White on red
Posted: July 3, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized 15 CommentsThe purple smokebush in my garden is never more beautiful than in the summer when it becomes the background to all the other flowers in front of it. I especially love it when the daisies are blooming. I did a quick sketch of this combo in my Etchr sketchbook, starting with a background wash that moved from deep red to green. An Alizarin Crimson and Phthalo Green mix was perfect for this. I added a little Green Gold at the bottom to warm up the leaf colours. When that was dry, I used negative painting to define the red leaves. The last step was some quick definition in the daisy foliage and flowers.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
Really nice 🙂
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Thanks Chris!
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Beautiful, Shari! The colour of the smoke bush…yum!
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Thanks! Every spring that bush looks awful, just like a bunch of dead sticks, and I wonder if I should cut it down. But then I get this beautiful foliage and I’m glad I left it!
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Great colors!
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Thanks Bernadette!!
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Thanks Shari, great instructions.
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Anne, thanks. So glad it was useful!!
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I love how the negative painting in the background sets off the daisies!
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Beautiful as always!
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Great work!
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Bill, so nice to hear from you!! Thank you so much!
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Love the way you have left the whites, and the occasional shadow colour over the daisies – they look like happiness.
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Really nice painting of the Daisies and Smoke Bush, I really like how you created so much contrast in this drawing and how you left little dabs of the white of the watercolour paper. This drawing definately pops.
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Totally ‘nailed’ the smoke bush. Love this painting.
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