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SPRING 2022
SPRING NEWSLETTER BY MARION MCCRISTALL STUDIO
IN THIS NEWSLETTER YOU WILL ENJOY Information on Spring Art Classes
Suggested Reading for Inspiration
May Street Photography Tour in Fort Langley
Understanding Gels and Mediums Tips for photographing Spring flowers
Marion’s favourite Travel Paint Set My new YouTube Channel
A quick & easy way to paint spring flowers
BOOK SUGGESTION
PAINT THE COLOURS OF SPRING
JUST ADD WATERCOLOUR BY HELEN BIRCH
Using watercolours, paint a quick abstract with the delightful colours of spring.
This wonderful book is like a flip book filled with a treasure trove of ideas and techniques for you to try. There are paintings from more than 70 artists to enjoy. Watercolor fundamentals including types of paints, papers, and brushes are also suggested. Available from Indigo and Amazon
With clean water & a watercolour brush, I created small wet shapes of different sizes where I wanted flowers to be on my watercolour paper. While the shapes were still wet, I dropped some yellow , blue and purple watercolour into them using a round brush loaded with each colour. I let the colours flow and, when dry, I added more colour to give the shapes a flower look. Then I painted in some stems and leaves. When dry, I used a permanent black Micron 0.5 pen to sketch in the petals and leaves. QUICK TIP: I LIKE TO USE UNEVEN NUMBERS WHEN I PAINT FLOWERS