Not all my efforts in this series have been successful or pleasing. The first two below are rather dull. I used a base coat of gold acrylic ink for the fuchsia, thinking it would gleam through the subsequent washes of watercolour, but rather it seemed to dull them down. Adding gouache to try and brighten things up didn't work either. The hollyhocks were painted in gouache over a watercolour base, with added watercolour pencil, gel pens and Neopastel - definitely lacking the delicacy of the actual flowers. (All in a Moleskine sketchbook)
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| Gold ink base, with watercolour, gouache and gel pen (3" x 3") |
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| Watercolour, gouache, watercolour pencil, gel pens and Neopastel (3" x 3") |
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| Watercolour and fine liner pen (3" x 3") |
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