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8" x 10", ink & watercolor on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico paper. |
The other fifteen or so hydrangeas that I have planted around the house are still sporting nothing but leaves. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that next year will be better. I missed those beautiful blue blooms this summer.
In this painting, I combined two different varieties of hydrangea. The one in the foreground is Nikko Blue...
and the other is a variety that has pretty pale yellow centers.
If you visit this earlier post, you'll find a step-by-step tutorial showing the process I use in painting hydrangeas.
The flowers in the background were painted with less detail...
Leaf veins were painted in various ways:
negative painting...
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The leaf was first painted a golden color, then darker areas were painted with green, avoiding the vein areas |
scratching lines into wet paint...
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Vein lines scratched in with a wooden skewer |
lifting dried paint with a damp brush, and drawing lines with a pen...
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This leaf shows veins detailed with negative painting, lifting, and ink lines |
The pen I used was a Noodler's Nib Creaper Flex pen filled with Noodler's Lexington Gray ink, available from Goulet Pens.
(This matted & framed original watercolor painting is available for $300.00. Please contact me by email if you're interested.)
Oh là là!! How beautiful! I could just swim in those colors! I'll go over to the tutorial, thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Rita!
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