Here is an unusually logical continuation to my previous post about Lake Arrowhead! :) Remember those prickly flowers that my husband heroically picked for me (five years in the military have not been for nothing)? Well, I brought them home, of course, and painted a couple of still lives with them. This is the only one of them that I liked enough to show to the world.
As you can see, I used quite a few different watercolor painting techniques here:
hard edges, saving the whites.
Wet-into wet.
soft gradated washes.
The glorious backruns.
Scraping with pallete knife.
splatter, layers and layer of it.
Opaque manganese blue on top of transparent layers.