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Botanical, Bursts of Fun!

Lavender Cherry Blossoms

March 25, 2018

Lavender Blossoms

by Katrina Pete

12×16 inch watercolor on Arches 300lb cold pressed paper

My technique for my floral paintings involves a ‘wet-into-wet’ wash of color over damp paper. This is how I achieved the soft background effects. Heavier paper like 300lb Arches works very well with this method. It doesn’t buckle or warp under the wet paint, and remains much flatter than my 140lb paper. I still used tape along the edges and it stayed flat even after the paper dried. I painted a few branches into the wet wash, allowing them to fade a bit into the background. After the first wash dried, I added more layers of detail in the flowers and branches.

Landscape

Watercolor Seascape

December 5, 2017

I painted this moody misty watercolor seascape using ultramarine blue, crimson lake, aureolin yellow and ochre.

Ocean Animals, Wild & Free

Baby Penguins

December 1, 2017

Five little baby penguins

These five little baby penguins were painted on Arches cold press watercolor paper using Davy’s gray, a touch of yellow ochre and a bit of Paynes gray.

Elephant Paintings

Elephant Family

December 1, 2017

Elephant Family of Three

I painted this sweet little family of three elephants on Arches hot press watercolor paper. I used a combination on Payne’s gray, alizarin crimson, yellow ochre and ultramarine blue to achieve the varying shades of warm and cool gray tones. This print will be available in January in my Etsy shop.

Elephant Paintings

Watercolor Elephants

October 7, 2017

Watercolor Elephant parent and baby

by Katrina Pete

10×13 inch watercolor painting on Arches 140lb hot press paper

Botanical

Wedding Blossoms

October 7, 2017

Watercolor Cherry Blossoms
by Katrina Pete

Langton Prestige Cold press watercolor paper
10×13 inches

I painted these blossoms as a gift for a dear friend on her wedding day. I’ll post a step by step tutorial soon of my process. The main colors I used were Holbein Quinacridone Violet and Holbein Opera Pink. I also used Burnt Umber, and hints of green using a mixture of indigo and aureolin yellow.The first wash was made with a wet-in wet technique. Once the paper dried, I started painting the flowers and forming shapes using a ‘negative space’ technique. I’ll explain more in my tutorial coming up soon!

Ocean Animals, Wild & Free

Penguin Chicks

August 31, 2017

Penguin Chicks
Watercolor by Katrina Pete

I painted these adorable penguin chicks using Holbein watercolor paint and Arches paper. I used Payne’s Gray, Sepia, davy’s Gray and hints of Yellow Ochre. Prints will be available in my Etsy shop. More ocean themed watercolor animals will be added to this collection soon.

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