Dark Pink Rose Watercolour Tutorial Part 1 (The Flower) - intermediate to advanced (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

I hope you've had a productive week. I've been busy all week editing this tutorial for you. Here is Part 1 of the Dark Pink Rose watercolour tutorial. In this video I paint the flower. 

I painted this rose either last year or the year before and I've had the video footage sitting on a hard drive since then so I'm pleased to have finally made a tutorial to share with you. 

Because I painted it a year or two ago I look at it now and I think to myself if I was to paint it again I would change a few things and do a few things differently. So it's good to know that I've improved since then. Constant practice certainly does make us better and I love looking back at my older paintings and realizing how much I've grown in a few years. I hope you do the same.

I use Opera Rose in this painting to brighten up the petals. I didn't know at the time that Opera Rose is a fugitive colour which means it isn't light fast. So if you put it in the sun it will fade. Just be aware of this if you decide to use it. If you don't want to use it, whenever I use it on the rose just use whatever pink your using as your main colour. This particular painting of mine sits in a box at home. I sell prints of it but I've kept the original. Any watercolour paintings of mine that I have hanging on the wall at home are all hung away from direct light. I'm curious to know whether Opera Rose fades even if the sun doesn't directly hit it. If you've had any experience with Opera Rose fading/or not, let me know. I'd love to broaden my knowledge on this particular colour.

Part 2, The Leaves, is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29144343