Masking off slightly more distant foliage and the next wash

Masking off slightly more distant foliage and the next wash

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Contemporary watercolour botanicals

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1. Introduction

  • Will you enjoy this course?2
  • Introduction - is this the right course for you?2
  • Contemporary botanicals outline
  • Contemporary botanicals materials2
  • This course's painting
  • Alternative circular painting2
  • Another example to inspire!3
  • Blues and greens example2
  • Multicolour flowers example2

2. Warming up

  • Using brush work to your advantage2
  • Warming up2

3. Leaf library

  • Developing leaf references
  • Leaf library6

4. Masking fluid

  • All you need to know about masking fluid
  • Masking fluid4

5. Planning

  • Having a plan
  • Coming up with a rough plan

6. Preparing the circle

  • Getting your circle ready
  • Preparing the circle

7. Swatching colours

  • Checking out your colour choice
  • Swatching colours

8. First wash

  • Let's get going
  • First wash
  • Photo of dry first wash

9. Painting the flowers

  • Painting the flowers
  • Painting the flowers3

10. First layer masking

  • Definining the plants closest to the viewer
  • First layer of masking fluid
  • After the first mask

11. Second wash

  • Let's paint the second wash
  • The second wash

12. Second layer of masking and the next wash

  • Masking off slightly more distant foliage and the next wash
  • Putting on the second masking layer and the next wash

13. Final layer of masking and final wash

  • Finishing masking and the final wash
  • Final masking and final wash
  • Masking complete2

14. Finishing

  • What have we here and what do we need to do?4
  • Removing masking, assessing and finishing2
  • The painting with masking removed
  • Starting to touch up
  • Making progress
  • Final tondo painting14
  • Final close-up12