Poppies and more poppies

For the last couple of days I've been painting poppies.  I can't tell you the number of poppies I've painted, but it must be at least 25,if not more.  I'm taking an online watercolor class with Michelle Brown.   Michelle packs a whole lot of valuable information, showing materials to use and how she uses them.  One video was on back grounds, another on supplies, another on using the supplies, and finally painting poppies.

This is the first time that I've actually had all my painting supplies in front of my computer and painted along with the videos.  I could get use to painting this way.

Poppies

I'm taking another online watercolor class with michelle brown.  Trying to paint loose using

wet-on-wet technique.  I have a feeling I'll probably paint a lot of poppies before I get a painting I like.

wet on wet leaves

I'm taking another online  class with Michelle Brown...Loosing up March...learning to paint wet-on-wet very loose.  This is my first attempt at painting these leaves.  Instead of drawing an outline of the leaves I used my paint brush loaded with color to define the leaf shapes.   Then I dropped in color, after color, until I got a desired color I could live with.  I was using my water brush and a small travel palette on non-watercolor paper.  There was some buckling.  When the painting was dry, I turned it over and on a low setting applied a warm iron to flatten out the paper.  I think in order for me to paint wet-on-wet I need to use a regular watercolor brush and my regular size watercolor palette.