This 11"x15" watercolor combines a photograph I took of waterlilies with some of my designed patterns. It is available for purchase through my Etsy shop.
I made this composition on my computer, by "masking off" the lily pads in a photograph I took of a pond and inserting one of the patterns I designed in Adobe Illustrator into the lily pad shape.
If you look closely, you can see that I added some colored pencil to the watercolor painting, especially to emphasize shadows. The red lines in the purple background (the stems of lily pads reaching down to the bottom of the pond) are colored pencil, as are the shadows on the lilies.
The green and blue lily pads are all done in watercolor. The white pattern visible on the pads is the white of the paper I preserved.
Here are the detail shots:
Finally, here is the source photograph I used. This pond was in the same garden as the dahlias I found in Rochester, New York (which I talked about in yesterday's post, featured the colored pencil drawing "Radiant Dahlia").
I used only the top right of this image, focusing on the cluster of four waterlilies and cropping the rest out. I also changed the water to a purple background so that it would be darker and stand out against the light lily pads. In this photo, you'll notice that most of the water (except where you can see the dark stems) is actually lighter (or at least brighter) than the green lily pads, whereas in my watercolor this is reversed. In my painting, the lily pads are a light blue-green (with a white pattern that lightens them even more), and the water is darker.
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| "Waterlilies" 11x15 watercolor and colored pencil on paper by Andrea Arbit |
I made this composition on my computer, by "masking off" the lily pads in a photograph I took of a pond and inserting one of the patterns I designed in Adobe Illustrator into the lily pad shape.
If you look closely, you can see that I added some colored pencil to the watercolor painting, especially to emphasize shadows. The red lines in the purple background (the stems of lily pads reaching down to the bottom of the pond) are colored pencil, as are the shadows on the lilies.
The green and blue lily pads are all done in watercolor. The white pattern visible on the pads is the white of the paper I preserved.
Here are the detail shots:
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| "Waterlilies" 11x15 watercolor and colored pencil on paper by Andrea Arbit (detail) |
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| "Waterlilies" 11x15 watercolor and colored pencil on paper by Andrea Arbit (detail) |
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| "Waterlilies" 11x15 watercolor and colored pencil on paper by Andrea Arbit (detail) |
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| "Waterlilies" 11x15 watercolor and colored pencil on paper by Andrea Arbit (detail) |
Finally, here is the source photograph I used. This pond was in the same garden as the dahlias I found in Rochester, New York (which I talked about in yesterday's post, featured the colored pencil drawing "Radiant Dahlia").
I used only the top right of this image, focusing on the cluster of four waterlilies and cropping the rest out. I also changed the water to a purple background so that it would be darker and stand out against the light lily pads. In this photo, you'll notice that most of the water (except where you can see the dark stems) is actually lighter (or at least brighter) than the green lily pads, whereas in my watercolor this is reversed. In my painting, the lily pads are a light blue-green (with a white pattern that lightens them even more), and the water is darker.
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