Butterfly
on Poppy Painting
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| My painting in watercolor |
So I
tried to capture Mike's photo of a beautiful swallowtail butterfly on
one of the many poppies we have in the garden in watercolor paint.
The
most difficult part was getting the wing color dark enough; I must
have put 5 different washes on it to get the color to stand out. I am
still so used to mixing the color once as I do in acrylic without
having to go over it again and again. Also the pattern on the wing
was complicated. Still I knew that from the previous painting of
butterflies.
I
enjoyed painting the poppy petals and will try some more poppy
paintings as I still haven't got the translucent look I want yet.
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| Photo by Mike |
Yea Gods Shirley you are really on a roll with water colours and
ReplyDeleteup to date too! looks good butterfly and background looking really
good.