How to paint loose eucalyptus leaves - easy quick fun watercolor using wet in wet technique
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2023
- Today we’re going to practice painting our wet-in-wet leaves and using the eucalyptus baueriana as our model! There are over 700 varieties of eucalyptus and they are mostly native to Australia. With their blueish leaves - sometimes even silvery - they make a lovely addition to a floral arrangement whether painted or in real life. This is a quick, easy, fun watercolor project and it would make a perfect warmup or practice piece to get your wet in wet and color mixing creativity flowing.
Materials:
Paint
Dark Green (eg Hookers, Olive or Sap Green Deep…)
Mid Blue (eg Ultramarine, Cobalt, Turquoise…)
Yellow (eg Cadmium, Lemon, Aureolin…)
Paper
140lb cold pressed watercolor paper (eg Fabriano, Winsor & Newton, Bockingford, Canson, Etival, Etchr etc)
Brushes
Princeton Aqua Elite size 12 round
Drawell round series 11-2 size 12
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88000 viewers can't be wrong! We love you the way you are! No need to change, Diane
Don’t worry Loretta, no plans to change! I was just talking about a person who was an expert in helping people correct their upspeak and vocal fry! Both of which I’m mercifully not often guilty of indulging in! Thanks for your support and glad you enjoy the channel!
Diane, your natural speaking style, tone, and free flowing thoughts expressed are what we love about you. You need not change!!! Please don't change!!!💖
Wow, thank you Deb.I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry!
Diane Enjoy your teaching style just the way it is. Authenticity hard to find these days. Love your kitties and dogs sheep etc❤
The nicest (besides your painting, of course) and most unique things in your videos are the impromptu elements in your recordings. Please don’t change that. You’ve no idea how many times I answer you in my mind. If you change your format I lose one of my good imaginary friends!
Hi Angie and thanks - I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry - your friend isn’t going anywhere!
We all love Diane! I’m so glad I found her!
Don’t change a thing! Your style is authentic and refreshing! I learn more from you than anyone and I think it has a lot to do with your style of teaching. Keep it real girlfriend!
Hi Sue, thanks so much! I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry!
These leaves look like our Australian Blue Gum, beautiful! One of the reasons I love watching you paint, is the way you personally talk to us. I feel that I’m in your studio with you watching you. When you’re looking for something, I find myself looking around too!!! 🙄🙄🥰🥰🥰
Had fun with colour mixing, leaf shapes, techniques, placement - tutorials like this are so full of great ideas. I have so much to learn that I'm grateful to be reminded of things I might otherwise forget to try and you do your teaching in such a gentle way.
Ohhh I LOVE this style of painting and the subject matter too. There's an easy, flowing, gentleness about it and the end result is just lovely.
Don't change your style of chatting with us Diane, the way you talk with us makes us all relax and plants a little seed inside our brains telling us that we can do this too! Don't ever change!
Have a blessed rest of your day ~ Cobs.
Thank you so much Cobs, I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry!
Your speech is perfect to me. Your communication expresses calmness and your techniques also. I actually enjoy your soothing voice and I especially love your sharing your beautiful watercolor creations!
I adore her accent.
Thank you! 😊 So kind of you Sherrill I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry!
I enjoy the way you express yourself, very fresh and authentic - don’t change, we like you a lot.
I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry! Thanks for your support and so glad you enjoy the channel!
You are real just like you are. I, for one, am comfortable listening to you just like you are!
Oh thank you!
I have no idea why, but I have not been able to paint eucalyptus leaves if my life depended on it. It should be easy - look at the fun you had!!!!!! ok - I will do another go and not cry about it! lol - Diane - you are a treasure - you are very funny and of course very talented! Thank you - I enjoy your conversations!
You can do it! you can definitely do it Deanna! I think the key is not to try to hard. Use plenty of paint, don’t worry too much about what color it is, let the colors mix on the paper, don’t overwork the leaves, just a couple of strokes and let it alone. Use a round ended brush for the leaves and a pointed one for the stems. Don’t draw the leaves first, just wing it. Keep my reference work in the corner of your eye and don’t look at it too often! Now, GO GIRL!
@@DianeAntoneStudio Diane - thank you for your words of encouragement. Yes, I will wing it and see what happens. I think I have just been trying so hard to make them perfect when really, each leaf is so unique anyway. and I think you might have hit on something - the brushes I've been using are not as round ....hmmmmmm. I will let you know how it goes!
Eucalyptus leaves have to be my favorite, love the colors!!
Mine too! Glad you liked this one!
Every day I look forward to watching you paint and listening to your soothing voice explaining and talking to us like we’re friends.
You have inspired me more than you’ll ever know .
God Bless you for sharing your talent Diane ♥️
Thank you so much Colette, I really appreciate your feedback and I’m so glad you are enjoying the channel. It’s wonderful for me xxx 😀
I do like Tom Hanks but I can't say I have spent anytime fantasizing about him! You make me laugh!
Haha! Me neither to tell the truth!!! But I might just start now!
I really liked this one. Simple but lovely. Thank you! 🎉🎉🎉🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you! 😊 So glad you enjoyed it!
Diane, this is so lovely.I was at a friend's home the other day and she had a beautiful potted plant just like this and she called it a money tree. She's rooting one for me now and as a thank you to her for her kind gift, I now know the perfect thank you card to paint for her. Thank you!
Oh wow! That’s a bit of a coincidence, isn’t it Caroline! So glad you enjoyed the video, and you will have fun painting it!
I love the way you speak. The fact that you are not a robotic or "trained" speaker is part of your soothing and relaxing charm It makes me feel like we are old friends. 🤗
However, I think it's great to keep exploring passions and hobbies. If that is your wish, you go girl! (Just don't do it "for us.")
We think you're pretty great as you are. 💚
Wow, thank you so much! That means a lot to me. I'm so happy to hear that I make you feel like we're old friends. That’s the wonderful thing about RUclips and the channel. Thanks again for your kind comment x
Fun to paint along with you, Diane - learning all the time from you, esp about colour mixing and variation and composition in this video. Please keep interspersing your chats with watercolour techniques. PS Love your tongue-in-cheek British humour - always makes me smile:)
I just spent 30 or so minutes on a eucalyptus stem and yours looks so much better! I love your style! And your speaking voice is perfect by me!
So nice of you to say so! I don’t plan on changing anything, that lady was just interesting for her analysis of why so many people use up-speak! So glad you enjoy my videos, and good luck with your next eucalyptus!
Tom Hanks, huh? I’m more of a Sam Elliott kind of gal, myself…Needless to say, I do a LOT of painting!!😂😅
Love you just the way you are, Diane!!
The loose method you use is so appealing. My kind of painting, for sure. I thoroughly enjoy your projects and the easygoing way you share your art. It's as though we're all sitting in your studio with you. 👍
Thank you so much!
Always a treat to watch a video of yours, this one especially wonderful with leaves and branches! You always teach me new ways to do things! Thanks, Karen Dirmish
Thank you! Cheers!
This is amazing. It looks so simple but so satisfying.
Thank you! 😊
You are so real and authentic and I love your voice...you don't need to change a thing...I like you just the way you are! Love the eucalyptus leaves too! :)
Thank you so much!! Won’t change anything, I promise!!!
Glad you don't do voice overs ..it is pleasing to hear your genuine self..thanks for sharing.
😊 thank you
These are known as florist’s bluegum here. They grow easily in our area…very pretty trees. PLEASE don’t change your speaking style. Your art isn’t the only reason we’re all here!
Don’t worry Deirdre, I have no intention of changing anything! I was just talking about another woman, I had heard of! Glad you are enjoying the videos!
Diane, I wanted to update my last comment to say that I did end up painting this. I started by doing a 4 x 6 size for a card for a friend. I used the colors you suggested and it turned out beautifully if I do say so myself. I purposely created some blooms and love the effect. I also added a border using that lovely gold paint from Germany. I love it and am going to make more of these for cards and even plan to do a larger size to frame and display in my home. You inspire me like to other! Thank you.
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That’s wonderful Carolyn, so glad to hear you enjoyed this video so much. You’re right, it has lots of possibilities for enhancements and different uses, and it’s inspiring for me to hear what you are planning to do with it! Take care, hugs Diane x
Tom Hanks? Now that's random and quite specific! LOL Love this video. ♥
😁 i’ve been talking about Tom Hanks’ wonderful acting skills and how much I like his films in the last few videos. I suppose I was just carrying on from where I left off in the last one!
@@DianeAntoneStudio LOL
How about George? (Clooney that is)
You are so funny. That’s interesting about the different papers. I love the Fabriano look. Very pretty painting.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, Fabriano is very good paper!
I enjoyed painting along! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you this wonderful tutorial, Diane!!! I absolutely love eucalyptus trees/leaves. Their colors are just so pretty. Also, don’t ever change the way you do your tutorials!!! I love you just as you are🥰😘♥️‼️
You are so welcome Nancy! So glad you enjoy the videos and don’t worry, I have no plans to change anything - I was just rambling on about something completely random! Happy painting!
Thanks for this, it is exactly what I need. It is so hard to be a beginner in watercolor but this is something I was inspired to practice till I got something decent.
Glad it was helpful!
Agree! Completed framed Watercolor looks so easy. It is NOT. But I still Love it and won’t give up.
even though you said it was fantasy I think this painting looks very life-like and natural. thank you. I also think this style would be a lovely base for Christmas wreaths x
I totally agree!
you do you! I enjoy you every video! You sniff and then I sniff😊 Now i must have some of this paper! Great tutorial! looking forward to seeing spring at your place!
Yay! Thank you!
Awesome upload my friend. This one was was good. thanks for sharing and hope you have a great weekend 💕💕💕 happy Sunday ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! You too!
Loved this one Diane, and those beautiful florals which you showed us so fleetingly, were just gorgeous.
Hi Chris, thanks so much for commenting! Really appreciate your support!
This is awesome. Very good job here.
Thanks a lot!
Thank you, I enjoyed this one very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your speaking style is natural . Wouldn’t change that! Great tutorial and enjoyed painting along. About Arches vs Fabriano. Arches have bright white and natural and the cold press is designed to take the paint into the tooth of the paper. The Fabriano you are using is actually the student grade version is bleached white that does not take in as much water, so it sets on top a little like hot press does but has a texture. Their artist grade has a different texture and deeper tooth and is 100% cotton.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed painting along and thought my speaking style was natural. It's great to hear that you noticed the difference between Arches and Fabriano paper! It's true that the student grade version of Fabriano paper is bleached white and doesn't take in as much water, but the artist grade does have a deeper tooth and is 100% cotton so it absorbs more paint. This can be challenging for the beginner and not everyone realises that professional quality materials are not necessarily the best ones for learning on!
You are a delight, Diane! I think I can put you on the track from where you lost your “train” of thought. You were saying that the Arches watercolor paper you used for the roses went swoosh and sucked in the color and then you went to the Fabriano paper and showed how it stayed on top. I think it was the swoosh sound that made you think about the lady from the speaking class. ??
I really like those leaves: the shape, the colors, and the arrangement of them. I learn something each time I watch one of your videos. 🤗
Thanks so much Paula, I think you’re right! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Beautiful. You are fun!
Thank you! 😊
Lovely 💖
Beautiful... and the colors are candy for the eyes ;) BTW, Tom Hardy for me ;)
Oh thank you!
Tom Hanks? hmmmm, I think James Norton has to be the most beautiful man, I like Tom Hanks as an actor. Anyway back to painting, these leaves are lovely I will try them. I am not very confident in playing with paint. Many thanks ❤
Yeah, good looking not so much, but imagine the lifestyle, jet-setting around hither and thither…. Wearing Yves St Laurent outfits and eating in fancy restaurants. Nah. Defo not my style after all!
@@DianeAntoneStudio I don’t think I could jet anywhere anymore 😂😂
I line that quickie!!
Thank you for this video. I'm an hammered with pointy leaves but I sure would like to figure out how to paint round leaves! And please don't mess with your speaking style. "Come as you are" is my favorite! 😉
Hi Margot, thanks so much for your lovely comment! Don’t worry, I am not planning on changing anything - I think I’m too old to change now don’t you?! If you want to paint around leaves, one thought is to get a filbert brush. They have a rounded tip and are quite good at painting circles. Here is a link to the sort of thing I mean.I’m pretty sure it would work. amzn.to/3IlrKLR
I really love the texture of this fabriano paper.
Thanks Diane 😊 I've been off the band wagon for a little while and I really miss my creative play time, but I still love watching your videos.
Hi Maria, I hope you’re going to be able to start painting again soon! So glad that you’re still watching the videos, it means an awful lot to us! Keep well, keep warm!
Very nice!
😂You're one of a kind. I love everything about you! I laughed out loud at the fantasies comment. Honestly, my fantasies sometimes were thinking about Paul Newman. I liked this composition on these "silver dollars". I'll try another color.
Thanks Maria, so glad you enjoyed the video! I really appreciate your support and hope you enjoy giving the leaves a go!
Diane it is so helpful when you talk about the brush sizes and paper you use. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
Never ever change your chattering, it is just very natural, real and uplifting! And that is an urgent must nowadays, it is dying out so to speak, since everything is artificial, voiced over and just not enjoyable at all! But hey, Tom Hanks, really? OMG, no, I'd rather die alone on a desert island than having to share some air with that uh ... creature. I think Klaus Kinski was pretty creepy but if I'd had to chose....he was very intelligent, that makes him a lot more attractive, for me at least. Nice painting! And yes, the Arches paper is not my thing either, everybody raves about it, so I took the plunge but I'm kind of dissappointed. I love the Baohong paper, rough and cold pressed, but it is pretty expensive too 😞 The Arteza expert is a wonderful paper too, the colors are intense, nearly all the brands I tried come out very intense, but hey, it is crazy expensive too. Since the C-thing was put into the world paper became so expensive, even toilet paper 😕
Hi Marvelenia! Don’t worry, I’m just joking about Tom Hanks!! I have a tendency to say whatever comes into my head and sometimes it’s not got much connection with my actual thoughts! I tried Baohong but thought it was too expensive because the sheets tended to vary in quality within the block. I haven’t tried Arteza, it’s hard to get in Europe. At the moment I’m focusing on Hahnemühle and Fabriano, which seem to be more suited to the way I am currently painting. Everything is expensive, it’s true. Reminds me of the 70s.
I love those leaves. Otis so true about the different papers. I learn so much from you
Glad you like them!
Thank you. I really like these leaf types and they aren't so easy.
Glad you like them! They are fun to play with!
Simple, elegant and ultimately do-able by all! Thanks, Diane. Susan
You are so welcome Susan!
Oh yay! Just in time to paint with our morning coffee! I just asked you if you had more in the pot for seconds! Do you?
“A pointless brush” got, love it!😄❤️❤️
Hé hee!! Where’s the coffee pot!
@@DianeAntoneStudio 😊🤗in your kitchen! I drank mine dry already!
A.curator contacted me about showing my paintings in the gallery of Academy of Music and Arts! My silly little paintings! Imagine that! Booking for January 2024. I have a year and 400+ tutorials PF YOURS to help me! So, in that way you will be doing it with me. That makes me happy. I don’t have the confidence to do it alone. Thank you my friend.❤️xoxoxo
V pretty. It always makes me chuckle when foreigners identify eucalyptus leaves as looking like this or as 'silver dollars' - Eucalypts are indigenous to Australasia & despite what Wikipedia thinks, there are 934 identified main varieties indigenous to Australia & 65,000 specimens in the Australian National Herbarium's Centre for Australian Biodiversity Research - of which, almost 0% (nearly zero per cent) of them have those round leaves... & we don't even have silver dollars here, they're just a normal, gold/brass-coloured coin. LOL. Thanks for making me smile :)
Yes, you’re right, I looked it up online before I did the painting. I think people tend to think of eucalyptus in terms of what they get offered in the florists shops to put in their floral arrangements. Being from the UK we have a bit more of a broad knowledge about eucalyptus and there is a fine collection of ornamentals in Kew Gardens and at Lullingstone. Apparently the one we are familiar with is the ornamental eucalyptus gunnii. Thanks for your input, much appreciated!
I like how you use several techniques to get a similar result for the veins in the leaves - choices!
Glad you like it! There’s always options!! Have fun trying it out!
You sound fine. Natural. Fun. No speech lessons needed. (OH my god somehow that comment ended up on someone else's video!)
Ooops! I am definitely not going to change anything! Don’t worry!
Love this! What color greens did you use? Happy New Year and many thanks for your awesome videos!
Great video. Makes me feel I can do it!!! Like the scratching in vein tip!! TFS Austin TX USA
Thanks for watching! So glad you found it useful and thanks for your kind words xxx
Thank you ❤️🦋
You are so welcome!
Dear Diane, I agree with your thoughts on the fabriano paper. I just recently bought a small pad of the 1264 fabriano spiral bound just to try it and I have to say I love, love , love it 😊 It cost less then a fiver for A5 and is 25% cotton and is 100% environmentally friendly, so what's not to like lol!! I would really like to try it in block form if they do it. It has a lovely feel and texture and paints lifts off easily and you can scratch into it . Its a real pleasure painting on this paper ! Btw Diane I am still a dedicated fan of your channel , you produce some fabulous things and I admire your creativity, it often kick starts me into action when I get a brain freeze !!😉😍 Love this little painting of eucalyptus x
Hi Susan, lovely to get a comment from you, so glad you are enjoying the channel and thanks for the input about Fabriano. I’m going to check it out!
Diane - you are magic! I need a little wand to bibbity bobbity blue my brush strokes! I also need a real round brush with no point…. Could you provide a link to one?
Hi Charlie, thanks so much for your lovely comments! As regards a brush with no point, do you have an old brush that has lost its point? If not I think a filbert might be the best way to go. All the round brushes I have come across are sold complete with a very pointed end. The one I used which was blunt is an old brush. Here’s a link to a filbert in case you want to give that a try - I’m pretty sure it would work. amzn.to/3IlrKLR
Wonderful lady, what colors are you using please??? Just beautiful!!!
Cobalt Blue and a dark green (olive?) mostly!
i wonder what kind of paper you used here.n It seems to have horizontal lines in it, which adds to the texture of your painting. I love it. I believe you said it was Fabriano, but which version? Thank you. I love your paintings, your whimsical style, and your great, optimistic attitude. It is so encouraging for beginners like me.
Thanks Donna, you’re too kind! I think that was Fabriano 50 I used there.
Diane, girlfriend.. you are worrying way too much about how you speak or 'sniff'.. Your RUclips channel is exactly as i would like it to be.. authentic or 'real'.. calming, laid back , honest, and most of all you make me feel like i can paint what you are painting.. I would not change a thing and i hope you won't. I love the way you chat with us while you paint about anything and everything.. Its time to stop worrying and apologizing and just be you. Thats why we are all here. Hugs! deb
Hi Deb, thanks so much for your lovely supportive comments! But I have no intention of changing anything about the channel! I don’t think I could, even if I wanted to, which I don’t! Honestly, I was just talking about somebody who works in the field of communication, and she was trying to help people who upspeak or use vocal fry! I’m not guilty of either of those habits, thank goodness! So glad that you like what we do! So glad that you are finding joy in painting. Thanks very much for caring! Hugs to you too!
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May I ask about the tool you used to scrape the vein lines? I don’t know what that is ,but I need one! Fun video. Thanks.
That’s a bamboo stick available on amazon like this one: amzn.to/3WW0StC
@@DianeAntoneStudio thank you!!!
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Diane I'm so so sorry. I hit the thumbs down button in error. I'm not sure how to fix this if it's a problem. I love all the videos you post and have learned so much from them.
Hi Deb, don’t worry, it’s not serious! But if you go back to the video and click « thumbs up » instead I do believe it will cancel your thumbs down. But no worries! Thanks so much for commenting and clicking - every click counts, up or down!!!!!
Diane we have silver dollar trees! Love them…Too bad they don’t grow dollars! I’m going to look into the fabriano paper, hopefully it is on your list? Have a great Sunday..xoxox
Hi Denise, I think I’ve got Fabriano on the list. I’ll check tomorrow. Glad you enjoyed the video! Been a busy day today!
Wait weren’t you also giggling about the Dr😂
You are right! Oh dear - how will I choose!
hahaha, NOT Tom Hanks!!!
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Don't change a thing about your painting or your speaking! I feel as if I'm with a friend when you "ramble" on.
Thanks Linda. So glad you are enjoying the videos ❤️