Watercoloring Lilac's

 This week Brenda has shared this Lilac's watercolor painting by Harriet De Winter seen here on YouTube. 

So I did start with sketching some stems on a piece of Cold Press Arches wc paper that had been cut to fit on an A7 cardbase.

And as I did the one on the right I decided the top of the vase was way too high up for this bloom so, I took an eraser to all the pencil lines you see here when it was dry and drew them again.

 

Added some leaves, more blooms and the top of the vase.

 I added some color to the vase and the stems in the water and then realized I needed said water in the vase ha ha and it was a little on the brown side from the blurry stems.

I did consider adding "shading" petals to the bottoms of the front blooms but, when I go out side and look at mine. they are darker at the tips. they start blooming/opening the flowers at the bottom of the cluster so, I left this as is. I did use a Crealies Cross stitch die to cut it and then I used an IO sentiment die from one of Anna Wights IO stitched sets to do the Clearly Besotted sentiment that was stamped on some soft seafoam cardstock a week or two ago. ( yes, I did straighten the sentiment after this was shot) it's one of those things, you see things more clearly after you photograph it. Which does help me with the painting process as well to flip through the snapshots. At any rate this is A7 in real life and that base is some textured Bazzill. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.