Markings of a butterfly using Watercolour

Just about all of the dark markings I need to put in are complete here.

More marks are added to the body and the antenna's are added with a small pointed brush.

The white edges on the butterfly's wings are made by adding the background, this will be made darker later on so these whites will stand out more.

All the background has now been added over which will be made even darker for the shadows underneath the front parts of the butterfly's wings.

Now the wonderful colours of the wings are added made up of yellow ochre and cadmium red and painted into the light areas. Here it doesn't matter if some of this colour goes over the darks or middle tones already put down because theses areas are now dry.


 

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