Monday, July 9, 2018

World water color month day 8 Flying things.


For day 8 Flying things, I decided to do fireflies and a dragonfly. I decided to do 2 projects because I could have one project drying while I worked on the other one. One of the hardest thing about watercoloring is waiting for it to dry so the colors don't become muddy.
I sketched a jar to hold my fireflies.
I did a wet on wet color  wash to color the background.

I masked the jar and added splatters of paint to the background.

I added color to the inside of the jar and added yellow glows.

I painted the lid with 2 shades of gray and added silver metallic rub to add sparkle.


I added red and black to the dragonflies and brown to the table that the jar is sitting on.
Here is the finished firefly painting.


I sketched a dragonfly.
I did a wet on wet color wash, masked the dragonfly and added splatters.
I painted the body blue and added random dots of color to the wings.



I kept adding dots of color to the wings until I had filled up the wings.
I could have left this painting just like this. I liked how it looked but I wasn't completely satisfied. 

 I added water to the background to lighten it a bit so that there would be more contrast with the dragonfly. I took a blue, green and gray colored pencil to add some more details. I used the blue to outline and define the scales. 

 To finish it off I added some black ink to the legs and eyes I also stamped the waves from 
preview-DAI-Anchored
to show flight.

My second finished project. 





2 comments:

  1. What wonderful work MariLynn - the dragonfly is amazing, and I love the fireflies in the jar - they are an insect we don't get here.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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