Watercolor offers a lovely flexibility that you can’t get with any other medium. You can create delicate and soft effects with layering of colors to achieve depth and dimension so easily with just a few tricks. I also like to use watercolour in mast tone on some of the final layers.

In this months Watercolor subscription you should have a set of gorgeous watercolors created by hand to paint these lovely lilacs and I’m going to show you how to make sure that angelic transparency shines through to give a luminous quality to the artwork.

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- Watercolor Sketchbook Class
-Watercolor Floral Painting for beginners

Links for tools used on video:
Angular Shader: https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/angled-watercolor-brushes

Best Buy Liner/ Long detail brushes: https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/detail-floral-watercolor-brushe-set

Pointed rounds: https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/pointed-round-watercolor-brushes

Jax Handmade Honey Watercolor: https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/jax-handmixed-watercolors

New handmade, honey, watercolour pots : https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/jax-handmade-honey-pots-watercolors

Jax 100% Cotton Watercolor paper: https://jaxwatercolor.com/products/100-cotton-watercolor-paper-300-gsm

Tips and techniques:
Begin by sketching the outline of the poppies lightly with a pencil on your watercolor paper from the samples I gave you or if you have an idea already in your mind, go for it with your brush. It all depends on your level of skill and vision.

Use a light wash of watercolor to gentle brush down the petals of the poppies, leaving some areas lighter to create a sense of transparency.

Add layers of color to build up the intensity and depth of the poppies, allowing some of the layers to show through to create a translucent effect.

Use a fine brush to add details such as the veins in the petals and the delicate stamens in the center of the flowers.

Consider adding a background wash to enhance the contrast and make the poppies stand out. I love flicking splatter and creating some grassy foreground as a quick option.

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