Watercolour Challenge 231: Carrot Cake Recipe Card Part 1 of 2 (Patreon)

This was so fun! Quite often these sets of illustrations can take a surprisingly long time to complete but this one felt like a perfect amou

This was so fun! Quite often these sets of illustrations can take a surprisingly long time to complete but this one felt like a perfect amount of time. Today we are planning the drawing and then painting in the basic washes. Next week we will do the details and the lettering!

Find part two of this tutorial here.

You will need

Cold pressed watercolour paper (mine is 8x6 inches) and a few bits of scrap paper to plan

hb pencil

hard and soft erasers

Colours I used: Paynes grey, Buff titanium, Burnt Sienna, lemon yellow, hansa yellow medium, yellow ochre, permanent orange, pyrrol orange, raw umber, cerulean blue, french ultramarine, green gold

Brushes I used: Pointed round size 2, 0, 2/0, 4/0