Painting Transparent Watercolor Poppies

Watercolor offers a lovely transparency that you can’t get with any other medium. You can create delicate and soft petal effects with layering of colors to achieve depth and dimension so easily with just a few tricks.
In this months Watercolor subscription you should have a set of gorgeous watercolors created by hand to paint these lovely poppies and I’m going to show you how to make sure that angelic transparency shines through to give a luminous quality to the artwork.
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Tips and techniques:
Begin by sketching the outline of the poppies lightly with a pencil on your watercolor paper from the samples I gave you or if you have an idea already in your mind, go for it with your brush. It all depends on your level of skill and vision.
Use a light wash of watercolor to gentle brush down the petals of the poppies, leaving some areas lighter to create a sense of transparency.
Add layers of color to build up the intensity and depth of the poppies, allowing some of the layers to show through to create a translucent effect.
Use a fine brush to add details such as the veins in the petals and the delicate stamens in the center of the flowers.
Consider adding a background wash to enhance the contrast and make the poppies stand out. I love flicking splatter and creating some grassy foreground as a quick option.
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