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Snowdrops Exercise From Marta
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Suggested Materials: Paint: Lemon & Cadmium Yellow Payne’s Grey or Indigo Permanent Rose or Magenta Ultramarine Blue
Paper: Any WC paper, 140lb is fine (smooth paper best -‐ makes paint run farther) Approx. 7. 5”x 10”
Other: #6 riggers or small round brushes (2, one for weYng paper with clear water) White mixing paleZe or white plate Scrap paper to test colours before applying White paper towel 2 large water containers (one for clean water)
Techniques: Wet-‐on-‐dry & wet-‐on-‐wet
Drawing 1: My first aZempt… I was happy with the drawing and painted leaves but not the flower petals …see next few slides!
Pain`ng 1
Pain`ng 1
Pain`ng 1
Pain`ng 1 Petals are too light, lack warmth and flowers are too similar
Experimented with flower colours, adding Yellow, Rose and Violet into wet petals
This is now a double complementary exercise: Yellow-‐Yellow Green and Magenta-‐Violet
Happier now…
Drawing 2:
Flowers & stems: Wet small petals and stems with water and let soak in a bit Drop dilute Lemon yellow into water, let run everywhere Add a touch of Lemon on led petal of both flowers-‐let run Add drop of Cadmium Yellow on stem nodes
Dry
Leaves: Mix dilute Lemon yellow with a touch of Indigo (makes that amazing Y-‐G colour: Chartreuse) Paint all leaves on dry paper leaving bits of white highlights
Dry
Leaves:
Add more Indigo to Lemon yellow for green on leaves, increasing the Indigo for shaded areas
Petals: Paint one flower at a
`me Wet petals 2-‐3 `mes
with clean water, leaving a white edge of dry paper
Drop dilute Ultramarine then Rose onto wet petals, `l`ng paper, encouraging pigment to pool
Adding colour separately allows pigment to mix unevenly, resul`ng in varying Violets
PaZerned Petals: Add light, then darker
green (Lemon and Indigo) on `ps of smaller petals and stems
Try prac`cing a few leaves and a single flower head on scrap paper, before you put it together.
You may, print out and trace images.
Good luck and stay well.
☺ Marta