Watercolour Challenge 30 (Patreon)

Happy Tuesday everyone! To those of you who celebrate Easter, I hope you had a good Easter weekend and I hope everyone else enjoyed the bank holiday! 

Following on from last week's simple start at painting flowers on different angles, we are putting it into practise with a cluster of yellow primroses. We have clusters of these flowers growing all over the place! This week, not only are we angling the flower heads but we're also navigating our way round a cluster of overlapping flowers. 

I have linked below to my Youtube tutorial of a Primrose just in case you would like a bit more practise. We are going to be painting in this controlled loose style for a while as we play with composition but we will be going even more detailed with the flowers themselves eventually.

This is a private youtube link which only you sweet pea and cherry blossom patrons have access to.

You will need

some watercolour paper

A range of paintbrushes

Paint

Jar of water

Kitchen roll to blot the brush

Eraser & pencil

After watching the video...

First have a go at sketching out a cluster of primroses in pencil and make sure you account for the area taken up by the span of the petals. 

Paint along with the watercolour challenge and see how you get on!

Primrose

Share your pieces on instagram using #dwpcchallenge and tag me @dewintonpaperco. And please do have a look at everyone else's interpretations of the brief (search the hashtag and you will see all the patreon insta posts from everyone in here) and celebrate each other's work. We learn from seeing how others interpret a single brief so a community encourages progres

Comment below with your findings, and if you are sharing your work on Instagram, use the #dwpcchallenge and tag me @dewintonpaperco.

Have a wonderful week.

Harriet