Petals in the sunshine

Painting in the garden

The sun is shining in my part of the world today, so I have sat outside in my garden taking in the sweet scent of the roses and lavender flowers, and doing a spot of watercolor painting. As well as using a paintbrush to create my images I've been using the flowers too.

Using flower petals

The structures of the flowers petals were so beautiful that I decided to create the majority of the image using the flowers themselves. I painted one side of the flower petals with watercolour paint and then pressed them into the paper to create a print of the flowers.

I then used a paintbrush to add some of the finer details such as stems.
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I added light background washes to the parts of the paper using watercolour. Behind the image of the rose petals I added a light green with the brush to suggest the leaves of the rose bush.
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I'm doing an art workshop soon and I'm going to introduce this technique for one of the activities, it is a simple activity that can achieve some very pretty results.