Beginning Watercolor Class
Beginning Watercolor Class
Instructor: Tom Tiedeman (760) 743-1474
Module 15-Lesson # 5 Cactus Pen and Ink/watercolor wash
0601
You will learn:
Light source awareness
Wet into wet
Shadows (color variations)
1. Draw or transfer the cactus onto paper.
2. Note sun direction from upper right.
3. Draw the pen and ink technique before we paint. (you may also do the watercolor painting first and pen and ink later).
4. Wet each section of the cactus, one at a time and mingle the lighter colors first, followed by the darker.
5. For shadow areas, mingle the lighter colors first with the darker colors (add an interesting reflected light into the shadows.
6. Paint each petal of the orange flowers, using the yellow at the top of the petals and darker orange at the inner bottom part.
7. Paint the yellow cactus flowers, the new growth with a bright yellow and white for highlights.
8. Add the dark shadow at the bottom and vary the colors as you did in the shadows on the cactus.
9. Put in the darker details in the cactus needle areas.
10. Some needles and bumps may be scratched out with an x-acto knife.
11. You may put in a background, solid, or mottled, but if you do, ensure the background is dark around light cactus and flowers and light around dark cactus and flowers. It depends on how you painted cactus (lights against darks and darks against lights.
12. Sign the picture
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