How To Use Watercolours - Plants and Leaves
Letting your brush doing most of work when painting plants and leaves.
When I paint leaves and plants, I let the paint brush do most of the work. The technique is simple, once you get used to it.
• Starting at one end of the leaf, using a large round brush, you only touch the tip of your round brush to the paper.
• As you paint your leaf, you push the brush bristles down onto the page to widen the leaf shape and pull back up again to pinch it off.
• An extra tip, when you’re feeling comfortable, is to rotate your brush as you paint in order to make more unordinary shapes.
• Instead of holding your brush near the bristle and using a stiff hand and arm, try holding the brush further out and trying to keep your wrist and arm loose.
• Practice, practice, practice!
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