Saturday, March 24, 2018

Windblown Purple Parrot Tulip

4x3.5 gouache on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper sketched from life today and painted with Turner gouache.  It does resemble watercolor but is a bit more opaque and I've thinned it a lot.  I used a red and white silk faux tulip to sketch this but had no reference for the purple hues that were mixed reds and pinks with 2-3 blue shades.
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