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    WHITE FLOWERS watercolour IN watercolour

    Sep 04, 2020 3 minutes

    Flowers have always been a great source of inspiration for me, offering such wonderful shapes and colours to play with. The large waxy blooms of magnolias are quite spectacular and make a beautiful subject for painting.

    By depicting them against a dark-coloured background as I have done in the demonstration below, I was better able to capture the shapes of the flowers and their almost luminous colour.

    I decided to work from photos as the flowering season was practically over. Experience tells me that even if you are working

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