5 Days of Spring Blooms

Hope you are enjoying the Spring weather.

Last March 11-15, @ohn_mar_win had a mini challenge called 5 Days of Spring Blooms to celebrate the season and paint five different flowers. I enjoyed doing the Autumn one last year, so this would be a fun challenge to get into the Spring season. 

This time, I played on two sketchbooks except for the last prompt. I did a warm-up on a separate sketchbook, and the final ones were in the same accordion journal, where I did the autumn flowers. I’ve posted all of these in my IG feed, but this is worth writing a blog post about. So here are my Spring Blooms.

Day 1: Blossom

Day 2: Hyacinths

Day 3: Daffodils

Day 4: Tulips

Day 5: Forsythia

Sometimes, I end up liking the warmup sketches more than the “final” versions. I don’t know whether it is because I work looser on those and then get a bit “scared” when I get to the final version. However, with the forsythias, I forgot to do warmups and directly did the watercolor sketches, and for this, I was working off a limited palette of Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours that I picked up from Osaka on a recent

As I reflect on the challenge, my favourites are the blossoms (Day 1) and the forsythias (Day 5). Which ones are yours?

Do you do warmup sketches when painting watercolours?

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