Flowers and reflections are some of the more common subjects created using watercolors because of the bright translucent colors that watercolors produce.
Student's Works - Flowers on Mirror
Pencil Drawing and Watercolor Flower Assignment
1. Compose your pencil drawing picture using the Rule of Thirds.
2. Along with flowers, add a vase or a container or flower pot.
3. Make sure to add a reflective surface, such as a mirror, drinking glass, glass bottle, vase, or reflective counter top to your drawing / painting.
4. Create a 9" x 12" well shaded pencil or charcoal drawing of your composition. Focus on Shading dark areas with a 6B pencil, make sure to have cast shadows, object shadows, and hightilghts and reflections.
5. Create the exact same composition using watercolors that you did in pencil. You may also use a thin micro-marker to loosely outline if you wish.
6. Hand in both your matching finished pencil drawing and the matching watercolor painting together in this assignment. Make sure your name is clearly written on the bottom of both artworks before you take your photos to submit the artworks.
7. Save both of your paper copies of your artworks.
Rule Of Thirds
A pleasing composition where an image is divided evenly into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, and the subject of the image is placed at the intersection of those dividing lines.
Pencil drawings of Flowers with Reflective Glass.
Make changes to the background, add branches, a perch, flowers, berries, a nest, eggs, baby birds, a bird house, leaves, insects, your own ideas and style.
You may use color pencil details where you do not want to mix colors like the eyes, or choose to do everything in water color. Remember one area will mix with another unless the first layer is completely dry, and you paint it on another days.