Leisure Painter - UK (2019 - Summer)

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Watercolour pencils

Step 1

1 Lightly mark in the flower, bud, leaves and stem using scarlet then hatch

over all the lighter areas of the flowers. Using scarlet for the stems and leaf

is a useful addition to the green, as there is often some of a flower’s colour

mixed in the foliage.

2 Add the stem and leaf dry using light olive.

3 Use yellow and orange to add the centre of the open flower.

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EXERCISE 2 Layers of colour

EXERCISE 1 Mark making

These flowers were worked using dry watercolour pencil colours hatched onto cartridge paper. The petals were hatched following the

angles of the petals then wetted. Subsequent colour was built up when the first colour was dry to reach the right intensity of colour

Step 2

1 Wet the petals and stem.

2 When dry add more dry

scarlet to deepen some of

the petals that are mid-toned

and dark.

3 Wet the flower again

and, while still damp, work

carmine into the darker areas.

4 Work yellow and orange

into the flower centre and

add a seed head of pale olive.

5 Work the poppy bud in the

same way, gradually enriching

the colour.

6 Wet the stems, sepals and

leaf and define with spruce

green on the shadow side.

7 Finally, add dry burnt

sienna into the flower

centre.

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I used heavyweight cartridge

paper for this sketch, as

I knew it would withstand

the use of water. The colours

were: yellow ochre,

turquoise, ultramarine,

scarlet, carmine, burnt

sienna, grey and black.

This sketch was worked in

the same way as the poppies

(above). The colours were

hatched in dry, wetted and

worked over again. Dry

pencil was added for

texture on the keel and

wall behind the boat.

The reference photograph

for the sketch of Portuguese

Boat(right)

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Portuguese Boat, Caran

d’Ache Supracolor on

heavyweight cartridge

paper, 6x4in. (15x10cm)

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Poppies, Caran d’ache Supracolor on

cartridge paper, 13^1 ⁄ 2 x 61 ⁄ 4 in. (34x16cm)

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