Watercoloring a hot mess

 This week Kia is sharing this video on YouTube seen here. I Did watch it, I did sketch the still life based off the inspiration photo she has here on Pinterest. I did print it out at work on Monday afternoon so that I had something to look at while I sketched. I knew I wanted to do it smaller so, I did do that with a piece of Arches cold press watercolor paper. 

 one thing though, I used a water soluble pencil as usual... and that is maybe not such a great idea. I do know that my very literal brain was not getting all the words in the closed captioning while I was watching the video I felt like information was missing. So, I don't know if it makes a difference with the noise on. 

 So, I started skipping around adding some paynes grey to the "black" areas while the yellow wash was still wet on the leaves and what ever those orange things are. I have no clue what colors she used but, her "black" looked purple to me and I cringed at that. And then what I did use it of course turned into a hot mess. I did see that with her video but, I am half way wondering if this would be easier on a larger scale. not sure, because you may just have room to correct the paint flowing over the lines where you want to have your (I don't know what to call this vine) The photograph looks like a vine to me. 

 I kept adding paint and even though its not warm here paint was drying everywhere so adding more wet to this various spots made a lot of blooms. and this has become a muddy mess to my eye. I did try to lift paint for the veins on the leaves but, that also failed. At this point I do not see any choice but to see what it does when the whole thing is dry. But tossing more paint on it while its wet is not working well for me. It sure is "impressionist style eh?" haha. I have not been so frustrated with a painting in a long time so that was a surprise and humbling. Yes, I did laugh and I also decided its time for more coffee as well. Might try dragging some thing through the leaf veins before its totally dry to see if I can get the yellow to come through. 

So I did do that, add one more layer of paint and I did use an Nib on a handle to do the veins on the leaves.

And I am letting it dry now because, although the colors are not that bad by the third layer of paint. I think it needs the next round to be glazed on to get some details I guess, and that might just toss the whole Impressionist thing out the window but, my brain looks at this and sees a lack of detail. 
 

And So, this is as far as I got. I did stop and let this dry and I will take another look at it tomorrow. That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here. Thanks for stopping by.