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A bouquet of summer flowers

A bouquet of summer flowers
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Conjure up a bouquet of summer flowers with very little effort.
Meadows and roadsides are covered in the most beautiful flowers and grasses in summer, making you want to bring them home to decorate your house. This bouquet of summer flowers painted by you will look as if it has been freshly picked from a meadow, and its lightness will give you and your home that lovely summer feeling.

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Step-by-step tutorial

First sketch your bouquet very gently on white watercolour paper using a Lumograph pencil. When you are happy with your sketch, soften the pencil lines a little using an art eraser.

Draw in the poppy and the sunflower with watercolour pencils, following your pencil sketch. However, to retain the lightness of the picture, don’t colour in the flowers completely yet – just accent them with a few lines.

Now use a water brush to fill in the whole flowers with soft, diluted colour. Mix your own preferred colour shade to create the berries. Simply paint some foil with a watercolour brush pen in blue and red. You can now use the water brush to blend and combine the colours with each other. Create delicate berries by dabbing little dots of colour next to each other.

Add finer details and accents to your flowers with coloured pigment liners and triplus broadliners. When you are happy with your flowers, draw in the stems using watercolour pencils. If you want to embellish your bouquet further, add little leaves and grasses between the flowers using the pigment liners to create interesting contrasts.

Finally, splatter some little drops onto the paper to create an exciting background.

What you need

ProductArticle no.Quantity
pigment liner 308 Fineliner - STAEDTLER box containing 6 pigment liner in assorted colours (yellow, fuchsia, light blue, light green, light brown, grey), line width approx. 0.3 mm 30803S2SB6 1
STAEDTLER® 146 10C Watercolour pencil - Metal case containing 12 watercolour pencils in asssorted colours 14610C M12 1
STAEDTLER® 3001 Double-ended watercolour brush pen - Wallet containing 36 double-ended watercolour brush pens in assorted colours 3001 TB36 1
STAEDTLER® 949 Water brush - Blistercard containing 1 brush: round fine 949 BK-1-C 1
Mars® Lumograph® 100 Drawing pencil - Single product HB 100-HB 1
STAEDTLER® 5427 Eraser - Single product, size: 40 x 40 x 11 mm 5427 1

Additionally required:

foil, watercolour paper

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