How to Paint a Page of Beautiful Watercolor Flowers in Half an Hour with Basic Supplies & No Skill! 

Thank you for the visit--delightful!

Fur and paint. The purfect combo. 😊

Diane I really enjoy your speaking. I find it very relaxing listening to you go on about your dog's and others. Love the tour. I love listening to your creative brain and where it goes while you talk.

Love flowers 🌸

Very pretty!

Pretty!

I've had dogs my whole life, as far as I'm concerned there's nothing better! The first puppy I ever had, after moving out on my own, was a keeshond! Such an adorable fluffy sweet girl! They are the cutest!! Obviously you're an animal lover as well! 😊

Wow! This SO lovely! And then you say…NO SKILLS! You are an amazing creative artist and an awesome teacher!!! You are extremely gifted to draw and paint like you do! ❤

I'm afraid I'd get nothing much done with a scene like that out my window. How lovely! Your companions are so sweet and well behaved. I love your studio! It's way neater than mine lol.

Very pretty! I love listening to your conversation. Like we're just having coffee together. Thank you.

lLove the sweet furry friends at nap time. Especially love, love love, the studio scenes. Tidiness is over rated !!

I Love the round flowers , and your Studio is so nice .🎉😅❤

This was lovely! And you're right: you didn't need the brush pens in the end. Such color on Sunday with your sleepy groupies in your painting room. Relaxing. And I'm going to start photocopying my works too, before I ruin them. Brilliant! Also nice to have another pretty picture in your assortment of papers. Thanks, Diane! :) xx Fanna in Denver

Oh man I missed the live!!! Wow.😢 oh well. I wanted to watch one of your lives so bad. I'm sure I'll enjoy the playback. 😊 JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸.

I love your studio! Filled with your beautiful babies. Just so wonderful ❤❤❤

I ADORE penwork with watercolor.❤

Loved seeing your beautiful property and all your pets. 😊❤️

Beautiful flowers and your dogs are all gorgeous a happy family ❤😻🐶🐾

Very, very nice!

Hello Diane, thank you for sharing with us your lovely menagerie of pets and livestock. So far, I have seen chickens (I am sorry about the one that is missing) and sheep and dogs and a cat. I had a golden retriever boy. They are so sweet and currently, we have a boy cat, Tiggy that looks like your kitty, same gorgeous orange colors. Still in the process of watching this video as I have been doing some painting of my own... no worries, I will return to it tomorrow. HOpe you had a lovely day and get more sleep tonight... well, it's waking time for you over in the UK. Hugs. Eve (my real name)

Diane, congratulations on your beautiful and well earned RU-vid achievement award.....so exciting! The garden tour is so therapeutic and seeing your cozy studio and loving companions is always a joy. Ruby reminds me of my 14-year old gal that wakes me up religiously at 3AM then again at 5AM. She's still wagging her tail but gets disoriented a bit during the night. Ahhhh...what to do? They give us so much love and joy. Your painting turned out beautifully! It makes me want to try it on a smaller scale, such as notecards. As always, thank you for sharing a bit of your world and talent with us. xo

Thank you. Was really helpful to see you mixing colours from a small number of paints 🎨. Will be giving this a go with my Meedon's tomorrow - but have a feeling it's not going to look as good as yours! Love watching your videos. Did the 3 cats today - gave me husband a laugh anyway! Thank you again.

How inspiring you are! Really enjoyed the tour as well.

Thanks Diane 👍🏻🤙🏼💯🙏🏼✨✨✨✨✨

It’s a wonder how quickly you paint beautiful flowers 🥰

It was so refreshing watching you create such a beautiful boquet today. I especially enjoyed seeing your studio with your companions there to keep you company. I was delighted to see the chaos in your studio. It makes me feel right at home! God bless.

Loved this! So great seeing your furry family and around your studio!

Enjoyed the lovely tour of your gardens and sweet animals! I don't know how you care for everything! Love the relaxing chat and painting... & beautiful flowers!!! Thank you, Diane, for sharing a part of your journey with us... you're a bright spot in my day! God bless you ... with love from a California Gramma ❤️

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So beautiful. Thanks for ongoing inspiration.

This was fun! I enjoyed watching you paint it and then I had fun trying it ! Fun is important, and learning while you have fun is the best! Just love seeing your beautiful garden and wonderful studio.... AND the adorable dogs and cat! :)

I love how you shared the moment with us, I love your pets. Indeed so peaceful 🙂 beautiful painting. Thank you 👍🏼

I never mind your rambling.

Love seeing your studio and your pets!😊

I love that! Composition and colors are really beautiful.

Wonderful way to wake up to a lovely painting to do on a Sunday morning! I'm hoping I'll be able to make mine half that good! Thanks Diane! It was very nice to watch you creating such a beautiful picture!

Beautiful yard, studio, and especially pets! Thank you for sharing. 😘

I love the deep rich hues‼️ Nice & happy Diane.💟

I love the little tour of your garden and studio and all the animals! Thanks!

So beautiful, I too would have a difficult time doing much of anything indoors with a peaceful surroundings like you have there. Such a blessing. The fur babies are so sweet and so well behaved. Thank you for sharing a little piece of your world.

Just loved seeing your studio.. so lovely!! I just introduced my grandson to your videos.. I have done so many of your paintings over the last year.. You have taught me so much about painting and I literally have sought lol the supplied you list as I have learned the difference between good paper and paints over the year. My grandson loves art and is a natural. So fun..

My dear, dear friend….thank you for showing your desk! Just made me feel much better about mine! However, you may need to mess yours up more to match mine!😜 Locking this lesson. Also love the view of yard and furry companions! A happy group!XOX❤️❤️❤️

Arrived late,but will watch from the beginning as this is gorgeous.

That was lovely, and Thank You, Diane xxxxx ❤

Beautiful! I love your backyard farm.

So pretty and we’ll balanced

Such a beautiful place you have Diane! I love all of your animals! Thanks for another great tutorial!!

Hello. I am a potter in Georgia, USA. I often use your work to inspire me with the flowers I paint on my pieces. Thank you❤

Lovely to see your garden,studio & companions….such a bright & beautiful composition

So pretty! And thank you for sharing video of your garden and studio and pets!

Thank you so much Diane! You've made painting enjoyable for me again. It should be fun and not stressful. You've opened up a new approach for me and my attitude is changing for the better. All my best to you! 🙂

So lovely. Watching you is such a joy.

I so enjoy your style and peaceful voice and casual approach and all-is-well. Just what i need to learn. You are a God-send.

Sweet fur babies! Beautiful painting!

You are inspiring.

Yes, very pretty. A good idea using gouache. Your voice is very pleasant to listen to! ❤

Thank u 4 sharing home , companion fur babies, studio. Love this paint mixing with the white!!

Beautiful simplicity. Thanks for sharing 🙏

So glad your channel popped up when making watercolor inquiries. Almost 70, I have tackled many arts and crafts, various needle work and drawing, etc. Just bought basic watercolors yesterday and will attempt to make my own note cards (yes I still write letters). Thank you for your wonderful presentations, your lovely yard and animals. Wish me luck!

I love this painting, I always enjoy your paintings. Thank you

I would like to have had you as my teacher. I loved it.😍

This is so pretty and springy! Your garden is so peaceful and all the flowers…oh my! I have two cats and they keep me company, they sleep and snore just like your doggies and kitty!❤️

Loved the tour and the painting!

Lovely studio!!! Looks like heaven to me!! ❤❤❤

Love this. Beautiful. ❤

It is amazing how you can draw fine lines with those brushes!!

This is a lovely, happy one! I came back again because this is such a good composition and I love the colors!

I LOVE your brown bird. I can hardly believe you used brush pens‼️🙀 Looks like paint. 😊 It’s painterly but realistic. Very nice. I’ll be copying you. Hahaha 💕

Good evening from north west England 😊

So lovely to watch! :)

Lovely painting

No wonder you love painting flowers , they are all around you.🎉😂❤

What a fun idea. Thank you for your amazing ability to show in ideas. Love watching your video.

I'm always ready!!! Sandy.

Thank you for sharing your creative world. I’ve followed you now for a couple of years now, since I started painting. You are inspiring!

Wow, another live!! We will have people over but I will watch later. 💕🤗😊

I missed the live video but I worked on this today Monday. Fun and loved the variety of shapes

Looking forward !

Thanks for gouache tips

Thank you so much for this! The techniques you share are so easy and today's color mixing with gouache, just use a larger brush and mainly plops and swipes is super terrific for me....a forever newbie, who struggles with everything, can't wait to try. I have the Meeden set and some cheap Michael's brand 'Artists Loft' gouache but it will have to do for now. Love your studio view. Mine is other mobile homes (caravans across the pond?) and traffic. Your interior is quite cozy and nice to be able to put faces to the names that you often mention of your critter menagerie. Have a wonderful weekend! Btw my 2 water 'cups' are clear glass 'jars' holding about 2 'cups' of water each 😁

Morning Diane, catching up on Sunday, I hear u talking about lupin. My lupins get a lot of snails eating them .I have seeds from last year just germinated. Love pottering with paint. Love your work .on holiday next week😅

I really enjoy your channel. I’ve learned a lot from you about using mixed media. I love my sheep. My lambs are so cuddly. My favorite little pullet disappeared yesterday too. Do you use your wool?

Recently saw your article in a Google News feed can't remember the actual name of the Title Page but it was interesting to see you there and I was pleased to see how well your doing. It is your channel that helped inspire my mother & I to do daily art sessions together. I think the first was the round trees of diff colors & doodles in them. Or maybe it was the turtle with the turquoise color scheme. You've done so many beautiful pieces that you sometimes just pull together, it's rather inspiring. Thank you for making your self & your work available is been very helpful. I still don't know how you completely fill a page with various flowers or geometric shapes & get it to work. I guess I'll just have to keep watching, K

I think I have a soft spot for the little dog that only got a brief mention for being your early alarm clock. He looks so sweet Though I know looks can be deceiving!

Oh My!!! I've found your channel and it made me want to try to watercolor because I LOVE your voice and technique. AND now I see your Lottie. I just lost my golden, Sully, the end of 2022 and they look VERY similar and I MISS him so VERY much!!! Now I know why I've been drawn to your channel ♥

I often say that also…waste not want not…got it from my Mom 😊

diane////try some blotting on your gelli plate experiments after pulling the paper up off of the plate

I love watching you build a composition. Do you plan it out ahead of time?

WOW! I love this painting and it was glorious watching you paint. I am pleased that despite being awakened at quarter to 5, your mood and cheerful discussion throughout this video has given me great inspiration. I look forward to trying out this loose type painting soon. Thank you for sharing this and your ideas about adding gouache were brilliant. Funny you should mention some painters use of small glass(s) and that one needs a large vessel of water. I agree hardily. I recently acquired 2 (I'm afraid I've forgotten the brand, but mine are large with colorful collars for both the top for holding brushes and the bottom which has a lip to catch water droplets from the brushes. I have a purple one and now a green one, but I really wish they'd had a pink one-Ha. Both collars are made of silicone and the bottom helps my jars not move around easily as I have a tendency to sweep the water off my table. I enjoyed your tour around the studio. Everyone has different storage solutions and sometimes I adopt one or more. I especially like to store things in see through bins (I make journals, watercolors, play with alcohol inks, and love to do mixed media collage with acrylic paintings), so I can at-a-glance find the item I was looking for easily. So I have mounds of papers all over the place and too many other supplies. I couldn't even use all of them up in a lifetime. My problem is loving nearly every art form and having to get supplies for each. But I did finally stop buying new forms of art to try a long while ago (except I did buy the same Meeden set that you have--one for me and the other for my great grandson. He loves sculpture both non drying and oven cooked and they are amazing and very detailed. I was so impressed with his talents, that I have been sending him supplies (mostly mine) regularly. I realized that I loved watercolors more than anything else and find it relaxing which is soothing. I just found a block of Baohong Academy paper hiding amongst some old palettes-Ha. I'd already prepared a piece of Strathmore watercolor paper using wash tape to tape it to my glass mat. It's 12X9", but the Baohong is about 7X5" and I think I'll also enjoy that size. I know and have the best Arches papers, yet it is very expensive and I'm a little precious about it. I definitely plan to get over that! Thank you being one of my favorites on RU-vid and I shall continue to delight in your videos. If flowers are your favorite subjects (certainly understandable as they are soooo beautiful and fun to paint), I want to just mention your amazing freehand drawings of animals doing things and your subsequent paintings--cute and realistic birds, rabbits, squirrels, and more. Please consider a new painting involving animals. How about animals and flowers together with the former being mischievous in the flowers?-Ha. I love my chickadee coffee cup. XOXOJANE

thank you im glad i bought the set that came with these paints and 10 brushes a ceramic two basin water cup 100 percent watercolor paper 40.00 for all a good buy i thought,i looked for the small tin palette i made and couldnt find it so i made a new one ,now off to create more art i loved these ,a crafter reviewed these and said dont buy them she may have been wrong

Glasto, but will watch latter!

This was a wonderful study Diane, I learned so much thank you! Also, the yard and studio tour was great 🥳

I love flowers but i struggle to get the ones i like grow in my garden

You have such a pretty place. I've been watching your videos for awhile and loving them and noticed your struggle with your health and dog and felt to share with you what I've done to help both me and my dog. I've gone 90 percent carnivore and it has had dramatic changes on my health and my dog who is an elderly corgi. He has tumors and yeast infections and I was thinking of having him put down even as he began to be so uncomfortable. I put him on a all chicken diet ...raw chicken...leg quarters and also my other dog. Here in America, leg quarters are cheaper per pound than most dog food is. So far, the corgi, who couldn't even hardly climb stairs, is running up the stairs, barking alot more, his skin is curing! It is getting soft and supple and I noticed a diminish in tumors even and its only been about 4 weeks. Me? I have more energy and more muscle mass. I sleep so much better too and my mind isn't as foggy. I am not full carnivore or I'd probably see even better results. I eat out of garden as well but absolutely no sugar or white flour. I try and do no carb. For food, I try and eat alot of eggs and the best meat I can afford. Sometimes I thin slice pork and season it like jerky and cook it for snacks. Yum. For sweets I freeze bananas and fruit from my garden and make smoothies with stevia. I like stevia. I have tea and even use koolaid with stevia and ice for slushies. Today was ice cubes,milk, and stevia with chocolate powder a bit of vanilla and dash of salt for a chocolate shake...yum. I've lost weight, my mind is clearer, I'm sleeping better and I feel better and am getting more done. I noticed the heat doesn't bother me as much either which is amazing! I hope this is encouraging and helpful to you and others. I'm not a doctor so it isn't medical advice....just what I did to feel better.....and help my old dog.

Did I hear you right...one of the sheep is Larry?☺️

great live! what brand "neutral gray pen"?

Love your channel! Do you keep your gouache brushes separate from your regular watercolor brushes? TIA

What white pen are you using. Mine do not work well at all. Also, How are your chickens? Dawn Korf

I keep trying to use those loose strokes but they never end up looking like flowers. Not sure what the trick is to that. 🤔

Question. Does the quash make the paint thicker? I noticed your colours are not blinding and bleeding or is it just less water?