Layered Anemone Watercolor Tutorial
Last Summer I had the chance to teach in person watercolor classes and this was the first lesson I taught. Grab your paints and let’s get to it!
Supplies
I am adding the brands I used incase you’re curious, but feel free to use what you have on hand.
Purple Lake (Winsor & Newton)
Sap Green (Winsor & Newton)
Ultra Marine (Winsor & Newton)
Burnt Umber (Winsor & Newton)
Black India Ink (Dr. Ph Martin’s)
Bleed proof White (Dr. Ph Martin’s)
Watercolor Paper (Canson XL)
Pencil and eraser
Round brush
Steps:
1. Transfer the line art to watercolor paper. You can download the line art here (there’s 2 to a page incase you’d like to paint this more than once) I like using a lightbox. You can find the one I use here.
2. Using the center circle as a guide, paint a blue circle in the middle filling about 3/4 of the circle. Add small dots around the inner circle until it reaches the circle in your guide. While the blue paint is wet, paint the petals in purple, lightly touching the edge of the blue paint to create some bleeds.
3. After the paint has dried (you can use a blow dryer or heat tool to speed up the process) paint 5 petals in between the first set of petals using the same light purple wash.
4. Prepare a light wash of green and blue paint. Paint the first layer of leaves in a light green wash. Drop some darker green to the tips of the petals for some bleeds.
5. Once the first layer of leaves have completely dried, paint the second layer of leaves using a light blue wash. While the paint is drying, paint the buds using the light purple and dropping in a darker purple on the bottom. Add blue stems to the buds while the purple is still wet if you want some bleeds. Finally, add some darker spots to the center of your flower if desired.
Grab the printable instructions with pictures here.
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