![]() Special Tip: Check out Melinda Wilde's Skillshare Class: Experience Watercolours: Tips and Tricks to learn how to make your own masking fluid! However, if you are a beginner, I do go over all the techniques in depth, so don’t be afraid to give it a go!Īlways remember to keep an open mind and a playful spirit and have fun with your paintings! This class is best suited for more experienced watercolor enthusiasts. ![]() Please remember to share your paintings on the Project Gallery page! ![]() For your class project you will paint your own composition of Cone Flowers using the watercolor techniques demonstrated in this class.Evaluating and completing the painting adding in the final details, loosing edges and lifting out some highlights.Learn to use glazing techniques to build up the depth of the flower petals.Painting petals, stems and leaves using wet-into-wet technique as well as wet-into-dry technique.Using masking fluid and glazing technique to build up the stamen area of the flowers.Painting the background using wet-into wet technique.Transferring your drawing onto the watercolor paper with an archival ink pen.Discussion of composition and design, colors scheme and an overview of the materials used in this painting demo.(See the reference photos in the Class Resources.) Introduction and sample of sketches inspired by the Cone Flowers growing in my garden.Whether you are a beginner, or a more experienced watercolorist this class is sure to teach you basic, as well as advanced watercolor techniques to enhance and bring new excitement to your watercolors! Additionally I will be using masking fluid to create depth and texture in the stamen area of the cone flowers. In the process you will learn some basic as well as more advanced watercolor techniques. I welcome them.In this class I will show you how to paint the gorgeous Cone Flowers (Echinacea) I planted in my garden this summer using watercolor and pen & ink. The American Goldfinches like to sit on top and eat the coneflower seeds. This little guy is called, “Goldfinch Landing”. In my painting it looks like distant grasses and I couldn’t be happier. This happens when you add a lot of water to your pigment. Some watercolor artists avoid this but I can’t get enough of it! I love the way it looks. Do you see the bottom where the green paint is branching out? That is called a “bloom” in the watercolor world. I love it but you don’t have to do this if step 5 looks good to you. I used a micron #3 black pen to outline petals, stem, and just a little of the center. Step 5:In this step I added a purple mixture to the tips of my petals because that’s how it looked in the picture. Step 4: Here I just added another layer of rose and maybe a touch of crimson to a select few petals. Paint the stem using sap green and mix a little indigo blue for shadow under the flower on the stem. Add a darker brown for the base of the center. Step 3: While step 2 is drying, fill in the center with brown and red. Let dry for a few minutes and paint another layer of rose to darken some petals. The yellow will mix with the rose creating a nice peach for variation. ![]() Next, while wet add just a few drops of yellow to a few petals. Lightly apply the lightest rose color leaving white space for breathing room. Take a higher concentration of paint and just touch spots of the wet paper (in mine it’s the bottom of painting and under one petal). This gives your painting dimention and life. Loosely paint your background leaving a section of your painting really light (top section in my painting). Next, I mixed 2 drops of Ox Gall (makes your washed more fluid) in my water, wet my brush and made an indigo blue and earth green mixture wash. I didn’t even need to wet my paper because it is so small. In this step I sketched out my flower using a regular pencil on watercolor paper that I taped down with artist tape. FIND the time on the weekend! Don’t let your creative talent die. Nobody wants that! If you have a full time job that’s just sucking the life out of you because it does nothing but pay the bills, don’t give up your hobby. If I don’t do some kind of painting on the weekend, even if tiny, I feel real down like a crab-ass. I have a full time job and have a hard time getting things accomplished during the week. It’s about 5×3.5, a good thing to do when you’re limited on time but want to create something quick. This demonstration is a watercolor painting of a purple coneflower that I grew in my own backyard! Even though this is a summer flower with spring quickly approaching and buds staring to pop, I’ve been crazy about flowers lately. Let’s do what we love best in the whole world….paint nature!
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