Pen and Wash Watercolour Dragonflies for Beginners - Part 1 (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

I’ve made this tutorial with my beginner painters in mind. It’s a fairly simple pen and wash painting and it will give you practice with working wet on wet.

Wet on wet simply means painting wet paint onto a wet surface.

It’s a technique that I use a lot in all of my paintings.

I do a lot of paint blending and mixing on the paper when I paint and I prefer to do it on the paper than to mix the colours in my palette. So you’ll get to practice that.

I only used three colours for this painting. One of the colours , Quinacridone Violet, is a new colour that Winsor and Newton have added to their range so I don’t expect you’ll have it in your painting kit. So you can either use a similar colour or you can use three totally different colours. Play around with your colours on a scrap piece of paper until you find three that you’d like to use. 

All of the files you need are attached below. I've included an A3 size line drawing that is spread over two pages for those who have difficulty enlarging. My finished painting is also attached to help you paint yours.

Part 2 is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32931226

Here is the link to my paper stretching video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31443575

Don't forget I have an index for all of the Patreon tutorials on my website: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

It's easier to find what you are looking for there.

Have fun and I hope you enjoy it.