The
demo on the left shows how I paint flowers in a flower box and not
get mud!
Read
through entire instruction BEFORE starting.
1)Starting
with the foliage I use about 3-4 different greens keeping the deeper
values where the shadows will go. Paint the greenery leaving lots
of blank areas for the red flowers. Use a variety
of shapes and greens and a variety of placement and size of the
white spaces.
You
can save your whites with masking fluid, masking tape or just negatively
paint in the green as I did in this example. To use masking tape
as a mask simply tear flower shapes with your fingers (do NOT use
scissors), of various sizes and shapes then firmly place them on
the dry watercolour paper BEFORE STARTNG
2) Since
red and green are complements placing red over the green will yield
a brown, so the red must be painted on watercolour paper...on the
white, blank paper.
Use
the same criteria for placement of the whites as you did for the
bricks, place them in groups and place them randomly, not
evenly spaced like cookies on a cookie sheet.
3)Dry.
4)Paint
in the reds in about 2-3 different values of reds for variety. Place
a few red dots on the green area for a variety of colours, values
and chroma. Some reds spots are larger, some smaller.
Variety is the key word!
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