Cherry Blossom Watercolor Painting

jacinta.sevilla (65)in #art • 4 years ago

🌸 New Painting!

I painted something for our language class. A Plakat! It's a picture with a bit of information about the place.

"A placard" basically.
Plakat is in German.
Plakat ist auf Deutsch.

My classmate and I chose Korea. And I remember one picture I saw of Korea (not this one) and I remember seeing cherry blossoms. So, I also wanted to portray that part of their culture, so I chose a picture which showcases the landscape and architecture. Very very beautiful. 🌸

Work in progress🖌️

So as to lessen the pictures, I made a video of how I painted the cherry blossoms.

Light base tones
Dabs of pink
Layers of darker shades
Inking
Wet on wet painting for the sky and ground

Ok it's upside down. Sorry

🌸I made only a very rough sketch of the lines where the tree and house should be, more like just drawing a guide or outline.

Then I followed painting it with a thin tip brush and then for the larger wet on wet techniques I used a round brush.

Final output

Here's a scan of my painting...

I added some contrast to this picture to counter the white washed out look of the scan.

I added the sky last however I was not able to take a video since my phone memory went kaputt! Haha, No, it was just lacking storage.

The clouds there are actually paper, no paint parts. If you're wondering how I made it like that, I just painted it first with the lightest colors then added layers of darker blue over wet on wet layers and it mixed well.