Oh watercolor, how I love thee.I took another watercolor class at Wyndham Art Supplies (with Karen Kesteloot). This time it was a three day workshop on creating flowers in watercolor using some more creative and watercolor specific techniques such as 'blooming', salt and masking.
The first day we just spent some time mucking about with the paint and learning to create specific effects.
In this first panel, we created a light wash of pale violet and waited for it to dry completely. NExt we overlayed it with a wash of green and then when it was quite wet, we dropped rock salt onto it. This isn't your table salt, it's basically the stuff they spray on the road in winter. To get it to work, you have to actually wet it, it's so big. We were emulating asters with this technique.
For this second panel, we we trying to create something daisy-like. Salt was used again, but this time the focus was placed on the center of the flower. An oval wash of yellow was overlaid with a wash of orange (made with quinacridone and rose madder) and was then salted so that the yellow came out as little dots in a foreground of orange. I was a bit heavy handed with the salt, so the effect was lost on mine. The petals was done in rose madder.
I really like how this one turned out. It was our first experiment with Masking Fluid. We basically made some little flowers with the stuff, washed over it with a nice green and then after removing the masking, painted in the bright colors of of the flowers. While the green was wet, we bruised to make stems and leaves. The way the stray stems and grasses burst out from the test patch make it seem kinda lively and...spring-ish.
And finally, Queen Anne's Lace. This was done by simply salting a green wash and making bruises where the stems should be. I really like how mine turned out. ^^
Day 2 and 3 are coming soon :)
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