Tutorial N°20 : The cherries.

Paper: Hahnemühle watercolour, fine grain, 300g/m2.

Colors: new cambodge, Winsor orange, carmine, brown madder, Prussian blue, burnt umber, sepia. I use only transparent colors because, the mixtures are very concentrated in pigment, it is essential to avoid the gouach effect.

Brush: a Dalbe 200 brush, pure sable, n°8.

1. Picture of the cherries.

2. Drawing ot rhe cherries.

3.Paint the cherry on the left with very liquid new cambodge and loaded with pigment. Leave some paper white for light.

4. Paint the right cherry in the same way. And add a little orange in the darker areas.

5. In wet-on-wet, put carmine which will slightly diffuse in yellow and orange.

6. Continue by adding more very dense carmine in small dabs into the wet, finally brown madder. Let dry.

7. Paint the cherry stalk with a mixture of new cambodge and ultramarine blue.

8. Paint the two right cherries in the same way.

9. Darken the cherry stalk with sepia.

10. Reinforce the shadows of the cherries with sepia mixed with burnt umber. Let dry.

11. Start painting the shadows with a very diluted mixture of brown madder and carmine. Use the same mixture to soften the white unpainted papers.

12. Paint the central cherries with very dense carmine, leaving white unpainted paper for light. Add more carmine to the shadows in the wet. Let dry.

13. Paint the cherry stalk with the new cambodge mixed with ultramarine blue. Let dry. Add sepia for shadows.

14. Paint the drop shadow of the cherries with the very diluted carmine.

15. Darken the central cherries by mixing sepia and neutral tint. Add a few details with this same mixture where the cherry stalk meet.

16. The drop shadows are made with a mixture of carmine and Prussian blue.

Make us want cherries! Good watercolor!