Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Watercolor in a Flower Garden


(Link to YouTube)

Yesterday I painted a plein-air sketch of a flower garden using transparent watercolor. I also added a few touches of colored pencils, white gouache, and chalk.



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HD tutorial Watercolor in the Wild

9 comments:

  1. Lovely. The use of the white conte crayon in this and a previous post is a bit of a revelation to me. I suppose it's somewhat obvious, but I never thought of using it before to lighted a passage and/or to create a mist-like effect.

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  2. lovely work.
    Actually, i am always a bit startled that watercolor commands so much less price than oil in the world of auctions and selling art.

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  3. We have just hit winter here in Oz. Long shadows, cold, dank. Spring seems miles away and I miss it already after that. Lovely piece James.

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  4. Conte or chalk? I thought he said chalk.

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  5. Sorry for my confusion Mark (and All) - regarding Conte/Nupastel. That's what I get for first watching this video at work with the audio muted. Thanks for the clarification James :^)

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  6. Tom and Mark, I did say chalk in the voiceover, but I think of white Nupastel as chalk, and you could use a white artist's chalk for the same thing.

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  7. Do you usually apply a fixative spray, so the Nupastel doesn't smear away after the painting is complete?

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  8. Carlos, no, it's just a thin layer, rubbed into the paper, and it's the page of a sketchbook, so it's kind of protected.

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