I've really missed realistic painting, so now I've started again! A simple subject: my favourite flower, the delicate and graceful pink lotus. I hope you like it!
I used Sonnet watercolors on 300 g cold pressed watercolor papre.
I proceeded with the painting layer by layer. After sketching, I started with the background choosing a dark background to make the light-coloured flower stand out.
Here, the edges are still imprecise, I corrected them in the last phase with some fine contouring.
I dampened the petals one by one and used a stronger, but otherwise very pale crimson and crape varnish colour at the tips, with a small amount of Indian yellow and golden ochre at the base of petals.
The finished painting:
Here are the details of the finished painting:
I used a darker colour and a thin brush to draw the veins of the petals.
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