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Watercolour

Step 4

1 Next, with a No. 8 brush paint a glaze of pale pink made from a diluted

wash of permanent rose on each petal where there are shadows. Blend

hard edges with a damp brush. Using bold brushstrokes try not to overwork

these pink glazes otherwise you may disturb the layer of paint underneath.

Remember to leave areas of white paper. Once the pink glaze has been

added, leave this to dry thoroughly.

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Step 5

1 To make the top petals appear above those underneath, darken the

shadowed areas on the lower petal with a thin wash of blue paint.

2 Once this is dry, add a thin wash of Winsor violet on top of the blue

shadows to deepen them. These layers can be seen in detail in this

close-up illustration.

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Step 3

1 Check you still have some yellow wash

left in your palette. Dampen the centre

where the stamens are masked.

2 Paint in a strong wash of yellow with

a No. 6 brush. While this is still wet use

the tip of a No. 1 brush to dab in little

areas of Winsor red. Leave this to dry.

3 Load a No. 8 brush with watery yellow

paint and add the first glaze sparingly on

to the petals as shown in the illustration.

Work on dry paper (not wet in wet),

painting outwards from the centre

towards the edge of the flower. I didn’t

wet the petals with water first as this

would make the yellow spread and fill the

entire flower. It is important not to cover

the whole petal, as the white paper would

be lost, making this look like a yellow

flower rather than a white one.

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