How to paint a realistic Hibiscus flower in watercolour
| Hibiscus are such gorgeous tropical flowers that really lend themselves to watercolour. The key when painting a pretty pink hibiscus like this is to achieve the full range of different pinks within it – there are a lot when you really look! Whilst still concentrating on getting the tonal range right so it pops off the paper.
In this little video I give you a taste of how I tackle it: |
If you’ve enjoyed the video, please leave me a comment, I LOVE reading them.
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Anna, Congratulations on your beautiful new baby girl! What a sweet blessing. I am so happy I found your tutorials. I just watched and painted along on the free class, and I’m hooked. It’s amazing what I learned in one class. My husband and both teenage kids were super blown away with my realistic pear!!!
Thank you!
Linda
Super! X
The video had a frowning face and I never got to see it
Are you painting wet on dry or wet on wet?
Wet on dry Carolyn.
Thank you.
How you find time for your beautiful paintings with your little ones is just amazing. Congratulations on your new perfect angel.
Congratulations on Fern, she is lovely. Can’t wait until you start to paint those sweet chubby cheeks.
I purchased 2 of your classes at craftsy.com and they were wonderful. I was so impressed I decided to try your brushes. Thank you for all your help getting better. A work in progress.
Wonderful!
My best wishes to you and your baby
Congratulations on your beautiful Fern!!
Loved the video. Thanks!
Thanks for a great video. Will try this painting when I get home. Your baby is beautiful. Congratulations
Anna, your amazing. Fern is adorable!! Enjoy each precious day! Thank you for all you do.
Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! Welcome to the world little Fern.
Thank you for another great video!
Ah! Fern is so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. May the LORD continue to bless you Anna! 🙂
Congratulations on your beautiful bundle of joy!
Beautiful video. Thank you. What paper and what brand of paint do you use?
Ayyaz
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.
Many thanks for your little video.
Thank you so much, Anna, for the helpful little videos. I have learned so much from them! And… thank you for sharing the photo of beautiful little Fern. May her life be blessed in countless wonderful ways! Lois K.
Congratulations on your beautiful daughter! I really enjoy your work and video’s. Look forward to taking online classes soon!
Fantastic video and congratulations Fern is beautiful x
Beautiful pink painting!
Congratulations at the safe arrival of Fern!
Fern is so sweet! Enjoy every moment!
Beautiful ! It so happens I purchased 6 of these yesterday, and can’t wait to get out there and take photos ! I particularly enjoy your simple and logical approach to painting and your patience! Waiting for things to dry is a shortcoming I suffer from !
Again, thank you for sharing this, when things calm down I will be having a go ! I’m definitely sharing with my daughter too ! Enjoy the rest Anna (lol) and I love how talented you are with your IPad rendition done with the pencil, wow! Can I ask what app you use ?
Hugs and best wishes for you and your family, you share so much joy Anna, please never stop from sunny Florida
All the best,
Julia
You video is awesome – as usual and such an inspiration. Now to find the time. Your little Fern is going to give you so much joy and laughter. Well done all round.
Take care
Rose
Thank you for this video and congrats for your new jewel !!!
So precious, congrats, thanks for sharing
Beautiful painting and a beautiful new baby girl. Congratulations.
Congratulations, a perfect family. how is Ben reacting to his new little sister? Best wishes to you and your family.
Here in Florida I have many Hibiscus growing but was never able to capture it as beautifully as you. Your video gives me inspiration to try again.
Barb G.
Lovely video thanks ,I’ll try it sometime
But more than that . what a poppet…. so beautiful, and great joy and ‘relief’ now that she’s here
Congratulations to you both.
Thank you, Anna.
Fern is. Beautiful, thank you for sharing her photo with us. Enjoy every moment, they grow up so fast.
Blessings.
Joy
Thank you, Anna.
Fern is. Beautiful, thank you for sharing her photo with us. Enjoy every moment, they grow up so fast.
Blessings.
Joy
A new soul to earth. Beautiful baby Fern. Many congratulations xxx
Looks so real, congratulations, baby Fern is beautiful.
Beautiful, as always! Your subjects are always striking and wonderful to look at as you create a visual masterpiece! Feeling inspired~
Anna, your little baby girl, Fern, is so precious. God bless you and your family.
Your baby is beautiful Congratulations to the happy parents and Fern’s little brother
The video is amazing gives me appetite to take my brush!!!
It seems so easy, but it’s not, I should give it a try though
Sorry there’s a mistake in my email address of my previous message
Gorgeous and really captures the delicate beauty of the flower. I admire your patience with adding layer upon layer and waiting for each layer to dry. Congratulations on your beautiful new addition to the family. Such a precious name!
Wow… she’s already got quite a head of hair. She’s gorgeous! Congratulations. (The flower painting is nice, too.) 🙂
Thanks Anna. Loved the simple and easy method of painting in your video.
Also, agree that you do share a lot of joy. God bless!
So pleased for you and I wish you and your daughter every happiness and blessing.
(And I love how managed to capture the delicate nature and detail of this flower.)
God Bless you and your beautiful daughter. Thank you for the lovely painting as well!
Wondergul news Anna and what a darling little girl. Just hope she and her brother inherit your wonderful talent.
Every picture you paint is a masterpiece. You have taught me so much. And now I’m not satisfied unless my painting looks like to yours. Thank you
Anita.
OMG….Fern is such a beautiful and precious gift……your video is good too! 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS!
Fern is adorable!! Congratulations on her safe arrival! Thank you for another wonderful video. Your patience and attention to detail inspires me.
Congratulations on your new baby girl, she is beautiful!
Your baby is beautiful! Precious…thank you for the hibiscus painting,it too is beautiful
Congratulations Anna. Fern is beautiful. Thankyou for the lovely video. Will try to paint one too.
i loved the year I spent as a member of your on-line school. Thank you for continuing to send your inspirational emails. I enjoy them myself and I forward them to my friends, especially those who are ready to take their painting to the next level.
Beautiful baby, may you both have many blessings as your family grows. Congratulations she is absolutely beautiful
Darlene Allen
Congratulations lovely baby and lovely name. Thank you for the video
Anna, Fern is so beautiful, so precious. What a blessing! Thank you for the excellent, lovely hisbiscus instruction. God bless you & your sweet family, Suzi.
Squeeeeeeeeal! Oh, she is so gorgeous! Big big congratulations!
Thank you so much for the beautiful hibiscus video as well!
I hope you are able to get some much deserved rest!
Haha! Thanks for the squeeeeeeal! I think that every time I see her!
Congratulations, your baby girl is absolutely beautiful and I love her name , Thank you for the video , I will certainly give it a go
Congrats on your beautiful baby. Love the hibiscus video.
Fern is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing a picture of her and this wonderful video. Your heart is as amazing as your talent!
Congratulations on the birth of your baby girl, Fern. I am so happy to see and hear that both of you are doing well. All the best. Joanie
Congratulations. Anna, Fern is so beautiful! I love the hydrangea.
Hi Anna
Love your paintings and congratulations on your new baby girl Fern, she looks beautiful you should paint her. All the best xx
Anna, I am a retired labor and delivery nurse, have seen thousands of new born babies, your Fern is beautiful and I know because she has someone special—-YOU–………
Your Fern is an extension of you……..special…..and thanks for the video, I enjoyed it very much. Patty from New Orleans, La., USA
What a lovely comment!! Thank you Patty! X
Congrats on the arrival of your beautiful little girl . Lovely name.
Fern is absolutely gorgeous!!
Congratulations with the birth of your beautiful your beautiful little babygirl. She is beautiful….
I allso liked the video of how to paint the hibiscus very much and i will try to paint it justitie like you did…
Many regards,
Tine
Congratulations on little Fern. She is beautiful. The video is very informative, as usual.
Hi Anna,
Wow, isn’t she lovely, big congratulations, enjoy all the special times to come.
The hibiscus is also
Congratulations Anna, lil baby Fern looks so beautiful…… thanks for sharing her pic
Am new to watercolor and am enjoying learning from you. … your videos are informative, easy to follow and your paintings are an inspiration
Many, many congratulations. Wonderful news Anna, so pleased for you all.
Fern is gorgeous and just the beginning of more cherished memories. So much to look forward to.
Enjoy every moment.
Lots of love Stella and Glyn. Xx
Congratulations, she’s quite gorgeous! Looking forward to watching the video later x
Congratulations on you beautiful little Fern! Such a different kind of love that we have for our babies
I loved the Hibiscus video. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your artistic abilities with those of us who desire the same. You make it very enjoyable for learning.
Many Thanks and Well Wishes
Denise
Congratulations on your lovely daughter. Girls are so precious!!!
What a lovely baby and what a lovely flower. Congratulations!
Thank you once again for your informative videos. Congratulations on your beautiful addition to your family. She is lovely. Hope you are both thriving.
Dear Anna As beautiful as your painting is, it does not compare with your latest creation of Fern. What a little darling she is. Congratulations and best wishes
Julie, Adelaide, South Australia
I love all of your tutorials. You are a great inspiration for painting. I love you style because it has so much details. Congratulations for you beautiful baby Fern.
Anna, congrats on your beautiful Fern.
Anna, first of ALL – congratulations to your sweet Fern, she is sooo precious!!! I know sometimes the first weeks can be pretty tough but that bonding time is also absolutely magical! Try to enjoy and soak in as much as you can – and as much naps you can get, hahaha :-))) Thank you for sharing this BEAUTIFUL little video, I really enjoyed it watching! Warm hugs from Switzerland, Tina
So beautiful! Congratulations and I just LOVE her name! I LOVED the video, especially since I live in Florida, USA. We have Hibiscus everywhere in every color you can imagine so I can see applying this technique in so many ways. Thanks so much for all of your inspiration and the kindness you show sharing your talents and teaching with the world.
Artfully Yours,
Corinna
Anna Congratulation. Your little daughter is adorable and so precious and what a beautiful name too – Fern. Best wishes, Love and Light. – Yasmin
Congratulations Anna! Fern is beautiful!! Thanks for yet another fantastic video. You will be able to breath again since you’ve given birth. All the best to you and your beautiful family
I heard some good news and came here to say, CONGRATULATIONS to you, Anna!!!! Wow! So happy for you and your new baby, Fern! What a gift form heaven! God bless you and your family! Thanks for the video, and your beautiful Hibiscus looks just like the ones I see here everyday. Now they will remind me of you. 😉 All the best to you and Fern! Hugs!
Congratulations for beauo Fern! Water techniques I really enjoy to learn from you….
Congratulations on your beautiful daughter Fern. God bless you lovely family.
Bonjour Anna, Félicitations pour toutes vos vidéos qui m’ont données envie de peindre. J’aime la sensibilité et la lumière qui ressortent de vos aquarelles. J’ai acheté vos livres et je m’en inspire, mais j’adorerai pouvoir suivre vos cours, malheureusement je ne maîtrise pas bien la langue anglaise et je le regrette étant Française en Bretagne. Toutes mes félicitations pour votre petite fille et gros câlin à elle.
This is the second time I registered to your art school, Just got organized and loving it
SOMETIME AGO I DOWNLOADED PDF10165 VIDEO, YOU WERE WITH CRAFTY, COULD I GET IT AGAIN .. YOU ARE SO THOROUGH, I COME BACK AGAIN ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS.
Hi Joan, thanks for your message. The tutorials Anna made for Craftsy (now called Bluprint) are owned by Bluprint so you will need to contact them directly to ask about getting it again. You can contact Bluprint here: https://help.mybluprint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007255931
Best wishes, Amy
Really beautiful. .a favorite flower of mine. You are very good at teaching..easy to follow.
Might just give it a try.
I love your videos and your techniques are so good and easy to follow. You are great at watercolors!!