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Succulent textures- Watercolor Cactus painting step by step

Hi everyone, Its been a bit since I posted last. Been kinda down dealing with all the snow we have been getting. From 25 to -2 and blizzard conditions in 24 hours. EEk. But my garden survived and is thriving.. now i just want the sun to peek out again. Anyways, here is a small painting I did for the WDE over at wetcanvas. I was drawn to this photo for the twisting winding shapes and the textures on the yellow bulbous masses. Now to try and capture that. After I drew out the general shapes and masked out the yellow bulbs I started an under painting with some gambouge for the sunshine and turquoise for the shadows with a little rose madder thrown in for good measure. ;) Next I came back with glazes of sap green for overall continuity. And some more glazes of turquoise and gamouge.. making sure the layers are dry. After the masking was remove I came back in and stippled in some lemon yellow, gambouge, lt red and orange. ** special note, take care not to cover the entire white space

Art House Coop - Sketchbook project 2011

http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject I'm so excited, I just signed up for this project this morning and now I'm anxiously waiting for my sketchbook to arrive to get started. This is going to be quite challenging to stay within the realm of my chosen theme and to keep all my sketches in one place.:) I wont divulge what theme I chose with now, we will see who can guess what it is after I start. A sneek peak at some of my entries into the sketchbook project.