I love to paint flowers. These Monochromatic Flower Painting have a soft dreamy texture and these illustrations turned out to be some of my favorites!
There is something so carefree about painting loose watercolor florals that is magical. Today I’ll show you how to create a Monochromatic Flower Painting using Watercolor Markers.
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What you will Need:
- Watercolor paper: I’m using these Strathmore cards today. These are by come pre-scored, folded with matching envelopes.
- Round brush: Size medium, no 4 or no 6.
- Blending Palette: I like using a blending palette to mix my watercolor brush colors.
- Watercolors or Tombow Dual Brush pens
monochromatic flower painting Step by Step Tutorial:
In this lesson, I’ll explain the steps of how you create a Monochromatic Painting and you’ll see how easy it is!
Total Time: 15 minutes
STEP 1:
Prepare your palette with four hues of the same color. Here, I’m using 4 shades of red to create a reddish-pink monochromatic painting today of florals
STEP 2:
Paint a simple flower with 5 petals using your first color. Don’t wait for the paint to dry. Instead, pick up the second color and drop a bit of the color into the center of the flower petals. This will add variation to the petal color.
Now add a small branch of leaves to the side. 
STEP 3:
Add another flower and mores leaves. Vary the sizes and shapes of the leaves and petals as you go. 
STEP 4:
Mix colors on the blending palette itself to create a new hue. By the end of the composition, I like to mix all of my colors together to form a new color.
To make it more interesting, add small dots, leaves or petals with this color in between the florals and leaves. I use my final color for this and fill in any white spaces between floral elements.
Now go ahead and create more Monochromatic Paintings in all the colors of the rainbow!
The final step is to add more details on top, to keep the illustration interesting. A black pen is great for adding such details on top. I love this Watercolor with Pen technique.
Monochromatic Painting Flower VIDEO:
Enjoy this Monochromatic Flower Painting VIDEO and paint along with me!
More Flower Tutorials:
- Easy Watercolor Pen Flowers
- How To Paint Beautiful Tulips In Watercolor
- Rainbow Floral Watercolor Tutorial
- Watercolor Poinsettia Tutorial
- 3 Easy Flower Paintings
- Watercolor Flowers Easy
Hi I’m Smitha! I live in Minnesota with my husband and two daughters. You’ll always find me painting florals in my sketchbook. And I love the sheer joy of making something with just my hands! But my bigger love is capturing it all on camera Read more.
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