How to paint like a botanical artist

Learn how to paint a flower like an expert.
Botanical artist Lucy Smith provides a step-by-step guide on how to paint the perfect Primula.
Find out what equipment you’ll need, how to highlight the important details of your flower, and tips for bringing a botanical painting to life.
Timecodes:
00:00 - 00:20 - Intro
00:20 - 00:31 - What you'll need
00:31 - 02:25 - Preparation
02:25 - 03:55 - Painting the outline
03:55 - 04:54 - Adding initial details
04:54 - 07:55 - Laying down washes
07:55 - 09:56 - Mixing & painting the yellows
09:56 - 11:07 - Mixing & adding the orange details
11:07 - 12:21 - Mixing & painting the green stigma
12:21 - 13:18 - Building the colour using a dry brush technique
13:18 - 14:16 - Adding in another wash
14:16 - 15:27 - Mixing & painting darker colours
15:27 - 18:29 - Adding fine details
18:29 - 18:51 - The finished painting
18:51 - 19:20 - Why botanical art is important
19:20 - 19:29 - Outro
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[@nerminkayikci]

So beautiful demonstration, Thank you so much!

[@radiantnavin8033]

Amazing demonstration and informative video. Looking forward to more videos of botanical artists painting☺️

[@ludakrivo6199]

So wonderful lesson and explanation! Thanks a lot for sharing! You are fantastical artist!

[@Carina-2906]

Lovely tutorial full of realistic details.
Thank you for this video!

[@drvans17]

Largest botanical garden in the world is royal botanical garden situated at Kew , London , England 🇬🇧
Love from 🇮🇳
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[@fizakhan9999]

Thank you so much for such a wonderful and meditative demonstration. It was instructive and inspring. I learned about all the tiny and BIG mistakes I've been making while working with watercolor.

[@mothjunk]

Oh man this is so interesting and cool!! I'm gonna be inspired to paint an absolutely awful flower >:-)

[@cathyd5340]

Thank you Lucy. Any chance you will be any more demonstrations?

[@cristinahoenigman6930]

Thank you!!😄

[@MarcosSilvaFerraz]

Hi Lucy! Great video, really inspiring and you make it look so easy :-)

[@ShirleiBarnes]

Thank you, this helps a lot ❤

[@puikingyip1472]

👍👍😍

[@hilmaallen1302]

It goes to show, that a watercolour can show more details than a photo.

[@gnostie]

Which paper was used for this demo?

[@sugarplum9017]

What size brushes are these?

[@subratakumarpal8277]

What differenciate a botanic panting from a normal paintings? Subrata.