I haven't picked up my watercolors in a while because most of my studio had been packed up getting ready for the move to the new space. Now that I am in my new space and I have the room to spread all of my supplies out I wanted to get back to working with more traditional art mediums instead of just working digitally. So 25 days of watercolor was born. I pulled out all of my paints and felt a little bit overwhelmed with all the choices and so I decided to choose 4 colors and create art with a limited color palette.
This is the first one that I created when I was trying out the colors. I liked that even though there were no primary colors in this group that I could mix a wide range of colors and get both a green and a lavender color with these. So the journey of creating new images with watercolors began.
This butterfly started out with just blobs of color in the shape of a butterfly and then I took a pen and added the floral detail to add the details to this piece. It was very fun to create and I really enjoyed creating the color as well as the line work. I added the pink color to the background to help ground the piece.
For this third piece I kept the composition pretty much the same as the previous one but changed up the styles of the florals and berries. I mixed a different green colors as well as a lavender color for this piece to add interest. There is a video on my YouTube channel showing my process in a time-lapse and it shows how I start with a pencil sketch to decided on the placement of the elements and then move to watercolor and finally ink.
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I hope you are having a wonderful week and I will see you back here soon.
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