How I try to stand out from the typical C-curve watercolor rose that every floral artist starts with
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- Watercolor roses were the first flower I attempted to paint. It was THE flower that was SIGNATURE of watercolor. If you asked any floral watercolor artist about the rose - the first thing that crosses their mind is the C curves. That uniform 'formula' rose.
As easy and 'basic' as it looks in videos - I could never visualise how each of those 'curves' and 'brackets' become a rose. I struggled with this not just around the way it looks but the feeling I feel when I paint what everyone else is painting.
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I'd love to hear what your watercolor rose story is like. Share with me in the comments!
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I saw you on Kristie Rice. My grandma always said roses are the hardest flower to paint so I treasure the paintings of roses I have of hers!
Your grandma is a wise one 😀
You spoke directly to how I've been feeling! I think many of us learn from other artists' tutorials, which is wonderful and such a great opportunity. Having said this, however, there comes that moment of now what? Who am I as an individual artist? We start longing for the risk of taking what we've learned and putting our own spin on it. Will people like it? Will I like it? Will it look ridiculous? Can I do it? It's sort of like a child leaving the safety of the nest. I love your style and the story behind your art journey. Thank you for this video and for sharing!
I love your insight around wanting to still have a sense of validation for the work we do even as we start to "leave the nest". The need for affirmation is only our need for belonging speaking and I am glad that this video has given you some insights for your practice!
Agreed. I've started thinking what about what I like? I really love this and other tutorial styles that I've been copying to learn techniques but I'm now just one of hundreds or thousands of subscribers who are at home doing the same thing I'm doing. It doesn't feel original now or have that fresh excitement.
I clicked because roses intimidate me and yours are so beautiful. But what I really loved is your ability to step away from the tutorials and follow your own voice. You put your finger on what I was feeling and enable to put into words. I really enjoyed this!!
Hi Jillian, I think this is one of my favourite videos I've ever seen, as you empower everyone to enjoy and express their own voice. Although there are skills to develop etc - just like the mechanics of playing a musical instrument - they are perhaps best cultivated with the freedom of our style. Thank you. Love!
Helen so glad u shared how u feel about the video. Reading this means so much and you are right around playing a musical instrument that there are scales and notes to master and still we can inject a little something from our soul 😀 well said!
I felt like you everyone kept explaining how easy roses were for a beginner. I kept listening and trying to do what the instructor was doing, so eventually I can find my own way. However, it just made me feel as if this wasn’t a media that I would be able to do well because I’m not an artist. Painting with watercolors helps me to relax, and feel happy. Painting ROSES did not bring happy moments with my watercolor journey. It never really looked like a rose to me. It looked like brackets or just a bunch of “C’s”. I thought roses were just part of the watercolor process and I should not move on or try something different until I learned how to do what they showed me. Thank you so much for sharing your journey.
I eventually told myself there were SO many beautiful flowers all around and roses were just one of them 😀thanks for sharing your insights too!!
I clicked because I have been doing tutorials for a year. I’ve always wanted to do a watercolour class. My daughter is who pushed me to start so I could keep busy while I was going through chemo and not having to leave the house. It was my happy time to connect with several artists on CZcams. It’s still my happy time but I lack the confidence to do it without a tutorial. This year I’m going to concentrate more on that. Thanks for your inspiration ❤
You're the only person thst has ever described whst I find myself going through!
I’ve watched so many rose tutorials in the past three years and I still suck at it. I won’t even waste my Arches watercolor paper on my exhausted attempts any longer.
Hahahaha I laughed because of how you are making an excellent choice of preserving the good paper for the deserving good flowers 😉😘😉 I made my peace too. At the end of the day - the world has so many more flowers to play and paint!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. They were just what I needed to hear. So liberating.
I always find it a blessing when a random video pops up that isn’t in your usual feed,but is just what you needed to hear! I’m very good at copying someone else’s work, yet like yourself I feel I need to just close my tutorials and see what happens when I just do my own thing! Thank you!❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I too have struggled with painting cookie cutters roses. I’m now going to try painting them the way I want to do them. Great advice.
Your roses are so beautiful.
Thank u!!
I just finished watching you and Kristy do your Roses an I also struggle with the Rose. I love both your techniques. Thanks for sharing your expressions in the water color Rose!
So glad u r here Debra!
Your"breakout" roses are fabulous! I agree with you on "hope" being necessary to keep going! Plus, self permission to PLAY😊
Thank you!!! so kind of you and yes the hope is so important to hold on to!
I watched because I’ve struggled with this same thing…. Thank you for the encouragement and inspiration.
So glad you are here Angela and that I m not alone
I clicked on this because just today! Yes today! I was trying those dumb roses AGAIN! LOL
Burst out laughing reading this! Those dreaded roses..........................................
I was drawn to this video because I am wanting to work on florals and because I was drawn to the colors in the thumbnail. Also I love to see other artists process because I am on a journey to find my own voice and my own process.
Beautiful roses and very inspiring.
I have painted for over 30 years but never painted roses, they seemed too hard, until I saw the instructional videos on the C curve roses, so then yes! I tried it-and very soon became bored. I want to paint them from all angles, and not just looking straight down. I’m having a little more success now in looking at photos instead of following the C curve formula. I still have a long way to go before I’m happy with my roses, wow they are so hard and suck the artistic confidence right out of a person! I won’t even post them on my instagram. Thank you sharing all your experimenting, they are so colorful and pretty! 😊
My brain was watching itself in a mirror. I have always looked down upon "motivational gurus". However, I was hypnotized by you.
I dabble in copperplate calligraphy and have always wanted to try florals to complement my work.
This video, and another one by calligrapher Ms Halem (An ode to Zazen) have tugged at my heartstrings.
You learned to paint your heart on paper, which as it should be. ❤ Inspiration comes from the hearts of the people and things we love then we tell that story with our brush. Others teach us the basics, WE CREATE ourselves with our brush when we connect with our brain, and let it flow from our brush reflecting whats within the heart. Well said 😊
Thank you for validating my journey with those words! I am so happy to see your comment and yes I agree with you on so many levels on how connection is such a huge thing we need in our art to let it flow :)
I think a lot of us who have been painting flowers with wc for some time like I have are feeling bored, using the same old cookie cutter formulas. In this video you are giving us license to break out (and even with gouache) and do some creative thinking. Besides being a wonderful painter and mother, you’re smart. Thank you.
Wow. I bet you didn’t anticipate this response. Your vulnerability and honesty opened the door for all of us - thanks for sharing. Also - love YOUR roses
I wasn't expecting anything! And I m also glad that so many actually do struggle with similar issues around the rose. I m thankful too for your comment here! So lovely to touch base!
It’s so amazing how beautiful this turns out each time you make a stroke for the petals. Nowadays that is how I’m trying to approach painting roses- no more swirly c-curves!!😊
Oh yes expand and stretch! U can do it!
Great video. Yes, I've been experiencing this anxiety and getting to my style or preferences. I don't get deep into social media. I watch alot of different artists and pick up different techniques. I practice and find ways that I like to express myself in painting. Still, discovering. The roses are a real test ( lol) but, our own expressions of them are beautiful too. Thanks Jillian 😊 your paintings and roses are beautiful ❤
Thank u for being here and I appreciate ur comment and sharing. There always is this sense of wanting to be something when we create.. so we can own the title artist or even own the piece of art we just created. And I think sometimes when we stop looking for what we are "looking for" we might find it when we least expect it :) my belief - your style will keep evolving and your experience will change which will lead u to more self discoveries alongside your style!
The colors is what made me watch.
U love colors too like me!
Oh thank goodness! I struggled to learn the"c" roses because that was how it was supposed to be done. Stress. They all looked the same and uniformly boring. Whoohoo I am free!
Wow, I came across your video last night, and the thing that drew me in was the C shaped roses caption. I watched way too many of those on CZcams!I have been on and off playing with watercolors and wanted to paint roses as my grandmother was an artist who painted many, many roses in her lifetime. She used oil paints, which I don’t like the Mess or the smell, so I have been trying to learn to paint them in water color. Your advice is priceless!!! I think limiting yourself watching tutorials is a wise women’s words. I also have wanted to find my own style and I won’t find that in someone else’s video. This video has reminded me that comparison is the thief of joy. Thank you for such a great video, I will definitely be back.
So glad you enjoyed this video and happy it has found its way to you! I have watched LOTS of those rose videos too in an attempt to make it mine but it really wasn't....and roses in oils are beaaaaaaautiful! I have recently played with watersoluble oils and those were fun to do!
I love you thought out of the box. Brave move and beautiful results
I love this video Jillian, it makes so much sense to me , we don’t need to be inhibited by only using one medium, or mixing mediums, styles etc, the bracket rose was doing my head in too 😊 but now I am so inspired to get going on my style and starting a fresh practice, thank you for your wonderful insights into not being held back or restricted in our imagination or the finding of our own style 🙏😍🥰
Thank you this! I happened upon you in a video with Kristy Rice. This is exactly where I am in my art journey trying to free myself from the tutorial cycle and break into my own style. Many of your comments spoke to me. Thanks again!
So glad u r here!!
Omgoodness you literally just said every word, thought and feeling I've been having for the past month. I've felt like I'm lost in what to do, I feel like a canvas gone wrong and don't know what to do to resolve this painter's rut I've been in. So many ideas but don't know where to start. Watch tutorials but still feel lost on what to do and where to begin. I can't find a starting point for composition to begin. For my first few months of watercolor painting (December 23rd 2023) through February I did around 200 paintings and the past 3 weeks trying to paint flowers I'm just lost even though I was so excited to learn different flowers instead of the same flower I kept painting.
Thank you for this video and everything you do! You are a blessing!
Thank u for sharing ur story Tonya 💓I hope u see this season will emerge with stronger and better ideas for your next paintings!
THANK YOU! I have not picked up a brush in months because I think I was going through what you are talking about!!!! Looking at Instagram and CZcams and looking at how other people paint I believe started to make me feel very inferior.
I love your message because it makes sense about “your own voice”. This was very very helpful!!!! Truly, it broke my watercolor block. I paint roses often because I love them. I too was doing the C Curve style and felt like it was just a carbon copy of everyone else’s work. This was so introspective on your part and much appreciated!! There is so much more to art than picking up a brush, it’s a mindset.
Yes! This is me! I have everything I need. When I start painting I do enjoy it.
It's one of those "i don't know what to wear" but having a wardrobe full of clothes kind of situation... haha so happy to hear u enjoy painting! that makes you and me :)
You hit the nail on the head! Thank you
Thank you for being here too! I love reading the comments and seems like we arent alone! :)
I clicked because I was intrigued by the unique roses and gorgeous colors! As I watched and listened, I was wondering if you'd somehow got into my head!! You spoke truth that I know we struggle with from time to time as artists. Lately, I've just been scrolling and watching and looking for inspiration and not actually putting a brush to paper. Thank you for this video!!
Thank you for sharing what got you here! I am glad to also feel like I m not alone in this journey where u can resonate with how I feel around scrolling for inspiration. It's easy to get trapped in the scroll cycle and I hope u get to paint more!
The c- curve roses are a nice start yet once you get better at them you want to move on to something different. This video really takes to where I am as well.
They are nice and are great maybe as a beginning guide... but I feel like if I were to teach watercolor to a beginner - the Rose might not be where I'd start with. Thanks for commenting and being here! It means alot!
I was drawn to this because your painting is gorgeous! I love it! I stayed for the whole thing because your words resonated with my feelings. Like you I find I do my best work by looking at the real thing or a picture of the real thing. Turorials are great and have their place, but they can definitely limit your own creativity. Thank you for putting into words what many of us are feeling!
I appreciate you doing this video. So relatable. I am going to start doing art my way.
Exactly how I felt, I have been avoiding flowers BECAUSE of the rose and I didn't want the cookie cutter rose either! Like the idea of using the flat brush, thank you for this video, will definitely start on my journey with the iconic rose 🌹🎨💜
Woop!! So glad that u and I felt the same way so I don't feel aloneAa
I am so glad I found you! The page of pink roses you said was a little crazy, I think it's BEAUTIFUL. It's painting from the heart and it's exactly what I've been lacking. Thank you.
I m so glad u r here! I also love that page of crazy roses 🌹 haha it took me 3 days to finish it but it was worthy. I didn't expect it to morph into a whole page of roses! I hope u get to really paint from the inside out :)
This is such a great video! Your words are exactly what I am feeling especially about social media. While it is a wonderful resource and tool, it can also hinder our own ability to freestyle as an artist.
Hey Kathy! I love you are here... and yes it really is a double edged sword in that sense. I can't say it hasnt inspired me. I do feel that the trajectory of many artist growing is large because of how we have got so much inspiration to try things but it can also become overwhelming...
I feel the exact same way
About roses and Instagram inspirations. I am so happy and excited to pull out a sketch book and set boundaries and play! Ty
All I've neen painting is roses. Your video caught my eye.. love your imagination. Your work is awesome❤
Hi Jillian, Roses are my nemesis also !! I've been so disappointed in myself and you have lifted that today. I've seen some of your other videos before and " found " you through your collaborations with Emma L and Kristy R. The fact that you do yours differently than the boring C Curve. To me they just aren't quite rosey enough so I'm excited to try this way. It just seems so much more relaxed and natural . Thanks for giving us your time .
Cannot wait for you to just do you own rose!
Your video totally resonates with me as I start my painting journey aged 54! Thanks Jillian 💡
Most welcomed Eileen and hurray for starting your painting journey! Such an exciting time ahead!
Wonderful thoughts and video. I am on the same art journey and roses are really a flower I am trying to figure out (conquer if you must say), and it is difficult. My thoughts are the same…I never am able to copy the “C” formula and “get it right”; or rather, it comes out, not so “right”. Right for me…is the expression of me. It’s a matter of practice…and more practice…till I get it “right” the way I like it. Thank-you for posting. 😊
You are adorable! Thanks for the validation!
Thank you. I needed to hear this.
Love everything about this! I’m new to watercolor and painting in general. I’m trying a little of a lot of styles to try to find my own love and what feels right. I love the way to approach the shape and found your own groove.
Exciting to be new to watercolor and painting! Welcome to this amazing space! 👏
I love this video thank you!!! I agree with the c roses I’m going to try this!!!❤🌹
Thank you for being here michelle! Excited to see you experiment and make the rose your own!
😮this is exactly m story! Thank you for the encouragement.
Your art deserves to be heard! :) Thank you for being here! and now I know I am not alone :)
Oh my goodness, I really relate to your journey with the roses and even any floral watercolor. Mine look like your earlier work and I struggle to infuse mine with life and color. Thank you for your encouraging comments. I will keep watching.
Thank you for putting words to my feelings!
most welcomed Cathy I am glad you can relate!
I am just beginning my journey into watercolor. Your process is very encouraging. It gives me hope
It's a fun new stage! Enjoy it all!
I enjoy your painting videos. I have been looking for inspiration and not painting. You brought that out as something you have done. Therefore, I don’t feel alone. I enjoy your calmness and your techniques. Love that you used gouache. I look forward to watching more of your videos. ❤❤
So encouraging and thought provoking! Thank you!
I really enjoyed this video. I have been painting realistic roses and I feel so constrained by realism. So I would like to paint more loosely but the "bracket" style tutorials were not helping me. They feel so lifeless. So this video of yours opened my eyes to different ways of doing roses that feel more alive and beautiful. I hope that I can find my own way, as you have. You really inspire me. I wish you well in your continuing journey of self expression. ❤️
So thankful for your presence here because my journey also includes a community where you are also part of whether u paint detailed or loose roses! I think it's just so amazing to be brought together just because we paint 🎨 glad to hear that some of my words resonated! 🙌 I cannot wait for you to grow your lively roses!
Hi~ Thank you for talking about roses! I too am having trouble with painting roses! I'm a beginner watercolor artist and the way others paint the rose wasn't working for me.
Boundaries within spoke to me and for that I'm thankful!
I have subscribed to your channel and found you through Kristy Rice. Thanks Kristy ❤️
Thank you so much for going deep on this topic of the rose 🌹 God bless you ❤️✝️🙏🏻
Thank you. That was wonderful. Just what I needed to hear!
I clicked on this video because I loved the thumbnail of your roses. They are delightful. I just love impressionist painting and looseness in painting. I like that you used gouache in a different way, and even used a flat brush, plus using non traditional colors in it. Maybe part of the key is just using different materials and thinking outside of the box with colors. I am going to try something different! Thank you for the inspiration.
You might be right! Just doing things differently and changing up supplies and tools could be the key to just getting new and fresh results that we never considered! Glad u clicked on my video and commented here!
This is one of my worst art things there is. And i have painted for 55 years. An i saw you on Kristy Rice an you made my day.❤
Hello Linda! Welcome here and glad kristy has connected our paths and yes roses were my ugly beginning or well I can't say it's ugly... more like uncertain and filled with self doubt but I won't get defeated by a flower! 😆 😂
This is truly inspiring! I've been deep diving into learning watercolor for a few years and still find it a bit difficult to get what I want on paper and desperately want to find my own way of painting instead of just following a tutorial. I'm just now coming to a milestone of actually remembering difficult techniques without a paint a long, but im also a very visual person, seeing is how I learn. Thanks you so much for sharing your process. It's such a great reminder that it takes time and to let go and just paint and see what happens!!
I m so thankful for that last line u added because while it feels tricky to just wait and see to let your journey unfold - there is an element of magic to it too and I think it's a HUGE MILESTONE that you painted without going back to the tutorial by applying what u know and like. U r right that visual learners probably need more visual ways of learning to help them process. Makes so much sense. Thanks for that!
Yes! This!!! Wanting to do things “right” sometimes prevents us from finding our own process.
Your style is fantastic I luv your roses thanks for showing me how.😊
Thank you for leaving a note of love!
That makes so much sense! I guess as a beginner your looking for guidance and have lost that childlike quality of just trying and giving it a go freehand. Then the adult self kicks in because its 'not good enough' where as a child is happy with their art! Thank you for this inspiration 💜
I love how you have taken this video and shared your insights around it :)
I love your style and your honesty . Your ROSES ARE GORGEOUS.❤ Growing as an artist is sometimes a struggle. But I have learned to know what I like and stop looking at art I don't like. I act like watercolor therfore I understand it. I paint all the time and my work kind of sucks. But I can't stop painting😅😅
Couldn't have said it better! I love your insight!!
I love your thoughts, first of all thank you for them. I'm another artist obsessed with roses. I can't even tell you why, because as you say there are so many other wonderful flowers in this world. But I always return to the rose and try again. Always with new techniques and insights. Well, unfortunately I don't think I've mastered it yet. At least they don't look like meat sausage rolls anymore, which is something? ;) I think you're encouraging me to just try it a little more freely and to trust that I can finally express the shadows and layers of the rose petals a little better based on my intuition.
This is so true! I am painting everything else but roses! They are still an intimidating challenge for me. Your creations are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing
Enjoyed this video. I have subscribed. I’ve given up on the C rose. Just couldn’t get the hang of it. Boy did I try.
I really love what you had to say here. I have been struggling with trying to create others "easy" roses for years. I feel free to go paint them my way now, and just watch that unfold. I had prayed about getting better at roses, one of my favorite flowers, and your video was an answer to that prayer. I am thankful 🩷 God Bless you!
YES! YES! YES! This is the first video I’ve seen of yours! You have reticulate my thoughts about my art! I guess what you’re saying and encouraging me to be is free! Letting the paper and paint speak to my soul!
I need to follow my inner voice and not follow the crowd!! Protect that inner artist! And your roses are beautiful!! This has been the most inspiring video I’ve seen in a very long time. Your title caught my attention 😊
Preserve your spark! I m so glad you watched this video and came here to comment. Means alot and hello and welcome! The titles are always the trickiest to come up with when I come up with a video so I m glad it clicked for u 😀
Art is about speaking your own language rather than mimicking someone else's patterns. It's about breaking the eye inside.
I too have been stuck in the c curve formula for roses and have never liked how they look. So stiff and unrealistic and dissatisfying. I LOVE your beautiful roses and the thoughts you share about finding our own voices. Thank you for this inspiring video!
Gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
Can totally relate to what your saying about my art thankyou
Thank you for this video! It’s my first of yours (recommended by another artist). I struggle with flowers in general, but roses are not something I’ve really even tried much, they are so daunting. I love what you do and it makes me realize how much painting flowers is really observation and capturing the dark and the light, the shading and intensities of colours. I love that you use colours that are not ‘rose-like’ as contrast and shading.
The things you said about how we change as adults and ‘harden’ in our beliefs of how things must be done to be ‘correct’ made me feel even more strongly that I’ve been copying and want to create my own style. I’m closer to finding it, but I still feel I’ve only scratched the surface of what that means. It feels both daunting and disheartening while also freeing and exciting. Not sure if that makes sense, but it’s a long road ahead of experiences and experimentation methinks! Thanks again!
I love that u are here and thank u for watching this video... also - your written thoughts make so much sense and i believe you will grow far 😀
I use to draw the rose and it looked like a rose then I saw the bracket rose on youtube and watching you reminded me that I could be myself and paint my rose the way I want to. So thank you
The bracket rose really gets to me because of how simple it looks but hard to execute and visualise. I also realise that we can paint the rose in so many angles beyond top down (which is the bracket approach) and I m glad you listened to yourself! So powerful Suzanne 👏
You are so inspirational ans talented. I love your use of colour. Thank you.
I can so relate to this. I find your videos so helpful, insightful and encouraging. Roses are one of my favorite flowers so I really wanted to learn to paint them. However, the c-curve didn't work for me and actually discouraged me to the point of giving up. I didn't but I stopped trying the c-curve. I'm at a point where I'm trying to pay attention to what techniques feel right for me. It's a journey for sure. Thank you for sharing yours and your roses are so lovely.
I like how you have decided to make the rose your own and choose techniques that work for u.. its easy to get stuck on thinking there are specific ways of doing things so your reflective nature is definitely going to take ur art far! I m glad you like my videos! I appreciate u have been here and watching too!
I find your thought process resonates with mine so closely...I also find them challenging and I am unable to enjoy all the styles demonstrated everywhere.. So I really think it's a good idea to do your own think.. And I think one doesn't have to justify it to any one else😊
So true - doing your own thing and letting your thing bloom on its own is so important - sometimes without even someone else peeping over our shoulder :)
I had an idea for a small project and when I finished I was so disappointed by the generic look in the end. These styles are fantastic and after stepping away from a couple projects I see how I was pushing in the wrong direction. Once you start that you can get locked in and almost need to snap out of a trance.
I can relate to what you are saying. The more "inspired" I am the less pleased I am with my own art somehow - I can see you are thoughtful with your own practice and that's going to bring you far!
Thanks for sharing your journey with roses. I was drawn to your video because you said you could show us how to paint roses without C curves. I really don't like the way they look. Also thanks for letting us know you used gouache, I'm hoping it will work for me too. You've given me the encouragement I needed to try it on my own. Thanks Jillian
Great video, thank you for sharing. I don’t like painting rose and peonies they never look good as I’m following the dreaded c-curve!
C curveeee... haha and peonies is my next nemesis.... haha one at a time!
I love your roses!
Thank you kelli! I am glad I found something I like... I realised it was really the angle that made sense for me - being able to paint side facing is what I prefer than a top down rose.
Thank You!!
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Thank you for being here!
Thank you Jillian 😊
Very good advise!
Thank you marie for tuning in! I am glad you liked it!
You have so many variation of roses in water color. Very beautifully done!👏👏
Thank u thank u!! :) so many ways of painting!
Your roses are amazing! You are such a talented artist!
Beautiful!🌹
Love your style! But why do you call some of your roses crazy? Those were my favourites anyway. Love your story journey, thanks for sharing it, I think I needed to hear this
Hahaha I called them crazy because I might have overdone the details :P but once you start you can't stop! and thank you for loving my art! I appreciate you being here
love love love ! thank you ! I have to try that !
I can fully understand this video content. So much of my business is stagnant because of the feeling of “ what’s new?”. I too am working on breaking away from the mould right now. It’s an overcrowded place.
I clicked to watch your video because I am struggling to learn watercolor while not just doing the same thing (even if I am following different tutorials) repeatedly without much variation. All of my paintings are either landscape (forest with mountains in the far distance) seascape (sandy beach with a palm tree in the foreground emerging from outside the frame) or the c-curve roses or basic stroke tulips with s-curve leaves. I know you need to learn skills by repetition, but it gets boring, I wanted to see doing more personalized works.
It was interesting to see you NOT using the size 6 or size 8 round but instead a flat brush to do something other than just washes. And I love you results and the looseness and freedom of your roses.
I am interested in watching these videos, are they still available?
I totally understand. Inks, watercolour, pastels, what?
Hahaha yes too many options too little time!
The C-curve rose stroke is overkill. Love your technique.
It really is!! And for the life of me it's the flower everyone seems to be painting at least when starting out and it's almost the worst flower to start with... 🙃
I'm a super newbie so the 'c' curve is a starting point for me. I hope to find my own way at some point like everyone else but for now simple techniques are all I can handle. I'll probably end up copying Jillian LOL
This is such an entertaining and informative video. But friendly suggestion-- I would remove the background music. It's not needed and is just a bit distracting.
Thanks for letting me know! :) and yes sometimes I get a little INTO the music too! haha
Is your paper damp the whole time you are evolving the rose petal shapes?
Yes! It is :)