I'm continuing to work on my watercolor skills through these small decorative paintings. I saw an article about a watercolorist whose work I liked very much and e-mailed her asking, in general, about her technique. I'm sad to say that she didn't write me back, but by looking very carefully at her work I thought maybe she began with washes then dry-brushed the details. Anyway, that's what I tried on the fawn. I think it worked fairly well, so I'll continue to practice that technique and see what more I can do.
There are a few other things I'm starting to do, like put some washes of color in the background. I know that painting the floral motifs over them will not be "clean" as the washes will show through, but I'm OK with that. Also, I've overlapped the motifs in a few places and I'*m OK with that also. The other thing is that I added a very light color wash to the background behind areas where the fawn is white.
The heart is cut from a piece of watercolor paper (Strathmore Mixed Media paper, actually, which is what I like to paint on with watercolor) that I slap-dashed some paint on, letting the colors run into each other.
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