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Have a sneaky peek at our latest tutorial
Hello, lovely painters. This week's tutorial is the start of a composition of several plants which will grow slowly over the next few weeks.
In this tutorial, I introduce you to my new little swatch idea, which I hope you will love, basically we gather our colour mixes on small bits of paper and hang them on a nappy pin. It's cute. It's also super useful because you can keep a recipe card of mixes for each plant.
This beautiful Mocha Rose is one of my most treasured roses in the garden; the colours are almost antique, like the Roses have been dipped in tea. The structure is truly beautiful, but it is quite an intense flower to paint.
In this project, we use a beautiful magenta to create our soft pinks; we cover our usual techniques of wet-on-wet, but I also show you how to methodically work across a piece. I have left a little bit of room in the study for reflected colour, ready for when we add all remaining pieces. This is one in a series of projects which show you how you can organically create soft and interesting compositions. I hope you enjoy it.
Peace, love, and gentle rain always.
Billy x
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