Painting a Realistic Lily in Watercolor - Real Time Demonstration

This video shows the full two hour process of painting a yellow lily in watercolor. The flower is tightly rendered, and the video leaves out no step of the process. Here are the links mentioned in the video:
Udemy Course: Paint Realistic Watercolor Portraits
www.udemy.com/course/paint-re...
Our Website: watercolorguru.org
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Video by Anthony Pfohl, Jr. and Maxwell Pedersen.

[@murraycallahan3716]

Thanks for keeping the reference in view - we can learn so much more about process when the reference is visible.

[@doloresmanning9619]

I learned so much from this tutorial. Loved the negative painting around the leaves and painting to the pencil line.

[@donnamark7]

Please do more florals!! Great videos. 😊

[@Brembelia]

Yes. Lots of floral, pls.

[@carolcolclough4650]

your flowers are so much more beautiful than the photograph. I’ve been looking at a lot of watercolor online, and you have the best results/talents. thank you for taking the time to enlighten us.

[@marionbik2022]

Can’t believe how this painting was transformed to life from the under painting stage. Particularly how you made the petals look transparent. Thank you for sharing your skill and knowledge. ✨🎨

[@tavenchristensen3157]

SHOCKINGLY BEAUTIFUL!! …. & BEAUTIFULLY DIFFERENT !!

[@sylphofthewildwoods5518]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Green is not good in the background. I don't care for it and I'm glad to hear you say this. I'm an old Artist but new to watercolor. I appreciate your kindness in sharing your skills with us. Lovely painting!

[@SuperCutealien]

Thanks for the giggles. Loved the story about students not listening about paper.

[@SuperCutealien]

I prefer the blocks. Aches is a bit pricey in Canada and I am a complete newbie. I have Stonehenge and Baohong.

[@wendiebs]

Excellent tutorial! Bringing more depth in my practice. I'm excellent at acrylic, I've been doing watercolor for about 10 months, I've gone from basic mountain scapes to more realism. This tutorial will bring me to the next level! Thank You!

[@martapence8627]

This is the first real help for me on how to integrate the subject with the background!! Thank you for sharing all this wonderful help to us. Beautiful talent.

[@parachute5274]

One of the best tutorials I've ever watched on flower painting. Thank you so much!

[@deniseracine6788]

I watched until the very end. It was well worth it! Thank you!

[@amshuseasypaint6425]

The flowers came out exactly as in the reference image. Perfect...but I love your painting more than the real....glad to join here.😃🙏

[@watercolorguruorg]

Thank you so much! It was a fun painting to work on.

[@josephamir1929]

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[@elijahatlas5203]

@Joseph Amir yup, I've been using Flixzone for years myself =)

[@doreenaitken5308]

Perfect video! Love how your background came out: crisp and diffuse. The tips of the petals ❤

[@irmareitz701]

I loved this tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have learned so much and am inspired to paint more realistically. What Ive taken away from this lesson is that your drawing has to be accurate, so that is the first thing I will be working to improve. Please continue to make these wonderful tutorials.

[@krismua1209]

Wow, this is gorgeous!

[@saral.1933]

Thank you for the demo. I've seen a million that seem to repeat the same info. I learned some new techniques from yours. I like your method of making the petals look transparent by adding in some of the background color lightly & blending it over the top just at the edge. I would never have thought of that on my own. It was extremely effective too ( which surprised me)!

[@watercolorguruorg]

Thank you Sara! Really appreciate your feedback.

[@aguacolours]

How sweet it is, getting to the next level. The details, speechless...Fabulous teamwork.

[@mariaescobar7391]

I really enjoyed your style of teaching, thank you for this content 😊

[@amandastrydom3827]

I enjoyed this video so much! Thank you for sharing your time with me😊 This is beautiful.

[@kathieeidem5670]

Very dramatic! Love it!

[@judithwilliams5185]

I enjoyed this video very much. I’ve been painting flowers for years but learned so much. For one thing drawing the background into the edges of the flower. I’ve seen this suggested before but not actually how to do it. Also the drawing demo is very good and helpful. I also like going into detail which I find very satisfying. This is the first video of yours I’ve watched but I plan on watching all of them including the portraits which I’ve never been interested in but feel it would be good for me to learn. Yes it was long but all of it is very instructive by your explaining what you’re doing.

[@sandracointreau3989]

Delightful conversational style, beautiful clear instruction, lovely painting

[@janhill43]

Beautiful!

[@watercolorguruorg]

Thank you Jan!

[@belindafraser2692]

Beautiful - learned so much from this video - thank you .

[@annemorgan2928]

Just found your channel. Love it. Thanks for sharing.🇨🇦

[@marnierethmeier6538]

Thank you so much for sharing. Really is right on . I agree with a lot of your comments. Number one a good drawing to start😊

[@macclift9956]

Lovely!

[@GRM-ART]

Beautiful flower painting! Nice choice of colors!

[@watercolorguruorg]

Hey, thank you!

[@GRM-ART]

@@watercolorguruorg you're welcome buddy!

[@premanandalaishram1009]

Amazingly good.

[@naxarias7944]

Beautiful flowers

[@husazahra]

You guys are amazing!!!!

[@carlajimenez273]

Wow. 😍 Beautiful

[@watercolorguruorg]

Thank you, Carla!

[@shahrzadafshinpour5847]

Amazing. Thank you.

[@metgirl5429]

This was fascinating to watch Thank you so very much 💛🧡

[@lisavanalen2581]

Wow! Thank you so much for this awesome teaching! Amazing work! I will be implimenting the skills you taught here today. I'm so excited! Thank you again ❤

[@janehoneycutt316]

I love what you are doing in watercolor and that you have another person to interact with instead of questions from students where you often get too many interruptions. I live near Charlotte and would be very interested in taking some of your classes. Beautiful painting!

[@diannebertold3602]

Excellent video! Love the conversation about the process. (The speck of Payne’s Grey could’ve been turned into an ant or tiny fly. 😎)

[@meeraahuja1594]

Great video. Thank you for sharing

[@hannahjordan9271]

It’s so beautiful, and boys talking is very helpful and interesting. 😻 👍👍👍

[@watercolorguruorg]

We are very happy to hear you liked the video. It was fun to sit and talk about the painting process!

[@ShinyColors]

This is really awesome! I really learnt a lot from you and supported you ❤️😊

[@watercolorguruorg]

I am really glad to hear that! We will continue putting out videos like this in the future

[@ameetagadgil3022]

Amazing

[@ritadean4180]

Thanks for this exemplary video.

[@SuperExadidas]

So good.....

[@sadariahdahalan9190]

Fantastic

[@ginabadeaux9319]

i just found you today i think i shared your rose video .ive been painting acrylics for 26 years and now im buying watercolors like they are going out of style you tube videos all tell us what are the best paints and all say buy arches i paint every day so unless i sell my art im using canson im sure my art would work better on exspensive paper but it would cost too much for how much i paint .i looked everywhere to find what paints you use thanks for sharing your very talented

[@Brembelia]

Please talk about taking your flower(s) and organizing your view for the best composition on the page in reference to the size and shape of the page. Ty.

[@veroniquejeannedemarbre5630]

Manu thanks for thé démo! Iike It!

[@doradora5547]

I love James Gurney but I have no fear of green 💚🍏☘️🌲🌿🍀🌵green is good

[@samsouma100]

hola, me encantan sus videos, gracias por tanta belleza, saludos🙂

[@Witchlinblue]

I prefer real time for learning

[@crystalheart9]

This was a great tutorial and loved watching you paint. I think I'll use a raw pumpkin comment cracked me up😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@Brembelia]

A lot of people are capable of rendering realistic art. What makes one good and another not captivating is the energy it exudes. One painting of an old, dilapidated building just is, while another convinces your senses that you are looking at something 3D and can smell the age of that building. I've seen renderings of a flower (peony) that looked so real you felt like you could just reach out and pick it up. I also feel that how aware or good you are at capturing sunlight washong a building or through the individual petals adds energy. We humans are bio-electrical beings that respond to the presence of energy.

[@Ms1lonewolf]

Wow this was awesome! I watched all the way to the end! Man. Thank you 😊. JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸. ❤

[@sybilleger9662]

Very real. I prefer realism, it helps you enjoy , what you see and know.

[@deborahcooper5171]

Love it so much info. Would love to know what are the colors on your pallet. Great and yes I did watch the whole video.

[@NinaQueena]

Omg your art is soo fantastic and beautiful!! Why you didnt upload new videos for so long?😢 - and your explainations are so damn good and helpful- this video really teached me the most about watercolor ever- in my long career of painting with watercolors and watching KZbin Videos 😅 THANK YOU ❤

[@kklein1604]

Would like to hear about your paint consistency, water to paint ratio. When you used wet on wet wet on dry. Amazing painting.

[@1toshi32]

I love how slap dash you are at the beginning. I'm super picky about my watercolours and from start to finish, I try to emulate the subject matter. You have taught me something about not being too over OCD about the beginning and how to keep the painting fresh throughout. On the subject of green, I have to disagree with you there. I have a lot of paintings with green because the subjects I pick, the green works well with the flowers. But then I was taught by a botanical painter so that's a whole different way of painting. To me the green makes the whole painting more believable to me. But we can agree to disagree. I love the finished painting. I loved the whole process in fact. On quite another subject, I only found out by accident that James Gurney created Dinotopia of which I am a huge fan. He uses a lot gouache which is a very tricky paint to use. Thanks for the info on his blog and books.

[@jillellen2631]

FYI: They're called stamens:) Great video!!

[@angelinagargano3940]

What kind of sketch pencil did u use in this video? Thanks😊

[@wendiebs]

Ok, you have a rainbow vid?! I'm on it next! Wahoo !

[@christinastalzer2138]

I see you letting the blue go into the yellow of the flower is that for so.e shadow?

[@neuroticnation144]

I live in high desert, sometimes wet in wet is near impossible. Very frustrating.

[@delila351]

Gorgeous. Frame it and send it to your DAD...thanks for sharing how you paint.

[@aneesmohiuddin3918]

So helpful totally believe in drawing and painting not tracing don't even use masking fluid my quirk

[@watercolorguruorg]

Its the best way to improve your drawing and painting skills! Thanks for watching!

[@coreyholt8522]

I’m not going to argue with James Gurney, but if someone wants to use more greens in their paintings, “Making Colors Sing” by Jeanne Dobie explains greens really well and how to use the full range of possible greens.

[@CastleMc]

you mentioned too many colors but didn't talk about the fundamental of choosing a limited palette per painting and how to work with it through mixing. One of the biggest mistakes novices make is just choosing random and often unlimited colors. Yellow is one of the hardest colors to work with, would be helpful to address that

[@lindashakir5856]

Can I learn to paint watercolors with your videos. I draw Zentangle art

[@SuperCutealien]

My water is the best tap water on the planet. Cold Coquitlam reservoir water. From Beautiful BC, Canada.

[@SuperCutealien]

Don't drink it after using it for watercolour though.

[@kathieeidem5670]

What paper did you use...brand...rough or smooth...hot pressed or cold pressed?

[@watercolorguruorg]

Arches, cold pressed, 140lb I believe.

[@cathyriach1285]

This is beautiful, and not to be facetious, but . . . why not just use acrylics?

[@petiaivailova2563]

Wow, I disagree so much about green. One of my favourite colours and I think it looks awesome in landscapes and still life. Most of the artist, who I follow here and on Instagram, use this colour very often.

[@jemmadunscombe9234]

dweam and george??

[@Tushaspaintingstutorialstryit]

719 done

[@ericasw28]

they sound like Anthony and josh from Lets Game It Out

[@watercolorguruorg]

We will take that as a compliment!

[@annajordan5554]

Would love it if I could hear what you are saying!

[@watercolorguruorg]

Is there trouble with the audio? Hope you were still able to get something out of the video.

[@mathie2037]

More real time please. 🙏🏼. I did order some pizza.

[@janehoneycutt316]

Oops, I don’t think you ever said what brushes you like to use

[@alexandraportocarrerourday7487]

Why do you do the background so dark 🌑 always?

[@watercolorguruorg]

Great question! A dark background is a great way to create contrast in your painting. It can help the viewer know what to focus on (in this painting, the focus should be on the flowers). It can also makes your subject's colors pop and feel more vibrant.

[@juancarloscorrea2395]

“Now of course it turns out that people only want to see flowers” 😂😂😂

[@denisemallam2786]

No sound....can barely hear it !!!

[@bmikula1861]

Your painting is beautiful. You don't need an ASSisant. He is acting like a hormonal teenager . You are way too talented to be held back by anyone

[@JulianaLimeMoon]

"Some artist I deeply respect and I agree that green is an ugly color, and he said no one ever paints landscapes with green on it, even though that's obviously not true, and that no one likes the color green, and that's it!" 😆

[@neuroticnation144]

Hard water affects your watercolors

[@SuperCutealien]

Not young? Decade old brushes? Listen son, I have acrylic brushes that are 30 years old. I recently tossed most, but still have a couple.

[@treborekcohcs40]

background should be light and dark, not one solid mass. flowers are floating, need stems

[@marenm9392]

Good point they are floating.

[@michellemiley8111]

Super helpful. But the nervous laughter is annoying.

[@smacksteel708]

Yeah these guys are tools

[@mb3938]

I wish this was a tutorial instead of you babbling with that other dude.

[@hannelorerack3785]

That green is not actually grass. It is the leaves on the day lillies. Really you need to learn some botany as well. But I enjoyed your tutorial. The sound was quite poor though.

[@IMAGINENGINE]

Your cam dude is a distraction. Tell Giggles to shhhh. Sorry.

[@NM-js8ky]

That is the most condescending conversation I have ever heard from a tutorial. I know you all think you’re funny, but you’re insulting. And rude.

[@luizaugusto143]

Amazing