March 15th 2014

We worked on 2 projects a floral and a landscape

Project 1 - Daffodils

Materials

VanGogh watercolour: Permanent lemon yellow, Raw sienna, Permanent Red, Ultramarine Blue, Paynes grey. Watercolour paper Fabriano 300gm, but any 300gm paper will do. Beware: All papers behave diffferently!

1. Roughly sketch daffs in water soluble crayon - place flowers in the top half of the composition. Use thirds see composition.
2. Wet paper completely over flower shapes and before it dries add yellows and a little red (becareful red is very strong you dont need much.
3. Important: prepare cling flim before step 4
4. When yellows are more ore less dry but not completely add dark mixture of blue and grey allow to mix on the paper. Try to blend in some yellow from the flowers to form some "found" and "hidden" edges. Avoid a strong dark blue line under the flowers.
5. Place plastic flim BEFORE the dark blue dries. Place in diagonals.
6. Allow to dry completely. You can remove areas with CLEAN water or add more darks.
7. Find areas between flowers and paint with dark greens (Ultramarine+ lemon). Look at the original sketch.
8. Paint leaves at the top. Make the leaves different tones, shapes and colours. They should be different not all the same!
9. Add shadows to give flowers 3D effect with raw sienna and green tones