Day Lily in watercolor and metallic watercolor
This will be one of the shortest blog posts I’ve done in ages! I just did this little sketch the other day to test out some paper and new kit supplies. I stood to paint in front of the row of Day Lilies and it wasn’t easy. The ‘no see’ums and the ‘see um’s’ were all biting me and started to make me miserable! Oh the joys of painting outdoors! Anyhow, the paper proved to be too thin and cheap so that won’t be going into my sketch journal.
After I got as much done as I could, I retreated to the shade and just outlined with a permanent ink pen to tidy it up. It looked a LOT better after doing this! Then later that night I saw my little kit of metallic watercolor paints and thought, ‘what the heck?’ so I brushed some on and it looked nice. The border is just the permanent ink pen then I loosely brushed on some metallic paint.
Well folks that’s it! Told you it was a short post, haha. More bug sketches and paintings coming real soon! Enjoy the links below to my shop!
Hi Mary,
I have been visiting your blog for the last couple of days and I just love all of your sketches and watercolor!! They are amazing. I am so inspired!! I have only been sketching and really want to move into watercolor!!
I have a very new blog and I have a little spot called creative spotlight. I just want you to know I am linking to you for the rest of this month!!
thanks Cherie! I’m so glad you’ve been stopping by and getting inspired! I get torn between using oils and watercolor, I love them both, but seem to do a lot more watercolor lately. If you look in my right hand column at the “Categories” click on “Lessons” > Watercolor it may help give you some ideas. Thanks for linking to me! I just checked out your blog, I love the picture of the kids “window shopping”, that’d make a great drawing with pale wc washes on it…just an idea!
It’s still a nice page in spite of having lousy paper.
thanks Timaree, it would be fine for color pencil, ink, maybe even the light washes, but painting front and back, it was just too flimsy for me.