Camelia

[ams]

Watercolor in XL Mixed Media sketchbook, 8"x8". The reference was from a challenge on another site.

 

[Triduana]

Beautiful! I love camelias.

 

[TK H-H]

Loving the purple-pink colors on the flower!

Did you mix them, or are they straight from a tube/pan?

 

[ams]

Loving the purple-pink colors on the flower!

Did you mix them, or are they straight from a tube/pan?

Thanks TK. I mixed the colors. I use a small set of 12 Inktense pencils that I scribble on a Caran D'Ache pallet and then use like watercolor. Since there are only 12 colors, almost all of the colors I use are mixed. I like doing it that way, so I get subtle differences in the color as I paint.

 

[TK H-H]

Hm... Maybe I should try that with mine.
I usually draw directly with the pencils and then wet them/mix on the surface, or I shave small slivers off the blocks with a razor into a palette and then add water to make paint. The shaving method is hard to control mixing with though. So I usually make a few puddles of pure color and layer them. That really only works for bold and darker colors though.

 

[snoball]

Just lovely.

 

[ams]

Hm... Maybe I should try that with mine.
I usually draw directly with the pencils and then wet them/mix on the surface, or I shave small slivers off the blocks with a razor into a palette and then add water to make paint. The shaving method is hard to control mixing with though. So I usually make a few puddles of pure color and layer them. That really only works for bold and darker colors though.

This is a link on Amazon to the palette that I use: Caran D'Ache Palette

It's actually very similar to a plastic cutting board with a slightly bumpy texture so if you have an old one, you can experiment with that. Another thing you can use is a scrap of cold press watercolor paper but I find you waste a lot of paint that way since so much of the color stays on the paper.