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Rose Petals
When learning to paint flowers in watercolor, initially choose a flower with very few petals or even choose a bud that shows a predominant large piece of petal – as opposed to a flower with numerous petals. Multiple petals can be overwhelming and feel like a maze to paint.
Once drawn, concentrate on each petal separately by narrowing down your focus to a small area. If you look at the whole task ahead it will become overwhelming. Keep your focus on the area you are painting until you have blocked in your underpainting and feel confident. Creating a ‘map’ by underpainting the light and dark areas will stand you in good stead for the rest of the painting.
Each petal is described using warm and cool shades of similar colors. For instance a red rose will become lighter and cooler as the petal is more affected by the light. As it recedes into the inner depth of the rose or into the shadows behind the rose – the colors become warmer and darker. Take a look at a rose in your garden or in a vase. You will see how the buds and the main rose petals that are in the very inner area or in shadow are more rich in hue – whereas the lighter areas that are affected by daylight are cooler and are more pink/purple (cool) in hue. To see what I mean, do a brush out demo of a bright red petal. Keep the color at the base of the petal warm and rich using a warm red. Now brush in a lighter area of a crimson color such as alizarin crimson. Lighten the Alizarin crimson as it unfolds into the light. See how much cooler it looks compared to the brighter red?
Shadows are created using the local color (which means the color of the subject before light and shadow affect it. For example, a green leaf has a local color of green – a red petal has a local color of red.)
Mixing your shadow color: Take your local color – let’s say we have a bright red rose – so we take bright red – now add a touch of the complimentary color of red – which is green. You may vary your shadow color by favoring more red than green – or adding a touch of Phthalo blue – or even a touch of orange to warm the red/green shadow mix up. Variations of colors in the shadows make the shadows dance and glow like jewels. I never use grey to describe shadows.
It is fun to see a rose emerge from the white paper. It is about creating something so real you could almost smell the fragrance. It is all to do with knowing the ‘traps for young players’, mixing your colors and learning how to see exactly what is in front of you. Then creating the impression of substance rather than something simply ‘painted’. Have fun!
Susan Harrison -Tustain is an internationally acclaimed watercolor artist and teacher. For more information you can visit her website at http://www.susanart.com or take a look at her best-selling watercolor lessons on DVD at http://www.susanart.com/pennyfarthing.
How do we kill brown beetles eating our rose petals?
We live in Australia and have noticed that there are a lot of brown beetles about 15mm long, with oval shaped bodies who can fly eating our rose petals. I know I have seen them around before at footy grounds because they love the big lights. They also seem to be around in the warmer weather. They are really annoying and we would love to know what they are and how to get rid of them. Also, will they destroy our freshly planted vege patch?
Hello,It sound like rose balding ,which usually occur when you have a hot sunny day come right on the heels of a rainy day.It doesn’t hurt the plant itself and theres not much you can do about it just wait for more blooms to grow back .Now for the Tiny holes.Flea beetles are most likely cause for this and they are hard to see because the are the size of a speck pepper and the color,is a shimmering brown.They will jump when you shake or touch the plant and even when they do jump it is hard to see them so you will want to examine the plant very close before touching it so that you have chance of seeing the before they get away.I use pepper spray about 5 days out of the week to keep them from damaging the plant.
or u can also mix together in a watering can– a few squirts of ivory dishsoap, a few spoonsfull of borax & fill it with water. pour this all over your rose bush. repeat every 11 days or so. Last year something totally stripped all the leaves off my rose bushes. once I started pouring this solution over them, they recovered very nicely. grew all new leaves & bloomed again
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