Back to Drawing Lab! I completed the flower tutorial - which I'd been procrastinating on. And as usual on the ones I put off - I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I've never done watercolor washes over-top of a whole lot of pencil lines. I was taught to do as few light lines as possible and build depth with the layers of paint - but I really like the look of watercolor over the shading and scribbling. I still went with the kids set of Prang Watercolors for this (it's so much quicker to grab that than squeeze out little drops of my liquid watercolors and build a palate and worry about squeezing out too much and wasting. Clearly I need to invest in some professional dry watercolors) But I did avoid the washable watercolors this time. And I skipped the Crayola colored pencils in favor of my nice Prismacolors. So much better. I don't know why I waste my time with the kids stuff. (it's just what's always in front of me, because I'm often doing this with the kids ;)
I skipped the steps that involved paint pens, as I have zero desire to own paint pens, and I went light on the acrylic "highlights" at the end. Wasn't feeling the "take it to a crazy place"that the last few steps seemed to want me to go. So ya. I'm happy with this. It's a pretty flower. :)
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