CMP Review 2024-04-03

April 3, 2024

Watercolor tutorial — spring vetch.

This brush drawing uses a combination of only three strokes: the basic stroke (which I call a petal stroke), a curved stroke, and the line stroke. See details on individual strokes on our brush drawing resource page.

Some notes:

Each leaf can be formed with one stroke using a larger sized brush. Here I used a #4, which meant I had to go over each leaf about four times to make it life-size.

To join the leaves to the stem, use a clean damp brush to lift paint off to make a vein running through the center of each leaf, then drag the lifted paint down to make the petiole.

Happy nature journaling!

@rbaburina