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We have small pots of flowers on our back step. One of them has a group of small pansies and when I went out to relax on the back porch after a busy day, the pansies caught my eye. So, I sketched one of the blossoms because the color combination was so striking. I had been thinking about trying a technique where you draw each color shape with its corresponding color in colored ballpoint ink which is waterproof and then fill in the shapes with watercolor, and that’s what I did. If you look closely, you can see the outlines in colored ink.
Sketching is like jazz improvisation. You invent something new each time you play and the piece evolves as you go.
Strathmore 400 Series cold press watercolor paper 5.5×8.5 inches (14×21.6 cm), Zebra Clip-on Multi pen, Daniel Smith watercolors, and Caran D’Ache round waterbrush. Image is about 5 inches square (13×14 cm).
Jim
