Poppies and calligraphy

I'm still painting poppies.  I wanted to add calligraphy under the poppies, but on my first painting the calligraphy ink was not waterproof so it bleed.  Then I did same poppies picture this time using blue waterproof calligraphy pen on top of the poppies.  Next painting I'll attempt to paint over the calligraphy, hopefully it won't bleed.

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.

working with lines

This week in Alisa's class were working on line drawings, minus color.  I rarely work in black and white and this a good exercise in trying to capture the subject.