FLOWER WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

MARCH 27-29th, 2014
Perfect weather, wonderful spring bloom, lot of watercolor and such a cool group - it was so much fun, guys !!! :-D

The first day was all about petunias. We have about 6 different types here in park. Petunia is not the easiest flower for painting - its shape isn't sharp and petals have wonderful velvet texture, which is quite difficult to paint.

Below - the demo.
In this one I wanted to show how to work with mask.



Here is another demo - small brunch of flowers, very fast, shown in photo "step by step". It's painted very much "a la prima", almost with no line-work at all. I was aiming here the way of thinking in color, building the volume rather than construction.

The second day - petunias again, but dark/deep purple flowers.
Painting with intensive colors but keep them transparent.
Work with layers of colors, painting on wet paper and on dry paper sheet.

All images here are "clickable" - click on picture to enlarge.

And below - few works of my students.