Spectacular Watercolor Floral Painting - How to paint FLOWER BOUQUET - easy tutorial for everyone
Join me as I spatter and splash my way into a beautiful bouquet of pink flowers for summer happiness. Using various pinks and reds, plus the famous quinacridone gold, we start with loose wet in wet, and then build up from there.
The colours used were:
Permanent Rose https://tinyurl.com/bnkz7xmk
Permanent Rose Deep https://tinyurl.com/3uujmhu7
Alizarin Crimson https://tinyurl.com/2mfwv76u
Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra https://tinyurl.com/smn85mm7
Cadmium Red https://tinyurl.com/xtvupcu8
Potters pink https://tinyurl.com/2kn5kfes
Quinacridone gold https://tinyurl.com/2b53nta5
Cobalt Blue https://tinyurl.com/hrbmjtt8
I used an Isabey Petit Gris squirrel hair mop and a size 14 round synthetic. brush by Drawell.
The paper I used was Arches 140lb medium grain.
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If you are looking for suggestions as to what to purchase as a beginner, here are my recommendations. If you use these links I will receive a small commission from Amazon which will help to support my channel.
PAINT
Here is a link to a Winsor and Newton starters' paint box which would be ideal for a beginner.
12 colours: https://amzn.to/3a1IVko
This is a link to a Winsor and Newton Artists' quality box, which is ideal for a serious student.
24 colours: https://amzn.to/3tHJTKI
12 colours: https://amzn.to/3rC0IVj
TUBE PAINTS
I always have a tube of White Designers Gouache on hand for lights and corrections
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These colours are very useful and don't usually appear in the sets the manufacturers make:
Naples Yellow
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Quinacridone Gold
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Permanent Rose
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Indigo
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Sepia
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PAPER
Winsor and Newton Watercolour paper pad 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques.
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Canson MONTVAL watercolour paper block 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. Exceptional resiliance and easy to work with.
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BRUSHES
Princeton do a good range of synthetic squirrel brushes. This is a size 10 round.
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And Winsor and Newton Cotman brushes are also good. This is a size 10 round.
https://amzn.to/36Xn8Zb
I often use a rigger brush (called script liner in the US) and this is a link to the Cotman range of riggers, this is size 1.
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A size 3 would also be useful.
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Staedtler Noris Karat Aquarell black watercolour pencils
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