Sketching flowers in watercolour

A ten minute bold sketch of flowers in watercolour and the photo on the left is what I'm painting from so a bit of creativity here may be needed.

I first draw out or rather sketch out the main flowers which are the crimson/red center flower and the surrounding white flowers.

I carry on sketching the white flowers taking careful note of there shapes and put in some leaves, I don't necessarily stick to what I am seeing here from the photograph so I might put some more leaves in other places to help the composition.

All the drawing in has been done and nothing is drawn in great detail, I set out to do a 10 minute sketch here so I'm sticking to this time limit because it helps you to get things down quicker and to observe.

I start to paint in the center of the main flower where there is a light yellow/green tint and I let this dry.

A mix of alizarin crimson, cadmium red and a touch of ultramarine blue was used for the central flower I painted in the middle tones leaving little touches of white paper to show for highlights.

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