Lilies

in #art7 years ago

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A wash of colour

Today's drawing is of lilies, you may have see my recent post Pink Lily, an ink and watercolour sketch in which I drew a single lily flower.

For this piece I wanted to experiment with the background colours. I started by applying water to the paper, getting the paper quite wet. I then applied watercolours, allowing the watercolours to bleed into each other across the wet paper.

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Once the watercolours were dry I applied black drawing ink with a dip pen to suggest the lines of the petals and leaves. I kept the style quite loose, allowing a simple flow to the lines through the direction and pressure of the pen.

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'Lilies' -2017

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Watercolours and ink on paper

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Have a great day!

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Lilies! Very beautiful-- so "fresh" looking! If those are the "stargazers" I expect you also had a lovely scent experience while painting... lovely piece of work.

I think they may be stargazers, and yes a wonderful scent.

The work of this lily is also wonderful.Thank you for a great post every time:)

A pleasure @yoshiko, your lilies in glass are beautiful too!
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My fav flower ;)

One of mine too!

The flow is great and the colors look great too, thanks for sharing, upped. Keep it up.
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Very nice)) I would like this picture)))) You have golden hands)))

Slightly pollen yellow hands today! I cut the pollen out from my lilies so they wouldn't stain the table- just stained me instead!

Oh no. Forgive))) In Ukraine, they say "golden hands" when a person is talented)))) This is the term))) You have talent)))

Oh i got that meaning, it was very kind thank you

I love watercolor. It is so fresh :) Do you have to mix the color to match the real life flower? I was also surprised that ink is applied after water color, for some reason i was always thinking that first you draw and then fill in with the colors :) P.S. Just just have noticed that last two letters of you initials give a second thought. Tell men it's not what i am thinking. As it might be just extremely hot weather and little sleep :) Cheers!

Yes I mix the colours, but i deliberately kept the green of the leaves lighter, in reality it is darker but that colour combination did work for this piece. I often draw with inks then add the watercolour, but today i wanted to experiment a bit.
Not sure what you mean about by name!

Wow amazing artwork @opheliafu
Appreciates your your and effort
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Thank you :D
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Very beautiful and light. Like the different approach to add the lines in the second step!

I thought I'd do things a different way today :D

excellent idea :-) Love it!!