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Work from "101 Watercolor techniques" - Exercise 005

This exercise was a bit of a struggle for a beginner. Believe it or not the result below is the third attempt. The point of the exercise was to get a result of depth on the paper using only analogous colours and without using color gradation. I am sure I learned something from it. What I think I struggled with among other things was "water control" - keeping the water within the small leaf areas from running. 

Learning:

  • As I went along I had a little bit more freedom with the strokes.
  • I started to notice how the exercise author was using negative space and tried to replicate it.

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