Watercoloring Fall Leaves

 Hi & Welcome here, this week it's my turn to host the water coloring challenge and I chose this video on YouTube Called the secret to painting stunning Autumn Leaves in watercolor by Creative Lass. I liked how the leaves have a translucency where they overlap. She did make this slightly mixed media with adding some stitching to the line the leaves are dangling from and I did skip that part. 

I started with a piece of Arches cold press and rough sketched some leaves across this piece cut to A6 in real life.

 I did use a water soluble pencil so that I would not have pencil lines to erase after.

I did mask the leaves before I started the sky wash.

I did dab this with a paper towel after this was shot to pick up some of those puddles you see here and added a little more blue to the very top of the paper.

First layers of paints on this, I had too much paint. You can see slight overlaps but, not as much as if I had taken the time to build more watery layers I am guessing.

I did use an Calligraphy nib to trace those veins into the leaves. And I felt like my leaves were getting pretty dark so, I did not add much to this after this was shot.

I free hand did the stems and the line and then used that bitty brad to attach the sentiment tag ( lili of the valley) and this is mounted to a pre made A7 base from Strathmore. it has an deckled edge along the bottom front of the base and the envelope flap. That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.