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Author: Rod_Webb, Contributing Editor
| This lesson will show how to paint a vase of flowers using plastic sheet to produce texture and random patterns. I am using 10 by 14 inch piece of Arches hot press watercolour paper which I have stretched ready for the wet into wet techniques. |
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| Have your palette box ready with your favorite flower colours, I used french ultramarine, rose madder, ailzarin crimson,lemon yellow, and raw sienna. We also need a thin sheet of crumpled plastic that is slightly larger than you piece of watercolour paper, a supermarket bag is ideal. First using a mop brush wet the whole surface so that it shines. Imagine roughly where your flowers would be and drop neat paint straight from your pan/tube onto the wet surface, using your choice of colours. Drop some raw sienna at the bottom where the vase would be positioned. |
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| Make sure your sheet of plastic is well crumpled and creased. Now while the paper is still wet and shiny lay the plastic over your painting, press the plastic down with the ends of your fingers so that a random crinkled pattern develops as shown in the image. Now leave to dry overnight. |
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