Watercolours With Life: Primroses Step By Step 2013, Final Sttages.

Friday 25 January 2013

Primroses Step By Step 2013, Final Sttages.

Primroses in Watercolour

Creating the flowers and adding detail

Now it is time to put all the "Step by step on how to paint primroses" stages together. First you have your wonderful colour wash setting the atmosphere for your primrose painting.

Next you will have added centres

The next stage is painting the now practised negative edges around your flowers.This will make them stand out in your wash.

Darker colour worked away from my negative petal edge gives me a wonderful effect.

Next you can add fine lines around the centre to create this part of the flower as final details.I use my personalised rigger for this detailed work as it is easier to control. This brush is available from my web site

Once you have a few realistic looking small primroses as practise studies aim to paint a cluster of flowers in a larger painting, including a few buds and some leaves. Look at the painting below and observe how some flowers are only half there. In fact is any one flower totally complete?

Readers of my books will know I love leaving sections to the viewers imagination and this is what makes my work interesting, to me it draws the viewer of my finished paintings into my emotional connection with each piece too.

You won't have perfect paintings straight away, but with practise and by playing with this technique you may surprise yourself in beautiful results that absolutely sing with life.

Please email me any paintings you are thrilled with or excited by

And my books can be found on Amazon.com or my web site.

www.jeanhaines.com

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You can find my primrose washes on my first DVD, "Amazing Ways With Watercolour" , available from my web site and a clip of the DVD is on You Tube.

You will also find washes and techniques in both of my books. "Atmospheric Watercolours" teaches you about exciting washes, bleeding in and bleeding out techniques that will help you create soft beautiful petals.

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2 comments:

Nanqueen said...: Thank you Jean! Seeking inspiration and advice on taking my own art into the loose , thro the magic of Internet I have found you! I am going to play with this today...; 31 January 2013 at 01:22
corinne60 said...: thank you++++
I go to try!; 5 February 2013 at 04:50

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