This flower has been in my demonstration pad for over 5 years. I use this drawing to demonstrate how to use the compliment to add shadows to the yellow petals without dulling the lovely yellows. This is done in color pencil…the compliment is a soft lavender and some terra cotta helps to darken the yellows.
I have many unfinished pieces from years of demonstrating techniques to students. This summer I have promised myself that I would finish some of this pieces. So I’ll begin with a pair of peony buds that I did in watercolor in 2002 or 2003. Time to finally add the graphite….a favorite way of mine to work. The combination of graphite and watercolor seems to be somewhere between finish and process, I love the way the two mediums compliment each other.
This is a rough scan…I’ll post a better one soon =)
This is the first large watercolor I have done for some time…I learned a lot from the piece….enjoyed it very much.
I strayed from wordpress for a short while. After running into several glitches in the first few weeks on blogger.com I decided to return to my original blog here on wordpress. So I hope you continue to visit often and enjoy my work =)
Watercolor and color pencil…..
