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- I've got an assortment of flowers here

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and I wanted to mention
when you do go shopping

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for flowers, pay attention to the shapes.

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We wanna have some
different unique shapes,

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we don't want them all to be the same.

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I'm gonna go ahead and begin to work

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on a composition, a
flat lay, which will be

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my inspiration for what I'm painting.

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So, I'm going to behead some of these

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so I can lay them around.

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This is just starting, but you
also will want some leaves.

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We'll see.

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I'm thinking of a
swooping design right now.

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I'm gonna look for
different shapes in here

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and if it worries you
to be beheading flowers,

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you know, you can, one
tip is to wait until

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they're on sale at the grocery store,

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like when they're fading out

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and get some of those, or
lots of times restaurants

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who have a weekly order.

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Often trade those out, and
if you happen to catch them

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or ask them at your local restaurant,

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then they might let you have
the flowers that are dying

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and those to, when they die,

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they get even more abstract, the blooms.

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You know, they're not a nice tight bud,

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they start to unfurl and
do really beautiful things.

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So, that's another resource for you.

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Okay, I'm just gonna be
placing these around the scene.

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I wanna have different sizes and shapes,

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so I really love, that is fun
and we'll have fun with that.

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And this guy's great,
has a lot of these kind

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of abstract flower-looking already to me.

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So I'm going to lay that here.

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And see, there's no
right or wrong, remember,

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you're just having fun
playing with these beautiful

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elements, colors, shapes.

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That's the main focus, is we're
looking at shape right now

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because as we continue on we're going

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to be trying to see just as
shapes not see them as flowers.

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Don't worry about the color.

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Don't let anything limit you right now.

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We're just making an arrangement.

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This is kind of fun that it's wild and

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not a super clean design.

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I want some of these little buds, too.

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Size, we wanna have different
size to different shapes

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as part of our design.

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And this is just our inspiration,
our jumping off point.

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We're not doing realistic painting

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so it doesn't even matter,
we're not doing a still life.

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We're using these for
abstract, so even better.

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Just giving a variety.

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You can see sizes, very big, very big,

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medium, small, some are open,

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and you can even open them
more to get some more interest.

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And I even noticed this
petal fell off, which I love,

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so I'm going to find another one of those

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and do some more of those.

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Somewhat scattered.

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We'll see if we wanna
incorporate that in our painting.

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Already it's getting a little abstract.

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Everyone will recognize
this as a floral painting,

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that's the magic of the abstract.

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Yet, by abstracting,
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a lot of room to play and add whimsy

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and unexpected elements.

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And, you know, a lot less pressure

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to do something realistic.

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Okay, maybe one of these
eucalyptus branches.

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So, for me, this design,
this is a little bit

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too much of a U so I'm gonna go ahead

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and move this flower down here.

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Kinda gonna make it more of
a sweep than just an even U.

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You could do a wreath,
you could do anything.

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I mean, I'd even paint every little petal

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that you put down or piece.

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Go until you feel you
have a nice composition

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that is exciting and, you know,

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has somewhere for the eye
to have a lot of interest,

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something that will fit on your board.

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So, I think we're good.

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Now that we've got our composition set,

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I brought in my paints.

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I have a nice selection here
and I wanna just show you.

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I'm gonna begin by picking just three,

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and the reason for that
is I want to encourage you

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to be simple and they're
a good neutral start

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and they're not representational
of the colors here.

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I could've chosen more actual
colors but to switch up

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your colors is a jump
start into abstracting.

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So I'm going to encourage you to look at

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these flowers as shapes, not as colors,

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not as individual flower petals,

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but overall shapes and
that's what I'm going

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to be laying down as a starting point.

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This can look like maybe a triangle if

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I really loosen up my view.

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This, a rectangle.

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This, another, a fat square.

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Circle.

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You know, so things like that.

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These are tear drops,
here we've got, you know,

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a nice sort of oval shape or ellipse.

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So, think of these as you're
starting to put them down.

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I'm going to think of them as shapes

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and be putting down loose shapes.

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So, let's go for it.

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I'm gonna start right here with this one.

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And I've got a dry brush
with paint directly onto it,

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and I've got a triangle there.

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And to bring that color in again

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maybe I'll do these two
which seem like little blobs.

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This is the great part;
you're using the brush

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without a lot of control.

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Let's scoot those over.

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And I'm gonna put that one in
and go with some smaller for.

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Let's do some of these.

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You'll notice that I don't
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I mean, there's a mint,
but I'm intentionally

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not doing leaves right now,
I'm doing just the flowers.

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I'll go ahead and use the big
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I'll do this big guy.

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And I am going to sort of separate

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the petals out into shapes.

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So, I see this is a triangle here,

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and then we can do another color.

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But just some loose shapes and we've got

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this big guy over here.

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So I'm gonna go do him just
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not perfectly circle shaped.

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Okay, then I'll put my big brush down

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and I'm gonna go in with this color

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I don't believe I've used

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and do some of these circles here.

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They can overlap, of course.

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And I'll do more like a
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as I'm seeing it.

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We're gonna add more color later,

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so don't be worried about that.

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This is just to get the base layer down

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from which we will work from.

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This, again, seeing a
little bit like a pompom.

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That guy, this guy just
looks like a square

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so I'm just gonna do that.

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See, we've got some teardrops,

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so I'm just gonna lay
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to get more of a tear drop.

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You can see if you lay down
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sometimes it'll widen up the base

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depends on the brush you're using.

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A round brush will do it better,

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I'll show you the difference.

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This is a flat brush.

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I'll go ahead and take this round brush.

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Then as I lay it down you
get that teardrop shape.

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Now you can see I'm adding
more than we have here.

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Doesn't matter.

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Allow yourself that freedom.

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We are not doing realistic,

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we are doing an abstracted version.

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A little wet because I
haven't primed this wood,

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it does soak it up pretty quickly

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so I'm getting a little water
on my brush occasionally

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so I can leave that paint.

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Okay, let's see.

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Do I have a lot of the
big elements of flowers?

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Oh, all but this one,
I guess, and this one.

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So I'll switch to another color again.

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Put this guy, gonna lay him here.

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Change the size compared
to the others, that's okay.

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And now we'll do this already
fun abstracted type flower.

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Succulents can have some really
great weird flowers, too.

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Leaves.

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So that's just more a
buncha lines as I see it.

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And we'll go in and redefine.

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I think that is it for flowers.

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So you have a nice coat here.

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I'm just doing this again

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because it was a little bit parched.

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Now that I've gotten
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I'm going to go on to leaves.

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And I'm intentionally choosing a color

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that is not a typical leaf color.

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Gonna use this blue, ash blue.

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Really pretty.

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Remember, this is just a jumping
off point for our pallette,

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we're not setting our whole
pallette for the entire piece,

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we'll be adding more colors.

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So I'm just putting
some blue on the brush,

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and just like I was doing the flowers,

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I'm gonna try to get some
of the basic, basic shapes,

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and allow myself to sort
of be loose with that.

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So here I see some like tear drop ovals.

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Not trying to be exact at all,

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not worried about overlapping.

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It's how it actually looks,
is overlapped, so that's good.

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Some of 'em look more
like pointed circles.

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You could do a stem line.

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And then let's go over.

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Here I see a bunch of little triangles

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so I might add a triangle.

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Thin triangle.

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Everyone is gonna see this as a leaf

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but really we know we're
just doing some shapes.

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Just doing some of the stems.

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More triangles here or pointed edged.

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Then we've got some nice ovals.

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Typical leaf shape, so I'm
just gonna be really loose

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so that I am not drawing the exact thing.

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I just put my brush down and let it be

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whatever happened there.

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Let's do, let's see, do
we have enough leaves?

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I see a little triangle up here.

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Some little very hairy things,

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so I'm just gonna do some random marks.

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You can see how quickly
I'm putting my brush down.

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It's kinda just getting the essence.

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And I need some green
in here, or greenery.

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Interpretation of the greenery.

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We have some buds that just
have no flowers showing.

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Almost back to that tear drop.

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That's looking a little too realistic,

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but we'll fix that in future passes.

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It's not looking so
abstracted as we're going for.

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And let's see, do I feel balance-wise

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we have enough of this color?

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So, with our composition we
still have some more here.

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I'm gonna add that because I think

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it needs to balance out the piece here.

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Again, allow yourself
the freedom to put down

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your brush in weird ways
and see what happens

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and embrace that result for now.

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And I just wanna get a little bit in here

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where I see some in there.

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I see some sticks and.

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Okay.

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Now, we've got our first coat done,

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our first base for our flowers,

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and I'm going to let this dry
before we move to pen work.