If you keep up with my blog regularly, you know exactly what this post is going to be about. I'm in the middle of a series of twenty-six 5"x7" floral alphabet watercolors, one small painting for each letter. My last post featured E and F, and today's post is all about the letters G and H.
The step by step process for creating these letters was the same as for my previous paintings. I started with an ink outline, taped down onto gatorboard with masking tape to keep the paper flat while I painted.
The first layer of color is all about light, bright colors - deciding which flowers will be which colors, and putting just a little bit of pigment down.
Next, I added darker blue and purple paint to the non-floral parts of the letters, and splattered pink and yellow paint over the paintings by loading up a brush with very watery paint and flicking the tip of the brush with my finger.
Finally, I added more layers of darker and brighter colors to finish up the paintings.
If you remember from my post on letters C and D, I actually worked on C-H simultaneously. Once G and H were done, all six letters that I was currently working on were finished. Here is the set of six, before I pulled off the masking tape.
And here are just G and H, untaped, signed, and finished and ready for scanning. I will likely have these original paintings for sale as well, but my main goal with these was to create something that I could scan in and print on blank notecards, to create notecard sets with single initials.
The step by step process for creating these letters was the same as for my previous paintings. I started with an ink outline, taped down onto gatorboard with masking tape to keep the paper flat while I painted.
The first layer of color is all about light, bright colors - deciding which flowers will be which colors, and putting just a little bit of pigment down.
Next, I added darker blue and purple paint to the non-floral parts of the letters, and splattered pink and yellow paint over the paintings by loading up a brush with very watery paint and flicking the tip of the brush with my finger.
Finally, I added more layers of darker and brighter colors to finish up the paintings.
If you remember from my post on letters C and D, I actually worked on C-H simultaneously. Once G and H were done, all six letters that I was currently working on were finished. Here is the set of six, before I pulled off the masking tape.
And here are just G and H, untaped, signed, and finished and ready for scanning. I will likely have these original paintings for sale as well, but my main goal with these was to create something that I could scan in and print on blank notecards, to create notecard sets with single initials.
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