Amazing Harriet! Your red fruit is soooo saturated!!!!! I think everyone would love to hear how you achieved it! I am also enjoying how you composed the page with the details being on top of the leaves!!!!
Here is my technique, Doug: The brilliant red was achieved by very slowly building up layer upon layer of a number of different reds, from the darkest to the lightest, with even some orange at the end. I used two layers of watercolour, one early on and one nearer to the end and I burnished with a colourless blender pencil. I let it rest so that some of the oil from the first application of pencil would soak into the paper and then layered again. I hope that helps!
21 January 2021
Oooh! Yes! Reminds me of one of the gardenia (?) plants in Kauai! Except those pods were orange, and I think the flowers were slightly larger? @wendy will know the name, I bet. I agree that this red is amazingly saturated–cool to know how you achieved that! I wonder if that intense red begs for just a few touches of intense green in places on the leaves? Maybe just in the darkest places? To balance the composition a little more?
This amazing botanical is either beating up my heart, or making it stop. As a medical doctor, which do you think? I have never seen this red colored pod. is it a tree or a shrub? I just took a pic of your drawing and put it in my plant ID app. Here is what it came up with: Elliptic yellowwood, a species of Ochrosia which is native to Australia. Check it out!
Wow Wendy you did it! My tree is definitely an elliptic yellowwood (Ochrosia elliptica) that I found growing on the edge of a sand dune area at a beach just north of Brisbane. It all fits! So thank you for you help. By the way, what app did you use to identify it?
These fruits were so bright I just had to draw them but I am still searching for the name of this tree.
Beautiful!
Amazing Harriet! Your red fruit is soooo saturated!!!!! I think everyone would love to hear how you achieved it! I am also enjoying how you composed the page with the details being on top of the leaves!!!!
Did we see that one in Hawaii also?
Here is my technique, Doug: The brilliant red was achieved by very slowly building up layer upon layer of a number of different reds, from the darkest to the lightest, with even some orange at the end. I used two layers of watercolour, one early on and one nearer to the end and I burnished with a colourless blender pencil. I let it rest so that some of the oil from the first application of pencil would soak into the paper and then layered again. I hope that helps!
Oooh! Yes! Reminds me of one of the gardenia (?) plants in Kauai! Except those pods were orange, and I think the flowers were slightly larger? @wendy will know the name, I bet. I agree that this red is amazingly saturated–cool to know how you achieved that! I wonder if that intense red begs for just a few touches of intense green in places on the leaves? Maybe just in the darkest places? To balance the composition a little more?
This amazing botanical is either beating up my heart, or making it stop. As a medical doctor, which do you think? I have never seen this red colored pod. is it a tree or a shrub? I just took a pic of your drawing and put it in my plant ID app. Here is what it came up with: Elliptic yellowwood, a species of Ochrosia which is native to Australia. Check it out!
Wow Wendy you did it! My tree is definitely an elliptic yellowwood (Ochrosia elliptica) that I found growing on the edge of a sand dune area at a beach just north of Brisbane. It all fits! So thank you for you help. By the way, what app did you use to identify it?
I used the picture this app. It is very good, there are many others too.