Hi friends, some time ago I painted magnolia tree and I really enjoyed the process. Magnolia has big beautiful flowers with amazing strong fragrance. Flowers are usualy white,pink or purple and when the tree blooms it is the crown of the garden.

Today I am going to show you how to paint magnolia flowers in watercolors.

You will need...

The process:

🔹 First you need to draw an outline of the flower. Try to draw thin soft lines so they will not be visible after painting.

🔹 Now you can start with painting. Paint with a light shade of purple. Fill the whole flower with it. You can add also a little bit more color at the bottom so water will disprese it.

🔹 Now you can make strokes from the bottom. They will create the flower structure. You can add also a little bit of violet on the petals behind.

🔹 Dont be scared of adding some stronger color into it. You can also use the second brush only wet by clear water to spill the color. The edges will dissapear then.

🔹 There are also some imperfections on the flower. Create them by adding just a few small strokes at the edges and spill them with another brush.

🔹Now fill the twig with light shades of brown. Buds can be more green and orange. It is nice if you leave some white places. The colored areas dont have to touch everywhere.

🔹 Start filling those twig parts with darker colors. Use also wet brush to make transitions.

🔹 We need some stronger contrast here. Use dark purple to paint edges and add a little bit also inside of the flower. Try to avoid solid lines on the edges. They should just indicate the edge.

🔹 You can see the difference here...

🔹 The last thing you can do is adding some small white reflections on the twig.

Done

I hope this tutorial was useful for you and maybe you also try to paint magnolia.

 

Thanks for watching!

 
 

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