How to Paint Glittery Watercolor Dragonflies for Beginners - more SPARKLY ideas to lift your mood!
When you’re feeling a little bit down, or trying to relax and want to create something simple, what could be better than an easy dragonfly painting made into something special with some glittery sparkle! How lucky we are to have these shiny, sparkly iridescent paints to bring extra life to our paintings - perfect for greetings cards, bookmarks and gift tags to give to someone special! And for children, painting with these is a real treat!
Materials:
Meeden paper and palette
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Meeden 12 x 9 cold pressed paper
https://tinyurl.com/meeden-watercolor-pad
Meeden palette
https://tinyurl.com/meeden-ceramic-tray-palette
Viviva Colors watercolor pan sets
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Spring Pan Set
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Original Pan Set
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MAB sparkly metallic watercolors
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Diane Antone x Craftamo brush set
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Today's materials, including metallic paint from MAB Watercolors
01:31 Painting the background
03:10 Painting iridescent dragonfly wings
04:04 Adding color to the dragonflies' wings
06:48 Painting reeds in the foreground
07:49 Finishing the dragonflies with a fineliner and a second layer of paint
15:01 Final touches to the reeds
16:20 Adding spatter to break the background
☁️ Paint Clouds using Watercolor with me! This is my first time painting on a bigger watercolor pad! I can tell that I enjoyed painting this so much! ☁️
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How SHINY METALLIC PAINTS can TRANSFORM your Relaxing Doodle Art - SPARKLY ideas to lift your mood!
When you need a simple lift for your mood, or you’re feeling tired but want to create, what could be better than a simple swatch made into something special with some sparkle! How lucky we are to have these shiny, sparkly iridescent paints to bring extra life to our paintings - perfect for greetings cards, bookmarks and gift tags to give to someone special! And for children, painting with these colors is a real treat!
Materials:
MAB Watercolours sparkly metallic watercolors - when ordering use code DIANE10 for 10% off your order. The paints in my tins are from the Mirror, Holographic, Ocean, Vivid, Galaxy and Golden ranges.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MABWatercolours
Winsor & Newton Fineliner Fine Point Pens - Sepia https://amzn.to/3S9zRhY
Paper and palette from Meeden - when ordering use code DIANE10 for 10% off your order.
Meeden 100% cotton cold pressed block of watercolor paper
https://tinyurl.com/meeden-watercolor-pad
Meeden ceramic mixing palette
https://tinyurl.com/meeden-ceramic-tray-palette
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Unboxing Kuretake Art Nouveau and looking at my setup
05:37 Finding inspiration in a sketchbook and starting with squares
13:43 Embellishing with metallic paint by MAB Watercolours
28:40 Details with a sepia fineliner by Winsor & Newton
After I painted the butterfly fairy - if you haven't seen that one, it's the post right before this one :P - I really felt like I wanted to spend more time with those beautiful colors and shapes that the wings carried. It's very rare for me to be so attracted to such opaque and solid abstract shapes, usually I prefer working loose but with as much contrast as possible as my beginner arms can carry. Sometimes I do wonder if I'm not missing on an opportunity to create patterns and/or play with watercolor more freely, but then I watch the pigment disperse in water and suddenly all my desire to work with clean cut shapes dissipates and I fall back in love with the magic of watercolor. I do imagine myself trying less transparent mediums in the future, things like gouache or pastels really draw me in, but for the moment I want to continue with this medium. Partly because I want to see how far along I can make it, partly because another medium means another small financial investment which is not something I am willing to go for at the moment. Anyway, these were my thoughts as I was working on this piece. I would really love to hear yours :) As usual, Yours, Aly <3 PS - Don't forget to swipe to the right to see the yummy shine and shift of this beautiful metallic paint from @reneeissancecolours . . #pinkartini #practicemakesprogress #artistsoninstagram #watercolourweekly #artistsupportingartist #watercolorenthusiast #traditionalwatercolor #aquarelliste #peintureaquarelle #acuareleando#watercolorforbeginners #easywatercolor #floralflatlay#simplewatercolor #diybirthdaycard #watercolorcard #traditionalart #watercolourartist #illustratorsoninstagram #surelysimpleart #watercolourist #goldenart #goldleafart #goldleafpainting #metallicpaints #metallicwatercolor #watercolorbutterfly #butterflydrawing #butterflyart #papillonaquarelle (at Brussels, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQq4v8phxD3/?utm_medium=tumblr