Showing posts with label watercolor underpainting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolor underpainting. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Sunday Sunflower


7.5x5 watercolor drawn in pencil on Moleskine for watercolor sketchbook yesterday, then positively painted leaving the background showing the underpainting...just a different way of working that I often forget to do. Colors look different on top of existing blended first wash (one wash only).  The underpainting first step is below.

 Underpainting with Prussian blue, quinacridone gold, and permanent rose transparent watercolors.
Image courtesy Cynthia LaBelle/Copyright 2015 Kay Smith.

Lookout Salty Cat

3.5x2.5 watercolor miniature art card (ACEO) on 140 lb cold press paper done late last month. This is my other studio cat, a rescue, who lo...