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Flower Girl Art Tutorial with Coloured Pencils and Watercolour.

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I'm going through a coloured pencils obsession at the moment. 😊  This painting was done using my set of pencils from WH Smith that I've had for many years and I've added a touch of watercolour. Let me show you my process... The pencils don't have the names of the colours on them but the one I used for the initial drawing I would say is similar to a burnt sienna. So I drew her out lightly with the burnt sienna pencil. You can see my faint outlines at the bottom of the picture where I've mapped out where I want her dress to be. If you draw very lightly you can (almost!) rub out the lines if you make a mistake. I then darkened the lines and added some shading, all with the same pencil. The next stage I added blue pencil spots to the dress. The blue watercolour wash was put on afterwards. You can do this because of the waxiness of the pencils, it acts like a resist as long as the watercolour wash isn't too dark. Then I drew in