Line and wash flowers
Posted: April 4, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 10 CommentsAs prep for a workshop on flower painting that I’ll be giving this weekend, I took out my Lamy Safari pen (which I haven’t used in a long time) and doodled some flowers on hot pressed Fabriano paper. Colours: Carmine, Cadmium Orange, Azo Yellow, Cerulean Blue and a bit of Cobalt mixed with Raw Umber for the darker green spots.
Really nice. You demonstrate beautifully what I love from a line & wash painting.
I love both the spontaneity of a line & wash painting as well as how it engages the viewer. The viewer MUST supply the details. But the sketch contains enough detail to leave the viewer with the impression that they saw a full painting. What a wonderful juxtaposition: It is a sketch which leaves the impression of full realism based painting.
Thanks so much!
Beautiful loose flower sketch so perfectly described by Fisher, Shari 🙂 i can enjoy their fragrance from here even though it’s my hoya plant in full bloom beside me 🙂
Lucky artists in your flower workshop this weekend!
They had no fragrance at all. Fortunately your hoya plant does.
I’m looking forward to my workshop!!
I’m very impressed by all your flowers, they are awesome !
Lovely
Line and wash are my favorite paintings. I am a forever hopeful watercolor artist. I will buy some pan watercolors, since the tubes I have never seem to find their way out of the tube. Hope springs . .. right? You are an inspiration.
Hi Linda. If pans are what gets you painting, then go for it. I prefer tubes but have lots of sets of pans that I enjoy too. Thanks so much for writing! Shari
I love your “line and wash flowers” painting! Is there a course available that teaches this method with florals?
HI Amber, I have some floral courses but none with exactly this technique.