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How to Paint Watercolour Lotus Flowers
Flowers and Foliage Episode 62: How to Paint Watercolour Lotus Flowers
Following on from my waterlily tutorial, here is a look at the lotus flower. They often get confused for one another but you can see how the lotus soars out of the water and the leaves have a lovely rippled edge.
Head over to my blog to follow along and pick out the key moments in this tutorial -
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Soundtrack composed by Taran Stormes Martino
Paint: Winsor and Newton Artist Quality -
Brushes: Pro Arte size 2, 4, 6 -
Brushes: Pro Arte MP series miniature size 2/0,
Paper Daler Rowney Aquafine cold-pressed paper -
You will also need a pencil, a rubber and some kitchen roll.
Colours we used
Cadmium Yellow
Sap Green
Green Gold
Prussian Blue
French Ultramarine Blue
Mars Black
Permanent Rose
Burnt Sienna
Alizarin Crimson
Don’t worry if you don’t have all these colours, you can look at my colour chart episode () to learn how to mix your own shades from a simple 12 pan student range palette.
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