a background, this is just a demonstration of the technique, choose colors only according to your state and mood and don’t think about whether they combine with each other, and what the end result will be, it doesn’t matter :)
And a few more strokes, it is not necessary to fill the entire space.
As you can see, nothing complicated. Now let’s start the magic: take a white color on the brush (in fact, it doesn’t even have to be white, experiment and improvise), and begin to move it over our spots.
That's how we boldly, quickly and with pleasure we paint the entire surface of the sheet, observing how hundreds of shades are obtained from our three or four colors.
Important:
1. Do this quickly, because in the photo you can see that the texture of the dried stains is visible, since I photographed in parallel, it was not fast enough, and the stains had time to dry.
2. Don’t stop at the edge and don’t be afraid to go beyond the sheet, for this we have paper underneath, on which we continue to draw, despite the fact that the sheet is over :)
Thus, we have a background that can be used for other paintings, so as long as you are in a creative mood, you can make several more of these blanks. The result may be unpredictable!
In general, you don't have to paint in one direction, horizontally or vertically, try making diagonal, swirling, circular or spiral strokes.
At this stage, you can get distracted and immerse yourself in painting, or still return to our tulips :)
We begin to draw a flower on a dried background. When we draw flowers, we can imagine how our soul blossoms from the inside :)
Three strokes with a smaller flat brush, although it depends on the size of your flower. We choose the color according to our mood, maybe you will have a blue, yellow, white tulip?
Now, using a thin brush, draw on top of the foreground petals, using the same color, but adding white to give the flower volume:
And in a similar way we draw the rest of the flowers. If you like it, make the bouquet bigger!
Now, with a very thin brush, using dark green, we draw the stems; you can draw a yellow line on top of the dark one for volume.
I didn't do it very carefully here.
To make the line clear, gouache or acrylic can be slightly diluted with water.
Then we dip the brush in yellow and green and paint the leaves.
And our picture is almost ready!
We add details: with a thin brush we put dots of flowers, like these stamens, they add some magic. You can add a moth or dragonfly.
You can spray the background with a toothbrush, just a little, the main thing is not to overdo it (slightly dilute the paint on the edge of the jar, try it in a safe place first).
And be sure to frame it!
That's all, I hope you don't find it difficult and everything will work out for you. Experiment and improvise, try a different composition or colors, or make more flowers, or one big tulip.
Fantasize boldly! Happy creativity!
P.S. Although I have conducted quite a lot of master classes live, this is my first experience of making a master class accessible to everyone on the Internet, so I will be very grateful for your feedback, that it was not clear whether it was possible to inspire you, and any comments on presentation of techniques, or questions?
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I invite everyone to draw bright spring flowers - tulips. Right hemisphere Drawing online will take about half an hour. As a result, you will enjoy the art therapy session and get a beautiful picture.
Let's start with the mood, create a relaxing environment with the help of light music and delicate aromas of fresh flowers or aroma oil. Creating such a creative, cozy atmosphere is one of the rules of right-hemisphere drawing; you should not neglect them.
Let's start painting!
Right hemisphere drawing. Master class "Tulips"
Let's open the colors. In this master class - right hemisphere painting with gouache, but you can use acrylic or oil.
Now we need a thick, flat bristly brush (for example, No. 12).
We take canvas, watercolor paper or textured paper and lay a base of a sheet of paper, or better yet, oilcloth. Acrylic paints and oils adhere better to primed cardboard canvas. In our example, we use thick watercolor paper, as it is ideal for gouache. For beginners, we recommend taking half a sheet, i.e. A5 format.
We put spots of paint on our canvas. Don't let your hand hover over paint cans. Choose three colors without thinking about their mutual compatibility. It's a matter of your mood!
It is not necessary to fill out the entire field of the canvas.
Difficult? No. Now we dip the brush into white paint and boldly move it over our multi-colored strokes.
We quickly paint over the entire space of the sheet, watching how the three colors transform into hundreds of shades. This is real magic.
The main thing is to do it quickly and not slow down at the edge of the canvas. My speed turned out to be insufficient, since at the same time I was also photographing this creative process, so in the photo you can see how the texture of the dried strokes shines through. You will definitely do better! Don’t be afraid to go beyond the border of the sheet - that’s why you laid a base of plain paper.
This is how the background turned out. If you get excited, don’t stop, take another canvas and create a blank for another painting, a third, and a tenth. You can rub stains in one direction (horizontally, vertically or at an angle), you can use spirals, circles, waves; the more unpredictable the result, the more interesting!
If you have already completed the background preparation stage and the paint has dried, I suggest returning to the tulips.
Take a brush smaller than the one you used to paint the background (you can take a No. 8 flat bristle) and make three oblong strokes - three petals. The color of the flower is your choice, see which one is most suitable for your canvas. I have a red tulip, but maybe you like white, yellow, pink tulips?
Take a slightly thinner brush (#5 will do) and make three front petals on top of the back petals. To make the flower voluminous, add a little white or yellow.
Add a few more flowers, make the bouquet bigger if you want.
Using the thinnest brush we draw the stems. It’s better to take a single squirrel here. The bottom line is dark green, and the top thin white or yellow - for volume.
I wish you could do it more accurately than I did. Acrylic and gouache can be slightly diluted with water, then the lines will be clearer.
Dip the brush into yellow and green and add leaves. A #3 or #5 squirrel brush works well for creating leaves.
Details such as a butterfly and splashes add charm and hide a little sloppiness.
To make splashes, dip a toothbrush into the diluted paint and rub it against the edge of the jar. Just practice on a rough draft first, and don’t overdo it.
All that remains is to place our masterpiece in a frame and everything is ready!
Let your imagination fly free and enjoy your creativity!
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I’ll say right away that for me the easiest thing to draw is tulips. And of course, I didn’t graduate from art school and visited the art studio only once. So I, too, can be called a beginner or self-taught, and although I was noted in the art studio and the old leader of the circle said that we need to study and start with something simple, and you immediately drew the head of Mephistopheles, but, indeed, many artists passed through her hands and they started too as I. But I didn’t have time, since I was interested in natural sciences.
But I painted tulips. And it was so, one day the parents started renovations and they did not have the opportunity to purchase wallpaper, then there was a shortage. And so I was asked to paint a 20-meter hall with tulips. And I did it in two days. But I also painted them in vases. So it’s easy to draw tulips and here’s exactly how to do it step by step.
This is how it can be done.
And I like this option best.
These are the tulips that I painted the entire room with. I won’t lie, it wasn’t easy, but nevertheless, I liked it and I really learned how to draw tulips.
Well, now decoding the stages.
- Draw the base of the tulip head.
- Paint on the stem.
- And then you draw the leaves.
- Well, then you decorate it.
That's all. And another question about tulips and when is the best time to draw them.
The brightness of colors, ease of cultivation and elegance of form have made the tulip one of the favorite garden flowers. In terms of landscaping parks and gardens, the tulip is considered a universal plant. The scope of its application is quite wide. Tulips are planted in borders and flower beds, on alpine hills and under trees, decorated with balconies, and planted in flowerpots on the streets. The amazing variety of modern varieties of these flowers can satisfy even the most demanding tastes of gardeners. Among all the varieties and types of tulips, there are some that are simply ideal for flower borders and for planting in alpine hills. There are those that will look great against the backdrop of beautiful tall perennials or ornamental shrubs. The variety of varieties of these flowers by flowering time allows you to choose varieties for your garden that will delight you from mid-April to early summer.
Very few ornamental plants can rival tulips in their incredible variety of flower shapes. Plants with the usual goblet-shaped flower look great among the lawn, in group plantings under trees, and you can create very beautiful natural meadows of flowers from them. Tulips with cute flower shapes - parrot, peony, lily and fringed - look very impressive near paths, in small groups, planted so that each flower can be easily seen individually.
A bouquet of tulips will always please your beloved women! In this short article we will talk about how to draw a tulip correctly. After all, you can either buy a beautiful bouquet or draw it.
A painting, a postcard, just a drawing, drawn with your own hands with love, will delight your girlfriend, grandmother, sister or mother! I suggest preparing in advance and learning how to correctly draw a tulip with a pencil.
Today we are painting tulips with gouache - a very beautiful spring flower with beautiful colors!
Draw all the main lines that determine the size of the flower in the leaf. 
Outline the green leaves and petals of the tulip. See what the stem looks like, how thick it is. 
The first step in drawing a tulip is a clear and simple pencil sketch. You should draw a stem that is not very thin and not very thick. Tulips have fairly thick, smooth and soft stems. The leaves should also not be very thin. The flower itself should not be large, otherwise the stem would simply break. A design with a very large flower bowl will look unnatural. 
After you have drawn the tulip with a pencil, you need to get rid of all the extra lines. Erase them so that when coloring there are no dirty spots from a graphite gray pencil.
You start, as always, with the lightest areas, painting them with local light colors - pink and green. Where there are shadows, apply a second layer of paint, still of the same color.
In the future, you will introduce new shades and enhance the shadows. 
We draw tulips with gouache step by step, namely the petals. The inner petal is slightly darker because it is shadowed by the two outer petals. 
Continue drawing the petals, gradually darkening them, but maintaining the red color. Don't be afraid of any changes in tone. Leave all the light parts of the petals light. Do not compact them and let the watercolor breathe. 
This is what our flower looks like at a stage close to the final stage. But we want to add drops of water to it. 
Drops are drawn. The drop, despite its transparency, casts a shadow. First, draw the darker part near the highlight and the shadow of the drop, and then add the highlights with gouache. 
Paint highlights with gouache. In addition to the glare, there is also some reflex. A light stripe near the shadow, which makes the drop look voluminous.
So you drew a tulip. We really hope that this lesson was useful to you. 
