Watercolor Again
Inspiration
The inspiration for these watercolors comes from Lisa Bardot and her community.
Lisa Bardot hosts an art community, Artmakers Club, that includes tons of lessons in her bright and cheerful style. She also makes her own wonderful brushes and papers at BardotBrush. She also offers free lessons on her YouTube channel. She often provides a free set of brushes with her channel and does for the AMC.
Each month now she sponsors her #makingarteveryday challenges, which are available to everyone. This month the topic is FOOD. So far I’ve written about the following prompts, which you can see in the above gallery. Read these to learn how I adapted the tutorial and strategy.
Today: Raspberries
I chose to do my own food again today, raspberries. I think I’m making this set of watercolors for our kitchen. They’d make great tiles or small art prints. I may even make a pattern with the set.
The style is from one Lisa Bardot’s Orange Watercolor tutorial, which you can find on her blog and on YouTube. The tutorial explains how to use three of the brushes in the Wonder Watercolor [https://bardotbrush.com/product/watercolor-wonder/ ] brushes, which come with an eighty page user guide with tutorials to learn to use the brushes.
I made this cheat sheet for myself so whenever I want this style, I’ll remember which brushes to use for which part of the illustration:
One of the strategies in the video is to create the rainbow outline around the parts of the watercolor, which you can see in the right illustration of raspberries. I don’t really like the outline with the raspberries, but I do in the other pieces in the top gallery, so take a look there.
You can see many of my watercolor styles, including these, in my Watercolor Flickr Album.
#bardotbrush, #makingarteveryday, #warmup4art #cldoodle24 #raspberries
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