DD and CC gave me this watercolor set for Christmas
Even though I’ve got tons of art supplies,
it’s always exciting to get something new!
It has 50 different colors,
comes with several types of brushes,
and has a place to mix colors right in the lid
It’s travel size, about 8″ x 5″ x 1 1/2″
It came with a blank color chart sheet
The first thing you should do when you have new paint or markers
is to make a color chart
and this one was labeled to match the color palette in the box
Let’s try it out!
I used this drawing from Pixabay as a model
and 2 photos from Pinterest
for the painting
A pencil drawing to begin
I started with the root ball and worked my way up
Once I was satisfied with the drawing,
I went over it with .01 a waterproof ink liner pen
and erased the pencil
If you want to color it you can download a free printable here
I think it would be beautiful done with colored pencils
If you want to paint it with watercolor
print it on watercolor or mixed media paper
I smeared the petal on the right
and tried to lift the smear with water
but the paper started deteriorating,
so I decided to fix it later when I did the background
For the background,
I applied clear water in a large area with a big round brush
and dropped pink into the water and let it bleed and blend
I turned the painting upside down to do the background in the top areas
“Watercolor Amaryllis” 5″ x 7” watercolor and ink on mixed media paper
This is an amaryllis done with colored pencils
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