Flower Girl Watercolor Painting Process

I can’t believe it’s the last day of November already! Christmas is fast approaching and I’m wondering what happened to my time?! Oh yeah I watched a lot of anime and did overtime every other day. This month I only did 2 watercolor paintings (Des where are your priorities?!).  I did however collated my artworks and made them postcards to sell this Christmas. Extra income here I come! :)

So without further much ado, here’s my flower girl artwork. By the way this will also be part of the postcard collection. Let me know if you are interested to buy. :)

 My inspiration for this artwork was the lime and purple sketch I made. This painting started out as very loose. I used the wet on wet technique using yellow as my base color adding greens and blues sparingly. Next I added pink and yellow for the flowers (Duh!).  At this point I don’t worry about the details yet. These are mostly light so I can paint over them later if ever I’m not happy with some parts. Then I take a break and let the artwork dry.

After the colors are set only then did I start going over the details. This is the part where you don’t realize that you’re holding your breath and sticking out your tongue to make the lines perfect! ☺ This takes about 70% of my painting time.

When doing the details I usually step back to look at the big picture. Looking at the artwork from afar helps me judge if the elements blends together. Adding a flower here will make it more balanced, or having more space at the top let’s your eye rest from all the elements at the bottom. When I step back and see that I have nothing more to add then for me the painting is finshed already. Sometimes it takes just 2 hours sometimes it takes years for me to finish a project. You’ll just know it that feeling that it’s done. ☺