Procession of irises
Brand new to art in general and watercolor in particular (this is my…third? Try). I’ve watched YouTube videos, gotten a book from the library…I do not necessarily find this intuitive, but I enjoy it. And I don’t know/understand any of the terminology.
Irises are a flower that have a lot of meaning for me, so they’re what I’ve been “studying.”
any advice on achieving depth? You can see on both attempts I end up with a splotch on the bottom petal trying to capture how it kind of folds down and under. In general I find that when I try to do a ”wash” with a darker color for depth it just ends up looking splotchy.
also, while I’m able to get purple, it’s not really the shade of the flower. Maybe I need more red? and I think I’m afraid of starting too dark and having no where else to go, but obviously the color and shade are not correct or as deep.
I’m not totally displeased - I can see there have been some improvements. I really wanted to try ink and watercolor, but immediately realized that the fountain pen I got was not water proof 🙄
the third photo is my first attempt using a cheap kit I got, but I found the color of the paints really lackluster and hard to work with (when I opened the kit before my latest attempt all the paints had fallen out of their pans and crumbled). The first photo is the latest I did with cold pressed paper and Windsor and newton paint, which seemed to help matters.